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|February 14, 2006 08:30 AM EST
J2EE applications of late have become weight conscious. The combined burden of EJBs and coarse-grained component design has given the term test driven design a new meaning: technology driven design! Fortunately a host of lightweight solutions are emerging, such as PicoContainer, Spring Framework, Hivemind, Hibernate, Castor, and Webwork. In this article I'll discuss my experience with the Spring Framework and how it can be used to make a J2EE application more maintainable, testable, and better performing.
Although there are many areas that Spring 1.2.4 covers, I will be covering only Spring IoC (Inversion of Control) and Spring AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming). These two along with the (non-Spring) concept of coding to interfaces form the cornerstone on which other Spring technologies are based.
Using Spring AOP and IoC we will see how you can replace container-provided infrastructure services for the following services, a la carte:
- Logging
- Transactions
- Profiling
- Auditing
- Exception monitoring
- Switching XA data sources for nonXA ones for certain methods
- Accessing stateless session beans (SLSB) via a Spring application context
- Accessing Spring application Contexts from a webapp
- Integration tests using IoC and JUnit
- Unit testing using EasyMock and JUnit
made2order Application
The made2order application showcases the above infrastructure services using the Spring Framework. Figure 1 shows the architecture of the application components.
The application consists of an OrderService interface implemented by the OrderServiceImpl concrete class. The OrderDAO interface is implemented by the JdbcOrderDAO concrete class. Finally the domain objects are represented by the Order and the LineItem classes. These six classes represent the POJO-based core business application (in magenta); the other classes are Spring classes (used for infrastructure functionality). JSP are used for presentation, packaged in the Web app, and there are two classes for testing
Database Design and Business Interface
made2order has a very simple database design shown in Figure 2.
The business interface for the made2order application is shown in Listing 1. The OrderServiceImpl class implements the above business methods. Note that the getDao() and setDao(...) methods are needed for "injecting" a dependent DAO (Data Access Object Pattern) into the service (we will see more about this later) http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/ Patterns/DataAccessObject.html.
The implementation of these methods deals only with the business logic (and DAO interaction). It does not have knowledge of infrastructure services such as:
- Transactions
- Logging of enter/exiting from methods
- Auditing
- Profiling long-running methods
- Reporting when exceptions occur
- Data source switching
Using made2order
The accompanying application is meant to serve as an example for the Spring technologies discussed in this article. The downloadable bundle at Listing 1 is a zip file that can be imported into the Eclipse IDE as an Eclipse project.
You can do either one of the following actions (or both) as you read through this article:
- Go through the source code using your favorite IDE and run JUnit tests to understand the examples. The JUnit test suite file (com.order.acme.OrderServiceIntegrationTest.java) in the test folder contains several methods to test the above services.
- Install the Web app in a J2EE application server (does not need EJB support) and navigate through the Web pages with the examples.
Spring Bean Factory and IoC
The Spring BeanFactory represents a class that manages the life cycle of singleton services (among other things). These services are injected with dependencies using Inversion of Control (www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html). Services that depend on external resources are "told" what those dependencies are instead of "getting" them using the Service Locator pattern (http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/ Patterns/ServiceLocator.html).
The injection of dependents is achieved either via a constructor or setter injection. The JavaBean that represents the service has a "set" method that accepts the dependant (setter injection) or it has a constructor that accepts the dependent object (constructor injection). Using an XML configuration file, the service object is configured with its dependent objects using either of these two mechanisms. (The XML file is just one of many formats the configuration can be specified in, others being properties files or just plain Java code.)
There can be one or more bean factories in an application. Bean factories can be overlaid, such that there is one for production but it's overlaid by the one for development.
The bean factory is accessed by the presentation layer to access services offered by the application. In made2order, the OrderService service is needed as a singleton. The OrderService implementation is dependent on an implementation of OrderDAO. The OrderDAO implementation in turn is dependent on JdbcTemplate object, (a Spring-supplied helper class that helps with JDBC operations). The JdbcTemplate requires an implementation of a data source. In this case, myDataSource is a data source implementation that is specified in the BeanFactory and injected into the JdbcTemplate.
The BeanFactory returns a singleton of OrderService after "injecting" required dependencies in it as shown in the Figure 3.
Note that an implementation is injected into an interface at each level.
Figure 3 is represented in the XML file orderContext.xml shown in Listing 2. In this listing we see that the BeanFactory defines two data sources. During configuration, either of the data sources is injected into the JdbcTemplate instance.
