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A Spring Jump Start
It all started with a bean.
In 1996 the Java programming language was still a young, exciting, up-and-coming platform. Many developers flocked to the language because they had seen how to create rich and dynamic web applications using applets. But they soon learned that there was more to this strange new language than animated juggling cartoon characters. Unlike any language before it, Java made it possible to write complex applications made up of discrete parts. They came for the applets, but they stayed for the components.
It was in December of that year that Sun Microsystems published the Java-Beans 1.00-A specification. JavaBeans defined a software component model for Java. This specification defined a set of coding policies that enabled simple Java objects to be reusable and easily composed into more complex applications. Although JavaBeans were intended as a general-purpose means of defining reusable application components, they have been primarily used as a model for building user interface widgets. They seemed too simple to be capable of any "real" work. Enterprise developers wanted more.
Sophisticated applications often require services such as transaction support, security, and distributed computing—services not directly provided by the Java-Beans specification. Therefore, in March 1998, Sun published the 1.0 version of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification. This specification extended the notion of Java components to the server side, providing the much-needed enterprise services, but failed to continue the simplicity of the original JavaBeans specification. In fact, except in name, EJB bears very little resemblance to the original JavaBeans specification.
Despite the fact that many successful applications have been built based on EJB, EJB never really achieved its intended purpose: to simplify enterprise application development. Every version of the EJB specification contains the following statement: "Enterprise JavaBeans will make it easy to write applications." It is true that EJB's declarative programming model simplifies many infrastructural aspects of development, such as transactions and security. But EJBs are complicated in a different way by mandating deployment descriptors and plumbing code (home and remote/local interfaces). Over time many developers became disenchanted with EJB. As a result, its popularity has started to wane in recent years, leaving many developers looking for an easier way.
Now Java component development is coming full circle. New programming techniques, including aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and inversion of control (IoC), are giving JavaBeans much of the power of EJB. These techniques furnish JavaBeans with a declarative programming model reminiscent of EJB, but without all of EJB's complexity. No longer must you resort to writing an unwieldy EJB component when a simple JavaBean will suffice.
And that's where Spring steps into the picture.
1.1 Why Spring?
If you are reading this book, you probably want to know why Spring would be good for you. After all, the Java landscape is full of frameworks. What makes Spring any different? To put it simply, Spring makes developing enterprise applications easier. We don't expect that to convince you at face value, so first let's take a look at life without Spring.
1.1.1 A day in the life of a J2EE developer
Alex is a Java developer who has just started on his first enterprise application. Like many Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications, it is a web application that serves many users and accesses an enterprise database. In this case, it is a customer management application that will be used by other employees at his company.
Eager to get to work, Alex fires up his favorite integrated development environment (IDE) and starts to crank out his first component, the CustomerManager component. In the EJB world, to develop this component Alex actually has to write several classes—the home interface, the local interface, and the bean itself. In addition, he has to create a deployment descriptor for this bean.
Seeing that creating each of these files for every bean seems like a lot of effort, Alex incorporates XDoclet into his project. XDoclet is a code generation tool that can generate all of the necessary EJB files from a single source file. Although this adds another step to Alex's development cycle, his coding life is now much simpler.
With XDoclet now handling a lot of the grunt work for him, Alex turns his attention to his real problem—what exactly should the CustomerManager component do? He jumps in with its first method, getPreferredCustomer(). There are several business rules that define exactly what a preferred customer is, and Alex dutifully codes them into his CustomerManager bean.
Wanting to confirm that his logic is correct, Alex now wants to write some tests to validate his code. But then it occurs to him: the code he is testing will be running within the EJB container. Therefore, his tests need to execute within the container as well. To easily accomplish this, he concocts a servlet that will be responsible for executing these tests. Since all J2EE containers support servlets, this will allow him to execute his tests in the same container as his EJB. Problem solved!
So Alex fires up his J2EE container and runs his tests. His tests fail. Alex sees his coding error, fixes it, and runs the tests again. His tests fail again. He sees another error and fixes it. He fires up the container and runs the tests again. As Alex is going through this cycle, he notices something. The fact that he has to start the J2EE container for each batch of testing really slows down his development cycle. The development cycle should go code, test, code, test. This pattern has now been replaced with code, wait, test, code, wait, test, code, wait, get increasingly frustrated...
While waiting for the container to start during another test run, Alex thinks, "Why am I using EJB in the first place?" The answer, of course, is because of the services it provides. But Alex isn't using entity beans, so he is not using persistence services. Alex is also not using the remoting or security services. In fact, the only EJB service Alex is going to use is transaction management. This leads Alex to another question: "Is there an easier way?"
1.1.2 Spring's pledge
The above story was a dramatization based on the current state of J2EE—specifically EJB. In its current state, EJB is complicated. It isn't complicated just to be complicated. It is complicated because EJBs were created to solve complicated things, such as distributed objects and remote transactions.
Unfortunately, a good number of enterprise projects do not have this level of complexity but still take on EJB's burden of multiple Java files and deployment descriptors and heavyweight containers. With EJB, application complexity is high, regardless of the complexity of the problem being solved—even simple applications are unduly complex. With Spring, the complexity of your application is proportional to the complexity of the problem being solved.
However, Spring recognizes that EJB does offer developers valuable services. So Spring strives to deliver these same services while simplifying the programming model. In doing so, it adopts a simple philosophy: J2EE should be easy to use. In keeping with this philosophy, Spring was designed with the following beliefs:
- Good design is more important than the underlying technology.
- JavaBeans loosely coupled through interfaces is a good model.
- Code should be easy to test.
Okay. So how does Spring help you apply this philosophy to your applications?.
Good design is more important than the underlying technology
As a developer, you should always be seeking the best design for your application, regardless of the implementation you choose. Sometimes the complexity of EJB is warranted because of the requirements of the application. Often, this is not the case. Many applications require few, if any, of the services provided by EJB yet are still implemented using this technology for technology's sake. If an application does not require distribution or declarative transaction support, it is unlikely that EJB is the best technology candidate. Yet many Java developers feel compelled to use EJB for every Java enterprise application.
The idea behind Spring is that you can keep your code as simple as it needs to be. If what you want are some plain-vanilla Java objects to perform some services supported by transparent transactions, you've got it. And you don't need an EJB container, and you don't have to implement special interfaces. You just have to write your code.
JavaBeans loosely coupled through interfaces is a good model
If you are relying on EJBs to provide your application services, your components do not just depend on the EJB business interface. They are also responsible for retrieving these EJB objects from a directory, which entails a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup and communicating with the bean's EJBHome interface. This is not creating a decoupled application. This is tightly coupling your application to a specific implementation, namely EJB.
With Spring, your beans depend on collaborators through interfaces. Since there are no implementation-specific dependencies, Spring applications are very decoupled, testable, and easier to maintain. And because the Spring container is responsible for resolving the dependencies, the active service lookup that is involved in EJB is now out of the picture and the cost of programming to interfaces is minimized. All you need to do is create classes that communicate with each other through interfaces, and Spring takes care of the rest.
Code should be easy to test
Testing J2EE applications can be difficult. If you are testing EJBs within a container, you have to start up a container to execute even the most trivial of test cases. Since starting and stopping a container is expensive, developers may be tempted to skip testing all of their components. Avoiding tests because of the rigidness of a framework is not a good excuse.
Because you develop Spring applications with JavaBeans, testing is cheap. There is no J2EE container to be started since you will be testing a POJO. And. since Spring makes coding to interfaces easy, your objects will be loosely coupled, making testing even easier. A thorough battery of tests should be present in all of your applications; Spring will help you accomplish this.
