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I like the trade for Anthony morrow even though i see it as a rental. A team can never have enough shooters and he is a shooter. Just not sure there is many more minutes for him here than there was for Dahntay.
Backup 2 and some 3 is what i see him as but more 2 cause in my opinion he will get abused defensively at the 3. Taking any minutes away from Carter in my opinion isn't good considering the way hes carried the team at times. With all that being said the mavs did what i expected them too and stayed pat basically because in my opinion this trade is basically a wash.

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"What to Expect from Steve Mason"
This link is to one of my favorite hockey blogs around, Brodeur is a Fraud. This is a goalie-oriented statistics blog that looks at individual netminder performance, separating perceived skill from team advantage. The author (known as "the Contrarian Goaltender") provides a unique perspective gained from insane data-gathering and strong statistical analysis. The particular post I'm linking to is an article from late September about our own Steve Mason. Here, the author looks at Mason's historical stats and critiques the new contract signed this summer. It's interesting to see how an outsider views Mason, especially after the recent awful play out of the former Calder-winner. Read this one, then check out the rest of the site. Thanks to this blog, I'm now found looking more at save percentage and individual goalie play. Check out why the titular Devils goalie is a "fraud" and why Dominik Hasek is a true goalie-legend.


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The Art of Apology: When and How to Apologize
I was a mere child when the classic tear gusher Love Story hit theaters in 1970, but I wept along with the adult audience as the dying Ali MacGraw told the darling Ryan O'Neal, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Two years later, I saw another movie, What's Up, Doc?, in which Barbra Streisand's character repeated - Continue Reading
Make It Pay… Insight From Martha
I am coming to you from Londolozi South Africa where I am running our annual self-transformation adventure retreats. It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it. That last sentence was ironic. The fact is, of course, that I am bizarrely fortunate to be doing what I'm doing right now. That said, this good fortune came - Continue Reading


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So, we hear that Mahogany will soon no longer be the only 500+ home new community without a single transit spot nearby.
But there are other transit deserts — those far reaches that have no or nearly no transit service. Aldermen saw a report on where they are this summer:
… and here's a map of the affected areas. An inner-suburbs exception to the transit deserts is the redeveloped Garrison Green, which does have bus access on either side of Crowchild Trail.
When I posted this story to Twitter, a flurry of replies came in with the same basic message: serve the suburbs???
@markusoff for some of us a real near-miracle would be no more new burbs in #yyc—
Arvind Magesan (@arvind_magesan) October 29, 2012
@desmondbliek @markusoff density in the burbs will never reach levels to sustain bus service. Ppl will more likely complain of empty buses—
(@PatHanlon) October 29, 2012


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Just a reminder for everyone playing in the Official MHR Fantays Football League that the draft takes place tonight at 10PM est / 8PM mst. Be there or be preparred to get beaten!!
In other Fantasy News, I was asked to provide SBNation's Fantasy Sports Blog - Fake Teams - a run down of Broncos I thought would be fantasy studs and those I who were more likely to be Fantasy Duds. You can check that out HERE!


text: I presuming the specific phone model testing is quite a manual process. I've had several QA messages recently saying my application has failed on phone X, yet my device distribution table has it labelled as "not compatibile", as if the QA tester has made a mistake, or am I missing something ? It's take me 23 days to get this far, it sometimes feels like I'll never get it approved !


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Let's do your links.
USA Today's Game On blog headed by Reid Cherner and Tom Weir talk about a mysterious "Player X" who will dish on life in the NFL for ESPN the Magazine. Now if the player talks about some real interesting stuff, the $1 a year subscription price might be worth it.
Michael Hiestand of USA Today takes a look at the TV ratings of various events from the weekend.
Newsday's Neil Best writes about former Bucs coach Jon Gruden joining Monday Night Football.
Neil also reviews former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress' interview with E:60 that airs tonight.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times says it's high time that the monstrous video screen at Cowboys Stadium be raised to prevent a punt from hitting it as happened last Friday night.
The New York Daily News' Bob Raissman delves into the media getting into the AJ Burnett/Jorge Posada pitch controversy. Like this is a big story. Move along, Bob.
CNBC's Darren Rovell says 20 years after being banned from baseball, Pete Rose has probably lost millions in potential revenue.
Darren wonders if fantasy football insurance is a good idea.
Darren asks if some recent airline sponsorship deals are ethical.
Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record says a local radio station will air 10 high school football games this fall.
Jane McManus of the Lower Hudson Journal News talks with ESPN's producers for the US Open.
Dan Gross of the Philadelphia Daily News says employees of rival sports radio stations got into a tussle last week (scroll to the second item).
Tim Lemke of the Washington Times says a federal court shot down Delaware's attempt for legalized sports betting.
Tim talks with various commentators and reporters about the dominance of Usain Bolt.
Mel Bracht of the Daily Oklahoman writes about a new NFL Network show featuring three ex-head coaches.
Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman is not a fan of the Little League World Series and I have to agree with her. It was fun to watch when it was just the championship game, but now, it seems the regionals all the way to the finals are on TV and that's wrong.
Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News has the final head-to-head numbers for the Cowboys and Rangers from last Friday.
Barry says it appears that Versus and DirecTV are really heading to splitsville.
John Kiesewetter of the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that Fox Sports Ohio airs a MAC football preview throughout this week.
Ed Sherman of Crain's Chicago Business says White Sox fans should not worry about perceived Cubs bias at the Tribune any more.
Frank Schwab of the Colorado Springs Gazette says there's a lot of national attention for this Sunday night's Bears-Broncos game as Jay Cutler returns to Denver.
Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times says USC football fans have another outlet on which to watch their favorite team this season.
Diane looks at the ticket distribution for ESPN's 3-D broadcast of the USC-Ohio State game next month.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News also writes about the 3-D experiment.
Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes that the NFL has signed up Dish Network for its RedZone channel.
Maury Brown from the Biz of Baseball says Roku which offers MLB.TV might be an MLB Extra Innings killer.
Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media has the entire NFL on TV schedule.
The Big Lead says there's a feud brewing with Gannett newspapers and the Associated Press on one side and the SEC on the other.
Christy Hammond of the Sports PR blog talks about the Washington Nationals hosting its second annual Bloggers Day.
Steve Lepore of Puck The Media has a local NHL TV and radio roundup.
EPL Talk liked ESPN2 using ESPN's UK presentation of the English Premier League on Monday.
The Boston Radio Watch likes hearing former Red Sox announcer Jerry Trupiano the new 98.5 The Sports Hub (scroll down). Thanks to the 38Cliches blog for the link.
The Sports Media Watch has some idle notes.
SMW also has some news on Michael Irvin, Mike Tirico, Hannah Storm and Kenny "The Jet" Siith.
And SMW has various ratings news and notes.
Kristine Leahy of WEEI.com has today's issue of The Five.
We'll end it there for now. I have a bunch of press releases to give you. Look for them coming up.