Spring Proxies
In the general sense of the word, a proxy is a class that sits between the business class and the client. In the context of Spring, however, a proxy is either a JSE dynamic proxy or a static proxy that implements infrastructure services and is "injected" with a dependency that is the target business class. Then, instead of the client being given a reference to the target service, it's given a reference to the proxy. In this manner the behavior implemented in the proxy is interjected into the service seen in Figure 4.
With the current release, Spring proxies allow interception at the method level only, whereas some full-blown AOP environments allow field-level interception also. Proxies can be dynamic (JSE dynamic proxies), in which case Java interfaces are proxied; or they can be static, in which case bytecode modification occurs. Understandably, static proxies outperform dynamic ones but only marginally.
Interception is implemented using concepts from AOP: pointcuts and advice.
Pointcuts and Advice
Advice classes specify the actual work to do upon interception whereas pointcuts tell Spring where to apply advice.
The combination of a pointcut and an advice is bundled in what Spring calls an Advisor (see Figure 5).
We will see Advice, Advisors, and Pointcut classes in action in a made2order application when we apply infrastructure services to the business classes.
The following sections explain how each infrastructure service has been implemented.
Transaction Service
The OrderService's placeOrder(...), modifyOrder(...), and dropOrder() methods need to be transaction-bound. For this we modify the orderContext.xml file by configuring a Spring-supplied transactional proxy called TransactionProxyFactoryBean. As shown in the Listing 3, an instance of this proxy is called myProxiedServiceWithSeveralInterceptors.
The TransactionAttributes section is supplied with regular expressions that represent the methods that need to be transaction bound (PROPAGATION_REQUIRED) and those that are not (PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS).
Also, the target of this proxy is specified as orderService, which is the instance of the OrderServiceImpl.
Note that a transactionManager is injected into the proxy. An instance of transactionManager is set up elsewhere in the configuration file.
The preInterceptors are a list of Advices and/or Advisors that are also tacked onto this proxy in what is called a chain of interceptors. We will see each of these in turn later. For now, note that preInterceptors are invoked before the target is invoked in the order specified.
Seeing Transactions in Action Using JUnit
For testing transactions there are two test methods in the test suite: testNonProxiedServiceForModifyingAnOrder() and testProxiedServiceForModifyingAnOrder(). Both these methods call the modifyOrder(...) method on the non-proxied service in one case and proxied service in the other. The modifyOrder(...) method updates the ORDER_TABLE table first and then each lineItem in the ITEM_TABLE. The test method updates an order with two line items. The second lineItem has a description whose length is greater than the column width in the database. This forces an error upon update of the line item description in the database. Both the test methods update the ORDER_TABLE first and then the first lineItem in the LINE_ITEM table before throwing an exception while trying to update the long description in the second line item. The proxied method issues a rollback whereas the non-proxied method commits the update to the ORDER_TABLE and the first lineItem in the ITEM_TABLE.
|Pankaj Tandon 02/21/06 10:38:18 AM EST
I just realized that if you are here then you have already found the online version of the article.. here is the link to the downloadable artifact then..
Click on "Additional Code II" to get the full webapp+ code.
|Pankaj Tandon 02/17/06 05:48:23 PM EST
Hi all,
|Bob Raker 02/16/06 11:37:12 AM EST
This was a very good article. But, where the hell does one go to download listing 9-20. Thanks.
|Rob Moore 02/14/06 12:14:11 PM EST
Is the sample code available?
|SYS-CON Brazil News Desk 02/14/06 09:46:50 AM EST
J2EE applications of late have become weight conscious. The combined burden of EJBs and coarse-grained component design has given the term test driven design a new meaning: technology driven design! Fortunately a host of lightweight solutions are emerging, such as PicoContainer, Spring Framework, Hivemind, Hibernate, Castor, and Webwork. In this article I'll discuss my experience with the Spring Framework and how it can be used to make a J2EE application more maintainable, testable, and better performing.
|SYS-CON India News Desk 02/13/06 02:55:13 PM EST
J2EE applications of late have become weight conscious. The combined burden of EJBs and coarse-grained component design has given the term test driven design a new meaning: technology driven design! Fortunately a host of lightweight solutions are emerging, such as PicoContainer, Spring Framework, Hivemind, Hibernate, Castor, and Webwork. In this article I'll discuss my experience with the Spring Framework and how it can be used to make a J2EE application more maintainable, testable, and better performing.


