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Three businesses and three homeowners were presented with Golden Bear Awards Tuesday night by the New Bern Appearance Commission and congratulated by the city�s Board of Aldermen.
Three businesses and three homeowners were presented with Golden Bear Awards Tuesday night by the New Bern Appearance Commission and congratulated by the city�s Board of Aldermen.
This year the Non-Residential Gold Award went to The Arie Bed & Breakfast at 509 Pollock St.; the Silver Award went to Coastal Pediatric Dentistry at 700 McCarthy Blvd.; and the Bronze Award went to Pollock-Best Funeral Home at 2015 Neuse Blvd.
The Residential Gold Award went to Lyle and Beatrice Alexander of 1211 Pine Valley Drive; the Silver Award went to Robert and Tamara Smith of 3909 Sienna Trail; and the Bronze Award went to Stuart and Marlly Wheeler of 407 Bay Hill Court.
Alderman Sabrina Bengel, acting as mayor pro-tem, congratulated the winners of the annual beautification awards.
�This is a beautiful city because of people who care about their property,� she said.
Also during the meeting New Bern Police Chief Toussaint Summers presented certificates of appreciation to communities that participated in National Night Out in August.
Summers said last year about 10 neighborhoods participated in the annual event. This year, about 22 neighborhoods participated with fun, games and food.
Colleen Roberts, New Bern public information officer, showed a video of the night with Summers, officers, firefighters and city staff traveling to each neighborhood in a 40-car caravan. New Bern aldermen were in their neighborhood wards, also participating.
Summers said National Night Out was a fun way to get out an important message: Working together to create safe communities.
�We can�t be everywhere,� he said. �That is why it is important to have the community involved.�
National Night Out also gave communities a different perspective of police officers and a way to meet them in a non-emergency setting, Summers said.
The video showed some of the police officers tossing footballs, line dancing and playing games with the youths in the different neighborhoods.
�We look forward to an even better year next year,� Summers said.
Aldermen also adopted resolutions Tuesday to establish a public art policy task force under the chairmanship of Jim Bisbee, owner of Studio 323 on Pollock Street, that will create a policy for the steady growth of public art to beautify the city, is easy to maintain and compliments the city�s history and culture; and a parks and recreation master steering committee under the chairmanship of Thurman Hardison, director of parks and recreation, to update the department�s 2006 master plan.
The board also approved the following street closures: West and Main Street to Pavie Avenue and Main Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 14 for a Community Relations Recruitment Fair; streets at Union Point Park from noon to 7 p.m. on Sept. 14 for Boy Scouts Fall Field Day Event; and the 200 and 300 blocks of South Front Street from 5 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Oct. 19 for the Neuse River Bridge Run activities.
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The Day The Words Died
Words were the music of Vince Mahoney's life. He brilliantly composed them, thoughtfully analyzed them, and wove them into stories of the most glamorous movie stars of the early sound motion pictures to analyses of the most complex political issues of his day. Sixty years ago this Sunday, Vincent Mahoney, a widely recognized journalist, and a dozen of his distinguished colleagues were returning from a fact-finding mission in Indonesia. The pilot of their airliner fought desperately against a torrential monsoon to no avail. The plane crashed. There were no survivors. It was "The Day The Words Died."
Michael Vincent Mahoney, Jr. was born in Dublin on July 1, 1902. His father was a railroad man, working many a decade as a freight and passenger agent of the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad. His mother, the former Miss Lynette Hightower, kept the family household on South Calhoun Street, a home which was razed a baker's dozen years ago to make room for the parking lot of Capital City Bank.
Of all of Vince's friends, and he had many of them, Don Joiner was perhaps his closest and dearest friend, especially in their younger years in Dublin. Joiner described his friend as "a hard drinking Irishman who loved life." "He had more personality than anyone I have ever known and he was liked by everyone," Joiner recalled.
Don remembered the good times when Vince came to his house to visit. There were the wonderful times when the duo joined together to form a dance band, which played on Saturday nights in the club house of the original Dublin Country Club, which was located
on Hillcrest Parkway between Brookhaven and Claxton Dairy Road.
When his parents thought Vince was having a little too much fun, they sent him off to a Catholic school near New Orleans. After a year of expulsion from his home, Vince entered college at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. Though some say he graduated from the prestigious institution, Don Joiner recalled that Vince never finished his education at Georgetown. He did add, "Vince could do more with words than any other journalist I have ever known or read."
Mahoney's journalistic skills led to stints with the Associated Press, New York News, United Press, The Los Angeles News and Time Magazine before the onset of World War II.
In the mid 1930s, Vince reported stories for the AP and UPI in Hollywood, California at the beginning of its glorious era of talking pictures and iconic movie stars, all the time the earth shaking underneath him at any minute. It was in Los Angles where Vince met and married his wife, Virginia Nissen of Glendale, California.
During the war, Vince took a job as Chief of the Bureau of Intelligence in the War Information Office supervising the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Vince Mahoney loved the Pacific and California. In April 1945 as the war was climaxing, he took a job as a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle as an editorial writer. Mahoney began to develop a keen interest in the politics of Southeast Asia, and in Indonesia in particular.
Fifteen of America's leading journalists, including Vince and two Pulitzer Prize awardees, were invited by the government of the Netherlands to investigate the political upheavals in the southeastern Asia country of Indonesia in the spring of 1949. The Dutch government promised the reporters freedom from censorship and unrestricted access to interview Republican officials, who were leading a political war against the colonial Dutch controlled government.
On July 12, 1949, after a six week long stay, tour director Lynn Mahan gathered the writers together for the long flight home. William Matthews and Dorothy Brandon chose to stay behind. Matthews decided simply to return home on his own. Brandon feared the plane might be sabotaged by insurgents. After all, the same type of plane on which they were boarding had crashed some three weeks earlier.
Although Indian Prime Minister Nehru, in a move of sympathy toward his neighboring country's plight against a European colonial government, banned the landing of Dutch planes on Indian soil, special permission to land in India on the return flight was granted by Indian air controllers.
The pilot of the Dutch KLM struggled to keep his craft in a circular orbit around the Bombay Airport. A blinding monsoon made his task more difficult, if not impossible. No one saw the 800-foot high peak of Ghatkopar Hill, four miles east from a safe landing, until it was too late. The four engine Constellation slammed into the mound, incinerating all of the Americans, Britons, Dutch, and Chinese aboard.
Strewn and scattered over the muddy ground, were broken pieces of typewriters, cans of food, packs of cigarettes ( some smoked and others not), and torn luggage filled with uncleaned laundry. Not a living soul was found among the disintegrated remnants of the aircraft.
The people of the Netherlands honored the memory of the unlucky thirteen journalists who perished in the crash with the establishment of the "William the Silent Award." A plaque bearing the names of the fallen was placed in the American embassy in Amsterdam to "those who gave their lives for a free press." A permanent national memorial to all fallen journalists was established in 2001 on the campus of Cal State at Northridge. Mahoney was honored a third time by the Freedom Forums Newseum Journalists Memorial.
In the early fall of 1949, Vince's ashes were returned to New York City. From there, they were sent home to the family, who buried them in the family plot in Northview Cemetery.
The typewriters were all broken. And the thirteen admired most, their phrases spoke to the ghosts, to the fallen we drink a rousing toast, the day the words died.

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A Simple Cheap Succulent Centerpiece
A couple weeks ago we talked about some simple DIY succulent centerpieces to try out for chic, but simple, dinner parties. We decided to try our hand at one and were thrilled with the results, and all for less than $12.
We ended up with three small arrangements in glass globes we found at the Salvation Army. In the large one we placed 3 succulents, and in each of the smaller ones, just one 1/2" succulent. Here's how the money was spent:
3 Glass Globes: $1.50
1 3" potted succulent: $3.50
1 'volunteer' from another pot of succulents on the balcony: free
3 1/2" succulents: $6.32
Total: $11.32
Once we had all the 'ingredients' it took about 10 minutes to plant it all. The best part is that a week later, they're still on the table, They haven't dried up like flowers or lost their appeal like holiday-centric decor. It was $12 well spent and we'll enjoy these for a long time.
