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Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services and REST
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Bio Dr Mark Little is Technical Development Manager for the JBoss SOA Platform, Red Hat's Director of Standards and representative on the Java Executive Committee. He has over 20 years of experience working in the area of reliable distributed systems. While at Red Hat/JBoss Mark has been the lead of the JBoss ESB and JBoss Transactions products as well as working from the office of the CTO.
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1. This is Stefan Tilkov at QCon 2008, and I am interviewing Mark Little. Welcome Mark! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?
I am a Technical Development Manager for Red Hat's SOA platform, which basically means I am involved in all our SOA strategy. I have various groups reporting to me like workflow, transactions, ESB. I am also a Director of Standards, so I am also responsible for participation in W3C groups, OASIS and JCP.
2. Ok, so if I read your name somewhere the one thing that pops up in my mind, the one thing I associate you with is transactions. I think you have a long history in being involved with standards around transactions. Can you give us a little background; can you actually define the term transaction for us, give us a little refresher there?
So "Transaction" is a term that is misused probably a hundred and one different ways in our industry. It's probably better to be a bit more explicit and say it's atomic transactions. An atomic transaction has its history back in the '60s, and it's hard, it's like it's a fault tolerance mechanism. It's based on work that was done around that time in the '60s on spheres of control. Basically an atomic transaction is a sphere of control, it's an activity that guarantees that work done within the scope of that transaction is either all done, or it's not done at all, you get no partial failures.
A typical example would be a bank account system. Suppose you are transferring money from a current account to a high interest account, and one way of doing that without using transactions would be to remove money from the current account, so you are holding the money and then deposit it into the savings account. If you have a crash of the system at doing this, then depending on where the crash happens, you may lose your money. If you take the money out of the current account but it hasn't quite been put into the high interest account yet, where is it? Obviously the bank hopefully would have information about where it is, and they can do some kind of money resolution, but that could take days to actually sort out and meanwhile you haven't got your money, you can't pay your bills. If you are to do that transfer within an atomic transaction, then the atomic transaction would guarantee that if there was a crash the money goes back into the current account, the transaction system would do that, or depending on where the crash is, it would guarantee that it would eventually turn up in the high interest account, hopefully within a matter of seconds or minutes at most. And it would do that itself automatically, there will be no requirement for manual intervention.
3. One of the topics that come up often in discussions about web services is whether or not they need transactions. Maybe we can start by a quick description of what is actually available for web services in the transactions space.
Web services transactions development has been going on for almost as long as web services has been developed. So I started doing work around that in 1999, which is pretty close after SOAP was first released. What we were looking at then and what we have continued to look at over the intervening eight or nine years is actually a number of different approaches for transactions in the web. So, traditional atomic transactions that I described earlier have some in-built assumptions about how they will work and the environment in which they will work, so pretty much they assume they will work in a closely coupled environment that can be trusted and they last for seconds, milliseconds hopefully, but seconds, maybe at the utmost minutes.
On the web those kinds of interactions typically don't happen, you know you might be booking a night out, or buying a book from Amazon and you might be doing that over the course of hours or days. And to do all of that within the scope at the top level of an atomic transaction, just doesn't work. So we were starting with how do we do transactions that are specific for web services or for these long duration interactions. And there was a lot of work that was done back in the '80s and early '90s on what is known as extended transactions.
There is a range of extended transactions. Basically the principle about extended transactions is to relax the very properties that are inherent within an atomic transaction, so if you go and look at the literature then you'll find that another acronym that is put around atomic transactions is also known as ACID transactions. That is ACID - A for atomic, everything happens or nothing happens, C for consistent, the state of the system moves from one consistent state to another, I for isolation, so you can't see dirty data and D for durable, so that if the work happens it is made persistent even if there is a crash, you'll eventually get the same state. Extended transactions relax those properties, so you might relax atomicity, so when an extended transaction or a certain type of extended transaction terminates, you may say "I want to commit but I don't want to commit two out of three of these participants, I want to commit that one, but the other two I actually want to undo". Another extended transaction model might relax isolation. And the reason for relaxing the different properties is to cater for the type of use cases that you want, and that's why there is a lot of different extended transactions models. There is no one model that actually fits everything you could ever want to do.
So that's what we have been doing over the last eight years, we have been looking at extended transaction work that has been done and trying to come up with a way of allowing people to develop extended transaction models that are good for their particular use case, rather than try as a transaction industry has done twenty years prior to this, shoehorn the ACID transaction into absolutely everything, let's have targeted models, targeted implementations, and we have got there. So it has taken eight or nine years to get there but finally in OASIS there's the WSTX technical committee, which has defined a framework, WS-Coordination, which allows you to plug in different intelligences, so this would be the different types of extended transaction models.
Out of the box, the standard provides two extended transaction models, because of the use cases that we currently have that we need to adopt. One is Business Activity, which is for these long running units of work, the other is Atomic Transaction, so despite what I said earlier about atomic transactions not being good for web services, if you can recall that back when web services where first starting and even through to today, people are using them for interoperability, as much, if not actually more than for Internet scale computing.
So, atomic transaction in the WSTX spec is really there for interoperability between heterogonous systems running on closely coupled networks. You could use it across the Internet, there's absolutely nothing to prevent you from doing that, but there are really good reasons why you shouldn't.
The Atomic Transactions spec in WSTX has given us transaction industry interoperability between obviously Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, and a couple of other companies. All heterogeneous transaction protocols within about a year and a half of the spec's being finalized, probably less actually, whereas if you are looking when we last tried to do this, which was in the OMG within the Object Transaction Service work, that really took us about ten years. So there were definitely benefits for doing it in web services.
4. So you have some practice now, so maybe it's no wonder it took you less than ten years to start.
Yes, you are right, we did learn from our previous mistakes.
5. So you said that on the Internet you would never use atomic transaction, which is pretty obvious, but I believe some people would claim that even if you have the ideals of building a service oriented architecture then loose coupling becomes a design principle even if you stay within the company's boundaries. Would you also say that if loose coupling is one of your goals, atomic transactions is not a good match for that?
