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Maturing prospect Skole looking to make 2013 count
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Jake Skole had a football scholarship to Georgia Tech. He could be playing big-time college football right now, chasing wide receivers and running backs across the Atlantic Coast Conference and enjoying back-to-back Sun Bowl appearances.
Instead, he turned that down to play baseball. He does not regret the move.
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Jake Skole had a football scholarship to Georgia Tech. He could be playing big-time college football right now, chasing wide receivers and running backs across the Atlantic Coast Conference and enjoying back-to-back Sun Bowl appearances.
Instead, he turned that down to play baseball. He does not regret the move.
"I do not," Skole said. "I think about it on Saturdays very briefly, until I see somebody get knocked around. I don't think I could have grown up fast at Georgia Tech. You've got to grow up fast in the Minor Leagues."
Skole has been knocked around in the Rangers farm system and he is growing up fast. He was the Rangers No. 1 Draft pick in 2010 (15th overall) and now he is in danger of being overtaken by the many other talented outfielders in the Rangers farm system. He smiled when it was pointed out that '13 is a big year for him.
"No kidding," Skole said after a brief appearance in left field during the Rangers 3-1 loss to the Padres on Monday. "I need to start the season and put 2012 behind me, get back on the right track and on the right path."
He fell off the path in 2012, his third season with the Rangers after they signed him out of Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell, Ga. He was taken in the same Draft as Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper and Orioles infielder Manny Machado -- two other top high school prospects that year -- but has not had the same charmed life.
Skole began last season at Class A Myrtle Beach and was hitting .185 with three home runs and 18 RBIs after 85 games when the announcement came down from Major League Baseball. Skole was hit with a 50-game suspension for amphetamine use. He was sidelined from June 29 to Aug. 21, and then finished the season playing 10 games at Class A Spokane, which is two steps below Myrtle Beach.
"It was a rough one," Skole said. "One big mistake ended up turning it into a lost year."
The Rangers wanted Skole to use the time off productively. He was a 20-year-old kid still trying to grow up, and they had him go through an in-house counseling program. Skole speaks highly of the experience.
"I met a lot of great people who I still keep in touch with," Skole said. "The Rangers do a great job with that. They surround you with a lot of people who help you. With everything I went through, it was a positive experience.
"A lot of it was just immaturity on my part. That was part of it, growing up as a man and realizing that things can be taken away from you. Just simple things that I needed to learn."
Skole was in Peoria on Monday as a scrub, picking up two innings so that Leonys Martin could take the rest of the game off. He did not get to bat and was on the bus back to Surprise, Ariz. On Tuesday he'll be back in Minor League camp trying to regain his status as a top prospect. Three years after being a No. 1 Draft pick, he is not even in the Rangers' Top 20 Prospects as ranked by MLB.com.
"Like a lot of guys, I just need repetition and I need to keep playing," Skole said. "We need to keep learning the game and learn what kind of player we are, figure out what we need to produce."
Skole knows there are others coming up from behind. One reason why the Rangers drafted him was because their pitching-rich system was hurting badly for premium offensive players. That's no longer the case, especially in the outfield. In the past three years the Rangers have drafted Zach Cone, Lewis Brinson and Nick Williams, and signed Nomar Mazara, Ronald Guzman, and Jairo Beras, among others.
Skole knows it's time to produce or get passed by.
"You would be blind not to see it," Skole said. "It's just more incentive to stay on the grind and keep working. It's good having guys like that pushing you. The outfield competition throughout the camp has been good. Guys are competing for spots and it's a good thing for everybody."
Maybe it's better than getting knocked around a football field. Skole has been knocked around enough as it is in baseball but he still has a chance to come back strong this season. That he was even on the bus to Peoria at all on Monday shows the Rangers haven't forgotten about him.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger.


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These two uses are clearly not the only ways in which this site/tool could prove useful, but these are the ways I am thinking of using it right now. I encourage you to have a look at werelate.org, and let me know what you think of using this tool for genealogical collaboration and sharing.
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Web form processing is one of the most important tasks any website can do to process customer-related information. PHP server side scripting offers a variety of solutions for accepting and processing data inputs from any web form.
However, a lot of website forms do not have input validation. "Input validation" is the process of double checking form data input to ensure they are the correct data the server needs to process. Without proper form input validation, the web server and database will process or store the wrong information.
A classic example concerns forms that ask for an email address. If you do not validate the input data, malicious users can enter other types of characters into the form to hack your MySQL database. Serious website security issues, such as MySQL injection and malware injection, result from improper form input validation.
In this article, we will aim to provide PHP solutions which will validate the most common fields used in website development:
- Validating alphanumeric input — This type of input is commonly used for usernames and passwords. "Alphanumeric" means the variable can contain numbers and letters of the alphabet only.
- Validating numeric input — Often, web forms ask for numbers. These can be phone numbers or credit card numbers. Other important applications include asking for a birth date, numbers would be entered by the user for the day, month and year of birth. That's numerical data.
- Validating names — This kind of validation should check for letters of the alphabet only; user input should not contain numbers.
- Validating email address — The email address is most commonly asked for in a web form. It's particularly common for a log-in page.
- Validating for empty fields — Often, certain fields must be filled on an online form, and the user is not permitted to leave them blank.
{mospagebreak title=Validating Email Addresses}
Let's start by defining the email address. It contains two sections: the local part and the domain name. For example, in the email address email@example.com, Testuser1 is the local part of the email address while xyz.com is the domain name. Below are the specifications necessary for checking email address validity.
For the local part of the email address, a form should only permit:
- Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a-z, A-Z)
- The digits 0 through 9
- The characters ! # $ % & ' * + – / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
- The character . provided that it is not the first nor last character; nor may it appear two or more times consecutively.
(Source: RFC Specification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address )
The domain name half of the email address should be a valid domain. Validating an email address is very challenging, especially if you have a version of PHP below 5, because it requires a long Reg Ex syntax using either the ereg or pregmatch function. Luckily, with the release of PHP 5, you can easily validate email addresses using the filter_var / FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL function.
This will automatically check versus RFC specifications stated above. The last thing you need to check to find out if the email address is valid is whether the domain name given is valid. There are lots of approaches to this, including checking to see if the domain name has mail exchange records (MX) or A records.
You can find great resources relating to this task at: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Email-Address-Verification-with-PHP/
{mospagebreak title=Validating Domains for Email Addresses}
The function responsible for checking to see if the domain has associated mail exchange records is checkdnsrr () . However, this function is not available on the Windows platform and can cause validation issues for the domain name. It needs to have a Windows-compatible checkdnsrr function. The script below is tested to work in Windows XAMPP, but it is not guaranteed to work in all server platforms.
// PHP email validation script by Codex M for PHP 5 and compatible with Windows platform.
//This script will accept email address and validate it according to RFC specifications as well as check DNS records for validity.
//Then if found valid will store the email to MySQL database.
//connect to MySQL database
$username = "mysqlusernamehere";
$password = "mysql password here";
$hostname = "localhost";
$table = "email";
$database = "email";
//connection to the database
$dbhandle = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password)
or die("Unable to connect to MySQL");
//select a database to work with
$selected = mysql_select_db($database,$dbhandle)
or die("Could not select $database");
if (!$_POST['submit'])
//form not submitted
<form action="<?php echo $SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"
Email Address:

<input type="text" name="email" size="50">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Test email according to RFC Specifications and DNS MX records">
//form submitted
//check email field
if (!isset($_POST['email']) || trim($_POST['email']) == "")
die ('ERROR: Enter email');
$email =$_POST['email'];
//sanitize for illegal characters
$email = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($email));
//check domain name if it exist
$domainname= explode("@",$email);
$checkdomain= $domainname[1];
//Codex-m improve the Windows compatible checking Checkdnsrr function by Hamish Milne
//Start of MX validation
function checkdnsrr($checkdomain, $type='mx'){
$res=explode("n",strstr(shell_exec('nslookup -type='.$type.' '.escapeshellarg($checkdomain).' 18.104.22.168′),"nn"));
return TRUE;
return FALSE;
function dns_check_record($checkdomain, $type='mx'){
return checkdnsrr($checkdomain, $type);
$result = dns_check_record($checkdomain, $type='mx');
//End of MX validation
if((!(filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))) ||(!($result==1)))
echo $email.' is NOT a valid email address';
echo '
';
echo 'Try again';
echo $email.' is a valid email address';
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `email` (`email`) VALUES('$email')")
or die(mysql_error());
echo '
';
echo 'Try again';
{mospagebreak title=Validating Alphanumeric, Numeric and Alphabetic Input}
Alphanumeric input is common in web forms. Most usernames and passwords are formatted using alphanumeric data types.
Luckily, PHP provides a function for checking alphanumeric characters. This function is called:
It is important to note that security issues such as MySQL injection can only be corrected with the mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($stringtotest)) function.
IMPORTANT: Before inputting or querying a MySQL database, it is highly advisable to use the above escape function for your safety.
Also, validating empty fields can be done using:
if (!isset($_POST['email']) || trim($_POST['email']) == "")
as illustrated in the PHP email validation script. However, there are a lot of ways to do this, such as the empty() function, which will be illustrated below.
Numeric input only can be validated by: ctype_digit($stringtotest) and lastly, alphabet characters (alphabet input only) can be validated using: ctype_alpha($stringtotest)
Below is a sample script illustrating the above PHP data type validation function in action. It also prevents MySQL injection and reports all validation errors at once:
//The script will test various datatypes such as alphanumeric, numeric and alphabet characters
//This also checks if the data entered is not blank and prevent mysql injection.
//If the data entered is clean it will be save to the MySQL database
//connect to MySQL database
$username = "root";
$password = "xxxxx";
$hostname = "localhost";
$table = "datatypevalidation";
$database = "email";
//connection to the database
$dbhandle = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password)
or die("Unable to connect to MySQL");
//select a database to work with
$selected = mysql_select_db($database,$dbhandle)
or die("Could not select $database");
if (!$_POST['submit'])
//form not submitted
<form action="<?php echo $SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"
Username(alphabet characters only e.g John):

<input type="text" name="username" size="50">

Password (alphanumeric characters only e.g John458):

<input type="text" name="password" size="50">

Birthday (numeric characters only e.g 12011986 for December 1, 1986):

<input type="text" name="birthday" size="50">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit and validate data entered">
//array to store the error messages
$mistakes = array();
//validate username field
$username = trim($_POST['username']);
If (empty($username) || (!(ctype_alpha($username))))
$mistakes[] = 'Your username is either empty or Enter only ALPHABET characters.';
//accept username entry and sanitize it
$username = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($username));
//validate password field
$password = trim($_POST['password']);
If (empty($password) || (!(ctype_alnum($password))))
$mistakes[] = 'Your password is either empty or Enter only ALPHANUMERIC characters ';
//accept password entry and sanitize it
$password = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($password));
//validate birthday field
$birthday = trim($_POST['birthday']);
If (empty($birthday) || (!(ctype_digit($birthday))))
$mistakes[] ='Your birthday is either empty or Enter only NUMERIC characters';
//accept birthday data and sanitize it
$birthday = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($birthday));
if (sizeof($mistakes) > 0)
echo "
";
foreach ($mistakes as $errors)
echo "
$errors
";
echo "
";
echo '
';
echo "Press back button to CORRECT the entry";
die ();
//save to database
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `datatypevalidation` (`username`,`password`,`birthday`) VALUES('$username','$password','$birthday')")
or die(mysql_error());
echo "SUCCESS! Thanks for the data you entered, it is already save to the database";
echo '
';
echo "This is your copy:";
echo '
';
echo '
';
echo "Username:".' '.$username;
echo '
';
echo "Password:".' '.$password;
echo '
';
echo "Birthday:".' '.$birthday;
echo '
';
echo '
';
echo 'Try entering another sets of data';
The great thing about this script is that it will validate each field against the defined standard (if it is alphabetic, alphanumeric or numeric entry), and then display all validation errors as a list to inform the user what has been entered incorrectly.
In this way, the form is more user-friendly, and at the same time, it ensures that all data entered will be in the correct format and MySQL injection will be prevented.
If you would like to download the script, refer to the author website: http://www.php-developer.org/ . Thanks.


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Hello, web developers!
We'd like to get a sense of the development tools you're using with Resin and what tools you'd like to use with Resin. If you could post your thoughts, we'd appreciate it and will try to incorporate your ideas into our upcoming development efforts. There are a few framing questions below, but please feel free to comment on any other development issues that we've missed:
- Do you use an IDE when developing with Resin? Which one?
- If you use Eclipse, do you use the plugin from http://caucho.com/eclipse?
- If you didn't know about the Resin eclipse plugin, where do you expect to find it? (e.g. on our webpage, in the Eclipse update system, etc.)
- Do you use other tools such as Maven to develop with Resin?
- If you use Maven or some other command line tool, what plugins and/or features would you like to see from Resin?
- Do you deploy to Resin in production directly from an IDE or command line tool? If not, is that a desirable feature?
You can also reply to this related topic on our forums and/or take the poll there.


