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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Although restricting abortion has long been a conservative goal in Mississippi, the Republican-appointed judge considering the constitutionality of the state's stringent new abortion law doesn't play politics in the courtroom, according to those who know him.
U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III temporarily blocked the new law that, if enforced, could shut down the state's only abortion clinic.
Jordan (pronounced JER-dun) is a former GOP county chairman. He was recommended for the bench in 2006 by his former boss, Republican U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, and nominated by President George W. Bush. But even in a state where top Republicans supported a failed 2011 ballot initiative to declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized, attorneys from across the political spectrum say Jordan is not ideologically inclined.
"Some judges play politics, but that's one who does not," said attorney John Reeves, a Republican former state lawmaker who has handled cases before Jordan but has no business pending before him.
"Judge Jordan doesn't have any agenda," Reeves told The Associated Press. "His only agenda, from what I can tell, is to follow the law."
The state's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, filed a lawsuit June 27 challenging the new law that was to take effect July 1. The law would require anyone doing abortions at the clinic to have privileges to admit patients to a local hospital.
Clinic owner Diane Derzis contends the law would regulate the facility out of business and limit women's access to a constitutionally protected procedure.
If the clinic closes, abortion providers could become nearly impossible to find in Mississippi. To avoid regulation as an abortion clinic, a doctor's office may perform no more than 10 of the procedures a month. The closest abortion clinics to Jackson are about 200 miles away, in Louisiana, Tennessee or Alabama.
The law was passed with bipartisan support in a Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who often says he wants the state to be "abortion-free." Supporters said the admitting privileges requirement should protect women's health, but Bryant also said the day he signed the law: "If it closes that clinic, then so be it."
At a hearing Wednesday, Jordan will hear arguments about whether to extend the temporary block he put on the law the day it was to take effect. Regardless of what he decides, his ruling is certain to be appealed.
"Though the debate over abortion continues, there exists legal precedent the court must follow," Jordan wrote in his temporary restraining order.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 established a nationwide right to abortion. In 1992, the court's decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld the Roe decision and allowed states to regulate abortions before fetuses are viable. The 1992 decision also said states may not place undue burdens or substantial obstacles to women seeking abortion, said George Cochran, a constitutional law professor at the University of Mississippi.
Because of the 1992 ruling, Cochran said Jordan's decision should be "a very straightforward thing."
"When you have members of the Legislature and the governor publicly saying that this is an attempt to have an 'abortion-free' state, then it's clear that it's designed to place an undue burden or substantial obstacle to women seeking abortion," Cochran said.
From 2001 to 2004, Jordan was chairman of the Madison County Republican Party in the Jackson suburbs. Cindy Phillips of Madison, who was Mississippi's Republican National Committee woman from 2000 to 2010, said she remembers him as an efficient chairman.
"It was very obvious he was very smart," Phillips said. "He had a good mind at doing this, and he took the job seriously."
Phillips hasn't been in contact with Jordan since he became a judge and said she doesn't recall discussing abortion with him.
This is not the first time Jordan has presided over a case involving a divisive social issue. In September 2011, he denied the Copiah County School District's request to dismiss a lawsuit that had been filed by a lesbian teenager, in which she challenged the district's refusal to run the senior picture she had taken in a tuxedo.
Jordan has also shown a no-nonsense demeanor. He once ordered Frank Melton, then the Democratic mayor of Jackson, to follow a cardiologist's orders and take prescription medication so Melton would be healthy enough to stand trial. The mayor was for a second time facing charges tied to the destruction of a duplex that Melton claimed was a crack house. He died before a second trial could begin.
How Jordan will rule has raised concerns from both the law's opponents and supporters.
Dana Chisholm of Clinton, president of Pro-Life Mississippi, said she was disappointed but not surprised that a judge, regardless of his political background, had temporarily blocked enforcement of the new law.
"It never seems like justice is on our side," Chisholm said.
Laurie Roberts of Jackson, state president of the National Organization for Women, said if Jordan allows the law to go into effect, women who can't afford to travel hundreds of miles for abortion will make "desperate decisions" to end unwanted pregnancies.
"We're already in an area of the country where women have a hard time having access to legal, safe abortion," Roberts said. "What happens when they have no access?"
Cochran said regardless of who appoints them, federal judges have no problem ignoring the politics of divisive issues. He pointed to the 1992 Supreme Court ruling on abortion as an example: the ruling was split 5-4, even though eight of the justices had been appointed by Republicans.
Jordan was 41 when he was confirmed to the federal bench for the southern half of Mississippi.
He comes from a well-heeled family with deep roots in Mississippi and its politics. His father, Daniel P. Jordan, was an athlete and student body president at the University of Mississippi in the late 1950s and early 1960s, some of the same years Lott was a student there. The elder Jordan earned a doctorate in history from the University of Virginia in 1970, and from 1985 to 2008 was president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit group that owns and operates Jefferson's home, Monticello.
The younger Jordan grew up in Virginia and earned his bachelor's of business administration degree from the University of Mississippi in 1987. He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1993 and was in private practice in Mississippi from 1993 to 2006, according to the Federal Judicial Center website.
The future judge worked for the Butler Snow law firm -- the same firm that hired Republican Haley Barbour this past January, when Barbour ended his second term as Mississippi governor. The daughter of current Gov. Bryant, Katie, is an attorney at the firm.