Yes, I would, but some people still want to do it. So you can make recommendations but ultimately if they want to do it then nothing in WS-Atomic Transaction will prevent them.
6. Many people say transactions and SOA, transactions and loose coupling don't mix at all. What are the benefits, how would you actually advocate the usage of those pretty complicated standards to people who use them?
I think some of this comes back to what I said at the start about the use of the word "transaction", a lot of people when they see transaction they immediately assume ACID transactions, two phase commit, database transactions, however they've run into transactions before. And in that case they are right, I would not recommend to customers to use atomic transactions across the Internet or within the corporate firewall if what they are trying to achieve is a service oriented architecture based system.
But if you look at extended transactions, like I said about the relaxation of different properties, you are going to actually see that there are certain ones that are actually good for SOA based applications, they provide you the guarantees that you might want but they don't provide the restrictions that ACID transactions require. So if you actually look at some of the work that we did in WS-CAF, the web services composite application framework, which predated WS-TX, there's one of the transaction models there, that unfortunately we didn't adopt into WS-TX, which is actually much more relevant to SOA based implementations.
It's the WS Business Process Model, and I think we actually started that back in 2003, and since then companies like Microsoft and obviously Red Hat, and other companies, are talking about very similar things where you no longer have this notion of global consistency, there's no notion of "everybody has the same state", because in a large scale system you can't guarantee that. Well, you can guarantee it, but it might take you until the heat death of the universe to make sure that it is the case. And that is exactly what WS-BP did, assumed that there were these domains of consistency and in between them there might be domains of inconsistency, up to a certain level or even fuzzier than that. So for people looking to use transactions in a SOA based environment I would suggest that they don't come into it with the preconceived notion that transaction equals ACID transactions or atomic transaction. "Transaction" is too over-used, there are extended transaction models out there that can be of benefit to your application.
7. One of the things you have briefly touched upon is that it is actually WS-Coordination, and WS-Atomic Transaction and WS-Business Activity, which are essentially the Microsoft-driven standards, that have been incorporated. Is that a correct view of this? Because I actually remember that there was a sort of as usual in the web services, or what used to be in the web services space there was a wall between two different fractions, maybe you can give us some background on that?
So, the work actually on extended transaction being standardized, started back in 1997, in the OMG with Arjuna, the company that was with us at that point, and IBM and a few other companies working on something called the Additional Structuring Mechanisms for the OTS, rolls of the tongue, which is short hand to the CORBA Activity Service. That was developing a framework essentially a pluggable coordinator, where you could add the intelligence for your specific transaction models. If you map that to what we have in WSTX you'll see that there is almost a one to one: the pluggable framework and the OMG spec is essentially WS-Coordination. And the intelligences were the different protocols. So for WS-Transactions there is an equivalent mapping in the OMG spec.
When we actually started to do work on the web services transactions back in the 1999 we were working with IBM on essentially taking this model and adapting it to web services. But you are right, at that point the web services wars between Microsoft and IBM fighting Sun, Oracle and pretty much everybody else, they kicked off, and IBM and Microsoft went their own way, building on this work, and we went our own way again building on the same kind of framework, and what came out of it was WS-T from IBM and Microsoft in 2001, and WS-CAF which came out in 2002. Eventually everybody kind of kissed and made up, and we had the OASIS WSTX TC that formed, but the principle input to that was still WS-T and WS-CAF, despite the fact that I am a co-author on both of those original specs and obviously the standards as well, WS-CAF was still better I think. It was much more SOA based and much less "CORBA with angle brackets", if you like. And it's died a death now, but yes the TX one is the one that we are stuck with.
8. Sounds like a VHS/BetaMax story.
It is and the BetaMax was the better one. Don't even mention Blue Ray!
9. Given that web services support - for some level of support - transactions, would you see this as one of the benefits over REST? You know there is one continuous topic that comes up.
So we did add transactions to REST when I was working at HP in 2000, we actually did some work on trying to standardize a transaction-based, REST-based protocol. And we did it and looking back I am not sure if it was a hundred percent REST, I actually think it's probably ninety five percent REST, but anyway. The reason we did that is because we actually had customers who were coming to us and say "This web services stuff is a little bit too new for us at the moment. We are not too sure"; it was Axis 1.0 days, Axis didn't perform very well, I'm not even sure if it does these days.
"We would like to do something about coordinating multiple updates to web servers, we are using HTTP, sorry multiple web servers, we are using HTTP, can you do something for us?" And we did it, we did it for these customers, but it never got progressed and when I left HP it pretty much folded, went on the shelf, because web services were big or at least were getting big, and it hasn't really been any push at transactions back into vanilla web if you want, or REST or HTTP. I think that's because people are diverted towards web services; it's not because I don't think the requirement is no longer there, I have come across a few companies over the last five or six years who have asked similar questions, but they've gone eventually either for not using transactions at all and chancing to luck, or they have gone with web services. So I think the need is there, I don't think it's a huge need, but then there isn't a huge need for transactions anywhere.
I think that it would be nice if there was a standard, I think this is one of the problems with REST over HTTP at the moment, in that although it's a standard there is no generally agreed upon standardization of protocols that might sit on top, like transactions, like group communications, that sort of things. And hopefully if we can put these REST and web services wars behind us and kiss and make up then maybe we can actually take some of the benefits of both systems and standardize things in REST over HTTP. That's some customers are actually crying out for.
10. What is your opinion about the REST vs. web services war? While we are at it we might as well address it? What is your opinion on that?
I think it's going way too long and I think it's become very polarized in some sectors when it shouldn't have. There are certainly good reasons for using REST over HTTP, so obviously there is a distinction between REST and what I would like to call REST over HTTP, which is one way of doing REST.
There are also good reasons why you might want to use web services. And I think for web services it really is the interoperability and the fact that everybody has got together and we have standardize these high level application protocols that sit on top. I don't think it's an either/or situation, it might be in certain cases, it might be that it really does make sense to use REST everywhere in a particular deployment, but I think in general and if you look back over like forty-odd years of distributive systems development, there has never been a global panacea for distributed systems. One thing does not work well for absolutely all distributed system or component within distributed system like you might come up with.
