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Well look at that! A product specifically for me. My hair is not only natural but it is loc'd as well. I fit in a pretty small group so I was elated to see a product just for me!
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What I loved about it: I like the idea behind it. Very rarely will you see a loc butter on the market sold by a major brand. So that's exciting. It shows that there is a demand of products for ladies who are loc their hair. And since I'm one, I think that's great!
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Overall: It's been a year since I've been loc'ing my hair. I couldn't be happier. Loc'ing your hair is truly a journey and it's important to use products that are nourishing to the scalp and locs. From when I FIRST started, I was told to NEVER put beeswax in my locs. Beeswax will assist your hair in loc'ing but it will also attract lint. And lint attracts dirt. Gross.
I was all excited about Carol's Daughter Loc Butter until I saw the ingredients.
See the beeswax? That's so wrong. Other than that, the product itself looks and smells wonderful. I find that it is far too greasy to use on my locs but perhaps it would work better for folx who have more mature locs.
I wouldn't recommend it though. Beeswax is a total no no.
This is how the loc'ies looked after using this stuff…
Not bad. But I'm not using it again anyway. Beeswax scares me.
I did a video that talks about my Locs at 1 Year.
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This is pretty cool.
So whats the link?
The term "missing link" is antiquated and rarely used since evolution is a gradual change over an immense period of time. But this find is just another one of the thousands of examples of transitional species that support evolution.Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is 'missing link' in human evolution
James Randerson guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 May 2009 15.30 BST
Scientists have discovered an exquisitely preserved ancient primate fossil that they believe forms a crucial "missing link" between our own evolutionary branch of life and the rest of the animal kingdom.
The 47m-year-old primate named Ida has been hailed as the fossil equivalent of a "Rosetta Stone" for understanding the critical early stages of primate evolution.
The top-level international research team, who have studied her in secret for the past two years, believe she is the most complete and best preserved primate fossil ever uncovered. The skeleton is 95% complete and thanks to the unique location where she died, it is possible to see individual hairs covering her body and even the make-up of her final meal a last vegetarian snack.
"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of all the mammals; with cows and sheep, and elephants and anteaters," said Sir David Attenborough who is narrating a BBC documentary on the find. "The more you look at Ida, the more you can see, as it were, the primate in embryo."
"This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years," said Dr Jørn Hurum, the palaeontologist from Oslo University's Natural History Museum who assembled the scientific team to study the fossil. "It tells a part of our evolution that's been hidden so far. It's been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there's nothing almost to study." The fossil has been formally named Darwinius masillae in honour of Darwin's 200th birthday year.
It has been shipped across the Atlantic for an unveiling ceremony hosted by the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg today. There is even talk of Ida being the first non-living thing to feature on the front cover of People magazine.
She will then be transported back to Oslo, via a brief stop at the Natural History Museum in London on Tuesday, 26 May, when Attenborough will host a press conference.
Ida was originally discovered by an amateur fossil hunter in the summer of 1983 at Messel pit, a world renowned fossil site near Darmstadt in Germany. He kept it under wraps for over 20 years before deciding to sell it via a German fossil dealer called Thomas Perner. It was Perner who approached Hurum two years ago.
"My heart started beating extremely fast," said Hurum, "I knew that the dealer had a world sensation in his hands. I could not sleep for 2 nights. I was just thinking about how to get this to an official museum so that it could be described and published for science." Hurum would not reveal what the university museum paid for the fossil, but the original asking price was $1m. He did not see the fossil before buying it just three photographs, representing a huge gamble.
But it appears to have paid off. "You need an icon or two in a museum to drag people in," said Hurum, "this is our Mona Lisa and it will be our Mona Lisa for the next 100 years."
Hurum chose Ida's nickname because the diminutive creature is at the equivalent stage of development as his six-year-old daughter. Hurum said Ida is very excited about her namesake. "She says, 'there are two Idas now, there's me I'm living and then there's the dead one.'"
"It's caught at a really very interesting moment [in the animal's life] when it fortunately has all its baby teeth and is in the process of forming all its permanent teeth," said Dr Holly Smith, an expert in primate development at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who was part of the team. "So you have more information in it than almost any fossil you could think of."
The fossil's amazing preservation means that the scientific team has managed to glean a huge amount of information from it, although this required new X-ray techniques that had not previously been applied to any other specimens.
The researchers believe it comes from the time when the primate lineage, that diversified into monkeys, apes and ultimately humans, split from a separate group that went on to become lemurs and other less well known species.
Crucially though, Ida is not on the lemur line because she lacks two key characteristics shared by lemurs a grooming claw on her second toe and a fused set of teeth called a tooth comb. Also, a bone in her ankle called the talus is shaped like members of our branch of the primates. So the researchers believe she may be on our evolutionary line dating from just after the split with the lemurs.
According to the team's published description of the skeleton in the journal PLoS ONE, Ida was 53cm long and a juvenile around six to nine months old. The team can be sure Ida is a girl because she does not have a penis bone.
"She was at this vulnerable age where you are no longer right with your mother," said Smith, "Just as you leave weaning you are not full grown, but you are on your own."
The unprecedented preservation of Ida meant working out how she died was more like a modern day crime scene investigation than the informed guess-work that palaeontologists usually make do with. The team noticed that she had a broken wrist that had begun to partially heal. The injury did not kill her, but they speculate that it contributed to her premature demise.
"It might be that her mother dropped her once or that she fell down from a tree earlier in her life," Smith said. She survived the accident, but her climbing abilities would have been impaired. Unable to drink from water trapped by tree leaves, she would have had to venture down to the lake to drink. This would have proved to be a fateful decision.
The huge range of magnificently preserved fossils at Messel suggest that the volcanic lake was a death trap. Scientists believe that it sporadically let forth giant belches of poisonous volcanic gases that would have immediately suffocated anything in, around and even over the water. Ida would then have fallen into the water and been preserved in the sediment deep at the bottom.
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Mountains of mutually agreeable evidence is why evolution is one of the most widely accepted theories today. The other one is the big bang theory.
This is pretty cool.
So whats the link?
This is still just matter of opinion.
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Only kiddin' this is fascinating.
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Now there is evidence that malnutrition during World War induced diseases in grandchildren's generation. So even without the missing link, evolution would have been a reasonable scientific theory.
And no: it is not "a matter of opinion". Even reasonable Christians agree that evolution is a fact. They just differentiate between mythological/religious narratives and scientific narratives which follow rather different "grammars".
Back to the topic though. Few things jumped out at me.
""This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of all the mammals; with cows and sheep, and elephants and anteaters," said Sir David Attenborough who is narrating a BBC documentary on the find. "The more you look at Ida, the more you can see, as it were, the primate in embryo."
I will keep my eye on this. We'll see what comes up in a few years.
"This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years,"
Im not that excited about this, because Neanderthals were once very scary monkey men in text books, and now are pictured much more modern in nature as the scientific theories changed over the years...
"It tells a part of our evolution that's been hidden so far. It's been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there's nothing almost to study."
Would you hang your hat on a theory based on incomplete specimens, that there is almost nothing to study, until now? I'd be a little leery.
