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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2009 Army Strong Community Centers like the one that officially opened here over the weekend are dedicated to serving families who live far from the closest military base.
But they also can help the Army in its efforts to stay in touch with and provide better support for Gold Star families -- those who have lost loved ones in combat.
That's the conclusion Army Reserve Chief Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz said he made before the Sept. 12 ribbon-cutting ceremony here, when he met with the parents of local servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Stultz acknowledged the families' sacrifice during his official remarks at the ceremony, calling the new "virtual installation" here a way for the Army to live up to its warrior ethos as it reaches out to families of the fallen.
"Our warrior ethos is that we will never leave a fallen comrade," he said. "But we will also never leave a fallen comrade's family. That's why we are here."
Maintaining contact with these families hasn't always been easy, Stultz acknowledged, particularly because spouses typically move away from the base where their loved one was stationed. But he said he plans to propose the new centers as the key to the issue that Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. has been seeking.
"One of the messages I am going to go back to General Casey with is, I may have a solution," Stultz told American Forces Press Service. "Our Army Community Strong Centers can be part of your support network for your Gold Star families in the community."
The Rochester Army Strong Community Center is the first community-based center of its kind. It's resourced and staffed to deliver military families the information, services and support they'd have to drive to a major military base to find. Stultz and his wife, Laura, who championed the idea to fill a gap she experienced personally during his various deployments, hope to see the centers become as commonplace as local post offices.
The concept initially was meant to support families of deployed Army reservists. But Stultz said it's already proving valuable here for families of active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines as well.
Three Gold Star families told him at the center's official ribbon cutting this weekend that they see it as a resource for them, too. "When I talked to them about what we are doing here, tears literally rolled down their faces," Stultz said. "They said, 'That's what we really need. We need somewhere we can go.'"
Keith and Mary Ellen Schramm of Greece, N.Y.; Dan and Rita Hasenauer of Hilton, N.Y.; and Rob Lyons of Brighton, N.Y., all share the tragedy of losing a loved one in combat. And all live hundreds, even thousands of miles, from the units where their sons were based.
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brian K. Schramm, 22, died Oct. 15, 2004, in Iraq's Babil province. He was assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force's 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Twenty-one-year-old Army Pfc. Jason D. Hasenauer died near Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Dec. 28, 2005, when his Humvee accidentally rolled over during a patrol. Hasenauer was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 504th Parachute Regiment at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Army 1st Lt. James N. Lyons, 28, died Sept. 27, 2006, in Baghdad, after enemy forces attacked his mounted patrol. He was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's 12th Infantry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Lyons, Schramms and Hasenauers all reported great support from their casualty assistance officers after their sons were killed. What they said they're lacking now is a way to stay tied to the military their sons died serving, and to get information and help when they need it.
Until now, they said, they've relied mainly on each other.
Lyons told Stultz he doesn't know anyone at Fort Hood, his late son's post, hasn't talked by phone to anyone there, and doesn't know who he would call if he wanted to. He traveled there on his own to visit the memorials to his son and other Fort Hood soldiers killed in the wars.
Dan Hasenauer shared with American Forces Press Service that he told Stultz he sought counseling to deal with the grief of losing his son. But he never felt comfortable with the counselor, who didn't understand the military or what he was going through.
The Schramms tried one session of family counseling through the Department of Veterans Affairs, but said they didn't find it helpful for their three children: one was bitterly angry over his brother's death, and the other two "shut right down," Mary Ellen Schramm said.
"One place that seems to be lacking was support for siblings, especially teenagers," her husband said. "They are a hard group to get to. But they take it as hard as the parents do."
In addition to the intense emotional aspects of their losses, two of the families said they struggled with other procedural and policy roadblocks.
Jason Hasenauer and James Lyons both planned to marry when they returned from their deployments. Hasenauer's fiancée gave birth three weeks before he was killed, leaving her to navigate the military health care system for their daughter on her own and without the benefit of a military identification card. Lyons had to call his son's fiancée to break the news of his death and complained that she was "almost invisible" to the Army because she wasn't his wife.
While not knowing exactly how much the new Army Strong Community Center will be able to address their specific issues, the families agreed they're happy there's now a new resource in their community where they can turn for understanding and caring support.
"From what we have heard, the bases have good resources. But if you're not at a base, or once you have left a base, you lose any connection you had," Schramm said. "That's why something like this center here is so valuable. It fills a big gap."
But Stultz said he was particularly inspired by one parent's motivation to reconnect with the military through the new Army Strong Community Center.
