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---- — It's been a grinding, brutal campaign for the beleaguered congressman seated across the table.
John Tierney, who has represented the area in Congress for 16 years, feels railroaded, frustrated and tired of defending himself and his wife from a gambling scandal that has dogged them both for two years. So much so that, if he'd known, he's not sure he would have run again.
"I didn't know there would be $4 million spent attacking my wife when my opponent originally said he didn't want to make family an issue," Tierney said during a recent interview in a Salem coffee shop. "If I'd anticipated that millions would be spent to run this kind of nasty campaign, I would say it just wasn't worth putting my wife through that."
His wife, Patrice, spent a month in jail last year after admitting to being "willfully blind" to the true nature of her brother's gambling business in Antigua and to helping him file false tax returns.
The congressman says neither of them knew the gambling business was illegal, and that his wife was trying to help her shattered family by using her brother's money — up to $7 million funneled through a Salem bank account — to pay his mortgage and taxes and look after his children, his unwell mother and his estranged wife.
In return, prosecutors say, her brother gave her some $200,000 in gifts over the years.
Tierney has said his brother-in-law, who'd had legal problems before, had permission from the court to return to work in Antigua, at a position that everyone seemed to think at the time was a legal gambling business — so how could he or his wife have known? He speaks endearingly and lovingly of his wife, and he is very protective. When a reporter points out that he has never had an opportunity to interview Patrice, the congressman says, "And you never will, either."
But there is real anguish when he speaks about what she's endured in this yearlong 6th District race against Republican challenger Richard Tisei.
Tisei's own campaign has largely stayed away from Tierney's wife in its advertising, instead allowing Republican groups and super PACs to handle the job. Tierney doesn't make a distinction, pointing out that Tisei hasn't disavowed the attacks. And Tierney maintains that he doesn't regret his actions, or his handling of the situation in the direct aftermath.
"We were open and honest," he said, noting that he came to both The Salem News and Gloucester Daily Times for interviews when news of the scandal broke. "I've had over 100 interviews and meetings about this."
Although Tierney admits he might have erred in subjecting his wife to campaign attacks, his resolve to win has never been stronger.
By the time the mailings and ads began, not running was no longer an option. The campaign was too far along, and Democrats would have been left without a candidate, virtually ceding the race to Republicans, he said.
If Washington weren't so toxic, if Republicans were more reasonable, Tierney insists, he would have thought harder about sitting out the race — he had a good life in Salem running his small law practice, he said. But now he is unwilling to stay idle and let the country's future fall into the wrong hands.
The congressman says that Tisei would empower the people in Congress whom Tierney loathes — tea party Republicans like Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor who, Tierney says, want to cut taxes for the wealthy, cut programs for the poor, cut education spending, introduce vouchers for Medicare and hurt the middle class.
"America doesn't need that, and the people in the district don't need that," he said of the Republican agenda. "I owe it to them not to allow another Tea Party enabler."
Tisei, who would be the first openly gay Republican congressman, is widely viewed as a moderate on social issues, such as gay marriage and abortion, and conservative on fiscal issues. Tierney contends that, behind Tisei's well-crafted veil of moderation, there is a right-wing Republican who will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, cut taxes on the rich and end Medicare as we know it.
"If he's gay, they say he must be a moderate," Tierney says, "but if he is really against (the Republican agenda), he should not vote to put those people (Republican leadership) in charge."
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Tierney, who is 61, has spent 16 years in Congress, adhering to principles that could only be described as liberal. His main motivation to be in public office, he said, was the chance to help people.
"There is a real opportunity to do good, that's what drove me to run for office," he said. "That still exists."
He has consistently voted against tax cuts for the rich.
He voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that lowered tax rates across the board and reduced treasury revenue by more than $1 trillion since then. In 2010, he voted against extending those tax cuts, bucking President Barack Obama and a majority of House Democrats. During that vote, Republicans threatened not to extend unemployment benefits for out-of-work Americans unless the tax cuts were part of the deal. Despite pressure from his own party to take the compromise, Tierney stood firm in opposition.
Tierney has made education his signature issue, serving on the House Education and Workforce Committee. He is credited with helping write several bills aimed at making college more affordable with increased grants, reduced interest rates, loan forgiveness opportunities and incentives for colleges to lower tuition. The legislation also made it easier for graduates to pay off loans by capping their monthly loan bills at 15 percent of their incomes.
On foreign affairs, Tierney notably voted against the invasion of Iraq in 2002, breaking with many of his fellow Democrats who, with Republicans, voted to give George W. Bush authority to invade. Tierney voted in 2007 to enact mandatory rest periods for soldiers between deployments in Iraq.
And he has been a supporter of Gloucester's and New England's fishermen, voting against the 2006 re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and pressing for new leadership at NOAA, through the ouster of administrator Jane Lubchenco, who remains in place, and accountability for the agency's enforcement scandal.
He also has been lauded for his work protecting veterans, including leading an investigation of subpar conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which led to reforms, and securing money for Gloucester's veterans' clinic. As a member of the House Government Oversight Committee, Tierney has also been effective at weeding out fraud and waste in the military, investigating contracts and helping author legislation that led to creation of the Commission on Wartime Contracting.
Tierney takes credit for authoring the provision requiring insurance companies to use at least 80 percent of premiums on health care or to refund the difference. For the first time this year, insurance companies refunded more than $1 billion to the American people.
"I would compare my 16 years in Congress over his 26 years of obscurity any day of the week," Tierney said, referring to Tisei's time in the state Legislature.
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PLATTSBURGH — The Canadian Pacific Holiday Trains, one of which passed through the North Country last month, collected more than $1 million in Canadian currency and 400,000 pounds of food in 2012.
