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Actually, Jobs In Making Movies Are On The Rise, Not Falling
from the oh-look-at-that... dept
But I wanted to get a better understanding of what was actually happening to jobs in and around the motion picture industry. Seeing as CEOs of the major studios continue to bring in record salaries, it certainly sounds like the industry isn't doing that bad. Thankfully, research firm IBISWorld digs pretty deep into different industries to separate out what's happening. After digging through the numbers, it looks like the MPAA is (yet again) being intellectually dishonest.
If you look at the jobs in actual movie production -- the kind that they always imply are most at risk -- it turns out those jobs are growing rapidly. In 2002, there were about 43,000 people employed in the actual production of movies and videos. In 2010? That number had jumped to 77,000. Not bad. So where are the few job losses coming from? Well, there are about 1,500 fewer jobs in "movie and video distribution," but that makes sense, since technology is making that area less important. Really, the only place in the industry that has seen a significant loss in jobs (and even then it's not that big) is in the movie theater business. Employment in movie theaters dropped from about 134,000 in 2002 to about 119,000 in 2010. That accounts almost entirely for the drop in total employment in the movie business from 392,000 down to 374,000 that the CRS report noted.
In other words, the only "significant" job losses that we can spot are coming from the theaters themselves -- and it's difficult to see how that's got much, if anything, to do with piracy. As was noted in the CRS report, box office revenue has continued to hit records every year. So, really, it looks like theaters may just be cutting staff to cut costs, but that revenue at the box office keeps getting higher. So, more money with fewer staff. That's not exactly a story that shows an industry decimated by piracy.


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What Kind Of Professor Patents A Way To Make It More Expensive & More Difficult For Students To Learn?
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There'a all sorts of idiocy involved in this situation. Let's just separate out a few examples:
- How the hell does something like this get patented in the first place? There is a tremendous amount of prior art in the form of things like "one-time" use codes for video games and other digital offerings to limit the used sales market. And yet this still gets approved? USPTO examiner James D. Nigh should be ashamed for letting this piece of garbage get approved.
- The claims here (the patent only has four) are so broad and so general, I don't see how it passes the non-obvious test, nor how it is anything more than mashing together a few different things that are widely available already and have been for years. After the KSR ruling the USPTO was supposed to reject broad patents that just combined basic concepts already found in the market.
- How could a professor of economics actually think that locking up access to information is a good idea? That alone would make me avoid any class that he taught, as his understanding of information economics is way, way off.
- It's sad that anyone in academia would think that this is a good idea. In an age where Harvard and MIT are investing a ton into opening up access, this guy is focused on locking it down.


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Divorce if partner leaves your religion? Mainly for women
I ended up divorced when my ex switched to Jehovah's Witness and I wouldn't. They have some different views on how it works but she basically picked it over me since they're not allowed to be married to someone outside of the cult. My kid did choose me over her since she couldn't celebrate holidays and birthdays though so I guess it wasn't completely horrible
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I ended up divorced when my ex switched to Jehovah's Witness and I wouldn't. They have some different views on how it works but she basically picked it over me since they're not allowed to be married to someone outside of the cult. My kid did choose me over her since she couldn't celebrate holidays and birthdays though so I guess it wasn't completely horrible
that's kind of sad for your kid and your wife, being a Jehovah's witness. Everyone should at least try to understand other religion if their married. EVEN if their dating. I would try to understand the religion and If I know i'm not 100% sure of it I wont go for it but keep a open mind for my gf/wife
So much to do, SO little time! I'll give someone $100 if they can freeze time !
I wouldn't marry a very religious person in the first place. I don't mind a person being religious whatever their religion may be but being atheist myself, and being raised in an atheist family and adding to that fact born in a country where being religious is rare in comparison I'd find it hard to relinquish my personal beliefs if they were to collide with my partners religion if said person is very adamant in the practice of their religion.
It would put a serious strain on me as a person to live by a set of beliefs that aren't my own just for the sake of a smooth relationship. And if kids ever came into the picture I think it'd be hard to convince such a person to let them choose for themselves. Because if someone is deeply religious I think they would feel as if they were neglecting their children by not introducing them to that religion.
And I would probably be disappointed if my children were to decide for themselves that they believed in a religion I wasn't part of. It'd probably result in me feeling like an alien in my own home. And however much you love your family that will lead to a miserable situation. Being singled out in you own family as a non-believer no matter what your personal and moral beliefs are, and that they're worth just as much as any religion despite not having any thousands and thousands years worth of documents to back them up.
The hurt of having your life's philosophy trampled isn't just a religious privilege.
If my partner belongs to another religion in name only it'd be much less of a troublesome matter. But then there may still be the issue of clashing tradition. I for example am pretty sure I wouldn't be able to give up Santa, the Christmas tree or the Christmas ham for anything. Because I have a lot of precious memories from when I was a child tied to those traditions and I'd like my children to have such memories of Christmas.
I might have to bend it back and break it, break it off!
no because leaving someone for religion would be dumb...would you leave your partner if she/he believed in santa?
Would you be ready to leave someone for stopping believing in something taht doesnt exist?
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Good question. Im an aethist so... yea
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I am not a religious person, however, i would never be with someone who would demand i join their religion to begin with. I dont care what religion my spouse is, however, something that would be incredibly clear from the beginning is I will never join that religion, i might participate very occasionally in whatever service she participates, just so she go alone, but I will never be a part of the religion.
In essence i would not divorce someone because of their religious views, but i would divorce someone for not respecting mine.
If I would divorce someone over religion then I probably shouldn't have married them anyway. But in the end is religion really that important.
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i will live with the person i love but i will never marry them
iam very bored {freedom of speech}
that would be absolutely ridiculous. love before religion, ALWAYS. if you think otherwise you are wrong. i'm just saying it. it's not an opinion. and you're not just wrong, you're stupid.
and anyways, i'm atheist, so i could care less about religion.
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Divorce over religion? No. My entire concepts of love and loyalty begin in family and radiate outward, so religious allegiance is secondary to familial ties.
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I'm not religious, so that isn't much of an issue. I actually like having differences since it makes things a lot more interesting and fun. I will allow different beliefs to exist in my marriage, so he should do the same.
