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TreePeople's Ecological Restoration Team to the Rescue
Forty-five-acre Coldwater Canyon Park is home to TreePeople's hilltop headquarters and the state-of-the-art Center for Community Forestry. Known to locals as a great hiking and dog-walking area, it's one of the city's valuable open spaces, and therefore home also to a myriad species of native plants and animals. As in other urban parks, though, its ecosystem is fragile and needs to be maintained.
TreePeople restores the park grounds with the help of a trained volunteer Ecological Restoration Team (ERT) that has evolved out of earlier teams of Americorps volunteers.… Read more >>
Keeping Memories of Trees Alive and Growing in L.A.
Did you grow up in Los Angeles? Can you remember what the streets and parks looked like when you were a small child? Is it hard to imagine what used to stand where a new mall or office building now looms?
For Josh, growth is measured by a pine tree in Van Nuys.
When Josh was in the first grade in the early 1980s, he went on a field trip to TreePeople with his class from the Open Magnet School. The memory was still vivid when he came to talk to us at our booth at an Earth Day event this year.… Read more >>
Fruit Trees Go Public
You'll have read about and possibly visited the public park orchard planted at Del Aire Park that opened last fall. It's a Los Angeles County Arts Commission-sponsored project of the artist group Fallen Fruit, famous locally for their neighborhood maps of fruit-bearing trees accessible in public rights of way and the "fruit jams" they hold in L.A. museums and galleries. Like artist Fritz Haeg's Edible Estates, the Del Aire Fruit Tree Park acquaints the neighborhood with the notion of growing food in front, where everyone can see it and, better, eat it.… Read more >>
Become a Citizen Arborist and Lead Your Community to Action
TreePeople's Citizen Arborist program is designed to train and produce a trusted network of community members who help keep our trees healthy and thriving. Certified Citizen Arborists are expert volunteers who support their neighborhoods in caring for their local trees. They are on the front lines of growing a healthy urban forest and improving the environment of Los Angeles. Peter Diep, who was recognized with TreePeople's Volunteer of the Year award, led his first street tree care event right after earning his official Citizen Arborist status in the fall of 2012.… Read more >>
Namaste, Girl-Karma!
If what goes around comes around, then the group Girl-Karma can expect major Earth Day kudos for its members' commitment to improving environmental health. Our wonderful volunteer Michelle Moy talked about her experience planting trees with TreePeople for the group's Karma in Action column. She wanted to share what she learned about the benefits of trees, in order to inspire other young women to be agents for change, in their city and for their planet.
Michelle learned, among other things, that people are as important to the health of the urban forest as trees are.… Read more >>
Planting Fruit Trees in Food Deserts
The USDA Economic Research Service publishes the Food Environment Atlas to document, county by county throughout the United States, the percentage of households with limited access to grocery stores—and therefore to adequate nutrition. The interactive map aims to provide a spatial overview of communities' abilities to access healthy food, but, so far, it doesn't allow users to drill down to the level of neighborhoods.
In Los Angeles County, known "food deserts" include areas of South L.A. and the Northeast San Fernando Valley.… Read more >>
Tiny Pests Pose Big Threats to Native Trees
You won't see it if you're not looking for it, but you'll know it was there. No bigger than a baby's fingernail, the gold-spotted oak borer (GSOB) can devastate a 300-year-old oak tree that has withstood storms and quakes and even the quick and astounding rise of urban pollution in the 20th century. But if individual trees were all that was at stake, the oak borer wouldn't pose such a threat. The truth is, this invasive pest could wipe out every native oak in California.… Read more >>
From the Battlefield to Farm Fields
America needs one million new farmers; returning war veterans need jobs.
Enter Ground Operations, the new documentary that follows vets who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan only to face a daunting transition back to civilian life. As filmmakers Dulanie Ellis and Raymond Singer show, organic food production is creating a restorative road home. Working with soil, plants, and animals, veterans de-escalate from the high velocity of combat in a revitalizing natural setting. "I realized I could be a nurturer instead of a destroyer, and that was a significant realization for me," says a Marine.… Read more >>
Human Help Needed to Restore Nature to the Angeles Forest
The devastating Station Fire of 2009 destroyed 160,000 acres of wilderness in the Angeles National Forest in the mountains surrounding Los Angeles—and fully 11,000 of those acres burned too deep in the soil for natural seed regeneration. So every season TreePeople and the U.S. Forest Service need lots of extra hands to help plant trees while the soil conditions and temperature are optimal.
We're in the third planting season with our partners at Forest Aid: Angeles. To meet our 2013 goal we must plant 5,000 more seedlings than last year—for a total of 15,000 new trees.… Read more >>
How TreePeople Catches Every Drop
Is Los Angeles a desert? Our city gets about 15 inches of rainfall annually, slightly more precipitation than, say, Missoula, Montana (though we have fewer days per year that are considered "wet"). Did you know this is enough to serve a fairly large population and irrigate its urban greenery?
But every time it rains an inch in the city of L.A., 3.8 billion gallons of runoff are sent to sea, sweeping trash, toxins, and bacteria into waterways and polluting our beaches and ocean.… Read more >>
Not your typical field trip: 500 students win a chance to replant the Angeles National Forest
Students from 10 Los Angeles area middle and high schools learned this week that they were winners of sponsored field trips to the Angeles National Forest to help restore fire-damaged areas of one of Los Angeles County's largest preserved open space.
The Facebook-based contest TreeByTree was a collaboration between TreePeople and Edison International. On a weekly basis, students from 17 schools posted photos of sustainability-minded projects they spearheaded, from recycling programs to tree plantings to converting a vintage VW Bug to electric.… Read more >>
Learn How to Get Your Landscape Really Green
You may have noticed that some years in Los Angeles County are wetter—or drier—than others. And in wet years you may also have noticed a lot of unfiltered water rushing off paved surfaces, into storm drains, and out to sea carrying whatever pollutants it washes over. So, not only are we losing water that could be captured for local use or returned to the ground for irrigation, we're failing to clean it up before it enters our waterways.
But did you know that even in times of drought, what little moisture falls from the sky can be harvested and put to use?… Read more >>
Like it or not, you DO make a difference
"You are never in neutral," TreePeople founder Andy Lipkis tells environmental leader Huey Johnson, in an interview about how we all affect the environment. "People say [to me], 'I love what you do because you show that people can make a difference.'" The truth is, people do make a difference, Andy says. And it comes in the form of every step we take, every penny we spend, in all the ways we move through the world.
Growing up in the 1960s in a severely polluted Los Angeles, Andy realized that we have to embrace the notion that even the smallest contribution—whether planting a single tree or shutting off the tap when you brush your teeth—does make a positive difference.… Read more >>
Check Off Your Unbucket List
Just when you thought you didn't need another to-do list in your life, Unbucket launches to encourage your list to grow. With Unbucket, you can to expand your to-do list in the direction of the things—outdoor activities, charitable causes, learning opportunities, intellectual pursuits—you're most passionate about.
Unbucket is an app for sharing lists of things to experience with the people you care about most. TreePeople compiled a list of Simple Steps to Grow a Greener City that invites you to make an immediate contribution to enhancing the urban forest by planting a new tree with your neighbors or getting the kids involved in setting up a rain barrel to catch runoff for irrigating your outdoor plants.… Read more >>
Grow a Food Forest in a Food Desert
The term "food desert" describes an urban community that lacks access to fresh, healthy food in local shops and grocery stores. These are regions in our city where, for various reasons, neighborhood retailers can't or don't stock produce and healthful alternatives to processed fast food.
In Inglewood's "100 Seeds of Change" initiative, residents have taken health matters into their own hands, growing fruits and vegetables themselves—and in temperate Los Angeles, they can turn even a small patch of earth into a food forest.… Read more >>
Vote for a local school's environmental initiatives and send students to the mountains to restore fire-damaged forest
Starting January 9, students from 17 Los Angeles area middle and high schools will compete in TreeByTree, a social media campaign to win a field trip to help restore fire-damaged wilderness. You can support them by logging on to Facebook over the next five weeks and voting as often as once a day for your favorite environmental initiatives these students are spearheading.
TreePeople and Southern California Edison (SCE) have partnered in creating TreeByTree to support environmental stewardship among local youth.… Read more >>
A Native Re-Greening for TreePeople's Cistern
Park operations director Jim Hardie calls it the "grasscrete circle"—also known as the TreePeople cistern, a 216,000-gallon underground storage tank, where we save rainwater filtered and collected from rooftops and the Parking Grove. The stored water irrigates TreePeople's grounds in the warm months. For the past four years, the circle has been planted with wildflowers, which look gorgeous but require regular weeding. Jim is excited about a low-maintenance alternative called purple needlegrass or Stipa pulchra or Nassala pulchra—the official state grass of California!… Read more >>
The Soil Solution
Soil is as vital to environmental health as the plants that grow in it. If you watched the latest Ken Burns documentary, The Dust Bowl, or if your forebears settled in California because they had to flee the ruined soil of the Midwest, then you know what Burns means by "the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history." It was a swift, government-encouraged depletion of previously fertile cropland, where nature and people had once cooperated fairly well.
