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The 2006 EclipseCon had more of everything -- projects, developers, tech sessions, exhibitors and sponsors. This is substantially due to the increasing use of Eclipse both by corporate developers and at within the major tool vendors. IBM, BEA, Compuware, Sybase, just to name a few, are all dedicating their in-house resources to furthering many Eclipse projects, and reaping the benefits of interoperable tools and components.
Over 1300 people attended, and it was a sell-out. The main EclipseCon conference ran 3 days, preceded by a day of tutorials, 2 of which were free to conference attendees [ by BusinessObjects, and by BEA]. There were 7 simultaneous tracks, but some were 'short talks' [4 crammed into an hour] and some were 'long talks', so there was a lot of intersession movement. Here's a link to a table view of the sessions: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Table.do?id=all&date=2006-3-21
Now that Eclipse 3.2 is out and the coordinated Callisto release of Eclipse projects has been successful, it would be nice to review the conference that preceded Callisto.
It's hard to believe that Eclipse got started less than 5 years ago but is now widely used and respected. The Eclipse Platform is written primarily in Java and has been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X, and Windows systems.
Eclipse is first and foremost a tools framework. The editor/IDE code is itself an assemblage of tools and components built under various Eclipse projects. What Eclipse provides is an extensible development platform with application frameworks for building software in a consistent way. The Eclipse ecosystem is those projects, and it is also the developers and vendors who contribute to those projects. At EclipseCon, those folks get to meet each other.
One goal of this Eclipse summit was to coordinate on-going Eclipse projects to better compete with offerings from Redmond. This is shown in the complete lifecycle approach that many projects take [see 'ALF' and 'Corona' below]. But, because most of Eclipse is Java-based, developers get a 'write-once, run mostly any where' premium with Eclipse. With the upcoming Vista/Windows OS moving away from the aging Win32 API, there may be incentive for enterprises to consider Eclipse for that very reason.
EclipseCon is where a vast and vibrant community assembles. There are poster sessions for embryonic projects and whole tracks of sessions for widely adopted projects. It can be a bit daunting for an Eclipse newbie, although some of the tracks [and tutorials] are aimed at those starting out.
I have a few session summaries below, but found I needed to study the varied Eclipse projects to understand how everything fit together. So, here are summaries of some major Eclipse initiatives, many of which were announced or highlighted at EclipseCon:
ALF extends the popular Eclipse development platform by using an open-source framework to tightly integrate ALM suites or individual products, helping developers to manage application changes. The Eclipse Foundation announced support and new partnerships that strengthen the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project, and has made new proof of concept code available for download.
In the current practice, varied integration tools use numerous point-to-point integrations that are fragile, partial, and inflexible. The solution [ paraphrasing from the ALF Web page, http://www.eclipse.org/alf/ ] is to make tools orchestratable to provide repeatable processes responsive to changes in an organization by building upon an interoperable and collaborative collection of services and components. The tool provider can expose as much (or as little) as he or she chooses, and the consumer of these technologies will have the ultimate control over how these technologies are orchestrated together. This is putting SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) into the tool set.
Using a BPEL engine to orchestrate the 'ServiceFlows', compliant tools makes ALF aware that something significant has happened, and the ALF EventManager filters and routes those events. There is also a set of domain vocabularies that define the events, objects, and attributes.
The ALF Project, initiated by Serena Software in the spring of 2005, addresses the universal problem of integrating Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technologies so that they provide full interoperability. Currently more than thirty vendors have pledged support for the ALF project, and recent additions to those committing resources include AccuRev, PlanView, and Viewtier.
The four primary objectives of the ALF project are to provide an SOA-based cross-tool communication infrastructure for ALM solutions; leverage Eclipse open-source components and industry standards; develop common and extensible domain-specific vocabularies for improved interoperability; and provide conformance rules for varying levels of participation through a layered Web services extensibility API. ALF is a liberating shift in how IT organizations can effectively manage change within their environment and free developers from a most common pain point -- broken development tool integration.
"ALF changes everything," said Kevin Parker, vice-president of market development at Serena, and Eclipse ALF Project Management Committee member. "As tools evolve, ALF will remain the constant integrator, enabling developers to select best-in-class technologies in support of enterprise initiatives."
"ALF is an important project for the future growth of the Eclipse ecosystem," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation. "ALF builds on the promise of the Eclipse platform for tools integration, and provides an open-source infrastructure for collaboration and interoperability between development tools across the entire lifecycle."
So, a lot of vendors in the Expo Hall displayed ALF logos at their booths and some, particularly Serena and Seque, provided integration demos.
Linked with ALF, Corona is about tool integration and an event model to propagate events across multiple Workbench instances. Corona will enable Eclipse constructs, such as a "project", to be shared in a distributed environment. Corona will provide an Eclipse-based server-side runtime environment that will provide Web service access to allow manageability to SOA components deployed within Corona.
Corona is conceptually a layer of middleware between the Eclipse framework and individual plugins. With Corona, multiple developer workbenches share events. However, the layer is generalized enough that non-Eclipse development environments can participate [e.g., Microsoft's VS, via a Web service].
Corona can be compared to the collaboration back-end of Microsoft VS Team Foundation server and the tool integration of MS VS Team System. There are also elements of IBM's JAZZ developer collaboration. Taken together, ALF and Corona lay the groundwork for Eclipse to succeed at Application Lifecycle Management [ALM] and to compete with all of Microsoft's offerings in this arena. Demonstrations of both ALF and Corona were provided during the two day track of demos at EclipseCon.
See: http://www.eclipse.org/corona/doc/Corona%20Eclipse%20Forum%20Europe.pdf
While the Eclipse platform is designed to serve as an open tools platform, its components can be used to build just about any client application. RCP provides a way of assembling GUI-based applications that can run without the need for the full Eclipse IDE. It offers standard client interface components that works as a front end to enterprise apps running on Linux or any other supported OS. That means any client, any server.
The minimal set of plug-ins needed to build a rich client application is known as the Rich Client Platform. The main thing that differentiates a rich client application from the platform workbench is that the application is responsible for defining which class should be run as the main application.
Applications other than IDEs can be built using a subset of the platform. These rich applications are still based on a dynamic plug-in model, and the UI is built using the same toolkits and extension points. So, the developer can chose how light or heavy to make the application.
The initial goal was to reuse Eclipse components to build and deploy applications on any platform and leverage the Eclipse development model. However, there are now four initiatives to extend the usefulness of RCP:
Here's a good place to start with RCP: http://eclipsewiki.editme.com/RichClientPlatform
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Most of the Technical Sessions are available here: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?id=all
I'll provide a few summaries below:
This presentation was formerly called 'Eclipse goes for Global Domination', and was hosted by John Andrews of analyst firm Evans Data Corp (EDC). He decided to be a bit less pre-emptive.
Eclipse users are substantially VARs and corporate developers, compared to general user population statistics. This means that, at smaller companies, there is less adoption of Eclipse, but it is very well represented in the middle and large company space.
North American growth of Eclipse use has been 88% in 2+ years, while Euro-ME-Africa adoption has grown 7-fold.
Results from EDC's IDE use survey shows Eclipse is 2nd to Visual Studio, at 24.3 vs. 55.3 percent, whereas Sun Java Studio and NetBeans, and IBM and Oracle's IDEs are all just around 11% each. However, Eclipse use is growing faster than Microsoft's VS suite. [Note that both of Sun's tools add up to about 22%.] EDC estimates that Eclipse could catch up with Visual Studio in about two more years.
While MS tools dominate both enterprises and SMB, Eclipse growth is stronger in the enterprise, while trends show MS VS use is dropping slowly in large corporations. Among the challenges Eclipse will face in winning over Microsoft-based developers is a perception that Visual Studio provides more functionality in the Windows environment than Eclipse, and that it seems to have better support offerings from Microsoft.
Driving Eclipse acceptance is its low cost and other factors, such as its existing broad industry adoption and the belief in developer circles that Eclipse is among the most technologically advanced tools sets. Yet, fewer than 30% are willing to pay for Eclipse support, and only 15% are ready to pay now. Andrews called this a 'complex story", since most respondents are unwilling to pay over $100 for a plugin, and only 15% willing to pay up to $250. That may trouble companies betting their futures as commercial developers of Eclipse plugins.
The graphic below is taken from the Evans IDE study, and shows the overall developer rankings based on compiler, make functions, editor, profiler, help, etc., and shows both Eclipse and NetBeans trailing the other IDEs.
Another trend EDC notes: more Eclipse users are using more OSS, and more often. This is consistent with the willingness to embrace a FOSS IDE in a corporate setting and it may mean that Eclipse is really the camel's nose in the tent.
