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One of the best practices for developing a WordPress website starts in the development server. An example of a great development server to work with WordPress is XAMPP. The primary reason for testing and developing WordPress with XAMPP is simple:
- It allows a faster development environment, since you will not be uploading files to a remote web host just to test your designs, plug-in, etc. Uploading and downloading files consumes a lot of time.
- You will not be disrupting user experience on your website, since XAMPP local host is only accessible to you and not the users on the Internet.
- It's more secure. It's normal to commit mistakes in the early phases of WordPress website development and if you do this directly to your remote hosting server, you will be exposing a lot of errors to the public, which can compromise your website.
Working with XAMPP and WordPress Flowchart
Before you can begin, you need to have XAMPP installed on your computer. If you do not have XAMPP installed, please refer to the following tutorials:
Install XAMPP in Ubuntu/Linux: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/How-to-Install-XAMPP-on-Ubuntu-Linux/
Install XAMPP in Windows: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Install-XAMPP-on-Windows/
To give you an idea of the website development process using XAMPP and WordPress, refer to the flowchart below:
As usual, you will be downloading the latest version of WordPress (highly recommended for security reasons). After downloading it, you can install it to your XAMPP localhost, a process which will be covered in the coming sections. After the successful install, you can start developing your WordPress website. This includes installing themes, required plug-ins for desired website functionality, initial content, etc.
Once it is complete, you can safely deploy your website on the remote hosting server. It will then be accessible to all users on the world wide web/Internet.
Necessary Preparation
Follow these steps:
- Download the latest version of WordPress here: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
- Go to the downloads folder where you will find wordpress-3.1.1.zip (WordPress 3.1.1 is the latest version as of the time this tutorial has been written). Right click on it and click "Extract here". A folder named "wordpress" will then be extracted.
- Rename the folder from "wordpress" to "wordpressdemo". If you click on the "wordpressdemo" folder, you should see these files:
- Copy and paste the "wordpressdemo" folder to your XAMPP htdocs folder.
- You need to ensure that XAMPP local server is turned on as well as MySQL.
In Ubuntu:
- Go to Applications – Accessories – Terminal.
- Login as root: type this in the command prompt: sudo -s -H
- Type your Linux root password.
- Type this command and press enter: /opt/lampp/lampp status
- Check the results. If the results says that Apache is not running, etc you need to enable XAMPP.
Enable XAMPP by typing this command and press enter: /opt/lampp/lampp start
In Windows:
- Go to Start – All Programs – Apache friends – XAMPP – XAMPP Control Panel.
- You should then see the status whether Apache and MySQL are running. You can simply turn them on if they are off.
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This time you need to create a WordPress database in a XAMPP environment using phpMyAdmin and configure wp_config.php.
- Type this URL in your browser address bar: http://localhost/phpmyadmin. Use the credentials you have configured during your XAMPP installation. You need to log-on to the phpMyAdmin using your root credentials.
- After logging in, you will see "Create New Database". Type wordpressdemo_database
- When you see "Database wordpressdemo_database has been created". Logout from phpMyAdmin.
- Go to the "wordpressdemo" folder in XAMPP htdocs. Find a file named as "wp-config-sample.php". Open this file using your favorite PHP editor or Notepad ++
- Supposing you have the following WordPress database and MySQL credentials:
Database name: wordpressdemo_database
Database user: root
Database password: abcxyz
Database host: localhost
This is the code:
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpressdemo_database');
//MySQL database username
define('DB_USER', 'root');
//MySQL database password
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'abcxyz');
//MySQL hostname
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
//rest of the wp-config-sample code here
- You need to input the unique phrases and secret keys. Go to this URL: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
Copy the outputted results as shown in the browser then overwrite the following lines in the wp-config-sample.php
define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
- Save the edited file as wp-config.php and save it in the same location/path as wp-config-sample.php.
- You can then safely delete "wp-config-sample.php".
Install WordPress
Now that you have completely configured the necessary files for installation, you are ready to install WordPress:
- Type this URL in the browser address: http://localhost/wordpressdemo/
- The five minute installation screen will then show. You need to type the site title, username (do not use "admin" and change it to something else, for security reasons), your desired WordPress password and your email.
- Just check the "Allow my site to appear in search engines..".
- Finally click "Install WordPress".
- If you see the message "Wordpress has been installed". The installation has been successful.
- Click Login and type your WordPress login credentials.
- To see your WordPress website at its default. Open new tab in your browser and type this address: http://localhost/wordpressdemo/ , this is the default homepage. For example:
Note: As the flowchart mentions in the first section of this tutorial. This is the start of the WordPress website development. Feel free to change the default theme to something you like and execute other website development tasks depending on your needs.
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The following are the things that you need to take note of very carefully when you deploy your WordPress website to a web hosting server or if you plan to deploy your WordPress website which was previously setup in the web hosting server to your XAMPP local host.
Tip#1: The wp-config.php entries should be correct if you deploy your WordPress website to remote hosting. Of course, it will use the web hosting database NOT your XAMPP database anymore. Basically you just need to export your local WordPress database to your hosting database server and then update the wp-config.php entries as shown previously.
Tip#2: Same thing with deploying WordPress to your XAMPP localhost. You need to import your WordPress database to XAMPP phpMyAdmin and then update the wp-config.php.
Tip#3: Whenever you deploy or migrate WordPress from one location to another (XAMPP localhost to web hosting server or vice versa). You need to update important entries in the wp_options table in the WordPress database. These are the option_names:
- siteurl
- home
Example: supposing you need to deploy the WordPress website developed in XAMPP localhost (http://locahost/wordpressdemo) to a remote hosting server in your domain: http://www.example.com/. The following are the steps to update siteurl and home:
- Login to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
- Go to your WordPress database and click wp_options table.
- Change the following:
siteurl option name:
siteurl: http://localhost/wordpressdemo
siteurl: http://www.example.com
b.) home option_name
home: http://localhost/wordpressdemo
home: http://www.example.com
If you are doing the opposite (migrating from remote server to localhost), the same method applies.
Tip#4: If possible always use relative URL structure (http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/design/relative_and_absolute_urls.php3 ) so that you can easily migrate your WordPress website from XAMPP localhost to hosting server or vice versa.


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I don't want to spoil anything, so click here if you want to find out about the details of the Romney tax plan, including how he will cut $5 trillion in spending without increasing the deficit.
Cute, huh? (At least if you are a Democrat.) Now that you've seen that, let's think about the legal implications. The website, romneytaxplan.com, is a product of the Democratic National Committee. Yet the website conspicuously carries the Romney campaign logo and uses the Romney campaign's slogan and adopted typestyle. So, is there a trademark problem?
Yes and no.
This is a good example of why it is so important in evaluating intellectual property problems to not only apply the blackletter law, but to also ask the practical question: Would this plaintiff sue?
Trademark law should generously protect parody uses of trademarks. Yet it doesn't always. Consider this parody ad that appeared in a humor magazine called Snickers:
The case was Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Balducci Publications, 28 F. 3d 769 (8th Cir. 1994). Anheuser-Busch, brewers of Michelob, sued for trademark infringement and trademark dilution. The federal district court dismssed the case, but the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the brewery could continue on with its action. I seriously disagree with that case. And there several cases upholding dismissals in the realm of trademark parody. But the Anheuser-Busch case is still, regrettably, good law.
There's also the case the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pursued against a prankster group, The Yes Men, who produced a faked Chamber of Commerce press release and website to go along with a fake press conference they held about support for climate change legislation.
The fact is, the Romney campaign can sue the DNC and the case would have some legs.
But will they?
No way.
There's no way the Romney campaign is going to draw attention to the website and look humorless and loser-y by filing suit. Or even threatening. So it's a good call by the DNC to ignore precedent that points to a potential for legal liability. Calculated risk-taking is often the right prescription when advising clients about IP liability concerns.

