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Award winning choir has plenty to sing and shout about
IF you're male and can hold a tune, here's your chance to make music that hits people squarely in the soul.
Some of the pieces sung by the Wessex Male Choir are in foreign languages; at least one is in a wordless language invented by a composer.
Visit the website and hear them sing, though, and you'll soon realise there are times when language doesn't matter.
As the choir's patron, a certain Aled Jones, put it: "They sing from the heart!"
In 2011 the group won the male choir class at the International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen.
As achievements go, it's roughly on a par with an English baseball team heading for the States and coming back with a World Series trophy.
The choir, formed in 2001, has also taken second and third place at the Eisteddfod, as well as countless accolades in other competitions including the Cheltenham Choral Festival, the Jersey International Choral Festival and the Bath Choral Festival.
Last year the choir sang the national anthems and other songs before the international rugby match between England and Australia at Twickenham, which England won 20-13.
It has also raised more than £50,000 for Parkinson's UK.
Members' ages range from late teens to early 80s, but with singers' careers often taking them away from the area, new ones can always expect a welcome.
The all-male choir's musical director is a woman, 36-year-old Katrine Reimers.
Katrine, a Cambridge and Guildhall School of music graduate has a CV which includes stints with the National Opera Studio, the English National Opera and the Royal Opera House. She splits her time between Swindon and projects in London and Bath.
She has no idea whether it's unusual for a woman to direct a male choir: "The only male voice choir I've worked with before is inmates at Pentonville prison, so this is quite different..."
Chairman Ken Bull, 67, a retired Hercules aircraft navigator from Purton Stoke, said: "It's a choir that sets itself high standards but it's a very close group of guys who thoroughly enjoy what they do.
"You can't be unhappy when you're singing."
Publicity officer Tim Yeoman, a retired police officer from Lechlade, said: "A lot of people are quite afraid of coming into a male voice choir. They see it as very rigid, whereas this choir offers the opportunity to dversify and produce lighter music, more pleasing music and stagecraft.
"There is also the social side of things. That's not just going to places with the choir throughout the UK and performing with well-known people but also about supporting each other in illness, bereavement, whatever.
"That's part and parcel of being involved in a social group.
"Background-wise, quite a few have been choristers in churches and schools as boys and then probably done nothing at all until they heard Wessex at a concert and come back into it.
"That's the important thing – whilst we want people who can sing, who can hold a note, the rest of it comes with practice."
One of several younger members is Greg Satchell, a 24-year-old neuropathology technician and forensic science graduate, who was 17 when he joined.
He said: "There's a stigma attached to young blokes singing in a choir – that it's not the most fashionable thing to do.
"But go for it. If you can sing, if you're a shower singer, if you sing on your way to college or whatever, come and have a go.
"If you've never tried it before you can't say you don't like it."
The choir rehearses every Tuesday evening from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Church of Christ the Servant in Elstree Way, Abbey Meads, and welcomes visits from potential new members.
Its website is wessexmalechoir.co.uk
THE choir gives its annual summer convert at Steam on Saturday, July 5 at 7.30pm.
There will be guest appearances by acclaimed mezzo-soprano Maria Jagusz and MJ-UK Music & Arts.
Tickets cost £12 for adults and nothing for under-16s.
Further details are available from the choir on 01793 852786, from the Visitor Information Centre in the Central Library on 01793 466454 and from the Steam ticket office.


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— January 2003
By Ben Ellison
Stupid Chart Tricks?
|Part 2: Deduction: We ain't seen nothin' yet.
If chart balls don't make you feel old-fashioned enough, take a gander at the blended cartography that first appeared in Raytech 4.0. Raster charts, vectors, topo maps, and satellite photos can all be mixed with variable transparency, yielding a custom view of previously static data. You're the mix master, and the results can be useful. Shoal soundings that might not stand out well on a nautical chart can be highlighted by blending in their aerial images; a C-Map vector chart can be precisely compared to its raster equivalent.
Nobeltec kicked the concept up another notch in Visual Navigation Suite 6.5, permitting you to drape the blends over a 3D model of the sea bottom and coast, then move your point of view around in that model. The feature requires a powerful computer and an excellent screen but seems capable of delivering to the navigator a remarkable amount of information. A good screenshot doesn't do this form of charting justice. Our gaming children will probably understand this sort of visualization easily, but we need the video.
I want to emphasize that these new forms of charting are in no way necessary. If you're shopping for a plotter or mapping program, you'd be wise to focus on the more mundane, but important, issues of chart presentation speed and user interface (see "Q&A," this story). On the other hand, the pace of technology cannot be ignored and may actually be moving a lot faster than we realize. At Pop!Tech Ray Kurzweil, inventor of voice recognition and big thinker extraordinaire, made a convincing and startling case for an exponential rate of technological change. He argues that innovation is at the knuckle of a steep upward curve that's difficult for us humans to comprehend. To put it into perspective, Kurzweil claims that all the astounding changes we saw in the last century would have happened in 20 years at the current rate of change. And viewed from this current pace, uncomfortably fast as it may seem, the far-out ideas that now sensibly seem another century away may in fact be working systems in something like 14 years! Deduction: We ain't seen nothin' yet.
Ben Ellison has been a delivery captain and navigation instructor for nearly 30 years and was recently editor of Reed's Nautical Almanacs.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.

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Louisiana native and Next Iron Chef finalist John Besh has been celebrating Mardi Gras since he was a young boy. He remembers, "Night parades were for the older crowd but Mardi Gras Day (Fat Tuesday) was getting together and eating jambalaya on Saint Charles Avenue with my parents and all of their friends and spending the whole day eating and enjoying friends and family. We'd be on the hunt for a Zulu coconut from the first parade to run that day." That tradition continues with his wife and kids by visiting the parade routes throughout Mardi Gras and on Fat Tuesday eating red beans and rice, fried chicken and jambalaya.
And, of course, beginning on Kings Day, everyone starts eating King Cake. As a kid, Besh recalls, "You're eating King Cake in class least once a week if not more until Fat Tuesday and with every slice you're thinking about the excitement of Mardi Gras Day." With all this King Cake consumption Besh has definitely found his fair share of the porcelain figures called feves, one of which is hidden in the cake. The custom requires the finder to supply the next year's cake, and we're betting that everyone is pretty happy when Besh gets that job.


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THE world famous Cory Brass Band will join Bratton Silver Band for their annual concert at Wiltshire Music Centre on Sunday, to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their first performance at the Best of British Brass concert there.
In celebration of the 10 year friendship between the Cory Band and Bratton Silver Band, this year's concert will feature both bands on stage, culminating in a 'massed bands' finale.
The last time the Cory Band, from South Wales, joined Bratton Silver Band on stage was in 2009 to celebrate the 150 year anniversary of the Bratton band, with the concert proving to be a huge success.
Secretary and principal cornet player for Bratton Silver Band Lisa Hill said: "It's definitely going to be another great event and we are really looking forward to playing alongside the Cory Band on stage again.
"This is the 10th year we have had them play at the concert and we have built up a good friendship over that time. They were so popular the first time they played the 'Best of British Brass' that we kept asking them back."
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When rapper Kid Cudi released Man on the Moon: The End of Day last fall, his emotive hip-hop outcooled every thugged-out MC on the market. Almost overnight, the 26-year-old, dressed in skinny jeans and thick-frame glasses, sold nearly half a million albums, lent vocals to Jay-Z's "Already Home" on The Blueprint 3, and became a lead player in HBO's dramedy How to Make It in America. On September 14, he'll release Man on the Moon Pt. 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager, a sophomore effort that upstages his first, with booming choruses (Cudi sings—sans Auto-Tune, at that!), raging electro beats, and a rock-rooted single, "Erase Me," which features that other hypercool skinny-jean-clad rapper, Kanye West.—Julie Vadnal
Director Davis Guggenheim hopes his new documentary, Waiting for "Superman", will do for education what his An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming. In the legendary Harlem school reformer Geoffrey Canada and the fearless, magnetic Washington, DC, schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, the film finds charisma to burn—and showing us poor kids waiting to hear whether they got into model schools might just stand in for Superman as a game-changer. "One of the reactions I get," says Guggenheim, "is, `Oh, you picked the good families, the bright kids.' That makes me really angry. They're all born learners, born dreamers."—Ben Dickinson
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26 Jun 2013 by Lauren Saunders in Trip Planning , Signal Hill and St. John'sRegion: Avalon
A day exploring Signal Hill National Historic Site and the Johnson GEO Centre is a great way to start your tour of St. John's.
