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|« The need in domain-specific references and reference modeling in COP
|Informal Introduction into the Concept-Oriented Programming »
One interesting observation about computer programs is that something always happens during object access behind the scenes which means that any object access inevitably entails execution of some code which is not part of this program. Thus object access is necessarily indirect because it needs some intermediate procedure which is responsible for finding the real location of the represented object.
For example, if we have a reference to a bank account object of class
Account then it can be accessed as usual by calling its methods:
Account account = findAccount("Alexandr Savinov"); double account.getBalance(); // Object access
Here one method invocation is responsible for accessing this object and getting the current balance. Although here we have the illusion of instantiations action and direct access, it is wrong to think that getting balance is a kind of primitive operation which is executed immediately after this method has been called. In fact, if it is a Java program then JVM will have to resolve this reference into memory handle which in turn will have to be locked and a physical address will be obtained. If it is a remote reference then this request will have to be serialized and transferred over the network using some protocol. It might also happen that this reference represents a persistent object and then its state will have to be retrieved from some storage. There are also many other examples and use cases but the main observation is that
There is always some intermediate code executed implicitly behind the scenes during object access and this code is referred to as dark matter of the program
Why it is called dark matter of the program universe? Because it is undetectable and we know about its presence only indirectly by observing its effects. The presence of dark matter is inferred from the necessity to explain some "missing functionality" where we see that the program results in some effect but the program code has no instructions which could explain it. Moreover, even if we know that it does really exist we are still not able to affect this layer of functionality using traditional approaches programming. We cannot set the moment in time where this code will be activated. And we are not able to influence what precisely will happen during access. This layer is completely out of control. And here we come to an interesting but rather pessimistic conclusion:
There exists a layer of functionality which cannot be changed or replaced in OOP
It should be noted that of course we have a possibility to influence how object access works by changing the environment of the program such as the compiler, run-time environment, library, operating system or hardware platform. This will not change the explicitly defined behaviour of the program (business logic) but it will change how references are defined, how objects are accessed and other aspects that cannot be changed from the program itself. In other words, by putting our program in different environments we can change the implicitly executed intermediate functions -- the dark matter.
So what is the problem? The problem is that we would like to be able to influence dark matter from this same program and for that purpose we need a programming approach which would treat dark matter as integral part of this same program. We would like to be able to develop our own domain specific dark matter which is adapted for the purposes of this specific program and this specific application. Why it is important? Because we accept the following postulate:
Hidden intermediate functions executed during object access are as important as normal explicitly invoked object methods and they can account for a great deal of even most of the program complexity
If this assumption is true then the focus of programming moves to developing intermediate functions rather than end object methods. In other words, the shift of paradigm is that it is more important what happens in-between than what happens at the end (of method invocation). Any method invocation turns in this case into a sequence of intermediate actions where the method itself is only the last step. Here are some well known examples of functionality which should belong to a different layer invisible from the main layer of business logic and therefore treated as dark matter:
- Persistent layers. We want to manipulate objects as if they were normal objects but change the way how their state is managed.
- Object containers. We want to be able to develop application specific containers where objects will live by retaining the possibility to access them as if they were directly accessible objects.
- Custom memory managers. Why to use the standard heap provided by OS if we have a number of application specific requirements for this unit? It would be much more productive to develop our own memory manager which is adapted for objects of this and only this program.
- Domain specific compiler. We want to change the way how references and other constructs in our program are implemented. For that purpose we can change the compiler but it is normally either not possible or is very difficult. It would be interesting to have a possibility to develop a compiler/interpreter as an integral part of this same program.
To solve this and many other problems a new programming paradigm has been developed -- Concept-Oriented Programming (COP). Within this approach, dark matter plays central role and is made integral part of the program. In COP, the programmer is not only able to influence what happens behind the scenes but rather it is his main concern. In other words, the main task in COP is creating an application specific environment where objects will live. This includes such functionality as object representation (custom references) and object access (custom access procedures). The functionality of this domain specific environment is triggered implicitly by injecting the necessary functions into all internal objects.
It is important that COP generalizes OOP by retaining its main principles and features. COP introduces a new programming construct, called concept, which generalizes conventional classes. Concepts in COP exist within a hierarchy defined by means of inclusion relation which generalizes classical inheritance. It is also important that COP allows for describing cross-cutting concerns in a manner which is different from AOP (and even can be said to be opposite to AOP). And what is more, COP is a basis for a new data model -- Concept-Oriented Model (COM) -- by significantly decreasing the incompatibility between conventional data and programming models (impedance mismatch).