"One of the mothers said, 'We have a Gold Star group here and we want to help soldiers, but we don't know where to go,'" Stultz said. "She said, 'I lost my son, but I still want to give back.' Now, that's pretty inspiring."
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Course Abstract Details
MATH-215, Differential Equations
Credits: 4
Course Description
MATH-215, Differential Equations, includes exact solutions of common types of first-order ordinary differential equations, exact solutions of second-order equations whose coefficients are constant, power series solutions, numerical and graphical techniques, Laplace transform methods, and linear systems. Additional topics may include applications to geometry and mechanics, matrix methods, special functions, non-linear systems. Students will be required to use a graphing calculator and significant mathematical software such as Mathematica, Maple, or MATLAB throughout the course. See Mathematics Department web site for details. Prerequisites: MATH-136 with a "C" grade or better. Five hours lecture each week. Four credits. Four billable hours. Offered Spring Term every even year. GENERAL EDUCATION
Course Objectives and Grading Information
MAJOR COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Classify differential equations by type, order and linearity. (GE2, GE3, PG1, PG3)
2. Solve the separable, exact, linear, homogeneous, and Bernoulli first-order differential equations. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
3. Solve applications of first order differential equations. (GE2, GE3, PG1, PG3, PG4)
4. Solve second-order differential equations by constructing a second solution from a known solution. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
5. Solve homogeneous linear equations of second or higher order with constant coefficients. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
6. Solve second- or higher-order differential equation by the method of undetermined coefficients. (GE2, GE3, PG1, PG3, PG4)
7. Solve Cauchy-Euler differential equations. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
8. Solve first- and second-order differential equations with initial conditions using Laplace Transformations. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
9. Solve systems of differential equations with Laplace Transformations. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
10. Solve Eigenvalue problems. (GE3, PG1, PG4)
11. Set-up and solve application problems using technology, such as graphing calculators and mathematical software. (GE1, GE2, GE3, PG1, PG2, PG3, PG4)
Edwards, C.H. and Penney, D.E. Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems, 6th edition. Pearson Education/Prentice Hall, 2008. [ISBN-10: 0-13-601828-9]
Learning Goals
The abbreviations in parentheses represent Learning Goals which have been identified for this course and program of study:

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Heinlein Society Scholarship Program for U.S. and Non U.S. Citizens for Undergraduate Studies, 2012 2013
Scholarship funded by The Heinlein Society for Undergraduate Students in Engineering, Math, or Physical Sciences or in Science Fiction as Literature, California, 2012 2013
Scholarship program: Heinlein Society Scholarship Program
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Employer: The Heinlein Society
Level of study: Undergraduate
Subject(s): Engineering, Math, or Physical sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry), or in Science Fiction as Literature
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Am I eligible? 1) Applicant must be a full time undergraduate student enrolled in an accredited college that awards Bachelor of Science or Arts degrees.
2) Major must be Science Fiction as Literature or Engineering, Math or Physical Sciences (e.g. Physics, Chemistry).
3)Open to residents of any country.
What does it cover? $500 scholarships awarded to students selected by the Heinlein Society Scholarship Committee
How do I apply?By post or electronically
Scholarship Description: The Heinlein Society is pleased to announce that for the 2012-2013 academic year we will be offering the first of many scholarships. There will be two $500 scholarships awarded to undergraduate students of accredited 4-year colleges and universities majoring in engineering, math, or physical sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry), or in Science Fiction as Literature.
Application closing date: 15 May, 2012
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Today I want to speak about two dogmas: design and functional driven programming. As the example of those two approaches, I want to introduce two Twitter clients: *Chirp by thirteen23 and TwitterFox by Naan Studio
As you can see, *Chirp is state of art application with outstanding user interface, and well-defined usability studies. While TwitterFox is wacky grey boring kind-of-grid only. However, you cannot judge app by only how it looks like. Let's try to understand first what's for you need twitter client?
Defining application goals by user story
I'm using twitter as quick and handy business tool to write my thought, feelings and everyday events. It is not my main (not even secondary) task during the day, so I want to be able to open, write and forget. Thus, I need an application, that can be invoked by one click and dismissed after writing. Also, I do not want background application to gasp valuable space in my screen, when not in use. Thus it should be background process with reduced workset and one textarea, to be focused when the main window become active. Also the application should hide itself when unfocus, yet be able to notify me about events without disturbing.
Let's see how it done in *Chirp:
- 140MB workset
- No ability to hide
- Bouncing thingy at left upper corner to disturb you – it designed as you main desktop beautifier.
- No ability to know that new twittes arrived without showing main window
- Twit process required to click additional button (named "Update" for some reason)
- If you not finished typing, you can either dismiss all text of post it.