16 Jun 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Trip Planning
They say there are no accidental tourists in Newfoundland. You have to plan your trip to get here since there are no easy links to the Island. Ferries link a few key locations and they are the main entry point for visitors travelling by car or recreational vehicle. Marine Atlantic through its fleet of ferries is a main contact and the Newfoundland ports of entry are Port aux Basques and Argentia. Port aux Basques serves visitors wishing to explore the West Coast of Newfoundland, while Argentia is conveniently located for people visiting St. John's and the Avalon Peninsula.
28 May 2013 by Ed Kirby in Food & Dining , Festivals & Events , Hiking & Walking , Icebergs , Entertainment , Gros Morne National Park , Cultural Experiences and Twillingate
What's with the alliterative names of Newfoundland and Labrador festivals?
27 May 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Festivals & Events and Gros Morne National Park
The weather forecast was not looking great but the music line up included one of our favourite bands – The Dardenelles – so we booked a room at the clean and comfortable Meeting Hill Cottages (http://grosmorne.com/meetinghillcottages/) and decided to check out the ever popular Trail, Tales and Tunes Festival in Norris Point on Friday, May 24 and Saturday May 25. We arrived in Rocky Harbour in light rain showers and met Marilyn Butt who showed us to our cottage.
23 May 2013 by Amy Fisher in Nature , Culture , Cultural Experiences , Travel Trade , Travel Media and Cape St. Mary'sRegion: Avalon
Two years ago, while driving to Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve to film a Newfoundland & Labrador Tourism TV commercial titled "Half Hour", our crew spotted something, well, out of the ordinary...
22 May 2013 by Guest Blogger in Hiking & Walking , Kayaking , Nature , Cultural Experiences , Terra Nova National Park and Outdoor Adventure
The more I kayaked past Newfoundland's weathered coastline the more I wanted to get out of my boat and walk.
18 May 2013 by Guest Blogger in Camping , Kayaking , Terra Nova National Park and Outdoor Adventure
I wouldn't call myself a kayaker. I prefer paddling a canoe, even if I do have to portage now and then. But I also wouldn't consider myself a canoe snob either. Any soft-path vessel is fine by me as long as it gets me into a wilderness area.
16 May 2013 by Sandra Phinney in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Camping , Hiking & Walking , Kayaking , Nature , History , Art Galleries and Outdoor AdventureRegion: Labrador
If you recall, our last stop was in North West River. Although we had tentatively planned to leave there mid day, I often lose sight of time when I follow my nose so it was dusk when we bid farewell to this region and hit that long long (albeit relatively new) road to Cartwright. Did I say that road was long? I should have known we wouldn't get there before midnight.
6 May 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Skiing & Snowboarding and Gros Morne National Park
The Tablelands are backcountry skiing mecca in Newfoundland that attracts skiers from across the Island and beyond in the months of April and May. This area is located between the communities of Woody Point and Trout River in Gros Morne National Park and there is a turn off and large parking lot giving quick access to the mountains.
26 Apr 2013 by Guest Blogger in Food & Dining , Festivals & Events , Nature , Parks , Entertainment , Gros Morne National Park , Cultural Experiences , Geology & Fossils and L'Anse aux Meadows
Five highlights from a road trip down Newfoundland's Route 430.
12 Apr 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Skiing & Snowboarding , Nature and Geography
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 John Moores and I headed up to check out the snow stability and snow depths along the flank of Blow me down Mountain near Corner Brook. This area has a great setting for exploring in all seasons but it is particularly scenic in the winter when the white snow contrasts with the deep blue water of the Bay of Islands. Add to this the progressively steeper snow slopes mean that you have terrain that can be adapted to your skills and equipment.
10 Apr 2013 by Guest Blogger in Festivals & Events , Hiking & Walking , Trip Planning and Cultural Experiences
Ben Whitmarsh takes a 'hike' which explores the culinary traditions and lively atmosphere of Elliston in Newfoundland - and gets to eat more than his fair share of dishes crafted by some of Canada's top chefs
28 Mar 2013 by Janice Goudie in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Food & Dining , Icebergs , Nature and Trip PlanningRegion: Central
Seeing puffins for the first time
26 Mar 2013 by Alyssa Free in Culture , History and Cultural Experiences
From the time the first colonists settled in Cupers' Cove (now Cupids) in 1610, Newfoundland culture, heritage, and survival has revolved around the North Atlantic and its bounty. Spending time at The Wooden Boat Museum in Winterton gave me an idea of what life was like in the outport communities back when people relied on the land and sea to survive.
25 Mar 2013 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Snowmobiling and Outdoor Adventure
"You know most of my clients are novice snowmobilers. I would say that at least 60% have never driven a sled before so we spend the first 15-20 minutes of a tour showing them how to steer and stop a snowmobile as well as the basic hand signals. I have had people this year from England, Ireland and even Pakistan but most of my clients come from the East Coast of the province." Darren told us recently over the phone.
22 Mar 2013 by Sandra Phinney in History , Top Destinations , Art Galleries and MuseumRegion: Labrador
Even though I knew that Happy Valley Goose Bay was the hub of Labrador, I was surprised to find a town of 7,500+ people with stores, restaurants, pubs, fast food outlets, churches, recreational facilities, building supply outlets, hotels—ad infinitum. Bit of a shock after driving long stretches without seeing neither man nor beast. (Remember those long, long, very long and straight dirt roads I was talking about?)
21 Mar 2013 by Alyssa Free in Nature , Parks , Trip Planning and Gros Morne National Park
If you're a winter enthusiast, Newfoundland and Labrador is the ultimate destination for outdoor adventure. With an annual snowfall of up to 16 feet, and the activity season running into March and April, there's no shortage of winter fun.
20 Mar 2013 by Alyssa Free in Hiking & Walking , Cultural Experiences and Outdoor Adventure
A place inhabited by unique and fascinating people is bound to attract folks with a similar penchant for individuality. Folks like Bernie and his mule Polly. While I was in Elliston, at the Roots, Rants and Roars Festival, I ran into Bernie – a man who exuded a one-of-a-kind personality and a distinct sense of adventure.
13 Mar 2013 by Alyssa Free in Culture and Cultural Experiences
The past has a strong presence in Newfoundland and Labrador, and Trinity is no exception. Located on the Discovery Trail, Trinity is a rare gem preserved in an ever-changing world. Known for its history, friendliness and strong fishing culture, this beautiful town gives new meaning to the word authentic.
5 Mar 2013 by Brady Huxter in Camping , Hiking & Walking , Nature , Culture and Trip PlanningRegion: Central
The Huxter family sets up camp in La Scie and sets out to explore the Baie Verte Peninsula.


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What is cervical spinal stenosis?
Cervical spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck. The spinal canal is the open area in the bones (vertebrae) that make up the spinal column. The spinal cord is a collection of nerves that runs through the spinal canal from the base of the brain to the lower back. These nerves allow us to feel, to move, and to control the bowel and bladder and other body functions. In cervical spinal stenosis, the spinal canal narrows and can squeeze and compress the nerve roots where they leave the spinal cord, or it may compress or damage the spinal cord itself. The seven vertebrae between the head and the chest make up the cervical spine. Squeezing the nerves and cord in the cervical spine can change how the spinal cord functions and cause pain, stiffness, numbness, or weakness in the neck, arms, and legs. It can also affect your control of your bowels and bladder.
What causes cervical spinal stenosis?