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Analysis of samples taken from Australian bats during the mid-1990s has reinforced the view that urine may play a major part in transmitting the deadly Hendra virus to horses.
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The virus has spilled over to horses on 51 known occasions, and from infected horses to humans on seven occasions, four of which proved fatal.
Australian researchers tested archived tissue samples from 310 bats collected in Queensland in 1996 and 1997.
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Evidence of the virus was detected in 20 individual flying-foxes, representing 6.4 percent of the 310 bats, from various tissues including spleen, kidney, liver, lung, placenta and blood samples.
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Lauren Goldspink, from the Queensland Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, and her colleagues found that the virus had a predilection for the spleen, suggesting this organ played an important role in Hendra infection, perhaps in either the maintenance of infection or the immunological processing of the virus. It could be an active site of viral replication, they said.
The lack of detections in the foetal tissues of the four pregnant females in the sample that were positive for the virus suggested that vertical transmission – directly from the mother to an embryo, fetus, or offspring during pregnancy or childbirth – was not a regular mode of transmission in naturally infected flying-foxes.
The findings supported the view that placental and foetal tissues were not a major source of infection for horses, they said, and reinforced the view that flying-fox urine was a key transmission pathway.
From the 20 Hendra-positive flying-foxes, a total of 30 tissues tested positive, predominantly spleen samples (94.7 percent) and kidney samples (31.3 percent). Liver, lung, red blood cells, serum and placenta also yielded some positive results.
The researchers, reporting their findings in the open-access peer-reviewed journal, PLOS ONE, said they recorded the first detection of Hendra virus in the tissues of P. conspicillatus, providing evidence of systemic infection in this species.
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Goldspink was joined in the research by Daniel Edson, Miranda Vidgen, Hume Field, and Craig Smith, who are also from the Queensland Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases; and John Bingham, from the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which is part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Goldspink LK, Edson DW, Vidgen ME, Bingham J, Field HE, Smith CS (2015) Natural Hendra Virus Infection in Flying-Foxes – Tissue Tropism and Risk Factors. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128835. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128835
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Anyway, the computer automatically starts updating right in the middle of him trying to print out reports for the properties he's about to show. We both panic, since it probably will lead to hours of us trying to figure out how to reset the computer and get it back to a working status, and his clients are coming in about 20 minutes. He freaks out, as he always does (God, I love that man, but oh does his temper need some work.) I, on the other hand, smiled, put my hands on the computer and began to pray.
God, I know You're with us. I know You're watching over what is happening right now.
I know You have the power to fix this.
Please work with us and work on the computer.
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Please God, get the computer working.
In Jesus name, I pray!
What else was I going to do? I have very little computer abilities and I didn't have any answers. The only thing I could do was rely on Him to get us through this. And do you know what happened? The computer made it through it's updates, Jim was able to print his papers, and he's with his clients as I'm writing this blog post.
Some may laugh at me because it's such a small and silly thing to pray about, but what else was I supposed to do? And more importantly, it worked. God helped us through a tough situation and I know He'll continue to do that. I pray to God for a lot of things. Sometimes, I get an immediate answer like I did today, sometimes I'm left waiting for His timing to be right (ie still waiting for baby, come on God, let's get on the same page for that one!)
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According to a University of Maryland study released last year, many college students are addicted to the Internet. Researchers asked 200 college students to give up all forms of media for 24 hour and what they discovered were that many students showed symptoms associated with addiction, including withdrawal, cravings and elevated anxiety.
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"When an individual persists in use of alcohol or other drugs despite problems, related to use of the substance, substance dependence may be diagnosed. Compulsive and repetitive use may result in tolerance to the effect of the drug and withdrawal symptoms when use is reduced or stopped."
Whether or not "Internet addiction" qualifies as a valid addiction will require further research. In the meantime, there is little question many college students have developed an unhealthy relationship with technology. Like other potentially compulsive behaviors such as gambling, exercising, and eating, people who engage in addictive behaviors initially derive pleasure from them, only later to develop a dependence that can become all consuming and potentially self-destructive.
For more on this topic, visit "A Day Without Social Media," a research study conducted by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland.
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7 May 2011 was our last day in Kuching. At about 9.30am, we drove to Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Kota Samarahan. We drove around the campus, admiring the golf course, the huge lake, and campus facilities.