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Jim Hill interviewed CRN today about this season. CRN said:
- he has been told he will return;
- he could not imagine the season would turn out like it did;
- next year the cupboard of talent is full;
- our program did not meet expectations;
- the upcoming season is crucial to the UCLA football program;
- and he acknowledged, in terms of his job, the "buzzards are out."
As to his critics, CRN said the world is full of problem identifiers. In terms of coaching changes, (and I am paraphrasing here) he said such decisions take time and reflection; making changes is not a worthwhile process if not made without a lot of thought.
Pretty vanilla stuff, but after the interview, Hill spoke to radio and television sports journalist John Ireland and what John, a UCLA grad, has to say about Norm Chow turned my head around. That's after the jump.
Ireland was asked by Hill whether Chow will return. Ireland, who has good UCLA sources, said it is "coin flip if Norm comes back" and whether Norm will return "could go either way."
That's news to me that Norm's return is this up in the air. Now this comes from Ireland who graduated from UCLA and describes himself as a fan who wants UCLA to succeed. He is not an agenda driven writer--he is a real journalist (better educated than most and you know why--that's right, he has a UCLA degree).
Go Bruins!


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Catherine Lee, former catcher for Eastside High School softball, will have her jersey retired on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 5 p.m.
With its strong running game Eastside pounded the ball and Alcovy into submission, winning 36-6 over city-rival Alcovy.
Both Alcovy and Eastside have starting lineups majorly made up of either sophomores and/or freshmen. The question coming into the game was "which team's inexperience would show more?" The answer to that question is Alcovy, as their inexperience showed throughout the game where they fell 36-6 to the Eagles.
The Covington News: How's the team doing as far as the new coaches go?
Point University Skyhawks / NAIA (5-12-2 in 2013) / Appalachian Athletic Conference
In what looked to be a runaway victory at one point for Eastside High School, turned out to be a dramatic finish, but the Eagles showed resiliency and escaped with a 5-4 victory over Alcovy.
The Eastside High School softball alumni returned on Saturday for the first annual alumni game, but also to support the Wright family. James Wright was tragically injured in a car accident and left paralyzed. The proceeds of the game went to the Wright family.
Eastside High School will host a Lady Eagles alumni game on August 16 at the EHS softball fields at 11 a.m.
Heather Wood has done this before, and last time she did it well.
The beginning of the new school year is just weeks away, and we all know what that means: Friday night football is on the horizon.
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The Jackson defender came barreling around the left side of the offensive line, and his gloved hand just met Colton Smith's attempt from 40 yards out spoiling a big field goal for the Eastside place kicker, and keeping the Eagles from putting points on the board last Friday night.
The Eagles' offense finally woke up, the Eagles' defense held on in key moments and the Eastside Eagles maintained a spot in the Region 8-AAAA softball tournament on Wednesday.
Trailing 14-3 to the Jackson Red Devils after three quarters, the Eastside Eagles came off the deck to score 20 unanswered points and remain undefeated in the young 2012 season.
Just one week into the 2012 football season, only one unbeaten area team remains after Eastside's opening week win over Newton.
The Eastside softball team's game vs Chestatee scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at Eastside High today has been cancelled.
The Eastside softball team won for the first time in three games Thursday but still left a little to be desired by Eagles' coach Jason Stokes.
Eastside routed Newton County 32-0 before a packed house a Homer Sharp Field last night, ending a three game losing skid to its cross-town rivals.
Eastside split its two softball games Saturday, with two almost completely solid performances.
The Kiwanis Club of Covington saw its most familiar coach Thursday as Rick Hurst took the podium in front of the civic group for the eighth straight time.
For a team with four newcomers, the home opener is not only an exciting event but also a nerve-racking one.
Cameron Boyd made the move from quarterback to wide receiver as the 2011 season progressed to help bring another dimension to the Eastside football team.
With just a short couple of months to find a replacement for their recently vacated baseball coach position, Eastside Athletic Director Dr. Bruce McCollum and Principal Jeff Cher had a difficult task in front of them.
A little less than a year after Eastside hired Brad Weir as baseball coach, the school is once again looking for someone to lead the Eagles on the diamond.
Looking back on his four years as a member of the Eastside football team, Quan Moton's most looming memory was an early one.
Brandi Richards finished her softball career in decorated fashion, as she completed her senior season at the Auburn Montgomery University.


