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THQ and Volition unveiled the inevitable Red Faction Armageddon retailer-specific pre-order bonuses today.
GameStop and Amazon pre-orders will get a free copy of Red Faction: Battlegrounds for Xbox Live Arcade or PSN download -- an offer already extended to PlayStation Plus users.
In addition, GameStop pre-orders will get the Commando Pack, which includes a uniform, Plasma Thrower (to "spray an unforgiving stream of destruction"), and dual Laser Pistols. Speaking of virtual goods, Best Buy orders get a Recon pack: a recon uniform for snipers and spies, the Arc Welder, and the XNG-5000 -- the latter of which seeks out enemies and dissolves them. I think I've had nightmares like that.
Walmart is the only retailer giving out a physical item: a comic book prequel to the events of Armageddon. The book also includes a "mini-strategy guide" for the game.
The game is due on May 31. Check out our recent hands-on preview for more details.


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I admit it. Sometimes after a loss it's hard for me to focus on what went right. I'm a results oriented person. The NFL is a results oriented league. If the Miami Dolphins lose, I want to know why and I want to expose those reasons.
But sometimes guys play well even in a loss.
So allow me a couple of moments to pick out a guy on offense and a guy on defense to write about here because both played well against the Patriots.
Defensively, Reshad Jones was outstanding.
He had the interception and the return for a touchdown that was nullified by a penalty. He also had 10 tackles, including a sack, had a quarterback hurry, and a pass defensed. And it was not necessarily a surprise.
Jones has been coming on strong for a few weeks now. Sunday marked the second time in three games he's had double-figure tackles. The guy is playing well and is fast emerging as a fine safety.
"I think I've mentioned this throughout the season, I'm seeing a young player that's becoming one of the better players at his position in the league right now," defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle said. "I think he is making plays in the pass game. The interception he made was exceptional. The run back was terrific. He had the sack. He had, I think, 10 or 11 tackles in the game, but he's consistently starting to put one game after another together and he's got a very high ceiling.
"I think he's going to be a very, very good player for us."
Yeah, Jones was solid when Tony Sparano put him in the starting lineup last year. He's maturing. And Sunday was part of that process, perhaps the best part so far.
I also want to highlight the game Brian Hartline had.
To look at his statistics, Hartline was merely good. He had five catches for 84 yards (16.8 yard per catch average). But if you watched the game you understand Hartline was the best receiver on the field for either team.
He was open by five yards on a deep shot down the middle of the field in the first half. The pass did not connect because quarterback Ryan Tannehill overthrew the pass.
He was open, again by a couple of yards, on another deep pass in the second half. Hartline read the defense and turned what was supposed to be a hook route into a deep attempt to blow the top off the defense.
And the play was there. But the pass from Tannehill was underthrown this time and so, again, no completion.
One thing I know: The Dolphins had better be wary of the New England Patriots trying to poach Hartline in free agency. I know it is a possibility because I know Bill Belichick likes Hartline and, more importantly, respects Hartline.
Perhaps that's the reason the Patriots put their best cover corner, Aqib Talib, on Hartline the entire game. And throughout the game, Hartline was open anyway. I expect that will get Belichick's attention. That's right, the same guy that had his sights on Wes Welker might be going back to the well in the offseason if Miami isn't careful.
Anyway, Hartline's statistics don't suggest it. But he also had a very good day against New England.

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No. 21 South Carolina falls short
- Article by: PETE IACOBELLI
- Associated Press
- December 19, 2012 - 10:16 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina coach Dawn Staley didn't get the landmark win she wanted from her latest matchup with No. 1 Stanford. She thought her Gamecocks made a strong statement, though, about where they're headed this season.
No. 21 South Carolina held Stanford 25 points below its season average and had the lead with less than three minutes to go before falling to the Cardinal 53-49 on Wednesday night.
Staley and her team saw playing Stanford (10-0) as an opportunity to prove they belonged among the game's best. Despite the loss, Staley believes the Gamecocks showed they're closing in on elite teams.
"We didn't shock the world, but I think the nation understands the type of basketball that we play here at the University of South Carolina," Staley said.
Aleighsa Welch led the Gamecocks with 17 points while Ieasia Walker had 15. The rest of South Carolina's starters, though, combined to go 4 of 31 from the floor for 12 points.
Welch said if the players repeat the detailed preparation they put in for Stanford each game of the rest of the season, they'll have success. Walker said the Gamecocks played hard, yet she didn't want her teammates to be content with losing.
"We were pleased with the effort, but we don't want to accept the moral victory," she said. "We want to get the wins that are gettable."
Chiney Ogwumike had 21 points and 15 rebounds, Mikaela Ruef hit a tiebreaking layup with 53 seconds left and Toni Kokenis hit six foul shots down the stretch in Stanford's victory.
"We had a target on our back tonight and that's one of the things we have to expect when we come to games like this," Ogwumike said.
South Carolina (10-1) gave Stanford all it could handle at the raucous Colonial Life Arena, where more than 8,000 fans screamed with each possession. The arena erupted when Sancheon White's jumper gave South Carolina its final lead 44-42 with 2:32 remaining.
Ogwumike answered with a go-ahead three-point play and the Gamecocks tied it up on Welch's foul shot. That's when Ruef drove left and threw up a shot that barely scraped over the rim and fell in to put Stanford ahead to stay.
The Gamecocks pulled to 51-49 on Walker's 3-pointer with 3 seconds left, but Kokenis added two final foul shots to ice things.
"I'm really proud of our team, how Toni and Chiney really stayed with things," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "You're in a very hostile environment, great crowd, great atmosphere."
Not that it was pretty.
Stanford had a season-high 18 turnovers and shot 40 percent. Still, it's a win and the third time in program history — all under VanDerveer — its started 10-0. The last time came in the 1991-92 season.
Ogwumike had her eighth game with double figure points and rebounds this season. But she said it was the little things like Ruef's driving basket — her only points of the second half — and Kokenis' perfect foul shooting that won the game.
"Coach says every possession counts and it counted tonight," Ogwumike said.
Kokenis had 15 points for Stanford, including six foul shots in the final minute to keep control. Amber Orragne scored 11 points and Joslyn Tinkle had seven blocks.
The Gamecocks fell to 0-9 all-time against No. 1 opponents.
Staley said she knew the game would come down to making shots. "And we just fell short," she said. "We outshot them, we got more opportunities at the basket. We just couldn't put it in."
It was a matchup of coaching friends VanDerveer and Staley, who credits Stanford's coach with teaching her to be a student of the game. That was back in 1996 when VanDerveer led the U.S. team and star point guard Staley to Olympic gold at the Atlanta Games. The admiration hasn't diminished with time.
"You don't have enough paper and pens to write the good things I could say about her," VanDerveer said.
VanDerveer's gotten the better of things since Staley arrived at South Carolina five seasons ago, winning all three previous games including a 76-60 decision in the NCAA tournament's round of 16 last March.
Stanford started its final pre-Pac 12 Conference stretch with a cross-country trek to take on Southeastern Conference opponents in South Carolina and No. 10 Tennessee in Knoxville on Saturday.
© 2018 Star Tribune


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Distinguish Business Exceptions from Technical
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There are basically two reasons that things go wrong at runtime: technical problems that prevent us from using the application and business logic that prevents us from misusing the application. Most modern languages, such as LISP, Java, Smalltalk, and C#, use exceptions to signal both these situations. However, the two situations are so different that they should be carefully held apart. It is a potential source of confusion to represent them both using the same exception hierarchy, not to mention the same exception class.
When an unresolvable technical problem occurs, there is usually not much the calling client code can do about it. For example, if you make a call to some library code resulting in an attempt to access array element 83 from an array of size 17, then the program is clearly off track — if you knew the array was too small, you wouldn't have made call in the first place. The library code will respond by throwing some kind of index-out-of-bound exception.
