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Josephine Kling, CEO of Landry & Kling Inc., specialists in meetings at sea, has resigned from the company that she and her partner Joyce Landry founded in 1982. Landry, formerly president, assumed the newly created title of president & CEO, effective January 31, 2001.
Martha Fetter has been promoted to director, conference planning, at Travelers Insurance in Hartford, Conn. Fetter has been with Travelers since 1985, starting as associate meeting planner and moving up to senior meeting planner, manager, and then to her new position. She oversees a staff of three.
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The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (1934–2013), Pervis (b. 1935), Yvonne (b. 1936), and Mavis (b. 1939). They are best known for their 1970s hits "Respect Yourself", "I'll Take You There", "If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)", and "Let's Do It Again", all of which (except "I'll Take You There") peaked on the Hot 100 less than a week away from Christmas Day.
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I was told when I started training people how to use computers that the burnout rate for instructors was about 18 months. By the time I left my position as computer training coordinator, I had done it for 18 years. I guess you could say I was ready for a change. Toward the end of my tenure as a computer instructor, I started reaching out and experimenting with other possibilities through volunteering. I signed up for Trail Guide Training at my local Audubon Center and started leading Discovery Walks for school children. Oh my gosh, what a fun thing that turned out to be.
I would arrive at the center about a half-hour before the bus full of children was scheduled to appear so I could coordinate with the other trail guides on logistics for the day. Were the kids staying for lunch? Who was going to return first to send their group through the restrooms? Which trail was each planning to use? What was blooming? Were there any potential wildlife sighting opportunities?
When the kids arrived, they climbed off the busses and organized into smaller groups and off we would all go. We'd stop to visit Liberty, the injured bald eagle, of course. Out on the trail we might have to chase a family of Canada geese out of our way. We might play a camouflage game, or learn how the seed heads of burdock inspired the invention of Velcro. Maybe the green frogs would be "singing" - sounding more like a broken banjo than a song. We might happen upon a pile of pine cones collected by a red squirrel, or find a hole dug by a chipmunk. There might be beetles and sow bugs and earthworms under a log, or a tadpole in the net when we scoop into the pond.
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Pictured above are tour participants checking out a cool discovery.
At the end of the walk we would form a circle to reflect on and share the things we remembered from the walk. Usually, even the child who acted like she wasn't paying attention would have several things to share. I like to think that dinner conversation that evening would be full of animated stories about all our discoveries.
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Over time, my volunteer gig turned into a paying gig. Now I can say that I get paid to take children for walks in the woods. Unfortunately, I can't promise that your volunteer gig will turn into a paying gig. But I can promise the Trail Guide Training will be fun. And, if you decide based on the training that you want to become a trail guide, we'll support you and help you become the best trail guide ever.
The Audubon Center & Sanctuary is located at 1600 Riverside Road in the town of Kiantone, a quarter-mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren, Pa. To learn more, call 569-2345 or visit jamestownaudubon.org where you can sign up online for the training.
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New York will be the first state in the nation to ban any magazine that can hold more than seven rounds and run instant background checks on all ammunition purchases at the time of sale. The legislation will allow authorities to track ammunition purchases in real time to alert law enforcement to high volume buys, and will include a statewide standard requiring recertification of pistol permits every five years. The legislation also closes a private sale loophole to ensure all gun purchases are subject to a background check, and toughens criminal penalties on those who use illegal guns.
This story is the latest development in the Second Amendment and gun control debate [JURIST comment] in the US. Last month the NRA restated its objection [JURIST report] to reinvigorated calls for an assault weapons ban following the Newtown shooting. In July Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that his state would appeal [JURIST report] the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official website] ruling that struck down a Florida law that barred doctors from discussing the dangers of gun ownership with patients. In July 2010 the Chicago City Council unanimously approved a new gun control law that bans gun shops in the city and prohibits gun owners from stepping outside their homes, including porches and garages, with a handgun. Shortly thereafter a group of Chicago citizens, supported by both the NRA and the National Association of Firearm Retailers, filed suit against the city [JURIST report] claiming the new ordinance infringes on their constitutional rights. In June 2010 the US Supreme Court ruled in McDonald v. Chicago [opinion; JURIST report] that the Second Amendment applies to states and municipalities as well as the federal government, thereby overturning Chicago's ban on handguns and raising considerable uncertainty about what amount of regulations of firearms was permissible.