Likewise, when we pave every patch of green in our cities, we undo the perfect systems that nature takes so long to create.… Read more >>


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Enrollment benefits don't end after the course is over. You also receive a lifetime membership with us and are able to come back and watch the training video as many times as you'd like. You can also recieve free one-on-one training if you visit one of our booths at one of the many gun shows we attend during the year. We are also available by phone for any handgun specific questions you may have.
All permits and licenses must be approved and issued by the state. Like all handgun training courses in Virginia, Virginia Gun Training does not have the authority to issue licenses or permits. Completing our training satisfies Virginia's training requirements for obtaining a Concealed Handgun Permit.

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Women in Politics: Who is Running 2016?
Thanks ROB BREZSNY for posting, And tx nymag.com for the article, thanks @annfriedman
"There are currently 27 women in the running for the U.S. Senate, and 216 are vying for U.S. House seats."
Whole excerpt of what Rob Brezsny had to say on FB which grabbed me –and I could not agree more :
"Nobody's saying much about all of the other women running for office right now.
There are currently 27 women in the running for the U.S. Senate, and 216 are vying for U.S. House seats. Plus six women running for governor. Not all of them will win their primaries to make it to the ballot in November. But there are hundreds of women campaigning right now. You're just not hearing much about them.
The silence is a shame, because in 2016 we could see a record-breaking number of women elected to the Senate. There are nine pro-choice Democratic women running for Senate this year, most of whom have a good shot at election.
Compare that to the supposedly watershed "Year of the Woman" in 1992, which only saw four women senators elected. And, this year, four of the nine contenders are women of color, which is huge because only two women of color have ever, in history, been elected to the Senate."


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Formed in 2008 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Tim Bruns and mandolin player Michael Morter, Denver, Colorado-based indie folk-rock outfit Churchill expanded to a sextet by the time of the group's 2009 live debut, fleshing out Bruns' rustic, Americana-tinged tales of love, life, and loss with cello, piano, bass, and drums. Churchill turned heads with their debut EP, which helped make them local favorites as well as emerging national talents, landing a prime slot at South by Southwest and garnering positive reviews both at home and at large that drew favorable comparisons to bands like the Avett Brothers and Band of Horses. The band's full-length studio debut, Happy Sad, arrived in 2011. ~ James Christopher Monger~ Rovi


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Today is an odd day for me and one I can only enjoy in the relative peace of the summer months when all the students are away on fieldwork and the folk at UCAS have stopped sending applications to us. I've spent the morning in a meeting with Dale Copely at the Fusiliers Museum in the Tower of London. The Fusiliers Museum have taken on one of our Museum Masters students (from 2010-2011) and are offering to take another, on a voluntary basis, during the 2011-2012 academic year. A large number of other London Museums, including the British Museum, V&A and the Museum of London also take on Masters students (and some undergrads) throughout the year. This means more meetings next week at the Florence Nightingale Museum, Horniman, Operating Theatre Museum and the London Fire Brigade Museum. These meetings are a pleasure, and a great chance to meet with a wide range of Museum Professionals: as well as satisfying my geeky love of all the wonderful London Museums!
My normal work, and in fact the way I will spend the rest of my day, includes a range of administrative tasks – reading and processing UCAS forms (come October), sorting fieldwork grant applications, creating statistical reports (spreadsheets / graphs) for entry and application figures, running open days and visiting schools as part of UCL's outreach programme. Today I'll be uploading and processing photographs from the Festival of British Archaeology Day held on Wednesday, photos from my visit to the Tower today (some of which may be used on the IoAs website www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology) and the continuation of my project to collect and collate photos from our large student body for use in the Institute's promotional material, on the Fieldwork Website and on the Twitter (@IoA_UCL_Friends) and Facebook accounts – both of which I am responsible for updating and maintaining.
This afternoon I also have meetings with our Faculty adviser Cristy, regarding the A-Level results day (just a few weeks away now), and a potential applicant for the Archaeology BA degree in 2012. It is 11 years since I did my undergraduate degree in Archaeology, a fact I always share with these applicants and every time I say it I hear the shock in my voice! These meetings with applicants always include a tour of the IoA culminating in a viewing of our 'Wolfson Archaeological Sciences' plaque with Harrison Ford's name on – a highlight of the tour for me (at the very least) and hopefully them as well. It will be a sad day for me and the IoA when the applicant hasn't heard of Indiana Jones.
I'm up to item number 105 on my to-do list (1-104 are satisfyingly ticked off – another advantage of the summer quiet!) – it reads 'Moodle' – it seems this afternoon will also be spent uploading handbooks / timetables and further information to the Moodle website – the job I put off the longest and usually the job that takes the least amount of time…well, let's hope so anyway! Sometimes I miss digging and the more practical aspects of Archaeology (not really so much this year with the horrific weather), and I do still get out in the field when I can, in fact I just bought myself a new 4" WHS trowel on my way back to the IoA today – just to be ready for anything…!
Charlotte Frearson, Institute of Archaeology UCL: Undergraduate Administrator / Fieldwork Administrator / Museum Placement Coordinator.


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10 Meter Products at CB World
10 Meter Radios are not CB Radios.
There are some big differences between 10 Meter Radios (10 Meter) and CB Radios (11 Meter).
- 10 Meter Radios are not designed to communicate with CB Radios.
- 10 Meter Radios are Amateur Radios, also known as Ham Radios.
- Unlike a CB Radio, you need to have a license to operate a 10 Meter Radio. The reason for this is because the 10 Meter Radios are allowed to have more wattage/power output than CB Radios. According to FCC regulations, CB radios are allowed a max output of 4 watts. Since the 10 Meter Band is intended for long range communication, more wattage is needed. The potentially very high power output (radio energy) of 10 Meter Radios can actually damage soft tissue and organs (similar to a microwave) so proper use is important! The FCC wants to make sure that 10 Meter Radio operators understand the importance of operating the equipment properly and following the rules. Her is a link to the FCC website that will provide you additional information: FCC website article
- Another important aspect of operating a 10 Meter Radio is that they don't want disruption of other important communications. With their high power output, 10 Meter Radios can overpower CB transmissions and other important local communications.
- Both 10 Meter and 11 Meter (CB) operate on AM but within different frequencies. The 10 Meter Band consists of frequencies stretching from 28.000 to 29.700 MHz and the 11 Meter Band (CB) is 26.965 to 27.405 MHz. Since they are on different frequencies, 10 meters do not talk with 11 meter radios unless they are modified, which is illegal. This means that you can still use a standard CB antenna- just be sure to get an antenna that has a power rating that will handle the power output of your 10 meter radio.
- Out of the box, you will not get Channel 19 with a 10 Meter Radio.
- CB Radios operate on the 11 Meter Band around 27 MHz with 40 channels. Unlike the 10 Meter Band, access to these frequencies are unrestricted by the FCC, hence the name "Citizen's Band". Just keep in mind that, even for CB Radios, the FCC requires users to follow certain codes of conduct and equipment restrictions.
- Many of them have a band selector knob. There is a 40 channel bank per band.
- We also offer 10 meter transmitters. 10 meter transmitters are not necessary. They are amplifiers. For example, if you have a 45 watt 10 meter radio and pair that radio with a DX350 10 Meter Transmitter, it will increase your power output to 350 watts. You can run both a 10 meter radio and a CB radio in the same vehicle but we recommend having different antenna systems for each radio since your antennas will need to be tuned specifically for the different frequency bands. Most standard antennas will cover both the CB and 10 Meter bands (like the Wilson 2000 antennas), however, some antennas are specifically designed for 10 Meter. Check out the Firestik TM3. There could possibly be interference if you run both radios at the same time. To negate that, keep the CB antenna/s and 10 meter antenna/s as far apart from each other as possible.
- Lastly, please note our return policies regarding 10 Meter Radios!
- HAM Study Guide by Signal Staff.


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IGRAs are increasingly being considered for the diagnosis of LTBI, as a replacement to the TST, including travel medicine. As with the TST, many uncertainties remain with regard to the efficacy of the IGRAs. It is therefore essential to secure an accurate understanding of these assays' known efficacy, so that they be optimally used and only in context with proven effect.


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Saddle River Capital Management recently launched a service to help clients with assets in multiple countries comply with the various tax laws they're subject to.
"The issue for many expatriates, whether they be Australians like me or foreigners living in the United States on an H-1B visa or visiting executives, is that often they don't realize they need to comply and provide information for the U.S. tax return," John Kimber, an advisor with Saddle River, told ThinkAdvisor.
Saddle River is not a tax advisor, but helps facilitate the process of filing taxes in multiple jurisdictions.
The firm begins by taking account of all of a client's international assets "so we can do the asset allocation study, whether it be for property, securities, cash or bonds in more than one jurisdiction," Kimber said. "Often if a client if dealing only with a U.S. advisor, many of those international assets get lost in the mix."
