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Debian Project News – February 6th, 2012
Welcome to this year's third issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian
* Update for Debian 6.0: 6.0.4 released
The fourth update for Debian 6.0 (codenamed [1] "Squeeze" ) has been released.
1 : http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120128
Bits from the Release Team
Niels Thykier sent some bits from the Release Team [2] where he announced
2 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00009.html
In addition, Niels announced that Cyril Brulebois joined the Release Team,
Bits from the piuparts maintainers
Holger Levsen sent some bits from the piuparts maintainers [3] announcing that
3 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00007.html
Report from Debian Med sprint
Andreas Tille sent a report from the Debian Med sprint [6] held in Southport,
For more information on Debian Med activity, you can check their real time
6 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/01/msg00452.html
Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze
Petter Reinholdtsen announced on his blog that the next version of Debian
A third beta version of Debian Edu based on "Squeeze" and containing this tool
9 : http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html
Answering Debian users' questions
Raphaël Hertzog wrote a useful blogpost about how to answer the questions of
10 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/24/answering-questions-of-debian-users-on-various-support-channels/
Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party
Paul Wise announced a Debian/Ubuntu games screenshot party [15] to be held on
For more information, you can visit the related wiki page [19].
15 : http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/02/03/debian-ubuntu-games-screenshot-party/
GNOME Shell 3.2 in "Wheezy" : a retrospective
Jordi Mallach wrote an article on the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 in
20 : http://oskuro.net/blog/freesoftware/gnome-shell-3.2-in-wheezy-2012-01-31-01-23
There has been a
21 : http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/27/people-behind-debian-josselin-mouette-founder-of-the-debian-gnome-team/
Other news
The 28th issue of the miscellaneous news for developers [22] has been released
22 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00005.html
* Debian Member Portfolio Service
The Debian website is now also optimised for handheld devices [23].
23 : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654205
Didier Raboud announced the birth of a new mailing list dedicated to everyone
24 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/01/msg00076.html
Micheal Gilbert wrote an article on a recent security flaw [28] (CVE-2012-0064
28 : https://lwn.net/Articles/477062/
Andrew Pollock wrote some bits from the ISC DHCP Maintainer [30]: during a
30 : http://blog.andrew.net.au/2012/01/21
Ben Hutchings announced that Debian 7.0 [31] "Wheezy" will include Linux 3.2,
31 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00012.html
Lior Kaplan blogged about the upcoming PHP 5.4.0 [32] release, a pre-release
32 : http://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/php-5-4-debian/
Upcoming events
There are several upcoming Debian-related events:
* February 10-12, Oslo, Norway —Skolelinux/Debian Edu developers meeting
You can find more information about Debian-related events and talks on the
33 : http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2012-02-10-12-Oslo
Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party? Are you aware
42 : http://www.debian.org/events/talks
New Debian Contributors
Six applicants have been accepted
44 : http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/new-maintainers.cgi
Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release
According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database
45 : http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi
There are also more detailed statistics [46] as well as some hints on
46 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/7.0-wheezy/2012-05
Important Debian Security Advisories
Debian's Security Team recently released
48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
Debian's Stable Release Team released an update announcement for the package
63 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html
Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
64 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
New and noteworthy packages
1008 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many
68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg
* clinica — simple medical records manager [69]
69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/clinica
Work-needing packages
Currently 390 packages are orphaned [77] and 148 packages are up for
77 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
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Teachers Get Out of Classroom & Onto the Links
On July 12th, 35 teachers from schools in King and Pierce County (Wash.) gathered at Fairwood Golf & Country Club in the Renton Highlands for First Green training.
First Green is an innovative environmental-education outreach program using golf courses as environmental learning labs. Golf course superintendents and/or local representatives host students on field trips where they test water quality, collect soil samples, identify plants, design plantings, assist in stream bed restoration and are involved in the ecology and environmental aspects of the golf course. The students are also introduced to many other aspects of golf.
Through hands-on activities, teachers learned how soil composition affects water flow, the best grass seed for the course (and their residential yards), effective irrigation techniques for golf courses and homes, and how to test water for nitrates that are harmful to fish. They also got to try to sink a few on the putting green.
"We received so many positive comments. Our teachers are anxious to get their students out to the golf course. We look forward to working with you in the future, " wrote Mark Champoux, Summer Institute Site Coordinator.
In addition to learning how the golf course is an excellent learning lab, educators earned continuing education credits. They also got to meet golf course superintendents from local courses ready to host field trips.
In recognition of the educational impact of its programs, First Green has been invited to showcase local field trip programs as part of the Founder's Museum at the U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee Country Club July 29. The Washington State Golf Association and the United States Golf Association have given significant support to First Green.
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"Adult World" succeeds in spite of itself.
It's packed with independent-film cliches, yet director Scott Coffey manages to rise above them, thanks largely to the performances of Emma Roberts and John Cusack. Instead of the annoying little project it might have been, it's an enjoyable look at the follies of youth.
Amy (Roberts) is a recent college graduate with $90,000 in student loans and no particular job prospects. That's because she's not really looking. She's a poet, or wants to be, complete with a poster of Sylvia Plath on her bedroom wall, and she milks the long-suffering, no-one-understands-the-artist-in-me bit for all it's worth.
She is one of those overconfident people who assume the best will happen, though she is in a bit of a hurry: "You can't be a wunderkind after 22," she explains to someone.
Yes, that's what she's like.
Desperate for some kind of money, Amy finally lands a job at Adult World, a self-described "mom-and-pop" porn shop owned by a spry older couple (Cloris Leachman and John Cullum, in entertaining cameos). Her young boss Alex (Evan Peters) becomes her friend and maybe a crush.
She also meets Rubia (Armando Riesco), a transgender prostitute who helps her escape her limited experiences. Nothing too daring, mind you. Just expanding the horizons a little.
By chance Amy discovers that her favorite poet, Rat Billings (Cusack), is giving a reading at a local bookstore. She basically stalks him and begs to be his protege. Rat greets this with equal parts bemusement, annoyance and a closely guarded flattery. He hasn't had a good review since the 1990s; at least someone still likes his stuff.
Add all of those elements up, along with a hipster soundtrack, and you have a recipe for an almost paint-by-numbers indie script (Andy Cochran wrote the film). Even the cruel twist, if you can call it that, is carefully engineered as a plot device.
But there is real heart in the performances. We assume, correctly, that Amy will come around eventually to a more realistic view of the world, and Roberts captures that often-painful transformation convincingly.
Cusack, meanwhile, is better than he has been in a long time. His Rat is a rather loathsome creature. He's selfish and cynical, but he has reason to be. He'll never live up to his initial fame. Cusack, who knows something about getting famous early, gives Rat a detachment that makes him not just bearable but weirdly compelling.
The same is true of the movie. "Adult World" is a happy surprise.
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'Adult World'
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The effort to deny the basic facts of the Holocaust has its roots not in the Middle East but
in Europe and the United States, and it stretches back, if not to the Nazis themselves, then to the years immediately following World War II. Early forms of Holocaust denial took shape in the late 1940s in the writings of Maurice Bardeche, a French fascist; American historian Harry Elmer Barnes, and a French concentration camp survivor, Paul Rassinier. Their ideas over time helped inspire a sizeable literature and a small industry that persist on the fringes of Western culture, especially among neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists and extreme anti-Semites. The deniers' central idea -- that Nazis never attempted to annihilate European Jewry -- often takes the form of elaborate, pseudo-scholarly arguments, all founded, ultimately, on notions of a vast international Jewish conspiracy, on belief in a universal Jewish hatred of non-Jews, and on Jewish "rapaciousness."
To make their claims credible, Holocaust deniers are forced to reject enormous volumes of historical evidence from World War II. Records from the period, including thousands of pages of evidence used immediately after the war in the Nuremberg trials, are dismissed as forged by a secret committee; survivors are rejected as greedy charlatans; American GI's who saw the death apparatus in the camps are told that they were duped by the American military itself, which was also complicit in the conspiracy. As for a motive (for why would Jews claim that millions of their brethren were killed in WWII?): deniers claim that the Jews wanted to defraud the West of billions of dollars in reparations and other payments; to "purchase" world support for the creation of the state of Israel; to demoralize "Aryans" and the West so that the Jews could more easily take over the world.
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on October 27, 2012 - 12:01 AM
The thing about poverty is, you can't take it too seriously, or that'll be the end of you.
Maybe that's true, and maybe 'tisn't, but it is surely the philosophy of the brothers McCourt – Frank (the famous author of "Angela's Ashes") and Malachy, a noted actor and popular pub owner in New York City.
These two happily called their collaborative comic 1980s cabaret "A Couple of Blaguards," a title bestowed upon the boys by an angry grandmother, and for years they performed the show themselves.
Fortunately, with Frank now gone for three years, the play lives on with other actors in regional theaters, including Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre Company, where it can be found through Nov. 18. It's a two-man show inhabited by the brothers, of course, but also with priests, parents, sharp-tongued gossips and all other manner of Irish eccentrics. (Although in McCourt's version of Ireland, let's dare say, they are more than normal.)
Christian Brandjes plays the lively Malachy, along with the bulk of the "supporting cast." Malachy was, after all, the actor in the family. Chris Kelly is the slightly more grounded school teacher Frank, constrained by his upbringing but inspired by it, too. Their tale-telling is roughly chronological, starting in the place they grew up, Limerick, Ireland ("The favorite word of the Limerick man : 'was.' ")
Their family was beyond poor, partly because of the early exit of their father, as in "What's an Irish divorce, Frank?" "He disappeared." Ba-dum-dum.
Brandjes and Kelly know their lines and their stage well, using the space to energize the dialogue and having a comfortable, winking rapport that makes them believable if not as brothers as least as close Irish cousins: "What did he die of?" one asks, as a country woman hearing of a wake. "Oh, it was nothing serious," the other replies, also draped with a shawl.
Though not grim in any "Angela's Ashes" way, there are brief tragic segments – "People were always dying in the lane" – particularly the loss of three of their siblings (a baby and young twins), but those losses pass quickly in the blur of boys trying to be boys, running to play soccer with their friends and trying to see the church-denounced Tarzan movies on Saturdays.
It's all very Irish and very Catholic, and most of the jokes are on them, but Protestants, particularly Presbyterians, get their small share, and you need not be any of the above to know how to respond when you hear the toll of the "Jesuit bell." (You'll laugh.)
Director Gordon McCall makes full use of his actors' gifts for physical comedy and song. Both men's voices are beautifully suited for Irish music and those interludes are lovely to listen to. In the audience, it was also clear that some of the sketches were more polished than others – some good, some even better, some wonderful – and the best assumption is that the show will age well over its three-week run.


