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Mechanics Bank Not Burdened by Subprime Loans - Steven Buster presides over Mechanics Bank, a 103-year-old institution that has been relatively unscathed by the collapse of the credit bubble that has plunged the financial industry and the nation into its worst crisis since the Great Depression. To read the full article, Click Here
Greenbankingcentral.com - 12/2/2008 - MECHANICS BANK WORKING TO BE COMPLETELY GREEN Mechanics Bank and Rauly Butler are featured in an article about encouraging banks to go green.
RICHMOND, CA, November 21, 2008 - MECHANICS BANK SUPPORTS NBC-KIWANIS FOOD DRIVE:Food collection at Bay Area Lucky and SaveMart Stores November 22nd Mechanics Bank employees will be out in force Saturday, November 22nd to support a Kiwanis Food Drive in partnership with NBC-11, Lucky Stores, and SaveMart. NBC weatherman John Farley also will visit several of the Lucky stores during the day. Kiwanis members will be collecting any non-perishable food items, and donors also can purchase a $10 or $20 prepackaged bag of groceries to donate. "The need is greater this year than we've seen in more than a decade," said Alexis O'Kelley, Senior Credit Analyst at Mechanics Bank, who currently serves as president of the Walnut Creek Kiwanis Club. "We want to do all we can to help people though these tough times. Please join us in showing that our communities care."
SFGate - 11/1/2008 - BANKS EASE CREDIT FOR THEMSELVES, BUT NOT FOR YOU. Steven Buster, President and CEO of Mechanics Bank, talks about the tighting of credit standards
USA Today - 11/1/2008 - LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN BANKS CAUSES HUGE SHIFT IN DEPOSITS. Customers from large financial institutions are moving their deposits to smaller, local bank like Mechanics.
SFGate.com - 10/29/2008 - BANKS GET FED PRESSURE WITH THEIR $125 BILLION. Mike Popovich, SVP at Mechanics Bank, comments on how big an impact the lending power of smaller banks might have on the current financial crisis.
Marin Independent Journal - 10/23/2008 - DEBT IS THE VILLAIN IN CREDIT CRUNCH. Brian Pretti was one of five speakers to address the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce economic forecast conference.
San Francisco Business Journal - 10/20/2008 - MECHANICS BANK MOVES BRANCH OUT OF OLD PINOLE. Mechanics Bank moved from its downtown location in Old Pinole to the new shopping center on Pinole Valley Road.
San Francisco Business Journal - 10/10/2008 - PLANNING SENSE ADDS DOLLARS TO CHARITABLE GIVING. Carol O'Neil from Mechanics Bank is featured in this article about providing donors a bigger bang for their charitable bucks.
Marketwatch.com - 07/17/2008 - WISHFUL THINKING ASIDE, IT'S A RECESSION FOLKS. Brian Pretti, chief financial strategist for Mechanics Bank, speaks about the state of the economy.
East Bay Business Times - 07/14/2008 - A CONVERSATION WITH MECHANICS BANK CEO STEVE BUSTER.. Read the recent interview with Mechanics Bank President and CEO, Steve Buster.
Contra Costa Times - 06/09/2008 - OUR NEIGHBORS. Mechanics Bank wins corporate sponsorship for the 17th annual Cruisin' In The Sun classic car show.
SFgate.com - 06/08/2008 - IT'S BECOMING MUCH EASIER TO GO GREEN. Rauly Butler talks about the process he took to get employees to work on being "greener".
East Bay Business Times - 06/06/2008 - MECHANICS BANK EXPANDS IN LAMORINDA. Mechanics Bank is opening its third office in the Lamorinda area. The new Lafayette office is set to open in July.
Napa Valley Register - 05/28/2008 - COMMUNITY AWARDS A 'FAMILY' AFFAIR. Mechanics Bank's employees among community contributors honored at the Annual Napa Valley Community Awards Luncheon.
Napa Valley Register - 05/26/2008 - COUNTY RECOGNIZES CERTIFIED GREEN BUSINESSES. Mechanics Bank's Napa office is recognized after being certified "Green".
North Bay Business Times - 05/12/2008 - . WHO'S WHO IN PRIVATE BANKING AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT. Mechanics Bank's Thomas Kawazoe is named among the "who's who" in Private Banking and Wealth Management.
San Francisco Business Times - 05/02/2008 - SMALL BUSINESSES NOW FIND FUNDS FOR FOREIGN FORAY. Mike Popovich of the San Franicsco office of Mechanics Bank comments on reasons for offering foreign currency exchange services in view of the dollar's recent fall.
S.F. Chronicle - 05/01/2008 - FED CUTS KEY INTEREST RATES AS ECONOMY FALLS. Brian Pretti, Chief Investment Officer for Mechanics Bank, comments on recent interest rates cuts and its possible effect on the economy.
The Advocate - 04/30/2008 - 'SUCCESS' EVENT EMPHASIZES PREPAREDNESS IN JOB SEARCH. Erwin Reeves serves on a panel to discuss obtaining successful jobs.
dBusiness News.com - 04/10/2008 - RICHARD LEHMAN APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST AT MECHANICS BANK. Richard Lehman's new role will involve managing and leveraging the Bank's extensive trust and investment expertise to expand the business within the Bank's footprint from San Francisco to Sacramento.
