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We've spent the past 10 days or so at the Balaton – a large lake about an hour from Budapest. It's one of the larger lakes in Europe (~70 x 10 km) with lots of great views. The lake draws a significant number of tourists from within Hungary as well as the rest of Europe. We'll spend another short stretch there before the school year begins and then visit periodically throughout the fall. Our base there is a small village called Balatonederics, a small village built into the slopes rising above the lake in the northwest corner (halfway between Kesthely and Badacsony on the map below). Dora's parents have a summer home there and spend half of the year there and half in Budapest.
I have a series of posts planned about our adventures by the lake. For starters, though, here are a couple of pictures — one showing a view OF Balatonederics and the second showing the view FROM Balatonederics.
Not the best shot of the kids, but it gives you some idea of the landscape. This picture is taken from Szigligeti Var, a castle atop a hill in the neigboring visit of Szigliget. You can see the lake, and directly above the the kids heads on the hillside in the distance is the village of Balatonederics.
This panorama is from the uppermost road in Baltonederics. Panka and I biked up there one morning and enjoyed the terrific views. The lake is to the right and various hills dot the basin surrounding the lake. The plateau in the middle of the picture (Badacsony) is about 15km away.
And finally, here is Panka and her bike at the same spot at the top of Balatonederics.


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Patrick Indermühle. Modular Exceptions — A system for handling exceptions in a modular way. Bachelor's thesis, University of Bern, September 2018. Details.
Exception handling is an integral part of programming. However, it is often not written in a way that makes it easily reusable. We have found exception handling code to often be copy pasted across multiple catch blocks instead of being made into a method. We also found that there are certain patterns across different methods when it comes to exception handling. That is why reusable exception handling would be a helpful feature for software development. By creating Modular Exceptions we offer a solution that enables programmers to easily apply and reuse exception handling to multiple methods. We achieved this by analyzing the knowledge gathered in previous research about exception handling and performing our own research of exception handling in Smalltalk. We then studied different implementation approaches such as dynamically rewriting the source code and method wrappers until we found the optimal approach. Our final product is written in Java and uses AspectJ in order to dynamically insert try-catch blocks into methods and to add exception handling into already existing catch blocks. These handler blocks are compatible with many methods and classes, and the user only has to write a few lines of code to get a specific method covered.

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Friday, May 25, 2007
Auto-Generate REST Boilerplate Code With make_resourceful
Turns out there's an awesome solution. I skipped this presentation at RailsConf, due to general hype fatigue - I needed a rest from REST - but it turns out I missed something awesome. Check the slides PDF for a way to get all the benefits of REST without any of the ugly repetition.
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Ooh, that knocks the stuffing out of acts_as_resource, with the added advantage that I don't have to maintain it.ReplyDelete
I wonder how well it plays with my latest (not quite released yet) toy; datestamped_resources, which builds you a resource of the form /resources/:year/:month/:day/:id and fixes up the named route helpers to allow to_param to return an array...
sounds handy for blogs!ReplyDelete
Exactly. I have the feeling that it's going to be, ah, interesting to fit it into Typo, which is what I developed it for, but it's reasonably non application specific.ReplyDelete
Personally, I like the simplicity and flexibility of just inheriting from a pseudo-abstract Rest controller.ReplyDelete
Our very, very earliest solution was to inherit an abstract controller. But, in the long run, we felt that it was easier to keep things clearly wrapped up in the Controller itself and utilizing a DSL for defining the overrides.
The implementation you linked to actually looks pretty good. It would make it easy to override any number of those helpers. Which, is exactly the tactic we took with ours. However, we sort of break ours up into more atomic parts. For instance... what if I like everything that "show" is doing, but I want the response to be different? I have to start from scratch?
Obviously, major changes require re-writing the entire action, but most of the time, we have found there is only one line or so I'd like to add or override about a controller action.
Anyhow, good work on that project (if its yours) and may the best implementation win! ;)
Really the only way to find out is to test them in the field. That being said, it's not necessarily a duel; probably the reason this stuff hasn't been wrapped up into Rails core yet is because it can be more effective when there are multiple solutions, since there are likely to be multiple problems for those solutions to address. REST is sufficiently complex that a one-size-fits-all solution would probably suck, so rather than the best solution winning, we may just see many solutions prosper.ReplyDelete


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It seemed like a tall order. I wanted an edible gift that was fast and easy to make, inexpensive, wouldn't spoil or need to be refrigerated, and that kids could be involved in.
With so many caveats, the field is pretty narrow. The solution I came up with – seasoned salts. The concept is simple. Blend salt with various seasonings, then package them nicely. The kids can even get in on decorating the jars.
There are just a few things to remember as you do this. Most important is that seasoned salts are intended as finishing salts. That means they should be used to season finished dishes, not during cooking. Most of the nuanced flavor of a seasoned salt would be lost if used for cooking.
For gift purposes, I suggest planning for two kinds of salt – powdered salt, which is intended for use on popcorn, and flaked salt, which is for sprinkling over finished savory foods.
First, the powdered salt. The powdered part of this is key, so it adheres to the corn kernels far better than even fine grain salt does.
Making powdered salt is simple. Use inexpensive kosher salt (usually about $1.50 for a 3-pound box), then run it through either a food processor or blender (you also can use a mortar and pestle for smaller batches) until it reaches the consistency of powdered sugar. Seasonings can be mixed in by hand after the salt is ground, or simply added to the processor or blender at the same time.
When selecting seasonings for popcorn salt, don't hesitate to get creative, even mixing sweet and savory flavors. But always aim to use seasonings with a similar texture as the powdered salt.
For flake salts intended to use on savory foods, you'll need to start with pricier flaked sea salt. You usually can find bargains on this variety at places such as Trader Joe's and similar retailers. With these salts, you simply mix them with the seasonings you want, then bottle them. Even easier than powdered salts.
You also have more choice when it comes to seasonings. No need to worry about matching the texture of the salt, which in this case tends to be large and coarse. Finely ground seasonings or more robust dried herbs, or a blend of the two, all work well.
Be sure to label your salts and include hints on what to use them on.
Popcorn Salt Combinations
Each makes enough for 4 to 6 gifts, depending on jar size)
• 1 pound kosher salt, six 3-inch cinnamon sticks, 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper. Grind everything together.
• 1 pound kosher salt, 2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice blend. Mix the spice blend into the salt after it is ground.
• 1 pound kosher salt, 4 teaspoons garlic powder, 4 teaspoons smoked paprika. Mix the spice blend into the salt after it is ground.
• 1 pound kosher salt, 2 1/2 tablespoons Sichuan pepper. Grind everything together.
Savory Salt Combinations
Each makes 1 to 2 gifts, depending on jar size
• 1/2 cup flaked salt, 2 teaspoons dried oregano, 2 teaspoons dried basil, 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1/2 cup flaked salt, 1 1/2 tablespoons fennel seed, 2 teaspoons cumin seed, 2 teaspoons mustard powder
• 1/2 cup flakes salt, 2 teasoons curry powder


