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Friends of the NIU Libraries: Bylaws
Article I
The name of this organization shall be "The Friends of the Northern Illinois University Libraries".
Article II
The purpose of the Friends of the Northern Illinois University Libraries shall be to support and promote the acquisition, maintenance, and use of the University Libraries' resources, in all formats, and to enhance the public's appreciation of the Libraries and of intellectual pursuits. This may involve bringing to the Libraries funds for special needs beyond the reach of the Libraries' budget, encouraging gifts of library materials, and cooperating with the Libraries and the Libraries Advisory Committee in the development of the resources of the Libraries.
Article III
Any person, business firm, or other organization interested in the objects of the Friends of the N.I.U. Libraries may become a member on application duly approved, or on invitation by the Executive Committee.
Article IV
A. The Executive Committee establishes levels for membership dues and establishes levels of donation for recognition.
B. Honorary memberships may be awarded in recognition of significant contributions or services to the University Libraries as determined by the Executive Committee.
Article V
Officers and Committees.
A. In addition to the President, the officers of the Friends shall be the Vice-President/Program Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected for one year terms by majority vote of the members present at the annual meeting. Officers may succeed themselves.
B. There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the above officers, the immediate past President, the Dean of the University Libraries, and not less than six and no more than ten members at large each to be elected for a term of three years by a majority of the members present at the annual meeting. One third of the members at large shall be elected each year. Also, at that time, a member shall be elected to complete the remaining term of a member at large who served less than three years.
The Executive Committee shall have the power to conduct the affairs of the Friends at times other than the annual meeting, including the filling of vacancies until the next annual meeting. Seven members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum.
The President shall act as the chairperson of the Executive Committee, and he or she shall appoint additional committees as directed by the Friends or by the Executive Committee. The Dean of the University Libraries, or the Dean's designee, shall be a member, ex officio, of all committees.
Article VI
The meetings of the Friends shall consist of an annual business meeting to be held at such time and place as shall be determined by the President, and other such meetings as the Executive Committee shall determine. Adequate notice, by mail, of fourteen days having been given, members present shall constitute a quorum sufficient for the transaction of business at any annual meeting.
Article VII
Changes in bylaws must first be approved by the Executive Committee and finalized by a two-thirds vote of those present at the annual meeting of the Friends of NIU Libraries. Notice of such proposed amendments shall have been mailed to all members at least ten days prior to the annual meeting.
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Toulouse, the capital of Midi-Pyrénées region Toulouse is a French city located in the South West of France in the Midi-Pyrénées region. The region is well known for its sunny climate and gastronomy. As for Toulouse, the capital of the Midi-Pyrénées region, is a city with an exceptional heritage. From its beautiful private mansions, churches, museums and landmarks, the pink city, as it is also known (Ville Rose in French) will charm you. Toulouse is France's 4th biggest city and as such is home to over 400,000 inhabitants. The city which can be easily reached from Paris of Bordeaux is also a well-known university town and the European aeronautical capital. Did you know that Toulouse is the iconic capital of Rugby. Its flagship team is Stade Toulousain, which is one of the most successful clubs in Europe with eighteen league titles in France, three cups of France and four cups of Europe. Learn more about Toulouse
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Hi,I'm about to upgrade to a new Mac which I will use mostly for Photoshop. My pictures are generally large composites - for example I would stitch 10 tiffs with 80MB each together and then edit then heavily in Photoshop. (No HDR, relax.)I could either buy a 13" MacBook Air (tech specs here or I could pay about $500 more to get a MacBook Pro (tech specs here.Considering what I'm using the computer for, do you think the Pro is considerably faster? Or are talking a split second here and I could save $500?Thanks for you help!S
The minimum Mac configuration I would recommend is the 15" MBP with the Retina screen and 16 GB RAM.
Is Retina 15" 16 GB Ram (much) more convenient. Duh! But in no way it's a "minimum" configuration.
I didn't say it was a minimum configuration. I said it was the minimum configuration I would recommend to someone buying a new machine to run Photoshop who regularly merges ten 80MB TIFFs and edits them into publication form.Are you suggesting the OP purchase a used six-year-old machine with 4 GB RAM for the specified task?


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Media Contact
Kacey Shapiro
Marketing and Communications Manager
Great Lakes Theater
Contact Kacey
January 24, 2013
Noel Coward's Comedy BLITHE SPIRIT Will Haunt the Hanna
CLEVELAND, OH - Great Lakes Theater (GLT), Cleveland's Classic Company, commences the second half its 2013-14 season with Noël Coward's comedy, Blithe Spirit. The production will be performed in the company's revolutionary and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare, February 22 – March 10. 2013. Charles Fee, GLT's Producing Artistic Director, directs the production.
Great Lakes Theater's production of Blithe Spirit is sponsored by PNC. GLT is generously funded by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. In addition, the classic theater company's 2012-13 season is presented with support from The Cleveland Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. Media sponsors for GLT's 51st season are Cleveland Scene, The FORM Group, The Plain Dealer, WCLV 104.9 FM, WCPN 90.3 FM ideastream and WKSU 89.7 FM.
Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is a spook-tacular comic classic. After a "spirited" séance goes decidedly wrong, the cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine suddenly finds himself face to face with the ghost of his deceased wife, Elvira…much to the chagrin of his current spouse, Ruth. Love and marriage devolve into laughter and mayhem when Ruth is accidentally killed and united with Elvira on the "other side." Together the paranormal pair of blithe spirits haunt their hapless husband with hilarious consequences.
For Great Lakes Theater, Charles Fee most recently directed a critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2012. Other GLT productions include The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2011), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Twelfth Night (2009), The Comedy of Errors (2009), Macbeth (2008), All's Well That Ends Well (2008), Hamlet (2003), Hay Fever (2007), The Importance of Being Earnest (2004), Arms and the Man (2003) and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2004 & 2011). Fee holds a unique position in the American theater as producing artistic director of three independently operated, professional theater companies: Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio (since 2002), Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, Idaho (since 1991) and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in Lake Tahoe, Nevada (since 2010). His appointments have resulted in a dynamic and groundbreaking producing model for the companies, in which 45 plays have been shared since 2002.
Great Lakes Theater's award-winning home at the Hanna Theatre features a visionary "Great Room" inspired design that integrates the artist and audience experience into a single unified environment. Hanna patrons select from a variety of seating opportunities including traditional theater seats, club chairs, lounge/bar seats, banquette couches and private box seating. Arranged in an intimate 550-seat thrust configuration where the audience surrounds the stage, no seat is further than 12 rows from the performance.
Great Lakes Theater offers patrons a robust series of Experience Enhancement Programming that is organized by day of week. The series highlights the Hanna's unique amenities and affords access to artists.