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Governor Rick Snyder delivered his first State of the State address last night to a joint session of the Michigan legislature. Though the speech was highly optimistic, some said they hoped for more details in the address, particularly regarding how the governor plans to balance the state's projected $1.8 billion deficit for the fiscal year that beings October 1st. Snyder said he'll outline his budget plans in February. And, he said, he'll detail plans for government reform and education in March and April respectively. Although some hoped for more specifics, overall, pundits from across the state were pretty upbeat about the address. Here's a look at what they had to say:
- "The Statesman and the State," Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio
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- "Governor Rick Snyder's speech gets down to business talk," Tom Walsh, the Detroit Free Press
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Yesterday, America took a giant stride toward gender equality by allowing military women to serve in combat. The order was signed yesterday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and could provide over 230,000 jobs to women. This does not mean that the military will relax its strict physical requirements. From USA Today:
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (French: Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse), published by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. Durkheim attributes the development of religion to the emotional security attained through communal living.
According to Durkheim, early humans associated such feelings not only with one another, but with objects in their environment. This, Durkheim believed, led to the ascription of human sentiments and superhuman powers to these objects, in turn leading to totemism. The essence of religion, Durkheim finds, is the concept of the sacred, that being the only phenomenon which unites all religions. "A religion," writes Durkheim, "is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden - beliefs and practices which unite into a single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them."[1] In modern societies, the individual and individual rights evolve to become the new sacred phenomena, and hence these may be called "religious" for Durkheim.
Durkheim examined religion using such examples as Pueblo Indian rain dances, the religions of aboriginal tribes in Australia, and alcoholic hallucinations.
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- The Division of Labour in Society (1893)
- Rules of the Sociological Method (1895)
- Suicide (1897)
- ^ The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915): Translated by Joseph Ward Swain, p. 62
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- Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life: Newly Translated By Karen E. Fields. ISBN 0-02-907937-3
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Oxford World's Classics): Translated by Carol Cosman. ISBN 0-19-954012-8
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I don't think I would call that article good at all.... The big point is in the right direction, but I strongly disagree with a lot of what he said like, "Corbett's lawsuit is an insult to the victims of Sandusky's twisted crimes." really? He is also firm that the NCAA had every right, if not an obligation, to be involved to "punish Penn State". The only thing we agree on actually is that PSU has gone above and beyond to make a tragedy right and for that they should be given a chance to lessen the sanctions. I believe that as well, but I also believe the NCAA had absolutely no business even entering a criminal matter let alone bullying the school into using an incomplete report in lieu of an actual NCAA investigation. In that sense, we are miles apart.
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"Anyway, Corbett's lawsuit is an insult to the victims of Sandusky's twisted crimes. How can anyone think that Penn State's inertia didn't help enable Sandusky? Or that the NCAA wouldn't step in and issue punishment?"
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By Steve Pflantz
Workforce development is a hot topic among the ranks of ISA and the Automation Federation (AF) these days, as well as with a host of other organizations and agencies around the world. Recent articles have covered specific components of workforce development, so I felt maybe it was time to pull back and take a quick overall view of what is going on collectively within ISA and AF and present the big picture.
Starting on the Kindergarten through 12th grade (K–12) front, we are engaging in the support of the overall Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) initiative. As working professionals, this makes sense, as it equates to long-term recruiting of future professionals to feed our starving profession. From a physics perspective, the sooner you establish the course, the easier and more efficient the journey. Affecting a student's chosen path prior to high school is critical so they take the prerequisite STEM classes needed to prepare for engineering studies. The critical range of students to reach is likely in grades 6–8. I have worked with kids in this age range: They are sharp, they understand the importance of a career, they know what a good income is, and once they see the carrot dangling in front of them, they are not afraid of a few years of hard work. The end result: More students in the pipeline to becoming technical professionals. The National Career Development Association, one of the latest member organizations of AF, represents career and guidance counselors around the world. The 5,000 members of this organization provide the pathway to present to students throughout their education years the importance of what STEM means to their futures and give them insight into career paths in the automation profession.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an exciting organization energizing young people all over the world to find out what STEM means through robots. AF, along with ISA, developed an alliance with FIRST to help deliver the message about FIRST and add our voice about automation. Building and competing with robots is a fun and effective way to ignite the interest and passion for pursuit of technology among the K–12 crowd. Over 250,000 students are having fun experiencing technology, learning to embrace technical challenge rather than shy away, as well as learning interpersonal skills needed when they reach the working world. AF members are stepping up to the plate as volunteer mentors, technical advisors, trainers, and so on. Growing this effort is building our foundation for the future.
