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Anyone taking a leisurely drive around south DeKalb County may discover an interesting chapter in Illinois history that is probably unknown to most residents.
Along Route 34 between Somonauk and Sandwich is the Sannauk Forest Preserve, and in the middle of that 72-acre woodlands is a state historical marker placed there in 1989. It reveals how this county and 13 others in northern Illinois almost ended up in Wisconsin. I just came across this bit of trivia last week and went to the library to learn more about Nathaniel Pope's influence on Illinois.
In 1818, the U.S. Congress was considering making a state out of the territory of Illinois. A line had been drawn in 1787 due west from the southern tip of Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River to map out the territory; everything south of that line was Illinois, and north of it eventually would become Wisconsin.
The bill to make Illinois a state was already written, but the Illinois delegate to Congress, Nathaniel Pope, saw an opportunity to expand the new state's area. He believed Illinois needed more access to Lake Michigan, so he pushed through an amendment to move the line 61 miles north, thus adding 8,500 square miles of land that has become the most valuable real estate in our state.
Pope was one of the greatest influences in Illinois' history when you think of what the state would be without this valuable land and Chicago. (Well, I'm not so sure about the value of having Chicago in our state, but that's another issue.)
He also knew that to become a state, Congress wanted a population of at least 40,000 people, which this territory did not have at the time. So another census was taken by counting every traveler on major roads.
This method was questionable because many people traveled on more than one major road during the census, thus boosting the total to the critical number to meet the minimum requirement.
He wrote an article for the Western Intelligencer newspaper explaining his maneuvers in Congress. It turned out to be a brilliant plan because it gave Illinois a better foothold on the Great Lakes to help commerce, added thousands of acres of fertile farmland, and because half the population lived in this northern section, it later proved valuable in assuring the state would vote to stay in the Union and oppose slavery.
Could Abraham Lincoln even have become president if he didn't have this part of the state behind him?
Pope did well in his political career, which began when he was appointed secretary of the Illinois territory by President James Madison – probably because of the influence of his brother, John Pope, who was a U.S. senator from Kentucky. Beside this, his cousin was territorial governor of Illinois at the time. After serving two terms as a delegate – when the state was admitted into the Union – he was appointed first a register of the land office at Edwardsville, then a district court judge.
He later lost a bid for the U.S. Senate, but he continued to serve as a federal judge until he died at age 66. He did have a downstate county and an elementary school in the Chicago area named after him.
So now you know more about this forest preserve marker and Nathaniel Pope than you ever thought you would.
• Barry Schrader was editor of the Daily Chronicle from 1969-1972. He and his wife, Kay, are retired and live in DeKalb. He can be reached at email@example.com or by mail at P.O. Box 851, DeKalb, IL 60115.


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Popped the Roof Off of SkyDomeOn a windy and wet evening, U2 rocked the closed-roof SkyDome. It truely was an amazing show. The stage set-up seemed to cut the ginormous stadium in half. The disco-ball during Discoteque made it feel like a discoteque with its lights shining across the closed roof. Then the ball opening... well that was just unbelievable. Of course One/Everybody Hurts/Wake Up Dead Man were great, but I think the real highlights were Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me with the (Batman/Mephisto insignia) and the risque images ("did I just see some bush?") during into The Groove/Mysterious Ways - both jaw-dropping, eye-opening, awesome. Pop doesn't get enough credit for being a great album as well as a fantastic tour.

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(Reuters) - American Railcar Industries Inc ARII.O, controlled by activist investor Carl Icahn, offered to buy rival railcar maker Greenbrier Cos Inc (GBX.N) for about $543 million, reviving a nearly five-year old plan to combine the companies.
American Railcar's offer of $20 per share represents a premium of 5.4 percent to Greenbrier's Monday close. The shares, however, rose above the offer price to as much as $20.20 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange, indicating that shareholders are expecting a higher offer.
"Icahn's (offer) raises pressure on the board to consider a sale, though it doesn't explicitly say he'll go hostile near-term," Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Bascome Majors wrote in a client note.
American Railcar could pay up to $23 per share through a cash-and-stock deal that could still add 15 percent to the company's earnings, he said, raising his price target on the Greenbrier stock to $21 from $15.
American Railcar's shares also jumped as much as 8 percent to $34.80 on the Nasdaq.
Greenbrier's shares have risen 36 percent since Icahn reported a 9.99 percent stake in the company last month that made him its largest shareholder.
However, the offer price is still at a discount to the $30-range the Greenbrier stock was trading at when Icahn attempted to merge the companies in 2008. He dropped the bid later that year, saying a combination was not possible due to "unresolved issues". (r.reuters.com/pud93t)
American Railcar's offer is also below Greenbrier's intrinsic value of $28.56 as measured by Thomson Reuters StarMine.
The StarMine model is a measure of how much a stock should be worth currently when considering expected growth rates over the next 15 years adjusting for analysts' systematic biases.
Greenbrier has been struggling with moderating demand this year from oil companies.
The Lake Oswego, Oregon-based company grew rapidly in 2011 as strong demand for railcars to transport crude oil and sand for hydraulic fracturing enabled it to ramp up production and raise prices.
The company said last month it received orders for 2,900 railcars during the fourth quarter ended August, nearly half of what it got a year earlier.
Greenbrier, which like American Railcar, makes, repairs and refurbishes railroad freight cars, could not immediately be reached for comment outside of regular business hours.
Icahn Enterprises LP (IEP.O), which controls 55.6 percent of American Railcar according to its most recent filing, said on Tuesday that the offer followed talks with Greenbrier. (link.reuters.com/ceg74t)
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Quote:hello and happy sunday. i have 2 questions, and am at my wits' end in finding answers. 1: I recently discovered a somewhat obscure weapon from Nepal called a kora, a short sword with a forward curved blade. I've heard it referred to as a predecessor to the kukhri,but that isn't pertinent to my question. My question is this: how would such a weapon have been used? Not all of the ones I've seen and researched were used for ceremonial purposes;some were very real fighting weapons and look positively nasty for close-in combat. 2: This next question references a movie weapon, the High Elven sword from the Lord of the Rings moviess. Before you all start rolling your eyes, I have a simple question about possible origins/ references in the real world. The closest I can see is the chinese war sword, also called the dadao, but that isn't quite right. Some friends have said that it resembles a modified naginata, but that ain't necessarily right either. Just out of curiosity, would a sword with equal lengths of blade and handle be effective in any real battle situation? I don't see how, but that doesn't mean anything since i haven't had very much practical training. thanks for your time and patience with a newbie . . .
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Recently, the Dean of the Mylan School of Pharmacy along with many other faculty members attended the Annual American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Meeting in Chicago, IL. The meeting, which is considered to be the largest gathering of academic pharmacy educators, offered 70 or more educational programs and workshops for attendees. The interactive programs focus on faculty and leadership development, all while exploring cutting-edge topics with experts and colleagues from around the country. The meeting is a way to immerse faculty and instructors with like-minded colleagues in efforts to sharpen teaching skills and network with other pharmacy schools from across the country.
The event hosted presentations and seminars, along with collaborative educational posters and round table discussions. Many of our own faculty participated in these events.
Much like our own mission, the mission of the AACP is to lead and partner with members in advancing pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service to improve societal health. Founded in 1900, AACP is the national organization representing the interests of pharmacy education. AACP is comprised of all accredited colleges and schools with pharmacy degree programs, including more than 6,500 faculty, 62,500 students enrolled in professional programs and 5,100 individuals pursuing graduate study.
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Senators promote their own plans to ensure increased oversight.
Senate oversight leaders called into question the government's security clearance process at a hearing Thursday, saying a lack of coordination and thoroughness led to recent leaks and tragedies.
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held the hearing in light of Edward Snowden's mass leaks regarding the National Security Agency and the September Washington Navy Yard tragedy, when contractor Aaron Alexis shot and killed 12 people. A panel of witnesses from various federal agencies involved in issuing security clearances consistently spoke of efforts already under way to improve the process, but lawmakers continued to build pressure for dramatic changes.
"This is not a political issue," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the committee's ranking member. "It's an issue of us failing to do our jobs."
