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1. Booze, Brews and Blues, noon Saturday
The event features area brewers Emmett's Brewing Co. and Spiteful Brewing along with over 30 selections of spirits and beer. A beverage tasting ticket includes 12 spirit and beer samples. The Village Tavern serves brats and hand-pulled pork sandwiches throughout the day and the Rockin' Johnny Blues Band plays from 4-7 p.m. The Village Tavern, 135 Old McHenry Road, Long Grove. $20 for a beverage tasting ticket.
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When Ernie Met Bert
By: WallynSimonsGirl/Rika/Brittany R.
"Bird-brain! Bird-brain! Bird-brain! Bird-Brain!!" their voices pierced his ears and the taunting caused tears to burn his eyes. The young, pale boy sniffled,
"I-I am not a bird-brain!"
"Yeah ya are! You like pigeons, stupid!"
"Yeah, that's just weird!! Pigeons are dumb!!"
"Just like you, you big baby!" one of the older kids pushed him harshly to the ground, causing the boy to cry out. Then, the new book his father had gotten him was picked up off the ground and the kids started flipping through the pages.
"What is this JUNK?!!"
"Blech!! Look at all these words!!"
"Looks like he's a nerd too!! Bet he'll cry if I do this!" and with that, the bully ruthlessly ripped out a page from the book. The younger boy on the ground felt his heart being ripped in two.
"N-no!! No give it back, please!" He choked, standing and pounding feebly on the leg of the boy who was destroying his most prized possession.
"EY! Get off my leg kid!" the boy kicked him back and the child landed with a thud against the ground. He groaned a he rubbed his side, looking up helplessly at the boys vandalizing his book.
"P-please stop! M-my dad got it for me, b-before he went away! Please! I-"
"HEY!!! You stupid kids, I thought I told you to leave these younger brats alone!!" a gruff voice said. The young child and the three older pre-teen bullies looked up. Standing a few yards away and approaching rapidly was a furry, green teenager with an angry but powerful brown unibrow furrowed in agitation. He was roughly pulling on the hand of a small, dark skinned boy wearing a rubber-duckie jumper.
"Aw, Oscar, we were just joking around with the kid," the boy with the book said. Once Oscar was standing before them, he released the hand of the boy he had been dragging behind him. The younger boy rubbed at his wrist before looking at the sniveling child curled up in a ball. His eyes grew wide and he rushed forward.
"Hey, are you okay?" he asked, wrapping an arm around the young boy. The child shivered and curled up into a tighter ball, trying to isolate himself from everyone around him. The darker boy continued to try to comfort the child while his baby-sitter took care of the older bullies.
"Look, I am sick and tired of putting up with the crap you guys instigate on a regular basis!" Oscar said, grabbing the collar of the boy with the book, picking him up, and slamming his back against a nearby tree.
"I've been very patient with you idiots, but your working my last nerve!" he leaned forward, scowling and holding a furry green fist up to his face,
"Now if I catch you around here again, that'll be the last straw and you're gonna suffer the real wrath of a grouch! Got it?" for emphasis, Oscar slammed his fist on the tree next to the head of the boy he was threatening. The boy gulped and shivered in fear,
"Y-yeah Oscar
s-sure, whatever man. W-we're sorry, okay?!"
"Don't tell me, tell him!" Oscar nodded over to the boy till curled up in a ball and sobbing.
"S-sorry kid! We're sorry, alright?" he asked. The boy still didn't look up. Oscar growled before dropping the kid to the ground.
"Now, I want you to take your little idiot friends, and BEAT IT!!! Go on SCRAAAM!!" he cried, kicking the boy in the tushie as he scrambled to get away,
"C-c'mon guys! Let's get out of here!" the boy said rushing over to his bike with his gang of bullies right behind him. Oscar glared after them,
"Adolescents don't have a brain in their head," he said, turning to look at the two kids on the ground. Both were five years old, and neither of them had looked up during the exchange.
"Ey, he okay Ernie?"
"H-he won't talk Oscar. He' scared stiff," Ernie said worriedly, patting the boy on the back. Oscar frowned even more,
"HEY KID!! C'mon, get up, stop crying!! Don't be such a wimp!" Oscar cried, approaching the boy. The child who was balled up heard footsteps approaching and he looked up, taking in the site of the furry green teenager approaching him. He gasped and quickly skittered back as far as he could go.
"Hey! I'm not gonna hurt ya
"I-it's okay, it's alright!" Ernie stood and rushed in front of the boy's line of vision, wearing a friendly smile in hopes of comforting the boy.
"We're friends. We're here to help you! That's Oscar, he's kind of a grouch but he' not a bad guy." Ernie said, giggling a bit. The other boy blinked and looked from the scary teen in the background to the young boy before him. The boy was still smiling as he held out his hand,
"I'm Ernie! Oscar's my babysitter and
.well when I saw those kids being mean to you I told him and we decided to come over," there was silence where the boy just blinked quietly. Ernie tilted his head in concern and then looked back at Oscar. The elder shrugged,
"Don't look at me, maybe he's mute or somethin', not my fault if he can't talk. Kids are so annoying," he muttered. Ernie rolled his eyes and sighed before looking back at the boy.
"Are you new here? What's your name?" Now granted, the boy was still shaken up and trying to recuperate from the torment he'd suffered mere moments ago. Honestly, he hadn't even paid attention when these two
strangers came to his rescue. But still
they were strangers. And one of them was tall, green and furry
.and he smelled funny. The anxious boy sniffled, wiping tears from his eyes,
"M-my mom told me n-not to talk to strangers," he said quietly.
"Oh for the love of
c'mon Ernie! See, this is why I don't like helping people! They never appreciate it and it's a waste of time!"
"No it's not Oscar, it's good to help people!"
"Not wimpy whiny people!"
"He's just scared."
"Well LET him be scared! C'mon, I gotta get you back home before your mom comes!" he said. Ernie sighed before looking at the boy again. He was staring down at the ground. Ernie smiled and reached into the pocket of his jean jumper.
"Here," he gently took the boy's hand and turned his palm face up before placing something inside. He then closed the boy's fingers over the gift.
"I found this on the ground and it's really cool! I was gonna use it to make something artsy but you can have it instead, okay?" Ernie asked, standing up. The boy looked from the grinning child before him to his closed fist. He then slowly opened his hand and his eyes grew wide. In his hand was a bright, shiny bottle-cap that glimmered with a bright array of colors. It glistened in the sunlight and it was really beautiful. The child before him smiled and shoved his hands in his pockets,
"I hope to see you around, maybe we can play together sometimes!" he said, turning to walk back to his care-taker, who was huffing and tapping his foot rather impatiently.
"B-bert," a soft voice said. Ernie stopped and looked back at the boy,
"M-my name is Bert. I
I just moved here a few days ago," he sniffled again and wiped his eyes with the sleeve of his t-shirt.
