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Senior High Band
The Spring Grove Senior High Band rehearses everyday from 11:19am to 11:59am. The SH Band performs in three concerts a year. Please see our "Senior High Band Schedule" page for more information.
Junior High Band
The Junior High Band rehearses Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:09 to 12:54pm and Fridays from 12:09 to 12:30pm. The JH Band will perform in three concerts a year. 8th graders from Junior High Band are required to participate in the High School Marching Band. 8th graders may also be invited by the instructor to play in SH Band and/or Pep Band by virtue of their skill level, dedication, and attitude.
Elementary Band
The Spring Grove Elementary Band is comprised of every 5th and 6th grader in the Spring Grove School District. 5th graders are play tested on band instrument mouthpieces in July.In August, the 5th graders will have three weeks of 45 minute lessons everyday with Mr. Leafblad. At the beginning of the school year, 5th and 6th graders join together for large group band. Elementary Band rehearses from 9:00am to 9:45am Tuesdays and Thursdays. The 2017-18 Elementary Band is 57 members strong this year, making it the largest band at Spring Grove! We are so excited about the future of our band students!
Jazz Band
Spring Grove Jazz: Jazz at Spring Grove will be split into two (2) separate ensembles. A 6th-8th Junior High Jazz Band and a 9th-12th Senior High Jazz Band. The two groups will rehearse before school one day a week each. SH Jazz will practice TUESDAY mornings (starting October 3rd) at 7:15 a.m. and JH Jazz will practice WEDNESDAY mornings (starting September 20th) at 7:15 a.m. The SH Jazz Band will compete at the MSHSL Section 1A Solo/Ensemble Contest on April 19th, 2018 in Rushford, MN. Any 7th-12th grader participating in a Jazz Ensemble at Spring Grove should pay a $15 activity fee to the school office by October 2nd, 2017. 6th graders are exempt from the activity fee. Jazz at Spring Grove is open to all Band students willing to make the commitment to their group by being on time and learning the music. Opportunities for guitar (must read notes, not just chords), bass guitar, and piano are available in these groups. Talk to Mr. Leafblad is you are interested in Jazz at Spring Grove!
Pep Band
Pep Band is a "required fun" activity -- See SH Band Syllabus for participation requirements. Our required Pep Band uniform are the Spring Grove Band Jackets. An order for Band Jackets will be placed each fall. Students are required to have instrument lyres for Pep Band. Lyres can be purchased in the band room with Spring Grove Band Punch Cards or obtained from Mr. Leablad if you rent a school instrument. See the "Senior High Band Schedule" for Pep Band events and dates!
Marching Band
Spring Grove Marching Band (8th-12th) is a fall marching band season that encompasses rehearsals during band class in the spring, August band camp, and ends the last week of August with a Community Preview Performance. ALL band students 8th-12th are required to participate in Marching Band. It is possible, but rare, for special arrangements to be made with the director. Marching band should not deter students from registering for concert band. Students in marching band should plan on committing to the schedule, preparing the required music, and learning the marching skills to have a successful marching band experience. Be the best you you can be! The Spring Grove High School Marching Band is one of the biggest advocates for the Spring Grove community. We are PROUD to represent Spring Grove!

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CHESTERTOWN - This Sunday, a retired Saratoga Springs high school basketball coach will be presenting several sessions to North Warren area youth about respectful conduct on the court and off.
Rich Johns, 35-year coach at Saratoga High, has delivered a message of "Act with Respect Always" to about a dozen high schools and campuses.
The Dec. 11 session of the Chester-Horicon Youth Basketball program will feature Rich Johns as guest speaker, and he'll be offering brief presentations at noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Parents of children who play in any of the Youth Commission sports programs are invited to attend one of the free presentations at the North Warren Central School's gymnasium.
Johns guided Saratoga high school teams to 17 league titles, nine sectional titles and one of his squads to a Section II record with a 85-game winning streak.
Johns seeks to prompt student athletes to evaluate their own character, recognize its impact on others, and to strive to develop positive personal traits in athletics and life. Using eight positive character traits as the foundation of his campaign, Johns now spreads his message to students and coaches in school districts across the region. His organization and a summary of his message can be viewed at:
Bringing Johns to North Warren are Youth Commission representatives Mindy Conway, interim executive director, and Ron Lewis, a volunteer board member, in conjunction with Jeremy Whipple from the North Warren athletic department.


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Master Sgt. Daniel Fuentes participated in a portion of the 9/11 Ruck March to Remember, which is composed of Air Force security forces members. The march started July 12 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas and is being conducted in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They will finish their march Sept. 11 at Ground Zero in New York City.
By Master Sgt. Daniel Fuentes
Keesler Air Force Base
The reason I did the Security Forces 9/11 Ruck March to Remember is I wanted to honor the memory of the men and women who perished during the terrorist attacks and also honor my fellow fallen "Defenders."
When I heard of the event I volunteered to be team leader and solicited the rest of my squadron to volunteer and join me. Initially 18 people volunteered but due to work schedules a total of nine of us formed the team. We trained for approximately two months rucking around 15 miles a week in preparation of our portion of the march.
Even though the temperatures were hot and muggy when our team marched, I was driven and filled with energy due to the heartwarming support of my fellow Americans who lined the roadways and waved U.S. flags, thanking our team for our military service. The patriotism I observed and felt within was unlike any I had ever experienced before.
My team was blessed to have outstanding financial and vehicle support from home station. We raised funds to help offset the expenses of our march. The Keesler community generously contributed toward our cause.
I feel the keys to our success as a team during our ruck march was pre-planning, practice rucks, media coverage, and mostly the positive attitudes of all team members.
It was a tremendous privilege to be able to participate in this event. Long after I retire from the Air Force, which will be soon, I will always remember the joy I felt when I saw the smiles on my team members' faces knowing that they were participating in an awesome historic event, and that the nation and people we help to defend really appreciate and support what we do.
Photo: The 9/11 Ruck March team from Keesler Air Force Base completes a 148-mile portion of the march in Gardner, La. (Photo courtesy of Airman 1st Class Anthony Wilson)


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Ignorance (and bloviating) pays
Glenn Beck just got a 50 million dollar contract for his radio show.
Why did I ever get a PhD, learn to face reality, and base my judgments on facts? If I just made stuff up or misinterpreted basic data I'd be rich too.
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He needs all that money to build a large enough structure to contain all the hot air he spews out!
It's not too late to start, Phil! Baseless Astronomy has a nice ring to it. You wouldn't even have to change your acronym for your blog.
I'm so helpful, even I can't stand it sometimes.
Glenn Beck has amazing powers: I get angry even watching him with the TV muted. He's that obnoxious; just by looking at him I can tell he's saying something stupid.
(This happens surprisingly often when I'm out at a restaurant that's playing CNN on a soundless TV)
(WHY on Earth do restaurants elect to show CNN programming when I'm trying to have dinner?)
(And why on Earth do they bother to show CNN on mute?)
(Perhaps they know what happens when you let Beck speak out loud…)
To be a little more precise, the temperature went up from the early to mid 70's to about 1998. Since then there hasn't been any discernible trend, it's been pretty stable.
Poor Glenn. Maybe he's just misunderstood. If only he could get over his shyness and low self-esteem, become more self-confident, go ahead and be unafraid to state his opinions proudly, no matter how silly they may seem, maybe we skeptics would like him more.
: )
If people crave nonsense, that is what the networks give them.
I really do feel, that a new Dark Age is descending upon us.
Glenn Beck could be described as an over-the-top comedian turned (rightwing) political commentator. My favorite polar opposite; an over-the-top comedian turned (leftwing) political commentator is Bill Maher. From his "Real Time" show on HBO:
"New Rule: Nobody can use the phrase "our greatest problem" anymore unless you're talking about global warming. President Bush has been saying we're in a war on terror, and now I get it. He's not saying "terror," he's saying "terra" as in "terra firma," as in the Earth. George Bush is an alien sent here to destroy the Earth! I know it sounds crazy, but it made perfect sense when Tom Cruise explained it to me last week."
"Global warming is not speculative. It threatens us enough so that it should be considered a national security issue. Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction – and that's what global warming is – in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits, for me, the definition of treason. And codified treason."
Look at this way, Phil: At least you can sleep at night.
If it weren't for that pesky conscience of mine, I could make millions as a televangelist.
$50 Million is a lot but I think this quote from the Times article says it all:
"All of these contracts pale in comparison to Sirius Satellite Radio's half-a-billion dollar contract with Howard Stern,â€
I keep thinking about a lucrative livelihood selling homeopathic sleep aids, instead of real life electrical engineering. I'll bet I could become a millionaire selling woo instead.
