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MemTest86 is the original, free, stand alone memory testing software for x86 computers. MemTest86 boots from a USB flash drive and tests the RAM in your computer for faults using a series of comprehensive algorithms and test patterns.
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Unreliable RAM can cause a multitude of problems. Corrupted data, crashes and unexplained behaviour. Bad RAM is one of the most frustrating computer problems to have as symptoms are often random and hard to pin down. MemTest86 can help diagnose faulty RAM (or rule it out as a cause of system instability). As such it is often used by system builders, PC repair stores, overclockers & PC manufacturers.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 192 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
We need a new logo for our software as a service solution named eSentric.
Check out http://www.eSentric.com for original logo.
We need a really stylish and eye catching logo for our service dispatch software business. The software is for businesses who need software to support their field service dispatching business processes.
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- Our name is eSentric, meaning; "e" for electronic, "sent" for the inference to sending field service resources using the dispatching, and "eSentric" representing the context of what the product is. .. ideas around this can be created and developed
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Tubert wins first college tourney
It didn't take long for Emily Tubert to make an impact in college.
Playing for the University of Arkansas women's golf team, the 2010 Burroughs High graduate stormed to a victory in her first tournament as a freshman for the Razorbacks.
Tubert — the 2009-10 Leader Female Athlete of the Year — paced Arkansas to a final round surge and the title at the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic Sunday at the Jimmie Austin Oklahoma University Golf Course in Norman, Okla.
Tubert won the event, firing a final-round 70 for a 211 (69-72-70) to lead Arkansas to a 291. It was the lowest team round by 10 strokes.
The Razorbacks trailed host Oklahoma by five strokes heading into the final round, but rallied Sunday for the win.
Tubert began the day on the 10th hole and played even through 13 where she birdied with par five. She finished the back side one under. Tubert dropped another stroke after making the turn and counting a three on the par four first hole.
Tubert gave a stroke back on the fourth hole with a five, but again fell to two-under with a birdied on the final hole of her round.
"I couldn't be more proud of what we did this weekend," Arkansas Coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said on the Razorbacks' website. "Four of the five players birdied their last hole.
"Emily is not afraid to win, in fact she thrives under that kind of pressure. She is a special player and she's going to be fun to watch."
Arkansas won the event with an 871 (290-290-291).
Tubert was a two-time Pacific League champion at Burroughs. She also won the CIF Southern Section title in 2009.
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All American Pet Brands is a really innovative pet company that is definitely thinking outside of the box. The first product they shipped out was the PAWTIZER. This is an incredible idea folks, you have animals running around outside (usually without shoes) and they are stepping in who knows what constantly. You have guests taking their shoes off, but with animals it's a different thing and those germs are all over your house. With PAWTIZER you have a handy easy and portable solution that really makes a lot of sense.
All American Pet Brands has formulated a special sanitizing wipe for your pets feet. Designed to clean and kill 99.9% of bacteria without being harmful to the animal, the environment, your kids, and without drying out the pads on their feet. It comes in a round container with 100 wipes, you just pull one out and take care of their feet before they come inside. It's perfect.
The next thing All American Pet Brands sent out was a little different. You have all heard about powerbars, most of you have likely tried them before or after a workout. Well All American Pet Brands has put together a 'powerbar' of their own (several infact). They are giant quarter pound protein bars filled with vitamins, good fats, and guess what? NO CORN!! There are three different bars the CHOMP BAR, NUTRA BAR, and MUTT.
The big test for us was obvious… do dogs like them? We put it to the test. Beggin Strips have long been a favorite of the animals here at Reviewboard. In fact they go nuts, often pulling open the drawer they are in to let us know they are serious about snack time. So we did something completely unfair to All American Pet Brands. We put a small bowl of beggin strips on one side, and an one piece of each of the three CHOMP BAR, NUTRA BAR, and MUTT Bar in another bowl. We let one dog in at a time, they ran up to the bowls paused, sniffed at all of them, and went for the bars over the begging strips. That was impressive. They were quite content eating the beggin strips afterward, but they went for the unknown first which was pretty interesting.
The ingredients on the wrapper make these snacks a lot healthier than your average dog snacks, so you don't have to feel guilty about giving them a treat. All in all we were very impressed with the entire line up. The PAWTIZER was such a huge hit and because all of these products are so reasonably priced we had to give it a Reviewboard Best Buy Award right out of the gate. 5 out of 5 stars.


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The US political climate is about as strange as the average Ithaca weather in that it's seldom predictable, but often involves slush. Battles have been waged over issues like flag burning (does it count if I throw a TIFF image of the American flag in my Mac's trash can?) and other free expression issues. Electronic freedoms have been in the news as well, what with the FBI seizing the equipment of suspected electronic burglars. It's even gone so far that Mitch Kapor and others formed the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group dedicated to educating both the government and the public about electronic freedoms.
In the midst of this thicket of confusion, up pops Prodigy, the online service run by IBM and Sears, two of the more conservative companies in the solar system. On the face of it, Prodigy sounds like a great deal, a flat rate of $9.95 for a month no matter how long you spend online. There are a few drawbacks, such as a fifth of the screen devoted to advertising and an interface from hell, but people didn't mind that. Then came the slush. Prodigy decided that it wasn't making enough money, so it raised the monthly rates and started charging 25 cents for each mail message over 30 per month. Considering that it costs the same amount to send real mail and have someone pick it up at your house and deliver it your friend, people became unhappy. First they started grumbling in the bulletin board areas, then in private mailing lists when Prodigy informed them that their griping was uninteresting and wouldn't allow it posted. That wasn't enough, so Prodigy changed its guidelines to make such mailing lists illegal. In addition, Prodigy expelled the most vocal of the dissenters and starting screening even private mail to be sure its guidelines aren't weren't violated. Now there's a nasty job.
