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This was always going to be a difficult trip for Sutton taking on the might of a basically professional Jersey side containing Tongan international Talite Vaioleti and a host of other players bought in from National Division One.
It is a credit to Sutton's spirit and defensive organisation that the score did not reach cricket proportions.
The home forwards starved Sutton of any possession turning the Sutton team into a bunch of Aunt Sallys defending against everything Jersey threw at them.
Sutton defended like the 300 Spartans with Captain Steve Munford and vice captain flanker Steve Ebbett at the fore, each putting in well over 20 tackles in the match but like the Spartans they were eventually overwhelmed.
Sutton kicked off and what was to become a pattern in the match saw Jersey second row Jim Brownrigg take the ball cleanly despite the attentions of the chasing Sutton pack and set his backs away.
Play moved swiftly into the Sutton 22 where the visitors were penalised for going over the top at a ruck.
Fortunately for Sutton Jersey's full back Mike Le Bourgeios missed the posts. Sutton's luck held when shortly after this the Jersy full back Tom Turner missed a simple drop goal attempt.
Sutton were constantly on the back foot as Jersey unleashed wave after wave of attacks which Sutton defended manfully, their cause not being helped by the loss of flanker Scott Wallbank with a calf injury after 10 minutes. He was replaced by Chris Pointing.
The Jersey onslaught continued with Sutton unable, no matter how they tried to get their hands on the ball as Jersey's locks Brownrigg and Vaioleti dominated the lineouts and the Jersey pack cleaned up in tight and loose scrums.
Nevertheless Sutton's obdurate defence kept them scoreless until on 25 minutes a cross kick from full back Turner found left wing Ed Dawson in space. He gathered the ball and touched down under the posts.
Le Bougeois was successful with the conversion to give the home side a 7-0 lead.
The next score from a flowing move saw right wing Charlie Clyde-Smith squeeze in at the corner for an unconverted try.
At this stage it looked as if the floodgates would open but it was not until well into injury time at the break with Sutton's backs having been sucked into mid-field that Dawson found himself unmarked and scored wide on the left.
Le Bourgeios kicked the conversion for Jersey to lead 19-0 at the break.
There was no change in the second half with Jersey totally dominating possession and Sutton frantically defending.
Jersey went on to score 4 more tries, from flanker Ashley Elphinstone, centre Donovan Saunders, prop Marcus Nobes and replacement Jamie Allan. Le Bourgeois converted three.
Jersey very nearly scored again right at the end of the match, a score which would have put them past the 50 point mark when their hooker Ross Kenwright appeared clear for the line only to be bundled into touch inches short by Sutton's fly half Frankie Murray.
On Saturday Sutton are at home to local rivals Dorking, so far unbeaten this season, kick off 3pm at Rugby Lane, Cheam. Dorking will be eager to revenge their defeat at the hands of Sutton in last season's Surrey Cup Final.


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Blaze DS Beta 1 on Adobe Labs!
I'm not sure if the announcement of BlazeDS has quite sunk in yet, but with the open sourcing of BlazeDS this really does make many Flex applications that much easier to build.
For example, I'd really like people to see the community take advantage of the Proxy Service and to contribute to its functionality going forward.
The Proxy Service is often overlooked, but did you know that it provides the following capabilities?
1. It provides better REST functionality with support for HTTP 1.1 PUT, DELETE, HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS in addition to just GET and POST methods?
2. It provides access to non-UTF8 formatted text as the Proxy should be able to read in many more character set encodings – because it is Java based the stream will be converted into UCS-2 internally and then the Proxy will always format this data back to the Flash Player as UTF-8?
3. It allows 3rd party URLs to be aliased so that they do not have to be hard coded or exposed in your application (and Proxy destinations can also be locked down so that only authorized users can tunnel though to a 3rd party destination).
4. It provides a way to get back the response data even when the HTTP status code is not 200?
5. It provides a way to login to a 3rd party endpoint that issues a Basic Authentication challenge without exposing the pop-up to the end user (that is, you can build a custom Flex UI as a login form and set the remote credentials for the proxy to use in pre-authenticating to a 3rd party endpoint).
Also, there's more that could be done here. Features that I'd like to see in the future:
A. Restoring the ability to stream back binary data instead of just text data.
B. Multipart POST support.
C. Maybe further WEBDAV support?


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I have A570 IS and today I met with CHDK. I want to read e-book but when i save a file on A/CHDK/BOOKS folder. There is also a readme.txt file. I can read readme file that written in wordpad but i also want to read texts written in Microsoft Word and PDF's. Is it possible? Because i tried but i couldn't. And also cannot see other files although they are written in wordpad. Only possible way to read something is to delete the content of readme file and write something in it. Can you help me?
- no, the text file reader only displays text files. reyalp 00:04, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
- The CHDK text file reader can only work with plain text files, PDF is not possible. Put your text files in the \CHDK\BOOKS folder. When you save files with Wordpad, select 'Text file' as document format (not RTF), or better use Windows Notepad instead. You can place all your plain text files there, you can also put them into subfolders or on any other folder on the SD card, there's no limit. Fe50 00:15, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


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Topic: Shakes and Tremors since Ressection
I haven't been on this site for a good while and since my mother (age 65) was diagnosed last year, she has had the ressection, the chemo and radiation came later when she changed doctors. However, she has never been the same since, she has shakes and tremors uncontrollably now and she has dementia symptoms. Is this from the treatments, will she improve. I feel bad because my family and I are constantly depressed and want to help her and want to see some kind of improvement but it seems to be either one month it's sepsis or the next month another UTI. She is not improving. Emergency nurses have asked if she has Parkinsons. She is unsteady now when she walks. Is this what happens after ressection and treatment? Will she get better?


