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Louis Vuitton Spring 2012
To the tinkling strains of a music-box melody, Marc Jacobs unveiled his collection for Louis Vuitton on a bevy of girls sitting atop a carousel of prancing white horses—a wry comment on the current merry-go-round of fashion, perhaps, of which Jacobs himself is a focus of frenzied speculation.
From the prom-queen tiaras that crowned them to their conventional stiletto heels and handbags, vaguely evocative of the Eisenhower era, these girls were brimming with sugar and spice and all things nice—capturing the mood of ironically exaggerated femininity that has swept the runways.
Chez Vuitton, this mood was embodied by the abundant use of eyelet lace forming fields of daisies. To soften the effect even more, these pieces were veiled in sugar-almond-colored organza layers (or misted with shaded ostrich-feather fronds). Skirts were as puffed as Ladurée macarons, the bouffant silhouette starting either from an Empire line just below the bust or erupting at the hip like the party dresses of a 1920s china doll.
Broderie anglaise was used for exaggerated Vandyke collars, and as insets replacing the alternate diamonds on an Argyle knit. It perforated stiff little faille skirt suits and separates made from leather treated to look like scrunched-up sheets of cartridge paper. And in a playful take on the LV logo, it was used for parasols and to aerate clear plastic purses.
Jacobs took delight in treating some classic masculine wardrobe elements to the ultrafeminine makeover—a biker jacket in powdery spring-chick yellow or baby-blue crocodile perhaps, or a sweatshirt trellised in fine silver thread.
The optimistic daisy motif was blown up larger still for with multi-scaled plastic sequins that trembled on some of the prettiest short evening dresses of the season. To emphasize Jacobs's fashionable volte-face, Kate Moss—last season's saucy Vuitton dominatrix—was recast for spring as the ballerina on that music box in a gleaming white baby doll frock and Barbie white stilettos.


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I am trying to scrape some specific areas from this website for horse racing results, I am having trouble defining the area which I want to read. I have tried a few variations of code and the one below is probably closest to what I want to achieve.
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import urllib2
import re
def getData():
html = urllib2.urlopen
pattern1 = re.compile(r'\<div class\=\"crBlock(.*?)\<\!\-\- \.resultGrid \-\-\>', re.S)
dataset_items = re.findall(pattern1, html)
## If dataset_items is true (data exists) then...
if dataset_items:
## For each dataset in dataset_items...
for dataset in dataset_items:
print dataset
The html below represents one of the Racecourses and all of the races for that race meeting. I innitially want to be able to select each of these html tables as I ultimately need to know the course for which I was collecting results which isnt included as html on a race by race basis. Following this I want to be able to select each race within these tables and collect select pieces of data.
Please note that for the first html table the class has ' noBorder' where as the subsiquent html tables do not contain this.
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This is my first post in the python forum, so unsure of how much help will be available, but I thought it was worth a shot.
Thanks SMNALLY

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I though i would share some info that could help out some of the SP members to get some more free traffic to there site via facebook and google. so if you have ever used facebook you know at the top of the page you will see a search bar and if you start to type in any keyword for this example im going to use the word "bike shop" so if you type into the search bar bike shop you will see the fan page with the most "likes" this is all that matters to the facebook search engine so having tons of facebook likes will clime you to the top of the facebook search engine.
So say you own a website for selling bikes wouldn't you want to be at the top of the facebook search engine?
All you have to do is make a facebook fan page and get tons of likes and you will start to see 100s of people per day come to your website from your facebook fan page.
One more tip is to have your facebook fan page with a username do this by going to your fan page and clicking the edit page button. Now on the left side you will see basic information click that and you will be able to give your fan page a username url so your facebook page page will look like this facebook.com/yoursite instead of facebook.com/yoursite/4395803809 ( facebook requires you to have min of 25 likes before you can do this )This will improve your google search results and be easier for people to remember your fan page url
Facebook's search engine works beyond simple likes using a relative score that factors in your own affinity / engagement with a page as well as a friend's. That's how Facebook is able to know that when you type in Ashley you mean Ashley who you met at your friend's BBQ yesterday and not the most popular Ashley on the block.
The same applies to business pages where, as an example, I follow many Hilton properties -- their global page which has the top "likes" does not show up in the short form results for me at all but rather pages I follow and those my network follow do.
This actually strengthens your point as you don't have become the top listing to be found. Rather you need to build out a following within a niche such that people are seeing it spread friend to friend via the newsfeed [the powerhouse of facebook] and via placements like search which will feed off of this interaction. You'll grow faster if a tight circle is all focused on your page than if a broad one only mentions it here and there.
i still think "likes" play a big part in the facebook search engine if you do some testing your see it for your self. but i do think your right about thats not all that goes into it..
Likes certainly play a factor but it's a multifaceted scoring system which you can read about on a number of blogs and see for yourself either by liking a page or searching for a term that has multiple pages [i.e. a hotel chain] and looking at the result set in relation to your own preferences and those of your network.
But again, this plays to everyone's advantage as you win by having an individual liking you rather than having to be the "top" of the entire field.
You sure know a lot Ted haha a lot of your posts have been very helpful for me and these are no different. Thanks for shining some light on how the FB engine works, it' s stuff I didn't know
Thanks! I do digital media for a living so if you didn't think I knew anything I'd be in trouble but the great thing about social is how much it evolves and while I may have years of experience, it's the new thinking that really leads to great launches and results.
well facebook search engine mostly show personalized results based on your likes, friends etc so I dont think that there is any thing we have worry about ranking 1st on facebook search.
Facebook search engine mainly gives brief idea of personalized result that is based upon likes, fans, friends, etc. The Facebook fan page can easily generate 1000+ genuine traffic to your site each day.
