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Sector distributed file system: sector.sf.net
Sector: A distributed file system and parallel data processing framework (http://sector.sf.net)
We have released Sector version 2.5. This is a reliable version that includes many improvements and bug fixes after several month's work from the Sector team members. We also would like to thank our users and customers, who have provided many valuable feedbacks and suggestions.
We have a new member gnailzenh to help develop the Sector system. More contributors are welcome.
Sector: A Distributed File System and Parallel Data Processing Engine
Version 2.1 is a bug fix version for the recent 2.0 release. We fixed several critical bugs including: 1) replica was not created; 2) lost slave couldn't be restarted; 3) occasional crash with multiple masters.
Version 1.24 includes support for multiple active-active master servers and Sphere Streaming. Like Hadoop Streaming, Sphere Streaming allows users to run applications (including system commands) directly on Setcor files. The applications can be written in any programming languages. In addition, we have changed to BSD license to give users maximum flexibility in using Sector/Sphere.
Version 1.23 fixed a serious bug in 1.22. If you tried 1.22 and found deadlock problems with Sphere, please use 1.23. Thanks!
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Sector: distributed data storage and processing system (http://sector.sf.net)
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Sector: distributed data storage and processing system (http://sector.sf.net)
Version 1.21 supports persistent data channel between slaves and clients, thus reduce the data connection set up time.
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Version 1.21 also includes many bug fixes since version 1.20.
Sector: distributed data storage and processing system
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SECTOR: A Distributed Storage and Computing Infrastructure
Sector version 1.18 contains several improvements on the file system, in particular the real time replication of data update.
Project website: http://sector.sourceforge.net
Sector is a distributed storage and data processing platform. Version 1.17 added more detailed documentations and various bug fixes. In addition, Sector now supports secure data transfer in this version.
Sector supports distributed storage and data processing, similar to GFS/MapReduce and Hadoop. Unlike Hadoop, Sector is written in C++. Sector also supports wide area deployment. The MapReduce counterpart in Sector is called Sphere, which supports user defined functions on data segments. The user defined functions can be either Map, Reduce, or else.
We have demonstrated Sector/Sphere in the Supercomputing conference last month in Austin, TX, and won the bandwidth challenge award.
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The Bandwidth Challenge: Unleashing the Power of the Network
The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at UIC and the Open Cloud Consortium were awarded the 2008 SC08 Bandwidth Challenge award at SC 08 today in Austin.
Their entry was titled "Towards Global Scale Cloud Computing: Using Sector and Sphere on the Open Cloud Testbed" and was led by Dr. Yunhong Gu of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dr. Robert Grossman of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Open Data Group.... read more
MapReduce is supported now.
many bug fixes. we are doing well towards v2.0.
more reliable. bug fixes. more tools.
version 1.6 introduces security and centralized control.
A lot of improvement and bug fix from version 1.4, especially on Sphere. SQL access is removed due lack of human resource.
Including bug fixes, especially on the Sphere functions.
If you are trying to download SDSS data, please go to sdss.ncdm.uic.edu/download.html for instructions. The Sector client software for SDSS can be downloaded via that page.
Please do NOT use the Sector releases from SourceForge for the SDSS download. It may not work with the special SDSS Sector server.
SECTOR: A Distributed Storage and Computing Infrastructure
Version 1.3 is a major step torwards the first reliable production version. It contains many bug fixed, code clean up, and complete Sphere client support. We plan to release version 2.0 before SC07.
this is the first stable version. We will add more features soon...
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The Ministry of Labor has raided several women's beauty salons since Nov. 4, a ministry official confirmed recently.
However, businesswomen here claim that the sector has come to a virtual standstill because of the exodus of expatriates, [2] and are now urging Saudis to take up these jobs, according to reports.
Mohamed Al-Manna, director general of the ministry in the Eastern Province, said women officers were involved in the raids. He said the government did not exempt beauty salons from the correction campaign.
"The inspection campaign kicked off in cooperation with the police, prisons and immigration departments and was supervised by the Eastern Province governorate." He said the inspectors have been doing daily rounds of these businesses and have filed reports with the Labor Ministry.
Shaa' Al-Duhailan, chairperson of the salons committee in the province, said that services have come to a virtual standstill, with many businesses now seeking skilled and unskilled employees.
She said businesspeople now want Saudis to fill these positions. However, Saudis need training to provide quality work [3], she said. The province needs at least 7,000 Saudi workers for the region's 4,000 salons and beauty shops, she said.
In addition, Al-Duhailan said the sector also needs women cleaners as required by the Eastern Province health department.
"The sector is required to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene to protect the health of customers. However, there are no cleaners in salons and beauty shops because [the Labor Ministry] does not issue visas for these jobs." She said businesswomen have been fined because they used their housemaids in their salons. This is because housemaids are not allowed to work for salons even temporarily. She urged the Labor Ministry to be more flexible on this issue.