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Too early for Christmas decorations??
Its never too early. normally we do it on the day after thanksgiving. however, this time, we JUST moved, and i didnt feel like packing everything away in the garage, only to pull it all out again in a few weeks. so we just put everything up last weekend :)
I don't think its to early. We haven't started yet but my SIL started last weekend.
I wait until the day after Thanksgiving. I like to enjoy one holiday at a time =)
I plan to start decorating the weekend after christmas its the first christmas we will have in our new place where we can fit a live tree and decorate the outside of our house im excited and this year my son is old enough to open his own presents and things.


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It's the younger generation's hip ailment.
"Usually it's a younger, more active patient, anywhere from 15 to 55," says Dr. James Bynum, an orthopedic surgeon on Lee Memorial Health System's medical staff.
Instead of complaints of stiffness or bone on bone rubbing, these patients experience pain on the inside of their hip near the groin.
"It can be either a dull ache, it can be a very sharp knife like pain, it can be popping clicking," says Dr. Bynum.
Until recently, doctors often had trouble identifying the problem.
"Patients that didn't have arthritis but had groin pain would be told that maybe it was from a pinched nerve in their back, maybe it was from some type of muscle groin strain, chronic strain or even a gynecologic or urologic problem because we really didn't understand what else could cause it in an otherwise healthy looking joint on x-ray," says Dr. Bynum.
In many cases, the culprit was a torn labrum. It's a form of cartilage that lines the rim of the hip socket and helps stabilize the hip joint.
"That acts kind of like a gasket that can become torn and it may just be frayed a little bit but it doesn't take a lot of damage to cause a lot of pain," says Dr. Bynum.
Treating a labral tear has become a hip preserving observation. Surgeons perform hip arthroscopy to work inside the ball and joint by inserting slender tools.
"We can remove what are called 'loose bodies' which are small fragments of bone and cartilage that in some people floats around that tight joint and causes a lot of pain and mechanical locking and clicking. Those are easily removed through the scope," says Dr. Bynum.
Recovery is fast compared to traditional open surgeries that require big incisions. Hip arthroscopy is commonly an outpatient procedure with the patient on crutches anywhere from a week to a month.
"One of the most exciting things about this is that a few short years ago, patients with this problem were either not being diagnosed or they were given rather poor treatment options," says Dr. Bynum.
While most emphasis is focused on hip replacement, repairing pre-arthritic hips may prevent future problems down the road.


text: Leave the Rade (Geneva Bay) behind and discover the beauties of the Geneva lakeside by taking one of the many cruises on the lake. Admire the incomparable view of Mont Blanc, monuments, famous villas, the UN and the parks and gardens around the lake as you peacefully cruise to the village of Hermance. A well-known port of Geneva, this charming medieval town has kept its character of yesteryear with authentic architecture and beautiful old homes.


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Cap showed us all his and it seems only fair that I show him mine. Unfortunately, I won't be snapping photos of it but here we go anyway.
The wallet itself is a brown Kenneth Cole wallet that was a gift from my father's friend, who operates a leather manufacturing facility in Taiwan. I don't think I've ever bought a wallet, they've all been gifts (thanks!).
Cash: Two twenties, a five, five ones and a two-dollar bill with Jefferson's frown.
Credit Cards: Bank debit card, American Express Costco Card, AT&T Universal Cash Rewards Card.
Gift Cards: Costco card, a gift from my sister (thanks!).
ID Cards: Maryland Driver's License, Johns Hopkins University Student ID Card, Lumenos Health Insurance ID Card, Credit Union ID Card, Dental insurance card
Miscellaneous: Geico Auto Insurance Card, a note with various scribbles on it, a photo of my girlfriend and I from a college formal, a note from her from college, a Costco business card-sized card with their discount rental car codes, my own business card with my work discount rental car codes, Southwest Rapid Rewards card, and some business cards of my friends.
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Red Deer MLA says she won't run for mayor
Mary Anne Jablonski has put an end to rumours about her potential candidacy for Red Deer mayor.
The MLA for Red Deer North announced on Thursday that she is not running at this time.
A five-term Progressive Conservative MLA and former cabinet minister, she said she will not run in the October municipal election, choosing to stay in the legislature.
"I thought very long and very hard about this," said Jablonski, 60. "I have a number of great friends and colleagues who have been encouraging me over the last couple of months to run for mayor."
Jablonski cited several reasons for the decision, including her election as Red Deer North MLA in 2012, the cost of a byelection for her vacated riding to taxpayers if she were to run, that she believes a candidate must be committed to at least two terms as mayor to be effective and, while she does have property in Red Deer, she lives one block east of the city boundary.
Under the Municipal Government Act, a candidate must live within the municipality for six months prior to any election.
"I feel like I said (to my constituents), if you elect me I will serve you to the best of my ability over the next four years," said Jablonski. "I feel like I have a contract with them and I should complete that contract."
While Jablonski may have closed the door on her candidacy for the October 2013 municipal election, she said she may consider running for mayor in the future.
"Right now I'm loyal to the people of Red Deer North," said Jablonski.
"Never say never."
She would not comment on why the rumour persisted about her mayoral candidacy.
"I felt it was time to the make the decision," said Jablonski. "I spoke to family and some close friends and colleagues and got some good advice, I thought. I told the people who have been encouraging me to run for mayor that I would still be working for the City of Red Deer."
Jablonski has had a smaller role in government since Alison Redford was elected PC party leader. Under previous the premier, Ed Stelmach, she was minister of Seniors and Community Supports, but is no longer in cabinet.
This leaves the mayoralty race to current city councillor Cindy Jefferies and newcomer Chad Mason.
Jefferies announced on Jan. 15 that she would run. Mayor Morris Flewwelling has announced that this will be his last term.
Jablonski said while she and Jefferies don't see eye-to-eye on several issues, she thinks the three-term city councillor is a good person.
"I think we have different points of view on things," said Jablonski. "It's my fiscal conservative background that probably is what other people are looking at . . . she has some different opinions than I do."