RPC has worked very, very well since the'70s, and we are revisiting that over the last ten years or so, but RPC isn't dead, people are saying RPC is dead, it is not, if you actually look around RPC is running a lot of backend infrastructural systems that are always going to be RPC-based. So when people come and say "You need to change this to message oriented" that is not going to buy those companies anything, they are happy with what they have got. And I think the REST and web services wars should pretty much just end; let's agree that there are good things and bad things about both, and let's try and use them together if we can. I think they can actually be used well together, the work to merge them together and make them work efficiently together hasn't been done, I think it could be done, and let's just get on with it, let's just stop too much fighting.
11. Could you become a little more specific, so what is good in web services that should be adopted in the RESTful word and what is good in the RESTful world that should be adopted in the web services world? Is there such a list?
Yeah, there isn't a huge need for transactions, but there is a need for transactions. Security, high availability, WSRX for instance, you can build on that to do high availability services. From a REST perspective, the uniform interface does make a lot of sense in many cases. I think one of the problems that we have with web services is WSDL, to be perfectly honest. Certainly when I started doing work around web services back in 1999/2000 WSDL was still in its infancy and when we were developing specs and actually doing implementation in HP, we were developing on SOAP over HTTP and back porting the WSDL afterwards because the WSDL really got in the way, and I think it still does today. So getting away from WSDL and looking at the benefits that a uniform interface can provide rather than a specific interface, and also try not to abuse transports, so saying that SOAP over HTTP is the same as SOAP over TCP/IP because HTTP is most obviously a transport, it's most obviously not a transport.
13. You mentioned that it is now time to go beyond the wars between different facts. I mean that's probably something that has been going on for years in different areas, it's been COM vs. CORBA, and it's been these kind of web services versus that kind of web services and now it's REST versus web services. Given the last debate what would be your suggestion, what do you think should be worked upon, what are the things that we should address to get those two to unite, kiss and make up?
I think that the web services guys, and I kind of include myself in this group, need to realize that certainly interactions across the Internet that are based on HTTP are more likely to be REST based than not. And bridging between web services and HTTP or REST over HTTP I should say, should be addressed in a more efficient manner. We shouldn't try to bastardize HTTP anymore as a transport, we should try and work with it rather than against it, and I don't think we are really doing that at the moment. Web services uses HTTP for a really good reason, and it's so that you can tunnel through firewalls.
And that's the real reason. I was at the first OMG meeting where SOAP was brought to life, and it was one of the debates about why it was there. I think we kind of progressed that we are doing it for the same reasons over the last seven or eight years. But I think that as a web services community we can do more to embrace REST than we are currently doing. I think we should. I don't think there is anything technically that would prevent us from doing that. If you actually look at the way the web works, there is nothing that should prevent us from being able to use true web protocols with nothing else laid on top of them, to actually talk between web servers across different continents.
Like I said before about the extended transactions stuff that's the WS-BP spec that I mentioned which has this notion of loosely coupled domains of consistency with inconsistencies between them, that's kind of very similar in that what happens within the corporate firewall might well be a combination of CORBA, REST, web services, DCOM, Java RMI ... whatever you want. But between the corporate firewalls, I think it should more likely try to be not REST we should actually work with that rather than try and fight it.
14. Would you say that a lot of the arguments that were dismissed within sixty seconds five or six years ago that the REST people made are now being accepted pretty much by everybody in the web services world? I mean I personally see lots of people like you, people who write the standards, who are involved at least conceding that REST is a good solution for many cases? I distinctly remember five years ago when it was said that it was only usable for browsers, for human to web server interaction, no machine to machine could ever possibly work within HTTP. That seems to have changed?
It has changed.
15. Could it be that they were just right?
To speak personally I did transactions over REST back in 2000, it's not like I certainly had a epiphany moment six months ago. I think a few other people have been kind of coming around to this, and yes whether you want to say that they suddenly realized that what other people were saying was right or whether they always knew it was right, and they just had different masters at that time who wouldn't let them say what was really going through their mind, I obviously can't speak for everybody.
16. One of the basic principles of web services is this protocol independence, is the independence of particular transport protocol, which is one of the big elements in the sales pitch for web services. Doesn't that make the option of consolidating HTTP the way it was supposed to be used impossible. Is there really a way to consolidate web services in Restful HTTP?
I think there is. I am not necessarily sure that it's SOAP over REST. I think that again going back to what we were doing with transactions on REST back in HP, we were actually working to bridge web services transactions to RESTful transactions. And you could do it. I like to think that if we been allowed to finish it maybe it would have been one of those little gems that would have grown and maybe unified people around that fact that web services and REST can be used together. I do believe that we can do it, I'm not suggesting that it is easy, but if you look back at the amount of time and effort that has been wasted in these fights that we've had from individuals to big corporations, I would like to think that if we'd actually spent that time actually talking and trying to get these things resolved in a reasonable manner we could have been there by now.
17. There are lots of rumors going on at the moment about those two companies that happen to have merged recently, which happen to be JBoss and Red Hat. Can you give us a little bit of background on that? Tell us a little bit about whether everything is just nice and all those rumors are just crazy little things that we shouldn't believe? Are you willing to talk about that?
Red Hat acquired JBoss in July 2006. It definitely wasn't a smooth transition but I certainly didn't expect a smooth transition. But that wasn't because it was JBoss and it was Red Hat, I have been involved in more acquisitions in my career that I care to remember, and none of them have been particularly smooth. So it didn't come as a big surprise to me, I think one of the big problems though which is probably specific to the JBoss/Red Hat acquisition was the culture within JBoss because of its history of having to fight against the man, who was IBM or who was Oracle, it was much more combative than Red Hat. Being assimilated into a company like Red Hat, that had a different kind of culture like that, did cause friction.
I won't go into specifics but things like being a very private company as well, various mailing lists that people would talk within JBoss to each other throughout the whole company and use very colorful language, for a start you probably wouldn't want to do that in a public company anyway, but also it can offend ... the larger the size of the company the more chance it is it would offend somebody. There were those kind of things you have to be careful about what you say, your level of freedom has gone down a bit as a result, but obviously it's a bigger company, it has more money, has a bigger reach, so there are tradeoffs.
