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DrawType - The Drawing Keyboard for iOS [app link]
DrawType is a Keyboard Extension for the iPhone that allows you to draw images and paste them into apps that support text and images like, Messages and Mail. Use DrawType to reply to friends when a hand drawn picture might be quicker or more personal than text.
- Supports multiple brush colors
- 3 different line thicknesses
- Multiple undo states.
- Tapered Lines
- Full Alphanumeric Keyboard
- Larger Draw Area.
- When you are ready to paste your image, hit the copy button. Then do a long press in your text field to paste the image.
- To activate DrawType toggle to it using the Globe button.
Images Animated:
- To install the Keyboard go to your device's System app and Navigate to: General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard and select DrawType.
- Then select DrawType in the list of active Keyboards and enable Allow Full Access.
Privacy and Allow Full Access:
- No personal information or typed text of any kind is recorded or transmitted by this app.
- Allow Full Access is required for the Copy / Paste functionality and Save To Camera Roll feature.
- DrawType was created by Theodore Watson ( @theowatson ). An artist, designer and experimenter, who is co-founder of the openFrameworks project and a member of the Free Art and Technology Lab ( F.A.T Lab ). Theodore's speed projects includes Kinect Puppet Hacks ( Engadget ), AutoSmiley ( Gizmodo ) and Noisy Typer ( The Verge ). Larger projects and collaborations like the Eyewriter project and L.A.S.E.R Tag have been featured in many publications and are part of MoMA's permanent collection. Theodore is also co-founder of creative studio Design I/O, whose most recent project was the John Lennon Bermuda Tapes, interactive App-Album for iPhone and iPad, one of three finalists in the Future of Storytelling Award.
Privacy Policy
Data Controller and Owner
The owner does not collect Personal Data of any kind. DrawType is limited to simply adding the images drawn by the User with the DrawType Keyboard to the System Wide pasteboard where the User can then paste them into other applications.
The rights of Users
Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out below.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller erase the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data) Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number. Usage Data Information collected automatically from this Application (or third party services employed in this Application ), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment. User The individual using this Application, which must coincide with or be authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refer. Data Subject The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers to. Data Processor (or Data Supervisor) The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy. Data Controller (or Owner) The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application. This Application The hardware or software tool by which the Personal Data of the User is collected.
Legal information
Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n. 95 / 46 / EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002 / 58 / EC, as revised by Directive 2009 / 136 / EC, on the subject of Cookies. This privacy policy relates solely to this Application.


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Mornings have always been tough for me until I found my own Perfect Breakfast. I used to want to swap anything for a few extra minutes in bed and I would rarely be fully awake before 10 am. Over the past few months though some things have changed and I have utilised my mornings to become the most productive I have ever been. Without the right start in the morning, I doubt I could juggle the demands of university essays and deadlines with blogging twice a week. I thought I would make a post showing you an easy morning recipe that will set you up for anything the day has to throw at you.
Today's recipe is for a lovely bowl of cinnamon and fruit porridge. If you didn't know already (you will be able to tell soon by a number of posts that will be linked to it), I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Christmas period and if there is anything I can do to make something more festive, I will do it. This is why I have chosen to add cinnamon to everything I eat recently. Well not everything, but you get where I am coming from. It goes super well with porridge and gives you that warm fuzzy wintery feeling that I always look forward to! It makes the dark and gloomy mornings a lot more bearable and there is nothing cosier than snuggling up under a blanket, with fluffy socks on and a warm bowl of porridge in your hand.
I tend to always add fruit to my breakfasts as it is a great way to get some of your 5-a-day in early and makes the meal feel refreshing and uplifting for the day ahead. The best thing about adding fruit is the ability to switch up your breakfasts by using different kinds of fruit dependent on the months they are in season.
What you will need for your porridge (Serves 2)
100g Whites Porridge Oats
1/2tbsp ground cinnamon
2tsp demerara sugar
430ml milk
1 banana, sliced
Handful of blueberries
Handful of raspberries
One kiwi fruit, cubed
How to make the perfect breakfast:
- It is best to prepare the fruit first as this prevents the porridge from getting cold if you slice your fruit after. Wash your blueberries and raspberries thoroughly and slice up your banana and kiwi fruits (remembering to peel off the skin first).
- Mix the oats, ground cinnamon, milk and sugar in a medium-sized saucepan. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring occasionally and making sure that it is not sticking to the bottom of the pan.
- Once you start to see some bubbles turn down the heat. Continue to cook for 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly. The mixture should begin to thicken but not become stodgy.
- Spoon the porridge mixture into your bowl and add your toppings.
- If you want to you can sprinkle a few oats and cinnamon over the top to make it extra yummy!!
What I love about this recipe is that it feels super homey. I am a homebody through and through and I love cooking and baking anything that will fill our home with festive smells. The cinnamon in this porridge isn't too dominant that it overpowers any other flavour, but it is a wonderful aftertaste that reminds you why this time of the year is special. (I wrote a post about Autumn if you want to read it here)
I want to say a massive thank you to Whites Oats for sponsoring this post. They have an incredible range of traditional porridge oats, instant porridges and granolas. I have really tried to make sure my breakfasts are high in fibre and this porridge breakfast offers exactly that!!