Former U.S. Rep. Wayne Dowdy, an attorney from the southern Mississippi town of Magnolia, lost to Lott in a 1988 Senate race when Jordan was working for Lott. Dowdy was chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party when Jordan was nominated to the federal bench. Dowdy said at the time that he considered Jordan a good pick.
Now, after handling cases in front of Jordan, Dowdy sticks by his earlier assessment and said Jordan is "absolutely not" political.
"I've been very impressed," Dowdy said. "He has ruled against me. He has ruled for me. I understood it both ways."
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Monitoring the water quality of coastal waters with automatic equipment
Within Europe most maritime countries have monitoring programmes in place to fulfil their regulatory, EU or otherwise conventional commitments. Up till now no European structure has been set up or is in place to harmonize these observations in such a way that a comparison between different regions or a Pan European view is possible. A very limited overview can be obtained from the Annual reports of the EEA (European Environmental Agency), e.g. regarding nutrient concentrations in coastal waters. With the upcoming WFD, directives for transitional waters and the marine strategy requirements for pan European approaches are increasing.
Attempts to set up integrated networks of observations have been made on regional scales e.g. in the Baltic (BOOS), and in the North Sea and adjacent Atlantic (NOOS). However, still these networks do hardly cope with the ecosystem approach as promoted by ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea). Generally most networks intend to observe the primary parameters needed to improve our meteorological models or physical water parameters to improve our transport and current models. What is urgently needed is to extend these lists of parameters to important ecological parameters such as turbidity, phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass, occasional biomass of fishes, macro-benthos, and nutrients in surface and deeper waters. In order to obtain reliable data which can as well be used to drive ecological models intensive quality assurance procedures have to be implemented and integrated into the overall data management schemes.
The present article aims at presenting possible approaches and at showing the possibilities which are currently available. This includes ships-of-opportunity observations, in combination with the CPR (Continuous Plankton Recorder), satellite observations to extend the spatial scale of high frequency ground truth observations, and finally the incorporation through data assimilation of these observations into combined transport and ecological models.
Coastal and shelf sea observatories, the national and international dimension
Over the last decade, increasing national and international effort has been established worldwide in monitoring, forecasting and assessing the state of coastal systems. Around the coasts of the United States, for example, eleven regional Coastal Ocean observing systems have been established as part of the US-Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) (Ocean.US, 2002[1]). In Europe, EuroGOOS has fostered the planning and implementation of prototype systems for various European shelf seas, e.g. the Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network (MOON) (Pinardi and Flemming 1998[2]), the Baltic Operational Oceanographic System (BOOS) (Buch and Dahlin 2000[3]), or the North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) (Droppert et al. 2000[4]). A prominent example of a national effort is the Previmer Observing System in France, which is set up by a consortium of scientific, public and industrial partners.
The identified needs for these systems comprise aspects of climate change, marine operations, national security, sustainable management, ecosystem conservation and restoration, public health and mitigation of natural and man-made hazards (see e.g. Frosch et al., 1999[5]). Generally, they are based on existing mooring stations of governmental observational systems. Although these stations deliver impressive long-term time series, they capture the time domain at only a single point. Furthermore, reliably measured parameters are often limited to physical state variables. Chemical parameters or even biological are, if any, available in many cases only for limited time periods. Integration of further chemical and biological state variables as well as information from remote sensing images is always put forward as an essential target. As an example of a European prototype system, the GMES Services network MarCoast (Marine & Coastal Environmental Information Services) is developed to deliver satellite-based services in the field of marine and coastal applications. Services integrate detection and monitoring technologies involved in water quality, oil spill and meteorological information into a durable network.
In Europe, present activity focuses mainly on the harmonisation of existing technology and methods between different countries. Only few countries invest significantly into further development of integrated coastal observation systems (e.g. Previmer in France), although new technologies have been brought to pre-operational maturity, e.g. the development of FerryBox-systems onboard of ships-of-opportunity (Petersen et al., 2007[6]).
In the US and Canada significant effort is raised to increase nowcast/forecast capabilities for coastal waters by a multiplatform sampling approach (Schofield et al. 2002[7], von Alt el al. 1994[8], Simonetti, 1998[9]) combined with a suite of data assimilative models (see below). Temporal and spatial density of in-situ data is enhanced by using autonomously operating underwater vehicles (AUV, Glider) (von Alt et al. 1994[8], Simonetti 1998[9], ) with remote control of actual tracks by automated systems (Fiorelli et al. 2006[10]). The installation of undersea laboratories, connected to the landsite by fiberglass broadband width and electric power cables (Schofield et al. 2002[7], Purdy et al. 2003[11]) offers a complementary, albeit costly approach to permanently observe the environment from the seabed. As power supply and data transfer rates pose no real limitations, the submerged unit can be used as node, which supply basic infrastructure for a vast number of scientific partners to study both episodic events and long-term trends. Despite the individual research flavor of each observatory, these high-resolution regional sites will be unified through a coherent suite of broadband measurements (Schofield et al., 2002[7]). Spectral images from remote sensing are becoming increasingly part of routine coastal observation to derive spatial distributions of dissolved and particulate (abiotic and biotic) material. Their usage for operational purposes, on the other hand, is limited a relatively low temporal resolution and by the presence of clouds. Also validity of reflectance values as proxies for different physical and biological variables is still a matter of ongoing research, so that in-situ measurements are still indispensable. Therefore, we still face the challenge to develop and integrate reliable and, in part, new technologies for long-term observation of water chemical and biological state variables.
