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Some Basic Resources
- New to javascript? Have a look at the Javascript Guide from the Mozilla Developer Network
- Interested in browser support? Read this post and checkout Quirksmode, Modernizr, HTML5 Polyfills
- Looking for coding standards and best practices? Checkout Isobar
- Not a fan of the javascript syntax? Checkout CoffeeScript
- Want to write a html5 mobile app that can run natively? Checkout Phonegap
- Wondering where the core libraries are hiding? Checkout the CommonJS project
- Want to write code in the cloud? Checkout the Cloud9 IDE from Ajax.org
- Already an expert? Maybe you'll find CouchDB, Nodejs, and jslibs interesting
Those links lead you to some really cool javascript projects and communities and I highly recommend exploring the ones that interest you. However, if you're like me and you're looking for a solid foundation for building client side applications then read on. I've assembled a list of some of the most common and/or most intriguing frameworks and libraries that I've come across, in no particular order.
- jQuery + jQuery Plugins + jQueryUI (see: jQuery's Best Friends, jquery-startr)
- Dojo Toolkit (see also: Cujojs, Dojo Foundation)
- Moo Tools
- Sprout Core
- Google Web Toolkit
- Yahoo User Interface (YUI3)
- Sencha
- Backbone
- JavascriptMVC
- Prototype
- Echo Web Framework
There are a vast number of plugins for jQuery and other frameworks that I encourage you to explore. I'm not going to list any of them here. However I have listed a somewhat random assortment of stand alone libraries that are useful to know about.
If you're interested in testing frameworks, checkout stackoverflow for a great discussion on your options.
These lists are absolutely a work in progress so if you've got any suggestions for me please post in comments. I'll also continue to add to them as I discover new and interesting libraries.


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(Steve Watson) The Department of Homeland Security is encouraging Americans to snitch on each other if they see anything "suspicious" at malls and shopping centres in New Hampshire this holiday season.
The agency is urging shop owners and shoppers to "report suspicious activity to local authorities", as well as ramping up display propaganda, as part of its 'If You See Something, Say Something' campaign.
"At DHS, homeland security begins with hometown security. We're all safer when everyone is alert and engaged…" an Orwellian sounding press release from the DHS states.
Several businesses have joined forces with the DHS to promote the snitch program, they include Mall of America, Walmart, Simon Property Group and the Building Owners and Managers Association.
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The press release states that the overall purpose is to "raise public awareness of indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, and to emphasize the importance of reporting suspicious activity to the proper local law enforcement authorities."
The FBI is also taking part in the campaign, with the businesses also carrying out "training exercises". It is not clear what the drills consist of.
"We have seen the value of public vigilance in thwarting terrorism and crime time and again, so remember: if you see something that doesn't look right, report it to local authorities," writes John Cohen, principal deputy under secretary of DHS for intelligence and analysis and counterterrorism coordinator.
"When we each do our part, we are working together to keep our nation safe, one hometown at a time." the statement concludes.
As we have previously reported, the 'See Something…' campaign has been expanded to all walks of life in America beyond transport hubs, into malls, onto the streets and even into sports events.
For several years now, the DHS has been broadcasting eerie big brother style messages on huge TVs in Walmart at checkout lanes. As Alex explains in this analysis, the expansion is part of the larger takeover of the US.
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As we have also highlighted in the past, actually "saying something" to the DHS will pretty much land you in a bureaucratic nightmare. You'll find it extremely difficult to get hold of a real person and will be pretty much shunted around between federal and local law enforcement.
While the DHS may not be that interested in hearing from people who have "seen something", they are very interested in anyone who vocally opposes their stasi-style snitch campaign.
Last year hundreds of pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the DHS went out of its way to monitor political opposition to the campaign, as well as tracking Infowars stories and user comments on a myriad of other issues while categorizing the website as "Right Wing Terrorism".
It doesn't seem to matter that you are more than a thousand times more likely to die in a car accident than in a terrorist attack. Regardless of the fact that Americans are more likely to die from a bee sting or drowning in the bath than from terrorism, people are suckers for government propaganda. If the government tells them terrorists are a threat, they usually believe it despite the fact dying or even getting injured in a terrorist attack is at best a remote possibility.
America in 2013 is all about being guilty until proven innocent and the complete evisceration of what the country is supposed to stand for in the pursuit of unobtainable "security".


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LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he supports a draft bill he has seen that would allow him to forgo calling a special election to fill the soon-to-be-vacated lieutenant governor's office.
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he supports a draft bill he has seen that would allow him to forgo calling a special election to fill the soon-to-be-vacated lieutenant governor's office.
Lt. Gov Mark Darr announced in a news release earlier this month he would resign effective Feb. 1. A state law requires a special election to be held within 150 days of a vacancy being declared in the lieutenant governor's office, but House and Senate leaders have said that with the office up for election in November anyway, they favor avoiding the expense of a special election if possible.