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The Apple iPad is a new, multi-touch device marketed as "an extraordinary way to enjoy and share your photos". Featuring a 9.7-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, the Apple iPad boasts 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132ppi, and comes with 16, 32 or 64GB of built-in storage capacity. The Photos app displays the photos in an album as though they were in a stack. Just tap the stack, and the whole album opens up. From there, you can flip through your pictures, zoom in or out, or watch a slideshow. You can even import photographs directly from your camera using the optional Apple Camera Connection Kit. Apart from displaying your photos, the Apple iPad can also be used to surf the Web, read and write e-mails, watch videos, access the AppStore, download and listen to music, buy and read books, and more. Measuring 9.56x7.47x0.50 inches, the Apple iPad is available from $499.
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and this is related to photography - how?! it doesn't even have an SD-slot!
you crapple fanboys are such a funny bunch.
I think it's a bit stupid that they're promoting how it's so good for displaying your photos.... what new features has it got for displaying photos compared to the iphone and other photo viewers? None! It's basically a big iphone. but without the phone capabilities!
I was expecting a bigger hard drive aswell!
What strikes me as a bit weird is that nobody (journalists) seems to be picking up on the IPS-tech behind that display, even though mr.Jobs himself made quite the point out of it. Especially a blog like this, when featuring such a vaguely-related-to-the-topic-gadget, should be able to comment on this. 'Cause I'm guessing it is going to be great watching moving and still images on it (as long as you don't mind iPhoto or that rather expensive usb/sd-photo adapter kit)!
I disagree with the first poster. This thing is at least as relevant to photographers as any other digital photo frame or multimedia player/viewer.
This blog entry is totally inadequate for the people who are not in the know to properly appreciate the iPad's potential importance.
This thing WILL change the way people are using computers and display/share their photos (among other things). Maybe not today, maybe not this year, but it is the beginning of a revolutionary change.
There are better alternatives to this iPad. Too large for being handy, no cover and therefore too easy to break, and there are much cheaper solutions (search asus) which offer better robustness and price.
And well, no, appart from the apple buzzword, unless that screen is proved to offer a higher contrast ratio, is rather unrelated to photography
@ rob, I just forgot... the "importance" of this product is none. There's nothing new to a portable flat monitor. It's no new technology. Just a new "apple branded" product.
Btw, commenting being "on the know" of something is really funny, coming from an apple user. Please do not comment on the knowledge of other users. Sure you have a PhD on Apple, but well... ;)
@Not me - I wonder where this hostility is coming from? You may certainly be of a different opinion, but do you really have to resort to a ridicule? I don't think this is the best place for personal attacks, don't you agree?
At this point in time, not much is known about the iPad's features, limitations and expandability. After all, this is the first generation product and not even released for sale yet. But if you are a thinking and unbiased person (which I do not doubt), you should be able to put together all the available clues and get to an intelligent conclusion, right? You don't have to be an Apple fan to do that, right? After all, there are many potential users who may find this tablet very useful. For example, great portion of the publishing industry is thrilled, because they believe that the iPad will save their industry in a similar way the iPod saved the music industry. None of the other existing e-book readers can even attempt to do that, because of their severe technical limitations in comparison to the iPad. This is evident even now, when we still do not know full iPad's specs.
Instead, you are making all sorts of presumptions about my knowledge, personality, etc. That does not show you in the best of light...
I think the trouble is people expect to much these days, the iPad is a very good gadget, overpriced and no flash i agree but its a good gadget :-)