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From: PetSmart Charities
PetSmart Charities® has dispatched seven Emergency Relief Waggin'® vehicles, each stocked with $60,000 worth of crucial supplies to aid pets and rescuers hit hardest by the recent floods and tornados in the south and Midwest.
A conservative estimate of 7,000 dogs, cats and horses have been injured or displaced as a result of these storms, and are in need of emergency assistance and medical care. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is the lead agency in this effort and is distributing donated supplies to disaster-struck areas.
The Emergency Relief Waggin' vehicles were dispatched to Memphis, Tennessee, a location central to the impacted areas of the country. The 53-foot trailers and their 16-tons of cargo departed PetSmart® Distribution Centers in Illinois and Texas, bound for Memphis, where animal-rescue teams will operate emergency animal shelters. The vehicles are stocked with critical supplies, including pet food, wire crates, plastic carriers, fenced kennels, bowls, leashes, fans, a generator, a battery charger and lights to aid the animal rescuers on scene.
"PetSmart Charities also dispatches teams of specially trained volunteers to the scene," said Susana Della Maddalena, executive director of PetSmart Charities, Inc. "The volunteers are able to unload supplies and set up the temporary shelters very quickly, enabling on-the-ground rescuers to immediately attend to the animal victims. We are happy to be able to assist in this way and help these animal victims receive the care and comfort they need and deserve."
PetSmart Charities is a nonprofit organization and the largest funder of companion animal-welfare efforts in North America. It established the Emergency Relief Waggin' program in 2007 to help animals who are displaced and/or suffering as a result of natural or man-made disasters. To learn more about the Emergency Relief Waggin' program, visit: www.PetSmartCharities.org/emergency-relief. Members of the public who would like to support PetSmart Charities' Emergency Relief Waggin' program can make a tax-deductible donation online. Funds raised will be used to aid pets affected by this and future Emergency Relief Waggin' program efforts.
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As a product specialist for the Gibson Acoustic division, I get the opportunity to travel and see a lot of our great country. March offered me the chance to expand my horizons, as Yorkville Distributing extended the invitation to travel throughout Western Canada, visiting retail stores to do both staff training and public events.
Day One took me to Calgary, where I met up with Yorkville's Jeremy Berger. We then proceeded to Long and McQuade for staff product training. Later, it was off to Guitarworks, where I did a public presentation on the history and architecture of the Montana acoustics.
The attendees all displayed a passion for guitars, and many had brought their vintage instruments along for a little show-and-tell. Guitarworks also had the Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Hummingbirds which, although sold, they allowed the customers to admire.
The following day's travels took us to Edmonton, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Vancouver with store visits, staff training, and public events filling our days. With Western Canada sales rep Owen Connell as our guide, we had the chance to see some beautiful country, spend time in some incredible acoustic rooms, work with knowledgable sales staffs, and meet many Gibson fans, both young and old. All appreciated the craftsmanship and history that is Gibson, and I came home knowing that the desire to own a true hand-crafted instrument is alive and well.
--Don Ruffato


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Man drowned in Conway identified as Conn. man
July 15. 2013 12:46PM
CONWAY - A 30-year-old man who drowned Saturday after jumping from a railroad trestle into the Saco River was identified Monday as a Connecticut man.
Three people jumped more than 30 feet from the railroad trestle into the Saco River to swim, but only two resurfaced.
The body of Edward Foster, 30, of Gales Ferry, Conn., was found a short distance downstream, according to New Hampshire Marine Patrol. CPR was performed and he was taken to Memorial Hospital in North Conway, where he was pronounced dead.


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A 4-acre wildfire that started two weeks ago near X-rock was human caused, but firefighters are unsure exactly how the blaze was sparked.
The X-rock fire started about 4:15 p.m. June 8 near the base of X-rock, a popular rock-climbing area near northern city limits west of U.S. Highway 550.
Flames moved quickly up the eastern slope of Animas Mountain, sending up a plume of smoke that was visible from most areas in town.
The fire burned through piñon, juniper and Gambel oak. Three helicopters dropped buckets of water to slow the spread.
There was no lightning in the area the week before the fire, which means it had to have been human-caused, said Karola Hanks, fire marshal for Durango Fire & Rescue Authority.
But exactly what sparked the blaze is unknown. The fire burned back on itself, destroying the point of origin, Hanks said.
There is nothing in the area of origin that wasnt damaged by fire, she said. In other words, all the evidence I have has fire damage to it.
There is no evidence the fire started from a homeless camp, she said.
The recreational area receives a lot of traffic, and firefighters are interested in talking to anyone who might have seen anything suspicious in the area.
We are actively looking for vehicles that were in the area or anyone who saw something, Hanks said.
DFRA worked with federal firefighters to extinguish the blaze. No structures were ever immediately threatened.


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SAN ANDREAS - After an unusually long stretch with no water, Yosemite National Park's beloved waterfalls are flowing again, the park announced Monday.
SAN ANDREAS - After an unusually long stretch with no water, Yosemite National Park's beloved waterfalls are flowing again, the park announced Monday.
Blame the record dry summer and a fairly dry winter last year for Yosemite Falls drying up in July, several months earlier than usual.
Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls as well as Bridalveil and other waterfalls are flowing again just before Thanksgiving, thanks to storms that dumped almost two inches of rain over the weekend, park officials said.
"After such a dry period, seeing the waterfalls flowing again is spectacular," Yosemite National Park Superintendent Don Neubacher said.
The park recorded one of its driest years on record, and the driest winter since 2007.
Park staff said the recent storms also brought the first significant snowfall of the season at altitudes higher than 8,000 feet. Park scientists said the storm helped saturate extremely dry soils.
The flow of the Merced River, measured at the Happy Isles Gauging Station, had dipped below four cubic feet per second in October.
Such a low level is rare. The storm system over the weekend has not yet done much to boost Merced River flows.
Still, it did dump enough snow to make back country travel difficult. Tioga Road and Glacier Point Road within the park remain closed.
Unsettled weather is expected the rest of the week, with a chance for more rain and snow.
Contact reporter Dana M. Nichols at (209) 607-1361 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/calaverasblog.


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Proposed hike for Manchester's driver education course reversedBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 25. 2014 11:09PM
MANCHESTER — The tuition for the school district's driver education program will not be going up after all.
The Board of School Committee on Monday voted to keep the tuition at $525 for the course, reversing a decision made at its previous board meeting to hike the rate by nearly 10 percent, to $575.
Reconsideration of the tuition hike was pushed primarily by Mayor Ted Gatsas, who has raised questions about how the program has been run.
The driver education program has accumulated a deficit over the last several years of approximately $180,000.
Gatsas was joined on Monday by other school board members in criticizing the planned tuition hike.
"I'm not going to advocate having students bear the expense of mistakes that were not their fault," Ward 10 board member John Avard said. "I think that extra $50 per student is excessive."
Program Director Mike Dubisz said the proposed $575 tuition for the course would still be comparable to other districts and private driving schools.
He also noted that registration for the fall course was already open and there has been a good response.
"It's going very well. We've had a lot of sign-ups at the new rate," he said. "Classes are not full, but they're filling up," he said.
District Business Administrator Karen DeFrancis recommended that the new tuition rate remain in place and that any changes to the program be assessed after the coming session.
But Gatsas and several board members pressed Dubisz for answers on how he allocates his staffing budget and other matters, and they were largely unsatisfied with the program director's responses.
Assistant Superintendent David Ryan, who is responsible for overseeing the program, echoed these concerns.
"I'd like an opportunity to revamp the system, so it's advantageous for the students and not the adults working in it," he said.
The board voted to reinstate the $525 tuition and to have the administration report back to the board in November with proposed changes to the structure and organization of the program.


