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ACLU Intervention on Behalf of Christian Valedictorian

Non Stereotypical ACLU Activity: The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan today announced an out-of-court settlement between the Utica Community School District and a local student over the censorship of her 2001 yearbook entry. The student's entry had been deleted from the yearbook because it contained a passage from the Bible.

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Satchmo: Django Online Store

Satchmo's mission is to use Django to create an open source framework for creating unique and robust online stores. To provide maximum flexibility, Satchmo is licensed under the BSD license.

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ASP.NET Booking Calendar User Control

When developing enterprise ASP.NET applications, it is common to have a calendar booking facility. The calendar control supported by .NET and Visual Studio do not provide such a facility. Although the control can be customised, it does not offer the same level of sophistication and completeness offered by the calendar control presented here.

templatemaker for python

Say you want to get the raw data from a bunch of Web pages that use the same template -- like restaurant reviews on Yelp.com, for instance. You can give templatemaker an arbitrary number of HTML files, and it will create the "template" that was used to create those files. ("Template," in this case, means a string with a number of "holes" in it, where the holes represent the parts of the page that change.) Once you've got the template, you can then give it any HTML file that uses that same template, and it will give you the raw data: "The value for hole 1 is 'July 6, 2007', the value for hole 2 is 'blue'," etc.