---"Salon Thursdays" feature an engaging pre-show discussion/presentation beginning one hour before curtain with a Great Lakes Theater artist. (Offered: Feb. 28 & Mar. 7)
---"Happy Hour Fridays" afford audience members the opportunity to gather, socialize and enjoy appetizers or beverages for sale in the Hanna's bar and lounge beginning ninety minutes before the performance. (Offered: Feb. 22 & Mar. 1, 8)
---"Nightcap Night Saturdays" are designed to encourage audience members to stay after the evening performance and mingle with the GLT artistic company in the Hanna's lounge. The Hanna's bar is open ninety minutes after Nightcap Night Saturday performances." (Offered: Mar. 2, 9)
---"Ice Cream Social Sundays" offer patrons the opportunity to enjoy a London theatre tradition brought state-side. Audience members are invited to purchase a cool, personal ice cream treat before the show or at intermission. Ice cream will be offered at every performance in Blithe Spirit's run, but on "Ice Cream Social Sundays," the treat is half price. (Offered: Feb. 24 & Mar. 3, 10)
---"Director's Night" offer audiences the opportunity to take part in a lively pre-show discussion with GLT's Producing Artistic Director, Charles Fee before the Friday preview performance. (Offered: Feb. 22)
---"Playnotes Pre-Show Discussions" inform patrons with illuminating introductions to the content and history of each play in GLT's season presented by a guest scholar before Saturday matinee performances. (Offered: Mar. 2, 9)
Great Lakes Theater will continue to afford patrons extraordinary access to its artists and production process at every Hanna Theatre performance of Blithe Spirit. The Hanna always opens its doors ninety minutes before each performance allowing patrons to observe the complete pre-show preparation process of GLT's actors and technical staff. Elements traditionally hidden from audiences such as stage combat rehearsals, dance calls, prop/scenic pre-sets, technical cue rehearsals and actor warm-ups will be conducted in full view of patrons, offering GLT audiences an unprecedented glimpse into the theatrical process.
Great Lakes Theater will also renew its New Deal pricing initiative this spring - designed to increase accessibility for audiences. As part of the program, adult tickets begin at $15 and student tickets for any seat at any performance are $13 - making GLT one of the most affordable entertainment options in the region.
The Opening Night (also Press Night) performance of Blithe Spirit is scheduled for Saturday, February 23rd. A preview performance is scheduled for the preceding Friday night evening (February 22nd). Curtain times for all evening performances will remain at 7:30 p.m., with a 1:30 p.m. curtain time for Saturday matinees and a 3:00 p.m. curtain time for Sunday matinees. All GLT productions will continue to offer sign-interpreted and audio-described performances.
Single performance tickets range in price from $15-$70 (Student tickets are $13) and are available by calling (216) 241-6000, by ordering online or by visiting the PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office. Groups of ten or more receive discounts of up to 40% by calling (216) 241-5490 x302.
Great Lakes Theater, the first resident company of PlayhouseSquare, has brought the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience since 1962. GLT programming positively impacts 100,000 adults and students annually.
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was a game that nearly had it all. Designed as a flagship title for the Xbox 360, Capcom's game was a conscious effort to marry the dynamics of a Western shooter with the style of a Japanese action game, meaning that on top of the usual blasting, sniping and grenade-lobbing, we got giant robot suits, gruesome insectoid monsters and a grappling hook thrown in.
The game looked great, with gorgeously detailed characters and critters and had some brilliant ideas, but it was, unfortunately, a little bit boring. Setting the game on the surface of a frozen planet didn't help, but for all the spectacle of its icy landscapes, huge weapons and vast alien bugs, Lost Planet always seemed a little short on thrills. 3 years on, and with the exception of the epic boss-battles, we struggle to remember anything of the game.
We can't blame the team behind Lost Planet 2, then, for junking a lot of the stuff you might just maybe sort of vaguely remember about the original. Thanks to developments on the titular planet since the first game, frozen wilderness is no longer the sole order of the day, and we now get verdant jungles, scorching deserts and grimy industrial cities to explore. The single strand storyline has also gone, to be replaced by a fractured narrative that shifts from faction to faction in some kind of slightly bewildering civil war. Clear plotting was not exactly the first game's strength, and that goes double here. The insects - known as the Akrid are back - as are the mechs, but the gameplay has seen a revolution.
In the first game, you collected thermal energy from downed bugs and blown-up barrels just to live a few minutes more in the icy wastes. Now you can use it to heal, but it's no longer a matter of survival. Instead, your focus is on earning battle points, gained by completing mission objectives, which you'll need to respawn after you die. Most importantly, Lost Planet 2 has been designed up as a four-player, co-op game. You can play it on your tod, but you'll be teamed up with a trio of computer-controlled comrades. This just isn't a lone wolf sort of game.
To say this has repercussions is an understatement. In order to work as a four-player game, many of the missions have been made deliberately brief, and there's a huge emphasis on using teamwork to complete objectives, guard key points and tackle the game's truly awesome bosses. Up to a point this works brilliantly. Your AI mates are surprisingly competent with a gun, and when the game is at its best there is a sense of spectacle that you'd have to go to the likes of God of War III, Gears of War 2 or Bayonetta to really match.
When it doesn't work, however, it's a nightmare. If, for example, it's your job to guard four mechanisms against a constantly respawning army, then you can guarantee that, as a single player, you'll be doing all the work. Sure, your chums will be shooting baddies left, right and centre and racing around the level getting shot themselves, but will they guard those mechanisms? Not on your nelly. This gets more and more annoying as the game goes on and the missions grow more complex.
With three human allies it all gets a lot better. The action kicks up a gear, there's a nice sense of friendly rivalry, and when you're up against it in huge-scale scraps against overwhelming numbers or blasting chunks off a massive Akrid boss, you really feel like it's the four of you against a hostile world. However, the reliance of battle points turns later, more difficult, encounters into a struggle of persistence rather than a fight for glory, as you end up losing the points in your kitty and getting sent back to the start of the battle one more time.
It also has to be said that Capcom still hasn't got its head around great, well-paced, level design. Even taken in short chunks, many of the levels are unimaginative, repetitive, and lacking in memorable features or great moments. Bar a cracking boss battle on one train and a subsequent raid on another, it's only the big bugs that stick in the mind. Fighting off waves of creepy-crawlies in a giant, rocket-launching mech should always be a blast. In Lost Planet 2, it's a bit of a drag.
There is a competitive online element as well, but again it's a tale of one step forward, two steps back. Some of the maps are just stunning, particularly a coastal effort with surging waves and driving rain that clouds your visor. However, the action still feels slow and pedestrian, low on thrills and real adrenaline. Sure, we like the persistent experience system and the huge range of costume customisation options, but these things do not a Modern Warfare-beater make.
All this is a shame, because on a technical and artistic level, Lost Planet 2 is up there with the best. The different areas of the world look gorgeous, and the creature design proves once again that nobody produces enormous, horrific beasties with the genius of Capcom. The score is powerful, and the sound big, bold and noisy. It's arguably a more entertaining game to watch than it is to play.
Kudos to Capcom for pushing the four-player, co-op concept, but Lost Planet 2 still doesn't quite work as a compelling shooter. As a single-player it's too bitty and frustrating to compete with the likes of Gears of War, and while the online mode can be fun, it also veers between the mundane and the punitively demanding. The big bugs are brilliant, but it takes more than giant, man-gobbling insects to produce a cracking action game.


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Abstract: This paper assesses the differential performance effects of learning mechanisms on the development of alliance capabilities. Prior research has suggested that different capability levels could be identified in which specific intra-firm learning mechanisms are used to enhance a firm's alliance capability. However, empirical testing in this field is scarce and little is known as to what extent different learning mechanisms are indeed useful in advancing a firm's alliance capability. This paper analyzes to what extent intra-firm learning mechanisms help firms develop their alliance capability. Differential learning may explain in what way firms yield superior returns from their alliances in comparison to competitors. The empirical results show that different learning mechanisms have different performance effects at different stages of the alliance capability development process. The main lesson from this paper is that firms can steer the creation and speed of their alliance capability development as different learning mechanisms have differential performance effects and are more appropriate at different levels of alliance capability. Key words: learning mechanisms, alliance capabilities and competitive heterogeneity. JEL classification: L14 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7459
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Andrew Yogan signed a contract with the New York Rangers today and he's more than just a little likely to start next season in Hartford with the Whale. Yogan had just signed an Amateur Try-Out contract last week after completing his season with the Peterborough Petes of the OHL.
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While he is yet to score in his three games, he did manage to get himself ousted from yesterday's battle with the Sound Tigers with a five minute boarding major and a game misconduct.