BizJournal.com - 04/03/2008 - MECHANICS BANK NAMED IN LIST TOP BANKS IN THE EAST BAY. Mechanics Bank is included in Finley's list of premier performing banks.
Sacramento Business Journal - 03/28/2008 MECHANICS BANK BOARD MEMBER NAMED CFO OF THE YEAR. Patricia Cochran, CFO of VSP and Mechanics Bank Board Member, was name CFO of the year for large companies.
North Bay Business Times - 03/24/2008 - INVESTMENT STRATEGIES: Investment chief talks about credit, housing, oil prices. Mechanics Bank's Brian Pretti is interviewed by the North Bay Business Times reporter about the state of the economy.
Roseville Press-Tribune - 03/04/2008 - ROSEVILLE COMPANIES GO FOR THE GREEN. Mechanics Bank is one of the companies featured in this article about its effort with regard to the Sacramento Sustainable Business program.
Sacramento Business Journal - 03/04/2008 - TOM KASSIS HAS BEEN APPOINTED SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT. Tim Kassis has been appointed to senior vice president and corporate banking manager at The Mechanics Bank, a full-service bank offering the complete range of consumer, small-business, corporate and wealth-management products and services. He oversees the bank's operations in the Sacramento region, including small-business and commercial real estate lending activities. He has more than 19 years of experience and was senior vice president and manager at Wells Fargo for the real estate group in Sacramento.
San Francisco Chronicle - 03/04/2008 - RECORD LOW BAY AREA BUSINESS CONFIDENCE. Steven Buster, President and CEO of Mechanics Bank, comments in this article about how Bay Area business leaders are feeling the chill as the economy cools down.
San Francisco Business Times - 02/22/2008 - WOO POTENTIAL LENDERS WITH DEPOSITS AND PRODUCTS. Mike Popovich, Corporate Banking Manager in the Mechanics Bank San Francisco office, is featured in this article about business loans and relationship banking.
San Francisco Business Times - 02/20/08 - SURVEY: COMMUNITY BANKS SEE MERGERS AS KEY TO GROWTH. This article about community banks and mergers, attributes one of the reasons for The Mechanics Bank's strength and stability in the current financial environment, to the long tenure of its employees.
Contra Costa Times - 02/14/08 - MECHANICS' PROFIT DEFIES BANK TRENDS. As larger firms struggled with subprime mortgages, Richmond-based financial institution did well in 2007.
Contra Costa Times - 01/26/08 - MECHANICS BANK IN PITTSBURG IS NAMED "BUSINESS OF THE YEAR." With just two years in the Old Pittsburg downtown area, The Mechanics Bank has been chosen as the Business of The Year!
El Dorado Hills Telegraph - 01/23/08 - ATM WARS: LOCAL BANK DROP SURCHARGE FEES. The Mechanics Bank's ATM Surcharge Rebate program is highlighted in this article about how some local banks are bucking the trend of charging ever more-onerous fee demands: particularly that of charging non-customers a fee for using their cash withdrawal machines.
East Bay Business Times - 01/11/08 -IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY - Benefits and challenges for an East Bay family-controlled bank.
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Advanced Micro Devices denied on Tuesday that IBM had started to make chips on contract basis for the company. AMD said that IBM only provided consulting services to Globalfoundries, contract maker of AMD's microprocessors, so that to enable it to boost yields of chips produced using 32nm silicon-on-insulator process technology.
"IBM has given some consulting support to GF, as far as I know they are not producing chips for us," a spokesperson for AMD told X-bit labs.
Since IBM, Globalfoundries, Samsung Electronics and STMicroelectronics are jointly develop various semiconductor process technologies, they usually unify manufacturing processes and can help each other to build chips if needed. For example, Globalfoundries' fab 8 in Saratoga, New York, and IBM's facility in East Fishkill, New York, at present can produce the same chips. Nonetheless, this is not a case when it comes to IBM and AMD's central processing units and accelerated processing units as they are exclusively made at Globalfoundries.
During an event for financial analysts last week, AMD's chief executive Rory Read named IBM as one of AMD's manufacturing partners that helps to solve issues with supply of the company's latest chips, which implied that AMD had quietly added a manufacturing partner.
"We win together and we have a partnership [...] in difficult times and in good times. What we are seeing is the focus on execution, running the test chips through the line, the gathering of data, [...] working with partners from IBM and GlobalFoundries. We're seeing real focus day in and day out on execution improvement. Because of the work we're doing at the partnership level, we're getting the right kind of uptick from their side of the organization as well," said Mr. Read.
Back in 2011 Advanced Micro Devices ran into supply problems with its latest chips, including those made using 32nm SOI process technology - Bulldozer, Llano, etc. The firm had to change its supply agreement with Globalfoundries and worked hard to boost production yields of its APUs and CPUs. The major issues are believed to be solved by now.
