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iPhone Review Series: iPhone vs. Palm Treo 650In this second installment of our iPhone Review Series, we compare the Apple iPhone to the Palm Treo 650 from the perspective of a former Treo 650 user, providing a look at how the two platforms compare, what the iPhone offers for current Treo users, and a few things it doesn't yet do.
Palm Treo vs. Apple iPhone
The Mac-friendly phone torch passes from Palm to Apple.
The Palm Treo has long been a popular smartphone for Mac users because of its bundled Palm Desktop for Mac sync support and its simple Mac-like interface. However, Palm has delivered very little in terms of hardware or software innovation for its Treo line over the last several years, and has recently moved to adopt Windows Mobile as a replacement to its own Palm OS for the Treo.
Palm's support for Mac users hasn't improved in years, and its new Windows Mobile Treos aren't supported at all. It should come as no surprise that Apple's own iPhone provides better support for Mac users than Palm's Treo. Here's a look at how the two platforms compare, what the iPhone offers for Treo users, and a few things it doesn't yet do.
A previous and more general review of the iPhone's features and limitations was presented in the article "Apple's iPhone: an initial (but in-depth) review."
Physical design and usability
The Palm Treo line is now five years old. It originated at Palm spinoff Handspring as the pairing of the original Visor PDA with a GSM phone module. Palm actually acquired Handspring specifically to move into the smartphone area with the Treo.
Palm's Treo remained attractive enough to maintain as much smartphone market share as all of Microsoft's Windows Mobile phone licensees combined, despite delivering very little progress in either hardware or software since 2004.
The Palm OS has remained stagnant, and its hardware features have only seen minimal bumps. Palm has also done nearly nothing to improve its HotSync software on the Mac. Apart from the Treo however, there are very few phones that make any effort at all to sync with the Mac. That left the Treo as the lessor of several evils for Mac users in search of a smartphone.
Frozen in time, the Treo seems to beg for a worthy competitor to simply bury it. Palm's decision to begin offering a Windows Mobile version of the Treo phone hardware seemed to concede defeat to Microsoft. However, Apple's new iPhone offers more of the features that attracted many users to the Palm Treo in the first place, making it a more likely heir to the Treo throne, particularly for Mac users.
The iPhone does lack the Palm's official software platform and certain other features that third parties can deliver even if Palm never ever releases another update; more on that later.
Physically, the Treo hardware feels rugged enough to withstand a full lifetime of normal use. In two years, my Treo screen only has minor scratches that aren't even visible when the screen is on. The unit itself is worn but has survived several drops on concrete.
At the same time, the device itself feels creaky and cheap; it groans and flexes like a Dell laptop, as if built from plastic that was simply too thin. The unit itself is as thick as a full-sized laptop such as the Mac Book Pro. Its real size is disguised by rounded corners that make it fit comfortably in the hand but which don't make it any less bulky in the pocket.
The first day I saw the Treo 650, I was impressed with the quality of its camera and screen, satisfied with the familiar Palm OS, but somewhat disappointed with the rest of it. It's bulky, marginally integrated with desktop software, and generally felt stuck in the depressing post-dotcom rut that Palm never seemed to shake its way out of; the company has since layered into all of its products a burden of grief and despair that seems palpable. Palm simply exudes a desperation that reeks of death.
That morbid fog clouds the Palm experience for even the most optimistic of users. To get started, you push the red 'off' button. After more than a second of nothing happening, the screen lights up, but wait, it's not ready yet. The screen wakes and then locks, waiting for the user to push the center button to unlock it. If the two buttons aren't hit in sequence with enough of a pause before and after, the unit goes back to sleep.
That's the kind of poor experience that Windows users might tolerate, but which many Mac users would find infuriatingly inelegant and clumsy.
In contrast, the iPhone wakes with a press of either the top or front button, then invites the user to slide a lock across the screen with a finger swipe. This is quite impossible to do accidently, because the iPhone's screen only reacts to skin, and only reacts to a target that is finger sized.
The wake up sequence of each captures much of the overall difference between the Palm Treo and the iPhone: the former is a slow, quirky, and irritatingly frustrating, while the latter is elegantly thoughtful, responsive, and simply pleasant to use.
After replacing my Treo with the iPhone, I found myself double checking my pocket to make sure I had it with me. The iPhone has a similar weight, but consumes half the volume of the Treo. Its ultra thin design has an impressive and solid feel. The Treo is so bulky that it's an embarrassment to hold.
Both can be used with one hand, even to type out letters. The iPhone presents a much larger keyboard on the screen, and encourages the use of the pad of the thumb. The physical keys of the Treo are not only much smaller but also much closer together, forcing the user to type using the edge of a fingernail.
I assumed that the iPhone's touch screen would be harder to use, and simply be "better" only because it offered more screen real estate. I was wrong; its touch screen is far easier and more comfortable to type on than the tiny physical keys of the Treo. There is no numeric or special character mode invoked by typing modifier keys; the iPhone simply displays alternative keyboards with each of the characters you want to type.
With two hands, the typing experience on the Treo improves, but the iPhone's does as well. The Treo offers no corrections when typing, while the iPhone makes immediate error correction easy and natural.
While the Treo also has a touch screen, it reacts to everything, not just skin. That means it must be turned off before returning to a pocket, for fear that a brush might select and delete all the text on the screen. That can't happen on the iPhone.
At the same time, the Treo's screen does not react to finger touches as sensitively as the iPhone's. With the Treo, even trying to do basic number dialing via a finger on the touchscreen is unpleasant. It feels slow and inaccurate. The iPhone's screen also never requires the Palm's touch screen realignment; it just works.
Navigation through the Palm's main menu of applications also feels clumsy. I often subconsciously defaulted to using the physical buttons to launch apps rather than just tapping icons on the screen; it requires so much pressure to register a touch that it's simply clumsy to use the Palm's touchscreen for touch control. The iPhone rather dramatically gets rid of all physical buttons on the face of the device apart from the single home button, but the focus on the touchscreen is invisible because it actually works.
There is no little joystick to poke at and no menu buttons to press. Everything is controlled by touch. It isn't just buttons either; lists of contacts, CoverFlow albums, and photos react to a flick and stop with a touch. Scrolling, panning, and zooming respond intuitively and provide instant feedback that feels natural, not like an assembly of electronic hardware and computer software.
Neither the Palm nor the iPhone seems to favor the right or left hand, although the iPhone is ready to jump between a tall and horizontal aspect ratio whenever doing so makes more sense. The Treo can't really be held sideways at all, and makes no use of a landscape oriented display.