"I-I don't have any friends here yet and
I-I just
" he started to cry again as he remembered the guys who began to bully him for no reason. He clenched his eyes shut tight, trying to fight back the stinging sensation behind his eyes, when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up,
"I'll be your friend. Me and Oscar both will, right Oscar?" he asked. Oscar scoffed and rolled his eyes, looking off to the side,
"I only hang around you brats to get my paycheck, it's not like I actually like you ya know." He said. Ernie shook his head. Bert scrunched up his face,
.k-kinda mean. And he s-smells funny," he said, pinching his nose. Ernie laughed nervously,
"Yeah, that's Oscar. But ya know, even though he acts mean, he's really a big softie deep down. Hey! You wanna hang out with us?" he asked. Bert slowly stood up.
I should probably get home," Bert said, looking across the street at the complex in which he lived. Ernie looked in his direction,
"Oh! Well I live just a few blocks from here, maybe we can hang out tomorrow then?!" Ernie asked, excited at the prospect of having a new friend. Bert looked down shyly. He nodded,
"O-okay. Um
Oscar's coming too right?" he asked, scared that the bullies might come back.
"Ey! You brats know I've got better thing to do with my time, right?" Oscar said. Ernie rolled his eye and nodded,
"He'll be here. He looks after me every day around this time. Oh, this'll be so fun! I'll even bring some of my toys and we can play, okay? And you can bring some of yours!" Bert was a bit taken aback by Ernie's enthusiasm, but he nodded,
"O-okay. Um
t-thank for before," he said softly.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Oscar said, walking up and taking Ernie's hand. He then started pulling Ernie along back toward Ernie's house. Ernie turned and waved at Bert,
"See you tomorrow, Bert!" he cried. Bert blinked and shyly waved back.
y-yeah, tomorrow." As the two beings walked away, Bert looked down again at his clenched fist and opened it. The bottle-cap still glistened in the sunlight, and he couldn't help but to smile. He
was suddenly very interested in the tiny object, and wondered how many different ones there were out there. He had no idea that the small item would be the start of his later infamous bottle-cap collection. All he knew was that it was the first gift he'd ever gotten from a friend
.a real friend. He shoved the object into his pocket, maybe living on Sesame Street wouldn't be so bad after all. At least he had a feeling that he and Ernie would grow to be best friends.
Mini Epilogue
About a year later, Ernie had stopped by Bert's house for Christmas with a gift of his own to give his new best friend. He watched as Bert excitedly tore off the wrapping paper.
"Oh! Oh wow!! Hey!! Ernie this is
." It was a copy of the book that those bullies had ruined so long ago. Ernie nodded,
"Yeah, I had to look all over for it but
I remember you told me it was your favorite book! So
ya know, I was hoping I could find you a replacement,"
"Oh wow, thanks Ernie!!" Bert said happily! He then eagerly began moving boxes around from under his tree to find the gift he'd gotten for Ernie.
"This your gift!" he said, practically shoving it into Ernie's arms. Ernie clutched the package tightly before looking up and seeing Bert, waiting anxiously for his response. Ernie gave a small smile before ripping open the wrapping paper.
"Oooh!!! A Big Rubber Duckie Plushie!!!" Ernie said with a wide grin! He hugged the doll tightly,
"WOW! Thanks a lot Bert!!" he said. Bert smiled in relief,
"I know how much you love rubber duckies so
"This is awesome!! Now my little rubber ducky has a friend to play with! Just like me!" Ernie said, beaming at Bert. Bert grinned too,
"Ya know Ernie, I'm happy I met you when I moved to Sesame Street," Bert said. Ernie nodded,
"Me too, Bert! Me too!" he said.


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During the recent twice yearly trash pickup one of my neighbors put out a couple of pieces of new white plastic lattice. They were about 2 ft x 4 ft and of course I picked them up. One man's trash is another man's treasure, right?
I carried them around the yard, placed them here and then there trying to decide what I could have Bob to build using them. All of a sudden I got the bright idea of covering the chain link fence with lattice. I have to admit that chain link is a good permanent fence. I have wonderful neighbors, they keep their yards looking nice, and I enjoy our conversations over the back fence, but pretty -- the fence is not. I wonder if a couple of hundred years from now neighborhood chain link fences will be considered cute and quaint? I don't think so :-) Well, anyway here is the result. I think it frames the garden nicely and gives the yard a sort of cottage garden look without the greater expense of the proverbial white picket fence. It was easy to install using 8 inch white plastic cable ties. Maybe some others here have some ideas about what 'to do' with a chain link fence. Some of my neighbors grow thick vines on them like honey suckle or Boston ivy. Others weave what looks like aluminum strips through the wire, or they attach rolls of bamboo. I have one section covered with Confederate jasmine which I really like, but for a quick fix that is relatively inexpensive (and doesn't need to be watered ...LOL) I'm pleased with the look of lattice. |
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- Posted by cynthianovak 7/8 TX (My Page) on Mon, Oct 18, 10 at 10:30
Soooo Pretty! BRAVO! |
- Posted by plantmaven 8b/9a TX (My Page) on Mon, Oct 18, 10 at 10:52
Looks good. That would have cost me a forune at my former home. |
Thank you Cynthia! Thanks Kathy. Yes, if you have several acres I guess it would. The lattice costs about $18.00 for a four by eight foot panel. It comes in a dark green color and also tan and brown. The colored ones were $23.00 a panel. There are also long narrow pieces in all the colors that go over the top and bottom edges and some that connect the ends. We didn't use them. |
- Posted by holleygarden 8/East Texas (My Page) on Mon, Oct 18, 10 at 17:24
What a great idea! It looks so good. This is one of those ideas that you wonder why no one has ever thought of before (o.k., maybe they have, but I haven't seen it done). I'm going to go around suggesting this to everyone I know that has a chain link fence! lol Thanks for sharing. |
You're welcome Holly! I know. I keep slapping my forehead wondering why *I* didn't think of it before. I'm just grateful to the neighbor that put those scrape pieces out for me to haul home. |
Oh Ragna, that looks so great!! It fits perfectly with your garden. Makes me wish I had a chain link fence. When our privacy fence plays out I may just get chain link. They certainly last a lot longer. |
Thanks Tammy! It goes nicely with the wrought iron plant stands, furniture, bird houses, etc. that I spray painted white early this year. |
- Posted by rock_oak_deer 8a TX (My Page) on Tue, Oct 19, 10 at 10:51
That looks really good, so perfect with the yard. Great idea, I'll bet the neighbors like it too! |
I appreciate your comments Shirley. Yes, the neighbors on both sides really like it. Of course, we asked them before we did it if it would be okay and they said yes. |
I certainly makes it look more finished. I really like it better than all the other methods of covering a chain link fence. If eventually you do get some vines growing on it, it won't hurt it at all. If for some reason it gets damaged its easy to replace too. Great use of those lattice panels. |
Thank you Melva. Glad you like it. Some of those were my thoughts also, easy to replace a panel if a part of it got damaged. BTW, we did the gates as well. I spray painted the metal parts around the gate white on my side. I also sprayed painted the top metal railing on my side white which finished off the top neatly, especially looking at it from a distance. One could also put the pieces along the top made for that purpose, but to tell the truth I didn't even notice they had them before we were already half finished. |
- Posted by lynnmariep86 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 22:20
That turned out really well! Great job! |
Looks great! The white really makes your garden pop! |
You can nail the panels to a privacy fence as a trellis. |
Roselee, I used cable ties in my garden on fencing, and after a year they started giving way. I think the hot Texas sun and cold winter might not have been too kind to them. Just an idea, but you might want to go back through with wire and attach it here and there, just in case your cable ties give way in future. I think the lattice looks great in your garden! Heather |
Thanks everyone for your comments! I feel it turned out well and it does make the garden 'pop' and look more complete with the visual border it provides. Great idea also about using it for a vine trellis on a wood privacy fence. Heather, I appreciate the warning that the cable ties might not hold up. I'll be watching them closely in case they need to be replaced by wire. |
- Posted by ann_in_houston z9 Houston (My Page) on Fri, Apr 22, 11 at 22:51
It looks really nice and complements the style of your garden well. I used to want to put up a chain link fence and line with lattice but we have an acre with two sides of it facing the road; lots of linear feet. I wanted to use the green kind and also get the straight criss-crosses rather than the diagonal pattern, just 'cause I'm weird like that. Too many $$$, though, so I didn't do it. Yours looks fantastic, though. |
Thanks for your comments Ann. Yes, lattice could get expensive if you have many linear feet of chain link fence. I wonder if someone else has tried something less expensive; maybe just a three board fence like some large ranches might have? Behind them the chain link would tend to disappear. Anybody here have any ideas of what could be used to simulate the look of wooden boards and be less expensive than lumber or composite boards? Angie, I like how you've used your solid board fence to be a backdrop of a butterfly plant garden. I've seen your crafts on other forums and like how you've used the little people to cover the containers that have butterfly larva plants. What were the containers originally? I wish my passion vines were as large as yours already. The gulf frits are here, but the vines are not large enough to support them. I tried growing passions vines in containers to keep them from spreading and they don't like to be confined so I'm just getting them started in an out of the way place in the the ground. Thanks for posting your pictures. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Google images of three and four board fences.
