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When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, a nun gave Edith Bolick a silkscreen print bearing one of Kennedy's quotes: "Each time a man stands for an ideal or strikes out against injustice, or acts to improve the lot of others, he sends forth a ripple of hope."
That statement became central to Dr. Bolick's life. This associate dean and sociology professor at Catawba College has made a commitment to helping others. "If you act in ways that lift people up and improve your life as well as theirs, it makes a difference," she says, "and little differences add up."
Called "the soul of equanimity," Bolick is universally admired on campus. She received the Trustee Award for outstanding contribution to the college in 1998.
She gives each individual the gift of her complete attention, listening without judgment. Her background in sociology has influenced that approach to listening. She knows that people are shaped by all sorts of forces, both biological and environmental.
Sociology became her passion when she was an undergraduate. "Going to college in the '60s, when society was in a state of upheaval, made me want to understand why things happen the way they do," she says. "It drew me to my discipline."
Now she tries to engender that same passion in her sociology majors. Dr. Bolick also tries to help non-majors understand how society works and how it influences people. "I hope they become less judgmental and more objective," she says. "I hope they look at all the forces that influence people and influence their own lives, too."


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I've tried the Sony Ericsson Z200 on two separate networks: Fido (Ottawa, Canada) and MTCTouch (Beirut, Lebanon). In Beirut, the reception is good. But, in Beirut, the reception is good in *elevators*. In Ottawa, there is a buzzing sound when the backlight is on. And even when the backlight is off, it is not uncommon for the reception to become choppy. Why can't they make a sexy phone with good reception? (note: both networks are GSM)
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Since my old mobile phone somehow found itself in the washing machine (Samsung A800) i was looking for another phone as stylish as my old one. This Sony Ericsson Z200 is the phone that saved me. It is GREAT!! The colour screen beats most nokias and you can change the phone to suit your mood. With other great features that weren't on the A800 like saving email addresses and wallpapers it is a very stylish phone. It is great value for money as it costs less than the A800 and is an all around... (read more)
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This Sony Ericsson Z200 is a mobile phone targeted for youngsters who love to stand out of the crowd. It is an eye-catcher. If don't need camera, MMS, Bluetooth, email client, Java but you want everybody to ask you to take a look at your mobile, then this is the one. The sound is very loud and clear, the 4096 color screen is top for it's resolution (beats every Nokia), SMS messages are easy to write once you get used to the keyboard. You have also an IR port with which you can transfer pics... (read more)
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I've had good (T630) and bad (Z600) to say about the current batch of phones from Sony! My first impression when I opened the box on the Sony Ericsson Z200 mobile phone was WOW! The phone looks gorgeous and will definately be a winner with the style conscious users. But at what cost?
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Last week my wife informed me she had seen the first big black rat snake of the year stretched across the road in front of our house. "What are you going to do about it?" she asked/demanded.
I answered as I always do: "Nothing. I'm not about to kill a snake simply because it has the audacity to breathe the same air we do."
And then I launched into my standard "defense of snakes" lecture. Nonpoisonous snakes are harmless. They eat mice, rats and chipmunks. Having them near the house is a good thing. In fact, I place pieces of sheet metal and plywood lying strategically, but inconspicuously, on the edges of the yard as snake habitat. When I peek under this cover, I usually find at least one beautiful little ringneck snake, a juvenile rat snake or young milk snake.
Some people find this shocking. These are the people who kill every snake they find. "The only good snake is a dead snake," they say with authority. But those are the voices of ignorance.
Most snakes encountered in a backyard setting are harmless. Garter snakes (seldom longer than 36 inches) can be recognized by three longitudinal stripes that run the length of the body. Ringneck snakes (up to 20 inches) are charcoal gray with a gorgeous yellow or orange ring around its neck.
Smooth green snakes (up to 22 inches) are bright lime green. They blend in perfectly with lush vegetation, so they often fall victim to lawn mowers. In death, green snakes quickly turn blue as unstable yellow pigments break down, leaving only the more stable blue pigments behind.
Black rat (up to 7 feet long) and eastern milk snakes (up to 4 feet) are the most intimidating species that occur in backyards and the only ones whose bite might break the skin.


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Otto Perez Molina, a former general who was in charge of the Nebaj, Quiche military base during Guatemala's genocide from mid-1982 to mid-1983, has won the presidency.
As evidence grows of Perez Molina's participation in crimes against humanity and genocide, the question of how the international community will respond to this head of State - accused of being an intellectual and material author of torture, disappearances, executions, massacres and indeed genocide - becomes urgent. As of yet, no State or public official in Guatemala, or elsewhere, has publicly discussed the issue of the war crimes and genocide charges against Perez Molina.
