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Atheists have our own ideas about what is just and what is unjust. This group will explore the elusive concept of justice. Topics include racial injustice, death penalty, imprisonment, crime, and other aspects of justice in modern society and in history. Without gods, what is the basis for justice? What do humanists and others say about justice? What do you think about current controversies and cases regarding justice or injustice?
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Troy Davis's photo was chosen as this original icon for this group. Davis symbolized inequality of justice in the US. At the time of his execution, 9/21/11, the evidence supporting his conviction was flimsy. There was known evidence supporting his innocence. He was executed anyway. Since then the icon is changed to represent justice in general.
There are different nontheist points of view about justice, punishment, penalties, death penalty. There is strong support for retribution and execution in the theist community (in the US).
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Anne thank you for getting my blood pressure up! Just goes to show, well, I don't know what it goes to show. Being rich pays off, being poor does not. A for the shoot first laws, they should all be repealed. They are terrible. Statistics should be kept. 2 homides a week in FLlorida where the killers go free? Statistics need to be kept. Not the least of which, they should include community, situation, and demographic / racial data.
In just seven years since ALEC adopted the model "Shoot First" law, ALEC members and the NRA have successfully worked to get laws passed around the country that encourage armed vigilantism. In more than 30 states, it is now legal to lethally shoot another person if you feel threatened, even if you could have safely walked away. No reliable statistics track how many people have been killed nationwide thanks to these laws, but in Florida alone, there are on average two homicides each week where the killers are likely to go free.
Sadly, its true. But, insanely this transformation is not to scare us. It's designed to ignite us. Is it diliberate? I can't say. But the process of the change in our Law enforcments pressence is called Deindividuation, Dehumanization. Goto http://stephanie-cox.suite101.com/the-famous-stanford-prison-experi... to see these effects based in study, it's spooky crap. The black uniforms, the faceless drones. They seem to be trying to make us lash out so they can crack down more.
Anne, the US seems to be more and more moving toward a military state in many ways. It's worrisome.
Continuing to follow the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida. Can the different races have such different opinions, and we still have an expectation of justice? I don't know. I liked on of the photos, and old white guy had a sign saying "They never stop and frisk old white guys like me".
In Chicago, Howard Morgan was sentencedto 40 years in prison. His crime was apparently in 2005, when he was stopped for driving the wrong way on a one way street; police pulled him over then "something happened". He had a gun. He was a railroad officer. When it was over, he had been shot 21 times in the back and 7 in the chest. He was a former police officer, had never been arrested, no drugs, no alcohol. "Morgan's van was crushed before any forensic evidence could be gathered, he was never tested for gun residue, and the state did not produce the actual bullet proof vest worn by officers." Of the 4 officers who shot him, 4 were white. Morgan is black.
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com.
More disturbing than riot gear or heavy-duty weapons slung across the backs of American police officers is a "militaristic mind-set" creeping into officers' approach to their jobs, said Timothy Lynch, director of the criminal justice project at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "It is in the way they search and raid homes and the way they deal with the public," he said.
Is this the militarization of the American police?
Can we expect a fair trial and just outcome in the Trayvon case when media are so dishonest and biased? With biasfrom median and possibly from the police and the city law enforcement, what are we left with?
Black and Unarmed. from The Root.
I agree there needs to be a safety net for health care. As to the details of this case - I hope more information comes out. Looks like she died of pulmonary embolism. The report states she was evaluated for blood clots in the legs, which is where pulmonary embolism originates and is appropriate at least for starters. If there was unexplained ankle swelling, the leg ultrasounds were appropriate. As for the rest, not enough info. I agree health care is a right. In the US, most of health care is via private companies, who get massive amounts of $$$ from the govt. Just as the govt pays catholic hospitals that may refuse birth control or abortion, they pay commercial hospitals that may turn away the destitute and mentally ill. Your tax dollars at work.
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NSW Waratahs have been forced to apologise to their fans after a team cap was sent to thousands of members bearing a tag emblazoned with "Team NRL" and "Official Licensed Product".
The Waratahs have sent out a letter of apology to all their members and the licensee for the Chinese cap manufacturers have also sent a letter of apology to the Waratahs as well as instructions on how to remove the tag.
Massive fail got my Waratahs members cap but it has an @nrl tag inside of it! #rugby #nrl twitter.com/ChrisTweetsGoo…— Chris (@ChrisTweetsGood) January 10, 2013
As well as the members' caps, a sports towel which also had the NRL Team logo stitched under the washing guidelines was sent to Waratahs members as part of their season package.
The stuff-up was the talk of social media last night with the Twitterverse having a good old laugh at the Waratahs' expense.
It's hardly the start to the season the Waratahs were seeking after a horror 2012.
The Waratahs finished well out of contention for last year's Super Rugby finals after a terrible campaign which ended with coach Michael Foley departing for the Western Force.
NSW have signed Michael Cheika to turn around the team's fortunes on the park and added young breakaway Michael Hooper and AFL reject Israel Folau to their roster in the off-season in the hope of returning to the pointy end of the competition ladder this year.

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SPRING, Texas - A Spring man is charged with injury to a child after he was accused of biting an 11-year-old boy on both cheeks.
Chris Sigler said his son was riding his go-kart through their Spring neighborhood when Abdus Sattar, 70, stopped him.
"The man just kind of grabbed his shoulders, reached down and kissed him on the cheek -- but at the same time he bit him," said Sigler, the boy's father. "Then he did it on the other cheek."
When his son told him about the incident, Sigler called police.
"It was pretty clear what had happened, " said Lt. Ronnie Glazer with Precinct 4.
Glazer said Sattar told deputies he is Muslim and the incident was a cultural misunderstanding. Deputies investigated his claim before making the arrest.
"We saw injuries on the child and that's when we began our investigation," Glazer said.
The boy's family snapped photos that show a visible mark about the size of a quarter on one of his cheeks.
Abdus was arrested and later posted a $20,000 bond.
Sigler is pleased investigators took the allegations seriously.
"I don't know anything about this man," Sigler said. "I feel good that hopefully this will deter him from doing this to any other children."
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Katie Cleary & Peace 4 Animals Present "Give Me Shelter"
Dr. Jordan Schaul reviews the ground-breaking, award-winning documentary Give Me Shelter produced by model/actress Katie Cleary of Peace 4 Animals and Director Kristin Rizzo. The film explores the lives of animals in a society that continues, despite progress, to abuse and neglect them. I admit that I've worked in pet stores, zoos and sanctuaries, in…


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Gun-rights advocates rallied outside the state Capitol today to protest the state's new gun-control law passed by the Legislature on Tuesday.
Chanting "Freedom," "U.S.A." and "Cuomo's Gotta Go," several thousand people expressed opposition to the new law championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The measure is the first and toughest law in the nation since the Newtown. Conn., school shootings last month. Cuomo and supporters have hailed the law as a critical step toward curbing gun violence in the state and nation.
Gun owners, however, said they are being unfairly targeted by the new law and were dismayed by the quick passage of it by lawmakers. The bill was adopted hours after it was printed.
"If they want to do something, then give it the people. If they want to do a referendum on casinos, why don't they do one on gun control?" said Paul Jameson, 54, Saugerties, Ulster County. "This is absolutely crazy the way the governor has done this. It borders on illegal, and it takes away our rights."
Other accused the Democratic governor of pushing for the law so he could build his national profile. He is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2016.
"We elected them to serve us. They are serving themselves," said Eli Noseworthy, 69, of Long Island. "The governor is concerning himself with his aspirations to run for president, and that's not right."
The National Rifle Association has protested the new law, and lawsuits are expected against the state.
The rally was part of a national effort Saturday called Guns Across America and included rallies at state capitals to protest new laws and legislation.
"I don't feel like I'm a criminal. In order to keep order, we need good guys with guns," said Heather Johnson, 36, of Kirkville, Onondaga County.
Cuomo on Saturday said the law would save lives. A Siena College poll Thursday showed wide support for the governor and the gun-control measures.
The law puts a tighter ban on assault weapons and lowers the number of bullets allowed in a magazine from 10 to seven. It adds more stringent regulations on gun permitting and expands background checks for pistol sales.
Assemblyman James Tedisco, R-Schenectady, spoke at the rally and said he agreed with the crowd's concerns. But he cautioned that their anger should be used in productive ways. He led a moment of silence for the victims of recent shootings.
"You and I who are the honest, law-abiding citizens and gun owners cannot turn that into bitterness, hatred," said Tedisco, who is in the video below. "We're going to be angry, but you have to turn that anger into something positive."