At about 11.00am, we were back in the city. We boarded a bot tambang, crossing the river to visit the Kek Lapis (layer cake) Dayang Salhah shop. What seemed to be a village house has now turned into a thriving cake business with a countinuous stream of customers. Prices range from RM10-RM20 a slab. Some even had interesting designs and colours.
[Kek lapis samples at the shop]
[Kek lapis being made]
[Colourful kek lapis and chocolate cheese cake]
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We made it to the airport in good time and returned our rented car. However, our departure wasn't without a little "drama". During the security clearance, we realised that Julian was without a boarding pass. At the check-in counter, I had just taken the whole pile of boarding passes without ensuring that all was in order. So, Julian and I made a mad dash to the check-in counter to have his boarding pass re-issued. The rest of our journey was uneventful.
[We're leaving on a jet plane: That's our ride home]
On the whole, we enjoyed our holiday in Kuching. Perhaps we will explore other towns in our future visits to the Land of the Hornbills.
More on our final day of our Kuching holiday on Chris & Connie's Blog.


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The Research Institute used a driving simulator and eye-tracking equipment to monitor test subjects' reactions and performance in both hazardous and non-hazardous scenarios. Drivers in the study who experienced a two-second visual interruption proved less able to react to potential hazards. Moreover, drivers who observed an emerging hazard before the interruption tended to forget about it afterwards.
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Hummm hummingbird cake
This is one of my favourite cake recipes – I've been making it since I had my café back in the early 90s.
It is a southern USA speciality and while there are a number of theories behind it's name, I like the idea that the cake was named after the Hummingbird who is drawn to sweet things – like this cake!
The addition of undrained crushed pineapple and banana makes this cake incredibly moist and it is especially delicious topped with cream cheese icing.
Here is a link to the recipe on my main site.
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So I had a great weekend with the boy. Saturday he met my friends and then we just chilled. And I have to say, no matter how hard we tried, dorm beds just don't fit 2... especially when you're two "fluffy" people... lol. So guess who ended up on the floor? Oh well... at least I got a back rub out of it! Then Sunday we hung out around La Crosse, I took him to see the infamous Cheddarheads and bought him an amazing Wisconsin shirt, with the threat of getting a Bears shirt in return! We'll see... lol. Then Sunday night he watched the Cubs game while I did homework, thrilling eh? Not sure when we're going to see each other again, he said he was going to steal me and take me back to Illinois with him, which I am pretty sure I wouldn't have objected... but yeah. Soon hopefully... although it looks like I'll only have Mondays and Wednesdays off through may, I am hoping that it will change as the summer gets going... I doubt I'll have any weekends off either... but want to make it to Ohio with him, and have talked about going to a Cubs game... but I guess I'll just have to be patient.
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my DR recommended yasmin for irregular periods.wen i"am in first card i forget to take pill one day.that time another 5 were reaming to finish the whole card.so stopped the pills.next day start to bleed slightly ,after 2days start to heavily bleed with severe menses pains.after that i took reaming 5 pills.my menses continue in unusually more then 12 days,after that i start to with fresh card but still keep spotting,now i'am 6th pill today.should i consult DR again?whats went wrong?
My DR recomded yasmine for irregular menses in last three months,after 14 days il have little spots?
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DR did scan and pep test as well.everything was normal..i have tow kids.last one is 7 years now.i never experience this type of menses problem before this.
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taking Yasmin still keep spotting its almost 18 days.what i have to do now?
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I would go back to the doctor or find a different one. One time I had bleeding for almost a month. My doctor gave me a hormone therapy med sometimes used in menapause to take and it stopped the bleeding. I still had a healthy baby a few years later. fyi so you don't worry about that. Sorry i dont remember the name of it. You could ask if this might be an option for you. Bleeding for that long is not good. Get a second opinion
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Inside My PC
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Google Chrome for browsing the web.
Google Drive for safekeeping some files. This is after I lost a year-worth of photos which included my first trip abroad :(
Evernote for note-taking. I like using MS OneNote, but it's not free.
Nokia PC Suite for back-up purpose too. I intentionally didn't insert a link here because we have different phones. Just google for your specific Nokia phone.
Picasa and Picasa Web for photo sharing/back up. But, I haven't used Picasa for photo editting.
Thunderbird for my emailing needs.
VLC Media Player for watching videos and listening to audiobooks.
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Updates made in previous post , new handgun tutorial videos.