The train that chugged through Ticonderoga, Port Henry, Plattsburgh and Rouses Point drew crowds of children and adults alike to celebrate the holidays and experience the season of giving.
At each of their stops, which included more than 150 across the United States and Canada between the end of November and Dec. 18, Holiday Trains gathered donations of food and money to benefit community food shelves in both countries.
The Holiday Train program donated $250,000 to Feeding America this season to aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy, a press release said.
Since the program's inception in 1999, the trains have collected a total of 3 million pounds of groceries and $7.4 million to aid with efforts to reduce hunger in Canadian and U.S. communities.
By attracting the public with a light show, live musical entertainment and a visit from Santa Claus, the brightly decorated Holiday Trains draw larger crowds every year as they strive to spread awareness of hunger issues, the release said.

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Tour Alnwick Castle, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, a 12th-century fortress so iconic that it has been a location in two Harry Potter films and "Ivanhoe."
After departing from the pier, you will settle in for a leisurely one hour drive north toward the border between England and Scotland, where you will find the imposing Alnwick Castle. It may look familiar, especially to Harry Potter fans, as Alnwick (pronounced "Annick") was used as the set for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the first two Harry Potter films.
The castle has undergone numerous changes since the 12th-century, including the addition of a moat, numerous towers, and a luxury 18th-century Gothic residence. Perhaps most amazing, Alnwick has been home to the Percy family for more than 700 years, including Henry Percy, the famous knight better known as Hotspur.
There is much to see as you tour the castle's interior. The lavish staterooms are filled with period furniture such as a pair of Cucci cabinets originally made for Louis XIV. The library holds nearly 14,000 books, some of which a Percy ancestor read while imprisoned in the Tower of London. The walls of the Grand Staircase are made of Carrara marble, and each 12-foot-long step is made from a single stone. Alnwick is also home to some wonderful paintings by Claude, Canaletto, Van Dyck and Titian.
The architectural highlights and stories of the castle's history go on and on. The grounds are equally breathtaking, as you will discover strolling its gardens and parkland.
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This year, as part of the celebration the Mercer volleyball team, in partnership with Susan G. Komen Central Georgia, is participating in a nationwide effort initiated by former UNC-Charlotte volleyball coach Lisa Marston called "Dig for the Cure." Marston began the initiative in 2003 after her own mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The "Dig for the Cure" game kicks off Mercer Madness and will take place at 7 p.m. when the volleyball team hosts East Tennessee State University. The initiative seeks to raise breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses and throughout the community. The goal of this event is to educate, inform and help young women to become proactive about their health and make choices that will reduce their risk for cancer later in life.
To show their commitment to the cause, the Mercer volleyball team will be wearing pink socks and pink shoelaces, as well as other accessories to encourage people to "Dig for the Cure." During the match, Mercer will recognize all breast cancer survivors in attendance. Those who attend are asked to wear pink to show support. For more information, visit www.digforthecure.org.
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CATEGORIES MoviesMove over, vampires, zombies and werewolves -- it's Frankenstein's monster's time to take over the big screen. And according to Deadline, there's a host of candidates waiting for their jolt of electricity. Universal is developing a new version of the 1931 classic with Guillermo del Toro and Scott Stuber; Summit Entertainment is developing 'This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein,' an adaptation of the Kenneth Oppel novel; Columbia Pictures recently acquired a contemporary re-telling of the famous tale based on a pitch by Craig Fernandez; Slasher Films (set up by Guns n Roses Slash) is working on 'Wake the Dead,' a Frankenstein tale based on a graphic novel; Fox 2000 is remaking 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'; and, of course, there's Tim Burton's 'Frankenweenie,' which is filming for an Oct. 2012 release. Now add to the pile an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel 'The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein,' which is being mounted by RT Features and Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures. The story centers on the youthful days of Frankenstein when he begins experimenting with corpses. Flip the switch.
Notwithstanding the new Frankenstein trend, we're in the midst of a fairy tale craze, and the latest addition is 'Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale,' a book by Carolyn Turgeon that Sony has picked up for 'Country Strong' filmmaker Shana Feste to write and direct. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hans Christian Andersens' 'The Little Mermaid' gets its point of view shifted to the darker side. It centers on a princess who, in order to save her ravaged kingdom, sets out on a dangerous journey to marry the prince of her rival kingdom, not knowing that a beautiful mermaid has fallen for the same man and has sacrificed everything to be with him. This is not going to be your mom's Ariel.
Like father like son. Best-selling author Joe Hill -- son of horrormeister Stephen King -- is hot in Hollywood, with his first novel, 'Heart Shaped Box,' set up at Warner Bros. and a comic book series, 'Locke & Key,' tickling TV's fancy. Now comes word via The Hollywood Reporter that Mandalay has picked up the film rights to Hill's short story 'Twittering From the Circus of the Dead,' written entirely as tweets from a teenage girl traveling with her family on a cross country road trip that goes horribly wrong. The tale appeared in The New Dead, an anthology of zombie stories published earlier this year. Mandalay has already attached a writer for the adaptation, Chris Borrelli, and is in negotiations with Todd Lincoln to direct. Scary indeed.
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A Pattern Language for Relational Databases and Smalltalk
By Kyle Brown and Bruce Whitenack
Early in 1995 we (two experienced Smalltalk programmers) began a project in analysis and design that would tax our abstraction abilities to their limits. The result of this ongoing exercise is a pattern language we call Crossing Chasms. This article describes Crossing Chasms as well as exploring the thought processes that led us to write it, what we discovered in its writing, and how we have used the document since its creation.
What motivated us to write a pattern language?