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Leave me a comment about your own perfect breakfast as I would love to try some of your ideas out (:
Joanna x

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At 4:18 PM 12/28/96, Terry Allen wrote: >David Durand writes in response to Steve Newcomb: >| No, we simply have to face the fact that end users are the only ones who >| can decide what documents need to be in their processing set. We can't > >No. As an author and publisher I must be able to indicate *my* >view of what that set of documents is, and, of the links in the set, >what are relevant to my author-primary view of my own intellectual >property. I must also be able to assert (not enforce) via my >markup that this view is mandatory (if it is). Consider the case >of nuclear reactor documentation in XML governed by an effectivity >policy before you assert that the end user must be king. Mechanisms >of policy enforcement need not be specified (because enforcement >is a function of applications), but the assertion that there is a >policy must be supported (because linked metadata is the obvious >way to support it). "Indicating" is one thing, but enforcement is another. I suggested that such indications would be useful, but that is different from requiring that those indications must be followed by anyone. Enforcement is pointless, because intentionally non-conformant clients can violate any such restriction anyway. I also don't think that nuclear reactor documentation with contractual display format requirements is primary in "SGML on the Web". Users of XML for such applications will be perfectly capable of creating appropriate application conventions and DTDs to accomodate this without our help. I'm not opposed to being able to suggest to an application what it should do, just the pretense that it can be required. Most particularly, I want to keep the ability to annotate -- regardless of the author's wishes, and it should also be possible to publish those annotations, for those readers who wish to view them. The author should neither be able to prevent the creation or processing of such ilinks, nor a user, force others to see them. > >| check the whole world, and we can't just leave it to the author (without >| damaging the ability to create external annotations), so we have to leave > >XML should not have as a design goal the ability to enable promiscuous >external annotations unauthorized by the document's owner. The owner >may wish to enforce a policy that he does not permit the work to be >viewed with annotations (e.g., by not serving to clients that do not >guarantee to respect his policy). We are under no obligation to >enable grafitti. We may be powerless to prevent it, too. Grafitti is what you cannot avoid seeing -- but if you don't read my ilinks, then you don't see my annotations. No problem, but the power is at the reader's end anyway, we might as well admit it. This no-annotation stuff strikes at the heart of what gives hypertext its great potential, in my view. Philosophy aside, we should pass no laws we cannot enforce, so no-annotation policies are in the wastebasket, I think. And annotations are so usefun and fundamental, that we cannot create any credible linking system that does not enable their creation. >| it to the user (via their application). In other words, XML as a standard >| cannot enforce this kind of scoping for the user. All that we need to >| specify is how ilinks behave in documents where they are _parsed_ by an XML >| processor. In HyTime terms, the BOS will always be the entire web (one of >| the reasons I always thought the notion was limited in usefulness). >| However, the set of documents an XML processor will be required to >| processes is an application (user) decision. As an example we could not >| force a browser to pre-fetch linked documents in case they might reference >| ilinks that _might_ be of interest. > >But we must have some mechanism to indicate to the user agent what the >bounds of a single work are, something lacking on the Web today. This, >too, may lie without the scope of XML linking, but we still need it. This is already done today, as it should be, by authoring and display convention. The fact that most people don't bother to distinguish internal from external links may be evidence that they don't care, but it's not very hard to do. >An example directly contrary to your point about prefetching: there must >be a way in which I can specify that an XML application *must* fetch >the linked copyright notice and display it before the main text of >my fine literary work. It may be that XML's linking mechanism is >not the place to do this, but if not, where do you think *is* the >right place? If you want a copyright notice for a document delivered over the web, you had better put it in the document, as the first text, because the network infrastructure is to frail for you to ensure that your readers will see it if it's anywhere else. I'm being rather harsh and flip with some very serious issues, but I don't see that the philospophical discussions will be solved here, nor do I think there are any technical solutions that we can offer to the problems you raise. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand email@example.com \ firstname.lastname@example.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________Received on Saturday, 28 December 1996 21:54:02 UTC
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1978 Chevrolet C-10 Silverado Step Side Pickup fuel injected RamJet 350 700R4
Price: - Item location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Chevrolet
- Model: C-10
- Year: 1978
- Mileage: 165,000
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1978 Chevrolet C-10
1978 Chevrolet C-10 Silverado step side pickup, loaded with all of the options available in 78.Power windows, Power door locks, Power brakes, Power steering, Tilt column, Cruise control, Air conditioning, Sport gauges, Dual gas tanks. In 2003 A fuel injected Ram-Jet 350 crate engine with a 700-R-4 automatic overdrive was professionally installed. There is about 60,000 miles on theengine and transmission. The front end has dropped spindles, body is solid, interior excellent, original wood in bed is still in great shape and the truck runs and drives like new. The original paint is starting to flake on the hood, top and top of the rear fenders otherwise the truck looks good.


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"I don't know how much that hip replacement cost. I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she's my grandmother. Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else's aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model is a very difficult question." (1)
– President Barack Obama, after the death of his Grandmother from cancer related complications, 2 weeks after a hip replacement surgery
Just having read THIS ARTICLE on the NEJM Health Policy and Reform blog, I must say, I totally identify with the issue at hand. Especially since I started working in the Critical Care Unit, I have started seeing more and more people who want to "do everything" for their sick family, sometimes, when even everything that modern medicine has to offer is too little, too late.
I dread having to face the situation where the patient is so far gone that there is little sense in prolonging the pain, but since our hands are bound by law, and the fear of long-term (legal) and short term (physical) retaliation is a reality, we prod on. I remember the 89 year old gentleman, with a HUGE hemorrhage which had wiped out half his bran. He was, of course, totally unconscious, and there was absolutely no chance he could make it out of this. Of course, his family wanted everything to be done, and we did, until a week later, he passed away after we had significantly prolonged his pain trying to "do everything" when there was literally nothing to be done.
This side of the story is very common for us. But the NEJM blog talks of another mentality: "There is a fracture, I have to fix it!" And although it comes from (what I assume is) the pen of an anesthesiologist, it is indeed a brave indictment of all us doctors. For some of them, it is the tyranny of cure, whilst for the others, it is the tyranny of diagnosis.
This obsessive need to "do something, anything" in order to cover up for the fact that there is a lot beyond the purview of medicine and its machines, is a reality we need to face up. It is a difficult thing to do, because,it renders us, our fancy degrees, our immodest machines, all slave to nature's will. But until and unless we have the courage to face this diagnosis of our own malady face on, and take action, we will be chasing expenses which may have been better spent.
Another practical pointer before I conclude: just the other day, when my unit was already chock-a-block filled, a series of patients were transferred in from Medicine wards because they needed "critical organ support" and it was not possible to manage them in the wards. Out of the four new patients, two were >85 years age, with little, if any chance of making it through (they were, anyways, being blasted with drugs of all sorts to keep their failing organs going). This effectively occupied all the beds and resources we had to offer (meager, considering the large hospital I work in) and we were forced to refuse admission till further beds opened up! It was at this juncture that a call came through from the ER. A 17 year old girl was being taken to the OR for emergency surgery following a road traffic accident and they thought that since there was significant risk to the patient, post-op monitoring in the Critical Care Unit would be needed. I duly informed them that our unit had no vacancies, and put her name on the roster and waitlisted her on an emergency basis: should an opening come up, she was the one to get it.
No openings came up. While that is usually a good thing (because it meant no one died on my watch, but then again, that's not saying much) just as I was leaving, a call came in from the Surgery OR. 30 minutes post op, the 17 year old girl had gone into shock, followed by a cardiac arrest and she was being resuscitated. They needed her to be put in the unit in order to keep her alive. I had to tell them that there was no openings and offered to go over and help them, since my shift was over anyways. They were cordial enough to say that they could manage the resuscitation, but , there was little point in it. This might sound strange, but because our wards are so poorly equipped, it is not possible to keep a keen watch on the patients who are doing poorly.
Anyways. I walked out with a load on my conscience, though I knew I had nothing I could do. I reached home, and called up the unit to see how things were faring. The nurse on duty informed me three of the new transferred patients had died, and the girl who was being resuscitated in the Surgery wards had also expired.
Lose-Lose, that's the tyranny of healthcare.
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- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 2 tablespoons chopped green onion
- Juice from 1 lime
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Bread of your choice (I use whole wheat bread)
- Fresh spinach leaves or other sandwich toppings: lettuce, tomato slices, sprouts, etc.
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A Critical View Of Artwork
Writing about, art work is an incredibly experience as it allows you to be a critic and makes you feel like you can experience a few sampled murals from the view of an art dealer/painter – when you step into an art gallery/ you may see the differences of cultures are vastly vague and unfamiliar at first – because it is a little different and has its own personal and unique touch to it. The way many art critics presume and think of art is in fact "A means of expressing and helping them be who they want" it feels like the way in which the entire world sees art is somewhat different to everyone's own taste. An artwork may even consist of just a simple black smudge on white canvas. Well, that's what the famous painters from Florence and Paris end up doing whereas before most artists used to paint landscapes and create the reflecting image onto the canvas.
