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Author: Majick
Story: Only One Possible Outcome
Part: 1: To Look, Perchance To See
Rating: Everyone
Setting: AU
Status: Completed
Reviews: 6
Words: 3,913
Updated: April 20, 2006, 3:10pm
1: To Look, Perchance To See
(Author's Note: Astute readers of my previous works may realise that this is the tale of James and Lily that Remus alluded to in 'Hallelujah' with the telling taking place before that story occurs. As such, this is a paradox as it is an event in the pre-Hallelujah past that Remus promises will take place in the post-Hallelujah future. You are advised not to think about it too much, in case the universe notices and collapses as a result.)
I tore my eyes away from Tonks, stumbling across the dance floor with Ron in tow. Neither of the pair was likely to win any 'Most-Coordinated' awards, and I rather thought that this would be a story fit to tell the next generation.
"Hello, Harry," I said, Summoning a chair for him with a wave of my wand. "Lovely wedding, isn't it?"
Harry nodded absently. I don't think he could have told me anything about the wedding, even down to what colour dress Fleur wore – peach – although he had his eyes fixed firmly on the bridal party all through the ceremony. Either he particularly liked Gabrielle Delacour's curly hair, or...
But I digress.
"What can I do for you, Harry?"
"How did my parents get together?"
I stared at him for a moment, possibly just a fraction too long.
"James asked Lily out, and she accepted."
Harry frowned.
"I saw my dad ask my mum out in Snape's memory," he said. "It looked like he asked her almost every day, and she turned him down every time."
"Well..." I said. "Harry, it's rather a long story."
He glanced out across the dance floor, where Ginny was dancing with George. Or possibly Fred. Harry's face darkened.
"I'm not doing anything right now," he said.
"Oh, very well," I said. "But I should point out before we start that we were seventeen years old at the time, okay? And we weren't entirely separate from the idiots that you saw in the Pensieve."
"My dad and Sirius, you mean," Harry said, smiling slightly.
"Well, yes," I allowed. "Although idiocy takes many forms."
Harry muttered something under his breath but motioned for me to continue.
"Very well. Where to begin..." I leaned back in my chair, and stared into the dim and distant past. "Ah. I suppose that it all began with Pandora Parkinson, or at least her birthday party..."
You have to understand that it's rather unusual for an entire family to be placed in one house in the manner of the Weasleys. Take the Patil twins, for example. Parvati is a Gryffindor, while Padma is a Ravenclaw. Even when the bulk of a family passes through one house – such as the Blacks – you'll still find the odd misfit – such as Sirius – who ends up somewhere else.
Such was the case with Pandora Parkinson. She was quite something, it must be said. She is the younger sister of Petunia Parkinson, who is the mother of Pansy Parkinson. Quite what the Parkinson family was thinking in naming all their children 'pee-pee' is beyond me, but I suspect that the generally belligerent nature of the recent generations may be at least partly attributed to this unfortunate practise.
Pandora, however, was different. She was a Ravenclaw, for one thing. The Parkinson line has produced some formidable wizards and witches, and often they have become respected members of the Ministry or gone on to another similarly illustrious career. Patrick Parkinson the Third, who was in Sirius' uncle's class at Hogwarts, captained Wales at Quidditch, which made him something of a hero to us all as we were growing up. Mostly, however, the Parkinsons are known for their intelligence and ambition.
Pandora was something of an anomaly, as Sirius was to his family. They started Hogwarts at the same time, their families knew one another well and both were expected to be Sorted into Slytherin in the normal manner of things. Of course, Sirius ended up in Gryffindor while Pandora went into Ravenclaw. Neither family was particularly pleased with this, but anomalies are expected and tolerated, and many a lauded pure-blood has 'unfortunate beginnings' in a house of which their family does not approve.
But I digress. Pandora was a fine witch, one of the smartest in her year. She had a pure and unfettered love of learning that I admired greatly, but the one who was really taken with her was Peter.
We four were not exactly unfamiliar with our female classmates, it must be said. Sirius had girls drooling over him - and even fighting, on one memorable occasion - while James had his share of admirers. Even Peter and I had our moments, although some form of reflected greatness through our association with James and Sirius may have inspired this. I remember one girl with whom I thought things were progressing nicely until she asked me if I could put a word in for her with James. Given what we were doing at that moment, it was not entirely the most appropriate thing to ask, and Sirius and James never let me live it down.
But Peter was forever a fumbler when it came to girls. He had a tendency to overthink things and this would always lead to horribly over-complicated plans on his part to get to know a girl. Often one of us would talk him down from these wild schemes. Occasionally, when we thought no great harm would come of it, we would let him be and enjoy watching it all come crashing down around his ears. To do him credit, he never seemed to mind, although nowadays I can't help but wonder whether this contributed...
But anyway, Pandora and Peter were very talented when it came to Charms, and were often paired together on projects and the like. They were also members of the Charms club. Sirius also claimed to be a member, "Because of my amazing ways with women, but I don't go to the meetings because I have nothing to learn, see?"
Peter was in a perfect position to do what he did almost with the regularity of the setting sun, and that was to fall head over heels in love, or at least something hat felt like it at the time. At one time or another Peter had been attracted to almost every girl in our year and many of the girls in the years around us as well. He took each knock back with commendable stoicism, and went right onto the next one. He was always the first to joke about how easily his heart was won - and lost - and the girls never really minded, indeed I believe that for a time being asked out by Peter was seen as something of a rite of passage for girls at Hogwarts, and those who hadn't been asked were heard to wonder what was wrong with them.
With such a scattershot approach, Peter had his share of success with women, but occasionally he would fall heavily for a girl, and such was the case with Pandora. As I remember, he had become rather taken with her shortly before we sat our OWLs and had stewed on the matter over the summer holidays. I have a feeling that he had talked himself into believing he truly loved her, although he never would have said that in front of Sirius.
Anyway, Pandora's seventeenth birthday came towards the end of the holidays, and nearly everyone in our year was invited. Peter had sent us all letters about how excited he was about seeing Pandora, and how he had every intention of asking her to go out with him once he saw her.
The four of us stayed at the Potters' home on the night before the party, and travelled by Floo to the Parkinsons' house. We were greeted warmly by Pandora, who seemed to be especially welcoming to Peter. Sirius gave him a quick thumbs-up as we headed out of the house and into the grounds, where the party was being held.
"You know," Sirius said. "I think that you actually have a chance there, mate."
"No need to sound so surprised," Peter said, with a roll of his eyes.
"Come on, Wormtail," James said, grinning. "Even you have to admit-"
"I know, I know," Peter said. "I'm rubbish with girls."
"You're not rubbish," Sirius said. "You just..."
He looked to me for help. I nodded, and said, "You try too hard, Wormtail. If you want to be more than friends with Pandora, be casual. She's too smart to fall for one of Sirius' cheesy lines."