- Strange 140 characters countdown on background absolutely esthetical, yet very disturbing.
- You cannot type more, then 140 characters – this restricted by textbox. If pasted bigger text all additional characters truncated.
- You need mouse to operate an application
Now TwitterFox:
- 10MB workset
- You can hide it by hitting escape or clicking X button
- Small and portable without disturbing elements – it not designed as your main everyday app.
- New twits counter over small icon in browser tray, all other notifications can be disabled
- Once focused text are become active, expanded automatically and ready to write
- If you're hiding it without clearing area, all un write text remains – you can clear it by one click
- Small 140 characters countdown which is visible only when typing
- You can type more, then 140 characters – counter becomes red, and you cannot post, however you're able to fix, by dismissing unnecessary spaces or characters.
- Can be operated by only keyboard.
Bottom line: *Chirp designed to show how good it looks, while TwitterFox to twit only. Thus for my specific user story TwitterFox won!
Defining functional specifications
Next task defined for Twitter is read other twits. I used to read all my following and followers when I have free minute. Sometimes I retwit things, rather often reply followers and read replies and rarely send direct messages.
*Chirp provides twit area without scrollbar, yet not restricted to number of twits. Other words, you can scroll with mouse wheel only or by holding somewhere inside and dragging unlimited up and down. When the mouse is over specific twit, it fades and show three buttons: reply, direct and retwit. Also each twit contains the name of the client was used (just like in regular web interface). When clicking user avatar it brings to special internal screen with last twit of the user, information and statistics about him, three functional buttons: UnFollow, Fave and Block and huge button Get User's Tweets. When clicking the line displays the time of the twit it puts twit url into clipboard.
Also *Chirp contains five main functional buttons: Faves, Home, Direct, Update and Refresh. When Home tab unfocused (for example you're on other screen), it also displays a number of new twits.
Error screen of *Chirp is really odd. It contains everything you not really need to know and beautiful whales moving on screen.
TwitterFox is much simpler. It contains two buttons on mouse/keyboard over – reply and fave. When clicking on user's avatar it opens it's page in Twitter with all necessary information. Main TwitterFox window contains three buttons: Recent, Replies, Messages.
No doubt, that *Chirp provides much richer functional spec, but wait, am I really need all this? I told earlier, that I used to read twits and replies, while *Chirp has no such view at all. You can easy copy twit url into clipboard, but what for? Also, you can read bio and statistics of people you following whenever you want without opening browser window. But how often you're doing that?
TwitterFox concentrated on functionality – twit, read, reply, read replies (and direct messages) – base tasks , Twitter designed for. It also marks replies with contrast color in public timeline, while *Chirp has inline reply functionality with threaded discussions support (which is very odd for Twitter)
Bottom line: *Chirp is enriched with not useful features, while TwitterFox contains only things, you're use. Thus for my specific functional requirements TwitterFox won again!
Developers vs. Designers final round
So, we already understand, that *Chirp is an application, designed to show how skilled thirteen23 designers are. And it achieved this goal. The application is state-of-art, looks and designed very well with taking into account even small details, however it huge, unusable for everyday twittering and extremely slow. This is a general example about Designers' doctrine.
TwitterFox is very ugly, but concentrated on functionality, tiny and reactive. It includes only features are necessary for twittering and has no other goals. So, this is a general example about Developers' doctrine.
Is it possible to messmate those doctrines? Probably it is. And it is really simple. Each one of actors should do his own work. Designers should design and Developers – develop. I spoke about it a lot during my lectures, I'll speak about it also at 11th February in user group meeting. By now, when you know how I see Twitter, you can start following me. Also, I'm interesting to hear your ideas about Designer-Developer intercommunication. It is not just about Microsoft way
Have a nice day and be good people.
January 30th, 2009 · Comments (10)
How to consume WCF or Webservice from Vista Sidebar gadget by using Silverlight?
The challenge today is really simple. All we have to do is to write Silverlight Vista Sidebar Gadget, that consumes either WCF, ASMX or REST based service. Really simple, isn't it? Let's start
Build server side services
We should start from services. This is very straight forward mission. Here the logic I want to implement
public string Echo(string input)
return string.Format("ACK from {0}", input);
Well, WCF? We should mark service and operation contracts. That's all
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "")]
public class EchoService
public string Echo(string input)
return string.Format("ACK from WCF with {0}", input);
This does not works. Why? Silverlight knows only consumes ASP.NET compatible (simplified) web services, thus we should add following attribute to the our class attributes collection
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "")]
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class EchoService
Now, the service is discoverable and accessible by Silverlight. Great news. Now let's put it into our shared host. Hmm, we got strange error: "Deploying WCF Services: This collection already contains an address with scheme http." What the hell is it?