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Evan Turner scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Tony Wroten added 18 points and the Sixers cruised past the Cleveland Cavaliers 94-79 on Friday night, overshadowing the return of Andrew Bynum.
The Philadelphia 76ers heard all the whispers before the season started. They were predicted by most experts to be among the worst teams in the league, if not the worst.
Through six games, the Sixers are choosing not to listen.
Evan Turner scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Tony Wroten added 18 points and the Sixers cruised past the Cleveland Cavaliers 94-79 on Friday night, overshadowing the return of Andrew Bynum.
Thaddeus Young added 16 points, while James Anderson and Michael Carter-Williams had 11 each for the Sixers, who ended a two-game losing streak and improved to 4-2. Spencer Hawes scored 10 points.
"I think the biggest thing is we're not listening to anyone on the outside and we're just coming to work ready to play," said Young, who added eight rebounds. "We have a young, hard-working group of guys in here and we all have a lot to prove. We just need to stick together and I think our confidence is growing with each win."
Wroten's offensive output was a career-best.
"It was a great feeling," Wroten said. "Hard work has paid off. Getting an opportunity to play is a blessing."
The buzz leading into the game was the return of Bynum, who signed a two-year, $24 million contract with the Cavaliers in July.
Bynum had been acquired by the Sixers in a four-team, 12-player trade in the summer of 2012. But the two-time All-Star center never played for the Sixers because of bilateral bone bruises in both knees. He had season-ending arthroscopic surgery in March and wound up signing the incentive-laden deal with the Cavaliers as a free agent.
Booed every time he touched the ball, Bynum played 18 minutes in a reserve role and finished with four points and five rebounds.
"It was just another game for me," Bynum said.
Bynum said he wasn't bothered by the chilly reception from the Philadelphia fans.
"I thought it was a little weak," Bynum said. "I thought it was going to be much worse. It wasn't."
Dion Waiters led the Cavaliers with 18 points while Jarrett Jack and C.J. Miles added 13 each.
Tristan Thompson had 13 points and 16 rebounds and Kyrie Irving contributed 10 points on 4-for-17 shooting for Cleveland, which fell to 2-4 with all four losses coming on the road.
"We need some grittiness and some toughness to surface, especially on the road," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said. "Right now, it's not happening and I don't know if it's because we don't have the home crowd giving us a little extra energy or what it is."
The Sixers built a 19-point lead early in the fourth quarter. Cleveland never got within single digits the rest of the way.
The Cavaliers led by as many as 14 points in the first half, but the Sixers finished the half strong and took a 44-42 advantage into the locker room.
NOTES: Cavaliers F Anthony Bennett left the game with 8:37 remaining in the second quarter and didn't return because of a sprained right shoulder. Bennett, the No. 1 overall pick in June's draft, was scoreless in six minutes and remains 1 for 20 from the field through six games. . Sixers C Daniel Orton missed the game because of right knee soreness. . The Sixers wore red, white and blue headbands in honor of Veterans Day, which is Monday.


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If you are planning festive gatherings for the holidays, there most likely will be food involved. While you sort out the menu and grocery shopping list for an unbeatable feast or party spread, it is important to keep food safety in mind. Serving food that is both delicious and safe will help ensure that your family and guests have a healthy holiday celebration.
Remember that certain individuals are more susceptible to food-borne illness including young children, pregnant women, older folks and those with compromised immune systems.
One of the main rules of food safety is to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Hot foods should be kept above 140 degrees and cold items should remain below 40 degrees. When deciding what to serve at your gathering, plan around this guideline by taking into account your refrigerator, freezer and oven space. Keeping plenty of ice on hand can be helpful to be able to keep cold foods like dips, seafood and veggie platters out and safe longer. Don't rely on cool weather outside to maintain food stored in the garage or patio at safe temperatures.
Allowing food to sit out too long is one of the most common holiday food safety mistakes. While your party may last all day, your buffet-style meal will not. Leftover food should be put in the refrigerator within two hours. Questionable food should either be refrigerated or reheated to 165 degrees before serving.
Another risk to food safety arises in the transport of foods. If your guests have traveled from afar, food they bring to your home may have been kept at room temperature for a significant amount of time. Food should be transferred piping hot in an insulated container or directly from the refrigerator and kept in a cooler or on ice during travel. Never transfer partially cooked items.
While foods like nuts, crackers, pretzels and uncut fruit can sit out in the open safely, foods that are a particular concern when it comes to food-borne illness include meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, fruit and vegetable dishes. Bacteria in these types of foods can double every 20 minutes at room temperature.
One of the easiest ways to prevent bacterial contamination is the proper washing of hands before, during and after meal preparation. Remember it is cold and flu season, so hand washing is particularly important this time of year. Also, be sure to use clean and sanitary utensils, cooking surfaces and dishes when preparing your meal. Prevent contamination by keeping separate cutting boards and serving platters for raw and cooked meats and other foods.
Precautions shouldn't end when the party is over. Be careful to store leftover foods properly in shallow, airtight containers with enough room to allow some air to circulate inside. Leftovers should be safe to eat up to three or four days. When microwaving leftovers, be sure that all areas of the plate are adequately heated as microwaves do not lend themselves to evenly distributed heating.
With a little bit of planning and the right precautions taken, you can have yourself a happy and safe holiday meal.
LeeAnn Weintraub, a registered dietitian, provides nutrition counseling and consulting to individuals, families and food and health companies. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bulls' PG mystery solved
K.C. Johnson
Who needs Derrick Rose when the Bulls have Brad Miller?
And, no, that's not meant to be serious.
But on a night the Bulls had one healthy point guard as they concluded their preseason schedule against Washington at the United Center, Miller tallied six first-half assists, including three pretty lobs.
The Bulls lead 41-39 at halftime.
Rose, Kirk Hinrich (hyperextended left elbow) and Jannero Pargo (back) all are sitting, meaning Lindsey Hunter, 38, started. John Salmons even played some point guard in the first half.
The Bulls rallied despite shooting 4 for 20 in the first quarter. Tyrus Thomas returned to start over Taj Gibson and leads the Bulls with 12 points.


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Questions regarding this Notice may be directed to Rose M. Schindler, Director, NASD Dispute Resolution Southeast Regional Office, at (561) 416-0277