More information on the iPhone's input compared to the Palm and other smartphones was presented in the article "Using iPhone: Text and Data Entry vs T9, Graffiti, Thumb Keyboards."
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New York January 4, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in India to refrain from pressing charges against a media group that televised an interview with the companion of the Delhi rape victim who died last week. The December 16 case has garnered global attention.
"This is an instance of greatly misplaced priorities. Authorities are hardly protecting the victim's rights by retaliating against news media that are bringing to light details of the horrific crime that claimed her life," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia program coordinator. "Police should immediately drop their misguided plan to file charges."
In an interview with Zee News broadcast today, the man, using an alias, spoke of the brutality of the crime as well as the ineptitude of the police response to the victims, who were dumped by a roadside. Zee's interviewer referred to the man as Abhimanyu, comparing him to the hero from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Police said Zee would still be charged under laws pertaining to disclosure of identity in a rape case, local media reported.
New Delhi police said they would charge the broadcaster under section 228(A) of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with the disclosure of identity of victims of certain crimes, including rape, according to The New York Times. A conviction could carry a penalty of up to two years in jail, local media reported.


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New-car sales were expected to get off to a tough start this year, so it was no surprise when in western European volume fell 9 percent last month to 933,333 units, according to LMC Automotive.
The only brands that were able to defy this downturn were Chevrolet and Kia, which both made significant gains in three of Europe's four biggest markets, with the exception being France, where overall sales fell hard last month.
In January, South Korea's Kia managed to increase sales 132 percent in Germany, Europe's biggest market, 43 percent in Italy and 38 percent in the UK.
In the same period, sales of Chevy's Korea-built models rose 120 percent in the UK, 23 percent in Italy and 19 percent in Germany.
Europe's best-selling brand, Volkswagen, was alone in managing a big sales gain in France, up 27 percent compared with January 2011. The German automaker also increased UK sales by 5 percent, but sales slipped 2 percent in Germany.
Market sales
Of the top five western European markets, only Spain showed a modest gain in sales, with a rise of 3 percent to 54,961 units. But this is scant relief for a market that has seen its volumes halve since a peak of 1.62 million units in 2007 to just 808,000 units last year.
In the UK, sales were flat at 128,853 units, while Germany's sales were flat at 210,195 units.
In Italy, sales dropped almost 17 percent to 137,119 units, while in France the volume slipped 21 percent to 147,143 units. The slump is partly to a comparison with inflated January 2011 sales. About 30,000 registrations were carried over to January 2011 from the previous year's government-funded car scrapping program.
While there were small pockets of growth in tiny markets such as Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and Norway, this did little to help Europe, which began the new year with a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of just 11 million units a year, "weaker than anything seen in 2011, and re‐affirming our forecast that this year will be an even tougher one for the industry," LMC said in a release.
The group forecasts that 2012 western European sales will decline 6 percent to 12.05 million units from 12.8 million in 2011.
South Korean carmakers
In addition to offering fresh products with appealing design and fuel-sipping engines, South Korean automakers are also benefiting from a free-trade agreement with the EU.
The agreement already has cut custom duties for engines with a displacement below 1.5-liters from 10 percent to 8.3 percent. The duty drops to 6.6 percent in July and will be phased out by 2017. For bigger engines, the duty was lowered to 7 percent last year and will decline to 4 percent in July.
Since such duties are applied before adding sales and added-value taxes, a 1 percent decline in duty translates into an almost 1 percent decline in retail price. And lower sticker prices could become an increasingly relevant factor in Europe as consumers tighten their belts because of hard economic times.


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Bake potatoes in a muffin tin
Ever burn your fingers when you're plucking baked potatoes from the oven?
Instead of using a baking sheet or putting them directly on the rack, stand baking potatoes upright inside a muffin tin. They'll bake faster. When they're done, remember to use an oven mitt to grasp the edge of the muffin tin to remove it from the oven. And use your biceps. The muffin tin will be unexpectedly weighty.
You can bake the potatoes naked for a crisp skin, or wrap them in foil first.


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Voting, Virgins, and uh, VH-1
Election years have unlimited potential for library programming ideas. From displays of books on the electoral & campaign process to town hall meetings to voter registration drives, libraries have the opportunity every few years to play an active role in being a go-to informational clearinghouse for voters.
This year, more so than others (which may well be due to my own lack of vested interest in other election years), I've been seeing a lot of ads and reading quite a few news stories on getting out the Black American vote. Last week's Hip-Hop Political Conference in Newark, NJ is a very interesting example. It included a panel discussion billed as A Dialogue Between the Hip-Hop Generation and the Civil Rights Generation, a film festival, and workshops on organizing organizers, grandparents raising their grandchildren, fund-raising, national healthcare policy, and criminal justice. The convention is now over, but new & thought-provoking content regarding Election 2004 (as well as education, technology, and, of course, hip-hop) continues to appear regularly.
Moving right along (if you're looking for seamless transitions today, I got nothing – I spent all my cleverness on the alliteration at the head of this post) to the wilds of YA lit, there's a most excellent newish blog on the scene devoted to investigating, interrogating, challenging, and teasing out notions of female teen sexuality in YA literature, called Avenging Sybil. Named in honor of a secondary character in Judy Blume's classic teen love story Forever who is punished for her promiscuous sexuality, the blog "part of [author Dawn Emerman's] ongoing project to promote change in the YA industry (which is part of a much larger quest to change attitudes about female sexuality in general in modern society)." Fascinating stuff. For further reading on the subject, check out Let's (Not) Get It On, a recent VOYA article.
Aaaaaand, if you're looking for yet more ways to keep up with the popcult Joneses, nothing beats VH1's genius weekly retrospective Best Week Ever, which airs weekly on Friday nights at 11pm. (If you are like me, and encroaching fogeyness prevents you from staying up so damn late most Friday nights because you are tired from the week at work and have a vast list of things to accomplish on Saturday, and you'd better get up early to get them done so you'll have time to actually relax on the weekend, you can easily catch it in repeats throughout the week. Or, you know, tape/Tivo it.) The show is a 30-minute magazine featuring snarky commentary on the past week's celebrity faux pas, award shows, music, tv, and movie happenings. If you miss an episode here or there, you can catch the insanely meta omnibus edition, handily titled Best Month Ever: Best of Best Week Ever.


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crimeminister necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Graf Theory
The founders have been immersed in hip-hop culture for a long time and are also computer nerds, with particular emphasis on web and mobile technology, computer graphics, artificial intelligence and lots of other stuff.