Cervical spinal stenosis is usually caused by age-related changes in the shape and size of the spinal canal and so is most common in people older than age 50. The aging process can cause a "bulging of the discs"—the spongy discs between the bones of the spine bulge out farther than normal—or a thickening of tissues that connect bones (ligaments). Aging can also lead to destruction of tissues that cover bones (cartilage) and excessive growth of the bones in joints. These conditions can narrow the spinal canal (spinal stenosis).
In rare cases, the spinal canal is narrowed from birth because of the way the bones are formed.
What are the symptoms?
Many people older than age 50 have some narrowing of the spinal canal but do not have symptoms. Cervical spinal stenosis does not cause symptoms unless the spinal cord or nerves becomes squeezed. Symptoms usually develop gradually over a long period of time and may include:
How is cervical spinal stenosis diagnosed?
A diagnosis of cervical spinal stenosis usually is based on your history of symptoms and a physical exam. Your doctor will ask you if neck movements cause pain, numbness, or weakness. If cervical spinal stenosis is suspected, your doctor will recommend imaging tests of your neck and back to confirm the diagnosis and to see what is causing the narrowing of the spinal canal. Imaging tests that may be used include X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography (CT) scans. Your doctor will use the results of tests, including imaging and blood tests, to eliminate other diseases—such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and vitamin B12 deficiency—as the cause of your symptoms.
How is it treated?
In mild cases of spinal stenosis, symptoms can usually be controlled with medicine to relieve pain, exercise to maintain strength and flexibility, and physical therapy. If your symptoms are severe, you have progressive weakness of your muscles, or the pictures of your spine show that your spinal cord or nerves are being tightly squeezed, your doctor is likely to recommend decompressive surgery to relieve the pressure. This surgery may be done from the front or the back of the neck. It involves removing some of the disc, bone, and/or tissue that may be pressing on the nerve roots. Vertebrae are often joined together surgically (fused) to provide stability to the spine.
Cervical spinal stenosis can potentially cause serious problems with the nervous system, including problems with bowel or bladder control (incontinence) and permanent loss of strength and feeling in the arms, hands, and legs. Your doctor will not wait for you to have severe symptoms of pain, weakness, and numbness before considering treatment to relieve pressure on your spinal cord and nerves.
The North American Spine Society (NASS) promotes education, research, and advocacy for spine care. This group's patient education website (www.KnowYourBack.org) has information on the cause, treatment, and prevention of neck and back problems. It has references and brochures to help patients make health decisions. NASS members are spine care professionals such as orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, physiatrists, physical therapists, and researchers.
RadiologyInfo is a joint project of the American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America. The website is designed to answer consumer questions about radiology procedures and therapies. RadiologyInfo has information on X-ray, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, and other procedures. The information includes how they are used for diagnosis and treatment, how to prepare for the procedures, and what a patient may experience.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
provides information and education to raise the public's awareness of
musculoskeletal conditions, with an emphasis on preventive measures. The AAOS
website contains information on orthopedic conditions and treatments, injury
prevention, and wellness and exercise.
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the
Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP, a division of ACR) are
professional organizations of rheumatologists and associated health
professionals who are dedicated to healing, preventing disability from, and
curing the many types of arthritis and related disabling and sometimes fatal
disorders of the joints, muscles, and bones. Members of the ACR are physicians;
members of the ARHP include research scientists, nurses, physical and
occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers. Both the ACR and
the ARHP provide professional education for their members.
The ACR
website offers patient information fact sheets about rheumatic diseases, about
medicines used to treat rheumatic diseases, and about care
The Arthritis Foundation provides grants to help find a
cure, prevention methods, and better treatment options for arthritis. It also
provides a large number of community-based services nationwide to make living
with arthritis easier, including self-help courses; water- and land-based
exercise classes; support groups; home study groups; instructional videotapes;
public forums; free educational brochures and booklets; the national, bimonthly
consumer magazine Arthritis Today; and continuing
education courses and publications for health professionals.
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is a governmental institute that serves the public
and health professionals by providing information, locating other information
sources, and participating in a national federal database of health
information. NIAMS supports research into the causes, treatment, and prevention
of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases and supports the training of
scientists to carry out this research.
The NIAMS website provides
health information referrals to the NIAMS Clearinghouse, which has information
packages about diseases.
Other Works ConsultedHu SS, et al. (2006). Cervical spondylosis section of Disorders, diseases, and injuries of the spine. In HB Skinner, ed., Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Orthopedics, 4th ed., pp. 238–242. New York: McGraw-Hill.Meleger AL (2008). Cervical stenosis. In WR Frontera et al., eds., Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pain, and Rehabilitation, 2nd ed., pp. 27–31. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.
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Also taking into account the popularity of PHP based CMSs such as Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla; what made you decide for Ruby?
Thanks in advance.
Ruby is a much much better designed language and is more enjoyable to read and write.
It's true PHP has a lot of software like CMS's you can take and use, Ruby has a different approach. People share small packages called gems to do one thing really well. I will take this massive library of quality contributed gems to make my own applications over packages like Wordpress any day.
Fair enough, but how does that fares when making a website with a backend that will be administered by the client? With something like Wordpress, for example, I can design and code my custom theme, set up the backend with different post types, pages, content blocks and plug ins depending on the site's needs and end up with an easy to use backend for the client to use, requiring only minimal training.
How would something similar be set up with Ruby? Would you need to build it on your own by combining gems?
There are similar options - refinery, mercury and active admin come to mind. I tend to use as minimal a system as needed.
I'm not a ruby guy (outside of chef) but I would start at http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Cool, thanks for the info
Hmm, it was my impression that plenty of the criticisms that are usually raised about PHP no longer apply to it's latest versions and that modern frameworks like Laravel bring things rather close to Ruby's syntax style.
Frameworks really do help a lot and you will be able to structure your applications similarly in any language now. Most of the quality popular web frameworks across the board like Laravel(php), Express(node), Django(python), MVC(.net) have all borrowed heavily from Ruby's Rails or Sinatra.
You're always going to be bound to the underlying languages though, out of those languages listed above PHP would easily come in dead last as my preferred language. In writing and reading style / structure and capability.
If I were to order them Ruby and Python sit at the top of the list as they're expressive and have a good structure. C# is a good language if you don't mind working with a microsoft stack. Node appeals to me a lot, though for all of JavaScript's strengths it has as many gotchas and npm doesn't have anywhere near as many quality packages as there are gems yet. I don't have many positive things to say about PHP other than it's popularity, simplicity and that it runs on any Apache host.
I see this thread kind of smashing PHP..
I have to jump in here. I dabbled with ROR; and I personally have to say its a joke; who cares if its fun and friendly, and has rainbows and little stupid unicorns helping you with gems.. Ya Ruby has some fans about less than a thousand of them while PHP has over 600,000+ programmers.
When you bring up bad programming design. That's based on the developer (s) coding. PHP is an extremely powerful object oriented programming landuage; using MVC. Ruby reminds me of other standard frameworks in the PHP community like Zend, CodeIgniter, Yii etc... I even seen developers screw up the MVC structure in those frameworks too.
There's always a HUGE community of php developers and resources out to help develop applications faster. Ruby so called Gems is same thing as PHP Libraries; there's hundred-thousands of libraries out there for PHP. If someone was going to choose between Ruby(RoR) over PHP consider the job possibilities. There's about 1 of 10,000 jobs posted on different networks (Craigslist, Monster, Careerbuilder, elance, guru) for PHP; maybe just maybe you'll find 1 job posting for a Ruby developer.
I developed in PHP since 2001. If i was to get into Web Development now... I would consider those facts. PHP obviously is the winner. or .NET a lot of jobs for .NET too.
If Ruby was so great there would be more demand for it.. and I would be trying my hardest to learn it for job security..
A think a lot of the Ruby "buzz" had to to with Rails and it's use of Scaffolding. i.e. if you stuck with the conventions a lot of things were created automatically.This would allow for more rapid churning out of websites.