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NPR business news starts with China getting a bigger bite of the apple.
INSKEEP: Technically, it may be Apple will be getting a bigger bite of China. In any case, China and Apple have announced a deal to bring the iPhone to the world's biggest wireless network.
This agreement gives Apple access to China Mobile's 700 Million-plus customers. One company with twice as many customers and more that there are people in the United States. It's a big boost for Apple, which has lagged behind Samsung and local brands in the Chinese market.
The iPhone's high price has put it out of reach for many Chinese consumers. And neither Apple nor China Mobile have announced pricing.
China Mobile will begin registering orders for iPhones this week. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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By the standards of government spending $66,000 isn't much.
By the standards of government spending $66,000 isn't much.
Unlike the talk we usually hear about such spending, talk of trillions or billions or even millions of dollars, $66,000 is a figure anyone can understand.
Nobody can really grasp what a trillion is, but if you want to try start counting. If you count one number per second and do that non-stop, it will take 31,688 years.
It doesn't take much to understand $66,000. It's just a bit less than three times the per capita income of a San Joaquin County resident.
Or, it's about is about $13,000 more than the median household income in the county.
But at the San Joaquin County Mosquito and Vector Control District, $66,000 has another meaning. It's what the district will shell out this year to provide health care coverage for six of the 11-member district board.
Three years ago the San Joaquin Taxpayer's Association questioned why appointed board members of a mosquito board should even have their health care covered by the taxpayers. They only meet once a month and are paid $100 per meeting. That doesn't seem an outlandish stipend.
But $11,000 per year they receive in the form of health care coverage seems over the top.
The district provides coverage for its regular workers, as do a lot of employers. That costs about $659,000 per year.
Coverage for workers is one thing. Coverage for part-time appointees is another.
Nevertheless, the board recently voted unanimously to continue the benefit for themselves.


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I moved to New York, in the way many of us did, because of television. Not just the lure of the Sex and the City lifestyle or the Seinfeld wit, but the basic "this is the center of the universe" promise, from years of watching the ball drop in Times Square or the daily gaggle waving at the Today show in Rockefeller Center. New York was where important things happened, and it seemed as improbable a place to actually live as the Brady house. When I moved here, first for a summer between junior and senior year of college and then for good a year later, I never stopped taking pleasure in turning on Today and seeing the same weather that was outside my window. When I worked at ABC as an intern, I spotted a pack of guys on the street outside my office who I'd seen half an hour earlier in the audience for Regis & Kelly. They were really there. I was really here.
My first year in Manhattan began in September of 2006, moving with my roommate-- a girl I knew from college-- into a two-bedroom apartment on West 107th Street with sickly yellow-painted walls and an alcove that was generously called a living room. Life there was obviously not up to TV fantasy standards-- I worked as an editorial assistant and babysitter, my roommate as a receptionist, and we endured endless blank evenings with nothing to do and no money to do it with. Life in New York was hard, and it was supposed to be. We sweated every swipe of the MetroCard, every drink paid for at a bar and not at home; half the time it was hard to find people to hang out with, because everyone had two or three jobs to make what little money they had.
TV, inevitably, filled the void. We didn't have cable, and were making do with an enormous black-box TV that my roommate had schlepped around since college, which took up half the wall space in our pathetically small living room. 2006 was the fall of Heroes and Chuck, of Lost's abysmal third season and the premiere of Friday Night Lights. It was also, famously, the battle between Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Tina Fey's 30 Rock, though no one really thought it was a battle at the time. My roommate and I, like everyone else, assumed Studio 60 was the only one worth watching, and then found ourselves lulled into apathy by the Gilbert & Sullivan tributes, by the monologues, by the endless promises that Sarah Paulson's character was a comedic genius even though she never proved it.
At some point, we finally turned our attention to 30 Rock. Between that and How I Met Your Mother, finally finding its stride in its second season, we each found the perfect, cracked reflection of our own stumbling New York lives. And being filmed on location in New York, 30 Rock was the one that carried that now-familiar thrill, the "it is really there… I am really here" association that meant, regardless of my under-employment or boredom, I had made it to this city somehow. And in a way that nothing had since Seinfeld-- which had ended when I was too young to appreciate it-- it depicted New York not as a place of fantasy or aspiration, but a smelly, frustrating and ridiculous town where people, weird ones, actually lived.
In the pilot Liz goes to meet Tracy at some anonymous fancy restaurant and eventually follows him to eat fried chicken and drink beer at the M&G Diner on 125th and Morningside, not far from the terrible apartment where I sweated through that summer as an ABC intern. In what might be the best episode ever, "Tracy Does Conan," Kenneth is sent to a Rite Drug on a very specific intersection, only to find 4 identical ones (clearly meant to be Duane Reade) on each corner. In the Valentine's Day episode "Up All Night," Jack gets questionable fried chicken from one of the midtown's ubiquitous 24-hour delis. In "Cleveland," Liz and her dreamy boyfriend Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) fantasize about leaving the city while walking past the construction at Houston and Broadway (somehow still hellish to this day).
30 Rock was one giant in-joke I was just barely in time to get. Liz Lemon is 15 years older than me, struggling with a work-life balance I couldn't comprehend at 22 and living at an address (160 Riverside Drive!) I still can't afford, but her life in New York, wild as it was, looked like mine. Sex and the City traveled to the city's best clubs and even did its walk-and-talks in nice neighborhoods made shinier by TV. 30 Rock threw parties at taxi dispatch centers in Queens, sent its characters to flourescent-lit delis, and used a section of Central Park near my apartment (The Pool!) to pretend to be rural Pennsylvania, where Jack and CeCe carried out their secret romance. They weren't fooling me. After all, I was a New Yorker.


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Isuma Productions
Before Tomorrow
Igloolik Isuma Productions' third feature film and Arnait Video Productions' first feature film celebrated its world premiere at the 2008 edition of the TIFF.
"Before Tomorrow," garnered the prize for Best First Canadian Film at its world premiere at last September's Toronto Festival and played at this year's Sundance Festival. It was awarded First Prize at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Grand Prize at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco, Best Feature Film at the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival; and named one of Canada's Top Ten for 2008.
March 2009: Canadian theatrical release. September 2009: Canadian DVD release.
December 2-15, 2009: U.S. premiere at Film Forum, New York.
Festival history here; more information firstname.lastname@example.com
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen is the first film to visualize the Christianization of indigenous people from their own point of view. Opening Night, 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.VOD Download in SD or HD
Atanarjuat The Fast Runner
An exciting action thriller set in ancient Igloolik, the film unfolds as a life-threatening struggle of love, jealousy, murder and revenge between powerful natural and supernatural characters. Camera d'or, 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
IsumaTV is an internet video portal for indigenous filmmakers, with unique indigenous-language content available 24/7. Our goal is to help films and filmmakers reach a wider audience; help audiences see themselves in their own languages; help communities connect around common concerns; and help worldwide viewers see indigenous reality from its own point of view.
IsumaTV a FREE service to filmmakers and viewers: a serious, professional, high-quality space to post your films on the internet, in a respectful user-friendly context.
IsumaTV is an open call for existing films and new concepts of internet TV, we invite filmmakers, partners and financial contributors to join this collective effort to preserve and enhance global indigenous filmmaking. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com or refer to the IsumaTV About Us page.
Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. Learn more about Exile or View Film.
Kiviaq versus Canada
Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial policies.
Listen to Kiviaq's interview with Shelagh Rogers (CBC's Sounds like Canada, Friday March 2nd, 2007).
This website was made possible with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through
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Sam Harris: Moral Clarity or Islamophobia?
Last month a contentious exchange broke out between Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald and one of the torchbearers of the so-called New Atheist movement — Sam Harris. The quarrel began when Mr. Greenwald tweeted a link to an Al Jazeera article by Murtaza Hussain. The article argued that some of the New Atheists (Mr. Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christopher Hitchens) endorse, under the guise of rational scientific discourse, forms (often venomous) of anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Particularly problematic for Mr. Greenwald was Mr. Harris' assertion — cited by Mr. Hussain — that "[the] people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists."
Mr. Harris then wrote to Mr. Greenwald, protesting Mr. Hussain's "quote-mining," criticizing the Al Jazeera article as "defamatory garbage," and expressing frustration with Mr. Greenwald for promoting the piece.
However, reading Mr. Harris' quote in context does little to call into question the conclusion reached by Mr. Hussain. Indeed, Mr. Harris confirmed Mr. Hussain's conclusion when he explained to Mr. Greenwald that it was his (Mr. Harris) intention to "bemoan the loss of liberal moral clarity in the war on terror."
It is a curious line of reasoning that allows Mr. Harris to espouse positive views about fascist speech and about the "moral clarity" of the Christian Right (a group included in the context provided by Mr. Harris) without assuming any of the liabilities of these positions. He endorses the "sensibleness" of their speech, neither as fascist speech nor as the speech of the Christian Right, but rather as the displaced speech of an authentic liberalism. Mr. Harris thus identifies his position with fascists and religious fundamentalists through his presumed ability to sanction their views without himself being identified with their practices.
This is the reason Mr. Harris takes such offense at the accusation that he is a racist or an Islamophobe. He is, as he states, "not making common cause with fascists," but rather recovering the reasoned liberal position of defending "civil society" — a task, he claims, that in recent years has "been outsourced to extremists."
Thus for Mr. Harris, the inability or unwillingness of secular, multicultural liberalism to press a vigorous critique of Islam is a symptom of its failure. With respect to Islam, liberals, according to Mr. Harris, ought to be ones "pointing the way beyond this iron-age madness," but they have failed by virtue of their multicultural tolerance.
One of the critiques, advanced by Mr. Hussain against New Atheists like Mr. Harris, concerns the way in which their rational thinking is not as free from history as it presumes; on the contrary, it often exhibits the tendency to rehearse oppressive (at times racialized) features of colonial thought. Mr. Harris' phrase "this iron age madness" functions as a clear example of the way in which he codes 'non-Western' as traditional, backward, and repressive, allowing the West to represent itself as modern, forward thinking, and free.
This form of reasoning confuses its descriptions with its presuppositions, using the former to covertly ground the latter.
In a notable example of such confused reasoning, Mr. Harris asserted, in a Huffington Post piece quoted by Mr. Hussain, that "the outrage that Muslims feel over US and British foreign policy is primarily the product of theological concerns."
Here we see Mr. Harris' assumptions: 1) theological concerns cannot provide a basis for reasonable claims; 2) theological concerns are symptoms of a mistaken (traditional, backward, culturally determined) understandings of oneself and the world; and 3) non-theological (atheistic) concerns as the only kinds of concerns capable of grounding an accurate view of oneself and the world.
Mr. Harris' assumptions mask the vast differences internal to modes of religious thought (an oxymoron for Mr. Harris) and religious life. It also obscures the fact that there might, in fact, be non-theological reasons for Muslims to feel outraged over U.S. and British foreign policy.
Mr. Harris' new form of atheism sounds very much like an old form of colonialism.
This is seen most clearly at those moments when Mr. Harris shows us the ethical character of his thinking. He writes, in the email response to Mr. Greenwald, "one of my main concerns is for all the suffering women, homosexuals, freethinkers, and intellectuals in indigenous Muslim societies."
Appealing to the discourse of Western moral superiority, Mr. Harris invokes their plight as a way to justify belligerent attitudes against Islam. His reasoning predicates the West as the source of salvation and precludes the possibility of thinking meaningful social transformation outside the framework of an atheistic liberalism.
This essay is reprinted with permission of Sightings from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.


