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Basehor-Linwood High School plant sale
- When: Friday, May 4, 2012, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Where: Basehor-Linwood High School, Basehor
- Cost: Not available
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- Categories: school fundraiser
The annual Basehor-Linwood High School horticulture class plant sale is taking place this week.
Plants will be on sale every day through Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the high school. Visitors can enter through the school's front doors and walk to the back of the school. Signs will mark the directions.
On sale will be flowers as well as tomato and pepper plants. Proceeds will go toward future student projects in the school's greenhouse.
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Just when I thought Danville couldn't get any nuttier, I've been proven wrong.
Out of the blue come more road/street projects than I can count. And they don't seem to follow a logical pattern; starting and finishing one project and then moving onto the next.
What I'm seeing is a dozen projects being started and then moving on to start another dozen and then going back to the first dozen for a little while, etc., etc. ad nauseam!
I'm not complaining — in fact, I find it a bit humorous. The "worker bees" are definitely earning their pay and are doing good work. All I want to know is how I can get in on the action. All I want is my fair share!
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RALEIGH – No. 3-seeded Louisville upset top-seeded Maryland in the NCAA Tournament's Raleigh Regional final and earned the school's first trip to the Final Four.
Headed to St. Louis April 5-7, the Cardinals will play the winner of Tuesday's Oklahoma City Regional game between No. 1-seeded Oklahoma and No. 6-seeded Purdue.
The Cardinals (33-4 ) pulled ahead of Maryland by 19 points with a little over a minute remaining and closed out a game it led throughout at the at RBC Center.
Louisville senior forward Angel McCougtry, who led her team with 21 points and 13 rebounds, was named the regional's MVP.
Her performance in Monday's game, however, was not enough to carry her team. She had help with three other players scoring in double figures, including senior forward Candyce Bingham, who chipped in 15 point and six rebounds.


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Steps to Developing an Organizational Plan
Steps to Developing an Organizational Plan
Every organization involved in health information and services needs its own health literacy plan. Without an action plan, organizational improvements to address health literacy will likely be uncoordinated and not sustainable. Everyone has limited time and resources, and having a plan helps you know what to do first. The HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) has a sample action plan you can use to help write a plan for your organization.
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Improving health literacy requires changes in organizational and professional practices. It is imperative health organizations take steps to ensure information, products, and services are accessible and understandable. However, it is essential that those steps are coordinated and strategic to improve health literacy. The National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy [PDF - 666KB] is a helpful framework and model to change organizational and professional practices. CDC also has a workbook to walk you through the planning process [PDF - 738KB].
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FRANKFORT — Janet Lee Smeltzer, 74, of Frankfort, died June 17, 2013, in Traverse City.
Born in L'Anse on April 23, 1939, she was the daughter of the Thomas and Mildred Cook. Janet married Joseph W. Smeltzer on Sept. 12, 1959.
Janet pursued many interests in her lifetime. In 1978 Janet was the first hospice volunteer in Benzie County. She was very involved in Blaine Christian Church, where she directed the choir for both adults and children for 16 years and lead various Bible studies. She also took time to visit homebound friends and enjoy lunch together.
She was an avid gardener. Janet was the greatest at spoiling her grandchildren on their birthdays.
Janet was a member of Eastern Star and cofounded Understanding Substance Abuse (USA) with Doris Marshall.
Janet was a devoted servant to her family, friends, church and community.
She is survived by husband, Joseph Smeltzer; three children, Michelle Smeltzer and her children, Evan Smeltzer and Brielan Andersen; Martin Smeltzer, his wife, Mary and their children, Joseph, Thomas, Emily, Ellen and Mary Claire; and Anita Owen and husband, Patrick Owen; and siblings, Daryl Cook, Lyle Cook, James Cook, Blanche Clark and Carol Ehman.
She was preceded in death by brothers, Bernard Cook and Ray Cook; and sister, Isabelle Mendenhall.
Visitation will be today, June 21, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Jowett Family Funeral Home, Benzonia. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. June 22, 2013, at Blaine Christian Church, with the Rev. Robert Larimer officiating. Burial in Joyfield Twp. Cemetery.
Contributions may be directed to Munson Hospice House or Blaine Christian Church.
Arrangements are by Jowett Family Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, Benzonia and Frankfort.


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- Disney Princess Palace Pets Pamper Me Pretty Pumpkin from Blip Toys
- Part of the Disney Princess brand
- We recommend this product for ages 4 and up
What It Is
Pamper Me Pretty Pumpkin, Cinderella's puppy, is part of the Disney Princess Palace Pets toy line from Blip Toys. The Pamper Me Pretty Pumpkin stuffed pet features a removable jeweled tiara and collar, a blue skirt,and bendable tail. Pumpkin also comes with a brush, two ribbons, two barretts, and color-changing accessories. Fill the included "flat iron" with icy cold water and run the clip-in blue hair extensions through the "iron" to change the hair color. Or dip the two color-change barretts in cold water to change them from light blue to dark blue. Hair accessories can be clipped to Pumpkin's tail, ears, and head.
Is It Fun?
Fans of Disney Princesses will love engaging with any and all of the new pet characters related to their favorite princesses. And although each pet does correspond with a specific princess, the fun hair play with pets like Pamper Me Pretty Pumpkin will also offer something for non-princess fans as well. Girls will also love that just as Cinderella transformed into a princess for the ball, they can transform Pumpkin's look as well.
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Pamper Me Pretty Pumpkin is for ages 4 and up.
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Water must be icy cold in order for the color-changing features to work. We also found that it works best to simply dip the color-change accessories in water or rub with an ice cube than use the included flat iron.
The color change is not long-lasting, but for young girls it is just as fun to keep dipping the accessories to continuously change the colors.
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By Keith Gushard
Meadville Tribune
Keeping the South Perry Street Bridge as an active bridge will be evaluated by state, county and local officials in the coming months, but Titusville City Councilman Keith Bromley wants it to remain in use.
Concerns about the bridge being closed were raised during a recent transportation meeting among Titusville officials, Bromley said. Replacement cost could be as much as $5 million.