He referred to one of his clients who is filing taxes in three or four different tax domiciles. "He worked in three or four countries during that year. Nobody wanted to coordinate this and he was in a situation where his home-base accountant in the United States could not do his foreign tax returns, and his foreign accountant could not do his U.S. tax returns," Kimber said. "Worse than that, none of them seemed to be able to know what the ramifications were of dealing in more than one jurisdiction."
That's an extreme case, he acknowledged, but it's not uncommon for people to be unaware of where they're paying taxes.
"Generally speaking, if you've been in a country for more than six months, that's where you're going to file your tax return, but you got to avoid also paying taxes in your home country," he said.
Even working between just two tax domiciles can be difficult. "The differences between countries can be quite distinct," Kimber said. There are many tax concessions in the United States that aren't available in the other countries. "For example, anybody coming from England and working in the United States would not be familiar with things like the 401(k). They would not be familiar with the tax deductibility of interest on a family home. They would not be conversant with 529 plans or Coverdell plans. They would not be familiar with estate taxes in the United States. There are a number of differences and unless they are made aware of these, they can make some terrible mistakes when they start work."
Dick Wolfe, founder and managing partner at Saddle River, illustrated another difficulty for expat investors. "We had someone from England who was working in the United States for a couple of companies — he worked for Google then moved to another company," Wolfe said. "I managed his 401(k) rollover and also his rollover to the other company because he went back to England. One of the problems was that we had everything held with Fidelity and they said they would not hold his account because he has a British address. So he had to either withdraw the money, taking the 10% penalty because he's under 59 ½ years old plus the ordinary income taxes on the entire withdrawal, or we had to find someone who would hold his account."
Saddle River found Interactive Brokers, an online brokerage firm, to hold accounts with any address, Wolfe said, as well as in any currency.
Just keeping track of all the moving parts presents its own problem. "It does require time and effort to be able to collect the documents, put them in one place and have both sides understand what has been done, what tax has been paid and what the liability is," Kimber said.
Competent accountants who can do that for you are expensive, he added. "We can often save a client a lot of money in terms of tax filing by taking care of the documentation, by providing the accountants with the information that they require in a form that they can use and then, especially, being able to consolidate assets into one account."
Kimber stressed that the goal of Saddle River's service is not to hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service.
"We're in no way, shape or form trying to create a situation where they're not going to pay taxes," he said. "One of the services we provide is to be able to show these people what they have to do to comply. This is not something anybody should be afraid of. There are perfectly adequate laws available to protect people's assets and to be able to take advantage of tax concessions."
Wolfe agreed, adding, "They just have to be aware of them, that's all."
Check out IRS Tweaks Offshore Account Rules to Prod Tax Cheats to Pay Up on ThinkAdvisor.


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Monthly Archive for Nov 2012
Timebanking UK Conference 2012
You can now book your tickets to the Timebanking UK Conference. The event is free and promises to be a great opportunity to learn, share, network and of course have fun!
Guest Speaker: Edgar Cahn
The day event will consist of workshops, discussion and our Timebanking marketplace. This is your opportunity to showcase your time bank and perhaps sell items members have made (just in time for Christmas!). Get in touch to book a stall. Click here.
After a short break, the evening event will commence at 6pm and will include food and music. The ticket price is £6. Tam Cassidy will be performing but we are looking for other performers too. Do you have a talented musician or band in your time bank who would like to take part in the entertainment? If so get in touch to ensure we can book a slot.Click here
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If you've been reading ballplayer-turned-martial-arts-asskicker Jose Canseco's Twitter posts (and of course you have), you already know he's been heartsick over a woman. And you now know he's seriously pissed off with used-car giant CarMax. Canseco's been Android tweeting from Burbank today, damning the used-car giant with lines like "Car Max is a scam."
It appears Canseco's problem with CarMax revolves around a trade-in, but we don't know what kind of car he was trying to trade in. An employee of the Burbank CarMax store confirmed he had been on the premises, and speaking with sales consultants earlier today. Clearly, it didn't end well with Mr. Canseco, who was already having a bad month.
CarMax has since been desperately reaching out to Jose Canseco via Twitter to call their customer relations line.
As you can see from the shot above, during Canseco's match with Choi Hong-man at first Round of Super Hulk Tournament during Dream.9 at Yokohama Arena, the dude can do some damage. Perhaps he also just applied his roundhouse to CarMax's reputation.
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Model 'Inclusive' STEM High Schools Share Common Traits, Researchers Say
The recent proliferation of open-enrollment STEM high schools has been a "bolt of lightning" to the field of K-12 science, technology, engineering and math education, researchers say, but more study is needed on what makes such schools effective.
"All of a sudden, here is an education intervention aimed at kids of color and low-socioeconomic-status kids that isn't trying remediate them, but is giving them an opportunity to take rigorous STEM courses and everything that goes along with that," said Sharon Lynch, an education professor at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. "But there isn't much research on these schools, so we're trying to understand what the successful ones are doing."
Along with colleagues from George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., and Princeton, N.J.-based research nonprofit SRI International, Lynch presented recent research on what she dubbed "Inclusive STEM High Schools," or ISHSs, last week at the national conference of the American Educational Research Association, held in Philadelphia. Prior to the conference, I caught up with the academics by phone.
Their research includes case studies of eight "exemplary" open-enrollment STEM high schools—both charter and district-managed—around the country.
Those schools, Lynch said, have ten "critical components" that should serve as the basis for guiding the design, implementation, and evaluation of other such schools —which the researchers said are becoming increasingly popular, with dozens or possibly hundreds of ISHSs coming online in recent years.
"Anybody can call themselves a STEM school," Lynch said, but living up to the term involves "more than just putting a banner out."
The 10 critical components of effective, inclusive STEM high schools identified by the researchers:
- STEM-focused curriculum
- Instructional strategies focused on project-based learning
- Integrated, innovative technology use that can "flatten hierarchies" between students and teachers
- Blended formal and information learning beyond the typical school day, week or year, which might include apprenticeships, mentoring, and after-school clubs
- Real-world STEM partnerships that connect students to the work world
- Early college-level coursework
- Well-prepared STEM teaching staff
- Inclusive STEM mission
- Administrative structure that is flexible and nimble, and
- Support for underrepresented students, which might include bridge and tutoring programs or an extended school day and year.
In their recent paper, published in the academic journal Theory Into Practice, the researchers say that recent data from the National Science Foundation (which also funded their case studies) indicated that "traditional science domains of biology, chemistry and physics remained entrenched as siloed disciplines in the majority of American high schools" and that "direct whole-class instruction by the teacher was the most commonly reported strategy in high schools."
Effective open-enrollment STEM high schools, they say, take a different approach, focusing on mastery- or competency-based learning requirements instead of student seat time and teaching "students to be consumers of reliable digital resources" rather than relying on textbooks. Collaborative group projects are also a "hallmark" of effective ISHSs, the researchers found.
On the administrative side, the researchers found, the schools in their case studies had "transformational" leaders who "fostered close relationships between staff and students characterized by mutual and trust and respect." Just as important, they said, the schools has "wide latitude and support from the district [central office] or [charter] management organization to champion innovation."
And when it comes to providing student supports, effective open-enrollment STEM high schools evidence a "commitment to the success of diverse learners, advisories, data management systems, and tutoring," as well as intensive college and career counseling. A family atmosphere focused on understanding and addressing students' personal and financial challenges is also key, they said.
"Historically, STEM high schools are for elite students," said report author Erin Peters-Burton, an assistant professor of science education at George Mason University. "These schools will take everyone, and the exemplars are doing a good job of providing systemic supports."
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Growing up in Aroostook County, I learned how essential Maine agriculture is to our state's economy and to our communities. I was reminded of this when I recently attended the 2nd Annual Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor. I was impressed by the energy, initiative, and entrepreneurial spirit that are making Maine's small farms a true growth industry.
According to the federal Department of Agriculture, the number of small farms in Maine doubled between 2002 and 2007. Of the nearly 1,000 new farms started during that period, roughly 700 were less than 50 acres in size. Many of our new farmers are in their 40s and 50s, choosing the farming lifestyle after other careers.
The increasing scope of the bounty produced by Maine farms is remarkable, from fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, and dairy products to craft beer and wine, gourmet condiments, and beautiful fabrics of alpaca and wool. And every product contains that special "Made in Maine" quality.
Maine farmers also are demonstrating exceptional marketing skills. Direct sales to consumers through farmers' markets, community-supported agriculture organizations, and farm stands have increased by nearly two-thirds in the last decade. All of Maine's large supermarkets currently sell and actively promote Maine agriculture products. In 1995, Maine had but eight cheese makers and no yogurt producers. Today, those numbers are 57, 71, and 43, respectively.