Any language has to deal with a set of common problems it's how they go about it that differs and IMHO some do some better, some not so much.
Rails and Gems aside, I like Ruby a lot because the code can be a lot "cleaner" and easier to understand. But I still prefer PHP because that's what I've been working with the longest and feel comfortable using.
Of course as said, the tools used don't ensure they're used correctly or in the best way.
The thread's question was "Why do you prefer Ruby over PHP given PHP's popularity?" and we've given our honest opinions.
I listed it's popularity as one it's few strengths, it still doesn't want me to write code in it every day of my life as I find there's much better options these days. The interest in PHP has been in a steady linear decline for the last 10 years.
Nah, most developers who have used Rails for more than a couple of months don't find much benefit in the Scaffolding, I found it a good teaching aid though.
This is the main reason people stick with a technology, familiarity.
But hasn't that been the case for Ruby/Ruby on Rails over the last few years as well? I think it was on this site that I recently read an article about the programming languages to learn and it showed Ruby losing market share. If you put Ruby on Google Trends, you can see it peeking around 2006 and slowly declining since then:
As far as PHP goes, I don't know...it may be that it's popularity is artificially boosted by the mass appeal of PHP based CMS solutions like Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla; but then again, why aren't there equally popular solutions based around Ruby?
I think one problem with using Ruby is it does not tend to be installed on servers by default. I suppose a catch 22 situation - it is not installed so people do not use it; it is not installed as not many people use it.Shared hosting seems to be very conservative with what they install.
If we're going to bring stats into this. There's a very good explanation as to why Programming in general is declining. If you put PHP, Java, .Net, Ruby they're all decline since 2006. I'm assuming because alot of frameworks, and CMS platforms are out there not much use for straight programming anymore lol
any how the whole point of my response to this post.. is I'm assuming the person asking about Ruby vs PHP is looking to pick a language. Don't miss lead new developers to pick the least popular language, limiting his chances to get a job.
If there was a huge market for Ruby, I'm sure hosting providers would toss Ruby into their hosting packages.
The only time I use shared hosting anymore is when I work on PHP sites like Wordpress. Ruby, Node, Python projects I've worked on have their own servers(like Amazon EC2) where they control what's installed, shared hosting is irrelevant to me.
On job security, there will always be opportunity for any skilled/creative programmers who are always learning. There's certainly plenty of high paying jobs for Ruby developers where I am located.
I feel like the most important aspect of the question may be being missed - the reason I prefer using Ruby and Rails is that it is by far the most enjoyable stack to work with. It makes my job easier and more enjoyable, period.Job security and installation is not a problem for me.
I'm currently learning PHP as part of my degree but there are parts I dislike about it. Mainly I find its a messy language, reading it can be a headache for me. I decided to pursue Ruby in my spare time as I really like the idea of it being easy to read, and fun to write.
The reason why Rails reminds you of many of PHP's frameworks is because Ruby has greatly influenced the PHP community - for the better -- over the past few years. And Ruby absolutely is a better designed language than PHP.....although that is a bit unfair, since PHP evolved into what it is from something it never originally intended on being.
That said, for web development, I'd take PHP over Ruby / Rails any day of the week.
Well written PHP is a thing of art. You are the painter, you decide how good it is....that is the double edged sword of a language like PHP that gives you so much freedom
I would generally argue PHP wasn't designed at all which is half the problem there.
You don't see ruby (or many things besides PHP) on el cheapo shared hosting for a few reasons. One is that there is probably a free php script for whatever you want to do out there so if you are into cheap things line up. But more important is the memory model -- PHP only consumes memory when the script is executing. This translates into making it possible to put 1000s of low traffic sites on a single host as, given they are low traffic you are probably not talking about 1000s of simultaneous requests. Ruby web apps run in a persistent container that needs to be active and will always consume memory so you need a lot of RAM to serve a lot of low traffic web apps, so much that it makes the $4.95/mo hosting plans uneconomical. Another issue -- though this is largely solved by rvm -- is that ruby has a bit more of a versioning headache than php and some folks will need different, specific versions. Different versions of rubygems also come into play here. In addition, ruby grew up in the age of AWS so you have reasonably economical dedicated options and also services like heroku if you want some management. It is a different ballgame than php.
But seriously, cmon now, let's be fair...today's PHP is legit. Granted, I am partial towards it due to my background in C, which also means that I have thicker skin when it comes to crazy conventions or unexpected behavior, but warts and all, PHP is one helluva language. It has much more going for it then just being cheap, easy and ubiquitous...which in and of itself, are very nice virtues to have


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In this exercise you will use an XML file to populate the Employee Portal: Vehicle Request Form with dynamic data (see Figure 1).
In this exercise you will learn how to:
In this section you will view the data source for this exercise.
You should see the employees.xml file displayed in the browser (see Figure 2). Note the structure of the file consists of multiple employee nodes nested within an employees node. Each employee node contains data for a single employee.
For this example, employees.xml is a static XML file. However, if you are using an application server, you can simply call a dynamically generated XML file using the same techniques outlined here.
In this section you will use an HTTPService object to connect to the employees.xml you viewed in the previous section.
Declarations block.
Declarations tags, press CTRL+Space to invoke the content assist tool and show code templates. Type HTTPS and select the HTTPService template (see Figure 3).
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employeeService and change the
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creationComplete event for the application (see Figure 4).
To use the content assist tool, start by typing the name of the property or event desired, then use the content assist window to select the desired property or event and either double-click it with the mouse or press the Enter key.
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employeeService.send()method will tell the HTTPService object to retrieve the XML data from the specified URL.
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Sparring with a martial arts legend in his spare time did little to prepare Burt Ward for the henchman of the Riddler, Catwoman and Egghead.
The man who will forever be known as Robin, the Boy Wonder, from the classic Batman television series, lived in the same condominium complex as Bruce Lee in the mid- to late-1960s. A black belt in karate himself, Ward would regularly work out with the martial arts expert.
"Coming in to work on the set was more dangerous than fighting Bruce. During the first episode, I was in the hospital emergency (ward) five days in a row. There were explosions that weren't supposed to explode, I got third degree burns from fireworks and I broke my nose when a two-by-four hit me in the face from a breakaway set. It was a very dangerous show to do," he said from his home in Norco, Calif., an hour east of Los Angeles.
Sometimes, the staged punches hit more than air, too.
"I actually fought with some people. I hit them because they either shoved me or hit me too hard. We had a couple of real knock-downs on the set," he said.
Ward, now 67, did almost all of his own stunts on the show because the stunt man hired to play Robin "looked nothing like me."
He will appear today at the 2013 Central Canada Pop Culture Expo at the Winnipeg Convention Centre alongside his partners in crime-fighting, Adam West, better known as Batman, and Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl.
Ward knew he could be in for a rough ride when he'd be tied down to a table at 8 a.m. for a scene, and he'd smell liquor on the breath of the special-effects guys as they walked by.
Ward also squared off against his condo neighbour in one much-hyped Batman episode when Lee appeared as Kato, partner to the Green Hornet. He said the rumours that he was afraid to lock up with Lee was "a bunch of baloney."
"What we did on TV for that scene was nothing compared to what we did in real life in terms of sparring," he said.
Ward admits his acting skills weren't tested to the fullest extent during the show's 120 episodes because the Robin character was 100 per cent him.
"When I was hired, the producers said to me, 'Burt, we interviewed 1,100 young guys for this role. We selected you because if there really was a Robin, you'd be it. We want you to be you and enthusiastic, that's all you have to do,' " he said.
"People say to me that I talk like myself, sound like myself and act like myself. Well, yeah!"
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BURT Ward does about a dozen appearances a year with Batman-related events but he's far from a one-trick pony. He owns Boy Wonder Visual Effects, which has handled the explosions and green screening of more than 35 Hollywood movies, and he also operates Gentle Giants, the largest giant breed dog rescue in the world, handing 45 different breeds.
"We have rescued more than 14,600 dogs since we started 19 years ago, handled the medical costs and found loving homes for them," he said.