In all cases effective data management is prospected or implemented to store, access, distribute and present data in nearly real-time and with documented quality. For operational purposes effective data management must provide tools for data integration from different sources and interfaces to data assimilation schemes and numerical model schemes. Data accessibility and presentation plays also an important role to inform, participate and educate the general public (Schofield et al. 2002[7]).
Global and regional activities such as the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) and Marine Environment and Security for the European Area (MERSEA) give a practical demonstration of gathering up-to-date near real-time observation systems and ocean data assimilation providing regular information about the state of oceans and regional seas, including suitable initial and boundary conditions needed for near coastal models. The activities carried out in the frame of the The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) have recently been extended towards the coast (Coastal Ocean Observations Panel (COOP) / Joint Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations (JPICO)) with a focus on coastal management, environmental protection, ports and shipping, and monitoring. Documenting and forecasting change in coastal environments will require integration of physical, chemical, biological and geological observations and modelling and could provide scientific products and guidance to a wide range of users.
The European Cluster in Operational Oceanography is developing marine prototype operational systems (in the Arctic Sea and North Atlantic- TOPAZ and in the Mediterranean Sea-MFS) together with capacity building activities (in the Baltic Sea-PAPA, in the Mediterranean Sea- MAMA, in the Black Sea- ARENA). In line with this strategy the European Commission recently launched the European COstal sea Operational observing and forecasting system Project (ECOOP) aiming to build up a sustainable pan-European capacity in providing timely, quality assured marine services (including data, information products, knowledge and scientific advices) in European coastal and shelf seas. It is thus a pivotal part of Europe's contribution to issues affecting the global environment and the safety of our planet now also addressed within the Global Earth Observation System of Systems [GEOSS) initiative. GEOSS and GMES are ambitious concepts, which reconcile the political needs associated with environment and safety issues with the scientific and technological capacities offered by information technologies and Earth observation technologies.
Numerous examples already exist around Europe demonstrating advancements in existing operational observing and forecasting systems. Advanced observing technologies have been developed and demonstrated in projects like EuroROSE, Ferrybox, ADRICOSM and Poseidon. In the North Sea, and in particular in the area of German Bight a huge potential of observing platforms, data transmission and processing, as well as numerical modelling expertise exists. The most advanced level of systems operability has been demonstrated in the activities of BSH and in their product's delivery. Research institutes and academia usually carry out in parallel, sometimes coordinated, sometimes complementary activities. However, any future development of observational systems and forecasting requires strong cooperation, setting standards, and mutual involvement. Sharing data, technologies and costs would shorten the research time, improve the products and reduce costs. A logical next step is to consolidate and integrate the current observing and model systems with a common information platform and quality standards.
Current challenges in operational coastal oceanography are that the existing systems are not harmonised, quality assessment is still a problem, real-time data transfer, data exchange between organisations and near-real-time availability to modellers are not solved. Assimilation of various sources of near coastal data is still a complex scientific problem.
Data analysis, numerical modelling and data assimilation
Developing forecasting tools for coastal zones necessitates increasing synergy between traditional and newly available data, modelling with very fine resolution and advanced data assimilation techniques. Extensive data analyses and model validations are a central task. The Institute for Coastal Research at GKSS Research Centre in Germany (IfK/GKSS) will take the major responsibility of the information technology and model systems used in COSYNA. It will create hard- and software for collecting, storing and efficiently managing the incoming data flows including first quality checks. However, individual components of the model system or the assimilation module will be developed in strong cooperation with partners of the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) including the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Data streams based on observations and model simulations will also be established going from the centre at IfK/GKSS to sub-nodes at selected partners within the consortium.
Data analyses as have to rely on linear as well as non-linear methods for detecting common patterns or statistical characteristics (e.g. dimensionality) in multi-variate data sets. We will quantify the spatial as well as temporal cross-correlations of the continuous time-series from sensors at multiple positions. In addition, novel techniques based on Lagrangian transport modelling, which link different reference point can be applied (Callies et al., in prep; Brandt et al, in prep). Statistical results will not only lead to a better scientific understanding of specific mechanisms but also to guideline data assimilation and model validation experiments. One of the major problems here is the short predictability limit of ocean weather and sea state due to short physical temporal scales and atmospheric predictability limits, thus enhancing negative consequences from forcing inaccuracies, uncertainties in initial and lateral boundary conditions, and inappropriate model representation of physical and ecological processes. Some of these limitations also affect the reliability of long-term simulations.
Specific objectives are to: (1) improve the quality of existing physical and biogeochemical models for North Sea, German Bight and Wadden Sea by resolving relevant processes at adequate spatial scales in the entire computational domain, (2) enhance exploitation of existing data streams, (3) develop up-to-date analysis of as much as possible observations from different platforms and providing guidance for data assimilation, (4) provide improved forecast based on increasing the synergy between advanced numerical models, data assimilation methods and traditional and new observational platforms, (5) provide new knowledge and estimates of the state of coastal zone (e.g. ocean turbulence, stratification, transport of particulate organic material and total suspended matter, estuary-coast-offshore exchange, water quality status, source and sinks for major carbon and nitrogen species).