In the Senate, I worked for policies that advance agriculture and that support family farms. I have long supported research that has, for example, revealed significant health and nutritional benefits of Maine wild blueberries. Last year, I led a successful bipartisan effort to block a proposed federal rule that would have severely curtailed serving the nutritious and affordable white potato in the school lunch program and banned the potato altogether in the school breakfast program. This June, I supported the Senate Farm Bill that eliminates wasteful direct payments, streamlines programs to save $23 billion during the next decade, and supports fruit and vegetable programs as well as local and organic food initiatives.
Pineland Farms, a creamery based in New Gloucester, exemplifies the kind of success stories being written here in Maine. Pineland's award-winning cheeses have long been known throughout New England for using fresh, local ingredients with skill and pride.
Now, these outstanding products are gaining a national reputation. About a year ago, I met with Pineland managers and suggested that they explore contracting opportunities with the federal government. My office then facilitated a meeting between the company and officials from the Defense Commissary Agency, which administers the retail stores that serve our active duty and retired military personnel and their families.
From that start, Pineland Farms crafted a trial sales program in 24 military commissaries in the Northeast early this year. Recently, it was announced that the trial was very successful and has lead to the distribution of Pineland products in nine additional commissaries throughout the nation. It is exciting to know that the men and women who serve our country will be able to enjoy the best of Maine. This contract not only helps support good jobs in Maine, but also helps provide a gateway for other Maine products to enter the federal marketplace.
When we support our local farms, we do more than support local businesses. We enhance the security of a safe and healthy food supply, keep our hard-earned grocery dollars in state, and protect our environment by preserving open space. Maine farmers are an important part of our state's history and of our future.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins
Saving family farms is essential
Growing up in Aroostook County, I learned how essential Maine agriculture is to our state's economy and to our communities. I was reminded of this when I recently attended the 2nd Annual Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor. I was impressed by the energy, initiative, and entrepreneurial spirit that are making Maine's small farms a true growth industry.


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I yawned, twisting my neck to survey Delphine in the desk to my right. She was dependably asleep, her chin propped in one hand and her Charms textbook settled in front of her face as a barrier. Her efforts at discretion failed, however, since she was snoring softly and a bit of drool was dribbling from her twitching mouth. A fly looped twice around her head, landing on a yellow ribbon that tied one of her pigtails. I watched it trot across her hair, over her cheek…aiming right toward her open mouth.
"Huh? What?" Delphine bolted upright, bloodshot eyes snapping open. She blinked and rubbed them behind her glasses, and finally seemed to realize where she was. Her hands shielded a sheet of parchment that she had placed there on the pretense of taking notes; it was littered with elaborate hearts and the words Gilderoy Lockhart, as well as Harry James Potter a few times. I wondered how difficult the charm to animate her doodles would be. 'You are invited to the wedding of Harry and Delphine Potter' would look terrific on a little banner that disappeared and reappeared. "What?" she repeated blearily.
"You were asleep."
"Oh. Right."
She shifted her book just a centimeter to the side to block Professor Flitwick from view, and closed her eyes again. I turned my attentions back to the window where I had been gazing before, allowing Flitwick's cheerful drone to pass over my head like the warm breeze outside.
It was nothing short of amazing that Delphine could fall asleep in the middle of class, what with her incessant worries that she would be the next victim from the attacks. There were rumors about a secret chamber in the school, and that one of the students was running around wearing a mask of the Muggle prime minister, cursing people into oblivion. After Justin Finch-Fletchley (someone Delphine had been prone to admiring in the common room every evening) was attacked, she became convinced (and more than a little paranoid) that the "masked lunatic" would come back for someone else from our House.
"It's only a matter of time," she had informed me wisely. "And if you want my opinion, it's that friend of Harry's with the big teeth. Everyone knows she's clever enough to get away with it."
I sighed again, wishing we could have a lesson outside in the sun like we had been nagging him about for ages. Flitwick always said, "Perhaps next lesson," but it never materialized. I was beginning to suspect that we would never be able to convince him, as he always skirted around the topic with, "It's a touch too hot out," or, "It's just a touch too cold. I think we're better off in here."
I could just imagine practicing Charms by the Black Lake, stretching out on the grass. It would be so comfortable and sunny, even if the weather was still slightly too cool…
I sprang to my senses, startled. Cho Chang was hanging halfway across the aisle, tapping my arm with her quill.
"There was a fly on your mouth," she whispered loudly.
I smacked at my face with both hands, and she struggled not to laugh. "It's already gone."
"Thanks," I muttered, burying my face in the cool surface of my desk. I could see tiny grooves of years and years of quills scribbling away over that desk, leaving indentations of words. In the top left-hand corner, I could clearly make out my own name – Hollis Wright – living proof that I had suffered through horrendous amounts of homework. Several inches down, there was the incantation for the Imperturbable Charm layered over decades of various other scratchings. My grandmother very well could have contributed to some of it, and her grandfather before her.
We Wrights were dwindling in our magical bloodline, as being born magical nearly always skipped a generation with us. It stung our pride a bit to not have one of those popular families blooming with witches and wizards, and it didn't help that we always ended up in Hufflepuff. It made us seem weaker, like Wright magic was dying out. I'd been told before that it was our own fault for being such a mass of blood-traitors.
"I'm sure you can notice the effects," Flitwick was saying. "Instead of burning to death, it would feel more like a balmy, windy sensation. Like a day at the beach." He grinned broadly at his audience, looking like he would rather enjoy the effects of a Flame-Freezing Charm himself.
He was right, too. A bright orange fire had been conjured in thin air, levitating over a deep pewter cauldron. Flitwick trained his wand on the mass, even though it wasn't going anywhere, and we all watched the flames ripple and lick the air. It wasn't hot, really…it was nice. Almost as nice as dozing on the Great Lawn instead of being cooped up in a stuffy classroom.
The room wavered slightly, growing quiet. It was easy to imagine that I was curled up in an armchair in my cozy common room, watching one of the bright yellow lamps bobble and sway on the ceiling…
There was something cold on my skin.
It was the first thing I registered, before I even opened my eyes. I became aware of a warm hand resting on my arm, and something pointy running alongside it in circular motions, tickling me. I opened up one eye first, and then the other.
There was someone sitting next to me at my desk, their chair shoved right up beside mine. The shivering tip of a quill looped up and down my arm, and with a feeling of deep dread I connected the quill to the hand of a familiar redhead.
Fred Weasley was drawing on me.
He looked like he was pretty into it, too. His eyes were narrowed in concentration, his nose scrunched up slightly. It would have been a fascinating character study, like watching a renowned artist dabble in paints, if it hadn't been for the fact that his canvas was my skin. "Oh, hell," I groaned, lifting my head up to inspect the damage. A wiry old man with a long beard was dancing along my arm, brandishing his wand and smiling toothily.
"Dumbledore? Really?"
Fred paused to look up at me through his eyelashes, flashing a smile. "Have a nice little nap?"
"It was lovely," I answered with a yawn, stretching out my arms. There was a crick in my neck, and my back was stiff from hunching over. I suspected that someone had put something in my mouth, because my tongue tasted like pepper. "How many classes did I sleep through?"
"Just this one, and you're only about thirty minutes late. I hope you aren't supposed to be in Transfiguration, or McGonagall's going to hand you over to the centaurs to use as target practice."
"I'm missing my free period, actually," I grumbled. He looked a bit crestfallen at this, as though he'd hoped to see Professor McGonagall storm into Flitwick's classroom at any moment, threatening to expel me.
I glanced up at the minuscule wizard, who was poking his head over the top of a desk in the back of the room and assisting two students with practicing Cheering Charms. "Ooh, really? Cheering Charms?" I perked up, interested. "Fourth years get all the good ones." I rubbed at a welt on my cheek from where I'd fallen asleep on top of my wand. "I can't believe Delphine didn't wake me up. That troll. Tomorrow she's getting a mouthful of flies and I'm not saying anything. And Flitwick, too!" I lifted a hand to my mussed-up hair. "Thirty minutes! Blimey."
"Flitwick didn't wake you up because of what day it is. No one woke you up because of what day it is."
"What day is it?"
"My birthday, now that you mention it. What did you get me?" I tried to scoff, but my throat was on the hoarse side and it sounded more like a pig snorting. "But besides that, it's April first. We decided to let you kip for a while right here as a joke. And of course, I wasn't going to wake you up, even though you were sitting in my seat. At my desk. Where I normally am productive and do much waving-of-the-wand."
"Ahh, Miss Wright!" Flitwick chirped. "Glad to see that you enjoyed Charms enough to stick around for a lesson with fourth years." He turned back to the students he was mentoring and Fred let out a snigger.
I mustered up a decent glare. "My free period! I could have been checking on Imogen. I'll bet she needs taken for a walk, the poor thing…" I looked all around. A few Gryffindors and even a couple Slytherins were watching my reaction on tenterhooks. "Bah."
"Not so smug now, are we?" Fred relaxed in his chair, one of the corners of his mouth lifting in a self-satisfied grin. "That'll teach you to nick my wand."
"Nick your wand? What're you on about?"
I stared at him.
He stared back.