ISA's cool jobs program is still active and working to show students in junior high and high school that automation careers are fun and achievable—more so than what typical society presents as cool and viable career paths. Automating amusement park attractions or high-tech factories using the latest technology are but two examples of opportunities they are exposed to.
With AF's work the U.S. Department of Education at state and federal levels, we are helping build technical education programs and curriculums that promote and teach technical skill sets. These efforts cover the range from automation focused curriculums in high schools to developing ABET accredited automation engineering curriculums. Do not forget the long running support from ISA for post secondary technical education programs.
Programs are in place to pick up the students once they leave the academic world and enter the working world. Things are quite different there compared to the world they lived in the last 12 to 16 years. While they have already made a definitive choice for a profession, there are still many opportunities and choices to make. Some guidance in navigating the many options is crucial, and it is the basis for the ISA Mentoring program and YAPFEST.
The ISA Mentor program allows young professionals (and everyone else) to seek out a technical professional in a specific industry sector and/or technical expertise areas to be their mentor. YAPFEST is an annual ISA Automation Week event to gather Young Automation Professionals (YAP) (age 30 and under) together with seasoned professionals for networking and mentoring. ISA Sections have been reaching out to post-secondary students and new professionals to attend local section activities for many years and continue to do so. Face-to-face mentoring and networking opportunities are abundant.
For an active professional in the automation field, it takes little time to realize continual learning is crucial until retirement at age 65+. Technology changes in the timeframe of months, so one cannot even think about taking a break from learning. The "continuing" in continuing education soon jumps out as the more significant word of the pair. And the tests thought to be left behind in school rear their ugly head again. Not only do you have to continue learning, but you need to prove you learned and can put it to practice.
A core competency of ISA has always been education and training for the practicing professional. Training materials and classes for nearly every level of skill and technical subjects are available. As technology evolves or is developed, new training follows along via books, seminars, conferences, training classes, and online learning, to name a few.
In the "prove you know it" category, ISA is the provider of content for the Control System Engineer (CSE) Professional Engineer license. ANSI-approved certification programs for Control System Technicians (CCST) and Certified Automation Professional (CAP) are also in the offering for those who need a technical credential. The Safety Instrument System certificate program is recognized by OSHA, and development of more certificate programs is in the works.
From time to time, groups of workers are displaced and need to seek out a new profession. AF is working with the Veterans Administration to develop training and mentoring programs for all veterans leaving military service. Leveraging ISA training and mentoring programs, the hope is to facilitate bringing veterans into the automation profession. The program, as developed, will lend well to being put in place for nearly any other group of displaced workforce, anywhere in the world.
The catalyst that truly brought all these pieces together, and also serves as a foundation for all workforce development activities, is the Automation Competency Model developed by AF in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) a little over three years ago. Efforts by the then new AF brought AF to the DOL as they were beginning the important initiative to reach out to industry professionals for joint development of competency models. These competency models were to outline the education and skills needed for workers in all areas of the manufacturing sector in the U.S. The goal was to have professional organizations and professionals define what education and skills are needed, document that information, and make it available to students and educators at all levels as a guide for training programs and education curriculum. Based on outlines of the CCST and CAP program, it is no surprise it hit the mark to now clearly define the automation profession.
Any engineer or technical person will tell you if you can define it, then it can be built. Definition provides clarity, and so the puzzle came together in what is now a comprehensive and growing program within ISA and AF. The Competency Model helped us realize and articulate the grand plan, which attracted a phenomenal number of agencies and organizations to the workforce development cause. Synergies among this collection of programs and activities range from professionals inspiring kids by showing they care, to the energy and enthusiasm of those student re-vitalizing seasoned professionals.
There are many more aspects and programs related to workforce development that were not mentioned, but I think you now get the picture that workforce development is solidly in place for the K–65+ crowd.
For more information, go to: www.isa.org and www.automationfederation.org.
Steve Pflantz, P.E. is an associate at CRB Consulting Engineers, Inc. and a technical lead for the company's Automation & Electrical Engineering and design staff. He is the vice president-elect for ISA's Professional Development Department, and chair of the Automation Federation Membership Committee.