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This article was published 3/7/2013 (1509 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
NHL teams and their GMs have lost the power of the unknown in negotiations with their pending free agents.
From 11 p.m. Tuesday night to 11 a.m. Friday morning, representatives and unrestricted-free-agents-to-be will be the most informed people in the marketplace.
The NHL's new free agent "interview period," does guarantee teams like the Jets get to talk to the biggest fish in the market, but it also allows Winnipeg's pending UFAs to test the market and remove any speculation from their valuation.
The new CBA instituted an interview period where pending UFAs can talk to every team in the league prior to free agency opening. One agent called it, "tantamount to legalized tampering," and it gives the players a new edge.
Agents can shop their clients around the league and find out exactly what the market is for their player. They can then go back to the rightsholder and say, 'if you want to keep him, here's the price.'
Agents can also make verbal agreements with teams but cannot have their clients sign with a new team until after the opening bell on Friday.
"You can make verbal agreements but nothing is done until it's done," said former Tampa Bay Lightning GM and longtime agent Brian Lawton. "I can guarantee you there will be agents that say, 'Yeah, it's done at $4 million a year,' and then have Team B call them and say, 'we'll give you $6 million a year.' Then they'll go back and say, 'now it's six.' "
For the Winnipeg Jets, a team that has yet to develop the needed cachet that attracts high profile UFAs, it means potentially overpaying prior to the interview period in order to keep their own players.
The Jets signed defenceman Grant Clitsome late Tuesday night just prior to the opening of the interview period.
"The conversations with Grant and his agent have been ongoing for sometime. But as you get closer to a deadline you have to make some decisions. You look at what might potentially be out there and you forecast what that might cost and you look at what you have at home here and that's when we made the decision to go in this direction," said Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff.
The Jets signed Clitsome to a three-year deal worth $6.2 million. That's a little over $2 million per season for a player that was claimed off waivers two seasons ago.
Did the Jets overpay? That's subject to individual perspective but Clitsome did have leverage and his agent no doubt exercised it.
The Jets determined they didn't want Clitsome talking to anyone else, which comes at a price.
Clitsome likely wasn't going to get half a dozen offers but it only takes one to drive the price up.
Agents can now take the temperature of other teams and give their clients a clear and absolute picture of their value.
Representatives can take whatever offers they've been able to collect back to their client to pick the deal and city that suits them best. No more speculation.
Expiry date
Previously, players would have to go into an unknown market and hope there were offers for their services higher than the last made by their old team. Now, depending on the expiry date of the last offer made by their current club, they can put that deal in their pocket and go and try to do better.
The high-end UFA market is even less friendly to the Jets than it has ever been, in particular where players whose rights they own and want to retain are concerned.
The Jets must prevent their best players from getting to UFA status, making long-term deals for core players and restricted free agents such as Zach Bogosian, Bryan Little and Blake Wheeler invaluable.
Some will argue the Jets now have the chance to pitch their organization to the high-profile free agents with whom they previously didn't a chance to talk.
"This will allow time for people to review and give everyone a chance to get in their offer," said Lawton. "Before, if you weren't cheating and I don't think a lot of people were cheating but some definitely were, there were a lot of teams that were not getting an opportunity to present. This will allow everyone the ability to do that. You won't be able to go back to your owner and say, 'I never even got to talk to the damn guy. He's already signed with such-and-such."
Sure, and this will help the Jets if they ever add the lustre of being a contender to their sales package. But right now it's really only a courtesy listen. The Jets just aren't a top-end destination right now and the elite players with multiple choices aren't coming here.
"Players have in their own mind, and I know this having represented players, a vision of where they are going to go before they even talk to anybody," said Lawton. "The better-weather places, teams that are well run and have won, they will still have the advantage. But everyone will get to bid."
Someday this new wrinkle will perhaps work to the Jets' advantage but in the here and now it puts them at a disadvantage where prized UFAs are concerned.
The best UFAs are only going to cost more and have their choice of where to collect their cash going forward.
All of this underscores Cheveldayoff's mantra of draft, develop and retain even more.
The UFA market may be just heating up, but it's the RFA market the Jets must hit their home runs in.
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Continuing a relationship between Porsche and Volkswagen that goes back to the first Beetle, the 2011 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid shares a lot of DNA with the Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid, perhaps too much. The cars are built on the same platform, and get the same hybrid power train. The Cayenne S Hybrid looks like a Porsche, but is it different enough from the Volkswagen?
Two areas where the cars differ are suspension technology and cabin electronics, but the Porsche doesn't win in both categories. You would expect a Porsche, even a Cayenne Hybrid, to have superior handling, and it does, feeling light on its wheels as it slips through corners like a dancer.
But despite luxury cabin appointments such as a leather-wrapped dashboard, the Cayenne Hybrid's electronics are somewhat mixed, lacking a unified Porsche identity and seeming shoehorned into the dashboard. Porsche's reliance on Volkswagen for its navigation software further obscures the distinction between the two cars.
Stealth hybrid
Maintaining a quiet elegance, the Cayenne Hybrid takes no great pains to advertise green-ness. The only indication of its electrification is a small hybrid badge, in cursive Porsche script, adorning the fenders. The back of the car proclaims something much different, sporting big, dual tailpipes.
Those style cues point out that the hybrid system in this car is really more about achieving power, with only a modicum of extra fuel economy. The EPA rates the Cayenne Hybrid at 20 mpg city and 24 mpg highway, not dramatically high numbers, although a decent step up from its brethren, which show city numbers in the midteens. In a course of city, freeway, and mountain driving, CNET's review car turned in a solid 21 mpg.
That sort of mileage isn't bad, considering the Cayenne Hybrid's power. Porsche slips an S into its model name, which is wholly deserved. The 3-liter direct injection, supercharged V-6, combined with the electric motor, push horsepower up to 380, while torque comes in at a whopping 427 pound-feet. That gets the Cayenne Hybrid to 60 mph in 6.1 seconds, according to Porsche, just a half second slower than the V-8-powered Cayenne S.
Behind the wheel, the Cayenne Hybrid steps lively, a mashed accelerator delivering thrilling, and smooth, acceleration. Amid the mass of buttons on the center console, one labeled Sport makes the throttle more sensitive, putting power more quickly on tap.
But next to the Sport button sits one labeled E-Power, this button making the Cayenne Hybrid remain in EV mode as long as the electricity in its 288-volt nickel metal hydride battery pack holds out. The Cayenne Hybrid takes advantage of this electric power reserve to shut its engine down at stoplights, accelerate at low speeds using its electric motor, and do what Porsche calls "sailing" when coasting on the highway.
In that last mode, the engine shuts down at speeds up to 99 mph when you take your foot off the accelerator. A little bit of accelerator pedal in this mode, and the engine will stay off, the electric motor giving it the boost called for. But it is next to impossible to maintain freeway speeds on a level road in EV mode, and ascents will definitely require the gas engine to kick in. Drivers will have to get used to seeing the tach needle bounce up and down as the engine turns on and off.
With Sport mode off, the transmission reaches for its highest reasonable gear, keeping the engine humming below 2,000rpm to save gas. With eight gears to choose from, this transmission has an easy time finding its more efficient ratio.
In Sport mode and driving aggressively, fourth is often the power gear for the corners. Nicely molded paddles on the steering-wheel spokes control manual gear selection, but manual gear changes take place with the typical hesitation of a torque converter. If Porsche had really wanted to differentiate this car's performance from the Touareg Hybrid, it could have opted for a more sport-oriented transmission.
But Porsche put more effort into the Cayenne Hybrid's handling. The car may seem to be cruising through the turns, but a glance down at the accelerator shows it doubling recommended speeds with no strain. Inside-wheel braking, an electronic cornering technology that lightly brakes the inside wheel in a turn, helps the Cayenne Hybrid negotiate the curves.
All-wheel drive also lends a hand, as it vectors torque across the rear axle to twist the outside wheel a little harder. With these technologies, the Cayenne Hybrid takes the turns almost too easily; it doesn't feel like a down and dirty canyon carver. Contributing to this feeling is the steering wheel, which turns too easily, lacking engagement with the road. Porsche seems to have tuned the power steering for a luxury feel.


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Last week we posted a recipe for the classic Hemingway Daiquiri to celebrate National Daiquiri Day. This week a group of bartenders in Cuba mixed 270 liters of the late author's favorite rum cocktail in a 6 1/2-foot glass, attempting to set the world record for largest daiquiri. It looks like our Thirsty Thursday column inspired history!
Whether or not they read our post, what they were actually up to was commemorating the 195th anniversary of the bar El Floridita in Havana, Cuba, where the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Old Man and the Sea enjoyed hitting back a few doubles after a long day of writing.
Here are some recipes for our most refreshing summer cocktails. Feel free to 2,000-tuple if you are looking to set some records of your own.
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New England Forests Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
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On Saturday, May 21, 2011 the Harvard Museum of Natural History opened the new Zofnass Family Gallery with the inaugural exhibition, New England Forests, a permanent multi-media exhibition that explores the natural history and ecology of our regional forests, their responses to human activity, and their environmental significance. Visitors are invited to explore the ecology of woodland caribou, wolves, and other wildlife of New England; learn about lichen cities that cling to rocks; and the circle of life within and around a forest pond from tiny tadpoles to giant moose. To complement the exhibition, the museum will offer a fall 2011 series of public lectures and symposia featuring Harvard faculty and other experts.
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n. one who leaches (extracts) knowledge from others by using his/her peers' memorized facts, experience, and/or skill set; and then taking credit for work completed based on that leached knowledge; if his/her peer/s does/do not respond right away, the Knowledge Leach Nazi finds fault in said peer usually cc'ing the manager, team-lead, or supervisor of the fact that said peer has not responded; a Knowledge Leach Nazi usually refrains from researching the facts beforehand and does not know what RTFM is; the Knowledge Leach Nazi knows he/she can simply force the knowledge from said peers either by intimidation, escalation to management, or sighting a time constraint for said peer to respond.
That guy is such a knowledge leach Nazi! Just the other day he wrote me a 12 page email asking for assistance on an install he fubar'ed, but when I didn't email him back within 30 minutes he forwarded the email to our manager claiming I wasn't being cooperative!
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 11/6/2013 (1531 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Remember the day the new couch got delivered, looking and smelling all perfect with not so much as a single butt crease anywhere to be seen?
Well, tonight at Investors Group Field is the night the plastic comes off and the dogs finally get let back into the house. And we already know the first place the dogs are going, don't we?
The dogs are jumping on the couch, of course, and that beautiful pristine piece of furniture is never again going to be quite as beautiful or pristine.
So the question tonight isn't whether the dogs are going to sleep on the couch when you're not looking -- you can take that to the bank. The question is are they going to soil it, too?
Are the 2013 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, in other words, going to respect and pay appropriate honour to their new $200-million home? Or are they going to mark it all up and foul it before the leather smell is even gone?
They're promising to be on their best behaviour.
"We can't scum up the place right away," says Winnipeg Blue Bombers centre Justin Sorensen. "We need to get off to a good start and live up to our surroundings."
In a city where seemingly everything that could happen has already happened, tonight will be a rare first as the principal tenants play their inaugural game in their new home at Investors Group Field.
The final score in tonight's pre-season game between the Toronto Argonauts and Blue Bombers is, of course, immaterial -- so much so that Bombers field boss Tim Burke revealed Tuesday he and Argos head coach Scott Milanovich have shared with each other this week some of the plays each will be using against the other tonight.
But if it's true first impressions are lasting ones and you only ever get one chance to make one, then tonight's game does count in other important ways that have to do with effort and respect and honouring the hardworking taxpayers of this province who put up $185 million of the money needed to build this team their new office.
And the Bombers players know it.
"There's going to be a lot of exciting times in this stadium over the years," the team's undisputed leader, QB Buck Pierce, offered following a light practice on Tuesday. "And we have an opportunity to start it off in the right way.
"We want to show our fans a great atmosphere and give them a great avenue to come watch a good football team play."
There wasn't much to see in that regard last year in the final season at the old Polo Park stadium -- or, more broadly, in recent years as fans watched the local pro football team miss the playoffs in three of the last four seasons.
That's not nearly good enough in a league where six of eight teams make the playoffs every season -- not for this beautiful new stadium, not even for the dump that was the old one.
And the Bombers players know that, too.
"I think with this stadium and just the way we ended the season last year," ventured cornerback Jovon Johnson, "I think we've got a lot to prove.
"And the stadium is added incentive for us to go out and be successful."
If ever there was an organization in need of a complete reset, it would look like this one. Toss out what is increasingly looking like an aberration in 2011 when Winnipeg won the East and you have an organization in the Bombers that has looked a lot like malaise has set in.
With a Grey Cup drought now in its 23rd year and playoffs being the exception rather than the rule in these parts, this is an outfit that needed someone to fire up the paddles and get some bounce back in that flatline.
Can a new stadium all by itself do that? No, not anymore than firing the head coach last season did. Some new talent would probably also help, but that's in short supply this summer after yet another mostly stand-pat off-season by GM Joe Mack.
But if 2011 and the Summer of Swaggerville proved anything, it's that this particular bunch of pro athletes can play at a frenzied level when they're excited and the fans are excited for them.
There's nothing quite like a completely fresh start to rekindle enthusiasm. And the Bombers and their fans will certainly get a very special one tonight, the likes of which comes along only once a generation in this town.
Enjoy. And please, use the coasters.