The business of companies like Knowledge Systems Corporation (KSC) and The Object People is to transfer information about the process of building object systems from consultants to clients. One of the most common themes running through many of the object systems our two companies have built over the past five years is the need to integrate Smalltalk with relational database technology. We have found that the clients of our training and consulting businesses are extremely interested in this area, and often need guidance to understand how these two technologies combine.
In early 1995 we were both involved in creating new material for client-centered mentoring and classroom education. We felt the need to include some information about relational databases, but were uncertain as to how to organize that information
Each of the Smalltalk vendors (Digitalk, Parcplace, and IBM) had their own, unique class libraries for handling relational database queries. On the surface, there did not appear to be much commonality among the three.
Over the past several years we had built many systems using Smalltalk and relational databases with major corporate clients. KSC's first such effort had been with a government organization in early 1992, followed by projects for a national bank, a major telecommunications company, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and a pharmaceutical company. We had learned many lessons about building this kind of system, and had found out what worked and what didn't. Although each system was unique, we felt that there were some commonalties among all of them. In fact, the design for each usually incorporated the best ideas from all the previous ones, even though none of the systems shared any code.
It was this desire to record our lessons learned, to be better equipped for future projects, and to find unity among the disparate vendor implementations, that led us to explore pattern languages as an avenue for recording this design and implementation information. A pattern language is a set of related patterns that guides a reader through a set of closely linked problems and their solutions.
The pattern is a literary form invented by the architect Christopher Alexander to describe the decisions involved in designing and building communities and buildings. The shortest way to describe the essence of a pattern is "A solution to a problem in a context". It records how the interplay of different "forces" on a particular problem can lead to their resolution in a template solution. The pattern form was introduced into the software community by Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck in the early 1980's. It has become popular in recent years due in large part to the work of Gamma, Coad, and others.
We chose to begin writing a pattern language because the pattern form seemed to best capture the spirit of the notions that we had. We felt that a pattern language that could lead readers in a non-linear fashion from one topic to the next could bring together the interconnected threads of thought that we had. It also provides a structure in which to study the issues and their solutions by naming and isolating the essence of each problem. We were also interested in exploring the issues involved in writing patterns -- in this sense Crossing Chasms was an experiment in writing a large pattern language.
How did we find our patterns?
We first wanted to identify all the issues and problems that arise in designing and building a framework marrying relational databases and Smalltalk.
In reviewing the process of building such a system it became apparent that we could split the set of problems roughly in two. The problems of defining the tables and object models we categorized as "static" patterns. Those involved in resolving the runtime problems of object-table mapping we put in a category called "dynamic" patterns. We then realized that a number of the problems we were identifying were not so much directly related to the object-table mismatch but were really client-server issues. These problem-solution pairs were generic enough to be applicable to any client-server architecture, object-oriented or not, so we developed a third category ("client-server" patterns) for them.
Lastly we saw that the decision to go with a client-server model was just one fundamental architectural decision out of many. Many other architectural issues must also be resolved, including the modularization of functionality into application layers and the choice of the number of tiers that the system would include. These patterns we termed "architectural" patterns.
Crossing Chasms grew in size and complexity as new problems were identified. To discover the patterns we first immersed ourselves in the literature and subject area. We found our patterns in numerous places. Our own experience in building systems led us to identifying most of the major ones. Studying the documentation of existing frameworks, both commercial and proprietary, added to the list as well. Reading the OO literature that addressed the subject, (Rumbaugh, Jacobson, Gamma, and others) also contributed some patterns to the list, particularly in the static category.
Eventually after defining the basic patterns and formulating them as a pattern language we came up with some new ones based on feedback from our colleagues. This whole process followed the 3 I Paradigm of mastering a subject area. First you Immerse yourself in a field. This leads you to Imitate the solutions of others, until finally you can Innovate and come up with your own solutions.
As mentioned above, Crossing Chasm's patterns are categorized into four groups: architectural, static, dynamic and client-server. In the following sections we will introduce a few of the most important patterns in the language in their respective categories. Unfortunately, we can only present a taste of our language as a whole. Our current version of the language is over 90 pages long and very dense in text and diagrams. We have discovered almost forty patterns, of which we introduce eleven here. The presentations of the individual patterns here are by necessity very brief; the pattern language goes into much more depth in each pattern.
The Patterns of Crossing Chasms
Architectural Patterns
When a project needs to use both Smalltalk and relational technology there are a group of issues at a very high architectural level that need to be addressed. Surprisingly, we did not recognize many of these issues until well after we had written the rest of the patterns in Crossing Chasms. These issues so pervaded our thinking that it took a second look at the problem to even recognize their existence.
One of the most important decisions to make about the design of a system is its overall software architecture. This decision determines the direction that development will take.
Pattern: Four-Layer Architecture
Problem: What is the appropriate structure and grouping of classes in a Smalltalk client-server system? What architecture is most appropriate?
Figure 1: Four Layer Architecture
Solution : Employ a four-layer architecture consisting of a view layer, an application model layer, a domain layer, and a supporting infrastructure layer (see Figure 1: Four Layer Architecture). Determine the interfaces between the layers well ahead of time and keep the communications paths well defined. Enforce the layering through design and code reviews.
Layered architectures are a well-known idea in Computer Science, but it is rare that new Smalltalk programmers see their designs in terms of well-defined layers. Nevertheless, proper layering is important for reusability and maintainability. Brown [96] deals with this issue at length.
Another key decision that has to be made is the order in which development events must occur. It is especially difficult for first-time users of Object Technology to develop an ordered development process. After seeing several bad decisions made in projects we had observed, we recognized this pattern in retrospect.
Pattern: Table Design Time
Problem : When is the best time to develop your relational database schema? In what order do object design and schema design occur?