However; today many people appreciate the art and is in such an uproar and stature of how things work; it intrigues a lot of the population into thinking how – a one just be an artist. Truth, is anyone can paint. Except to paint pictures and murals you'd have to have a keen eye and an appreciative touch for art. It is in fact – the talent; of how mixing colors may affect and create an illusion. Some paintings of classic aboriginal artwork are something that the artist has used to cultivate the very different colors to manipulate in his advantages.
Such artwork – like; the Australian aboriginal art date back to way longer years. As it is the very form of their stories and family (tribal/clan) legacies that are being drawn for most people to witness. Therefore, they have tumult of different specters of colors.
How paints are introduced?
It is important to know that hence, today's systems and traditions most people assume they can paint. In the very beginning of a child's life – they are exposed to "painting" experimenting the wonderful feeling of the oozy paints dripping just in-between their fingers. Or? How about the different shapes and constructive arts of painting? Unlike, drawing – paint requires no perfection; nor does it ever deal with the fulfillment of accomplishment. To an artist – his first artwork would be his most prized possession and would eventually make him/her happy to pursue his/her very dreams. Painting has no way of trying to imitate perfection or colorific in the lines. Therefore, trying to enjoy what an artist creates is out of the pure joy and moment one gets.
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According to a news story:
The federal government recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February, according to a preliminary report Wednesday from the Congressional Budget Office that said the deficit in fiscal year 2012 is already more than half a trillion dollars. We're borrowing 42 cents for every dollar spent.And it's not supposed to end anything soon.
The figures show that despite repeated efforts to trim spending, the has borrowed 42 cents of every dollar it spent during the first five months of this fiscal year.
The nonpartisan agency projected the will run a deficit of $229 billion in February, the highest monthly figure ever. The previous high was $223 billion a year ago, in February 2011.
It is the 41st straight month the has run a deficit — itself a record streak that dates back to the final months of President George W. Bush's tenure. Before now, the longest streak on record was 11 months. For all of fiscal year 2012, which began Oct. 1, the budget analysts said the government has raised $869 billion in revenue but spent $1.5 trillion so far...
Mr. Obama last month released a budget that showed the government averaging $1 trillion deficits for the rest of this decade. House Republicans are working to write their own budget now, while Senate Democratic leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has said he doubts his chamber will write a budget this year.That last comments suggests Democrats in Congress have given up on evening trying to deal with it.
We're broke and don't care. The only question is when other people stop loaning us money. That's when the pain will start.


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Blog Archives
Happy New Year!
Downtown Brooklyn, landscape style (photo)
Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park (panorama photo)
As you can see, Brooklyn Bridge Park provides a stunning view of lower Manhattan. I've recently begun experimenting with the panorama feature on my phone's camera with mixed results, but I think this was one of the better photos it's yielded. This was not the best time of day to be taking photos at this particular location, but it still produced a decent photo. One quick note: there's a helipad way down there in lower Manhattan. If watching helicopters land is your bag, Brooklyn Bridge Park is the place for you.
"I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain?" (photo)
This photograph of rain is just another example of me taking pictures of stuff I didn't think I could take pictures of in the first place – like smoke. Too bad I never got to take any photography classes in college… I guess taking stock photos of any subject is simply a matter of having the right lighting and background to make said subject show up… I guess.
Anyway, yeah, – a picture of the rain. Never thought I'd get that particular shot. I presume this isn't what Creedence was talking about.
Something's bugging me… (spoiler alert, it's an amazing spider, man!)
This spider has set up residence in the garage above the garbage cans. It's probably a good spot for him… cycle of life, I guess. He's welcome to stay there and do spider things until he gets too crazy with the web – then I'm bringing that knucklehead outside to be an amazing spider in the bushes.
Something's bugging me… (spoiler alert, it's a moth)
I know there's nothing in the photo for scale, but trust me when I tell you that this moth is at least two inches long. Seriously, On the real, For Real – whatever you prefer. It's a really big moth. I first noticed the moth when the beating of his wings started knocking things over in the kitchen. The damn house shook when he landed on the wall.
So I'm saying the moth is big.
Disneyland Signs
Upon my first visit to Disneyland and California Adventure just a few months ago, the signs got my attention right away. Here are just a few of my favorites. Read the rest of this entry
What's in a name? Nothing. Especially if you're selling tea.
In Act 2, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare writes:
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
[Aside.] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself though, not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O! be some other name:
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.
Ya see, that's all fancy talk for "You can all "chocolate" "dog shiz" and it won't alter the taste; chocolate tastes like chocolate no matter what you call it.


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On August 8, 2014, over the objections of architects, engineers, developers, the commercial real estate industry, housing advocates and others, Governor Deval Patrick signed into law SB 2271 - An Act relative to fair retainage payments in private construction (Chapter 276 of 2014).
Effective November 8th, the new law limits the amount of permitted retainage and establishes specific procedures for its release. It applies to all private construction contracts valued above $3 million dollars and excludes 1-4 family construction.
As the procedures set forth in AIA Document A201 and other construction contract forms must be revised so that they are coordinated with the statutory requirements, AIA Massachusetts, in working with legal counsel, has produced a guidance document to help members in these contract discussions with their Owners.
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Postgis Template in pgAdmin
Posted by: Neum in Postgres 5 years, 12 months ago
Messing with Postgis lately I found I really needed to be able to quickly create a database in pgAdmin III. Here is how I was able to do that. First, create a database in pgAdmin. Make sure you select the owner to be the same as the new databases. I named mine postgis-template.
Postgres + Postgis on Mountain Lion
Posted by: Neum in Postgres 6 years ago
I'm working on a mapping application in Django and of course the logical thing to use here is GeoDjango. I'm also a fan of Postgres so I wanted to use Postgis for the database. Here is how I set it up on a Macbook pro running Mountain Lion. For this I'm going to use the earlier install of Homebrew.
Git - Pack-objects Died With Strange Error
Posted by: Neum in git 6 years ago
I work with git every day. Its a great dvcs and my version control system of choice. Recently after working on a project the client needed to move to a different host with better support. After staging everything on the new server there were some changes involved so I created a new branch and then tried to push it to bitbucket.org (which rocks btw).
Simple Virtualenv Setup on MacOS
Posted by: Neum in Python 6 years, 1 month ago
Using my new Macbook Pro with retina display has been nothing but a joy but there are a few things a Django developer needs to be as efficient as possible. One of those is Virtualenv. Here is how to get it quickly setup and running on your new Mac.
Rails Local Development Environment Setup on Mac
Posted by: Neum in Rails 6 years, 3 months ago
Now that I'm moving forward on my own projects I decided to give Ruby on Rails a chance. I'll be throwing aside my prejudices learned the last 5 years using Python and Django and learning Rails. Why now? Simple, I've got some e-commerce projects moving forward and I really like to look of Spree Commerce. I'm actually super excited to learn Rails! Its something I've been meaning to do for some time.