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With his bloodied cane and black bowler, Malcolm McDowell became a signature symbol of brutal youth in 1971's "A Clockwork Orange" but the actor says he couldn't truly appreciate that angry young man until he himself was old enough to comb white hair.
"For years, I didn't see the same film everybody saw," the 67-year-old actor said recently. "It was 10 years ago in Los Angeles when I went to a screening of it and I couldn't believe what I saw, the accomplishment of the movie, the pure talent of [director] Stanley Kubrick. In truth, that's when I began to look back in a different way."
The movie's 40th anniversary won't arrive until a week before Christmas but the commemoration began months ago. The movie was also shown with great fanfare at the Cannes Film Festival in May, as was a well-reviewed documentary, "Once Upon a Time … Clockwork," examining the legacy of the film and the novel by Anthony Burgess that inspired it. A lavish Blu-ray anniversary edition has inspired another wave of cultural essays and, on Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host a McDowell tribute followed by a sold-out screening.
All of this has McDowell pondering his long, strange odyssey with the film.
"I was invited into the woods when Kubrick cast me in the film but I couldn't see the trees until years later," McDowell said. "For maybe 10 years, I resented it because everyone wanted me to repeat it. The best part for any actor is the next one and 'Clockwork' irritated me because it took that away at times."
"Clockwork" and its tale of sociopathic thugs in a futuristic England shocked with its scenes of rape, murder and torture. It was released in the U.S. with an X rating and, amid a nasty furor in 1972, Kubrick withdrew the film from circulation in England. For more than 25 years, it was illegal to show the film in U.K. theaters.
The controversy only added to the allure of a film that still echoes loudly in pop culture.
Gnarls Barkley and Bart Simpson are among the tricksters who have worn the bowlers and so did Christina Aguilera a few years ago at her "Clockwork"-themed birthday party. Acts as diverse as Madonna, Led Zeppelin, Lady Gaga, My Chemical Romance, Usher, Blur and David Bowie have used the film's iconography in their concert stagings or music videos. The prominence has a price. After pop star Kylie Minogue's back-up singers appeared in "Clockwork" gear, the Guardian of London moaned that the classic had officially "ceased to be dangerous."
Not a chance, says Steven Spielberg, who sees dark new shadings in the movie and its vision of youth numbed by sensory overload and sexualized violence in a society advancing in science but not spirit.
"The movie hasn't worn out its welcome at all and I doubt it ever will," Spielberg said in a recent Hero Complex interveiw. "Like all of Kubrick's films, it's still a cautionary tale that continues to occur in the world. It was considered a revolutionary film when it came out but not really a prophetic film. But like all of Kubrick's films, it turned out to be more prophetic than is reasonable."
At the center of it all is McDowell, the British actor who has one of the more disturbing resumes in cinema with "Caligula," "O Lucky Man" and two "Halloween" films. He even killed off Captain Kirk in 1994's "Star Trek: Generations," but it is his cane-twirling as Alex DeLarge in "Clockwork" that people remember.
Kubrick first saw McDowell's malevolent smirk in Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If…" and Christiana Kubrick recalls that her husband, in his private screening room, called out to the projectionist to turn the reel back when he saw McDowell. He did that four more times.
"We have found our Alex," the director announced.
The novel "A Clockwork Orange" had been published in 1962 and there was interest in a movie right away. Mick Jagger, eager to star, acquired the rights for a time but they ended up with Kubrick, who, after "2001: A Space Odyssey," was ready for something more manageable.
The director gave McDowell the book and (like many readers) he found it difficult to wade through the slang argot Burgess had created. After three readings, "the penny dropped" and the actor grasped the "amazing potential" of the role.
McDowell would suffer for his art. In the film, Alex, a prisoner of the state, is subjected to a hideous experiment where his eyes are kept open by metal clips and, on the set, the actor's howls were real.
"I ended up with scratched corneas — nasty, viciously painful," McDowell said. "It heals up pretty quick but a few days later Stanley says he needs one more, a real close-up. The stand-in wouldn't do it; he saw what happened to me. So it was back in the chair. It was the last day of the shoot. I was terrified and you can see it in the shot."
At another point, Kubrick was flummoxed by a scene that called for McDowell and his mates to break into a home and brutalize the owners.
"As written, they just come in and menace and throw bottles through a window," McDowell said. "There was really nothing there. The way we were doing the whole movie was in this dark, surreal manner, it was real but heightened. To do something naturalistic wouldn't work. We sat around thinking about it — for five days the camera did not move — which is unimaginable with anyone other than Kubrick."
McDowell came up with the solution — a robust rendition of "Singin' in the Rain," an unforgettable flourish of the perverse and, for the actor, a signature career moment. "It just came out," the actor said, "and it added so much horror to it all."
"Clockwork" would be nominated for the best picture Oscar (and become the first sci-fi film to get that honor) but the acclaim was hardly uniform. In the view of McDowell, the central message is often missed.
"It's about big brother and the freedom to choose," McDowell said. "Burgess was brilliant in that he made this anti-hero — a despicable guy, a murderer and a rapist — but does the state have the right to alter his mind? Obviously not. And Kubrick found in this novel a black comedy although when it came out not everyone was laughing."
Consider author Tom Wolfe a voice for the unamused. In a phone interview, he groaned when asked about the film: "It was a shock, just the cynical cruelty of it. The film went after everybody as target, the criminals and society and the government. Nothing went quite as far as 'wild kids' as that film and for years when there was a brutal crime, the news reports would use 'Clockwork Orange' as shorthand. The characters in the film, to use the police term, showed no affect. That's what I remember most."
The movie's long exile from the theaters of England, however, resulted from a decision by Kubrick, not the censors, McDowell said. Amid incendiary reports of "copycat" crimes and death threats, the director consulted with Scotland Yard and then pulled the film.
"It created a kind of craze," McDowell said. "People would fly to Paris and buy these awful videos made by people aiming cameras at some movie screen. Stanley moved on. He just didn't think to go back to the whole thing."
McDowell had a similar attitude, both toward the film and the filmmaker. McDowell was vague on the specifics of the estrangement but spoke fondly of Kubrick, who dressed "schlubby" and seemed forever distracted, like some astrophysicist too busy with knotty cosmic puzzles to notice his shoes were untied.
"I suppose if I regret anything in life it's that I didn't pick up the phone," McDowell said. "But then neither did he."
McDowell said "A Clockwork Orange" now feels more like a time traveler than a time capsule. That was another insight he gleaned at the 30th anniversary screening in Los Angeles.
"I went to the bathroom and this kid, maybe 16, walks past and says, 'Hey, 'Clockwork,' right?' I said, 'Well, yes.' He asked, 'Which part were you? The old guy?' He thought it was a new film. And he thought I was the old guy. Maybe he was right about both."
— Geoff Boucher
Spielberg: 'Stanley Kubrick never really leaves'
McDowell: Kirk deserved a better death scene
Tim Burton's 'Clockwork Orange' vomit memory
'Black Swan': Taking a page from Kubrick
Ford: Today's special-effects films are soulless
Francis Ford Coppola: Vampires, loss and superfandom
Michael Keaton on a lost scene from 'Batman'
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There were 79 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,460 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
There were 79 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,460 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Narcotics arrest: Joseph Abdullah Jr., 25, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and drug possession with intent to sell after deputies found him with about 8.3 grams of suspected heroin about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 10200 block of Garnet Avenue in Stockton. Adbullah was also arrested for an outstanding warrant.
Assault with a deadly weapon: Deputies responded to a report of a disturbance about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 8000 block of North Highway 99 Frontage Road. When they arrived, they learned that Mildred Farley, 61, had attempted to stab an innkeeper with a kitchen knife. Farley was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Shooting: A woman arrived at a hospital with a small wound to an extremity about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The victim said she was walking into a business in the 3200 block of East Hammer Lane when she heard two to three popping sounds and noticed she was injured. It is unknown whether the wound was caused by a bullet or a pellet.
Robbery: A man entered a business in the 10000 block of Trinity Parkway about 11:40 a.m. Thursday, threatened to shoot people and took cash from two registers. The man fled to a vehicle in the parking lot, possibly a silver or gray Chevrolet Malibu or Impala. He was described as a black man in his 20s with curly hair standing 5 feet 7 inches tall with a thin build, a clean-shaven face, a black hooded sweatshirt, a black and red hat and black pants.
Burglary arrest: Three teens were arrested after police interrupted a residential burglary about noon Thursday in the 100 block of Nabor Lane. The suspects attempted to flee on foot, but all three were apprehended. Terrick Alexander, 19, Richard Douglas, 18, and Daniel Perez, 18, were arrested on suspicion of multiple felony crimes.
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The Stockton Fire Department responded to 116 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, including five vehicle accidents, 85 medical calls and two structure fires.