But I'd have to get rid of all of my mirrors and start growing a beard, 'cause I wouldn't be able to look at myself anymore.
Having a conscious is a definite liability to easily becoming a multimillionaire.
Well, we already knew that TANJ. Such is life.
It's got nothing to do with getting a PhD. In order to get obscenely rich you need to have your conscience removed.
We could say the same for the guys who throw that little ball through the hoop or pretend to be someone else in front of the camera. The truth is, do we really want people doing important jobs who're only there for the money?
I had to take the creationist side in a debate in a geology course I took years ago. Of course we know all the talking points, and we know how to promote meaningless Woo, and we know, or could figure out how to make a statue cry (making a guitar weep is beyond me though).
A conscience is a damned expensive thing, ain't it?
Glenn Beck could be described as an over-the-top comedian turned (rightwing) political commentator.
I guess Beck *could* be described as any number of things but the two you mention must be somewhere near the bottom. I've never heard his radio show, but five minutes of any of his shows on CNN is enough to wonder why this travesty is on a news network.
CNN should be ashamed.
Glenn Beck may or may not be an idiot. I don't have an opinion because I have not listened to his show on radio or TV.
According to your article, he said (paraphrased):
1. "The fires have little to do with global warming." Do you have a tie in between the fires and GW? Is he wrong here?
2. "The highest temperature was 1934, not 1998." Here he is wrong globally and correct if talking about the continuous 48 states. By the way, the error in the 2000 and later GISS US temps was discovered by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit.
As for his first statement you say "I'm not saying that GW is the trigger there [California wild fires]; I'm saying that things will get wonkier from here on out. Count on it." Is that faith based or science based? Where is the science?
My last point is that you refer via a link to "MediaMatters" which is not, in my opinion, an objective news source.
Of course if you did decide to start spewing nonsense, you'd have Randi after you. Yikes!
For every ignorant and bloviating boob on the right, there is a coutnerpart on the left.
Michael Moore comes to mind.
If it makes you feel any better, I've read and enjoyed your page for years. It taught me a lot about astronomy, which isn't at all in my area of study. I really like your mixture of smarts and humor; it's hard to find that balance.
Sure you could make more money if you were Glenn Beck, but you'd have to be a prostitute.
Hey Phil,
I thinks you need to take a rest, first you blog about the "60MPG Hummer†– over a week after it showed up on Kos – Now you rant about some articulating sensory organ cluster who is first and foremost an entertainer. Make no mistake, these daze there is very little (if any) 'news' (let alone objective) on TV or radio – its all entertainment! (I should have at least half a clue, these days I'm the equivalent of the arms dealer – building systems for anyone with the necessary kilo bucks) – almost every frame of video you see, every word you hear broadcast over cable or satellite (with the increasingly rare exceptions of live broadcasts that are not sports related) has been vetted and weighed for its entertainment value and legal liability. And with rare exceptions (Nova, Frontline come to mind) there is only a matter of a few degrees between 99% of all the other programming and Coast to Coast…
Interesting to bring up Howard Stern. Although its nowhere near the focus of his show, he is a skeptic and an atheist, and apparently one the highest paid! Some of the best moments on his show are when he lambastes some conspiracy and/or religious nut.
For every ignorant and bloviating boob on the right, there is a coutnerpart on the left.
Yeah, but the ones on the right have a virtual monopoly of the air waves. Randi Rhodes is about the only one I can think of who has a daily or even weekly presence on news TV or talk radio.
Typically opinion journalists we see on TV on the left are of a much higher caliber. Where are all the Hannitys, Limbaughs, Becks, Kristols, Coulters, of the left?
"the right†(such as it is, and how many of them endorse – advertise homeopathic remedies?) does currently have something of a monopoly on the AM band and little else – faux news is just a bludgeon that the mad Australian uses to snipe at those who disagree with him – but make no mistake, there are only a hand full of gatekeepers for any national media – its all bread and circuses to keep the masses entertained, and if you believe otherwise you have been assimilated, the kool-aid dispensary is to the left…
Millions of more dollars for his vanity and promotion; what a joke! Phil, I guarantee you could take this guy in a Google/YouTube self search.
—–"Where are all the Hannitys, Limbaughs, Becks, Kristols, Coulters, of the left?"
We don't see them because there are no chickenhawk rat neocon fascist un-American treasonous blowhards — on the left.
Mind you, the left likely has a few regular everyday old fashioned blowhards in general, and certainly some "wimps" in Congress who don't stand up enough to the Bushists, but to be "liberal" is to be somewhat open minded, and thus favoring inquiry over authoritarianism. That's something Limbaugh, Coulter, et all can not do.
@ Siduri: "Sure you could make more money if you were Glenn Beck, but you'd have to be a prostitute."
Why would you want to demean honest prostitutes that way?
But in a related vein, I spotted this story on Yahoo! News just a few minutes ago:
The first paragraph is as follows: "Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats. "
Sound familiar? (Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Jim Bakker, Kent Hovind, etc., ad infinitum, ad naseum)?
Micheal Moore, Bill Maher, Al Franken and all of Air America, Dan Rather, Keith Olbermann, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rosie O'Donell, Whoopie Goldberg
according to Bourdieu, you are richer than him. (i have some time reading your blog and i just wanted to say hi)
So–How much are they going to pay the front end of the horse?
Oh common, it's a lot more fun to hear Glenn Beck misinterpreting data than it is reading misinterpreted data in the Times or watching it on the other shows. As far as his remarks on the warming, they're far more accurate than a lot of the nonsense we read/hear about the catastrophic warming myth.
Beck's at least as accurate as the rest of the liberal/left shows, which admittedly, isn't necessarily saying much. So he's worth the 50 mil to the net 'cause he'll make them more than that.
"but to be "liberal†is to be somewhat open minded, and thus favoring inquiry over authoritarianism."
Heh. I just watched the Cosby show, laughed a lot, and your joke was better than his. Well done. Almost as funny as the idea that someone might consider Media Matters to be a reliable source.
Its 'Catastrophic Climate change" Greg.
See if you listened to more people you would have BETTER information and wouldn't come off sounding so ignorant in "public."
But that isn't really something you have too much control over is it?
Now you rant about some articulating sensory organ cluster who is first and foremost an entertainer.
And there is the problem. Because a large number of the people who watch him don't realise that he's supposed to be an entertainer, they believe every word!
Living in Australia, I make the above comment having never seen the guy in question. But we have the same type of situation here where people base their opinions on what they see/hear on 60 Minutes (the Australian version) or whatever else passes for current affairs on the commercial channels. All they are doing is pandering to the spent-10-years-at-school-but-still-illiterate masses who will watch their programmes and, more importantly, the ads of their sponsors, then go out and buy the advertised products.
Said masses will then become experts on global warming and wax lyrical about how the sun's output has increased, the other planets are also warming, it's a government plot to levy a new tax, blah, blah, blah. But the vast majority of them can't even spell properly let alone put a grammatically correct sentence together.
Rant over, I await with interest the responses picking holes in my grammar
Wasn't 1934 when you had the Great Dust Bowl?
I agree with you. A lot people feel that they are experts simply because they watch some TV show or read some blog.
For example, the recently posted 60 MPG Hummer piece. I took me all of ten minutes to prove it was wrong. I did a similar excercise in a freshman engineering class.
Don't worry about the grammer/flow etc. I know that I make a lot errors like that too.
BA, you could try posing naked for a calendar. Maybe with a telescope…
People complain at each other while the detached environmental event which caused the ruckus in the first place continues unabated and unaware, and life goes on.
Does anyone else find this all a bit silly and perhaps slightly funny, in a sadly wry way?
Why the jealousy? You don't listen to Beck, and really do not know what he is about or what his show is about. You simply read excerpts from slightly controversial things that he says from time to time. I suspect that this has to do with Becks' ideology. If his conclusions matched what you already think, you would not be upset no matter how bad his facts were. I base this on never once reading any criticism of a liberal viewpoint on this blog or any skepticism of the global warming craze.
Global warming is happening, and humans are partially to blame, but it is not the sole cause of every weather related event that happens. But the craze attributes every big storm, drought, flood, and now wildfires to it. If you were truly skeptical, I would have read some debunking of this hysteria, but I never have. It matches your ideology and so you ignore the problems, at least in this blog. While I do not know you, and my observation may not be correct, in my opinion it hurts your credibility and makes you appear biased, not truthful.
This is America, Phil. Stupid sells.
I've listened to a few minutes of Beck's show a few times on AM while stuck in traffic, and it's really really awful talk radio (granted, that's an oxymoron). I've read that his ratings on CNN and on radio are almost nonexistent, which makes his continued success all the more infuriating.