I think overall it has been a good thing, I think. Some people have left for one reason or another, sometimes because they didn't like the culture change, others because they wanted to stay with the startup mentality and not go to a big company, so they gone to other startups. There are still the odd culture clash within Red Hat and I think quite a few people, old time Red Hat people see JBoss guys as upstarts and brash and trouble makers, and treat them a bit like that as well and that doesn't go down well with some individuals who are brash and upstarts. They push back. There is a lot of to and throw but I think the analogy is probably teenage son versus forty years old father, JBoss is going through puberty and the father is the one who has been there and done it before.
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Very good presentation about Transcations.
siva prasanna kumar P
I think they (BIG Companies) probably wanted to make WS-* some kind of Rocket Science, especially looking at the number of specifications and two different major standardizing agencies (W3C & OASIS in WS-* Space) causes further more problems for standardization itself.
Best part of presentation was Mark mentioning a hand in hand approach of REST and Web Services in general, it really make sense to say that. Enough of REST vs (ALL of the rest), we all know neither REST solves all the problems nor WS-*. Mark was very clear about the fact that both have their goods and bads.
BTW I will be more interested in an interview explaining best things of REST, particularly implementing a real life application using RESTful principles and situations under which RESTful approach is appropriate.
Josh Devins
On REST: stop calling it "REST over HTTP". REST without HTTP is just RPC with POX, no? The whole point of REST is to use the "fabric" of the internet -- HTTP (yes and the underlying protocols). Content negotiation, HTTP verbs, response codes, URIs, etc. You can't take the HTTP out of REST.
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Mark Little
And REST is an architectural approach, with the Web as the best example of what's possible. But REST does not mandate HTTP. Have you not heard of REST-over-JMS, for instance? Or didn't you catch our WOA article the other week?
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Mark Little
"REST does not restrict communication to a particular protocol, but it does constrain the interface between components, and hence the scope of interaction and implementation assumptions that might otherwise be made between components [...]"
And if something has to be supported by Spring and CXF to be meaningful then I think I'll hang up my hat and retire. No disrespect to either of those communities, but for good reasons they can't always be at the forefront of everything.
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Josh Devins
I did not mean to imply that simply because Spring WS or CXF don't have it, then it's not good enough. But if this has been in development for some years now and major open source projects aren't supporting it, it certainly makes you wonder, doesn't it? You probably feel differently since you have been intimiately involved with it, but for an outsider, it's a bit different.
Re WOA article, you mean the one that quotes, "Resources are manipulated by HTTP verbs (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE)"? Hopefully I'm not taking that out of context. I would love to see what REST-over-JMS looks like too, since I have in fact not heard of it (SOAP-over-JMS I have).
I'm not at all interested in starting a "flame war", I do appreciate your point of view.
Re: Very good presentation about Transcations.
Mark Little
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I'd love to see more implementations of WS-TX out there, just as I'd love to see more use of transactions across the board. But transactions are a very hard sell; take it from someone who has been trying to do it for 20+ years: persuading someone that they need something that only shows its benefits when there are failures that don't happen often, is really difficult to do. I think that has affected the take-up of transactions in lots of sections of middleware, not just Web Services. As a die-hard transaction guy, it scares me that there are systems running that really should have transactions (even "just" normal ACID transactions) and don't.
There's also an aspect of complexity here that doesn't help matters: transactions are hard to do right and this often puts people off. This isn't an open-source vs closed-source issue either: there are (were) closed source transaction managers that didn't really cut it because the developers didn't bother working on the "edge cases" (e.g., recovery). But it's the "edge cases" where transactions really give benefit.
As for REST support for something other than HTTP, I know a couple of groups have been talking about JMS (JBoss definitely, I think Jersey). I believe Roy is also still working on waka (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(protocol)).
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Josh Devins
I would agree that the "REST style" can be acheived without HTTP. However again, in practical terms, I don't see it (for now at least) living without HTTP. Waka looks fun though!
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Interesting blue screen behind Mark
Michael Neale
Other standards
Bilal Choudry
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Mark Little
Commit protocol control
Bilal Choudry
REST Vs. SOAP
Jibey Jacob
REST does not support a contract based approach, so it does not support this kind of interoperability. All I hear is that its lightweight. Well, it lacks a lot of functionality, which is why its lightweight.
I don't mind using REST where it can be beneficial as a lightweight framework.
Transactions - which nobody needs? Most of us not yet, maybe...
Guy Pardon
It more or less went like this:
-reserve the number for the customer (in one backend service)
-do workflow stuff
-bill the customer
One of the particularities that I remember: they needed to be able to reverse a composite process when it failed at the end, i.e. when billing the customer failed. The number from step 1 had to be freed up again. And: they needed to be able to change the process (business agility) within every x weeks.
Now, I remember my friend complaining that this was nearly impossible, especially the reverse logic. Had they used transactions, they would have been focusing on the happy path instead.
My point: IMHO we are still at the dawn of a new age where service composition will happen (some day). When that day comes, I bet a lot of us will looking for some transactional guarantees.
However, today, for your facebook page all this won't matter I guess; not yet at least...
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Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care
Regular price
This book for children talks about the many different reasons children need foster parents and the feelings that go along with the foster care journey. Will I live with my parents again? Will I stay with my foster parents forever? For children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often: "Maybe". Maybe Days addresses the questions and concerns these children most often face. Honest and reassuring, it also provides basic information that children want and need to know, including the roles of various people in the foster care system and who to ask for help. Notes at the back for adults caring for foster children describe the foster child's experience, underscore the importance of open communication and outline a variety of ways to help children adjust to the 'maybe days' and to thrive. For ages 4–10. An excellent resource for any foster parent's library.


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In this installment with Rivals.com recruiting analyst Chris Nee we cover what he thinks of UM's three incoming quarterbacks, their defensive linemen, if UM took players it shouldn't have and if they missed out on guys in their backyard they should have gotten.
Q: What are you thoughts on the three QBs UM has lined up? Any of them really have the potential to be big time?