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Autopsy confirms murder/suicide in Seneca deaths Saturday
Autopsy confirms murder/suicide in Seneca on Saturday
SENECA - A woman found dead in her front yard Saturday morning was killed by her boyfriend, who lay next to her with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, autopsies on the couple confirmed Sunday.
Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis issued a news release Sunday on his findings of the Saturday murder/suicide.
An examination of the bodies, Addis said, showed James Wesley Foxx, 50, shot his girlfriend Gwendolyn D. Hiott, 58, in the neck and chest before putting the gun to his head. The shootings occurred around 1 a.m. Saturday, and the couple died immediately, according to autopsy results.
A handgun lay near the bodies. Their deaths marked the third murder/suicide in Oconee County in roughly six months.
The couple lived at 220 Steve Nix Road just outside Seneca. Neighbors said Saturday that they had not detected any problems before at the home. Hiott and Foxx both had family living in the area, too.
Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said a domestic-related altercation — either verbal, physical or both — happened before the shootings.
But the motivation behind them is still a mystery.
"We don't know yet," Crenshaw said. "We're still trying to look into the past. We haven't had any previous call history to that residence."
Though the sheriff's office can find no history of abuse between the couple, the crime falls in line with domestic violence, Crenshaw said.
"It's very disturbing to us because unfortunately we are averaging one death a month that's related to domestic violence," Crenshaw said. "That's not a statistic we're proud of."
On July 6, Aaron Putnam, 70, shot his wife Marge, 63, at their home before killing himself. The next day William Brian Tippett, 34, shot his wife, Kathy Tippett, 29, and his stepdaughter, Riley Nicole Dyar Tippett, 11 and then shot and himself. The child died instantly, and her mother survived.
On Steve Nix Road, Oconee County animal-control officers had to be called in Saturday to round up more than a dozen cats that lived around the home.
The couple's bodies were spotted by someone driving by the home around 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning. The motorist called 911 immediately.
Crenshaw urged anyone facing problems to call the sheriff's office at 864-638-4111 or to reach out to organizations such as Safe Harbor, 1-800-291-2139, and Ripple of One, 864-710-9565.
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Analysing Android code with SonarQube
SonarQube, formerly known as Sonar, is a platform to analyze code quality. Analysis covers such aspects as code duplications, potential bugs, coding rules, complexity, unit tests, comments, and architecture & design.
It supports supports more than 20 programming languages and has a reach set of useful plugins that gives you the opportunity to inspect different aspects of the code.
What is caracteristic about SonarQube is that it comes as a platform in the form of a web application. This means that the results of the analysis will be displayed in a web page.
Installing SonarQube
The installation is pretty straightforward, you have just to download an archive and extract it in a folder of your choice.
1. Go to http://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/ and download the latest release.
2. Unzip the archive
Starting SonarQube
1. Go to sonarqube-4.3/bin (or whatever version you downloaded)
2. Open a corresponding folder according to your operating system (linux-x86-64 in my case). There you should see a file called sonar.sh (or StartSonar.bat for Windows)
3. Open up a terminal window and execute: sonar.sh start (or just double click StartSonar.bat on windows). This command will start sonar listening on localhost:9000.
4. Open a browser and enter localhost:9000. The sonar web page should open.
Note that it may take some time until sonar loads, so if you get "page not found" in your browser, try to refresh the page later.
Installing SonarQube Runner
There are several ways to analyse the source code and in this tutorial we will choose to analyse with SonarQube Runner, recommended as the default launcher to analyze a project.
1. Once again go to http://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/ and download SonarQube Runner
2. Extract the downloaded archive into a directory of your choise, which we will refer as: <install_directory>
3. Update global settings by editing: <install_directory>/conf/sonar-runner.properties (if you are running sonar on localhost, like in this tutorial, you don't have to modify any settings):
#----- Default SonarQube server
#----- PostgreSQL
#----- MySQL
#----- Oracle
#----- Oracle
#----- Microsoft SQLServer
#----- Global database settings
4. Create a new SONAR_RUNNER_HOME environment variable set to <install_directory>, so that you could invoke sonar runner from any location.
5. Add the <install_directory>/bin directory to your path.
To check that sonar runner was installed properly, open a terminal window and execute sonar-runner -h.
You should get a message like this:
usage: sonar-runner [options]
-D,--define Define property
-e,--errors Produce execution error messages
-h,--help Display help information
-v,--version Display version information
-X,--debug Produce execution debug output
Analysing source code of a project
Once the sonar runner is properly installed, we can proceed to code analysis.
1. Navigate to the root directory of your project and create a file called sonar-project.properties, which will specify the project settings such as the code source directory, language used, and the project name:
sonar.projectName=My Project
Note: for Android Studio, which follows the gradle directory structure, set the sourses as:
2. Run sonar-runner command to start the analysis.
3. Once the analysis complets, head to localhost:9000 to see the results for your project.
Removing a project from SonarQube
First login as an administrator, admin/admin default username and password.
1. Go to your project dashboard
2. In the top right corner click on Configuration -> Deletion -> Delete Project
Introducing Photo Collage Creator
I was playing with bitmap manipulations and so was born the idea to make this app. It was started some time ago, and, even if at times I was thinking it will never see the daylight, finally it was released!
Description of the app:
Photo Collage Creator is a simple app that lets you create beautiful collages within seconds and share them with your family, friends or colleagues. To create a collage you just need to select the photos, apply the frames, save, and you are done!
– Create collages composed from up to 5 photos
– Various frames to create a collage
– Shuffle the photos within the collage
– Save your collages
– Share collages on gmail, facebook, picasa, and other social networking sites.
Hope you will like it!
Android Asset Studio – The easiest way to create icons for your android apps!
Android Asset Studio is an online utility that lets you generate all kind of icons you may need for your android applications, starting with launcher icons, action bar and tab icons, notification icons, and menu icons. It even includes a simple 9-patch generator allowing you to create 9-patch images.
One of the trickier parts when creating the icons is that you should create them for all kinds of resolutions: ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, and xhdpi. With Android Asset Studio this is as simple as uploading an image. The tool generates automatically for you all the versions of the icon under all resolutions, and make them available as a downloadable zip archive.
The icons may be generated from an image uploaded, or from a clipart library, or from text. It's a very convenient tool and I highly recommend using it if you want to have professional, good looking icons on all resolutions.
Android – [APP] Amazing Drunk Detection Scanner
Ready to go to party? Then don't forget to put Amazing Drunk Detection Scanner in your pocket!
Drunk Detection Scanner is a simple application that helps you make fun with your friends. Make fun of your best friends by scanning their eye, and determine how drunk are they!
Here is how the prank works:
1. Just in the middle of the party open the Drunk Detection Scanner and say something like "Alright gentlemen, time to do some analysis!"
2. Invite one of your friends and tell him that this app will reveal how drunk he is.
3. Aim the camera close to your friend's eye
4. Focus
5. Press "Start Scanning"
6. Wait till the result is calculated
7. Have fun!
Amazing Drunk Detection Scanner is a simple application designed for entertainment purposes only. It does not encourage the consumption of alcohol, and it does not take any legal responsibility.
Android – Scheduling an application to start later.
Recently I have been working on a simple application that should have the ability to start itself after a period of time, after the application is closed. Hopefully, it turned out that this is quite simple to implement, and to achieve this, the AlarmManager in conjuction with a BroadcastReceiver can be used.
The basic idea is as follows: the AlarmManger registers an intent, when the alarm goes off, the intent
that had been registered automatically will start the target application if it is not already running. The BroadcastReceiver will be listening for that intent, and when the intent is received, it will start the desired activity from the application.
The broadcast receiver implementation looks like this:
public class OnAlarmReceive extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { Log.d(Globals.TAG, "BroadcastReceiver, in onReceive:"); // Start the MainActivity Intent i = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class); i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); context.startActivity(i); } }
Register the OnAlarmReceive in the AndroidManifest file:
<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" > // ...... <receiver android:name=".OnAlarmReceive" /> </application>
And finally, here's how to setup the alarm:
/** * Sets up the alarm * * @param seconds * - after how many seconds from now the alarm should go off */ private void setupAlarm(int seconds) { AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE); Intent intent = new Intent(getBaseContext(), OnAlarmReceive.class); PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast( MainActivity.this, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); Log.d(Globals.TAG, "Setup the alarm"); // Getting current time and add the seconds in it Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.add(Calendar.SECOND, seconds); alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent); // Finish the currently running activity MainActivity.this.finish(); }
The last line from the code – finishing the current activity – is optional of course, but in case you need to finish the activity, here's how to do.
For a live demo of the code, download the Amazing Cracked Screen application and see how it works. There you have the possibility to set up the delay in seconds when the application should start later and show the "broken" screen.
How to create popups in Android
In this post I'll show you how to create a popup window in Android. A popup window can be used to display an arbitrary view, and it can be very convenient in cases when you want to display an additional information, but don't want or it's not appropriate to launch a new activity or display a dialog.
The final output should look like this:
We will use the PopupWindow class to create the popup.
One thing I would like to mention is that we want the popup to be attached to the button that opened it. For example if the "Show Popup" button from the screenshot above would be positioned in the middle of the screen, we want the popup window stick to the button's position. To achieve this, first we should get the button's "x" and "y" position on the screen, and pass them to the popup window. Then will we use an offset to align the popup properly – a bit to the right, and a bit down, so it won't overlap the whole button.
Another think I would like to mention is that we will use a 9 patch background image for the popup, so it will look more fancy. But of course you can skip it and put any background you want, or no background at all.
9 patch image:
Put the image into res/drawable directory.
1. Create a new project in Eclipse:
Project: TestPopup
Activity: TestPopupActivity
2. Open layout/main.xml file and add a button
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="#CCC" android:orientation="vertical" > <Button android:id="@+id/show_popup" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Show Popup" /> </LinearLayout>
3. Create a new layout file: layout/popup_layout.xml that defines the layout of popup.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/popup" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="@drawable/popup_bg" android:orientation="vertical" > <TextView android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Popup" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/textView2" android:layout_marginTop="5dp" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="This is a simple popup" /> <Button android:id="@+id/close" android:layout_marginTop="10dp" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Close" /> </LinearLayout>
4. And now the most interesting part. Open the TestPopupActivity and fill it with below code. Carefully read the comments to understand what's going on.
public class TestPopupActivity extends Activity { //The "x" and "y" position of the "Show Button" on screen. Point p; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); Button btn_show = (Button) findViewById(R.id.show_popup); btn_show.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View arg0) { //Open popup window if (p != null) showPopup(TestPopupActivity.this, p); } }); } // Get the x and y position after the button is draw on screen // (It's important to note that we can't get the position in the onCreate(), // because at that stage most probably the view isn't drawn yet, so it will return (0, 0)) @Override public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus) { int[] location = new int[2]; Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.show_popup); // Get the x, y location and store it in the location[] array // location[0] = x, location[1] = y. button.getLocationOnScreen(location); //Initialize the Point with x, and y positions p = new Point(); p.x = location[0]; p.y = location[1]; } // The method that displays the popup. private void showPopup(final Activity context, Point p) { int popupWidth = 200; int popupHeight = 150; // Inflate the popup_layout.xml LinearLayout viewGroup = (LinearLayout) context.findViewById(R.id.popup); LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) context .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); View layout = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.popup_layout, viewGroup); // Creating the PopupWindow final PopupWindow popup = new PopupWindow(context); popup.setContentView(layout); popup.setWidth(popupWidth); popup.setHeight(popupHeight); popup.setFocusable(true); // Some offset to align the popup a bit to the right, and a bit down, relative to button's position. int OFFSET_X = 30; int OFFSET_Y = 30; // Clear the default translucent background popup.setBackgroundDrawable(new BitmapDrawable()); // Displaying the popup at the specified location, + offsets. popup.showAtLocation(layout, Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, p.x + OFFSET_X, p.y + OFFSET_Y); // Getting a reference to Close button, and close the popup when clicked. Button close = (Button) layout.findViewById(R.id.close); close.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { popup.dismiss(); } }); } }
Introducing "Even or Odd" – My First Android Game :)
Hello everyone,
I would like to introduce you the freshly cooked "Even or Odd" game, an addictive casual game for Android.
The idea of the game is pretty simple: you are given a series of numbers, and have 30 seconds at your disposal to answer if the given numbers are even or odd ones. Give a correct answer and you get +100 points, you give a wrong answer and you go down: -100 points. Try to give as many correct answers as you can in 30 sec.
This is my first attempt into this kind of Android apps. What was new from what I did previously, is that I made use of MediaPlayer to play sounds. Using MediaPlayer to play sounds will be the subject of another tutorial in the upcoming period of time. Stay tuned. ;)
Give it a try and let me know your high score :).
Creating and Displaying a Custom Dialog in Android
In this post I would like to describe the process of creating and displaying a custom dialog. Though the Android documentation describes pretty well the topic, I faced some problems implementing it, and I would like to share my findings.
The final output should look like this:
1. The first issue I have encountered was that I was getting a BadTokenException in the onCreateDialog() method where I was instantiating the Dialog: android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window — token null is not for an application,
Context context=getApplicationContext(); Dialog dialog=new Dialog(context);
Well, though the Android documentation suggests to use getApplicationContext(); actually it turns out that this is not the proper way to do it and most likely it will throw an exception. The correct way is to use this, or "ActivityName".this instead of getApplicationContext(). For example:
Context context=MainActivity.this; Dialog dialog=new Dialog(context);
2. The second issue I was facing was that I wanted to get rid off the standard dialog title.
Normally you would set the Dialog title with this:
dialog.setTitle("Dialog Title");
However, if you don't want to display a standard title for your dialog, not calling the above line most probably won't meet your expectations, because it will leave an empty space where the title should be.
Hopefully, this is an easy fix. Just call requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); and you are done.
To sum up with a concrete working example, below I presented an implementation of a simple custom dialog.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="250dp" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="#8F1A3B" android:orientation="vertical" > <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp" android:text="Custom Dialog" android:textSize="18dp" /> <Button android:id="@+id/restart" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Restart Game" /> </LinearLayout>
public class MainActivity extends Activity { Dialog dialog; int DIALOG_GAME_RESTART=100; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // ............ } @Override protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) { switch (id) { case DIALOG_GAME_RESTART: Context context=MainActivity.this; dialog=new Dialog(context); dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); dialog.setContentView(R.layout.custom_dialog); Button restart=(Button)dialog.findViewById(R.id.restart); restart.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { dialog.dismiss(); //whatever code you want to execute on restart } }); break; default: break; } return dialog; } }
ITMoldova – My First Android Application.
Although it has passed awhile since I published my first android application on Google Play, and I published already my second Android App meanwhile, I decided to write about it as well, as almost all my posts from this blog till now are findings and experience gained while I was working on ITMoldova app.
ITMoldova.com is a Moldavian site that provides daily IT News for romanian speaking people. The main purpose of Android application is to check the RSS feed of the site if there are any new articles. If it turns out that new articles have been published on the site, then launch a status bar notification and notify the user. And of course, the user is able to see the most recent articles and read them right from his device.
The application settings provides the ability to set up the desired interval of time, when the application should verify the RSS feed, plus the possibility to Turn On or Off this feature.
I have some doubts in regards to how many of my readers and visitors of this blog understand Romanian language, but just in case, here's the Google Play download link: :)
Here are the topics that will help you achieve this:
Creating A Simple RSS Application in Android
Understanding AsyncTask – Once and Forever
How to verify an RSS Feed if New Articles have been published.
Working With Services – IntentService
Showing status bar notifications in Android
Writing and Reading from SharedPreferences
Building a Custom Fancy ListView in Android
After reading (and exercising) the above tutorials, you should be able to build your own Cool RSS Application :).
Please visit the Android Tutorials page for more Android tutorials.
GAG Pictures – Have Fun! Spread The Fun!
Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you my second Android application published on Google Play – GAG Pictures. Compared with the first one, this application is intended to bring you much fun.
GAG Pictures is your daily set of funny images! Every time the application is launched it downloads a set of new funny images from the famous site 9gag.com. Every image has a Share button so you can share that hilarious image with your friends. The current version allows you to share only the direct link to image, but in the upcoming releases the ability to send the image itself will be provided.
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St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Raleigh has been recognized for its environmentally-conscious construction of its three most recent buildings. On Monday, January 31, representatives from the United States Green Building Council presented three Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Awards to the parish at a ceremony attended by the Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, North Carolina 4th District Congressman David Price, Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker and Mr. Dee Freeman, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Receiving the awards on behalf of the parish were Father Mark Reamer, OFM, Pastor, and Very Reverend John F. O'Connor, Minister Provincial of the Holy Name Province.
The LEED Award is a nationally recognized benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings. In his remarks at the ceremony, Father Reamer thanked the parish community and all involved in the creation of the three buildings, calling it a testament to the parish's long history of concern for the environment. One of the features of the construction is that the buildings utilize a green cleaning program that avoids the use of harmful chemicals and uses paper products with recycled content. Another is that all concrete walkways and parking areas reflect sunlight and avoid solar heat gain. The three new buildings are the Siena Center for Lifelong Learning, which houses the middle school; Elizabeth Hall; and St. Mary of the Angels Chapel, where the ceremony was held.
Above: St. Francis pre-school children leading the gathering in the Pledge of Allegiance during LEED Awards ceremony.
Above: Mr. Dee Freeman, Mayor Charles Meeker, Congressman David Price, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, Very Reverend John F. O'Connor and Father Mark Reamer during ceremony recognizing St. Francis for its recent construction.
Above: St. Francis parishioners attending the awards presentation.
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After all the chatter about Dye's play out in RF, Quentin has taken the UZR to a new high......or is that low? Q! even turns a routine ball into a highlight the other day and hurts himself in doing so, causing him to miss a couple games. SHOCKING, I know. He is the only man that can put himself on the DL walking away from home plate to the dugout.
So I guess Q!'s natural RF position isn't so good for him or the team. He doesn't have the footspeed, arm or instincts. Besides that, he's perfect out there. It seems these past few years, before talking about his hitting, was how bad Dye was in the OF. It was that way with Pods to an extent too. Well fella's......Q! is worse. He belongs at DH, period.