I personally can't stand the fact that Fox News dumbed down the whole concept of cable news by redefining "news" as "D-grade provocative celebrity commentary" and then equating their ratings somehow with actual news reportage, so that now we have no channels actually covering, you know, news 24/7, the way that CNN Headline News used to.
Instead, you get microcrumbs of news cherrypicked, mangled and interpreted through mentally retarded mouthpieces like Glenn Beck.
"I've read that his ratings on CNN and on radio are almost nonexistent, which makes his continued success all the more infuriating."
If that were true, he would not be getting a new 50 million dollar contract.
Bob, hence my confusion.
Here's a right-wing blog's take on Beck's pathetic ratings, from last year: http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/06/glenn-beck-ratings-cnn-headline-news.html
> it's really really awful talk radio (granted, that's an oxymoron).
I think the word you're looking for is "truism."
"Micheal Moore, Bill Maher, Al Franken and all of Air America, Dan Rather, Keith Olbermann, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rosie O'Donell, Whoopie Goldberg"
Well, you're partly right-Jackson, Sharpton and O'Donnell can go take a flying leap on many issues, although Jackson has, from time to time, been o.k. Although none of these people really have the kind of pull on the left as say, Limbaugh has on the right. I never hear rank and file liberals quoting their favorite O'donnell rant, or praising Jackson or Sharpton-the only admirers they really have are politicians who try to cash in on their grandstanding. But I have heard the word feminazi a million times, from a million ignortant, hateful mouths, since the loudest hypocrite in the world first spewed it out.
When it comes to the somewhat more serious voices on the left, like Olbermann or even Franken, they often make a great deal of sense, at least to me. I rarely hear any kind of argument (on issues)from the right, just more "Why do you hate America so much?" No responses, just hot air and evasiveness.
Michael Moore can be a bit over the top in his attempts at emotional manipulation, but there is one little problem-once again, I never hear reasoned responses, just fat jokes and red-baiting. I watched Farenheit 9/11. I've also been aware of Republican politics for over 25 years now. I find it telling that there were only a few of the horrible facts presented in that movie that I wasn't already aware of, and I have yet to hear a single response or justification for ANY of it. Just more hot air and slander. I mean hey, if half of America thinks it's o.k. to murder half a million people or so just make to a buck and feed a president's unearned pride, I would, just once, like to hear a conservative stand up and proudly admit it. Tell the country what every liberal knows-many conservatives today, for all their moral posturing, have no problem profiting from murder, theft, and lies. When I hear a prominent American liberal calling for secret prisons, torture, unending warfare, citizen surveilance, the destruction of public education, or instituting theocracy, believe me, I'll take notice!
@John – that was my assumption about the high US temperatures in the mid 1930's. The mid-west was heading well down the path to desertification at that time (due to poor agricultural practices – hello, "climate change isn't necessarily caused by human activity"), so I would expect there to be a problem with energy build-up given little water or vegetation to take it up.
@bassmanpete – people are just as stupid across the ditch, here in NZ. It seems to be common practice for all sides on any issue to massage the message to appeal to the woefully ignorant masses. Even fairly intelligent people get swayed by BS if it is delivered with the correct emotional content (pandering to your audience's prejudices has never hurt a politician yet).
Michael Moore (the US guy, not the NZ politician who headed up the WTO) does tend to go for the emotional buttons. But why not? He is trying to get people to react to these issues rather than just mentally brush them under the carpet. The right-wing types are the more manipulative in this way (e.g. "feminazis"*) – IMHO because their basic theories don't hold up to intellectual scrutiny. (This also explains why the right-wing have to set up their own "think tanks" and other "independent research" organisations. Reality has a "liberal bias", after all.)
* I'm not sure whether this shows an ignorance of feminism, an ignorance of fascism, or both. To be fair, in a technical sense Ann Coulter would fit this definition. (It is often said that Americans don't understand irony, although it seems to me that only the right-leaning Americans don't get it.)
"But the craze attributes every big storm, drought, flood, and now wildfires to it. "
Bob, would you mind providing some evidence for this sweeping claim?
I feel your pain Dr. Plait. I should've become a teleevangelist or something instead of going to grad school of engineering.
Certainly. The extreme global warming groups have positioned themselves in such a way that they can attribute every big storm, cold spell, heat wave, and even the 2004 tsunami to GW. Just watch the news after some big event and you will eventually see a report or interview about how much GW, or climate change, played a part in this. Happens every time, and I think it hurts the GW awareness movement rather than helping it. It turns people off.
Now geologists did refute Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper on his claim that GW was responsible for the tsunami, but shrill groups like that take advantage of every extreme natural event to push their agenda.
There is a prediction that GW is going to lead to more earthquakes and volcanic activity. So the next time there is a big volcanic eruption, near a population center of course, expect some article to be written about how GW is responsible for it.
Anyway, here is the link.
You asked "… would you mind providing some evidence for this sweeping claim? [of people claiming GW will cause more strange and abnormal weather]'
Here is a little piece of evidence which was written in the "Glenn Beck: Idiot" article on this blog…..
"Global warming affects global weather patterns, and it's the Santa Ana winds that turned these fires from a nuisance into a killer. I'm not saying that GW is the trigger here; I'm saying that things will get wonkier from here on out. Count on it."
This implies that GW will cause more strange and abnormal weather.
Do we have a "weather wonk index"???
$50-million buys a lot of booze. Alcoholic Glenn Beck demands martial law in USA and arrest of all who seek facts, then says he "wants to French kiss Ron Paul", while scrolling "PAUL IS DEAD" on the CNN screen:


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Today the Germans observe Reunification Day, the day in 1990 when East Germany was abolished and the country again became one. Declaring unification was easy.
Making it real was challenging and expensive. It took time, effort and resources to make the country united in fact. Germany has recovered and grown to be the major economic power of Europe.
Germany recently completed its federal elections, giving the CDU/CSU of Angela Merkel nearly 50 percent of the vote. Merkel's challenge now is to create a coalition with other parties to govern the country. That will require negotiation and concessions by the parties involved.
The U.S. Congress should take a lesson from the Germans. This country deserves to have intelligent adult leadership that works across the aisle to meet the needs of the country.
It is time for moderates of both parties to say, "Enough is enough," and join forces.
Roy Busdiecker
Overland Park Political shutdown
The GOP claims to offer compromise. Shutting down the government unless unrelated demands are met is not a compromise.
I'm tired of the lies and deception. We need more statesmen and fewer politicians.
Peter Anderson
Kansas City Questionable drug
Several things have come to light after the announcement that Smithfield Foods was being sold. The following may not be common knowledge.
Ractopamine is a drug used as a feed additive to promote leanness in market hogs. One brand of additive containing ractopamine is Paylean. Google Paylean and read it yourself.
Ractopamine has been implicated in making pigs more susceptible to stress from being handled, with behavioral and physiological changes, and in making them more aggressive.
This drug use was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999. Its use has been approved in more than 20 other countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Thailand. However, it is banned in more than 100 countries, including the European Union, China and Malaysia.
Writing in National Hog Farmer, economist Steve Meyer remarked, "Smithfield's zeal for removing ractopamine from its company-owned farms has struck me as odd all spring." My guess is Smithfield was making its product acceptable to the Chinese market.
Stanley Robinson
Princeton, Mo. Hartzler, Obamacare
In reply to Missouri's 4th Congressional District Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler's Sept. 30 commentary, "Ruining world's best health care," I have two questions:
• How did Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, become law without Republicans voting for it?
• What was the Republican plan for health care that would have been better?
Corky Lewis
Lee's Summit Best health care?
Because Republican U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler thinks we have "the best health-care system in the world," I have a bridge she might like to buy.
Donna Milstead
Independence Yoder's wrong vote
Kansas 3rd District Rep. Kevin Yoder has failed another major test of his self-proclaimed bipartisan stance. His siding with the petulant, reactionary wing of his party to shut down the government again proves he'd rather seek safe haven with the tea party than chart the moderate course 3rd District voters expect of him.
Yoder didn't have to go along with his cronies on the ultimatum the House sent to the Senate. He knows as well as anyone that the Affordable Care Act was going to be implemented regardless of Republican temper tantrums.
Instead, he fell into formation and voted for a bill that amounted to political extortion. If, as he claims, closing the government is simply unacceptable, the right thing to do would have been to decry and vote against the bill that forced the shutdown. Once again, he has attempted to be for and against something at the same time.
Neither Yoder nor the other House Republicans can have this both ways. The voters of the 3rd District, regardless of party, deserve far better, far braver representation than Yoder has exhibited, especially during this protracted game of political chicken.
Andy Sandler
Kansas 3rd District
Democratic Committee
Mission Anti-gun liberals
The constant call for more gun regulations is old news. Liberals have been calling for gun restrictions and taxes on guns and ammo since the 1960s.