This is shared hosting problem. Your host provider uses virtual IP and host addresses and has number of different web services, sitting on the same shared host. How to solve it?
Simple, all you have to do is to specify your own service host factory. Here the example of classes to put into code behind
class SLHostFactory : ServiceHostFactory
protected override ServiceHost CreateServiceHost(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses)
SLHost customServiceHost =
new SLHost(serviceType, new Uri("[Your URL goes here]",UriKind.Absolute));
return customServiceHost;
class SLHost : ServiceHost
public SLHost(Type serviceType, params Uri[] baseAddresses)
: base(serviceType, baseAddresses)
{ }
protected override void ApplyConfiguration()
And one attribute into your service tag
Now it works. So what's next? Build ASMX web service. This is even simpler
public string Echo(string input)
return string.Format("ACK from web service with {0}", input);
We done, now either WCF and Web services are accessible from your Silverlight application. So, add Service reference and consume it
Building client side
Inside code behind of your Silverlight project, you should define two proxies – one for Web Service and another for WCF service. Bother services implements the same interface, so it should not be a problem
ServerEcho.EchoServiceClient proxy;
WebServiceEcho.EchoWebServiceSoapClient wsProxy;
private void UserControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
proxy = new ServerEcho.EchoServiceClient();
proxy.EchoCompleted += new EventHandler<ServerEcho.EchoCompletedEventArgs>(proxy_EchoCompleted);
wsProxy = new SLGadget.WebServiceEcho.EchoWebServiceSoapClient();
wsProxy.EchoCompleted += new EventHandler<SLGadget.WebServiceEcho.EchoCompletedEventArgs>(wsProxy_EchoCompleted);
Silverlight work only asynchronously, thus you should begin to understand, that synchronous programming is for pussies :). Consume it
private void WCF_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
private void WS_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
And Update output
void wsProxy_EchoCompleted(object sender, SLGadget.WebServiceEcho.EchoCompletedEventArgs e)
txt.Text = e.Error == null ? e.Result : (e.Error.InnerException != null ? e.Error.InnerException.ToString() : e.Error.Message);
void proxy_EchoCompleted(object sender, ServerEcho.EchoCompletedEventArgs e)
txt.Text = e.Error == null ? e.Result : (e.Error.InnerException != null ? e.Error.InnerException.ToString() : e.Error.Message);
Now let's run it. What? Another error? Security? Access denied? Of cause you have no crossdomain.xml.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd"> <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="*" /> </cross-domain-policy>
What? You have it and still getting the same error? Look into sniffer. You application is looking for other file, named clientaccesspolicy.xml. Why? According the documentation, you can use either… Hm, another bug with WCF consuming. Never mind, let's put it too
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <access-policy> <cross-domain-access> <policy> <allow-from http-request-headers="*"> <domain uri="*"/> </allow-from> <grant-to> <resource path="/" include-subpaths="true"/> </grant-to></policy> </cross-domain-access> </access-policy>
Very well, now we are ready to run our application. It works! So, the only thing we should do is to pack it into MyGadget.gadget directory and put inside %userprofile%\appdata\local\microsoft\windows sidebar\gadgets together with gadget.xml manifest.
But… It stopped working… What's the problem?
Very client side networking in Silverlight
The problem is, that SideBar executes it's gadgets with local path, not with network path. Silverlight cannot use any network provider, when running locally. Why? Actually I do not know (maybe to prevent local applications development). so what to do?
Simple! Microsoft SideBar knows to run cross domain AJAX without any warnings and problems. So why not to use external XmlHttp from JavaScript for network access. Let's do it
First we should initialize XMLHttpRequest object in JavaSctipt
var xObj;
function getEchoWCF(text) {
if(xObj == null) {
xObj = new XMLHttpRequest();
else if(xObj) {
Then create SOAP request to WCF or WebService
var sURL = "[Path yo your service]";
//Build SOAP
var sReq = "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"><s:Body><Echo><input>"+text+"</input></Echo></s:Body></s:Envelope>";
xObj.open("POST", sURL, true);
xObj.setRequestHeader( "Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
xObj.setRequestHeader( "Cache-Control", "no-cache" );
After the request created and send we should handle result. So we need an access from HTML page, hosting Silverlight object to Silverlight. Simple. "ScriptableMember – ScriptableType", remember?
public partial class Page : UserControl
public void UpdateResponse(string result)
Now return the result
xObj.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xObj.readyState === 4) {
if (xObj.status && xObj.status === 200) {
var control = document.getElementById("silverlightControl");
But this is not enough. We also should know to call Javascript from Silverlight… This is really simple
private void JS_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("getEchoWCF", txt.Text);
We done. Now you can pack your Silverlight control, together with hosting HTML and Javascript into windows sidebar gadget and use it even with external network support.
