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TamaTalk Upgrade - A Status Log
Posted 21 September 2010 - 07:48 AM ( #1 )
So far I have downloaded the software and am doing tests of upgrades with our current database (the database stores EVERYTHING from members, posts, PMs, etc). The current "problem" is that our database is relatively huge so the upgrade process is taking a LONG time on my tests. How long? We are talking hours and hours just to let the software go through everything and do updates. This means that the upgrade itself will take longer than I expected so no more TT down for a couple of hours to update... It will be more like down for at least a full day. That stinks in my opinion but we don't have an alternative and I still think it is worth the time. I am still doing testing and such so I will keep you all posted on when I think this will all happen.
Started21 Sep 2010
Last Post04 Nov 2010
Posted 21 September 2010 - 01:41 PM ( #2 )
So, yes, at least a good chunk of the day for the upgrading. I am going to work on a basic tama-fied skin to see how soon I can get this all up and running.
Posted 22 September 2010 - 04:45 PM ( #3 )
My apologies if the site has slowed down a little from time to time. It is usually because I am doing some testing.
Posted 24 September 2010 - 10:58 AM ( #4 )
It is moving slower than I hoped though. I know for sure we won't be upgrading at the 1 week mark. I am hoping for a clearer idea some time soon.
I will keep you all posted and I also really appreciate your patience. I have received a lot of comments from members excited to see the new stuff.
Posted 29 September 2010 - 02:21 PM ( #5 )
Sorry I haven't updated the log in a while. Progress on the upgrade is moving along wonderfully. At the moment I am concentrating on tweaking the skin to make it look how I want. I am trying to go for something similar to the current blue skin. So it is looking familiar but you can still see the improvements there. I am also trying to make sure things are loading up fast so that the whole site just feels snappy. (In fact, I made a server tweak today to help make things faster so hopefully you are seeing fast page loads now).
The TT Guides have been helping me check things out and everyone is learning some of the new features and tools available so that we have a chance of having answers to the questions everyone will be asking when the upgrade happens.
I am still hopeful that the upgrade will happen soon but can not give a specific day yet. I know people are anxious to see this. I am working hard to make it something worth waiting for. Thanks to everyone for continuing to be so patient!
Posted 06 October 2010 - 11:26 AM ( #6 )
Posted 10 October 2010 - 07:04 PM ( #7 )
I will continue to keep everyone posted.
Posted 14 October 2010 - 12:13 PM ( #8 )
The Guides have been helping me by looking around at the new software and offering loads of bug reports and tips/suggestions. I am likely to give more people a sneak peak really soon. Stay tuned for more updates!
Posted 16 October 2010 - 12:38 PM ( #9 )
Please note that once the upgrade begins you will likely not be able to access TamaTalk for a day or two. Please be patient and know that I will be working like crazy to bring the site back online as quickly as possible.
I will keep everyone posted if anything changes.
Posted 20 October 2010 - 07:14 PM ( #10 )
Right now we have a few major parts of the upgrade that have yet to be completed...
1) PMs are turned off for now while I wait for a good way to get them upgraded. Nothing is lost from before. The problem is converting it to the new way that the database handles PMs.
2) The gallery needs to be finished. They are getting ready to release an even cooler gallery update later this month so I am just waiting for the new one before beginning this part.
3) The arcade isn't done yet. According to stats not many people were using it anyways so I am wanting to concentrate on the more important stuff first.
Posted 22 October 2010 - 06:47 AM ( #11 )
I am still working on this. Hopefully we will be at full power (as far as status updates, search, profiles, PMs) some time today.
Apologies again for all the inconveniences here...
Posted 29 October 2010 - 02:21 PM ( #12 )
I am also still waiting for the gallery software update before rolling it out here. It's release should be any day now.
The arcade? Nobody seems to miss it. It is pretty low on the to-do list right now so please voice your opinions if you all want it to return.
Posted 04 November 2010 - 12:06 PM ( #13 )


