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New Mexico Tech Student is on Sailing Crew for Adventure Film, Aug. 14, 2006
by George Zamora
Note: A newspaper article on the movie Morning Light, which will feature Tech student Kate Theisen is available from Mountain Mail.
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 14, 2006 – A New Mexico Tech undergraduate has been selected as one of 15 crew members that will make up a world-class yacht-racing team for Roy E. Disney's upcoming "Morning Light" film project.
Kate Theisen, a junior majoring in astrophysics at the land-locked research university in Socorro, proved her sailing expertise and high-seas mettle when she competed last week in selection trials in Long Beach, Calif. for a coveted position as a crew member of the Morning Light, a racing yacht purchased by Disney to compete in next year's 44th staging of the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Hawaii.
"Morning Light," which is also the working title of the anticipated feature-length documentary film, will chronicle the recruitment, training, and performance of the youngest 15-member crew ever to sail the Transpacific Yacht Race.
At race time, the average age of the 15 selected will be slightly more than 21 years, a full year under the record. High-definition cameras will continue to record their yacht-racing experiences, as they did this past week, for the documentary's scheduled release in 2008.
None of the participating crew members selected to star in the film are actors; and, there is no script for the real-life adventure, nor is there a preconceived outcome of what many sailing enthusiasts, including Disney, consider to be the world's most dynamic grand-prix-class sailing event.
"If we do our job right, I don't care as much whether they win or lose as how they come together as a group and wind up as a team in the end," Disney said. "However, how they do is how they do. . . . But, we're giving them the equipment to win."
Prior to attending New Mexico Tech, Theisen's sailboat racing roots harked back to living with her parents on a boat in various East Coast ports.
Theisen said she also was inspired at an early age by another sailboat-racing movie, and she hopes "Morning Light" will do the same for others.
"I saw the movie 'Wind' ages ago, and I've always wanted to race," she said. "In the meanwhile, I've done small boat racing, and I grew up on a sailboat."
The New Mexico Tech undergraduate also is one of only two young women chosen for the history making crew of the Morning Light — a group selected from the 30 finalists (out of 538 applicants from throughout the world) who were invited to try out for the team during last week's selections trials.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's fencing team will host Sacred
Heart and Drew for a meet on Saturday, January 30. The meet will
take place in the seventh floor fencing salon in the Payne Whitney
Gymnasium. This will be the Elis' final competition of the regular
season, before they begin Ivy League competition.
Last year, the Bulldogs hosted both Sacred Heart and Drew and won both matched by a final score of 15-12. The previous year, Yale also defeated Sacred Heart by a final score of 15-12. Drew was a new addition last year.
Team captain Andrew Holbrook is looking forward to the meet as a tuneup for the Ivy Championships.
"We are all excited for our final home meet of the season," he said. "As we head into the break before Ivies, it will be important for us to come out focused and ready. We want to make the most of this final opportunity to prepare for the Ivy League tournament. Against Sacred Heart, we will need to be prepared from the first bout, but we are confident that we can win against both schools."
The meet will begin at 1 p.m. against Sacred Heart, with Drew following after.
Report by Arsi Sefaj '11, Yale Sports Publicity


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European policymakers have become increasingly clear about the need to revive the ABS market, given the vital role securitization plays in allowing banking groups to borrow against their loan books and transfer risk off their balance sheets. The European Central Bank has publicly called for an easing of the regulatory environment for ABS to improve both demand and supply and since late 2014 it has implemented an ABS purchase program (ABSPP) to buy ABS paper in both the primary and secondary markets. The purchases are intended to run until the end of March 2017 or longer until the moment the ECB sees a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation consistent with its inflation target.
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By Steve Freidell
Land Line contributor
In the February issue, we discussed using personal financial software, which would track your expenses and provide you with the ability to create a budget. This month we are going to discuss ways to begin using that plan to cut your expenses and to categorize your debt.
Let's review what you have accomplished since that article was published in the February Land Line. By now, you will have used a computer finance program such as Quicken or Microsoft Money to download and organize your recent transactions. Now, this software can automatically create a budget from the data you entered. You can also upload your files into their online server and access them from any computer. This is perfect for long haul truckers whose families maintain a household elsewhere.
Keeping track of expenditures and paying bills on time will never be a problem again, and it will be much easier to eliminate your debt. If you aren't computer savvy enough to do this, keep a spiral-type notebook.
Now it's time to sit down and take an honest look at your budget and where exactly your money is going. Does fast food have a higher budget total than groceries? Does your dining out category look like the national debt? Don't worry; with a few minor adjustments, you can change all that.
Budget your groceries by creating a menu a week in advance. Whether you or your spouse does the grocery shopping, here's a good rule: Never go to a grocery store hungry or without a list. Grocery stores prey on shoppers with fancy displays and product placement hoping you will throw those extra items into your cart.
Having a grocery list will be your shopping plan, and deviation from it will only get you into trouble. Even if you remember something that wasn't on your list, don't buy it – which will help you create better lists in the future.
Rather than dining out while on the road, buy groceries and keep a fridge or cooler in your truck, which saves you money and helps you eat healthier. Following this plan will cut 25 percent to 40 percent off your grocery and dining out bills alone.
How many cars do you have? Can you sell one? We are so conditioned to want to buy new cars. Millions of dollars are spent on advertising by car manufacturers telling us that now is the time to buy. As a result, too many people own more cars than they truly need. Sell one and use the money to pay off your credit cards. Buy a quality used car if you must have two cars. Encourage family members to find a car-pool buddy or see what public transportation is available.
It's not just the car payment that you save, but the gasoline, insurance, taxes, maintenance, registration, car washes, oil changes, interest and parking expenses to name a few. Your actual savings may vary, but selling one car will save you, on average, $1,000 a month or more. More importantly, it directly eliminates some of your debt.
To supercharge your debt reduction process, try this tip: Assume that you are taking a 50 percent reduction in pay. Look at your budget and see what you could cut if you had to meet this goal. You will be shocked at what is really necessary and what is frivolous spending. Whatever you do cut, apply that first toward debt reduction such as a credit card bill – not the regular monthly installment, but a single significant extra payment.
Have some money in your budget to reward yourself and your family at the end of the month, but only if you meet your budget goals. Everyone will benefit from the feeling of accomplishing a goal and will continue to work harder in months to come.
As soon as you start saving, you must begin to create a plan to eliminate your debts. Put all of your debts on Quicken, or manually make a list of every debt you have. Categorize your list of debts and rank them in order of highest interest rate to lowest.
Never skip a payment. It destroys your credit and will add additional points to the rates on your current credit cards. Never go over your credit limit, never cut up your cards, and keep them in a secure safe place. Paying your bills on time and adding an extra $5 to your normal payment every month will improve your credit score by as much as 35 percent.
If you have debts such as equipment loans, student loans, car title loans and furniture loans, you may have to make some calls to determine the "Annual Percentage Yield" (APY) being charged on your debt. Start by paying off the most expensive or highest APY first. As one debt is paid off, apply the monthly payment used to pay off debt No. 1 and add that to your regular payment to pay off debt No. 2 and so on with debt No. 3. Each debt will be paid off faster than the one before it.
