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When Can I Wear my Essix Retainer After Bone Graft/dental Implant Placement?
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When Should You Use an Essix Retainer for Missing Teeth?
I had lost two molars, one on each side, years ago and my dentist at the time put a spacer in. Ten years later it breaks. My new dentist try to... READ MORE
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Retainers or Braces for Opening Space Before Implant? (photo)
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When I was a teen I had braces. When my braces came off I needed a root canal and an implant on the teeth where the bands were. I continued to wear my... READ MORE
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My 17 year old son was congenitally missing a top tooth (the one right next to the front tooth). With braces a nice space was created. The braces are... READ MORE
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Chamilo is an e-learning and collaboration platform. Chamilo is currently used by more than 7,000,000 students around the world. Governments, private companies, public and private universities, NGO, and other types of organizations use the Chamilo software suite to manage activities from simple live training to full distant learning, certification, and staff selection.
phpMyGPX is a Web application based on PHP, MySQL, and OpenLayers to manage photos and GPX files with a browser, on your local machine or online, to share your tracks and images. GPX is an XML file format containing track points and routes collected by GPS receivers, and is very popular with navigation, geocaching, and OpenStreetMap.
Coin Catalog can be used to look up the value of a coin and/or to save your coin collection. It features a Belgian Coin Catalog (including Belgian Congo, Offical Medals, ECU-coins, Food-jetons, Austrain Netherlands), British Coin Catalog (including Maundy Money), Canadian Coin Catalog, Coins from the Netherlands, Search for a coin, Make your own Collections, Add pictures to your collection, Make a list of coins that you search or you want to exchange, Print your Collection, Show difference between Grades, Lookup Dealers, Lookup Clubs & meetings, Make use of Currency ($, £, €, and Y), Make use of the Gold Price, Update Catalogs online, and more.
Rho is a small, very powerful console-based POSIX text editor and mini-IDE with Bash/Emacs key bindings. A configuration file allows the user to create macros using not only any internal function but anything available to a shell command. Keyboard macros (Ctl-Alt-A through Z) can be sourced into the editor for each kind of task, the next sourcing overwriting the last. Rho also allows an unlimited number of templates (sh, awk, python, etc.) to be injected into executable buffers which trap stdout and stderr.
Website@School is a content management system especially designed for education. Blind and visually impaired webmasters can manage this CMS with a braille reader or speech synthesizer. It supports an unlimited number of sites, unlimited depth, RBAC, and with many educational features. It is also manageable by pupils.
DoudouLinux is a system specially designed for children 2 years and up. It is available as Live CDs and USB keys as well as ARM images. The main goals are to be as easy to use as a game console, provide as many kid-oriented applications as possible (currently around 50), drive small children into mastering computer use from age 2, be natively in child-friendly language without any action, be simple for Dad and Mom too (no administration, no updates; it's a read-only system). It includes Web content filtering.
XCloner is an application to backup and restore component designed for PHP/MySQL Web sites. It can work as a native plugin for WordPress and Joomla! or as a standalone application. XCloner was designed specifically to generate custom backups of any LAMP Web site through custom admin inputs. It can restore backups to any other location with the help of the automatic restore script, independent from the main package. XCloner uses standard formats like tar and MySQL, allowing backups to be restored in a variety of ways.
The RepairsLab system allows you to manage the entry and exit of equipment repair in a small workshop for repairs or service center. The application allows the printing of a "Repairs sheet" for each device and manages the state of repair. Inside the Repairs ticket, you can enter the features of the delivered and the state of repair. The system provides management of different master data for definition of states of repair, customers, types of equipment, trademarks, and models. You can print a paper "Repairs sheet" in duplicate to store paper and as a delivery receipt for the customer.
A 2D vector drawing program with PDF output.
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The New Dublin Supa Shape It Ladies Denim Clarino Knee Breeches are part of the Dublin range of jods and breeches that offer a choice of fits and fabrics, all with the emphasis on comfort and fit.
Made from stretch denim fabric, with Clarino knee patches. With a stretch side panel on the lower leg, for improved fit and comfort as it helps to reduce bulk and rubbing under long boots or gaiters. Beautifully tailored fit that flatters a more curvy shape, with a navel high waistband.


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What A Friend has been made the 5-2 favourite for Saturday's Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby but punters should wait before giving their support to the horse, part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson. What A Friend's trainer, Paul Nicholls, said today that the six-year-old was unlikely to run if the ground remains on the fast side.
Eleven horses were left in the race at the five-day declaration stage but two of Nicholls' three entries are doubtful runners. "Unless it rains, I should think What A Friend and Gwanako won't go," he said. "What A Friend is also in at Ascot [on Saturday] but, if there's no rain, it can get pretty quick there as well, so he might end up going straight to the Hennessy [at Newbury on 28 November]."
Nicholls was happy to explain that he had no particular concern about Wetherby, which was the subject of an investigation by the British Horseracing Authority after four horses sustained fatal injuries on one day's racing a fortnight ago. The BHA said on Friday that it could find no reason why racing should not proceed at the Yorkshire track and the champion jumps trainer has no concern on that score.
"From what I've heard they were a bit unlucky at the last meeting," Nicholls said. "People who were very against it last season, people you respect, like Ferdy Murphy, have said the ground's OK now. It's just a case of the ground being quick at this time of year and, with no rain forecast, you don't want to be running your best horses on it."
Those words may lead Bet365, the bookmaking firm who sponsor the Charlie Hall, to revise the odds they issuedtoday, when What A Friend was 5-2 and Gwanako a 6-1 shot. Also prominent in the betting, at 4-1, were Ollie Magern, who has won the race twice before, and Deep Purple, from the Evan Williams yard that sent out State Of Play to beat Ollie Magern in last year's race.
Ollie Magern is 11 years old now but Carl Llewellyn, the assistant trainer to Nigel Twiston-Davies, said that the ageing process does not appear to be affecting the horse. "All the signs at home are that he's a mad three-year-old. He's as keen as he was five years ago and he looks fantastic," he said.
But Llewellyn expressed concern over Wetherby's recent travails. "There's a big question mark over the place," he said. "But [Ollie Magern] is a very tough horse who's gone on all sorts of ground in the past."
The going at Wetherby is good to firm, good in places and artificial watering is taking place all week in an attempt to ensure safe ground on the final bend and in the home straight, which were realigned two years ago in response to explansion of the adjacent A1. The clerk of the course, Jonjo Sanderson, intends to apply 15mm of water every day. Rain appears unlikely until Saturday morning, when there is a possibility of showers.
The jockey Campbell Gillies could be released from hospital today, despite suffering a punctured lung and other injuries when he was run over after being unseated at Aintree on Sunday. "It's looking a lot better than it could have been," said the trainer Lucinda Russell, his main employer.
Denis O'Regan expects to be out of action for at least three weeks after breaking a collarbone on the same card.