Also part 8 of the hydrant is also ready: http://youtu.be/b_uQ8pXWmrc
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For Family home evening this past Monday we had our first wii Olympics. Brandon was was not here because he was off building robots to take over the world.(Robotics club as he calls it). It was a lot of fun and even Christopher joined in. We competed in Slalom, the ski jump, running and Soccer. The competition was tough John and Ryann got very competitive on soccer, But everyone took time out to laugh at me attempting to play soccer. John's high score was 550 and Ryann's was very close to that, my high score on the other hand was 55:(
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A Wii medal for all! Soooo fun. Love Christopher's head stand, too!
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Tammy you are getting so THIN! And I feel like a beached whale...oh well, only a few weeks to go. We women only get to enjoy the beached whale stage of pregnancy a few times in life, right? May as well appreciate it while I have it. You look terrific.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
My sister posted some pretty funny pictures of Mrs. Photogenic Hilary Clinton on her site. I got a good laugh out of them and I am sure you will too!
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Hey Ashley! Thanks for including my blog on yours as one you read! I've got yours on mine, too.
I couldn't access the site you linked. Said something about me not have access? Weird, huh? Maybe my crazy husband has done something to my computer? Who knows?!
- May 7, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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Sorry. Officially it says that I "don't have permission to access." Ha! Must be a sister-thing. Keep it in the family won't you?
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Ash, this is the link you should use:
Laura, you have permission to entre. :) The Sift is open to the public. Ha.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish recently purchased a public access site along the Lower Situk River about 10 miles southeast of Yakutat. The purchase was funded through the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Program and Fish and Game funds which secures public access to the Lower Situk River.
The parcel is approximately 0.8 acres in size and includes a gravel road, parking area, boat launch, and vault latrine. The site is located where the Lost River Road terminates at the Situk River. The parcel was formerly a portion of the Setuk Harry Native Allotment.
The State would like to express appreciation to the owners of the adjoining allotment, the heirs of Maggie John, for allowing public access to the Situk River during the land acquisition. As a result of the new river access, the public is reminded to now turn right at the Strawberry Point sign near the end of the Lost River Road to continue on to the Situk River Landing.
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This afternoon, as the state legislature listened to Governor Rick Scott tout the benefits of tax cuts and trumpet his administration's effect on the economy during his final State of the State address, a vastly different picture of Florida was being painted on the banks of the St. Johns River by a group of progressives. At a press conference billed as "Awake the State," one of nearly a dozen similar events across the state that took place simultaneously, local representatives from groups across a spectrum of issues presented a united front against much of the governor's agenda and record.
Calling Florida "one of the least upwardly mobile states in America," Pat McCollough, the Northeast Florida regional director of For Our Future, the issue advocacy group that organized the press conference, said, "After nearly two years of Rick Scott's policies, the rich have gotten richer, while over half of the counties in the state of Florida are stuck in a recession. Families have remained stagnant and nearly half the state would qualify as the working poor." A United Way study released earlier this year found that as of 2015, 45 percent of Floridian households had income levels classified as working poor.
Devin Coleman, subject of a 2017 Folio Weekly cover story, talked about New Florida Majority's efforts to collect the 766,200 verified signatures required to put a constitutional amendment on this year's ballot to automatically restore civil rights to citizens with non-violent felony convictions upon completion of their sentence. "As a result of the hard work throughout the state and the attention of the whole country, according to Florida Department of State Division of Elections, we currently have 669,000-plus verified signatures," he said, adding that he feels confident that they will collect enough signatures to put the amendment on the ballot.
In his State of the State address, Gov. Scott practically patted himself and Florida state House Speaker Richard … More
On Thursday, Dec. 28, The Second Floor played host to an event celebrating the release of a double EP by Jacksonville's Gabe Darling (Robi Rütenberg, they/them) - a songwriter, musician and audio engineer. The album artwork for The Sky's a Woman and Broken Teeth, and the backdrop aesthetics were created by artist Lily Kuonen.
The night began with a reading by Laura Chow Reeve. For her, 2017 was a significant year, bringing some life changes, including a move from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, and national recognition for her literary talents. She was a recipient of the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and her short story, 1,000-Year-Old Ghosts, was narrated by television personality LeVar Burton in his appropriately named podcast, LeVar Burton Reads.
Reeve read an excerpt from a new short story, which drew inspiration from her life in Northeast Florida. The story touched on her life as an Asian American, her first hurricane experience, and her employment at Sun-Ray Cinema. And although new to the region, she is proving to be a strong voice among Jacksonville's literary artists.
