Question: Can my DUI be dismissed if my BAC was not recorded on the officer's report?
I was arrested for a DUI when I was parked alongside the road and I was not moving. The officer pulled up and arrested me for DUI. He told me I had to blow no matter what and I did. On the paper work for my arrest they did not record what my BAC was. Is this grounds for dismissal?
Answer: When you say that the BAC level was not listed in the police officer's report, are you referring to the citation that you received after the night of your arrest, or the actual police report that was given to you or your attorney at the first court date, or received from the DMV if you or your Lawyer timely requested an Admin Per Se hearing?
If the officer simply did not include your BAC level on the citation that was issued to you, it won't make a difference in your case. If there is no indication of a BAC level in the actual police report and DS 367 report assuming your DUI arrest was in California, and you are not being charged with a "Refusal" enhancement, then that is a great start to defending your case. It does not mean an automatic dismissal necessarily, but it can be a persuasive argument to say the least.
Were you legally parked on the side of the road when the officer approached you? What type of road? A residential road? The freeway? There could be a potential suppression issue that could potentially lead to a dismissal of the charges. Whatever the case, it takes one argument out of the prosecutor's hands since there was no bad driving observed by the officer.
You need to talk to a DUI attorney in your area to get a more specific assessment of the potential strengths in defending your case.
If your DUI case is in or around Los Angeles county, call me at (818) 336-1384 to discuss your situation further. I recently won a trial in a similar situation as yours where my clients car was parked on the side of the road and the officer approached him claiming he was parked illegally. There were some damaging parts of the police report, including a .14 blood alcohol content level. I was able to expose reasonable doubt in the case though.
In the event your case is not in Southern California, I may be able to refer you to a good DUI lawyer in your area. In the event I don't hear back from you, good luck with everything.


