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A picture of Velvet Sky wearing a blue bikini for an official TNA photo shoot.
August 16, 2014
The belief within the industry is that Evan Bourne is hoping to make a return to WWE some day. He recently did a shoot interview, but the video was rather tame. He did not reveal too many secrets, and he did not show a ton of animosity towards the company. If Bourne can show that he can stay sober and injury free, then WWE might be willing to give him another chance since he did have a little bit of a fan base.
August 15, 2014
While doing a shoot interview, Evan Bourne revealed some details about a backstage fight that took place between Big Show and Great Khali. He stated that it took place in 2009 while WWE was doing a live event in Puerto Rico. He did not reveal what the fight was about, but Bourne did state that Show threw the first punch. Khali was able to block it, and the two fell to the ground. Khali mounted Show and slapped him a few times before others stopped it.
August 8, 2014
A picture of Brooke Tessmacher from a TNA photo shoot, and she's wearing quite the colorful bikini.
July 1, 2014
A picture of Gail Kim wearing a revealing grey bikini for a TNA photo shoot.
June 28, 2014
A picture of Christy Hemme wearing a yellow bikini for an official TNA photo shoot.
June 25, 2014
A picture of Angelina Love wearing a pink bikini for an official TNA photo shoot.
June 21, 2014
While there are still some questions whether or not this is a shoot or a story line, Tommy Dreamer is telling fans that he might be done with TNA as a backstage agent after an incident where he bashed Dixie Carter for removing Bully Ray at the last minute from his House of Hardcore show. His departure has not been confirmed yet, and many are still under the belief that this is an elaborate work.
June 11, 2014
Rumors are heavily floating around right now that TNA and House of Hardcore are working together. When Tommy Dreamer cut what seemed to be a shoot interview about Dixie Carter pulling Bully Ray from his show, some felt that it was out of character for Dreamer to do that, as he is viewed as one of the more respectful guys in the industry. Plus, Dreamer himself has a working relationship with TNA already, so it would not be hard to fathom that he would align his company with Carter.
June 8, 2014
A picture of Triple H on the cover of Muscle and Fitness magazine. The former world heavyweight champion is wearing his usual WWE ring gear for the photo shoot.
June 1, 2014
The rocky relationship between Roddy Piper and Vince McMahon is apparently back on bad terms again. WWE officials are said to be quite upset with the former United States Heavyweight Champion for comments that he made about Legends House during promotional events. Piper, who is no stranger to backstage heat over the years, also made some derogatory comments towards Pat Patterson during a shoot interview recently.
May 30, 2014
A couple of years back, fans witnessed a real life shoot incident in the ring between JBL and the Blue Meanie. Some blood was involved. Apparently, the two of them have resolved their issues since then, as JBL took to Twitter to wish the Blue Meanie a happy birthday. The former WWE stars appear to be quite cordial with one another now.
May 20, 2014
"For relevant reasons. Once in a while you'll shoot texts back and forth with somebody, or if there's some business thing going on, like if they need something signed or a scan for a video game or something like that but it's not like I talk to the WWE every week and give them my thoughts on what's going on with them or they call me and give their opinions on what I've been doing. It's a business relationship and like everything else when you're gone you're gone and when you're back you're back and if there's anything in-between on a business level or a personal level I'll get in contact with them. I have a good relationship with the WWE and there's no animosity but it's not like we're calling each other every day finding out what we had for dinner that night." - Chris Jericho on his business relationship with WWE
May 9, 2014
While Taryn Terrell was pregnant, she always kept the door open for a TNA return, stating that she has not accomplished everything that she wanted in professional wrestling. It looks like that comeback will be taking place this summer, as Taryn recently did a photo shoot for the company. The Knockout appears to be in great shape already.
May 7, 2014
A picture of TNA Knockouts hanging out together after a bikini photo shoot. Pictured are Brooke Tessmacher, Taryn Terrell, Gail Kim and ODB.
May 7, 2014
Rumors going around are that Shaul Guerrero was caught a bit off guard by her release from WWE this week. She recently did a photo shoot, where she and Baron Corbin both did gimmick changes. Many had expected her to try out the new character on WWE NXT. Shaul has been quiet on Twitter, where her last post was during Monday Night Raw.
May 1, 2014
A picture of WWE diva Cameron looking pretty hot in the Day Off photo shoot.
April 29, 2014
A picture of Madison Rayne wearing sexy black lingerie in bed during an official TNA Knockouts photo shoot.
April 28, 2014
A picture of the Big Show doing a promotional photo shoot for NoH8, a campaign that WWE has been heavily supporting.
April 26, 2014
A picture of Tamina Snuka doing the NoH8 photo shoot that was done by several of the WWE stars this past week.
April 24, 2014
While there was some confusion on his actual departure from the company because he worked some matches after Summerslam 2014, Rob Van Dam has now confirmed that he is done with WWE. The former world heavyweight champion fulfilled his contractual obligations and is going to take a couple of months off. RVD stated that he will then decide if he wants to make another return or not.
August 30, 2014
Reports going around state that Rob Van Dam finished up his latest stint with WWE during the kickoff match at Summerslam 2014. His departure from the company had been expected since he only agreed to a short term contract. Some are under the belief that this might be the last stint for RVD since the audience has been a bit lackluster towards him this time around.
August 18, 2014
The speculation right now is that Rob Van Dam will be taking another break from WWE after Summerslam 2014. The former world heavyweight champion is not currently booked for the pay per view, but there are talks that management could squeeze him into a match at the last minute. RVD did not exactly get involved in a lot of stories during his latest tenure, so there are talks that this could be his last run with WWE.
August 13, 2014
On Monday Night Raw, fans saw Rob Van Dam being pulled from a Beat the Clock match against Seth Rollins. He was replaced by Heath Slater, who got the surprising win, thanks to distractions from Dean Ambrose. It turns out that WWE did that because RVD is actually not cleared to wrestle. He is still recovering from an unknown injury. For what it's worth, it appears that he might be fine soon, as the former world heavyweight champion is scheduled to head to Australia for the tour.
August 6, 2014
Fans who watched WWE Battleground 2014 noticed that Rob Van Dam did not perform. It has now been revealed that the former world heavyweight champion was forced to miss the pay per view because of an undisclosed injury. An update has been promised by WWE in regards to the nature of the ailment. No word yet on whether or not RVD will be missing time from the road.
July 21, 2014
Some more names have been added to the upcoming WWE Intercontinental Championship battle royal. Big E, Curtis Axel, Dolph Ziggler, Rob Van Dam and Ryback are now in the match at WWE Battleground 2014. They join Kofi Kingston, Damien Sandow, Great Khali and Antonio Cesaro. As of right now, the company is favoring the idea of giving the title to Cesaro.
July 2, 2014
In a very exciting match, Seth Rollins outlasted Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston, Rob Van Dam and Jack Swagger to capture the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. WWE wants to continue the war between Ambrose and the Authority, so they had Kane coming out and providing assistance to Rollins. Despite the heel tactic to win the match, the Rollins victory was actually cheered by a good amount of fans.
June 29, 2014
Thanks to the help of Kane, Seth Rollins was able to climb the ladder uninterrupted and win the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. The Big Red Monster came to the ring and attacked Dean Ambrose to clear the path. Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Rob Van Dam were all laid out on the floor during the finale. WWE power couple Triple H and Stephanie McMahon came out afterwards to congratulate Rollins.
