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Posted 22 May 2009 - 04:31 AM
well Before It was Joe to me It Was Action Force and I loved reading the stories in the comics as a kid and then acting them out with the figures and seeing what ways I could have the good guys win or the bad guys steal that last minute victory . I always love the sense of right you got from the cartoon and even the moral stories that were added on the end , heck as a kid the cartoons in the 80's were the best . since I knew back then it was done buy the same people who did transformers as I always saw Starscream in Cobra Commander back then ,as I grew older I lost out on my Joe collecting to other things . but Now I have the time for the Joes again and it was all thanks to the 25th line . it totaly rekindled My love for the Joe's and the Joe team
Posted 22 May 2009 - 09:29 AM
Posted 22 May 2009 - 10:57 AM
summer days with my friends playing in the back yrd with big battles!!
getting up early to watch the cartoon.
now a way to make my joes look the way i see them in my head .
the 80s where great for kids. now the kids have no clue what is fun.
Posted 23 May 2009 - 09:53 PM
My girlfriends thinks im a born again 40 year old virgin. . . but just 25 instead
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Posted 24 May 2009 - 08:40 AM
As a child, I recall all the horror stories of war from my father who fought in the Vietnam War. He never cared for the cartoons or the action figures. When G.I. Joe came out, he explained to me battles are not like what you see in cartoons and that good guys fall too. I never had many of the action figure toys growing up but my friends next door had everything including the U.S.S. Flagg. We spent so many summer days setting up battles between the Joes and Cobra outside and then having to bring it all back inside at the end of the day. Now that I look back at it, it's funny that we would bring this massive collection outside and put it back but ask us to clean our rooms?? Because of the cartoon series, the comic book series, and the action figures, these were my heroes. I enlisted in the Army back in 1991 and served during the Desert Shield/Desert Storm campaigns. I was awarded the National Defense Service Medal before a medical discharge due to an retina issue. Even though G.I. Joe was fictional, they gave me a great childhood experience that I will never forget and aided me in becoming the man I am today. Now, I have two sons of my own and I've explained to them that yes, good guys fall too but in the end good will always triumph over evil. We have all started collecting the 25th line which my collection is unopened while they get great enjoyment in their collections. Watching them play with their G.I. Joe toys brings me back to my childhood and the thoughts of playing outside and now I get to share that experience with them. Yes, I do get down on the ground with them and play. My wife would tell you I'm the biggest child out of all of them. I thank Hasbro for bringing back this lineup so people like me who didn't get the chance to have them get another opportunity and for us to also share with our sons and daughters who have an interest in them. Yo Joe!!!
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what g'i' joe means to me is i get to become a kid again. i get the excitement of opening a new figure and putting all his accessories on and posing him in cool poses. i, as an adult collectoram able to get the things i couldnt have as a child. i stand and look at the display of toys i have and it instantly takes me back to my parents backyard with my childhood friends werethe valient g.i. joe forces fought the evil tyranny of cobra for hours. it is a connection to who i was as a kid and who i am today as an adult.
Posted 24 May 2009 - 06:17 PM
I spent my childhood in a place that had almost no toys (in Mexico), no brothers and a baby sister. My closest friends were my cousins and they lived 3 hours away. But I managed to get The upper torso, head and left arm of a Tomax figure. I grew up with that... er... figure playing with other SW toys but it was my favorite (It had more articulations!). When I was in High school, I met a friend who also liked GI JOE and he explained to me who my Tomax figure was. Kind of late but I tried to get as many as I could, but I was still trapped in a small town with no access to any Joes so I had to make some calls and finally found a guy selling used action figures in a flee market. he often brought pieces of GI Joes so I started buying my figure collection back in 1987. I managed to get many in great shape and some legs for y Tomax. I even ordered many Joes from Mail order stores, so many of them got lost in the mail and never arrived, but it was worth it. When Internet finally arrived, I completed my collection and I bought a new Tomax I still have my old Tomax, after many years, I put it all together from parts and the only thing missing now is its lower torso. I never really played with them, except for Tomax. But every figure has a history of its own.
Posted 24 May 2009 - 10:26 PM
Raised in a very humble home in Argentina, in 1985, with national economics going down the pipe and my parents getting split, every week day at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, while drinking milk & coffe, I tuned my mom's Zenith B&W TV in Channel 9 and I was stuck there in front of the screen for an hour dazzled with the stories of a group of men & women fighting to save the day. And I was happy.
It was like having a daily epic proportions Stars Wars show in your living room, when VHS rent videos was quite a baby in diapers and DVD players were just Sci-Fi then.
In 1986 I used to assist my uncle in repairing refrigerators, and he paid me around 5 Australes (our National coin at the moment) every time I helped him with tools and carrying fridge motors. Whenever I saved 20, I asked a friend of mine to go with me to a toystore that used to sell Hasbro's G.I.Joes, which my friend looked childish since we were 10 year old boys already and his "favorite toy" was his Commodore 64, but then he was quite amazed as well with these wonderful toys. My first Joe was Bazooka, and with work sacrifice at young age, I managed to collect 12 figures (even though, I was not able to get Snake Eyes which was and still is my favorite).
Growing up gave me a different perpective of the world, but the foundations of the man that I'm right now relies in the experience of not being a spoiled child, and doing my best with sacrifice and hard work to achieve or obtain what I desired, and part of that is thanks to G.I.Joe.
Posted 24 May 2009 - 11:29 PM
Simply put I have a debt that can never be repaid to those responsible for the characters and stories that provided me with hope and enjoyment during my youth.