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Berg's ordination a family blessing
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Surrounded by throngs of family members that haven't been together in the same place for many years, Jeanne Berg sat in the front pew Wednesday night and listened to her younger brother offer advice to her eldest son, Stephen J. Berg, on the eve of his ordination as the fifth bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo.
Her brother, the Most Rev. Joseph L. Charron, is bishop emeritus of Des Moines, Iowa. He ordained her son as a priest, who later was awed by his uncle's ordination as a bishop.
After Wednesday's vespers at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Mrs. Berg said the whole evening, and the reason for the family's convergence in Pueblo "is just such a blessing. I feel so blessed."
She came here from the family home in Miles City, Mont., and was surrounded by family members from all over the country.
Berg was born in Montana on March 3, 1951. He is the eldest of 10 children, all of them educated at Sacred Heart Catholic School near their home.
He left home to pursue a music degree at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. He transferred to the University of Colorado after a year and earned a bachelor's in music in piano performance at CU in 1973.
He earned a graduate assistantship at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, where he earned a master's in piano performance in 1975.
He moved to Fort Worth, Texas, to continue studying music while also teaching it part-time and working at a retail nursery that later expanded into a national chain known as Sunbelt Nursery.
By 1985, Berg had been promoted to vice president and general manager of the chain's newest acquisitions, and held several leadership posts in various states before deciding in 1993 to enter the seminary for the Diocese of Fort Worth at Assumption Seminary and Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, where he earned a master's of divinity degree in 1999. On May 15 that year, he was ordained by his uncle in Fort Worth.
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From sustenance to companionship, animals play a variety of roles in our lives and inspire a range of emotions—fear, love, awe—as well as a host of symbolic associations. This exhibition draws from the vast resources of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts to produce a compelling portrait of the animal world, represented in a wide array of cultures, artistic styles, and media, from about AD 1500 to the present. Some of the artists included in this exhibition have drawn their subjects from life, depicting the roles they play in our everyday experience, while others have used animals with symbolic intent or have anthropomorphized them to humorous, playful, or even unsettling ends. Fun juxtapositions draw attention to both commonalities and contrasts among the broad assortment of creatures. Seen together, these works reveal the breathtaking variety not only in the animal kingdom, but also in humanity's artistic interpretations of it.


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The Joe Clark era got off to a good start Friday night, albeit, in hostile environment.
The newly hired Eldorado head coach had to scratch and claw in his coaching debut against a scrappy Gallatin County bunch, but was able to hold off the host Hawks in a 71-62 victory.
"We work hard yearly at it and it feels good when the kids are rewarded for their hard work," Clark said. "I'm glad the kids got the opportunity to feel success, especially early on because it helps you get off to a fast start, which is important."
Eldorado (1-0) were led by three players in double figures as Tyler Deaton scored a game-high 23 points, while Nathan Burnett put in 17 points and Richard Graceffa tacked on 13 points.
Gallatin County (1-1) put four players in double digits as Marcus Wargel led the Hawks with 16 points, while Seth Ramsey came off the bench to score 13. Jared Jackson put 12 points, while Austin Russell finished with 10 points off the bench.
Clark noted how the strength of Deaton was key in the Eagles opening the season in the right side of the column.
Despite some early struggles in the first quarter, where the senior point guard was 0-of-4 from the field, Deaton finished the game 9-of-12 shooting including nine points in the second and third quarter.
It was Deaton's coast-to-coast bucket to close out the first half that gave Eldorado a 31-29 lead going into the locker room.
Midway through the third quarter, after Gallatin County had erased a eight-point deficit and cut the lead to 58-56, Deaton gave the Eagles a little more breathing room with a bucket to pull ahead 60-56.
"Players make play and when we needed them, the best players make the best plays," Clark said. "I thought Deaton and (Derek Mayberry) stepped up in those particular roles."
Mayberry had four points, all of which came in the games final eight minutes and grabbed a team-high five rebounds.
Both squads played to a 14-all tie and participated in a track-meet like conditions as Gallatin County's speed and full court pressure forced Eldorado into 24 turnovers.
But it was the defense, or the lack there of, by Gallatin County that didn't sit well with head coach Robert Patton.
"I wasn't pleased with our defensive intensity," he said. "We got beat back a lot (Friday) and we have to get our rotation down on the press if we're going to beat anyone. We gave up too many shots and Eldorado didn't miss very often."
Eldorado finished 29-of-48 from the field, including a 10-of-17 performance from the free throw line.
"Eldorado played well, they're big and they're athletic," Patton said. "They matched our intensity, but I just wasn't pleased on the defensive end."
Page 2 of 2 - With the turnovers becoming evident, Eldorado had to put a premium on shooting.
Clark said that was even more crucial in the second half, where the Eagles had seven turnovers in the third quarter, but were able to take a 51-43 lead going into the fourth.
"The philosophy going into the game was if Gallatin County was going to run, so were we," Clark said. "(Friday), we were able to get away with it. A week from now when we see them again, we might not get away with it.
"Obviously I wish we would have been smarter, and a little more timely in a few situations, but overall I'm proud of our performance."