Have a good day and be nice people.
June 23rd, 2008 · Comments (13)
OpenUp Sidebar gadget
OpenUp competition is on the air? Authors of contributed projects are stressed and want to know what's going on with their pet project on CodePlex.
What can they do about stress? To get it under control and download new gadget, I built to help them to relieve stress. Just look on your side bar and see three top rated projects (by CodePlex)
Click on it or drag it out of SideBar to see all submitted projects and it's rating
Take it easy and return to work. You should continue development of your projects.
Note: this is very first version with number of bugs. Those days I have no time to fix them, so you can either use it "as-is" or fix bugs and resubmit.
May 20th, 2008 · Comments (3)
Gas Price Windows Vista SideBar gadget – new version is available for download
This post is dedicated to some people in Microsoft and it's subsidiaries. It begun about year ago, when I developed Gas Price information gadget (do not download it there). Before I started, I sent some personal email to those in MSN, who maintains it's Auto section. I wait two days and got no response, so wrote this post about HTML scrapping and then I finished the gadget, that uses this technology.
Couple of weeks later, Senior Channel Manager of MSN Marketplace replayed to me. He asked whether I want to convert this gadget to "legal" one by gifting all rights to Microsoft. I asked about my benefits of doing it (my time costs money) and the conversation ended – he even did not responded. I was waiting for "YES" or "NO", but got only silent.
Year after he mailed me again with warning, that they going to "protect" Auto section in order to prevent unauthorized content grabbing. He asked again about possibility to "legalize" the gadget – I told, that they can do with this gadget whatever they want, so handed it off to MSN team. Nothing happened. No one took care on this.
A month later, I asked again by proposing to allow Windows Vista SideBar referrer too aside with affiliate sites for MSN Auto images, thus the gadget can continue to work and MSN remains protected from other "grabbers". But he demand to completely remove any reference to MSN from the gadget. The same time I got some proposals of using another data for this very popular gadget and populize other resources instead of very unpopular crappy MSN.
I decided to build new version of the gadget (here you can download) and did it today (my spare time – not work [this is for my manager]). This version even better, then previous one. It contains more information, that updates more frequently. I also includes distance from station and gas stations in Canada. So, this how it looks today
As you can see this one is much better and uses Automotive.com information. So what I have to do? Submit it instead of old one, right? This the response, I got from automatic system upon submission.
"Your item appears to be either missing a valid signature or a valid certificate. You may also want to check the signature to make sure that it includes the date"
Just to make things clear, I signed the code with private signature. They want me to sign it with Trusted Authority. This is very smart request, however I do not want to pay $200-$400 to make their sidebar better! There is neither ROI, nor benefit for me to pay money for something, I'm giving for free to anyone.
Just in case, signing code with certificate, trusted by authority even do not removes regular live gallery end-user warning.
"Unverified submission.
Only install applications from developers you trust. This is a third-party application, and it could access your computer's files, show you objectionable content, or change its behavior at any time."
So why me to pay? Only because I want to be nice to Microsoft and replace my old gadget by new one to serve dozen thousands of people, who using Windows Vista with SideBar and my gadget?
NO WAY! I will not submit it there. I will never contribute anything for free to Windows Vista Live Gallery. They want me (and million of other developers) to submit it to Google or Yahoo? I'll do it! I'll force my customers to use 3rd party addons and visit 3rd party websites to get the information they want to get without paying anyone. At least their marketing guys know how to make developer not to suffer from his own good wish.
Thank you and good buy! You want to win web? You just impossible to do it.
Download Gas Price gadget for Windows Vista SideBar >> (it signed with personal certificate, so do it for your own risk )
P.S. Next week, I have a meeting with Steve Ballmer and I'm going to ask him all those questions. If you have any questions and want me to ask him, please send it to me or leave a comment.
UPD (18-May): Some issues were fixed (zips starting with 0, negative prices, sorting). You can download new version of the gadget from the same url and update your local version. Great thank to all, who reported issues.