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So someone showed up on irc the other day and he was talking about automation for his house and other things.
Anyway ive always been interested in this subject and looking at ebay i think im abit late HOWEVER this shit seems like a whole lot of fun.
Ok, if you dont know what Arduino is:
Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.
Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP.) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.
The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment.
So i purchased one off this guy off ebay and it arrived a couple of days later in a nice box. (make an offer $5 bellow what he is asking)
So i did electronics at school and i kinda of got the jist of things and would be cool if someone here would like to muck around in projects and exchange info? Maybe we could make a robot of doom
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President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris to apologize after having called her the "best-looking attorney general" during a fundraising event.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday Obama apologized "for the distraction created by his comments." The pair were "old friends and good friends and he did not want in any way to diminish the attorney general's professional accomplishments and her capabilities," Carney said.
Harris' office said in a statement to NBC Bay Area that she and Obama "have been friends for many years. They had a great conversation yesterday and she strongly supports him."
Obama's compliment on Harris' appearance had overshadowed his whirlwind fundraising jaunt in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"She happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country," Obama had said of the rising Democratic star during his prepared remarks at a Democratic National Committee event in Atherton.
The comment was greeted with laughter by the paying crowd. "It's true. Come on," he responded.
(See full Pool Report of Thursday's events in the Bay Area here.)
On Twitter, #KamalaHarris surged in popularity with people reacting to the remark.
The president also noted Rep. Mike Honda's height (or lack thereof).
"He's not like a real tall guy, but he's a great guy," he said while introducing the Silicon Valley congressman, whom he had trouble finding in the crowd.
Here is the transcript from the White House of those two introductions:
We've got some elected officials who are doing incredible work -- great friends. First of all, somebody who works tirelessly on behalf of California every day, but also works on behalf of working people and makes sure that we've got a more inclusive America -- a good friend of mine, somebody who you guys should be very proud of, Congressman Mike Honda is here. Where is Mike? (Applause.) He is around here somewhere. There he is. Yes, I mean, he's not like a real tall guy, but he's a great guy. (Laughter.)
Second of all, you have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you'd want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake. She also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country -- Kamala Harris is here. (Applause.) It's true. Come on. (Laughter.) And she is a great friend and has just been a great supporter for many, many years.
The president had attended another fundraising event in nearby San Francisco on Wednesday night.
Outside the fundraising events, a variety of protesters gathered, including some who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada to Texas.
The president was in the Bay Area for less than 24 hours and made no public appearances. His last visit to the region was in October during his re-election campaign.


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Opinion: Is Scala the new EJB 2?
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Stephen Colebourne, developer of the Joda Time library and spec lead for the JSR 310 date time improvements to the Java language, has posted a thought-provoking piece on the applicability of the Scala language. He compares it to EJB 2, which he said was the nadir of the Java EE specification:
… where huge amounts of boilerplate, XML and general complexity were foisted onto the Java industry. The spec was widely adopted, but adoption was followed by criticism. Developers found that while EJB 2 sought to reduce complexity in building an enterprise application through an abstracted higher level API, in reality it added more complexity without providing the expected gains.
Although he notes he prefers the Fantom language – but is also open to other languages like Kotlin, Groovy and Ceylon – he thinks that Scala is not suitable for the future.
One of his objections is that Scala doesn't provide a suitable module system. He notes that Java didn't initially provide a module system (and currently still doesn't, though at least now it's an acknowledged need) and had to have others such as Maven, Ivy and OSGi add onto the basics. However, those who choose to ignore module systems can still cause problems for those who want to modularise; and when working with large systems, modularisation is an important maintenance tool to have.
Stephen also suggests that had Java had modules, it would be possible to ship a JVM without CORBA support, a legacy technology that is now rarely used outside of RMI in the Java landscape (and generally has been superseded by either SOAP or REST for inter-server communication).
In fact, there was a proposal for modularity over two years ago, which was quickly canned. There was severe resistance to cater for versions or modules (upon which every module system needs in order to operate). At the time, Scala was not enterprise ready and over two years later, is still in the same situation.
Stephen also identifies the type system as being overly complex, agreeing with Steve Yegge's views:
The... the the the... the language spec... oh, my god. I've gotta blog about this. It's, like, ninety percent [about the type system]. It's the biggest type system you've ever seen in your life, by 5x. Not by an order of magnitude, but man! There are type types, and type type types; there's complexity...
They have this concept called complexity complexity<T> Meaning it's not just complexity; it's not just complexity-complexity: it's parameterized complexity-complexity. ... I mean, this thing has types on its types on its types. It's gnarly
Stephen also highlights the fact that the type signatures – initially used to demonstrate that a method compiles correctly – have effectively become meaningless, even before the Unicode method support is used. He gives the following method signature, from the Scala core libraries, and challenges those to describe what it does:
def ++ [B >: A, That] (that: TraversableOnce[B])(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[List[A], B, That]) : That
In fact, Stephen argues that the use of static typing is giving static typing a bad name:
Oh, and by the way, I do get the idea that the humongous type system is there to prevent compile errors and pre-check your code. But applying that logic in the opposite direction would imply that no-one gets any real work done in languages with dynamic type systems. For me, Scala's type system is way way beyond the point of sensible returns for a language feature.
In essence, Scala's type system is giving static typing in general a bad name.
These are not particularly new views. Ceki Gülcü, creator of the Log4J and SLF4J projects, asks if Scala is worthy of your trust, noting that the language has evolved and broken backward compatibility so many times (with no views to the future of fixing it) that it cannot be used:
However, there is one aspect to the Scala language which I find deeply annoying. Scala keeps breaking binary compatibility with every new release. In spite of previous promises, compatibility was broken in release 2.7, broken again in release 2.8 and broken yet again in 2.9. As I understand it, Scala language designers are forced to breaking compatibility whenever Scala library traits change in an incompatible way
To expand on Ceki's point, it is broadly the case that before Java came along, compiling from source was the way that portability was achieved between different operating systems and different versions. It wasn't until a standard C ABI was created that binaries could be made available and then used for different versions of the same operating system, ultimately leading to binary distributions like Debian, RedHat and Ubuntu. It was a lack of these ABIs that prevented companies from shipping binary versions of their commercial products (and they certainly didn't want to share the source) in the earlier 1.x releases of the Linux kernel and operating system.
Ceki further makes the point that "Competing languages will eventually close the gap, and Scala will stop being cool." Scala had a chance, when it was new, to capture the imagination of a large set of Java programmers. It still initially tempts those who want to learn about functional programming aspects and to provide concise code. But by consistently ignoring what makes a language stable over time, and following the same path of bloat that Java had done years before (whilst ignoring Java's compatibility between releases) has kept Scala in the sidelines of major enterprise projects. Yes, there are some success stories of teams adopting it initially, but there are no success stories of teams successfully maintaining that codebase a year or two later.
And now, we have a raft of other JVM based languages that provide a similar avenue of exploration, from Fantom to Xtend, which are stepping up to take their place. Even Java is providing both modules and lambdas in the next release; and even though it's been delayed a further year, is still likely to bring functional programming to the Java masses far quicker than Scala will stabilise. It may be too late for Scala to put its house in order before Java overtakes it.
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Just don't use it then...
Neil Bartlett
However I find it sad that Stephen spends so much of his time attacking a language that competes with his own favourite (Fantom) rather than pointing to the benefits of Fantom. Likewise Gavin King seems more keen to go on the attack than to talk about what might be great in Ceylon.
This is such a negative way to make an argument; I think I would have more respect for Stephen and perhaps even take Fantom seriously if he simply stated that he doesn't like Scala and won't be using it. There is no call for continually berating those people who do choose to use it.
Just sad
Steve McJones
This is sad, because in the past the Java community was proud that they had a rapidly independent evolving ecosystem and often criticized .NET developers for their "we ignore everything not coming from Microsoft" stance.
I cannot understand why there is so much hate targeted at ... programming languages. Seriously, nothing better to do?
Let's consider a world where one of those "new" languages would provide some benefit over Scala. Would you really agree to wait yet another decade for those languages to reach the level of maturity and stability Scala currently has?