Posted 25 May 2009 - 05:47 PM
child hood memories a time of innocence I grew up in a bad side of town aka " the wrong side of the tracks " i remember going on a family vacation to mexico because our apartments were getting broken into a lot , my old man decided to take a trip to try n get our minds off of it .Before our trip my parents stopped off at Mervins <----- they carried toys way back when ...anywho i get blowtorch and rock and rol , but i remeber looking back at that isle and seeing rows and rows of army figures whom i had never seen before ,and the card board artwork is what drove me to want them , it was eye catching , it was like as if they were action packed ..literally .....the pets , the guns, the vehicles the ninjas..oh yeah ...The whole trip to mexico i remeber not talking to my family and just being in my own little world at war , two men took down all enemies , that trip was a bust , but i got to realising something , inside me that i never knew i had . a wild vivd imagination , i created this world in my head and thats all i thought about . I wasnt allowed to go outside and it would upset me because in th ecommercials i would see kids playing in theyre backyards and what not being a part of the action and my moms would no allow that . So i went on to playing gijoes and everytime my parents would go to target or mervyns or kay b toys i made sure to ask for another figure , and in my heart i wanted to army build , like the cobras ,all in all gi joe gave kids imagination and bravery , the ability to see good in people .
This is why today i collect joes , not for greed and self fullfillment , but because i saw that look in my sons eyes when rah releases theyre first line of originals at toys r us back in 2000 i saw the potential ... because of gi joe i now work at high end tattoo shop , i paint murals and on the weekends take my son outside and play gijoe with him it , i made it out th eneighborhood alive and i gained alot of things from that , imagination , courage , motivation , and a drive thats out of this world ....on top of that a ton of memories , one who wich alot of us can agree on (the days of free rent) and a very innocent era, although our real world wasnt safe in the gijoe world it was a safe haven
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Posted 25 May 2009 - 09:05 PM
Congratulations Rapitrone!! Getting free G.I.Joes is always a good thing.
Thanks to everyone who posted, there is some great responses here. As for the winner of the set of HOH figures, the name drawn was Rapitrone. Congrats to him and thanks for everyone who entered.
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Safety and Efficacy of COBI-boosted Atazanavir Versus Ritonavir-boosted Atazanavir Each Administered With Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in HIV-1 Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment-Naïve Adults
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This study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a regimen containing Cobicistat (COBI)-boosted atazanavir (ATV/co) plus emtricitabine (FTC)/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) versus ritonavir (RTV)-boosted atazanavir (ATV/r) plus FTC/TDF in HIV-1-infected, antiretroviral treatment-naive adults. Development of COBI as a "pharmacoenhancer" could provide a beneficial alternative to RTV for use in combination with protease inhibitors.
HIV Infections
Drug: COBI
Drug: RTV
Drug: ATV
Drug: FTC/TDF
Drug: Placebo to match COBI
Drug: Placebo to match RTV
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of GS-9350-boosted Atazanavir Versus Ritonavir-boosted Atazanavir Each Administered With Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in HIV-1 Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment-Naïve Adults
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
Drug Information available for: Emtricitabine Tenofovir Ritonavir Atazanavir Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Atazanavir sulfate CobicistatU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Gilead Sciences:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of Participants With HIV-1 RNA < 50 Copies/mL at Week 48 [ Time Frame: Week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The percentage of participants with HIV-1 RNA < 50 copies/mL at Week 48 was analyzed using the FDA snapshot algorithm.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Change From Baseline in CD4 Cell Count at Week 48 [ Time Frame: Baseline to Week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The change from baseline in CD4 cell count at Week 48 was analyzed.
|Study Start Date:
|April 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: ATV/co+FTC/TDF
Participants will be randomized to receive COBI 150 mg, plus placebo to match RTV, plus ATV 300 mg, plus FTC 200 mg/TDF 300 mg once daily.
Drug: COBI
Cobicistat (COBI) 150 mg tablet administered orally once daily
Other Names:Drug: ATV
Atazanavir (ATV) 300 mg capsule administered orally once daily
Other Name: Reyataz®Drug: FTC/TDF
Emtricitabine (FTC) 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) 300 mg fixed-dose combination tablet administered orally once daily
Other Name: Truvada®Drug: Placebo to match RTV
Placebo to match RTV administered orally once daily
Active Comparator: ATV/r+FTC/TDF
Participants will be randomized to receive RTV 100 mg, plus placebo to match COBI, plus ATV 300 mg, plus FTC 200 mg/TDF 300 mg once daily.
Drug: RTV
Ritonavir (RTV) 100 mg tablet administered orally once daily
Other Name: Norvir®Drug: ATV
Atazanavir (ATV) 300 mg capsule administered orally once daily
Other Name: Reyataz®Drug: FTC/TDF
Emtricitabine (FTC) 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) 300 mg fixed-dose combination tablet administered orally once daily
Other Name: Truvada®Drug: Placebo to match COBI
Placebo to match COBI administered orally once daily
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to understand and sign a written informed consent form, which must be obtained prior to initiation of study procedures
- Plasma HIV-1 RNA levels ≥ 5,000 copies/mL at screening
- No prior use of any approved or investigational antiretroviral drug for any length of time
- Screening genotype report must show sensitivity to FTC, TDF and ATV
- Normal ECG
- Adequate renal function (eGFR calculated using the Cockcroft-Gault equation ≥ 70 mL/min)
- Hepatic transaminases (AST and ALT) ≤ 5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL, or normal direct bilirubin
- Adequate hematologic function
- Serum amylase ≤ 5 x ULN
- Males and females of childbearing potential must agree to utilize highly effective contraception methods from screening throughout the duration of study treatment and for 30 day s following the last dose of study drug.