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Does the rise of Service Oriented UI (SOUI) means the death of server-assisted MVC?
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The Model-View-Controller pattern has been a staple of application architecture ever since Graphical User Interfaces were invented at Xerox PARC. The pattern itself was invented by Trygve Reenskaug. The pattern was adapted in the mid-90s to support web applications (this adaptation became known as MVC2 in the Java World).
This adapted pattern lacked the ability to update the view from the controller, typically the user had to refresh the page to see updates to its content. The reason being that there was server-to-client connection. With the advent of Ajaxian Framework, this connection can now be emulated. Prototype, the most popular Ajax framework in 2006, was developed without MVC in mind, simply offering a remoting framework and a simpler dom manipulation. In this case, developers can choose whichever way they implement the MVC pattern including MVC2. Other frameworks like JSF/Ajax4JSF and Ruby on Rails are a lot more prescriptive in terms of how MVC is implemented.
Nolan Wright thinks server-assisted MVC implementations are a thing of the past:
MVC-based frameworks are simply unable by design to take advantage of the full power of Ajax and DHTML [even though] many of [these frameworks] have added support for Ajax (e.g., JBoss Seam via JSF/Ajax4JSF and Ruby on Rails). They force an almost airtight coupling between the user interface and the server, whereas Ajax enables a near-100% decoupling of the user interface and the server.
Therefore, we must take a step back and a look at the problem of web development with a fresh perspective.
Jeff Haynie agrees:
Refactoring allows us to continue tweaking something to make it better - and often you get incrementally better improvements. But, sometimes, when you take a step back, you're looking at a big hairball of a design. That's where we are with web architecture these days - and why I believe lighter-weight frameworks like Ruby on Rails have been wildly successful.
Try to do a simple web app in Java these days - name your framework? Arghhh. Puck. XML config files, web flows, JSPs, controllers, models and DAOs, WAR files, JARs, blah blah blah. And want to refactor your layout? Forget about it.
Enough is enough. We need to really rethink MVC on the server side as a way of building Rich Internet Applications.
Nolan and Jeff think that SOA is part of the solution:
Let's take the opportunity to actually do service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA shouldn't just be a webservices bolt-on. It's not an afterthought - or yet another set of crap in the middleware stack. No, it's central to the design - it's the main act.
Nolan offer a new foundation SOUIs (Service Oriented User Interfaces) based on Services, Ajax and DHTML:
Ajax and DHTML are highly complementary technologies - when combined they enable the creation of web applications that can surpass the capabilities of today's desktop applications. As a result, a next-generation Web SDK is needed - one that seamlessly integrates Ajax and DHTML.
Nolan explains that it is perfectly ok to have the controllers deployed in the browser:
With one message, you can hide 3 HTML elements, show another, and send a service request – pretty cool.
Nolan sees many advantages:
- Since SOUIs talk to services using lightweight messages, services can now be written in any programming language. In other words, a SOUI is programming language-agnostic. You can change your server programming language without changing a single line of SOUI code.
- You create a simple message-based contract between the SOUI and its services. The result is a near-complete decoupling of the client and server; they are linked only by a lightweight message contract.
- You can create client-only prototypes that are fully functional since they can use local mock message handlers. The SOUI does not know the difference between using a mock message handler and using a service. [Just switch the message handler with the real service when you are ready]
Jeff concludes:
Let's get back to simple. Let's get back to what really matters - creating applications. Enough of the complicated server architecture.
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How about UI frameworks like OpenLaszlo, NexaWeb, TIBCO GI?
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Server/Client Coupling
Jacob Hookom
They [JSF/Ruby On Rails] force an almost airtight coupling between the user interface and the server, whereas Ajax enables a near-100% decoupling of the user interface and the server.
Couldn't you say the same for the inverse in going from the user interface to the server? If you are dealing with a (small) data domain and read-only interactions, then yes, the world looks pretty simple. As you build your user interface and need to coordinate read/write interactions and then supplementing services for specific use cases in your application in larger domain models, then things aren't as simple.
Pertaining to domain and user interface decoupling, I've noticed that all SOUI-like solutions do is cause you to re-specify domain artifacts multiple times in multiple contracts-- only increasing development time for naught.
Would it surprise people to know that JSF/Ajax4JSF has a 'message' implementation for meeting the same usecases described? Would it surprise people to know that you don't have to write custom messages and serialized forms (JSON/XML) of every artifact/usecase in your UI? I don't know how going without these tools creates 'less' coupling in your code and makes things simpler?
Really, this is just another case of someone finally 'getting' some concept and somehow losing the fact that these antagonist technologies (RoR included) have already met and surpassed the intended solution.
MVC != Struts
Gavin King
MVC-based frameworks are simply unable by design to take advantage of the full power of Ajax and DHTML.
This is an assertion, for which no evidence was offered. Indeed, it seems unlikely to be true. Remember that the original MVC pattern was developed for use with user interfaces which *did* have a fine-grained eventing model (SmallTalk GUIs).
In my view, the "action" variant of the MVC pattern that was popularized by solutions such as Struts, WebWork, RoR, etc, is not as natural a fit for a fine-grained event model as modern component-oriented approaches like JSF, Tapestry, etc. But the "action" variant is not the only MVC, nor was it even the original MVC.
Let's get back to simple. Let's get back to what really matters - creating applications. Enough of the complicated server architecture.
But how is a "service-oriented" server-side simpler? It has all the same needs that an MVC framework fills: input validation and databinding, orchestration, state management and serialization of objects to markup.
(Arguably, *some* state can now be managed purely in the client, but in practice what happens is that you're forced to reload a bunch of persistent state from the database on every Ajax request, which is much less scalable in most systems. So you're going to wind up with a stateful server after all.)
So at this basic level there is very little difference in the request lifecycle of a server that serves pre-rendered HTML, and the request lifecycle of a RESTful web service that renders XML content.
What you'll end up with is a server-side that is just as complex as before, and a client-side which is *much* more complex because instead of a nice declarative user interface, you're stuck with some horrible HTML + scripting language where you have to re-solve the problem of transforming semantic XML content into HTML.
I challenge the proponents of this idea to produce a non-trivial web application which can't be implemented in less code using an MVC-type approach.
Not really true
Ilya Sterin
have added support for Ajax (e.g., JBoss Seam via JSF/Ajax4JSF and Ruby on Rails). They force an almost airtight coupling between the user interface and the server
That's not true, since the server has a web and a domain layer. The web layer is responsible for integrating and decoupling the UI from the domain layer. There is no tight coupling, the web layer is just a delegation of UI use cases to the domain layer. Of course I'm sure many don't architect that way and you can have just as tightly coupled of a ajax front end as you would with today's MVC frameworks.