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Challenges of managing our post-crisis world. Martin Wolf, FT
Useless airport security. Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Bruce Schneier, The Atlantic
Afghanistan: what could work. Rory Stewart, NYRB
Living with Lou Gehrig's disease. Tony Judt, NYRB
Spooked by Islamists. Nick Cohen, Standpoint
A reader's guide to Thatcherism. Nick Cohen, Standpoint
Lebowski studies. Dwight Garner, NYT. Ties the list together.


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Quote:Types of Karate. I wonder how many there are. I figured to make a list and see if anyone can add anything to it. I am not talking styles of Karate here, just types of Karate.Classical Karate Karate done in the old way like Itosu and Miyagi style. Usually a pretty hard work out, with forms a focus.Traditional Karate Old style Karate that uses new training methods as well as old. They are willing to add what works in the training. Sport Karate Karate done for trophies or fun. This is a style that is done more by the younger crowd. Made up Karate Karate that is done by a person who decided he had more knowledge than the other styles and founded his own. Usually this style comes from people who cannot go the distance and learn the style they started in. Unfortunately they teach others so the style continues.China Hand Karate Karate done by those who study and practice pre Itosu Karate. Usually you can tell these systems because they use the old Kanji for Karate, which means China or Tang Hand.Can any add to this?
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I just stumbled across this really cool page in the Wall Street Journal...
The Second-Term Shakeup
Based on what I could gather from FireBug, it looks like they just used a lot of DIVs and maybe some HTML5?
Can you give me some pointers on how to accomplish something similar?
And how would I tell if this is HTML4 or HTML5?
It's powered by a bunch of JavaScript that's not very accessible—a design fail. I'm surprised you call it "cool", as I thought you shunned this kind of stuff. But that concept of "cool" is what lures many a designer into creating confusing, inaccessible junk like this all over the web. Users don't need cool; they need accessible content.
Here's a nice site I found yesterday that takes a realistic look at another silly, "must have" feature on every second site—those really cool carousels: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
(Bleh. C'mon, it moves, so it must be cool, right?)
Look at the DOCTYPE... it's neither HTML4 nor HTML5...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
and ditto Ralph's sentiments about carousels. Big turn-offs, every one.
EDIT: After looking at the WSJ face cards, this one is indeed pretty cool. It's quick and effective.
At the end of the day, though, I wonder if that kind of structure really helps anyone, or whether it's just cool to us web designers. Turn off JS and the content disappears on that page, which is design from hell, IMHO.
Agreed. I thought about my quick edit after-the-fact and realized that I didn't reinforce the simple fact that the fancy effect breaks if JS is turned off. Too much reliance on JS for layout, IMHO. The "coolest" part of that "slider" to me was that the elements were shifted very quickly... no gradual transitions or time consuming moves... ie, nothing "slid". Personally, I would try to come up with a css solution rather than rely so heavily on JS to present important content.
News to me its JavaScript.
It looks like a a static page...
And from what I could see in FireBug, it looked like it was done with HTML and CSS only. (If you open that page in FireBug, you can see a style that apparently gives a drop-shadow to the DIV. I just figured that was maybe HTML5 since I don't think you can do that in HTML4/CSS2? Are you sure that you are correct on this one, Ralph?)
But that concept of "cool" is what lures many a designer into creating confusing, inaccessible junk like this all over the web. Users don't need cool; they need accessible content.
My entire website is HTML and CSS so I've hardly went to "the dark side"...
Someone is fussy today...
After re-reading my OP, I think what I wrote was too vague, and that you completely misinterpreted things...
What I liked about the page was how each person represented on the page looks like a "Playing Card" with a drop-shadow that makes things look 3-dimensional.
(I had no clue that if you clicked on a person you got all of that JavaScript jazz?! And, NO, I don't want or care about that...)
And to my original point, I am 95% certain you can get the effect I liked with just HTML and CSS, although I'm not sure which version of HTML and CSS you need to do that.
Here is what I was after... (see screenshot)
Again, I just like the drop-shadow and how it takes an otherwise FLAT looking page, and makes it jump out at you. (Even if you disagree...)
BTW, my entire website is JavaScript-free...
It is all either hard-coded HTML4 or dynamic HTML4 - via PHP - along with CSS2 (I think?!), and it looks awesome without all that JavaScript crap...
CSS drop shadows work fine with an HTML4.01 doctype. The only requirement is that the browser understands the CSS3 box-shadow property.
Sincerely,- not Ralph -
Four days ago, actually.
What I liked about the page was ... drop-shadow
O, right. Yes, that's a CSS3 property, as ronpat says, that is supported in all modern browsers (down to IE9). Here's a simple example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<meta charset="utf-8">
div {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid #222;
box-shadow: 4px 4px 10px #999;
A lot of CSS3 properties still require vendor prefixes, but a few, like border-radius and box-shadow, really don't need that now. If you did want to support some older prowser versions, you could do something like this:
-moz-box-shadow: 4px 4px 10px #999;
-webkit-box-shadow: 4px 4px 10px #999;
box-shadow: 4px 4px 10px #999;
1.) Are we in a better mood now?
2.) Do you approve of my desire to maybe want to use drop-shadows using CSS3?
3.) And can I please be restored to the top of the "I don't care for JavaScript" stack?!
You're welcome.


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WASPS can look forward to a home quarter-final in the Amlin Challenge Cup after finishing off a flawless Pool Four campaign with a resounding 64-17 victory over Viadana at Adams Park this afternoon.
The black and golds put 90 points on the Italians in a record European triumph away from home in October, and a sunny afternoon meant another try-fest was on the cards.
It was just the ten scores this time, but it was plenty good enough to complete the black and golds' first ever 100 per cent pool campaign in the Amlin and make it seven wins in eight in all competitions.
As second seeds, they can now look forward to another big European night in Wycombe in early April, when it's likely to be Gloucester standing between them and a place in the semi-finals.
Results earlier in the weekend appeared to be falling nicely to set up a last-eight clash against Dai Young's former club, Cardiff Blues.
But Gloucester's impressive victory in Perpignan took them ahead of the Welshman and means that only Scarletts can now replace Gloucester if they stun Harlequins later today.
Wasps' opponents in the last eight was the only thing to be decided today, with this match as close to a foregone conclusion as it's possible to get.
A try after two minutes, scored by Ashley Johnson from a line-out drive, only reinforced that belief and Wasps had wrapped up the bonus point within half an hour thanks to an Elliot Daly hat-trick.
The full back squeezed over in the corner for his first after ten minutes, and his break and neat link up with Josh Bassett created his second with 15 minutes gone.
Daly then caught up with Tom Varndell's chip to complete his treble with 27 minutes played, and shortly afterwards he repaid the compliment to send Varndell over in the corner.
That made it 31-5 after Viadana had crossed themselves through Nicola Sintich, and that's how it remained at half-time.
The intensity predictably dropped after the interval, and the visitors made the most of the flat atmosphere to go over a second time after 62 minutes through Mirko Monfrino.
But that just spurred Wasps back into life and within minutes Willium Helu had gone over for try number six before Joe Simpson then added a poignant seventh in memory of his mother Brigid, who passed away recently.
Taione Vea then went over near the end to round up an even 50 points for the hosts, before Carlisle and Varndell broke the symmetry with Wasps' ninth and tenth tries in the final seconds.