I would be fine getting divorced from a guy who considers his religion to be more important than me. I don't consider myself an especially needy or clingy girl, so if he's going to keep getting more distant to create an unbridgeable gap, I am better off not being married. Because I am not really so keen on being stuck with someone, when I do, it means I'm putting a lot of my own s*** aside to make that commitment. It would only be fair for him to reciprocate.
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If I was married and my wife changed from hardcore Atheist to a radical (insert any religion), I would not like that.
So yes, I would leave.
That would be the most petty and illogical of reasons to divorce someone.
I could understand if he was abusive or drank too much, but changing religion? Are people seriously that closed minded?
I'm an atheist, so religion means nothing to me. Yet if I had a partner who was religious I would have no problem with that. Of course, we would have to come to some type of understanding where you don't force your beliefs on me and vise versa. Also, when it comes to kids I believe that it's better to wait until the child comes to an age where they are able to choose for themselves, rather than trying to indoctrinate them.
I think the notion of divorce for religious reasons or clashing beliefs being petty is pretty absurd. So is saying that divorce automatically translates into the claim that there was never true love involved or that love has somehow up and died. Being in love with someone doesn't always go hand in hand with happiness. And if there's something we crave just as much as love it's just that, to be happy.
Since religion and beliefs are something deeply ingrained in who we are and how we identify ourselves among other things it's not strange that a big portion of our potential happiness is tied to finding someone who thinks in ways similar to us or can at least accept the value of your perspective even if it's not a shared standpoint.
But when your views of the world move in different directions until it puts more and more strain on a relationship that you're desperately trying to maintain because you really are truly, madly and deeply in love with your partner, your happiness together will crumble spectacularly if you can't find your way back to where you started and, with or without changing views succeed in keeping mutual respect, and accept the equality of your perspectives.
The thing is, declaring different beliefs as equal even between loved ones is more than difficult. You choose your beliefs based on how you think the world should operate. If there were other views equal to the set you've picked out, then where lies the issue? And why aren't your views changing? No matter how conscious you are of it. Your views are superior to you, that's why they're yours and why you chose to believe in them.
Consider this. Sometimes, divorce and being apart might be the only way to keep your love intact when the happiness of togetherness dwindles away. When push comes to shove happiness isn't dependent on romantic love, but more often than not a healthy marriage depends on a couples shared happiness.
I might have to bend it back and break it, break it off!
As an Agnostic I don't believe in organized religion. I think religion is a personal thing between you and whatever higher power you believe in. I think if you decide to change that it's up to you and I personally could care less as long as you aren't harming me or anyone else.
However that being said I am a very odd person when it comes to my views on religion. In most cases divorce would be necessary because an individual's world view is shaped by their religious views and in the case of raising children a difference in world views could result in an abrasive and hostile relationship.
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Unlike everyone else in the United States, my daughter's high school is just now celebrating Spring Break. We are always off schedule because our break comes during Passover week. One bad thing about being on our own schedule is Passover always falls so close to the end of school and summer vacation, that the kids have a hard time getting back into the groove of school after their long break. This year, Ben and I got to spend Spring Break alone at home, while our soon to be graduated and just turned 19 year old daughter took off for a Spring Break to end all Spring Breaks. One of her classmates invited three friends to tag along with her parents to Anguilla, staying in accommodations Elisabeth's father and I only dream about. Like I said, it Must Be Nice! That's Elisabeth with the hat on, of course.
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Here is where the gang is staying. Yeah. OK. I could probably get used to this. They have the house on the left. Another family from Chicago is staying in the house on the right. Both sides are available for rent. I get lustful feelings just looking at this picture!! I hope Elisabeth is grateful and appreciative, especially vocally to her hosts. She sent me the URL to the rental company so I could see how beautiful the beach house is – I think she is really just showing off a little. Ever wonder what 19 year old girls think about? She told me she would love to have her "destination wedding" at this beach house. Trying to act like this is a reasonable topic for discussion, I replied that she might need to find a boyfriend first, then graduate college, then we'll worry about her where she'll have her "destination wedding." And why are those so popular today anyway? My idea of a destination wedding is when the reception hall is across town from the church.
The back of the house overlooking the ocean.
The view of the ocean. Anguilla is closest to the island of St. Martin/St. Maarten. The stone steps divide the pool between the deep end and the baby pool. There's a hot tub too. I wonder if the girls are swimming here or in the ocean?
At dusk: walking in through the front door, you can see all the way through the house, out to the ocean.
There is a small pond in the front, which you walk over on the stepping stones to get in the front door. The front pond mimics the footprint of the back swimming pool, which is also situated up against the glass windows. Inside, rocks are placed at the window to create the illusion the pond continues into the house.
Looking out towards the entry court and front pond. Elisabeth excitedly told me " Mom, there are lanterns everywhere – you would love this!!" Of course my dear, of that, I have no doubt.
The middle section of the large living area. On Skype, Elisabeth showed me the two garden stools "just what you love, Mom." Aw, she noticed the interior design! Maybe there's hope yet for her to join me in my business.
The main sitting area – white leather, which is so beach friendly. I would like this better, though, with a blue and white striped rug ala Something's Gotta Give, but you already knew that, I'm sure.
The dining area has large, comfortable gray tufted chairs. The table is trendy limed wood, but – I'm not sure what to make of the white iron base??
The view at night. The kitchen is on the other side of the wood wall.
The kitchen has aqua countertops and stainless appliances. I love that refrigerator.
One of the bedrooms with a white cowhide rug.
The media room upstairs. I imagine the girls are spending most of the time at night in this room. Hopefully they aren't bar hopping!!
At dusk, the view from our rental on South Padre Island, Texas.
Truthfully, my daughter is really not used to such luxuries as the beach house in the Caribbean, so I hope she is really appreciating her trip! As most of you know, we don't travel a lot and leaving Texas is not my husband's favorite thing to do. Consequently, we vacation at the beach on South Padre Island, at the very tip of the United States, where Mexico meets Texas. In fact, the international border is only 3o minutes away by car and probably 5 minutes by boat. We don't own a condo there and nice hotels are pretty scarce on the island, so we rent. The problem with renting condos is most available aren't really fancy, to say the least. The one we rent is about 25 years old and has seen better days; it's had very little remodeling or updating done to it over the years. I know we could find one nicer, but it's right next door to my friend's condo, so the location is perfect.