Yvette Angelique, a veteran of Jacksonville's poetry scene, was the next performer of the evening. She read from her debut book of essays, Complicated Truths: Emerging as Leader of a Whole Life. Her essay highlighted the dynamics that surround our personal identities, subject to the roles we play within our families, our communities, and society as a whole. Angelique's work challenges us to examine how we see ourselves in contrast to how others see us and dares to ask: 'Are we living a life out of duty or are we unapologetically pursuing our inner desires?'
The evening culminated with a performance by Darling. The singer was joined by a full band: cellist Naarah Strokosch, bassoonist Anthony Anurca, drummer Summer Wood and bassist Quinn Mellon. Rütenberg led the band with enchanting vocals while rotating among a variety of stringed and … More
Denis Bell is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of North Florida. About five years ago, he started writing fiction, and since then has gone on to a solid reception from respected literary magazines including Grub Street.
For his "first feeble attempt" (his words) he decided to tackle the time travel paradox. Of this first effort he wrote "My first literary work. Not Kafka or Joyce, to be sure, but not bad, nonetheless [...] a few moths later I'm reading over [the story] for the umpteenth time, but the first time in a while, and I come to a revelation. It actually kind of sucks! "
Bell details this come-to-Jesus moment in the short story, Time Lapse, which is a part of the "flash fiction" collection A Box of Dreams recently published by Adelaide Books. Flash fiction is very short fiction--typically 1,000 words or less. The stories in this collection are unsettling and uncomfortable and brief; reading them is a nuanced, changing joy.
We caught up with Bell to chat about the book. These questions have been edited for space and clarity.
Folio Weekly: Do you find there is a connection between your profession and your writing? If so, how do you suss it?
Denis Bell: Somewhat surprisingly, I found that the skills that I acquired as a mathematical researcher have actually been very good preparation for the type of short fiction that I write. Things like economy of expression, intense focus on a central theme or idea, rapid movement from premise to conclusion...
Why write short stories? I am an obsessive reviser, both before and even after publication. For this reason, I don't believe I could ever write a novel length work. I would never stop working on it!
There's a looseness to this collection, yet there's a kind of darkness that seems to be pervasive in many of the stories, can you touch on this?
For whatever reason, I have always been attracted to the dark … More
Watching a Very Smart Brothas segment on Darth Beckys and Darth Susans (problematic, appropriative woman) the parallel between Christian--the lead character played by Cleas Bang in Ruben Östlund's new Palme d'Or-winning film, The Square is clear. Christian, as the slimly handsome director of the X-Royal Museum in Sweden is consumed with a seeming harmless strain of insular narcissism that is gradually reveled to be something much more corrosive.
Östlund, whose credits include the critically lauded Play and Involuntary, co-wrote those movies with Erik Hemmendorff, but for The Square he is the sole auteur. And as he has previously done, he exhibits a willingness to craft sly, gorgeous, uncomfortable, scenes that cast the characters not just in an unflattering light, but a light that reveals who--at their core--they are. The result is the revelation that Christian is kind of a smug, lazy coward who "thinks an awful lot of himself," in part because he is surrounded by a life and objects of excruciatingly good (reserved and nuanced) taste to prove it.
The plot of The Square ostensibly is very simple: museum director Christian has a new installation that he needs to generate publicity and buzz for. The piece, titled The Square is a square of space--outlined on the ground in the museum's cobbled courtyard (formerly the spot upon which a "noble" horse and rider bronze statute stood upon a plinth) with a strip of lights. It is supposed to be a tiny arena: "a sanctuary of trust and caring ... within it we all share equal rights and obligations." Though that's a noble goal—and reminiscent of Marina Abromovic's Rhythm 0 and Roman Ondák's Swap, it's hard to quantify, especially when the marketing dudes get involved.
It is thus, in the wake of the totally tacky publicity scheme, that Christian's life takes a few turns that really are the … More
Jay Fant's hair might be "on fleek," as A.G. Gancarski has pointed out, but his politics seem to have come from another era. The member of the Florida House of Representatives and GOP candidate for state Attorney General has proposed legislation that would make it legal for businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people. Florida currently does not have legislation prohibiting such discrimination.
The so-called Free Enterprise Protection Act, House Bill 871, is modeled after the federal First Amendment Protection Act currently kicking around Congress, would prohibit the government from taking any "discriminatory action" against businesses that discriminate against LGBTQs. Under it, businesses would be free to deny employment based on a person being LGBTQ and to implement discriminatory employee or personnel benefits policies.