It would be a mistake to attempt to resolve these situations you caused yourself. Instead we let the exception bubble up to the highest architectural level and some general exception handling mechanism do what it can to ensure the system is in a safe state, such as rolling back a transaction, logging and alerting administration, and reporting back (politely) to the user.
A variant of this situation is when you are in the "library situation" and realize the client calling your code has made a mistake e g passing a totally bizarre argument or not having set up a dependent object properly. Such code defects are on a par with trying to get the 83rd element from 17. The caller should have checked; not doing so is a breach of your method's contract and a programmer error on the client side. The proper response is to throw an illegal-argument or illegal-state exception.
A different, but still technical, situation is when the program cannot proceed because of a problem in the execution environment, such as an unresponsive database. In this situation you must assume that the infrastructure has done what it can to try to resolve the situation, e.g., repairing connections and retrying a reasonable number of times. Even if the cause is different, the situation for the calling code is similar: there is little it can do about it. So, we signal the situation through an exception that we let bubble up to the general exception handling mechanism.
In contrast to these, we have the situation where you cannot complete the call for a domain-logical reason. In this case we have encountered a situation that is an exception, i.e., unusual and undesirable, but not bizarre or programmatically in error. For example, if I try to withdraw money from an account with insufficient funds. In other words, this kind of situation is a part of the contract, and throwing an exception is just an alternative return path that is part of the model and that the client should be aware of and be prepared to handle. For these situations it is appropriate to create a specific exception or a separate exception hierarchy so that the client can handle the situation on its own terms.
Mixing technical exceptions and business exceptions in the same hierarchy blurs the distinction and confuses the caller about what the method contract is, what conditions it is required to ensure before calling, and what situations it is supposed to handle. Separating the cases gives clarity and increases the chances that technical exceptions will be handled by some application framework, while the business domain exceptions actually are considered and handled by the client code.
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"Grumpy" lawmaker apologizes to colleague, who got booted from committee
UPDATE: The House currently is hearing HB 12-1350, on in-state tuition for military dependents. Rep. Larry Liston said, "I'm glad I get to speak on this bill for the first time."
The House State Affairs committee has a new look, after the chairman and a member had a very public spat last week.
Rep. Larry Liston, R-Colorado Springs, is no longer on the committee, having been replaced by Rep. Jon Becker, R-Fort Morgan.
Liston and the committee chairman, Rep. Jim Kerr, R-Littleton, tangled for two straight days in a row last week, leading to a loud exchange outside the committee room, Liston's decision to walk out of the committee the next day and then Liston's removal from State Affairs.
Both Liston and Kerr said what happened in part can be blamed on the end-of-the-session blues when, as Liston said, "nerves are raw and people are tired."
"We're grumpy," Kerr said. "It's been a tough session."


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Work will start by the end of 2014 on new western Sydney roads to ease congestion near the site of the city's second airport.
The federal government will spend $2.9 billion over the next eight years on western Sydney roads as the Badgerys Creek airport is built.
The NSW government will provide 20 per cent of the total road funding and immediately reserve the rail corridor from the South West Rail Link to Penrith.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott was due to make the announcement with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell in Sydney on Wednesday.
But just before the media conference Mr O'Farrell informed the prime minister of his resignation over misleading the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Asked if he was comfortable partnering with the NSW coalition government, Mr Abbott said: "I have absolute confidence that this is a rock-solid partnership between the commonwealth and the NSW government and we will deliver."
The Northern Road will be upgraded to four lanes from Narellan Road to the M4.
Elizabeth Road will be upgraded from the M7 to the Northern Road.
Extending Bringelly Road to four lanes from Camden Valley Way to the Northern Road will be a priority.


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Wade might not be a good head coach but he's a hell of a d coordinator and has turned around every team he's coached defense on. The jury is out on Rex IMO but not on Wade. I wouldn't hire Wade to be the head coach of any team though.
uh....not for nothing but the texans also had a ton of high round draft picks because they were doing so poorly. philips isn't a bad defensive coach but he is certainly benefiting from lots of good young talent. the jets haven't had too much chance since they whiffed on guys like gholston and drob. one guy can make a difference? sure can. if they jets had just two impact players on offense and defense we'd be looking at a very nice season. they had one and he's injured.
as for rex being a good coach, he took mangini's patsie clone defense from middling to top 5 without changing many players. he had leonhard play starting safety and leonhard was just not that good physically but made up for it with hustle and game knowledge. if anything rex took a step back when we the fan started to criticise him for being bombastic. he toned it down and the team went with him.
time to let rex be rex. fire them up.
Wade might not be a good head coach but he's a hell of a d coordinator and has turned around every team he's coached defense on. The jury is out on Rex IMO but not on Wade. I wouldn't hire Wade to be the head coach of any team though.
Remember Mangini's idea on defense was to "bend, but don't break". That meant giving up some yards but not the big plays. So while it kept the team in games without exhausting the defense, it also racked up the yardage against the defense.
Part of Rex's statistical success lies simply in changing from Mangini's "Bend, Don't Break" philosophy on defense.
This guy kind of sums up the point pretty well:
This attack-oriented mindset on defense will be the most striking difference between the 2009 Jets and the 2008 version under the departed Eric Mangini. While Mangini was content to abide by a "bend, don't break" philosophy and easing off the gas pedal, Ryan will stomp a hole through the car while flooring it.
Ryan's methods need little introduction. Having been the Baltimore Ravens' defensive coordinator for the past four years--and with the organization another six before that--Ryan helped make the Ravens one of the most dominant defensive squads for the last decade. While it helped to have talented players like Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, Terrell Suggs and Haloti Ngata on the roster, Ryan's amorphous 3-4 schemes have consistently wrought havoc throughout the NFL. It is for that reason why the Jets wanted Ryan at the helm so much.
The Jets were a respectable, if unspectacular defensive team last year under Mangini, ranking both 17th in the league in points-allowed-per-game (22.2) and yards-allowed-per-game (329.4). They also finished seventh in sacks with 41 takedowns. Despite those numbers, the Jets often saw their opponents push them beyond their breaking point.
From the O.P......"In all seriousness, how do you not pick up on how offenses work when you watch them day in and day out for most of your life?"
I read this line and I immediately thought.....Catchers in baseball see 100+ pitches daily. Why can't catchers hit?
Regarding our coach.....my junior psycho-analysis of him has determined that Rex is supremely confident in his football acumen to such a point that he feels no need to evolve as the game evolves. The loud boisterous types rarely are the smartest in the room. To get noticed they need to yell louder and talk over people.
What has Rex's approach been in the offseasons? I don't have the slightest idea....but I know what Belichick is doing each offseason. Belichick travels across the country, spending days at different colleges, not only working athletes out, but picking the brains of colleges' finest coaches.....Meyer, Saban, etc.....learning the newest trends, the latest offenses and how to defend them. Lately he's been studying the Oregon up tempo, no huddle offense and has put that knowledge into the game plan. Prior to that he tinkered with TEs and created a near unstoppable offense. BB is always moving forward, ahead of the curve.
What is Rex doing to gain advantage for his team? The Tony Sporano ground and pound that failed in Miami. The Wildcat that proved effective for about 3 weeks a few years ago?
What I see in Rex is a guy set in his ways.....and NFL history has shown that type of mentality can get you only so far......think MartyBall.
To succeed in today's NFL, a team must be able to adapt from week to week. Look around the NFL, every team has it strengths and weakness....and a properly built/coached team should be able to attack those weakness no matter if the weakness is on the line, in the LB corp, or in the secondary. Not our Jets. "This is what we do, try to stop us." And sure, when the matchup is favorable, the Jets will win those games. Unfortunately, there's not enough of those matchups on the schedule.
Where do I start.
I think it's great you and your brother coach kids. But don't tell me those kids don't have dreams of one day working for a Rex Ryan and becoming an NFL player. I'm sure you & your brother would love a shot at walking the sideline with an NFL issued headset yourselves, but whatever.