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Livebloggin': Game Five of the World Series (Pt. 2 of ?)
Posted by Andrew Unterberger on October 29, 2008
If this is it, please let me know
After sitting through what could most accurately be described as an inauspicious Sixers season opener (rebounded and d'd fairly well, but that's about it, and Brand didn't anchor the team so much as just sort of weigh them down), it's good to remember that one of my city's other sports teams is still potentially three innings away from a World Championship. This week has been maybe the most surreal I've experienced in my brief tenure as a sports fan–baseball is drawn out enough as it is, without having to spend two days in between innings contemplating pitching match-ups, momentum swings and possible dramatic storylines (like how if the Phillies somehow ended up losing after this, it would have to mark the blackest moment in the city's sports history, right? Yikes, maybe I did choose to follow Philly at just the right time)
That said, I still like our chances a pretty good deal tonight–good though David Price has been, I'm not convinced he can handle four scoreless innings by his lonesome, and as long as we don't have to resort to Durbin at some point, I trust our bullpen guys fairly implicitly. And ultimately, this might be a good thing for baseball–this was gearing up to be a fairly anonymous Series, and at least this mishap has given the match a little personality. Of course, it's a much better story if the Rays win tonight, so let's hope things don't get too interesting. In any event, it's going to be hard for me to resist flipping intermittently to the Spurs-Suns season opener (watching Game Five of the '05 Western Conference Finals on NBA TV today reminded me just how easily this is my favorite rivalry in pro sports), so forgive an interjection or two from that game.
Anyway, opening pitch approaches. Can Lidge keep history on his side? Can Cholly outmanouever Maddon after 48 hours of labbing behind the both? Who gets to be the hero tonight? Should be one for the ages, no matter what.
8:38: Geoff Jenkins announced as the pinch-hitter for Hamels. I don't like it–yeah, maybe he matches up better, but I don't think he's actually come through in any important capacity since the summer, and I'd be shocked if he broke that streak tonight. But with an unstable Balfour on the mound and a record-enthusiastic Philly crowd behind him, I'll be willing to suspend disbelief for a couple of pitches.
8:42: HOLY FUCKING SHIT GEOFF JENKINS. A leadoff double over the head of BJ Upton that looked like almost as much of a bomb as Stairs's NLCS clocker. Jenkins, you fucking prince. Charlie Manuel, you fucking genius.
8:43: Rollins bunts Jenkins over, and the dreaded RISP cloud moves back over Citizens Bank Park for Jayson Werth. Can he put bat to ball and get Not-Favre 90 feet over?
8:45: Somehow, yes. Werth works his patented "Runner on Third With Less Than Two Outs Pop-Up" magic, but with the infield playing in to nail Jenkins at the plate, Aki fails to pull a Rollins and make the backwards shallow-outfield catch. Jenkins scores, Werth safe at first, so long Grant Balfour.
8:49: Earlier today, I realized how much I missed those "Where Amazing Happens" NBA commercials. A few hours later, I wondered how the hell I was ever going to an endure an entire season's worth of them again.
8:50: J.P. Howell in for Balfour. So much for Price going the distance, although McCarver & Buck helpfully point out that doing so would necessitate the Rays' having to hit for him too soon. Doesn't matter, since Utley goes down on three pitches to Howell, causing me to wonder if the Phils aren't instilling the "hurry-up offense" they so often do once they get a league in big games, seemingly uninterested in providing further offense at the risk of unnecessarily delaying victory.
8:54: Howard pops up, inning over. Down to Madson, Romero and Lidge nail down a glorious anti-climax.
8:57: Hey, forgot that Hamels can still win this thing! A record-setting 5-0, just another reason why winning tonight might not be the worst idea (Reason #1: Not stretching this thing to the very end of the month getting in the way of my Halloween plans).
8:59: Madson freezes Navarro, and we officially start the Outs to Go countdown. (8)
8:59: Uhh, scratch that, as Rocco Baldelli somehow fights off a high and inside fastball…INTO THE LEFT-FIELD STANDS??? I don't know how that mitochondrial motherfucker managed that one, but we got ourselves another tie game, and Hamels loses his shot at a historic 5-0. Goddamn it.
9:02: Bartlett singles and gets bunted up. Madson out, Romero in, and the chances that we can finish this game without resorting to Condrey or Durbin start to dwindle past the point of comfort. Would it maybe not be the worst idea to let the well-rested Myers come out of the bullpen if necessary, and have Moyer and either Blanton or a three-days'-rest Hamels pitch the potential Games 6 and 7? Well, given the fact that he always gives up two runs in his first inning, maybe it wouldn't be so advisable. But soon it might be time for a little out-of-the-box thinking.
9:07: Another game-saving play from Utley, who gloves a hot grounder from Aki, realizes he has no play at first, and has the presence of mind to fake the throw, hold on to the ball, and gun down the overzealous Bartlett heading for home. Said it before, say it again–whatta crew.
9:11: PAT. THE. BAT. Burrell comes inches away from a game-breaking homer but manages a lead-off double anyway (anyone else would've gone to third or possibly home on the ricochet, but whatever). Sometimes, 1-14 just looks so much better than 0-13. Incidentally, where was that Battle of the Bullpens we were promised?
9:19: Vic advances the pinch-running Bruntlett to third, and then Feliz knocks in Bruntlett with a shot up the middle. Looks like all the momentum the Rays were supposed to get from the days off and from Hamels being out of the game has yet to properly transfer to their bullpen. Still, I guess we should see if ours'll start holding up before I start gloating too unapologetically.
9:22: Ruiz forcefully grounds out, and then in a move that he damn well better justify with his pitching next inning, Romero is not lifted for a pinch-hitter, and grounds out somewhat less forcefully. In any event, time to start the Outs to Go countdown again (7, 6).
9:25: With every new season, the gap between between 24 and an 80s Schwarzeneggar movie closes a little bit. Not that I'm complaining, mind you–I'm especially looking forward to Jack's climact knife fight with Bennett in the season finale.
9:28: Crawford singles up the middle, but as has somehow become his trademark this World Series, Upton grounds into a double play (5, 4). Why does this guy seem so fast when he's stealing second or rounding third (even winning America free tacos in the process), but becomes positively Burrell-esque when running out potential DPs? This has got to be the most frustrating thing in the world if you're a Tampa fan (and yes, I think we're going to have to get used to the phrase "Tampa fan" in the years to come, no matter what happens here tonight).
9:32: Pena lifts one into left a little too far for comfort, but it lands in healthy playability for Bruntlett (3). No matter what, the Phils are going to have the lead going into the ninth, with Lidge on the mound to turn the lights out for the 49th and last time this season. Are we getting excited yet? Inversely, can we possibly picture a more terrifying Worst Case Scenario if the Phils don't pull this out? Actually, let's stick to the excitement part for now.
9:35: And heeeeere comes David Price. The more I hear about this guy and the more I see him pitch, the more I'm convinced that he's the baseball Tim Duncan. He sorta looks like him, facial hair aside, they both were #1 picks that were thrust amidst huge hype into extremely high-pressure post-season situations their first years and they both look to be the franchise players for a potentially dynastic team. But most importantly, neither look like they feel anything except fear, adrenaline and sullenness, their perpetually hagdog expressions looking jarringly ill-fitting for such a championship-calliber player and leader. Maybe next year Price grows a goatee, dates a reality TV star and does a Sprite commercial, but more likely I think he chills at home with his phone on silent, wondering why everyone always wants to talk to him so much.
9:39: Rollins flies out and Werth strikes out. Hard not to question Maddon for not putting his No-Longer-Particularly-Secret Weapon in the game as soon as they were lucky enough to tie it against Madson, no?
9:43: Utley walks and steals second, and for the first and last time in history, Howard continues to get pitched to For Fear of Eric Bruntlett on deck. Of course, Howard justifies their decision by whiffing.
9:45: BRAD LIDGE TIME. Goddamn this blog for making it too confusing for me to figure out how to write that in the humongous, screen-shattering size it deserves. CAN YOU FEEL IT PHILADELPHIA?????
9:50: Eva Almighty pops up, and boy is it starting to feel real. Sorry for the shitty series, MLB, but I think we just needed to get this one out of the way. They can't all be evenly-matched epics like Boston-Colorado and St. Louis-Detroit, I guess. (3)
9:52: Uh-oh, broken bat bloop single for Navarro. Lidge never did do things the easy way. Fernando Perez pinch-runs for Navarro in a way that is in absolutely no fashion reminiscent of Dave Roberts in 2004…right?
9:54: Perez steals second. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK. Zobrist and Hinske, Brad. You've done it all year. Do it one more fucking time, please.
9:55: Zobrist lines a beauty to right, that somehow manages to stay up long enough for Werth to get glove on it (1). Holy shit is that a little too close for comfort. And as we always knew it would, the World Series comes down to 2003 Rookie of the Year Eric Hinske. Can he provide the big-game support for the Rays that he did for the Red Sox last year? I'm cuing up the McFadden and Whitehead, just incase.
9:56, 23 seconds: Foul grounder to first, strike one.
9:56, 48 seconds: Hinske can't check his swing, strike two. Hope you've been practicing your McGraw leap, Brad-Brad.
9:57, 20 seconds: Lidge slider, Hinske swings, and
AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN'T NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOPPIN' USSSS NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WE'RE ON THE MOVE
10:50: About an hour, a ridiculous amount of texting and IMing, six shots of tequilla and a whole lot of Hall & Oates and Gamble and Huff later, the incredulity of the situation has started to strike me somewhat. The Phillies have won the 2008 World Series….how about that? No weaknesses came back to haunt the team, no brutal ironies surfaced to sap the team of its life and enthusiasm, no holes opened up in the middle of the earth under CBP to swallow the team whole. And as soon as Lidge got that third strike on Hinske, I completely forgot all about all the rain delays, as I imagine the entire world will within the next 24 hours. This will not go down as one of the great moments in sports history. This will go down as very potentially the great moment in Philadelphia sports history. Holy shit am I lucky to have started following this team when I did.
And once again, they did it all as a team. There are no goats on this team. Pedro Feliz and Eric Bruntlett were not exactly on the shortlist of the team's prospective post-season homers, but Feliz got the game-winning hit, and Bruntlett got the game winning run. My boy Moyer got shelled in his first two series outings, but he redeemed it all with his Game 3 performance, and now fans are chanting his name as he gets interviewed by Peter Gammons. Hell, even Mitch Williams, the guy who give Philly fans ulcers whenever his name was mentioned for a decade and a half, got to throw out an opening pitch. Lidge got the save, Hamels got the MVP, and Phils fans got ammo over Mets fans for years and years to come (IITS friend Andrew Weber on the occasion: "I am not even talking about this. This is too depressing. This is it for six months.") It's unreal that it's as uncomplicated as it all is.
It's a better story if Tampa Bay wins, sure. But the early-90s Braves needed to lose before they could win, too, and it's the Braves that turned out to be the team of the 90s, while the Twins were pretty much never heard from again. I don't cry any tears for the Rays–it would've been amazing if they won, sure, but they'll only get better, and they'll have their chances soon enough. The Phils, on the other hand–this was their year, and they might not have another. Burrell and Moyer might be on their way out, while Howard, Utley, Rollins and Victorino are not nearly as young as you might think for a group that hasn't even been playing together for a half-decade. It was a year where just about everything that could've gone right did–some minor dips in production, but no major injuries and no major catastrophes, and a post-season where the team did not lose a single game at home. For a team who has had a notoriously tempestuous relationship with its fans, this last month was a gift that should buy them credit for years and years of heartbreak to come.
So will it be another hundred seasons before the next Philly championship? Maybe, but maybe not. I'm hoping this could be the break in city psychology that Boston got with those first couple Pats championships, opening the floodgates for an oncoming period of prosperity and dominance. And if not, well, it'll take a whole lot to start complaining again. This was as special a season as they come, and the memories–Victorino's 9th-inning assist against the Braves to save Lidge's save streak, Howard's incredible long-balling September to get the Phils back in the playoff hunt, Rollins and Utley's amazing double play against the Nats to seal the division, Myers' huge walk-draw against CC to help chase the best pitcher in baseball out of the NLDS, Stairs' incredible 8th-inning blast against the Dodgers to help seal the NLDS, and Lidge's strike-out of Hinske and the ensuing pile on as the Phils won their first World in a quarter-century–will last my whole life.
Shine a light, Philadelphia.
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2 Responses to "Livebloggin': Game Five of the World Series (Pt. 2 of ?)"
Steph said
The first time I've ever been excited to watch baseball! That last out I was shaking. It was incredible, although I don't envy Lidge for that tackle from Ryan Howard. Most importantly, I'm glad the curse is broke & now the Eagles can win the Superbowl… eventually. 🙂
Sonja said
I wish I was in Philly right now!!!