Due in part to the massive bad press, though, Prodigy now says that it will reinstate the people it expelled if they sign letters admitting that they harassed other Prodigy members and advertisers with their protest. From what we've heard, Prodigy's offer has been turned down cold. The other online services have been happily taking the users who are unhappy with Prodigy's censorship practices.
This ugly incident point more towards a larger issue of the boundary between email and normal mail. Opening a letter that's not addressed to you is a US federal crime, and it's no better for a mail carrier to do so. Similarly, free speech guarantees that you can say what you want in person, but that doesn't seem to apply to electronic discussions. In our opinion, freedom of expression should not be limited by the medium of expression, but only by its ability to directly harm another person. An excellent example is Usenet, where lots of unpleasant and controversial subjects are discussed. You can say anything you wish without fear of legal reprisal (except for some local computer abuse laws). However, if what you say is deemed inappropriate for any reason, prepare to be flamed. That internal set of checks and balances serves to properly compartmentalize topics, so if your message belongs in alt.sex.chains&whipped_cream, it had better not show up in comp.sys.mac.misc. In the vast majority of cases, the existence of appropriate forums is enough; and in the few exceptions, public uproar serves to keep the peace. If only the rest of the electronic world were so reasonable.
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Boing Boing Cory relates this tale using his $100/year global support service for his Lenovo laptop and actually liking what eventually happened. Wha??
The Benjamin-a-year plan entitles the user to a service rep to come out next-day, no matter where on the planet you are—provided it's somewhere reasonable, we'd assume. The tech guy came by his office and fixed exactly what was wrong, basically doing an in-house call that Apple stores, even with their notoriously decent service, couldn't match. I mean, in-house? And they even ignored the fact that he put Linux on there instead of his original Vista?
He does some caveats on his experience with IBM/Lenovo as a whole, and you can check that out over at BB. [BoingBoing]


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Individual price tags have been a thing of the past for more than a year.
When Governor Snyder repealed part of the Item Pricing Law, it meant retailers no longer had to put a price tag on each item on the shelf starting Sept. 1, 2011. The repeal promised to save businesses and consumers money, but a new study by Michigan Citizen Action, a state-wide citizen advocacy group, says the loss of those price tags had some damaging effects.
"The bottom line is that people are suffering more because of this," said Michael Shpunt, a research assistant for Michigan Citizen Action
Over the past year, Michigan Citizen Action used secret shoppers to collect data on grocery stores throughout Michigan since the item pricing mandate was repealed. They found prices went up instead of down, and workers hours are being cut.
"We kind of have a whole wall of stuff that used to be priced, all the lunchables and sandwich meats," said Jordan Ryckman, an employee at a major retailer in Eaton Rapids. "We don't have to price any of that now, so instead of working 8 hour shifts, we now work 4 or 5 hour shifts, and we're still expected to get the same amount of work done."
Plus, without those individual price tags, they say customers are more confused than ever. They ask clerks questions, but they might not have the answers. It's especially difficult for elderly or handicapped shoppers who can't get around as easily or spend the time price checking.
"It almost caused havoc in line because the people behind them didn't want to wait," said Executive Director of Michigan Citizen Action Linda Teeter, who also secret shopped. "All of it caused frustration at some point."
The Michigan Retailers Association and store owners say the reformed Item Pricing Law is working. They said less stickers means more customer service.
"It enabled us to be more effective, to give consumers a better shopping experience," said Vice President of Tom's Food Center, Steve Antaya. "We could focus our energies on things that make a difference. Merchandising, making sure that signage is good so people do know what the price is they're paying for items that they're picking up, because that is the most important thing."
He said customers have questions no matter what the law is, and that's just part of the business.
The Michigan Retailers Association said they haven't had any complaints, and it calls the Michigan Citizen Action study "amateur."
"Their conclusions are certainly suspect," said Senior Vice President of the Michigan Retailers Association Tom Scott. "When we look at the government data on what has happened, prices have been lower in Michigan than they have in the United States. We see a clear picture of item pricing reforms are really working."
Scott said grocery store employment is up compared to last year, and it's the first increase since 2002.
Michigan Citizen Action also claimed the Attorney General's office only spent a little over $6,000 worth of $100,000 appropriated for consumer education of the reform. The Attorney General's office said they actually spent almost $50,000 on several education efforts, including pamphlets for seniors and a wallet-sized consumer bill of rights.


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A leading U.S. provider of advanced network communications, Windstream Communications offers cloud computing and managed services to businesses as well as broadband, phone, and digital TV services to consumers. To meet customer expectations for exceptional service, Windstream relies on a variety of critical business systems, including customer data, order entry, and billing. To keep these systems running at peak performance, IT requires comprehensive, up-to-date information on the assets and topology of the enterprise network, which includes about 3,000 physical and virtual servers spread across five data centers.
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As you have probably noted in your personal journal, a little while back we called for someone, anyone, to give Evander Holyfield a grill endorsement. Well, someone was listening. Introducing the Evander Holyfield Real Deal Grill, which hit stores last week, and is meant as a direct competitor to George Foreman's Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. Holyfield vs. Foreman II is on! Who'll bring the potato salad?
Manufacturer CirTran Corp., based in Utah, approached Holyfield about promoting the $99 grill after he appeared on the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" in 2005. Holyfield dons an apron in a 30-minute commercial that began airing last week describing his product's culinary and health benefits. "I've got a George Foreman grill. It's a good grill," Holyfield, 44, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But don't you think the latest grill is supposed to be the best grill?"
Well, sure, and I for one am happy that our grill technology is not standing still. That's because I know that the Russians are now laboring to perfect their Nikolai Valuev Beast From The East People's Mechanized Grill. One false step could leave us lagging dangerously behind in the Grilled Meats Race. And speaking of that, Holyfield will climb gingerly back into the ring on Oct. 13 to fight Russia's Sultan Ibragimov at Moscow's Khodynka Ice Palace arena. Holyfield, still fighting. Great Googly Moogly.
