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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (52 votes).
In short: Club running at its bestIn full: An unusual distance, a hilly race, but very well organized. Pretty course, village fete. Low key and friendly club running at its best. Date of review: July 19, 2015
In short: A couple of 'hills'. At the mercy of the Sun on a hot day!Date of review: July 17, 2015
In short: Hot, hilly in parts, well marshalled, great finish atmosphereIn full: A 2pm start on one of the hottest days of the year with the hills to be climbed concentrated in the second quarter of the race made this tougher than the distance and overall height gain would suggest.There were plenty of marshals who did a very good job. Ending in the middle of the Village Fair made for a great finishing reception even for those well down the field. Parking and loos were both as good as it gets.One suggestion for the future - if it is exceptionally hot a second water station would have been very welcome. To be fair, there seemed to be an impromptu attempt to provide some water for tail-enders at about 6 miles.Date of review: July 15, 2013
In short: Hot and hillyIn full: A mid July race with a start time of 2pm can be rather hot! 30C with just the one water station meant I felt rather thirsty on the last 3 miles.Date of review: July 15, 2013
In short: Weell done to the organisersIn full: The main thjing to say here is well done tpo the organisers for making this happen at all following the demise of the flower show and the poor weather in the days before the race. A miracle of flexible planning and organisation, so many thanks for keeping this runningDate of review: July 22, 2012
In short: Thanks so much to the organisers at South London Harriers, for ensuring that the race went ahead.Date of review: July 16, 2012
In short: Well done!In full: Thanks to the hard work and regular updates of the organisers, the race was able to go ahead. Yes the route was changed but the weather was terrible in the previous weeks and evidence of recent flooding was still present. Not as big a turnout as previous years but still a great race.Once again many thanks SLHDate of review: July 15, 2012
In short: very well organised as alwaysIn full: The orgaisers worked wonders toensure that the event went ahead following the demise of this year's flower show due to a little rain. Added to that much less car parking space. A challenging event as always and no frills - well worth the effort.Date of review: July 14, 2012
In short: nice but not as good as previous yearsIn full: have done this race for a few years now and yes the cancellation of the show and fair took the highlight of the race for me. to be fair the weather was a big problem but some of the last minute changes worked well, parking was fine in the allocated car parks but the club house was a nightmare if like me you entered on the day. at the end you got a nice medal which made it all worth while, lastly a BIG thank you to all the marshalls who braved the horrible weather without you races would never happen....Date of review: July 14, 2012
In short: Well organised and charmingIn full: A very enjoyable event, well-marshalled and well organised, being part of the flower show makes for a nice atmosphere. The course is quite undulating but PB potential is high as this is about the only 7 mile race that I know. Good to have a race on a Saturday and we were very lucky with the rain, which stopped about 10 minutes before the race began.Date of review: July 18, 2011
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (98 votes).
In short: Potentially solid race but needs to organisation sorting outIn full: This could be a solid race - nice steady course, good mix of runners, well supported especially at the end.But as others say it really needs to step up the organisation. Notably:- Huge queues for bag drop at start and end- No PA system at the start and no information about when we might start (we started 20 mins late)- At least 1 water station was unmanned so runners had to stop to get water out of packs themselves- I saw 1 Marshal sending runners the wrong way down a very busy main roadThese organisation things should be fixable. If they do that this would be a solid race.Date of review: April 15, 2013
In short: Could do betterIn full: Problems throughout the race but if the organiser's can fix them it could be a good race. The queues and lack of announcements made the start confusing.Although the course is flat its quite challenging mentally as there is a lot of tuning back on yourself so it feels slow. Personally I would always prefer mile rather than km makers, particularly on this distance. The end of the race was also full of queues but there were good elements...the timing chip in the bib, names on the bib, starting pens, marshalls cheering, bananas at the end rather than chocolate bars. If they can sort the route out I'll be back as everything else is forgivable but otherwise I'm not sure. Date of review: April 15, 2013
In short: Nice race but the organisation was a shamblesIn full: This race has so much potential but is spoilt by lack of organisation. With a few more road closures to avoid the narrow pathways it could become a great race. Unfortunately the day will be remembered for the lack of a PA system so no anouncements for the start. Lack of marhalls at the water station, chaos at the baggage handling area, a big shame all round.Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Shambolic organisationIn full: This was my first half marathon, so I chose to support a local race. I wish I hadn't. I was glad I had someone with me to mind my bag, as the baggage queue was hundreds of meters long and some folk missed the start of the race. Likewise for the toilet queues. The start itself was delayed but there were no announcements (someone came around with a mic to say there was a zumba warm-up, but it wasn't at the holding pens and most runners had already started by then anyway). One of water stations ran dry before the end of the race. Big cheers to the marshalls and the steel drum players along the Green Way, who really helped to cheer things up. My biggest complaint is that the placings are by gun time rather than chip time, so I am placed behind a lot of runners with slower times - that can't be right. I appreciate it was the first half marathon, but there have been four previous 10ks, so I expected better organisation. Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Good intentions but...In full: I understand this race is fairly new so with trial and error things can improve..To start with I thought that having the name printed on the bib was a good touch so that people can call out your name and cheer you on.The negatives... The queue at the baggage area was ridiculously long, the water stations were not manned, marshalls were quiet, no toilet paper in the loos after the race. The course was very boring and hilly at times, I probably would just do it as a 10k not a half marathon Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Good idea ruined by shambolic organisationIn full: -45 minute baggage queue- unmanned water stations- people getting sent wrong way-erratic resultsDate of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Nice race with poor organisationIn full: The race was nice and fast with a very nice medal. You could do a PB as it was flat. But the organisation was poor as there was problem in the baggage, unstaffed water station, and I didn't understand when the race begun. I was in the baggage drop off queue when I saw that the first group of runners begun the race!!! Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Awful OrganisationIn full: The race itself was fine and the atmosphere was good. However the organisation was terrible beyond belief, i will definitely not be returning next year. There was a lot of confusion at the start and the race started with at least 100 people still in the baggage drop off queue!Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Enjoyed the scenery and very friendly marshalls. Start/finish needs attention In full: I enjoyed the atmosphere and the route. A good day. However, it was like a collection of races with the way the start is organised. Glad it was warm with the baggage collection. Markers were well intentioned but miles would be better than Km - which were not very clear. Marshalls were jolly, encouraging and helpful. well done.Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Baggage was a shamblesIn full: The race started when we were still putting bags in...meaning fighting your way through slow runners. Poor organisation.Date of review: April 14, 2013
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Sin never leads to happiness. It only leads to sadness and a gnawing emptiness.
