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Lots going on in Newark on Friday afternoon/night. First, the Newark Unified school board interviewed at least one candidate in closed session after 100 people crowded a Silliman Center room, urging the trustees to keep Superintendent Dave Marken. After three hours in closed session, the board announced it had declined Marken's offer to rescind his resignation and had selected a finalist (still unnamed) to replace him, pending official approval at an Aug. 19 meeting. Later, trustee Charlie Mensinger announced he will not see re-election in November. Busy night.
NEWARK — With a November election now set to feature three challengers against one incumbent, the school board was enveloped Friday by the campaign's biggest issue: whether to replace a popular superintendent.
Board members — including incumbent Nancy Thomas — had a vested interest in the question. After three hours in closed session, they declined Superintendent Dave Marken's offer to rescind his resignation, and identified a finalist who could replace him.
Also, school board member Charlie Mensinger said after the meeting that he had withdrawn his candidacy papers Friday and will not seek re-election.
"I am withdrawing due to the negative climate surrounding the election," Mensinger said. "I feel it is better to go away quietly than to participate in something that is tearing the district apart."
Each announcement likely will affect the election prospects of Thomas and the board challengers — Elizabeth Brazil, Tom Huynh and Christopher Wecks.
Keeping Marken on the job would improve the education prospects of Newark's children, said a dozen speakers among 100 people who crowded into a Silliman Center room Friday. A few waved signs with scrawled messages: "We love Marken" and "You asked. He said yes!"
The special meeting had been scheduled for trustees to interview at least one candidate to replace Marken, whom many credit with lifting Newark Unified to unprecedented heights after three years on the job.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – Eisenmann Corp. has been ramping up and hiring engineers after shedding its manufacturing arm in 2006.
The company, a global provider of environmental technologies for biogas, air pollution control and paint finishing technologies, has added 20 engineers in the past year at its U.S. headquarters in Crystal Lake.
"We're growing," Eisenmann President Mark West said. "We're expanding our product portfolio and service capabilities."
The company increased its headcount by 38 percent in 2013. It plans to double its revenue in the next five years and keep growing.
"We see the climate for manufacturing in the U.S. continuing to improve with the low cost of energy and companies looking to manufacture where their customers are located."
More manufacturing means more work for Eisenmann, which makes custom-designed manufacturing systems for various industries from automotive to waste disposal.
The Crystal Lake office is responsible for sales, engineering, design, installation and servicing systems it makes. It covers the U.S. and Canada but has international reach. It serves its U.S. clients as they expand overseas and is working on projects in the Middle East, Japan and the United Kingdom.
The company is a subsidiary of Boeblingen, Germany-based Eisenmann AG.
"On any given day we have people from Europe, Brazil, Mexico or China in our offices," West said.
As part of a restructuring in 2006, Eisenmann laid off 60 employees when it closed its local manufacturing facility.
"We started feeling pressure from our customers, which were large automotive companies," West said. "We could see things starting to change and decided to restructure the business."
By the time the recession hit in 2008, Eisenmann was growing again.
"From a timing perspective, we were actually able to find a lot of good talent," he said. "We were in the process of growing and able to pick up good people."
Crystal Lake has been a good base for finding and attracting that talent.
"We thought it may pose a challenge to attract new college graduates to come work out in the suburbs," West said. "However, many of our new hires have come to us straight out of school."
Others commute before settling in the suburbs, he added.
"Crystal Lake is a nice area for employees to call home," he said. "You can raise a family here affordably and with good schools and you still have access to a big city a train ride away."
Eisenmann initially established its U.S. headquarters in Michigan, but moved to Crystal Lake in 1982 when it acquired Temtek-Allied.
"We had been in Detroit since 1977, but the workforce in that area did a lot of job-hopping between the automotive companies and the supply base," West said. "We have found a more stable work force here and have employees with long average tenure with the company."
Eisenmann's environmental projects include anaerobic digester technology used to convert organic waste into green energy. This type of biogas project is much more common in Europe than in the U.S.
"There has been no federal guidance around biogas, so things are developing on a very local or regional level," West said. "Solar and wind have had federal incentives that allow the investors to better guarantee a return on investment."
In December, Eisenmann announced that it was working with CR&R Waste and Recycling Services, a company that serves 2.5 million people and 5,000 businesses in five Southern California counties, on what could be the largest green waste project of its kind in North America. When completed this year, the CR&R facility in Perris, Calif., will convert organic waste into compressed natural gas, which will be used to fuel the company's fleet of collection vehicles.
"Our approach to biogas is that the project needs to stand on its own without government incentives," West said. "Some cities on the coasts have started passing legislation to divert organics away from landfills. This is just the start."
Growth will likely be slow without a federal mandate, he said.
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Plotter recalls al-Qaida brainstorming targets
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoe-bomb plotter Saajid Badat admits he was once in the thick of al-Qaida's plans, winning a hug from Osama bin Laden for his quest to blow up a U.S. plane in midair and brainstorming with the self-professed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks about new English and American targets.
But the 35-year-old British man testifying in a New York City terrorism trial said he's reformed from the man who reacted with "jubilance" when he saw news reports of the hijacked-plane attacks against the World Trade Center and with laughter when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed crossed out the demolished twin towers in an almanac's listing of the world's tallest buildings.
In two days of videotaped testimony from a site in London that concluded Tuesday, Badat gave fresh details about his three years with al-Qaida and coming "to know about (Mohammed's) involvement in the 9/11 attacks."
Last month, Badat testified at the trial of bin Laden's son-in-law. Tuesday's testimony came in the trial of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, an Egyptian cleric who became well known as an extremist Islamic figure in London in the late 1990s. He has pleaded not guilty to charges he supported al-Qaida by assisting kidnappers in Yemen in 1999, when four hostages died, and by plotting to open a training camp in Bly, Oregon.
Badat, arrested in 2003 in a shoe-bomb plot he says he abandoned after his father threatened to kill him if he was a terrorist, said he began fully cooperating with British and American authorities only after seeing a 2007 news report that Mohammed faced trial and hoping he could testify against him. Badat said he cannot come to the United States because he'll be arrested on federal charges in Boston accusing him of plotting to down an aircraft.
