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Oh boy. Since the last time I shared some spicy anecdotes from the REO World a couple weeks ago, I've had some ripples-cum-waves rocking the REO boat here at the Silicon REO Group. Pull up a chair and allow me to share some anecdotes from the REO Broker trenches.
It started last week, just before Thanksgiving. There I was, getting into the Holiday Groove and looking forward to spending some time with my extended family, when I get an e-mail from a pre-marketer telling me that a listing was being cancelled because the foreclosure sale had been rescinded. D'oh! It was actually my most expensive listing, and I'd spent the past couple of months working on it on-and-off: the occupancy check, weekly inspections, BPO, activating utilities, and I was just waiting for the listing agreement to be sent over and the calls from hungry agents to roll in. But no – instead of the listing agreement, I get the e-mail about the recision, and sure enough, the property promptly vanished from RES.NET. It was completely unexpected; usually, the former owner will contact me, the listing agent, and inform me they are working on getting a recision (which rarely happens) – but this time the former owner (who I never met or communicated with) kept me out of it. Hmph.
Well, bully for the former owner, I hope it works out for him.
I have another assignment where I'm working on getting the occupant to vacate the premises. First, the occupant wanted to get the foreclosure reviewed by the lender, as he thought he'd been working on a loan mod. A couple of weeks ago, the word came down that the foreclosure would not be rescinded, the loan mod had definitely been denied, and that the bank wanted the occupant to leave the property, and the occupant was presented an updated cash-for-keys offer. I left messages and e-mails for the occupant about the new CFK offer, but did not hear back from the occupant for over a week.
When I finally did hear from the occupant, he let me know he was insisting that the lender show him the note. Oy vey. So I let the eviction rep know that the occupant refuses to negotiate further on surrendering possession until he is shown the note. I also let the occupant know that in all likelihood the seller will be able to provide him with the note, and that he will need to be leaving soon one way or another, and please let me know when he can be out of there, assuming that the requested documentation will soon be provided.
The whole show-me-the-note thing kind of aggravates me. The show-me-the-note folks usually don't deny that they didn't make their payments as agreed upon, the remedy for which per the note is that the house is foreclosed on and ownership reverts to the lender. Nope, that's not in dispute in most of these cases; rather, the former owners are looking for a technicality which allows them to keep the property even though there is no question that the borrower did not keep their mortgage commitment. A lot of folks can justify this by saying the banks are rapacious predatory lenders or whatever and therefore they deserve what they get – whatever. The buyers were happy enough (even thankful, grateful! in many cases) with the bank when they originally got their mortgage loan, I can assure you of that.
My sympathy for the occupant in question has evaporated at this point. Time to go, Jack.
If that wasn't enough fun for one week, the capper came yesterday as I was going about my rounds inspecting the REO properties in my care. I got an e-mail from my broker, saying that we had received a certified letter from the former owner of an REO listing I have. The former owner was writing to us as a courtesy to let us know that she would be filing a lawsuit against the lender for wrongful foreclosure, and that we might want to cancel the sale – naturally, the property in question is in escrow and set to close in a few weeks.
Fun stuff. I forwarded a copy of the letter to the asset manager, who said we should proceed as usual until the lawsuit actually gets filed. I also sent the letter to the buyer and suggested they consult an attorney. Naturally, my brokerage immediately consulted our attorney and our Risk Management company to get advice. I read the letter (and several pages of print-outs from the blogosphere pointing a bunch of smoking guns at the lender) and was left with the distinct impression that the former owner has gone off the deep end – probably several years ago – and that in all likelihood the former owner was a victim of the exploitative foreclosure rescue industry. The former owner will probably pay thousands of up-front fees to a lawyer to sue the lender, and more likely than not, end up losing both the case and a lot more cash.
Ahh, good times, good times. To many people on the outside, the life of a busy REO Broker must seem like a dream – but to those on the inside, it's often more like a nightmare. I just take the good with the bad, roll with the bunches, and await my next assignment with eager anticipation.
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When I was young, this old French classic was still - though in a quiet way - very much in vogue. I dare say it was because the novelty of using so many garlic cloves had not worn off; it seemed somehow dangerously excessive. Even so, I don't think anyone would think it quite unremarkable now to put 40 cloves of garlic in a casserole. Certainly, if you peeled and chopped - let alone minced - the garlic, it would be inedible, but garlic cloves cooked encased in their skins grow sweet and caramelly as they cook, like savory bonbons in their sticky wrappers, rather than breathing out acrid heat. This is a cozy supper, not a caustic one.
This dish entered my canon under someone else's auspices. A few years ago, for the fortieth birthday of a then-colleague and friend of mine, Nick Thorogood, his partner asked everyone to contribute something written expressly for purpose to be compiled in a fat tribute of a book. Since most of Nick's and my conversation dwells, with almost fetid passion, on food, it seemed only proper to write a recipe for him. And given that it was his fortieth birthday, this seemed the right recipe.
It is not quite the classic version (not that there is only one: food is as variable as the people who cook it) but it sticks to the basic principles. Maybe because the white meat on chicken tends towards the utterly tasteless these days, I prefer to use not a whole chicken, but thigh portions only. Naturally, this wouldn't make sense if you were raising your own chickens, then slaughtering them for the pot, as was the custom when this recipe came into being (and very good it would have been, too, for adding oomph to an old bird) but if you're following the contemporary shopping model, it works very well. For some reason, I veer towards recipes that can easily be cooked in one of my wide and shallow cast-iron Dutch ovens and this fits the bill perfectly.
By all means, add some steamed or boiled potatoes alongside if you wish, but I'd prefer, by far, a baguette or two to be torn up and dunked into the flavorsome juices; though don't rule out the option of sourdough toast, which is the perfect vehicle for spreading the sweet-cooked garlic onto. Otherwise, some green beans or baby peas or a plain green salad is all you need for a sure-fire salivation-inducing supper.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Heat the oil on the stovetop in a wide, shallow ovenproof and flameproof Dutch oven (that will ultimately fit all the chicken in one layer, and that has a lid), and sear the chicken over a high heat, skin-side down. This may take 2 batches, so transfer the browned pieces to a bowl as you go.
Once the chicken pieces are seared, transfer them all to the bowl. Finely slice the scallions, put them into the Dutch oven and quickly stir-fry them with the leaves torn from a few sprigs of thyme.