"Hey!" Sirius objected. I smirked.
"I know you're right," Peter said, reasonably. "But it's not easy. Any time that I even think of mentioning anything to her, I just get all tongue-tied. I can talk to her fine about other stuff, but..."
"It's all about reading the signals, mate," James said. "Look, when you're talking to her, does she lick her lips? Does she mimic your body language? Does she lean forward and expose her neck?"
We all turned and looked at James for a moment.
"What in the name of Dumbledore are you talking about?" Sirius asked.
"I'm serious," James said.
"No, I'm-"
I cut across Sirius quickly. "James, where did you hear that stuff?"
"It was in a magazine I was reading," he said.
"Playwizard? Was it the Celestina Warbeck centrefold copy?"
We all turned as one.
"Evans," James said, frostily. "I didn't know you were invited. I'd have made sure to stay away."
"I can only dream of the day that that happens," Lily replied, equally coldly. "You do know that you're talking nonsense, don't you?"
"Eavesdropping on our conversations now? I'm not too impressed with your manners."
Sirius and I exchanged a look and took up positions on either side of James, just in case we had to hold him back. We didn't seriously think that he'd try and hex Lily, but she was quick on the draw and James wouldn't want to spend the day with a radish for a nose.
"Hard not to hear you, you make so much noise."
"Most people seem not to have heard," James said.
"Most people ignore you," Lily replied.
"And you can't?" James replied. "I always knew that you couldn't resist me."
"Dream on," Lily replied, her cheeks flushing as she stared him down.
"Wait, Remus, you're making it sound like my parents couldn't stand each other."
"Harry," I said, smiling. "You know that they loved one another dearly, and that they were married not long after finishing Hogwarts, right?"
"Well. This is important. James and Lily argued a great deal, but this one was where things really started to change between them. Give me a moment, okay? Soon it starts to get better."
Harry looked dubious, but nodded for me to go on.
"I always do, Evans. You're a prominent feature of my dreams, didn't you know?"
Lily blushed, which didn't exactly complement her fiery red hair.
"You're foul, Potter," she snapped.
"And you're uptight, Evans," James fired back. "Loosen up and have some fun."
"How? By skiving off lessons and getting in trouble?"
"At least I'm not trying to live my life through a book!"
"At least I know what one looks like!"
"That's about all you know! Did you ever stop and consider how much more interesting life would be if you were actually living it?"
"Did you ever stop and consider how much less pain you'd put your friend through if you just told him that Pandora has a boyfriend!"
Dead silence, then: "A boyfriend? Oh well, Wormtail. Looks like she wasn't hanging around for you after all," Sirius said, in a falsely cheery voice. But it was too late. Peter had turned as white as a sheet, and he spun on his heel and stalked off away from us. Sirius and I exchanged a look of mixed sympathy and weariness, but James looked as though he was about to explode.
Instead, he turned back to Lily and said, in a very calm and cold voice, "That was uncalled for, Lily. Whatever argument you have with me is no reason to hurt my friends. I hope you enjoyed that, although I didn't think you were the sort of person who liked hurting other people's feelings."
And with that, James turned and walked away, searching for Peter. Of the three of us, he'd always been best at cheering Peter up when he was feeling down, and of course it was a superbly disdainful end to his argument with Lily.
"I didn't mean..." Lily said.
"Maybe not," Sirius replied, crossly. "But you really hurt Wormtail's feelings, Evans."
"No, listen to me," Sirius said. "Wormtail really likes Pandora; it's not just some daft crush like it usually is. You had no right to come in here and crush his hopes like that, especially not in front of all of us. You humiliated him in front of his closest friends. How do you think that made him feel?"
"Terrible," Lily groaned, her shoulders sagging. "I didn't mean to say it like that. I was just so angry with James."
"Yes, well," Sirius sniffed dismissively, but I knew Padfoot rather too well to believe that he was that bothered by Lily's mistake, and indeed he tossed me a wink that let me know that I had to play along with him. It seemed a bit cruel to tease Lily, but she had often enough made us feel guilty for our myriad minor - and not so minor - transgressions.
"Peter doesn't have much success with girls, Lily," I said, crossing my fingers behind my back. "And Pandora is very nice. I'm sure that she would have let him down gently."
Lily grimaced. "I didn't mean to hurt Peter's feelings like that," she said. "I certainly didn't enjoy it."
"I can tell," I said, taking the lead from Sirius. "Anyway, we should be going. James will need help with Peter."
"Help?" Lily asked.
I nodded. "He can be... well, abjectly pathetic and devastated is such a strong term..."
"Oh God..." Lily murmured.
"Do you remember Tabitha Bones?" Sirius asked.
I shuddered, rather convincingly I might add, because Lily looked even more distraught.
"We agreed not to talk about it," I said.
"Oh God," Lily repeated.
"Has he ever spoken to her since?"
"Spoken to her?" I replied, not pointing out that we were now, in fact, talking about it. "I'm amazed that he stayed at Hogwarts. He has enough trouble just being in the same room as her, I know that."
"Oh..." Lily moaned. "You have to help me."
"Sorry, with what?" Sirius asked, giving every impression that he had completely forgotten her presence.
"With Peter!" Lily said. "And James," she added, as an unconvincing afterthought.
"Oh," Sirius said, and sucked his breath in over his teeth. "Well..."
"Tricky," I said. "Very tricky."
"Dangerous, too."
"Not dangerous," I said quickly, seeing the glint in Sirius' eye that I recognised all too well as that of a diabolical plan forming.
"Embarrassing, any way," Sirius said, waving his hand as though the two were one and the same. "And not for our future Head Girl to worry about."
"How did you-"
"I'm a Black," Sirius said. "Even if I've left my beloved family behind, I still have my contacts."
"Slughorn?" Lily asked.
"Why yes," Sirius said, grinning toothily. "Your favourite teacher did happen to mention it at the last meeting of the Slug Club. I noticed that you weren't there."
"My parents don't want me travelling too far. Not at the moment. I'm only here today because it's less than half-an-hour from home."
A momentary pall fell over proceedings as we thought about the war gathering pace in the world around us. I knew that James was certainly planning on becoming involved as soon as he left school - and Sirius would follow him, lieutenant to captain, of that I had no doubt.
"Anyway," Sirius said, with a bark-like laugh that broke the spell. "Our esteemed Head Girl wouldn't be interested in apologising."
"No, I would," Lily said, earnest. "What would I have to do?"
I shot Sirius a warning look, but I may as well have tried to hold back the ocean with a Beater's bat for all the good it did.
"It's simple," Sirius said. "You have to go on a date with Wormtail."
"She what?" Harry demanded.
"It gets better," I replied, waving him back into his seat. Hermione, I realised, had joined us as well.
"Sirius," Harry said, "tried to set my mum up with... with..."