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Vienna has a great range of bars on offer whether you want to sit out on a terrace to soak up the atmosphere or go to typical backpackers bar. We asked you for your top bars in Vienna over on our
Hostelworld.com Facebook page. Here's your list of the best bars in Vienna!
Erdmann Áron says:
Ronahi because of the atmosphere.
Location: Schottenfeldgasse 18
The Travel Shack
Jojohn Jim-Jam Donado says:
The Travel Shack because it is a great place to get obscenely drunk and meet other travellers. Also, there is a foosball table inside.
Catherine Leroux says:
Travel Shack! The travellers' bar for backpackers and international students. 20 shots for 10 euros!
Location: Mariahilfer Gurtel 21
Nox Bar
Mario Harapin says:
Nox bar! Best party!
Location: Stadtbahnbögen 70-71
Sly & Arny
Daniela Bagari says:
Sly & Arny – great cocktails, good food to affordable prices
Location: Lackierergasse 5
Cécile Ou? says:
?The 1516. They served the best beers, the atmosphere is really great with old people, young people, families, and travellers. You can also eat traditional meat or others. The prices are very correct. In the centre near everything.
Lennard Ramone says:
?There's a brew pub called 1516 that was pretty good. It's in a park in the city centre.
Location: Schwarzenbergstraße 2
Bockshorn Irish Pub
?rem Y?ld?z says:
Bockshorn Irish Pub – It is small inside, but it has a great atmosphere. I could not forget the taste of the Irish beers and the time I spent there with lovely friends.
Location: Naglergasse 7
Cocktailbar Meeru
Peter Fürst says:
Cocktailbar Meeru – Best Cocktails in Vienna!
Location: Siebensterngasse 15
Molly Darcy's Pub
Tiffany Volpini de Maestri says:
Molly Darcy's Pub in the City Centre. It's a great Irish pub. The waiters are mostly real Irish or at least English. It's a great place to escape.
Location: Teinfaltstraße 6
Cafe Benno
Ana MMen? says:
?Cafe Benno, because they organize pub quizzing and I spent a good night there!
Location: Alser Straße 67
Down Under
Bruno Macedo says:
Down Under.
Location: Magdalenenstraße 32
Känguruh Bar
Scott Edwards says:
Känguruh Bar. Whole menu of beers to sample!
Location: Bürgerspitalgasse 20
Strandbar Herrmann
Robert Gierzinger says:
Strandbar Herrmann!
Location: Donaukanal-Promenade/Urania
Herr Harald says:
Donau is always awesome. Lots of people even during the week. Always good music. And it looks different every night.
Location: Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 10
womBar@Wombats City Hostels
Doris Schreyvogel says:
womBar @ wombats City Hostels!
Location: Mariahilfer Straße 137
2Euro Bar
Eoghan O'Sullivan says:
There is a bar called the '2Euro bar' everything is 2 euro and there is a traditional game involving a stump of a tree, nails and a hammer in there too… Very fun bar we stumbled across during our adventure in Vienna.
Location: Hörlgasse 10
BierFactory XXL
Lucas Brown says:
BierFactory XXL. Massive schnitzels and good drink specials.
Location: Zieglergasse 42
Blaue Bar
Teresa Martello says:
Blaue Bar in the Hotel Sacher Wien! I love the atmosphere of this bar, it's all BLUE and with elegant furnishings & decor. And best yet, you can enjoy a slice of their world famous Sacher Torte, i did!
Location: Philharmonikerstraße 4
Bermuda Bräu
Josep Romeu Koehler says:
Bermuda Bräu, really friendly place, people use to go after working to drink beers. I really love that place when I was studying in Austria. It's like pub/bar/tavern at the same time.
Location: Rabensteig 6
Q Bar
Maria Župan says:
Location: Stadtbahnbögen 142-144


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Fire scientists fight over what Western forests should look like
Mark Williams and Bill Baker stand amid ponderosa pines in the mountains west of Fort Collins, Colo., holding a copy of a 19th century land survey. They're looking for a small pile of rocks with three notches on the east side, indicating that a General Land Office surveyor stopped here to describe the forest. Surveyors noted many things, says Baker, a professor at the University of Wyoming; they even discovered a gallows where two men had been hung. But generally the reports focus on forest type and structure -- less dramatic, perhaps, but more useful for modern researchers reconstructing historic Western forests and their fire patterns.
Over the past five years, Williams and Baker compiled thousands of hand-written descriptions and combined them with tree-ring data from the lines the surveyors walked. What they found surprised them. In each of their study areas -- mixed conifer and ponderosa forests in northern Arizona, Colorado's Front Range and eastern Oregon -- dense thickets of spindly trees and severe crown fires were common even before European settlement. In fact, the two scientists argue that the severity of many recent megafires, like Arizona's 2002 Rodeo-Chediski fire, which burned 190,000 acres, is actually pretty normal.
If that sounds counterintuitive, it is. Conventional wildfire wisdom is generally the opposite. Many scientists say that dry Western forests were once open and park-like, with large, widely spaced trees and little undergrowth. Now, however, due to fire suppression and logging practices, they've become overgrown with small trees and shrubs. The result is that frequent low-severity fires have been replaced by a new era of megafires that are hotter and more severe than ever before.
That's true in some parts of the West, say Baker and Williams, a recent Ph.D. student, but not everywhere; many dry forests throughout the region historically were more dense and prone to severe fires. They also disagree with the idea that thinning and prescribed burns can prevent such fires. That kind of treatment, applied in the wrong places, is not only misguided, they say, but could do more harm than good.
Naturally, those strong statements have met equally strong criticism from many pre-eminent fire ecologists. But Baker and Williams are not the first researchers to complicate fire ecology in the West. Unfortunately, the nuances in their and other scientists' perspectives are often oversimplified in the media and in policy-making, with damaging results. "A set of laws, policies and initiatives that aim to uniformly reduce fuels and fire severity is likely to (have) adverse effects on biological diversity," wrote Baker and Williams in their recent paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
"It's very important that we take a more regional geographic approach and not apply what we know from one system to another," says Rosemary Sherriff, an associate professor of geography at California's Humboldt State University, whose work corroborates some of the Wyoming researchers' findings. But "it's hard to get that across, because the idea of park-like ponderosa pine is widespread."
One of the main researchers behind the traditional view is ecologist Wally Covington. When he began working at Northern Arizona University in 1975, many of the landscapes he encountered were choked with trees that had sprung up during decades of fire suppression. Covington wondered how the forests looked before widespread settlement. His study results strengthened earlier findings that, in the past, Southwest ponderosa pine forests were kept open by frequent surface fires.
Subsequent recommendations to remove small trees and reintroduce surface fires became the basis for policies like the 2002 Healthy Forests Initiative, attracting the support of both lawmakers and environmentalists, since they would heal damaged ecosystems while reducing the risk of catastrophic fire.
The "Southwest model" gained support from other fire ecologists and began to be used as an explanation for forest problems elsewhere in the West -- even areas with vastly different historical fire regimes. Foresters in places like eastern Oregon, Montana and California's Sierra Nevada began thinning to make forests more park-like and reduce the risk of severe fires -- in the process jeopardizing wildlife such as black-backed woodpeckers and Kirtland's warblers, whose habitat is found in burn patches. Further research would reveal the situation's complexity; in reality, both surface and severe crown fires played an important role in many landscapes.
For example, the Sierra Nevada's ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests are open and park-like on dry, south-facing slopes, with densely packed trees in creek beds and on northern aspects. Despite this variety, Malcolm North, a scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station, found in 2008 that fuel management officers were applying the Southwest model to an extreme, thinning the landscape into an "asbestos forest," rows of evenly spaced trees with no understory.