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Through a varied practise of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing Hirst has sought to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. Alongside over 80 solo exhibitions he has worked on numerous curatorial projects. In 2008, Hirst took the unprecedented step of bypassing gallery involvement in selling 244 new works at a Sotheby's, London auction entitled 'Beautiful Inside My Head Forever'.
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Hey all,
I was thinking that a live chat feature is a good idea. E-Sangha has a link that reads "Chat", but everytime I click on it, my computer freezes and I have to close and restart my browser.
I would love a live chat feature because it can help answer questions and have live discussion instead of waiting to receive responses to a posting.
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'Unfinished Paintings' exhibit continues in June at New Kensington campus
'Unfinished Paintings' exhibit continues in June at New Kensington campus
The annual exhibit of paintings and drawings by artist and Penn State New Kensington professor of visual arts, Charles "Bud" Gibbons, is set to run until June 30 in the Art Gallery on the Upper Burrell campus. The artist's 40-year run as a professor ends the same day with his retirement.
The theme of the show is "Unfinished Paintings," and the display features 75 oil and acrylic pieces. Many have been a part of Gibbons' previous exhibits. "Paintings" is the traditional name of the show.
"Each year I get to see my paintings 'fresh' in the gallery," Gibbons said. "It helps to know how to move the paintings forward. These paintings have not made it into exhibits before or have been reworked to the point that they should be shown again."
The idea of unfinished paintings comes from Gibbons' en plein air (in the open air) style. He prefers working outdoors, but he is limited by time and weather, so a painting can get started but not always completed. The exhibit comprises a number of these outdoor pieces called "studies," which are small paintings done on location. A study becomes the foundation for a larger painting that can be done in the studio.
The exhibit is free to the public. The New Kensington gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. weekends. For more information, call 724-334-6032.
For photos of the exhibit, visit http://psnk.smugmug.com/.
For more about the show and Gibbons' retirement, visit http://nk.psu.edu/Information/News/45878.htm#NEWS45878.
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Birth Situation Room:
The reports in this area of the Birth Situation Room are to inform you of how birth is doing around the world in a broader context than a specific country. For example, Robin Lim's report about poverty and Marsden Wagner's articles about dangerous technology have been placed here. A report about a region of the world belongs here as well. —Jan Tritten
• World Health Report 2008
• Changing Childbirth: The Latin American Example—Robbie Davis-Floyd [December 2007]
• Effect of Poverty on Birth—Robin Lim [July 2006]
• Ultrasound: More Harm than Good?—Marsden Wagner, MD [June 1999]
• Technology in Birth: First Do No Harm—Marsden Wagner, MD [2000]
• Cytotec Induction and Off-Label Use—Marsden Wagner, MD [September 2003]
• Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts—Beverley Lawrence Beech [September 1999]
The State of the World's Midwifery 2011
Foreword by UN Secretary-General
[View individual country data and profiles]
[The full report, with many helpful charts and graphs, is available here.]
This report comes at a propitious moment in the international campaign for women's advancement. The recent establishment of the dynamic new agency UN Women, as well as the launch of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, combine to offer hope for greater progress in the coming years.
Nowhere is this more urgently needed than in preventing one of the greatest tragedies of our time: the needless death and injury each year of millions of poor and marginalized women and children worldwide. Of the eight Millennium Development Goals, the two specifically concerned with improving the health of women and children are the furthest from being achieved.
This is not a matter of statistics. The woman who perishes from hemorrhaging during childbirth or the infant who dies during a complicated birth each has a name and a family who love and cherish them. Beyond individual tragedy, these losses carry untold social and economic repercussions for society.
We know what is needed to make pregnancy and delivery safe: access to health services, including skilled birth attendants and a functioning health care facility. We also know it is possible to mobilize the leadership and action needed to provide these services to every expecting woman and her baby.
At the launch of the Global Strategy, numerous developing countries demonstrated great political will—backed by new commitments—to scale-up the number of skilled birth attendants and provide the midwifery services that women need throughout their reproductive years.
The State of the World's Midwifery 2011—the first of its kind—takes stock of the practice in 58 countries. Collectively, they represent 91 percent of global maternal deaths. Using fresh data, information and analysis, the report identifies common challenges within and among countries while highlighting promising approaches to strengthen midwifery services around the world.
The report focuses on the critical early period when deaths can be averted. It is an important companion to other efforts aimed at rigorously measuring action and results, including the Global Strategy and the report of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health.
Ensuring that every woman and her newborn have access to quality midwifery services demands that we take bold steps to build on what we have achieved so far across communities, countries, regions and the world. Our responsibility is clear: we must safeguard each woman and child so they may live to their full potential. The results will reverberate far beyond the lives of those directly affected, fostering a better world for all.
— Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General of the United Nations
World Health Report 2008
The World Health Report 2008 critically assessed the way that health care is organized, financed, and delivered in rich and poor countries around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) report documents a number of failures and shortcomings that have left the health status of different populations, both within and between countries, dangerously out of balance.
Differences in life expectancy between the richest and poorest countries now exceed 40 years. Of the estimated 136 million women who will give birth this year, around 58 million will receive no medical assistance whatsoever during childbirth and the postpartum period, endangering their lives and those of their infants. Globally, annual government expenditure on health varies from as little as US $20 per person to well over US $6000. For 5.6 billion people in low- and middle-income countries, more than half of all health care expenditure is through out-of-pocket payments. With the costs of health care rising and systems for financial protection in disarray, personal expenditures on health now push more than 100 million people below the poverty line each year. Vast differences in health occur within countries and sometimes within individual cities. In Nairobi, for example, the under-five mortality rate is below 15 per 1000 in the high-income area. In a slum in the same city, the rate is 254 per 1000. "High maternal, infant, and under-five mortality often indicates lack of access to basic services such as clean water and sanitation, immunizations and proper nutrition," said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director.
To steer health systems towards better performance, the report calls for a return to primary health care, a holistic approach to health care formally launched 30 years ago. When countries at the same level of economic development are compared, those where health care is organized around the tenets of primary health care produce a higher level of health for the same investment.
In far too many cases, people who are well-off and generally healthier have the best access to the best care, while the poor are left to fend for themselves. Health care is often delivered according to a model that concentrates on diseases, high technology, and specialist care, with health viewed as a product of biomedical interventions and the power of prevention largely ignored. Specialists may perform tasks that are better managed by general practitioners, family doctors, or nurses. This contributes to inefficiency, restricts access, and deprives patients of opportunities for comprehensive care. Above all, health care is failing to respond to rising social expectations for health care that is people-centred, fair, affordable and efficient.
A primary health care approach, when properly implemented, protects against many of these problems. It promotes a holistic approach to health that makes prevention equally important as cure in a continuum of care that extends throughout the lifespan. As part of this holistic approach, it works to influence fundamental determinants of health that arise in multiple non-health sectors, offering an upstream attack on threats to health. Primary health care brings balance back to health care, and puts families and communities at the hub of the health system. With an emphasis on local ownership, it honours the resilience and ingenuity of the human spirit and makes space for solutions created by communities, owned by them, and sustained by them.
— World Health Report 2008, WHO, Oct 2008. http://www.who.int/whr/2008/en/index.html
Effect of Poverty on Birth
One mom births perfectly, a healthy baby boy. Another suffers a stroke in childbirth, and baby's Apgars are 3 and after 20 minutes, 7. Why was the second mom's outcome, same day, on the island of Bali, so different? Answer: poverty. The second mom was too poor to eat well. We must change the agricultural agenda of the world's powers so that we can feed our expectant mothers. This must happen for there to be hope for future generations. It will take every individual living in the heart of compassion, as mothers live and serve, to save this world.
— Robin Lim, CPM—Indonesia