These FUD spreaders really make the Java ecosystem look bad.
Re: Just don't use it then...
Jesse Kuhnert
There is no call for continually berating those people who do choose to use it.
There certainly is a good reason to share his opinions, namely that I've also found many of them ring true after using scala on a fairly large project and the "good human" thing to do when you discover things like this is to share the experience with your fellow developer community in case it saves them time or just lets them know they aren't crazy.
People getting angry and saying "just don't use it then" makes scala sound all the more suspicious. not less so. It has some ugly warts, and it also has some pretty cool things but the warts I noticed much more than the cool things.
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Gavin King
Likewise Gavin King seems more keen to go on the attack than to talk about what might be great in Ceylon.
When news of Ceylon first leaked out here, quite a number of people asked "why not Scala?"
At first I thought it would be a good idea to respond to the question by pointing out some general areas where I thought that Scala did not provide what I'm looking for in a programming language (without getting into too much technical detail). The alternative course of action was to leave the question unanswered.
Now I know that this was a mistake. It made me look negative, and made me a target for personal attacks. I'm now adopting a very strict policy of leaving the question unanswered. Happy?
Re: Just don't use it then...
Russell Leggett
There is also a difference between critical and cruel. Personal attacks and unsupported claims should be left at the door, but as long as it sticks to technical merit, I say fair game. I would rather read about a showstopping problem somebody else has experienced than experience it myself. Others capable of reasoning out their own opinions can read and determine if the problems outweigh the benefits.
I like Scala
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// concatenate 2 lists of integers; return a list of Ints
scala> List(1, 2, 3) ++ List(4, 5, 6)
res0: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
// concatenate a list of integers with a list of Strings; return a list of Any (i.e. Object)
scala> List(1, 2, 3) ++ List("A", "B", "C")
res1: List[Any] = List(1, 2, 3, A, B, C)
// Concatenate a Seq with a List; return a Seq
scala> List(1, 2, 3).toSeq ++ List(4, 5, 6)
res2: scala.collection.immutable.Seq[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Not very strong arguments.
Serge Bureau
But with the way the Package class work compare to Java, it is much less likely to have modularity issues.
Also the fact that the Scala code is between 3 to 5 times smaller than Java code, again much less modularity issue.
Also I look at Fantom, granted it looks better than Java, except for a very important issue, mixing Dynamic with Strongly type, means you never really are "strongly typed"
Not strongly typed means, keep it out of enterprise exempt for little projects.
Anad also the "complex Scala type system": first get informed.
Most complex type system are for tools designer not everyday code design. If needed it is there.
Now for the too numerous advantage of Scala over "Fantom":
Generics that works,
Much better actor support,
Much better type system,
Totally strongly typed,
implicit conversions.
cascading traits,
amazing DSL capabilities (while staying strongly typed),
named arguments ,
pattern matching,
sensible exception handling,
Re: Just don't use it then...
Diego Fernandez
Likewise Gavin King seems more keen to go on the attack than to talk about what might be great in Ceylon.
I think that in fact were the readers of the early -unplanned- Ceylon announce who attacked Gavin.
And I have to admit that I was one of the ones saying "Why not Scala?".
To me the answer is "just because you can create a new language", and that's fine :) The only thing that bothers me of the new JVM language announcements is that they don't have anything fundamentally new, and that is the problem of working with a common platform like the JVM or CLR: you gain compatibility but you loose innovation.
In the end people is going to choose one tool over another because of a lot of factors -not only the technical merits-.
I think that Stephen over reacted against Scala. The problems about Modularity and Concurrency are not specific to Scala. The first has it's roots in the JVM, and the second is a general problem of any operational language.
But I agree over the type signatures and the cryptic syntax. You can work without using that cryptic syntax, so I don't see that as an "intrinsic" Scala problem.
Most of the Scala frameworks out there chosen to embrace those ugly syntax "shortcuts", and to overuse pattern matching and case classes for things that can be resolved in other way.
As an example why not everything has to do with the "language merits":
Compared to Scala, Groovy is messy (is like the Cathedral and the Bazaar). But is well supported by the mayor IDEs and is really easy to mix with Java code. Which makes it a pleasure to work with. Yes it's inferior in some language features, but working with the AST transformations (like @Immutable or @Canonical) makes writing usual "business Java code" really fast. So if I have to convince a team of "usual business" Java devs to use Groovy or Scala, I think that I have more chances in favor of Groovy.
Nothing is perfect and every programmer must choose its language based on d
jean-simon Larochelle
Sure, Groovy allows operator overloading. However it is so slow that writing any kind of demanding math application using it simply does not work. So, yes with Scala you might have to write more complicated code once in a while but you will very rarely get stuck not being able to express something which is not the case with something like Fantom and its half bake (last time I looked) generic support and mix model.
For me right now the most interesting alternate JVM language are Scala and Clojure. They are interesting because they both are different enough from Java (offer something other than lambda and loosing type information) and execute at reasonable speed (speed is required in my application domain).
another effort to confuse people
nicolae caralicea
Fortunately there are many developers who love and see the power of Scala and nothing will stop others to join them, too.
Learning Scala it's like "reading", hard at the beginning and natural after.
We should all accept that we need to start by learning the "whole alphabet" that Scala is giving us, otherwise we'll just keep on doing over and over the same wild programming we got used to.
How come James Strachan the author of Groovy has such a different point of view?
It's really sad that it's coming from someone who should also see it.
Scala maybe hard but its a worthwhile investment
Faisal Waris
Recently Google did a benchmark of 4 languages (Java, Scala, C++ and Go) by asking the experts in each to implement the same algorithm. Scala code was 1/3rd the size of Java code (and Scala was faster too on the same jvm).
Clearly there is widespread dissatisfaction with Java and hence the advent of so many new jvm languages. I don't think that you can fix Java without really turning it into a new language. Scala has the most momentum out of the non-Java jvm languages.
I believe that actual user code will be much simpler in Scala than the 'infrastructure' code example of "++" operator overloading shown above.
Re: another effort to confuse people
peter lin
I've seen great Java code and really aweful java code. I've seen really bad C# code and really good C# code.
Arguing over which language is best is really a pointless activity in my bias opinion. Language selection is really a personal preference and has very little to do with the merits of the language. If language elegance was key, everyone would be using Prolog/Lisp.
Clearly, history has shown that developers go with what feels comfortable. If a language is too hard to grasp in a short amount of time, a developer may decide to look some where else. For the record I love LISP, but I don't go around telling the world it's better than sliced bread. People who hype new languages like it's sliced bread are asking for criticism. Only way to avoid criticism is to keep the language to yourself and never let others use it. Once it's out "in the wild", you have to take the good with the bad.
Re: another effort to confuse people
Serge Bureau
I my bias opinion, "wild programming" is primarily the result of the programmer and not the language.
This is only partly true.
Java protected against going against array index bounds, it also protect pretty well against memory pointer to unsafe area.
Without this kind of compiler protection, even the best programmers will encounter those errors.
So definitely the language can help a lot to have good code, granted it cannot protect against everything. This is also why strongly typed language are much safer than dynamic ones.
As far as elegance, Prolog and Lisp ? Give me a break
Re: another effort to confuse people
Samuel Vincent Paal
As far as elegance, Prolog and Lisp ? Give me a break
Well, let's take some lisp family member core language spec and compare it to any other language spec. Let's say in terms of number of pages. There it is. Instead of hundreds of pages syntax definition, weird inheritance rules and the whole shebang that makes up a modern mainstream language, there are few simple concepts and syntax rules, that define the language. That's it. After half an hour you're ready to start writing code. If that is not elegance, then what is? Will the elegance make developer more productive? It's a totally different issue.
Re: another effort to confuse people
peter lin
I'm sure those that love C and hate OO think Java and C# suck. programming languages don't live in a bubble. it is always perceived through the eyes of a developer.
Re: another effort to confuse people
Serge Bureau
Be there is lean and anemic, the proof is in the usage. It is barely used.
Plus a syntax with zillions of parenthesis is not elegant at all, in fact it is unreadable.