One tip to give personalized url to facebook fan page, go to edit page and change the username by adding url of company or desired username. You can share this page url with fan page user, and also it will help in getting top result in google search engine.
I am inclined to side with Ted S. I don't believe that the sheer amount of "likes" influence FB "rankings." It's just too easy to game and that would tend to show irrelevant results. I think it's a combination of factors based on your preferences, history, and your personal social graph.
Therefore, facebook fan likes are very important to get top position on facebook search engine. Before read your thread i was unaware about facebook search results. Now i will work-hard more to get good figure of likes for my facebook fan page.
This question has been answered as best the Facebook search engine is currently understood.


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Morneau hits RBI triple off Greinke, but remains stranded at third
DENVER -- It seemed almost too perfect as Nolan Arenado stepped to the plate in the eighth inning on Thursday night with the potential go-ahead run on third and the sold-out Coors Field crowd on its feet.
But in the final at-bat of his first game back since May 23, Arenado struck out and an inning later, his Dodgers counterpart Juan Uribe did what he couldn't, sealing a series-opening, 3-2 loss with a go-ahead single.
"[Zack] Greinke beared down at the end there and got through it, but we had a couple of opportunities and didn't get it done," manager Walt Weiss said.
The Rockies hardly threatened Greinke (11-4) through seven innings before the Dodgers decided to push their luck by sending him out for the eighth at 84 pitches.
Following Charlie Blackmon's leadoff single, Justin Morneau made the Dodgers pay with a one-out, RBI triple to deep center to tie the game at 2. Yet as the Rockies would prove, it's never easy for a team that has lost 15 of their last 17 to get over the hump, even with their best player taking their most important at-bat of the night.
Greinke played coy with Troy Tulowitzki following Morneau's 59th RBI of the year, not giving the Home Run Derby captain much to work with until he harmlessly popped a 2-1 offering into shallow left field.
"I think a lot of times a hitter knows you're pitching around him and I kind of wanted to throw a strike the first pitch and let him know I'm not pitching around you in that case," Greinke said.
The Dodgers then intentionally walked Corey Dickerson to get to Arenado in his first game after six weeks on the disabled list with a broken finger. But for the fourth time on the night, Arenado failed to register a hit as Greinke blew a 94-mph fastball by him for his eighth strikeout of the night.
"It was a total ball," Arenado admitted. "I got a little overly anxious and I know he was coming around middle-in and I just over-swung. Bad pitch to swing at."
In the ninth, Uribe's single off right-hander LaTroy Hawkins (2-2) brought Matt Kemp around to score the game-winning run. Hawkins led off the inning with a four-pitch walk to Kemp as the bullpen couldn't keep a key run off the board for the second straight night.
"LaTroy has commanded the ball really well," Weiss said. "We haven't seen that much but Kemp is a dangerous hitter and you got to make sure you don't lay one in there for him and put up a leadoff walk."
For the rest of the evening, Rockies pitchers had no problem taking care of business. In his first start since being reinserted into the Rockies' rotation, Franklin Morales gave the team just about all they could hope for, tossing five innings of two-run ball (one earned), allowing four hits, two walks and four strikeouts.
"Franky did his part," Weiss said. "We were hoping he could give us five and have us in a position to win and that's exactly what he did."
Matt Kahnle and Nick Massett combined to pitch three innings of one-hit ball before Hawkins surrendered his first earned run since May 20. Kenley Jansen then came on to close things out with a perfect inning for his 26th save of the season.
Dee Gordon got the small-ball battle going with a bunt single in the third inning. As fans fled for shelter from a sudden drizzle, Adrian Gonzalez singled in the Dodgers shortstop with two outs to give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead.
The Dodgers added another run in the fourth after a passed ball during A.J. Ellis' at-bat allowed Uribe to move to third following his double. Ellis then floated a 3-2 offering from Morales far enough to center to score Uribe for a 2-0 lead.
The Rockies fight back began with two outs in the fifth. D.J. LeMahieu was able to advance to second on his single when Yasiel Puig couldn't corral the ball. With Morales already at 89 pitches, Weiss didn't hesitate to hit Josh Rutledge in his place and was rewarded for the decision with a pinch-hit RBI double to deep right to make it 2-1.
Cody Ulm is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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About the Book
ONE SUNDAY MORNING began as a memoir written for Louis Mathieson's family. Its title derives from the Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor where Louis was serving aboard the USS Oklahoma. When the manuscript was in its initial stage. Louie asked me to read it and to offer suggestions. It was my opinion, and that of others whom I asked to review the manuscript, that Louie's story should he told in his own words and in his own style. The format of reminiscence and the conversational tone, which so engages the reader, we felt should not be compromised by editorial intervention.
We have an opportunity, through Louie, to experience what it meant to be a member of what Tom Brokaw describes as the Greatest Generation. Louie's life journey takes us through his childhood years during the Depression, his participation as a young adult in the Civilian Conservation Corps designed by FDR to provide employment for the nation's young men, the abrupt entry of the US into World War II at Pearl Harbor, and the establishment of a peacetime world and return to home and family.
There was another Sunday morning milestone when he met Vera Payson. It is a tribute to Louie's romantic nature and good judgment of people that he recognized how important Vera would be to the rest of his life. After more than fifty years of marriage, they still represent what today's generation describes as "soul mates."
In Robert Kennedy's words, Louie dreamed of things that never were and said "why not?" Louie dreamed of "the house on the hill overlooking the water" and it came true. He dreamed of raising a fine family, and it came true. ONE SUNDAY MORNING reveals not only the details of that "day of infamy," but also the indomitable spirit and accomplishment of one of its survivors.