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When our goal in life changes to tranquility of mind, our thoughts, speech, and actions will fall in line directed towards this goal. You don't have to push yourself to meditate. Meditation will automatically occur in you because meditation is the means to the goal you are pursuing. Your life is going in that direction. You don't have to make any effort. You don't have to make any resolution. You don't need to have will-power to meditate. Willpower is the result of meditation, and not a means to it. You don't have to force yourself to meditate. You don't have to say, "I don't have any time, I have to make time." You will automatically have time because that is what you want to do. If you really want to do something you will have time. You don't have time only when you are not really interested in doing something.
Dukkhanirodha wrote:Well some items may be added to the above mentioned lists.
What happens during your meditation time is connected to every single other thing you do in your day. Therefore it is impossible to devellop in meditation if outside of that time you keep fulfilling your cravings. You must get your 5 sila perfect.
You must absolutely abandon any sexual activity, otherwise you can't even reach the first jhana, not to mention intoxicants.
You must restrain yourself in entertainments, ideally suppress them all (TV, movies, music, getting out with friends who are deeply concerned with fulfilling desires, parties etc.).
Don't get yourself busy with the world. Guard your sense doors, don't get involved in sense pleasures. Give up as many responsabilities as possible, they bother your meditation very much. Don't watch the news, you will always be told when something really important happens.
Cultivate wholesome thoughts for everyone. Practice metta bhavana after each sitting for a few minutes.
You also better restrain yourself in food, not eating at night, or very lightly. Restrain in sleep, decrease your time of sleep, because you don't need to sleep 8 nor 7 nor even 6 hours a night. You can very rightly transform your time of sleep into time for meditation.
Generally speaking, go to the essential, only perform deeds which are absolutely necessary, give up all other activities and get to sit whenever you managed some free time.
But the best instructions are given by the Buddha himself
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B/S have improved so much from last season kudos to them. Anna & Luca, love their SD. Well done!
Barring glaring mistakes from the next 3 teams, I would say they are the podium finishers.
B/S have improved so much from last season kudos to them. Anna & Luca, love their SD. Well done!
Barring glaring mistakes from the next 3 teams, I would say they are the podium finishers.
Lovely Can-Can from the French. They look so sharp and secure, on form, ready to fight for the top which is great!
P/B's dance is all right and they skated it well, but the Polka sucks the life out of it and stomps all over the corpse. Slowing down the music is really noticeable and makes the polka feel almost dirge like.
Should be interesting to see what it scores - I wouldn't be surprised to see low levels.
Need a stream. Mine froze. Yikes!
ETA: Never mind...see how long it lasts.
Thanks for the links to streams - but mine keep freezing, so I'm (sadly) going to wait for videos. Hope you all have better streams and enjoy!
Low score for Pechalat Bourzat, beaten by C/L on TES when she doesn't know how to skate but on flat edges with bad technic... Unbelievable.
Feed wasn't great for me to tell, but I saw a minor bobble from Scott on the second set of twizzles. Otherwise seemed solid.
Gorgeous skate from Tessa and Scott! For the first time this season they looked 100% secure on the elements and they focused on interpreting the program. And for the first time I liked the program
Just switched to the stopstream.tv one; it's working okay for me so far. A bit choppy, but no complete freezing.
Of course, it froze as soon as I freaking posted that.
71.27, beatable score. Wonder how D/W will respond!
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71.27 from V/M
Lost the feed halfway through D/W's performance, but they were skating well (I love the hops in the Non-Touch-Circ-Steps)


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Chaque fois que Stellarium est libéré, le code source est disponible dans le système d'emballage Sourceforge. Building code source et qui sont rejetées de cette façon devrait vous donner une copie de travail de Stellarium, qui est fonctionnellement identique à la binaires pour cette libération.
Il est également possible d'obtenir un code source en développement en utilisant une Subversion. Celui-ci peut contenir de nouvelles fonctionnalités qui ont été mises en oeuvre depuis la dernière publication de Stellarium, de sorte que c'est souvent plus agréable. ATTENTION: les Subversion du code source Stellarium sont souvent des travaux en cours, et en tant que telle peuvent produire un programme instable, mai aussi qui ne fonctionne pas bien du tout, ou même ne peux pas se compiler correctement. Si vous êtes nouveau avec "la ligne de commande", vous pouvez également trouver dans cette page une aide précieuse.
First make sure all build dependencies are installed on your system.
We now use CMake instead of automake/autoconf. A common problem is that you don't have a recent enough version of CMake. Make sure you have the version specified in the build dependencies page (the error which is seen if you have an old version of CMake is something to do with curl).
If you have both QT version 4 development tools and QT version 3 development tools installed on your system, make sure the commands for moc, uic and so on point at the QT4 versions. Ubuntu/Debian users might want to use this script to swap between them.
Extract the tarball containing the source code. Open a terminal and cd to the directory where you wish to build Stellarium. Save the tarball to that directory and do this command in a terminal (if you prefer, you might use arK or some other graphical archive tool):
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cmake ../..
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make install
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First, make sure you have all the Build Dependencies installed.
Getting the sourcecode
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By default this will configure Stellarium to be installed in the /usr/local/ area. If this is OK, run CMake like this:
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- Now build using make:
- To run Stellarium from the source tree, change back to the root of the source tree, and call the binary like this:
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- If you want to install the program, from the builds/unix directory enter this command (as root if necessary):
make install
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If you have previously build the SVN code, but want to see what changes have been made since you did that, just cd into the stellarium directory and use the command:
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This will download just the changes which were made since you last retrieved files from the repository. Often, all that will be required is to build from the make stage, but if there are new files you will need to build from the CMake stage.
If you modify any files, subversion will attempt to merge new updates with your changed files. This can lead to build problems, and you may want to revert your changes before updating. To revert such local edits, from the stellarium directory, do this before the update:
svn status
And for all files which are listed with an M next to them, do
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Or you can just revert all changes recursively:
svn revert -R ./
Enabling Sound Support
Audio support for the new scripting engine is available after r3998 of the SVN code. Stellarium's sound support is a compile time option. To use sound in Stellarium you need to have a version of QT which supports the Phonon audio system. You also need a recent version of CMake.
Sound support is controlled by the CMake option ENABLE_SOUND. You can change this setting using ccmake, by editing the CMakeCache.txt file, or by supplying the -DENABLE_SOUND=1 option when you first run CMake.
Current Build Issues
Note that the development code is a work in progress, and as such, please don't expect it to build straight off the bat. Often it will be fine, but sometimes the build will be broken.
If the build seems to be broken for extended periods, try a thorough clean of the build directory (i.e. remove builds/unix), and start from the beginning. Check there are no new dependencies which you are missing. If you still have trouble, post to the forums or stellarium-pubdevel mailing list.
2009-03-10: CMake's detection of Phonon for audio support is not working properly right now. It is necessary to hack up the CMakeLists.txt file to gt it working. I'm working on it. -Matthew


