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Scripts to Help with GlassFish Development
GlassFish is a big enough source base that sometimes you just need a little help managing the development lifecycle. Over time I've developed a number of scripts that I use while working on either grizzly or glassfish to help manage the load. After a number of discussions, I've decided to share them in the hopes they will help others, too. Not of all these scripts are really glassfish or grizzly related so you might find them useful in your own projects as well. You can check out these scripts using git from this url: git://kenai.com/schema-doc~git-repo. There are several scripts but I'll try highlight the more interesting ones. Just a note, though. These are bash scripts that have grown organically for a long time. So they're not necessarily going to be pretty. Some might even consider some of the hoops I've jumped through "stupid." That's fine. I'm not getting a Ph.D. with these. They work and that's enough for me. But anyway.
General Scripts
The first set of scripts that should apply to almost any project.
|These scripts will show you any changed (or unknown) files for whichever VCS you're using. They currently support subversion, mercurial, and git. The git support is new-ish so let me know if something's off
|As the name implies, this script will find every jar in or under the current director and grep for, well, really whatever you tell it. I wrote it with looking for classes in mind but since it just greps the contents, it will find anything that matches. It seems like everyone eventually writes a similar script so maybe this will save some people a little time.
|This script requires that you use maven. It will run
mvn surefire-report:report-only and scan for any failed tests. If it finds any, it will use the
open command to open the report html in your default browser. It can, optionally, run your tests before looking for failures. If you'd like it to do this, simply pass
--run to the script.
GlassFish/Grizzly Related Scripts
Obviously, these scripts will be of little interest to those not working with some aspect of glassfish development. But if you're not, you're probably reading the wrong blog entry anyway. All of these scripts rely on the presence of environment variables. The scripts are set up to check for the variables and prompt you to define them so I won't go into them here. Just be aware that at first you'll have to define a few variable before these scripts will work for you. And these scripts need a UNIXy environment so if you're on Windows, you'll need something like cygwin to make these work. But even then, I've not tried these with cygwin so you might have issues even still. I'll refer to some of these variables by name below, but the script will walk you through what to set to what.
|This script will build the glassfish distribution bundles. Most of the heavy lifting is really done by maven but this script goes a step further and extracts the "glassfish" distribution of into ${GF_INSTALL}. Executed without parameters, it will build the distro, remove the current install, and unzip the new one. There are 3 options you can pass to this one:
|This one is really specific. This will run the webtier devtests after reconfiguring the glassfish install in
${GF_INSTALL}. It can be run from anywhere so you don't need to worry about where to launch this one. Once the devtests finish, it will open the test_results.html displaying the results of the tests. This one takes a while to run. There are a lot of tests...
|Similar to
devtests.sh, this test will run a single test in the webtier devtests. Just pass it the name of the directory while in
v2/appserv-tests/devtests/web and it'll do the rest.
|This script runs the quicklook tests to test your v3 tree. This script takes
--debug and will run the quicklook tests using the
mvnDebug script.
|This script compiles the current maven module and copies the resultant jar into your glassfish install. This should work for any glassfish-related project. I use it with grizzly, too, for example.
|This script will scan svn looking for changed files and try to determine the module owning each file. It will then call updateBundle for each of those modules and update your glassfish install. Passing
--start will then launch glassfish with your updated code.
|These scripts will start/stop glassfish from wherever you may be in the filesystem. Passing
--debug will launch glassfish in a debug VM. It will also update your domain.xml such that the launch will pause until you connect to it with a debugger so be aware that things will appear to hang until you do.
|This will tail your glassfish's
server.log from wherever you are in the filesystem. If glassfish is not yet running, it will also truncate the logs first.
That about does it. I use these scripts daily and I find them quite useful. Hopefully, you do as well.


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A Bitter Veil
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It all began with a line of Persian poetry . . . Anna and Nouri, both studying in Chicago, fall in love despite their very different backgrounds. Anna, who has never been close to her parents, is more than happy to return with Nouri to his native Iran, to be embraced by his wealthy family. Beginning their married life together in 1978, their world is abruptly turned upside down by the overthrow of the Shah, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
Under the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Republican Guard, life becomes increasingly restricted and Anna must learn to exist in a transformed world, where none of the familiar Western rules apply. Random arrests and torture become the norm, women are required to wear hijab, and Anna discovers that she is no longer free to leave the country. As events reach a fevered pitch, Anna realizes that nothing is as she thought, and no one can be trusted? Not even her husband.