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This time we are featuring Darrell Sheets from Storage Wars an American reality television series on the A&E Network that premiered in 2010. The show features the actioneering couple of Dan Dotson and Laura Dotson, as well as buyers Barry Weiss, team of Darrell & Brandon Sheets, and the team of Jarrod Schulz & Brandi Passante, and Dave Hester. I hope you will enjoy drawing this tutorial. Please fav, show your love, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.
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Ravenscroft Vintner's Choice Champagne glass concentrates nutty, yeasty aromas of great sparkling wine. Champagne like all cool climate wines require a tight bowl that will bring into focus and concentrate the delicate perfume of such wines. The Ravenscroft Vintner's Choice Champagne glass, has etching at the center of the bowl preserves and centers the stream of escaping effervescence is the perfect precision tool for the privilege of Champagne. Sadly, many wine lovers miss the beautiful perfume of Champagne. This will not happen with the Ravenscroft Vintner's Choice Champagne glass. Experience the world's most exciting classily formed Champagne glass and never miss the complete privilege of Champagne again! If all of this were not enough Ravenscroft Vintner's Choice is the definition of affordable elegance. The quality is unsurpassed and cost is such a delight to the discriminating wine lover in us all!
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Revamped Groups
We are excited to announce a huge update to a feature you've all been asking about for some time. Capture Cincinnati groups have been completely revamped!
The initial vision for groups was to create an online place for a real-life group. The idea was to not have groups about topics but instead groups that first exist in real life. Although the idea may have been well meaning, it never panned out to be as successful as we'd hoped. Group pages have been some of our least visited pages across the entire site! We aim to fix that with this update.
Over the last few weeks (and even months), we've received requests for more topic-oriented groups. Users have asked for groups to be a spot to collect photos about a particular subject or interest. So, we went back to the drawing board and tried to figure out how we could make groups a really useful place for users. Here's what we came up with...
A group is a spot for Capture Cincinnati users who share a particular interest (or locale, eye color, favorite band, whatever) to join up, share photos with one another and discuss things in group-specific forums. The three main components of groups are:
Group Members: Groups can be public or private. For any public group, simply click "join the group" and you're in! Once you're a member of the group you can add photos to the group and join group discussions. You can join as many groups as you'd like, although we recommend joining groups you really have an interest in.
Group Photos: As a group member you can select photos to add to the group for others to see. Obviously, you want to be selective with what you're adding (since that's the point of a group). For example, if you're a member of the "Rodents are Rad" group, no one wants to see a photo of your car.
Group Discussions: One of the coolest aspects of groups is the ability to have discussions within a group. Get to know other group members, talk about how to capture a specific shot, ask for critiques, organize get-togethers, and so on.
So what are you waiting for? Check out the current Capture Cincinnati groups and join the ones you're interested in, or create a new group if you don't see something you like. We hope to see groups for puppy lovers, car junkies, musicians, downtown photographers, folks with blue hair, Nikon owners, strobists, or whatever else floats your boat!
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Global regulators are holding closed-door meetings with financial industry representatives to discuss derivatives rules that banks have sought to curb, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Regulators including the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission met in Washington yesterday to discuss the cross-border reach of derivatives rules, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the meeting was private. The meeting, convened by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco), included representatives of the world's largest swap dealers as well as consumer advocates.
The Iosco panel is gathering information on differences between rules in the U.S. and elsewhere in an effort to improve coordination of regulations put in place since the 2008 credit crisis. The group has also held meetings in London and Hong Kong, one of the people said.
The international reach of swap rules has been among the most contentious issues between regulators and financial firms that operate around the world. Wall Street lobbying groups representing banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. sought in a December lawsuit to limit the CFTC's ability to impose rules outside the U.S.
The agency has also begun monitoring the latest effort by U.S. banks to avoid CFTC restrictions by restructuring their overseas trading divisions, an agency official said last week. U.S. banks have taken steps in recent months to trade swaps with each other and with foreign-based banks outside of Dodd-Frank Act rules, the person said.
The latest wrinkle arises from the rules that Dodd-Frank applies to trades in overseas affiliates that operate with the financial guarantee of their parent U.S. firm. Non-guaranteed affiliates are subject to less scrutiny than overseas branches or guaranteed affiliates, the agency said in July guidance.
The largest swap dealers have been removing those guarantees from affiliates or specific transactions so they can trade with each other in the interdealer market without being subject to CFTC rules mandating price competition, according to three other people familiar with the transactions who also asked for anonymity.
"It's really incumbent upon us to figure out what's going on," Scott O'Malia, a Republican commissioner, said yesterday in a phone interview. He said he has asked the CFTC for a memo or legal analysis about the industry's actions with non-guaranteed affiliates and transactions and how they interact with the agency's cross-border guidance.
Unraveling Dodd-Frank
"You could potentially use this to unravel big chunks of Dodd-Frank," said Marcus Stanley, policy director for Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition that includes the AFL-CIO labor union. The CFTC should institute a default presumption that affiliates are guaranteed by their parent company unless a bank can prove otherwise, he said. "If they can't do that then they should be seen as guaranteed."
The CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which also has oversight of derivatives, are letting U.S. banks pretend their foreign affiliates aren't backed by their domestic banks, Senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, said in an e-mailed statement.
"The CFTC and the SEC must close this dangerous loophole and close it quickly, and if they don't the Federal Reserve should use its own supervisory authority to act," Merkley said.
The CFTC has also faced criticism from regulators around the world. A committee of Asian regulators that is part of Iosco told the CFTC in a letter on April 9 that swap markets are becoming fragmented because traders outside the U.S. are taking steps to avoid falling under Dodd-Frank, particularly rules requiring deals to occur on new swap execution facilities.
The venues are designed to encourage price competition and transparency between buyers and sellers.
"These reforms appear to have caused market disruptions," Ashley Alder, chairman of the Asia Pacific committee and chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, said in the letter. "Regulators should defer to each other where the quality of their respective regulations and enforcement regimes achieve similar regulatory outcomes."
In an e-mail, the secretariat of Iosco said the organization couldn't provide immediate comment.