June 29, 2014
One of the ideas being tossed around backstage in WWE is to utilize Rob Van Dam as an opponent for Alexander Rusev, who has been tearing through the lower card division. RVD still has some name value and a bit of a connection with the audience, so he can provide the newcomer with some much needed credibility before heading into a feud with John Cena down the line.
June 10, 2014
At Payback 2014, Wade Barrett successfully defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Rob Van Dam after picking up the pin fall victory, thanks to the Bull Hammer. The performers placed some doubt in that finish when it appeared that Barrett had injured his arm while smashing into the corner post after RVD ducked away from the move outside the ring.
June 1, 2014
Since the company is hoping to build him back up to the main event level, Wade Barrett is expected to successfully retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship in his match against Rob Van Dam at Payback 2014. The former leader of Nexus will more than likely be fed another challenger next month as well. If things go as planned, he could be a future rival for Daniel Bryan.
May 27, 2014
While the performers avoided major injuries at Extreme Rules 2014, Rob Van Dam did get beat up a bit, thanks largely to his closing segment with Antonio Cesaro. The former world heavyweight champion suffered cuts and bruises to his face after crashing down on to a trash can while doing his signature Five Star Frog Splash finishing move.
May 5, 2014
The triple threat match at Extreme Rules 2014 quickly became a singles match after Jack Swagger was eliminated after a combination of a superplex and flying splash. Antonio Cesaro then won the match by pinning Rob Van Dam after delivering his Neutralizer finishing move on top of a trash can. Zeb Colter and Paul Heyman had minimal involvement.
May 4, 2014
A video of the match between Wade Barrett and Rob Van Dam on Monday Night Raw to determine the new challenger for Big E Langston and the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Extreme Rules 2014.
April 30, 2014
A match being discussed backstage for Extreme Rules 2014 right now involves Jack Swagger, Rob Van Dam and Antonio Cesaro doing a triple threat. WWE wants to put the story line between Swagger and Cesaro on a pay per view, but they are concerned about having two heels in a match, so the idea of RVD being involved has been tossed around.
April 25, 2014
Unless things change backstage in the next few days, it looks like Wade Barrett will be beating Rob Van Dam on Monday Night Raw next week to win himself a shot at Big E Langston and the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Extreme Rules 2014. There are rumors that management will have Antonio Cesaro interfering in the match to cost RVD the victory.
April 25, 2014
A video from Monday Night Raw of Antonio Cesaro and Rob Van Dam battling it out in the tournament to determine a new top contender for Big E Langston and the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
April 23, 2014
In an effort to show new fans that the company is capable of drawing in the big name performers in the industry, TNA has added alumni profiles to their roster page on their official website. Some notable names on there are Jeff Jarrett, Sting, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Mick Foley, Hulk Hogan, AJ Styles, Brooke Hogan, Ric Flair and Rob Van Dam.
April 18, 2014
A video of the match between Rob Van Dam and Alberto Del Rio from the latest episode of Monday Night Raw, where the winner advances in the tournament to determine a new number one contender for Big E Langston and the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
April 16, 2014
Prior to Wrestlemania 30, there were plans in place to push Alberto Del Rio towards Big E Langston and the WWE Intercontinental Championship, so when the tournament was announced, many viewed Del Rio as a top candidate to win. However, management has changed their minds on that push, as evident by the fact that Del Rio lost to Rob Van Dam on Monday Night Raw this week.
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After bringing home the Miss World crown of 1994, Aishwarya Rai was signed up by Mani Ratnam for 'Iruvar' (1997). Bollywood welcomed her with 'Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya'. Two movies old, Sanjay Leela Bhansali roped her in for his romance saga, 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam'. The movie turned out to be Aishwarya's big ticket to fame and superstardom in Bollywood.


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MEMPHIS (WMC-TV) - On the bottom shelf of the display case, there's a cookie cake in the shape of a Bible.
The 'pages' fan open to Philippians 4:13: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
The Hill family's faith has not only strengthened them through tragedy, but it's also helped their Makeda's Homemade Butter Cookies, 2370 Airways Blvd., achieve the first "hat trick" on the Scorecard: a Big Tip, a Top 5 and now the High Score of the Week with a 99 on its Jan. 18 health inspection.
"We just try to do our best, Andy," said Makeda's co-owner Maurice Hill.
Modest, Maurice is. Always modest.
Even when giving credit for the store's spit-shined 99.
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The Hills opened the Airways location in 1999. The name's inspired by their 6-year-old niece Makeda's struggle with leukemia. She died from the disease in 1997.
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Hi, Can splunk read data from Microsoft SQL Server 2008? We have an application which logs business exceptions to SQL database, currently we have a customized dashboard which shows these exceptions to business users, we are considering to use Splunk for all kinds of exceptions including business exceptions, is there a way to display SQL data (business exceptions) using Splunk.
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Directly, no. Splunk does not have any native interface to an SQL database of any kind. The supported method for doing this is with a 'scripted input' where Splunk periodically runs a shell script of your design and indexes its output. That shell script is free to connect to a database and extract whatever data it desires.
There are some add-on apps in Splunkbase that provide examples / implementations of this scripted input. The first one I found was jdbc scripted input on Splunkbase . I have not tried it, and don't know if it will work for your purpose or not.
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You can also use the Splunk MySQL Connector app to define lookups to query tables in MySQL databases. See About Splunk MySQL Connector for more information. The app is available on Splunkbase.
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I like geeky things. If you tweet at me, be technical.
Binaural accepts remote control events, making most app functions fully controllable via Control Center or the buttons on compatible earphones.
To handle remote control events, the first responder must implement the
-remoteControlReceivedWithEvent: method. In my first implementation this was handled by my root UIViewController, but I noticed it was hovering around 300 lines of code - time to refactor.
The logic I wanted to extract included communicating with the synthesizer (i.e. the object that generates the binaural beats) and managing the timers used to handle the seek events. Nothing depended on other parts of the root controller. Additionally, I considered this piece of code as a separate, global entity - which should handle remote control events no matter what the current view and view controller hierarchy might be.
I decided to create a
UIResponder subclass that encapsulates these responsibilities, and add it to the responder chain. I chose to insert this responder in the chain between the root controller and the window - a very global place, independent of the current view controller hierarchy. Perfect for the situation.
Here's the desired responder chain:
This turned out to pretty straightforward. Here's the relevant code from the root view controller:
// From the @interface
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIResponder *nextResponder;
// From the @implementation
- (void)awakeFromNib {
self.nextResponder = ({
XXRemoteControlResponder *remoteControlResponder = XXRemoteControlResponder.new;
remoteControlResponder.nextResponder = UIApplication.sharedApplication.keyWindow;
And here's the XXRemoteControlResponder class:
// XXRemoteControlResponder.h
@interface XXRemoteControlResponder : UIResponder
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIResponder *nextResponder;
// XXRemoteControlResponder.m
@implementation XXRemoteControlResponder
- (instancetype)init {
self = [super init];
if (!self) return nil;
[UIApplication.sharedApplication beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];
return self;
- (void)remoteControlReceivedWithEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
// Handle remote control event
To explain the above code:
nextResponder property. This implicitly overrides the
-nextResponder method, so whatever we set that property to will be considered the next responder for that object.
This ensures that our object will receive all unhandled remote control events.
As always: if there's a better way to do this, I'd love to know.
I recently had a hunch that Samples was loading too many images at app launch. I had to figure out how to get a list of what images are loaded, no matter if the source is a Storyboard or a call to
+[UIImage imageNamed:].