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Jesus knew his father to be the creator, and expressed this sentiment many times. Being that evolution would deviate from that thought, it is no small wonder Jesus never spoke of evolution as happening in any sense at all.
That is because global travelling was rare if not non existent and human influence on the surrounding environment was sparse, which means there was not that much change to be experienced.
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
Kurt Vonnegut
If you were to do a report on Hamlet, and you say it's about pigs and a blanket, I am positive you will have missed the authors theme of the book. The same rule applies to the Bible. It has one overall theme. that is the Vindication of Jehovah's Sovereignty, by means of his heavenly Kingdom, headed by his Son Christ Jesus.
There is a group of people on earth whole ardently study the bible and use just it as a basis for a personal relationship with God, high moral standards, and the hope of a peaceful future for mankind. Just one.
Jesus says in John 8:23-YOU are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. YOU are from this world; I am not from this world.
The Bible in proverbs Chapter has wisdom personified, and it alludes to Jesus being the personage, or Master worker of God.
Therefore, When Jesus spoke of Being alive before Abraham, or seeing Noah enter the ark, or Adam and Eve, he was speaking as a witness to these events, and attesting to them.
The Bible says Jesus committed no sins against God, so he could not then have been lying about his whereabouts prior to his being made human.
This is why no true follower of Christ can believe that evolution is the cause of life, because Jesus agrees with and even eye witnessed the Biblical accounts of all such happenings.
That only begotten is Jesus. Jesus lived his life in perfect harmony with God's will, and gave an accurate reflection of what God would be like in person. So therefore, it is not true that that we have not seen more of God, he sent his son who acts just like he does! Who would you wanna sit down and converse with, Jesus, or Darwin?
The bible was written by man, But don't you find it funny that none of the men who wrote in it take credit for being it's author? That all of them give credit to Jehovah for the inspiration? And they all lived over different time periods, in vastly different lands at times? In fact 2 tim says
3: 16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.
If it is true that the Bible can be used for Disciplining in righteousness, setting things straight, reproving, and teaching, How can it then be contradictory? That would then mean these verses and others like it are a fallacy.
Only through ardent bible study have I been convinced the Bible is harmonious and sound. It will benefit anyone to take a serious study of the Whole bible before saying it is contradictory, not just bits and pieces.
When I saw the title of this thread I right away knew that there would be some kind of on going debate between an evolutionist and a creationist.These kind of debates have been going on since the beginning of the post Origin of Species era and will continue for many years to come.
Many Atheists and Agnostics embrace the theory of evolution because it gives them a sense of comfort to believe that the religious accounts of creation are fallacious and erroneous.They will do whatever they can to disprove the accuracy of the bible by paraphrasing the subjective arguments of other non believers.I am 90 percent certain that when these people open up a bible they don't do it with objective motives but they rather allow their personal opinions to dictate what the bible actually has to say about their actions.People don't have trouble accepting the bible because they're torn between atheism and theism but the real reason that they won't accept the bible is because they don't want to be held accountable to the laws of a supreme law maker.Notice how they will believe that every author and historian that wrote a book were actual people that inhabited the earth but will tell you that the people in the bible were mythological characters? They will openly believe that guys like Charles Darwin,Isaac Newton, and Copernicus were actual people, even though they never personally met them, but will put Jesus in the same category as Santa Claus and the Greek gods.
To believe that everything in this life happens by chance or coincidence and that the only purpose for us on this planet is to eat, breath, toil and produce offspring is to believe that this life is pretty much obsolete and meaningless.Why should people celebrate the accomplishments of others if everything will eventually come to pass and be easily forgotten by future generations? Why live with this feeling in your heart that tells you that you will be alive on this planet for a very long period of time if more than 150 thousand people die each day? There has to be a greater purpose than what a science text book tells you.
Atheists and agnostics don't do whatever they can to disprove the bible. The scientific evidence does that by itself. I am not an atheist because I don't want to be held accountable to the laws of a supreme leader. I am an atheist because there is zero evidence of god and mountains of facts and evidence that contradicts religion. Or at least a personal god that listens to your thoughts. Plus the bible contradicts itself. It's not that hard to see.
If you actually believe life on earth is 6,000 years old (impossible), every human being came from Adam and Eve (impossible), Noah crammed 2 of every currently living species into a boat (impossible) and every one of those species made the populations that exist today (impossible), Jonah lived in a belly of a whale (impossible), the entire 14 billion year old universe was made for us and that scientists have created a massive worldwide conspiracy to disprove religion...then you my friend are either misinformed, uneducated or delusional.
Facts are facts. And they disprove religion. See above YouTube video I posted about Genesis Revisited and ask yourself why did god create so much evidence for his non-existence and so little for his existence? Plus, I implore you to objectively study astronmomy, genetics, biology and archeaology. I objectively believed the bible. I was raised in a religous family. But knowledge changed my beliefs, not my desire to be a bad person.
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Evolution does not form complex life out of nothing. That's your argument. That god produced life out of nothing. Complex life from evolution is driven by natural selection over an immense period of time.
Plus the argument that things are beautiful and complex therefore they must have been designed is fallacious. If life is too complex and therefore must have been designed, wouldn't the designer have to be equally or more complex and beautiful? Then you would have to ask who designed the designer? Because he is too complex, something must have designed him.
In addition, life being comlex certainly does not lead to a designer especially one like you believe. But you want to believe that we have to brush our teeth twice a day or else they'll fall out because Adam and Eve were convinced by a talking snake to eat an apple.
And I don't trust your group's prophecies. You guys are like 0 out of 100.
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What I do know is that the Bible eludes to there being three PERFECT human beings. Adam and Eve, and later down the Line Christ Jesus. Once Adam and Eve sinned, they began to feel the effects of death, since that was the penalty for sin. Which is why they began to get sick, old and die. Just like we do. If Jesus was not wrongfully Killed, he'd still be here according to God's word of how long a perfect man shall live. Never heard of Jesus being sick or anything, and his intelligence is beyond compare. No man who ever lived is lauded the way he is and for good reason. Who's word shall I take about Jehovah, Adam, Eve, Noah, etc.. Jesus, or Science's? Easy choice.
My "group" does not have prophecies. However, God's word does. But my group does take a keen interest in God's word, and keep on the watch as to how things will unfold. I have mentioned before this scripture, but I will rehash it today to finish up.
Acts 1:6 When, now, they had assembled, they went asking him: Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time? 7 He said to them: It does not belong to YOU to get knowledge of the times or seasons which the Father has placed in his own jurisdiction; 8 but YOU will receive power when the holy spirit arrives upon YOU, and YOU will be witnesses of me both in Jerusalem and in all Ju·de´a and Sa·mar´i·a and to the most distant part of the earth.