There isn't anything reasonable about their intentions. They intend on getting rid of the Second Amendment, guns and ammo.
It is why they demonize the National Rifle Association. The NRA is a rights organization, no different than the American Civil Liberties Union or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Liberals want the NRA gone. It's in the way.
Past gun regulations did not reduce gun violence or access to guns. The opposite is true.
A study showed that from 1993 to 2011 firearm-related homicides declined. Non-fatal firearm crimes also dropped.
Criminals don't like the idea of people defending themselves. Neither do liberals.
Of course, those statistics are ignored by the liberal media. They can't let facts get in the way of misinformation, myths and personal agendas.
Frank Green
Kansas City Saggy pants unkempt
Like many adults, I don't like the sagging-pants fad.
When I was young, the style was torn/ripped jeans and oversized overalls.
Young people will always be the same to be different. The more the reaction, the better it is. It's inherent in the generation.
I'm sure there are more pressing issues for any city council than an attempt to dictate the fashion of the young. And young people will always be one step ahead.
Ginny Johnson
Kansas City Homeless in KC
Homelessness is a word that causes many to cringe. Panhandling and annoying drunks who won't leave you alone are the first thoughts that come to most people's minds.
Not all homeless are panhandling drunks, though. Some are your neighbors, friends, former coworkers and even your own family.
Homelessness is not a crime; it's a condition of today's economy.
I am no different than you, or am I? I had a good-paying job, an apartment and two kids. Then the company I worked for closed its doors and went bankrupt.
You see, homelessness is only a paycheck away for many Americans. So now I am homeless, without a job and no place to go.
Does that mean I, a taxpaying citizen, should be treated as a common criminal? Of course it doesn't, but that is how we are treated — harassed by Kansas City's finest, also known as uniformed police officers on a power trip.
Homelessness isn't a crime; it's a condition. So please, I beg you, join the movement to end homelessness. Be a solution. Contact your local shelter and find out what you can do to help.
Jeffery Poblocki
Kansas City Cellphone ban
If you have the privilege of strapping your children in a stroller and taking them for a walk, do not cheapen the experience by talking on your cellphone. Go ahead and take the phone, but just turn it off.
Most likely, you will have your children's undivided attention. Their little minds are shaped by what you see and what you say. They will learn about doggies barking, bunnies in your path, cool breezes, leaves blowing, noisy cars, bicycles whizzing by and even the sweat on your brow as you push them.
Talk to them about everything. Even if they are too young to talk, they can hear you, and they are learning. They don't want to hear about your day at work or the latest gossip. Save that for later. Seize the moment with your precious baby.
They grow up too fast. You will have plenty of time to talk on cellphones later when they are ignoring you while they talk to their friends.
Alison Balcom


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Avoiding the pitfalls of BYOD
With security seemingly the chief barrier to businesses adopting a BYOD policy, we examine the potential sales opportunities for the channel
If hype is a reliable barometer of commercial opportunity, then the sales prospects for the channel stemming from the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend would surely be enough to keep every reseller in the UK in double-digit growth for years to come.
The BYOD trend (if, indeed, there is such a thing) is ubiquitous in the IT industry at the moment. So much so that it is already spaw-ning spin-off concepts - BYOS (bring-your-own-services), anyone?
But while the notion may be hard to escape, examples of enterprise rollouts of BYOD policies and all the attendant technology and services still seem a little thin on the ground.
But market watchers' data seems to back the assertion that the bring-your-own trend is taking off, at least to some extent. According to a recent Gartner survey of mid-market and enterprise employees in Germany, Australia and the UK, 28 per cent of firms are already supporting user-owned devices. In the BRIC countries, this figure rises to 44 per cent.
Gartner research director Chae-Gi Lee claimed that uptake of BYOD, and concerns held about what the integration of user-owned devices will mean, differ between regions.
"Mature countries consider BYOD programmes as bringing with them legal and technical issues, whereas emerging countries see only technical issues," he said. "Mature regions are more concerned with security and data privacy regulations for immature MDM [mobile device management] than emerging regions."
An IDC study of CIOs in the US and Europe found that 45 per cent of IT chiefs provide some form of support for employees' smartphones, with 42 per cent doing so for tablets. However, a third of CIOs claimed to provide no smartphone support whatsoever, with 44 per cent shunning tablet support.
Surely one of the biggest barriers to wider adoption of BYOD policies, and one of the biggest headaches for IT leaders in managing staff clients, is security. As a MDM vendor, MobileIron would seem to be ideally placed to cash in on the BYOD boom - should such a thing exist.
But Nigel Hawthorn, EMEA marketing director at the US-based vendor, claimed a security sell should act only as a beachhead from which VARs can launch sales of services and consultancy.
"The conversations might start with security, but that is only one aspect of what firms need. And security is a defensive thing," he explained. "You need to be proactive and productive. [Once] the security has been sorted out, [it is about] 'how can I get the right applications and documents to the right devices?'
"You can go on to assume a more positive and enabling role. Everyone who just talks about security is missing the real benefits of mobility. If [VARs] are seeing everything purely through the prism of security, then they might simply be putting in an MDM solution with standard settings and leaving it. But they can provide a managed or professional service - this is where the channel can add more value."
One VAR that is actively pursuing BYOD sales opportunities is Equanet. The Dixons-owned reseller recently surveyed IT chiefs at 1,000 firms across the UK and found that an estimated 72 per cent of employees are already using their own devices in the workplace. Furthermore, 76 per cent of CIOs believe that personal devices boost staff productivity.
But just 14 per cent of firms surveyed by Equanet have formalised BYOD policies or initiatives in place. Fifty-four per cent do not actively encourage employees to use their own technology. Two thirds of UK companies do not currently offer any subsidy for user-owned devices, and 43 per cent do not ever intend to do so.
But Charles Barratt, new solutions development manager at Equanet, claimed the demand for BYOD is living up to the hype. "Last year was all about VDI, this year is BYOD," he said. "Most of my time at the moment on pre-sales and delivery is [spent] on building BYOD architectures."
Barratt agreed that the security solutions available to resellers and integrators have progressed beyond simply MDM.
"There are lots of different technologies out there that have evolved from MDM: mobile application management, content management. Often these are provided as a service. DLP [data leakage prevention] is also critical."
"A lot of our BYOD engagements concern advisory services - we do not lead on technology. The opportunity is there for resellers to open up avenues of conversation."
Third-party services firm Comms-care is also chasing BYOD spend, to which end it has become one of only a handful of UK partners to gain accreditation on Cisco's Identity Services Engine [ISE] network security and device management technology.
The Cheshire-based firm is looking to ramp up sales through channel partners, and marketing director Richard Eglon claimed a managed services play is an ideal offering for end users looking to roll out BYOD policies.
"[ISE] is part of a managed service, and we can package it with other items such as remote monitoring, management of inventory on the network and optimisation [tools]," he said.
Services success
The Comms-care man claimed that BYOD adoption is living up to the hype in a way that technologies such as VoIP and cloud computing have perhaps not. If the channel can solve customers' security conundrums, there is nothing to stop end users from buying into a bring-your-own policy, he asserted.
"The difference to me between IP telephony and BYOD is it is the consumer that is driving it and we are not waiting on the technology to catch up for it to work," explained Eglon. "With BYOD, the technology and the infrastructure are already there, it is just that people are worried about security."
Damovo is another integrator hoping to jump on the BYOD gravy train, and research commissioned by the company again suggests that UK plc is ill equipped to deal with the dawn of BYOD. After quizzing 100 UK CIOs of 1,000-seat-plus firms, the VAR found that 73 per cent are worried that the rise of user-owned devices in the workplace could cause their costs to skyrocket.
Concerns are centred on increased voice and data costs, and greater need for IT support. Security was seen as the biggest short-term cost, having been cited by 44 per cent of the survey's respondents.
Glyn Owen, portfolio manager for Damovo UK, claimed his firm is "seeing a lot of interest" in BYOD adoption. The trend provides opportunities for both service and product-led sales, he claimed.
"There are consultancy opportunities at the front end," he explained. "[Customers need to answer the] questions: what sort of device are you going to make available? What sort of applications - is it just corporate email or are there other line-of-business applications?
"They need to go through that and document their policies. Having satisfied that, there are opportunities to get into MDM and mobile application management."
The Damovo man added that security technologies have improved greatly in recent years.
"MDM platforms have moved on considerably. At one time they were quite heavy handed and concentrated on the device. Most are now moving towards the concept of managing two identities: the corporate and the personal," he said.
"Then you have tools such as context-aware management tools within the networks - who is this person and what are they trying to access? The key thing is, it is not the device you want to manage, it is the security issues around the corporate data and how they are controlled. It is becoming much more sophisticated."