Rex doesn't articulate the offense well, but make no mistake he game plans for opposing offenses every week. Opposing defenses and special teams too. That's a big plate and I think with the help of Westy, Sparano and Pettine he's doing pretty good. Don't worry so much about what people say, as a coach you should know it all get settled on the field and the Jets are making progress.
So you're saying that Rex Ryan has done a great job at evaluating offensive talent for the NY Jets? That Rex has done a great job putting together a competent offense? That Rex Ryan has put together a great strategy for improving the NY Jets offense? Really???
If anything Rex has proven he is rigid in his ways, a dunce at evaluating players, and he refuses to let younger faster guys play any significant role on his teams. IMHO of course.
Now if you changed that to "This pitching coach watches batters swing at pitches all day why can't he coach players how to hit the ball" it would be a little more realistic. It still doesn't make the pitching coach a great candidate for a managing position if he doesn't understand how to construct a winning lineup or manage a game; sounds kind of like Rex doesn't it.
Back to the topic at hand. It is astounding how little Rex knows about offense and it's reasonable for Jets fans to criticize even his defensive coaching ability this year. Can't stop a running nose bleed this season.
Do you believe that Belichick envisioned Brady to succeed Bledsoe as the franchise QB and drafted him with that purpose?
Anyway, do you seriously believe everything that goes on behind closed doors is because Rex says so? The only mistake he made is getting to the post season the minute he walked in the door, backed it up the following year and set the bar very high heading into a lockout season where football as you used to know it is now gone.
And a head coach is supposed to be the Commander in Chief & game planner, not the evaluator of soliders in the field. Sparano is installing a new system. Pettine is holding the course and I dare you to say a bad word about Mike Westhoff on ST. These are his Generals who IMO are working their magic to be consistent building a foundation for the team. I think he's a great evaluator just by looking at the people who surround and support him. It's not easy consistently working on the fly. Losing Darrelle & Santonio. Haven't seen Dustin & Sione since opening day during warm ups on the field. Rookies with hamstrings losing valuable playing time. GM on round the clock waiver wire calls scouring for patches. Yeah, that Rex really sucks at handling all this on a daily.
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He has said since that the biggest thing he learned in Cleveland was to not try and do everything himself.
I think Brady was taken as a low cost/low risk potential option to replace Bledsoe much as Mallet may have been taken for the same reasons to replace Brady. (except at this rate Mallet will be long gone before Brady is ready to hang up the cleats). Remember Brady was a winner at Michigan and a known hard worker with a smart football mind and team captain. He won 20-of 25 games in his two years as a starter. His first year on the Pats he was the 4th QB and by season's end he was 2nd. When Bledsoe got hurt, BB was confident in Brady's ability to do the job and Drew never got his job back once healthy.
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N.C.—California's Mater Dei High knew it had a tall task at hand
when it drew the nation's No. 1 prep team, Bishop Gorman High of
Las Vegas, in its opening game of this week's National High School
Invitational, then promptly was paired against No. 2-ranked Carroll
High of Corpus Christi, Texas, in its second encounter.
Monarchs hardly flinched, though, in easily and impressively
dispatching of Bishop Gorman 10-3 on Wednesday and following up with
a convincing 12-0 thrashing of Carroll on Thursday in a game that was
ended after five innings by the tournament's run rule.
kids came here prepared to compete," said Mater Dei coach Burt
Call, "and we have played very well so far. We're always looking
to compete against the best talent we can find, so our kids are used
to this kind of competition."
Gorman entered the 16-team tournament at 8-0 and Carroll was 17-0
after winning its first game earlier Thursday, but both schools
proved no match for Mater Dei, which entered the tournament with a
pedestrian 7-3 record and a No. 26 national ranking.
don't think we were underestimated by anyone," Call said, "but
we got off to a slow start this season (two losses in their first
five games) and that obviously factored into our ranking. I think
it's overlooked sometimes that there are a lot of good high-school
teams in California, and you're not going to win every game."
Monarchs used big third-inning eruptions in both their games to win
going away. Against Bishop Gorman, they turned a 2-1 deficit into an
insurmountable 9-2 lead by scoring eight runs; against Carroll, they
expanded on a 2-0 lead by scoring seven times in the one frame.
Dei has pounded out a total of 30 hits in its two one-sided wins,
including six by junior catcher Jeremy Martinez, who is rated one of
the top catching prospects nationally in the 2013 high-school draft
class. Ty Moore, a UCLA recruit and the team's top prospect for
this year's draft, was the unquestioned star for the Monarchs
Thursday in their shutout win over Carroll.
has a knack for performing at a high level at notable, national
baseball events, as he was named the MVP at the 2011 WWBA World
Championship in Jupiter last October. He also participated in the
WWBA 17U National Championship for SGV Arsenal and the Perfect Game
National Showcase last July and June respectively.
Mater Dei's second game at the NHSI, he worked the first four innings
of the game, scattering four hits and striking out four, to chalk up
the win. He also drilled a three-run homer to highlight his team's
seven-run, third-inning outburst. He is regarded as one of the top
pure hitting prospects in the 2012 prep class.
was emphatic that his Mater Dei squad can compete with anyone, that
the competition his team typically faces on its own turf in
California more than prepares it to face some of the better teams
around the country, such as the elite-level ones participating here
this week.
is the biggest state in the country, and it's also the best from a
competition standpoint," Moore said. "We face Division I-type
arms all the time back home, and 10-12 of ours kids play all over the
country in travel leagues during the summer. Four or five of our
players have even played on this field in national-level competition
before. So we're used to playing against the competition we're
facing here."
nothing else, this tournament has confirmed the accepted
long-standing notion that the best high-school baseball in the
country is played in California and Florida. Every year, more players
are drafted from those two states than any other, and it's been
evident here that the most fundamentally-sound baseball has been
played by teams from those high-profile Sun-Belt states.
California and Florida have three teams apiece entered in the
tournament, and the combined records of the clubs from each state
through two days of play is an identical 5-1. The four remaining
unbeaten teams, in fact, are from those two states, and bragging
rights will be very much at stake today when Florida and California
teams square off in both semi-final games. The championship tilt,
matching the two winners, is slated for Saturday.
games today, Mater Dei's 26th-ranked team will take on
Florida's unranked Sarasota High, while California's No. 22
Harvard-Westlake will square off against No. 14 American Heritage.
it's interesting to note that the four teams in the tournament that
stand above that quartet in the national rankings—No. 1 Bishop
Gorman (0-2), No. 2 Carroll High (1-1), No. 3-ranked Columbus (Ga.)
High (1-1) and No. 10 George Washington of the Bronx, N.Y. (0-2)—are
a combined 2-6, and have all been relegated to consolation games over
the next two days.


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It seems almost everyone, including some in our field, especially other media, politicians and the usual I-hate-the-truth lummoxes, love to ring the death knell for our medium.
Yes, we've even learned to put our product on the Internet along with the unverified, unreliable and often irresponsible missives any individual or entity can post.
Newspapers still have rules, ethics, collective consciences, specially-trained employees and a history of seeking and printing the facts and the TRUTH, as best as it can be determined, and we do it more completely and in more depth than ANY other news medium.
We continue to do so because — as one of my favorite characters, Darrell Royal, once said — "we'll dance with who brung us."
And, them that brung us are the 3Rs of newspaper journalism: responsibility, reliability and readability.
AS IN any field of endeavor or business, newspapers are not without those who do not adhere strictly to those 3Rs, but I can state with great confidence that those types are a small minority.
Quite frankly, there are certain segments of the media, including some newspapers (anything Rupert Murdoch owns pops into my head first), which are slanted to favor a particular line of thinking. But, the huge majority of newsprint products work hard at following the 3Rs.
We make mistakes. Only one perfect man has ever walked the earth and He will return some day.
However, I have often spoken to groups on the rudiments of publishing and editing newspapers, particularly those papers now classified as "community." I always tell them that, yes, we make mistakes, but they are there to haunt is in black and white and, often, in more recent times, "living color."
NEWSPAPERS are quick to correct real mistakes, when discovered.