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- The division of work is almost equal, at 54% and 46% for the right and left thumb, respectively.
- Alternation is rapid: 62% of the taps are switches.
- Travel distances are short: On average, the left thumb moves 86 px, the right 117.
- The spacebars are centrally located.
- The right thumb handles all vowels except y. The clustering of vowels around the spacebar favors quick switches and minimizes travel distance. The right thumb is responsible for 64% of same-side taps.
- The left thumb has most of the consonants, exploiting its ability to hover above the next button sooner. It has most first letters of words and most of the consonants.
Researchers create innovative KALQ keyboard for faster thumb-typing, Android app coming in May
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1. tech2 (Posts: 3487; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
Point 5.
Since when 'y' was a vowel. WOW !!! o.O
Also, how is this keyboard different from Apple's similar keyboard layout option on iPad ?
7. thephoneguy92 (Posts: 191; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
The letter y is often times considered a vowel, although I guess it's not written in store. It doesn't make sense, but welcome to the English language
8. Stuntman (Posts: 843; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
When I was in elementary school, I learned that the vowels are "A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y."
2. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
Did you go to a Public School or something? Yes, "Y" can be a vowel or consonant. My, why, sky, are all examples of Y as a vowel.
Did you even look at the picture of the keyboard? It's not QWERTY so the layout is nothing close to the iPad keyboard or any other keyboard, for that matter. The top four keys for your right thumb are G, T, O, J. Seems like there would be a high learning curve getting use to the new locations for each letter.
3. scriptwriter (Posts: 396; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
its nothing new. Swiftkey has the option to split the keyboard like that.
16. zinniadx (Posts: 4; Member since: 29 Apr 2013)
Although Swiftkey had designed such layout, but with this, after a little practice you can type 34% faster.
4. AlanB412 (Posts: 32; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
Jumping balls of alphabet soup Batman! Those commenters just can't seem to understand that the split-keyboard isn't the bid deal here. It's the letter ordering that's been changed to make typing more efficient.
6. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
Thanks you! At least someone gets it and understand the entire point of the article! Yes, there are many keyboard that are split, but none are split like this one.
5. buccob (Posts: 2907; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
Unless standardization for this is made, it is useless for somebody to learn this and then jump back to qwerty on your computer...
I rather have Swipe on my Android device, which helps a lot on speed... maybe not 34% but close enough
9. Stuntman (Posts: 843; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
I don't believe that it will only take a few hours training. When I took a typing course, it was an entire year course to learn to type on a QWERTY keyboard layout. Some time after the course, I tried Dvorak keyboard layout that is supposed to be more efficient than the QWERTY layout. I tried it for a few days and gave up.
I do think that people equally proficient with a QWERTY and KALQ layout will be faster using KALQ. However, I really think it will take weeks before you really become proficient and likely longer before you can realise the benefits of the KALQ layout.
13. TheMan (Posts: 494; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
That long, eh? My HS typing course was a 3 month affair and we were expected to know key locations within the first month. At the end of the class we had to hit 40 wpm to pass.
The graphic shows that it isn't until the 8th test day before proficiency reaches QWERTY levels (on average, I presume). It doesn't say how many hours of training this represents.
10. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
well QWERTY came because of the fact that typing was TOO FAST with old keyboard layouts, which literally were ABCDEF etc. This format was too fast and so they had to come up with a format that would be fast but not so fast that people would break their typewriters quickly, so QWERTY was born. It was designed to be fast but not too fast.
11. sprockkets (Posts: 1612; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
It wasn't because of speed, but to spread out the keys used all around to prevent typewriters from jamming.
14. buccob (Posts: 2907; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
And jamming was cause because of speed typing...
Anyway both of you are correct... And I would love to see ABC's keyboard truly come back... but since it is so far away from reality, lets stick to qwerty
15. sprockkets (Posts: 1612; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
You are close but whatever. Speed was only half the issue.
12. Trex95 (Posts: 2227; Member since: 03 Mar 2013)
Copied from Ipad.
17. zinniadx (Posts: 4; Member since: 29 Apr 2013)
KALQ had broken the trend of QWERTY in iPad, & other phones to minimize the movement of the thumbs. The main motive behind the design of KALQ is to save your thumbs stretching across the screen.you can check outfresh.com for more info.