Electoral authorities reported that Perez Molina finished with 56% of the vote; Manuel Baldizon finished with 44%, in the November 6th run-off elections. Perez Molina will take office the first week of January. The U.S. embassy released a statement congratulating him.
This article looks more closely at who Perez Molina is. This article does not provide broader analysis of how Guatemala continues to be a fundamentally undemocratic country, wherein the institutions and democracy and the rule of law are corrupted and/or dominated by the traditional powerful elite sectors. Rights Action believes that, in many ways, the "elections" themselves serve to cover-up the underlying lack of democracy and rule of law.
Most of the crimes general Otto Perez Molina is accused of occurred before the creation of the International Criminal Court, making difficult prosecution through the international court created to try war criminals. However, international law establishes that nations have the responsibility to prosecute grave human rights abuses - including war crimes and genocide - and that there is no prescription period for their prosecution.
The Spanish National Court that is investigating the genocide in Guatemala, through this principal of universal jurisdiction, is investigating the role of Perez Molina in the genocide. The court has received testimony concerning Perez Molina's military ranking and concerning his participation in war crimes in Nebaj.
Jennifer Harbury, a US citizen whose husband, guerrilla commander Efrain Bamaca, was illegally detained in a secret detention center, tortured and eventually killed in the early 1990s, initiated a case in March 2011 against Perez Molina after Guatemalan courts violated due process and the right to access to justice in an earlier complaint initiated against lower ranking officers who had been under Perez Molina's command.
Otto Perez Molina was reported to be on the CIA payroll when, as head of the military's G2 intelligence unit, he allegedly ran a secret torture center on the Mariscal Zavala military base.
In September 2011, a complaint (a formal Allegation Letter) was submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture calling for an investigation into the role that Perez Molina played in the commission of genocide, torture and disappearances in Guatemala during the worst years of State repression and terrorism in the 1980s.
Perez Molina has denied not only participation in war crimes but has also publicly claimed that genocide did not occur in Guatemala.
In 1999, the United Nations released its Truth Commission report (Memory of Silence) concluding that over 93% of the atrocities were carried out by the military, police and paramilitaries; that the military conducted genocide against the Mayan population in certain areas, including the Nebaj region where Perez Molina was a high ranking officer; that at least 200,000 people were killed, over 45,000 people are disappeared, more than 600 massacres were committed and that over 1,000,000 were forcibly displaced from their homes.
In April 2008, the Catholic Church released its own report (Recovery of the Historic Memory) detailing decades of State repression and terrorism against the mainly indigenous Mayan people of Guatemala. The night following the release of the Church report, the person in charge of the investigation, Bishop Juan Gerardi, was bludgeoned to death, and his body left for all to see. While two former military officers are serving sentences for the assassination of Gerardi, investigators claim that evidence points to Perez Molina's involvement in the Gerardi killing, placing Perez Molina at the scene of the crime on the night of the killing.
The central theme in the elections in Guatemala was security and justice. Guatemala's homicide rate in March 2011 was reported to be 42 murders per 100,000 residents. Guatemala - like neighbors El Salvador and Honduras - has among the highest murder rates in the world, though Honduras' murder rate is currently double Guatemala's. This violence is attributable to Guatemala's historic and deep seated inequality, repression and impunity in general, and more recently to organize crime, particularly the drug trade.
Guatemala's first female Attorney General, Claudia Paz, has become something of a celebrity for the effective prosecutions she has led of against both organized crime kingpins and those accused of crimes against humanity in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. She took office in 2010 after a recently named Attorney General was fired following scandals that associated him with organized crime.
During her time in office, two top organized crime kingpins have been arrested, after they had operated for decades with the protection and involvement of some military, political and legal authorities, and a slew of war crimes have started to move ahead (slowly) in a way never seen before.
A former head of the national police was arrested, tried and convicted in July 2011 for the war crime of forced disappearance. Military officers involved in the gruesome (and typical) Dos Erres massacre received extended sentences. On June 20, 2011, former General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes was arrested as an intellectual author of genocide against the Ixil people, in the Nebaj region, between 1982 and 1982. On October 12, 2011, Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, head of military intelligence accused of genocide against the Ixil people, was arrested.
The Nebaj Military base was the center of the Mayan Ixil genocide. Former military head of State from 1983 to 1985, 70 year old Oscar Mejia Victores, is now in a military hospital under evaluation for his ability to stand trial. He is also accused in the Ixil genocide.
As these genocide trials advance (almost 30 years later) against the highest ranking officers accused of genocide in the Mayan Ixil region, the circle closes in around Perez Molina, who was also a high ranking officer in the Ixil region at that time.
