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The year is 2012. The month is…let's say NOVEMBER 2ND. The NHL lockout is now over and behind us and we never have to think about it again for another seven years. We all survived that Bristol Palin poker celebrity cruise show that aired on Sportsnet every night in place of NHL broadcasts. The locusts, in the end, were merciful invaders and moved onto greener pastures, leaving us with mere crumbs, which we devoured gratefully and without shame. But at least the Mayans were wrong, so high five on that.
Your Calgary Flames return to the Saddledome, refreshed and relaxed after an extended break away from the rink. With FlamesNation having a tremendous, some would say inappropriate amount of access to the team, coupled with the bluster to do what we want that only comes from knowing there's no one out there who can stand in our way, we approached the Flames to provide us with short essays documenting how they spent their lockout vacation. Which is what we're calling it now. Again, because we can.
Flames Nation is pleased to offer you another installment of The Flames Lockout Vacations. This week, Tim Jackman, and certainly not The Book Of Loob, recounts how he spent his time off.
Timothy Jackman III, Seafarer
Good morrow to you, elder statesmen of the brotherhood of Flames supporters, it is I, Tim Jackman, of the North Dakotan Jackmans, Captain of Industry and Third Line Pugilist, here to regale you with tales of wonder mixed with capitalist savvy, as I recant the exploits of my work sanctioned sabbatical from the game of ice hockey.
I did not sit idly by as the pedestrian antics of so-called billionaires rattled the foundation of a game beloved by so many. As you all know, the Jackmans are replete with a family history of wealthy industrialists, and I, being no exception, put my vast wealth and advanced societal status to good use. On my yacht. Oh, how the Jackmans love to yacht.
Why just three weekends previous, my entertaining vessel, the Jackman Overboard, played host to one of my legendary societal soirees, docked steadily along the shores of Lake Entrepreneurian, a freshwater blue superstructured at my behest. From space, Lake Entrepreneurian is made to look like a bust of my ever dignified fascimilie, and is quite certainly my most cherished Jackman-shaped possession I own.
I find these socials breathe new life into my depleted spirit, not solely because it gives me ample chance to discuss manufactory with like minded capitalists such as myself, but also as it provides an otherwise fleeting opportunity to break bread with one of my most adored associates, The Commodore.
"Commodore" I say, beneath the obtuse gravity of my own hearty bellow. "What news from abroad?" This is my standard greeting for the Commodore, as he affords himself only mere moments of time for these constitutionals before setting off in search of new territoty to liberate with self starting financial benevolence. A noble quest indeed.
"Alas, Dearest Jackman, it appears as though we may have spread the power of industrialism to all feasible lands. Perhaps my quest is nearing it's inevitable conclusion" replies the Commodore, a hint of wist barely escaping his embouchement.
We two together gaze out across the blue yonder while clutching onto the solid gold rails of the Jackman Overboard, bristling, each letting our own silence lend credence to the interaction that our words are incapable of expressing. Even as the orchestra delicately navigated through Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, and the champagne fountain brooked ever so softly nearby, the growing quiet was the only palpable observation between the two of us.
"There's only the two of us remaining" I utter after a brief pause, but the effect is not lost on the Commodore. "Stern is believed to have been left to the grim devices of the deepest parts of the Amazon,"
A moment of silence is observed out of respect to our dear colleague Stern.
"Indeed, you speak the truth, old chum" The Commodore's tone now somber and concerned. "He was a good man. He was never meant to entwine himself into our pact. I never thought he would have outlasted as many of the Condor Guerilla Battallion as he did. Though I suppose that Sacred Elephan Skull and the fortune it promises does not award itself to the underdogs who finish a distant third, Jackman"
"Nor should it. It's not in spirit with the pact"
"Yes, quite"
The Commodore then excused himself to go give his regards to Lady Kyte, the grieving widow of the now expired Stern, leaving me to my thoughts as I watched the tide roll in thanks to the custom constructed Sea Machine installed at the floor of Lake Entreprenurian. I can sense now that the dynamic with the Commodore has changed. The playful banter will always be there, but the meaning is lost evermore. We are the sole two survivors, and human nature can only be denied so long. I will have to keep a sharp eye on him. He is a wily veteran, and has a deep understanding of sacred and mysterious agreements between former junta agents. Likewise, I covet those rubies promised to the winning survivor of the agreement, not for the financial reward, but in the spirit of competition and the championship it implies. Given the chance to spend a moment alone with the Commodore, outside the expanse of my lush sailing bateau unsullied by such dark intentions, I'm not sure if I would deign to gain a permanent upper hand over him to attain the spoils I so richly deserve.
Tim Jackman III, Philanthropist
When my thoughts shade themselves in such a black hue as they did after my encounter with The Commodore, I find the only method to recoup my mood is through charity and glad-tidings. Such actions come in all shapes and forms, and, you may be surprised to learn, are open to those of all walks of life, those with sizeable means or otherwise.
For instance, noted businessman and tycoon Ken King contacted me via Falcon Express a fortnight ago, banking on my aid in matters fiscal, hoping to pick but a crumb of knowledge from my vast cognition in the industry of prosperity.
Now I have under my employ several readily available men to think about these matters for me, but you do not become a pillar of success like I have without knowing the ins and outs of fortune better than anyone else. And the first rule, as told to me by my Grandfather, Timothy Tiberius Clementine Jackman during one of the many bedtime tales he would relay to me was "Never work for free"
But Mr. King is an associate, and a hapless one at that. If his public knew that I have been minding his books for years now he'd be a laughing stock, but I suppose I've let the cat out of the bag on that one, haven't I? Funny, that.
"No Kenneth, you cannot write off the Calgary Hitmen as a business expense. They are not an expense. They are a business, and one you do not personally own. We've discussed this before at length. You are a mogul, I suggest you behave in the manner of one,"
My heart aches. As I roll up the parchment containing my reply and place it into the chamber affixed upon the meaty claw of the mighty falcon, I sense Kenneth is distressed, and such anguish usually leads to him pursuing a deeper interest into his hobby, managing a hockey team. He is rather inept at it, and I would offer my interjections and suggest he cease such a hopeless endeavor, but when Kenneth is in a mood, he's rather unreachable mentally. My fear is that he will trade away young upstart and Jackman Overboard Pool Attendant Sven Bartschi, and I particularly loathe the interview process for new pool boys.
Tim Jackman III, Sportsman
But alas, fair Citizens, I am a competitor, and the fires of gamesmanship burn eternally from within me. It is in my very nature to compete, and to conquer, the way the Jackmans have done boldly and without mercy for generations now as we firmly plant our feet into the trenches of the upper echelon. As a member of the priviliged elite, it is my birthright to vye for more, and take it as I see fit.
Which is why the Jackmans have always been keen enthusiasts of the fox hunt. A noble tradition that may be inequitably banned in parts of Europe, there appears to be vague, almost transparent rules on the matter in North Dakota, a condition the Jackmans take great delight in superceding.
The sport of fox hunting, anecdotely, has been performed by sending out a militia of scent hounds to snuff out and execute foxes, while a team of handlers follows by on horseback, unarmed. I have never found this to be a favorable method of the hunt, as I prefer to live by the old adage "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself". Genetics is on my side in this matter, as they are in most, as my ample proboscis provides me with a vastly superior sense of smell than any average beagle.