[Evans Data had promised us at LG that they would make many of the supporting slides available by June, but they haven't. This partly updated 'IDE Scorecard' is publicly available, but it doesn't fully cover the EclipseCon presentation: http://evansdata.com/devchoice_ide_scorecard.shtml]
Java developer Madhu Siddalingaiah presented a
comparison of Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE to Eclipse and
its open-source development environment. [This presentation
is here: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?id=50]
As a developer currently working on an e-prescription project using the
PocketPC platform, Siddalingaiah has first-hand experience with both VS and
Siddalingaiah first conceded that the Visual Studio IDE is great for beginners. It gives a novice a headstart, can support multiple programming languages [VB, C++, C#], and can produce code targeted at different environments, but mostly Microsoft. (This may change as MS flirts with Xen virtualization to host Linux on Windows; see related NewsBytes story here.)
The VS IDE, he noted, also has features for more-advanced users. However, the development processes in Visual Studio still follows the old waterfall development model: code, compile, debug, and repeat, repeat, repeat.
Eclipse, in comparison, is open source, has a large developer support community, and its code runs in almost every computing environment. There is no Microsoft platform lock-in and no Microsoft platform 'tax'. [VS Studio and Team products cost hundreds of dollars per seat.] Also, new development tools and frameworks just snap in.
That said, Siddalingaiah went on to critique VS in more detail: its classes and methods are insufficiently documented for a developer, and the compiler lacked full code completion and code refactoring. He jokingly compared the C-compilers to "TurboC with a GUI". Unless 3rd party add-ins are considered, VS Studio lacks the constellation of plug-ins that expand Eclipse capabilities [UML modeling, for an example]. Eclipse is open and open source, while VS is not. But VS is more polished and requires less training.
Siddalingaiah did consider Visual Studio Express a good value [it's free!] for novice Windows developers, but cautioned again about the Microsoft lock-in.
This was a zippy demo that displayed Eclipse RCP's strengths and eased concerns about the difficulties of RCP development. Presenter Wayne Beaton started by citing the strengths of Eclipse and the richness of the UI, which has the plumbing provided with help services and update capabilities. Eclipse RCP makes use of the Eclipse component model, which adds features not in standard Java. These components can be versioned and are dynamically loadable. Beaton also noted that GUI- and non-GUI extension points can be used for application integration without component interference. Menus and views can be shared.
Paul Slauenwhite described how to use the performance, JUnit, and manual test tooling in the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) for testing applications. TPTP provides a flexible and extensible framework for creating and managing tests, deployments, datapools, execution histories, and reports.
TPTP is composed of 4 basic projects:
- Platform
- Test
- Trace and Profiling
- Monitoring
TPTP includes reference implementations for manual testing, JUnit tests, URL and automated GUI testing [Recording/Playback] of applications. See: http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/php/attachment.php?bugid=102
Kenn Hussey of IBM Rational SW explained that UML2 is an Eclipse sub-project for an EMF implementation of the UML metamodel. It provides an XMI schema to allow interchange semantic models and provide test cases for validation and implementation. Mapping the XMI schema to Java was, as he said, 'non-trivial'.
Hussey explained that his project team had to weed out errors in the spec, which will help all UML2 implementers. These errors were reported to the UML 2.1 Revision Task Force. UML2 now supports one namespace for all elements, using UUIDs - Universally Unique IDs.
The UML sub-project team are providing better documentation, plus a number of convenience methods. The final version of plugin, supporting UML 2.1, was due in April, will be included in Eclipse 3.2, and will have a migration path for UML 2.2. See: http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/php/attachment.php?bugid=37
Lee Anne Kowalski (IBM), Maria Brownstein (Sybase) and Dave Resch (Sybase) described lessons learned at two different companies that build products on the Eclipse Platform, particularly the project lifecycle for authoring and delivering content for the help system. They include an overview of the help features available in Eclipse: dynamic help view, cheat sheets, Welcome experience items, tutorials, help system (Bookshelf), and information center function. They ended with examples of tying the help features together for a consistent information experience by users [see: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?id=305]
The German company Innoopract, which initiated the project, offered code from its W4Toolkit to enable Java component user interface development with a mechanism for browser detection. A full set of APIs are due by year-end, and a RAP 1.0 release due mid-year 2007. IBM and other vendors have also offered AJAX-ified libraries and toolkits for RCP, but RAP is aimed at a fuller AJAX implementation.
Just in time for EclipseCon, the Eclipse Foundation, Zend Technologies, and IBM announced the PHP IDE Project, an Eclipse technology project originally proposed in October at the PHP User Conference. The project delivers a PHP IDE framework for the Eclipse platform, and encompass the dev components needed to develop PHP-based Web apps. It also leverages the existing Eclipse Web Tools Project.
The PHP IDE will extend the Eclipse Platform to support development of next generation Web applications in PHP, and make the robust Eclipse platform available to the large PHP developer community. The project will initially be a set of Eclipse plug-ins that add PHP capabilities to Eclipse and will provide extension points to further extend the functionality of the project. The project will be composed of a set of extensible features covering the development life cycle, including functionality that deals with developing, deploying, documenting, and debugging PHP-based applications.
For more information on the PHP IDE project, please visit www.eclipse.org/proposals/php-ide/.
This conference has really good value if Eclipse is your development environment. Conference prices ranged from about $1000 to $1500 with tutorials [and, as noted above, 2 tutorials were free to conference attendees].
In LG #126, I compared the offerings of the Software Development Conference [SD West] to EclipseCon, and noted some of the perks -- sit-down lunches with Eclipse contributors and good food, great evening receptions, and a fuller Expo Hall. There was also a great conference bag [only a tote at SD West], which had its own detachable PDA case. Finally, the majority of conference presentations were on a 256 MB USB jumpdrive given to all conference attendees. That was sweet. EclipseCon definitely provides more for the buck.
The folks at Eclipse ran a very open process, with a
significant number of comments highlighted in the online summary
of the post-conference survey. It seems that most
attendees were enthusiastic and expect to return.
See the results at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/SurveyResults/summary.html
EclipseCon 2007 will be held on March 5-8, 2007 in Santa Clara, California.
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Howard Dyckoff is a long term IT professional with primary experience at
Fortune 100 and 200 firms. Before his IT career, he worked for Aviation
Week and Space Technology magazine and before that used to edit SkyCom, a
newsletter for astronomers and rocketeers. He hails from the Republic of
Brooklyn [and Polytechnic Institute] and now, after several trips to
Himalayan mountain tops, resides in the SF Bay Area with a large book
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Statement from Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood on her appointment as president of the University of Hawaii
University of HawaiʻiI am honored to be selected as the next president of the University of Hawaiʻi. I know, and appreciate, how vitally important the university is to the state of Hawaiʻi.
I want to thank the regents of the University of Hawaiʻi for entrusting me with the presidency. I also want to thank the search committee for their work and the many individuals who took the time to meet with me as well as all of you who provided information and comments to the process. I am proud and very pleased to be joining such a fine institution, one that is and will continue to be, a vital resource to the State of Hawaiʻi, the Asia-Pacific region and the worldwide community.
I will commit my full attention to ensuring that the hard work already done by those before me, especially that of President McClain and his system team, the campus chancellors, and many others will be honored as important building blocks for the future. I believe that the University of Hawaiʻi deserves great recognition for its exceptional innovations, and the quality of its programs. I look forward to working with colleagues throughout the university system to further develop that voice. I also believe that working together as a well coordinated system positions the University of Hawaiʻi to contribute national leadership in the continuum of education from its earliest stages to its most advanced levels. This means that we must all be proud of and support each campus and at the same time bask in the reflection of the whole. We must commit to developing collaborative communications strategies working with multiple partners in Hawaiʻi, and elsewhere, to insure that we appreciate the perspective of those who would help us, but who are not yet familiar with what modern universities do as an engine for economic and cultural success.
These are trying times for the nation's economy and for the state of Hawaiʻi. In such times, the great challenge is to deal effectively with the immediate and pressing problems before us, while at the same time remembering that educating citizens and producing new knowledge is the "seed" of our society. To safeguard Hawaiʻi's future, adaptable and resilient strategies are critical. With an integrated and adaptable system of higher education Hawaii can overcome our current difficulties, create new knowledge, processes and components for our future innovation, businesses and jobs. Through education, research, and community involvement, the University of Hawaiʻi will continue to help assure Hawaiʻi's prosperity.
There is no greater public mission than ensuring access and success in higher education and we must steadfastly protect and work for the fulfillment of this mission, including furthering the university's unique responsibilities to the indigenous people of Hawaiʻi and to Hawaiʻi's indigenous language and culture. We must communicate our missions in a meaningful and sensitive manner to constituents and join together in compassionate, resilient and accountable ways.
I know that I have much to learn about Hawaiʻi and its rich cultural and linguistic heritage. I believe that to succeed in the future one must appreciate the lessons and values of the past. Honoring the university's past while encouraging the present and the future to flower is a formidable and honorable calling. Where better than the University of Hawaiʻi to insure that these lessons are learned? I bring to you my pledge to work as hard as I can to lead the university and to earn the trust and confidence of the people of Hawaiʻi. You have my personal commitment to work with the Board of Regents with a singularity of purpose and to the success of our common endeavor.