Most important: Have a plan and stick to it. LL
Steve Freidell has assisted clients in their cash management, trading, and portfolio management of fixed income securities since 1975. Steve started his career at the First National Bank of Kansas City and later served as first vice president with Commerce Bank where he served his clients for 25 years. He joined the DeWaay organization in 2006, the financial management company utilized by OOIDA.


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Ownership of patient records, just one challenge in e-health
From wireless to wearables, Australia's health care system is on the cusp of a digital technology revolution, but issues of privacy, ownership of patient records and cyber security need to be ironed out first.
That's the view of Kenneth Morgan, special advisor to the vice chancellor of Flinders University on cyber security and resilience, who discussed the future of e-health at CeBIT's eHealth conference in Sydney this week.
"People will have more control over their health. This is the digital health revolution," he said.
When micro-sensors in wearable technology such as watches and wristbands measure a patient's heart rate and the information can be monitored by the patient, or remotely by a health organisation, or when rugs with sensors can analyse steps to see how people are walking, a patient may not need to see a doctor as often.
"We're moving towards independent living for seniors," Professor Morgan said.
But we're not there yet. The sluggish advancement of Australia's health system towards a digital future is one of the topics CSIRO's Sarah Dods discussed in her CeBIT presentation, The Digitally Enabled Health System of the Future.
Dr Dods attributed the delay to different attitudes towards risk by the health and technology sectors.
"Health professionals are very conservative about change, whereas things move faster in the digital world. Doing things differently means things can go wrong," she said. "The consequences of risk in the health space can kill people, but in a digital world it just means you're not first [to market]."
However, Australia's national broadband network should enable health care and analysis to be conducted remotely in rural areas.
For example, using broadband to connect outback Australia to a city specialist for review, or remote delivery of services through mobile phone platforms into the home.
"Or if you come home from hospital and can't drive, you can receive services through your phone," Dr Dods said.
CSIRO has developed mobile robots to enable remote clinicians to participate in ward rounds in major hospitals through a high-speed broadband connection.
With such advances in wireless technology and mobile platforms, Professor Morgan said that radiologists for example would not be hospital bound to read X-rays, they would be able to read them remotely through their mobile device.
Professor Morgan is also concerned about the growing issue of ownership and control of Australia's Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record, an online summary of a person's health information.
Who owns patient information - the patient, doctor, or hospital? According to the Privacy Act, patients control their data, he said.
"This means they can look at their records. But do they own the data? That's the big debate," he said. "There are commercial interests, such as drug companies, alternative medicine companies, insurance companies, who are interested in the patient's lifestyle and what drugs they are taking."
Then there is the risk of hijacked personal health records.
"In some countries, there have been security breaks of health records and people have been blackmailed," Professor Morgan said.
He added Australia should export its well-regarded expertise in telehealth (digital delivery of health services to remote areas) and telemedicine (digital diagnosis and treatment), but also embrace digital technology in hospitals.
"Hospitals are [only now] moving towards digital devices such as tablets instead of a clipboard. Patient information is still written down at the bedside."


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Are Shia LaBeouf and Sean Penn related?
A couple of months ago in London, Shia LaBeouf got punched in the junk for being a dick. So, like, just a regular Tuesday. Sarah wrote about it here. According to the British papers, Shia was once again being a dick at a restaurant recently but this time, he was the one who told his opponent that:
"I can get you killed."
Is he Sean Penn's long lost son? Because it feels like it, non?
It all started when a woman went up to Shia and tried to talk to him. Mistake. Always, even with regular celebrities it's a mistake. With Shia it's guaranteed drama. The woman left crying. So her boyfriend went back to get aggro in Shia's face and then they pulled their penises out and tried to piss on each other. In the end, according to eyewitnesses, Shia had to be removed from the premises, but not before uttering his threat.
So it was douchebag vs douchebag, and there's one douchebag who is almost always involved. He's the male equivalent of Lindsay Lohan. If there's a party and the cops show up, you can put money on the fact that she has something to do with it. And Shia LaBeouf too. God that is unsexy. If that were my boyfriend, I'd be so embarrassed I'd leave with the other guy.


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Brushing dust off a thick, bound 14th century volume, Professor Robert Buswell stood in his office, surrounded by a chronicled literary history of ancient Buddhist culture.
"Sorry if it's messy in here," said the director of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies with a smile, looking around at the room, adorned with vibrantly colored rugs and pillows.
But Buswell's knowledge of Korean Buddhist studies, which he teaches at UCLA, goes beyond just literature "" it is based heavily on his experiences as a Buddhist monk in Eastern Asia years ago.
Buswell was born and raised in Palos Verdes, Calif. His family was not religious, but he developed a strong interest in philosophy after studying it briefly in high school "" an interest that carried through his college days at UC Berkeley.
"(Western religions) didn't offer the techniques that Buddhism had "" and that's what intrigued me (about Buddhism)," Buswell said.
He started taking Sanskrit, Chinese and Korean language classes in his junior year of high school.
Buswell, driven by his fascination for Buddhist culture, took a break from his undergraduate studies at Berkeley to travel abroad and further his interests, starting in Thailand, where he stayed for a year.
Buswell's passions then led him to Hong Kong, where he spent another year, training and honing his mental skills with Chinese monks.
As a monk, he spent his days meditating, while also focusing on private study and concentration.
"When you're living a monastic life, it's an intense life … meditation sitting for about four to six hours a night," Buswell said. "As a Westerner I needed to learn more about the culture "" there was nothing in English about the tradition."
He spent about five years in Korea, which proved to be a defining point in his life.
Knowing just enough Chinese to function and picking up Korean along the way, Buswell said his experiences as a monk gave him an enriched understanding for both the languages and the cultures that accompany them.
"(Traveling in Asia) was where I picked up my knowledge "" anyone who wants to learn a language well needs to go to the country," he said.
Returning to Berkeley as a junior student in 1979, Buswell said the transition back to urban life was shocking, but not in the ways one might expect.
"I remember one thing that struck me when I got back is that your feet never touch the soil," he said. "Most monasteries (in Asia) are way back in the deep mountains and forests, with a river running nearby. … The biggest change was suddenly being in the middle of crowds of people."
He also realized how little the Western world knew of the experiences he had collected over the span of seven years in the field of Korean Buddhism. He has since written books about monastic life, as well as sharing his knowledge as a scholar at Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA.
UCLA is one of the only institutions to offer comprehensive Korean studies outside of Korea, particularly in the field of Korean Buddhism, said Sejung Kim, assistant director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
"(Buswell) is the one who introduced (Korean Buddhism) to the non-Korean world," Kim said. "(The field) is (still) in its early stages, so people often lack sources to study, unless you are fluent in both Korean and classical Chinese."
Most recently, Buswell completed translating the first English version of the "Collected Works of Korean Buddhism," a 13-volume compilation of original Korean Buddhist materials, written in classical Chinese.