1.2 What is Spring?
Spring is an open-source framework, created by Rod Johnson and described in his book Expert One-on-One: J2EE Design and Development.1 It was created to address the complexity of enterprise application development. Spring makes it possible to use plain-vanilla JavaBeans to achieve things that were previously only possible with EJBs. However, Spring's usefulness isn't limited to server-side development. Any Java application can benefit from Spring in terms of simplicity, testability, and loose coupling.
Note: To avoid ambiguity, we'll use the term "EJB" when referring to Enterprise JavaBeans. When referring to the original JavaBean, we'll call it "JavaBean," or "bean" for short. Some other terms we may throw around are "POJO" (which stands for "plain old Java object") or "POJI" (which means "plain old Java interface").
Put simply, Spring is a lightweight inversion of control and aspect-oriented container framework. Okay, that's not so simple a description. But it does summarize what Spring does. To make more sense of Spring, let's break this description down:
- Lightweight—Spring is lightweight in terms of both size and overhead. The entire Spring framework can be distributed in a single JAR file that weighs in at just over 1 MB. And the processing overhead required by Spring is negligible. What's more, Spring is nonintrusive: objects in a Spring-enabled application typically have no dependencies on Spring-specific classes.
- Inversion of control—Spring promotes loose coupling through a technique known as inversion of control (IoC). When IoC is applied, objects are passively given their dependencies instead of creating or looking for dependent objects for themselves. You can think of IoC as JNDI in reverse—instead of an object looking up dependencies from a container, the container gives the dependencies to the object at instantiation without waiting to be asked.
- Aspect-oriented—Spring comes with rich support for aspect-oriented programming that enables cohesive development by separating application business logic from system services (such as auditing and transaction management). Application objects do what they're supposed to do—perform business logic—and nothing more. They are not responsible for (or even aware of) other system concerns, such as logging or transactional support.
- Container—Spring is a container in the sense that it contains and manages the life cycle and configuration of application objects. You can configure how your each of your beans should be created—either create one single instance of your bean or produce a new instance every time one is needed based on a configurable prototype—and how they should be associated with each other. Spring should not, however, be confused with traditionally heavyweight EJB containers, which are often large and cumbersome to work with.
- Framework—Spring makes it possible to configure and compose complex applications from simpler components. In Spring, application objects are composed declaratively, typically in an XML file. Spring also provides much infrastructure functionality (transaction management, persistence framework integration, etc.), leaving the development of application logic to you.
All of these attributes of Spring enable you to write code that is cleaner, more manageable, and easier to test. They also set the stage for a variety of subframeworks within the greater Spring framework.
1.2.1 Spring modules
The Spring framework is made up of seven well-defined modules (figure 1.1). When taken as a whole, these modules give you everything you need to develop enterprise-ready applications. But you do not have to base your application fully on the Spring framework. You are free to pick and choose the modules that suit your application and ignore the rest.
As you can see, all of Spring's modules are built on top of the core container. The container defines how beans are created, configured, and managed—more of the nuts-and-bolts of Spring. You will implicitly use these classes when you configure your application. But as a developer, you will most likely be interested in the other modules that leverage the services provided by the container. These modules will provide the frameworks with which you will build your application's services, such as AOP and persistence.
Figure 1.1 The Spring framework is composed of several well-defined modules.
The core container
Spring's core container provides the fundamental functionality of the Spring framework. In this module you'll find Spring's BeanFactory, the heart of any Spring-based application. A BeanFactory is an implementation of the factory pattern that applies IoC to separate your application's configuration and dependency specifications from the actual application code.
We discuss the core module (the center of any Spring application) throughout our book, Spring in Action from Manning Publications, starting in chapter 2, when we cover bean wiring using IoC.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The 300
I do have a slight problem with the title. More than 300 Greeks fought at the battle. There were 300 Spartans but there were also at least 700 Thebians who also fought and died. I know the title is based on the Frank Miller comic book but the Spartans were not the only heroes at the battle. Also, I question the film description that the Spartans were "drawing a line in the sand for democracy." The Spartans fought for many reasons but I do not think democracy was one of them.
From the Google Description of the film:
Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy. The film brings Miller's (Sin City) acclaimed graphic novel to life by combining live action with virtual backgrounds that capture his distinct vision of this ancient historic tale.
3 comments:
- Alexandra P said...
While I love the idea of 300, there is no way I will be going to see it. I saw Sin City without realising it was MA (Aussie rating, which means you must be over 15 to get into the cinema to see it - usually means it has extreme violence or sex, but not enough to push it up to R, which is 18+). I don't mind violence on the screen, but it was waaay too much for me. And I think 300 will be much the same, from the shorts I've seen. Plus, since it's based on the novel not history, I would imagine it will be... loose... with the historical narrative. Hence the indication that it is only about the Spartans, not the Thebans and others who took part!
Anyway, my 2c... I wish there were a more modern take on the battle, since I think it could be done really spectacularly!
- Jean-François said...
I'm afraid of Hollywood's way of putting glorified American values on historical setting. What will happen to this Greek tale? Democrat Spartan? Why not Muslim Persian just to make this even more clear?
I'm expecting the worse. From the Google video, it's not a very difficult bet to do.
Hey, but that mean I can spend that 2 hours on reading a nice book, good for me!
- The Minstrel Boy said...
while i love that some people will be reminded of the stand of the greeks at thermopolye i am leery of the comic book angle. this is a story that really doesn't need any "pumping" by hollywood. what happened is compelling enough. there is also a production of stephen pressfield's gates of fire in the pipe. i'll probably wait for that one and netflix this one.

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One of Victor Krulak's lasting legacies is his Naval Institute Press epic First to Fight – a riveting insider's chronicle of the unique esprit de corps displayed by U. S. Marines on and off the battlefield. Alluding to the general's role in pushing aside arguments to do away with the Corps, Publishers Weekly called the book "the most complete account to date of the Marines' struggle for the 'right to fight.' " The texts' lasting value is evidenced by its inclusion over many years on the Marine Corps' Recommended Reading List. In 2007, it was made required reading for all Marines. Explaining the decision, in the November 2008 edition of Proceedings , Commandant of the Marine Corps James Conway praised Victor Krulak's admonition that Marines "must see no mission as too dangerous, no notice too short, no task too humble." "Indeed," observed Conway, "the nation expects her Marines to roll out fast and hit hard on the other end, and this is what makes First to Fight the marquee title of the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program today."
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The Dark Earth and the Light Sky
'Two roads diverged in a… wood', runs 'The Road Not Taken', Robert Frost's most famous poem. But in Nick Dear's play, superbly but subtly directed by Richard Eyre, there were two men in that wood and it wasn't necessarily Frost who took the less-travelled path.
Edward Thomas was a jobbing writer when he befriended the American poet in London; Frost helped him towards poetry, although despite their shared worship of nature, they were very different poets. Thomas enlisted, dying in France in 1917 while his friend grew famous and old.
Dear flouts chronology and the fourth wall, letting his characters confide in us, the unborn audience, and so giving anachronistic voice to the women: Thomas's mistreated wife, Helen, and the writer Eleanor Farjeon, who is both salve and abrasive in the Thomases' complicated coupling.
On Bob Crowley's set, stark as a poem or a trench, Pip Carter is wonderful as Edward, a touchy yet oddly loveable depressive, as is Hattie Morahan as his fiery yet devoted wife. All that doubling – men and women, past and present, nature and civilization – doesn't preclude loneliness; far from it.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Mike Brey does not want to talk about March, but it's not for the reason you might think. He's not trying to hide from Notre Dame's lack of NCAA Tournament success. He very much wants to change that. But his strategy to achieve that goal includes not taking the Irish's presence in the field for granted.