The company is small, fast-moving and focussed on building next-generation projects, instead of working in the here-and-now. We want to communicate the fact that we're plugged in to what's going on online, but are just as likely to be found in a back alley, spray can in hand.
In case you're wondering, the name of the company is a play on "graph theory" and "graffiti" (often shortened just to "graf").
Our target audience is web- and culture-savvy, with a large dose of ironic hipster self-awareness. So, a logo that's bland and generic won't do; at the same time, something that's too intricate or can't be deciphered by people that wear suits won't do either. Is there a spare, elegant, beautiful middle ground you can help us find?
We need a logo for our new web / mobile / game / misc. software development company. Your logo design will serve as the basis for a lot of other design elements, from the web site, to profile-page backgrounds, to business cards and stationary (if we ever decide to do the whole dead-tree thing).
We don't yet have any colour scheme in mind, and only some nebulous ideas about what should be in the logo, so there is lots of room to be creative.
In case you're wondering what graph theory is, here's what Wikipedia has to say on the matter:
I'm guessing you know all about graffiti if you've read this far, but what the heck:
Things to ponder:
1. The logo needs to scale well to accommodate lots of different uses. Too much fine detail could be a problem.
2. A huge colour palette could also be a problem for the same reason.
3. Intricate borderless 3D wild style, while awesome on a wall, will probably burn eyeballs when draped all over our website.
3. Something too dry and computer science-ey and filled with arcane math symbols, while delightfully nerdy, might not appeal to a mass audience.
We're a Linux shop and use Inkscape, the Gimp, etc. so we'd like to receive an SVG file and, if you can do it and/or it makes sense for your design, a layer-separated Gimp (.xcf) file.
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Subacute combined degeneration is a disorder of the spine, brain, and nerves. It involves
Alternative Names
Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord; SCD
Subacute combined degeneration is caused by a vitamin B12 deficiency. It mainly affects the spinal cord. But its effects on the brain and the peripheral (body) nerves are the reason for use of the term "combined." At first, the covering of the nerves (myelin sheath) is damaged. Later, the entire nerve cell is affected.
Doctors do not know exactly how a lack of vitamin B12 damages the nerves. It is possible the lack of this vitamin causes abnormal fatty acids to form around cells and nerves.
A person has a high risk of this condition if vitamin B12 cannot be absorbed from the intestine or if a person has:
Pernicious anemia
- Disorders of the small intestine, including
Crohns disease
- Problems absorbing nutrients, which can occur after gastrointestinal surgery
Symptoms include:
- Abnormal sensations (
tinglingand numbness)
- Weakness of the legs, arms, or other areas
These symptoms slowly get worse and are usually felt on both sides of the body.
Other symptoms include:
Clumsiness, stiff, or awkward movements Change in mental statesuch as memory problems, irritability, apathy, confusion, or dementia Decreased vision Depression
- Sleepiness
Unsteady gaitand loss of balance
Exams and Tests
The health care provider will perform a physical exam.The exam usually shows
Mental changes range from mild forgetfulness to severe dementia or
An eye exam may show damage to the optic nerve, a condition called
Blood teststhat may be ordered include:
Early treatment improves the chance of a good outcome.
Vitamin B12 is given, usually by injection into a muscle. Injections are often given once a day for a week, then weekly for about 1 month, and then monthly. Vitamin B12 supplements either by injection or high dose pills must continue throughout life to prevent symptoms from returning.
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well a person does depends on how long they had symptoms before receiving treatment. If treatment is received within a few weeks, complete recovery may be expected. If treatment iss delayed for longer than 1 or 2 months, full recovery may not be possible.
Untreated, the disorder results in progressive and irreversible damage to the nervous system.
Possible Complications
Complications can include permanent, progressive loss of nerve and mental functions.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if abnormal sensations, muscle weakness, or other symptoms of subacute combined degeneration develop. This is particularly important ifyou or a family member has had pernicious anemia or other risk factors.
Some vegetarian diets may be low in vitamin B12. Taking a supplement can prevent the disorder.
Katri B, Koontz D. Disorders of the peripheral nerves. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 76.
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Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, FRCS (C), FACS, Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles CA; Department of Surgery at Los Robles Hospital, Thousand Oaks CA; Department of Surgery at Ashland Community Hospital, Ashland OR; Department of Surgery at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Cheyenne WY; Department of Anatomy at UCSF, San Francisco CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Being a parent isn't the world's most glamorous job, but it certainly has its perks. In addition to, you know, having an adorable little being that you get to play with and coo over all day, being a mom or dad gives you a pass. A pass to do some seriously weird, kind of frowned upon things. Things you could never get away with before you had kids. Here are 8 things you can only do when you're a parent.
Smell another person's butt. I mean, technically, you could do this if you don't have kids. But it would be weird. And you'll probably get smacked -- especially if you do it in public to, like, some strange woman or something. Ooh, one childless group who's exempt: Dogs.
Use your spit to clean something off another person's face. Little known fact: Your saliva becomes a disinfectant once you have a child. Something about how the salivary glands react with the hormones -- not totally sure, but pretty cool, eh? (Note: Cleansing properties are only activated if you lick your thumb and rub like so.)
Do the dorky parent dance. Another physiological change that happens after you become a parent: Your dancing automatically becomes dorky. But don't feel bad -- it even happened to Gwyneth Paltrow. Researchers are still trying to understand the enigma that is Beyonce.
Say you're tired and have people actually believe you. One of the most annoying things when you're pregnant is when you say, "Gee, I'm tired," and someone responds with, "You think you're tired now? Just wait until you have kids!!!" Now you can finally say it and have it be reciprocated with a sympathetic look. Will it change the fact that you're exhausted? No. But sympathy is nice.
Make the schedule. Sorry, but babies trump any excuse. When you're making plans with other people, they kind of have to go with your timetable, because, you know, nap times and whatnot. And hey, how many times did you do that for others before you had kids of your own?
Talk in a high-pitched squeal! This has to end at some point. But when you have a baby, feel free to speak in whatever weird voice and cadence you please.
Stare at someone for hours on end. I stare at my child non-stop. I can't help it. She's just so cute. But I imagine if I did this to ... anyone else ... it would be kind of frowned upon. And someone might call the cops.
Leave the house looking like a crazy person. When you don't have a kid, and you leave the house in sweatpants, a stained shirt, and a ponytail, you're a "slob." But when you're a parent, you're "busy."
What other things can only parents do?