"Harry, please," I said. "At that time, Peter was seventeen years old and our friend, whatever he may have become later. Besides, he was about as big a fan of the idea as you are."
"What? No way!"
"Oh, come on, Wormtail. Take one for the team!"
"I don't want to!"
"Peter," Sirius said, sitting up and glaring at Peter in the dim moonlight. We were trying to sleep in one of the spare rooms in the Parkinson family home, but Sirius, as usual, was still full of energy.
"No, Sirius," Peter said, and he meant it.
"Why not?"
"Because James'll kill me," Peter said.
"No, I won't," James said listlessly.
"What?" Peter and Sirius said together.
"Prongs? What's up?" I asked.
"Let him go," James said, rolling over and turning his back on us. "Peter, have a good time."
The three of us stared in bewilderment at each other. James' attraction to Lily had been one of the worst-kept secrets at Hogwarts for several years at this point, and it certainly wasn't like your father to just give up like that.
"Just... Leave it, would you?" he said, and said no more that night.
It was an unusually subdued group who boarded the Hogwarts Express later that week. Even Sirius was relatively quiet, while Peter and James were almost black holes of noise, each lost in their own worlds and seemingly afflicting all those around them.
James and I left Sirius and Peter to go up to the Prefects carriage. James, with his shiny new Head Boy badge, and myself with my lion-head Prefects badge, walked in silence through the usual maelstrom that fills the Express every first of September. James was lost in thought, while I was merely waiting, anticipating his return to his usual voluble self at some point in the near future. James was never one to brood for long.
The Prefects meeting was torturous, as it is traditionally led by the new Head Boy and Head Girl, but it was clear that James had done no work, while Lily only appeared to have half the information needed. Evidently she had been relying on James to do the rest, and when she sat down I overheard her say to one of the Hufflepuff girls that she had owled James about what he had to do for his part. Evidently he hadn't replied. From the way in which he had ignored Lily throughout the meeting, I wondered if he had even bothered to read the letter. Certainly he was first on his feet once it was clear that she was not saying anything further, and with a hurried apology to Lily, I was hot on his heels.
"Prongs," I barked, as he stormed along the corridor, suddenly furious and radiating that anger outwards. The carriage lights flickered as he stopped and swung around, raising one finger to me in a gesture of warning.
"I don't want to hear it, Moony," he snapped. "I know I was acting like an arse in there."
"That wasn't what I was going to say," I replied. "Although you were, now I come to think of it."
"Ohhh... get lost, Moony. I don't want to hear about what a prat I was to Evans. I just wish I could get my hands on a Time Turner..."
"What? But she's right back there, Prongs. You can go and apologise, and-"
"Not that," James snapped, and the lights flickered again. "I wish I could go back to when I was thirteen and tell myself to not bother falling for her."
This brought me up short.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
He responded by grabbing me and pulling me into an empty compartment and shutting the blinds. We waited for a moment, before he tweaked one of the blinds away from the window just as Lily walked past, her features contorted into a ferocious scowl.
"Look at her, Moony," James said, his voice now soft and reflective. "Look at what I do to her. She doesn't deserve that."
"James..." I began, suddenly seeing what was happening.
"No, it's okay," he said. "I've tried to be a better person, Remus. I've cleaned up my act - I even got made Head Boy! But she just... She just... I can't think straight around her! She drives me crazy, and I drive her crazy. What sort of relationship could we ever have, Remus, if all we do is make each other mad?"
He dropped into a seat.
"She'll get on well with Peter, I reckon," he said. "He's pretty smart, sometimes. And he deserves someone like Lily. Not like me. What do I deserve?"
"Severus?" I replied, mildly. James looked at me in horror for a moment, before laughing slightly.
"All right, Moony. You've made your point. No more self-pity."
"That's not-"
"Come on," he said, standing up and forcing an imitation of his usual cheeriness upon his features. "Let's go and find the others."
"My dad gave up on my mum?"
"Yes, he did. Of course, giving up isn't the same as getting over."
A scowl was my silent reply.
I didn't have a clue how to talk to James out of giving up on Lily, not least because a part of me didn't wonder if he might have been right. But at the same time, I had to wonder how likely it was that James would be able to so easily switch off four years worth of attraction to Lily.
Under cover of the Welcoming Feast and James' distraction with his duties as Quidditch captain, I was able to fill Sirius and Peter in on what had happened.
Sirius pulled a face.
"We had a plan," he said. "First Hogsmeade weekend isn't until October, so we'd have had time to brew some Polyjuice."
"Don't you have some left over from last time?" I asked.
"Yeah, but it's still got Thaddeus Nott's hair in it. And he's left anyway, so it's useless."
"What were you going to use it for, anyway?"
"We were going to send Prongs off on the date with Lily in Peter's place," Sirius said. Peter nodded enthusiastically, apparently eager to be relieved of his terrible burden.
"But after an hour, James would turn back and he'd be stuck in Peter's clothes," I pointed out.
"I know, and we'll be nearby with the Cloak and a camera, so everyone wins," Sirius said, grinning. "But if you reckon it wouldn't work..."
"You know," I said, as I stared at James and Lily, pointedly ignoring one another. "You might have given me an idea. Let's talk about it tonight."
"What's tonight?"
I grinned. "Tonight I'm patrolling the corridors - and you two are coming with me."
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[sny-box color="fff"] In Case You Missed It....
Carmelo Anthony led the Knicks in scoring with a season high 45 points on 15-24 shooting with five rebounds and three assists. The 45 points is tied for the most scored in the NBA the season (James Harden, 45 vs. Detroit).
Jason Kidd scored 18 points on 6-9 shooting (6-8 from three) and broke a 97-97 tie with 24 seconds left with a three pointer plus a foul on Jerry Stackhouse (Missed the Free Throw). He also had six assists and six rebounds with zero turnovers.
Andray Blatche led the Nets in scoring with 23 points on 9-13 shooting from the field. Deron Williams had 18 points and Joe Johnson had 16 points. Williams was 1-6 from three, including missing the game tying three with two seconds remaining.
Anthony's 45 points was the most points ever scored in the short history of the Barclays Center
The Knicks outscored the Nets 84-67 the final three quarters of the game.
The Knicks shot 50% from three (14-28) while the Nets shot 22% (4-18)
The Knicks are now 11-2 this season against the Eastern Conference
The Knicks are now 8-5 on the road this season, 1-1 at the Barclays Center.
So before the game the Knicks in talking to the media, tried to give off a vibe that tonight is another game and, that it was no big deal. Well from what we all saw on the court, heard from the crowd and from the way this one ended, it was anything but just another game. As horrific as the first quarter was for the Knicks, that's how great it was for them at the end. Carmelo Anthony was a scoring machine, Jason Kidd laughed in the face of Father Time and J.R. Smith was gutsy for the Knicks tonight. Sometimes we over value certain wins during the season, but this one deserves its place right next to the Spurs and Heat wins this season for the Knicks.