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Longtime Tampa Bay Ray James Shields anchors a revamped Kansas City rotation in 2013. After a disappointing 2010, terrific 2011, and respectable 2012, what's in store for Complete Game James in his...
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Borjous has been a Draysbay favorite since his minor league days and I believe he is a perfect target for the Rays organization. First he is young and controllable for a number of years. He is 25 and will only be 26 on opening day 2013. He is still a year plus away from the arbitration process and would be under team control through the 2016 season.DRaysBay It's always interesting to read what other fans have to say about the players their favorite team may be acquiring.
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I had a lovely winter Sunday. I decided to meet my friends Nate and Greg for a drink mid-day. We agreed to try a new gastropub called Bangers & Lace, a neighborhood bar with an extensive beer list & unique food. The decor of Bangers & Lace made us feel as though we were in a ski lodge out west, complete with roaring fire - perfect shelter from the blusterous conditions outside.
After a few beers, good food (brioche breaded corn dog & fries!), and one more stop at a different bar, I had Nate & Greg come back to my place to watch the rest of the Bears game with promises of homemade fudge. Once we arrived I made them each a white russian, and got to work.
The one reason I keep Nate & Greg as friends is that they always praise my cooking and baking and it was no different with this fudge. Hopefully they are being honest, but if they aren't, I'm not sure if I want to know.
Homemade Fudge
- 5 cups of sugar
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 1 stick butter
- 10 oz evaporated milk (1 1/3 cup)
- 2 7oz jars of marshmallow fluff
- 1.5 tsp vanilla
- 2 12oz packages semi-sweet chocolate pieces (I use Bakers)
1. Grease a 9x13 pan
2. In large saucepan combine the sugar, salt, butter, and milk. Stir over low heat until blended. Increase heat to Medium and bring to a full-rolling boil. Boil VERY slowly and be sure to stir CONSTANTLY for 5 minutes. If you rush you will burn the sugar!
3. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and chocolate4. Pour into 9x13 pan and let set.