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Are There Any Other Medications I Could Possibly Take and What Are The Mortality Rates?
I have sarcoidosis in my bone marrow that is spreading much more quickly to other sites despite treatment with plaquenil, trental, and humira injections. (steroids made me worse) My rheumatologist was not comfortable prescribing remicaide due to his concern with antibody cross reactivity. My husband, an internist, read about and was concerned with enbrel due to an abandoned study with sarcoidosis. I will be meeting with a fertility expert to inquire about egg extractions and preservation. Besides methotrexate, do you recommend any other medications to help stop this spread? I have had to stop working. Finally, with the sarcoidosis spreading to almost all bones (hands, feet, humeri, ribs, femur etc) what are the statistics on mortality rates? I do not have any other organs with involvement.
Sarcoidosis involving the bone marrow can be a difficult situation to manage. Treatment with corticosteroids and "steroid-sparing" agents such as methotrexate is a common first-line approach. Other alternatives include azithioprim, cyclophosphamide and other drugs that suppress the activity of the immune system. It is common to use a combination of these drugs in order to minimize the side-effects and to take advantage of the likelihood that the drugs have an additive effect. Potent anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) drugs (Remicade) appear to be very effective for certain manifestations of sarcoidosis (e.g., severe skin disease). Thalidomide is another type of anti-TNF drug, but it has potentially serious side-effects and can cause birth defects.
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Welker is as clever as he is quick
Published: January 13th, 2011 | Tags: Wes Welker, AFC Divisional Playoffs, New England Patriots, New York Jets
Maybe this is nothing, but we would prefer to think it's something.
When Patriots WR Wes Welker stepped to the podium on Thursday, he worked in a reference to feet on his first answer. And then he didn't stop. When we got the transcript in-house, it didn't take long to deduce that Welker is pretty damn clever.
Don't think the Patriots don't engage in trash-talking. They're just more subtle about it. Welker dead-pans the entire 8-minute presser, and has taken what has been a ridiculous amount of meaningless banter this week to a whole new level with this.
Here are excerpts of the Welker transcript for your reading pleasure:
Q: How valuable is it to have a guy like Tom Brady standing in the huddle, especially in the intense situations of the playoff atmosphere?
WW: Having Tom in there – it goes without saying, the guy is who he is and he does a great job of making sure everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward going out there and playing well and doing what they can out there.
Q: How do you approach the young guys about what to expect in the postseason?
WW: You just talk to them. It's a playoff atmosphere and you can't just stick your toe in the water, you've got to jump right in and make sure you're ready to go and make things happen.
Q: I know you are excited to play football every game no matter what the situation is but considering last year when you were forced to sit and watch the playoff game, is there a little bit more excitement for you because you are getting back in the playoffs?
WW: It is definitely a little bit different especially [last year] I had my foot up in the air trying to get the swelling to go down and things like that. [I'm] definitely excited about getting the opportunity to go out there and have some fun and get in the playoff atmosphere. This is what it's all about.
Q: How frustrating was it to not be on the field last year? You haven't played a playoff game since Glendale in 2007. How did it feel not being out there last year?
WW: It was tough. It was definitely hard to watch, especially the way the game went. I am definitely excited to be out there and these are the types of games you play for. This is what you spend all year getting ready for and you want to go out there and put your best foot forward.
Q: Can you put a number on how much Darrelle Revis was covering you on the Dec. 6th game? It seemed significantly more than the first game.
WW: It was definitely a little more. I don't really know a number. It was quite a bit, especially any time they did any sort of man coverages and things like that. It seemed to be a lot more, so you've got to be ready for everything and study film on everybody, and make sure you are definitely ready for him and you've got to bring it every play because he is a great player. He's got great feet, he moves around well and [he] does some good things out there.
Q: What makes Revis as good as he is?
WW: I think he is very patient. He has good feet. He moves around really well. He understands the game. He gets his hands on you pretty well. [He] understands what you're trying to do to him, so he definitely is a tough guy to really set up and get open against.
Q: What has Deion Branch brought to the offense?
WW: Deion is such a great player and such a great teammate. The guy is tough to cover. He does a lot of great things out there – he runs some really good routes. Tom [Brady] trusts him and they are kind of on the same page. He is another guy with great feet and he can really move around and do some great things out there.
Q: You guys were on such an impressive roll heading into the last 5–6 weeks of the season, how do you guys feel you will handle the bye week, are you afraid that you have lost any momentum at all?
WW: We really got after it during the bye week and even this week of really concentrating and practicing hard and making sure that every play, even in practice… you never know when you will get the chance to run it again before the game, so you want to make sure that you are putting your best foot forward out there and making it happen.
Q: How does the playoff atmosphere translate to practices this week of preparation, do you sense it?
WW: Yeah, absolutely. [We're] really moving forward and we're going out there being good little foot soldiers. We are making sure we are going out there doing everything coach [Belichick] asks us to do.
Q: Is communication a big factor this week with all of the Jets blitz packages? You've really got to focus and be alert and make sure everyone is on the same page.
WW: You definitely have to make sure you are on top of things. Especially with this team, they do so many different things. [They] move people around and do a lot of blitzes. A lot of teams you don't see all year, so you definitely have to be on your toes and make sure that you're ready to go.
The final tally: Welker uses a reference to feet or toes 10 times in 17 questions. He works in "best foot forward" (3x) most often, followed by "great feet" twice.
Well played, Wes. And he didn't even stick his foot in his mouth. Very well played.