A particular memory clicked into place and I burst into laughter. "Are you kidding?" I rasped. "You can't be serious. That was – Merlin, that was last year! You're still wound up about that? Upon my word, Weasley, you are a petty little man."
"I never forget when I have been wronged." Fred smiled, eyes flashing. He looked more devious than usual, what with the sunlight pouring through a cracked window from behind him enveloping his hair and making it gleam like actual fire. "Payback. Now don't rub your arm on anything before that dries or it will mess it all up."
I lifted up my arm and examined the ink art again. "That's not too bad, actually."
"I think it's my best work. Hold still for a second." I froze so that he could apply the finishing touches on Dumbledore's hat, and we both leaned back to admire it.
"It needs a caption," he mused. He held up one hand to blindfold my eyes, and with his other, he dipped his quill into a peculiar little bottle of ink I hadn't noticed before and began to scrawl. His hand was warm and I could smell something like cedar lingering there. It gave me visions of the Weasley twins untangling their way through the Forbidden Forest – which they were clearly not allowed in but obviously went to, anyway – and I found myself smiling. I, too, snuck out to the Forbidden Forest at least twice a week. Granted, I was usually with Hagrid, but still…
"All right," Fred told me merrily. "Now you're free to enjoy what's left of your free period." His hand fell away from my eyes and his face was close to mine, alight with mischief.
My left arm said 'FRED IS LOVELY' underneath a moving doodle of Albus Dumbledore flexing his biceps for an entire month.
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BOSTON (AP) � The woman who oversaw New England's tumultuous transition to a new fishery management system has resigned.
Jane Lubchenco announced Wednesday that she was stepping down as administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She'll return to her West Coast home and the academic life.
The decision comes with New England's industry struggling to avoid collapse as fishermen face drastic catch reductions in 2013.
In a letter to employees, Lubchenco listed "ending over-fishing, rebuilding depleted stocks, and returning fishing to profitability" among NOAA's accomplishments.
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Cyanide poisoning ultimately proved to be a good thing for David Slutzky, and led to the formation of his successful environmental clean-up company.
In the early 1980s, he was working for a commercial real estate company in Chicago. A colleague did a walk-through in a plating plant– then spent the next three days in the hospital with cyanide poisoning.
"I figured out a whole industry was needed to clean up these sites," says Slutzky. And he wanted to go a step further than standard EPA practice, which at the time was to clean up Superfund sites and leave them. "We argued you should clean them up and make them available for re-use," he explains.
Slutzky is walking the walk: He's getting ready to move his environmental consulting company, E2 Inc., to the Frank Ix Building– even though that former industrial structure is not contaminated. He checked.
And after working with government throughout his career, including a stint as a senior policy advisor during the Clinton administration, Slutzky wants to shift from the appointed to the elected.
His flip answer to why he's running for the Albemarle Board of Supervisors: "I got tired of people misspelling my name."
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Slutzky thinks his experience, which includes lecturing at UVA's Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, makes him well suited to shepherd Albemarle through its inevitable growth.
Like so many others, Slutzky and his wife fell for the area's charms and moved here in 1993. They'd sold their business in Chicago (that scrubbed contaminated buildings), and were looking at three years of a non-compete clause.
His wife, Melissa, a horse person, found Chicago too cold, says her husband. Cincinnati-born Slutzky, a self-proclaimed city boy, admits that when they first moved here, living in the middle of the country "scared me."
Now he wants to protect the same pastoral areas that used to give him the willies. Albemarle's comprehensive plan is "a very strong signal the community wants to preserve the rural area," he says.
The problem, he believes, is that the comprehensive plan doesn't spell out in detail what's required of developers, other than density, and it takes so long to get approval in a growth area, that it's easier to build by-right in the rural areas.
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Louis SIPP began his family's involvement in wine growing at the end of the First World War.Louise , pioneering grandmother of the family, acquired the first plots of vineyard while her husband Louis was away on the Russian Front. The first vats were also bought at this time. Some of those old vats are still in use, and can be seen in our wine cellars. At this time grapes were harvested on the Kirchberg hill (today classified as "Grand Cru" land) and carried in baskets on the harvesters' backs down to the presses, wich were situated at the top end of the town. The first wine awards were given from around 1920.
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Build RESTful web services with the Spring 3 MVC HttpMessageConverter feature
A companion article, "Build RESTful web services using Spring 3," introduced the "Spring way" to build
RESTful web services. It also explained how to use
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver to produce multiple
representations, which is an important feature for RESTful web services.
This article explains another way to produce multiple representations
HttpMessageConverter, and examples in the article show
how to use
RestTemplate with
HttpMessageConverter to communicate with services.
REST support in Spring MVC
This section provides an overview of the major Spring features, or annotations, that support RESTful web services.
- Use the
@Controllerannotation to annotate the class that will be the controller in MVC and handle the HTTP request.
- Use the
@RequestMappingannotation to annotate the function that should handle certain HTTP methods, URIs, or HTTP headers. This annotation is the key to the Spring REST support. You change the
methodparameter to handle other HTTP methods.
For example:
@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="/emps", headers="Accept=application/xml, application/json")
- A path variable in the URI could be injected as a parameter using the
For example:
@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="/emp/{id}") public ModelAndView getEmployee(@PathVariable String id) { … }
- Other useful annotations
- Use
@RequestParamto inject a URL parameter into the method.
@RequestHeaderto inject a certain HTTP header into the method.
@RequestBodyto inject an HTTP request body into the method.
@ResponseBodyto return the content or object as the HTTP response body.
HttpEntity<T>to inject into the method automatically if you provide it as a parameter.
ResponseEntity<T>to return the HTTP response with your custom status or headers.
For example:
public @ResponseBody Employee getEmployeeBy(@RequestParam("name") String name, @RequestHeader("Accept") String accept, @RequestBody String body) {…} public ResponseEntity<String> method(HttpEntity<String> entity) {…}
Refer to the Spring documentation for a complete list of the supported annotations or objects that can be injected into the method.
Multiple representation support
Representing the same resource with different MIME types is an important aspect of RESTful web services. Generally, you would use the same URI with a different "accept" HTTP header to fetch the resource with different representation. You can also use a different URI, or a URI with different request parameters.
"Build RESTful web services using Spring 3" introduced
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver, which can pick a different
view resolver to handle the same URI (with the difference of the accept
header). Thus,
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver can be used to
produce multiple representations.
There's also another way to produce multiple representations—by
combining the
HttpMessageConverter and
c@ResponseBody annotation. With this method you don't need to
use the View technologies.
HTTP requests and responses are text based, meaning a browser and server
communicate by exchanging raw texts. With Spring, however, methods in the
controller class return pure 'String' type and domain models (or other
Java built-in objects). How can Spring serialize/de-serialize the objects
to raw texts? This is handled by
HttpMessageConverter. Spring
has bundled implementations that can meet your common needs. Table 1 shows
some examples.
Table 1. HttpMessageConverter examples
|You can...
|Read/write a string from request and response. By default, it supports the media type text/* and writes with a Content-Type of text/plain.
|Read/write form data from request and response. By default, it reads the media type application/x-www-form-urlencoded and writes data into MultiValueMap<String,String>.
|Read/write XML data using Spring's marshaller/un-marshaller. It converts data of media type application/xml.
| Read/write JSON
data using Jackson's
ObjectMapper. It converts
data of media type application/json.
|Read/write ATOM feed using ROME's Feed API. It converts data of media type application/atom+xml.
|Read/write RSS feed using ROME's feed API. It converts data of media type application/rss+xml.
Build RESTful web services
In this section, learn to build a simple RESTful web service that can produce multiple representations. Some of the resources used in the sample application were built in "Build RESTful web services using Spring 3." You can also download the sample code.
First, you must configure the
HttpMessageConverter. To produce
multiple representations, customize several
HttpMessageConverter instances to convert the object to
different media types. This section covers the JSON, ATOM, and XML media
Let's start with the simplest example. JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format that's easy for humans to read and write. Listing 1 shows the code that configures a JSON converter.
Listing 1. Configure HttpMessageConverter in rest-servlet.xml
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation .AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"> <property name="messageConverters"> <list> <ref bean="jsonConverter" /> <ref bean="marshallingConverter" /> <ref bean="atomConverter" /> </list> </property> </bean> <bean id="jsonConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json .MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter"> <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="application/json" /> </bean>
In the configuration, three converters are registered.
MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter is used to convert the
object to JSON and vice versa. This built-in converter uses Jackson's
ObjectMapper to map JSON to the JavaBean, so you must add the
following Jackson JAR files to the classpath.
- org.codehaus.jackson.jar
- org.codehaus.jackson.mapper.jar
The next step is to write a method to handle the request that asks for JSON representation. Listing 2 shows the details.
Listing 2. Handle JSON requests defined in EmployeeController
@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="/emp/{id}", headers="Accept=application/json") public @ResponseBody Employee getEmp(@PathVariable String id) { Employee e = employeeDS.get(Long.parseLong(id)); return e; } @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="/emps", headers="Accept=application/json") public @ResponseBody EmployeeListinggetAllEmp() { List<Employee> employees = employeeDS.getAll(); EmployeeListinglist = new EmployeeList(employees); return list; }
@ResponseBody annotation is used to make the return object
Employee or
EmployeeList) the response body
content, which will be mapped by
MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter to JSON.