Saddly thats last years pic of my passionflowers they eat to ground here be a while before they kick back I have over 100 plants and they still get eat to ground hehehe Here is this years poor things |
I like that can planters a lot. Poor passi vines all et up! |
- Posted by love_the_yard z9A Jax FL (My Page) on Sun, Apr 24, 11 at 17:10
What kind of cable ties/zip ties did you use? Were the UV stable or UV resistant? The reason I ask is that I used some in various projects in my yard. Mine hardly lasted for even half the summer because the sunlight breaks them down so quickly. After about six months or more, they just crumbled. |
'Love the Yard', I just grabbed them off the shelf at Lowes not even considering whether they were UV resistant, but upon doing a search just now I see that all the UV resistant ties are black. I've used black cable ties on outside projects before and they've lasted for years, but of course the ones I got for the lattice are white. So thanks everybody for the heads up. This useful information is not only appreciated by me, but by anyone else reading this who is considering doing outside projects with cable ties. I'll look for some white covered wire to have on hand for when the white cable ties start to give out. Angie, the eaten to the stem Passion vines are a satisfying sight to a butterfly gardener. It means the Gulf fritillary caterpillars have been using them and we'll have lots more butterflies in the immediate vicinity :-) |
So it must have been more than a couple of lattice pieces as that's a good looking fence now!! Goes so well with the blue pots & shows off the greenery in garden. I used those white ties on my shade cloth & it only lasted couple of months. I think most hardware stores have white coated wire, maybe even Home Depot or Lowe's & if you put few pieces on now in 4 corners will have less work when they start falling off. Don't want to have to redo whole thing. Jan |
Jan, that is EXCELLENT advice! And thanks for your comments :-) |
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The Donald McGregor (m) Mary McRae was a first cousin of Donald McGregor who married Catherine McLeod. Quite a confusing tree. 1st Donald McGregor who (m) a Mary McRae, had 2 sons, Donald and John. 2nd their son Donald married Christina McRae. Their son the 3rd Donald McGregor married (you guessed it, a Mary McRae (I had her death date wrong it was 1948) These are the parents of Daniel Colin McGregor (1891-1991) John McGregor (2nd Donald's brother) had a son Donald and he was the one that married Catherine McLeod. It took me awhile to get my head around that lot. Annette McLean


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What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013?
timothy posted about a year and a half ago | from the corporate-myopia-plays-a-part dept.
1215Five years ago today, reader J.J. Ramsey asked what's keeping you off Windows (itself a followup to this question about the opposite situation). With five years of development time gone by for Windows as well as all the alternative OSes, where does Windows stand for you today? (Is it the year of Linux on the Desktop yet?)


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The Boarding House (nightclub)
The Boarding House was a nightclub located at 960 Bush Street in San Francisco, California. Steve Martin's first three albums, Let's Get Small, A Wild and Crazy Guy, and Comedy Is Not Pretty were recorded there, in whole or in part. The club was also host to a multitude of musical acts, such as Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Bob Marley, Mason Williams, The Tubes, Talking Heads, Old and in the Way, Randy Newman, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin and Tom Waits. British progressive rock group, Camel, played there on 6/26/76 in a performance that was broadcast on KSAN-FM. This is also where cult favorites The Residents first played. Ellen DeGeneres and Jay Leno as well as met there first(The Ellen Show, aired 01/29/2014).
Previous to the 1906 earthquake, the address was an apartment building called The Cecil. After the earthquake and resulting fire, it was rebuilt as a theater and known by many names over the years, including the Kamokila, The Royal Hawaiian Theater, The Bush Street Music Hall, The Balalaika Music Hall, finally becoming The Boarding House in 1971. The building was torn down in July 1980 and replaced by condominiums. A club with the same name was opened by owner Dave Allen for a short time at 901 Columbus Ave in the city's North Beach district.


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Enchilada Casserole Recipe
- 1 pound ground beef (90% lean)
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- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook ground beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in enchilada sauce and salsa; set aside.
- Place two tortillas, overlapping as necessary, in the bottom of a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Cover with one-third of the meat mixture; top with 1 cup corn; sprinkle with 1-1/3 cups cheese. Repeat layers once, then top with remaining tortillas, meat and cheese.
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Kpop Music Monday: Vixx "Voodoo Doll"
I knew this day would come sooner or later. We didn't talk about Vixx's "Hyde" back when it came out, and we dodged the bullet then, but now that Voodoo Doll has been in first place for so long, we can't ignore the elephant in the room any longer. Ravi's rapping at the beginning of Vixx's songs is terrible. Here's the video, if you haven't heard it yet:
It's not a bad song! It's a really interesting video! But the mumblecrusting at the beginning of the song, and other Vixx songs as well, make us either cringe or howl. Guise: it's so bad. So bad! The rest of the song would be totally fine without it. COMPLETELY. I don't feel like it adds any value to the song at all. Quite the opposite: it makes the song worse. WHAT THE HELL IS HE SAYING? I can't even find subtitles to it online. I googled the lyrics to Voodoo Doll and couldn't find anyone who translated it in, like, the first seven posts that showed up. It's like they all shook their heads and pretended it didn't exist.