"Each character is wood-blocked," Buswell said, propping the original volume on his knee to point a finger at a line of Chinese characters on the page. "Someone had to (individually) stamp out each (character) with a block of wood and the paper."
There are 81,000 woodblock prints within the manuscript that comprises the Korean Buddhist canon, he said. This complex quality makes him think of Korean Buddhism's 1,700-year-old history, he added.
Korean Buddhist studies at UCLA is what drew Seong-Uk Kim to Westwood from Korea. He was one of the doctoral candidates that helped Buswell to translate the text, assisting in some of the translations for supplementary texts, he said.
"(Buswell) is a master in Korean studies," said Seong-Uk Kim. "He knows everything. … It was a great learning experience to be able to work with him."
Buswell said he is continually inspired by the philosophy of Buddhism, which is primarily concerned with trying to counteract the defilements of the mind.
"(Our) goal as Korean Buddhist monks is to build on the inherent effulgence of the mind "" letting brightness of mind develop itself," he said. "I believe (Buddhism) is one of the major achievements of human culture."


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On December 9, 2012, my wife Diana and I escorted an elderly friend to an annual Polish Wigilia—an event featuring the traditional meal that a Polish family would have on Christmas Eve, followed by the singing of Polish Christmas carols. It was a delight to immerse ourselves in this old tradition.
Diana and I have different philosophies regarding religion: She is a Baha'i (belonging to a world faith that promotes the unity of all faiths and the evolution of all things, including religion); and, as James Randi quipped on learning Diana is a Baha'i, I am "a Below." To learn more about each other's views—and those of various faith and even non-faith traditions—we developed something we call a Religabout.
A combined form of religion and walkabout (an Australian Aboriginal term for a type of nomadic quest), Religabout is our name for an excursion taken in order to observe or experience some religion-related event. We do not go to mock or challenge but rather to learn about other people and cultures.
Examples I have blogged about (without labeling them Religabouts) include "Visiting the Buddhist Monks" (who were making a ritual sand painting), blog of September 8, 2010; "Experiencing the Psychomanteum" (a mirrored chamber for invoking spirits at a Spiritualist village), blog of December 23, 2010; and even attending a movie like The Rite (which I then critiqued as one of my "Nickell-odeon" reviews), blog of February 2, 2011.
Other Religabouts have included such varied venues as tent revivals, an Appalachian river baptism, Catholic bingo, a Jehovah's Witnesses Bible study and training session, Spiritualist readings, a midnight Christmas mass, interfaith meetings, a Presbyterian lecture series and a Presbyterian service, dinner and fundraising for Syrian refugees at a mosque, other mosque events, a traveling Vatican art exhibit, an African-American religious service and picnic, a faith-healing service—well, you get the idea. The opportunities are limitless. Sometimes, coming upon one unexpectedly, we make fast changes to our plans.
While one can go on a Religabout alone, going with another person—perhaps especially one with a different perspective—may be more stimulating and productive. In some cases, going as a group is a possibility (Paul Kurtz once led several of us from CFI to a Mormon pageant, for example), although in some situations a group could draw unwanted attention. Remember, one is there to learn, not to disrupt.
We hope this idea resonates with you. A Religabout can be interesting, fun, stimulating, charming, informative, provocative, entertaining, and more; it may often be surprising or even disappointing. Some of what it will be will depend on what you bring to it.


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A little blog about life, family, food, and living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Cool Composed Concoction: Cobb Salad with Grilled Onion Blue Cheese Dressing
The change in weather dictated a change in lunch plans. To compliment the sun shining through my windows, a lovely hearty salad seemed in order. It's been eons since I crunched on that glorious cool, composed concoction called Cobb Salad, and so of course that's what graced my lunch plate today. So without further ado, here's today's recipe.
Cobb Salad
Lettuce – about 6 cups worth (use what you like: Bibb, butter, iceberg, romaine)
5 strips bacon – cooked crisp and crumbled
Diced tomatoes – I used about ½ cup of the little grape ones cut in half
½ cup crumbled blue cheese – I used an Oregon cheese
1 cup cooked diced chicken breast – I used left over grilled chicken
3 hard boiled eggs – chopped
1 avocado – diced
Makes 4 servings. In an oversized salad bowl, place all the lettuce. In a decorative fashion, line up the remaining ingredients so they appear in long strips on top of the lettuce. Serve with your favorite dressing, vinaigrette, or oil and vinegar. I served it with the following dressing that just about made me swoon. Yeah. It's that good. It's adapted from a Michael Chiarello recipe. Thank you, Michael. My taste buds love you.
Grilled Onion Blue Cheese Dressing
½ a large sweet onion, cut into ½ inch thick circles (keep together)
1 Tablespoon olive oil
Sea Salt and Black Pepper
Montreal Steak Seasoning
1 cup mayo
½ cup sour cream
½ cup buttermilk (I used more)
1 teaspoon hot sauce (like Tabasco. I used Tapatio.
½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
¼ cup blue cheese – (I didn't want to add more because there is already blue cheese in the salad.)
Preheat a grill (you could do this on a stove top grill pan, too). Season the onion slices with olive oil, sea salt, pepper, and Mont. Steak Seasoning. Grill over med high heat 5 minutes. Carefully flip and grill other side another 5 minutes.Remove and let cool. When cool, cut into medium sized dice. While the onions are grilling and cooling, prepare the rest of the dressing. In a mixing bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Stir in the diced grilled onions. Done. It makes a ton of dressing; I just used about 2 generous tablespoons on my serving.Just look at how pretty this salad is! This is a main dish concoction and is very, very filling.I love that large avocado chunk. The smoky crunch of the bacon was lovely, and the chicken tasted superb with the blue cheese. The creaminess of the avocado was a nice contrast to the crisp lettuce, and, well, you know how I feel about eggs. The bright red tomatoes brought both color and flavor to the party. Every bite just expounded flavor. I love this salad. I like it with oil and vinegar as well as with a more traditional dressing. Today, I'm glad I went with a dressing. Hands down, the star of the show was this salad dressing. I've always made my own blue cheese dressing, however, adding the grilled onions really ramped this puppy up several notches. I will forever and always add grilled onions to my blue cheese dressing. YUM. Oh, and like most of the recipes at It's All Gouda, this is gluten free all the way, baby!
26 comments:
- Tatersmama said...
Ogh yum yum yum !!!
It's due to hit 104+F here today, so want to guess what we'll be having for dinner tonight? :-)
I can't wait!
- February 4, 2009 at 6:41 PM
- Tatersmama said...
See? I was so excited to find this recipe, that I misspelled "Oh".
"Doh" :-)
- February 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM
- dp said...
The weather has been bizarre indeed! I'm perpetually cold, being from Vegas, but today I was actually warm and I didn't even have a jacket on.
I had a salad for lunch too!
- February 4, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- Manggy said...
Oh, how strange! And who says there's no global warming?! Great opportunity for a lovely salad, though :) I am totally going to remember to add onions on my next dressing too!