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TurboGears has an extensive system for managing and redirecting errors above and beyond the standard Python try/except block. The TurboGears error system distinguishes between (form) validation errors and Python exceptions. They are handled by the @error_handler() and @exception_handler() directives, respectively.
Validation errors are issued by the TurboGears validator framework. This is normally used with the widget library, but can also be helpful on its own when for example you just want to make sure one of your arguments is an integer. Validation errors are controlled using the @error_handler() decorator and are handled by a method with a tg_errors keyword parameter.
Here's an example of how this decorator works:
from turbogears import (controllers, expose,
validate, validators, error_handler)
class Root(controllers.RootController):
def index(self, number=-1, tg_errors=None):
"""Display a number (but actually the argument can be anything)."""
if tg_errors:
errors = [(param, inv.msg, inv.value)
for param, inv in tg_errors.items()]
return dict(error_message=errors)
return dict(number=number)
def validated_number(self, number=2):
"""Display an Integer (other kinds of arguments not allowed)."""
return dict(valid_number=number)
The above code creates two controller methods, one for the root / of the domain and one for /validated_number.
Both take a parameter number and display it. The index isn't picky about its number parameter and can be passed anything, but validated_number is decorated with an Int validator, which will raise an error when it fails. The error is directed back to the index controller, which receives the error as tg_errors and handles them intelligently.
Here's the output from a twill session (slightly formatted) demonstrating how this all works (twill is used here for demonstration only. Of course you can just try it out with your favorite browser):
-= Welcome to twill! =-
current page: *empty page*
>> go http://localhost:8080/
==> at http://localhost:8080/
>> show
{"tg_flash": null, "number": -1}
>> go http://localhost:8080/?number=42
==> at http://localhost:8080/?number=42
>> show
{"tg_flash": null, "number": "42"}
>> go http://localhost:8080/?number=blue
==> at http://localhost:8080/?number=blue
>> show
{"tg_flash": null, "number": "blue"}
>> go http://localhost:8080/validated_number
==> at http://localhost:8080/validated_number
>> show
{"tg_flash": null, "valid_number": 2}
>> go http://localhost:8080/validated_number?number=42
==> at http://localhost:8080/validated_number?number=42
>> show
{"tg_flash": null, "valid_number": 42}
>> go http://localhost:8080/validated_number?number=blue
==> at http://localhost:8080/validated_number?number=blue
>> show
{"tg_flash": null, "error_messages": [["number", "Please enter an integer
value", "blue"]]}
The interesting part here is the last request. The validated_number controller has been passed a bad value blue, which is obviously not an integer.
The validator has detected this and passed control back up to the index controller as tg_errors, just like we wanted. At the same time, the normal valid calls also behave as expected. tg_errors itself is a standard dictionary with the failed parameters as keys and formencode.Invalid instances as values. The index method shows one (admittedly poor) way to handle errors. We can do better.
Normally when you're using @error_handler(), you're working with Widget based forms. Here's a demo using the same basic setup as above:
from turbogears import (controllers, expose,
validate, validators, error_handler, widgets)
number_form = widgets.ListForm(
label="Enter a Number",
submit_text="Submit Number!"
## This is what the template looks like:
#
#
#
This is a Form Page!

# ${form(value_of('data', None), action=action, method='POST')}
#
#
class Root(controllers.RootController):
def index(self, number=-1, tg_errors=None):
return dict(data=dict(number=number),
def validated_number(self, number=2):
return dict(valid_number=number)
The biggest change to the previous code (aside from the form being added) is that the index controller no longer explicitly handles tg_errors.
The convenient thing about forms is that they know how to handle their own validation errors, so all you have to do is set the error handler and forget about it.
It should be noted that when you set a method as the @error_handler for a form submission, it can have extra variable keyword parameters, which will receive the current form field values in case of a validation error. This can be used, e.g. to manipulate the form values or options depending on the current value of some form field:
def show_form(self, tg_errors=None, **kw):
values = dict(...)
params = dict()
if kw.get('some_field'):
params['some_option'] = dict(some_field='foo')
return dict(form=some_form, values=values, params=params)
def save(self, ...):
Exceptions are handled separately from errors because validation errors are (somewhat) expected in a web application.
Exceptions, on the other hand, are a bit more serious, so you'll probably want to handle them separately.
The syntax and usage is very similar except you use @exception_handler and tg_exceptions instead of @error_handler and tg_errors.
One notable difference is that you'll probably want to handle different types of exceptions with different handlers. For example, you'll probably want to handle SQLObject exceptions separately from ValueErrors.
This is done by using the rules parameter (also available on @error_handler()). rules takes a string containing a valid Python expression. The rule matches when the expression is true. Here's a demonstration:
from turbogears import controllers, expose, exception_handler
class Root(controllers.RootController):
# Note that the exception handlers don't need to be exposed
# if they're not meant to be accessed directly. It's always a
# wise decision to expose only what is absolutely needed to prevent
# information leaking.
def value_handler(self, tg_exceptions=None):
"""Only called for value errors."""
return dict(handling_value=True, exception=str(tg_exceptions))
def index_handler(self, tg_exceptions=None):
"""Only called for index errors."""
return dict(handling_index=True, exception=str(tg_exceptions))
@exception_handler(value_handler, "isinstance(tg_exceptions, ValueError)")
@exception_handler(index_handler, "isinstance(tg_exceptions, IndexError)")
def exceptional(self, number=2):
number = int(number)
if number < 42:
raise IndexError("Number too Low!")
if number == 42:
raise IndexError("Wise guy, eh?")
if number > 100:
raise Exception("This number is exceptionally high!")
return dict(result="No errors!")
And here's the twill output:
current page: *empty page*
>> go http://localhost:8080/exceptional
==> at http://localhost:8080/exceptional
>> show
{"exception": "Number too Low!", "handling_index": true, "tg_flash": null}
>> go http://localhost:8080/exceptional?number=42
==> at http://localhost:8080/exceptional?number=42
>> show
{"exception": "Wise guy, eh?", "handling_index": true, "tg_flash": null}
>> go http://localhost:8080/exceptional?number=blue
==> at http://localhost:8080/exceptional?number=blue
>> show
{"exception": "invalid literal for int(): blue", "tg_flash": null, "handling_value": true}
>> debug http 1
DEBUG: setting http debugging to level 1
>> go http://localhost:8080/exceptional?number=400
# ...
reply: 'HTTP/1.1 500 Internal error\r\n'
# ...
Notice that the calls for where number was less than 42 went to the index_handler (handling_index in the output) and that the non-int raised a value error. The final case shows that the built in CherryPy handling mechanisms will cover any unhandled case. You can, of course, redirect all the unhandled exceptions by using a @exception_handler() without the rules parameter.
