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Judge: Local church belongs to parish, not Episcopal diocese
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A judge ruled
Monday that the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles can't
confiscate the property of a parish that disassociated
itself from the denomination over a gay bishop's ordination.
Orange County superior court judge David C.
Velasquez dismissed a lawsuit brought by the diocese
against the dissident St. James Church in Newport
Beach, saying that the parish's actions were protected by
freedom of speech. The ruling means that St. James
will retain legal possession of its church buildings,
property, and financial records.
Two other Episcopal parishes—All Saints'
Church in Long Beach and St. David's Church in North
Hollywood—are challenging lawsuits the diocese
filed against them in Los Angeles County. Those cases will
be heard next month. "It is a great relief to the
loyal members of our church to...know that the
sanctuary and grounds where we gather every Sunday
will remain a safe harbor for us," the Reverend Praveen
Bunyan said Monday in a prepared statement.
Lawrence Ebiner, attorney for the diocese, said
after court Monday that the diocese hasn't decided
whether to appeal.
Members of the three parishes voted last summer
to disassociate from the Episcopal Church USA after
the ordination of a gay bishop in the Diocese of New
Hampshire. They announced they were placing themselves under
the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in Uganda. The
diocese then sued to retain the church's parish
property and building. The Episcopal Church is the
U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. (AP)
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Along with the Final EIS is a Draft Record of Decision (ROD). This Draft ROD informs the public of the decision the Forest Service is leaning toward, which is the Killpecker site. The Killpecker site is identified as the Environmentally Preferred and Forest Service Preferred Alternative in the both the Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements. The 45-day Objection Period started with the legal notice in the Ft. Collins Coloradoan on October 17, 2014.
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Originally published Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM
Review: Holland Taylor's 'Ann' a sweet valentine
One important rule before putting on a one-person show must surely be to make sure you find someone who is already beloved. Actress Holland Taylor has found that in Ann Richards, the former Texas governor with the cotton candy hair and down-home humor.
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One important rule before putting on a one-person show must surely be to make sure you find someone who is already beloved. Actress Holland Taylor has found that in Ann Richards, the former Texas governor with the cotton candy hair and down-home humor.
"Ann," which opened Thursday at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, is choppy in parts and sometimes loses focus, but cannot be denied as a moving valentine by a fully committed Taylor, who is also its writer. Taylor becomes Richards, somehow capturing that glint in the Texan's eye, reveling in being her at her witty best.
"I bet some of you probably remember ME just `cause of my hair," Richards opens the play, in a perfect good-'ol-boy accent. "I notice most of you guys who tease me about my hair don't have any."
The silver-tongued Richards, a longtime politicians and one-term governor from 1991 to 1995, was a longtime champion of women and minorities in government. She died in 2006 at age 73 after battling cancer.
Her most famous line perhaps was when she electrified the 1988 Democratic National Convention with a keynote speech in which she joked that Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush had been "born with a silver foot in his mouth."
That line interestingly doesn't appear in Taylor's play, which the script tells us is based on "writings of Ann Richards, interviews with her staff, friends and family, film records, news publications, anecdote and imagination." Taylor is aiming for a more personal look and that big line might overwhelm her efforts.
The two-hour play asks the audience to know some American history and be aware of such figures as the politician Barbara Jordan, Richards' press aide Bill Cryer and the death row inmate Johnny Frank Garrett. (Rob Lowe's sex tape also gets a nod.) One of biggest rounds of applause is heard for Richards' defense of her concealed weapons veto, which has resonance now. The man who defeated her for the governorship, George W. Bush, is never mentioned
Taylor, perhaps best known for playing the feisty grandmother on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men," has previously taken her play - a labor of love - to various theaters in Texas, as well as Chicago and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her Richards uses a spot-on Paul Huntley wig and is slightly stooped and stiff, always eager to get out of her high heels.
Directed wisely and effectively by Benjamin Endsley Klein, the work opens as a commencement address in which Richards explains her early years and then morphs into a behind-the-scenes extended vignette in the hectic governor's office with Richards handling multiple phone calls from her family, staff and Bill Clinton as she badgers her staff over the intercom. She even mends a frayed flag edge, a nice way of showing her laser-like focus.
In an inspired moment of the play, Richards, engrossed in her work, asks her unseen assistant if she's even gone to the bathroom today. Realizing that she hasn't, Richards strides offstage, ending Act I in a way many in the audience will emulate.
Act 2 continues her busy day in the mansion and deals with her ouster from the office, and Richards then morphs into her post-governor's job in New York City. It ends with an inspirational speech she never gave. The transitions are seamless and Michael Fagin's handsome sets slip in and out without fuss.
Taylor's Richards is a hoot yet she almost gets upstaged by another character, which is hard to do in a one-woman show. But two purring phone calls between her and Clinton are some of the play's highlights, perhaps proving that only Clinton can outshine Ann Richards.
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'Yes' opens doors, begins grand plans, inspires and encourages; 'Yes' incites others to creativity, opportunity, and positivity; 'No' shuts the door to it all.
'Yes' has begun every grand project or endeavor that man has ever completed; 'No' has ended many long before they'd seen the light of day.
A single No is louder than the loudest shout; a lone No can close the door on the most logical and persuasive reasonings, and cause even an optimistic person despair.
No can start wars, turn friends into enemies, end businesses. 'No' can abort projects before they get started, and make the most careful plans fall apart utterly.
No can be like graffitti, a defacing of the positive, and a desecration of the good and upbuilding. Likewise, 'No' obscures and hides, and disfigures all that has been created.
The power of No is why some choose it over Yes. The ease of saying No allows those without ambition and talent to exert power over those with both.
