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#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # Copyright (c) 2003-2006 University of Chicago and Fellowship # for Interpretations of Genomes. All Rights Reserved. # # This file is part of the SEED Toolkit. # # The SEED Toolkit is free software. You can redistribute # it and/or modify it under the terms of the SEED Toolkit # Public License. # # You should have received a copy of the SEED Toolkit Public License # along with this program; if not write to the University of Chicago # at email@example.com or the Fellowship for Interpretation of # Genomes at firstname.lastname@example.com or download a copy from # http://www.theseed.org/LICENSE.TXT. # package ERDBLoadGroup; use strict; use Tracer; use ERDB; use Stats; use Time::HiRes qw(time); use ERDBGenerate; =head1 ERDB Database Load Group Object The process of loading an ERDB database can be a simple matter of creating some sequential files from other sequential files, or it can be a complex web of connected sub-processes involving multiple groups of tables being loaded in parallel by multiple worker processes. The ERDB Database Load Group object provides housekeeping functions to simplify the management of the more complex load tasks. When discussing an ERDB database load, there are two similar concepts we use to break the load into pieces: I<sections> and I<groups>. A I<section> is a partition of the data that can be processed in isolation from other sections. A I<group> is a set of tables that should be loaded at the same time. An ERDB load group is a request to generate load files for one or more sections of the data targeting a single group of tables. A certain amount of bookkeeping is required in order to handle parallelism. For each table, a separate output file is generated for each section. If a section does not complete successfully, then its load file is deleted and the section must be loaded again. Because each section has its own load file, only the particular sections that fail need to be reloaded. Individual load groups should subclass this object, providing a virtual override for the L</Generate> method. The subclass name should consist of the group name followed by noise in capital case. So, for example, the subclass name for a group named C<Feature> would be C<FeatureSproutLoader> or C<FeatureAttributeLoader> or something similar. The group name should only be letters, and only the first letter should be capitalized. This allows the load script to be case-insensitive with regard to incoming group names. Any working or status files generated by a subclass should have a prefix of C<dt>-something. This will insure they are deleted by the C<clear> option of [[ERDBGeneratorPl]]. The fields in this object are as follows. =over 4 =item db [[ErdbPm]] object for accessing the target database =item directory Directory into which the load files should be placed. =item group name of this load group =item lastKey ID of the last major object processed =item loaders hash mapping the names of the group's tables to [[ERDBGeneratePm]] objects =item stats statistics object that can be used to track the progress of the load =item section name of this data section =item source object used to access the data from which the load files are to be generated =item tables reference to a list of the names of the tables in this group =item options hash containing the options originally passed in to the constructor =back =cut =head3 new my $edbl = ERDBLoadGroup->new($source, $db, $directory, $options, @tables); Construct a new ERDBLoadGroup object. The following parameters are expected: =over 4 =item source The object to be used by the subclass to access the source data. =item db The [[ErdbPm]] object for the database being loaded. =item directory Name of the directory to contain the load files. =item options Reference to a hash of options. At the current time, no options are needed by this object, but they may be important to subclass objects. =item tables A list of the names for the tables in this load group. =back This constructor is deliberately kept lightweight in order to insure that L</GetGroupHash> is high-performance. For this reason, the [[ERDBGeneratePm]] objects in the loaders hash are not created until L</ProcessSection>. =cut sub new { # Get the parameters. my ($class, $source, $db, $directory, $options, @tables) = @_; # Create a statistics object my $stats = Stats->new(); # Compute the group name from the class name. It is the first word in # a name that is presumably capital case. my $group = ($class =~ /^([A-Z][a-z]+)/ ? $1 : $class); # Validate the directory. Confess("Load directory \"$directory\" not found or invalid.") if ! -d $directory; # Create the ERDBLoadGroup object. Note that so far we don't have any loaders # defined and the section has not yet been assigned. The "ProcessSection" # method is used to assign the section, and the loaders are created the first # time it's called. my $retVal = { db => $db, directory => $directory, group => $group, stats => $stats, source => $source, lastKey => undef, loaders => {}, tables => \@tables, section => undef, options => $options }; # Bless and return it. bless $retVal, $class; return $retVal; } =head2 Subclass Methods =head3 Put $edbl->Put($table, %fields); Place a table record in a load file. This method is the workhorse of the file generation phase of a load. =over 4 =item table Name of the table being loaded. =item fields Hash of field names to field values for the fields in the table. =back =cut sub Put { # Get the parameters. my ($self, $table, %fields) = @_; # Get the loader for this table. my $loader = $self->{loaders}->{$table}; # Complain if it doesn't exist. Confess("Table $table not found in load group $self->{group}.") if ! defined $loader; # Put this record to the loader's output file. my $bytes = $loader->Put(%fields); # Count the record and the bytes of data. If no bytes were output, the record # was discarded. if (! $bytes) { $self->Add("$table-discards" => 1); } else { $self->Add("$table-records" => 1); $self->Add("$table-bytes" => $bytes); } } =head3 Add $edbl->Add($statName => $count); Add the specified count to the named statistical counter. The statistical counts are kept in an internal statistics object whose contents are displayed when the group is finished. =over 4 =item statName Name of the statistic to increment. =item count Value by which to increment it. =back =cut sub Add { # Get the parameters. my ($self, $statName, $count) = @_; # Update the statistic. $self->{stats}->Add($statName => $count); } =head3 Track $edbl->Track($statName => $key, $period); Save the specified key as the one currently in progress. If an error occurs, the key value will appear in the output log. The named statistic will also be incremented, and if the count is an even multiple of the stated period, a trace message will be output at level 3. Most load groups have a primary object type that drives the main loop. When something goes wrong, we want to know the ID of the offending object. When things go right, we want to know how far we've progressed toward completion. This method can be used to record each occurrence of a primary object, and provide a log of the progress or our current position in times of stress. =over 4 =item statName Name of the statistic to be incremented. This should be a plural noun describing the object whose kep is coming in. =item key Key value to be displayed if something goes wrong. =item period (optional) If specified, should be the number of objects to be counted between each level-3 trace message. =back =cut sub Track { # Get the parameters. my ($self, $statName, $key, $period) = @_; # Save the key. $self->{lastKey} = $key; # Count it. my $newValue = $self->{stats}->Add($statName => 1); # Do we need to output a progress message? if ($period && T(3) && ($newValue % $period == 0)) { # Yes. Trace("$newValue $statName processed for $self->{group} group."); } } =head3 section my $sectionID = $edbl->section(); Return the ID of the current section. =cut sub section { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Return the result. return $self->{section}; } =head3 source my $sourceObject = $edbl->source(); Return the source object used to get the data needed for creating the load files. =cut sub source { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Return the result. return $self->{source}; } =head3 db my $erdbObject = $edbl->db(); Return the database object for the target database. =cut sub db { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Return the result. return $self->{db}; } =head2 Internal Methods =head3 ProcessSection my $flag = $edbl->ProcessSection($section); Generate the load file for a particular data section. This method calls the virtual method L</Generate> to actually put the data into the load files, and is responsible for assigning the section and finalizing the load files if the load is successful. =over 4 =item section ID of the section to load. =item RETURN Returns TRUE if successful, FALSE if an error prevented loading the section. =back =cut sub ProcessSection { # Get the parameters. my ($self, $section) = @_; # Declare the return variable. We'll set it to 1 if we succeed. # Save the section ID. $self->{section} = $section; # Get the database object. my $db = $self->db(); # Start a timer and protect ourselves from errors. my $startTime = time(); eval { # Get the list of tables for this group. my @tables = @{$self->{tables}}; # Get the loader hash. my $loaderHash = $self->{loaders}; # Initialize