"It needs to be open," Bromley said Wednesday, noting there is a lot of pedestrian traffic that uses the bridge to access homes on the city's south side.
The Crawford County-owned bridge, which carries traffic over Oil Creek in Titusville, currently has a 3-ton weight restriction on it, according to the Crawford County Maintenance Office. Pedestrian walkways on the bridge are closed due to the deteriorating steel structure underneath them.
The bridge is due to be inspected today by the county and EADS Group, the county's engineering firm.
The South Perry Street Bridge is listed for replacement on the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's current transportation improvement plan, but it's not a done deal.
"There's a question on rebuilding it," Jim Carroll, a spokesman PennDOT's northwest district office, said. "We need to evaluate it and see if it's a redundant bridge."
PennDOT is involved because it would provide funding for the project even though it's a county-owned bridge.
Carroll noted a state-owned bridge on Route 8, one block east of South Perry Street, and the county-owned Brown Street Bridge, that is east of the Route 8 Bridge, both cross Oil Creek. Both of the Route 8 and Brown Street bridges carry vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
"We need to evaluate it with county and city officials and then we'd have a public meeting," Carroll said of the South Perry Street Bridge. "I have no timetable for it, but it would be done in the next several months."
Money toward design of the replacement bridge and utility relocation was to be released this year, but it hasn't been yet, Carroll said. Construction of the project would be in 2015, according to PennDOT's plan.
"I'm against it. It's got me nervous," Bromley said of any potential closure of the South Perry Street Bridge.
Though unaware of any possible closure, Crawford County's three commissioners all expressed concern over the loss of the South Perry Street Bridge.
"There are no plans on the county's part to close it," Commissioner Chairman Francis Weiderspahn Jr. said. "PennDOT would fund rehabilitation so they may do a study to see if it is needed."
Weiderspahn said one potential possibility if a vehicle bridge was considered unnecessary would be to replace the South Perry Street Bridge with a pedestrian-only bridge.
"I'm not aware of it by EADS (the county's engineering firm) or by anyone else," Commissioner C. Sherman Allen said of a potential closure.
"Every bridge has to be evaluated," Commissioner Jack Lynch said. "There are no plans to close it that I'm aware."
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Obama: No Flamewars in the Senate, Please
by Matt Stoller, Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 01:49:43 PM EST
I just got an email from someone on Obama's staff. Apparently Obama doesn't want a flame war.
February 6, 2006
The Honorable John McCain
United States Senate
241 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear John:
During my short time in the U.S. Senate, one of the aspects about this institution that I have come to value most is the collegiality and the willingness to put aside partisan differences to work on issues that help the American people. It was in this spirit that I approached you to work on ethics reform, and it was in this spirit that I agreed to attend your bipartisan meeting last week. I appreciated then - and still do appreciate - your willingness to reach out to me and several other Democrats.
For this reason, I am puzzled by your response to my recent letter. Last Wednesday morning, you called to invite me to your meeting that afternoon. I changed my schedule so I could attend the meeting. Afterwards, you thanked me several times for attending the meeting, and we left pledging to work together.
As you will recall, I told everyone present at the meeting that my caucus insisted that the consideration of any ethics reform proposal go through the regular committee process. You didn't indicate any opposition to this position at the time, and I wrote the letter to reiterate this point, as well as the fact that I thought S. 2180 should be the basis for a bipartisan solution.
I confess that I have no idea what has prompted your response. But let me assure you that I am not interested in typical partisan rhetoric or posturing. The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity and my desire to put aside politics for the public interest is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem.
Barack Obama
United States Senator
McCain will probably respond by killing Obama's dog.
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By TERRY CUMMINS
If odd people didn't write, you could not read. You'd stay in contact with a live television or punch a mechanism with fingers turning to stone. A writer, or a wannabe, sits at blank paper or a grayish screen, staring, fidgeting, waiting for inspiration. You can't force inspiration, which is like waiting for the cows to come home. Cows carry a heavy baggage and need relief, just as columnists need topics to write about. Maybe someday, my computer will read me, my explosive emotions and shallow thoughts. Computers are rapidly becoming a form of an animal taking on a few human characteristics. I see it now, my thoughts transcending through space to a machine's inner core. It will then write from its heart and mine, beautiful sentences making sense to a degree. We're almost there, don't you know? When driverless cars hit the road, mind-reading computers can't be that far behind.
The human mind is complex, which compliments the complexity of the recent discovery of how two digits — one and zero — changed our lives. Robots are on the verge of becoming human in every way except they're plastic without veins to let blood run through. Writers aren't robots yet as they shed blood waiting for inspiration and a topic to pursue. Writers lead lonely lives, but readers don't. Think what your life would be without the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and Dr. Seuss. Thank a writer for his suffering and sacrifice as he stares into space until words, some indecipherable, appear.
We sit there stifled until letting the imagination wander hoping it makes contact with a word, phrase, event, person, place or thing. When I looked out my window for inspiration and saw a mockingbird sitting in a holly tree day after day, I had to write about it. The Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton also inspired me, but I don't understand how Sarah Palin sneaked into some of my articles, too. These themes, family, politics, technology and cyberspace, all distinguished by the absurd aspects of the human condition, provide a wealth of material. My family is weird; what about yours? When writing about politics, I go mad like they do. Technology can't be described, but "back then" can. When I compare back then to now, it's like describing daylight from dark. Going back helps me keep my head on straight and nerves in check.
Why do I write? Why do you breathe? Writing was something I wanted to do, but family kept me to the grindstone until my nose ground down to two hairy holes. After retirement, my life took off again like it did at age 15 when Mary Lou walked by, a thunder clap and blazing bolt dissolving my heart into mush. Taught myself to use a computer and practiced writing stuff that had no way to go but up. Some of it did, and since age 66, I've published nearly 650 articles. Writing an article each week is only part of it. At age 69, I published my first book, followed by three others with a fifth, "Anne's Story," coming out soon, and "My Life in a Schoolhouse" in the works.