Our rental last summer. Ouch!
Do your eyes hurt? We rented this unit last summer. We chose this particular unit over the other ones available in the building because it has white tiled floors which means it would at least be cleaner than the carpeted rentals. Last summer we stayed here a month so I did try to make it a little more homey. Each summer I go through a little drill when we arrive at our rental: I walk through the unit and hide all the pillows, accessories, paintings, fake plants, area rugs and assorted clutter in the guest closet. I can't do anything about the paint job, so I just pretend it's not there. Over the years I have accumulated an assortment of ready made slipcovers for the rentals, along with throw pillows, drop cloths, and Indian bedspreads which make great cover ups for nasty condo furniture. The picture above is off the rental web site – isn't that couch a beauty?
Here's what it looked like after I cozied up our unit. I used blue and white ticking ready made slipcovers for the sofa and love seat. We bought the pillows on sale down in Padre at the best (and only) decor shop on the island: Park 100. I brought the Dash and Albert rug with me. I'll buy flowers at the grocery stores and add candles to atmosphere. The books come from home to read while we are there. I ruined by Saladino Villa on the beach and ended up having to replace it. The wicker coffee table was actually kind of cute – about the only cute thing in the condo!
I moved the blue and white lamp from a bedroom to make it look a little nicer, and came THIS CLOSE to buying a new shade for it. Sad, I know. The white tiled floor is a plus. Whenever we are choosing a rental, we always opt for tiled floor over carpeting because at least you know it will be clean then. I learned my lesson one summer when I had to personally have the carpets cleaned the day after we arrived. Yuck!!! We take a SUV down to the beach, so we have a little extra room to pack up all the decorating materials. After doing this now for over 22 years, Ben is resigned to my summer condo redecorating. It took a few years, but I finally broke him in. Now, I think he actually appreciates the clean slipcovers over sitting on old upholstery.
In the dining area, I put a Dash and Albert blanket over the wood table to try to soften it up a little. I added the cute Vagabond Vintage bucket bag from Olivine. The "captains" chairs – well, there wasn't much I could do about those and just had to forget they were there. I don't have pictures of the bedroom, but the Indian bedspreads sold at Urban Outfitters do wonders for quick makeovers. You can actually use one for a make-do dust ruffle and layer another on top for a coverlet. I also put down a few more cute throw rugs in the bedroom and bathroom, which really add a lot to the decor.
Even beach towels and bags can become a decorative element.
South Padre is home for us. I've been going since I was a little girl and our entire family loves it. It's a laid back, very casual beach town, with not much night life, which is exactly how we like it. But still, a Spring Break holiday in a gorgeous contemporary Caribbean beach house Must Be Nice!!!! I just hope Elisabeth doesn't get spoiled. This summer, she'll be back in the land of vintage tufted cream sofas and vivid blue painted walls.
Do you do summer rental decorating? My sister-in-law does the same thing I do, she even brings her own kitchenware and sheets – I'm not quite that sick – yet! I would love to see pictures of your own summer rental decorating. I need some new ideas!!!
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I am 10 months into my NoS journey and felt it was time to post a testimonial. A little about me, I am 42, I have been married for 19 years with two boys aged 8 and 13. I was first put on a diet aged 12 by my well meaning mother, which started a cycle of yoyo dieting and self loathing which I have never been able to break (until now). I have tried every diet under the sun, some for a few weeks or months, some for a few days, I have lost and gained many pounds, but I have never managed to find a way of eating that I felt I could truly follow for life.
A few weeks into NoS I cautiously posted that this had the potential to be life changing. 10 months in and I can confirm that this is true. In fact I didn't for a moment anticipate quite how much of a difference NoS would make to not just my physical wellbeing, but also and more importantly my state of mind.
I was thinking about how to summarise what NoS has given me and I think it can all be linked to freedom. Freedom from all of these things:
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- Self loathing. For being weak, for overeating, for gaining weight.
NoS has brought me peace of mind, and an acceptance that it is OK to be me. In fact this is the first time ever that I have felt at peace with myself and my body. I am nowhere near perfect but that's OK. I am me. I don't have to strive for perfection because its impossible, and its not who I am. NoS has shown me that I can be strong, I do have willpower around food, I can cope without eating for a few hours between meals.
As I continue on my NoS journey I know I have more to work on. In particular I am really struggling to find the motivation to exercise. I know I should, I know it will make a difference to my health and my blobby bits, but still I struggle to overcome the mental block and just do it. Also, I am still on S days sometimes overtaken by the desire to eat without thinking, just for the sake of it. I have decided to allow myself this release, at mealtimes and on S days only, as I fear otherwise I will want to rebel on N days. I am learning that I don't have to achieve it all at once, changes can and will happen over time.
I have found so much support on this forum, everyone has been so helpful and understanding. It has been an eye opener to find so many folk who have the same struggles as me, who completely understand where I am coming from. Thank you to each and every one of you who has taken the time to post on my check in and offer their support.
And of course the biggest thanks goes to Reinhard, as you can see NoS has made such a huge difference to me. Thank you so much.
Oh - I have reached the end of this and realised I haven't even talked about weight loss! I have lost 27 pounds in 10 months. The fact that I've only just thought to mention it speaks volumes!
"You'll know where the North Star is ⭐" - Oolala
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Good for you!
I agree that the weight loss becomes a side benefit. The changes in our relationship with food is the primary benefit.
I enjoy food (in moderation) more than I ever enjoyed food before!
The journey is the reward.
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So wonderfully encouraging
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Thank you both for your kind comments
I agree r.jean - when you eat this way you enjoy and appreciate every mouthful.
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Wow, Bluebell, that's amazing! Well done you! I look forward to following your future successes!
I struggle with the exercise part as well. Somehow it is much easier to remove something from my routine (snacking) than add something (exercise).