The senators repeatedly asked questions about how Alexis, who had a history of criminal and mental health issues, was able to receive a secret-level security clearance and access to the Washington Navy Yard. Lawmakers said they were "shocked" when Elaine Kaplan, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management, testified that as part of Alexis' background check, the FBI found the Navy veteran had been arrested in Seattle, but investigators did not seek a police report on the incident.
Kaplan said Seattle police had previously told OPM they would not divulge their reports and instead referred investigators to an online database for the state of Washington, so in Alexis' case, they simply went straight to the database. Because Alexis was never formally charged, OPM knew only that he was arrested for "malicious mischief" but was not aware that a firearm was involved, she said.
"We all missed something for sure," Kaplan said, "but we did what was required."
Joseph Jordan, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget, said the security clearance process generally worked well, but added there is no room for error.
"We have 5 million people with clearances and the issues are very few," Jordan said. "But any single point of failure has such monumental consequences that we have to make sure we don't have a single one."
Jordan discussed the interagency review initiated by President Obama after the Navy Yard shooting, saying he fully expects the group to meet its 120-day deadline and to issue recommendations in February. He added the review -- which involves OMB, OPM and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- will offer a forum to address many of the concerns the senators raised at the hearing.
Brian Prioletti, an assistant director at ODNI, said his office has been coordinating with other agencies for years to improve the security clearance process.
"Although these efforts are still a work in progress, when mature, they will eliminate many of these gaps and enhance the nation's security posture," Prioletti said.
Many lawmakers at the hearing, however, have sought to take matters into their own hands by introducing a variety of bills to repair the security clearance process. Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Jon Tester, D-Mont., introduced a measure to increase oversight of security clearances by allowing OPM to tap into its revolving fund to audit the agency's management, employees and contractors who conduct background checks. That bill has already cleared the Senate as well as the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and is awaiting a vote by the full House.
The senators called for the additional oversight after it was revealed the contractor that conducted both the Snowden and Alexis investigations -- USIS -- was under federal investigation for pushing through incomplete background checks. The Justice Department announced on Wednesday it was joining a lawsuit originally filed by a whistleblower against USIS.
At the hearing, Kaplan said USIS allegedly failed to conduct its own quality reviews on itsinvestigations, which resulted in contract fraud. OPM, however, still conducted its own quality reviews on the background checks USIS submitted. OPM has taken several actions to boost its contractor oversight, Kaplan said, such as increasing staff and conducting more audits.
Another proposal to come out of the committee -- from Sens. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D.; and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. -- would require OPM to implement an automated review on every individual with a security clearance at least twice, at random times, every five years. The reviews would search public records and databases.
Brenda Farrell, testifying at the hearing on behalf of the Government Accountability Office, called on federal agencies and Congress to move beyond rhetoric and come up with a solution.
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Some of you might remember me some not anyway this is Sysop_fb. I saw a few people writing posts and asking questions in regards to QNX, although some of what I discuss could in essence be used on one of the newer versions I haven't had an oportunity to look at the newer versions.
QNX 4.25 is a Real-Time OS and is in my own opinion a unix flavor, it's very stable and very reliable. You can pretty much design the system to meet your own needs although it is not open source and up until 6.0 was release a development studio for QNX 4.25 would cost in the thousands of dollars. Since it's not open source it does have its limitations.
QNX is mostly used in the business world as it is not free, you have to buy a licsense to install QNX, although there is free trials available.
QNX 4.25 uses a similiar networking type structure as a router, it requires hard routes to be placed in the sysinit.1 file to designate how you want QNX to get to one subnet from it's current subnet.
Now to get the box on your home lan, you will need to know the mac address of the NIC, the ip of the gateway(depends on your network setup, if you have dsl your modem will be your gateway), and an ip address for your QNX box and ofcourse the ip address(s) of your nameservers.
vedit /etc/hosts and add the ip address of your box in with whatever name you prefer as so
192.168.0.5 <tab> thisboxsucks
vedit /etc/config/netmap
add the mac address of the card as so
vedit /etc/config/sysinit.1
Make sure the appropriate drivers are in for your NIC
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next go down to below where the script initializes netstart and below it write in the route.
/usr/ucb/route add default <gateway ip goes here>
such as
/usr/ucb/route add default 192.168.0.1
vedit /etc/resolv.conf
uncomment the nameserver lines and add in the appropriate ip's for your nameservers.
vedit /etc/netstart
replace node$NODE with whatever you called your box
such as
/usr/ucb/Socket thisboxsucks &
/usr/ucb/ifconfig en1 thisboxsucks up
Next make sure an ethernet cable is plugged into the NIC and reboot the box
shutdown -f
I might have forgot something feel free to correct me this is mainly geared towards simple home networks.


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Norne is a leading, independent player on the Norwegian market for financial services.
We offer a wide range of broking services in shares, derivatives, arranges issues of various equity and foreign capital instruments. The company is also active within valuations, refinancing, financial counselling and brokering commercial properties.
We are planning to launch a new service for online trading in worldwide equity, derivatives, commodities, etc.
The name Norne Securities is inspired by Norse Mythology where the Norns were assumed to be twining the thread of fate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns).
For more information please visit http://www.norne.no (The text is unfortunately only available in Norwegian, but the site should give a good indication for the existing look)
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An Arizona voice over IP provider (VOIP) claims Apple stole the name "iCloud" and seeks compensation from the Cupertino, Calif., company.
The plaintiff, iCloud Communications, was formed in 2005, and is now suing Apple for trademark infringement, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona. The complaint also had a section called "Apple's Pattern of Willful Trademark Infringement," which starts off with some choice words:
Although Apple aggressively protects its trademark rights, Apple has a long and well known history of knowingly and willfully treading on the trademark rights of others—a history which began as early as the 1970s when Apple was first sued for trademark infringement by the Beatles record label, Apple Corp. Although the case was settled on the condition that Apple not enter into the music business, Apple entered into the music business in the 1990s and was sued again.
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The complaint mentions that Apple was also sued by Cisco Systems over the name iPhone and Fujitsu Frontech North America over iPad. Last month, Apple applied for a trademark on the name iCloud at the Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union.
It's unknown if Apple really did know about iCloud Communications, but after such a long list of lawsuits against Apple's alleged pilfering of names, it does paint Apple as a tech giant that allegedly tramples the copyrights and trademarks of other companies. We don't know if iCloud Communications wants anything more than a quick settlement in this lawsuit, but it will be interesting to see how the case plays out.