Badat said he had abandoned his radical views and wanted to get "my revenge on those most senior to me who were promoting these views."
At times, Badat struggled to reconcile his past. "I had a twisted version of Islam," he said.
Badat testified that he and failed shoe-bomber Richard Reid were enlisted days after the Sept. 11 attacks. He said Mohammed discussed blowing up a U.S.-bound flight or, if that was not possible, a flight over Europe.
Mohammed also discussed looking for a target on the West Coast of the United States or a building in the Canary Wharf financial district in London, Badat said.
In a meeting with bin Laden that ended with "him giving me a hug," the al-Qaida leader told him to read a Quran passage about "holding firm, standing fast, keeping the faith," he said.
Soon afterward, Badat said, he and Reid traveled to Pakistan with Malaysian men tasked by al-Qaida to carry out a Sept. 11-style attack by barging into a cockpit, using the expertise of a pilot among them, and crashing the plane into a building.
He said he and Reid met the leader of the Malaysian group at a McDonald's and afterward gave the group one of Badat's shoe bombs.
Badat also recalled a brainstorming session he had with Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and others six months before an attack on the USS Cole in 2000 killed 17 American sailors. Badat said he suggested al-Qaida put explosives in a small boat and crash it into a large ship. He said Moussaoui wanted to mention it to al-Qaida's top leaders.
He said the Ministry of Defense in London was also mentioned as a good target.
Jeremy Schneider, Mustafa's lawyer, asked Badat if he felt partially responsible for the Cole attack.
Badat said he doubted it originated with him because "bin Laden would have come up to me and said: 'Thanks for the idea.'"
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The suggestion is that even though the thorough search took place at some point in the past (I've had a good look), the item is still missing so the person is probably still looking for it even if they are not making much effort to do so. The fact that it is still missing means that we can say "I can't find it".
Also, using "I have had" is naturally followed by the present tense in a lot of contexts:
I have had a lovely day but now I am tired.
I have had a great holiday and I am ready to go back to work.
I have had a lot of great meals this week and I am ready to start my diet.
I would have used "couldn't" in your example had it started "I had a good look" (not I've had")
I had a good look for it this morning but I couldn't find it. I will have another look later.
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To the delight of those living nearby, the L'Arbrisseau Neighborhood Center was completed in June 2011 in a suburb of Lille, France. Spiraling up four stories, the community center provides space for all ages in the form of a daycare center, recreation rooms, multipurpose rooms, classrooms, and a library. Aluminum panels cover the windows, while a central atrium pull in lots of daylight. Colboc Franzen & Associates designed L'Arbrisseau Neighborhood Center for a high degree of energy efficiency with a super-tight insulated envelope, high-performance windows and energy systems, and a rooftop photovoltaic system.
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Nicely aged 1lb candy tin from Whitman Candy Company made in 1923 featuring "Salmagundi" by Alfons Mucha. Mucha collaborated with a number of companies that featured his artwork as graphic advertising. The Whitman Co was but one of them. Mucha's artwork can also be found on biscuit tins from the 20s.
My wife and I aren't tin collectors but we both love Mucha's artwork and of course anything to do with Art Noveau so we snapped this up right away. The tin now holds our own little treasures from beaches we've been to.


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By Kevin Woster, Journal staff
RAPID CITY -- Heather Moriah loves the personalized license plates on her silver Prius encouraging the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
But somebody doesn't agree. And that somebody complained to the state. Now, the South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles is trying to recall the plates -- which read MPEACHW. And if Moriah doesn't turn them in voluntarily, the state might send law-enforcement officers to pick them up.
Even so, she's not immediately inclined to cooperate.
"I don't think I'm going to play," Moriah said Thursday afternoon. "The plate isn't in poor taste. It's not sexual in nature or pornographic. To me, a political message should not be considered offensive."
But Division of Motor Vehicles director Deb Hillmer said Thursday that the law clearly gives the state authority to recall the plates and have them forcibly removed if necessary. And although only one person complained about Moriah's political statement, that's all it takes to recall a set of vanity plates, Hillmer said.
"I'm following the letter of the law," she said. "It's offensive to someone and not in good taste and decency. And the plates are the property of the state of South Dakota."
State law declares motor vehicle licenses plates to be the property of the state as long as the plates are valid. The law also allows personalized plates with as many as seven letters for an extra $25 fee. But it gives DMV officials the right to refuse to issue "any letter combination which carries connotations offensive to good taste and decency."
Hillmer said MPEACHW meets that criterion. The plates never would have been issued if DMV officials had caught their meaning at the time Moriah applied, Hillmer said.
"This was one that we apparently missed when it came through originally, and we received a complaint from an individual that found it offensive," she said, declining to identify the individual or provide the contents of the complaint. "I don't think we ever would have issued it if we'd have picked up on what it was inferring."
Moriah said she bought the 2005 Prius late last summer and fitted it with personalized plates similar to those her partner, Curt Finnegan, had on his blue 2004 Prius. His plates actually read: IMPCH-W.
Moriah said has received plenty of positive reactions in public to her plates and that negative responses have been rare. So she was surprised to receive the April 18 letter from the DMV announcing the recall and giving her 10 days to turn in the plates at the Pennington County Treasurer's Office or the DMV office in Pierre.
The letter said DMV would issue a refund on the months remaining on Moriah's license.
She is hesitant to give up the plates, however, because she believes her free-speech rights are being unnecessarily limited.
"It's kind of sad to me," she said. "For one person to be able to say they're offended because it's different from their political beliefs seems really arbitrary. And I don't think the law is very clear about what 'offensive' means."
Hillmer said the law gives the state great latitude in making that determination. Moriah is free to exercise her free-speech rights in ways that don't involve state property or implied state sanction of a given message, Hillemr said.
"They have every right to use that free speech, but they need to do it with a bumper sticker," she said. "That plate is property of South Dakota. And that (message) is not something the state should advocate."