May 16th, 2008 · Comments (80)
Windows Live Gallery wave 2 update (commercial)
Cool new update come today to Windows Live Gallery. Now you, as developers can sell your gadgets and as customers to buy them. Money tree? Not exactly. Purchasing or selling might be done by using Microsoft Points (those of XBox). Cool feature, that, probably, will increase the amount of available gadgets, by motivating developers to build and sell them. Meanwhile all my gadgets are fee
October 25th, 2007 · Comments (1)
סוד ההצלחה באתר הגדג'טים של ויסטה
בוא אני אסביר לכם איך גדג'טים מכאן מגיעים לכאן (שזה מה שרואים משתמשי ויסטה). האמת שזה נורא פשוט. כל גדג'ט אשר ציונו מעל חצי (2.5) באופן אוטומטי מופיע באתר של ויסטה. מה זה אומר? שאם לא תצביעו בעבור הגדג'ט, האנטישמים יורידו אותו מהאתר (שזה מה שקרה היום). אז יהלה, להצביע (רק אם אתם באמת חושבים הדווחי תנועה זה טוב יהודים!)
January 4th, 2007 · Comments (1)
חדשות טובות
מהיום ניתן להוריד את הגדג'ט של מוקד התנועה גם מאתר של Windows Vista. ואל תגידו לי שהם לא תומכים בעברית להלן הקישור. תהנו
January 4th, 2007 · Comments (3)
Gadgets download
Yesturday, I noticed about interesting problem – how to make download gadget. Seemed stupid? No. Try to upload your gadget to any web server (it might be even apache). While you'll try to download it you'll get following in IE and FF. What's the hell? Why it's ZIP??? I uploaded .Gadget!
You see .ZIP extention just because .Gadget is really .ZIP, so "smart" IE knows to "translate" extention in order to prevent fraud. Very nice, but I want do download and install gadget. As like as I can do in in http://gallery.live.com
How to configure my server to do it. Simple answer is right MIME type. It's application and it's zipped, so we can use application/octet-stream, application/x-compressed or even application/x-msdownload. Let's try. Just register .gadget type with one of those. In first case you'll get octet stream Obviously. And this looks like that
Bad one. The next x-compressed will return us to previouse state with .ZIP renaming. Let's see what will be with x-msdownload.
You able to download gadget as requested, but you can not install it (Open->Run) from the web (like in Live.Gallery)
So such thing is not suitable for us. After some digs of my friends from Redmond (from Live team – they are only 3 ) I found it. The right MIME type for Vista SideBar Gadget is application/x-windows-gadget. Register .gadget extention with application/x-windows-gadget MIME type and you'll able to provide your visitors Live.Gallery like installation option for gadgets
Yossi, do it here for us as well
Have a nice gadget
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Chocolate Peak Climber's Log
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|SE to NW
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2006
|Looking to supplement my climb of Mt Agassiz on the 4th day of the Sierra Challenge, I climbed geologically interesting Chocolate Peak.
|Posted Aug 17, 2006 6:20 pm
|up - West Face; down - East Face
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2006
|Had a great time playing around in the Bishop Creek area with a couple friends. Wandered around on this little mountain for awhile. Nice views from the top.
|Posted Jul 8, 2006 4:07 pm
|Southeast from South Lake to Long Lake and then up the southwest slope
Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2006
|I came down from this hike looking like a calico cat. With the midmorning emergence of the hot sun, I stripped down to the bare necessities, missing a few places with the sunscreen (like the symmetrical spots approximately over my kidneys where the pack doesn't cover). My poor white underbelly hadn't seen the sun since I tried taking up sunbathing (interested me for one day) a couple years ago. Otherwise, it was a fun snowshoe with Joe, his dogs and my Jon.
|Posted Jun 3, 2006 4:11 pm
|Great Season Opener
Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2006
|I snowshoed this with Joe and Robin from about a mile below South Lake. It was an enjoyable hike on a beautiful day. We figured (rightly so) that this would be a good way to begin acclimating for the coming season.
|Posted Apr 30, 2006 10:32 pm
|Route Climbed: SE Ridge - descended NW Ridge Date Climbed: Aug-10-05
|Hiked with PellucidWombat during the 2005 Sierra Challenge
|Posted Nov 25, 2005 2:04 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: NW Ridge (ascent) / South Slopes (descent) Date Climbed: Oct 29, 2005
|Had hoped to do a loop around Hurd Peak, but several inches of fresh powder made this look a tedious option, so I bailed on that. Surprisingly nice views from Chocolate considering how low it is, especially of Cloudripper and Picture Puzzle.