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Our story
Two schools, Catlin-Hillside School and Gabel Country Day School, merged in 1957 to become Catlin Gabel School. The school relocated to the current campus in 1958. Our predecessor schools were founded by strong women who were leaders in the progressive education movement. Today, Catlin Gabel enrolls over 760 students in preschool through 12th grade.
Gabel History
The history of Catlin Gabel reaches back to 1859 with the founding of Portland Academy in downtown Portland. By 1920, Portland Academy became the Preparatory School, where Priscilla Gabel was a teacher. In 1931, the Preparatory School had become Miss Gabel's School. In 1936, Miss Gabel relocated to a former golf club in rural Raleigh Hills, renaming the school Gabel Country Day School.
"A true education involves more than formal development of the mind alone—it must develop the whole nature of a young human being to the utmost of his [or her] individual capacity." —Priscilla Gabel, circa 1946
Catlin History
Ruth Catlin began Miss Catlin's School in 1911 on Northwest Lovejoy Avenue, moving into the school building she had constructed on Northwest Culpepper Terrace in 1917. She added the Hillside building to the campus in 1926. In 1928, Miss Catlin deeded the school to the board of trustees, which incorporated as the Catlin-Hillside School.
"To maintain a school with the most enlightened ideals of education, content of work and methods of teaching, where each pupil is the unit of consideration, under conditions which will serve to develop his [or her] fullest powers as an individual and as a group member."—Ruth Catlin, 1928


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'Avoiding Heat Stress' employee program offered
The Office of Regulatory Compliance and Safety is offering a new program to Mississippi State University employees titled "Avoiding Heat Stress," which addresses the considerations of working in hot environments both indoors and outdoors.
The program covers the symptoms of heat-related illness, environmental factors that increase the chance of being affected by a heat-related illness, the administrative and engineering controls that can reduce the chance of being affected, and some additional helpful tips.
If you are interested in having employees participate in this free program, please contact Alicia Musselwhite at 662-325-4607 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This is a poppy, energetic, piece of synth pop rock. It features distortion guitars, live drums, synthetic drums, bass guitar, synth bass, and a few other treats. It's got hand clappies on the chorus and a really awesome melody line.
It's high energy and loud but still sensitive and romantic with a high power breakdown before the final chorus. Perfect for advertisements, television, product demo, etc.