A frequent question during the elections was who would let the attorney general stay on, and both candidates promised to keep her on. However, growing reaction against the prosecution of former military officers, by former military officers, has lead to concern over repression against lawyers and human rights defenders, and concern that the Attorney General will be replaced with someone who continues the longstanding tradition of impunity, illegally blocking prosecutions of both war criminals and organized crime figures.
Ever since the "peace accords" of 1996, the growing organized crime networks that generate violence and terror in Guatemala have been directly and indirectly linked to military and former military personnel, particularly military intelligence officers, as well as to people working in the institutions of the State and legal system.
The Attorney General's office has expressed their intention to continue prosecutions and enjoys the political and financial support of the international community, but signs of the kind of pressure and manipulation they will be subjected to are already appearing.
On November 2, 2011, a former military colonel submitted a complaint against 26 well-known figures, including leading human rights advocates, academics, and politicians. Some of those named in this complaint are recognized as former members of revolutionary movements. He accuses them of participating in his kidnapping when he was a university student while his father served as the Minister of Governance during the regime of Efrain Rios Mont, another former military dictator and intellectual author of Guatemala's genocide.
Named in this complaint are two cousins of the current Attorney General, one of whom is deceased and the other has publicly denied any association with incident, explaining she was in exile at the time and that the motivation for her inclusion in the list was clearly due to her family ties to the Attorney General.
CONTINUING WITH THE VIOLENCE OF THE 1980s, WITH THE HELP OF THE UNITED STATES
The election of Perez Molina as president, just as Guatemala was making its first advances in some prosecutions (30 years later) to do justice for the State repression and genocide of the past and present, is another step backwards for the people of Guatemala in the struggle to live in a democratic country governed by the rule of law.
The violence and repression of the past and present are directly linked, rooted in the entrenched mechanisms of impunity. The crime networks that terrorize Guatemala today grew out of the State security forces that committed the genocide and atrocities of the 1970s, 80s and early 1990s.
These networks of war criminals (many being former military officers) benefited directly from widespread support from the United States during the "cold war". They continued to exercise political and economic control of the nation during the so-called "transition to democracy" in the 1990s. They maintain firm control over many State institutions today.
From the actual genocides of the 1970s and 80s, through the dominance of the FRG political party (headed by former genocidal general Efrain Rios Montt) in the late 1990s and the 2000-2004 presidency, to the ascendancy of Perez Molina, Guatemala continues to grapple with and suffer from the legacy and lack of justice and accountability for genocide.
Annie Bird, November 7, 2011
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The World's Tweets Light Up the Globe in Stunning Live Visualization
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It's simple, but lovely. Web designer Franck Ernewein's real-time Twitter visualization, Tweetping, drops a bright pixel at the location of every tweet in the world, starting as soon as you open the page.
The result is a constantly changing image that grows to look like a nighttime satellite shot, bright spots swarming over the most developed areas. But Ernewein has packaged it all in a subtly interactive visualization that avoids distracting the viewer while still imparting a great amount of information.
Meanwhile, a selection of tweets are projected, along with latest hashtags and mentions, all while tracking total tweets, words, and characters. The length of the two gray lines on the display represent the number of characters and words in each tweet.
Though it's one of the most beautiful, Tweetping is far from the first to display geotagged tweet information; coders have built sites to display election tweets, adjustable parameter maps, and even 3-D visualizations.
Tweetping even represents Antarctica, but not the ISS. And there's no pause button; like Twitter itself, Tweetping's data accrues incessantly; there's no off switch but the back button.
Nathan Hurst is learning how to make some things, knows how to fix some others, and is already pretty good at breaking everything else. He has written for Outside and Wired, traveled in Africa, and tweets as @NathanBHurst.
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They are the John Farrell Red Sox, with their lumberjack beards, colorful tattoos, and glittering bling, none of which has anything to do with the image their square-jawed, clean-shaven manager projects.
Parked next to his ragtag bunch, the 6-foot-4-inch, 51-year-old skipper at first glance appears to have walked onto the wrong set, straying from his leading man's role in some PBS documentary on the thinking man's manager into a land that time — and grooming tools — forgot.
But as Red Sox Nation learned to its delight in 2004 — when the self-anointed "Idiots'' won Boston's first World Series in 86 years — looks can be both deceiving and inconsequential.
"He wants to win, that's what's important,'' said third baseman Will Middlebrooks. "He doesn't care if we dye our hair purple. If that's what's going to bring us together — that we are going to win ballgames — then that's what it's about.''
Farrell, one of a New Jersey lobsterman's six children, was hired just a year ago, brought back in the choppy wake of Bobby Valentine's zany and disastrous one-year tour as Boston manager. Previously the Sox pitching coach for four years (2007-10) under manager Terry Francona, Farrell left here to become the Blue Jays skipper in 2011. Out was his only way up, as no one at the time thinking that Francona, with a pair of World Series championships on his Boston résumé, was going anywhere but directly to the Red Sox Hall of Fame.