- February 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Mediterranean kiwi said...
this is defitnitely me Paula, every day of the week, i could cook like that, especially if i had someone doing my onions like yours - the last thing i have time for when i'm working is to wash, rinse, trim and chop things (i make an exception to a fresh pomegranate every evening)
- February 4, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- Bellini Valli said...
I am already trying to bring the summer into our cold Canadian winter with BBQ's and salads. A little reminder of what's to come never hurts with this delicious classic:D
- February 5, 2009 at 4:40 AM
- Marjie said...
60 Degrees! Be quiet!
We got down to 7 overnight, and it's supposed to get to a blisteringly hot 18 degrees today! But maybe 40 by next Monday. Can you send some global warming my way?
That is one pretty salad. I'll bet even the Picky Eaters Club liked it!
- February 5, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- Grace said...
i love alliteration and everything about your salad. :)
- February 5, 2009 at 7:26 AM
- Maria said...
what a gorgeous salad!!I love the avocado chunks too!
- February 5, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- Cheryl said...
Wasnt yesterday insane, I loved every minute of it! That salad looks so yummy, but I am far too lazy to make it, can you bring me one :)
- February 5, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- Pam said...
Oh Paula. The cobb salad is my very favorite - the grilled onion dressing sounds AMAZING! I can't wait to try this one.
- February 5, 2009 at 12:27 PM
- noble pig said...
Oh wow, I love a Cobb...look at all that decadent salad...wow! What a lunch. The weather has been weird in oregon and in California...kind of everywhere.
- February 5, 2009 at 4:54 PM
- Kevin said...
That salad looks nice and hearty and so good!
- February 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Jan said...
Oooh now I'm loving the sound of grilled onions with a blue cheese dressing! That all looks amazing!
- February 5, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
That looks really tasty! Yum!
It'll be 76 today!
- February 6, 2009 at 3:39 AM
- Cathy said...
This weather is crazy isn't it? Looks like we are back to normal now.
A Cobb is one of my favorites. I love the combination of flavors and textures. Your onion dressing sounds wonderful, Paula.
- February 6, 2009 at 5:23 AM
- Lynda said...
Your salad looks wonderful, especially with that dressing! We had about 5 or 6 days with ice and snow on the ground, but the last 2 days have been in the 60's!The weather in Mo. is never stable. I,m enjoying your blog, so I left you some awards at my blog!
- February 6, 2009 at 7:49 AM
- OhioMom said...
Cold and snow here, with a warm-up coming this weekend .. your lovely picture has me dreaming of Spring days and fresh lettuce salads :)
- February 6, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Jan said...
Until moving to the US I had never eaten Cobb salad, and have to say they are delectable. Yours sounds scrummy, as does the blue cheese dressing.
It sounds like Kentucky got an ice storm like we did last year. Some people were without power for over 3 weeks, it was awful. We got ice and snow last week, but not as bad this time, thank goodness.
- February 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Elra said...
The only thing I never tried is the "grit", sounds so tempting all of this meal.
- February 6, 2009 at 7:34 PM
- Joe and Laurie said...
I've never made my own dressing--until now! Just licking my fingers, it tastes so good and is really easy to make! I can't wait until my husband gets home so we can have this salad for lunch. Thanks for the great recipe! I'm so glad I stumbled upon food blogs--it helps me fulfill my New Years Resolution to make one new-to-me meal each week!
- February 7, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Proud Italian Cook said...
Paula, Wow does that look good!!and I absolutely love the sound of that dressing! Love your photo's too!
- February 7, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Paula said...
Hi Everyone!
Tatersmama: Hope the temps cool off over there! If you had the salad, hope you liked it!
Dp: It's been such a temperature roller coaster; glad we had some sun yesterday.
Manggy: The onions were AWESOME! I'm going to add them from now on!
Med Kiwi: Boy oh boy do I hear you about prep work! Luckily for me, I had most of this stuff at the ready, and really only had to assemble and eat.
Belli Valli: I am soooo ready for summer. It might snow here this week!
Marjie: My kids didn't touch this! They eat their salads PLAIN with no dressing. But hubbyman and I like it!
Grace: I have a *thing* about words!
Maria: I love avocado, so I left the chunks bigger!
Cheryl: This would be a great salad to share ... come on over and bring a big appetite!
Pam: It was so good! I can't praise the dressing enough!
Noble Pig: The weather looks like it's going to be wild this week, too! Time for another salad!
Kevin: It was a great meal; beautiful to look at and very filling!
Jan: I just love this dressing!
Duckie: 76! You are a lucky duck! :-)
Cathy: I love this salad. I'm going to try a Crab Louis next time; it reminds me of our coast!
Lynda: Thank you so much for the award! I've tried to respond at your site, but it gives me an error message! I'll keep trying!
Ohio Mom: You midwest folks sure have gotten hit hard this winter! Come on spring!
Jan: 3 weeks without power! UGH! I'm so ready for spring and summer and fresh garden produce!
Elra: Thanks for stopping by! The grits in the spicy sausage and shrimp recipe are creamy, but they are still definitely grits. Rice would be a great substitute!
Joe and Laurie: Oh, your note made me so happy! I'm so glad you liked the dressing, and hope you enjoyed the salad, too.
Proud Italian: Thanks! I just love the onions in the dressing. I can't believe how much it improved the overall flavor.
- February 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM
- Peter M said...
I love the rainbow of ingredients in the Cobb but those grilled onions...heaven!
- February 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- Amanda said...
Oh my gosh! That looks amazing!
- February 10, 2009 at 5:28 AM
- Aggie said...
Gosh...where have I been!? I can't believe I missed this salad...that salad dressing sounds to die for!
- February 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM


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When four senior creative industry leaders came together to form Solve, an independent advertising and branding firm in Minneapolis, launching "the purposeful agency" wasn't necessarily their goal.
Yet Solve often finds itself in that role. Since it opened in mid-2011, said CEO John Colasanti, Solve has attracted a number of clients who believe they are on a mission as much as they are in business to sell a product or service.
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Solve's other founders, who had worked with Colasanti at Carmichael Lynch, shared that sentiment. Creative Director Hans Hansen, former group creative director at Carmichael Lynch, worked there and at Minneapolis agency Fallon Worldwide for a combined 12 years. President Corey Johnson, former director of consumer engagement and senior partner at Carmichael Lynch, had been there 10 years. Creative Director Eric Sorensen was group creative director at Carmichael Lynch, working there and at Fallon for 16 years. "I don't think anybody on the planet is more qualified than this group," Colasanti said.
Solve's founders previously have worked on such brands as Porsche, Ikea, Harley-Davidson, Coca-Cola and Subaru. Today, Solve clients include Orbea Bicycles, AutoWeek, GiveBack.org, OptumHealth, Pro Cycling and Best Buy.
Solve's consolidated branding campaign for Medifast launched nationally this month. The campaign includes Solve's "Become Yourself" commercials, featuring non-actor Medifast dieters conversing with each other about their weight loss as the thinner consumer interacts with the heavier version filmed months earlier. Web traffic and call center contacts already are up 40 percent, said Michael Decker, Medifast's vice president of brand marketing and creative services.