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- Snoodely
- Santa Barbara, CA United States
- 01-27-13
Impending Doom
For anyone with an interest in recent international history, Ms Hellmann has provided a stellar fictional perspective with "A Bitter Veil." Perhaps because I never liked history classes very much, I think that historical fiction offers most of us the best way to learn about what happened in the past: through the eyes of (albeit, fictional, but believable) people living through it. In this case, we're talking about a horrific historical event: the 1978 Iranian revolution. Even without the opening chapter -- which starts us off in the middle of the horror -- we can feel the impending doom gathering and hovering, about to engulf our protagonist, Anna, in its darkness. I kept wanting to scream at Anna, "You fool! Can't you see what is going to happen to you?" Of course, few of us could see what was coming back then, could we? I, in my youthful innocence and self-absorption, had only a vague awareness -- and no interest -- in the events taking place on the other side of the planet. Now I can declare that everything that I know about the Iranian revolution I learned from Libby Fischer Hellmann. When I hear about those terrifying events, it occurs to me how uniquely "gentle" our American revolution must appear in the history of world revolutions. As far as I know, we did not have wild-eyed, fundamentalist vigilantes running around murdering fellow citizens for not believing the way they did. (Of course, we then made up for it less than a century later with our Civil War, didn't we?) Compare our American revolution with the bloody French revolution, where people felt justified in murdering their own monarchs and nobility. Ms Hellmann, in her Afterword, mentions the cruelty and bloodthirstiness of the French, Cuban, Russian, and Chinese revolutions, pointing out how we humans keep making the same mistakes. We keep thinking that we finally have the right paradigm, and employ violence to force it upon our neighbors. Even though I don't like studying history, I have to admit that we all need to have our noses rubbed in it, so that we can, hopefully, learn from our past folly. Audiobooks like "The Bitter Veil" may provide the most effective -- and, arguably the least painful -- way to do that. If you have the courage, purchase "The Bitter Veil," and brace yourself.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Kathleen
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 08-28-12
Anna is set up for her husband's murder in Iran.
Anna and Nouri, both college students studying in Chicago, fall in love despite their very different backgrounds.Anna grew up in strange circumstances. Her father was a scientist from Nazi Germany repatriated to the U.S. after the war because the government wanted his scientific knowledge. Her mother, a citizen from India, divorced her father after she learned of his war activities and moved to Paris, leaving Anna with her father in the U.S. Due to this background, where she never felt loved as a child, Anna is more than happy to return with Nouri to his native Iran, to be embraced by his wealthy family, with his father being a known supporter of the Shah of Iran. . Beginning their
married life together in 1978, their world is abruptly turned upside down by the overthrow of the Shah, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.Under the
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Republican Guard, life becomes increasingly restricted and Anna must learn to exist in a transformed world, where none of the
familiar Western rules apply. Random arrests and torture become the norm, women are required to wear hijab, and Anna discovers that she is no longer free
to leave the country. As events reach a fevered pitch, Anna realizes that nothing is as she thought, and no one can be trusted? Not even her husband. Then things get even worse when her husband is murdered, Anna is framed for the murder and thrown into the worst prison in Iran. This is an excellent book with Hellman's expert touch of putting you right in the middle of political events, never letting the tension ease until the very end. This will be one of my best books of the year.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Gayle
- 01-22-13
What a Fascinating Story!
Could not stop listening. Beautifully written, a very strong main character, and told within the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. Listening brought forth so many emotions in me--love, sadness, fear, and strength of the human spirit--to name just a few. The characters are well-developed, the narration fabulous, and the history of the Revolution very well researched. When I hear of Iran, I will always think of this tale because if the right circumstances lined up this upheaval could occur in any country (as similar situations have in recent history). Bottom line is--I LOVE THIS STORY!
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- Dana Finch
- Mount Vernon, WA, United States
- 04-22-12
Couldn't stop listening.
What made the experience of listening to A Bitter Veil the most enjoyable?
The reader brought the characters to life with her persian accent. The history entertwinned made the story most interesting. I love stories about women who survive against unfortuate circumstances.
What did you like best about this story?
The history, a strong, intelligent main character and her will to survive.
What about Diane Pirone Gelman's performance did you like?
Loved her persian accent, it brought the story to life.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Of course, but that was not possible.
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- Meagan vR
- Ohio
- 04-22-15
Omg this book is fantastic
I honestly didn't want to stop listening. It almost brought me to tears at one point! Also learned a LOT about the Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah. Hopefully audible has other books by this author!
- Sandra K. Heinzman
- Midlothian, VA USA
- 12-17-14
One of my favorite audio books I've listened to in
Would you consider the audio edition of A Bitter Veil to be better than the print version?
Did not read the print version.
What was one of the most memorable moments of A Bitter Veil?
The escape scene from Iran.
Which character – as performed by Diane Piron-Gelman – was your favorite?
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, if I had time!!
Any additional comments?
I was sent this audio book for free by the author; thank you, Libby!
I forgot, while reading this book, that it was fiction, as it felt like a real story. The book was obviously well- researched. I was only slightly older than Anna when all these events happened in Iran. It's about Anna, a college student in Chicago, the daughter of a German physicist father and a French mother (her parents were divorced and she lived with her father, mainly), who meets Nouri Samedi, a wealthy Iranian engineering grad student. They fall in love and after her graduation, they decide to go to Iran and get married, and start a life there. Anna is hoping for a wonderful family life, something she felt she never had with her own family. But political events are happening in Iran, and the setting is just prior to the Shah's fall. At first, her life in Iran is wonderful, her in-laws embrace her, her husband is loving and doting, and Anna starts to make friends with another American woman, also the wife of an Iranian. As all the political upheaval starts to happen, things change in the Samedi household and Nouri doesn't know how to cope with the change. He and his family turn against all things American, including Anna. My only complaint is how quickly Nouri changes for the worst, and without any explanation about why he suddenly falls out of love with Anna. He doesn't talk with her and I'm confused why everything is suddenly her fault, and, literally, it happens almost overnight. I was just as distressed as Anna was, over how horrible her life becomes. I was so angry with Nouri!