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Flex: where we are headed
by Andrew Shorten
作者: 安德鲁.硕盾
Created August 25, 2011
It has been about three months since we shipped Flex 4.5 SDK and a corresponding update to Flash Builder, in which we delivered exciting new capabilities to build and deploy applications for Google Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry Tablet OS platforms. The feedback on the release has been fantastic – with customers blown away that they can leverage one tool, one framework and one codebase to deliver apps across leading mobile platforms, not to mention web and desktop as well.
三个月前我们发布了Flex 4.5 SDK与相应的Flash Builder更新,提供了很High的新功能:支持在谷歌Android、苹果iOS和黑莓平板平台上,开发部署Flash程序。市场反馈非常积极 – 客户交口称赞:一个工具,一个框架和一套代码,就可以跨多个流行的移动平台开发应用,而且还支持网页Flash和桌面AIR程序。
Since then the product team has been heads-down working on our future plans for Flex SDK and Flash Builder, and although we're not quite ready to share all the details, we wanted to provide you with some insight into what we're focusing on, and where we expect to make investments going forward.
发布之后,Adobe的Flash团队就开始紧锣密鼓的计划未来版本的Flex SDK和Flash Builder。尽管尚未敲定所有细节,我们还是希望向大家提前介绍一些未来的新功能,和Flex的发展方向。
Investing in Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player and AIR
继续开发Flex,Flash Builder,FlashPlayer和AIR
Adobe is continuing to make significant investments in Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player and AIR – we have hundreds of engineers who are actively working on exciting new tooling, framework and runtime features and enhancements to be included in upcoming releases.
Adobe将继续坚定不移的开发Flex,Flash Builder,Flash Player和AIR – 数百Adobe工程师正热火朝天的为下一版本Flash开发超赞的新工具,新框架和新的运行时功能,这场面我们Hold住了!
Our teams are currently working on a free update to Flex SDK and Flash Builder for release later this year that will further demonstrate our commitment to delivering a complete solution for building and deploying mobile applications to multiple platforms.
Beyond this update we're already working to deliver our nextmajor releases.
Recognizing the role of Flex has changed
Since its inception, Flex has been highly leveraged as a leading solution for building "rich Internet applications"– potentially applicable wherever a rich, expressive and engaging user experience delivered via the browser was required. We've seen product configurators, e-commerce sites, games, e-learning experiences, banking services, business dashboards, photo editors, audio/video channels, productivity tools, line-of-business applications and more, all built with Flex.
Flex一直是开发RIA程序的先进解决方案 – 也适合需要多媒体,具有丰富表现力和吸引力的用户体验的网页应用。我们已看到大量实例:程序配置,电子商务网站,游戏,电子学习体验,银行服务,业务监控,照片编辑,音频/视频,辅助工具,业务运作支撑系统,……,全部使用Flex构建。
We're at a point now where it is incumbent upon us to focus on where Flex provides unique value in the marketplace.
There are countless examples where, in the past, Flex was (rightly) selected as the only way to deliver a great user experience. Today, many of those could be built using HTML5-related technologies and delivered via the browser, and at Adobe, we will provide tooling to help designers and developers create those experiences – Edge and Muse are two such examples.
无数的例子已证明,过去几年中,Flex是提供出色的用户体验的一哥。今天,其中许多功能可以用HTML5开发,显示在浏览器中。Adobe将提供新工具来帮助设计人员和开发人员创建HTML5体验 – Adobe的新产品Edge和Muse就是其中之二。
That doesn't mean however that HTML5 is the right choice for all use cases – the performance, framework maturity and robust tooling provided by Adobe are sighted as critical factors by enterprise customers as to why they continue to select Flex.
然而这并不意味HTML5在任何情况都是最佳选择 – Adobe的Flex所提供的高性能、成熟框架、强大的开发工具同样是企业客户技术选型的关键,很多企业继续选择Flex。
We firmly believe that Flex is already the best technology for building complex, high fidelity enterprise applications such as business dashboards, line of business tools, real time trading applications and desktop replacement applications, and see leading healthcare, financial services, telco, etc companies standardizing on it. We will continue to heavily invest in strengthening Flex for enterprise use, ensuring that you can deliver expressive, robust applications. As we share more details about our upcoming releases, you'll see our commitment to tackle areas such as Spark component completion, accessibility, build system integration, performance analysis tooling and integration of a next-generation compiler, making Flex the #1 choice for building enterprise-grade RIAs.
Mobile – the next big thing for Flex
But we're not just investing in the enterprise. The explosion of mobile devices has opened new doors for end users, enterprise organizations and developers, while at the same time introducing a new set of development challenges. As you've already seen with Flex 4.5, we are making big strides in providing developers with a single framework for building and deploying mobile applications to a range of different devices and platforms.
Adobe不只是支持企业程序。移动设备的迅猛发展已经为最终用户、企业组织和开发人员提供了新的机会,同时也伴随着新的技术挑战。正如你在Flex 4.5中看到的重大改进:我们为开发人员提供一个普适的单一移动开发框架,支持一系列不同的设备和平台。
We're continuing to focus on runtime performance, native extensions, new components, declarative skinning, adding more platforms and improving tooling workflows, such that in our next major release timeframe we expect that the need to build a fully-native application will be reserved for a small number of use cases.
The growth of the mobile market and the challenge of building out applications that work on a range of different form-factors and platforms present us with a huge opportunity to expose Flex to an entirely new audience of developers, while continuing to be relevant for existing Flex developers who are extending their applications to mobile.
The perception of "Flash"
All of this is no good of course if there are misperceptions or lack of awareness about what Flex (and more broadly Adobe) offers for Enterprise and Mobile application development. With all the FUD about Flash that has been in the marketplace over the past many months, we are highly focused on demonstrating just what Flex is capable of, both in the enterprise and for mobile app development.
On the enterprise side, we're continuing to build meaningful relationships with large organizations as we introduce them to Adobe's Customer Experience Management(CEM) solutions. Flex is a core part of our CEM technology offering and the dialog we're having with customers allows us to intelligently position Flex, Flash Builder and our runtimes as a way for them to deliver exceptional customer interaction through rich Internet applications and easy-to-use interfaces on web, desktops, tablets and mobiles (including Apple iOS devices).
在企业方面,Adobe继续与大型组织合作。我们向他们介绍Adobe的客户体验管理(Customer Experience Management)解决方案。 Flex是我们CEM技术的核心,我们向客户介绍了Flex技术的市场定位。Flex, Flash Builder和Flash运行时可以帮助客户提供卓越的客户互动:RIA程序,简单易用的Web界面,桌面程序,平板电脑和移动设备(包括苹果iOS设备)。
For mobile, while we're relatively new to the market we've already seen a great response to our offering – trial downloads of Flash Builder are higher than they've ever been before and we've already seen hundreds of mobile apps built and deployed to app stores, including several applications that top their category in the Apple App Store. As we roll out additional mobile development capabilities later this year, you can look forward to seeing stronger mobile-focused developer marketing from Adobe, including a series of case studies that highlight the success customers are having with Flex.
移动市场方面,虽然Adobe进入市场时间不长,已有对产品的大量积极反馈 – Flash Builder试用版下载数量再创历史新高。已有数百个Flash移动程序在应用商店出售,包括在苹果的应用商店里面的几个热门程序。在年底推出的新的Flex更新中,我们会看到Adobe在移动开发方面变得更加强大。包括一系列的Flex客户成功案例的介绍。
We're excited to be working on the next-generation of Flex and look forward to getting continued feedback and input from both new and experienced Flex developers. Be sure to register for Adobe MAX, October 1-4 in Los Angeles, to learn more about our Flex roadmap.
开发下一代的Flex非常令人激动。Adobe一贯重视用户的反馈和建议,不管你是菜鸟还是老鸟。请关注Adobe MAX大会, 10月1-4日,美国洛杉矶,其间你可了解更多Adobe的Flex,有木有!