Better late than never works for me as described in "Retirement is a Blast: Once You Light the Fuse." For most of us, retirement provides the chance to do what we want to do, up to a point. Helen Keller said, "Life is an adventure or nothing." That's my mantra — writing is an adventure, and when I began, I could not stop. It's a compulsion and a passion. Old folks are passionate, too, or should be about something, anything — bird or grandchildren watching, surfing space or the sea, converting stamps to email, or if nothing else, brim-level living. You could become passionate about politics like politicians are, but then you'd be a robot without feelings. If passion wanes, what is there to keep us living an adventurous life? An acquaintance said, "You write better than you used to." Why can't life be the same — better than it was.
One writer described writing as staring at a blank piece of paper until the blood begins to drip. It's lonely sitting here waiting for drops of words to coagulate. What's even lonelier is that those words might be gibberish. Science tells us that frowning wrinkles the face, whereas smiling helps prevent heart failure. I do not like to write about war, oil or deficits. I prefer writing about chuckle subjects like the absurdity and drama of the human condition, of which I am proudly, an integral part.
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OnboardIn January 2013, Un-Cruise Adventures was "born" when the parent company combined its two lines -- American Safari Cruises and InnerSea Discoveries. While the line's vessels remained the same, the renaming was aimed at conveying the line's unique style of exploration cruising. The company further rebranded its cruising styles, offering three adventure types: Active, Luxury and Heritage. Active Adventures encompasses the ships formerly under the InnerSea Discoveries line: Wilderness Discoverer, Wilderness Adventurer and Wilderness Explorer. Safari Endeavour, Safari Explorer and Safari Quest, which fell under ASC, make up the line's Luxury Adventure offerings, while S.S. Legacy makes up Un-Cruise Adventures' Heritage Adventure style.
Un-Cruise Adventures' Active Adventure ships provide an expedition experience that's built for comfort, not luxury. It's a great bet for passengers who have the latest in REI gear and are eager to use it. Don't bother packing dresses or collared shirts; you're more likely to wear rubber boots and rain pants on the ships' outdoor-oriented itineraries. Each ship's expedition staff is charged with helping passengers spot humpbacks or identify the flora.
Despite the casual atmosphere, Un-Cruise Adventures' Active Adventure ships offer thoughtful touches. There's a reasonably priced full bar, memory foam mattresses and a special kayak launching dock designed to get even the biggest couch potato out on the water. Having an onboard pastry chef means you'll replenish calories quickly. Dining focuses on locally sourced ingredients, such as Alaskan seafood. All cabins are above deck with outward facing windows that open and close, perfect for enjoying Alaska's crisp mornings and late sunsets.
The lines Luxury Adventure ships offer yachting, as opposed to cruising in the usual sense. The size of the vessels grants them access to inlets, coves, narrows and straits the larger ships can't even approach. Though you might travel the major waterways of the Inside Passage, you're more likely to share an out-of-the-way anchorage with a handful of commercial salmon-fishing boats than a harbor full of cruise liners. While you're anchored, the chef might stock up on the day's fresh catch and prepare it for your dinner.
Yachting emphasizes familiarization with the flora, fauna, geology and culture by means of guided shore excursions and soft-adventure activities. Your day in Alaska might start with a skiff tour to view a glacier up close and end with kayaking under the light of the midnight sun; in Hawaii, you might visit a macadamia nut farm by day and snorkel with manta rays by moonlight. Night sailing schedules depend on the venue: In Alaska, the yachts pull into secluded coves in the evening for cocktails, dinner and peaceful sleep. In Hawaii, ships anchor by day (for maximum water play) and sail by night.
Dinners are typically casual affairs long on camaraderie and conversation and short on menu choices, usually limited to a couple of tasty main course options, often based around local, freshly caught seafood. Wine choices -- all beverages for that matter -- are included. The bar is open 24/7 and stocked with top-shelf brands.
Another perk: free yoga classes and massages on select yachts (one massage per passenger; not available on Safari Quest).
S.S. Legacy, a replica Victorian-style steamer, joined the fleet in August 2013. The lone vessel offering Heritage Adventures will highlight history programs onboard and ashore, with itineraries in Alaska and the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest.
About Un-Cruise AdventuresPicture off-the-beaten-track, up-close-and-personal ecotourism combined with the pampering of a luxury cruise. Imagine an encounter with a bear, humpback whale or spinner dolphin in the morning, followed by a perfectly chilled martini and fresh oysters at cocktail hour. And, while travelers on the big ships might be listening to a medley from "Cats," you're taking advantage of Alaska's 20 hours of daylight by kayaking after dinner in bald eagle territory or snorkeling with manta rays by moonlight off Hawaii's Big Island.
These combinations of experiences are the basis of the concept hatched in 1996 by American Safari Cruises, a partnership between former Cruise West executives, created to combine the upscale amenities of small, deluxe motor yachts with expedition-style cruising.
InnerSea Discoveries entered the Alaska expedition market in 2011 with two ships and itineraries along the Inside Passage. It added a third ship to the fleet for the 2012 season. Un-Cruise Adventures aims to do a better job than the big guys of revealing in-depth Alaska, Mexico and Hawaii to sophisticated travelers -- and it does it in style.
The company, headquartered in Seattle, is run by Dan Blanchard and Tim Jacox, who have significant experience with small-ship cruising, including stints at American Safari Cruises and the defunct Cruise West.
Un-Cruise Adventures FleetThe company began cruising in Alaska in 1997 with a single, leased yacht. In 1998, it purchased Safari Quest, leased a second vessel and added a second Alaska itinerary. In 1999, the company purchased Safari Spirit, which caught fire in April 2012 and was declared a total loss (Read more).
Un-Cruise bought the Wilderness Discoverer and the smaller Wilderness Adventurer from the defunct Glacier Bay Cruise Line. After complete refurbishments, the ships were launched for the 2011 Alaska season. Originally sold at 49 passengers for 2011, the Wilderness Discoverer bumped its load to 76 people; Wilderness Adventurer has a 60-passenger capacity. In 2012, the line added Wilderness Explorer under a long-term lease-to-purchase agreement. Originally run by Cruise West as the 86-passenger Spirit of Discovery, the ship was renovated to carry 76 passengers on Glacier Bay-oriented itineraries between Juneau and Sitka.