No is a powerful word – but the power is ultimately with the word itself, not the one who utters it.
For those that use No are destined to never move forward, never gain, never excel, never succeed.
They close doors they are unable to open. While removing opportunities for others, they do so for themselves as well.
In the end, the power of No is in reducing the glories, and tearing them down to the mere mundane – for all.
Such is the power of No.


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Trigun is one of those animes that appears to be one thing, then another. The first half deals with two agents who have been assigned to find Vash the Stampede, a wanted outlaw with a $$60 billion bounty on his head. It turns out that he's a complete dork who doesn't want to kill anyone... and is a ridiculious good shot. Later on, we're introduced to Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a priest that has a cross that carries handguns, a machine gun and a small rocket launcher. The first half is filled with action-packed gun fights that are very good to look at, but it also has substience underneath, as Vash (in one way or other) impacts the people he meets.
The second half has more gravity to it. With the introduction of Legatto Bluesummers and the Gung-Ho Guns, Vash's pacisifism is put to the test agaisnt Legatto's schmeme's, Wolfwood's cynicalism and memories of his past. This half is very philiosphical and deals with pacisifism and if humans are worthy enough to live.
With great gun fights, unforgettable charahcers and a twisting story line, Trigun is a wonderful ride from start to finish. I give it 5 out of 5 donuts.
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Dallas mayor Laura Miller is hungry to take on the big problems facing the city.
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Brawler's Guild: Leona Earthwind (Rank 4) (MoP 5.4)
Leona Earthwind is your second Brawler's Guild Rank 4 opponent. The fight against her will require you to quickly dispose of adds she spawns. Classes with weak AoE abilities are at a clear disadvantage here. Before we delve further into the explanations, we advise you to first watch this very short video, which shows how the fight with Leona Earthwind goes.
1. Abilities and Strategy↑top
Leona Earthwind has three abilities.
- Wrath deals between 50k and 60k Nature damage.
- Solar Beam summons a beam of light at your location. If you cast a spell while standing in this beam, you will be silenced for a few seconds.
- Earthliving Seed summons 3 Earthliving Sprouts. These adds chase you and deal 40k damage per hit with their melee attack.
To defeat Leona, you need to interrupt Wrath as often as possible. Whenever you see a Solar Beam spawning at your location, you need to stop casting and move away from it. Most melee classes can safely ignore the Solar Beam.
The tricky part of the fight is to deal with the adds (the Earthliving Sprouts).
- Some classes can automatically, or with very little trouble, spread the damage they do to Leona onto the adds. For these classes, the fight will be very easy.
- Some classes can easily slow, root, stun, or fear the adds. So they can kill Leona while keeping the adds under control.
- Other classes are missing the proper tools and will need to burn Leona down, all the while trying to survive the damage.
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- Do not panic. It does not matter if you mess up your rotation, but you need to stick to the strategy.
- If you are in for a long Brawler's Guild session, you may want to use a flask.
- Prepot! Use a Potion of Brawler's Might, a Potion of Brawler's Cunning, or a Potion of Brawler's Deftness right before Leona Earthwind appears, depending on what your main statistic is.
- When the 60-second cooldown on your potion is over, you can use the same potion again or you can use a Brawler's Healing Potion if you need healing.
- Group up with other players so that you benefit from each other's buffs.
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Minneapolis Votes To Scrap 70/30 Law
Voters in Minneapolis have chosen to eliminate the 70/30 law, which restaurant owners have called archaic and harmful to their businesses.
Behind The Ballot: 70/30 Law Up To Mpls. Voters
Minneapolis restaurant owners hope voters will get rid of a law they say is keeping them from moving forward. The 70/30 Law is affecting restaurant owners like Molly Broder. "I have Broders' Cucina Italiana, that's our deli, I have Broders' Pasta Bar and Terzo Vino Bar," Broder said.
Mpls. City Council Votes To Cut Food-Liquor Ratio Ordinance
The city of Minneapolis has gotten rid of a liquor law that's been in place for decades. The Minneapolis City Council voted 12-0 Friday to scrap the old ordinance that required restaurants to make 60 percent of their revenue from food and cap alcohol sales at 40 percent.
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Family members say that the original owner of Matt's Bar passed away mere hours before President Barack Obama's visit to the long-standing Minneapolis establishment. According to family, Matt Bristol died Thursday morning.
Voters To Decide Whether To Roll Back 70-30 Rule
Minneapolis voters will get the final say on the proposed changes to the city's liquor laws. Currently, restaurants in residential neighborhoods have to follow the 70-30 rule, which means their sales have to be made up of at least 70 percent food and no more than 30 percent alcohol.
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It's a busy Friday afternoon at Parc Boutique in northeast Minneapolis. Racks full of women's fashions greet the customers. But Parc's owner, Thao Nguyen, says the recent cold snap has hurt her in-store sales. "It's harder for people to come into the shop," Nguyen said. Just like how tornadoes and hurricanes disrupt economic activity, there is also a steep cost to our cold weather. The lower the temperature drops, the fewer of us venture outside to shop, dine and recreate.
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A Chapel Hill landmark since 1976, La Residence offers an American inspired twist on classic French food. Join us tonight for an exceptional dining experience. Parking right across the street at 140 West.
