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Just because your house is a mess doesn't mean that you have to feel like a mess yourself.
While this kitchen remodeling project continues (we're on week 7 now) I've worked very hard to keep a bit of civility and calmness in several areas of our home. I need quiet places to rest my eyes and my spirit amidst the chaos.
I'm so glad our Camellias are in full bloom right now. I'm able to keep fresh blooms in our foyer to cheer everyone up. (you might notice the dust below the vases, but I'm pretending it's not there)
One of my sweet little preschool students gave me an Amaryllis bulb as a Christmas gift. I planted it right after Christmas and was so pleased to see that it was beginning to bloom just when I needed it the most. It holds a blooming place of honor on the dining room table for everyone to enjoy. It's been blooming for over a month now.
I made it a priority to keep our bedroom as calm and clean as possible. I purposefully did not store any boxes or extra things in our bedroom to keep it clutter free. I bought an air purifier to help us breath better at night. I also damp dust and damp mop every day and wash the linens twice a week to keep us from sleeping in dust. I knew we needed a place where no sign of construction was going on as a retreat.
I wrote the words to one of my current favorite songs on the chalkboard inside my pantry. It helps to keep me focused in a positive direction - which I need to be reminded of frequently.


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The Skoda Fabia Scout Concept will debut at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show in March, with a form factor Subaru and Volvo popularized in the late 90's — the rugged wagon.
Based on the Volkswagen A04 platform also underpinning the VW Polo and SEAT Ibiza, the Skoda Fabia five-door is a fairly conservative car in production form, but here it gets the faux off-roader treatment; tough lower cladding, higher ground clearance, and a much bigger, more aggressive set of wheels and tires. Nothing revolutionary here, but it is a pretty decent looking concept, even without all the concept car design gimmicks. [Autoblog.it]


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According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, frontal air bags saved more than 39,000 lives between 1987 and 2013.
Intended as supplemental restraint systems (SRS), air bags work with your car's lap and shoulder safety belts to provide additional protection in the event of an impact.
Despite their success as safety devices, earlier-generation air bags were sometimes associated with serious or even fatal injuries. Most often, these injuries occurred because passengers weren't wearing safety belts, or children weren't in appropriate safety seats and weren't riding in the rear seat when the bag deployed.
Developments in new air bag systems are lessening the likelihood of injury, but the real success may depend on the safety precautions that the driver and passengers take while in the car.
General precautions
Your vehicle's owner's manual will provide specific information about its air bag, but these general tips may add to your margin of safety:
- Always wear safety belts. An air bag system is not a substitute for safety belts. All the elements of a vehicle's safety system are designed to work together.
- Have all children 12 and under ride properly restrained and in the backseat. And never place a rear-facing child safety seat in front of an airbag. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offers more information about child passenger safety best practices.
- Watch for the air bag malfunction indicator lamp. If it remains lit more than 10 seconds after vehicle start-up, it indicates that a problem with the air bag system is present. Have the problem diagnosed and repaired immediately.
When to disable air bags
Some air bag systems have an on-off switch, but think twice before you disable the system (most require a certified technician to do the job). It may be appropriate to disable the system if:
- There are fewer than 10 inches between the driver's body and the center of the steering wheel.
- There's no other option for transporting a child under 12 but in the front seat.
- You have a medical condition that would put you at risk during an air bag deployment.
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What if torture tactics could have prevented 9/11?
Re: "A perfect example of why torture is a failed tactic," Oct. 31 editorial.
Is torture an effective tool to gain information to thwart another catastrophic attack on this nation? The Denver Post's conclusion that it hasn't worked is presumption off the scale. Like all clandestine operations, the successful extraction of accurate information can't be broadcast or revealed, but The Post gropes for anything that will support a pacifist view.
What would The Post's view be if the 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington had never occurred — and it was only being made public now that information gleaned from torture had prevented it? In other words, The Denver Post has no way of knowing how many plots since then have been defused because our security agencies employed harsh measures.
For six years — and counting — this society has thrived in domestic tranquility since the day four hijacked airliners were turned into world- changing ballistic missiles. Is the torture of a dozen combatants worth preventing a thousand American deaths? You bet your life.
R.K. Wilson, Denver
Your editorial correctly notes that torture is an ineffective means of extracting reliable information. Another pragmatic reason to forswear torture is because if we do it, then our soldiers and citizens captured overseas will face similar mistreatment. But the real reason we should not torture is much simpler: It is an affront to basic human dignity, and thereby degrades the torturer and the country under whose authority he acts. That is why every human-rights organization worldwide decries techniques like waterboarding and why our nation signed treaties and passed laws that prohibit such barbaric, abhorrent and inhuman methods.
Anyone who is unwilling to categorically renounce waterboarding does not deserve to be our next attorney general. And every member of this administration, no matter how high-ranking, who authorized such violations of international and federal law should be held accountable for those acts.
Steven D. Zansberg, Denver


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PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP -- A Pennsylvania State Police corporal was shot and injured during a traffic stop in Northampton County Tuesday morning, troopers confirm.
Authorities said it happened on Route 33 in the area of Route 191, near Stockertown, just before 11 a.m.
Multiple state police vehicles, ambulances, and more filled a stretch of Route 33 near Nazareth in Northampton County. State police say a corporal from the Belfast barracks was shot in the line of duty during a routine traffic stop just before 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The corporal was flown to Saint Luke's Hospital near Bethlehem with multiple gunshot wounds.
"Our guy is up there fighting for his life. He is a warrior, and like I said, he went through a heck of a fight out there along the side of the road, and he has the will to live, and God willing, he is going to pull through this," said Capt. Richard D'Ambrosio, Pennsylvania State Police.
Here's what authorities say happened.
Troopers pulled over a man for speeding on Route 33. After he was given a citation, he was let go, but after further conversations with the troopers, it appeared the driver was intoxicated and backup was called in.
Authorizes say that's when the situation became very violent.
"The trooper goes to place the subject under arrest, and at this point, he begins to violently resist arrest. The troopers were in a knock-down drag-out fight along the side of the road with vehicles speeding by them and it got very, very violent," said Capt. D'Ambrosio. "The subject was able to free himself from troopers while they were wrestling on the ground, goes back to his vehicle, and retrieves a gun, takes the weapon out, and fires several shots at our troopers."
The corporal is listed in critical condition.
According to online court documents, Daniel Clary, 22, of Effort, was charged in connection with the shooting.
A news conference is scheduled for Wednesday morning.


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(CNN) -- What's the one thing you would tell girls about education?
Think carefully about your answer; after all, it can be the most important factor in lifting a girl from poverty, mistreatment and drudgery into a fulfilling and rewarding life, for both her and her family.
This is the question we asked people from around the world to share with us as part of the premiere of CNN Films' "Girl Rising," airing in June, which follows nine remarkable young girls from Peru to Afghanistan in their brave quest for an education.