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A conversation with Douglas Rushkoff
James Jackson Toth spoke with Douglas Rushkoff about the disconnect between knowledge and information, the illusion of expertise with pocket-sized supercomputers, how media shifts the goals of youth and what is truly lost by disposing of face-to-face chatter.
I think we bonded over our shared amusement and dismay about how normal and boring and mundane our real life problems were in comparison to so much of what we talked about.
James Jackson Toth
I have been an admirer of your work for a decade or so, and have been a fan of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge for nearly twice that, and yet it somehow escaped me until fairly recently that you and Genesis are good friends and occasional collaborators. How did you meet? Has his work influenced you in any way?
Gosh, I first met Genesis back in the early '90s when he had been banished from the UK. He wanted to meet Timothy Leary, to get some advice about how to live or even thrive as a "national enemy #1." Tim knew I was about to drive down to LA from SF, and asked if I would give Gen a ride. Only it was Gen and his two daughters, who were like 10 and 12 then. It was quite a ride, with Gen and I talking about British royal sex conspiracies and the two kids fighting in the back.
I think we bonded over our shared amusement and dismay about how normal and boring and mundane our real life problems were in comparison to so much of what we talked about. He was glad to have someone to be so real and normal with, and I was glad to have someone I could be totally honest with, as well. People get threatened by honesty. Or they want to believe that the people whose books they read have gotten to some other level of engagement with life.
I ended up joining PsychicTV. I was originally going to go on a big tour with his poetry/band project TheeMajesty, but then PsychicTV reformed and they wanted it to be more musical than noisy, and I started playing keyboards — pushing things a bit more toward rock than weird. We had great fun and toured a bit. But then my wife and I had a baby just as they were planning a giant tour through Eastern Europe, so I just had to stop. Plus, I had my own books to write, and Gen's projects — while highly collaborative — are really Gen's projects.
Gen and I became what you might call "best friends," and once he moved to NYC, he and Jackie were really the only couple that my wife and I could go out with and experience no tension. Most of my friends by then had gotten more interested in my career and ideas than me as a person, and that was particularly difficult when we were out as a couple. Gen and Jackie were just as sick of having to explain or defend their art and ideas, and welcomed the chance to be mundane. So it was a bit like going out in drag, except drag was normal bourgeois activity. Mostly to an Indian place on First Avenue.
Gen would stay over at my apartment when he and Jackie were having a fight, and we just were buddies in the very conventional sense. And, of course, now that he's got leukemia, I'm trying to help him raise funds and maybe sell a book.
He's been a big influence, too — mostly in the more occult areas, but also in maintaining my commitment to the weird. And in seeing the beauty in adversity.
The problem with information being a click away is less that we'll become dilettantes than that we'll look at information and knowledge as some sort of check mark or quiz answer.
You have an anecdote in Present Shock about an elementary school that places "a leaf on the wall for every book a child reads, yet has no way of measuring or rewarding the depth of understanding or thought that took place — or didn't." There's obviously a larger disconnect than ever between knowledge and information. Do you think that, at a time when the illusion of expertise on any topic is ostensibly a Google click away, we have become a nation of dilettantes? What is the ultimate danger of this?
I don't know if we're dilettantish so much as quantized. We tend to think of everything in terms of numbers and metrics. How many books did you read this month? How much money do you have? And even the metrics we use are stupid. GDP? How much money is spent is a stupid gauge of public health. What if we're spending all that money on cancer treatments? That's a good economy?
The problem with information being a click away is less that we'll become dilettantes than that we'll look at information and knowledge as some sort of check mark or quiz answer. At least a dilettante enjoys what they do. It's a gateway to some higher level of commitment. I prefer that to some robotic fakery.
My wife teaches at a small liberal arts college. One day, she had her students discuss the "work" of certain contemporary recording artists and was shocked to find that most of her students defined the work as everything but the art: the students' admiration for these figures centered more on branding, investing, and diversifying than any art that person put into the world, which seemed, to the students, almost ancillary to the feat of making tons and tons of money. Is the media in some way responsible for shifting the goals of young people away from value creation and toward value extraction?
Yeah. I see reality TV and social media as the main culprits here. For me, it all became clear when I was watching a Paris Hilton reality show, in which she and her friend demonstrated their inability to do any sort of job, every week. It was positioning her as the ultimate celebrity: she was unable to actually do anything, perform any useful service, or even create art. Her celebrity was based on nothing but her celebrity.
And this is seen as somehow winning the game. Kardashian style. And that family was born out of the O.J. trial, which was itself one of the original "reality" spectacles.
So, kids understanding pop culture in terms of pop rather than culture is not surprising. Again, it's metrics; numbers of likes mattering more than whatever it is being liked. Medium becomes message.
One of the qualities about your work I admire is your refusal to disguise your anxiety about what you call "digitally accelerated capitalism." I find the tone of many theorists and economists almost giddy about the prospect of a utopia that seems to me profoundly dehumanizing and suffocating. I experience a similar cognitive dissonance, as a musician, when I discover how many of my professional peers have so readily embraced Spotify, which seems a little like John Henry embracing the steam-powered hammer. Why are we so quick to equate technology with progress?
Well, technology is progress. I think our bigger mistake is equating progress itself with moral, collective or personal good. We've gone from the more indigenous sensibility of time being circular to thinking about it as more of a line. We like to think of ourselves building, improving and getting somewhere. That's great, as far as developing ethics and striving for social good. But it also leads to some ends-justify-the-means repression and destruction. The exhaust is in the tailpipe — forever behind us. But it's not really behind us. There are other people living in the wake of our destruction and extraction.
As for musicians jumping on Spotify, well, what else are they to do? These streaming services look like the only game in town. The barrier to entry today is so much lower than it was twenty years ago. But the barrier to success is way way higher. Many fewer artists can make a living in the current "winner takes all" environment.
If we're all just consumers, rather than producers, then the new scheme is great. The thing is, the system treats most musicians as consumers. Or, at best, prosumers. Guitar Center makes the money.
Very soon, if you don't like the ending of The Shining, you might be able to just "remix" it so that Jack Torrance comes to his senses, apologizes for his foul mood and takes everyone out for frosty milkshakes. Does this portend the Death of the Artist? How does the ability to write our own endings affect the way we value works of art?
There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is meant to satisfy you with closure. So it makes sense that if the original ending didn't provide you with enough closure, you'd want to have the ability to rewrite it and make it even more conclusive. So you can get to sleep.
Art is about creating questions. Opening up the gaps and ambiguities. Even the "plot" of The Shining was meant as a sarcastic nod to the people who demand a traditional narrative for their ticket price. The movie is about Western domination of indigenous cultures, and the realities that our ways of seeing leave behind. You can't solve that with a different plot ending.
My courses at CUNY/Queens are largely about the question you raise: what happens to the authority of the author in an interactive storytelling space? The best I can answer that so far is that you have to choose whether you, the artist, are going to tell a story or whether you want to create tools for your audience to tell stories. Both are highly creative endeavors, but we can't confuse one with the other. There are some promising hybrids emerging, though. You can be a dungeon master, of sorts, like the kid who leads a Dungeons and Dragons narrative. But that requires players who understand they have to contribute, and respect the contributions of others. It's more like "Yes, and…" improvisation than going to a movie and clicking on an alternate ending.
Focus on the physical, the breathing together, the solidarity, the bodies in space. It helps you understand the screen is just pixels, put together by some company that hopes to take your money while making you feel awful about yourself.
Nobel Prize-winning social scientist Herbert Simon said "the wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." This sounds a bit like Clay Shirky's notion of "filter failure," and I wonder what we can do to avoid this. I recently wrote a piece for NPR about an experiment I conducted in which I tried to listen to only one album a week, and made it about three days. I like your idea of a "digital Sabbath," but short of committing myself to the life of a hermit, I'm not sure it's possible. There are televisions at gas pumps now.
I think the coherence you long for is less a matter of denying yourself (or extracting yourself from) the digital than it is one of enhancing the lived, analog, person-to-person aspects of life. The screen has less power if you've just had a great orgasm, looking into your lover's eyes.
Focus on the physical, the breathing together, the solidarity, the bodies in space. It helps you understand the screen is just pixels, put together by some company that hopes to take your money while making you feel awful about yourself. That's the profit model of those machines.
I recall days of waiting at bus stops or in doctor's office waiting rooms and making small talk with strangers. This now seems, with the ubiquity of the smart phone, almost impossible. Why do I miss mundane chit-chat? Is there something about interfacing with a total stranger that fosters empathy?
Of course there is. You should speak with as many strangers as possible. Strangers turn out to be people, for the most part. I actually haven't spoken with a stranger who turned out not to be a person. Maybe once, with a mannequin, but I was probably high at the time, or in an airport and disoriented.
Humans are deeply social creatures. That's what defines us as a species: our enhanced social abilities. It's why our brains got bigger and more neurons connected. It was our evolutionary advantage.
So yeah, it's really weird to be somewhere and see everyone on their phones. Even the subway used to be a place to make eye contact. Now, if you go to Paris and ride on the subway, it feels totally weird that everyone is checking you out. People-watching will likely have to become a discreet activity in order to stay alive. Maybe others will parade through certain areas because they know they will be watched.
But you can go to most poorer areas of a city and find people socializing in real life. I was just walking on Mission Street in San Francisco, and saw people playing guitar with others gathered around, kids playing in front of their grandmothers. Not to romanticize poverty. But some of the ungentrified areas of our cities still maintain pockets of human civilization.
Is there a historical period in which you'd have preferred to live?
Too late for that now. I'm already myself. If I lived in some other period, I'd be someone else and not know why Rushkoff thought it would be cool to live then.
Even if now sucks, we have front row seats on a potential extinction event. That's not a great thing, but if it's going to happen, I want to be there to bear witness.
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Reading time: Eight minutes
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Pixel: Void
Knowledge: Disconnected
Anxiety: ∞
Dismay: Shared
Value: Extracted
Tension: Accessed
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At Key Stage 3 students study Design and Technology on a rotation basis. Students will study modules in the following areas: Cooking and Nutrition and Resistant Materials. Students are assessed in each module and all areas are reported on. Students usually have 7-8 weeks per module with two lessons per week.
At Key Stage 4 the Department offers a number of different options. Subjects being studied are GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition, Design and Technology (Graphics, Textiles and Resistant Materials Specialisms offered), and VCert qualifications in Cooking and Craft (Resistant Materials focus). Please note the exact options available to students will vary.
At Key Stage 5 the Department offers Product Design. Product Design encompasses all areas of design and students usually enter this course having studies Graphics or Resistant Materials at GCSE.