Beebe told reporters Wednesday he has seen an earlier draft bill that he felt left some issues unresolved, but the most recent draft he had seen was "acceptable." The measure would leave it to the discretion of the governor whether to call a special election if a vacancy occurs in the lieutenant's office within 11 months of a regular election for the office, he said.
Beebe said he would sign the measure if it passes, but he did not know whether a majority of legislators support it.
"If they pass something like that, I can tell you right now I would not call a special election," he said.
Senate President Pro Tem Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, said senators and a Senate staff attorney worked on the draft, which he said he believes has the support of a majority of senators. He said avoiding a special election could save the state $1.5 million — or $4.5 million if the election were to go to a runoff.
House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, said Wednesday he had not seen the draft but he believed a majority of House members support the idea behind it.
The Legislature will convene for a fiscal session on Feb. 10. Consideration of a non-appropriations bill during a fiscal session requires a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate, though the measure itself could pass with a simple majority vote, Lamoureux said.
Amendment 29 to the Arkansas Constitution allows the governor to fill vacancies in other constitutional offices by appointment, but it does not allow the lieutenant governor's office to be filled that way. Lamoureux said the exclusion presumably is intended to prevent the governor from naming the person who would step into his or her office in the event of death or departure from office.
"The whole idea of the lieutenant governor is that it's sort of a backup to the governor," he said.
Beebe also said Wednesday he has not received a resignation letter from Darr. He said he did not know whether Darr's resignation would be official without one.
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The dollar was mostly lower in N.Y. trade on Tuesday, as risk-off trade dominated. A 7-year low in jobless claims, better Philly Fed and N.Y. Fed indices outcomes were offset by a miss in industrial production, hotter core CPI and a weaker NAHB housing market index. When coupled with weaker EU inflation and growth data released during the London morning session, stocks tanked, Treasury yields pulled back, and the dollar stumbled. EUR-USD posted trend lows of 1.3649 into the early data, though moved steadily higher to peak at 1.3732 into the London close. USD-JPY was sold off to 101.30 lows, coming dangerously close to March lows of 101.20. Cable moved over 1.6800, while USD-CAD was supported by the softer U.S. production data, and general lack of risk taking.
EUR-USD dipped to 1.3649 trend lows immediately following the U.S. claims and CPI data, though as the risk backdrop deteriorated, the euro made up some ground. The pairing made its way back over 1.3730, just above the 1.3725 peak posted during Asian hours. Good selling interest is not seen until the 1.3740 region, where we suspect some shorts will be re-loaded. Given the backdrop of a dovish ECB, and softer EU inflation and growth data, the pairing remains in sell-the-rally mode.
USD-JPY moved briefly over 102.00 following the early round of U.S. data, though was quickly pushed lower from there. The pairing later approached tricky levels, though ultimately found a floor at 101.31. The March base of 101.20 has come into focus now, with a break there expected to result in a test of 100.75 (February 4 low). The risk sensitive yen managed to recover over 101.50 into the close, but more risk-off conditions will continue to support the JPY.
After dipping to 1.6743 after the U.S. CPI data, cable rallied back over 1.6800, as the dollar in general was sold off. Risk levels were poor, which tended to help sterling versus the dollar. The pound however, did underperform versus the euro, as EUR-GBP rallied over 0.8175.
EUR-CHF has re-established a sideways direction anchored around 1.2200, having recovered from a recent foray to the mid-121s. The cycle low of 1.2104 and 1.2100 are key support levels. The threat of SNB intervention into its 1.2000 limit peg is helping to deter franc buying to some extent.
FX Action: USD-CAD was quiet again through the North American session, posting a narrow 1.0865 to 1.0891 trading band. The pairing opened at session lows, and crept up through the day on the back of softer U.S. production data, and general risk-off conditions. Bids are parked at 1.0850 (corporates) with offers seen from 1.0910.


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innerHTML alternative for XHTML documents in Firefox
I finally figured out an alternative to using innerHTML for an XHTML document in Firefox. Earlier I talked about trying to use innerHTML on my website, and how I ran into problems. Basically, the property is not supported for XHTML documents in Firefox. This makes sense if you think about it, because HTML isn't the same as XHTML. Since HTML isn't as strict as XHTML, there exists the possiblity of inserting badly formed code into the document, and result wouldn't be valid. From what I understand, this "problem" will be fixed in the 1.1 release of Firefox. Until then, I have an alternative. It may seem a little convoluted, but it really isn't all that bad.
My approach revolves around using the DOM Core Methods. There is also another way, and that uses XSLT. I haven't really looked into it, but I plan to, very soon. It could be faster.