Yogan is a big boy. He's 6'3 and 203 pounds and really wants to make it to the next level. If his effort on the ice in the limited run is any indication, that could possibly happen.
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jgsketch necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
The Law Office of Bonnie L. Canty, P.A.
The firm concentrates on Consumer debt issues such as: foreclosure defense, loan modification, collection defense, bankruptcy, debt settlement, contract disputes, small claims court.
Any person in debt seeking legal help.
http://www.Canty-Law.com is seeking a new design for their website. They would like to convey professionalism, security and eager to help.
In addition to the main page, we wold like to see an internal page. A good one to use is the Attorneys page.
We are open to colors and layout. It needs to look sleek and modern.
There is no logo to speak of, just the title. Please include some type of graphic element for the logo along with the title.
Some elements that need to be on the front page:
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The main phone number should have more of an emphasis and bolder.
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MindGiant necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Nanticoke Watershed Alliance
In June of 1992, Maryland and Delaware conservation organizations reached across state lines in a formal agreement to create the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance. In 1995, the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance decided to establish itself as a nonprofit organization and become a consortium, i.e. an organization of organizations. Almost forty organizations now belong to the NWA. Our partners are made up of foresters, industry, small business owners, government agencies, environmental groups, land trusts, realtors, academicians, fishermen, restoration groups, farmers, and citizen groups.
We are all working together because the Nanticoke River is endowed with outstanding abundance and diversity of wildlife, undisturbed land, and rural characteristics. The Nanticoke is a wonderful river for recreation, education, nature study, and simple solitude. It has a rich history of Native Americans, tall ships, steamboats, slave running, piracy, and the underground railroad. There are properties within the watershed on the National Register of Historic Places. Some of the northernmost stands of bald cypress trees on the Atlantic Coast are found within the Nanticoke's watershed. The Nanticoke has the highest concentration of bald eagles in the northeastern United States. These characteristics must be preserved.
Potential volunteers, contributors, partners and any people looking to learn more about the river and it's resources. This site is not intended for a corporate audience.
We currently have a wooden sign (image attached) that hangs over our office. We would like the logo to be based on that. The font should be as close to the style on the wooden sign in the attached in the image.
This logo will be used on our new website (www. nanticokeriver.org - not online yet) and for business cards and stationary down the road. We really like the sign and it would be great to have something that evolves that into a clean "Apple-esque" icon/logo that will look great on the website (maintaining the "wooden" sign feel). I think it would also be a neat idea to have a few chains holding the sign as well for the web-version of the logo.
Key points:
- Clean
- Eye catching
- Simple
- Recognizable
- Corporate
- Chaotic
- Flat images
- Do not use the abbreviation "NWA" in logo design
I do my best to be responsive and provide detailed direction and design guidance and feedback. I look forward to see what everyone can do! This is for a great cause.
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Water Quality
Water Quality Tool Kit Page- Click here for All Your Water Questions and Needs
Water quality is quickly becoming one of the most pressing planet-wide environmental concerns of the 21st century. Life depends on it, and yet access to clean water is growing increasingly difficult. The New York Times, in a five-part series titled "Toxic Waters" outlined many of the problems: from over-flowing and aging sewer systems, to toxic waste from industry; from agricultural run-off to chemical contamination. Colorado has its own share of problems, stemming from unprecedented population growth and large-scale oil and gas development over the past decade. (See "Colorado Waters Under Pressure.")
Municipal Systems
Municipal systems are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, and are required to test water for bacteria and other contaminants on a regular basis. Despite the testing and the regulation, problems still occur. Alamosa, like many other municipal systems, has experienced its share of problems. In March and April of 2008, there was an outbreak of salmonella poisoning, which was traced to the city water system. Arsenic was discovered in the city water system in the 1980's, at levels exceeding EPA regulations, and the City built a reverse-osmosis system to deal with the problem. Arsenic has been linked to many serious health problems.
Private Wells
Private wells are not regulated by any government authority (such as EPA), and are not required to test for problems. It is up to the individual well-owner to regulate their own water quality. The same problems that are seen in city water systems are often seen in domestic wells, from heavy metals such as arsenic and cadmium, to problems with bacteria and nitrates. It is estimated that thirty percent of SLV residents are not served by public water systems, and obtain their water from household wells.
In 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) came to the San Luis Valley and worked with the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council to form a collaborative partnership made up of several businesses, organizations, educational institutions, government entities, and environmental groups. This partnership was named SLV LEAP-HIGH (Landscape Environmental Assessment Plan-Health Inspired Goals for Humans). Working with volunteers from the group, EPA brought a mobile lab to the Valley, and conducted free household-well testing in each of the six counties. Over 400 households participated. Results indicated that 28.5% of household wells tested positive for bacteria, 1.4% for nitrates, 11.9% for arsenic, 1.4% for lead, 3.6% for fluoride, and 3.1% for uranium.
Because of the success of the project, on April 12, 2007, EPA officials presented six community leaders who participated in the SLV LEAP HIGH project with the U.S. EPA Friends of Environmental Protection Award for outstanding stewardship and outstanding environmental education in a rural setting.
The SLV LEAP-HIGH partnership, through the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, recognizing the extent of the problem with private well water, received a three-year grant under the EPA Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving program. With that funding, the collaborative group held regular monthly meetings, and brought in additional partners, including the Colorado State University Extension Project. In the summer of 2009, the group presented educational meetings in five Valley counties, and gave out free household-well test kits. Over 300 households participated in this second phase of well testing. Preliminary results indicate 42% of household wells tested positive for bacteria, and 9% for harmful coliform bacteria. There were high levels of arsenic, cadmium, and iron, and many tests exceeded EPA maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for sodium, sulfates, nitrates, and total dissolved solids. The LEAP-HIGH collaborative is compiling the results of this testing, and creating maps of Valley counties showing the test results by geographic area. Water Quality Master Map.
Helpful Tools
As part of the educational presentation, participants were given DVDs and other materials which detailed many of the important aspects of maintaining a private well. Participants were instructed on how to apply shock chlorination to treat bacterial problems in the water. CSU also offers a tool for understanding test results. Simply type in the results from your lab report, and get a detailed analysis of problems. The booklet, Protecting Your Private Well, was also presented at meetings and contains lots of helpful information about household well protection.
Additional materials have been developed by the collaborative to help well owners. Many people are not aware of the problems caused by bacteria or arsenic or any of the other contaminants found in the SLV. For a better understanding of the contaminants and the related health concerns, check out The Dirty Dozen. Other materials present information on things you can do to protect your well and the types of treatment systems available and the problems they address.
Bottled Water
When problems are encountered with water many individuals switch to bottled water. This can be a valuable and sometimes necessary temporary solution. Almost everyone in the city of Alamosa was forced to use bottled water for a few weeks in the spring of 2008. But not all bottled waters are as safe as we imagine. In one study, published in The Archives of Family Medicine, researchers compared bottled water with tap water from Cleveland, and found that nearly a quarter of the samples of bottled water had significantly higher levels of bacteria. To understand the labeling of bottled water and what it means, go to Hitting the Bottle.
The use of bottled water brings with it a whole host of other environmental concerns. These include the fact that petroleum products are used in the production of the plastic, and that shipping of bottled water is enormously costly in terms of the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting damage to climate change. Plastic bottles take over 1000 years to biodegrade, and only about 20% are recycled.