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Whitmore: ACT poised to help millions reach new educational and career heights
With "One ACT" banners hanging behind him, ACT Chairman Carl Cohn kicked off the 2013 ACT Annual Meeting on Oct. 29 in Iowa City.
Cohn shared his experience volunteering in a first-grade classroom. "Simply put, it will be of no value to issue a report in 10 or 11 years telling us that these little first graders are not ready for college and career," Cohn said. "What will be valuable are formative assessments with interventions—right now—that will rescue these kids that I care so much about and the rest of the nation cares so much about."
Cohn then introduced ACT CEO Jon Whitmore, who praised ACT team members for helping the organization own "a clear competitive advantage"—and create "a clear bold strategy for the future.
ACT CEO Jon Whitmore presents a recap of ACT's successes of the past year and a glimpse into what lies ahead during the ACT annual meeting held on October 29.
"ACT is poised to help millions more young people and adults reach new heights of educational and career success," Whitmore said.
He then praised the board of directors, inviting them to stand and be recognized. He also praised the ACT state representatives, calling them "ACT's eyes and ears in the field.
"Every day they see how our solutions affect the students to whom they have devoted their professional lives."
Whitmore outlined ACT accomplishments over the past year, including:
- An aggressive advancement of the strategic plan,
- An organizational structure aligned to leverage our collective strengths,
- A record number of high school graduates who took the ACT® college readiness assessment (1.8 million or 54 percent of all high school students in America),
- Testing virtually every high school graduate in 13 states,
- More than 1.4 million middle and high school students participating in ACT Plan® and more than 1.6 million in ACT Explore®,
- Testing more than 300,00 students with ACT QualityCore®,
- Testing nearly 80,000 students with ACT Engage®,
- Passing the 2-million mark in earned ACT National Career Readiness Certificates, and
- Partnering with Pearson to support ACT Aspire™.
Whitmore called the ACT test development staff, who created and field-tested new assessments for grades 3 through 10, the "true heroes" this year.
He noted that a new cloud-based version of ACT Compass® is about to be launched, and that the ACT test itself will be available in digital form for in-school use in 2015.
More than 1,100 ACT team members, board members, ACT state representatives, and other guests heard an impassioned speech by a leading expert on education reform, Alberto M. Carvalho, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (Florida) superintendent.
Keynote speaker Miami-Dade County Public Schools (Florida) Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho received a standing ovation for his speech, in which he shared the successes of his district, the changing nature of society as exemplified by Miami-Dade County, and the challenges and opportunities those changes present.
ACT President of Education and Career Solutions Jon Erickson also spoke, saying he joined ACT "almost 210 dog years ago" because he believed in the mission and the people of ACT. Quoting Theodore Roosevelt, Erickson said, "Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Echoing Roosevelt and Whitmore, Erickson added, "To me that summarizes why I spent 210 dog years here, and hopefully why everyone in this room does what we do. Because it is work worth doing, we can make a difference, and we have made a difference."