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Workshops that bring together colleagues from different functions and external experts are a great way to build teams and use the collective brain power that exists within your organization.
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Located in the center of Asunción, just steps from the historic center, URBANIAN maintains its early 20th century facade. We reuse doors, windows and other materials to make furniture with a modern and urban dye making a totally new space, mix of rustic, recycled and traditional, an environment that bets on sustainability. Our facilities are designed to ensure a good rest in a clean, safe and fun environment. We are the first Hostel Boutique in Paraguay - Excellent location with transportation services at the door


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Jennifer Sherwood knows exactly where she shelved the 2003 version of Barbie Celebration paper plates. Her business partner and boyfriend Adam Schlain can wind through 4,000 square feet of warehouse space to put his hands on a He-Man "Happy Birthday" banner.
The Newport News pair officially launched HardToFindPartySupplies.com, an Internet-based business, in August. Now, eight employees ship more than 100 parcels of rare, mostly paper, party supplies to worldwide locations every day.
The couple stumbled upon the lucrative online business when Schlain started spending his free time unloading old party supplies on eBay.com about nine years ago.
"We were just trying to get rid of old junk, and we realized that the stuff had gone up in value," Sherwood says. "Then it became a mission to acquire more of it."
Sherwood and Schlain are not the only Internet entrepreneurs experiencing a boom. Retailer e-commerce revenue is expected to increase by 9.4 percent on average through 2016, according to IBISWorld, an industry analyst.
In 2012, e-commerce retail sales increased by 17.3 percent in the third quarter over the same period in 2011, while general retail sales only increased by 4.6 percent, according to the Department of Commerce's latest report.
In Virginia, the Department of Taxation does not track the sales of e-commerce retailers as a separate category.
The most lucrative online businesses, IBISWorld says, will cater to niche audiences interested in specific topics or products.
Sherwood and Schlain's website certainly fits that bill.
Their main goal, the couple says, is to offer birthday party supplies in every character and theme imaginable. They've gotten close to achieving that goal with more than 200 lines sold on their website.
"If your little girl wants Snow White, just try to find that in a store somewhere," Sherwood says. "Anything that is more than a year old just cannot be found in a store."
Schlain is responsible for the acquisition of new inventory, traveling the East Coast to score original Little Bear paper plates or Scooby Doo party hats. He says he finds the paper treasures in a variety of places, but is hesitant to share his shopping secrets.
The couple is highly sensitive to those who may copy their business plan. They are waiting to post some of their more valuable products online, and they are wary about photographing certain aspects of their business, like how the shipping process is set up.
"We have become the authority in birthday party supplies, and if we misspell something, you'll look and see that they have misspelled the same thing, too," Sherwood says. "We try to control it as much as we can. That's one reason it was important for us to move from eBay to our own website."
Sherwood, a consumer protection attorney, continues to practice law, but her focus is shifting toward their niche party supplies business.
"This is our baby," she says. "When we're at home, this is what we talk about. When we go out to dinner, this business is what we talk about. This is our baby, and like a mother with a newborn, we have the right to be proud of it."


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No. 3
"Sh*t it's too late to go to the gym.
- I don't care. It doesn't matter."
- I don't care. It doesn't matter."
Here's the truth:
I do care.
It does matter.
When I say these things, it's because:
I feel frustrated.
I feel powerless.
And maybe I really DON'T have time now that I've worked late. So maybe today isn't going to be a Gym Day after all. Too bad, life is tough. Plans fall apart, they change. Deal with it. #SuckItUpButtercup
But to say "I don't care" and "It doesn't matter" devalues my efforts. It's one of the worst ways I can sabotage myself with negative self-talk. Here's why:
- If It Doesn't Matter, then why go to the gym at all? Why plan on it in the first place? If I Don't Care, then what's for dinner? Deep-dish pizza? Pasta with extra Alfredo sauce? Just dive right into a vat of ice cream?
- That's the next step in that line of thinking. If I Don't Care, there's no reason to eat mindfully, make goal-oriented food choices... because if I Don't Care, there's NO GOAL to work toward. Convince myself that It Doesn't Matter and not only is the battle lost, there's no battle left to fight.
I'm pretty sure at some point I read a post from Michelle that I would really love to reference here... but I can't seem to find it. She's been blogging pretty regularly since like the dawn of time, and she's very insightful, so I'm sure it's there somewhere...
Here's what one article has to say on the topic: Top 10 Things NOT to Say to Yourself
"There's no use. Telling yourself there is no use steals your personal power and leaves you with no motivation."
One of the suggestions in this article is to clearly identify when you have such thoughts. This is actually something I do often. Because when I HEAR these thoughts out loud, they sound RIDICULOUS - which, of course, is exactly what they are. RIDICULOUS. Calling it ludicrous puts me in the position of devaluing the THOUGHT, rather than the other way around. I can reclaim my value, confidence and esteem just by segregating my negative thoughts into their own little Shame Box.
Here's the author's suggestion: "Use the following formula: "I just had the thought…" (repeat the negative thought here). If you caught yourself saying, "I am not worth it," for example, then you would pause and say, "I just had the thought, 'I am not worth it.'" Using this formula securely labels the thought as a mere thought. If you do not realize that what you said was just a thought, you run a higher risk of taking it personally and allowing it to ruin your day.
Here's another good article on the subject (I found while looking for that mystery post on Michelle's blog!) Challenging Negative Self-Talk - this one provides questions we can ask ourselves to help challenge those lies we tell ourselves. For example:
- Are there any other ways that I could look at this situation?
- Is this situation as bad as I am making out to be?
- Are my thoughts factual, or are they just my interpretations?
- Am I jumping to negative conclusions?
I don't really have any wrap-it-up conclusions for this post. I'm writing here about a concept that continues to challenge me. I'm working on it. And I'm going to keep at it, try to catch those I Don't Care and It Doesn't Matter thoughts as they happen, call them out, and keep acting like I DO care; it DOES matter.
Because it matters.
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Aggresome-forming TTRAP mediates pro-apoptotic properties of Parkinson's disease-associated DJ-1 missense mutations.
Cell Death Differ. 2008 Nov 21;
Authors: Zucchelli S, Vilotti S, Calligaris R, Lavina ZS, Biagioli M, Foti R, De Maso L, Pinto M, Gorza M, Speretta E, Casseler C, Tell G, Del Sal G, Gustincich S
Mutations in PARK7 DJ-1 have been associated with autosomal-recessive early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD). This gene encodes for an atypical peroxiredoxin-like peroxidase that may act as a regulator of transcription and a redox-dependent chaperone. Although large gene deletions have been associated with a loss-of-function phenotype, the pathogenic mechanism of several missense mutations is less clear. By performing a yeast two-hybrid screening from a human fetal brain library, we identified TRAF and TNF receptor-associated protein (TTRAP), an ubiquitin-binding domain-containing protein, as a novel DJ-1 interactor, which was able to bind the PD-associated mutations M26I and L166P more strongly than wild type. TTRAP protected neuroblastoma cells from apoptosis induced by proteasome impairment. In these conditions, endogenous TTRAP relocalized to a detergent-insoluble fraction and formed cytoplasmic aggresome-like structures. Interestingly, both DJ-1 mutants blocked the TTRAP protective activity unmasking a c-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)- and p38-MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase)-mediated apoptosis. These results suggest an active role of DJ-1 missense mutants in the control of cell death and position TTRAP as a new player in the arena of neurodegeneration.Cell Death and Differentiation advance online publication, 21 November 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.169.