This is the last time his disciples would see him on earth, for he was about to ascend to heaven at this point. But this was after his resurrection, and he appeared to upwards of 500 people. Notice they were so eager to see the Kingdom restored, that they thought perhaps then was the time. But clearly it was not as Jesus said Jehovah placed that specific time in his own jurisdiction. And he eluded to a massive preaching work that had to be done about the Kingdom to the worlds most distant parts. But What Jesus didn't do was even more telling. He did not berate them for having wrong thoughts about the time of the end, he did not call them false prophets as those religious leaders in his day were. He simply corrected their thinking, and put them on the right path.
Now if its true as the bible calls Jesus the faithful and true witness of Jehovah, if they were false prophets, he would have had no dealings beyond preaching truth to them at all, even less appearing to them after his death for 40 days. Jesus only draws close to those who draw close to his Father as well as himself. That applied for the disciples in Jesus day, to now. Just because Jehovah's witnesses have had wrong ideas about exactly when the end would come is not even new hat, biblically speaking. What's most important to God is that they adhere to his word, laws and principles, and keep on the watch. That is what Jehovah's witnesses do. And it must be ok with Jehovah because there has never been more witnesses of Jehovah at the same time on earth, ever.
Jesus said gave a multi faced sign that would identify the end of a system of things in Mathew 24. At verse 14 this jumps out 14 "And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."
You can look away, you can turn your nose up, you can kick rocks, throw rocks, do whatever you need to do, but this prophecy is HAPPENING. There is nothing you or science can do or say that can defy this. IT IS HAPPENING. Notice that a group of people called Jehovah's witnesses are preaching the good news of God's Kingdom all over the globe (even some of the most remote) Giving a witness, as the world keeps plunging further and further into madness. But before the end comes, the news will have to be preached enough for God's liking. Since the end is not yet, there must be still some people left that God feels will adhere to his will. He does want to save as many that want to listen. But he has to allow them to hear first, correct?
Bible prophecy 1 opposition 0. I'll keep count as we go along.
Then, myself being in pre-rebuttal mode (because I know you think we should be perfect but are not because of an imposible story) wanted to display the logical fallacy for which I knew you would have answered to the above argument. You then focus on the details that have no pertinent meaning to the logic of the argument. I don't care if it wasn't an apple. Who gives a **** about that? It could have been a freaking grapefruit for all I care. The point was that you believe we have to brush our teeth twice a day because Adam and Eve were convinced by a snake to sin, not because bacteria will destroy your teeth if you don't take care of them. Which is utterly ridiculous.
And your prophecy is, to be brutally honest, full of ****.
You're saying becaue the word "witness" is used that it is a sign of prophecy being fulfilled.And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."
In another version of the bible it states:
So, 1.) you are misinterpreting the meaning of "witness". (not surprising you guys misinterpret the bible all the time) and 2.) What about a religous group calling themselves Jehova's Testimony? And them claiming their understanding of the bible and the prophecies is the best because the word "testimony" is in their names?And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Do you understand the argument and logic I'm presenting? Probably not. You guys have real trouble in intrepreting things. Even quotes in the bible which you all claim to be the best at understanding. I'm sure you will go off on some tangent about some little word in the argument but not the argument itself.
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Protesters say state agency accountable for toddler's killingBy Brent Curtis
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Child abuse advocate Adrienne Cole speaks face to face with Vermont Department for Children and Families Commissioner Dave Yacovone, foreground, about the department's decision to place 2-year-old Dezirae Sheldon with her birth mother Sandra Eastman prior to the child's death last week.Phyllis Sheldon has no doubt that her granddaughter would still be alive if she had been kept away from the mother who abused her.
"She was safe living with (her aunt)," Sheldon said Monday. "(The state Department for Children and Family Services) needs to be held accountable for putting her back in a home with monsters."
Sandra Eastman, the mother of 2-year-old Dezirae Sheldon, isn't charged with killing her daughter. Police say it was her husband, Dezirae's stepfather, Dennis Duby, 31, who fractured the toddler's skull, causing her death.
But Phyllis Sheldon and a large group of family members, friends and other concerned citizens said Monday that the state agency was too quick to return the helpless child to an environment where she'd been abused in the past.
Carrying signs with slogans such as "Who is protecting the children?" dozens of protesters lined the sidewalk outside the Rutland office building that houses the local branch of DCF.
"The message we want to get out is 'Do your job. Protect these kids,'" Phyllis Sheldon said. "Don't give kids back to abusive parents. Don't put them back in that environment."
In Dezirae's case, she was removed from her mother's custody in March 2013 after the 11-month-old child was brought to the hospital with fractures to both legs. Eastman pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor offense of child abuse and was sentenced to two years of probation and mandatory violence counseling for anger management.
Soon after Eastman was charged, Dezirae was placed in the custody of her aunt, Patricia Holden, who cared for her during the next seven months.
But before the start of the new year, the child was returned to her mother over the objections of both her biological father's family and her mother's family. One of Eastman's sisters, Lisa Eastman, of Albany, N.Y., posted on Facebook and a fundraising site for Dezirae that she petitioned DCF last year not to return her niece to Sandra Eastman.
DCF Commissioner Dave Yacovone came to the protest Monday because he said he wanted to look the family in the face while offering his condolences.
He said he couldn't discuss the details of Dezirae's case due to confidentiality restrictions, although he did say that his agency would conduct both an internal and external investigation into the handling of her case.
"I want an external investigation too because at the end of the day, I don't want it to come down to Dave reviewing his own actions," he said.
While he declined to give an opinion on how her case was handled, Yacovone did talk about the difficulties his limited staff have handling the 700 children in foster care in Vermont every year and the 16,000 reports of child abuse his staff reviews annually. Only about a quarter of those complaints are substantiated, he added.
Yacovone found little sympathy for his agency's hardships from Dezirae's family and supporters.
"DCF allowed this to happen," one woman shouted at Yacovone.
"That passion and anger is what drives us to look at things thoroughly," the commissioner told reporters after the woman spoke.
Yacovone also said the decision to return a child to its parents in abuse cases wasn't a decision his staff made alone.
"No one person decides," he said. "There's a process and the courts are involved."
In Dezirae's case, her family maintains that the system failed despite numerous warnings.
Holden said she told her niece's DCF caseworker that Eastman was unstable and her home was a dangerous environment.
"We told them we knew she was going to get hurt," Holden said. "Three months after her daughter was taken away (Eastman) was pregnant and getting married. She wasn't focusing on her daughter at all."
When Holden returned her niece to her mother, Eastman had neither a car seat nor a crib for her to sleep in.
Three days before Dezirae was fatally injured, Holden said she attended her niece's birthday party and was disturbed by her behavior.
"She held on to me so tight and I kept saying 'This doesn't feel right'... She was just holding on to me so tight and she was crying and I could tell something was wrong," she said.
But when Holden said she talked to Dezirae's DCF caseworker about her doubts the next day, she was dismissed.
"She said 'Oh, all kids do that,' and that was it," she said.
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A 65-year-old former cheerleader has been banned from doing cartwheels at local government meetings.
Dianne "DD" Barker, from Phoeniz, Arizona, is a former Ohio State cheerleader who likes to promote active living and emphasize her points by doing cartwheels at Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) meetings, reports KSAZ.