For the most part, the order of the decorators doesn't matter too much. The one exception occurs when mixing error handling and the Identity framework and having a method serve as its own error handler. If your @error_handler() decorator is under your @identity_require() decorator, you'll bypass the identity decorator completely and defeat your own security. Don't do it.
@error_handler() #BAD, DON'T DO IT
def foo(self, tg_errors=None):
@error_handler() #OK, be careful
def bar(self, tg_errors=None):
def handler(self, tg_errors=None):
@error_handler(handler) #GOOD
def baz(self):
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Public Art for Kids
Here are some images of artworks that you might have already seen or might like to visit. Click on the image to go to the "National Public Art Archive" and get more information and a map so you can visit the artwork in person!
Remember, it is okay to touch public art but please don't climb on it, unless it's a bench or a chair.
If you would like to schedule a presentation about Public Art in your school classroom please call Rachel Harris-Huffman at 768-3676.
"Throne of Nyoka" by Keith Oliver at the Rio Grande Zoo was made using over 30,000 marbles! Rio Grande Zoo: 903 10th St SE
"Alphabet Soup" by Pete Beeman is located at the Erna Fergusson Library on San Mateo Blvd. Erna Fergusson Library: 3700 San Mateo Blvd. NE
"Gorilla Route 66" was created by Sarah Perry and lives at the Department of Solid Waste building: 4600 Edith NE
"Fish Globe" by Colette Hosmer was installed in 2007 at Tingley Beach: 1800 Tingley Drive SW
"La Serpentina" by Rogelio Madero greets visitors and locals alike at the Albuquerque International Sunport: 2200 Sunport Blvd. SE
"Cruising San Mateo" by Barbara Grygutis has become an iconic artwork in Albuquerque. San Mateo at Gibson SE
"Kick Flip Sequence" by Michael Whiting is at the NW Quadrant Skate Park: Seven Bar Loop and Cooors Bypass NW
"Flyway" by Robert Wilson references migratory birds and can be seen near the entrance to the Open Space Visitors Center on the West-side: 6500 Coors Blvd NW
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"Aluminum Yucca" by Gordon Huether sits off of I-40 in Tijeras Canyon.
"Poet's Plaza" by Cassandra Reid consists of four mosaic tiled benches positioned in a circle outside of Harwood Art Center: 1114 7th Street NW
"Kimo the Cat" by Michele VandenHuevel lives outside the Eastside Animal Care Center: 8920 Lomas Blvd. NE
"Vehicle Stop" by Erika Wanenmacher is a whimsical shelter outside Explora Science Center and Children's Museum: 1701 Mountain Rd NW
"Albertosaurus Sternbergii" and "Pentaceratops Sternbergii" were created by David Thomas and greet visitors to the New Mexico Natural History Museum: 1801 Mountain Rd NW


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The Moselle Slate Route takes you on a 110 km long signposted circuit that runs from Mayen through the towns of Münstermaifeld, Cochem, Kaisersesch, Monreal and Mayen, the steep vineyards of the Moselle Valley, the volcanic landscape of the Eifel region and its Volcano Park to the very peak of the Eifel mountains. Moselle Slate got its name from the route taken to transport the precious stone across the Moselle Valley.
Moselle Slate: from the depths of the earth to the rooftops of the world! Formed in the Eifel region about 400 million years ago, slate is one of the oldest natural products in Germany. The smooth, bluish grey, shimmering stone is durable, strong, robust and easy to look after, and was even prized by the Romans.
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When constructing an exceptional piece of architecture, slate is the go-to material for roofs and façades. For countless generations, builders and craftsmen have used it to create buildings of enduring value and many centuries ago, it was used to give countless buildings, and even entire cities, a distinctive appearance. Slate was the material of choice for builders who appreciated refined materials, with both builders and craftsmen using it to construct the most attractive and striking buildings they could.
The mine tells its story
Today many slate-tiled buildings are considered World Cultural Heritage. The German Slate Mine (Deutsche Schieferbergwerk) is located 16 m under Genoveva Castle in the town of Mayen in Eifel; all over the town, high-quality Moselle slate is now extracted from depths of 300 m using the very latest technology before being perfectly cleaved and shaped to continue its life on roofs or façades.
Slate named after the Moselle
The name "Moselle Slate" has been used since 1588 and comes from the route that was originally used to transport the slate along the Moselle. This has remained an active route for both passengers and trade to this very day. Many events take place along the Moselle Slate Route but a particular highlight is the German Automobile Association (ADAC) Moselle Slate Classic Car Rally (Moselschiefer-Classic), which usually attracts around 150 participants.
Length: 110 km
Theme: Moselle slate, history of the mining industry
Cochem: Reichsburg Castle
Hatzenport: historic ferry tower
Kaisersesch: Slate Mining Trail
Maifeld: Eltz Castle
Mayen: the German Slate Mine, Genoveva Castle
Monreal: castle ruins
Treis-Karden: Pyrmont Castle
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Rikard gripped his hammer tightly, grimacing as splinters from the battered haft stabbed into his palm. The priest of Sigmar was part of a Witch Hunter's warband who regularly patrolled the wretched streets of Mordheim to scour it of it's blasphemies.
Now, however, things had become less routine; their scouts had reported that a similar warband comprised of the so called "Sisters of Sigmar" lurked nearby.
Looking up at his comrades, known collectively as Fra Dolcino, he scowled and addressed the captain.
"Sigismund... when may we blot out these heretics?" he growled.
The Sisters of Sigmar were considered by most of the main Sigmarite Church to be a blasphemous collective of witches and whores, and Rikard, a righteous man, could only agree.
"Patience, Rikard," smirked Sigismund, a tall man with a floppy, wide brimmed hat. "We would do better to wait until their guard is down."
"I know it is so, yet it pains me to give even the slightest respite to these..." he spat and made the sign of the hammer before continuing, "These heretical consorts of demons."
Sigismund nodded and began to speak, only to be interrupted by the sound of a crossbow firing. Both the captain and the priest jerked their heads toward the sound, just in time to see their crossbowman, Erich, load another quarrel onto his weapon.
"Blessed sirs, they have spotted us. I believe now would be the time-" he started to say, but Rikard had already charged forward. Running into the ruined building that was soon to become their battleground, he hefted his hammer and gave an immense cry: "Forward, true Sigmarites! Let the witches burn... SIGMAR HAD NO SISTERS!"