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The Diffusion of HR Practices in Chinese Workplaces and Organizational Outcomes
Peter G. Gahan
University of Melbourne - Department of Management and Marketing
Marco Michelotti
Monash University
Guy Standing
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February 11, 2010
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Forthcoming
How relevant are high performance work systems (HPWS) in economies undergoing significant economic transition from a command to market economy? Using data drawn from a large sample of Chinese establishments, this study investigates the relationship between the adoption of HR practices, innovation and organizational outcomes. The authors find significant relationships between labor management practices associated with HPWS and establishment productivity. However, the introduction of these practices was also associated with significantly higher labor costs. The strength of the HRM practice-performance relationship is also significantly moderated by the extent to which the workplace has experienced innovation (technological, work organization or product). These findings add further to understanding the relationship between work practices and performance, and contribute to understanding the impacts of the changing economic context on labor management practices in China.
Keywords: High Performance Work Practices, Innovation, Performance
JEL Classification: D23, L23. M12, M54
Date posted: February 15, 2010 ; Last revised: July 25, 2012
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Friends of Chances Toles plan to ride their bicycles in his memory from Route 66 Park to an area near Lake Overholser.
Toles died after an accident near Lake Overholser in August. Friends believe Toles lost control when his tire hit a crack in the ground and collided with a truck.
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Anna Getty's Easy Green Organicby Anna Getty Ron Hamad Dan Goldberg
Anna Getty--chef, TV personality, heiress, and mother--loves great food made from fresh, organic, and sustainably harvested ingredients. In this fact-filled guide and cookbook, Anna explains how to shop for organic, seasonal, and local ingredients, how to keep an eco-friendly kitchen, and how to cook meals that are as scrumptious to eat as they are healthy for you and the earth. Such delights as Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Toasts, Double Lemon Chicken Breast with Fresh Tomato Basil Salsa, and Mini-Strawberry Rhubarb Crumbles will quickly help anyone down the road to a healthier, organic lifestyle. Packed with sound advice, plenty of color photographs, and 100 fabulous recipes, Anna's kitchen is the destination of choice for the discerning home cook.
I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmasby Anna Getty Zem Joaquin Ron Hamad
This holiday season, Anna Getty--environmental advocate, writer, television personality, chef, mother, and organic living expert--helps families reduce their carbon footprint and save money without sacrificing style or tradition. Anna advises how to best choose a tree (real or fake?), mitigate the negative effects of necessary travel, recycle post-holiday, and more. She shares favorite holiday recipes for organic appetizers and homemade craft ideas such as pinecone wreaths and recycled sweater pillows. With inspiring photographs, extensive resources, and advice from the "Lazy Environmentalist" Josh Dorfman, Seventh Generation's Jeffrey Hollender, and other leading eco-experts, familiesmight just find that these tips help them stay green all year longthe perfect New Year's resolution!
Sacred Pregnancyby Ina May Gaskin Anni Daulter Elena Rego Anna Getty Alexandra Defurio
In today's western cultures, the typical pregnancy focuses on the baby to the exclusion of the woman herself, so that the entire experience has become more about preparing for the baby's arrival than looking closely at oneself to prepare emotionally for all of the changes that creating a new life brings. Sacred Pregnancy was written to help the pregnant woman journey within herself to prepare for the birth of her baby.Sacred Pregnancy is a gorgeous four-color book especially created for mothers-to-be to reflect on the many personal milestones of the full gestation period of a pregnancy. With beautiful professional photos that correspond to each topic, Sacred Pregnancy also features a journal space for the pregnant woman to record her thoughts and feelings. Each week the mother-to-be is given information on her baby, her body, and her spirit and is asked to reflect on these via the topic of the week, which touches on a variety of issues such as sexuality, fears about labor, becoming a mother, courage, rite of passage, adornment, body image, meditation, and sisterhood to name a few. Mothers-to-be are invited to look deeply at the issues unique to their journey and find a centered, peaceful place to live their pregnancy fully. Lastly, Sacred Pregnancy includes place for the new mother to record her birth story and a large resource section on various birthing options and supports for pregnant women.Sacred Pregnancy official website: http://www.sacredpregnancy.com/From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Roger committed a blessism when he said he liked the way my shaft felt when he meant my golf club shaft.
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person 1-a dog let one rip
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when you can't decide between hehe or haha, just say heha. only thing is it sounds a bit like a donkey. neh so just use it online.
person one: (does something amusing)
person two: (thinks; hehe? haha?) heha!
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A female who thinks they are the shit
Megatron is a damn HE HA
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A mixture of hehe and haha. Thus HEHA!
Sam: Oi! That guy just pissed himself.
Eliza: HEHA!
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Lucky... (did I mention that I'm jealous?)
Not sure if this is the right forum, but I just bought myself my first freezer (17 cu.ft) full of meat last night. We bought a package that's supposed to last a family of 3 or 4 for a year (we're only 2 - but eat a LOT of meat).
We bought it from NutraFarms here in Canada. It was very expensive, but I'm hoping the quality and convenience of it will make it worth it (all free range and 'near' organic).
I'm really pumped about it! It'll be nice to always have some meat on hand!
Anyhow, just wanted to share!
Lucky... (did I mention that I'm jealous?)
Striving to live a life extraordinary.
I'll have to post pictures when they come in (next Tuesday!!)
How much, if I may ask?? Meat and Price??
Soon after going Primal I bought a small apartment-sized chest freezer (7.2 cu) and it's probably the best purchase I've ever made. I couldn't imagine not knowing what I was going to eat a week or a month from now. It's an odd sense of security to know you have 2, 3, 4 months, a year's worth of meat. It's about time for me to buy again. Half a boar, about 90 lbs of meat, will half-fill the freezer for $225
Since were having the discussion, what do yall suggest as a thawing method?
It comes up to being pretty expensive at almost $4k for the year ($300ish per month), but it comes with a 17cuft standup freezer, and everything is individually packed. So I'm hoping the convenience is worth it.
For next year, I'll likely try to see if I cna buy direct from farms and save a afew bucks.
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"He has a concussion (and) his head has been hurting him a lot," Sherese said of Deandre.
The family of local resident Deandre Hobson has launched a petition drive and awareness campaign against the Freeport Police Department, alleging that officers used excessive force when arresting Hobson on Sunday, March 25.Sherese Hobson, Deandre's sister, said her brother was seriously hurt by officers, and claims that police brutalized Deandre without first warning him that he was being arrested. Sherese was at the scene of the arrest, which took place in the basement of her house."He has a concussion (and) his head has been hurting him a lot," Sherese said of Deandre. "I'm looking into a lawsuit and so is he. They had no probable cause to go into my house."Freeport police, however, say that Deandre Hobson violently resisted officers and turned a simple arrest for disorderly conduct into an "explosive" situation."By his actions, it turned it into something more than it had to be," said Freeport Deputy Police Chief Jeff Davis. "The officers were trying to effect an arrest on an individual who ran from them and violently resisted. The officers were able to effect the arrest after overcoming his resistance, and the entire case is still under investigation. There may be additional charges."Arrest DetailsThe incident began in the early morning hours of March 25 outside a residence in the 400 block of Adams Avenue. Police officers arrived at the scene to serve Sherese Hobson with a citation for excessive noise.While writing the ticket, officers spotted Deandre Hobson walking by and chased him into Sherese's house. Sherese followed the officers into the home. According to Davis, Deandre was wanted on a disorderly conduct charge from a previous incident."Initially, when he walked by, Deandre was told by officers to stop as they had a complaint for him as well. He didn't comply with those commands. He ran from officers," Davis said. "Officers pursued him with the intention of taking him into custody."According to Sherese, the police never warned Deandre that he was being arrested. She said police jumped Deandre, beat him up, and tasered him. In addition, Sherese said she was pushed down some stairs by one of the officers, and that her 2-year-old niece was also pushed down during the scuffle.Davis said that Deandre was immediately aggressive to officers and that he had to be tasered to be placed into custody. He also said that several members of the family at the scene were trying to interfere with Deandre's arrest, and at least one family member had to be pushed back.Once arrested, Deandre was charged with aggravated resisting arrest and aggravated battery, which are both felonies. Police allege that Deandre struck one of the officers in the head with a closed fist during the arrest. His case has not yet gone through the court system, and he is currently being held at the local jail.Page 2 of 2 - Petition DriveIn response to the incident, Deandre's family has started a petition drive and awareness campaign accusing Freeport police of "racism and brutality."As part of the effort, flyers have been distributed to local residents and at establishments on Freeport's east side. The flyers ask residents to join in a campaign denouncing the police department's activities. There is also a Facebook page dedicated to this effort.Stacy Moore, Deandre's sister-in-law, said she hopes more people will speak up about their experiences with the police department and the alleged instances of "racism and police brutality" that have occurred in Freeport."They can't get away with this at all," Moore said of Freeport police. "(I want) people to contact me to get involved in the effort. It's about awareness and justice."You can reach Stacy Moore at (815) 656-1411, or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service Offering is Powered by Award-Winning Zerto Virtual Replication Technology
London, UK – 14th August, 2013 – Kelway today announces the release of ServiceWorks Assure, a highly scalable cloud based Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution.
ServiceWorks Assure provides businesses with the ability to securely and efficiently replicate their VMware based server workloads to Kelway's ServiceWorks Compute cloud infrastructure, which is hosted in Kelway's UK-based datacentres.
Backed by award winning Zerto Virtual Replication technology, ServiceWorks Assure provides clients with the capability to meet their businesses workload protection requirements thanks to aggressive recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) of less than 30 minutes. In the event of a disaster within a client's on-premise infrastructure, customers can simply and efficiently failover to the Kelway cloud infrastructure – using either a self-service capability, or by leveraging Kelway's Service Operations Centre (SOC).
Kelway ServiceWorks Assure delivers a transparent, accessible cloud experience:
- Simple, non-disruptive deployment
- Scalable, with the ability to support thousands of workloads
- Storage agnostic, enabling business with any storage platform to use the service
- Reliable and predictable, backed by yearly non-disruptive test failovers and compliance reports
- Optimised replication, reducing the need for expensive datacentre links
- Multi-site capable.
"We are often approached by businesses looking to better-protect their operations. Now more than ever, unnecessary downtime is costly – both in terms of revenue and reputation," states Carl Lawton, Practice Lead for Cloud Services at Kelway. "Our goal was to create a solution which gives customers the confidence that they can rapidly recover from unplanned downtime to get back on track with minimal fuss; we believe that effective disaster recovery capability does not need to be complex or difficult to deploy. After extensive testing, Zerto technology proved ideally suited to this goal, and was selected to underpin Kelway ServiceWorks Assure."
"Service Works Assure delivers on our commitment to provide a transparent cloud service," comments Andy Eccles, CTO at Kelway. "The service removes the costly capital outlay typically associated with legacy DR environments and we designed it to accommodate varying technology footprints, removing the need to re-design applications or invest in storage replication - which is typically the case with other providers' solutions. Consequently, ServiceWorks Assure provides a cloud-based answer to the question of what to do with existing applications, which had been overlooked within the market."
In addition to using Zerto to serve clients on-premise to cloud DR requirements, Kelway have also chosen to use the technology to underpin Cloud-to-Cloud replication within their own datacentre estate. Kelway's ServiceWorks Compute instances now include geographic replication as standard.
"Organisations are increasingly recognising that the cloud is an ideal platform for IT services, and are starting to use the cloud for protecting their most important business applications," said Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto. "Zerto Virtual Replication technology is the only solution capable of meeting both the performance and ease of use requirements that Kelway's customers demand. We are honoured to power both Kelway's cloud-based and enterprise offerings."


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After rubbish has been properly sorted, it is recycled and used to make new products. On average, some 11,000 paper cups are used during the course of one game. These cups are then handed over to a paper manufacturer and are reborn as 275 rolls of toilet paper.
During the same game approximately 2,600 sets of chopsticks are discarded. These chopsticks are recycled into approximately 870 sheets of A4 copy paper.
Straws, jet balloons, and other plastic waste is recycled into refuse paper and plastic fuel (RPF), which is used by factories such at the Nippon Paper Iwanuma Mill as an alternative to fuel oil. Around 55 kilograms of plastic is sorted and collected on average each game, which helps reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 125 kilograms.
Additionally, children who gather 10 pieces of plastic rubbish for recycling receive an exclusive Tohoku Rakuten Eagles sticker, encouraging them in their efforts to protect the environment.


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All rookies have training camp highlighted on their calenders. It's their first taste of the NBA lifestyle—practicing with veterans, pro-level conditioning, new offensive sets, film review, daily meetings.
This is where the transition starts. It's important that each rookie uses this time wisely, including those expected to play immediately, as well as those on long-term plans.
We've laid out what each rookie must focus on as he enters his first NBA training camp. This focus will center around a weakness or flaw in their game. The goal is to ultimately lower the hurdle that this weakness presents by the time camp closes.


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Fairleigh Dickinson University has announced a stellar line-up of speakers for the inaugural 2014-2015 season of the New Jersey Speakers Series at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Modeled after similar, sold-out series in Philadelphia and Boston, the New Jersey Speakers series will bring world leaders, acclaimed authors and other fascinating personalities to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for seven Thursday evening presentations, each of which is followed by an audience Q & A with the featured speakers. The series is sold by subscription only and tickets to individual lectures will not be available.
The New Jersey Speakers Series announced the following schedule for the new series: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright (Oct. 9), award-winning actor Alan Alda (Oct. 30), Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Nov. 20), former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (Jan. 8, 2015), former Presidential advisor and current CNN political commentator David Gergen (Feb. 19, 2015), Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough (March 19, 2015), and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather (April 23, 2015.)
"Fairleigh Dickinson University is proud to present the New Jersey Speakers Series, an outstanding opportunity for our students — and the Greater New Jersey community — to benefit from the perspectives of national and world leaders, authors, historians, humanitarians and other influential individuals," said Sheldon Drucker, president of Fairleigh Dickinson University.
"As a university devoted to preparing world citizens through global education, we believe this new Series, which extends the walls of academe into the community, is a perfect match with our mission and commitment to community leadership."
"The New Jersey Performing Arts Center is honored to be chosen as the home for this new Series which is clearly positioned as an integral component of the cultural vibrancy of our State," added John Schreiber, president and CEO of NJPAC.
"The New Jersey Speakers Series is a perfect complement to NJPAC's existing programming, providing an opportunity for New Jersey's citizens to learn from these exceptional leaders. The Series serves as another important conversation event happening at NJPAC."