It wouldn't matter if the political message or the president were different, it would be inappropriate on a state plate, Hillmer said.
Moriah has contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, which intends to protest the recall in a letter to the state. Moriah said it's unlikely the ACLU will pursue legal action, in part because she is planning a move to Pennsylvanian in the next couple of months.
Finnegan already has moved there and replaced his South Dakota plates for Pennsylvania plates, Moriah said. Moriah hopes to leave in June or July, with her plates still intact. Hillmer said it might not work out that way.
"We may have law enforcement go pick them up if we receive more complaints about it," she said. "If she returns them, we'll make her new plates. If we have to go pick them up, we probably won't."
Hillmer has been with DMV for more than 20 years. She remembers five or six instances when so-called vanity plates were recalled. One of them said "SNIPER" and another "OLDFART."
Moriah is the only person to complain about a recall, Hillmer said.
Rapid City lawyer Patrick Duffy said there's plenty of reason to complain. Duffy, who has worked on key civil rights cases involving American Indian voting issues, said action by the state means that any personalized plate must be recalled because of a single complaint, no matter what the message.
"What this means is that every atheist can now wipe out anything that seems to refer to God," Duffy said. "Will vanity plates for members of the armed forces suddenly be declared offensive if they offend a single pacifist? It's absolutely preposterous."
Even obscenity must be judged by the mores and standards of a community, not just one offended individual, Duffy said.
"Here, all we need is one lone citizen who is apparently invested with the complete authority to determine what is good taste and decency for all the rest of us," he said. "It seems a little tyrannical to me."
freedom of speech. thats all i have to say.
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slapping a yellow "support our troops" sticker on the back of your gas guzzling SUV in the middle of a war for oil makes you an a-holes
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Wow--I am glad there are no cello haters in Wsconsin, because I would not want 1 person to be able to take my plate away. So I can then complain if someone has the plate LV Mavs or Love GW? The intolerance in this country is worsening day by day.
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Still crazy after all these years.
2009 can't come soon enough. And Mom, best wishes to your daughter.
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at this rock perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow, it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it. But all that had gone before." - Jacob Riis
My friend here at work has a non-customized plate, a totally random selection from dmv thats 1RPG4U .... LOL
I should get an FTM plate.
by the way I think they should let her keep the plates. People are too easily offended.
When the Spurs lose...it makes Baby Jesus cry
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Franklin McMahon: "What I lose in accuracy I make up for in spontaneity"
"My method of working is to draw directly wherever possible." said Franklin McMahon in an article in the April 1956 issue of American Artist magazine.
"I pick a point - usually a point closest to me in the scene I'm drawing. I begin at this point and work out. All other parts of the drawing take their place in relation to this point."
"I wait for the people to settle down or assume a characteristic pose and then draw them in."
"What I lose in accuracy I make up for in spontaneity, and there is a hoped-for reality (a feeling of being there) which I don't think can be achieved as well in any other way."
"All of these drawings were made directly in ink with no preliminary pencilling. There is no blocking in. The edge of the subject is almost traced out of the air."
"Sometimes I pencil-up the signs, lettering them in later at the studio."
"I am very much interested in design," McMahon continued. "I have a distinct feeling, however, that design, as we have come to know it, has become rather in-bred."
"Being primarily an illustrator-designer I found that my own personal corrective was to get out and look around - a return to first principles, so to speak. That is why I have welcomed these direct drawing assignments."
"In this sort of drawing the design grows out of the artist's work on the site and his interaction with the subject matter..."
"... rather than being superimposed later in the studio."
At this point in his career (the mid-1950s) McMahon worked with #4 brushes dipped in india ink on large sheets (20" x 25") of cover stock. He said, "I use this large sheet since I never know exactly, when I begin, just where the drawing is going to end!"
"The drawing is not blocked-in or planned in advance...
"... it just grows and the design continues to develop with it."
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Thanks for the inspirational post and cool artwork! I had to read this post because the quote at the top is the opposite of my own approach... I generally make up in accuracy what I can't grasp in spontaneity... working on that...ReplyDelete
Thank you, Leif!!! My love affair with McMahon's work began while studying for my MFA at Syracuse U. I peeked in the door of a class that was one year ahead of me because I caught a glimpse of the projected drawings. Franklin invited me in and not only spoke to me as if he had all the time in the world, but also gave me one of his promotional booklets- treasured until this day. I look at his drawings regularly not only for myself, but also to show my own MFA students. His drawings are steady accountings of so many everyday instances that we take for granted, as well as many significant historical benchmarks- the likes of which are now documented on phones rather than with the personality of a draftsman. The posts are beautiful.ReplyDelete
Great post! I had never seen these drawings before. I love the quote you pulled at the top and can relate to it.
I'm looking forward to this week on TI.
What does his promotional booklet look like? Very cool that you got to meet him.
Accuracy versus Spontaneity - Great theme Leif!ReplyDelete
You may be just seismic, hinting at fault lines in art world:-)
quoting Franklin Mc Mahon:
"All parts of a drawing take place... in relation to the initial point"
sounds quite universal....
"I have a distinct feeling, however, that design, as we have come to know it, has become rather in-bred"..
"In-bred design" ha ha; do they teach that (and quite a few other things in this entry) somewhere? I mean outside Today's Inspiration university?
There's lots of in-breeding nowadays in all the fields, but let's get back on topics.
It's interesting to me how different these drawings are from his pieces in On The Spot Drawing. And, Melanie, I second Daniel's interest in that promo booklet!ReplyDelete
Amazing stuff. Thanks for posting. His approach (going straight to final w/no penciling) takes a lot of confidence. I'm not sure I could do that!ReplyDelete
Great work, approach. As has been mentioned, McMahon's to be found in On The Spot Drawing...ReplyDelete
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Is the method he mentions ("All parts of a drawing take place... in relation to the initial point") a standard method? I never heard of that before, (I'm not a professional artist.)
Very beautiful posts.