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|Marie Antoinette's Bed (although she never slept here...)
The inspiration comes in the absorption of the details and the beauty in the whole. The richness of the colors, even in their faded glory, energizes. The view from each window on the gardens, lakes and trees, calms. Life is different in these room, grounds and spaces. Every room reverberates history, echoing the stories and narrative of those who lived there and passed through.
An ordinary person entering the space might feel intimidated and awed. I guess that was the idea...
The best part was going with a French friend, wandering the maze of rooms together and hearing her take on the place. She was embarrassed though when they shooed us out 15 minutes before closing time. There they are, all the guards with their coats on, wanting to rush out the door exactly at 5PM and not a minute later. No surprise, the strikes about raising the retirement age...
It makes a richer fuller experience when I am with friends and so I am really loving hanging out with Marcy, Martine and Claude. Their English is amazing and their company full of life and love. We are having la vie du Chateau for sure!
Here are Marcy and Claude at Claude's friends' restaurant Cote and Port. Fabulous French food and truly delicious desserts. So good that we've eaten there two days in a row! If you ever come to Pithiviers be sure to have lunch or coffee here. Anne serves and her husband Stephan cooks. Tres bien!
We also took a long walk with Rhum Rasin through the village of Yevres le Chatel. This is the kind of French village that makes me want to move to France...
|Martine and Marcy in Yevres le Chatel
|The Chapel at Yevres le Chatel
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Learning how to price construction jobs is tricky work, even for the most experienced. But now you have to price for lifelong clients. Learn why here.
We all know how to price construction jobs in the literal sense. We pick up our renovation cost estimator or turn on our remodeling estimating software and crunch the numbers.
But in today's economy, the numbers can be scary. What the Home Asset Management Plan proposes is approaching clients with more than just estimates and costs.
It proposes learning how to price construction jobs with a plan of action.
How to Price Construction Jobs | Moving Beyond Price
Not too long ago, the residential remodeling industry was doing great. Calls were coming in, big projects were being undertaken, and the income was flowing freely. But after the recession and real estate market meltdown, the work has been drying up, and fast, too.
In order to curb this apparent death of the remodeling business, you have to be willing to shift gears a little bit to better suit today's consumer base. This means using a relationship-driven business model more than a project-centered one.
It means dealing with people, and not just numbers.
The Home Asset Management Plan suggests many ways to improve your business for the new day, the new industry, the new economy, but one of the most important is in how you deal with clients.
A client is an emotional homeowner. This isn't to say that he or she will constantly cry and shift moods, but rather that they have an emotional investment in the product you're trying to sell. What happens to their house happens to their home, what happens to their home happens to their lives.
When you price a construction job, then, you need to approach it differently than you may have before. Because it's not about the numbers–it's about so much more than that.
Here are some tips to make your pricing more effective:
- If the project is outside of the client's price range, suggest cheaper alternatives, alternate ideas, and elicit input from your client
- Explain the benefits of every construction job on both a short-term and long-term scale
- Approach each job as an investment in the future
This isn't to say that you're meant to be bending the truth or waxing lyrical to your client in order to bamboozle him or her out of their money. Rather, it's an approach of honesty, trustworthiness, and mutual loyalty. By focusing on the client instead of the project, you can develop a life-long lead that will provide you work for years to come.
How to Price Construction Jobs | Long-Term Scheduling
One of the most important facets of the Home Asset Management Plan is concerned with long-term scheduling.
You will sit down with your client and develop a calendar of projects that spans the next 3-5 years, or more.
With your client, you'll discuss which projects need to be taken care of right way and which can wait. Some of the larger, more cosmetic projects can be pushed down the line so that the client can have some time in which to raise money. In the meantime, you can take on smaller jobs with them and still pull in a frequent income.
Long-term scheduling is how you:
- Earn your client's trust and loyalty
- Create years of job security
- Become the one-stop-shopping destination for your client
How to Price Construction Jobs | A Model for the New Economy
In this post-recession era, people are much tighter with their money, and rightfully so–we were all hit hard.
What this means for us in the construction and contracting world is that there isn't a lot of immediate, disposable income. There is still some money out there, but it takes awhile to accumulate these days. This is a new economy, one that's dependent on saving and thriftiness.
The old project-driven business model doesn't work in this new economy, because people aren't generally going to come out of the woodwork with big new renovations they want made.
Instead, you need to be more careful and creative in how you price construction jobs with clients. You need to become the go-to gal or guy, the single source of repair and restoration, and you need to be patient with the projects. If the money isn't there right now, then you can wait.
The Home Asset Management Plan will teach you the value of patience, both in philosophical terms and in dollar signs.
If you'd like to hear more about this new approach in how to price construction jobs or just about the Home Asset Management Plan in general, please don't hesitate to contact me today.


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"It is really up to the user, if he wants to change the settings, to customise their playing style and tactics, that's all up to the user and we do not blame the user. If he doesn't even touch a single setting, he will still enjoy PES 2010."
To a degree he's right. For my money, PES 2010 is the most fluid, instinctive and enjoyable PES probably since PES5. During the media competition the previous night, I come to the game cold, never having had a warm-up match, and manage to win four out of six matches just playing through muscle memory of what's always worked in football games - football. But the fact remains that there's always the sense that you could be doing so much better if the game could only find a way of educating you about it.
The solution? Many are discussed, but one of the more interesting suggestions is a kind of 'interactive training' or 'tutorial exhibition' mode, which would essentially be played like a real match, only one with 'playing assists'. It would stop after key situations, and talk you through what would have happened if you had used different Team Style settings. It could also remember key moments of the match (including set-pieces) so you could rewind, play and practice them again, perfecting moves, tweaking tactics, giving you the chance to benefit from real match situations - something the current training mode is sorely lacking in. Other possibilities touched upon include providing control hints that encourage users to try using more complex manoeuvres, such as feints and shot variations, and taking the time to school them in doing so.
Many players feel that the 'tricks of the trade' in football games are jealously guarded secrets which the elite would rather insert needles into their own eyes than impart on their opponents, making it harder than it needs to be to get better at it. If the game actually has the option to tutor players in a more visible, more user-friendly and more practical manner, it's likely more people would be better at the game, and in turn would notice - and try out - some of the excellent-sounding changes the team work so hard to implement.
Interestingly, Seabass and company appear highly receptive to such suggestions, and come away from the various sessions expressing delight that so much constructive feedback had been gleaned in a short space of time. It's also notable how visible Seabass is at the event in general, taking time to studiously watch players in action for hours on end, impassive from the sidelines, no doubt keeping his fingers crossed that the reaction will be more favourable than last year.
So what of PES 2010 as a game? Technically, it looks extremely slick, with better facial likenesses, real-time lighting, smoother gameplay, swift load times, improved animation, a better front-end, and more licensed teams. Whether that makes it the equal of the mighty FIFA 10, we'll cover in our review tomorrow. One problem that PES 2010 faces is the exact same one FIFA faced for many years - how to convert people who are used to one game's way of doing things. The old issue was that rival football games became so refined that preference became an increasingly subjective decision. The danger last year was that it was an objective one: FIFA was superior.
Will that change this time? Bearing in mind the pace of innovation and reinvention in sports games, it may be too much to achieve in one step. But Konami's attitude bodes well for the future.
PES 2010: Pro Evolution Soccer is due out on 23rd October and reviewed on Eurogamer tomorrow morning.