Tonight, we start with the frontrunner for NBA MVP this season, Carmelo Anthony, when discussing this win for the Knicks. Melo in the game against Denver was the closer and once again he helped to slam the door against the Nets tonight. 45 points on 25 shots is a great ratio and shows just how effective he was. He drove the lane, hit the mid range jumper and was money from three hitting 5-7 from deep. He is a superstar in the league and tonight he showed why he has earned that status. When the Knicks were struggling early in this game, Melo stepped up, especially in the 2nd quarter where all 14 of his points in the quarter were key in getting them back in the game. Then you have to credit him for passing the ball late in the game when he saw the double team coming, setting up the ball movement that led to the game winning three from Jason Kidd.
Speaking of Jason Kidd, he had another brilliant game tonight. After missing the first game between these two teams, Kidd came up big shooting 6-8 from three including the one that proved to be the difference. The 18 points really seem like an added bonus when you consider he added six boards, six assists and didn't turn the ball over in 37 minutes. He struggled early in the game defensively trying to guard some much bigger and quicker guys on switches but that is a small price to pay for his brilliance on the offensive side of the ball. Tonight showed just how important Jason Kidd is to this team and all his teammates after the game did nothing but praise him for all that he brings to the table.
One of my favorite memories as a kid was the Larry Johnson four point play in the playoffs against the Pacers in 1999 and the game winner by Kidd brought back a lot of memories of that legendary play. (H/T once again to Jonah Kaner of The Knicks Wall)
J.R. Smith was a warrior tonight as he would not let Mike Woodson take him out of the game when his back had to be hurting a lot. His 16 points off the bench really were key, especially in the third quarter when the Nets looked like they could build another big lead and win. Raymond Felton struggled again as he was 3-12 (6-31 in two games at Barclays) for 8 points with seven assists but he also had seven turnovers. Kidd and Anthony were a combined 11-15 for three with Rasheed Wallace knocking down his two, three point attempts as well, which made all three of them 13-17 from deep. Tyson Chandler had a nice game but did not establish himself like in other games recently, which was surprising considering Brook Lopez was out.
The Nets did a great job of taking advantage of all the switching the Knicks did create mismatches and dominated the paint all night long, especially since they were without Brook Lopez. The first quarter they played was a textbook way to take advantage of the Knicks lack of energy and they played like their lives depended on this game. That being said, the Knicks really shut them down in the fourth and the lack of three point shooting from the Nets really hurt them in the end. Blatche and Evans were great in this game and did a nice job stepping up in the absence of Lopez. But this is a tough one for them to bounce back from as blowing a 17 point lead at home is rough, especially against the team they are trying to overtake in this city.
The Knicks had to battle for pretty much the entire game after a horrible start to get this win, but what a win it was. The fact that the three Kidd hit to win it gave the Knicks their biggest lead of the game says it all about how hard this comeback was. They now have another day off before beginning a six game home stand which includes a couple of reunions that should do wonders for Carmelo's intensity. At the end of the day, the Knicks earned this win tonight and we may look back at this night as the one where a budding rivalry started to bloom.
Coming up next, the Knicks are back at the Garden looking to stay undefeated at home and start a week of reunions as they take on Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and former coach Mike D'antoni and the Los Angeles Lakers. The game will begin at 8:00 pm on Thursday and will be shown on TNT.

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Improve the Bean-Validation Integration
Basic Information
Basic information about the setup is available here.
ExtVal Annotations for BV
ExtVal r3+
Mapping to custom implementations is not supported. However, since there is a generic implementation behind the scenes (ExtValBeanValidationContext) it's easy to implement an add-on which provides independent annotations or tags. The add-on just has to use the information provided by such custom implementations and add the information to the context. So you can use your own annotations and outside of the add-on you don't introduce a direct dependency to ExtVal.
ExtVal r4+
Annotations of ExtVal r3
Mapping to custom implementations is supported (to get rid of import statements of ExtVal classes).
Payload for BV
ExtVal r3+
ViolationSeverity.Error (blocking violation)
ViolationSeverity.Fatal (blocking violation)
Mapping to custom implementations is supported (to get rid of import statements of ExtVal classes).
JSF Messages
It's not nice to have messages in different places. Instead of tweaking BV itself, ExtVal provides a mechanism to resolve the message from a different location. By default BV just knows the bundle: ValidationMessages in the root package.
However, since we are in a JSF application you might already have a message bundle for your messages.
<application> <resource-bundle> <base-name>org.apache.myfaces.demo.app_messages</base-name> <var>app_messages</var> </resource-bundle> </application>
To join these messages for your BV violation messages you just have to use the following code in a custom extval-startup listener:
StaticInMemoryConfiguration config = new StaticInMemoryConfiguration(); config.addMapping(BeanValidationVirtualValidationStrategy.class.getName(), JsfAwareMessageResolver.class.getName()); ExtValContext.getContext().addStaticConfiguration(StaticConfigurationNames.VALIDATION_STRATEGY_TO_MESSAGE_RESOLVER_CONFIG, config);
The implementation of the message resolver is quite easy:
import org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.validation.message.resolver.DefaultValidationErrorMessageResolver; public class JsfAwareMessageResolver extends DefaultValidationErrorMessageResolver{ public ApplicationMessageBundleAwareMessageResolver() { setMessageBundleVarName("messages"); } }
... as alternative for using the fully qualified resource-bundle you can also use the method setMessageBundleBaseName.
As alternative for an easier configuration, you can use one of the config add-ons e.g. provided by os890.
Hint: You don't have to add a placeholder for the label. It's done automatically. To change the default label/message template use the mechanism specified by JSF 2 (also in JSF 1.x applications) (see: javax.faces.validator.BeanValidator.MESSAGE and javax.faces.validator.BeanValidator.MESSAGE_detail)
BV Classes Only
If the sw-architecture of your application restricts the usage of ExtVal outside the View-Layer it's possible to map the default implementations to custom implementations. That means: The mapping takes place at startup (in the View-Layer) and in all classes outside the startup-listener you can use your custom implementations. Since ExtVal doesn't use classpath scanning you have to use the following implementations in a custom startup listener.