The book is beautifully written and I feel like I learned so much about the time, the politics, and Iran as a country, and about the people. I was wary of Anna marrying Nouri and moving to Iran from the beginning, as I immediately thought about the book, Not Without My Daughter, and knew what dangers Anna would face once married and living in that society, and how her rights as a woman would be eroded.
I highly recommend this book, and I loved the audio narration. I could hardly wait for my daily commute to/from work each day, just so I could listen! Kudos to the author for a wonderful, believable story about true events that I remember so well happening in my youth.
- Cluny
- Chicago
- 07-20-14
Mesmerizing and Compelling--Highly Recommended
Having read most of this author's books, A BITTER VEIL is to date Libby Fischer Hellmann's masterpiece. It is artistically and creatively her very best. A story with a romance between an American woman and an Iranian man despite their cultural and religious differences, this story accurately portrays the Iran of during the revolution, throws in a little mystery although this is not the bulk of the plot. The mystery comes about rather because of the people and as a result of the events within the story.. The characters are well fleshed out and defined. My only issue was that one character in specific appeared to change drastically overnight rather than a slow metamorphosis which is more realistic. The plot is compelling and historically accurate with both sides of the revolution that disposed the Shah presented.. The narration by Diane Piron-Gelman was superb. She seamless went from American accents into those of the Iranians. Originally this audio book was to be my twenty minute a day late night walking the dog book, however I was so mesmerized by the plot that I listened to well into the night.
Plot and Writing 5 out of 5
Character Development 4.75 out of 5
Pacing 5 out of 5
Narration 5 out of 5
- Sheila
- 07-18-14
History, Still Relevant
Where does A Bitter Veil rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
Suspenseful thriller.
What did you like best about this story?
I was in graduate school, between jobs in the Middle East, during the Iranian Revolution, and teaching in Kuwait in the early days Khomeini's reign. I knew many Iranian students and saw first hand the devastating effects of life under both the Shah and the new regime. Hellman's book brought much of that era rushing back, and she certainly did her homework. Still, stories set in "enemy territory" can be problematic. Even when characters are varied and complex, it's very easy to reinforce stereotypes. People tend to embrace whatever supports their beliefs and miss those elements that challenge their beliefs. Hellman does a fair job of showing Nuri's descent into the madness of post-torture life under an oppressive regime, and of showing "good" and "bad" Iranians. I was nevertheless disappointed to see the portrayal of Nuri reinforce so many of the common notions about Middle Eastern/Muslim husbands -- he becomes emotional and sexually abusive; a holds his wife captive and cuts her off from her family and friends; he hides things from her; he cuts her out of his life. A bit too predictable, and unnecessary for a good story. A good read, but with cautions in place.
Any additional comments?
I found the last-minute introduction of a Kurdistani Jew as hero a bit gratuitous. Why not a Sunni Kurd, or even a Shi'ite Persian? Yes, there are Kurdistani Jews, but they don't figure into the rest of the story, so I have to wonder why the last-minute introduction was necessary. There is a suggestion of backstory with Anna's father, but that point is never developed. Perhaps a good question for an author interview.
- MissSusie66
- 08-20-13
A Fascinating look at a time of turmoil in Iran with the fall of the Shah & the rise of the Ayatollah. This book felt very well researched and wasn't a slam on an entire country or religion. We meet a young couple in love in America, Nouri and Anna they are young and in love Nouri is Iranian but this makes no difference to Anna in fact she is looking forward to the day they make their home in Iran. However Iran is in the beginning stages of upheaval and when the Shah falls everything in Nouri & Anna's life changes too and definitely not for the better.
I found this story fascinating in how fast people's allegiances and loyalty and personalities changed with the revolution and how many different reasons for the changes. Anne married a sweet man in Nouri who was involved in human rights activism while he was studying in the US and even after they had gotten to Iran he seemed to still hold the same beliefs until after the fall of the Shah and Nouri is arrested he comes back a very different man and Anna's whole life changes.
I don't want to give too much away about what happens between Nouri and Anna but let's say he becomes a different man than she married. The unrest in Iran is fascinating the way the people flip-flopped on what It was they wanted from their country it makes me wonder how different the middle east and Iran in particular would be now if the ones that wanted to embrace the modern and give the rights to everyone had won this particular battle.
The narration by Diane Pirone Gelman was very well done her accents weren't over done and as far as I could tell she did a good job at speaking Farsi and French when called for. I was impressed with her narration as a whole and would listen to her again.
In the author's afterword she talks about interviewing many Iranian Americans for this story and I felt like this rang true to what I know of this time period. One thing the author said in the afterword is she is a crime writer and needed a crime but I kind of felt like the crimes were on the people of Iran although the crime did add the ending and fit well in the story.
If you are at all interesting in this time period or setting or just a fan of historical fiction I would highly recommend this book.
4 Stars
I received this book from the author & the Audiobookjukebox for a fair and honest review
- Karen
- EDGERTON, WI, United States
- 07-10-13
Historical fiction with suspense.