Al-Duhailan warned that many expatriate women, who are living in the Kingdom with their husbands, are now taking up these jobs by either working from home or going door-to-door to seek business.
She said these women often use the cheapest products and can harm customers' hair and skin. In addition, customers have difficulty filing complaints because these women hide their identities or deny that they ever set foot in their houses.
She said only 10 percent of women in the sector are Saudi. Non-Saudi women occupy almost 40,000 jobs [4], according to a recent study by the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Mariam Abdullah, a businesswoman, said there is a lack of beauty training institutes in the country.
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[2] http://www.albawaba.com/slideshow/saudi-labor-deportation-533347
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/business/saudi-women-lingerie-saudization-525400
[4] http://www.albawaba.com/business/saudization-feminization--534540
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I submit my comment to the USPTO via an electronic method. We live in
world where anyone with Internet access can operate at any time of day,
regardless of time zone of the recipient.
The USPTO's TEAS system is successful because it offers productive
communications with the Trademark Office at all times of the day and night.
As legal counsel for my clients, I can search marks and file applications
any time of the day or night, regardless of time zone.
The entire adoption of the Madrid Protocol implementation appears pegged
the use of TEAS. This is very good.
But proposed Section 7.4 imposes an arbitrary standard on the users of
and a premature deadline for significant portions of the USA population.
Proposed Section 7.4 artificially penalizes those persons who live and
West of the Eastern Time Zone. Proposed 7.4 fails to provide the equal
protection of the laws to those persons who are outside of the Eastern
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over TEAS. I know that to be true, because my experience with TEAS provides
me with such day AND TIME stamps on my communications over TEAS.
Most of the USA's population resides West of the Eastern Time Zone;
therefore, most of the USA is DISADVANTAGED by the arbitrary selection
the Eastern Time Zone, merely because the Trademark Office physically
in the Eastern Time Zone.
If we are to break our bonds with the physical realm in transacting business
with the USPTO, as TEAS has attempted to do, then the virtual realm can
should provide greater flexibility on the TIME OF DAY for the user of
Therefore, I submit
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at that moment of the User of TEAS, not where the USPTO physically sits
Northern Virginia.
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participate in Madrid Protocol is to use TEAS. For those West of the
Eastern Time Zone, the use of Express Mail is unavailable, and the
"effective day" for such TEAS users is 23, 22, 21, 20, or 19
hours long. (I
do not include Time Zones of the Middle Pacific, East of the International
Date Line, because I am unaware of them as containing USA territories
possessions, but my argument applies to them as well, if such exist.)
A person in Oregon has a 21 hour day in which to use the benefit of the
Madrid Protocol. Is that what the Trademark Office intends?
I urge the USPTO to consider the location of the user, not the location
the office, as the time when things are due. Otherwise, we will revert
the 19th Century, when every train station had two clocks, one showing
time and the other showing New York Time. And the Trains ran on New York
No one has any reason to wait to the last moment of a day to do something,
but it happens sometimes. Attorneys and clients should not be penalized
because they live beyond the arbitrary Time Zone line established in 1884,
as revised since. That is a physical ream relic; we live today in a virtual
The Proposed 7.4 could place the burden on the applicant to prove compliance
with local Midnight time at the time the TEAS transaction is completed.
That would address those portions of the country where movement between
Savings and Daylight time is not consistent with other parts of the country.
I have argued, unsuccessfully, for this point within the construct of
Patent Cooperation Treaty; I argue it now out of FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS
all USA TEAS users, wherever they may be located.
And I argue for this change even though I live and work in the Eastern
Thank you for reading.
John H. Hornickel
Reg. No. 29,393


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We recently calculated the performance of all US stocks since the open following their most recent earnings reports. This takes out the initial reaction to earnings reports in after-hours and pre-market trading and highlights how investors have treated shares post earnings.
As shown below, stocks in the Energy sector have averaged a decline of 6.73% since they've reported earnings, which is by far the worst of the ten major sectors. Financials and Consumer Discretionary have performed the best since reporting earnings. So even after their initial reaction to earnings reports, investors have remained bullish on the two sectors that have seen the biggest declines in earnings growth this quarter.
Clearly investors are focusing on what they expect to happen going forward and not was has already been reported.
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THE Premier, Campbell Newman, says he will put politics second to the interests of the state and is looking forward to working with the federal government, as long as it provides what Queensland needs.
One week after the election, Mr Newman was relaxed and jovial after his first meeting with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, describing their discussion as ''productive and very amicable''.
Ms Gillard had flown to Queensland yesterday to meet Mr Newman and to promote the scheduled roll-out of the federal government's national broadband scheme.
Among the issues discussed during the short meeting were the state's infrastructure priorities, in particular the upgrade of the Bruce Highway, as well as the coming Council of Australian Governments meeting agenda and the mining and carbon taxes.
Mr Newman would not be drawn into speculating on federal Labor's position in the polls nor in Queensland, and other than one joke that he would ''certainly hope to be getting a better deal from Tony Abbott'', he was fair and moderate in his opinions of working with an opposing political party's government.