Every day, he and his wife, Tracy, dole out 600 pounds of Gentle Giants-branded dog food, an all-natural product that has enabled many dogs to live well into their teens and even early 20s.
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I believe I have mentioned in previous posts that I'm somewhat of a lazy baker. I enjoy baked goods, I really do. Who doesn't? But often I am so tired after all the grocery shopping, preparing breakfast and lunches and then cooking dinner and washing up that by the time dessert comes around, I am plum tired. Not to mention all the other things that go into running the house in addition to my job outside of the home. It's exhausting being a grown up, ain't it? So I am always looking for ways to make my favorite desserts a little faster. I have a 'from-scratch' recipe for this that I really enjoy. But I don't make it that often because it takes more time and energy than I sometimes have. So this quicker recipe is my solution and yes, it starts off with a boxed cake mix. I think a country song needs to be made up about boxed cake mixes. Anyone out there got a steel guitar I can borrow?
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- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup walnuts chopped (optional)
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- 6 tbsp . maple syrup
- 2 tbsp . butter melted
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- Spray 9 x 13 with nonstick cooking spray (I like the kind that has flour in it)
- In a medium bowl, combine cake mix, eggs and melted butter until combined.
- This will blend easier using an electric mixer.
- Batter will be very thick.
- Stir in white chocolate chips and walnuts (if using).
- Spread mixture evenly into pan.
- I like to spray my hands with a little of the nonstick spray, and then spread it out using my hands.
- It just makes it much easier.
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes, until golden brown and inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow to cool before cutting into squares.
- For the Sauce
- In a small bowl, using a whisk, combine sweetened condensed milk with melted butter and maple syrup.
- Stir well.
- If you want to serve this sauce warm, just pop bowl into microwave and nuke it for a few seconds until warm.
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DETROIT - 8:55AM The show has yet to start this morning. DWSD employee Daniel Edwards should be first to take the stand this morning to continue with his cross-examination by Victor Mercado defense lawyer John Minock. Next up should be Thomas Hardiman, a former Executive Vice President with Lakeshore Engineering, who will hopefully testify about Bobby Ferguson visiting him at his home and asking to get cut into a water contract deal.
9:00AM Judge Edmunds enters courtroom. Taking up evidentiary issues on hearsay before jury comes in.
9:00AM Jennifer Blackwell for government discussing a Mr. and Mrs Phillips, and her recollection of certification being pulled many years ago.
9:02AM Judge asking if government needs Mrs. Phillips to impeach herself in testimony.
9:02AM According to Blackwell, Mr. Phillips is no longer alive.
9:03AM Jim Thomas says discussion that Mrs. Phillips, an upcoming possible witness, heard about in 2006 about DLZ would be total hearsay. She was not married at the time. Asking court not to allow her to testify.
9:04AM Judge agrees with the defense.
9:06AM John Minock continues cross of Daniel Edwards.
Who initiates change order? The field engineers in the project.
What necessitates a change order? For a variety of reasons. Amongst them, differing site conditions. Conditions that need to be looked at more closely and thus require greater compensation for doing so.
When contractors excavate they can find unexpected things? Yes.
Because the streets are so old? Yes.
Until you get to the pipes you are working on you have no idea what you're facing? That is true.
Until a contractor digs out a pipe and can examine it, there is really no certainty? True.
These contractors are multi million dollar businesses, Inland, Walbridge? Yes.
Run by shrewd people? I would think so.
Is one method to get a bid low-balling? For some individuals yes. Low-balling is when contractor deliberately under-bids contract. After they get contract, will try to get remuneration for different things they had not anticipated.
Then after low-balling, rely on change orders to get price back up? Yes.
And some contractors had a reputation for doing this? Some, yes.
Change order for CM 2014, to increase contract from $40 million to $55million and asks to extend for a year? Yes.
Whose signature on it? Anthony Adams. Victor Mercado's successor.
Now looking at a Lakeshore Engineering contract? Can't find it. Oh it's right here in front of me, hello.
To add 40,000 feet of linear mains on the change order. That's about 9 feet, quite a lot? Yes.
Yesterday you said it might look as if there was impropriety even if there wasn't any? Yes.
Read second to last sentence please. Witness reads it.
So this is the justification for it. So it would have been preferred to have a new contract? Well. We never know when bids come in if they will be higher or lower.
So change orders initiated by engineering? Yes field engineering.
So engineering thought it was better to extend project than rebid it? For whatever reason that is correct.
Rebidding process could have taken another 6 months? Yes that is possible.
Beside Mr. Adams signature we see Mr. Latimer's, someone from Budget Office? Yes.
So change orders have to be approved by multiple people? This particular one, yes.
Engineers have to sign on things before you issue checks? Correct.
On these change orders, multiple people had to sign off one this? Absolutely.
Looking at previous change order increasing contract amount by $15 million (this one looks like it was signed by Mercado). This again is for another 9 miles of pipe? Correct.
Witness reads "It is beneficial to have contract finished by contract manager". So basically it says that the construction manager finished last project well so beneficial to let them extend it.
Looking at second change order for $5 million (also signed by Mercado). Details additional work to be done that engineer says is needed, installation of service leads.
Minock says it is right to summarize that the service leads were to be installed in anticipation of a development? Correct.
Witness reads from document. Minock says they encountered something unexpected? Yes.
Looking at $6 million change order on CM-2014- to add just under 4 miles of additional water mains? Yes.
Witness reads about an another unexpected change found when excavating.
Now looking an order by special administrator on approval of change orders. Authorized clearly by Victor Mercado. about changes to contracts 650 and 651 held by Ferguson, but there were also change orders for five other contractors for even more than one change order under the umbrella contract? Right.
Now looking at memo from DLZ to DWSD explaining justification for change order. "The original price submitted by Ferguson Enterprises was" more than $1 million. Resulted in a savings of close to $400,000.
Could DLZ come out a contractor and say your competitors are offering to do it for less per square foot, are you willing to do it for less? That could happen.
Engineering department is explaining why they want to make a change to initial contract. Involves 3,000 feet of water main on Cass Ave? Yes.
Witness reads that it would also involve replacement of hydrants. Change is based on lump some price.
Contract 2012 was important to do as emergency contract with Super Bowl and All Star games coming up? correct.
That's why it was done by special administrator rather than RFP? Right.
It saves time? Yes it saves time.
Lists subcontracts by location- WS 650 on Washington Blvd and WS 651 Broadway Ave (Ferguson contracts) WS 642 on Woodward Ave and Ws 649 on Grand River Ave.
Witness says all contractors bid on same items. Then they were selected for specific contracts.
John Minock makes sure he looks at the jurors dead-on when asking his questions.
Minock says on some areas it would involve more work like digging up trolley tracks? Yes that was the case on Broadway.
Witness says the best contractors who could do the best work fastest were ones given change orders.
9:43AM Witness talks about test/pilot project with DLZ. after that project, they had 2 contractors working with them.
So basically the pilot was a dry run for what became CM 2012? That is correct.
Going back to 2014 and 2015 on how bids were scored. Originally lowest bid was $12 million and higest bid was $18 million- 50% difference, that's high right? Yes.
So your boss said to you we can't trust bids on the fringes? Right.
"Since there is such a large disparity of proposals in this case" reads the witness. Goes on to read that it might be low-balling that would require large amount of change orders.
Did you draft this for Latimer? Yes.
9:49AM Minock references a lawsuit in 1977.
Look at document that appoints first special administrator, Coleman A. Young. Document says special administrator full power over the water department without having to go to city council. Administered by Judge John Feikens.
Archer and Kilpatrick each in turn appointed special administrators? Yes.
Another order continuing special administrator powers for Archer? Yes.
This special administratorship was issued because waste was being discharged into the waters so the EPA helped set this up.
This order restates history of special administratorship and the powers. The order says the special administrator has full power to control water system and anything related to it? Yes.
Then look at motion to replace special administrator- Judge Feikens finds that things have improved so much at water department that special administartor no longer needed. January 5th 2006.