Abruptly discharged after the club's spectacular September failings of 2011, and now the Cleveland Indians manager, Francona had played a lead role in coaxing Farrell to take the pitching coach job here in 2007. Farrell by that time had logged a handful of years in the Cleveland front office as director of the Indians farm system, seemingly on course one day to be a general manager.
"He is such an intelligent guy, and he is so well-rounded, that whatever path he took he was probably going to be whatever he wanted,'' Francona said. "We were just fortunate enough for him to be the pitching coach in Boston, or he probably would be a general manager right now.''
One of Farrell's teammates during their playing days in Cleveland, where Farrell, a righthander, went an impressive 14-10 in his second season (1988), Francona recalled driving from Fort Myers, Fla., to Winter Haven at 3 o'clock one spring morning to convince his old pal to join his staff.
"We talked for hours because that is such an important choice,'' said Francona. "And [even] without experience, I thought he would be really good — and we were right.
"We knew we wouldn't have him long because we knew when you get guys like that, they are going to be managers. But having them for however long is better than not having them.''
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Farrell grew up in Monmouth Beach on the Jersey Shore, and though drafted out of high school by Oakland, he opted to attend Oklahoma State. It was a smart call, the Cowboys making it to four straight College World Series during his time pitching in Stillwater. The towering righthander was drafted again in 1984, for the second time in as many years, by the Indians, and finally turned pro with the Cleveland organization, ultimately making his major league debut in 1987 after three-plus seasons in the minors.
A career 36-46 with a 4.56 ERA, Farrell battled through severe arm woes, including a pair of elbow surgeries, to keep his playing career alive, and made a comeback with the Angels in 1993 after sitting out two seasons. He went 3-12 in 17 starts upon his return, hung on for another three years, then finally called it quits in '96 after making a pair of starts with the Tigers.
Within weeks of hanging up his glove at age 34, Farrell was back at Oklahoma State, completing a degree in business management. He also caught on as OSU's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator, remaining in that role for five years before returning to the Indians to start his new career track in the front office.
"I've always found myself in the position where I've been different from the group,'' Farrell told the Globe soon after he left Boston to manage the Blue Jays. "I was a person in a front office that played in the big leagues and then I was a pitching coach that worked in a front office. I guess there's a uniqueness in the whole thing.''
Consistent within all of Farrell's roles, said Ben Cherington, is what the Red Sox general manager depicts as his "incredible thirst for knowledge.'' The lead voice in bringing Farrell back as manager, Cherington witnessed from afar Farrell's drive and persistent desire to get better when they were farm directors with opposing clubs, and then up close during Farrell's four years on Francona's staff.Continued...


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Online game shoppers duped into selling souls
I first sold my soul to a girl with a very large gap in her teeth. It took me years to get it back. (Yes, souls are recoverable.) But then I met a former trapeze artist from a Hungarian circus. The rest, as they say, is misery.
So I feel a peculiar and vigorous bond with the 7,500 people who, so mesmerized by the idea of buying a video game, sold their souls to the UK gaming retailer GameStation.
You might think I am making this up. You might think that no one can buy someone else's soul. At least, not legally. Well, please check your own soul compartment, just in case you might have inadvertently sold its contents while ordering up a new Xbox 360.
According to Fox News, you see, GameStation decided to slip a clause into the terms and conditions of its purchase contracts that gave the company the rights to your immortal being.
The clause makes for stimulating reading: "By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non-transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."
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So, it's been just over a week since my BoF on Java Media. But let's start with some context about Desktop Java as a whole…
The big news out of JavaOne is JavaFX, a seemingly radical desktop initiative that has drawn cautious praise and scathing derision. Now that we've had a week to make sense of it, we're seeing more sensible analyses, as well as first steps towards understanding and using it.
My first inclination is to be delighted with JavaFX, first and foremost because it suggests that Sun has correctly surmised the true nature of Apollo and Flex — nuclear-tipped missles lobbed towards the gray-and-purple parts of Santa Clara — and have bravely decided to take the fight back to Adobe, before the growing Flash ubiquity can finish off Desktop Java and start selling Flex servers to EE shops. Now let's see if they really have the wherewithal to stay in the fight for more than six months, or to do more than issue press releases about how great their stuff is.
But think about this: when did Flash become ubiquitous, and when did we all stop hating it? Just two years ago, Flash was largely known for being the technology behind all the goddamned annoying interactive banner ads: Club the baby panda and win a PlayStation 3!!! There were good uses of the technology of course, but it certainly feels more respectable today than it did then. And that's funny, if you think about it, because the rise of Flash's acceptance as a rich client-side technology runs concurrent with the rise of Ajax — if Flash was loathed then, and faced a challenge from the hip and trendy Ajax, then what made it succeed?