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Life expectancy ≥ 1 year
Exclusion Criteria:
- A new AIDS defining condition diagnosed within the 30 days prior to screening
- Receiving drug treatment for Hepatitis C, or anticipated to receive treatment for Hepatitis C
- Subjects experiencing decompensated cirrhosis
- Females who are breastfeeding
- Positive serum pregnancy test (female of childbearing potential)
- Have an implanted defibrillator or pacemaker
- Have an ECG PR interval ≥ 220 msec
- Current alcohol or substance use judged by the Investigator to potentially interfere with subject study compliance.
- A history of malignancy within the past 5 years or ongoing malignancy other than cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), basal cell carcinoma, or resected, non-invasive cutaneous squamous carcinoma.
- Active, serious infections (other than HIV-1 infection) requiring parenteral antibiotic or antifungal therapy within 30 days prior to Baseline.
- Medications contraindicated for use with COBI, emtricitabine (FTC), tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), atazanavir (ATV), ritonavir (RTV) or subjects with any known allergies to the excipients of COBI tablets, Truvada tablets, atazanavir capsules or ritonavir tablets.
- Participation in any other clinical trial without prior approval from the sponsor is prohibited while participating in this trial.
- Any other clinical condition or prior therapy that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would make the subject unsuitable for the study or unable to comply with the dosing requirements.
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
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Gilead Sciences
|Study Director:
|Huyen Cao, MD
|Gilead Sciences
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Gallant JE, Koenig E, Andrade-Villanueva J, Chetchotisakd P, DeJesus E, Antunes F, Arastéh K, Moyle G, Rizzardini G, Fehr J, Liu Y, Zhong L, Callebaut C, Szwarcberg J, Rhee MS, Cheng AK. Cobicistat versus ritonavir as a pharmacoenhancer of atazanavir plus emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in treatment-naive HIV type 1-infected patients: week 48 results. J Infect Dis. 2013 Jul;208(1):32-9. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jit122. Epub 2013 Mar 26.
|Responsible Party:
|Gilead Sciences
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01108510 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 20, 2010
|Results First Received:
|October 23, 2014
|Last Updated:
|May 8, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Australia: Department of Health and Ageing Therapeutic Goods Administration
Austria: Austrian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency
Belgium: Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, FAMHP
Brazil: National Health Surveillance Agency
Denmark: Danish Health and Medicines Authority
Dominican Republic: Dirección General de Drogas y Farmacias
Canada: Health Canada
France: Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé
Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Italy: The Italian Medicines Agency
Mexico: Federal Commission for Sanitary Risks Protection
Netherlands: Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB)
Portugal: INFARMED, National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, IP
Spain: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios
Switzerland: Swissmedic
Thailand: Food and Drug Administration
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Keywords provided by Gilead Sciences:
Treatment Naive
HIV 1 Infected
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tenofovir disoproxil
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Pharmacologic Actions
Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Therapeutic Uses
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- Title
- A qualitative social network analysis of a biomedical case study: recruitment and the strength of weak ties
- Author(s)
- Thompson, Lyndal-Joy; Gilding, Michael
- Abstract
- This paper provides a brief overview of knowledge diffusion theory and how it has been applied to innovation. We question whether diffusion theory is appropriate in this context and suggest that science commercialisation is a complex area for which linear diffusion approaches are neither appropriate nor effective for examining knowledge exchange between research and industry network participants. Social network analysis (SNA) is adopted and qualitative analysis is used to explore how SNA might be useful to understanding successful innovation pathways. A case study from an Australian public research organisation (PRO), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is presented to examine how a network analysis of participants can highlight the innovation trajectory taken by a biomedical product developed by CSIRO. The role of 'weak ties' as recruiters and key players in moving this project forward is highlighted.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Paper presented at 'Social Causes, Private Lives', the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA 2010), Sydney, Australia, 06-09 December 2010
- Publication year
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
- Knowledge diffusion theory; Knowledge exchange; Science commercialisation; Social network analysis
- Publisher
- The Australian Sociological Association
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 Lyndal-Joy Thompson and Michael Gilding. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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Working with the Scavullos, Avedons, Warhols of the world—how do you look back on that now?
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Why were you so professional so young?
BS There was no room for me to have any tantrums. Everyone else was such a larger-than-life personality: the Polly Mellens of the world; the photographers were the stars. And my mom was sort of the crazy one. I was so young that I wanted to be accepted and liked. As a child, that worked for me. I'm sure that caused years and years of therapy later, but that's another story. Something about being born and bred in New York, where people have to be at the top of their game to succeed, instilled that professionalism in me by osmosis.
You're the youngest person to be on the cover of Vogue. What did that do to your head at the time?
BS Absolutely nothing, because I had no perspective on it. I still had to take off all the clothes, take off all the makeup, give it back, and go do my homework. It didn't behoove me to carry that title to school, because it wouldn't make kids want to be friends with me. Now I'm much more impressed with that title. Then I don't even think I knew it. The crowning glory for me then was getting a Seventeen cover. The first cover try I did, I didn't get it. I was told I looked too old.
When you were a kid, did you think you'd still be in the business now?
BS I've never known anything but the business. It never occurred to me not to be in the business. It's sort of as if I was never not naked. You were at the opening night of Studio 54. What do you remember from that?