''I am more than happy to accept the assistance of federal Labor and the Prime Minister,'' he said.
''I've always done this, go back and have a look at my track record. I'm here for the people first, not a political party, I'll always be here for the people of Queensland first, before my political party. So as long as the federal government wants to work with me and my government, to look after the interests of Queenslanders, everything will be peachy pie.''
Mr Newman pointed to his time as lord mayor of Brisbane under a state Labor government as proof he could put ideological differences aside.
''I worked very closely with the Beattie government, we did some good things, I think, for the city of Brisbane,'' he said.
''That is what I intend to do as Premier with the Prime Minister.''
While Mr Newman said he told the Prime Minister he was opposed to the carbon tax, he said he was willing to wait and see how the federal government's compensation package worked to offset the related rise in services such as electricity.
Lowering the cost of living was a main policy platform for Mr Newman during the election campaign.
Mr Newman and Ms Gillard both agree that there needs to be ''transparency'' on the cost the carbon tax will add to power bills, with itemised accounts. ''Right now, if there wasn't a carbon tax, it is very, very clear that electricity prices would have gone down for Queenslanders next year,'' he said.
''With the carbon tax, they'll go up by over $170, $190. And the Prime Minister, by the way, agrees and it is the meeting today that the modelling that they have done is consistent with what the Queensland Competition Authority has said, so there seems to be no disagreement about the impact of the carbon tax on people's power bills.
''So this is now a clear sign to Queenslanders of what the cost of the carbon tax is on their household budgets.
''Now, one thing I acknowledge is the Prime Minister has a compensation package for families, so we have power bills here going up because of the carbon tax [but] over here, the Prime Minister and her government are providing compensatory payments for that.''
Mr Newman said he made his position clear to Ms Gillard about the mining tax; that the money needed to come back to Queensland in the form of infrastructure spending.
He said he would need to sit down with Ms Gillard or her senior ministers, including the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, about ''the actual details of funding infrastructure for Queensland''. In return, he said, the state would not, ''at this stage'' consider joining any High Court legal challenge to the tax.
Ms Gillard said people wanted to see their governments work together.
''I intend to work with the Premier in the best interest of Queensland and the best interest of the people of this state,'' she said, admitting that Labor also needed to show a plan for the future.
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Trivial TV is a game template for 1 or 2 players where you have to guess alla questions of a bunch of categories in order to win a round.
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A Vernal man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly threatened suicide and accidentally shot his mother instead.
The 44-year-old man was charged with discharging a firearm, a third-degree felony, in 8th District Court on Wednesday.
According to a probable-cause statement, a Vernal police officer was dispatched to a home near 700 W. 100 North on Oct. 15, on a report that a woman had been shot by her son.
When police arrived, they found the woman, who had been shot in the knee hours earlier. The woman told officers that at 6 a.m., his son was intoxicated and was contemplating suicide. The two had been arguing, so the man went to his room and got a pistol.
He held the pistol to his head, an officer wrote in the probable-cause statement, and "the next thing [the mother] knew he shot her in the knee."
The man told officers that when he lowered the revolver from his head, he tried to lower the cocked hammer. He told officers that the hammer came down and the revolver fired, striking his mother's right knee.
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What is going to happen to the world economy this year? The most important points on the short-term outlook were made by my colleague, Wolfgang Münchau, last week ("The good, the bad and the ugly scenarios for the year ahead"). Let us ask, instead, a bigger question: how strong and sustainable is the underlying dynamic of the world economy? As Lawrence Summers noted in his most recent column ("A lack of fear is cause for concern", December 27), the world economy in aggregate grew more during the past five years than in any five-year period since the second world war. Growth is not merely strong. It is also widely shared. In 2006, according to the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects, the economies of the high-income countries probably grew by 3.1 per cent, with the US achieving 3.2 per cent, Japan 2.9 per cent and even the sluggish eurozone 2.4 per cent. Meanwhile, the economies of the developing countries, led by the rising giants, China and India, expanded by 7.0 per cent, after 6.6 per cent in 2005 and 7.2 per cent in 2004. This performance has occurred in spite of significant economic and political shocks: the collapse of the stock market bubble in 2000, the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the continued uncertainty about future large-scale terrorism, the jump in oil prices, protectionist rhetoric in a number of high-income economies and a breakdown in the Doha round of multilateral trade talks. The remainder of Martin Wolf's column can be read here (FT.com subscribers only). Discussion from our guest economists is free.
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3 of us booked a room on booking.com for a hotel called Novotel in Mechelen.
It was $214 for the night, but is about 6 miles away from Tomorrowland. We payed a little more for free cancellation since we don't have tickets yet, but that shouldn't be a problem.
From that area, you can take a the 500 Bus from Mechelen. The route is Mechelen - Walem - Rurnst - Tarhagen - Boom (Tomorrowland!!)