Solution : Design the relational database schema based upon a first-pass object model done using a behavioral modeling technique. It may be more prudent to wait until after an architectural prototype has been built before designing the schema (see Figure 2: Development Lifecycle). Remember that an OO design is in reality a first-pass database design. Doing things in the reverse order (schema first) often leads to a poorly factored OO design with separate "function" and "data" objects.
Figure 2: Development Lifecycle
Static Patterns
One of the fundamental problems in developing a total enterprise solution using Object Technology is the development of relational database schemas from object models. We were lucky in finding that this is a well-represented area of research that had been covered well over the past several years. Our job in developing the static patterns was to pick the "best of breed" of the available approaches and integrate them into a complete, self-consistent method.
Pattern: Representing objects as tables
Problem : How do you map a set of objects into a relational database schema? Considering that complex objects do not map neatly into tables, objects do not have keys, tables do not have identity, and the datatypes do not match between worlds, how do you perform a mapping?
Solution : Start with a table for each persistent object. Determine the "type" of each instance variable and create a column for each that have "base" datatypes. Use the Representing Collections pattern to handle collections. Use the Foreign Key reference pattern to handle other non-base datatype objects. Finally, use the Object Identifier pattern.
Pattern: Object Identifier
Problem : How do you preserve an object's identity in a relational database? Each individual object's identity must be preserved in the database and there should be no spurious duplicates.
Solution : Assign an independent identifier (called an Object Identifier, or OID) to each persistent object. An easy way to do this is to use a sequence number generator if one is available in your particular database. If not, an OID table can be used. OIDs are usually simply long integers that are guaranteed to be unique for a particular class of objects.
Pattern: Foreign Key Reference
Problem : How do you represent objects that reference other objects that are not "base datatypes"? The First Normal Form Rule (1NF) excludes tuples from containing other tuples; therefore Object relationships must be represented using only legal column values.
Solution : Assign each object a unique OID. You then add a column for each instance variable that is not a base datatype or a collection. In that column store the OID of the referenced object, then declare the column as a foreign key.
Pattern: Representing Collections
Problem : How do you represent Smalltalk collections in a relational database? The first normal form rule of relational databases forbids tuples from containing sets of other elements. Other properties of Smalltalk collections also prove bothersome. For instance, objects may be contained in many collections (M-N relationships). Also, collections have special properties (sort order, duplicates). Finally, Smalltalk collections can be either heterogeneous or homogenous
Solution : Create a relationship table for each collection. A relationship table maps the primary keys of the containing objects to the primary keys of the contained objects. The relationship table may store other information as well, for instance the class of contained object, or the position of object (OrderedCollection, SortedCollection). If a collection is heterogeneous, then the class of each element is also stored in that table.Other static patterns in Crossing Chasms dealt with the issues of representing inheritance in a relational database and determining to what extent a domain model must be modified to handle database issues.
Dynamic Patterns
In addition to the static and architectural parts of Crossing Chasms, we found it important to record what we had learned about writing Smalltalk code to handle relational database connection. This section of Crossing Chasms we referred to as the "dynamic" patterns, since they deal with the movement of information in and out of the database, as opposed to the static database schema.
One of the first patterns we recorded was Broker .
Pattern: Broker
Problem : How do you separate the domain-specific parts of an application from the database-specific parts?
Solution : Connect the database-specific (vendor) classes and the domain-specific classes together with an intermediate layer of Broker objects. Brokers mediate between database objects and domain objects and are ultimately responsible for reading object information from and writing objects to the database.
The Broker idea is a popular one in OO circles and many papers have been written about its use. However, it is still not being used as often as it should. We feel that this is due in part to poor examples in the Smalltalk vendor's documentation that tend to show simplistic examples of database connectivity that mix domain functionality with database functionality. Developers new to Object Technology, or who come to Smalltalk from Visual Basic or PowerBuilder backgrounds often miss the subtlety of why Brokers are important. However, they are central to maintaining the integrity of the layers in a 1 Four-Layer Architecture.
As we looked back on the broker implementations we had built, we found that two more patterns occurred in the best implementations; Query Object and Object Metadata .
Pattern : Object Metadata
Problem : How do you define the mapping between the elements of an object class and the corresponding parts of a relational schema?
Solution : Reify the mapping into a set of Map classes that map object relationships into relational equivalents. Map objects also map column names to instance variable selectors in domain objects.
Pattern: Query Object
Problem : How do you handle the generation and execution of common SQL statements and minimize the amount of duplicated code between broker classes?
Solution : Write a set of generic classes that generate SQL statements from common data. A hierarchy of classes representing SQL statements can generate the appropriate SQL given a domain object and its Map object metadata representation.
Figure 3: Broker Interactions
The three previous patterns, when combined, make up a powerful mini-architecture. Each domain object will have a set of Map objects that represent its object relationships as metadata. The Broker classes that are responsible for saving and restoring those objects can use Query Objects to generate the appropriate SQL statements from the data held in the Maps. In this way, proper layering can be preserved since the objects in the Domain layer are not directly knowledgeable about the internals of the SQL generation, while the Brokers themselves obtain information about their domain classes only indirectly through the Map objects. A diagram of the interactions of these classes is shown in Figure 3: Broker Interactions.
While the Broker architecture worked well to allow us to move objects in and out of the database, the performance of some of our early attempts was less than adequate. In particular, early versions often spent too much time reading in data from the database that was never subsequently used. In trying to resolve this, we found that the 1 Proxy pattern from Gamma provided us with an effective solution. We could often use a Proxy as a placeholder for information that had not yet been read in from the database. When that information was needed, the Proxy would collaborate with the Broker to read it in, and then replace itself with the new object.