And his normal speaking voice is totally comprehensible. It's just this rap persona he takes on that make him sound like someone reading a tongue-twister with a sock stuffed in their mouth. All I could think of is Eddie Murphy talking about James Brown:
Ok! Phew! Finally got that off my chest. We were scared to talk about it, but everyone in the studio agreed. We just hope we didn't piss off too many people in the process. Though, let's be honest: this is the internet so we definitely pissed off a bunch of people.
But the rest of the song and video is totally fine! We are a bit torn about the song, though. Martina's really digging it. I'm just kinda digging it. I agree that it's a good song, but it doesn't really blow me away. It's just like, yep, an ok song. But it's not something that's really groundbreaking or all too unique sounding or anything that gives Vixx a clearly distinct sound over other Kpop groups (apart from Ravi's intros). Sorry guise. I was more impressed by the video than by the song itself. We were going to do a 30 seconds to disagree panel, but we were worried that if we made fun of Vixx's name, and Ravi's English, if I added my lukewarm feelings towards the song we'd have pitchforks outside of our studio. So I saved it for the blog post, where I know people are more level-headed. Right guise? *awkward silence* Right? *crickets chirping* Riiiight? *sound of blades being sharpened on grindstones*
Hay! Something that'll make you laugh and not hate us: voting on this week's poll!
Or, if that doesn't make you less grumpy, how about some Bloopers?
On that note, if you're new to our Music Mondays and found this not too offensive, you should subscribe for more! Hopefully this video and our other videos in the future will give you a chuckle.
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Maybe I'm a little late but I did my own research for lyrics and I found something~~ So, apparently Ravi is saying"Shot right though my heart. I will fall for you."
I prefer the version of S & M now: 'You fucked through my heart.'It sounds very romantic…
At first I thought Ravi was speaking in Mordor idiom rather than engrish XDD
You talk about Ravi's English not being "comprehensible," and are saying that the song would be better without his raps basically, and even criticize the hell out of his English. Can you honestly say that you are in a place to do that when you, yourselves, aren't fluent in Korean? Pointing out that his pronunciation is not that great is okay, but to out right criticize his English is wrong, and rude. You wouldn't like people criticizing the hell out of your Korean when or if you are trying to learn it, don't do it to him when he is trying to learn English.
Simon's not making a career and getting paid for singing in Korean, though.
(I agree that it's harsh, but I do believe it's meant comedy rather than real malice. Still harsh though.)
"You shat right through my heart" How romantic <3 XD
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VIXX's Voodoo Doll won on Music Bank today! It's their 1st win. Hehe. :D -
Let's be honest, not all Starlights took it well that Simon and Martina called out Ravi on his mumbling rapping, some were pretty angry but the cool thing about our fandom is that instead of encouraging the ragers we stare them down and tell them to respect other people's opinions. I love Starlights because of this, we are honestly trying to keep it chill…. that is one of the main reason VIXX honestly love their fans.
you shot right to my heart, i will fall for you. that's what ravi said at the beginning. i think because the music and video is a bout voodoo, he said it in "curse" accent.
finally a good great KMM! :D I missed that thing so much <3 and OMG Martina your so gorgeous as a math teacher XD I laughed so hard *LOL But I really really really love the new VOODOO concept <3 This comeback is awesome! I cant stop listening to voodoo ♥♥ proud to be a starlight ^____^ Fighting~!
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haha glad to see I'm not the only one who tried to solve at least some of these equations! What's also funny is how Scooby is brought up when talking about Ravi, because one of my friend's refers to Ravi as Scooby XD
what I hear….(unsure) with a shot right through my heart, I will fall for you…..
amazing it's really close !! the lyrics are : you shot right through my heart , I will fall for you :D good job
I read that it was "I will fight for you" not fall for you. Maybe I got the wrong lyrics.
I don't know I just wrote what I saw in one of their SBS live performance :D & we all know SBS aren't the best at displaying the correct lyrics =_=" and they didn't show the lyrics of his part after that live so I'm not sure as well -_-"
Soo Zee looks like she's gonna kill you guys in the bloopers, lol.
oh- you went there…
VIXX against TVXQ…The Rising Gods Of the East?I can't even.
/well VIXX…may you take this defeat honorably and with your heads held high.
I had to vote for TVXQ, cause no one may defeat them!!!
Welcome to the beautiful world of VIXX S&M :D I'm sure you'll be STARLIGHTs soon enough >:P here's a sample of what's waiting for you in the VIXX world hehehe xD I kinda wished u guys showed N to mystery guitar man and others in that video about gender bender X"D
LOL They were all GORGEOUS~!!!!!
Especially N (Damn you boy! You make me feel like a fail as a female~!!!)
Even Hongbin and Ravi have gorgeous bodies~~
Hyuk was pretty adorable~~
Ken….. OTL *sigh*~ I think who ever choose his clothes hate him…
Hate him or love fans >:D I mean he was wearing leggins & I JUST COULDN'T LOOK T.T or could I ? >:D
N is just perfect as male and female it doesn't even make sense =/
Hongbin looked gorgeous in VIXX TV episode my DP in tumbler is him in drag X"DD
Him & Ravi are buff yet so skinny I'm starting to get worried =/
I kennot with Ravi's English too. He needs to VIXX it. -
i've got question ? where is mordney present? ;D
Question 1: 23 Guys, 3 Groups are K-pop, 1 is Se7en and One Group has 7 Members .. What I came up with! ~
It's either Se7en (1) makes 22 left, One 7 Member Group: Block B, BTOB or Infinite .. makes ist 15 members left… so then I was confused if it is 3 Groups WITH Se7en or without so I kinda got two possibilitys like:
– Topp Dog (13) and TVXQ (2) makes 15 and then everyone is there <— way without seven!
– Super Junior + SuJu M (15) <— Way without Seven …One of my frinds also confused me by telling me you ment Se7en, seven Member Group AND three other groups .. then I have:
Se7en (1), BTOB/BlockB/Infinite (7), DBSK (5), Big Bang (5) and SHINee (5) _> 'cough cough'* … But well I'll try to explaine ~Soooo….. Teen Top already has 272 swipes and get's 34 more by any minute that passes while Nu'est is just starting so 0 and get's 41 by any minute …
That makes 272+34*x for Teen Top and 41*x for Nu'est ~
Then I tried using different numbers for X and it happens that 39 was correct so .. it takes 39 minutes to overswipe Teen Top.
Teen Top then is set with 1598 while Nu'est has 1599 x'D .. Took me ages to figure that out because I HATE Math! x'DDQuestion 3: I'm pretty sure that Jay was the first one 'cause he drove faster. And when they are actually driving the same road .. Jay would be the first. But it could also be that Jay was wearing a shirt while driving and Taeyang not then basically Taeyang would be the first to have a shirtless photo …
But seriously .. it's Jay Park … do you really expect him to WEAR a shirt while driving?? x'DDDDid I Pass?? :DDD
And then to the English part .. I actually had a conversation with a good friend of mine just now and she said that she hears nothing like an you at the end but rather a Shhhiiiii ~ .. But seriously .. I had times were I heared uge and I'm also thinking it actually IS
You shot right through my heart
I will fight for you.And for the Showdown … As much as I love both of them … my Vote goes to Mirotic!! >_<'' No offense but it's one of the best MV's ever and DBSK is Legendary *Q* ~ … I absolutely love this MV!