Nay, instead I'm apt to lie in wait amongst the thicker foliage and let the foxes unassumingly come to me, where I apprehend and dismantle them swiftly and with impunity. I then signal my hunt aide, Sven, to come forward from his preselected place of ensconce and store my newly deceased trophy in my fox satchel. It is indeed a large and impressive tote, and it needs to be as I am fully capable of putting the fox population of the Midwest in grave endangerment territory.
Tim Jackman III, Everyman
In truth, friends, I was as pained as I trust you all were during this brief labour disruption. And indeed, while you lot took to the internet with bluster and rage, I retreated to one of my many estates to indulge in the finer points of being so many tiers finer of a gentleman than the totality of you people.
But in the end, the sport of hockey is where Tim Jackman keeps his heart, and no amount of polo matches vs. the Admiral McCarthy and caviar tastings could ever quell my insatiable desire for the frozen pond. It is with that essence that I return to the game I love, and why I write these words to you, the precocious middle class. Equillibrium is restored, brothers, let us never recant these dark times any longer.
Onbe last thing though, I also took up cage fighting, and I will kill any last one of you who looks at me funny. Seriously. Try me. Come at me bro, I will end you.


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WOBURN, MA--(Marketwire - Apr 26, 2011) - Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced a record first quarter, increasing revenue 300% as compared to the first quarter of 2010, and more than 20% over the previous quarter. Enterprise adoption of the Drupal social publishing platform and Acquia's cloud hosting has fueled the rapid expansion of Acquia's business.
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In this issue, Spring 2008
Let the sun shine in
By Steven Boyd Saum. In the international Solar Decathlon competition, a team from Santa Clara blazed a dazzling trail from almost-ran to third in the world.
Visions from the Sixties
By Lisa Taggart. It was art that broke all the rules. And now an exhibit at the de Saisset Museum, curated by Santa Clara scholar Andrea Pappas, captures the sense of optimism and energy when the only limit was imagination itself.
Jorma's journey
By Mark Purdy. With Jefferson Airplane, he helped define the San Francisco sound. With Hot Tuna and solo, he's continued to delight fans with his fretwork. But once upon a time, he was playing guitar in the Nobili Hall cafeteria and handing out fliers that read "Jerry Kaukonen—Blues, Rags and Spirituals."
O pioneers!
By Scott Brown. When Santa Clara opened its doors to the enrollment of women as undergrads in 1961, it forever transformed the University. And those pioneering women learned that it took courage and humor to lead the way.
Two Arts
A poem by Michael Blumenthal.
Realty check
By Anne Federwisch. A pair of presidents of the California Association of Realtors share the lowdown on the mortgage meltdown.


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By Wayne Roberts
Citywatch: Whether it's action or traction in the food world, cities are stepping up to the plate. The world is fast going urban, as are challenges of social, economic and environmental well-being. Citywatch is crucial to Worldwatch. Wayne Roberts, retired manager of the world-renowned Toronto Food Policy Council, has his eye out for the future of food in the city.
One way to make out a slim ray of hope from today's global financial crisis is to look from the vantage point of 2008, and — forgive me for going so far back into the mists of time — 1973.
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Judged by the standards of the 2008 banking crisis, western governments have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
The 2008 banking crisis seemed catastrophic at the time. But looking back, 2008 was about a relatively defined set of problems faced by bankers and borrowers during an economic downturn. That banking crisis during a recession has now morphed into a recession compounded by financial crises of nation states – the banks are now doing very fine, thank you. And the problems faced by nation states are as severe amongst well-regulated and social democratic countries in Europe as in the relatively de-regulated USA.
That's a major system-wide setback in just three years. As we get a sense of what's behind the cuts to social and environmental programs touted in 2011, we may see the outlines of a new politics that brings cities, food and green jobs together.
What intrigues me about comparing responses to 2008 and 2011 is the sheer chutzpah of political and financial leaders in both times.
Former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett defined chutzpah as the ability to grin at someone after stealing their false teeth.
People who hyped multi-billion dollar bail-outs of banks and auto companies and multi-billion government spending programs in 2008, who lived to see that these measures didn't stimulate jobs in the auto industry or do much to stimulate the world's stock of human, social or natural capital, who know they didn't keep a banking and mortgage credit crisis and slowdown in economic growth from escalating into a full-blown debt crisis of nation states – if they were like most people I know, they would feel humiliated, apologetic and keen to make amends.
Since I haven't yet seen a politician, auto magnate or banker fess up to spectacular misspending of hundreds of billions in public savings, I can only conclude that chutzpah means never having to say you're sorry. It's one thing they get full credit for.
To pay for previous government giveaways to big business by taking away long-established government-funded social security programs from vulnerable people is quite the about-turn. It forces those who least benefitted from either found money made available to mismanaged banks and auto companies, or from later stimulus projects that created a small number of regular jobs, to make up for the money that's gone missing. I had a hard time realizing that politicians actually had the gall to do that.
I kept thinking that someone beside the usual suspects would call for a stop to this. Surely some Wall Street financial mogul will give marching orders to the Tea Party on the critical importance of reputation for a national economy, or some banking lord on Threadneedle Street in London will warn the British Conservatives that massive cutbacks undermine efforts to prepare people for a complex economy, or some Bay Street big shots in Toronto will read the riot act to whackjobs who want to balance budgets by eliminating crucial jobs and vaporizing billions of dollars of spending power, or some worldly-wise baron from Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt Germany will shout Achtung! when cuts threaten social cohesion and stability.
Warren Buffett stands out as one of the few super-wealthy people in the world to take such a stand.
My false expectation probably comes from my misspent youth when I was educated in old-time political economy. Way back in 1973, sociologist James O'Connor wrote a prophetic book called The Fiscal Crisis of the State.
With his view of ideal surfing beaches from high in the hills of University of Santa Cruz, O'Connor wrote just as the post-war wave of prosperity was about to break. Until that time, there had been 25 years of slow but steady improvements in the happy day living standards of everyday working people, and in social programs sponsored by governments.
O'Connor explained these good times using the radical jargon of the time, referring to state functions of "accumulation" – measures that made it easier for businesses to make money by raising the educational level and productivity of workers, for example – and of "legitimation." By this, O'Connor meant that western governments introduced reforms that made capitalism seem positive and legitimate, thereby offering hard-working people a chance to make something of themselves and give their families a few good things in life.
Such legitimation was considered mandatory at a time when both democratic socialist and undemocratic Communist parties were gaining strength around the world, including Europe and Canada. It's hard not to get nostalgic for the good old "happy days" of exploitation under capitalistic accumulation and legitimation, and for capitalists' need to compete with Communism when it came to delivering the goods to ordinary people.
O'Connor noted, however, that capitalist governments were caught on the horns of a dilemma. On the one horn, spending public money for items such as old-age pensions and unemployment insurance allowed people to spend more freely during good times, instead of saving for the dreaded downturn, thereby providing the security necessary to support a high-spending consumer economy. On the same horn, public money to train a sophisticated workforce and to open up career opportunities that allowed children of workers to become professionals eased the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy. Judged by this horn of the dilemma, accumulation and legitimation added up to a virtuous circle that enriched peoples' lives, enriched government coffers, and enriched corporate executives and owners.
Every dilemma has two horns, and the second horn – resistance against higher taxation, especially from the rich who paid higher rates in the days of progressive taxation – came to the fore after the 1970s, O'Connor noted. This applied pressure on senior levels of governments to cut spending on accumulation and legitimation expenditures, which by then were generally recognized as functions of national governments.