I think what McMahon is referring to is using the initial point as a foundation to reference back to for scale and spatial relationships while you are drawing the rest of the picture.


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This Positive Life: Newly Living With HIV, Josh Robbins Is "Still Josh" -- and Still an Advocate
March 25, 2013
How did you find your HIV physician?
The vaccine program that I've been talking about at Vanderbilt, they're really connected with Nashville CARES. As a small business owner, I'd really supported all the events that the organization does every year; I've always been involved in that. I didn't ever think that I'd be a client.
I went over there, and they gave me a list of people; and then I just called around. And I found a doctor. It's been amazing. I think that the physician is kind, is warm, and is also very knowledgeable.
Little things: They said that there's more studies going on about just the neuroscience kind of stuff that goes on with your brain right after you get HIV. I remember during that amount of time, through January and half of February, that there were times I couldn't even remember conversations that I just had. And so there was a short-term memory kind of loss. My physician was able to talk to me about that. Because that's an area where more research is being done. She's always traveling to these conferences, and that sort of thing.
It's been awesome. I have a fantastic doctor! She's understanding, patient, informative, motivating and the best choice for me for treatment. At one of the visits -- you know, when I got to 550 -- I was really aching to discuss treatment. Based on the current numbers, I have made the personal decision not to begin medication -- however, I am also involved in a couple clinical trials that allow me to have access monthly to my viral load and CD4 numbers. Based on this participation and the volume of real-time numbers, I am comfortable making the decision to choose a path that is right for me.
But my hope is that they come out with like a once-a-week kind of pill at some point, because I'm absolutely terrible, even about taking a multivitamin every day. So I've been trying to do better. My physician has given me an exercise, to try to take a multivitamin every day at the same time. She's trying to prep me for when I have to start taking meds. But I'm just hoping that the longer that we wait, as long as my health is OK, or stable, that something new will come out.
How do you think you'll deal with adherence, once you do start treatment?
One thing that I have been real honest about, with all my physicians, is that I am a drinker. I like to have drinks when I go out a couple times a week. I've always been nervous that if I'm supposed to take a pill at 11 and I'm out till 3, whether I'm going to remember when I get home, or when that has to happen. I know there's tons of different little options, and different ways to do it.
But it's just going to be a commitment, once I'm at a position where I need to take medication. I've always been like that. I've never wanted to take any kind of medicine unless I just absolutely had to. But once I'm at that point that I'm going to have to, then it's just going to be a change of priorities. Then I'm just going to make it happen. So I'll probably use every one of those tools.
What do you do to keep healthy?
I eat healthy. I was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. I've really cut back those. I'm not like a Nazi about it, where I won't ever have a cigarette. I'll have one if I'm out with somebody. But that was really an important discussion with my physician -- that I needed to quit smoking. So that was something that I did. And we discussed openly about me and my drinking. Then they were looking at my blood, and my liver, and making sure everything with that is fine.
"There were times that, within that six-month period [after becoming positive], I was just kind of tired, and worn out from life. Before I was infected, I would just keep going and keep going. I wouldn't really take care of myself in that way. Now if I can't do something, or if I just don't feel like it, for whatever reason, then it's a no."
Also, knowing when to say no. If I'm tired -- and there were times that, within that six-month period, I was just kind of tired, and worn out from life. Before I was infected, I would just keep going and keep going. I wouldn't really take care of myself in that way. Now I've really learned how to say no. So if I can't do something, or if I just don't feel like it, for whatever reason, then it's a no.
I know everyone says exercising is important. But I'm not someone that is ever going to go to a gym; it's just always awkward for me to go to a gym. So I'll run. Or it's little things. Like, I live on the fifth floor of my condo, and so I don't take the elevator. I do the stairs.
I don't know if that answers your question. But there's no magic thing, I guess. That's what I'm doing. And I feel good. So . . .
That's good. Little tips here and there always help.
Well, I also think that a lot of what I've gone through is mental, you know? I decided how I was going to attack this disease. I decided how I was going to tell people. And I did it on my terms. Little things used to really bother me. I'm one of those people where everything can bother me. But since January 2012 I just don't let that stuff bother me, you know? If I can't change it then I can't worry about it. So I think that's part of it, too.
I've stayed really connected with things that really encourage me. I love Steve Jobs, so I was reading his book and his quotes. Getting involved with other people online through social media, just talking to them or checking up on them, and that sort of thing -- kind of investing, virtually through the Internet, in some other people's lives, to just check up on them and see how they're doing. It kind of took the focus a little bit off me and made it more about, you know, this is a crusade for everyone that is going through this.
A large part of the reason why I feel I'm doing OK is the way that I just decided to think about things and be positive. I've always laughed when everybody says, "Stay positive," because I'm always, like "Well, I am positive." But now I just said it!
Let's talk about your work. What kind of work do you do?
I'm a talent agent. I own a talent agency in Nashville. I deal with actors and hosts, children and their parents, for television, film, commercials, music videos, print jobs, that kind of thing.
How did you become involved in HIV? You mentioned doing prevention work before your diagnosis. How did you become involved in HIV activism?
Someone doing outreach about the HIV vaccine program approached me at an event at a bar. I really wanted to do it. Before that, there was a well-known female impersonator in town that passed away, and her name was Bianca. Mark Middleton was his name, and the personality was Bianca.
But she was HIV positive and she was very, very vocal about prevention and the disease. When she passed away, I got my company involved with her memorial. Doing that really got me connected with people that were very sincere and honest and hardworking, when it came to activism and awareness. That's kind of how it started.
And then at one of those events, I saw information about the vaccine study. They said that they needed HIV-negative people that had sex with guys. And in my way, I was thinking, oh, this is so fantastic. This is my way to give back. So I got involved with the study.
"With the HIV vaccine being studied, obviously, it's not a live virus. There's zero chance to get HIV from the vaccine. The way that I got HIV, even though I was in the vaccine study, was because I was exposed to it."