Now, I do love the front end controller on the client idea. I love flex and various other architecture frameworks that offer it. I still there that a backend integration layer is needed, even if it's just a small web layer that is responsible for ensuring that json/xml data passed to the server is unmarshalled properly and passed on to the domain layer. There are frameworks that handle that for you through proxying, but let's not forget that that layer still exists.
Isn't SOUIs the same thing as SOFEA?
Matt Raible
Of course, you know the success of any concept (especially in this open source world) is often about timing and marketing. I think we're going to need a better acronym than SOUI or SOFEA for this to take off. ;-)
Popular practice or good idea?
Jeff Highman
I beg the question is the BROWSER is the right container for composite applications? I am sure that the popular opinion is yes, but Model-1 web programming was popular once too.
Decouple it
Simon Buettner
It would be much nicer to program against a dataservice from an ui framework rather than mixing db access and ui generation.
Most of the newly created apps have problems when it comes to scaling and accessing the data in another form of an ui (swing client, eclipse rcp, plugin,...).
On the side you can see many nice examples of this kind of decoupling (google apis, facebook apis,...) where people just connect their ui to a "data-service".
Sorry for decoupling the content from the grammar. ;-)
Re: MVC != Struts
Nolan Wright
Our clients are the same in that they know nothing about the services they consume (except for the message contract). They don't know if they are calling services written in Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET or Python, and they shouldn't know; this information doesn't help them do their job.
As for Ajax, it's a client/server technology. MVC-based web frameworks have used it effectively to enable partial page refreshes, but if MVC changed to fully leverage the capabilities that Ajax enables, it wouldn't be MVC - it would be client/server, which brings me to my next point.
I think client/server is the future for web-based architectures. MVC did not become the dominant web architecture because its better than client/server, it became dominant because it was the best choice given the technologies that were available at the time. That is no longer the case. There is evidence of this shift in the market. Frameworks like OpenLaszlo, Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and Appcelerator are based on a client/server architecture. I think the shift is inevitable; it's just a matter of time.
I like your idea of a challenge. Debates are nice, but results are what count. If you are serious about this, let me know. We are always game for a good challenge.
Browser Applications
Karl Traunmüller
Web apps are still rather cumbersome in terms of development, and rather awkward to use (the only way of data submission being HTML form posts with full server roundtrips / page reloads; AJAX and partial page updates can only mitigate that partially, and to me it feels just like one big ugly hack).
But I don't think the server side can be built solely of stateless services. That just won't work. You'll have to have some state on the server in any non-trivial case. So there needs to be some kind of stateful EJBs with Web service (or whatever) bindings, state management / container services, and orchestration.
That has to be taken into account when designing the "next generation Web SDK", I think.
Nevertheless, an interesting idea worth discussing.
Re: Browser Applications
Jeff Highman
The Eclipse RCP solution space is a compelling way to approach the notional SOUI in the back office. A Multi-platform UI with native components gives a very rich presentation. Leveraging all of the client's resources for always-on functionality is intrinsically feasible. The application workbench, perspectives, and other pre-built functionality speed the development. And the underlying OSGI kernel allows right-coupling. I have found that services designed to address the "M" in MVC are readily re-used in web based application variants, including Ajax ones that don't prescribe to MVC. You can blend the browser into the RCP space very as well. There are limitations, but when comparing those limitations to the browser-all-by-itself, it's really not much of a comparison.
I am not knocking the browser approach for the front office or the next generation web SDK, but I think that SOUI is a broader concept, to further Roger statement, that needs change the game otherwise it's just Web UI.
Understanding of what SOA and MVC are?
Jeff Carlson
SOA is an approach to solving business problems where most of the heavy lifting is in the business process definition, mapping and automation and governance areas. MVC is a pattern to simplify GUI development - you have data (M), and a view (V) and the view has to be able to get the data and manipulate it (C).
The ideas presented in these posts and in this summary post seems, IMO to be misplaced. If folks hate Struts and all of the Java "MVC" frameworks they should say that specifically. MVC as a pattern is the best pattern available for GUI development. Saying MVC is dead is like saying the GUI is dead. Or at the very least it is like saying 'lets write tons and tons of spaghetti code that will be less maintainable with every line we write'. Doesn't seem like something that should be heralded as a good idea.
Saying that SOA is all about the GUI is, IMO, also misinformed. The GUI is ancillary at best to any SOA initiative. Much of a full SOA environment has no exposed human interface. Think the B2B and C2C traffic as well as all of the layers of data / application / process services - the clients/consumers are other services or programs.
This article is something I would expect Dilbert's boss to be quite excited about and that is the only reason I am posting here. It would be lovely for a few folks to look at this a little more carefully before cross and reposting this and before our managers read these new terms in a trade rag.
If I misunderstood these articles and the authors did not mean that MVC is dead or that SOA is all about the GUI then I withdraw my criticism and would appreciate it if someone smarter than I am could explain these positions more clearly.
Web frameworks peaking toward obsolescence
Roger Voss
Web frameworks peaking toward obsolescence
The bottom line of that posting:
"In short, implementing MVC on the server-side will become regarded as retrograde."
In our case it was experience with Flex RIA web app + SOA development that brought us to arriving at that conclusion.
Re: Understanding of what SOA and MVC are?
Nolan Wright
Also, I did not mean to imply that SOA is all about the GUI; I don't think that at all. But, I do think we can do some things on the web tier to make it easier for web-based applications to leverage the investment made in SOA. I think it's time for the server-side web tier to be SOA-based. It is possible to have a clean separation between the web client and the services that it consumes. Services should be free of presentation logic and stateless where possible, and web clients should be built in a way that enables them to consume these types of services - i.e., a Service Oriented User Interface.
Anyway, I hope this helps to clarify my thoughts and intentions.
Adron Hall
"Let's get back to simple. Let's get back to what really matters - creating applications. Enough of the complicated server architecture."
I've seen some of the new MVC patterns, I see them getting simpler and easier to implement. Maybe the concept behind SOA UI needs more explanation. Maybe, just maybe a real framework needs built before it is discussed as something that will takeover the need for MVC.
Either way, enough talking, I want to see some results. In the end, that IS what its all about!
Re: MVC != Struts
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Server-assisted MVC exists because of the powerful of the application server. With stateful connection with the backend, the code need to write in front-end pages is greatly reduced. However, stateful connection needs state management and state synchronization between servers, which results in the difficulty of scalability.
Service Oriented UI prefer stateless connection(decouple) with the backend, it maintains the state of business object in the front-end. Ofcourse, this is a greate idea, because it can lead to near linear scalability. However, too much work needs to be done in the front-end, like message sending/receiving, rendering message, maintaining state .etc, all of these leads to the complexity of the front-end. The complexity of the front-end can be reduced greately with existence of front-end framework and UI component libaries.