Minock says that during Mercado's tenure they didn't violate the waste water discharge permit? True.
The dissolution of special administratorship was during struggle of possible take over of Water Department? Yes.
Governor Engler wanted to take it over? Yes.
So for many years there were behind the scenes negotiations to change the structure? Yes.
Minock says that the mayor was empowered to award contracts without Water Board or City Council? Yes.
Mayor could have delayed decisions on contracts or cancel for any reason? Yes.
But the mayors kept things intact and kept Water Board involved even when they didn't have to? Yes.
Mercado took office in June 2002? Yes.
After nationwide search? Correct.
And the search firm said that a qualified candidate had to be paid $200,000 to $240,000? At least.
Mercado made changes over period of time? Correct.
Mercado's background as water engineer? Yes.
Before them there were lawyers and politicians? Yes.
After Mercado, Anthony Adams had been deputy mayor? Correct.
Before Mercado came, the engineering department had say in how department was run? Yes.
Some of those engineers had favorites? Yes.
Some of those relationships were too close? Yes.
And sometimes contractors knew who was getting contracts before RFPS came out? Correct.
There were lots of rumors, misimpressions and mistaken beliefs? Absolutely.
Before Mercado came evaluators would meet and discuss things like a jury would? Yes.
Before Mercado, department had favorites? Yes.
Certain types of contracts renewable? Yes.
After a while certain contractors developed attitude that certain contracts belonged to them.
Blackwell objects. Judge sustains.
Mercado significantly decreased authority of engineering department? Yes.
And some people resented that? Yes.
He made changes to the way the evaluation process operated? Yes.
Mercado also enforced policies that had largely been ignored? Yes.
Fired people for drug or alcohol abuse? Yes.
He trimmed staff? Yes.
He made people tow the line? Correct.
Mercado followed recommendations for reorganization? Yes.
Mercado kept IMG on? Yes.
Did you deal with them? Yes. For years.
While Mercado was director? Yes.
So you have outside organization helping Judge Feikens with oversight? Yes.
Largely instigated by Mercado? Yes.
10:12AM After Mercado arrived people had to work harder? Yes.
Was Mercado a good boss to work with? Absolutely. He was a good boss to work for. I never had a problem with Victor.
Minock finishes his very lengthy, detailed cross-examination. Judge Edmunds says this is a good place to stop and break for 20 minutes.
Expect that one of Bobby Ferguson's will take up cross after the break. Praying it's not nearly as long.
10:23AM Seems that the sick jurors are feeling better today. The young brunette juror who had hot flashes yesterday was busy this morning was seen eating Hershey kisses.
John Minock did a good albeit somewhat plodding job painting Mercado as a very capable and efficient administrator who cleaned up a disorganized DWSD. Just really hoping that the rest of defense team has heard enough from this witness. Ready for Daniel Edwards to step down from the stand.
10:35AM Back at the defendants table. Dark suits prevail again. Kwame Kilpatrick is in black suit and Bobby Ferguson is wearing charcoal with a black tie. Bernard Kilpatrick is in a beige suit with gold tie and matching pocket handkerchief. Ferguson defense lawyer Susan Van Dusen pops in a bright white sweater.
Judge enters courtroom and says that next Tuesday court will start at 9:45AM.
10:38AM Jim Thomas, Kwame's lawyer, cross-examines Edwards.
Thomas says you started with DWSD when? In 1987.
In 1987 was Judge Feikens involved? Yes.
This is one of the judges with the longest tenure in the country? Yes.
Did you interact with Judge Feikens? On a number of occasions yes.
Did you find him capable? Yes.
Witness talks about time when Oakland County executives wanted to take over DWSD because of perceived mismanagement.
Judge Feikens discussed special administrator under Kilpatrick's tenure? Yes.
Witness describes long term compliance- water department works under an EPA permit. there are certain stipulations on permit for discharges into the Rouge River.
"In 2 key actions, Mayor Kilpatrick ordered" hiring of Mercado and bringing on IMG- this led Judge Feikens to conclude in his order than clean water was on its way back to Detroit.
Judge commented on projects proceeding on schedule? Yes. He said they were being completed on schedule.
What does Judge say about Mercado? Witness reads that when problems have arisen, Mercado has been prompt in addressing them to the judge. Reports have also been filed in a timely fashion.
This is in 2006- Mercado has cut operating budget by 10% without affecting compliance. DWSD sewerage rates amongst the lowest in the country. Bond rates have been remained good.
So all of that during a large and ambitious project for Super Bowl and All Star game? Correct.
You remember at some point Kilpatrick was no longer needed as special administrator? Correct.
It was because at that time Detroit was well on its way to clean water? Correct.
Contracts 650 and 651. Were you aware that Kilpatrick had asked to work promptly to extend contracts? Yes.
Were you aware that Feikens did what Mr. Kilpatrick requested even when he was no longer the administrator? Yes.
10:52AM As relates to WS 650 and 651, the judge did approve the amendments to the contracts? Yes.
Edwards reads from document which states that delays people from doing competent work. Court also reflects on discontinuance of special administratorship.
Judge didn't fire Kilpatrick? Correct.
Judge discontinued special administrator under his own authority? Yes.
Because it looked like the goals of the DWSD were being met? Yes.
10:56AM Mike Rataj for Bobby Ferguson.
Yesterday you spelled out duties that came with your position? Yes.
Rataj says focus on sub-contractor for basis of my questions. Sub-contractors when they want to get paid they need to do certain things? Yes.
They have to gather invoices, labor and equipment costs? Yes.
And then they take documents to field engineers? Correct.
Do subcontractors submitted to prime contractor or field engineers? To the prime contractor who gives it to field engineers.
It's a very involved process, go through blueprints with a fine tooth comb? Yes.
Field engineers may go back to prime or sub and say they don't like what they see? Correct.
So then sub-contractor has to fix it? Yes.
This is situation that routinely happens in the field? Yes.
There are layers before request for payments become realized? Yes.
Witness says project manager will receive all the information. And they then establish an engineers' estimate. They put the data into a form and attach submitting documents to that. Give it to their supervisor who reviews it. Then sent to the next supervisor who does the same. Then it goes to engineering. after they sign off on it, it goes to DWSD to be signed off.
So would you agree there is a series of checks and balances? Yes.
So subcontractors not paid unless job is done? Yes.
Witness says engineers' document is reviewed to make sure it's in compliance and everything is in line with contract document. then submitted back to witness or other staff member who draw down money to pay the contractor. Then witness signs off estimate. Then it goes to accounting to cut the check.
This is the longest witness by far. Has been on the stand for 5 hours. And he is loving it. Unfortunately, the rest of us are not.
The check is sent to prime contractors who should then pay the sub. It doesn't always happen in a timely fashion.
The payment verification also applies to payment on change orders? Yes.The same process is in place.
You are familiar with Ferguson Enterprises Inc? Yes.
And you know Bobby? Yes.
You would agree that FEI is a real company? Yes.
Had a history in Detroit prior to Kilpatrick tenure? Yes.
Witness talks about design contract. Contractor responsible for designing through construction and completion.
Rataj brings up contract under Archer administration. Paid through various checks and balances? Yes.
Same with payment of contracts in subsequent administration? Yes.
Rataj asks him to focus on consulting contracting. Witness says a CS or Consulting Services contract is supposed to be for consulting services like designing a project. It could also be for any other type of financial contracts that required assistance.
Rataj now asks about construction contracts. Witness says they are what they seem like. Construction work for department. He lists various examples. "It's the hard labor doing the work."
Are construction contracts and consulting contracts billed the same way? Well they are advertised the same. But the process is different.
I'm not sure what Rataj's strategy is. If it's to lull the courtroom to sleep, it's definitely working.
Are consulting contracts bid out as lump sum bids? Can be.
Witness says a lump sum bid is where DWSD ask proposers for a price on the entire project. All DWSD wants to see is a bottom line without breakdown.
Witness describes a unit price contract.
It's a very detailed bid? Yes.