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Albino Trolls
Very rare. Avoid Sunlight. Distinguished by all white hair. Known for mysterious healing powers. 8",12",20",30"
Gathering Trolls
Abundant. Especially at harvest time. Collect winter food supplies in vine baskets or cloth bags. 16"
Sweeping Trolls
Fairly common around dwellings. However male of species much more elusive. 16"
Lit-Eyed Trolls
Rare; mostly nocturnal. Always identified by their glowing red eyes. Lit eyes can be found on any Troll 12" or larger.
Ski Trolls
Well known and easily recognized in winter. Stand on or carry split oak skis. Rare, below 10,000' remainder of year. 8".
Melody Trolls
Common, but often hidden in tree tops. Listen and you might hear them teaching young birds the proper tunes.
|Grandparent Trolls
Steadfast and learned elder of the Troll Family. More noticeable due to all gray hair, wire rimmed glasses, and slow but deliberate pace. 20"
|Prospector Trolls
Uncommon; limited to rugged terrain. Never seen without a silver pick-ax and a green sack filled with gold. 16"
|Woodcutter Trolls
Common; from late Fall on. Unmistakable when wearing their hooded coats. Often observed swinging an ax or carrying firewood. 12"
|Birdnester Trolls
More active in Spring. Help birds with nest design, construction, and placement. 16"
|Sporting Trolls (GOLF)
Especially abundant on weekends and holidays. Often observed around sand or water. 5"
|Sporting Trolls (FISH)
Very common around waterways (where there is work to be done!) Known for endless patience and colorful stories. 8"
|Sweetheart Trolls
Most plentiful in the Spring, when they make little or no attempt to hide. 5"
|Anniversary Trolls
All Trolls celebrate these occasions, but some develop a suspicious memory lapse. They have somewhat gray hair and wear glasses.
|Troll with Sprout (Baby Troll)
Rarely encountered outside it's habitat. The mischievous sprouts (occasionally twins) are carefully nurtured for many years. 16"
|Christmas Trolls
Begin to appear as days grow shorter. Very common around winter solstice, when they are arranging holiday festivities.
|Mystic Trolls
Extremely rare; no verified sightings. But thought to have dark hair, violet eyes, and possess extraordinary powers. 12"
Akin to (and often mistake for) Trolls. Noticeably different, with long beards (on males only!), blue hair and red pointed caps. 10", 14", 24".
|Troll Pets
Commonly found in and around Troll dwellings. One can track a "House Mouse" or other pet to find the secluded Troll habitats. Don't get lost!
|Troll Cooks
Usually active year round; creating delicacies to full us up (and sometimes out!) 8".
|Artist Trolls
Always busy; painting leaves in Fall, making window frost in Winter, or adding color to Spring wildflowers. 8"
|Birthday Trolls
Trolls celebrate these occasions (unlike some people). Can be observed bearing gifts and bringing good cheer. 8"
|Wrangler Trolls
Often unnoticed; great help around farms and ranches due to special kinship with all the animals. 8"
|Spirit Trolls
Uncommon attire, carry pouches full of ancient cures for healing the body and spirit. 12"
|Timekeeper Trolls
Always close by and hard at work scheduling migrations, hibernations, and the official changes of season. 12"
|Guardian Trolls
Most noticeable around dwellings keeping a watchful eye on those entrusted to it's care. Observe carefully. 12"
|Troll Wizards
Very elusive, often use their special powers to help Mother Nature create her miracles.
|Gardener Trolls
Common; Spring-Fall, especially weekends and evenings. Use crude hand tools to produce bountiful harvests. 8"
|Teacher Trolls
Plentiful, but hard to distinguish in Summer. Command respect; only the wisest Trolls can be teachers. 8".
|Graduation Trolls
Most abundant in late Spring with their ceremonial caps and official scrolls. They are usually on best behavior. 8".
|Troll Notables
Common, however rarely seen without pad and pencil. Ready to take notes of things too important for memory. 5".
|Troll Doctors
Rare; at dwellings. Most have all white hair and carry little black bags. Dedicated practitioners of ancient healing arts. 8"
|Troll Nurses
Somewhat rare; although always around for patient care-giving. Look for white hats with red cross. 5".
|Troll with Newborn
Parent is sleepy-eyed and sometimes cranky, but will happily show off new addition to all who pass by. 8".


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The Avenue of Lights is located on North 36th Street in Quincy, Illinois. Below is an interactive Google Map and below that are driving directions.
From the east, I-172 & Broadway
- Turn west onto Broadway/Hwy 104 from I-172
- Go approximately 2 miles, turn RIGHT onto 36th Street
- Go approximately 1 mile, turn RIGHT into Moorman-Wavering Park
From Missouri over the Mississippi River
- After crossing the bridge, stay on Maine Street
- Go east about 3 miles until you reach 36th Street
- Turn LEFT and go about a mile
- Turn RIGHT into Moorman-Wavering Park
From Iowa & points north using Hwy 96
- Turn LEFT (south) at IL-96S/North 24th Street
- Go approximately 3.5 miles to Locust Street, turn LEFT (east)
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Diva honored for dramatic turn
The Palm Springs Film Festival has tapped Mariah Carey for its Breakthrough Performance Award for "Precious."
Kudo will be presented Jan. 5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center at a ceremony hosted by Mary Hart. Fest runs Jan. 5-18.
Past recipients of the Breakthrough kudo include Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Hudson, Felicity Huffman and Freida Pinto.
Carey has received five Grammys and has recorded 18 No. 1 songs. She began her acting career with "The Bachelor" in 1999. Other thesp credits include "Glitter," "Wisegirls" and "Tennessee," on the last of which she teamed with "Precious" producer-director Lee Daniels.