"Weight loss is this emotional journey that people go through, and [Solve] latched onto that and was able to bring it to life in a way that is so compelling," said Decker. "It's an amazing little shop. They've got heavy hitters there."
In Solve, Organic Valley found an agency that's "very eager and hungry and committed to the mission of Organic Valley to keep family farmers on the farm and support transitioning our society towards organic food," said Lewis Goldstein, executive marketing director, adding that the company expects to reach $1 billion in meat and dairy sales this year. "They have been very strong in helping us define who we are and what we want to communicate to the consumer."
The expert says: Mike Porter, director of the master of business communication program at the University of St. Thomas' Opus College of Business, said he sees Solve delivering value on many levels, in part because it offers a team with strategy and branding expertise in addition to creative talents.
"They're not beholden to anyone but themselves," Porter said of Solve's founders. "You've got principals who have decades of combined experience at two of the best agencies in this market ... and suddenly that expertise is available to a broader range of clients who may have hoped that they could get the attention of Carmichael Lynch but couldn't afford them."
Todd Nelson is a freelance writer in Woodbury. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Although it may feel like you're entering a brand new world with your Mac, you'll be happy to know that Finder has some familiar similarities to Windows Explorer. For example, you still have a desktop and windows, you still access many functions from menus, you can still use keyboard shortcuts to accomplish tasks quickly, and more.
In Windows you used Windows Explorer to manage your files. In Mac OS X, you use the Finder to manage your files. You can search for files, copy files, move files, or delete files. You can also see file server connections, inserted DVDs, and USB thumb drives.
Elements of the Mac OS X desktop and Finder, and their Windows Explorer equivalents
Here is a sample Mac desktop and Finder window (in Cover Flow view mode), labeled so we can compare it to Windows. Some of the following Mac OS X features may not be available in Windows.
- Apple () menu - Similar to the Start menu in Windows; used to access functions such as Software Update (equivalent to Windows Update), System Preferences (equivalent to Control Panel), Sleep, Log Out, and Shut Down.
- Menu bar - This is always at the top of your screen. It contains the Apple menu, active application menu, menu bar extras and the Spotlight icon. The Finder menu has items such as Finder Preferences, Services, and Secure Empty Trash.
- Finder window close, minimize and zoom buttons–just like in Windows but on the left. Note: Closing all application windows in Mac OS X does not always quit the application as it does in Windows. In Mac OS X every application menu has a Quit option that can also be invoked by using the Command-Q key combination.
- Finder window View buttons Equivalent to the options contained in the View menu of Windows Explorer.
- Icon view - Similar to Windows Icons view mode, used to display the contents of your folder as a series of icons. Also you can "hover" over icons for multipage documents or QuickTime movies to get a thumb nail preview of its content.
- List view - Similar to Windows Details view mode, used to display your folder in a spreadsheet-style manner. Each folder can be expanded by clicking on the disclosure triangle just to the left of the folder. You can easily sort by file name, date modified, and so forth. Choose Show View Options from the View menu to add / remove attribute columns. You can change the sorting from ascending order to descending order and back again by clicking on the attribute column title.
- Column view - Used to display the hierarchy of your hard disk where each column represents a folder.
- Cover Flow view - Used to display the contents of your folder just like the Cover Flow used in iTunes. You can see live previews of images, documents, and movies, and can thumb through documents and movies.
- Action Menu - Similar to right clicking an item in Windows Explorer, it will give you quick access to Finder functions for highlighted items, such as Get Info, Quick Look, Move to Trash, and Services.
- Item Arrangement - Similar to Group By, Stack By in Windows Explorer, it will group the items in a folder by a certain criteria, such as Name, Kind, Application, Date Last Opened, Date Added, and more.
- Search Field - Similar to Windows Search, start typing a word or phrase and Spotlight will search your Mac for any matches.
- Spotlight icon - Similar to Windows Search, click it to bring up the Spotlight search field, where you can search for anything on your Mac.
- Back / Forward buttons - Just like in Windows Explorer, as you move to different places in the Finder window, you can use the back button to return one step back and the forward button to go forward.
- Sidebar - Similar to the Task Pane in Windows Explorer, items are grouped into categories: Favorites, Shared, and Devices. The Favorites section contains quick access to your desktop, Applications, downloads, and Documents. The Shared and Devices sections display whatever is connected to your Mac, such as a hard disk, iDisk, network share points, an SD memory card, or DVDs.
- Cover Flow content - Shows you a live preview of your files, where you can page through a document or watch a QuickTime movie.
- The Finder application icon - Similar to Windows Explorer, click it to bring the Finder to the foreground or open a Finder window if none are already opened.
- The Dock - Similar to the Windows Taskbar, it has quick access to the Finder and your most frequently used applications, folders, and files. With a single click the application, folder, or file opens.
- Trash - Similar to the Recycle Bin, deleted items are kept here until you empty the Trash. You can also eject DVD's, SD memory cards, or external drives connected to your Mac by dragging them to the trash (discs will physically eject when you do this, other devices can be disconnected after doing this).
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Jakarta Newsletter
Issue: 9
Date: May-June 2003
Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200305.html
Status: CLOSE
It's been another good year at the JavaWorld Tools Awards for Apache. Xerces2 Java Parser 2.4 from the Apache XML Project won the Best Java-XML Tool award and Apache Ant 1.5 developed by the Apache Ant Project won the Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology. Good work!
W3C has issued SOAP 1.2 as a recommendation. This means that the SOAP 1.2 specification is now (effectively) a web standard. Apache software related to SOAP can be found in the Web Services and XML projects. The press release is here.
- Jakarta General
- Jakarta Commons General
- Jakarta Commons EL
- Jakarta Commons File Upload
- Jakarta Commons DBCP
Jakarta Commons HttpClient
- Jakarta Commons Lang
- Jakarta Commons Math
- Jakarta Jetspeed
- Jakarta JMeter
- Jakarta Log4j
- Jakarta Lucene
- Jakarta Poi
- Jakarta Struts
- Jakarta Tapestry
- Jakarta Tomcat
- Jakarta Turbine
- Jakarta Velocity
- Apache Ant Project
- Apache Avalon Fortress
- Apache DB OJB
Apache Httpd WebServer Project
- Apache James Project
- New Committers
- Products avaliable as of the end of June, 2003
Jakarta General:
"Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project"
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
Discussions on general mailing list have been fairly light-weight these 2 months. The Main page of the Jakarta Site has been updated in order to arrange the "Jakarta-Related" projects properly. Now, Jakarta website has renewed to become one of the most powerful "Java-Portal" sites. The JavaOne Conference was held in June, and there seemed many atendees from jakarta participants.
As Sun Microsystems set up the http://java.net/ site, there was alot of talk surrounding this issue.
Jakarta Tapestry, which had been longed to become a Top Project in Jakarta, finally joined in the Jakarta Umbrella in May. The first proposal was made at General Mailing List in October last year by Howard M. Lewis Ship, so it took about a half year. We look forward to the Tapestry Teams playing a more active part in Jakarta.