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Rachel Davis and the boys from Steppin' In It will present a free concert at Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S Rose St, June 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Davis and Steppin' In It, both past performers at KPL, joined forces as a new quintet, Shout Sister Shout (named after the Sister Rosetta Tharpe classic), in 2006 after playing concerts as a double-bill. See video clips of previous KPL performances by Rachel Davis and Steppin' In It on YouTube.
Although Davis and Steppin' In It both enjoy national reputations for folk repertoires, Shout Sister Shout stretches them in the realm of old-time American Jazz with torch swing numbers mixed with bluesy ballads. Steppin' In It is known for their revival of old-time music, and its performers provide an ideal backdrop for the shimmering vocal versatility of Rachel Davis. The Detroit Metro Times says: "The quintet is a tribute to the smoky, sophisticated sound of the 1930s and 40s jazz, with plenty of influence from Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole Trio and Sarah Vaughn, and it's a trip to hear Davis channel those old greats."
Born in Lansing, Michigan, Davis spend nearly six years in Chicago before her musician parents settled in Cadillac, Michigan, where encouraging family members, friends and other musicians nurtured her developing talent. Davis has spent most of her life involved with music in one way or another. In 2001 she moved to Boston where she won a Boston Music Award for Best New Singer-Songwriter. In 2003, Davis won the grand prize in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's Troubadour Contest. The Detroit Free Press says, "Davis commands a voice older than her years, an instrument that is equally sure expressing strength and vulnerability, and her songwriting is fearlessly eclectic."
Celebrating Amercian roots music, Steppin' In It is an acoustic quartet with hearts based in tradition and minds forever moving in creative directions. The combination of multi-instrumentalists Andy and Joe Wilson, upright bassist Dominic Suchyta and singer/songwriter Joshua Davis is a rootsy roller coaster ride of original and traditional music. Playing everything from blues to bluegrass, calypso to cajun, woeful waltzes to western swing, Steppin' In It has become one of Michigan's most sought after live acts. — CD Baby
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Nashville, TENN. — How could Carter Bancks ever forget his first appearance in the Western Hockey League?
Sixteen years old, he'd been called up from the Kimberley (Junior B) Dynamiters in time to join the Lethbridge Hurricanes at the tail-end of the 2005-06 campaign.
"I got hit so hard on my first shift I could hardly see straight," said Bancks, with a chuckle. "I was only 145, 150 pounds back then. It was against the boards. The end of a shift, I had to get the puck in deep. (Portland's Mike Funk) was a little bit bigger and skated a little bit faster than the defencemen in Junior B — so he closed that gap pretty quick and caught me pretty good.
"But that kind of settled me right in. After that, it went really well."
First games do end up being memorable for different reasons.
In his professional debut — only days after finishing his overage year with Lethbridge — Bancks did well enough that he stuck with the Abbotsford Heat for their American Hockey League playoff run in 2010.
"That was a big jump," he said. "I definitely had to adjust."
Now there's another — and very obvious — check mark he'd like to stick on his hockey list.
And he may get it Tuesday when the Flames take on the Nashville Predators. Bancks said he hasn't been told if he's in the lineup.
Regardless, he's ready for that first spin in the NHL.
"I'm going to keep working hard in practice and showing up with a positive attitude," said the 23-year-old winger, who skated alongside Paul Byron and Akim Aliu during Monday's session at the Bridgestone Arena. "Hopefully, I'll get a chance to play. The butterflies are going to be there, there's no doubt about that."
All around him in the dressing room are players who have recently put that NHL notch on their belts. Guys such as Max Reinhart, Ben Hanowski, Mark Cundari.
"I'm already pretty nervous just coming to practices," said Bancks, a five-foot-11, 180-pound pepper pot. "I mean, I've worked my whole life for this opportunity. It hasn't always been the easiest way for me . . . but it's definitely worth it to come up here for this last week. It's already been a tonne of fun, a great experience."
Flames rookie defenceman Mark Cundari's ice time Sunday was no record, but it had been noteworthy.
His toil, 24:54, was the most for an NHL debut since Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman's 26:27 on Oct. 3, 2009. And Cundari's first appearance with the Flames had been busier than even that of Dion Phaneuf, who piled up 24:10.
"It felt longer, to be honest, because I was exhausted," Cundari said of his workload. "The third period came around and I was looking up at the clock and I was like, 'Oh my, there's 13 minutes left. I'm dying right now.' I definitely wasn't expecting to play that much. Oh man, I slept. I watched a little TV, a little ESPN, then I fell asleep. I was out cold."
Now, after collecting a goal and an assist in his first game, the bar has been set awfully high.
"I guess you could say that," said Cundari, chuckling. "But not every game is going to be a two-point performance and 25 minutes of ice time, but I definitely felt comfortable playing here. And I feel that I'll definitely keep producing . . . and hopefully we get more outcomes like that."
He did hear from plenty of well-wishers immediately after the 4-1 win in Minnesota.
"Before we got on the (post-game) flight, there had to be 30, 35 (voice mails and texts)," he said. "They kept pouring in. It was cool to hear from everyone."
To be honest, it looked better than expected.
Sure, Cory Sarich had a black eye. But his poor old honker was actually straight — unlike the previous night when Minnesota defender Clayton Stoner, with a punch, had relocated it about an inch to the west. A doctor at the rink had reset it.
"He puts a little tool up there and whacks it into place," said Sarich. "I thought it would be (painful), but it wasn't bad at all. Maybe because my nose has been broken so many times before, it was ready for it.
Asked for a career total for busted beaks, the Flames veteran hemmed and hawed.
"I don't know," he said. "I've cracked it a numerous amount of times right on the bridge. Probably four or five times, I've cracked it . . . but I've never really had it knocked out of place like that before. So that was a first."
Sarich, who practised with his mates Monday afternoon, indicated that he's ready for action.
"I'm fine," he said. "It's a little tender. I don't think I'd want to take one off it again any time soon. Other than that, it's all right."
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The essence of AJAX is that we don't need to request the whole page from the server every time we want to change it. Instead, the page contains some clever dynamic things in it (with Tapestry these things are AJAX-enabled components) that can communicate with the server behind the scenes and redisplay themselves with new information quickly and smoothly in some clever way.
I decided to introduce one of Tapestry's AJAX components now because Autocompleter is quite similar to the PropertySelection component we dealt with in the previous article. It has the same two required bindings, model and value, and its model is an implementation of a special interface with a few methods for us to implement. So it shouldn't be too difficult.
The idea is to propose to the users of the CelebrityCollector application an alternative way of selecting a Celebrity of the Week. We don't want to keep them desperately searching a long list of celebrities trying to find their favorite. Instead, they will enter the first few characters of their favorite's surname into the Autocompleter, and this clever component, after an invisible rendezvous with the server, will suggest a list of available surnames starting from the entered characters. Here is the result we want to achieve:
As usual, let's begin with a mock up. Here is the old form for selecting a Celebrity of the Week:
<form action="" jwcid="@Form">
<select jwcid="selectCelebrity">
<option value="1">Angelina Jolie</option>
<option value="2">Bill Gates</option>
<input type="submit" value="Save"/>
Change it to become
<form action="" jwcid="@Form">
<select jwcid="selectCelebrity">
<option value="1">Angelina Jolie</option>
<option value="2">Bill Gates</option>
<input type="text" jwcid="auto"/>

<input type="submit" value="Save"/>
The addition is very simple: we use a text box as a placeholder for the future Autocompleter, and it is marked as a Tapestry component. The next step is to configure this component in the page specification:
<component id="auto" type="Autocompleter">
<binding name="model" value="autoModel"/>
<binding name="value" value="celebrityOfTheWeek"/>
It looks very similar to PropertySelection, doesn't it? It connects straight to the ASO, in the same way as the PropertySelection does, but its model should implement a different interface, the IAutocompleteModel.
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Create a new Java class, named, say, AutoModel, let it implement the IAutocompleteModel interface and then allow NetBeans to automatically create all the required methods (follow the steps outlined in the previous article for the IPropertySelectionModel). As a result, you should have something similar to this:
package com.devshed.tapestry.celebrities;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.tapestry.dojo.form.IAutocompleteModel;
public class AutoModel implements IAutocompleteModel {
public AutoModel() {
public String getLabelFor(Object obj) {
return null;
public List getValues(String input) {
return null;
public Object getPrimaryKey(Object obj) {
return null;
public Object getValue(Object id) {
return null;
First of all, let's pass to the model a list of available Celebrity objects in its constructor, in the same way we did this for the IPropertySelectionModel. The only difference is that I decided to use the Java 5 coding style in this example:
private List<Celebrity> celebrities;
public AutoModel(List<Celebrity> celebrities) {
this.celebrities = celebrities;
Now let's look at the methods. The first one, getLabelFor(), is self-descriptive. It accepts an object from the displayed list, in this case a Celebrity object, and should return a string to be displayed for this object by the Autocompleter. Let's just return the celebrity's surname:
public String getLabelFor(Object obj) {
Celebrity c = (Celebrity) obj;
return c.getLastName();
The next method, getValues(), is probably the most interesting, and the most Autocompleter-specific. When the user enters the first few characters of the surname, Autocompleter needs to make a request to the server behind the scenes, passing the entered characters and asking for the server to return all celebrities that match the input. In other words, the Autocompleter will ask the server to filter all available celebrities according to some criteria. Which criteria? This is exactly what we define in the getValues() method. The server will invoke this method on the Autocompleter's model and return whatever the method returns. Let's have a look at the completed method first and then discuss what it does:
public List getValues(String input) {
List<Celebrity> list = new ArrayList<Celebrity>();
for (Celebrity c : celebrities) {
if (c.getLastName().toLowerCase().startsWith(
input.toLowerCase())) {
return list;
First of all, we are preparing a new empty list to be returned by the server:
List<Celebrity> list = new ArrayList<Celebrity>();
Than we take all the available celebrities and iterate through them using that convenient new Java 5 version of the for operator:
for (Celebrity c : celebrities) {
On each iteration we are checking whether the current celebrity's surname starts with the characters entered by the user. We are converting both the surname and the entered characters to lower case, so it doesn't matter which case was used for input. If the surname matches, we are adding that celebrity to the returned list:
if (c.getLastName().toLowerCase().startsWith(input.toLowerCase())) {
The remaining two methods are simple. The getPrimaryKey() should return some unique identifier for the given Celebrity object. As Celebrity has an id property, we can simply return it:
public Object getPrimaryKey(Object obj) {
Celebrity c = (Celebrity) obj;
return c.getId();
Note that the id is of the primitive int type while the method returns an Object; that's fine from the Java 5 point of view as it will use autoboxing – i.e. automatically convert int into Integer.
Finally, in the getValue() method we are asked to find an appropriate Celebrity object by the given unique identifier. We are simply iterating through the available celebrities, and as soon as one's id matches the method's parameter, we are returning that object:
public Object getValue(Object id) {
Integer i = (Integer) id;
for (Celebrity c : celebrities) {
if (c.getId() == i.intValue()) return c;
return null;
The last step in getting Autocompleter ready is to provide to it a model in the CelebritiesList class:
public IAutocompleteModel getAutoModel() {
return new AutoModel(getCelebrities());
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2. Turn the  element into the Body component. This will show Tapestry where to place any JavaScript it might want to write for us:

3. Mark the existing <DOCTYPE> and  elements for removal as they will be added by the Shell component and we don't want them to be duplicated:
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Now, the moment of truth has arrived. Run the application and navigate to the page with the table of celebrities. You will see that the text box that we've used in the mock up became something different, something which looks like a drop-down list:
Try typing the character g into this fancy control (well, that's because we have two celebrities with surnames starting with "G") and you should see how Autocompleter works. It's AJAX in action!
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Now we have some experience with Autocompleter, one of Tapestry's AJAX components. I hope you will agree that it wasn't too difficult to deal with — at least, it wasn't more difficult than the PropertySelection component.
Now, as a reward for your perseverance, I want to show you another AJAX component, InlineEditBox. It provides a fascinating bit of functionality, and it is also unbelievably easy to configure.
Do you remember that Details page where we were displaying detailed information about a celebrity? Say we want to allow users to edit that information. This functionality might not fit the whole logic of the existing application quite nicely, so consider this as a diversion designed just to show off the InlineTextBox component.
Say we want to allow users to edit the occupation of the displayed celebrity. This is how we are displaying the occupation now:
Actor
And here is how the component is currently configured in the page specification:
<component id="occupation" type="Insert">
<binding name="value" value="celebrity.occupation"/>
To enable editing, all we need to do is replace the Insert component with the InlineTextBox component. And since the latter has exactly the same required binding as the former, all we need to do is change the type of the component:
<component id="occupation" type="InlineEditBox">
<binding name="value" value="celebrity.occupation"/>
It's as simple as that!
You will also need to remove the currently used Insert component from the title of the page, as Tapestry will not be happy seeing a component inside of the removed block of markup (the ). Let the title be just
<title>Celebrity Collector</title>
Then remove the fullName2 component from the page specification and rename the jwcid="fullName2" reference in the page template into just jwcid="fullName". You can use the source code provided in the zip file at the beginning of this article to make sure everything is correct.
Now run the application, navigate to the Details page, and at first glance you won't notice anything different. However, if you hover your mouse pointer over the value for the occupation, in this case "Programmer ;)", you'll notice that the page background slightly changes its color:
Now, click on the word, and you'll see a magical change happening:
The word can now be edited! Make some changes and press the Save button. The occupation changes accordingly. And you can be sure that the change was invisibly reported to the server, and stored in the property of the page class bound to this control. Isn't this magic? Especially considering the amount of effort (close to zero) required to invoke all this rich functionality!
The two components we have just learned to use, Autocompleter and InlineEditBox, might be the most useful of all the Dojo-powered components, and at the same time they are so easy to use. But Tapestry has more components in this group: a Dialog, to display a fancy modal dialog, a DropdownDatePicker and a DropdownTimePicker, the purpose of which should be clear from their names. There is also a magical EventListener annotation that allows you to connect a wide range of possible events in the user's browser with listener methods of the page class, thus opening fantastic opportunities for us developers… but let me leave all these treasures until a later article.
For now, I am going to return to my earlier plans and demonstrate one of the most impressive features of Tapestry, from the point of view of everyday Web development: the ease with which you can create and add to your toolbox just any custom component you are able to imagine. This will be the topic of the next article.
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by Tracy Weissenberg
When you enter the Willis & Walker Atlanta showroom, you immediately notice the details. The room is made to welcome the customer, make him feel as if he is in his own domain, ready to purchase clothing especially tailored for him.
NBA veteran and former Hawks star Kevin Willis, who studied fashion and textiles at Michigan State, founded the company in 1988 with his college friend Ralph Walker. "Being seven foot, and not being able to go anywhere and buy anything. We weren't even talking about fashion back then, as far as that sense of style, we just wanted something that we could put on and look halfway decent," says Willis.
The first product was leather jackets, made after an impromptu trip to New York to buy the leather, which was then sewn by another friend. After seeing people's reaction to the jackets, Willis and Walker took note of the immediate demand and recognized their potential niche. The company gradually expanded to suits, and in 2003, launched the denim line. Willis now solely runs the company with partners in New York, and talks about the brand's evolution, saying, "Now it's more of a lifestyle collection. It's everything that a man can wear. From outerwear, to knits, wovens, suits, jeans, twill pants, leather, headwear, t-shirts, all of that."
While one might wonder the steps a professional basketball player took to fully absorb and ingratiate himself within the world of fashion, he did what most other passionate and enthusiastic people out of college do: Internships.
Asked to describe his style, Willis uses the phrase "dynamic elegance" and "simple, classic, modern." It is the same philosophy he has extended to his brand. And from the showroom, to the collection, Willis' work is in the details. As he points out, even the company's logo hints at the shape of a basketball going through a net. While unintentional, it could not be more fitting to reflect the merging passions of the former NBA All-Star.
NBA.com: Let's first talk about the showroom. What was your philosophy behind this space?
Kevin Willis: I think it's a gem, it's a hidden treasure. The location is spectacular, right in Buckhead, it's off Peachtree. When I came in, it was an antique store at first. So when the gentlemen moved out, it was just open floor. There was nothing here. Great space, beautiful windows. My mind really got going, I was very anxious to start proceeding with developing and building, and designing the whole showroom. Once I got going, it took about one to two months to get to where I wanted to be. We built the cabinets, all of the shelves, we painted, we did four walls, we did all of the glass walls upstairs, I put all that stuff in. I wanted it to feel like it welcomes the consumer. When he comes to the door, I want him to feel that this is speaking to him. I wanted him to feel that he is at home in his own closet, in his own environment, where he didn't want to leave. That's what I thought I wanted to create, and we did it. From the apparel, to the seating, the oversized chairs, the larger counters, the oversized sofa, everything is a scale for guys who are taller.
NBA.com: There are so many details that connect the clothing to the design of this showroom. Did you have a hand in all of the interior decorating?
KW: The interior decorating I did all myself. Everything from the very chairs that we're sitting on, the benches, the artwork, the lights, the shelves that hold the jeans. Everything. Everything has this classic feel to it, where it doesn't feel that in two or three years you'll have to change something out because it's outdated. That's what I wanted to create. I wanted a timeless feel once you walk in here.
NBA.com: How would you describe your company's style?
KW: It's very modern. It's classic. It has a timeless feel to it. Extremely comfortable. The garments are well-fitted. The fabrics are impeccable. The balance of the garment is really good, from the shoulders, to the length of the coats. The jeans are very comfortable. I offer maybe five different fits, and 24 or 25 different finishes, from washes, to raws, to different coated fabrics, to your clean 10 ounce all the way up to 12 ounce denim, both in salvage and American goods. I use four or five different actual denim mills to create this look, and it's been fun.
NBA.com: We all take it for granted to be able to walk into stores and buy clothing off the racks. How big a novelty is it for a very tall guy to now be able to walk into a department store and purchase clothing that does not have to be custom made?
KW: I've been shopping those stores for many, many years, and I don't get frustrated because I understand their business model. They don't focus on guys 6-foot-3, 6-foot-4 and above. That's not their core customer. Their bottom line is to raise that bottom line, they're about getting product out that door. My challenge was just to get them to understand there is a customer out there. I know you want that customer, but do you know how to get that customer? I sort of had to educate the buyers, I had to talk to the people on the sales floor and educate them about the actual product, who this customer is, how you could get this customer to come to your store maybe two and a half, three times a year and buy this product. Selling the product, I'm never worried about. It sells itself.
NBA.com: People will walk into Saks Fifth Avenue and see your finished line, but can you talk about the process that it took to get there?
KW: The process was extensive. It was a long road because the biggest challenge, I think for me, was trying to get the fashion industry, or the people in the fashion industry, to take me seriously. That was the biggest challenge. Even though I had a passion, they know Kevin Willis as the NBA player. The guy who played 22 years, or the guy who played with the Atlanta Hawks in my earlier days. I would never say that's not him, because it is him because the NBA has afforded me to do what I'm doing right now. But I had to educate myself. It's one thing to make clothes, but knowledge is the key — in any industry. I had to understand the lingo, speak the talk, walk the walk, learn the language, learn the industry. How to put the garments together, from the patterns to the washes, selecting fabrics. Dealing with the manufacturers, so they won't sort of put your stuff on the back burner because they're getting a larger order coming in. And build those relationships with those factories, and have a good rapport with those guys, and know how to deal with them since I was a smaller company. Once I did that, I had to start to establish relationships with people in the industry from the media, to the buyers, to the store managers, to the sales teams, sales associates. You have to build relationships with these people, because once the product leaves me, it goes into their hands. If you don't have that relationship, or they're not educated about your product, they can't sell that product. If you can't sell the product, then the store puts it on sale and tries it that way. If it doesn't sell then, you're out the door. Nine times out of 10, they won't bring you back. My thing was to build those relationships first, because the product speaks for itself. Once I learned about the actual garment, the process, it just fell right into place. I always loved clothing and I wanted to bridge that gap. And I'm speaking for the guys who aren't in the NBA, or NFL or MLB. They're just tall men in corporate America or wherever, but they want fashion. They want to look cool, they want to feel sexy, they want to feel like they have not been sort of like outcasted and forgotten about. That was my mission.
NBA.com: That's very true about lingo. How were you able to learn the fashion industry from the inside out?
KW: The NBA offers its players internships in the summer. When we had our annual meetings every year, every basketball season, two or three seasons go by, and I listened to the guys. One year, I broke my foot and I didn't have to go to the meetings, but I never forgot in those meetings that we would talk about if you want to further your education, if you want to go back and do what you did in college, or if you have a desire to get to dabble into corporate America — any field, we can provide that service for you. We can get that done for you during the offseason. It was my offseason all year because my foot was broken. I remember contacting the league, and telling them 'I want to do an internship in fashion, can you guys help me?' They set everything up. They actually flew me to New York. I had to report to the NBA office, every morning at nine o'clock, fully suited. They would give me my schedule for the day. I would take that schedule, jump in a cab, and go to each one of those appointments, an hour, two hours, and learn everything I could. For four summers straight I did that.
NBA.com: That sounds like a unique situation because you didn't have to just intern with one company, you got exposed to many different brands.
KW: They were setting me up with appointments with say a company like Perry Ellis. I would go into the Perry Ellis office, meet who I needed to meet, they would give me the everyday process from administrative, to back office, warehousing, distribution, fabrics, how the garment was constructed. Even going to the actual manufacturing plants, where they do all the sewing, and you see tons of stuff. So I had to go through all these different processes and channels and learn this. And they'd go from nine o'clock until five every day. And every day it would be a new company. One of the ones I really remember is called the Doneger Group, and they're a forecasting group for the entire world. Anything that you need to know, what's coming out for 2018, 2017, that's their business. They have all these relationships with people all over the world. Retailers, anybody. They taught me a lot of valuable information that I carry along to this day. I'm still today in contact with those principals who helped me back in 1989.
NBA.com: Lastly, leave us with your vision for Willis & Walker.
KW: My vision for Willis & Walker is to grow it into a lifestyle brand where every guy who's shared that common thread — I can't find anything that will fit me — who's afraid to go into Saks or any of these higher-end retailers, because he's afraid to be turned down. He's afraid that they're not thinking about me. Once I build this brand, he will be able to one day go into those stores and buy something off the rack. Walk out of there with a smile on his face and say, 'You know what, this guy has figured it out, Willis & Walker has figured it out.' I want this to be a global lifestyle brand.