These are not the only concerns. Bottled water has had a detrimental affect on many neighborhood communities throughout the USA and the world. The Sierra Club, as well as citizen's groups in Michigan, Maine and California, have gone to court over the Nestle Corporation's water bottling operations. These groups claim that Nestle's practices have degraded lakes and wetlands, lowered water tables, and pose a threat to residential and agricultural water supplies. A series of cases have found that Nestle Waters North America has damaged the environment through their pumping operations. Closer to home, the Nestle Corporation is currently exporting water from the springs at Brown's Canyon, on the upper Arkansas River. This water is piped 5 miles to Johnson Village and then trucked to Denver to be sold as part of Nestle's Arrowhead brand.
Nestle's has been trucking water to their Denver plant since 2011.
The following links will direct you to the results of SLV water well testing tabulated in 2009. Click on the desired link to view the summary and maps displaying targeted data.
Cadmium, Sodium, Iron, Total Dissoved Solids Map
Minimum Contaminant Level (MCL)
Water Quality Project Update - January 22, 2010
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To clarify: I was not implying that that you stated all implementations must iterate two (well, actually somewhere between one and two) times.Paul Donnelly wrote: I suspected someone would be along with a way to do it in one traversal, and I think I meant only that particular implementation when I referred to the necessity of iterating twice. Don't know why I would make a blanket statement like that.
Furthermore, your solution is probably better, not only because it is shorter, but because I'd guess that it would be faster (unless calling random and testing for zero is sufficiently fast enough compared to taking a cdr of a cons cell on your implementation). The technique I demonstrated just shows how one can perform this task when you don't know how many elements you are going to get.


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Mark Penn thinks that people have the wrong impression about him, and about Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
"I think that people misunderstand," he said in a 45-minute phone interview Monday evening.
He said that the emerging story line—that his poll-obsessed, microtargeting approach had produced a plodding, uninspiring campaign—was a bum rap. "The campaign has been about big goals, health care, ending the Iraq war, new energy, the future," he said. "There was a misunderstanding that this campaign was about small things. It never was. If anything, the Obama campaign has microtargeted constituencies."
Fair or not, the fate of Mrs. Clinton's campaign—she's heading into the last-chance March 4 primaries with her lead dwindling in Ohio and gone in Texas—is going to be seen as a referendum on Mr. Penn, who has arguably been the Clintons' most influential adviser for more than a decade. As the campaign squares up to the possibility of an ignominious end on March 4, Clinton loyalists have left no doubt about who they consider to be the responsible party.
Leon Panetta, who served as chief of staff in the White House from July 1994 to January 1997, told The Observer's Niall Stanage in an interview this week that Mr. Penn "is a political pollster from the past."
"I never considered him someone who would run a national campaign for the presidency," Mr. Panetta said.
A source in the campaign, speaking on background, said that Mr. Penn's philosophy was perfectly represented by a comment he made during one of Mrs. Clinton's debate preps at campaign headquarters in early winter. About 15 staffers were in a room with Mrs. Clinton discussing how she could best respond to a particular line of attack. One of the aides, the source recalled, had an idea.
"I think you need to show a little bit of humanity," said the aide.
Mr. Penn interjected. "Oh, come on, being human is overrated."
"Everyone laughed and it broke the tension, and even he had a smile on his face," said the source. "But it said a lot because it seemed to really encapsulate a viewpoint."
Mr. Penn, who recalled the comment as self-deprecating, was unrepentant about the campaign he had run, asserting that to the extent that his message was heeded, it was successful.
"I think that virtually every schoolchild knows that she is 'ready on day one,' said Mr. Penn, referring to one of the slogans he designed for Mrs. Clinton. "If you look back—at the beginning she was 'ready for change and ready to lead' and that's something that built a large coalition that carried her through Super Tuesday. Between then and now, there was a period where the campaign didn't have resources to play ahead in those states it needed to campaign in."
As he put it, his strategy had succeeded in the "biggest message-oriented states."
And, by implication, the political ground and money game, run by former campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, her deputy Mike Henry and longtime Clinton loyalist and Penn foe Harold Ickes, ruined it for Mrs. Clinton in "organization-driven" states, where she suffered defeats in "a series of caucuses that generated tremendous momentum for Obama."
Of course, if Mrs. Clinton was running all along as the change candidate, that was far from clear: Her early campaign slogans were "Renew the Promise of America" and "In to Win," and they only gave way later to "Working for Change, Working for You."
Even Mrs. Clinton's campaign-rescuing win in New Hampshire seemed attributable to factors ranging far beyond any carefully constructed message, when she benefited from a surge of support following an extraordinary display of emotion at a campaign stop the day before the primary. (Mr. Ickes, a senior campaign adviser, has publicly pointed out more than once that even Mr. Penn was surprised by the result.)
Mr. Penn thinks the revelation of her personality was helpful, sure, but that it was the strong base he had built under her with poll-tested, tough-sounding messages that really raised her up with New Hampshire voters.
"There was the right combination of these things in New Hampshire," he said. "Exit polls showed that people thought she was strongest on economy and as commander in chief. And that combination was most successful."


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Free labor: Where's mom's signing bonus?
Back in the days when technology jobs appeared limitless and hot-shot new enterprises challenged the gospel of conventional business practices, there was an enthusiastic notion that soon the nation would be run by folks in their bathrobes-– that the computer had vanquished rush hour, and telecommuting would make offices obsolete.
Dot-com bust be damned, there are an awful lot of Americans working from home. But there's nothing new about it, nothing particularly hi-tech or cyber-sexy. The largest single occupation in this country is homemaking-– and God knows it doesn't pay well.
"Raising children may be the most important job in the world," writes Ann Crittenden, keynote speaker at this year's FOCUS conference, "but you can't put it on a resumé."
Child rearing is an eternal obstacle for the women's movement. Still a public debate, the question of how, and even whether, to balance a career and family is now a clamorous internal argument for most women. I'm a stay-at-home-and-try-to-work-with-mixed-results mom myself. I'm familiar with the "mommy tax" and the steady depreciation of my hirability. I also fully acknowledge the affronted reply of women who choose to forego a family in favor of a career. They are making sacrifices too. The superlative merit of child rearing is not, objectively speaking, a fair argument.
But Crittenden, an award-winning economic journalist and a mother, is not being sanctimonious; she is referring to the economic value of childcare. If two-thirds of the wealth created in a modern economy is generated by human skill and innovation, then parenting turns out to be the prime producer of wealth.
"Human capital" she calls it, and she's backed up by a less dynamic but more recognized economist, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. The "most important job in the world" was how he characterized motherhood.
That the "most important job in the world" is undervalued is the essence of Crittenden's extensive research. In this country in particular, where family values are ubiquitous in political chatter but scarce in actual policy initiatives, the discrepancy is glaring. In addition to the social stigma and economic penalty attached to "not working," the national economy flat-out disregards the long-term investment of a mother's labor. Only four other countries can claim a higher rate of female college graduates working for free.
Without getting into a harangue about who "works" harder, let's just remember that a telecommuting executive can stay in his bathrobe all day– the stay-at-home mom, never.
Ann Crittenden is the author of The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is the Least Valued. She will give the keynote address at the FOCUS Women's Resource Center annual conference on Saturday, October 5, at Monticello High School. To register for the day-long event, contact Mary Spear. 293-2222 x30. $10 fee includes lunch.


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Our 2012 Christmas Commercial
We are pleased to present our 2012 Christmas commercial.
This year's edition is an iconic rendition of the quintessential Christmas story.
The commercial begins with a small group of carolers singing outside of our hospital to the Christmas song, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." The music is a beautiful original score arranged just for our hospital by a team of professional musicians.
During the commercial, doctors, nurses and staff members inside Lexington Medical Center hear the music, which helps to put them in the Christmas mood. The group of carolers grows to hundreds of people. They're hundreds of Lexington Medical Center employees and their families, facing the hospital to sing to the patients and families inside.