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While gum recession is a common occurrence related to aging, it's not just an "old person's disease." It can happen to anyone, even someone with a relatively healthy mouth. And this detachment and shrinking back of the gums from the teeth may not be a minor problem—your dental health is definitely at risk.
Here then are 4 things you should know about gum recession, and what you can do about it.
The most common cause: periodontal (gum) disease. A bacterial infection triggered by built-up dental plaque, gum disease weakens the gums' attachment to teeth that leads to recession. To help prevent it, clean away plaque with daily brushing and flossing and visit a dentist regularly for more thorough plaque removal. If you already have gum disease, prompt treatment could stop the infection and reduce any resulting damage including recession.
…But not the only one. There are other factors that contribute to recession besides disease. In fact, it could be the result of "too much of a good thing"—brushing too hard and too frequently can damage the gums and lead to recession. You might also be more susceptible to recession if you've inherited thin gum tissues from your parents. Thin gums are at increased risk of recession from both disease and over-aggressive hygiene.
Best outcomes result from treating gum disease and/or recession early. The earlier we detect and treat a gum problem, the better the outcome. See your dentist as soon as possible if you see abnormalities like swollen or bleeding gums or teeth that appear larger than before. Depending on your condition there are a number of treatment options like plaque removal or techniques to protect exposed teeth and improve appearance.
Grafting surgery could regenerate lost gum tissue. While with mild cases of gum recession the gums may respond well to treatment and actually rejuvenate on their own, that might not be possible with advanced recession. We may, however, still be able to restore lost tissue through grafting. Using one of a number of techniques, a graft of donor tissue can foster new replacement growth. It's a meticulous micro-surgical approach, but it could be a viable answer to extreme gum recession.
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A few weeks ago, I was at a local running store looking for a pair of shoes while battling plantar fasciitis. A young salesman suggested I try on a pair of Newton running shoes, to which I less than graciously responded, "I've never heard of Newton running shoes!" Fortunately, the Newtonians from Boulder, Colorado, provided me with a pair of Newton Momentum All-Terrain Trainers to try out under real world conditions.
The Momentum shoes come in a distinct orange, yellow and grey color scheme that seems to present a message of optimism at first glance. And they come with a nice, medium-width fit that's snug but not too snug. The laces, however, seem a bit short and the all-too-supportive insole wound up pushing my toes uncomfortably upward; this was easily resolved by swapping for a cheaper, thinner insole. The toe box itself is flexible.
The Momentum is first and foremost a trail runner, and one feels the obvious energy return from the four cushioned lugs in the forefoot of the shoe. But walking on a dirt trail felt odd, as if I were wearing snowshoes with crampons attached. Interestingly, this is not a problem when walking on concrete – the smooth surface allows for a comfortable "rocker" motion that makes walking quite pleasurable.
I tried this all-terrain shoe on multiple surfaces, and found that I enjoyed the run most on hard concrete. This is a surprise, but perhaps not so surprising knowing that the Momentum is loaded with cushioning spread from front to rear. It's not as comfortable when running on uneven asphalt, but this is likely true with any running shoe.
Like all Newtons, the Momentum is structured to encourage a mid-foot or front-foot strike and it's easy to get used to. One does, though, feel the new muscles that are being used (especially if you're a natural heel striker, like I am) – I quickly felt the twinges from my inner thigh muscles. Newtons should be broken in slowly and gradually, although all the padding underfoot leads one to feel quite optimistic about avoiding injury.
As advertised, the Momentum is a neutral running shoe with just a touch of stability for minimal pronators. While perhaps changing your normal foot strike pattern, they do not push your feet inward or outward. These runners move you forward with little wasted motion and without a needless bounce. (A number of today's most cushioned running shoes are overly bouncy, which adds sideways motion – or drifting, and this actually requires extra effort to compensate for the distraction.)
I found that running in a pair of Newtons is like experiencing running from a new perspective. The Momentum is a lightweight, well but not overly-cushioned shoe that supports an organic running motion. While this is not a minimal shoe, it does sit more level to the ground than traditional running shoes. Although this is the first pair of Newtons that I've joggged in, the shoe's construction seems to support the theory that less is more. There's something almost instinctively retro about the appearance and build of the Terra Momentum.
The Terra Momentum all-terrain trainers are a natural choice to throw in one's travel bag, knowing that no matter what type of running surface waits in another town, these shoes will provide the protection needed to get you through a set quota of training miles. The fact that other runners may ask you what type of shoes you're wearing is just a plus.


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Maria Cristina Miranda-Vergara, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the 2017 Leiva Graduate Fellowship in Precision Medicine by the university's Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics initiative.
"This fellowship recognizes students who demonstrate outstanding performance and bring special qualities to the field of precision medicine research," says Paul Bohn, Schmitt Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and director of Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics, "and Maria Cristina's work is a terrific example of this."
"Her investigations of chemoresistance in various breast cancer types could lead physicians to much more directed and personalized treatment plans for individual patients."
Miranda-Vergara, who conducts her studies in the laboratory of Laurie Littlepage, Campbell Family Assistant Professor of Cancer Research at the Harper Cancer Research Institute, is looking at how tumor cells interact with the healthy cells that surround them, and how a particular protein called MMP3 is part of those interactions.
"I want to understand the different roles of MMP3 at multiple stages of breast cancer progression," Miranda-Vergara explains. "The results will be of potentially high diagnostic and treatment value in breast cancer disease management."
Miranda-Vergara's activities and service at Notre Dame include much more than laboratory research. She is also a member of the executive board of the student-run Science Policy Initiative and was recently accepted as part of the Social Responsibilities of Researchers 2017 Cohort.
Leadership in science is woven into both her background and future plans as a scientist.
"I led the team that founded the Biotechnology Engineering program at UPAEP University in Puebla City, Mexico, and I became the director of the program in 2010," says Miranda-Vergara. "After I complete my degree here, I plan to continue my work in precision medicine by joining the Center for Cancer Research at UPAEP and focusing on the differential diagnostics of pediatric cancers."
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May 18, 2011
CST Industries Inc., the global leader in the manufacture and construction of factory-coated metal storage tanks, domes, specialty covers, and reclaimer systems, has announced that Steven Westfall has been named president of CST Storage, the company's storage systems division.
CST Storage was created in November 2010 as premier tank manufacturers Engineered Storage Products Co. (ESPC), producer of glass-fused-to-steel tanks sold under the brand names Aquastore, Harvestore, and Slurrystore joined with Columbian TecTank (CTT), producer of epoxy-coated and other modular bolted steel tanks and factory-welded silos used in a variety of industries since 1893. The company has fabrication facilities located in Parsons, KS, Winchester, TN, and DeKalb, IL. Its engineering centers of excellence are located in Lenexa, KS, Parsons, KS, DeKalb, IL, and Winchester, TN. CST Storage provides modular, factory-coated, bolted storage tanks for dry bulk and liquid applications in municipal, industrial, and agricultural markets.
"Steve's experience as a global leader makes him an ideal choice to assume this role which extends across all our tank product lines," said Declan McLaughlin, president and CEO of CST Industries Inc. "His experience delivering aggressive growth strategies will be extremely beneficial as CST Storage grows its position as the complete storage system provider in the municipal, industrial, commercial, and agricultural markets,"
Prior to joining CST Storage, Westfall served as president and chief executive officer of Detroit Tool Metal Products in Lebanon, MO, where he led the company's niche metal stamping and fabrication business.
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Hugh de Lacy, 1st lord of Meath, (died July 25, 1186, Durrow, Leinster, Ire.), one of the Anglo-Norman justiciars of Ireland who went to Ireland with England's King Henry II in 1171.
Hugh de Lacy was granted (c. March 1172) the lordship of Meath for the service of 50 knights and was left as constable of Dublin and justiciar when Henry returned to England in April 1172. Hugh de Lacy returned to England later in the same year; in 1173 he fought for Henry in Normandy, defending Verneuil. He was appointed to succeed William Fitz Audlin as procurator-general of Ireland in 1177 but was removed from office in May 1181, perhaps because he had married a daughter of Roderic, king of Connaught, without seeking Henry's permission. Apparently restored during the winter of 1181–82, he was finally suspended from office in 1184. Henry's son John, who had been created lord of Ireland in 1177, visited Ireland in 1185 and subsequently complained that Hugh de Lacy had intrigued against him.
According to Giraldus Cambrensis, Hugh de Lacy was an able and resolute governor but physically unprepossessing, swarthy, short, and ill-proportioned. He built many castles in his territory; the construction of one, at Durrow, had involved the demolition of an ancient and venerated monastery. While inspecting the building on July 25, 1186, Hugh de Lacy was decapitated by an assassin. His son Walter de Lacy (d. 1241) became 2nd Lord of Meath; a younger son, Hugh de Lacy (d. c. 1242), became 1st Earl of Ulster (1205).


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Google Education provided an undisclosed amount of seed funding for the opening of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Mobile Learning, according to the Cambridge school.