the loaders for the necessary tables. for my $table (@tables) { # Get this table's loader. my $loader = $loaderHash->{$table}; # If it doesn't exist yet, create it. if (! defined $loader) { $loader = ERDBGenerate->new($db, $self->{directory}, $table); # Save it for future use. $loaderHash->{$table} = $loader; # Count it. $self->Add(tables => 1); } $loader->Start($section); } # Generate the data to put in the newly-created load files. Trace("Calling generator.") if T(3); $self->Generate(); }; # Did it work? if ($@) { # No, so emit an error message and abort all the loaders. $self->{stats}->AddMessage("Error loading section $section: $@"); if (defined $self->{lastKey}) { $self->{stats}->AddMessage("Error occurred while processing \"$self->{lastKey}\"."); } $self->Add("section-errors" => 1); for my $loader (values %{$self->{loaders}}) { $loader->Abort(); } } else { # Yes! Finish all the loaders. for my $loader (values %{$self->{loaders}}) { $loader->Finish(); } # Update the load count and the timer. $self->Add("section-loads" => 1); $self->Add(duration => (time() - $startTime)); } } =head3 DisplayStats my $text = $edbl->DisplayStats(); Display the statistics for this load gorup. =cut sub DisplayStats { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Return the result. return $self->{stats}->Show(); } =head3 GetGroupHash my $groupHash = ERDBLoadGroup::GetGroupHash($erdb); Return a hash that maps each load group in the specified database to its constituent tables. This is useful when checking for problems with a load or performing finishing tasks. =over 4 =item erdb [[ErdbPm]] database whose load information is desired. =item RETURN Returns a reference to a hash that maps each group name to a list of table names. =back =cut sub GetGroupHash { # Get the parameters. my ($erdb) = @_; # Initialize the return variable. my $retVal = {}; # Loop through the list of load groups. for my $group ($erdb->LoadGroupList()) { # Get a loader for this group. my $loader = $erdb->Loader($group, {}); # Stash the loader's tables in the output hash. $retVal->{$group} = $loader->{tables}; } # Return the result. return $retVal; } =head3 ComputeGroups my @groupList = ERDBLoadGroup::ComputeGroups($erdb, \@groups); Compute the actual list of groups determined by the incoming group list. =over 4 =item erdb [[ErdbPm]] object for the database being loaded. =item groups Reference to a list of group names specified on the command line. A plus sign (C<+>) has special meaning. =item RETURN Returns the actual list of groups to be processed by the calling command. The names will have been normalized to capital case. =back =cut sub ComputeGroups { # Get the parameters. my ($erdb, $groups) = @_; # Get the complete group list in standard order. my @allGroups = $erdb->LoadGroupList(); # Create a hash for validation purposes. This will map each valid group # name to its position in the standard order. my %allGroupHash; for (my $i = 0; $i <= $#allGroups; $i++) { $allGroupHash{$allGroups[$i]} = $i; } # This variable will be the index of the last-processed group in # the standard order. We start it before the first group in the list. my $lastI = -1; # The listed groups will be put in here. my @retVal; # Process the group list. for my $group (@$groups) { # Process this group. if ($group eq '+') { # Here we have a plus sign. Push in everything after the previous # group processed. Note that we'll be ending at the last position. # A second "+" after this one will generate no entries in the result # list. my $firstI = $lastI + 1; $lastI = $#allGroups; push @retVal, @allGroups[$firstI..$lastI]; } elsif (exists $allGroupHash{$group}) { # Here we have a valid group name. Push it into the list. push @retVal, $group; # Remember its location in case there's a plus sign. $lastI = $allGroupHash{$group}; } else { # This is an error. Confess("Invalid load group name $group."); } } # Normalize the group names and return them. return map { ucfirst $_ } @retVal; } =head3 KillFileName my $fileName = ERDBLoadGroup::KillFileName($erdb, $directory); Compute the kill file name for the specified database in the specified directory. When the [[ERDBGeneratorPl]] script sees the kill file, it will terminate itself at the end of the current section. =over 4 =item erdb Database =item directory (optional) Load directory for the database. =item RETURN Returns the specified database's kill file name. If a directory is specified, it is prefixed to the name with an intervening slash. =back =cut sub KillFileName { # Get the parameters. my ($erdb, $directory) = @_; # Compute the kill file name. We start with the database name in # lower case, then prefix it with "kill_"; my $dbName = lc ref $erdb; my $retVal = ERDBGenerate::CreateFileName("kill_$dbName", undef, 'control', $directory); # Return the result. return $retVal; } =head2 Virtual Methods =head3 Generate $edbl->Generate(); Generate the data for this load group with respect to the current section. This method must be overridden by the subclass and should call the L</Put> method to put data into the tables. =cut sub Generate { Confess("Pure virtual method Generate called."); } 1;
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD- (May 27, 2014) - The Art Shell UMES Celebrity Golf Tournament is getting into full swing as sports celebrities are filling the line-up for the June 11 event. Players tee off at 8 a.m. at Great Hope Golf Course in Westover, Md.
Local golfers can join pro football Hall of Famer and University of Maryland Eastern Shore alumnus Art Shell in raising scholarship funds for the university's Athletic and PGA-accredited Golf Management programs.
Professional international long drive competitor Maurice Allen appears in the event's 2014 edition for an exhibition prior to the day's shotgun start. Allen holds the World Guinness Record (2012) for the fastest golf drive at 211 mph using a fairway wood. His best hit is 453 yards achieved at the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship in Mesquite last year.
Among the 35 sports celebrities hitting the greens with Shell (offensive tackle and two-time Oakland Raiders head coach) are fellow Super Bowl winners and UMES (formerly Maryland State College) alumni Emerson Boozer and Earl Christy, both New York Jets greats. Two-time Super Bowl winners Raleigh McKenzie and Clarence Vaughn, who both played with the Washington Redskins, will also join the line-up.
Shell, who was inducted in this year's College Football Hall of Fame, is joined by other members Boozer, Roger Brown (Det. Lions), Lydell Mitchell (Balt. Colts) and Bruce Taylor (S.F. 49ers).
A golf great always on hand for the cause is James Black, the first black golfer to shoot a 67 in a pro tournament-his PGA Tour debut in 1964. Black's appearance is fitting in concert with his interest in youth and golf.
UMES' event features junior golf clinics June 9 and a Junior Golf Tournament June 10 as a way "to introduce them to the course of study at the university," tournament director Marshall Cropper, said. UMES is one of 19 colleges in the nation with the PGA-sanctioned major, and the only one at a historically black institution.
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TONIGHT! It's the supermegafaboo men's figure skating free skate final. I'm going to get a little catty here and say this: I do not care for Evgeni Plushenko's hair. It's very 80's. It's very Eddie Money, and Eddie Money hair is NOT gold medal hair.
While the men often take a backseat to the women when it comes to figure skating, I suggest you tune in regardless. I find this group of men far more compelling than their female counterparts. Johnny Weir alone provides the passive aggression of 70 Michael Kors. And we're way overdue for a judging scandal of some sort. We've already got the French and Russian judges marked as crooked. But what about the Japanese judge? I've seen Iron Chef. Japanese judges are as crooked as they come.
Also tonight: the women's super combined gold medal skiing final. Will Lindsey Vonn win? And why is she so clothed on the race course? That's not right. ANTICIPATION: GOLD
If you're dating someone who is still holding onto this show, you need to get out. My wife finally relinquished me from the clutches of Grey's after the ferry accident. I have been a whole new man ever since. I hope Izzy falls down a well. ANTICIPATION: COLONOSCOPY
One of the villains passes out tonight. But which villain? And from what? Exhaustion? Inebriation? Strangulation? ARE THEY FAKING IT? That would be soooo villain-like. ANTICIPATION: UNCONSCIOUS AND DROOLING ON SAND
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See Chuck Norris kick some butt before he became that dude you always see at 3:30 a.m. working out with Christie Brinkley. ANTICIPATION: CHUCK NORRIS DOES NOT ANTICIPATE. ANTICIPATION ANTICIPATES HIM! OR SOMETHING.
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The designers have to dress children. Now THAT is a challenge. Take it from me. It takes eight years to get my kid to put on her stupid jacket. Then I turn around and she takes it right back off. ANTICIPATION: HOPING FOR CRYING GIRL TO GET THE BOOT
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Johannesburg - Suspended ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is gunning for provincial premiers sympathetic to President Jacob Zuma in a bid for political survival.
Last week, youth league leaders stripped the league's Mpumalanga secretary John Mkhatshwa of his powers after he snubbed Malema's call to work towards unseating Premier David Mabuza.