Put 20 of the unpeeled cloves of garlic (papery excess removed) into the pan, top with the chicken pieces skin-side up, then cover with the remaining 20 cloves of garlic. Add the vermouth (or white wine) to any oily, chickeny juices left in the bowl. Swish it around and pour this into the pan too. Sprinkle with the salt, grind over the pepper, and add a few more sprigs of thyme. Put on the lid and cook in the oven for 1 1/2 hours.
Make Ahead Note: Chicken can be browned and casserole assembled 1 day ahead. Cover tightly and store in the refrigerator. Season with salt and pepper and warm the pan gently on the stovetop for 5 minutes before baking as directed in recipe.
Making Leftovers Right: If I do have any chicken left over - and I don't think I've ever had more than 1 thigh portion - I take out the bone then and there and put the chicken in the refrigerator. Later (within a day or two), I make a garlicky soup, by removing the chicken, adding some chicken broth or water to the cold, jelled juices, placing it over a high heat and, when that's hot, shredding the chicken into it and heating it through thoroughly, till everything is piping hot. You can obviously add rice or pasta. Otherwise, mash any leftover garlic into the concentrated liquid (which will be solid when cold), chop up some leftover chicken, and put it all into a saucepan with some cream. Reheat gently until everything is piping hot, and use as a pasta sauce or serve with rice.
From Nigella Kitchen by Nigella Lawson. Copyright 2010 Nigella Lawson. Published by Hyperion. All Rights Reserved.

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MICHAEL Turner has completed his move to Norwich from Sunderland for an undisclosed fee.
Turner has signed a two-year deal and becomes the Canaries' fourth summer signing following the arrivals of Jacob Butterfield, Steven Whittaker, and Robert Snodgrass at Carrow Road.
The 28-year-old defender moved to Sunderland in 2009 and impressed during his first season but a succession of injuries and a loss of form saw him slip down the pecking order.
Turner also has Premier League experience from his three-year stint with Hull and Norwich boss Chris Hughton is overjoyed with his new recruit.
"I'm delighted to be able to bring Michael into the squad as he is a player with a wealth of Premier League experience," Hughton told the club's official website.
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Turner added: "'m delighted. The deal is all signed now and I'm happy to be here.
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"I've heard a lot of people say good things about what he does and has done in the game, so I'm just pleased to be a part of his team.
"I was really impressed with Norwich last season. I was on the bench for the game at Carrow Road, and I got to see them play, so I was impressed with the players, the stadium, and the whole set up of the club.
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Ekey Multi has a plethora of features including programmable time zones (up to three time zones can be used for grouping different users such as family members, friends, staff, cleaners, and so on), access logging, username assignment, user deactivation or deletion options, four relays, three time scheduling options (1 - always 24/7 with no restrictions; 2 - Schedule A; 3 - Schedule B with time restrictions) a holiday calendar (which can restrict access during a defined period for users assigned to Schedule A or B, excluding the always scheduled users) and is ideal for private homes, small businesses, and associations which require a secure access system. This system uses flash memory, so in the case of a power failure, all finger recordings are retained. In addition, all four finger print scanners can control any or all of the four relay outputs. Ekey Multi can be used to control an electrical strike, magnetic lock, electrified lock, or any electrified system or device that can be controlled by any on/off switch.
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Hello everyone, it's Thursday, and here I am again after having my column appear in the Sunday Valley Sun for the past several months. It's like old home week, and I feel so comfy. I've missed seeing you here for a bit. Home again, home again, jiggity jog.
So, when you have a bit of free time to put your feet up with some refreshments and you have this newspaper in hand, I'll tell you what fundraising events, parties and concerts our neighbors have been dressing up for lately.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale launched its 49th season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in October with an outstanding program featuring the magnificent voices of the Master Chorale as well as the Los Angeles Children's Chorus.
Grant Gershon, music director, showcased the majesty of the voices and power of the venue's iconic pipe organ in a breathtaking musical extravaganza that will long be remembered by all who attended.
The evening was capped by a glittering post-concert gala attended by more than 200 formally dressed guests that raised $275,000 for the Chorale's artistic and education programs.
It was like a Gershon family affair with Grant, his wife, Elissa Johnston, who sings in the Chorale and their daughter, Claire, who sings in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus.
The concert featured two West Coast premieres — Nico Muhly's choral tapestry, "A Good Understanding," performed with the Children's Chorus, and Judith Weir's "Ascending Into Heaven."
The musical entertainment at the gala was performed by the Master Chorale and Tony Award-winning composer/pianist/playwright Jason Robert Brown.
The Chorale performed its signature surround sing, in which Chorale members encircle guests and envelop them in song. The group's performance was so intimate and beautiful that I had goose bumps.
Another gala highlight came when actress Jane Kaczmarek conducted a live auction for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to conduct the Hallelujah Chorus on stage at the Chorale's "Messiah" Sing-Along on Dec. 17. Tom and Judy Beckmen were thrilled to make the winning bid of $4,500.
The hall was especially lovely washed in violet light and complemented with table centerpiece bouquets created with lush violet-hued flowers.
Guests began their dining experience with a salad of ahi-tuna towers. The entrée was braised beef short ribs with a melange of vegetables. The dinner concluded with apple tarts with creme fraiche.
La Cañada Flintridge guests attending the gala included Judi and Bryant Danner, Jim Colbert and Vicki Land, Ann and Richard Lawton, and Bo and Solomon Golomb.
Local singers in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus that night included Anastacia Menemenlis, Abigail Rosen, Jamie and Rachel Bang and Emma Muraoka. Anne Tomlinson directed the Children's Chorus.
Area singers in the Master Chorale include Suzanne Anderson, Bradley Chapman, Greg Davies, Sal Malaki, Jody Golightly, Helene Quintana, Samela Beason and Mark Beason.
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- Charles Liu said...
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- Al said...
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- July 12, 2011 at 2:29 PM
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really inspiring john!
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nice bro.
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Awesome designs, great use of textures too!
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- Daniel Xiao said...
yo when are we gonna see some these in hawken man?? these are too much FUN!!
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SICK!!!! love em!
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These are so great John! Good times!!!
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- jake gumbleton said...
love that top robot image, ace stuff!
Amazing what you get from just a few accent shapes.
- July 24, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Ian McQue said...
Loving those loose pen sketches. Fantastic.