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LONG BEACH, CA (Catholic Online) - Whether you are traveling through some unfamiliar part of town or you are not really sure where you are headed in life, being lost can be both frustrating and frightening. In contrast, what joy and relief there is when you finally figure out where you are and where you are going.
Today's Gospel tells us of the joy of a Jew named Levi who had lost his way on the road of life. One day, Jesus walked into his office and said, "Follow me." Without the slightest hesitation, Levi rose from his desk and leaving everything, began to follow the Lord.
This notorious sinner, who by God's grace discovered his vocation as Apostle, Evangelist and Martyr of Jesus Christ, is now known the world over as St. Matthew. But "Before Christ," Levi-Matthew had been a member of a despised class of Jews who were considered "public sinners" and traitors to the nation because they served as agents of the Roman occupation.
Levi's job was to exact taxes from the Jewish populace for imperial Rome. The taxes were onerous and ridiculously exorbitant. Over time Levi got more or less used to the unpleasant faces and the frequent words of contempt with which he was greeted at his taxation station. But hey, the pay was good and after a while in a job like this, one grows an extra layer of skin.
At the same time, it is safe to assume that on the inside Levi was not a happy man. Are abortionists and pornographers deeply contented people? I highly doubt it (tax collectors in Judea were viewed with a similar revulsion). And as they get older and draw closer to the "judgement cliff," I cannot imagine how such people could possibly look back on their lives with a sense of serenity and profound satisfaction. I suppose there are exceptions, but I bet there are many more who are haunted incessantly by their past misdeeds.
I remember watching a rare interview which Margaret Sanger, the founder of the world's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, gave to the late Mike Wallace, the veteran TV reporter. The year was 1957 and Sanger was 78 years of age.
The topic was not abortion; abortion was still illegal. Rather, the central theme of their conversation was birth control for which Sanger had been a fierce advocate for decades. She was the engine behind the movement to liberalize restrictive birth control laws and by the time of this interview birth control was legal in many states.
The Wallace-Sanger interview touched upon a variety of other topics as well, ranging from God, the Catholic Church and the natural law to the definition of sin, infidelity, divorce and even briefly, homosexuality. The video and the transcript of the entire interview are readily available online.
Mike Wallace did an amazingly good job of asking tough questions, often quoting from Sanger's own writings and statements. Sanger was stubbornly evasive and Wallace doggedly pursued her nonetheless.
Throughout the interview, Sanger is twitching, nervously scratching her head and constantly fidgeting. She rarely smiles and appears humorless and unfeeling. What comes through in the stark black and white kinescope recording is a joyless figure nearing the end of her days. In fact, Margaret Sanger died just six years after this interview was conducted.
I make mention of this because it helps to illustrate a point. Sin never leads to happiness. It only leads to sadness and a gnawing emptiness. No matter how much one attempts to rationalize it or wrap it in a cloak of altruism or deny it altogether (Sanger did all three), sin is sin and the "wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
Please understand, I am not pronouncing judgment on Margaret Sanger's soul. That's God's job. But there's no getting around the fact that for all of her adult life, both in her personal and public life, Sanger was scoring goals for the other team.
But so was Levi-Matthew, at least until that day Jesus came along and invited him to be His follower. This most unlikely conversion shows that no one is beyond God's reach, no one is beyond His mercy.
"As I live, says the Lord GOD, I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but rather in the wicked man's conversion ..." (Ezekiel 33:11).
Pope Benedict XVI tells us that in St. Matthew "the Gospels present to us a true and proper paradox: those who seem to be the farthest from holiness can even become a model of the acceptance of God's mercy and offer a glimpse of its marvelous effects in their own lives" (General Audience, August 30, 2006).
The Prayer After Communion for the Feast of St. Matthew (September 21) reads:
Sharing in that saving joy, O Lord, with which Saint Matthew welcomed the Savior as a guest in his home, we pray: grant that we may always be renewed by the food we receive from Christ.
This saving joy which Matthew experienced led him to host a banquet at his house in Jesus' honor and invite his friends, most of whom were fellow "tax collectors and sinners." He had just given up everything to follow Christ, but he wasn't sad. Instead, he threw a party! Why? Because he had been lost but now he was found. He was exceedingly grateful to the Lord and he could not contain his joy.
These words spoken by our Holy Father at his inaugural Mass as pope come to mind: "Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return" (Homily, Benedict XVI, April 24, 2005).
Sin always leads to sadness. If left unattended to and "untreated," as it were, sin can lead to despair and final impenitence. On the other hand, true conversion leads to joy. When one finds his way, when one knows he's on the path that God has set out for him, the heart rejoices. "Blessed those whose way is blameless, who walk by the law of the LORD" (Psalm 119:1).
We can ask ourselves, How readily have I responded to the call of God in my life? Am I generously following the path He has shown me or am I holding back? Do I know the saving joy that comes from following God's will?
Grant, O Lord, that we may always be renewed by the food we receive from Christ.
Just as Jesus entered into St. Matthew's life and changed him forever, more and more the Lord wants to enter into our lives especially in our times of prayer and in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This is where He feeds us and speaks to our souls. Can you not hear Him say to you the very words He spoke to Levi-Matthew? "Follow me!" And what will be your answer?
In this Year of Faith we should be praying for the grace of conversion for ourselves and for the whole world. God wants everyone to be saved and to know the joy of living in His presence. May Holy Mary, Refuge of Sinners, and St. Matthew, sinner turned saint, intercede for us!
Fr. G. Peter Irving III is a priest of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and is pastor of Holy Innocents Church, Long Beach, California.