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Maybe you've hit the nail on the head, so to speak, regarding exercise. I actually have to
something! I am fine if it is naturally built in to the day, today for example I had a lovely hour's walk along the shore with my two sons. But this is because we are on holiday and it was a fun activity for us all to do. Normally when I am back at work, exercise means doing something extra, which I think I see as an unpleasant chore.
Ah well, onwards and upwards as they say! Thanks for your comments
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What an amazing testimonial, thank you so much for sharing, so much of what you wrote I can relate to. I am early in my No S journey, but so much appreciate reading about other's more long term success to know it is possible to stick with it long term with so many benefits aside from the weight loss.
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Congratulations on your weight loss and sanity! A great testament to the No S diet!
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Thank you for your kind words😊
AnnaBell good luck as you begin your NoS journey, I am pleased that you have found encouragement from my story, it is most definitely a long term way of eating.
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Bluebell, congratulations and I'm so sorry I didn't see this till now!
I'm delighted, of course, at your quantitative success, but even more so at the new "freedoms" you've enumerated.
No-s doesn't just lose you weight, but also, and more importantly, the "phantom weight" in your head. That's been my experience, and it's so great to hear it's yours as well.
Thank you for letting us know and best of luck going forward!
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Thank you for your comments Reinhard and absolutely no need for any apology! I like the idea of losing 'phantom weight', that seems to sum it up very nicely.
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This is SO inspiring! Thanks for sharing, please keep us updated!
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Congratulations! This is very inspiring, thank you for posting it.
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One year since I joined this forum! What a difference a year makes. I am in a good place with my eating. Thank you NoS and all the wonderful posters here.
"You'll know where the North Star is ⭐" - Oolala
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Wonderful! It is such a delightful feeling to "be in a good place with eating."
Here's to many more years of NoS-ing!
Vicki in MNE
7! Yrs. with Vanilla NoS, down 55+lb, happily maintaining and still loving it!
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vmsurbat wow 7 years of NoS, that is a wonderful achievement. I certainly hope to come back and post yearly on here, here's hoping I will have as much success as you have! Thank you for commenting on my testimonial
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The winners of the 2012 Lincoln-Lancaster County Environmental Leadership Awards were honored today at a breakfast at the Champions Club. The awards recognize businesses, organizations and individuals who have demonstrated environmental stewardship and dedication to sustainable practices that improve air, land and water quality while protecting public health.
Speakers included County Commission Chair Deb Schorr and City Council Chair Adam Hornung. Awards were presented to the following:
The new Assurity Center at 20th and "Q" streets will be the first large office building in Lincoln to receive LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The building incorporates sustainable and innovative design elements and green materials. The Assurity Sustainability Task Force establishes policies on environmentally friendly purchasing practices and recycling initiatives and promotes energy saving measures, green cleaning and a paper-free workplace. Assurity chose to build in an urban renewal area, and its headquarters anchors the Antelope Valley redevelopment area.
This hair salon began using and selling only AVEDA products in the 1990s. AVEDA makes its pure plant products using only wind energy, uses recycled packaging and sources all ingredients sustainably and often organically. Sway has worked to reduce its use of water, energy and chemicals. Since 1999, Sway has helped raise money for Audubon Nebraska's Spring Creek Prairie and Rowe Sanctuary.
Ahrens has taught and directed the Pioneers Park Nature Center preschool since its beginning in 2000. The natural environment is incorporated into classroom activities and outdoor time. Ahrens helps children develop values that will contribute to environmental stewardship and sustainable living.
For 20 years, students at this facility near Waverly have partnered with eighth-graders from St. John's School in Lincoln to clean litter along seven miles of county road near the school. Students and staff plan for the collection and recycling of the litter. Students also are responsible for collecting and recycling school trash all year.
(DLA) Maintenance Group DLA's crews keep downtown clean of litter, collect trash, sort recycling, clean graffiti and sweep cigarette butts off sidewalks. They also enhance downtown's appeal by planting and maintaining over 1,000 planting beds filled with trees, bulbs, grasses and flowers. The crew's emphasis on sustainability has reduced the amount of material sent to the landfill and decreased water use.
The City's mass transit bus system has served Lincoln for over 100 years with a mission to provide the citizens of Lincoln with a reliable, safe and affordable public transportation. Its current fleet includes 58 buses that run on bio-diesel as well as 13 hybrid electric Handi-Vans to transport senior citizens and persons with disabilities. StarTran also has installed bike racks on every bus.
Edgar and Jeurink educate the public through weekly Lincoln Journal Star articles and appearances on NET's "Backyard Farmer" program. The Master Gardeners promote sustainable practices such as composting, hand pruning and manual weeding.
Gill, a senior in construction management at UNL, helped create the Environmental Sustainability Committee through the student association. He has helped educate students and community members about environmental issues and opportunities for involvement and activism.


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Abstract: Sorcery in the Soil: Finding Magic at Graeco-Roman Karanis in Egypt
We often imagine magic around every corner of the ancient village: old women who curl fingers around thumbs to avoid the evil eye, ill townspeople seeking out spells and cures from the local wise woman at the edge of town, or ne'er do-wells enchanting young girls with more than their good looks. Indeed, individuals in the ancient world frequently employed magic to achieve solutions to everyday problems as well as unusual crises. Situating magic in the local community proves a greater challenge. By integrating the study of archaeological objects, their contexts and documentary sources, it is possible to reconstruct and understand magic rituals as part of a lived environment. This lecture will focus on archaeological evidence from the Graeco-Roman site of Karanis in Egypt to identify and interpret two groups of magical objects: a burned figurine intended to compel the love of a victim, and a cache of painted bones deposited for mysterious reasons.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic:
Frankfurter, David. 1998. Religion in Roman Egypt: assimilation and resistance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Gazda, Elaine K., and Terry G. Wilfong. 2004. Karanis, an Egyptian town in Roman times: discoveries of the University of Michigan expedition to Egypt (1924-1935), Kelsey Museum Publication 1. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Graf, Fritz. 1997. Magic in the ancient world. Translated by P. Franklin, Revealing Antiquity, 10. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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While core values has guided the educational curriculum and testing protocols in this country, world stats continue to show that it doesn't work.