What can I expect to pay for a wedding cake?
Our wedding cakes start at $5.00 per serving for round, $6.00 per serving for square.
if we need to purchase any additional pieces for your cake.
How far in advance do I need to order a wedding cake?
us a call as soon as you know the date of your event!
Do you bake allergen free cakes?
We make delicious dairy free, egg free, nut free, soy free, vegan or wheat free cakes.
we suggest you find a dedicated bakery for your needs.
May I taste your cakes before reserving the date with you?
contract us to provide your cake.
How long are consultations, and must I bring anything with me?
Wedding cake consultations generally run between 30 minutes to 1 hour.
We ask that you arrive on time to ensure that you are allotted your full hour.
spend on your cake. This will give us a better sense of what we can do for you.
advance, due to us having to prepare your tasting the day of.
Do I have to make a deposit to reserve my wedding date?
If so, how much is it and can I get a refund, if necessary?
Yes, you will need to pay a 50% retainer to reserve your wedding date.
prior to your event, and is non-refundable within the month before your event.
If your balance is not paid within that time frame, the cake may be cancelled.
Do you deliver your cakes?
Do you ship wedding cakes?
as well as some of our other desserts.


Tis the season for fireworks to begin going off at random times day and night through the new year.
Last year there seemed to be a surplus every evening. They intensified each night until new years eve - which went on for hours - and then slowly they stopped over the following week.
That is a lot of stress for those with anxiety to loud sudden sounds, ptsd for people and our furry animal friends.
Good time to keep extra care with our furry friends to minimize the shock, panic and loss. no matter if you have furry friends in your life or not . . . if you love to blaze fireworks , would be great to practice with awareness that not all creatures love them as much. Even if they once did or would like to again.
Many cats and dogs go missing from their families. For them fireworks bring pure terror. They will bust through fences , break windows. run in front of vehicles, whatever in attempt to "get away" from the sounds of terror moving their their nervous systems. It is life or death for them.
They can easily be lost forever from families who care and love them.
There are many people that also experience dread with fireworks as their systems read the sudden sounds as danger. Their nervous systems light up in ways that feel awful. Often way past the time the fireworks have stopped for the night. It is literally painful shaking your whole body and being to the bone. And you have no control. Once the ride ignites you are in until it completes the cycle.
I like fireworks. They are amazing. Have fun and enjoy.
Maybe invite compassion for others who surround you along the way.
I am grateful for the many ways our communities work together to support one another. Including our furry friends being safe and cared for especially , when they do go missing.


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Q: How to solve eslint react-hooks plugin warning I am using eslint react plugin and I got an following warning.
React Hook useEffect has a missing dependency: 'setEmail'. Either include it or remove the dependency array.
Here is the code snippet that occurs warrning.
  useEffect(() => {
    const email= localStorage.getItem('email');
    if (email) {
      setEmail(email);
    }
  }, []);

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require "mobility/backends/active_record"
require "mobility/backends/hash_valued"
require "mobility/backends/serialized"

module Mobility
  module Backends
=begin

Implements {Mobility::Backends::Serialized} backend for ActiveRecord models.

@example Define attribute with serialized backend
  class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
    extend Mobility
    translates :title, backend: :serialized, format: :yaml
  end

@example Read and write attribute translations
  post = Post.create(title: "foo")
  post.title
  #=> "foo"
  Mobility.locale = :ja
  post.title = "あああ"
  post.save
  post.read_attribute(:title)      # get serialized value
  #=> {:en=>"foo", :ja=>"あああ"}

=end
    class ActiveRecord::Serialized
      include ActiveRecord
      include HashValued

      def self.valid_keys
        super + [:format]
      end

      # @!group Backend Configuration
      # @param (see Backends::Serialized.configure)
      # @option (see Backends::Serialized.configure)
      # @raise (see Backends::Serialized.configure)
      def self.configure(options)
        super
        Serialized.configure(options)
      end
      # @!endgroup

      def self.build_node(attr, _locale)
        raise ArgumentError,
          "You cannot query on mobility attributes translated with the Serialized backend (#{attr})."
      end

      setup do |attributes, options|
        coder = { yaml: YAMLCoder, json: JSONCoder }[options[:format]]
        attributes.each { |attribute| serialize (options[:column_affix] % attribute), coder }
      end

      # @!group Cache Methods
      # Returns column value as a hash
      # @return [Hash]
      def translations
        model.read_attribute(column_name)
      end

      %w[yaml json].each do |format|
        class_eval <<-EOM, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1
          class #{format.upcase}Coder
            def self.dump(obj)
              Serialized.serializer_for(:#{format}).call(obj)
            end

            def self.load(obj)
              return {} if obj.nil?
              Serialized.deserializer_for(:#{format}).call(obj)
            end
          end
        EOM
      end
    end

    register_backend(:active_record_serialized, ActiveRecord::Serialized)
  end
end

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I have a probleme, i want to use DHTMLX but our server language is Perl and i don't know how to connet it with an event of a button (just for example). It use print to creat the side, but how can i get the data from the website back into the Perlskript? In the future we will use Python for the server, but there are also no documents for Python and the server connection… Does it work with Ajax? (if it does, how?) I hope you have a solution for my problem.
You can use REST mode of dataprocessor.
In such case you can use any REST framework for data saving.
The latter has the added advantage of allowing nested subshell invocations.
Note that after the first while the variable value has not been modified. This is due to the fact that the first while cycle is being executed inside a subshell.