Globalization – the steady decrease in the ability of industrially-advanced nations to feed, clothe and house themselves using national resources and labor; the steady increase in the importance of exports and imports in the Gross National Product; and the rapid rise of multinational corporations which sourced labor, resources and services wherever in the world they were cheapest — reduced the incentives for governments to invest in what O'Connor called accumulation and legitimation.
Why worry whether local underpaid workers could afford to spend good money on consumer goods if the same consumer goods could be both produced and sold cheaper to a huge middle class in Asia?
Canadian economist Greg Albo describes this as a shift to "competitive austerity." The country that cuts its benefits the most attracts the most jobs, he argues – almost the opposite of the virtuous circle that was becoming the norm during the 1950s and '60s. Some call it "the race to the bottom."
There's not much to slow the race down. Even those with more money than most people would know what to do with get outraged by progressive taxes, and certainly don't raise a peep about cutbacks in basic services undermining social cohesion or the spending power of the masses.
In a globalized economy, accumulation can be managed by outsourcing jobs once performed by the local population to countries where low incomes and environmental pollution are the norm, and by importing the best-educated and healthiest workers from those countries to displace local workers in the domestic economy. The world market handles the challenges of accumulation.
And what about legitimation, the need to give meaning and promise to ordinary people as a means to win their loyalty and commitment to hard work? Since the scandals around Fox Networks abuse of its elite networks exploded at about the same time as the debt and credit crunches, it occurred to me that it had escaped public notice that the legitimation function of the state had been contracted out and privatized to media empires. They, not government, gave people a sense of place, meaning, identity, via celebrity gossip, game and survival shows, political angertainment – nothing that smacked of peoples' rights or community needs.
The decline and fall of state management as practiced during the post World War 11 days, I've come to believe, is the story behind the story of deep dysfunction in established national (UK, Germany and US, for example) and international (UN and OECD, for instance) governments. Leading politicians are telling everybody loud and clear: your problems are not my problems.
Indeed, the costs and burdens of accumulation and legitimation functions have been downloaded to municipalities. The "riots" throughout England show it's cities that bear the costs and injuries of lack of national government investment in human, social and cultural capital.
But cities aren't just places where trouble is brewing. Quite the contrary.
Cities have long been the level of government where mutual interdependence of all residents is most forcefully felt. During the 1800s, everyone who lived in cities shared an equal benefit from dealing pro-actively with life-and-death problems caused by fire, cholera, contaminated water, rat-infested garbage, and the like.
Urban reformers of the late 1800s and early 1900s believed that solving these common problems required people to solve the problems in common, either by strict regulations or community ownership. No-one made the case that construction companies should compete by offering people a choice in sidewalks they might choose to walk on from day to the next. Nor did anyone gain peace of mind when thinking of a neighbor who didn't pay the yearly fee for a firefighting company and who therefore wouldn't get service in event a fire broke out. Ditto for police. Such services almost automatically came to be managed under public ownership. In economic sectors where individual citizens or private companies hold sway, strict building codes, fire codes, health codes, noise bylaws, public garbage collection and restaurant inspection are the norm.
This historic municipal tradition remains vibrant, relevant and resilient to this day. People from all walks of life and widely different backgrounds depend equally on the commonwealth to manage and protect a hundred and one services crucial to each and every person – food safety in restaurants, clean water, accurate traffic signs, ongoing road maintenance, well-maintained green space, public education, low-cost recreational opportunities, public safety, campaigns against bedbugs and mosquito-borne diseases, and so on.
These services are essential because of the inherently sociability of cities and the inevitable co-dependence of all people who live in cities. Few political candidates run openly on a platform of eliminating core civic services. Some may complain about high costs of good services, but everyone knows that the cost of poor services is much higher. Common need protects against dysfunction and polarization that are becoming the norm at other levels of politics.
Environmentalists, out to protect natural resources and services also shared by all – clean air and water come immediately to mind — have a natural home in city politics.
It's hard to miss the blatant contrast between well-financed national and international government bodies, which are unable to provide basic protections to economic, social and environmental wellbeing, while under-financed city governments carry on with a host of everyday essentials.
I think this stark contrast is an omen that cities will soon be the decisive level of government in terms of services that require public money for accumulation and legitimation functions that once belonged to "senior" levels of government.
Old-style national governments used to call control of banking, resources and heavy manufacturing the "commanding heights" they needed to own or regulate. New-style city governments may well identify water, soil, food, shelter, education and social services as the – to borrow a phrase from Alex Prudhomme's new book on water — axis resources" of the future. Food is especially well-suited as an axis resource, because agriculture is the major ongoing user of water and because food underpins both economies and communities.
During the 1950s, many used to talk about the need for public control over the "commanding heights" – banks, crucial resources and heavy industries – considered strategic and essential in a national economy.
Perhaps more people will start to think in roughly similar ways about municipal control over the "community foundations" of city life – safe water, clean air, nutritious food, healthy soil, joyful playgrounds, engaged schools, responsive health clinics, welcoming libraries, thriving main streets, resilient neighborhoods.
These are core services in at least two ways. They are core in the sense that they are imperatives in the city's mandate and effective functioning. They're also core in the way I'm beginning to appreciate (if that is anything like the right word) core at gym class, when we work on our core muscle strength around our stomach and lower back – the key to increasingly popular yoga and Pilates practice and a mainstay of exercises that restore back stability. The paradox of a strong and empowering core is that it allows you to reach out with your arms and legs by pulling in at the core. Likewise, I amuse myself why struggling with my core exercises, cities that establish strong core services are freer to reach out with creative and cosmopolitan knowledge economies and welcoming social policies.
Since cities are also the place where most of the world's people, voters, job creators and taxpayers live, it only takes a little chutzpah to name this shift of political momentum a new moment in history.
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Peter L. Hoagland, 66, of Jamestown, passed away peacefully Feb. 20, 2014, at his home. He was the beloved husband of Susan W. (Wetmore) Hoagland for 41 years.
Born in New York, N.Y., he was a son of the late LaBar P. and Marys (Bird) Hoagland.
Mr. Hoagland graduated from Blair Academy and the University of Rochester. He was the credit manager for Bruin Plastics Company in Glendale, R.I.
He was a member of the Dune's Club and the Holland Society. An active communicant of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, he was a member of the choir, served on the vestry and volunteered and loved the thrift shop. He was also an avid reader.
Besides his wife, he leaves two children, Katherine H. Scott and her husband Nathan and their sons, Westin and Cooper of North Kingstown, Christopher Hoagland and his wife Colleen and their children Connor and Kinsley of Attleboro, Mass.; a brother, Samuel M. Hoagland of Warwick; and a sister, Olivia Edgil of California.
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A Tribute to Kurt Brown
Friends and poets gather to remember Kurt Brown (1944–2013), prolific poet, editor, founder of the Aspen Writers' Conference, former Poets House board member, and beloved teacher. Award-winning author of seven full-length poetry collections, including, most recently, A Thousand Kim and Time-Bound, as well as chapbooks, translations, and a memoir, Brown was a tireless advocate for poetry, editing and co-editing numerous journals and anthologies.
Kurt Brown, born in Brooklyn in 1944, was a poet, editor, educator, and an advocate for poetry in many communities. His numerous collections of poetry include Time-Bound (2012), No Other Paradise (2010), Future Ship (2007), and six chapbooks. He edited ten anthologies of poetry, including co-editing Killer Verses: Poems about Murder and Mayhem (2010) with Harold Schechter. He also wrote a memoir, Lost Sheep: Aspen's Counterculture in the 1970's (2012), and co-translated The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman de Coninck (2006) with his wife, Laure-Anne Bosselaar. In 1976, he founded the Aspen Writers' Conference. For many years he served on the board of Poets House. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College, and, in 2005, was Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech.