The complex dynamics of coastal regions and exchanges with the atmosphere, near-shore and offshore regions present a major scientific challenge. A drastic shift in ocean physics and in forcing functions is observed in the coastal zone due to (1) rapid change of coastal shape and bathymetry, (2) dominance of another set of physical processes, and (3) multiple forcing. Reliable offshore boundary conditions of coastal models provided by large-scale ocean models have the potential to extend predictability on shelves and enhance the representativeness of forecasting systems. However, small errors in initial and boundary conditions could trigger unphysical processes in the models, therefore substantial care must be given to improving their quality and correcting their outcomes through data assimilation.
Dynamical balances in the coastal zone seem prohibitive to use some relatively simple assimilation schemes (e. g. Cooper and Haines 1996[12]), which have proved useful in open ocean modelling. Therefore a wide range of methods are presently used to assimilate data into coastal models including sequential methods (e.g. simple nudging, optimal interpolation, reduced order optimal interpolation (De Mey and Benkiran 2002[13]), ensemble-based optimal interpolation (Lamouroux et al. 2006[14]), and various forms of Kalman filter (Evensen 2003[15]) including the extended, singular evolutive, and ensemble Kalman filters (Mourre et al. 2004[16], 2006[17]) as well as adjoint-based methods (based on the minimization of cost functions, Taillandier et al. 2007[18]). This variety of approaches reveals, not in the last place, the diversity of data available for the coastal zone. Their complementarities have not yet been well established but promising results exist (Mourre et al 2006[17]). Recent studies demonstrate that some ocean fields can be sufficiently represented by a limited number of multivariate Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) facilitating the selection of the "optimal set" (Sparnoccia et al. 2003). The existing experience with data assimilation in circulation models of North Sea, German Bight and Wadden Sea is still limited, but the observational (discussed before) and modelling (Dick et al. 2001[19], Stanev et al. 2003[20], Gayer et al. 2006[21], Staneva et al. 2007[22]) practices give an encouraging motivation to propose the below activities. Data assimilation will be used to estimate past (hindcast), present (nowcast) and future (forecast) conditions in the North Sea and in its coastal regions and will provide measures of uncertainty. The systems of interest will include the shelf area, estuaries, tidal flats, river plumes, straits and sills (Fig. 1).
Description of a facility
The specific features of the observatory are observational Reference Points (RPs) and the coherence of the data accumulation and retrieval as an essential basis for operational data assimilation into models. COSYNA (Fig. 1) will deliver the spatial representation through
- a chain of RPs with long-term observations, of, which the geometrical formation is adapted to the typical and characteristic gradients; these also serve as nodes to connect further observational devices (e.g. benthic landers)
- transects that link the RPs together; here, mobile measuring platforms, such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs, gliders) or ship surveys will collect a subset of parameters. In parallel we will document changes in morphology and habitat of the sea floor along these references transects through optical and/or acoustic devices.
- Remote sensing information, if available, will be integrated with observational in situ data to provide a better spatial coverage for the southern North Sea. Measures to improve operational ground truth capabilities and atmospheric radiation correction will have been developed within the ICON framework until the end of 2009 and are not part of this investment proposal. Therefore, although remote sensing will be an essential and integral part of the overall observational system, it is not further described here.
Coherence of observations will be achieved through a common sensor package of the RPs and systems implemented on the moving platforms. This common package will comprise standard parameters (oceanography, meteorology) with extensions for more advanced chemical and biological parameters.
The realisation of a critical number of RPs in the framework of this investment proposal including its long-term maintenance through GKSS and its partners calls for a completely new approach. As platforms for the RP's, all located in the German Bight, we will make use of existing research platforms (FINO 1 and FINO 3) and offshore wind turbines (WEAs). WEAs offer a sustainable offshore construction, are linked through cable routes as well as through telemetry connected to the mainland, and have regular maintenance by ship or helicopter. Therefore an essential characteristic of COSYNA will be to participate in this external infrastructure. To cover larger areas of the North Sea, the installation of measuring devices on ferries (FerryBox), by then already established within the ICON framework, will be continued and extended regarding the number of parameters. Selected, already existing operational or near future operational systems and stations operated by GKSS and KDM partners, will be incorporated, modernised and adapted as part of the COSYNA network. For achieving budget estimation through the entire water column at selected RP's, we plan to pursue automatic measurements of biogeochemical gradients and fluxes in the sediment–water (benthic landers) and at the water-atmosphere boundary layer.
This set of fixed and moving platforms will base on and incorporate the systems established in the framework of ICON, which is presently constructed by GKSS. In this way, ICON can be regarded as a pilot, first pre-operational phase of COSYNA where the basic features of COSYNA including the remote sensing techniques will have been implemented until the end of 2009. Investments of GKSS within the framework of ICON will already lead to innovative technical solutions with the in-situ technologies of the FerryBoxes and observational piles as well as their integration with remote sensing. Finally, the geometrical arrangement of the COSYNA RP's and transects will complement the existing observational systems of MARNET, operated by the BSH, and the Ocean Monitoring Network OMS that is presently assembled in the along the North Frisian Coast (Fig. 1).
In detail, the facility is composed of the following elements:
- The first group of four elements represents the COSYNA backbone infrastructure provided by GKSS for the partners from the KDM and national agencies and water authorities.
- 1. Basic sensor units for stationary research stations or existing offshore platforms (WEAs)
- 2. Observational pile North Frisian Wadden Sea
- 3. Observational platform directly offshore East Frisian Wadden Sea
- 4. Hard- and software for data management (data processing, storage and visualisation)
- The second group comprises advanced FerryBox-systems operated on fixed platforms and moving ships of opportunity and autonomously operating underwater vehicles equipped with sensors for standard and extended parameters.