As a weekly newspaper editor-publisher, I always felt my staffs dreaded "the day after"…the paper came out. Because I'd spent half the night before with a red pen marking all of our mistakes — typos, grammar, misstatements, and yes, sometimes errors of fact. The message was unspoken in exact wording but understood nonetheless: "Do this too often and you may be encouraged to find another line of work."
Now, these statements aren't about what I did, per se, they are about what I know from a full lifetime of involvement in this wonderful profession: The vast majority of the people in newspaper journalism love it as passionately as I do.
I am particularly knowledgeable about community newspapers (read small town) because that's what I spent more than 50 years doing and, essentially, even though I'm retired from the day-to-day business, I'm still happily involved through this weekly offering.
WHILE I stand by these words for the newspaper industry and profession in general, I am particularly confident of the adherence to these 3Rs by community journalists.
I veered from my initial journalistic goal of being "the world's best sportswriter" to "country editor and publisher" quite happily. Economic necessity pushed me into a job at my hometown weekly newspaper and, afterward, I never really wanted to do anything else.
Country newspapering is the most responsible form of journalism, I firmly believe, because those of us in it are in touch with the people and institutions about which we write about every day. We meet in the grocery store, at the gas station, at the bank and in our children's school activities.
If we make a mistake, we have to look them in the eye and apologize or explain and then FOLLOW UP with an appropriate print response.
After all, it's responsible. That makes us reliable. And, what we print makes us oh so readable.
It's not just the best business, it's the most fun. I've had a heckuva ride and look forward to cruising along with the generation that's coming along now.
Willis Webb is a retired community newspaper editor-publisher of more than 50 years experience. He can be reached by email at email@example.com.


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Quote from: Emmy on February 19, 2013, 07:57:46 AM I may be oversensitive, but it is never fun to get the vibe of 'you suck, go away', even if it is said politely.It sounds like the Zumba instructor could have handled the situation better, but I don't think her message was wrong. I think the yoga instructor handled the situation very well. I think you are a bit oversensitive. I understand that you got the vibe of "you suck, go away" but I don't know that is really what was said or meant to be conveyed by the instructors. They are not telling you that you suck in a general sense, but rather that you are not a good fit for that particular class. You agree with this idea, as far as I can tell.I am somewhat of a seasoned athlete, and I recently started CrossFit classes. Like everyone, I took baseline tests to determine where I fell on the continuum: Novice, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite. I fell into the Intermediate category for some things and Advanced for others and was told that I should stick to Beginner or Intermediate classes until I tested into Advanced/Elite for everything. Now, if I were to show up for an Advanced class, chances are they would tell me I could not work out at that class. This would not be them telling me "you suck, go away." This would be them telling me "you are not ready for this class." The chances that I would get hurt or negatively impact the workouts of the other people would be high. It is not personal, it is fact.Again, I think the Zumba instructor handled it poorly, but try not to take either her actions or the yoga instructors actions as a personal slam against you. It is just a fact: you were not prepared to take the class.
I may be oversensitive, but it is never fun to get the vibe of 'you suck, go away', even if it is said politely.
For the second class, I think you were wrong to attend the class. When it said attended at least 10 yoga classes, I would take it to assume 10 beginning yoga classes at that location. I wouldn't apply that logic to my whole life. And I do like that she approached you privately and didn't make a spectacle of you as the Zumba instructor did of others.
I have attended way more than 10 yoga classes in my lifetime, but if someone just called out the poses and expected me to follow along, I'd have to wait and see what the pose was, "Childs pose", "Upward dog", "Striking Cobra". I tend to get the names of the poses mixed up. But with my gym, I never actually have to remember the names of the poses, just look at what the instructor is doing and copying them. I kind of wonder about the instruction regarding the Yoga teacher. A good teacher can have someone follow along even if they are new to a gym. What happens if OP went to 30 yoga classes at a different studio and switched over? I have a feeling she'd be just as lost.
The only thing I'm sure of here is that the zumba instructor wasn't running the class well: she should have pointed new people at a safe place at the beginning of the class, not waited until halfway through. The poster tried to be out of the way, not knowing that the back of the room would suddenly become the front.
Quote from: Tea Drinker on February 19, 2013, 07:05:51 PMThe only thing I'm sure of here is that the zumba instructor wasn't running the class well: she should have pointed new people at a safe place at the beginning of the class, not waited until halfway through. The poster tried to be out of the way, not knowing that the back of the room would suddenly become the front. That's one of the things that jumps out to me. The beginner chose a spot in the back. It seems like a good choice. From there, she could watch both the instructor and more experienced students, plus she wouldn't be leading anyone behind her astray if she did a move wrong. During the early portions of the class when she was in the back, the instructor apparently did not see any problem. That suggests that either the woman was able to follow along well enough from the back of the room, or the instructor was not keeping an eye on what the students were doing and just assuming everyone was following.* Then, the instructor had everyone turn around, putting the hapless beginner right at the front of the group and then publicly berated her for messing up? The OP's phrasing that the instructor "came up to" the new student implies to me that the instructor had remained at the original front of the room, so she was behind the students. If so, then the beginner had no one in front of her to follow along with. She might have been able to see the instructor in the mirror (if there was one), but it's very easy to get mixed up when trying to follow along with unfamiliar moves based on a mirror image. That doesn't sound like a very well-run class to me. I've been in classes where the instructor either had everyone turn around or had the rows switch places, so that people who were in the back would be in the front. However, they always did so to make sure that everyone had equal chance for a clear view of the instructor, to make sure that the instructor saw how everyone was doing, and/or to check that problems with moves/choreography weren't being masked by following other students. If people struggled without having someone in front to follow, they were helped, not scolded.*Was the zumba class done in a room with mirrors? I've never done zumba myself, but it seems like the type of activity that would be done in a mirrored room if one was available, so that the instructor could monitor if the class was getting it and so the students could see themselves in the mirror to check that they're getting the moves right.
The Zumba instructor did not make an introduction to new people. As I stated in the OP, I didn't see the woman she called out. If the woman was doing her own thing (as opposed to simply not being able to keep up), I would think that was rather rude to do in a group setting. Either way, I think the instructor should have called her out if it was a safety issue and said something helpful like telling her to march in place and be careful of those around her instead of just scolding her and telling her she was messing people up. I was really surprised that woman stayed in class and didn't just get her things and march out.
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Infrastructure for an Interconnected Enterpriseby Satya Komatineni
The need for communications between applications across enterprises is well recognized; EDI has been serving this need for a number of years now. The Internet is providing a means for secure transactions between applications on a public network, bringing down the price point considerably. This makes electronic communication affordable for even smaller businesses.
Exploiting this development, a new genre of applications, known as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), are entering the market. Players include TIBCO, NetFish, and SeeBeyond.
All of these tools have the following characteristics:
- Applications can receive messages from participating companies in multiple ways: ftp, email, SOAP, EDI etc.
- Received messages are published on message queues for guaranteed store/forward delivery.
- Consumers can subscribe to messages of interest.
- Messages can be transformed using a variety of schemes: XSLT, GUI, or User-Defined.
- Internal business processes for the flow of messages can be defined and controlled graphically.
Applications built with these facilities are especially important for industries that are supply-chain-centric, transportation-centric, and e-commerce-centric. The specific application areas may include warehouse management, inventory control, flow of goods across the entire supply chain, customer visibility, and tracking.
Driving this revolution from the data perspective and transformation perspective is the increasing role of XML.
Role of XML
In an interconnected enterprise, the primary task is the movement and interpretation of messages. It is important that there is a common language and structure for interpreting these messages. XML offers the following benefits for representing these messages:
- Well-defined grammar for defining message structures (DTD, XSD).
- Tools (such as parsers) available for working with XML documents.
- Tools available for generating and consuming XML messages.
This means any communication with the external world has an advantage when it uses XML. Let's take a look at the essential components for XML interconnectivity.
Ability To Receive XML Messages
An application must have an easy way of receiving XML messages. This could be done using any of the following ways: FTP, email, SOAP, enterprise connectors for Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.