Dylan Lawrence and Ben Partridge had seven points for the Eagles, while Adam Partridge tacked on two points.
Mitchell Ramsey finished with five points for Gallatin County and Chandler Scates had four points.
Both Eldorado and Gallatin County will compete in the Harrisburg Invitational, which starts today (Monday) at Davenport Gymnasium. Eldorado will take on Carmi-White County at 6 p.m., while Harrisburg opens its Class 2A title defense against Gallatin County at 7:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, Gallatin County will take on Carmi-White County at 6 p.m., followed by Harrisburg and Eldorado at 7:30 p.m.
The Tournament wraps up on Friday night with Eldorado and Gallatin County, squaring off for the second time in a week's span at 6 p.m., followed by Harrisburg and Carmi-White County at 7:30 p.m.
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Eldorado 14 17 20 20 - 71
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Eldorado (1-0): Deaton 9-17 1-3 23, Lawrence 3-4 0-0 7, Graceffa 3-6 6-8 13, Burnett 8-11 1-3 17, Mayberry 2-2 0-0 4, A. Partridge 1-2 0-0 2, B. Partridge 3-4 1-2 7, E. Partridge 0-2 0-0 0. Totals: 29-48 10-17 71.
Gallatin County (1-1): M. Ramsey 3-8 1-2 5, McGuire 0-4 0-0 0, Jackson 4-11 3-4 12, Wargel 7-10 2-2 16, Scates 2-5 0-0 4, S. Ramsey 5-10 0-0 13, Russell 4-9 2-2 10. Totals: 24-58 8-10 61.
3-pointers: Eldorado 2-7 (Deaton 1-2, Lawrence 1-1, Graceffa 1-3). Gallatin County 4-17 (M. Ramsey 0-3, McGuire 0-3, Jackson 1-4, Wargel 0-2, S. Ramsey 3-5). Rebounds: Eldorado 27, Gallatin County 21. Turnovers: Eldorado 24, Gallatin County 16.
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Despite of the global economic crisis, Intel Corp. plans to finish building of four production facilities that will make chips using 32nm process technology next year. The chipmaker strongly believes that advantages provided by the new fabrication process will allow it to be more competitive.
"The significant increase in our capacity going into next year is to continue to ramp the 32nm factories. We have got two factories sort of ramping now against a planned four. That remains on track. That technology will provide the significant new product portfolio and capacity expansion we think we need for the 2010 environment," said Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel, during the quarterly conference call with financial analysts.
Next year Intel not only plans to release several 32nm central processing units for desktops or mobile computers, but also new Atom chips and Atom-based system-on-chip devices for various ultra-portable applications, including handsets. In addition, next year Intel plans to release its Larrabee-series of graphics processing units, which may also take advantage of 32nm in late 2010 or 2011.
Intel is the world's largest maker of complex semiconductors. It is crucial for the company to utilize state-of-the-art fabs and advanced process technology in order to be able to increase the amount of transistors per chip every 18 months without substantial raise of production cost.
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About 30 other migrants are thought to have died after the overcrowded wooden sailboat ran aground and capsized near Staniel Cay in the central Bahamas on Monday.
The latest rescue occurred shortly after the search for survivors resumed at daybreak yesterday, said Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios, a Coast Guard spokesman in Miami.
The Bahamian government is investigating the accident and will decide whether to repatriate the survivors, U.S. officials said.
The capsized vessel was presumed to be headed to the United States, but it was unclear from where it left or how long it had been at sea.
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Can someone summarize the key characteristics. From the thread it looks like it needs to be (1) square or rectangular, (2) really high hydration in the 70s, (3) baked on a baking pan, (4) mixture of cheeses. Yes/no? Is this the style one finds today in Sicily or is it a version by American immigrants?
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I think americanized and real Sicilian pizza are probably two very different things. I am no expert on the authentic pizza of Sicily, but from what I have gathered by some posts of an Italian friend of the forum Marco (pizzanapoletana) one thing that sets their pizza apart from the pizza in other parts of Italy is the inclusion of semolina flour in the dough recipe.
I do think that some of your listed characteristics of american Sicilian pizza may be a bit off. Yes, it is definitely baked in a rectangular, but also often times square pan. It seems that most pizzerias use the same dough formulation for both their round hand tossed pizza, and that would include oil. The difference in the dough is that it is left to rise in the pan usually until doubled in size, similar to what you would do when baking bread. Pizzerias also tend to use their standard cheese mixture, which I think in most parts of the country is mozzarella cheese. Of course regional styles will change the cheese or sauce a bit with pizzerias in the ohio/western pennsylvania tending to mix in provolone. In northeastern PA they use onions in the sauce and a blend of cheddar and American cheese.
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Sicilians are renowned for making a very unique style of pizza known as sfincione in standard Italian (Florentine) dialect, better known in Sicily as sfincuini. The name itself literally means "large puff", or mass of dough, taken from the Greek word for sponge. And spongy is certainly one way to describe the slow rising process of the dough, which always contains olive oil.