I wasn't able to find much availability in the area since Boom is out in the boondocks. We weren't concerned with staying in cooler cities like Brussels or Antwerp since we'll be coming from Amsterdam Friday morning, partying all day Friday, then heading out to London in the morning.
We are from San Diego, CA and was wondering if anyone wants to meet up on Friday, either in Mechelen or at Tomorrowland.
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Welcome To My Site!
After graduating from Colgate University in 1960 as an English major, I received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the University of Southern California to earn a Master's in English and a teaching credential. In 1962, I received my Master's and went to work as an English teacher at Monroe High School in what was then called Sepulveda–now renamed North Hills. At Monroe, as well as teaching English, I was the golf coach, Knowledge Bowl sponsor, and faculty president.
I took a sabbatical in 1969 and went to California State University at Northridge to earn another Master's, this one in reading. I wanted to work with at-risk students and those with learning difficulties. I left the regular Monroe faculty and joined the three-teacher staff and Albert Einstein Continuation School. This gave me an opportunity to work one-to-one with many students who needed the care and attention of an adult. In 1992 an opportunity opened at a new LA Unified program–City of Angels Independent Study. In this innovative approach, students works at home and came to school one day a week to have the work corrected and new work assigned. This school met the needs of a variety of students: workers, single mothers, those pregnant, those in show business, and those who did not want to be in the regular classroom setting for a variety of reasons.
I retired from LA Unified in 2000. Along with my teaching career, I married Ruth in 1967, living in an apartment on Dickens Street in Sherman Oaks. We then bought a home in Woodland Hills, and, after our daughters, Laura and Deborah (now Devorah Talia) were born in 1969 and 1971, we moved to another home in Woodland Hills north of the Boulevard closer to schools. Ruth began teaching at nursery schools, private schools, and then elementary school in the LAUSD. She was a Mentor Teacher for many of those years and, I must say, one of the finest elementary school teachers in the District. She retired in 2005. I was looking for ways to supplement my teaching income. I did some part-time teaching at USC, Valley College, and Moorpark College. I also went to law school for almost two years but believed the world didn't need another lawyer. I decided that what the Valley needed was another Realtor, so in 1979 I received my real estate license. This profession suited my personality since I enjoyed talking to people, enjoyed the hustle of real estate, and could easily compose newsletters, advertising blurbs, and articles. I began working with Century 21 with Les and Ann Ongania as my brokers. They were exceptional people–teaching from the beginning the necessity of hard work and scrupulous honesty. They taught that we were in the serviee businss. In taking a listing, they taught "If a house is well-listed, it's 90% sold." That means that, whether it was thirty years ago or today, in an excellent location or poor location, in supurb condition or a major fixer, if it's priced correctly it will sell, and if it's not, it won't.
I could go on and on about this, but let's have that conversation when we meet. I earned my broker's license in 2001. In 2004 I earned a ASP designation. This stands for Accredited Staging Professional. Staging is the process of preparing a home for sale, comparable to having a car washed and waxed before you would sell it. I also purchased a high-quality 35 mm Nikon camera for superb photos, as well as a special camera which allows me to make virtual tours, the format that shows a room at a 180 degree angles, accompanied by music. Finally, in 2009 I earned an e-Pro designation which has made me for sophisticated in the use of electronic media. Ruth saw that I wasn't slowing down, so she earned her real estate license in 2007. She has also earned an SRES designation–Senior Real Estate Specialist which helps those seniors with real estate options. We work together forming "A Team You Know and Trust." I am fond of saying "You know me; you trust Ruth."
There is much more I could say, but if you had the fortitude to read all of this, call me at 818.999.2777 or e-mail me at SteveGreenbaum@PruCaRealty and receive a bottle of your favorite beverage. A free market analysis of your home is always available, as well as special ways to look for property. I have a full staff helping me to meet any of your real estate needs.


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I met Jennifer through a friend. She has an easy-going cheerful personality, she is an Art Instructor at ECC, and she does ceramics. I took the liberty of "stealing" her bio from her website:
"Jennifer Higerd grew up in a small town in Northwest Kansas. She received her BA cum laude in French, Political Science, and International Studies from Kansas State University and a Diplôme d'Études Françaises (Diploma of French Studies) from the Université de Rennes II in Rennes, France. She earned a BFA cum laude in Graphic Design and an MFA in Ceramics from Fort Hays State University.
She has travelled extensively in Western Europe, particularly in France, and taught in the Ivory Coast in West Africa. In the U.S., Jennifer has taught a variety of subjects to high school students, hearing impaired students, college students, and adult learners."
You can visit Jennifer's website here. Some of her "Settling" pieces are available for purchase at the Art Center Gallery and Custom Framing in Washington, MO.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1796 Friday, 22 September 2000.
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2000 18:04:55 -0400
Subject: 11.1785 Re: Variant texts exercises
Comment: Re: SHK 11.1785 Re: Variant texts exercises
Paul Doniger writes:
> I understand there's a
>_Four-Text Hamlet_ out there, too, but I've never seen it (is the fourth
>text F2 or Q3? ... I'm not sure that it really is necessary or helpful
>to go beyong the three texts).