Here's how I did it, step by step:
imageNamed: in the Symbol field
po $r2
Now all the names of images that are about to be loaded will be logged to the Debug Area. For added fanciness, you can select Debugger Output there, so your trace won't be polluted by other log messages coming from your target.
For the curious:
po $r2 will print the Cocoa object pointed by the r2 register, which is where the first argument of an Objective-C message is stored - in our case, the name of the image to load. The value for
self is stored in r0, and the value for
_cmd (the selector to invoke) is stored in r1. Check out the documentation for
objc_msgSend and friends to learn more about the Objective-C runtime.
If there's an easier way to accomplish this, let me know!
What about an article on iOS 7 that's based on fact and research instead of wishful thinking? You're welcome.
Let's start by introducing the two technologies that will be the basis for the entire discussion.
What is XPC? In the OSX docs, Apple defines it like this:
The XPC Services API, part of libSystem, provides a lightweight mechanism for basic interprocess communication integrated with Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and launchd. The XPC Services API allows you to create lightweight helper tools, called XPC services, that perform work on behalf of your application.
In other words, it's a framework you can build daemons with. XPC is responsible for spawning your daemon every time you need its services, shutting it down when it's no longer needed, and providing a protocol you can use to talk to it.
They go on and mention how this, combined with sandboxing, can be used to improve the security of an app - in other words, adopting privilege separation:
With traditional applications, if an application becomes compromised through a buffer overflow or other security vulnerability, the attacker gains the ability to do anything that the user can do. To mitigate this risk, OS X provides sandboxing—limiting what types of operations a process can perform.
In a sandboxed environment, you can further increase security with privilege separation—dividing an application into smaller pieces that are responsible for a part of the application's behavior. This allows each piece to have a more restrictive sandbox than the application as a whole would require.
You would split your app in multiple components with different privileges, that safely communicate via XPC, so if one gets compromised the damage done will be limited.
This OSX technology, as it turns out, is also part of iOS 6.
I first learned about Remote View Controllers reading Ole Begemann's awesome three part article. If you want the nuts and bolts, go read it now - I'll wait for you.
_UIRemoteViewController and
_UIRemoteView are two new private classes in iOS 6, and they're built on top of XPC. They basically allow one process/app to seamlessly create a view controller whose contents are managed by another process/app, without changes in the presenter code.
As far as we can tell, the remote app will just have a normal View Controller and draw to its view as usual, but the contents of that view will be streamed in a secure way to a host view in the presenter app, instead of being displayed directly.
They are conceptually similar to Android's Activities, but a Remote View Controller:
And these features are really important. The first one is great news for security. The second allows you to avoid using the awful browser-style "back" mechanism to navigate between apps (and OS views), and gives the presenting app control over the flow. The third one makes it seamless for developers, and allows Apple to replace existing VCs with RVCs without breaking any apps.
Apple is already using these technologies internally on iOS 6; you might call it a private API. Let's see how these new technologies are used today and how they could be used tomorrow, both by Apple and third-party developers.
In iOS 6, the system mail composer (MFMailComposeViewController) is a Remote View Controller. It works exactly like it always has - including respecting your UIAppearance directives -, and the API to invoke it is the same, but it runs in a separate process.
Other presentable system controllers - the contact picker, photo picker, message composer, etc. - aren't… yet. My theory is that Apple is field-testing these technologies with iOS 6, to ensure everything works as expected. They're also dog-fooding them to their own developers to ensure the public APIs, once available, will be robust and easy to use.
I think RVCs will allow for at least one new system view controller to be built: the infamous in-app browser. Thousands of apps have their own, and I'm sure more will after iOS 7 comes out - and they are really inconsistent, and they miss a lot of Safari functionality. Not to mention all the time spent by developers to recreate the basic browser functionality.
This new controller will look basically like Safari, but it'll just have the page title and a "Done" button on the navigation bar - no address box or search box. No tabs. It would be presented modally by default (i.e. will slide up from the bottom of the screen, just like the mail composer). And of course it would have Add to Bookmarks, Reading List, Reader, Nitro and all that Safari goodness. Maybe even iCloud tabs!
It might look like this:
Bonus feature: all WebViews will be RVCs, which means they can run Nitro with no security concerns.
The remote WebViews theory has been confirmed by recent findings in iOS 6.1. It also appears that full-screen iAds will be displayed using a remote web view controller. We'll see if Apple decides to add an in-app browser to the mix.
Why can't you choose a default web browser, or mail client, in iOS? If you think about it, those two "apps" are deeply tied into the OS. Any app can invoke a mail composer, or host a WebView. But at least it's Apple code that gets invoked, so you kind of have to trust it - they're also making the sandbox, so if their code is broken, the entire security model falls apart. If they let any app respond to those events, it would mean running two third-party apps in the same process, which of course is a hole in the sandbox.
There's also the matter of having more stuff to configure which isn't very iOS-like, but you can easily solve that by hiding this somewhere deep in Settings where only dedicated users will find it. Or only having that section appear if you have already installed an app that claims it's a mail client or browser, in the same way an app can claim it's for routing.
With RVCs, any app could e.g. present a third-party app's mail composer in a secure way. Problem solved!
I don't think they're gonna let you choose a default Photo app, just because no one asked for it. Additionally, with the changes I'm going to talk about in the next section, Messages will be on par with third-party apps.
Another great addition to iOS 6 was the abstract UIActivity mechanism and its UI counterpart, UIActivityViewController. An app can now just say "I want to share an image", and iOS will pop up a control with possible sharing destinations. iOS provides a bunch of built-in destinations, including Twitter and Facebook. Third-party developers can provide additional destinations in the context of their own app, but not to other apps.
You guessed it: with RVCs, and a couple new additions to the iOS SDK, third-party apps could expose UIActivities to the whole system, in a secure, sandboxed way. I'm thinking you would add a new "sharing bundle" to your app bundle - probably at most one per app -, with some metadata indicating what kind of data your activity supports. This sharing bundle will probably contain a full, separate application, with its own Storyboard and everything, so it launches as fast as possible and doesn't waste resources - but hopefully, Xcode will allow some kind of easy code sharing with the main app.
What does this mean for end users? Their UIActivityViewControllers will start displaying activities for App Store apps they installed. So they can share a picture from Photos to Instagram, or a URL from Notes to Tumblr - with a consistent UI and navigational model, and without compromising the security of their device.
By the way, the Facebook sharing sheet is a Remote View Controller. The Tweet Sheet? Not yet.
You're probably familiar with Settings Bundles. What if those bundles could include a RVC in iOS 7, so you can build your Settings UI however you want? That would allow all apps to move their preferences/settings screen to the Settings app, and end the user confusion caused by how those screens are sometimes in Settings and sometimes in the app.
This of course has all sorts of problems associated with it, e.g. the Settings app might lose its visual consistency. But nothing seems insuperable - after all, there's an app approval process for a reason.
What if RVCs open the doors for developers to present their notifications differently? No, I'm not talking about widgets - let's hope that will never happen. I'm talking about the standard notifications we get on iOS every day. What if their UI could be made by a third-party?
I don't see a lot of value in changing the looks or functionality of the system "banners", or even the notifications in Notification Center. But this could allow for some sort of "quick-reply" functionality. Say you get a banner from Messages, and there's a button on the banner with a compose icon. You tap it and get a small Tweet Sheet-like reply composer for that message. You hit send and it just takes you back to whatever app you were using. Same thing for third-party apps.