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Every year, it's the same thing; Endless sheets of dry, bland matzo, and very little else. Passover is not a fun holiday by any stretch of the imagination, having much more to do with loss and suffering than celebration, but I still don't see why it must always be a miserable week to endure. I'm far from religious, and will readily admit that I do not keep kosher for the whole week, but I do participate in the family Seder and as always, am responsible for an appropriate and delicious dessert. In this case, it means no barley, wheat, rye, oats, spelt, corn, rice, peanuts, legumes, and leavening in general. As if it wasn't tough enough being a vegan at a family dinner! This is why I don't continue to observe beyond that one meal, because I value my health and personally can't maintain a balanced diet with such limitations.
But, that doesn't mean it's impossible, and it's certainly easy enough to brainstorm a solid sweet ending for Seder. In my case, I'm planning on making tartlettes with a toasted coconut crust, and filling them with the lemon curd from My Sweet Vegan, but more on that later. Your best bet is to rely on fruits and nuts- Go very simply with poached pears, or try some variation of panna cotta subbing in coconut yogurt for the soy (and the sky's the limit when it comes to flavors) which you could pair with a fresh fruit sauce. Whip up a simple mousse in no time, or a frozen delight like pumpkin ice cream is sure to end the dinner on a sweet note.
If all else fails, many candies are very simple and naturally kosher for Passover, such as peanut butter and peppermint cups, fudge, or an all-time favorite in my household, the matzah toffee, as pictured above, from my cookbook. So simple and crowd-pleasing that even my omnivore mom volunteered to make it this year, it's one sweet treat that we always have on hand to beat the Passover blues.
While it may be trying to keep kosher, everything will be just fine if you can whip up a batch (or two, or three…) of this stuff. Even if you don't celebrate Passover, you may want to pick up a box or two of matzah while it's on the market now; You'll want to make it all year round!
Matzah Toffee
Matzah, to fit pan
1 Cup Margarine
1 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
12 Ounces (2 Cups) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Preheat your oven to 450 degrees and line a 15 x 10 inch jellyroll pan, or other shallow pan, with matzah boards. Fit them to cover the bottom evenly, without overlapping; you may need to break them to do so.
In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the margarine and brown sugar together and bring them to a slow boil. Maintain a gently boil without stirring for 3 – 5 minutes, until the mixture becomes thick enough to coat a spoon. Pour the sugar mixture over the matzah and spread evenly. Bake in the oven for 4 minutes and remove carefully.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top of the matzah, then return the pan to your oven for another 30 – 60 seconds. After it comes out of the oven this second time, gently spread the melted chocolate so that it covers the top as completely as possible.
Let the matzah toffee cool at room temperature until it has completely solidified. Break into pieces, and store in an airtight container.
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Hits and Misses at Pride's OsteriaPosted: May 24th, 2013 | Author: KN | Filed under: Beverly, Italian, Pride's Osteria | Tags: alla Maggiorana, latte dolce, Pasta, Tagliere del contadino | 3 Comments »
Last weekend we finally made our way to Beverly's Pride's Osteria, a place that has been generating some serious buzz.
Perhaps our expectations were high, but it ended up being an odd experience. The dining room was a bit stark and became very loud by evening's end, making it difficult to converse. (Surprisingly, the bar area was much quieter.) The waitstaff, however, was perky and helpful.
Although the Montenegro Manhattan (made with Amaro Montenegro) was excellent, we were not impressed with skimpy wine pours, and we noted that many of the drinks were $1 more than the online menu prices.
We enjoyed the light, crispy focaccia, served with fruity olive oil for dipping, as well as the lightly smoked local bluefish with Maine fiddleheads and house-made cherry vinegar ($12). The dressing was tangy, and the fiddleheads were fresh and crunchy.
The Tagliere del contadino (farm board) featured artisan meats, cheeses, and bread and was tasty, but the half portion was tiny for $14. Also meager was the caprese con mozzerella di bufala. While the heirloom tomato slices and imported mozzarella were fresh and flavorful, the dish was not worth $14.
For entrees, we all opted for pasta, hand made by chef Paolo Laboa. The piedmontese style angnolotti filled with red wine, braised pork, beef, and sausage was the favorite; the little pillows served warm between the folds of a cloth napkin were tender and meaty ($22).
The other two dishes featured pasta with great texture, but the sauces underwhelmed us. The much-touted, award-winning pesto ($20) was silky but otherwise quite ordinary. The piccaggette pasta with lobster ($22) suffered in the translation. The Italian "alla Maggiorana," I realized after Googling, is a marjoram preparation, but the menu described it as a "light, fresh organic tomato sauce." The sparse, slightly bitter sauce that accompanied the dish didn't meet that expectation.
Fortunately, we enjoyed a sweet ending to the meal. The house-made latte dolce were fabulous deep-fried, cream-filled dough bites that were amazing and addictive. The restaurant offers diners a shot of home-made liqueur at the end of the meal, and the limoncello was superb.
In all, we found the visit a disappointment. There were some memorable tastes, but some real duds as well, and all the portions were very small for the price.
Pride's Osteria
240 Rantoul Street, Beverly


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Tax rebate season is almost upon us and that means many people will be heading out to purchase a new washing machine and dryer with those extra dollars. Don't skimp on the important details like picking a clothes dryer that will be quiet and dependable. Check out our full list of recommended dryers for this year.
It is very important to recognize what your expectations for your laundry room are, because it is likely that your next washer and dryer will last for a decade or more before needing to be replaced again. Picking a noisy or high-vibration dryer could mean many years of aggravating noise every time you do laundry. There is good news though about solving vibration problems in washers and dryers. By installing Silent Feet under the appliance, even on a 2nd installation your home can remain a quiet and peaceful place. It is strongly recommended that you install Silent Feet or Anti-Walk Silent Feet vibration isolation pads if you currently have or are planning to purchase any of these models of clothes dryers.
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Even if your clothes dryer isn't listed here as having vibration issues it still needs vibration isolation pads if it is installed on a 2nd floor or joist constructed floor. This is because over time, vibrations caused by repetitive use of a clothes washer's spin cycle will cause the joints of wooden floor supports to separate and wear. Dryer manufacturers know this and all of them recommend the use of a vibration isolator pad like Silent Feet for these installations. Don't risk long term damage and costly repairs to your home, make the investment in Silent Feet vibration pads for your laundry room today and rest easier knowing you're protected. Also, installing pads under your dryer will raise it to match your washer's height and it will make cleaning under it much easier.