Oh that's right, people like media
Obviously, video happened. More specifically, YouTube happened. It legitimized Flash and made it palatable for many other kinds of applications, even those that don't use multimedia.
As Bryan Young points out in JavaFX in Perspective, JavaFX isn't strictly a competitor to Flash, because it doesn't do the same things, multimedia being one of the most egregious examples: "multimedia support has always been a weakness in Java. JavaFX is the neon sign pointing out one of Sun's often ignored weaknesses."
A Flash presentation isn't that much different than a Java applet, except that:
- It uses a different runtime
- It loads a lot faster
- It has rich multimedia support
- People like it
I'm going to take 1 as irrelevant to our discussion — if anything, Java bytecode should be faster than interpreted ActionScript — and 2 is getting genuine attention and help. Assuming that 4 is the goal state, where does that leave number 3, multimedia support, in the Java world?
That's kind of my old warhorse, of course, as you might remember my four-part three-act bloggage on the matter (parts 1, 2, 3, and followup). So I went to JavaOne particularly interested in the state of multimedia support for the platform, in the desktop and set-top configurations. In fact, the BoF proposal that I sent in, thinking it was far too hostile and ambitious to get approved, got approved.
Spoiler Alert: the fact that an outside critic like me was speaking on multimedia and not, you know, anybody from Sun, is a pretty clear hint that Java media is not going anywhere anytime soon.
So, on Wednesday night, I offered up 35 minutes of my crazy ideas in a BoF called "Java SE Media: Take 2″. I've uploaded my slides to java.net ( PDF, PPT), and re-recorded the audio and made a movie of the slides, compressing it all into an MPEG-4 (H.264 video, tested with QuickTime Player and VLC). The funny thing is, I don't remember speaking to some of these slides; maybe it was the heat of the moment, or maybe my clicker slipped. But here, in summary, is the gist of what I presented:
Media support in Java is dire; everybody knows it, and a surprising number of people want it fixed. But what's the point? There's no value throwing money into API's whose purpose is for current Java developers to "screw around" with them; we need to leverage Java's strengths to the degree that people who are developing media applications will choose Java because they perceive it to be the best option. So, is there an argument for doing media apps in Java, if the libraries can be brought up to snuff? I offered three:
Java is well suited to a certain level of complexity, greater than that of simple players, but not as sophisticated as high-end tools (Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.). There are a lot of apps — screencast makers, podcast producers, capture-and-go uploaders, transcoders — for which the scripting languages and their API's are inadequate, but for which the giant API's (QuickTime, etc.) and the star-C-star languages are more hassle and power than we need.
If we see Web 2.0 as "the read/write web", then it is inevitable that we will want to embed media creation and manipulation features in web pages. Web 2.0 currently facilitates user-contributed data and text, and higher-bandwidth data like audio and video is inevitable. Several sites, like Elf Yourself and Odeo are already starting to do this with Flash. Java, being cross-platform and web-embeddable, could have much to offer in this space.
An emerging Flash hegemony in web multimedia is counter to the interests of many parties, including backers of other formats (Microsoft, Apple, the MPEG licensing authority), and possibly Google, whose need to amass and catalog information is not served by a ubiquitous, proprietary format.
If we buy that there is a good reason for Java to get into this space, then there's the question of what a multimedia library should provide, and how to get there. Going back to the "read/write web" point, I reiterated that I think any such library must support capture, editing, and sample-level access. Without capture, you don't get podcast creation, video chat, capture-based games (ala Karaoke Revolution or the PS2's EyeToy games), or barcode reading. Without editing or effects, there's almost nothing practical you can do with captured data. And without sample level access, I'll still get a question every week on the java.net forums about making movies from a series of images, usually a JOGL animation. Writeability, to me, is the most important thing to get right; as we'll see later, almost nobody agrees with me on this point.
There are two approaches for developing such a library: write it all in Java, or wrap some native library. Each has much to recommend against it. For the Java library, you're talking about a massive architecture, design, and coding effort, outside the core competencies of pretty much every major player in the Java world. There's also a problem in that there is no cross-platform standard (ala TWAIN) for media capture devices. They are tightly coupled to the native media frameworks for which their manufacturers write drivers, and are paperweights on unsupported platforms. The USB standards for media devices (like the "USB video class" that some webcams implement) help somewhat, but nobody wants to depend on a single I/O bus, and thereby write off FireWire, PCI capture cards, etc. So an all-Java approach might entail launching a new JSR to create a Java spec for capture devices, that any Java media library could then use. Theoretically, with JSR-80 (USB) support, vendors could ship all-Java drivers for USB capture devices. That said, this is a hard road to hoe.