Someone Just Give This Guy A Grill Endorsement Already [Deadspin]
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Seriously, that's what the obituary in the Kansas City Star says. "Loren G. 'Sam' Lickteig died on November 14 as a result of (OK, fine—complications due to multiple sclerosis—but also) "heartbreaking disappointment caused by the Kansas City football team."
There you have it. The Kansas City Chiefs killed a guy. It does not, however, appear to have been with malice aforethought, but rather a fairly well-documented record of negligence.
Sam's daughter Jennifer says the obituary was the family's way of letting Sam get back at the Chiefs for such a miserable run of late.
"My dad was such a comedian," she said. "He loved the Chiefs, so we had to let him have the last word."
The obituary comes the same day many Chiefs fans donned black at Arrowhead Stadium for the Cincinnati Bengals game in protest of the season and General Manager Scott Pioli.
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by Dan Springer
Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest -- built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced -- are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region's electricity grid says there's an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year.
The problem arose during the late spring and early summer last year. Rapid snow melt filled the Columbia River Basin. The water rushed through the 31 dams run by the Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency based in Portland, Ore., allowing for peak hydropower generation. At the very same time, the wind howled, leading to maximum wind power production.
Demand could not keep up with supply, so BPA shut down the wind farms for nearly 200 hours over 38 days.
"It's the one system in the world where in real time, moment to moment, you have to produce as much energy as is being consumed," BPA spokesman Doug Johnson said of the renewable energy.
Now, Bonneville is offering to compensate wind companies for half their lost revenue. The bill could reach up to $50 million a year.
The extra payout means energy users will eventually have to pay more.
"We require taxpayers to subsidize the production of renewable energy, and now we want ratepayers to pay renewable energy companies when they lose money?" asked Todd Myers, director of the Center for the Environment of the Washington Policy Center and author of "Eco-Fads: How the Rise of Trendy Environmentalism is Harming the Environment."
"That's a ridiculous system that keeps piling more and more money into a system that's unsustainable," Myers said.
Green energy advocates also oppose BPA's oversupply solution.
"It sends a very poor signal to the market about doing business in the Northwest," said Rachel Shimshak, executive director of the Renewable Northwest Project. "We want the Northwest to be a good place to do business."
BPA says its hands are tied by environmental regulations. Officials contend if they shut down hydropower generation instead of the wind farms, endangered salmon would be harmed.
It's counter-intuitive because for decades environmental advocates have complained about dams killing fish by sending them through the turbines on their way to the ocean.
But spilling too much water over the dam can apparently also be harmful. It can create too much oxygen in the water at the base of the dam, which has also killed salmon.
Interestingly, fish advocates are unconvinced. Save Our Wild Salmon is encouraging BPA to test salmon downstream of the dams to determine if their being impacted by high oxygen levels, and only stop the overflows when they have proof fish are being harmed.
Pat Ford, the group's executive director, said Bonneville is using the salmon as an excuse to keep hydropower dominant over wind power.
"I think it's driven by Bonneville's customers who are worried about the increases in wind generation in the Northwest and what it means to them," Ford said.
BPA submitted its plan Tuesday to the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission for approval. FERC has to decide if the oversupply compensation plan is fair to wind producers, utilities and ratepayers.
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Wednesday Shorts: Dog fighting, DDO, Madden, God Hand, Angry Birds, Romero, sales
While a lot of folks feel they've been kicked in the neck over this PSN business and have seen loads of reports on the situation, other stuff happened in the world of games as well. Below, you will find that other stuff.
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Plants vs Zombies DS given May 6 UK date
Mastertronic's confirmed that it'll release PopCap's mental tower defence title Plants vs Zombies in the UK on May 6. The DS version will come with 14 new in-game achievements, multiplayer and four new exclusive mini-games. And that's all she wrote.
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My wife and I enjoyed a special blessing yesterday. We sat in the front row at Saddleback Church in SoCal where Pastor Rick Warren played host to Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, husband and wife producers of the new ten-part miniseries, "The Bible," which premiers tonight on the History Channel.
Mark has brought such well-known reality shows to television as "Survivor," "Celebrity Apprentice," "The Voice," "The Job" and "Shark Tank." Roma is best known for her role as Monica, on the popular television series "Touched by an Angel."
Many, I imagine, had an inkling that Roma might be a Christian. After all, she played an angel – lovingly and joyfully so – for the better part of a decade. But hardly anyone suspected Mark of being a Christ follower. I know I didn't.
Mark and Roma told the Saddleback faithful yesterday that they believe they were called by the Lord to bring "The Bible" to the small screen. To shine a light in dark places, said Mark. To share the Good News of Jesus Christ, said Roma.
Pastor Rick is convinced that the miniseries, two parts of which will air every Sunday between now and Easter, will prove as epic as "Roots," the eight-part miniseries that aired in 1977, that won nine Emmy Awards and remains today the third-highest rated television program in U.S. history.
"The Bible" is, arguably, the most ambitious cinematic adoption of the Good Book in Hollywood history.
More so than "The Ten Commandments," Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 retelling of the book of Exodus, in which the estimable Charlton Heston starred as Moses (and also happened to provide the voice of the Burning Bush).
More than "Ben Hur," the 1959 epic directed by William Wyler and also starring Charlton Heston, which won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture (an achievement unmatched until "Titanic" in 2007).
More than "King of Kings," "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "Jesus of Nazareth" and "The Passion of the Christ," all of which painted, in their own way, powerful cinematic portraits of the Messiah.
That's because Mark and Roma's labor of love does not cover a single period of Bible history, but brings to the small screen the stories of both the Old Testament and New Testament, from Genesis to Revelation.
The husband and wife producers do not retell all 66 books of the Bible. (I'm sure they would lose much of their audience if they devoted, say, an hour to the retelling of the book of Numbers).
Instead, their narrative was driven by the stories of the Bible's major figures, showing how the arc of Biblical history ultimately led to the arrival of Christ the Lord, whose life, death and resurrection gave meaning to everything that came before Him and everything that has followed.