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Twenty-two former and current Members of Parliament have written letters of endorsement for cricket legend, Frederick Heather's 2012 Canada's Sports Hall of Fame nomination. Additionally, seven Senators have also put pen to paper to support Heather. The support and praise for Heather's contributions as a builder of Canadian cricket have been overwhelming with a total of 43 written endorsements.
There are Olympic medalists, CEO's, mayors, and authors who have joined the effort to have cricket recognized in Canada. Heather's contributions to cricket can be read on the Cricket Canada website. Unfortunately, Canada does not have a cricket hall of fame, although Heather was inducted into the U.S. Cricket Hall of Fame in 2010.
The only avenue for national recognition of cricket is Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, which currently does not honour a single cricketer. The Hall's mission is to promote the importance of sport to Canadian culture, families and communities by sharing the compelling stories of our outstanding achievements in Canadian sport.
Our Members of Parliament promote that 2012 be the year Canadians are inspired by Heather's outstanding achievements, through his inclusion to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.


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HOUSTON - The joy and excitement of Jon Richardson's high school graduation night was quickly spoiled after he and his girlfriend robbed and carjacked while hanging out at a park off Veterans Memorial Drive early Sunday morning.
"I saw the four guys walking up to us," Richardson said. "I knew what was going to happen. I didn't want to get hurt, especially my girlfriend."
Richardson said that the four appeared to be teenagers and one of them pulled out a gun, demanding his belongings.
"So, I gave them my cellphone and my car keys," Richardson said.
According to Houston Police, two of the suspects, who turned out to be 14 years old, jumped in Richardson's car while the other two fled in a different vehicle.
A short time later, a Houston police officer noticed the stolen car driving down the road with its high beams on. Police tried to pull the car over, not knowing it had just been stolen.
The teens refused to pull over and led officers on a short case, investigators said. The car stopped briefly and the teen driver jumped out and took off on foot. That's when the gun-wielding passenger hopped over to the driver's seat and proceeded to lead police on yet another short chase, officials said. This one ended when the driver crashed at the intersection of Garcia and John Alber.
The 14-year-old who pointed the gun at the victims was arrested while the original driver and two other suspects escaped, police said.
The teen was transferred over to Harris County Juvenile authorities, referred on charges of aggravated robbery and felony evading arrest.
"I actually feel bad for (the suspect's) family," Richardson said. "He's 14 and facing those kind of charges? I feel bad for them."
Richardson and his girlfriend were not injured.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text: The Super Hero of Bollywood is a fitness icon for many young people. Muscular body with 6 pack abs and great biceps and triceps makes him the most handsome and hottest star in Bollywood. The most desired and sexiest looking or I should better change my words to most handsome looking star in Bollywood is Hrithik Roshan. The Super hero of India is very strict in his fitness and workout routines and…Read More


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MIAMI - Two days after the polls closed across America, Florida is counting its final presidential ballots.
Most of the remaining ballots were counted Thursday in Miami-Dade County. The state's largest county had 30,000 absentee ballots dropped off on Election Day.. Combined with a tight race and lines that keep polling places open past midnight, that has delayed the announcement of a winner.
"The incidences that occurred in this election are unfortunate but the fact of the matter is we will use those lessons to improve upon already a very good process," said Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Penelope Townsley. "We're not perfect but we're going to do our best to rectify for next time."
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has spoken out about the long waits to vote.
"The waits were way too far," Gimenez said. "And we've got to get some answers as to what happened. Why? Why wasn't it foreseen?"
Gimenez said he would ask Gov. Rick Scott to extend early voting hours in future elections.
Scott, who came under a barrage of criticism over the weekend for refusing to use his emergency powers to extend the number of days of early voting, said Wednesday he was willing to look at whether changes are needed to make voting go smoother.
Many other counties are also still counting votes, including Duval County, which hopes to finish going through the remaining 3,600 absentee and 6,000 provisional ballots by Saturday -- the day counties must report unofficial results to the state.
President Barack Obama leads the count 49.9 percent to Mitt Romney's 49.3 percent. That's a difference of about 47,000 votes out of 8.3 million cast and barely outside the 0.5 percent threshold that would trigger an automatic recount.
If he claims Florida's 29 electoral votes, Obama would increase his victory margin in the Electoral College to 332 to Romney's 206.
After months of being told over and over that the biggest swing state would be essential to a White House victory, Florida took too long to count the ballots and the race in Florida was simply too close to call.
The never-ending lines may have made it seem like everyone waited, but actually, about 38 percent of the votes were cast early before Election Day. Some absentee ballots were dropped off at the last moment, slowing the state's tally.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Miami said more people should vote by mail.
"I thank everyone who stood in line. Your vote was not in vain," she said. "You never knew how this election was going to turn up. We could have been today discussing 'Oh my gosh, when is Florida's vote going to come in?' And it could tip a balance for a candidate or against a candidate."
That was the case in 2000, an election marred by a lengthy recount of dimpled ballots and hanging chads. The Supreme Court declared Republican George W. Bush the winner by a scant 537 votes.
The margin between Obama and Romney was much more than that, but thousands of votes still had to be counted.
Susan McManus, a political science professor at University of South Florida, said that while Florida wasn't particularly relevant Tuesday, it' won't always be that way.
"That chemistry can change from one election to another," she said. "I don't think there's ever going to be an election with a competitive state like Florida that won't be a hard-fought place."
Some voters dismissed the idea that the Sunshine State has no electoral cache.
"No I don't think it was irrelevant," said Mike Ugart, who works in orthopedics. He said he waited three hours to vote in the Miami neighborhood of Country Walk. "Every last vote counts for the future. We gotta have it. It's part of our process. I'm not disenfranchised with Florida. We are lucky we can vote."
Anna Neill, 35, an attorney from Miami, said she felt the same, saying she was anxiously waiting Wednesday to make certain Obama won the state.
"It's very important to me that Florida is blue," she said.
Neill helped with the Obama campaign in the final three days of the election, canvassing door to door and last night at a polling station.
Wendy Wheaton, 37, voted in Santa Rosa County on Florida's Panhandle, which also was later than most in counting ballots. She said Americans just don't want to wait for results anymore.
"If you look back even 20 years ago, counting the votes was so much slower than it is now with today's technology," she said.
Copyright 2012 by News4Jax.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Stormstout Brewery has a number of achievements and we managed to do 2 of them - I think smacking that hammer to kill 100 will take slightly better gear!
Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' is pretty easy to do - just keep rolling barrels into him until he dies. It's probably best you don't hit him at all because those barrels stack and give him a debuff which makes him take more damage and he dies quicker. It was quite fun to do, actually.
To do Ling-Ting's Herbal journey, you have to drink Ling Ting's favourite tea (which you buy from Auntie Stormsout at the beginning of the instance) and then for 5 minutes you get the ability to see Golden Hoplings around the instance. We got a bit excited and collected them from the word go, sometimes neglecting to tank or heal or DPS and then decided to go back at the end and finish it. There are only 30 in the brewery and it's shared so everyone can get into the Golden Hopling treasure hunt.
I like floating in bubbles for the last boss :)
You get this cute Hopling as a reward for the Herbal Journey achievement. Nawwwww!
And, I finally got around to getting my Tiny Goldfish (honoured from The Anglers). Ugh this picture didn't turn out so good!