I've just searched ABE books and Amazon.Com, and found no four-text
Hamlet. I know the Three-Text Hamlet exists; I have a copy, but is
there really a four-text?
'Love to know.
Yours, Bill Godshalk


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|Creating firsts lists / shows
|Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:56:06 GMT
Hi, First to introduce myself : New to CouchDB universe, I read the WIP CouchDB Book, some official documentation and some writings from "benoitc". So now I try to build my first couchdb app with a simple clone of delicious. So in a first part, I installed couchapp 0.3.2 and generate a first project (called "mycouchapp") and then pushed it on my local couchdb server (using CouchDBX) in a db called "monapp". At this stage, I got the default placeholder from Couchapp. Then from Futon, I added 3 documents like this one : { "_id": "3b0ce9b06a0f7a110dbd8a72b32f2072", "_rev": "3-1834349775", "title": "CouchDB Official site", "url": "http://couchdb.apache.org/", "description": "Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API", "tag": [ "couchdb", "database", "document" ] } { "_id": "63f417d3d2217e4be4d284a30056c84d", "_rev": "2-1087649587", "title": "Couchdbkit", "description": "Couchdbkit goal is to provide a framework for your Python application to access and manage Couchdb.", "url": "http://www.couchdbkit.org/", "tag": [ "couchdb", "python", "framework" ] } { "_id": "8fa1e44814d3d1800069127da12e72f9", "_rev": "2-3730993466", "title": "couchapp", "description": "Utilities to make standalone CouchDB application development simple", "url": "http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/tree/master", "tag": [ "couchdb", "python", "ruby" ] } I know I should have used better _id but it's my first try and realised it too late ;-) I played a little bit with Futon to design some temporary view to try requests against my documents. All went well. This done, I would like to create my first lists / shows / views but failed so far :-( I tried to build them by looking mainly at sofa code but I always have 404 page with not a lot of info for going further. I did not forget to push code with couchapp to update my couchdb instance. My aim was to create two "pages" : * One list to display all documents * One show to display a given document For the list : * I should have a index.js file in lists directory for the list with a function like : function(head, row, req, info) { // !json templates.index // !code vendor/couchapp/path.js // !code vendor/couchapp/date.js // !code vendor/couchapp/template.js return respondWith(req, { html : function() { if (head) { return template(templates.index.head, { assets : assetPath(), }); } else if (row) { var fav = row.value; return template(templates.index.row, { title : fav.title, description : fav.description, url : fav.url }); } else { return template(templates.index.tail, { assets : assetPath(), }); } }, }) }; This mean that I have a templates/index/{head|row|tail}.html files. I just adapted the one of sofa with removing "useless" code in my case If I understand well, that's all I need with an url like : http://localhost:5984/monapp/_list/mycouchapp/index/ For displaying a bookmark (fav) : function(doc, req) { // !json templates.fav // !code vendor/couchapp/template.js // !code vendor/couchapp/path.js // we only show html return template(templates.fav, { title : doc.title, url : doc.url description : doc.description, assets : assetPath(), }); } with a fav.html file in /templates/ Url is something like : http://localhost:5984/monapp/_show/mycouchapp/fav/ <_id> What annoys me is the 404 status for all pages and that from the html template point of views, I do not see JS that will "talk" to CouchDB server/instance. There is something "magical" I can't get so far. As I did not find so far examples from ground/scratch for building lists / shows, I ask for some help. Thanks in advance, Nicolas PS : On #couchdb, #couchapp, you can find me with the login NiCoS` PS2 : do not know it it's more a couchapp or couchdb issue - think it's more couchdb one... -- Nicolas Steinmetz http://www.steinmetz.fr - http://nicolas.steinmetz.fr/
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on this page (http://www.cherrydesignpartners.com/gallery/) we're using the [gallery] shortcode as you can see here: http://prntscr.com/yr17v
how come the gallery is not showing all the pics in our media collection? you'll notice that the first few pics of that media collection see here (http://prntscr.com/yr1es) are not appearing on the Gallery page.
any idea what's wrong? please advise. thanks in advance!
i don't know which problem you have... because here i can see all the Pictures in the Slider... maybe you should delete your system or Browser Cache...
i tried that but still not seeing the pics. you're telling you see the of the kittens from the media files in the gallery on this page? http://www.cherrydesignpartners.com/gallery/
yes i see all of them.. the slider work with Mouse-Over... Right!? so all the Images Work on the slider from right to left!!!
i only see 25 images in the slider but there's 28 in our image media uploader area.
28 images show for me. What browser are you using?


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THE long days of summer are usually kind to premiers. Curiously, the season bathes them in a softer light. While news bulletins are parched for material, premiers stand shoulder-to-shoulder with fire commissioners. They fly to the rescue of drought victims one year, flood victims the next.