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Hey, Kerry; Love the column. Keep up the great work. Watching the third period of the Canucks vs. Red Wings on Wednesday, Jannik Hansen drives the net hard, gets stymied by Jimmy Howard, and proceeds to take the goaltender out of the play. Edler cleans up the garbage and Vancouver takes a commanding 4-2 lead. How is this goal allowed to stand? Clearly Howard's ability to defend his crease was impaired, and we've seen Tomas Holmstrom whistled for far less. Why was this goal allowed to stand in this situation? Mark in Champaign
There are a couple of things at play here to determine if the goal scored by Alexander Edler should be allowed to stand.
The first element to consider is if the referee, positioned along the goal line, determined that the attempted stick check by Henrik Zetterberg on the initial puck carrier, Jannik Hansen caused the Vancouver player to lose an edge and crash into Detroit net minder, Jimmy Howard.
If that were to be the case then rule 69.1 could apply to allow the goal to stand which states; "If an attacking player has been pushed, shoved, or fouled by a defending player so as to cause him to come into contact with the goalkeeper, such contact will not be deemed contact initiated by the attacking player for the purposes of this rule, provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact."
Since Zetterberg did not push, shove or body check Hansen the only remaining alternative here would be if the referee deemed that Zetterberg had fouled the Vancouver player. Hansen was clearly within all criteria limits for a penalty shot to be assessed if it was determined that he was fouled from behind at this point.
There was no immediate reaction or arm raised by the referee to signal a penalty as Zetterberg reached with his stick while Hansen cut hard to the net and ultimately lost his edge and fell, sliding into Jimmy Howard as this video demonstrates.
There should not have been a penalty to Zetterberg for his stick reach as contact, if any, was minimal at best and did not cause Hansen to lose an edge. The contact initiated by Hansen's fall however, drove Howard deep into his net and definitely impaired Jimmy's ability to defend his goal.
The only signal made by the referee was pointing into the net to verify the scoring of a legal goal when Alexander Elder followed up on the play and put the rebound past both Hansen and Howard.
My call on this (and what I believe should have taken place) is incidental contact of the goalkeeper ruled when Hansen blew a tire and had no ability to avoid the Detroit goalkeeper. The resulting goal should have immediately been waved off and no penalty assessed to Hansen.
Vancouver scored this shorthanded goal with Ryan Kesler serving a minor penalty for roughing after being clocked by a Niklas Kronwall charge that went unpenalized if not undetected. Kronwall with back turned, left his feet prior to impact and went nuclear, vaulting up and into Kesler along the sidewall.
Mark, your reference to Tomas Holmstrom brought back many memories of keeping my eyes glued this goal crease pest right up to the last Red Wings game that I worked just prior to my retirement. The Nashville Predators were the guests at Joe Louis Arena on this night. I documented the last crease penalty I called on Holmstrom in the Detroit chapter of The Final Call entitled, Hockeytown, USA. I share it with you now Mark and for those who wish to read on.
"Nashville and Detroit played hard, and as I anticipated, I would have to step up from my position at the blue line and call a penalty on Holmstrom at 19:04 of the first period. Mickey Redmond, a former 50-goal scorer for Detroit and long-time colour commentator on Wings television broadcasts, didn't agree (imagine that), but it was a phenomenal call. Some things that the untrained eye might take several replays, even in slow motion, to detect, we officials only have a fraction of a millisecond to see and make a judgment on. This was one of those times, and from 65 feet away.
The Wings were cycling the puck low in the Nashville end zone. Holmstrom came out of the corner from a scramble behind the net and occupied his favourite real estate, right at the top of –if not inside—the blue paint of the goal crease, his back and butt in the face Pekka Rinne. As one of the non-puck carriers, Tomas was part of my area of coverage, along with the other players who weren't immediately involved in the action around the puck. Wes (McCauley) covered everything to do with action on the puck.
Tomas never seems to want to take up space on his own; he usually attracts a crowd, which he uses to his advantage by jamming up the goal crease even more. With the puck on its way to the front of the net, Tomas grabbed the stick of Nashville defenceman Shea Weber, tap-danced over Rinne's pads, and pulled Weber down to the side of the goal crease, all the while flipping a one-handed shot at the goal with his stick. Before the puck floated overtop of the net, I had my hand in the air to signal a penalty against Holmstrom. With all the action around him, Pekka Rinne didn't realize there was a delayed penalty being called against Detroit, so he remained in his crease until the whistle blew once Detroit gained possession of the puck. Tomas had that confused look of innocence on his face as he went to the penalty box for the remaining 56 seconds of the period.