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How to Use Google Analytics to Create More Effective Content
Nathan Isaacs
What do you think of when you think of Google Analytics? Usually, it's search engine optimization. But Analytics also holds a treasure trove of data and insights into how you can create better content.
There are a dozen ways to slice and dice the data in your Google Analytics account to come up with killer content ideas. For the sake of brevity, we're going to focus on just three. These short-list tactics pack the most punch and are super-easy to implement. None of them takes more than 15 minutes to do.
Everything I'll cover here is for Analytics newbies. You don't need advanced Analytics skills to do any of this. Just being able to log into your account is enough. Another great resource for understanding how to use Google Analytics with your content marketing is Andy Crestodina and the Orbit Media team. Here is a post on 8 ways to measure your content success using analytics.
What's "effective" content?
Before we get too far ahead, let's define "effective content." It's content that supports your business goals. Those goals might be building your email list, nurturing leads, and/or attracting new leads. Better content gets better results. Measurable results.
Because we're focused on using Analytics to create content that gets results, the very first thing we should talk about are Google Analytics goals. So let's roll right into Tactic #1.
1. Set up goals for important conversions on your site.
If you haven't set up at least a few Google Analytics goals (or set them up in another analytics platform), you're basically flying blind. Without goal tracking in place, trying to figure out which pieces of content are supporting your business goals is like trying to braid spaghetti. It's really frustrating, and you end up with a mushy mess.
You'll need Edit permission at the View level to create a goal. Don't have a clue what that means? No worries. Just follow along through the next item. If you don't see a red "New Goal" button on the goals summary page, it's likely a permissions issue.
Setting up a goal requires that you first choose a goal. Here are a few ideas for goals you might want to track:
Email list sign-ups
Webinar registrations
White paper downloads
Contact form completions
Views of a specific page
Don't go too crazy creating a lot of goals. Your account limits you to only 20. And for every goal you add, you'll see an extra column in many reports. This is good information to have, but it can get unwieldy if there are more than a handful of active goals. Start off with one or two, get familiar with the reports you're going to be generating, and go from there.
For this example, I'm going to set up one super-simple goal. All it does is track how many times a given page was viewed. Now, why would that be helpful? Because many sales funnels or lead nurturing campaigns work by bringing people through a series of pages until they reach a final confirmation page.
Maybe that's the page they actually download the report from, maybe it's the final "thanks for signing up for our email newsletters" page. Maybe it's the webinar confirmation. Whatever the page is, or does, is the final step of what you want to track. And so that's why views of this magic, final, confirmation page are so critical. You want to know how people found their way to this page, whether they started from a search engine or a Facebook ad or wherever.
Once you know which content marketing techniques are really getting people to this final magic confirmation page, you'll have a better idea of which content marketing tactics work. That's powerful. That's why we're doing this.
Here's how to make it happen:
In your Google Analytics account, click on the "Admin" link at the very top of the page.
Then, click on the "Goals" link in the third column, on the right.
Click the big red "New Goal" button. (And remember: if you don't see this page, go find out who can give you the permission to do this.)
You'll see this page:
This is the page that often freaks people out. They don't see an option for the goal they want to set up, and the custom option seems too scary to even try. But that custom option is that we want to click, so let's walk though and de-mystify it.
Click that custom radio button and then click the blue "Next step" button, you'll see this:
Enter a "goal description" that you'll easily remember and understand even if you don't look at it until a year from now. Leave the "Goal Slot ID" pull down menu alone. Then choose a "Type" in the last section. Because I want to track visits/views of a specific page, I'm going to choose "Destination". The sample text "ex: thanks.html" after the Destination is a hint to remind you what kind of selection to make.
Click the blue "Next step" button again.
This is what you'll see next.
This is the last page of setup. Only four more settings to go, and two of them you can skip.
First (and most important): tell Analytics exactly which page you want to track the views of. Go find that page, copy the URL, and come back here and paste it in.
As soon as you've done that, you'll probably notice the gray text under this field. It says, "For example, use My Screen for an app and /thankyou.html instead of www.example.com/thankyou.html for a web page."
Lop off the domain name at the front of your link. Just include the directory/directories and/or filename.
Here's what mine looks like:
And my return on this effort? I'm tracking views to the index page of this "coaching tutorials" directory.
Once you've completed this process, click the "Verify" link to see if your tracking is set up correctly.
If you've just created this page in the last day, or no one is visiting it, the verification will show no "conversions" (in this case our "conversions" are page views). Analytics will ask you to try again. Ignore its complaint if you've got a brand new page. But if you have been getting even a trickle of views to this page, you'll see something like this:
That's a working Analytics goal. Yay! We could stop here and leave well enough alone, but often it's nice to tie goals to monetary value. That way you can actually see what each visitor from a given traffic stream is worth to you. It's pretty cool, and smack-your-forehead easy.
Just go up to the "Value" setting (right below "Destination"). Click it from off to on. Enter a value – what each of these page views is worth to you. Let's say it's worth $2 to me every time someone gets to this page.
Once you've entered the value, just click that blue "Create Goal" button.
You'll now be able to quantify what different kinds of visitors are worth to you. This is essential information if you do pay per click or other advertising.
Funnel tracking
Funnel tracking does just what it sounds like it does: lets you see at which points people fall out of your funnel. If you want to set up a funnel tracking system, there are a few more steps.
If you just want to skip funnels for today, that's fine. It also means you're done! Now you can sift through all your site's traffic and see which content is actually getting people to this page. No more flying blind.
2. See which pages hold people's attention the longest.
The "Average Time on Page" report holds important clues about which pieces of content your visitors really love. This is in some ways a purer measurement of interest than which pages get the most traffic. That's especially true if you buy advertising, or if you did well with your search engine optimization and happen to have a nice high ranking for a couple of pages.
To see time on page, and rank your pages according to time on page, click the "Reporting" link at the very top of any page in your Analytics account.
Then choose "Behavior" from the left column.
Once you click on it, the menu will expand. Click "Site Content", then "All Pages". You'll see something like this:
Click "Avg Time on Page" to sort the list by… time on page (you guessed that, didn't you?).
You can also sort by page value after your goals data has had some time to populate, or by any of the other columns in this report. This will give you insight into which pieces of your content hold visitors' attention. It will also show which pieces get passed by like a blank road sign.
Signposts to more engagement-worthy content
If you're looking at these lists and seeing that certain kinds of content do well, ask yourself: What other similar topics could we cover? What format should those topics be created in? Sometimes even great content ideas fizzle if they're not in the right format. For instance, should you do a new tutorial as a video, or as a blog post, or as a SlideShare?
Also consider which phase of the sales cycle people are in when they are drawn to a particular piece of content. Ask yourself:
What's the next best piece of information to offer them after they read/watch this?
Do you have that piece of content created?
Is it being promoted near the close of that first content piece?
Want more insight about how to nail these questions down? See our post on content that converts.
3. Find out what they're searching for.
If you've set up a Google Search box on your site, you've got a goldmine of content ideas at your fingertips. You can see every search query visitors have entered on your site. It's in the "Site Search" report. Find it by going to Behavior > Site Search > Search Terms.
My test site doesn't have a search box set up, so I'm losing out on this tip. But here's where you'd find the report in your own account.
I'm probably going to add a search box to this site, just to get the query information. Search data is especially valuable because it shows you what people want to find, but are currently not finding. That's why they turn to the search box. The queries from those searches reveal where the content gaps are on a site and if the navigation serves users well enough.
So, those are the three easiest, most effective ways to use Google Analytics to see which content you could create that is most likely to foster engagement.
There are dozens of other Analytics tricks that can reveal which content you should be working on next. Do you have any reports that you use to come up with content ideas? Any reports that shape your content marketing decisions? Please tell us about them in the comments.
For more tips on writing for SEO, take a look at our eBook, How to Make Any Content SEO-Friendly, where we will walk you through the 3 easy steps to optimizing your content for search engines.
How to Set Up a Killer Google Analytics Dashboard
An A to Z of Content Marketing Best Practices
Categories Content
About Nathan Isaacs
Nathan is an award-winning freelance content marketing producer (words, video, audio, strategy). He also was an award-winning newspaper reporter. He has an MBA and a BA in Editorial Journalism. He is a past director of SEMpdx's digital marketing conference. He has two great kids, likes to sail, ride his road bike, and make beer.