But Voodoo Doll is also great … ~ I brought the Album straight away *Q* ~ But I have to Vote for DBSK .. my heart beats for them <'33 -
Also, I would've loved it if you talked more about the actual songs in Kpop music monday, I miss a review of the actual song… :/
I really like mirotic, it's a clasic., I'm not startlight but voodoo doll video is amazing.. *for me*, so my vote goes to VIXX. the concept and everything…
I looove this review.. hahaha raviolli xDD… and it's true, I didn't get any of the first lines of Ravi.. lol… -
… are u serious xddddd I'm a Starlight, really devoted one, but hell, Mirotic is the best thing that happened to k-pop. Amen.
Wow, you guys finally reviewed VIXX, yeah! I actually really really like the song. I like a lot of VIXX's songs. Maybe their style isn't new, but it's still good, and I like it. The video and dance were awesome too, obviously!
I really like your KMM, I thought it was funny. I'm a math teacher, but I still thought your math segment was funny. I noticed the math on the glass too in the music video the first time around.
I agree that Ravi's mumbling is hard to understand. I don't usually talk about it because I know Ravi tries his best, and I always imagine his sad face. I think, however, that he is kind of mumbling on purpose (maybe?), that it's kind of a stylistic choice. Anyway, I'm not insulted by you guys mentioning it at all, because it is true. :) However, am I the only one who thinks his raps and the other lines in the song (Should I go, should I stay, nobody knows?) is very understandable? It really always seems to be the intro line that is hard to understand. He usually does better in the rest of the song.
Anyway, love the song! And welcome to the Starlight community guise!
I like that this review is longer then what has become the norm! Please keep making longer KMMs!
I'm glad VIXX finally got a review. It's always nice to see new artists for KMM :) -
"Mumblecrusting" = my new favorite word.
The music video scared the shit out of me xD I'm sorry, I like the song but I could not handle the video :(
The last week, several friend and I haven't been able to stop listening to VIXX's Voodoo. It's a break from our usual feelz inducing biased obsessed kpop listening. It's been a nice change for us. I don't particularly care what Ravi's saying. I described his voice as sliding into home base on bare knees on gravel. And we like it. You know what I'm saying.


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As previously disclosed on the Form 8-K filed on July 11, 2014, on such date Alliant Techsystems Inc. (the "Company") announced that it had elected to redeem (the "Redemption") on August 20, 2014 (the "Redemption Date"), all of its then outstanding 3.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2024 (the "Notes"), at a price, payable in cash, equal to $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes outstanding on the Redemption Date, together with accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes to, but excluding, the Redemption Date. Holders ("Holders") of the Notes had the right to convert their Notes at any time prior to the close of business on August 18, 2014, which was the second business day immediately preceding the Redemption Date. Between July 11 and August 18, 2014, the Company received notice from Holders electing to convert $8,290,000 in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the indenture governing the Notes, dated as of August 13, 2004 (as amended or supplemented, the "Indenture"), among the Company, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor to BNY Midwest Trust Company, as trustee. The Company intends to satisfy its obligations with respect to such conversions solely in cash on various dates between August 27 and September 17, 2014.
On the Redemption Date, the Company redeemed $26,000 in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes, representing 100% of outstanding Notes that had not been converted by Holders, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Indenture. In connection with the Redemption, the Company paid total consideration of $29,310.83, which included fees and accrued and unpaid interest. The Notes were redeemed using cash on hand. Immediately following the Redemption, the Company canceled the Notes and discharged the Indenture in accordance with its terms.
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Awesome bindings. Quick in and out with the drop down highbacks. I love this more then the flows since the straps on the bindings pop up when you release the highbacks giving you more wiggle room to put your feet in or out. When you are ready to go just lock down the binding and the straps tighten back up.
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Michael A. Bigley, 61, of 1914 Settle Road, Newark Valley, N.Y., died Monday afternoon, August 15, 2011, at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, N.Y. following a lengthy illness. He was surrounded by his family at the time of his death. He was born December 14, 1949 in Pittsburgh, son of the late Frederick and Dorothy Wallace Bigley. On February 5, 1972, in Holy Rosary Church, Johnsonburg, he married Lynn Steudler, who survives. He graduated from Keystone Oaks High School, Pittsburgh. He also attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Florence C. Redmount, age 86, of 310 Jackson Ave., Ridgway, died Sunday evening, Aug. 14, 2011, at Elk Haven Nursing Home followed an illness of the past three years. She was born May 30, 1925, in New York, N.Y., daughter of the late Abraham and Rebecca (Schweitzer) Schweitzer. She married Melvin B. Redmount on June 1, 1952, he survives. She had resided in Ridgway for the last 53 years and was a member of the B'nai Brith Synagogue in Bradford, was a past two-term Ridgway Area School Board member, a past member of the Footlighters, and a member of the Animal Protection Association.
Jo Ann K. Marche, 74, of 392 Brandy Camp Circle Ridgway died on Aug. 5, 2011 at Elk Haven Nursing Home in St. Marys. She was born on March 18, 1937 in Dagus Mines, daughter of the late Adam and Sophie Zuchowski Shutika. She married James A. Marche Sr., who died on July 6, 2008. She was a member of Holy Cross Church in Brandy Camp and enjoyed crocheting, collecting angels and atching Mother Angelica on EWTN. She had been employed at Stackpole Carbon as a laborer in the oven room for 18 years. After her retirement, she worked at Long John Silvers in DuBois and Sylvania in St. Marys.
Peggy J. (Bugdon) Hankinson, 78, DuBois, died in her sleep on Aug. 2, 2011. She was born Dec. 4, 1932, in Portland Mills, the daughter of Ignacious and Mary Gere Bugdon. She lived and worked in the Ridgway area for many years. On Oct. 6, 1980, she married Woody Hankinson and moved to the Wilcox area. After her husband's death, she lived in several locations, finally residing in DuBois.
Winifred E. Bowler, 92, of State College, formerly of Pittsburgh and Ridgway, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 at the Hearthside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in State College. Born on July 1, 1919 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Winifred (Walker) Mole. On March 17, 1945 in Brisbane, she was married to Robert E. Bowler, who preceded her in death on Dec. 12, 1996. Mrs. Bowler was employed as a Unit Secretary at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh where she retired in 1982.
Eugene "Gene" Cooney of Atlanta, Ga., formerly of Johnsonburg, died July 27, 2011. He was born in Johnsonburg Jan. 3, 1948 and was the son of the late George F. and Irene C. Cooney.
Eileen R. Catalano, 82, formerly of Kaul Avenue, St. Marys, died peacefully and with her family by her side on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 at Elk Haven Nursing Home. She was born in St. Marys on Oct. 13, 1928, daughter of the late Fred and Eleanor (Zimmett) Caseman. On March 31, 1948 she married Albert A. Catalano. He preceded her in death on Dec. 3, 2003. She was a graduate of Central Catholic High School. She worked many years at Stackpole and later was a volunteer in the Hospitality Shop at the Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital.