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Mapping Payload
Custom Severity Payload Implementations
StaticInMemoryConfiguration config = new StaticInMemoryConfiguration(); config.addMapping(ViolationSeverity.Info.class.getName(), org.mypackage.CustomViolationSeverity.Info.class.getName()); config.addMapping(ViolationSeverity.Warn.class.getName(), org.mypackage.CustomViolationSeverity.Warn.class.getName()); config.addMapping(ViolationSeverity.Fatal.class.getName(), org.mypackage.CustomViolationSeverity.Fatal.class.getName()); ExtValContext.getContext().addStaticConfiguration(VALIDATION_PARAMETER_CONFIG, config);
Custom DisableClientSideValidation Payload Implementation
StaticInMemoryConfiguration config = new StaticInMemoryConfiguration(); config.addMapping(DisableClientSideValidation.class.getName(), org.mypackage.CustomDisableClientSideValidation.class.getName()); ExtValContext.getContext().addStaticConfiguration(VALIDATION_PARAMETER_CONFIG, config);
Full Backward Compatibility
If you aren't using a special add-on which adds dynamic constraints, you can re-activate the support of the required attribute in combination with component initialization for mandatory fields. So it's possible to use the required attribute as well as constraints for mandatory fields + the support for required component initialization.
ExtValContext extValContext = ExtValContext.getContext(); extValContext.addGlobalProperty("mode:init:required", true); extValContext.addGlobalProperty("mode:reset:required", false);
Performance Tuning
If you would like to use ExtVal only for BV, you can tune ExtVal via the following steps:
If you don't like to implement plain ExtVal constraints, you can deregister the default validator via:
If you don't like to use JSR 303 based model validation, you can remove the phase listener.
JsfUtils.deregisterPhaseListener(new ModelValidationPhaseListener());
If you don't use further ExtVal add-ons which do some magic stuff, you can reset the renderer proxy via:
ExtValContext.getContext().addGlobalProperty(ExtValRendererProxy.KEY, null);
Since ExtVal v4+
If you don't need the mapped constraint source feature, you can deregister the validator via:
Deactivate Special Behaviours
Deactivate @NotNull validation
If you don't like to use @NotNull for mandatory input fields, you can use:
<context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.INTERPRET_EMPTY_STRING_SUBMITTED_VALUES_AS_NULL</param-name> <param-value>false</param-value> </context-param>
Deactivate Parts of ExtVal
There are a lot of possibilities for fine grained customization and deactivation.
This section just covers how to deactivate the building blocks just for testing in development mode.
Deactivate All Parts
Due to the required mojarra support there is just a vm-parameter to completely deactivate all ExtVal modules.
Deactivate the Core
The core automatically registers 2 classes ExtValStartupListener and ExtValRenderKitFactory.
For deactivating only the ExtVal artifacts registered by the core you can use:
<context-param> <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.core.startup.ExtValStartupListener:DEACTIVATED</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param>
For a complete core deactivation you also have to use:
<context-param> <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.DEACTIVATE_RENDER_KIT_FACTORY</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param>
If you are using mojarra you have to use the vm-parameter:
Deactivate the Bean-Validation Integration
If you added the BV validation module of ExtVal to your classpath and you would like to deactivate it for some test purposes you don't have to remove it - just use:
<context-param> <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.extensions.validator.beanval.startup.BeanValidationStartupListener:DEACTIVATED</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param>
Deactivate your ExtVal-Startup-Listener
As you see the syntax is always the same. Just use the fully qualified class name of your startup-listener + :DEACTIVATED as postfix.


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Difference in terminology. The point is the same - the all-star team should be the best players in the tournament in terms of their performance and the effect they had on the games they played in, relative to all the other players. Totti played in a better and more successful team than many other people in the World Cup, but he didn't have a particularly good tournament by any means, and as such shouldn't have been in the all-star team.Originally Posted by steds
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Cannavaro gets my vote, followed by Pirlo, would have been Zidane were it not for his idiotic performance this evening.
Pity vote from me.
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well it is zidane, like it or not....
Zidane was the correct choice, in my view. He was the best player, and without him it's exceedingly unlikely that France would have made the final.
Maybe it's a cultural thing related to Australian sport, but I don't see how you could possibly fail to give the "best player" award to someone just because they headbutted someone in the last 5 minutes of the tournament. Doesn't have any impact on how he played for the rest of the tournament at all.
Mind you, the award was given out at half time it seems, so the headbutt wouldn't even have happened yet.
One can raise the same point with Cannavaro.Originally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
Italy had no hope of winning without him especially with Nesta already injured.
I'm afraid I dont quite understand what your saying there, Fuller. Should he have got the award even after he headbutted or not?.Originally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
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Anyway, yes.
I did see that Blatter is reported as saying he might be stripped of the award in disgrace.
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If France would have won then I would have agreed but 2nd place is still only 2nd place and Zidanes actions could have been the difference between winning and losing the WC.Originally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
He lost his head and may have lost his team the game in the only match that really counts. His performance in the big important game meant there is no way he should have won it.
Maybe next time they will not give the trophy out at 1/2 time
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Josh McCown's brother, Luke, his former teammate and current NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner and his former GM Jerry Angelo explain what it takes to succeed in the starting role Monday night against the Packers, and why Josh McCown can get it done.
Step 1: Don't try to do too much
Luke McCown: "For backups that don't play week in and week out, when we get an opportunity to play, sometimes you try and do too much. In this case, just trust the coaches, the game plan and play in the system and let the game come to you."
Jerry Angelo: "Josh didn't do anything that he couldn't do. A lot of times, you'll see a backup quarterback come in and he'll do things that really he can't do. For whatever reason, things can go south real quick. Josh wasn't like that. He wasn't going to lose the game. There's a lot to be said for that."
Step 2: Know the offense and communicate it well with the staff and players
McCown: "I would say trust the offense, go through your progressions and let your feet tell you where and when to throw the ball. As long as they match up with your eyes and the progression, you'll be fine."
Kurt Warner: "Have lots of conversations with the play-callers, so the coaches who haven't seen you play a lot or haven't had a chance to have that dialogue with you get a true sense of who you are. When that play is called in the huddle, now you feel very comfortable going out and executing that instead of them calling something that worked for another quarterback and expecting you to kind of fit in the same way."
Why Josh can do it 1: "infectious personality"
McCown: "His ability to connect with anybody from any background, any walk of life, is a gift of his. That, probably as much as anything, as much as his preparation and his ability to play, that ability to connect with the teammates that he doesn't get to practice with every day, a situation like this, will allow him to be successful."
Warner: "He's a great locker room guy. He gets along with a lot of guys, great rapport, a veteran guy that stays kind of in the mix and is always talking to the guys, always talking to Jay, always talking to other players."
Angelo: "If you're around Josh, he's a great guy, he's a team player, he brings a lot of energy, not only in terms of how he approaches the game but vocally. He's got an infectious personality, and I'm sure the players have felt that throughout."
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Warner: "People may not know, he's a tremendous athlete. He's a guy who's got a big arm, but he's also very, very athletic. He's a guy that can make plays with his feet and give you some plays that way that not everybody in this league can do."
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work is apparently not respected and communication from the organisers is not forthcoming. I wonder if any of the other
winners have received either a prize or communication? Perhaps they could also contribute to this thread.
If AG remain quiet, then I would be contacting Canon and MIDE to point out this inaction from the competition organiser.