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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - It doesn't feel like it at four in the morning in the middle of $10 million worth of bikes, but it's 140 miles from the inflation of the tires to the elation of the finish. Athletes from all over the map are here, speaking the same language:
When athletes cover that much ground, the ground gets covered with athletes. There is a side to the Ironman Triathlon that's not sunny side up. It's scrambled, boiled, poached and fried. Promoters don't like to talk about it. Participants don't do interviews about it. DNF: Did Not Finish. Ironman Louisville has the highest DNF rate of all North American Ironman distance triathlons, as high as 16 percent. They logged 400 DNFs a couple years ago and 226 this year.
"It takes a lot of time, lot of effort, training, family support and a lot of electrolytes," said Ironman finisher Adam Willis.
There was plenty of fuel available, from unleaded to premium, but at some point they can't perform anymore.
"You do what you can do, and then you have to give yourself a break," said volunteer Sheri Lyle. "But they're out here trying. I'm serving water so no judgment on my part."
Normally, an ambulance is seen as a savior. On this day, they felt like vultures, watching, waiting to pick up a carcass and carry it to the Kentucky International Convention Center where Norton Healthcare has set up the medical tent. But the ambulances couldn't find a parking place because Norton Healthcare medical team at KICC treated 487 athletes.
"I've DNF'd. Everybody's DNFs," said Willis. "They come back, train harder, work on a nutrition plan. Hopefully, it'll be a little cooler and they'll try it again."
Many of the finishers were loaded in wheelchairs feeling lucky. They made it farther than hundreds of their brothers and sisters, who were out there on the course somewhere, reflecting, regurgitating, and refusing to take no for an answer.
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Veggie Burger
Published: June 2013 Servings: 6
- 1/3 cup white long-grain rice
- 2 15-ounce cans black beans, rinsed
- 1 medium shallot, chopped
- 6 slices pickled jalapeño
- 1 tablespoon prepared barbecue sauce
- 1 teaspoon chili powder, preferably ancho
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 large egg white
- Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
- 6 hamburger buns
- Favorite burger toppings (for serving)
Nutritional Information
6 servings, 1 serving contains:
- Calories (kcal) 300
- Fat (g) 11
- Saturated Fat (g) 2
- Cholesterol (mg) 0
- Carbohydrates (g) 45
- Dietary Fiber (g) 8
- Total Sugars (g) 4
- Protein (g) 11
- Sodium (mg) 910
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Cook rice according to package directions (you should have 1 cup cooked rice) and let cool.
Set aside 1/2 cup beans. Pulse shallot, jalapeño, barbecue sauce, chili powder, cumin, and remaining beans in a food processor until a chunky purée forms.
Transfer purée to a medium bowl and mix in egg white, rice, and reserved beans; season with salt and pepper. Form mixture into 6 patties about 1/2-inch thick; cover and chill 1 hour (this helps bind patties so they stay intact while cooking).
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Working in two batches and adding remaining 2 tablespoons oil between batches, cook patties until browned and crisp, about 5 minutes per side. Serve on buns with desired toppings.
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Wall Street ends higher after swings on 'fiscal cliff'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks finished higher on Thursday as investors bought on sporadic dips in a market roiled by conflicting comments from Washington about negotiations on an agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
Tech shares, including Research In Motion RIM.TO RIMM.O and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.N), helped the Nasdaq outperform the broader market. Telecommunications and health-care stocks were the day's best-performing sectors.
Reflecting the uncertainty surrounding U.S. budget talks, trading was choppy. Wall Street reversed early gains and fell shortly after House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, dashed hopes that lawmakers were getting closer to a budget deal that would avert automatic tax increases and spending cuts set for early 2013 - the fiscal cliff - that could push the U.S. economy into a recession next year. But the market rebounded by afternoon and the three major U.S. stock indexes rebounded to near their session highs.
"There is an emotional part in buying on the small dips here. Investors are more worried about missing the rally than losing money as they believe that the 'fiscal cliff' will be solved eventually," said James Dailey, portfolio manager at TEAM Asset Strategy Fund in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
"Until the fiscal cliff is solved, the madness of the crowd will not subside."
Discussions on Capitol Hill are aimed at avoiding big automatic spending cuts and tax hikes, known as the fiscal cliff, that will start taking effect beginning in January.
Boehner's comment about a lack of progress in talks with the White House was one of a series of contrary pronouncements by lawmakers and the Obama administration over whether Washington will finally cut a deal.
There have been some signs that leaders are moving closer to a fiscal agreement. The S&P 500 has gained about 5 percent recently after a sell-off that took it down almost 8 percent following the U.S. election on November 6. But investors remain wary that politicians' ad hoc statements can spark quick reversals in the market.
U.S.-listed shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion rose 4 percent to $11.54 after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to "buy" from "neutral" on optimism ahead of the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N) shares gained 4.1 percent to $2.04 on plans to sell and lease back its campus in Austin, Texas. The sale and lease-back will raise cash and fund its chipmaking business as Advanced Micro Devices diversifies beyond the struggling PC industry into new markets.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 36.71 points, or 0.28 percent, to 13,021.82 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 6.02 points, or 0.43 percent, to 1,415.95. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC advanced 20.25 points, or 0.68 percent, to close at 3,012.03.
So far this week, the Dow is up 0.1 percent, the S&P 500 is up 0.5 percent and the Nasdaq is up 1.5 percent.
But shares of top retailers retreated in the wake of data showing a weak start to November sales after Superstorm Sandy. Kohl's Corp (KSS.N) fell 12 percent to $45.02.
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Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes rose more than expected in October, a sign the housing market recovery advanced into the fourth quarter despite a mammoth storm and concerns over looming tax hikes. Homebuilders' shares rose. The PHLX housing index .HGX rose 0.8 percent.
About 6.15 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, below the daily average so far this year of about 6.48 billion shares.
On both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, roughly three stocks rose for every one that fell.
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That leaves $1T+ deficits projected every year going forward, $16T in national debt, and $52T in unfunded entitlement liabilities to pay for….the arithmetic clearly exposes our problem as being FAR too large to solve via taxation.
Now you can clearly, mathematically see that even AFTER Obama's tax the rich plan is effected, we have some daunting debts to rectify.
Obama and the Dems currently have not put forth any semblance of a feasible plan on this front; what's worse: They may NEVER address spending cuts and entitlement reform in earnest because it would be politically unpalatable….
That leaves $1T+ deficits projected every year going forward, $16T in national debt, and $52T in unfunded entitlement liabilities to pay for….the arithmetic clearly exposes our problem as being FAR too large to solve via taxation.
Now you can clearly, mathematically see that even AFTER Obama's tax the rich plan is effected, we have some daunting debts to rectify.
Obama and the Dems currently have not put forth any semblance of a feasible plan on this front; what's worse: They may NEVER address spending cuts and entitlement reform in earnest because it would be politically unpalatable….
Yep – they just want to increade the limite on the credit card, yet again. They are trying to get out of debt by borrowing more.
It can work maybe on the basis of having a plan for the capital expenditures in terms of investment, but we are just trying so sustain what we have on this 'credit card' – that won't work for us personally or the nation.
Only way out of this mess is to tighten the belts; starting with the POTUS.
When a President puts up REAL sacrifice starting with his office, congress, and the rest of government – for this nation's benefit – then that will be the president I **REALLY** respect. We haven't had one of those in a VERY long time.
Can anyone even name the last President who did as such? Maybe.. forgo private schools for their kids, forgo the Limo, forgo the expensive dinners and haircuts – get rid of the Limos for Congress and Staffers and replace with Hybrids.
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I found this interesting little tidbit on the Carolina Growl: "According to a league source there's a chance Jim Skipper could return as running backs coach after all. Skipper had considered a spot with John Fox's staff in Denver, but is in the process of deciding which way he wants to go in his career. The Broncos are keeping their running backs coach from last year." ~Steve Reed