Regardless of the way a message is received, it has to adhere to the following:
- Security (Authentication and Authorization)
- Journalling
- Guranteed Delivery
This is where lot of the EAI tools can help in unifying the gateways through which messages can be received. Nevertheless, if a company has a Web server infrastructure, there is a cheaper alternative to buying a fully-functional EAI tool. The solution is to adopt SOAP. SOAP is widely available and has the following benefits:
- Uses your Web server as the gateway.
- Secure.
- Goes through firewalls.
- Very cheap.
- Widely available APIs/tools that sit on top of SOAP (JAXM, JAX-RPC, etc.).
SOAP does have some drawbacks, however:
- Not a store/forward architecture, where the server has to be available all the time.
- Any journalling has to be programmed on top of SOAP.
- Does not offer any explicit queuing.
Ability To Generate XML Messages
Much of the data in the enterprise sits in relational databases. An important question is how one can generate and send an XML message to a requesting customer. Let us list a few of the ways this can be done:
- Write a Java program that can create these XML messages from relational databases. This implies writing a Java program for every message that goes out.
- Use a graphical mapping/transformation tool such as Mercator to map from relational database tables to an XML message.
While the Java solution is open and can accommodate all data sources, the GUI solution may be limited only to relational database tables and SQL (not even stored procedures).
Another interesting observation in this XML generation is this: when an IT company develops a Web-based solution using JSPs, the company is already converting relational data to XML data -- the XML just happens to be HTML. So why not architect your Web solutions so that you can deliver your data either in HTML or XML? This way, you can have one solution that accommodates B2C and B2B simultaneously. This last approach is what I recommend to companies trying to integrate themselves into a global community of companies.
Ability To Define Transactionally Secure Services
Security. When you receive XML messages, it is important that they arrive through secure channels. The SOAP protocol makes use of SSL and HTTP to satisfy this requirement. In addition, you can make use of sessions supported by the servlet framework.
Transactions. When you receive an XML message, you may have to call a series of business processes to satisfy that XML message. These business processes will have to be executed within well-defined transactional boundaries. The transactional boundaries could have the following possibilities: no transaction at all, single-phase commits, two-phase commit protocols, or long-running transactions.
The solution should accommodate these transactional requirements. A Web server and its accomdating infrastructure, such as EJBs or MTS, can take care of this situation quite well.
Ability to Publish Available Services to Interested Parties
Another important aspect of an integrated enterprise is how easy it is to discover useful services between the collaborating parties. The mechanisms of publishing available services may range from informal conversations to Web-based documentation to more recent technologies such as UDDI. The visibility of newer technologies promises to revolutionize inter-company communications because of the new levels of access to information.
The solution offered by SOAP as a transport for XML messages is compelling. SOAP runs on HTTP, thereby co-opting a publicly available network that can go through corporate firewalls, and makes use of SSL for security purposes. SOAP is typically implemented on well-known platforms, such as servlets, at little or no cost. SOAP uses the Web server infrastructure you already have in place for your B2C applications; no additional infrastructure is required.
UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) is a public registry for all of the companies in the world to register their services under secure conditions. UDDI defines a standard way to publicize the services offered by a company. This discovery and visibility should revolutionize the communications puzzle. Any XML interoperability solution should seriously look at registries similar to UDDI to publish their services.
WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) is another standard that allows you to declare your services in XML, allowing you to automatically register those services in UDDI. WSDL is a structured way to define your services to the outside world. WSDL identifies input and output XMLs for each message between participating companies. Typically, WSDL documents for each message are exposed through UDDI.
Process Analysis
The final effort required to adapt services infrastructure is to identify the business processes in a company and arrive at a series of refactored services that can be defined in XML. This process is similar to Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), where your domain object models are defined.
Similar to OOAD, UML (Unified Modeling Language) can quite effectively define what these services are, and what their inputs and outputs are. And the UML can be used directly to generate the necessary WSDL and UDDI documents. Once these services are identified, registered companies can start to collaborate using these well-defined API-level XML services.
Role Of Web Servers
As mentioned earlier, when a company has invested in B2C infrastructure (J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.), it already has the needed infrastructure to participate in XML communication. SOAP implementations are readily available for all J2EE Web servers. These solutions allow you to immediately converse with the outside world using XML. When a proper Java architecture is chosen to develop your HTML pages, it if fairly easy to use the same architecture to develop XML messages in place of HTML. Technologies such as Transparent Data Pipelines can be readily used (with no changes) to serve the same HTML data as XML data.
A Simplified Solution for EAI That Doesn't Cost Millions
No one can deny the immense value provided by the EAI programming suites, the cost of which may run into a few million dollars. At their core, these programming suites consist of:
- The ability to securely receive data from anywhere (SAP, Databases, email, fax).
- The ability to use store/forward messages queues.
- The ability to define business processes graphically.
- The ability to transform standard messages (such as EDI).
But often the solutions offered by SOAP sitting on top of your favorite Web server can more than adequately solve the inter- company communication problem. Here are the components of such a simplified solution:
- Clients send XML messages using SOAP to your Web server.
- Your Web server consumes the incoming XML messages in a transactionally-secure manner using EJBs.
- Your Java application server generates an XML reply from your data sources and sends it to the awaiting client.
- For long-running messages, one can adapt Asynchronous SOAP options.
- SSL will be used for security.
- Web server-based authentication, authorization, and session management will be used for tracking users.
- All of the XML messages will be identified; the following will be defined:
- UML declares the structure of the message.
- XSD defines the data structure of the message.
- XML messages will be declared into services using WSDL.
- WSDL will be used to register the services in a public UDDI.
- An EAI solution can be used to convert non-SOAP messages to SOAP messages.
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A Colorado coroner said this week one of her employees was fired for sending the wrong body to a funeral home to be embalmed.
"The body should never have been released in the first place and had it not been released the embalming would not have occurred," Broncucia-Jordan told KCNC-TV in Denver.
The incident occurred last summer but came to light only recently in court documents filed by the decedent's family. Trish Martinez told KCNC they had wanted the body of her late husband, 36-year-old Juan Garcia, left in its natural state so their family could take one last look at him before he was cremated.
"Their body is still part of your family, you know?" Martinez said. "They should be more careful and more secure in what they are doing."
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky football team hit the practice fields for the first time this week, beginning preparation for the Southeastern Conference opener with No. 14 Florida on Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
After practice, both offensive coordinator Randy Sanders and defensive coordinator Rick Minter talked about the running part of the game. Both put a point of emphasis this week in their respective run games.
The Wildcats currently rank 13th in the nation in passing offense but Sanders said he would like to run the ball more moving forward. UK's tailbacks have combined to average more than six yards per rushing attempt this season.
"We need to run the ball better than what we have," Sanders said. "I thought that we ran the ball pretty well against Louisville, but the game got out of hand and then we couldn't run it. Last week, I would have liked to have ran the ball better than we did … We need to be able to run the ball more efficiently and consistently than we are right now."
Developing a rushing attack this week is a stiff challenge for the Wildcats as Florida ranks 29th in the nation is rushing defense. Sanders said when asked what kind of defensive looks he expects in Gainesville on Saturday, "we are going to get a bunch of big, angry guys on the other side."
On the other side of the ball, the Wildcats continue to work on its rushing defense. The Wildcats allowed 3.2 yards per rushing attempt vs. WKU, the best showing of the young season. However, Minter realizes that UK still has work to do, especially against Florida's Mike Gillislee, who ranks first in the conference in rushing.
"We have to keep practicing," Minter said. "We need to hold our edges when it is time to hold our edges and take our proper gaps when it is time to. They (Florida) have a lot of different kinds of ways to run the ball, which is challenging. They run right up the middle with the power running game, much like Western Kentucky did. That is a sign of a physical team when they try to do those things. They also run a lot of jet sweep plays where they are coming from the outside with their wide receivers and hybrid athletes. They have a lot of ways to attack you in the rushing game and they are getting a lot of production, even with a 'Wildcat' quarterback who took one for 80 last week against a solid defensive team. They are very diverse, much more so than I remember in the past. So the challenges are great, but we have to get out there and see what we can do."