Public property
Given the oft-cited concerns about security, it is perhaps surprising to note that everyone ChannelWeb spoke to for this piece singled out the public sector as the leading vertical for BYOD opportunities. The health and education sectors, where doctors, consultants and lecturers may work itinerantly, were picked out as early adopters.
In the enterprise world, demand from senior management was cited as a key driver for adoption. And the channel should gear up for a spike in demand in the new year, according to Equanet's Barratt.
"[BYOD] has traditionally been driven by the c-level, particularly in the post-Christmas period, when they have the latest iPads," he explained.
Barratt added that for smaller resellers hoping to cash in on the BYOD trend, working with companies with complementary skills may be crucial to driving sales.
"From a channel point of view, you may have a reseller that is fantastically strong in infrastructure but not so much in security, and vice versa," he added. "The world needs more partnerships."
Comms-care's Eglon asserted that BYOD is here to stay, predicting that in a few years' time, the norm may be to give new employees a budget of, say, £600, and instruct them to equip themselves with the technology they need.
"We have everything in place. What [employees] want is not to get frustrated that they cannot use a device that they are not used to using," he said. "I think we are going to see a total change in people's habits."
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I've listened to them both a number of times, even one right after the other, and I have to say that I prefer "Phoenix" over "Omega." A lot. All the reviews I've read at the iTunes Music Store have people preferring "Omega," but I just don't see it. Another review said that "Phoenix" sounded like the band wasn't ready to record together, but I disagree.
First off, each album has a track on it that I have no use for, but for different reasons. "I Will Remember You" sounds like a generic schmaltzy ballad, and "Finger On The Trigger" doesn't miss a rock lyric cliché, so that's a wash. To me, "Phoenix" sounds more progressive and "Omega" sounds more "safe," if that makes sense. No real flexing of muscles, either lyrically or musically. Lastly, I absolutely love "An Extraordinary Life." I think when it comes time to determine which tracks go where on an album, the hardest songs to place are the second song (because it has to carry the energy of the strong opening track and make you want to listen to the rest of the album) and the last track (always leave 'em wanting more.) "An Extraordinary Life" is worthy of being mentioned with "Here Comes The Feeling." "I Don't Wanna Lose You Now" just isn't as strong. That's my problem with "Omega:" all the songs sound like middle tracks. If it were a baseball team's pitching roster, it would have nothing but number three starters: good, competent players, but no Cy Young candidates.
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What have I been doing? Good question.
Mostly my thoughts/time/energy have been on preparations for Uncle's 90th birthday tea party but I'm sure I've fitted in other stuff around that. That's the trouble: if I don't blog about it I don't remember it.
One thing does stand out. The grandchildren love to play Peter Rabbit where I am Mr McGregor and they are the rabbits stealing my vegetables while I'm asleep. They have to creep out from their burrow (behind the sofa) and steal my carrots (lego bricks) without getting caught and put into my saucepan (the sofa) for rabbit stew. GrandDaughter1 is very good at it but GrandSon2 is too scared to come out from his burrow so he just cheers on his sister.
Anyway, this particular day Husband, who was carrying GrandDaughter2, had come into the room and was sitting down just outside the burrow. When I'd failed to catch the rabbits I turned to GrandDaughter2 and said, 'A baby rabbit! They're the sweetest of all. I'll have you for my dinner!'
At that GrandDaughter1 rushed out from the safety of her burrow and crouched in front of her little sister. 'You can't have her! You can take me instead!'
I'd like to think that protective urge would last for life but knowing siblings I expect they'll each have their moments.
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Zac's women's bible study group enjoyed Christmas lunch at Nicholaston House, a Christian retreat centre overlooking Oxwich Bay.
|Mike was an honorary woman for the day as he was volunteered to drive some of us.
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And then it was Uncle's birthday weekend. As a number of people were travelling from all over I arranged for us to go for a meal out on the Saturday evening.
|With Louise and Steven from Nottingham.
|With Anna Galliford, CEO of the Fitzroy Trust, a charity with which Uncle has been involved since its inception, and which now employs 1,000 people and looks after 600 residents in a number of homes.
|A surprise from the restaurant. (The 'cake' is ceramic!')
|These three have been friends since childhood.
|Uncle's Aunt, my great-auntie Joan, on the left, at 96 was the oldest guest.
|Speech time.
|Blowing out his candles. Just in time because one fell in his lap just after.
And now I suppose I really should write some Christmas cards. When's last date for posting again?


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I see vid's and threads about replacing the hard drive, or putting a larger drive in but none on accessing the DATA on a EZ in which a firmware update gone bad, a power failure, or a hardware failure has blocked access to the DATA on the drive!
Q: Who here has experience in accessing the DATA off a NAS drive in which a firmware update has killed the NAS, or a hardware failure has occurred and you NEED to get that DATA off the drive?
Is it really as SIMPLE as attaching the bare drive to a PC running Linux, or using a Linux Live CD on a Windows machine and pointing it to the DATA partition, to gain access to the DATA via Linux GUI?
Hello all.
A little over (3) years ago (2013-06) I bought (2) Lenovo / Iomega 2TB EZ Media and Backup Center NAS's which first came to market around (4) YEARS AGO (mid 2012). My plan being to mirror DATA from unit #1 to #2. (And then backup that data to a local drive as well, So yea I had a backup plan.)
Long story short over the past (3) years, I've pretty much NOT been able to use both drives at the same time, as one or the other, or BOTH drives would disappear off the network at random.
Due to such my plan of having the DATA mirrored onto unit#2.. and then mirrored to another drive as well didn't happen, and my data isn't mirrored.
Fast forward to 2016-07-15 or so.
Received notification from the EZ's a firmware update was available so on a bright sunny day, with no thunder storms within 60 miles + flashed both drives as I'd done several times over the years to 220.127.116.11855... thinking that surely after (4) YEARS of this model being on the market, and my (3) years of owning the drives "this" 126.96.36.199855 would make the drives "Play Nice" and I could FINALLY Backup DATA of drive #1 to #2. (And then allow me to mirror that data to a local drive as well..as I originally planned.)
Firmware ver 126.96.36.199855 Screwed up #1, which I was able to get working again, and it KILLED access to the DATA on drive #2 with 1.7TB of DATA on it! Grrrrr
Not happy. Called Lenovo, got the "Imaging Software " hm3-188.8.131.52777.zip, CRC32: 210E2C98". Problem being its DATA DESTRUCTIVE, and I want to recover the 1.7 TB off the drive.
Asked the "tech" if Lenovo had any apps, or info on RECOVERING /ACCESSING the DATA. Tech could offer no solutions besides him saying I should look into hiring the services of a $$$$$ Data Recovery Service.
$$$$$$$$ Grrrrrrrrrr
SO.... pulled the drive in the EZ.. with the plan to directly access the data.
Why this thread? Info might be out there somewhere but I haven't found any info on directly accessing (recovering) the DATA off a EZ. All the info I've seen pertains on "Restoring" the EZ back back to "As-Shipped" condition. Which means DESTROYING 1.7 TB of DATA.
* What really blows my mind is all the focus being on "restoring" a drive that requires losing all the DATA on the drive. Seems to me the focus should be recovering the DATA off the drive.
Q: ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE IN ACCESSING THE DATA OFF THE DRIVE out of a EZ?
(Drive that has been removed from EZ NAS enclosure.)
Is it as SIMPLE as pulling the drive and attaching bare drive to a PC running Linux or booting a Windows machine from a Linux "Live CD" and pointing the LINUX partitioning app /file browser to the partition that contains the DATA Via GUI in Linux... In a GUI fashion a Windows or Mac user could figure out?
*If such can not be done in GUI fashion please post what has to be done.
PS: Really blows my mind that the (1) app Lenovo will forward to a customer is DATA DESTRUCTIVE. I think it's total BS that within the app there isn't a way to choose the option to recover the OS of the drive without it wiping out the customers data, and that Lenovo can't produce a walk-thru (document) or a video of the process of pulling the drive and gaining access to the DATA on a drive in which a firmware update screwed up things, or a hardware failure has occurred.
Especially given that they use the SAME firmware across multiple drives.
*This is assuming the DATA partition is intact.
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Re: How to : Pull drive out of NAS enclosure and access DATA
For some unknown reason the Iomege/Lenovo NASes have the data partition in a logical volume in a volume group on a raid array. No, I have no idea why. This makes recovering a bit less straight-forward (as in, Ubuntu won't automagically mount the volume).
Pointers on how to mount it here.
Pointers on how to mount it here.
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UNION COUNTY – Two Union County dentists are organizing food drives this holiday season to put smiles on the faces of some needy families.