Prior to the start of the second period, I was standing near the penalty box when Holmstrom skated over to occupy the real estate I had rented him for the next 64 seconds. Again flashing me that confused look, Tomas asked me what I'd seen—notice, not what he'd done! I explained that I'd seen him engage the Nashville defenceman at the edge of the crease, grab his stick, and pull him down, while trying to make it look as though he was the one being fouled. A wide grin broke out across Holmstrom's face, as he smiled and said, "That's why you're the best!" and then stepped into the penalty box.
Tomas Holmstrom makes things happen. He creates opportunities for his team and takes a huge beating in front of the net to do so. He is just as valuable to the Detroit Red Wings as any of their other star players, and they have a boatload of them, including Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk, Johan Franzen, and Todd Bertuzzi."
All eyes glued to the crease from now on, Mark.
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Spanish West Indies
Spanish West Indies Las Antillas Occidentales Antillas Españolas |
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A map of the Spanish West Indies
Capital | Santo Domingo (1511-1764) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Languages | Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Political structure | Colony | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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- | 1500-1598 | Philip II | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | 1896-1898 | Alfonso XIII | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Historical era | Spanish colonization | |||||||||||||||||||||||
- | Established | 1492 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- | Treaty of Paris | 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Currency | Peso Espanol | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The Spanish West Indies (also known as "Las Antillas Occidentales" or simply "Antillas Españolas" in Spanish) was the contemporary name for the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.
It consisted of the present day nations of Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Guadalupe and the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad, and the Bay Islands.
The islands that later became the Spanish West Indies were the focus of the voyages of Christopher Columbus in America. Largely due to the familiarity that Europeans gained from Columbus's voyages, the islands were also the first lands to be permanently colonized by Europeans in the Americas. The Spanish West Indies were also the most enduring part of Spain's American Empire, only being surrendered in 1898 at the end of the Spanish-American War. For over three centuries, Spain controlled a network of ports in the Caribbean including Havana (Cuba), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), and Veracruz (Mexico) which were connected by galleon routes.
Some smaller islands were ceded to other European powers as a result of war, or diplomatic agreements during the 17th and 18th centuries. Others such as Dominican Republic gained their independence in the 19th century.
Change of Sovereignty or Independence[edit]
- The Bay Islands were ceded to England in 1643 and then to Honduras in 1860.
- Jamaica was lost to England in 1655, confirmed in the Treaty of Madrid (1670).
- The Cayman Islands were lost to England in the Treaty of Madrid (1670).
- Haiti was lost to France in the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697.
- Trinidad was lost to Great Britain in 1797, confirmed in the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.
- The Dominican Republic gained its independence in 1821 and again in 1865 from Spain, it was intermittently occupied by Haiti.
- Cuba was lost to the United States in 1898, after the Spanish-American War concluded by the Treaty of Paris (1898).
- Puerto Rico was lost to the United States in 1898, after the Spanish-American War concluded by the Treaty of Paris (1898).
Spanish Caribbean[edit]
The Spanish Caribbean or Hispanophone Caribbean, refers to the Spanish-speaking areas in the Caribbean Sea, namely Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. It includes regions where Spanish is the main language, and where a history of Spanish settlement and colonization influences culture, through religion, language, cuisine, and so on. It may also include South Florida, where the Spanish language is widely used.
The term is used in contrast to Anglophone Caribbean and French Caribbean, two other cultural areas which refer to colonial heritage and language. The phrase, thus, excludes countries such as Jamaica, Haiti, and the Lesser Antilles. The Hispanophone Caribbean is a part of the wider Hispanic America, which is in turn part of still-larger Latin America.
While the Spanish Caribbean countries are widely considered to be part of Latin America, it is sometimes spoken of as a region distinct from Latin America, as in the phrase "Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish-speaking areas)"
"The Spanish Caribbean", refers primarily to:[1]
It may also include South Florida, a region where there has been significant migration from Spanish Caribbean.
Historically, during the period of Spanish settlement and colonization of the New World, the Spanish West Indies referred to those settlements in islands of the Caribbean Sea under political administration of Spain, as in the phrase "a 1765 cedula authorized seven sea ports, in addition to the port of San Juan, to trade with the Spanish Caribbean."[2] Until the early 19th century these territories were part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
See also[edit]
- American West Indies
- British West Indies
- Danish West Indies
- Dutch West Indies
- French West Indies
- Voyages of Christopher Columbus
- Viceroyalty of New Spain
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Spanish Main
- Spanish East Indies
- Spanish Empire
- Antillean Confederation
- Population history of American indigenous peoples
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- ^ Luis F. Pumarada O'Neill (July 31, 1994), National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Historic Bridges of Puerto Rico MPS PDF (32 KB), National Park Service
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The anatomically-correct robot, who can even snore, has an articulated skeleton that can move like a person but can't walk or independently move its limbs.