CNN received dozens of responses, many from people sharing moving personal stories of their own struggles or those of mothers and grandmothers who had sacrificed so much so that future generations of girls would grow up enriched by knowledge.
'Never stop trying'
In a small town called Sivakasi in southern India, poverty and hardship meant many young girls would trudge every morning not to school but to work in the city's matchmaking and firework industries.
Meera Vijayann, who is from Sivakasi but who studied and now lives in Bangalore, was all too aware of these girls and the life that lay ahead of them. But she was determined to fight for her education, eventually succeeding in becoming a writer and nongovernmental organization worker.
"Today, I feel proud that I had proved all those people wrong, despite coming from a small town where so many girls still face hardships in accessing a proper education," the 26-year-old said.
She says that from an early age, she knew she wanted more for her life, even though people made fun of her for wanting simply the freedom to choose. And she wants girls around the world to know that there is nothing to fear about wanting to learn.
"My message to girls around the world is to accept education but embrace knowledge. Always be open to learning, even when away from the classroom." Only then, she says, does a world of opportunity open up. "Never, no matter how hard, stop trying."
Choose your own destiny
Mexican Irene Moreno Jimenez said her thirst for knowledge was inspired by her mother, who died of cancer when Jimenez was 17 but who always instilled in her daughters a sense of purpose. "I have (the) freedom to choose my own destiny all because of her teachings," she said.
The 27-year-old now works in Washington as a communications consultant for a development bank, a job helping others in honor of her mother, who she says was a brave, generous and "visionary" leader who worked as a professor but gave her daughters lessons in life impossible to study through books. "She set the highest example on how to live and love for my sister and me," she said.
Despite losing her several years ago, Jimenez says, her mother lives on through her daughters' love of education and desire for other girls to know that the mind is a place where freedom is fought for -- and won.
"When you have education, you are free to think and to accomplish your thoughts," she said. "You are able to see possibilities where before there were walls. I have learned that you can lose it all, but you will never lose what's in your mind."
'Make your dreams come true'
A mother's inspiration was all Niena Sevilla from the Philippines needed to put her on the right path. Unable to attend high school due to poverty, her mother fought every step of the way to succeed.
"She had to plead for my grandfather's approval to let her go to the city so she could work and study later," the administrative assistant said. "At the age of 13, she worked at a gasoline station in our town, 30 minutes away from the farm. She had worked as a housekeeper and as a cook as well."
Through sheer determination and persistence, her mother managed to save precious funds for a vocational course in tailoring before opening a successful shop in her hometown. Sevilla, like many Filipinos, works thousands of miles from her own children. She works in Saudi Arabia to bring in an income for their future.
But she says her mother's struggles inspired her to instill in her own children a sense that education is not just about what degree you hold but the work you put in to achieve your goals. She wants other girls to feel the same.
"Knowing my mother's story makes me believe that education is not about holding a master's degree or college degree; it is about how you make your dreams come, regardless of what kind of education you have attained," she said.
'Strive hard'
As a proud father to 12-year-old Beatrice, Filipino salesman Rummel Pinera feels all too keenly that educating a girl is about ensuring her independence and improving society as a whole.
Beatrice, now a second-year high school student, inspired her father to hope that a solid education will provide her with a stable career and a chance to contribute to "the betterment of her village and society in general."
"Girls and women all over the world must strive hard to go to schools and finish their studies," he said, "because education would surely unlock their full potential of becoming achievers in their chosen vocations, careers and professions.
"An educated woman will surely contribute to the well-being of this planet and to overall human progress."
'Follow your heart'
But sometimes it's the simplest advice that is the most heartfelt and the most wise.
Andrea Barr is training to be an elementary school teacher at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The 19-year-old also works at a summer camp in the area, teaching swimming and helps counsel young children, too. Despite her love of children, and of teaching, she faced pressure from family and friends over her career and life choices.
Undeterred, she enrolled at Bradley and fought to make her own way. Her struggles to choose her own path in life inspired her to provide a simple message for girls: "Follow your heart."
"Do not allow anyone to tell you what you can and cannot do," she said. "Do what you like, because that, in the end, will make you most happy. You are the sum of the choices you make."


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BEIRUT (AP) — A massive car bomb ripped through a crowded garage Thursday near a rebel-held border crossing between Syria and Turkey, killing at least 43 people in an area that has seen fierce fighting between rival rebel groups, an anti-government activist group said.
The attack came as President Bashar Assad's forces have seized the momentum of the country's 3-year-old civil war ahead of presidential elections scheduled for June 3.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast killed 43 people and wounded more than 80. Injured Syrians who were taken to hospitals in Turkey and later died are among the 43 killed, said Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the Observatory.
The group relies on a network of activists on the ground.
The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, also reported the car bombing but said only that it killed and wounded "dozens of people."
Car bombings have become common in Syria as the influence of Islamic extremist groups has risen, dampening the support of the U.S. and its European allies for the opposition seeking to oust Assad.
Opposition activists have blamed al-Qaida-linked fighters, who are engaged in deadly fighting between rival rebel factions in Syria, although no group claimed responsibility for Thursday's blast.
An amateur video posted online showed women, men and children at the scene of the blast near the Bab al-Salameh border crossing in the northern province of Aleppo. In another video posted online by activists, burned out cars are seen in the area near the crossing and the site of the attack, as people walk pass pools of blood, with clothes and other personal belongings scattered all around.
People cross the border at Bab al-Salameh on foot so the garage was filled with vehicles transporting people to or from the crossing.
"Oh God, may you punish them!" a man shouted as people used fire extinguishers to put out flames consuming two vehicles. The video appeared genuine and matched Associated Press reporting of the event.
In Turkey, a government official speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, said 94 wounded Syrians were brought across the border for treatment and that 14 of them had died.
Rebels fighting Assad captured the border crossing on the Syrian side in July 2012, opening a key transit point for people and supplies. But the area has seen an uptick in clashes and attacks between rebel groups fighting for control of the crossing in recent months.
The Syrian conflict started as largely peaceful protests against Assad's rule and turned into civil war after some opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent. Activists say more than 150,000 people have been killed and millions have been driven from their homes, seeking shelter in neighboring countries and in safer parts of Syria.
Thursday's attack came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. and other nations supporting the Syrian opposition agree that the planned election is a "farce" because it excludes Syrians who have been displaced by fighting. Kerry said he and his counterparts from 10 other nations agreed at a meeting in London to ramp up what can be done to assist the Syrian opposition. But he stopped short of promising any U.S. military aid.
Government forces also pressed on with their campaign to push rebels from the areas that could threaten Damascus, the seat of Assad's government, dropping bombs from a helicopter Thursday on the village of Tal Shihab, killing nine people, the Observatory said.