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As we approach the largest gift-giving season in the world, a top U.S. evangelist from the American Family Association (AFA) tells us that we need to be willing to accept one of the greatest gifts that God has bestowed upon mankind: Fossil fuels.
Bryan Fischer, a director at the ultra conservative AFA, told his followers this week that refusing to use fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas hurts God's feelings because those are gifts that He has given to mankind, and God loves to see us find those gifts.
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The Dallas Museum of Art will have lots of works by Marc Chagall at its upcoming show, Chagall: Beyond Color, but the DMA League will have an actual living, breathing Chagall. The artist's granddaughter Bella Meyer will be the guest of honor at the league's Art in Bloom 2013 Symposium, Fashion Show and Luncheon on March 25. Ms. Meyer owns an elegant flower shop near Union Square in New York called Fleurs Bella Beautifiers.
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) needs accurate information from state and local governments on retirees who receive pensions from employment not covered under Social Security. SSA needs this information to fairly and accurately apply the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which generally applies to spouse and survivor benefits, and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), which applies to retired worker benefits. Information on receipt of pensions from noncovered employment is not available to SSA for many state and local pension benefits, even though it is for federal pension benefits from the federal Office of Personnel Management. The resulting disparity in the application of the provisions is a continuing source of confusion and frustration for affected workers. Providing information on the receipt of state and local noncovered pension benefits to SSA via tax data could help the agency more accurately and fairly administer the GPO and WEP and could save nearly $3 billion over 10 years, according to estimates by the Office of Management and Budget.
Social Security covers about 96 percent of all U.S. workers; the vast majority of the remaining 4 percent are public employees who work for federal, state, and local government. In the case of state and local government employees, about one-fourth, or about 7 million, have jobs that are not covered by Social Security. Although these workers do not pay Social Security taxes on their noncovered government earnings, they may still be eligible for Social Security benefits through their spouses' or their own earnings from other jobs that Social Security does cover. Social Security's GPO and WEP provisions attempt to take noncovered employment into account when calculating the Social Security benefits. However, these provisions have been difficult to administer because SSA does not have the pension data it needs to perform these calculations accurately.
One of Social Security's most fundamental principles is that benefits reflect the earnings on which workers have paid Social Security taxes. At the same time, Social Security helps ensure that its beneficiaries have adequate incomes. Social Security's benefit provisions redistribute income in a variety of ways−from those with higher lifetime earnings to those with lower ones and from those without dependents to those with dependents. Such distributional effects depend, to a great extent, on the universal and compulsory nature of the program. Noncovered employment has unintended effects on these distributional outcomes. Accordingly, Social Security uses the GPO and WEP to take noncovered employment into account.
The GPO provides an offset for spouses with noncovered earnings that is similar to an offset that applies, in effect, to spouses with covered earnings. Under Social Security's benefit provisions, workers may be entitled to (1) retired worker benefits based on their own covered earnings or to (2) spouse or survivor benefits based on their spouses' covered earnings. However, they are not entitled to receive both, only the higher of the two. In effect, spouses with covered earnings are subject to an offset equal to 100 percent of their spouse or survivor benefits if their retired worker benefits are higher. Similarly, the GPO reduces the Social Security spousal benefit for workers who also receive a worker's pension from noncovered employment.
The WEP provides an offset to retired worker benefits and accounts for the fact that workers with noncovered pensions have higher lifetime earnings than the covered earnings on which their benefits are calculated. Social Security's benefit formula replaces a relatively higher proportion of wages for low earners than for high earners, which helps ensure adequate retirement incomes. Workers with lengthy careers in noncovered employment appear on SSA's records as low earners even when they are not because those records do not reflect noncovered earnings. Without the WEP, Congress was concerned that the design of the Social Security benefit formula provided unintended windfall benefits to workers who had spent most of their careers in noncovered employment.
In an April 1998 report, GAO found that SSA did not have the information it needed on beneficiaries' receipt of state and local noncovered pensions, even though it did have such information for federal pension benefits. As a result, a disparity in the application of the provisions existed. GAO recommended that SSA work with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revise the reporting of pension information on IRS Form 1099R, so that SSA would be able to identify people receiving a pension from noncovered employment, especially in state and local governments. However, IRS did not believe it could make the recommended change without new legislative authority. In May 2003, June 2005, and November 2007, GAO suggested that Congress consider giving IRS the authority to collect the information that SSA needs on government pension income. The Senate Finance Committee proposed a version of the Social Security Protection Act of 2004 that contained such a provision, but this provision was not included when the final version of the bill was passed and signed into law.
Critics of the GPO and WEP contend that the provisions are inaccurate and often unfair. For example, critics of the GPO contend that the reduction is imprecise and could be based on a more rigorous formula. According to an analysis conducted by the Congressional Research Service, the GPO formula slightly overestimates the benefit reduction that some individuals (particularly higher earners) would otherwise receive if they worked in Social Security-covered employment, and greatly underestimates the reduction that others (particularly lower earners) would receive. In the case of the WEP, opponents argue that the formula adjustment is an arbitrary and inaccurate way to estimate the value of the windfall and causes a relatively larger benefit reduction for lower-paid workers. However, accounting for such effects of differences in lifetime earnings would involve having complete records of noncovered earnings, which SSA does not have. In contrast, to implement the current provisions, SSA only needs to determine whether a beneficiary is receiving a pension based on noncovered earnings.
Extending mandatory coverage for all state and local workers has been proposed among other options for addressing Social Security's long-term financial deficit. While this would eventually make the GPO and WEP offsets obsolete, they would still be needed for many years to come for existing employees and beneficiaries.
GAO continues to believe that it is important to apply these laws consistently and equitably. Specifically, GAO continues to suggest that Congress consider giving IRS the authority to collect the information that SSA needs on government pension income to administer the GPO and WEP provisions accurately and fairly.
The President's 2011 budget's proposals for terminations, reductions, and savings contains a provision that would address the need for more complete and accurate information on noncovered state and local pensions, and it estimates savings of $2.9 billion over 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office's 2009 Budget Options, Volume 2, has a similar provision and estimates savings of $2.4 billion over 10 years.
