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- Factor X deficiency presenting with bilateral chronic subdural hematomaSenem Senturk
Department of Radiology, Medical School, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Pediatr Neurosurg 46:54-7. 2010..7%. After fresh frozen plasma replacement, the patient was operated and the large hematoma on the left side evacuated. The patient recovered uneventfully and remained asymptomatic during the 1-year follow-up...
- CT and MR imaging of chronic subdural hematomas: a comparative studySenem Senturk
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Swiss Med Wkly 140:335-40. 2010..QUESATIONS UNDER STUDY / PRINCIPLES: This study was designed to compare CT and MR appearances of chronic subdural haematomas as well as CT- and MR-guided measurements of haematoma thicknesses...
- Pituitary carcinoma presenting with multiple metastases: case reportAslan Guzel
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
J Child Neurol 23:1467-71. 2008..This is the first pediatric case, to the authors' knowledge, of a pituitary carcinoma with widespread intracranial and intraspinal metastases...
- Diameters of normal thoracic vascular structures in pediatric patientsHatice Ozturkmen Akay
Department of Radiology, Medical School, University of Dicle, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Surg Radiol Anat 31:801-7. 2009..To determine the normal range of aortic and pulmonary artery diameters on chest CT, and to search a constant ratio when the diameters of thoracic vascular structures are compared with an internal reference...
- The frequency of intracranial arterial fenestrations: a study with 64-detector CT-angiographyAylin Hasanefendioglu Bayrak
Radiology Department, Dicle University, School of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Eur J Radiol 77:392-6. 2011..There is no significant relationship between the frequency of aneurysms and fenestrations...
- Evaluation of interlobar and accessory pulmonary fissures on 64-row MDCTCihan Akgul Ozmen
Department of Radiology, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Clin Anat 23:552-8. 2010..Fast-image acquisition in MDCT also accounts for less motion artifacts and high-image quality...
- Isolated traumatic gallbladder rupture: US findings and the role of repeat US in diagnosisHatice Ozturkmen Akay
Department of Radiology, Dicle University Medical School, Diyarbakir 21280, Turkey
Pediatr Radiol 38:691-3. 2008..Even though the patient was haemodynamically stable, repeat US examination after 24 h revealed gallbladder perforation. In haemodynamically stable trauma patients repeated US examinations can be useful and are strongly recommended...
- Histopathologic diagnosis of thyroid tuberculosisSelver Ozekinci
Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Thyroid 19:983-6. 2009..Due to the absence of specific signs and symptoms, the diagnosis is difficult without histopathologic examination of surgical material. In this study, we aim to present histopathologic findings of our patients with thyroid tuberculosis...
- Horseshoe lung associated with rare bilateral variant of scimitar syndrome: demonstration by 64-slice MDCT angiographyHatice Ozturkmen Akay
Radiology Department, Dicle University Medical School, Diyarbakir 21280, Turkey
Pediatr Radiol 38:563-6. 2008..The workstation platforms of MDCT systems allow multiplanar 2-D and 3-D postprocessing. As a result, various complex pathologies, such as that discussed here, can be diagnosed following a single imaging session with a certain precision...
- Facial vein aneurysm associated with sialadenitisAhmet Turan Ilica
Gulhane Military Medical School, Department of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey
J Clin Ultrasound 40:319-21. 2012..CT angiography confirmed the facial vein aneurysm. We hypothesize that inflammation of the gland had weakened the wall of the adjacent facial vein, causing aneurysmal dilatation...
- Cervical spinal meningioma mimicking intramedullary spinal tumorSenem Senturk
Department of Radiology, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, Turkey
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:E45-9. 2009..Case report...
- MDCT findings of denim-sandblasting-induced silicosis: a cross-sectional studyCihan Akgul Ozmen
Dicle University School of Medicine Department of Radiology 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Environ Health 9:17. 2010..We aimed to describe the radiological features of patients exposed to silica during denim sandblasting and define factors related to the development of silicosis...
- Bilateral symptomatic petrous apex effusionMuzeyyen Yildirim
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Dicle, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 62:186-8. 2010..In all previous published studies, unilateral petrous apex effusions were reported. To our best knowledge, this is the first patient with trapped fluid in bilateral petrous apex...
- Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome: imaging of small bowel lesions with peroral CT enterographySenem Senturk
Radiology Department, School of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Abdom Imaging 36:520-3. 2011..Our findings show that peroral CT enterography is useful to demonstrate the extent of small bowel lesions of BRBNS. This is the first report of pancreatic involvement of BRBNS...
- Diameters of the common bile duct in adults and postcholecystectomy patients: a study with 64-slice CTSenem Senturk
Dicle University, School of Medicine, Radiology Department, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey
Eur J Radiol 81:39-42. 2012..The largest diameter of the CBD is up to 6mm in most of the subjects. An upper limit of 8mm appears reasonable after the age of 50; and an upper limit of 10mm seems appropriate for cholescystectomized subjects...
- Double outlet right ventricle with giant pulmonary artery aneurysm and severe aortic coarctation: diagnosis with multislice CTAylin Hasanefendioğlu-Bayrak
Department of Radiology, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Turk J Pediatr 51:399-402. 2009..The present report describes a 14-year-old symptomatic case with complex cardiovascular pathology, whose vascular architecture could be properly demonstrated by multi-slice CT...
- Dynamic contrast-enhanced susceptibility-weighted perfusion imaging of intracranial tumors: a study using a 3T MR scannerSenem Senturk
Department of Radiology, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Diagn Interv Radiol 15:3-12. 2009..To determine whether these measurements relate to tumor grade...