A language that can modify itself without static typing is dangerous to use.
Plus you cannot have elegant DSL written in Lisp (as far as I know)
As for Prolog, go ask the Japanese that had a futuristic project decades ago to use it everywhere, they soon met a lot of limitations and they totally dropped it. Once again, it was elegant but mainly anemic.
Re: another effort to confuse people
peter lin
Having positive and negative feedback about a language is a good thing to me. It "helps" to keep developers grounded. It is far too easy to get stuck in one language and think it's the "be all/end all" of programming languages.
Re: another effort to confuse people
Faisal Waris
When I look at Haskell code I cannot but admire its beauty (even though I sometimes don't understand what it's doing)
Haskell is like the 'click' language of Kalahari Bushmen; a few dots, some symbols and words, and you are done.
Re: another effort to confuse people
Serge Bureau
But being purely functional is not practical.
For this reason I find Scala more practical.
Even if I am not an expert at any of them, I understand Scala better.
And loosing the "Object" side is too much of a loss to consider Haskell as more than academic.
Will the new mainstream language based on JVM for sure?
Adam Nemeth
But will its successor be JVM based? Or the only real solution will be that we throw out everything and start from scratch?
Also, what's the problem with Java? Why do we hate it that much?
I think, that problem is static typing, or rather, explicit typing: that the code is full of type-information. A new static-typed language won't help that.
Also, a general notion is that the Next Big Thing should be a functional language.
Fine, but will it be such a radical language as Scala? Scala is really coming from the deep veins of functional languages: true lisp-style functional language, with all these "int -> int -> int" kind of declarations.
What did history taught us?
History taught us so far that the next language will never be a radical change.
C wasn't a radical change compared to ALGOL or any other contemporary languages.
In the 80s, OOP languages were pouring from the tap, yet none of them got widespread.
C++ became widespread as it was a minor modification on top of C, and Delphi got widespread as it was a minor modification on top of Pascal.
The 90s were dominated by C++ and Delphi. Then we went to the era of "multiplatform" and "true OOP", interpreted languages. Was Java the only contestant? Far from it: Python and its friends are not much younger than Java.
Yet Java won, as it was a minor modification on top of C++.
The 2000s were dominated by Java.
Also, why is a decade dominated by a language?
Because it gets into higher education. I guess it's a big drive in both Java's and Delphi's (former) popularity, that we have a whole lot of developers, trained mainly in this language. Perhaps, if they had learnt python or php all the way, they'd do that instead.
What'll be the next? I'm not sure. I don't think JVM is an issue, in the age of web services. But non-radical change and education surely is. So the question is:
Are there any contestants less radical than Scala?
Re: Will the new mainstream language based on JVM for sure?
Serge Bureau
But it is in a state where evolving it is difficult.
Scala seems to offer the best alternative (but not the only one) to preserve what you have with Java while moving to better productivity and power.
Starting from scratch is not thinkable, there are billions of dollars involved.
The JVM is a great thing, I am sure it can be improved but it is a great common denominator for numerous language and very good way to exchange code almost transparently.
So I bet on JVM based language for the foreseeable future.
Re: Will the new mainstream language based on JVM for sure?
Faisal Waris
ML combines 'functional' aspects of LISP and adds strong typing with type inference (LISP itself is dynamically typed).
Type inferencing makes statically typed languages feel like dynamically typed ones. For example F# code is as succint as say Pyhton's but provides compile type error checking and much better performance.
Languages such as Scala and F# are multi-paradigm; they support OOP, Functional and Actor programming paradigms (missing is Logic programming; a la Prolog).
I believe that a modern language should be a multi-paradigm language. For example, Google's new language Dart also supports OOP, Functional and Actor programming models.
I think that the JVM and .Net ecosystems are important (at least for now). The web ecosystem is another one that needs to be supported well. There is room for both statically and dynamcially typed languages but we are starting to see overlap in type systems. Scala certainly is a worthy contender in this mix.
Re: Will the new mainstream language based on JVM for sure?
Steve McJones
> I think, that problem is static typing, or rather, explicit typing: that the code is full of type-information. A new static-typed language won't help that.
You got it right, that the problem is not static typing, but the requirement to put type information everywhere. Most statically-typed languages actually use type-inference and only seldom (if at all) require explicit annotations. So, yes, a statically-typed language can perfectly solve this.
> [...] JavaScript [...] dynamic typing [...]
There are no benefits in dynamic typing and while compilers get better to solve the problems dynamic (or unityped) languages cause, there will always be a performance penalty compared to statically typed languages.
> Fine, but will it be such a radical language as Scala? Scala is really coming from the deep veins of functional languages: true lisp-style functional language, with all these "int -> int -> int" kind of declarations.
That's pretty much wrong. If Scala is radical, then on the object-oriented side of the language. The functional parts are pretty much standard, nothing exciting or new.
> History taught us so far that the next language will never be a radical change.
Scala provides a very painless introduction to Java developers, heck ... you can even just paste Java code into a Scala file with IntelliJ and get it automatically converted.
> Are there any contestants less radical than Scala?
There might be, but the problem is that they have neither the mindshare, support, documentation, maturity, stability, ecosystem, IDE support, commercial backing and libraries. They are just not there (yet).
Looking at Fantom, Ceylon, Kotlin ... they pretty much promise (they haven't actually delivered anything usable yet) that they will come up with solutions for today's problems, but a decade too late.
Imagine how long it will take for these languages to be even remotely at Scala's level of development. Then look at Oracle's roadmap for Java 8, Java 9, Java 10. When the "contenders" arrive in a few years they have not to compete against the current state of the art, they have to show how they improve on Java 8, Java 9, Java 10 and Scala 2.16 or Scala 3.4.
Scala is years ahead of that. Java's road map pretty much contains the stuff Scala is testing right _now_.
Re: another effort to confuse people
Cedric Beust
Well, let's take some lisp family member core language spec and compare it to any other language spec. Let's say in terms of number of pages.
The Brainfuck specification fits in one page.
Re: another effort to confuse people
Serge Bureau
They are simple, but anemic by todays standard.
the way forward
Fernando Racca
High order, abstract types are advanced features, mainly intended for library writers (ScalaZ is an example ) but you can write really simple to understand code without ever needing it.
The original article likens Scala to EJB2, but some of the claims are really without a proper argument. Scala does not provide good modularisation support? package objects are far better than anything than java along can offer. why is this a problem that scala needs to solve? The comparisons with Fantom matter as much as if they were about Kotlin. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Scala is mature and increasingly more used.
If anything, the only valid point is been made by Ceki Gülcü, regarding binary compatibility.
Joao Pedrosa
* C# or .NET
* Google Go
* Python, Ruby
* Google Dart is in the works
Making developer tools is tough. Many come around, few break out of niches. No matter how statically typed they are.
The article touches on some issues. Modularity. Challenges from new hardwares with different form factors and numbers of CPUs.
Scala not being a silver bullet doesn't really count against it as there are no silver bullets to begin with. What counts against it is things like the article said, the dependency on the JVM, the slower compiling times...
The really ugly code sometimes users make use of can make any programming language to look bad. To write ugly code yourself while having to keep up with so many issues must suck and you may enter into denial.
suggestive quote
Joost de Vries
Also the quote about the size of the language specification sounds very damning.
I've been following Scala for 6 years. Waiting to be able to use it at work. (business information systems)
And I'm not ready yet to run with the lemmings and the über-alpha-geeks to the next shiny thing.
The improvements of type inferencing and functional programming on top of the JVM in an enterprise environment is what I've been looking for since the .Net runtime came out.
And the Typesafe stack seems to be the much needed commercial momentum.
How much easier to write Joda Time in Scala ?
Serge Bureau
Then come back to say Scala is the new EJB2
Joda Time is a nice library, it would be smaller, more extensible and much easier to write and use in Scala.
Dan Tines
By the way, there seems to be an underlying premise in many of these discussions that it's a zero sum game among mind-share of alternative JVM languages. I don't buy that. If Kotlin takes off (which I believe it will), it should mean more of an uptake for Scala.