An attorney representing MAG recently sent Barker a letter insisting that she "must immediately cease performing cartwheels at MAG meetings." The association claims to have the authority to impose time and manner restrictions on all speakers.
Michael LeVault, chairman of the MAG Regional Council, told The Arizona Republic, "It's not my intention to shut down public comment at all...it was just really a safety issue, a liability issue for the attorneys."
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Home List of Titles Characterisation and optimisation of photonic crystal superlens for super-resolution nanoscopy
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- Characterisation and optimisation of photonic crystal superlens for super-resolution nanoscopy
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- Zhang, Qiming; Li, Xiangping; Gu, Min
- Abstract
- The spectral responses of a superlens with triangular-lattice and square-lattice photonic crystal structures were studied by simulation using the finite element method. The simulation predicts the smallest focusing spot size of λ/3.9 in the near field of the square-lattice photonic crystal superlens. The application of such a superlens in super-resolution imaging will be demonstrated by a near-field scanning microscope.
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- Proceedings of the International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Pacific Rim IQEC/CLEO 2011) incorporating the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 August - 01 September 2011, pp. 1483-1484
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- 2011
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- Photonic crystals; Square lattices; Superlenses; Super-resolution imaging; Super-resolution nanoscopy; Triangular lattices
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- Australian Optical Society, Australian Institute of Physics and Engineers Australia
- 9780977565771, 0977565777
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Just when you think it can't get any worse.
It was supposed to be a strategic move by Charlie Manuel. With the right handed Lance Berkman coming to the plate, Manuel brought in left handed pitcher J.C. Romero to face him. In my estimation Romero probably threw 10-12 warm up pitches before facing Berkman. Any one of them could have been better than the one he actually offered up to him.
One pitch. One hit. One run. Game over.
The Phillies were once again playing without their most valuable weapon tonight; the offense. This is now the sixth time in their last 11 games where they have managed five hits or less.
Having now lost four games in a row, the Phillies were also swept for the first time this season. Roy Oswalt came out firing tonight. Against his ex-teammate Berkman, Oswalt hit 96 on the radar gun. The adrenaline facing an old friend can do that, he was sitting regularly around 91-92 on his fastball. Oswalt went five innings and gave up one run while throwing 76 pitches.
Michael Stutes came in to pitch the sixth inning but lasted only three pitches and was motioning towards his right shoulder as he walked off the field. It seems he has a strained muscle in his ride side. Kyle Kendrick came in for relief and only allowed one hit in two innings of work.
The Phillies were the last team in the majors to lose three straight games this season. Like I said in the Gameday, and hoped it wouldn't happen, this is the first four game skid for the Phillies since August of last season. As a team the Phils have only scored seven runs on 17 hits during this losing streak.
We can't entirely put the blame on Romero here. Danys Baez was called on to pitch the ninth inning with hopes of going into extra innings. That didn't work out so well. Baez allowed three consecutive singles without recording an out. Two batters later Romero is in the game and Berkman hits a walk-off RBI single. Cardinals win 2-1.
Ryan Howard did not reach base safely for the first time in 23 games in his hometown of St. Louis. He was 0-4 with three strikeouts on the night.
Michael 'Mini-Mart' Martinez had two hits and John Mayberry Jr is now 2-2 in stolen bases against the Cardinals this season.
We all know the hitting is not there, but is Manuel misusing his pitching staff? Should Stutes been given the night off? Would you have let Baez face Berkman?
So many questions. Only guarantee right now is the Phillies will be back home tomorrow to face the Rockies. Hopefully there are some runs waiting at CBP.
The Phillies have 15 more games before a day off. Plenty of time to actually earn it.
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In Manuels defense.
The starter had a pitch limit of 70. He only went 5.
some of us thought he should have been pinch hit for in the 5th inning too.
You are on the road in a tie game so that takes your closer out of the equation unless you get a lead. Which is touch to do when you score 1 run and its the result of a dropped pop up.
What were the old mans choices? Baez or Romero?
But think about it. Baez was not only conidered but used in a tie game in the ninth inning.
A mojor league team shouldnt be in that position. I dont care if Conteras and Lidge are hurt. The bull pen may have done OK so far this year. And Madson is a keeper. But Kyle Kendrick is now the 8th inning man? I just dont think that will last forever.
The pen is an issue. Not as much of one as the line up. Specificly the corner outfielders. But its an issue. Need to get a few arms there too. ESP if Stutes is going on the DL.
Yet another factor to not blame charlie is stutes got hurt without getting any outs.
It was kind of down to that scrub Baez who should nto be on the roster really.
Last year proved that enough.
Please for God's sake check your spelling and grammar before you comment. Drives me nuts.
thnks 4 the lauf tonight sammy
if thy haad a spell check feature id use it
but they do not
Kendrick is doing his job for the time been Andrew. How long it will last who knows. Baez should be released soon. However i think they will hold on to him tell Contreras comes back. I think Mathieson is on the roster im not sure that would of been his other choice. We know Jc an Baez are not to be trusted to hold a one run lead. Cholly hands where tied bring in JC an he walks one gives up a single maybe gets one out.
I am not complaing about KK
He has been super. Way better than one could ever expect
I jsut dont think it will last. But maybe it will.
Madson was a starter way back when.
Maybe KK will be a good reliever that would be awesome and solve some problems
I am jsut skeptical still.
Usually I go back and correct some of the obvious grammar and spelling mistakes
but in sams honor that wont be happening for a few days
Iwas jsut watching some of the braves hghlights.
Mccann homers in the 9th down 1 with 2 outs to force extras then does ti agian in the 11th
One of the big issues the phils face also is. Unlike the last 3 years this is a for real team.
And the Marlins are pesky too.
This isnt the Mets who wanted to fail with a 12 game lead. Both these teams scare me (braves and marlins)
Peopel familar with me can tell you that at no point over the last 3 years down 9 games the mets or 7 to the braves last year did i ever consider they even had a chance to win the division. Not this year.
Until I see the moves the phillies make
I think the braves win the NL east this year if things jsut stay as are
both braves and marlins will beat phils
don't panic. phils are hurt and players will return. in tbe meantime, key questions to ask are: why are the phillies constantly hurt? are they hurt more than players on other teams? do their conditioning programs need to be changed? or are their injuries just flukes? do the phillies scouts have a penchant for selecting injuy prone players? or are the players not compliant with existing traiing programs? some hard questions need to be asked because the Phils ALWAYS seem to be hurt.
Can they bring up Belliard.
Archer some good questions. Im willing to bet it's something with the training program. Also has something to do with the age of some our players. Its hard to point out the scouts too many variables. From a logical standpoint to me i dont see that feasible. Oswalt had known back issues that was a chance we took with him.
The phils actually traditionaly have had less injuries than teams like the mets and braves
It is because of the age of the players
Utleys body is betraying him. all those years playing hard at a middle infield position does that
Oswalt hurt himself after a natural diaster
Lidge and Conteras are just old relief pitchers. Anything the phils get from them from here on out is jsut luck and enjoy it. I expect nothing from either.
Its nto the training or lack there of.