- Multiple intracranial melanoma metastases: case report and review of the literatureAslan Guzel
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Dicle, Diyarbakir, Turkey
J Neurooncol 93:413-20. 2009..To our knowledge, this is the first case of multiple intracranial melanoma metastases including the suprasellar region, the pontocerebellar and epiphysial area...
- Atypical clinical presentation of idiophatic thoracic spinal cord herniationSenem Senturk
Department of Radiology, University of Dicle, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33:E474-7. 2008..Case report...
- Impact of recent seizures on cerebral blood flow in patients with sturge-weber syndrome: study of 2 casesKader K Oguz
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
J Child Neurol 22:617-20. 2007..These findings point to the variable results of functional studies in Sturge-Weber syndrome that might lead to miscalculations of the lesion area before surgery...


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Was Dick Cheney's Self-Serving Claim to be Part of Congress Really Laughable?News at Home
The Vice Presidency was an afterthought at the Constitutional Convention. Late in those proceedings, the framers concocted the office as a means to deal with a perceived defect in the Electoral College. Without any conception of national political parties, the framers feared that narrow-minded presidential electors would simply vote for candidates from their own states, preventing the emergence of truly national candidates for president. Give each elector two equal votes, Pennsylvania delegate Gouverneur Morris suggested, and force them to cast one for someone from another state. National candidates could then emerge, if only from their second votes. To confer potential meaning on both votes, the runner-up would become Vice President.
Casting around for something for this Vice President to do, the Convention settled on having the person serve as presiding officer of the Senate, voting only in the case of a tie, in addition to standing next-in-line of succession to the Presidency. Without the Senate post, Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman worried, the Vice President "would be without employment" – which is clearly not a concern for Cheney. Having been elected as the second choice in a single contest for the Presidency, however, the Vice President would not have run with the President, and the two could easily be political rivals.
As the first Vice President, John Adams tried to make the most of the job but was thwarted at every turn. Despite Adams's overtures, President George Washington never included the Vice President in his administration and viewed him as an officer of the Senate. Senators, however, quickly tired of hearing the Vice President speak on legislation that he could not vote on, and soon passed a rule prohibiting him from participating in floor debate. Venting his frustrations, the able and opinionated Adams denounced the Vice Presidency as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" – but he stayed on for a second term in hopes of succeeding Washington.
By 1796, when Washington announced his decision to not seek a third term, two national partisan factions had formed in response to bitter divisions over domestic and foreign policy. Adams received the support of one; Thomas Jefferson of the other. When Adams narrowly won, he sought to bridge the growing partisan divide by offering Jefferson, as Vice President, a cabinet-level role in the new administration. Fearing his views could never prevail, Jefferson declined. Instead, he used his position as Vice President to lead the opposition. "The Constitution will know me only as a member of a legislative body," Jefferson wrote to his closest partisan confidant, James Madison, shortly after the 1796 election. Up to this point, history supports Cheney's claim that the Vice Presidency is a legislative post, albeit largely a make-work one, but stands against his claim of executive privilege.
The election of 1800 changed everything. By this time, the two emerging ideological factions had hardened into distinct political parties. To prevent their opponents from gaining the Vice Presidency as a consolation prize, each party offered a ticket of two candidates and urged their electors to vote for both – equally. The result should have been foreseen. When Jefferson won, so did his running mate, Aaron Burr. They finished in a dead heat that, under the Constitution, would be decided by the House of Representatives, where neither party held a clear majority under the Constitution's convoluted rules for resolving an Electoral College tie. A partisan free-for-all ensued that threatened the union.
After Jefferson finally prevailed and his party took firm control of Congress, the Constitution was amended to provide for the partisan election of President and Vice President by having electors cast one vote for each office rather than two equal votes. Thereafter, voters elected them as a team and increasingly they served as members of single administration.
Of course, Vice Presidents still held an independent Constitutional position and could assert their independence at their own peril. Vice President John Calhoun famously did so in 1832 over the issue of states nullifying national laws, and faced the wrath of President Andrew Jackson, who privately threatened to hang him for treason. Over a century later, Vice President John Nance Garner ran against his "boss," President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for their party's 1940 presidential nomination. In acting as they did, clearly neither Calhoun nor Garner represented the administration. In contrast, other Vice Presidents have served as a part of the Executive Branch in virtually everything they did – think of Walter Mondale's role in the Carter Administration, for example.
In short, the Vice Presidency is a curious post. History and the Constitution suggest that it is both a legislative office and, at least after the 12th Amendment, part of the executive branch. It all depends what the Vice President is doing. In his Constitutional role of presiding over the Senate – which today may involve little more than voting in the case of a tie and sitting beside the Speaker of the House during joint sessions of Congress – Cheney serves in the legislative branch. When functioning as a member of the cabinet and a presidential advisor, Cheney is not fulfilling any legislative duties envisioned under the Constitution. Executive privilege may apply, but with it should come the responsibilities of an executive branch official.
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The VP is Paid by the U.S. Senate. Given that the claim could be more valid that one would first think.
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Ancelotti rues dropped points
Carlo Ancelotti said Chelsea "deserved to win and needed to win" after Ciaran Clark's injury-time equaliser handed Aston Villa a share of the points at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea took the lead when Frank Lampard converted a disputed penalty, but Villa drew level going into the break when Ashley Young fired home a spot-kick at the other end.
Emile Heskey's header early in the second half looked to have given the visitors all three points, but late efforts from Didier Drogba and John Terry turned the match on its head going into injury time.
Villa were not to be denied, though, as Clark headed home at the far post to make it 3-3.
"I am disappointed obviously because I think we used a lot of energy in the second half to come back in the game and try to win," Ancelotti said. "We had a fantastic reaction and played very well with good energy and spirit.