For the first time since early in fall camp, the Wildcats were forced inside to the Nutter Field House for practice due to a heavy amount of rain in the Lexington area over the last two days. Overall, Minter said Tuesday's practice was good, but he expects Wednesday's practice to be better. Minter said that is normally par for the course.
"Tuesdays are always much different than Wednesdays because today is the first day we have seen them since Sunday," Minter said. "All we do Sunday is watch the film, correct the errors and those sorts of things. We didn't even go out (to practice) because Rock (Oliver) takes them and exercises them and lifts them and runs them. They are always a little sluggish due to (lack of) playing reps on Tuesday and then you have the mental saturation when you introduce things for the very first time. Tomorrow's practice will always be better than today's practice in terms of a little more bounce and a little more secure."
Kentucky will return to practice Wednesday as rain is expected to be out of the area by then.


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BUFORD, Ga. -- Even before two young boys were lost in a boat crash this week on Lake Lanier, a nationwide safe boating campaign called Operation Dry Water was planned for this weekend. Now it's hitting home for Georgia boaters. Many at Lake Lanier said they were already cautious, but now even more so.
"I'm always careful, but after hearing something like that I'm even more of a defensive driver," said Tom Anderson. "I don't know the captain of the boat coming toward me. My main mission is to look around see what's coming toward the boat and be as defensive as I can."
The Department of Natural Resources operated at full staff levels Friday through Sunday in an effort to educate boaters and enforce the laws on the water.
DNR Spokesperson Melissa Cummings released final results of the sweep Monday morning.
"We had 19 BUIs (boating under the influence) statewide. Nine of those were on Lake Lanier," said Cummings.
Miss that "No Wake" sign? That'll be a ticket of almost $200. Blow a .10 on the breathalyzer? Up to $1000 dollars and a year in jail, depending on the level and the offense.
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Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the Almanac of Environmental Trends.
The catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being regarded as the atomic power equivalent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which set back offshore oil drilling just as it appeared on the brink of a substantial expansion. This means we've now come full circle, as critics of offshore drilling compared the Gulf oil spill to Chernobyl. At the very least the events in Japan are going to reinforce the reluctance of Wall Street to invest in new nuclear power in the United States, deter insurance companies from covering nuclear plants, and increase resistance on Capitol Hill to extending the loan guarantees the nuclear industry says are essential to kick-starting more nuclear installations.
The big winner in the short and intermediate term will be fossil fuels — especially coal and natural gas — which will be used to fill the breach in Japan and elsewhere to generate electricity. Which means that the biggest loser is ironically the environmental community, which had been slowly abandoning its longtime opposition to nuclear power because it offered an important component in reducing greenhouse emissions linked to climate change. Although many environmentalists are enjoying an "I-told-you-so" moment, the new cloud over nuclear power means that global carbon dioxide emissions will go up faster. Germany, for example, is shutting down several of its nuclear reactors for several months as a precaution, even though they are not vulnerable to tsunamis. One early estimate is that German carbon dioxide emissions will rise by as much as 4 percent this year because of the nuke shutdown. Japanese CO2 emissions will surely rise by more than this as the country replaces its lost nuclear capacity with coal, gas, and even oil in a few old oil-fired power plants it will be forced to bring online. The Kyoto Protocol emissions targets for 2012, already doubtful, can be tossed on a nuclear waste pile.
But unlikely as it may seem at the moment, the final irony is that if we keep our heads, the aftermath of this disaster may give us a clear view of how a new generation of nuclear power might be possible. As of press time it is still difficult to know exactly what is happening at the reactors, as contradictory and tentative information pours forth on an hourly basis. It will be weeks or months before we have an accurate understanding of what has occurred. The Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the private-sector Nuclear Energy Institute were reluctant to comment all week because of the fast-moving situation.
Two aspects seem certain as of now. First, the reactors themselves appear to have survived intact an earthquake 40 times the size they were designed to withstand. It was the failure of the backup diesel generators necessary to keep the cooling systems operating, swamped by the 33-foot tsunami, that touched off the crisis and subsequent explosions. But for this arguable lack of foresight, the reactors might have come through unscathed. Plainly the first task for operators of ocean-side reactors, such as California's San Onofre and Diablo Canyon plants, is to ensure their backup power systems are not similarly vulnerable, even though the tsunami risk to these plants is much lower than the Japanese plants. Second, the necessary decision to flood the reactors with corrosive seawater means the reactors will be a total loss, costing Japan billions in cleanup costs and lost power capacity. A third aspect is likely to become evident over time: The radiation risks — even in the worst-case scenario of a total breach of the containment structures — will turn out to be more modest than the media hype would have you believe.
This is not to make light of a very serious situation at the reactors or the health risks to the courageous workers on the site who may be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when new explosions and breaches occur. But the media coverage of the whole episode is a textbook example of the inability to gauge risks, weigh trade-offs, and put a story in its proper perspective. Instead the media have done what they do best: generate panic.
The prize for the most egregious treatment belongs to Germany's Die Welt newspaper, which said that Japan's nuclear catastrophe will have the same political and psychological consequences as 9/11. Japan lost probably more than 10,000 people to the immediate quake and tsunami, and thousands more face much more acute risks than radiation in the coming weeks from cold weather, shortages of water, and failing sanitation systems. But these risks make for boring news copy. Instead we are treated to breathless media reports, recycled from the glory days of Three Mile Island, the nuclear accident that caused zero health impacts on local residents, according to follow-up studies, and Chernobyl, whose health effects turned out to be less than one-tenth as large as the initial estimates. At the time of Chernobyl in 1986, most accounts suggested the accident would lead to at least 50,000 deaths (since the Soviets, unlike the Japanese, failed to evacuate the nearby population in a timely way); subsequent studies have placed the number closer to 4,000. By contrast, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 21,000 Americans contract lung cancer every year from radon exposure in their homes, and another 50,000 Americans succumb to premature deaths from air pollution from fossil fuel energy. Both are probably overestimates, but even if they overestimate the toll from radon and air pollution by a factor of ten, it is clear that nuclear power poses lower health risks than other energy sources.
There is no question that this is nuclear energy's worst moment. Will we have the maturity to learn from this catastrophe and move forward, as we did after Apollo 1 and the two space shuttle disasters and the early failures of commercial jet aircraft design like the British Comet of the 1950s? Over the last decade opinion polls have shown steadily rising public support for nuclear power in the United States following two decades of strong public opposition. The aftermath of the Japanese nuclear crisis will reveal how robust this shift is.
An additional irony of Japan's disaster is that had we not abandoned nuclear power 30 years ago, we might have begun deploying new-generation nuclear designs, such as small modular thorium reactors or light pressurized water reactors that either can't melt down or have passive redundancy features that do not depend on human action to shut down in the event of earthquakes or other disasters. Instead, we have extended the use of the large old light-water reactors, like the Fukushima Daiichi, long after their intended life span.
In 1980, science writer Ron Bailey points out, the U.S. government thought we might have as many as 1,000 nuclear reactors up and running in the United States by now, instead of the 104 aging plants we do have. Our nuclearphobia led us to build hundreds of coal- and gas-fired power plants instead.
Unlike the administration reaction to the Gulf oil spill last year, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have reiterated their support for nuclear power even in the face of the unfolding disaster in Japan, an encouraging sign. Obama and Chu could go one step better, though, and give a major address when the Japan crisis is over, calmly laying out all the facts and making the case to carry on.


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#1 Santa Goes Green.12-22-2008, 12:59 PMChildren's Book Depicts Santa Fighting Global Warming
'Santa Goes Green' pushes eco-agenda with story of boy who forgoes toys to save polar bear habitat.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
December 22, 2008
Tis the season to be green. No, not even the traditions of Christmas are immune to the efforts of global warming activism.