Mark and Roma caution that their miniseries is not a documentary. It takes some artistic license. For instance, it refers to Simon Peter simply as Peter. And to Saul of Tarsus as Paul, before his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus.
Those minor details in no way detract from "The Bible." In fact, it probably makes the ten-parter more accessible to those who do as yet count themselves as Christians, who are not intimately familiar with Scripture.
Among the many stories Mark and Roma shared yesterday about the making of "The Bible," the one that filled me with the Spirit concerned their filming of a scene involving the actors playing Jesus and Nicodemus. It occurred on a still night in the Morocco desert, without a breath of wind.
Jesus, played by actor Diego Morgado, explains to Nicodemus, played by actor Simon Kunz, that he must be "born again." By that, says Jesus, He is not speaking of physical rebirth, but spiritual. And he likens the Holy Spirit to the wind. It blows where it pleases. No one knows where it comes from or where it is going.
At that very moment in the filming, a sustained wind blue through the set, as if on cue. Mark and Roma felt it was supernatural.
Roma said that it brought to mind some of the occurrences that took place during the nine seasons she appeared on "Touched by an Angel." She and her fellow cast members used to say "Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous."
Well, I think it no coincidence that Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, Hollywood's leading Christian couple, have brought "The Bible" to television. I believe God chose them for this Kingdom building work for such a time as this.


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Spotted This Morning: Reason among alcohol, tobacco and firearms (Updated)
(Update: To clarify, I refer to conservative thinkers in this piece and add Gillespie to the group. I don't mean to characterize — at all — the Reason editor as a "typical" conservative. Gillespie is a libertarian who is conservative in the free-markets sense of the word, but his views on socials issues are more complex.)
Your Spotted This Morning correspondent, who relishes going Gonzo whenever possible, left his basement blogging HQ this weekend and went into the field for a little research.
I wanted to see first-hand what Colorado conservatives were up to during this time that Republicans are spectacularly flaming out in the governor's race.
In short, they surprised me.
I attended a gathering of Independence Institute's members and guests on Saturday – the second time I have visited the institute's provocatively titled "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" party.
(Enjoy them now while they're still legal!)
Relaxing under a tent with cigars and drinks after a morning of sporting clays, the institute's Jon Caldara said to great laughter that it was now time for Republicans to collect their shotguns, form a circle and aim for the center.
I didn't expect mirth, but maybe the bigger picture for conservatives is promising, despite Scott McPlagiarist – as The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes points out.
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"Nicholson Electroplating" is a downloadable case from the Arson desk available for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. At 9.45 in the morning, a thunderous explosion rocks Los Angeles. City blocks are flattened and smoke and ash fill the air. Detectives Phelps and Biggs race to the site of the former Nicholson Electroplating plant to find a pile of unanswered questions. What caused the explosion? What were Nicholson's employees working on? And where are chief chemist Dr Harold McLellan and hismysterious female assistant?"
I'm intrigued by the mention of Howard Hughes in the trailer, but it's not clear if he's actually going to show up.
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10 things you didn't know about orgasm?
Here's an interesting, frustrating thing:
It's a fun video and you should watch it, but I'd like to take this opportunity to point out a common error made both in the mainstream media and in the science: Sex, stimulation, desire, arousal, ejaculation, and orgasm are NOT IDENTICAL. They are all different.
Fetuses masturbate in utero. This is true, they do, but it doesn't necessarily mean they have orgasms. It turns out they do, but masturbating and orgasm are not identical and let's all be thorough, precise critical thinkers and remember that.
Orgasm can cause bad breath? This is, she tells us, according to a 1930s marriage manual. However, it's not orgasm but ejaculation, which is not the same thing.
Orgasm can cure the hiccups? Actually not orgasm but intercourse. Ask 2⁄3 of women and they'll tell you it's DEFINITELY not the same thing.
Pig upsuck – orgasm in pigs promotes fertility? By her description, it's not orgasm but STIMULATION that generates upsuck of ejaculate. Stimulation is not the same as orgasm.
The last one "But it sure is entertaining" is also about ejaculation.
So at least half the "things you didn't know about orgasm" aren't actually about orgasm.
Does it matter, the distinction between arousal, orgasm, and ejaculation?
Well of course it does.
For better or worse, people believe orgasm is a big deal – which is why the talk has the title it does. "10 Things You Didn't Know about Sexual Response" just doesn't have the same ring to it, eh?
But if orgasm is a big deal, that's all the more reason to be precise when we talk about it. If we go around conflating orgasm, arousal, and ejacuation, we end up with people very confused about orgasm.
I would like a world where orgasm wasn't such a big deal, which I think necessitates a world where people don't assume that stimulation, ejaculation, arousal, and desire somehow necessarily imply orgasm.
Incidentally, you should all read Elisabeth Lloyd's Case of the Female Orgasm, which is relentlessly precise around this distinction of stimulation, arousal, desire, and orgasm. A brilliant, feminist, and did I mention brilliant, work of philosophy of science.


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There were so many great storylines and lessons that all golfers could take from this past week's Northern Trust Open at Riviera. I could have written about how ageless good golf can be, as it was great to see Corey Pavin and in particular, Fred Couples, up near the top of the leaderboard all week. I could have written about how Riviera is a shotmakers course, and that distance is not as important as the ability to work the ball - something all of us could probably work on a little more. And I could have written about how difficult it can be, for even the world's best players, to maintain focus when weather and pace of play means lots of downtime between shots.
But to me, the most intriguing part of the week and most applicable lesson for amateur golfers was the resurgence of Mr. Aaron Baddeley. Many golf fans and teachers have long recognized the talent Baddeley has had, and it was just a matter of him finding his own personal comfort zone in order to flourish on the PGA Tour.
Aaron went through a well-publicized break from his long-time swing coach a few years ago and had mixed results with a couple of different philosophies. However, he struggled on the final day of the 2007 U.S. Open when he entered the final round with a lead and he ultimately went back to his childhood coach, Dale Lynch.