The alternative is to put Java wrappers around native frameworks. The problem here is that the dominant library is different for every platform, so you have to write one binding for DirectShow on Windows (or whatever Microsoft's media library is called this year), another for QuickTime on Mac, something else for Linux, etc. But at the Java Posse Roundup, Dick Wall made an interesting counter-proposal: build a Java wrapper around GStreamer, the popular open-source multimedia framework that is popular on Linux and has been ported to Windows and Mac. As Dick argues, this is not nearly as difficult as starting over on an all-Java solution, works on the major desktop platforms, gets Java back in the game faster.
Hey, wait a minute, you suck!
I left things open in my conclusions, and intentionally left a lot of time for Q&A, to get different people in front of the mic to offer their opinions, challenge my arguments, etc. Fortunately, I got exactly what I asked for, because the audience's questions proved that they cared deeply about this issue, and had considered my presentation carefully.
They also thought that the idea of supporting capture and editing was batshit crazy, and by an overwhelming show of hands when I put it up to a poll, thought that just offering playback was plenty good for a Java media library. I've also heard through the back-channel that while higher-ups at Sun want to get back into media, they generally believe that playback-only functionality is sufficient.
But I am not giving up on this. I fully believe that creative multimedia capabilities are not only important, they are the only thing that can get Java back into this race. A "me too" approach to media support is going to accomplish absolutely nothing — app developers will look at Java and say "oh, so it doesn't do as much as Flash, isn't as well distributed, takes longer to start up, and is harder to maintain. Um, thanks anyways."
A playback-only strategy isn't just "me too". It's "me too, but not nearly as good," and is doomed to failure.
OK, seriously, who would need this?
I've tried to show by theory that read/write media access inside webapps is an inevitable evolution of the Web 2.0 trend. But I don't think that most people buy that. So let me give you an example of a practical application (my second in this blog, if you're counting), that could exploit this kind of functionality in a unique way not possible with Ajax, Flash, or even native apps.
Consider the humble interview podcast. If the participants are not co-located, there are two options for mixing the sound, neither pleasant. Either the host uses an audio grabber like Audio Hijack Pro to capture the other participants over Skype (at typical low Skype voice-chat quality), or all the participants need to record themselves, then have the host collect these recordings and edit them together with a multi-track editing application. When the host is done, he or she needs to compress the mix, upload it to a server, and publish it. It is a tricky process that requires using many unrelated applications and services, and isn't practical for the general public.
Here's an alternative: we have a website with a Java-based chat applet (perhaps using the Mobicents guys' SIP support). This is already a compelling application, because it gets us multi-party chat without downloading and installing a native app, meaning it can be used from public terminals, unprivileged logins, etc. But we're just getting started. let's imagine this chat is destined to live forever as a podcast. The chat GUI, if used by our friends at the Java Posse, might look something a little like this:
The applet records each participant locally to get high sound quality, and at the end of the chat, it uploads the file to the server, which knows exactly where to put it, and offers the host some editing functionality to remove dead space, adjust volumes, cut profanity, etc. The mix and MP3 transcode can happen on the server side, and without ever leaving the page, the host can bang in some show notes and send out the podcast.
We've just replaced at least five native programs, some of which cost cash money. For all the hassle we've eliminated, we can offer this as a service aimed at podcasters, businesses, families, social groups, etc. Would you pay $15/month to combine Skype (conferencing), Audio Hijack Pro (capture), Soundtrack (audio editing), iTunes (tagging and compression), sftp
(uploading), and Libsyn (hosting)? This makes podcast production available to a much wider audience, those that couldn't afford or learn all the currently necessary tools. Oh, and did I mention that it run on every platform? I bet I could find a lot of takers for this.
Death or glory
In fact, this reminds me of an idea I once had in this space. Instead of arguing and speculating about what Java media developers need, why not just take it directly to them? My idea went something like this: take all the money you'd spend on developers for a media library and instead skip directly to the applications, figuring that they'll write their own libraries, and in so doing include the functionality that really matters. The rules for my scheme work like this:
- We (Sun, Google, some new foundation, whatever) fund your team
- You develop at least one Java Media application or service
- You open-source the libraries you create
- You're allowed to collaborate with other teams
- We cut off the money after 18 months, so whatever you do had better be able to pay your salary by then
We're dying for some entrepreneurial spirit in the Java world right now, and maybe us media types are just desperate/crazy/motivated enough to provide it. The fuddy-duddy Old Java Developer crowd can keep their zero-risk lifestyle of hiding behind requirements documents and never dealing with end-users; I'll take the "death or glory" scenario any day of the week.