Other topics addressed by the dynamic patterns included handling database transactions and the order in which connected objects must be written to or restored from the database.
Client-Server Patterns
As we mentioned previously, there were many issues we discovered that were not specific to Smalltalk, or even OO in general, but were rather applicable to any client-server systems. Two of these patterns were 1 Client Synchronization and 1 Cache Management.
Pattern: Client Synchronization
Problem : How do you handle resynchronizing the client image and database when there are errors? What do you do if you change the value of data held in the client's memory and the corresponding request to the database fails?
One solution is to just note the error to the user and flush any cached information. In this case any error is deemed to be catastrophic and you must start a new session. This is not a very robust solution, but it is a quickly implementable one.
A second solution is a playback mechanism that has a logging facility. Each change is logged in a local log. If there is a failure the cache is flushed and you replay of all the events as needed. This solution is more robust, but it is not trivial to implement.
Solution : Mark the objects appropriately as deleted, added or updated during the session. If the update to the database succeeds then remove the mark. If it fails then retry the transaction. If it continually fails (e.g., times out) note the error and flush the cache. With the changed objects marked it is possible to recover to the original state by filing out the changed objects to local storage and performing recovery at a more propitious time.
Pattern: Cache Management
Problem : How do you best manage the lifetime of persistent objects stored in an RDB? Caches can increase client performance, but they also increase client memory size. Caches can become out of date, necessitating frequent updates. Caching also generally increases application complexity.
Solution : Use a Session object that has a bounded lifetime and is responsible for identity cache management of a limited set of objects. Balance speed vs. space by flushing the cache as appropriate. Use a query before write (timestamp) technique to keep caches accurate.
How have we used Crossing Chasms?
Since writing Crossing Chasms we have successfully applied its patterns in a number of different instances. It has proven to be a very useful teaching aid - we subsequently have developed several lectures for classroom use from the pattern language. The structure of the pattern language proved to be a useful framework for discussing the different concepts in object to relational connectivity. The topics of the lectures we developed from the pattern language paralleled the organization of the language. In addition, some of the patterns have been used as a basis for other lecture topics in our classroom education. We have also found that students like having the pattern language as an after-the-fact reference after seeing presentations based on it. In this way, we can present a high-level overview and then allow the students to investigate the deeper issues at their own pace.
Several companies have used the patterns in Crossing Chasms as part of their object-relational architectures as a result of our presenting them as part of our training. We have found that addressing the issues covered in Crossing Chasms early in the development process can preclude many of the missteps that first OO projects often take.
We have also developed a conference tutorial based upon the pattern language and presented it at Smalltalk Solutions '96 in New York. Again, we have had feedback that students appreciate using the pattern language to gain deeper understanding of the issues after the presentation.
The static portion of Crossing Chasms was presented at the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) '95 conference in September, 1995. Those patterns have been published in Brown [96].
Alexander [77] Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language , Oxford University Press, 1977.
Brown [95] Kyle Brown, "Remembrance of Things Past: Layered Architectures for Smalltalk Applications", The Smalltalk Report 4(9): 4-7. 1995.
Brown [96] Kyle Brown and Bruce Whitenack, "Crossing Chasms: The Static Patterns", in Pattern Languages of Program Design Vol. II, Jim Coplien, Douglas Schmidt and Norman Kerth, Editors. Addison-Wesley, 1996
Coad [95] Peter Coad and Mark Mayfield, Object Models: Strategies, Patterns and Applications . Yourdon Press, 1995
Gamma [95] Erich Gamma, Richard Helms, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Object-Oriented Software , Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Jacobson [92] Ivar Jacobson, et.al. Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use-Case Driven Approach , Addison-Wesley, 1992
Rumbaugh [91] James Rumbaugh, Micheal Blaha, William Premerlani, Frederick Eddy, William Lorensen. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design , Prentice-Hall, 1991.
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Tonight, the two most storied football teams in the country meet head to head for the BCS championship. I have only two words: Roll Tide!
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they're in a 50-way tie for No. 26 RT @npike8:....Just curious, where do you have Kentucky?— Seth Davis (@SethDavisHoops) January 7, 2013
When your dad's a politician, some of that's gotta rub off. :-) I found this funny.
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Kentucky Sports Radio // Florida is interested in QB Asiantii Woulard
Two things to note: First, Kentucky has been on him longer, which is worth something. Second, he really doesn't fit in Brent Pease's system as a QB, so Florida probably wants him for a WR. Keep your fingers crossed.
Kentucky Sports Radio // Ben Bradley decision coming tomorrow
I don't expect to get this guy, so if we do, it is an upset. Fingers crossed?
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Louisville native D'Angelo Russell on Cats' radar // Kentucky.com
Louisville native D'Angelo Russell transferred to Montverde at the same time, and he got a taste of Boyle's brashness as soon as arrived on campus.
"He told me from the start that I'm smooth," Russell said. "But he don't like smooth guys."
Kentucky Sports Radio // Evan Daniels says Wiggins to Florida State
I wouldn't put too much stock in this. It may happen, but my understanding is that this is one of those you can take with a grain of salt.
Other UK sports
Kentucky Gymnastics Posts Best Ever Season-Opening Score // UKAthletics.com
Go Gym Cats!
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Maymon out for Tennessee until next year. That hurts.
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College football: 'Bama and Irish are easy to hate // The Salt Lake Tribune
I guess so, but I don't hate either one of them.
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College basketball
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ATB: CJ McCollum's Injury, Illinois Thrashes Ohio State, and Cincinnati's Big Letdown…// Rush The Court
So let's see... Kentucky crushes EMU who beats Purdue, who beats Illinois, who beats Ohio St. What can it mean? It means that I'm taking this tinfoil hat off right now ...