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Theology generally focuses on the revelation of God to man through the Bible. But natural theology is an aspect of philosophy as well as theology, dealing with those aspects of God which we can know without God telling us, i.e., which we can reason to from observation of the world and of our own lives. We are dealing with those aspects in the Philosophy Libraries. -- which see for further discussion on the task before us.
It is not always easy to keep the distinction between theology and philosophy clear, and not terribly necessary, so we will be going back and forth at times. The "freewill" library below could be in the philosophy library, for instance, but, in my view, freewill and theology are too tied together to put in the philosophy section. A universe without God cannot explain the existence of freewill (and thus cannot explain much at all... But that is an epistemological question -- hmm, back to philosophy.).
These libraries will be growing over the next few years.
Theology- related libraries
** Personality, Empiricism, & God -- E. Fox's D. Phil. thesis from Oxford, 1994, rewritten in 2007
** The Law & the Grace of God - a new book by F. Earle Fox on
** The Law & the Grace of God
-- an Invitation to a Wedding -- (PDF
file) Reconciling LAW and GRACE in Biblical Theology.
(Includes Defining 'Oughtness' & 'Love' and Biblical Theology & Pelagianism in one book.) How we can resolve issues such as the foundation of moral language and the supposed contradictions between freewill on one hand and the sovereignty and the grace of God on the other hand. E. Fox
** BIBLICAL INNER HEALING -- a Biblical challenge to the secular world on their interpretation of human nature and the central and necessary role of God in emotional healing. For personal use as well as for classroom.
** Homosexuality: Good & Right in the Eyes of God? the Wedding of Truth to Compassion and Reason to Revelation - perhaps the only comprehensive, Biblically reliable, and scientifically credible strategy for winning and resolving the enormously contentious sexuality debates among us. Shows the theological foundations of human sexuality, how we are made in the Image of God, male and female, and how this is fundamental to understanding and living our sexuality without being self-destructive.
** Definition of 'God' ---
** Definition of 'faith' --
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** The Evolution of Justice -- a sermon by E. Fox at the Mustard Tree 9/25/05
** Intelligent Design Conference - Biola University -- Summary & commentary by E. Fox
** Putting Truth ahead of God -- E. Fox
** Incarnation & Heaven! -- Can You Imagine That??!! Sermon at Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Placentia, CA, First Sunday after Christmas, 2008. E. Fox
** What is "Original Sin"? -- F. Earle Fox - a topic hotly debated all through Christian history. Is there a rational way of understanding such a concept?
** How is God a Trinity? -- <-Audio Version. Sermon on Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2009, St. Luke's REC, Santa Ana, CA Printed Version (with theological commentary on "modalism" by E. Fox).
** Four Levels of Christian Unity -- and the Way There -- E. Fox How can Christians approach the disunity in the Church with hope of reunifying? How can people anywhere successfully seek unity? Read Jesus' prayer for unity in John 17.
** The Baptism of the Holy Spirit <- Audio Version. What is it? &, Is it for us Anglicans??? Day of Pentecost Sermon - E. Fox Printed Version.
** a New Reformation - a generic statement of the basics of the Christian faith.
** Jesus, Miracles, & Reason <- Audio. Are miracles real? Are they rational? Yes, and Yes. E. Fox Sermon Printed Version - Oct. 9, 2011
** Ascension Theology - by Douglas Farrow (Prof. of Christian Thought at McGill U., in Montreal, Canada). A brilliant and needed essay on the critical importance of the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the heavenly places after His resurrection, death, and the harrowing of hell. It is not just a metaphor for a way to get off-stage a savior who has done his job and can now go home. It is a crucial (and somewhat frightening) part of the continuing story of redemption and salvation. Farrow brings up some scary issues which need clear spiritual direction. Book Review by E. Fox
Communion: the Nature & Limits - the Rev. Sam Edwards, ESA -- See also Earle Fox's the Four Stages of Communion
Christian Classics Ethereal Library -- link to a resource for early Christian history and thought
Anthony Flew, world-class philosophical atheist, becomes deist -- an interview with Gary Habermas.
Water from His Side -- by Edward John Craig -- National Review Online -- an essay on the water flowing from Jesus' side at His death on the cross.
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Perfect your writing through revising.
Students learn to draft and revise essays.
Students will write an expressive essay.
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1. Lead a discussion on the writing process. Emphasize the importance of a logical sequence, descriptive writing, attention to detail, and inclusion of key elements. Tell students to let their personalities show in their writing. If possible, provide examples from literature. For example, one can clearly see that Jack London's personality differs from Mark Twain's. Remind students that writing an essay affords them the opportunity to use their imaginations. They should be inventive and original. Even when drawing on their own experiences, they should portray those experiences in a new and interesting way.
2. Distribute copies of Drafting and Revising Essays (Grades 7-12) Student Reproducible (PDF) and have students review the writing and editing tips.
3. Allow students time to write their essay drafts.
4. Once students have completed their essay drafts (on the topic, Why does your teacher deserve a classroom makeover?), allow time for revision. Divide the class into groups of two. Have students share their essays with their partner. Based on the feedback they receive, have students revise their essays for clarity, purpose, and tone.
5. Have students proofread their essays, fixing errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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The Burundian parliament has in a landslide vote accented to the decision by the government to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC).
At the close of the vote, 94 Members of Parliament (MPs) voted in favor of the withdrawal. Two others voted against while 14 others abstained. The two MPs who voted against the withdrawal were Andre Ndayizamba and Fabien Baciryanino
The government last week presented a draft law to the parliament to withdraw its membership at the ICC because "We found that it was necessary to withdraw from that organization so we can really be free," First Vice President Gaston Sindimwo said.
BREAKING: In a blow to efforts at justice, Burundi lawmakers vote to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the Int'l Criminal Court. #ICC pic.twitter.com/UBgUrdakcM— joanne mariner (@jgmariner) October 12, 2016
The ICC had announced that it will investigate the April 2015 violence that resulted in the death of at least 450 people with thousands fleeing the country.
The United Nations (UN) released a report in September accusing the Burundian government of carrying out human rights abuses. Consequently, the government threw out three UN rights investigators and severed cooperation with the UN rights body.
The government also accused the UN of bias and called the investigations politically motivated. Hundreds of protesters later marched along the streets of Burundi's capital Bujumbura denouncing the UN report.
European nations and the United States have led efforts to put pressure on the country with aid cuts. The EU advised that it will resume funding if the government frees up the media, deals with rights abuses and launches genuine peace talks.