Seriously, though, with this kind of application-focused approach, we could cut through all the speculation and focus very directly on the questions of what about Java media has value and how do we realize it. The worst thing that could happen is that we'd end up with some semi-capable media libraries, which was the original idea anyways. In the best case, one or more of the apps/services succeeds and gives Java a big client-side boost.
One more crazy idea
One other idea I thought of on the plane on the way home. In the BoF, I presented two strategies for getting a capable Java media framework: writing it from scratch in Java, or wrapping some native library, probably GStreamer. But what about a radical third option: what about porting GStreamer to Java? We'd get all the advantages of a pure Java library, without having to re-architect and rewrite from scratch.
Obviously, this has a high potential to piss off a lot of people (potentially the GStreamer developers, whom we should like and admire), as it is effectively a big-ass one-time-only fork. But on the other hand, the benefits could be immense. We'd have a super-capable media library that wouldn't be dependent on a native implementation. Any Java-GStreamer app could be provided as an applet or Web Start without having to install and maintain native libraries; the all-Java version would also be easier to maintain once the Java Module System comes together.
There's also the matter of Java's reach being somewhat broader than GStreamer's. As phones seem to be moving towards beefier ME support, even CDC support in the case of the SavaJe, it's entirely possible we'll soon see a Java SE phone become popular. What if such a phone (or other consumer device) had SE, but didn't offer a means of writing and installing native libraries? Wrapping a native library wouldn't work in this case, and going all-Java would be the only practical approach.
Pause for effect
I had intended to cover some of the sessions and implications from the consumer-oriented JavaOne "TV Day" in this blog, but this idea dump is already long and dense, so I'll defer that stuff to a later blog. A teaser: I'm less pissed at Blu-Ray than I was last year, but the prospects for developing BD-J apps and the platform's viability and usefulness are kind of murky at the moment.
Anyways, surely I've said something about Java Media in this blog to either annoy you or prove to you that I'm a complete jackass, so do make use of the comment section below…


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When there are mounds of snow in Chicago, there's also a lot of "dibs" going on.
"Dibs" is the Chicago tradition of saving a parking spot that one has shoveled our for their own use later.
Typically, it's chairs, household items or backyard items that people who shovel use to declare "I shoveled out this parking spot, so now it's my parking spot."
But dibs has also become an art form, which explains webpages like "Chicago Dibs" on the social media site Tumbler.
Hundreds of people have been sending in photos to the site, making it a sort of "dibs" museum.
The first type of dibs depicted is what we would call "traditional," a row of chairs is the classic look.
Kiddie lawn chairs are also popular, and sometimes even real furniture is used.
Other old school dibs can involve a nice big tire, empty water jugs or the five-gallon size jugs.
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With more than 30 years in the food industry, restaurant owner Denis O'Donnell knows a few things about food.
But at his new restaurant, Mama's Pasta Bowl, O'Donnell is leaving the creativity of cooking in his customers' hands by offering build-your-own pastas, pizzas and salads.
"We use high-quality ingredients, and it really comes through in the flavor," he said.
O'Donnell's idea for owning a restaurant based on a create-your-own food theme stems from his experience working for a company that owned private clubs. The create-your-own menus proved popular for weddings and other affairs.
One club restaurant decided to try the concept for lunch.
"People were gravitating (to it)," O'Donnell said.
When the restaurant began implementing the concept every Wednesday night, customers came so faithfully Wednesday night dinners became as busy as Friday nights.
"I decided if I ever opened a restaurant, I was going to base it on the pasta station (concept) and being able to pick and choose your toppings and sauces," O'Donnell said.
Mama's Pasta Bowl offers seven varieties of pasta, including regular and whole-wheat options, as well as seven sauces from which to choose. Topping choices include everything from fresh basil or tomato to feta or ricotta cheese, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, roasted garlic and green or black olives, among others.
If you do the math, there're more than 7,000 possible combinations.
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Joey's father video tapes him in front of his first car when it suddenly springs to life.
I made this as an attempt to replicate what I saw on the latest Transformers movie trailer. This is Bumblebee transforming from a Camaro.
It was first submitted without the kid part as a preview for an upcoming full length movie, but I decided to turn it into a short. I've got other things I want to make.
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Rated 3 / 5 stars April 13, 2007
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The idea of this movie was really funny. I liked the transformers joke in this, it was rather unexpected. The animations in this were really unique, as they were realistic at all. The camera movements and the blurring was life-like.
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Didn't really like the length of this. I was really hoping that this would have continued at least a little bit more. It sort of ended in an odd spot.
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Good graphic and a good joke :)
Nothing really bad about it. The design of the robot itself was amazing and also the camera view was exelent. It was really short though.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars April 13, 2007
The transformation seemed flawless and actually looks like a robot... Good job, pretty funny. The robot design looks really good, and must've been a pain in the ass to animate, awesome! Make a full lenght movie with the robot, could be really good.