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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team is not only one of just five times nationally that is unbeaten and untied; the Quakers are also the only team not to have allowed a goal. Both of those streaks are on the line this weekend, as Penn makes its first true road trip of the season to Virginia. Penn is at William & Mary on Friday night at 7 p.m., and then plays at Old Dominion on Sunday in a 1 p.m. kickoff.
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The Series with William & Mary
The Quakers and the Tribe have met only twice in women's soccer, and not since 2001. That match ended in a 0-0 draw. The first meeting took place in 1996, with William & Mary rolling to an 8-1 victory. Every match between these teams has taken place in Williamsburg, Va.
About W&M
The Tribe (3-1-2) defeated Radford on Tuesday, 2-1, in overtime; they are unbeaten in five since losing their opener, 2-1, in OT to Georgetown. In fact, four of William & Mary's six matches this season have gone extra time. Emory Camper leads the Tribe in scoring, with four goals and an assist for nine points. Five other players have scored once. In goal, Caroline Casey has a 0.76 goals-against average and a .800 save percentage.
The Series with Old Dominion
The Quakers and the Monarchs have also only met twice, and they came in consecutive years (1995 and 1996). Penn won the first meeting, in Philadelphia, by a 2-1 score. The next seasons, these teams played in a tournament at William & Mary and ODU won, 3-2. This will be the Quakers' first trip to Norfolk.
About ODU
The Monarchs (0-6-0) will be playing for the first time in eight days when they host Penn. Most recently, ODU lost to George Mason on Sept. 14, 3-0. Among its six losses is a 1-0 decision to another Philly team, La Salle. Old Dominion has scored just two goals in those six matches, off the feet of Jackie Stroud and Devin Dougherty. In goal, Meredith Lenox has a 1.99 goals-against average and a .657 save percentage.
About Penn
*Penn is 27-8-2 overall in the last two-plus seasons with this season's start, and 31-9-4 over its last 44 matches dating back to the 2010 season. In those 44 matches, Penn has more shutouts (27) than goals allowed (26).
*So much for starting later than the rest of the country being a disadvantage; Penn is 4-0-0 for the second time in three seasons. (The 2011 squad started the year 5-0-0, all the wins coming by shutout.) The Quakers also were 4-0-0 at this point in 1998; that team went 5-0-0 and then 6-0-1 before its first loss.
*As mentioned above, Penn is the last time in NCAA Division I to allow a goal this season. This is nothing new to the Quakers; two years ago, they led the nation in shutout percentage (13 in 17 matches) and allowed just seven goals all season.
*Never mind keeping teams off the scoresheet; Penn just isn't giving teams chances to score. The Quakers have outshot their opponents 74-16 so far this season, and Quaker goalie Kalijah Terilli has been called upon just six times to make saves.
*Penn's 1-0 wins last weekend came off goals from senior Kerry Scalora -- who netted a spectacular free kick from about 25 yards out in the second overtime against Drexel -- and freshman Tahirih Nesmith. For Nesmith, it marked her third goal in four collegiate matches; she is second among Ivy players and 51st nationally in goals per game (0.75).
*Scalora and Nesmith are tied for the team lead with six points each; they are followed by three women -- seniors Brianna Rano and Kathryn Barth, and junior Megan York -- who have three points (1g, 1a).
*Not only did Penn win its opening two games on September 6 and 8, the Quakers did so in record fashion. Their combined 8-0 margin of victory was a season best, topping the previous mark of a combined 6-0 margin set by the 1998 squad. (The 1998 squad went on to win its third, fourth and fifth games by 4-0 margins, and had seven shutouts to start the campaign.)
*Perhaps the most impressive stat from Penn's opening-weekend wins was that seven different women scored, and 13 recorded a point. The only multi-goal scorer was Nesmith.
*Late in the Saint Peter's match, Nikoletta Georgalis -- a junior walk-on from the track team -- came into the match for Penn to make her collegiate debut; mere minutes after that, she scored her first collegiate goal.
*It was an all-class affair against Mount St. Mary's on Sunday as the senior Rano, the junior York, and sophomore Elissa Berdini joined the freshman Nesmith in the goal ledger.
*Penn returns two women who earned All-Ivy honors last year, seniors Scalora (first-team forward) and Rano (second-team defender). Scalora was also the 2010 Ivy League and ECAC Rookie of the Year.
*Barth, meanwhile, was a second-team All-Ivy and second-team NSCAA all-region selection two years ago, as a sophomore.
*Scalora led Penn in scoring last year, tallying four goals and three assists for 11 points. Two other returning players, Barth and sophomore Erin Mikolai, had three goals apiece.
*In addition to Mikolai, another sophomore to keep an eye on up front is Berdini. She had two goals and two assists last season.
*Three other returning players scored twice last year: senior Claire Walker -- who is a captain of this year's team with Scalora and Rano -- and the juniors Kaitlyn Moore and Clara Midgley.
*Moore will step into the middle of the park, looking to replace the graduated Erin Beck. Another returning candidate for that position is senior Laura Oliver.
*Penn lost its two central defenders from a year ago, All-Ivy pick Alex Dayneka and Erin Thayer. On the other hand, sophomores Caroline Dwyer and Jazmyne Simmons are two women who saw lots of time in the backfield along with Rano last year. Cooper also has experience.
Up Next...
Penn finally begins Ivy League play next Friday at Harvard, kicking off with the Crimson at 5 p.m. The Quakers are then home on Sunday, hosting Lehigh in the back half of a men's/women's doubleheaderon Rhodes Field at 2:30 p.m. (The men kick off with Florida International at noon.)