"When we thought the game was won we lost two points in the last situation so, for this reason, I am disappointed because we deserved to win and needed to win. It is our fault because we were unable to maintain concentration.
"In the first half there were a lot of long balls and fouls. The second half was really good, we came back to play our football with intensity, creating a lot of situations to score. We scored two goals. It was good second half."
Ancelotti gave Jeffrey Bruma, 19, his first league start at centre back and, while he praised the youngster's performance, he acknowledged that Chelsea are struggling without their recognised defenders.
"Defensively we lost something," he said. "Obviously I just want to say that Bruma played very well but we are without Alex and Ivanovic - we lost some energy on the high ball.
"We conceded the second goal for this reason. The third was different because we needed to have more attention in the box."
Asked about the club's plans for the January market, he said: "In the centre back I think we have to look at the condition of Alex. This week he comes back from Brazil and we have to look. I don't like to speak here, but we need some players."
Chelsea now sit six points behind leaders Manchester United having played an extra game, but Ancelotti is refusing to admit defeat.
"First they have to win [their game in hand]," he said. "Second, I think the gap is not a light gap in this moment but everything is open again. Obviously we have to beat them here and then you can say something about the title.
"It is not over because we are improving and we can save something this season. We lost confidence because the hard moment was too long, but I think we are improving."
Drogba and Terry appeared to have an argument at the final whistle, but Ancelotti dismissed suggestions of a rift. "Everything is okay," he said.
Gerard Houllier is hoping the results signals the start of a new era for Villa.
"The fact that we managed to get the equaliser meant that we were not letting our heads go down, we were not showing the impression that some teams can have," he told Sky. "I think the equaliser, to me, epitomises the start of the season for us."
Houllier also hit out at rumours of dressing-room unrest at Villa Park following Tuesday's 4-0 thrashing at Manchester City.
"I've read so many things that really stun me, that are nothing to do with the truth," he said.
"Sometimes a player who is not playing calls his agent and his agent calls the press. You can't make a game like that and get a result and particularly react like that if you don't have some togetherness.
"Probably we gave in too early at Manchester City, but that's the past."
He added: "I felt that after the Manchester City game there was a collective awareness that we had to do something together.
"In training, the commitment was different. In the preparation of the game, you could feel and sense things and there was a feeling of togetherness that was good for this game because we knew we were at the foot of a huge mountain.
"In the circumstances that we are in, we knew it would be difficult, but the players were fantastic in terms of effort, in terms of quality of play.
"There was a feeling the fighting was there. When you are in difficulty, the first thing you need is to fight for each other."
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Related to farming: Organic farming, Poultry farming
fat farm
A slightly derogatory term for a clinic, treatment center, or resort that is aimed at helping people lose weight. My weight ballooned after the inactivity that resulted from my surgery, so I'm heading to the fat farm this summer to try to get it back to normal.
bought the farm
Died. Did you hear that old Walt bought the farm? What a shame—at least he got to spend 92 years on this earth.
funny farm
Derogatory slang for a psychiatric hospital or mental health facility. If I don't take a vacation soon, I'll be headed to the funny farm.
bet the farm
To risk everything on a venture that one thinks will be successful. Primarily heard in US. I wouldn't bet the farm on that wacky invention. He's broke now because he bet the farm on a failed business venture.
buy it
1. slang To believe that something is true. My brother says that his latest scheme will make millions, but I'm not buying it. I told the teacher that my dog ate my homework, and she totally bought it! At least I think she did.
2. slang To die. When Ray got back last night, he told the boss that the informant bought it and won't be a problem anymore.
buy the farm
slang To die. Did you hear that old Walt bought the farm? What a shame—at least he got to spend 92 years on this earth.
buy the farmand buy it
Sl. to die; to get killed. (The farm is a burial plot.) I'll pass through this illness; I'm too young to buy the farm. He lived for a few hours after his collapse, but then he bought it.
farm someone out
1. [for someone in control] to send someone to work for someone else. I have farmed my electrician out for a week, so your work will have to wait. We farmed out the office staff.
2. to send a child away to be cared for by someone; to send a child to boarding school. We farmed the kids out to my sister for the summer. We farmed out the kids.
farm something out
1. to deplete the fertility of land by farming too intensely. They farmed their land out through careless land management. They farmed out their land.
2. to send work to someone to be done away from one's normal place of business; to subcontract work. We farmed the assembly work out. We always farm out the actual final assembly of the finished units.
sell the farmand bet the farm
Fig. to liquidate all one's assets in order to raise money to invest in something. It's a risky proposition. I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
You can bet the farm (on someone or something).
Rur. You can be certain of someone or something. This is a good investment. You can bet the farm on it. You can bet the farm that Joe is gonna get that job.
bet the farm
to risk everything you have because you are certain of something bet the ranch No matter how confident you are in the future, you should never bet the farm on one idea.
farm out something (to somebody)also farm something out (to somebody)
to give work or responsibilities to other people Magazines often farm out articles to freelance writers. If you can't finish the reports by next week, you should farm them out.
farm out somebody (to somebody)also farm somebody out (to somebody)
to give someone to someone else who will take care of them She farmed out her children to her brother for two weeks.
bet the farm/ranch(American)
to spend almost all the money you have on something that you think might bring you success (often + on ) TV networks are obviously willing to bet the ranch on special sports events - they paid millions to broadcast the Olympics.
factory farming
a system for producing eggs, meat, and milk quickly and cheaply by keeping animals in small closed areas and giving them food which makes them grow quickly They've launched a campaign against the abuses of factory farming. (mainly British)
a funny farm(humorous)
a hospital for people who are mentally ill
Usage notes: This expression may be offensive in some situations.If things get much worse they'll be carrying me off to the funny farm.
buy it
1. Suffer a severe reversal, as in If they can't raise the money in time, they'll buy it. [Slang; mid-1900s]
2. Be killed; die. For example, By the time we could get to the hospital, he had bought it. Originating during World War I as military slang, this term later was extended to peacetime forms of death. A later slang equivalent is buy the farm, dating from about 1950. For example, He'll soon buy the farm riding that motorcycle. According to J.E. Lighter, it alludes to training flights crashing in a farmer's field, causing the farmer to sue the government for damages sufficient to pay off the farm's mortgage. Since the pilot usually died in such a crash, he in effect bought the farm with his life.
