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Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Dr., Boylston, hosts the 2011 "For Use and For Delight" Herb Show from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Also Aug. 14, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Come see thousands of cut herbs on display and in Tower Hill's vegetable garden. For more info and admission cost, visit www.towerhillbg.org or call 1-508-869-6111.


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Six Chippewas Named Midseason All-MAC by Phil Steele
Courtesy: CMU Athletic Communications
Release: 10/18/2013
Junior wide receiver Titus Davis, senior linebacker Shamari Benton and junior linebacker Justin Cherocci headlined the Central Michigan honorees, earning first team recognition. Senior safety Avery Cunningham was named to the second team while sophomore running back Saylor Lavallii and redshirt sophomore center Nick Beamish received third team honors.
A Biletnikoff Award candidate, Davis leads CMU in receptions (29), receiving yards (518) and touchdowns (4) and his 86.3 yards per game average ranks third in the MAC. With 20 career touchdowns, Davis sits third in the CMU record book and his 2,129 career yards are seventh all-time among Chippewa receivers. He is also ranked No. 2 in the nation among active players with a career 19.0 yards per reception average and No. 9 with a career 71.0 yards per game average.
Benton and Cherocci combine to provide the Central Michigan defense with one of the nation's top tackling tandems. The duo is tied for the MAC lead and rank fifth nationally with 73 tackles. Benton has led the Chippewas in tackles in each of the last four games, including a career best 14 stops in last week's win over Ohio, and has five double digit tackle games thus far in 2013. Cherocci also tops the team in tackles for loss (7.0), sacks (3.0) and forced fumbles (2). Over the past 20 games, Benton and Cherocci have combined for 404 tackles, an average of over 20 per contest.
A starter of 38 consecutive games, the second longest streak in the nation among safeties, Cunningham is the veteran leader of the CMU secondary. He leads the Chippewas with 35 solo tackles and ranks third in total stops with 50, including 4.0 for a loss.
Lavallii has gone from capable back up coming into the season to full-time starter following the injury to All-MAC rusher Zurlon Tipton to one of the nation's top backs in the span of six weeks. In the win over Ohio, Lavallii set career highs in rushing attempts (26) and rushing yards (184) for the second consecutive week. He currently ranks third in the MAC and 13th nationally with 705 rushing yards. He has also proven to be a durable workhorse for the Chippewas, as he is third in the NCAA in carries with 138 behind only Washington's Bishop Sankey (159) and Boston College's Andre Williams (157). Thus far this season, he has put together three 100-yard games and two two-touchdown efforts. Entering this weekend, Lavallii is just 32 yards shy of the 1,000-yard mark for his career.
Beamish anchors the middle of a young but talented CMU offensive line. After redshirting in 2011, he has started every game since, a streak of 20 consecutive contests. Following a 2012 season in which Zurlon Tipton rushed for nearly 1,500 yards, Beamish has helped pave the way for Saylor Lavallii, who is on his way to the 1,000-yard rushing benchmark this year.
Winners of two straight MAC road games, Central Michigan (3-4, 2-1) returns home for the first time since September 21 this weekend, hosting defending MAC champion No. 23 Northern Illinois (6-0, 2-0) in the Chippewas' annual Homecoming game. The intradivisional contest is scheduled for a 3 p.m. kickoff and will be broadcast by ESPN3. Central is the last team to deal the Huskies a conference loss, claiming a 48-41 victory in Mount Pleasant in 2011.

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Subject: RtI Free Webinar: High School RtI and Progress Monitoring
Source: Martha Leader, Assistant Director, Effective Practices
Intended Audience: All Educators
Date: April 23, 2010
The High School Tiered Interventions Initiative (HSTII), a collaborative effort among the National Center on Response to Intervention, the National High School Center, and the Center on Instruction is hosting a webinar on May 12 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. central time.
In this webinar, Dr. Kristen McMaster will provide an overview of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), including the purpose, a brief description of research, and a demonstration of how CBM data can be used to monitor student progress. She will briefly review CBM tools that are available for high schools in reading, mathematics, and the content areas, and provide instructions for developing CBM tools for use at the high school level. Following Dr. McMaster's presentation of CBM in high school, representatives from Walla Walla High School in Walla Walla, Washington, will discuss how they have monitored school progress as part of their tiered intervention model. This presentation is suitable for anyone interested in the research and practitioner perspectives of RtI and progress monitoring at the high school level.
To participate in the conversation, you may submit questions before and after the webinar by emailing them to: email@example.com. HSTII staff will be available to answer follow-up questions until Wednesday, May 19, 2010.
You must register for this event at http://tinyurl.com/2aveosj. Once you register, you will receive an email invitation two days before the webinar, which includes a link to where you may join the event on the designated date and time. You may register right before the event, but please keep in mind that the email invitation may take up to fifteen minutes to reach your inbox. Space is limited, so please register early. To participate in the webinar, you will need a computer with internet connection and a telephone line.
If you are unable to participate in the webinar, you may view it once it is posted on the website. Archived webinars and Power Point slides are posted one week after the initial recording on the National Center on Response to Intervention's website http://rti4success.org/.