From there I started doing some outreaches with them, looking for other volunteers. But I'm actually really glad that I got involved with the vaccine. I want to say this, because some people may wonder: With the HIV vaccine being studied, obviously, it's not a live virus. There's zero chance to get HIV from the vaccine. The way that I got HIV, even though I was in the vaccine study, was because I was exposed to it.
But once I got involved with that, and then Nashville CARES, and helping them raise funds and that sort of thing, I really fell in love with it. Whether people think that it's God or another power or whatever, I really think that it was orchestrated at the right time. Because I really got passionate about it at the same time that it happened to me.
I'd thought I was invincible. Other people have told me that, specifically: "Josh, we never thought this would happen to you. If it can happen to you, then it can happen to me." And that's kind of been their attitude -- which was surprising at first. But when I sat back and thought about it, it's absolutely true. I felt invincible. And so all of that year that I was involved in prevention and activism and that kind of stuff, it really prepared me to be able to tell my story and, now, raise money.
The last couple months I've been involved with some amazing fundraising people. And I'm proud. We've raised a lot of money in the past couple months for Nashville CARES.
Do you ever get sick of thinking or talking about HIV, or do you think you will?
I think I did. I went through a month in the beginning, to be honest, where every week I was doing something related to HIV or awareness or a doctor's office or something. And so in May of last year I kind of got a little tired. And so I just kind of stepped back a little bit. I didn't post any blog, and kind of stayed off Twitter, and even my Facebook.
Now, looking back at that, it was fine for me. It was a little selfish, I guess. What I'm doing is -- and what we're talking about, all of us -- is so much bigger than any individual person or any of our individual stories. We've just got to keep going and keep talking about it. Because the more we talk about it, the easier it becomes to be talked about.
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Slaying the Dragon
True difficulty is a son of a bitch. It can suck the spirit of life right out of you, paralyze your advances, and hold you hostage in the prison of loathing. No matter how established you are in a positive state of attraction, difficulty can hide in a dark corner unbeknownst to you, mustering a sequence of events that plunders your meticulously assembled plans with swift and unanticipated attacks. Difficulty is a monster of great power that even the most highly ascended angelic beings would struggle to tame.
Life could be easy. You could put aside the weight on your shoulders and take the easy path as you relax into the comfortable couch of complacency. But, your unfulfilled desires are deeply embedded like the roots of your soul that have existed since the beginning of time. Your true desires vibrate through your bones, blood, and nerves, calling out to you in the subtleties of your thoughts, feelings, and actions with a desperate yearning for realization. Its as if your karma has an elastic cord that you can only walk so far away from until it retracts and snaps you right back to where you started to face an unresolved road block on the path of your destiny.
These challenges aren't just random shitty things that are out of your control. They are paradoxically designed to propel you forward when they are deciphered and unlocked. They are the guardians of the biblical doors that contain wondrous treasures and invaluable boons. The largest rewards require the largest challenges. Your personal dominance of seemingly insurmountable difficulties temper you into a hardened and effective blade. Your failures materialize into a highly durable plate of armor when you endure and carry on even when you have given up inside. With true and virtuous determination we can eventually receive the sought after and well deserved reward. We experience a beautiful shift, a new level, and the fully enjoyable tension and release of dipping your body in a hot bath of sun kissed divine bliss after an endless battle in the cold and dark corridors of hell. Sometimes we can only celebrate for so long as the reward sets like the sun. And other times, the rewards last a lifetime and beyond.
Whenever you give up on your destiny, you might just have to try again in this life, or the next. Maybe, it is that we continue to reincarnate and come back to life until we perfect, ascend, and completely fulfill ourselves from the most finite point of existence to the furthest reaches of infinity, slaying every monster along the way until we eventually transcend challenge itself.


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DogTV is a new breed of programming, an all-canine cable channel, designed to keep your dog relaxed, entertained and stimulated while you are away.
Macaulay Culkin would approve. He knows what it's like to be "home alone," as do many of the 46 million dogs currently living in US households.
DogTV claims to soothe stay-at-home dogs suffering from separation anxiety, and enrich those who are just plain bored when either are left unattended for long periods of time. People have long reported that their dogs watch TV. Dogs seem to respond to TV dogs. In the 1980s, my silly Afghans raced out and ran to a window in another room after seeing Zeus and Apollo on Magnum PI rushing toward the screen. They expected to find Tom Selleck's barking Dobermans in our driveway.
For years, owners have been leaving a TV or radio on as company and comfort for their pups when they go out. Thirty-five years ago, I first encountered this phenomenon when I heard my sister-in-law ask her German Shepherd if he liked a particular radio station before we left him alone. She turned the dial until he approved. Meanwhile, my parents' Lhasa howled during the jingle to the final Jeopardy question every afternoon. Either he was trying to give Alex Trebeck an answer, or the annoying tune assaulted his ears.
Presently one million subscribers to two cable companies in San Diego have access to a pilot program of DogTV. Feedback has been so encouraging that PTV Media, the parent company, plans to offer the channel nationally within a few months. A subscription to the eight-hour block of on-demand programs will cost about $5 a month. There are no commercials, not even juicy burger ads that would appeal to your pup's tummy.
Current studies on the canine brain suggest that the move away from analog television improved the canine viewing experience. A dog's eye processes flickering movement at a different rate than ours. Technological advances such as digital sets and high definition have contributed to more dogs showing interest in watching television. Large flat screens allow them to see from anywhere in the room.
DogTV is tailored to a dog's perspective and perception. Cameramen get on their knees to shoot low. An episode with a joyful Golden Retriever frolicking in a cornfield is shot from a pup's point of view. Certain colors are enhanced and others muted because dogs see blue, yellow and gray, but not green or red. Sounds are altered, editing out irritating, high frequencies and blaring noise like explosions, while soothing music written especially for dogs is added as background. These pooch lullabies sound like elevator music to us. Colors, brightness, camera angles, contrast and sound are all adjusted to fit a dog's sensory abilities. The screen may look somewhat odd to us, but it is reality TV to Rover.