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Mark Zuckerberg's sister and the producer of Bravo's Silicon Valley:Startups reality show was the entertainment at AOL Mobile's Hard Rock Hotel CES bash.
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The brilliant Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire.
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As Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski prepares for a fourth surgery on his forearm and a probable back surgery, we've been reminded of the concerns that caused Gronkowski, a potential first-round pick in the 2010 draft, to slide to round two.
While a stellar performance in 2011 blew the red flags away, Gronkowski has had multiple injuries during his time in the NFL. His career fairly can be characterized as being at a crossroads.
Plenty of league insiders and observers aren't surprised. In 2010, several teams had him off the draft board due to his health. He had missed three games in 2008, and all of the 2009 season after injuring his back while lifting weights. As late as February 2010, he wasn't able to run.
Even after the 2009 surgery, Gronkowski had a significant bulging disc in two different areas of his back. As a result, many believed he would have chronic back issues, and that his NFL career would be short.
After three seasons, it's unclear when Gronkowski will be ready for his fourth. And given the injuries he has sustained during those three years, it's hard not to wonder how many more he has left.
While it makes him look even smarter for signing a long-term contract when he did, the Pats may never have to decide whether to fork over a $10 million option bonus in 2016, because he has to make it through three more seasons before that question even becomes pertinent.