Anyway, I realized that there was no way I could actually plug the XHTML code in directly into the document. I would have to parse it and create objects for each of the elements. But how do we parse the code? There really is no point writing our own parser, since it will be slow. Luckily, you can use the DOMParser object. This parser will let you parse an XML document. Since an XHTML document is essentially XML, you can use the DOMParser object to parse your code. The DOMParser object has three methods – parseFromBuffer, parseFromStream, and parseFromString. The one I used, is the last one. parseFromStream works like XMLHttpRequest, and allows you to read XML from a URI. I could have used that also, but parseFromString worked better for me.
The first thing you want to do, is create a DOMParser object. After that, you use parseFromString to parse your XML. parseFromString returns a Document object, which as you will see, can help us out a lot. So the code for parsing the XHTML looks like this:
var parser = new DOMParser(); var XMLdoc = parser.parseFromString("<root>" + myXHTML + "</root>");
It is not necessary to enclose your XHTML snippet with a root tag, but it will take care of the situation where your snippet doesn't have a root element (so it would seem like it has more than one root element). In my case, I am inserting a snippet of XHTML code, and there is no root element, which is why I am enclosing the code with those tags.
I thought that once I had the Document object, I could simply figure out what the children of root are, and simply add them to the DOM by using appendChild. But that didn't work out. This is due to the fact that XMLdoc is an XML Document, and not an HTML Document. Plugging it into the DOM directly won't really help. What we have to do is figure out a way to transform the XML Document into an HTML Document. The sure-fire way to do that is to use XSLT. I poked around some code and realized that there was much I had to learn about XSLT before I could try to use it. My only other option was to do it through Javascript. This, as it turned out, wasn't so bad. The Document object is essentially a tree, and all you'd have to do is "walk" the tree. While walking the tree, you can also create an object tree that you can later append to the main DOM.
I wrote a recursive function called walkTree that does exactly this. On a side-note, I am aware of the existence of the TreeWalker object, but I was too impatient to figure out how exactly it worked. It may actually prove to be faster, but who knows – maybe I will give it a try someday. Anyway, all those Data Structures and Algorithms classes that I had to take in College came to good use. My basic algorithm is this – you walk the tree, and every time you encounter a node, you create the appropriate XHTML element using createElementNS. First let's look at the code to traverse the tree. Here is the basic skeleton that I use:
function walkTree(node) { if(node.hasChildNodes()) { node = node.firstChild; do { alert("The node is " + node.nodeName + " and its value is " + node.nodeValue ); walkTree(node); node = node.nextSibling; } while(node); } }
Now we have to figure out how to use this skeleton to create elements and append them to the DOM. Like I mentioned before, you can create elements in XHTML using the createElementNS object. So you could do:
var element = createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", tagName);
The URI in createElementNS basically identifies the namespace we want to use. In this case, we want to use the XHTML namespace defined by the W3C. Now that we have created the element, we want to set its attributes. However, we don't really know what the attributes are at runtime. But we can still access them using the attributes property of a node. The attributes property of a node is an array that contains all the attributes and their values. Now we have to figure out how to copy the attributes over to the element. There really is no easy way to do this. The only way I could figure out how to do this, was to construct Javascript code and use the eval() function. The reason for this is that every location in the attributes array is of type Node. The nodeName and nodeValue properties give us the attribute name and the attribute value respectively. So the code to set attributes would look like:
for(var i = 0; i < node.attributes.length; i++) { var currAttribute = node.attributes[i]; if(currAttribute.nodeName == "style") { applyStyle(element, currAttribute.nodeValue); } else if(currAttribute.nodeName == "class") { element.className = currAttribute.nodeValue; } else { eval("element." + node.attributes[j].nodeName + " = \"" + node.attributes[j].nodeValue + "\"" ); } }
Pretty straightforward, but why do we have the if statements for "style" and "class"? Well, I'm sure you can see why you need the if statement for "class". The attribute name in Javascript is different from the attribute name used in the XHTML code. But what's that applyStyle function? Well, that function translates the CSS style into the Javascript format. So for example, if we had a style background-color:#ffffff;, the Javascript equivalent is obj.style.backgroundColor = "#ffffff";. I wrote a simple function that performs this translation:
function applyStyle(obj, style) { // Remove all whitespaces, and remove terminating ; if any style = new String(style).replace(/\s/g, "").replace(/;$/, ""); // Split into an array of attribute:value pairs var attributes = style.split(";"); for(var i = 0; i < attributes.length; i++) { // Split the pair into the attribute and the value // Then translate the CSS style attribute into Javascript var attrvalue_pair = attributes[i].split(":"); var attr = attrvalue_pair[0].replace(/-[a-z]/g, function($1) { return new String($1).toUpperCase().replace(/-/g, ""); } ); // eval the constructed Javascript code eval("obj.style." + attr + " = \"" + attrvalue_pair[1] + "\""); } }