Then, in a window, a young mother who just had a baby appears. She's standing with her husband and holding her tiny newborn in her arms. The image is symbolic of Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus.
Our wish is that the commercial provides a message of hope, peace and goodwill. Christmas is a time of year when people come together and miracles happen. The bells carry renewed hope for peace among mankind.
Lexington Medical Center wishes you hope and peace while you enjoy the splendor of the season.
From our Lexington Medical Center family to your family, Merry Christmas.


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Stanley Wanlass -Professor Emeritus, B.F.A./ M.A./ A.F.A.S., taught at numerous universities in the United States, Canada and abroad including the European Art Academy in Paris and the University of Grenoble, France. He is president of Renaissance International, Inc. a design studio based in Oregon. Wanlass, who resides in Oregon and Utah, is an internationally known automotive sculptor and painter. He also creates heroic bronze historical monuments. His statements are of beauty and the pursuit of excellence.
Wanlass creates limited edition automotive bronze sculptures echoing his love for the automobile which he has collected, restored and raced since the mid-fifties. His collection of automobiles varies from early Alfas and Bugattis to Brooklands race cars, Indy cars, Ferraris and '32 Ford roadsters. His automotive sculptures and paintings echo his eclectic automobile collection and are represented in the most prestigious museums and private collections world-wide. His historical monuments are located at national memorials, universities and public places nation-wide.
Wanlass has always had a passion for cars. As a child he sculpted them out of soap bars. During the 50's as a young hot rod enthusiast, he built two 1932 Fords which he showed and raced. To support his automotive pursuits he striped, flamed and scalloped local hot rods and customs.
Wanlass bronzes are called "rolling-sculpture" by some
and "just plain sensuous" by others. The Detroit News says "Wanlass bronzes seem to be moving despite being trapped in bronze." The great Peter Helck calls Wanlass "the finest sculptor of the automobile", while Automobile Quarterly considers Wanlass "the ranking sculptor of the automobile."
Wanlass does extensive research on each of his art works. However, he takes license with the facts if it will help his composition. "I change what ever I need to in order to establish a symbol. Facts bore me. I'm more interested in truth." He feels comfortable stretching history and condensing time and space to bring together a dramatic depiction of the spirit of the subject...a symbol, a gestalt, a truth. "Cold exactitude isn't art, spirit and form are more important. Content and meaning are also important, however, form (structure) is the first consideration. Good design is the structure that supports the statement. If the form and statement successfully interact a symbol is born. It becomes more than the sum of its parts."
"It is through these symbols, truths of the past that we are better able to understand our time and ourselves. We are comfortable with the known drawing on our knowledge of the past is how we decipher the present. I feel that NOW is a more important statement to make than THEN. I make statements about NOW using THEN."
Stanley believes "The automobile is the only really new significant art form of the 20th century. For thousands of years man relied on the horse and wagon for transportation. Then this contraption comes along and revolutionizes the world."
Wanlass is a hopeless idealist and romantic. "I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. I feel a responsibility to history, a great debt to those that came before me who improved the world to a point that I might have the opportunity to create. Jefferson stated that 'he was a warrior so that his son could be a farmer so that his son could be a poet'. Life is short and art is long. I would like to leave something edifying, of significant beauty; a tribute to the spirit, dignity and excellence of man."
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A visit with emeritus AFAS member Stanley Wanlass
Car Art Spot interview with Stanley Wanlass
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Pandora Blue — Babe of the Day
Pandora is a gorgeous and tattooed Southern belle who loves modeling, dance and music. She says she's fun, energetic, playful and loves to talk.
Pandora is a model for Playboy Live, so you can chat with her live, and try to convince her to marry you. She says she loves a hardworking man with rough hands. Do internet callouses count?
Her turn-offs are bad breath, dishonesty and pushy people, so brush your teeth, tell the truth and calm down, dude.
If you like what you see (who wouldn't?) then follow her on Twitter, so you don't miss pics like the ones below.


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If you have the latest HDTV, projector or monitor, that old HDMI cable may not deliver content from you cable/satellite receiver, Blu-ray player, or gaming system in the maximum format available. Some recent advancements include 4Kx2K resolution, 3D picture and Ethernet over HDMI - this high-speed HDMI 1.4 cable from Vanco supports it all - while still delivering all of the previous HDMI technology such as HD 1080p video, Deep Color , Dolby and DTS-HD surround sound audio, and data transfer speeds up to 10.2 Gbit/s. Additionally, this cable has a Plenum rating, suitable for in-wall, in-ceiling installations. This High-Definition (HD), 1080p HDMI cable will meet or exceed the current standards and demands of today's HDMI applications.
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Rafi sang great songs without technological support, says Big B
Praising legendary singer Mohammad Rafi, megastar Amitabh Bachchan has said it was amazing how Rafi saab sang as melodiously as he did in absence of technology.
Big B spoke at the launch of "Mohammed Rafi My Abba - A Memoir", a book written by the singer's daughter-in-law Yasmin Rafi, here Sunday.
"When we look at the great amount of work that he has left behind, we must be astonished now because Rafi saab rendered the songs at a time when the support of the technology was not there," said Amitabh.
"Today's music directors and technicians and singers, with all due respect, have the benefit of technology. You sing slightly 'besura' and there is a lovely machine that puts you in tune," added the 70-year-old, who has himself crooned some of his own songs.
The actor says he has great admiration for Rafi, "because he lived through a time and performed through a time when he was not supported by the modern technology that we have today".
Amitabh also spoke of Rafi's versatility, and recalled how he used to mould his voice according to the actor he sang for.
"Before singing a song for a particular actor, he used to ask, 'Which actor am I singing this for?' Then he would alter his voice or do something. Whether he was singing for Shammiji (Kapoor), whether he was singing for Dilip saab (Kumar), you felt that yes, this is Dilip Kumar singing or Shammi Kapoor singing. This is a quality which is very rare among the playback singers," he said.
Rafi is known for songs like "Chaudhvin ka chand", "Teri aankhon ke siva" and "Tum jo mil gaye ho".
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During the summer time, growing with hps grow lights can be a real pain in the arse! Not only due to the TEMPS but also on your wallet due to the need to run the a/c more than normal. Most times it is almost impossible for a grower to keep the temperatures down in their grow tents while using a 600 or 1000 watt grow light.
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Before you pick out the right grow light for your setup, there are a few basic terms to become familiar with. Every grow light is rated by the number of WATTS that is uses. This number tells you how much power, or electricity, it will take to run each grow light for an hour of use. The next term to become familiar with is LUMENS. The number of lumens determines how much light is being produced by every grow light. For example, a standard incandescent 100 Watt household bulb will produce around 1600 lumens where a 400 Watt High Pressure Sodium (HPS) grow light will put out about 50000 lumens. By dividing the number of lumens by the watts consumed, this will give you what is called the efficacy, or efficiency, of your grow light. While the 400W HPS bulb will use about 4X more power than the 100W household bulb, it can generate more than 30X the light output in lumens. This means that the HPS light is running at least 30X more efficiently than your standard incandescent lamp bulb. All bulbs will decrease in total lumen output the more they are used but this happens over many months. One aspect of lumens that is overlooked by many growers is the fact that the lumen rating of all grow lights is measured at a distance of one meter. This means the closer to your plants you can place your grow lights, the more lumens are actually reaching your plants. This can make a big difference when you consider that LED or CFL grow lights run cooler than HID grow lights, but more on that later. The term KELVINS describes the light temperature, or perhaps a better way to explain Kelvins is in terms of the light color produced. Most of the visible light spectrum runs from around 1000K – 10000K, with our focus being the 2000K – 6500K range. Flowering grow lights produce an orange color light around 2800K, while Vegetative grow lights put out a more blue/white light closer to 6000K. Knowing the Kelvin output of your grow lights is important because the different stages of plant growth require different Kelvin temperature/color lighting.