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hello all first, re the transgender discussion, perhaps those listmembers who were subscribed a year ago or thereabouts (perhaps more recently) will recall a lengthy list discussion on feminism and the politics of 'gender reassignment', to which i and many others now posting on the trans issue contributed at some length. no doubt joan has archived that discussion and has perhaps made it publicly available. if not, perhaps we can ask her to. i see little point in rehearsing all those arguments again. a couple of brief points, however, before picking up on judith ezekiel's contribution on defining radical feminism (NB there is also a publicly available archived WMST-L discussion from several years back on this very topic - from the 1990s in fact. once again, i was a frequent contributor to that discussion, which many listmembers found extremely useful [i.e. the discussion not just my contributions]). 2 brief points on transgender that i don't remember covering in previous discussion: 1/ i completely agree that calling people bigots and transphobic does nothing to support arguments or advance discussion. the term phobia means fear, it is individualising and pathologising/medicalising, and suggests that like arachnophobia, agoraphobia or any other phobia, it can be dealt with by some sort of phobia-reducing psychological treatment. i am not 'frightened' of TGs and have had constructive relationships with some in the context of 'queer'activism as well as the arguments over how 'women's space/lesbian space' is defined and unconstructive relationships with others in the context of both. just as i have constructive and unconstructive relationships with all sorts of people. it is not about individuals or their individual choices, just as feminist critiques of any other choices (e.g. the army, heterosexuality, housewifery, motherhood, capitalism etc) do not mean that we are damning to hell every woman who has ever been, or is, in the army, heterosexual, a housewife, had children, run a small business (the case of feminist booskhops for example) and so on. such critiques, even strongly worded, are not 'phobias'. they are political critiques and should be read as such. 2/ radical feminist critiques of gender and transgender political approaches to gender are not the same thing, as a recent post suggested they were. radical feminist critics of 'gender' argue that 'male' and 'female' should no longer be social markers. 'gender reassignment' does not challenge male-female social markers, it challenges the notion that social 'gender' identities are biological/innate. on that point, many and even most radical feminists and TG theorists would agree. what we often vehemently disagree about is what to do about it. ------------ second, re judith's desire for clarification as to what we mean by 'radical feminism'. radical means 'root'. radical feminism means getting to the root of oppression. namely, according to radical feminists, male domination and the division of society into two classes: a superior male one and an inferior female one. radical feminists see this oppression as fundamental, as crossing over all others - and often as the model from which others draw . e.g. i myself have written about racist and colonial ideologies as virile and as feminising racialised men (even in hypersexualising them as 'bestially' virile) - which doesn't mean women can't be racist or benefit from race privilege, this is not the point. it is about systems and structures and ideologies of domination. male domination is also the only one that is ever justified in the name of 'privacy' or 'love'. the public-private divide is essential esp. in modern so-called 'democracies' to maintaining that oppression. many french feminist historians and theorists have written about how revolutionary france had to create this divide and the discourse of 'nature' to keep women in their place because church and monarchy were no longer there to do it. radical feminists have thus argued that religion, the family and sexuality are key sites of women's oppression. they have been criticised for ignoring race and class but if you read the work of much-maligned radical feminists andrea dworkin and catharine mckinnon, you will see that they do no such thing. if one is to criticise radical feminists, then one should do so on the basis of what they did and didn't actually write and do, not on fictional constructions created in order to demonise. judith has noted clearly that radical feminists have been involved in activism on race and class issues from the outset. she is right. however, it is important to note that radical feminism emerged within a context: that of critiquing marxist and liberal accounts of male domination and women's oppression. a shift in focus was essential. the 'main enemy' as christine delphy put it (despite her recent ventures into pally relations with islamists, i respect her earlier work), had to be named. its location - the home, the family, sexuality - had to be named. NB delphy also analysed the family as an economic unit and women's role within that domestic economy. while i'm talking about france, let me mention (again) in passing that some of the most important radical feminist (well, in this case radical lesbian) theoretical work on racism and the discourse of 'nature' therein, has been done by colette guillaumin. anyway, the context in which radical feminism emerged may have made it more exclusively focused on the family and sexuality for a time or in some contexts, leading to the almost immediate criticisms from liberals and particularly marxists. another vocabulary point: i dislike the term 'cultural feminist' as i think it has been invented by people who wish to discredit some radical feminists. i find it unhelpful and not particularly meaningful. what i find more helpful is to point out that, just as not all marxists agree with each other on everything, not all radical feminists agree with each other on everything. i have at times wanted to reject that 'label' as it has put me in some sort of political straitjacket imposed both from 'within' and 'without'. radical feminists are not a monolithic body all chorusing in unison. to take the controversial example of sheila jeffreys. i think sheila is right about many things. i think she is dead wrong about many others, and do not hesitate to say so; there are many aspects of her approach i thoroughly dislike. but public name-calling is not a way to engage with what she writes. if one is to give energy to critiquing sheila's work, one needs to read it, to engage with it, and to discuss it, rather than participating in some sort of game of chinese whispers in which mud is slung, labels are attached and personae and politics constructed and their hall-of-mirrors images reproduced, sometimes by people who have not even read their work. i have points of disagreement with many other radical feminists, some of whom are dear friends. e.g. i don't see entirely eye to eye with renate klein about biology, but this does not make me dismiss her work out of hand or decide that radical feminism is all bad because of it. my point being that if we are going to discuss radical feminism, and in particular radical feminist*s*, we need to bring to that discussion *at least* as much sophistication and nuance, and respect for individuals, as we desire in other discussions. most importantly, we need a/ to stop personalising this discussion, making it 'all about me' as soon as something we cherish (or is even central to our lives) is politically critiqued, and b/ as judith suggests, and as i have suggested above, for different reasons, to stop making sweeping generalisations about what 'radical feminism' is and what radical feminists think. bronwyn -- *********************************************** Dr Bronwyn Winter Senior Lecturer Dept of French Studies School of Languages and Cultures Mungo McCallum Building A17 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia email: bronwyn.winter AT arts.usyd.edu.au ***********************************************==========================================================================
Thanks to all for another round of responses to my inquiry, and for a fascinating discussion of problematics surrounding 'radical feminism.' I'll restate my original call here, just to re-focus. I have a student who is intrigued by anarchofeminism, did an independent study on it last semester, and now is working on institutionalizing the study of anarchofeminism here by writing a course proposal and syllabus. She decided to title the proposal 'radical feminism' because she wasn't sure a whole course on anarchofeminism would work. But based on the responses here, I'm not sure what she wants to do is really 'radical feminism' as it is 'defined' in textbook descriptions of the second wave. I think she really means just "radical." She surely does not want to stay stuck in US/western definitions of radicalism, and would be horrified to create a course that centralizes women's oppression over other oppressions. We'll be working out these questions as we go along this semester. She's also interested in strategy and practice--what have 'radical'/revolutionary feminists actually done? Further thoughts welcome, Janet gray AT tcnj.edu The College of New Jersey==========================================================================
If she's into history and radical women who've made a difference, you might want to have her take a look at THE RED VIRGIN by Louise Michel, a French woman active in the Paris Commune who was exiled and imprisoned. I'm sure you've told her about Mary Daly and Gyn/Ecology, and she certainly already knows the memoirs of Emma Goldman. ("If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution.") It might be fun for her to take a look at the ways that these women have written about their own lives as well as the ways that others have perceived them. She also might enjoy this webpage: http://www.anarcha.org/sallydarity/movement.php Good wishes, Kiesa Kay kiesa AT oleandercottage.com www.oleandercottage.com==========================================================================