There is Wild Wendy, who is outgoing and adventurous, Frigid Farrah, who is reserved and shy, a young unnamed doll with a naïve personality, "matriarchal kind of caring" Mature Martha and S & M Susan, who is geared for more adventurous types.Coming with a laptop the doll, priced between US$7,000 (£4,350) to US$9,000 (£5,993), was unveiled at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas at the weekend.
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, he said, where a friend died and he vowed to store his personality forever.
WTF!? Honoring the memory of a friend by humping his likeness in sex-robot form? Listen, I don't want to be honored if that's how they're doing it these days. Just shoot my body out of a cannon and call it a day.
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[JURIST] Malaysian law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into a new sodomy complaint against opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] filed by an aide Saturday. Under Malaysian lawyer sodomy is punishable by 20 years in prison regardless of whether or not it was consensual. Anwar was convicted for sodomy in 1999 in the midst of political scandal before an appellate court overturned his conviction and sentence in 2004. Asserting his innocence of the latest allegations in a statement [text] on his blog Sunday, Anwar wrote:
The police report lodged against me...is a complete fabrication. I believe we are witnessing a repeat of the methods used against me in 1998 when false allegations were made under duress. This is clearly a desperate attempt by the Barisan Nasional regime to arrest the movement of the Malaysian people towards freedom, democracy and justice.The report has been organized by interested parties to attack me in retaliation for evidence I have recently obtained implicating IGP [Inspector General of Police] Musa Hassan and the AG [Attorney General] Gani Patail in misconduct including fabrication of evidence in the cases launched against me in 1998-1999. This vile attack will not prevent me from releasing this dossier to the public.
[JURIST] The Canadian Human Rights Commission [official website] has dismissed a Muslim group's complaint against Maclean's [media website], Canada's leading newsmagazine, for publishing an article it alleged exposed Muslims to abuse or contempt. The Canadian Islamic Congress [advocacy website] brought the complaint in respect of a 2006 article published by Mark Steyn entitled "The future belongs to Islam" [text]. In its ruling, put online late Friday by Maclean's but not yet available on the Commission's own website, the Commission said that the article was "polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike" but that that was not enough to constitute a discriminatory practice under Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which provides:
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Collection of short stories: • Sheherazade Youko just started working as an office lady at a new company. According to the gossip, Shinogami, her boss, is cursed and any girl who gets involved with him will die. After a lively welcome party, a drunken Youko wakes up in Shinogami's bed. What will become of her and this gorgeous man? • Sheet no Sukima Momoko and her boyfriend go to apply for a marriage registration form, but the man at the public office, Hisame, is so rude that he offers them a divorce registration form as well! One month later, Momoko returns and...? • Yoru no Bannin Maya consistently stays late at night at the office to finish her work, which earns her a nickname from the security guards. One guard in particular won't allow her to stay despite her cries of saying that she'll be done in 5 minutes. However, he notices that she's been getting thinner and decides to make her lunch?! What exactly is going on? • Blanc Girl is getting married soon and goes to visit her cousin that she grew up with. However they're closer than just family. (Also included in Kinjirareta Ai no Kajitsu) • Kizuato A woman whose husband was killed in a car accident sexually abuses her handsome servant. (Also included in Kinjirareta Ai no Kajitsu) • Izayoi Tsukiko is driven to suicide, while Akito tries to keep her away from her doctor. But what is Akito's relationship between Tsukiko and the doctor; what is the doctor's real identity and who exactly is Akito?
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It actually would be more server load even though it would be minimal b/c when you use a template engine such as Smarty there is more parsing going on b/c it parses the new syntax into the real syntax thus adding another layer of parsing.
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It actually would be more server load even though it would be minimal b/c when you use a template engine such as Smarty there is more parsing going on b/c it parses the new syntax into the real syntax thus adding another layer of parsing.
Yea but sometimes templates have dynamic content in them that periodically changes.