Dinner Service: Tue - Sun, 5:30pm - 8:30
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Hotel description Holiday Inn Jasmine Suzhou
The hotel is conveniently located in the Shilu commercial, shopping and entertainment district. It is right next to the Suzhou traditional cultural street, the Shantang Street. Transportation is easy and convenient. Shanghai is just 1 hour away by bus, while the hotel is 3 km from the Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, 6 km from the Suzhou Singapore Industrial Park and 2 km away from the railway station.The 28-storey hotel, built in 2008, offers 287 guest rooms and ten meeting rooms equipped with the latest audiovisual facilities. The meeting rooms are suitable for various meeting groups, ranging from 10 persons in boardroom style to 250 persons in theatre style. A team of professionally trained staff attend to the needs of meetings, catering, theme parties and conferences and will ensure the success of every event. The hotel is air-conditioned and the lobby offers 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe, currency exchange facilities and a cloakroom. Other facilities include a hairdressing salon, games room, café and restaurants. Room service, laundry service and a car park are also available to guests.Standard rooms have a size of 35 m². All rooms have complete facilities; there are deluxe flat lets for administration, a non-smoking floor, and rooms for the handicapped. Rooms are air-conditioned and feature an en suite shower or bath, double beds, direct dial telephone, satellite/cable TV, Internet access, a safe and minibar. Additional features include a hairdryer, tea and coffee making facilities and ironing set.The hotel offers a gym, sauna, steam room, massage treatments, beauty salon and games rooms. An entertainment programme for adults is also offered.
Description Holiday Inn Jasmine Suzhou
- • Number of floors (annexe): 8
- • Year of construction: 2008
- • Suites: 4
- • Single rooms: 141
- • Number of floors (main building): 28
- • Junior suites: 18
- • Total number of rooms: 287
- • Disability-friendly rooms: 2
- • Studios: 1
Hotel type
- • Hotel
Methods of payment
- • American Express
- • MasterCard
- • Visa
Room facilities (Standard room)
- • Bathroom
- • Bathtub
- • Carpeted floors
- • Centrally regulated air conditioning
- • Direct dial telephone
- • Disability-friendly bathroom
- • Double bed
- • Hairdryer
- • Internet access
- • Ironing set
- • Minibar
- • Safe
- • Shower
- • Tea and coffee making facilities
- • Wheelchair-accessible
Smoking rooms
- • 24-hour reception
- • Air conditioning in Restaurant
- • Air conditioning in public areas
- • Bicycle storage
- • Café
- • Cloakroom
- • Conference room
- • Currency exchange facilities
- • Games room
- • Gym
- • Hairdressing salon
- • Highchairs
- • Hotel safe
- • Laundry service
- • Massage
- • Non-smoking area
- • Restaurant
- • Room service
- • Sauna
- • Smoking area
- • Spa treatments
- • Steam bath
Car park
Large pets allowed (over 5 kg)
Small pets allowed (under 5 kg)
- • Breakfast
- • Breakfast buffet
- • Buffet dinner
- • Buffet lunch
- • Continental breakfast
- • Set menu dinner
- • Set menu lunch
- • Special dietary options
- • À la carte dinner
- • À la carte lunch
- • Entertainment programme for adults
Distances (in meters)
- • Nearest Bus / Metro Stop: 68.20 mi
Hotels nearby Holiday Inn Jasmine Suzhou
- At 0.54 miles
Pan Pacific
The hotel is situated in the heart of Suzhou and is a perfect base for exploring the local sights and attractions. The central Guanqian district, which is good for shopping, and the bars and pubs in Shi quan jie are only a 5-minute drive from the hotel. The train station can be reached in 20 minutes using public transport and Shanghai can be reached in 90 minutes by car. The health and fitness centre has a complete range of facilities including modern gym equipment, tennis court, solarium, hot tub, sauna, steam rooms and a choice of an indoor and outdoor pool. In the Garden Lounge guests can enjoy European-style afternoon tea or cocktails and in the Garden Brasserie guests will find a wide selection of Western and Asian dishes from buffet to à la carte. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served. For convenience, comfort and fun, stay at this hotel.
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- At 0.87 miles
Garden Hotel Suzhou
"This luxurious city and business hotel is located just 1 km from Guanqian Street in Suzhou. Guests can find a wealth of captivating historical and cultural attractions within easy access of the hotel.Idyllically set amidst 48,000 square metres of traditional Suzhou gardens featuring trickling waterfalls, ponds and ancient trees, this spectacular multi award-winning hotel has welcomed many prominent figures including Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter and Chinese state leaders. The elegantly-designed guest rooms are housed in the heritage villas which feature classic Suzhou style architecture. The captivating surroundings are emblematic of China's intriguing history and culture and guests will be left breathless by the enriching experience. The hotel also offers first-class facilities to cater to guests' dining, business and leisure needs."
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- At 0.87 miles
Pingjiang Lodge
The hotel allows easy access to different sightseeing spots such as classical gardens and former residences of ancient celebrities. To the east are the old houses of Suzhou residents; to the south is one of the UNESCO Heritage Sites, Master of the Nets Garden; to the west is the famous Guanqian Street; and to the North is another UNESCO Heritage Site, the Humble Administrator's Garden.The hotel is converted from an ancient complex of houses in Si-jin style (literally, four times of entry), a traditional Chinese architecture that contains different compounds of courtyards and rooms to form a main axle. It was once the residence of the Fang family in the Ming Dynasty. Constructed in the old Suzhou style in the middle era of the Ming Dynasty, the main hall of the hotel has a history of more than 450 years and is the oldest part of the complex. This air-conditioned establishment welcomes guests into a lobby with 24-hour reception and check-out service. Facilities at the hotel include a hotel safe, cloakroom, TV lounge, coffee bar and restaurant. The hotel has 51 guest rooms and five halls of different sizes for conferences, meetings and parties that can accommodate up to 150 people as well as offering conference facilities for business guests. WLAN Internet access is also available. Guests may take advantage of the hotel's room and laundry services (fees apply to the latter). Guests arriving by car may park their vehicles in the hotel's car park. Bicycles may be hired from the hotel.