"U.S. students, who once led the world, currently rank 21st in the world in science and 25th in math," Newsweek reported in 2011.
Core Values is a hot topic in parenting and teaching circles. Everyone wants what's best for their little budding brainiac. But does it work? Many, like Sir Ken Robinson (acclaimed educationalist) and most of the best private schools in the world don't think so.
Not only is the Core Value initiative an old model based on an old paradigm of teaching, production line education at its best produces conformity. But when the first authors designed our our current system, conformity in society was what everyone wanted. "Follow the leader!" And we did. The handful of creative thinkers who dared to step outside of the box became pioneering entrepreneurs. And we followed. While knowing how to get along with the group is as necessary as learning one's ABC's, that kind of teaching fails us when we try to stand out or even stand up to the new global dynamic.
The major problem with the CORE VALUE argument is what it leaves out. The arts are not extra-curricular, they are essential educational experiences that nurture true visceral relationships between the student and his/her curriculum. It helps to foster divergent and critical thinking whereas our current standard core promotes conformity. Our schools should not be factories with children on an assembly-line toward jobs that no longer exist. To compete in the 21st century, with technology, social media and communication at it's most powerful in the history of our world, we must create a new educational paradigm. One that embraces the arts and its ability to nurture divergent thinking. A curriculum that uses the tools that we have at our disposal, tools that the authors of our old educational system couldn't have imagined. We need teachers who are supported for their ability to nurture critical thinking and creativity, and a support system to allow those possibilities to grow.
Sir Robinson said of education, "Teachers will tell you, 'don't copy!' – it's cheating. But when you leave school, it's called collaboration."
A study published in the book Break Point & Beyond illustrates the need for change in our current educational system. A longitudinal study tested children for "Divergent Thinking" (the ability to think critically and creatively about a problem).
The first group showed a remarkable 80% scoring at the GENIUS level. How old were they? Kindergarten level. These same children were tested 5 years later. The same children. The same test. The genius level scores dropped to 50%. Five years following…down to 15%. While the educational system cannot be laid blame for all of the decline, it certainly can't be left outside the margins of cause and effect.
In the last 5 years, with the rise of mobile communications and "smart phones" there is a growing trend for parents to share time with their children on apps, some of which are labeled "educational." Even some "entertainment" apps have shown to encourage a child's intellectual and creative growth. While apps for children, especially in the educational market is the fastest growing segment in this market, there's a lot out there that are simply cheap product.
The growth of good, high quality apps that help to support what schools are doing, and better yet, NOT doing, is small. App development is expensive and labor intensive, while many apps released are either free or cost less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Less than a cup of coffee. Imagine that for a moment. You've just experienced divergent thinking. Now imagine what a good app could do for your child…or maybe even you.
Here's an excerpt of Sir Ken Robinson's discussion of our current educational crisis and what he believes are key points of inquiry.
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Catherine Malcolm is co-founder of FeeFiFoFun, an emerging children's entertainment and publishing company that seeks to break through the barriers facing children's education to give parents and their kids an alternative, or at least complementary support to curriculum enrichment. Our mission is to foster arts, creativity and critical thinking in children of all ages. Like them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FeeFiFoFunz.
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Following graduation from Damascus High School, Walter served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict.
He was a member of the Beach Lake Free Methodist Church where he served as an usher, trustee and as a part of the Pastor's Cabinet.
Walter owned and operated a family dairy farm in Beach Lake, where he also operated an apple orchard and cider mill. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. Walter was also a member of the NRA.
He is also survived by four children: Steve Ostrander and his wife Kathy, Charles Ostrander and his wife Donna, and Mark Ostrander and his wife Susan all of Beach Lake, and Sharon Bates of Allentown; a brother, Larry Ostrander of Gillett, PA, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by three siblings: Grace Tallman, George Ostrander, and Elwin Ostrander; and a grand-daughter, Nicole Amber Bates.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, Aug. 31 at 10 A.M. the Beach Lake Free Methodist Church with Pastor Chris Freet officiating.
Friends may visit on Thursday, Aug. 30 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Arthur A. Bryant Funeral Home 1228 North Main Street, Honesdale, PA 18431.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Walter's memory to the Home Health and Hospice, Eynon, PA or the Beach Lake Free Methodist Church, Beach Lake, PA.
Interment with Military Honors will be Friday in Beach Lake Cemetery, Beach Lake.


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Posted: Fri 03 Oct 2014, 15:40
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How Many Puppies Are There ?
Subject description: Confused by all the Puppy Versions
How many Puppy versions are there ?
I'm confused by all the different names to Puppies there are.
How do I choose which one to use ?
I started out in 2009 using Puppy 4.31.
Upgraded to Puppy 5.25 and have stayed here for several years.
I'd like to upgrade again to Puppy 5.28.
I see that there are different versions of 5.28.
For example:
Super Lupo has Libre Office bundled with it ?
Also it has NVidia drivers bundled too ?
I have an NVidia card in my machine but Puppy 5.25 can't use it.
To use it, I have to dual boot to another Linux version to use it.
(Ubuntu 12.10)
From what I can gather from the posts here, I am using Lucid Puppy and have been all along.
What are these other Puppies for ?
Slacko ?
FatDog ?
Precise ? etc...
and all the other variants....
Do I need these if all I want is a main stream reliable Linux O/S to give me email and web and some office apps ?
I've been using 5.25 as my every day go to O/S alternative to Windows.
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Posted: Fri 03 Oct 2014, 16:19
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No offense, but that's quite enough bold text for one day
Currently there are ~460 Puppies that one can actually download. (There /are/ some that are currently unobtainable...) That's quite a litter! Forum member
has contacted archive.org and set up a repository for them all... you can peruse it here -->
Puppy 4xx and earlier was Puppy that was really just Puppy. At the beginning of the 5xx series, the paradigm shifted to Puppy being a derivative distro -- that is, a distro based somewhat on other distros, and therefore compatible with said other distros.
Lucid Puppy is compatible with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04). It's an older version of our flagship Puppy... Super Lupu 5286 in all its various variations is a continuation-by-update of Lucid Puppy 528.