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Fire takes lives of cows, brings down barnHawley, MN (WDAY TV) - An early morning fire has claimed a family barn and several cows North of Hawley.
By: Becky Parker, WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY
Hawley, MN (WDAY TV) - An early morning fire has claimed a family barn and several cows North of Hawley.
But it could have been so much worse. The family is thankful for a passing neighbor who was watching out for them.
It took firefighters about two hours to put out the blaze. By the time it was all said and done, 10 cows perished in the flames.
Wes Dunham, Lost Family Barn: "I got a call from my Mom. She said the barn is on fire, and it's like, what do you do? There's cows in the barn."
Wes and Brad Dunham live nearby, helping their parents with the family cattle ranch.
Brad had been in the barn checking on the cattle less than two hours earlier.
Brad Dunham: "I didn't even make the driveway. I hit the ditch and ran out of my car."
They were able to get most of the cattle to safety, but five cows and five calves died in the nursery area of the barn.
Wes and Brad's grandfather built this barn more than 50 years ago.
Wes: "It's sad. It's been in the family forever, but what can you do?"
Still, Wes says he is thankful for the neighbor that reported the fire and woke his parents.
He says that may have saved the other 130 cows and the rest of the barn.
Wes: "He drove, by saw the flames. Thank God for neighbors."
As for the rest of the cattle, the newer part of the barn is still standing, so they have somewhere to stay warm.
The feed did not burn in the fire, and while water was temporarily down, the family expected to have it running again this afternoon.
The Dunham's say the fire may have started from a skid steer that was plugged in near the barn. A state fire marshal is investigating.
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Saturday will be a relatively light day of activity compared to Friday but both the Ivy League and Pac 12 will keep on churning. Stanford and Oregon will meet in what could be an NCAA elimination bout with the
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This will be the final weekend of the regular season in several conferences but the show stopper will be Norman as #4 Oklahoma hosts #6 Baylor. Both teams will be looking to improve on their ranking with OU expected to jump up to #2 with a win while Baylor could rise up to #3.
Sunday Live Scoring Links
There were no real surprises on Saturday with all the favored teams winning - most with ease. So is there anybody that might get upset on Sunday? I don't see anyone high-profile going down but it wouldn't be too surprising if someone like Clemson, Mississippi State, or Purdue went down.
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Chapter TWO THE TEEN YEARS
So now I am nearly 14 living in the Highlea hotel in Weston-Super-Mare with my mother, I'm not going to school so I spend my days down on the Marine Lake helping old Tom the boatman with the 20 or so rowing boats. The town council ran the Marine Lake and hired out the boat's, for a few pence per hour, the advantage was that when it was slack those that had helped the boatman, could take a rowboat out whenever they felt like it.
It was like a permanent holiday, I guess I was a beach bum, but having just moved to Weston it was a great way to get to know a few of the locals, and of course the place was swarming with holidaymakers, known to the locals as grockles, it was in the early days of plastics and you could hire a swimsuit and towel, the one size ladies bikini swimsuits were all red and very often left little to the imagination as the girls were not all of one size.
The Marine Lake is a body of seawater that is held back from receding by a wall that has been built across Glentworth bay, the only problem is the amount of mud that collects in the bottom of the lake. Every winter they used to rig up a mud plough which was operated by a huge steam winch with steel cables that moved the Plough backwards and forwards across the mud as the water was allowed to drain out through the outlet the plough was aimed at, by persevering all the winter they used to manage to get most of the mud cleared.
The Knightstone theatre was thriving, as was the Pierotts and the Rozelle bandstand, the Knightstone used to have a variety show every week and I usually managed to go each week, I used to sit in about the third box from the stage on the left hand side, great excitement one week when they had a naked female on the stage, rules were that she was not allowed to move, so she performed in something like a telephone box with a curtain drawn across the front, the curtains would then open, she would pose without moving for about 30 seconds, the curtains would close, a new pose would be adopted and so on through the months of the year, all terribly exciting.
The other thing I remember about the Knightstone was the huge electric sign overlooking the harbour that spelt out THEATRE with each letter coming on one at a time to form the complete word, that is one word that I will never forget how to spell.
The motor boat's that provided the visitors with trips around the bay were another source of fascination, one I remember was called the Doris, and one called Flora Glen, these boats were almost all the same, about 25 ft open boat no cabin, with seats all round the front section, on a busy day the six or seven boats would be in and out of the harbour as fast as they could load the passengers. At about this time as an alternative to flying to Cardiff they had a trial hovercraft service, there was a roped off area just by the swimming pool on the sands, the advantage was that the hovercraft didn't care whether the tide was in or not, it just came charging up over the mud on to the sands, with huge clouds of sand flying everywhere and the pilot did his best to turn the craft round whilst it was still moving in order to be able to go straight back out to sea. It was great fun watching the crowds scatter when he made an error with his approach and demolished the ropes and posts on the beach.
One of my friends used to be the delivery boy for the greengrocer's in Upper Church Road called Sandy's, he used to live up the hill that the Highlea hotel was on and would come hurtling down this steep hill on his delivery bike, his method of breaking was to put his foot in front of the downtube, on the solid brake link to the back wheel, locking the back wheel and going past the hotel in a screeching skid, much to my mother's annoyance. I think his name was Brian.
The hotel was purchased with sitting tenants in the front basement two rooms, a couple called Mr and Mrs Plummer, and because of this was bought at a much reduced price, due to the housing shortage and the laws at the time you just couldn't get rid of them no matter how much you wanted to.
I do not know how much my parents paid for the hotel, but I do know that it cost my brother and I all the National Savings that we had contributed to all those years, I don't think we were even consulted, it was just for the common good.
It was at this time that I had my first real romance; she was a holidaymaker from Penarth just 10 miles over the water from Weston. I only saw her for a week but was so enamoured that I took my first flight in an aeroplane from Weston to Cardiff to go and visit her. I used to watch these aeroplanes flying over on the Scheduled flights every day, and I thought they were real aeroplanes. They were actually de Havilland Dragons, when I walked on to the airfield to board the plane I found it was a metal tubular frame covered with canvas, it didn't have real seats, they were like metal deckchairs, it was a twin engined biplane that carried about 14 passengers, but all went well, nearly missed the plane home, but got there and back and safe and well.
The telephone number of the hotel was 942 and you spoke to the operator to be connected, the railway station was 32, and the bus garage was 110, there weren't many telephones in those days.
My father finished up at the Queen's head and came to Weston, because I wasn't needed to travel as a contraband runner any more it was decided that as the war had ended and the Summer visitors had all gone home I had better get a job, it was September 1945, my cousin Bill was working for the local bus company as a mechanic, so he got me a job in the same place, I started work at 6 o'clock in the morning, the working week was 48 hours and my weekly wage was £1 and 6p. We did have a strike later on. The men were claiming an extra penny an hour.
The first task every morning was to start up the hundred or so buses, most of the buses were pre-war veterans, four-cylinder petrol engined Bristol's and Dennis Lancet's, it was no longer in use but at the back of the garage they still had an old breakdown lorry that actually had solid tyres, The bus garage on Weston sea front was huge with no ventilation in the roof and after starting half the engines there was so much exhaust smoke in the building that you couldn't see half the length of a bus.