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Peletah Ministries and Kramden Institute teamed up to recently donate more than 130 computers to Jones County students.
Peletah Ministries and Kramden Institute teamed up to recently donate more than 130 computers to Jones County students.
Students from 3rd to 6th grade from Pollocksville Elementary, Comfort Elementary and Maysville Elementary were eligible to receive the computers.
"We are elated," said Kim Bundy, the principal of Pollocksville Elementary. "There is a need here, and with the new Common Core Curriculum, this will really help students with having access outside of school."
Each computer came with a monitor, keyboard and mouse and was loaded with educational programs, according to Carie Delmariani, a director of programs from Kramden Institute, a Durham based nonprofit.
The parents and students also received some basic computer training before taking their new computer home. Each of the computers were donated to Kramden from individuals and businesses and then refurbished before adding the educational software.
"A lot of parents supplement education at home," said Dawn Baldwin Gibson, the executive pastor at Peletah Ministries. "This will give (students) the opportunity to be on a level playing field."
The Kramden Institute is an all-volunteer organization whose mission is to help students and others across the digital divide, according to its website. Its belief is that access to information technology tools is a must for success in the 21st century, both at school and beyond.
Delmariani said the organization has distributed about 14,500 computers over its 10 years.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for students," said Timothy Erlitz, a 5th grade teacher at Pollocksville Elementary. "Technology is not available to a lot of our students and this will help them reinforce skills they learn in class at home."
Gibson said Jones County was selected based on need.
"This is the first time they can take a computer home," she said. "It's especially great for foster children who get to keep something for themselves no matter where they go. There are so many families that work but still can't afford to buy a computer."
To help the new computer owners get online, CenturyLink offered families discounted prices to set up internet access.
The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina provided bags of food for families to take home as well.
For more information on Kramden Institute, visit kramden.org. To donate to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, visit foodbankcenc.org.


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NIANGUA - Macks Creek, recently ranked ninth in the latest Class 1 Baseball Coaches poll, fell to the Niangua Cardinals by the score of 12-4 on Monday night. The game was moved from Macks Creek due to field conditions, but the Pirates remained the home team on the scoreboard.
Niangua plated a single tally in the first inning. Following a lead off walk, a balk moved the runner to second. The runner then advanced on a wild pitch ahead of another walk, before being picked off at third by Pirates' starter Brian Devivo. Niangua would then utilize two singles and an error to take a 1-0 lead.
The Pirates would go quietly in their half of the first before Niangua erupted for four more runs in the second for a 5-0 lead. In the bottom of the second, Cody Eidson led off with a single. After a strikeout, Jacob Devivo advanced Eidson to third with a bunt before Eric Waters drove him in with a single up the middle to cut the deficit to 5-1.
Niangua again scored four more runs in the top of the third. The Cardinals took advantage of three walks, two hits and an error to create a 9-1 lead and chase the Pirates' starter. Bricker Berry relieved and collected a strikeout to end the half-inning.
Each side would go quietly over the next four innings, with the only scoring coming from a single Cardinal run in the fourth. In the top of the seventh, Berry would tire and allow two runs in the frame. Andrew Kohler relieved and recorded three outs on two pitches.
The Pirates did not go away in the seventh. Matt Hicks led off the bottom of the inning with a single. Following a strikeout, Waters hit a ground ball to second that was misplayed and rolled into center. Hicks would advance to third and Waters to second on the play. Following another strikeout, Brian Devivo doubled to left, plating Hicks and moving Waters to third. Both runners would cross the plate when Tommie Willis smacked a double down the right field line. Berry was then hit-by-a-pitch before two strikeouts ended the game.
"We came out a bit flat tonight on both offense and defense," commented Coach Trusty, "but, I am glad that we continued to fight until the last out."
Brian Devivo took the loss on the mound. He worked the first two-and-two-thirds innings, allowing nine runs, four earned, on six hits while striking out three, hitting one and walking seven. He falls to 2-2 with the loss. Berry worked the next three-and-a-third innings. He allowed three runs, two earned, struck out seven and walked six. Andrew Kohler worked a full inning on just two pitches, inducing a double play and a ground out.
"Struggled a bit to throw strikes tonight and it hurt us," added Coach Trusty.
Austin Hufferd, Cody Eidson, Matt Hicks and Eric Waters each singled for the Pirates while Brian Devivo and Tommie Willis doubled. Brian, Eidson, Hicks and Waters each scored with Brian and Waters collecting a single RBI each. Willis collected two RBI's in the contest. Bricker Berry reached on a walk and a hit-by-pitch, Nathan Jones reached on an error and Jacob Devivo laid down a sacrifice bunt.
The Pirates fall to 6-3 with the loss. They are next slated to take on the Osage Indians on Friday at 5:00, weather permitting.
Number 9 ranked Macks Creek falls to Niangua
NIANGUA - Macks Creek, recently ranked ninth in the latest Class 1 Baseball Coaches poll, fell to the Niangua Cardinals by the score of 12-4 on Monday night. The game was moved from Macks Creek due to field conditions, but the Pirates remained the home team on the scoreboard.


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I also some weeks back promised to keep you up to date on the progress of a quilt I'm making with my sons class ( Reception children aged 4 to 5 years old ). So here's a peek at where were up to !!!
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There was no rain in the weather forecast when I went to bed last night. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. So what do I wake up to? Rain. OK, heavy drizzle, but certainly nothing that's going to dry up in the next 35 minutes and let me ride my "nice" bike. Plus the "leisurely" 35 minutes I allow between the alarm going off and getting out the door suddenly becomes not-so-leisurely as you have to get all your wet-weather gear on. Motivation for doing things more-quickly seems dulled by the realization you're going to have a tougher time out there because you're riding a bike with slower tires, fenders, and an accumulation of crud from the past few rain rides.
But the icing on the cake? The rain bike (my Trek 5900) has a flat tire. Discovered at 7:28am. Need to be out the door by 7:32am to get to the start in time. Still got a few other things to do… this isn't going to work out. So I grab the Bike Friday Pocket Rocket instead and head out the garage, with Kevin, at 7:38 I think. This was one of those "We're not going to make it, are we?" moments. On our "nice" bikes it's an 8 to 9 minute ride to the start. On dry roads. Figure 11 minutes on rain bikes in the muck. 10 if you push it. The ride leaves promptly at 7:45am. We arrive promptly… at 7:48. Nobody's there (they shouldn't be, they know the rules!) but was anybody there? We look for tire tracks, but it's inconclusive. On Albion I'm pretty sure I see recent tracks though. No way to catch whomever might be ahead of us, so instead we ride up through the midpoint and backward on the route, from Sky Londa to Kings, hoping to catch them in the other direction. It worked; we came across John and Eric descending towards Sky Londa, just slightly behind schedule.
Because my Bike Friday doesn't have fenders I rode in the back; in general, riding when it's wet, without fenders, isn't allowed on this ride. It's just not nice to have water spraying up at everyone else, but of course I'm a professional rider on a closed course. Not! I'll look into some fenders for my Bike Friday; hadn't give it any thought up to now, but it's actually a very capable rain bike. The small tires didn't have an issue on the tar stripes, and the brakes worked better than expected.
In the end the ride was only 29 miles total, not 30.4, but that's a lot better than not riding at all. And it gave us a chance to figure out what needs to be done to reintroduce ourselves to real winter riding, when it's a lot colder than 44 degrees. Need to remember things like wearing a hat under the helmet (allows you to keep the rain out of your eyes by simply tilting your head down a bit) and which gloves work best when soaked (none of them).


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Obama may be open to short-term debt ceiling hike
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama economic adviser is suggesting that the White House would be open to a short-term increase in the nation's borrowing authority. But the adviser, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, says a long-term extension of the debt limit would be better for the economy.
Sperling says the size of the increase is up to Congress. Asked if a two- or three-week extension would be out of the question for the White House, Sperling said, quote, "Longer is better for economic certainty and jobs, but it is ultimately up to them."
Sperling spoke at a breakfast Monday sponsored by Politico.
Sperling reiterated President Barack Obama's vow not to negotiate on the debt because it would sanction the threat of default as a bargaining chip and increase the chance of default in the future.