Features & Details
- Category History
Standard Portrait, 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
152 Pages
- Publish Date Mar 28, 2009
- Tags world war 2, pearl harbor, Greatest Generation, history, veteran, maine, survivor, family
About the Creator
I am Louie and Vera's first daughter, but third child. My dad was my hero. He took Ann and I camping to all his favorite fishing spots in Maine.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
You Win Some, You Lose Some
17 comments:
- MrsLittleJeans said...
I love Camelias and like you I am amazed at them. We usually get gorgeous ones here in Southern CA but I have managed to kill one sadly. I was told that they did not need much sun, and I did not realize that the outside corner that I had in mind was really so dark.
Hope you have a great new week Grace...xx
- January 8, 2012 at 3:34 PM
- FlowerLady said...
I WISH I could grow Camelias this far south. I just enjoy them through all the wonderful posts here in blogland.
Enjoy ~ FlowerLady
- January 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM
- Catherine@AGardenerinProgress said...
Down at the Ballard Locks I remember seeing (and taking pictures of) these huge roses that had been planted in a little tiny opening in a cement walkway. I was amazed at how they could grow, they were huge and covered in flowers.
Funny how some plants will grow in the strangest conditions and yet when you try them in the "optimal" conditions they don't make it.
- January 8, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- HolleyGarden said...
Sometimes I think that's the hardest part about gardening - getting rid of the plants that just don't seem to like where they're planted! Or realizing that a particular plant just doesn't like your particular garden!
- January 8, 2012 at 7:03 PM
- scottweberpdx said...
It's always interesting to me how we all seem to have problems with certain plants...even if someone else grows them with east...it can be frustrating. I think you are wise to just enjoy those you see in passing :-)
- January 8, 2012 at 8:21 PM
- Heather @ what's blooming this week said...
My win some/lose some plant is the lupine - I used to have a beautiful selection of them in a previous garden but have never had any luck in subsequent venues. But my best gardening pal has an amazing selection, so I make sure I visit her when they are in bloom.
- January 9, 2012 at 5:36 AM
- Janet, The Queen of Seaford said...
I am growing Camellias for the first time. I have a little Yuletide. I am not an expert on where or what kind of conditions make them happy.
I have one spot in my garden that seems to be a loser spot. Unfortunately it is right by the front door. Thinking about digging up the soil and replacing it with good soil....and new plants.
- January 9, 2012 at 5:38 PM
- Lona said...
Beautiful pictures Grace. I love Camellias. I am going to try one this spring for zone 6 and pray we do not fall back to a zone 5 next winter. LOL! I do not know now where to plant it since you saw this one in the hot sun. Oh, heck maybe I will split the difference and plant it in between with afternoon shade. LOL!
- January 10, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- MulchMaid said...
Both camellias are beautiful! I love that perfect petal arrangement of 'Mrs. Tinkley'. I've been lucky enough to grown 'Yuletide' with happy results: morning sun and a slight slope were the conditions, and my three Yuletide flourished there. But I've killed more than my share of plants and shrubs to compensate. I admire your wisdom in realizing you may not have the right garden for a given plant and letting go of it...wish I felt better about my losses - or at least a bit more philosophical.
- January 10, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- ChrisC said...
After our giant oak tree went down this past summer,my two camellias(both Florida natives)lost their partial shade and are now growing in full sun.And they are blooming like crazy!Who knows what Mother Nature likes?
- January 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM
- Sissy said...
The camelia is such a wonderful plant! As groundskeeper for a church in Memphis, TN, I had 4 camelia shrubs that towered at almost 20 feet! The camelia society would come look at them every year. After I left, they chopped them down.
More folks should appreciate the understated beauty of the camelia, like you do, Grace!
- January 11, 2012 at 8:07 PM
- linniew said...
Camellias, it seems to me, have rebellious natures. You have to move them around a lot, like a deck chair. xo L
- January 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Corner Gardener Sue said...
Hi Grace,
You sound like me. I plan on taking pictures of things, and then forget. I get sidetracked easily. I enjoyed doing some thrifting over the holidays. I mostly got clothes.
I enjoyed your photos. Yes, it is interesting to see what plants do well where.
- January 15, 2012 at 6:46 PM
- Tatyana@MySecretGarden said...
Shame on me, I don't have camellias in my garden. I enjoy my neighbors' plants. I bought camellias twice, and they didn't like me... I will try again.
- January 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM
- Sallyanne said...
I don't know anything about Winter Sweet but I do know I would love it in my garden--especially if it has a good fragrance--and blooms in the dead of winter!
- January 16, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- bakingbarb said...
I love camellias - at the mall they have some in pots that are getting ready to bloom - I never can understand how those plants do so well.
Winter blooms aren't something I have enough of and I'd like to replant but I do tend to kill some plants. I'm willing to try again.
- January 17, 2012 at 9:25 PM
- Wendy said...
ooooh, I looove that wintersweet.
- January 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM


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Pirates top Phils to move five games over .500
Early offense behind Volquez helps continue recent NL Central push
PITTSBURGH -- Edinson Volquez was a little out of sorts in the first inning against the Phillies on Saturday, which prompted a message from pitching coach Ray Searage.
"He slowed me down," Volquez said. "I was too fast to the plate, and everything was late with my hands. I couldn't do what I wanted. After that inning, he came to me and said, 'Slow down, stay back and make the right pitches.' "
It worked. And behind Volquez's third strong outing in a row, the Pirates continued their feast of sub-.500 teams Saturday, pushing their record the furthest north of the break-even mark it has been all season, edging the lowly Phillies, 3-2 at PNC Park.