Meanwhile, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said five of its staff members kidnapped in northwestern Syria in January had been safely released. In a statement, the group said three staffers were released April 4 and the two others on Wednesday. It did not identify the staff members held, nor did it say if a ransom had been paid.
On Wednesday, at least 20 government soldiers were killed in a massive bombing after rebels detonated a tunnel packed with explosives under a military base in the Wadi Deif area of the northwestern province of Idlib. Reporting the attack Thursday, Abdurrahman did not explain how he got the figure, and Syrian authorities had no comment on the blast.
Another activist, Mohammed Kanaan, who is from the nearby town of Maaret al-Numan but is currently in Turkey, said the rebels had been digging the tunnel for about seven months. He said the tunnel was about 800 to 900 meters (yards) deep and filled with tons of locally made explosives.
An amateur video released by the Islamic Front, a coalition of seven rebel groups, showed debris flying meters up in the air as parts of the base exploded. The video corresponded with AP reporting about the attack. Kanaan also said the tunnel attack was carried out by the Suqour al-Sham, an Idlib-based group that is part of the Islamic Front.


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Find sweet spots for business process automation
Many business processes lend themselves readily to the increased efficiencies of business process automation. The trick is figuring out which ones.
The extended economic downturn is driving all of us to wring as much cost as possible from our processes. This has created an opportunity to automate as many business processes as possible. But what types of processes are the best candidates for business process automation, or BPA?
Over the years, I've put together a set of guidelines that I use to identify BPA candidates. My list of the top contenders for business process automation includes:
Business processes that are repetitive
If the way we configure a new computer or handle an employee reimbursement is the same every time, let's find a way to automate this process. In my experience, automating repetitive processes not only saves time and money but also improves quality. Automation allows us to ensure that we perform the process the best, safest and easiest way each and every time.
Processes with few exceptions
BPA breaks down pretty quickly if we have to contort our process management to meet a wide range of exceptions. The more standard the business process, the better. Of course, this also means that we can make a strong business case for reducing exception handling in all of our repetitive processes.
For example, I was once assigned to find ways to reduce our days' sales outstanding (DSO), usually a good indicator of our credit-to-collections process. The smaller the DSO, the better the job we're doing of managing our credit accounts and getting our customers to pay their bills.
As we mapped out our credit-to-collections process, we found that it was riddled with exceptions. Certain customers got certain terms and conditions that others did not, and before our accounting staff could attempt to collect a past-due invoice, assigned salespeople had to give their approval -- another exception-driven business rule.
We standardized the process by establishing one rule: If you are a good customer that pays your bills, you get standardized but enhanced terms. Otherwise, you get standardized, baseline terms. Once we made these changes, automating this process was incredibly simple. We created some triggers that flagged the status of our two customer types well before an invoice was past due. Our DSO dropped like a rock, cash flow improved and life got better for our accounting staff.
Processes we use all the time
I have never been able to justify a BPA project for processes that we use only on certain occasions. For instance, my accounting staff once asked that we automate the process we use to generate 1099 statements for contractors we had hired. The manual process took about eight hours a year, so BPA made no sense. Compare that to processes like demand planning or data backup that are in almost-constant use. Automating such processes can yield nearly immediate business value.
More on business process automation
Business process automation for the business' sake
Business process automation vs. business process management: A primer
Processes that are bounded by business rules
If we can define a simple, standard set of rules for a process, we can probably also automate that process. I once led a project to reduce inventory levels. In some categories, our inventories were too high because our buyers were basing their decisions on very weak planning assumptions. Our solution was to develop rules that were based on sales velocity. If a product was not selling very well, our automated rules decided how much inventory to buy and placed the order. If the sales of a popular product were starting to slow down by a certain percentage, another rule slowed down the associated buying. This freed our buyers to focus on making sure we were never out of the growth products and also helped our product managers better manage product lifecycles. But if we had not been able to define such rules, automation would not have worked.
We are fortunate to live in a time where our organizations need technology and, as a result, need us. At the same time, we have the responsibility to make sure that technology actually provides meaningful value.
Niel Nickolaisen is CIO at Western Governor's University in Salt Lake City. He is a frequent speaker, presenter and writer on IT's dual role enabling strategy and delivering operational excellence. Write to him at email@example.com.


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How much damage can a Cy Young award winner do? About $200,000 worth, according to Tim Lincecum's old landlord.
The San Francisco Giants pitcher is accused by his former landlady of causing $200,000 worth of damage to his former Mission District townhouse at 141 Hampshire Street, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. And rather than settle, it appears the $22 million a year man is heading to court.
Lincecum was sued by landlady Mindy Freile in late 2011 for ruining and trashing "bedding, doors, carpet, pillows, kitchenware, linens, furniture, household appliances, art work, decorations, patio furniture, lights, lamps and mirrors, among other things" before he moved out, according to the lawsuit.
The pitcher's lease allows him to settle any dispute with the property owner via arbitration, which is not open to the public. But Freile wants to take him to court, and several judges have sided with her over Lincecum's moves to keep the arbitration proceedings closed to the public.
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A Message Regarding Snow Emergency Levels
According to a report by the American Highway Users Alliance, if Ohio's transportation system were to shut down for one day due to a winter storm, the total economic impact would cause the state to lose more than $300 million in direct and indirect productivity.
If Ohio's transportation system shut down for even just one day because of snow and ice, Ohio workers could lose out on as much as $200 million in wages and paychecks.
The report says snow-related shutdowns affect hourly workers the most. In all, Ohio workers could lose more than $205 million in direct and indirect wages, according to the research. Ohio would also lose vital tax revenue - as much as $11.4 million in state and local taxes, and $15 million in federal taxes - in just one day.
First snow or ice — Drivers aren't prepared for winter driving and forget to take it slow. Remember to drive well below the posted speed limit and leave plenty of room between cars.
Black ice — Roads that seem dry may actually be slippery — and dangerous. Take it slow when approaching intersections, off-ramps, bridges or shady areas — all are hot spots for black ice. Remember, Ice and Snow…Take it Slow.
Limited visibility — Stay attentive and reduce speed. Know what's going on around you.
Distance — Give snowplows room to work. The plows are wide and can cross the centerline or shoulder. Don't tailgate and try not to pass. If you must pass, take extreme caution and beware of the snow cloud.
Speed — Snowplows travel below the posted speed limit. Be patient. Ice and Snow…Take it Slow.
Vision — A snowplow operator's field of vision is restricted. You may see them, but they don't always see you. Keep your distance and watch for sudden stops or turns.
Watch Out For Blind Spots — The plow driver's field of vision is limited. If you can't see the plow's side mirrors, the driver can't see you. Stay two to three car lengths behind the plow.
Ice & Snow … Take it Slow — Snowplows travel well below the posted speed limit. Be patient. Try not to pass the plow. Watch for sudden stops or turns.