Sfinci is a colloidal term used throughout the peninsula of Italy referring to puffs of dough that have been deep-fried, whether they are made savory or sweet. The savory versions are often stuffed with such ingredients as anchovies, cheese, broccoli and cauliflower, while the sweeter varieties are either split open to be filled with custard or left whole to be rolled in granulated sugar or sprinked with confectioners' sugar. They are often interchangably called zeppole, although the dough preparations are quite different. Nowadays sfinci is specifically made by preparing a cream puff batter and frying small fritters of this before filling or simply coating with sugar. (when baked in the traditional manner, they are known as bigne.)
Traditionally, sfinciuni dough is made with flour, water, yeast, salt, olive oil and often a tiny amount of sugar to promote the yeast activity. It is then left to rise quite slowly, often overnight in the refrigerator before it is divided. A square or rectangular baking sheet is coated with olive oil, slightly more than normal since the dough is to be coated with oil on both sides, pressed with the fingers to almost fit the shape of the pan and left to rise once again. This will allow the dough to be stretched evenly to fit along the sides of the pan without shrinking back.
Though a large number of variations exist in Sicily as in America, perhaps the most famous is the Palermo version, topped with thinly sliced onions, olives, salted anchovy filets, oregano, tomato, olive oil and bread brumbs for a crunchy top layer. Grated cheese, such as Pecorino Romano or caciocavallo may also be added. The key here is to use a scant topping of each ingredient so that the dough may rise while baking and the toppings baked in, rather than simply placed on top. Once the sfinciuni is finished, it is set to cool on a rack to be eaten warm, never hot, or at room temperature. Therefore, in Sicily a sfincuini deviates from a traditional Neapolitan pizza in that it resembles more or less a focaccia than pizza, and is referred to as such when purchased at a local focacceria.
From Sicily the sfinciuni emigrated to the United States along with a massive influx of Italians from the southern regions of Rome, Campania, Calabria, and of course Sicily herself. It is unclear as to where the Sicilian take on pizza got its start, though culinary historians largely agree that it was in Brooklyn, New York and most likely during the Great Depression. From the Italian neighborhood homes in Brooklyn a version of sfinciuni began to feature on the menu of many prominent Neapolitan pizzerie. From there it took on the same formula as a typical Neapolitan pie: mozzarella, tomato "sauce", grated hard cheeses and olive oil, though it maintained the familiar square or rectangular shape of a true "Sicilian pizza." This style of pizza is still typically made and enjoyed in Brooklyn and the remaining bouroughs. And while it may not be traditional, it greatly impacted the diversity and genius of pizzamaking prominently featured all over the world.
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I've been working on the administration panel of my application and I've gone through about 3-4 different approaches to controller organization/url space. (This is related to by earlier thread on this forum titled Control Panels and large number of contained models).
In my case, the user selects/creates a competition and then starts to configure it. This includes establishing a list of levels, styles, costs, and events. The selected competition object (or its id) must remain available through a long series of operations. Now, in the non-admin area of the site I basically need some human readable form of the competition name in the URL (often suitably abbreviated). I'm using to_param to handle this and that works well. The non-admin area, however is rather linear/wizard-like and as a result the controller/views are more complex and not as model focused as the admin area.
So I was going to initially piggy-back on my to_param in the admin section as well, so I would have urls like
This was "working" and I like the format, however, it seems to be a minor disaster when it comes to route generation and most testing tools expectations. All url generating functions need to have the :short_name=>@competition.short_name appended to the parameter list for it to inject it into the URL; and its mighty un-DRY.
Now I could stick the competition_id into the session and avoid this, but it doesn't get rid of the problem as there are "landing" pages where I'll have to use the human readable URL, but it would solve my current problem.
Is there an easy way to handle this? There's a ton of functions that would need to be overridden in an intermediate class between my Controllers and ActionController::Base and not all of them are actually part of AC::Base -- named routes, form_tag helpers, etc.
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Charles W. Gilmore was a prolific scientist. He was employed by the U.S. National Museum in 1903 where he worked until his death in 1945. Originally hired as a preparator to work on the extensive O.C. Marsh dinosaur collection that was transferred from Yale University to the U.S. National Museum in the late 19th century, Gilmore later became curator of fossil reptiles. He was in charge of mounting the world's first Triceratops skeleton for exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as 23 other mounts on exhibit. He published 170 scientific papers including monographic studies on the osteology of Apatosaurus and Camptosaurus and the osteology of the carnivorous and armored dinosaurs.
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Gilmore, Charles W. 1920. Osteology of the Carniverous Dinosauria in the United States National Museum with Special Reference to the Genera Antrodemus (Allosaurus) and Ceratosaurus. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin 110. Government Printing Office, Washington, 159 pp. This illustration appears in Plate 30 and the skeletal reconstruction is discussed on text pages 114-115 of the publication.


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Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that's the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That's the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, "In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." So if you're saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God's will—be saying thanks.
Paul's simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That's His will.
If you're not obeying that command, you're not following God's will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn't come easy for you, neither will finding God's will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you'll struggle with following God's will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful . . .
God commands it:Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, "And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful" (Colossians 3:15).When Paul describes the believer's Spirit-filled life, he writes, "speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father" (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn't merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, "Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience."
Thankfulness acknowledges God's sovereignty:The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It's the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, "God be praised." That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, "God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, "God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory."The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:William Shakespeare wrote, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend." If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: "For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened" (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God's judgment.Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In the next post, we'll look at a few more reasons. In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That's God's will. Are you following it?
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Be Thankful
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Be thankful that you don't already
have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something,
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations,
because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge,
because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you're tired and weary,
because it means you've made a difference.
It's easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who
are also thankful for the setbacks.
Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles,
and they can become your blessings.
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Excellent! Giving thanks always is a mark of a true Christian. When we give thanks in an economic downturn, self-pity has no chance to take root; neither does shame or self-condemnation have a chance. We can keep striving in a falling economy with a clear conscience, knowing that we don't have to measure up to last year's income, or have lots of gifts under the Christmas tree this year. We can take a job that pays less than our last job or less than an unemployment check without feeling a failure if we remember to give thanks. Or we can go from a two-income household to a one-income household and give thanks, keeping the home a place of good cheer for the other spouse to come home to.
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Giving thanks to the Lord for everything, even when God gives and takes. Giving thanks to God for who he is and what he has done for
us. When one wakes up and going to sleep in giving thanks. Every moment.
If we don't give thanks to God in all things, then the only other alternative is to be proponents of the entitlement theory. Not giving thanks to God for Jesus for everything, is to believe that we deserve good things because we are good people. It is really rank unbelief. Everything exists because of Jesus; we live move and have our being because of Him. I fail to see how people could not be thankful.
I thank God for everything, but MOST of my thankfulness centers on who He is. I am thankful for His holiness, mercy, beauty, goodness, omnipotence, kindness, compassion, longsuffering, and sooooo much more.
If we do not praise and thank God for who He is (first and foremost), then we reduce God to the status of just a gift giver, and that is idolatry. People who want everything here and now (proponents of health and wealth) are worshipping the god of this world. They fail to see the transcendent Christ and only see the king the Jews hoped for: a king to bring peace and prosperity to their temporary situations/problems.
We, as Christians, worship a king who transcended this world, to fix our REAL sin problem, and to give us an eternal home. We don't get everything we want here and now, and if we did, it would feed our sense of entitlement, and then why would we even bother to have hope for better things to come?
If one forget to thank God for the food. One would feel greedy
then one do it right away. Right, I can't imagine not thanking God.
Umm, When we thank God for a warm home and food. I got to think
about the homeless and would ask God to shelter them. It's cold
for a homeless person to be out when it's 0 below here. Just a
thought. As we thank God, we must think of others too, so pride
won't be knocking in our hearts to come in.
God bless.
I just wanted to take the time to thank you for your very thoughtful comments. You have a very unique and wonderful way of getting right to the point and putting things into perspective. Keep up the good work.
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Oklahoma-based Kicker made waves (the good kind, that is) a few years back with its high-performance L7 square subwoofers, which sported more cone area and moved more air than round subs of comparable size. Recognizing that some people may prefer to stick with tradition, Kicker poured its square-sub technology into the new CompVX series of round subs. (Insert your own variation on the theme of "fitting square pegs into round holes" here.) Available in 2- or 4-ohm dual-voice-coil versions, the 10-inch CVX10 ($349), 12-inch CVX12 ($399), and 15-inch CVX15 ($499) can pound with the best of 'em in sealed or vented boxes.
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His running buddy David Pruskin calls Kravets "one of the strongest people I've ever run with," adding, "Anytime Jim suggested a run, I knew I was in for something off the charts. Still, the thing I enjoyed most about running with Jim was the long, carefree conversations. In some ways it was relaxing, as much as a two-and-a-half hour run can be."
Says Josh Hudnut, who has run with Kravets in Turkey and Greece when the two worked together as adventure-trip leaders, as well as around the Bay Area. "He's strong but not competitive, and calibrates his runs to whoever he's with. He's not all about being good—he's just good."
"At this point, if I stopped running, I'd quickly weigh 400 pounds," said Kravets recently, over a post-run Turkish breakfast of olives, yogurt, figs, cheese, cucumbers and almonds. He and his wife of three years, Kristan Diefenbach (also a runner), plan to celebrate their 40th birthdays next year, and indulge their love of travel, by each selecting a meal and then traveling to eat it in its authentic setting. "Hers might be in New York," he says, "and mine might be in Indonesia."
That's not why he started running in the first place, though. At the age of 24, he ran to relieve stress while caring for his dying grandmother. Although Kravets was an athletic teenager, playing soccer on the Highland Park High School team in the suburbs of Chicago, he never thought of running as fun, an unfortunate fact he attributes to his soccer coach, who punished the team by making them run a mile for each goal they lost. "It took a long time to break that negative association," he says. But in 1991, he was in Queenstown, New Zealand, working as a cook at a ski resort, when he got a call that his grandmother was ill, so he flew to Miami and stayed for two months.