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If you're finding Visual Studio complaining about an expired certificate when building a Cordova project for a Windows target, this is a known issue because the certificate that's checked into the Cordova source tree expired on 11/11/2014. See http://msopentech.com/blog/2014/11/11/cordova-certificate-issue-were-working-on-it/ for details and workarounds.
My associate Brian Rasmussen released this book through Microsoft Press a few months ago: http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Windows-Store-Brian-Rasmussen/dp/0735682631/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414429701&sr=1-1.
Here's the short review I wrote on Amazon:
Performance is something that's easy to talk about but difficult to do. You could say that every app could in some way perform better, but how do you really think about where to make investments? Too often, developers take an ad hoc approach, not really clear on what they're trying to accomplish. This can waste a lot of resources in areas that won't have real impact on the customer experience. In this book Brian brings years of real-world insight to the question of finding what matters, clearly defining your performance goals, and then going through the process to measure the app's present reality, making changes, and evaluating progress. And like another reviewer has said, performance information–even just what tools are available–is scattered around, and having one place to bring it all together is super-valuable.
At 240 pages it's a concise treatment of the subject and for the price (Amazon has it at $14.13), it only takes one or two good improvements to your app to more than pay for itself!
Continued from #2: First build and run
It's been a couple weeks since my last post, but I haven't been idle during that time–my Cordova efforts have been channeled into an MSDN Magazine article on Cordova, and now that I have that draft done I can share more of the insights here, meaning that I can ramble on with more details than I can fit into an article!
First of all, I modified my markup to be a little more generic and flexible for the app. One change is to drop the map display from the app altogether in favor of a simple field for the location. I did this because the map element took up a lot of space that I didn't have on small phones, and also created more complexity for layout. In the end, the map really isn't important to the app, and by making it a text field the user can also edit the location information if they want.
Another change is to add an explicit Share button because platforms other than Windows don't have the swipe-in-from-right-edge gesture to get to it, and don't have a system-level sharing feature either. (That's something we'll deal with later on.) I could have made use a WinJS app bar for this, but I decided to keep it simple and just create a div with a button.
I also just made all the content areas
 elements instead of using  and
 and so forth. Here's the new markup:

Here My Am!

Here:

 <input id="txtLocation" type="text" placeholder="tap to edit" /> <button id="btnLocate" class="iconGlobe"></button>

My:

 <button id="btnShare" class="shareButton" disabled>Share</button>

I should note that one of the complications that came up in migrating the Windows Here My Am! app is that the map I originally used was either displayed in an iframe with an ms-appx-web:// src or an x-ms-webview element, both of which are specific to Windows. I had to do this because the map area used remote code for Bing Maps. Now Cordova apps on all platform other than windows automatically run inside a webview, which means I could have just references the Bing Maps script directly, but that would (a) not work if the device is offline, and (b) wouldn't work on Windows because you can't load script into the default local context in which index.html runs. Upon further investigation, there really isn't a workaround for this at present: your root page in a Cordova app on Windows runs in the local context, but on other platforms runs in a web context. It's a difference that you just have to live with for now, and in my case I just dropped the map feature.
My next step is to style the markup it so it looks like the following:
Which means: a Cordova's app CSS must work in each target platform's webview, just like web applications must work in different browsers by employing the appropriate prefixed and non-prefixed styles. In short, everything you know about responsive web design applies with Cordova.
As noted in the last post, I discovered this right away because the CSS grid upon which I rely heavily on Windows isn't implemented on these other platforms. And that's not all–there are many variances and differences. But thankfully there's the site caniuse.com that will tell you what parts of HTML5 and CSS are and aren't available on which platfoms, and whether or not they need prefixing. Super helpful! I suggest you visit that site and get familiar with it.
What I found was very helpful at this stage (aside from going to a CSS framework which would relieve me from the details), was to first create a Windows app project with my HTML, and then open it in Blend for Visual Studio and do my Windows-based styling. In this case I needed to use flexbox for the layout, knowing that I couldn't use the grid. Blend gave me an easy way to work out things like margins and media queries in a very friendly environment, setting the baseline styles for the app.
Along the way I also decided that given the small size of many phone screens and the fact that I eliminated the map section, it didn't make sense to support a landscape orientation. We'll return later on how to enforce that in a Cordova app; at this point it just meant that I didn't need to worry about landscape orientations at all.
With my baseline CSS from Blend, I then dropped the HTML and CSS onto my web server; you can see it all at http://www.kraigbrockschmidt.com/src/heremyam/index.html (and it has some JS in there too now). What this allowed me to do is check the styling in a variety of browsers, and then use the browser's developer tools to find the necessary styling for that browser.
On my Windows machine I opened the site in both IE and Chrome; in the latter I worked out the webkit styles for flexbox. Once I did that and updates index.css on the web host, I then opened the same page on my Android tablet to verify the layout. Then I switched to my MacBook (which I acquired to build for iOS) and checked things out in Safari, and then also opened the site on my iPad. I opened the site on my Windows Phone too. (And, I might add, that creating a short URI saves a lot of trouble entering it into a mobile browser.)
I liked using the browsers here for three reasons. First, the developer tools let you change the live CSS and see the result, just like Blend does for Windows. Second, the mobile browsers especially are very clearly linked to the webview that a Cordova app will use. Third, a browser is easily resizable, allowing you to test and style for smaller screen sizes. For example, here are the IE, Chrome, and Safari browsers sized down to a minimum, with styles for <= 499px widths and <= 480px heights, which reduce font sizes and tighten up margins:
Here's the resulting CSS. Note that use of flex: 1 1 0px; and -webkit-flex: 1 1 0px; to expand certain elements to full available space (the location input control horizontally, the image area vertically). The #btnLocation::before rule is what sets the globe icon in the locate button, and other styles on the button make it circular.