What made the experience of listening to A Bitter Veil the most enjoyable?
Title : A Bitter Veil
Author: Libby Fischer Hellmann
Narrator: Diane Pirone Gelman
Publisher: Libby Fischer Hellmann
Length: 9 hrs 29 min.
Year of Publication: 3-30-12
I really enjoy listening to books when they involve another culture and include dialogue in a different language. When I'm reading I attempt to determine how to pronounce the foreign words and it can throw me out of the story. With audio books the narrator, when they're good does all the heavy lifting and everything flows. This is the case with Diane Pirone Gelman.
As the single narrator, Gelman, creates the myriad of characters by using tone, inflections, and accepts. Her performance did not have a false note. Her performance kept me riveted to the story. I have a rule, audio books are listened to in the car while traveling. I broke that rule while listening to A Bitter Veil.
One small complaint in an otherwise flawless performance was that the chapter number felt rushed. There didn't seem to be a pause at the ending line of one chapter when the new chapter number was being announced. It's a small irritation but I noted it.
Being an old school woman, and new to audible, I had to figure out how to be able to play this through my stereo speakers. Enter an FM transmitter. Even with this low tech solution the production of the presentation was very good. The sound level was consistent throughout the book.
I listen to a lot of audio books, some good, others not so much. This production kept me glued my seat. The story is excellent and although his my introduction to this author I will be seeking out more of her work. She creates memorable characters and puts them in a time in history when the world in Iran is turned upside down. The author obviously did a great deal of research on this period in time. It led me to want to learn more of this culture.
The author starts the book with a crisis in the life of the married Anna. She is in Iran, the Ayatollah has taken over and the national guard is sweeping through the country taking people into prison or executing them. One night, after a fight with her husband Nouri, she is awoken to find 3 national guard outside her door announcing that her husband has been murdered. She is being accused of his murder. Anna is wondering how she got to this place when the author indeed takes us back to the beginning, when Anna met Nouri when they were both college students in Chicago.
Just when you are screaming about being taken away from this momentous event Hellman sweeps you up in the romance between these two young and idealistic students. How can Anna resist when Nouri reads from Rumi. "The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." Nouri is an intelligent and passionate man who loves his country and wants more for it than what the Shah is providing. Anna has never felt truly part of a family and Nouri gives her a feeling of being part of a relationship. As they near graduation Nouri proposes and they plan to live in Iran.
Hellman uses the changes that are occurring during this period in Iran to begin building the tension, between the family, amongst the citizens and in the country as a whole. Even knowing the history the author allows the reader to really experience these changes over time and feel the building tension. As events unfold the author keeps you at the edge of your seat and doesn't let you go till the very end.
It's a beautiful story and highly recommended.
This audio was provided by the publisher and Audible.com. This in no way impacted the outcome of this review. Indeed, I plan on buying the Kindle version so that I can experience both the written and spoken word my next time around.


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Friday, September 4, 2009
State of the GoodFET
I shipped the last of the American GoodFET20 requests today. Please contact me if yours hasn't arrived. Orders to Europe will be sent next week, while I'm in Paris, Besançon, and Stockholm.
I'm now using the MSP430F2618 for GoodFET development, as it will run at 16MHz without a crystal. There are some bit errors on a few of these boards, owing to the accidental erasure of Info Flash by the bootloader. Until rebroadcasts are implemented, continue to construct your boards with the 1612 or 1611. The upcoming GoodFET30 will migrate the project entirely to the 2xx series, breaking compatibility with TI's firmware.
The Python clients are presently being refactored at the same time as the command structure is combined. Please contact me if you are interested in building a client for C# or Cocoa that will be easier to distribute.
Thanks to a generous EVK donation, MSP430X2 support is underway, which will allow such chips as the MSP430F5438 and the CC430 Zigbee SoC devices to be programmed. I've got the basics working, and full support for writing Flash memory ought to be ready rather soon.
I'm considering a plugin architecture that loads new modules into RAM, a GoodFET iPhone attachment, and all sorts of other crazy things. Comment with any feature requests below.
12 comments:
- X-Istence said...
Hey Travis,
We spoke at Black Hat and DefCon, I was telling you about the MSP430F2418 which is what I am currently using.
I had the issue that the bsl program written in Python was overwriting Flash segment A which means that all of the calibration data that Ti programmed in when they shipped the chips is gone.
How have you solved that issue? As far as I am aware the 2618 and the 2418 are practically the same ...
For now I have just added a routine to my code that initializes the DCO against the 32 kHz crystal. However if I could do without the crystal and still get a stable clock speed of 1 Mhz or more I could lower the cost of my design significantly.
I look forward to the new improvements made to the GoodFET's, I have my GoodFET 1.1 built, I still need to check that GoodFET 2.0 you gave me. The permanent marker did not come off the board with the nail polish remover I had, so I am not sure if all the parts will work when soldered to the board, and I don't want to use chemicals that are too abrasive for fear of damaging the board!
Bert JW Regeer
- September 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM
- Travis Goodspeed said...