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Campus News
Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
Story posted August 29, 2006
At a time when most incoming Bowdoin students were squeezing out the last week of summer, 18 first-years were hitting campus early. They were part of the Bowdoin Science Experience (BSE), a brand-new program of academic orientation designed to encourage and support students in science and math.
"We're trying to give new students who have expressed an interest in those fields hands-on experience and focused support to help them live up to their full potential," says BSE co-leader Patsy Dickinson, chair of neuroscience. "We want to create a community so our students can share ideas, form study groups, and use all the many College resources available to them."
The program immersed small teams of students in five labs spread across disciplines. They also met with staff from the Baldwin Center, Hatch Science Library, Coastal Studies Center, and the Writing Project. Upper-class science mentors showed them the ropes — orienting them around the Quad, inside the dorms, and through the ins-and-out of choosing classes.
Most importantly, said participants, they had extended, relaxed time with Bowdoin science and math faculty.
"Even though this was like a pre-pre-orientation to the whole school I love the fact that I already know so many of the faculty and I have gotten to talk to them one-to-one," said Copley Huston Smith '10, from New Bedford, Mass. "Coming to college it's a big thing getting to know everybody.
"When I applied to schools I knew that Bowdoin had a good science program," she added, "So I like getting a better idea of what is offered in the sciences. I love anatomy, but I'm thinking I might want to try some classes that I wasn't thinking about at all before. Neuroscience, maybe computer science."
Too often, said Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Seth Ramus, students with interest and strength in math and science become discouraged — particularly during their first year, when they are adapting to a new academic and social environment.
"They need to understand the resources, the mentors, the faculty who are available to them," said Ramus, who designed and co-led BSE with Dickinson. "Typically, new students don't use these resources until after there is a problem.
In His Own Words
"I chose to do this program because I like science, but I have gained so much more. We've got knowledge of everything on campus so when school starts we are going to know where everything is. There are so many huge support systems that I never knew existed, and they did a really good job of matching my roommate and me together. We both like physics, so if I ever have questions, he's right here. Honestly, every day after lecture, we leave feeling that we have a leg up."
— Hassan Muhammad '10
"Encouraging students into the sciences is a national issue," Ramus added. "Overall, we do not have enough students in the science and math pipelines to meet our needs and compete globally. We are importing many of our scientists from overseas. And most poorly represented are minorities, women, and first-generation college students; we hope particularly to reach out to these groups."
The camaraderie among the group was palpable, after only just a few days. In Moulton Union, where they gathered for meals, the entire group regularly sat at one long table.
"One of the mentors walked in and she was like, 'Wow! Look at this table. It's massive,'" laughed Huston Smith. "I didn't realize how close all the kids would get. Everyone is really bonding. It's good going to orientation already knowing people. And the mentors have been awesome — it's nice to know some upperclassmen and be able to talk to them and find out about classes. I would like to be a mentor myself."
BSE faculty participants created lab curricula that introduced basic lab skills and posed discipline-specific challenges. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stephen Majercik worked intensively with three students, none of whom had ever worked before with AIBO robot dogs. By the end of two days together, they were learning how to program them for soccer competition.
In a chemistry lab designed by chemistry professors Beth Stemmler and Dharni Vasudevan, students were asked to solve a recent "crime" in Brunswick, analyzing physical evidence taken from the crime scene.
"I think I did such a good job of describing the crime that for the first two minutes they thought it was real," laughed Vasudevan." The students then learned basic lab techniques for approaching the evidence before deciding together how to proceed.
"They worked really well as a team," noted Stemmler. "They worked equally and gave each other space. They are all science students, so I think they were very enthusiastic about the findings."
Not coincidentally, BSE participants were matched in labs with the faculty members who would become their first-year advisors. At the completion of their lab time, they met individually with them to begin mapping out their first-year experience.
"Hey, enough about computers," quipped Majercik, meeting up for his one-on-one with BSE participant Hassan Muhammad '10, a student from Cincinnati. "Let's talk about music. I hear you're a jazz pianist."
"Yeah," replied Muhammad bashfully. "I've been playing since I was five. But I love science too. I can't put my finger on it. It's something about the abstract thinking that attracts me. I find that somehow music and science piece together."
As the co-leaders gathered participants together for a group photo at the program's end, Ramus and Dickinson beamed. "These students are the core of a new culture," said Ramus. "There is definitely a sense of cohesion and friendship, something they can carry through and rely on for the next year.
"They got a huge amount of attention from professors. I am so proud of all the students and mentors involved in this program. It far exceeded our hopes for the first year."
The BSE was funded, in part, through a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Other participating faculty members were: Rachel Beane, geology; Tom Pietraho and Jennifer Taback, mathematics; and Barry Logan, biology. Overall, more than 25 Bowdoin faculty members participated in various aspects of the program.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Sharing Our Pictures, Letters, Documents
They are my great-great-grandparents James Henry Reed and Martha Cook Reed. The information you see written on them was the oldest I had when I started. The handwriting is my Grandfather Reed's. Grandmother Reed told me James's middle initial was H. And that's it!
I remember the afternoon in the late 1970s when Grandmama and I sat down and went through her old pictures. They were just stuck in a box way back in a closet. She asked me to keep them in a nice big album I had. No problem! I was happy to. I felt honored.
I scan everything I can get my hands on and post pictures on PhotoBucket for all to see and use. Click here for a link to my PhotoBucket albums.
See the list of albums to the left. Some even have sub-albums. When you open an album, I recommend using the "grid" feature towards the upper right. After you click on that, click on the first photo, and it'll show them larger with the full captions (usually). If it doesn't show the full caption, just hold your pointer over the comment, and it will show a box with the full comment. Navigate with the arrows on each side.
I like PhotoBucket. And it's FREE. There are other free sites for sharing your photos. Flickr.com comes to mind.
Let's Get Sharing!
If you use a photo site you would like to share, let us know! If you don't, consider starting one.
If you have family photos (or letters or documents) you would like to share through this blog, please let me know. I'll be happy to help you share them!
This morning I ran across a very good site for information on sharing, organizing, and preserving photographs and documents. It's called LocalArchiver.com and has a wealth of helpful information. Please take some time to check it out.
The site is extremely well done - the best, most inclusive site I've seen yet regarding this subject. As they say on their homepage: "With some basic knowledge, guidance, and inspiration, it is easier than ever for families and community historical societies to organize, preserve/archive, and creatively share their most valued photo and document images."
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Would the difference in the Celtic pronouncation and the spelling in America be different.Also on the Manning Files ,the 1880 census might clarify the number of children fo Samuel. Some of the children listed are nephew,niece and grandaughter and this migght lead to the conclusation that he had 14 children.ReplyDelete
Joseph refers above to Samuel Reed b. 1810, d. 1883 Mar 1887, who was a son of Hugh Reed and Jane McSpeddon. We have been communicating this week about them.ReplyDelete
The 1880 census for this Samuel does indeed list grandchildren, a nephew, and others. None of his children lived with him by that time. They had either left home or were deceased.