text: Review : Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac updated 08:25 am EDT, Sat September 10, 2011 by MacNN Staff Logitech brings green, seemingly infinite keyboarding to the Mac. MacNN Rating: Product Manufacturer: Logitech Price: $60 The Good Well adapted to the Mac. Comfortable, accurate, quiet typing. Potentially runs for many years; green. Full-size keyboard layout. Solar App simple but works. Good-looking; small, 'universal' adapter. Price is right. The Bad Sometimes tricky to get a sustainable charge. No port to directly charge in a pinch. May be too wide for some users. Backlight would be appreciated. After giving Windows users a taste of what a solar keyboard is like, Logitech has swung its attention to Mac users with a native version of the Wireless Solar Keyboard K750. It still promises to forever eliminate charging, but it now has a new Mac-oriented design and a fresh look. We'll see in our K750 for Mac review how well it works on Apple computers, including apps, and whether some earlier quirks have been sorted out. Looks and the Unifying adapter Of all the things to change for the Mac version of the K750, the change that users might like the most is just the palette swap. You can still get the conservative black of the Windows version we reviewed, but you can now get any one of four extra colors. One is an all-silver hue that arguably looks the most coordinated with the aesthetic of an iMac, Mac mini, or MacBook, but the remaining three are two-tone models that mix a white base with a bright blue, green, or pink. Our tester came in green, and while it's not a perfect match for the iMac it was attached to, it's a refreshing break from the tendency of the industry to go with drab black. There are some upsides, too: dust isn't as much of an issue on white, and it's easier to see in low light. Not much has changed for the key design itself apart from the necessary swaps for Apple-native keys, although the indented Windows key is obviously absent. Overall, it's just slightly more attractive; the keys aren't backlit, but that doesn't matter as much on the desktop. If you haven't used one before, one of the most striking elements will be just how thin it is. Technically, Apple's official keyboards are thinner across most of the design, but the K750 is much more consistently flat. Because you don't need removable batteries and you're using scissor-motion notebook keys, it's just one thin slab that needs only two small but quite sturdy props to lift it up. As a full-length keyboard it's not truly portable, but it's thin enough that you could put it in a large enough bag without straining the contents. As with other Logitech input hardware, the keyboard links up through a wireless RF-based USB connector known as the Unifying adapter. Apart from taking up very little space -- the connector is just barely larger than its plug -- its advantage is supporting as many as five extra Logitech devices at once. It's a boon if you're on a Mac mini and don't have an existing Apple mouse, or if you just prefer to live in an all-Logitech world; we'd like if it supported third-party hardware too, but in the absence of a universal 2.4GHz RF wireless standard (Bluetooth doesn't count), it cuts down on the clutter. Typing and special keys Simply typing with the keyboard is a pleasure. The feel is much the same as in the Windows version: the 'chiclet' keys are easy to hit and have a quick travel but yet don't feel cheap or hollow. While not ergonomic, they're comfortable over long periods. They're quiet, too. If you're used to keyboards with tall traditional keys and their constant clacking, you'll like the much softer (though not completely silent) sound. Certainly anyone else in the room will appreciate it. Some users, such as gamers, might want the keyboard for the full-size layout. Apple doesn't make a wireless keyboard with a number pad and dedicated keys for tasks like the page up/down or home keys, so if you tend to use apps that either require or greatly benefit from these secondary keys, you'll like the K750 immediately. It does create the problem of being noticeably larger, though, so if you have little desktop space or aren't comfortable with the mouse as far away, keep that in mind. As you'd expect, all the special functions on the top row of keys have been altered to fit the Mac and include everything you'd need. You can tell that Logitech didn't have the inside knowledge that Apple did when it made the new MacBook Air's keyboard, though: instead of Mission Control and Launchpad from Mac OS X Lion, they're still the Expos? and Dashboard shortcuts for Snow Leopard and earlier. It's not a huge issue as the keys remap properly; you also have five blank function keys to program to your own ends. Either way, it still feels at home in the Mac world. Solar charging and the Solar App The selling points are no doubt the two solar panels at the top. They charge both from natural and artificial lighting, and you could in theory never need to even think about the keyboard's power. It could work for at least three months in pure darkness, Logitech says, making it unlikely that its power levels will be a danger. To at least some extent, that's true. Even at night when only lamps are providing power, we could tell that the K750 was still drawing a charge. If your computer is near a window that gets significant sunlight, having to consider the power is almost an afterthought. Battery drain when it does happen is a gradual process where it can take a week just to drop 10 percent, which we checked over the long term test. Helping with that is Solar App, a largely direct port of the Windows app that checks the power of the keyboard. It's basic but covers all you really need to know: how much sun the solar panels are getting in lux (lumen per square meter), what charge the battery holds, and long-term trends. The app is cued to a light check button on the keyboard, which itself gives a quick glimpse. and will warn you if it notices a long-term trend of a draining battery that could pose a problem in several weeks. It's getting a charge that's the K750's only real issue, but it's a real one and a problem not solved since the Windows version. Our desk is in a position which depends on a balance of lamp and natural light for most of the day, with a good but not extensive amount of light at night. In our experience, leaving the keyboard in its static position could lead to that gradual decline in battery life we were afraid of, and that's during the summer when sunlight is available for longer; fall and winter will likely accelerate that process. Recharging in these condition meant often deliberately moving the keyboard to a place with better light for a few hours, such as a balcony window or directly under a lamp. Based on Solar App, the tipping point when the battery will drain is around 50 lux, or just over the conditions we could manage at night, where it was only truly happy and recharging quickly at 100 lux or more. As such, you could still end up paying a small amount to recharge the keyboard simply by having to leave a light on for longer, not to mention possible downtime if the keyboard's battery gets low enough. We have to wonder why Logitech didn't make the panels larger or more efficient; there's some significant unused space in that area, and the quarter or so more of extra solar panel cells could make it easier to collect energy in borderline conditions. Still, having to just move the keyboard is a better alternative than replacing batteries every three weeks, even with good rechargeables. As anyone with a Bluetooth keyboard can attest, they need complete charges more frequently and don't necessarily gain anything besides saving a USB port. Wrapping up If it weren't for the significant challenge of getting a steady supply of light to the keyboard, it would be tempting to give the K750 for the Mac a near-perfect score. As it is, it's still a very good design; it respects what makes Apple's official keyboards work well while adding some features Apple doesn't have. If your lighting environment is brighter than ours, it's possible that you may have found your ideal keyboard. Three things would have to change for the design to be ideal. We've already talked about solar efficiency, but we'd also like to see a smaller version of this keyboard for those who like Apple's compact keyboards but not the rapid drain of Bluetooth. Logitech is somewhat limited by solar cell technology itself; we're far away from recovering all the energy that hits a panel. A USB port for hardwired recharging would also be valuable in case you're not willing to wait on the sun. At $60, the price is surprisingly competitive. It's somewhat less expensive than most wireless keyboards, including Apple's $69 example. The real edge, though, is in long-term costs. Even if you use good rechargeables, a typical RF- or Bluetooth-based keyboard may need new batteries every one to two years, in addition to the charger. Factor that into a typical keyboard and you may spend $20, $30, or more on top of the keyboard just to keep it running. For a Mac mini owner already watching costs, that could clinch the sale -- not to mention lead to a genuinely eco-friendly keyboard that doesn't have to take disposables. For that reason, it's hard not to at least put the K750 on the short list of alternative keyboards.


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Style your site with ZURB
Written by Dan Bikle on 2013-07-20
Usually when I think about launching a new site, I visualize the look of the site with pencil and paper. After 15 minutes or so, I add color to my idea with colored pencils. Once I have some drawings I like, I start the task of coding up HTML and CSS files.
Coding up HTML and CSS is a chore. An obvious short-cut I can take is to find existing HTML and CSS files from one of my past projects which are similar to what I want. Then I bend copies of them to my will. Another short-cut is to work with copies of other people's HTML and CSS which is both licensed for use and has a beautiful look.
Generally though, I find that working with other people's HTML and CSS is more difficult than working with something I wrote several months or years ago. The site you are reading now, bikle.com, uses much HTML and CSS from a framework named Foundation by ZURB. I prefer to just call it ZURB. Although it is other people's code, I find it relatively easy to work with.
A similar framework is Twitter Bootstrap. Or more precisely, twitter-bootstrap-rails which is integration software to connect Twitter Bootstrap with Ruby-on-Rails. Before I found ZURB, I tried using twitter-bootstrap-rails but learned to steer clear of it after I bumped into a bug which causes Rails to frequently look for favicon.ico at a non-existent route: twitter-bootstrap-rails/issues/198
I list below the general path I followed to style bikle.com, the site you are looking at now, with ZURB.
Linux vs Mac
I started with a Linux based development environment: CentOS 6.4
In my home office I run CentOS on a small desktop server I bought from: ZaReason
Many of my friends do web development on Macs. Although I respect Apple technology, I dislike web development on Macs because Apple upgrades OS/X so often. I've seen situations where my Mac-friends are wrestling with library incompatibilities because their copy of OS/X is too old, too new, or just hosed in some strange way. CentOS 6.x is stable and is intended to stay useful until November of 2020.
Also OS/X is not at parity with the production OS which is usually Linux. I look like a clueless developer if I check in code which passes tests on my Mac but then "breaks the build" in the Linux production environment. My Mac-friends who want dev-production-parity, make use of software called Virtualbox (and VMware also) to build Rails sites on Linux running on their Macs:
Another trend I notice is the practice of writing software in a Linux environment which is hosted remotely at Amazon or DigitalOcean:
The next step down this path was to install Ruby. My preference was/is to use software called rbenv to install Ruby: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv
The version of Ruby I currently work with is: 2.0.0-p247
I display below a mashup of a screendump and checklist I use to install Ruby 2.0.0 with rbenv:
Checklist for testing these commands on Centos 6.4 Linux running on Amazon AWS:
Get my credit card.