This week's "A Lesson Learned" is not about what swing philosophy is better than another, it's about the fact that there are multiple swing philosophies because there are multiple ways to play good golf. One of the things that we all - teachers and students - need to remember is that the purpose of golf instruction isn't to make a perfect swing, it's to lower scores.
It's important that you find a teacher that you feel comfortable with, whose philosophy makes sense to you, and that you can remain patient and committed as you two work through several elements of golf that will make you a better player.
Baddeley's success this week is not a testament for or against a particular type of instruction. It's an example of what commitment, dedication and patience can do for a golfer who is willing to put in the work with a teacher they believe in.
Kirk Oguri is a PGA Professional at Spring Rock Golf Center in New Hyde Park, NY. He is also the Equipment Expert/Specialist/Tester at Pete's Golf Pro Shop, Mineola, NY. Oguri has played on professional golf tours around the world and is President and owner of A-Balance Inc., a golf product company. You can follow Kirk on twitter at @kirkoguri.In fact, I don't like the term "swing instructor" so much as I do "golf coach." I'll help you swing better, but that's a means to the real goal, making you play better golf, lower your scores and enjoy your time on the course more.
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Rahul Rajkumar and his colleagues from Washington and Annapolis write in this week's "New England journal of Medicine" about their delight in more state control over medicine in Maryland.
It is impressive how powerfully leftism with roots in Marxist thought has gained sway among the elites in Maryland and the federal government. As Europe falls and fails from leftism, our American elites revel in it. It is indeed the most dynamic religion we have in the West today.
History, common sense and our own American revolution have shown the disaster of Obamacare, and that greed for power and control is inherent in the human psyche. It leads always to the degradation of everything it touches.
This is the value system of what is called "progressivism" in Maryland. I and millions of others in America call it shameful, regressive leftism. Let's return to freedom and free markets, bounty and excellence — America, not Moscow.
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JavaOne Latin America Wrap-upsteveonjava | December 6, 2012
JavaOne Latin America in Sao Paulo Brazil just ended. It was a great event that had a huge community presence, which was responsible for selecting over 50% oft the content, and supported it throughout.
This started off on Sunday with the Geek Bike ride where over 50 geeks donned bike helmets and took over the streets of Sao Paulo. I took plenty of photos of the event, which you can find on my steveonjava flickr account, and in the geekbikeride photostream:
The event was even bigger than last year with a 50% increase in registrations. Also, we took advantage of the newly built out wing of the Transamerica Expo Center, which afforded much more room and newer facilities for the event.
I gave my updated presentation on JavaFX and HTML5 this afternoon, including some new updates that Felipe and I made to demonstrate calling back from a JavaScript event handler to Java code. The full code is now available on GitHub here:
And you can see the presentation I gave in its entirety on slideshare:
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Dr. A Live this Thursday!
Ahem... I have an announcement to make. I have decided to take a huge step out of my comfort zone of blogging and going to try the world of being a talk show host. How crazy is that?
I have to tell you, ever since I've gotten my iPhone, I've been fascinated even more with podcasts. As some of you know, I've tried doing my own podcasts but really have not had the same satisfaction that I've had with blogging. And, I think the reason is a kind of disconnect between the podcast and the listener/reader.
Then, I started listening to what I would call, "live podcasts," in which the listener can IM chat or even call in to participate with the host. That really fascinated me. So, this Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 4PM eastern time, the first episode of Doctor Anonymous Live will occur on Blog Talk Radio.
I have no idea what will happen. I hope that I'll be able to navigate through all the technology logistics of the thing. So, it may go off without a hitch, or be my biggest disaster ever. Either way, you'll have to tune in....
6 comments:
- Cathy said...
Well I will certainly try to be listening, and i will also put something about it on my blog on Thursday!
- Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:49:00 AM
- thethinker said...
If I'm home in time, I'll be sure to tune in.
Good luck!
- Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:35:00 PM
- coaster1robert said...
wheres the mp3 DR A. did you delete your show
- Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:42:00 PM
Good luck, Dr A!
I'll try to give it a listen.
- Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:41:00 PM
- Chrysalis said...
How exciting! I'll definitely try to tune in. Thank goodness I'm off that dial up in time. Good luck.
- Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:53:00 PM
- HP said...
Ah. That might be the middle of the night here. Now I may be a dedicated Dr. A. reader but disturbing the beauty sleep might be a tough call! :)
- Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:42:00 PM
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These Foods Stimulate Your Immune System
As we consider foods that can help your immune defense, we will first look at foods that boost immune function. These foods may be of importance to you if you have a condition where you could benefit from a more active immune system. An important note: There are many claims on the internet about foods that supposedly enhance immunity, but many are not supported by evidence. In this chapter, I am going to describe the research that has been done on specific foods in humans demonstrating an immune benefit.
1. Mushrooms
The white button mushroom, one of the most common of all edible mushrooms, is eaten raw in salads or cooked with a wide variety of ingredients across world cuisines. White button mushrooms are a good source of bioactives, including beta-glucan, an immune-stimulating dietary fiber. Researchers at the University of Western Sydney in Australia studied 20 healthy volunteers who were assigned to eat either a normal diet or a normal diet plus white button mushrooms. The mushroom-eating participants ate 100 grams of blanched mushrooms per day, roughly equivalent to 1.3 cups of mushrooms for one week. As a test of whether the mushrooms affected immune function, the researchers measured the levels of two antibodies (IgA and IgG) in the subjects' saliva. More antibodies are produced in the saliva after immune activation. The researchers found a steady increase in IgA levels in the participants, with a 55 percent increase after one week of mushroom consumption and a continued rise to 58 percent above baseline levels up to two weeks after finishing the mushrooms. Eating the mushrooms activated the gut, which stimulated the immune system to produce the antibodies. The antibodies then circulated to the mucus membranes, where they were secreted in saliva.