BS Even on the opening night, my whole experience at Studio 54 was to go to the early part of the party, dance with whoever would dance with me until I was completely sweaty, and then go home because I had to go to bed. I never saw the debauchery. The first time I went up to that fourth-floor office was when I did Cabaret, and my dressing room was that actual office. Were you aware of the controversy swirling around Pretty Baby and the Calvin Klein ads at the time you did them?
BS If you separate the actual making of the movie with Louis Malle and the actual filming of the commercials with Dick and Calvin, those actual moments felt creatively important. But the reaction to them was always a shock. The reaction never seemed proportionate to what we set out to do. The controversy was frustrating because it took away from the beauty and the creativity of it, particularly Pretty Baby. I thought it was a shame. And then there were the Calvin Klein commercials.
BS People were obsessed with that one line in one commercial. Which they misquoted—repeatedly. That was shocking to me. We were walking around the stages, feeling like we were doing something new that had never been done before. But it seemed that no matter what I did after that, controversy would follow. Have you revisited your old movies?
BS I have not. Someone's in my house archiving everything, and I'll pass by now and then, and he'll say "Hey, wanna check this out?" and I'll take a look. The only one I've had a desire to watch again was Pretty Baby. Has the explicit nature of those movies come back to haunt you?
BS It's always coming back, but I'm not disturbed by it. When I was doing those stories, I wasn't uncomfortable because of the creative environment I was in. It never felt sordid. I'm from New York, I was born and raised in Manhattan, I've seen sordid. I've seen all walks of life and how they can disintegrate. And these movies never felt sordid or compromising or dirty in the doing of them. They felt compromised when people talked about them. The Blue Lagoon was a sensation. What do you remember about making it?
BS I remember living for four straight months, day in and day out, in a hut. When you got sick, you used herbal remedies. We pushed the clock back so we could have more daylight, and at 4 a.m. every day I had to get painted from head to toe because I lost all the pigment in my skin from being out of the sun for so long. Our whole world became each other and we were so isolated that we thought we were really, really living that life. It was the experience of four straight months of not wearing shoes. It was such a shock to go back into civilization. The movie was almost secondary; it was this extraordinary experience, and then out of it we got a movie. Most of the press at the time depicted you as an exploited pawn.
BS First of all, my personality was always too stubborn and too independent to be a pawn. I realized that if you played the game a certain way and didn't compromise internally, you can get far. In the press, my mom became the bad guy. And she went along with that—she was the drinker, the big personality, the loud one, the mama bear, the lioness. She was the one who would take the brunt of it, and I got to ride the other part. The good part was that my naiveté was still preserved, because I never got the brunt of it. The bad part was that later on I was ill-prepared for the ugliness and negativity that people had sheltered me from.
Your mother was excoriated in the press.
BS Yes, she was the quintessential stage mother insofar as people used to get pissed off because they couldn't get to me and do what they wanted with me, because she was just too difficult to get past. Today I think, my God, I never would have survived any other way. I would've been eaten up and spit out. I would've been destroyed. I've read the press as well. Yes, she was the crazy one, but somewhere in there I was safe. And I don't know if I can say that today for many of these young people. I don't look back with regret about how I felt during those times. I look at the set of Pretty Baby, and yeah, now I know there was wild stuff going on. But on that set, I was cared for. I was protected. I remember going to work every day and wanting Susan Sarandon's nod of approval if I did something well.
Having had your own mother-as-manager challenges, what do you think of today's Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus controversies?
BS Times are so different. I didn't have any siblings. I didn't have to share. There was controversy, but it was me and my mother against the world. The access with the Internet, and the amount of money out in California—there's something about being in New York. We were encapsulated. And I never missed school. I never was not in a regular educational system. That had a huge effect. I think parents today have to be even more vigilant. It shocks me what's out there, and how innocent we were twenty, thirty years ago.
Musicals and TV comedy enabled your comeback. Did you always have that in you?
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Placer County supervisors made it easier Tuesday for most homeowners to have up to six chickens. No roosters, guinea hens and peahens will be allowed under a zoning amendment approved 4-0 by the board. But the county has cleared the way for its own reverse pioneers in a recent trend of raising chickens in urban environments. Auburn, Folsom and Roseville – as well as larger cities like Long Beach, Anaheim and San Diego – have already approved chicken-raising standards. The only addition to the action – crafted by the Community Development Resource Agency's Planning Services Division over the past year – was for a review in a year to gauge how the rule change was doing. District 5 Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery requested the review and made the motion to amend zoning rules, stating it was seen my many people she talked to on the subject as an additional right for residents. Continued opposition has been voiced by Marilyn Jasper of the Public Interest Coalition and Rosemary Frieborn of the Humane Society of the Foothills. Jasper called on stiffer regulations to eliminate hens roaming "free-range" and becoming prey for predators. That would result in potential poisonings by chicken owners of predators, she said. Jasper said there should be a requirement to keep the chickens in enclosed areas. Frieborn also called for an amendment to keep chickens enclosed in structures at all times. Areas like Newcastle, with many homes and relatively small lots, will have conflicts, she warned. The area covered by the amendment covers unincorporated regions of the county with residential single-family, residential multi-family and resort zoning. The exception is the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, which now requires a minimum lot area of 2 acres for keeping chickens but is currently updating its regional plan. Highlights of the new rules are: - No administrative review is required. Hen ownership will be by right. - Minimum lot size for raising chickens will be 5,000 square feet. - In agriculture-combining zones, property owners will be allowed no more than nine chickens (no roosters) on parcels less than a half-acre. - In residential forest districts, no more than 15 chicken hens can be kept on less than an acre. Michael Johnson, community development director, said existing fowl and poultry provisions contained in the current ordinance limit numbers to 100 in residential-agriculture, farm and agriculture-exclusive zones. The keeping of more than 100 fowl or poultry is considered a "chicken/turkey ranch" and only permitted in agriculture-exclusive and farm zones with a conditional use permit.