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In this talk we will explore the best practices in using interfaces as the foundation for designing object oriented applications in Ruby and Rails. We will talk about some of the techniques that make it possible to write loosely coupled components that can be easily extended to respond to requirement changes.
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As his critics grow louder on the right and left, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is drawing support from an unlikely source.
Hispanic leaders across the political spectrum — including some that typically favor Democrats — are giving the Republican governor the benefit of the doubt even as new details emerge in an abuse-of-power scandal. They have warmed to Christie in part because of his aggressive courtship of minority voters throughout his first four years in office and promise to do more as his second term begins.
Just days before an apparent case of political retribution by his office was exposed this month, Christie signed a new law granting in-state college tuition rates to New Jersey immigrants in the country illegally, winning national praise from Hispanic officials. The gesture may alienate some conservatives in the next presidential election should he seek the White House, but it helped cement Christie's status as one of the Hispanic community's more popular Republicans.
"I think everybody needs to take a deep breath," said the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, who delivered an invocation at the last Democratic National Convention. "We don't want to judge anything before all the facts are out. Gov. Christie has said he did not know about it. Right now, there's no evidence to the contrary."
Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, suggested that Democrats are pushing new allegations against Christie because they're afraid of his strength as a prospective 2016 presidential candidate.
"I just don't see the huge scandal," Aguilar said, describing Christie's popularity among Hispanics as a potential "game changer" for the Republican Party.
Christie has apologized and fired senior aides for his administration's role in traffic jams apparently engineered last fall to punish a Democratic mayor who refused to endorse his re-election campaign. The Democratic-led state Legislature is investigating the incident. Another Democratic mayor said over the weekend that the Christie administration balked on delivering Superstorm Sandy aid unless she supported a prime real estate project.
Citing the growing controversies, recent Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said this week that Christie should resign his post as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
The Hispanic community is by no means unified behind Christie. And even those pleased with his minority outreach suggest their views could change should new evidence surface in the abuse-of-power allegations. But their early support highlights Christie's popularity with Hispanic voters compared with Republicans elsewhere ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.
The GOP's last presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, won just 27 percent of the national Hispanic vote. A year later, Christie captured roughly half of Hispanic voters in an overwhelming New Jersey re-election victory. Republican strategists concede that the party must improve its standing among the growing demographic if it hopes to take back the White House.
"This election has taught us that the ways we divide each other — by race, by class, by ethnicity, by wealth, by political party — is neither permanent nor necessary," Christie declared Tuesday shortly after taking the oath of office to begin his second term.
He scheduled his inaugural night celebration for New York's Ellis Island, the nation's storied entry point for millions of immigrants. The event was canceled because of weather concerns, however.
But in a speech that ignored the swirling controversy, Christie cited the passage of New Jersey's student tuition bill as an example of putting "the future of our state ahead of the partisans who would rather demonize than compromise."
"We have to be willing to reach out to others who look or speak differently than us," he said.
Christie has refused to say whether he supports federal legislation outlining a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the country illegally. But in New Jersey, minority leaders report that he began reaching out almost immediately after taking office. The Christie administration focused, in particular, on helping minority business owners cut through government red tape.
"He's always been very popular with the Hispanic community," said Carlos Medina, chairman of the New Jersey statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Medina described the allegations against the Christie administration as "so out of character." ''Even now, we want to give him the benefit of the doubt," he said. "It's innocent until proven guilty."
Others aren't as forgiving.
Frank Argote-Freyre, president of the New Jersey-based Latino Action Network, is grateful that Christie supported the law granting in-state college tuition rates to New Jersey immigrants in the country illegally. But he says that the governor has consistently cut funding from minority groups, was slow to resolve problems on a Sandy-related Spanish-language website and directed a disproportionate level of Sandy aid to homeowners instead of rental units typically occupied by minorities.
"From the perspective of our organization, and I'd venture to guess most Latinos, he's a disaster for our community," Argote-Freyre said. In the weeks since the scandal erupted, "his reputation has suffered in all segments of the community."


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Former Winter Park standout Sam Richardson, who redshirted as a freshman last season and had rarely seen the field this season at Iowa State, finally got his chance on Saturday.
He did not waste the opportunity.
The athletic Richardson connected on 23-of-27 passes for 250 yards and four touchdowns, and also ran for a goal-line touchdown in the fourth to lead Iowa State past Kansas 51-23. The loss was the 20th straight Big 12 loss for KU (1-10).
Richardson, who had only seen spot mop-up duty this year, engineered four straight scoring drives in the second quarter and the Cyclones (6-5 overall, 3-5 Big 12) led to touchdowns on four straight possessions in the second quarter while taking a 38-17 lead.
Richardson did not start the game, coming to the aide of starter Richardson Steele Jantz on the Cyclones' third series. Richardson completed passes to 12 different Cyclones players.
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LODI - An urn that was stolen from a Lodi church has been safely returned.
LODI - An urn that was stolen from a Lodi church has been safely returned.
Lodi First United Church Pastor Lori Sawdon said an urn holding the remains of longtime Lodi resident Altonita "Tita" Hutchens was found on a bench in the church's garden with an anonymous note attached late last week.
"The urn was intact. We are grateful for the return of the urn," Sawdon said.
A prayer along with a message that the urn was "found" somewhere in Lodi was written on the note.
The urn was reported stolen in November on a weekend where police said three churches were burglarized in a short time frame. Police said the bronze urn was targeted by thieves because of its value at a metal recycling outlet.
The urn has been returned to the Hutchens family in San Jose.


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"When I draw I am able to understand better the reality of a landscape or an object. I find it also a social activity, which interweaves the conversation, walks, meals, drawings. It is also fun, relaxing and very satisfying in the end.
I want my drawing to be simple in order to grasp better the complexity and I try to broaden my horizons by learning new techniques. Although it is always easier for me to draw buildings since I'm an architect, or generally static objects that are not alive, I attempt to learn a bit from everything and everyone.
I like to draw cities. They don't interest me so much from the aesthetic or artistic point of view, as from its functional point of view, the way they are. Drawing is a way to understand better a city, and it is perhaps the most sincere souvenir."
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• Álvaro's blog.
Relocated to Rzeszów, Poland, July 2015. See Álvaro's post Changes and Beginnings


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Nation's Youth Sports Organizations and Health Leaders Unite to Launch Sports Concussion Partnership
National Sports Concussion Coalition to identify shared approaches to enhancing safer youth play
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 7, 2013)
— A number of the nation's most prominent youth sports organizations announced today that they will be partnering with concussion specialists, sports medicine professionals and leaders at other levels of sports to create an unprecedented coalition to combat concussions among young athletes.
The National Sports Concussion Coalition expects to be the most comprehensive alliance of its kind, with science and medical leaders in the fields of concussions, brain injury and sports medicine working directly with a cross-section of organizations and governing bodies that represent millions of athletes across major organized sports in the United States.
The coalition, which started discussions earlier this year and held a planning session in September, will look to enhance participation in sports in the United States by providing a safer playing environment. The partnership will complement the safety initiatives of the individual organizations by sharing data and identifying best safety practices that can assist in coaching, playing and officiating across sports.
The founding youth sports and medical members of the coalition include the
National Council of Youth Sports (NCYS)
Pop Warner Little Scholars
Sports Concussion Institute (SCI)
US Lacrosse
US Youth Soccer
USA Hockey
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
Amateur Softball Association/USA Softball
USA Basketball
and the
Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention
. Coalition partners at the professional, college and foundation levels include the
National Football Foundation
"US Youth Soccer views sport as a way to build confidence in our youth and provide lessons that will assist them throughout their lives on and off the field," said Jim Cosgrove, executive director of
US Youth Soccer
. "We hope to play a valuable role on the team of organizations represented in the National Sports Concussion Coalition as we collectively hope to leave a positive imprint on sport."
"Sports have the power to change the lives of millions of young people in this country by encouraging a physically active lifestyle and by teaching lifelong lessons. We want to make sure no child loses that opportunity due to fear of injury," said Jon Butler, executive director of
Pop Warner Little Scholars
. "By coming together in this very important fight against concussions we believe our collective efforts will transcend our individual sports and benefit everyone."
"This collection of organizations is interested in the safety and wellbeing of our young people," said Sally Johnson,
executive director. "We will lead the way by sharing best practices among our organizations and providing parents, coaches, trainers, officials and athletes with the latest evidence-based facts and information about concussions, general health, and player safety."
"From the perspective of health and science professionals committed to the study of neuroscience, we're excited about working with a serious and respected group of professionals who can apply evidence-based approaches to directly benefit millions of young athletes across the country each day," said Tony Strickland, Ph.D., CEO of the
Sports Concussion Institute
and an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
"Enhancing player safety in lacrosse has been a focus of US Lacrosse since our 1998 inception as the sport's national governing body," said Steve Stenersen, CEO of
US Lacrosse
. "We're pleased to partner with amateur sport leaders and sports medicine experts in our mutual pursuit of a safer playing environment through the continued study of head injuries and the appropriate employment of interventions to reduce their impact on athletes of all ages."
"Providing the safest possible environment has always been at the forefront of our efforts at USA Hockey," said Dave Ogrean, executive director of
USA Hockey
. "We look forward to being part of this new coalition to not only share what has worked for us, but also contribute to the discussion as to how we can jointly help influence the best possible experience for everyone involved in sport."
"In my clinical practice and as a team physician, I see first-hand the difference that evidence-based best practices can make in preventing sports-related concussion," said William Dexter, M.D., president of the
American College of Sports Medicine
and Director of Sports Medicine at Maine Medical Center. "The National Sports Concussion Coalition will help millions of youth athletes participate more safely — a goal that brings together the diverse organizations that make up the coalition."
"The NCAA is committed to broad concussion education outreach, and to research that will identify objective biomarkers and sound management guidelines. We are excited about our partnership in this important alliance," said Brian Hainline, M.D., chief medical officer of the
"As the union that represents professional football players, we have worked extremely hard to ensure our members benefit from the safest work environment possible," said
executive director DeMaurice Smith. "This coalition brings together the right partners to help deliver an equal level of protection for athletes at all levels of sports."