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pask2155 wrote:How can you identify a test config?
Some are obvious with the original top, but I know they tried like 5+ configurations until they got it where they wanted it. I'm not sure what this tweaking entailed exactly, but I imagine some of the configurations were pretty similar to what they ended up going with and would be hard to visually differentiate from a normal PD.


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1- Is Ruby faster than PHP?2- Is there an IDE for Ruby?3- Which server Ruby use to run its web applications?
I'll keep all my questions in this thread, so it can be a good reference for other new comers.
Is it true that I can't depoy ruby web application on a small shared web hosting space?
What do you mean by change their appearance? Server-side scripting is not about changing how something visually looks, that's what CSS is for.
By thw way, another question:
I may misunderstand the idea behind framework! because I've seen a tutorial that explain how can you quickly implement contact form or something like that, I thought that the fields were built in the framework, and this means that we can't change theirs appearance and names for example!
I have another question about Ruby, does it provide flexiblity in changing the appearance of elements? as I have seen a video that explain how to use Ruby Framework to build quick forms, but the question is can I change the appearance of these quick solutions or just except them as they are?
I wouldn't say any particular server-side language is faster or more effective than any other, it really depends on what you're trying to achieve as to whether the language will meet your requirements. As for an IDE, Netbeans can work the Ruby mojo so it might be worth looking at (as the environment has been around for years). Regarding the server, you can use Apache or IIS for Ruby (or rails, depending on what you use). There's plenty of options out there!
Ruby is NOT a framework, it's a programming language. Rails (as in Ruby on Rails) is a framework. There is a major difference. Regarding the styling of components, just like PHP or ASP, Ruby is not involved in the stylistic stuff of what ends up in the clients web browser, that's the job of CSS.
It's about as secure as any other language, but with all things, you need to be sensible in how you use and implement it.
No, if the host supports Ruby, you can deploy Ruby code, just like if the host supports PHP, you can deploy PHP scripts.
I've visited many websites built in Ruby, they are slower than other websites built in PHP or .NET, why?
I've just realised!
I mean for example the validation for inputs are built in rails which shows black text with red background! is there possibility to change that in Ruby?
You could probably generate some CSS using Ruby, but CSS should be written in... CSS.
PS: It's probably down to the servers rather than the language itself.
What's the probelm with the server, is it not capable of running Ruby for example? I've visited many websites not one and all of them are slow comparing with .net and php websites.
It seems to be OK now, Ruby Ruby
Here is another question, does Ruby support languages which are based on Unicode?
It's probably just a slow server (like if they have a lot of people hosted on it). Slow servers are pretty common, especially on cheap hosting.
PS: Not all Ruby sites are slow, Twitter for example was built on Ruby. There's absolutely no reason to say it's slower than other languages.
Ruby is a server-side language... it deals with processing scripts, building web applications and such, it's not a markup language (like HTML). It's no different to PHP or ASP or JSP or ColdFusion or Python or Perl or any of the others (just it's syntax and framework differ). I would advise you to do some research on the difference between language types (markup, client-side and server-side) and the difference between a language and a framework.
Well, is it Ruby that makes you type less code than other languages or is it the Rails framework? :rolleyes:
It's the rails framework... Rails is to Ruby as jQuery is to JavaScript.
Frameworks are pre-built libraries of code which simplify the process.
To be fair, Ruby itself does tend to be more concise than other languages. So even without using a framework, a given script will likely be shorter in Ruby than in PHP.
But Alex is right, the biggest gains in productivity do come from Rails.
Rails generates a default stylesheet called scaffold.css that styles the forms when you run a particular script. That's probably what you saw. If you check the HTML you'll see it at the top. You don't have to keep it. Rails just makes ordinary, plain old XHTML and you can do all the things you would normally do with XHTML.
Yes it is, and everytime I have to delete that stuff by myself to change it to what I want?
I'm sorry, are you talking about rails scaffold here? That's an automated way of making your site quickly for rapid prototyping, so yes, you do have to change it if you're not happy with the default. You can skip the scaffold if you want, most people do.