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Maybe it was mushy canned peas, or canned beets that bled all over your mashed potatoes. Or maybe it was the dreaded liver and onions.
Each of us has at least one food we hated to eat as children, one scary meat or vegetable or side dish that's enshrined in the dining hall of horrors. We might eat it today because we know it's nutritious, but what kid has ever worried about nutrition? Color, texture and taste always have been far more important to young eaters.
The Chieftain wants to hear about the food or foods you hated most as a child. Tell us why — oatmeal is gross once it gets cold; eggplant is such a strange color; broccoli has those weird little flowers — and we'll share your thoughts with other Chieftain readers. Don't worry about hurting your mom's feelings — she probably hated canned peas, too.
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2009 USA Badminton Junior National Championships
USA Badminton's Future Talent Displayed at the 2009 USA Badminton Junior National Championships in Orange, Calif.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A total of 287 junior badminton athletes displayed their talent at the 2009 USA Badminton Junior National Championships, held July 20-25 at the Orange County Badminton Club in Orange, Calif. This was the most entries ever for this annual USA Badminton event.
The Junior National Championships is a key event in the athlete development pipeline for USA Badminton. This year, 61 of the participants in the U.S. event have registered to compete in the 2009 Pan American Junior Badminton Championships, which will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 17-23. This marks the largest ever USA junior entry for an international event held outside the continental United States.
Complete results from the 2009 USA Badminton Junior National Championships can be found at www.tournamentsoftware.com.
Some names to keep an eye on came from the Under-17 and Under-19 divisions. In Under-17, Phillip Chew (Orange, Calif.) captured the triple-crown, winning gold in mixed doubles, boys singles and boys doubles. Cee Ketpura (Orange, Calif.) also had a hat trick, winning gold in mixed doubles (with Chew), girls singles and girls doubles.
In the Under-19 divisions, Marvin Lin (Villa Park, Calif.) won gold in mixed doubles and boys doubles; as well as silver in Under-22 boys doubles. Thuy Hoang (Garden Grove, Calif.) won -gold in Under-19 girls singles, silver in girls doubles; as well as silver in Under-22 girls doubles. Isabel Zhong (Gardena, Calif.) won gold in girls doubles and silver in girls singles. Terrence Pang (Cupertino, Calif.) also competed in several events, winning silver in boys singles and finishing fourth in mixed doubles and boys doubles.
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There's been a relatively large announcement made by Hillcrest Labs tonight in that they've turned their own "Kylo Web Browser for TV" over to the Open Source community. This announcement sets the Mozilla-based TV browser up for open-sourced management for its many features, features such as its ability to work with Mac OS and Windows machines and its ability… more »
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New York, NY and Rockville, MD, November 9, 2010 – Hillcrest Labs today announced that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for Kylo™, the free Web browser for television. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members… more »
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Nvidia Corp.'s chief executive officer for the first time publicly unveiled pricing of the company's GeForce 9400M single-chip core-logic better known as Ion. Based on the information provided by Jen-Hsun Huang now and several weeks ago, it transpires that Nvidia's platform for Intel Atom processors is up to three times more expensive compared to Intel's own platform.
"[The price of Nvidia Ion chip] is between $30 and $35. This is significant, but it is [needed] to have a good high definition video on the screen." said Jen-Hsun Huang in an interview with La Tribune news-paper.
Earlier this year Jen-Hsun Huang said that Intel sold its Atom processors for $45 a unit, however, if a customer wanted to get Atom chip and compatible core-logic set, it would get if for $25, which automatically reduces Nvidia's availability to compete against Intel in the Atom-compatible core-logic market. If the GeForce 9400M/Ion costs from $30 to $35, then the whole bundle consisting of Intel Atom and Nvidia Ion costs from $75 to $80, which is up to 3.2 times higher compared to the cost of Intel's default Atom package. Still, Nvidia's core-logic set is much more advanced than Intel's.
Nvidia GeForce 9400M is a single-chip core-logic with DirectX 10-compatible GeForce 9-class graphics processor inside that also supports dual-channel DDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0 x16 and x4 links, Serial ATA, USB, Gigabit Ethernet and so on. As all modern Nvidia GeForce integrated graphics processors, the novelty features hardware-accelerated high-definition video decoding and post-processing as well as supports various outputs, such as dual-link DVI-I, D-Sub, DisplayPort or HDMI.


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Topic: Routing oddity
Hi all,
I've got something weird happening with my rails app.
Locally (using webrick) my routes work fine. I have a controller named "Content" and I can happily type the following url : http://localhost:3000/content/view/12
Now, when I deploy the same app to my web host, I get a routing error. I fixed the problem by removing the very first line in ContentController.rb, which happened to be :
require 'lib/redcloth'
(and of course any further reference to the redcloth API)
So what's happening ? Why is the require statement messing things up ? Why aren't both applications behaving the same way ?
Thanks in advance for your answers.


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Sox Spinning Their Wheels
September 29, 1978
The news first reached Fenway Park when the Red Sox were batting in the bottom of the eighth inning and putting the finishes touches on their 11-0 blowout of Toronto with three unneeded runs.
Some fans sitting behind home plate, transistor radios in hand, stood up and started pumping their fists because they'd just heard Cleveland take a 1-0 lead over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
A few minutes later, in the top of the ninth, as Dick Drago was wrapping up Bob Stanley's 15th victory of the year, the score from New York was finally displayed on the Green Monster scoreboard, and a huge roar reverberated throughout the ballpark because, as everyone here knew, if the Indians could hold on, the Red Sox and Yankees would be tied for first place.
By the time I had gotten down to the Boston clubhouse for my post-game interviews, though, things had taken a dramatic turn. As the Red Sox were undressing, the Yankees did some undressing of Cleveland reliever Jim Kern, and when they were done, they had scored three runs to take the lead.
I was standing next to Carlton Fisk, and after the Yankee rally was complete, he turned to me and said, "It's hard to get excited about winning when you're waiting and hoping that someone else wins for you."