In Free State, where Malema has been since Thursday, the league said it is going to march against Premier Ace Magashule this week.
Half of the Mpumalanga league's provincial executive committee resigned in protest against Mkhatshwa's suspension on Friday.
Outgoing deputy secretary Themba Masombuka said the province did participate in youth league programmes, but had to support Mabuza as this was part of their provincial congress resolutions last year.
But league spokesperson Magdalene Moonsamy denied that Mkhatshwa was kicked out because he supported Mabuza.
Rather, she said that it was because of his "inability to carry out the tasks of the youth league. Everything else is just a rumour".
A few weeks ago, the league's KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive committee – which was sympathetic to Zuma – was dissolved.
At the meeting attended by Malema in Bloemfontein on Thursday, provincial league chairperson Kgotso Morapela told the crowd: "Away with Magashule."
Morapela accused Magashule of corruption and said the long-standing provincial ANC chairperson, who is pro-Zuma, should be replaced at the province's conference next year.
While Malema is firing on all cylinders to overturn the sentence, there are serious concerns that one of the grounds of his disciplinary appeal could land the league in more trouble.
Malema's lawyers handed in papers to the ANC's national disciplinary committee of appeal on Thursday, asking them to reconsider his five-year suspension from the ANC.
One of the grounds of this appeal is an amendment to the youth league's constitution, which many in the organisation claim was not done at its congress in June, making it illegal.
Some league leaders fear that such an amendment could give the ANC a reason to dissolve the league altogether, but Malema has denied that the amendment was illegally done.
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One of Malema's opponents said they have asked Luthuli House to intervene.
Malema warned that he would continue fighting for the issues he had been campaigning on, regardless of whether his suspension is held.
The league has the support of many ANC provincial secretaries, themselves former league leaders, but it is still trying to shore up support from provincial chairpersons.
This could help Malema if his appeal is ultimately reviewed by the ANC's national executive committee, on which provincial secretaries and chairpersons serve.
Malema – flanked by party spokesperson Floyd Shivambu, who has been suspended from the ANC for three years – hinted on Thursday that he would not take his suspension lying down.
"I don't care if whether I go or not, I will defend the decisions of the ANC Youth League until I see my grave," he told the crowd in Bloemfontein.
"Whether I am a member of the ANC or not, in my little corner of the bundus, looking after cattle, I will convince those who are there looking after the cattle with me about the decisions of the ANC Youth League."


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Passing weak hate crimes legislation previously and now a bill which should overturn the military ban are significant victories for the queer community. The people who kept pushing, over the objections of partisan Democrats and Republicans in the LGBT community who would have preferred that the issues dry up and blow away, deserve a tremendous amount of credit. They have shown us that we can get results if we are persistent in fighting for them. Queer activists proved that you have to fight for yourselves. You can't rely on politicians to fight for you. (That is a lesson a lot of other progressive activists could learn from.) Now, it's time for us to keep our eyes on the prize:
ENDA, the Employment Non Discrimination Act
Employment issues have a broader reach in the queer community than any other set of concerns. If you live in a capitalist society, you need a job to avoid utter misery. Even retired queers have to be careful, since corporations have been raiding pensions for years; federal, state, and local government officials are starting to raid their employee pensions; and Obama and other Republicans have been working to raid and bankrupt Social Security. We must fight all of this, but we also must recognize that very real possibility that retirement will be a luxury for the rich in another 20 years.
In this economic context, queers don't have the luxury of putting employment discrimination on the back burner for other issues, as pressing as they are. We need to fight for anti discrimination legislation like our economic lives depend on it. They do.
Corporate media outlets and bought politicians are much more hostile to ENDA than the general public, which supports it overwhelmingly. Those corrupt interests are working on behalf of corporate interests that don't want any restrictions on corporate behavior. That's why Obama and the corporate media have worked so hard to deflect us away from fighting for ENDA.
The Christian Taliban has tried to keep the national focus on same sex marriage because it is the one issue where the country is closely divided. It also is a problematic issue for queer organizing because most queers have no interest in ever getting married. Most queers are single, as are a narrow majority of heterosexual adults. Even in states where same sex marriage is legal, the vast majority of queer couples don't get married.
We need to make OUR movement about OUR needs and OUR interests.
Even in years where it looks highly unlikely that any queer civil rights legislation will pass, we need to keep pushing. This is a difficult struggle, and it will require a relentless push on our part so we can win during years when we theoretically have the votes required. We can't afford to shut up about this.
That ENDA must be trans inclusive. Pure justice demands it, and so does pure practicality. Failure to include gender identity based discrimination puts a huge exception which corporate lawyers can use to win cases against lesbian, gay, and bisexual victims of employment discrimination. We also need to hold elected officials accountable about putting a lot of other loopholes into ENDA, like Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi did in 2007. We need a bill with teeth that actually protects us.
Any national queer organization that is a lobbying or political organization needs to be held accountable for what it is doing to pass ENDA. Passing ENDA should be, by far, their first priority.
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Aluminaries: Leader of the Bands
The U.S. Air Force honors Colonel Arnald Gabriel '50, M.S. '60, H.D.M. '89. by Alex Meril '07
Raised in humble circumstances during the Great Depression, Arnald Gabriel '50 discovered his love of music listening to the Metropolitan Opera on the radio. He honed his own musical talent playing flute in his junior high and high school bands. But he never imagined that his childhood passion would bring him to the position of commander and conductor of the United States Air Force Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Singing Sergeants, positions he held from 1964 to 1985. Now retired with the rank of colonel, in January he was honored at Bolling Air Force Base in a ceremony naming the band's "virtual room" in Hanger 2 Arnald D. Gabriel Hall.
"It's the capstone of all of the awards [I've received]," says Arnald, who was given an Ithaca College honorary doctor of music degree and the Ithaca College Alumni Association's Lifetime Achievement Award (1997). In 1990 he was named conductor emeritus of the United States Air Force Band, and in 1992 he was inducted into the National Band Association's Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors. Arnald also holds three Legion of Merit awards for his service to the United States Air Force Band and his efforts on behalf of music education both in the United States and abroad. These efforts include a goodwill tour in Latin America and his work to strengthen international relations through music in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. He was named professor emeritus of music upon retiring in 1995 after 11 years on the faculty of George Mason University, where he was conductor of the GMU Symphony Orchestra. And, for his service as a combat machine gunner with the 29th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II, he received two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, and the French Croix de Guerre.
All these accomplishments might never have taken place without a mentor who believed in Arnald — and without a lot of hard work on Arnald's part. After his horrific experiences on the front lines during the war, Arnald had a terrible time trying to establish a "normal" lifestyle when he returned home. He had trouble fitting in with friends and family and couldn't concentrate on anything for long. Eating and drinking to excess, Arnald found a mindless job working in a factory for 87 cents a day, which was about as far an occupation from his childhood passion for music as imaginable.
He was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, long before it was identified as such.
In August 1945, Arnald's former high school band director, Burton Stanley '35, M.S. '52, who had once given Arnald flute lessons for free, visited him in the factory. Burton urged him to attend his own alma mater, even arranging for the audition to be waived and paying his matriculation fee. "I had not played an instrument in three years," remembers Arnald. "I would not have gone to college if it had not been for Burton Stanley."
Arnald worked diligently at Ithaca College to make up for time lost. He was determined to impress not only Stanley, but also his IC conductors and professors, who included the legendary Walter Beeler '28, M.S. '45, and Craig McHenry '30, M.S. '46. Years later, in tribute to his former band conductor, Arnald established the Burton Stanley Endowed Scholarship at Ithaca, passing on to future IC students the goodwill that was once bestowed upon him.
Arnald has deeply fond memories of his time at Ithaca, and he remains actively involved with the IC music community. In 1973 he hired Karen Dembow Erler '70, making her the first female instrumentalist in any of America's premier military bands (until Karen's hire, women had participated only as vocalists). Since then, Arnald has worked with numerous IC alumni in the USAF bands, including Senior Master Sergeant Robert Mesite, M.M. '81, a trombonist in the ceremonial brass ensemble, and Master Sergeant Kelly J. Egan '83, manager of the Singing Sergeants.