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If you were hoping to hire some goats to nosh away your brush and weeds this summer, you're out of luck.
At Coventry's Skyview Farms, the adorable four-legged weed whackers are booked for a month - at least.
No one is more surprised at their popularity than Jeremy Tomaszewsky, the owner of From the Ground Up landscaping and now, an accidental goat farmer of sorts.
Tomaszewsky got the goats -- some of which are rescues -- after talking to family and friends about expanding his landscaping business. (That's Little Lucky on the left.)
It's not a new idea. Increasingly, more companies, cities, counties and government agencies are using goats as alternative weed abatement. You know -- go goat, go green!
Here's a site with a list of stories about grazing goats.
Last year, the environmentally responsible Yahoo enlisted the help of more than 200 goats at their data center facility in Washington. The goats even got their own security badges.
People dig goats. And Tomaszewsky learned that lesson fast.
No sooner had Tomaszewsky put up a handmade sign advertising his Goat Patrol --fertilizer is free! -- than the calls started coming in.
Except for the lucky first-comers, everyone got the same answer: The goats were booked solid. Please call again.
When I visited, there were a handful of goats at the farm enjoying a little time off -- though at least one had an outstanding tab. Tomaszewsky said the insatiable goat got into a worker's pocket and ate $1,000 payment from a client.
But surprisingly the goat farmer didn't look all that upset. The goat is good for it -- and he'll have plenty of time to make good on his debt.
Tomaszewsky hopes to put the sign back up in time for fall clean-up.
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It is possible to create a single installation package which can install a component in Joomla! 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5 with minor changes. Below you will find some of the most common tricks required to create an extension which is compatible with all current versions of the Joomla! CMS.
- 1 Dealing with API changes
- 2 One XML configuration file, multiple Joomla! versions
- 3 Dealing with languages
- 4 JElement vs JFormField
- 5 Obsolete code
- 6 Content plugins work slightly different
- 7 Updating doesn't work as you'd expect
- 8 Menu item creation tricks
Dealing with API changes
You will regularly bump into cases where an API has changed between Joomla! 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5. In order to cater for them, you need to run slightly different code based on the Joomla! version. Right now it's possible to do that by writing conditional statements like this:
if(version_compare(JVERSION,'2.5.0','ge')) { // Joomla! 2.5 code here } elseif(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.7.0','ge')) { // Joomla! 1.7 code here } } elseif(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.6.0','ge')) { // Joomla! 1.6 code here } else { // Joomla! 1.5 code here }
if(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.7.0','ge')) { // Joomla! 1.7 code here } elseif(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.6.0','ge')) { // Joomla! 1.6 code here } else { // Joomla! 1.5 code here }
If you do not have Joomla! 1.7-specific code -i.e it is the same as the Joomla! 1.6-specific code- please use the following code:
if(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.6.0','ge')) { // Joomla! 1.6 code here } else { // Joomla! 1.5 code here }
While this conditional statement looks like an overkill, it has two major advantages:
- Compatibility with all Joomla! versions using the same package, therefore using the same codebase, ergo less maintenance overhead
- Once, let's say, Joomla! 3.0 is released and you decide to drop support for earlier Joomla! releases, we can just search your code for "if(version_compare(JVERSION," and remove all of the legacy code.
One XML configuration file, multiple Joomla! versions
Various XML files in Joomla! accept settings, or parameters. For example your extension manifest file, the config.xml file and the view XML files all accept such settings. You may have noticed that whereas in Joomla! 1.5 these were found under the <params> tags, in Joomla! 1.6 and later they are found inside <filedsets>. One hidden secret of Joomla! is that Joomla! 1.5 will ignore Joomla! 1.6 syntax, whereas Joomla! 1.6/1.7/2.5 will ignore Joomla! 1.5 syntax. This allows you to have a single XML file which caters for all Joomla! releases. For example, here's a sample config.xml file, to be placed in the component's backend directory:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  <params> <param name="foobar" type="text" default="" size="30" label="COM_FOOBAR_OPTION_FOOBAR_LBL" description ="COM_FOOBAR_OPTION_FOOBAR_DESC" /> </params>  <config> <fieldset name="basic" label="COM_FOOBAR_OPTIONS_SECTION_BASIC_LBL" description="COM_FOOBAR_OPTIONS_SECTION_BASIC_DESC" > <field name="foobar" type="text" default="" size="30" label="COM_FOOBAR_OPTION_FOOBAR_LBL" description ="COM_FOOBAR_OPTION_FOOBAR_DESC" /> </fieldset> </config>
That's how easy it is!
Dealing with languages
How to load component-local translation files in Joomla! 1.5
Joomla! 1.6 introduced a new feature where a user can place language files inside the component's directory, e.g. administrator/com_foobar/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_foobar.ini, in order to provide language overrides. But Joomla! 1.5 doesn't support this feature. Or does it? Even though it can not do that automatically, you can do so in your extension's dispatcher file, e.g. administrator/com_foobar/foobar.php. Here's the magic code to do that in the backend:
$jlang =& JFactory::getLanguage(); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR, null, true); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR, null, true);
and the frontend:
$jlang =& JFactory::getLanguage(); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_SITE, null, true); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_COMPONENT, null, true);
Tips and tricks for language strings
All your translation keys should consist of uppercase characters without spaces (that is A-Z, 0-9 and underscores). All translation values should be included in double quotation marks. This allows the translation files to be parsed by Joomla! 1.5/1.6/1.7/2.5 alike. You are also suggested to prefix your translation keys with the extension's name, albeit this is not required. For example, this is a good translation string: COM_FOOBAR_CPANEL_TITLE="Foobar Control Panel" whereas this is a bad translation string: CONTROL PANEL=Foobar Control Panel The former works with all current versions of Joomla!, the latter doesn't.