Re: Typical
Serge Bureau
Actually, you can just use Scala as a terser and more readable Java
That is really a simplistic and limited view.
As far as "fanboys", I do prefer somebody that is a fanboy of something instead of supposedly "neutral".
To me being neutral is to have no real opinions, boring.
Re: Typical
Dan Tines
That is really a simplistic and limited view.
Actually, the counter-argument that is generally given to "OMG, it's looks like APL puke with all the operators" is you don't have to write code that way if you don't want to.
As far as "fanboys", I do prefer somebody that is a fanboy of something instead of supposedly "neutral".
To me being neutral is to have no real opinions, boring.
And that's your problem Serge. It reminds me of the "good 'ol days" over at Javalobby where you would throw a fit everytime some Ruby article would come up. Then you came around to Groovy for a while, and now you're in full Scala fanboy mode.
Some of us would rather be more objective than fanboyish. At some point in time you have to look at the bigger picture, especially when making decisions for a team.
Re: Typical
Serge Bureau
Actually, you can just use Scala as a terser and more readable Java
I was commenting this affirmation of yours and I said it was a simplistic and limited view.
You where not in agreement, so lets see a few points we would leave out of Scala if we followed your advice:
- All the functional part !!!!
- Pattern matching
- Named parameters
- Implicits
- Closures
- Case class
- Continuations
- All the abstraction of the type system
- Raw strings
- Traits !!!
- Actors !!!
- Package
- Path dependent type
- Tuples
- ...
So I hope you see why I think it is simplistic and not a good advice at all.
Of course you can learn any of those things by step, but it would be a huge mistake to use Scala only as a keystroke saver over Java ?
And that's your problem Serge. It reminds me of the "good 'ol days" over at Javalobby where you would throw a fit everytime some Ruby article would come up. Then you came around to Groovy for a while, and now you're in full Scala fanboy mode.
Some of us would rather be more objective than fanboyish. At some point in time you have to look at the bigger picture, especially when making decisions for a team.
I stand by what I stated.
I am not a fan of dynamic languages because it is never really safe, but I preferred Groovy to Ruby because of the better integration with Java and the syntax.
Now go read the article where the Groovy inventor said he would not have come with Groovy if he had known that Scala was coming. And Gosling would choose Scala if he was to choose a language now.
People that make decisions for a team the way you do would have kept us to the waterfall model and we would still use Fortran
Re: Typical
Dan Tines
So I hope you see why I think it is simplistic and not a good advice at all.
Of course you can learn any of those things by step, but it would be a huge mistake to use Scala only as a keystroke saver over Java ?
Now go read the article where the Groovy inventor said he would not have come with Groovy if he had known that Scala was coming. And Gosling would choose Scala if he was to choose a language now.
It's irrelevant what they say
People that make decisions for a team the way you do would have kept us to the waterfall model and we would still use Fortran
Serge, people that make decisions the way you do would have us programming in COBOL and GW-BASIC
Re: Typical
Serge Bureau
It's irrelevant what they say
;-) ;-) ;-)
I won't qualify your reply.
Best of luck
Re: Typical
Dan Tines
Best of luck
You're going to need it, that's for sure;)
Re: Just don't use it then...
Richard Hightower
A couple of brief comments...
Richard Hightower
Also let's not make Gavin King the poster boy for the anti-Scala movement. Just because you want to write a new JVM language does not mean you are anti-Scala. I am quite happy to see new languages. Dart, Ceylon, Groovy, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, etc. I have never learned a new programming language that did not improve my programming skills and improve the way I think about programming.
Re: A couple of brief comments...
Serge Bureau
I want some choices, but it is getting ridiculous.
About half the ones you named do not bring anything.
And no, not all language improves your programming skills.
I do not need 500 word processors ? The same for languages.
Tools are making it easier to create new languages, but the reason to create one should not only be that you can.
And with DSL capabilities in many languages, the need for brand new ones should be much less (not more)
Re: A couple of brief comments...
Richard Hightower
RE: I am not as open as you are.
You win. Good catch.
RE: I want some choices, but it is getting ridiculous. About half the ones you named do not bring anything.
Good point. I'll let everyone know that a perfect language has been created and we don't want anymore.
RE: And no, not all language improves your programming skills.
Good point. Since I was speaking of personal experience and you know me much better than I know myself... I can only assume that you are again correct.
RE: I do not need 500 word processors ? The same for languages.
Great analogy. Your skills at debate far exceed mine. You are the clear winner of this Internet argument.
RE: Tools are making it easier to create new languages, but the reason to create one should not only be that you can.
I'll put the word out. No more computer languages no matter how easy it is.
Thank you for setting me straight.
RE: And with DSL capabilities in many languages, the need for brand new ones should be much less (not more)
Good points.
Thanks again. I'll let Google know they can stop developing Dart and everyone can stop with other languages.
Serge says so.
Re: A couple of brief comments...
Serge Bureau
RE: And with DSL capabilities in many languages, the need for brand new ones should be much less (not more)
Good points.
Thanks again. I'll let Google know they can stop developing Dart and everyone can stop with other languages.
Serge says so.
I thought I mentioned that I was in favor of choices if they bring something new ?
That does not mean no more languages ?
You do not answer our argue, just mock.
I am guilty often of it myself, but most people put messages but no justifications or explanations.
Many respectable people write here and I value their experience which is very often much more than mine.
But if I am wrong I want to see why, not just take any affirmation as cash.
I like debate, so that something come up from it. I an sorry you don't
Re: A couple of brief comments...
Richard Hightower
You do not answer or argue, just mock.
Yes. I know. You troll, and I mock your trolling.
Mostly due to apathy and disinterest. Also, I believe I have debated enough on this subject in the past. I'd rather see what other people have to say on the topic and learn. You seem apt to argue and make statements that are fairly over the top. It is not really that much fun to argue with you online. I ceed the victory to you and continue to do something else.... anything else.
Accept Scala for what it is good for, but don't proclaim it's perfect
Alex Blewitt
One of those is the fact that Scala doesn't favour immutability, because the underlying Java runtime is mostly set up for read-write behaviour. That's OK - it's a trade-off for convenience with compatibility with other Java APIs. But it's not worth the level of ad hominem attacks or screams of FUD.
As long as you know what the limits of the system are, you can take a reasoned judgement call as to whether it's important for your use case. Other languages provide an immutable view; for example, 'true' functional languages like ML and declarative languages like Prolog are all about immutable data; and others, like Erlang, are set up to deal with process-based actor concurrency in an immutable fashion.
But it's also true that Scala has no interest in either backward compatibility across minor versions, and therefore of providing either a modular system or modularising the core libraries. Java made the mistake of not having a modular system when it was created - and we're now in the hell of trying to unpick the weird dependencies in the JDK which wouldn't have happened if it was properly modular in the first place.
In Java, for example, java.beans depends on java.applet and thus transitively on to java.awt. So if you want to implement PropertyChangeListener, you end up bringing in the AWT into your runtime even if it's a headless app. (This is also why some apps need to have -Dawt.headless=true, just to disable AWT if it's brought in accidentally).
The backwards compatibility is ultimately going to be Scala's downfall. Again, don't argue against the person, argue against the facts. Code compiled against Scala 2.8 isn't compatible with code compiled against Scala 2.9. Yes, so code compiled with Scala 2.9.0 is compatible with Scala 2.9.1 - but that should be a given, not something to proclaim about. What's worse, there is no public statement to give faith that Scala 2.10 (or 3.0, whatever it will be called) will address this issue in any significant or meaningful way.
This doesn't have an impact if you're just learning Scala, or even starting the first Scala project. You just pick the Latest and Greatest and start from there. It's only when Scala 2.9++ comes out that you have a choice of whether to move forwards or stay where you are; and if you stay, what the library support will be like going forward for older versions. (Having a build system which can cross-compile against different versions of Scala is a plaster that is treating the symptom rather than the underlying cause.)
Finally, if you are heading a Scala project and no-one else is currently using it in your world, it's easy to sell the benefits and treat backwards compatibility as a nice-to-have. If you're in control of your world, you can just recompile everything. But it's rare that you can upgrade two projects at the same time, or three, or four. If you're dealing with a large set of interoperable Scala libraries, the fact that you can't seamlessly move (binary) code from one version to another severely limits whether you can upgrade at all.