When Arnald visits South Hill now, he notes improvements since his college days. "The music program is maybe better than ever," he says. And while he thinks the facilities are beautiful, he notes that "the great faculty is more important."
With his countless achievements as an educator, conductor, and clinician, Arnald holds his education at IC as one of his most valued accomplishments, and his IC teachers as his greatest influences. "They were responsible for my entire career," he says. "I will never forget."


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I actually sat down to finish a job application. I've gotten through the easy parts of references, colleges attended, etc. and am down to the "Please give a candid description of yourself, stressing those assets and liabilities, which you feel characterize your work" part and "Statement of Educational Philosophy" part. You know, THOSE doozies! I've been looking at the questions off and on for a week now and running things through my mind. Trying to come up with a succinct statement that fits on a form and answers those two questions has not been as easy as I thought it would be. Then I realized that they were even LESS easy to write when I wasn't actually putting pencil to paper (or fingers to keyboard in this instance).
I had one of those "ah-ha" moments when I realized I needed to start looking over what I've written in the past couple years for this blog, look over my favorite professional books, and reflect back on what has made me the educator I am now, not the educator I was when I first entered education 18 years ago.


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Leaving Monterey, Keith and Anne and I then drove to the famously kitschy Madonna Inn for a night.
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Road Trip: Monterey and Madonna Inn
Leaving Monterey, Keith and Anne and I then drove to the famously kitschy Madonna Inn for a night.
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- LC N Fraser said...
Lovely photos! I want a sea dragon now.
- March 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM
that reigon of the california coastline is one of my favorite spots!!! It almost magical..it sounds like you enjoyed yourself.
come up to the sierra sometime so that we can hang out!!
- March 25, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Ellen said...
It does look heavenly there. California is such a varied huge state.
- March 27, 2012 at 6:51 PM
- Vera Nazarian said...
Wat a wonderful trip account, Diana! Envy on the beautiful sights, the delightful antiques, the glorious pool, the yummies, the aquarium, the, the... aww, everything! :-)
- March 31, 2012 at 12:30 PM
- Debbie Cusick said...
What a wonderful post, and fabulous photos. I was last in the Monterey area in 1985 but still recall fondly the amazing beauty of the area.
- April 1, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Hi, it's Mal from Dorset, and Piffle, still struggling with a dying computer, so very behind. Lovely to read of your trip, it looks beautiful there in California, and the china is sweet, tea would always taste good from one of these. You've made me feel peckish, but not for anything I have available.
Mal xxx
- April 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- Laurel Ann (Austenprose) said...
Diana, what a wonderful trip. I have fond memories of the Madonna Inn. When I was in school at Cal Poly, I attended many events there for my sorority, since it was really the only place in town to have such a shindig. We never objected! I love Cambria too. It looks like you had a wonderful California excursion with your friends. Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos and great commentary.
- April 25, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Diana, I don't know what the stalk with the tiny blue flowers is, but it's NOT a lupine!
And too bad you didn't get to Pt. Lobos just a bit south of Carmel Valley -- it is absolutely gorgeous!
So glad you got to show your friends our beautiful California coast! And I didn't know that Cambria was famed for antique stores ... and probably I shouldn't have found out!
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'Texas Slave Ranch' offspring made the best of life
FREDERICKSBURG — He was only 9 when the law raided his family's Kerr County homestead in 1984 and their surname, Ellebracht, became synonymous with kidnapping and torture, and their sprawling property given the nickname "Texas Slave Ranch."
Walter Wesley Ellebracht III watched as his family was arrested and two years later heard the evidence against his father and grandfather — horrifying "torture tapes" of an abducted drifter pleading for his life while being zapped with a cattle prod.
Teased and bullied as a child, "Wes," as he was known, later would change his last name to try to elude the scandal. But he realized there was no escape, only redemption, and grew to be the man fondly remembered at his recent funeral for his kindness and big heart.
Killed in a car crash at age 38, Wes went to his grave an Ellebracht, one who overcame the nightmares of his childhood.
On a lunch break from cutting wood at a friend's home in Stonewall, Ellebracht III was en route to Fredericksburg on Jan. 20 when he either fell asleep or was distracted by a pit bull in his SUV and veered into oncoming traffic. He died on the spot.
The dog, which he'd taken in as a favor to a friend, suffered a broken leg.
"My son was a very caring person, and he did whatever he could to help anyone in need," said his mother, Joyce Esensee, 59, who was among those initially indicted for the crimes at the ranch. "He couldn't help what his father and grandfather did, but he was never anything like that. Wes was always trying to see the good in people."
Ellebracht III even tried to see the good in his father and grandfather, who picked up hitchhikers and promised them board in exchange for work.
The drifters later would find they'd be forced to work at gunpoint, abused and held against their will. One worker, Anthony Bates, died after being tortured with the cattle prod.
In 1987, the year after his father, grandfather and the ranch foreman, Carlton Robert Caldwell, were convicted and sentenced, Ellebracht III met Bob Walls, who would become his best friend.
"He would talk about some of the arguments and fights, but that wasn't his life," Walls said. "He said that he saw so much bad in the world that he wanted to look for the good."
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Memorial Fund
The Wesley Ellebracht Memorial Fund has been set up at Security State Bank in Fredericksburg to help an 18-year-old daughter who'd been living with him attend college.
To donate, send a check to: PO Box 471, Fredericksburg 78624
Torture tales emerge
For years before the raid, Ellebracht Jr., his then-wife Joyce and Ellebracht Sr. peddled carved, wooden key chains to dozens of stores near their 3,500-acre ranch in Mountain Home, about 20 miles northwest of Kerrville.
Ellebracht Sr. aspired to be the "key chain king of the Texas Hill Country," but lost more than he sold, according to a 1986 newspaper article still displayed on the wall beneath four key chains at Bill's BBQ in Kerrville.
Restaurateur Joe Marino Jr. said his parents bought the Ellebrachts' key chains for a quarter and sold them for 35 cents at their former business, Big Joe's Country Store, for years.
His mother, Sharon Marino, 66, recalls the men always were barefoot and dirty when they came to town.
"You just really didn't want to get up and socialize when they came in; they were scary," she said.
Everyone knew the Ellebrachts drove a blue van and picked up hitchhikers to staff the key chain factory and do other work at the ranch. But details that emerged after the April 1984 raid, triggered by an escaped worker's call to the Texas Rangers, surprised even the family's closest friends.
Some former neighbors still defend the family, despite the 1986 convictions of Ellebracht Sr., Ellebracht Jr., his only child, and Caldwell for conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping and murder for the death of Bates, a one-eyed drifter from Alabama.
"They were strange people, but they're not that kind of people," said Loraine Haynie, 86, who befriended Ellebracht Sr. as a child and cared for him over the years until his death in 2003.
Ellebracht Sr. had big ideas, but was too lazy to implement them, said Joe Smith, 68, a pastor and retired builder who was a friend and maintains the small cemetery in Mountain Home where he is buried.
"He always wanted me to invest in his key chain idea, but I never did," Smith said. "He'd take me on tours. ... There were a lot of hitchhikers, but they were never held forcibly. They weren't slaves."
Caldwell, who now lives in a mobile home on San Antonio's South Side, said that after a fire destroyed the factory, workers chopped wood to be sold in San Antonio.
Caldwell was hired as the foreman, first in the field and then in the main residence, where he worked on Ellebracht Sr.'s latest plan: a tile reprocessing machine that could be operated by blind people.
When he first arrived in January 1984, Caldwell watched in horror as the Ellebrachts used the cattle prod on a handcuffed man who had disrespected a family member. The man groveled in the dirt and begged for mercy, but afterward was allowed to leave, though he decided to stay anyway, Caldwell said.
Not long after, Ellebracht Sr. and Jr. were torturing Bates, with help from the workers, who picked on him because they disliked his temperament and the fact that he couldn't do hard labor after he was injured by a chain saw, according to trial testimony.