Project: { { { Jakarta Log4j } } }
"Log4j allows developers to control which log statements are output with arbitrary granularity"
Editor: Mark Womack, Ceki Gülcü
Scott Deboy and Paul Smith have been enthusiastically voted in as log4j committers. They have done extensive work on improving chainsaw and other parts of log4j. In relation with this vote, Mark Womack stated:
{{{ With all of our new contributors, I think it is a validation of the sandbox
- that we started. It is an excellent way to let people contribute, get familiar with the environment, process, etc. And then when merit is demonstrated, granting appropriate committer access. I like that we set up that process. I think it has really rejuvenated and helped the log4j development community, affecting my previous commentaries. I hope it continues and that more people out there will take advantage of it, start the process for themselves, and get involved at whatever level they can/want. }}}
Chainsaw v2 has been moved out of the sandbox into log4j main.
Certain operations on Loggers are now made using { { { ReaderWriterLocks } } } which allows simultaneous read operations but only one write operation. This should significantly improve logging throughput in heavily loaded server environments.
Rolling can now be triggered based on time or size as was already the case in log4j 1.2. However, the new architecture allows for much more variation in the timing of the rollover and the actions taken during rollover (i.e on the fly compression, renaming, moving). The new architecture was suggested a long time ago by James P. Cakalic. A similar design can be found in the Avalon Logkit.
We have started to closely collaborate with the Avalon project in order to better cater for their needs.
Project: { { { Jakarta Lucene } } }
"Lucene provides A high-performance, full-featured text search engine"
Editor: Otis Gospodnetic
Lucene is still at version 1.3 RC1. Last month a Lucene JSP taglib [1] was contributed to the Lucene project.
A new article entitled "Parsing, indexing, and searching XML with Digester and Lucene" [2] was published by IBM developerWorks.
The LARM web crawler project has moved from the Lucene Sandbox to SourceForge [3].
[1] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-lucene-sandbox/contributions/taglib/
[2] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-lucene/
[3] http://larm.sourceforge.net/
Project: { { { Apache Ant } } }
"Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool"
Editor: Conor MacNeill, Steve Loughran
In addition to Ant's Java World Editors' Award, the Apache Ant has also been awarded the Java Pro Readers' Choice award for Most Valuable Java Deployment Technology.
Anyone upgrading to Java1.4.2 should note that <javah> breaks, on account of the entry point to the javah code being moved. This is fixed in CVS, and may merit a release of an update of the 1.5.x branch simply to reduce developer grief. We must actually credit Sun for giving us an early warning of the change, but cannot fail to observe that leaving entry points alone would have been better.
In the Ant core itself work on the new task loading mechanism <antlib> is progressing; once this is stable it should improve how tasks load. To address with the related increase in .jar files that come from splitting optional.jar up by dependency Conor has recently added an alternate startup mechanism, Launcher, which should offload much of the work of the surprisingly troublesome startup scripts into the Java code itself. With a single means of adding ANT_HOME/lib jars to the classpath, finding the JDK and such like, life should be easier for everyone, especially those who insist on installing Java in directories with spaces in them.
Ant is gearing up for the 1.6 release. There will be a number of new features and improvements. There is still a lot of development to do so it's a month or two away at this stage. There are things such as the import task, xdocs documentation generation, possible type polymorphism, etc. There are nightly builds to try now if you want to see what sort of features are coming and you want to test them out.
There is a new task <scriptdef> allowing tasks to be created from BSF scripts. It's a piece of a larger, interesting discussion about scripting within Ant. One approach is speculating about the use of scripting based alternatives to the Ant XML representation that still leverage the tasks in the Ant codebase.
There is a new book on Ant in the stores, "Extreme Programming with Ant", by Niemeyer and Poteet. Covering Ant 1.5.3, JUnit, XDoclet and related tools with an XP build and deploy focus. It sounds like an interesting read.
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - General } } }
"creating and maintaining reusable Java components"
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
An OnJava Article [1] covering the components in Jakarta Commons [2] has been published. If you've ever wondered about what's all these components do, this is a good place to start. Due to the diverse nature of the commons group, this section has been split up to make it easier to pick out the topics of interest. These months' stories come from the following:
[1] http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/commons.html
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - EL } } }
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
The Commons Team is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of { { { commons-EL } } }. EL is the JSP 2.0 Expression Language Interpreter from Apache
For more information see the EL component home page [1].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/el.html
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - File Upload } } }
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
The Commons Team is pleased to announce the long-awaited release of { { { commons-fileupload } } } 1.0. Good work Martin!
For more information see the FileUpload component home page [1].
Thanks to Arnaud Vandyck { { { FileUpload } } } now is available as a Debian Package [2].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/
[2] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libcommons-fileupload-java.html
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - DBCP } } }
Editor: Serge Knystautas
There has been renewed interest in DBCP, which has sparked a requirements discussion. The list of bugs and tasks for the next release are becoming clear, as well as how to extend DBCP moving forward. We hope to have a good bug fix in the next month or two, and then have a major release later this year.
For more information see the DBCP component home page [1].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - HttpClient } } }
{ { { "HttpClient provides client side HTTP 1.0/1.1 connectivity to any Java component" } } }
Editor: Michael Becke
HttpClient has continued to be busy. 2.0 beta 2 was released July 2 and a final 2.0 version should follow shortly.
A 2.0 branch will be created in early July so that 2.1 development can begin. The plan for 2.1 is coming together (2.1 release plan thread [1]) and will provide some significant refinement of the 2.0 release.
Adrian Sutton was warmly welcomed into the committer team in early June and has continued to be a valuable member of the HttpClient community.
For more information please see the HttpClient component home page [2].
[1] http://email@example.com&by=thread&from=367820
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - Lang } } }
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
The lang team has been very busy pushing towards the 2.0 release [1]. The new 2.0 release should be cut very soon now (Release of Commons Lang 2.0 / take 2 [2]).
For more information, see the Commons-Lang website [3].
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=105729197700488&w=2
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=105744550726520&w=2 [3] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/
Project: { { { Jakarta Commons - Math } } }
Editor: Phil Steitz
Commons-math is a new Commons Sandbox component. The goal is a small, self-contained, ASL-licensed library of utilities addressing common math/stat programming problems that can't be solved directly using the JDK or the extensions in commons-lang.
Here is a sample of the kinds of things supported by the initial code base:
- Computing means, variances and other summary statistics for a list of numbers
- Fitting a line to a set of data points using linear regression
- Solving equations involving real-valued functions (i.e. root-finding)
- Performing statistical significance tests
- Solving systems of linear equations
- Generating random numbers with more restrictions (e.g distribution, range) than what is possible using the JDK
- Generating random samples and/or datasets that are "like" the data in an input file
- Finding a smooth curve that passes through a collection of points (interpolation)
- Miscellaneous mathematical functions such as factorials and binomial coefficients
Suggestions for new components or enhancements to existing functionality are always welcome!