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The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) has called on the EU and the UK government to ensure that the interests of regions are taken into account during the Brexit negotiations.
As the UK government prepares to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the CPMR is urging the EU institutions and the UK and to show understanding and awareness of the 'territorial impact' of Brexit during the negotiations.
Initial analysis from areas such as Brittany, Cornwall, Flanders, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the CPMR's Atlantic Arc Commission, shows that Brexit will have a disproportionate impact on many regions, hitting some regions and sectors harder than others, particularly if the UK pursues a hard Brexit or if the negotiations break down.
Regional trade of goods and services with the UK will be affected. This will widely include the maritime economy and tourism sectors, and depending on the regions concerned it will have an impact on housing markets, health and social care, research and education.
The CPMR has stated that it is committed to ensuring that close links are maintained with the UK's regions and nations post-Brexit, for the benefit of all citizens. It is stressing the need for continued co-operation, partnerships and exchanges on future EU programmes.
CPMR President, Vasco Cordeiro, said: "We deeply regret the UK's decision to leave the EU, but we remain committed to having close cooperation with the UK's nations and regions in the future. We will be strongly emphasising the value of this cooperation and unity to the EU institutions and the UK government during the negotiations."
Regarding the EU budget and the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2014-2020, the CPMR is calling for fairness in the negotiations and is urging the UK to deliver on agreed commitments. The UK must not walk away from their financial responsibilities which they agreed to when the current MFF was signed off, because it will be small businesses, young people, those in education and training and ordinary people that will be affected.
The CPMR is committed to maintaining a strong EU-wide Cohesion Policy that involves all regions. Cohesion Policy is more essential than ever as the EU's investment policy, as a balancing mechanism to address the market failures associated with the Single Market.


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Speaking to Marketing following news that the car manufacturer was "reassessing" its $10m Facebook media spend, Mansell said: "No-one has worked out the value of a Facebook Page and it is up to Facebook and ourselves to work this out."
"But it is short-sighted to say you will pull spend because we can't prove it. It is astounding that they have decided to make such a fuss before the IPO."
TBG Digital was one of the first three companies to work with Facebook to become an approved API vendor in 2009 with the One Media Manager platform, an automated program for social media advertising.
Mansell said that while it is important to invest in good content on Facebook, paid media helps promote that content and companies should be looking at a combination of the two.
"I think what they (GM) do on their pages is very small compared to other advertisers."
Ford, a rival car manufacturer, has come to Facebook's defence, stating it is accelerating its efforts on Facebook and other social platforms.
"We've found Facebook ads to be very effective when strategically combined with engagement, great content and innovative ways of storytelling, rather than treating them as a straight media buy," said a spokesman for the car manufacturer.
He added that Ford, which has over 10 million fans globally, has a "strong collaborative relationship" with Facebook.
Ford has the advantage of having a single global brand, while General Motors is a corporate brand with a portfolio of US and European brands.
The GM page has 378,392 fans while its Chevrolet brand has 1,215,042 likes.
According to an industry source who works closely with Facebook, the strategy recommended for automotive clients on the social network is to get loyal car owners to influence purchase intent of their friends, and an effective way to do this is through ads such as Sponsored Stories.


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|Film poster for "The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years".
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years will be getting a theatrical all-star world premiere in London on September 15th, and the same day it will also be screened in France and Germany. Other countries will follow, currently release dates have been published for Australia and New Zealand (September 16th) and Japan (September 22nd), in addition to the previously mentioned UK, France and Germany (September 15th).
Hulu will have the exclusive US streaming video on-demand rights to the film on SVOD beginning September 17th – marking the first feature film to debut on Hulu following its theatrical premiere. The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years is the first film acquired by Hulu's Documentary Films arm which will serve as a new home for premium original and exclusive documentary film titles coming to Hulu.
The film is based on the first part of The Beatles' career (1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world's acclaim. Ron Howard's film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, The Beatles. It will explore their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together – all the while, exploring The Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film will focus on the time period from the early Beatles' journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.
Featuring rare and exclusive footage, the film is produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison.
Richard Abramowitz's Abramorama will handle the US theatrical release of the film that is set to be an event driven experience with a few special surprises planned for cinemagoers.
Of special interest is a brief sequence near the end of the trailer, featuring colour footage shot from behind the band, from the Washington DC concert, February 1964.
Link: TheBeatlesEightDaysAWeek.com
Award-winning Editor Paul Crowder is the editor. Crowder's long-time collaborator, Mark Monroe, is serving as writer. Marc Ambrose is the supervising producer.
White Horse Pictures' Grammy Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy Award®-winner and Emmy® Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment are producing with Ron Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.'s Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde are serving as executive producers, along with Imagine's Michael Rosenberg and White Horse's Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall. Studiocanal is an anchor partner on the film, having acquired UK, France, Germany and Australia and New Zealand rights.


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There are different payment solutions for different businesses online and different security levels.
When selecting a provider online you should consider 10 different variables.
1. How often are you going to need to use this service?
2. Is the payment system mainly used for credit card merchant services?
3. Do you want to use the system for transferring money?
4. What level of security do you want to have on your payment solution?
5. Do you want to use the system for a specific technology, like selling gaming online?
6. How often are your transactions processed? Monthly, weekly, annually?
Different systems will have different fees depending on usage and volumes.
7. What countries do you want to have your payment solutions available?
8. What currencies do you want to be able to operate in?
9. How big is your payment solutions budget on a monthly or annual basis?
10. How many people are responsible for your payment solutions department?
Now we will review 3 different types companies in this industry you may be interested in briefly and the differences between them.
Boxpay.com is a solution for mobile technology and gamers. They give E-Business payment solutions technology for their digital wares. This is done through the use of your phone instead of a credit card. Using SMS and Direct Carrier billing. It is available in 35 countries and four continents. For more information on the company take a look at the link above.
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Elderly center
Location: Örebro, Sweden
Area: 9000 m2
Collaboration: LAND arkitekter
1st price in invited competition 2013
Phase 1 completed 2016
Environmental certification: Ongoing certification process for LEED Gold, completion spring 2018
Photographer: Johan Fowelin
WAN Award 2015, Shortlisted for Residential, Future Project
MIPIM AR Award 2015, Commended on Future Project Award
The design for "Gardens" has its background in contemporary research that indicates elderly people's well-being in care centers is strongly correlated with attractive green outdoor environments and social interaction. Therefore, important parameters in our spatial design were to arrange comfortable homes for the elderly with easy access to their own gardens, outdoor spaces and shared facilities.