Roundball Portfolio: Top 25
Well, at least somebody has UK in the top 25.
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John Wall: (Knee) Expected Back in Two Weeks // Yahoo! Sports
Wall is back to practice, but not quite ready to play.
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"Deathly Hallows" Anecdotes from Ciaran Hinds, Rhys Ifans and Jason IsaacsHP Cast
Actors Ciarán Hinds (Aberforth Dumbledore), Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius Lovegood) and Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) have shared anecdotes from the filming of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" with ComingSoon.net. Firstly, Hinds describes his role in the film as "just one scene with a little dialogue to give some exposition about Dumbledore's past life" and spoke of Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) as "very charming, very gracious, made you feel very welcome." The Aberforth actor also comments:
I saw [director David Yates] working with the younger ones, giving them little pointers, never pushing, just suggesting about development, and here I am, part of what everyone has to offer. You really have to say they're confident and they know who they are, they know what they're doing and we have to ask if we're alright.Rhys Ifans mentions that he is "really genuinely proud to have been invited to be part of that whole machine," and describes it as a "surreal situation to be in." Quotage:
You get on set and you see all these actors who you've either admired from afar or more often than not, actors you've worked with before, all sitting there, dressed up as wizards, having wand-offs[.]Jason Isaacs was interviewed separately and said his experience filming the saga was "magnificent":
There's nothing greater than sitting around on a Harry Potter set when you're not filming and listening to the likes of Julie Walters and Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent tell stories, and watching everybody chew the scenery up in the few moments you get on screen as well, trying to out-ham each other.


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Kym Marsh is reportedly dating her 23-year-old personal trainer.
The 37-year-old Coronation Street star - who had her divorce from EastEnders actor Jamie Lomas finalised last month - spent Valentine's Day in Paris with hunky Matt Baker, according to the Daily MIrror.
Kym tweeted after her romantic trip: "Literally having the best weekend EVER!!!!! #luckygirl #lifeisgood."
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The pair travelled to Paris with friends, but insiders told the newspaper their friendship has blossomed into romance in recent weeks.
A spokesman for the mum-of-three said: "Kym and Matt are close friends but are not in a relationship."
Matt helped Kym lose 10lb when her marriage to former Hollyoaks star Jamie hit the rocks last summer.
Kym and Jamie, 33, were together for five years and tied the knot in September 2012. But Kym filed for divorce in October 2013 citing Jamie's "erratic behaviour". They were reported to be living separately last summer.


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As part of a state and federal push to improve health care, Hudson Valley Hospital Center is asking people in the community to complete a questionnaire to help assess what healthcare services are most needed. To fill out the questionnaire click here.The survey is anonymous and does not require participants to give their names or contact information.
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What is Fundamentalist Atheism? Who are Fundamentalist Atheists?:
There seems to be an increasing number of people responding to atheist critiques of religion or theism by labeling the person a "fundamentalist" atheist. The label is problematic because there are no essential or "fundamental" beliefs for an atheist to be "fundamentalist" about. So why do people use the label? Why do so many people feel that the label is appropriate? This seems to be mostly due to misunderstandings about and prejudice against fundamentalism, but also prejudice against and misunderstandings about atheism. What is Fundamentalist Atheism?
Fundamentalist Atheists are Elitist, Privileged, Look Down on Others:
Some religious theists try to rebut atheist criticisms of religion by saying that so many atheists are 'fundamentalists' because they are 'elitist.' Apparently, atheists can't really claim to truly understand religion because they are so privileged economically, socially, and academically. They haven't lived alongside regular religious believers, especially poor ones, who gain so much from their religions and religious beliefs. Like so many other myths, this horribly misrepresents atheists. Fundamentalist Atheists are Elitist
Fundamentalist Atheism is Authoritarian, Give Science too much Authority:
One of the most serious problems with religion is how often and easily it can tend towards or support authoritarian movements. This is something irreligious atheists frequently criticize about religion, so perhaps it should be expected for religious theists to try to turn this back around and accuse their critics of being authoritarian as well. In doing so, however, they not only misrepresent atheists and atheism but completely distort the nature of authoritarianism itself. Fundamentalist Atheism is Authoritarian
Fundamentalist Atheists are Dogmatic, Dismissive of Research into Religion:
Fundamentalist atheism cannot exist because there are no 'fundamental' beliefs for atheists to hold. This myth demonstrates why this is true by attempting to create out of thin air a belief for atheists: the idea that they reject religion so firmly that they no longer care about further research on it and are therefore dogmatic in their views. The errors made in this myth are so simple, basic, and obvious that it's difficult to credit anyone who repeats it with understanding atheism at all. Fundamentalist Atheists are Dogmatic
Fundamentalist Atheists Lack a Sense of the Mysterious and Beautiful:
It's not a coincidence that allegedly 'fundamentalist' atheism is being paired with science here because this is basically the same complaint which some religious theists - and perhaps some of the same religious theists - make about allegedly "fundamentalist" science itself. Whether the target is atheists or science, the basic claim is the same: subjecting empirical claims about the world to rational, methodical scrutiny removes magic, mystery, and beauty from the world. Fundamentalist Atheists Lack a Sense of the Mysterious and Beautiful
Atheists Are Becoming More Rude by Criticizing Religious Believers:
One complaint which some religious theists keep raising is how allegedly 'militant' atheists are 'rude' because of the ways in which they publicly, unapologetically, and pointedly challenge religious believers. Such atheists ask that believers actually defend and support the claims they publicly make. Such atheists criticize those beliefs, pointing out the flaws in them and argue that they are mistaken, wrong, or even dangerous. Some religious theists find this intolerable. Atheists Are Becoming More Rude
Atheists are Making a Tactical Mistake by Insulting Religious Theists:
An increasing popular criticism of atheists today is that they are too rude and insulting to religious theists this typically goes hand-in-hand with the claims that atheists are "intolerant" and should be more "respectful" of religion, religious beliefs, and theism. According to purveyors of this myth, atheists are just hurting themselves and their own causes by being so rude and impolite. You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, so atheists should try to moderate their tone. Atheists Shouldn't Insult Religious Theists
Intolerant & Disrespectful Atheists: Should Atheists Respect Religion, Theism?:
Atheists are Intolerant for Criticizing Religion, Theism
There are several myths here, all tightly intertwined for the apparent purpose of getting atheists to cease making uncomfortable and unwelcome criticisms of religion and theism. Religious believers, mostly Christians, are responding to atheistic critiques of religion by claiming that vocal, unapologetic atheists are analogous to religious terrorists and that criticism of religion is a form of religious intolerance. The implication is that believers shouldn't have to be faced with criticism.