• Southold Town's public forum on helicopter noise will be held Aug. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Peconic Lane Recreation Center. Members of several Citizens Advisory Committees from the Sag Harbor and Noyac area will be on hand to discuss their issues with noise.
• The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival opens tonight with a free concert of "Russian Memories" on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Historical Society at 6:30 p.m. The festival continues for the next four weeks. More information is online here.
• The Hampton Bays Firemen's Carnival will hold its annual parade through downtown Hampton Bays tonight at 7 p.m. The carnival is open 7 p.m. through 11 p.m. through Aug. 3.
• Southampton Arts Center hosts a discussion with ProPublica's Paul Steiger tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Steiger is the founding editor-in-chief and CEO of ProPublica, a non-profit, non-partisan newsroom for the public interest. More information is online here.
• Suffolk County's crapSHOOT Video Contest deadline is now Sept. 1. The county is looking for short films and public service announcements that discuss nitrogen the Nitrogen pollution in the bays and illustrate ways that homeowners, gardeners, farmers, pet owners and communities can improve water quality by changing simple behaviors. They're looking for a 30 to 60-second public service announcement and a one to three minute short film, all of which will be screened at the Cinema Arts Center on Sept. 22. More information is online here.


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Q: How to use Remote Terminal Access Plugin in Jenkins to open in-job terminal? Im trying to have a terminal access inside Jenkins job, according to the docs i should have "Interactive Terminal" button, but after installing the plugin and upgrade Jenkins master to last version - i still cant find it... any idea ?
Thanks .

The terminal is accessible in two ways. The first is through a
  browser. To get there, go to the page that shows an on-going build,
  then click "Interactive Terminal". You'll have to press the "Launch a
  terminal" button to start a session. Multiple people can watch and
  type into the terminal at the same time, like screen lets you.

docs:
https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Remote+Terminal+Access+Plugin

A: Finally got it work only with 'Freestyle project'.
I guess since this plugin is for adoption - its not developed and probably doesn't support Pipeline jobs.


Socialist government agents reportedly assaulted and harassed three opposition Congressmen as they walked out the legislature in Venezuela on Tuesday, a day before a scheduled rally to end dictator Nicolás Maduro's rule.
According to NTN24, Congressmen José Guerra, Juan Matheus, and Sirit Eliezer were assaulted by government officials as they attempted to leave the legislature, having just approved the appointment of a Venezuelan representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), a body which continues to lobby for the removal of Maduro from power.
Speaking after the attack, José Guerra accused Pedro Carvajalino, a senior member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), of leading the attack. Members of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) eventually intervened and tried to protect the legislators.
Similar incidents have taken place in the past. In 2016, opposition lawmaker Julio Borges had his nose broken while several others were injured in a shocking public beating outside the National Assembly, while the following year socialists stormed the same building and kept hundreds of legislators and journalists hostage for over eight hours.
The use of violence and intimidation by the regime's most loyal supporters has long been a common tactic to quell political opposition. This month, socialist gangs in Venezuela pledged to protect Maduro "with rifle in hand" on the day of his inauguration ceremony, amid fears that opposition factions may stage an attack or uprising.
As part of their show of force, the group patrolled through the streets of western Caracas wearing masks and shouting slogans in support of late President Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian Revolution" while firing their weapons in the air. The rally concluded at the Cuartel de la Montaña, where Chávez's tomb is kept.
The presence of pro-government gangs, known as colectivos, also form an essential part of the regime's power strategy. As well as threatening political opponents, the gangs are also employed to control impoverished communities dependent on state aid and therefore ensure their loyalty to the regime.
Typical crimes include the attacking opposition lawmakers, storming and shutting down services at Catholic Churches and other institutions critical of the regime, and the endemic harassment journalists seen as exposing the government's numerous human rights violations.


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Local Country Music Star Returns Home for Mountaineer Football
by: Katrina Malstrom
Posted: Nov 1, 2014 / 10:43 PM EDT / Updated: Nov 2, 2014 / 07:11 PM EST
The national spotlight was shining on Morgantown Saturday morning as ESPN College Gameday came to town for Saturday's huge match-up between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the TCU Horned Frogs.
Glendale native and country superstar Brad Paisley was the special guest picker for Saturday's lineup of college football games. Brad was introduced as hailing from Glendale and made several references to growing up in the Mountain State and being a lifelong WVU fan along with trashing Mountaineer rival Pitt and former coach Rich Rodriguez.


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Q: Style input placeholder color style with ng-classes I am having difficulties targeting an input placeholder text when the ng classes are on an input field. I am able to taget the inputs background color but not the placeholder text color. Any assistance would be great.
HTML:
<form class="my-form">
  <input type="text" placeholder="Quick test" required/>
</form>

Scss:
.my-form {
 input.ng-invalid.ng-touched {
 background: #efefef;
 ::-webkit-input-placeholder {
  color: #FF0000;
 }
 :-moz-placeholder {
  color: #FF0000;
 }
 ::-moz-placeholder {
  color: #FF0000;
 }
 :-ms-input-placeholder {
  color: #FF0000;
  }
 }
}

Classes Angular adds to a required element
<input type="text" placeholder="Quick test" required=""
class="ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-touched">

A: Adding the ng-class to the vendor prefix does the trick.
HTML:
<input type="text" placeholder="Quick test" required=""
class="ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-touched">

Scss:
.ng-touched::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: red; }
.ng-untouched::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #cccccc; }
/* add additional vendor prefixes or utilize mixin */

A: I added a ng-class conditional on my input placeholder
css:
.colorwhiteinput::-webkit-input-placeholder {
    /* WebKit, Blink, Edge */
    color: #ffffff;
}
.colorwhiteinput:-moz-placeholder {
    /* Mozilla Firefox 4 to 18 */
    color: #ffffff;
    opacity: 1;
}
.colorwhiteinput::-moz-placeholder {
    /* Mozilla Firefox 19+ */
    color: #ffffff;
    opacity: 1;
}
.colorwhiteinput:-ms-input-placeholder {
    /* Internet Explorer 10-11 */
    color: #ffffff;
}

html:
<input class="flexsearch--input"  ng-class="({put condition here without curve brackets}) ? 'colorwhiteinput' : ''" type="search" placeholder="search" ng-model="searchTerm" name="searchTerm">

So just put colorwhiteinput to access the placeholder elements. everything after colorwhiteinput in the css is just targeting so don't change the ::-webkit-input-placeholder etc.