"I didn't even have any running shoes," remembers Kravets, "so I borrowed my grandfather's golf shoes and ran up and down the beach, just to get out of the house and clear my head."
Today, he remains low-tech with his running gear, usually wearing the same shirt every day. "Do you do a lot of laundry?" asks a companion. He laughs. "That's what my wife would like to have you believe." He uses this limited wardrobe as one of his excuses for preferring to run alone. "I'm too skanky," he says facetiously.
After his grandmother died, Kravets was, he says, "adrift." With no job and no plans, he traveled to Marin County, California, to stay with an aunt and uncle, and never left. His uncle, the jazz pianist Denny Zeitlin, was an old-school mountain biker and had a trail map of Mount Tamalpais. "I bought my first pair of running shoes in California, and just let loose on the trails of Mount Tam," he remembers. "At first I was afraid of hills and sought out the flats."
Then one day his uncle took him out on the spectacularly varied Yolanda Trail, and he loved the combination of hill climbing and faster running sections. "I haven't done a flat run since," says Kravets.
His current routine is to leave the cozy 100-year-old, fruit-tree-ensconced Fairfax house he and Kristan bought in 2004 and run to the end of the road, where Deer Park provides an entry to the trails of Mount Tam. But he loves to explore new trails and claims the only reason he races is to learn about trails he wouldn't have found on his own.
Although the steep and rocky terrain of his regular path is treacherous, says Kravets, "If you hit the right speed, you can run up anything." A friend once advised him to carry an open water bottle while running trails. If the water sloshes out, it means you need to slow down and smooth out your steps.
That's one of many tips Kravets credits with keeping him injury-free for the past 15 years. He runs only every other day, alternating with biking to give his muscles recovery time. And he slows down on the downhills. "My only goal," he says, "is to run Monday in a way that I'll be able to run again on Wednesday." He believes that the softer terrain offered by trails makes them safer than pavement and dismisses the potential hazards that make some people wary of trails. "If you hiked with me, you'd see me stumble and trip a dozen times. But when I'm running, I'm tip-toeing and the rough ground is not a problem."
As editor of the West Marin Citizen, a newspaper founded in May 2007, Kravets has an intense work schedule, and pops out for a run whenever time allows— sometimes before dawn, sometimes between layout drafts of the paper. Wherever he is, he finds a way to run because it makes everything else better. "I'm not really aware of a runners' high," he says, "but I think it keeps me from getting the human low."
Heather Liston is a freelance journalist living in San Francisco.


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Hunters Silenced in Gun Debate Editorial?
To the Readers' Forum:
You have to be joking! The debate has to do with our rights under the Constitution of The United States representing all American citizens.
Nowhere in the Constitution is rabbit hunting mentioned. The Second Amendment is about our rights as Americans to defend ourselves from all enemies, foreign and domestic, including self defense and defense from a tyrannical government.
When I took my oath to defend our country and the Constitution I don't remember anything about duck hunting.
We should thank God the National Rifle Association is in there fighting to keep our freedom and liberty for all Americans.
Some gave all. Isn't it time for all to give some for their Country?
Governments come and go as is evident in our election system. What all Americans must come to realize is that our government is not our country, it is only the group currently entrusted to run the country. Every two to six years, depending on what office is held, we change the game. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
History proves that confiscation of weapons leads to the downfall of freedom and massive loss of life – genocide. Rowanda, 1994 – 500,000 to one million exterminated; China, 1949 to 1976 – 45 to 70 million exterminated; the USSR, 1929 to 1953 – two million exterminated; Germany 1939 to 1945 – 11 million exterminated; Cambodia, 1975 to1978 – 2 million plus exterminated; Armenia, 1915 to 1925 – 1.8 million exterminated.
It will never happen here you say! I want to make sure it doesn't and my most powerful defense is not going to be infringed! God Bless America
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Sorry...I'm not big on measurements or times. Just kinda wing-it...its an easy dish.
I whipped this up last night and it turned out really well.
Pasta -- use linguine or spaghetti
Olive Oil
Garlic (I used about 4 cloves, minced)
Shallot (minced)
Anchovies (I like Cento, canned in oil, rough chop)
Red Pepper Flakes (I like spicy, so I used a decent amount)
Zucchini (I used one for 1 lb of pasta)
Reggiano Parmigiano cheese
Start the H2O for the pasta in a large pot on high. Add salt.
Meanwhile, in a large pan, combine oil, garlic, shallot, some anchovies and oil from anchovie can, and red pepper flakes over medium heat.
You want a lot of oil, as this will essentially be your "sauce". Add more as it cooks if you need.
Start working on your zucchini. I dont have a mandolin, so I cut with a chef knife. You want to cut short-ways, so that you are ending up with thin disks (circles). You dont want so thin that you can see through, but thin enough that they will cook quickly. Use the whole zucc or more (I cooked for 2...cooking for more, you'll want another one added).
Chop up the fresh parsley and grate the fresh cheese.
Take Oil mixture off heat when you feel all ingredients have been incorporated. You dont want the garlic is to burn. You can always heat up again close to serving.