Howdy Bert,
For the 2618, I've hard-coded the DCO calibration from an early unit when the Info flash is missing, and I've been saving Info flash images to later plot the deviation and mean timing values. All 2618/F chips seem to be compatible at 16MHz and 115,200 baud with the hardcoded values. (An article on that subject is nearly ready, expect it here within a week.)
You can dump a TI Text file of your FET's Info flash using `make dumpinfo` in the goodfet/trunk/firmware directory. Run this before erasing the chip, and you'll be able to reflash it before the GoodFET firmware to keep things compatible.
If you email me your mailing address, I'll send you some of the fresh GoodFET20 boards that have just arrived. An LF crystal calibration routine for the 2xx chips would also be handy; consider sending a patch to msp430x2618.c.
- September 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM
- Travis Goodspeed said...
The one argument against the 2274 is that it hasn't got enough RAM to support loadable modules. The 2618 and 1611 can run all of the GoodFET application from RAM.
- September 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- X-Istence said...
Have you had any issues by using the values from a different chip? When I went to the MSP430 day here in Phoenix I was under the impression that they tested and everyone and wrote the specific values into the flash segment A.
As for the DCO calibration, for now I have just taken the sample code that Ti has available on their website and taken just the DCO initialization routine, without the Flash A writing. I was thinking of maybe putting that back in, so that my chip only has to run the calibration once so I can ship the design without the crystal, but that makes re-programming harder for future flash upgrades for the customer as now they need to solder in a crystal for the board to work right...
I don't mind adding in the code to re-flash Flash segment A with the appropriate bits, and sending a patch.
Loadable modules sounds like an interesting addition to the GoodFET firmware. Within the following weeks when I get some time I will svn up to the latest version of the repo and start hacking away.
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Howdy Bert,
The Info values are unique to each chip, but within a chip model number and revision the variance seems to be low enough to allow for reliable communication. I have a small collection of Info backups on which I intend to run some simple statistical tests, but in practice, my hardwired values have worked for every MSP430F2618 Rev. F chip that I've tried.
To extract the Info values from a programmed GoodFET, run "goodfet.monitor peek 0x1000 0x10FF". Very soon, I'll have the upgrade tool check for this information by the BSL.
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Hey Travis,
These boards look great! Who did you use for the PCB manufacturing?
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UPDATE Aug. 14: Fire near Mono Lake at 12,574 acres, 100 percent contained
The lightning-caused fire near Mono Lake was declared 100 percent contained Wednesday, and firefighters are increasingly being moved from the Indian Fire to other fires in the state and country.
The thunderstorm that sparked the lightning that started the now-12,574-acre passed through the Eastern Sierra Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 8 and ignited the fire about five miles southeast of Mono Lake and north of Highway 120 on Bureau of Land Management public lands.
The Indian Fire grew rapidly Wednesday through Saturday and had a maximum of about 570 personnel assigned to the fire, until cooler weather and rain slowed the spread of the fire beginning Saturday.
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Fire Status: Active
Percent Contained: 100%
Location: Southeast of Mono Lake, North of Highway 120
Date Started: August 8, 2012 (2:06pm)
Cause: Lightning
Size: 12,574 acres
Resources: Hand crews 5
Engines: 10
Helicopters: 1
Injuries: 1
Total personnel assigned to fire: 230
This will be the last update for this incident. The Indian Fire started on Wednesday, August 8, at approximately 2:06 pm. The fire is Southeast of Mono Lake and North of Highway 120. Cooler weather and light precipitation on parts of the fire helped slow the progress of the fire however fuels remain very dry. Over the next several days, firefighters will continue to build and improve containment lines, mop up any hot spots, and repair any impacts caused by fire suppression. Full containment was achieved on August 15. Firefighting resources are being managed and made available to other incidents in California. At its peak, 571 personnel were assigned to the fire. 341 fire fighters have been released to date. The reduction in total acreage was the result of more accurate and complete mapping. Team 3 will be turning over the management of the Indian fire to the local agency on August 16.
Local biologists and botanists from the BLM continue to work directly with firefighters on rehabilitating the landscape. The public will also be important partner in healing the land after the incident by treading lightly in the burn area.
Southern California Interagency Incident Management Team 3 Incident commander, Mike Wakoski would like to thank the community of Lee Vining and the adjacent areas for their support and hospitality to Team 3 and all firefighters. We appreciate their patience and understanding during this incident.
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• Keep amount of sage-grouse habitat burned to a minimum.
• Keep fire north of Highway 120 East
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Temperature: 75–79 degrees F, Wind: 7 – 9 MPH from West. Growth Potential: Low
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Witherford Watson Mann's sensitive re-occupation of Astley Castle saves the essential and excises the incidental, writes Joseph Rykwert. Photography by Helene Binet
Ruined Astley Castle in Warwickshire had been the venerable home of the tragic nine-day queen Lady Jane Grey. It may still be deeply moated but it has lost some of its battlements - along with much else. Passing through various more or less noble families, from the Greys to the Chamberlains and Newdigates (who neglected it for the better-endowed, nearby Arbury), the castle, which had turned into a crenellated manor, was gradually downgraded to a dingy, but ivy- wreathed hotel after the war. Though listed Grade II, it quickly declined into ruin when gutted by fire in 1978.