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I bought a Char-broil grill (a big box) with a rectangular grill space of about 2 feet (across) by 1 1/2 feet deep. The coals are about 6-8 inches below the grill in this box. with about 4 inches of air below them. I use lump hardwood charcoal, and two chimney starters. I can't get the temperature above low-medium for anything. I thought two chimney starters-worth would do the trick, but grilling burgers (1/2" thick from Costco) takes about 15 minutes on one side and 10 or so on the other. I tried some pork loin and gave up after 35 or so minutes (on one side, no less)!
What am I doing wrong? I grill only on the right side, left lower vent is 1/2-way open, upper left vent (in the lid) is closed. Upper right vent is 1/2 way open, and lower right vent is closed.
Thinking I was heating too much space, I bought fire/chimney brick, placed it on the coalbed in the middle, put the coals on the right side, and that's when I had the burgers on the grill for 25 minutes.
Whaddya think? Should I just chuck this fine grill and buy something smaller, like the weber?


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I am a beginner coding in python. I have problem with running the python script.
When ever i import the module "random " and try to run the program it doesn't wait for the user to exit the program inspite of raw_input command.
I tried to debug and the out put looks fine in IDLE(GUI).
Not sure what is going wrong. Can some one help?
Here is the program am trying to run
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import random
while count < 100:
count += 1
if flip == 1:
heads += 1
if flip == 2:
tails += 1
print "no of heads:"
print heads
raw_input("press any key to exit")
it works fine in GUI. But doesn't run when i directly try to run the code (by double clicking)
Any help will be appreciated


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Dolce and Gabbana
By JACKIE WILLIS
August 27, 2013
An Italian jail is about to get a little more stylish. Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were sentenced to one year and eight months in jail for tax evasion on June 19, 2013, BBC reports. The designers are accused of hiding millions of euros from Italian authorities. According to BBC, "the judge ruled that the designers moved their brand to a Luxembourg-based holding company Gado in 2004." This, the judge says, was to avoid declaring taxes on "royalties of around 1 billion euros."
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LONG BEACH — A public memorial for singer and Long Beach native Jenni Rivera won't be held in Long Beach this week, city officials have announced. | PHOTOS
The service instead will be held Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, a spokeswoman there has confirmed. Tickets will be required to attend, but the details of how to get the tickets haven't been released yet.
"Representatives of the family have confirmed with the City of Long Beach that a public memorial for singer Jenni Rivera will not be held in Long Beach," according to a statement released Monday by the City Manager's Office. "Long Beach had been mentioned in the media as a potential site for a public memorial this week. As with any large special event in Long Beach, City staff from the office of Special Events and Filming had been working with the family over the past several days to determine their needs.
"Ultimately, the family decided a public memorial will not take place in Long Beach. No further details on the family's plans for a public memorial are available."
Several news websites and Los Angeles area television news stations have reported over the past few days that the memorial would take place Tuesday or Wednesday at the Long Beach Arena.
Rivera died Dec. 9 in a plane crash in northern Mexico, along with six others.
The privately-owned Learjet 25 was en route from Monterrey, Mexico, to Toluca, Mexico, outside Mexico City, when it was reported missing about 10 minutes after takeoff. Mexican officials say the plane fell from an altitude of 28,000 feet, reaching speeds of over 600 mph, shattering the plane when it hit.
The crash is still under investigation.
On Thursday, family members announced that they had identified Rivera's remains, which were flown back to Long Beach Airport late Thursday night.
The remains were then taken to All Souls Mortuary, where crowds gathered to pay tribute to the fallen music star, much as they have at the Lakewood home of Rivera's mother over the past week.
Known as the "Diva de la Banda," Rivera died just as her career was peaking. She was perhaps the most successful female singer in grupero, a male-dominated Mexico regional style, and had branched out into acting and reality television.
Besides being a singer, she appeared in the indie film "Filly Brown," which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, and was filming the third season of "I love Jenni," which followed her as she shared special moments with her five children and as she toured.
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Concord, NH – The NH Department of Environmental Services (DES) has issued a cyanobacteria advisory for Pool Pond in Rindge. The advisory was issued on June 12, 2006 and will remain in effect until additional samples reveal that cyanobacteria levels have diminished. DES advises lake users to avoid contact with the water in areas experiencing cyanobacteria bloom conditions.
DES routinely monitors public beaches and lakes for cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae. Cyanobacteria are natural components of many water bodies in New Hampshire. Cyanobacteria may bloom and form surface scum conditions when excess nutrients and ample sunlight are available for growth. These blooms may travel to different areas of a lake from wind and wave action. Many cyanobacteria contain toxins that are produced and released during bloom conditions. The toxins can cause both acute and chronic health effects ranging in severity from skin and mucous membrane irritations, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea to liver and central nervous system damage.
DES monitors and inspects public beaches throughout the state to better protect public health. Beach and lake users should be on the lookout for cyanobacteria scums. Often they form dense surface scums blue-green in color; or blooms may cause entire lakes to take on a blue-green hue. Sometimes they resemble paint chips or bright green balls floating in the water.
If you notice anything resembling cyanobacteria please refrain from wading, swimming, or drinking the water. Keep all pets out of the water and contact DES immediately.
For additional information about this advisory contact the DES Beach Program, please call the Program Coordinator, Sara Sumner, at (603) 271-8803, or Jody Connor, the Program Manager, at (603) 271-3414.


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Premiere Pro, After Effects and SSD Drives
Okay, lets talk.
I've been doing digital video for a long time and have seen a ton of gear walk through my doors during my time with Adobe and in the field in general. There have been lots of great improvements over the course of time and I've been privileged to help on some of them. CPU's have gotten faster and seen more cores, GPU's have exploded in power, motherboard bus speeds have increased and on and on…
But, we expect this and will continue to do so…
That said, there are very few improvements that make a remarkable difference. Lets be honest, there's a ton of fast stuff out there and it's not often that you get disruptive or revolutionary technology that makes a true difference in your every day workflow.
Well, I've had one of those game changers for the past 8+ months and after having it all this time, I now have to tell you that an SSD driveis absolutely one of those crazy, transformative technologies.
The problem with SSD drives in the past has been that they are expensive and not large enough in capacity. Well, now they are becoming increasingly affordable and the capacity has reached 500GB which makes using it as a boot drive completely plausible. 480GB+ drives are now less than $500. Intel, Samsung and others are terrific drives and I've played with at least a couple of them and had a solid experience with all of them.
If you are an After Effects user and a looking for a way to use that small 80-200GB SSD drive, install it in your system and point your AE cache to that drive and you will see Global Performance Cache go crazy with performance.
Once you go with an SSD drive, all other drives are driving you crazy! I've put a 520GB drive into my Macbook Pro and I have a full desktop experience in less than 10 seconds. Waiting even 30 seconds now is an eternity. Using a standard spinning disk for your AE cache drive also yields a vastly slower performance.
In short, the time to make SSD drives your standard is NOW! I'm working to slowly swap them out for all of my demo systems.