Fisk didn't even bother listening to the ninth inning, and his decision to hit the showers was a good one. Goose Gossage gave up a two-out walk to provide a glimmer of hope, but then he ended the game with a strikeout and New York's 3-1 survival kept it one game ahead of Boston with two games left in the regular season.
George Scott sat slumped on the stool in front of his locker, and as I walked over, he just looked up at me and said, "Not tonight, man, not tonight."
I couldn't blame him, and I couldn't blame any of the other Red Sox who had just had their hopes dashed. Jim Rice did manage a few words, but the writers wanted to ask him not about the game, but about the milestone he reached with his second-inning single, the one that gave him 400 total bases for the season.
That made him the first American Leaguer to do that since Joe DiMaggio in 1937, and the first player overall to reach that plateau since Hank Aaron in 1959. "Right now I can't spend much time thinking about individual things," he said. "Winning is what's important, but it's nice to be in the same category as idols of the past."
The Red Sox breezed to their victory as Stanley and Drago combined on a six-hit shutout while their teammates pounded out 16 hits, three by Fred Lynn which sent five runs across the plate.
But the euphoria evaporated before they'd even gotten their sanitary socks off, and Don Zimmer said, "Our guys knew what they had to do and they went out and did it. I thought we were going to catch a break, but we didn't. It's a tribute to this team that it's played it's tail off and won every night knowing if it loses, it's over. But we've got to have Cleveland win one game."
After I finished up with Zim, and talked to Stanley about the possibility of him pitching Sunday or maybe Monday in relief if he's needed – "I'll be ready for whatever he needs," he said, referring to Zim – I made my way back up to the press box.
I transcribed my tape, then grabbed a cup of coffee and killed some time reading the Globe. When I knew the guys were safely off deadline in New York, I called the press box and talked to Steve Jacobson who gave me some details about what happened there.
Steve told me that New York manager Bob Lemon said as his team was coming to bat in the eighth, he looked up at the scoreboard and saw Boston ahead 11-0 and thought, "I'd like to have some of those runs. I thought I'd like to borrow Rice for about 10 minutes."
Turned out he didn't need him because his guys came through in the clutch. "These guys have been there before," Lemon said. "They think they'll win every game. That's how they've been playing."
Jim Beattie and Cleveland's David Clyde were hooked up in a terrific pitchers' duel for seven innings, and Beattie retired the first two men he faced in the eighth. But then Tom Vereyzer stroked a double, and on the next pitch, Rick Manning singled him home.
Clyde issued a leadoff walk to Cliff Johnson on a full count, and after Mickey Rivers moved pinch runner Fred Stanley to second with a sacrifice, manager Jeff Torborg brought in Kern.
"I thought he looked a little tired," said Torborg of Clyde, who, according to Steve, disagreed with the manager. "And I'm managing these games like we're the team that needs the win to stay in first place. I owe it to baseball."
Well, Torborg's decision was fine with the Yankees because they weren't getting anywhere with Clyde. "When we saw them make the pitching change," said Gossage, "everyone in our bullpen said, 'Thank you.'"
Willie Randolph, the first batter Kern faced, squibbed a slow roller to third, and Steve said it took a crazy bounce and spun past charging third baseman Buddy Bell. "Apparently it hit a hole," said Bell. "But I don't knew whether I would have had him or not."
Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson and Lou Piniella then followed with consecutive singles, and just like that the Yankees were up 3-1.
Steve did say all was not well in Yankee land, though. On his infield hit, Randolph pulled up lame, and it looks as if he pulled a hamstring. If that's the case, it's a huge injury for the Yankees because Randolph has been a solid No. 2 hitter all season, not to mention a rock at second base.


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Teaching the Emergence of the Islamic World through Art and Architecture: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Exchange [Figure 1]
Frequently in the world history classroom we teach the emergence of the Islamic World and the expanding dar al-Islam via dramatic maps and dates of the "Arab Conquest." [Figure 2] Yet such visuals alone can leave students with a woefully incomplete and misleading understanding of the emergence of the Muslim world -- an image, perhaps, of devastation and carnage as the Arabs swept away existing societies. Indeed, the early Arab forces were an ad-hoc collection of feuding clans fighting each other on the Syrian border where they encountered, and defeated, local Byzantine troops.
Emboldened by their victory, the Arab tribes quickly unified and pushed the Byzantine army out of Syria and North Africa. The Sasanid empire fell next. The dates are awe-inspiring: between 633 and 637, the Muslims seized Syria and Palestine, and took most of Mesopotamia from the Sasanids. In 651 they added Persia to their realm. By 718, northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula fell to the Muslims and the dar al-Islam now stretched from India and the central Asian steppes in the east to Africa and Iberia in the west. But leaving this visual of incredibly successful military victories tells only one part of a much broader story: the birth of the Muslim world built on the cooperation and participation of the subjugated peoples. The initial Arab conquests were, in fact, rarely destructive. One of the main reasons for the Arab's early success was due to the aid they received from disgruntled populations in the Byzantine and Sasanid empires: the Copts in Egypt, the Monophysites in Syria, and the Nestorians in Persia. Moreover, the new rulers were quickly able to consolidate their additional territories precisely because the local populations willingly accepted the Arab regime. This is further evidenced in the innovative art and architecture that emerged as local craftsmen and builders set to work creating an Islamic milieu for their new overlords. Thus, a visual depiction of the unique modes of art and architecture that emerged under the Umayyad caliphs (632-750) portrays an alternate and more complete view of the Arab conquests and its aftermath: the birth of an era of intensive intercultural exchange as diverse populations collaborated and cooperated to create the expanding dar al-Islam.