|Posted Nov 10, 2005 12:35 am
|Route Climbed: SE Ridge - descended NW Ridge Date Climbed: August 10th, 2005
|Tagged this peak on my way back from an easy day on the Sierra Challenge. The highlight of the peak was the interesting shortcut we took down the NW Ridge onto what I called "Vanilla Flats"
|Posted Sep 17, 2005 7:06 pm
|D Smith
|Route Climbed: From gap between Ruwau and Chocolate Lakes Date Climbed: September 8, 2005
|A quick side-trip during a day-hike circuit of Long, Ruwau, and Chocolate, and Bull lakes. Great views! Wish I had more time to explore the area.
|Posted Sep 12, 2005 12:05 am
|Route Climbed: From Chocolate Lake Date Climbed: August 2004
|Where can you get a higher ratio of views to effort? This is a great vantage point to see Bishop Canyon from, and it is so quick and easy from beautiful Chocolate Lake.
|Posted Aug 6, 2005 12:39 am
|Route Climbed: From Long Lake Date Climbed: Nov. 2001
|I climbed this peak early in the morning on the way out from a late fall backpacking trip.
|Posted Sep 3, 2004 5:06 pm
|Route Climbed: From Chocolate Lakes Date Climbed: 1978 or 79
|Bagged this interesting peak a long time ago.
|Posted Sep 2, 2004 11:16 pm
|Tom Kenney
|Route Climbed: Northwest RIdge and West Face Date Climbed: Oct, 1997 (?)
|Very nice day. Great register to read.
|Posted Sep 2, 2004 5:21 pm
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: Traversed SE -> NW Date Climbed: June 13, 2004
|On my way down from Cloudripper, I stopped off at this interesting peak. The coloring of it is remarkable, from marble white to cinnamon to chocolate. Trip Report
|Posted Sep 1, 2004 10:06 pm
|Route Climbed: Southeast Date Climbed: August 28, 2004
|Jim Browsky must wear a cap.
|Posted Sep 1, 2004 7:09 pm


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In the distant past, the orchestra of the Board of Imperial Theatres emerged and developed its activities under two conductors. The first of them was composer Caterino Cavos (from 1803 Principal Conductor of the Russian Opera Theatre and, from 1832, Director of the Imperial Theatres' Orchestras). As head of the ensemble, Cavos conducted not just premieres of his own numerous operas, but was musical director of productions of Mikhail Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar. Moreover, he was involved in the Russian premieres of operas by foreign composers - Cimarosa's Horatii and Curiatii (1815), Weber's Der Freischütz (1824), Bellini's I Capuletti e i Montecchi and Rossini's Semiramide (1835) and Le Compte Ory (1838) among others.
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In late February and early March 1889 came the illustrious tour by Angelo Neumann's German Opera Company. Russia had its first performance of Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. German singers performed with the Mariinsky Symphony under famed conductor Karl Muck. Nine years later the Orchestra performed during the tour of another German opera company under K. Lewe. There were productions of operas by Richard Wagner, Johann Nepomuck Hummel, Charles Gounod, Karl Goldmark, Pietro Mascagni and Nicola Spinelli. Many of these operas were performed in Russia for the first time, and the name of Karl Richter stands out among the conductors of the time.
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These fragrant, golden potato balls with a creamy yogurt dip from Bill Meswaniamake an ideal snack for when vegetarian friends are visiting
Method1. For the potato balls: bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Add the potatoes and boil for 15–20 minutes until they are tender. Drain them well. When they are cool enough to handle, peel them and mash with the garlic purée, ginger, chilli paste, coriander, ground cumin and turmeric, garam masala, sugar and salt. Stir in the lemon juice and mix everything together. Roll the mixture into about golf ball-sized shapes and set them aside.
2. For the batter: mix the gram flour with the salt and bicarbonate of soda then stir in enough water to make a thick batter.
3. Heat enough oil for deep-frying in a deep-fat fryer or heavy-based saucepan until it reaches 180º–190ºC, or when a cube of bread browns in 60 seconds. Dip the potato balls into the gram flour batter, shaking off the excess. Add the potato balls in batches and fry for 2 minutes, or until they are golden and crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and transfer to a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain. Keep them warm in a low oven while you fry the remaining potato balls. It is important not to overcrowd the pan and return the oil to the correct temperature between batches, so the potato balls do not become soggy.
4. For the dip: mix the yoghurt, mint vinegar (or fresh mint) and garlic salt together, adding a little salt. Serve with the crunchy potato balls.