And sub-contractors always submit unit price bids to prime contractors? Yes.
Kwame just passes a note to Bernard via defense lawyers. Would love to know what that note says.
Rataj says there is an equalization process for construction contracts? Yes. I believe I explained that yesterday.
Someone please get this guy off the stand. Please, please, please.
Looking at purchasing ordinance. City of Detroit purchasing ordinance defines how the city of Detroit is to go out and procur various items. Construction, consulting contracts. It also provides definitions. It also established various percentages of equalization to be applied.
Rataj hands witness a document and asks him to tell jury what it is. It is Executive Order #4 by Archer. It delineates that the city of Detroit is to give preferential treatment, 30% of contracts, to Detroit-based businesses. at least 30%, if not more.
The equalization process does it apply to consulting process? The equalization process between 2002 and 2008 would not apply to consulting project. Or even construction management project with RFP.
You know what a minority business enterprise is? Yes.
MBE is Minority business Enterprise. You went to same cast of characters pretty much in course of your career? Yes.
11:33AM Witness says you can be Detroit-based business without being Detroit headquartered.
Kwame and Bobby are laughing at something. For the life of me, I can't imagine what is funny in this courtroom right now.
You get certificate from Human Rights department to say you're Detroit-based? Yes.
Witness says at time of bid, prime does not have to list sub-contractors. Just check off if you're Detroit-based, headquartered and resident. If 51% of your employees are residents, it increases points for ultimate score.
General contractors in order to increase their points they will use sub-contractors? Yes.
Witness says it's advantageous for prime contractors to use sub-contractors who meet all the Detroit-based criteria.
Witness says when talking about RFP, equalization is non-existent. In 2002 to 2008, anything that is RFP that is scored, you're talking local economic development not equalization.
Local economic development is where criteria is established as 35% of the weight. Equalization is where the bids come in, they do a bid tab and then after the bid tab, they look at what the prime contractor is certified as, based headquartered or resident. Those are applied to bid amount to reduce the amount of contractor in question so that when they compare the bids, the bids of Detroit based and headquartered business will be given preferential treatment because they have been reduced by credit amount.
So lowest bidder doesn't always get the contract? That is true.
You're familiar with minority front? Yes. Minority front is a business which is being used for the purposes of stating that the contractor is using a minority company when in essence they are not.
The general contractors use minority fronts to increase score? Yes they could have at times.
And that's been a problem with DWSD through the years? Yes it has been.
The prime contractor using a minority front, they may bill for materials? Correct.
The minority front is reimbursed later by the prime? Yes.
You would agree that prior to Kilpatrick administration this was major problem? It happened.
When Kilpatrick came in, they wanted real minority businesses working?
Blackwell objects. Judge sustains.
re you familiar with Phillip Patel (not sure on last name) he worked with DWSD? Yes.
And then at Lakeshore at night?
Blackwell objects. Judge sustains.
Can't work at DWSD with proper bonds and insurance? Yes.
Describe the kinds of insurance contractor would need. Witness says general liability, auto liability, umbrella liability, builder's risk insurance.
Different bonds? Performance bonds that guarantees performance for DWSD. If job not done, then DWSD can force them to do the job. Payment bonds in place for protection of DWSD and for the sub-contractors.
Prime contractor has to have all bonds and insurances you spoke of? They should, yes.
On umbrella contract CM 2012, there were a number of smaller contracts. DLZ was prime contractor and there was an issue with their bond? Yes. They didn't have one.
I had such high hopes that Rataj would be in pit bull mode. Not the case, at least not with this witness.
Rataj shows witness document that has scratched out notation. Who did that? I did said witness.
The document is a reporting log sheet- Edwards recording to his file what conversation has transpired and what he needs to do. On July 16th 2003. the contract is to be for $19.8 million, DLZ's cut to act as construction manager for this project. They manage the umbrella contract,
Witness reads "I spoke to Jay Mehta and he said that DLZ" would not have to get performance bonds but would get them from sub-contractors. Edwards stated his objection that in the past they had always gotten them upfront from the prime.
Edwards says after discussion with Mercado, the original concept was to give them a design build project where they would design and construct the project.
12:00PM Rataj says so you had a problem with DLZ is that they didn't have a bond? Yes that's correct.
As a result of not having a bond, DLZ couldn't do design build contract and had to go to another format.
Judge calls for a break. This is an interminable litany of DWSD contract definitions. Seems unlikely that we'll get to another witness today. Can't believe we have spent 2 days discussing the minutiae of water contracts.
12:12PM Judge calls for sidebar before jurors shuffle back in.
12:15PM Judge tells jury, everyone understands this is a confusing area and that's it's not always crystal clear how it works together. Lawyers will try to keep it simple. If you're confused, raise your hands.
Defense lawyers John Shea, Susan Van Dusen and Bernard all raise their hands.
12:18PM Witness answering jury questions.
Judge tells the court that Edwards is one of 2 pay witnesses who will be back for other chapters of trial. So he can clarify things more later.
And another sidebar.
12:21PM Rataj asks witness about document. It's an email from Robert Walter in city law department to Victor Mercado. It talks about DLZ's bonding issue.
"It boggles my mind that DLZ would take advantage of DWSD in this way AGAIN...They burned us once." Reads the email. From July 2003.
DLZ didn't pay sub-contractors twice in the 80s so DWSD got burned by them.
Rataj says it was an RFP contract on CM 2012? Yes.
So 3 lowest bidders didn't necessarily get contract? Correct.
It was an emergency contract? Correct.
Had to get the streets ready as soon as possible because had events coming up? Correct.
Witness looking at email from DLZ to himself. Awni Qaqish and a few others copied. December 24th 2003. Talks about RFP process to select contractors. Solicitation open to all proposers with strong preference for Detroit-based businesses.
So Rataj says it suggests that as many as 7 contractors possibly more will be working under umbrella contract? Correct.
Government lawyer Michael Bullotta so captivated by testimony that he is leaving the courtroom.
Document talks about pilot project CS-1347 that DLZ did related to water systems replacements. That was under consultant contract, Ferguson Enterprises and Hayes Excavating worked with them on this pilot project.
WS 642, 649, 650 and 650 contracts were held by DWSD because DLZ didn't have a bond.
Memo from Victor Mercado to Audrey Jackson in Purchasing on January 12th 2004. Contracts 642, 649, 650 and 651 were directly negotiated by DLZ with FEI and Hates Excavating.
"The combined estimated cost of the five contracts is $3,805,000. WS 642 and 649 assigned to Hayes Excavating. WS 650 and 651 to Ferguson enterprises." Goes on to say both firms have demonstrated ability to work and are minority bsuinesses. Contract WS 652 was up in the air at this point.
Rataj says at this point FEI had provided insurance and bonds required by law? Correct.
Did not have fully executed contracts because DLZ had not produced a bond? Correct.
Document form Awni Qaqish to Mercado. It's not low bid contract so doesn't matter who lowest bidders are? Correct.
So this was just for one contract- for Washington Blvd? Yes.
Ferguson Enterprises ranked 8 on this list and Hayes Excavating ranked #9.
June 1st 2005. Letter from DLZ to Mercado regarding CM 2012, contract WS 656 approval of change order #12. Contractor is Lanzo Construction. Talking about replacing 350 linear feet of water main at $514 per linear feet.
Lanzo Construction had quoted more than $274 per linear feet on Washington Blvd bid.
Rataj says it has no importance that Posen, L D'Agostini and Lanzo were 3 lowest bidders? Correct.
What happened with Lanzo construction asks Rataj? There was an error on one of their unit prices.
Rataj shows witness document from August 2004. Breakdown of all contracts assigned by DLZ under umbrella contract CM 2012. letter from Mercado to City council on emergency contracts.
Eagle Excavation and they weren't even in the Washington Blvd bid process? that's correct because they were already on site for a compuware project.
So it was a cost saving method? Correct.
Rataj brings up one of the change orders for WS 651. Says that negotiations resulted in savings of $281,475.