3. Believe it; see buy something.
buy the farm
see under buy it.
farm out
Assign something to an outsider; subcontract something. For example, The contractor was so busy he had to farm out two jobs to a colleague, or When their mother was hospitalized, the children had to be farmed out to the nearest relatives . This term originally referred to letting or leasing land. Today it usually refers to subcontracting work or the care of a dependent to another. In baseball it means "to assign a player to a lesser ( farm) league," as opposed to a big league. [Mid-1600s]
fat farm
A clinic or resort where people go to lose weight, as in She spends all her vacations at a fat farm but it hasn't helped so far. This is a somewhat derisive term for such an establishment. [Colloquial; 1960s]
farm out
1. To distribute or delegate something, especially a task or responsibility: The camp counselor farmed out the cleaning tasks to the campers. We farmed the chores out to the kids.
2. Baseball To demote a major-league player to a minor-league team: The coach decided to farm the catcher out until he improved. The struggling pitcher was farmed out yesterday.
buy it
tv. to die. (see also buy the farm, buy the big one.) He lay there coughing for a few minutes, and then he bought it.
buy the farm
tv. to die; to get killed. (The farm may be a grave site. No one knows the origin.) I'm too young to buy the farm.
funny farm
n. an insane asylum; a psychiatric hospital. He's really weird. They're going to send him to the funny farm.
buy itSlang
To be killed.
buy the farmSlang
To die, especially suddenly or violently.
buy the farm
Die. This phrase comes from the military: members of the armed forces were issued insurance policies. Many servicemen speculated that when they returned to civilian life, they would buy a farm back home or pay off the mortgage on one that they or their parents owned. To die was literally to retire, and so combat victims were said to have "bought the farm." Other phrases that mean "to die" are "cash in your chips" (as if checking out of a poker game), "fall off the perch" (an expiring caged bird), and "go South" (someone now living up North returning to his or her native soil).


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Cass County declines to prosecute child injury case: punishment was legal
FARGO - The Cass County State's Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute a man who was arrested last week on suspicion of injuring a young girl.
Naser Gashi, 26, of Fargo was taken into custody after police were called to a home in the 900 block of 44th Street South on a report of child abuse.
Police found a girl there who had obvious injuries to her face, and Gashi, who was caring for the child, was taken into custody.
Assistant Cass County State's Attorney Mark Boening said Tuesday he declined to prosecute the case because the injuries to the 4-year-old girl's face did not exceed what is permitted under North Dakota's corporal punishment law.
Boening said Gashi told authorities he rubbed the girl's lips with his fingers to discipline her for urinating where she wasn't supposed to.
Boening said North Dakota law permits parents and others who are taking care of children to use "reasonable force" to discipline a child as long as the force does not create a substantial risk of death, serious bodily injury, disfigurement or gross degradation.
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In early 2011, I was thinking about getting started with NoSQL databases but wasn't sure which NoSQL data store I should start with. I wanted to learn a NoSQL database that didn't have a steep learning curve and was generic enough to solve more than one problem. I zeroed down on Redis and started my NoSQL journey. In the last 2.5 years I have worked with many NoSQL databases including MongoDB , HBase, and Cassandra but haven't spent much time with Redis . Recently, OpenShift announced support for community-contributed cartridges. Even though Redis is still not "officially" supported by OpenShift, you can easily use it with the community contributed cartridge. In this blog post, we will start with Redis basics, and then build a Spring Data Redis application, then finally deploy the application on OpenShift.
What is Redis?
Redis(REmote DIctionary Server) is an open source, advanced, NoSQL key value datastore written in the ANSI C programming language. It is an in-memory datastore but writes to disk as well for durability. There are two ways Redis can persist the data – RDB and AOF. RDB persistence performs point-in-time snapshots of your dataset at specified intervals. It is not very durable and you may loose some data but it is very fast. On the other hand, AOF persistence is much more durable and logs every write operation received by the server, that will be played again at server startup, reconstructing the original dataset. Whenever you query the Redis, data is served from in-memory and never from the disk. All operations performed by Redis on keys and values are stored in memory. It follows the server client model where it listens to TCP port and accepts commands. All the commands in Redis are atomic so there are no race conditions. You can work with the same key from different clients and there will be no race condition. If you have worked with Memcached (an in-memory object caching system) you will find that it is very similar, but Redis is Memcached++. Redis servers can also be clustered together to provide for very flexible deployment.
Redis Data Types
The Redis data model is very different from RDBMS and any plain NoSQL key-value data store for that matter. Redis datatypes resemble foundational datatypes of programming languages and feel natural to developers. Every data type supports operations applicable to its type. The supported data types are :
- Strings
- Lists
- Sets
- Sorted Sets
- Hashes
For more information into Redis data types you can refer to Redis documentation.
Getting Started with Redis
Getting started with Redis is as simple as downloading the tarball, extracting it, and running the make command as shown below.
$ wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.7.tar.gz $ tar xzf redis-2.6.7.tar.gz $ cd redis-2.6.7 $ make
The binaries that are now compiled are available in the src directory. Run Redis with:
$ src/redis-server [894] 11 Sep 12:35:22.281 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use ./src/redis-server /path/to/redis.conf [894] 11 Sep 12:35:22.283 * Max number of open files set to 10032 [894] 11 Sep 12:35:22.289 # Server started, Redis version 2.6.7 [894] 11 Sep 12:35:22.290 * DB loaded from disk: 0.000 seconds [894] 11 Sep 12:35:22.290 * The server is now ready to accept connections on port 6379
You can interact with Redis using the built-in client:
$ src/redis-cli redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ping PONG redis 127.0.0.1:6379> redis 127.0.0.1:6379> redis 127.0.0.1:6379> INFO # Server redis_version:2.6.7 redis_git_sha1:00000000 redis_git_dirty:0 redis_mode:standalone os:Darwin 12.0.0 x86_64 arch_bits:64 multiplexing_api:kqueue gcc_version:4.2.1 process_id:3449 run_id:270454ebad19fbc851194548569efca6ac63e00a tcp_port:6379 uptime_in_seconds:95 uptime_in_days:0 lru_clock:1407736 ....
Developing Spring Redis Applications
Now we are going to discuss how a Java developer can build applications using the Spring Data Redis project. Spring Data for Redis is part of the umbrella Spring Data project which provides support for writing Redis applications. The Spring framework has always promoted a POJO based programming model with a strong emphasis on productivity, consistency, and portability. These values are carried over to Spring Data Redis project as well. It provides an abstraction over the existing Redis client libraries like Jedis, JRedis, Lettuce , SRP, and RJC. Which you choose doesn't make any difference to your use of the Spring Data Redis library. The differences between the drivers have been abstracted out into a common set of APIs and template-style helpers. In this blog, we will use Jedis driver.
The Spring Data Redis project makes it very easy to work with a Redis key-value datastore by eliminating the boiler plate code required for interacting with Redis. This relieves developers from having to learn the low-level API. It also provides a generified template class named RedisTemplate which is very similar to JDBCTemplate or HibernateTemplate to interact with Redis. RedisTemplate is the main class for object oriented interaction with Redis. It handles object serialization and type conversion so that as a developer you work with Objects and don't not have to worry about serialization and type conversion.
Basic Java knowledge is required.
Redis 2.6.7 or above installed.
Install the latest Java Development Kit (JDK) on your operating system. You can either install OpenJDK 7 or Oracle JDK 7. OpenShift support OpenJDK 6 and 7.
Download the latest Eclipse package for your operating system from the official Eclipse website.
Sign up for an OpenShift Account. It is free and instant. Red Hat gives every user three free Gears on which to run your applications. At the time of this writing, the combined resources allocated for each user is 1.5 GB of memory and 3 GB of disk space.
Note : Source code of the application is available on github.
Step 1 : Create a Maven Project
After you have installed everything mentioned in the prerequisite section we can start with creating a Maven project using Eclipse. Open the Eclipse application, and go to File > New > Maven Project as shown below.
Next it will ask you to select a project name and location. Go with the default settings. After pressing the Next button you will be asked to select Maven archetype. Select "maven-archetype-quickstart" as shown below.
Next it will ask you enter the Maven project details as shown below, then press the Finish button.
Eclipse Maven tooling will import the project into your Eclipse workspace.
Step 2 : Upgrade to JDK 7
The template project created by Maven uses JDK 5 but in our application we will be using JDK 7. So in pom.xml add the Maven compiler plugin and use source and target version as 1.7. Also, in the pom.xml shown below I have updated JUnit dependency to the latest 4.11 version.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.openshift</groupId> <artifactId>blog</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>blog</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.11</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.1</version> <configuration>  <source>1.7</source> <target>1.7</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
After making these changes you have to update the project. To update the maven project, right click on your project and then do Maven > Update Project.
Step 3 : Upgrade to WAR Project
We will be developing a Spring MVC web application so we have to upgrade our project from jar to war project. To do that, we will add the Maven war plugin and change packaging to war as shown below in pom.xml. I have removed some sections from pom.xml for brevity.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.openshift</groupId> <artifactId>blog</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>war</packaging> <name>blog</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <dependencies> ... </dependencies> <build> <plugins> ... <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> <configuration> <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
Adding "failOnMissingWebXml" ensures that Maven packages the WAR file even though no "web.xml" is present. From Java EE 6 onwards , web.xml is optional.
Step 4 : Adding Spring MVC Dependencies
Add the following dependencies to the pom.xml dependencies section.
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId> <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId> <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId> <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId> <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId> <version>1.9.13</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId> <version>3.1.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId> <artifactId>velocity</artifactId> <version>1.7</version> </dependency>
Step 5 : Configuring Spring Web MVC
Create a new package com.openshift.blog.config and add a new class called WebappConfig as shown below.
package com.openshift.blog.config; import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean; import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration; import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc; import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityConfigurer; import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver; @Configuration @EnableWebMvc public class WebappConfig { @Bean public VelocityConfigurer velocityConfigurer() { VelocityConfigurer velocityConfigurer = new VelocityConfigurer(); velocityConfigurer.setResourceLoaderPath("/WEB-INF/velocity"); return velocityConfigurer; } @Bean public VelocityViewResolver velocityViewResolver() { VelocityViewResolver viewResolver = new VelocityViewResolver(); viewResolver.setCache(true); viewResolver.setPrefix(""); viewResolver.setSuffix(".vm"); return viewResolver; } }
In the code shown above :
We annotated the class with @Configuration annotation. @Configuration annotation indicates that class will declare one or more @Bean methods and the Spring container will process the class to generate bean definitions.