Beware of Snow Clouds — Snow plows often create clouds as they clear the roads. These Snow clouds can reduce your ability to see.
Speed and Distance —The faster you're going, the longer it will take to stop. When accelerating on snow or ice, take it slow to avoid slipping and sliding. Ice and Snow…Take it Slow.
Brake — Brake early, brake slowly, brake correctly, and never slam on the brakes. If you have anti-lock brakes, press the pedal down firmly and hold it. If you don't have anti-lock brakes, gently pump the pedal. Either way, give yourself plenty of room to stop.
Control — When driving on ice and snow, do not use cruise control and avoid abrupt steering maneuvers. When merging into traffic, take it slow. Sudden movements can cause your vehicle to slide.
Vision — Be aware of what's going on well ahead of you. Actions by other vehicles will alert you to problems more quickly, and give you that split-second of extra time to react safely.
Knowledge — Before leaving home, find out about the driving conditions by logging on to www.BuckeyeTraffic.org. Safe drivers know the weather, and their limits. If the weather is bad, remember, Ice and Snow…Take it Slow, or just don't go.
Clear —Remove any snow on your vehicle's windows, lights, brake lights and signals. Make sure you can see and be seen.
Inspect —Check your vehicle's tires, wiper blades, fluids, lights, belts, and hoses. A breakdown is bad on a good day and dangerous on a bad-weather day.
Time — Leave plenty of time to reach your destination safely. It's not worth putting yourself and others in a dangerous situation just to be on time.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is not authorized or responsible for issuing Snow Emergency Levels. Law enforcement agencies, specifically County Sheriffs, make and enforce such declarations.
Please consult the local county sheriff's offices for the current level in your area (contact information is available through the Buckeye State Sheriffs' Association Web site.)
Level 1 Snow Emergency
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Level 3 Snow Emergency
To ODOT's knowledge there is not one centralized location available for collecting and publically sharing the current Snow Emergency Level for the state's 88 counties at this time. This information is not available on ODOT's Web sites (including www.ohgo.com or www.BuckeyeTraffic.org).
To identify the status of the snow emergency level(s) affecting your travels, please contact the Sheriff's office(s) for each county you travel in or through during winter weather events. Contact information and links (when available) for all of Ohio's 88 counties are available through the Buckeye State Sheriffs' Association Web site at: http://www.buckeyesheriffs.org/Ohio%20Sheriffs.htm.


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Are you working more and enjoying it less? Do you find yourself looking over your shoulder to see if the competition is creeping up from behind? What with the general day-to-day cost of doing business, along with the potential loss of revenue to your competitors, contractors need to find new ways to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pack. One way to achieve that is by offering your customers new lines of service.
The list of new services that are available is always changing and growing. Choosing the right fit for your existing business is essential for making a profit. It's important to understand the underlying principles behind the need to continually add services to your business offerings, along with the benefits to be derived. Knowing what to sell and when to sell it is one part of the puzzle; knowing who to sell to is more obvious.
The easiest person to market any new service to is the customer you're already servicing. How many times have your clients asked if you do paving, landscape lighting, or other landscape improvements that you don't yet offer? Whatever service you can't provide them is a service they'll get elsewhere. Why would you want to send them away if you don't have to?
Most business is based on personal relationships; when a relationship based on trust, dependability and professionalism is cultivated, there is an excellent opportunity to offer and sell more products and services. The customers who currently trust you are also the strong referral base from which new business can be built. Using that base will greatly reduce the high cost of advertising and marketing your new service.
There are lots of new business opportunities to choose from. Paying attention to what your customers are asking for will give you some idea of the vacuum that needs to be filled. Of all the services you can make available, hydroseeding has one of the lowest start-up costs and highest profit margins. But before we get into the nuts and bolts of what hydroseeding entails, let's take a closer look at how our industry is changing.
Today's green industry is transforming from its "Mom and Pop" roots into a huge multi-billion dollar economic force. That means you have an opportunity to take advantage of new trends and use new products that are specifically designed to help get the job done more efficiently. Paying attention to both business and consumer trends will also open the doors to new opportunities that can help you expand your core business.
For example, consumer buying trends are now creating demands for products and services, such as landscape lighting, which offer new business niches for the landscape contractor. Once you grasp the dynamics of the business cycle, you can place yourself in a position to take advantage of new opportunities as they reach the marketplace.
You only have to go back a few years to see how far landscape lighting has come. Water gardening and other landscape specialty products were once only of interest to the designer and specifier market. Today, landscape specialty products are affordable and more in demand by the typical homeowner.
To seize opportunities when they present themselves, you must understand the ebb and flow of the typical business cycle. In the beginning stages, there is a limited marketplace, little competition and much higher profitability. Many successful landscape professionals started out with just a truck and some basic landscape equipment, and soon discovered a growing market for lawn and landscape maintenance. They also found that as their local markets matured, competition heated up and profit margins shrunk.
To grow and stay successful, many landscape companies had to offer additional services and products to their core business. Landscape contractors started to install brick pavers; lawn maintenance contractors added irrigation services; and the irrigation contractor began to offer landscape lighting. They found that they were leaving a lot of money on the table by not providing these add-on services. Providing these services helped distinguished them from the competition, while allowing them to prosper from new areas of profitability.
Contractors who offer a wider range of products and services to their established customer base can anticipate new business throughout the year, and lower the day-to-day cost of doing business. Deciding on what new products or services to offer your customers requires the consideration of several factors.
When defining areas for new growth, you need to look at the potential size, as well as the current state, of the market. If the market is large and saturated, you will find the classic business cycle qualities of heavy competition, high labor costs, and slim profits. Most contractors we spoke with say they would rather be on the upswing of a rapidly growing and still-profitable niche, than the downside of a large business that has high costs and low margins.
That's why adding a growth business like hydroseeding to your core landscape business can help add profits to your bottom line. Hydroseeding has been described as the best kept secret of the landscape industry. First developed in the 1950s, hydroseeding has exploded into a profitable operation for the landscape contractor, as homeowners and builders slowly become aware of its value.
Hydroseeding, or hydromulching, is a grass planting process that is fast, efficient, and very economical. Hydroseeding is usually more effective than traditional seeding, and much more economical than conventional sod.
The process begins by mixing mulch, seed, fertilizer, and water into the tank of a hydroseeding machine. The slurry is then sprayed onto the ground, providing the proper environment to promote seed germination.
With the production of newer and smaller machines, contractors have a much easier time breaking into the hydroseeding business without investing a lot of money into the venture. This makes hydroseeding more accessible as a side job or an added service to a landscape business. (See related article).
As the green industry grows and matures, more and more contractors will be expanding their service offerings. And those who are successful will continue to build strong relationships with their customer base. To stay ahead of the competition, they will find new niches with specialty products like hydroseeding.