The act could potentially supersede local laws that prohibit discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, such as the Jacksonville, St. Augustine Beach and Atlantic Beach human rights ordinances.
In a statement on Facebook, Fant admitted that he was inspired by the Supreme Court case involving a Colorado baker who refused to create a custom wedding cake on the grounds that the couple getting married was gay.
"I hope SCOTUS overturns this very bad ruling out of liberal Colorado, but I'm not sitting back to see what happens," he said on Facebook.
In a series of Tweets on Dec. 6, Fant further explained his compulsion to legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people, distributing such kernels of Fant-ian wisdom as, "Yesterday, SCOTUS began hearing a case with major implications for religious liberty and America. Praying they make the right decision and preserve the right of individual conscience."
And, "In Florida, we're not gonna sit around and leave liberty up to dispute. I filed HB 871, the Free Enterprise Protection Act, so business owners don't live in fear of social justice … More
Local author and owner of independent publishing house Broken Sword Publications Santino Rivera is back in the saddle again. His newest book, This is Fine, is a compilation of his poetry spanning the six years from 2011 to 2017, celebrating his love/hate relationship with the craft in his own self-proclaimed style of "un-poetry." Sometimes irreverent and always unconventional, Rivera spews thought onto paper in a way that he hopes will make his poetry palatable to even those who hate poetry-including him.
Rivera's relationship with poetry-loathing is succinctly explained in the book's intro, where he writes, "If Rodney Dangerfield were still alive, even he would get more respect than most poets. If someone asked what 100 poets on the bottom of the sea floor was, the overwhelming response would be: a good start. Save the lawyers, kill the poets, that's most people's motto."
Rivera even goes so far as to say that this may be his last foray into poetry. Yet for someone who seems to loathe something so much, Rivera doesn't seem to have lost much steam over those six years. A writer will always write. As Rivera continued in the intro, "Contrary to popular belief, poetry is an affliction, not a talent... I tried to quit poetry many times over the course of the past couple of decades, but it never took."
What started off as Denver street poetry during college--going around with a mobile PA system in the car doing free-verse spoken word at traffic lights--morphed into a career as a journalist with an independent newspaper he co-founded. After growing tired of covering committee meetings and local softball games, Rivera pulled up his roots to begin a career as an EMT/firefighter shortly after 9/11-writing poems and stories in the back of the ambulance between calls-which later morphed into his present life as an independent author/publisher.
This makes for what one might call a wealth of experiences--all of which he draws from in his work--and makes for an … More
Since joining Twitter in April, San Marco Train has earned the ire of an audience far from the standstill in San Marco. No matter how slowly it moves, San Marco Train seems to beat Northeast Floridians to the crossing all the livelong day. The list of locals who have succumbed to the loquacious locomotive is as long as the 5 o'clock train.
As Folio Weekly owns the right-of-way to irreverence in the 904, and San Marco Train has parked its "resplendent"-its word, not ours-caboose right in the middle of our turf, we monitored the situation from a safe distance on the Northbank, where the Train could not keep us from press conferences, laser light shows and handbell choir performances. For a time, we were content to watch from the roadside as the Train inched ever so slowly into the collective view. Truth be told, some of us delighted in the audacity of the "Train: Make America Late Again @SanMarcoTrain #MALA" signs placed at its infamous crossings, and took a perverse sort of pleasure in the Twitter battles inspired by the forced stillness which characterizes trips to San Marco.
But eventually we reached an impasse. First the Train declared war on FW, accusing us of the theft of its signs and of owning Scarface posters. Then it came after the editor. This was a bridge too far. The crossing had come down. We could no longer idle silently as the Train delighted in making the people of San Marco miss meetings, lunch dates, birthdays, kickoffs, colonoscopies, happy hours and children's recitals. It was time for action.
Utilizing sleuthing skills honed over years covering sneaks, cheats and, slipperiest of all, hipsters, we tracked down the Train wreaking truancy across San Marco and beyond. The Train was at once receptive and evasive. Patience paid off and the Train permitted our inspection of its machinations on the condition that we not disclose the location of the interview. We can say that it was conducted during rush hour somewhere along its daily … More
The letterboard sign outside a local Christian school reportedly reads, "God Bless Judge Roy Moore/Give Him the Victory." An alert reader sent the above photo to Folio Weekly via email this morning, stating that it was taken at the Conservative Christian Academy on Old St. Augustine Road in Mandarin.