To the best of my knowledge, these were the 13 children of Samuel Reed and Matilda Willis:
Cyrena K. Reed 1832-1893
Martha Jane Reed 1834-1905
Anna Reed 1836-1902
Emeline Antoinette Reed 1838-1864
Robert Hugh Reed 1841-1851
Ellen F. Reed 1842-1900
Elliott Reed 1844-
Samuel Elijah Reed 1847-
Adella U. Reed 1848-1876
Matilda Rosa Reed 1852-
Jerome Reed 1853-1908
Tullie Washington Reed 1856-1910
Susie Reed 1858-1860
The Manning Files had 14 children listed. They had incorrectly listed Samuel Elijah Reed twice as Samuel Reed, Jr., and Elijah S. Reed.
As to your question about the Celtic pronunciation of Reed, I have no knowledge of this. Can you give us more information or point us in the right direction to find more information? Or, maybe another reader may have an answer.
ok, so i am pretty sure adella reed was my great-great grandmother.ReplyDelete
my great-great grandfather was samuel prioleau chisolm who was married to an adella reed.
Hi, Hailey, Thanks for commenting! Yes, Adella, daughter of Samuel & Matilda Willis Reed was married to Samuel Chisolm. From which of their children do you descend? Isn't it fun figuring out this stuff?!ReplyDelete


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Family of Vt trooper killed gets $4.5M settlement
Officer killed after being struck by car
Family of Vt trooper killed gets $4.5M settlement
Officer killed after being struck by car
MONTPELIER, Vt. —
The family of a Vermont State Police trooper who was killed while trying to stop a fleeing suspect almost a decade ago has received a $4.5 million settlement from the state and its insurance carrier.
The Valley News reports Washington Superior Court Judge Robert Bent this week approved a settlement to compensate Sgt. Michael Johnson's widow, Kerrie Johnson, and their three children.
Johnson was killed June 15, 2003 after he was hit by a fleeing car driven by Eric Daley of Lebanon, N.H., that had swerved to avoid spike strips placed across the interstate by Johnson. Daley fled on foot and was later captured in the woods.
Daley, now 33, is serving a 26-to-33-year prison sentence for gross negligent operation of a vehicle.


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San Joaquín County administrator Manuel López announced he will retire this year, ending more than 11 years as county government's top unelected official.
First taking the post in 2001, López was the lead administrator during both the boom years that fattened county coffers and the precipitous drop that followed after last decade's crippling housing crisis and subsequent economic fallout.
The county's $1.26 billion budget has now leveled out after years of ups and downs, and it looks like it could stay that way, he said. Together with the elected Board of Supervisors, he said, "We put (the budget) in a place where San Joaquín County could have stability for a long time."
Also, the 66-year-old López said, it's time to make room for younger blood and new ideas.
López gave a memo to members of the Board of Supervisors and county department heads last Monday afternoon, saying he would retire March 29. But it doesn't have to be his last day, he said in an interview Tuesday. He said he didn't want to walk away from the job if the Board of Supervisors wished to keep him around through the budget process, which ends in June when the board typically approves a new year's budget.
Supervisors said they had yet to meet to discuss what to do about replacing López. He has been the county's top administrator since he replaced then-County Administrator David Baker, who resigned in 2001 to pursue a doctorate degree. López had been named the county's Public Works Director in 2000, where he had been a deputy director for about 15 years.
Members of the Board of Supervisors praised López for the county not suffering as badly as other public agencies during the boom and bust years of the past decade.
"He has been a great asset to the county, especially during the economic downturn," board Chairman Ken Vogel said. "It's a great credit to him that we've weathered this."
The downturn in the county was part of the worst the country had seen since the Great Depression, Supervisor Steve Bestolarides said. "I think that his leadership has been the guiding light."
López had experience with several boards of supervisors, and he maintained a conservative approach to the budget, even before the economic downturn, Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller said. "He always had his hand firmly on that tiller," Ruhstaller said. "He wouldn't have allowed us to give away the farm."
And López's experience helped prepare the county for issues beyond just those fiscal, Supervisor Carlos Villapudua said. "I always said Manuel had a mini crystal ball."
Late last decade, the mortgage crisis and economic fallout worldwide hit San Joaquín County particularly hard. One major impact to the county budget was the loss of tax revenue as property values collapsed. But it didn't happen all at once.
"Nobody had any idea it wasn't going to be a bump in the road -- it was going to be a big pothole," López said.
The county tightened up its hiring policies in early 2008. Later that year it froze hiring for most county positions.
Supervisors said this is one reason the county laid off relatively few employees even though it eliminated more than 800 positions as it slashed the budget in the years to come. The county also drew from reserves and its capital funds while negotiating concessions with its labor groups.
It did help, even though there were better solutions available, said Patrick Ikeda, president of the local chapter of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, which represents the county's largest bloc of employees.
"We appreciate the role Lopez played in trying to minimize the layoffs and the takeaways to our members," Ikeda said.
In the past few years, the board has passed policies to build back up both the county's reserves and capital funds, and it looks like revenue from property taxes are on the upswing, López said.
It brings stability, but not without challenges, he said.
Not least of which are the capital projects yet to be tackled. These include building a government facility for the rapidly growing south county, investing in parks, improving the Micke Grove Zoo and other needs, he said.
"You have to keep growing or you start withering."


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Today's Meditation
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
-Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
MY grandmother is a talented artist. She has twelve grandchildren, and we all had our turn in her studio to see if we inherited her gift. I soon realized that my talents lie elsewhere. As hard as I tried, I could never make my painting look real, as Grandma's did. My attempts at art looked more like cartoons. She told me that I should pay attention to what I was seeing and draw that, not what I thought my subject should look like. Although I never caught on to painting, Grandma did teach me a lesson about God.
I spent many years "painting" God as I thought God should be. Because I could not understand some things about God, I made up my own image. Like my paintings, the end result was pretty pathetic. And when times got hard for me, my hope crumbled. But my grandmother's advice has helped me in my Christian walk. It has helped me let go of what I think God should look like and look to the Bible to see what God is really like.
Sarah Negroni
(Louisiana, USA)
Prayer: Perfect Father, you reveal yourself to us through your word. Help us to see you more clearly as we read it and live by its wisdom. Amen.
Thought for the Day: Based on your favorite Bible passage, what is God like?
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If you're about to tuck into an freshly grown, locally-produced organic lunch, then here's something that may interest you. According to a study conducted at Loyola University in New Orleans, those who eat organic good are more likely to be "smug," exhibit judgemental attitudes and "be a jerk." But before heaving your lunch into the compost bin and reaching for a pesticide-covered peach, read on for the nitty-gritty details on this 'groundbreaking' study.
The study, "Wholesome Foods, Whole Morals," was published in the Journal of Social Psychological & Personality Science and saw 60 people split into three groups. The first group was shown pictures of organic foods, the second was shown pictures of comfort foods like brownies and cookies, while the third, the control group, was shown pictures of non-organic, non-comfort foods, like rice, mustard and oatmeal. Each group's moral judgement was then tested by asking them how many minutes they would be willing to give up to help a stranger and how harshly they judged fictional situations. What does that have to do with food? We aren't really sure.
To help enlighten us, let's turn to lead researcher and study author Kendall Eskine, who explained the study on NBC's Today show: "There's a line of research showing that when people can pat themselves on the back for their moral behavior, they can become self-righteous," he said. "We found that the organic people judged much harder, compared to the control or comfort-food groups."