Whatever area of the green industry you serve today, take a look at your next job and evaluate what other services you could be offering your customers. Examine the need for the service, along with its start-up costs and profitability; then ask yourself, is there a future in hydroseeding for me?


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Everyone in Scotland is represented by eight MSPs: one for their constituency and and seven for the larger region in which they live.
For issues that are dealt with by the Scottish Parliament, each constituent can decide which of their eight MSPs they would prefer to contact. For example, a constituent may wish to contact an MSP from a particular party or one whom they have heard of locally.
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Ford is at the onset of a massive push towards electrification. The Blue Oval estimates that between 10 and 25 percent of its products will be "electrified" by 2020, with a mix of traditional hybrids and plug-in versions joining a brace of new EVs. And its first all-electro-powered product is this: the 2013 Ford Focus Electric.
Ford announced plans to electrify its Focus compact at last year's CES and the automaker has already begun handing out its EV hatch to fleets, including the delivery of the first Focus Electric to Google. Later in 2012, Ford will begin selling the Focus to consumers in 19 markets across North America, with prices starting at $39,200 – or about $4,000 more than the Nissan LEAF before taxes and any state or federal government incentives.
But do you want it?
We took to the streets of San Francisco for a brief drive in Ford's first EV and discovered that while it might not boast the bespoke body as its competition from Nissan, the Focus Electric wins on charge time and something that's been missing from other mass-market EVs: genuine fun.
A cursory look at the Focus Electric's stats aren't going to stoke the flames of enthusiasts' hearts. The front-mounted electric motor powering the front wheels is good for 141 horsepower and 188 pound-feet of torque, the latter of which is available – as with all EVs – as soon as you tramp the throttle. That makes for a spirited sprint from a stop, despite being down some 20 lb-ft from the Nissan. But more impressive is the tractability of the brushless motor and the single-speed gearbox putting the power down.
Unlike other EVs that begin to wheeze as you pile on the speed, the Focus Electric retains a suitable amount of punch above 40 mph. Credit the extra 31 horsepower over the LEAF, which does its best to counteract the additional 300 pounds the Focus Electric has to lug around over the Nissan.
But the additional tonnage over the standard Focus (around 500 pounds) added by the liquid cooled and heated 23 kWh lithium-ion battery pack and assorted plumbing is used to good effect, with Ford claiming weight distribution is an Ultimate Driving Machine-approved 50:50 front-to-rear. It's just too bad the overly-grabby brakes aren't up to par with the keenly tuned electrically-assisted steering, front MacPherson struts and multi-link rear suspension.
Even mild brake application is enough to send you and your passenger hurdling towards the windshield as the seat belts strain to keep you in place. There's sure to be a learning curve – one that we weren't able to scale in our short time behind the wheel – but the lack of EV-tuned brake regen to slow the car as we rolled off the throttle was notable.
More notable is Ford's claimed charge time: 4 hours to fully top up the batteries with a 240-volt outlet, or a little more than half the time of the Nissan LEAF. That boosted charge time is thanks to a 6.6 kW Leviton charger (versus the LEAF's 3.3 kW unit) sold at Best Buy for $1,499 and installed by Geek Squad.
The 23 kWh of juice is good for a 76-mile range – a few more than Nissan's hypothetical pace – but because of the liquid-cooled and heated battery packs, Ford maintains there's no degradation in range or performance, something that can't be said for the LEAF's air-cooled batteries.
And then there's Ford's killer app: an app.
Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and through a dedicated web portal, MyFord Mobile allows owners to keep tabs on charging, find 240-volt stations along their route and plan their trips accordingly, along with remote cooling and heating while the Focus Electric is plugged into the grid, boosting range in the process. The app even gives you tips on your driving style (ranging from "zippy" to "zen") and the ability to automatically juice up during off-peak hours thanks to an exclusive partnership with Microsoft and its Value Charge program.
This all adds up to one of the most compelling EVs available from a mass-market automaker, combining a gas-free existence with a suitable entertaining driving experience. We've waited long enough for an automaker to deliver on both fronts, and Ford seems to have arrived there first. But we won't make a definitive call until we can put the Focus Electric through its paces as a commuter-cum-corner-carver.


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Another problem I've hit a wall with.
The problem is to implement an application that determines and prints the number of odd, even, and zero digits in an integer value read from the keyboard.
I can't think how to split the int up to check the individual values.
Any tips?
(I'm still new to this and haven't gone onto arrays yet, so if possible could a solution be found that is still quite basic)
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- The first Intel Macs shipped with 32-bit only processors that do not support long mode. Thus the first version of Intel Mac OS X 10.4 ran in legacy mode with PAE enabled. All later versions, including Snow Leopard, can run in this mode. In this mode only 32-bit applications can be run, the kernel is fully 32-bit (thus 32-bit kexts are needed), V86 mode is available, but since PAE was enabled, full physical address width (at least 36-bit) is available and NX is enabled.
- Later Intel Macs shipped with 64-bit processors that support long mode. These Macs shipped with the second version of Intel Mac OS X 10.4. This version can run in long mode, but most of the kernel ran in compatiblity mode, thus old 32-bit kexts still can run, but not all the kernel can run in compatiblity mode. For example, interrupt, trap, and call gates have to point to code that runs in 64-bit mode. 64-bit applications can however run in full 64-bit mode, and V86 mode is NOT available. And of course full physical address width is available and NX is enabled.
- Snow Leopard, which introduced the 64-bit kernel, added a third so called 64-bit kernel mode that is the same as the previous mode, except that the kernel run in in full 64-bit mode and thus new 64-bit kexts are needed. 64-bit EFI is required too for this mode to run.
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thank you kit. i'll pass this on to the nitro developers.
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On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:33 AM, George wrote:
> This is a question for stata developers. I've got stata-ic on windows 7/32; I have 2 pdf readers - adobe reader, and nitroreader. I have the latter set as my default for a variety of reasons.
> If I click on a hyperlink to stata manuals from within stata help browser, nitropdf hangs, and there appears to be a call to print the pdf. There are also hangs or crashes when certain hyperlinks are clicked within the pdf documentation.
> None of this happens if adobe reader is the default reader, so the simple answer is that this is not a stata problem. I was wondering it would be possible to see the call from stata help documentation to the pdf documentation so that I can pass that info on to the nitro developers.
I suspect this is the same problem that arose on Mac OS X when Stata pdf documentation first appeared. Most Mac users will have Apple's Preview as the default PDF reader, as it comes with the OS. A document like the full Stata reference manual, r.pdf, has 35,000+ hyperlinks to which on-line help can jump. Preview cannot cope with that (perhaps there is a limit of 32,767 that it can field?) whereas Adobe Reader or Acrobat can. So Stata's advice is to use Adobe Reader as the default app to access Stata's pdf documents. Perhaps nitroreader (have not heard of that one) has the same limitations.