How is Charlie Manuel deserving of the Jeltz??? Really??? He has what he has to work with. A lineup FULL of holes, a bullpen that needed to be re-configured DURING THE GAME and a starting pitcher that had a pretty strict pitch count.
Is it HIS fault that Victorino is hurt and that Utley is on the DL? Is it HIS fault that Stutes injured his side after three pitches, causing some immediate bullpen shifting right then and there?
He made the right STRATEGIC move in calling on Romero to pitch to Berkman. It's Romero, and that stiff Baez that handed the game to the Cardinals in the ninth. But those are the pitchers that Charlie had to work with. I heard that some people were calling for Madson in that spot. That's not how it's done. You don't use your closer in the ninth on the road when the game is tied.
No…..the fault again lies squarely on the O. And on Danys Baez. Seriously….how much longer do we have to see him in a Phillies uniform??
Garcia is not a bad pitcher, and has given the Phils fits in the past, but when you only give up 2 runs, you should win. Can't blame it on the pen – this is another loss by the offense.
On the plus side, Mayberry earned another few starts, and Martinez is making the "who to drop when Utley comes back" decision easier.
Maybe it's my browser, but I get a red underline on anything spelled wrong. 12 years of Catholic school – I notice misspellings, but the occasional one doesn't bother me. Andrew, your first post was Phillies offense bad – distracting to the point where I'm not sure what you were trying to say. You get a pass for posting at 12:09am, assuming it was impacted by alcohol or sleep deprivation.
Not only is Jaime Garcia "not a bad pitcher"…..he actually damn good. Props need to be given here. But, yeah, one run (on a GIFT dropped pop-up) is pretty bad.
So we have Valdez, Orr and Martinez as part of that "who to drop" debate. I still think that Valdez needs to stay because of his defense and infield flexibility (how about some of his plays last night?? What???!!!). Orr still has an option left and, while seemingly better at the plate, isn't THAT good that he needs to definitely stay. And Martinez certainly didn't hurt his cause last night.
bfo – Catholic school teaches you how to write cursive with the green paper with the big lines. As far as I know, they are no better at teaching actual spelling than anyone else. This is the time of the year where I usually check out for awhile – the problems with the team are clear and well defined – and it really doesn't do much to shout about it day in and day out. That said the Phillies, even with Chase coming back need TWO bats. Two outfielders. And a LH for the pen. Over and out. See y'all when the trade deadline approaches. Go Phils!
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Time to get rid of Greg Gross. Bring back Milt Thompson…….anybody. This is the worst offense in baseball. Teach these guys some patience. Pathetic!
Dipsy….. friend and respected poster (borrowing that from you)….you have NOTHING say for two months??
Based upon the schedules over the next two weeks, I think the Phils will fall out of first. I'm also not overly concerned at this point – the schedules equal out in July.
I like Orr's bat, but he may be a luxury at this point, esp if Chase comes back. Martinez doesn't quite have the arm of Valdez, but does everything else a little better.
I agree on two bats, but think one of them is in the org already – possibly a platoon of Brown and Mayberry. I don't expect either to be a savior (back to that Catholic education again), but a serviceable upgrade. Still need another, preferably rhb. I never really could write legible cursive, but have the scars on my knuckles to prove that nuns don't like poor spelling. The only other areas where catholic school differed from public school was:
– Parents had to pay extra, they weren't going to put up with bad grades,
– Nuns were perfectly willing to humiliate anyone who didn't perform, vs the mentality that kid's egos needed to be regularly stroked.
While I think the hitting coach brings something to the table, I think they get too much credit when a team is hitting, too much blame when they are not.
Martinez is useless. He should definitely be gone. Orr and Valdez are not much better. Even though I was against it, at this point, I much rather have Castillo then either of those three. At least he can get on base. I would put Castillo leadoff and Polanco second and get some baserunners aboard. I don't put the total fault on Gross, but clearly he has not done any better than Thompson. I would rather a young hungry coach who can help these hitters with the pitchers they are facing and comeup with a game plan. I would have made sure each of the hitter took many picthes against Westbrook the other day. By the way, it sure would have been nice if we got Berkman over the winter. I am sure Oswalt could have lured him here for a discount.
A lot of woulda, shoulda, coulda in that post.
I realize this is a big assumption, but Rube and Co have backed it up over the pat 4 years – stay close, pick up what you need in June/July. I fully expect we will get a key contributor in the next couple of months that will help out the offense. Beating up on the bad teams, go above 0.500 on the potential contenders at home, below on the road, and we'll be ok.
Even with the 4 Aces, as the team stands right now, we're looking more at a wild card than taking the division. This team is at win now mode, and will overpay (as long as it is not a long term contract) to get the missing piece(s). I don't think we'll clear out the farm, but also think Brown is the only untouchable in the org. I'd expect interest in Rizzoti, Mathieson, and Worley, and wouldn't be surprised to see a pair of the three go. Maybe I'm being optimistic, but Amaro has the track record.
Wow, talk about fair-weather or a dedicated fan. "I usually don't pay attention for two months" Give me a break that is pretty pathetic. Especially without other sports going on in the city to have a reason to cool on the attention for the Phils. I don't know you at all but that's pretty weak sauce man.
As much as we can look at the pitching decisions for this game, the loss is ultimately the responsibility of the offensive offense. This putrid performance can not stand and frankly it's beginning to alarm me. 1 run is almost never enough, so no matter what decision was made in the bullpen, bottom line is the offense is not earning their salaries right now (for the most part)
I watch every game and almost every inning, and have for a long time, but I have to say that this team is getting very very boring. The lineup is just pathetic. Sardinha, Valdez, Orr, Francisco, Ibanez……..it is getting extruciating to watch! It is hard getting excited about just Polanco and the 1 in 15 times Howard hits a home run. Painful!
Sound the alarms – we lost three games in a row…
In all seriousness, we just have to limp our way out of this. Injuries have hit hard and the back ups are showing why they are back ups. The good thing is that we started strong so we have some leeway. All I care about is getting into the playoffs. No reason to get all bent out of shape in May especially considering the fact that we're still in first. We're not going to fall out of contention… we might have a dogfight on our hands but if we've got all of our guys healthy, I like our chances in a donnybrook. We need guys healthy… end of story.
Here is a great FREE program that you can use anywhere for spelling. Go to Enso.com and download. By the way, I can't stand Baez or Romero. Reminds me of the days of Mitch Williams.


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Like many in her class, Miranda Tagle of Mathis had decorated the top of her mortarboard. While many of the messages were flippant or congratulatory, hers carried words pertinent and dramatic and personal: only one out of three teen mothers are graduated from high school.
As the Bobcat Band fought to keep Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance in tune, Miranda was more than aware she had beaten the odds, even if the statistics are unreliable.
WHILE THE abstinence-only organization My Choice to Wait says that only 13 percent of teenage girls who become pregnant finish high school, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy puts the figure at 33 percent, but another of its websites claims it is 40 percent. However, the American Civil Liberties Union places the number at 70 percent. Pay your money; take your choice.