Use credit card to create AWS account:
Get AWS key-file and call it bikle.pem and store it in a place where I will not lose it like ~/.ssh/
Find a link to a Centos 6.4 "AMI" which allows me to run Centos 6.4 Linux on Amazon AWS:
click: "CentOS AWS Marketplace"
click: "CentOS 6.4 (x86_64) - Release Media"
click: Continue-button
click: "Standard Small (m1.small) 1.7GB ram $0.06 / hour"
click: "Launch"
login with command like this:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/bikle.pem email@example.com
Run these shell commands from root-shell:
yum -y update
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install ntp
yum -y install zlib zlib-devel
yum -y install curl-devel
yum -y install apr-devel apr-util-devel
yum -y install mlocate
yum -y install libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
yum -y install libffi-devel
yum -y install readline-devel
yum -y install openssl-devel
useradd -m -s /bin/bash bikle
rsync -av ~root/.ssh ~bikle/
chown bikle ~bikle/.ssh
chown bikle ~bikle/.ssh/authorized_keys
Login from other window on my laptop:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/bikle.pem firstname.lastname@example.com
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
vi .bashrc
Add 3 lines:
export PATH=~/.rbenv/bin:${PATH}
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
export PS1="bikle@z5 \w $ "
$ bash
bikle@z5 ~ $ rbenv
rbenv 0.4.0-49-g8b04303
Usage: rbenv
[ ]
Some useful rbenv commands are:
commands List all available rbenv commands
local Set or show the local application-specific Ruby version
global Set or show the global Ruby version
shell Set or show the shell-specific Ruby version
install Install a Ruby version using the ruby-build plugin
uninstall Uninstall a specific Ruby version
rehash Rehash rbenv shims (run this after installing executables)
version Show the current Ruby version and its origin
versions List all Ruby versions available to rbenv
which Display the full path to an executable
whence List all Ruby versions that contain the given executable
See `rbenv help ' for information on a specific command.
For full documentation, see: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#readme
bikle@z5 ~ $ rbenv help versions
Usage: rbenv versions [--bare]
Lists all Ruby versions found in `$RBENV_ROOT/versions/*'.
bikle@z5 ~ $ rbenv install 2.0.0-p247
Downloading ruby-2.0.0-p247.tar.gz...
-> http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-p247.tar.gz
Installing ruby-2.0.0-p247...
Installed ruby-2.0.0-p247 to /home/bikle/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ rbenv global 2.0.0-p247
bikle@z5 ~ $ bash
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ rbenv version
2.0.0-p247 (set by /home/bikle/.rbenv/version)
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ which ruby
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-linux]
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> 1+1
=> 2
irb(main):002:0> quit
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $
After I installed Ruby I installed Postgres which is my choice of database for my Rails environments.
I display below a mashup of a screendump and checklist I used to install Postgres:
Checklist for installing Postgres on Centos 6.4 Linux:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/bikle.pem firstname.lastname@example.com
cd /etc/init.d/
yum install postgresql-devel
yum install postgresql-server
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d # grep postg /etc/passwd
postgres:x:26:26:PostgreSQL Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d # passwd postgres
Changing password for user postgres.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d # ll postgresql
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5383 Sep 13 2012 postgresql
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d # grep initdb postgresql
# No existing PGDATA! Warn the user to initdb it.
echo "$PGDATA is missing. Use \"service postgresql initdb\" to initialize the cluster first."
$SU -l postgres -c "$PGENGINE/initdb --pgdata='$PGDATA' --auth='ident'" >> "$PGLOG" 2>&1 < /dev/null
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload|initdb}"
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d # /etc/init.d/postgresql initdb
Initializing database: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d # /etc/init.d/postgresql start
Starting postgresql service: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]
/etc/init.d #
/etc/init.d #
Login to bikle account from laptop:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/bikle.pem email@example.com
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $
Login to postgres account from bikle account:
bikle@z5 ~ $ ssh postgres@localhost
Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
postgres@localhost's password:
-bash-4.1$ psql
psql (8.4.13)
Type "help" for help.
Next, I created a 'Role' inside of Postgres with a name which MATCHES my linux name:
postgres=# CREATE USER bikle SUPERUSER;
postgres=# \q
-bash-4.1$ exit
Connection to localhost closed.
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $
I checked that my linux name matches the Postgres Role name:
bikle@z5 ~ $ id
uid=502(bikle) gid=54323(bikle) groups=54323(bikle) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
bikle@z5 ~ $
Then, I checked if the bikle account could connect to Postgres, create a database, and then create/drop a table:
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ which psql
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ createdb bikle
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $ psql
psql (8.4.13)
Type "help" for help.
bikle=# CREATE TABLE dropme (mydate DATE);
bikle=# DROP TABLE dropme;
bikle=# \q
bikle@z5 ~ $
bikle@z5 ~ $
At this point I was confident that Postgres was installed. I was ready to install the Rails-gem.
After I installed Postgres I installed Rails. The version of Rails I currently work with is: 4.0.0
I used a Ruby-utility named 'gem' to install Rails. The shell command is displayed below:
bikle@z5 ~ $ gem install rails -v 4.0.0 --no-ri --no-rdoc
I found some discussion about installing Rails at this URL:
After I installed Rails 4.0.0, I used the rails-shell-command to create a Rails application:
bikle@z5 ~ $ rails new biklecom -d postgresql
If you are new to Rails you can read about the rails-shell-command here:
Next, I studied this page: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/rails.html
I edited my Rails-Gemfile so it looked like this:
ruby "2.0.0"
source 'https://rubygems.org'
# I prefer HAML over ERB:
gem 'hpricot', '0.8.6'
gem 'sexp_processor','4.2.1'
gem 'ruby_parser', '3.1.3'
gem 'html2haml', '1.0.1'
gem 'haml-rails', '0.4'
gem 'haml', '4.0.3'
# http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/rails.html
gem 'compass-rails', :git => 'https://github.com/Compass/compass-rails.git', :branch => 'rails4-hack'
gem "zurb-foundation", "4.2.3"
# https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails4-getting-started#local-workstation-setup
gem 'rails_12factor', group: :production
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'rails', '4.0.0'
# Use Postgres as database, so Rails needs pg gem:
gem 'pg','0.15.1'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 4.0.0'
# Use Uglifier as compressor for JavaScript assets
gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.3.0'
# Use CoffeeScript for .js.coffee assets and views
gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 4.0.0'
# See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby
# Use jquery as the JavaScript library
gem 'jquery-rails'
# Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster. Read more: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks
gem 'turbolinks'
# Build JSON APIs with ease. Read more: https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 1.2'
group :doc do
# bundle exec rake doc:rails generates the API under doc/api.
gem 'sdoc', require: false
# Use ActiveModel has_secure_password
# gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '~> 3.0.0'
# Use unicorn as the app server
# gem 'unicorn'
# Use Capistrano for deployment
# gem 'capistrano', group: :development
# Use debugger
# gem 'debugger', group: [:development, :test]
Question: What is a gem?
Answer: A gem is a software component for Ruby software. When you work with Rails you frequently encounter gems. The shell command you use to copy a gem from rubygems.org is 'gem'. Additionally, gem is a declaration in a Rails-Gemfile. So the term, gem, is used at least three different ways.
If you are new to Rails, think of the Gemfile as a list of gems which the Rails site depends upon. If the site has fewer gems that is usually better. On the other hand, gems allow me to extend the abilities of my sites using reusable blocks of code written by developers who have more time and/or talent than I have.
After I edited the Gemfile, I used a shell command to transform the human-readable Gemfile into Gemfile.lock which is something useful for the Rails framework but less human-readable:
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ mkdir scripts/
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ mv bin/bundle scripts/
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ mv bin/rails scripts/
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ mv bin/rake scripts/
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ bundle install --binstubs
Notice that I passed '--binstubs' option to the shell command. Many Rails developers don't use '--binstubs' but I find the result to be convenient. That option creates a directory named bin and fills it with stubs which act as useful shell commands like html2haml.
Note that in Rails 4, the bin directory is already there and populated with three files: bundle, rails, rake. I prefer those files to reside in a directory named scripts so I move them to scripts before I run bundle install. Now, if I want to issue the html2haml-shell command I can do so via 'bin/html2haml' and I can be assured that I'm calling a command which is appropriate for this situation. I'm not calling an inappropriate command which has an early position in my $PATH.