Eleanor A. Galsick, 92, of 4117 Rasselas Rd., Wilcox, died Monday afternoon, August 1, 2011 at Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys following a brief illness. She was born on December 10, 1918 in Rasselas, daughter of the late Frederick and Gertrude Markert Brechtel. She married Frank P. Galsick on September 21, 1940 in Holy Cross Church in Rasselas. He died June 20, 1988. She resided in Rasselas all of her life and attended Rasselas schools and Wilcox High School. She was a member of Holy Cross Church.
George William Gardner, 76, of Peachtree Street Ext., Clermont, died Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at Catawba Valley Medical Center. He is now walking with Jesus. Born May 3, 1935, in Portland Mills, he was the son of the late George William Johnson and Olive Claire Shaffer. He was a milkman with V.T. Smith Dairy in DuBois for many years and a mechanic with G.S. Fibers-Hickory Springs in Clermont for over 14 years. George was a member of Concordia Lutheran Church in Conover. He was an avid NASCAR truck series fan.
Margaret "Maggie" Shields McCoy Schreiber, 76, of 74 Glass Rd., St. Marys, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 following a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. She was born March 26, 1935, in Ford City, daughter of the late Edward L. and Anne McGinley Shields. In October 1993 in Wilcox, she married Robert J. "R.J." Schreiber, who survives. They were married by Fr. Norbert Wolf.


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I can't say that maternity is a love of mine. I've done 2 other sessions with friends, and I didn't have as much fun with it as I have my other sessions. I have definitely found that I'm more of a family photographer, and found myself gravitating that way during this session. I had to rush towards the end to get the belly shots that I wanted.
I'd love to know what you think of these.
All shot with my 50mm 1.4
1/500 f/5 ISO200
1/400 f/4.5 ISO400
1/1600 f/4.5 ISO400
1/400 f/4.5 ISO400
Same as above
1. This is probably my fav. Just being nit-picky- wish his or both their hands were on her belly. Looks more like an engagement pic.
2. Not your issue-, but I wish she was smiling. Her hair distracts me...
3. too much sun here. Boy looks unhappy. Great job with the dog tho!
4. CUTE! You can tell the baby is on her right, our left side!
5. The tracks are a bit distracting. I wish you would have opened up a bit more and maybe had this one closer up.
I pretty much agree with Sadie's CC. I'm sure they will like them - some sweet moments here!
#1 is my fave, as well.
#2 she looks a little uncomfortable or something. Not a genuine smile, which is too bad.
#3 I'm wondering if it wouldn't have been better to move them forward a little. I can see they're in the sun and the look like they're squinting. If they were in the shade just a couple of feet forward, they'd be more comfortable. OTOH, without being there and knowing exactly what the conditions were like, it's hard to say how well that would've worked.
#4 is lovely. The only thing is, my eye keeps going to the window frame in the upper left.
#5 is really nice. I didn't agree with Sadie about the tracks at first, but now that I look again, I see that they actually lead the eye away from her, so shooting this a bit more wide open so the tracks weren't so defined, or changing the composition, might've been better. (I think I might've liked to see them all a little more wide open, actually.)
Married Anthony April 2, 2005
Nora born Feb. 14th, 2007
Micah born Jan. 20, 2009
Thank you so much! I was feeling really off my game this weekend, and I'm not quite sure why. I also had a family shoot with a 3 month old that went TERRIBLE!! My first re-shoot is coming out of that one.
Hopefully it's a small rut, and I'll get out of it by next weekend.
1 - My fave, sweet pose, they look sweet together.
2 - I'm not feeling the pose. I think he needs to be closer to her.. He looks like he's trying not to touch her, like the belly-out hug you give an acquaintance (if that makes any sense). I'm guessing maybe that's not 100% related to the pose, but also maybe he just wasn't relaxed.
3&4 - I think the others gave good feedback, not much for me to add.
5 - I like this. She looks relaxed and natural. I just wish there was something a little darker behind her belly because it almost gets lost in the other light-colored background.
Sean Thomas - 6/30/09 @ 7:17pm 8lb 8oz, 19", 40w5d
Calvin Michael - 2/28/11 @ 7:39pm 6lb 8oz, 18", 37w5d
Nolan Matthew - 5/1/13 @ 11:54pm 6lb 4oz, 19", 38w4d
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1. This is my favorite too. Love the pose and long grass in the background.
2. This is probably my least favorite. The pose is fine, but they seem stiff.
3. I think the pose is great, but because they're in full fun, they're squinting.
4. I really like the comp on this one.
5. I really like everything about this. I don't find the tracks distracting. I do think her belly might be a touch bright.


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Mike Cryans was present. He is working to fill the open Executive Council seat. Tom Lavender from Brookfield spoke about his desire to return to Concord to continue his work on behalf of District 5. Paul Turner, also running for District 5 representative from Sanbornville, spoke about his thoughts concerning ways to move forward on some of the more controversial bills. Larry Brown from Milton would like to return to the state legislature and outlined his thoughts on the importance of responsible, dedicated legislators. Susan Ticehurst and Ed Butler spoke asking for support so they can return to the state legislature to keep working for their districts. John White is running for the state senate seat from District 3. John spoke eloquently about the need for the state to move forward and help the citizens of our state. |


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No 8 from TTB
I probably should have waited to drink this, as my sinus are still irritated from the momoko.
I've never had iced wine, never even heard of it until I joined Steepster, LOL. Of course, I gave up alcohol (& other substances) 29 years ago, so things that are suppose to taste like wine mean nothing to me.
However, I suspect that this will be really good as a cold brew. I think there's enough in the sample to try it that way, so why not?


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Iona Gaels (13-3)
@Marist Red Foxes (7-9)
Sunday, January 08
McCann Center
Attendance: 1,313
Poughkeepsie, NY (Sports Network) - Mike Glover erupted for a game-high 31 points and pulled down seven rebounds as the Iona Gaels defeated the Marist Red Foxes, 100-76, in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action at McCann Arena.
Glover connected on 11-of-19 shots from the floor and 9-of-11 at the free- throw line for the Gaels (13-3, 5-0 MAAC) as they won their third in a row and the sixth in seven outings. Lamont Jones and Kyle Smyth produced 17 points apiece and Scott Machado responded with 16 points and a game-high nine assists.
The Red Foxes (7-9, 2-3) were paced by Adam Kemp who recorded a huge double- double with 25 points and 15 rebounds, while Devin Price poured in another 23 points and Chavaughn Lewis 13 off the bench as the hosts lost their second in a row.
Iona scored the first points of the afternoon and never looked back, the visitors connecting on a sizzling 65.5 percent from the floor and 6-of-8 behind the three-point line in the first half in order to post a commanding 56-32 advantage at the break.
In the second half the Gaels again shot the ball extremely well at a 56.7 percent clip, as the squad cruised to the 24-point victory.
Marist finished the day shooting only 38.5 percent from the floor and 6-of-23 out on the perimeter, in addition to turning the ball over 19 times.