By using
HttpMessageConverter and
you can implement multiple representations without including Spring's View
technology -- an advantage over using
Now you can use the CURL or REST Client Firefox plug-in to invoke the
request. Remember to add an HTTP header:
Accept=application/json. Listing 3 shows the desired response
in a JSON format.
Listing 3. JSON result for getEmp() and getAllEmp()
Response for /rest/service/emp/1 {"id":1,"name":"Huang Yi Ming","email":"email@example.com"} Response for /rest/service/emps {"count":2, "employees":[ {"id":1,"name":"Huang Yi Ming","email":"email@example.com"}, {"id":2,"name":"Wu Dong Fei","email":"email@example.com"} ]}
Spring's built-in converter
MarshallingHttpMessageConverter is
used to map between an object and XML (OXM). The example uses JAXB 2 as
the marshaller/un-marshaller for the converter. Listing 4 shows the
Listing 4. Configure MarshallingHttpMessageConverter
<bean id="marshallingConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml .MarshallingHttpMessageConverter"> <constructor-arg ref="jaxbMarshaller" /> <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="application/xml"/> </bean> <bean id="jaxbMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller"> <property name="classesToBeBound"> <list> <value>dw.spring3.rest.bean.Employee</value> <value>dw.spring3.rest.bean.EmployeeList</value> </list> </property> </bean>
It's important to understand that JAXB 2 does not have good support for mapping the java.util.List<T> to XML. Common practice is to add a wrapper class for the collection of objects. Refer to "Build RESTful web services using Spring 3" or download the source code for details of this JAXB annotated class.
What about the method in the controller that handles the request? Take a
look back at the code in Listing 2. It's not
surprising to find that you don't need to add any code here. You just need
to add another supported media type in the
Accept header, as
headers="Accept=application/json, application/xml"
The converter will map the object properly to the type you request (JSON or XML). Listing 5 shows the desired result when you request the application/xml representation.
Listing 5. XML result for getEmp() and getAllEmp()
Response for /rest/service/emp/1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <employee> <email>firstname.lastname@example.com</email> <id>1</id> <name>Huang Yi Ming</name> </employee> Response for /rest/service/emps <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <employees> <count>2</count> <employee> <email>firstname.lastname@example.com</email> <id>1</id> <name>Huang Yi Ming</name> </employee> <employee> <email>email@example.com</email> <id>2</id><name>Wu Dong Fei</name> </employee> </employees>
ATOM feed
An ATOM feed is another popular format for exchanging data in RESTful web
services. An Atom feed document is a representation of an Atom feed,
including metadata about the feed, and some or all of the entries
associated with it. Its root is the
atom:feed element. There
is also an ATOM Publish Protocol (APP) to define the exchange format and
behaviors. (Defining the ATOM and APP formats is outside the scope of this
The example uses
AtomFeedHttpMessageConverter to convert the
ATOM feed, which leverages the ROME ATOM API. Therefore, you must include
the JAR file sun.syndication.jar in your classpath. Listing 6 shows the
configuration of this converter.
Listing 6. Configure AtomFeedHttpMessageConverter
<bean id="atomConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.feed .AtomFeedHttpMessageConverter"> <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="application/atom+xml" /> </bean>
Listing 7 shows the code that handles the ATOM request and the feed generation.
Listing 7. getEmpFeed() in EmployeeController & AtomUtil class
@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="/emps", headers="Accept=application/atom+xml") public @ResponseBody Feed getEmpFeed() { List<Employee> employees = employeeDS.getAll(); return AtomUtil.employeeFeed(employees, jaxb2Mashaller); } public static Feed employeeFeed( List<Employee> employees, Jaxb2Marshaller marshaller) { Feed feed = new Feed(); feed.setFeedType("atom_1.0"); feed.setTitle("Employee Atom Feed"); List<Entry> entries = new ArrayList<Entry>(); for(Employee e : employees) { StreamResult result = new StreamResult( new ByteArrayOutputStream()); marshaller.marshal(e, result); String xml = result.getOutputStream().toString(); Entry entry = new Entry(); entry.setId(Long.valueOf(e.getId()).toString()); entry.setTitle(e.getName()); Content content = new Content(); content.setType(Content.XML); content.setValue(xml); List<Content> contents = new ArrayList<Content>(); contents.add(content); entry.setContents(contents); entries.add(entry); } feed.setEntries(entries); return feed; }
In the code above, notice:
- The
getEmpFeed()method handles the same URI as
getAllEmp(), but with a different
- With the
employeeFeed()method you marshall the
Employeeobject to XML and then add it to the
<content>element of the feed entry.
Listing 8 shows the output when you request application/atom+xml representation for URI /rest/service/emps.
Listing 8. Output for /rest/service/emps when request application/atom+xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Employee Atom Feed</title> <entry> <title>Huang Yi Ming</title> <id>1</id> <content type="xml"> <employee> <email>email@example.com</email> <id>1</id> <name>Huang Yi Ming</name> </employee> </content> </entry> <entry> <title>Wu Dong Fei</title> <id>2</id> <content type="xml"> <employee> <email>email@example.com</email> <id>2</id> <name>Wu Dong Fei</name> </employee> </content> </entry> </feed>
Implement POST, PUT, and DELETE
The examples thus far have implemented several methods to handle the HTTP
GET method. Listing 9 shows implementation of the
PUT, and
DELETE methods.
Listing 9. POST, PUT, and DELETE methods in EmployeeController
@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.POST, value="/emp") public @ResponseBody Employee addEmp(@RequestBody Employee e) { employeeDS.add(e); return e; } @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.PUT, value="/emp/{id}") public @ResponseBody Employee updateEmp( @RequestBody Employee e, @PathVariable String id) { employeeDS.update(e); return e; } @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.DELETE, value="/emp/{id}") public @ResponseBody void removeEmp(@PathVariable String id) { employeeDS.remove(Long.parseLong(id)); }
@RequestBody annotation is used in the
addEmp() and
updateEmp() methods. It takes the
HTTP request body and tries to convert it to the object class using the
HttpMessageConverter. In the next section, you'll
RestTemplate to communicate with these services.
Use RestTemplate to communicate with REST services
"Build RESTful web services using Spring 3" introduced how to use CURL and the REST client to test
REST services. At the programming level, Jakarta Commons' HttpClient is
typically used to do so (but that's outside the scope of this article).
You can also use a Spring REST client called
RestTemplate. It
is conceptually similar to other template classes in Spring, such as
JdbcTemplate and
RestTemplate also uses the
You could pass the object class in the requests and let the converters
handle the mappings.
Configuring the RestTemplate
Listing 10 shows the configuration of
RestTemplate. It also
uses the three converters introduced previously.
Listing 10. Configure RestTemplate
<bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate"> <property name="messageConverters"> <list> <ref bean="marshallingConverter" /> <ref bean="atomConverter" /> <ref bean="jsonConverter" /> </list> </property> </bean>
The examples in this article used only some of the methods that could
simplify communication between servers.
RestTemplate supports
other methods, including:
exchange: executes certain HTTP methods with request body and gets the response.
getForObject: executes the HTTP
GETmethod and gets the response as an object.
postForObject: executes the HTTP
POSTmethod with a certain request body.
put: executes the HTTP
PUTmethod with a certain request body.
delete: executes the HTTP
DELETEmethod for a certain URI.
Code samples
The following code samples help illustrate how to use
RestTemplate. Refer to the RestTemplate API for a detailed explanation of the
APIs used.
Listing 11 shows how to add headers to the request and then to invoke the
request. Using the
MarshallingHttpMessageConverter you could
get the response and convert it to the typed class. You can use different
media types to test other representations.
Listing 11. Request for XML representation
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders(); headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML); HttpEntity<String> entity = new HttpEntity<String>(headers); ResponseEntity<EmployeeList> response = restTemplate.exchange( "http://localhost:8080/rest/service/emps", HttpMethod.GET, entity, EmployeeList.class); EmployeeListingemployees = response.getBody(); // handle the employees
Listing 12 shows how to POST a new employee to the server. The server-side
addEmp() could accept data with media types of
application/xml and application/json.
Listing 12. POST a new employee
Employee newEmp = new Employee(99, "guest", "firstname.lastname@example.com"); HttpEntity<Employee> entity = new HttpEntity<Employee>(newEmp); ResponseEntity<Employee> response = restTemplate.postForEntity( "http://localhost:8080/rest/service/emp", entity, Employee.class); Employee e = response.getBody(); // handle the employee
Listing 13 shows how to PUT a modified employee to update the original one.
It also shows the feature you can use as a place holder
{id}) in the request URI.