As the Arabs secured and migrated into their expanding territories, they encountered new artistic forms from the Greco-Roman, Byzantine, Persian, and Coptic cultures as well as the indigenous traditions of the Berbers, Slavs, Goths, Turks and Africans. Under the Umayyad caliphs, the Muslims at once set about integrating the art and architectural styles of their subjects into new works that embodied developing Islamic principles and themes. The Arabs arrived with few artistic prototypes as they settled in their new territories. Noted Islamic art and architecture scholar Oleg Grabar remarks that, "the living architecture of Central Arabia was not an impressive one." Even the aristocrats of Mecca lived in mud brick simple structures, and Muhammad and his early followers prayed outdoors in his courtyard. The largest religious sanctuary the Arabs possessed, the Ka'ba in Mecca, was a simple wooden rectangular structure that lacked windows and doors. [Figure 3] Its only ornamentation was the custom of draping the sanctuary with multicolored textiles -- a visible sign of wealth in Mecca. Textiles and expensive objects in Mecca arrived from elsewhere, usually Syria, Egypt and occasionally Ethiopia. As a result, the Arabs initially borrowed the artistic expressions of their subjects as they attended to the business of fashioning a nascent Islamic empire -- primarily relying on the craftsmanship and engineering capabilities of the Byzantine Greeks. Nonetheless, the works that materialized were unique because they served an original purpose and function.
The early Muslim stance toward representational art reflected the Arabs inherent lack of any sort of figurative tradition. The idols and paintings that decorated the Ka'ba, including paintings of the Virgin and Child as well as Abraham, were foreign imports; to the Arabs "the image was never a natural means of expression" states Islamic art historian Wijdan Ali. Consequently, the Qur'an itself states very little about a Muslim's proper attitude toward art or human representations aside from the several passages that clearly oppose the adoration of physical idols (5:90 and 6:74). Most likely "during the time of the Prophet," asserts Grabar, "the problem of artistic creativity and representations simply did not come up as a significant question requiring some sort of pronouncement or legislation." Yet several Arab authors of the eight and ninth centuries reported that when Muhammad ordered the destruction of all the idols and the defacement of the paintings inside the Ka'ba, he personally protected the image of the Virgin and the infant Jesus and preserved the painting of Abraham. Early Muslims interpreted Muhammad's actions as an injunctive against idolatry, but they also understood that representative painting was acceptable and had its place as long as it did not serve as a means of idolatry. The Arab Muslim regime from its very beginnings embraced aniconism, the prohibition of depicting the image of God since God's essence could never be recreated in an image and to prevent images from ever becoming objects of idol worship. Representational art was avoided in places of worship to discourage idolatry, but were quite acceptable in the secular sphere. In fact, the Turks, Persians, and Indian Muslims who, unlike the Arabs, brought with them a rich traditional of pictorial art, frequently depicted Muhammad in scenes from his life in their illustrated manuscripts. [Figures 4 and 5]. After the 16th century, however, these non-Arab artists depicted Muhammad with a white veil over his face and later refrained from a literal depiction of the Prophet as the spiritual aspect of Islamic art evolved. [Figure 6].
The earliest examples of the initial modes of intercultural exchange among Arabs and their subjects appear in the first coins minted by the Umayyad caliphs. At first Muslim coinage plainly mimicked Byzantine and Sasanian prototypes. [Figure 7]. Note the 7th century Byzantine prototype of the Muslim coin struck by caliph Abd al-Malik (685-705). But on the bottom row you see that initial imitation evolved into an Islamic style as evidenced in the coins issued by caliph Abd al-Malik (685-705). [Figure 8]. Here the coins initially depicted the figure of a ruler, yet later al-Malik removed the ruler's image and used only language from the Qu'ran. By replacing images of rulers with Qu'ranic verses, the Arab caliphs emphasized that the Islamic Empire was governed by God rather than humans.
The blending of Arab tastes and Islamic sensibilities with local populations culminated in the first major monument in Muslim history: the Dome of the Rock which was completed in Jerusalem in 692. The location of the Dome was a site that for centuries had been associated with Herod's Temple -- an enormous Jewish complex systematically destroyed by Roman armies who replaced it with a shrine to Jupiter. [Figure 10]. Christians claimed that the ruined area was the site of the martyrdom of St. James and St. Stephen and also the location of one of the temptations of Christ among other legends. On this ruined site there stood a rock with an artificial opening that perhaps was associated with a Jewish -- or an even earlier -- religious practice. Christians and Muslims both used the area as a quarry for their building projects. At the time of the conquest Umar (634-644), the second caliph, appropriated this vicinity for the Arabs, and sixty years later, for reasons not entirely clear, the fifth caliph Abd al-Malik built a dome over the rock.
The Dome of the Rock is not a mosque, but a shrine above a sacred place. Although scholars are unsure or disagree of the meaning of the Dome at the time of its construction, it is clear that the monument was conceived as a work of art meant to glorify Islam in a city filled with impressive Christian churches and monuments. Unlike Jerusalem's Christian structures, the Dome was designed to be seen from all directions as a visible symbol of Muslim presence. [Figure 11]. Moreover, by appropriating Jewish and Christian holy space, the Dome asserted the primacy of Islam over previous monotheistic traditions. Nonetheless, scholars argue that "Christianity and Judaism were somehow involved in shaping the original perceptions of the Dome of the Rock."
The model for the Dome of the Rock was derived from Roman, Christian and Byzantine architecture. The tomb of Diocletian c. 303 AD became the model for Christian baptisteries and churches. [Figure 11]. Prominent in Jerusalem, the dome appeared in the rotunda around the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the octagonal Church of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, and the Tomb of the Virgin in the Kidron valley. The exact circumference of the octagonal floor plan of the Dome of the Rock is identical to the Byzantine Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna completed in 548. [Figures 12, 13 and 14]. Indeed, the Arab rulers contracted Byzantine craftsmen and engineers to design and build this Muslim monument alongside Arab builders and designers. Like its Byzantine model, the Dome of the Rock's octagonal plan includes a two-story ambulatory enclosing a central space beneath a great cupola embellished with mosaics. [Figure 15]. It is quite apparent, however, that the mosaic designs are vastly different from its Christian counterpart; the Dome of the Rock utilizes calligraphy and botanical motifs to impart its spiritual message rather than images. [Figure 16 and 17].