Volquez settled down and gave up just one run in seven innings, the fourth time in five starts he has allowed one or no runs. At the plate, the Pirates got most of their offense three batters into the game, when Andrew McCutchen lasered a two-run homer to center. That blast, paired with another run in the second, lifted the Bucs to their fifth win in six tries.
It was also Pittsburgh's 11th victory in its past 15 games -- all against teams that were in last place at some point during the series -- and lifted the club's record five games above .500 at 46-41.
"We're doing everything," catcher Chris Stewart said. "Driving in runs, our starting pitching has been outstanding, going deep into ballgames, saving the bullpen's arms. The bullpen has come in, doing their job. That's what it's all about, scoring more than the other team, and we've done that a lot lately."
Volquez did not allow a run in the first inning despite issuing two walks, and he posted another zero in the third even with two more free passes. Luckily for the right-hander, his pitching line's blemish came with the bases empty when Cody Asche hit a solo homer in the fourth inning. After the run was scored, however, Volquez faced just one over the minimum to record his final 12 outs.
"He trusted his stuff; he didn't try to make it better than it normally is," Stewart said of Volquez's effectiveness. "He was throwing it, not really guiding it, not really trying to make it nastier or anything like that. [He was] getting ahead, challenging guys, forcing them to put the ball in play. We had a lot of early contact outs after the second; it was nice."
Asche's homer was the first against Volquez since June 1, and it ended the veteran's streaks of 16 scoreless innings and 34 innings without having a pitch leave the park.
For the second consecutive game, the Pirates gave their starter a lead after the first inning. McCutchen's homer scored Gregory Polanco, who led off the game with a bloop single, and came on the simplest of pitches -- one Phillies starter David Buchanan said "caught too much of the zone."
"It was a dead fastball down the middle," McCutchen said. "I do a pretty good job of hitting those, and all around the league, everyone does a pretty good job of hitting fastballs down the middle. I was able to get that first pitch, and I was ready to hit it."
Volquez helped his own cause in the second, when he chopped a grounder with the bases loaded that scored Pedro Alvarez. It was Volquez's second RBI of the season, a stat he did not mind boasting about with a smile in the clubhouse after the game.
The second inning was keyed by a Jordy Mercer double, his first of two on the afternoon. Mercer has a hit in all five games this month, with multihit showings in three of those contests. The shortstop is 9-for-14 (.643) in July.
"He's in a good place," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "Confidence is big up there. He was aggressive from the time he gets in."
Former Pirate Marlon Byrd cut the Pirates' lead in half with a solo homer to start the ninth inning against closer Mark Melancon. However, Melancon got the next three batters, including a strikeout of pinch-hitter Cesar Hernandez, to end the game for his 16th save.
Stephen Pianovich is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I am trying to display the following select options. It displays a option value of all times during the day in 30 minute increments but I want the value to display the UTC time of that value.
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Can I imbed some sort of count function in there as well to generate the UTC time?
I suggest you to save time in correct format in DB if it's possible
What timezone is the server set to use?
Simplest solution would be either to update the php.ini to set the timezone for all your pages or to add it at the top of the script to set it just for that one page.
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The week did not start well for Boris Johnson, filmed wandering around Clapham beset by angry heckling middle class voters. Was it the moment that BoJo lost his shine, as Kiran suggested a few days ago?
Friends of the London mayor admit that he was caught on the hop, holidaying with his family on the west coast of the USA, some 300 miles from the nearest airport. On returning to Britain, his Clapham walkabout was not his greatest moment. Read more


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"I wanted everything, but lost everything".
Alex Schwazer, the Italian race walk champion expelled from the London Olympics for failing doping tests, confirmed his use of EPO and said he acted alone, at a press conference in northern Italy on Wednesday.
Sobbing, the young athlete confessed his sense of "shame", along with his anxiety of not living up to expectations after winning a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
"For these Games I wanted to be stronger and wasn't able to say 'no' to doping", he said.
The runner explained that he wanted to quit the sport more than once but felt the pressure of his family and peers to keep on going. "I was tired and fed up", Mr Schwazer said.
The 27-year old racer said he bought the doping shots in Turkey, in September last year. For €1500, "the pharmacists gave me what I wanted", he said. His last injection with the blood booster was the day before the test on July 30.
He said he agreed to the tests by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a "conscious suicide", in order "to be freed from this burden". Read more >>


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As much as you like a crowd huddled around admiring your new phone, it won't be necessary with AllShare® Play. Because now, you can play your music, videos and slide shows on any compatible HDTV or computer for all to see. Go big.
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Share Shot lets you share your photos with up to five friends – as you take them. What does this mean? You don't have to remember to share later; just share on the spot and forget it. Sharing has never been so much fun, so fast or so hassle-free. Learn more: The Next Big Thing Ads: 3 Great Camera Tricks.
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The Galaxy S III gives you powerful hardware and software. First of all, there's a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor to make sure everything works quickly and smoothly. Second of all, there's the Android™ 4.1, Jelly Bean platform. It's great for everything you need.
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NEW Brighton could become the first place in Wirral to have a "dog free beach". Wirral Council is currently weighing up whether dogs should be banned from the beach in a bid to keep the sands clean.
A report to the Wallasey constituency committee, which met on Thursday, sought funding for signs and consultation on the proposal, which has been put forward to "help deal with irresponsible dog ownership and provide a more comfortable space for families to enjoy".
If approved, pooches could be banned during summer months but the report said it is "not to demonise dogs or dog owners".
The report said: "Consideration will need to be given to the timescales involved to consult upon any proposed introduction of a Dog Control Order and the forthcoming replacement of this order within the Anti Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
"If designated, New Brighton would have the first 'Dog Free Beach' in Wirral."
It is understood that no decision will be made until consultation has taken place with all those concerned.