Un-Cruise Adventures' fleet also includes the 145-foot Safari Explorer (36 passengers); 120-foot Safari Quest (22 passengers); and 217-foot Safari Endeavour (86 passengers), which formerly sailed for Cruise West as the Spirit of Endeavor. In August 2013, the 192-foot S.S. Legacy (88 passengers) joined the fleet.
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Joe Arpaio, the 80-year-old lawman who brands himself "America's toughest sheriff," is smiling like a delighted gnome. Nineteen floors above the blazing Arizona desert, the Phoenix sprawl ripples in the heat as Arpaio cues up the Rolling Stones to welcome a reporter "from that marijuana magazine."
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The guided tour of Arpaio's legend has officially begun. Here, next to his desk, is the hand-painted sign of draconian rules for Tent City, the infamous jail he set up 20 years ago, in which some 2,000 inmates live under canvas tarps in the desert, forced to wear pink underwear beneath their black-and-white-striped uniforms while cracking rocks in the stifling heat. HARD LABOR, the sign reads. NO GIRLIE MAGAZINES!
From behind his desk, Arpaio pulls out a stack of news clips about himself, dozens of them, featuring the gruff, no-frills enforcer of Maricopa County, whose officers regularly round up illegal immigrants in late-night raids, his 60th made only a few days ago, at a local furniture store. "Everything I did, all over the world," he crows, flipping through the stories. "You can see this week: national magazine of Russia... BBC... Some people call me a publicity hound."
"My people said, 'You're stupid to do an interview with that magazine,'" says Arpaio, talking about Rolling Stone, "but hey, controversy – well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years."
Arpaio is an unabashed carnival barker. And his antics might be amusing if he weren't also notorious for being not just the toughest but the most corrupt and abusive sheriff in America. As Arizona has become center stage for the debate over illegal immigration and the civil rights of Latinos, Arpaio has sold himself as the symbol of nativist defiance, a modern-day Bull Connor bucking the federal government over immigration policy. As such, he's become the go-to media prop for conservative politicians, from state legislators to presidential candidates, who want to be seen as immigration hard-liners. "I had Michele Bachmann sitting right there," says Arpaio, pointing to my chair. "All these presidential guys coming to see me!"
As Arpaio has faced allegations of rampant racial profiling in Arizona, he's declared war on President Barack Obama, accusing him of watering down federal immigration law to court the Latino vote – while Arpaio himself continues to investigate the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate, the favored conspiracy of his far-right constituents. "I'm not going to get into everything else we got about the president," he brags to a conservative radio interviewer while I'm sitting in his office. "I could write 9 million books."
Arpaio refuses to acknowledge the president's recent decision to grant temporary immunity from imprisonment and deportation to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. These people, Arpaio says, will "be arrested" in Maricopa County. In June, when the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law, the core of which allows law enforcement to demand citizenship papers from any suspected illegal immigrant they come across, Arpaio growled that he wouldn't "bend" to the feds, "especially when we still have state laws to enforce."
"If they think I'm going to surrender," Arpaio says, "it's not going to happen."
His rhetoric and tactics have spread fear in the Latino community in Arizona. "They hate me, the Hispanic community, because they're afraid they're going to be arrested," Arpaio boasted to a TV interviewer in 2009. "And they're all leaving town, so I think we're doing something good, if they're leaving." But the all-consuming focus on immigration has come at a cost: Arpaio is so obsessed with the often illusory crimes of immigrants that he ignored more than 400 cases of sexual abuse he was responsible for investigating, including assaults on children. And it surprised no one that JT Ready, the Arizona white supremacist who shot and killed his girlfriend, her family and himself last May, had attended Arpaio rallies.
Yet such derelictions of duty haven't hurt Arpaio among the audience he cares about most. Since 1992, despite widespread criticism from human rights groups and local political leaders, Arpaio has been re-elected four times in Maricopa County, the most populous area of Arizona and a bastion of retirees and conservatives for whom Arpaio is a white knight, a defender of the 1950s Shangri-La they've sought to preserve in the largely white suburbs that ring Phoenix. "I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy," says Arpaio.
Short and portly, with a bulb nose and cauliflower ears, Arpaio plays the part with aplomb. The ringtone on his outdated cellphone, which constantly bleats with requests from the media, is Frank Sinatra singing "My Way." "I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called," he says, then swivels in his chair to a 1960s Smith Corona typewriter and taps out a message without looking, yanking the paper out for dramatic effect. "I do typing whenever I talk to reporters," it reads.
But in the middle of Arpaio's well-oiled performance, something happens that's not on the official playbill. His media aide, Lisa Allen, a former TV news anchor for a local affiliate, bursts into the room and tells me I must leave because a "personal matter" has come up. The sheriff is done for the day.
But the matter, it turns out, is more than personal: Arpaio's staff has just learned he's being sued by the Justice Department for a litany of civil rights violations against Latinos – the "unlawful and unconstitutional" targeting and detention of people because of their "race, color or national-origin." As a result, federal prosecutors charge, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has created "a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos" that "reaches the highest levels of the agency."
The federal lawsuit will land within 48 hours. The curtain, for the moment, must close.
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House gives early nod on preschool billBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | May 01,2013MONTPELIER House lawmakers gave preliminary approval Tuesday to legislation that would require every school district in the state to provide publicly funded preschool to children as young as 3.
In a 97-43 vote that split mostly along party lines, advocates for early education won a victory they say will expand opportunities for kids during a critical period in their lives. For lower-income children especially, supporters of the legislation say, the bill would provide the head start needed to promote academic success later in life.
By investing in high-quality early education instruction, we create the foundation for learning that cant be replicated later in life, said Rep. Sarah Buxton, a Tunbridge Democrat. Unfortunately, not all children have the early foundational supports that can help prevent lifelong difficulty with learning.
Critics, however, said that however worthwhile preschool may be, lawmakers should not impose upon districts a new mandate for which local property tax payers will be picking up the tab.
Rep. Heidi Scheuermann, a Republican from Stowe, said its ironic that the House just last week voted out an education finance bill aimed at bending the spending trajectory in local schools.