Janet Gray writes: "I have a student who is intrigued by anarchofeminism.... She...would be horrified to create a course [on radical feminism] that centralizes women's oppression over other oppressions." I don't think it is correct to say that radical feminism "centralizes women's oppression over other oppressions." Radical movement feminists generally opposed the creation of what were called "hierarchies of oppression" among lived oppressions and generally supported liberation struggles broadly. However, women in the 1970s who argued that women in the West are oppressed were generally met by wails of protest from those on the "male left" who asserted that the term "oppression" could not be applied to Western women, or (perhaps) to any women in terms of how they were treated and classified as women. Therefore, radical feminism spent quite a bit of time and energy showing that women, both in the West and elsewhere, are oppressed as women. This sometimes shaded into assertions that all women who are oppressed are oppressed primarily as women. Women of color in the movement, however, quickly corrected this viewpoint and it was not prevalent among the people Echols (with whom I tend to agree) calls "radical feminists" though it persisted longer in the tendency we even at the time called "cultural feminism," which strand includes both essentialists like Mary Daly and lesbian (but not feminist) separatists. Radical feminists also argued that the "sex/gender system" which lies at the basis of patriarchal social organization is the root of all oppression, because it sets up the "psychology of domination" (as Firestone put it) in the family. The argument is that people are fed in the cradle the idea that some people are superior (men) and some are inferior (women) and they then go on to generalize this logic to other groups in later life, laying the basis for other "isms." This is what radical feminists meant when they said women's oppression is "first" and "at the root of other oppressions." Radical feminists wanted to reform the family so that children would not learn that some people can rightly be exploited by other people and believed that if this were made unthinkable all domination would eventually become unthinkable. (However, because radical feminists insist that individual men get real benefits from the oppression of women, radical feminists were also pretty pessimistic that the family could be meaningfully reformed short of revolution.) Gray also writes: "what have 'radical'/revolutionary feminists actually done?" To which I can only reply, "Huh?" Surely this question can't be what it seems; but if it is, there are several histories out there. "Radical feminists," as I am using the term here, are the group to which Rosemarie Tong in Feminist Thought refers as "libertarian radical feminists." I have always been bugged by this terminology (though I've used the book in courses many times) since no radical feminist I ever knew would have claimed the "libertarian" label, which refers to strain of liberalism. Radical feminists disdained the liberal and the bourgeois, but instead read the anarchists, especially Emma Goldman, and were also heavily influenced by Marxism (given the left-movement origins of the "autonomous women's movement"). However, they also deeply mistrusted the Stalinist tendencies of the American left, which often also indulged in sharp condemnations of radical expressions of sexuality, which at the time included homosexuality and lesbianism. As I've written on the list before, the first time I encountered the term "politically correct" was in reference to leftists' tendency to be preachy about personal behavior and "political responsibilities." Yet radical feminists also were very serious about their own views of political responsibility and what they often saw as liberal society's over-emphasis on personal life and individualism. They tried to avoid being either "ultra-left," i.e. expecting people to act as if the revolution had already occurred before that had happened, or "bourgeois individualist," i.e. focused on private life to the exclusion of politics and communal life. They also mistrusted "hip culture," which they tended to see as another aspect of the bourgeois. Therefore, not surprisingly, most radical feminists spent some time in separatisms that were, as Alice Walker has famously put it, "sometimes, for health." Eileen Eileen Bresnahan Associate Professor and Director Feminist and Gender Studies Colorado College 14 E. Cache la Poudre Colorado Springs, CO 80903 ebresnahan AT coloradocollege.edu==========================================================================
Thank you, Janet, for clarifying that your student is interested in going beyond Radical Feminism as practiced after 1967. I hope this helps; here are useful sources on feminism in the Communist Party USA before 1957, a period in which radical women and men struggled to reconcile their resistance against race, class, and militarist oppression with their desire to eliminate gender oppression. These sources are taken from a paper I researched in 2003 (also forwarded under separate cover). I recommend looking closely for anything by Amy Swerdlow and Kate Weigand. Also google names like Peggy Dennis and Jessica Mitford; you'll be surprised what turns up. Dennis, Peggy. The Autobiography of an American Communist. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co.; Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts, 1977. [Dennis was wife of CPUSA General Secretary Eugene Dennis, federal prisoner, 1951-55] Frantz, Marge. "A Longtime Woman Activist in the Party, August 22, 1981." The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. Ed. Ellen Schrecker. Boston: Bedford, 1994. 103-04. Gordon, Sarah. Interview with Vivian Gornick. The Romance of American Communism. New York: Basic, 1977. 130-35. Gluck, Sherna Berger. "Mary Inman." Encyclopedia of the American Left. Ed. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. Healey, Dorothy and Maurice Isserman. Dorothy Healey Remembers A Life in the American Communist Party. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Kaplan, Judy, and Linn Shapiro, ed. Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left. Urbana, IL: Univ. of IL. P, 1998. Mitford, Jessica L. A Fine Old Conflict. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. [Mitford (1917-1996) was an avid Party member, instilling her social conscience in her daughter, a civil rights activist. An entertaining book of a woman who "fought the good fight," never regretted it and never compromised the ideals that made her fight. A collection of Mitford's letters was just published, http://www.slate.com/id/2158868/] Schrecker, Ellen, ed. The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. Ed. Ellen Schrecker. Boston: Bedford, 1994. Swerdlow, Amy. "The Congress of American Women: Left-Feminist Peace Politics in the Cold War." U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays. Ed. Linda Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of NC P, 1995. 296-312. Weigand, Kate. Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins UP, 2001. Primary sources: Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives. Report on the Congress of American Women. October 23, 1949. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949. ---. Report of the Committee on Un American Activities to the United States House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress: Investigation of Un American Activities in the United States. December 31, 1948. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949. Jones, Claudia. "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!" 1949. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. Ed. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. New York: New Press, 1995. 108-23. In addition, three books have been published about and reprinting essays by Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarcho-feminist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but I presume your student was consulting this literature previously. If not, search for that in a bookstore website, and also google it. In Sisterhood, Hannah Miyamoto hsmiyamoto AT msn.com==========================================================================
Here is a pretty comprehensive list of radical feminist books and articles, which was compiled at this blog: http://www.feminist-reprise.org/fembib.html. There are links to a few of the articles on the blog. *Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory* Spinster and Her Enemies, Sheila Jeffreys A Passion for Friends, Jan Raymond Call Me Lesbian, Julia Penelope The Lesbian Heresy, Sheila Jeffreys The Lesbian Body, Monique Wittig Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism 1976-1992, Marilyn Frye Lesbian Ethics, Sarah Hoagland Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde *Radical Feminist Theory - General/Collections* Love and Politics, Carol Anne Douglas The Dialectic of Sex--The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone Sisterhood is Powerful, Robin Morgan, ed. Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, edited by Barbara A. Crow Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, Renate Klein and Diane Bell Feminism Unmodified, Catharine MacKinnon Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf Sexual Politics, Kate Millett Radical Feminism, Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, eds. On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Adrienne Rich Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, Marilyn French Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Catharine MacKinnon Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, Sandra Bartky Life and Death, Andrea Dworkin This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, eds. The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution, Sonia Johnson Right Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Barbara Smith ed. Fugitive Information, Kay Leigh Hagan Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, bell hooks Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot, Pearl Cleage What is Feminism? De Clark, Feminista!, vol 3, no 10 Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes, Maria Lugones In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker *Feminist Theory - Specific Areas* *Prostitution* Female Sexual Slavery, Kathleen Barry Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex, by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds. Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution, Jan Raymond The Legalisation of Prostitution : A failed social experiment, Sheila Jeffreys Making the Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls, Donna M. Hughes and Claire Roche, eds. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress, Melissa Farley Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, eds. *Pornography* Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin Pornography: Evidence of the Harm, Diana Russell Pornography and Sexual Violence: Evidence of the Links (transcript of Minneapolis hearings published by Everywoman in the UK) *Rape* Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell Incest Secret Trauma, Diana Russell Battering/Domestic Violence Loving to Survive, Dee Graham Sadomasochism/"Sex Wars" Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, Irene Reti, ed. The Sex Wars, Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter, eds. "Sex, Lies, and Feminism," Charlotte Croson, off our backs, June 2001 How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women's Movement, Sheila Jeffreys "A Vision of Lesbian Sexuality, Janice Raymond," in All The Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism, Lynne Harne & Elaine Miller, eds. "Sex and Feminism: Who Is Being Silenced?" Adriene Sere in SaidIt, 2001 "Consuming Passions: Some Thoughts on History, Sex and Free Enterprise" by De Clarke (From Unleashing Feminism). *Separatism/Women-Only Space* "No Dobermans Allowed," Carolyn Gage, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds. For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, Julia Penelope & Sarah Hoagland, eds. Women-Only Spaces: An Alternative To Patriarchy, Jennie Ruby Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space, Kya Ogyn Medicine Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals, Gena Corea The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs, Gena Corea Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler "Women, Health and the Politics of Fat," Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003, No. 20 Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology, Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins *Motherhood* Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick Marriage/Heterosexuality The Sexual Contract, Carol Pateman "A Radical Dyke Experiment for the Next Century: 5 Things to Work for Instead of Same-Sex Marriage," Betsy Brown in off our backs, January 2000 V.30; N.1 p. 24 Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin *Transsexuality/Transgender/Queer Politics* The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, Janice Raymond Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler Unpacking Queer Politics, Sheila Jeffreys "Men in Ewes' Clothing: The Stealth Politics of the Transgender Movement," Karla Mantilla in off our backs April 2000 "Teena Brandon: The Unmaking of a Lesbian," Carolyn Gage *Language* Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues, Julia Penelope Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary, Mary Daly Feminist Theology/Spirituality/Religion Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage The Women's Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pure Lust, Mary Daly Backlash The War Against Women, Marilyn French Backlash, Susan Faludi *History/Memoir* Surpassing the Love of Men, Lillian Faderman AntiClimax, Sheila Jeffreys Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicles of a Feminist, Robin Morgan The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Gerda Lerner Why History Matters, Gerda Lerner A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches, Ellen Carol Dubois, ed., Gerda Lerner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Suffragette Movement, Sylvia Pankhurst In Our Time: Memoirs of a Revolution, Susan Brownmiller Women, Race and Class, Angela Y. Davis *Science/Gender* Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling Sexing the Body: Gender and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling Economy If Women Counted, Marilyn Waring For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, Genevieve Vaughn Fat/Body Image Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression, Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America, Charisse Goodman Women En Large: Photographs of Fat Nudes, Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin *Disability* With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology, Susan E. 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PCR is an acronym for polymerase chain reaction. It is a method for amplifying DNA in vitro.
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Designing primers
Designing suitable primers might be the most crucial step in PCR. This is especially true when using genomic DNA as the template. Traditionally, primers were designed using empirical guidelines. Nowadays, various pieces of software help to predict the best primers including algorithms to prevent mispriming, self-complementarity and primer-primer complementarity, and binding in repeat regions. Additionally, software programs automate the use empirical guidelines for primer design. See here for more details...
The general PCR cycle
- heat template/primer/dNTP/enzyme mix to 95°C for separation of DNA duplexes
- lower the temperature enough for primers to anneal specifically to the template DNA (e.g. 55°C); lowering the temperature too much increases unspecific annealing
- raise temperature to optimal elongation temperature of Taq or similar DNA polymerase (72-74°C)
- repeat from top 20-35 times; less cycles gives less product, too many cycles increases fraction of incomplete and erroneous products
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- A discussion of the amplification efficiencies of different DNA polymerases on templates of varying length and GC content using real-time PCR [1].
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From: "Eric Olson" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Comet set fire to Northern Hemisphere 13000 years ago?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:08:21 -0700
I think the Mt. St. Helens event it might be comparable to a modest
meteoroid hit. And the damage was widespread, extending down the river
systems far beyond the actual blast zone. But as you point out, no
megafauna became extinct. (With the possible exception of Big Foot, who
hasn't been sighted since.) :-(
Sadly, floral successions will not be allowed to run their natural course,
except in the set aside, as Weyerhauser has planted most of the blasted old
growth forest with tree farms.
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> From: Diana Gale Matthiesen <>
> To: <>
> Date: 5/21/2007 5:36:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Comet set fire to Northern Hemisphere 13000 years ago?
> Eric,
> The blast from Mt. St. Helen was severe in effect, but limited in extent,
> it's not really a comparable event. While nothing survived in the blast
zone, a
> few miles away everything survived, so the region was repopulated with
the same
> species that were there before (or will be once succession has run its
> No macrofauna became extinct from the blast of Mt. St. Helen.
> The difficulty for those trying to assert that a wide-spread cataclysm
> have killed off the mammoths and mastodons is explaining how musk oxen,
> carribou, bison, saiga, and others species -- with similar ecological
> requirements -- survived it.
> Diana
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> > From: On Behalf Of Eric Olson
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> > Subject: Re: [DNA] Comet set fire to Northern Hemisphere 13000 years
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> > Diana,
> >
> > What you say has much merit.
> >
> > It's amazing how quickly this Mt. St. Helens blast zone out here has
> > recovered, both with plants and animals. The pyroclastic flows were
> > clocked at nearly 300 mph, and about 800 degrees Celsuis.
> > That is bright cherry red heat... It certainly totally sterlized the
> > for miles, but life returned.
> >
> > Eric
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Discover this interesting pumpkin carving technique. Dr. Astrid Newenhouse demonstrates how to decorate a pumpkin still on the vine.
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Harvest season always makes me think of leaves on the ground, the smell of smoke in the air and of pumpkins. We're in our make-believe pumpkin patch. I'm with UW-Extension Horticulturist, Dr. Astrid Newenhouse. Astrid's going to show us how we can carve a pumpkin like this while it's still growing on the vine. Astrid, I've heard of ornamental edibles, but this is super! This is great.
This is a really neat technique, Shelley. What you're looking at is scar tissue. And I've made that scar by using this nail.
Is that the only tool I need for this?
Yes, that's it, just a nail.
That's easy. So, you just carve it in there. Can you show me how you actually do this?
Well, the key to it is that you do it in August or September, four to six weeks before frost.
So it grows into the scar tissue as it gets bigger. Would I want to pick a green pumpkin?
It doesn't have to be green. It has to be whatever size it is so that it still has time to grow. So, a month or a month and a half before frost.
So, in August or September we should be thinking about this?
What do you do with the nail, then?
You go out to your field, choose a pumpkin. Leave it on the vine, don't pick it. Then, you just pierce the rind, like this, just below the surface of the rind.
You don't go in deep at all.
No. See, I'm pulling out some of that tissue, like that.
You're just using the nail as a pencil, then.
That's wonderful. You could carve almost anything you wanted in here.
If I wanted to make kind of a really big picture, I'd take a really young pumpkin, something smaller than this one, maybe.
This would be a good size. You don't want to get too carried a way and take a tiny, little one like a softball or baseball size. Because then, if you were to pierce the rind of that and it were to grow, it would grow so much that it might split that scar.
So, don't get too anxious when we're out there. Is that what happened to this? It looks like I'm actually seeing almost into the pumpkin, there. It's a little too big of a scar.
Yes. If this would have been smaller when I did this, it may have grown so much that it would split the scar and opened up some of the wound, here.
This would be really fun to get kids involved with, because there's no sharp knives. I think the parents should still be around because even a nail can be harmful. But you can safely have some fun and do some experimenting.
Yeah, kids like this. And "experimenting" is the key, too. It's very much a trial and error thing.
So, maybe go out and do a couple different kinds of pumpkins. This one has a face on it. That one has "Boo."
Here's "Spooky." Now, the difference between "Spooky" and "Boo," is that on "Spooky" I just outlined the letters with the nail. Whereas on "Boo," I actually picked out some of that tissue.
And made it a little bit more noticeable.
Right. You can even do your name. Brooke did this one.
That's great. You can have a personalized pumpkin for your kids on halloween. That's super! Thanks, Astrid.
You're welcome, Shelley.
So remember, plan ahead. In August or September, go out into your pumpkin patch and experiment. You, too, can have ornamental edibles in your garden.
Well, I hope we've given you some useful ideas. These are just a few of the many ways you can enjoy the harvest. Here are some other suggestions: You can dry red peppers and create a swag or wreath with them. Use the dried seed heads of these ornamental onions in wreaths or flower arrangements. But still, my favorite way to enjoy the harvest is to eat it.
Carving a Pumpkin While It's Still on the Vine
Discover this interesting pumpkin carving technique. Dr. Astrid Newenhouse demonstrates how to decorate a pumpkin still on the vine.
Making a Garlic Braid
Store your garlic in a fun and unusual way. Peg Whiteside demonstrates how easy it is to create a garlic braid.
Making Your Own Living Wreath
Sue Steinmann of Arena Designs shows us how to make a living wreath from succulent plants with as few as 40 cuttings.
Making Seedflowers
Learn how to make decorative seed flowers at Old World Wisconsin. It is one of the gentile arts popular during the Victorian era.
Making a Broom from Broom Corn
Create a broom out of broom corn. Loury Huesman, a volunteer at Schumacher Farm in Waunakee, demonstrates the process from combing the seeds out of the corn to tying the string.
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From: Glennis Austin <>
Subject: HENDERSON, WEBB, AULD, SMITH
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:24:33 -0700
Hi Everyone
I joined the list a wee while ago, however time and my computer have
been against me. Anyway here goes with my interests.
George HENDERSON (b. c1842 Glasgow) and Frances Gordon SWAN (b. c1846
Edinburgh) arrived in NZ c1864 possibly via Australia. They married in
1866 in Oamaru and George was Reservoir Keeper. Eleven HENDERSON
children were all born in Oamaru: Catherine Ann, Annie Campbell, Francis
Margaret Ellen, James Keir (d. Bundaberg, Qld), Margaret Keir, George
Matheson, William Kirk, Helen Swan, Cecilia Swan, Robert Keir, John
Henry Ransom. The family moved to Wellington in the late 1890s. I would
like to make contact with any descendants, especially of George Matheson
HENDERSON, William Kirk HENDERSON d. Masterton 1927 and Robert Keir
HENDERSON d. Christchurch 1928 (rumoured to have had 14 children), I
have nothing further on these three.
John Robert WEBB (b. Cold Hatton, Shropshire 1862). The Seven Stars Inn
in Cold Hatton belonged to the family from 1786 until at least 1918
possibly longer. He arrived NZ c1885 m. Catherine Ann HENDERSON (see
above) in Oamaru 1888. There were nine WEBB children: George Frederick
(d. WW1), Francis Ada, Annie Violet Helen,(all born Oamaru), Cecilia