The dog ban is part of a wider plan to respond to issues at Marine Point and the surrounding area as a result of increased visitors and tourism.
It also hopes that bag dispensers will be issued to beach users to collect their rubbish while shops will be encouraged to use compostable food packaging products to reduce waste.
Plaques highlighting areas where fixed penalty notices can be issued would also be installed.
While the report sought permission to carry out a consultation on a Dog Control Order, a spokesman for Wirral Council said the committee "does not have the power" to do so.
The spokesman said: "Applications to designate dog free areas are required to go through due process and public consultation in line with the requirements of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005.
"The constituency committee does not have the power to approve such applications however the report does ask the committee to consider providing funding for consultation and signage if such a designation was granted by the council."


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This article was published 24/8/2012 (1819 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Joe Aiello was almost known as Joe Capone.
Back when the 46-year-old Winnipegger got into the radio business in the late 1980s, ethnic names such as Aiello weren't the norm. He had to fight to keep his Italian surname.
"It was from a lesson I learned from my grandfather about respecting your name. At that point in broadcasting, everything was so Anglo, like Joe Jones or Joe Johnson or Joe Smith. I don't look like any of those.
"I said, 'Look, I've got to have an Italian name.' "
Eventually, he was told, 'OK, Aiello is too soft sounding; how about Capone?'
"I still have some friends that bug me about that," Aiello says, laughing.
In the end, he was allowed to use his own name, but more often than not these days, he's known simply as Joe, one half of Tom and Joe, 92 CITI FM's popular morning-show team who have worked together for more than 18 years.
Aiello got into the radio business through sheer determination, hard work and stubbornness, qualities he says he learned from his family.
Aiello's great-grandfather was the first in the family to plant roots in Winnipeg, emigrating here from Amato in the Calabria region of Italy more than 100 years ago.
The family travelled back and forth between the old land and the new land. Aiello's dad came to the city as a 13-year-old and stayed, eventually buying a house on Beverley Street when he was 19, before moving to Clifton Street when Joe was five.
The West End of Aiello's youth was a melting pot of ethnic backgrounds with a large presence of Italian-, Portuguese- and Filipino-Canadians.
The area is still home to a diverse demographic, including Aiello's father, who lives in the same house, because "you can't move a garden," Aiello says.
"I used to joke that Italian kids could never become professional hockey players because any time we would have a hockey stick, our dads would cut the blades off and use them to mark the tomato plants," he says.
Aiello studied to be a teacher at the University of Winnipeg, but his heart was always in radio.
"I remember as a kid, basically using a wooden spoon or some other facility to pretend talking into. It was something I was fixated on, just listening to voices on radio," he says.
Aiello volunteered at the U of W's campus station, CKUW, and his lack of formal broadcast training didn't hold him back much. He camped out in the lobby of 58 CKY every second day for two months, demanding to be interviewed. Finally, it worked.
"I guess they figured, this kid is really whacked or he really wants to work here, so they ended up hiring me part-time. Six months later, I ended up with my first full-time job, producing Ron Able's morning show," says a smiling Aiello, a humble man with a self-deprecating wit.
He got a big break when he landed a spot as the announcer for WFWA All Pro Wrestling on CKY television. That led to an audition with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in Stamford, Conn.
He was hired by WWE owner Vince McMahon and was all set to move to the United States, but before his visa arrived, he was offered his own radio show.
Dream come true. He took the Winnipeg gig on 97.5 FM.
"I went from being a jack-of-all-trades guy to turning down an offer in the States because all I ever wanted was my own radio show," he said.
The Joe Show started in 1992 and lasted two years, until he got the call from Tom McGouran, leading to the famed duo of Tom and Joe.
He donates hours and hours of his time to worthy causes in the city. Sons of Italy, a philanthropic group for men of Italian heritage, estimates Aiello gives his time to about 250 charitable events a year.
And Aiello doesn't just spread the word: He MCs events, collects prizes, hosts golf tournaments and wine nights and operates an endowment fund for palliative care at the St. Boniface Hospital, where his wife and mother worked.
"I'm just lucky enough I have a voice and get a chance to do what I love doing. I figured about 15, 20 years ago, when my mother first got sick, or when my wife got sick for the first time, that to get the word out to a lot of people quick, maybe I could make a difference. I operate by the motto 'We can make a difference' because we can, and really, it's as simple as that."
He was recently honoured with the Professional of the Year Award from the Canadian Italian Business Professional Association.
Last year, following the death of his wife of 18 years, Alanna, he and co-workers at CITI FM held a radio-thon for CancerCare Manitoba and raised $175,000.
"It was obviously a bittersweet highlight, but one nonetheless. It was amazing to see the province come together," he says.
It's that kind of spirit and generosity that makes him love the city and has kept him here despite opportunities and job offers that would have taken him away.
Remember, you can't move a garden.


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My first ever flash game woohoo
Yeah so this is a shameless plug. Some of you may remember me as hariseldon from the unofficial Minecraft server (in which case please ignore my prior knobbishness, but focus on the gigantic penis that I built there). Anyway, I was bored and thought I'd learn flash, and this was what happened.
It's a little rough around the edges in places and I need to get a working high score table sorted but otherwise it should be a decent crack. It's only 50k-ish so nice and small, won't work your PC too hard.
You are a panda. A skint panda. Evil giant bees have enslaved the earth and crave the meat of sheep. You are going to herd the sheep to the bees to get coins. Simples. The panda is controlled by clicking where you want him to go (hold the button down). Avoid getting stung as those bees do love a good bit of robbery.
I got to around 6000 but then I suck at my own game.
- On some linux machines the fonts disappear. I fixed it by downloading the latest flash from adobe. No idea why that would cause a problem.