So Scala may be a fun language to learn, and it may be easy to demonstrate a shorter line-of-code count than other comparable languages. But it's telling that whilst there are a few high-profile cases where Scala has been adopted (Guardian, Twitter), there's virtually no success stories that say how easy it is to migrate from one version of Scala to another. That is the key takeaway of the article and links above; not that you shouldn't use it, but that you should be aware of these issues and determine whether they are relevant to you or not.
Re: Just sad
Bruce Fancher
Java not "enterprise ready"?
Steven Shaw
Should we all be using C#/.NET because of the better modularity story?
Fix the JVM, copy C#
Yizhuo Wang
Let me just list down some features amazed me, and I feel really can boost productivity
- type system actually working (without type erasure)
- type inference and var keyword
- functional nearly everyplace (thanks to Linq and extension method)
- #region and #endregion (this makes organize methods and fields so much easier)
- property (make getter and setter really transparent)
- delegate (no more anonymous inner class)
It is true that VS2010 is not as polished as Eclipse, in terms of refactoring support (even with ReSharper) and plugins. And the ecosystem of .net is no way near to the JVM world. However, as a language-to-language comparison, I will choose C# all the time, even though I have 4 years solid experience in Java and only 1 month experience in C#.
I know the root cause of Java's problem lies in JVM have no type information, and it is due to backward-compatibility to JVM 1.4 and prior version. But it is coming to 2012, and this needs to be fixed to keep Java a competitive language.
Re: Fix the JVM, copy C#
Yizhuo Wang
A fair comparison will be Java vs C#, and Scala vs F#. And Scala is too complicated to become a common programming language IMHO, but C# is just right for most common programmers.
Re: Fix the JVM, copy C#
Steve McJones
- If and how much types Scala erases depends on the backend. Being a good citizen, it erases more types when targeting the JVM and less types when targeting the CLR. Still, Scala's erased Generics are a considerable improvement over Java's erased Generics.
- Scala provides much better type inference then C#. Additionally it doesn't punish the use of immutable references (val vs. var).
- Functional paradigms were considered from the start and not as late add-on features like in C#.
- Sounds more like a IDE feature ...
- Where C# provides fields, getters/setters and properties, Scala provides one uniform way which doesn't break compatibility like in C# when moving from fields to properties.
- Once again, where C# provides multiple and sometimes incompatible ways of doing things (Action vs. Func, delegates vs. Lambdas, ...) and even more syntactical alternatives Scala provides one uniform way.
That's why even some C# devs like Scala as some sort of cleaned-up C#.
Scala can provide Linq-like syntax (and better functionality) without all the special exceptions the developers of C# invented for themselves.
Scala's "Linq for strict and lazy sequential collections" since 2.8, "Linq for parallel collections" since 2.9, "Linq for GPUs" is a third-party plugin and "Linq for databases" is currently in work.
Re: Fix the JVM, copy C#
Alex Blewitt
However, the invokedynamic keyword, available now in JDK 7, isn't really of significant benefit to Java (since it doesn't call it). However, code which has been compiled with other compilers that can take advantage of invokedynamic (such as JRuby) have seen significant performance gains. Furthermore, the upcoming lambda spec (see www.infoq.com/news/2011/12/state-lambda) introduces a means to refer to methods as first-order elements in a Java source file, with a corresponding MethodHandle that may be used under the covers. This too can help other non-Java languages for quicker invocation and better JIT code.
With regards the Lambda piece, this will bring lambdas to a much wider audience than Scala has - if only because of Java's existing place (e.g. #1 TIOBE language for the last decade). Scala still has more things on top of it (case classes, general DSL) but we'll start to see the basics of FP including type inference in the Java layer in JDK8. And then who knows, the foundations are laid for other things to be built, like LINQ.
Re: Java not enterprise ready
Alex Blewitt
All of this is possible because by and large, Java is backwards compatible with previous releases. This enables bundles written long ago (e.g. log4j) to still be used on today's JVMs. OK, so there are better implementations than log4j but the point is it will still work if you are stuck with a codebase that depends on it and don't have the engineering resources to recompile from scratch every time.


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ELS Studio® Premium Audio System Debuts In New Acura Vehicles
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America unveils the evolution of premium audio featuring newly designed high performance speakers and amplifier
Jan 22, 2013, 05:00 ET
DETROIT, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Expanding on its rich heritage of leadership in audio technology, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America is launching the newest generation of its acclaimed ELS audio brand — the ELS Studio Premium Audio System. The system made its debut at the LA Auto Show in November on the all-new 2014 Acura RLX and appears in the MDX prototype that Acura revealed at the auto show. ELS Studio embodies nine years of relentless improvement to recreate the emotional experience of the recording studio.
"ELS Studio is without question the most advanced premium audio system that we have ever developed," said Elliot "ELS" Scheiner, the multi-Grammy® Award-winning producer/engineer. "Our goal was to take premium audio to the next level by underscoring an exceptional experience for the driver. We were able to accomplish this by specifying the quality of the in-vehicle system hardware using studio equipment performance as our reference."
ELS Studio Premium Audio is a collaboration between Scheiner, Panasonic and Acura engineers. Personally involved in each phase of development, Scheiner utilized his expertise as a professional recording engineer and producer to tune the ELS Studio Premium Audio system to the RLX's and MDX prototype specific acoustic environments.
Each system features a new, high performance amplifier that provides powerful and accurate midrange and high frequency response with increased clarity. The RLX's ELS Studio Premium Audio System's 14 speakers create a dynamic listening experience for all seating positions.
2014 ELS Studio/RLX System highlights:
- Hybrid, Titanium Dome Tweeters reproduce a wide frequency range and low distortion
- 8cm Super Dynamic Range Speaker with double press polypropylene cone providing low distortion and extended bass
- 17cm Super Dynamic Range Speakers in the front and rear door featuring extremely lightweight designs
- 20cm Super Low Distortion Driver (SLDD) Subwoofer with extended bass response
- Multi-Channel Power Amplifier with 588 watts and powerful DSP for sound quality enhancements and independent control of front and rear door tweeters
"A key objective of the system was to provide listeners with the feeling of a studio sound environment inside their vehicle," said Tom Dunn, Panasonic Automotive Systems of America, Director of Marketing and New Business Development. "With ELS Surround available throughout the Acura vehicle line-up, the ELS Studio designation serves to distinguish this system, as well as the Acura RLX and MDX, as the ultimate automotive audio experience."
The MDX prototype will replace the current generation that's been in production since 2007. Specifications for the 2014 MDX and the ELS Studio Premium Audio System will be announced when the production version of the car is released.
About Elliot Scheiner
After nearly 40 years in the music industry, Elliot Scheiner continues to be a highly sought-after producer and engineer. His career includes work with such music legends as the Eagles, Steely Dan, REM, Foo Fighters, Beck, Queen, Sting, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton. Scheiner has 24 Grammy nominations and has won his seven Grammy Awards, including the 2012 Grammy for Best Surround Sound Album for Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition) by Derek and the Dominos. Scheiner's recent works include, surround mix engineer for the documentary film on the Eagles' titled, "The History of the Eagles," which will premier at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and as mix engineer on Paul McCartney latest album, "Kisses on the Bottom." His extensive industry accolades include an Emmy® for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast and he has received four Emmy nominations. A TEC Hall of Fame inductee, Scheiner is the inaugural recipient of the Surround Pioneer Award, which honors individuals who have made significant groundbreaking contributions to the art of surround music production.
He holds an honorary doctorate in music from Berklee College of Music. Scheiner is the first American to be awarded the Master of Sound honor from the Japan Audio Society.
About Acura
Acura offers a full line of technologically advanced performance luxury vehicles through a network of 272 dealers within the United States. The Acura lineup features seven distinctive models including the RL luxury performance sedan, the TL performance luxury sedan, the TSX Sport Wagon and sedan, the ILX compact luxury sedan, the RDX luxury crossover SUV, the MDX luxury sport utility vehicle and the ZDX four-door sports coupe.