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Some years ago, on a visit to Wilton House in the UK, I was shown a relic. It was a small dancing pump of patent leather, scuffed, cracked and worn. It was clearly as much a working shoe as a gardener's boot is. I found it very moving to hold it in my hand, as if a small bird, and think of the wearer who could almost, like a bird, at least for a split second, defy gravity as he leapt into the air on one of his very complicated but oh-so simple-looking dance routines in the 1930s. And that shoe really was a relic, a valued survivor of greatness past. In a war bond auction in 1942, a Mr Fred Astaire tap shoe was auctioned for $100,000 in bonds and even the laces went for $10,000. The Wilton pump had belonged to Mr Astaire, just one of the many he wore out over a long and illustrious career, dancing first with his sister, Ms Adele Astaire, as his partner and then, at his peak, with Ms Ginger Rogers in Hollywood movies. Together, they were the Hollywood movie dream team whose names became the global household expression "Fred and Ginger", and whose films grossed millions. But, perhaps for modern fashion followers, Mr Astaire reached his high point as a movie style icon much later when he played the fashion photographer Mr Richard Avedon, opposite Ms Audrey Hepburn in Mr Stanley Donan's 1957 movie Funny Face.
Mr Astaire dancing in the Hollywood musical The Belle of New York, 1952
Mr Astaire always knew the importance of clothes, even when, very young, he and Adele began to work their way up from the bottom to the top of the bill on America's gruelling variety circuit, once called the toughest boot camp on earth. By the mid-1920s they were big enough names to be brought to London, at that time the centre of laid-back aristocratic assurance, the one capital in the world where white tie and tails could be guaranteed to always be worn in the evening, be it for the theatre, a restaurant or even a party in a grand private house. The unofficial but very real ringmaster and arbiter of male elegance in this world was HRH Edward, Prince of Wales, the brightest of the bright young things and the most elegant of all men about town. He went backstage to meet Mr Astaire after a London show starring the Astaires, invited them to a private party - the sort of invitation people would strive for years to get - and totally ensnared Mr Astaire with his perfect taste and superb tailoring.
Mr Astaire had already fallen for English style. Savile Row was his happy hunting ground and as he wrote in his autobiography, he spent hours in Anderson & Sheppard and would "get lost for days in the Burlington Arcade" as he spent a small fortune at Hawes and Curtis and Beale and Inman on "shirts and such". So, it was no surprise that he was immediately mesmerised by the cut of the prince's white evening waistcoat, which, unlike the current fashion, did not show below the dress coat front. It was a seminal moment, changing the hoofer and the veteran theatrical trooper into a searcher for sartorial perfection. It did not take Mr Astaire long to find out who made the prince's dress shirts and waistcoats. A day following the meeting, he walked into Hawes and Curtis and asked to have a waistcoat exactly the same as the one he had seen worn by the prince. He was told firmly but politely that it was not possible as no details of anything the prince bought from them were ever divulged to anyone outside the firm, and copies were unheard of. But the rebuff was not enough to stop Mr Astaire from setting out to make himself the most elegant man in Hollywood and, despite strong competition from the 1930s matinée idols, he succeeded. But more importantly his style was the one that middle-American males coming out of the Depression copied. It was as democratic a look as it was relaxed.
Savile Row was Mr Astaire's hunting ground, and he would spend hours in Anderson & Sheppard and 'get lost for days in the Burlington Arcade'
The whole of the US did not blossom with tails but it did begin to wear tailored "English" tweed sports jackets in Scottish colours, well-cut slacks and soft lamb's-wool sweaters and jumpers, all accessorised with a tie and well-polished leather shoes and a felt hat, carried if not worn. And, as all-day suits were worn with a waistcoat en suite, a fine watch chain frequently added to the Englishness of it all. And even today when we watch reruns of the classic Mr Fred Astaire films of the 1930s, such as Flying Down to Rio or Shall we Dance, and right up to his later work in the 1950s, including the smash hits Bandwagon and Daddy Long Legs, the soigné languor of the totally elegant but entirely relaxed man about town still works its magic on audiences even if they are watching in old trainers and jogging pants. It is a star quality that stars sadly no longer possess.


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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Monday as uncertainty about the outcome of the U.S. presidential election reduced appetite for riskier investments.
The race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney is virtually tied one day ahead of the election, generating an atmosphere of uncertainty that markets normally dislike.
Investors could awaken Wednesday without a clear winner. If the election comes down to a thin margin in a swing state like Ohio, the outcome could be delayed for days or weeks.
"The worst case scenario for markets is for a prolonged period of uncertainty if the results produce no clear cut result," said analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.3 percent to 9,026.22. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.2 percent to 22,066.59. South Korea's Kospi shed 0.4 percent to 1,910.62. Benchmarks in mainland China and Singapore also fell. The Philippines PSE rose 1 percent. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was flat at 4,461.30.
Meanwhile, shares of South Korea's two largest carmakers plunged after the companies acknowledged overstating their gas mileage on hundreds of thousands of cars sold in the U.S. Hyundai Motor Co., the country's largest carmaker, plummeted 6.7 percent and second-largest Kia Motors Corp. sank 7.1 percent.
Benchmark oil for December delivery was up 16 cents to $85.02 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $2.23, or 2.2 percent, to close Friday in New York at $84.86 a barrel — its lowest level since July 10.
In currencies, the dollar rose to 80.53 yen from 80.42 yen late Friday in New York. In currencies, the euro was unchanged at $1.2829.


text: Articles // Paris // Generator Adidas and Euro 2016 at Generator Paris this Friday 08 Jun 2016 To celebrate the start of Euro '16, Adidas is coming to Generator Paris to get some running done before the France/Romania match! In a bid to get us all properly pumped for the tournament, Adidas going to get everyone running before Friday's game. If you're game, come meet us at Gen Paris at 6pm, and along with the Adidas Runners, we'll race around one of three (5k/8k or 10k) courses, taking in the sights of Belleville, Jaures and République while endorphins course through our bodies, so that by the time the match kicks off at 9pm, we'll be crying tears of patriotic joy whether we're French or not! After the match you'll be able to either celebrate or commiserate with LaGo, a French rapper who also happens to be integral to the Adidas Runners Team. She's great, check her out: After LaGo, our ol' pal Blkkout is playing until 2am, it's gonna be a great night, folks. We all know how fantastic a beer tastes after a run, but a beer after a run during the first match of Euro '16 in the capital of the country where the tournament is taking place and where they're one of the teams playing? That's gotta be one of the best tasting beers ever. CHECK AVAILABILITY


text: A Perfect Circle is an American rock band supergroup from Bell Gardens, California, formed in 1999. Founded by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan. The original incarnation of the band also included Paz Lenchantin on bass, Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and Tim Alexander on drums. The latest line-up features Marilyn Manson bassist and former Nine Inch Nails bassist Jeordie White; former guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins, James Iha; and session drummer Josh Freese, who is best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails and The Vandals. Despite having a varied cast since inception, the stylistic content of the songs has remained consistent with Howerdel as composer, and Keenan penning the lyrics.


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