High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting has been used in greenhouses and indoor grows for decades. The two types of HID lights are High Pressure Sodium (HPS) and Metal Halide (MH). HPS bulbs put out the most light in the red/orange/yellow light spectrum, or 2000K – 3500K range. MH grow lights produce the majority of light in the blue spectrum, or 5000K – 6500K range. HID bulbs are very energy efficient with HPS bulbs producing around 140 lumens per watt and MH bulbs usually generating 75 – 100 lumens per watt. HPS and MH lights are most often available in 70, 100, 150, 250, 400, 600, and 1000W models. The use of either MH or HPS will require a ballast to power the bulb itself, and this will add somewhat to the total electrical pull of your grow lights.
Compact Fluorescent (CFL) grow lights have become increasingly popular in recent years due to the greater efficiency and versatility of newer designs. While CFL bulbs do not produce as many lumens as there HID counterparts, they may be placed closer to your plants as they do not run as hot as the HID options. This means you will often achieve a greater lumen rating than designated by the manufacturer, something many growers overlook. CFL bulbs come in sizes from (7 – 26W), most household applications, to the (42W-200W) range used in applications such as security lighting or professional photography. Any of these bulbs can be used to grow plants with the smaller CFL bulbs primarily used for growing seedlings or clones, and larger CFL bulbs for vegetative and flowering cycles. Most CFL grow lights will be self-ballasted but some require an external ballast, very common with many outdoor lighting units. Make sure you are aware of what you are buying. CFL bulbs come in four main colors. Soft White (2700K) is best for use during the flowering cycle, while Daylight (5000K) and Cool White (6500K) are appropriate for vegetative growth and seedling/cloning applications. Full Spectrum (4200K) bulbs provide a wider range of light and are intended for use throughout the entire grow cycle. Some manufacturers will label these types differently so be sure to check the Kelvin output before selecting your lights.
Light Emitting Diodes (LED) are the newest option for marijuana growers. LED lights come in a variety of colors from blue for vegetative, to yellow, orange, and red for flowering. Broad spectrum LEDs are also available and can be used from seed to harvest. The LED option produces virtually no heat so they can be placed much closer to your plants than either HID or CFL bulbs. Since LED lights convert almost all the electricity to light, not heat, this means they run about 4X – 5X more efficiently than HID lights, saving you money on your power bill. LED grow lights do not require a reflector or ballast to operate and are available in 1W – 5W models. 1W LEDs are reported to be more reliable and longer lasting than 2W, 3W, or 5W models. LED grow lights have large clusters of individual diodes grouped together to produce the total light output so the more diodes a light contains, the more light it outputs.
Reflectors are used in conjunction with HID and CFL grow lights to better focus the light onto your plants. Aluminum is the most common material used today and most HID grow lights will include a reflector. Some larger CFL grow lights will come with a reflector but usually smaller CFL bulbs will not. If you choose to use smaller CFL bulbs, you may want to invest in a small reflector similar to the kind found in shop work lights. Grow reflectors are available in air-cooled models that have built-in 4", 6", or 8" round openings designed to be used with a cooling fan and ducting to draw heat away from your light and your plants. High-end models even come with sealed glass panels between the bulb and the plants to trap heat in and avoid exposure.
The Optimal Light Height (OLH) of your grow lights is determined by what type of light you are using and how much heat is being generated. LED lights can be used as close as a few inches from your plants but its best to place them 12" -18" above the tops of your plants for better overall light dispersion. HPS and MH bulbs can be used as close as 6" – 12" from your plants but this is most common for smaller size (70W – 250W) bulbs only. Larger HID (400W – 1000W) bulbs need around 18" – 24" to properly and evenly distribute light as well as keep the heat produced off your crop. CFL bulbs are subject to interpretation because of the many different uses they offer. In cloning or when starting seedlings you may want lights 4" – 6" above your plants for maximum growth. In the vegetative or flowering state you generally want 12" -18" of space to provide better light coverage to all your plants. This can be different as some growers like CFL bulbs for supplementing a main HID grow light so they will place them much closer. The biggest problem with using CFL bulbs too close is your plants can grow into the bulbs and get burned from the heat. Keeping a fan and proper ventilation system running at all times will take the heat stress off your plants to some extent. Depending on what application and what light you are using, your OLH will differ greatly due to factors such as number of plants, number of lights, grow room size, reflector type, and required light penetration. For example, the Sea of Green (SOG) growing technique calls for a level, flat layer of bud sites, so deep light penetration is not an issue here and grow lights can be placed closer.
The Vegetative light cycle is the first stage of growing medical marijuana. This is when your plants develop their foliage and put on size to prepare for the flowering cycle. The vegetative light cycle is used for growing clones and starting seedlings as well. The blue light spectrum is needed to encourage proper growth so using MH bulbs are the best option for HID setups. If using LED or CFL grow lights you need to be sure the light output is in the 5000K – 6500K range. Many growers strongly advocate the 6500K range because this tends to produce shorter, bushier plants versus the 5000K bulbs. The vegetative cycle requires 18 -20 hours of light every day, with 4 -6 hours of darkness, known as (18/6) and (20/4), respectively. Some growers opt for a complete 24 hour light cycle but since this means your lights never turn off, you will wear out your grow lights faster and have higher power bills. Vegetative cycles can last from only a few weeks to several months with most growers' vegging their plants for about a month before switching to the flowering cycle.
The Flowering light cycle is the second and final stage of your plants. During this phase the plant switches to devoting energy from producing foliage to developing the flowers that, when dried, become your medicine. Yellow, orange, and red light is optimum for proper flowering. This means HPS bulbs are ideal for HID setups and LED/CFL bulbs must produce light from 2000K – 3500K range to develop healthy buds. The most common schedule is 12 hours on and 12 hours off (12/12) every day. Some experienced growers will induce flowering with a longer light cycle like (14/10), then move to (12/12). Other growers feel that more darkness enhances bud quality and yield so they start with (12/12) and turn to (10/14) cycle late in the flowering stage, sometimes even finishing with a few days of total darkness (0/24) right before harvesting. The flowering cycle is also very important for sexing your plants. When you switch to flowering, your plants will reveal their sex as either male or female. Male plants will have small round green sacs that hang from the main stem at the points where the side branches are connecting. The females will show small white hairs protruding from tiny conical shaped sites at the same places. You may want to use a magnifying glass to help you identify the two if you are unsure about the sex. The male plants must all be removed from your grow room otherwise your females plants will become pollenated and produce inferior buds full of seeds. This must be done as soon as you identify the sexes because the males will quickly begin to pollenate and ruin your crop.
The cost of your grow lights is in direct relation to the number of Watts you are consuming and the number of hours your lights are on each day. Also take into account the cost your local power company is charging per Kilo Watt Hour (kW/h). This is the cost of using 1000 Watts of electricity for one hour. To find out what you grow lights will cost each month; add up the number of hours per day your lights are on for the entire month. Next multiple the total hours by the total number of Watts your grow lights are consuming, keeping in mind that HID grow lights will require about 15 – 18% more Watts to run the ballast. You must then divide this figure by 1000 to determine how much power your lights need. The (HOURS) X (WATTS) / 1000 = (KWH) used. Most power companies in the US are charging between (.09 cents) and (.14 cents) per KWH, depending on where you live and what month it is. Some companies charge a bit less during the summer months when power usage is highest but best to check with your local provider. Finally you need to multiply the number of KWH used by the KWH rate the power company is charging you. A month of (18/6) vegetative growth using 400 Watts at (.10/KWH) is shown below.