On average, the comfort-food group volunteered 24 minutes to help a needy stranger, while the control group volunteered 19 minutes and the organic group offered just 13 minutes. "There's something about being exposed to organic food that made them feel better about themselves," Eskine said. "And that made them kind of jerks a little bit, I guess. You'd think eating organic would make you feel elevated and want to pay it forward." Eskine said he was surprised by the results, but he believes an explanation might lie in what he calls "moral licensing."
"The results could have turned out either way, but I was honestly hedging my bets on the moral licensing approach, according to which people feel licensed to act less ethically when their moral identities are made salient," Eskine said. "Organic foods, like other green products, seem to help people affirm their moral identities, thus generating counter-intuitive behaviours."
"People may feel like they've done their good deed," he added. "That they have permission, or license, to act unethically later on. It's like when you go to the gym and run a few miles and you feel good about yourself, so you eat a candy bar." It seems like a tenuous link, to say the least.
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Paul Rudd Lands Small Role In Ant Man
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:53 am
A very small role. Tiny even. Nevertheless, he will be staring in Edgar Wright's Ant Man as the titular character and at this point the only question is 'which one'? Wright had this to say when interviewed by Superherohype, a couple years back and it made me want to see his take even more:
"The idea that we have for the adaptation is to actually involve both... Henry Pym and Scott Lang, so you actually do a prologue where you see Pym as Ant-Man in action in the 60's, in sort of 'Tales to Astonish' mode basically, and then the contemporary, sort of flash-forward, is Scott Lang's story, and how he comes to acquire the suit, how he crosses paths with Henry Pym, and then, in an interesting sort of Machiavellian way, teams up with him."
If this is still the vision they're moving forward with after all this time, I would have guessed Rudd would play Lang, with a... more seasoned actor playing Hank Pym in the modern timeframe, but The Wrap is reporting that Rudd will portray Pym. This is all yet to be confirmed by Marvel, or anyone involved, but that should be cleared up soon. If Rudd is to play Pym, then perhaps the rumour about Joseph Gordon-Levitt being considered is true as well. Rudd as Pym and Gordon-Levitt as Lang... yeah, I'd watch that. No word on other casting yet, but being the first film of Phase III and still almost two years away with a release date of July 31st, 2015 after the Avengers: Age Of Ultron in May, there's still plenty of time to get their ducks in a row.
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It isn't too often that we see a recall that affects only the law enforcement edition of a motorcycle, but that is the case here with the NHTSA reporting that 44 of the 2012 & 2013 Kawasaki Concours 14 that are in use by law enforcement officers need to be recalled for an electrical issue.
As you may know, police interceptors are outfitted with a bevy of additional electrical system, and in the case of the Kawasaki Concours 14, the extra accessories may cause the bike's main 30 amp fuse to blow. In addition to this, the added wiring harness for the police equip may chafe, which could result in a short-circuit, which again could cause the main 30 amp fuse to blow.


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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man charged with luring an underage boy for a sexual encounter two years ago made numerous online postings expressing fantasies of child cannibalism, federal authorities said Wednesday in announcing new charges against him.
Robert Mucha, 56, already was jailed on a child pornography possession charge from July. On Wednesday, the U.S. attorney's office added another child pornography count and a count of enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. The enticing count carries a minimum 10-year prison sentence and a maximum life sentence upon conviction.
Mucha, of Newton, a town in the northwestern part of the state, made a brief appearance in U.S. District Court on Wednesday. He didn't enter a plea and remained held without bail. The federal public defender's office, which represents him, didn't promptly return a message seeking comment.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Bruck said during the hearing that investigators reviewed 30,000 lines of online chat room conversations in which Mucha expressed his sexual fantasies of child cannibalism.
"They are unspeakably horrific," Bruck told U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Hammer.
In one conversation, Mucha received from an unnamed person a digital image depicting a naked pre-pubescent boy hanging from a wooden pole digitally superimposed over a photograph of a campfire.
"oh man, love that 1st one," Mucha wrote about the image, according to a criminal complaint.
Investigators said that after Mucha's arrest in July, when images of child pornography were found during a search of his home, he admitted fantasizing about abducting, cooking and eating children.
He also admitted deriving sexual gratification from physical contact with teenage boys and watching teenage boys showering during his 30s when he taught band class in the towns of Lakewood and Belleville, the complaint said. It wasn't immediately known where those classes were held or if they were under the auspices of local school districts.
At the time of Mucha's arrest, he was working as a volunteer emergency medical technician in Andover, a few miles from Newton. A phone number for an emergency squad listed on Andover Township's website wasn't taking messages Wednesday.
Prosecutors said Mucha cultivated a 15-year-old boy through the boy's mother and eventually persuaded the boy to visit him at his apartment in Stroudsburg, Pa., in October 2010. While there, prosecutors said, Mucha tried to initiate sexual contact with the boy.


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Sustain Abroad
Take these steps to understand the intersections between service-learning, education abroad, and sustainability
Deciding where to go
- Check out the options of programs. Take the time to educate and learn about the differences among the programs. To learn about the various study abroad programs with components in sustainability take a look at the list of options.
Before you go
- Become a Green Passport member, join the CSB/SJU Green Passport Group, and take the pledge. The Green Passport pledge notes the interconnectedness of people and nature throughout the world and asks members to compare and integrate their abroad experience into their life at home, and to reduce their ecological impact throughout their experience. Learn more about the Green Passport Program on their website.
- Understand your lifestyle at home. Take this ecological footprint quiz and answer questions about your lifestyle to calculate your resource use. Record your results in your travel journal or documents. At the end of your abroad experience, take this quiz again for your lifestyle abroad and compare your results.
While Abroad
- Use the SustainAbroad tips to live more sustainably abroad.
- Volunteer abroad with a credible organization with an issue you are interested in.
- Make contacts for work or volunteer opportunities in the future, or simply to maintain friendships.
Upon Return
- Take the ecological footprint quiz again and compare the results of your lifestyle before your abroad experience with your lifestyle during your abroad experience.
- Reflect on your experience abroad. Did you live up to your the Green Passport pledge? Reread your journal. Look at your pictures. Talk with people you traveled with. What aspects of the experience changed you? What practices do you want to integrate into your lifestyle now back at home? Make a list of action items to infuse your abroad experience in your life.
- Post about a sustainability related experience on the Green Passport page. Express yourself through a few sentences in a blog or through photos.
- Volunteer at home with an organization that deals with the same issues you worked with while abroad.


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Senior Knights
fall to Salina
By Mark Schnabel
Newton Kansan
SALINA — The Newton Senior Knights dropped a 9-3 decision to the Salina Falcons in American Legion baseball play Monday night at Dean Evans Stadium in Salina.
Salina scored seven runs in the first inning and two more in the fourth, holding off the Knights the rest of the way.
Newton scored two runs in the fifth and one in the seventh.
Trent Early and Keenan Breen each went two for four hitting for Salina, driving in two runs each. Dane Long also drove in two runs. Matt Rowe went two for five hitting. Conney Boyer, Dalton Dooley and Bailey Ramsey each added an RBI.
For Newton, Austin Resser drove in two runs. Gunar Drinnen went two for five with an RBI.
Newton starter Peyton Dahl took the loss for Newton. Drinnen struck out four batters in five innings. Dakota Stein and Wyatt Burbrink each pitched an inning of shutout ball.
Josh Dolan went two innings for Salina for the win in relief of starter Daniel O'Brien. Jared Winter, Dilon Hopkins and Conner Boyle also pitched.