Whatever the exact figure, Do Something.org, a not-for-profit organization that claims 1.6 million members, flatly states the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrial world — 700,000 a year — costing the taxpayer, according to the Centers for Disease Control, $11 billion a year.
And the increasingly higher scholastic expectations competing with the responsibilities of parenthood places such high demands on teen mothers that many find their position untenable.
A lot of weight was resting on Miranda's 5-foot, 1-inch frame.
SITTING IN the bleachers behind her were her mother, Cristina, and the object of her determination and pride, Aiden, her 2-year-old son.
If the thrust of the speakers was for the Class of 2013 to think of the future, Miranda's focus kept shifting to almost three years before when a doctor in Corpus Christi diagnosed her vomiting spells as being two months pregnant.
The doctor told Miranda; Miranda told her mother.
"We both broke into tears," Cristina says, "I was shocked."
And nothing was ever quite the same.
"I told a friend I was pregnant. That was on a Friday. When I came back to school on Monday, everybody knew."
ONCE THE news was out, she says her friends then told her about her boyfriend's reputation. "It was a kind of joke to them — because they knew how he was. I wish they had told me earlier."
An immediate consequence was that the school's liability policy stipulated that Miranda — long active in volleyball and softball — had to give up athletics.
Aiden was born Sept. 28, 2011.
His father, a successful member of the school's football team, showed up that night to see his son — but only after football practice.
"My mother wasn't angry with me," Miranda remembers. "She was disappointed."
"At first I was very angry with him," Cristina admits. "But it takes two; they both were at fault."
Grandchildren, however, work their own magic. "She came around," Miranda smiles.
But not everyone. "My older brother was really angry," she says. "He told me, 'You should have made better choices.'"
SKIDMORE-TYNAN Independent School District policy allows schedule flexibility for students in need; Miranda was back in three weeks.
"I did schoolwork at home, but the first day back at school was...draining."
But she was determined to stay in school, even when she had doubts.
"One time I said in class that maybe I should just quit. We were all just joking around. The next thing I know, the principal called me into her office. 'What's this I hear about your planning to leave school?'"
If Miranda wanted to stay home from school for a day, Cristina wouldn't have it. Miranda credits support from her mother, her friends and her teachers for her staying in school.
This fall, she plans to enroll at Coastal Bend College.
"Originally, I was going to major in physical therapy," she says."But now I want to go into cosmetology."
The salient point, she says, is not which major, but getting a four-year college degree.
IN THE ensuing years since Aiden's birth, her relationship with his father has evolved and deepened, but cautiously.
"We still see each other," Miranda admits. "Last Valentine's Day, he asked me to marry him. We call ourselves engaged, but I've told him it's going to take a long time for me to regain trust."
During a conversation five days after the graduation ceremony, she was not wearing her engagement ring.
Despite that nationwide, only 20 percent of teenage fathers marry the girl they impregnated, Miranda's mother is optimistic.
"I think they eventually will marry, but it's going to take some time, Cristina says.
Ask Miranda what she has learned from all this, and she is at a loss for words. How has she changed, then?
"I'm more mature," she flatly states, and exhibits it by explaining one of the reasons she will enroll at CBC this fall "is not just for me, but as an example for my son."
SOME OF the student speakers at the graduation ceremony labeled the moment as bittersweet: happiness for finishing school; sadness for leaving.
For Miranda, it was bittersweet for a different reason.
In mere days, Maria, her grandmother, would succumb from too many ailments and too few cures. But she would live long enough to know her granddaughter, against the odds, with her son in the stands, marched to the podium in a royal purple gown and a cap bearing a tassel and a testimony, and returned a graduate.
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at email@example.com.


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Julie Welch from Northwoods Elementary is the Wisconsin History Teacher of the Year.
She's being honored for her research based teaching strategies and promoting international education. This also means she's in the running for the National History Teacher of the Year title.
Welch says it's reaffirming that she's been doing the right thing for the 22 years she's been teaching, and at the same time is very humble. "I don't feel like this is just my award, this is our award because nothing we do in teaching is alone, we do it as a team, and so I really feel like this is an honor to our whole district," said Welch.
Welch invited some of her teaching inspirations to Thursday's ceremony, including her history teachers from 7th and 8th grade.


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Amazon Hacks
Author's note: Amazon has a history of embracing the nature of the Web by opening its platform to outsiders. Its founders realized early that any web site can link to any other web site, and that means hefty competition for attention and links. Amazon turned this apparent chaos to its advantage by creating its Associates Program. The program pays web site owners a percentage of the sales made from referred customers. With a proliferation of competition from sites selling used books, Amazon opened its sales infrastructure to allow anyone to sell the same items it was selling--alongside Amazon's listings. Even Amazon competitors can sell their books on Amazon.com.
With this history in mind, it's not surprising that Amazon has packaged all of these features into a developer-friendly environment that allows web site authors to integrate even more closely with Amazon to take advantage of these features. With an open API based on standard Web services (and a bit of hacking for those features that aren't included in the API yet), developers can integrate Amazon features with their businesses (see Hack #54); cell phones (see Hack #90); desktop applications (see Hack #11); and web sites (see Hack #69). Amazon Hacks gives you 100 concrete examples just like these, showing exactly what features are available, how to use them, and how to make this kind of integration happen.
If you have your own web site, you can mirror your Amazon listings there so you can reach your audience as well.
Amazon has millions of customers at their site looking for items, and getting your listing in front of them is important. If you have a web site, though, letting your own audience know about your sale items could be just as important. It's not only the number of people that see a listing that matters, but getting the right person to see the listing.
The easiest way to point your web visitors to your sale items is to link to a list of all your open Marketplace items on Amazon. To find the link, visit your seller account (http://www.amazon.com/seller-account/) and click "View your Member Profile."
TIP: The URL of your Member Profile page contains your Seller ID. The alphanumeric string following
customer-glance is your unique ID number. Jot it down while you're there because it's necessary for the following hack.
On your member profile page, click "View Open Marketplace Listings." The page lists all of your open sale items. This page is publicly viewable, so just copy the URL from the address bar of your browser and include it in an HTML link on your site like this:
Buy my stuff!
If you want to integrate beyond a link, you can list every item you're selling on your site.
Included in every listing confirmation email [Hack #49] you'll find a link that leads to a page for your specific product listing. If you want to include all of the items you have for sale on your web site, you could copy each of these links and paste them into an HTML file. You'd also need to copy the name of the product and how much you've listed it for. You'd have to revisit this HTML every time an item sells or anytime you make a change to your listings.
Luckily, you can automate this entire process with Amazon Web Services.
This ASP script requests your latest items for sale on Amazon and formats them as a local web page. You'll need an Amazon developer's token Section 6.4 to run the script, and you can include an affiliate tag. You'll also need to find your Seller ID and set it at the top of the code.
' Set Associate ID, Developer Token, and Seller ID
Const AFF_TAG = "insert associate tag"
Const DEV_TOKEN = "insert developer token"
Const SELLER_ID = "insert seller ID"
XMLURL = "http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3" & _
"?t=" + AFF_TAG & _
"&dev-t=" + DEV_TOKEN & _
"&SellerSearch=" + SELLER_ID & _
"&type=heavy" & _
"&page=1" & _
"&offerstatus=open" & _
' Issue the request and wait for the response
Set xmlhttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.SERVERXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.Open "GET", XMLURL, false
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
response.write "Unable to connect to Amazon."