18 hours/day X 30 days = 540 hours/month
540 hours/month X 400 Watts = 216000 Watts/month
216000 watts / 1000 = 216 KWH/month
216 KWH X (.10 cents/KWH) = $21.60 each month
Alright guys & gals!.. I hope you've learned a lot in this introductory!
Until next time,
Keep it GREEN, keep it LOVING and full of LIGHT.


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First Code Project Article
So, after writing the article I blogged about a few minutes ago which I wanted to publish on Code Project it seems that it's been added to the "Unedited" articles side of the site. This was actually less painful than I would've expected aside from the fact that I had to do HTML for the first time in a while. If you're interested in reading it and giving me your feedback, I would love to hear from you. You can find the article both on this site under my article "Memory Queue" or on Code Project as the article aptly named "Memory Queue". The article on Code Project has the source code that goes with it and I'm hoping to have more articles to publish soon… 🙂
Memory Queue
So, I finally managed to finish the first article that I hope to publish on Code Project. In this article I cover a little infrastructure object that works as a Memory Queue. I expand this object to be encapsulated by a Thread Queue, which I then use to build a Logging Framework. It explains a very simple pattern to use when you want to assign work to multiple threads without having to worry too much about Thread Synchronization and all those things that goes with it. It's super-fast as you'll be able to see in my Logger implementation and can be used in so many different scenarios. As I take strides in writing new articles that cover my Architectural series of articles I'll be adding to this little project so I can build a complete framework that can be used and built on in my coming articles. My hope is to have a complete sample of how to write software using various technologies including Ruby, C# and Java as the services technology while using both JavaScipt and Silverlight as my User Interface technology. By doing this I want to show how you can completely separate concerns by using simple patterns that work for the specific tool set that you choose to work with. This is going to be quite a journey and the main aim for me taking this journey is to end up in a position where I have a complete understanding of the technologies mentioned above as well as the concepts I'll be covering.
I'll update this site as soon as it's been approved by the powers that be over at Code Project. In the meanwhile if you would like to have a look at the article you can go to it by clicking here. I hope you enjoy this first article as much as I do and I also hope that you'll give me some feedback.
Setup – Jenkins and Windows
My team was recently assigned to help out another team who had a bit too much to do for a bit too long. So, I wanted to see how easy or how hard it would be to use some of the tools that I've become quite use to. One of those tools of course is Jenkins. The idea was to set this new environment up to be a slave to my Master Jenkins Build Server running on Ubuntu while the slave would run on Windows. Of course Jenkins has a lot of features with regards to this and I managed to fiddle enough to get it to work and I've released another article called "Setup – Jenkins and Windows" where I take you through how to do this.
The next thing I'm going to do is get it to pull the source code from Team Foundation Server and running the tests so we can know when we break something. Just in case you were wondering, I do try to follow the Test Driven Development (TDD) way of writing code as much as possible and love the fact that it makes my life easier and safer. I've decided to write another article on this as well, but you'll have to wait and see when it comes out whether you agree or disagree with the things I write in there J
I hope you enjoy this new platform that you can use for your CI…
Git-Flow – Updates – Ideas
As some of you that follow me may have seen, I've been quiet in the last week. This is/was for good reason. I've been a bit busy doing quite a number of things including writing more articles, some of which are more around the grey areas in development like Architecture, Methodologies of Development, Design Practices and so on. I've also been busy trying to get my Code Project articles completed, which I'm hoping to publish very soon. It's been a bit strange putting these together and even though I'm going to take a while to publish all of them, they did get me to read a lot about various things and they also got me thinking about things that I've always done and re-evaluating those principles that I have and that most of us developers like to talk about.
So, hopefully I'll get those done and hopefully they will get people talking a bit and I may even have some of you challenge my thoughts on some of the concepts that I'll put out there, even though there won't be too many new things. The idea is to start having the discussions in an open platform where everyone is on the same foot and all the different paths can be explored in an honest manner. Anyway, I'm not going to go too much into it right now… 🙂 Just know that it will be coming in the next month or so and it should be interesting to hear what some of you say…
In the meanwhile I've just finished my article on Git-Flow called "Getting Started – Git-Flow" and I hope you'll enjoy it. Git-Flow is a very interesting concept that builds on the powers that Git gives you, even though it can be implemented on just about any and every other Version Control System there is. So, if you were looking for a good Branching Strategy or a good process to implement for when your company/team is doing development, try it and give me some feedback to say where I can help you adopt it or where my explanations are lacking a bit.
In the meanwhile, I'm going to continue writing those other articles which will hopefully take me a bit more into the code and a bit less into the environmental things that makes our lives easier by giving business the visibility they need.
Have fun!!!! 🙂
Getting Started -Git
So, you may have heard about a thing called Git and you were wondering more or less what it is and whether you would be able to use it for your own projects. Of course it's not something new to those that know about it and for those that have been doing some open-source work. For the rest of us who come from more of a Microsoft world or even a Java one where we use tools like Team Foundation Server and Subversion, I'm hoping that you'll find my new article called "Getting Started – Git" a bit more helpful in explaining what this thing called Git is. Since learning about Git and using Git, I've slowly started switching my stuff over to Git and even though I found it to be a bit tough to get use to when starting, I've come to realize that the benefits of using it outweighs the benefits of using some other tools.
As you've probably seen on this site, I have quite a few articles pertaining to Environments and the tools you can use to work well on all projects. Well… This is another one of those tools. What you will also be seeing in the coming months is how I start bringing these toolsets into the world I'm use to called Microsoft. As I've mentioned in some of my other articles, I've been trying to finish some articles that I'm hoping to publish on Code Project, which of course I'll also have hosted here. Most of those articles will be on code written in .Net and what I would like to do is take those articles and their code and also do them in Java and Ruby, which will then hopefully give some of you non-Ruby and Java developers wanting to come into this space a bit of an advantage on how to get into it faster. I hope you enjoy the article and I also hope that you find some of the stuff in there helpful and useful to get you to understand Git and how to use it. In a subsequent article I'll be combining Git and Git-Flow to give you a branching strategy that makes life a whole lot easier.
Updates and Thoughts
So, I've cleaned up some of my articles to point to the "Setup – Requirements" page and will be using this as a living article for any new requirements I may come across.
As some of you may have seen, I have been quite active over the course of the last few weeks and if you're wondering why, well it's because I'm trying something new 🙂 It's always fun when you try to do something different and if you find that it works. To explain in the space of a Blog, I'm trying to follow a new process (new for me) whereby I do my own notes, test code, research and code all at the same time. The way it works is quite simple… It's very similar to Test Driven Development (TDD) where you write your code before you start coding. So, the first thing you do in your test code is you "wish". This means that you simply write out all the different Test Methods with no code in the body of these methods. In other words you're declaring your test code before you actually write the test code. Once you're done with that you start with the first method and you write the code. While you're doing this first method you may find that you have another scenario that you would like to test, so you add another method once you're done with the test method you were busy with. Once you're done with the first test's code, you run it and you should see a failure. Now you start writing the actual business code and on completion you run your test again to see that it passes. When you're done with that, you move to the next test method and so it goes until you're done with both your code and your tests. After all this, you refactor 🙂
To get back to the thing that I've been trying… Before I start with a new task, I start up Microsoft Word. The I write all the headings in my document that I would like to cover i.e. "wishing". When that is done I start doing my research and I make notes in the relevant section in my document. Once these notes are there I start with the implementation of that research and once that is done I'll update my document. Now if you take a scenario where I'm busy writing code, I would write the outline for my document first, then write the test methods, then update my document and start with the test code. And so I continue until my Document is complete, my tests are complete and my code is complete.