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Tech, Photography, Stuff
Tech, Photography, Stuff
February 17, 2012
The title says it all. The much anticipated ColdFusion 10 (Zeus) has entered public beta and is available for download from Adobe Labs.
ColdFusion 10 represents a leap forward for ColdFusion with a nice combination of updated infrastructure and libraries as well as lots and lots of improvements to existing features. While they were at it the engineering team went ahead and added a slew of new features and language enhancements as well. Here's a small sampling of what's new:
This is just the tip of the iceberg. For a really nice overview of what's new from engineering team member Sagar Ganatra, check out his site.
January 19, 2012
If you happen to be in the Phoenix area on Wednesday, January 25th, stop on by the University of Advancing Technology at 6:30 pm to catch a preview of my upcoming cf.Objective presentation: Ten Steps to Move Your Use of Caching Beyond the Basics. Here's a short description of the presentation:
We all know that caching plays an important part of any performant and
scalable application architecture and that with ColdFusion 9 caching is
easier than ever. This session explores 10 steps you can take to move your
use of caching beyond what ColdFusion provides out of the box.
*Please note that this presentation won't be recorded/streamed. You have to be there in person to see it. Normally I'm all for recording and streaming, but since this is a preview of a talk I'll be giving at an upcoming conference, I want to limit the audience out of respect to those attending the conference.
August 1, 2011
Steve Bryant started a meme encouraging those involved with ColdFusion to post their personal story of how they got involved with the language. Here's mine.
I first fell in love with computers during the summer of 1982. I was 10 years old and my parents signed me up for a summer program to teach kids Basic programming. I spent that summer learning to hack Basic on a terminal connected to a mainframe. The following year my elementary school got a dozen or so Apple IIe computers and I was hooked. From there I got my first home computer – a Commodore Vic 20 with 2.5 k of RAM. I still remember sitting in my room painstakingly typing in game code from the latest issue of Compute magazine. I'd often leave the computer running for days as I didn't have any way to save the programs at the time and retyping everything would take me hours. I'm pretty sure this is where my debugging skills were forged as I hunted through program code trying to find the typos I had made while transcribing from the magazines. It wasn't long before I scraped enough money together to buy a tape drive, allowing me to save my programs. As technology marched forward, so did I. My next home computer was a Commodore 64. I must have spent thousands of hours on that machine programming, playing games, and immersing myself in the world of computers.
When I got to high school, Apple was out and IBM was in. My high school didn't allow freshmen to take computer classes, so I had to wait until 10th grade for any more official instruction. That year I learned Pascal. In my junior year, my computers teach got me an after-school job with a local engineering firm. They were looking for someone to build and maintain some applications for them. I interviewed and got the job. I still remember my first day – sitting down at the leased 286 with an orange monochrome screen. My boss dropped off a big box of discs and manuals for something called Ashton Tate dBase IV. He then said he wanted me to build them a database for all of their pumps and related devices. After looking through the manuals the rest of the day, I stopped in to my boss's office to let him know that I thought I might be in over my head. "Nonsense", he told me. "Why don't you take a few weeks to read the manuals and play around with the software, and if you still feel the same way, then I'll understand and we can part ways with no hard feelings." Turns out dBase wasn't so hard to work with after all. That job lasted me the rest of my time in high school and provided a lot of great programming experience as I built and maintained several networked client-server applications for the company.
As much as I enjoyed computers, I still couldn't see making a living working with them. I had considered doing a degree in computer science, but everyone I knew who had gone that route hated it (granted most of my friends were only a year or two older than I was, so most of them were still working through the fundamental classes). I had this idea of writing snippets of large programs as part of a team of people with little satisfaction. I'm not sure exactly where I got this idea from, but it's something that I just wasn't interested in doing. Computers were always fun for me and I just couldn't bear the idea of taking all the passion out of something I loved by making it into a full-time job for the rest of my life. So instead of computer science, I forgot all about computers for a few years and pursued a double major in political science and sociology. I also enlisted in the Air National Guard as a means to pay my way through school.
Toward the end of my time at the University of Delaware (around 1993) I saw my first web page. I was instantly hooked. From there I started spending more and more time online and eventually started a small consulting company with two other guys I knew. Our main focus was web design and development for nonprofits. Looking back, we were way too early for the market we were primarily targeting. Most of the nonprofits we talked to were just learning about the web and had no idea how to really take advantage of it, let alone a budget to work with. Luckily we had a few small business clients that kept things going and allowed me to develop my skills. I was also working construction at the time to make ends meet.
By 1996 it was clear that the consulting company wasn't going anywhere. My two partners had full time jobs and families and the business just wasn't a high enough priority for them. My girlfriend at the time (now my wife), seeing that this was the case finally told me "you need to find a real job." I started looking in the newspaper the next day and found several promising leads for companies looking for someone to work on the web. After several interviews I happened on an ad for a small electronics company in West Chester, PA looking for a Webmaster to build and manage their corporate web site and intranet. I applied, had an interview, and was hired shortly after. This was early 1996.
I got to work immediately building out their website and intranet with a combination of static HTML and Perl for handling basic tasks like emailing form content. This worked well for a while, but it was only a matter of time before I was asked to add some dynamic content--the request was to "web enable" our corporate address book, which was stored in a Microsoft Access database. My first reaction was to develop the application in Perl. However, at the time, building an application like this in NT Perl (all of our web servers were NT based) wasn't feasible, so I began looking for other solutions.
I first tried a product called DB Web, from a company named Aspect Software that had just been acquired by Microsoft. After a bit of experimentation, I realized that DB Web wasn't what I was looking for. It was more of a tool for querying data from Microsoft Access databases (it wrote VB code on the back end) than a real application development platform. (As a side note, Microsoft stopped supporting DB Web shortly after I evaluated it and rereleased it as ASP (Active Server Pages) a few months later.)
Frustrated, I decided to look into another product I had been hearing about on a web development discussion list. The product was Allaire's ColdFusion (Cold Fusion at the time), a rapid application development platform for creating and deploying dynamic server-based web applications. Within hours of downloading the trial version of the software, I had created a proof-of-concept for the corporate address book application.
Fast forward 15 years and it's almost funny to imagine that I fell in love with a programming language that had just over 30 tags and functions in the 1.5 release. At the time, though, ColdFusion had enough power to handle any web programming task thrown my way. And as the tasks have become more complex, ColdFusion has kept pace. Although I no longer develop as part of my day-to-day responsibilities, I'm still heavily involved with ColdFusion and the ColdFusion community and I can honestly say that with each new release, ColdFusion contains features and functionality that seem to show up just as I find myself needing or wanting them.
Beyond what I think of ColdFusion as a technology, though, is what ColdFusion has provided me personally. Not only has it enabled me to earn a living, it's also been the catalyst for a lot of personal growth. Because of ColdFusion I have had the opportunity to write two books (on ColdFusion, of course), speak at countless user groups and conferences around the world, and literally meet hundreds of passionate, smart people who share my love of technology. Thanks ColdFusion!