Saturday and Sunday, Newton played in the Bob Hooper Memorial Tournament in McPherson, winning the title.
Newton downed Buhler 11-3 in the championship game. Scores and details of Newton's pool games against Junction City and Nickerson, along with the semifinals, were not available.
Newton hosts the Falcons again at 6 p.m. Thursday at Klein-Scott Field for a doubleheader.
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Dahl (L), Drinnen 2, Stein 7, Burbrink 8 and Crumrine; O'Daniel, Dolan (W) 5, Winter 6, Hopkins 8, Boyer 9 and Brightbill. Time — 2:08.
Wingnuts rout
Laredo Lemurs
WICHITA — Lemurs may be portrayed in animated movies as cute little critters, but they didn't put up much of a fight in a 20-6 loss to the Wichita Wingnuts Monday in American Association play at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
The Wingnuts posted 17 hits. C.J. Ziegler and Brent Clevlen each had two home runs, driving in seven and five runs repectively. Ryan Khory drove in four runs. John Rodriguez drove in two runs. Colt Loehrs had four hits.
John Allen and Harrison Kain each had three hits for Laredo. Palmer Karr hit a solo home run. Garrett Buechele drove in three runs.
Wichita did most of its damage early, scoring nine runs in the fourth inning to lead 16-0.
Ryan Hinson, 6-1, went six innings for the win, allowing no runs on five hits with five strikeouts. Laredo starter Greg Wilborn lasted just three innings to drop his first decision of the year.
Wichita is 24-14, while Laredo is 22-15. The teams meet again at 7:05 p.m.
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Wilborn (L, 0-1), Walker 4, Mendoza 5, Mannara 7, Maj 8 and Buechele; Hinson (W, 6-1), Walters 7, Aizenstadt 8, Stone 9 and Armstrong, Dalrymple 7. HR — L: Karr (6). W: Ziegler 2 (14, 15), Clevlen 2 (4, 5). Time — 3:26. Attendance — 2,748.


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January 04. 2013 12:05AM
College Hockey Notebook: Back to the grind for UNH
By KEVIN GRAY
New Hampshire Union Leader
The University of New Hampshire men's ice hockey knocked off some rust and found a silver lining at Dartmouth College last weekend. Returning from the holiday break, the Wildcats dropped a 4-1 decision against the Big Green before rallying for a 3-2 overtime victory against Bemidji State in the Ledyard National Bank Classic at Hanover.
In Monday's consolation, UNH's fourth line of freshman Dan Correale, sophomore Jay Camper and sophomore Matt Willows combined for four points against Bemidji State and helped generate the winning goal by Trevor van Riemsdyk. It was an encouraging ending to an unpredictable post-holiday weekend.
"There's an unknown factor coming back from a long break," said UNH coach Dick Umile, whose team hosts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (6-7-4, 1-5-2 ECAC) on Saturday night at 7 at the Whittemore Center in Durham. "I thought we had been in a groove, but you come back, and who the heck knows? Dartmouth was in the same boat (last weekend). The score probably wasn't indicative of the game. When you break it down, we had just as many scoring chances as they did, but the puck didn't go in."
Saturday night's game between the No. 4 Wildcats (12-3-2, 8-2-1 HE) and Rensselaer can be watched on WBIN-TV with commentators Dan Parkhurst and Pete Webster calling the action. It's the final non-conference game for UNH, which plays at No. 1-ranked Boston College on Jan. 11, a game to be televised by NESN.
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The Dartmouth women (7-4-2, 3-3-1 ECAC) play at Rensselaer (5-11-2, 3-5-0 ECAC) tonight at Houston Fieldhouse in Troy, N.Y. Senior forward Camille Dumais is riding a hot streak with five goals and four assists in her past three games. Dumais earned ECAC Hockey Player of the Week before the holiday break.
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The Southern New Hampshire University men's team returns from a three-week holiday break and plays at St. Michael's College in the DoubleTree Ice Hockey Classic this weekend. SNHU (2-7-2) plays at St. Michael's (2-8-0) in the tourney opener Saturday at 7 p.m.
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The $85 billion in across-the-board budget reductions, known as sequestration, started on Friday. Although the economic impact has not been felt as yet, President Barack Obama and his cabinet secretaries have been warning lawmakers of heavy fallout, including lengthy airport delays and meat shortages.
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NHLHow effective would decertification be for the NHLPA? http://bit.ly/QjPwJg
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Two men have been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a shooting on Crockett Street early Thursday morning, May 22.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning, Beaumont Police responded to a possible shooting in the 200 block of Crockett Street, where they located two shooting victims — a 21-year-old man from Kountze and a 25-year-old man from Beaumont.
From Oklahoma, the Turnpike Troubadours will perform at the Dixie Dance Hall on Crockett Street on Thursday, March 20, with doors opening at 7 p.m. for ages 18 years and older.
Touring in support of their third album, Goodbye Normal Street, which reached No. 14 on the Billboard country chart, the Turnpike Troubadours name is derived from the bumpy Oklahoma toll roads and their hard living, folk singing heroes.
For the first time ever, Grammy Award winning rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will perform in Southeast Texas at the Dixie Dance Hall in downtown Beaumont on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 plus service charges and can be purchased at area Florida Tans, the Dixie and online at frontgatetickets.com. From Cleveland, Ohio, BTNH were signed by the late Eazy E in 1993 on Ruthless Records and released E.
The Dixie Dance Hall on Crockett Street in downtown Beaumont has quite a history. The building once housed the notorious Dixie Hotel where Madam Rita Ainsworth ran her brothel, and now, the historic country saloon is about to get a rock music makeover — at least for a night.
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* SequencingControl - sequencing API
* UnitOfWorkChangeSet, ObjectChangeSet, ChangeRecord – change sets API
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* Converter - mapping conversion
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EclipseLink Architecture
This document gives an overview of the EclipseLink architecture. It documents the components and functionality of the EclipseLink product. Its purpose is to give EclipseLink developers an overview and understanding of the EclipseLink architecture and how it evolved to where it is today. Its focus is from the internal technical perspective. This is NOT a user document.
EclipseLink was originally an object-relational mapping runtime. A class library that enables Java developers to map their business object model onto a relational database schema. EclipseLink provides object-level access to the objects stored in a relational database.
EclipseLink also provides EIS, object-relational data-type, XML, WebSevice, and SDO components. These components reuse at a minimum the mapping functionality of the core product.
EclipseLink provides a rich feature set to facilitate:
- Decoupling/flexibility of the object and data models
- Object level processing, data transparency
- Usability
- High performance, scalability, concurrency
- Adherence to standards
- Portability
Code Version
EclipseLink 1.0M1
EclipseLink was first developed through consulting engagements in the early 1990's in the Smalltalk language. It was developed to meet the needs of object-oriented applications that needed to store and access their data from relational databases. Before its first release it was refactored through several client engagements. It basic design has not changed significantly from the initial release in that its architecture is object-oriented, non-intrusive, plugable and meta-model driven.