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Lawrie sits out with sore back
KANSAS CITY -- Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie was not in the lineup Wednesday because of a sore back. Juan Francisco drew the start at third and hit in the No. 6 slot.
Manager John Gibbons wanted to be cautious with Lawrie on a cool evening.
"His back flared up a little bit," Gibbons said. "I figured with [Casey] Janssen and [Adam] Lind being out, we don't need another guy going down. It's maybe a day thing." Francisco has played some third base, as well as first base. He started the evening hitting .242 with two homers and three runs batted in.
Robert Falkoff is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The market was chugging along nicely until the minutes of the latest Fed meeting hit. If you want to spook this market, nothing is more effective than hinting that the Fed's quantitative easing program will end. QE has been a driving force for years, and it is frightening to think that there may not be an endless reservoir of liquidity.
Some Fed members indicated that it might be a good idea for the Fed's bond-buying to end at some point this year, and they are worried that the central bank can't spend $85 billion a month without negative repercussions down the road.
The market has been on a substantial run, so this was a convenient excuse for profit-taking. In the bigger scheme, the selling was extremely mild and it is probably healthy that the recent buying froth stays under control.
Friday morning brings the monthly jobs report, which will be the main market catalyst. What is interesting now is that good news may not be a market positive if the Fed really is serious about letting interest rates rise. It's still a long way to go to hit the Fed's unemployment target, but nothing is more important to the market than QE, and anything that affects how long that program runs will likely produce selling.
I'm not too worried about the market right now, but today's reversal was a slight negative and we'll have to watch the reaction to the jobs news very closely.
Have a good evening. I'll see you tomorrow.


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Will my milk supply be affected if I exercise?
It depends what the exercise is. Women with babies have always worked - they couldn't afford not to. Often this work involved fairly strenuous manual labor. We also feel better when we get exercise, and this is certainly good for both mother and baby.
Some important points to bear in mind are:
- Wait until the baby is at least 6 weeks old or more.
- Start the exercise slowly and gradually.
- Be sure to consume liquids to replace those lost by sweating.
- Some kinds of exercise can be done with baby.
- Walking briskly, mild aerobic exercises and water exercises are ideal in the beginning.
- Other good exercises for later on are swimming and aerobics.
- Don't do too much! It will tire you too much and take you away for too long; if you want to breastfeed, you need to be there.
Recommended Reading: Our resource page on Exercising and Breastfeeding.


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Our next guest post is from the fabulous Dave of Portlandize, whose cycling advocacy is a huge inspiration. Today he's giving LGRAB readers a glimpse of his recent trip to Amsterdam. More on the European cycling scene through American eyes is coming later this week as Dottie and I overcome jetlag and post about our time in France.
Folks in the U.S. bicycle scene often talk about what markers distinguish an established bike culture in a city or country. We talk about infrastructure and percentages of people riding to work and that kind of thing. But I think one of the biggest indicators is a slight (but rather important) perception shift from bike fun to fun by bike, and the idea behind that shift.
Portland is notorious for its bike fun, and people even internationally know us for organizing rides at the drop of a hat for the most mundane or silly kind of events. We have huge bike-related festivals and events and a lot of typical Portlandy events have emphasis on bike themes. There is nothing wrong with this, bikes are fun tools, and these events give people a chance to use them in creative ways and people really have fun with them. But to use these events as a marker of an established bike culture isn't really accurate, in my opinion.
We were recently in Amsterdam for about a week, and one particular day we spent running around the city with Marc from Amsterdamize. As we were riding around and later sitting at a cafe, we saw hundreds of people riding by dressed in more-or-less religious themed attire (with some notable exceptions, like broccoli). We were probably seeing people go by for an hour and a half. We learned later they were all on their way to a huge party where the dress theme was religious attire.
What stood out to me is that they were not out to have fun on their bikes, they were out to have fun, and it just so happened that the way they were getting there was by bike. It wasn't a deliberate decision, just like it's not a deliberate decision for most people in the U.S. to hop in their cars to get somewhere. It's just a given. When you
have to get somewhere that's beyond easy walking distance, you hop on your bike.
Amsterdam has its share of bike fun, too – fixies and bike polo and tall bikes and the whole works, but what really marks it as an established bike culture (among other things), is that pretty much everyone uses their bike(s) without thinking about it. There are a lot of things that go into making this the default choice for people, and that's a theme for many more posts, but there is no doubt that in Amsterdam, the bicycle is as usual as bricks, glass, and humans. It's a natural part of the everyday flow of people, whether it's to work, school, restaurants, parties, shopping – whatever the destination, the bike gets you there.
Read more about Dave's trip to Europe and his everyday Portland cycling life at Portlandize.