Why do I do this? I found that it gets me to focus a lot better. Seeing that I have to explain what I'm doing in the document, I find myself understanding the problem better and seeing that I need to write the test code I find myself implementing the logic as I understand it. All the while I'm learning more about the problem, I'm also updating the document until I find myself where everything is complete and at that stage I finish the document first, then I do some refactoring on the code.
If all this doesn't make any sense, try by documenting what you are going to do before you do it, instead of after the fact 🙂 You may just be surprised at how easy you pick up things and how well you understand them when you're done… It's like being the teacher, the student and the writer all at the same time 🙂
Anyway, Have Fun…
Setup – Jenkins and RVM
I've just completed another article related to Environments called "Setup – Jenkins and RVM". In this article I take you through the setup process to get Jenkins and Ruby Version Manager (RVM) to play nice with each other. I start with the Build Server and RVM setup and then take you through to pulling your first GitHub hosted Ruby code, doing a Bundle Install and finally running a rake for your Unit Tests. I hope this will help someone out there, seeing that I have struggled to understand why things on Jenkins don't work or why my Jenkins install doesn't pick up that I have RVM running with the correct Rubies. It was fun and it seems to be working. So, enjoy!!! 🙂


text: New research in Criminal Behavior and Mental Health aimed to find the relationship between participation in organized sports and an increase in hazardous drinking. Unlike previous research, the study focused on an underrepresented group – young offenders – adolescents who were either excluded from school or involved with the justice system. 93 British male young offenders from a local Youth Offending Team participated in the study, as well as 53 non-offenders from local schools. Both groups had similarly low socioeconomic status. Participants were asked to partake in a Youth Self Report, a questionnaire that measured behavioral problems and competencies as well as recorded levels of involvement in organized sports. Fewer offenders participated in an organized sport than non-offenders. Approximately 70 percent of young offenders reported not having participated in any sport or activity. The young offenders group had a significantly higher prevalence of hazardous drinking as compared to non-offenders; this finding contradicts earlier studies that state that participation in team sports indicates an increase in hazardous drinking. The study also highlighted a decrease in drinking for young offenders who participated in a sport. A possible avenue to decrease drinking would be to ensure that youth offenders have better access to organized sports. "Many young people benefit from participating in fun, structured activities outside of school. However, more vulnerable youngsters, such as young offenders, are less likely to participate even though their engagement in team sports could have positive impacts on their health-related behaviours, including the extent that they misuse alcohol. It is important that the most vulnerable in our community are able to access and enjoy sporting activities," author Britt Hallingberg, stated. Source: Wiley Study Reference: Published in Criminal Behavior and Mental Health Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ConductDisorders or its staff.


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Research has shown that pests are attracted to weak, unhealthy plants that got that way from the use of toxic pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Healthy plants with proper trace minerals and sugars are mostly immune to pests.
Toxic chemical pesticides have a purpose. They keep unhealthy plants alive by killing the pests that nature has sent in to take them out. These toxins are harmful to pets, wildlife, livestock and humans; they contaminate the air, soil and water, and they are costly and time consuming to apply. They do one other thing as well. They make money for the people who manufacture, promote and sell them.
Insects are nature's cleanup crews. Their job is to move in and take out unfit plants. Preventing or even interfering with that natural process without solving the cause of the stressed plants serves no one but those who sell the toxic pesticides. There's a purpose for everything, including salt fertilizers and synthetic pesticides. They keep sick, unhealthy plants alive so more toxic chemicals can be sold! Simple as that.
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Apple has ordered 10 million iPad Minis from Asian suppliers, sources tell the WSJ's Lorraine Luk.
Luk says that is twice as many orders as Amazon made for its low-priced tablet, the Kindle Fire.
Apple shareholders have to love seeing the company so confident about a new product.
Apple hasn't launched a new product line since it began selling the iPad in 2010.
In the interim, Amazon and Google both entered the market with lower-priced, smaller tablets that critics don't hate.
10 million units is a lot, but it's not an earth-moving number for Apple, which sold 5 million iPhone 5s during its first few days on the market.


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There can be no denying it. The battles of Menin Road, Polygon Wood and Broodseinde were successful. The German army were taking a hammering, were demoralised and there was even talk of tactical withdrawal. Haig sensed the panic in the German ranks and urged Plumer to renew the offensive, he was convinced the Passchendaele Ridge was there for the taking, and capturing that piece of land would enable his army to push then enemy out of Belgium once and for all.
Plumer set about planning for yet another advance, duly scheduled for the 9th October. As he did so the rain returned to Flanders with a vengeance. With it's complicated drainage system completely smashed to bits, it didn't take long for the entire landscape to be transformed into a sea of endless oozing mud.
As well as reducing life in the front line trenches to abject misery for the infantry on both sides, the rain completely messed up Plumer's organisational plans for the new offensive. The rains meant it was almost impossible to re-arrange the artillery and get them in the correct positions to enable the proper support for the infantry. As a result much of the infantry were stuck in their original positions, which meant they were having to fire at their extreme range just to hit the German front line positions. German artillery batteries were out of range, as were their machine guns. Not good.
The same issues of movement affected the attacking infantry. Movement was painful as the troops had to inch forward towards the front line over narrow duckboard paths. Every time a shell landed anywhere near these advancing troops the explosion would knock many of them off the duckboards and into the morass of mud, often sinking up to the waste and needing to be pulled out. It was a nightmare.
While the British and Allied forces struggled to prepare for their next advance, the German army were busy reinforcing their defensive lines. They had rushed reserves from the south to bolster the Flanders front. They may have been broken but with fresh men reinforcing the line, they were far from beaten. The rain continued to pour. Some senior British officers were in favour of cancelling the offensive. But Haig was desperate to seize the moment, and ordered that his forces would attack regardless of the weather.
His forces duly attacked at dawn on the 9th October. The accompanying creeping barrage was woefully inadequate, and for the first time since August, failed to establish any kind of dominance over the battlefield. Ironically, as the advance began the weather cleared. The rain stopped an d in perfect visibility the German machine-gunners cut the advancing infantry to pieces. With little or no artillery support the Allied advance didn't stand a chance. Anyone who somehow avoided being blown to bits by artillery or cut to ribbons by machine gun fire found that the defensive belts of barbed wire placed in front of the German trenches were largely untouched. As a result, the offensive was an unmitigated disaster. Only in the very north of the line did the British and French enjoy slight success, but it was hardly significant.
However, not deterred by the artillery disaster, the continuing rain, the formidable defensive fortifications of the enemy, the thousands of wounded still laying out in No Man's Land, the atrocious conditions and the slaughter, Haig and Plumer decided to have another go at the Ridge in three days time. Yet again preparations were practically impossible. Senior Artillery officers approached GHQ and admitted they couldn't guarantee any artillery cover for the planned assault due to the extreme range and the instability of the ground making firing the guns practically impossible. Yet again the assault troops had a torrid time getting to their forward positions. Yet again Haig was asked to re-assess the planned offensive. Yet again he refused to waver. The attack would commence as planned.
As zero hour approached the rain fell again. Along a six mile front the assaulting troops advanced in a sea of mud. Once again there was little or no artillery support. For the assaulting troops struggling across No Man's Land in direct view of the enemy, having no artillery support was suicide. They were attacking elevated defensive positions riddled with pill boxes and other fortifications, they had no cover, they had no place to hide, they were sitting ducks. The result was inevitable; they lost 13,000 casualties in just a few hours.
And so ended the First Battle of Passchendaele. A distinct case of mandatory suicide.