If you are new to Rails, you can read more about the bundle-shell command at this URL:
Next I blanked out the username field in database.yml, and then I used shell commands to help my site find its database:
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ bin/rake db:create
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ bin/rake db:migrate
If you are new to Rails, you can read more about the rake-shell command at this URL:
With a new site, I try to establish database connectivity as soon as possible. If I encounter database problems I like to uncover them early in the process. With that thought in mind I worked towards deploying my new Rails site to Heroku. My intent here is to see if I encounter any database connectivity problems inside Heroku.
If you are new to Heroku, perhaps this page will help you understand how to deploy a Rails site to Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git
When I deploy a Rails site to Heroku I follow this checklist:
- Create a Rails site in my laptop or desktop
- Commit it to a local git repo
- Create a Heroku account via: https://api.heroku.com/signup/devcenter
- Download the Heroku-toolbelt
- Use the toolbelt to create a blank app on Heroku
- Use git to push my local Rails site into the blank app
- Use the toolbelt to connect my Rails site on Heroku to its database
- Use a browser to see if my Rails site is up on Heroku
- Use the toolbelt and stackoverflow.com to troubleshoot problems
After I verifed that my site was behaving well on heroku, I returned to studying this page: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/rails.html
Rails Generator
Next, I ran one shell command:
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ script/rails g foundation:install
If you are new to Rails, 'script/rails g' is a shell command I call the Rails Generator:
Anyway what is going on here is that the ZURB-people are asking me to install some ZURB related files into my Rails site using the Rails Generator.
One of the files is the 'layout':
If you are new to Rails, the layout is a type of file which acts like a picture frame. The content inside the frame frequently changes but the frame stays the same. You see this behavior in most websites.
Next I created a 'route' in my new Rails site. If you are new to Rails, think of a route as a path you are allowed to type into the browser URL field. The route I created was this: /blog/index
I used a Rails Generator shell command to create my route:
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ script/rails g controller blog index
In addition to my route, the Rails Generator created a Ruby class called the BlogController. If you are new to Rails you can read about controllers here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html
I sometimes think of a controller as the 'destination' of a route. For example if I type http://ibm.com/jobs into a browser, I expect the route, /jobs, to connect my browser to some software (a controller) which has access to a database full of IBM jobs.
After I generated both the route and controller, I created a layout for them with a simple shell command:
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ cp app/views/layouts/application.html.erb app/views/layouts/blog.html.erb
Rails Server
Next, I did 2 things to test this route and controller in my dev-env.
First, I started my Rails Webserver:
bikle@z5 ~/biklecom $ script/rails s -p 3334
Then I loaded this URL into a browser running on the same host as the Webserver
The browser rendered some HTML and the shell-window which was running the Rails Webserver on port 3334 issued no errors. Also I used view-source in the browser to verify that the layout supplied by the ZURB people was getting served to my browser from the Rails Webserver.
So, I deployed the site to Heroku and used my browser to verify that my site behaved well in that environment.
ZURB Templates
I found ZURB Templates at this URL:
The above page suggests you download any template by pressing option/alt
I have both a standard keyboard and a laptop keyboard in front of me now. Neither has an option key. Maybe the option key is Mac-only.
Anyway, the page you are currently reading uses the 'Blog' template:
I used view-source in my browser to study the HTML in the above Blog-template.
In order to use this template in my Rails site, I needed to categorize HTML in the template into two types. The first type of HTML is used to render content which is relatively static. For example, the links across the top of this page are relatively static. Often content like this does not change when you navigate to various pages in a site. I see this type of content as being like a picture frame. The second type of HTML is used to render content which is relatively dynamic. For example the sentence you are reading now is relatively dynamic since you would expect it to change if you navigated to another page in bikle.com.
As a Rails developer I put relatively static HTML in a layout file. The layout file for the page you are currently reading resides at this location: app/views/layouts/blog.html.erb
And the file which contains the dynamic content you are currently reading is in this directory: app/views/blog/
Question: How is blog.html.erb related to application.html.erb?
Answer: blog.html.erb is the layout file for the blog controller. application.html.erb is the default layout file for any controller which has no layout file. So, if bikle.com is a simple site with one controller, I could remove blog.html.erb and place all my layout-syntax in application.html.erb.
Question: How does Rails combine the static and dynamic content so that it appears as a single page in your browser?
Answer: I sprinkle lines of ERB syntax at various locations in the static content which tells Rails, "Put some dynamic content here."
Question: Why is Rails designed this way?
Answer: Only the static content "knows" the relative locations of elements which make up the single page served to the browser.
According to the Zurb documentation, I should see a file named scss/app.scss
The Rails-Zurb-generator failed to install it so I used the app/assets/stylesheets/blog.css.scss file to enhance the CSS. Rails had created this file when I generated the blog-controller.
I consider the default Zurb-font to be too small. Also I inspected it with Firebug and found it to be '#222222' which is dark-grey. I added these lines to blog.css.scss:
// Default font too light and small.
// Make it bigger and darker.
article p {
font-size: 1.2em;
color: black;
Next I enhanced the screendumps. I want the text in them to be easy to read yet starkly different than the text you are now reading:
/* These declarations are mostly used in my blog to style code in screen dumps */
pre {
font-weight: 600;
font-family: monospace,"Courier New",Terminal;
font-size: 18px;
border-top: 1px solid black;
border-left: 1px solid black;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
Then, I enhanced the links. I inspected default color of the Zurb-links and found it to have this value: '#2BA6CB' which is a light-blue. Aesthetically nice but not conforment with my rules-for-links:
- A link should obviously look like a link
- Link text should be underline-decorated
- Link text should be heavy
- Link text should be different color than surrounding content
- Hovering link should change the color of link text
- Hovering link should change the color of link background
If possible:
- A link should be a shade of blue
- Hovering a link should change the color to red
- Hovering link should change the background to light-grey
So, I coded up this CSS for the links:
// Links should look and act like links
a, a:visited {
color: #0000BB;
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: 600;
a:hover { background-color: #EEEEEE; color: #BB0000; }
That wraps up this blog-post:
- Foundation by ZURB
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Linux vs Mac
- Ruby
- Postgres
- Rails
- Gemfile
- Database/Heroku
- Rails Generator
- Rails Server
- ZURB Templates
- 'Blog' Template
- Cleave 'Blog' Template


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Becoming valedictorian took a lot of hard work for Monica Hernandez, who graduated earlier this year from Balfour Education Center with her 2-year-old son, Josue, in the audience.
Becoming valedictorian took a lot of hard work for Monica Hernandez, who graduated earlier this year from Balfour Education Center with her 2-year-old son, Josue, in the audience.
Hernandez found out she was pregnant when she was 14, and turned to the Children and Family Resource Center for help.
"I was just confused and lost, so I went over there and they offered a lot of stuff," Hernandez said. "(They) would take me to my appointments and bring me back to school and my mom, you know, has to work so she couldn't do that."
On Saturday night, the CFRC hosted its annual "Harvest Dinner with the Stars" at Kenmure Country Club. All proceeds from the evening went toward CFRC's operating expenses, helping the center provide services such as the adolescent parenting program that was Hernandez's lifeline.
"They offered me a mentor who could give me more assistance like take me to my appointments and just little things that helped me a lot," Hernandez said.
Retired pediatric nurse Becky Elston, of Saluda, was Hernandez's mentor. Elston said she saw an ad in the paper about CFRC, and she and Hernandez began working together when Hernandez was near the end of her first trimester.
Elston said that while they would ride back and forth to appointments, Hernandez would talk about what was going on in life.
"She is very honest with me and I am really open and honest with her, and if something doesn't sit right with me, I tell her, and that's what is cool about our situation - we can be open and honest with each other," Elston said.
Hernandez said that without the help, she would not have been able to make it to her appointments.
"I could see a lot of potential in her, and she was just real committed to having a better life for herself and her child," Elston said. "She really has her head screwed on straight for a girl her age; she's 17 and a very capable woman."
"I didn't really feel pregnant until he came; when I had him in my arms it was real - I just couldn't believe it," Hernandez said. "Then after I had him, I kept going to school because it was going to be a better outcome, not just for me, but for him, too."
Hernandez said she didn't want to be a statistic and drop out. She was not excited about leaving her friends at North Henderson High, but enjoyed the smaller class sizes at Balfour.
"They have childcare there, too, that helped me a lot," Hernandez said. "If Balfour didn't have that, I don't know what I would have done."
As part of the childcare program at Balfour, Hernandez said she was also able to breastfeed her son during the school day.