Let's assume for a second that there's a way for developers to teach something to Siri without disrupting the rest of its functionality, turning it into a dumb list of voice commands that you have to learn and repeat, or making the UX worse. I know it sounds crazy, but bear with me.
As you know, Siri rarely takes you to an app when you ask it (him? her?) something. You usually get a "card" right there in the Siri UI. Third-party app developers will need to be able to inject a card in Siri whenever it understands that what you said has to be handled by their app. With RVCs, this becomes the easy part of extending Siri.
Here are a few more features that might come with iOS 7. Nothing in particular suggests these features will come, so take this with a grain of salt.
I'd like to make a Note out of this email I'm viewing in Mail, or a Reminder with its subject. I want to make a Calendar event out of any piece of text containing a date. What if the Cut/Copy popup had a Share button on it?
Make a note out of a webpage. Save a URL to your Safari bookmarks. Save a URL to your Reading List! I'm actually shocked the last one isn't in iOS 6 already.
If I had to think of one of the worst things in terms of UX that we have today, I might say logging in. Typing passwords. What if your Mac's keychain synced with your iPhone's? You log in once on one device, and that's it. On the web you'd get autofill everywhere you signed in before. In apps, you would just be logged in, even just after installing.
If you turn this on, when you copy something on one device, you could paste it on any other device, Macs included. I'd love to have this.
Wouldn't it be great if you could just sync all of your pictures and personal videos via iCloud? Combine this with iTunes Match, and you'll never have to sync with iTunes again. I think Apple is working on iTunes's bloat, just not how you would expect.
I think they would have to add new and bigger iCloud storage plans to accommodate all of this data, and they're not going to be free. But if they pull this off, iTunes as a sync backend will no longer be needed.
Realistically, probably not all of the above will make it to iOS 7. But if these technologies are brought to the surface, it's still going to be a radical transformation in the OS dynamics, and a whole new experience for users - without compromising what's good about iOS today. See you at WWDC.
P.S. here's my new favorite Cocoa identifier: PFUbiquityKnowledgeVector.
With this article, I'd like to share some bite-sized pieces of information I've learned while working on some of my latest projects, including Thermal. There's also a sample project attached. Let's start by introducing Core Animation.
Core Animation is responsible for almost everything you see on your iOS device's screen. You're probably familiar with UIKit, a lot of which is built on top of Core Animation: every UIView is backed by a CALayer. UIKit provides a high-level and powerful framework that can be used to do 80% of everything. If you're reading this though, you probably think that's not good enough.
With Core Animation, you can do everything UIKit does and much more. However, this comes at a price: you get a lower-level interface, which is harder to learn and to use effectively. In some circumstances you'll need to know what the weak points of the hardware your app is running on are, just to get decent performance.
Core Animation is built on top of two even-lower-level frameworks: OpenGL and Quartz. Quartz is used for drawing/rendering 2D graphics. OpenGL takes care of compositing them, generating the scene that ultimately gets displayed - taking advantage of hardware acceleration.
So why write about it? The way I see it, Core Animation is one of the tools that allow you to take your app's UX to the next level. It's a key component in making apps beautiful, responsive, smooth, and realistic in the way they react to user input. Together, these attributes result in products that feel trustworthy, delightful and fun. And that's exactly how they should feel.
This article is all about Core Animation, so I thought it would be nice to only use that API. As a result, there will be no drawing code - no
-drawRect: at all.
Core Animation's workhorse! Think about it as a lower-level UIView. Can display all kinds of content. Supports things like drop shadows and rounded corners out of the box. Almost all of its properties can be animated.
As I mentioned earlier, every UIView has a CALayer (you can get to it using the
layer property). Every layer can have any amount of sublayers, which are are very similar to subviews in UIKit.
A subclass of CALayer, specialized in rendering shapes. Whatever shape you can draw with a CGPath, CAShapeLayer can display.
shapeLayer.path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithOvalInRect:shapeLayer.bounds].CGPath;
Another subclass of CALayer that can display all kinds of axial gradients (a.k.a. linear gradients), with any number of stops and colors.
CALayers support masking: they have a
mask property that you can set to another CALayer. The alpha channel of the mask layer will determine what portion of the layer will be displayed.
Note, from Apple's docs:
The layer you assign to this property must not have a superlayer. If it does, the behavior is undefined.
In other words, a layer shouldn't be used as a mask for two (or more) layers. It just doesn't work. Clone the original mask layer every time you want to reuse it.
Drop shadows are very easy to implement.
Just set these properties on any CALayer:
shadowColor a shadow can be given any color. Do you want to make something glow? That's just a white shadow.
shadowOpacity a number in the [0..1] range that does what you think it does.
shadowRadius this represents the strength of the blur effect that is applied to the shadow, and thus its perceived size. Defaults to 0.
shadowOffset a shadow offset of [5,10] will drop the shadow 5px to the right and 10px below your layer's contents. Defaults to [0,0], which means that you won't see the shadow unless it has a non-zero radius.
shadowPath if you set this property, Core Animation will use this path as a basis to compute the shadow instead of using the alpha channel of the layer. You can use this to generate a shadow that has nothing to do with the layer's contents - the layer might even be empty.
Inner shadows are not very easy to implement.
I've searched for solutions to this for a while. Apparently, people on the interwebz are doing this by first creating a shape that is the negative of the shape you want to give a drop shadow to, then giving a drop shadow to this negative shape, and then masking the negative shape with the original shape, so that only its shadow remains. This works, but generating the negative shape is very hard. So I've developed my own solution - it's similar but easier to implement, and it covers the vast majority of cases where you might want an inner shadow. It's a three step process:
In other words, what we're doing is making the contour of the shape drop a shadow, which of course will drop it inside and outside of the shape. But then we mask away the part of the shadow we don't need, which is very easy as the mask coincides with the shape.
This said, I would be way happier if Core Animation supported inner shadows out of the box, like it does for drop shadows.
You can see this in action in the first screen of the attached example project, where you can also move your finger around to manipulate the shadowOffset property of some layers. Check out GBShadowsView.m in the sample project for the full code.
Some people have trouble implementing infinite rotation, which you might use for e.g. a custom spinner while waiting on network activity. Or to create an (astronomically inaccurate) space scene.
It's actually quite simple.
CABasicAnimation* earthRotationAnimation;
earthRotationAnimation = [CABasicAnimation
earthRotationAnimation.toValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:M_PI * 2.0];
earthRotationAnimation.duration = 10;
earthRotationAnimation.repeatCount = INFINITY;
[self.earthImageLayer addAnimation:earthRotationAnimation
If your object isn't rotating around its center, just create an empty layer or view where you want your object to be, and add your object in the middle of it. Core Animation is smart enough, so the performance hit when adding empty layers or views is negligible if not null.
In the sample app, the starry background is generated using a CAEmitterLayer, which is at the core of Core Animation's particle system. You can create a lot of nice effects with particles, so check the code in GBRotationView.m if you're interested.
A CAGradientLayer has two interesting properties, both animatable:
locations an array of NSNumber objects that define the gradient stops in unit coordinates, e.g. @[@(0.0f), @(0.3f), @(0.9f), @(1.0f)]. If nil, Core Animation will assume you want uniformly spread stops.
colors an array of CGColorRef objects that specifies the color of each stop.
To create the animated "barcode scanner" thingy in the picture, I set my CAGradientLayer's
colors to [transparent, red, transparent] and then I animated the
locations back and forth between [0.3, 0.35, 0.4] and [0.6, 0.65, 0.7], creating the illusion of a red laser moving up and down.