Hope you guys enjoy yourselves, and feel free to suggest improvements or tell me it sucks arse.
This doesn't make any sense but it's pretty cool I guess.
Make more.
This game made little sense but I still enjoyed it :)
I want more games with the skint panda as the protagonist!
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Had a few bugs - first time around, hitting "play" did nothing (needs a preloader? They're really easy to make). After a refresh it worked fine, but at the end it went weird and the play again button didn't work.
Both holding down the mouse to move and clicking the coins to collect made for a kinda weird mechanic. Maybe make the panda have to pick up the coins instead? The sheep also tended to get stacked up along the edge and awkward to get away from them - perhaps the sheep could wander a little?
Anyway, works pretty well and a potentially interesting mechanic involved. Wasn't quite so great that I felt like playing multiple rounds though.
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Thanks for the feedback so far, especially the specificness (is that a word?) from CMaster (just the kind of info a dev needs!).
- The play button not working.. was the text also missing? That might account for the problem, as I've had a bit of trouble with it not working on my linux box in that way. Still trying to figure out what on earth's causing it. Didn't think to put a pre-loader on a 50k file but perhaps my hosting sucks. I'll look into adding one.
- The coins were a later addition (in the original JQuery version the points were just immediately racked up for a sting). Part of the reasoning behind it was the collection of Sunshine in Plants Vs Zombies, it added a bit of frenetic pace to the thing, and I felt that before that point the game was a little lacking in freneticness (again is that a word?). I'll look into other ways to collect them though, could add to the challenge having the panda do the work if he's also avoiding bees and herding sheep.
- Stacking sheep. Hmm I tried getting around that by having the panda in a larger bounding box than the sheep, such that you could easily herd them away from the edges, obviously not quite enough. The sheep will run away from the panda in the exact 180 degree opposite direction, so if the panda is more often in the middle that might account for it (perhaps I failed to account for likely player behaviour there). I think you're probably right that some wandering would be good (and add to the challenge, perhaps copying the random bee wandering routine (btw in the JQuery version this caused me nightmares, buggers kept running for the corners or going in circles) a bit when they're not being herded. I might also want to reduce the fear zone a little so they spend less time running away.
- Play Again - I could have sworn I removed the button for that (bloody thing kept screwing up, getting the movie reset is proving something of a pig).
- Making Sense - I figured that as games involving bears driving and veloceraptors are often posted here I'd be ok on that score!
- Panda - The original I made in JQuery had a Gazelle, but it didn't feel right. Plus I can't draw for crap, only the panda was really anything vaguely recognisable!
Anyway, lots to chew on, I'll have a think on how I can improve things.
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Oh, and we use the word specificity in science. Not sure if its applicable to this kind of thing though.
Hmm, OED says yes:
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Actually a fair bit of work went into preventing clumping. Each sheep is given a different (random, within parameters defined by the level) speed and acceleration, which should in theory separate them reasonably well. This is also done with the bees. Might be an idea to have some wobble, ie +-5 degrees random misalignment on their direction of travel.
I'll probably work in a few tweaks over the next few days to fix the main issues (I suspect smaller animals might help as well) and then go off and learn a whole bunch more actionscript. I literally knew none until about 3 days ago (I'm primarily a PHP/SQL/HTML/CSS/JS man) so it's been educational if nothing else! Will definitely post stuff here though, had much more useful feedback (ie what was wrong rather than "it's good/it's ok/it's crap") than I expected, and strangely better than the tigsource forums which I figured would be a really useful place to get feedback.
I'll whack that pre-loader on soon as I learn how (I didn't get that far, just dived right into the coding) and I'm actually pretty much in agreement on having the panda collect the coins as it'll mean more hazard (avoiding the bees).
Btw I now really hate trigonometry! It's not difficult, but it is annoying, especially when dealing with sodding radians. Anyway, off to learn more stuff when I should be sunbathing!
Specificity.. I'll use that, my word of the day :)
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Over the weekend I was in the store and found a couple of pork chops that'd been stuffed vertically instead of horizontally, as if the loin had been butterflied, stuffed, rolled, and then sliced, so last night I seasoned them with fine sea salt and fresh pepper and then rubbed them with a little olive oil. To cook I seared them for 3-4 minutes per side over Duraflame briquettes and them let them finish indirect while I cooked the vegetables direct.
The chops turned out much better than the horizontally-stuffed ones I've tried to grill in the past. The meat was done all the way through and the stuffing (just regular Brownberry/Pepperidge Farm cubes) on the outside got a nice crust and picked up some flavor from the charcoal.
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I recently had the distinct opportunity to photograph a group of 36 business women from Princeton for a magazine assignment.
This was, to say the least, an intense endeavor. Setting up a photo shoot involving 10 people can be difficult ... let alone 36.
The key to a successful group shot is making sure every one is lined up evenly and every person's face can easily be seen by the viewer. Because this certain photo was for a full-page magazine ad, it was extra critical to specifically get every face perfectly in the shot.
On the morning of the shoot, I got to the location feeling overwhelmed with such a large group of woman – I had originally expected a maximum of 18 heads in the shot. While panic swept over me, it immediately was followed by a sense of pride for the entrepreneurial woman in my community.
What a great opportunity these woman received in order to better showcase what a powerful and professional business scene Princeton has built.
To me, this victorious gathering showed much more than just 36 smiling women standing side-by-side. It provided proof the Princeton business community is full of talented, strong-willed and respectful woman.
When I tell people today there were 36 women who gathered for the photo, the common reaction is that they had no idea Princeton even had that many businesses.