- 5. FerryBox systems
- 6. Autonomous underwater vehicles
- The third group comprises systems for detailed observations of the benthic-water and water-air interfaces.
- 7. Sensor system for water atmosphere boundary layer
- 8. Lander systems for sediment-water boundary layer
With this coastal observatory we will be able to measure on line a wide range of parameters of the environmental state in the German Bight and the wider North Sea. This will be an essential German Contribution to the EU strategy for Marine Research towards a sustainable use of the oceans and seas. An extension to other parts of the North Sea is provisioned within the EMECO Project.
See also
Internal Links
- Coastal observatories
- Overview of national databases for coastal monitoring
- Instruments and sensors to measure environmental parameters
- Dynamics and structure of the water and matter ex-change between the Wadden Sea and the German Bight
- FerryBox - Continuous and automatic water quality observations along transects
- Ships of opportunity and ferries as instrument carriers
- Using model simulations to support monitoring - Methods&Techniques
- Using model simulations to support monitoring - Implementation & Results
- Water quality services GMES - MarCoast in Germany
- Real-time algae monitoring
- Optical remote sensing
- Coupled hydrodynamic - water quality - ecological modelling
External Links
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This week in JBoss (15th March 2012): JBoss RenewedPosted by burrsutter in Weekly Editorial on Mar 15, 2012 8:04:32 PM
Hello and welcome! We have been insanely busy for the last two weeks and managed to miss an editorial publication. :-( We will endeavor to be better about our scheduling.
Big changes to our various web properties have been made recently - specifically related to jboss.com and jboss.org - JBoss.com has been folded into redhat.com and hopefully all your previously bookmarked URLs are being redirected properly. Leave us a comment if you feel there is something we missed. In the case of jboss.org - it has been relaunched with a new, more engaging front page - where we are making it much more obvious how to get started with building applications using various JBoss technologies.
jboss.org has historically been much more of a community OSS site where contributors, both internal and external to the organization, have been able to collaboratively work on some amazing technologies over the last several years. However, we realize that we had an under-served userbase - developers whose primary focus was to build business applications on middleware, not necessarily build middleware itself. For that group, we have developed and launched a new microsite of www.jboss.org/developer. Our initial efforts have been around getting you started with HTML5 and mobile web application development and easy deployment to Openshift. And that leads me to another major delivery.
This week we gave birth to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Beta - based on jboss.org's application server v7.1 and we also shipped JBoss Developer Studio 5 Beta 1 to support this new Java EE 6 offering. The bottom line is, keep you eyes on www.jboss.org/developer - more tutorials, more videos and more examples will be coming soon.
- JBoss visits Transylvania - Kabir "Van Helsing" Khan not only has a cool name but he has had some interesting travels. He visited the Transylvania Users Group to deliver a presentation on JBoss AS7, Java EE6 and JAX-RS. The Transylvanian Duke reminds of one of our newest projects - Immutant
- JBoss in Egypt - Lukas Fryc, a member of our rocking RichFaces team, made a trip to Cairo for the 2012 Java Developer Conference. Lukas was brilliantly able to cover Aerogear, RichFaces and Arquillian and he kindly posted his slides for review. In addition, our very own Koen Aers presented and even had the time for an interview! Check out the video on his blog titled "Code like an Egyptian". Koen has been bringing Forge to life inside of JBoss Tools. We will definitely have to update some videos around Forge & Tools soon.
- Eric Schabell have also been out and about, delivering presentations on jBPM and Cloud/OpenShift - he also has some video of a jBPM presentation. Speaking of jBPM, that team continues to bring the power of Open Source to the otherwise arcane (ok, just really expensive) world of BPM. Tiho Surdilovic cranked out a great blog showing off the jBPM Web Designer - that is right, design those business processes via your browser. In addition, Kris Verlaenen, produced some jBPM demo videos showing off the power of jBPM in action. It is very fun watching the power of the open source community and open standards (BPMN2) transform a previously unassailable industry. And I will let you in on a little secret, great community contributors are normally the next Red Hat employees - Welcome Maciej
- The Teiid team is bringing back Dynamic VDBs - Dynamic VDBs using DDL with out Teiid Designer - Your virtual databases can now be defined, on-the-fly, aggregating schema & data from multiple external databases (and files). If you love data - this is the project for you to check out. Personally, I think the DDL definition for a VDB is awesome. Now you can get your vi/emacs on with Teiid. :-)
- Manik Surtani runs from the USA to Poland but still has found the time to backport Java 8's ConcurrentHashMaps to Infinispan. Memory reduction means better performance.
- Get the 411 on Hibernate - that is 4.1.1, we now refer to Hibernate "core" as ORM as it releases at different times from Search, Tools, Validator, OGM, Metamodel, etc.
- Hardy Ferentschik publishes a blog on the Hibernate Validator project roadmap - BeanValidation is part of EE6 and the OSS project that moves it forward continues to innovate.
- And a moving Hibernate Validator is an indicator that JBoss' Emmanuel Bernard is cranking up BeanValidation 1.1 for Java EE7.
- Does "NoSQL" = "No Transactions" - "I don't think" so says Mark Little in this recent blog post. :-) OK, I am paraphrasing but it is good to see that the NoSQL movement is also interested in aspects of data integrity even if they are non-relational.