In her first action-packed summer, Kristina Keneally has done it all: fire, drought, flood. And much more. By all accounts, the new Premier has been radiant.
The unkind images of Keneally as the puppet premier, which tarnished her first days as leader, have evaporated.
Silly season cannot explain it all. Keneally has worked tenaciously at this charm offensive. She has made 11 visits to the bush since she was sworn in on December 4. Her only day off over Christmas-New Year was Boxing Day, when she worked from home. Some nights she appeared in two and three stories in the one news bulletin - almost all of the coverage positive.
Even the Premier might have blushed at the gushing treatment on Nine News last week, an exclusive peek inside the Keneally household. It revealed the ''dark secret'' dividing her family: Vegemite. ''I have to confess,'' the American immigrant said at her kitchen bench, ''Vegemite must be a taste you have to have from birth.''
The fearless grilling of the Premier proceeded: ''Two kids, a really demanding job - how do you do it?''
''A high level of organisation, a very supportive husband - and great kids,'' Keneally replied before cycling to work to drive the ship of state. As free kicks go, Nine's scoop was priceless. It raised some eyebrows on both sides of politics and did the rounds on email. But the heavily promoted profile helped Nine beat Seven in the ratings that night. People are watching Kristina Keneally.
SOME advice to the NSW ALP from the veteran Labor strategist Bruce Hawker: ''Brand Keneally is much more popular than Brand Labor at the moment.''
Hawker told the Herald this week: ''The campaign has to be built around Brand Keneally, not Brand Labor.''
The former premier Bob Carr says: ''Her political achievements are easy to list. She's united a divided caucus; she's injected a sunray of optimism into the Labor Party; she would have roused a bit of trepidation in the Coalition, which has been simply cruising; she's made friends in the public service by treating professionals with respect; and she's had a breezy, confident charm in the media.''
If you ask the pundits, whether they be Keneally's political allies or enemies, one word keeps cropping up: she's telegenic. That does not merely mean photogenic. It means she has a gift for projecting her personality, especially on television. She enjoys engaging with the crowd, stopping and chatting, so much so that her minders have been forced to schedule more time for each outing.
Suddenly Keneally is reaching a public which, by the only reliable measures, made up its mind long ago to dump this Labor government at the next opportunity, the election just over 13 months away.
Deep pessimism lingers among many Labor MPs, but there is renewed morale in Keneally's cabinet. Privately ministers will say that, quite frankly, they have been surprised. ''Not only by her natural warmth and affinity with the media,'' said one, ''but by her enthusiasm, energy, her amazing workload, her ability to analyse, to get on top of the key issues, to listen to her ministers, to be inclusive - and to lead.''
Only two months ago, many of them voted against her in the first round of the ugly leadership ballot that ousted Nathan Rees as Labor's first left-wing premier. Back then, Labor was beyond doomed. Rees cast Keneally as the captive of the puppet masters Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid. She responded by dispensing with Tripodi - gone from the ministry on day one. For now at least, she has silenced the noise about her supposed controllers.
But the numbers still look hopeless. Labor's primary vote is at best 29 per cent, even in the Galaxy poll that found 73 per cent of voters consider Keneally ''likeable''.
''It's all but an impossible task,'' says Rod Tiffen, professor of government and international relations at the University of Sydney. ''She's done as well as any Labor Party strategist could have hoped, and that is because she's telegenic and articulate. But the problem is there's a running narrative in which everybody expects the government to stuff up. And this is not a narrative that's come out of thin air. It's based on long experience … And there's a cynicism when promises are made. And I think it's going to be hard, probably impossible, to turn that narrative around.''
The noted spin doctor and corporate strategist Ian Kortlang, who was Nick Greiner's chief of staff when he was Liberal premier, is not so quick to write off Keneally. ''I saw her at a function last week and people liked her,'' says Kortlang. ''And I think if you polled them, she would have got 80 per cent for honesty.''
Nevertheless, he adds: ''She's the ultimate outsider, and you'd have to believe that Labor will face a major loss at the next election. But that's really not her key performance indicator. Her KPI is to maximise the number of Labor seats. If she can stop the rot, they may lose, but level off to a point where [government] is attainable in an eight-year play. And she'll be a Labor hero.''
Keneally's other duty is to Canberra, to prevent any ''cross-infection'' of voter anger from NSW to federal Labor as the Rudd government goes to the polls late this year. Kortlang notes the federal Coalition's dramatic recovery in this week's Newspoll, with Labor's two-party-preferred vote ahead only 52 to 48 per cent.
He and Hawker agree: Keneally and her team have done well to use the summer - when the public has little appetite for hard politics - to introduce the underdog Premier to the electorate.
''THE HAND of Walt looms large,'' says a Labor left-winger. That's Walt Secord, adviser to the former premier Bob Carr, then to the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, most recently to the state Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, and now Keneally's chief of staff.