Smoking meat is a beloved low and slow cooking method used to create some favorite BBQ staples like Brisket and Ribs. With bold flavors and tender, melt-in-your-mouth beef, what's not to love?
While the majority of flavor comes from the beef and smoke, you can ramp up the flavor even more with a spice rub.
Smoky, sweet and spicy. All the things that make it a great rub for adding flavor to your smoked beef.
The Ancho Chili Beef Rub will add a Southwestern or Tex-Mex flavor to your next beef dish.
The best cuts for smoking are generally the tougher, larger cuts of beef because a longer, more gentle cook time and temperature melts the fat and tenderizes the beef.
When you cut into your beef, there may be a pink ring just under the outer crust (or bark). This ring is called the smoke ring that forms during the smoking process. The smoke ring is good however it is not an indicator of good flavor or juiciness.
It can also be helpful to have what is called a "mop sauce." A mop is a thick liquid sauce, typically apple cider vinegar or tomato juice based, that is sprayed or mopped onto the beef during cooking. This will help keep the beef moist during the smoking process.
Hickory – Provides a sweet, savory and hearty flavor to the beef. One of the more popular woods due to its strong flavor.
Mesquite - Will give a very smoky flavor and is great for cooking smaller cuts during a shorter period of time.
Oak - One of the more common woods used for smoking. Has a subtle flavor that is great for cooking larger cuts as it won't be too overpowering.
Apple - Will provide a sweeter taste and mild fruitiness. Great for mixing in with another wood type or by itself.
Pecan – Provides a rich, sweet, nutty flavor to the beef. Great as a mix in since it can tend to be sweeter.
Cherry – Offers a hint of fruitiness to the beef and is great used by itself or mixed with another wood.
Maple – Will give the meat a sweet, light and mild smokiness flavor. Great for mixing with other wood or by itself.
If you are just starting out and not ready to purchase a smoker, you can smoke in your charcoal or gas grill. The results may not impart as strong a flavor as a traditional smoker, but they are still great options for smoking novices.


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Q: Want to validate email address in JavaScript but can't figure out how to include only one @ in the character string So far I have this:
function validateForm() {
var str=document.forms["myForm"]["email"].value;
var atpos=str.indexOf("@");
var dotpos=str.lastIndexOf(".com");
   if (atpos>0 || dotpos<atpos+2 || dotpos+2>=str.length)
 {
   alert("Incorrect e-mail address");
   return false;
  }
}

How can I include the '@' to be shown ONCE in the character string? (So an email can't be validated as @@).
I also would appreciate it if it were anything but the regex method.

A: If you don't want use regex, you can split a string by an occurrence.
var email = "foor@bar.com";
if((email.split('@').length != 2) {
    // it's not an email address
}
else {
    // it is an email address
}

A: A nice hack is to check if the first @ is also the last @.
if(str.indexOf('@') != -1 && str.indexOf('@') == str.lastIndexOf('@')){
    // email is valid
}

A: Check this buddy
function validateForm()
{
    var x=document.forms["myForm"]["email"].value;
    var atpos=x.indexOf("@");
    var dotpos=x.lastIndexOf(".");
    if (atpos<1 || dotpos<atpos+2 || dotpos+2>=x.length)
    {
        alert("Not a valid e-mail address");
        return false;
    }
}

A: The best way to validate the email address is through regular expressions:
/^\w+([\-+\.']\w+)*@\w+([\-\.]\w+)*\.\w+([\-\.]\w+)*$/

If you do not know regular expressions, I suggest that you learn them right away, since they are a pretty powerful and useful feature when dealing with and validating string content.


A merica is one caffeinated nation. A whopping 83 percent of us drink coffee, at a cost of $30 billion a year. What was once a bitter utilitarian draft meant to kick-start the day has been transformed over the past two decades into a nuanced beverage with a story behind it. Your average barista these days can talk about origin, acidity, and terroir with the poetry once reserved for sommeliers. And coffeehouses themselves have morphed from scruffy dens of laptop-toting hip kids to sophisticated tasting bars with edgy design, creative food pairings, and environmental savvy.
But with shops shilling everything from chicory cold-brew to $30-a-cup coffee plucked from civet poop, it's hard to separate the real-deal java joints from the flash-in-the-pan trendsters. "What I look for is good coffee from good people who make you feel good when you walk in the door, no matter who you are," Matt Lounsbury, vice president of cult coffee company Stumptown, says. "I distill it down to that."
We tend to agree. So we've combed the country for the coffee shops that combine craft with hospitality, for inviting spaces that spark creativity, and for roasters who know how to make your morning brew tell a story. These are our picks for the USA's top 25 coffee shops.
Colleen Clark is a food-nut travel writer whose work has appeared in Travel + Leisure, Esquire, Food & Wine, USA Today, and Epicurious.
Note: All coffee shop information subject to change without notice. Please contact the coffee shop for the most current information.


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by simplyphotographz April 16, 20191:31 pm April 22, 2019
LIVE REVIEW: Motor Ace 'Five Star' 20 year anniversary tour supported by Emilee South + Rya Park
words + photos: Brittany Long
Sunday the 14th of May saw iconic, classic Australian rockband Motor Ace bring their 20-year anniversary show dubbed the 'Five Star Reunion' tour to Melbourne's 170 Russell for a second night. This was always going to be a special show, particularly for the fact it was a hometown show, with the band being born in Melbourne, but also being the final show of the reunion tour meant emotions were high for both band and fans alike. It was a night many die-hard fans couldn't have ever imagined would even take place, following the band's split in 2005 after the release of Animal.
With her electrifying three-piece band in tow the talented Emilee South got the night off to an electric start at the bright early time of 7:30PM, delivering a giant sound that weaved its way into every inch of 170 Russell and had the early comers rocking and rolling. Her hit new song Heartbreaker was a big feature of the set and had the crowd grooving and shaking their hips. For me personally it evoked surfy rock'n'roll vibes and, accompanied with Emilee's powerful voice and guitar it truly was a masterpiece. The crowd were delighted when Emilee gave us a taste of upcoming single Shotgun to close off her set. Left disappointingly wishing she had've been given much more stage time that was adequate for her level of talent.
Not to be outdone, next up was Rya Park. A performance I personally was very excited for. Rya is an absolute powerhouse, choosing to ditch the guitar on this particular night, and just hit the audience with her powerful vocals. Armed with her backing band, their slick guitar riffs and pounding drumbeat, coupled with her crystal voice cut through the air like a knife, leaving the audience hooked from the moment she stepped onstage. Smashing out hits like Ex Appeal and Tokyo every note was hit with such elegance and poise. However it was her cover of the Arctic Monkeys Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High that proved to be a crowd favourite. Rya has an all encompassing stage presence and style that surrounds every inch of her performance and I could've quite easily have watched her perform all night. Those audience members whom were early enough to catch her performance were definitely counting their lucky stars they did not miss out on what was an absolutely stellar show.
The supports were given not nearly enough stage time and coming from such powerful performances this was rather disappointing. However both succeeded in warming up the crowd ready for Motor Ace. The anticipation for Motor Ace's return to the stage shadowed much of the night with fans anxiously counting down the seconds until the band reunited onstage and filtering in.
Motor Ace played to a sold-out audience with fans crammed into every corner of Melbourne's 170 Russell, it was quite a sight. A video montage incorporating the many moments of Motorace's career, from studio fun to live footage, preceded Motorace taking to the stage, a moment that was much anticipated by many fans in the audience. Opening with Keep Secrets this followed with Five Star Laundry. Then Siamese, Lorenzo and Criminal Past. Playing songs off 2005 album Animal they played a massive setlist taking fans back to their very beginnings including Fluke and Tomorrow's Gone. Ride the Wave, A Little Closer and Pieces were just some of the many songs on the nostalgia filled setlist.
The presumed final song of the set was aptly Carry On a notion expressed by fans who wanted Motorace to carry on performing all night, echoed through the venue with a chorus of chants of 'encore'. To the audience's delight Motor Ace returned for an encore of four songs; Hey Driver, Chromakey, Death Defy and the final song of the night Chairman Of The Board.
Unfortunately as much as I wanted to enjoy the show and have it be a night to remember, my experience was sadly tainted by a negative personal encounter with the band's manager before they took to the stage. This means I am unable to write an unbiased review because my entire night was clouded by this negative experience, and as such I am unable to do the band's performance itself justice.
See the full gallery of photos here
Motor Ace Setlist
Keep Secrets
Five Star Laundry
Criminal Past
Tomorrow's Gone
A Little Closer
Where Did You Go
American Shoes
Hey Driver
Death Defy
Tagged with: 170 russell Brittany Long Emilee south five star tour Melbourne motorace Rya Park