I want to personally thank all those women who showed up that morning and taking the time out of their busy schedules to help highlight what Princeton is made of. To me, I think my community has much more to offer than a lot of people are led to believe.
Before I started photographing the women, I took a step back to make sure everyone's face would shine through in the shot. Of course, there were a couple faces hidden in back, so I spent a couple minutes rearranging the women to make the photo look its best.
I heard several conversations and comments come from the women when I began doing this, and what an impression it made on me! I learned a lot from those comments. When I was finally confident enough that every women could be seen, I began shooting.
In the end, it felt worth the extra time to make sure everyone had looked their best. The end result turned out brilliant. I know all those women in that photo will be satisfied with the layout.
After the shoot, I stayed behind and watched the women scamper off in every direction. Their faces all told the story they still had a million things to do that day and a million appointments to make. They are our downtown working force, but what a significant couple minutes I got to spend with these women!
I was thankful everyone had stayed patient and were understanding of the time involved in getting that picture-perfect shot.
When the magazine hits the stands and people begin flipping through the pages, they are going to see that full-page ad and recognize the effort and organization involved in gathering all those Princeton women. I want to thank our Chamber director for that one.
I'm sure some will talk about the women in the shot and most will get a sense of the strong community pride that shines through our downtown. Perhaps seeing 36 friendly, smiling faces will entice people to check-out why it's so great to be a businesswoman in Princeton.
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When exchange rate fluctuations and rising input costs are taken into account, the value of Chilean fruit crops has fallen substantially in the past nine years, according to a new report.
But it isn't significantly affecting exports to the U.S.
In Decline in Chile's Agriculture Sector, published June 3, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service measures Chilean growers' competitiveness vs. producers in other countries.
"The fruit sector suffers the most from the loss of competitiveness," according to the report. "The past nine years have seen a cumulative decrease of 55%, with a staggering drop of 16% in the 2012 harvest."
That "decrease" measures the value of crops to growers when other factors like exchange rate and higher labor costs are added to the equation, FAS officials said.
"The challenge for Chilean farmers is that they're selling their fruit and receiving dollars, which are low against the Chilean peso," said Rachel Bickford, an official in FAS's Santiago office. "Meanwhile, all their input costs are in pesos: labor, water, very expensive electricity (and others)."
According to the report, labor costs have risen 88% in the past decade.
As for the effect on volumes of Chilean fruit shipped to the U.S., Karen Brux, managing director of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, San Carlos, Calif., said that while volumes have been lower this season, Mother Nature, not economics, is the main culprit.
"It's clear that weather conditions had a negative impact on volume this past season, but shipped volumes to North America have been very robust throughout the past several years," she said.
Through Chilean Citrus Committee, the Chilean Blueberry Committee and other Chilean fruit marketing efforts, volumes of many exported commodities are growing, Brux said.
About 705,000 tons of Chilean fruit had been exported to the U.S. in the 2012-13 season through June 11, according to the Chilean Export Association. About 864,000 tons were exported in 2011-12, but that was up slightly from the 2010-11 total.


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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
The Survival Code
How you can crack your Survival Code and save yourself a life of wasted time, energy and stress.
Most of your time is taken up consciously with everyday things which must get done. You are distracted constantly away from those things you are good at and the things that would change your life into the success you want it to be.
You are overrun with conscious input, most of which you'll try to block out anyway. So your subconscious has the job of collecting all the other stuff you don't want to know about consciously and process it into some usable form.
To do this your subconscious categorizes all the input you experience (even if you are not consciously aware of it) and attempts to use it where it can and store it where it can't. It can be acting on information you are not consciously aware of. In fact, it does this most of the time.
The more you use the subconscious this way the more you invite its other activities to become stronger as well. You mostly do not know what they are either so; how much of your life is the way you consciously want it to be?
Pay attention! This is critical information for you to understand your life!!
There are some things you have to know about your subconscious!
· The subconscious runs most of what you do
· It pays close attention to what your genes are telling it
· It must survive and reproduce
· It always does the best it can to help you be better
· It can only use what it has, not what you wish it had
· If you don't tell it what you want in the way it understands it will use what it has
· It is literal and tries to make everything simple
· It will take action before you even know there is a problem
The most important of these for our discussion now is that the subconscious must survive,
because it wants you to survive. You die, it dies.
For it to survive it has created what I call a 'Survival Code'.
This is a mixture of genetic references and the learned behaviors you develop through your life events and experiences.
I can hear you say, "It's good to survive isn't it?"
And the answer is: "You have already survived! You can stop doing that now and do what your survival was preparing you for – Living!!!"
Too much of your life is spent on surviving at a subconscious level while life and the things you want slip away from you, without even noticing till it's too late.
The Survival Code is like having two full-time jobs.
One is to survive and mobilize all the resources needed to make that survival successful, while at the same time you have a life to lead with its own demands and pressures. If you had two full-time jobs, you would be dead in a week. Yet in fact, we all have two jobs to do and some people will tell you they feel they have more than two.
The big challenge is that while we are doing survival, we cannot do many other things. The resources you use up doing survival are no longer available for the things you want in life.
Why is it a Code?
The subconscious has formed a 'recipe' of all the main components of the events that were threatening to you at some time in life. The more threatening the event, the more components of that event get put into your library of "Survival Facts".
You have different 'Facts' you use to know when you are under threat. The problem is, you don't know consciously which are survival facts and which are just memories. You could start remembering some event and end up getting really stressed from just remembering a threatening event. The event is not here and now but your subconscious starts to react to it as if it was real and now.
Your resources are mobilized to survive the threat via a genetic based reaction called the
Fight-Flight-Faint response. This is how you survive based on your own experience.
The command to survive is a standing (ongoing) order from the genes.