"I don't think even (Ellebracht) Jr. knew how much abuse he was going through," Caldwell said. "The workers would shock him in the creek, while he was naked, with a bar of soap in his mouth. It was a way to take out frustration, but there was no premeditated murder."
The torture went on for hours at a time, while Bates, handcuffed to a tree with his hands behind him, was zapped repeatedly on his tongue, genitals and empty eye socket with the cattle prod.
The sessions, which were often tape-recorded, weakened Bates, who died that February on the manure-covered floor of the bunkhouse.
Caldwell and another worker built a funeral pyre and, as a cassette tape of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" played, burned Bates' remains. The ashes were scooped into two 55-gallon drums, according to published reports. Bones found at the site were determined to be those of a young adult male.
"We used old inner tubes, cedar and gasoline," Caldwell said. "We used cedar because it burns fast and strong. I knew what I was doing; I had options. But the guy was dead, and there was no bringing him back."
Caldwell was no longer needed, and in March, one of the Ellebrachts dropped him off at a truck stop with $20. He hitchhiked to San Antonio and found work at a restaurant, where he saw the raid on TV.
By then, according to court testimony, workers were being held at gunpoint and forced to write their own suicide notes and tie nooses and dig ditches in preparation for their own deaths, or so they were led to believe.
More than a dozen cassette tapes with about 40 hours of recorded torture sessions were seized during the raid, along with guns, machetes, an ax, knives, ropes chains, padlocks, bone fragments, the cattle prod and business papers.
To clear his conscience, Caldwell gave a 20-page statement to the FBI. He later was indicted, along with the Ellebrachts, for his role in Bates' torture and death.
A trial not forgotten
The bizarre, theatrical trial was forever burned into the memories of those involved, according to a defense lawyer and the prosecutor, then-Kerr County District Attorney Ron Sutton.
"They tortured a bunch of people, and it was unbelievable that stuff like that could happen," Sutton said. "But, on the other hand, the people running up and down the highway were gullible. It expanded my knowledge of humanity, that good and bad can live side by side."
Nine people were initially indicted: Ellebracht Sr., Ellebracht Jr., Joyce, Caldwell and five ranch workers. Sutton prosecuted Ellebracht Sr. and Jr. and Caldwell, and the workers became state witnesses in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Joyce, who divorced her husband in 1988, would neither testify nor stand trial.
Every day of the widely publicized three-month trial, Sutton said, the 150 courtroom seats were filled with spectators, Wes among them.
Ellebracht key chains were selling at a premium, $2. The jurors compiled their favorite recipes, called it the "Slave Ranch Cookbook," had it printed at the Kerr County Courthouse and sold copies.
Besides the "torture tapes," also entered into evidence was one worker's poem, titled "The Shack," and other recordings of the Ellebrachts putting workers on "trial" in the bunkhouse.
"It was some of the worst evidence I've ever seen," said attorney Dan Cogdell, 56, of Houston, who worked with the infamous Richard "Racehorse" Haynes to defend Ellebracht Sr. "I totally thought we were screwed. This was the craziest case I've ever had, but these were drifters, and they were seen as less entitled to the benefits than the rest of us are."
To try to desensitize the seven women and five men on the jury, Haynes played the torture tapes often and asked Cogdell to shock himself with a battery-operated cattle prod like the one the Ellebrachts used.
The off-the-wall tactics worked, Cogdell said, and Ellebracht Sr. was given probation. Ellebracht Jr. was sentenced to 15 years in prison and in 1996 was released on mandatory supervision, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Caldwell also was given a 15-year sentence, but since he'd served nearly three years while awaiting trial, he was released on mandatory supervision in 1988.
By then, much of the Texas Slave Ranch had been sold in pieces to fund the Ellebrachts' defense.
Spring runs through it
The Ellebrachts, descendants of Germans who settled the Hill Country in the 1880s, had inherited land with a robust spring.
The state of Texas obtained rights to it in 1925 and funneled the water through concrete canals to what's now the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife's Heart of the Hills Fisheries Science Center.
In 1990, the state bought 240 acres of the former ranch and the Ellebrachts' home, which has been used as temporary housing for the center's employees, including Bob Betsill, the research program director.
"It's a great house, a one-story renovated rock house," Betsill said. "There are several other property owners now around us, but there's nobody around from that era. Those stories have been around for years, but people and things have moved on."
Another piece of the former ranch was awarded to Joann Loftis, Bates' mother, who sued the Ellebrachts for her son's wrongful death.
In the 1989 settlement, she received 43.1 percent — or 1,318 acres, then valued at $1.7 million — and has since sold the property in pieces.
Joyce Esensee and her husband, Art, now live in a mobile home in Fredericksburg. Wes' eldest daughter, Elizabeth Toby Ellebracht, 18, who'd been living with him in Fredericksburg, has moved in with the couple since his death. The Esensees' home is in foreclosure.
Ellebracht Jr. never returned to live in Kerr County, and while at times he had been close with his only child, the two had grown estranged. When asked to help pay for his son's burial, Ellebracht Jr. reportedly told relatives to "let the county worry about it," his ex-wife said.
"I've separated my life from my ex-husband," Esensee said. Wes "suffered from what happened up there, and he didn't deserve that, but Wes always tried to live down the past. He wasn't even 10 years old."
The decision to change his name in hopes of distancing himself from the ranch didn't last long, Walls said.
"He looked at the past and said, 'I'm here now, nobody can change that,'" he said. "He taught me that family isn't really the people that are blood, but those who accept you for who you are."
Ellebracht III was arrested as a teen, when a group of friends stole beer from a convenience store and broke the window of a car, but was trying to get the record expunged, Walls said.
Always the dependable friend, Ellebracht III was praised by members of the overflow crowd at his funeral. They told stories of how the man who'd managed restaurants, waited tables and worked at odd jobs helped them through complicated situations.
Nine years ago, her son won custody of Elizabeth and embraced single parenting, Esensee said. He was determined to send his daughter to college.
He hadn't seen his second daughter, Alexis Faith Bockemehl, 17, since infancy, but the two girls met at their father's memorial service.
"They're both wonderful girls, and he was a wonderful father," Esensee said. "I raised him the best I knew how. Everybody says I'm a strong person for what I've been through. I tried to teach him right from wrong."
News Researcher Lauren Brown contributed to this report.


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US software billionaire Larry Ellison thought to have paid up to US$600m for Lanai
Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bought 98 percent of Hawaii's sixth-largest island, Lanai, the state's governor announced on Wednesday.
Ellison, ranked in 2012 as America's third-richest man, is purchasing the property from fellow billionaire David Murdock. Murdock's Castle and Cooke Inc, which owns all but 2 percent of Lanai's 365 sq km, filed a transfer application with Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission.
Previous media reports put the price tag at between US$500m and US$600m, but the price was not revealed in Wednesday's filing.
"It is my understanding that Mr. Ellison has had a long standing interest in Lanai. His passion for nature, particularly the ocean, is well known specifically in the realm of America's Cup sailing," Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie said in a statement. "We look forward to welcoming Mr. Ellison in the near future."
Once known for its pineapple fields, Lanai is now visited for its two Four Seasons resorts, golf courses and luxury housing. Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates booked every hotel room on the island for his 1994 wedding.
In March, Forbes listed Ellison, 67, as the world's sixth-wealthiest man, with a net worth of US$36bn. A yachting enthusiast, he won the America's Cup in 2010 and brought the 2013 America's Cup Finals to San Francisco.


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The new features of the 2011 Lamborghini Super Sport Cars Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Blancpain Edition are easily noticeable. It comes with a huge front bumper, massive rear spoiler and diffuser, and new side skirts. These bits are all inspired by the actual racing car, but they look a bit too aggressive for a road car. One other feature derived from the racing model is the new engine cover, which is optimized for better ventilation, and looks superb!
2011 Lamborghini Super Sport Cars Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Blancpain Edition"Lamborghini super sports cars is extremely happy about its cooperation with Blancpain. In just its second year, the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo has established itself in the premier league of gentlemen's racing," says Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. "Each race is a battle of dedication and passion for every single hundredth of a second – something that characterizes both of our brands. The Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Blancpain Edition demonstrates the close bond between our road-going super sports cars and the race car."