Our current flagship Puppies are as follows --
> Wary Puppy, for true relics that should far more reasonably be relegated to the attic or kerbside (curbside if you're in the US), but for whatever reason need to be pressed into [continued?] service. Very late Pentium II and most Pentium /// systems.
> Racy Puppy, for slightly newer systems that are not quite too old and dusty as to be practically useless, but are quite outdated nonetheless. Late Pentium /// through Celeron M.
> Precise Puppy, our current Ubuntu-compatible Puppy (compatible with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, aka Ubuntu 12.04). Fairly modern systems -- Pentium M or higher.
> Slacko Puppy, our current Flagship Puppy, compatible with Slackware of various flavors (the older Slackos go through Slackware 13.37, newest brings you up to Slackware 14.0 or 14.1, not sure). Super modern systems. I'm rocking a Slacko 5.7 derivative on a Core2Duo T7200 (which is a laptop Core2Duo, lol... but it works great!) desktop.
Derivatives are called Puplets (at least when I'm typing
) and that's the extreme majority of the collection on Archive.org, as linked above. There are Puplets created for a number of different reasons:
> X-Slacko (which is what I use) uses a different desktop setup -- whereas Puppy usually uses JWM and ROX-Filer, X-Slacko substitutes XFCE and Thunar. If you want XFCE but need (or want) Ubuntu compatibility, there's X-Precise as well
> In a similar vein to X-Slacko, LXPup uses LXDE and its stuff. I'm not a fan of that desktop environment, so I can't really speak to it beyond that... I believe that there's also a couple KDE Puplets floating around.
> Foreign language Pups are available, too -- the French Puppy is called Toutou Linux, IIRC...
> TurboPup XTreme 1.0 is a 4xx derivative that works great on Pentium II systems (etc) that are just too anemic for anything else. It's designed to take up as few resources on its own as possible. Works great, if you can stand its limitations -- modifying it significantly (eg, to update it) just results in one badly broken Puplet. I've tried! Also, TurboPup's dev left Puppy life a couple years ago, so it is most definitely unsupported...
> AnitaOS is in a similar vein to TurboPup, but it's still supported and it's more up-to-date. You can run modern browsers (for example) in AnitaOS, whereas TurboPup can't do that. Grab the "Non-SMP" version, though, so that you can get drivers more easily if you need them.
> Puppy Arcade is made by member
, and is really awesome if you like retro console gaming, because that's what it's for.
> Fatdog, LightHouse64 (aka LH64) and the (currently prototypical) Slacko64 are our 64bit offerings. If you have a system that's 64bit capable, you can take full advantage of it by using one of those three. If all you need is RAM support, pick a "PAE" version of a different Pup if possible.
Interesting Mentions: Member
, on the French subforum, has a very nice Art Deco looking Puppy (I *think* it's still available), called ToOpY.
Member goingnuts has his pUPnGO series -- intended as a super minimal Puppy, it's good if you need a limited-feature Puppy on some really antique hardware. There are versions of pUPnGO that will run on an AMD K6-2 CPU (that's a Pentium 1 with a little extra speed...). That said, I haven't seen goingnuts around in a while, I hope he's OK.
Member jejy69 (also French) takes delight in making all sorts of desktop environments and window managers available for Puppy users to enjoy. I've had mixed success with those; definitely a YMMV sort of thing...
...and that's just a very small sample. The best way to adopt a Puppy that's right for you is always the same. Call it the "pound method" -- go and download any and all that interest you, and try them out. You're sure to find at least one that's likable
Good luck -- and do let us know if we can help further
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 05:30
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Well said!
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 06:05
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Excellent post Starhawk.
@I-Don't-Know try the video upgrade wizard. Lucid has that.
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 12:20
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Thanks, Fossil and darry1966! I certainly try...
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 14:01
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I believe the names came in for the main pups when barry started to reuse the lupu/lucid release numbers rather than starting a fresh set for some reason or other so names where subsequently needed to distinguish quite different pups using the same numbers.
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 14:51
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How Many Puppies Are There ?
Subject description: Thank You StarHawk for your considered reply
Thankyou StarHawk for your reply to my query; you cleared up my confusion.
For my main everyday desktop, I'd like to remain with the main upgrade path from 5.25 to 5.286 and keep the desktop I currently enjoy.
I do have one more question before I dive into 5.28.
My current 5.25 Lupu save file.
I am hoping when I upgrade to 5.286, will 5.286 read my Lupu file that I built with 5.25 ?
I have carefully managed this file over the years and would like to be able to keep all the work I put into it and use it with 5.286.
(If I am correct in my upgrade assumptions)
I'll try out several of the other PUPs on a newer test PC.
All my current test pc's are showing their age.... P-II's and III's
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 16:04
Post subject: Re: How Many Puppies Are There ?
Subject description: Thank You StarHawk for your considered reply
All my current test pc's are showing their age.... P-II's and III's[/quote]
There is nout wrong with those. They still have a use.
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 16:11
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2 PIII here in daily use.
Save file 'should' update ok.... but make a copy of it before trying.
It actually would not need an update script at all but unfortunately there is one.
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 16:45
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@I-Dont-Know. Assuming you have a Frugal Install of Puppy 5.25 - why don't you keep it and install whatever other Puppy you fancy alongside - using Grub4DOS as the boot menu? Just back up the Save File first. That way, you can still have your cake - and eat it. Or is that biscuits and gravy?
Still running a 700 MHz with 368 Megs of RAM.
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Posted: Sat 04 Oct 2014, 17:04
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@Fossil -- biscuits and gravy is a Southeastern US thing. Boston's a little high up for that
I do hear they're famous for baked beans, though...
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Posted: Sun 05 Oct 2014, 05:02
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@Fossil -- biscuits and gravy is a Southeastern US thing. Boston's a little high up for that Wink I do hear they're famous for baked beans, though...
I stand corrected.
Although I'd have associated baked beans more with Chicago - the so-called "Windy City"!