Additional media information including detailed features, pricing and high-resolution photography of the Acura model line is available at www.acuranews.com. Consumer information is available at www.acura.com.
About Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America
Based in Peachtree City, Georgia, and with Detroit-area operations located in Farmington Hills, Mich., Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America is a division company of Secaucus, New Jersey-based Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation. (NYSE: PC) of Osaka, Japan, one of the world's leading developers and producers of innovative digital and other electronic products for consumer, business and industrial use. Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America also acts as the North American operating company of Panasonic's Automotive Systems Company of Japan, which coordinates global automotive industry systems and components operations. For more information on Panasonic Automotive, please visit: www.panasonic.com/business/automotive.
*ELS Studio is the registered trademark of Panasonic Corporation of North America, all rights reserved. Acura, RLX, TSX, ILX, TL, RDX, MDX, and ZDX are trademarks of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. GRAMMY is the trademark of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
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HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — For NBA fans like us, there's nothing better than League Pass. Having the ability to watch every game every night (and then again the next day) is heaven.
Of course, with local broadcasts, you get local broadcasters, which can be good and bad. It can be good, because these guys know their teams better than most national broadcasters. It can be bad, because these guys love their teams more than most national broadcasters. And they're usually not afraid to show that love.
The national guys aren't perfect. And if they're not careful, they may be featured here, where we highlight the best and worst of NBA broadcasts.
Here are a few more moments that made us laugh, made us smarter, or made us shake our heads.
- March 6: When a Call Goes Wrong | Feb. 27: Showing Their Colors
1. Poetry Time with Clyde Frazier
Game: Utah @ New York, March 9
Broadcast: New York
One of the joys of living in the New York area is the ability to listen to Clyde Frazier's wordplay 75 nights a year. And as he describes Utah's lackluster play in the first half on Saturday, Clyde brings some of his best work.
"No fire, no desire, seem tired, uninspired."
2. When no commentary is needed
Game: Orlando @ New Orleans, March 4
Broadcast: New Orleans
Sometimes, you just want to tell broadcasters that they don't have to evaluate every foul call against their team. Here, David Wesley starts in on a call that just doesn't need a critique, because there's plenty of contact between Eric Gordon and Arron Afflalo. The replay isn't the best angle, but the original shot shows a clear foul as Afflalo rises for his shot.
Also, a lesson for you players out there: If you don't want to be called for a foul, don't swing/chop down with your arm.
3. Calls against your team are not for the faint of heart
Game: Oklahoma City @ San Antonio, March 11
Broadcast: San Antonio (NBA TV)
Sean Elliott ranks as one of the biggest homers on League Pass, and he doesn't change his stripes when the Spurs' broadcast goes national for NBA TV. Here, he has issues with two straight loose ball fouls on Boris Diaw.
After the first call, Elliott tells us that he "didn't like that one at all." No kidding. Then he says that "It's a grown man's game underneath," and "The paint area is not for the faint of heart."
I guess that means that Diaw is allowed to hold down Serge Ibaka's arm as the rebound comes their way.
After the second call, Elliott says "Ibaka looked like he had that rebound anyways." Well no, he didn't once he got fouled.
Then, "Ibaka gets rewarded for not boxing out." Actually, Diaw gets punished for pushing Ibaka in the back.
Bottom line, a foul is a foul, even if it happens 94 feet from the basket.
"Two wrongs just make it wrong," Elliott says.
That's exactly what those who were listening to him were thinking.
4. LeBron's wants an Air Check
Game: Philadelphia @ Miami, March 8
Broadcast: Miami
Clearly jealous of Scott Hastings and unsatisfied with just being the best player in the world, LeBron James wants some love in this week's Air Check column. Either he wants to complain about that one time he got called for a foul or he wants to drop some poetry like Clyde, but James tries to get in on the Heat's broadcast after deflecting a pass out of bounds.
Unfortunately, the mic wasn't on.


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Scenes from the 2012 Mass. Democratic convention
Scenes from the 2012 Mass. Democratic convention
The crowd gathered at the MassMutual Center.
William Eddy (top) tallied votes for the 1st Worcester District during the 2012 Massachusetts Democratic Convention at the MassMutual Center in Springfield.
Marisa DeFranco spoke during the convention.
Elizabeth Steiner Milligan showed her support for DeFranco.
Elizabeth Warren delivered her speech.
Alexis Keslinke cheered for Warren.
The crowd cheered for Governor Deval Patrick.
Patrick lauded President Obama in his speech.
Congressman Richard Neal spoke to the convention attendees.
Attorney General Martha Coakley gave a speech.


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Housing weathers the storm
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Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector. - London : Public Finance, ISSN 1352-9250, ZDB-ID 11697313. - 1995 (31.03.), p. 12-16
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Housing: Unsafe as houses - Cuts in housing investment ushered in by the Budget have left housing officers wondering how repair bills and waiting lists are going? to be tackled.
Wild, Damian, (1996)
Local government: Three for sorrow - It could have been worse was councils' verdict of this year's local government settlement, but on the back of two other lean years council services are heading for trouble.
Wild, Damian, (1996)
Hidden benefits - Apart from Europe there is one other issue that looks set to dominate the pre-election agenda - public sector fraud. Last week the government got the debate going with a bill aimed at tackling benefit fraud. Damian Wild asked some of the leading players !n this area whether the bill goes far enough
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Hip-hop is making itself heard — and seen — at the Sundance Film Festival.
Along with a slew of performances by rappers and DJs around town, this year's festival includes documentary and narrative films about hip-hop culture.
"It's a beautiful thing to see," said Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew fame, who stars in a short film playing at the festival called "The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke." ''When you look at the success of Ice Cube and Will Smith, these are traditional hip-hop guys that are very successful in the movie business, so it's a great thing and I'm happy for all the other guys who are here."
Rapper-actor Ice-T made his directorial debut at Sundance with the documentary "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap," which features interviews with hip-hop artists such as Grandmaster Flash, Eminem, Mos Def, Run-DMC, KRS-One, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube.
Ice-T said he made the movie to give viewers "a better understanding of what it takes and what we do."
"I wanted to talk about the craft, not the cars, the money, the girls," the 53-year-old entertainer said. "How do you write rhymes? Let's go into the songwriting process. And everybody was really excited because they were like, 'Nobody ever asks us that.'"
After interviewing his friends and colleagues on both coasts, Ice-T ended up with a four-hour film that he trimmed down to 106 minutes for festival consideration.
"Our only ambition was to make it to Sundance," he said. "This is a festival about art, and this movie's about art."
Another film with a hip-hop focus is dramatic-competition contender "Filly Brown." The film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos and newcomer Gina Rodriguez tells the story of a rising Hispanic hip-hop star and the challenges she faces on the way to fame.
"Hip-hop, the soul of hip-hop and the foundation of hip-hop is just staying true to who you are and your voice, and so I think it's really nice that the Sundance films are reflecting that," said Rodriguez, who raps on screen.
"We didn't set out to make a hip-hop movie," added co-director Youssef Delara. "We set out to tell the story of this young woman in music, and it's just like hip-hop is so ingrained in our culture, and a lot of different types of culture, that you really can't tell a youth story without some element of hip-hop."
The Sundance Institute Film Music Program hosted a concert at the ASCAP Music Café featuring Ice-T, Chuck D of Public Enemy and rap pioneer Grandmaster Caz.
"Every year the films are so wonderful here and so diverse, and they keep adding new elements and experiences to the festival to keep it current and fresh," said Loretta Munoz, producer of the ASCAP Music Café. "I'm very happy about 'The Art of Rap' and seeing how that goes forward."
In addition to the films and official music programs, various corporate-sponsored locations held their own parties with big-name rap stars.
Common, a star and producer of "LUV," a contender in the U.S. dramatic competition, celebrated the film by performing into the wee hours at the Express afterparty. Drake and Wiz Khalifa each took the stage at the Bing Bar, and Drake also hosted a gathering at Park City Live, where Ludacris headlined earlier in the week.