"They would call me whenever he was hungry," Hernandez said. "So I would get called out of class and go breastfeed him."
Hernandez said it was hard going to school and having a child, especially when it came to doing homework, but she graduated early. She was able to take early-level cosmetology classes while still at Balfour and is now taking advanced courses at Blue Ridge Community College.
"I was the first to graduate from my whole family," Hernandez said. "It was really amazing that I got to graduate as valedictorian, and I am glad all of those struggles actually paid off in the end."


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A group of us headed up to the QFT on Thursday night to see Moon, a low-budget, independent science fiction film that got its release timing just right to coincide with last week's Apollo 11 anniversary.
Lunar Industries are harvesting Helium-3 from the moon which is returned to Earth to be used as clean energy. The process is pretty much automated, using four huge harvesters named after the four gospels! So they've just one employee on the moon - Sam Bell (played by Sam Rockwell) - who's contracted to live alone, keep an eye on the heavy machinery and load the harvested fuel pods into what looks like an escape pod and send them back down to Earth.
Technical difficulties mean that there's no real time comms link to Earth. So instead all his messages arrive as videograms. So Sam's only day-to-day conversation is with GERTY - a robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey) designed to look after him. As the film starts, Sam has only a few weeks of his three year contract left to run and is looking forward to returning home.
Just why Sam was chosen for this role is ambiguous. From the video messages we see, the relationship with his wife Tess had been strained. Had he been in prison? His background is never explained. But it's been a lonely three years, and his mental health is beginning to suffer.
Shot in 33 days in the K and W stages at South West London's Shepperton Studios, Moon is only 97 minutes long and feels like a screen play that grew out of a classic science fiction short story. About a quarter of the way through the film, Sam has an accident while out in the lunar rover to collect helium from one of the harvesters. He wakes up in the base's infirmary, and is told by GERTY that's he must be confined inside until a rescue crew arrive to fix the harvester and take him home.
I want to avoid totally giving away the film's big plot point. (The film's press kit has lots of detail to digest after you've seen the film!) But while Moon has shades of Solaris and Sunshine, it's not a psychological thriller. There's tension, but not in huge quantities. Clint Mansell's music sets a lonely and mechanical tone to the film. Perhaps the film's biggest failing is that the audience largely fails to empathise with Sam Bell. We understand his dilemma, but don't feel his pain. No one cries!
The ending is satisfying and appropriate - even though it seems to create unnecessary holes in the plot. And the last few seconds may well tee up director Duncan Jones' next film that will be set in the same universe as Moon.
It's on in the Queens Film Theatre for another couple of days. It's a film that asks questions about the value of life, corporate ethics (Lunar Industries is a "green" company, but it's not entirely transparent), as well as a healthy dose of bioethics.
Worth catching. And don't forget the £3 tickets on Mondays! Though the screen in QFT1 is looking a bit grubby these days ...


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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
St. John the Evangelist
September 26, 2010
Jesus, when He arrives at the gate of a town called Nain, is accompanied, not only by His disciples, but also by a large crowd. The gateway is narrow, so these companions, endeavoring to enter, completely fill it (Luke 7:11-16).
The congestion at the gate is a disadvantage to a second group — also large — which is trying to leave the town; this is a funeral cortege, accompanying the body of a recently deceased young man. The two crowds encounter each other at the gate. One side, it would seem, must give way to the other — or is there a third option?
Actually, there is: Jesus walks up to the funeral procession and stops it.
According to Luke, our Lord does four things in this scene: He sees the dead man's bereaved mother, He feels compassion for her, He touches the bier, and He speaks.
This narrative contains a twofold message. First, it is a story of life triumphant over death. Luke, in his description of the event, refers to Jesus as "Lord" — Kyrios — the title by which the early Christians normally designated the risen Messiah, victorious over death and the grave (Acts 2:36). This is the first time the Lukan narrative voice refers to Jesus by this title (cf. 10:1,39,41; 11:39; 12:42; 13:15; 17:5,6; 18:6; 19:8,31,34; 22:61; 24:3,34). Here, then, at the gate of Nain, death encounters the Lord — "the author of life" (Acts 3:15) — and the march to the grave stops abruptly.
Second, it is a story of Jesus' compassion. The root of the action in this scene is His spontaneous gaze of sympathy. Recognizing the dead man's mother as a widow with no other children — and no other means of support — He seizes the hour. Indeed, Jesus' compassion is qualified by this significant detail: the dead son is an "only child." In Luke's Gospel, this is the first of three miracles Jesus works for the benefit of parents of an "only child" (monogenes).
In fact, this detail is a distinctive feature in Luke, who thus identifies the daughter of Jairus (8:42; contrast Matthew 9:18; Mark 5:23) and the epileptic son (9:38; contrast Matthew 17:15; Mark 9:17). This Lukan feature points to our Lord's particular and nuanced sympathy for parents who would lose an "only child."
This account should also be compared to Luke's later story of Jesus healing the crippled "daughter of Abraham" in the synagogue. In both cases, everything begins when Jesus sees the woman in distress (13:12).
It is also worth remarking — with St. Gregory Palamas — that this narrative of the funeral procession in Nain makes no mention of faith, nor does Jesus require faith on the part of anybody in the account — least of all the dead man! As for him, wrote Gregory, he was only "deaf dust" (ho kophos chous), which, nonetheless, "heard Him call into existence things that have no existence" (Homilies 46.8).
Luke sums up what Jesus accomplishes with respect to the dead man: "and He restored him to his mother." This clause, which repeats word-for-word the Greek text of 1 Kings 17:23, puts the reader in mind of the prophet Elijah, who raised the dead son of the widow of Zarephath. Evidently the witnesses of Jesus' miracle also remembered that earlier story, because they exclaimed, "a great prophet has risen among us."
Nonetheless, this implied reference to Elijah (and perhaps to Elisha, as well — cf. 2 Kings 4:18-36) also indicates a contrast between Jesus and the Old Testament parallel. St. Gregory Palamas observed that, in the Elijah story, the widow approached the prophet, whereas in the present narrative Jesus arrives "self-invited" (avtokletos). Nor, Gregory goes on, is our Lord obliged, like Elijah, to offer elaborate prayers over the dead body (op. cit., 46.5). With total authority, Jesus simply commands, "Rise up, I tell you!"
St. Cyril of Alexandria observed yet another contrast — this one between the present event and the one that immediately precedes it in the Lukan sequence: the healing of the centurion's servant. Whereas in the former case, Cyril remarked, Jesus responded to an explicit petition, here He acts with complete spontaneity (Homilies on Luke 36).
This is an account, then, of Jesus' invincible power in the service of His spontaneous compassion for the widow bereaved of her only son. To each He speaks with authority: "Weep no more!" and "Young man, rise up, I tell you!"
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
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VerenaSchmidt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 190 diseños de 49 diseñadores freelance.
House of Translation
I am a professional translator for Spanish, English and German based on Lanzarote (Canary Islands). After establishing an international client base online (translation agencies, companies), I would like to capture the island`s market (corporate clients). Most of the websites, flyers etc. here on the island have been translated in a very unprofessional way, thus conveying an unfavourable image of the prospective hotel, business or institution. The logo should therefore indicate that House of Translation offers a professional and at the same time personal and individual language service, which is committed to representing the business (and the island) in a highly professional way through precise, accurate and powerful translations. I am a one-woman translation business, I love my job and I would like to convey that words are so powerful that we should learn to use them in the most efficient way when trying to gain international clients or when trying to sell the unique holiday destination "Lanzarote" (which is currently immersed in crisis) to the world.
I am targeting the islands market: local medium-sized companies, tourism boards, hotels and resorts. As I am already working for international clients online (translation agencies and high-profile companies) the logo should serve both needs.
As I am working on an image "update", I will eliminate my old (quite unprofessional) logo, so feel free to create a completely new one without any restrictions. You can take a look at my old design at http://www.house-of-translation.eu
Regarding the colours, I prefer clear and strong colours and contrasts (e.g. dark blue and white). A simple, appealing and professional design. I liked the idea of the circle mixing with the brand name (see website), but it was elaborated in a very ragged way. Feel free to use this as a starting point or create something absolutely new.