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Gardner-Webb Holds Off Lady Flames, 13-10
The visiting Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs posted a trio of three-run innings, and held off a late Liberty rally, downing the Lady Flames, 13-10, during the nightcap on Friday at Liberty Softball Field.
Gardner-Webb is now 13-19, including 3-11 in Big South play, following the doubleheader sweep today. Liberty's record stands at 6-36, 1-16 in conference action, after suffering its ninth loss in a row.
Four different Runnin' Bulldogs posted two hits apiece, with Samantha Meenaghan batting 2-for-3 with a home run, four RBIs and three runs scored. Jill Blank added a double and three RBIs, while Megan Champion hit a home run.
Katie Zavodny went 3-for-5 with a stolen base and two RBIs for the Lady Flames. Zavodny became just the second player in Big South history with 100 career stolen bases. Kassidy McCoy and Kelby Allen both homered, with Allen going deep for the second game in a row. Hanna Nichols, Blair Lawrence and Marybeth Sciolino all had two hits.
Ashley Rhyne (5-12) earned her second win of the day, pitching seven innings in relief. Rhyne allowed six runs on 10 hits, after starter Alyssa Gutierrez yielded four runs on three hits without recording an out.
Grace Nordan (1-4) drew the loss, giving up seven runs, five earned, on four hits in 2 2/3 innings of work. Alyssa DiMartino pitched the final 4 1/3 innings, yielding six runs (five earned) on eight hits while striking out three.
Gardner-Webb struck first, on a two-out RBI single by Megan Gibbons in the top of the first.
The Lady Flames quickly chased Gutierrez, with Megan Robinson hitting a two-run double and Allen following with a two-run blast to center, making it 4-0 with nobody out. Rhyne came in and got the final three outs.
The Runnin' Bulldogs tied the game, 4-4, when Meenaghan lined a three-run home run to right with two outs in the second inning.
McCoy drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the second, and scored from third on a two-out RBI single by Lawrence, making it 5-4, Liberty.
The visitors regained their lead by plating three during the third frame. Gibbons doubled to lead off, and later scored on a wild pitch. Gardner-Webb then loaded the bases with one out. After bases-loaded walks to Meenaghan and Kellie Beres made it 7-5, DiMartino came on to get the third out.
Following a 1-2-3 Liberty third, Blank hit an RBI double in the top of the fourth, boosting the guests' lead to 8-5.
Liberty chipped away at the deficit in the fourth, with Han and Sciolino singling. Zavodny then hit a one-out RBI single, with Han and Sciolino scoring, setting the ledger at 8-6. The Lady Flames stranded a pair, as Robinson popped out and Allen grounded out.
Champion opened the sixth inning by homering to center, and Blank later singled to left, plating Gardner-Webb's 10th and 11th runs of the game.
Liberty got a run back during the bottom of the sixth, as Sciolino walked and stole second. Zavodny then singled, driving in Sciolino. Rhyne retired the next three batters, leaving the score at 11-8 through six.
Gardner-Webb added two insurance runs in the seventh, building its lead to 13-8.
The Lady Flames rallied with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, after Gardner-Webb turned a 6-4-3 double play. Han walked, and pinch hitter McCoy blasted a two-run shot to left, drawing Liberty to within 13-10. Sciolino followed with an infield single, before a Zavodny groundout brought the game to a close.
Liberty and Gardner-Webb will conclude this weekend's series with a 1 p.m. game, tomorrow at Liberty Softball Field. Prior to tomorrow's game, Liberty will honor its five seniors – Alyssa DiMartino, Grace Nordan, Marybeth Sciolino, Sammi Shivock and Katie Zavodny, with a pregame senior day ceremony.


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I'm wrting a simple Tornado REST webserver - when queried, will return the results from a cached dictionary.
The cached dictionary may need to be referenced a couple of times for one client call. Consequently, I'm trying to tackle the issue of refreshing the cached dictionary, in a thread safe manner.
Cached dictionary will hold around 1000 items.
On each client call the returned data will be:
- always include results from cached_dict['ALL'].
- and include additional results from cached_dict[<PASSED BY REST REF>]
- each cached item would be a tuple
So two references to the cache. However, there's a danger the cache could be refreshed / switched between the two calls.
Initial approach - locking
The cached dictionary will be refreshed periodically. I plan to launch a timer thread, which when expires will query the database, populate a temporary dictionary, then in one atomic instruction, re-assign the cached dictionary with the newly populated one. During the re-assign, a lock will be used, with the same lock surrounding the two references to the cached dictionary in the client's call.
This should work, however, I'm concerned about performance of checking the lock on every client call, but maybe only refreshing the cache every ten minutes. Is locking that expensive? As far as I can see, the general thinking is - if you can find a way of not using locks, then use that.
Second approach - re-reorganising cache structure
Alternatively, I could reorganise the cache, so each dictionary item contains a list of 'ALL' and <PASSED BY REST REF> list. Consequently, each client call would only require a single query on the cache which would be atomic, so no explicit locking be required.
However, I now duplicate the 'ALL' list of items in every entry of the cache dictionary. However, if each item is a tuple, despite the same tuple X being added to every element of the cache, I believe it would be a reference to the same item? I.e. no additional memory would be used? Is that correct? I.e.:
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all_items = [list of 600 tuples]
for entry in database_entries:
cache[entry.name] = list( all_items )
cache[entry.name].append( additional_items_specific_to this_entry )
Now does the cache hold references to each item of 'all_items' - so there's very little memory overhead, or is there now a new instance of every item 'all_items', for each entry of the cache?
If references are being used (I.e. little memory overhead), then this may be the better approach.
I'd be very interested in your throughts, to help me understand the best way to approach this.
All the best.


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What is it with the Vogue franchise and its inability to figure out how to handle the power women of Silicon Valley? First US Vogue comes under fire (as does its subject) for photographing Yahoo chieftain Marissa Mayer (left) reclining glamorously in full fashion regalia on a chaise, and now UK Vogue is being castigated for the mistaken (that's my take, not theirs) decision to label Ms Mayer et al "SWAGs:" Silicon wives and girlfriends. Read more
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The Draw-A-Person test (DAP) was developed by Machover in 1948 and used figure drawings in a more projective way, focusing on how the drawings reflected the anxieties, impulses, self-esteem, and personality of the test taker.
- Children are first asked to draw a picture of a person.
- they are then asked to draw a picture of a person of the opposite sex to the first drawing.
- They can also be asked to draw a picture of the self and/or family members.
- They are asked a series of questions about themselves and the drawings. These questions can be about the mood, the ambitions, and the good and bad qualities of the people in the drawings.
A scoring system appropriate for adults was developed in 1993 by Mitchel, Trent, and McArthur. They provided a system for rating the replies giving information about the child's anxieties, impulses, and overall personality.
In 1992, Naglieri et al created a more specific standardized scoring system called the Draw-A-Person: Screening Procedure of Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED), based on a large sample. This scoring method includes 55 items rated by the test administrator and based on the child's drawings and responses to questions. The DAP:SPED is appropriate for children aged six to 17. It is often used as a screening method for children social adjustment difficulties and require further evaluation.


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Woman, 35, says she's having teen's baby
Updated 1:08 pm, Friday, November 2, 2012
A woman who told authorities she was impregnated by a 14-year-old boy she met through her daughter has been arrested and charged with indecency with a child.
Amanda Gail Sotelo, 35, told a Bexar County investigator that she and the victim are in love.
Sotelo, who is married, said she met the boy after he visited her home with Sotelo's 14-year-old daughter. They had sex starting in July, she said.
She said she and the boy developed a romantic relationship over time after they began to confide in each other emotionally because they were "both going through problems."
Sotelo said she learned she was pregnant in September after going to the emergency room. She told deputies she believes the boy is the baby's father, since her husband had a vasectomy after their last child was born.
She remained jailed today in lieu of $75,000 bail.
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Castro in Japan with S.A. delegation
Updated 10:50 pm, Wednesday, October 30, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Mayor Julián Castro and Berto Guerra, CEO of Toyota supplier Avanzar Interior, met with Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda Wed-nesday during a trip to Japan.
"I took the opportunity on behalf of San Antonio to thank him for Toyota's tremendous investment in San Antonio," Castro said by phone. "Over the last decade, Toyota has created, along with its suppliers, nearly 6,000 jobs and has had a significant impact on our local economy."
Castro said Toyoda was "very gracious with his time" but would not offer details of their discussion. The meeting took place at the carmaker's headquarters in Toyota City, Japan.
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It's not the first time Castro has met with the top brass at Toyota. Last November, he met with Toyoda at City Hall.
Earlier this month, Toyota celebrated the 10th anniversary of its manufacturing plant on the South Side of San Antonio. At that commemoration, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said the first 10 years were tough, noting recalls of Toyota vehicles, natural disasters and the recession. But the car manufacturer stayed in San Antonio through the difficult times, Wolff said, and he's looking forward "to an easier 10 years" over the coming decade.
Castro led a small delegation, including District 3 Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran, to Japan on Monday. The group is scheduled to return to San Antonio on Sunday. The delegation will visit Nagoya, Tokyo and Kumamoto — a sister city to San Antonio. The two cities are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their sister-city relationship.
Castro and others this week are meeting with high-level government officials as well as business leaders in Japan.
The mayor is also slated to give the keynote address at the Asia Pacific City Summit in Kumamoto, Japan, where he's expected to discuss SA2020 and the Pre-K 4 SA Initiative.


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DETROIT - A judge has ordered two men who worked for a Detroit-area congressman to stand trial in a campaign scandal.
Paul Seewald and Don Yowchuang are charged with conspiring to get then-U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter on the ballot with bogus petitions. Yowchuang also is charged with forgery, and both men also face misdemeanors.
The attorney general's office says Livonia Judge Sean Kavanagh announced the decision Tuesday after hearing testimony earlier this month. A Circuit Court arraignment is Nov. 6
Officials say McCotter's staff turned in less than the 1,000 valid signatures needed to get on the August primary ballot. Some petitions were photocopied and cut and pasted from previous years.
McCotter has not been charged.
READ: AG Office McCotter investigation report
READ: McCotter fraud examples
--Former McCotter staffers who are charged
McCotter resigns following signature snafu
The republican turned in 2,000 signatures on May 15, but a review found many of the signatures were duplicates and out of date. Only a couple hundred appeared valid.
He needed 1,000.
After he was told he wouldn't make the August primary ballot because of the failed requirement, McCotter had initially said he would run as a write-in candidate. But he announced his resignation in July.
The Republican from Livonia had served five terms in the 11th Congressional District.
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MIAMI (AP) -- A memorial service will be held in Miami for an Ohio man who died from gunshot wounds he suffered during a robbery in Haiti where he was working on an orphanage.
The service for 50-year-old David Bompart of Columbus, Ohio, will be held Sunday at the Tina Hills Pavillion in Bayfront Park. His wife posted on their blog that additional memorials will also be held in Haiti, Ohio and his native Trinidad and Tabago.
Bompart died Thursday at a Miami hospital where he had been airlifted after the Jan. 24 shooting.
Bompart was helping to build the Project Medishare trauma center. He also began an orphanage building project through Eyes Wide Open International, a charity the Bomparts' started to help widows and orphans.