Lil Jon took to the turntables at the Skullcandy Compound above a massive disco ball and Kendrick Lamar inspired the crowd to sing along at Sugar nightclub on Main Street, where Nas is set to perform Friday.
"Hip-hop changed the world," Ice-T said. "I'm amazed it took so long to get here."
AP Entertainment Writer Ryan Pearson and AP Movie Writer David Germain contributed to this report.
AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy .


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Predators down Oilers
Nashville, TN – Sergei Kostitsyn had a goal and an assist as the Nashville Predators held off the Edmonton Oilers, 3-2, on Monday.
Kevin Klein and Chris Mueller also scored for the Predators, who have won three in a row since a four-game skid. Pekka Rinne made 24 saves.
"I'm sure it's going to be like this until the end of the season," Rinne said of the one-goal spread.
Nashville activated forward Patric Hornqvist from injured reserve prior to Monday's game. He missed the previous eight games with an unspecified upper- body injury.
Taylor Hall and Shawn Horcoff lit the lamp for the Oilers, who have dropped three straight. Devan Dubnyk stopped 23-of-26 shots.
"It's not enough to play in Nashville to play 20 minutes," Edmonton head coach Ralph Kruger said.
Edmonton forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins returned to the lineup after missing two games with flu-like symptoms.
The Oilers scored on the power play at the 7:53 mark of the first period. Corey Potter's slap shot from the point deflected off Hall and past Rinne.
Kostitsyn tied the game at the 11:51 mark of the opening stanza. Mike Fisher dug the puck out of the corner and sent a pass into the goalmouth, where Kostitsyn slammed it past Dubnyk.
At the 4:31 mark of the middle frame, Kostitsyn found a streaking Klein for an easy tap in.
Nashville made it 3-1 at 11:33 mark of the second period when Mueller ripped a shot over Dubnyk's shoulder.
Edmonton cut the gap to 3-2 at the 7:03 mark of the third. The puck went off Horcoff's skate and trickled through Rinne.
Game Notes
Nashville took two of three from Edmonton this season ... The Predators assigned defenseman Ryan Ellis to Milwaukee of the AHL ... Nashville improved to 9-2-4 at home this season ... Nashville defenseman Scott Hannan (upper body) missed the game ... Oilers center Eric Belanger suffered a groin injury in the second period and did not return.


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Sacramento MBA Important Next Steps
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- Set up Your Computing Account
Your computing account provides you online access to everything you need as an MBA student, including registration and resources to get your classes. To get started, you will need to be enrolled as an incoming student for Fall quarter, and the student ID number that appears on your admission letter. You will need your account to register for classes and in order complete the Quantitative Fundamentals Assessment.
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- Waiver Exams Information on waiver exams can be found here. The deadline to complete the waiver exam survey is August 15.
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- Quantitative Fundamentals
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September 4: Deadline to Complete the Assessment.
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- Complete the New Student Surveys
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Classes start September 30th!
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In 1918, Clinton Melville Tilman Brann, a dentist by training, served with in the 17th Field Artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, a unit cited for gallantry in five critical engagements of the First World War. During his time overseas, Brann maintained an intense correspondence with Rhea Oppenheimer, despite fears that their different religious (he Presbyterian, she Jewish) and family backgrounds would prove an obstacle. After demobilization, Brann returned home and on Sept. 17, 1919, married Rhea. He went on to build a successful practice in dentistry in Iowa, raising a son and daughter. Clinton Brann passed away on Sept 8, 1961, in Orlando, Fla., with Rhea following on December 29, 1987 in Winter Park, Fla.
In two regards, the Brann collection presents an unusual glimpse into families affected by the First World War. First, Brann's letters home offer a sense of his unusual role in the service, as a junior officer and dentist, and second, his letters are marked by his unusual relationship with Rhea Oppenheimer and their concerns over the future prospects for a mixed marriage. The collection also includes a wealth of photographs of the Branns' life together, a family scrapbook, and a handful of mementoes and miscellaneous documents.
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Advanced Opportunity Program
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The Office of Graduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh offers the Advanced Opportunity Program (AOP) in support of the UW 2008 Diversity Plan. The AOP provides tuition assistance to graduate students of color and non-minority, economically disadvantaged graduate students. AOP is funded by the State of Wisconsin and is intended to allow graduate students of color and non-minority, economically disadvantaged graduate students to focus their attention on their graduate studies and to complete their degree programs in a timely fashion.
- Award amounts are variable according to funding eligibility. Graduate students receiving an AOP award will not be precluded from other funding programs.
- The following table shows the approximate awards for past academic years. THESE AMOUNTS ARE INFORMATIONAL ONLY. Past awards do not determine current and future awards.
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- Awards are competitive and funding is limited; therefore, not all eligible applicants will receive an award.
- Applicants will be notified in summer 2018 if they're receiving an AOP award for the 2018-19 academic year.
- Please contact Greg Wypiszynski at firstname.lastname@example.com with questions.
At the time of the FAFSA application:
- U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Graduate students of color; priority for funding provided to (but does not exclude those who do not identify as):
- African American or Black
- American Indian or Alaskan Native
- Hispanic/Latino
- Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian, or Hmong
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
- Non-minority, financially disadvantaged students
- Full- and part-time graduate degree-seeking students in full standing in UW Oshkosh graduate degree programs. Does not include graduate "special," non-degree, guest or certificate-only students. Also, graduate students seeking a second graduate degree, or a post-master's degree emphasis within a UW Oshkosh graduate degree program are not eligible.
- The student has not exceeded the time to degree limit for their graduate program.
- The student has met Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) standards for graduate students.
Additional eligibility criteria
Enrollment requirements (all applicants)
- Recipients agree to use these funds only to meet expenses directly related to their graduate student enrollment at UW Oshkosh (tuition, books, supplies, etc.).
- The award is paid in two equal installments. Recipients may choose to receive the two installments for summer, fall, or spring academic terms, as long as award eligibility is maintained.
- Students must be registered for graduate degree credit in all terms that an award is applied.
Current UW Oshkosh graduate degree students
- Admitted in full academic standing to a UW Oshkosh graduate degree program
- Enrolled in a minimum of 3 graduate degree credits in the next three semesters (summer 2018, fall 2018, and spring 2019).
- Successfully completed at least five graduate credits in the previous year (summer 2017, fall 2017, and spring 2018). Credits toward eligibility count as of the admission term, only. No prior credits will be accepted.
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- Admitted in full academic standing to a UW Oshkosh graduate degree program by April 1, 2018.
- Enrolled in a minimum of 3 graduate degree credits in the next three semesters (summer 2018, fall 2018, and spring 2019).
- Cumulative graduate GPA of 3.00 or better -OR- overall undergraduate GPA of 2.75 or better.
Application Process and Deadlines
The FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the AOP application and must be received by March 15, 2018. The Graduate Studies Office receives the necessary FAFSA information from the Financial Aid Office so no additional application needs to be submitted.
The UW Oshkosh Financial Aid priority file date is March 15, 2018. You may need to provide additional information to the Financial Aid Office when requested. AOP consideration may be given to applicants after March 15 if they:
Have filed a FAFSA by March 15, 2018.
Are applying to a UW Oshkosh graduate degree program with a published, specific admissions deadline if April 1, 2018 or earlier.
Have met all other AOP eligibility requirements.
Priority for Funding
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- Wisconsin resident financially disadvantaged graduate students admitted to UW Oshkosh graduate degree programs.
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Chicago teachers union set to count ballots on new contract
CHICAGO – Chicago Teachers Union officials are set to start counting the ballots that its members cast on whether they want to accept a proposed contract.
Last month, teachers at more than 600 schools ended a seven-day strike after their union delegates voted overwhelmingly to suspend the strike after discussing the proposed contract settlement.
The union's financial secretary, Kristine Mayle, says teachers voted Tuesday before school and Tuesday after classes let out and that the votes were being collected to be counted by the union Wednesday.
She says that the results of the vote could be known as soon as Wednesday night or Thursday.
Teachers walked out Sept. 10 after months of tense contract negotiations, marking the first time the city's teachers went on strike in a quarter century.