@-ms-viewport{width:auto!important} /* Notes: Windows and Windows Phone (through 8.1) use -ms prefixed styles. Android and iOS use -webkit prefixed styles. There are a few general design breakpoints for layout: Heights: 480 and 768 (actually 767, see below) Widths: 480, which accomodates the 500-pixel width of Windows split-screen views. If you use device-[height | width] then there are more variations. Using [min | max]-[width | height] you get automatic scaling for CSS, which reduces the breakpoints. This has the effect that some device sizes don't translate exactly: the iPad's 768 dimension comes through as 767.78 so the breakpoint has to be 767 as CSS media queries operate on integer comparisons. */ /* This app will focus on being portrait-only to simplify the layout requirements. The only adjustments we'll make, then, are for various screen sizes and not for orientation. */ .mainContainer { /* Windows */ display: -ms-flexbox; -ms-flex-flow: column; /* Android, iOS */ display: -webkit-flex; -webkit-flex-flow: column; height: 100%; } /* Override of WinJS */ h3 { font-weight: 300; } .mainChild { margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; } .title { margin-top: 10px; } .subsection { display:-ms-flexbox; -ms-flex-flow: column; display: -webkit-flex; -webkit-flex-flow: column; margin-top: 15px; } .section-title { /* height: 40px; */ } #locationControls { /* Use a row flexbox here to allow the input control to fill the space */ display:-ms-flexbox; -ms-flex-flow: row; display: -webkit-flex; -webkit-flex-flow: row; } #txtLocation { flex: 1 1 0px; /* Expand to fill available space */ -webkit-box-flex: 1 1 0px; -webkit-flex: 1 1 0px; } #btnLocate { margin-left: 15px; /* Make it circular */ min-width: 40px; width: 40px; border-radius: 20px; } #btnLocate::before { /* WinJS references ../fonts/Symbols.ttf from its stylesheets */ font-family: "Symbols"; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; content: "E12B"; /* globe */ } #photoSection { flex: 1 1 0px; -webkit-flex: 1 1 0px; min-height: 100px; } #photo { border: solid 1px gray; width: 100%; height: calc(100% - 40px); /* 40px is height of heading */ margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 10px; /* Make sure the image is centered inside this area */ display: -webkit-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; /* iOS */ display: -webkit-flex; -webkit-flex: 1 1 0px; -webkit-align-items: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; } #shareSection { display: -webkit-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: -webkit-flex; display: flex; -ms-flex-pack: center; -ms-flex-item-align: center; justify-content: center; align-items: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; -webkit-align-items: center; margin-bottom: 15px; } .shareButton { margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; } /* Adjustments for narrower/shorter screens */ @media screen and (orientation: portrait) and (max-width: 499px), screen and (orientation: portrait) and (max-height: 480px) { h2 { font-size: 14pt; } button, input { font-size: 10pt; } } /* Tighten up margins for short screens */ @media screen and (orientation: portrait) and (max-height: 480px) { .title { margin-top: 5px; } .mainChild { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; } .subsection { margin-top: 10px; } button, input { min-height: 15px; } #photoSection { margin-top: 5px; } #photo { margin-bottom: 5px; } #shareSection { margin-bottom: 5px; } }
It's important to note–and you'll see this if you run in the Ripple emulator–that the sizes reported to CSS are scaled sizes, especially where max-height, max-width, and so forth are concerned. I would suggest sticking with these instead of trying to get device pixels, because doing that would only increase the complexity of your CSS for no benefit.
Switching platform targets in Visual Studio
One of the most important things to know when working in Cordova is how to switch between target platforms. There aren't obvious controls in Visual Studio for this, but it's there. Either use the Build > Configuration Manager menu item, click the Debug/Release drop-down in the toolbar and select Configuration Manager:
Once you're there, the Active Solution Platforms drop-down is where you set your target.
Doing this will change the main VS toolbar to reflect options available for that target. This is how you switch between targets and run the app on devices and emulators.
Tip: to shortcut this you can add the platform drop-down directly to the toolbar. Right click the toolbar and select Customize at the bottom of the long list. In the dialog that appears, click the Commands tab, then select Toolbar and Standard:
Now click Add Command, then pick Build > Solution Platforms:
This adds the platform drop down to the toolbar. You might need to use the Move Down button in the Customize dialog to place it where you want. I also used the Modify Selection button to narrow the size to 130, and placing it where I wanted I see this on my toolbar:
Running the app, and first issues encountered: varying CSS support
With everything migrated now, I was able to run the app on the Local Machine (Windows) as expected. The one caveat I found is that Cordova at present targets Windows 8.0 and not 8.1 (I think Cordova version 3.6 is supposed to do 8.1), which means that it doesn't understand variable-sized views, and only snapped/filled states. This means that in a narrower view that's later than 320px you get the 320px snapped view inside the wider view like you do with any Windows 8.0 app on 8.1.
On Windows Phone the app ran great in portrait mode, but the layout wasn't working in landscape. Hard to tell why, because the present Cordova targets Windows Phone 8.0 which means the app is running inside a webview inside a Silverlight app. This means there's no debugger support whatsoever, so I can't poke into the DOM to see what's going on.
On Android the layout is all wrong…because an Android webview in which a Cordova app runs doesn't support the CSS3 grid specification as we enjoy on Windows. Urk. I've relied heavily on grid layout but clearly I'll have to convert to flexbox, which is why I said CSS comes up early.