Ever since then it has crumbled, not all that gently, and quite dangerously to the odd scavenger or climber. It may have been venerable enough to claim some respect from its owners, yet it was virtually impossible (as well as prohibitively expensive) to attempt a reconstruction of the building to any of its more glorious former states.
Thirty years after the fire, the Landmark Trust took it over and held a competition to stabilise the ruin and turn the resurrected building into one of the trust's residences. Rather than attempt even a partial restoration, or inserting a new, completely detached structure into what remained, the winner of the competition, Witherford Watson Mann (whose work at the Whitechapel Gallery first brought the practice to public notice), has taken possession of Astley to create a wholly new fabric which allows them to restrain the ruins and yet acknowledge each historical stage of the building so as to allow them all some presence in the renovation.
Such an approach has been tried successfully in Germany but is unfamiliar in this country, even if it was pioneered here over a century ago by that Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings which William Morris affectionately mocked as 'anti-scrape'.
The new accommodation centres on the original Norman castle, but also takes in the space between it and the perimeter wall, which is also the retaining wall of the moat. Four bedrooms and three bathrooms have been created at ground level, while the upper floor transforms the keep into a spacious living-dining-kitchen room - double-square if not double- cube - more like the gallery of an Elizabethan manor with its large south-west window opening on a view of the village and the church. The south-east window looks into the two chambers of the 17th-century addition, separated by a massy fireplace, which has been turned into an open, though partly roofed courtyard. Only some of the dilapidated Victorian additions have been demolished.
This has meant that any new construction, whether in brick or timber, has to be scribed to take up the irregular and sometime jagged profiles where new work butts up closely to the stabilised remains, some of which still retain patches of the original plaster. These material remains are partly in brick but mostly in a reddish local sandstone, of which the nearby parish church, once a priory, is also built. Quoins and window frames (some include fragments of tracery) are of a duller but harder limestone.
Where new diaphragm walls are inserted, they take up the thickness of the existing structure. They are of thin, 30mm buff Danish bricks laid in a complex bond and exposed both outside and inside. Their muted, pinkish-grey colour is introduced into the existing materials so as to provide a contrast and act as a replacement of the broken stone walls.
Openings are spanned, and some detail added in acid-etched, pre-cast fine aggregate concrete, which echoes the vertical limestone framing of the Elizabethan windows, their rhythm taken up and echoed in the wooden vertical glazing as well as in the studs which support the beechwood ply panelling. This encloses all the newly created spaces on the ground floor, and is also echoed in the exposed joists of the ceilings of all the interiors.
The floors are tiled in the public spaces and in the cooking area and the bathrooms, but wood is used in the new bedrooms and in the living area.
One conspicuous insertion is the cage of the staircase in the main hall, which rises into the living space and almost seems a piece of cabinetwork with its steel, but bronze-coloured (as is all the door-furniture) railing. It is typical enough of the whole scheme. Such detailing throughout is discrete but always considered, so that you are never, not even in quirky corners like the stepped niche over the kitchen hob, conscious of the designers' ingenuity.
Restored, Astley is a graphic account of its own history. Even the woodwork of some window casings has been left in place, and creepers have returned to their mantling work. Witherford Watson Mann have been gentle surgeons, saving the essential, eliminating the incidental. What they have done cannot aim at perfection, yet it is exemplary. There is no comparable recovery of an ancient monument anywhere in this country, and very few elsewhere.
Joseph Rykwert is author of a number of books on architecture, including The Judicious Eye (2008)
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En español | Myths and misconceptions about hospice can cause some to fear it. Find out what hospice is and how it can help you and your loved one during life's final journey.
What is hospice care?
Hospice is a holistic approach to caring for people who are terminally ill. It involves a team of trained professionals, available 24 hours a day, who provide medical attention, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support tailored to an individual's needs and wishes. It's not a place — it's a concept of care that can be provided anywhere. Along with attending to the patient, hospice teams also provide compassion and support to grieving loved ones during the illness and beyond.
Introduced in England in the 1960s, the hospice philosophy upends old stigmas and treats death as a natural part of life. It does not prolong suffering, nor does it hasten the end. Hospice simply allows nature to take its course, with a sole focus on living life to its fullest in the final days.
How is hospice care different from palliative care?
Simply put, hospice care caters to those at the end of their life, while palliative care can be administered at any time during an illness.
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Anyone, regardless of illness, culture, age, gender or financial status, can receive hospice care. A medical professional must give the individual a prognosis of six months or less to live and the individual must certify that he or she doesn't wish to pursue curative treatment.
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The medical professional makes a referral to hospice. Then members of the hospice staff will conduct an assessment of the patient's overall needs as well as establish a care team. Along with the primary caregiver, the hospice team and the patient will outline an appropriate care plan.
From the moment a patient enters into hospice care, he or she may access a wide range of goods and services, such as:
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- Regular home visits by registered and licensed practical nurses.
- Home health aides to assist in activities of daily living, such as dressing and bathing.
- Social work and counseling services.
- Medical equipment, such as hospital beds and oxygen.
- Medical supplies, such as bandages and catheters.
- Pain management and symptom control.