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Aww hell yeah!
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Inspiring, to say the least!
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just wow! amazign stuff!
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- Stryke said...
Your Mechs are uber
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Garlic Knots
This is my new favorite way to serve dinner rolls and it couldn't be easier or more delicious, if you ask me.
The method is simple – add minced garlic to melted butter and let sit while making the rolls. Brush the garlic-infused melted butter on top of the hot rolls and voila! A masterpiece of unsurpassed carbohydrate magnitude.
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- 4-6 garlic cloves finely minced or pressed through a garlic press
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
- Mix butter and garlic together in a small bowl and let sit while making the rolls (I put the garlic-butter mixture on top of the stove while the oven is on to bake the rolls so the butter stays warm and melted). Follow the recipe for the French Bread Rolls, the only change being that instead of shaping them into balls, roll each piece into a four to six-inch rope and form into a knot, tucking the loose ends into the center of the knot.
- Immediately after the rolls come out of the oven brush the butter/garlic mixture over the rolls. These are best eaten warm!
As with all yeast doughs, I never use the flour amount called for in the recipe as a hard fast rule (unless a weight measure is given and then I pull out my kitchen scale). Because humidity, temperature, altitude and a multitude of other factors can impact how much flour you need in your yeast doughs, I always judge when to quit adding flour by the texture and look and feel of the dough rather than how much flour I've added compared to the recipe. This tutorial on yeast may help identify how a perfectly floured dough should be.


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BARCELONA, Spain, April 26 (Reuters) - A strong first quarter propelled 2010 Euroleague champions Barcelona to the competition's Final Four in London's O2 Arena from May 10-12 after they engineered a 64-53 win over six-time champions Panathinaikos Athens on Thursday.
The Euroleague's all-time leading scorer Juan Carlos Navarro netted 15 points and Brazilian point guard Marcelinho Huertas added 10 to give Barca a 3-2 win in a rollercoaster best-of-five quarter-final playoff series, while forward Stephane Lasme stood out for the visitors with 16 points.
"The fans made it a magical occasion, packing the Palau Blaugrana to make a great atmosphere," Barcelona coach Xavier Pasqual told the competition's official website (www.euroleague.net).
"For me, to celebrate 100 games in charge of Barcelona with qualification for the Final Four is ideal and now we will recuperate to gather our strength for what awaits in two weeks."
The result has set up a mouth-watering clash between Barcelona and their traditional Spanish rivals Real Madrid, while six-time winners CSKA Moscow will meet either holders Olympiakos Piraeus or Anadolu Efes Istanbul.
Olympiakos and Anadolu meet in a decisive game five on Friday.
Barcelona led 28-14 after the opening period and although Panathinaikos pulled back to within six points in the final quarter, the Catalan side held off after Navarro nailed a long-range effort to throw the home fans into raptures.
"We knew it would be a complicated game but we won and that's all that matters," said Navarro, who steered Barcelona to the 2010 success when they beat Olympiakos in the final.
"We must rest now because we took it to the limit, physically speaking."
Barcelona will get a dress rehearsal of their bid to win their third Euroleague title when they visit Real in a Spanish league derby on Sunday.
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2010 was an exciting year for Simulink and Stateflow in which we introduced some really cool features that will help manage design complexity, improve productivity and open up new frontiers for Model-Based Design.
In this webinar we will showcase the Simulink team's pick of the top 10 features for 2010.
If you are new to Simulink and Stateflow, it is recommended that you watch these introductory webinars:
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Summer's here and it's hot outside! Yesterday, Sara invited three of her friends over for a day of fun in the sun, and of course, in the pool. She had the day all planned with lots of food, activities, and frolic time in the pool between events. A good time was had by all and at the end of the day, her friends agreed the party a great success. Determine each girl's full name, the activity each won, and the color of each girl's bathing suit.
1. Ms. Wilson, whose first name wasn't Sheila, didn't wear a black bathing suit. Sherry Sanford didn't win the underwater swim.
2. The girl in the purple bathing suit won the croquet game.
3. Sherry didn't wear a green bathing suit.
4. Ms. Norton, whose first name wasn't Sara, didn't win the water balloon toss. Samantha didn't win the game of croquet.
5. Sara's bathing suit was blue but her last name wasn't Wilson. Sheila didn't win any of the water games.
6.The girl with the black bathing suit won the water relay. Ms. Grimes didn't win the underwater swim.
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COSTA MESA — Competing against winless California Maritime Academy on Thursday, the unbeaten and No. 4-ranked Vanguard University women's basketball team didn't figure to have to worry about finding its sea legs.
But when the visiting Keelhaulers hit five of their first seven three-point attempts, then added a sixth three ball to take a 22-15 lead midway through the opening half, Lions Coach Russ Davis wondered if his three-game winning streak was headed for an unexpected iceberg.
"You look at their stats and they haven't shot like that the whole year," Davis said of a Cal Maritime squad that does not have a player taller than 5-foot-10 and had been averaging just fewer than 50 points per game, while allowing 80. "But they came out and started feeling it and when teams start feeling it like that, I start worrying a little. I knew they couldn't keep it going like that, but we had to play four different defenses before we could figure it out."
Vanguard helped Davis feel better, as the Lions rallied for an 80-50 nonconference triumph that eventually resembled the expected disparity between the two teams.
The hosts used a 23-4 run over the final 9:13 of the first half to claim a 38-26 lead at the break, then continued to build the lead until the final minute.
Freshman Samantha Doucette, making her first collegiate start, scored a career-high 17 points to match senior Chelsea Alfafara and junior Nicole Ballestero for team-high scoring honors.
Doucette, inserted into the starting five to try to chase away some slow offensive starts, Davis said, missed her first three shots. But she made her next five — all from the perimeter, including a three-pointer — to net 11 points by intermission.
Alfafara heated up after halftime, hitting four of five three-point attempts in the final 20 minutes to finish five for 10 from beyond the arc.
Ballestero, a transfer from the University of San Diego who came in averaging nearly 20 points per contest, supplied her typically steady offense to allow the Lions to pull away. She also finished with seven assists to help the Lions produce 23 dimes on their 27 field goals.
"[Doucette] gives us a lot of offense and [junior guard Taylor Belmont] gives us energy," Davis said of the other new addition to the starting lineup.