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A study of the socio-economic transitions in Russia
The RUSSET Panel (Russian socio-economic transition panel) is a representative longitudinal study of Russian households. It provides information on among others household composition, satisfaction, employment, earnings, health and political participation. The Panel was started in 1993 and was stopped in 1999. During this period, after the collapse of the Sovjet Union, many changes have taken place. This makes Russia an ideal place to study social, political, and economical change. Russia is so to say a social experiment which makes social change studies possible that otherwise would take decades of research.
Background of the study
In 1990 the Russian sociologist Prof. Dr. Vladimir Andreenkov suggested in a discussion with Prof. Dr. Willem Saris that Russia, one of the largest and potentially most powerful countries of the world, could be seen as a social science laboratory because the changes in Russia happened so rapidly. Shifts in public behaviour and public consciousness usually happen under influence of significant changes in social, economic and political environment, but such changes are normally going very slowly. Therefore the social scientists are limited in their studies of change by the long duration of social processes. The current time Russia is unique in the sense that all processes happen with much higher speed due to the fast transformations in the economic and political system of the country. People's lives are moving in front of us with the speed of movie-like shots. In this situation researchers get a chance to study events and processes in a period of years where otherwise one needs to observe for decades.
When in 1992 the Dutch Organisation for scientific research (NWO) offered the possibility for research in Russia in co-operation with Russian researchers, Willem Saris made a proposal for a panel study. The main idea of this panel was to look at the socio-economic transitions in Russia in the aftermath of the fall of communism, and the consequences of these transitions with respect to changes in people's satisfaction with life in general and specific domains of life in particular. Because the purpose of the study was the evaluation of socio-economic transitions, we have called the panel the Russian Socio- Economic Transition panel or RUSSET panel. A subsidy for this study has been obtained from the Dutch Organisation for scientific research (NWO) for a period of 7 years (from 1993 till 1999).


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Tokyo police are cracking down on street racing by cracking down on racers' rest stops. It kind of makes sense: You can't keep racing all the time; after a while, even the most intrepid Hashiriya's head will turn to fish paste. And since police can't catch racers in the act, officials have slapped No Parking signs up around parking areas of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway, places where racers traditionally rest before and after racing. According to some estimates, the action has cut the number of racers out on a typical night by up to 90%.
`No parking' signs reduce high-speed races in Tokyo [Asahi]
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2009 McDonalds All-Americans
The official list is out for the 32nd annual McDonalds All-American Game and NYCHoops.net has got it. This years list has 1 player from New York and 2 from New Jersey
OAK BROOK, Ill. (February 18, 2009) – McDonald's and the All American Basketball Games selection committee unveiled the 24 members of the 32nd Boys Game and 24 members of the eighth annual Girls Game on the ESPNU Selection Show today. The Games will be played on April 1 at the BankUnited Center in Miami, Fla.
This year, 48 players were selected from 2,500 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their on-court skills, but for their performances off the court as well. Coach Morgan Wootten, who had more than 1,200 wins as head basketball coach at DeMatha High, is chairman of the selection committee. Legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, who has been involved in the McDonald's All American Games since its inception, serves as chairman of the Games and as an advisor to the selection committee.
Since 1977, more than 850 players have competed in the McDonald's All American Games, forming an elite list that reads like a "Who's Who" in basketball history. McDonald's All American athletes include NBA greats Alonzo Mourning (retired), Magic Johnson (retired), Kevin Garnett (Boston Celtics), LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets), as well as WNBA star Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx) and Candace Parker (Los Angeles Sparks) and women's NCAA stars Tina Charles (Connecticut) and Maya Moore (Connecticut).
Tickets to the Games and POWERade® Jam Fest are available through Ticketmaster online by clicking here (Games) and here (Jam Fest), and by phone, (866) 909-GAME. POWERade Jam Fest will be held at the BankUnited Center on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus on March 30, 2009. The qualifying competition will begin at 7 p.m. ET and the finals will air live for the first time ever at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
No. Name Pos. Hgt./Wgt . High School, State (Hometown) College
13. Kenny Boynton, Jr. G 6-3/190 American Heritage School, FL (Pompano Beach, FL)
32. Dominic Cheek G 6-6/185 St. Anthony High School, NJ (Jersey City, NJ)
15 DeMarcus Cousins C 6-11/265 LeFlore Magnet High School, AL (Mobile, AL)
34. Derrick Favors F 6-9/235 South Atlanta High School, GA (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Tech
24. Milton Jennings F 6-9/215 Pinewood Preparatory School, SC (Cottageville, SC)
4. Ryan Kelly F 6-10/217 Ravenscroft School, NC (Raleigh, NC)
33. Alex Oriakhi C 6-9/240 Tilton School, NH (Lowell, MA)
30. Peyton Siva G 6-0/175 Franklin High School, WA (Seattle, WA)
1. Lance Stephenson F 6-6/220 Abraham Lincoln High School, NY (Brooklyn, NY)
7. Dexter Strickland G 6-3/180 St. Patrick High School, NJ (Rahway, NJ)
North Carolina
11. Dante Taylor F 6-9/230 National Christian Academy, MD (West Chester, NY)
2. Maalik Wayns G 6-1/185 Roman Catholic High School, PA (Philadelphia, PA)
Co-Head Coach Darryl Burrows, Dillard High School (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Co-Head Coach Mark Lieberman, Monsignor Edward Pace High School (Miami Gardens, FL)
Assistant Coach Derek Heard, Pasco High School (Dade City, FL)
No. Name Pos. Hgt./Wgt. High School, State (Hometown) College
11. Avery Bradley, Jr. G 6-3/180 Findlay College Prep, NV (Puyallup, WA)
3. Abdul Gaddy, Jr. G 6-3/183 Bellarmine Preparatory School, WA (Tacoma, WA)
31. Keith Gallon C 6-9/293 Oak Hill Academy, VA (Huffman, TX)
13. Xavier Henry G 6-6/225 Putnam City High School, OK (Oklahoma City, OK)
22. John Henson F 6-10/200 Sickles High School, FL (Odessa, FL)
North Carolina
33. Wally Judge F 6-9/230 Arlington Country Day School, FL (Landover, MD)
Kansas State
5. Tommy Mason-Griffin G 5-11/192 James Madison High School, TX (Houston, TX)
32. Mason Plumlee F 6-11/220 Christ School, NC (Winona Lake, IN)
1. Renardo Sidney, Jr. C 6-10/250 Fairfax High School, CA (Los Angeles, CA)
21. Michael Snaer G 6-5/200 Rancho Verde High School, CA (Moreno Valley, CA)
Florida State
12. David Wear F 6-10/225 Mater Dei High School, CA (Huntington Beach, CA)
North Carolina
24. Travis Wear F 6-10/230 Mater Dei High School, CA (Huntington Beach, CA)
North Carolina
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I'll check for permissions errors, but it does seem to be working from this end. The important thing is to make sure you use an external site to host your avatar, and make sure this is selected:
The difference is subtle, but the problem seems to have been HTTPS.