Here's the tricky thing, though.
He's the one who brought it up.
We sat in his office on a Friday morning after Notre Dame had earned a huge victory over Kentucky that will help the Irish be selected to the tournament and perhaps earn a prominent seed, and Brey mentioned March several times, mostly to say he doesn't want it to be a topic of conversation until that month arrives.
Brey recalled that when the team returned to campus after losing its first 2012 tournament game to Xavier, "I said I didn't want us talking about March. That can start so early," Brey told Sporting News. "I said, 'With everything we've got coming back, what I want us to talk about in the summer is competing for a regular-season Big East championship.'
"We've never really talked about that on the front end. It's been more survival: Can we get a bid?"
The Irish have been close to the Big East title the past couple years. They were Pitt's closest pursuer in 2011, losing out by a single game. They were third last season, although the race wasn't close as Syracuse ran away to a 17-1 record. ND was picked to finish fourth this time.
It will be a challenge because of what Brey calls the "A schedule." Each Big East member plays all league opponents once, then four of them twice. ND's repeat games are preseason favorite Louisville, preseason top-25 pick Cincinnati, St. John's and DePaul. The schedule wasn't exactly kind in terms of home/road breakdown, either. The league has four other teams currently ranked; the Irish will play three of them on the road.
"When you're picked in the 'A schedule,' it can swallow you," Brey said. "It's swallowed us before."
Notre Dame is riding a stretch of three consecutive NCAA Tournament bids and five in the past six years. The concern for Irish fans is their team hasn't advanced to the Sweet 16 since 2003, and that was the only time in Brey's 12 previous years. In many of those seasons, the Irish weren't seeded to play to the second weekend, but in 2011 they were a No. 2 seed and fell to No. 7 Florida State.
What seems to be different about this team is that it has Notre Dame's customary age and experience but a slightly different skill set. The Irish often have been jumpshot-oriented on offense and average defensively. The 2011 team made just under a third of its field goals from 3-point range; last year's Final Four teams got only a bit more than a fifth of their baskets from deep.
The Irish's past five NCAA Tournament teams all had defensive issues to some degree. Their average ranking in defensive efficiency, compiled by KenPom.com, was 70th. Last year's Final Four teams all ranked in the top 10.
Brey acknowledged this, but of the 2013 Irish insists, "We're better. We're more engaged. We play it together. We take more pride in it. I think we're getting a little bit mature where if we're not having a good stretch offensively as individuals or as a team, it's not affecting us as much at the defensive end."
Not all the stats in the small sample size to date reflect that—with a 7-1 record, the Irish are 51st in defensive efficiency—but opponents have shot only 37.6 percent and averaged 58.5 points. So some do. And Kentucky's talented young squad managed only 50 points, which says something.
More important is that this team will have, in guards Eric Atkins and Jerian Grant, two players who can invent some offense when the opposing defense is stifling the Irish attack. That's an essential component of NCAA Tournament success.
"I don't know if we've ever had a backcourt like this," Brey said. "When we stall out, we can make some things happen. At that level, everybody's guarding. Before if we couldn't get a stagger screen for Matt Carroll or—then you're struggling. And we weren't as good defensively."
The Irish got some impressive contributions in the Kentucky win from freshman wing Cameron Biedscheid, whose 10 points off the bench included two back-breaking 3-pointers. His development likely will permit him to play a larger role as the season advances, and is one reason Brey looks at this team as one that can continue to improve. In 2010-11, he believed the Irish were "a finished product" on the second day of practice.
"We still can get better," Brey said. "We have to realize that. We've got to keep teaching."
It's important, as well, that Notre Dame manage the stress on sixth-year forward Scott Martin's legs and the beatings rugged center Jack Cooley absorbs on a routine basis. Following the Kentucky game, his arms and shoulders were scratched up like he'd just taken a stroll through a football field of thorn bushes. Martin will be given what some NFL coaches call "maintenance days" in practice, and Brey admits there'll be times when he calls Cooley over for a quick conversation during a contact drill he doesn't really need.
"We have a group that they're definitely built for it," Brey said. "We have a better shot at it."
He doesn't really need to say what "it" is. And he doesn't want to.
March will get here soon enough.


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A new government study shows that a decades-long trend toward retirement at a young age has reversed, probably because we can no longer afford it.
In 1950 —45.8 percent of men 65 and older were working, according to a report on 65+ in the United States: 2010, released June 30 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Through the decades of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, generous pension plans made it ever likelier that men would hang up their work boots at earlier ages.
By 1993, only 15.6 percent of men were working past age 65. (The number of women 65 and older who remained in the workforce has always been small, rising from 9.7 percent in 1950 to 10.6 percent in 2003.)
Then came a perfect storm of factors in the last decade that has encouraged more older men -- and women -- to stay on the job, with workforce participation in 2010 rising to 22.1 percent among men older than 64 and 13.8 percent among women of the same age.
"The rise in labor force participation is interesting as both a potentially long-running trend, and because we saw that during the recession that it was the older workers whose employment share actually rose. They were the only age group to have their employment share rise," says Loraine West, chief of the Eurasia branch of the population division of the Census Bureau and an author of the report.Here are some of the issues — benign and otherwise — that the study suggests are pushing people to work longer.
- People are living longer and their health is better at older ages.
- More people work with their brains rather than brawn.
- The age when people are able to collect an undiscounted amount of Social Security has climbed from age 65 to 67 for those born in 1960 and later.
- There's no Social Security earnings test penalty beginning at age 66. In 2000 the federal government eliminated a provision that limited the amount of wages workers could get paid and still collect their full monthly Social Security benefit for those who had reached full retirement age. According to the report, some studies found that this change resulted in a 3.5 percent increase in the employment of people older than 64 and a 2 percent increase in the employment of people age 66 to 69.
- The demise of old-fashioned, defined benefit pensions. The number of people expecting defined-benefit pensions, which puts the retirement planning burden on employers instead of workers, has declined from 62 percent in 2005 to 52 percent in 2010. Still fewer future retirees are expecting this kind of secure pension. Only one-third of employees in 2011 said that they or their spouses were participating in a defined benefit pension at their current jobs.
- Savings have declined. Nearly two-thirds of people ages 50 to 64 reported that they lost money in mutual funds, individual stocks or 401(k)-type retirement accounts during the recession. Among those older than 64, 5 percent lost more than 40 percent of their investments.
- Job loss prior to retirement. In 2010, the unemployment rate for people age 55 to 64 averaged 7.1 percent. That was more than double the average rate in 2007 of 3.1 percent.
Social Security is the No. 1 source of income for everyone older than 64, with 86.3 percent receiving it. About 52 percent also have income from savings and nearly 40 percent get some pension or other kind of income from their former employers. More than 26 percent also rely on income from work.
Expect that percentage to rise. "We haven't seen projections for the future, but researchers had already identified a rising trend in later retirements prior to the recession," West says.
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Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/27/2008 5:52:39 PMI can't help but smile Cheryl, great timing and image! #950397
Cheryl Schneider 6/27/2008 5:59:11 PMThanks, Donna. Slim (the giraffe) is quite a character. He milks the tourists for all he can get. #6115172
Brett Dolsen 6/27/2008 6:24:19 PMAwesome Cheryl!!Brett #6115227
Christian Rosito 6/27/2008 6:24:59 PMFabulous, great shot Cheryl, the whole scene is excellent! #6115229
maria Warren 6/27/2008 6:39:47 PMawesome photo :)great timing #6115258
Erica Murphy 7/21/2008 12:53:47 PMCongratulations Cheryl! This is cute. #6206717
Lisa J. Boulden 7/21/2008 1:20:26 PMOMG!