For $49, a patient can help 15 people have a real meal, and the patient will get X-Rays, exams, and dental cleaning. All the proceeds will go to a local food bank to feed the hungry.
Dr. Joseph Preziosi of Westfield is extending this offer through Nov. 23, while patients of Dr. Raynard Riley of Summit can take part through Nov. 25.
Both dentists are also accepting non-perishable food donations during office hours for the length of the food drive.
Preziosi's office is located at 189 Elm Street in Westfield; Riley's office is at Patient First Dentistry of Summit, 475 Springfield Avenue, Suite 210, Summit.
Details of Preziosi's other community events can be found at http://blog.dentistwestfieldnj.com , while details of Riley's other community events can be found at http://dentistsummitnj.com
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You can also use the same mechanisms to try to minimize the quantity of code from business domain, but when dealing with domain code much more customization is likely to occur. For example, take a look at this code:
If client.VIP Then order.Discount = ClientDiscounts.VIP End IfIt is clear that these lines of code embed a relevant and important business rule. If you were talking to your client about it, you could most probably explain without difficulty what the code is doing: "If the client is VIP, then apply VIP discount to his order" is pretty much obvious even for a non-programmer reading the code.
On the other hand consider the following few statements:
Dim connection New SqlConnection( _ "Data Source=SHOPSERVER;" + _ "Initial Catalog=ONLINESHOP)" Dim command = New SqlCommand strSql = "Update Client Set Email = " _ + "@Email Where ClientId = @Id" command.Parameters.AddWithValue( _ "@Email", TxtEmail.Text) command.Parameters.AddWithValue( _ "@Id", TxtId.Text) connection.Open() command.Connection = connection command.CommandText = strSql command.ExecuteNonQuery() connection.Close()This code is updating client data in the database, persisting new client email inside Client table from ONLINESHOP database. If you tried to explain this code to your client using the same words, you would probably get some questioning glances. Or, if your client is of more inquisitive sort, he just might rightfully ask you: "But why do you have to persist data?" A perfectly valid question if you think about it. The reason why you persist data is because computer RAM memory is volatile, so the application would lose data each time the computer is shut down. By persisting data to database, you are making sure that data is written to a disc drive. This device is capable of surviving power outage so no data is lost. It is a technological problem that we are resolving with this code. Your client is concerned not to lose data, but how exactly this problem is solved is rarely of much interest to him.
This leads us to the following conclusion: choosing a platform that solves more typical technological problems will make you more productive and will simplify the development and maintenance process. With a more complete platform, both you and your client win.
If you programmed Web Services using the Microsoft SOAP toolkit in VB6 and then programmed web services in .NET, you will know exactly what I am driving at. With the SOAP toolkit there is much more "plumbing" involved than with VB.NET.
A similar shift is now happening with Microsoft .NET framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Before I explain the impact that new technologies such as LINQ have on VB6 code migration, let's see how the VB6 migration to .NET is performed in a pre-.NET 3.5 environment.
Upgrading your VB6 code to pre-3.5 .NET employing refactoringIn a previous VSJ article, Refactoring – the elixir of youth for legacy VB code I provided a number of recipes for transforming VB6 code to Visual Basic .NET and pointed out that VB6 to VB.NET transformation has two essential stages: migration and upgrade. During migration, only minimal changes to code are performed in order to make the code execute in exactly the same manner in the VB.NET environment. This stage is to some extent (far from completely) performed with the help of VB Migration Wizard tool that comes bundled with the Visual Studio IDE. In practice, this stage unfortunately often turns out to be the only stage in transformation process. During upgrade, the next stage in the transformation process, freshly migrated code is restructured so that it can take advantage of all the benefits of VB.NET as a strongly statically typed and fully object-oriented language, compared to one generation older object-based VB6. Since migrated VB6 code can have a strong resemblance to poorly structured VB.NET code, I have demonstrated how refactoring can be used to inject new life into this code by improving its design and restructuring it along object oriented design principles and harvesting features available in VB.NET only.
A new style of application developmentSome of the new features in VB 9 are XML literals, local variable type inference, extension methods, lambda expressions and of course LINQ. With .NET framework 3.5 you get a number of implementations that are making use of these new language features. For example, LINQ to XML is a new XML programming interface that will let you query XML document using LINQ syntax; LINQ to SQL will let you access relational database in the same way.
New language features and frameworks emerging in the wake of .NET 3.5 provide an excellent mix for new application design paradigm. Let's take a look at these acronyms and see how they can help you design applications in efficient and robust manner.
POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) is used to refer to classes that are not forced to inherit other classes or implement interfaces just to make use of environment in which they reside. Not so classes you will use to program your COM+ components. To run your component inside the COM+ environment, your class will have to inherit the System.EnterpriseServices.ServicedComponent. For example, take a look at this mock COM+ component class:
Imports System.EnterpriseServices Public Class MyCOMPlusComponent Inherits ServicedComponent '... End ClassThe problem with such a class is that it is seriously limiting our flexibility:
- Your class can now run only in serviced environment
- Your class cannot inherit any other class; thus reuse potential is severely reduced
Object Relational Mapping (ORM) does persistence for you. In theory, you map your class to table(s) in the database and you let the ORM do its magic. You do not write SQL or stored procedures. All this work is performed by the ORM. Not only have you greatly reduced the amount of code you have to write and maintain, but you generally get advanced features like caching, lazy loading and transactions out of the box. ORM will generally let you switch from one database vendor to another with minimum hassle and even generate a database schema for you. When you write your own SQL, it is notoriously difficult to keep it database neutral.
Dependency Injection (DI) can help minimize dependencies in your application – adhere to the "Program to Interface not Implementation" principle and this will facilitate unit testing your application. When using DI, you program a set of services and then assemble your application with the help of the DI framework. Information on concrete implementation for dependencies is kept in configuration files or in your source code in the form of attributes. Switching from one implementation to another can be as easy as changing the configuration file. Many DI frameworks go further than that and offer additional services by way of a lightweight container concept. So you can get many of the services that heavyweights like MTS provide but without making any sacrifices in your design.
These concepts fit well together in creating a new paradigm for robust and flexible application design that promotes rapid development and rich domain models. If you are just starting to work on a new application, especially if you are using latest version of Visual Studio and .NET framework, you have probably considered at least some of approaches I have mentioned. If not, you will be well advised to do so.
But how does this all fit with legacy application upgrade? After all, a few years back we used to write our own persistence code, MTS was promoted as a panacea and there was no inheritance in VB6. In order to explore this issue, I will examine one such legacy application and will try to upgrade it to .NET under this new design formula.
Engine-Collection-Class design patternOne example of a more elaborate design in VB6 is the Engine-Collection-Class (ECC) pattern. A sample application illustrating this pattern is available for download from MSDN. To download it, type "DesiPat.exe" in the MSDN search box, since URL is pretty much unrepeatable. This pattern provides a structured and uniform approach to application construction in VB6. Its aim is to provide guidance and best practices and to streamline development of enterprise applications in VB6. It also provides an object-oriented approach to application design in VB6, despite VB6 (or COM for that matter) limitations in this department.
The basic premise of the pattern can be described with following statement: Each domain class from your conceptual model is implemented as Class, Engine and Collection classes in your implementation model. These three classes are closely linked so I will refer to them as the "ECC triad". You can appreciate relationships between them in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Engine-Collection-Class static structure diagram depicting the relationship between three classes in the pattern
As you can see, Engine depends upon both the Class and the Collection, while Collection can hold many instances of Class. Let's take a closer look at the role each of these classes is fulfilling in this model.
- Engine serves as a sort of faade, an entry point that all clients will use in order to get hold of Collection instances. Both Collection and Class are marked as "PublicNotCreatable" so Engine is the only class clients can instantiate. It also implements a search and retrieval methods that will search Class instances in the database and use search result data to fill the Collection that is then returned to the client. In addition, it is capable of creating a new empty Collection that can be used to create new instances of Class and to persist them to the database later on.
- Collection is a type-safe wrapper over the original VB6 Collection class. For example, Item property of Collection will return a specific Class instance, not just any object. Collection also implements methods that will let you update or delete Class instances and then persist these changes to database. The method used to commit changes to the database is called "Update".
- Class is used to embed business or domain rules. So one Class can have another Class or Collection of another Class as a property, when there is some kind of association between Classes. Class also has a number of persistence-related properties like: Dirty, IsNew and DeleteFlag that signal correct operations to Collection when committing changes to the database. A Class is generally mapped to one or more tables in the database, either directly or by calling appropriate stored procedures or views.