Around here the once popular and readily available local delicacy was pan-fried 'Elvers' - baby eels caught straight from the river Severn - fried with a fresh egg or two, and washed down with a tall glass of 'scrumpy' - apple cider. Nowadays, at the beginning of the spring season, a live kilo can fetch £200.00. With the currency exchange rate at the moment - October, 2014 - being: £1 = US $ 1.5969. That's an expensive lot of slippery little eels. What do they taste like? Think, fishy spaghetti! An acquired taste, or not!
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Posted: Sun 05 Oct 2014, 16:28
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Upgrading to Puppy 5.25
Subject description: install whatever other Puppy you fancy alongside - using Grub4DOS as the boot menu? Just back up the
Fossil wrote:
@I-Dont-Know. Assuming you have a Frugal Install of Puppy 5.25 - why don't you keep it and install whatever other Puppy you fancy alongside - using Grub4DOS as the boot menu? Just back up the Save File first. That way, you can still have your cake - and eat it. Or is that biscuits and gravy?
Still running a 700 MHz with 368 Megs of RAM.
Thank you Fossil for the suggestion:
I dual boot my pc with Ubuntu 12.10
If I did use Grub for Dos, I have an un-realized fear that by using Grub-for-Dos, I might muck up my ability to dual boot to Ubuntu.
Grub-for-Dos might overwrite my boot sector and cause Ubuntu unable to boot.
Some recent backgound:
Before Ubuntu 12.10, I dual booted with OpenSuse v 12.?
I wanted both, so I repartitioned and put Ubuntu on the new partition.
Immediately, I lost ability to boot Open Suse.
Online research taught me that Ubuntu 12.10 used Grub version 2.
Whereas OpenSuse used version 1 or somesuch.
Ubuntu overwrote my boot sector.
So now I have a dead inaccessible partition can't boot to it and can't access it.
I've read online that I can use something called Chainloading.
But I am unable to learn how to or where to edit the Menu1st file.
Not wanting to muck it up, I chose to let that dog lay.
I can still boot Puppy using my frugal installation booting off the usb stick.
I want all that disk space back... so...
My grander scheme with this whole thread is to gather enough knowledge to reformat my HD and live with a pc dual booting Puppy 5.286 and Ubuntu ver 13.xx
I like my Puppy 5.25 desktop and would like to keep my LupSave file and use it in 5.286; thus why I started this whole thread....
Off topic:
Yeah... up here in Boston it's baked beans......
But for some more interesting stuff about Boston...
Here is something for you folks around the country to read:
Some years ago there was a debate about what should be the Official Massachusetts cookie. The debate got so heated the state legislature intervened and established the official state cookie.....
In the little town of Whitman, Mass, there was a restaurant called the Toll House. (since burned down by an arsonist), but the restaurant was famous for it's chocolate chip cookie called the Toll House Cookie.
The Fig Newton, was not to be out done so it campaigned vigorously to be the offical state cookie....
After much debate and legislative posturing the Toll House Cookie won the day.
Read all about it here....
Thank you for all your helpful posts....
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Posted: Tue 07 Oct 2014, 12:11
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There are quite a few similar things in the UK that have protected name status.
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies can only be made in Melton Mowbray.
Stilton Cheese must come from Stilton.
Bakewell Tart must come from Bakewell
to mention just some food items.
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett
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Posted: Tue 07 Oct 2014, 13:00
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Chedder cheese can be any old crap that's from anywhere BUT Chedder Gorge...unless you actually go to the Gorge itself...
now about the lack of cream in 'ice cream' and yoghurt in 'yoghurts'
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Welcome to the last tutorial of the series "Working with the Tidy library in PHP 5." As you might have guessed, this series offers a friendly guide to using the most important functions that come bundled with the Tidy library, so you can start quickly incorporating them into your own PHP applications.
Going straight to subject of this series, you'll remember that in the preceding article I showed you how to dissect and extract different parts of a given (X)HTML string (or even an (X)HTML file) for further processing. More concretely speaking, I demonstrated how to use the straightforward "tidy_get_html()," "tidy_get_head()" and "tidy_get_body()" functions, obviously included with the Tidy extension, in order to retrieve the entire content of a specific (X)HTML string, in addition to extracting its  and  sections respectively.
While it must be admitted that retrieving the distinct parts of a concrete (X)HTML string might not be the most useful task for a seasoned PHP developer, it's valid to mention here that the Tidy library comes equipped with a remarkable set of functions for breaking up a web document in its main section, in this way allowing users to parse the different nodes of the document in question in a simpler way.
All right, at this stage you've hopefully learned how to parse and fix the format of a given (X)HTML file via its specific set of Tidy functions, in addition to splitting a file into its most important pieces. So, the question that comes up is the following: what is the next step? Well, from a PHP developer's point of view, tracking all the errors that occurred when parsing a concrete (X)HTML string might be quite useful. Therefore, in this final tutorial of the series I'm going to cover some new functions bundled with the Tidy extension which are designed to show you the potential errors raised when interpreting (X)HTML data.
Now, with the preliminaries out of our way, it's time to tackle this last article of the series and learn how to handle parsing errors with the Tidy extension. Let's move on!
{mospagebreak title=Summarizing some Tidy library concepts}
Before I move on, I'd first like to remind you of the most important topics treated in the preceding article of the series. This review should help you see more easily how the Tidy functions learned in that tutorial can be linked with the ones that I plan to cover in a few moments.
Having said that, below I listed some basic examples of how to use the hopefully familiar "tidy_get_html()," "tidy_get_head()" and "tidy_get_body()" functions, which are tasked with extracting the different sections of a specified (X)HTML string. Here are the corresponding code samples; have a look at them please:
// example on using the 'tidy_get_html()' function
$html='<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
Tidy</title>
Testing Tidy
';
echo $htmlNode->value;
/* displays the following:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

<title>Testing Tidy</title>

Testing Tidy

// example on using the 'tidy_get_head()' function
$html='<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
Tidy</title>
Testing Tidy
';
echo $headNode->value;
/* displays the following:
<title>Testing Tidy</title>
// example on using the 'tidy_get_body()' function
$html='<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
Tidy</title>
Testing Tidy
';
echo $bodyNode->value;
/* displays the following:

Testing Tidy

Hopefully, after studying the respective signatures for the three previous examples, you'll recall how easy it is to extract the distinct sections of a specified (X)HTML string using the functions provided by the Tidy library. Nonetheless, I believe that these functions in particular don't bear any additional discussion, since they were already covered in detail in the previous tutorial of the series.