Although I usually used dark blue for my old logo, I am open for different colours (e.g. I like the FedEx-logo, which is quite colourful).
Please send in vector based art, so the image can be resized without losing quality.
I have received many designs in blue and with globes. However, many translation agencies use globes, so some alternative symbols, signs and colours would be very much appreciated.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Eden Spicy Pumpkin Seeds are a nutritious and healthy snack food. An excellent source of protein, dietary fiber, phosphorus, and magnesium. Cholesterol free and low sodium (75mg per 1/4 cup serving). According to the FDA, "Diets low in sodium may reduce the risk of hypertension of high blood pressure, a disease associated with many factors." Although they are high in total fat, they are higher in healthy monounsaturated (5g) and polyunsaturated (8g) fats than saturated fats (3g), and contain no trans fats. They are also a good source of iron and zinc. Wheat and gluten free.
Contains no irradiated spices, refined salt, added oil, additives or preservatives.
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Featuring cushioned resin wicker seating, this collection has everything you need to transform your outdoor space entirely. The plush cushions are covered in fade-resistant and easy-to-clean Nuvella™ fabric, and all the pieces are constructed with rust-proof aluminum frames that ensure the level of durability necessary for outdoor living.
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Cabins@theView offer luxury accommodation with stunning views, heated spas and fireplaces in every cabin. Each Cabin at Cabins@theView is secluded and private on the 40 acre picturesque property so close to Brisbane yet a world away in every other aspect. Perfect for that romantic getaway with your special person.
Wildlife such as wallabies, koalas and colourful native birds abound at Cabins@theView. The cabins are also perfectly situated to offer accommodation for local wedding and function venues such as Glengariff Historic Estate, Ocean View Estate Winery, Birches Restaurant and Brockhurst Farm.
Cabins@theView offer one bedroom and two bedroom/two bathroom cabins which have self contained kitchens, king size beds, reverse cycle air-conditioning, convenient parking at your door and on site managers. There is also a four bedroom/two bathroom house with magnificent views available. There is a small convenience shop with personal items and drinks and snacks for sale.
They would love to welcome you to their little piece of paradise.
Cabins@theview offer one bedroom cabins and two bedroom cabins. The one bedroom cabins are perfect for a couple and the two bedroom cabins are great for two couples or girls weekends, brides and bridemaids pre-wedding night, groom and groomsmen pre-wedding etc.
Cabins@theview has one 2 bedroom/2 bathroom villa with split level lounge area. The villa also boasts sunken hot spa, large deck with barbecue and outdoor setting. The villa has one King bed and one Queen bed and a single pull out sofa bed suitable for a small person.
The villa has a full size self-contained kitchen with oven, cooktop, microwave, full size fridge, and capsule coffee machine. Separate dining table and all crockery and cutlery needs are catered for. The villa is handicapped accessible with one bathroom completely compliant.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Hospitals, once secure in their community niches and service areas, are fighting for their survival. As they battle competition from the big teaching hospitals in Boston and independent outpatient centers in the suburbs, they face daunting challenges.
It's survival of the fittest. Hospitals, once secure in their community niches and service areas, are fighting for their survival. As they battle the big teaching hospitals in Boston and independent outpatient centers in the suburbs, they face daunting challenges.
Keeping up with the latest expensive technology, from robots in the surgical suite to images only once dreamed of, is just one of the demands.
In their efforts to secure their place, they are turning more and more to their communities, anticipating trends and demographic changes, adding the services they hope most consumers most want, and drawing on ever shifting insurance payments. Fundraising is becoming more important than ever.
The South Shore hospitals below have transformed themselves in the past few years. Most have changed their names at least once and/or formed new alliances, often with Boston's teaching hospitals in the lucrative fields of cardiology and other specialty care.
The Patriot Ledger
Location: Weymouth
Founded: 1922
Licensed beds: 318
Employees: 3,500
In-patient discharges: 23,474
Outpatient visits: 248,268
Emergency department visits: 78,783
Newborns: 3,795
Medicare share: 8,726 or 37% of total discharges
Medicaid share: 1,556 or 6.6% of total discharges
Operating revenue: $329,697,000
Operating expenses: $327,269,000
Income from operations: $2,428,000
Non-operating revenue: $5,966,000
Net income: $8,394,000
Richard Aubut, president and CEO
Biggest challenge? Finding, developing and keeping the very best medical, nursing and clinical talent is a significant challenge. Recruiting and retaining physicians is a nationwide challenge. South Shore Hospital has the largest medical staff in our region. One-third of our nation's doctors is over the age of 55 and will retire in the next 10 years. The amount of physicians graduating from U.S. medical schools isn't keeping pace with the numbers of doctors that will be needed to care for a growing and aging population.
Most excited about? The outpatient Cancer Center we will open in October 2009, in affiliation with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital and staffed by oncologists from Harbor Medical Associates, who will join Dana Farber staff
Most worried about? Everyone deserves to be treated with expertise, compassion and respect. Our biggest concern is making sure that all those who choose us for care are satisfied with the entire experience. And that is no small task. All of us who work at South Shore Hospital are very focused on the patient experience.
Biggest changes? Technology continues to revolutionize health care. People used to travel outside our region for minimally invasive and computer-assisted surgeries that are now available at our hospital. Treatments once provided in hospitals are now provided at home by our visiting nurses
Location: Plymouth
Founded: 1901
Licensed beds: 155
Employees: 1,576
In-patient discharges: 11,828
Outpatient visits: 380,926
Newborns: 738
Medicare share: 35%
Medicaid share: 7.5%
Operating revenue: $178,242,314
Operating expenses: $175,930,156
Income from operations: $2,312,158
Non-operating revenue: $2,103,751
Net income: $4,415,909
Peter Holden, CEO and president
Biggest challenge? To provide high quality care and services, proving that our clinical outcomes are equal or superior to the Boston hospitals and we can do it 30 to 40 percent cheaper than the academic medical centers.
Most excited about? The relentless pursuit of continuous quality improvement and being able to measure those results. Clinical pathways or "care maps" enable us to provide the right care, in the right place at the right time. Jordan Hospital will be the obvious health care provider of choice for this region. Financial improvements will follow.
Most worried about? Reduced reimbursements; increasing regulatory requirements that make the practice of medicine very complex; the increasing costs of technology, pharmaceuticals and recruiting; and keeping clinical expertise are all significant challenges.
Biggest changes? Technology continues to revolutionize health care. There is always an inexhaustible need for services and limited resources to meet demand. If we develop good systems and support our physicians in practicing quality medicine, we will consistently be the best place for patients to receive care.
Location: Milton
Founded: 1903
Licensed beds: 81
Employees: 650
In-patient discharges: 4,752
Outpatient visits: 70,638
Emergency department visits: 19,168
Medicare share: 3,321 or 70% of total discharges
Medicaid share: 163 or 3.4% of total discharges
Operating revenue: $60,531,575
Operating expenses: $60,367,332
Income from operations: $164,243
Non-operating revenue: $1,509,151
Net income: $1,673,394
Joseph Morrissey, president
Biggest challenge? Finding reasonably priced loans for building improvements, new equipment (and) recruiting primary care physicians.
Most excited about? New equipment and technology, including a robotic-assisted surgical system, Endoscopy Center, Surgical Services Department and expanded Emergency Department.
Most worried about? Recruiting physicians. Community hospitals must find ways to differentiate themselves in the marketplace from Boston teaching hospitals.
Biggest changes? New technology, shorter patient stays, financial burdens caused by changes in reimbursements. Possibly the biggest crisis facing non-teaching community hospitals are the challenges in recruiting new physicians.
Location: Quincy
Founded: 1890
Licensed beds: 196
Employees: 1,000
In-patient discharges: 7,297
Outpatient visits: 111,304
Emergency department visits, 2007: 36,388
Medicare share: 67% of total discharges
Medicaid share: 8.3% of total discharges
Operating revenue: $106,348,227
Operating expenses: $109,849,785
Loss from operations: $3,500,000
Non-operating revenue: $4,047,212
Net income: $912,723
Dr. Gary Gibbons, CEO and president
Biggest challenge? We provide care to everyone, regardless of their insurance status, and work with diverse populations with special, and often costly, needs. We struggle with insufficient reimbursement to cover the cost of providing that care.