Doing this with a gradient is a terrible idea, but this might give you some insight into what can be accomplished with gradients alone. Can't wait to see what crazy animated psychedelic patterns you can come up with :)
Did you know that if you give a shadow to a layer you'll use as a mask, the shadow will be part of the mask? And that everything will still be animatable?
What if we used this to create a cool, animated "flashlight effect"? Check out the sample project to see how this is done - it's very simple.
We used a bunch of shadows today. Keep in mind that computing the shadow from the layer's alpha channel (which is the default behavior) is a very slow operation. You should always set
shadowPath, so Core Animation can skip that operation - this has a dramatic effect on performance.
At the top of GBMaskingView.m there's a
SET_SHADOW_PATHS #define. Try setting that to
NO, so you can see the huge performance hit with your own eyes.
I plan to write an entire article about performance on iOS, which will include a Core Animation section, so stay tuned.
Download the sample project, hack away, and have fun. Tweet at me if you have questions, and I'll make sure to update this article.
Planet images included with the sample project courtesy of some guy.
I redesigned my website. About time, uh? I went from Wordpress to static HTML. Was this a smart move? Not sure yet, but time will tell. I called this visual style Tachikoma - because it's simple, fun and… well, blue.
My goal with the redesign was to create one of the few websites in the world that are better when Safari Reader or Readability are off. Try it, and let me know.
A new article will be out soon™.
I've just been struck by a simple idea that will most likely fix what many have been referring to as "iMessage overload", i.e. how all of your devices notify you of incoming iMessages. It gets quite annoying, especially if you own an iPhone, an iPad, and a Mac (or many!). So I thought I'd share.
The operating systems that run on these devices, iOS and OSX, have a built-in idle timer. In other words, they can detect if and when you're actually using a certain device. That's how iOS devices auto-lock after a certain time you're not using them, or how your screensaver kicks in in OSX.
I propose we use the idle timer to decide which devices should alert you if an iMessage arrives. iMessages should always be pushed to all of your devices, but the notification (sound/popup/badge/icon bouncing…) will only be delivered on the one you're actually using.
Let's say we consider a device to be idle for iMessage after 5 minutes in which no interaction occurs with it. So even if the device's screen is on, after 5 minutes it's considered idle.
We would only notify the user on the devices that are not idle. If all of your devices are idle, than we'll notify you on all of them, including notifications of iMessages that have been pushed but not yet read.
Here's an example. You're sitting in your couch, watching a movie on your 27″ iMac. Your iPhone is in your pocket, and you're iMessaging on your iPad. You probably haven't interacted with your iMac in a while, so your iPad will the only device considered active, and that will notify you. All is good. But the movie ends, and you leave your house, carrying only your iPhone with you. Now consider the following scenarios:
I believe this approach would mitigate the issue so much that most people won't even worry about it, or realize it's an issue at all. Technically, it's just a matter of storing the IDs of your active and idle devices on iCloud, something Apple can surely do while blindfolded. Worst case scenario, you will be notified of incoming messages 5 minutes late. If you're really anxious about an incoming message, just check the lock screen and you'll be notified in an instant – the messages are already there.
Why 5 minutes? It sounds like a reasonable balance: receiving iMessages 5 minutes late is not a big deal, and if you haven't used a device for 5 minutes it's pretty safe to declare it idle. I'm sure Apple can find a better timeout if needed. They could also use the auto-lock times you specify on your iOS devices to give you some control over this, or the screensaver timeout on OSX.
What do you think? Am I missing something here, or is it that simple to fix this?
[UPDATE] Sure enough, Apple started doing basically this shortly after I wrote this article. Their magic number, however, is ~10 seconds. In hindsight, 5 minutes is way too long, but 10 seconds still feels too short - too many times I received a notification on my Mac while I was reaching for my iPhone. I'm curious to see if they're going to adjust that number in the future.
This article describes a technique that allows full table cell customization with great performance and compatibility with Cocoa's default behaviors.
UITableViewCells (from now on, "cells"), is something you will eventually do if you use tables in your apps, and need more flexibility than what the standard
UITableViewCellStyle* options offer. I've come across a number of ways to do this, some good enough for some purposes, some really awful. There are very easy methods that result in terrible performance, and very hard ones that just don't work in some scenarios. Custom drawing is the way to get performance, but if you don't do it correctly you'll break the standard behavior of cells for, e.g., selection and animation.
Apple has it's own example. It works very well for the purposes of the demo app, but doesn't work well in general. Try drawing a custom cell background in the
-drawRect: method and you'll understand. The animation on cell selection is gone. What's going on?
Another good example comes from Atebits' blog, where the secret behind the performance and customization of table cells in Tweetie (now Twitter) is unveiled. Well, kind of. That's just part of the story, but it allowed me to better understand what influences scrolling performance on iOS.
In both this examples, cell selection behavior is simulated by drawing on a transparent background, at least when the cell is in a selected state. This way, the blue selected background is visible underneath the custom drawn content. This doesn't work well with the deselection animation, though: if you look closely, you'll see that the custom drawn content does not animate from the selected to the not selected state. This isn't a great problem if you're just drawing text, but for some kinds of content this flashing can be really distracting or just plain ugly. It also involves animation with transparent views, which might not be fast enough in some scenarios.
To start off, we need to clearly understand how cell drawing works. Please note that this article only applies to plain cells. Grouped cells are another story, but if you understand the technique proposed here and study Apple's documentation, you'll be able to customize those as well.
Two views are involved: the Content View and the Selected Background View. Both are properties of any UITableViewCell object.
selectedBackgroundView is
nil. The contentView draws the content on a transparent background. The background color you see is the background color of the table (UITableView).
This animation is very important when used in combination with the ubiquitous navigation controllers: when the user taps the back button, it lets him know where he was coming from, making his navigation easier. That's why Apple's Human Interface Guidelines recommend it.
Apple also recommends to use as few views as possible, and to keep them fully opaque. This is a huge performance boost, since iOS can avoid compositing different transparent views – a slow operation.
Ideally, we should just use one, custom-drawn opaque view for our cells. That's what we're going to do! This means we're going to draw background and content on the contentView. Do you see the problem? Yes, no animation! iOS will simply redraw your view at the end of the selectedBackgroundView animation, which will be invisible because it's completely covered by our opaque contentView. What can we do? The simple answer is: animate the cell ourselves.
Here's the steps we'll follow:
UITableViewCell and make it use our custom view.
-setSelected:animated: method of UITableViewCell and use it to perform our custom animation.
This is the easy part. Create a UITableViewCell subclass, and override the
-initWithStyle:reuseIdentifier: method, adding something like this:
CGRect viewFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0,
self.customView = [[[CustomTableViewCellView alloc]
cell:self] autorelease];
[self.contentView addSubview:self.customView];
As you can see, we're passing the cell object to the view. This will enable us to understand what state the cell is in when drawing. Our custom view is added to the contentView as a subview, filling it entirely. Since all content fields (imageView, textLabel…) of the superclass are nil until assigned a value, and we have an opaque view covering everything, the only thing the system will actually draw is our custom view, resulting in super smooth scrolling.
Subclass UIView. Make sure you have a "constructor" (init method) that:
Override the
-drawRect: method and add your custom drawing code, it may look like this:
if (self.cell.selected || self.cell.highlighted) {
// draw the cell (background and content)
// in the selected/highlighted state
} else {
// draw the cell (background and content)
// in the normal state
Notice we're giving the same meaning to the
selected and
highlighted properties. In some situations, you might want to do something more sophisticated with them.