We were talking how we were going to control spending, and we were blaming ... local school boards for voting on budget increases and spending increases, Scheuermann said.
Less than seven days later, she said, the same lawmakers are passing legislation that will necessarily increase local budgets.
We cant ask our residents to pay more, Scheuermann said. And yet the state is now forcing us to do that.
Gov. Peter Shumlin seems to share at least some of the opponents concerns. The Democrat said he supports efforts to expand publicly financed preschool offerings. But he stopped short Tuesday of endorsing the Houses approach.
There isnt a Vermonter who doesnt agree that pre-K is incredibly important. The question is how do we pay for it? Shumlin said. Weve got to do it in a way that doesnt adversely impact property tax payers, and thats the balance were trying to find.
Shumlin and lawmakers look to have at least another year to figure it out. With less than two weeks left in the session, the legislation approved by the House on Tuesday is exceedingly unlikely to get through the Senate before the fall of the gavel.
But proponents of the plan say the budgetary impacts wont be nearly as pronounced as critics fear. All but 40 of the states 270 or so school districts already provide at least some publicly financed preschool; those programs now serve about 38 percent of the approximately 11,300 kids age 3 and 4.
Rep. Adam Greshin, a Warren independent, said that whether the Legislature acts or not, Vermont is already heading down the road to universal pre-kindergarten, as districts respond to demand from constituents. In fiscal year 2016, the first year the legislation would take effect, the Legislatures Joint Fiscal Office predicts an annual fiscal impact of only $1.2 million.
Estimates from the Agency of Education project that pre-K enrollment percentages will plateau at 60 percent by 2020 and add $9.8 million annually to statewide school spending a drop of water in the $1.4 billion public education bucket.
The legislation wouldnt mandate enrollment in preschool, only that it be available to parents who want it; the bill calls for at least 10 hours of publicly funded preschooling for 35 weeks a year.
Rep. Johanna Leddy Donovan, a Burlington Democrat and chairwoman of the House Education Committee, said shes convinced the additional expenditures will, in short order, result in downward pressure on budgets for special education.
Donovan said its also a matter of fairness. In districts without publicly funded preschool, she said, children from well-to-do families likely arent missing out on education. Its the kids from low-income families, Donovan said, who are forced to go without.
Not everyone is convinced that the fiscal impacts of the mandate would be so benign, especially for towns in which parents opt in high numbers to avail themselves of the cost-free option.
Rep. Cynthia Browning, an Arlington Democrat, said that if lawmakers think preschool is important enough to mandate, then they ought to be willing to fund it as well.
Instead of leaving property tax payers to pay for the preschool-related expenses that will be built into their tax rates, Browning said the Legislature should allocate general fund revenues to offset what will otherwise become an unfunded mandate from Montpelier.
Rep. Margaret Cheney, a Democrat from Norwich, one of the districts that doesnt offer publicly funded pre-K, said she agreed.
I think the underlying issue here is not its value, but how we pay for it, and essentially whether we want to expand what the property tax pays for as opposed to the general fund, Cheney said. And I think thats a very legitimate point, which I agree with.
Rep. Chris Pearson, a Burlington Progressive, voted against the bill out of concern that it would undermine the public education apparatus that has adopted a growing role in delivering preschool services.
Under existing law, its left to schools to decide which pre-K programs theyll fund. The legislation approved Tuesday would allow parents wider choice and permit them to enroll their children in qualified private settings outside the geographic boundaries of their home district.
Buxton, the Tunbridge representative, said more than 70 percent of children under 6 live in households in which all adults are working.
Improving enrollment rates in preschool, she said, will mean giving parents a range of options. She said the bill was carefully crafted to ensure that public dollars wont be used to pay for placements at facilities that deliver religious instruction.
By permitting a parent to enroll their child in a pre-K program that works for them we expect that the enrollment in pre-K education will grow, Buxton said.
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Applicants who wish to run in the special election may file for a place on the ballot beginning Feb. 10. The filing deadline is March 10.
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The newest River Walk tile mural was unveiled on Tuesday morning and it celebrates the story of water in San Antonio.
"Contrary to popular belief, oil isn't the lifeblood of this city, it's water," said Briscoe Western Art Museum's Executive Director Steven Karr. "So it's an important story to tell."
To tell that story, the Briscoe collaborated with San Antonio Water Systems and artists from Dunis Studios and decided to continue a long-standing San Antonio tradition of creating and installing large tile murals along the River Walk.
Both gun groups and those wanting more restrictions aren't surprised by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis' position on open carry laws. Davis, in a written statement to the Associated Press, stated that she did support the practice for handguns and had a vision for how that would work in Texas.
The questionnaire asked the state senator from Fort Worth if she supported open carry and why. Davis answered that she does, but that governmental should be sensitive to private property owners, who may not want allow open carry within their facilities.
The City of San Antonio's Comprehensive Neighborhood Sweeps Initiative continues this weekend to deliver responsible pet ownership info and resources directly to residents.
City Council District 1 is being targeted for the initiative this weekend.
Records kept by Animal Care Services of the high-risk neighborhoods pinpoint those with the most bite reports and the most stray animal calls. They deploy staff and volunteers to the targeted area to go door-to-door with education, awareness, and enforcement.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory. It's in effect for San Antonio until noon. School Updates All San Antonio ISD schools will be open today with normal start times. Northside ISD, North East ISD, Judson ISD, South San ISD, Southwest ISD, Southside ISD, Alamo Heights ISD and Comal ISD have also announced they are open Friday.
Charity Navigator, a national charity assessment organization, has awarded San Antonio-based Acción Texas a four-star rating for the third year in a row.
Visitors to Hemisfair will soon start seeing construction on the southwest corner of the park.
City council recently approved the contract for Fisher Heck Architects, a San Antonio firm, to design the restoration and stabilization project for ten of the historic structures on the Hemisfair grounds.
You don't have to be any particular denomination — or any denomination — to be interested in downtown's church architecture and history. The city's Office of Historic Preservation continues with its historic walking tour program.