On iOS (in the Ripple emulator), looks like we have the same issue.
The upshot here is that when working in Cordova, your HTML/CSS work is going to be very much like writing responsive web pages for different browsers, because that's really what's happening with Cordova: your code is running inside a webview which has varying capabilities depending on the target platform.
Finding your DOM in the Ripple Emulator
When running on my Android device, Visual Studio's DOM Explorer works just like it does for a Windows app–you can do in and tweak styles and so forth.
When running in the Ripple emulator, you still get the DOM Explorer except that you see everything that's showing in the emulator, including all the surrounding controls:
Egads! Where is my app? Well, the easy way to find it is through that click-to-select button in the upper left above: click that, then click in the emulator, and you'll see the DOM tree expand to where your app is. You'll see that it's located under the sections ui > middle > device-container > viewport container > and then the iframe "document":
What's very cool in the DOM Explorer is that the CSS editor does inherently known what styles are and aren't supported for that target device. I can see right away, for instance, that display: -ms-grid; isn't among those supported for Android and iOS webviews, which isn't at all surprising. So the next job is to convert my grid-based CSS to cross-platform flexbox, which will be the next post.
I said that CSS would come in early, but the first thing to discuss in migrating the Here My Am! files from my existing Windows Store app project to a Cordova project. For this I'm just starting with the HereMyAm2a code from Chapter 2 of my free ebook. And in fact I'll keep it simple for starters and just migrate the HTML and CSS, leaving off the JS code for now.
Preliminary notes/build environment
Although I'd started working on a universal Windows app migration for this project, it's not a necessary step for working with Cordova, because it also produces cross-platform apps that will work on Windows and Windows Phone alike, as well as iOS and Android. With Cordova, you let plugins worry about platform-specific things–you don't want that kind of code in your project.
In addition, it's helpful to know that you don't need a Mac as a build server to work with Cordova until you really want to produce an app for the store. With the Visual Studio extension installed, you can run a Cordova app directly in the Ripple emulator , which is very cool in that you can switch between devices, resolutions, and orientations (including between target platforms) much like Blend for Visual Studio does for Windows, so you can see just how (badly) your CSS is performing.
For myself, I'm working on a Surface Pro 3 as my main machine, have a Windows Phone hanging off it, have an Asus MemoPad7 as an Android dev device, which I wrote about recently. My team has a Mac laptop set up in one of my co-worker's offices as a build server (also for Xamarin) which I can get to over VPN to the Microsoft corpnet from my home office…pretty cool!
Project structure
I started with a new Cordova project (File > New > Project > JavaScript > Multi-Device Hybrid App > Blank App (Apache Cordova)); this is what you want to do rather than trying to convert an existing Windows project. I then migrated the appropriate files over:
|Windows Project File
|Cordova Project File
|index.html (This is the default; you can use default.html if you change the start page in config.xml)
|scripts/index.js (didn't migrate the code yet; the project template uses scripts instead of js as a folder…I might change this later)
|config.xml (the Cordova generic manifest)
|html/map.html (there is no default html folder, so I created one just to hold this file for the time being)
|images/taphere.png; I'll be switching to draw this with a canvas later on, so it's just a placeholder.
|Not migrated yet as these need to be specific for each platform, whcih I haven't done yet.
|WinJS references
WinJS is not a cross-platform, open-source library, an instead of having it in the project references I downloaded WinJS 3.0 and brought it directly into the project:
I don't know how much of WinJS I'll be using, but given that I have lots of experience in this area, it seemed like a good opportunity to keep up! Plus the ui-dark.css has styling that I'm used to with this app. We'll see how it goes.
|The project template also includes a merges folder for platform-specific code, and a res folder for resources that I'll get to later on.
Updating index.html
With this migrated project, I fixed up the references in index.html to bring in the appropriate files:
<link href="css/frameworks/ui-dark.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="css/index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
Note: in a Windows project, especially with WinJS page controls, it's usually helpful to prefix all references with a leading /. You do not want to do this with Cordova because it doesn't work. I'll have to see what happens later on when I try using page controls.
Note also that you need the reference to cordova.js even though it doesn't exist in your project.
With my script/css references fixed up, I just use the same markup as before in index.html:

 Here My Am!

Photo

Location

The latest work from my long-time friend, Charles Petzold, being co-published from Xamarin and Microsoft Press. Well done, Charles!
With my new role as a Content Developer in Microsoft's Developer Division, I'm working now with cross-platform tools like Apache Cordova and Xamarin, and dabbling a little in Unity, and also looking at the Visual Studio ALM tools and how they apply to these project types.
To help myself ramp up on Cordova, I'm in the process of migrating Here My Am!, the app that I build throughout the pages of Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Edition, to Cordova. I can already see there will be numerous challenges to overcome, which I'll try to write about as I work through them (preview: the first post or two will be about CSS).
For all this I'm using the Multi-Device Hybrid Apps Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 (how's that for a name!). One thing that's immediately clear about the extension is that it saves a whole lot of trouble in getting a Cordova environment set up. Normally you have to go get a bunch of downloads from nine different places, some of which have installers and some of which are just ZIP files, and then you have to install them in the right order figure out how to configure each one with the right environment variables. The extension does that for you.
The documentation for the extension is found on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn771545.aspx; the installer page specifically describes what pieces it downloads and how to do the configuration, manually. My team is, in fact, the one that produces this documentation–more to come!
If you'll be there, I'd love to connect. Let me know!
From a background task, it's perfectly allowable to issue a tile update, for instance, when procedding a raw push notification in that task and updating a tile in response. With secondary tiles, you might also want to update the tile's arguments so that it launches into different content relevant to the tile update. However, secondary tile arguments are statically defined when the tile is pinned and cannot be changed later.