First, in our UITableViewCell subclass, we're going to override the
-setSelected:animated: method, with code like this:
if (animated) {
// animation code
[super setSelected:selected animated:NO];
// more animation code
} else {
[super setSelected:selected animated:NO];
As you can see, we're always making the superclass change its selection state without animation. We don't want that animation interfering with ours, and wasting resources.
For the actual animation (remember, it's a crossfade from the normal state to the selected state), we're going to use a bitmap technique. What we'll do is:
The "screenshot" code will probably look like this:
[self.contentView.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage* bitmapSelected = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
The animation code will probably be similar to the following:
bitmapSelectedView.alpha = 1.0;
bitmapDeselectedView.alpha = 0.0;
[UIView beginAnimations:@"deselect" context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5f];
[UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:@selector(animationDidStop:finished:)];
bitmapSelectedView.alpha = 0.0;
bitmapDeselectedView.alpha = 1.0;
[UIView commitAnimations];
In your
-animationDidStop:finished: method, you will call
-removeFromSuperview on both bitmapSelectedView and bitmapDeselectedView. I suggest you use tags for this purpose, instead of retained class properties. Even better, if you're targeting iOS 4.0 and above, use the block-based animation methods of UIView.
I'm sure you can figure out the rest on you own.
I hope this will help some of you out there. I know I struggled to find something like this, and had to develop my own solution. These kind of custom cells are a nice addition to my apps, allowing for flexibility and performance.
An alternate technique might involve using two views, one as a subview of the contentView and another one as a subview of the selectedBackgroundView. This might allow full customization with good enough performance for most scenarios, and it might be a little easier to understand. But I think the approach described above is both simpler and faster. If you don't want to have drawing code for the background and the content in the same class, just do like I do, and create a hierarchy of UIView subclasses.
Note: this technique doesn't work in the situations where Cocoa resizes your contentView, of course. The table background is visible around your now smaller contentView. So you'll also have to implement a custom "edit mode" and a custom "index bar" if you're planning to use these features.
If you have any questions, feel free to tweet at me, and I'll get back to you!


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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory will recognize Baseball Hall of Famer and "Mr. Cub", Ernie Banks, with its 2010 Living Legend Award on Friday, November 12. Banks will be honored and presented the award during a special recognition ceremony that kicks off the Seventh Annual Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory Auction.
The auction is a partnership with Hunt Auctions, Inc., and will feature some of the most sought after baseball memorabilia in the world; including Babe Ruth's autographed 702nd home run ball.
"Ernie Banks is known not only for being one of the greatest players of all time, but also one of the nicest and most caring players in Major League Baseball," said Anne Jewell, Executive Director of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. "The Living Legend Award recognizes greatness both on and off the field and Ernie Banks played the game with character and pride throughout his entire career. We are thrilled to honor "Mr. Cub" as our 2010 Living Legend," she said.
Just as he did during his 19]year professional career, Banks has approached life after baseball with his trademark enthusiasm and commitment to being the best. He has remained loyal to the game he loves and is actively involved as an unofficial ambassador for Major League Baseball.
Banks' baseball career began in 1950 when he signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. He broke into the major leagues in 1953 as the Chicago Cubs first African]American player and played his entire career on the North Side; first as a shortstop, then at first base.
The two]time National League Most Valuable Player (1958, 59) was selected to 14 All]Star teams and won a Gold Glove in 1960. A first ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Banks hit 512 home runs in his career and amassed 40 or more in five seasons including 47 in 1958.
His Number 14 was retired by the Cubs in 1982 and is the first number ever retired by the organization. He is further honored outside Wrigley Field with a bronze sculpture of a smiling Banks at the plate, Louisville Slugger in hand.
Nowadays Banks also devotes his time and energy to his foundation – Ernie Banks Live Above & Beyond Foundation. The non]profit organization provides financial assistance for underprivileged youth and disadvantaged seniors to receive healthcare, better opportunities, and raise self]esteem.
"During my baseball career I was a very proud member of the Louisville Slugger family and so I am deeply honored to be receiving the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory Living Legend Award," said Ernie Banks. "I am delighted that Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is supporting the work of the Live Above and Beyond Foundation which focuses on helping our young and old better their communities and build self]esteem" he said.
Ernie Banks' passion to help underprivileged youths and disadvantaged seniors, inspired Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory to produce a limited edition S2 model collector bat autographed by "Mr. Cub". Only 100 signed bats are available and the cost is $200 and includes two tickets to the invitation]only Living Legend celebration. For more information or to purchase a bat, call 502]588]7289 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Past recipients of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory's Living Legend Award include Hank Aaron (2009), Frank Robinson (2008) and Ken Griffey, Jr. (2007).
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BOWLING GREEN - The Bowling Green State University gymnastics team posted its highest season-opening score since 2004 Saturday, hitting a 192.2 to fall to Ohio State (194.6) in Anderson Arena.
Both teams breezed through vault and bars, but ran into trouble in the second half of the meet, as the Falcons were forced to count falls on beam and floor, while the Buckeyes suffered a disastrous three-fall floor exercise rotation.
Bowling Green's final total is the highest score to start the season since the 2004 team opened with a 193.450 in a win over Eastern Michigan. Last year, the Falcons opened the season with a 188.925 on the road at Kentucky.
"I'm just so pleased that our team score improved so greatly on our start from last year," said head coach Kerrie Beach. "We had a lot of new people in the lineups and they really stepped up and did a good job. I'm encouraged that our lineups are only going to continue to grow and get better."
The Falcons began with a strong showing of 48.55 on the vault, highlighted by scores of 9.85 from Jamilah Ali and 9.8 from Sunny Marchand. Marchand, a senior, hit a beautiful Yurchenko layout half, after missing all of last season with injuries.
"That was amazing," Beach said. "Sunny was a huge question mark and we didn't know if she was going to make it back. It was really so exciting to see her go out there because she loves it so much. I know she wishes she could train every event, but we'll take just vault in her senior season."
Bowling Green remained steady on uneven bars, with all six gymnasts hitting routines to hit the 48.0 mark on the event. Amanda Lievendag anchored and scored 9.75 hitting a Gienger release and double layout dismount. On vault, Ohio State stuck their landings to stay ahead of the Falcons, with Sarah Miller nailing a difficult vault to earn a score of 9.95, with one judge giving her a perfect 10.
At the halfway point, Ohio State led the Falcons 98.225-96.550. The third rotation saw the first flashes of nerves from both teams, as Bowling Green moved to balance beam and Ohio State to floor.
After a solid start from freshman Caroline Ellingboe, veteran Megan Valentini came off the beam twice, putting pressure on the rest of the lineup. Sophomore Maria Salvia was next, competing her first routine ever for the Falcons. Salvia hit for a 9.625, before Alyssa Nocella fell on a daring skill of front aerial to two feet. Megan Harrington (9.75) and Ali (9.675) closed out the rotation with solid routines, as Ali debuted a new series of two consecutive back layout stepouts.
The Buckeyes faltered as well, with falls from Alex DeLuca and Melanie Shaffer, along with a scary fall from anchor Maggie Dunn, who nearly landed a double back to her head. Ohio State's errors closed the gap between the two teams, with Bowling Green headed to floor exercise.