A rough timeline that includes the major enhancements and refactoring to the product architecture follows:
- The Object People
- TopLink Smalltalk 1.0 – Descriptors, Mappings, Session, Accessor (ODBC), Cache, Indirection (proxy), Expressions (arrays), reflection
- TopLink Smalltalk 2.0 – Expressions (block), TrackingUpdateManager (backup-clones), prototype of Builder UI
- TopLink Smalltalk 2.1 - UnitOfWork (edit originals, backup-clones track changes)
- TopLink Smalltalk 4.0 – QueryFramework, SessionBroker
- TopLink Java 1.0 – Descriptors, Mappings, Session, Accessor (JDBC), Cache, QueryFramework, Expressions (tree), UnitOfWork (edit clones), Builder UI (Smalltalk, INI meta-data), Indirection (value-holders), reflection
- TopLink 2.0 – ServerSession, Session API interfaces, RemoteSession, JTS, SessionBroker
- TopLink 2.5 – EJB-CMP 1.0
- WebGain
- TopLink 3.0 – Cache Synch, SDK, XML, Mapping Workbench UI (Java, XML meta-data), EJB-CMP 1.1, JDO
- TopLink 4.0 – WebGain package rename, CMP 2.0, EJB-QL, internationalization, code generation
- Oracle
- TopLink 9.0.3 – Oracle package rename
- TopLink 9.0.4 - Sequencing redesign, JDeveloper UI (+MW)
- TopLink 10.1.3 - JPA preview, EIS, XML (OX), JAXB 1.0, JDeveloper UI, RCM cache coordination, change tracking, weaving
- TopLink 11 - JPA 1.0, JPQL, JAXB 2.0, SDO, DBWS, Eclipse Dali UI (+MW, JDev)
- Eclipse
- EclipseLink 1.0M1 - Eclipse package rename, open source
Design Approach
EclipseLink's design approach is object-oriented, non-intrusive, plugable and meta-model driven.
Object oriented:
- Descriptor and mappings are EclipseLink's object model, there is a class for each type of mapping
- Query framework is querying object model, there is a class for each type of database interaction
- Avoid object model and data model requirements
- Abstract classes used for most functionality, allows easy extension through subclassing (mappings, queries, accessors, platforms, query mechanisms, sessions, transaction controllers)
- Mapping information is stored in XML or annotations and read in at runtime into a descriptor/mapping meta-model, instead of being used to generate functional code.
Component Overview
The main logical components of EclipseLink are:
- Core - Core descriptor and mapping functionality and generic data access.
- Relational - Relational descriptor and mappings, JDBC data access.
- OR data-type - Object-relational data-type descriptor and mappings.
- Oracle - Oracle database extensions.
- EIS - Enterprise Information Systems descriptor and mappings, JCA data access and adapters.
- XML - XML descriptor and mappings, XML data access.
- JAXB - Java API for XML Binding facade and schema processing.
- JPA - Java Persistence API facade and meta-data processing.
- SDO - Service Data Objects implementation.
- DBWS - Database web services processing.
The diagram shows a somewhat idealized representation of the components and their dependencies. This differs slightly from the component organization in Eclipse SVN, and the compile time dependencies. There are some dependencies between the components that require some of the components to be coupled together. Also some components are not significant enough to warrant they own SVN component.
Code Layout
EclipseLink makes use of interfaces to define public API, and to define internal API for certain components. Abstract classes are also used in several places to define internal API. The usage of internal interfaces and abstract classes allows the architecture to be extensible and new functionality easily added.
Core Interfaces
API Interfaces:
- org.eclipse.persistence.sessions
- Session – session API
- DatabaseSession – 2-tier CRUD session API
- UnitOfWork – unit of work API
- SessionEventListener – event interface
- Record - data interface
- IdentityMapAccessor - cache API
- org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.server
- Server – server session API
- org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.changesets
- UnitOfWorkChangeSet, ObjectChangeSet, ChangeRecord – change sets API
- org.eclipse.persistence.indirection
- ValueHolderInterface – basic value holder interface
- org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors
- DescriptorEventListener – event interface
- org.eclipse.persistence.sequencing
- SequencingControl - sequencing API
- org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.transformers
- AttributeTransformer, FieldTransformer - transformation mapping conversion
- org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.converters
- Converter - mapping conversion
Internal Interfaces:
- WrapperPolicy – used for EJB2 EntityBean remote/local un/wrapping of bean instance/reference
- OptimisticLockingPolicy – abstraction of locking policy
- Call – abstraction for SQL and non-relation data source interactions
- Accessor – abstraction for JDBC and non-relational data source access
- Connector – login abstraction for different methods of data source connection
- Login – abstraction of login for relational and non-relational sessions
- SessionProfiler – abstraction for performance monitoring
- ExternalTransactionController - abstraction of external (JTA) transaction integration
- CommandManager, CommandProcessor - abstraction of cache coordination
- ServerPlatform - abstraction of JEE container
- Platform - abstraction of data source specific behavoir
- StructConverter - abstraction of complex data type conversion
- SessionLog - abstraction of log
- ObjectChangePolicy - abstraction of change tracking
Abstract classes:
- AbstractSession – session behavior (query execution, caching)
- DatabaseMapping – mapping, cloning, comparing behavoir
- DatabaseQuery – data source interaction execution
- DatabaseQueryMechanism – allows queries to support different execution types (JPQL, expression, SQL, calls)
- Expression – SQL generation, normalization, tree walking
- IdentityMap – cache
- IndirectionPolicy – indirection manipulation
- DatabaseValueHolder - deferred instantiation
- ContainerPolicy – collection manipulation
- RemoteConnection – communication independent remote abstraction
- ChangeRecord – change merging
- AbstractTransactionController – abstraction of external (JTA) transaction integration
- AbstractSynchronizationListener - abstraction of external (JTA) transaction integration
- QueryKey – query alias representation
- AbstractRecord - data representation
- TransportManager - cache coordination transport
- Sequence - sequence id allocation
- DatasourcePlatform - data source platform behavoir
- AbstractSessionLog - logging
- IdentityMapAccessor - caching behavoir
- SQLStatement - SQL generation
- EclipseLinkException - exceptions
- CacheInvalidationPolicy - cache invalidation
- AbstractCopyPolicy - object copying
- DeferredChangeDetectionPolicy - object change tracking
JPA Interfaces
XML Interfaces
Internal Interfaces:
- XMLPlatform - abstraction of XML parser


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Reagan Rothenberger, a Beaumont native and 20-year-old junior at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), was elected president of the Student Government Association (SGA) on April 17 for the 2013-14 school year, and will take office in August.
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Apple topped the US smartphone chart in the final three months of 2011, pushing past all its Android rivals. Well, just - and it's losing ground in the tablet arena.
Ask Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, a market watcher, how much of the US smartphone market Apple took in Q4 2011, and it'll put the figure at 44.9 per cent, Reuters reports.
A crushing blow to Android? Not quite - its market share fell, yes, but only to 44.8 per cent. That puts them neck-and-neck in our book.
Indeed, as Nielsen, another market watcher, revealed last week, among new smartphone owners, Android retained the top slot in Q4 2011.
During that period, Android's share to 46.9 per cent - ahead of Apple's 44.5 per cent. Nielsen's numbers come from interviews with consumers rather than shipment figures.
Still, it's a market share reduction of 5.2 per cent - in Q3 2011, Android accounted for exactly half of the market - and comes at a time when the Google OS was supposed to be steadily increasing its market share.
Google was hit relatively likely by the iPhone 4S' success. Microsoft, by contrast, saw its market share plunge below two per cent in nine major territories, the research firm said, including the US, the UK, Australia and much of Western Europe.
In the tablet space, Android increased its global market share, from 29 per cent to 39 per cent, market watcher Strategy Analytics said, those ten percentage points coming straight off Apple's. ®


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