To work around this, you can use a set of static identifiers that you then dynamically map to your variable data. It's simplest to just keep a table of secondary tile IDs mapped to their dynamic arguments, in which case you're probably not using the static arguments at all.
Another question with background tasks is whether it's possible to do file I/O therein, because clearly if you're modifying a table of secondary tile arguments in a file you'll be doing file I/O. The thing to remember here is that if you use any kind of async APIs in the process, you need to make sure the background task stays active until the async work is complete. To do this, you use the deferral mechanism.
In C#, the general pattern is like this:
public async void Run(IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance) { var deferral = taskInstance.GetDeferral(); var contents = await DoAsyncWork(); deferral.Complete(); }
In JavaScript, the deferral is found on the WebUIBackgroundTaskRuntimeClass object. You retrieve this in the worker with Windows.UI.WebUI.WebUIBackgroundTaskInstance.current, then call its getDeferral method, do your async work, and then call the deferral's completed method when you're done.
var task = Windows.UI.WebUI.WebUIBackgroundTaskInstance.current; ver deferral = task.getDeferral(); DoWorkAsync().done(function () { deferral.completed(); close(); //Shut down the background task });
Note that JavaScript it's also necessary to call close() when the task is finished (which is WorkerGlobalScope.close()).
A partner we worked with had some troubles with a live tile image not appearing, and the process of working them out helped us understand better how to debug live tile issues.
First of all, make sure of two more global that affects tiles:
- Live tiles don't appear in the Visual Studio simulator for Windows Store apps (though I believe they do on the phone emulator). Run locally or on a real device.
- Make sure that live tiles for your app on the Start screen are not disabled (right-click to check).
- Some live tiles won't look right if you've turned off system animations in PC Settings > Ease of Access > Other Options > Play Animations.
Second, the tile updater is quite sensitive to properly-formed XML. If you have any kind of glitch, the update payload will be ignored and you'll be left scratching your head. Here are some things that can trip you up:
- The XML lacks the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> header.
- There is a space or linefeed before the <?xml> header.
- The XML isn't properly formed (e.g. missing closing tags) or doesn't follow the Tile schema.
- The elements you indicate for a tile template doesn't match the template itself.
- You have a mismatch between the indicated template and the version number in the <visual> element.
- You are using accidentally using  tags rather than <image> in the XML. Tile templates are not HTML: they use <image>.
If you think your XML is good but it's not working, try simplifying it to include only a single tile size payload, and try them one at a time. That can narrow down where an issue might be. Also use App Tiles and Badges sample as a reference point, specifically scenario 6 that lets you build payloads.
Next, a tile update can have proper XML but its image references might be invalid. If you're using http[s] references, double-check those links in a browser. If you're using the baseUri attribute anywhere in your XML, do that combining manually and check the URIs. Also check image references with any URI parameters that are added with the addImageQuery attributes. See "Using Local and Web Images" in Chapter 16 of my free ebook (page 897) for details.
Other allowed reference URI schemas are ms-appx:/// and ms-appdata:///local. You cannot use ms-appx-web:/// or ms-appdata:///[temp | roaming] — doing so will cause the update to be ignored.
Thirdly, remember that tile images must be 1024 pixels or less in both dimensions, and must be less than 200KB in size. This means potentially resampling an image to make it smaller, and it especially means being aware of the image format and quality as that significantly affects the size. Here's how I wrote about this issue in my book, page 899:
Sidebar: PNG vs. JPEG Image Sizes
When considering tile images for the larger 140% and 180% scales, the encoding you use for your images can make a big difference and keep them below the 200K size limit. As we saw in "Branding Your App 101" in Chapter 3, a wide tile at 180% is 558×270 pixels, a medium is 270×270 pixels, and a large is 558×558 pixels. With the wide and large tile sizes, a typical photographic PNG at this size will easily exceed 200K. I encountered this when first adding tile support to Here My Am! for this chapter, where it makes a smaller version of the current photo in the local appdata folder and uses ms-appdata:///local URIs in the tile XML payload. Originally the app was capturing PNG files that were too large, so I borrowed code from scenario 11 of the App tiles and badges sample, as we've been working with here, to create a smaller PNG from the img element using a temporary canvas and the blob APIs. This worked fine for a 270×270 medium tile image (a 180% scale that can be downsized), but for 558×270 and 558×558 the file was too large. So I borrowed code from scenario 3 of the Simple Imaging sample to directly transcode the StorageFile for the current image into a JPEG, where the compression is much better and we don't need to use the canvas. For this second edition's example I just capture JPEGs to begin with, which are already small enough, but I've preserved the code anyway for reference. You can find it in the transcodeImageFile function in pages/home/home.js, a routine that we'll also rewrite in Chapter 18 using C# in a WinRT component.
Such considerations are certainly important for services that handle the addImageQuery parameters for scale. For larger image sizes, it's probably wise to stick with the JPEG format to avoid going over the 200K limit.
The 200KB limit turned out to be the issue with the partner–all the images referenced in the live tile were larger than 200KB and therefore ignored. More specifically, the images were saved as PNGs, which again for photographic images produces larger file sizes than JPG. In this partner's case, even the 150×150 tile image was too large; if it had happened to be smaller, the partner would have seen it appear but not images for the other sizes, which might have revealed the problem more quickly.
What confused the process of tracking down this problem is that an invalid image will cause that particular tile update (for that size) to be ignore in toto, meaning that the text won't appear with an invalid image. This is a reasonable behavior because otherwise end users would see oddball tile updates with text but blank spots where images should be. Personally I'd love to see a debug option in the system that you could turn on so some kind of placeholder image would appear, or an error message if a tile update is invalid.