June 22, 2011
The follow up discussion to a recent blog post by Ray Camden made me realize that there's a lot of misunderstanding (including the ColdFusion documentation) about how ColdFusion's user defined caches work. In this blog post, I hope to clear up some of that confusion.
ColdFusion 9.0 completely overhauled CF's caching mechanism and replaced the old file based system with Ehcache. Out of the box, ColdFusion made two default caches available to every ColdFusion application, an object cache and a template cache. It was also possible to create additional user-defined caches at runtime, but only if you were using the cfcache tag, not the caching functions. Here's an example that puts and gets data from a user defined cache:
ColdFusion 9.0.1 added the ability to use user defined caches in many of the caching functions as well. Here's our previous example written using cacheGet() and cachePut() instead of the cfcache tag:
One thing to note here is that neither cacheGetProperties() nor cacheSetProperties() can be used to configure the properties for a custom cache in ColdFusion 9.0 or 9.0.1. If you want the cache configuration to differ from ColdFusion's default cache configuration, you'll need to configure the cache in your ehcache.xml file:
Obviously it's not always desirable or even possible (say in the case of a shared hosting environment) to hard code configuration settings in the ehcache.xml file. Besides that, anytime you make changes to the XML file you need to restart ColdFusion for them to take effect. While I hope that Adobe adds the ability to set properties for custom caches in a future release of ColdFusion, there is a solution you can take advantage of today in the form of a small UDF I wrote called cacheCreate().
The cacheCreate() UDF allows you to create a new user defined cache at runtime and pass in configuration options that ColdFusion currently requires you to set in your ehcache.xml file. It uses Java to call the underlying Ehcache API and do the heavy lifting for you. Here's the code (you can also get cacheCreate() at cflib.org:
To create and configure a new user defined cache in your application, all you need to do is something like this:
While this won't work in all cases (say you want to cluster your cache or add in a Terracotta Server Array), it should get you thinking about other ways you can extend ColdFusion's ehcache implementation by utilizing some of the Ehcache Java API within CF.
May 24, 2011
As you might have heard, Terracotta -- the makers of Ehcache, the Terracotta Server Array, Quartz Scheduler and Big Memory recently announced their intent to be acquired by German software company Software AG. If you're wondering who Software AG is, you're probably not alone. Until recently, Software AG was a relatively little known company in the US. Although they've been in business since the late 1960's, their main market had been Europe. That all changed in 2007 when they acquired WebMethods, one of the largest providers of integration systems and services. This more than doubled their North American customer base. They continued to fuel their rapid growth from their mainly through acquisition. After WebMethods came IDS Scheer in 2009, Data Foundations in 2010, and now Terracotta. Each of their acquisitions has succeeded in growing their customer base, and in most cases, their revenue as well.
So, why Terracotta when Software AG is known as a business process and SOA infrastructure company? The first reason is for the technology itself, mainly Ehcache, Terracotta, and Big Memory. Software AG has big plans for the cloud, and in-memory capability and scalability play a huge part in building out their PaaS infrastructure. There are other potential benefits as well. Open source Ehcache claims an install base of over 500,000 with a sizeable open source community to back it. Although Software AG has little experience in the open source market, they've committed to the Ehcache and Quartz communities going forward. There's also the opportunity to improve job scheduling within the existing WebMethods suite. If you've ever used their existing scheduler, you know that it leaves much to be desired.
The company I work for has been a Software AG customer for close to 7 years now. We started with their ESB (Crossvision Service Orchestrator) and Tamino XML database, upgraded to WebMethods Integration Server after the merger, and have added capabilities around Business Activity Monitoring and SOA Governance since then. All along the way, Software AG has worked closely with us to meet our often challenging requirements. I think in that respect, Terracotta customers are in good hands. I've also spent considerable time working with Ehcache and Terracotta over the past 3 years now – writing articles and blog posts about their caching technology as well as speaking at several conferences. Although I didn't see the acquisition coming, I think combining the passion and talent of the folks at Terracotta with the resources and track record of Software AG will be a win for everyone involved.
While that last statement might sound like rainbows and unicorns, there is one area where I hope Software AG can learn from Terracotta, and that's community. Having been involved with various technology communities over the years, I feel that the Software AG community could use some help. With the exception of a few sites, there's little evangelism that happens outside of Software AG branded properties. Sure there are official Software AG blogs, and Software AG forums, but what I don't see is a vibrant community outside of Software AG writing about and talking about their products. Contrast that with Terracotta, and especially the Ehcache community and you'll see exactly what I mean. Let's hope that Software AG makes the most of the community they're getting along with the technology.
May 13, 2011
Slides, config files and code for my cf.objective() 2011 presentation, "Undocumented and Off Script: ColdFusion & Ehcache" are now available. You can view the slides inline, or download the attached zip file which contains the presentation and all files/code from the presentations.
As always, if you have questions or want to discuss, leave a comment or hit me up on twitter at @styggiti.
April 27, 2011
Headed to cf.Objective 2011 and want to learn more about caching in ColdFusion with Ehcache? Stop by my session Undocumented and Off Script: ColdFusion & Ehcache on Thursday, May 12th at 10:15 am. I'll cover a broad range of topics including upgrading the version of Ehcache that ships with ColdFusion, clustered caching, distributed caching, cache search, cache monitoring, developer tools, and much, much more.
I hope to see you there!
April 26, 2011
My latest article on Building High Performance Applications with ColdFusion 9 and Ehcache 2.4 is out on DZone. In addition to covering basic caching concepts, the article also walks you through the process of updating the version of Ehcache that ships with Coldfusion from 2.0 to 2.4 as well as installing and configuring a Terracotta server for distributed caching.
November 5, 2010
Anyone who has ever presented at a conference will be able to appreciate this one. Right in the middle of my Adobe MAX presentation on Configuring and Maintaining Healthy ColdFusion Servers. Thanks to Brian R. Detweiler for the photo ;-)
October 29, 2010
Here are the slides from my Adobe MAX 2010 conference session: Configuring and Maintaining Healthy ColdFusion Servers.
If you were in the session, there are about 6 or so slides we didn't make it to thanks to the BSOD I had mid-preso.
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up on Twitter (@styggiti) or via email at [rbils at amkor dot com].


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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Anahola is known as the most Hawaiian of all communities on Kauai, so Anahola Beach Park is definitely a locals' hangout, especially for families with small children. A child's first birthday is considered a big bash (including rented tents, picnic tables, and catered luau food) for family and friends in Hawaii, and this is a popular location for the celebration. The shallow and calm water at the beach road's end is tucked behind a curving finger of land and perfect for young ones. As the beach winds closer to the river mouth, there's less protection and a shore break favorable for body boarders if the trades are light or kona (south) winds are present. Children like to frolic in the river, and pole fishermen often set up at the river mouth. On Tuesday around 5 pm, you might catch Puna Dawson's hula halau (school) meeting. She welcomes visitors to watch and participate. If you come at sunrise, the view of Kalalea Mountains with the Anahola River trailing in front of it makes for a good photographic opportunity. Amenities: parking; lifeguards; showers; toilets. Best For: swimming; partiers; snorkeling; surfing.


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