Most excited about? Our vibrant relationship with the community and our provider partners. We have exceptional high quality scores and our clinical affiliation with BMC is intact. We also have opportunities and strategies to build and strengthen our community's health care system.
Most worried about? Shortages of doctors and nurses in primary care and medical specialties, like rheumatology and surgery. With declining reimbursement rates, there is a danger of further closure of community hospitals, especially those with higher government-payer mixes like QMC.
Biggest changes? Growing needs of baby boomers will require a rational payment system to ensure hospitals remain open to serve them. I'm encouraged by more public reporting and transparency because it empowers patients.
Location: Brockton
Founded: 1896
Licensed beds: 253 (includes nursery)
Employees: 1,900
In-patient discharges: 15,716
Outpatient visits: 240,360 (includes emergency)
Emergency department visits: 61,946
Newborns: 1,475
Medicare share: 42% of total discharges
Medicaid share: 25% of total discharges
Operating revenue: $168,041,063
Operating expenses: $167,212,930
Income from operations: $828,133
Non-operating revenue: $4,233,451
Net income: $5,061,584
Norman Goodman, president
Biggest challenge? The belt-tightening that is necessary in health care and the need to carefully examine any cutbacks ... to ensure that we maintain standards for consistent, compassionate care to the 22 communities in our service area.
Most excited about? The Signature Healthcare organization, (including the) hospital and 16 other health services locations. We have some of the most cutting-edge technology and high-caliber doctors, nurses and others.
Most worried about? The governor's recent cuts to health care and being guaranteed we will be adequately compensated for the true cost of the care we provide. The moves by larger hospitals to creep in (and) cherry-pick profitable services (like cardiac care, imaging and day surgery), while declining other costly but essential procedures.
Biggest changes? Changes in clinical practice and technology are happening almost faster than the human mind can absorb. Universal health coverage is the most exciting, complex and intriguing change in decades.
Location: Brockton
Founded: 1993 merger of Goddard (founded in 1959) and Cardinal Cushing (1968)
Licensed beds: 231
Employees: 1,800
In-patient discharges: 15,692
Outpatient visits: 155,896
Emergency department visits: 51,999
Newborns: 897
Medicare share: 6,120 or 39% of discharges
Medicaid share: 3,222 or 21% of discharges
Operating revenue: $170,811,398
Operating expenses: $162,374,750
Income from operations: $8,436,648
Non-operating revenue: $771,723
Net income: $9,208,371
John J. Holiver, president
Biggest challenge? Reimbursements from third parties and the financial stress this places on community hospitals.
Most excited about? The continued growth of Caritas Good Samaritan and the new services in sleep, wound care and cancer care to meet our community's needs.
Most worried about? Shortages in the key health care professions.
Biggest changes? Hospitals must provide exceptional service and attention to the total physical, medical, spiritual and emotional needs of patients and their families. We must have both hospitality and health care to meet and exceed patient expectations.


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See, it's not that hard. Every time Audi updates its middle-range A6 sedan, it also comes out with a wagon version, offering the same amenities with more aluminum-und-steel hauling. Here's the 2012 edition of the A6 Avant.
At this point the Audi design cues that were shocking not that many months ago have become almost routine out of sheer repetition across Audi's line. LED headlamps, mix of turbocharged four-cylinder and 3-liter, 6-cylinder engines, big, arch-filling tires, all four of which can put power unto the earth — all back yet again in these first photos.
And yet the appeal of the Avants somehow remains a mystery on these shores, where the Q3s and Q5s are far more popular. Because adding a few centimeters of ground clearance and shucking some of the wagon's tail supposedly make that much difference in real life? Not to be too snobby, but given the choice between a puffy softroader and a sleeked out wagen for the kinder, why not drive in style.
Also, we're going to go ahead and start counting down the hours until we can put the Cadillac CTS-V wagon, the Mercedes E63 AMG estate and the S6 Avant into a proper haul off.


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Amarantus BioScience and Banyan Biomarkers to Present Poster of MANF Data at The 3rd Annual Traumatic Brain Injury Conference
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and ALACHUA, Fla., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Amarantus BioScience, Inc. (OTCQB:AMBS), a biotechnology company discovering and developing treatments and diagnostics for diseases associated with neurodegeneration and apoptosis centered around its patented therapeutic protein MANF, and Banyan Biomarkers, the leader in developing in vitro diagnostic products to detect TBI, today announced that the companies will be making a joint poster presentation March 6-7, 2013 at The 3rd Annual Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Conference in Washington, DC (www.tbiconference.com). The poster is entitled "Mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (MANF) neuroprotection from necrotic and apoptotic cell death in rat cortical cultures."
"MANF significantly inhibited caspase and calpain-mediated cellular processes of cell death and conferred overall neuroprotection in our cellular model systems of TBI," said Dr. Juan Martinez, Director of Scientific Operations at Banyan Biomarkers. "This neuroprotection indicates therapeutic potential based on well-defined biochemical pathway inhibition. We look forward to working with Amarantus to further develop MANF's therapeutic potential in TBI."
About Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor (MANF)
MANF (Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor) is a protein that corrects protein misfolding, one of the major causes of apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death). Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor (MANF) is believed to have broad potential because it is a naturally-occurring protein produced by the body for the purpose of reducing and preventing apoptosis (in response to injury or disease), via the unfolded protein response. By manufacturing MANF and administering it to the body, Amarantus is seeking to use a regenerative medicine approach to assist the body with higher quantities of MANF when needed. Amarantus is the front-runner and primary holder of intellectual property (IP) around MANF, and is initially focusing on the development of MANF-based protein therapeutics. MANF's current lead indication is Parkinson's disease with additional focus on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Future indications may include myocardial infarction and certain rare and ultra-rare orphan diseases where MANF is currently being evaluated.
About Amarantus BioScience, Inc.
Amarantus BioScience, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company founded in January 2008. The Company has a focus on developing certain biologics surrounding the intellectual property and proprietary technologies it owns to treat and/or diagnose Parkinson's disease, Traumatic Brain Injury and other human diseases. The Company owns the intellectual property rights to a therapeutic protein known as Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor ("MANF") and is developing MANF-based products as treatments for brain disorders. The Company also is a Founding Member of the Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT), a movement initiated in collaboration with Brewer Sports International seeking to raise awareness of new treatments in development for concussions and nervous-system disorders. For further information please visit www.Amarantus.com.
About Banyan Biomarkers
Banyan Biomarkers is the leader in developing in vitro diagnostic products to address unmet clinical needs for the detection of traumatic brain injury. The Company is focused on developing a simple point-of-care blood test that will be used by physicians to detect the presence and severity of brain trauma and improve the medical management of head injured patients. Banyan Biomarkers has a licensing agreement with the University of Florida for exclusive global use of technology related to this product. To learn more about Banyan Biomarkers, Inc., visit http://www.banyanbio.com.
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Commerce CIty, Colo. - With the team in the midst of a stretch where goals are not coming easy, coach Oscar Pareja handed Andre Akpan only his second start of the season on Wednesday night. The Harvard-grad responded by scoring the team's first goal of the match, and only his second career MLS goal, in the 3-0 win over Portland.
"It was good. It felt really good, I think for the young players when you get a chance you've got to take it," Akpan said afterwards. "That's what we were able to do tonight and we got a win. Hopefully we can keep that going."
Akpan was given the nod ahead of the Rapids all-time leading scorer Conor Casey, who was an unused substitute. Pareja said two factors went into the decision.
"Conor's knee was bothering him after playing on the turf (at Portland)," the coach said about of resting Casey, in addition to as Brian Mullan, who also took a few knocks in the last match. "And it was the time for Andre. He came on and put the ball in the back of the net, which is great."
Akpan's only other start this season was on May 26 in the Rapids 3-2 win over Montreal. Portland goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts was also in the nets for the Impact that day before being traded to the Timbers.
"I think it was Drew (Moor) who hit it back post to find Tony (Cascio) and he got up above his defender," Akpan said of his goal. "It fell to me and I reacted, and tucked it away."
With Casey and Cummings struggling this season - Casey has two goals in 15 games while Cummings has five goals in 22 games - Akpan may have put himself in the discussion for more minutes.
"I think in the last month Andre has been showing his best, getting some minutes in the games," Pareja said. "And today he started and scored. I think he's a very legitimate option for us right now."