Now we can put it all together:
function insertXHTML(myXHTML, myObject) { var parser = new DOMParser(); var XMLdoc = parser.parseFromString("<root>;" + myXHTML + "</root>", "text/xml"); if(XMLdoc.documentElement.nodeName == "parserror") { alert("Your XML document has errors"); } else { walkTree(XMLdoc.childNodes[0], myObject); } } function walkTree(node, parent) { // Failing case for recursion. We don't want to continue // if the node has no children. if(node.hasChildNodes()) { // Set the node pointer to the first child of the current node // and start looping through all the children node = node.firstChild; do { // We don't want any whitespace (line breaks, carriage returns, tabs or spaces) if(!/^[\t\r\n ]+$/.test(node.data)) { var element; // Each node has a nodeType. The nodeType for a TextNode is 3. We want to handle // Text Nodes separately from nodes that are tags if(node.nodeType != 3) { // Create a new element using createElementNS as this is an XHTML file element = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", node.nodeName); // Here, we manage the set the element's attributes by copying them from the node. // Notice that we want to handle the style and class attributes separately. // The applyStyle function uses the CSS and creates the equivalent Javascript code // for the style object of the current element. Look at the applyStyle function for // more information if(node.attributes) { for(var j = 0; j < node.attributes.length; j++) { var currAttribute = node.attributes[j]; if(currAttribute.nodeName == "style") { applyStyle(element, currAttribute.nodeValue); } else if(currAttribute.nodeName == "class") { element.className = currAttribute.nodeValue; } else { // I guess this might be a hack, but I couldn't think of any other way to do it. // here we set any other attributes that the node may have. We construct Javascript // code to set the attributes and eval it. nodeName is the attribute name, and nodeValue // is the attribute value eval("element." + currAttribute.nodeName + " = \"" + currAttribute.nodeValue + "\""); } } } } else { // If the element is a text node, we create a TextNode element element = document.createTextNode(node.nodeValue); } // We make a recursive call to the function, to continue traversing the tree walkTree(node, element); // We append the element that we have created, to the parent element parent.appendChild(element); } // Move onto the next sibling of the current node node = node.nextSibling; } while(node); } }
And there it is, folks. As easy as pie! I've found that it's not that slow, especially if you're parsing it just once. I'm using this same code for the Live! Preview, and it gets noticeably laggy when the code to be inserted is large. I guess if I was using XSLT, it wouldn't be this slow. That's going to be my next project! Feel free to use this code, and I hope it helps you out. Also, if you find ways to make it better/faster, or find bugs, or if you hate/love it, don't hesitate to comment on it.
It was pointed out to me that there is a much simpler way of inserting XHTML into the document. You can use the importNode function, instead of walking the tree and manually copying the attributes. There doesn't seem to be a speed advantage, but it is much simpler:
function insertXHTML(myXHTML, myObject) { var parser = new DOMParser(); var XMLdoc = parser.parseFromString("
" + comment + "
", "application/xhtml+xml"); var root = XMLdoc.documentElement; for(i = 0; i < root.childNodes.length; i++) { myObject.appendChild(document.importNode(root.childNodes[i], true)); } }
I wish I had known about this function earlier – it would have saved me a whole lot of trouble!


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By Tom Whipple
Last week the peak oil phenomenon reached a turning point when official Washington began to realize it has a problem. The problem, however, is currently being framed as high-gas-prices-going-into-the-next-election rather than worldwide oil depletion. Thus the first round of solutions being proposed ranged from the bizarre to unachievable.
The fun started on Sunday of last week, right after oil has reached a new high of $75 a barrel, when Senator Arlen Specter said the US should back a plan to tax away the excess profits of the oil companies. The senator opined that that the US has allowed too many oil companies to merge so that we have reduced competition and higher prices.
On Monday, Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan revealed that the President had directed the Energy and Justice Departments to investigate "illegal manipulation of gasoline markets" and that the President would unveil a set of plans the next day to deal with high oil prices.
On Tuesday morning, the Washington Post weighed in with a story on how the President and congressional Republicans were beginning to feel the heat from high gas prices and were starting to fear what the electorate would do next November. After consulting various energy experts, the Post concluded that anything the President or Congress could do to increase the supply of oil or reduce demand would take years to have an impact.
Later that day, the President appeared before the Renewable Fuels Association to announce his plan for dealing with $3+ gasoline prices. In addition to the previously announced efforts to root out illegal price gougers and oil company collusion, the President said he would temporarily suspend the requirement to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with oil that had been borrowed after the hurricanes last fall. As this replenishment was occurring at the rate of roughly three-tenths of a percent of daily US oil consumption, few observers thought it would make a noticeable difference. Even the Wall Street Journal had the grace to note that the effects would be "mostly psychological."