Upgrading an Engine-Collection-Class application to VB 2008Since many ECC sample applications are concerned with database persistence, I will make use of LINQ to SQL technology to implement persistence in the application. I will also make my domain classes adhere to the POCO principle as much as possible. Finally, I will try to make use of VB.NET language features like structured error handling, inheritance and generics to name a few. With this in mind, let's take a look at an EEC sample.
Each application constructed along ECC design pattern will consist of number of ECC triads. For illustration purposes, I will upgrade only one such ECC triad to VB 2008. Since uniformity is a strong characteristic of the pattern, a similar approach to upgrade can be applied to any such triad. If you have downloaded the example from MSDN site, you can take a look at IOBPUserInfo project used to maintain user information. The project is a component that consists of three classes:
- IOBPUserInfoEng – represents Engine in ECC
- ColUserInfo – represents Collection in ECC
- CUserInfo – represents Class in ECC
Upgrading ClassSince business-related code is contained inside Class, let's start by upgrading CUserInfo. This code has greatest value for the client and therefore it is important to preserve it without changing any of the business rules from the original application. First take a look at CUserInfo code. I will omit a lot of less relevant code here, but if you are interested in taking a look at complete application, and in giving it a test ride, download the sample application from the MSDN site. So let's take a look at the code:
'Set to true when class changes Private mblnDirty As Boolean 'Set to true when new class first initialized. Private mblnIsNew As Boolean Private mblnDeleteFlag As Variant Private mlngUserNumber As Variant Private mvarUserID As Variant Private mvarPassword As Variant Private mvarName As Variant Private mvarAddress As Variant Private mblnDisabledFlag As Variant Private mvarRecordTimestamp As Variant Private mcolAccount As Object 'etc Public Property Let EmailAddress(ByVal vData As Variant) '... mvarEmailAddress = LetUIValue(vData, vbVariant) Me.Dirty = True '... End Property Public Property Get Account() As Object On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dim engAccount As Object Dim ErrorNum As Long If mcolAccount Is Nothing Then If Not SafeCreateObject(engAccount, _ OBP_ACCOUNT_ENG, ErrorNum) Then Err.Raise ERR_ACCOUNTSAFECREATEFAILED, _ "IOBPUserInfoEng.Account Property", _ "Unable to create "& OBP_ACCOUNT_ENG & _ ". Return Code was: " & ErrorNum GoTo CleanExit End If 'Only get the non-deleted records. Set mcolAccount = engAccount.Search( _ SecurityToken:=SecurityToken, UserNumber:=Me.UserNumber) End If Set Account = mcolAccount CleanExit: 'See error handling code 'in Property Get Dirty() routine End Property Public Property Get Dirty() As Variant On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dirty = mblnDirty CleanExit: Exit Property ErrorHandler: Dim lErrLine As Long Dim lErrNumber As Long Dim strErrSource As String Dim strErrDescription As String 'Preserve Error Information lErrNumber = Err.Number lErrLine = Erl strErrSource = Err.Source strErrDescription = Err.Description Call HandleException(SecurityToken, _ lErrNumber, strErrDescription, lErrLine, strErrSource) Exit Property End Property Friend Property Let Dirty(ByVal vData As Variant) On Error GoTo ErrorHandler If VarType(vData) <> vbBoolean And IsEmpty(vData) Then 'raise error Err.Raise ERR_USERINFOINVALIDDIRTY, _ "CUserInfo.Dirty LET", _ "Invalid Data Type Expected Boolean." GoTo CleanExit End If 'Set Value mblnDirty = vData CleanExit: 'See error handling code in Property Get Dirty() routine End PropertyBasically, CUserInfo class has a number of properties. These are used to record important personal data like user name, password, name, address, phone, city, postal code, email, time of last login etc. There is also Account property that will let you obtain all Account objects that belong to a certain user. We could say that these properties make up a core of business-related logic expressed in a UserInfo triad and consequently this is the code that has the biggest value from business point of view.
Besides these business logic related properties, CUserInfo has some properties relevant for persistence logic. A number of Boolean flag properties are used to indicate the state of User object in relation to persistence. IsNew indicates that instance is new and that should be saved to database, Dirty indicates the value of some property has been changed so that update of the instance is necessary. DeleteFlag indicates that an instance should be eliminated from the database.
As you can see, the code is quite verbose and written in "defensive" style, with a lot of emphasis on error handling code. You will also appreciate that all public members expose VB6 Variant or Object type in the signature. This works against static type checking but is necessary in VB6 in order for this component to be used by scripting clients. One such client is ASP page and since ASP technology uses weakly typed VBScript or JScript, UserInfo has to expose Variant type in member signatures.
When upgrading CUserInfo, I will preserve business-related properties, but I will eliminate persistence-related properties. Using LINQ to SQL, all persistence-related control is implicit and performed by the framework itself. That way, our entity classes can preserve "persistence ignorance". In order to make CUserInfo managed by LINQ to SQL, we need to provide some metadata to the framework. For example, we need to indicate which table in the database the class is mapped to. This can be done by means of some configuration files, or by applying attributes to CUserInfo class are we'll choose the latter:
<Table(Name:="UserInfo")> _ Public Class UserInfoWe also need to provide information on property to column mappings.
Take a look at the listing below to see CUserInfo code. By the way, the class has been renamed as UserInfo as "C" prefix is not recommended by new .NET framework naming guidelines.
Option Explicit On Option Strict On Imports System.Data.Linq.Mapping <Table(Name:="UserInfo")> Public Class UserInfo Private userNumberValue As Long Private userIdValue As String Private nameValue As String Private violationCountValue As Long Private emailAddressValue As String Private userTypeIdValue As Long 'Private accountsValue As List(Of Account) - (not yet upgraded) 'other private variables... <Column(Name:="UserNumber", DbType:="int", CanBeNull:=False, IsPrimaryKey:=True, _ IsDbGenerated:=False)> Public Property UserNumber() As Long Get Return userNumberValue End Get Set(ByVal value As Long) userNumberValue = value End Set End Property <Column(Name:="Name", DbType:="NVarChar(50) NOT NULL", CanBeNull:=False)> _ Public Property Name() As String Get Return nameValue End Get Set(ByVal value As String) nameValue = value End Set End Property 'Other properties... End Class
Eliminating CollectionCollection is basically a type safe wrapper over the VB6 Collection container. Methods like Clear or property Count delegate execution to internal collection:
Private mCol As Collection ' Used to store the Classes Public Property Get Count() As Variant On Error GoTo ErrorHandler If mCol Is Nothing Then Count = 0 Else Count = mCol.Count End If '... End PropertyColUserInfo Collection class also has a number of persistence-related methods. Take a look at the listing below for Delete method. This method is calling spDUserInfo stored procedure, a simple SQL DELETE statement, again programmed in verbose and defensive manner so it is more than 30 lines long. The rest of stored procedures also implements simple CRUD operations.
Public Function Delete(Optional ByVal Index _ As Variant) As Variant On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dim ErrorNum As Long Dim oDALEng As IOBPDA.IOBPConnection Dim oCUserInfo As CUserInfo Dim vParameters() As Variant Dim LowerLimit As Long Dim UpperLimit As Long Dim inx As Long Dim SPName As String Delete = False If Me.Count = 0 Then 'Nothing to Update Delete = True GoTo CleanExit End If 'If Index is supplied then Delete only the supplied record If Not IsMissing(Index) Then If Index < 1 Or Index > Me.Count Then Err.Raise ERR_USERINFOINDEXOUTOFRANGE, _ "ColUserInfo.Delete PROC", "Index out of range" GoTo CleanExit Else LowerLimit = Index UpperLimit = Index End If Else LowerLimit = 1 UpperLimit = Me.Count End If If Not SafeCreateObject(oDALEng, _ OBP_DA_CONNECTION, ErrorNum) Then Err.Raise ERR_USERINFOSAFECREATEFAILED, _ "ColUserInfo.Delete PROC", "Unable to create " _ & OBP_DA_CONNECTION & _ ". Return Code was: " & ErrorNum GoTo CleanExit End If For inx = UpperLimit To LowerLimit Step -1 Set oCUserInfo = Me.Item(inx) If Not oCUserInfo.IsNew Then 'Delete from DB If Not New ReDim vParameters(PARMUBOUND, 1) With oCUserInfo .ClassStorage = True 'Fill Parameter Array vParameters(PARMNAME, 0) = _ PARMNAMESP_USERINFOUSERNUMBER vParameters(PARMTYPE, 0) = _ PARMTYPESP_USERINFOUSERNUMBER vParameters(PARMLENGTH, 0) = 4 vParameters(PARMDIR, 0) = adInput vParameters(PARMVALUE, 0) = .UserNumber vParameters(PARMNAME, 1) = _ PARMNAMESP_USERINFORECORDTIMESTAMP vParameters(PARMTYPE, 1) = _ PARMTYPESP_USERINFORECORDTIMESTAMP vParameters(PARMLENGTH, 1) = 8 vParameters(PARMDIR, 1) = adInput vParameters(PARMVALUE, 1) = .RecordTimestamp .ClassStorage = False End With If Not oDALEng.Execute(SecurityToken, SP_D_USERINFO, _ vParameters) Then Err.Raise ERR_USERINFODALDELETEFAILED, _ "ColUserInfo.Delete PROC", _ "Delete Failed. SPName was: " & SP_D_USERINFO GoTo CleanExit End If End If Set oCUserInfo = Nothing 'Remove from Collection mCol.Remove (inx) Next Delete = True CleanExit: Erase vParameters() Set oDALEng = Nothing Set oCUserInfo = Nothing Exit Function ErrorHandler: '... End FunctionWhen using LINQ to SQL, you will generally let the framework generate the SQL "under the bonnet". Also, in VB.NET since the 2005 version you can use generic type-safe containers provided by the .NET framework.