I'd also follow their advice to "Feel free to comment this article and share it on your facebook wall."
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As a 1st prizewinner of UW3some I'm also waiting for my prize.
The last mail they sent me was on the 2rd of august as you can see below:
On behalf of the UnderWater3Some team, we sincerely apologise on delay of your prize after the Through The Lens (TTL) competition.
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it's great to read that you have received some notification and a reason for the delay from uw3some. Hope it's not just obfuscation from them
though and that you all receive your prizes promptly. Wonder if the other winners have been informed by uw3some that they won and when
they might receive their prizes.
Thanks for posting and please keep us all informed of any further developments or delays.
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After all, it's not the paper that makes the content better, it's the content itself. Case in point, Yankee beat reporter Pete Abraham's blog is religiously read by hordes of Yankee fans. If, for some reason, The Journal News were to shut down, surely Pete would be able to find an audience to support him on his own. Granted, the Yankees would have to have the foresight to continue to give him press credentials. That said, large market teams like the Yankees and Red Sox are not likely to be the first victims to lose their writers. However, even in small markets, the MLB franchises themselves benefit immensely from well-written articles about their organizations. Mark Cuban pointed out last year that it is in the best interest of sports teams to keep the local coverage of their teams alive, since without it, their fans lose a vital connection to their teams. Cuban goes so far as to suggest that the teams form a "beatwriter co-operative" to fund coverage of their teams. Journalism purists may scoff at such a notion, fearing that funded reporters become merely corporate shills. But, in this era of growing transparency, anyone with a computer can easily point out if an emperor wears no clothes, so any reporter, whether on the MLB payroll or not, would think twice before squandering their hard-earned reputation on a questionable story.
That said, the costs of covering a baseball team should be plummeting. Baseball bloggers do a fine job of covering games by watching them on TV. Want an inside perspective on the game? More and more players are getting on twitter. Heck, sabermetric analysis of baseball games, popularized by Moneyball, does not even require that you ever go to a game (although, you're missing a lot if you don't). So, yes, even you can be a baseball writer, and perhaps that is what the BBWAA is really scared of.


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Roger That's scorecard could have been perfect, if the Sydney sports boat's brand new little sister Scooter Central, a Melges 20 skippered by Heath Walters, had not surged home with good wind pressure on the final run of today's last race to claim corrected time victory.
With Cameron Miles at the helm, and co-owners James Mayjor and John Bacon crewing along with Craig Pocklington, Roger That continued its strong form of the first day, while being pushed closely at times by the Victorian Thompson 7 Foam Fast.
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Longtime Siskiyou County resident, Winifred Jean Craig, 78, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 26, 2013, following a long illness.
Longtime Siskiyou County resident, Winifred Jean Craig, 78, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 26, 2013, following a long illness.
She was born to Russell and Helen Ford in Santa Ana, Calif., on Oct. 12, 1935. She married her true love, Donald DeMel Craig in 1958, and together they raised seven children. They lived several places before settling in Siskiyou County in 1984. She touched the lives of many people here before moving to Crescent City, Calif., following the death of her husband in 2010.
Children were the focus of her life, especially those who were less fortunate. Many years she was known to have provided Christmas for those who would otherwise have gone without. She was very talented and loved to knit and crochet, especially blankets, toys and Christmas ornaments. We will always treasure her creations.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Linda Holden of Redding, Calif., Donel and Rick Knowles of Carson City, Nev., and Roberta and Dale Wells of Crescent City, Calif.; and sons and daughters-in-law, Gilbert and Faye Reese of Riverside, Calif., Donald R. Craig of Yreka, and Kenneth and Vickie Craig of Yreka. She also had 22 grandchildren and numerous great- and great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald DeMel Craig, and her son, Ronald Dean Craig.
A memorial service will be planned for a later date.


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The U.S. Grains Council's 2011 Japan Corn Outlook Conference brought together an "A-list" of customers from Japan's feed, starch, and snack companies for the latest updates on U.S. corn quality, availability, planting and production.
"Customers told us this conference is their major source of information on U.S. corn," reported Tommy Hamamoto, USGC director in Japan.
While reviewing China's role in international corn markets, Rick Fruth, USGC past chairman and Ohio corn farmer, discussed the outlook for U.S. corn supplies to the nearly 250 attendees.
"The U.S. market has one clear advantage over all others," Fruth said. "We never close. U.S. corn exports flow to the world every day of the year." Fruth said he expects U.S. farmers to increase corn acres this year, predicting that plantings of 91 million acres with normal weather would increase the U.S. crop by 34.5 million metric tons (1.4 billion bushels).
Also on the conference program were Ross Korves, an economic policy expert with ProExporter Network who discussed world corn supply and demand; Steve Vanzant from the Ohio Corn Marketing Board who provided a grower perspective on the size and quality of the 2010 U.S. crop; and Jorge Morales from Frito-Lay who discussed corn dry milling and food products.
This conference produces in-depth exchanges with Japanese corn importers and end-users that maintain a U.S. market share at or above 90 percent of Japanese imports, according to Hamamoto. It is also a venue to discuss related issues like biotechnology and identity preservation.
Fruth, Vanzant and USGC staff also made personal visits to key Japanese officials and customers, including Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, the Japan Starch & Sweeteners Association, the Japan Corn Grits Association, and the Japan Snack & Cereal Food Association.
"This conference is the 'central pillar' in Council efforts to keep good faith with our largest customer," said Hamamoto. "(Attendees) expressed their expectation to the Council to keep them updated through quality reports and corn missions."


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The uniqueness of female physique is natural; they all want to look good, from the little girl in the kindergarten to an elderly lady. Looking pretty translates to feeling good, and having self-confidence. Likewise, being overweight can be quite harmful to a woman�s esteem, and it has never been easy dealing with that condition. One of the best ways to deal with unhealthy predicament is the use of the best fat burner for women to cut on weight.
Several weight loss remedies have been used for fat burning by both men and women, from exercise to drugs, to special diet. However, the most effective fat burners have the elements of high efficacy and safety margin. For exceptional results it is advisable to complement the best fat burner with the right diet plan and dedicated workout plan; otherwise, they will not be as effectively used alone, or supplemented.
Understanding fat burners and their purpose
A fat burner is a solution that has been carefully manufactured to aid in weight loss. It is supposed to do the following functions in a human body:
- To suppress appetite.
- To increase energy levels in an individual.
- To quicken body metabolic functions.
Today, the number of people fighting obesity and overweight conditions worldwide is alarming. Desperation has forced some of these people to resort to new solutions that are not only ineffective but are also extremely hazardous to human health. The real idea of losing weight safely is to burn excess fat and to increase the rate of metabolism to ensure that the body takes in only what is needed. Fat burners fit the bill because of their ability to assist in burning calories quickly without allowing the body system to absorb more.