The President also directed the EPA to waive clean air rules in areas where the transition to the clean air additive ethanol was causing gasoline shortages. He asked Congress to roll back about $2 billion of the $10 billion worth of tax breaks they had given the oil companies last year and give increased tax breaks for hybrid purchasers.
The commentators immediately noted that these measures would do nothing to bring down gas prices, but they sounded so good the price of oil dropped right after the President's speech. In a burst of candor, and to his credit, the President said, "energy experts predict that gas prices are going to remain high throughout the summer, and it is going to be a continued strain on the American people."
After the President had his say, it was Congress's turn to weigh in. At various times during the week, they proposed a 60-day federal gas tax holiday, a $100 federal tax rebate check, and reworking of the accounting standards pertaining to inventories so that oil companies, and every other kind of company, would have to pay higher taxes. All of this was accompanied by numerous press conferences and photo ops staged at gas stations.
By the end of the week, the demagoguery of all this was apparent to nearly everybody and, one by one, the proposals sunk of their own weight or threat of presidential veto. The $100 rebate came in for the most scorn with liberals and conservatives both seeing it as nothing more than an effort to buy votes. The proposal did, however, have a couple of interesting features. The rebate was tied to oil drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge so that the Democrats would have to vote against it just before the election. It also had a provision that the $100 check would go to families with an income of $218,000 or less -- causing some to wonder if this might just might be a new definition of the poverty level.
There were other proposals including one to raise automobile fuel efficiency standards. The President insisted however that increasing fuel efficiency only be done in the context of a complete overhaul of the standards system so as not to harm the US automobile industry too badly. Nothing is simple anymore.
On Sunday, Energy Secretary Bodman appeared on "Meet the Press" to explain why gasoline prices had increased by 60 cents per gallon in the last month. The secretary sees high gas prices as fallout from President Bush's successful efforts to build a stronger economy and the "inability of suppliers to make the flows equal to demand." The secretary foresees tight oil supplies as continuing for the next two or three years when either supply will catch up with demand or the administration will be out of office and high gas prices will be somebody else's problem.
Absent from the week's torrent of words was any mention of peak oil or even a hint the beginnings of worldwide oil depletion just might be at the root of the gas price problem. Many serious commentators, however, noted a gap was opening between supply and demand due to vigorous world economic growth. Widespread appreciation of this point is, of course, a step in the right direction.
Sadly, one searches in vain for any mention of conservation as a first, inexpensive, step towards mitigating the problem. It is clear that the country, the media, and our leaders in Washington have a ways to go before we are discussing the real issue and real choices. Someday, the historians will note that in late April 2006, a national discussion of oil policy, however surreal, began in earnest.


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We are looking for you to have a near native level of both German and Spanish, with a drive to work in Germany for a renowned company in the construction industry. If so and you truly want to live and work in Gutersloh, Germany then we would love to hear from you. For a chance to further your career keep reading and apply today.
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Rose Heller, a lifelong supporter of art and contemporary music and co-founder of the Picred Heller Foundation (with her husband Ernest "Pick" Heller d. 1998), died peacefully at her home in New York City on Saturday, July 19, 2003. She was 105 years old.
Most people referred to Mrs. Heller as Red, but official records of her service to many arts organizations usually refer to her simply as Mrs. Ernest Heller. Throughout her lifetime, she and her husband demonstrated a true love and commitment to the work of living artists and composers. Mrs. Heller served on the boards of the American Music Center, The League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music, and the MacDowell Colony, as well as the awards committee for the Poses Creative Arts Awards at Brandeis University. She was also a supporter of the Aspen Festival and Tanglewood. In 2002, Mrs. Heller was named Trustee Emeritus at MacDowell to honor her boardship in the 1980s during which she led a personal campaign that raised over $1,000,000 for the colony.
In a letter to former MacDowell Executive Director, Mary Carswell, from 1990 Red wrote: "My deep involvement with the Colony goes way back to Aaron Copland—he was so ardent about it as were all those at the time—Virgil Thomson, Albee, Flanagan, etc., not board members—a base who understood the need for a thing like the Colony. A benefit was an occasion—we filled the house with people committed to a cause. It was a good base for the Colony. As it grew more costly it was more difficult but we managed to fill tables…. In any event the cause is just and your slugging it out is worth the effort."
She was also involved with the American Music Center from the late-1960s through the 1980s. After over 13 years of service to the board, she was named an honorary board member in 1980, a title which she held for the rest of her life. "She was really helpful for a longtime," remembers former AMC Board President and current board member Paul Sperry, who credits Mrs. Heller with getting him onto the board in the 1970s. "They supported the Center and cared greatly about it."