When the h2o is boiling, add the pasta. Stir so nothing sticks. When you are 2-3 mins from al dente (read package), add zucchini discs to the pasta and cooking water. Stir.
When al dente, drain pasta and zucchini. Add and mix with oil mixture. Mix in parsley and cheese.


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Steve - If you are using Caputo, feed it at a 50% starter rate - much more than what you would normally use in a refresh. Wait up to two days for it to double. Then feed it at normal percentage, refreshing every 8 hours for a couple of days. The yeast may have died off to a population that is too small to gain momentum in a normal feeding regimen.John
What is the purpose of adding flour a tablespoon at a time? and then increasing from there once you see its active? what is the benefit?


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The New York Times's paywall continues to outperform expectations at its first birthday. The paper says it now has 454,000 paying digital subscribers.
Those numbers are increasing at a healthy clip. Here are the numbers the Times has reported in the last year:
Second quarter: 281,000
Third quarter: 324,000
Fourth quarter:
406,000 390,000
First quarter 2012 (still underway): 454,000
You'd expect growth to slow after the first few months, since your most diehard readers will sign up right away when faced with losing access to the paper, but back when the NYT released those third quarter numbers, I worried that the rate of growth had fallen so sharply from the first full quarter of the paywall.
But the paper has added nearly 58,000 digital subscribers per quarter after that first quarter—a 17 percent clip per quarter, which is excellent. If the paper could keep that 17 percent growth rate up, it would have 850,000 digital subscribers by March 2013. It won't, simply because growth (of anything, not just circulation) gets harder as a number increases. Still, it's reasonable to think that the paper might grow at half that rate on average for the next four quarters. That would leave it with 629,000 a year from now.
That number is doable, particularly with the second part of the Times's announcement today: That it's making its leaky paywall less leaky. I wrote this a year ago:
I suspect twenty free stories is too high, particularly when combined with the porous backdoor from social media. But it's better to start off high and then gradually adjust it as the data comes in and you see what the effect is. And that's a key thing to remember here: This is just a start. The details of the Times's paywall this time next year will probably be a lot different than at startup. Expect the twenty free stories number to drop, for one. I think the multi-platform cost is way too high, too. It's $15 for the Web, but $35 if you want to read the paper on your phone and iPad. I suspect that $35 will be closer to $15 than anything by six months or a year from now. The Times was smarter in giving print subscribers free access to all digital platforms. That will help preserve print circulation for those of us who are heavy hybrid readers.
I'm glad to have been wrong on both counts here. Twenty free stories a month was not too many to discourage people from paying for digital subscriptions. But the logic stands: As the paywall limit hits more readers, more will cough up the cash to pay to read the Times. The paper might goose its growth rate a bit over what it would have been, though I'd guess it would goose it more by figuring out how to block those workarounds that tech-savvy readers use to avoid the paywall.
I wonder, though, whether the Times would even want to fix it to where you can't game the system. I'd guess the population that does this skews toward younger, tech-savvy people, and folks who just flat can't afford $15 a month for a newspaper. Older people with disposable income aren't going to want to bother removing URL code every time they look at a story—if they even know how to do it. The workaround then adds a sort of demographic leakiness to the paywall.
Anyway, these numbers are very, very good, not to mention the digital ad numbers, which have continued to rise. To get an idea of how much they surpass expectations, look at some of the numbers I guessed a year ago:
My guess is it will hit 100,000 digital subscriptions in the first few months and will far surpass that in a couple of years.
And I'm a longtime pro-paywall guy.
I also wrote this in October, after growth slowed sharply in the second quarter of the paywall:
It seems clear the Times isn't going to have half a million paying digital subscribers this time next year.
It seems clear now that the Times might reach the 500,000 mark sometime next quarter, well before October.
We don't know how much money the Times is bringing in from its paywall since we don't know how much it's discounting subscriptions as a marketing tactic. But it's easily in the tens of millions of dollars.
Since this new revenue stream is so important for the future of the company, it's time for the NYT Company to break out digital circulation revenue like it does digital ad revenue in its quarterly earnings reports.


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You can't handle the truth, Facebook!
You use Facebook to keep track of your old college roommate who now lives in Iowa or your cousin in Denver. But apparently some lawyers have been using Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media to dig up information for use in a case.
The New York City Bar Committee on Professional Ethics has issued a formal opinion about obtaining evidence from social networking sites. At question is the issue "of whether a lawyer, acting either alone or through an agent such as a private investigator, may resort to trickery via the Internet to gain access to an otherwise secure social networking page and the potentially helpful information it holds." The ethics panel ruled that a lawyer can send a "friend request" to obtain information from an unrepresented person's social networking website without also disclosing the reasons for making the request," but the attorney should use his or her real name and profile.
So using "trickery" – that word pops up again and again in the ethics panel ruling – to get access to a person's FB account in conjunction with some legal matter is a no-no. As the ethics panel writes, "Given the availability of these legitimate discovery methods, there is and can be no justification for permitting the use of deception to obtain the information from a witness online."
(gavel bang). Case dismissed.