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Dark Thoughts In Two-Dimensional Freakishness
We'll slightly deviate from the normal Freak Show Friday to delve into freaky what-ifs. Some freaks only exist in the minds of those who dwell on such things. Some are fortunate enough to be able to express these dark thoughts into two-dimensional depictions of their troubled ideas. I scrawled these nightmares on what one could do with a rusty truck body, time, and talent.
These originally ran in Rod & Custom magazine back in '07 because HOT ROD had class back then. Since I joined the staff they have given up any semblance of class—which is also why we have Elana. Besides knowing more than the rest of the staff, she also stands in for the us on those occasions when "class" is called for. But I digress…
Basically these are suggesting what one would do with an old truck body if they are considering building a high boy, but lack the funds and $25,000 Deuce roadster body. Sketchy foundations, but that's where troubled minds wander at times. Below each image is a quickie description. If you are so inclined to attempt such madness, keep 'ol HOT ROD in mind for updates we can share with the other freaks.
1958-60 Dodge Truck
There has got to be virtually no demand for one of these rusted halfway up the doors, but with a little imagination and a blown 392 Hemi you could transform the worthless rust bucket into a high boy pickup. The front of the body at the frame is the front of the hood grafted to the cowl. The body itself would have to be narrowed, and sliced at an angle at the bottom to rid yourself of the rust but also to take some body height out of the thing. The bed could be anything currently repro'd. The frame would be just a scaled-up T-bucket with a healthy kick-up. You'd have to fab the wrapping windshield posts but if you're even contemplating this freak then you've probably got the talent to pull that off.
1948-54 Chevy Truck
Chevy had to have made millions of these trucks, and so finding a rusted example should be easier than hunting Easter eggs. Narrow the body, cut the door tops off and work the tops of the doors to eliminate any semblance of said frame, and chop and lean back the windshield posts. The grille could be anything you wish, in keeping with the overall theme of '50s Chevy pickup what-if. To keep the vibe going, how 'bout a Wayne Horning head and a threesome of Weber carbs on a 270 straight six?
1967-72 Ford Truck
The folks over at Painless Wiring pulled this off not long after these originally ran in '07, but we include it again as proof that you can actually do this. They called theirs the "Truckster". Narrow the body, whack a few inches off of the bottom of the body, fab simple windshield posts or adapt some from an old roadster, and you're on your way. The tank is relieved on the bottom for the early Ford banjo rear end, to help keep things all old Ford—as we had done with the flathead and '36-39 Ford artillery wheels. A painted Model A grille finishes off this freaky Ford.
Bonus '60-66 Chevy Truck
This was not from these original sketches but while digging through those musty old flat files I found this and thought it sort of goes with the general theme of doing something with almost nothing—rusty old trucks in our case here. Besides the heavy chop the body has been sawed off at an angle severely wedging the overall profile of the old Chevy. A passenger car frame and suspension from something newer and better handling would probably be in order. Those '60-61 snarky hood nostrils look kinda cool from our 2014 perspective, though they have not been on top of the Chevy truck hit parade for all of these years.
Other Freak Show Fridays of interest:
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Further Investigation Into Missoula Gunshots [AUDIO]
Missoula police investigated a report of shots fired outside a residence in the area of 14th and Mount at about 9 o'clock on Thursday night. Now, more potential damage may have been found.
Detective Sergeant Ed McCkean says a resident in the area found damage to a vehicle, along with a bullet and shell casing. Police are asking anyone in the neighborhood to check for damage that may have been caused by the gunshots, and contact them with information.
The 15 year-old juvenile girl allegedly fire the shots and was charged with a misdemeanor in juvenile court.
Detective Sergeant Ed McClean


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Landing Page Optimization: A step-by-step process for optimizing your landing pages
Watch this webinar with Khalid Saleh, a bestselling Amazon author and conversion optimization expert to learn the fundamentals of optimizing conversions on landing pages. You'll get a step-by-step framework for landing page optimization, with case studies that show how to implement it on your landing pages.
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March 8, 2011
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Junior Chris Peterson set three new school records at last week's Pac-10 Championships helping him earn this week's UCSBgauchos.com/Golden I Athlete of the Week honor.
Peterson took fourth place in the 50 freestyle with a school record time of 19.49 seconds, which snapped Jason Lezak's 1998 record in the event by .18 seconds.
He broke Lezak's last remaining school record two days later when he swam the 100 free in 43.45 seconds, which surpassed the previous school record by .05 seconds. Peterson took eighth in the event.
The junior's third record of the weekend was a team effort in the Gauchos' fourth-place 400 free relay. Along with Garrett Thompson, Ryan Hanni and Kevin Ferguson, Peterson helped set a new school record in the event at 2:52.90. The time was 2.03 seconds faster than the previous school record in the event and was a NCAA `B' cut.
Peterson also anchored the Gauchos' fourth-place 200 medley relay, which posted a NCAA `B' cut of 1:28.28, which is the third-best time in program history.
Peterson and the rest of the Gauchos will find out later this week if they have been invited to the 2011 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, which are being held Mar. 24-26 in Minneapolis, Minn.