The main task was to service the buses, each one would be done every four weeks, so we did four or five each day, I of course was working as the mate of one of the mechanics, spending most of the day working in a pit that the bus had been driven over, it was not a pleasant task and if the bus had been on a country route and was still wet from the road we sometimes had cow manure dripping down our necks.
I soon came to the conclusion that this was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and talked my way into being the mate of the man that road tested the buses after their servicing, so during the morning we cleaned the carburettors, changed the plugs, serviced the magnetos or changed the injectors and cleaned the filters in the case of the diesels, the afternoon's were spent on the road out in the country road testing.
One big advantage of the road testing was that the route took us past the local girls grammar school and this is where I first saw my future wife Bertha we used to look out for each other every day and during the summer I would deliver ice-cream which was passed over the fence of the school. Bertha lived with her grandparents in a small village five miles from Weston called Lympsham. When Bertha left school she went to work at the local town hall in the salaries department. We were together constantly and spent a lot of time queuing for the local cinemas that were very popular in those days of no television. There was the Regent, the Central and the Odeon. There used to be one called the Tivoli in the Boulevard but it was destroyed during an air raid. We cycled a lot, played tennis, visited Fortes ice-cream parlour opposite the Regent Cinema we generally had a wonderful time, Bertha's aunt Bess lived in Clevedon Road and she used to go there for lunch every weekday.
At about this time my eldest brother Charlie was released from being a Japanese prisoner of war, after spending some time in Barrow Gurney hospital he was well enough to return home, his wife Elsie used to say that he would eat anything, if it was kippers he would mash the whole fish up and eat the lot, head and all. He used to get a special ration of liver from the butcher's, to get the most vitamins out of the liver he had to eat it raw. He would never talk about his experiences but the lack of vitamins had seriously affected his eyesight, he used say that he didn't mind riding his bicycle around the town but coming across a red traffic light when you can only see a few feet was not very pleasant. I remember him peering through his strip magnifier to choose the horses to back that day. I did some work for him later on an old house they bought in Edinborough Terrace just above Grove park, changing all the sash cords in the house.
My other brother Clifford had been conscripted into the army to do his National Service and he served as a dental mechanic, this spectre was hanging over my head and although I was in a reserved occupation I knew that I was going to have to go sometime to do my 18 months in the army. I could defer my service until I was 24 but I knew that by the time I was 24 I would be married with children, so I decided that I had better go at 18 and get it over with.
Whilst I was working for the bus company I bought a new bicycle, a sports model, it was tomato red with white mudguards, not lightweight but with chrome north road drop handlebars, I hadn't had it long before I injured my left knee whilst playing tennis with Bertha in Clarence Park, I went up to the net for a smash and finished up kneeling on the spike that held the net post up, I never went to the doctors but it did take about six months before I could bend that leg. I had to cycle to work with a stiff leg and a piece of string to pull the pedals round.
The man I was working with was called Les and he got to know a man called Eric that owned a boat in Weston. It had a diesel engine that needed some attention. So we did the servicing and we got to know Eric quite well. We used to go out into Weston Bay with Eric on fishing expeditions. There were plenty of fish to be caught in the Bay in those days. We caught catfish, dogfish, skate, cod, flat fish and far too many eels. Eric was quite often intoxicated and carried an axe in the boat with which to kill these huge eels, they were quite big enough to bite right through your wellingtons, but the biggest danger was Eric putting the axe through the bottom of the wooden boat. Thinking back we were very reckless, we had no emergency equipment, no radio, no lifejackets and very little experience.
The boat was very well known in Weston, it was unusual being clinker-built with a very sloping bow it also had this single-cylinder diesel engine that had no exhaust system, just a simple expansion box leading to a vertical stovepipe about four inches diameter, they used to say that you could hear it coming about two miles away. It was painted bright yellow and was called Pride of the West. We had a near disaster on one occasion when we were fishing just off the end of Brean Down, the tide was running out quite fast and the rip over the rocks was forming a vertical wall of water that was higher than the stern of the boat, as the speed of the water increased with the falling tide the anchor started to drag and the stern of the boat was getting closer to the wall of water, this was despite the fact that the engine was flat out trying to ease the strain on the anchor and the clutch was slipping like mad. When we finally escaped we decided we'd had enough fishing for that day.
When we got to work the next day we found that one of our buses had been struck by an aeroplane landing at Weston airfield, the collision had torn the roof off the top deck of the bus and killed 14 young RAF men who were going into town from Locking camp, the number of the bus was 3637, and a constant reminder was the fact that it looked different from all the other buses of that type with its odd shaped reconstructed roof.
Later on I was working with a man called Sam Govier and was talking with him about the lack of opportunity in Weston, he decided that he would start Engineering classes for youngsters such as myself, the only place that was suitable was the local School of Science and Art in Lower Church Road and at that time they only did classes for gas fitters, so for a few years I went to night school and studied the new UEI engineering courses, I of course had a distinct advantage working with the instructor all day and helping him build the demonstration examples of cut away engines etc. and as a result I finished top of the class. I was even awarded the Gydar prize for that year, and I remember going up onto the stage at the Playhouse to receive the prize.
I used to spend my spare time at work building model steam engines and making tools such as box spanners, good tools were almost unattainable I had a passion for American Bluepoint ring spanners and I can remember Bertha and I scouring Bristol tool shops looking for these Bluepoint spanners to build up my toolbox. I still have some of them even today.
There used to be a model shop in Oxford Street that was owned by a man we called old Bill, his shop was full of model aeroplanes hanging from the ceiling, and he used to sell control line models, the type that flew round in a circle controlled by the pilot standing in middle, at one time I remember seeing him flying a very special control line model of an aeroplane that was powered by a pulse jet engine, the same type of engine that the V1 flying bombs had. The normal length of control lines was about 25 ft, this monster had to be flown with control lines more than twice as long, because of the speed that it developed, the police finally banned him flying it on safety grounds. The noise was absolutely deafening.
At about this time my parents decided to move out of the Highlea hotel across the road to the Conway at number 34 Upper Church Road, I think this was to please my father whose breathing was getting more difficult, Conway had a nice big front-room at street level into which my father had arranged to have fitted a closed anthracite burner which did not produce any fumes or smoke into the room. It may have also had a psychological reason my father whilst in the Highlea had tried to operate a bookmaker's business and lost most of his money.
My sister Doris and family decided to move to Weston Super Mare, so they bought a hotel that was being be derequisitioned just down the road from where we lived, this was No. 9 Manila Crescent, it had been occupied during the war by the American army and was in a very dilapidated state, they had had a fire that destroyed the staircase to the first floor, nevertheless it was in a good position right opposite the Marine Lake and was very reasonably priced, it was called the Birchfield Hotel. Husband George with my fathers help bought a car. It was a Wolseley ex-police car and I remember the number of the car was GVW 168. I don't know whether this was an official number as his name was George Victor Wright.
It was about this time that I made a silly mistake; I was entitled whilst working at the bus garage to an annual increase in my wages that amounted to 10 shillings a week. I was notified on my birthday that my wages were going up, and because they had neglected to give me the increase on the previous year, I would be entitled to £26 as back pay. My silly mistake was to show it to my mother, she took it out of my hand and saying, "Just what I can do with" and that was the last I saw of it.