- Volunteer support to assist caregivers and family members.
- Specialized services, such as nutrition counseling and physical, speech and occupational therapy.
Where do I find hospice care?
Hospice comes to the patient. Whether he or she is in a nursing home, hospice facility, hospital, or in his or her own home, hospice professionals will provide services wherever is most comfortable. This flexibility anchors the hospice mission and lets patients live their lives as they wish during this difficult time. Physicians and other medical professionals will know of hospice programs in the community.
Two other resources are the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Hospice Foundation of America. Both organizations offer databases of hospice programs throughout the United States.
How is hospice care paid for?
Medicare usually pays for hospice care. Medicaid pays in 43 states. Many other types of health plans, including health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs), cover the costs of hospice care. For patients who do not have insurance and do not qualify for Medicare/Medicaid, many hospice programs will offer free services.
Are all hospices alike?
Not quite, but they are similar. Each hospice program has its own characteristics and strengths that set it apart from others. All adhere to the core value of bringing comfort to the terminally ill. It's important to find out all you can about a hospice program you're considering. Some hospices are nonprofits and others are run like businesses. Click here for a checklist of questions to ask when reviewing programs.
Who regulates hospices?
Federal, state, and professional organizations evaluate hospice programs. Ongoing surveys ensure that they meet the standards developed by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. The state licenses and Medicare certifies all hospice services.
What makes hospice unique?
Hospice addresses all the needs of the dying patient, including physical, emotional and spiritual concerns. Moreover, it provides support to family members and friends through bereavement counseling during and following the illness.
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27 Dead, More Trapped In Rubble In 2 India Building Collapses
The death toll in two building collapses in different cities in India over the weekend has climbed to at least 27, with more victims still trapped in the rubble, officials said.
A crumbling and run-down four-story building in New Delhi collapsed Saturday morning. "Ten people, including five children and three women, died," Deputy Commissioner of Police Madhur Verma said. Two others were also injured, he added.
The building was around 50 years old and housed several families. Rescue efforts were hampered by cranes in the area. Officials suspect construction work at an adjoining building could be to blame.
Another building collapsed Saturday in Tamil Nadu state.
The 11-story structure under construction in the state capital of Chennai toppled over, killing at least 17 people, according to the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF).
There are still many people unaccounted for, although authorities are unsure of the exact number. More than two dozen survivors have been rescued from under the debris.
"Fifty workers were believed to be present at the construction site at the time of collapse. Rescue operations are still on," said Chennai Police Commissioner Sebastian George.
S.P. Selvan, the deputy inspector general of the NDRF, said Monday it would take a couple of days to clear away all the wreckage.
The collapse in Chennai came amid heavy rains.
Building collapses in India are an all too common occurrence, and have killed hundreds of people over the past several years.
An official with the New Delhi Municipal Council told CNN many of the incidents occur because of unauthorized construction. People build extra floors in structures without permits, creating hazardous conditions. The official said there have been several buildings in New Delhi designated as dangerous, yet people continue to live in them.
Corruption is also a problem, which leads to the authorization of risky building permits. Other factors that contribute to the high number of building collapses in India include lack of oversight, poor quality building materials and even overpopulation.
A building collapse in January in the tourist resort of Goa claimed at least 14 lives.


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With most IT work being done in the cloud, what does it mean to be successful and what are the characteristics of highly successful cloud enterprises?
We'll dig into the what it means to be successful in the cloud and what successful organizations do more of (and less of) than their less successful peers. We'll look across technologies adopted, organizational and operational practices, and vendors embraced.
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John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
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In 2019 the balance tipped, and for the first time the majority of enterprise IT workloads are running in the cloud, not in a data center.
Enterprise IT staff need to stop thinking of cloud solutions as islands of function and special cases and begin to think of pulling it all together into a cohesive multicloud. We'll lay out the major categories of tools and systems and how they fit together, and at the organizational structures and operational practices needed to support multicloud operations.
This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries. Later episodes will discuss cloud organizations and operational practices, and success metrics and best practices for cloud organizations.
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Robin Gareiss, President and Founder, Nemertes Research
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Although organizations are busy adding self-service channels, and AI-enabled chatbots or virtual agents to their customer engagement strategies, there is no replacement for the human touch.
Successful companies are transforming the agent experience, delivering better coaching, more analytics, and improved compensation packages.
Learn how you can leverage AI and analytics to reduce contact center agent turnover rates--and ultimately improve the customer experience.
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Johna Till Johnson, CEO & Founder, Nemertes Research
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This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries.
We separated the best from the rest, and took an in-depth look into what made the most successful organizations that way. Participants will come away with best practices, tools, technologies, and organizational structures that contribute to success. Most importantly, they'll learn how to measure cybersecurity success--and their progress towards it.
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Robin Gareiss, President & Founder, Nemertes Research
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Contact centers are changing--drastically and swiftly. If you're not keeping pace--or exceeding it--you'll be at a competitive disadvantage.
Learn what successful companies are doing with areas such as agent experience, interaction channels, and emerging technologies.
Based on Nemertes' brand new, detailed, Customer Experience research study with 518 organizations, this webinar will explain the five crucial items that must be on your priority list to ensure your contact center is positioned to deliver successful customer experiences.