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Andrew Scott Reynolds
Scott and Shelly Reynolds of Hudson are the parents of a boy born at 11:49 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, 2011, at Bromenn Hospital in Bloomington.
He weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 19¼ inches long. He was named Andrew Scott.
Grandparents are Russ and Bev Schwarm of Loogootee and Paul and Beth Reynolds of St. Peter.
Great-grandparents are Madonna Schwarm of Loogootee and Ray and Ruth Reed of St. Peter.
Paige Miller and Jeff Garrison, both of Brownstown, have announced their engagement and upcoming wedding.
The future bride is the daughter of Barry and Kelly Miller of Brownstown.
The future groom is the son of Kenny and Marsha Garrison of Brownstown.
The couple are planning a 3:30 p.m. wedding on Saturday, June 11, at Liberty Christian Church in Brownstown. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. at the Moose Lodge in Vandalia.
Carol Reuscher of Vandalia and Kyle McCollum of Charleston have announced their engagement and upcoming wedding.
VBS registration begins in Brownstown
Brownstown First Christian Church will host a Vacation Bible School Registration Carnival Kick-Off on Sunday, June 5, from 3-5 p.m. in Brownstown Park.
There will be games, prizes, food, big blow-up toys and more. Kids, age 2 through eighth grade, are welcome to participate and to register for a whole week of Vacation Bible School.
The theme for this year's week will be: "Inside Out & Upside Down on Main Street; Where Jesus Makes a Difference Every Day."
By Pat Rhodes
We were excited to see the sun shining on Monday as we arrived at the First United Methodist Church for Evergreen Outreach. The warmth from the sun was delightful, despite the cool breeze. We have experienced such a variety of temperature highs and lows here lately. You know what they say about Illinois, "If you don't like the weather today, stick around, it will change tomorrow."
Carl Burval, executive director of the Association of Christian Truckers, will oversee a Trucker Jamboree this Thursday through Sunday at the Road Angel Center at the Brownstown interchange of Interstate 70.
Floods are definitely on our minds these days. The town branch has swollen to very high levels. The Mississippi is near record levels. There are plenty of news reports of people losing their homes and property, and many fields and farms are under water waiting for drier days.
Martha Cripe, right, Fayette County Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom coordinator, recently presented three books to Tara Tarter, librarian at Vandalia Elementary School and Jefferson Primary School.
The books are about soybeans and the role they play in agriculture. The three books are: "Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture," "Awesome Agriculture – Soybeans an A-Z Book" and "The Super Soybean."
Temperatures were above normal with a statewide average of 66.6 degrees. The average for the time period is 61.7 degrees.
Rains resumed toward the end of the week for an average of 1.09 inches statewide. The norm for the time period is 0.9 inches.
The number of days suitable for fieldwork averaged 4.7. Topsoil moisture was rated 1 percent short, 58 percent adequate, and 41 percent surplus.
With higher temperatures and dry weather for the majority of the week, planting was in full swing, even though some acres were being replanted.
Winter Wheat
The Illinois winter wheat crop is expected to yield 61 bushels per acre, based on conditions as of May 1. That is five bushels above last year's yield.
If this yield is realized, total production would be 44.5 million bushels, more than two and a half times last year's production. Farmers seeded 760,000 acres to winter wheat last fall, and expect to harvest 730,000 acres for grain.
This compares to 330,000 acres seeded and 295,000 acres harvested in 2010.
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Part 9: Registration and Checkout
The MVC Music Store is a tutorial application that introduces and explains step-by-step how to use ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio for web development.
The MVC Music Store is a lightweight sample store implementation which sells music albums online, and implements basic site administration, user sign-in, and shopping cart functionality.
This tutorial series details all of the steps taken to build the ASP.NET MVC Music Store sample application. Part 9 covers Registration and Checkout.
In this section, we will be creating a CheckoutController which will collect the shopper's address and payment information. We will require users to register with our site prior to checking out, so this controller will require authorization.
Users will navigate to the checkout process from their shopping cart by clicking the "Checkout" button.
If the user is not logged in, they will be prompted to.
Upon successful login, the user is then shown the Address and Payment view.
Once they have filled the form and submitted the order, they will be shown the order confirmation screen.
Attempting to view either a non-existent order or an order that doesn't belong to you will show the Error view.
Migrating the Shopping Cart
While the shopping process is anonymous, when the user clicks on the Checkout button, they will be required to register and login. Users will expect that we will maintain their shopping cart information between visits, so we will need to associate the shopping cart information with a user when they complete registration or login.
This is actually very simple to do, as our ShoppingCart class already has a method which will associate all the items in the current cart with a username. We will just need to call this method when a user completes registration or login.
Open the AccountController class that we added when we were setting up Membership and Authorization. Add a using statement referencing MvcMusicStore.Models, then add the following MigrateShoppingCart method:
private void MigrateShoppingCart(string UserName) { // Associate shopping cart items with logged-in user var cart = ShoppingCart.GetCart(this.HttpContext); cart.MigrateCart(UserName); Session[ShoppingCart.CartSessionKey] = UserName; }
Next, modify the LogOn post action to call MigrateShoppingCart after the user has been validated, as shown below:
// // POST: /Account/LogOn [HttpPost] public ActionResult LogOn(LogOnModel model, string returnUrl) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { if (Membership.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password)) { MigrateShoppingCart(model.UserName); FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, model.RememberMe); if (Url.IsLocalUrl(returnUrl) && returnUrl.Length > 1 && returnUrl.StartsWith("/") && !returnUrl.StartsWith("//") && !returnUrl.StartsWith("/\\")) { return Redirect(returnUrl); } else { return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home"); } } else { ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect."); } } // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form return View(model); }
Make the same change to the Register post action, immediately after the user account is successfully created:
// // POST: /Account/Register [HttpPost] public ActionResult Register(RegisterModel model) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { // Attempt to register the user MembershipCreateStatus createStatus; Membership.CreateUser(model.UserName, model.Password, model.Email, "question", "answer", true, null, out createStatus); if (createStatus == MembershipCreateStatus.Success) { MigrateShoppingCart(model.UserName); FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, false /* createPersistentCookie */); return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home"); } else { ModelState.AddModelError("", ErrorCodeToString(createStatus)); } } // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form return View(model); }
That's it - now an anonymous shopping cart will be automatically transferred to a user account upon successful registration or login.
Creating the CheckoutController
Right-click on the Controllers folder and add a new Controller to the project named CheckoutController using the Empty controller template.
First, add the Authorize attribute above the Controller class declaration to require users to register before checkout:
namespace MvcMusicStore.Controllers { [Authorize] public class CheckoutController : Controller
Note: This is similar to the change we previously made to the StoreManagerController, but in that case the Authorize attribute required that the user be in an Administrator role. In the Checkout Controller, we're requiring the user be logged in but aren't requiring that they be administrators.
For the sake of simplicity, we won't be dealing with payment information in this tutorial. Instead, we are allowing users to check out using a promotional code. We will store this promotional code using a constant named PromoCode.
As in the StoreController, we'll declare a field to hold an instance of the MusicStoreEntities class, named storeDB. In order to make use of the MusicStoreEntities class, we will need to add a using statement for the MvcMusicStore.Models namespace. The top of our Checkout controller appears below.
using System; using System.Linq; using System.Web.Mvc; using MvcMusicStore.Models; namespace MvcMusicStore.Controllers { [Authorize] public class CheckoutController : Controller { MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities(); const string PromoCode = "FREE";
The CheckoutController will have the following controller actions:
AddressAndPayment (GET method) will display a form to allow the user to enter their information.
AddressAndPayment (POST method) will validate the input and process the order.
Complete will be shown after a user has successfully finished the checkout process. This view will include the user's order number, as confirmation.
First, let's rename the Index controller action (which was generated when we created the controller) to AddressAndPayment. This controller action just displays the checkout form, so it doesn't require any model information.
// // GET: /Checkout/AddressAndPayment public ActionResult AddressAndPayment() { return View(); }
Our AddressAndPayment POST method will follow the same pattern we used in the StoreManagerController: it will try to accept the form submission and complete the order, and will re-display the form if it fails.
After validating the form input meets our validation requirements for an Order, we will check the PromoCode form value directly. Assuming everything is correct, we will save the updated information with the order, tell the ShoppingCart object to complete the order process, and redirect to the Complete action.
// // POST: /Checkout/AddressAndPayment [HttpPost] public ActionResult AddressAndPayment(FormCollection values) { var order = new Order(); TryUpdateModel(order); try { if (string.Equals(values["PromoCode"], PromoCode, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == false) { return View(order); } else { order.Username = User.Identity.Name; order.OrderDate = DateTime.Now; //Save Order storeDB.Orders.Add(order); storeDB.SaveChanges(); //Process the order var cart = ShoppingCart.GetCart(this.HttpContext); cart.CreateOrder(order); return RedirectToAction("Complete", new { id = order.OrderId }); } } catch { //Invalid - redisplay with errors return View(order); } }
Upon successful completion of the checkout process, users will be redirected to the Complete controller action. This action will perform a simple check to validate that the order does indeed belong to the logged-in user before showing the order number as a confirmation.
// // GET: /Checkout/Complete public ActionResult Complete(int id) { // Validate customer owns this order bool isValid = storeDB.Orders.Any( o => o.OrderId == id && o.Username == User.Identity.Name); if (isValid) { return View(id); } else { return View("Error"); } }
Note: The Error view was automatically created for us in the /Views/Shared folder when we began the project.
The complete CheckoutController code is as follows:
using System; using System.Linq; using System.Web.Mvc; using MvcMusicStore.Models; namespace MvcMusicStore.Controllers { [Authorize] public class CheckoutController : Controller { MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities(); const string PromoCode = "FREE"; // // GET: /Checkout/AddressAndPayment public ActionResult AddressAndPayment() { return View(); } // // POST: /Checkout/AddressAndPayment [HttpPost] public ActionResult AddressAndPayment(FormCollection values) { var order = new Order(); TryUpdateModel(order); try { if (string.Equals(values["PromoCode"], PromoCode, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == false) { return View(order); } else { order.Username = User.Identity.Name; order.OrderDate = DateTime.Now; //Save Order storeDB.Orders.Add(order); storeDB.SaveChanges(); //Process the order var cart = ShoppingCart.GetCart(this.HttpContext); cart.CreateOrder(order); return RedirectToAction("Complete", new { id = order.OrderId }); } } catch { //Invalid - redisplay with errors return View(order); } } // // GET: /Checkout/Complete public ActionResult Complete(int id) { // Validate customer owns this order bool isValid = storeDB.Orders.Any( o => o.OrderId == id && o.Username == User.Identity.Name); if (isValid) { return View(id); } else { return View("Error"); } } } }
Adding the AddressAndPayment view
Now, let's create the AddressAndPayment view. Right-click on one of the the AddressAndPayment controller actions and add a view named AddressAndPayment which is strongly typed as an Order and uses the Edit template, as shown below.
This view will make use of two of the techniques we looked at while building the StoreManagerEdit view:
- We will use Html.EditorForModel() to display form fields for the Order model
- We will leverage validation rules using an Order class with validation attributes
We'll start by updating the form code to use Html.EditorForModel(), followed by an additional textbox for the Promo Code. The complete code for the AddressAndPayment view is shown below.
@model MvcMusicStore.Models.Order @{ ViewBag.Title = "Address And Payment"; }   @using (Html.BeginForm()) {
Address And Payment
 <fieldset> <legend>Shipping Information</legend> @Html.EditorForModel() </fieldset> <fieldset> <legend>Payment</legend>
We're running a promotion: all music is free with the promo code: "FREE"