The engine that powers the Gallardo Blancpain is the same V10 unit from the series Superleggera production car which churns out 570 hp. Given the 1340 kilograms (2954 lb) weight of the car which results in power-to-weight ratio of 2.35 kilograms (5.18 lb) per hp, this car is capable of going from zero to 100 km/h (0-62 mph) in 3.4 seconds and flies past the 200 km/h (124 mph) mark only 6.8 seconds later, ultimately exceeding 320 km/h (199 mph).
Blancpain is the title sponsor of the successful Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo series. The cooperation between these two brands brings together the highest levels of engineering excellence from the automotive and chronometry industries. Blancpain has been producing innovative masterpieces of watch-making art in Switzerland's Vallée de Joux since 1735. Each timepiece is assembled by one single watchmaker, reflecting the quality and individual attention with which Lamborghini builds its super sports cars for the road, and its 570 hp Super Trofeo race cars.
The Gallardo offers two choices of transmissions, a conventional (H-Box) six-speed manual transmission, and an advanced six-speed electro-hydraulically controlled semi-automatic robotized manual, which Lamborghini abbreviates to "E-gear". The "E-gear" allows the driver to make shifts much faster than a manual transmission would. The driver shifts up and down via paddles behind the steering wheel, but also has an automatic mode.
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By Piotr Naskrecki - Sitting on the dusty floor of a makeshift laboratory tent Harith Farooq carefully folded a piece of fine, steel mesh into a foot-long cylinder, then weaved in a stretch of a thick wire along its edge. Finally, he carefully attached a neck of an empty water bottle to one of the ends and looked at the contraption in his hands with deep concentration. "Something is still missing", you could almost hear him think, "but what? A battery? A fork? Some gasoline, perhaps?" His gaze shifted to a stack of paper mouse traps covered with thick, sticky glue, the kind that was meant to immobilize any animal unlucky enough to step onto it. "Bingo!" – Harith picked one up and squeezed it into the tubular apparatus. "The perfect leezard trap", he announced proudly.
Photo: Harith Farooq holding a Rock monitor (Varanus albigularis). These enormous lizards are some of the largest reptilian predators of Gorongosa, surpassed only by fully grown rock pythons and crocodiles.
For the last few days Harith, a Mozambican scientist from the University of Lúrio in Pemba and his colleague MO Roedel from Berlin, two herpetologists participating in a biodiversity survey of the Cheringoma Plateau in Gorongosa, had been trying to catch some of the many lizards found in the Nhagutua Gorge, the site of our first camp. Alas, the sneaky reptiles proved to be extremely difficult to catch by hand, which prompted Harith to come up with an alternative solution. As the survey progressed his traps kept growing larger and more complex, combining both natural materials (rocks, sticks, bark) and man-made objects – a plastic sheet, twine, wire and, of course, steadily increasing amounts of glue. The one thing that they all had in common was their total inability to capture even a single reptile.
Photo: Flap-necked chameleons (Chamaeleo dilepis) are common in the savanna woodlands of the Cheringoma Plateau
The strangest part was that Harith was incredibly good at catching reptiles, or any other organisms, without the need for additional accessories. I had never seen anybody catching, with their bare hands, a giant centipede, a solifugid, or a deadly spitting cobra, but Harith caught them all, while carrying a casual conversation. In the end, during the Cheringoma survey he and MO collected 47 species of lizards and snakes, effectively quadrupling the number of reptiles known from Gorongosa National Park.
Within a three week period in Gorongosa our team of biologists was able to document the presence of all nine families of lizards that occur in southern Africa. Among them were some real gems, including an entirely blind, subterranean lizard, the Swynnerton's amphisbaenian (Chrindia swynnertoni). These tiny reptiles, known only from a handful of specimens recorded around Gorongosa, spend their entire life underground, leading a lifestyle remarkably similar to that of earthworms, and feeding on termites and ant larvae.
Photo: Swynnerton's amphisbaenian (Chrindia swynnertoni), a subterranean blind lizard, found only in Gorongosa and a small surrounding area.
On the opposite end of the lizard spectrum, two species of giant monitors (Varanus) turned out to be quite common on the Cheringoma Plateau. One day Harith walked into the camp carrying a live Rock monitor (V. albigularis) the size of a goat, which he had captured by throwing himself on top of the gargantuan animal, barely overpowering it with the help of two other people. The reptile's snout was still covered with blood of the last victim, probably a bird or a small child, by the looks of it, and gazing into the monitor's eyes made me realize how grateful I was that our species appeared long after the era of dinosaurs had passed. We released the beautiful creature after examining it for the presence of external parasites, which the lizard had none, proving its excellent health condition.
Photo: Thunderbolt lizard (Nucras sp.), one of the fastest animals found in Gorongosa.
Almost every day our herpetological team, which also included a Mozambican student Francisco Domingos, recorded something new and exciting. Often it was a tiny brown frog that differed from all other frogs by the presence of a slightly enlarged corner of the left supraocular cuticular fold, which was enough to make our herpetologists prance and giggle with excitement like little girls. But at other times it was a vine snake that could kill you with a half a drop of its venom, or a spiny rock lizard that defends itself by squeezing into rock crevices and inflating its body like a balloon. The survey found charismatic chameleons, among them the famed pygmy chameleon of Mount Gorongosa, unquestionably the cutest lizard in Mozambique, and blindingly fast lacertid lizards with flame orange tails, which looked like tiny thunderbolts zipping across the ground.
Photo: Plated lizard (Gherrosaurus major) was one of the most exciting finds of the survey.
The survey officially ended yesterday, and Harith is on the way back to Pemba. Data collected by him and the rest of the herpetological team will be added to the ever growing Gorongosa biodiversity database, a powerful tool that helps manage the restoration efforts in the park. I was sorry to see the members of the team depart, but having witnessed Harith handle cobras and puff adders as if they were harmless puppies I was relieved to see him leave the park, still alive and well. All things considered, a gash in his finger, courtesy of a pouched rat, followed by a nip from a giant scorpion hardly count as injuries.
Photo: The male Gorongosa girdled lizard (Cordylus mossambicus) looks like an alligator wearing an orange T-shirt. These spectacular reptiles are found only in a small area around Gorongosa and the neighboring Chimanimani Mountains of Zimbabwe, and are threatened by habitat loss and overcollecting for pet trade.
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Hi everyone!
I'm new here, and I just wanted to announce that we recently released a new graphics library for computer science classes. It is very lightweight and works as a layer around freeglut. It is written in standard C language.
You will recognize some similarities to processing.org, and it is fairly easy to work with.
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Ability for plugins to create new views where the plugin is responsible for all of the rendering
I've been looking though the forums, but as far as I can tell the
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empty container, where the plugin author can use the UI toolkit of their
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Or alternatively, to allow the plugin to create web views, where the UI is in HTML/CSS/JS, and where the ui can make callbacks to the plugin code through a mechanism like postMessage.
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Staff Sgt. OliveiraBy Maj. Gen. Glenn K. Rieth, The Adjutant General - New Jersey
Oliveira was a great leader, a great role model, a great Soldier and a great American.
He died on Oct. 19 while conducting route reconnaissance operations in Afghanistan. He died as he served, leading from the front, putting the safety of his troops ahead of his own.
For those of you were unable to attend Oliveira's funeral, I can assure you it was an appropriate tribute to a Soldier who was simply an American hero.
Gov. Christie, who spoke at Oliveira's funeral, may have put it best when he said simply: "He gave it all."
In his time in the National Guard, Oliveira simply did it all.
He served on a detainee operations mission to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2004, in response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans the following year and deployed to Iraq with the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in 2008-2009.
Last year, when it became clear that operations in Afghanistan required a New Jersey Army Guard Security Forces platoon for a sensitive mission assisting a provincial reconstruction team, Oliveira volunteered.
Oliveira had been scheduled for leave at Christmas. In a conversation with his mother the day before he died, Oliveira, who was not married, told her he had given his leave slot to another Soldier who has young children.
In that conversation with his mother, Oliveira had talked about why he served.