A number of other studies in the lab using extracts from other culinary mushrooms like shiitake, maitake, enoki, chanterelle, and oyster mushrooms showed that they, too, can activate immune defenses. In addition to their culinary value, some of the most popular edible mushrooms have immune-boosting benefits.
2. Aged Garlic
Garlic is renowned as both an ingredient and a health remedy. Ancient Greeks used garlic to strengthen athletes and soldiers and as a component of healing tonics. Fresh garlic has a strong, pungent smell valued for cooking, but when it is aged, garlic becomes almost odorless. Aged garlic is found as a dietary supplement and retains potent bioactives, such as apigenin, that can influence the immune system.
Researchers at the University of Florida in Gainesville studied the effect of aged garlic on the immune systems of 120 healthy men and women in their mid-20s and early 30s during the cold and flu season. Two groups received either an aged garlic extract or a placebo for 90 days and had their blood drawn for analysis of immune response. The subjects were instructed to keep a daily illness diary to log any symptoms of being sick, such as runny nose, head congestion, sore throat, cough, fever, or body aches, and to record if they became ill enough to miss school or work.
At the end of the study, the group who consumed aged garlic extract had significantly more immune T-cells and natural killer (NK) cells circulating in their bloodstream than the group taking the placebo. Remarkably, the T-cells resulting from the aged garlic were supercharged and could replicate themselves eight times faster than in people taking the placebo. The NK cells, too, were enhanced by garlic. They were 30 percent more activated than similar cells in people on the placebo.
The illness diaries showed that people taking the garlic extract reported 20 percent fewer cold and flu symptoms, 60 percent fewer incidents of feeling sick enough to cancel regular activities, and 58 percent fewer missed days of work. This study showed a nice correlation between aged garlic, enhanced immune cell activity, and less illness.
Another study by researchers at the Kyoto Prefecture University of Medicine in Japan recruited patients who had inoperable cancer. When they were given aged garlic for six months, the activity of their circulating NK cells increased. This opens the door to research on whether aged garlic could help augment the cancer-fighting immune responses in patients receiving immunotherapy.
These studies offer clinical evidence that aged garlic can strengthen our immune defense against everyday infections and potentially even cancer.
3. Broccoli Sprouts
Delicious for salads, broccoli sprouts are three- to four-day-old plant tendrils that have a mild, nutty taste. Remember that broccoli contains sulforaphanes, which are potent bioactives. Sulforaphanes activate the immune system, and, remarkably, broccoli sprouts contain up to 100 times more sulforaphane than regular full-grown broccoli. You can really taste the broccoli flavor when you chew them thoroughly. The chewing is important because it ruptures the plant cell walls to release an enzyme called myrosinase. This enzyme is important because it converts the sulforaphane, which is naturally inactive in the plant, to its active form in your mouth. Activated sulforaphane can affect the cells in your body.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University, and the University Children's Hospital Basel in Switzerland studied the impact of eating broccoli sprouts on the immune system by conducting a clinical trial involving the flu vaccine. They wanted to know if the sprouts could help the body boost its response after vaccination. The scientists enrolled 29 healthy volunteers in their late 20s and gave them either 2 cups of broccoli sprouts blended into a shake or a placebo shake to drink each day for four days. The volunteers received a nasal spray flu vaccine on the second day after starting to drink the shake. The vaccine delivered a live but weakened flu virus into the mucus membrane in the nose.
The results showed that volunteers who drank the broccoli sprout shake had 22 times more NK T-cells in their blood compared to those who drank the placebo shake. Their NK cells also had more killing power. The proof in the pudding was that broccoli sprout shake drinkers also had less flu virus remaining in the cells of their nose, showing that their body cleared the invaders more effectively. Eating broccoli sprouts can boost your immune defenses against the flu virus.
4. Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
Extra-virgin olive oil is a critical component of the Mediterranean diet, and the bioactives it contains, such as hydroxytyrosol, oleocanthal, and oleic acid, can enhance your immune system.
Researchers at Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts, and the Institute for Food Science and Technology and Nutrition in Spain designed a clinical study to see if replacing the oil (butter and corn oil) found in the typical American diet with extra-virgin olive oil would improve a person's immune response. The researchers selected 41 overweight or obese volunteers from the Boston area, all over the age of 65. The subjects ate a typical American diet: high in saturated fat and refined and processed grains, and low in dietary fiber. The researchers gave all the subjects a bottle of oil and spread. One group received extra-virgin olive oil from Spain in liquid and spreadable form. The other group received a mix of corn and soybean oil and a butter spread. For three months, the participants continued to eat a typical American diet but used only their assigned oil and spread. Both groups consumed on average about 3 tablespoons of oil per day. Blood analysis showed that the immune T-cells in the olive oil group increased their ability to become activated and expand in number by 53 percent. The same immune cells in the group eating corn-soy oil and butter had no change.
Olive oil also helps reduce the body's reaction to allergens. The bioactive hydroxytyrosol found in extra-virgin olive oil helps immune cells make interleukin-10, which calms inflammation. These combined effects show that substituting extra-virgin olive oil for other cooking oils used in a typical American diet can have both immune-boosting and anti-inflammatory health benefits.
Importantly, not all olive oils contain the same amount of hydroxy-tyrosol. A study from the Instituto de la Grasa in Spain compared the polyphenols found in four types of Spanish extra-virgin olive oils made from olive monovarietals (Arbequina, Hojiblanca, Manzanilla, Picual). The highest levels of hydroxytyrosol were present in the oil made from Picual olives.
5. Ellagic Acid
Many popular foods contain ellagic acid, a potent bioactive with health-defense-activating properties. Chestnuts, blackberries, black raspberries, walnuts, and pomegranate have among the highest levels. As noted in chapter 6, ellagic acid has antiangiogenic effects that can starve tumors and prevent them from growing. But when it comes to immunity, ellagic acid can assist immune cells by improving their ability to detect and destroy cancer cells.