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A THEATRE group is casting for a new director as the imminent pitter patter of tiny feet means the current husband and wife team are stepping down from the role.
The Bethel Crowd drama group in Westhoughton is on the hunt for a new volunteer to direct its Beauty and the Beast pantomine show when 25-year-old Ben Kilburn steps aside in the autumn.
Wife Lisa, aged 27, is due to give birth on September 30, 10 days after their final show of Alice, which she has co-directed with Mr Kilburn.
The couple, who live in Westhoughton and are both primary school teachers in Wigan, are excited ahead of the birth of their first child, and have asked not to know the gender as they want the "surprise".
Rehearsals for the pantomine start in September and the group, which stages shows at the United Reformed Church in Park Road, wants a new director in place by then.
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About a year ago I heard about a secret Leith Beach…. since then I have had a yen to find it. Last week with my fellow anonymous urbexing companion we went in search at a very low tide. We did indeed find a beach hidden in Forth Ports frankly grungy enviromental disaster area. However the description of the one I got from my 'sources' I think may be another further in. Another sortie on a low tide is needed. We found cement just dumped on the foreshore, unregulated dumping, it was pretty ghastly. Please note the ducks huddling on the piles of coal and the pole on the picture above is of a camera which followed us.
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Last year I bought two packs of tulips one lot crazy fuzzy edged pink ones and these GLORIOUS red parrots. The fatblackcats has a habit of nibbling at tulip stems (Don't ask can't see the attraction myself) so I brought in 3 blooms and put them in a glass in my kitchen and for days I was cheered by them. Probably one of my best buys last year.
gray skies
One of the transformative things about taking photographs is that less good weather = more interesting skies. Some of the DULLEST photographs taken are on 'perfect summers days'. The light is uniform bright and FLAT. This is a slight comfort when I look out the window and finally force myself to go out. In reality of course I should also take into account the Swedish saying 'there is no bad weather only the wrong clothes' but *sigh* it is hard to get it right here sometimes. These are from last week when I had a lovely afternoon in the Fine Art Library and afterwards wandered along George IV Bridge then Chambers St and South Bridge.


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Some people say i'm GAY?? WTF??
This has been happening randomly in the last 5 years of my life.
Eventually i will meet somebody in a social situation and he/she will say that i'm a closet gay. Initially i would get angry, although i don't exactly know why.
I guess they call me gay because of my vibe? Some people confuse me being shy and quiet with gay. I'm usually inside my head and not being outrageous or out there. I've always been kind of 'soft' and girly when i was a kid. I was not playing with the other kids, fighting and such, i would be daydreaming by myself. There's definitely a feminine side to my personality but i don't fantasize about getting fucked in the ass.
Also when i look for porn on the internet, i search for naked chics, not dudes dressed like sailors.
Still, the opinion of the others is fucking with my head. I'm considering avoiding certain friends for fear that they will eventually bring up the subject and make me feel like an idiot.
Now, to be completely honest, i've more than once wondered how it feels to have the g-spot stimulated. That's something that i would definitely do with a girlfriend or a chic i can trust. I would not mind exploring my body with toys and such.
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So are we wearing other teams down?
Just a hypothesis at this point. Starting from Camby's quote after the last game from Quick's article: ""I think we are wearing teams down," Camby said, crediting the team's preseason conditioning." This is an interesting idea. If the Blazers are wearing down opponents for end-of-game runs, I think it's a brilliant idea. The question is how are they doing that? Is it staying in motion? But the Blazers haven't been as consistent at that as I would like. Is it pressuring on defense? Well, sometimes, it doesn't look like the defense is trying hard enough. So what is it? We have the results, but I haven't pinned down the cause. And as much fun as it is to say, "It's because we're awesome," I was looking for more than that. Something to point to. Someting that clearly shows that this is what's happening. Because I'd like to see it to keep happening all year long.