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STL - as I said in another post, my wife is from STL. Her friends are in O'Fallon, check this place out. Both times we went there I had their brisket, it was awesome. Cool place to go in general.
I recently moved from Los Angeles to O'fallon and so far Ethyl's is the best I've had since I've been here.
Hey it's good to know that I'm not out of touch with good bbq tastes. We're going back down there for Easter, I'm going to try to pull some strings to get us out there.


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Pumice is a soil amendment made from volcanic igneous rock. It provides excellent aeration, drainage, and nutrient control in both container gardens and flowerbeds. As a soil amendment, pumice is a good alternative to perlite.
Features & Benefits:
- Soil conditioner for better aeration and drainage
- Loosens heavy clay garden soils, letting in air and water for healthy roots
- Helps retain moisture, reducing watering by as much as 35%
- Increases bulk density of potting mixes
- Use pumice to regulate fertilizer feedings
- Source of trace minerals: phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, copper, iron, manganese
- Will not break down, compact or rot over time
- Does not attract or host fungi, nematodes, or insects
- Size: 5 gallons (23 lbs)
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Use pumice when transplanting plants or mixing potting soil for container gardens or potted plants. Use 10% pumice in soil mixture, or 1 gallon pumice per cubic foot.
For pots without drainage holes, spread a layer of pumice in bottom of container before adding soil or plants. This increases air circulation and drainage necessary for healthy roots and thriving plants.
Coarse pumice makes an excellent mulch for container gardens, potted plants, flower beds, and around shrubs. The soil beneath the mulch stays moist longer and is less likely to compact from watering. Weed problems are minimized with a couple of inches of pumice mulch. It does not break down or rot, so it does not need to be replaced.
Use when preparing seed beds in new turf areas, or as a top dressing on heavily‐trafficked lawns to restore or maintain soil structure.
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Hello all,
I am making the move to PDO but I'm lazy and don't like the redundancy of writing the queries so I made this.The queries are dirt simple.Just looking for your comments on this approach.
$debug = 'y';
class sql {
private function prepare($action, $data){
$retwhere = '';
$params = '';
$retinsert1 = '';
$retinsert2 = '';
$retset = '';
$paramsset = '';
// action can be u=update, i=insert or w=where
// remove tab indents
$data = str_replace("\ ", '', $data);
$data = rtrim($data, "\
$pieces = explode("\
", $data);
$find = array("\
", "\\r");
$replace = array('', '');
$pieces = str_replace($find, $replace, $pieces);
$i = 1;
$len = count($pieces);
foreach ($pieces as $piece){
list($key, $value) = explode('=', $piece);
$key = trim($key);
$value = trim($value);
// automatically puts in AND , OR - AND must come first in the query before OR.
if ($len == 1 || $len == $i || $pieces["$i"] == '') {
$and = '';
$com = '';
$and = ' AND ';
$com = ',';
$keyo = str_replace('.', '', $key);
if ($action == 'w'){ // where
// take out the table alias dots ie... users.username
//where, add a "w" here so there can be WHERE "username" and UPDATE "username" without collisions
// add $i for OR, where name = loren OR name = tom
if (empty ($key)){
$retwhere .= ' OR ';
// $i will always be the next array element, first time match $or will not be set
if (empty($pieces["$i"]) && !isset($or)){
$lp = '(';
$or = 'y';
if ($or == 'y' && $len == $i) {
$rp = ')';
else {
if (!isset($or)){
$lp = '';
$rp = '';
$retwhere .= $lp.$key.' = :w'.$keyo.$i.$and.$rp;
$params[':w'.$keyo.$i] = $value;
} // end action w
elseif ($action == 'i') {
$retinsert1 .= $keyo.$com;
$retinsert2 .= ':w'.$keyo.$i.$com;
$params[':w'.$keyo.$i] = $value;
elseif ($action == 'u'){ // update
$retset .= $keyo.' = :'.$keyo.$com;
$paramsset[$keyo] = $value;
// we only need one $lp so reset
$lp = '';
}// loop
return array(
"retwhere" => $retwhere,
"params" => $params,
"retinsert1" => $retinsert1,
"retinsert2" => $retinsert2,
"retset" => $retset,
"paramsset" => $paramsset
} // prepare
public function pdo($action, $table, $set, $where, $select = '', $ol = ''){
global $debug;
$stmt = '';
$opt = array(
$pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=loren", 'root', 'poi', $opt);
if($action == 'update'){
$prepareU = $this->prepare('u', $set);
if ($debug == 'y'){
echo'
paramsset '; print_r($prepare['paramsset']); echo '
';
// prepare
if ($action == 'insert'){
$prepare = $this->prepare('i', $where);
$prepare = $this->prepare('w', $where);
if ($debug == 'y'){
echo'
where '; print_r($prepare['params']); echo '
';
if ($prepareU['paramsset']){ // used for update
$params = array_merge((array)$prepareU['paramsset'], (array)$prepare['params']);
if ($debug == 'y'){
echo'
merge if update '; print_r($params); echo '
';
else {
$params = $prepare['params'];
if ($action == 'select'){
// put in ,'s and get rid of the last one
$select = str_replace("\
", "\
,", $select);
$select = substr($select, 0, -1);
if ($where == ''){
$q = "SELECT $select FROM $table";
$q = "SELECT $select FROM $table WHERE ".$prepare['retwhere']." $ol";
if ($action == 'insert'){
$q = "INSERT INTO $table (".$prepare['retinsert1'].") VALUES (".$prepare['retinsert2'].")";
if ($action == 'update'){
$q = "UPDATE $table SET ".$prepareU['retset']." WHERE ".$prepare['retwhere']."";
if ($action == 'delete'){
$q = "DELETE FROM $table WHERE ".$prepare['retwhere']."";
if ($action == 'query'){
$q = "$select";
if ($debug == 'y'){
echo'
params to execute, WHERE and UPDATE '; print_r($params); echo '
';
echo '
'.$q.'
';
$stmt = $pdo->prepare($q);
if($action == 'select'){
return $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
elseif ($action == 'insert'){
return $pdo->lastInsertId();
else {
return $stmt->rowCount();
$pdo = null;
// $this->sql = null;
} // class pdo
The queries format
$sql = new sql;
$table = 'customers';
$select = 'firstname
// single new line = AND, two new lines = OR. AND has to be first before OR
$where = 'phone = 1231231234
state = FL
state = WA
$rows = $sql->pdo('select', $table, '', $where, $select, $ol);
foreach ($rows as $row){
echo'
'; print_r($row); echo '
';
// insert
$set = 'phone = 1231231234
firstname = loren
lastname = wolsiffer
state = WA
// notice position of $set, this gets processed the same as $where
$row = $sql->pdo('insert', $table, '', $set);
echo 'last id '.$row.'
';
// update
$set = 'firstname = fred
lastname = barney
$where = 'phone = 1231231234
$rows = $sql->pdo('update', $table, $set, $where);
echo 'affected '.$rows.'
';
// delete
$where = 'firstname = fghgfhfhg
$rows = $sql->pdo('delete', $table, '', $where);
echo 'deleted rows '.$rows.'
';
This is my first class so I may not be doing it entirely correct.It's good to learn PDO and this was a good learning experience . This makes it easy to update all of my old mysql queries very quickly.
Thanks for looking and any comments you may have.
One thing it's missing is IN clause, I have been slowly adding to this and it works fine with joins and table aliases.I hope it's not a waste of time, I doubt it could ever be a one size fits all solution but works for what I do.
There are quite a few projects that set out to do this sort of thing, so it's certainly a worthwhile endeavor, but I don't think this one is where we'd want it to be yet.
We would be replacing:
$stmt = $pdo->prepare(
firstname, lastname, phone
phone = :phone AND (state = :state1 OR state = :state2)'
':phone' => '1231231234',
':state1' => 'FL',
':state2' => 'WA',
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll();
$table = 'customers';
$select = 'firstname
// single new line = AND, two new lines = OR. AND has to be first before OR
$where = 'phone = 1231231234
state = FL
state = WA
$rows = $sql->pdo('select', $table, '', $where, $select, $ol);
That doesn't look simpler to me. Plus, the data I bind to the statement can never have tabs, newlines, or equal signs, among other characters that will get stripped out. Plus, the way we denote ANDs and ORs and parenthese grouping in the WHERE clause seems unintuitive and can't represent all conditions.
I always use a wrapper class for db queries because I don't like the redundancy, either. But I'm not too fond of this type of simplification methods you chose because they don't really simplify much and seeing full SQL query is much more readable than the 'simplified' code you have provided, even if it takes a bit more characters, and much easier for debugging.