End If
Set XMLDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML
'response.write "<xmp>" & XMLDoc.xml & "</xmp>"
If XMLDoc.parseError.ErrorCode <> 0 Then
response.write "Error: " & XMLDoc.parseError.reason
End If
' Look for the ErrorMsg tag
Set XMLError = XMLDoc.SelectNodes("//ErrorMsg")
' If it exists, display the message and exit
If XMLError.length > 0 Then
response.write XMLDoc.SelectSingleNode("//ErrorMsg").text
End If
' If there's no error, loop through items for sale
Set ProdDetail = XMLDoc.SelectNodes("//ListingProductDetails")
For x = 0 To (ProdDetail.length - 1)
strExID = ProdDetail(x).selectSingleNode("ExchangeID").text
strTitle = ProdDetail(x).selectSingleNode("ExchangeTitle").text
strPrice = ProdDetail(x).selectSingleNode("ExchangePrice").text
strOffer = ProdDetail(x).selectSingleNode("ExchangeOfferingType").text
response.write "" & strTitle & "
"
response.write strPrice & " (" & strOffer & ")"
response.write "

" & vbCrLf
Save the code to a file called SalesListings.asp and upload it to your IIS server. Request the file from a browser to see your product listings:
Taking this script one step further, you can let your visitors add your items directly to their Amazon shopping carts. Include the following HTML form to print a "Buy from Amazon.com" button along with each item.
<form method="POST" action="http://www.amazon.com/o/dt/assoc/&return;
handle-buy-box=insert ASIN">
<input type=hidden
name="exchange.insert exchange ID.insert ASIN.insert Seller ID"
<input type="hidden" name="tag-value" value="insert affiliate tag">
<input type="hidden" name="tag_value" value="insert affiliate tag">
<input type="submit" name="submit.add-to-cart" value="Buy From Amazon.com">
You'll need to insert the proper exchange ID, ASIN, and Seller ID, and these
values are available as variables in the script. To add this form to SalesListings.asp, insert the following code just before the last line of the loop (
"

"), and include the necessary variables.
strASIN = ProdDetail(x).selectSingleNode("ExchangeAsin").text
strSellerID = ProdDetail(x).selectSingleNode("ExchangeSellerId").text
<form method="POST" action="http://www.amazon.com/o/dt/assoc/&return;
handle-buy-box=insert ASIN">
<input type=hidden
name="exchange.<%= strExID %>.<%= strASIN %>.<%= strSellerID %>"
<input type="hidden" name="tag-value" value="insert affiliate tag">
<input type="hidden" name="tag_value" value="insert affiliate tag">
<input type="submit" name="submit.add-to-cart" value="Buy From Amazon.com">
When someone visiting the page clicks "Buy from Amazon.com," your specific item will be added to their cart and the sale will go to you.
For more hacking-the-hack fun, you can ease the transition from your site to Amazon's with some co-branding. By setting the following form with each item listing, the "Buy from Amazon.com" button will tell Amazon to show your logo as customers step through the checkout process on their server.
<form action="http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/dt/cbop/order-checkout/"
<input type="hidden" name="purchase-navbar"
value="insert image URL">
<input type="hidden" name="purchase-store-name"
value="insert your store name">
<input type="hidden" name="purchase-return-url"
value="insert your store URL">
<input type="hidden" name="purchase-exchange-id"
value="insert exchange ID"/>
<input type="hidden" name="purchase-quantity" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="purchase-storefront-name"
value="insert your store name"/>
<input type="submit" name="go" value="Buy from Amazon.com">
To include this co-branded checkout in SalesListings.asp, just fill in the image, store name, store
URL, and exchange ID, and include the HTML just before the last line of the
product loop. Be sure to turn off script processing with
%> just before this form, and then turn script processing back on with
<% just after this code. You can also
insert the exchange ID with the variable set earlier in the script in an ASP
tag, like
<%= strExID %>.
Instead of sending customers from your site directly to Amazon's cart page, you can send them to a minimalist checkout process (as shown in Figure 4-8) that includes your site's logo.
Figure 4-8. A co-branded checkout page
Take your Wish List wherever you go with AWS, XSLT, and WAP!
How many times have you been browsing at a bookstore or video store and you can't remember which books or movies you wanted to pick up? Sure, you could write them all down on a piece of paper and take it with you, but what fun would that be? Instead, you can use powerful cell networks and web applications to do the work for you. If you track wanted books and movies with your Amazon Wish List and have a WAP-enabled cell phone, you can always have your list handy.
WAP stands for Wireless Access Protocol, and it's used for delivering information to cell phones and other handheld devices. The information itself is formatted with WML (Wireless Markup Language), an XML format.
Just as HTML pages have
 elements that
contain the bulk of the page, WML pages have
elements. Each WML page can contain several cards, but only one card is
displayed at a time. Also, links work much the same way as in HTML. Instead of
 tags, WML relies on
<anchor> and
<go href>
tags. This example creates one card with a list of items. Each item links to the
Amazon WAP product detail page for that item.
Making AWS responses available to a cell phone is just a matter of converting one XML format (AWS response) to another (WML). Once again, Amazon's XSLT service makes this quick work.
Create an XSL file called wap_wishlist.xsl with the following code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/&return;
<xsl:output method="wml" doctype-public="-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" &return;
<xsl:template match="/">
<card id="Menu" title="Wishlist">

My Wishlist

<xsl:for-each select="ProductInfo/Details">
<xsl:value-of select="Catalog" />:

<xsl:value-of select="ProductName" />
<xsl:if test="Artists">
<xsl:value-of select="Artists/Artist" />
<xsl:if test="Authors">
<xsl:value-of select="Authors/Author" />

<xsl:value-of select="OurPrice" />

<anchor>Details<go><xsl:attribute name="href">http://&return;
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=insert associate tag%26creative=&return;
insert developer token%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2%26path=ct/text/&return;
vnd.wap.wml/-/tg/aa/xml/glance-xml/-/<xsl:value-of select="Asin" />&return;
There are a few important things to note in this code. First, the output type
has been set to WML with the
<xsl:output> tag.
Without this, the required
<!DOCTYPE tag would not be
included in the transformed page. Also notice the link to WAP Amazon detail
pages. The URL format is the same (see Hack #72), but the ampersands have all
been changed to the encoded
%26. Ampersands aren't valid
when used in URLs inside a WML file, and phones can't display the page if they
aren't escaped.