Belmont had seven points and eight assists, without a turnover in 25 minutes, to earn praise from Davis.
Senior Esther Timmermans, who at 6-2 towered over the competition, had a game-high 11 rebounds to go with seven points and two assists.
Vanguard forced 18 turnovers, seven more than it committed, and was nine for 24 from three-point range (37.5%), while making 10 for 26 inside the arc (38.7%).
The Lions held the Keelhaulers to six foul shots, of which they converted only three.
But Cal Maritime junior Javier Brantley torched the Lions for 24 points by making nine of 14 from the field, including five of nine from threedom.
"She got almost half their points," Davis said of Brantley, who he said benefited from too many open looks.
"We've got to understand and listen to scouting reports better," Davis said. "We let [Brantley] get going early and she got them their lead and kept them in the game for a while. We've got to do a better job of helping off and making their other people beat us."
Brantley had 11 of her 13 first-half points in the first 6:29 to help the visitors seize a 19-12 advantage.
Junior Julia Tani made four of seven three-point tries on her way to 16 points for the visitors, who fell to 0-8.
Vanguard (3-0) will get a much tougher test in its next game, Dec. 8, when No. 5-ranked Westminster (6-1) visits.
"The new poll comes out Monday and I expect both us and Westminster to move up," Davis said. "So that will be a big game for us."
Vanguard 80, Cal Maritime 50
CM – Pitts 2, Sands 2, Brantley 24, Tani 16, Guerrero 2, Monroe 4.
3-pt. goals – Brantley 5, Tani 4.
Fouled out – None.
Technicals – None.
VU – Doucette 17, Timmermans 6, Ballestero 17, Alfafara 17, Belmont 7. Bednar 6, Kennedy 5, Harter 3, M. Drennan 2
3-pt. goals – Alfafara 5, Ballestero 2, Doucette 1, Kennedy 1, Harter 1, Belmont 1.
Fouled out – None.
Technicals – None.
Halftime – VU 38-26.
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A judge Friday again denied disgraced county Assessor John Noguez's request to lower his bail from $1.6 million, which he has said he cannot afford to pay.
He will be back in Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 28 to set a date for his preliminary hearing.
Noguez has been in jail since October, charged with 24 felony counts for allegedly accepting bribes to lower wealthy Los Angeles residents' and business owners' property taxes.
If convicted, he faces up to 30 years and four months in state prison. His other co-defendants in the case, including former county employees and a tax agent, have all been released on bail.
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Whenever I present hydraulic maintenance training, a concept I always enjoy explaining to my students is what I call the perfect hydraulic fluid. And it's very simple. The perfect hydraulic fluid would have a viscosity index (the change in a fluid's viscosity relative to temperature) represented by a horizontal line intercepting the Y axis at 25 cSt, Exhibit 1.
Exhibit 1. Temperature-viscosity diagram of the perfect hydraulic fluid.
Of course, no such fluid exists and I don't expect that such a fluid will be developed in my lifetime. But if such a fluid was developed, its creator would have the key to a gold mine.
Exhibit 1. A perfect fluid's viscosity index would be represented by a horizontal line intercepting intercepting the Y axis at 25 cSt.
Fluid viscosity is one of the factors that determines whether full-film lubrication is achieved and maintained. If load and surface speed remain constant, but elevated operating temperature causes viscosity to fall below that required to maintain a hydrodynamic film, boundary lubrication occurs with the possibility of friction and adhesive wear.
Exhibit 2 shows how this can manifest itself in an axial piston pump. Gold-colored varnish deposits are evidence that this hydraulic system has been operating over-temperature. Due to low fluid viscosity, the lubricating oil-film between piston and its bore has been lost. The resulting friction has super-heated the piston causing it to expand in its bore to the point of interference. Once this happens the tensile force pulls the slipper from the piston — causing catastrophic failure.
Exhibit 2. Catastrophic failure caused by low fluid viscosity
Exhibit 3 lists typical optimum and permissible viscosity values for an axial piston pump. Note the optimum viscosity range is 16 to 36 cSt. This is the viscosity range where the system will operate most efficiently — highest ratio of output power to input power. Stated differently, this is the viscosity range where fluid friction, mechanical friction, and volumetric losses are optimal for system performance.
Exhibit 2. Gold-colored varnish deposits provide evidence that this axial-piston pump was operating a excessively high temperatures.
Exhibit 3. Typical viscosity values for axial-piston pumps
But exhibit 3 only tells us half the story. There's critical information missing. We need to know what operating oil temperature equates to each of these viscosity numbers.
To establish this, we need to consider the weight of the fluid in the system and its viscosity index – represented by its gradient on a temperature / viscosity diagram. The flatter the line, the wider the allowable operating temperature range – for both optimum and permissible viscosity.
Here's where the perfect hydraulic fluid comes in. If you could use a fluid that "flat-lined" on a temperature / viscosity diagram at 25 cSt, as shown in Exhibit 1, a significant variable is removed and problems arising from insufficient fluid viscosity are instantly solved. And that would we worth paying good money for!
|Exhibit 3. Viscosity value
|Minimum permissible
|Minimum optimum
|Optimum bearing life
|Maximum optimum
|Maximum permissible
Alas, such a "magic pill" solution is not available to us right now. So we can't control the rate of change of viscosity with temperature — or not to the ideal degree at least. But we can control operating temperature. So here's another ideal: the climate controlled hydraulic system.
Most us have driven or ridden in an automobile fitted with climate control. You dial in say, 22°C (72°F) and regardless of whether it's snowing outside or hot enough to fry an egg, the climate control heats or cools the auto's interior to maintain the selected temperature.
What if your hydraulic equipment had a similar system? You tell a computer the weight and viscosity index of the fluid you're using and then select the viscosity you want the system to run at – say 25 cSt. Then, regardless of whether its summer or winter and the amount of heat load (internal leakage) on the system, the "climate control" would heat or cool the oil as necessary to maintain optimum viscosity. It's possible, it's just not very practical.
So with the perfect hydraulic fluid not available, and the climate controlled hydraulic system not feasible in most applications, human intervention is required. Someone has to do some leg work.
Some of the variables that must be considered include:
• starting viscosity at minimum ambient temperature,
• maximum expected operating temperature — which is influenced by system efficiency, installed cooling capacity and maximum ambient temperature, and
• permissible and optimum viscosity values for individual components in the system.