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The debate over vouchers is heating up on the national level with proposed legislation, "The Scholarship for Kids Act of 2014" to give federal dollars to students opting out of public school. School choice is the best way for underserved communities to get a good education, say conservatives pushing this legislation.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has launched a new degree program aimed at making college affordable.
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to wear and tear. Some cracks extend into the deeper layers and bone produce fibrillation. Degrading enzymes are released
which further break down cartilage matrix and collagen. These enzymes include serines, collagenase, cathepsins, metalloproteinase's,
hyaluronidases, stromelysins, plus the cartilage breakdown products, initiate a mild synovitis The resulting inflamed synovial
membrane releases primary inflammatory mediators IL 1, IL 6, tissue necrosis factor, proteases, and prostaglandins that further
increasing cartilage destruction and inhibiting new matrix production. The further decreased resiliency of the cartilage results
in sclerosis of the subchondral bone and osteophyte development in the periarticular margins in advanced cases.
There is no cure for arthritis, only control. The goals in the treatment should be to alleviate patient discomfort, minimize
further degenerative changes, and to restore the affected joints to as near normal and pain-free as function possible. The
management of arthritis involves the following strategies and should be tailored to best meet the patient and clients needs;
1. Client education on the progressive nature of the disease is critical; 2. Set realistic outcome goals (expectations); 3.
Adequate rest periods; 4. Sensible exercise program; 5. Weight assessment and reduction if necessary; 6.Analgesics and anti-inflammatory
therapy for rapid results; and/or 6. Chondroprotective agents; 7.Anti-oxidant nutritional therapy (dietary); 8. Complementary
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West Cumbrian service to mark Titanic centenary
Last updated at 20:19, Thursday, 19 April 2012
More than 100 people gathered at Maryport's Christ Church to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on Sunday.
The moving ceremony began with Sea Cadets carrying in the Union flag, followed by the poignant and appropriate sailors' hymn For Those In Peril On The Sea.
The Rev Canon Gill Hart read What is Dying by Bishop Brent, a poem which deals with a ship disappearing over the horizon.
Mrs Hart then lit a candle for all those who died and all those whose lives were changed following the sinking.
While violinist Kevin Hamil played Nearer My God to Thee, members of the Ismay family, whose ancestor Thomas Ismay owned the White Star Line, laid flowers at the altar.
Members of Maryport Maritime Museum, who are responsible for a major exhibition at the Wave Centre, then spoke about some of the passengers and crew on the ill-fated liner.
They were led by Cliff Ismay, who spoke about Bruce Ismay, the owner of Titanic and son of Thomas.
He said that Ismay took a seat on a lifeboat that was not going to be occupied by anyone else but spent the rest of his life tormented by images of that fateful night.
The Rev Susan McKendrey said it was appropriate that Maryport remembered the event.
She said: "Thomas Ismay, who owned the White Star Line, was born here and never forgot his roots.
"The clock on this very church was donated by the Ismay family.
"There are stained glass windows at St Mary's remembering Thomas and his daughter Mary and Thomas Ismay gave to the poor here. We have a lot to remember him by."
She spoke about the despair of the night and how, when people may have thought God had deserted him, they still turned to him in hope, as evidenced by the orchestra which played Nearer My God to Thee as the ship sank.
She also spoke of the changes that had occurred since the Titanic, the lessons learned and the lives that might have been saved from 1912 to 2012 because of those changes.
Peter Kendall, town mayor, attended as did councillors Carni-McCarron Holmes and Angela Kendall and the town's other clergy.
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Students take a guided nature walk along the beach, using their senses to detect signs of life. They observe local birds and may find crabs, clams, worms, insects, kelp, rocks, and shells in the sand. Buckets, sieves, and hand lenses are used to locate and respectfully observe small animals and plants of interest. Students note similarities/differences within and between species and ultimately return all biotic items to the natural habitat. Additionally, students investigate the composition of sand with magnifying lenses and magnets, describing the physical characteristics that provide clues to its origin.


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Hundreds of two-year-olds will receive free early years education in Sutton.
Paul Burstow, MP for Sutton and Cheam, has heralded news that 400 disadvantaged toddlers will receive the free education from next year.
This is in addition to all three and four-year-old children in Sutton, who are already eligible to receive 15 hours of free early year's education per week.
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Increasing the Scalability of PISM for High Resolution Ice Sheet ModelsFebruary 22nd, 2013
P. Dickens and T. Morey (2013), Increasing the Scalability of PISM for High Resolution Ice Sheet Models, 14th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-14), Boston, MA.
The issue of global climate change is of great interest to scientist and a critical concern of society at large. One important piece of the climate puzzle is how the dynamics of large-scale ice sheets, such as those in Greenland and Antarctic, will react in response to such climate change. Domain scientists have developed several simulation models to predict and understand the behavior of large-scale ice sheets, but the depth of knowledge gained from such models is largely dependent upon the resolution at which they can be efficiently executed. The problem, however, is that relatively small increases in the resolution of the model result in very large increases in the size of the input and output data sets, and an explosion in the number of grid points that must be considered by the simulation. Thus increasing the resolution of ice-sheet models, in general, requires the use of supercomputing technologies and the application of tools and techniques developed within the high-performance computing research community. In this paper, we discuss our work in evaluating and increasing the performance of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) [6, 25, 38], using a high-resolution model of the Greenland ice sheet, on a state-of-the-art supercomputer. In particular, we found that the computation performed by PISM was highly scalable, but that he I/O demands of the higher-resolution model were a significant drag on overall performance. We then performed a series of experiments to determine the cause of the relatively poor I/O performance and how such performance could be improved. By making simple changes to the PISM source code and one of the I/O libraries used by PISM we were able to provide an 8-fold increase in I/O performance.


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RALEIGH — Officially, everything is on hold in the NHL until the leagues players ratify the new collective bargaining agreement.
But behind the scenes, teams are busily making plans for training camps, ticket promotions and the start of the regular season while awaiting the release of the NHL schedule.
The Carolina Hurricanes anticipate opening the regular season with a Jan. 19 road game, possibly against the Florida Panthers in Sunrise, Fla. General manager Jim Rutherford said Thursday the Canes home opener at PNC Arena could be Jan. 22, although he could not name the opponent.