According to the company's website: "DogTV is the perfect babysitter for dogs who have to stay home alone. Research shows that dogs feel better in the company of television, especially when the right content is on. DogTV's three types of programming offer relaxing and stimulating content as well as positive behavioral reinforcements. Dogs that are left alone tend to become anxious so the relaxing sounds were created to keep the dog calm and peaceful. Many dogs also suffer from lack of stimulation, which becomes acute when their owner is away. The stimulating content will provide the dog with invigorating images, animation and exciting realworld sounds to keep the dog up and running. DogTV's programming meets a dog's typical daily cycle and helps prevent mental fatigue, depression and boredom."
Content is mainly dogs, but dogs love to see other active animals like birds, monkeys and zebras too.
When the TV Pomeranian runs, your couch potato may be inspired to take a lap around the living room. Wouldn't you like to see proof on a nanny camera? Easy does it. Having your dog dive through the screen to catch a Frisbee would be counterproductive.
Experts including Warren Eckstein, Victoria Stillwell and Dr. Nicholas Dodman, head of the animal behavior studies at Tufts University, guide production of DogTV. Dodman states that dogs definitely recognize dogs on TV, and may react differently to their own breed. He also feels that exposing pups to video images of other dogs may act as a form of socialization, as do scenes of familiar everyday events like doorbells, crying infants, other pets and delivery men.
The Escondido Humane Society just outside of San Diego is testing relaxation-only DogTV video.
The shelter handles more than 5,000 dogs a year, many large, high-energy dogs that tend to go cage crazy with prolonged confinement. The staff saw immediate results when combining the videos with two 20-minute walks a day. Even dogs that couldn't see the screen benefited from being within hearing distance of the calming sounds.
What is next after DogTV? Possibly adding a CatTV channel in the future. Once technology progresses to DogTV "Smellevision" with programmed scents, could a K-9 QVC channel be far behind? If nothing else, it will be time to lock up your remote and credit cards.
For Adoption at Last Hope Adoption Center, 3300 Beltagh Ave. in Wantagh-Many lovely dogs and cats are available. "Isabelle & Morsel" are a pair of bonded eight-year-old Dachshunds, absolutely adorable, that came from an overcrowded Virginia shelter. Their VA paperwork states that if you say: "Dachshund Party of Two," they will come running. It would be nice to be able to keep them together.
Last Hope added a trio of needy West Virginia dogs. "Jakie" a three-year-old Beagle/Lab was a stray turned over to the same mountain man who chained "Dana" to a box in his yard last winter (Beacon "Pets" 12/22/11 online.) "Jakie" was chained in his yard too. This 32 lb. fellow is super-loving, and would do whatever was required to become someone's best friend. He is shown here taking a Cats 101 crash course. For dog details, call 631-946-9528.
Male: "Bounce" seven-month-old Shepherd/ smooth Collie puppy from WV. Bounce talks…
Female: "Margie" four-month-old Shepherd mix puppy from Hempstead Shelter; "Abby" two-year-old Shepherd/ Aussie Blue Heeler from WV. Abby is a doll and loves to play Frisbee; "Gloria" five-year-old Hound/Lab from VA.
**Free Rabies Vaccine Clinic for dogs and cats provided by Last Hope at Babylon Town Shelter, 51 Lamar St. W. Babylon on Sat., May 5 from 11 am to 2 pm. Babylon Shelter is also offering low-cost microchips for $25 which includes registration. Open to all LI pet owners. Dogs must be leashed; cats in carriers. Call 516-223- 6673 for more info.


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Many may be worried about his integrity. Many may be worried about his stamina, having played very little ball in his final college season at Oklahoma State. But today, Dez Bryant proved his drive by being the first player to take the field for the kickoff of training-camp.
According to the Associated Press, Bryant was on the field 45 minutes early wearing his coveted number 88 jersey.
He began catching passes soon-after from undrafted rookie QB Matt Nichols.
"I want to help this team. I want to compete. I can't wait to start playing football again," Bryant said in a statement that was released by the Cowboys earlier in the week.
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I picked up a copy of "Quilt Savvy: Gaudynski's Machine Quilting Guidbook", (after I had machine quilted my first quilt). She reccomends using "skinny" threads and finds #60 cotton threads too bulky.
So, 2 questions, is a #60 thread lighter or heavyier than, say, a #50?
And what are you guys machine quilting with? (on your domestice machine, not long arm machine).
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who is she
who is that Jim is holding?
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Isn't it Jane?
I think it is.
Pic reminds me of my granddaughter, interesting
I thought so...
I wonder if Jane had lots of hair when she was born,
I was bald until I was about 2
but my youngest girl had lots of hair just like her new baby
yes, he does have that....
sparkle in his eye.
Jim Carrety was young! how old was he then?
I'm in LOVE with him and I Feel Fine
There are a few other pictures from the episode in the JCO Gallery:
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Jim Carrey Movies/Series/Books in 2018:
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i want to see when Jim Carrey is holding jane dos any one have a link?
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So Cute LOVE IT
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can you plz plz send me the link I HAVE TO SEEE IT !!
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Matz Mainka studied Art and Illustration in Hamburg. He illustrated an album cover for the Hamburg punk label Weird System in 1986. In 1991 Carlsen Verlag published his first comic, 'Werwölfe', about children that had to fight for their survival shortly after World War II. Mainka was then braught to Japan by the publisher Kodansha, to make the scenario for a Hamburg situated episode of Tsutomu Takahashi's detective series 'Jiraishin'.
After spending several months in Japan, he settled in Madrid. For the Spanish publisher Ponent-Mon he created the book '1928 - Una Historia de Hamburgo' in 2002. This book was also published in german in the following year. This historic comic deals with children who witness Nazis killing a Communist.


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I have been avoiding updating my Commute Log spreadsheet, because I knew what would happen.
This week, I fell down below 2.0: that is, I've ridden my bike less than twice as many days as I've driven my car. 31 bike commute work days and 16 work days in the car. The earliest I see myself commuting again is MAYBE Monday March 19th. That will mark two weeks from my accident. It also depends a lot on what my Ear/Nose/Throat doctor says on the 14th after he checks my sinuses out. If I get back on the bike again on the 19th, I'll be working my commute:drive ratio from less than 1.5. Gone are my dreams of getting above 3.0 by the end of March. I'll be lucky to get there by the end of May. My target miles for March (I was hoping for 170-200) are also shot.