Rose Fine, later to become Heller, was born in 1898. At a time when women were just being granted the right to vote, she was pursuing an degrees in social work from the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and traveling all over the world. She met Pick in Paris in the mid-1920s and the couple moved to New York City a few years later. She was active as a social worker for many years and ran a summer camp in Damascus, PA from the late 1920s to 1950. Pick, a Princeton graduate and later a member of the alumni council for the Princeton music department, was in the pearl business. He was also a gifted linguist who spoke Chinese and collected Chinese porcelain. The couple also inherited an exquisite art collection that included works by Edward Hopper, Renoir, and Chagall.
The Hellers counted many composers among their friends and were very close to Edgard and Louise Varèse as well as Earle Brown and his wife Susan Sollins. Their apartment on East 57th Street became a social focal point for the art circles. " They were amongst the most remarkable people we knew. They went to every concert of contemporary music there ever was," recalls Sollins. "And after every concert you'd go to their apartment on 57th Street and everybody was there." The Hellers also welcomed musicians into their homes for intimate performances and Sollins calls the soirees they threw in their apartment "the last of the great salons."
Red Heller is survived by two nieces, Lynn Gilbert and Alison Fine, and two nephews, Barnes Keller and David Fine. There will be a memorial service for her at the Harvard Club (27 W. 44th Street in New York, NY) on September 12, 2003, at 11:30 AM.
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This years Fabulous Fords Forever! all-Ford car show took place on Sunday, April 19 from 10 until 3. The event-sponsored by The Ford Car Club Council, Western Region-was held, as always, at Knott's Berry Farm's Independence Hall parking lot-right across the street from from the famous theme park in Buena Park, California.
It may be all Fords, but that still leaves room for 56 different classes encompassing all makes and models of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln domestic vehicles, cars powered by Ford engines (Cobras, Panteras, Sunbeam Tigers, Merkurs, et cetera), and those manufactured overseas under the Ford Motor Company banner, in such countries as Australia, Cananda, the UK, France, and Germany. The largest group dedicated to a specific make and model was Mustangs, now covering 45 years of manufacture. Other big groups were Cobras, Thunderbirds, 1967-75 Broncos, and Galaxies.
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Some of the toughest lessons in life are not found in the classroom but in the heart. Xiao Feng (Reen Yu) is a first-year student in the Sociology Department of her university. When two other university freshmen, Yi Cheng (Aaron Yan) and Da Ye (Calvin Chen), move in near her home, the handsome cousins become the talk of the neighborhood as well as the school. When Xiao Feng falls for the outgoing Da Ye, but he tells her that he doesn't know what real love is. The more reserved Yi Cheng, who is still trying to get over his past love, begins to develop feelings for Xiao Feng. When Xiao Feng also begins to fall for Yi Cheng, his past love suddenly comes back into their lives. What will Xiao Feng do? Will heartbreak keep her from discovering her true love? "Love Buffet" is a 2010 Taiwanese drama series directed by Wu Jian Xin. It is based on the shoju manga "Parfait Tic!" by Nagamu Nanaji.
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Worst fire: Flames consume an apartment at 147 Woodlake Drive January 26, and when firefighters are finally able to enter the two-story residence, they find a body they believe is an unaccounted-for occupant. The state lab will perform an autopsy and identification.
Worst losses for UVA: James Murray Howard, former curator and restoration architect for Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village, dies January 4 at age 60. Popular sociology prof Steven L. Nock, 57, dies from diabetes complications January 20.
Most colorful protest since Code Pink sit-ins in Virgil Goode's office: Members of the People United, which, in fact, has some crossovers with Code Pink, register for a U.S. Border Patrol recruitment January 26 at the Omni, demand identification and throw to the floor and "arrest" some of their members before they're asked to leave, according to a Jeremy Borden story in the Daily Progress.
Latest gig for Maurice "Mo" Jones: The former communications director for the city, most recently employed as director of development at the Miller Center, has been appointed assistant city manager, working for his old boss, Gary O'Connell.
Latest gig for Bill Symons: The former city school superintendent takes an interim job heading Alexandria schools, replacing Rebecca L. Perry, who was released early from her contract January 18. The locks were changed as soon as she left the building, the Washington Post reports.
Foulest mouth: UVA basketball coach Dave Leitao uses the F-word on at least two occasions at the Florida State game, according to Seminoles fan and Floridian Robert F. Dollar Jr., who writes a letter of complaint to the DP.
Foulest odors: Rivanna Water and Sewer projects an $11 million minimum tab to get the stench emanating from the Moore's Creek Wastewater facility out of Woolen Mills, Seth Rosen reports in the Progress.
Most wretched: More than 150 Hollymead Elementary School students have been out the past week with winter vomiting disease, a.k.a. norovirus.