If you have double quotation marks in your translation values, please replace them with single quotation marks. While Joomla! 1.5 allowed escaping the double quotation marks with \", Joomla! 1.6 under newer versions of PHP don't and require you to escape them as "__QQ__" which throws off Joomla! 1.5's parser. The workaround is to take advantage of a little known fact about HTML, that attributes can be wrapped in single quotation marks. For instance, change this: COM_FOOBAR_SOME_KEY=Just a test to this: COM_FOOBAR_SOME_KEY="Just a test" It is valid HTML, it works on Joomla! 1.5/1.6/1.7/2.5 but it will invalidates XHTML. You can't always win, sorry.
Making untranslated strings look more beautiful
The problem with using tight translation keys as we described is that untranslated strings now look something like COM_FOOBAR_VIEWNAME_SOMEKEY. If you have volunteer translators you can bet your head that most translations will not be in sync with your component and you will have untranslated strings. In Joomla! 1.5, using "natural language" keys, you got to show your users the default (English) text if a translation key didn't exist in their language. This is impossible in Joomla! 1.6... or maybe not?
We can use the same little trick in our component's dispatcher as with our component-local translation loading string above. Here's how to load the English translation file in the backend of your component, then overwrite only the keys which exist with the user's selected language, essentially allowing untranslated keys to show in English:
$jlang =& JFactory::getLanguage(); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR, 'en-GB', true); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR, null, true);
The same thing in the front-end:
$jlang =& JFactory::getLanguage(); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_SITE, 'en-GB', true); $jlang->load('com_foobar', JPATH_SITE, null, true);
JElement vs JFormField
Oh, the struggle! You need a custom widget in the configuration section of your component. In Joomla! 1.5 you could just create a new JElement. In Joomla! 1.6 you could just create a new JFormField. But both? In a single file? You can employ a simple trick. In the following example I am going to create a rather lame element, called SQL2, which displays a multi-selection box out of the results of a SQL statement. This is made as part of a fictitious module called mod_foobar
First, let your configuration know where to load the custom widget files from, by putting this in your module's XML manifest file:
<params addpath="/modules/mod_foobar/elements"> <param name="ids" type="sql2" default="" label="MOD_FOOBAR_LEVELS_TITLE" description="MOD_FOOBAR_LEVELS_DESC" query="SELECT `foobar_level_id`, `title` FROM `#__foobar_levels`" key_field="foobar_level_id" value_field="title" /> </params> <config addfieldpath="/modules/mod_foobar/elements"> <fields name="params"> <fieldset name="basic"> <field name="ids" type="sql2" default="" label="MOD_FOOBAR_LEVELS_TITLE" description="MOD_FOOBAR_LEVELS_DESC" query="SELECT `foobar_level_id`, `title` FROM `#__foobar_levels`" key_field="foobar_level_id" value_field="title" /> </fieldset> </fields> </config>
As you see, we instruct both Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6/1.7/2.5 to look into the same directory, for the same-named file (sql2.php). Here are the contents of the modules/mod_foobar/elements/sql2.php file:
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted Access'); /* * This trick allows us to extend the correct class, based on whether it's Joomla! 1.5 or 2.5 series */ if(!class_exists('JFakeElementBase')) { if(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.6.0','ge')) { class JFakeElementBase extends JFormField { // This line is required to keep Joomla! 1.6/1.7/2.5 from complaining public function getInput() {} } } else { class JFakeElementBase extends JElement {} } } /** * Our main element class, creating a multi-select list out of an SQL statement */ class JFakeElementSQL2 extends JFakeElementBase { var $_name = 'SQL2'; // Joomla! 1.5 function fetchElement($name, $value, &$node, $control_name) { $db = & JFactory::getDBO(); $db->setQuery($node->attributes('query')); $key = ($node->attributes('key_field') ? $node->attributes('key_field') : 'value'); $val = ($node->attributes('value_field') ? $node->attributes('value_field') : $name); return JHTML::_('select.genericlist', $db->loadObjectList(), ''.$control_name.'['.$name.'][]', 'class="inputbox" multiple="multiple" size="5"', $key, $val, $value, $control_name.$name); } // Joomla! 2.5 series function getInput() { $db = & JFactory::getDBO(); $db->setQuery($this->element['query']); $key = ($this->element['key_field'] ? $this->element['key_field'] : 'value'); $val = ($this->element['value_field'] ? $this->element['value_field'] : $this->name); return JHTML::_('select.genericlist', $db->loadObjectList(), $this->name, 'class="inputbox" multiple="multiple" size="5"', $key, $val, $this->value, $this->id); } } /* * Part two of our trick; we define the proper element name, depending on whether it's Joomla! 1.5 or 1.6 */ if(version_compare(JVERSION,'1.6.0','ge')) { class JFormFieldSQL2 extends JFakeElementSQL2 {} } else { class JElementSQL2 extends JFakeElementSQL2 {} }
Considering that most custom widgets have a lot more code than this, you can create two different initialisation sections for Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6/1.7/2.5 (fetchElement and getInput), populate class variables, then call a big, common method to render the bulk of the widget (just like we did with JHTML's genericlist in the example above). This will eliminate the need to rewrite the same code over again just to cater for a new Joomla! version.