 @Html.Label("Promo Code")

 @Html.TextBox("PromoCode")
 </fieldset> <input type="submit" value="Submit Order" /> }
Defining validation rules for the Order
Now that our view is set up, we will set up the validation rules for our Order model as we did previously for the Album model. Right-click on the Models folder and add a class named Order. In addition to the validation attributes we used previously for the Album, we will also be using a Regular Expression to validate the user's e-mail address.
using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace MvcMusicStore.Models { [Bind(Exclude = "OrderId")] public partial class Order { [ScaffoldColumn(false)] public int OrderId { get; set; } [ScaffoldColumn(false)] public System.DateTime OrderDate { get; set; } [ScaffoldColumn(false)] public string Username { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "First Name is required")] [DisplayName("First Name")] [StringLength(160)] public string FirstName { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Last Name is required")] [DisplayName("Last Name")] [StringLength(160)] public string LastName { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Address is required")] [StringLength(70)] public string Address { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "City is required")] [StringLength(40)] public string City { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "State is required")] [StringLength(40)] public string State { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Postal Code is required")] [DisplayName("Postal Code")] [StringLength(10)] public string PostalCode { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Country is required")] [StringLength(40)] public string Country { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Phone is required")] [StringLength(24)] public string Phone { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Email Address is required")] [DisplayName("Email Address")] [RegularExpression(@"[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}", ErrorMessage = "Email is is not valid.")] [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)] public string Email { get; set; } [ScaffoldColumn(false)] public decimal Total { get; set; } public List<OrderDetail> OrderDetails { get; set; } } }
Attempting to submit the form with missing or invalid information will now show error message using client-side validation.
Okay, we've done most of the hard work for the checkout process; we just have a few odds and ends to finish. We need to add two simple views, and we need to take care of the handoff of the cart information during the login process.
Adding the Checkout Complete view
The Checkout Complete view is pretty simple, as it just needs to display the Order ID. Right-click on the Complete controller action and add a view named Complete which is strongly typed as an int.
Now we will update the view code to display the Order ID, as shown below.
@model int @{ ViewBag.Title = "Checkout Complete"; }
Checkout Complete

Thanks for your order! Your order number is: @Model

How about shopping for some more music in our @Html.ActionLink("store", "Index", "Home")

Updating The Error view
The default template includes an Error view in the Shared views folder so that it can be re-used elsewhere in the site. This Error view contains a very simple error and doesn't use our site Layout, so we'll update it.
Since this is a generic error page, the content is very simple. We'll include a message and a link to navigate to the previous page in history if the user wants to re-try their action.
@{ ViewBag.Title = "Error"; }
Error

We're sorry, we've hit an unexpected error. Click here if you'd like to go back and try that again.

Please use the Discussions at http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com for any questions or comments.
This article was originally created on April 21, 2011


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Volume 24 Issue 34
|Trench work begins on Seed Farm Drive Feb. 24
Flagged traffic control set for Seed Farm, Santa Alicia Drive and Avram Avenue
Expect traffic delays on Seed Farm Drive, Santa Alicia Drive and Avram Avenue beginning Monday, Feb. 24.
Trench work - part of the Eastside Trunk Sewer project - will begin on Seed Farm. And during the trenching activity, the contractor is also working on portions of Avram Avenue and Santa Alicia, replacing water line services.
Flagged traffic control will be in place on Seed Farm Drive, Santa Alicia Drive and Avram Avenue. Traffic controls will be in place between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Alternate routes are advised. Rohnert Park officials warn for drivers to drive carefully and obey all flaggers.


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Call for Papers
This second cross disciplinary conference marks the continuation of an inter-disciplinary research project to provide a vigorous forum for the examination and evaluation of university and college education. Committed to the tradition of liberal education, the inherent value of the pursuit of learning and the principle that knowledge must be an end in itself, the forum will use the conference series to broadly examine the nature and aims of university and college education, its guiding principles, its practical functions, and its role in society.
In particular papers, reports, presentations, and workshops are invited on any of the following themes:
Papers will be considered on related themes. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2003. Full draft papers should be submitted by Friday 13th June 2003.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.
The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Learning Solutions, and BRG as part of the 'At the Interface' programme of Higher Education projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
One themed volume has already been published from this project; a second volume is in preparation. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.
The project is also to be supported by an e-mail discussion group and ISSN e-journal.
For further details and information about the project please see http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ioe.htm For specific information about the conference please see the site listed below or contact Dr Rob Fisher.


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Brian Montieth rolled to a stop at the pit entrance on the Williams Grove frontstretch.
It was during a lap 14 caution period, and Montieth was positioned at the front of the field for the second time in two weeks.
But there were no mechanical woes or a part failure, the sort of things that have plagued the Jerry Parrish-owned team throughout the early stages of the season. Instead, the Phoenixville driver's lap belt came undone, and it needed to be fixed.
"I was going to keep going," Montieth said. "Then I was like, you know [the track] is really fast tonight.
"I tried to get it back together under caution, and it was tough to do even being stopped. I was going to continue no matter what."
Under track rules, Montieth was allowed to stop to get his belts tightened without having to give up his position. Once he was strapped in, there was no stopping his winning assault in the 25-lap Sprint Car feature.
Montieth's second consecutive Grove triumph was worth a hefty $4,600 payday, which included a $1,000 Victory Lane bonus.
"I'm having a little racing luck," Montieth said. "That's all it is. We get down, but we don't give up.
"There were a couple of weeks we wanted to go to the beach, but we kept coming back. My hats off to these guys, they do a great job getting things where we need to."
Montieth wasted little time asserting himself at the front of the field. He jetted from his seventh-place starting spot into third past Tyler Walker by the completion of lap 2.
After the caution was displayed for Chad Layton on lap 3, Montieth took advantage of the restart and dove under Nicole Bower to take second.
"I was able to make a couple moves early," Montieth said. "I got a good start and was able to get to the rail, and that was pretty much the race."
Montieth closed in on leader Gerard McIntyre Jr. after a lap 5 caution. He tried a slider in turn 1 on lap 9, but he hopped the cushion and McIntyre maintained the point coming out of turn 2.
It was short-lived. Montieth made the same move stick on lap 10 and took the top spot. McIntyre tried to keep pace but spun on lap 11 in turn 1.
Once out front, nothing stopped Montieth. He tightened the belts and went unchallenged through two more cautions and a fuel stop to take the win over Brent Marks, Danny Dietrich, Greg Hodnett and Cory Haas.
"The fastest car won tonight," said Marks, who chased Montieth for 11 laps. "I just couldn't get to him.
"Starting position is everything, especially when the track is this fast. Williams Grove did a great job preparing the track, and I hope we have more tracks like this."
Eric Tomecek passed Ryan Wilson for good at the completion of lap 21 and sped away to victory in the 25-lap 358 Sprint Car championship.
Wilson hung on for second, followed by Adrian Shaffer, Kevin Nouse and Brian Garland.
SELINSGROVE: Carlisle's Jason Shultz captured the 25-lap 360 Sprint Car feature at the Snyder County oval. He collected $2,500. Blaine Heimbach, Nate Snyder, Jessica Zemken and Davie Franek completed the top five.
TRAIL-WAY: Isaac Sneeringer captured his first career 358 Sprint Car victory in the 25-lap feature.