Best/worst news: Albemarle County real estate reassessments, which last year rose an average 14.9 percent, show a decrease in 2008 residential values– 2 percent on most single family dwellings and 4.6 percent on condos.
Biggest shortfall: Albemarle County schools are looking at about $2 million less than anticipated.
Biggest sting: Howard University soccer coach Joseph E. Okoh, 40, is busted January 25 when he journeys to Louisa to allegedly meet with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl he'd met on the Internet.
Slowest growth: Charlottesville's city population increased just 2.9 percent from 2000 to 2007 to 41,274, according to UVA's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Bolstered by faster growth rates (particularly in Greene, Albemarle, and Fluvanna), our metro area population had the state's third-largest upward spike: 11.4 percent.
Rarest cartographs: The first maps to show the Pacific Ocean and Florida dating back to the 1500s are among those on display through 2008 at UVA Library from the collection of Dr. Seymour Schwartz, who has pledged a bequest of 225 maps and in return gets a map room named for him.
Best plug for the Virginia Quarterly Review: The Washington Post salivates over the current issue of VQR and its "first-person essays that convey the feel of a place–" Ramadi and Kabul– "in a way that newspaper stories seldom do" and Ted Genoways' transformation of a "staid old literary magazine" into a "great magazine."
Most likely to be Dem nominee: Hillary Clinton, at least according to Washington and Lee University, whose every-four-years presidential Mock Convention has been wrong just once since 1948.


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If you grow up in California, leaving all that sun and warmth isn't easy. "I do miss California," says Cole Bettles '13. "I miss the ocean, and I miss surfing and my sandals."
Bettles and his friend, Joey Roth '14, call Southern California home. Bettles hails from Ojai; Roth from Laguna Beach. Sitting in Trim Dining Hall during finals week in December, just as the chilly reality of winter was hitting campus, Bettles and Roth came up with a plan for a California adventure, a long bike trip down the coast starting north of Los Angeles in the small town of Ojai and ending in the upscale San Diego neighborhood of La Jolla. Along the way, the pair would hold beach cleanups, film their travels for a future video, and surf. Throughout the trip, they hoped to raise awareness about the coastline's fragility. The beaches and ocean may be beautiful, Bettles says, but they need to be protected.
After lining up sponsors to provide a camera, clothes, and help in marketing one of the cleanups, the pair kicked off their eight-day trip in January. The trek was supposed to cover about 240 miles, though wrong turns and mishaps added another 40 miles or so. That's a lot of pedaling for two guys who didn't do any training. "The first five miles every day were miserable," Roth says. "Luckily, we headed downhill most of the time."
Almost from the start they faced a setback when the cart they were pulling broke. The cart had carried their surfboards and gear, but with help from Bettles' father, they used pipes, connectors, and glue to build jury-rigged racks that attached to the side of their bikes. These makeshift racks couldn't hold all of their gear, so Roth and Bettles had to leave some behind. Extra changes of clothes, for instance, were a luxury they no longer had. The two bikes and their loaded-up racks made for a strange sight rolling down the road. People constantly approached Roth and Bettles and asked questions. "Even in Venice Beach, we were turning heads," Roth says. "People would just look at us and say, 'Explain.'"
At night, the pair either crashed on friends' couches or camped, which could be tricky. Nights outside were chilly, given that their tent was another item left behind.
Sunset also brought a sense of urgency. Once the sun started going down, they needed to find a place to settle for the night or be left riding in the dark. As the sun set one evening on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, they realized they couldn't make it to the nearest campsite, so they pulled off the road onto a beach and fell asleep by the water. In the night, Bettles says, "I heard the waves crashing, then getting louder and louder." Finally, in the wee hours, the tide came in. It was nearly lapping onto their sleeping bags. Roth nudged Bettles awake. "Dude, we should move," he said.
With the footage they shot, the pair are putting together a short film and working with their sponsors to figure out how to distribute it. Looking back on the trip, Bettles and Roth realize it all didn't go smoothly, but that doesn't matter. They organized three cleanups and talked with many people about the environment. And they surfed. "You should not be afraid of mishaps," says Bettles. "They shouldn't scare you away from doing a project worth good."—John Crawford


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J.E. Dyer
In the rapidly unfolding events in the Arab world over the past month, the most important feature is something that didn't take place in an Arab nation. In fact, what's important about it is that it didn't take place at all.