The center, located at the MIT Media Lab, will focus on new mobile technologies, apps, and their uses in education, including location applications, mobile sensing, data collection, and reality gaming.
The first project will study and extend, for educational technology use, App Inventor for Android, a tool developed by Google Labs designed to allow anyone--from novices to programmers--to create apps by using a graphical interface of buttons and menus in a web browser called the Open Blocks Java library. Google, which is in the process of open-sourcing the App Inventor code, released the beta version in 2009.
Maggie Johnson, Google's director of education and university relations, sees the Media Lab initiative as the next logical step for App Inventor. "Google incubated App Inventor to the point where it gained critical mass," said Johnson. "MIT's involvement will both amplify the impact of App Inventor and enrich the research around it."
The center will be run by Hal Abelson, professor of computer science and engineering; Eric Klopfer, professor of science education; and Mitchel Resnick, professor of media arts and sciences.
"At MIT, App Inventor will adopt an enriched research agenda with increased opportunities to influence the educational community. In a way, App Inventor has now come full circle, as I actually initiated App Inventor at Google by proposing it as a project during my sabbatical with the company in 2008. The core code for App Inventor came from Eric Klopfer's lab, and the inspiration came from Mitch Resnick's Scratch project. The new center is a perfect example of how industry and academia can collaborate effectively to create change enabled by technology, and we look forward to seeing what we can do next together," wrote Abelson in a Google Research Blog.
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Do you have a theory about why this batter can't hit?
This batter hasn't hit a ball in his last 20 at bats. His coach has a theory: it's because he needs glasses. The idea is a good one, although it is not a theory. In common speech, the word theory is often misused. It is often misused when referring to scientific ideas as well. What would be a better word to use?
Scientists collect evidence to test a hypothesis. The evidence may refute the hypothesis. In that case, it will be thrown out. The evidence may support the hypothesis. The scientists will then gather more evidence. The scientists will accept the hypothesis if: (1) There is no significant evidence to refute the hypothesis. (2) There is an enormous amount of evidence to support the hypothesis. The hypothesis may then become a theory.
A scientific theory is supported by many types of evidence. It is a synthesis of evidence from many experiments and observations. A theory has no major inconsistencies. A theory is a simple model of reality. It is simpler than the phenomenon itself. A theory explains a phenomenon. Scientists can use a theory to make predictions.
A theory is constantly tested. If some data does not agree with the theory, the theory can be revised. If the theory cannot match the data, it is thrown out. That being said, sometimes a theory is well-established; it has a lot of evidence to back it up. A well-established theory is unlikely to be overthrown. It may just need to be modified a bit. But science does not prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Three Essential Theories
The three theories below are essential in Earth science. Each accounts for an enormous amount of data. Each is supported by many lines of evidence. All can be used to make predications. As new evidence arises, any of these theories may need to be altered. But none of these three are likely ever to be disproved. They are accepted by nearly all of the credible scientists in their fields.
The Theory of Evolution
Evolution means change over time. Darwin's theory of evolution says that organisms change over time (Figure below). Evolution is seen in the fossil record. It is seen in the way organisms develop. Evolution is evident in the geographic locations where organism are found. It is evident in the genes of living organisms. Evolution has a mechanism called natural selection. The organism that is best suited to its environment is most likely to survive.
The theory of evolution maintains that modern humans evolved from ape-like ancestors.
The Theory of Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics theory says that slabs of continents move around on Earth's surface. The mechanism for that movement is seafloor spreading. Plate tectonics explain many things about Earth: (1) geological activity, why it happens where it does; (2) natural resources, why many are found where they are; and (3) the past and future, what happened in the past and what will happen in the future. The theory of plate tectonics will be explored in the chapter Plate Tectonics.
The Theory of Climate Change
The theory of climate change is very new. In fact, scientists don't even call it a theory. But it meets the requirements. These are the things we know: (1) average global temperatures are rising, (2) greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, (3) CO2 is released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned, (4) CO2 is a greenhouse gas, (5) more CO2 in the atmosphere traps more heat so global temperature is rising. No information contradicts this theory, although some details have not been worked out. The theory is very effective at predicting future events, which are already taking place. This idea will be explored in detail in the chapter Atmospheric Processes.
Many people think that any idea that is completely accepted in science is a law. But that is not true. In science, a law is something that always applies under the same conditions. A law explains a fairly simple phenomenon. A theory is much more complex: it tells you why something happens. A law only tells you that it happens. For example, if you hold something above the ground and let go, it will fall. This phenomenon is recognized by the law of gravity (Figure below). Some people say that evolution is "just a theory." But for a complex explanation like evolution, theory is the right word.
Skydiving is possible because of the law of gravity.
- A theory is an explanation of a complex phenomenon. A theory tells why something happens.
- A theory can be used to predict future events.
- A law describes something that always happens under the same set of circumstances. A law does not say why it happens. But even laws do not always hold.
- Compare and contrast hypothesis, theory, and law.
- Can a hypothesis become a theory?
- Which of these, if any, is most important in science: hypothesis, theory, or law?
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Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.See also coverage by VentureBeat and the San Jose Mercury News.
Apollo is a cross-operating system runtime that runs outside of the browser .... We ... are confident that we will be able to quickly get significant distribution of the Apollo runtime.
Apollo is targeted at developers who are currently leveraging web technologies, such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax techniques to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications.
Apollo will provide a set of APIs to make it easy to develop connected applications that work while offline.
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China just reported its first capital account deficit since 1998.
But Standard Chartered's Stephen Green and Wei Li write that there is no reason to worry about hot money flowing out of the country (money that moves from one country to another to benefit from interest rate differences or a change in exchange rate).
First, capital account outflows are actually slowing, and have gone from $52 billion in the third quarter, to $14 billion in the fourth. This suggests that capital outflows have slowed going into 2013.
With regards to capital outflows there are a few key things to keep in mind.
- Funds are moving out as wealthy Chinese put assets overseas.
- Outflows increase during times of stress and often these are cyclical and driven by changes in the behavior of corporates that import and export from China.
- As long as the global and domestic economy continue to recover, an outflow like the kind seen in Q3 2012 is unlikely and in fact a small capital account surplus seems likely. "This means that CNY appreciation pressure will again be the story for 2013."
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1)What is the edge of the universe like? Will we be able to go past it someday?2)Is it possible to travel through time?
3)Is there an object in the universe that can travel faster than the speed of light?
4)How much (in meters) is a black hole's diameter? What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?
5)What is the biggest star discovered? And how big is that star?
6)How can a neutrino be detected?
7)What do you know about the 'Star of Bethlehem' that was mentioned in the New Testament of the Holy Bible?
8)Is there any uppermost temperature? Is it possible to measure the temperature in the core of a star?
9)If I wanted to become an astronomer, how would I go about doing that?
10)How do astronomers measure the distance to stars? Is it accurate?
11)What are Cepheid variables?
12)How does the ratio of the amounts of hydrogen to helium in a star affect what kind of star it is and what kind of light it gives off?
13)What is dark matter, and what are the problems with it?
14)Did the Big Bang create black holes?
15)What is the farthest thing I can see with my own eyes, and the farthest thing I can see with an amateur telescope, and the farthest-away thing the biggest telescopes on Earth can see?
16)What are the main differences between the sun and other stars?
17) How do people tell how old a star is?
18) How far across is the Milky Way? At a given time how can one locate the center of our galaxy as we orbit the Sun and the Sun orbits the galaxy? Is our solar system moving away from the center of the galaxy? How many years does it take the Sun to orbit the center of the galaxy? Specifically, where in the universe can our solar system be found?
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Strikeforce vets are making plenty of noise in the UFC so far this year...
Every year, one narrative seems to step up and dominate the UFC year.
In 2011, the incredible rise of Jon Jones was clearly the "Story of the Year" in the UFC, as the prodigious light heavyweight talent earned four victories in the span of ten months, rising to the top of the division with his win over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in March before defending the title twice over the final four months of the year.
Last year, rather than a fighter stepping out as the biggest story, the rash of injuries that tore through the roster, producing innumerable lineup changes and the first event cancellation in UFC history was the most discussed narrative.
Though we're just three months into the year, the success of former Strikeforce fighters inside the Octagon is already emerging as a clear early favorite to be the dominant talking point of 2013.
Any discussion of the impact arrivals from Strikeforce has to start with the UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey. The former Olympic bronze medalist is a promotional force of nature, and equally as impactful inside the cage as well.
The build-up to her UFC debut was covered more extensively than any fight in recent memory, and her headlining turn with Liz Carmouche atop the UFC 157 Pay-Per-View was a complete success. In addition to retaining her title with another first round armbar victory, Rousey established herself as a legitimate headlining act in the UFC, and a certified star in the sport.
The spotlight isn't going to wane any time soon either, as "Rowdy" will get her wish to serve as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter next season, leading a mixed cast of bantamweights opposite the winner of the upcoming Miesha Tate-Cat Zingano fight in April on FX.