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Advertising for People Who Don't Like Advertising
Amsterdam's creative communications agency tells it straight in a new book
In their new book "Advertising for People Who Don't Like Advertising", the Amsterdam-based communications agency KesselsKramer details the creative side of an industry often considered devilish, making a valid claim that like sex, advertising is "only as warped as the people involved."
Written in a cheeky, conversational tone, the book imparts some sage advice on how to conduct responsible advertising. Established in 1996, KesselsKramer pioneered the movement for inspirational multidisciplinary campaigns that don't think like traditional advertising—instead they engage an audience and encourage interaction with a product. In other words, what they call "Open source over hard sell."
In addition to showing examples of their own work—such as the brilliantly honest "anti-advertising" campaign for Brinker's budget hotel—the KK team asked top creatives to discuss how they ultimately stay creative in a client-is-right, money-obsessed field. Weighing in with refreshingly candid takes are Alex Bogusky, Stefan Sagmeister, Steve Henry.
KK's longstanding creative director Erik Kessels puts things into neat perspective in a chapter called "The Laws of Creativity and How to Mess With Them", offering snippets with intriguing and sometimes provocative titles like "Make News Not Ads", "Follow Not The Process of Others", "Never Brainstorm" and more.
Kramer's rebellious approach to design and creative, responsible advertising—or, communications as KK calls it—helps inject a little confidence in the future of quality brand messaging. The book is out May 2012, and is available for pre-order from Amazon or Laurence King.


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For the next eight days, the Atlanta Film Festival offers movie lovers a veritable paradise - more than 100 films that celebrate local talent, discover voices from around the world and frequently defy categorization.
For decades, Hollywood stuck to a predictable calendar. Studios released family fare and their better-genre pictures during fall, offered their award winners for our consideration in the winter, dumped their losers and specialty pics each spring, and unleashed their tent-pole blockbusters every summer.
Somewhere, stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen is shrugging his shoulders and saying, "Is that the best you whippersnappers with your fancy computers can do?"
Don't you hate it when dragons storm your village and steal your sheep?
"Repo Men" is an "interesting" movie in the same way the "Bodies" exhibition (the one with human cadavers variously posed) is "interesting" art. Is this good art? Bad art? Is it art at all? Answers to these questions vary widely, but no one can deny that it's "interesting."
Director Paul Greengrass teamed up with Matt Damon for two of the past decade's best action films, "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum." Those movies achieved something rare by both satisfying critics and scoring huge at the box office.
"Alice in Wonderland" constitutes a meeting of three long-established, distinctive brands. Disney produces, Tim Burton directs and Lewis Carroll provides the story. It's the sort of pedigreed project that generates excitement and high expectations. Which means someone's going to be disappointed.
The tagline for "Cop Out" might just say it all: "Rock out with your Glock out."
"Shutter Island" is set in 1954, during postwar years in which the economy boomed, WWII veterans struggled to cope with unimaginable trauma and psychological theory and practice started to creep into the American consciousness.
Stop me when you've heard this one.
The latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel gets a jump on the Valentine's Day competition this week.
Remember when Mel Gibson was just a plain old movie star? Gibson made his mark as a charming, sometimes goofy/sometimes glowering action star, and we liked him. But then came preachy Mel, then drunk anti-Semitic Mel, then adulterous yet somehow still devout Catholic Mel.
Remember when Mel Gibson was just a plain old movie star? Gibson made his mark as a charming, sometimes goofy/sometimes glowering action star, and we liked him. But then came preachy Mel, then drunk anti-Semitic Mel, then adulterous yet somehow still devout Catholic Mel.
Imagine if Archie Bunker were a world-renowned biochemist. That's basically the character Harrison Ford plays in "Extraordinary Measures," and he brings much needed comic relief to an otherwise fairly somber movie.
It turns out, there's a fine line between "lovely" and so syrupy sweet it's silly.
"Youth in Revolt" is, in so many ways, a typical January release. Movies in the first month of the year are always like leftover holiday candy - a bit stale, but hey, this is the only food we have left in the house, so why not?
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Small corporate earthquake, not many dead seems to be the outcome of the Supreme Court's ruling on the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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Former IU great Walt Bellamy dies at 74
Former IU men's basketball All-American Walt Bellamy, the first Hoosier ever to be selected with the top pick in an NBA draft, has died at 74 the Atlanta Hawks announced Saturday afternoon.
"We are saddened to learn of the passing of Walt Bellamy," said IU Coach Tom Crean. "He was one of the most honored individuals that has ever been a part of the Hoosier basketball program. Our team had the privilege to meet him in 2008 at the Wheeler-Dowe Boys and Girls Club in Indianapolis and you realized what a special man he was. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family."
A native of New Bern, North Carolina, Bellamy played for the Hoosiers from 1958-61 and Hall of Fame Coach Branch McCracken. Bellamy graduated from IU with the most rebounds in a career with 1,088 in only 70 games, while averaging 15.5 a game. Averaging 20.5 points a game and shooting 51.7 percent from the floor, Bellamy also averaged 17.8 rebounds a game (still IU's record).[
He also holds the school records for most rebounds in a season (649), most rebounds in a single game (33), most double-doubles in a career (59), most rebounds in a three-year career (1,008). In his final college game, he set IU and Big Ten Conference records that still stand with 33 rebounds (and 28 points) in an 82-67 win over Michigan.
Bellamy was named an All-American in both his junior and senior year (1960 and 1960) and was the first Hoosier taken No. 1 in the NBA draft (1961, Chicago Packers) and the first Hoosier named NBA Rookie of the Year.
"If you are naming the all-time best player at Indiana University, Walt Bellamy has to be in the conversation," said IU Hall of Famer and former sports editor of the Bloomington Herald Times Bob Hammel. "He was so powerful and very agile and was always appreciative of the recognition he received from IU."
In 1960, he was a member of the gold medal winning US Olympic team along with Jerry West, Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas. In 1982, he was among those to comprise the first class of the Indiana University Athletic Hall of Fame. In 2000, he was selected to Indiana University's All-Century Team.
Bellamy played in the NBA for 14 seasons and put up monster numbers for the Chicago Packers (1961-63), Baltimore Bullets (1963-65), New York Knicks (1965-68), Detroit Pistons (1968-70), Atlanta Hawks (1970-74) and New Orleans Jazz (1974).
Bellamy was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1962 after having arguably one of the three greatest rookie seasons in NBA history (along with Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson). His 31.6 points per game average that season is second all-time for a rookie to Wilt Chamberlain's 37.6, and the 19 rebounds per game he averaged that season is third best all-time for a rookie (to Chamberlain's 27 and Bill Russell's 19.6).
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Bellamy also led the NBA in field goal percentage in his rookie season, and had a 23-point, 17-rebound performance in the 1962 NBA All-Star Game.
He was a four-time All-Star who averaged 20.1 points and 13.7 rebounds in his career.
In 14 years in the league, he played in 1,043 of 1,055 possible games and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. Bellamy spent his later years working for the NAACP in Atlanta.