The code is just an Amazon query, so we need to get the right URL. Find your Wish List ID [Hack #18] and include it in a wish list search like this:
http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=insert associate tag &return;
&dev-t=insert developer token&WishlistSearch=[your wishlist]&type=lite&f=xml
Upload wap_wishlist.xsl to a publicly accessible
server and change the value of
f= to the URL for the
http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=insert associate tag &return;
&dev-t=insert developer token&WishlistSearch=[your wishlist]&type=lite &return;
There's just one more change that needs to be made. WAP browsers are looking
for a certain content type. Content types are specified as HTTP headers, and
there's no way to include those in our XSL file. Luckily, Amazon provides a way
to specify an alternate content type header with the query itself. Add the
ct= variable and set the content type to
http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=insert associate tag &return;&dev-t=insert
developer token&WishlistSearch=[your wishlist]&type=lite &return;
That's all there is to it. Unfortunately this URL is a bit long to type into your phone with your keypad, but there are a couple of ways to work around this. First, see if your cell provider has a web interface for adding bookmarks to your phone's WAP browser. If so, you could copy and paste this monster into your cell provider's site, and then have 1-click (ahem) access through your phone's bookmarks. Another method is to upload a WML file to your site that contains a link to your wish list via this URL. Then you'd just need to browse to your own WAP page first and follow the link. If you go this route, try giving your WAP page a short name, like a.wml; this will save some keying.
Paul Bausch is a co-creator of the weblog software Blogger, maintains a directory of Oregon-based weblogs at ORblogs.com, and is the author of the forthcoming Yahoo! Hacks.
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You've probably heard the popular claim that humans only tap into about 10 percent of their brainpower.
Neurologists have debunked that urban legend countless times in the past, with many calling it a laughable and completely false myth.
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Minutes - Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Members present:
Edie Harding
Marla Skelley
John Carmichael
Mary Ann Steele
Wyatt Cates
Steve Huntsberry
Rick Smith
Rita Pougiales
Kate Lykins Brown (recorder)
The team discussed the intranet and what info we may want to link. Suggestions were the Deans', Agenda Committee's and Academic Sub-Council's pages, and Senior Staff minutes. Other items we may want to include are Edie's legislative page as well as the work done by the other 3 committees. We also reiterated the need to have a calendar of important/pertinent campus and community events. Intranet should be ready by December 10.
Marla asked if the site would be interactive. Absent this feature, it was suggested that FAQs could be a useful way of handling common queries. It was also suggested that we may want to solicit topics for future monthly focus sessions through the intranet. Attached is a first cut at those topics for monthly sessions. We agreed to proceed with requests for the budget and legislative sessions in January and February
Rita talked about the need to not just provide info, but supply interpretations or contexts. The team also discussed using other avenues for communication (brown bag lunches, forums, speaking to small groups) as ways of amplifying info. We spoke about providing ample notice of community meetings, and how we may first post info on the intranet (such as Budget 101 material), invite the community to a meeting/forum, and advertise the meeting across campus.
Edie solicited ideas for her "Budget 101" suggestion as the topic of the month for December/January. The role of budget coordinators, sources of income, and the differences between the operating and capital budgets were mentioned as facets of the budget that bear explanation.
The team forwards the names of Andrea Coker-Anderson, Jules Unsel and Rita Pougiales to Les for consideration for the College Budget Council.
Next steps:
Kate will solicit suggested titles and draft an intent section to head the intranet page, and distribute same to team. She will also work with other 3 committees to identify recorders and ask them to forward their minutes to her for posting on intranet.
Next meeting:
Wednesday, December 18, following the next management breakfast.
Evergreen Community Draft Topics
Draft 12/4/02
|Budget 101
Where does the money come from? What do we spend it on?
|Steve Trotter
|By Jan 1, 2003
Intranet Posting
|Legislature 101
What are the hot topics this session? What is Evergreen's strategy?
|Edie Harding
|By Feb 1, 2003
Intranet Posting
Student Mix
Entrance Requirements
Enrollment by program
|Steve Hunter
|By March 1, 2003
Gen Ed
|Rita Pougiales
|By April 1, 2003
|Child Care Center and Seminar II Construction
|Michel George
|By May 1, 2003
Human Resources
Civil Service Reform, Exempt salaries
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This hands-on workshop is designed to help new and existing companies understand the SAM registration and account creation process. The workshop will provide individual assistance to migrate former Central Contractor Registration to SAM account activation and updates.
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regarding appointment, employment, compensation, discipline,
performance, or dismissal of specific employees of ISBE,
including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against
an employee to determine its validity.
If the public would like to attend the
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WATERLOO Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Robert Langen Art Gallery presents an installation by artist Lynne Heller in an exhibition titled Slippage, running from Jan. 9 to Feb. 16, 2013.
Slippage is a site-specific installation that subverts the traditional space of the gallery with work viewers can walk on and touch. Hellers sculptural floor cloths incorporate digital photo manipulation, superimposed images, and painterly markings.
As if spilling out from burst seams, motifs of smoke, shadow, patterned tile, flora and delicate compositions of street debris not only cover the ground but slip up the walls, enveloping the viewer, said Heller in a statement.
By integrating a diverse combination of visual narratives and techniques, Heller creates an immersive environment in which viewers are challenged to observe and experience from new perspectives.
Heller is a Canadian post-disciplinary artist and educator. Her interests encompass material culture, new media, performative interaction, graphic novels and sculptural installation. Her work has been included in both public and private collections and her reviews include Art Papers, The Globe & Mail, Canadian Art, Fiberarts, The National Post and The Hamilton Spectator. She has been the recipient of numerous grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Heller completed her MFA at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and is currently undertaking a doctoral program at University College Dublin. She is a sessional teacher at OCAD University.
The Robert Langen Art Gallery has played a vital role at Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Waterloo campus since it opened in 1989. As Lauriers visual arts centre, the Robert Langen Art Gallery provides knowledge, stewardship, appreciation and enjoyment of Canadian art and culture to members of the Laurier community and beyond. The gallerys annual programming complements concepts and theories in Lauriers academic curriculum and integrates community outreach initiatives as related to the visual arts.


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By Jack King
Area used-car dealers had varying reactions to the state's new lemon law, which went into effect on Jan. 1.
"We're going to have to be very careful about disclosures, telling where (the vehicle) came from and what we did to it. We're also going to have to be careful about trade-in's, because if there's a problem the dealer will have to give the customer back the price of the car and the value of the trade in on paper. We're going to have to be careful about what we sell, whereas before we didn't," said Benny Pacheco, owner of Grand Traders in Clovis.
Alva Carter, co-owner of Big Valley Ford in Portales, said the warranty will not be problem, because Big Valley puts all of its cars through a 28-point-certification system before it puts them on the lot. But the bill's disclosure provisions could create problems for consumers, he said.
"If the dealer has to declare that a car has been repaired, we can't give the customer as much for it on a trade in, if we have to declare it's been wrecked," he said.
Bryant Faircloth, general manager of Auto World in Clovis, said he thinks the law will weed out "problem cars and problem dealers."
"Our policy has always been to make sure our vehicles are at 100 percent before we put them on the line. And, for example, if a transmission were to go out within a 30-day window, we'd fix it," he said.
Guy Appelman, executive director of the New Mexico Independent Automobile Dealers Association, said he plans to conduct a seminar on the new law in eastern New Mexico within the next 15 days.