While you are doing Flight-Fight-Faint response you are preoccupied and cannot put 100% attention to what you want to be doing.
The Survival Code guarantees you will focus on survival regardless of anything else you are doing or want to do. Even this by itself is still something you can overcome, but when you make this genetic based survival response a Habit, you lose the game!
Everyone has a different code but they are all built the same way by the genes. The genetic information is at the base of the code so you need to rewrite the code in a way the subconscious thinks comes from the genes. We have some cools ways to do that.
It is a mixture of a genetic based reaction to threat and the information you have accumulated over time to build up your 'Facts' of survival.
Crack the code and you set yourself free.
You rewrite the code by changing your neurological reactions to stress while consciously directing your attention to 'Changing the Facts'.
One of the assumptions you make about any fact,
is that that are real and unchangeable.
That, in neurological terms, is untrue. You can replace or associate new Facts with any life experience. It then becomes crucial for the change process to be accepted, that the way you make the new associations must be recognizable by the subconscious as a valid genetic process. You can do just that and I will show you how in this book.
The Facts are usually life events that you did not like or that were not good for your natural development. When a young baby is taken away from its mother, it will become more and more distressed until something tells it "You could die". The response will become stronger over time and the code becomes stronger.
Meet your best friend - Your Nervous System.
Your Nervous System has connections to every part of who you are and can respond to any stimulus. It constantly monitors changes and is connected to systems that can be used to read those changes.
It can be used as a feedback tool to know when you are heading in the right direction with the change process and indicate when a change of action is needed. It's like having a spy inside the subconscious that will tell information if you push the right button.
Using the Nervous System to monitor cracking the Survival Code, we have to also look at the Brain.
The brain is a mixture of Nervous System, Mind and Genetics all in one integrated package.
If someone gave you one hundred million neurons and said, "Here, go design a Brain."
What would you do? You certainly could not reproduce what you use now and even scientists who make it their job to know how it works, still don't understand everything it can do.
But the subconscious does!
The brain is made of various divisions that seem to compete for the 'user rights' to lots of different types of information. It is alive and not unlike a muscle, in that if you don't use it, some of its functions are sacrificed so the activity you are practicing can become better.
The two sides of the brain have learned to develop certain functions different to each other. They attempt to coordinate as much as possible but when the Survival Code is activated only the left hemisphere initiates actions. Some parts of the brain are activated to help the survival take place while other parts are inhibited, either so they can't interfere or it is not economical to have them running when survival seems more important.
There is a very specific action the brain takes when the Survival Code is activated. It firstly slows done your 'Corpus Callosum', the connecting bridge between the two hemispheres by changing the chemistry of the area. Secondly it shuts down other 'unwanted' activities and thirdly it preserves energy for the survival rather than thinking of planning.
Let's face it. If you are about to be eaten by a dinosaur you don't need the part required for future planning to take over and create a conversation with the animal to convince it that "maybe eating you isn't such a good idea in the long term".
A lot of blood is mobilized into the muscles of your body to fight or flight, while some parts of the brain remain empty other parts are needed to control the fight flight process.
Even though this is an ancient survival action it has been evolved to be the most efficient. So when you see the dinosaur you immediately activate your Survival Code which sets in place a series of neurological events that try to keep you alive.
Well it's pretty easy to see how surviving a dinosaur could be necessary, but what about all the other things you need to survive?. Some are inherited because of the nature of the evolution of the survival mechanism, but most are collected experiences that you have been through and that your nervous system has learned about.
These learned 'FACTS' are stored in your 'Survival Code' and used to alert the Fight-Flight mechanism to activate. The code is unique to each individual and yet uses the same genetic responses to act out its primary need – survival.
What if there is a 'Fact' in your code that says "TAXATION". Then anything you associate with taxation can start up the Survival Code and your subconscious immediately goes into survival mode. The dinosaur you could run from or fight but what do you do with a letter from the taxation dept. Do you fight it? Run from it? Pretend it's not there (the modern version of 'faint'). None of these options make the threat go away.
So now you have a survival mechanism in action but no way for it to be effective. Therefore less chance to turn it off again. Usually the survival mechanism will reset after a good fight or run and the hormones and blood changes that take place during the survival activity are put back ready to survive the next threat.
It could be worse!
Another thing to consider is that if the mechanism is not reset, it becomes a constant action that is never turned off. This means that you are on alert all the time for ANYTHING that may be associated with any type of threat.
Now the subconscious is constantly looking for what the threat may be because its Survival Code is still activated. Anything can now become the focus of the survival response. The effect of this is commonly seen as 'stress'. Even just asking someone how they are today out of courtesy, may be met with an angry response.
Stress reactions are a signal that the Survival Code is active and needs to be reset.
Until its reset, you will continue to be stressed and reactive.
If allowed to continue, this situation can and will create more problems than need to be there.
The solution is inside you
The subconscious is so adaptable that you can use it to tell you what it needs via the nervous system. By using the systems connected to the Nervous System we have been able to find ways of associating new and better options to what your subconscious thinks it knows. Adding new information into the subconscious this way means you have control over what you rewrite and the process of how you do it ensures the subconscious sees it as important as the old 'Code'.
That means you can reset the code and even better, rewrite its content so that no further stress reactions take place unless your life really is threatened.
By doing this, your brain can maintain many of the functions that would otherwise be turned off and use them to create new options to what before seemed like an impossible situation. These parts of the brain are needed to input new information into the Survival Code to eliminate unnecessary information that has found its way into the Code.
It's like being able to do a spring clean of the subconscious so it can focus on what you want rather than on what you don't want.
Andrew Verity
PS. Watch for solutions to retraining your Nervous System in Stress Relief Strategies Revealed book from Neuro-Training.com