Obsolete code
Joomla 1.6 / 1.7/2.5 have been left any code obsolete, we should review code for do compatible with all versions.
Global Mainframe
global $mainframe;
$mainframe = &JFactory::getApplication();
Global Option
global $option;
$option = JRequest::getCmd('option');
I will add more changes like it.
Content plugins work slightly different
The content plugins in Joomla! 1.5 were using the onPrepareContent method, whereas the content plugins in Joomla! 1.6/1.7/2.5 use the onContentPrepare method. The arguments have also changed. You can, however, create a single content plugin which runs on both Joomla! versions without rewriting code. Here's how:
defined('_JEXEC') or die(); jimport('joomla.plugin.plugin'); class plgContentFoobar extends JPlugin { public function onPrepareContent( &$article, &$params, $limitstart = 0 ) { $article->text = $this->doSomethingWith($article->text); } public function onContentPrepare($context, &$row, &$params, $page = 0) { // Danger, Will Robinson! $row in Joomla! 1.6/1.7/2.5 may be a string, not an article object! if(is_object($row)) { return $this->onPrepareContent($row, $params, $page); } else { $row = $this->doSomethingWith($row); } return true; } private function doSomethingWith($text) { // Apparently, you have to do something here ;) return $text; } }
Updating doesn't work as you'd expect
There is a small but very disturbing bug in Joomla! 1.6. Updating a component whose manifest XML states version="1.5.0" doesn't allow you to run the SQL statements. Namely, the SQL files you specify under the "<install><sql>" tags won't run. You can neither use the new "<update>" tag. You are stuck with no way to run SQL commands on component update!
The ugly workaround is to create a file named script.foobar.php with the following contents:
<?php define('_JEXEC') or die(); class Com_FoobarInstallerScript { function update($parent) { $db = JFactory::getDBO(); // Obviously you may have to change the path and name if your installation SQL file ;) if(method_exists($parent, 'extension_root')) { $sqlfile = $parent->getPath('extension_root').DS.'install.sql'; } else { $sqlfile = $parent->getParent()->getPath('extension_root').DS.'install.sql'; } // Don't modify below this line $buffer = file_get_contents($sqlfile); if ($buffer !== false) { jimport('joomla.installer.helper'); $queries = JInstallerHelper::splitSql($buffer); if (count($queries) != 0) { foreach ($queries as $query) { $query = trim($query); if ($query != '' && $query{0} != '#') { $db->setQuery($query); if (!$db->query()) { JError::raiseWarning(1, JText::sprintf('JLIB_INSTALLER_ERROR_SQL_ERROR', $db->stderr(true))); return false; } } } } } }
Reference that file in the end of your manifest XML file, just above the closing install tag, with:
This will force Joomla! 1.6 to run your extension's installation SQL file during the component update, just like Joomla! 1.5 used to do. Enjoy!
Menu item creation tricks
For Joomla! 1.5
You have to add a line similar to the following in your component's manifest XML file, inside the
<administration> tag.
<menu view="yourview" img="../media/com_example/logo-16.png">COM_EXAMPLE</menu>
<menu view="yourview" img="../media/com_example/logo-16.png">Example Component</menu>
In both cases, you need to create a file named en-GB.com_example.menu.ini in administrator/languages/en-GB (you can use the manifest's


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Did the United States test an anti-satellite weapon when it shot down an out-of-control spy satellite earlier this month? Or was it a precautionary measure to protect people on the ground who might have been hit with a fuel tank filled with a poisonous gas?
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty designated space for peaceful purposes as the province of all mankind. Virtually all spacefaring nations now favor a new treaty to accommodate major changes in geopolitics and military technology. The United States, however, has blocked negotiations, citing potential threats to U.S. rights, capabilities, and freedom of action.
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Get ready for a new episode of May's Expedition as she, Ash, Max and Brock stumble upon a swamp. There they find the swamp full on Mudkip and their caretaker, an elderly man named Old Man Swamp (or Mr. Swampy) who has the same whiskers as a Mudkip's fins. He explains that he gets Mudkip eggs from the Hoenn League and when they hatch they wait till their old enough to give to Professor Birch. But Team Rocket also has plans for the Mudkip. What evil will they have in store for them, and will Brock get a new friend?
May leades an expedition where they follow the river. They stop near a waterfall. Brock throws rope and his Lotad uses Water Gun to get to higher level. May gets first and helps them - she used Silcoon to get up. They go further, as they enter a swamp.
The gang encounters Mudkip, spotting some babies. May is happy she does not have one, as the last one attacked her. May goes to catch a Mudkip (since their inhabit is unknown), but a Mudkip uses Water Gun, stopping her. One Mudkip falls into water and the current leads to the Waterfall, so Lotad goes to help it. Even Lotad can't get to shore, so another Mudkip helps them.
A man appears, making May and Ash think it is a monster. The man mistakes them for stealing Mudkip. The man introduces himself as Swampy and is quite amazed that they climbed the waterfall so they can practice. Swampy forgives them, since they saved Mudkip. They go to Swampy's house for tea. Brock spots some blue things - it are Mudkip eggs. Brock asks him where he got the eggs, so Swampy gives them a question - what happens if there are two Pokémon with same level.