Deborah C. Lewinson 7/21/2008 4:45:54 PMFabulous image, Cheryl! Congratulations on your finalist!
Anne M. Young 7/21/2008 6:21:52 PMFantastic shot - love it. Congratulations #6209637
Cheryl Schneider 7/21/2008 7:49:21 PMThanks everyone for your comments. Slim does love to ham it up. Cheryl #6210291
Kristy A. Keene 7/22/2008 3:03:07 AMCongrats on your Finalist!! #6211731
Anastasia Hoff 7/22/2008 4:10:17 AMI see the winner. Congratulations Cheryl on this wonderful finalist.
Slim, the giraffe, taking full advantage of a wagon stop at Global Wildlife Center, Loranger, Louisiana
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I am not a lawyer and don't play one on TV. However, I thought in this country one was innocent until proven guilty. Isn't that basic stuff?
Doesn't that mean the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt the defendant is guilty? At least, that's what I get from watching Law & Order.
I don't get Judge Jed S. Rakoff's reasoning the burden of proof falls on Fred Wilpon to prove his innocense. None of this makes sense. It doesn't seem logical. And, Rakoff does not offer a legal precedence in explaining his decision.
First off all, the perpetrator in all this is Bernie Madoff, who is already serving time for his part in the Ponzi scandal. Yes, the Wilpons invested with Madoff and made money. But, didn't they also lose money? Didn't they have money in accounts with Madoff when this came to light? Doesn't it make sense they would have pulled all their funds before the roof collapsed?
Since the Wilpons didn't work actively with Madoff, I don't understand why they should be held responsible for the losses of others. Why aren't other investors the target of Irving Picard? On the surface that doesn't seem right. It seems Picard is going after an easy, and public, target.
There's no proof the Wilpons actively fleeced investors. If there was it seems that's something the prosecution should prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
What Madoff did was despicable, but I haven't heard where the Mets were taking investors' checks on his behalf.


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Gnar Board- RIP
Jen Gilanfarr's Gnar Board, 2, passed away on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 while riding on Lake Pearl in Orlando, FL. An inside out kickflip attempt spelled the demise of this great friend, when it splintered and broke upon landing.
Gnar Board came into this world as a 2006 Melissa Marquardt 41. It originally belonged to Stef Tor, but was purchased by Jen for $20 in August 2007. After a new paint and grip tape job, Gnar Board was first ridden by Jen on Lake Conway.
Over it's life, Gnar Board saw Jen learn almost every trick she knows, including wake to wake 180s, w2w shuvs, rentry shuvs, body varials and many variations there in. The custom paint job didn't hold up as well as the board itself though.
Gnar Board is survived by a torn pair of Volcom shorts, some beat up slip-on Classics, an old O'neill vest someone left at Odub and Jen Gilanfarr. Funeral service will be an open viewing of the framed board on Jen's wall.


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Last week, Jennifer Paganelli and I launched two new dress patterns (and of course I am the last to blog about them...that doesn't mean I'm not excited, I'm just all wrapped up in the next set of patterns)! Jamie and Marissa are classic dresses with lots of gorgeous details that make them modern and special. The straps, the waistline, the full skirt...everyone is swooning! The fitted waistline flatters women and girls of all sizes.
To get a great fit like this, the design requires what the pros call "fit control." It can come in many forms...shirring, ties, buttons, etc. In this case, a zipper was truly the best (and easiest) option. Now I know a lot of folks are afraid of zippers and rightly so...most patterns don't really tell you to install them. Rather, they refer you to the zipper manufacturer's 1/2" wide inserted instructions, which give you multiple options in several different languages.
This pattern actually features a side zipper, so the back is nice and clean. This picture was captured mid-twirl.
Here is another mid-twirl pic...you can better see how the back of the dress hangs (and I love her curls)!
Zippers really aren't that hard to install. In fact, it only took me two pages to describe "my way," and I am a super wordy type. I've posted those two pages so you can see for yourself if it is something you want to tackle.
See??? Easy peasy!!! I had several testers who were staunchly "anti-zipper" and they were shocked and amazed at their zipper abilities! The glue stick makes it SO easy! Once you are putting in zippers, think of the sewing doors that will be opened for you!


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I should have learned by now that openly declaring my skepticism about a book pretty much ensures that it will become one of my absolute favorites. That's exactly what happened when I was handed The 5th Wave earlier this year. But boy, was I wrong. (And don't just take my word for it.) So stop reading this post and go get a copy of The 5th Wave right now. I'll wait…. Anyway, since Rick Yancey's sci-fi thriller is out today, we caught up with the author so he could answer some of our burning questions. Check out his answers after the jump.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I was a little hesitant to read The 5th Wave because I'm not typically into stories about aliens. How did you manage to write a book about aliens that doesn't really feel like it's a book about aliens?
RICK YANCEY: Because it isn't! It's about us after a devastating, species-threatening event. I admit things got a little schizophrenic while I wrote this book. One minute I'm Cassie shivering in a tent, alone in the woods. The next I'm an alien thousands of years more advanced than us, plotting our extermination. The 5th Wave is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
Where did you come up with the idea for The 5th Wave?
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point. Late one night my wife and I were talking, and I asked her to tell me her greatest fear. She didn't hesitate: "Being abducted by aliens." And I said, "Really? That isn't even in my top 50." She explained: "Not only would the experience be terrifying, but afterwards no one would believe you!" You would be, in other words, totally isolated, cut off from help during the event and after. That conversation sank deep into the well. Years later, I ran across an interview with the physicist Stephen Hawking, who remarked that alien contact should not be something we look forward to. If they're out there, he said, we should hope they never find us. It hit me that most invasion stories don't even come close to what we might expect. Cassie opens her story with that observation. The aliens of The 5th Wave are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.
How did you come up with the five waves. I wouldn't classify this as a scary book, but the waves are totally realistic and frightening!
I'm not the first to speculate about what might happen when they find us. The concept of a series of attacks, rather than a War of the Worlds full-frontal assault, seems logical to me. I mean, there's over seven billion of us. And if the goal is to "kick out the deadbeat tenant," you wouldn't want to wreak wholesale devastation of your new home. You would study humans for a long time, study the planet upon which they live, and use that knowledge to your advantage. Each "wave" then leads logically to the next. First, take away technology, knock the humans back a couple of centuries. Then exploit two obvious facts: plate tectonics and the fact that 40 percent of the population live within 60 miles of a coastline. And so on. I agree that the waves are very frightening, and the reason they're so frightening is that they are perfectly plausible.
If/when "the Others" take over the planet, do you think this is how it would really happen?
I think so, or something very close to it. When I was researching the idea, I ran across the Fermi Paradox, which points out that 1) the odds are overwhelming, given the size and age of the universe, that we are NOT alone and 2) if this is the case, why is there no evidence — zero, zilch, nada — of it? Ancient astronaut theorists tell us we do have evidence; I'm not so sure. I believe they are out there. I also think the odds are good they'll leave us alone. We're either too far away or not worth the trouble. I chose to think that so I can sleep at night.
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I tiptoed into the hushed fog-shrouded woods, peering up at the massive giants around me. The wooden walkway angled off in the distance. Alone with the trees, the faint twitter of birds high in the canopy and the trickle of the small creek that runs alongside the path; like my first visit to St. Peter's in Rome, I wanted to fall down and worship in the cathedral. I walked softly; breathing in the cool damp April air. I spotted movement along a fallen trunk, a liquid drop of sunshine with a tiny black beret flitted amidst the leaves. It was my first look at a Wilson's Warbler. I walked deeper into the woods marveling at the trees, reading the posted signs, tenderly touching the shaggy gnarled bark, Breathing in the piney smell. It was a day I will never forget.