"Preston Dewey got banged up during Under Armour and prior to getting banged up he really didn't show much. I thought he struggled. He had a couple nice passes on the week, but not anything that grabbed your eye or caught your attention. David Thompson always has question of baseball hanging over his head. But he has good talent. It's tough to grade him against his level of competition. He didn't do anything or play anywhere that showed us what he could do against different players. Gray Crow has great arm strength, looks great in camps. But in games he's inconsistent, throws a lot of interceptions. His feet are a huge concern for me. I don't know how he's going to handle a pass rush at the D-1 level. He's got really heavy feet. I think it's something he understands. I just don't know how much room for improvement there is."
Q: What about on the defensive line, did UM address its needs?
"[St. Thomas Aquinas'] Jelani Hamilton will end up on the inside. Early on he'll play on the outside. But when he's healthy Jelani is a great football player. [Tampa Jefferson's] Tyriq McCord is a great speed rusher. You want to line him up as an outside rusher, put him in space. The up position is kind of what he was made for. [Vero Beach's] Dwyane [Hoilett] is a bit of project in that he has to add strength and improve as a football player. But I like him a lot because he has a good first step and he does a good job getting in the offensive backfield. He just has to develop physically. [Palm Beach Central's] Gabe Terry is a pass rushing specialist. I don't know if he can defend the pass. He's a little bit small to play defensive end. So if you put him at linebacker I don't know if he's a liability. All of the film I saw of was he was a speed rusher of the edge, which is what he's good at. I don't know if they got a guy on par with an Anthony Chickillo. I don't think they got that complete dominating force at defensive end. But a guy like Dwyane Holiett is a guy you shouldn't grade after this year. Grade him after 24 to 30 months."
Q: Who ultimately makes an immediate impact on defense as a freshman?
"Jelani Hamilton assuming he recovers from knee surgery. I think he can. [Safety] Deon Bush, [Linebacker] Raphael Kirby can. [Tampa Jefferson defensive end] McCord can if you put him as an outside linebacker type. If you want him at defensive end he will need to add weight. I think Rayshawn Jenkins can make plays at safety. He'll be raw back there. But athletically speaking, physically speaking he's ready to contribute."
Q: All in all, a good job by UM recruiting or did they miss?
"I think they did a good job. The one thing about Miami is when all the [Nevin Shapiro] news broke they kind of rushed a little getting some commitments. At that time they may have taken a guy or two they may have not needed -- [Leesburg receiver] D'Mauri Jones -- that they could have gone out and gotten that was better. But all in all I grade them as doing a pretty good job. Getting [Miramar cornerback Tracy] Howard -- if they can -- would be a nice cherry on top. But getting [Palm Beach Central receiver Angelo] Jean-Louis back in March or April was good. And they definitely added depth. A guy like D'Mauri Jones is a toss up. He may develop into a really good player. He may develop into nothing. I don't think it's always bad to take a guy like that."
Q: Still, and I've heard this from a few scouts, did UM take recruits who aren't supposed to be Miami guys? Do you think that was panic setting in with the NCAA investigation?
"I don't know if it was so much panic. They just had some really deep needs. They had to load up on DBs. [Hialeah American cornerback Larry] Hope is a D-1 player. I don't think he's a bad player. I just don't know if he's a Miami-caliber player. I think at that point they did have to take some risks. A guy like [Tallahassee Godby tight end Brandon] Holifield they took him after he came to their camp. That's personal evaluation. That is what it is. He's only played one year of football and he wasn't even a primary contributor. He played off the bench a lot. He's extremely raw, more of a basketball prospect than a football prospect. But hey, Jimmy Graham was a basketball prospect and look what he's doing on NFL Sundays."
Q: Who would you say are the biggest risks, maybe not Miami guys that they took a chance on?
"[Countryside quarterback] Gray Crow. His feet are just really a concern as far as being able to evade anything in the pocket. I'd say [American High cornerback] Larry Hope falls in that category, [Leesburg receiver] D'Mauri Jones, [Tallahassee Godby tight end] Brandon Holifield, and then [Cypress Bay linebacker] Josh Witt. Witt's kind of a specialist at linebacker. I don't think he has a whole lot of versatility. It is what it is. But one thing Miami made evident in this class was they're really going to trust themselves. They do their own evaluations. They don't go after a kid if they truly believe they shouldn't have him. I don't think they recruit off a list. And I think that's what a lot of schools fall into. A lot of schools will go recruit a kid because a lot of people say he's really good, even though he doesn't fit what they're trying to do. You need glue guys to make you a better team even if they're not a superstar."
Q: Who did they miss out on in their own backyard?
"Well, if they don't get him, Tracy is a guy Miami has to keep home. I think Tracy arguably is the best player in the entire state. We consider him the top corner in the country. Now, they did a good job because they kind of started on the back of the bus with him and worked his way up. The fact they're getting him to visit is unbelievable. I think that's a real credit to how Al Golden is willing to recruit until the final minute and give his program a chance. Honestly, outside of him, Miami was a bit down this year. I'd say [Miami Beach athlete] Ricardo Louis is a guy you want to get. He'll end up at Florida State or Auburn. I know this is going to sound a bit crazy, but considering they needed three quarterbacks I'm surprised they didn't give more of a look to [Miami Northwestern's] E.J. Hilliard. He's a bit raw and has to develop. He's only started one year. But I thought that was a steal by FIU personally. [Northwestern receiver] Amari Cooper is probably the biggest miss, him going to Alabama. I think the world of Amari. He's got a ton of talent. He's a huge receiver. If he can stay consistent he's going to be unbelievable. They had [South Miami cornerback] AJ Leggett for the longest time. That had to do with academics. I wouldn't fault Miami for that."
Q: Is this a Top 10 Signing Class?
"I don't think it's one of the top seven, eight classes in the nation, but I think they did a good job building depth, getting some really good players. I think the top 10 players in their class are some very good football players. I'd say top 15, top 20 class for sure without a doubt. I think some of the inflated rankings has to do with having 31 kids committed. But guys like Duke Johnson, Reggie Northrup, Jelani Hamilton, Deon Bush, Angelo Jean-Louis, Ereck Flowers, Malcolm Lewis, Tyriq McCord, Danny Isidora are great players. Those are guys a lot of schools in the country wanted and they did a really good job bringing in some top tier talent that's going to help them next year because they have voids to fill."