At the Conway I had set up a little workshop in the cellar and I spent my time playing with model the aero-engines, I had an ED 2cc diesel that I used to run in the cellar managing to nearly chop my right index finger off in the process, I also made a model of the Queen Mary, one day my mother asked me to open a Kilner jar which was filled with slices of apple, the top was so tight that she couldn't move it, so I took it downstairs to the cellar where I proceeded to put the lid ring in the vice. On giving the jar a slight twist the whole thing exploded spraying rotten apples everywhere, fortunately the glass managed to stay in one piece.
This could of course been her revenge for my leaving eels in the back kitchen sink from my fishing expeditions but I don't think so, I don't know why I brought eels home, as far as I know nobody ever ate any of them.
A typical day at this time was to be at work at 6 o'clock, see Bertha at lunchtime, meet her after work and probably have fish and chips at Coffins or Farrs chip shop in St. James street escort her to night school in Lower Church Road and then in the evening after her night school classes, we would go to the Conway where my father would always arrange that the front-room would be available for our use, he was a nice old fellow, then we would have to walk down to the bus garage to catch a late bus out to Lympsham to take her home, I would then wait outside the church school for the two minutes past 11 bus from Brean to take me back into Weston, it was the fashion in those days for young men to wear Brylcreem on their hair and I was no exception, horrible greasy messy Brylcreem I remember I used to put my shirt over my pillowcase every night, otherwise after a few days the pillowcase was filthy. We also sometimes ate at a Chinese restaurant called the Wun Wah that in those days was situated down an alley beside a leather shop in Regent Street, I have never had spare ribs that tasted as good since the old chef retired.
My days at the bus garage were not uninteresting, was out on our test runs my mate Les sometimes used to let me drive the buses out in the country, we have on occasion to go and recover vehicles that had been damaged in accidents, on one occasion there was a double-decker bus that had nearly slipped off the Puxton railway bridge, when we arrived it looked as if it was about to topple into the field. I was given the job of going up onto the top deck with a sledgehammer to break the window so that we could attach a safety rope in case it slipped any more. Young and silly I suppose.
There was a young lad working with me whom we used to call Greyhound because he was so tall and thin, he used to bring me a carnation when they were available from his mother's garden when he came to work, this I think was because I used to wear a clean shirt and a tie together with a sports jacket, the carnation was the finishing touch, I guess I was not cut-out to do a dirty job.
The man that was employed to paint the buses used to keep tropical fish, that was until one day whilst waving to the driver of the bus that was passing the Odeon he managed to step in front of the bus and was run over and killed, it was the habit prior to that to always look to see who was driving and acknowledge them, this was useful in so much as if you were walking between stops they would very often slow up so that you could jump on.
During the summer season Weston-super-Mare would be inundated with thousands of day-trippers from Bristol and in the late afternoon hundreds of these would be going home, queuing inside the bus garage about four deep for the number 24 bus with the queue winding its way to the back of the garage where the maintenance area was. They would be driving double-decker buses to the front of the queue as fast as they could load the passengers on. On the country routes we had some strange buses called V types, these buses had had all the seats removed and replaced around the sides leaving a big area in the middle for standing passengers, they had straps hanging down just like London Tube trains, they could carry twice as many passengers by this method as a petrol saving method.
One summer I was invited by my sister Doris to join then on a caravan holiday to the south coast, this did involved me in helping George to fit the Wolseley with a caravan hitch, on picking up the hire caravan from St Georges we are hardly gone 100 yards when the tow hitch that he had fitted collapsed onto the road. Hence my involvement in supplying material and bolts for a stronger replacement, things were not as easy to do in those days and poor old George managed to crack a couple of ribs whilst using a hand drill under the car chassis. The holiday was notable on two counts first George backed the caravan into a post, and blamed me, and then Doris put the porridge on whilst George and I went for a walk, when we returned Doris is jumping up and down because the porridge was boiling over and she was locked out. I saved the day by climbing in through a very small window.
At work we used to have morning and afternoon tea breaks, there was always a dash up to the canteen to get on to the skittle alley where we could manage to play a few hands for a penny a hand and 2p for the game total, wooden skittles and big rubber balls. Sometimes we used to play a game called Tippit, an old English game where each team of three or four would sit on opposite sides of the table and take turns to hide a coin in their fists under-the-table. On the shout of " two, three, up" the clenched fists would be put up onto the table where the opposing team would take turns to try to find the coin. The chosen caller would either say "off" or "tippit" whilst touching one of the fists, it was usual to call "off" several times in order to narrow the choice before committing yourself to calling "tippit". The prize was usually a bronze three-penny piece, the type that had eight sides.
So there we were in 1949 I had bought a ring and Bertha and I were engaged, we had it all planned out. I would go into the Army, do my 18 months national service and when I came out we would be married and start having the children which we had already chosen names for.
And so it was my not having applied for a deferment soon after my 18th birthday on May twenty-ninth 1949 I received my draft papers to report to Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire on 1st September, but that's another chapter.
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Peep KRLX speaking with Har Mar Superstar and Gordon Voidwell before their show at the Cave on 4/11/14.
Spring Live at the Cave
Tune in, or better yet, come to the Cave at 8PM on Wednesdays this spring for live music, performance poetry, panel discussions, game shows and more!
Here's an episode from this past winter featuring Carleton student band, "SUNSHiP."
Modest Mouse Bandemonium
Check out this interview with Modest Mouse Bandemonium host, A. Noah Harrison:
Why did you choose Modest Mouse?
Modest Mouse have transformed my experience as a fan. I had no idea about the power of lyrics until I actually started listening to what Modest Mouse had to say. Over the course of a few months in early high school, I devoured each of their albums, more or less chronologically, exposing myself to more pain and loathing than is possibly healthy for a 15 year old. Each album flows like poetry. They sing about the desolate landscapes of the American West and of outer space. I've always been captivated by their heartbreaking melodies and spine-crushing riffs.Read more...
Look Out Below, Bands You Don't Know
Check out this catchy track from an up and coming pysch-rock group out of Madison. They call themselves D o l o r e s. If you like this one, they even have a couple more tracks up on their soundcloud for your listening enjoyment!
KRLX on Parks and Recreation
Last Night on Parks and Recreation, Ben Wyatt (played by Adam Scott) admitted that he DJed a show on Carleton College radio called "Zoot Suit Wyatt" that aired on Tuesdays 3-5am.
Check out the clip below, and be sure to tune in this term for more awesome 24/7 free form college radio.
The Northfield Elder Project
Reflections on aspects of a good community featuring vibrant Northfield senior citizens.
About the project:
I spent much of the winter of 2014 going around Northfield, Minnesota, by taxi, carrying a voice recorder and a desire to share the opinions and stories of Northfield's senior citizens. I had heard that Northfield is an excellent place to retire, partially due to the cultural opportunities brought in by Carleton and St. Olaf colleges, and also due to other factors including the availability of medical care and public transportation. I wanted to investigate the extent to which Northfield is a good place to be an elder and to shed some light on broader questions of aging. Northfield seemed like an important place to ask the question, "What makes a community good for senior citizens?"
So, I asked that question to senior citizens and city officials alike. I asked them about their lives, their stories, their winding paths to Northfield. I asked them how the community could improve.
What I found were vibrant people, articulate ideas, good stories, and a few important critiques.