Nonetheless, Oleg Grabar argues that although the "spirit and content" of the inscriptions that adorn the Dome of the Rock are quite different Christian works, the "idea of incorporating writing within the ornamental scheme of a monument…especially with respect to mosaic inscriptions" is nonetheless a continuation of Greco-Roman traditions. [Figure 18]. Furthermore, even the placement of the Quranic inscriptions follow a similar pattern in Christian and Jewish liturgies which begin by praising God's uniqueness and power followed by his universal mercy. They are followed as well by a reference to the monument's patron and Grabar remarks that, "Christian and occasionally Jewish litanies also invoke the ruling prince." The passages selected from the Qur'an emphasize eschatological themes and especially praise for God and his prophet Muhammad who is also an intercessor for humankind. They also stress praise for Jesus who is also a prophet but not God's "son" or an intercessor. Although the messages clearly suit Muslim purposes, scholars speculate that the inscriptions were also chosen with Christians in mind to teach them the truth about Jesus.
Yet the mosaics of the Dome of the Rock are entirely unique and Grabar notes that "no other monument with comparable decoration exists or has been recorded." Jewel toned botanical motifs, vegetative patterns of fruits and flowers, and even displays of actual jewels such as bracelets, necklaces, tiaras, and brooches adorn the arches of the interior. [Figures 19 and 20]. Most of the artisans were Christians and some designs reflect local traditions, yet others reflect a Persian and Coptic influence. In its entirety, therefore, the Dome of the Rock is more than a powerful symbol of Muslim presence and dominance. [Figure 21]. Its art and architecture clearly symbolize the intercultural exchange that occurred among Persians, Greeks, Copts, and Arabs during the Umayyad caliphate and the structure is a testament to one of Islam's most distinctive traits: "unity within diversity."
In Damascus as well as Jerusalem, Greco-Roman architecture inspired the architectural design for Caliph al-Walid's (705-715) Great Mosque of Damascus. [Figure 22]. After Muslims entered Damascus in 635 and declared the city the capital of the Umayyad caliphate, the local Christians agreed to share their church dedicated to St. John the Baptist with the new Muslim population. For many years, both faiths peacefully prayed together under the same roof. But when the Muslim population exceeded that of the Christians, the caliph constructed a mosque on the site. Nonetheless, the new mosque retained the former church's prized relic, the head of St. John, and even today both Christians and Muslims pay tribute to the saint at a central location in the mosque. [Figure 23].
Early mosque construction in the first years of the Umayyad caliphate followed the model of the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, Muhammad's home where he and the first Muslim community congregated for daily prayers. The large rectangle prayer hall of the Damascus mosque may rest on reused Roman columns, but the Arabs introduced horizontally placed aisles rather than the vertical aisles found in the Byzantine Christian churches in order to accommodate the specific prayer needs of Muslims. This Arab innovation of a large prayer hall created an entirely new architectural form without Greek or Roman precedents. The hall also opened into an expansive courtyard where the faithful could perform ablutions in the fountains before entering the mosque in imitation of the Prophet's courtyard in Medina. [Figure 24]. The Arabs also incorporated the horseshoe and the pointed arch to the traditional Roman design.
Yet the Great Mosque of Damascus also contained elements of Greek, Roman, and local Syrian traditions into the new Islamic space. The walls of the prayer hall, the façade and the columns of the courtyard were covered with intricate glass mosaics of trees, cities, plants, rivers, waterfalls, castles and flowers – all reflecting the local Syrian traditional and created by Byzantine craftsmen sent from Constantinople. [Figure 25 and 26]. The Great Mosque of Damascus was also one of the first mosques to introduce the features that subsequently became the standard for all future mosques: the mihrab (the recess in the wall that points to the direction of Mecca), minbar (high pulpit with stairs for the imam to deliver his sermon), minara (minaret) and maqsura (an enclosure reserved for the caliph).
The innovative features of the Great Mosque of Damascus largely shaped the design of the Great Mosque of Cordoba built by the Umayyad caliph of Spain Abd al-Rahman I (756-788) between 706 and 716. [Figure 27]. Although the Cordoba mosque borrowed heavily from its Syrian predecessor, local influences led to the creation of a distinctly new form and the use of the horseshoe arch reached its zenith. Instead of the Byzantine and Persian inspired mosaics found in the Dome of the Rock or the Great Mosque of Damascus, here local craftsmen used a combination of stone, marble, and brick to create an original style of abstract arabesques as well as calligraphy. [Figure 28]. The dome shaped shell that covered the mihrab came from Visigoth origins and unique to this mosque. [Figure 29]. The builders reused columns and capitals from classical ruins in Spain and North Africa, but introduced an entirely new architectural design by raising the height of the building by erecting two tiers of arches: the lower supported by the columns and the upper by long and narrow piers. [Figure 30]. Add the local Spanish contribution of alternating white stone with red brick as well the addition of interlocking arches, and the effect was an entirely unique art and architectural form. [Figure 31].
Introducing students to the emergence of Islam and the expanding Islamic world through its art and architecture is an ideal opportunity to convey one of the world historians' most important tasks: teaching cross-cultural connections that transcend regional boundaries. Moreover, it sheds light on a distinctive characteristic of the early Muslim world -- an era of peaceful collaboration and cooperation among diverse populations. The distinct art forms found in Islamic art also call to attention one of the most important religious tenets of Islam: its unswerving and strict adherence to monotheism as revealed in its core belief that "there is no God but God."
(c) 2011 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 3, Fall 2011.
Published by the Midwest World History Association (MWWHA), housed at The College of St. Scholastica. See also, The Middle Ground's curated Facebook Page.


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Short takes for May 17
Feds went too far with AP records
THUMBS DOWN: The U.S. government grossly overstepped its bounds by obtaining two months of phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. The AP called it "massive and unprecedented intrusion." That's an understatement. The records included outgoing calls for work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. We're talking about potential confidential sources the government has no businesses of getting its hands on. The government is often criticized for over-stepping boundaries and this certainly qualifies. What a disgusting abuse of power.