By suppressing your appetite, hormones will be manipulated to send a message to the brain that you have eaten when you haven�t. You will rarely be hungry, and you can only take small amounts of food at infrequent intervals. This means that your body will make use of what is already inside the body, and won�t need more calories from outside to complete metabolism.
As all these are happening, fat burners supply your body with adequate energy so you may carry out your daily activities without the risk of running short.
Characteristics of the best fat burners for women
The popularity of fat burners has always been high since they were first discovered and passed to be effective. As you would expect, there are those manufacturers that take advantage of such situations to exploit people. Today there are several of them on the market, and it is difficult for an ordinary person to identify the best fat burner for women from a counterfeit brand. Hence, you should take care and purchase from credible health stores whether online or onsite.
It is advisable to look at the ingredients of any fat burner you come across, or else you might be purchasing another placebo. These components include safe and natural properties mentioned below.
- Green coffee bean for fat burning.
- Extracts of green coffee to assist in metabolism.
- Razberi-K which works as a fat-breaking agent.
- Caffeine for quickening the process of metabolism.
- Garcinia to prevent more production of fat.
Ingredients to Avoid in Fat Burners
As mentioned, not all fat burners you find in the market will give you exactly what you need. Some are known to use dangerous ingredients that are man-made, and can cause high blood pressure, insomnia, mood swings, migraines, and many other intolerable conditions. The ingredients to avoid include:
- DMAA (1.3-dimethylamylamine, methylhexanamine) � This is a notorious element that is associated with causing heart attack to users. It is currently banned for use in some parts of America, but there is a high risk of finding its way into the black market.
- DMAE or Dimethylamylamine � It causes muscle stretches, headaches, and insomnia when used.
- Ephedra �It causes cardiac-related complications, as well as damaging the nervous system in the long run.
- Synephrine � This is a bitter orange extract that is only considered safe when administered in small doses. Only 50mg daily should be taken without exceeding.
For safe use of fat burners, women should consult with their doctors to avoid causing other problems to their bodies. People with heart, kidney, and liver complications should not partake of fat burners without a physician�s nod, no matter how trusted the burner is.
How to Get the Most Out of the Fat Burner for Women
Fat burners were designed to complement rather than supplement a pristine diet and a proper training regimen. There is no point spending too much money on a suppressant that you cannot make the most out of, and that is why you should ensure that diet and working out are well sorted.
1. Take plenty of water � There is no room for dehydration in fat loss as water works to suppress appetite and create a fullness sensation. You will also need water to help in proper digestion and nutrient absorption that is the basis for fundamental health.
2. Be strict on your diet � You won�t expect a fat burner to get everything done for you without sacrificing a few things. There are those foods that naturally hinder fat burning as they tend to increase more of what is being removed. The first step towards fat loss is by addressing your feeding habits. If you are not sure which foods you should take, consult a nutritionist and ensure that you follow a strict diet program.
3. Exercise with Cardio � Physical training is vital in fat burning, but an addition of some aerobics can give you an advantage. Cardio works efficiently to make up for body calorie deficit which is just what you need for weight loss. Your gym instructor can help you combine low and high-intensity training methods that help in body composition and loss of weight.
4. Get enough sleep � Sleep is overly underrated when it comes to weight burning of body fat. The truth of the matter is, even the best fat burner will not work if your body does not get adequate sleep. Lack of sleep is a known recipe for weight increase because your body experiences high levels of testosterone drops and increased blood cortisol which inhibits weight loss. Eight hours of sleep should be the minimum for a healthy body.
5. Do not overuse fat burners � Your body gets accustomed and, as a result, becomes desensitized to some of the ingredients used in fat burners. It is appropriate to cycle your choice of fat burning product to avoid causing you high body levels of cortisol.
With all the knowledge of the best fat burner for women, there is no reason as to why your journey to safe and easy weight loss should not begin. The most important mindset is self-discipline; from how you work out, how you eat, how you treat your body, to how much dedication you put to your quest.


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June 26, 2013
Bangkok, Thailand/New York, N.Y. -- On June 12, results from an efficacy trial of tenofovir as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV infection in individuals with a self-reported history of injection drug use were published in the Lancet. The trial was sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and took place in Bangkok, Thailand (named the Bangkok Tenofovir Study). The publication was accompanied by a flurry of press releases and drew considerable news coverage due to the documentation of a statistically significant reduction in risk of HIV acquisition of 48.9%.
Not mentioned, however, were serious concerns about the conduct of the trial raised by several Thai community groups -- including the Thai Drug Users Network (TDN), the Thai National Network of People Living with HIV (TNP+), and the Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) -- and the disheartening unwillingness of the researchers to respond to those concerns:
Paisan Suwannawong, executive director of Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) and cofounder of Thai Drug User's Network (TDN), said:
While TTAG is glad for any evidence of reduced HIV transmission among people who inject drugs, this trial failed to promote basic ethical practices and patently ignored community concerns. In our opinion, the trial serves as a "worst practice" example of community engagement, failing to ensure participant access to a comprehensive prevention package in a placebo trial, and ignoring other issues we tried to raise to researchers at the outset.
Beyond these specific issues, the applicability of the trial results to real-world PrEP use by injection drug users is also rendered uncertain by the provision of financial reimbursement to trial participants for attending study visits and the high proportion of doses (>85%) administered under direct observation.
Moreover, the extent to which tenofovir protected against parenteral versus sexual exposure is unknown: no efficacy was seen during the first three years of the trial when reported needle use was highest, and the incidence rates between the study arms only bifurcated during the last four years as the total number of participants dwindled, and needle use and needle sharing declined to very low levels. In a commentary accompanying the paper in the Lancet, Salim Abdool Karim notes, "it is not possible to make definitive conclusions about the efficacy of daily tenofovir for the prevention of parenteral transmission of HIV from these data."
The results from the Bangkok Tenofovir Study add to the existing evidence that antiretrovirals can prevent HIV transmission, but are subject to many limitations. The trial could have been greatly improved if community engagement had taken place during the planning stages, rather than after approval of the protocol by regulatory bodies. The presentation of the trial to community advocates after the fact, when opportunities to alter the design were extremely limited, was widely viewed as an act of bad faith and set the stage for the unproductive dialogue that followed.
Future biomedical prevention trials need to heed the lessons of the Bangkok Tenofovir Study and ensure extensive community consultation and full respect for the rights of research participants.