Once all these variables have been taken into account and a fluid with a suitable weight and viscosity index has been selected, an additional column of information can be added to Exhibit 3 so it looks like that shown in Exhibit 4.
Exhibit 4. Viscosity with corresponding temperature values
Having defined the operating parameters shown in Exhibit 4 for a specific piece of hydraulic equipment, damage caused by low or high fluid viscosity can be prevented by installing fluid temperature alarms or shutoff controls.
In the absence of the perfect hydraulic fluid, and short of installing climate control on all hydraulic equipment, this is the only way to ensure failures similar to that shown in Exhibit 2 don't happen on your equipment.
For more information about hydraulic failures and how to prevent them, go to: www.PreventingHydraulicFailures.com
Part 2 of The Perfect Hydraulic Fluid
You may have done this experiment at school: your science teacher gives you a plastic syringe. With the plunger retracted she tells you to block the outlet with your finger and then attempt to close the plunger. You discover you are able to compress the air in the syringe by a significant amount.
She then tells you to repeat the experiment with the syringe full of water. This time the result is very different. No matter how hard you try, you discover you can't compress the water in the syringe.
Seeing is believing. And to a 12 year old this experiment demonstrates, quite dramatically, that gases are highly compressible and liquids are apparently incompressible. By the way – if you didn't do this experiment at school - you can try it at home!
The effectiveness of this simple physics experiment is illustrated by the fact that in my work as a fluid power engineer I regularly meet people who believe liquids, including hydraulic oil, are incompressible. But it's not their fault. I certainly don't remember my science teacher qualifying the obvious results of this experiment by explaining, compared to gases; liquids are highly incompressible – but compressible nonetheless!
In my previous column in H&P, I talked about the perfect hydraulic fluid with respect to viscosity. This ideal fluid would have a constant viscosity of 25 centistokes — regardless of its temperature. Another property of this ideal but non-existent hydraulic fluid would be perfect stiffness — just like the apparent stiffness of the water in the syringe in our school science experiment.
A fluid's compressibility is defined by its bulk modulus of elasticity — which is the reciprocal of compressibility. The bulk modulus of a fluid is non-linear — meaning when the change in volume with pressure is plotted on a graph, the result is a curve rather than a straight line.
Bulk modulus is further defined as isothermal — where the heat associated with compression is dissipated (constant temperature) or isentropic — where the heat associated with compression is not dissipated and so both pressure and thermal expansion are considered. Isentropic can be thought of as dynamic bulk modulus and isothermal as static bulk modulus. The former is most pertinent to modern, high-response hydraulic systems.
The negatives of compression
Bulk modulus is an inherent property of the oil and therefore an inherent inefficiency of the hydraulic system. The fluid in the pipeline and actuator must be pressurized — and therefore compressed — before it will move a load. Because this compression of the fluid requires work at the input — which cannot be converted to useful work at the output, it is lost work and therefore a contributing factor to the overall inefficiency of the hydraulic system. The larger the actuator and the faster its required response time the higher the inefficiency attributable to bulk modulus.
And in high-performance, closed-loop electro-hydraulic systems, deforming oil volumes affect dynamic response and can cause stability problems such as self-oscillation.
Minimizing the losses
Bulk modulus varies with base stock, for example naphthenic oils have a higher bulk modulus than paraffinics. And unlike viscosity index, bulk modulus cannot be improved with additives. But there are things we can do to minimize the inefficiencies and potential control problems associated with compression of the fluid.
The first is to ensure the hydraulic machine doesn't run hot. Compressibility of the fluid increases with temperature. Mineral hydraulic oil is around 30 percent more compressible at 100°C than it is at 20°C. Of course, there are many good reasons why you should never allow hydraulic equipment to run hot – many of which I have discussed in previous MRO articles. Reduced bulk modulus is another one.
The second is to prevent conditions that cause aeration. From our school science experiment, we understand that air is 10,000 times more compressible than oil. One percent of entrained air by volume can reduce the isothermal bulk modulus of the oil to as low as 25 percent of its normal value.
It is important at this point to distinguish between entrained air – bubbles typically with a diameter of less than one millimeter dispersed through out the fluid – and dissolved air. Hydraulic oil typically contains between 6 and 12 percent of dissolved air by volume. This dissolved air has no measurable effect on bulk modulus (or viscosity) – provided it stays in solution.
While controlling aeration is in no small part a design issue – for example, the amount of dwell time the fluid has in the tank, proper maintenance also plays an important role. Dissolved air comes out of solution as temperature increases. This is another reason to maintain appropriate and stable operating temperatures. Oxidative degradation and water contamination inhibit the oil's ability to release air, often resulting in an increase in entrained air volume.
Given the perfect hydraulic fluid – one with infinite stiffness, does not exist, and in view of the current trend towards hydraulic equipment with higher operating pressures, higher power density and faster response, it's more important than ever to consider the operational effects of fluid compressibility on the hydraulic equipment you design, maintain, repair or operate.
Brendan Casey is the founder of HydraulicSupermarket.com and the author of Insider Secrets to Hydraulics, Preventing Hydraulic Failures, Hydraulics Made Easy, and Advanced Hydraulic Control. A fluid power specialist with an MBA, he has more than 20 years experience in the design, maintenance, and repair of mobile and industrial hydraulic equipment.


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A lot more Martian rocks were altered by water than scientists originally thought, suggesting that early Mars was a very wet place.
New observations made by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently circling the planet, have revealed evidence that vast regions of the southern highlands of Mars were altered by water in a variety of environments billions of years ago.
Water is a key condition for life as we know it. Though there is no firm evidence that Mars has ever harbored life, knowing that the planet was once wet suggests that it was at least habitable in the past.
The key to the finding is the discovery that rocks called phyllosilicates are widespread on at least the planet's southern hemisphere. The water present on Mars from about 4.6 billion to 3.8 billion years ago transformed some rocks into these phyllosilicates, which include clays rich in iron, magnesium or aluminum, mica and kaolinite (an ingredient in Kaopectate).
"In a phyllosilicate, the atoms are stacked up into layers, and all of the phyllosilicates have some sort of water or hydroxyl [oxygen and hydrogen group] incorporated into the crystal structure," said study team member Scott Murchie of Johns Hopkins University.