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- 8 medium potatoes, unpeeled, cut into chunks
- 1 tsp garlic paste
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 1/2-1 tsp green chilli paste
- handful choppedfresh coriander
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1 1/2 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 3 tsp lemon juice
For the batter
- 230 g fine gram flour, (chickpea flour)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- vegetable oil, for deep frying
For the dip
- 100 g plain yogurt
- 1 tsp mint vinegar, or freshly chopped mint
- pinch garlic salt


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Bob's Red Mill, 'Sweet' White Sorghum Flour, Gluten Free, 22 oz (623 g)
All Grains Contain A Type Of Gluten
Posted by Reviewer2469206 on Jul 13, 2012
There are different kinds of gluten and all grains contain gluten:
Wheat (Gliadin - 69%),
Corn (Zien - 55%),
Sorghum (Kafirin - 52%).
Grains are not a healthy food.
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Natural Treatment For Kidney Disease And High Creatinine In Kidney Disease Hospital.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Diet To lower High Creatinine levels
Creatinine is a blood test that is ordered to assess kidney function. Using this test, along with other factors such as age, gender and weight, can help physicians calculate the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), which is a measure of kidney damage.
There is no one particular kidney diet for patients with elevated creatinine. Individual dietary recommendations are based upon the patient's lab results, blood pressure, symptoms and other metrics. Making dietary changes has no preventative value if the change is not merited. Since patients with moderate kidney disease often have to heed to a restricted diet eventually, there is no sense in imposing restrictions that serve no purpose.
Your body uses protein to build and repair tissues and muscles and to fight off infection. When protein is broken down, like any other food, it produces certain waste products. One of these is urea, which damaged kidneys have trouble filtering out of the bloodstream. Most renal diets require you to monitor and limit your protein intake. Your doctor, dietitian or nutritionist will tell you how much and what types of protein you can consume. You will probably be allowed certain amounts of complete proteins from animal sources and certain amounts of incomplete proteins from plant sources .
High potassium levels can kill kidney patients, which is why this tests for this mineral are included in routine laboratory work. High levels cause nerves to fire erratically, which in turn causes heart arrhythmias and tachycardia. However, you can control high potassium levels by avoiding high potassium foods. This requires eliminating many otherwise healthy foods from the diet, such as broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, legumes, acorn squash and oranges. Substituting lower potassium foods such as peppers, mushrooms, onions, white rice and pasta is an effective strategy in meal planning if potassium restriction is necessary.
When kidney disease or high blood pressure is suspected, the first dietary change is often to reduce sodium in the diet. Fresh foods over packaged, convenience foods are recommended. Canned foods are particularly high sources of sodium in the American diet. When eating out, those trying to lower their sodium intake should avoid fast food restaurants and ask that foods be prepared without salt.
Phosphorus levels often become elevated as the kidneys are unable to regulate phosphorus content in the blood. One of the first symptoms of high phosphorus levels is uncontrollable itching. These high levels are is dangerous because phosphorus in the blood leaches calcium from the bones. Doctors use the term renal osteodystrophy to describe the bone damage that results. Patients with high phosphorus levels can prevent this from occurring by eating a low-phosphorous diet and taking drugs called phosphorus binders when they eat. High phosphorus foods to avoid include milk and milk products, chocolate, beer, organ meats, dried beans and other legumes.
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Case Western Reserve University Law School Dean Lawrence Mitchell, facing a lawsuit by a professor who contends Mitchell retaliated against him for reporting potentially inappropriate sexual conduct, is taking a leave of absence.
Mitchell sent an e-mail this morning to faculty, staff and students at the law school saying he was stepping back from the school.
"The recent initiation of litigation against the university and me, however, has proven to be a distraction to all of us," he wrote.


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How's the restaurant after moving there? I'm sure it now has a lot of patrons. I've seen great photos of meals on Mom's Facebook. Man, the dishes are tempting, especially the macaroni & cheese, and those turkeys! Whew!
Best Soul Food Restaurant St. Louis 2011 - Mom's Kitchen
1507 Goodfellow Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63112
After operating at the corner of Goodfellow Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive for more than a decade, Mom's Kitchen moved to new digs five miles to the southeast, on Delmar Boulevard just outside the shadow of the City Museum. There's not much more on this stretch of Delmar than car-repair shops, but Mom's exerts sufficient soul-food power to anchor the whole block. The setup's simple: A hot bar offers the main courses — rib tips, fried oxtails, chicken (baked or fried, and chicken wings if you're lucky) — alongside sides such as mac & cheese and some killer cabbage. There's a solid square of corn bread to sop up the overflowing goodness, and each table is equipped with the requisite squeeze bottle of hot sauce. Don't be surprised if Mom herself, proprietress Leola Meeks, pokes around to make sure everything looks and tastes good. Like any good Mom, she'll make sure you don't leave hungry. (Mom's web presence is confined to Facebook, reachable via this shortened link: http://on.fb.me/oDuBtM.)
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