The other thing that can be confusing is that the system will always download an image from a valid URI, and then check whether it's too large to display. This makes some sense as it's difficult to know from a URI whether the image is too big or such. The system could do a round-trip to the network to check the size first and not download it, but it doesn't work that way: it will download, and then ignore the image. This means that just watching fiddler traces or such isn't deterministic in checking image validity.
If you have a service, by the way, that dynamically generates images for periodic tile updates, then it's possible to have some variance in image sizes that are being supplied in tile updates. For debugging, make sure your service is logging requests and the dimensions and file size of every image returned. Then you can see whether any images exceeded the allowable limits.


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A Real Presidential Candidate for 2012 (if Ron Paul doesn't make it)Submitted by Galileo on Sun, 03/28/2010 - 12:29
A Real Presidential Candidate for 2012 (if Ron Paul doesn't make it)
On MSNBC, Libertarian Wayne Root Criticizes McCain and Questions Palin Tea Party Credentials
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On Friday Mar. 26 a Bloomberg News story was headlined "Tea Party Advocates Who Scorn Socialism Want A Government Job". The article was about a Bloomberg poll that found 26% of Americans agree when asked "Do you consider yourself a supporter of the Tea Party Movement?" Of those supporters, 70% agreed with the vague statement that "the government needs to do a lot more to create jobs".
The poll also found that 53% of Tea Party supporters favored privatizing Social Security and Medicare, compared to 33% of everyone polled. 30% of everyone polled strongly agreed that "health care is a private matter and individuals should make sure their needs are taken care of, through insurance, public clinics, or by paying for services directly". 52% of everyone polled said that for deficit reduction the nation should consider "reducing annual cost of living increases for Social Security participants".
MSNBC asked 2008 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nominee Wayne Root about the poll, while displaying a graphic saying "Tea Party Hypocrites?" Root hadn't seen the polling data and reiterated the Tea Party philosophy of "smaller government, limited government, lower taxes, economic freedom", and said "government is a failure at creating jobs".
Root went on to call John McCain "a big-government Republican" who "tries to scare you to death that the sky is falling, the world is ending, the terrorists are coming, and we've got to spend money. And by spending money, the government gets bigger and more powerful". Root said: "What the Tea Party is about is common sense, and I think Libetarians have common sense. Sarah Palin has been involved in the Tea Party movement, but there are a lot of people who are questioning whether she's a Republican who wants to get the Tea Parties to support Republican candidates, or whether she really stands for limited government, even if that means electing Tea Party candidates who aren't necessarily Republican. That's certainly where I stand."
Root is the #2 headliner behind Sarah Palin at today's Tea Party Showdown In Searchlight, Nevada. Before today's rally this morning, Palin spoke at a rally for McCain.
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Wayne Allan Root is a neocon scaremonger
Wayne Allan Root is a neocon scaremonger. He wants Obama to use aggressive rhetoric against Iran. Even Obama is better on Iran than Wayne Allan Root, which means W.A.R. really sucks.
So if Ron Paul doesn't get
So if Ron Paul doesn't get the GOP nomination, am I supposed to vote for Romney or Obama?
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he was a classmate of Obama in Columbia. did he ever see him there?
maybe Pastor Manning should contact Root.
Wayne Allen Root and the 2012 Presidential election
A Libertarian Party candidate must be comfortable and confident articulating ALL of our libertarian positions. Any hesitation, as we saw with the limitations of Bob Barr and his campaign in '08, whether it is with the ridiculous National Sales Tax, the so called "fair tax" replacing(?) the IRS, or the demand to end all American overseas military presence as quickly and as thoroughly as possible; whether it is in support of honest and sound money and ending the FED, or complete and prompt drug legalization, any failures in expressing clear and consistant libertarian alterantives are seen by both critics and opponents of the LP, and even worse, the general public, as hypocrisy and ignorance, and inevitably discredits the Party and its advocates!
Is Allen Root comfortable and confident articulating liberty? I think that he has a way to go! He is clearly too willing to compromise on monetary policy, foreign policy, so-called "war-on-terror" and "war-on-drugs" issues and policies, Mr. Root displays far too great a willingness to "pick-and-choose". This is entirely understandable as a private citizen who can (and usually does) support the LP because of strong agreement on some of our positions and not others, but as a candidate or campaign director, still less a Party official, it is recipe for disaster, both ideologically and in terms of the LP public relations credibility.
Wayne Allen Root may become another Harry Browne or Ron Paul one day. I certainly hope so. Until then, we can--and must--certainly do a lot better, both with LP candidates and officials!
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, finally they attack you, and then you win"! Mohandas Gandhi
I also consider myself a
I also consider myself a Libertarian and have a quick question for you. Do you think a Libertarian would be more electable if he were more moderate on certain issues that are more difficult to explain the LP's position? To many people who aren't familiar with the LP, some of their positions might sound radical. I guess what I'm trying to ask is... do you think the Libertarian movement would be more effective if it were more gradual in the direction of liberty instead of candidates promoting changes that many perceive to be too radical?
I consider myself to be Libertarian on pretty much every issue, but do we have a higher probability of success if we promote smaller changes but in the right direction instead of possibly scaring people with major changes?


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Build up your biceps and triceps with these simple arm exercises from the American Council on Exercise. Learn valuable how-to information and get expert fitness advice that will help you strengthen your arm muscle groups including the biceps, triceps and wrists. We have a wide variety of arm strenghtening exercises from the beginner to advanced level including the dumbbell bench press, triceps kick-backs, bicep curls and more. For full workout routines that feature arm exercises, check out our Workouts section.
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