Previous data from an instrument on Europe's Mars Express spacecraft — known as OMEGA, or Observatoire pour la Mineralogie, l'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activite — had revealed only a few large outcrops of phyllosilicates, suggesting they were a relative rarity on Mars.
"It sort of gave the false impression that rocks that were altered like this were more restricted than they really are," Murchie said.
But the new observations, made with MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars and detailed in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, reveal "thousands and thousands of outcrops that we can now resolve with the higher resolution of the instrument, and they're scattered all over the planet wherever the older rocks occur," Murchie told Space.com.
"What that's suggesting to us is that we're seeing a pervasive subsurface layer that goes back in time — it's been altered by water to clays and related minerals, and it's outcropping all over the place," Murchie added.
"It's like going to the bottom rock layer in the Grand Canyon," Murchie said, where ancient layers underlie the whole area, but are only exposed in a few places.
This layering gives scientists a dividing line of about 3.7 to 3.5 billion years ago for a transition in Martian geology: "Before that the rocks were altered into clays, since then they're not," Murchie said.
The variety of clays and other minerals formed also tells scientists that rock was altered by water under a variety of conditions.
"There's a variety of environments that are formed where the rock was lightly altered where you see things like chlorite, to where it was altered with water at really high temperature, where you see mica, to where a lot of water must have flowed through the rock in order to dissolve out the iron and magnesium and you're left with kaolinite," Murchie said.
One implication of these findings is that some of the environments that formed the phyllosilicates would not have been antagonistic to any potential life — unlike the conditions that formed the sulfates, which formed in a highly acidic environment similar to battery acid, as Murchie put it.
Whether the Mars rovers can get a close-up peek at these phyllosilicates while the robots are still able to roam the Martian surface is uncertain, Murchie said, because so far the rocks haven't been detected near the crafts. But they could be there and simply be obscured in the north from the orbiter's instruments by dust.
"It doesn't take much to hide something from our optical instrument in orbit," he said, just a few micrometers of dust. "So just brushing away the rock surface could be enough," he added.
Whether or not Spirit and Opportunity get a chance to investigate these intriguing rocks up close, future rover missions, such as the Mars Science Laboratory set to launch in 2009, could certainly be aimed at known phyllosilicate-rich sites, Murchie said. That would shed more light on the mysteries of early Mars.
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In Johnny Weir's soon-to-be-released autobiography, for the first time, he discusses the fact that he is gay.
Johnny usually refuses to talk about about his sexual orientation. But in his upcoming book, he writes:
All the gay websites couldn't figure out why I was such a jerk that I wouldn't talk about it… But pressure is the last thing that would make me want to 'join' a community… The massive backlash against me in the gay media and community only made me dig my 'closeted' heels in further.
It's an interesting dilemma, pitting the personal against the political. By refusing to say you are gay, are you insinuating that being gay is a terrible thing to reveal? Or is it admirable to put your foot down and declare that who you find attractive is no one's business but your own? With Johnny Weir, couldn't it be argued that there was never any doubt? A glass closet situation? And therefore unnecessary to discuss?
Whatever your thoughts about how he handled the situation, it is admirable that he, above all, stayed true to his feelings. He also writes:
I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What's wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
Johnny also explains his fears in coming out to his mom ("No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay") and, in a cute anecdote about self-discovery, Johnny reveals:
Watching Richard Gere in Pretty Woman at the tender age of six was when I had first realized there was something different about me. I wanted to be Julia Roberts so badly. Kissing seemed like a weird thing to do, but I knew if I was going to do it, it would be with Richard Gere.
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Michael Borohovski is CTO and co-founder of Tinfoil Security, which provides web application level security with a strong focus on simplicity, ease-of-use and automation. It essentially takes the web-app aspect of a penetration test and automates it. Michael is a pure hacker at heart, with a love for algorithms, software security and UI/UX design.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to co-founding Tinfoil Security, he worked for ManTech, a leading provider of innovative technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs. While at MIT, he held internships at Morgan Stanley, KBC Financial Products, Mandiant, Apple and a Middle East teaching tour with Middle East Education through Technology (MEET).
A true online security guru, hacker and pyromaniac, Michael took the time to talk with the Rackspace Startup Program about the importance of listening to your customers, differentiating yourself from the competition and focus. What follows are Michael's thoughts on doing one thing, and doing that one thing incredibly well:
What was involved in the product development of Tinfoil Security?
Listen to your customers. Steve Jobs didn't have to, but you're probably not Steve Jobs. Iterate, iterate, iterate. Release before you think it is ready, and see if customers care. If they do, double down on it. If they don't, kill it fast. Don't waste time building features for a group of people that doesn't exist, because they won't suddenly materialize out of thin air. Make sure you are constantly talking to your customers, listening to them and iterating based on their feedback. Also, we made sure to have a greater vision and plan in our heads and on paper. This vision changed a decent amount, but it gave us a heading of where to go – we knew what we were headed towards at almost all times. If we had to readjust, we assessed how the heading changed too, and where that would land us.
How do you go about establishing a company culture?
Company culture is incredibly important to us. I don't know that you can "create" a culture out of thin air, but you can certainly cultivate it by allowing your employees to express themselves and have fun outside of just work. We instituted a weekly event we call Tinfoil Fun Times, where once a week we'll go out and do something as a team: bowling, watch a movie, mini golf, etc. Just something that gets us out of the office, conversing and having fun as a group of friends rather than just colleagues. Over time, we developed a list of friends outside the company (other startups, friends of employees, etc.) and invite that group to these events as well. Perhaps this won't scale one day, but for now it seems to be working great – it's been great for keeping up morale, recruitment, etc.
What lessons were learned building Tinfoil Security?
This is definitely the hardest thing we've ever done. While your title may be Engineer, CTO, CEO, whatever…you'll still be doing everything. There will be times when there are 12 things to do in a single hour, and only three people. You learn to multitask very quickly, and you learn to be willing to do whatever it takes. Your title is irrelevant. You are not too good to take out the trash, talk to customers, build that new feature or figure out how to write that contract. At an early stage, there is and can be very little specialization. Hire generalists, and cultivate that within yourself as well.
What business challenges did your startup run into?
Differentiating yourself from your competitors is immensely hard, no matter how much better you actually are. We used to tell our customers all about how much better our features were, how much cheaper we were, etc. None of them cared. It turns out that your customers care about what the benefit is to them, not about all your awesome features. How much time will you save them? Do they need to hire one less engineer? Will you acquire those 20 percent more customers in the first three months? Those are actual, tangible benefits and are directly correlated to their bottom line, which means they care. This took us a while to understand.