Should Atheists Respect Religion and Theism?
There is an increasingly popular attitude that religion and theism deserve automatic respect and deference from everyone - even those who don't share that religion or that theism. People attack atheists for failing to show the appropriate respect to religious and theistic beliefs. Atheists shouldn't say things which constitute pointed, direct, or harsh challenges to religious and theistic claims. At the risk of further accusations of being intolerant and disrespectful, this is nonsense.
Disagreement is Not Intolerance
Many religious theists insist that irreligious atheists who criticize religion, religious beliefs, and theism are being intolerant and disrespectful. What are these irreligious atheists doing - are they calling for religion to be banned? For religious believers to be put in jail? No, nothing of the sort. All of this alleged intolerance and disrespect occurs because irreligious atheists disagree with religious theism, say it is wrong, argue that it's harmful, and want people to change.
What is Respect?
What does it mean to 'respect' someone's religion or religious beliefs? Many religious theists insist that their religion deserves to be respected, even by non-believers, but what exactly are they asking for? If they are simply asking to be let alone in their beliefs, that's not unreasonable. If they are asking that their right to believe be honored, then I agree. The problem is, these basic minimums are rarely, if ever, what people are asking for; instead, they are asking for much more.
What is Intolerance?
More and more, religious theists are insisting that atheists are being intolerant and rather than criticizing or mocking religion, atheists should become more tolerant of religion. Liberal democracies place a high value on tolerance, so this sounds at first like a reasonable request but it's not because of how "tolerance" is being defined.


text: Dr. Seuss Book and Game Apps "App"y Birthday Dr. Seuss: 8 Apps to Celebrate the Author's 109th Birthday by Rebecca Gruber 3/01/13 1 Reactions 52 Shares Print 36 5 11 0 0 Happy 109th birthday, Dr. Seuss! The legendary children's book author single-handedly transformed lil ones' bookshelves, writing more than 44 books that rhymed their way into kids' (and their parents') hearts. Now, he's transforming our iPhones and iPads with visually stunning apps that are entertaining and educating a new generation of Seuss fans. In honor of Theodor Geisel's birthday, and the release of The Lorax, Oceanhouse Media is putting most of their Dr. Seuss app collection on sale. Happy Birthday to You! on sale for just $3, and other games and books will be offered for free! Keep reading to see our celebratory picks! Green Eggs and Ham What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Perhaps the most popular of Dr. Seuss's books, the Green Eggs and Ham app ($2) truly brings Sam-I-Am to life. As with all of the Oceanhouse apps, it offers narration, highlighted words to promote individual reading, and words that pop from the pages to increase vocabulary. 1 / 7 The Lorax What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, and the movie's release, kids can enjoy The Lorax en route to the theater with a discounted price on The Lorax app ($3). The narrated option is great for younger tots, while the self-read version has plenty of hidden features to inspire new readers, like zooming vocabulary words, animated scenes, and more. Just remember that this version is true to Dr. Seuss's book, not the flick. 2 / 7 Dr. Seuss Camera — Happy Birthday Edition What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Dr. Seuss Camera — Happy Birthday Edition (free) is a fun addition to mama's folder of camera apps. The app offers 11 birthday cards that can be used with the phone's camera or Photo Library. The cards can be personalized and then sent via email to family and friends. 3 / 7 Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur? — All About Dinosaurs What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kids who are familiar with the PBS version of Dr. Seuss's newer books (from the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library series) will love the second app based on the series. Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur? — All About Dinosaurs ($6) teaches all of the dinosaurs' names while weaving in the tale of time-traveling tots who are exploring their bones. 4 / 7 Dr. Seuss Band What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 If Dr. Seuss could create such imaginative characters, we can only dream about the music he would compose. With the Dr. Seuss Band app ($1), iPhones are converted into never-before-seen musical instruments that could only be found in Seussville, which tots can use to create their own abstract tunes. The app will be free today in honor of the author's birthday. 6 / 7 Lorax Garden What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 There are no trees more beautiful than the Truffula Trees that exist in The Lorax. With Lorax Garden ($1), tots can grow their own Truffula trees, water them, pull their weeds, paint them their favorite colors, and then share them with family and friends. The game will be free today in honor of the author's birthday. 6 / 7 Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #1 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 True Dr. Seuss fans will love The Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #1 ($9). Consisting of five of the author's most famous books — The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The FOOT Book, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?, and Fox in Socks — the app is designed to be a minilibrary for new readers. 7 / 7 36 5 11 0 0 Back to Homepage Comments Read More Kid Apps And GamesApps For KidsThe LoraxiPhone AppsAppsDr. Seuss What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Reactions Link Love Mom forced to stop feeding baby homemade formula — BabyCenter Blog The easiest ways to save on organic food — The Stir A look inside Fergie's second baby shower — Celebrity Baby Scoop Danielle Jonas debuts her baby bump — People Moms & Babies 7 light and fresh recipes to take you through Summer — FitPregnancy Does where you live affect your risk for PPD? — The Bump Where to find the best deals on school supplies — Real Simple Now this is how you announce a pregnancy! — HuffPost Parents


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Design for Scalability
Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume and their performance expectation has grown tremendously.