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This BECA Special Project publication features works of NEW ART by 18 'CURATE THIS! 2010' pARTicipating Artists, Architects + Designers selected by Helen Pheby, PhD, Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.
'CURATE THIS! 2010' is the second installment of the 'CURATE THIS!' exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art. The title reflects a departure from the familiar large scale exhibition model, typically curated by a singular vision with one head curator, to an exhibition with components and related events 'curated' by the public and professional and independent participants residing in multiple cities around the world. The first 'CURATE THIS!' experiment took place in early 2008 and led artists, designers and BECA Foundation volunteer directors, Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough to begin brainstorming the expansion of the experiment to bring about greater benefits to a larger number of participants.
Through the introduction and exhibition of works of new art + new design and related projects by pARTicipating artists, architects, designers, duos, groups and collectives around the world, The BECA Foundation aims to facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for creative innovation in diverse locations around the world.
The BECA Foundation would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to Helen Pheby, PhD, Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and longtime BECA advisor, for her participation in this year's 'CURATE THIS! 2010' expanded event.
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Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
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- Publish Date Nov 14, 2010
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The BECA Foundation is an artist + designer run (and thus far, volunteer run) not-for-profit global arts organization benefiting artists, designers and the public now headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, USA. BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art. The organization's core belief is that "NEW ART + NEW DESIGN FUELS THE BEST OF WHAT'S YET TO COME ON THIS PLANET". Our organization serves as a bridge, facilitator, supporter, enabler and vessel for local, national and international contemporary art + design communities toward the growth and advancement of new ideas and innovation via contemporary art + design. The core program focus is on developing public art exhibition and related opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists + designers. Those opportunities are also extended to established artists + designers who are forging new pathways by exploring new mediums, ideas and processes not previously associated with their work.


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Hello All,
Read an interesting article on the phparch website, which suggests you should not use $GET or $POST again instead you should use functions built into PHP 5.2+ like filter_input() here:
Now just have a couple of questions about this:
1) What are people's thoughts on this? Is this what we should be moving to?2) So if i'm reading this right would you swap the old way for the new way below for $_POST? This the right way to do it?
So for $_POST should I swap the old way for the new way like so:
//Old Way
$name = trim(mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities(strip_tags($_POST['name'],ENT_QUOTES))));
$address = trim(mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities(strip_tags($_POST['address'],ENT_QUOTES))));
//New Way
$name = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'name', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$address = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'address', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
3) With regards to $GET I currently do things like typecast if it's a number and use mysqlreal_escape_string on characters.
So if I have a numbered URL like so i'd do:
//Old Way
$num = (int) $_GET['num'];
$query = "UPDATE tbl SET something = '1' WHERE num = $num";
And if I have a string URL like so i'do:
$num = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['num']);
$query = "UPDATE tbl SET something = '1' WHERE num = '$num'";
So therefore if I run the filter() function here I don't see where it does the checking for either typecasting or using mysql_real_escape_string if i'm using a string for $_GET where's the difference?
$num = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'num', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$query = "UPDATE tbl SET something = '1' WHERE num = $num";
I don't see the advantage of it.
I basically sanitize the way you do it as well.
If you have the presence of mind to write that hideously long line to sanitize/filter whatever, you should have the presence of mind to filter get/post variables.
I usually use filter_var to validate email addresses, that's about it.
For a form, I simply have a recursive function that will sanitize all post variables if it's going into a DB, one line of code vs having to call that for every variable - seems no brainer.
Using whatever built in function (if any) is available to do the filtering for you is best since it is the version least likely to have errors.
So using is_numeric() to test for numeric fields and is_alphabetic() to test for fields that can only contain letters is the best alternative for validating those field types. Casting to an int will only work if the value is a valid int in the first place and so an invalid input value would cause the script to crash.
No it doesn't. Anything that isn't a valid int in the first place will be cast to 0.
I've never used these functions but I don't see any real advantages. They really look nice but I already find a few negative aspects:
I think using simple php functions and constructs is in no way more difficult or problematic than the filter functions. I just use (int), (float), trim, substr, str_replace, etc. for sanitizing and preg_match is unmatched for validation with almost unlimited customization. At least it's plain clear to me what my code is doing.
Yeah, and this is quite different to JavaScript (which turns it into NaN) - 0 is still an integer. I find that rather irritating. PHP should turn something non-numeric into boolean false or maybe have its own NaN.
That is the equivalent of crashing since the entered value isn't zero and shouln't be treated as such. The code has crashed in that it has processed the entered value incorrectly. Converting all non-numeric values to 1 would make at least as much sense.
It's not crashing because the value after sanitization is in the proper numeric format so there's no reason for anything to crash. It also depends what what you use the value for - in most cases a numeric value from POST/GET is a database id, which is an autoincrement field and thus cannot be 0. Therefore casting to int in php is perfect for sanitizing: the value is in safe format to send to an sql query but you are sure no record will be found for that value, so it's not equivalent to a crash but to "the item has not been found". Therefore casting to int is very convenient in my opinion and I'm not fond of javascript NaN, which makes things more complicated. When I want to disallow non-numeric values being converted to 0 then I simply use proper validation, (int) is only for sanitizing. And converting non-numeric values to 1 would be the least logical behaviour because for most systems id=1 is a valid id while id=0 is never valid just like any string that has been entered instead of a poper number. Note that mysql also casts non-numeric strings to 0.
The impact on a developers poor, overworked finger joins, while obviously an issue we should always be aware of, seems silly. Why write your code in PHP when there are much terser languages available which may get the same job done with less typing. (I'm just poking fun here.)
Of course, (int) $var and using FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT are two entirely different things and to get something comparable to the sanitizing filter in "normal" PHP would be much more work than simply casting to an int. If you're going to make comparisons, at least compare apples to apples.
(int) $var
No you don't. The constants follow a regular structure (e.g. types of input start with INPUT, validators start with FILTER_VALIDATE, they use names familiar to you elsewhere (GET, *_STRING, etc.) and besides, your editor/IDE is special enough to know about these things, right? Do you know all of the functions that you use in your code, and their parameters' values/orders?
You are invited to file a bug report on the PHP system[1] reporting the lack of, or inadequate, documentation. For what it's worth, there are no open documentation bugs referring to the filter docs. Pointing out specific problem areas (individual flags that you would like looked at) would be nice, if only to have specific targets to attack rather than "improve filter docs". Without this sort of feedback, the documentation team has no idea of where folks are having issues/problems or when the docs are making life unnecessarily difficult for its users.
This is a very good point. There is a learning curve involved with using the filter extension and for those unfamiliar (or not intimately familiar!) with it, then it may well be easier and clearer to get the job done with tools they are more familiar with.
[1] http://bugs.php.net/report.php
i actually love how it handles sanitization. ive created a function that i use in my class to easily sanitize without having to type all that out.
function secure($field,$type)
case 'get':
$ouput = filter_input(INPUT_GET, $field, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES);
case 'post':
$output = filter_input(INPUT_POST, $field, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES);
return $output;
so anytime i need to sanitize something i simply type for example:
$username = secure("username", "post");
//the first param is the field name usually put in $_POST['field']
//and the second param is the type i want to use.
At least know we know what we're talking about (for me crashing means coming to an abrupt, abnormal halt)


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Foreign Minister Bob Carr has ordered a review of his department's handling of the mysterious case of Melbourne man Ben Zygier after it emerged Australian diplomats did know about his imprisonment in Israel.
Senator Carr says he was acting on Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advice when he told the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program this week that the government knew nothing of Mr Zygier's detention until after his death in 2010.
But Senator Carr says DFAT told him on Wednesday that some officials were aware of it much earlier.
"The department has today come back and said some officers of the department were in fact aware of his detention," a spokesman for Senator Carr told AAP.
Senator Carr subsequently ordered DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese to review the case.
"That's not to suggest anything untoward has happened, but given that there's an interest in the case, let's have the review," the spokesman said.
Mr Zygier, also known as Ben Alon, died apparently by his own hand in a high-security cell at Ayalon Prison near Tel Aviv in December 2010, Foreign Correspondent revealed.
While the circumstances surrounding Mr Zygier's detention are shrouded in mystery, the Foreign Correspondent report suggested he worked for Israeli spy agency Mossad.
Local and international media have speculated he was the so-called Prisoner X, one of the Israeli security community's most sensitive national-security secrets.
The story of Prisoner X first emerged in May 2010 when Israel's Ynet news website ran a story titled "Who are you, Mr X?", in which it spoke about a prisoner being held in top-secret conditions whose identity and crime were not even known to his jailers.
But the story was quickly taken offline due to a gag order.
The ABC report said Mr Zygier moved from Melbourne to Israel in 2000, married an Israeli woman and fathered two children.
Seven days after he died at age 34 his body was flown to Melbourne where he was buried in a Jewish cemetery.
Two Israeli MPs questioned the justice minister over the ABC report in the Knesset, or parliament, on Wednesday.
"This prisoner was detained under a name which was not his own. Do you know about this?" Arab Israeli MP Ahmed Tibi asked during an open question session.
"Can you confirm that this Australian committed suicide in prison under a false name so it wouldn't be revealed he was being detained in Israel?" he asked outgoing Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman.
Mr Neeman said he was not able to answer the questions because the justice ministry was not responsible for prisons.
"But there is no doubt that if true, the matter must be looked into," he added.
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne said Senator Carr should press Israel about the circumstances of the case.
Comment has been sought from the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
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EAST Thurrock's manager says winning at Cray Wanderers will mean nothing if they fail to beat Met Police tomorrow.
John Coventry watched his side run out 3-1 winners at the already relegated Kent side on Tuesday night thanks to strikes from Sam Higgins either side of a David Bryant strike.
The result took them level on points with Wingate & Finchley, and one place outside the drop zone due to a superior goal difference.
After the match Coventry said his side had showed "belief" and maintained he is confident his side will beat the drop.
"We have got three games left and I can't afford to smile after this victory as it will all be for nothing if we get beat tomorrow. We will have our feet firmly back on the ground for that one.
"We played very well on Tuesday and took the game to them which is exactly what I wanted to see. "We allowed Cray back into the game midweek and we can't let that happen tomorrow."
East Thurrock's other remaining games are against fellow strugglers Enfield Town on Bank Holiday Monday before facing third placed Bognor Regis Town on the final day of the season.
Coventry made two changes for Tuesday's game, replacing Connor Witherspoon and Ross Parmenter with Mitchell Gilbey and Neil Richmond, and the Rocks boss says he will freshen his side up again for the weekend's clash.
"I may make some changes as we are patching up wounded all the time. I freshened it up against Cray and I think it worked well tonight, so I might do it again.
Coventry says he hopes Tuesday's win will buoy the players for a tricky end of season run-in.
"We should have sorted it out weeks ago.
"I have always been confident but I know there is no such thing as too good to go down. "It has not been easy to watch from the touchline since last May but I will say I am glad I have this bunch of players trying to get out of relegation and not another one."