While the women's bantamweight champ has made the biggest splash of any crossover competitor so far this year, the unbeaten Rousey isn't alone on the list of former Strikeforce fighters to have already delivered big things inside the Octagon in 2013.
Last Saturday night in Montreal, young Canadian welterweight Jordan Mein added his name to the growing list of UFC first-timers to make an impression in the opening months of this year. The 23-year-old Lethbridge, Alberta native announced himself as someone to watch in the welterweight division by escaping an early armbar to become the first man to stop veteran Dan Miller.
After more than seven years away from the Octagon, Robbie Lawler made a successful return to the UFC last month, earning a first round knockout win over Josh Koscheck at UFC 157 in Anaheim. That same night, Nah-Shon Burrell and Yuri Villefort opened up the show with a wildly entertaining back-and-forth battle, displaying a tremendous sense of urgency from the opening bell to the final horn.
UFC 156 produced three wins for former Strikeforce competitors.
The last man to beat Mein, Tyron Woodley, also made a splash in his UFC debut in the opening stages of the year, knocking out Jay Hieron in just 36 seconds. With the win, "The Chosen One" inserted himself in the thick of the chase in the welterweight division, and the former University of Missouri wrestling standout will be looking to take another step up the rankings this summer when he takes on another Strikeforce alumnus, Jake Shields, at UFC 161 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Lightweight veteran and Team Jackson-Winkeljohn product Isaac Vallie-Flagg outworked Yves Edwards to push his unbeaten streak to 12 and collect his first UFC victory, while Bobby Green captured Dana White's attention with his third round submission win over Jacob Volkmann. White could not stop praising Green after the event, lauding his ability to overcome a questionable referee's stand up and his drive to finish Volkmann in the third to ensure he earned the win.
While there is no question that several fighters that have migrated to the UFC since the collapse of Strikeforce have already impressed, there are even more talented athletes who have yet to make their first appearance in the Octagon who could easily add their names to the list of impact arrivals from the closed down company in the coming months.
Gegard Mousasi makes his debut early next month in a headlining turn opposite Alexander Gustafsson in his hometown of Sweden. The former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion has the chance to halt the surging Swede's climb towards a title shot, and inject himself into the conversation at the same time with a victory.
Once considered a can't miss prospect, injuries have hindered Mousasi in recent years; he missed all of 2012 after suffering a torn ACL, and dealt with various maladies in the year before that as well. He's still only 27 years old, however, and already has a great deal of experience under his belt, so it's quite possible that he could return to make an immediate impression in the 205-pound ranks.
In the co-main event of next month's FUEL TV fight card in Sweden, second-generation UFC competitor Ryan Couture squares off with former Ultimate Fighter winner Ross Pearson. Coming off a controversial split decision win over KJ Noons on the final Strikeforce event, a win over Pearson would extend Couture's winning streak to five and give him strong footing to start his climbing in the treacherous lightweight division.
As mentioned earlier, Miesha Tate has the opportunity to not only earn a rematch with Ronda Rousey when she faces off with Cat Zingano on the Ultimate Fighter 17 Finale card, but a victory would also place the former women's bantamweight champion opposite the current titleholder as a coach on Season 18 of the long-running reality TV competition as well.
Midway through the month of April, the UFC heads to San Jose, where, fittingly enough, a number of Strikeforce alums will make their UFC debuts.
After scoring a unanimous decision win over Robbie Lawler in his middleweight debut, Kung Fu fighter Lorenz "The Monsoon" Larkin looks to maintain his unbeaten record in a pivotal bout on the fringes of contention with French-born, Montreal-based Francis Carmont.
Lightweights Jorge Masvidal and Josh Thomson have a chance to quickly establish themselves as players in the UFC's deepest division, as "Gamebred" and "The Punk" square off with Tim Means and Nathan Diaz respectively, the former on the preliminary portion of the card, the latter on the four-fight main card broadcast on FOX.
In the co-main event of the evening, Strikeforce World Heavyweight Grand Prix winner Daniel Cormier makes his highly anticipated debut in the Octagon, squaring off with former heavyweight champion Frank Mir. It's a fight that Cormier specifically asked for, having been originally lined up to face the submission specialist on the final Strikeforce show before Mir pulled out with an injury.
Unbeaten through the first 11 fights of his career, many view the two-time Olympian as a serious championship threat in either the heavyweight or light heavyweight division, but first he's got to get through Mir.
Headlining this year's second UFC on FOX event is Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez, who will go toe-to-toe with Benson Henderson in a "Champion vs. Champion" clash. This is the chance "El Nino" has been waiting for: an opportunity to not only prove that he belongs amongst the best in the division, but that he is the very best in the world in the lightweight division.
A winner of seven consecutive contests dating back to April 2009, extending his winning streak to eight with a championship victory over last year's Fighter of the Year Henderson would leave little room for argument that the "Skrap Pack" member is indeed tops in the 155-pound ranks.
A week later at UFC 159, Pat Healy, the man Melendez was twice supposed to face under the Strikeforce banner, will get an opportunity to establish himself as a contender in the UFC with a main card matchup opposite perennial contender Jim Miller in New Jersey.
The durable veteran Healy has won six straight and nine of his last 10, defeating the likes of Maximo Blanco, Caros Fodor, and Mizuto Hirota along the way. While a date with Melendez never ended up materializing, "Bam Bam" could make a big first impression with a win over Miller on his home turf at the end of April.
In May, the last two Strikeforce middleweight champions head to Jaragua do Sul, Brazil for their UFC debuts, looking to make waves in the deep end of the 185-pound division.
Luke Rockhold, the last middleweight champion, will headline UFC on FX 8 opposite Vitor Belfort on May 18, while the man he defeated for the title, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza, takes on streaking contender Costa Philippou in the co-main event of the evening.
Another in the long line of elite competitors from the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Rockhold boasts a 10-1 mark overall, and has won nine straight outings. Getting to double digits by defeating a former title challenger and respected veteran like Belfort would make the 28-year-old Californian an immediate player in the middleweight title chase.
The same goes for Souza should he be able to halt Philippou's recent run of success. "Jacare" has rebounded from his championship loss to Rockhold with a trio of wins over Bristol Marunde, Derek Brunson, and Ed Herman, and he has the chance to step right into the top 10 with a win over the Serra-Longo Fight Team member in May.
Former lightweight and welterweight title challenger KJ Noons enters into the thick of the fray on Memorial Day weekend at UFC 160 in a bout with Donald Cerrone that is guaranteed to produce fireworks, while middleweight standouts Tim Kennedy and Roger Gracie will look to do the same as part of the Fourth of July fight card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The last remaining Strikeforce convert waiting on a UFC opportunity is welterweight champion Tarec Saffiedine, who is still awaiting a dance partner for his UFC debut.
Though he was flying under the radar heading into his breakthrough win against Nate Marquardt in final Strikeforce fight ever, the Belgian kickboxer won't be sneaking up on anybody in the welterweight division whenever his initial opportunity comes.
With a number of outstanding performances already in the books through the first three months of the year, and another four months worth of intriguing opportunities already lined up, it certainly looks like the arrival and immediate impact of the Strikeforce alums is going to be a central storyline in the UFC for the remainder of 2013.
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Another week of art events dodge Chelsea altogether, as old New York meets new blood. Artists reclaim a New York landmark, cable TV art pioneers discuss the medium's future, and a Yes Man speaks.
Monday, April 15th
Talk: The Yes Men with Igor Vamos, Pratt
How do you top shaming Canada for its poor environmental policies, or widely circulating a newspaper that claims the Iraq War has ended? We don't know, but the Yes Men have been busy lately inciting new agitators through the Yes Lab, a program that trains socially-conscious organizations to attract media attention to their target issues. Tonight, Yes Men co-founder Igor Vamos, talks about their work.
7:30 PM, Higgins Hall Auditorium, 65 St. James Place, Brooklyn
Wednesday, April 17th
Talk: Walter Robinson, Nurtureart
Love him or hate him, Artnet's old editor Walter Robinson has helped to create a generation of New York art writers. (He also, as Gallerist reported last year, fucked every girl in the art world in the 70s). Lately, he's returned to painting. You're likely to hear about that at his Muse Fuse talk.
7 PM, 56 Bogart, Brooklyn
Panel: Supply/Demand Part 2, Museum of Arts and Design
Cable access art stars discuss the future of art on cable, in the second of three talks hosted by E.S.P. TV. We'll hear about new channels for distribution (onDemand, the internet) from pioneers Jaime Davidovich (The Live! Show) and Nancy Cain (Videofreex), as well as Jamie Mohr (Vermont Cable Access, Bunnybrains), Chuck Stern (MNN programmer), and Ashby Lee Collinson (artist, Princess Dies). For followers of the movement, this will be a must-see.