The proposal made it possible for them to enter gardens directly on the ground level of atrium courtyards or through the generous roof terraces on the second floor. From inside the elderly have visual contact with the courtyard gardens through large window sections. This increases the sense of security and encourages their willingness to explore the outdoor environment and interact with others. Around corridors and individual room units, we created visitor centers, common facilities and shared spaces to strengthen the sense of belonging and participation - a fundamental feeling of not being alone. We mean that this way of organizing interior spaces for the elderly is essential for dynamic social interaction between residents, staff, relatives and others.
The facades facing the atrium courtyards have robust and durable wood paneling which is low-maintenance and has low environmental impact. This together with different landscape arrangements of trees, water and plants in the courtyards creates an intimate and gentle atmosphere with engaging qualities.
The exterior of the building faces large-scale local industrial buildings, forests and agriculture landscapes and is covered with fiber cement patterns. The pattern has different colors and shades corresponding with the bright tones of the surrounding green fields. The facade's expression resembles a textile cross stitch embroidered border that runs around the building. The care center therefore has an exterior with a clear identity in a diversified environment and a monastery-like inner organization with tactile and sensible atrium courtyards. The building's unique profile in an ordinary everyday context makes the architectural design a symbol of an attractive and safe living environment for the elderly.


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Utopiayo͞otō´pēə [key] [Gr.,=no place], title of a book by Sir Thomas More, published in Latin in 1516. The work pictures an ideal state where all is ordered for the best for humanity as a whole and where the evils of society, such as poverty and misery, have been eliminated. The popularity of the book has given the generic name Utopia to all concepts of ideal states. The description of a utopia enables an author not only to set down criticisms of evils in the contemporary social scene but also to outline vast and revolutionary reforms without the necessity of describing how they will be effected. Thus, the influence of utopian writings has generally been inspirational rather than practical.
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Check Out Rosa's Tamales in the Heart of 'Tamale Chicago'
Tacos are macho passion; tamales are motherly love (even when they're sold by tamale men at bars or by hipster tamale trucks). Kids have a natural affinity for tamales, and even more than that, Christmas and tamales are natural partners, since the pot of 50 or 100 tamales is easy for the whole family to nosh on and feel nurtured as you prepare a more attention-getting holiday dinner. It's okay, tamales don't mind when the spotlight goes to others, any more than mamas do.
Tamales are all over the city but for whatever reason, there's a particular concentration of tamale spots on the southwest side, around Gage Park, the old white ethnic South Side. The reason may be that they're all owned by the same people, since two of them are named Rosa's and a third, Manolo's, is related to them (or so somebody claims on Yelp). I stopped into one on South Kedzie, between 56th and 57th.
Today they advertise Oaxacan tamales, but the tile on the wall makes it clear that that's a recent change from the pizza that was the main fare not long ago. Behind the counter several big steel pots burble away. I look at the menu and order one Oaxacan tamale.
What's a Oaxacan tamale? It's a regional variant of the standard tamale, best known for being wrapped in a neatly folded banana leaf (rather than the usual corn husk), which manages the trick of resembling both tobacco and the pouch it goes in. Besides the banana leaf, Oaxacan tamales are wetter than non-Oaxacan tamales—the masa is soaked in broth—and at least in Chicago, they sometimes seem to dabble in ingredients beyond just pork or chicken alone. Here's my Oaxacan tamale:
Um, yeah, so that's not a Oaxacan tamale. Not sure what happened there, since the guy's English and my Spanish overlap on only a handful of food words and nothing more. It's a little sad-looking, or so I imagine, but hey, I'm here, try it and then I can write this place off.
But my tamale has other ideas. It's damned good. Soaked with fat and a little chile heat, toothsome pork and masa... it's nice. They know what they're doing here, as they should since they have another Rosa's barely two blocks away on 55th. It's a comfy pleasure in the heart of Tamale Chicago.
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How did I miss the deadline for the Geneabloggers' 11th edition of "Smile For the Camera" Carnival (http://shades-smileforthecamera.blogspot.com/) inviting us to share a siblings-type photo. Brothers and sisters. I was almost ready, too ...
... but lagging in all directions, pretending to multi-task among writing up minutes for two completely different organizations, sorting out book review commitments (reading the books was a good idea, too), madly researching for a potential article before the Archives of Ontario absconds to the distant suburbs, looming conference tasks and dreaming about a future rendezvous with camels. Is that a good enough excuse? Oh ... and sometimes my kids have to remind me I have kids.
Actually, I have two photographs of the same pair. Once known as Way-way and Ba-ba. Number one features brother and sister in their dress-up best for the camera. Who forgot to tell them to smile? Scary photographer? Nevertheless, who would argue they are perfectly darling. Dig those boots loaded with white shoe polish. The sailor suit is preserved as a family artifact.
Number two is way more fun, posing just before the local Ice Carnival. Even more adorable, n'est-ce pas? Mouse soon firmed up his blades to graduate to the more manly Canadian sport of hockey.
Photographs c1940s, BDM family collection.
13 March 2009
Smile for the Camera
Labels: Carnival, siblings, Smile for the Camera
3 comments:
- Evelyn Yvonne Theriault said...
I had forgotten about white leather shoes and I can smell the polish as I look at your photo. It was really difficult to cover scuff marks on white shoes because the polish wouldn't "take" where the surface wore away.
I'm glad you took part in the carnival anyways - I'm sure people will find you!
Evelyn in Montreal
- Sunday, 15 March, 2009
- Janet Iles said...
great photos.
Sounds like you are keeping very busy.
- Thursday, 19 March, 2009
- BDM said...
Glad no-one mentioned the hole in the knee of Ba-Ba's stocking (no spandex then).
- Thursday, 26 March, 2009
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December 4, 2011, 6:28 pm
Canine cancer research in Colorado offers hope for cure in humans
Veterinary researchers in Colorado are trying to come up with a new method of treating a form of canine cancer.
If they are successful, the method could hold promise for humans, as well.
Cancer accounts for almost half of the deaths of pets over 10 years of age, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) reports that 60 percent of all dogs over age 6 will get cancer during their lifetime.
Dr. Robyn Elmslie, a veterinary oncologist with Veterinary Cancer Specialists, located at the VRCC Specialty and Emergency Hospital in Englewood, is leading a study to evaluate a new vaccine approach for treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma in dogs.
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