After sorting through hours of footage, I created this podcast, "The Northfield Elder Project." This is my final project for Doug McGill's class, "A Journey in Journalism," at Carleton College.
Available for download here
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This week on KRLX
4/13 - Modest Mouse bandemonium [link]
Interview with Har Mar Superstar (soon)
Interview with Gordon Voidwell (soon)
This week on campus
4/18 - Battle of the Bands semifinals (Cave)
4/19 - Sister Outsider (Cave)
Record Libe Hours
Tuesday: 3-6
Wednesday: 2-6
Thursday: 4-9
Friday: 12-4
Saturday: 4-6
Sunday: 12-5
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This quote is about life
Search on Google Books to find citations of this quotation.
Lou Reed, born on March 2 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter. Especially while a member of the The Velvet Underground in the 1960s, Reed broke new ground for the rock genre in several important dimensions, influencing the rock and roll movement in general, introducing more mature and intellectual themes to what was then considered a music genre for children and teenagers.
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|Canadian Howlers Name Team For LVI
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The Dog River Howlers have named their first U18 team 7s side. The team will compete in the International Age Grade Division of the Las Vegas Invitational 7's on February 11/12, 2011. History is being made as this is the first ever Canadian U-18 select side to compete in an international competition.
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Robots ready to run full marathon
A full marathon for robots is planned for later this month in Japan (Photo: Vstone)
Article Summary
Vstone, an Osaka-based technology firm, is organizing the world's first marathon for robots. As many of you will already know, a marathon is 42 kilometers (or about 26 miles), and these little mechanical men are ready to run the whole thing.
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BMWP coils, Bilstein HD's, Pilot SS's
...have arrived, will be installed on 5/9, report to follow. I got the shorter bump stops also. Doing CDV delete at the same time.
Tires and springs were the easy choices, but deciding on which damper to go with was tougher. It was either the Billies, Koni Yellows or FSD's. Seems there are very few users of the Bilsteins on this forum, and I wonder if the misleading "HD" designation has something to do with this. Anyway, other BMW forums (3 and 5 series) turned up many favorable reviews, and my (very experienced) mechanic loves them. I did the Hotchkis front anti-sway bar 2 years ago and HIGHLY recommend this mod as the biggest bang for the buck - huge improvement. BMS P-Box has given me 25K miles of trouble-free enjoyment, a must-do for any N52 owner. I have been running Pilot Sport A/S's for the last 25K miles and they were great for their intended purpose until one track day really did them in (any further track days will be on dedicated wheels & tires!). I'll report on the SS's in the tire/wheel section.
Car has been leased but I love 'er so I'm keeping 'er. Mods still to come will be BMWP Aero front bumper, BMWP exhaust, SSK, then maybe the M3 rear subframe bushings and other recommended bits.
Big thanks to Dan at United for the springs, Jon at Turner for the Bilsteins, and Butch at Tire Rack for the donuts. They each provided helpful and friendly customer service. Cheers!
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I've ridden in cars that had Bilsteins. They felt very precise and balanced, but the ride was hard. I didn't drive the cars, but I'll bet the steering feel is great.
PSS tires will also give more precise steering feel, and they hold up under track use pretty well, but they have a nice comfy ride. You will have fun driving it.
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Interesting choice. The Bilstein HD is designed more as an OEM replacement (I think HD = heavy duty?). Comfort should be similar to stock if used with stock springs but the handling should be slightly better. I wonder how they will pair with the BMWP springs.
If it were me, I would have gotten the FSD as they have a better ride than the HDs but handle significantly better too.
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I've had Bilstein HD shocks in some older cars of mine. They are really good shocks.
Bilstein makes HD and Sport shocks. Both are valved the SAME, its just that the sports are designed to work on lowered(ride height) cars. HD's are for near stock ride height. They also make a "touriing" shocks - I had them on a VW TDiof mine... I would not buy them again. Very OEM ride. I really like the HD's though. You can drive the car for years and years and the ride is always firm, yet sporty. With other shocks you need to rebuild them after a year or two. Also with Bilsteins when you hit a pot hole teh shocks will not hit as hard as with other shocks, due to their quick valving. Something about rapid piston movement and the shocks dampen more than.
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From what I've gathered, the Bilstein HD's and Koni FSD's are intended for use with stock- or near stock height springs, going about as low as say, Eibach Pro-Kits would take us. Bilstein Sports are, as Dackelone mentions, valved the same as the HD's but intended for use with lower springs (Eibach Sportlines, H&R's etc) and I have verified this with a call to Bilstein. They recommended using the HD's with the BMWP coils as opposed to the Sports due to the minor (10mm) drop I will see with these springs. Even the Bilstein rep admitted the HD designation can be misleading. He reminded me that as enthusiasts, we want ANY sport damper we choose to be "heavy duty", which I think is a great point. Would any of us buy a shock labeled "light duty"? He went on to remind me that the HD's intended for BMW's have valving appropriate for a BMW's intended use, and the HD's intended for a Chevy pickup will have valving appropriate for that vehicle's intended purpose.
Interestingly, Koni's website states that their Yellows are for use with lowering springs, but I think many folks also use them effectively with stock ride height (at least with a sport package-type stock ride height).
I think they are all good quality dampers. As pnosker states, the FSD's do have a reputation for delivering both comfort and performance, and for me it really came down to these or the Bilstein HD's. I ultimately went with the HD's for the following reasons:
1) Although this is my DD, I am mostly in the car alone and use another vehicle when carrying clients. I do not mind a firm ride and don't anticipate it will be excessively harsh. I have decided I'm willing to trade the increased comfort I'd get with the FSD's in return for very sharp response and more road feel with the HD's. I like to feel the little pebbles I'm running over.
2) The BMWP springs represent a fairly mild upgrade in spring rate, and the Michelin Pilot Super Sports have been praised for their comfortable ride, so I'm banking on the combination of these springs and tires to work with the HD's in delivering a decent ride.
3) It seems Bilstein's mono-tube design offers outstanding long term performance and reliability. I could find almost no negative comments regarding these dampers, and trust that the Bilstein engineers have selected a valving which I will find ideal. It's just me, but I don't really want adjustability - I want to install them and forget them. I was told these dampers have been revalved in recent years to be slightly more forgiving.
As mentioned, I've already done the Hotchkis front ASB (my car has the Sport Package so I won't need the rear ASB), so did not want to purchase the whole BMWP suspension kit. While I am sure the dampers provided with the kit are of better quality than stock, the fact that the stock dampers have gone floppy after 30K miles has left me with a bad taste for BMW branded dampers, regardless of who makes them. I fully believe the Bilstein HD's will be a perfect match for the BMWP springs.
I value the input from fellow members here, and look forward to reporting on the results upon install. I regret not having the time to do this work myself, as I've always worked on my own vehicles, but such is life at this time!
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Updating the Google bar: many products, multiple devices
If you're anything like me, you move among devices and Google products on a regular basis. You might check Gmail on your phone, for instance, then organize your Calendar via laptop, then browse Google+ photos from your tablet.
Regardless of your routine, getting around Google should be seamless, and once you're inside an app, you don't want any distractions. So we're introducing an updated Google bar that streamlines your experience across products and devices:
Your Google products are now accessible under a new app launcher, located at the top right of the screen. Just click on the familiar 'Apps' grid, also present on Android devices and Chromebooks:
As part of this design, we've also refined the color palette and letter shapes of the Google logo. We'll be rolling out this update across most Google products over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out and let us know your thoughts.