Oh...indeed. What a disgrace xD
I can't add an avatar to save my life here. Even used other sites that others are usin'. No biggie I suspect I'm in a different "group" that has permissions messed up me thinks.
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Six reasons your dog's haircut costs more than yours!
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2. Your haircut doesn't include a pedicure.
3. You don't wiggle, spin, or try to jump out of your hairdresser's chair.
4. You don't go for four weeks without washing or brushing your hair.
5. You don't try to bite the scissors, brush or the groomer.
6. Your hairdresser doesn't give you a bath.
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Pamper your Pooch Mobile Grooming Getaway – Stay the night in one of Beach Bungalow Inn's pet friendly signature guest rooms and let them pamper your pooch. Fido's pampering will begin with a full service bath and trim by Pampered Paws Mobile Pooch Grooming, extra fee for these services. All dogs are groomed using GREEN products only. * A portion of the sales from your pet grooming reservation will go directly to Woods Humane Society in our community, so book today by calling the Bungalow at: 805-772-9700. 72 hour advance reservations required for these extra services, some restrictions apply, not valid with other discounts, other promotions or during holidays and special events.
Room/Accommodation Price Range: $129 to $319
Dog-friendly policies:
•Size: Maximum 60 pounds
•Maximum number allowed: 2
•Cost per dog: $20 Per Night
•Deposit: $0
•Percentage of rooms that are dog-friendly: Over 50%
•Breed restrictions: Dogs only andtwo2 per room
Dog-friendly property amenities:
•Dog Waste Bags
•Pet Packages
•Dining/water bowls
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•Dog-friendly hiking/activity/attractions guide/listings at front desk
•Property will assist in making dog-sitting arrangements
•Doggy blankets and mobile pet grooming available on site for extra cost
Cici and I LOVED staying at the Bungalow. It did get cool at night and the fireplace (not real wood, the kind that turns on via the wall) was just nice and cozy. Cici did not get a grooming but she did enjoy eating some tortilla chips on the patio with me at MiCasa, a wonderful nearby Mexican restaurant. I had a gigantic chicken burrito with rice and beans on the side. I had breakfast (compliments of the Beach Bungalow) at a nearby family restaurant that had about six tables and a few outside. The country fried potatoes with cheese and egg on top were delicious and too much for one meal.
This Boutique 1940's motor Inn has been restored to its mid-century charm with modern conveniences. Each room offers, complimentary full breakfast, free Internet and parking, fireplace, flat screen and cable TV, Turkish robes, slippers, In-room coffee, refrigerator and premium amenities. All rooms are non-smoking; some include full kitchenettes and are Pet Friendly too. Trip Advisor, AAA and Mobile highly recommended. Locatedtwo2 blocks from the Bay, Embarcadero Harbor, beaches and majestic Morro Rock.
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Twirl for Baby necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 304 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
I am a 38 year old Washington DC Mom to be, opening up a brick and mortar store in the DC Metro area. There will also be an online store, twirlforbaby.com, that will sell our products on the internet. I have lived in Los Angeles and New York, having worked with and for celebrities. I am happily married and have lived in Washington, DC for the past four years. On the West Coast there are tons of fabulous trendy baby stores where you can find unique items that are high quality, fashionable and often times eco-friendly. What can I say, I want to do my part to save the earth and still look fashionable at the same time. I recently traded in my luxury Mercedes for a convertible New Beetle, and have started quite a stir among my friends. In a good way! The name Twirl actually came easily to me. I was at a spiritual retreat a few years ago and I remember a poem read by the famous Rumi where he described the feeling of twirling or swirling that kids do as a way to get close to God. We started twirling, which I haven't done since I was a kid and that feeling did come to me. Okay, I'm not exactly a tree hugger and no I don't go to spiritual retreats on the regular but I never forgot that experience. It seems the line between childhood and young adulthood happens when we stop twirling. I want to build a store that reminds all of us how wonderful it is to be a kid!
Hip and modern moms and dads, parents-to-be, and friends of parents to be who are looking for high-quality, contemporary items for babies 0-24 months, and toddlers 2-4 years of age. They want fashionable eco-friendly items as well so we will offer a section of non-BPA, environmentally friendly, recyclable guilt free shopping options. They are successful professionals who live and work in the DC area, some may be stay at home moms. Some other stores they may shop at are Nordstrom's, Bloomingdale's, Whole Foods, and yes even Target. They are a diverse and highly discriminating shopper. They buy luxury strollers like Bugaboo, Quinny, and Stokke. The friends are looking for that unique baby shower gift or birthday present that will make their friends gasp with delight when they open the package.
This Logo design will shape the Identity for the entire brand. It needs to transfer easily from store signage to website design as well as all of our stationery needs. We may also at some point in the future launch our own clothing line and it would be great if the logo could appear on the tag on the clothing. The focus however should be on the Store and Website branding. Be creative. You may want to add an image to the actual text. I'm completely open to that.
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It is pretty easy to integrate your own Django applications with django CMS. You have 5 ways of integrating your app:
Static extend the menu entries
Attach your menu to a page.
Attach whole apps with optional menu to a page.
Navigation Modifiers
Modify the whole menu tree
Custom Plugins
Display your models / content in cms pages
With App-Hooks you can attach whole Django applications to pages. For example you have a news app and you want it attached to your news page.
To create an apphook create a
cms_app.py in your application. And in there
write the following:
from cms.app_base import CMSApp
from cms.apphook_pool import apphook_pool
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
class MyApphook(CMSApp):
name = _("My Apphook")
urls = ["myapp.urls"]
myapp.urls with the path to your applications
Now edit a page and open the advanced settings tab. Select your new apphook under "Application". Save the page.
If you are on a multi-threaded server (mostly all webservers, except the dev-server): Restart the server because the URLs are cached by Django and in a multi-threaded environment we don't know which caches are cleared yet.
If at some point you want to remove this apphook after deleting the cms_app.py
there is a cms management command called uninstall apphooks
that removes the specified apphook(s) from all pages by name.
manage.py cms uninstall apphooks MyApphook.
To find all names for uninstallable apphooks there is a command for this aswell
manage.py cms list apphooks.
If you attached the app to a page with the url
/hello/world/ and the app has
a urls.py that looks like this:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
urlpatterns = patterns('sampleapp.views',
url(r'^$', 'main_view', name='app_main'),
url(r'^sublevel/$', 'sample_view', name='app_sublevel'),
main_view should now be available at
/hello/world/ and the
sample_view has the url
All views that are attached like this must return a
RequestContext instance instead of the
Context instance.