In her maiden speech to Parliament in 2003, Keneally relished telling the story of her first brush with Secord. It was during the campaign for the 1999 state election. Secord, a Canadian, was alarmed to discover that Keneally was answering phones. ''Get that woman with an American accent off the telephones,'' he ordered. Secord told the Herald this week: "Now that I work for her, I realise I was very wrong.''
One observer suggests Keneally's accent, despite early concerns, is working for her - that it helps to stand her apart from the rest of Labor. ''I don't know if that's right,'' says Bruce Hawker, ''but it's an interesting point. There's no doubt that NSW Labor needed a very strong break from what's been going on for the past 12 or 18 months. It was just a death spiral, and something had to be done to stop that.''
It is telling to compare Keneally's hits on the nightly news with those of Nathan Rees. Media Monitors analysed Keneally's appearances on the three commercial free-to-air stations and the ABC between January 15 and 31, and Rees's on the same dates last year. The Rees tally was, in fact, a little higher: 51 mentions and 42 interviews against Keneally's 48 mentions and 39 interviews. But almost all of Rees's were unfavourable, concerning poor polling or the prospect of leadership challenges. Almost all of Keneally's were favourable.
Her charm offensive started the day she was sworn in. No fewer than three functions that night. Next day, the V8 supercars. Next stop Brisbane and, side-by-side with Kevin Rudd, ''a new partnership'' with the Commonwealth. Before Christmas, a 20-seater plane chartered for the media to cover Keneally's drought tour. Two weeks later, the media follow her through flood-ravaged towns. Elsewhere she becomes emotional while addressing the death of a ranger fighting bushfires.
Then the light relief. Keneally at church, Keneally with Cate Blanchett, Keneally with a Russian tennis star, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Keneally with Prince William. The Premier in hard hat, in fluorescent vest, in protective eyewear. She flirts with the media. Only yesterday she told a group of cameramen and sound operators they were ''hot'', then laughed and said, ''I mean, temperature hot.''
She turned the opening of the controversial desalination plant into light relief. ''This is a great drop,'' she said,
master of the three-second grab. In Neville Wran's day it was 15 seconds. She knows her medium.
Keneally's media diary is littered with ''PIC FAC ONLY'' - advice to news crews that there will be a picture but no opportunity to question the Premier. On Wednesday this week, ministers and MPs in tow, she packed in five picture opportunities on the Central Coast and in Newcastle.
"Kristina Keneally is an extrovert and comes alive around other people, particularly in a crowd," says Secord.
The Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, calls it a ''reversion to the Carr tactics of presidential politics. Carr-style spin over substance has resurrected itself, probably not coincidentally, given the number of Carr staffers for the new Premier.''
In the 1999 state election, Bob Carr was up against Kerry Chikarovski as Liberal leader. Labor sources have told the Herald that the party gave Carr firm advice: Do not attack her. Female voters would not stand for it. They would see any attack on Chikarovski as an attack on all women.
Asked about it this week, Carr said: ''It's very clear that women voters are very, very uneasy when a male politician criticises a woman leader. I'm not sure it's rational, but it's certainly the wisdom of the game.''
If that wisdom holds true, does it present a challenge for O'Farrell - ''an ogre threatening a princess,'' as The Australian suggested? Must he alter his strategy? O'Farrell says not. ''I've never played the individual; I've always played the ball.'' The ball, he says, remains same old Labor.
Keneally is a feminist. She may well bristle at the suggestion that she would be treated any differently. Secord replies simply: ''People will make their own decision on the character; work ethic; fitness for the job; and the policies of the respective party leaders.''
If we were talking about a male politician, would the issue of his being telegenic or photogenic have been raised? Hawker says: ''If being photogenic was the test then there'd be barely a male leader, state or federal, who would have passed that test.''
Carr says: ''They look at you on the TV screen, make an immediate assessment for appearance and make a big weighting for sincerity, authenticity, intelligence.''
On these scores of substance, Carr believes Keneally's finest moment may have gone unnoticed by many. She showed her mettle, he says, by refusing to back down to the Teachers Federation and insisting that TAFE pay rises be linked to productivity rises and increased face-to-face teaching.
O'Farrell concedes there is some public fascination with Keneally and her freshness as the state's first female Premier, ''as there was with Carmen Lawrence and Joan Kirner''. Lawrence, in Western Australia, and Kirner, in Victoria, were both installed as mid-term Labor premiers. Both lost their next elections.
''One thing is certain,'' he says. ''There's nothing fresh about the Labor team.'' Within the Labor galaxy, at least, quite a few stars have aligned for Keneally. The Right has reclaimed the leadership and has vowed never again to entrust it to the Left. As one insider put it: ''Once and for all, God is back in his heaven.'' The Right's chemical imbalance had been set right and its numerous leadership contenders were back in their boxes, their ''blood sugar levels'' restored.
The Left, meanwhile, has made a vow of silence. ''What we won't do is undermine Kristina's leadership in the same way dark forces white-anted Nathan for the entire life of his leadership,'' said one left-winger. Exhaustion, he said, may be the most potent of all the factors conspiring in Keneally's favour. After Labor's civil war over electricity privatisation, then the dumping of Morris Iemma as leader, then the sacking of Rees, the party's factional warriors are dog-tired. ''There is deep pessimism, but also fatigue.''