No, its not Al Gores, How Greenhouse Gases Stole Christmas, but a childrens story is pushing a similar green agenda. The recently published book by Anne Margaret Lewis called Santa Goes Green is about a boy who writes Santa and asks him to help raise awareness about global warming so that his adopted polar bear wont lose its home.
You see, its like this Santa, the book reads. Ive adopted a polar bear named Leopold. He is in danger of losing his home. Im sure you being in the North Pole you know about the melting glaciers. All I want this year Santa, is to save Leopold and his home.
Santa Claus visits the boy, takes him to see the polar bear and then in a moment of eco-awakening, he makes his operations at the North Pole green.
They arrived back at the North Pole and Santa had a grand idea, the book reads. He leaned in toward Swift [the head elf] and told him his new plan. We will collect all of the old toys, Swift, and make them new again. We will reuse last years wrapping paper. And we will harness the great North Pole wind to help power up the toy shop.
For those tempted to purchase the book, a preview is available on the publishers Web site.
Agitprop for tots
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Time running out to enter Christmas parade
Excuse the pun, but it's almost time for the Big Spring Herald to, well, herald in the Christmas season.Plans are being finalized for the 25th annual Herald Community Christmas parade, which will be held Dec. 1, and officials said there's still plenty of room for entries.Deadline to enter your organization in the parade is Friday, said Herald Advertising Director Rick Nunez.The theme for the this year is "A Storybook Christmas."The parade, which first wound its way down Gregg Street in 1986, will again be a lighted parade.Plans call for the route to begin lining up as it has traditionally done and the procession will begin at the intersection of 24th and Gregg Streets, proceed north on Gregg to Eighth Street, turn east one block before turning north and proceeding to Heart of the City Park on Scurry Street.The parade is set to begin at 5:30 p.m.Entries will be judged in the following categories: Individual or family; civic group, church or school; commercial; industrial; and mounted.The entry judged Best of Show (for best interpretation of the parade theme) will be awarded $100. The Publisher's Award will bestow $75 for the entry that exhibits the best use of lighting. And the Grand Marshal's Award and $50 will be given to the entry with best costuming.Dathan Jones, executive director of the Big Spring YMCA, will serve as parade grand marshal.For more information, contact the Herald at 263-7331.


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The Sebangau National Park, 568,700 hectare in size, is a 'biodiversity bank' to more than 800 species of flora, 15 species of mammals, 182 species of birds and 54 species of snakes. The vegetation on Sebangau peatland is very specific and serves as valuable economic resource, both timber and non-timber forest products, such as rubber, rattan, herbs etc. The park is a home to Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus), Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus), Owa (Hylobates agilitis), hornbills, clouded leopard, long-tail macaque, etc. More about Sebangau National Park
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School bond passes by eight votes
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- Published on 14 May 2014
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Eight votes. That was the margin that passed the $14 million bond proposal for Mount Vernon ISD on Saturday, May 10. It will go down in the record books as the closest vote for a non-candidate election in MVISD history.
A total of 1,370 people cast votes in the election, which is only 24 percent of the 5,714 registered. For more information about this election, and previous elections that were close, see the May 15 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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On Monday October 1st the Redhawks made the trip west to take on your Rebels at the Pit. We were ready to go as we were trying to extend a two game winning streak. We have put together a run of some pretty good football. We certainly wanted the same against the rated North Tama program.
We broke out last in the first quarter with an Eric Stokes 4 yard run and then expanded our halftime lead to 14-0 on another Eric 4 yard dive into the endzone. The third quarter was all Rebels. Cam Kickbush added a 6 yard TD run which followed another Eric TD run of 68 yards. We tacked on a text book 45 yard punt return touchdown in the fourth quarter by Bennett Petersen to secure a convincing 36-0 victory. We again were pretty solid in all aspects of the game. Offense, defense, and special teams all played well. These guys are really coming into their own and developing into a very good football team.
We were lead by Cam with 37 yards on the ground and a score and 8 of 17 passing for 125 yards. Eric chipped in another very good showing with 166 yards on 18 carries and 3 touchdowns and 1 catch for 24 yards. Josh Cooley added 4 grabs for 71 yards and Logan Flamme 3 for 54. Our leading tacklers were Ty Eiffler and Cameron Murphy with 8 each and Luke Holman added 7. Ty was in the Redhawk backfield all night as he recorded 4 ? sacks. Dalton Schwartz added 6, Bennett and Brady Kuehl 4, Cam, Logan, and Austin Lott 3, Riley Gilbert and Bryce Ehlers 2, Josh, Brock Bystricky, and Shye Johnston added a stop each. Austin also recovered a fumble for us. Very good effort by these guys on this Monday. We just need to continue to work hard and finish off this year getting better every time out. Nice game guys.
Fresh-Soph Rebel Football
Thursday October 4th brought the Trojans from West Marshall to the Pit for a Fresh-Soph clash. West Marshall and Coach Winkler and his staff are a perennial power each and every year. We know what to always expect form the Trojans. They will come at you for four quarters and they will play hard. We were ready for them.
We started with the ball and we were pretty ineffective. West Marshall jumped on us quickly with a long TD run and a PAT run to jump out to an early 8-0 lead. We countered with a Kainen Hendricks 2 yard run to pull within 8-6 at the end of one. We then added an 18 yard pass from Brady Kuehl to Josh Cooley to go up 12-8. WM reached the end zone right after half to take a 14-12 lead. The second half adjustments made by Coach Skyler Trunck and Coach Kyle Formanek were perfect as we stormed to a rousing 42-14 victory after giving up the long kickoff return. This moves us to 1-2 on the year with one to go. Eric Stoakes accounted for two touchdowns, Brady to Josh for another one, and Kainen hit paydirt for the second time in the third quarter to finish off our run. The second half was really solid for us as we played pretty darn good football.
Cam Murphy led the way with 117 yards rushing and 2 PAT runs along with 5 tackles on defense. Brady threw for 90 yards to go with his 2 scores to Josh. Kainen had a career high of 56 yards on the ground and 2 TD's. Eric had his TD run along with an 84 yard kickoff return to offset the WM return. Eric also led us in tackles with 7 followed closely by Bryce Ehlers with 6. Bryce Clark and Riley Gilbert 5 each, Brady 4, Shye Johnston, Kainen, Josh, and Logan Flamme 2, Bennett Petersen, Jake Mohlis, Jake Schuman, Brock Bystricky, and Carter Murphy each had a stop each to finish off our stat line.
Our last contest will be Monday October 15 at Eldora to take on the South Hardin Tigers. The game will begin at 6 p.m.. This is our last game of the year so we certainly hope to see you on the sidelines.


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I can download a file from the internet and it will install and run on my computer!?
Why haven't I heard about this before??
Seriously, maybe explain why this is important for the old ones among us?
(grabs bifocals and oatmeal)
I went to the web site to learn more. I still don't know what it is. I suspect it's a venture capital extraction method.
I went to the web site to learn more. I still don't know what it is. I suspect it's a venture capital extraction method.
Nothing wrong with that. I'd like to extract some myself.
However, the short of it is that Docker containers are a lot like Solaris Zones. They give much the same freedom as having lots of VMs, but without the overhead that a normal VM requires in terms of memory or filesystem space. Plus they allow resource load-balancing. So it's a fairly trivial thing using Docker to run 25 Apache servers on the same box without them interfering with each other.
It isn't just Linux containers, but is is also a deployment method.
Contains also offer security.
I've used it to run tests safely on student submitted code (server: https://bitbucket.org/gajop/au... [bitbucket.org], docker images: https://github.com/gajop/gradi... [github.com] and https://github.com/gajop/gradi... [github.com]).
It's done automatically for practice tests (for when students would submit their solutions online), so I don't even look at the source.
I know it's not guaranteed to offer 100% security as they could potentially break out of the container, but it takes care of most attempts or just mistakes (
All the real nerds know about it.