Violence in the country erupted after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced a decision to seek a third term in office. He eventually won elections criticised by the opposition who describe his current tenure as unconstitutional.
Just been sent this- agenda for ministers meeting in Burundi.— Samira Sawlani (@samirasawlani) October 6, 2016
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April 17 - During Margaret Thatchers funeral, a small group of protesters hold up placards against the former PM and turn their backs on the funeral procession. Simon Hanna reports.
Amid all the pomp, ceremony and security of Baroness Margaret Thatcher's funeral, there were those who were there to protest against the divisive former Prime Minister. The high police presence at this 15 million dollar ceremony deterred many demonstrators from going, but a few still went, turning their backs on the procession as it passed. The former Conservative party leader is seen by her critics as responsible for growing inequality and the closure of large swathes of the country's industrial base. Demonstrators here said the current Conservative government was using the funeral to boost their popularity. SOUNDBITE (English) DAVID WINSLOW, PROTESTER: "It's essentially a massive propaganda campaign for the Tories to try to kind of elevate Thatcher to the status of a public idol." SOUNDBITE (English) RICHARD PATON, PROTESTER: "Are we going to stand by and let them smother us in this sort of fake reverence and vanity of avarice? Not bloody likely." The ceremonial funeral with military honours is Britain's biggest political funeral since that of Winston Churchill in 1965.


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The apotheosis of Paul Gascoigne, when he bestrode the field, set up three goals, and scored a magnificent fourth against the Czechs, was one more episode on the long, depressing history of England teams and brilliant individuals.
The English love affair with mediocrity, at the expense of the idiosyncratic talent, was pinpointed by the late Arthur Koestler, the celebrated Hungarian writer who spent the later decades of his life here. For politicians to succeed, he wrote, they have, in each and every country, to pass through a kind of gauze. In England, it is a gauze of mediocrity.
Obviously he was thinking of politicians such as Ramsay Macdonald Baldwin and Chamberlain rather than Churchill and, in later years, Thatcher; hardly mediocre, whatever you may think of her. But the point, or the pinpoint, remains well taken. From Charlie Buchan to Stanley Matthews, Matthews to Shackleton, Shack to Hoddle, and now Hoddle to Gascoigne, the English maverick has traditionally had a hard time of it.
My Dublin-born father, an Arsenal fan, used. to speak to me wonderingly of Charlie Buchan, an reside-forward so clever, he said, that it was hard for other footballers to play with him. Buchan, virtual inventor of the Third Back Game, when Arsenal introduced it in 1925, a star with Sunderland before the first world war, a powerful figure in Arsenal's then obscure team, when transferred to them on a £100-a-goal basis in 25, won only a handful of caps for England. True, the Great War got in the way, but his career, a long one, spanned it.
Of Matthews, David Miller has written in his recent biography. He was an outside-right of astonishing gifts, renowned and revered throughout the world, his career much longer even than Buchan's yet what ups and downs it had! He was first capped as a 19-year-old in 1934 and, on his second appearance, ran into the chilling Battle of Highbury, in which the Italians were kicking almost everything that moved. Not a day for the young Matthews.
Matthews was not even originally chosen for the English World Cup party in 1950 in Brazil. He was grudgingly added to it at almost the last moment but played only one game, that against Spain in Rio, after England had been utterly humiliated in Belo Horizonte by the USA. That was the period when the selectors preferred Tom Finney to Matthews so often; even though three years earlier, in Lisbon, they had at last put Matthews on the right, Finney on the left and Portugal were crushed 10-0. A year later, in Turin, with Matthews and Finney in the same roles, England thrashed Italy 4-0. Finney scored twice, and Matthews tormented the stand in, blond left back, Eliani.
Shackleton was another salient example. When in 1955 he published his amusing and contentious autobiography, Clown Prince of Soccer, ghosted by David Jack, he devoted a chapter to The Average Director's Knowledge of soccer. It consisted of a blank page. He might, from his own point of view, equally well have devoted it to the Average Selector; who was, in any case, invariably a club director.
The other thing I always remember from Shack's book was his anecdote about the bitter day when he was turned down by Arsenal. It was just before the war and he was called into the office of sonorous George Allison, the Arsenal manager, who essentially a journalist, never before in charge of a football team. Allison told "this then frail boy," as he would later refer to him, that Arsenal were letting him go.
Arsenal lived to regret it, just as they did in the case of Charlie Buchan, whom they'd turned down in pre Great War days when an amateur with them. They were Woolwich Arsenal then, and they fell out with him over a matter of 11 bob expenses. Shackleton, like Buchan, would become a huge favourite at Sunderland, though first he returned to his native City to play for Bradford Park Avenue, then for Newcastle.
Glenn Hoddle, who alas has had his career blighted this season in Monaco by a severe knee injury and a difficult operation, made a memorable debut at Wembley against Bulgaria, passing and controlling the ball with exquisite skill, finally striking a spectacular right footed goal. His reward for that was to be dropped from the next game with the manager, then Ron Greenwood, announcing: "Disappointment is part of football."
There would be plenty of disappointments in the future, some from Greenwood, some from his successor, Bobby Robson. It took Robson a very long time indeed to come round to Hoddle, and then it was in a thorough grudging and reluctant way: until a burst of bizarre enthusiasm in Colorado Springs.
Robson is another England manager in love with mediocrity; with the David Platts rather than the Paul Gascoignes of this world. In 1985, Hoddle was chosen against Scotland but told, ludicrously, to play on the right wing. When the scene changed to Mexico and a pre-World Cup tournament, a kind of tacit conspiracy by the other England players allowed Hoddle to move inside and exercise his high creative skills. Sourly, after Hoddle had had an excellent game, Robson remarked that this was how he always wanted him to play.
And so to Gascoigne. A maverick indeed. An immensely gifted but eternally boyish, even puerile, figure, given to practical jokes. Such as the moment, in Stockholm, when he accosted an astonished manager of Sweden, Olle Nordin, said how pleased he was to meet him, and shook hands - with an electric buzzer in his hand.
That "Gazza" had practically every quality you could hope for or think of save acceleration was beyond doubt. He had outstanding technique, could beat a man with exquisite arabesques of ball control, had a thunderous right footed shot, deployed with especial success at free kicks, and the ability to make the kind of killer passes one had associated with his predecessor, in the Tottenham team, Glenn Hoddle.
Equally beyond doubt was his tendency to retaliate when fouled and get himself in trouble, to show off, to make the occasional silly mistake, But since there wasn't a single other midfield player, read inside forward, in the country capable of making the unexpected pass, the case for him as an England World Cup choice seemed unanswerable; expect to Bobby Robson.
Robson was at his Colorado Springs games again before the Czechoslovak match, saying that Gascoigne had played well at Millwall earlier in the season, against Yugoslavia B, but this was how he must play again. Gascoigne had indeed played well that night - I was there - superbly setting up a goal, but my memory, alas for Robson, is long enough to remember that he damned Gascoigne with faint praise, concentrating on a couple of mistakes he had made.