Therefore, it's a good time to move forward and start looking into the group of Tidy functions aimed specifically at handling all the errors that occur when parsing a concrete (X)HTML string.
Want to see how these brand new functions will be properly implemented? Click on the link below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Using the tidy_get_error_buffer() function}
As I stated in the section that you just read, not surprisingly the Tidy library comes equipped with a neat group of functions whose primary capacity is to return to calling code all the errors raised when parsing a specified (X)HTML string.
Let me show you the first function that belongs to this specific group. It's called "tidy_get:error_buffer()," and it allows you to easily retrieve, from Tidy's error buffer, all the warnings raised when interpreting a concrete (X)HTML string. The corresponding code sample is as follows:
// example on using the ' tidy_get_error_buffer()' function
$html='
This paragraph will be parsed by tidy
';
echo tidy_get_error_buffer($tidy);
/* displays the following:
line 1 column 1 – Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 1 column 1 – Warning: inserting missing 'title' element
As illustrated above, the "tidy_get_error_buffer()" function displays all the errors that occurred while parsing a concrete (X)HTML string. In this case, I coded some badly-formatted (X)HTML data, and then used the function to show the pertinent warnings thrown by "tidy_parse_string()." Not too complex, right?
However, as I said earlier, the Tidy library comes with a remarkable set of functions for retrieving all of the potential errors triggered when parsing some (X)HTML data. Therefore, in the following section I'm going to teach you how to use these additional error-handling functions. Click on the link that appears below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Using the tidy_access_count(), tidy_error_count() and tidy_warning_count() functions}
Counting the errors and warnings raised when parsing a specified (X)HTML string can be a no-brainer process with the assistance of some handy functions included with the Tidy extension.
In this case, I'm talking about the useful "tidy_access_count()," "tidy_error_count()" and "tidy_warning_count()" functions. As their names clearly suggest, they are tasked with keeping track of any potential failure triggered at the time of interpreting and fixing a given (X)HTML string.
All right, having introduced these brand new error-handling functions bundled with the Tidy extension, I'm going to show you some hands-on examples which demonstrate in a friendly fashion how to use the functions in question in some concrete cases. Please take a look at them:
// example on using the 'tidy_access_count()' function
$html='<title>This file will be parsed by
Tidy</title>
This is paragraph
';
// set accessibility check level: 1, 2 or 3
echo tidy_access_count($tidy);
/* displays the following:
// example on using the 'tidy_error_count()' function
$html='
This is an erroneous line';
echo 'Number of errors encountered when parsing string is the following:'.tidy_error_count($tidy);
/* displays the following:
// example on using the 'tidy_warning_count()' function
$html='
This is an erroneous line';
echo 'Number of errors encountered when parsing string is the following:'.tidy_warning_count($tidy);
/* displays the following:
Number of errors encountered when parsing string is the following:
As illustrated above, the first example uses the "tidy_access_count()" function to display the number of errors triggered when parsing a sample (X)HTML string. Also, it's worth noting here that this function is used along with another one named "diagnose()." Unfortunately, the reason for engaging in this coupling process hasn't been specified yet in the official PHP documentation, so for now you'll have to take this example as it is.
Now that I have clarified the issue surrounding the implementation of the "tidy_access_count()" function, I will explain the second hands-on example. In this case, the number of errors triggered at the time of parsing a sample (X)HTML string is displayed on the browser via the simple "tidy_error_count()" function, which certainly doesn't bear too much discussion here.
And finally, the third example demonstrates how to count the number of warnings thrown when parsing the same sample (X)HTML string utilizing the "tidy_warning_count()" function.
In addition to the error-handing functions discussed above, I'd like to show you one more, named "tidy_get_status()," which comes in handy for determining the status of a tidy object after parsing a couple of badly-formatted (X)HTML strings.
The corresponding code sample is as follows:
// example on using the 'tidy_get_status()' function
$badhtml1='
This is an erroneous line';
$badhtml2='
This is another erroneous line';
echo 'Status of tidy object is the following: '.tidy_get_status
/* displays the following:
Status of tidy object is the following: 1
echo 'Status of tidy object is the following'.tidy_get_status($tidyObj2);
/* displays the following:
Status of tidy object is the following: 2
As you can see, the above hands-on example simply shows how a tidy object, which is returned by the already familiar "tidy_parse_string()" function, can modify its status in consonance with the errors raised when interpreting a specified (X)HTML string via the "tidy_get_status()" function.
Even though it's clear to see that the prior function has a rather limited utility in certain cases, it deserves at least a basic analysis to complete the coverage of error-handing functions included with the Tidy extension.
Final thoughts
That's all for the moment. Sadly, we've come to the end of this series, but hopefully the experience has been pretty instructive. As you learned in these three tutorials, the Tidy library can be really useful if you're a PHP developer who doesn't spend much time formatting the (X)HTML documents included in your web applications.
See you in the next PHP tutorial!


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WOMEN'S SOCCER: Oakland beats Ohio State, advances to second round of NCAA tournament
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Shannon Coley saved three penalty kicks as unseeded Oakland (11-5-4) advanced 3-1 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw with No.4 seed Ohio State (16-4-2) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
The Golden Grizzlies advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history and travel to Tallahassee, Fla. to face Texas A&M on Friday.
"We're so excited to be moving on in the tournament," said head coach Nick O'Shea. "We've been to the tournament a number of times and haven't been able to get past the first round. This group of players we that we have right now worked very hard over the last few years to try to help us accomplish that and today it came true. Hard work pays off and I'm just very proud of our team right now."
After the score finished 1-1 following 110 minutes of soccer, the match was decided in a shootout. After Whitney Sarkis made the first shot for OU, Coley denied Ashley Gruebaum to put Oakland ahead 1-0.
After Meghan Reyholds converted her spot kick, Coley made another diving save to her right to deny Ellyn Gruber, giving OU a 2-0 lead.
Match times for the second round of the tournament will be announced later in the week