Also, there is the problem of expanding your queries - let's say you have a simple select that you execute with your simplified methods. After some time you want to add an inner join - your methods don't cover inner joins so you add this functionality to your methods and pass data for the join in some new parameters. After some time you want to add a left join - so you need to expand your methods again. But then the join order may matter so you need to code that, too. After some time you may want to add another type of join, you may want to fetch a few columns from joined tables as well, you may want to use SQL functions in your select columns or in the ORDER BY clause or the WHERE clause, you may want to group several logical AND/OR conditions just like with parentheses, or you may want to add a special flag to your SQL like SQL_NO_CACHE or FOR UPDATE or FORCE_INDEX, etc. The list goes on and on and you may end up with a huge 'simplification' class. Sure, you may want to simplify only the simple queries but then any expansion will require changing the whole method of interacting with the db - if that is so I prefer to write SQL from the beginning.
It's a slightly different thing if your goal is not query simplification but database type independence. Then you need some common way of executing queries and then this way makes sense - there are already many libraries that achieve this goal. This will always have its drawbacks because you may find it hard to fine-tune and optimize your queries for each database type where necessary but depending on the project it may not be a big problem. It all comes down to what requirements you have.
What I do is I don't try to simplify SQL but the PHP methods I use. So instead of the too verbose mysqli or PDO methods I use one-liners like this:
$phone_no = $db->fetchOneValue("SELECT phone_no FROM clients WHERE id=" .(int) $id);
// or with prepared statements:
$phone_no = $db->fetchOneValue("SELECT phone_no FROM clients WHERE id=:id", array("id" => $id));
And so I have one-liners for fetching all field values from a row, all rows from the result set, etc. This saves me typing while the queries look natural and I don't have to learn another ala-SQL language or interface apart from SQL (that I need to know anyway) and a few convenience one-liner methods.
You are definitely not wasting your time, there's nothing wrong with being 'lazy'. In fact, it's the need for lazy programming that results in so many reusable softwares and even modern programming languages themselves. In your code, you are effectively generating dynamic SQL queries, some are even reusable and easily modifiable.
You can take one step further to use a Query object with methods such as table(), select(), insert(), update(), delete(), where(), order(), limit(), etc to simplify the execution of SQL queries. You can even create Criterion objects used for WhereClause to get more abstraction/encapsulation. The advantage is that you do not even have to write SQL in PHP(except the Query/Criterion classes itself which encapsulates this process), it achieves separation of concerns. It also allows your client coders who dont know SQL syntax to use your library easily(assuming you work in a team). The disadvantage is, of course, a performance penalty. Whether the advantage outweighs the disadvantage depends on the complexity of your application, generally the advantages are more evident on larger/growing softwares that execute a good number of queries.
Thank you all for your replies.@Lemon Juice, I did test with joins and it goes a long way without problem and I agree, it does have scale-ability issues. It also has the optional $ol (order by, group and limit).
@Hall of Famer, Thanks. It amazes me how hard I work to be lazy and I like your idea of Query objects.I really had no blueprint and just started building it. Perhaps a redesign in the future.
Just to push it and see what it could do, It ran this radius query fine.
$table = "radacct AS acct
LEFT JOIN radlookupnas as rlnas
ON rlnas.user = acct.UserName
LEFT JOIN radcheck as chktime
ON chktime.UserName = rlnas.user
AND chktime.Attribute = 'Max-All-Session'
LEFT JOIN radcheck as chkexp
ON chkexp.UserName = rlnas.user
AND chkexp.Attribute = 'Expiration'
LEFT JOIN radreply as repbw
ON repbw.UserName = rlnas.user
AND repbw.Attribute = 'ChilliSpot-Max-Total-Octets'
$select = 'rlnas.user as user
chkexp.value as expires
repbw.value AS maxoctets
chktime.value AS maxsession
SUM(acct.AcctInputOctets) AS Upload
SUM(acct.AcctOutputOctets) AS Download
SUM(acct.AcctSessionTime) AS timeused
SUM(acct.AcctInputOctets + acct.AcctOutputOctets) as bwused
max(acct.AcctStartTime) as LastLogin
min(acct.AcctStartTime) as FirstLogin
COUNT(acct.RadAcctId) AS logins
rlnas.nasid as nasid
min(acct.AcctStopTime) AS online
$where = "rlnas.nasid = $nasid
$ol = 'GROUP BY acct.UserName
ORDER BY max(acct.AcctStartTime) DESC
$rowj = $sql->pdo('select', $table, '', $where, $select, $ol);
foreach ($rowj as $val){
echo'
val '; print_r($val); echo '
';
Thanks again for the comments.
If I may comment on this piece of code - to me this kind of implementation makes no sense. What are you trying to achieve? You are not providing support for joins, order by clauses, functions, etc. - what you are basically doing is building your sql query by concatenating strings in a convoluted manner. In this case just plain sql in one chunk would be much more useful and readable. Either you go for solid sql abstraction (like db query objects) or just leave plain sql without such half cooked recipes. I can't see how this solution can simplify anything - it just makes things more complicated because your query appears segmented, you have to know the order of your method parameters, etc. and you gain no benefit of database abstraction.
I'm probably wasting my time as I suspected BUT I did learn PDO which was the "object" anyway.I'll be back to writing out my queries and had home fun with this.Thanks.
Let's look at what a normal class would look like extending / injecting PDO.
class User {
private $pdo;
public function __construct(PDO $pdo) {
$this->pdo = $pdo;
public function addAccount($email, $firstName, $LastName) {
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SQL?");
$stmt->execute(array(':email' => $email, ':firstName' => $firstname, ':lastname' => $lastName));
return $stmt->fetchAll();
public function checkExp($foo) {
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SQL?");
$stmt->execute(array(':foo' => $foo));
return $stmt->fetchAll();
The only redundant code here I see that you could potentially write once somewhere else is $stmt = $pdo->prepare(), $stmt->execute(), and the return. A bit redundant yes, but these are the parts that can vary greatly. I might not always want to return a fetchAll() for example. Your gain is to make sure you are building proper objects so that now all you have to do is $user = new User; $user->addAccount($email, $firstName, $LastName);
IMO the biggest time saver you can come across is knowing that all of your errors / notices / exceptions or being handled. Ehemm (signature) cough.
I don't think you wasted your time - what you've learned by your attempts is yours. Making life easy is a very good goal for a programmer but it's important to ask yourself if the solution is really making your life easier.
What I know is that what you were trying to accomplish is not an easy goal. There are many huge frameworks for simplifying and abstracting db access - you may want to look at Doctrine or Proper. Interacting with db via objects is not an easy thing if you want to go there to the full and get rid of SQL completely. You often end up with a php framework that takes quite some time to learn so you need to ask yourself if it's worth the effort.
As to your implementation, I also use such shortcuts but only for some simplest use cases, for example:
$db->insert("my_table", array(
"id" => 22,
"name" => "Lemon",
"active" => 1
$db->update("my_table", array(
"active" => 0),
"id=22" // WHERE clause
The first one is quite common and I like it because it offers quite some level of abstraction and I don't have to pass any sql to it. I like the second one less because partially it does string concatenation to build the query so it's not that elegant any more. If I have to pass literal parts of sql to my 'simplifying' method then I think this whole idea becomes less sensible because writing plain sql is often simpler and the code is easier to understand.
Meant to include something like this as well. This is how you advance!