We annotated the class with @EnableWebMvc annotation which configured Spring MVC.
We defined couple of beans to use Apache Velocity as our view technology.
Since we are not using web.xml, we have to implement org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer interface. This interface needs to be implemented in Servlet 3.0+ environments in order to configure the ServletContext programmatically — as opposed to (or possibly in conjunction with) the traditional web.xml-based approach. Create BlogAppInitializer class as shown below.
public class BlogAppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer { @Override public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException { AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext webApplicationContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext(); webApplicationContext.register(WebappConfig.class, AppConfig.class); webApplicationContext.getEnvironment().setActiveProfiles("openshift"); Dynamic dynamic = servletContext.addServlet("blogApp", new DispatcherServlet(webApplicationContext)); dynamic.setLoadOnStartup(1); dynamic.addMapping("/"); } }
Step 6 : Configuring RedisConnectionFactory
Before we can configure RedisConnectionFactory we need to add Spring Data Redis dependencies. In your application pom.xml file add the following dependencies.
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId> <artifactId>spring-data-redis</artifactId> <version>1.1.0.RC1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>redis.clients</groupId> <artifactId>jedis</artifactId> <version>2.1.0</version> </dependency>
RedisConnectionFactory is a thread-safe connection factory for Redis connections. RedisConnection is a short-lived, non-thread safe connection to Redis server. RedisConnection provides one-to-one mapping with Redis commands, whereas RedisConnectionFactory provides convenience methods that help eliminate boilerplate code. RedisConnectionFactory makes switching among the different Redis client APIs as easy as defining a bean. To connect to Redis using Jedis, you need to create an instance of org.springframe work.data.redis.connection.jedis.JedisConnectionFactory.
In this blog we'll use JedisConnectionFactory for the sample application, but you can use any of the other ConnectionFactory variants.
@Configuration @Profile("openshift") public class OpenShiftJedisRedisConfig implements RedisConfig { @Bean public RedisConnectionFactory redisConnectionFactory() { JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory = new JedisConnectionFactory(); jedisConnectionFactory.setHostName(System.getenv("OPENSHIFT_REDIS_HOST")); jedisConnectionFactory.setPort( Integer.valueOf(System.getenv("OPENSHIFT_REDIS_PORT"))); jedisConnectionFactory.setPassword(System.getenv("REDIS_PASSWORD")); jedisConnectionFactory.setUsePool(true); return jedisConnectionFactory; } }
Step 7 : Configuring RedisTemplate
RedisTemplate provides high level abstraction for performing various redis operations, exception translation and serialization support. It is very similar to the JDBC template or JPA template. This relieves developers from learning low-level API. It is the central abstraction you're likely to use when accessing Redis via Spring Data Redis. The various operations on data are split up into separate Operations classes.
@Configuration @ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = { AppConfig.class, BlogRepository.class }, excludeFilters = { @Filter(EnableWebMvc.class) }) public class AppConfig { @Inject private RedisConfig redisConfig; @Bean public RedisTemplate<String, Blog> redisTemplate() { RedisTemplate<String, Blog> template = new RedisTemplate<>(); template.setConnectionFactory(redisConfig.redisConnectionFactory()); template.setKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer()); template.setValueSerializer(new JacksonJsonRedisSerializer<>(Blog.class)); template.setHashKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer()); template.setHashValueSerializer(new JacksonJsonRedisSerializer<>(Blog.class)); return template; } }
In the code shown above, we are setting various serializers because Redis deals directly with byte arrays and doesn't natively perform Object to byte[] translation. The Spring Data Redis project provides some helper utilities to make it easier to read and write data from Java code. The StringRedisSerializer utility makes our keys and values human-readable from the Redis command-line interface. The JacksonJsonRedisSerializer converts keys and values to human readable JSON format. This is very useful when we want to store an object in redis.
Step 8 : Save Blog to Redis Datastore
Now create a BlogRepository class, as shown below.
@Repository public class BlogRepository { @Inject private RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate; public String save(Blog blog) { HashOperations<String, String, Blog> opsForHash = redisTemplate.opsForHash(); opsForHash.put("blogs", blog.getId(), blog); return blog.getId(); } }
As you can see above, you inject RedisTemplate, the core class in the Spring Data Redis project, into BlogRepository.
RedisTemplate provides key-type operations such as ValueOperations, ListOperations, SetOperations, HashOperations, and ZSetOperations. In the code shown above we used HashOperations to store a new blog in the Redis datastore. The put() operation sets field in the hash stored at key to value.
Step 9 : View Blog from Redis Datastore
The next function that we will implement is getting blog from the hash. We will use HashOperations get() method to get the blog for the given id.
public Blog get(String id) { return (Blog) redisTemplate.opsForHash().get("blogs", id); }
Step 10 : View Ten Latest Blogs
The last functionality that we need to add to BlogRepository is to view ten latest blogs. To achieve this, we will store the created blog in a list and trim that list to 10 elements.
public String save(Blog blog) { HashOperations<String, String, Blog> opsForHash = redisTemplate.opsForHash(); opsForHash.put("blogs", blog.getId(), blog); ListOperations<String, Object> opsForList = redisTemplate.opsForList(); opsForList.leftPush("latestBlogs", blog); opsForList.trim("latestBlogs", 0, 9); return blog.getId();
Next we will implement latestBlogs() method which will just return all the elements from "latestBlogs" list.
public List<Blog> latestBlogs(){ List<Object> objs = redisTemplate.opsForList().range("latestBlogs", 0, -1); List<Blog> blogs = new ArrayList<>(); for (Object blog : objs) { blogs.add((Blog)blog); } return blogs; }
Step 11 : Add IndexController
The application will render the latest ten blogs when we will go to the index("/") page. Create a new class IndexController as shown below.
package com.openshift.blog.controllers; import java.util.List; import javax.inject.Inject; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView; import com.openshift.blog.domain.Blog; import com.openshift.blog.repository.BlogRepository; @Controller @RequestMapping("/") public class IndexController { @Inject private BlogRepository blogRepository; @RequestMapping public ModelAndView index(){ List<Blog> blogs = blogRepository.latestBlogs(); ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView(); modelAndView.addObject("blogs", blogs); modelAndView.setViewName("index"); return modelAndView; } }
The code shown above will fetch the 10 latest blogs from the Redis and add them to ModelAndView. Index velocity template is shown below.