"Ma, this country has given us so much, I got to give something back," he told her.
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You Know What Else Started Out Like Apple TV? The iPod.
Apple TV isn't just a hobby any more.
For years, Apple defined the device that way, resisting suggestions that television was the next market it planned to disrupt. But as company co-founder Steve Jobs said at our D5 conference in 2007, another Apple creation had similar humble beginnings and went on to become one of the company's most transformative products.
"I use the word hobby because it's provocative," Jobs told AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg in 2007. "But the iPod started this way. The iPod started off feeling a lot like this."
And to hear Apple CEO Tim Cook tell it today, Apple TV might be poised for a similar transition. In an interview with NBC, Cook said that Apple's view of the television market is changing, and hinted that Apple TV may no longer be the hobby it began as.
"When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years," Cook said. "It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that."
That comment marks a clear departure from Apple's long-running narrative about its plans for the TV market and the unique challenge it presents, one that Jobs once said would likely be met and overcome by someone else.
"The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy," Jobs said in 2010 at our D8 conference. "The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us … ask Google in a few months. The television industry fundamentally has a subsidized business model that gives everyone a set-top box, and that pretty much undermines innovation in the sector. The only way this is going to change is if you start from scratch, tear up the box, redesign and get it to the consumer in a way that they want to buy it. But right now, there's no way to do that. … The TV is going to lose until there's a viable go-to-market strategy. That's the fundamental problem with the industry. It's not a problem with the technology, it's a problem with the go-to-market strategy. …. I'm sure smarter people than us will figure this out."
Two and a half years later, no one has. But some very smart people are doing some very intense thinking.


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Today was one of those days I didn't love. Today was the day that I attempted to master a skill that I am completely unskilled at. Today was the day that I tried to replicate something in my kitchen that would normally send me running out, screaming into the night. Today was the day that I made doughnuts for the first time.
First of all, I've never been good with dough. It intimidates me. Have I added enough flour? Have I added too much flour? Have I kneaded enough or have I kneaded too much? Is the water too hot? Too cold? I'm never really sure if I've done it right. What stress!!! One of the happiest days of my life was the day I first heard about No-Knead Bread. Finally, a simple recipe that eliminated all of the guesswork.
Second, I hate to deep fry anything. I don't know, something about standing over a cauldron of boiling hot oil just makes me cringe. My mother says it's post traumatic stress from when I was badly burned by boiling water as a toddler. I don't remember the incident, but maybe she's right. All I know is that deep frying scares the crap out of me!
Why then, would I subject myself to this unpleasantness? Because two of my favorite bloggers are hosting an event dedicated to.....doughnuts, and there's no way I would miss it. You've got to support your buddies, right? Time to Make the Doughnuts is the brainchild of Helene and Peabody. Any kind of doughnuts are okay, as long as they're sweet ones and are made especially for this event.
Ready to face my fears head on, I searched for a recipe that wouldn't hurt me too badly. I found it in the new, white hot, bestselling baking book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. They actually have a recipe for doughnuts in there! Well, actually, they call them beignets, but we all know that it's practically the same thing. This was perfect! No-Knead Doughnuts. I was psyched!
To make the beignets/doughnuts, you begin with the authors' recipe for a challah or brioche dough. I went with the brioche. It was pretty easy to make. Any idiot could do it, except that this idiot messed it up. I was moving right along, blithely measuring out the ingredients, when my husband came in and started chatting. Engaged in conversation, I mixed up the dough and put it in its container. When I grabbed it up off the counter to put it in the fridge, guess what was hiding there. The water. I FORGOT TO ADD THE %*&#ING WATER TO THE DOUGH! I wasn't about to write off eight eggs, so I dumped it all back in the mixing bowl and churned like crazy! Then, I made the sign of the cross over it and hoped for the best.
This morning, I took out the container and peeked inside. It looked like.....dough! Very wet, sticky, lumpy dough, but dough nonetheless. Hmm. So far, so good. I scooped out a big hunk and rolled it out. Man oh man, that really was some sticky dough! It got all over EVERYTHING, including my laptop! The recipe says to cut the dough into two inch squares and then fill each square with chocolate of jam. I decided on raspberry jam. Frankly, after my last several posts, I was getting a little sick of chocolate. I am still finding bits of ganache from my Rose-Kissed Chocolate Truffles in the darndest places. I filled my doughnuts-in-waiting and let them rest while I heated up the dreaded oil in the tallest pot I could find. Of course, my candy thermometer was missing in action, so I had no way to tell just how hot my oil was getting.
After a while, the doughnuts started frying up to a more acceptable caramel color. Still not what I wanted, but not too bad. At least the filling didn't leak out. After they were cooled and tossed with sugar, I had to try one. Mmmm. They tasted great! Some of the bigger ones still had some doughy bits inside, but frying them any longer would have really burned the outsides. I don't think that Krispy Kreme needs to be be concerned or anything, but all in all, not bad for my first attempt at doughnut making.
If I were to do it over again, I think that I would fry the doughnuts first and inject them with the jam later. It was a real pain trying to stuff the squares of raw dough. That just seems more logical to me. Would I do it again? I don't know. Maybe. I definitely reached out of my comfort zone and learned a few things. But first, I have got to find that thermometer.
Raspberry Filled No Knead Doughnuts
1½ cups lukewarm water
Mix the yeast, salt, eggs, honey and 1½ cups melted butter with the water in a 5-quart bowl or lidded (not airtight) food container.
Mix in the flour without kneading, using a spoon. You can also use a 14-cup capacity food processor or a heavy-duty stand mixer with dough hook. If you're not using a machine, you may need to use wet hands to incorporate the last bit of flour. The dough will be loose but will firm up when chilled. Don't try to work with it before chilling. You may notice lumps in the dough but they will disappear in the finished product.
Cover (not airtight) and allow to rest at room temperature until dough rises and collapses (or flattens on top), approximately 2 hours.
The dough can be used as soon as it's chilled after the initial rise. Refrigerate in a lidded (not airtight) container and use over the next 5 days. Beyond 5 days, freeze the dough in 1-pound portions in an airtight container for up to 4 weeks. When using frozen dough, thaw in the refrigerator for 24 hours before using, then allow the usual rise and rest times.
For the Doughnuts:
Dust the surface of the dough with flour and cut off a grapefruit-sized piece. Dust the piece with more flour and quickly shape it into a ball by stretching the surface around to the bottom on all four sides, rotating the ball a quarter turn as you go.
Roll the dough into a 1/2 inch thick rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Cut the dough into 2 inch squares, then spoon a teaspoon of jam in the center of each square. Gather the edges of the dough around the filling, pinching at the center to form a seal. If needed, use a small amount of water to help stick them together.
Allow the doughnuts to rest for 15-20 minutes while the oil is heating up to 360-375 degrees as determined by a candy thermometer.
Carefully drop the doughnuts into the hot oil, 2 or 3 at a time. Do not overcrowd them. After 2 minutes, flip the doughnuts over with a slotted spoon and fry another minute or until golden brown on both sides.
Using the slotted spoon, remove the doughnuts from the oil and drain on paper towels. Repeat until all doughnuts are fried.
Dust with sugar and eat with a fresh cup of cafe au lait.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – After dropping the first match start to the 49er invite on Friday, the Tigers rounded out the weekend with split on Saturday. Capping off the tournament with a straight sets win over fellow HBCU South Carolina Sate.
Following a loss to Charlotte earlier in the day TSU (3-7) responded big with a 3-0 win (25-23, 25-20, 25-18) over the Bulldogs (0-13).
Senior setter Erika Moss closed out the tournament with a 33 assist performance on her way to being named to the 49er Invitational all-tournament team. Moss recorded 98 assists in the tournament including a 25 assist performance on Friday against Elon.
In Tennessee State's final game of the 49er Invite the Tigers began the match in a back-and-forth contest with South Carolina State where either team was unable to extend the lead past two points. The score was knotted at 5-5 when the Tigers made their charge extending a lead out to 17-10 aided by an 8-3 run. Including an impressive three point run by junior outside hitter Naomi Wells who racked up a kill and two service aces in the swing.