Scientists at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy discovered this immune effect in bladder cancer. In the lab, ellagic acid slowed the growth of bladder cancer cells, preventing them from making proteins that stimulate tumor blood vessels. They had expected this reaction based on ellagic acid's angiopreventive effect. What they found in addition, however, was a surprise with important implications. Ellagic acid also reduced the cancer cells' production of the immune-cloaking protein PD-L1 by 60 percent. PD-L1 helps disguise the cancer cells so they escape detection by the body's immune cells, effectively making cancer invisible. When the cancer cell can't make as much PD-L1, the cancer cells are more easily seen by the immune system, which can then call in the immune troops to destroy them.
When ellagic acid was injected into bladder cancer growing in mice, the tumor growth was suppressed by as much as 61 percent. These results suggest that ellagic acid has the ability to suppress cancer by aiding two of the body's health defense systems: angiogenesis and immunity. Ellagic acid is the first dietary bioactive that has been shown to have the ability to target the cloaking protein PD-L1. This is the target of immunotherapies that help the immune system wipe out cancer. While the ellagic studies were conducted in the lab, it suggests that some foods may have immunotherapeutic properties that could complement cancer treatment or potentially assist the body in its own ability to conduct surveillance to prevent cancer.
Excerpted from Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. Copyright © 2019 by William W. Li, M.D. Reprinted with permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved.
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Unfinished business: Local runners inspired by 'Boston Strong' spirit return to marathon
Despite the tragic chaos that engulfed last year's Boston Marathon, several local runners look forward to a second chance to step up and finish the legendary event.
On April 15 last year, two bombs detonated by terrorist brothers near the marathon's Boylston Street finish line killed three and inflicted hundreds of injuries. The explosions literally stopped the race in its tracks, with thousands of runners turned away from the 26.2-mile route of the world's oldest annual marathon before they were able to complete it.
"There were 5,700 of us runners who did not complete the Boston Marathon, so we were invited back automatically, which was very nice," said Katina Wolfe, of Fairfield, who originally hails from Boston.
"Normally the Boston Marathon is about 25,000 people," she said. "This year they increased the field another 10,000," with extra bib numbers also given out to anyone who was injured so they could bring a companion if they choose.
Boston is the only major marathon that requires runners to meet a qualifying time based on age, she said. "No other marathon ever asks that of anybody, (and) I could never qualify for it."
Instead, the only other option is to run on behalf of one of two dozen approved Boston-area charities, such as the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, which Wolfe chose to do.
In fact, she's doing it again, though it wasn't required. Her goal is to raise $13,100 in pledges -- $500 for each mile of the race.
"Last year was my first year and I didn't finish," said Christine Riniti, of Westport.
"It was just like, you're running along and all of a sudden you started sensing that something was going on, because there were all these emergency vehicles and police in the streets," she said. Oddly, her cellphone suddenly began vibrating. "I mean it started going crazy."
Riniti was finally stopped near Kenmore Square by police before she reached the finish line.
"You were just kind of stunned," she said of hearing news of the bombings. "You couldn't believe the magnitude of what it was. It just seemed surreal."
In her shock, she asked a police officer if the runners couldn't just detour around where the blasts occurred.
"He looked at me like, `Are you really serious?' " she said.
"I was at mile 19 when the bombings occurred, but I did not figure out what had happened until I got closer," said Julia Daly, a Fairfield native now living in Cambridge, Mass.
She recalled the first-responders' sirens speeding by and what seemed to be a thinning crowd as she continued along the course.
"I was totally freaking out when I first found out," she said. "They just sort of had people loosely saying, `OK, we're stopping people here.' "
"Also I knew my family was about a mile and a half from the finish line, so I wasn't sure what the scope of the devastation was or what it really meant," Daly said.
"I didn't really have a second thought about whether I was going to do it (again)," she said. "I immediately committed to it."
"As it gets closer, I definitely feel like I'm going to be a little bit nervous," she said. "I feel the weight of emotion on it is probably going to be more powerful than I'm imagining it."
Daly said the city in general appears to have recovered from the trauma of last year's tragedies.
"It just feels like it hasn't really gone away," she said of the determination and energy that swept the city in the aftermath of the marathon, and which surged again when the Red Sox won the World Series in the fall.
"It feels like a pretty strong sense of community, and it being a smaller city, it makes it even more evident," Daly said.
Riniti said her motivation to run the marathon again is simple: "You want to be able to do it, and you just kind of want to be a part of it too," she said. "It's also a way to say thank you to Boston for having their spirit and doing it again."
"I'm so excited," Wolfe said. "I'm running for the city of Boston.


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be-SoT-ted: COIN tactics and strategy through the lens of ends, ways, means
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"Focus on strategy" has become, as of late, a cop-out response.ReplyDelete
Many are quick to claim that the US has no strategy, or that the latest strategic review has "no strategy". But how many propose an alternate strategy in its wake (aside from vague allusions to "concentrate on objectives, ways, means and ends")
Most strategists have no idea what they want. But they're quick to claim that others are wrong, or simply don/t have it. They/re little more than nagging housewives.
I'm not terribly sure if that's aimed at me or not...ReplyDelete
Regardless, why must commentators and pundits offer alternative strategies? Is there no value in pointing out the flaws in assumptions or creation of strategy? I don't see that highlighting problems in a strategy necessitates presenting an alternative version. A proper critique would suss out what the writer thinks the strategy should look like anyway. Plus, not all of us get paid to write national or regional strategies - that takes time!
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Without speaking to the bulk of your essay, Jason, the notion of a "strategy of tactics" predates Gian Gentile by decades and has been bandied about by a Who's Who of strategic savants.ReplyDelete
They include Colin Gray (Gian's strongest influence, I suspect, from "Irregular Enemies and the Essence of Strategy") and Mackubin Thomas Owens but it was used in murky COIN wars initially long ago by Andrew Krepinevich in reference to U.S. operations in Vietnam.