What does this tell us? You have no need for Collection class or simple CRUD stored procedures in VB 2008! So, neither the Collection class nor related stored procedures will be upgraded. You have just saved yourself from upgrading or maintaining a huge quantity of code.
Upgrading EngineIOBPUserInfoEng contains code that queries the database and populates collection with UserInfo instances. For this purpose it uses parameterized stored procedures that contain SQL query code. Similar to persistence related code in Collection class, this code can be replaced by functionality provided by LINQ to SQL System.Data.Linq.DataContext and System.Data.Linq.Table classes in the .NET framework. We can turn easily turn or Engine class into the thin wrapper over DataContext and Table classes. Take a look at the listing below for upgraded Engine code which uses the more straightforward name "UserEngine" for Engine class.
Option Explicit On Option Strict On Imports System.Data.Linq Public Class UserInfoEngine 'TODO: read connection string from configuration Private Const ConnectionString As String = "Data Source=TESLATEAM;" & _ "Initial Catalog=OnlineBill; Integrated Security=True" Private contextValue As DataContext Private userInfoTable As Table(Of UserInfo) Public Sub New() contextValue = New DataContext(ConnectionString) userInfoTable = contextValue.GetTable( Of UserInfo)() End Sub Public ReadOnly Property Table() As Table(Of UserInfo) Get Return userInfoTable End Get End Property Public Sub SubmitChanges() contextValue.SubmitChanges() End Sub End Class
Model, unit test and implementIn a typical VB6 application, huge quantities of existing code have been made functionally obsolete by new technologies available in Visual Studio 2008. Your legacy code is likely to suffer from number of problems:
- Code proliferation and duplication because of limited object-oriented capabilities in VB6
- Obsolete coding and naming conventions coupled with verbosity of VB6 syntax
- Poor structure, long methods and use of structured programming constructs like global functions in VB6 Module
- Legacy error handling
- Business logic spread between VB and SQL code
All these deficiencies of legacy code coupled with benefits of VB 2008 imply that integral upgrade processes are not practical any more. Instead, you should only reuse those parts of code that still have direct value from a business point of view. This means that as a part of the upgrade process you should go back to the drawing board. The process can be performed in following steps:
- Start by modeling your problem domain in object-oriented terms
- Write unit tests for each functionality your system should implement.
- Implement functionality under test by upgrading specific sections of code
ConclusionThe latest versions of Visual Basic and the .NET framework are changing the VB programming landscape. New features bring new levels of productivity and expressiveness. In this new landscape, integral upgrade of legacy VB6 applications is rapidly losing its purpose. Those still upgrading legacy VB6 applications mechanically are at risk of producing a lot of boilerplate code that should not even be written any more. Such an approach will hinder productivity, make maintenance cumbersome and will stand in the way of the implementation of new features. Instead of an indiscriminate upgrade of your VB6 code, go back to the problem domain, rethink your design and let unit tests guide you while you upgrade only those pieces of code that are relevant from the business point of view.
Danijel Arsenovski is the author of Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic, published by Wrox. Currently, he works as Product and Solutions Architect at Excelsys S.A, designing Internet banking solutions for numerous clients in the region. He started experimenting with refactoring while overhauling a huge banking system, and he hasn't lost interest in refactoring since. You can find his blog at blog.vbrefactoring.com.


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Godzilla is back and looking even more badass than ever. Even better, Heisenberg is in this one! Heisenberg vs Godzilla, you just couldn't write this shit (or maybe you could?) All joking aside I am genuinely looking forward to this film. Production value looks insane and I like the storyline twist of the nuclear weapons 'tests' being carried out to kill Godzilla rather than Godzilla being created due to radiation from nuclear weapons tests.
Despite how good this film looks I will forever be disappointed for one reason. The Godzilla that came out when I was a young lad is genuinely one of my favourite films. I feel no shame in admitting I shed a tear as the majestic Godzilla got himself all tangled up in the bridge and rinsed by those jets. I was rooting for him the whole fucking film, I wanted him to wipe out the human race. Fuck humans when a giant super lizard is involved.
That's why I was always filled with hope because of the last scene of that film, when the lone surviving baby Godzilla hatches out of it's egg and let's out that cute little roar. Ever since that day I have lived in anticipation of Godzilla 2 when I could watch that little bugger grow up and fuck up the people that killed his mummy. The fact this film is coming out now means I will never, ever get to see that day! Either way though more Godzilla is music to my ears. Now watch this trailer as I go and dry my eyes, that bridge scene is getting to me again.
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And there aren't many blinder than Adam Sandler -- or his fans.
Sandler does find a few acorns -- make that laughs -- in That's My Boy, his latest cinematic extrusion. Few of them are provided by him, however. Nor are there nearly enough of them in this flabby, bloated comedy to change your mind if you, like me, are not a particular fan of Sandler's self-generated films.
This one is directed by Sean Anders and features many of Sandler's regular actors (Nick Swardson, Peter Dante). But the attraction, of course, is Sandler, one-time Saturday Night Live star, and Andy Samberg, a next-gen SNLer who is slightly more talented than Sandler and who looks enough like Sandler to be his son. And that's the joke.
But like all of Sandler's films (and by that I mean the ones that come from his Happy Madison production company), this one consists of a thin script pumped up with lots of improv and throwaway gags that Sandler and team apparently retrieved from the wastebasket.
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The New Jersey Policy Research Organization, the think tank of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA), recently released a study of New Jersey's business climate. The study included a telephone poll of 249 business leaders as well as interviews of 29 New Jersey and out-of-state business and government leaders. It also provided 37 policy recommendations for New Jersey based on other states' best practices. The results of the study are a troubling sign for New Jersey's economic future.
When asked what is most likely to prevent a company from reaching its goals, 21% of study respondents said the affordability of living in New Jersey, while 20% said New Jersey's unfavorable tax structure, and 19% said the availability of a skilled workforce. Regarding the most negative impact on New Jersey's companies, 26% of study respondents cited the state's tax policy while 16% said New Jersey's healthcare policy most negatively impacts the state's business community. Most troubling for New Jersey's economy, 42% of study respondents said that if the state government's policies remain the same, the business climate will deteriorate while only 26% said that the climate will improve.
Chief among the 37 policy recommendations, as previously mentioned, is the development of a quick and efficient system for business permits and licensing, including the creation of improved online access and usability. In addition, the study recommends that the state must fund academic research and development and create stronger partnerships between the state's universities and the business community. Controlling costs and improving the quality of the state's healthcare plans are also recommended.
Given the current state of the national and state economy, it is more important than ever to make sure New Jersey retains its businesses and ideally recruits additional firms to locate in the Garden State. If the study by the New Jersey Policy Research Organization is any guide, the business climate in New Jersey is in trouble and may be headed for darker days ahead.
Hopefully, Governor Corzine and the Legislature will carefully read the study and its recommendations. They should engage in constructive and thoughtful debate regarding the suggested recommendations and develop a short and long term plan to retain the businesses that are already in New Jersey and to recruit new ones to the Garden State. Any such plan should include the adoption of a majority of the 37 recommendations from the study.
Should our elected leaders fail to address the distressing business climate in our state, New Jersey will lose many of the businesses it currently has and will fail to recruit additional companies to move to the Garden State. As a result, our state's economy will spiral downward, causing a deleterious impact on each and every resident of New Jersey.
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Leda Isabel Garside, RN, BSN, MBA, is a bilingual, bicultural Latina registered nurse, and is the Clinical Services Manager for ¡Salud! Services, an outreach program of the Tuality Healthcare Foundation in Hillsboro. The program provides services to vineyards workers and family members working and residing in the north Willamette Valley. Furthermore, the program assists in the delivery of other outreach services to the greater Latino community in Washington County.
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