I have been back to Muir Woods many times alone and with family and friends. I have been there in different seasons, but the first time was the most magical. It is not far over the Golden Gate bridge. Next time you are in San Francisco, take some time to drive up. it is so worth it.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Muir Woods
Labels: California, Muir Woods, redwoods, San Francisco, tours, trees
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The first time and only time I went to Muir Woods, I spent a long time watching a wren hopping around in the underbrush. Beautiful small bird among those tall, tall trees. Pam H.
- July 22, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- deejbrown said...
Thank you for sharing Muir Woods with me, a newbie to this unique forest. I will never forget it.
- July 22, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Bevson said...
When we were there, we saw many dark chocolate-brown winter wrens. One was flying back and forth to a small nest tucked into a cavity in a redwood. 3 tiny beaks gaped open waiting.
- July 22, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Maybe they were related to the one I saw . . . Many generations later. Nice thought. - Pam
- July 23, 2008 at 4:12 PM
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Taking inspiration from a 26-foot-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe that was recently unveiled in Chicago, Conan O'Brien revealed a gigantic, partially nude statue of trombonist Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg in this 'Conan' rehearsal outtake.
There is no actual statue of the musician, instead, a magnified live image of LaBamba was superimposed over a shot of the Conan studio. Warning : He's wearing nothing but shoes, a hat and a much-too-tight bathing suit.
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From three of the most interesting things I've read recently and, thus, started thinking about together...
M. John Harrison:
A world can be built in a sentence, but epic fantasy doesn't want that. At the same time, it isn't really baggy or capacious, like Pynchon or Gunter Grass. It has no V. It has no Dog Years. It has no David Foster Wallace. It isn't a generous genre. The same few stolen cultures & bits of history, the same few biomes, the same few ideas about things. It's a big bag but there isn't much in it. With deftness, economy of line, good design, compression & use of modern materials, you could ram it full of stuff. You could really build a world. But for all the talk, that's not what that kind of fantasy wants. It wants to get away from a world. This one.
Ian Sales on Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey:
There are some 150 million people living in the Asteroid Belt. The greatest concentration is six million in the tunnels inside the dwarf planet Ceres. There is no diversity. There is passing mention of nationalities other than the authors' own – and a bar the characters frequent plays banghra music – but the viewpoint cast are American in outlook and presentation. Ceres itself is like some inner city no-go zone, with organised crime, drug-dealing, prostitution, under-age prostitution, endemic violence against women, subsistence-level employment… Why? It's simply not plausible. Why would a space-based settlement resemble the worst excesses of some bad US TV crime show? The Asteroid Belt is not the Wild West, criminals and undesirables can't simply wander in of their own accord and set up shop. Any living space must be built and maintained and carefully controlled, and everything in it must in some way contribute. A space station is much like an oil rig in the North Sea – and you don't get brothels on oil rigs.
Further, what does all this say about gender relations in the authors' vision of the twenty-second century? That women still are second-class citizens. One major character's boss is a woman, and another's executive officer is also female. But that female boss plays only a small role, and everything the XO does she does because she has the male character's permission to do so (and it's not even a military spaceship).
Paul Di Filippo on Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany:
Given that the book achieves liftoff into SF territory halfway through, you need to know that Delany does not stint on his speculative conceits. His hand is as sure as of old. The future history he creates is genuinely insightful and innovative. But it's always background, half-seen. Because our heroes are living in a semi-rural backwater and are self-professed "Luddites," their mode of life is more archaic than the lifestyles of others. But the shifting world keeps bumping up against them, rather in the manner of Haldeman's The Forever War. Eric and Shit move ahead almost in a series of discontinuous jumps, waking up at random moments like Haldeman's returning soldiers to find the world growing stranger and less comprehensible and less welcoming around them. It's as if they are riding a time machine whose intervals of travel are ever-increasing. By the end of the book, the two ancient lovers are relics, fossils, and the mutant children who, in a sense their actions helped birth, are golden-eyed and alien.
Delany's focus on such humble men—both Eric and Shit proclaim their lives to have been full and happy and joyous, but ultimately inconsequential, and no other character beside Robert Kyle is a Bigtime Player, and he's mostly offstage—is the ultimate enactment of the goals discussed in Ursula Le Guin's essay "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown". No wars, no heists, no inventions, no high drama, no bigger-than-life supermen propel this story. To pervert the title of Aaron Copland's famous work, it's a "Fanfare for the Common Horndog." And yet by this very limitation, by the intensity with which Delany inhabits the simple lives of his heroes, the book assumes that majesty which all eternal and humble things acquire, when seen a-right.


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Taylor Kinney, who any self-respecting little monster knows is Lady Gaga's hunky boyfriend, was on the TODAY show this week, promoting his new series 'Chicago Fire,' which is doing well in the ratings.
That's probably partly due to the fact that she tweets about it and encourages little monsters to watch the show. That's some homegrown, grassroots marketing and word of mouth promotion right there isn't it?
Hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford mentioned that Gaga was tweeting about the show, so that's how they segued into asking Kinney about their relationship. So here it is, straight from the horse's mouth.
"I think it's great," he said about her support of his new series. "She's a girlfriend being proud of her boyfriend and she's excited. She's been on the set a few times."
Kotb and Gifford were skeptical of couple's relationship with such busy schedules, and probed Kinney about how the two are able to sustain romance. "She hasn't said anything but [I think] she has a spaceship," the charming actor said. "She can get from A to B quickly."
Now that sounds like Gaga right there! It's probably a spaceship with unicorns and lots of little monster drawings.
They also asked Kinney what dating a massive global pop star like is like, and if it can ever be normal, which he downplayed a bit. "I don't know, I don't have that outside view. I guess it's normal, in that respect," he said.
Normal usually isn't a word in the Gaga vocabulary, but we're glad she is in a healthy, normal relationship with a normal and super cute guy.
He continued, "I guess… for whatever reason it works, I'm a happy guy. I'm a lucky guy." Notice the glint in his eye when he speaks about the Mother Monster? She's in good hands, little monsters!


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Even better, to my mind, than the summer version. It may seem extravagant to make this with wine but you don't need a fantastic bottle. A passable Chilean Merlot or something similar left over from the night before is perfectly good enough.
I've sometimes made this in the morning for that evening, but it tastes better if you can wait until the next day.–Diana Henry
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This recipe is a smidgen vague in certain places. Intentionally so. It's because the vagaries inherent in various types of fruit in varying stages of ripeness make it a little tricky for us to articulate exactly how long to simmer your fruit and precisely how much liquid you should expect. Suffice it to say, simply simmer the boozy fruit concoction until it turns syrupy. Then spoon what seems a judicious amount of that syrup over the bread in the bowl. If you've syrup left over, refrain from the compulsion to dump it all in the bowl, as that will lead to one thing and one thing only—refrigerator shelves stained purple from when the bread on top soaks up all the wine and causes the bowl to overflow. (A fetching shade of purple, but still, purple.) Instead save the syrup in a separate container and spoon it over the unmolded pudding or, even better, savor it drizzled over a scoop or three of vanilla bean ice cream.