The NHL players started voting Thursday night on the 10-year CBA and can put the final stamp on a document that caused a 113-day work stoppage and a labor fight that endangered the season. The vote will be completed Saturday morning, and teams then will open training camps on Sunday the Canes plan to have player physicals Sunday morning, then a first practice on Sunday afternoon.
The Canes must quickly decide on a roster, which Rutherford said could include at least six or seven players who began the season with the Charlotte Checkers, Carolinas American Hockey League affiliate and have come of age.
Defenseman Justin Faulk, one of the NHLs best rookies last season, will return from Charlotte. The Canes also could add either Justin Peters or Dan Ellis as a backup goalie.
Others from Charlotte that could be in the mix are defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti and forwards Drayson Bowman, Zach Boychuk, Zac Dalpe, Jeremy Welsh and Tim Wallace. All have played well for the Checkers, who lead the South Division in the AHLs Western Conference.
For the most part, theyve all had a taste of the NHL, most of them last year. They got their feet wet and I think theyre an eager group, Canes coach Kirk Muller said Thursday of the Checkers players.
Muller noted the Checkers have installed systems and a style of play this season thats identical to what he will use with the Canes, which should make the transition seamless in training camp.
Rutherford said the Canes would continue to look for a player to give the third or fourth line a little more grit. Its possible Carolina could look to make an early trade, although such a trade could be simply to open up a roster spot for a Charlotte player.
The Canes expect to go through the regular season without forward Tuomo Ruutu, who recently had hip surgery. Rutherford said Ruutu probably would be replaced among the Canes top six forwards by one of the Checkers.
Rutherford acknowledged that many people were affected by the lengthy lockout, which he called an unfortunate time. He said the team has marketing promotions that will soon to be announced to help win back disgruntled fans Rutherford said the Canes lost seven percent of its ticket base during the lockout to fans demanding refunds.
You never know what to expect when these things happen, Rutherford said. In the early going of the lockout, the percentage ... was between one and two percent. As we got closer to the (Christmas) holiday season that number grew.
Rutherford said seven percent was a very low number that underscored the loyalty of his ticket holders. He also said since Sundays announcement of a CBA agreement, the Canes had been selling a lot of season tickets and hoped to recoup the seven percent loss.
We have some work to do, Rutherford said of rebuilding the fanbase. "I view it the same way as when we first moved here (from Hartford in 1997). We had to build our fans one by one, seat by seat. If thats what we have to do again, thats what well do."
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If you've never read a Johnny Mayhem story before, you are in for a treat. Johnny, who wears different bodies the way ordinary people wear clothes, is one of the most fascinating series characters in science fiction.
fanatic gurus ever thought of that. Then the door in front of him opened again and a fat, unctuous-looking Ophiuchan came out. He seemed to be an official of sorts.
"One more!" he said. "Only one! The rest of you begone."
Behind Pandit there was a general press of bodies, but he was first in line and did not surrender his position. The unctuous-looking man admitted him, half-expecting a bribe. Pandit passed him by; he didn't have a single copper.
He approached a desk. The crowd noise outside was loud, those who had not joined the line crowing because most of those on it had been turned away. Behind the desk sat a small Denebian man of middle years. He looked nervous.
"Can you fly?" he asked in a voice almost desperately thin.
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"How much experience?"
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This was my first Mayhem adventure. As the description says, Johnny Mayhem inhabits dead bodies and solves mysteries. In this story (episode?) he's been dispatched to a world colonized by East Indians and where any offworlder who enters the society commits suicide, purportedly by the gurus who run the planet. There's a bit of gimmeckry in the telling but it's still a pretty good pulp tale.


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The NHLs most patriotic (American) brand has gone European. The Columbus Blue Jackets, named for Ohios rich Civil War history, recently announced the hiring of Finish general manager Jarmo Kekäläinen. Kekäläinen didnt waste any time bidding farewell to Jokerit, the Finish Elite squad he recently turned around on and off the ice, to become the leagues first ever European-born GM. Considering the Jackets wealth of youth and draft picks it was an easy decision and a move Jokerit had been anticipating. The opportunity is great and the challenge daunting, but, if successful, Jarmo can tack on another awe-inspiring NHL first to his résumé: making the Blue Jackets to relevant.
Luck has rarely been on the their side since the Blue Jackets inception in 2000/01. With no playoffs wins and countless draft busts to their credit, its shocking that Mr. Kekäläinen is only the third GM in the troubled teams history. Unlike his predecessors, Jarmo wont enjoy a long honeymoon. Not under team president John Davidsons watch. How Kekäläinen manages the team in his first next six months will determine the fate of the franchise for a decade or more.


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Palamida is doing a great deal to make open source easier to adopt and develop.
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The Ecuador Experience (REE)
If you want to sample the region's highlights without sacrificing some of its lesser-known gems, there's no better way to experience Ecuador's dramatic scenery and colourful people. Visit the Amazon and a shaman for an incredible introduction to indigenous culture, and witness lush jungles and exotic wildlife. Staying in simple hotels and homestays and using public transport will keep you grounded in the local customs and culture. We'll travel from the Avenue of the Volcanoes to relaxing Pacific beaches and mountain hot springs. This adventure offers up a great combination of must-see highlights and free time to explore on your own.
Highlights: Feel like a local at an Amazon homestay, relax on Ecuador's beaches, witness Andean scenery, ride by train to the Devil's Nose, learn from the locals at an indigenous community, shop the Otavalo Market
Galapagos on a Shoestring (SEGS)
This 9-day adventure is perfect for those who want to experience the incredible wildlife and scenery of the Galapagos Islands but prefer to sleep on shore—so your time on the water is limited to commuting between islands. Go ashore at the lesser-visited island of Isabela and spend your days with playful sea lions, giant manta rays and the Galapagos giant tortoise. With fewer inclusions but plenty of options, you can choose which activities are right for you and experience one of the natural wonders of the world on a budget.