Margaret, Catherine Freda, John (Jack), Hilda, Robert (d. infancy), and
Vera Constance (were born Martinborough).
Thomas AULD (b. Stonehouse, Lanark 1863) orphaned 1873. Possibly
adopted by a "Granny Smith" and brought to NZ c1878 as Tommy SMITH.
(There has been mention of a Mrs RISMORE?, with whom "Granny" lived, a
diary and Waikanae also fit into this equation somewhere??). He changed
his name back to AULD and m. at Makotuku in 1887 Martha Ann SMITH (b.
1866 Dover). He worked for the Smith family sawmilling business,
throughout Hawkes Bay, King Country and Wanganui. There were four
children born in Hawkes Bay, Jessie Catherine, Pearl Euphemia, Robert
Wilson (d. Gallipoli) and my grandfather Thomas Vernon who married
Catherine Freda WEBB (see above) in 1921.
Henry SMITH (b. 1837 Lichfield) and Mary Ann SWAN (b. 1840 Dover)
arrived in Napier on board the Schiehallion in May 1874 with their ten
children. A futher nine were born in the Hawkes Bay. This family has
been well researched by others with two reunions having being held.
Their sixth child Martha Ann m. Thomas AULD (see above). There is no
relationship between this Smith family and "Granny Smith".
If you have reached here, thank you for your perserverance.
Regards to all and thank you Hugh for a job well done here and with the
Lanark list.
Glennis Austin
Palmerston North, NZ
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September 29, 2006
saprfc Ruby on Rails with AJAXSince I wrote an article about integration of SAP and Ruby on Rails, it has been great to see the beginnings of a kernel of interest. As a result I decided to package up the sap4rails code and distribute it properly on RAA.
Rails and AJAXOne of the interesting things that Ruby on Rails provides is built AJAX functionality by virtue of an API over prototype, and Scriptalicious. In this blog, I would like to show how neatly this integration is implemented in RubyOnRails, using a simple example of Locking, and Unlocking SAP R/3 user accounts.
Installation RequirementsFor this example you will need to do your own install of Ruby On Rails. Use the instructions for installing Ruby, Ruby On Rails, the RFCSDK, and saprfc in the RadRails blog.
Just be sure to install versions Ruby 1.8.4+ and Rails 1.1.2+.
Once you have got this far, the last thing to install is sap4rails. You can either install the source package or download the gem, and install this with:
gem install sap4rails-<version>.gem.
UserAdminFor this example, most of the standard BAPIs are adequate. We need to be able to list users, with their details, including their lock state. We also need to be able to lock and unlock them.
The general functionality of the application is to create two lists of users on a page - locked and unlocked - and for you to be able to drag a user from one to the other to change their lock state in SAP.
The following RFCs are used:
- BAPI_USER_GETLIST - list users, and their address details
BAPI_USER_GETLIST is not quite enough. This, I have had to wrap in another function module and also modify the results table to include the lock status information of users.
Create a new function module called Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST, and make sure that you activate it for RFC on the attributes tab (in SE37) (code).
Create a new structure called ZBAPIUSNAME, and include the two structures BAPIUSNAME, and USLOCK like this .
Make sure that you activate the structure.
The code and interface needs to be completed like this:
FUNCTION Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST. *"---------------------------------------------------------------------- *"*"Local Interface: *" IMPORTING *" VALUE(MAX_ROWS) TYPE BAPIUSMISC-BAPIMAXROW DEFAULT 0 *" VALUE(WITH_USERNAME) TYPE BAPIUSMISC-WITH_NAME DEFAULT SPACE *" EXPORTING *" VALUE(ROWS) TYPE BAPIUSMISC-BAPIROWS *" TABLES *" SELECTION_RANGE STRUCTURE BAPIUSSRGE OPTIONAL *" SELECTION_EXP STRUCTURE BAPIUSSEXP OPTIONAL *" USERLISTLOCK STRUCTURE ZBAPIUSNAME OPTIONAL *" RETURN STRUCTURE BAPIRET2 OPTIONAL *"---------------------------------------------------------------------- * data: LOCKSTATE LIKE USLOCK, userlist like bapiusname occurs 0 with header line. refresh userlistlock. CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_USER_GETLIST' EXPORTING MAX_ROWS = 0 WITH_USERNAME = with_username IMPORTING ROWS = rows TABLES SELECTION_RANGE = selection_range SELECTION_EXP = selection_exp USERLIST = userlist RETURN = return . loop at userlist. move-corresponding: userlist to userlistlock. if userlistlock-firstname = space. userlistlock-firstname = userlistlock-username. endif. CALL FUNCTION 'SUSR_USER_LOCKSTATE_GET' EXPORTING USER_NAME = userlist-username IMPORTING LOCKSTATE = lockstate EXCEPTIONS USER_NAME_NOT_EXIST = 1 OTHERS = 2 . move-corresponding: lockstate to userlistlock. append userlistlock. endloop. ENDFUNCTION.
Activate the function module and test it.
The Rails part
The full application can be downloaded from here - but what I'd like to do is quickly describe the meat of what had to be done to get this type of application working.
Config - sap.yml
As described in the RadRails blog, you need to adjust the configuration in config/sap.yml to point to your SAP system:
development: ashost: 10.1.1.1 sysnr: "00" client: "010" user: developer passwd: developer lang: EN trace: "1" ...
Model - sap_user.rb
The SapUser object now inherits from the new SAP4Rails::Base class. This
serves to automatically take care of managing RFC connections based on the
config done above. The two main class methods for use are function_module,
which allows you to declare what RFCs you want to use, and parameter which is
a helper method for declaring attributes of a SapUser (or any other Model
In the interests of simplifying the application, by reducing the amount of ABAP code to be written, and the number of RFC calls to be made, I have in a way "cheated", with the arrangement of methods defined in SapUser. Instead of having a SapUser#find method, I rely on the use of SapUser#find_all and SapUser#find_cache to reduce a series of SapUser searches down to one RFC call only. In reality this is probably not good practice, but it suits for this example.
Read the code comments below for further details:
require_gem "sap4rails" class SapUser < SAP4Rails::Base # You must define a list of RFCs to preload function_module :Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST, :BAPI_USER_LOCK, :BAPI_USER_UNLOCK # You must define a list of attribute accessors to preload parameter :last, :first, :userid, :locked # do your attribute initialisation for each SapUser instance def initialize(last, first, userid, locked) @last = last @first = first @userid = userid @locked = locked @changed = false end # what is the lock state def locked? return self.locked ? true : false end # on #save - flip the lock state of the SapUser, calling the # appropriate RFC to do it def save() RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SapUser]#save what did we get: " + self.inspect) if self.locked? SapUser.BAPI_USER_LOCK.reset() SapUser.BAPI_USER_LOCK.username.value = self.userid SapUser.BAPI_USER_LOCK.call() else SapUser.BAPI_USER_UNLOCK.reset() SapUser.BAPI_USER_UNLOCK.username.value = self.userid SapUser.BAPI_USER_UNLOCK.call() end # just so something happens ... return true end # one RFC call to get them all def self.find_all RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SapUser]#find_all ") SapUser.Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST.reset() SapUser.Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST.with_username.value = 'X' SapUser.Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST.call() users = [] SapUser.Z_BAPI_USER_GETLIST.userlistlock.rows().each {|row| next if row['FIRSTNAME'].strip.length == 0 state = nil if row['WRNG_LOGON'] == "L" || row['LOCAL_LOCK'] == "L" || row['GLOB_LOCK'] == "L" state = true else state = false end users.push(SapUser.new(row['LASTNAME'], row['FIRSTNAME'], row['USERNAME'], state)) } return users end # find a user base on the results of a SapUser#find_all def self.find_cache(user, cache) RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SapUser]#find_cache: #{user} ") cache.each{|row| return row if user.strip == row.userid.strip } end # get a list of all the locked users def self.find_locked RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SapUser]#find_locked ") locked = [] find_all().each{|user| locked.push(user) if user.locked } return locked end # get a list of all the unlocked users def self.find_unlocked RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SapUser]#find_unlocked ") unlocked = [] find_all().each{|user| unlocked.push(user) unless user.locked } return unlocked end end
Controller - lock_controller.rbThere are only 3 basic actions to the only controller in this application. The initial list action, build the starting page presenting the two lists of users (locked and unlocked). From there, as a result of the AJAX enabled calls from the dragndrop feature, two further actions are called - set_locked and set_unlocked.
class LockController < ApplicationController # gnerate the starting user lists, and hand off to the default list view def list RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[LIST] Parameters: " + @params.inspect) @locked_users = SapUser.find_locked() @unlocked_users = SapUser.find_unlocked() RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[LIST] of Locked: " + @locked_users.inspect) RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[LIST] of UNLocked: " + @unlocked_users.inspect) end # check through the list of locked users in the locked sortable_element box # and set their locked state in necessary # on completion - render the partial locked_users def set_locked RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SET_LOCKED] Parameters: " + @params.inspect) @locked_users = [] cache = SapUser.find_all() if @params['locked_box'] @params['locked_box'].each {|locked| next if locked.length == 0 user = SapUser.find_cache(locked, cache) next if user.first.strip.length == 0 if user && ! user.locked? user.locked = !user.locked? user.save end @locked_users.push(user) } end render :partial => 'locked_users', :object => locked_users end # exact opposite/the same as set_locked def set_unlocked RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[SET_UNLOCKED] Parameters: " + @params.inspect) @unlocked_users = [] cache = SapUser.find_all() if @params['unlocked_box'] @params['unlocked_box'].each {|unlocked| next unless unlocked.length > 0 user = SapUser.find_cache(unlocked, cache) next if user.first.strip.length == 0 if user && user.locked? user.locked = !user.locked? user.save end @unlocked_users.push(user) } end render :partial => 'unlocked_users', :object => unlocked_users end # called by the rendering action of the partial locked_users def locked_users RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[LOCKED_USERS] of Locked: " + @locked_users.inspect) @locked_users end # called by the rendering action of the partial unlocked_users def unlocked_users RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.warn("[UNLOCKED_USERS] of UNLocked: " + @unlocked_users.inspect) @unlocked_users end end
ViewsThe the overall page template (layout) defines the shape of the page, and what JavaScript libraries are pulled in for the effects (AJAX). All pages inherit from this.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>User Administration: <%= controller.controller_name %></title> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <%= stylesheet_link_tag "administration.css" %> <%= javascript_include_tag "prototype", "effects", "dragdrop", "controls" %>