This interesting feature is the fact that, in the current Arab turmoil, the U.S. has done nothing – and the place where that matters the most is Lebanon. Lebanon has long been riven by predatory strategic actors; Hezbollah has been chief among them for the last 20-plus years, rivaling or exceeding the long-time role of Syria. Previous US presidents have dealt realistically with crises in Lebanon, in the sense that they have understood this truth: politics in Lebanon are never taking place in a quiescent, honest atmosphere uninfluenced by armed factions and intimidation. To achieve any semblance of a democratic, constitutional, or consensual outcome in Lebanon today, there must be active pushback against the antidemocratic, unconstitutional, and counter-consensual methods of Hezbollah. This is why nations like the US, France, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have sought to actively counter Hezbollah's influence during crisis periods in Lebanon. Far from being meddlesome, such intervention – with diplomacy, aid, and support to Western-oriented "unity" governments – is the only way to ensure some kind of power balance in Lebanon. The US has no interest in regime-changing or managing Lebanon, but we don't want others doing that either – or at least, we haven't up until now.
It's quite true that over time, our handling of Lebanon has, for the most part, been pragmatic and narrowly conceived. The US has never proposed a grand plan for reforming Lebanon, kicking Hezbollah out, and ensuring that peace and harmony reign in an idealized future. We have always been in reactive mode: always looking for compromise solutions, narrow guarantees, a steady strain on the tensions between power blocs. We have accepted very imperfect situations there as the best we could get.
But we have always been engaged. We have always conveyed that we have a strategic interest in the outcome. We have proclaimed what we would not tolerate, and backed our rhetoric up with material support and occasionally the threat of force. Sometimes we've put ourselves in an untenable position by paying insufficient attention to the link between force and security – but our determined presence, even when we get a black eye, has perennially been the limiting factor on everyone else's plans and plots.
That engagement is what's missing in January 2011. The biggest thing that has happened this month is that a terrorist organization took over Lebanon, and we did nothing about it. Not only did we do nothing, one of our national spokesmen actually referred to Hezbollah's effective coup as a "constitutional process," with the implication that as long as the process is "constitutional," we don't care who takes over what nation anywhere on earth.
Lebanon differs from Tunisia and Egypt in that Hezbollah has been organized and armed for a long time, and it forced dissolution of the Saad Hariri government in order to take over the country. Whoever may end up exploiting the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, the riots and frustration there are the result of genuine popular grievances. From all appearances, they began spontaneously and are not centrally directed – even if they will ultimately be exploited – by groups plotting to form new governments. There is ample excuse for everyone in foreign capitals, including ours, to be caught flat-footed by the unrest, at least for a while.
But there is no excuse for our failure to engage in Lebanon. The effects of this policy failure will be far-reaching; we may well see them in the still-uncertain outcomes in Egypt and other parts of the Arab world. There is a real sense in which the turning point of January 2011 is principally about us, and what we have not done. The Hezbollah coup in Lebanon functioned as a test of what the US reaction would be, and unless something changes in the coming days, the answer is now obvious.
We could have acted as a limiting factor in Lebanon this month by engaging with the diplomatic process – the ad hoc negotiations among the factions in Lebanon – spearheaded by the Saudis. It's probable that the act of doing that would have signaled to Hezbollah that the timing was still inauspicious for attempting a takeover. But we didn't make even that effort. I'm not sure American readers fully understand that we simply weren't there. Hezbollah is playing it safe for the time being with a non-radical candidate for prime minister, a move that seems to be a nod to the expectations that prevailed in the status quo we are leaving behind. But in the coming days, we can expect Hezbollah to maneuver as much for the impression on regional rivals like Saudi Arabia and Turkey as for Western governments and the Western press.
There is no friendly stasis, with momentum of its own, in geopolitical conditions. Maintaining a beneficial status quo is hard work. It can't be left to tend itself – and if you're not transforming and resetting it to your benefit, it's being transformed to someone else's. For the last six decades, the posture of the US, whether heroic or flawed, has been the limiting factor on what challengers of the status quo consider possible. Our disengagement and effective absence from Lebanon this month were a signal that big challenges are now possible; the US might not even try to intervene. Whatever our latent powers, we are not acting as a limiting factor, by defining and defending interests, and we have no apparent intention to.
This understanding is what's missing from most coverage of the unrest in the Arab world. Riots in Egypt are not unprecedented; Mubarak has survived them before. He may again, for now. It may take time for newly-encouraged challengers of the status quo, like the Muslim Brotherhood, to develop actionable plans targeting specific governments. That hasn't been their primary focus, unlike the always-prepared Marxist insurgents of the last century.
But riots in Egypt after Hezbollah has taken over Lebanon in a coup while the US did nothing – that is a set of conditions that means the world has already changed. The West doesn't realize it yet; its media continue to assess events as if everyone is operating from a common set of assumptions about global power relationships. That will probably keep us stumped, for a while longer, about what's happening. But as the hours tick by, the reality is settling in: we are not in the post-Cold War stasis any more.
J.E. Dyer blogs at The Green Room, Commentary's "contentions" and as The Optimistic Conservative. She writes a weekly column for Patheos.