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PM Modi to inaugrate 'Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit' today
New Delhi [India], Jan. 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit of Gujarat from today to inaugurate the eighth edition of 'Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit' and a slew of other initiatives. Ahead of the opening of the four-day 'Vibrant Summit' on January 10 at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate four different projects today after his arrival, starting with the bhumi-poojan ceremony for redevelopment of Gandhinagar Railway Station. Prime Minister Modi will also inaugurate 'Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show'. Later, he will head to GIFT City near Gandhinagar to inaugurate country's first International Exchange being set up by the Bombay Stock Exchange. During visit, he will also inaugurate Nobel Prize Series exhibition in Ahmedabad, which will feature works of nine Nobel laureates from across the world. He will also take part in the Roundatable meeting with all the invited Nobel Prize winners, including India-born Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. Apart from over 1,500 national and international delegates, heads of states and industry leader from across the world, as many as 12 central ministers and several Chief Ministers are expected to participate in the opening ceremony. (ANI)


Abstract: We suggest that dark energy has a quantum informational origin. Landauer's principle associated with the erasure of quantum information at a cosmic horizon implies the non-zero vacuum energy having effective negative pressure. Assuming the holographic principle, the minimum free energy condition, and the Gibbons-Hawking temperature for the cosmic event horizon we obtain the holographic dark energy with the parameter $d\simeq 1$, which is consistent with the current observational data. It is also shown that both the entanglement energy and the horizon energy can be related to Landauer's principle.


Do you get regular headaches? If you get them for 4 hours or longer at least half of each month, and for more than 3 months, you might have what doctors call a chronic daily headache. Different treatments can bring relief, but first you need to figure out what type of headache you have.
When you get a tension-type headache, you may have a constant, aching pressure that feels like a band wrapped around your head.
Tension-type headaches typically affect both sides of your head. Your doctor may prescribe other medications, such as an antidepressant. They can help you get fewer headaches and make them less severe. They can also help prevent headaches.
Along with your medicine, your doctor may suggest that you try to relax and cut stress.
Blurred vision or seeing spots, dots, or zigzag lines.
Migraines headaches can last from half an hour to several days. Your doctor may use certain medications to keep them from happening as often. Your doctor may also give you medicine to get rid of nausea from the headaches.
If you use pain medications too often to treat your headaches, you could get what are called medication overuse headaches (MOH).
MOH can get worse until you get the right treatment. You can usually bring them under control if you gradually cut back on your pain drugs and take preventive medicine. Work with your doctor to get the right strategy.
Some people with severe MOH need to have their pain medicine weaned off in the hospital where their pain can be controlled. With careful monitoring, a headache specialist will wean you off of the painkillers.
You might have more headaches during the first several weeks of treatment. Eventually, you'll only have them every so often. Your doctor may prescribe preventive medications to keep you free of headaches.
This is a rare type of headache, but it causes pain that's usually on one side of your face and head.
Your doctor may diagnose hemicrania continua if you have head pain continuously for at least 3 months without the pain shifting sides or ever going away. It's usually moderate but can get better or worse, at times turning into brief, piercing head pain.
You can treat hemicrania continua with a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) called indomethacin (Indocin, Tivorbex). Usually, it provides quick relief, but it can cause stomach side effects, so you might need an acid-fighting drug.
Another NSAID, celecoxib (Celebrex), can also treat your pain if you can't handle indomethacin's side effects. Sometimes, doctors also prescribe tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline, to prevent these headaches.
Cleveland Clinic: "Rebound Headaches," "What Are Tension-Type Headaches?"
National Institutes of Health: Patient Education Institute's "Migraine Headaches."
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: "NINDS Hemicrania Continua Information Page."
Johns Hopkins Medicine: "Chronic Daily Headache."


Business rates, also known as non-domestic rates, are calculated by multiplying the rateable value by the rate per £1.
The rateable value is determined by the Assessor, which is her estimate of the rental value of the property on 1 April 2015 and other factors such as property size and usage. The rate per £1 is announced each year by the Scottish Government.
The rate poundage for 2019/2020 is 49p per £1.
Properties with a rateable value of over £51,000 will have an extra supplement of 2.6p added to the rate per £1.
There is no Health Supplement for 2019/2020.
To give you an indication of your business rates bill for 2019/2020, use the Scottish Government's Business Rates calculator. This calculator determines gross liability, relief and net liability.
Payment of business rates is due in 10 monthly instalments from May to February on the 7th of each month. Alternatively, rates can be paid by two half yearly instalments in June and December.
Any business that has not made the equivalent of a minimum of four monthly instalments (or the first half yearly payment) by 30th September 2019 will be liable to pay the rates in full for the year.
By law, assessors must revalue business properties every five years. New rateable values arising from the most recent valuation took effect from 1 April 2017.


Valuations for current market values are free if you email simple photographs to bainbridgesauctions@btconnect.com.
Just one photograph per item and perhaps 10 would be a reasonably maximum. They do need to be in focus!
Where you wish to have a property cleared then we will visit you for free to discuss values and our terms. There are provisos to this and having interviewed you over the 'phone first of all we might decline to visit if we consider it uneconomic.
Bainbridges specialise in PROBATE VALUATIONS.
These are necessary when dealing with a deceased estate.
The Capital Taxes Office require that, along with the rest of a deceased's assets, the contents of their properties are valued as at the time of death.
To comply with S. 160 of The Inheritance Tax Act 1984 all specific bequests mentioned in the will, or in a codicil to the will, need to be valued individually, whatever their worth, and individual items or a collection of items valued at or above £500 need to be listed separately. The Capital Taxes Office like jewellery to be valued separately. Items of lower value might be grouped as a statement. However, antiques will be kept separate from general effects. Motor cars need to be valued separately also.
The valuation is set at open market prices as at the time of death.
Bainbridges have consultant specialists to cover most subjects and we travel anywhere including Europe whilst most of our work takes place in Greater London and Middlesex.