And it's not so much that COIN (by which I assume you mean any counter-insurgent operations) must be a process of tactics and operations driving a strategy. Obviously C.E. Callwell, the 1940 Small Wars Manual and other august publications spent some time discussion strategy and messy wars amongst the people, operations that didn't involve winning hearts and minds through a generational struggle.


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Modularizing and Code Reuse Using AOP
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a new exciting paradigm. It is not a competitor to the famous Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), they actually complement each other. It can be considered an extension to OOP. AOP modularizes software applications based on loosely coupled aspects, whereas OOP does it by using Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism.
AOP is a concept and not bound to any programming language. Software vendors can provide implementation for AOP in any programming language and make it available for the entire software community. Several vendors provide implementations in the Java language for AOP. This article uses the AspectJ implementation of AOP and will attempt to give some insight about code modularity and reuse using aspects.
Crosscutting Concerns
A concern is nothing but a function in a given system. Any system is typically composed of both core and non-core concerns. The non-core concerns such as logging and security are actually the supporting functionalities for the mainstay core functionalities. The core functionality is the one that the system is expected to do.
The main job of a non-core concern is to provide some extra functionality such as error handling to the core functionality, which will help in system management. But, in real life, what happens? For instance, take the example of a logging concern. Everyone will try to design in such as way that logging is implemented in a generic way and used for all modules/components of the system. Eventually, what happens? The logging code will cut across almost all modules in the system and become interleaved with the code responsible for core concerns. Thus, the logging concern becomes tightly coupled with the core concerns and becomes inseparable. In the case that any modification/enhancement/removal of logging is required, it will almost become impossible to do so because it involves huge efforts in terms of development and testing time.
Here is where AOP pitches in. AOP helps separate the non-core concerns from the core concerns by implementing concerns as aspects. Each aspect is independent and loosely coupled with other aspects in the system. This provides the flexibility for developers to enhance or remove any aspect at a later point in time without affecting the design and current state of the system.
Putting AOP to Practical Use
Think about another scenario, wherein AOP can really be useful. A developer has put in a lot of effort to implement an excellent business application, test it, and also move it into production systems. Later, he learns that execution of a particular logic in the application consumes more time than he has expected. To unveil the problem, he wants to benchmark the logic.
The one option that you could think of is wherever this logic is being called, just put the time stamps before and after invocations to measure the time taken to execute. Assume that it has been used in several places in the application; just think about the amount of effort involved in getting this task done. Huge, right???
AOP helps accomplishing this in a simple, maintainable, loosely coupled and reusable way. The benchmarking logics can be encapsulated separately as an aspect that can be reused for benchmarking other applications. You get the following advantages as you implement benchmarking as an aspect:
- Encapsulating benchmark logic as a separate concern that can be re-used elsewhere.
- This aspect could be used only for testing and removed later without affecting the original application.
- Absolutely zero changes would be required in the original application under test.
That's a lot of theory. It's time to get your hands dirty.
Take a loan calculator example. Given the principle amount, tenure in months, and the interest rate per annum, the loan calculator should be able to give you the monthly installment that you might need to pay.
Conventional way of benchmarking
Please refer to the sample programs to benchmark the loan calculator application.
Loan Calculator
package sample; public class LoanCalculator { public double calculateEMI ( int principle, int tenure, double interest) { double emi ; // calculate the Equated Monthly Installment return emi; } }
Loan Client
package sample; public class LoanClient { public double calculate(){ System.out.println("Calculate EMI..."); double installment = new LoanCalculator().calculateEMI(100000, 60, 9.5); System.out.println("EMI is - "+ installment); return installment; } public static void main(String[] args){ new LoanClient().calculate(); } }
Loan client with benchmarking
package sample; public class LoanClient2 { public double calculate(){ long start = System.currentTimeMillis(); System.out.println("Calculate EMI..."); double installment = new LoanCalculator().calculateEMI(100000, 60, 9.5); System.out.println("EMI is - "+ installment); long end = System.currentTimeMillis(); return installment; } public static void main(String[] args){ new LoanClient2().calculate(); } }
Please look at LoanClient2.java. The system time stamps have been put before and after invoking the business methods. Because of this ad-hoc method, there are several disadvantages:
- Benchmark logic has been interleaved with core logic
- Benchmark logic has been tightly coupled with core logic; they are almost inseparable
- Benchmark logic cannot be reused. (Ignore copy & paste)
- Management of code is very difficult.
What you need here is a re-usable, easily manageable and separable programming construct. AOP provides that.
The AOP Way of Benchmarking
In this section, you can see how AOP can be used to benchmark this loan calculator application. AOP can be configured to dynamically pick up the execution points within a program during execution and intercept the methods and fields to get to know what is happening around them.
An execution point within a program is called Join Point. For example, calling to a method is a join point. A set of join points is called point cut. You can configure many such point cuts. Advice is an encapsulation of piece of code (in your case, it is benchmarking logic) that you want to execute, when the execution points (in other words, point cuts) are detected during execution. For more information, please refer to www.aspectj.org.
You might need to get your hands little dirty before getting AspectJ working. Let me go step by step how to get it done. For your example, you use the AspectJ implementation of AOP.
- Create aspect: AspectJ supports developing aspects based on annotations. You would need to have JDK 1.5 installed in your machine to try out the following programs. By using annotation-based developments, you can create regular Java programs but instruct JDK to generate aspects. The rest will be taken care by JDK and AspectJ.
In the sample aspect, you have used "Around" advice and a point cut (whose configuration has been externalized by using aop.xml, which is explained in the next section).
- Configure point cuts: The point cut configuration can be externalized by using aop.xml. The only one condition is that the META-INFaop.xml file has to be placed in CLASSPATH. From the point cut configuration, you can understand that AspectJ will intercept all calls to methods present in the sample.LoanCalculator class.
- AspectJ Weaver: For AspectJ to know what should be intercepted, it uses something called "Weaver." The application classes may be woven during compile or runtime. Here, you use runtime-weaving functionality by passing "-javaagent:aspectjweaver.jar" as a JVM argument when you run the application.
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