- Team Errai continues to innovate (and blog) with numerous enhancements that extend the power of Java EE 6 to the browser with Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Christian Sadilek provides code for a MVP (model view presenter) example and a fantastic blog post explaining it. Mike Brock goes deep with Marshalling in Errai 2.0.
- Thomas Diesler and the JBoss OSGi team released 1.1.0-Final with over 80 fixes and many enhancements - not too mention a nice user guide.
- Geoffrey De Smet produces yet another great video showing off Drools Planner - have you ever had to write code to properly load a warehouse so that the most popular inventory is in the most accessible bins? Or have you had to pack and route a truck for the most efficient delivery order? Geoffrey must have worked in some warehouses as a young lad. :-) Check out his vehicle routing video and this blog on chained execution means OSS will soon solve the world's energy challenges. That's right open source software saves you gas - Go green.
- GateIn (eXo + JBoss) brings us Java EE 6 Portal with 3.2.0.Final - plus the GateIn project opens the proverbial kimono all the way - check out their specifications page. In addition, they have produced some nice screencasts by Nick Scavelli, I am a sucker for video - I guess because I was born during the rise of MTV (which used to actually show videos - I know hard to imagine).
- The Mazz (John Mazzitelli) provides us with some great insight into RHQ - monitoring custom data from DB queries - Make data a monitorable metric - I wonder if we can combine that with Drools Planner? When inventory levels drop below a certain point, kick of a Planner job to determine the best place to replenish from based on price and time.
- There is good in this world according to Anil Saldhana (and Samwise Gamgee) and it is Open Source and what that means to the world of information security. I have to agree OSS has made the world a better place and a more secure one as well.
- Google Summer of Code 2012 - Dan Allen posts about our recent submissions for the GSoC - students from around the globe will have the opportunity to participate in the open source movement. This is a wonderful program that incourages the next generation - to work in the open, collaboratively, for the greater good - and it looks great on a resume!
Well that is all I have for now - JBoss has been extraordinarily active already in 2012 and the pace is quickening - more innovations, more presentations and more community.
If you are one of the lucky few who managed to score a ticket to DevNexus 2012 in Atlanta, please find me and say hello.


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Lewiston cosmetology students sickened by carbon monoxide
11 students at Mr. Bernard's School of Hair Fashion treated
Eleven students at Mr. Bernard's School of Hair in Lewiston fell ill Thursday morning as a result of carbon monoxide.
Capt. Wallace Veilleux of the Lewiston Fire Department said tests performed on two of the 11 students showed high levels of CO in their bloodstream.
Three students were transported to the hospital by ambulance, and another eight drove themselves after they became sick.
Veilleux said the carbon monoxide came from exhaust pipe fumes from an idling car parked at the back of the building, and entered the building through an air intake system. The fumes were then circulated throughout the building via the heating ducts, Wallace said.
"We had some people talking about not feeling well… some dizziness, and there was some sort of a smell in one of our classrooms, so we took procedures to get them out of that immediate area and then made phone calls to see what was going on, and then the fire department came," said Lauren Odiorne, an employee at the beauty school.
The building at 711 Lisbon St. did not have carbon monoxide detectors, but officials said it was not required to.


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See Links in Your Preferred Translation
On Monday, I showed you some tricks for seeing more than one Scripture link in a tool at the same time. Today, I want to show how you can specify which Bible text displays when you hover over or click on a Scripture link in an Accordance tool.
For example, let's say your default Bible is an English translation, but you want the links in BDAG to go to the Greek New Testament rather than an English translation. If they're Old Testament references, you want those to go to the Greek Septuagint. Is that even possible?
This is Accordance we're talking about: of course it's possible. To do this, simply open up BDAG and use the one keyboard shorcut every Accordance user must learn: command-T.
As I've explained before, command-T opens the Display settings for nearly every kind of window in Accordance. If you do that from a tool like BDAG, you'll get this dialog box:
As you can see, this dialog lets me set the font, style, and other aspects of BDAG's appearance. It also lets me customize the way hypertext links are handled. If I wanted links to appear in Burgundy italic instead of Blue underline, I could do that here. I can also specify the text and alternate text any Scripture links should display. The alternate text will only be used if the primary text does not contain the verses a link references. In this case, since I set my primary text to GNT-T and my alternate text to LXX1, any New Testament references will display the primary text, and any Old Testament references will use the alternate text.
It's as simple as that! If I want this change to be temporary, I can just click OK and these texts will be used as long as the current BDAG window remains open. Any other BDAG window I open would still use the default settings. If I want to make this change the default setting for BDAG, then I would click the Use as Default button before I click OK to close the dialog.


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At Yay-tar-Shae Street near Shwedagon pagoda, soldiers destroyed the small shops of street vendors and set the wreckage on fire when the rally arrived.
Hi! I'm another Ghost from NyeinChanYar Blog. I'll update more photos later.
Credit to REUTERS, Ko Htike Blog, Soneseayar Blog and Moemakha Blog for all photos.


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February 07, 2011
Healthy Birthday Cake - Almond, Hazelnut, Orange and Chocolate!