For more info, see the Commons-Math website [1].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/math/
Project: { { { Apache HTTP Web Server } } }
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
May saw a new release in the web's most popular family of web servers. Apache HTTPD 2.0.46 is the latest and greatest version and is now available for download.
For more details see the HTTPD WebServer Project Home Page [1].
Project: { { { Jakarta Velocity } } }
{ { { "Velocity is a general purpose Java-based template engine" } } }
Editor: Will Glass-Husain
After a long period of quiet, the Velocity developer community has recently gained some new momentum. Work has begun on a patch to add floating point number capability to the velocity syntax. Other changes under discussion include
- Support for defining maps
- New rules for whitespace gobbling
- "Local Scope" for variables, e.g. in macros
- Filters to munge text
Multi-line #set directives, Strings and ArrayList definitions
Also, the VelocityTools subproject has been stable for months now and is nearing first release. Among other things, it provides good support for rapid, clean development of web applications with Velocity and optional integration with the Struts framework. Anyone developing web applications with Velocity needs to check this out.
More info is on the velocity-dev list. Please come and share any comments you might have!
Project: { { { Jakarta Jetspeed } } }
{ { { "user customizable Java Enterprise Information Portal, using Java and XML and based on Turbine framework" } } }
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
Jakarta Jetspeed Team realeased the Jetspeed 1.4 Beta 4 on 27 April 2003, and made a lot of changes after the Beta 4 Release [1]. Now, our team is planning to release the official final release 1.4, long overdue however, around the end of July or thereabouts.
Jakarta Jetspeed has grown in recognition and influence as an internationalizable portal site system. The Jakarta Jetspeed Team welcomes any input, feedback or comments.
For more information, see the Jakarta Jetspeed website [2].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/changes.html
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/
Project: { { { Jakarta JMeter } } }
{ { { "Pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance" } } }
JMeter has grown quickly in the past year, with new releases coming out about every 6 months. Right now, JMeter 1.9 is nearing completion (see JMeter-1.9RC2). JMeter has become a full-fledged client/server testing tool, useful for both stress testing and functional testing of web apps, databases, ftp, soap services, ldap, and more.
In the past few months, several articles have been written about JMeter:
- Load Testing your Applications with Apache JMeter - By Keld H. Hansen 2003-02-05 - [1]
- Using JMeter] - By Budi Kurniawan 2003-01-15 - [2]
- Regression Testing With JMeter - [3]
- AN OVERVIEW OF LOAD TEST TOOLS - By J. BURET and N. DROZE 2003-02-27 - [4]
For more information, visit our pages / Jakarta JMeter Homepage [5].
[1] http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/JMeter/
[2] http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/15/jmeter.html
[3] http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/bommarito20030610.php3
[4] http://clif.forge.objectweb.org/load_tools_overview.pdf
[5] http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
Project: { { { Jakarta Struts } } }
{ { { "A model-view-controller framework for constructing web applications with servlets and JavaServer Pages" } } }
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
The Struts team is proud, and extremely pleased, to announce the Final release of Struts 1.1. This release includes significant new functionality, as well as umerous bug fixes which were reported against the previous release, and supersedes the earlier 1.0.2 version as the latest official release of Struts from the Apache Software Foundation.
Both source [1] and binary [2] distributions, including a minimal binary distribution, are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.
Also, as of June 25, 2003, there were 2744 subscribers to STRUTS-USER (plus an unknown number who read it through newsfeed mirrors). It has come to be the largest user mailing list at Jakarta, exceeding TOMCAT-USER that has about 2400 subscribers.
For more information, see the Struts web site [3].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
[3] http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/
Project: { { { Jakarta Tapestry } } }
{ { { "Tapestry provides web framework which seeks to find greater harmony between web designers and developers " } } }
Contributor: Howard M. Lewis Ship
The Jakarta Tapestry team is tickled pink by the ascension of Tapestry to a full Jakarta sub-project [1]. The first beta release of Tapestry has been released [2]. Tapestry distributions are now properly mirrored (now more SourceForge downloads!). A second beta is expected soon.
The Tapestry user list currently stands at 250 subscribers (as of July 5, 2003).
Christian Sell has written an article [3] comparing the WebWork and Tapestry frameworks. The article was published in the German language magazine Javamagazin [3]. The text of the article is available (in German) at [4], and its very favorable to Tapestry. Tapestry continues to gain mind-share.
Contributor: Richard Lewis-Shell
May saw Tapestry accepted as a full-fledged Jakarta project [1] - the incubator is behind us! Since then Tapestry has continued to thrive, making solid progress towards the first release under the Jakarta banner - 3.0. A feature complete beta-1, and a quick followup beta-1a, have been released [2], with beta-2 imminent. beta-2 will feature a number of bug fixes, and small enhancements over beta-1a, and Mind Bridge's converted code enhancer from BCEL to Javassist. Attention is starting to turn to 3.1 with a refactoring to Howard Lewis Ship's HiveMind [5] sandbox project on the cards.
In related news, Geoff Longman has made an early version of Spindle [6] available (the Eclipse IDE plugin for Tapestry) for Tapestry 3 looking quite unlike previous versions of Spindle, but showing great potential.
For more information, see the Jakarta Tapestry website [7].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#20030526.1
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#20030602.1
[3] http://www.javamagazin.de/
[4] http://www.dynabean.de/article/Typologie.html
[5] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/hivemind/
[6] http://spindle.sourceforge.net/
[7] http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/
Project: { { { Jakarta Tomcat } } }
{ { { "Tomcat is the official Reference Implementation of the Servlet 2.* and JavaServer Pages 1.* technologies. " } } }
Editor: Remy Maucherat
The Tomcat team is hard working on Tomcat 5, with the recent release of Tomcat 5.0.3, and the upcoming Tomcat 5.0.4 release (another alpha). The quality of Tomcat 5.0.3 seems to be quite high for an alpha (which isn't that surprising given it is a direct evolution of the Tomcat 4.1.x codebase), so we encourage fearless users to test drive it and report issues.
Planned July builds:
- Tomcat 4.1.25: bugfix only release
- Tomcat 5.0.4 and 5.0.5: bugfix and polish over 5.0.3
- mod_jk 1.2.5: mod_jk 1.x bugfix release
For more information, see the Jakarta-Tomcat Website [1].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/
Project: { { { Apache James } } }
{ { { "Apache James offers a mail and news server, supporting Mailets, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, and soon..IMAP" } } }
Editor: Serge Knystautas
The James team has been on a roll lately, incorporating several long-outstanding feature requests into the stable 2.X release branch. The biggest new feature is a custom class-loading system, so custom mailets and matchers do not need to be built and included within James itself. This will allow much faster and easier development of email based applications.
James was featured this month on IBM Developer works with two excellent articles by Claude Duguay. He first introduces "users to James" [1] and then gets into "building some custom mailets and matchers" [2].