Republican Roy Moore is running for U.S. Senate in Alabama. Moore's campaign has recently become mired with accusations that he preyed on teen girls in the 70s and 80s, when he was a prosecutor in his 30s.
The Washington Post reports that the youngest alleged victim, Leigh Corfman, now 53, claims that Moore engaged in sexual conduct with her, including removing her pants and shirt and touching her genitals over her underwear, in 1979 when she was 14 years old. Moore was 32 at the time. Three other women, whose ages ranged from 16 to 18 at the time of the alleged encounters, told the Post that Moore took them on dates around the same time frame, but that it went no further than kissing.
When the story broke earlier this month, 70-year-old Moore told the Post, "These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign."
Additional women have come forward in the weeks since the Post published its initial report. This morning, the Today show reported that a total of nine women have accused Moore of sexual assault. There have also been reports that Moore was banned from the mall in Gadsden, Alabama (his hometown) for preying on young girls. Moore has repeatedly denied all allegations.
A man who answered the phone at the Conservative Christian Academy, who did not identify himself, said he does not know what the sign currently says. He told Folio Weekly that the sign is changed every Monday morning, and its content is a "mutual decision" by the ministry. He said that there are "various ministries" at the facility, but declined to say who specifically decides … More
Troy Eittreim considers himself a painter and a collagist. He uses Photoshop to create his work, adding images and marks layer by layer, into one smooth surface within an unified image. His work is currently on display at Florida State College at Jacksonville's Downtown campus in a solo show, A Strange Journey.
The journey might've been strange, but it certainly wasn't speedy.
In 1991, a friend presented Eittreim, a formally educated painter and illustrator, with a gift that, a decade later, would drastically alter his artistic process. That gift was a disc, and on that disc was a copy of Adobe Photoshop. The graphics editor software was new to the market, having been published in 1990. Computers themselves were also still relatively new to the market and not yet viewed as an item with a practical use in private homes.
Eittreim is an alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). He graduated from the college in 1989 with a BFA in Painting and Illustration and a minor in Art History. Even in the late '80s, and despite SCAD being the progressive school it is, Eittreim had only one course in computer art.
His introduction to Photoshop wasn't entirely memorable. After the software was loaded to his computer, his friend gave him a basic tutorial. And Eittreim was lost once he was left to his own devices. He dabbled with the program's tools, drawing shapes, filling them in, and then erasing them.
Eittreim continued to focus on painting and didn't open Photoshop again until 1994 when his curiosity led him back to the software. There was something about the process that he found intriguing. It posed a challenge, something new and more difficult for him than traditional painting and analog processes. He developed a better understanding of the program, and advanced his digital editing skills. But, still dissatisfied with the results, he returned to painting.
In a post-Y2K world, Eittreim again returned … More
A group of local clergy and concerned citizens gathered in the unseasonable heat in Hemming Park this morning at a press conference organized to call upon Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson to reject the proposed tax plan. The senate is expected to vote on the bill later this week.
Standing across the street from Rubio's Jacksonville office, they decried the Republican-drafted tax reform plan for benefiting the wealthy and harming lower-income Americans-particularly minorities, children, the elderly and working families-for raising the national deficit, and taking healthcare coverage from millions.
"[This plan] gives the richest 1 percent and corporations a huge tax cut ... it cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 and eliminates estate tax that really only benefits people like our president," said Joey McKinnon of Faith in Public Life, the multidenominational faith group that organized the press conference.
Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church Pastor Lee Harris, also of African Americans Ministers Leadership Council, said that the tax reform bill will be particularly harmful to African Americans and other people of color. He said it is "at best" a reincarnation of the trickle-down economics of the 1980s, which "never worked."
"At worst, it is a kind of neo-slavery ... either way, it is something that people of color cannot afford," he said.
Pastor Harris believes that the bill will bring back elements of "putrid ideas" such as sharecropping, housing and economic discrimination, and gaps in wealth and health. He said that while the plan may at first seem palatable, just like the old adage about putting a frog in cold water and slowly turning the heat up until it boils, the changes to the tax code will gradually harm Americans until it is too late.
He rattled off a series of ways in which the plan will impact black America, including reducing Medicaid by $5.3 trillion over 10 years, triggering $400 billion in Medicare cuts in a … More


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