1st change order on contract for more than $400,000 on 651 . Then another change order for $356,000.
"I'm almost done. Mercifully I would imagine," says Rataj. You have no idea Mr. Rataj.
Contract WS 656 for Lanzo construction. Change order #12- so they went through a bunch of change orders says Rataj? Yes.
This is 12th change order for Lanzo. Amount on order is for $183,000 went all the way up to $6.5 million. Started out at close to $1.3 million. Not unusual to have this many change orders? That's correct.
L D'agostini originally contract price of 1.3 million at change order #8, new total is $5.4 million. So again not unusual? Yes.
DLZ was able to make more than $19 million dollars without putting up any bond.
Witness corrects. So DLZ made $7 million without risk and all the subs assumed risk? Yes.
Rataj finally wraps up. Judge dismisses jurors.
1:05PM Incredibly convoluted testimony. In essence, Rataj tried to demonstrate that this wasn't a low bid contract process and there was no requirement to take lowest bidders. Also that DLZ, the construction management company for the umbrella contracts, had issues with not having appropriate performance bonds.
The last point Rataj made, in reference to yesterday's series of change orders on Ferguson contracts, was that it was not unusual for contractors to issue them. Case in point Lanzo Construction which had 12 change orders and L.D'Agostini with 8 under umbrella contract CM 2012.
Court resumes tomorrow at 9AM.
About the author:
Alexandra Harland is a Princeton undergrad and has a masters degree in International affairs with Columbia. A Montreal native, she worked with the Daily Telegraph newspaper for a few years before transitioning to TV, when she worked at ABC News with Peter Jennings. Alexandra has also worked in newsrooms in both Detroit and Boston.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (12-10, 4-2 SSC), behind the efforts of some late-inning heroics, swept the conference doubleheader from the Lynn University Fighting Knights (15-8, 1-2 SSC) by the scores of 2-0 and 4-3, Saturday evening from University Field.
In the sweep, the Lions collected 11 combined hits, including seven extra-base hits, as Saint Leo posted its ninth win in 11 tries. Led by Dianne Gonzalez's 2-for-4 effort, four players picked up two hits. Gonzalez smacked a pair of doubles and was responsible for driving in the game-winner in game two. Sarah Boyd connected on her second home run of the season, as she went 2-for-5 on the night with three RBI. Elysha Agen added a triple and her first home run of the season, while Amber Martyn went 2-for-6 with a run scored.
Pitching was the name of the game in the first of two at University Field. The beginning of the contest, however, painted a different picture as the Agen blasted the first pitch she saw out of the park for a leadoff home run.
One run was all that Jaime Walker needed on this day, as she was spectacular from beginning to end. She put the side down in order on four different occasions and scattered a season-low four hits over seven shutout innings.
The Fighting Knights best chance to score came in the top of the sixth when a two-out single looked as though it was going to score the tying run. Fortunately for the Lions brass, the ball was hit to the strong armed Martyn who fired a rocket home to Yates to tag the runner out by a step.
Lions' Base runner Tiffinee Harvey took advantage of a one-out Lynn error in the bottom of the inning to score the squads second and final run, securing the game one victory.
In total, Walker struck out three hitters and allowed on two base-on-balls, securing the first shutout of her Saint Leo career. The Surrey, British Columbia native improved to 3-2 on the season.
Game two presented a different challenge for the Green & Gold, as they had to play catch-up for the first few innings.
Lynn used an infield single by Brittany Gross and a Kathleen Smith RBI single to post their first run of the day and grab a first inning, 1-0 lead. The Fighting Knights expanded their lead to 2-0 when Jordan Angel used another infield hit to drive in Lynn's second tally.
All of that changed in the bottom of the fourth, however. Harvey led the inning off with a double and one batter later stood at third base thanks to a Martyn line drive single. Boyd then stepped to the plate, and with one swing of the bat turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead, blasting a three-run shot over the leftfield fence.
Still, the blast only momentarily changed momentum as Lynn used a pair of hits in the top of the fifth to tie the game at three apiece. The Lions were not swayed though and after going down in order in the sixth, SLU made one final charge standup in the final frame.
In the seventh, the Lions quickly drew two outs. Danielle Moreda continued the inning though, with a double to leftfield. Gonzalez then used her final at-bat of the day to provide some late heroics. With Moreda still at second, the Riverview, Fla. native sent a shot to the leftfield fence allowing Moreda to round third and slide in with the game-winning run.
It is the second game-winner by Gonzalez in the last four days. In the circle, Ashton Whidden pitched a solid seven innings of work allowing just eight hits and two earned runs over 7.0 innings. The win pushed Whidden to 8-4 on the campaign.
Saint Leo will return to the field on Tuesday, March 9 for a pair of non-conference games against No. 22 Wayne State (Neb.) and No. 16 Bloomsburg. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in Clermont, Fla. Both games will be broadcast live on the SaintLeoLions Audiocast Network.
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Kane, meanwhile, is in for Adam Henley, who will not play again this season after injuring his ankle in Saturday's 1-1 home draw with leaders Leicester City.
Watford, who have won their last six home games in all competitions and have not conceded a goal at Vicarage Road in 625 minutes, have made four changes to the team which started Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Wigan Athletic.
Joel Ekstrand, Sean Murray, Tommie Hoban and Alexander Merkel take the place of Essaid Belkalem, Cristian Battocchio, Davide Faraoni and Lewis McGugan while former Rovers defender Lucas Neill is named on the Hornets' bench.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What a year it has been -- and we still have one half of a trading day left! In most years, the last trading session would be a real snoozer, with light volume, but that may not be the case today, as the geniuses in Washington are working "overtime" to come to some kind of agreement on the fiscal cliff issues. Well, at least some of the issues, anyway. They may devise another Band-Aid perhaps, but nothing substantive. I'm a bit frustrated that they didn't heed my advice and just go home, but then it might have looked like they weren't doing their jobs, which would also have deprived us of some more much-needed drama. But despite all of the controversy, 2012 will end up being a very decent year in the markets, barring any wild swings today. As of this writing, the S&P 500 is up about 11.5% year to date, while the Russell 3000 has gained about 14.5%. But the smallest of the small, the micro-caps, had an even better year. The Russell Microcap Index is up 17.2% year to date. The Russell Microcap Value Index did even better and is up 20.2% year to date. This index is comprised of companies with a weighted average market cap of just over $300 million, an average price to book ratio of 1.1, and dividend yield of 2%. It's the type of pond where I love to fish. Although the risks are great, so too can be the rewards. It just takes a bit more homework, because many of these companies just don't get much press or analyst attention. Heading into 2013, I am taking one last look at one of my favorite deep value screening techniques: companies trading for less than their net current asset value. We end 2012 with just seven net/nets that have market caps in excess of $100 million. The cupboard is pretty bare in net/net land. FormFactor ( FORM) ends the year at the top of the list in terms of market cap ($242 million). The semiconductor name currently trades at 0.87 times net current asset value, 0.71 times price to book, and has $276 million, or $5.50 per share, in cash. FormFactor has not turned a profit on an annual basis since 2007, which is one reason that it trades so cheaply relative to net current assets. FORM data by YCharts
RadioShack ( RSH) ends 2012 as the second biggest net/net. The company had a terrible year, and is viewed by many as a dinosaur on the way to extinction. I've not yet given up on the notion that the company's assets are worth more than the current stock price, but I may be among the few who still hold that view. Oh, I'm not crazy; I believe the company's best days are behind it for sure. I just think there may be some value to extract. RSH Cash and ST Investments data by YCharts
Richardson Electronics ( RELL), Trans World Entertainment ( TWMC) and Westell Technologies ( WSTL) are the only names on the list that are profitable in the trailing 12 months. The others -- Imation ( IMN) and Axcelis Technologies ( ACLS) -- can't make that claim. The year ends with very slim pickings in net/net land. Here's to a healthy and prosperous 2013! At the time of publication, Heller was long RSH. Follow @JonMHellerCFA This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.


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