An additional feature of apphooks is that if you use the
cms.middleware.multilingual.MultilingualURLMiddleware all apphook urls
are language namespaced.
What this means:
To reverse the first url from above you would use something like this in your template:
{% url app_main %}
If you want to access the same url but in a different language use a langauge namespace:
{% url de:app_main %}
{% url en:app_main %}
{% url fr:app_main %}
If you want to add a menu to that page as well that may represent some views in your app add it to your apphook like this:
from myapp.menu import MyAppMenu
class MyApphook(CMSApp):
name = _("My Apphook")
urls = ["myapp.urls"]
menus = [MyAppMenu]
For an example if your app has a
Category model and you want this
category model to be displayed in the menu when you attach the app to a page.
We assume the following model:
from django.db import models
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
import mptt
class Category(models.Model):
parent = models.ForeignKey('self', blank=True, null=True)
name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse('category_view', args=[self.pk])
except mptt.AlreadyRegistered:
We would now create a menu out of these categories:
from menus.base import NavigationNode
from menus.menu_pool import menu_pool
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from cms.menu_bases import CMSAttachMenu
from myapp.models import Category
class CategoryMenu(CMSAttachMenu):
name = _("test menu")
def get_nodes(self, request):
nodes = []
for category in Category.objects.all().order_by("tree_id", "lft"):
node = NavigationNode(
return nodes
If you add this menu now to your app-hook:
from myapp.menus import CategoryMenu
class MyApphook(CMSApp):
name = _("My Apphook")
urls = ["myapp.urls"]
menus = [MyAppMenu, CategoryMenu]
You get the static entries of
MyAppMenu and the dynamic entries of
CategoryMenu both attached to the same page.
If you want to display content of your apps on other pages custom plugins are a great way to accomplish that. For example, if you have a news app and you want to display the top 10 news entries on your homepage, a custom plugin is the way to go.
For a detailed explanation on how to write custom plugins please head over to the Custom Plugins section.


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The problem
We are used to computer programs or models for computations that perform at time step , . Suppose that time is drunk, so instead of running these steps in their correct order, we apply at time step , where is a random permutation which is substantially correlated with the identity permutation. What then is our computational power?
I suggested this problem in our rump session meeting of last thursday quantum computation seminar. We have these sessions once every several months and usually they are very interesting.
What are the variables?
The computation is applied to variables . There are three variations to consider regarding the identity of these variables:
a) bits
b) qubits
c) algebraic variables
What do we allow for a single step ?
Here also we have three possibilities.
A) a single gate operating on a small number of variables.
B) applying as many gates as we want on disjoint sets of variables.
C) is a transformation where the value of each variable is a function of a bounded set of variables (overlaps are ok).
By a "gate" we refer to the standard notion of gates: Boolean gates for bits for case a), unitary transformation on a small number of qubits for case b) and algebraic gates for case c). (I dont know of an appropriate way to define option C for the quantum case.)
What is the precise stochastic model?
Write , where is a normally distributed random variable with standard deviation , and define based on the ordering of the s.
What happens if we consider fully random time evolution, or even adversarial time evolution?
We can ask for the computation power if we talk about completely random permutations. We can also let an adversary choose the permutation. We can also ask, how well can we do if we want to compute something when all the 's are the same? Several participants in the seminar commented that we can have universal classical computation when we run the same step every times. (But this applies for variant C ). One argument raised by Elad Eban was based on known fact regarding cellular automata, and another argument raised by Or Sattath was based on a standard way to move from Turing machines to Boolean circuits. I do not know if we can replace variant C by variant B in these arguments, or, if they apply to the quantum case.
What do I expect:
a) The classical case: I expect that classic computation prevails (for A and B as well). A rather vague suggestion is to take and simulate a classical computation by replacing every logical bit with a block of large number of physical bits, performing the computation on pairs of such blocks, and apply "majority" repeatedly within the blocks to guarantee that the physical bits indeed represent the logical bits.
b) The quantum case: I don't know. This may serve as a (rather wild) model where we cannot go beyond classical computation. (Well, not quite see the update.)
Oded Regev showed me a very simple argument how drunken time allows the full power of quantum computation. (Perhaps, the arguments by Elad, and Or can be extended to the quamtum case, and maybe the paper quoted in the remarks show it as well, but Oded's argument is quite clear) Here it is:
"Let's have a clock register storing the clock in unary encoding. The unitary transformation corresponding to a gate at time t is the following:
* If the clock is at time t, advance it to t+1 and apply the gate
* If the clock is at time t+1, decrease it to t and apply the reverse of the gate
* Otherwise do nothing
Notice that you only need to consider three bits of the clock register (in addition to the two bits of the gate) to do this.
Now duplicate each unitary a sufficiently large number of times. I think what happens is that you get some kind of random walk on the clock register. Most steps do nothing, but with probability 1/T you advance forward, and with probability 1/T you go backwards. Therefore after about T*T^2=T^3 steps you expect the walk to reach time T, at which point you can simply read off the answer. By padding the circuit with identity gates you can increase the probability of measuring the final state of the circuit as much as you wish (so you need not worry about the final state being mixed)."
Further thoughts: Just a constant overhead?
An interesting question is: Is there a linear time algorithm to simulate a an algorithm with T steps on a drunken time machine. This can be relevant for continuous time analogs where we can expect the drunken time effect at all time scales and a superlinear algorithm may blow up.
c) Algebraic variables. I don't know.
Continuous-time analog?
We described a discrete-time model and it would be interesting to consider continuous time analogs of such drunken time evolution.
I do not know if stochastic perturbations based on "stochastic time-flow" of deterministic evolutions (e.g., those described by differential equations) are equivalent to standard stochastic perturbations.
Is time really drunk?
Various "crazy" models regarding time were considered by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers, and computer scientists for their own sake and also in connection to various models of computations. Itamar Pitowsky showed how undecidable problems can be solved in finite time in certain hypothetical time/space structures. Dave Bacon studied quantum computation with quantum data that can traverse closed time-like curves and Aaronson and Watrous showed that closed time-like curves make quantum and classical computing equivalent (both allowing PSPACE computation). An example I learned from Moshe Vardi is modeling time as a tree that was proposed by Kripke following the introduction of temporal logic by Prior, and these ideas are playing a crucial role in the highly industrial area of automated verification. (Remarks with more examples are most welcome.) (Of course, closed time appeared earlier
I would expect that models with "stochastic time flow" have been considered in the physics and mathematics literature, so I'd be happy to have some pointers. Because of the Law of Large Numbers, small-scale stochastic processes look completely deterministic in larger scales. So if time is drunk in some scales we may not notice it in larger scales. (However, if time is really drunk, I would not expect the amount of drunkeness to be constant but rather to express some measure of non-classical behavior of the dynamics.) Thinking of time as drunk may be lead (or perhaps has already led) to a mathematically useful device.


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