And they are determined to give her ''clean air''. In this environment, Keneally has been free to return to old-fashioned retail politics.
''Suddenly, it's not about the party,'' says one former Labor adviser. ''It's about the voter again. Bus tickets, transport, services.''
This rankles with Rees supporters. He, too, might have devoted himself to such a simple message had he not been constantly undermined. Rees declined to comment for this article, but a source from his camp said the transport ticketing system announced this week had been ready to go ''on the day Nathan was rolled''. Its release had been delayed, he suggested, to make the new Premier look good. Likewise, the new administration had been fortunate to inherit policies that Rees had developed, including the wider transport blueprint.
Current ministers dispute the readiness of Rees's policies. Either way, Keneally will not be troubled by a squabble.
Still, the horrible numbers. Labor's primary vote, now hovering around 30 per cent or worse, was 39 per cent at the 2007 election and 42 per cent in 2003. Keneally did no better in her first poll than Rees once the ''likeability'' question - never asked before - is discounted, says the ABC election analyst Antony Green. ''They're still going to lose, but she'll be trying to hang on to some of the furniture when she's given up the house.''
And so, says Green, ''she's done a lot of happy press conferences. She hasn't had to front up to why the trains aren't running and I suspect they'll avoid that. David Campbell (the Transport Minister) will do that, and the police minister will do law and order, and the health minister will do health, and she'll do all the happy snaps.''
The happy snaps don't always come off, even in the silly season. On January 20, Keneally co-opted several senior doctors and a patient at Royal North Shore Hospital to demonstrate a revolutionary new cancer radiotherapy treatment. But it soon became clear that the equipment was at least four years old, and the hospital had been a teaching centre for its users for years. The only new fact: the hospital had now been formally accredited by the commercial manufacturer to provide the training.
Keneally's loyal deputy and Health Minister, Carmel Tebbutt, dutifully stood behind the Premier nodding. But when a real health story broke just nine days later - that public hospitals in NSW performed the worst in the country when it came to causing deaths and serious injuries - this time the Health Minister was left to face the media alone.
Her summer solace over, Keneally will not be expecting an endless soft run. Channel Nine, less than a week after its Vegemite scoop, gave her a much rougher ride on the ticketing story.
There's always tomorrow. And for tomorrow's photo opportunity, Keneally will pull on her boots to play touch football at Redfern Oval, a curtain raiser to the Rabbitohs versus Manly. In her match Keneally will be playing for the All Star Celebrities.
Labor is relying on her star not fading before the real main event: polling day on March 26 next year.


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2695 Zig-Zag Shawl Collar Vest by Plymouth Yarn Design Studio
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2695 Zig-Zag Shawl Collar Vest
Finished Bust Measurement:
36 (40, 42, 48, 52)".
Encore Worsted: 4(4, 5, 6, 6) (100g) balls
color # 355
Gauge: 16 sts and 25.5 rows= 4" using size 9
over ZigZag Pattern, or size to obtain gauge.
Needles: Size US 9 needles, plus 1 extra needle
for 3 Needle Bind Off, locking stitch markers,
Stitch holders, tapestry needle.
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Half Moon Bay Vacation Packages
Half Moon Bay is a popular place to head to while you are in San Francisco as a large number of the area's star attractions are within easy driving distance. Two of the places not to miss are the marvelous Poplar State Beach and the remarkable Half Moon Bay Golf Links. And if your schedule allows, be sure to visit Miramar Beach and the Pillar Point Harbor.
Check out Pier 39 and Lombard Street and see more of San Francisco's city center.
When you're ready to rest your weary head after a long day exploring the charming streets of Half Moon Bay, check in to one of the area's numerous accommodation options. If you're looking for great service and a comfortable bed, be sure to check out the Oceano Hotel and Spa, the Half Moon Bay Lodge, and the popular Comfort Inn Half Moon Bay.


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Wednesday 6/4
Heading out to Century City!!
Meet me at the AMC Theatre
10250 Santa Monica Blvd. ( Off Santa Monica, in the Westfield Century City Mall, infront of Pink Taco)
I will have tickets to see "The Fault in our Stars" courtesy of Fandango
Swag from Le Motto!
Don't miss out!
**Prizing starts at 7:15am**


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WTB 1 style 44 rim and/or a spare North Carolina
Ok heres the deal. I live in winston salem NC. I don't drive much, and the last time I did I put on a spare tire since I cracked one of my rims. They are style 44 and well now I am looking for a new one. I would like to buy one locally if your around NC. Also I could use a new spare wheel. I have a 2002 325ci that came with a spare donut. Would I be able to fit a 16 or 17in rim in that space ? I dunno, put leave a comment if you wanna share knowledge or have a rim to sell. Thanks for reading. cheers.
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