<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rssdatehelper="urn:rssdatehelper"><channel><title>bob's blog</title><link>http://www.baty-barr.com</link><pubDate></pubDate><generator>umbraco</generator><description></description><language>en</language><item><title>A new type of jquery mega nav</title><link>http://www.baty-barr.com/bobspage/blog/2010/1/4/a-new-type-of-jquery-mega-nav.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:28:24 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.baty-barr.com/bobspage/blog/2010/1/4/a-new-type-of-jquery-mega-nav.aspx</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
<p>Didn't reallly know where else to post this stuff for a friend
to possibly help me - new friend, so i don't have his email ;)</p>

<p>so here it goes... i am tring to combine the following...</p>

<p><a
href="http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#sample4">http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#sample4</a></p>

<p>and</p>

<p><a
href="http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/mega-drop-downs-w-css-jquery/">
http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/mega-drop-downs-w-css-jquery/</a></p>

<p>to render out something like this...</p>

<p><a
href="http://aihlhockey.com.ourdevsite.com/menuProofofConcept.html">
http://aihlhockey.com.ourdevsite.com/menuProofofConcept.html</a></p>

<p>right now, i have hard coded sub menu widths, etc.</p>

<p>my ultimate goal would be to use the supersubs plugin associated
with superfish above...</p>

<p>any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>also, i do contract out umbraco/.net projects from time to time
and will definitely ad you to my list!</p>

<p>VGXWJF2AX73Q</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>For those of you that may not know, I have been studying martial
arts with Owen and Joshua for approximately 18 months. I started as
a 37 year old, humble white belt... and now I am a humble 39 year
old orange belt with one green tip. My next promotion will bring me
a green belt. My journey will be a long one... hopefully lasting me
much of the rest of my life.</p>

<p>My training is very interesting and we all attend a remarkable
school that is quite close to our home. The interesting part of my
training comes from the fact that most of my peers [and seniors for
that matter] are about a third of my age :) This is where the
humbleness and humility come in.</p>

<p>The best part is that I am meeting, and becoming friends with
some of the finest young men and women our community has to offer.
Young individuals with remarkable character and a commitment to
keeping themselves healthy, focused and humble as well. It has
truly been one of the great things I have been involved with thus
far in my llife.</p>

<p>To be very honest, I never really pictured myself as a "world
changer" when I was growing up. I really didn't think that 'big'
and that 'outside of myself' when it came to those things. What I
did picture myself doing, even from a very young age was being
involved with my family and being a positive influence with kids in
my community. I was drawn to coaching/mentoring even as a very
young child, working as a t-ball umpire :)</p>

<p>I truly believe that I CAN be a "world changer" by being
available to the kids in my community, not always leading them, but
following them as well. This is why I love my martial arts
community. I LEARN so much from these kids, it is sometimes an
overwhelming flow of emotion. My sons show me that they will soon
be very strong and well-centered young men. At the same time, I
show myself that I can set goals and work toward them and work on
my ability to clear my mind, continue to learn, to teach and to be
taught.</p>

<p>I know not many people will read this, but to those that may...
just remember that children can teach us everything we need to know
to be GREAT adults.. and in return we can let kids know that they
can give us that. Show a child some respect with words and actions
and it comes back times ten. We all can be world changers with just
a little bit of that!</p>
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<p>Last weekend, josh and some band mates put on a three song
concert based on the songs they practiced once a week for twelve
weeks over the summer.</p>

<p>This is video one of three -- ENJOY!</p>
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<p>I wanted to do a quick test of extending the umbraco blog for v4
by combining some of my favorite new features. One of them is the
new YouTube video datatype!</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Belt Testing, Great Kids and More</title><link>http://www.baty-barr.com/bobspage/blog/2009/5/7/belt-testing,-great-kids-and-more.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 23:43:33 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.baty-barr.com/bobspage/blog/2009/5/7/belt-testing,-great-kids-and-more.aspx</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
<p>Things have been really busy around the baty-barr household
these days. As spring approaches, there is a constant flurry of
activity with soccer matches, gymnastics practice, martial arts,
guitar lessons and hopefully kayaking soon!</p>

<p>I have finally been invited to test for my orange belt! The
third step along my never-ending journey to become a black-belt and
instructor of others in the art of Tang Soo Do. As you may or may
not know, Owen has been a huge inspiration to me in this arena.
Owen recently broke his first board, as well as, won his first
sparring match.</p>

<p>Well, just wanted to provide a brief update and start to get
myself in the habbit of writing again. This is somethign that has
always brought me relaxation and joy.</p>
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<p>The Method2Madness robotics team won the national rookie inspire
award this weekend in Atlanta. For those of you that do not know, I
was the website mentor for this GREAT group of young adults. As the
website mentor, I taught them about how websites work, how to build
them using umbraco and how marketing of a website can drive traffic
to it,etc. You can check out their award winning site here -
http://method2madness.bataviarobotics.com.</p>

<p>The imporant thing to note with this site is that the kids did
it ALL! Sure i coached them, but with a very hands off approach. We
walked through development scenarios before we even started the
site and then I made myself available to answer questions as the
team needed answers.</p>

<p>The team learned to retouch photos using photoshop and prep the
images for upload to their on-line galleries.</p>

<p>It was a great experience and look forward to helping them again
next year.</p>
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