What business wins has Tinfoil Security achieved?
Our biggest wins, by far, are our happy customers. The reason we exist is to provide the absolute best security for our customers, with an intense and ardent focus on ease-of-use and actionability. If we are making our customers' lives easier, allowing them to spend more time on their business, and constantly reading (or hearing) about how our service has saved them money, time or stress, we win. Hearing about our customers' successes as a result of our service, direct or indirect, is the reason we get up in the morning.
What were the "What to Do" and "What Not to Do" while building your startup?
Focus. Many companies make the mistake of trying to do too much from the outset. Do one thing, and do that one thing incredibly well. Make sure your customers care about it, need it, want it and can't imagine using anything else. Then, and only then, expand into other products, verticals, etc. Note that this has nothing to do with features, necessarily. You may already have built all the features your customers need to fall in love with you and it may be a matter of making it easier for them to use, act upon, establishing an emotional connection through your service, injecting some amount of serotonin into their day, however small that amount may be. You have to start somewhere.
Don't over-engineer and don't scale before you need to. As an engineer, playing with auto scaling tools, automating deployments, worrying about massive traffic spikes, etc. are fun, but they're a complete waste of time in your initial stages because you can probably support your few dozen visitors per day on a single tiny Rackspace Cloud Server. Only when that is no longer true, worry about adding a second server and maybe a load balancer (or just increase the size of the box). When dealing with scaling seems to be taking up 50 percent of your time, then automate it. I promise you'll get to that point faster if you can focus on other things before you scale, like getting customers.
What were the good, the bad and the ugly of establishing Tinfoil Security?
Good: We found a team of people we loved working with. Our team is easily among the smartest folks I can think of having ever known, and we mesh really well together. It's not all roses and sunshine all the time, but we care a lot about each other, the problem and moving the business forward. Building a team is incredibly hard, so having high standards is even harder. But if you compromise on whom you hire for the sake of speed, you end up with a team of B or C players trying to build a Class A product – everyone gets frustrated and leaves or has to be let go. A single B-player will drag down a team of A-players ten-fold, so be uncompromising on your standards for hiring.
Bad: Find a great lawyer before you start. We can make recommendations, but definitely don't use a family friend. My co-founder has written a great blog post about this, but you'd be surprised how much can be screwed up in the early days of building a company with bad legal counsel. Good legal counsel is expensive, but most firms will defer until your company has some modicum of success.
Ugly: You have to do it all – literally. There is nobody else to pick up the slack. It's easy to get distracted by the latest shiniest thing, but if it isn't acquiring you customers or keeping your existing ones happy, it can wait. Sure, there are the standard legal things you have to do, and payroll has to get paid, but do you really need the best and most optimal printer? Surely one from Craigslist will be fine. Focus on the right things, and make quick decisions on everything else that likely doesn't matter. Your gut feeling is probably right.
What risks were involved while establishing your business?
It can be scary to take risks, especially in the early days. It's really easy to worry about what people will think and how the media will react. As long as you are acting ethically, and not acting illegally, being willing to take bigger risks is something worth considering. As a startup, you have very little clout and very little time in which to make a splash. Making a splash for big companies is hard, making it infinitely harder to make a splash as a startup. A great example of this is WePay's "Unfreeze Your Money" ice block outside the PayPal dev conference. It got me to take them more seriously, but was a huge risk that certainly could have backfired quite poorly. It took us a long time to be comfortable taking bigger risks, and I think we could still get better at it, but there were definitely times in the past that it could have served us well.
What straight up business advice would give to a startup?
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One this page, we describe support for comparing Word documents using Eclipse. The purpose of this page is two-fold. First, we will described the goals and features of the Word Document compare support. After that, we will dig a bit into how we integrated the Word comparison with the Eclipse Compare framework
Obtaining the Word Comparison Plug-in
The current plan is to ship this bundle with Eclipse 3.5. However, the bundle is compatible with 3.3. You can download the built bundle from here and put it in the plugins directory of you Eclipse install. The source code will be added to CVS once HEAD is opened in for 3.5 development.
Comparing Word Documents
In this section, we describe what our goals for the Word document merge viewer were. We then described the features of the viewer and show some screen shots of what the result looks like.
Goals and Features
When we started implementing the Word merge viewer, we had the following goals in mind:
- Compare changes using the revision support that is provided by the Word application
- Offer the user flexibility in whether they want to edit in-place (i.e. embedded in Eclipse) or in a separate Word Application window
- Provide a means to save changes back to the Eclipse workspace.
To that end, we implemented a merge viewer with the following features:
- The merge viewer is associated with the "doc" file extension and a "Word Document" content type. The use of a content type will allow the user to associate other file extensions with the merge viewer.
- The merge viewer opens the Word based comparison in-place by default but there is a toggle in the toolbar that allows the document to be opened in a separate window.
- The word application is opened on a temporary file containing the results of the comparison of the two files or file states being compared. Saving the compare editor (or clicking on the Save button in the compare viewer toolbar) will save any edits that have been made to the temporary file and then copy the contents of the temporary file into the Eclipse workspace files
What it Looks Like
The following screen shot shows the word comparison in-place. You can edit the text and save in the compare editor which will save the result to the 'important.doc' file that is being compared.
This next screen shot shows the compare viewer in "external" mode where the word document is open in a separate window.
We don't have a screen shot of the window since it is simply a full blown word application. Notice that the "In-place" toggle button in the above screen shot has been changed from the previous screen shot. Also notice that the editor is now dirty and the save action in the toolbar is enabled. The editor is dirty because we have made changes using the Word application. Even thought the document is shown in a separate window, we are still keeping a link to the document so we know when it has been modified. Saving in the compare editor will still work (as indicated by the text that appears in the compare viewer).
A limitation of the viewer is that it doesn't offer the ability to save if neither or both sides of the comparison are editable. For the "both editable" case, we didn't feel we could adequately present the save options in the UI. The workaround is to open the comparison in a separate window and you can then save any changes to any location on disk.
Implementing a Compare Merge Viewer
We will now look at how to integrate a compare merge viewer into Eclipse. First we'll discuss the extension points we need to extend and then we'll discuss the compare viewer implementation.