IT would be great if there is some way we can take a poll among the actual web designers which they would prefer php code or smarty tags ?
till now i couldn't find truth in any poll.
to come back to the higher server load argument. No, this is not a very good argument against smarty if its concept would have advantages. But as mentioned before, there are other, better, arguments to use php as template engine. We can pay good concepts with higher server load but this isnt an issue here.
Smarty parses it's template files turning them into .php with PHP syntax.
So if you have the following template
Code HTML4Strict:
{foreach from=$mydata item=data}
  {$data->id}
 {/foreach}
It will run this once and parse the smarty code and make it something like this:
PHP Code:
<?php $_from = $this->_tpl_vars['mydata']; if (!is_array($_from) && !is_object($_from)) { settype($_from, 'array'); }if (count($_from)):
foreach ($_from as $this->_tpl_vars['data']):
<?php echo $this->_tpl_vars['data']->id; ?>
<?php endforeach; endif; unset($_from); ?>
Actually all its use of caching tells you is that parsing templates is potentially expensive and as such it avoids doing it as much as possible.
The argument that template engines hurt performance and create bloated applications just doesn't hold water. Any sensibly designed templating engine is going to have near no overhead.
Given the sample code from the post before yours, the smarty code basically looks like PHP functionality, but rewritten to something different. Are you telling me that rewriting a language to achieve nothing at all (after all, the whole point is to separate the logic, and it actually just has exactly the same logic in a different format) isn't excess bloat?
That code example also puts to rest the 'designers cant use programming languages' argument. If they understand the concepts of one, all that you need for the other is a knowledge of the syntax.
I have to definately agree with stormrider on this one.
Smarty is burden for personal developers. If you're just a single developer and developing custom applications which you will sell to just 1 or 2 clients then according to me you should make your own arrangements so its easy for you in the longer run.
If you're a team for a big project or a business project in which the design will keep on changing and programmers/designers will keep on changing then use standard stuff like Smarty etc. so new people who come aboard can easily adapt the to the project and start giving output asap.
Its really just to save time and money. Its you who has to decide which way you have to do it - really. Oh personally i like phpbb's template engine atleast in that we don't have to learn another language. For eg. they do loops like this in template:
The code between the html comments will be used for the loop. Now this is called simplicity. LOLCode:<select name="somedd">

<option value="{value}">{display_name}</option>

OneSeventeen: i am new to smarty , gathering information on smarty, what was that link( to tutorial u read)
That example is actually rather complex and not something I would give our designer to work with. Smarty has a lot of language constructs that I don't find use for. Loops and if constructs are almost unavoidable, there is a lot of other functionality which isn't entirely necessary for templating. I occasionally will create complex data driven markup myself and feed it to a smarty variable rather than represent it in template language. It may break the rules somewhat, but I don't care.
We have to deal with a lot more rules than what a tag based system like Smarty imposes. Curly braces, function arguments, ending lines with semi-colons. Smarty has if and endif and similar simpler rules. If you were forced to do an application with just what Smarty provides, you would be pretty frustrated. It's simply not the same thing.
We are talking about PHP, but what about designers that come from ASP, Cold Fusion or Ruby shops. Are they expected to learn all those disciplines just so they can work with the back end people? On who's dime do they learn?
Don't let your perspective as a programmer make you think that everyone has the same aptitude in the same areas as you (a stock broker isn't stupid because he isn't computer literate although there is a limit to that concept), or forget what you or others may have gone through to develop the knowledge that you have.
If they have a different programming language background, it is fairly easy to learn another language. Its a case of syntax, all languages have the same constructs really.
We should dtop aruging on this topic it will never end.
I'm not arguing, I'm discussing :P
Actually, you are achieving something. Compare the first lines:
The smarty version is 1/4 of the size, and does some basic type checking you don't get if you simply did a foreach in PHP. Even the most trivial example:Code:{foreach from=$mydata item=data}
<?php $_from = $this->_tpl_vars['mydata']; if (!is_array($_from) && !is_object($_from)) { settype($_from, 'array'); }if (count($_from)):
foreach ($_from as $this->_tpl_vars['data']):
The smarty version is half the size, which might not seem like much, but on a big page it makes a real difference. And that, to me, is the basic problem with using pure php; the syntax is bloated, which leads to templates being hard to read and maintain, and using a template language can help with this tremendously.Code:{$data->id}
<?php print $data->id ?>
That amount of PHP code is unnecessary. How about:
Which could of course be shortened if it was being programmed by a man with one finger. What would the equivalent be in Smarty?PHP Code:
<?php if(empty($array)) { ?>
No thingies.