20 comments:
This cake looks so light and delicious!ReplyDelete
I bet tea poached pear would have been nice with that great looking cake:-)ReplyDelete
What a lovely cake! I really like the ingredients you used...ReplyDelete
That looks so pretty. what flowers are those at the bottom of the post?ReplyDelete
The whole thing...beautiful and delicious!!!ReplyDelete
See, here's the thing. "Poclets of chocolate>" If anything has those, then yes, it turned out well ... that looks incredible!ReplyDelete
I would be happy with such a healthy birthday cake! :)ReplyDelete
Your 'healthing up' of recipes is quite inspirational. Beautiful photos too :)ReplyDelete
I think I could eat this all day long, because I love such delicious looking things :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8 February 2011 at 05:28
MMMMMM,..a delightful Birthday cake this is!! It looks so appetizing too!ReplyDelete
the cake looks lovely and i'm sure it was wonderful! those hydrangeas are easy on the eyes as well - have a super week!ReplyDelete
What a pretty and delicious cake! I'm sure that the lucky birthday recipient was eccstatic with it!ReplyDelete
this looks so good i want to try this recipe out !ReplyDelete
Wow, what a lovely cake and I love the ingredients in it...almond, hazelnut, chocolate and orange...so good...and the photos are awesome :-)ReplyDelete
this looks good!ReplyDelete
Your cake looks lovely and the hydranga flower is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
This cake is so lovely...good work!ReplyDelete
A nice week also to you! :-)
I always adore the citrus of orange infused in chocolate. Have not tried one combined with nuts though.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 December 2011 at 03:43
My sister and I baked this cake for my dad's birthday and it was DELICIOUS! light, healthy and very tasty. I will definitely bake this again (maybe with a little less brown sugar?)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe!
This cake looks delicious! It would be perfect with coffee. I would love to try baking it.ReplyDelete


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Has Trump gone too far? The shocking statement you won't see on the news...
A slip of the tongue or his most brilliant political move yet?
What's even stranger is that none of the other Presidential hopefuls have dared to attack him this time.,,
And once you see this shocking video you will understand exactly why.
The fact that he chose to make this public now is no coincidence...
Political experts argue that Trump is preparing to "cash in" on one of the biggest events of 2016.
And if he's right, America will never be the same again.
Click here to see what this is all about.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. could lose years of scientific research as a result of automatic spending cuts that have hit federal agencies.
He says instead of racing ahead to the next cutting edge, American scientists are wondering whether they'll be able to develop any new products at all.
He says the U.S. can't afford to stand still for two or three years.
With Obama's blessing, Congress has already acted to fix flight delays that emerged when air traffic controllers were furloughed due to the cuts. But Obama is still pushing a broader plan to replace all the cuts.
Obama spoke at the 150th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences. He says as long as he's president, the U.S. will continue to invest in science and innovation.


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Electrical engineering is the application of the laws of physics governing electricity, magnetism, and light to develop products and services for the benefit of humankind. It is a professional discipline that deals with the application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. This branch offers exciting job opportunities for students in the rapidly evolving fields of information and communication technology and the latest advances in the more traditional areas of power, control, and electromagnetism. So electrical engineering deals with the problems associated with large-scale electrical systems such as power transmission and motor control.
Important Lab Electrical Lab, Electronics Lab, Electrical Workshop, Electrical Machine Lab.


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Teen Jennie Lamere Wins Hackathon, Demonstrates What We Lose Shutting Women Out Of Tech
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.
At this past weekend's TVnext Hack event,
a loose consortium of geeks, hackers, and businessmen from the
television and technology industries gathered in a high-rise Boston
office building to compete for cash and prizes by inventing and building
technologies that add to the experience of watching television.
Several hacks won prizes from sponsor companies, while five of the best scored "best in breed" prizes (view the full list). Out of those, one was chosen as the grand prize winner on Monday at the TVnext Summit:
Twivo, a clever hack that lets you watch DVR-ed television programs
without worrying about your "second screen" ruining the show when you
check Twitter only to see the show's ending given away. Simply enter the
name of the show, and Twivo (short for "Twitter for TiVo") will block
all mentions of it from your Twitter feed, while also syncing your
Twitter feed so that tweets show up when they would have during the
show's original airing.
Twivo was created by the only female participant at the event — and
the only minor. Unless memory fails, the only other females in
attendance, that I saw anyway, were an organizer, two camerawomen, a
caterer, three judges, and a participant's wife.
The question of how to interest more women in technology fields is
one of the most important questions facing us today, for many reasons.
The internet, of course, is rife with opinion about What Has To Happen
in order for more girls to get into programming, for more women to speak
at tech conferences, and for how to make guys not be jerks to them when
they do enter these fields or show up at these conferences.
Nevermind all that for now. Let's focus on how one teenage girl, Jennie Lamere,
defeated a room full of smart, motivated, experienced, full-grown men.
This would seem to be instructive to the greater argument about women in
technology, and besides, it has the added bonus of being based in fact
rather than opinion.
If you remember one thing from this article, it should be that the father of this prize-winning girl hacker (Paul Lamere, director of developer community for The Echo Nest, which publishes Evolver.fm) did not, as one might suspect, force, cajole, or otherwise convince his daughter to take up hacking.
Instead, he took her hiking.