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Cornish Rex Cat
Cat Carrier (Cornish Rex)
Binds when used
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
Binds when used
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
Alliance (human)
Yawns, sits, and lies down.
Pit-pattering footsteps; vocalizations (on-click)
3 allowed
April 1, 2007
This pet is only sold to alliance characters. Horde characters may purchase this pet through a neutral auction house and on occasion through their own auction house.
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Since this is the strongest of the felines, it is the best non-trainer leveling team pet, especially farming areas with mostly critters such as 4 Winds and Veiled Stair.
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I'm surprised this wasn't stated anywhere, but this is the highest attack power feline currently with 341 at 25 and rare.
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Had this lil guy out and after coming back from a brief afk he was sitting down! I didn't catch any sleep animation though. He needs one!
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Almost the same colour as the cat I used to have. Mine was completely orange though. These cats are all just adorable pets.
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For any pet that comes from the opposite faction, make the effort to travel to a neutral auction house, and save yourself on the added expenses usually associated to your faction auction house.
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Donni Anthania invites these cats to her tea parties. But she doesn't serve their favorite drink: the tears of their enemies.


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Do you have Trey's song as your ring tone/message tone ? And if yes, what song ? :)
Do you have Trey Songz music as your ring tone ?
Do you have Trey's song as your ring tone/message tone ? And if yes, what song ? :)
Lol some of you are over doing it though...
For the users with several ring tones etc., on your phone & who have the album:
are y'all sure you won't get bored with the songs eventually due to overkill?
I think choosing one or two ring tones with meaning is sufficient...
for example, "Wonder Woman" was written for me
therefore, I won't change it anytime soon lol plus I paid $2.49 for it
Out of the 3 Interludes, I like "Pain" the best because it sounds a lil introspective
but I love the high notes that he hits in the "Pleasure" intro
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(AFP) – Aug 8, 2008
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will defend himself against impeachment, aides said Friday, a day after the ruling coalition vowed to launch proceedings to drive the key US ally from power.
Musharraf was set to meet his top legal and political advisers to discuss his dwindling options in the face of the most serious challenge to the former general's position since he seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1999.
The spectre of impeachment is set to deepen the political turmoil in the nuclear-armed nation -- with the manoeuvres open to Musharraf including dissolving parliament or even declaring a state of emergency.
"He is considering the options that are available. He will respond to the government's allegations and defend himself," a presidential aide told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Key Musharraf ally Mushahid Hussain said his party would back the president.
"We will prepare a case, the president should be there (in parliament) and defend himself, and at least say 'I am not a crook,'" said Hussain, secretary general of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party.
Coalition leaders Asif Ali Zardari -- the widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto -- and Nawaz Sharif announced on Thursday that they would seek Musharraf's impeachment for allegedly mismanaging the country.
Officials said parliament could begin the impeachment process by filing a charge sheet against the president as early as Monday, which is also Musharraf's 65th birthday.
The aide said however that Musharraf would "not wait for the numbers game" -- meaning that he would not indulge in political horsetrading to stop the coalition getting the votes it needs.
Impeachment requires a two-thirds majority in the upper and lower houses of parliament under Pakistan's constitution. It would be the first time in Pakistan's 61-year history that a president has been impeached.
Another Musharraf ally said the coalition could not get enough votes to support impeachment.
"We are going to oppose it. It is a half-baked effort and a sure recipe for disaster," Tariq Azim, the information minister in the last government, told AFP.
But Azim and Hussain both warned against dissolving parliament, saying it would damage the country's democracy.
The coalition is currently several seats short of the 295 votes it requires out of the 439 in the Senate and National Assembly to remove Musharraf.
Zardari's Pakistan People's Party and Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, together with smaller coalition partners, have 266 seats and need a further 29 MPs, mainly from the troubled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.
But the key factor in Musharraf's decision is likely to be the support he gets from the army. He quit as army chief last November.
"He can dismiss the government, suspend it or leave the stage but that option is very remote -- he would do that only when he realises that the real powers are not supporting him," the presidential aide said.
Musharraf's successor as army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, has shown no signs of disloyalty, and the military has historically acted to defend the honour of its current and former chiefs.
But Kayani has also appeared keen to keep the army out of politics after six decades during which the military was in power for more than half the time, damaging its image at home.
Imposing a state of emergency would require Musharraf to have military support, while dissolving parliament could also cause unrest in a country already suffering from widespread economic problems.
"The army will not like to be part of the power games," said Pakistani political analyst Shafqat Mahmood.
The United States, which counts Musharraf as a lynchpin in the fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, said that the impeachment was an "internal" matter.
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