APPLEBOX is a live example
Simon Gilligan
Go to applebox.com.au , click 'Browse DVDs' and you'll see a SOUI in action. You can read more about it here applebox.com.au/blog/2007/12/mda-soa-and-server...
APPLEBOX is a non trivial, consumer application completely implemented with SOUI techniques. I would LOVE to see a server bound MVC implementation of APPLEBOX achieved with less code. My take - not possible. Go server MVC and you will compromise the responsiveness and RIA capabilities of the UI. And in consumer land - it's the UI that matters, not us arguing over which architecture best implements it.
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So, I need to tell my story about how I started watching anime? Right, here goes:
I began watching anime at the year 90's. The TV channels in my country aired quite a lot of animes at that time (unlike today). My favorite varies from Doraemon, Patlabor, and Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon. Later, around 1999, I was introduced to (probably) the best Magical Girl anime ever existed at that time: Cardcaptor Sakura. There, I became a fan of it for roughly 5 years. But it wasn't my true start. My true start in watching anime started at 2006, when I finally became a huge fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion (I've known that one from my older brother before I watched CCS, actually - he's an anime fan too :P). Until now, I've watched quite a lot of top-quality animes, such as Clannad, Code Geass, School Rumble, K-ON!, The World God Only Knows, etc.
But although I likes watching anime, I don't like these "Big Three" (Bleach, One Piece, Naruto). The reason is that I don't feel like watching an anime series that exceeds 100 episodes. It's tiring.
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first anime i've ever watched is Ranma 1/2. i remember i was only like 7 yrs old then. i find it cute and funny especially d girls there ( nibiki and shampoo? ) but i think the anime that had the greatest impact on me is sailormoon ahaha ^______^ i cried a lot whenever i miss a single episode of sailormoon when i was still a kid.
LIke many people from the 90's my start is with Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Voltron. My sudden move to a different state brought new animes for me one of which was Vision of Escaflowne and the start of Pokemon and Digimon. I'm sure most people would know these titles. It was later with Naruto and .hack//sign when I really started to watch anime, I mean REALLY watch anime. Most of my high school activities was watching tons of anime. I've went from countless series to the next. The summers were spent watching animes which I happened to enjoy. I still watch anime but not as much as I used to as I can't find stuff to watch, lol.
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I started out watching anime because they would be aired on tv, but i really showed no interest for them. That was when i was about 5 or 6 years old. They aired things like Dragon ball and Pokemon. I loved Pikachu so much when i was 6.
Then in year 5 i picked up a manga and started reading. I only did this because it looked slightly interesting. Then in year 6 (when i was about 12 years old) i began reading more and more manga.
When i was 13, that was when my anime/manga addiction started. My awesome otaku friend recommends me random anime/manga which i then find to be awesome!
Mine was Naruto in high school, some of my friends in class were watching it, and i thought it looked cool. So i asked were i could watch it, and that's basically how i started being an anime fan
I watched Pokémon from the first series up to advanced battle, everything after seemed terrible, as well as that I got my first look at Naruto which I liked a lot more, and digimon which just seemed like a Pokémon rip-off. However the first series I acknowledged that wasn't on day-time TV was the fruits basket box set me and a friend watched five time through on DVD. Then it began...
My start was when i was about 5 or 6 thanks to Toonami and when they showed Dragon Ball and liked most people I used to think and still do think Goku is the freaking MAN ... But i never really started to "WATCH" anime till i was around 12.
And thats how it all started.
Sailor Moon/Pokemon.
I stopped watching anime for a while... then Spirited Away got me into the whole anime thing all over again at 16.
Now I still watch it at 23 years old.
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I was 5, flipping through channels when suddently I come upon an anime and instantly fell in love.
I do not recall which anime it was that i saw first, Dragonball or Sailormoon, but those were the first anime I first saw that made me fall in love with anime. : ) I used to always wake up early as a child just to watch them. Sailormoon would come out at 6 30 am and dragonball @ about 9am <3
Ugh I hate this.
This is how I started to really watch anime, not just randomly switching on the TV, but actually, chronologically watching anime.
I was nine, and I found an episode of Digimon Season 1 on Cartoon Network. My sister and I got interested so then we decided to watch the series on Youtube. We watched all the seasons (in english) that were out so far and then we progressed to Cardcaptor Sakura, and then Tokyo Mew Mew. I think after that we started Shugo Chara, which was our first anime we watched sub.
Those were the days...
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I didn't get into watching anime till probably around 1998. And I'm probably one of the few people that didn't care to watch Dragon Ball Z. Digimon is what started it all with anime for me.
I was more into watching Disney cartoons like Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers and Duck Tails when I was a kid. Although when I was 7 or 8, I didn't really watch too much TV. I'd be outside, while my younger sister would be the one plunked on the couch on a Saturday morning. Then one day, I found her watching Digimon (season 1), and I was like, "What's that?". She didn't know, but we watched it together. I still remember a fight we had once at the episode where Piedmon turned all the DigDestined into keychains, and we couldn't really tell who got turned into a keychain first. I said it was Tai, and she said Matt. We debated for 3 days. I don't think we ever settled it, although now that I recall, I think Tai and Matt both got turned into keychains at the same time.
Fast forward a year or so, to junior high, and my sister moved on to liking boys and hanging with friends. While I stayed being into watching anime, and have been a fan ever since. After Digimon, I checked out Yu-gi-oh, Beyblade, Cardcaptors, and Pokemon. Those still remain some of my favourites to this day.
Although, today, I watch more of a variety of anime - watching most of it on Cruchyroll or Animecrazy, as not much is airing on TV where I live anymore. Anime has become a big interest for me, and I don't plan to let go anytime soon.
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Juniors Bill Rowe and Chris Webber each tallied an RBI as the UC Santa Barbara baseball team (19-25, 1-8) was defeated easily by No. 2 Cal State Fullerton (30-11, 12-1), 16-2, completing a three-game Big West Conference sweep for the Titans.
The defending national champions scored 16 runs off 20 hits and scored over half their runs (9) in the bottom the fifth inning. Shortstop Blake Davis led the Cal State Fullerton offense with four hits and four RBI. Starting pitcher Scott Saver (7-2) earned the victory as the tossed 7.0 innings, allowing five hits and one run (unearned) while striking out nine.
The Gauchos amassed their first run in the top of the fourth inning as Rowe hit a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring freshman shortstop Alden Carrithers on the play.
Webber, inserted in the game for Rowe in the sixth inning accounted for the second Santa Barbara run as he hit and RBI single in the top of the eighth.
UCSB starting pitcher Andy Graham (4-5) picked-up the loss as he allowed nine hits and eight runs (four unearned) runs in 4.1 innings of work.
The Gauchos have now lost a season-high seven straight games and have been swept in back-to-back Big West Conference sets.
UCSB returns to action as it hosts Long Beach State for a three-game Big West series beginning Friday at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The game is slated for a 2:00 pm first pitch. The series will continue on Saturday and Sunday with 1:00 pm scheduled games.