General Principles
"Scalability" is not equivalent to "Raw Performance"
- Scalability is about reducing the adverse impact due to growth on performance, cost, maintainability and many other aspects
- e.g. Running every components in one box will have higher performance when the load is small. But it is not scalable because performance drops drastically when the load is increased beyond the machine's capacity
Understand environmental workload conditions that the system is design for
- Dimension of growth and growth rate: e.g. Number of users, Transaction volume, Data volume
- Measurement and their target: e.g. Response time, Throughput
Understand who is your priority customers
- Rank the importance of traffic so you know what to sacrifice in case you cannot handle all of them
Scale out and Not scale up
- Scale the system horizontally (adding more cheap machine), but not vertically (upgrade to a more powerful machine)
Keep your code modular and simple
- The ability to swap out old code and replace with new code without worries of breaking other parts of the system allows you to experiment different ways of optimization quickly
- Never sacrifice code modularity for any (including performance-related) reasons
Don't guess the bottleneck, Measure it
- Bottlenecks are slow code which are frequently executed. Don't optimize slow code if they are rarely executed
- Write performance unit test so you can collect fine grain performance data at the component level
- Setup a performance lab so you can conduct end-to-end performance improvement measurement easily
Plan for growth
- Do regular capacity planning. Collect usage statistics, predict the growth rate
Common Techniques
Parallel Processing
- Split the work into smaller chunks and assign each chunk to a pool of worker machines. When the size of work grows, you just need to add more workers into the pool (grow the pool but not individual workers) and your cost grow linearly with respect to the work load.
- However, this requires the work (algorithm) itself to be parallelizable. This usually mean the steps of execution should be independent of each other.
- Google's Map/Reduce is a good framework for this model. There is also an open source Java framework Hadoop as well.
Reuse Previous Result
- This is a time vs space tradeoff. Some executions may use the same set of input parameters over and over again. Therefore, instead of redo the same execution for same input parameters, we can remember the previous execution's result.
- This is typically implemented as a lookup cache.
- Memcached and EHCache are some of the popular caching packages
Asynchronous Processing
- You make a call which returns a result. But you don't need to use the result until at a much later stage of your process. Therefore, you don't need to wait immediately after making the call., instead you can proceed to do other things until you reach the point where you need to use the result.
- In additional, the waiting thread is idle but consume system resources. For high transaction volume, the number of idle threads is (arrival_rate * processing_time) which can be a very big number if the arrival_rate is high. The system is running under a very ineffective mode
- The service call in this example is better handled using an asynchronous processing model. This is typically done in 2 ways: Callback and Polling
- In callback mode, the caller need to provide a response handler when making the call. The call itself will return immediately before the actually work is done at the server side. When the work is done later, response will be coming back as a separate thread which will execute the previous registered response handler. Some kind of co-ordination may be required between the calling thread and the callback thread.
- In polling mode, the call itself will return a "future" handle immediately. The caller can go off doing other things and later poll the "future" handle to see if the response if ready. In this model, there is no extra thread being created so no extra thread co-ordination is needed.
Implementation design considerations
- Use efficient algorithms and data structure. Analyze the time (CPU) and space (memory) complexity for logic that are execute frequently (ie: hot spots). For example, carefully decide if hash table or binary tree should be use for lookup.
- Analyze your concurrent access scenarios when multiple threads accessing shared data. Carefully analyze the synchronization scenario and make sure the locking is fine-grain enough. Also watch for any possibility of deadlock situation and how you detect or prevent them. A wrong concurrent access model can have huge impact in your system's scalability. Also consider using Lock-Free data structure (e.g. Java's Concurrent Package have a couple of them)
- Analyze the memory usage patterns in your logic. Determine where new objects are created and where they are eligible for garbage collection. Be aware of the creation of a lot of short-lived temporary objects as they will put a high load on the Garbage Collector.
- However, never trade off code readability for performance. (e.g. Don't try to bundle too much logic into a single method). Let the VM handle this execution for you.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Torbjörn Gannholm replied on Wed, 2008/05/28 - 3:31pm
Dmitriy Setrakyan replied on Wed, 2008/05/28 - 4:31pm
Google's Map/Reduce is a good framework for this model. There is also an open source Java framework Hadoop as well.
There is also another open source Java framework for parallel processing - GridGain.
Dmitriy Setrakyan
GridGain - Grid Computing Made Simple
Dmitriy Setrakyan replied on Wed, 2008/05/28 - 4:34pm
However, never trade off code readability for performance.
Couldn't agree more.
Dmitriy Setrakyan
GridGain - Grid Computing Made Simple
Ricky Ho replied on Wed, 2008/05/28 - 9:32pm in response to: Torbjörn Gannholm
Short-lived temporary objects will increase the load of GC. But in most case, people are not create temporary object to avoid "synchronized", they just create temp object in string manipulation or just create a function object, which can be eliminated easily.
Inappropriate "synchronized" is actually causing a bigger scalability problem than temp object. Use AtomicXXX if you can, and use the LOCK-Free data structure from Java concurrent package to avoid "synchronized" as much as possible.
Rgds, Ricky