I just might (if my Diamondback Outlook is fixed and I find a helmet) do the Recovery Ride on Monday the 12th. In a group ride setting, I'm very unlikely to get hit or fall over, and I really am aching to get back on the bike.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Ratio back down below 2.0
I have been avoiding updating my Commute Log spreadsheet, because I knew what would happen.
2 comments:
- A Midnight Rider said...
You can "stop the bleeding" so to speak, by not going to work till you can ride again.
- March 09, 2007 3:05 PM
- Scott said...
Statistics are just that, statistics. What you are showing is that you have passed a hard test. IE you are willing to keep riding after a crash.
That is what counts.
I have not taken this test and I pray I don't have to.
- March 09, 2007 4:42 PM
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Midwestern Abstract Artists' Work on Display• October 18, 2006 Share:
A dramatic collection of abstract works is on view at the Eric Dean Gallery in the Fine Arts Center at Wabash College beginning October 23. Fred Hagstrom, a print maker at Carleton College, and Martha Donovan Opdahl, a textile artist who splits time between Greencastle and Santa Fe, both use line and form and minimal color to create expressive and dynamic pieces. The opening reception for "Abstractions in Ink and Fiber" will be held from 8-9:30 p.m. Monday, October 23, in the gallery. Both artists will be in attendance and the public is encouraged to come to this free event and meet the artists. The show will be exhibited through December 8.
Hagstrom, who has been teaching in Minnesota for 23 years, has recently created a body of work inspired by his observations of the natural world. He sees his work as socially relevant, calling attention to the ecological crisis of our times while also expressing the beauty of nature. Of the root of his work Hagstrom said, "I was made aware of an almost daily onslaught of bad news concerning ecological issues-storms, loss of soil, fear of losing water of good quality, the loss of coral reef, global warming etc. What began as a sort of meditation on the beauty of nature became a sad reflection as my fears of possible ecological collapse began to grow. This is intended to be work that is sort of raw nerved, open to nature, and sad about the daily blows it seems to absorb."
Hagstrom uses a printmaking process called intaglio, which involves waxing metal plates, etching designs into the wax, using acid to erode the exposed metal, removing the excess wax, inking the plate and, finally, running the plate through a press. American currency is made using this process. Hagstrom, however, uses an additional special process called chine colle to achieve his abstract prints. The final result for Hagstrom is a compilation of haunting and sensual pieces.
Martha Donovan Opdahl's exhibition comprises of two very different styles of work. The show includes a number of her large tufted wool wall works, which are largely monochromatic with occasional streams of red. These dyed wool pieces suggest stylized kimonos or prayer rugs, and are obviously influenced by non-Western textile traditions.
"What I'm aiming at", says Donovan Opdahl, "is an aesthetic universal, erasing cultural boundaries—not erasing the culture, just the line separating cultures from each other."
Donovan Opdahl's more recent work is smaller in scale and in multiple mediums of fiber and acrylic. The constructions have the character of drawings — linear and spare, and convey a tension between order and fragmentation. Influenced by Korean pojagi (pieced wrappings) for these pieces, again Donovan Opdahl finds inspiration from the aesthetic of other traditions. Of the various cultural influences, she pulls from "Japan, a sense of asymmetry, clarity of line and purity of form; from West Africa, a sense of off-beat rhythms;...(from the) Southwest native traditions, sharp silhouettes and contrasts between hues."
The Eric Dean Gallery is located on the south end of the Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public
Upper Right: Hagstrom's DarkWater #1
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From the outside, Timothy Deegan's house seems like all the others in the well-to-do neighborhood. Every house seems to have similarly manicured lawns and expensive shrubbery.
From the outside, Timothy Deegan's house seems like all the others in the well-to-do neighborhood. Every house seems to have similarly manicured lawns and expensive shrubbery.
Inside the home at 2676 NW 106th Way, investigators say, the well-known accountant led a sordid life of sexual assault, drugs and terror.
Deegan, they allege, kept three women trapped in virtual slavery for months, prostituting them, videotaping sex acts that he would then put online, and giving them drugs in exchange for sex and keeping his house clean.
Deegan, 53, the owner of Deegan Professional Tax Service, was arrested Friday on three counts of human trafficking and booked into the Alachua County jail, where he remained Tuesday on $300,000 bond.
According to a sworn complaint filed by the Gainesville-Alachua County Drug Task Force, the CPA kept the women terrified as he increasingly took control of their lives. He set up traps inside his house and made weapons to threaten the women and prevent them from leaving, records show.
The women had all met Deegan in 2013 through a website where the women booked clients as sex workers. At first, Deegan would record sex acts involving the women and stream the videos onto an adult website. He then began prostituting them, providing transportation and booking hotels for the women and taking the money they earned, paying them with cocaine instead, the complaint said.
Soon, he had taken control of their lives, authorities said.
Records show he monitored their movements using a GPS on their cellphones. He called them when they were at places he felt they shouldn't be. He hid small cameras around his home so that he could monitor the women and record sex acts without them knowing, the complaint said.
In December 2013, one of the women called the Alachua County Sheriff's Office to report that she had found a video that Deegan had recorded of him raping her while she was incapacitated on prescribed sleeping medication, the complaint said.
Two of the women later told detectives that Deegan had showed them letters from other women accusing him of drugging them and then sexually battering them, the complaint said.
Deegan was arrested on a sexual battery charge and later released from the Alachua County jail on a $250,000 bond. Officials later decided to consolidate the charge into the human trafficking charges, Alachua County court records showed.
Neighbors in the Meadowbrook Ridge subdivision — consisting of two streets ending in cul-de-sacs — said they are concerned about his release and the ongoing activity.
"Almost everyone here has young children," said resident Cindy Schirmer. "It was really kind of nerve-wracking."