$7, 7-9 PM, 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan
Friday, April 19th
Opening: Release Early, Release Often, Delegate Everything You Can, Be Open to the Point of Promiscuity, Abron Arts Center
For some, Harm van den Dorpel's multi-media post-internet vignettes have provided new entries for thinking about the self and the internet; for others, the work may be too oblique. Where ever you land on this spectrum, his slow, ambiguous imagery, and his confrontation with art's conceptual structures, shouldn't be ignored. We can't think of a better curator for this than AFC alum Karen Archey. van den Dorpel will speak about his work on Sunday at 3PM.
6-9 PM, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Saturday, April 20th
Opening: Letha Wilson: Landmarks and Monuments, Art in General
Now is the time for a big Letha Wilson show. Her sculptural photographs have appeared at galleries like Nudashank, Churner and Churner and Lesley Heller recently, she's garnered favorable critical attention from them, and just came off a solo show at Higher Pictures. From what we can tell, this new show at Art in General monumentalizes images of the American West, integrating them into the architecture of the gallery. We won't know what it's like til we see it, but it seems to be getting a big early thumbs-up.
Also in the storefront space, Art in General opens a show of commissioned video installation by Kimberlee Venable, and a short film by Youmna Chlala.
6-8 PM, 79 Walker Street, 6th floor, Manhattan
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Artists Anne Libby, Elise McMahon and Sophie Stone are taking back the newsstand. They're specifically reclaiming the site of Petrella's Point, once a Bowery fixture, and a symbol of New York City personality; it's since been replaced by the standard modern variety. Their pop-up stand Petrella's Imports will sell work by a collaborators along with conventional newsstand items.
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As previously announced, we had to move our stats servers to a new hosting location due to changes at our old hosting provider. Logistically it was quickest and easiest for us to simply physically move the two servers to their new location in Houston, so we completed that move today. Zone file entries have been updated, so http://stats.distributed.net/ should now take you to the new location once any cached DNS entries have been propagated.
The downtime was a little longer than planned because of an unexpected routing failure that began at our old location earlier than our planned start of the move. We also waited until stats has fully processed all of its backlog before officially publicizing its new IP address at its new location.
Part of the transport occurred by private plane, and although the outbound flight was tracked on FlightAware, the return flight was unfortunately not publicly visible due to an air traffic control limitation.
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Anonymous CVS access through pserver
Anonymous CVS access uses CVS pserver and does not require SSH.
On your local computer, type the following. When prompted for the password, just press Enter.
$ cvs -d:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot login
And then type the following, making the necessary obvious substitution for the modulename. Afterward, the -d flag need not be included.
$ cvs -d:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot checkout modulename
CVS clients
If you are using a Unix-variant, CVS clients are easy to find or may already be installed on your system. Simply type cvs to see if you have one.
For Windows, TortoiseCVS is one of the better clients and highly recommended.
Plus, Bioinformatics.Org has a Web interface for browsing and downloading source code from CVS.
Developer access
For all developer (read/write) access, you will be using SSH (Secure Shell). The SSH (2.x or better) client must be available to your local machine. And the local environment variable CVS_RSH must be set to the SSH command.
You may also want to set the CVSROOT variable on your local computer. This tells CVS where to look for the modules. See below for instructions on using CVS without setting the CVSROOT variable.
These variables are set on most Linux (bash) systems by typing:
$ export CVS_RSH="ssh" $ export CVSROOT=":ext:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot"
For most UNIX (csh) systems, use:
$ setenv CVS_RSH "ssh" $ setenv CVSROOT ":ext:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot"
Note that the login command will not work with the SSH method. It is for the pserver method alone, and the pserver should only be used for anonymous access. You will need to type in your password for each command, unless you use ssh-agent with SSH keys. SecurityFocus has articles on generating SSH keys and setting up ssh-agent.
If you get "permission denied" errors with no prompt for a password, you either do not have CVS_RSH set properly or SSH is not available on your system. Fix this before suspecting a password problem.
Importing source code into the main CVS repository as a developer
You may choose any place on the server (to which you have access) to create a CVS repository and import your code. However, if you want the public to see and download your code, it has to be in the main repository, cvsroot.
Important: You may choose any place on the server (to which you have access) to create a CVS repository and import your code. However, if you want to enable anonymous downloads and access via the Web interface, the repository has to be in the directory /cvsroot.
On your local computer, change to the directory whose files (and subdirectories) you want to import. Everything now in the current directory and all subdirectories will be imported into the module.
Type the following, where modulename is the name of the new CVS root level module:
$ cvs import -m 'message about import' modulename branchname tagname
If you are importing a new module named "bioworks", for example, you would type the following:
$ cvs import -m 'Initial import.' bioworks MAIN HEAD
Initial checkout and other commands as a developer
On your local computer, change to the directory where you want the module to be placed. (This has to be a different directory from the one you used to import the module, since the module will be downloaded as a new directory with some version control files in it.) And then type the following, making the necessary obvious substitution for the modulename:
$ cvs checkout modulename
After the initial checkout, you can change into this directory and execute other CVS commands. For example
$ cvs update $ cvs add filename $ cvs delete filename $ cvs commit
Developer access without setting the CVSROOT variable
You can forego setting the CVSROOT variable simply by specifying the location of the modules with the -d option. This only has to be done for the commands such as import and checkout. Afterward, the -d flag need not be included. Here is an example of a module checkout:
$ cvs -email@example.com:/cvsroot checkout modulename
See also
External links
- Open Source Development with CVS (a free book)
- A tutorial on CVS


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The 93-year-old Monastery of the Perpetual Rosary, known locally as the Blue Chapel, stands grandly, yet unoccupied, on 14th Street in Union City.
Built in 1919 and once home to the Dominican Nuns of the Blue Chapel, the historic monastery was nearly turned into a five-story affordable housing building.
In 2009, after residents and local historians banded together and fought for its preservation, the structure was spared.
Union City resident Kathie Pontus, known for her dedication to the protection and preservation of the city's cultural and historic resources, was able to convince N.J. Preservation – a privately supported organization – to list the chapel as an endangered building online in 2010. Union City's Historic Preservation Advisory Committee and Mayor Brian Stack worked to have it designated as a municipal landmark. There are protective stipulations written into the city's most recent zoning plan passed earlier this year.
"They were all the hand of a master at work." – Gregory Witul
The future
According to local historian Tony Squire, the structure's stained glass windows could be the window of opportunity needed. Squire has discovered through painstaking research that the windows, thought originally to be imported from Germany, were in fact created by Buffalo, N.Y. stained glass artist Leo P. Frohe of Buffalo Glass Works in the spirit of the historic Munich School style.
"While one may envision the Blue Chapel becoming a national landmark one day, it is premature at this point," Squire stated. "You must [first] establish its architectural or historical or artistic importance. The latter may encompass 'the work of a master' or the studio of a significant artist."
Squire's research may reveal Frohe to be just such a master.
Spiritual revelation through physical experience
There was good reason for scholars to believe the windows came from Germany, as they uphold many of the unique characteristics of the stained glass that hailed from a group of Munich artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The artwork from the Munich School mirrored the European Romantic era style of artistic, musical, and religious philosophy that took the lofty, hyper rational ideals of the preceding period and brought them, in a sense, back to earth.
It was believed beforehand that nature and the body were imperfect and that spiritual enlightenment could only be achieved by rejecting one's earthly experience. The Romantic era proposed that true spiritual revelation was achieved instead by embracing nature and human emotion.
This philosophical 180 was reflected most literally, perhaps, in church art; and in the more specific instance of the Blue Chapel, in stained glass work.
Once considered the "poor man's bible," the stained glass windows became a physical way for churchgoers to personally experience the transcendence of God, as was the intent of Frohe and his contemporaries.
Squire believes Frohe's work in the chapel personifies this philosophy. The first of seven aisle windows marks the first of a progressive, artistic narrative through the New Testament Gospel of Luke. As one walks through the church, he or she is taken on a journey that is compounded by the effects of light from outside.
"As the sun traces its course, the light shimmers like molten glass and [progressively] obliterates any details in the glass," Squire described. "The windows take on an eerie glow in the darkened chapel when no lights are turned on."
A glow, one can presume, that was intended to enhance the spiritual experience of the observer.
Determining mastery and quality
In order for the Blue Chapel to qualify as a national landmark, not only must it meet the artistic master criteria, but it must be well-preserved. According to Squire, the stained glass windows are in excellent condition, in part because the nuns who lived there were cloistered and the chapel was closed to the public for many years.
"The Blue Chapel windows are in very good condition considering they have hit the century mark," he said. "Usually beginning around 60 years and for up to 80 years, the lead begins to deteriorate and the windows show signs of buckling. All the stained-glass windows of the Chapel are intact."
As for Frohe's legitimacy as a master, stained glass expert and Frohe enthusiast Gregory Witul believes he absolutely passes muster.
"The Buffalo Stained Glass Works has a history that reaches back to the very beginning of stained glass in the United States," he explained. "Of all the important artists associated with that studio, Leo P. Frohe truly stood out because of his silver medal in the Exposition Universelle of 1889."