Gas prices here we go again
THUMBS DOWN: Heads up cashiers at gas stations you're about to – if you haven't already – get an earful from drivers about gas prices. Prices at the pump have been steadily rising all month and topped at out $3.94 in Marshall and Tracy (as of Thursday morning). Prices range from $3.69 in Moorhead to $4.35 in Golden Valley, according to MinnesotaGasPrices.com . The temporary shutdowns of two oil refineries in Illinois are apparently to blame this time. But save your venom, drivers. Complaining about gas prices is like complaining about the weather – there's nothing we can do about it. Prices go up when refineries go down. Prices go up when something happens in the Middle East. Prices go up when oil prices rise. Unfortunately, it sounds like little relief is coming – at least until July. Until then, as the late Freddie Mercury sang, get on your bikes and ride.
Cancer institute fundraising
THUMBS UP: The Avera Foundation moved closer to its cancer institute fundraising goal this week with three more substantial donations. So far, the Building Hope Capital Campaign has raised more than $2.3 million, which puts the foundation at about 43 percent of its goal. Ground-breaking for the $12.9 million facility, which will be an addition to the existing medical center, could take place late this summer.
Transit at the library
THUMBS UP: Good move by Marshall Transit for testing a new route that makes a stop at the Marshall-Lyon County Library. The move comes a few months after a Marshall woman petitioned Transit to explore the idea of getting a permanent stop there. We applaud Transit for taking this request seriously and working to enhance public transportation in Marshall.
One party, no accordon minimum wage?
THUMBS DOWN: The Minnesota Legislature appears headed toward kicking the can on a minimum wage hike. That fact alone isn't what gets us as much as why it won't be implemented sooner rather than later. Simply put, the House and Senate couldn't compromise. Where have we heard that before? For some reason, House Democrats wanted to take a huge leap from the current $6.15 per hour all the way up to $9.50 per hour – not exactly a baby step. Senate Democrats, on the other hand, targeted a more conservative bump to $7.75 per hour, which sounds more reasonable. The kicker is, the Dems control both chambers and still couldn'tt come up with a number they could all agree on. We can see the issue get hung up on partisanship, but what does it say about our state government that lawmakers from the same party can't even agree. How can common ground not be found here?


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Developer Productivity
- Hot Deployment
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Hot Deployment
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Hot Modification
During development, you can hot modify any application component (servlets, JavaServer Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java classes, deployment descriptors). Your changes take effect immediatelythere's no need to restart the server, ever.
EJB Development and Deployment
The Enterprise Deployment Wizard streamlines the process of developing and deploying Enterprise JavaBeans. With the new O/R mapping capabilities for CMP 1.1 and CMP 2.0, you can generate and deploy a fully functioning entity bean in minutes.
Open Tools Strategy
The Enterprise Deployment Wizard runs as a stand-alone utility, or as a plug-in on the top of a Java IDE, allowing developers to deploy to JRun 4 without leaving their favorite development environment. Currently supported IDEs include Borland JBuilder, Sun Forte, and IntelliJ IDEA.
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JRun 4 provides native connectivity to Macromedia Flash MX, enabling easy, efficient data exchange with Macromedia Flash clients to deliver next-generation user experiences. Macromedia Flash Remoting simplifies the Flash application development process by providing a powerful yet simple programming model and runtime enabling Flash to connect to remote services exposed by application servers, including EJBs, Java classes, MBeans and web services. Find out more about Macromedia Flash Remoting.
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XDoclet is a popular Java utility that can greatly simplify the development of J2EE components (such as Enterprise JavaBeans, servlets, and custom tags) by allowing you to maintain your component meta-data using Javadoc-style comments in a single source file. XDoclet is now wholly integrated into JRun 4: if the server senses modifications to the source file, it automatically generates the auxiliary files (such as interfaces and deployment descriptors).
JRun Server Tags Technology
The JRun Server Tags (JST) technology allows you to write custom tags using JavaServer Pages instead of API (the more complex custom tag handler). Now custom tag development is faster and more approachableand the portable JST technology can also be freely distributed.


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Ultra straight sleek style with clean cut edges
Breathtakingly long hair is admired not only for its length, but also for the care and maintenance that goes into it. Here, ultra-straight dark ash blonde hair reaching down to the hip is displayed in all its shining glory. Trailing from a side part, hair is carefully brushed and arranged over one shoulder, appearing sheet-like but soft and pliable at the same time. The ends are cut in a simple blunt line. Simple hairstyles with this length can often appear severe, and are recommended for those with classic facial features and good bones that can carry them well.


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'It connects Delhi in a good manner, [but] in India everything becomes controversial,' says one passenger.transportation, and reduce air pollution in this congested capital city of 13.8 million. But Delhi's six-year-old BRT project has run into numerous snags, including the incursion of cars and other vehicles into the BRT lanes — a development that can defeat the purpose of a system designed to be faster than general traffic. City officials once hoped to create 14 additional BRT corridors, but the system has not expanded beyond its inaugural 3.6-mile stretch.
Although India's BRT systems are growing, they have made only a small dent in an increasingly car-centric landscape.India's per-capita vehicle ownership rates are still well below the global average, the country has gone from having fewer than 1 million vehicles on the road in 1961 to roughly 120 million today, according to the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. To avoid worsening gridlock and air pollution, urban planners say India must leapfrog from a largely rural society to a postmodern one with high rates of public-transit usage, cycling, and walking.
BRT has succeeded in Ahmedabad partly because early lanes were built in relatively undeveloped districts.owned "incumbent" bus services, and a lack of expertise among planning agencies charged with implementing high-speed service and infrastructure.
One expert says the media's skeptical response to BRT was a "high-decibel attack" that hurt chances of success.four-wheelers, you need to give a quality option."
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Topic: Refactor into scope
I can't quite figure out how to refactor this into a scope... I'm thinking of scoping the Post object and passing it in the user into the lambda, but its the joins and relationships I'm having a problem with.
Here is the User model method I'd like to get into a scope or just perform it via SQL.
def related_posts
posts = []
posts << self.teams.map(&:posts)
posts << self.events.map(&:posts)
Basically , a user can make a post with a team or event association....and sometimes an event might be a team event, hence the uniq call. I just want to return posts associated with that user. Using rails 3.