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5 Stormy Gray Eyeshadows to Tempt You
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Options Activity Questioned Again
A windfall bet made in H.J. Heinz Co. options one day before a buyout was announced Thursday prompted regulators to act quickly, freezing assets they suspect are tied to the trade.
But the Heinz bet, which the Securities and Exchange Commission said could have paid out $1.7 million, was just the latest in a series of unusual options trades made ahead of the disclosures of big deals and other news that moved share prices.


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
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Seriously, you guys are the meanest people I have ever met. I hope you are happy and feel really good about yourself.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Could you explain what the problem is in more detail?
Would it be possible to "fix" that by deleting old accounts and/or threads?
Or is it because of (some of) the individual accounts accessing the forum all at once?
I just got a resource limit message.
Being a Christian, I've made my decision. That decision offers no compromise; therefore, I'm closed to anything else.


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Reality sinks in: Brazilians lost on and off pitch as World Cup hosts
Brazil achieved its goal of providing the world with wonderful soccer.
The football world owes Brazil a debt of gratitude.
Unfortunately, all Brazil has left is the debt.
It was one hell of a World Cup party, though.
Germany had boatloads of fun winning it. Argentina had a pretty good time as well, getting to the final and driving Rio de Janeiro and the rest of Brazil crazy with their song about how Brazil's team sucks and how Diego Maradona is better than Pele.
It will rankle Brazil until next time.
The Selecao, Brazil's national team, didn't have such a good time. For them, it was akin to spending $12 billion on a party and not being able to attend.
[Neymar injury GIF via GIFgoldmine.com]
The 2014 World Cup was a showcase for soccer. It was, for the most part, high in quality, unpredictable and captivating.
The final, in which Germany won 1-0 in extra time over Argentina, provided a powerful ending to a beguiling tournament.
As soccer usually does, it also offered the best of the ridiculous: Luis Suarez masticating on Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder; African teams worried more about banking than booting; Arjen Robbens continued attempts at replicating Greg Louganis' finest diving techniques; and the Chilean fans invasion of Maracana Stadium, thinking the media centre was the passage to nirvana.
(If those Chileans had spent any time in the media centres in Brazil, they would have known that was the passage to hell instead.)
The tournament was played in the Mecca of soccer and it provided a stage for the finest performers in the game to show why they are so revered.
The stunning run by Costa Rica, the consistency of Germany, the artistry of goals by Lionel Messi, James Rodriquez, Tim Cahill and Robin Van Persie, as well as the final shot heard round the world off the foot of German Mario Goetze.
There is the inevitable passion for the game, a passion that runs so deep that a loss or win is more than just a momentary blip on life's electrocardiogram. It is a long-term memory that for many will never happen again.
The closest most of the people of Brazil will get to another World Cup is on television.
They won't care about strategy or formations or how Germany won the World Cup; they will only remember that it was here, that it was spectacular and that they were part of an emotional maelstrom for a month.
But, now that the soccer is done, the question the nation of Brazil will have to come to grips with is whether it was worth $12 billion.
Most sane people would laugh at the question even being asked.
Many countries who are thinking about bidding for events like the World Cup and the Olympics are having second and third thoughts about the wisdom of opening their treasuries for the purpose of fattening the wallets of what many believe are corrupt organizations, while simultaneously impoverishing their countries.
Many countries are developing a moral and social conscience that no longer allows them to freely go about spending massive amounts of money they don't have or should be spent in a better way.
Now, before countries make these decisions they have established layers of oversight including committees and taxpayers that act as a buffer to the stage-at-all-cost bureaucrats.
Most of these precautions, though, are being implemented by countries that have the resources to handle these events. The taxpayers of the live-24-hours-at-a-time nations aren't blessed with that kind of advocacy.
In Brazil, soccer is viewed on a different scale than elsewhere. Passion overrides practicality. Self-aggrandizement overrides selflessness.
Brazil needed to win this tournament — or at least make the final — to make any of this worth it in the eyes of its citizens.
One supposes things could have gone worse — but not much worse.
Brazil did not perform well early in the tournament, yet still managed to move onto the knockout stages. Their best win came against Colombia and, for a few days, the storm clouds parted and Brazil was at its sunny best.
But then came Germany and the destruction of the Brazil soccer team. It came with the flaying of the Brazilian myth that its soccer was beyond embarrassment.
The 7-1 loss shocked a nation to its very core.
Days later, in the third-place game, not only did Brazil not redeem itself with a win over the Netherlands but the 3-0 loss also threw the country into deeper depression. It sunk the knife of doubt into the insides of a country that was already squirming and writhing about spending $12 billion to provide a stage for its own humiliation.
The government is now facing an October election that will have them staring down the barrel of a gun.
The Brazilian World Cup disaster is not going to do much for the completion of Brazil's next wild shopping spree, the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Money will fly out of the Brazilian treasury like it has wings. It may cost as much as $20 billion to stage.
Not only has the government deprived its population of needed money once, it's done it twice.
And the Olympics don't carry the same kind of panache with the locals that soccer does.
Brazilians will seethe every time they go into an unfinished airport, take an unpaved road or attempt to see something they got for $12 billion, unless they go to a soccer stadium in Manaus on a regular basis. Now, for a second time when the Olympics roll around, Brazilians can feel robbed again.
Such are the complexities of high profile, extraordinarily excessive sporting events.
The soccer world will revel in what Brazil 2014 brought to the playing field because it epitomizes what the sport is all about. It was an extravaganza of soccer brilliance.
But, already, the world is gone and it couldn't care less what it cost Brazil to hold the party.
The world only cares that, for them, it turned out just fine.


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National Seasonal Assessment Workshop
April 20, 2010
The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory's Physical Sciences Division and the Climate Assessment of the Southwest (CLIMAS) will co-host the National Seasonal Assessment Workshop (NSAW) for the Western States and Alaska & North America, April 20-22, 2010. This is the 6th year that the workshop will be held at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO. The workshop is a continuing effort to improve information available to fire management decision-makers incorporating the best science available and fostering collaboration between fire and climate experts from state and federal agencies, universities, and the private sector. Participants include researchers from the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
CLIMAS is one of eight university-based teams funded through the NOAA Climate Program Office's Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments(RISA) program. The RISA program supports research that addresses complex climate sensitive issues of concern to decision-makers and policy planners at a regional level. The National Seasonal Assessment Workshops are designed to develop tools for proactive fire management bringing together climatologists, predictive service units, and fire managers from across the nation to produce seasonal fire outlook reports.
This workshop is a means for developing comprehensive seasonal fire danger outlooks that incorporate information about climate and fuels conditions. Fire danger outlooks for the upcoming fire season are shared with decision makers, media, and the general public in order to mitigate potential societal impacts. These activities support NOAA's mission goal serving society's needs for weather and water information, and NOAA's cross-cutting priority of international cooperation and collaboration.
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- Young and fast
One big improvement has been the speed and athleticism added to the group with players like Kekuta Manneh and Erik Hurtado, who both look fearless and hungry. While this new talent is young, the coaching staff need not worry since they've already built leadership into the team and instilled that winning mentality.
- Players in their comfort zone
On the opposite end, I would also expect even better seasons from our experienced players who've now gone through a year in MLS. Players like Andy O'Brien and Young-Pyo Lee were fantastic last year, but I really do think they will be even better with their playing time and travel better managed. In midfield, Jun Marques Davidson looks even more composed, and Matt Watson is full of confidence.
Another big positive is that Kenny Miller is starting to look like the Kenny Miller who has been successful at every level he's played. He's definitely benefitting from a full preseason and has been very influential in training. He certainly looked himself in the preseason match vs. New England.
- Koba's creativity
Helping get the ball to these attacking weapons will be new addition Daigo Kobayashi, who has really showed his class in training. I got my first look at him in a Whitecaps FC uniform in a 2-1 victory over Houston Dynamo. He is definitely a player that will add that creativity in midfield we lacked sometimes last year.
- Confident Canadian
Daigo teamed up well with Russell Teibert, pulling the strings in the second half against Houston. It was Teibert's first real action in the centre of midfield, and he looked like a player who has gained a load of confidence from playing two recent games for Canada's men's national team.
- Hungry and humble
Last but not least, it was very pleasing to see that Darren Mattocks has started right where he left off last year, scoring four goals in preseason already. Yes all the other teams will know about him now, but it will be very difficult to key on him with the many offensive weapons the 'Caps now have in attack.
I've also been really impressed with Darren's demeanor. He is confident, yet still very humble and dedicated to working hard and improving.
The week of training in Casa Grande left me excited for the start of the season for many reasons, but the main one is Martin Rennie.
As I said at the beginning, I feel this is finally his team and he's begun putting together a number of pieces to the puzzle.
Whether it is players or formations, this squad is more dynamic and has the chance to become one of the top teams in MLS.
And that's all you can ask for.