 <%= link_to "home", :controller=> "/lock", :action => 'list' %>

<%= link_to "UserAdmin - #{controller.controller_name}", :controller => "/lock" %>

<%= @page_heading %>
 <%= @content_for_layout %>

The two most important things in list are the two container div tags - unlocked_box and locked_box. These in turn, have a corresponding partial (unlocked_users, and locked_users), that are responsible for generating the dragable user items.
<% @heading = "User Admin - Lock/UnLock" %>

Unlocked Users

 <%= render :partial => 'unlocked_users', :object => @unlocked_users %>

Locked Users

 <%= render :partial => 'locked_users', :object => @locked_users %>

the partial unlocked_users either displays a place holder element if there are no users, or calls the render of unlocked_user for each user. It also uses the AJAX function sortable_element which dictates what div container holds the sortable drag and drop elements, and what actions to take when an event is fired with them. This is how we trigger the call to the set_unlocked or set_locked action of the list controller for updating the individual "boxes" of users.
<% if unlocked_users.empty? %>
 You have no Unlocked SAP Users....
 <% else %> <%= render :partial => 'unlocked_user', :collection => unlocked_users %> <% end %> <%= sortable_element "unlocked_box", :update => "unlocked_box", :url => {:action=>'set_unlocked'}, :tag => 'div', :handle => 'handle', :containment => ['unlocked_box','locked_box'] %> <%= sortable_element "locked_box", :update => "locked_box", :url=> {:action=>'set_locked'}, :tag => 'div', :handle => 'handle', :containment => ['locked_box','unlocked_box'] %>
the partial unlocked_user renders a dragble_element for each SapUser.
<div id="unlockeduser_<%= unlocked_user.userid %>" class="dragitem">
<%= unlocked_user.userid %>

<%= unlocked_user.last + ", " + unlocked_user.first %>

 <%= draggable_element "unlockeduser_#{unlocked_user.userid}" %>
the same as for the partial unlocked_users
<% if locked_users.empty? %>
 You have no Locked Users ...
 <% else %> <%= render :partial => 'locked_user', :collection => locked_users %> <% end %> <%= sortable_element "unlocked_box", :update => "unlocked_box", :url => {:action=>'set_unlocked'}, :tag => 'div', :handle => 'handle', :containment => ['unlocked_box','locked_box'] %> <%= sortable_element "locked_box", :update => "locked_box", :url=> {:action=>'set_locked'}, :tag => 'div', :handle => 'handle', :containment => ['locked_box','unlocked_box'] %>
the same as for the partial unlocked_user
<div id="lockeduser_<%= locked_user.userid %>" class="dragitem">
<%= locked_user.userid %>