Listing 13. PUT to update an employee
Employee newEmp = new Employee(99, "guest99", "email@example.com"); HttpEntity<Employee> entity = new HttpEntity<Employee>(newEmp); restTemplate.put( "http://localhost:8080/rest/service/emp/{id}", entity, "99");
Listing 14 shows how to DELETE an existing employee.
Listing 14. DELETE an existing employee
restTemplate.delete( "http://localhost:8080/rest/service/emp/{id}", "99");
In this article, you learned about the
that was introduced in Spring 3. It provides both client and server-side
support for multiple representations. Using the source
code provided, you can explore the differences between the
implementation of
HttpMessageConverter in this article and
the implementation using
ContentNegotiatingViewResolver in
"Build RESTful web services using Spring 3."
Downloadable resources
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This is Part 22 of the El Hierro Volcano eruption report
Some of this info is also posted into our Facebook Volcano Page – Google+ Volcanoes – Google+ Volcanoes and earthquakes
With the collaboration of Joke Volta, an El Hierro resident
"Volcano Only" twitter : @VolcanoReport - 3 in 1 WEBCAM page – El Hierro Picasa Web Album
Read also: Scientific paper reveals massive historic Tenerife volcano flank collapse
Read also: Economic impact on El Hierro and the Canary Islands if an aerial eruption would occur
Read also: Part 1 (from July 28 until early September)
Read also: Part 2 (from September 25 until October 10 )
Read also: Part 3 (from October 11 until October 13 )
Read also: Part 4 (from October 14 until October 17 )
Read also: Part 5 (from October 18 until October 21 )
Read also: Part 6 (from October 22 until October 26 )
Read also: Part 7 (from October 27 until October 31 )
Read also: Part 8 (from November 1 until November 3)
Read also: Part 9 (from November 4 until November 6)
Read also: Part 10 (from November 7 until November 8)
Read also: Part 11 (from November 9 until November 11)
Read also: Part 12 (from November 12 until November 15)
Read also: Part 13 (from November 16 until November 19)
Read also: Part 14 (from November 20 until November 23)
Read also: Part 15 (from November 24 until November 27)
Read also: Part 16 (from November 28 until December 2)
Read also: Part 17 (from December 3 until December 7)
Read also: Part 18 (from December 8 until December 11)
Read also: Part 19 (from December 12 until December 15)
Read also: Part 20 (from December 16 until December 18)
Read also: Part 21 (from December 19 until December 25)
Update 31/12 - 15:49 UTC
- Harmonic tremor was on its peak today at 12:50 UTC but has been gradually decreasing little by little.
- NO more earthquakes
- Involcan has published a great video showing their staff and the main events of the eruption period + some nice music on it. Congratulations to the INVOLCAN people for their dedication and great coverage !
Update 31/12 - 11:07 UTC
- A new M 1.1 earthquake occurred at 10:54 on a depth of 23 km. Epicenter below Tacaron.
- Joke has just released her morning "reflection" pictures. Beautiful views of the island. Click on the pictures to watch them in full size
Update 31/12 - 11:07 UTC
- The Restingolitas, as the Smoking Lava Stones are called in El Hierro, are coming up at regular intervals. As our 2 good webcams are having server problems (also the Frontera webcams are down), we have to stay with the U-stream El Pinar webcam. He has a fairly good zoom, but as this is a fixed camera, he shoots almost always to the side of the SLS. The stones can be seen on the wide angle though. Keep looking.
Update 31/12 - 10:26 UTC
- At 10:08 reader Mariette wrote : From my apartment in La Restinga we clearly (and without binoculars) can see the plumes and big restingolitas bubbling up the last half hour. The volcano isn't sleeping yet.
- At 10:09 - Joke did send a text message (she is taking pictures on the hills surrounding La Restinga) : SLS
- At 09:55 - Julio wrote : UPDATE! Smoking lava seen on ustream webcam. Not much, but here it is (image to the right)
Congratulations to this great team of observers. As our readers can see, nothing goes unobserved during this eruption.
Update 31/12 - 09:36 UTC
- Variable harmonic tremor fastly subsiding after a stronger period. Fascinating what the next step will be !
- At 04:48 a weak 0.9 earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km below the crater area on the top of the island. As there is no consistent feeder area or depth (earthquakes epicenters are changing all the time in area and depth) the future of the eruption is very unsure and can be called as "surviving".
Update 30/12 - 23:53 UTC
- NO more earthquakes today
- A strong burst which lasted about 2 minutes occurred at 20:28. In general we can say that harmonic tremor did increase slightly over the last 8 hours. A new phenomena for the last couple of days is that hydromagmatic bursts seem to have returned.
- Joke was talking tonight about a carried away stain in front of Tacaron, but at the same time some stirring brown water in that area ! She said it will probably simply the stain from the vent. We think that this has to be checked tomorrow.
- In he daily visit to the CAP science center in La Restinga, IGN was talking about multiple emission points today. We remember the same from earlier helicopter images.
- Julio made a double time lapse in 1 video. The first part has been compressed 100 times, the second 10
Update 30/12 - 17:09 UTC
Click here for another series of beautiful pictures taken by Joke Volta during the morning hours
Update 30/12 - 15:11 UTC
- A third earthquake occurred only 2 minutes after the second and ONLY 1 km from El Pinar :
Update 30/12 - 13:28 UTC
- Joke sends her regards to all those people who enjoyed her participation to this report for the last couple of months and she also thanks those people sending her a happy birthday yesterday and today.
- 2 new earthquakes occurred with only 32 seconds in between them
2011/12/30 12:59:04.60 Depth 19.60 M 1.80 NW FRONTERA.IHI
2011/12/30 12:59:36.14 Depth 22.70 M 1.10 W FRONTERA.IHI
Update 30/12 - 13:15 UTC
- Reader MOHO (see comments) has made an image in mixing yesterdays HT graph with todays HT graph. The tremor almost doubled compared to some time frames from yesterday. Thank you for sharing
Update 30/12 - 13:00 UTC
- Julio del Castillo Vivero has been active today and time lapsed a video from 07:53 until 12:37 in only 33 seconds. The Salvamar Adhara becomes a real speedboat 😉
Update 30/12 - 12:47 UTC
- Harmonic Tremor is back. It shows the same amplitude than the last couple of days. Even with minor HT, we see a defined stain with now and then a weak Jacuzzi
- INVOLCAN sells a beautiful Wall Calender for 10 Euro. We can warmly advise to buy it, although they are still living in the 20e century (no Paypal or CC payment possibilities). Click here for the Involcan website. Update : After the translation from Julio, Involcan has replied that payments via Paypal will be possible from next Monday.
Update 30/12 - 10:26 UTC
- We are like blind people this morning as Harmonic Tremor is still down (not that there is no eruption anymore)
- NO new earthquakes since midnight
- a stain which can well be seen on the webcam
- The Salvamar Adhara is still navigating around the stain with IGN people on board. As we had written yesterday, IGN Carmen Lopez did plan to make this trip today to record underwater video near the vent. They are not using a high tech ROV, but an underwater video camera connected to a 200 meter long cable. They look like fishermen trying to catch the ideal images from the erupting material. Joke Volta saw the raw images yesterday and she told us that she saw, to her surprise a lot of jellyfish! She also saw some reddish color on the raw tape but was far from sure that it was incandescent lava.
Besides the beautiful stain most of the day, Julio was amazed to find Smoking Lava Stones in his time lapse of the day. The smoking lava stones show up at 18:38 UTC while the harmonic tremor was slightly up. The video went too fast and finally the SLS could not be seen. He captured however a few images from that particular moment.
Those people who want to see the time lapse of the entire day can click here. A full day is compressed in only 6 minutes.
We at Earthquake-Report.com are recalling today's smoking lava stones to "Smoking Birthday Stones" and are offering them virtually to Joke for her birthday. Running slopes up and down, trying to find out the latest details just like a professional reporter, and this on her birthday, not too many people will do it. Happy Birthday Joke !
Joke has already seen the raw video of the Salvamar Adhara. She told us a lot of details of what she has seen and we are convinced that it will be very interesting. The video will be published later today or tomorrow. IGN will try to make the same trip tomorrow, but during the first daylight hours, hoping that the waves and current will be less than today.
Julio did made a new time lapse specifically from the SLS period. On the video you will see them floating.
- 16:54 UTC - New Earthquake M 1.4 @ a depth of 16.3 km below Tacaron. The tremor can be seen also on the frequency HT graph
- Those among you looking from time to time at the Village and eruption webcam must have seen the Salvamar Adhara along the stain. Joke waited for the arrival of the ship and tried to find out what they were doing. The crew and Carmen Lopez (IGN) said to her that they have been trying to make pictures with a special underwater camera. The camera was linked to a 200 meter long cable, although they did not use the full length. She said that they were not able to trace the vent as the visibility was too low and as the current was too strong. Let us hope that IGN will publish these pictures later today.