The Bulldogs would battle back tying the score at 23-23. TSU grind out two consecutive points including a set winning kill from freshman outside hitter Arijana Anderson. to win the first set 25-23.
The Tigers picked up where they left off in the second set using another big run to race out to an 11-6 lead. South Carolina State responded with another run of their own cutting the TSU lead down to one, 21-20. Tennessee State closed out the set with four straight points to claim the second stanza, 25-20.
South Carolina State came out of the break quick taking the early 8-7 lead. The edge wouldn't hold as TSU used an 8-1 run breaking the game open and giving the Tigers a 15-9 lead they wouldn't relinquish. Tennessee State would close out the third and decisive set 25-18 on a four point run.
Wells lead the team in kills for the sixth straight match recording 14 in the win. Junior libero Ileanushka Maldonado continued her strong showing in the tournament with 15 digs alongside junior outside hitter Taylor Swayzer's 14 digs the Tigers totaled 54 digs on the evening.
In Tennessee States first match with Conference USA's Charlotte 49ers the hosts proved to be too much, downing the Tigers 3-1.
Charlotte (9-5) got off to a quick start in the opening stanza taking the 13-7 lead. TSU would battle back the margin to five, 16-11, on an Arijana Anderson kill. Elon proved to be too strong in the first set on their way to a 25-18 opening set victory.
In the second set the clubs would trade punches early in the frame with neither team taking a lead larger than three points. The 49ers held the lead at 8-7 when they went on a 3-0 run to take an 11-7 lead. TSU would scrap their way back in to the set going on an 8-2 run to trim the lead back down to just two, 15-13, on a Sherryce Butler kill. Charlotte would be up to the task responding to the Tigers run and closed the set 25-18
The 49ers rushed out to an early 16-11 lead. TSU would battle to keep Charlotte within reach trimming the 49er advantage down to three, 21-18, on a Zoe Sostre kill. The Niners would close out the set 25-21 to win the match in straight sets.


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Update now for the latest features including procedural textures, toon shading, focused caustics and more.
Today, we are pleased to bring you KeyShot 4.1. We have shared a
preview with a few the features included with this release and have some additional detail on those features along with some other features and enhancements you will want to know about.
KeyShot 4.1 Overview
This release of KeyShot introduces focused caustics, a simple method for adding refracted light rays, procedural textures to build on the simple, uniform application of textures, a new toon shader material type that allows for solid color contouring and shading of parts and new color management brings accurate color matching to KeyShot. 3D data import has been improved along with interface improvements that simplify both options and layout. All new features can be seen here.
Focused caustics
The new Focused Caustics feature allows you to accurately display the rays of light that reflect or pass through transparent or translucent surfaces. It uses a proprietary algorithm developed by Luxion co-founder and chief scientist Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen and is one of the fastest algorithms in the industry, delivering results in seconds. To turn it on, simply select a simple check box under the render scene settings. Of course, this compliments the new physical lighting feature in KeyShot that allows any object to be used as a Point, Area or IES light profile with added functionality in KeyShot 4.1 to adjust the size of the light, giving you additional control the softness of the shadow.
Procedural textures
The new Procedural texture options are available for any material when you apply a texture to an object. Six preset procedural materials allow you to immediately apply a seamless texture to any surface with the added ability to scale, adjust bump height and sync to other textures. The six presets include Granite, Leather, Marble, Noise (Texture), Noise (Fractal) and Wood with more planned for future releases.
Toon shading
The non-photorealistic (NPR) toon shader is a new material type that allows you to apply solid colors, solid shading and contours to your objects for a flat, cel shading appearance. You can apply this material from the material type selection box with options to adjust material color along with contour color, angle, width, quality and more advanced options to adjust contours and shadows. Since it is a material rather than a render mode, the toon material can be used in combination with any other material for still images, animations and KeyShotVR.
Color management
A new Color Management setting has been added to the KeyShot Preferences with this release as well. Color Management allows the matching and control of color representations across various devices. In the Color Management settings, you now have the ability to enable Color Management, selecting an ICC profile (.icc or .icm) available from various software and hardware manufacturers.
STL import
A new STL importer is now available as part of the 25+ 3D file formats supported inside KeyShot. This new importer allows .stl files to be imported directly into KeyShot.
Importer improvements
All importers have been significantly improved to better represent the geometry inside KeyShot. The order and exact structure is now maintained for all file formats. Geometry for many file formats is now properly represented.
iBook support
iBook support for KeyShotVR is now available allowing the creation of an iBooks widget with the use of iBooks Author. From the KeyShotVR render options, simply select the option to create an iBooks widget. KeyShot will automatically generate the code for you to use.
Other improvements
Improvements to the HDRI Editor have been added with new Flat and Spherical Display types as well as Display Orientation for the Spherical display. In addition the user interface has been streamlined with the ability to rename pins and to copy and paste regions from the HDRI. Additional options have been added to the Material templates dialogue that allow users to add a template for a part or materials either automatically or manually and materials used for the scene have been moved to the Project Scene tab. The user can now create an unlimited number of render layers with the ability to create custom names for each layer. The animation capabilities have been made more robust, respecting now the order in which animations have been created, with the ability to change the order interactively in the scene tree.


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Head baseball coach Brian Schmack announced his club's schedule for the 2014 season Thursday.
The Crusaders will open their season on Valentine's Day when they head to Alabama to face Samford Feb. 14th-16th. They'll make a return trip to the Heart of Dixie the following weekend for a three-game set with Jacksonville State. The Gamecocks went 22-8 in the Ohio Valley Conference last season.
Valpo's spring trip begins in Louisiana with a weekend series versus McNeese State. Afterwards, the Brown and Gold will travel to Austin, Texas to play the Longhorns on Mar. 4th. Augie Garrido, the winningest baseball coach in Division I history, is 1,847-847-9 in his 46th year as head coach. A single game with Texas State is scheduled for the following night before a three-game set against Texas A&M - Corpus Christi begins Mar. 7th. The Crusaders will play their final game of the trip in San Antonio against Incarnate Word on Mar. 11th.
Horizon League play kicks off Friday, March 14th when Milwaukee comes to Emory G. Bauer Field for the home opener. The Panthers were regular season champions of the Horizon League in 2013.
Valpo will get its first look of the newly-constructed Curtis Granderson Stadium on Friday, Mar. 21st when the Crusaders collide with the UIC Flames in a weekend set.
A mid-week tilt with Ball State is slated for Tuesday, Mar. 25th before Valpo travels to Michigan to face Oakland in a three-game series Mar. 28th-30th. It'll be the first meeting between the Crusaders and the Golden Grizzlies since 2007.
For the third straight season, Valpo will play the Fighting Irish at Notre Dame in a mid-week affair. The out-of-conference game is scheduled for Apr. 1st.
The Crusaders welcome Wright State (Apr. 4th-6th) and Youngstown State (Apr. 11th-13th) to town the following weekends.
A ten-game homestand spans from Apr. 21st-May 4th. A home-and-home with Western Michigan begins on Tuesday, Apr. 29th at Emory G. Bauer Field. The Crusaders fulfill their obligation the following week, playing the Broncos in Kalamazoo on Wednesday, May 7th.
Valpo's final six HL games will be on the road. The Crusaders will travel to Dayton on Friday, May 9th to battle Wright State in a three-game series. The regular season will conclude with a three-game set at Youngstown State.
The 2014 Horizon League Conference Tournament will be held at Kapco Park in Mequon, Wisconsin. The four-day event commences on Wednesday, May 21st and wraps up Saturday, May 24th. The Crusaders have won the HL Tournament the last two seasons.
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text: June 30th through July 8th are the warrior games. This event is specifically for wounded warriors to compete against one another. These warriors suffer from brain stem injuries, amputations, severe burns, and other wounds. The program was tailored after the Paralympic style games, and it proves life can continue after being injured. Every 65 minutes a veteran commits suicide. That is roughly 22 per day. These games give each athlete a way to bring back the fighting spirit that each one has inside of them. From my family to each and every member of the warrior games and to every Vet that may read this……. Thank You for your service! You are an inspiration to every American.