Autumn Pudding
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- Serves 8
- 2/3 cup dried cranberries (optional)
- 8 dried apple slices (optional)
- 1 pound apples, peeled, cored, and thickly sliced
- 1 pound plums, unpeeled, halved, pitted, and thickly sliced
- 2 1/2 cups red wine
- 1 cup superfine sugar (or just blitz granulated sugar in a blender until finely ground but not powdery)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 cup fresh blackberries (in a pinch, frozen blackberries will do)
- 1/3 cup crème de cassis, plus more for drizzling (optional)
- 1 pound fine-grained white bread, such as a Pullman loaf, sliced 1/2- to 3/4-inch thick, crusts trimmed
- Whipped cream or crème fraîche, for serving
- 1. Place the dried fruit, if using, in a bowl and add just enough boiling water to cover. Let plump for about 15 minutes. Drain the fruit, discarding the liquid.
- 2. Place the fresh apples and plums, wine, sugar, and cinnamon in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring to help the sugar dissolve. Simmer until the fruit is almost tender and the wine has reduced somewhat. (The timing will vary depending on the ripeness of your fruit and the thickness of your slices.) Add the blackberries to the pan along with the dried fruit, if using, and cook for 5 minutes. Strain the mixture, reserving both the fruit and the syrup separately. Add the cassis to the syrup if desired. Taste the syrup and, if a sweeter or boozier syrup is desired, adjust the ingredients accordingly. Similarly, if the syrup is still quite a lot more like water than syrup, simmer it slightly longer to reduce it. Let the syrup cool to room temperature.
- 3. Cut 1 slice of bread in a circle to fit the bottom of a pudding bowl—that is to say, any large bowl with a capacity of at least 6 cups. Line the pudding bowl with a couple large sheets of plastic wrap. Then line it with a single layer of bread, beginning with the circular piece in the bottom and being sure to dip each slice in the cooled syrup before you place it in the bowl. Cut the bread into broad fingers if that helps you fit the slices in the bowl. Fill in any little gaps between slices by tearing off smaller bits of bread to fit. You will have some bread leftover.
- 4. Using a slotted spoon, plop half the fruit in the bread-lined bowl. Discard the cinnamon stick when you happen upon it. Place a single layer of bread slices on the fruit, first dipping the bread in the syrup before placing it in the bowl and again filling in any odd gaps with bread torn to fit. Spoon the remaining fruit on top of the bread and finish with another layer of undipped bread. If any syrup remains, pour it over the bread.
- 5. Place a small plate (it needs to have a diameter smaller than that of the bowl) on top of the bread and weight it with cans or a heavy bottle. Loosely cover the bowl and place it in a baking pan in case of spills. Refrigerate for 24 hours.
- 6. To unmold the pudding, just before serving, invert it onto a large plate and remove the plastic wrap. (If you didn't listen to us and failed to line the bowl with plastic wrap, you may wish to run a thin, narrow knife between the pudding and the edge of the bowl prior to unmolding.) If you're feeling flush, pour some more cassis over the pudding to create a nice glossy sheen and an slightly boozy oomph. Slice the pudding with a serrated knife and serve with a dollop of whipped cream or crème fraîche.
Pudding Variations:
- Nix the Dried Apples I love the texture of dried apples, but you don't have to use them.
Pricey Blackberries And if you don't have a source for blackberries—they're so expensive you really have to go blackberrying for them—increase the quantity of plums.
If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #LeitesCulinaria. We'd love to see your creations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.


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This is an activity about the Kp index, a quantification of fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field due to the relative strength of a magnetic storm. Learners will take a reading from a magnetometer site and make a Kp index estimate to predict... (View More) whether or not an aurora display will occur near that site. This resource is designed to support student analysis of THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) Magnetometer line-plot data. This activity requires the use of a computer with Internet access. This is activity 18 in Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality. (View Less)
This is an activity about auroras and the scientific terminology used to describe them. Learners will read an article that provides an introduction to specific terms and concepts related to auroras and auroral substorms and examine photographs of a... (View More) 2003 aurora and descriptions of an 1859 aurora to identify the various phases of auroral substorms. This is activity 11 from Exploring Magnetism: Magnetic Mysteries of the Aurora. (View Less)


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Weekend mornings seem best suited for surfing or golfing. But sometimes there are more pressing things – like saving a little boy from racism.
After two hours of sharing racial incidents and exploring solutions, a mostly African American gathering forms an enormous circle at a church in Irvine. Holding hands, we sing a song I've not heard for many years.
More than 150 voices rise together: "Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome someday."
I flash back to a hot August day in 1963 when we lived in Washington, D.C. My mother came home singing that song, telling of a man who dreamed of a nation in which children would be judged not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
My eyes fill with tears. A half-century later, Martin Luther King's dream remains unrealized and the song we sing still applies.
I share with Betty Ladson. She looks me in the eye and says our nation is nothing like it was in 1963 when she was a high school student in Portsmouth, Va. Now, 67 and living in Anaheim, she tells me, "We can see the fruits of our labors. There is hope."
But Ladson allows that living in Orange County, she sometimes feels like a fly in a bowl of milk.
Yes, there is work to do. And on this Saturday it is listening to stories.
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Sitting in a circle of about 15 people at Christ Our Redeemer AME Church, Dominicia Buford of Yorba Linda says her eldest son has been the victim of bullying in high school.
He's a large lad and I whisper in his ear, "Really?"
He stares at the floor for a moment, looks at me and solemnly nods.
Buford says her son was hazed, members of a sports team sat on his face and his backpack was scrawled with homophobic slurs. She says one student was disciplined with a one-day suspension.
She says, "I can't be late to pick up my son."
Buford says one teacher attempted to explain away the issue by saying, "We're not used to your kind in our neighborhood."
Irvine Police Chief David Maggard calls Buford's story "very, very disturbing."
Now, some of you will nod while others may shake your heads in disbelief, just as Buford says some school administrators did.
Believe or don't. But consider what I reported in my six-part series in October on white supremacy: The number of hate groups in the U.S. has skyrocketed in the past four years with the Southern Poverty Law Center reporting more than 1,000 hate groups.
Consider also that the OC Human Relations Commission documented a 14 percent increase in hate crimes last year, with the most incidents – 19 – against African Americans.
With Orange County's African American population hovering around 2 percent for decades, the statistics are especially troubling.
But as Ladson says, there is hope.
• • •
There are 10 discussion circles in the main worship room at Christ Our Redeemer. Most circles include a member of law enforcement, an OC Human Relations representative and a pastor. They are there to facilitate and take notes.
Chris Buford, Dominicia's husband, tells of driving and hearing young men shout "white power."
Buford adds that when African American teens get together to go to a mall, they must think several steps ahead to avoid confrontations. He calls having to take such precautions "frustrating."
Ladson tells me her daughter was pulled over by police for not wearing a seat belt. But she says her daughter was belted.
Hers is an all too common experience for African Americans, especially for blacks driving luxury cars. For decades, it's even had its own nickname, DWB, "driving while black."
Several participants agree such racial profiling is increasingly rare. Racial epithets also are declining. Still …
Linda Hammond, an Irvine microbiologist, tells me that she loves Orange County and that problems are exceptionally rare. Yet she, too, has a story.
Hammond was at the grocery store and two employees started muttering "chocolate milk."
She was not in the dairy section.
Speaking less about her than about the two employees, Hammond says, "It made me feel sad."
• • •
Junie Davis, an Irvine salon operator, advises, "Sometimes, you just got to blow people off."
But Davis also points out that turning the other cheek often isn't enough. "We need to empower our kids to be able to use conflict resolution."
After the discussion groups conclude, Marion Wheeler, an attorney and member of the Thurgood Marshall Bar Association, tells the group how to get along with white people: "Love them."
You can hear hope for reverse love in the applause.
UCI Vice Chancellor Thomas Parnham reminds, "The only way hate reigns is when we allow it to reign through our silence."