Q: Surprised they've done as well they have?
"I think when you take everything into account, the mediocre record, guys leaving to NFL, the whole investigation and possible sanctions I think they did a good job. Anytime you get a guy like Duke Johnson to stay home -- I know he's a die-hard Cane -- but that's still a huge get in light of everything. I'd give the class a B, B-plus for sure. Tracy Howard pushes them up a letter grade because that would be a huge get. At that point it would be tough to argue against a class with two five star kids and 10 kids who were four stars or higher. And some of their three stars -- Danny Isidora, Dwyane Hoilett, Rashawn Jenkins are going to be major contributors as well."


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Well, here have one question that may sound very much trivial to you,
but not for me. I'm the one who's in the darkness and wants to be enlightened.
Why we celebrate Sunday, and not Saturday?
If we are supposed to be the successor of the Old estament,
than one would expect that we keep also Saturday as our day of rest,
and call it Sabbat.
Any explanations?


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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, née Ruth Joan Bader, (born March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993. She was only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University in 1954, finishing first in her class. She attended Harvard Law School for two years before transferring to Columbia Law School to join her husband, who had been hired by a prestigious law firm in New York City. She was elected to the law reviews of both schools and graduated tied for first in her class at Columbia in 1959. Despite her outstanding academic record, Ginsburg was turned down for numerous jobs after graduation because she was a woman.
After clerking for U.S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri (1959–61), she taught at Rutgers University Law School (1963–72) and at Columbia (1972–80), where she became the school's first female tenured professor. During the 1970s she also served as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, for which she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court. She won five of those cases and thereby helped establish the unconstitutionality of unequal treatment of men and women.
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter appointed Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She served there until she was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White; she was easily confirmed by the Senate (96–3).
As a lawyer, Ginsburg had been known for her pioneering advocacy of the rights of women. As a judge, she favoured caution, moderation, and restraint. She was considered part of the Supreme Court's minority moderate-liberal bloc.
In 1996 Ginsburg wrote the Supreme Court's landmark decision in United States v. Virginia, which held that the state-supported Virginia Military Institute could not refuse to admit women. Despite her reputation for restrained writing, she gathered considerable attention for her dissenting opinion in the case of Bush v. Gore, which effectively decided the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Objecting to the court's majority opinion favouring Bush, Ginsburg deliberately and subtly concluded her decision with the words, "I dissent"—a significant departure from the tradition of including the adverb respectfully.


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When Brooke Burns' new truTV television series Motor City Masters premieres tonight, it will pit 10 experienced auto-designers from across the country against each other to test their limits of design expertise and creativity. Front and center is one contestant we have our eyes on: Bryan Thompson, a 39-year-old, gay auto designer who has had multiple designs manufactured by Nissan and has designed in studios around the world from France to Japan, Austria, and Brazil. The pop culture lover — who was profiled by The Advocate six years ago — has designed video sets for Katy Perry and has transformed everything from tough trucks to charming Airstream campers and from high-flying executive jet interiors to far out Hollywood set designs.
On Motor City Masters, Thompson will compete with other contestants each week creating new, fully functional (though not street legal) concept cars. If he wins? He'll take home a brand new 2014 Camaro Z28 and $100,000 cash.
We got Thompson to slow down long enough to give us the scoop on his career, competing on the series, and being gay in the auto industry.
The Advocate: I understand it was a Datsun Honey Bee that initially ignited your passion for cars. Explain yourself.
Bryan Thompson: Ha ha! Our neighbors had a B210 in 1976, with the HoneyBee graphic on the front fender, and I can distinctly remember being drawn to that happy image of the little bee, and thinking the car was alive. I always saw cars and objects as creatures. Everything from our family Tercel 4WD, to the Bang and Olufsen stereo my mom came home with on a whim in 1979, had a soul or presence in my mind because they "affected" the world they existed in. I thought that since they illicit strong reactions in people, they were somehow alive. They certainly had a sentience in my mind. I wanted to make friends with the stereo, the car, the phone, and then create more friends.
What excites you now about cars?
Cars are a promise of freedom, and they are part of the fabric of our every day lives. They're privy to an intimate part of us because we spend so much time in them. They're the purring witnesses to our private triumphs and defeats, they listen while we tap out percussion happy rhythms on the steering wheel, and sing out our passions to the empty cabin. They know who we love, and nudge us a little closer to our co-passengers in the ambient dashboard glow.
What's your dream?
The one that excites me the most? To bring back the bench seat with a modern twist. A bench seat lets you put your arm around your loved one and slide them closer in a way that a bucket seat cannot. It's all about body language, and while people can't always say "sorry" after an argument, they can usually put an arm around each other — and then everything is okay. We need more of that.
What's changed since we profiled you in 2006?
I grew up. Just kidding. I'd say the biggest change is that I went completely freelance with my design career. When we last spoke, my career was just beginning to grow. Now freelance work is my full time job. I love it. My career is like my child: I'm nurturing and watching it grow, and hopefully it will continue to get stronger. I do a lot more entertainment design now. I've lived in Brazil for a while, designing executive jet interiors, and I do a lot more design research. I love getting into the field and understanding who I'm designing for. In 2006, I said that I felt design research was like being a method actor, that for a while you get to play at being another character. I took that idea and ran with it, and now do a great deal of design research for my clients. For example, I spent the better part of a year living with long haul truck drivers, in their trucks, designing solutions for their cabins. In my opinion, the only way to understand the realities of someone else's life, and create solutions to improve it, is to live it yourself.
Are you still the only out gay car designer you know?
It's funny that you ask that, because the answer is, finally, no. I'm a rare breed to be sure, but a couple months ago, one of my dear friends in the industry finally came out. And it brought tears of happiness, because while I've known for years that he's gay, it took him a long time to feel comfortable with it publicly. The outpouring of support and love surrounding him at his design studio has been heartwarming. It shows the world is evolving. I hope more will follow in our footsteps.