List of Blogs

 #foreach($blog in $blogs)
${blog.title}
 #end

Index template extends Layout template shown below.
<!doctype HTML>   <title>Welcome to Blog Application</title>   $screen_content
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Step 12 : Add BlogController
Next create a new class called BlogController as shown below.
package com.openshift.blog.controllers; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import javax.inject.Inject; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod; import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView; import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.RedirectView; import com.openshift.blog.domain.Blog; import com.openshift.blog.repository.BlogRepository; @Controller @RequestMapping("/blogs") public class BlogController { @Inject private BlogRepository blogRepository; @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET) public ModelAndView blogForm() { ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("create"); return modelAndView; } @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST) public RedirectView createBlog(Blog blog) { String blogId = blogRepository.save(blog); return new RedirectView("/blogs/" + blogId, true); } @RequestMapping(value="/{blogId}") public ModelAndView showBlog(@PathVariable("blogId") String blogId){ Blog blog = blogRepository.get(blogId); Map<String, Object> model = new HashMap<String, Object>(); model.put("blog", blog); return new ModelAndView("show", model); } }
The code shown above does the following :
When a user makes GET request to "/blogs" then it will render form to create a blog.
When a user submits the form, a post request will be made and blog will be saved to Redis using BlogRepository save method. After save, user will be redirected to the blog.
When user makes GET request to view the blog, blog is fetched from BlogRepository and shown to user using show velocity template.
Step 13 : Deploy to OpenShift
Install JBoss Tools OpenShift plugin as mentioned my earlier blog.
Create a new OpenShift application by going to File > New > Other > OpenShift Application and entering details as shown below.
Next you will be asked to set up a blog and configure server adapter settings. Choose the default and click Next as shown below. We already have a project that we want to use so we will use existing project as shown below.
The next screen will ask you to specify the location where you want to clone the git repository and name of the git remote.Choose the default options.
Finally, press the Finish button and you are done. This will create an application container for us, called a gear, and setup all of the required SELinux policies and cgroup configuration.
Next open pom.xml and change the openshift profile as shown below. The profile added by JBoss tools has a bug that it uses outputDirectory as deployments. This works with JBoss EAP and JBoss AS7 cartridges but with Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7 cartridges output directory should be webapps.
<profiles> <profile> <id>openshift</id> <build> <finalName>blog</finalName> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> <configuration> <outputDirectory>webapps</outputDirectory> <warName>ROOT</warName> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </profile> </profiles>
Go to servers view , then right click on blog OpenShift server, and click Publish as shown below.
This will not work as we have not added Redis cartridge to the application.
Step 14 : Install Redis Cartridge
To install Redis cartridge to our blog application , run the command shown below. This command assumes you already have installed OpenShift rhc command line client tool.
$ rhc add-cartridge http://cartreflect-claytondev.rhcloud.com/reflect?github=smarterclayton/openshift-redis-cart --app blog
This will add Redis support to our application.
Now just open up your favorite browser and go to http://blog-{domain-name}.rhcloud.com. You will see your application running. To create a new blog go to http://blog-{domain-name}.rhcloud.com/blogs.
In this blog we covered how you can develop Java based Redis applications using Spring Redis project and deploy them to OpenShift. You are now fully equipped to use Redis on OpenShift even though it is still not officially supported. It's fully functional and you can use you it for building your applications. So, if you are a Java (EE) or Spring developer looking for a deployment platform then give OpenShift a try.
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Are ITV breaking broadcasting regulations by showing advertisements during live Formula 1 races? Jon McKnight thinks so, and he's trying to do something about it. Also in the round-up of the F1 blogs this week, Superleague Formula, BMW's Pit Lane Park, the joys of being a Minardi fan, and why NASCAR fans should give F1 … Continue reading F1 in the blogs 24: ITV & Ofcom
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A last-gasp lap from Felipe Massa seized pole position from Fernando Alonso in the dying stages of qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen lines up third ahead of Lewis Hamilton, while Nico Rosberg took an excellent sixth for Williams.


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Andrew Bynum was supposed to talk on Monday. He didn't. Something happened. Something always happens with Bynum -- except playing basketball. That never happens. Not this year. Not so far.
So he didn't talk on Monday. On Tuesday, before the Sixers faced the Magic in a game that no semi-sane person would willingly watch, reporters surrounded Bynum's locker at the Wells Fargo Center. This is SOP (standard operating procedure) for BTD (Bynum Talking Day). We waited. Then we waited some more. Bynum never showed. Then the locker room closed because media hours were over.
Don't feel bad for us. This isn't about that. This is about Bynum and his team and what happened next -- or, rather, what didn't. The reporters waited outside the locker room and hoped Bynum would materialize and talk because, well, it's the Sixers and what else is there to write about a going-nowhere team playing another going-nowhere team in late February? Exactly. Not much. Not anything, really.
So we waited. After a while, a Sixers PR handler materialized and told us that Bynum would not talk on Tuesday after all. We were told he would talk Wednesday after practice. Then we were told there wouldn't be practice on Wednesday and that Bynum won't talk until Friday. That's the current plan -- Friday. But you know how plans and Bynum get along (hint: not well).