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In this week's screencast, I take you through a tour of the new ActionMailer features in the context of a live application. Read on after the screencast for more in-depth information on the topics covered in the screencast.
Behind the Scenes
The biggest change (and in fact the change that even made the rewrite possible) was replacing the venerable TMail with the new Mail library. The prior versions of ActionMailer used TMail for all its email delivery needs, and because certain functionality was missing in TMail (such as auto quoting and encoding of fields, handling multipart emails smoothly, etc.), ActionMailer had grown a set of fairly complex and fragile methods to shoehorn in the missing functionality.
Mail provides the functionality that ActionMailer needs to do its thing, right out of the gem.
Because Rails could now hand over the responsibility for generating and creating emails to the Mail gem, the internal complexity of ActionMailer fell down to basically the same as your average Rails Controller, that is, getting information from another source, compiling a view (the email) and delivering it to a client.
With that done, it became possible for ActionMailer to reuse much more of the code and public API of ActionController. In Rails 3.0, ActionMailer has become just another kind of controller.
module ActionMailer class Base < AbstractController::Base #... end end
This gives ActionMailer a whole bunch of cool features for very little effort, like being able to auto detect templates and build multipart emails effortlessly and do things like inline rendering of email bodies and the like.
No More Mysterious Methods
One of the more confusing parts of the prior ActionMailer API for new users was a number of mysterious methods you needed to use. These were methods that started with deliver_ or create_ and were not defined directly by the user but were instead dynamically generated by ActionMailer, one pair for each mailer method the user defined. So if you had a Mailer action called welcome_email, you were not allowed to just call welcome_email, instead you would have to call deliver_welcome_email to directly send the email or create_welcome_email to get a TMail object to play with. You would then go ahead and use these in your Rails App.
ActionMailer 3.0 deprecates these, you can still use them if you wish (or while upgrading), but ActionMailer will whinge and whine at you for forcing it to dredge up bad memories and encourage you to follow the shining path of light to true mailer happiness.
The replacement is much simpler: you send the mailer class the name of the mailer method you defined (
welcome_email). This then returns a Mail::Message object to you which you can call :deliver on.
These methods you define (such as the welcome_email above) just return a simple Mail::Message object. You can then either do more processing on this object, or just tell it to deliver itself by calling #deliver on it.
How does this work? Well, first let Rails generate a mailer template for you:
$ rails g mailer notifier create app/mailers/notifier.rb invoke erb create app/views/notifier invoke test_unit create test/functional/notifier_test.rb
Then we will flesh out our mailer class:
class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base default :from => "email@example.com" def welcome_email mail(:to => 'firstname.lastname@example.com', :subject => "G'Day Mate!") end end
Now we can open up a Rails Console and play with it:
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.0.beta3) > mail = Notifier.welcome_email => #<Mail::Message:2174444520, Headers: <From: email@example.com>...> > mail.deliver => #<Mail::Message:2174444520, Headers: <From: email@example.com>...>
Here you can see we are just calling Notifer.welcome_email and getting back a Mail::Message object, which we in turn tell "deliver thyself" and it does so. Mail::Message objects get instantiated with all the ActionMailer defaults on how to deliver themselves, what character sets to use and so forth, so we don't need any more magic methods to get the object sent!
Of course, in 99% of cases, you just want to send the email and not worry any more about it. In those case you just do:
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.0.beta3) > Notifier.welcome_email.deliver => #<Mail::Message:2174444520, Headers: <From: email@example.com>...>
Which goes ahead and instantiates the email and then calls deliver on the resulting mail object. Simple right?
What is a Mail Object?
But, I am sure you are all asking with bated breath, what is this Mail::Message object? And what, more importantly, can I do with it?
Well, it is a real live Mail::Message object, it is not a subclass of Mail::Message or some half-baked ActionMailer/Mail lovechild, it's just a plain old message.
This means that you can do anything you want with it before you tell it to deliver itself. You can set headers, change the body, alter its delivery method, rewrite sections of it, sign it with a PGP key or anything else you can think of.
You can find all the various functions of the Mail::Message object by reviewing the Mail rdoc from the source code.
Where to Send the Mail from?
There are a number of options on what part of the Rails stack to send your email from.
If your email sending is, say, a "Welcome to the System" type message, I'd just put it in the UsersController's create action. Aside from being quite, it makes sense. The Controller is handling the request and telling the mailer what to do. Your user receives his response as HTML and in their email box.
To send off an email like the welcome email above, put the following line in the UsersController.
class UsersController < ApplicationController def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) respond_to do |format| if @user.save Notifier.welcome_email(@user).deliver # <======= This one! format.html { redirect_to(@user, :notice => 'User was successfully created.') } format.xml { render :xml => @user, :status => :created, :location => @user } else format.html { render :action => "new" } format.xml { render :xml => @user.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end end # More methods end
Of course the above requires us to change our notifier to accept a user object:
class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base default :from => "email@example.com" def welcome_email(user) mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "G'Day Mate!") end end
Which assumes your user has an email method.
The other thing to note with this style of delivery is that you have to know that the time that the email will take to send is not going to block the response for very long. If you are delivering to a local sendmail instance, this might not be a problem, but most likely you will want to look into background processing of email delivery.
Passing in Values to the Templates