With a handful of gymnasts recovering from minor injuries, the Falcons fielded only five athletes on floor. Valentini (9.675), Nocella (9.65) and Gina Locigno (9.65) all hit routines to start, but Harrington over-rotated a double pike mount and the Falcons again counted a fall. Ali, who last year was named Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year, anchored with a strong routine that scored 9.8.
Ohio State came through with a solid beam performance to finish well ahead of the Falcons, 194.6-192.2.
Bowling Green is back at home on Saturday, Jan. 12 to host Texas Woman's University. The meet begins at 4 p.m. inside Anderson Arena.


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I Believe wicca
By deborah coleman
Documentary on religious beliefs, this first book is on wicca, which is a nature based religion there will be others in the series
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I am currently studying for my Ba (Hons) degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Gloucestershire. I am driven to capture the energy and honesty of what happens daily around us. I engage closely with my subjects in order to show the truth and (in many cases) beauty in everyday tasks.
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Open Enrollment
The annual open enrollment period generally runs from mid-September through mid-October with a January 1st effective date. The open enrollment period covers Medical, Dental, Dependent Care Reimbursement Account (DCRA), Health Care Reimbursement Account (HCRA) and FlexCash plan changes/enrollments.
During the annual open enrollment period, eligible employees may:
- enroll as a new enrollment, change health plans, or add or delete eligible family members to health plans;
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- enroll or re-enroll in the DCRA or HCRA plans for the new tax year
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Wells Fargo and Company has now announced that Wachovia Bank branches across Mississippi will be among the first offices to convert to the Wells Fargo name.
Wells Fargo, which bought Wachovia back in December 2008, says the switch would come later this year.
The change would also affect branches in Alabama.
Wachovia ATM machines in Mississippi will be replaced with the new name by July.
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Kobe Bryant is targeting a return for Sunday when the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Toronto Raptors, he told ESPN's Dave McMenamin on Thursday. Bryant is nearing the end of an eight-month rehabilitation from surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon.
He said he will stay in Los Angeles when the team goes north to play the Sacramento Kings on Friday, and will push himself in practice to get ready for Sunday. This via ESPN:
"I'm trying," Bryant said after practice Thursday when asked specifically about the Toronto game. "We got to see how it feels tonight. I'm going to try to get another hard session in and then [Friday] morning try to push it again and the same thing tomorrow evening. Continue to just keep on measuring it."
Bryant's return Sunday is no guarantee, however. Earlier this week, Friday was named as a target date before the timetable was pushed back to Sunday. If Bryant can't play against the Raptors, the next possible day to return would be the following Tuesday when the Lakers host the Phoenix Suns.
Bryant has been monitoring his own progress closely. He admitted he may still be limited when he returns, noting that scar tissue in his left ankle joint has kept his mobility in check. As a result, Bryant has no problem spending extra time on the bench if need be.
"The perfect-case scenario is that we get it right the first time," Bryant said. "But if it's not, then you have to be smart about it as well and take a step back and build up the strength and say, 'Hey, listen, it's not as good as we thought it was going to be, so let's take a step back and get it to where we want it to be and try again.'"
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This most down to earth, charming, special man makes his event a family affair - mom, dad, wife Donna, their two beautiful sons, Cameron and Nicholas, grandpa "Nonno" - are all a part of what is indeed a celebration. One year, Rick's mom made lasagna for the entire group! This year, due to restrictions at the Sportsmen's Lodge, where the annual GH luncheon is held, she wasn't allowed to do that. Instead, the Hearst family presented the fans with gift bags of Italian cookies and a Rick Hearst pin. During the luncheon, the boys were adding ribbons to the bags.
That's what the fans received. Rick himself was presented with a DVD with highlights of his 15-year career and life, including his Emmy wins, appearance on Oprah and acting highlights, all the tune of "Simply the Best." Rick, an emotional man, was choked up to the point of not being able to speak.
Special guests were many as this man is loved by all with whom he works - Corbin Bernsen brought us a funny scene from his film Cable Guy, in which Rick has a major role; Nancy Lee Grahn stopped by; Rebecca Hearst answered questions, signed things and posed for pictures; Sean Kanan (ex-A.J.) was on hand doing the same; Lindze Letherman (Georgie) made an appearance; Cynthia Preston (Faith), in yet another beautiful sundress, spoke of her love for Rick.
It was a total lovefest, with Rick going from table to table, hugging and kissing everyone, signing items and posing for photos. Proceeds for this event went to Escape Children's Theater, a nonprofit organization devoted to bringing theater into the lives of youth. Two of those children are Rick's sons, who were doublecast as the Lion in Wizard of Oz! The boys have announced they're interested in following their dad into the acting profession.
If you have a chance to attend a Rick Hearst event, don't miss it. He's a doll.


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Tricks by Dave Buck
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Dave Buck and Dan Buck, 26, are twin brothers who share an insane ability to manipulate playing cards. Whether you call it magic, sleight of hand or juggling, one thing is for sure - witness them with a deck of cards and you will have a whole new outlook on what is possible.
Their creative approach has spawned a new generation of fast paced, visual, in-your-face magic as well as an entirely new art form (Cardistry). If you saw the 2007 film, Smokin' Aces, you witnessed their skill first hand. Recently they were hired to hand double for an entire season of the hit childrens show - LazyTown.
Q&A with Dave Buck
What is theory11 to you? Why is this site different?
theory11 is a community of magicians so passionate about their art that a revolution in magic becomes definite. theory11 is a place I can explore new ideas and share my art with a community of dedicated individuals. It is my goal to inspire new ideas, to spark the kid in all of us and let the imagination flow.
What got you into magic?
As a kid, I always wanted to do whatever I wanted and tried very hard to always get my way. When I first witnessed magic, it was a realization that if this became my profession, I really could do whatever I wanted.
How long have you been performing?
If you consider showing people tricks "performing," then I've been performing since I learned my very first trick when I was eleven years old. However, I in no way consider myself a professional magician, as I believe a good performer understands people and a great performer can manipulate them - these are things I'm still figuring out.
If you're new to magic but great with people, you're already ahead of the game. It only takes a few basic sleights to become the greatest magician in the world, so my advice would be practice, perfect, perform, perform, perform.
Who is your favorite performer to watch?
Mac King. He's one of the only magicians I can still watch today and feel like a kid again.
Do you have a favorite effect?
Steve Freeman's Time Machine. It's simple, direct, and highly visual. These are three aspects that Dan and I use as a foundation when developing most of our tricks.
Tell us about the first time/effect you performed.
I can't remember the first time, but I can remember in junior high when Dan and I would start by showing a few tricks to our friends and by the end of recess we'd have what seemed like the entire school leaning over one another trying to see what all the excitement was about. Magic is the one craft were you can walk into a room as nobody and have nothing and walk out with everything.
What do you see as wrong with the industry today?
I think all magicians have a selfish mentality as our art is built upon secrets. When those secrets become available, especially to the public, we feel cheated. This was especially the case several years ago when FOX aired the masked magician specials. However, I believe those specials did more for magic than most magicians on TV have. They certainly sparked a lot of talk and interest in magic, but they also made magic more accessible to the public, which is important for advancing any art.
theory11 aims to up this a notch by providing great effects by some of the most creative minds in magic. We will not only teach you the method, but also explain theory, and misdirection and give full history of the effect so that you may continue your study and truly make any effect we offer a reputation maker.


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Second-Half Rally Carries Women to Win
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Tuesday, January 20
WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Rallying from a 14-point deficit in the first half, Whitman College shot past Whitworth University 61-54 in Northwest Conference women's basketball action Tuesday night in Spokane, Wash.