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Elisabeth Thomas, Mohan Kompella, Christoph Goldenstern, Beverly Weed-Schertzer
As AI-enabled tools continue to make a mark on IT operations, the face of proactive problem and incident management in the enterprise is starting to change.
From making IT staff roles' easier to encouraging self-service, there is a broad range of AI-powered solutions on offer. Join leading ITSM experts as they debate the complexities, functionalities, benefits and considerations of next-generation cloud and hybrid problem and incident management tools.
Moderator: Elisabeth Thomas, Launch Product Marketing
Panellists: Christoph Goldenstern - VP, Kepner Tregoe; Mohan Kompella - VP, BigPanda and Beverly Weed-Shertzer - ITSM Author
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Robin Gareiss, President & Founder, Nemertes Research
Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.1] AI Drives Measurable Success in Customer Engagement
Nearly 50% more companies are using or planning to use AI in their customer engagement initiatives.
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Ocean Lakes Family Campground, Myrtle Beach, S.C., says 97% of its 893 large RV campsites are booked for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.
Located along the Atlantic Ocean beachfront, Ocean Lakes is located on 310 oceanfront acres and is the largest campground on the East Coast, as well as one of the largest in the U.S.
While many are predicting that tourism will be down significantly at beach resorts this summer, Ocean Lakes is seeing an increasing number of families turning to camping for their summer vacations, according to a news release.
In addition to being nearly sold out for Memorial Day weekend, Ocean Lakes is seeing an increase in reservations for the key summer months of June and July in 2009. Reservations for June 2009 versus June 2008 are up 23%, and for July 2009, reservations are up 34% over 2008.
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SUNDAY, May 22, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- New Swedish research suggests that the drug Inspra reduces the threat of major cardiovascular complications among patients who have a mild form of heart failure.
This latest finding builds on earlier work that was published by the New England Journal of Medicine last fall. That study suggested that Inspra (eplerenone), an aldosterone antagonist, helps control cardiovascular complications among patients with a history of serious chronic heart failure.
Since far more people suffer from mild heart failure, this new finding could mean the drug might benefit a far broader group of patients, the researchers added.
The Swedish analysis makes an even stronger case for the use of Inspra in patients with mild heart failure because, in addition to reducing mortality, it also reduces the incidence of the irregular heart beat condition known as atrial fibrillation, study co-author Karl Swedberg, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, said in a news release from the European Society of Cardiology.
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The study team noted that Inspra is currently approved for the control of high blood pressure as well as for the treatment of heart attack patients who experience congestive heart failure. It is not yet approved for the treatment of patients who experience mild heart failure. It is available generically in the United States, according to the news release.
Experts estimate that almost 6 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure.
The current finding stems from a re-analysis of a larger study that involved more than 2,700 heart failure patients being cared for at 278 different health centers.
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Media Representation and the Global Imagination
Media Representation and the Global Imagination
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This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others' lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration.
The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing 'mediated intimacy' and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives.
Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others.
Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.
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1 Media representation and the global imagination: A framework
2 Imagining others: Representations of natural disasters
3 Imagining ourselves: Representations of the nation
4 Imagining possible lives: Representations of migration
5 Imagining the world: Representations of New Year celebrations
6 Imagining the self
7 Conclusion: Nothing gets you closer revisited
'This valuable book connects the scholarship on the social power of the imagination with the hitherto separate literature on new media technologies, audience formation and global mediation. In doing so it enriches both these fields while building some new bridges between them. It will be widely appreciated by anthropologists, media scholars and students of the cultural dynamics of globalization.'
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'Shani Orgad has written a readable, theoretically sophisticated book about media representation in a global world. By showing the complexity and ambiguity of texts and interpretation, she deftly avoids the twin problems of absolute domination and complete resistance that have characterized the literature. Based on a smart selection of cases, she carefully dissects the struggles over imagining a global world. Highly recommended to anyone interested in state-of-the-art analysis about media resources used to envision what "global" means.'
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Facilitated by Steve Katz, this is going to be an informal support group for people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, Autism Spectrum disorders, think they might be, or who have difficulty with social communication executive function or sensory processing.
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When the weather starts getting warmer I find myself drawn to more bohemian styles, particularly block prints, a long standing personal favorite. Kalyana Textiles is a new small business that specializes in lovely home goods that are hand printed in India providing families there a sustainable source of income. It's such a great business model and look at how fetching these prints are! And just for you, enjoy free shipping on your order through April 15th by using the code "EOSSHIP". ( FYI- US orders only!)
The printing process in action.
Along with pillows, they sell quilts, napkins and tea towels.
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I am loving this quilt for summer sleeping!
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What do you call a person who likes cold weather and has problems with hot weather and a person who likes hot weather and has problems with cold weather?
I'm not a teacher yet, but I am studying a Bachelor of Education with an English Literature major at Charles Sturt University, in NSW, Australia.
If someone really enjoys going to countries where the heat is extreme, I might refer to them as a "heat freak", as far as holidays are concerned. I don't think I would use "cold freak" though, mainly because there aren't many people who go on holiday to particular countries because the weather is intensely cold.
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