"My dad goes to a hackathon a few times a year," Jennie
Lamere told Evolver.fm. "When I was growing up, I wasn't interested in
the technical side of his hacks [such as Boil The Frog and Infinite Jukebox],
but rather the musical side. His hacks were a topic of our weekly
hikes. He would tell me all about his latest project, which just seemed
like pure magic to me. Then, one hike, my Dad asked me for an idea for a
hack using the Songkick API. He told me some of his ideas, but I came up with my own, that would eventually turn into Jennie's Ultimate Roadtrip.
Just by chance, I was already in Boston the day of that particular
hackathon, so I ended up spending a good portion of the day at the
hackathon and helped my dad out with the limited HTML I knew."
Jennie Lamere was 15 on that fateful hike. In the past two years, she
has attended five hackathons, and now, she's building her hacks on her
own, including the grand-prize-winning Twivo, relying on her father only
for "occasional help in debugging a thorny problem here or there,"
according to Paul.
It's also worth pointing out that Jennie Lamere's evolution from
hiker to hacker involved lots of fun and collaboration, and no parental
pressure — and that it happened outside of a traditional classroom
environment, though she learned some computer skills there too.
"Hackathons can be really fun — there's lots of energy, creativity,
learning and fun," says Paul. "Jennie says she's learned more about
programming by attending hackathons than she has from her AP computer
science class."
Jennie agrees, which is something that programming educators might want to take into account.
"I don't think any high school classes could prepare someone fully
for a hackathon," says Jennie. "I've been lucky that my dad has been
able to teach me a lot, but I also learn a lot through friends, and
sites like StackOverflow.
The three computer classes have given a solid foundation as a
programmer, but I find myself learning a completely new concept — like a
new language — every hackathon. I think between
the three hackathons I've attended this year, and the year-long AP
Computer Science class, I've learned exponentially more at hackathons."
We asked what advice she might have for other girls who want to enter
these hackathons, since they're such great learning environments, and
because so much of our social, cultural, business, and technological
future depends on more women building new technologies. (Even if you
don't buy all of that, which I do, you must at least concede that we'll
get better stuff if the whole human population is involved in building
it, rather than just half.)
Her advice?
"Babysteps are the key," says Jennie. "I've attended five hackathons,
but have only done one solo project. My first two hackathons, I didn't
do any work beyond the UI. Then, I worked with a friend with a similar
knowledge on two hackathons, where I did about half the work. Finally,
this weekend I ventured out on my own, and worked on my own. I've been
interested in coding for about three years now, and though I still have
much to learn, I feel as though I have been able to do a lot. By teaming
up with friends, I was able to slowly learn how to make my own hacks."
When she said that, she had already won several prizes
for Twivo, including the Best Use of Sync-To-Broadcast and company
prizes from Klout and Mashery (two iPads, a Roku, an Apple TV, a
backpack, and a Siftio).
"I was hoping to walk away with an iPad, so my expectations were more
than exceeded," she said. "The best part is the feeling of
accomplishment and knowing that I made a hack that people reacted
positively to."
That was before the video of her demonstration aired to all the
attendees of TVnext Summit, after which she won the grand $2,500 prize
and wound up carrying an oversized check through the streets of Boston
with her justifiably proud dad.
"This is a terrific story, and proof that young girls are an untapped resource of innovation," said Change The Ratio
co-founder Rachel Sklar, when we told her the news. "More and more role
models in the space are showing girls like Jennie (who is now one
herself!) that this is a place for them, and for their talents. And now
organizations like Girls Who Code are providing the infrastructure to get there. The floodgates have opened — the ratio is changing."
However, she points out that "women in tech" stories are also simply "tech stories." Good point.
"It's also important to note that Jennie's idea is a completely
universal, gender-neutral one — the classic entrepreneurial story of
identifying a pain point and then solving for it. She had an idea and
made it happen. And, thanks to greater accessibilty of technology and
more and more infrastructure around the innovation process, we will be
seeing more and more Jennies as we move forward. In the meantime, I am
stoked to use Jennie's invention to enjoy Mad Men at my own pace."
Spoiler alert: So are we.
Photo: Paul Lamere


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We've gone about this a little bit backwards: we fitted the Crossfire Z with all the best components from Hotchkis to improve the handling and help it get around the corners as quickly and safely as possible. But before we can really put the car through its paces on the windy roads of the foothills, we needed to make sure that we get it stopped. You just can't dive into a corner by simply decelerating; if you want to wring it out, you've gotta have the hoofs to slow it down quickly.
Since we've attacked this project trying to keep things somewhat affordable, we're going to stay with the stock rear drum brakes for now. So, the logical place to begin is on the front. While we contemplated a simple pad and rotor upgrade, once we put a pencil to paper, we figured that the Stainless Steel Brake Company's (SSBC) Quick Change Aluminum Caliber Upgrade Kit we've had our eyes on would be worth the extra expense. Besides, nothing says "cool" like a set of aluminum calibers peeking out from behind the spokes of your billet wheels. Add a set of slotted, and cross-drilled rotors like SSBC's new Big Bites and the "Wow Factor" is complete.
Burn 'em In
Having just completed one of the simplest and most straight forward installations of an aftermarket part that we've ever done, we were real anxious to get the car to the track and see how the SSBC's measured up to the stock units. While we did make it out to the track, the new rotors require 200 miles of driving before the zinc is properly worn off of the rotors and the new carbon metallic pads are correctly bedded in. So, as of this writing, we haven't made any banzai test stops. We'll report on our findings in the next issue. Until then, we'll just enjoy the newfound aesthetics that the billet brakes have brought to our disco-era beauty.