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NC Counties Told to Hold Work First Applications
October 15, 2013 | The Charlotte Observer | Link to article
RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina's government suspended a welfare program for the unemployed and underemployed Monday because there was no guarantee the federal government would reimburse the state for benefits until the partial shutdown in Washington ends.
The state Department of Health and Human Services directed county social service offices to no longer process or approve Work First applications they receive. The department also suspended the renewal of current Work First participants.
October cash payments have already been transmitted to people eligible for Work First, department spokeswoman Julie Henry said, so people would only miss benefits if the shutdown extends into November. More than 20,700 people received Work First services in September, including $4.8 million in payments, Henry said.
North Carolina may be the only state in the country that has currently stopped processing applications, according to an expert that monitors welfare programs nationwide.
"It just means people will have to wait longer for benefits," said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a senior policy analyst for CLASP, a Washington-based group advocating for policies to help the poor. She said her group wasn't aware of any other state deciding to stop processing applications.
Block-grant funds to the states to operate their welfare programs weren't authorized after Sept. 30, and Congress failed to agree on legislation to extend government spending into the new federal fiscal year, prompting the shutdown.
North Carolina and other states received letters saying they could choose to spend state funds in the meantime and hope Congress would reimburse when the block funding through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families was restored. But the letter's language was too tentative for DHHS officials in Raleigh to justify spending state funds, according to Henry.
"It was just not a concrete enough assurance," Henry said. The state decided to use their leftover TANF funds to continue child welfare and protective service programs, she said. If the shutdown ends later in the month, applications will be processed toward getting applicants their benefits on time, she said.
Lower-Basch said government officials in a few other states have said they aren't going to pay benefits in November, but are continuing to process the applications. Arizona stopped making TANF cash assistance checks to low-income families in early October after federal funds dried up, but resumed the check-writing when it located other funds to use through the end of the month.
Lower-Basch said she couldn't imagine Congress refusing to pass a TANF reauthorization bill without reimbursing states that kept paying benefits to welfare recipients during the shutdown. "We all hope this gets resolved real soon," she said.
Families who qualify for Work First receive one-time cash benefits of up to three months. Parents who register with an employment assistance program and sign an agreement can keep receiving benefits for up to 24 months if they keep working, get training or perform community service.
Last week, DHHS said it was halting its supplemental food voucher program for poor women and their young children due to the shutdown. But the agency announced two days later the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program would resume issuing benefits the next day because officials had located money to operate it through October. At the time, North Carolina was the only state to halt its WIC program, which helps 264,000 women and children monthly.


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Frosted gluten-free pumpkin bars with a secret ingredient.
I am less and less enamored with more.
I know. It's showing. My age. My childhood brain was wired for mud and bird calls, blackberry thickets and butterscotch pine. Hours spent reading in a grove of birch trees dug their neural groove. The wild luxuries of inner connection, rather than social networking. And TIME. That plastic, misunderstood, precious commodity that shape-shifts experience from an endless afternoon of liquid daylight into a heart clutching warp speed tumble of confusion. Decades become tiny sandwiches of memory you can barely taste anymore.
Weeks blink by with alarming velocity.
And here we are again.
In pumpkin season.
And so. I stop.
And notice the way the late day sun drops low and shimmers golden in the treeline. The crows are gathering earlier. Glossy black and strutting with authority. The smell of burnished leaves scuttling across a wet Portland sidewalk is the same smell I inhaled on a road trip in Vermont fifteen years ago, standing on a wooden bridge above a clear shallow creek while our sons balanced on the slick rocks below us, fishing for smooth round stones.
Do they remember this? Do they remember the same hours I do, in the sand on Skaket Beach? Do they ever have a sudden itch to feed their senses with the scents and sounds of a freshwater riverbed, a sun warmed tide pool? Do they crave a winding path through apple trees? Were their brains hardwired for this connection, too?
I ponder this as I stir a new pumpkin batter.
And breathe in the scents of ginger and cinnamon, listening to the leafy rustle of an almond flour bag as I fold up the cellophane and pinch it closed with a clothespin.
Karina's Best Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Pumpkin Bar Recipe
Recipe originally published October 2011.These high fiber, protein rich pumpkin bars are too delicious for breakfast. They may even be too decadent for afternoon tea. Because, yes, I used brown sugar. And yes, I frosted them with a dairy-free vegan cream cheese icing. I couldn't help myself.
1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup Ancient Harvest quinoa flakes
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1 1/2 cup organic light brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 large organic free range eggs (or Ener-G Egg Replacer, mixed)
1 cup cooked pumpkin puree
1/2 cup organic coconut oil
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line a 9x13-inch baking pan with parchment. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, spices and salt. Make a well in the center and add in the eggs, pumpkin, coconut oil and vanilla extract. Beat for two minutes until the batter becomes smooth and slightly sticky. Add in the walnuts by hand and stir.
Scoop the batter into the pan and spread evenly, smoothing out the top with wet fingers. Bake on the center rack for 25 to 35 minutes, until the center is firm to the touch. Cool on a wire rack.
Frost when cooled with Vegan Cream Cheese Icing, recipe follows.
Note to dairy lovers- if you prefer dairy cream cheese- knock yourself out. It's all good.
Vegan Cream Cheese Icing
Vegan cream cheese tends to be softer than its moo-cow sister, so if you prefer using dairy cream cheese, try the lighter whipped style.
For the icing:
2 cups powdered sugar, more if needed
1/2 cup vegan cream cheese
2-3 teaspoons vanilla, as needed
Pour the powdered sugar into a mixing bowl and add the cream cheese. Start beating to combine the cream cheese and sugar. Add the vanilla extract a teaspoon at a time, and beat until the icing is smooth. If the icing is too stiff add a teaspoon of vanilla rice milk. If the icing gets too thin, add more sugar and beat.
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"I wanted to make something that would really be infused with Shanghai. And I wanted it to be a sort of time capsule of that night."
The Cambodian chapei dong vong (long-neck guitar) master's performance at Asia Society New York — now available in full — gets a shout out from the New York Times.
Also, watch a complete live concert from the legendary Cambodian singer for free at 8 p.m. Saturday night New York time at AsiaSociety.org/Live.
What do Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones, Nicki Minaj, Fiona Apple, Neil Young, and Pakistani musical legend Arif Lohar have in common? They all made The New York Times list of the best concerts of 2012.
Asia Society New York is still buzzing after last weekend's two sold-out performances by Pakistan's beloved balladeer Arif Lohar. Relive the magic whenever you want with this complete video of the Saturday show.
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The City of Quincy was among 48 cities and counties awarded money by the Florida Communities Trust. The city was awarded $910,000 to buy 129 acres in the downtown area to build a park. Quincy grants coordinator Auburn Ford said the land was the largest tract left in downtown Quincy that had not been developed. He said the money would help the city develop the property and make it more attractive for housing and commercial uses. The site was known as the Tanyard Creek Preservation Park.
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