<%= locked_user.last + ", " + locked_user.first %>

 <%= draggable_element "lockeduser_#{locked_user.userid}" %>
In config/routes.rb add:
map.connect '', :controller => "lock", :action => 'list'and make sure that you delete public/index.html
This makes sure that any requests to the root of the server eg. http://localhost:3000, are forwarded onto the list action of the lock controller.
firing Up
Start the Rails WEBrick server by running the script:
ruby scripts/serverOpen your broswer and point to http://localhost:3000.
When you connect to http://localhost:3000 (there will be an inital delay as
sap4rails caches the RFC calls), you should get a screen that looks like this
A Flash movie of this in action can be seen here.
Posted by PiersHarding at 11:08 AM
September 22, 2006
saprfc and RadRails
Ruby On Rails and SAPLast August, I wrote a weblog about SAP on Rails. In a follow up to that I'd like to explain how to import the example into an Eclipse environment called RadRails. RadRails is a specialised Eclipse install that contains a set of plugins for developing native Ruby, and Ruby on Rails applications.
The point of this blog entry is to explain how to import that example into RadRails, thus enabling all the IDE lovers out there to explore the example in their favourite environment.
All kidding aside - RadRails is a nice way to break into Rails development as it aids in visualising how a Rails application holds together.
Getting the necessary packagesThe instructions for installation vary according to your OS. I will explain for both Linux, and win32.
The basic breakdown is as follows:
- Make sure that you have the RFCSDK
- Install Ruby
- Install RubyGems
- Install Rails
- Install RadRails
- Import and configure the Exrates example
- Install SAP::Rfc for Ruby
Install the RFCSDKEnsure that you have the RFCSDK installed on your platform available from http://service.sap.com/connectors. For Linux this must be in /usr/sap/rfcsdk - check that librfccm.so is available in /usr/sap/rfcsdk/lib, and that it can be found at run time (you may have to add /usr/sap/rfcsdk/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf, and run ldconfig to do it).
For win32 (I've tested this on XP SP2) - make sure that the RFCSDK has been installed correctly, most likely as part of the SAP GUI client install, if you can't get it from http://service.sap.com/connectors.
Install Ruby, RubyGems, and Ruby on RailsDetailed instructions for installing Ruby On Rails are found on the rails Website. The following is the guide for the impatient:
- Install Ruby from here - it is *VERY* important to use this version for windows. For Debian: apt-get install ruby1.8 ruby-1.8-dev irb ri (more details here ). For other flavours of Linux, I'm afraid you'll have to figure that out for yourself, as I use Ubuntu a Debian derivative.
- Install Ruby Gems - get gems from here, extract the archive, and then from the command line execute "ruby setup.rb" in the zip files root directory.
- Install Rails - from the command line execute "gem install rails --include-dependencies"
- For windows users it's a good idea to reboot now, as not everything that is running will have picked up the new path etc. pointing to ruby
Install RadRailsMake sure you have a working JRE - you can get one from here - I used version 5 update 06.
Obtain and install RadRails - 0.6.2 can be downloaded from here. This is availble as a standalone IDE, and as a Plugin - what I show here is only dealing with the standalone version.
Importing the Exrates example
- Download the Eclipse project directory for the ExRates example from here. Unpack the archive, somewhere handy.
- launch RadRails, and when it asks for a workspace, point it at the rails sub directory that was unpacked above.
- Once the application is launched we need to get some settings right:
- ruby installation - navigate to Window => Preferences => Ruby => Installed Interpreters. Change the entry "mine" to point to your installed ruby. For windows, this will most likely be C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe.
- Again, in the preferences panel - set the locations of rdoc, and ri
You should now have a workspace that looks like this:
Installing SAP::Rfc for RubyThis part is dependent on you successfully installing the RFCSDK above.
If you are running win32 then download the saprfc 0.16 gem and install from the command line with: "gem install saprfc-0.16-mswin32.gem". Because this is a gem based install, the way that this is loaded into an application for use is different. Because of this you will need to modify SAP4Rails.rb. Navigate to this file in RadRails Exrates/lib/SAP4Rails.rb. change line 3 from: require 'SAP/Rfc'
require 'rubygems' require_gem 'saprfc'
Under Linux, get the SAP::Rfc software, unpack and follow the build instructions in the README file, which are basically:
ruby extconf.rb make make install
Running the Exrates example
- Reconfigure the SAP RFC connection information - navigate in the left hand file panel to the config/sap.yml file. Modify the connection setting here, before launching the server, to point to your own R/3 system.
- Run the ExRates WEBRick server (bottom Servers tab), and then check the console to see if the server started correctly (botton Console tab) - then point browser at http://localhost:3000
You should now see a running server:
Trouble ShootingIf the WEBrick server does not appear to start correctly, then check the console, and the rails/Exrates/server.log, and development.log. Most times the problems are going to be with the ruby, and rails install.
As this example was developed under Linux, I have noticed that the ExratesServer defined in the bottom panel Servers tab of RadRails, needs to be recreated under windows. To do this, highlight the entry, and delete (Red X for "Remove" at top of panel). Then go File => New => Server => WEBRick Server. This should give you a dialog box with Project, Name, and Port - accept the defaults, and try starting the server again.
If there is a problem with the RFC connection, then this will appear on the console log, and further debug information should be available in the rails/Exrates/dev_rfc file.
Wrapping it upHopefully, you now have everything up and running - Now all I need to do is to get Craig to add this one into the "Box" :-)
- Thanks go to Olivier Boudry, who tirelessly helped out with debugging win32 gem build issues.
- Thanks also to Craig for picking up the ball and running with it
Posted by PiersHarding at 11:06 AM
September 1, 2006
sap4rails now has SAP::WAS - SAP Web Services Integraton
Following on from creating SAP::WAS for Ruby (SAP Web Services integration), sap4rails, has been enhanced to take advantage of SAP::WAS as an alternate "driver" for SAP connectivity. The latest version (0.04) can be obtained here, and an article showing an example of usage is here on SDN.
Posted by PiersHarding at 11:41 AM
New module SAP::WAS - SAP Web Services for Ruby
Announcing my new Project SAP::WAS for Ruby. This library enables SAP Web Services access encapsulated in the same manner as SAP::Rfc - abstracting away the complexities of dealing with SOAP packet encapsulation, and bringing the benefits of interface discovery.
The library can be found by following the directions here.
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Northwest jazz and blues sensation Maia Santell and her backing band House Blend will perform a holiday concert and dance at Jazzbones on Friday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. The show is open to all ages, and just $8 will get you in the door.
Joining Santell will be her bandmates Ted Dortch on tenor saxophone, Gary Crooks on guitar, Steve Luceno on bass, Bruce Simpson on drums and special guest Jumpin' Josh on guitar. The band's repertoire includes blues, jazz, swing, Latin, r&b and holiday favorites like "Merry Christmas Baby," "Please Come Home For Christmas," "Santa Baby," Nancy Wilson's "What Are you Doing New Year's Eve?" and Mel Torme's classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song," to name a few.
Maia Santell is a descendant of Seattle's "Jackson Street era" of jazz and swing. Her mom, dad and uncle were prominent jazz musicians that performed in the Northwest music scene for 40 years. Her talent, phrasing, and clear, warm, unaffected vocal style can be attributed to her rich musical heritage, including attending Seattle's Garfield High School, singing in jazz ensembles, musicals and rhythm and blues bands and performing at a young age with jazz giants like Joe Venuti, Buddy Catlett, Floyd Standifer and her uncle Frank Sugia.
Santell has performed at such leading venues as Jazz Alley, The New Orleans in Seattle's Pioneer Square, Dancing with the Tacoma Stars, Argosy Cruises, St. Michelle Wineries, to name a few, and is a regular in the South Sound at Studio 6 Ballroom, the Harmon Restaurant and Brewery and the Tacoma Jazz and Blues Festival.
Her latest CD, "Dance with Me! Maia Santell Live at Jazzbones," will be available for sale at this event. Jazzbones is located at 2803 6th Ave., (253) 396-9169.


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