The Exposition was held in France, which Frohe had to beat out hundreds of U.S. competitors in order to attend alongside the "best of the best," Witul said. His work in the Blue Chapel stands as a continuation of this sort of excellence.
"From the balance of color he used in his glass selection to the painted detail of the faces in his windows, they were all the hand of a master at work," Witul added. "Frohe's windows have the look and feel of the Munich artists, again, with the large pictorial windows with highly detailed figures, architecture, and landscapes all in a gothic frame."
The Blue Chapel is located at 605 14th St. For more information, call (201) 866-7004.
Gennarose Pope may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The World Cup is just days away, and Americans have finally caught the fever.
The United States is the second-largest market for tickets to the upcoming soccer tournament in Brazil, according to data from viagogo, the global market for ticket resales.
That's a major shift from four years ago, when the World Cup was held in South Africa. Then, the United States didn't even rank among the top 10 countries buying tickets, says Oliver Wheeler, a spokesman for viagogo.
"This reflects the growing popularity of soccer in the U.S. and the close proximity of this year's World Cup," says Wheeler.
The ranking is based on World Cup ticket sales on viagogo, which is often described as the global version of StubHub.
Demand from U.S. fans has intensified as the World Cup approaches. The month-long tournament of 64 matches begins June 12.
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There was a big spike in demand for tickets to see Team USA compete after news broke that Landon Donovan, America's top scorer, would not be playing. Searches for tickets to games in which the U.S. team is set to play jumped 230% after the news broke last month, says Wheeler.
While U.S. team is not expected to make it very far, nearly 4.3 million Americans have searched for World Cup tickets as of this week.
In terms of sales, Americans have outpaced several countries where football -- as it's known in most places -- is by far the most popular sport, including Argentina, Mexico, Portugal, France and Italy.
Chile is the only market that currently tops the United States. Spain, which won the World Cup in 2010, is the third largest buyer of World Cup tickets on viagogo.
Viagogo would not disclose its exact sales figures for the top 10 markets, but Wheeler said the average price paid by U.S. consumers is approaching $3,000.
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Prices vary widely depending on the teams and stadium location. Games will be played in 12 cities across Brazil.
Tickets to the final match in Rio de Janeiro start at just under $5,000 and run upwards of $20,000. These tickets have a face value, or the price paid at the box office, of between $440 and $990.
Yet bargains can still be had for fans willing to venture deep into the Amazon.
Some of the best deals are for games to be played at the Arena da Amazonia in the remote city of Manaus, where stadium construction has been delayed because of flooding. Tickets to see Honduras play Switzerland in Manaus are currently selling for $20.
The bulk of World Cup tickets were "allocated" by FIFA, the group that governs international soccer, in two phases. The group said that Brazilians scooped up most of the 1.6 million tickets that were released as of April.
A limited number of tickets are still being sold over the counter at certain locations, including airports, in Brazil. On Wednesday, another 180,000 tickets will go on sale on FIFA's website.


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Picture shown here is the sweet sale Felici yarn from Knit Picks in "Building Blocks". Made these for hubby.
Knitting socks is a dream for me. Mindless, tv knitting that has the best reward. The recipients ALWAYS love them. I don't know what it is about hand knit socks, but people love them.
I can't be bothered with pesky pattern reading whilest watching this week's episode of The Real Housewives (must watch tv), so I've stuck this one to memory. I've stolen a bit here and there from patterns. It's really just some simple math.
Above - MoMo's socks in Red Heart & Sole Green Envy
I always cast on 64 in fingering weight yarn. Men, women - you are all getting 64 stitches cast on.
Always knit in magic loop, cuz those little double points make me wanna poke myself in the eyball.
Always a heel flap because I really, really suck at short heels.
Always knit cuff down because my decreases are nicer than my increases, and I really, really suck at short row heels.
Knit 2 Purl 2 ribbing for however long you want the cuff to be.
Knit until you want to place the heel.
Create heel flap on 1/2 of your stitches - (32 stitches).
Knit heel flap till it looks about square.
Turn the heel on 1/4 of your total stitches (16).
Decrease the gusset till you are back to 64 stitches.
Knit till it's the shoe size of the person you are knitting it for.
Make the toe 1/4 of your total stitches. (16 stitches)
Kitchener stitch the toe closed.
See my handy dandy Shoe Size Charts for Knitting Socks HERE.
That's it. Easy Non-Pattern Sock.
Above: Father In Law's Size 12's in Felici Sport and Risata


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NEW YORK — Pizza Hut has pledged to drop two preservatives and reduce its use of antibiotics as part of an effort to improve food quality.
By the end of July, the restaurant chain will stop serving meat with butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) or butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). The Food and Drug Administration considers the chemicals "safe for use" in food, but critics including the Environmental Working Group say consumer should avoid them.
Pizza Hut has been announcing changes to its ingredients over the past year, and the latest move is focused on meat, poultry and cheese products.
The chain will also remove chicken produced with antibiotics important to human medicine and preservatives from cheese by March 2017. Its head of food innovation, Claes Petersson, said the changes are tied to a more natural approach to the menu.
"If it doesn't sound awesome, it shouldn't be in our food," Petersson said through a spokesman.
Executives working alongside company chefs and supply chain specialists started reevaluating recipes about five years ago. But Pizza Hut only started publicizing menu changes last year, which included a reduction in salt and artificial trans fats.
The chain's corporate parent Yum! Brands says it will remove all artificial colors and flavors in 2015. Tuesday's announcement included a new website geared to satisfy a consumer base that's increasingly curious about food and how it's produced.
Consumers are responding to reports that raise health concerns about mass-produced food. Public health officials blame the food industry for overusing antibiotics, which has contributed to the rise of superbugs — bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that researchers have identified the first case of a rare E. coli infection in the U.S. that is resistant to Colistin, a drug used as a last resort when other antibiotics fail.
Last year, the World Health Organization rocked the meat business by announcing that eating processed meat, such as sausages and ham, causes cancer.
Over the past several years, major consumer and restaurant brands unveiled new recipes and commitments to "cleaner" ingredients. Kraft Heinz, Hershey and General Mills have either reduced or nixed artificial ingredients.
Subway claimed victory over rivals earlier this year for being the first chain to make good on its promise of antibiotic-free chicken nationwide. McDonald's said it would eliminate antibiotics, but is still working with suppliers to make the change.


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Digital think tank L2 has released a report on the digital presence of personal care and beauty brands in China called "Digital IQ Index: Personal Care: China." This study, from NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway, quantifies the digital performance in China of 73 global and local beauty and personal care brands across six key categories: bath and shower, men's grooming, oral care, hair care, tissue and hygiene, and deodorant.
An excerpt from the report notes, that, according to Euromonitor International, "The $41 billion personal care market in China has enjoyed mid-double digit growth rates over the last decade." And growth in the third quarter of 2013 slowed, along with China's GDP. The report also notes, "While foreign brands dominate [the personal care business in China], and in many cases have introduced the product category, there has been mixed success. … Global brands all face the same dilemma: how to continue to grow while protecting their rear flank from local brands in a market with tepid IP protections and requiring highly local marketing."
L2 theorizes that some of that gap could be protected by digital efforts. "Digital competence may be the moat as e-commerce's share of retail in the personal care category is four times greater than in mature markets (8% vs. 2%), and domestic brands struggle online. Local Chinese personal care brands registered the lowest average IQs for native brands in any L2 Digital IQ Index to date. With personal care commerce up tenfold in five years and some categories (e.g., diapers) registering 25% of their sales online, they are going to have to figure it out.
"Competition is severe, and brands are setting up flagship stores on native e-tailers and collaborating with global e-tailers to broaden their retail footprint online. Rapidly improving online payment and fulfillment infrastructure signal continued growth…. Mobile social platforms including WeChat leverage mobile payment and loyalty programs to blur the line between online and offline sales," the report explains.
According to L2's study—which weights brands' scores with site and e-commerce as 30%, social media as 25%, digital marketing as 25% and mobile as 15%—the top 10 brands in its Digital IQ ranking for personal care brands in China are:
- Olay (P&G)
- L'Oréal Paris (P&G)
- Rejoice (P&G)
- Whisper (P&G)
- Pantene Pro-V (P&G)
- Sassoon (P&G)
- Pampers (P&G)
- Nivea (Beiersdorf)
- Gillette (P&G)
- Clear (Unilever) and Head & Shoulders (P&G)
According to the report, 65% of personal care brands in China are constrained by outdated sites, limited social media integration and a fragmented approach to e-commerce. As local Chinese brands focus on traditional media, global entrants best them online. The men's grooming segment fairs best, as it has been less affected by the slowdown in China, while oral care and deodorants fair the worst.
Learn more about social media, mobile and online integration outreach by personal care and beauty brands in China by downloading an excerpt of the L2 report here.