You've also designed and built music video sets for Katy Perry. What was that like?
I helped design and build the throne for her "Roar" video. She was so focused on production that I'm not sure she'd remember me, but she was very kind and adorable when I had to redesign the throne on set, on the fly, while she waited. Talk about pressure! Motor City Masters was simple fun, by comparison. Try having Katy Perry and an entire production crew standing by while you're running around shouting ridiculous statements like "Birds of Paradise! We need more Birds!"
You're already such a success — why go on a reality show? What encouraged you to sign up?
Great question. At first, I had a lot of trepidation about joining a reality TV show. It seems there are two types of reality TV, the train wreck shows we all love to despise — and nuke the popcorn for — and the creative shows that showcase skill and talent, like Project Runway. Both are highly entertaining, but the second one is inspirational. When I was recruited for the show, the producers assured me this competition would be the latter. And, oh, were they ever true to their word. Just you wait and see what we create. It's a rocky road at times, but that makes for good TV, and I get it. In the end, I joined the cast with the caveat that if I won, I was going to donate a large portion of the winnings to create a scholarship for gay and lesbian students with significant design talent. This is something I've wanted to do since I first "made it" in the industry, against some pretty difficult odds myself. Something like this could change someone's life, and I want to help make that happen.
What surprised you most about doing Motor City Masters?
That we would do so much of the work ourselves. Car design is a field where we spend a great deal of time sketching, and then, cappuccino in hand, pointing and giving directions, and relying on other skilled people like engineers and modelers to bring our visions to life. In fact, there is a bit of a perceived barrier between domains, and to break through it is almost an invasion of someone else's job. The implication is that you'd be taking work away from a colleague if you expand into the fabrication arena. This TV show breaks through all of that, and we get our hands dirty doing a great deal of the building ourselves. Plus, I love the tool that makes sparks. The sparky thing. No, I still don't know what it's really called.
What would be the bigger score: winning the 2014 Camaro Z28 or $100,000 cash?
The Camaro! I'd take that baby on one outrageous, balls-to-the wall fun run with my guy, and the show's host, Brooke Burns, and then sell it to fund my scholarship. That is, after all, what cars are best for: The promise of freedom. I'd make that one deliver on every level.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When it comes to treating autism, there are still more questions than answers.
That's the message from a series of reviews published today in the journal Pediatrics, in which researchers analyzed past studies on the effectiveness of medication or behavioral and developmental therapies in kids with autism spectrum disorders.
Parents, doctors, and even entire school systems are "routinely put in the position of having to make decisions about what the most appropriate services will be" for kids with autism, said Zachary Warren, one of the researchers, in an interview with Reuters Health.
"What we would really hope for is an evidence base where you could make those decisions based on what we know about how particular children respond to particular interventions," said Warren, who runs an autism clinic at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
But for most treatment options, there is not convincing evidence that they actually help kids get better, Warren said.
Close to 1 percent of children in the United States have an autism spectrum disorder, which includes both autism and Asperger's syndrome. People with these conditions have difficulty interacting with and understanding the emotions of others, and they often engage in repetitive behaviors.
Most children with autism are treated with behavioral therapy starting at a young age, and many will try multiple kinds of therapy or medications as they get older.
For their reviews, Warren and his colleagues collected data from all studies done in the last decade on the effectiveness of a range of medications and therapies in reducing symptoms of autism.
In their most convincing finding, the authors determined that secretin - a hormone otherwise used to treat stomach ulcers — is not an effective treatment for kids with autism. Excitement about the drug started in the late 1990's, when very limited evidence suggested it might promote social skills in kids with autism - but after more thorough research, it's clear that's not the case, Warren said.
That conclusion was based on 7 past studies that found the drug did not improve language or reasoning skills or any other autism symptoms.
The researchers found there was not enough evidence to determine whether anti-depressants such as Prozac and Celexa or the stimulant drug Ritalin might help kids with autism.
There is some evidence showing that both Risperdal and Abilify might help cut down on kids' repetitive behaviors. But because both drugs may cause side effects such as uncontrolled muscle tremors and drowsiness, the authors said they should only be used in kids who are very impaired because of their autism.
Dr. Bryan King, the director of Seattle Children's Autism Center, said that as many as 70 percent of kids with autism are treated with some kind of medication.
"The real take-home message for me.... is the striking disparity between the treatments that we use and the number of children that are receiving them, and the strength of the evidence that we have in support of these practices," said King, who was not involved in the current study.
It is "hard to reconcile" the popularity of these drugs with the lack of information about their effectiveness, he told Reuters Health, but not having enough evidence isn't the same thing as saying the drugs don't work.
Warren and his colleagues concluded that intensive behavioral therapy or behavioral treatment started in very young kids has helped some of them improve reasoning and language skills, as well as their ability to interact with others. It's hard to know which kids will benefit from those therapies, however.
"Some (behavioral) interventions can show some pretty dramatic changes," Warren said. "At the same time, understanding which specific treatments are going to be best for specific (kids) - we're not quite there."
King said it was time to "redouble our efforts" to gain more conclusive evidence on possible treatment options.
The research "just really highlights that we urgently need new treatments and better treatments, in addition to refining our understanding of how available treatments work for specific individuals and specific families," Warren concluded.
SOURCE: bit.ly/5N5tuZ Pediatrics, online April 4, 2011.


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A $46 million state effort to modernize the unemployment insurance system is causing frustration and anxiety for some unemployed workers who say they're not getting the benefits they're owed and don't know where to turn for help.
The Department of Unemployment Assistance last week launched a new website and phone system to process claims for unemployment insurance. At the same time, the department stopped accepting paper applications for weekly claims. About 2,000 people out of about 120,000 had been filing by paper, according to Michelle Amante, director of the department.
But about 15 local job seekers and activists protested the changes in Worcester Monday, holding signs and chanting outside Workforce Central Career Center at 44 Front St. They said the new system was hurting poor and working-class people.
"It is a disaster, from everything we've heard, except from people at the top," said Chris Horton, organizer with the Worcester Unemployment Action Group.