Of course, the chances that you want to just send emails that send out static templates are pretty slim. You will most likely want to personalize the content of your emails. The nice thing is that ActionMailer now behaves exactly the same as ActionController in this respect. Simply define your instance variables in the method and they become available in your view.
Say we wanted to add the users name into the email body templates, first we would assign it to an instance variable:
class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base default :from => "email@example.com" def welcome_email(user) @name = user.name mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "G'Day Mate!") end end
Then in the template, we could just reference it just like we would for ActionController:
Hi <%= @name %>, Welcome to our new awesome system. This system is going to change your life and so you will tell all your friends about us! Regards, MegloSys
I won't go into much more detail. Just assign what values you want to instance variables and they will be available in all of your email templates.
Intelligent, Usable Defaults
ActionMailer, in keeping with the Rails ethos of convention over configuration, sets some defaults for you out of the box.
Delivery of Emails
Delivery defaults to an SMTP server running on your localhost on port 25. If you are using a Mac, this makes getting started and sending a couple of test emails ridiculously simple:
$ sudo postfix start Password: postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
At which point you should sudo tail -f /var/log/mail.log and watch the emails fly!
On other unix systems, a running sending only SMTP server is only as far away as a service start or firing up sendmail or postfix. On Windows boxes it is a little more involved, but you knew that already right?
Using other delivery methods (such as file, sendmail or test based) are only a configuration option away. The most common configuration changes are setting up an alternate SMTP delivery server other than localhost, such as GMail SMTP. To set this up, just edit the appropriate environments file and add the following:
Mailtest::Application.configure do # Other options config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => "smtp.gmail.com", :port => 587, :domain => 'your.host.and.domain.name', :user_name => '<gmail username>', :password => '<gmail password>', :authentication => 'plain', :enable_starttls_auto => true } end
Once you have done the above, you will need to restart your Rails server to reload the email configurations to start sending email out via Gmail!
There is a word of warning here, you must keep in mind that if you are using an external mail agent, and you send your email during a web request from the user, that web request is going to hang while ActionMailer contacts GMail, authenticates, and sends your email. Depending on the phase of the moon and other scientific measures, this could take a few tenths of a second, to several seconds, so bear this in mind. For any serious system, look at
DelayedJob or other backgrounding task managers.
Character Encodings
Another common issue is that not everyone uses UTF-8 or US-ASCII to send their multibyte characters. Never fear! While ActionMailer does default to UTF-8, it doesn't mean you need to. Let's just open up the Notifier mailer we made earlier and add in the :charset to our defaults.
class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base default :from => "email@example.com", :charset => 'Shift_JIS' def welcome_email @name = user.name mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "G'Day Mate!") end end
Which then will produce:
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:16:24 +1000 From: email@example.com To: email@example.com Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: G'Day Mate! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Shift_JIS Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 charset: Shift_JIS 44GK5YWD5rCX44Gn44GZ44GL44CCCg==
Tell 'em 'bout tha 'ncoding Son!
ActionMailer used to handle encoding and decoding of header fields and bodies fairly well, but there were a bunch of edge cases, that, well, just broke. These commits moved ActionMailer from being a patch job at encoding and quoting, to implementing the new auto encoding methods from Mail.
What does "auto-encoding" mean exactly?
Basically, it lets you specify non US-ASCII characters inside of email bodies and header fields. Per RFC2822, all emails had to be encoded in 7bit US-ASCII, so if you were planing on sending ShiftJIS or UTF-8 characters that are not part of US-ASCII, you have to pre-encode them. With the old version of ActionMailer, you could assign certain multibyte characters into various header fields, such as address fields, subjects et al. However support was limited, and while it worked fairly often, it often felt like playing roulette with a loaded gun.
Mail, however, takes some good guesses with some sensible defaults to allow you to send a multibyte email without fuss. Here we will just send an email with the Japanese for "Hello":
class Notifier default :from => "firstname.lastname@example.com" def welcome_email @name = user.name mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "今日は Mate!") end end
And then in the body we could just ask "How are you?":
The resulting email would look like this:
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:30:57 +1000 From: firstname.lastname@example.com To: firstname.lastname@example.com Message-ID: <email@example.com> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E4=BB=8A=E6=97=A5=E3=81=AF=?= Mate! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 charset: UTF-8 44GK5YWD5rCX44Gn44GZ44GL44CCCg==
See how the Mail object has auto encoded our body and subject to avoid injecting 8-bit text into our email message? You will also notice that Mail only encoded the non US-ASCII words in the Subject header field and left the "Mate!" in plain text.
Viewing that inside an email end user agent will correctly decode the text and display it in the original Japanese. Of course, you can insert any language. Mail will check and make sure the text is OK to send raw, otherwise will encode what it needs to so as to make the email RFC 2822 compliant.
You can also override the charset, the above uses UTF-8 by default, but just passing :charset => 'ISO-8859-1' into the defaults hash at the top of the Notifier model, or passing it in to the options hash into the individual calls to the mail method will alter this.
Multipart Emails
This is something that the new API just shines at. The cool thing about it is that if you choose the implicit rendering there is basically nothing you need to do beyond make the template. Seriously.
As ActionMailer now is part of the whole AbstractController thing, it automatically detects its "view" or email templates based on the name of the method executing, just like ActionController classes do. So if you have a Welcome email like we did above, and we want to also send a HTML markup version, we simply make another file called welcome.html.erb and style it up!