Other recent changes include clarifying exception handling and adding the ability to configure how James should handle these unexpected errors. There have also been a large number of bug fixes, and we are rolling out releases almost every month. Some upcoming features include an enhanced mailing list system, better database connection pooling, and some improvements to the mailet API. The differences between the 2.X and the 3.X branch are gradually shrinking as features are being backported to the current stable branch.
Since becoming a top-level project (TLP), the James community continues to experience strong growth, this spring averaging over 12,000 downloads per month. Vincenzo joined us as a new ASF committer this month, and we plan to continue to grow the developer community. We have recently migrated our CVS and mailing lists to reflect our new TLP status, so please check the website if you want to subscribe or check out the source code.
For more information, visit the Apache James website [3].
[1] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-james1.html
[2] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-james2.html
Project: { { { Apache DB OJB } } }
{ { { "Object/Relational mapping tool that allows transparent persistence for Java Objects against relational databases" } } }
Editor: Thomas Mahler
OJB is in the process of finalizing a 1.0 release. We plan to have a new release candidate in July and hope to get out the 1.o release by end of July. In the last months OJB attracted more public attention.
There is an article at OnJava: [1]
There has been a technical workshop on Struts and OJB at JavaOne: [2]
- Several books on opensource development now cover OJB in some detail.
For more information, visit the Apache DB OJB (object relational bridge) website [3].
[1] http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/08/ojb.html
[2] http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2003/conf/sessions/display-3368.en.lite
Project: { { { Jakarta Turbine } } }
"a servlet based framework that allows developers to quickly build secure web applications"
Editor: Henning Schmiedehausen
Since its last release on Dec, 6 2002, the Turbine Web Application Framework has undergone some significant improvements and changes.
Most of the sore points (Logging, Configuration, Component Integration) have been addressed, improved and resolved. Currently, the Turbine Developers are working hard towards the next release which is scheduled for Mid to End of July. A first Release Candidate (RC) is to be expected around July, 7th.
Changes from the last release include:
- Usage of commons-logging everywhere for unified logging of all parts of an application
- Centralized configuration with the ability to configure from XML files and JNDI servers
- Multiple new security implementations, including LDAP and a flexible, database driven security service
- Crypto Service for various kinds of encryption (including Unix crypt)
- Completely overhauled and reworked input validation service (Intake)
- An Avalon Component Service is available which allows users to integrate Avalon components into Turbine applications. The Turbine Development Team recommends using this new Service for accessing the Torque object persistence framework which is the foundation for some of the Turbine Services such as Security Service and Scheduler Service
- Many bug fixes and code cleanups
For more information see the Homepage of the Jakarta Turbine Project [1].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/
Project: { { { Jakarta Poi } } }
"APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format"
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
We updated the build system from Crysalys Centipede to XML-Forrest. Thanks to all the contributors to XML-Forrest. We are preparing the release of the Poi 2.0-pre2 within a few days. Poi TNEF -- Java implementation for MS-TNEF mail extraction -- will join to the Poi Team contributed by Amichai Rothman (http://www.freeutils.net/source/jtnef/). HDF (Horrible Document Format, Microsoft Word compatible format reader/writer), inactive for some time, has become active again due to our excellend developers.
The other prominent news in the last 2 months:
- EXTSST record implemented
- Cloning, Shifting, and Merging Updates (Cloning Fixes, Merged Region Fixes, Shift Rows Enhancement)
- POI 2.0-pre1 Released
- Shared Formulas now Supported
Added GreaterEqual(>=), LessEqual(<=) and NotEqual(<>) to Formula Parser
Added GreaterThan(>) and LessThan(<) functionality to formulas
- POI Build System Updated
- font names can now be null
For more information, see the Jakarta-Poi website [1] and Poi-News [2].
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
[2] http://nagoya.apache.org/poi/news/
Project: { { { Apache Avalon Fortress } } }
Editor: Anton Tagunov
The long awaited Fotress 1.0 has finally been released.
Implementing full support for Avalon 4 interfaces Fortress provides a straightforward upgrade path from the outdated ECM Avalon container.
The most lightweight of the modern Avalon containers Fortress is easy to embed into managed environments like servlet engines. It features high scalability and facilates creation of application-specific avalon containers.
The difference that all ECM users will notice is the decomission of role files -- this information is now expressable via javadoc tags in component's source.
For more information, see the Avalon Fortress website [1].
[1] http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur/fortress/
New Committers (May, June 2003)
- Tetsuya Kitahata: tetsuya at apache.org (Jakarta-Site2, Jakarta POI)
- Amichai Rothman: amichai at amichais.net (Jakarta POI)
- Yoav Shapira: yoavs at apache.org (Jakarta-Tomcat, Jakarta-log4j-sandbox)
Adrian Sutton: adrian at apache.org (Jakarta-Commons - HttpClient)
- Jan Matèrne: jhm at apache.org (Ant)
- Michal Maczka: michal at apache.org (Maven)
- Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini: vincenzo at apache.org (James)
- Tim Funk: funkman at apache.org (Jakarta-Tomcat)
- Mark R. Diggory: mdiggory at apache.org (Jakarta-Commons - Math)
- Anton Tagunov: atagunov at apache.org (Avalon)
- Jeremy Ford: jford at apache.org (Jakarta-Jetspeed)
Products available as of the end of June, 2003
--Jakarta Products --
<<Application/API>> {{{ Jakarta BCEL 5.1
- Jakarta BSF 2.3.0 Jakarta Commons
<Commons-Proper> BeanUtils 1.6.1 Betwixt 1.0-Alpha CLI 1.0 Codec 1.1 Collections 2.1 DBCP 1.0 Digester 1.5 Discovery 0.2-Pre-Release EL 1.0 FileUpload 1.0 HttpClient 2.0-Beta2 Jelly 1.0-Beta3 Jexl (Nightly Builds Only) JXPath 1.1 Lang 1.0.1 Latka 1.0-Alpha Logging 1.0.3 Modeler 1.0 Net 1.0.0 Pool 1.0.1 Validator 1.0.2
<<Framework>> {{{ Jakarta Cactus 1.4.1
- Jakarta Lucene 1.3-rc1 Jakarta Gump N/A Jakarta Struts 1.1 Jakarta Tapestry 3.0-beta-1a Jakarta Turbine 2.2.0 (2.3-dev)
- Fulcrum TDK JCS
<<ServerSide>> {{{ Jakarta Alexandria 0.1
- Jakarta Jetspeed 1.4.1-beta4 Jakarta Slide 1.0.16 Jakarta Tomcat 3.3.1a
- 4.1.24 5.0.3-alpha }}}
--Jakarta Related Projects -- {{{ Apache Ant Project
- Ant 1.5.3-1
- Apache Avalon Project
<Framework> Framework 4.1.3 <Containers> Fortress 1.0 <Components> Excalibur 4.1 Phoenix 4.0.3 LogKit 1.2
- OJB 1.0-rc3 Torque 3.1-alpha1 (3.1-alpha2-dev)
- ["AltRMI"] 0.9.1 FTPServer 0.1 (Lenya 1.0-rc) ... donated to Cocoon
- James 2.1.3
- Maven 1.0-beta10 }}}


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