- While we were all looking at the El Hierro volcano, Jorgen Aabech, a dedicated Norvegian volcano follower did wrote us about an minor eruption in the Red Sea. We checked a number of details, saw a small cloud but did not see any continuing eruption, so we discontinued following this event. As NASA satellite imaginary proofed the birth of a new island, similar to what we were looking at El Hierro, we compiled a lot of material and wrote an in-depth article today.
Surtseyan eruption along the coast of Yemen forms a new island – Today eruption cloud + stain !
29.12.2011 – On December 19, fishermen from Salif port city in the west of Yemen reported seeing an eruption with red lava rising to a height of 30 m. This was the first eruption the fisherman can recall from the area. Satellite images have proven afterwards that a new island has been born in the Zubair volcano group.
Update 29/12 - 10:45 UTC
- Joke Volta continues to invest enormous energy in this El Hierro volcano project. In the current stage, she make pictures during the morning and afternoon hours, she visits almost daily the CAP IGN science center and during the evening hours she traces all volcano related news on the Canary Islands. Without Joke this article would have been a lot shorter and less complete. The pictures below have been taken this morning. Click on the picture to see all of them in full size.
- We are currently locked out of our own Facebook accounts for "a couple of days". Reason : they have found a trojan horse on the editing computer (the trojan was not immediately detected by anti virus software). 10 minutes later it was gone, but nevertheless the punishment was already given and was very severe. Our Facebook fans can still write on the page, so, we invite you to copy part of what you see here in the "Volcano" Facebook page.
- We have a very troubled relation with Facebook, as they have blocked in July 2010 our Chile and Indonesian sites with over 35,000 fans, for a so called infringement against their rules (we tried to find out what we did wrong, but nobody could or wanted us to give an answer). The Fan pages were earthquake related. The blocking of these 2 pages was the reason that we diverted our attention to this site as we did not want to experience the same on a later date.
- Nevertheless, we still love Facebook and even more the less Popular Google+, which gives us publishers, far better updating methods
Update 29/12 - 09:55 UTC
- A new earthquake occurred at 09:04 UTC with a magnitude of 1.5 and at a depth of 14 km. Epicenter below land in the Tacaron area.
- The Jacuzzi who started yesterday with ups and downs, is still very active (can be seen well on the eruption webcam)
- Julio del Castillo Vivero, who is cooperating with earthquake-report.com since he started creating his time lapse video's, has pushed his creativity a little further in making a split screen time lapse video from the activity from 07:30 until 08:30 this morning
Update 29/12 - 07:50 UTC
- Although we only had minor harmonic tremor all night long, we were very surprised to see a beautiful stain this morning. It can still be seen at this time on the Eruption webcam. At regular times we see a jacuzzi in the middle of the stain and on the same location as the former vent.
- El Hierro experienced a new M 2.3 earthquake at a depth of 18 km at 02:46 earlier today. Click here for the center.
Update 28/12 - 23:55 UTC
- We have just published the afternoon images of Joke Volta. Some are really beautiful. Click here to watch them.
- A total of 3 weak earthquakes today (see details below)
-The eruption is not over yet (see the great time lapse video with the Jacuzzi from Julio del Castillo Vivero).
- During the evening hours the signal picked gradually up again, this after having collapsed at 20:45. Just before 20:45, a few strong bursts had occurred and a partial collapse could have been encountered.
Update 28/12 - 20:30 UTC
- IGN has listed a new earthquake which occurred at 17:09 UTC. The depth was 14.1 km and the magnitude 1.0. Epicenter right below the Tacaron cliffs.
- Julio del Castille Vivero is doing great work since several weeks in recording one or more webcam images. The video below shows the revival of the eruption / vent and even a minor jacuzzi. The first video shows the renewed activity in a time lapse (faster speed) and the second video is the real time video. The time frame is from 17:16 until 19:07.
Important Update 28/12 - 17:16 UTC
- The signal is picking up again, lets say from --- to -- . We are curious whether the magma found an opening in the same vent or elsewhere, but we have definitely a minor eruption again
Update 28/12 - 16:44 UTC
- Joke went to the CAP science center and had a talk to the employee and with Carmen Lopez from IGN. Mrs. Lopez expects that the eruption is nearly over as the process was subsiding the last several weeks. Sge stressed that it will take a few days more before Pevolca will decide to clear all alert levels as the present condition has to be prolonged.
- The 2 earthquakes which occurred today have NO volcanic origin
- There is still a minor harmonic tremor signal
Update 28/12 - 13:50 UTC
- A new0.9 magnitude earthquake occurred at 11:42 at a depth of 12.3 km. Epicenter similar as the earlier quake, near Tacaron)
Update 28/12 - 11:23 UTC
The eruption stopped completely. There is NO longer a Harmonic Tremor signal indicating an ongoing eruption. As described below, we will see soon if the earthquakes pick up again or not. With such a flat tremor line and NO volcanic earthquakes, it is over for now. If the present situation goes on for a couple of days, we expect that the alert levels will be changed to green again.
Update 28/12 - 10:55 UTC
- At 06:52 a 0.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at a (unusual) depth of 9.3 km below Tacaron. This earthquake is certainly linked to the change in activity, although a direct link with the HT graph cannot be seen.
- We might arrive at a crucial phase in the survival of the eruption. If magma pressure is still strong enough without being able to erupt (collapse of the vent), the earthquakes have to pick up again. If this does not happen or if the HT does not come back, the eruption is halted.
Update 28/12 - 08:05 UTC
- 1 hour later it looks like we had a vent collapse as the tremor is getting gradually back again
Update 28/12 - 07:05 UTC
- After some really turbulent harmonic tremor in between 05:00 and 06:00, harmonic tremor came almost to a halt. We do think that the eruption subsided a lot the last several days but that the current decrease has to be linked to a vent collapse. If this is the case the harmonic tremor will gradually pick up gain as the magma finds his way out.
Update 27/12 - 23:30 UTC
- Harmonic tremor subsided a little after being at his max around 19:30
- a new M 1.8 earthquake occurred at 21:22 at a depth of 21 km. Click here for the epicenter
Update 27/12 - 23:30 UTC
Another exhibition of the El Hierro Art Gallery. Again a set of incredibly beautiful images taken from the Guardia Civil helicopters by the Involcan scientists yesterday morning. Click on the images to see the 10 pictures in full size.
Update 27/12 - 18:30 UTC
- Harmonic tremor remains very strong
- Joke reported seeing many circles and a beautiful colorful palette. The water near the vent turned gray muddy.
Update 27/12 - 13:05 UTC
Another series of beautiful images from Joke Volta, showing the stain as seen from the hills above La Restinga and pictures from the fata morgana stain as seen on the webcam but photographed from the island
Update 27/12 - 11:25 UTC
- The time lapse video from Julio del Castillo Vivero from the morning hours shows very well the fata morgana of the right side stain. The area looks like a vast stain similar than the color of the real stain. Thanks to Joke Volta we knew immediately that it was sun glare and not a stain. The fata morgana came around the same time of increased harmonic tremor.
Update 27/12 - 10:50 UTC
- NO new earthquakes
- Harmonic tremor grew steadily until now
- The Cabildo Telefonica La Restinga webcam shows what looks like a huge stain to the right of the image. We just called Joke Volta, who is in El Pinar at the moment, and she thinks that what we see is sun glare, not a stain.
Update 26/12 - 23:55 UTC
- NO new earthquakes since 00:29
- harmonic tremor has gradually increased until midnight
- we saw the helicopter from the Guardia Civil / Involcan hanging over the vent during the morning but no images or video have been published yet.
- the La Restinga village webcam is working again. The eruption webcam is off-line since December 22 ! We do not know (nor the AVCAN) what the reason is !
Update 26/12 - 12:19 UTC
Joke Volta morning pictures.
Update 26/12 - 10:29 UTC
- RTVC, the Canary Island Television broadcaster seems to have given up on their El Hierro eruption webcam operations . The webcam was no longer active since a couple of days. It hopefully remains on the mast as this webcam was by far the best from all available webcams. Nothing is 100% sure as long as the eruption did not stop completely. If the volcano goes again into a more active state (people following Etna eruptions do know what this means) the activity level can change in a couple of hours.
Update 26/12 - 10:12 UTC
- At 00:28 a very weak 0.6 earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.2 km. Click here for the epicenter location.
- Harmonic tremor lower medium as the last couple of days
- Recognizable stain from the ongoing eruption on the La Restinga village webcam (the other webcam has stopped working since a couple of days). The emitting vent can be recognized if you draw a vertical line from leftist entrance of the harbour to the horizon. There might be no emission line recognizable at the time of looking to the image, but extended watching will suddenly reveal the vent. This can also be seen very well on the time lapse videos from Julio del Castillo Vivero
Read also : Scientific paper reveals massive historic Tenerife volcano flank collapse
Read also: Economic impact on El Hierro and the Canary Islands if an aerial eruption would occur
Volcano Discussion Panel : If you are a person who wants to discuss and read about all aspects of volcanoes, this discussion panel might be a very good place to hang around. Especially if we start speculating about what to happen next, this panel is a great place to look at. Give it a chance.


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