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Let me outline a situation for you:
A high school student speaks up in class to declare that his religious beliefs tell him homosexuality is wrong and prevent him from supporting gay rights. The gay teacher makes the student leave class. The student's mom brings in a right-wing lawyer to raise a ruckus and claims the student is being punished and discriminated against simply for speaking out about his religious beliefs. The teacher says things didn't go quite the way the student claims. The teacher is suspended, but that suspension is eventually lifted.
Sounds a lot like what happened recently at Western Hills High School in Fort Worth, right? You remember the story, with gay teacher Kris Franks sending freshman Dakota Ary to the principal's office after Ary said in class that he is a Christian and therefore believes homosexuality is wrong. Ary said he was simply making a comment to a friend in relation to a discussion going on in class. Franks said Ary was being belligerent, that there was no discussion going on about gays and that Ary's comment had been just the latest in a string of anti-gay bullying behaviors targeting Franks. Ary was suspended; his mom called in right-wing Liberty Counsel lawyer Matt Krause who got the suspension lifted. The Franks was suspended on "unrelated" accusations of "inappropriate" behavior, but was soon cleared of the charges.
You remember that story, right? Well, good, but that's not the story I am talking about here. This is a different one.
This week, the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian legal foundation, filed suit in federal court on behalf of Sandra Glowacki, a Catholic, who claims that the Howell Public School District in Howell, Mich., and teacher Johnson "Jay" McDowell violated the constitutional rights of her son, 16-year-old Daniel Glowacki, when McDowell kicked him out of class on Oct. 20, 2010 — when the school district was observing anti-bullying day and Spirit Day — because Daniel Glowacki told McDowell that as a Catholic, his religion prevented him from supporting gay rights.
The lawsuit claims that McDowell wore a "Tyler's Army" T-shirt that day in memory of gay college student Tyler Clementi, who had committed suicide after being bullied, and that McDowell had used his class all day to "promote homosexuality." The lawsuit says McDowell had told a female student to remove a Confederate flag belt buckle because he was offended by it. Then when Daniel Glowacki asked why it was OK to display a rainbow flag promoting LGBT rights, McDowell asked whether Glowacki supported gay rights. When Glowacki said his religion prohibited him from doing so, McDowell made him and another student with similar views leave the class.
McDowell was suspended for violating school district policy, but the suspension was later lifted to settle the grievance complaint Johnson filed.
Robert Muise, a lawyer with the Thomas More Center, is representing the Glowackis. He says that the school district and McDowell were trying to "indoctrinate" Daniel Glowacki into believing that homosexuality is normal, and that Glowacki was bullied by the teacher and the school district because of his religious beliefs. Muise wants the judge to rule that McDowell and the school district violated Glowacki's constitutional rights, to enjoin the district and the teacher from "favoring homosexuality" over opposing religious views, and to award the Glowackis damages in the case.


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CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating that plans are in place to ensure people on Canvey would be safe if a major emergency hit the island's two power plants.
The report about being prepared for incidents at either Oikos or Calor Gas on the island has been produced by Essex County Council, following a two-year review of emergency planning requirements.
For George Whatley, 71, chairman of People Against Methane, it's the first time a joined-up report about the county's COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazard) sites has been produced in the 40 years he has been campaigning.
He explained the report highlights the "massive impact" top tier COMAH sites have on the people that work and live in the vicinity of them, particularly on Canvey.
Mr Whatley, of Limburg Road, Canvey, said: "The cry in the wilderness has now been heard.
"It's a victory for the ordinary people, it's very very important the powers that be listened to what the people had to say and stood up to the mark, I've got to praise them for that.
"The risk won't go away, but in the event of a worst case scenario there are plans as to what happens and who is responsible for what.
"This has never happened before - accountability is being shown.
"For any pressure group out there it shows you can go against the odds and you can beat the odds.
"It's not over completely but I can see the end of the battle now."
There are two types of COMAH site, top tier and lower tier. Top tier sites hold larger amounts of dangerous substances and are subject to tougher safety requirements.
The report has made five recommendations that will be presented to Essex County Council's cabinet. They include improving communications with the public and working with schools to educate children and adults alike about being prepared for an emergency.


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When I found this 14k gold DOXA Chronograph Watch, I was pleasantly surprised. I believe it was manufactured in the late 1930's It still winds, ticks and keeps time although it needs a good cleaning if that's appropriate. It has a beautiful 14k gold braided band. It must be rare as there is nothing like it on the internet. I can't seem to get a value on it out here in San Francisco. Anyone have any idea?


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D.C. lottery revenue up after recent sales slump
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lottery revenue in the District of Columbia is on the rise again after a five-year slump in sales.
The Washington Post reports{ }that D.C. Lottery revenue in the fiscal year that ended September 30 totaled nearly $250 million. That falls below the all-time sales high of $266 million from 2006, but it's still a nearly 8 percent jump from last year.
Lottery sales had been slumping in the last few years, in part because of increased competition from Maryland and Virginia.
D.C. Lottery Director Buddy Roogow says that because of changing demographics, he's been focusing more on instant-win games and improving scratch-off tickets.
Meanwhile, a federal grand jury is investigating the circumstances surrounding the District's lottery contract.


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As quickly as the cronut burger appeared, ready to dazzle attendees of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, so did it disappear. EPIC Burger and Waffles closed voluntarily on Wednesday as Toronto Public Health launched an investigation into nearly 100 cases of food poisoning, all of which shared only one common element: the cronut burger.
EPIC Burger and Waffles published an official statement on their Facebook page yesterday, thanking friends, family, and customers for their support, while Dominique Ansel, creator of the trademarked pastry, addressed the cronut burger controversy on Twitter, slamming the Canadian vendor for "ripping off" his idea.
Results of lab tests announced earlier this afternoon at at Toronto Public Health news conference confirmed that the cronut burgers were contaminated with staphylococcus aureus, which can cause severe gastrointestinal illness.
At this point, it's looking unlikely that the cronut burger will return to the Ex before it closes for the season on September 2nd, but if you want to see what all the fuss is about (while maintaining a safe distance), take a look at this taste-test conducted by Globe and Mail reporter Hannah Sung and Shant Mardirosian, owner of The Burger's Priest, filed a few days before any reports of illness.
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World's Smallest Comic Is Etched On Human Hair, Video Is Inexplicably Terrifying
So here's the news: The World's Smallest Comic has been made, a strip by Claudia Puhlfürst called Juana Knits The Planet, etched onto a single human hair. It was done with a machine called the "Focused Ion Beam," which, like a very fine laser, used a tiny, tiny jet of matter to carve twelve panels at a microscopic size, in order to promote the technology being shown at the Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting in Germany.
Now here's the weird part: In order to promote this pretty awesome use of German technology for peaceful purposes, someone decided that they should make a video that is f**king terrifying. Seriously: THEY ADDED THE SOUNDS OF A CREEPY MUSIC BOX. WHY DID THEY DO THIS?