<?php } else { ?>
<?php foreach($array as $thingy) { ?>
<?php echo $thingy ?>
<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>
Use echo. It's shorter. ;)
I write my PHP templates like this:
<?= is even shorter. I know that it may not be universal, but it's quite good enough for my purposes. And if necessary it can be transformed to <?php echo with a simple search and replace.PHP Code:
<?php if(empty($array)) : ?>
No thingies.
<?php else : ?>
<?php foreach($array as $thingy) : ?>

<?= $thingy ?>

<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>
The example you make reference to isn't a particularly good example of how to use a template engine.
In my mind the qualities of a good template engine are:
- No PHP allowed in templates for security and ensure consistency in their use.
- No silly braces to represent anything beyond simply echoing out a value.
- Use XML style tags embedded in the html which makes calls to a registered view helper class.
- Ensure that any remotely complex logic is stored in the helper.
Here's a brief example of how it'd look
Granted that's a very simplistic example, but hopefully it gives you an idea what I'm driving at.HTML Code:<helper:authenticated>

You're logged in!

You're not logged in!

Now, to answer those who I'm sure would question why you wouldn't just replace the above code with the following:
The above example is actually pretty good code, and it's simple to understand by PHP developers. However, you wouldn't want to use the PHP method if you have concerns about security (this should be a concern where untrusted parties may have access to the templates), or if you want to ensure consistency so that some developer you hired two weeks ago doesn't stick an SQL query in the middle of your template.PHP Code:
<?php if ($helper->authenticated()): ?>

You're logged in!

<?php endif; ?>
<?php if (!$helper->authenticated()): ?>

You're not logged in!

<?php endif; ?>
If the issues mentioned above are not problems for you, then a PHP based view may be all you need. However, if you do have concerns about security or consistency, then don't discount a template engine.
Template-engine discussions are neverending stories:
Template Engine or PHP/HTML-mixed-view usage? - well, as always, it depends!
When you have a middle/major sized project, with lots of people involved, a template-engine is the right way to go, fmpov. It will definitly safe you some time. Libraries like Smarty are stable, good documented and you can get lots of usage examples. Not said, that this would not be possible with going the html+php route, but.. when you rely on a library your options in the "view" are some kind of restricted to the expression-possibilites of the library itself. And on projects with many people involved, such standards are highly recommended.
You could say they do it all wrong - but, another fact is, that a big bunch of major web-applications are template-engine driven. Be it Smarty, Joomla's patTemplate or Drupal's phptal.
That was an extreme example, but my point is that even in the simplest cases, the syntax of a smarty or another templating engine will be shorter than the pure php version, which makes the template version easier to read. It is a trade off, though, and on small projects where I'm the sole developer I don't bother; but on big projects with multiple developers, a templating engine can make life easier.
What I often do is assign everything (or near everything) to a variable, much like in a templating system. But instead of assigning it to a member of a tpl_var array, I just throw it all in the global scope and include the template.
I'm sure tons of people are against the whole global concept, and I'm sure you could do things more elegantly, but I've found it to be the simplest, easiest method. It's also quite reminiscent of a template engine. Just with cooler syntax. ;)
Yeah, I know, but I've been brainwashed into the anti–short tags cause.Quote:
Originally Posted by BerislavLopac
Short doesn't necessarily mean easier to read. I personally find PHP easier to read than Smarty (perhaps because I'm more familiar with PHP). Regardless, I still think "foreach posts as post" is easier to read than "foreach from equals posts item equals post."


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The name is enough, steelseries kinzu, which is used by pro players in cs 1.6 is the best . I would highly recommend this mouse for fps games like cs. Its is good for assaulting and it is the perfect size for my hand. If u prefer small mice u must buy this.
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3) They dont provide the software for the DPI settings ( u have to download it from their website).
I've been using this mouse for 2 months now. Initially the mouse freezed after 1-2 hours but this problem was there only for the first day. Now its working Fine.
I am using a Kinzu for almost a year now. Its an amazing mouse with very good control and accuracy. And just look at the players who are using it - fOrest, GeT_Right, starix and Edward.. Need anything more for its worth? And undoubtedly the cheapest in terms of cost/ You can hardly find any gaming mouse with lesser price. All in all a high precision weapon for CS. If you don't have money to waste and want to buy an awesome mouse, close your eyes and order Kinzu.
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