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I chose to title this book "the incomplete collection" because I couldn't decide on a thematic direction to take the book. Would it simply be a book containing images? Would I include narrative documentation of my experiences photographing the men who posed for me? Or would I write about the creative process of capturing the male nude?
The other challenge to putting this collection together was the fact that it never felt ready. I doubted that I photographed enough men or had the right array of men to actually put an entire body of work together. I believe that most artists struggle with this sense of incompleteness. It can always use one more brushstroke.
Essentially, I hit an emotional rock bottom towards the end of 2011. I was unhappy in my 9 to 5 corporate life and disappointed that I hadn't done anything about my passion to live life as an artist and not as a slave to the corporate machine. Here I was experiencing the most lifestyle discontent that I had ever experienced, and I literally had two hard drives full of images I had created as a hobbyist and amateur photographer that were begging to be printed and bound. Although I knew this collection would be incomplete, it would be the next step in my path to pursuing my life as an artist.
Since I first picked up a camera in 2004, I learned quite a bit about myself and others as a result of my experiences behind the lens. Between these pages you will find some of my favorite images I've shot and some random narratives about the men and the process. I hope you enjoy this incomplete collection. I certainly enjoyed being the person behind the lens composing it.
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If I had to set forth a mission statement for my art, it would be to celebrate real men of all colors through the tasteful display of physique photography. I like to think of it as the MasculineCurves philosophy. The men I choose to shoot are REAL men who come from all walks of life. They've been business professionals, escorts, recovering substance abusers, former drug dealers, amateur bodybuilders, flight attendants, gay, straight, fathers, grandfathers -- you name it. Whenever I'm interviewing a potential model I'm always probing to understand his unique perspective on life. It's that unique perspective that provides me with my inspiration. It's that unique perspective I strive to convey in my art work.
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Vocabulary Items: trees, grass/lawn, bushes, flowers, sign, walkway, driveway, roof, shingles, windows, siding, offers, housing market, credit report, mortgage, property taxes, equity
idioms: It's a steal. / curb appeal / get the price down / down payment / Don't count your chickens before they've hatched.
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(Present Progressive) They're selling their house. / People are making appointments to see the house. / The seller is asking $225,000. / The realtor isn't getting many offers on the house. / The buyer is thinking about not renewing his contract with the realtor.
(Simple Past) The buyer signed a contract with the realtor six months ago. / Only two people made appointments to see the house last week. / The realtor said that they buyer's price was too high.
(Simple Future) The buyer will have to lower the price. / The realtor won't renew his contract with the buyer. / Few people will want to pay so much money for that house.
Countable and Uncountable Nouns: realtor, real estate, grass, bushes, sign, money, price, offers
Active and Passive Voice: The house was built in 1982. / They built the house in three months. / The house is being sold by a well-known realty company. / The realtor is advertising the house in local newspapers.
Prepositions / Prepostional Phrases: on the lawn, on the driveway, in front of the house, at the front door, for a down payment, at home
Non-linguistic Topics for Discussion: housing crisis, "the American dream," foreclosures, financial responsibility, credit crisis
See how much you can do with one picture? Pictures with action scenes are great, but don't overlook simple pictures on plain backgrounds such as the one I've chosen to show you here. They can be very productive, too. And one more point that's important about a picture file is that it can be used for any level of language teaching from elementary to advanced.
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Visiting Lake Toba, Sumatra
Guest blog from Miguel Zamora, the Director of Coffee Innovation and Producer Relations
This guest blog post comes to us from our very own Miguel Zamora, the Director of Coffee Innovation and Producer Relations at Fair Trade USA. Miguel is focused on creating opportunities between buyers and coffee-growing communities around the world. Read on to learn more about his visit with small scale coffee farmers in the Lake Toba region of Sumatra who hope to access the many opportunities and benefits of Fair Trade through Fair Trade USA's new Independent Smallholder Standard (ISS).
I just returned from visiting the Lake Toba region in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where I was meeting with small-scale coffee farmers who want to join Fair Trade. Most of the participants in these meetings tend to men, but on this trip a few women joined the meetings as well.
In this region, a lot of the work in coffee fields is actually done by women. Fair Trade requires participatory and representative leadership and, in this case, will require that women form part of the leadership farmer group (the Fair Trade Committee). This committee will gather input from other farmers (and their spouses) about where to invest the Fair Trade premium and how to implement premium-funded projects.
With the support of local NGO's and an exporter, the Fair Trade farmers committee will also collect information from the farmers to better understand what the most important issues that Fair Trade could support are (for example: better access to water, better access to healthcare, etc). Then, the farmers committee creates a plan that lays out how the future Fair Trade premiums will address those issues.
We hope that Fair Trade will help improve these farming communities and will bring them closer to the consumers who buy their coffee. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress!
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This post is part of our new Innovation Update Series. Please stay tuned as we report on both the successes and challenges involved in launching each coffee pilot, our cooperative-strengthening program Co-op Link, and our progress on Fair Trade for All as a whole. It's a unique opportunity for people to learn about the farmers and workers participating in these programs, what Fair Trade means to them, and how we can work together to build a more inclusive, collaborative approach that supports everyone in the global coffee supply chain willing to commit to a journey of sustainability, responsibility, empowerment and impact.


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Ecora Software's Enterprise Auditor 3.5, an update to the company's configuration management software that helps admins keep track of server configuration, security and compliance while tracking changes to a system, captured the Bronze Award in the network and systems management category.
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"I use it a lot at the beginning of a consulting engagement, and I can ask the servers how they are set up, and they'll tell me," one judge said. "You can sit at one workstation and collect all of this data. It puts all the data in a database and you can run any kind of report that you want."
"It's most useful for people who don't have a well-established change-management system," the judge added. "If you have really rigid change management in place, then you probably have this data, but most people who are managing Windows servers don't have well-established change management."
The price for the software begins at $995 per server.
Jennifer Lawinski, news writer