Then came that dazzling exhibition against the Czechs. An inspired through pass gave Steve Bull the equaliser. A brilliant passage on the right allowed Bull to head another. A wickedly swerving inswinger of a corner helped Pearce to the second English goal. The coruscating, last minute goal set the seal on his performance. Robson had before the game, implied that for Gascoigne, it was going to be now or never. It became, triumphantly, now.
England have thus been given a formidable new weapon. I cannot see them winning the World Cup, but I can see them giving everyone a good run for their money.
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There is an olive grove in Gethsemane with ancient, gnarled, olive trees. There is one that particularly catches the eye. It is near a flat space—right where someone might have gone to earnestly pray. The tree is old. Old enough to have witnessed the passionate prayer of Jesus crying out, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."
Had there been another way, surely He would have taken it. Had it not been necessary, surely He would not have given up His life. But surrender His life He did.
There is an old Gospel song by Ray Overholt that says:
He could have called ten thousand angels
To destroy the world and set Him free.
He could have called ten thousand angels,
But He died alone, for you and me.
This was not just a prophet or a good man. This was God Incarnate, born of a Virgin, yet fully man and fully God; guiltless, pure, and sinless. He was totally and utterly submitted to the will of God the Father; and that meant suffering and dying.
In "enlightened" religious circles these days it is popular to say, "thinking that Jesus is the only means of salvation puts God is an awfully small box." The problem is what Jesus knew, what the Bible reveals, and what the Church has always taught, that we needed to be reconciled to God. The Atonement is not an optional extra; it is the only way that we can be restored to intimacy with God. Presuming to declare His favor over proscribed behaviors and beliefs does not make it so. Perhaps the fantasy god of the creation of imagination behaves that way, but not the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob – Jesus, who has revealed Himself.
As Jesus went to the Cross-, it was not, as the "enlightened" ones say, "cosmic child abuse." To understand the doctrine of the Trinity is to understand that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are One. That means that the Father did not dispassionately send someone else off to do the dirty work of redemption. When the body of Jesus was crucified, the heart of the Father was as well.
Easter, however, is not just about dying. It is about blood being shed to accomplish His Atoning work, but it is also about more. It is about boundless love that lets my sin, no matter how abundant, disappear into the death of God on the Cross where it can be swallowed up. Rather than denying or re-defining sin, the gaping death of Jesus encourages and beckons me to 'fess up, admit who I have been and what I have done and pour the shortfall into the blackness of His forgiveness. Because of His death, it is not only forgiven, it is forgotten.
It does not even stop there. In the completion of history's greatest event, the displaced gravestone of Jesus caused a seismic shift in who we are. When it moved and He rose victorious, He shared that victory with us. He overwhelmed the awful imprisoning words, "I can't change." They fall away like broken shackles as the truth is born that "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
It should not be surprising that the battle for the soul of the church is a fierce one. It is fierce because it is the central struggle of humankind—being forgiven and cleansed from sin and having intimacy with God restored.
Neither is it surprising that leaders who have lost their way would provide such horrific leadership. Having abandoned the message of transformation through the blood of Christ, they are like navigators who steer with pictures of compasses rather than the real thing. Just as a real compass points north, real leaders point to the Cross. Failure to do so dooms their craft to perils they cannot steer around. They may viciously exert command of the vessels they occupy, but they cannot travel where people actually need to go.
The House of Bishops blusters. Institutional conflicts rage. Our principle calling, however, is to simply, clearly, and plainly point to the Cross and tell people that He who reconciles is risen!


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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
Roy E. BuckAnnual to perennial herb, generally tapered-hairy on leaves and lower stem
Stem generally ascending to erect, ± glaucous
Leaves ± entire to deeply cut; basal generally rosetted, withering, generally oblanceolate to obovate; cauline generally linear to obovate, clasping, reduced
Inflorescence becoming more open; bracts generally 0
Flower biradial to ± bilateral; calyx ± urn-shaped, sepals often ± pouched below, generally not green, generally not darker in bud, generally erect after flower; petal (and sepal) margins often scarious, wavy or not; filaments generally in 3 pairs, generally free (or longest 12 pairs ± fused below); style < 4 mm, stigma generally 2-lobed
Fruit ascending to reflexed, generally cylindric
Seed generally ± oblong, generally compressed, generally ± brown
Species in genus: ± 14 species: ± sw North America
Etymology: (Greek: stem flower, from use of some as cauliflower-like vegetable)
C. inflatus S. Watson
DESERT CANDLEAnnual, glabrous or sparsely hairy below
Stem ± inflated, sometimes branched above
Leaves: basal 27 cm, ± entire to finely dentate especially toward tips, tapered to short, winged petiole; cauline widely oblong to ovate, entire or ± dentate, sessile, clasping
Flower: sepals erect or spreading, 810 mm, ± pouched below, darker in bud; petals 814 mm, purplish especially on veins, margins scarious, wavy; longest 12 filament pairs ± fused; style < 0.5 mm
Fruit ascending, 511 cm
Ecology: Open, sandy plains to rocky slopes
Elevation: 1501500 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Sierra Nevada Foothills (Kern Co.), w edge c&s San Joaquin Valley, Inner South Coast Ranges, n Western Transverse Ranges (± uncommon in preceding), sw Mojave Desert (common)
Flowering time: MarMay
Only sp. with ± purplish stigma
Horticultural information: TRY; DFCLT.
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A comfort in the night
A welcome warmth after a winter excursion
A place to dry off after the rain
Warms frozen hands
Where you cuddle up to read your favorite book on an autumn evening
Perfect backdrop for telling stories
Contemplation is encouraged by staring at the sparks drifting upward
Roasts marshmallows to perfection–either golden brown or crispy black
Heats food and water for tea, coffee, or hot cocoa
Provides entertainment when expertly handled on the end of a staff, poi, or torch
Smell of its smoke brings back childhood memories of camping seasons gone by
Raging, burning, destroying
Licks up wood, grass, and home indiscriminately
Races faster than the eye can see
Creates tornadoes of flame that leap into the air
Leaps roads
Leaps burn lines
Dry tinder and rainless days are its friend
Sends fear into the hearts of firefighter families
Turns the sun a strange burnt umber
Started by just a small spark
Its smoke stings the eyes, burns the lungs, and causes death
If this one thing can have such drastic sides to it, why shouldn't the noble creatures who wield its power not have both sides to them. If fire can help, why can't dragons provide comfort, healing, and heat as well? If fire destroys, why can't dragons also have a fierce side that destroys, rages, and creates havoc? Enter the world of the Dragon Courage series, where dragons provide courage, friendship, and comfort or on the other hand destroy, kill, and cast judgment. Fire can be both good and bad; therefore, dragons can be both benevolent and malevolent. They are the creatures who co-inhabit the world of humans.