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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 17, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LS9, Inc., a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels, today announced the expansion of its operations at the Company's Okeechobee, Florida demonstration facility with a successful customer trial. The Florida facility was initially designed, and has been used, to scale-up LS9's fermentation technology and generate large commercial samples for testing and product qualification by key partners and prospective customers. Since the company's initial run at 135,000 liter scale in the third quarter of last year, LS9 has made several additional fatty alcohol runs of this size as well as smaller production runs of fatty acid methyl esters (biodiesel).
In addition, LS9 has successfully completed a pilot production run at its Florida plant for another advanced bioproducts company, Cobalt Technologies. Fermentation scale-up is an expensive proposition and requires the proper facilities and expertise to make an effective run. The need to run trials is also intermittent so it is not cost-effective for many companies in the industry to make the investment in a larger plant. LS9's Florida demonstration plant was designed to manage a multitude of processes, and with this successful customer run, LS9 has proven it can leverage its state-of-the-art facility and the expertise of its operations staff to work with partners to commercialize renewable products. Given the success of the initial production run, Cobalt is considering future work at LS9's Florida facility.
"The capability to transition from the lab to 135,000 liter scale is a key milestone on our road to commercial success, and we know we are not alone in this requirement," said Tjerk de Ruiter, President and Chief Executive Officer of LS9. "Our ability to support other companies' technology scale-up activities is not only an example of the flexibility and the capabilities of our team, it is also an excellent example of how, as an industry, we can work together to make a renewable future a reality. This new revenue source, together with a recent $6 million investment from our current investors, positions LS9 to enter into new partnerships with our technology and advance our own products."
About Cobalt Technologies
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Cobalt is based in Mountain View, Calif. Cobalt is backed by leading investors in the cleantech sector, including Pinnacle Ventures, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Parsons & Whittemore, Life Sciences Partners (LSP), @Ventures, Harris & Harris, Burrill and Company and strategic investors including Bunge Global Innovation, LLC. For more information, please visit http://www.cobalttech.com.
About LS9, Inc.
LS9, Inc. is a technology leader in the commercial development of a growing portfolio of sustainable products to meet the needs of chemical and fuel markets worldwide. Its unique technology platform enables low costs, feedstock flexibility and process simplicity across a diversity of fermentation-derived products ranging from vehicle-ready fuels to chemicals for lubricants, detergents and personal care products. In 2010, LS9 was awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's highest environmental honor for its revolutionary technology. The Company's investors include Flagship Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures and BlackRock. LS9 is headquartered in South San Francisco, California. Further information can be found at www.ls9.com.
LS9 Company Contact: LS9 Media Contact: Remy Bernarda IR Sense, LLC (415) 203-6386


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Column: Domestic Violence Debate is Abusively Stupid
PIERRE - South Dakota lawmakers found themselves unable to agree on a bill that would update and clarify domestic violence policy. In a microcosm of the federal debate that transpired last week, how to deal with non-traditional relationships, and homosexual relationships specifically, proved to be a sticking point.
The bill was set to be updated because as it is currently written it would not apply to couples who do not live together. In the process of rewriting the language of the policy to include anyone in a romantic relationship, social conservatives balked at the idea that the law would apply to gays and lesbians.
Whatever one's feelings about gay marriage might be, why would anyone be for excluding some victims of domestic abuse from the legal protections that heterosexuals have? It isn't as though having protections against domestic violence is going to convince people to start dating members of the same sex, or change the minds of those who already do. So what is to gain here?
Apparently, the idea is to have a policy that amounts to burying our collective heads in the sand and pretending that either there are no gays or that they never have domestic disputes that turn violent.
In the end, the federal bill that was passed did include protections for gay and lesbian victims of abuse, although substantial numbers of Republicans voted against it. It is a sad state of affairs when an issue as ridiculous as this prevents or delays important legislation from being enacted; all so that some lawmakers can take the pretend moral high ground of saying some forms of domestic abuse are ok because they don't like those kind of victims.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Gossom and do not reflect Results Radio, Townsquare Media, its sponsors or subsidiaries.


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Syrians vote on Tuesday in their country's first multicandidate presidential election. Previous votes were referendums in which Bashar Assad, and before him his father, Hafez, were the only names on the ballot and Syrians voted yes or no. Despite the presence of challengers on this year's ballots, there's little doubt that Assad will secure a third 7-year term. Here's a brief look at the candidates:
— PRESIDENT BASHAR ASSAD: The 48-year-old Assad has led Syria since 2000, taking over as president after the death of his father, Hafez, who ruled the country for some 30 years. Assad, who trained in London as an ophthalmologist, came to power through a twist of fate: His older brother Basil had been groomed to succeed their father but was killed in car crash in 1994, leaving Bashar as the next in line. After assuming office, Assad initially showed promise as a reformer following his father's autocratic government, but those hopes faded before being almost forgotten entirely in the carnage of the civil war. Assad's family comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and the community has played in integral role in supporting the government over the course of the rebellion.
— HASSAN AL-NOURI: The 64-year-old Damascus businessman was little known to the wider public in Syria before declaring his candidacy in April. Educated in the United States, where he earned advances degrees in business and management, al-Nouri briefly served as a member of parliament and then as minister of state for administrative development from 2000 to 2002.
— MAHER HAJJAR: Hajjar, 46, has been a parliament member representing his hometown of Aleppo for the past two years. But like al-Nouri, he was a virtual unknown in Syria until the election. For more than a decade, he was a member of the Syrian Communist Party, which has long been tolerated by the government. He split with the party in 2000 and formed, along with other disaffected party members, the National Committee for the Unity of the Communists.


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