Kaplan K. Chapter 4: The Thailand story. In: Oral tenofovir controversy II: voices from the field. Lagos: New HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Advocacy Society; 2009 July 22. p. 3641. Available from: www.nhvmas-ng.org/publication/TDF2.pdf. (Accessed 2013 June 12)
Jintarkanon S, Nakapiew S, Tienudom N, Suwannawong P, Wilson D. Unethical clinical trials in Thailand: a community response. Lancet. 2005 May 713;365(9471):16178. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66501-4. Available from: www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)66501-4/fulltext. (Accessed 2013 June 25)
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He was a boy whom Mrs. Hackit had pronounced stocky (a word that etymologically, in all probability, conveys some allusion to an instrument of punishment for the refractory).Eliot. Tommy was a saucy boy, impervious to all impressions of reverence, and excessively addicted to humming-tops and marbles, with which recreative resources he was in the habit of immoderately distending the pockets of his corduroys.Eliot. No one save an individual not in a condition to distinguish a hawk from a handsaw...Times. And an observer of Miss Tox's proceedings might have inferred so much without declaratory confirmation.Dickens. But it had its little inconveniences at other times, among which may be enumerated the occasional appearance of the river in the drawing-room, and the contemporaneous disappearance of the lawn and shrubbery.Dickens. They might be better employed in composing their quarrels and preparing a policy than in following the rather lugubrious occupations indicated by Mr. Asquith.Times. Or perhaps, from a presentiment of calves' brains, you refrain from any lacteal addition, and rasp your tongue with unmitigated bohea.Eliot. The rooks were cawing with many-voiced monotony, apparentlyby a remarkable approximation to human intelligencefinding great conversational resources in the change of weather.Eliot. I had been terribly shaken by my fall, and had subsequently, owing to the incision of the surgeon's lancet, been deprived of much of the vital fluid.Borrow. An elderly man stood near me, and a still more elderly female was holding a phial of very pungent salts to my olfactory organ.Borrow. The minister, honest man, was getting on his boots in the kitchen to see us home... Well, this preparation ministerial being finished, we stepped briskly out.Crockett. We have ourselves been reminded of the deficiencies of our femoral habiliments, and exhorted upon that score to fit ourselves more beseemingly.Scott.
When she had banged out the tune slowly, she began a different manner of 'Gettin' up Stairs', and did so with a fury and swiftness quite incredible. She spun up stairs; she whirled up stairs; she galloped up stairs; she rattled up stairs... Then Miss Wirt played the 'Gettin' up Stairs' with the most pathetic and ravishing solemnity... Miss Wirt's hands seemed to faint and wail and die in variations: again, and she went up with a savage clang and rush of trumpets, as if Miss Wirt was storming a breach.Thackeray. My mind was, to a certain extent, occupied with the marks on the teapot; it is true that the mournful idea strove hard with the marks on the teapot for the mastery in my mind, and at last the painful idea drove the marks of the teapot out.Borrow. The pastrycook is hard at work in the funereal room in Brook Street, and the very tall young men are busy looking on. One of the very tall young men already smells of sherry, and his eyes have a tendency to become fixed in his head, and to stare at objects without seeing them. The very tall young man is conscious of this failing in himself; and informs his comrade that it's his 'exciseman'. The very tall young man would say excitement, but his speech is hazy.Dickens. Busy is Mrs. Miff this morning at the church-door, beating and dusting the altar-cloth, the carpet and the cushions; and much has Mrs. Miff to say about the wedding they are going to have. Mrs. Miff is told that the new furniture and alterations in the house cost full five thousand pound, if they cost a penny; and Mrs. Miff has heard, upon the best authority, that the lady hasn't got a sixpence wherewithal to bless herself. Mrs. Miff remembers, likewise, as if it had happened yesterday, the first wife's funeral, and then the christening, and then the other funeral; and Mrs. Miff says, By-the-bye, she'll soap-and-water that 'ere tablet presently, against the company arrive.Dickens. Mr. Dombey was a grave sight, behind the decanters, in a state of dignity; and the East India Director was a forlorn sight, near the unoccupied end of the table, in a state of solitude; and the major was a military sight, relating stories of the Duke of York to six of the seven mild men (the ambitious one was utterly quenched); and the Bank Director was a lowly sight, making a plan of his little attempt at a pinery, with dessert knives, for a group of admirers; and Cousin Feenix was a thoughtful sight, as he smoothed his long wristbands and stealthily adjusted his wig.Dickens.
Phib Cook left her evening wash-tub and appeared at her door in soap-suds, a bonnet-poke, and general dampness.Eliot. Sir Charles, of course, rescues her from the clutches of the Italian, and they return together in triumph and a motor-car.Times. Miss Nipper ... shook her head and a tin-canister, and began unasked to make the tea.Dickens. And for the rest it is not hard to be a stoic in eight-syllable metre and a travelling-carriage.Lowell. But what the bare-legged men were doing baffled conjecture and the best glasses.E. F. Benson.
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Players from 2012 team move at limited pace
It has been mostly a plodding path for members of the 2012 Burlington Royals, who set numerous records and came within an out of securing the Appalachian League championship.
Many of the players from that team have been playing this spring for the Lexington Legends, a Kentucky-based club in the Class A South Atlantic League.
Only a couple of players from last year�s Burlington team made it to Wilmington Blue Rocks, who play out of Delaware and compete in the advanced Class A Carolina League. Both of those guys are no longer with that team � they�re with the Legends.
Second baseman Kenny Diekroeger began the season with Wilmington, so at least based on the organization�s minor-league ladder he started at the highest level this year among the 2012 Burlington players.
Diekroeger batted .206 in 33 games with Wilmington before he was reassigned to Lexington, where he batted .231 in his first 19 games with that club.
Outfielder Alex Hudak was assigned to the Wilmington team after spending time in extended spring training.
�I�m here because of an injury (to outfielders in the system) and trying to make the best of it,� Hudak said last weekend before a reassignment to the Lexington team. �There�s a lot of good players.�
Hudak posted a .202 batting average in 26 games with Wilmington. He looked at his stint with the Blue Rocks as an opportunity, saying it was important to display a continuous work ethic.
�You�re disappointed (when you�re in extended spring training) and it�s an opportunity to get better and try to impress the guys who evaluate you so you can be in a better situation,� he said.
▪ Injuries have struck a couple of players from the 2012 Burlington team, with first baseman Mark Threlkeld and catcher Cam Gallagher missing significant time after starting the season with Lexington. Both players recently returned to action after time rehabbing in extended spring training.
Gallagher homered in his second game back with the Legends. Threlkeld�s fifth game back in action came Friday night and he notched his first homer of the year in that game at Asheville.
Along with the 2012 Burlington standouts, the Legends have 2011 Burlington infielder Michael Antonio, who was a third-round draft selection in 2010.
▪ First baseman Murray Watts was recently released from the Kansas City organization.
Watts, whose 15 home runs in 2011 rank as the second-most in the Burlington�s Appalachian League history and the most for a Royals affiliate here, batted .172 without a home run in 16 games with Wilmington this season.
Watts then latched on with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League, though after 16 games with that club his rights were traded to the American Association�s El Paso Diablos and he joined that team a few days ago.