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This is the third of an eight-part series previewing the NFL Draft on April 25-27. Today's installment: tight ends.
By Mark Gaughan
Football coaches love the matchup problems tight ends present to defenses, which is good news for the dozen or so tight ends likely to be taken in the 2013 NFL Draft.
"You can't have enough tight ends," said coach John Harbaugh of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens in March. "Those guys are such good athletes and such good players. … We're going to have as many tight ends as we can."
"The more flexible tight ends can be – threats at a receiver or dual in-line backfield blockers – the more pressure you can put on the defense," said Arizona coach Brice Arians.
"I think the tight end position is a tough position to defend," said New England coach Bill Belichick. "There are not really many players on defense that you have that have the same physical criteria of a tight end – 240 to 260 pounds that run whatever they run and depending on the player, have that type of athletic ability and receiving skills."
The Buffalo Bills need more tight ends. Starter Scott Chandler had knee surgery in December and might not be 100 percent healthy by the start of the season. The Bills have a blocking tight end in Lee Smith.
The top two tight ends in this year's draft probably will be gone before Buffalo's second-round selection. However, there are about 10 more intriguing candidates if the Bills want to pick a tight end in the third round or later.
Here's a rundown on the top prospects:
The likely first-round prospect is Notre Dame's Tyler Eifert. He's no Rob Gronkowski, but the 6-foot-6 Eifert has the tools to become a quality, well-rounded starter, someone who catches more than 50 passes a year. He's a late first-rounder.
Prospects for the second or third rounds: Zach Ertz of Stanford, Gavin Escobar of San Diego State, Vance McDonald of Rice, Jordan Reed of Florida and Travis Kelce of Cincinnati.
Ertz could be taken late in the first round or early in the second. Any of the others could be available when the Bills make their third-round pick, No. 71 overall. The 6-foot-5 Ertz is less of a blocker than Eifert and is comparable to Stanford product Coby Fleener, drafted 34th by the Colts. Fleener is faster. The 6-6 Escobar, 6-4 McDonald, 6-2 Reed and 6-5 Kelce all have the tools to be as effective as the Bills' Chandler. Points of reference: Chandler ran 4.78 in the 40-yard dash out of college. Dallas All-Pro Jason Witten ran 4.65. Gronkowski ran 4.68. New England tight end Aaron Hernandez ran 4.64.
McDonald ran 4.69 in the 40 and had an impressive 31 repetitions on the 225-pound bench press, fourth best among tight ends the past 10 years. Nevertheless, McDonald is mostly a receiving tight end, seldom used as an in-line blocker. He caught a lot of quick throws at the line of scrimmage. He has long arms and helped himself at the combine. He averaged 12.5 yards a catch and scored seven TDs the past two years.
Escobar hurt himself at the combine with a 4.84 in the 40 but ran 4.78 on campus. He looked faster on the field and was more effective than McDonald the last two seasons. Escobar averaged 14.2 yards a catch and had 13 TDs the last two years.
Reed draws comparisons to Hernandez, the Patriots' former Gator, but he's not quite as good. Reed ran 4.72. He averaged 11.8 a catch and had five TDs the last two years. He's strictly a big slot receiver, a lesser Dustin Keller, but some teams may rank him No. 3 in this class.
Kelce might be the second-best tight end in the draft. He averaged 16 yards on 45 catches last season with eight TDs. He needs work on blocking but he's willing and shows some nastiness. He has a more solid frame than Escobar, McDonald or Reed. His brother, Jason, is starting center for the Eagles. The uncertainty comes off the field. He was suspended for the entire 2010 season for violating unspecified team rules on the eve of the 2010 Sugar Bowl. He is recovering from a sports hernia surgery and he did not work out at the combine. How much will teams downgrade him?
"I had a sports hernia," Kelce said at the combine. "In a different wording for it, it's a ruptured lower abdomen. I tore it probably around Week Three. During the season, just played on it, played through it, got through the season. It was still nagging me during the combine training. I just decided I needed to get it fixed. I'm about a month out of surgery and I'm feeling pretty good. Nothing is hurting; nothing is annoying or anything like that. It's just stiff and I've got to get back into shape."
Prospects for the later rounds on the third day of the draft include Ryan Otten of San Jose State, Dion Sims of Michigan State, Levine Toilolo of Stanford. Nick Kasa of Colorado, Joseph Fauria of UCLA and Jake Stoneburner of Ohio State.
Kasa converted from defensive end to tight end last season, ran 4.71 and has untapped potential. Otten did well at the Senior Bowl but developed a serious staph infection from a cut he got that week. He's recovered. The 262-pound Sims is the best blocking TE in the draft and dropped 40 pounds since the end of the 2011 season. Fauria, strictly a receiver, had 12 TDs last season. Stoneburner ran 4.65.
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Project Runway Recap: Timothy cast as anarchist kook
For the first time in 12 seasons of "Project Runway," two of the contestants are homies -- a pair of artists from Milwaukee.
Calling all bartenders: Cocktail Week contest to use Wisconsin ingredients
The second annual Great Sconnie Sip-Off, which challenges state bartenders to create original cocktails using all Wisconsin (or Wisconsin-produced) ingredients, this year takes place during the first Milwaukee Cocktail Week, on Sept. 23.
Competition organizer Dy Godsey, who writes the Fun Behind Bars blog, said, "Shining a light on Wisconsin's talented mixologists and the bounty of our state is an objective that is very dear to me." »Read Full Blog Post
Day 40: CBS and Time Warner strike blackout deal
The blackout of CBS-owned stations and Showtime on Time Warner Cable ended Monday when the two sides reached an agreement in their dispute, according to The Wrap.
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On Tap for Today: Last sighs of summer with Brewers, county fair and Doggie Dip
It's Labor Day. Time too celebrate the achievements of American workers.
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Among some, there may be joy. Others, sadness.
Yet watching the ordeal end amid unity for the state - and scenarios that look to be resulting in true justice and not political wrist-slapping - gives me some hope for the future.
Yet we can't yet rest easy. For Detroit, or for Michigan.
I'm proud of many aspects of the Kilpatrick situation:
• The Detroit Free Press doggedly pursued evidence of wrongdoing and stood firm as it was attacked from all sides. Today's justice vindicates journalism.
• Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy bucked the Detroit Democrats when she announced charges and refused to relent to the powerful personalities challenging her.
• State officials truly did the right thing without showing party affiliations by the end, resulting in multiple guilty pleas by Kilpatrick and jail time.
Yet much of recent months was troubling. How many of Kilpatrick's lies were delivered with the sense of entitlement that's present in too many of our other elected officials? And don't we all possess a scorecard of who displayed character in the face of the evidence - and who stayed silent, as Detroit needed advocates, to remain politically neutral?
Now, as Detroit moves forward, we'll see whether this troubling year can be put to rest or uncover a rot in our largest city that will never heal.
Too many people outside of Detroit have written off the city. And Michigan will never regain its stature and vitality without it.
Yet in coming weeks, we risk a political firefight in Detroit City Council chambers as the new balance there resumes control. How long until the new council president resumes her name-calling? How long before Sharon McPhail publicly insults the next regime? How long before the rest of Michigan wonders who on earth can take control of the city?
We risk Detroit's business leaders stepping back into a neutral void.
We risk cities and regions outside of Metro Detroit keeping their distance, or cultivating a greater divide.
We risk letting the people of Detroit fall further behind the rest of the state in employment, education and income - and hope.
Michigan can't afford to let the Kilpatrick saga end its interest in Detroit.
So today, I'll watch the proceeding with interest. I'll cheer the players who push for jail time, restitution and all of the results people - even formerly invincible mayors - need to face when they break the law.
I'll jeer the lies and spin and face-saving that I know will emerge in coming hours.
And I'll savor that sense of relief, all the while hoping that it doesn't end amid more turmoil for Detroit and Michigan.


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JERUSALEM, Israel - A team of Israel Police National Fraud Unit detectives will head to the U.S. next week to gather additional evidence in the 'Olmerttours' case, also known as the Rishon Tours multiple-billing affair, against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Though police said they had sufficient evidence for an indictment when they turned over the file to the State Prosecutor's Office, Attorney General Menachem (Meni) Mazuz has postponed a decision in the case.
The investigation involves multiple billing of public institutions by Rishon Tours for Olmert's trips abroad, which began when he was mayor of Jerusalem and continued during his tenure as industry, trade and labor minister in the Sharon government.
Police believe Olmert used the excess funds to finance trips and vacations for his family.
Olmert's legal team and his personal media consultant, Amir Dan, were quick to criticize next week's trip, claiming that the investigation should have stopped when the file was turned over a month and a half ago.
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In the fall of 2007 the Blum Center for Developing Economies introduced a unique new minor designed to teach undergraduates about global poverty and provide them with meaningful opportunities to work toward solutions. Open to all undergraduates, the minor in Global Poverty and Practice draws a broad cross-section of students, including English, engineering, and environmental economics and policy majors.
The minor, which examines theoretical and ethical debates around poverty and development, is housed in the International and Area Studies teaching program. However, its education program committee draws upon faculty from across campus, including Alain de Janvry, professor of agricultural and resource economics.
The minor is unique, with its thematic focus, orientation toward undergraduates, andmost significantlyits requirement for a hands-on practice or research experience. Students pursuing the minor seem particularly excited about the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with organizations and individuals who confront global poverty head-on.
Jenn Jehnson, an environmental science major who is minoring in global poverty and practice, plans to travel to Honduras with Global Medical Brigades and to work on clean-water access in rural villages. This minor coincides so well with my goals, she says. I want to combat global poverty by fighting environmental injustices around the world.