Nobody knows, so Swampy replies that he raises the Mudkip from eggs to adults. Max says that Brock will be a breeder and Swampy offers him that he will see the Mudkip hatching from eggs. A Mudkip hatches from an egg and splashes May with water. Brock mentions that a Mudkip saved another one - Swampy knows that it is the wild and bigger one, the one he didn't raise.
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Brock finds the Mdkip and offers it his food, but it refuses to eat. Swampy, May, Ash and Max came to the fence, finding it destroyed and the cans stomped. Team Rocket appears. Swampy (unintentionally) tells everyone that Mudkip are rare and that if the dam were to break, the Mudkip would go away. James brings Cacnea again and it uses Needle Arm, but on James. James is thrown against the dam, breaking it.
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Brock ties himself with the rope they used to get on higher level and goes to Mudkip. The Mudkip does not trust Brock much, but is convinced and gives Brock its tail. The gang pulls Brock upwards and rescues them. However, more trouble arises as Team Rocket cleaves the woods from the swamp and taking the Mudkip with them! Brock remembers that the ground is quite soft and orders Mudkip and Lotad to use Water Gun to soften the ground even more.
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A steel-gray metal, tungsten is found in several ores, including wolframite and scheelite. It is remarkable for its robust physical properties, especially the fact that it has the highest melting point of all the non-alloyed metals and the second highest of all the elements after carbon.Tungsten is often brittle and hard to work in its raw state; however, if pure, it can be cut with a hacksaw.
The pure form is used mainly in electrical applications, but its many compounds and alloys are used in many applications, most notably in incandescent light bulb filaments, X-ray tubes (as both the filament and target), and superalloys. Tungsten is also the only metal from the third transition series that is known to occur in biomolecules, and is the heaviest element known to be used by living organisms.


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Samsung CLP 500 and the CLP 315 – Which is better for You?
Both the Samsung CLP-500 and the CLP-315 are quality color laser printers, although they are suited for two different types of users. The Samsung CLP-500 has a monthly duty cycle of 35,000 sheets and the Samsung CLP-315 has a monthly duty cycle of 24,200 sheets, which enables the CLP-500 to provide for a larger work force than the CLP-315. But at a mere 30 lbs, the Samsung CLP-315 is the smallest, lightest printer in its class and is perfect for offices with limited space.
The Samsung CLP-500 features two connectivity options—parallel and USB. The Samsung CLP-500's easy-to-read status LCD helps walk you through the set-up process, and alerts you of any maintenance issues. The Samsung CLP-315 features USB 2.0 and 10/100 Base TX Ethernet connectivity options, which can help you set the printer up to a network with ease.
The consumables included in the Samsung CLP-500 differ from the typical black, cyan, magenta and yellow. In comes with black, silver, cyan and magenta toner cartridges instead. The black, magenta and silver toner cartridges all yield approximately 1,500 pages, while the cyan toner cartridge yields approximately 2,000 pages. The Samsung CLP-315's consumables include one black and three color toner cartridges. The black toner cartridge (CLP-K300A) yields approximately 2,000 pages. The cyan (CLP-C300A), magenta (CLP-M300A) and yellow (CLP-Y300A) toner cartridges all yield approximately 1,000 pages each. As an added bonus, the Samsung CLP-315 features easy-access toner bottles in lieu of the traditional heavy cartridges, which makes replacing toner a quick and easy process. The Samsung CLP-315 comes equipped with starter toner cartridges, a power cord, CD-ROM, a quick setup guide and a users manual.
The Samsung CLP-500 produces high-quality monochrome and color documents—both at 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi. The Samsung CLP-315's print resolution of 2400 dpi x 600 dpi also delivers radiant color documents and crisp monochrome documents. The Samsung CLP-500 produces monochrome documents at 21 pages per minute, and color documents at 20 pages per minute. The Samsung CLP-315 produces documents at much slower speeds—4 pages per minute for color documents, and 17 pages per minute for monochrome documents. However, the printer has a first print out time of 14 seconds, which means you won't have to wait a long time for your print job to begin. The Samsung CLP-315 has a media capacity of 150 sheets, which can accommodate the printing demands of most small- to mid-size operations. The Samsung CLP-500 has a media capacity of 350 sheets, and can expand to a maximum media capacity of 850 sheets to accommodate operations with large print jobs.
The Samsung CLP-315 comes equipped with 32 MB of installed memory, which cannot be expanded. If you foresee your business growing in the future, you may want to opt for the Samsung CLP-500, which comes equipped with 64 MB of installed memory. The CLP-500 can also grow with your business, as the memory is expandable up to 192 MB. The Samsung CLP-500 also features a duplexer, which makes double-sided printing a breeze.
Overall Specs – Samsung CLP-500:
- Print Speed: Monochrome – 21 ppm; Color – 20 ppm
- Memory: 64 MB; expandable to 192 MB
- Resolution: 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi
- Duty Cycle: 35,000 pages
- Paper Capacity: Input – 350 sheets; expandable to 850 sheets
- Connectivity: USB, Parallel
- Dimensions (w x d x h): 20.1 in x 18.5 in x 15.9 in
Overall Specs – Samsung CLP-315:
- Print Speed: Monochrome – 17 ppm; Color – 4 ppm
- Memory: 32 MB
- Resolution: 2400 dpi x 600 dpi
- Duty Cycle: 24,200 pages
- Paper Capacity: Input – 150 sheets
- Connectivity: Hi-Speed USB, 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet
- Dimensions (w x d x h): 15.4 in x 13.5 in x 10.4 in
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