According to the PR person, Bynum apologized "for not being here sooner." I assume he meant on Tuesday, but he could just as easily have been talking about the entire season. Bynum also wasn't on the bench for the Sixers' 98-84 loss to the Magic (see game recap). That sparked a conversation on Twitter and press row about where he was (supposedly in the building) and why he wasn't sitting with the team (supposedly getting treatment).
That's when it occurred to me: The semi-regular Bynum updates/sightings are the only things keeping the Sixers relevant.
Imagine how bleak the Sixers' situation would be if they didn't have a giant 25-year-old with two question marks for knees to dangle in front of us every week or so. If Bynum wasn't on the roster, if the mystery about him didn't exist, the fire for professional basketball in this town would have already gone out. As it is, the embers are barely glowing, and that's only because Bynum remains a curiosity and a concern.
The Sixers missed a grand opportunity this year to increase interest in the team. There was a monstrous void for months with nothing even remotely compelling or promising to fill it. The Eagles had a horrible season. The Flyers were in a lockout. The Phils were on hiatus after a disappointing campaign. And the Sixers still couldn't get the fans or the media to focus on them. The one lasting storyline this season has been Bynum and his unknown return date.
Sports are ultimately entertainment. It is why the Sixers built the world's largest T-shirt cannon and fire off confetti after inconsequential wins and hand out Big Macs when the team scores 100 points. It's part of the show. When the actors and the plot aren't very good, you need something else to get people inside the theater.
About that: attendance numbers are tricky. More than once, someone with the Sixers told me their figures in that department are up this year from last year. Having been in the building for all but a few home games, I find that hard to believe. So do the people who track these things. According to them, the Sixers averaged 17,502 fans last season (14th in the NBA). This year, those same people have the Sixers averaging around 16,400 (19th).
But whether the attendance is better or worse doesn't matter all that much. What matters is that the attendance isn't good. It's why Sixers CEO Adam Aron went on Twitter recently and gave away free lower bowl tickets to 12 fans -- because the seats were available. He could have given away 120 or 1,200 seats without issue.
Which brings us back to Bynum. His saga -- his knees and what the Sixers knew and when they knew it and whether he and/or the team misled the town -- is the only thing that gets anyone to glance (however momentarily) in the Sixers' direction these days. Without him -- or, rather, without his mouth and his hair and his off-court antics -- the Sixers would be completely ignored instead of mostly ignored. How grim.
Forget about a tree falling in the woods. Here's a better question, one you and the Sixers already know the answer to: If a giant tree of a man doesn't play and doesn't talk, does his team make a sound?


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I've heard of some crazy things in fashion but never jewelry made out of dead bugs. Apparently, two 17 year olds, Katheryn Maloney and Brady Cullinan, of Sandwich (ha), MA, are selling jewelry made out of cicadas (a type of insect with large eyes) that are swarming Cape Cod this Summer. For $10 and a trip to the local farmers' market in Sandwich, you can have your very own earring or necklace made out of lacquered-insect corpses. I guess Fall clothes aren't the only things buggin' out. This is too freaky for words. What do you think?


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Santa Cruz swimmer Marguerite Meyer, 55, dominated her division and won four events at the FINA World Masters Championships in Montreal, which ran on July 27-Aug. 10.
Meyer, competing for the The Olympic Club and the USA Masters team, set a new heat record in winning the 55-59 women's 800-meter freestyle race in a time of 10 minutes, 21 seconds.
The All-American swimmer also swept her division by winning the 200 free (2:24.62), the 400 free (5:00.64) and the 3,000 open water swim (44:06.5).
Meyer, a member of the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame, took home bronze in the 400 individual medley (6:11.81) to round off her international trip.
SC'S HOFFMAN WINS HENRY COWELL 10K >> Santa Cruz's Ryan Hoffman won the Santa Cruz Trail Run 10-kilometer race with a time of 41:28 at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on Saturday.
Hoffman finished ahead of runner-up Michael Caplan (44:49) of Monterey and Mill Valley's Dan Pagano (46:24).
Concord's Craig Schmidt won the half marathon in 1:35:11, while Rickie Russell of Novato won the 30k in 2:07:18. Santa Cruz's Justen Whittall, 39, took first in his 30k division (men's 30-39) in 2:19:30.
LOCALS PLACE AT CHAMPIONSHIPS >> Laurel resident Bruce Siegel won a national title and placed second in the world in the recurve division at the NFAA and IFAA Field Championships in Yankton, S.D. earlier this month.
Aptos' Dan Vermilyer took second nationally and third in the world in the longbow division.
CAPITOLAMAN SET FOR SEPT. >> The Central Coast's first full distance triathlon will debut this year with the CapitolaMan on Sept. 13.
The race consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run throughout the Monterey Bay. Distances are identical to a traditional Ironman triathlon, but is not affiliated with Ironman Corp. or the World Triathlon Corporation.
The event kicks off with a swim at Seacliff State Park Beach on a two-lap triangular course. It will be followed by the cycling leg, which will run off major roads and highways from Seacliff toward the Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia Mountains and back. The bike course promises to be fast, as climbs are just over 2,000 feet of elevation along the way. The final running leg will be held at Nisene Marks State Park with around 900 ft. of course elevation.
The CapitolaMan will also hold a Relay division and an Aquabike division during the event. Competition will be limited to 850 participants.
For registration and information on the CapitolaMan, visit capitolaman.com.


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I found a drawing on the internet and used it , i actually coudnt decide what to draw XD I know its not that good but i tried ..lol
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