To ensure continued dialogue, the Human Relations Commission plans a series of such meetings. Next steps include looking for common themes among the stories. Then the commission will seek out and approach organizations best suited to tackle those themes.
But each one of us – right here, right now – holds the power for change.
• • •
There are certain things that simply happen and there are certain things we choose.
I recently read an article about a motorcycle builder who said he "happens" to be a Hells Angel. Sorry pal, you chose to be an outlaw biker.
That is not the case when it comes to race. After singing "We Shall Overcome," the two women to the right and left of me – both of whom happen to be black – hug and thank me for coming.
For a moment, I'm confused. Thank yous for showing up? But after reflection, I realize they were thanking me for caring. I don't deserve thanks.
Looking at the cross above the altar, I remember the time a guy told me a joke that involved an African American, except he used a very different term. I said nothing. Here's the weird part: I didn't want to offend the guy.
Sometimes, things that take the least effort are the most difficult.
Talking to Ladson, a speech pathologist, I ask how she copes with racism. She usually smiles.
We talk about the civil rights movement of 50 years ago. As we chat, her grandson, Josiah, hugs a white blanket. Josiah will celebrate his second birthday this month.
Let's join hands so Josiah in another 50 years doesn't feel the need to sing, "We shall overcome – someday."
David Whiting's column appears four days a week; email@example.com.


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Upper Treman State Park
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Ithaca, NY 14850
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The Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park will be hosting "Heritage Day" in the Upper Park on Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 1 – 4 pm. Events will include guided tours of the Mill, naturalist conducted tours of the gorge and an "in progress" archeological dig at the site of the former Hamlet of Enfield Falls. Excavations are being carried out by Dr. Sherene Baugher and her students and visitors are welcome. There are several new exhibits in the Mill which highlight aspects of life in the camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps as well as in the former Hamlet of Enfield Falls.
Come and enjoy the beauty of the park, see all of the new displays and stop by for a chat at the (always interesting) archeological dig.
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About FERC Directory of Judges
Judge Philip C. Baten
Judge Baten is a 1980 graduate of Virginia's George Mason Law School and graduated with distinction in the upper 10 percent of his class. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in political science from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Judge Baten belongs to the District of Columbia Bar, Federal Bar Association and Washington Bar Association.
From 2005 until his arrival at FERC in May 2010, Judge Baten was an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that, Judge Baten was in private practice for nearly 23 years, developing extensive experience in criminal and civil litigation.
Judge Baten also served in a number of administrative and analytical positions at Howard University from 1973 to 1982. A Vietnam veteran, Judge Baten attained the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force and was awarded the Bronze Star.


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Mike Munchak interviewed for the head-coaching job at Penn State today. Unless he didn't.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN reported that Munchak would be interviewing for the job vacated by Bill O'Brien, the new coach of the Houston Texans. Munchak tells Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean that the 32-year employee of the Oilers/Titans franchise didn't interview with Penn State on Sunday. Instead, Munchak spent the day cleaning out his office at the Titans' facility.
Munchak also disputed the idea that he was fired because he refused to make changes to his staff.
"It's not like 'Munch isn't here anymore because he wouldn't fire two guys,'" Munchak said. "In my eyes, there was more to it than that. . . . I stand up four guys who are good coaches. It bothers me when people say I'm not here because I didn't want to fire my friends."
Munchak also disputes the idea that he provoked his termination.
"I wanted to be here," Munchak said. "I have been here for 30 years. These jobs are hard to come by. . . . I know a lot of people might not have been happy if I was back. But I had a plan and I believed it was going to work."
He also knows that his days of being an NFL head coach are likely over.
"I know the chance of me being a head coach again in the NFL aren't that great," Munchak said. "Most guys get one shot at it."
The next question is whether Munchak will now get a shot at taking over at his alma mater. While the interview may not have happened Sunday, there's always a chance he'll interview on Monday.
Unless he doesn't.


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digitalmars.D.bugs - Uncaught errors should go to stderr
- Stewart Gordon (15/15) Oct 04 2004 errors.html
- Stewart Gordon (11/11) Jun 20 2005 A fix was written for this before, but for some reason Walter seems not
Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:
errors.html "If no catch handlers are there for the errors, then the program gracefully exits through the default error handler with an appropriate message." However, the errors are written to stdout. This means that if the output is redirected, the error will not appear to the user there and then. Someone would run a program, redirect its output, and think that the program has run successfully since no error message has appeared. Only when he/she/someone else reads the output file, which may be ages later, is it discovered that the program didn't finish, but has written a message like "Error: Access Violation" to the file. To me, this doesn't constitute gracefully exiting in any sense. The default error handler should write the error message to stderr, not stdout. That's what stderr's there for, isn't it? Stewart.
Oct 04 2004
Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:
A fix was written for this before, but for some reason Walter seems not ready to put in the patches that the patch for this depends on. Therefore, I hereby contribute a patch to fix only this issue while leaving the dubious issues alone. Now, as far as I'm concerned there's no reason not to land this in 0.128. The sooner it gets in, the more time will be potentially saved and the better for the D public image. Stewart. -- My e-mail is valid but not my primary mailbox. Please keep replies on the 'group where everyone may benefit.
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February 2009 Toyota 4x4 Truck Rides - Readers RidesPosted in Features on February 1, 2009
Tuner Titan
Vehicle: '82 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Jody Dotson
Tires & Wheels: 42x15 TSLs on 15x15
Suspension: Custom 12-inch
Drivetrain: Detroit Lockers, 5.71 gears
Performance Mods: 22R
Other Doodads: Warn winch
Does everything work the way you want?: Works great
Anything you would change?: Hydraulic assist
Fordyce Fun
Vehicle: '85 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Brian Root, Meadow Vista, CA
Tires & Wheels: 35x12.50 BFG A-Ts on 15x10
Suspension: 63-inch Chevy rear springs
Drivetrain: Dual transfer cases, Detroit Locker
Performance Mods: 22RE
Other Doodads: OTT Hi-steer, Warn winch
Does everything work the way you want?: Pretty much
Anything you would change?: Front locker and 5.29 gears
Which Way?
Vehicle: '83 Toyota Hilux
Owner: Carsten Harfallet, Norway
Tires & Wheels: 35x16 Boggers on 15x12 Rock Crawlers
Suspension: 4-inch
Drivetrain: 700R4, Toyota transfer case, front ARB Air Locker, E-Z Locker in rear, 4.88 gears
Performance Mods: 4.3L
Other Doodads: Fiberglass fenders, bobbed bed, internal 'cage, Warn winch, All Pro Hy-Steer
Does everything work the way you want?: Works great and the best part is that it's street-legal in Norway!
Anything you would change?: Drum brakes and stock Birfields
Mini Monroe
Vehicle: '84 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Jeffrey Monroe, Wilderville, OR
Tires & Wheels: 33-inch BFG M-Ts on 15-inch Rock Crawlers
Suspension: 3-inch, Rancho shocks
Drivetrain: Stock
Performance Mods: 22R, RV2 performance cam, bored 0.025 over, Webber carburetor, Edelbrock header
Other Doodads: 3-inch body lift
Does everything work the way you want?: Of course, it's a Toyota!
Anything you would change?: Add ARB Air Lockers
Vehicle: '87 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Steve McQuillin, Mosinee, WI
Tires & Wheels: 35x12.50 Mickey Thompson MTZs on 15-inch steel
Suspension: Straight-axle conversion with 4-inch Trail Gear springs up front, 63-inch Chevy rear springs, Bilstein shocks
Drivetrain: G54, 5:1 Inchworm transfer case, Aussie Locker front, Lock-Right rear, homemade square front driveshaft
Performance Mods: 22R
Other Doodads: Custom bed
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes, it works great
Anything you would change?: 30-spline Longfields, twin-stick transfer case, and a high-pinion front third member
Anything to add?: Always bring toilet paper on long trail rides. Leaves don't work so well.