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(Washington, DC) New research published in Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) firmly establishes that language learning goes well beyond simple imitation, and in fact that language learners are quite creative and remarkably smart. Not only are learners able to generalize grammatical restrictions to new words in a category — in this case, made-up adjectives — but they also do not learn these restrictions in situations where they can be attributed to some irrelevant factor.
This point is driven home in an article, "Learning what not to say: The role of statistical preemption and categorization in a-adjective production," to be published in the March 2011 issue of Language. A preprint version of the article is available at http://lsadc.org/info/documents/2011/press-releases/boyd-goldberg.pdf. When authors Jeremy Boyd of the University of Illinois and Adele Goldberg of Princeton University asked adult speakers to produce sentences containing made-up adjectives like ablim, they found that people avoided using ablim before the noun it modified, unconsciously treating it like real adjectives that sound similar — e.g., afraid, which also cannot be used before the noun it modifies (i.e., the afraid cat is a less preferred formulation than the cat that's afraid). This result indicates that speakers readily generalize a restriction against this use — referred to as "prenominal" — to adjectives that they've never heard before.
But how is the restriction learned in the first place? Drs. Boyd and Goldberg show that witnessing ablim used after nouns (i.e., postnominally, as in the hamster that's ablim) makes participants even more likely to avoid its use before nouns in their own utterances. While this may sound like learners are simply imitating the adjective uses they see in the language to which they are exposed, the authors go on to show that learning is savvy, and only occurs under certain conditions.
For example, in an analogous learning situation, when children see an adult with his right hand in a cast play a video game using just his left, they do not assume that there is a restriction on how the game can be played — i.e., that one can only use one's left hand. They immediately infer that the adult would use his right hand (or both hands) if he could, but that the cast is preventing him from doing so. In similar fashion, when a new group of participants witnessed ablim used postnominally, but this time in a context in which there was a reason for its postnominal use that had nothing to do with ablim itself, participants did not learn a restriction against ablim's prenominal use. This indicates that learners carefully evaluate the input they receive, and that learning only occurs when the input is deemed informative.
This research demonstrates that speakers do not learn purely by imitating others, but bring sophisticated and creative resources to bear on the process. This is especially true when it comes to language, where the fact that children routinely produce sentences to which they have never been exposed indicates that they are not simply imitating what they hear.
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) publishes the peer-reviewed journal, Language, four times per
year. The LSA is the largest national professional society representing the field of linguistics. Its mission
is to advance the scientific study of language.


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May 27 - June 13
Olympic Football Tournament Amsterdam 1928
Olympic Football Tournament Amsterdam 1928
Final Tournament Standing
Amsterdam, 1928
If there was any doubt about Uruguay's prowess at the 1924 Summer Games, it was all but dispelled four years later, as the South Americans captured their second successive crown. The Uruguayans were led by eight returnees from the 1924 squad, including Andrade, Jose Nasazzi, and Hector Scarone.
There were a number of memorable matches, particularly by the Italians. They managed to edge France, 4-3, in an opening-round offensive showcase, then defeated Spain, 7-1 in a quarter-final replay after a 1-1 draw. Italy finally succumbed to eventual champions Uruguay in the semi-finals, 3-2, as Pedro Cea, Antonio Campolo and Scarone got the goals.
Argentina, along with Chile and Uruguay comprising a South American trio, romped past the United States in the first round, 11-2, as Roberto Cherro collected three goals and Domingo Tarasconi four, Belgium in the quarter-finals, and Egypt, 6-0 in the semi-finals. Tarasconi finished as tournament scoring leader with eleven goals.
The Uruguayans, while not as spectacular, proved to be as efficient, stopping the Netherlands, 2-0, Germany, 4-1, and Italy, 3-2, in the semi-finals.
In the first all-South-American final in Olympic history, Argentina and Uruguay played to a 1-1 draw. Three days later, in a replay officiated by a Dutchman (remember 1924?), Uruguay, using five fresh players, prevailed, thanks to a counter-attack goal by Scarone. Roberto Figueroa also tallied for the champions, while Luis Monti, who would perform for Argentina in the 1930 World Cup before joining the Italian National Team for the 1934 World Cup, scored for Argentina.
Only two years later, these two teams would meet in the finals of another international competition -- the very first World Cup -- in Montevideo, with the home team winning to cap off an amazing hat-trick of prestigious football titles over a six-year span.
The bronze medal was won by Italy, who rolled to an 11-3 win over Egypt as Angelo Schiavio, Elvio Banchero and Mario Magnozzi pulled off a football rarity -- a hat-trick of hat-tricks.


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Set of Memorable Trucks To Hit Mecum Auction
Anaheim, California Will Host this Auction On November 21-13
The 2013 Mecum Auction is set to hit Southern California in Anaheim, and classic cars aren't the only types of vehicles you'll find there. We did some digging around the Mecum Auction website and found a ton of trucks ranging from the 1940's all the way through the 1970's. Although we're a fan of a lot of the trucks up for auction, we decided it best to showcase a small taste of what's available, including a factory-style 1966 Ford F-100 and even a totally custom 1954 Chevrolet pickup. These trucks are sure to draw anyone's attention on the road or at a show. Of course, we've got all the details and specs below. Read on to find out which classic trucks we chose. Can you find a favorite?
1966 Ford F-100
Keeping its factory look this rust-free 1966 Ford F-100 has a light blue paint job with a white painted grille. The engine only packs 240 cubic inches, however, pumps an estimated 170hp, which is backed by a 3-speed transmission. When it comes down to the interior, the truck has kept the original look that it had in '66 with only restored upholstery, carpeting, and dashboard. This is one truck that would make a great weekend driver for anyone.
1945 Chevrolet Pickup
This 1945 Chevrolet pickup shines through with its glistening gunmetal paint and post-war looks. Discarding the original engine, underneath the hood of this truck we find a fuel-injected 4.3L Vortec V-6 which is backed up by a late-model, 4L80E overdrive transmission. As far as ride goes, this one has been modified to fit suspension from a 1-ton FedEx truck so you can haul around whatever you need. The interior has comfortable cloth seats and carpeting with a dash that fits Dakota Digital gauges. The oak wood in the bed keeps this one looking classic.
1972 Chevrolet Cheyenne
With its two-tone marigold and white paint combination, this 1972 Chevrolet Cheyenne is a looker. Putting out the power behind it is a 350ci Chevy small-block with chrome valve covers and MSD ignition. The wood on the gauge cluster has been redone and so has the rest of the interior of this truck. Outfitted with chrome wheels, low-profile tires, and a low stance, this Chevy means business.
1965 Chevrolet Pickup
Another truck that has stayed true to its factory look, this 1965 Chevrolet pickup has a red and white paint combo. The truck is also stock ride height for those of you who aren't fans of the lowered look. This truck features a 230ci small-block that puts out 165hp. Since the truck was restored to look like it came off the assembly line, the interior has been made to look the same per the time period. In the bed we have a nicely finished oak wood that would be great for any show.
1954 Chevrolet Custom Pickup
Here is a truck that's ready for the show! This 1954 Chevrolet pickup has polished chrome everywhere and a flawless, solid black paint. Beneath the hood of this one we see a V-8 engine with chrome accents all around. The interior has been redone to fit tan leather seats and the dash is made out of wood rather than factory steel. For suspension, this truck has air bags in the front and the rear so you can drop it to the ground. If you're looking for a truck that you can cruise in, this one might be it.
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The West Michigan Whitecaps, founded in 1994, are the Class A minor league affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. Photo via fb.com
Twenty years ago, Lew Chamberlin and Dennis Baxter brought professional baseball to Grand Rapids.
Aside from comical side attractions like the 4,800-calorie Fifth Third Burger, the West Michigan Whitecaps have seen dozens of Major Leaguers come through the park — and five championships.
It all started in 1994 when the Madison Muskies relocated to Grand Rapids, thanks to the efforts of Chamberlin and Baxter.
For three years, they were affiliated with the Oakland Athletics, before pairing with the Detroit Tigers in 1997.
The originally named Old Kent Park switched to Fifth Third Ballpark when Fifth Third purchased Old Kent in 2002.
During its time, the team has annually ranked among the top teams in attendance, regularly filling a majority of its 10,071-seat capacity to watch future Major League stars (and current stars on rehab assignment, like Tigers second baseman Omar Infante recently).
Live video chat: Wednesday, July 31 at 11 a.m.
West Michigan Whitecaps CEO/managing partner Lew Chamberlin is scheduled to answer questions posted in the comments section below during a live video chat at grbj.com. The chat will be filmed via webcam at Fifth Third Ballpark and streamed live below.
Chamberlin will discuss the past 20 years of Whitecaps history, the future and what it takes to run a baseball team, among other topics.
What questions do you have for Chamberlin and the Whitecaps organization? Post your questions — before or during the chat — and look out for the live discussion.
Watch a recording of the live video chat below.
Editor's note: Reporter Pat Evans moderated the chat at Fifth Third Ballpark.