Welcome to our new awesome system.

Hi <%= @name %>,

 This system is going to change your life and so you will tell all your friends about us!

Regards,

MegloSys

ActionMailer will detect both templates, and when you send the email, you will get the following back:
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:47:55 +1000 From: firstname.lastname@example.com To: firstname.lastname@example.com Message-ID: <email@example.com> Subject: G'Day Mate! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--==_mimepart_4bce918b560b5_109038495bc602479b"; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit charset: UTF-8 ----==_mimepart_4bce918b560b5_109038495bc602479b Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:47:55 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit charset: UTF-8 Content-ID: <email@example.com> Hi Mikel, Welcome to our new awesome system. This system is going to change your life and so you will tell all your friends about us! Regards, MegloSys ----==_mimepart_4bce918b560b5_109038495bc602479b Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:47:55 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit charset: UTF-8 Content-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Welcome to our new awesome system.

Hi Mikel,

 This system is going to change your life and so you will tell all your friends about us!

Regards,

MegloSys
 ----==_mimepart_4bce918b560b5_109038495bc602479b--
See how ActionMailer has wrapped up your email into a multipart/alternative type and then added the plain text as well as HTML versions? Schweeeeet!
You can override the default template to render for each type in the same way that you would pick a format in ActionController:
class Notifier default :from => "email@example.com" def welcome_email @name = user.name mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "今日は Mate!") do |format| format.text { render :text => "Hello from Mikel!" } format.html # Render the normal template, welcome_email.html.erb end end end
As you can see, the syntax borrows a lot from the ActionController render method, making it easier than ever to work with ActionMailer.
Another very common task is sending an attachment, again ActionMailer with Mail makes some really useful assumptions that makes adding an attachment about as painless as it can be.
Say with every new user you want to send out our terms and conditions to try and scare them off before they get too involved with your business. How do you do this? Like this:
class Notifier default :from => "firstname.lastname@example.com" def welcome_email @name = user.name attachments['terms.pdf'] = File.read(Rails.root.join('docs/terms.pdf')) mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "今日は Mate!") end end
And that is it.
ActionMailer will slurp up the terms.pdf file from the docs directory and pass it into the Mail::Message with the file name test.pdf. Mail will then guess (correctly) that this is probably a PDF file and set the mime type correctly. It will then change the email to a multipart/mixed, set the first part to the attachment, and the second part make a multipart/alternate inserting your HTML and Plain text parts in their correct order. The result is your user gets the email with the attachment.
But what if you need to over ride the mimetype to something else? Easy, just pass it in with a hash:
class Notifier default :from => "email@example.com" def welcome_email @name = user.name attachments['terms.pdf'] = {:data => File.read(Rails.root.join('docs/terms.adobe_pdf')), :mime_type => 'application/pdf' } mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "今日は Mate!") end end
This will stop Mail from trying to guess.
Mail by default sends all attachments Base64 encoded, and yes, you can change this too!
Wrapping Up
So that's the new ActionMailer API in all its glory.
Are we done yet with ActionMailer? Absolutely not! But I think you can agree with me that we have come an awful long way.
The next things you all can look forward to are (1) smart inline attachments that let you add images to your HTML emails painlessly and (2) some work on the internals of Mail itself to make it trim, taut and terrific.
Further development is happening all the time, and as ActionMailer is now a wrapper of Mail, most of this development is happening in the Mail tree. If you want to help out, just jump onto the Mail Mailing List and make yourself known, or send me an email. I always post new changes to mail on my blog or via twitter so feel free to check those out too.


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Hochstetler Earns First Team All-Horizon League Honors; Kenney Named to All-Newcomer Team
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Valparaiso University's Launa Hochstetler (Berlin, Ohio/Hiland H.S.) has been named to the Horizon League's First Team while Lauren Kenney (Mooresville, Ind./Mooresville H.S.) garnered All-Newcomer Team honors as the conference announced the year end award winners on Sunday evening.
Hochstetler leads the Horizon League in assists averaging 4.7 assists per game while ranking 10th in the league and second on the Crusader squad scoring 11.5 points per night. She also is second in the conference shooting 84.5% from the free throw line while connecting on 36.7% from three-point range, ninth best in the conference. The senior point guard also leads Valpo with 45 steals on the year and is second in the league averaging 34.2 minutes per contest.
Kenney earned All-Newcomer Team accolades after averaging 10.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. The junior college transfer ranks 14th in the conference in scoring and eighth in rebounding. Despite missing six games with an ankle injury, Kenney shot 54.2% from the floor this season, a percentage that ranks fifth in the Horizon League.
Hochstetler is Valpo's first First Team All-Horizon League selection since the Crusaders joined the conference last season, while Kenney marks the first player in school history to be recognized on league's All-Newcomer Team.
Valparaiso (16-13, 10-8) will open the 2009 Speedway Horizon League Championships on Wednesday evening, hosting a quarterfinal contest. The Crusaders, the fourth seed, will face fifth-seeded Wright StateAthletics-Recreation Center with tip-off slated for 7:05 p.m. at the
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