Converted One
Vehicle: '89 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Trevor N. Taryn, Pietrzykowski Youbou, B.C., Canada
Tires: 33x13.50 Claws
Suspension: Custom straight-axle conversion, 4-inch springs
Drivetrain: Toyota transfer case, Lincoln locker front, Detroit Locker rear, 4.37 gears
Performance Mods: Stock
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes
Anything you would change?: New motor and change the gears in the transfer case
Anything to add?: Truck was originally two-wheel drive. Total transformation took 36 hours.
Lone Ride
Vehicle: '84 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Garrett Dean, Camp Pendleton, CA
Tires & Wheels: 35x12.50 MT/Rs on 15x10 steel
Suspension: 3-inch All Pro front leaf springs with 1-inch Downey shackles, All Pro buggy leaves in the rear with Johnny Joint shackles, Bilstein shocks
Drivetrain: Marlin Crawler transfer-case box, ARB Air Locker front with a Birfield eliminator kit and Warn hubs, Detroit Locker rear with All Pro chromoly axleshafts, 5.29 gears
Performance Mods: LC Engineering 22R Street Performer, Downey exhaust
Other Doodads: Optima YellowTop, Warn winch, fiberglass front fenders, bobbed bed, custom bumpers, sliders, and 'cage
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Flipped it onto its side and broke five steering-arm studs while wheeling alone. Thankfully I had a winch and was able to get it righted then limp it 50 miles back to town.
Does everything work the way you want?: For the most part
Anything you would change?: Convert to fuel injection and 37-inch tires
Vehicle: '85 Toyota mini-truck
Owner: Aaron Thompson, Spokane, WA
Tires & Wheels: 33x12.50 Wildcat All Terrains on 15x8.5
Suspension: 3.5-inch
Drivetrain: Centerforce clutch, Truetrac
Performance Mods: 22RE
Other Doodads: Custom bumpers, sliders, and spare-tire mount
Funniest Wheeling Incident: Spent seven hours stuck in mud hole because I wanted to test my new tires' off-road performance.
Does everything work the way you want?: Yes


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I was searching google with safe search = off, and I saw someone had posted pictures of their Vagacini on Flickr. You don't often see Vagacini on Flickr, but I'd say that this one is pretty hot. There was only one Vagacini closeup shot, but you can tell it is super tight. You couldn't fit bigger rubber in there, or at least not in the front.
images from tonniejansen's flickr page
File under :unfortunate brand names
And that reminds me of this classic Mike Meyers film clip


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University of Detroit Mercy continually hosts exciting presentations by preeminent people. We're happy to share the audio and video with you as "UDMcasts," including UDM's Ask The Professor, the long-running national radio program, now also available online.
Use the links to the left to browse UDMcasts.
Featured UDMcasts
Greg Boyle, S.J., at 2014 First Year Convocation
Fr. Greg, as he is called by the former gang members whom he employs, speaks of experiences and lessons he's learned over decades of working with gang-involved youth in Los Angeles. Fr. Boyle is founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles and author of Tattoos on the Heart. Watch the video.
Howard Gray, S.J., on dialogue
Fr. Howard Gray, S.J. talks about the components of meaningful dialogue, especially inter-religious dialogue. He describes how developing and revealing our personal narratives help us meet others humbly in a shared humanity, so that dialogue results not only in understanding, but in trust, love, justice and peace. Watch the video.
UDM Mission & Identity Retreat
John Staudenmaier, S.J., UDM's assistant to the president for Mission and Identity, led a retreat to deepen our understanding of what it means that UDM is a university, and one that describes itself as Catholic, Jesuit/Mercy and urban. Available as video and audio. Go to the Retreat UDMcasts.
Authors Elmore Leonard '50 and Peter Leonard
University alumnus Elmore Leonard '50 and his son Peter Leonard, both successful fiction writers, spent some time together at UDM discussing their work. Watch the event.
President Garibaldi's Inaugural Address
Antoine M. Garibaldi gives his Inaugural address on the occasion of his installation as the 25th president of University of Detroit Mercy, April 13, 2012. Watch video or download MP3 audio.
Bob Lutz, Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
Robert Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors in North America, discusses topics from his latest book, Car Guys vs. Bean Counters, on Jan. 25, 2012. Watch video or download MP3.
Leonardo da Vinci Medal Lecture by John Staudenmaier, S.J.
John M. Staudenmaier, S.J., UDM assistant to the president for Mission & Identity, speaks on the occasion of receiving the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the highest honor of the Society for the History of Technology. Listen now.
Industry leaders at Ford Innovation Day 2011
On Nov. 3, 2011, Ford Motor Company and University of Detroit Mercy joined together to celebrate innovation and collaboration on Ford Innovation Day, this year as part of UDM's Engineering Centennial year. Ford's President and CEO Alan Mulally and University alumnus Derrik Kuzak, Ford's Group Vice President for Global Product Development both gave presentations you can watch online.
UDMcast series and subjects
Many UDMcasts are related, by event or by theme. We've grouped them together on our Series & Subjects page.
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Some people just know how to hook you, right? Say you're browsing an online dating profile and someone catches your eye. Witty one-liners, cute smirks, maybe something cryptic like a tattoo of Josef Stalin eating a hot dog. Their linked Tumblr page shows they have an active interest in occult medicine and deep-sea creatures. Whatever weird, dumb thing you're into on the Internet, they've got it. They've seemingly got the total package.
So you go and meet them at your favorite gastropub, and as you're sipping a glass of some crap with fernet in it, it dawns on you: This person doesn't seem that cool. How can this be? How could you have been snowed so easily based on a first impression?
It's the same, sometimes, with music. The following songs all have brilliant introductions but quickly go on to suck out loud. Listen and wince as the pangs of regret throb in your ears.
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, who should've been forgotten and filed away as a Big Boys rip-off in their early years, managed to spawn one gem in their entire catalog of terribleness: the first 28 seconds of this song. Then, the appearance of Anthony Kiedis' hairless body marks the end of one of the most beautiful introductions in modern music and the beginning of one of the most horrendous, boring, saccharine songs ever written, re-enforcing the fact that Generation X is comprised of clueless twits.
If "Under the Bridge" was a one-night stand, you would never call it back after it obsessively texted you to retrieve the poetry "accidentally" left under your bed. Curiously, all of the produce in your refrigerator would start growing soul patches.
5. Arctic Monkeys - "A Certain Romance"
The more I write, the less I read the comments on my articles. And although it's probably a mistake to admit this, I'll say I was affected by two of them. The first was on my article about bigoted musicians where it was theorized that I was an apologist relative of legendary Fox News dickhead,Roger Ailes (sorry, no relation). The second comment stated that I was obviously a huge fan of Arctic Monkeys. To be certain the latter was dead wrong, I listened to them. And it was bad. The good thing that came out of it, however, was that I was inspired to compile this list.
If you clicked the link, then you've noticed the song completely pukes all over itself right as things start to get hot and heavy. However, like me, you were probably fooled into giving it a chance by the alluring pound of the drums and repetitive guitar as it builds to a loud, dirty riff.
If you think this is an isolated incident, think again. Arctic Monkeys nose-dive into a pit of steaming garbage over and over again. The cringe-worthily titled "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" and "The View From the Afternoon" also both begin with decent, striking intros before deteriorating into watered-down, flimsy tripe. Pathetic.
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