The victory gives Whitman sole possession of second place in the conference. The Missionaries are 5-2 in the NWC and 13-3 on the season. The loss dropped Whitworth to 4-3 and 10-6.
With the game tied at 48-all with 7:36 left to play, Whitman outscored the Pirates 13-6 the rest of the way to wrap up the win. Whitworth made just one of 10 shots from the floor as the game slipped away.
Whitman trailed 31-27 at intermission, but Missionary sophomore Jenele Peterson scored 10 of her game-high 14 points in the second half to spark Whitman's comeback. Jennifer Keyes, a first-year guard who added nine points, also keyed the rally with two 3-pointers in the first minute of the second stanza.
Junior Hilary White hit the backboards for Whitman for a game-high 10 rebounds. The Missionaries, who edged Whitworth 37-36 on the glass, also got eight rebounds and eight points from sophomore Rebecca Sexton. Anna Forge, also a sophomore, chipped in with eight points.
Whitman made 13 of its 26 shots from the floor in the second half and finished at 41.4 percent for the game. Whitworth made just of seven of 27 shots over the final 20 minutes, shooting a cool 34 percent from the floor for the game.
Whitworth's high-water mark came with about eight minutes left in the first half, when a Liz Horiatis basket gave the Pirates a 23-9 lead. White and Keyes hit 3-pointers to get the Whitman comeback rolling, and sophomore Jessica Brice added a trey at the first-half buzzer to cut the Pirate lead to four points at the break.
Keyes connected on two 3-pointers in the first 63 seconds of the second half, sandwiching the shots around a Whitworth 2-pointer, to even the score at 33-33. The Pirates reeled off the next six points to regain the lead, but Whitman chipped away and pulled into 46-46 deadlock on baskets by Dawna Mello and Michelle Krall. After an Ellen Vertatschitsch layup gave the Missionaries a 48-46 lead, Ren Mallory scored for Whitworth to forge a final tie with under eight minutes left on the clock.
With Mello, Peterson, Krall and Forge providing the offense and White picking off two steals, Whitman jumped into a 56-50 lead and held steady in the closing minutes.
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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) - A Japanese manufacturer has announced plans to open a biotech facility in metro Atlanta.
Gov. Nathan Deal Friday announced Calpis America is constructing a plant in Peachtree City to produce animal feed ingredients which are widely used in the livestock industry.
The Tokyo-based company is expecting to open the plan in April of 2014, and will create 42 new jobs during its first year of operations.
Deal says the company is investing $20 million in the facility.
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Substitute Alexander Kerzhakov scored a late winner as Russia overcame Slovakia 1-0 in St Petersburg.
UEFA have approved the launch of a Nations League from 2018, with the new tournament to be played every second year.
Gibraltar marked their European debut with a creditable 0-0 draw against Slovakia.
Gibraltar will make its senior international debut in November with a friendly against Slovakia.
Milivoje Novakovic hit a hat-trick as Slovenia ended the World Cup hopes of Norway with a 3-0 victory in Maribor.
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Two people were killed and another person injured in an accident involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 85 at Interstate 285 in Fulton County on Wednesday, police said.According to Melissa Parker of the Fulton County Police Department, a wrong-way driver in a pickup truck southbound in the northbound lane of I-85 collided head-on with a truck pulling a trailer just before 3:30 p.m.The wrong-way driver was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. Two people from the other vehicle were transported to Grady Hospital, where one later died, according to the medical examiner's office. He was identified as 49-year-old Christopher O'Day of Canastota, New York. O'Day's driver has not been identified and is recovering.
FOX 5's Morse Diggs talked to Arnold Gray, who captured video of the truck driving the wrong way. (CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO)
"It was just headlights coming towards me and I was slowing down a little bit because I didn't know which way he was going to be going," said Gray.Gray swerved to avoid the driver. Seconds later, the crash occurred."It was just kind of surreal. It's like what was he doing coming this way and I just had to react to it," said Gray.Police have not determined the identity of the driver of the wrong-way vehicle. They say his body was burned beyond recognition.Investigators are reviewing 911 calls to try to determine where the wrong-way driver entered the freeway. Police also say toxicology tests will determine if drugs or alcohol were involved.The Fulton County Police Department is asking anyone who may have witnessed the accident to contact them.
All northbound lanes and three southbound lanes of I-85 were closed after the accident. The crash is the fourth involving a wrong-way driver in the last several weeks.Over the weekend, a driver slammed into another car on Georgia 316 near Dacula, injuring two people.Last Friday, Carlyn Royball died after she struck another car-head on along Georgia 400 in Sandy Springs.
On August 15, Frampere Ingle got on Ga. 400 in the wrong direction, killing herself and another driver. Police believe that in that case, Ingle had been drinking.
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--Description: Wordsworth W., 19th C, Humanity, Nature, Seasons
I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sat reclined,In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man.
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure -
But the least motion which they madeIt seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fanTo catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What Man has made of Man?
William Wordsworth
--Did You Know: Wordsworth's widow Mary (one of his four wives) published his lengthy autobiographical "poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death.. It has since come to be recognized as his masterpiece.
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One of the guys that has piqued my interest in this years draft is Jairus Byrd. Oregon's corners were special last year and it allowed them to run a lot of unique packages and plays on defense. Byrd was one of those corners and he was extremely productive. Not that it's something the Hawks need but he was also a pretty good punt returner.
At the pro level he's projected as a tweener between corner and safety. A bigger name thats projected as a CB/S is Malcom Jenkins and he's been discussed at some length around here. It seems like every year between the draft and training camp theres talk of different DBs moving to the safety spot but there are only a few players I can think of who've actually done it. Springs played some safety this year with mixed results, Rod Woodson turned a hall of fame career at corner into a productive twilight at safety, Dwight Smith moved from corner to play several up and down seasons at safety.
I'm pretty sure this list is far from comprehensive and I'm curious about the general success rates of players who make the move to safety, particularly out of college. Does a slow corner make a good safety?


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UCSD grad gets 'Change' scholarship
UCSD graduate Brittan Trozzi will receive a University of California Alumni "Change the World" Scholarship from UCSD Extension to pursue graphic design studies to assist non-profit organizations.
The UCSD Extension Scholarship Committee cited her commitment to helping nonprofit organizations in her career at UCSD as the assistant alumni director of business development and special initiatives and as a volunteer at such nonprofits as the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which raises money to fight breast cancer, and Locks of Love, a charity that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children.
The scholarship is awarded to UC graduates who demonstrate outstanding promise and potential. In 2011 Trozzi helped the Alumni Association win a Council for Advancement and Support of Education Gold Medal Award for Creative Use of Technology and New Media for the development of a UC San Diego Alumni iPhone app.
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Hi Guys! We are starting a Fit Series for April that I'm so excited to share with you!
Every Tuesday we will be adding a new "move" to eventually be giving you a full workout at the end of the month. Perfect each move for the week and we will give you a new one to add the following Tuesday. By the end of the month you will have perfected a full new workout to incorporate into your routine!
This week's move is a cardio move:
Half Burpee (Cardio)
Starting in a plank position using a stable chair or for more of a challenge place your hands on the ground. Keeping your abdominals pulled in, jump (or walk) your feet up towards your hands into a low squat position. Complete this move by jumping (or walking) back out into the starting plank position. Repeat this move rapidly for 20 repetitions.
HAVE FUN perfecting this week's Fit Tip! Check back next week for your next move.
Don't forget to let us know how your progress is going!