Gwen Davis, another protester, said, "Who is this system serving? It's not serving the workers, it's serving the rulers."
The group said unemployed workers previously could go to career centers, like the one in downtown Worcester, to file claims and ask questions about their benefits, but this kind of face-to-face service was discontinued last week.
Career center and state unemployment officials confirmed that applicants are being asked to use the phone and Internet more than in the past. But career center staff are still available to help claimants navigate the computer system, they said. The main difference is staff are no longer filling out forms for people who come to career centers.
None of the staff at the state's network of career centers, or the 230 call center employees who process claims on the phone, are being laid off, according to the Department of Unemployment Assistance. Rather, their roles are changing.
Donald H. Anderson, director of the Worcester career center, acknowledged the changes require some adjustment. Not only is the computer system new, but the phone system has been revamped with new prompts and options.
"It's going to be a learning curve for some folks because the entire system has changed," Mr. Anderson said.
Unemployment benefits are paid weekly to laid-off workers. Applicants must file an initial claim, then renew weekly. Benefits are capped at $674 a week and end after 30 weeks.
In Massachusetts, 6,356 people filed initial claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending June 22, while another 78,543 continued claims, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The statewide unemployment rate, adjusted for seasonal changes, is 6.6 percent, but the rate is higher in Central Massachusetts — 7.4 percent in the Worcester area and 9 percent in the Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner area.
The state launched a new computer system, called UI Online, on July 1 to process claims. The system will be paid for through state IT bond funding, said Lauren Jones, spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, which includes DUA. State officials expect the $46 million cost to be returned as savings or "value added" by 2015.
The state also expects to save $1 million a year with another change: eliminating paper checks and offering direct deposit or debit cards instead.
Ms. Amante, DUA director, said the changes were necessary.
"Our old system was 30 years old," she said. "It was very inefficient... This wasn't really a choice for us. We had to move to a modern system."
The new Web system gives applicants more control and access, she said, adding: "Now they can file their initial claim online, they can file an appeal, they can check their payment system history. It provides a lot of transparency about their claims."
But not all unemployed workers see the changes as positive. Many have faced long wait times on the phone system or problems with the Web system.
Michelle Arnhold of Worcester, out of work for several months, said she hasn't been able to collect unemployment benefits in three weeks because neither the website nor the phone system has worked for her.
"I can't get a person on the phone," she said. "I tried their website. It keeps giving me errors."
Ms. Arnhold said she has changed careers three times in recent years, moving from flooring to massage therapy to human services, and is now pursuing a bachelor's degree at Becker College as she tries to find yet another job. The mother of two doesn't have any savings to fall back on.
"I'm a single parent," she said. "I've got nothing."
State Rep. James J. O'Day, D-West Boylston, said he's watching the issue after getting complaints from constituents over the past few days.
"Change is difficult," he said. "When you're facing unemployment and you're not getting answers as quickly as you'd like them through the computer, it might be nice to have that face-to-face contact. I don't know that the IT is quite there yet for this particular process."
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Sony Xperia ion price revealed, up for pre-order
19 Comments
1. arcq12 (Posts: 733; Member since: 13 Oct 2011)
will it be released in South East Asia?
8. buggerrer (Posts: 306; Member since: 21 Sep 2011)
whats you new name will be? Ionq12? and call that a mix between your wife name and yours :p
13. arcq12 (Posts: 733; Member since: 13 Oct 2011)
you kidding right? it doesn't mean that there's an 'arc' on my name also means that I have a SE Arc or whatever.. and I don't even have a SE phone you trolling moron. And let me guess what you own? just tons of buggers? get a life, coz you have a pathetic one..
17. buggerrer (Posts: 306; Member since: 21 Sep 2011)
.. rly?
2. snowgator (Posts: 3614; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
3G only? Not even the fake 4G? Huh. Half effort SE.
9. BLikens1619 (Posts: 67; Member since: 12 Apr 2008)
This phone is ALL G! know the specs before posting.
18. snowgator (Posts: 3614; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
"It will work on AT&T's 3G waves"
My apologies. That line, along with nothing about 4G or LTE made me think it wouldn't. My bad. I will take the thumbs down like a man of wrong....
3. Borrie69 (Posts: 32; Member since: 14 Jan 2012)
How compatible will it be on Verizon's LTE? According to the specs it should work but would it have a lot of issues?
6. Fallout (Posts: 20; Member since: 22 Apr 2010)
Doesn't work on Verizon LTE, they use a different 700mhz than ATT
4. Mr.Mr.Upgrade (Posts: 474; Member since: 30 Aug 2011)
12 mp wat a joke......sony come on this is the best u can do ..........
5. Jericho (unregistered)
why didnt they(se) release this all over the world but still i can get it in pakistan unlocked just like samsung focus and focus s through homeshopping.pk.
7. arcq12 (Posts: 733; Member since: 13 Oct 2011)
@Mr.Mr.Upgrade what do you want?
10. Giggity (Posts: 147; Member since: 17 Nov 2011)
So Sony decided to keep that green logo?
11. RamyRamz69 (Posts: 390; Member since: 12 Dec 2011)
"there's a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor powering Ice Cream Sandwich."
Is that a typo or the best thing I heard this week?
12. Muhannad (Posts: 455; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
This is exactly what has been puzzling me too!
14. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Just in time for my upgrade.
15. CellieCell (Posts: 145; Member since: 14 Apr 2010)
Lol, I love reading all the sh!t talking ppl post ^_^
Can't wait for this phone to be available, love Sony cameras!
16. yougotkilled1 (Posts: 167; Member since: 27 Apr 2011)
If ICS is coming to that phone when it's released, I'm getting it on day 1!
19. spiderpig2894 (Posts: 597; Member since: 10 Jan 2012)
i think GB is still the OS. ICS will be on March or April.
just guessing


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Religions need books because they don't have gods.
"I'm doing science and I'm still alive."--J.C.
those little guys are indestructible! They'd make great pets for the kids.
They're also cute as hell.
Well, it's cause they look alien to us - we're not used to seeing something that looks like that. There are some perfectly ordinary small animals that can look pretty scary to people who aren't used to them.