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LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- Walsh Construction Company submitted what's being called the "apparent best value" bid on a new downtown bridge.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says that bid calls for the bridge to be completed by December of 2016 and cost $971 million. That's over a year and a half ahead of deadline. It includes $860 million cash plus the monetized "value" of the time saved and other factors, KYTC spokesman Chuck Wolfe said.
Walsh expects to start construction early next year on a new Interstate 65 bridge, revamped Kennedy Bridge, and reconstructed interchanges in both Louisville and Jeffersonville, Ind.
"We challenged the best transportation teams to deliver innovative, cost-efficient plans for the largest construction project in the history of Kentucky and Indiana," said Kentucky Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock in a news release. "The result of this spirited competition will be a project that will cost less and take less time to build."
The Transportation Cabinet says it determined the "best value" by evaluating proposals based on price, technical plans, and workforce requirements, including participation of minorities, women, and the disabled.
Walsh Construction's bid will be reviewed and a final decision will be made within 90 days. Walsh Construction is also the contractor for the Milton-Madison bridge project.
The Bridges Project is expected to create over 4,000 construction-related jobs over the next six years.
Ohio River Transportation Constructors and Skanska Flatiron Dragados made the other bids for the downtown bridge work. Ohio River Transportation Constructors gave a price proposal of more than $1 billion dollars. Skanska Flatiron Dragados gave a price proposal of more than $963 million.
Walsh is not the lowest bidder, but its other promises boosted its score.
'It will be tremendous to be involved in something this big, something that's been talked about for so long. We're very anxious to get started and looking forward to the progress. The best thing about construction is you can see the progress every day," says Arik Quam, the Senior Project Manager for Walsh Construction.
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Richard Lewis joins Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter in Vamps
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant
'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is one of the best comedies on television and the seventh season was arguably the best. But my one constant complaint about the show is Richard Lewis. I think he's a love-him or hate-him type of comedian and I'm just one of those guys that doesn't like him. His neurosis and mannerisms drive me insane. But hey, don't let that dissuade you from checking him out in the upcoming VAMPS, where he'll be playing a former activist and current ACLU lawyer in the romantic horror comedy.
He joins the film that already includes Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter and NYC socialite vampires that fall in love with human guys. Sigourney Weaver will play the head vampire that sired them. Alicia Silverstone will be reteaming with her CLUELESS director, Amy Heckerling, who also wrote the screenplay. Vampire movies have run their course, so I hope Heckerling adds something new and exciting to this story.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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"I need you," King Icicle said, majesticly infront of me. "To deliver this purple crystal to my friend," King Icicle paused. "The Crimson Dragon." "I know you are just a little Snow Critter, but i know you can do it." "Don't let the crystal touch the ground, or it will explode everything." "Have this IceBall Blaster, just in case the Crimson Dragon attacks you." "Only use it in times of emergencies." I knew nothing was to lose, and everything to gain. Anyway, i would never refuse to the king. "Sure, your majesty.." "Ok, awesome!" The King replied back. "Oh, and i almost forgot, heres your transmitter, which enables me speaking to you every now and then. Well, off you go, brave one!"
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Pennies for Poverty wishes to thank the Starboard Galley Restaurant, 55 Water St., Newburyport, for donating space, oysters and great hospitality for the Oyster-Fest "Shucks for Bucks" fundraiser held at the restaurant on Saturday evening, Feb. 8, in conjunction with the Newburyport Art Association Juried Award Reception. The oyster event featuring oyster shucker extraordinaire Richard Rush was highly enjoyable and extremely successful at raising money to help reduce poverty in the Newburyport area. We hope that this will become an annual event in the mid-winter social life of Newburyport. We also thank The Daily News for their help in successfully publicizing these programs.
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LPG sale in petrol bunks from tomorrow[Updated 2013-10-04 09:00:00 ]
Bangalore:Union Minister for Petroleum M Veerappa Moily will be launching the scheme of sale of 5kg LPG cooking cylinders in selected petrol bunks on October 5.
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Holiday hostess Robin Olson from Gaithersburg, Maryland looks forward to finding a trayful of these sweet and spicy treats at her Christmas cookie swap every December.
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- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 5 teaspoons milk
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- 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine the flour, nutmeg and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Divide dough into 10 equal portions. Roll each into a 15-in. log. Cut each log into five 3-in. pieces. Place on lightly greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool.
- In a small bowl, beat the butter, confectioners' sugar, milk and extract until smooth. Dip ends of cookies in frosting, then in pecans. Place on waxed paper until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 50 cookies.
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I know I have talked a lot about starting various book clubs over the years, whether they be from my time in college, at work, or today in my private capacity. I have started a bunch. Today, however, I wanted to take a trip down memory lane and go back and look at my very first book club that I joined while I was a freshman in college and show you why you should join one too!
So, to start off, it was my first year in college—the first month in fact. And every fall semester all of the student organizations on campus organize a gigantic exhibition on the main quad where each one gets a booth and they talk to people walking by. As you can imagine, there are clubs for just about anything and everything under the sun. Frisbee clubs, softball clubs, archery clubs, dance clubs, you name it! If it's a popular (or even not so popular) hobby or activity, there will be a club. There is even a club that goes around feeding the wildlife on campus—who knew?!
So as I was walking around this giant festival-like event of student clubs, I stumbled across a few different writing and reading clubs where people would get together and read books, discuss them, and talk about the characters, plot, storyline, etc. I know this doesn't sound like that revolutionary of an idea, but up until then I had never really heard about something like this. I went to a relatively small high school of about 500 or so kids. I had about 140 people in my graduating class and we didn't really have much of a reading or writing association at the school.
So needless to say this sounded like an amazing group to me and I went on book club overload. I joined 3 or 4 different book clubs that same day and couldn't wait to become an active member of all of them.
Over the next year and a half I was very active in the clubs, making a number of different selection for the month's book and other discussion topics, but I got the urge to start my own group. Not that the groups I was in were inadequate, but I wanted something more. So the end of my sophomore year I got everything set in place to start my own club for the beginning of my junior year and it went spectacularly. It blossomed into the biggest book club on campus and it is still going strong today!
So why haven't you started or joined a book club yet? Were you like me when I first got out of high school and didn't know that they even existed? If not, what are you waiting for? They are loads of fun and they keep you reading if you're not someone who is naturally inclined to do so. I have had a lot of fun over the years in my various clubs and have been exposed to a lot a great books that I would not have otherwise known about or even heard of.


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No, not quite yet. We're leaving from Fremont tomorrow morning after Marie gets off work and comes and picks me up in my dad's pickup. From the weather reports I've seen on line, it is going to rain Saturday and maybe a touch of snow at the passes. I'm gambling that we'll get through Donner Pass without needing chains, of which I'm not putting on my dad's truck. This is where I really miss the Suburban that I gave to my step daughter Nicole.
If you read the old blog you may have read about my visit to my blood cousin in Elko, Judy. I messaged her and she's all up for Marie and I to stop by and visit. We're probably staying in Elko anyway on Saturday night, so it will work out well.
One of my faithful readers lives in Utah and I think we're meeting her as well on Sunday as we pass through on I-80.
Monday night should find us in the Kansas City Metroplex visiting my step brother Charlie and his wife Katy and my two godchildren. There's pro hockey in Independence, MO and we plan to go on Tuesday night. I also want to stop by Adam Clay's and eat delicious bacon cheese hot dogs again. Charlie drove past his stand last week and Adam is still in business. I noticed a couple of recent reviews on Yelp for Adam as well.
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, we'll head to Independence KS and see my pal Big James and family. We'll stay in town until Sunday, then start heading home. We need to be home Wednesday night, so if the weather holds we'll stop at a few touristy spots on the way home. It occurred to me that I've not eaten at the Eagle Cafe in Datil NM since before I met the ex. And Petrified Forest and Meteor Crater can be on the way home as well. I've mentioned this but I'd like to eat at the Heart Attack Grill in Vegas, but I don't know if we'll have the time to detour that far out of the way. The drive on US-60 from I-25 in Socorro NM to Arizona is quite scenic and Marie has not seen that neck of the woods ever.
Long story short, this should be my last post until I post from the road. So, come back maybe Tuesday or Wendesday and I should have some new content up by then.
And, as always, thanks for making my corner of the Internet one of your regular stops.