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Monday Pets: Dumb Guinea Pigs? (The I Just Got Back From APS Edition)
Posted by Jason G. Goldman on May 31, 2010
Zen recently wrote mentioned this study on his blog, so I thought it was time to dredge it out of the archives. Also, I've just returned from APS (see my daily recaps here here and here), and I am TIRED. Domestic animals and their wild counterparts can be different in big ways; there can be…


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2008-09 Season PreviewPosted by rtmsf on October 3rd, 2008
Yes, it's that time again. We at Rush the Court are 100% focused and ready to provide comprehensive coverage of every scrap of interesting news that occurs in college basketball this year. The quips, the clips, the stats, and of course the commentary and analysis that so many of you come to this site for.
We're once again kicking off the five-month sprint from the November 10th opening tipoff to the April 6th finish line in D-town with our Season Preview materials. Will anyone be able to challenge the ridiculously loaded North Carolina Tar Heels for the crown? Find out over the next several weeks as we roll out the following features beginning this weekend.
1. Conference Primers – we have 31 correspondents lined up who are experts in each of the D1 conferences in NCAA basketball; they'll be providing comprehensive primers on the names and games to watch for this season from the America East to the West Coast Conference. Transitioning into the regular season, these correspondents will keep us up to date with their respective conferences as we roll on to March Madness 2009.
2. Feature Columnists – we also have several feature columnists lined up to write for us this year; one columnist will focus exclusively on Vegas odds in college basketball; another will provide quality pieces on timely issues facing the game at-large; and still another will provide an alternative voice to the one you're already reading here every day.
3. Preseason Magazine Reviews – we did this last year, and will be doing this again this season with a few changes, including some additional analysis into the predictive acumen of these magazines.
4. Blogpoll – once again, we'll be contributing to the preseason blogpoll and its various iterations as we progress through the season.
5. Projected Bracket – we're not satisfied with simply letting the correspondents have all the fun with preseason predictions; we too will be updating a projected bracket as we get closer to opening tipoff.
5. 30 Reasons – just for fun, we're going to provide a new YouTube feature to get everyone riled up and excited for the new season: Where 2008-09 Happens – 30 Reasons We Love College Basketball.
7. Anything Else – we'll continue with our usual fare of linkage and thought-provoking (gulp…) commentary where appropriate. If anyone has an idea of something else they'd like to see, hit us up at email@example.com.


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OAKLAND — A 40-year-old man killed by an electric shock this week while apparently stripping copper wire from an abandoned West Oakland warehouse has been identified as Aaron Madacsi, according to the Alameda County Coroner's Office.
Madacsi was a transient, according to a coroner's office spokesman. He died just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday while reportedly trying to remove wire from a building in the 2000 block of Mandela Parkway, police spokesman Officer Frank Bonifacio said.
A woman called 911 to report the electrocution and when police arrived they found Madacsi. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were investigating reports that Madacsi was attempting to remove items, including copper wire, from the unoccupied building at the time of his death. Copper wire is often stripped from buildings either after they have been abandoned or while they are being built and can fetch high prices from metal recyclers.
Police said the building is owned by Pacific Pipe Company and has been abandoned for several years.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 510-238-3326.
Contact Natalie Neysa Alund at 510-293-2469. Follow her at Twitter.com/nataliealund.


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I work in a sheetmetal shop. We do fabrication, and are under contract with the International Machinist Union. Membership where I work is voluntary, but the contract treats members and non-members the same (same pay, benefits, etc.) The contract will be up on the 30th, and tensions are very high in the shop. There is like an invisible line between the members and others, and bad blood towards each other.
The union held a meeting today, and voted to go on strike as of July 1st if a contract cannot be negotiated.
I hate to say it, but I am not looking forward to going to work tommorow. Maybe it's time for that career change that I've been going to school for. Maybe I should just wait it out.
What do you guys think?


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The island of Bali in Indonesia is home to more than four million people and a very simple baby name tradition mainly associated with families of the Sudra caste, Bali's lowest and largest (93% of the population).
These families name their children according to birth order. Regardless of gender, the first-born child is named Wayan [why-ann], the second-born is named Made [mah-day], the third-born is named Nyoman, and the fourth-born is named Ketut.
And what if there are more than four children? The pattern is repeated: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut. Though the second set may be named Wayan Balik, Made Balik, Nyoman Balik, and Ketut Balik — the word balik meaning "again."
The first three names are derived from terms that refer to the oldest, middle, and last child in a family. This reflects a traditional belief that Balinese families should include no more than three children. Ketut, in contrast, comes from the term kitut, which means "little banana on the outer edge of a bunch of bananas" (adorably).
Though some families do use alternative forms of the names — such as "Putu" for Wayan, "Kadek" for Made, and "Komang" for Nyoman — most stick with Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut.
So how long will Bali's birth-order names be around? They're very common on the island right now, but The Bali Times noted in 2013 that "many modern families name their children as they wish," so they may not be as common in future generations.
Sources: Do You Know the Meaning Behind Balinese Names?, Keeping Names Straight in Bali, and Eat, Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (for the pronunciations)


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Burns in light-welterweight move
Ricky Burns is aiming to win a world title at a third weight, according to his manager Alex Morrison.
The former WBO super featherweight and lightweight champion is stepping up to light-welterweight after losing two fights in a row.
The 31-year-old Coatbridge fighter is set to make his comeback from defeat against Dejan Zlaticanin when he takes to the ring in Leeds on October 4, a nd Morrison believes he will return a better boxer with the extra weight.
Ricky Burns, left, was stunned by Dejan Zlaticanin
Burns was unconvincing in the final two successful defences of his nine-fight stretch as a world champion.
He recovered from a broken jaw against Raymundo Beltran but lost his title to classy American Terence Crawford before his shock defeat to Zlaticanin.
Morrison told BBC Scotland: "Ricky was finding it increasingly harder to make the weight.
"He was virtually eating nothing before the weigh in and I think that had a lot to do with his last three performances."
Morrison added: "He is just looking forward to October and fighting at the new weight. We're planning on him winning a third world title."
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[Styles P]
Knee-deep in the game
Due time you'll see the sunshine if you sleep in the rain
I ain't tryin to weather the storm
I get over the clouds and I ain't talkin 'bout flyin a plane
I'm in the slums where the guns is
Niggas sell crack to get hundreds - I mean thousands
I seen European cars by housing
I seen shinin on your block, I'm just browsin
Fo'-five make you get free
My London niggas say, "You get me?" I say, "I got you"
Rude boy, they better watch you
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold
When I was young they used to say I had a older soul
Only death can make the soldiers fold
Comin down, hit the floor, let go, all my soldiers roll
You get hit then your soul let go, let's go
[Hook: Max B]
(Let's go) We pop shots off at your bean
D-Block, Byrd Gang, that's the team (team team)
Big fifth make you move back
Go against them, you don't really wanna do that
Them got that yay.. it's a holiday (holiday baby)
If you fuck with my money then you might as well pay
[Styles P]
Handgun and the rifle
And a knife too, shit just that trifle
Get blood from your ice to your Nike boots
Head cracked like the dice do
I don't squeal nor squeak like the mice do
I get hype too, come through the block and light you
Like a cigarette, you ain't seen a harder nigga yet
Hit you like a Nicorette
Off a lion nigga pick a pet, I mean pick a beast
I run the city nigga pick a street
Matter fact you could pick a beef
I'm old school we can shoot it out, pick a heat
Fuck you!
[Styles P]
I get ya, get the picture?
I'm the painter, you the painted
Talkin shit when you ain't shit
I'm five-star, you ain't ranked kid
I'm major, fuck the majors, fuck the label
And take that to the bank kid
It's the Ghost or the Phantom
Killin rappers at random without a handgun, can't stand him
I'm too nice, I'm too hot
You don't wanna drop from the top of the rooftop
Turn the mic up, turn the beat up