After Deegan was released, detectives with the Gainesville-Alachua County Drug Task Force began investigating him and uncovered affiliations with several known drug dealers, the complaint states.
Detectives said Deegan would lease vehicles for drug dealers to transport illegal drugs, and they would later pay him with cocaine.
One of the alleged dealers that Deegan was associated with, Vonzell Howard, was arrested on eight charges not related to Deegan's case and remains at the jail in lieu of a $3,655,100 bond.
In April, detectives arrested Deegan for cocaine possession and possession of drug equipment and he was released on his own recognizance in May, according to court records. On Tuesday, officials determined that there was insufficient evidence to prove the charges, court records said, but Deegan remains jailed on the human trafficking charges.
In 2008, Deegan was charged with cocaine possession, narcotics equipment possession and keeping a shop for drugs. He was later sent to a drug court diversion program, records show.
The Sun called Deegan's tax service business Tuesday morning, but a woman who picked up the phone at the business said Deegan's associates would not comment.
No one answered the door at his home Tuesday evening. State Attorney's Office spokesman Darry Lloyd said the office has not determined yet if they will file more charges against Deegan.
Court records show Deegan is scheduled to appear in court June 24 for an arraignment hearing regarding the human trafficking charges.
Deegan's house, complete with statuary of St. Francis and two lions, was under close watch by neighbors.
One man, who did not want to give his name out of fear of retaliation, said he would hear screaming and yelling in the home, saw women lying in the grass, people coming and going throughout the night and other activity he considered disturbing.
"About three weeks ago, a car followed my daughter as she walked through the neighborhood, then the car pulled over to his house. When I heard human trafficking, he could have been looking for my daughter," the man said. "One night a truck drove up and dropped this girl off in the driveway. She was in a fetal position, moaning. Girls were screaming over there. Some of them would be outside on the phone, and they would be cursing."
Neighbors said they would exchange pleasantries with Deegan but none could recall a conversation of more than a minute or so. They added that he did not attend neighborhood events.
George Shorter, president of the Meadowbrook Ridge homeowners association, said the neighbors were powerless to do anything other than keep residents informed, perhaps put up a security gate, or call police — which he said was done on multiple occasions.
"We really live in complete ignorance. I hate to say it but the shocking thing is we really knew so little about what went on in his house. It's maintained from the outside. It's one of the distinct properties in the neighborhood," Shorter said. "The first incident … happened months and months ago. And he kept returning, and more things would happen. A lot of us are questioning, why was this guy allowed to come back and live in our community?"


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I've done quite a bit of speaking over the last few years, which has required a lot of travel. I had 15 events that I attended last year, only one of which was in Denver, so I spent quite a few days on a plane.
This year I've cut back a bit, with only 3 events so far this year, but it will get busy this fall. The SQL in the City events last year in London and LA were a big success for my employer, Red Gate Software, and this year we've decided to expand and build a mini-tour of events.
We are back in London this July, for two dates this time on July 13, and 14. Friday is booked, but you can still register for Saturday, July 14 and come attend a free training event, which will talk about SQL Server issues and include information about how Red Gate's products make you more efficient and effective at your job.
This fall, we are going on a 5-cities-in-11-days tour all over the US. We have booked the following dates:
- New York City – Friday, Sept 28
- Austin, TX – Monday, Oct 1
- San Francisco – Wednesday, Oct 3
- Chicago – Friday, Oct 5
- Boston – Monday, Oct 8
In addition, we've added a sixth event in Seattle, on Monday, Nov 5, just before the PASS Summit.
These are free events, and we'll have some tool tracks, talking about how to better get value from Red Gate tools, but we'll also have tracks that talk about real issues you encounter as DBAs. I'll be speaking, along with Brad McGehee and Grant Fritchey on writing better T-SQL, database maintenance, disaster recovery, and more.
This tour is something we've talked about for a few years, and we've finally gotten the time, money, and permission for a tour. So look for us to be traveling through your part of the US. I'm not sure if we'll have a real tour bus to travel in style.
With quite a few people coming over from the UK, and a frugal boss, our budget might end up supporting a tour in something like this.
In any case, if you will be in one of the cities on any of the dates above, register today. It's an exciting experiment, and one that I hope will be valuable for you and us, and something we'll get to do every year in different cities.
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It has been a long time since I have sung a song with Vidyu, who is an amazing singer and one of the very few people whom I met through Internet in the initial days of music blogging. Our first original duet, Mella Mella - which was done for Blogswara, still remains at the top of all Blogswara albums (BTW, did I tell you that Blogswara's version 5 is coming up soon? More details will be followed in this blog in the coming days). Here is our new cover song.
Song: Jaaneman Jaaneman
Music: Salil Chowdhary
Original singers: Yesudas, Asha Bhosle
Cover by: Jo & Vidyu
Download this song's MP3 file here. To download all my cover songs, click here.


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New Super Smash Bros. game for Wii REVEALED!by kramkoob
The new title is Super Smash Bros. Brawl! The game was revealed by Nintendo to select press behind closed doors. Lots of new characters.
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A lot of buzz is being generated by Adaptive Path, the company that invented the acronym
Figure 1: The traditional model for web applications (left) compared to the
As you can see in this diagram an
Figure 2: The synchronous interaction pattern of a traditional web application (top) compared with the asynchronous pattern of an
You can see that by eliminating the need to go to the server on every request, you are able to significantly speed up the user experience and response to user input. The use of a single acronym
It gives developers something to rally around. A new way of looking at programming online. A n ew way of providing web services.
So you may be thinking, why should I care about some arcane acronym that stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript+CSS+DOM+XMLHttpRequest." The reason is because this is the technology that Google is using to develop some really interesting applications.
I spent 10 minutes today fascinated by Google Maps. It is the best application I have ever seen on the web because of the amazing graphics and the response time. Don't get me wrong. This is not as fast as a desktop application but it is still faster than other web apps I have used.
You may be thinking that Flash can do much of what
In my opinion the birth of this new acronym may give programmers something to rally around and users will love the amazing graphics that