From what I understand, it creates a VM that can be sent to, and consume the resources of, any machine that's also running the docker software. You can control this remotely. It's an isolated environment so the application cannot interact with the host system, so it secures the hardware. So, lets say you have a bitcoin mining app (random example) and hundreds of computers all over. Rather that installing it on each one, you can just send your application over to each one using this Docker thing and each pro
The point is that don't create a VM. Containers runs applications in their own isolated (as in filesystem, memory, processes, network, users, etc) environment, but just one kernel, no hard reservation of memory or disk, it consumes resources pretty much like native apps.Another difference is at it just need the linux kernel, it runs where a linux kernel (modern enough, 2.6.38+) run, including inside VMs, so you can run them on amazon, google app engine, linode and a lot more.
What docker adds over LXC (Linux Containers) is using a copy-on-write filesystem (so if i get the filesystem for i.e. ubuntu for an app, and another application also tries to use the filesystem of ubuntu, the extra disk use is just what both changed, also cached disk works for both), using cgroups to be able to limit what resources the container can use, and a whole management system for deploying, managing, sharing, packaging and constructing. It enables you to i.e. build a container for some service (with all the servers it need to run, with the filesystem of the distribution you need, exposing just the ports you want to give services on), pack it, and use it as a single unit, deploying it in the amount of servers you want without worrying about conflicting libraries, required packages, or having the right distribution.
If you think that is something academical, Google heavily use containers in their cloud, creating 2 billon containers per week. They have their own container technology (LMCTFY, Let Me Contain That For You) but has been adopting lately Docker, and contributing not just code but also a lot of tools to manage containers in a cloud.
What is Docker?
Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
How is this different from Virtual Machines?
Virtual Machines
Each virtualized application includes not only the application - which may be only 10s of MB - and the necessary binaries and libraries, but also an entire guest operating system - which may weigh 10s of GB.
The Docker Engine container comprises just the application and its dependencies. It runs as an isolated process in userspace on the host operating system, sharing the kernel with other containers. Thus, it enjoys the resource isolation and allocation benefits of VMs but is much more portable and efficient.
https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ [docker.com]
Only because that write-up above is so poor. There's no reason it couldn't have been explained properly, is there? I know we don't have proper writers working at Slashdot but surely there's is some sort of a functioning brain between "first-time submitter #239402394032" and the "publish this story" button, otherwise we might as well just be reading whatever pops on on twitter with a #0-day-news tag.
"Linux containers are a way of packaging up applications and related software for movement over the network or Internet."
Rewritten not to be shitty:
"Linux containers are a way of packaging up applications and related software."
"Linux containers are a way of packaging up applications and related software for movement over the network or Internet."
Rewritten not to be shitty:
"Linux containers are a way of packaging up applications and related software."
For movement over the network or Internet.
One of the key attributes of a Docker image is that's it's a commodity. Their logo resembles a container freight vessel for a very good reason.
We've had the ability to package applications for years. That's what things like debs and RPMs are all about. A Docker instance isn't merely a package, it's a complete ready-to-run filesystem image with resource mapping that allows it to be shipped and/or replicated over a wide number of container hosts, then launched withou
Docker is a lot of things, all rolled up into one so it is difficult to describe without leaving out some detail. What is important to one devops person might be unimportant to another. I have been testing docker for the past few months and there are a couple of things about it that I like quite a bit.
I have to explain a couple of things that I like about it before I get to the one that I really like.
1) It has a repository of very bare bones images for ubuntu, redhat, busybox. Super bare bones, because docker only runs the bare minimum to start with and you build from that.
2) You pull down what you want to work with, and then you figuratively jump into that running image and you can set up that container with what you want it to do.
3) (this is what I really like) That working copy becomes a "diff" of the original base image. You can then save out that working image back to the repository. You can then jump on another machine, and pull down that "diff" image (but you don't even really have to think of it as a "diff", you can just think of it as your new container. docker handles all the magic of it behind the scenes. So if you are familiar with git, it provides a git like interface to managing your server images.
It does a lot more than what I describe above, but it is one of the things I was most impressed with.
You can almost think of it as a new compiler system that outputs a self contained application that needs to know almost nothing about the underlying system. Similar to a virtual machine appliance, but designed to be the way it is and not an addition to platform.
You can compile software and create a container that includes everything needed to run that app as part of your continuous delivery environment then deploy the docker artifact to integration testing, qa testing and then to production as the exact sa
How is it different?
It's the same thing as BSD Jails, however there is one big difference with Docker. A container/jail can be shipped to another system running a completely different kernel. This means you can create an Ubuntu 10.04 container and run it on an Ubuntu 14.04 host or RHEL 7 host.
With BSD Jails, you can only ship your jails to the same system unless you spend enough time fiddling around so you can basically do the same thing. Luckily the Docker team is already adding BSD Jails support.
Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, da
The quality of comments on are are further proof of how far downhill
A couple questions pop to mind:
1. Security--how do containers, whether LXC/Docker, Jails, etc compare to true virtualization? For example, pfSense strongly argues against using virtualization in production machines not only for being slower, but for possible security risks--and a container would be even less secure than that. As an extreme scenario, what's to keep one Docker program from messing with
The quality of comments on are are further proof of how far downhill
Ironically, this is exactly what your post made me think. It's 2014 and someone on Slashdot is asking what the performance and security considerations of virtualization are? Really? Every one of your questions is answered within about 30 seconds of Googling and reading.
The quality of comments on are are further proof of how far downhill
/. has fallen. It's just depressing.
"zomg it sounds kinda sorta like something I've heard of before, it must suck! Thousands of devs who actually know something about it, including Google, are all wrong!!!!!1!!one"
RedHat added SELinux support.
Pretty certain they'll make it nice and secure.
So, it bundles up a binary and all of the shared libraries necessary for that binary, so that you don't end up in dependency hell. Great, except for what happens when the next OpenSSL vulnerability is announced, and suddenly you need to replace every container which has its own copy of OpenSSL, instead of the one shared system copy.
or a centrally managed JVM. It's a little run-time environment that works on any OS. This is not a new idea but a different language. They don't specify what the app in the container is. A better platform independent solution would be very useful.
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John L. Gormly Jr.
John L. Gormly Jr.
office manager
John L. Gormly Jr., 75, of Squantum Drive, Warwick, died at home December 19, 2011. He was the husband of Alyce G. (Seeley) Gormly.
Born in Providence, a son of the late J. Lynn Gormly and Mary (Marshall) Gormly, he lived in Warwick for 30 years. Mr. Gormly was an office manager for RCA Service Co. in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and an estimator/salesperson for Cut Rate Floor Covering of Providence. He retired from the Warwick School Department, where he was employed in the payroll department.
Mr. Gormly served for several years on the board of the WISE union and as treasurer and grievance co-chairman. A member of St. Mark's Church in Warwick, he was a co-treasurer and served several terms on the Vestry.
Besides his wife he is survived by a son, John L. Gormly III and his wife, Sonia, of Warwick; a stepdaughter, Marcia J. Hurley of Tiverton; a stepson, Mark J. Fearney of Providence; a sister, Isabel Mulvaney of Warwick; and four grandchildren, Ashly Gormly, John L. Gormly IV, Jason Berard and Larry Hurley. He was the brother of the late Matthew L. Gormly, M. Cecelia Gay and Agnes G. Gormly.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a memorial service Dec. 22 at 10 a.m. in St. Mark's Church, 111 West Shore Road, Warwick.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to St. Mark's Church Handicapped Access Fund. Arrangements made by Barrett & Cotter Funeral Home, Warwick.


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The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest was held last week, complete with the improbable "Pumpkin Regatta" where contestants race their boats of hollowed-out pumpkins across the Damariscotta River. Unsurprisingly, many don't make it to the finish line!
We missed the festivities, but made it a week later for some of those fabulous Damariscotta oysters at the comfy King Eider's Pub and to check out the entries in last week's pumpkin decorating competition. Some of these beasts approach 500 pounds, so their decoration requires both artistic skill and a strong back! Here are some of our favorites (click on thumbnail to enlarge):


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