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Download this summary as a pdfMaster Thesis (60 credits / 1 year research) Author: Jan Fredrik Stoveland firstname.lastname@example.com University of Oslo Date: May 2008
Ever since Netscape Communications announced their plans to make their Web browser an open source product by establishing the Mozilla project in January 1998, an increasing amount of software companies have been pledging to open source software development. We are now witnessing a range of different shapes and forms of open source initiatives blending in various ways with proprietary software and for-profit companies. Some established software firms have recently taken a step further than simply participating in open source communities and using open source software, as they have chosen to open up their own software projects in an attempt to create surrounding open source communities to support their own development. This is what O'Mahony and West describe as creating firm-sponsored open source communities (O'Mahony, 2007a; J. West & O'Mahony, 2005), which is the main theme for this thesis. In this research, we find that a major difference between firm-sponsored and autonomous communities is that the former need to handle a tension between openness and control in their product development. Given that developers earn the trust and prove their competence, the autonomous communities can basically offer the same opportunities for everyone to gain rights to commit code and part-take in strategic decisions. For firms, it is more problematic to offer this kind of openness to external community members, due to their need for control of the product upon which their business model relies. This relationship is equally present in the case of this study.
I have studied the American software company Novell and the openSUSE project , largely guided by an inductive, qualitative approach supplemented by some quantitative methods. The majority of data were collected during my 1-month stay at Novell's Linux R&D team in Nuremberg, Germany. The data include:
- 26 in-depth interviews with employees, managers and external community members
- 1 month observation at the company and participation at open source conferences
- Survey among active external contributors in the openSUSE community (280 respondents)
- Statistics on mailing list activity
The majority of the data was acquired in October 2007. The descriptions in the thesis present a snapshot of Novell's evolution. A few months after the data were gathered the situation had already changed. This development is taken into account in the discussion of the future perspectives of the project.
The discussion of the case of Novell is as much an attempt to explore and test theories as it is an effort to describe and explain this empirical reality. This summary will however emphasize the more practical aspects of the findings in the study.
Research questions
By establishing the openSUSE community, Novell have on the one-hand extended their own organization. At the same time they are keeping the external developers at arms-length by not granting them any direct authority to commit code to the system. The first research question in the thesis has pursued the nature of this relationship: 1. What is the (theoretical) distinction between the sponsor firm and the sponsored community? I have found that the openSUSE community is distinguished as an interactive system from Novell's decision-network. The openSUSE community is not an organizational system in its own right, but has features that nevertheless make it a fairly stable system that has a boundary towards Novell in the development of the openSUSE distribution. With the help of Niklas Luhmann's theory on autopoietic organizational systems, we are able to see how Novell and the openSUSE community are separated apart from each other.
The relationship between these two systems are affected by the tension between openness and control, described above. The next step has been to investigate the exact nature of this relationship, and in particular how they are held together in collaboration: 2. What is the nature of the relationship between the organizational and the external interactive system, and how are the two systems bound together? Given the differences in the commercial tradition of software development and the open source software model, multiple inherent conflicts could be present in Novell's open source adventure. If we also take into account the mentioned tension between openness and control in Novell's development model, many obstacles and difficulties complicate this collaborative attempt. I have therefore been interested in seeking out the mechanisms, forces and arrangements that hold things together. In the thesis, I argue there are three elements that ensure a tight coupling between the two systems. By drawing upon the work of Susan Leigh Star (1989), I first discuss how several development tools and models serve as important boundary objects between the two systems, enabling joint development on a common product. The characteristics of boundary objects are that they are shared and have a mutual identity between all collaborators, and are able to support diverse interests at the same time. Examples of such objects are the Bugzilla repository, the Factory code base and the openSUSE Build Service. I have therefore put emphasis on the social aspects of these powerful software tools, which I find to be very important. For example, the solution for Novell has not been to battle disagreements on opinions and values, but provide room for all of them to co-exist. If a developer does not "win" in a development-dispute, the openSUSE Build Service will allow him to take things in his own direction, rally support and prove the others wrong.
Secondly, the shared communication channels (mailing lists, IRC, Wiki) are vital in creating transparency and providing access through the boundaries of the systems. It has been imperative that employed engineers have moved their development discussions to these channels. Thirdly, the marginal people whom have roles in both systems are crucial for balancing the needs of both of them. This group of individuals (approx. 80 people) are the people that in fact enact the hybrid software model in practice, and use both reactive and proactive strategies that counterbalance the internal and external pressure to separate the two systems, as illustrated below.
Managing openness
In summary, what can the analysis and discussion in this thesis tell us about the problem of managing the tension between openness and control between the sponsor firm and the sponsored community? The discussion shows that it is possible to maintain and develop both control and openness, as these properties are organized through two different kinds of autopoietic systems (the organizational and interactive system). Furthermore, these systems are linked through a boundary, or to be more precise, a set of boundary objects. The objects allow for control to be maintained while they also provide a great deal of freedom and opportunities for external development contributions. The general lesson we may learn from these insights is that the chances for success of the firm-sponsored community model are strengthened when:
- activity and focus shifts from internal, naturalized object to boundary objects; (i.e. moving development from Autobuild to the Build Service)
- transparency from the sponsor firm is followed by encouraged participation from the sponsored community on shared channels;
- the group of marginal people is continuously expanded from both sides – by encouraging employees to communicate externally and by increasingly including external developers in the organizational decision-network; and
- every possible strategy that may make the common target-object an individual property of everyone is pursued, through mechanisms of contribution that supports shared ownership. The latter may unleash the target-object's power to motivate and draw collaborators tighter together.
Novell's transparent form of development – through using the open communication channels and encouraging input and discussion – has been very important for relieving some of the existing tension in the collaboration surrounding the openSUSE distribution. As I have shown in my discussion of Novell's future perspectives, the pressure may nevertheless build up over time if the situation does not continue to evolve in a direction towards more openness. In the thesis, several various future scenarios are discussed, including:
- Status quo – The relationship between Novell and openSUSE remains as it is.
- Integration – Novell and openSUSE engulf each other and become one and the same system.
- Extinction – The interactive openSUSE-system dies, and the development goes back into Novell.
- Divergence – Novell and openSUSE move in opposite directions, and openSUSE evolves into an autonomus organizational system.
- Failure – Novell's business model fails and the company pulls out of the openSUSE project. openSUSE's fate is uncertain and open for anyone to grab.
- Bridge – Novell and the openSUSE system continue to exist as today, but a clear bridge is built between the two systems, enabling mutual influence.
Novell are aware of the fact that more openness is needed to vent this pressure, and are already taking measures to ensure that the arm (that is holding the community at arms-length) is "shrinking". This is in accordance with the last strategy "Bridge" that is detailed in the thesis. Does this mean, then, that the firm-sponsored open source community-model must evolve towards more openness (and thus abandon control) to survive over time? My data seem to indicate so, in this particular case. However, Novell's clever maneuvering and their remarkable technical engineering of the Build Service technology shows that there are ways of devolving control in a "controlled" manner, meaning that the openness can be managed and that the risk is therefore minimized. Further research on the topic of firm-sponsored communities could therefore aim at investigating if it is possible to control openness, and whether this is the solution for managing communities such as these over time. If successful, this model may prove that facilitating open innovation – by drawing upon the best of both the commercial and open source software models – is possible.