Highlights: Witness whitetip sharks at 'Shark Alley', travel by public speedboats around the Galapagos Islands, camp in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island with views towards the ocean, visit Charles Darwin Research Station and the Giant Tortoise Breeding Centre, hike Sierra Negra Volcano.
Local Living Ecuador—Amazon Jungle (SEJL)
The Amazon Rainforest is so full of life; embrace it for yourself during a week unlike any other. From Quito, you'll travel to your new home in the jungle and meet the Quichua family who will host you in their home for the next four nights. Discover waterfalls on jungle walks and travel to an animal rescue centre by canoe. You'll learn about medicinal plants and how to use a blowgun, experience a shaman ceremony, and visit a local school. Most importantly, you'll befriend a people few outsiders have the honour to even meet.
Highlights: Live like a local in the Amazon Rainforest, learn Quichua traditions by interacting with your local hosts, visit an animal rescue centre, hone your blowgun skills, experience a shamanic ceremony.
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- Learn the power of test-driven development while creating a fully-featured web application
- Understand the best practices for modularization and code organization while putting your application to scale
- Leverage the power of frameworks such as BackboneJS and jQuery while maintaining the code quality
- Automate everything from spec execution to build; leave repetition to the monkeys
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 146 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : August 2013
Author(s) : Paulo Ragonha
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Application Development, Open Source
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Jasmine
Chapter 2: Your First Spec
Chapter 3: Testing Frontend Code
Chapter 4: Asynchronous Testing – AJAX
Chapter 5: Jasmine Spies
Chapter 6: Light Speed Unit Testing
Chapter 7: Testing Backbone.js Applications
Chapter 8: Build Automation
Chapter 9: Conclusion
- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Jasmine
- JavaScript – the bad parts
- Jasmine and Behavior-Driven Development
- Downloading and first run
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Your First Spec
- The Investment Tracker application
- Jasmine basics and thinking in BDD
- Setup and teardown
- Nested describes
- Setup and teardown
- Coding a spec with shared behavior
- Understanding matchers
- Custom matchers
- Built-in matchers
- The toEqual built-in matcher
- The toBe built-in matcher
- The toBeTruthy and toBeFalsy matchers
- The toBeUndefined, toBeNull, and toBeNaN built-in matchers
- The toBeDefined built-in matcher
- The toContain built-in matcher
- The toMatch built-in matcher
- The toBeLessThan and toBeGreaterThan built-in matchers
- The toThrow built-in matcher
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Testing Frontend Code
- Thinking in terms of components (Views)
- The module pattern
- Using HTML fixtures
- Basic View coding rules
- The View should encapsulate a DOM element
- Integrate Views with observers
- Testing Views with jQuery matchers
- The toBe jQuery matcher
- The toContainHtml jQuery matcher
- The toContain jQuery matcher
- The toHaveValue jQuery matcher
- The toHaveAttr jQuery matcher
- The toBeFocused jQuery matcher
- The toBeDisabled jQuery matcher
- More matchers
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Asynchronous Testing – AJAX
- Setting up the scenario
- Installing Node.js
- Coding the server
- Running the server
- Writing the spec
- The waitsFor() function
- The runs() function
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Jasmine Spies
- The "bare" Spy
- Spy an object's functions
- Testing DOM events
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Light Speed Unit Testing
- Jasmine Stubs
- Sinon.JS
- Installing Sinon.JS
- A Fake XMLHttpRequest
- A Fake server
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Testing Backbone.js Applications
- The Backbone model
- Declaring a new model
- The model attributes
- Default attribute values
- Events
- Sync and AJAX requests
- Testing Backbone collections
- Declaring a new collection
- Sync and AJAX requests
- Testing Backbone Views
- Declaring a new View
- The el property
- Rendering
- Updating the View on model changes
- Binding DOM events
- Testing Backbone routers
- Defining a new router
- Defining routes
- Using routers
- Routers should only route
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Build Automation
- RequireJS
- Module definition
- Project setup
- The new SpecRunner.JS file
- The RequireJS configuration
- Testing a module
- Optimizing for production
- Headless testing with PhantomJS
- Downloading and installing PhantomJS
- Running your tests without opening a browser
- Grunt
- Installation
- Project setup
- A RequireJS optimizer task
- A Jasmine task
- Watch for changes and run the specs
- Managing NPM dependencies
- Summary
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What you will learn from this book
- Drive your application development entirely by tests
- Organize your application code in modules with RequireJS
- Create a fully-tested jQuery plugin
- Solve problems and learn best practices for asynchronous testing
- Use Stubs and Spies to perform quick unit testing
- Test-drive a BackboneJS application
- Optimize your JavaScript code to production
- Master the power of tooling and automation with GruntJS
- Run your tests on the cloud with Travis-CI
In Detail
From a little renegade scripting language to the de facto standard platform of today, JavaScript has become a universal language available in the widest range of devices; it is truly the 'write once, run everywhere' language. However, as JavaScript applications become more complicated, testing and applying sustainable software engineering practices also become mandatory.
Jasmine JavaScript Testing is a practical guide to a more sustainable JavaScript development process. You will learn by example how to drive the development of a web application using tests and best practices.
This book is about becoming a better JavaScript developer. So, throughout the chapters, you will not only learn about writing tests, but also about the best practices for writing software in the JavaScript language. This book is about acknowledging JavaScript as a real platform for application development and leveraging all of its potential. You will also learn about tooling and automation and how to make your life easier and more productive.
You will learn how to create a sustainable codebase with the help of Jasmine. We will take a look at integrated testing (with a backend NodeJS server) and how you can speed this process up by faking AJAX requests. As you progress through the book, you will learn about the challenges of testing an application built on top of a framework and how you can prevent your application from suffering from dependency management hell. Also, since your applications need to get into production, you will learn about optimizing the code to reduce the number of requests the browser needs to make while loading your application.
With this book, you will learn everything you need to know to become a real professional in the ever-demanding JavaScript universe.
The book uses a concise, to-the-point approach to help developers understand and use the power of Jasmine to create better and more maintainable codebases.
Who this book is for
This book is a must-have guide for web developers who are new to the concept of unit testing. It's assumed that you have a basic knowledge of JavaScript and HTML.