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England players were still feeling the bruises on Thursday two days after the most brutal training session of Stuart Lancaster's tenure, which was designed to ensure that the squad meet head-on the expected Australia backlash at Twickenham tomorrow.
Lancaster described the Tuesday training session as "the best that I have seen", while the players spoke with enthusiasm of the intensity of the collisions, one of which left lock Tom Palmer requiring stitches to a cut near his eye.
"It was up there in intensity in any of the sessions that I have seen," -Lancaster said. "I don't think we will be lacking for that. We had 30-odd players training - including some very good players who aren't in the squad - and we had 15 on 15 and it was very, very competitive."
Prop Joe Marler said the session had been split between unit work during the morning, with the forwards focusing on scrummaging and mauling, before the whole quad came together for 90 minutes of defensive training in the afternoon, finishing off with a short match session.
"It was probably the most physical session I have had with this group," said Marler, who will win his fifth cap tomorrow, and his first against Australia. "Let's just say I was pleased we had a day off today.
"We got these new suits to prevent injuries but they actually mean you can probably go a little bit harder. Tuesdays are always big sessions but everyone had that sort of feeling that it was good at the weekend against Fiji but there wasn't as much satisfaction from it.
"We know that Australia are going to pick up their game [after their heavy defeat by France] - England v Australia has always been a big -fixture.
"Sometimes Stuart comes in and speaks during the session but we didn't hear a lot from him because we were just cracking on with it and he was pleased with it."
Tom Johnson, the Exeter flanker, said he was "still a bit sore" from the session but added that it had given the squad confidence that they were ready to face the greater attacking threat of Australia.
"I think the boys were a little bit disappointed that we let in two tries against Fiji," said Johnson, who saw off the challenge of Tom Wood to retain his place on the blindside flank.
"With Australia coming to town, it [training] just got ramped up a little bit. I think it was just setting the mind and body prepared for what is going to be a huge, huge clash. The coaches dangled the carrot and said, 'We need to be better', and then the players and the leadership group took it on themselves and it was flat out from the off - everyone was switched on.
"Quite often in defence sessions, you get the attack running through at 70 per cent, but the boys were really going after each other, which was really good."
Wood was another who relished the physicality of the session. "I do enjoy those kind of sessions. It felt almost like a game," he said. "Tom Palmer unfortunately got a split eye and there were people bleeding and limping around and taking bangs, but nobody was complaining it was too brutal.
"It was what we need going into these games. There is no point keeping everyone fresh and pampering everybody and then going into the game and then getting beaten up.
"We just need to make sure that when we beat the life out of each other on a Tuesday we take it into the game on a Saturday and make sure Australia feel it as well."
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There's a review in the print edition this week (and online) of Burlesque, but I didn't write it because I didn't screen the film in time. But as the film opens today I wanted to weigh in. Not because I disagree with our reviewer, but because I agree with her … and wonder how many other gay men out there do, too.
I've often grouped gay men not into traditional categories like top/bottom, twink/bear, daddy/boy, but rather by their favorite diva. Judy queens. Liza queens. Bette queens. Barbra queens. Celine queens. Mariah queens. Patti queens. Of late, Gaga queens.
And, of course, Cher.
Often, this is a generational thing (I may be Gaga's oldest living fan); some youngsters don't even know who Judy is. But Cher seems to cross ages. Maybe it's her long career (her 2000 single "Believe" made her the oldest soloist ever to have a No. 1 pop hit). Maybe it's her massively bad career choices (her Oscar follow-up is Mermaids?) or her trans child, Chaz. But for some reason, gay men have always given Cher a pass when it comes to reviews of her work. You can never trust how good she really is, because her fans seem to want to prevent the truth from coming out. They protect her. And sometimes she needs it.
Cher hasn't made a feature (other than a cameo in Stuck on You) since 1999′s Tea with Mussolini, and she chooses to return to film with a Showgirls-vibed musical from a first-time director? Just how badly does she need money?
But here's the thing: The movie succeeds. This is not to say it is a good film; it is most definitely not. But it is exactly what it sets out to be. It's the McDonald's french fry of cinema: Addictively enjoyable if objectively trashy. Hooray for Cher — she gave us just what we wanted.
So did the writer-director, Steve Antin. He doesn't miss one cliche. Not the farm-girl (Christina Aguilera) from, of course, Iowa; not the creditors beating at the door, wanting to shut down the Burlesque Lounge, which seems to emerge like a ghostly haunted house from the Sunset Strip. (Here's my notion for why the club doesn't turn a profit: 20 dancing girls who get free drinks and big enough salaries to drive BMWs, a six-man live band and staff of bartenders big enough to man a cruise ship.)
But there's an energy to the movie — it succeeds despite itself. Antin has fun with the musical numbers, and he lingers on the body of hot young boytoy Cam Gigandet, dressing him in a Fosse-inspired bowler with sleeveless shirt and guyliner. It's gayrific, but straight-friendly. (Eric Dane is in it too, but not the playing the beefcake this time.) Even gayer is Stanley Tucci, perfection as the bitchy old queen with the smart-ass wisecrack, who plays off of Cher expertly. He gives her sometimes wooden acting credibility.
Acting's one thing, but Cher's big number — which makes no logical sense in the movie; few scenes do — is a marvel of passion and pride and survival. It makes up for all the nonsense.
Aguilera acquits herself well both as a singer (no surprise there) and as an actress. Is she this year's Mo'Nique? Not even close. But she could become Cher. And that's not such a bad thing.