Compare Framework Extension Points
The first extension point we are going to extend is not in the Compare framework. The Compare framework allows content merge viewers to be associated with either a file extension or a content type. The advantage of using a content type is that the user can associate other file extensions with the content type manually. Here is what our Word Document content type definition looks like:
<extension point="org.eclipse.core.contenttype.contentTypes"> <content-type name="Word Document" id="org.eclipse.compare.wordDoc" file-extensions="doc"> </content-type> </extension>
Once we have the content type, we can then define our content merge viewer using the org.eclipse.compare.contentMergeViewers extension point and then associate that viewer with our content type. The XML for this looks like:
<extension point="org.eclipse.compare.contentMergeViewers"> <viewer class="org.eclipse.compare.internal.win32.WordViewerCreator" extensions="doc" id="org.eclipse.compare.wordMergeViewer"> </viewer> <contentTypeBinding contentMergeViewerId="org.eclipse.compare.wordMergeViewer" contentTypeId="org.eclipse.compare.wordDoc"> </contentTypeBinding> </extension>
The class that is registered with the extension point is a factory for creating our content merge viewer. The code for our class is fairly simple:
public class WordViewerCreator implements IViewerCreator { public Viewer createViewer(Composite parent, CompareConfiguration config) { return new WordMergeViewer(parent, config); } }
In the next section, we'll look at several aspects of the content merge viewer class.
Compare Merge Viewer Basics
In this section, we look at how to define a viewer and embed it in the compare editor input. In the first part of the section, we will look at configuring the viewer. In the second part, we will look at interpreting the input to the comparison and how to write changes back to that input.
Implementing the Viewer
The following code snippet shows the definition of our viewer class.
public class WordMergeViewer extends Viewer implements IFlushable, IPropertyChangeNotifier {
Notice that the class is a subclass of Viewer and implements IFlushable and IPropertyChangeNotifier. The compare editor can host any subclass of viewer inside it's edit area. There are some specialized subclasses that clients can use: ContentMergeViewer and TextMergeViewer but for this example, we don't need to use these. These specialized subclasses are described further in the Eclipse ISV doc. As for the interfaces, we'll describe these in more detail later.
The next part of the viewer we want to look at is the constructor. The following code shows the general shape of a compare viewer constructor.
public WordMergeViewer(Composite parent, CompareConfiguration configuration) { this.configuration = configuration; createControl(parent); getControl().addDisposeListener(new DisposeListener() { public void widgetDisposed(DisposeEvent e) { handleDispose(); } }); getControl().setData(CompareUI.COMPARE_VIEWER_TITLE, "Words Document Compare"); IToolBarManager toolBarManager = CompareViewerPane.getToolBarManager(parent); if (toolBarManager != null) { toolBarManager.removeAll(); initializeToolbar(toolBarManager); } updateEnablements(); }
Some interesting points of this constructor are:
- The configuration contains information about the comparison (labels, which sides are editable, etc.)
- The createControl(parent) method creates the control for our viewer. In our case, it creates an area to host the Word Document using OLE
- We register a dispose listener with the viewer control (i.e. composite) and call a dispose handler on our viewer when the control is disposed. We do this to clean up any additional OS resources (e.g. the Word Document OLE objects)
- We set the CompareUI.COMPARE_VIEWER_TITLE property of the control to the title we want to appear in the toolbar above the viewer area.
- We use the CompareViewerPane.getToolBarManager(parent) method to obtain the toolbar of the viewer so we can add our buttons to it. We first need to clear the toolbar.
- We finally call our updateEnablements method which is a general pattern used to update any button states
We'll now look at the IFlushable interface. Bascially, this interface is used to indicate that the viewer has content that needs to be written back to the compare input when a save is requested. Our implementation of flush looks like this (we'll look into how we write the data back to the compare input in the next section).
public void flush(IProgressMonitor monitor) { Display.getDefault().syncExec(new Runnable() { public void run() { if (isDirty()) saveDocument(); } }); }
The second interface we implemented was IPropertyChangeNotifier. That interface is used to indicate to clients that our viewer can fire events (i.e. it defines add and remove listener methods). The main event of interest to the compare framework is the dirty state of the viewer. Whenever our dirty state changes, we call this method which fires a property change event to any listeners.
protected void setDirty(boolean dirty) { if (isDirty != dirty) { isDirty = dirty; updateEnablements(); firePropertyChange(CompareEditorInput.DIRTY_STATE, Boolean.valueOf(!isDirty), Boolean.valueOf(isDirty)); } }
That's pretty much it for configuring the viewer. In the next section we'll discuss how to manipulate the compare input.


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Friday, July 22, 2011
Your Favorite Repair Shop?
8 comments:
- Ted said...
Bill Wahl
Mesa Typewriter Exchange
30 S. Macdonald
Mesa, AZ 85210
- July 22, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- Ted said...
- July 22, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Duffy Moon said...
Walter McCutchen
PO Box 122
Homer, OH 43027
(Retired fella, working out of his garage)
- July 22, 2011 at 8:29 AM
I'm not an official business but I've cleaned/adjusted/repaired quite a few over the past year for myself, others in the Typosphere and just random [mostly old] people who have found me. Always happy to take a look at a machine and fix it up if I can.
- July 22, 2011 at 3:53 PM
Oh, it's best to call Uppercase Books in Snohomish. They'll give out my number or a person can drop a machine by during business hours and the staff will call me.
Justin Lamb
c/o Uppercase Books
611 2nd Street, Suite L
Snohomish, WA, 98290
(360) 568.5987
- July 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM
- Rob Bowker said...
In the manner of Justin, the best repair shop I know of is but a stone's throw, somewhere between the garden and the dining room. Passing trade welcome by appointment. Contact via blog, or bowkerrob [at] gmail.com
Mr Polt's site has some useful stuff too!
- July 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM
- Martin A. Rice, Jr. said...
Keystone Typewriter
1268 O'Connor St.
Johnstown, Penna.
- July 23, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- speculator said...
As far as I'm concerned (and I think I speak for a great many), it is undoubtedly Cambridge Typewriter, in the Boston area.
Tom is more than a master at the craft of typewriter repair and restoration, he's a marvelous individual with enormous patience, and humor. He serves every customer with respect and attention.
- July 24, 2011 at 12:09 PM