- Informal Introduction into the Concept-Oriented Programming
- Concept-Oriented Programming wiki article
- Informal Introduction into the Concept-Oriented Data Model
- Concept-Oriented Model wiki article
- Concept-oriented discussion forum
- Discussion on The Server Side
- Discussion on The Joel on Software
- Concept-Oriented Model wiki article on c2


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At the major league level…
… it may not be the kind of soul searching that Andruw Jones will be doing this off-season, but Jeff Francoeur will have to have his own little "come to Jesus" meeting with himself. To put the blame of the 2008 disaster all on Frenchy's shoulders is a bit much, but he deserves to take a big chunk of the blame for 90 losses.
Frenchy represents an interesting dilemma for the Braves. In one corner is much of the Braves PR and team branding that puts Francoeur at the forefront, and in the other corner is a player who was the WORST everyday right fielder in baseball this year. His .653 OPS was the worst among everyday right fielders, and he was listed dead last among right fielders in VORP (value over replacement player) with a (negative) -17.3! In fact, using the VORP metric, Frenchy was the fourth-worst player in the major leagues – out of 1038 players listed, he was listed 1035, just above Andruw Jones, Corey Patterson, and Tony Pena.
Was this season an anomaly or did it finally peel back the shiny-happy coating and reveal the real batter?
If the Braves stick with Jeff Francoeur as their right fielder next season, they should do so with some trepidation and a quick trigger to replace him with the first thing that comes to Frank Wren's mind (not named Jason Perry). Next year is the last option year for Francoeur, so he can be sent to the minors without having to pass through waivers. If the Braves are serious about winning next year then they should not flinch if Francoeur is struggling, like they did this year, when they demoted Francoeur.
But what can Frenchy do to figure it out? He tried tinkering with his swing all season, trying everything he could and everything anyone told him to break out of his many funks. (Perhaps he should watch tape of Brian McCann hitting.) Beyond just getting Francoeur back to his 06/07 production, there should be a desire to see him go way beyond that – to have that breakout year that everyone has wanted to see from him for the past two or three years. In 06 and 07 his production was in the bottom third of everyday right-fielders, so one could point to that decrease in production in right-field (from J.D. Drew and Gary Sheffield) as another big reason the Braves have failed to make the playoffs the last few years.
I didn't mean to turn this into a Frenchy-sucks piece, because I do honestly like the guy, and one can never doubt his hustle or desire. But at some point hustle and desire and raw talent have got to translate into above average major league skills. The Braves can't have a right fielder who is expected to hit in the middle of the order put up a .359 slugging percentage. Francoeur needs to get better or he needs to go.
The future Braves right fielder…
… He's one of the top-five prospects in all of baseball, and Jason Heyward is also the Braves top prospect. He did everything the organization wanted him to do in his first full season of profession baseball at just the age of 19. The real question now becomes, just how fast are the Braves prepared to move him up the minor league ladder. If my complaining about Jeff Francoeur in the first half of this piece was a sign that the Braves should make a change in right field, then after next year they really don't need to look any further than Heyward.
This season at Rome he performed exactly how a top prospect should perform – his hitting, slugging, and on-base percentages were all in the top-10 in the league. He struggled a bit after a late-season promotion to Myrtle Beach, hitting .182 (4-for-22), but he turned it around a bit in the Carolina League playoffs, before falling off again. I wouldn't put too much stock in those numbers as it was only a couple weeks of games.
Will the Braves take the slow and steady, one level per year approach with Heyward, or will they give him a mid-year call-up to Mississippi if he's repeating his 2008 performance? He'll only be 20-years old next year, so the slow and steady approach seems like the right one, but how much could events in the major leagues (the afore mentioned jettisoning of Francoeur) increase the need to move Heyward up and see how he responds to the challenge.
More for future consideration…
2. Jon Owings – JMO is finally moving up and out of the lower rungs of the minor league system. He's been slowed by injuries, but while healthy the last two years he has shown impressive power and an improving ability to recognize pitches. As one of the truly nice guys in baseball, it's easy to root for Owings to succeed. He'll face a test next year in Mississippi, but if successful, a major league job shouldn't be too far behind.
3. Chris Shehan – The Braves were able to woo Shehan away from Georgia Southern after his junior season, where he hit .428 with 22 homeruns. He displayed decent power and good speed in Danville, and seemed to adjust well to wooden bats. He should start for Rome in right field next year, and I think a lot of people are excited to see what he can do. He could turn out to be one of the real steals of last year's draft after being taken in the 30th-round.
4. Concepcion Rodriguez – He's sort of the forgotten guy at Myrtle Beach, but he played stellar defense and showed a good all-around game at the plate. He's one of those guys who was signed out of Panama and grew into his own in the Braves' Dominican academy. With his refined game he could catapult up the depth chart if he finally taps into all his talent.
Awesome photo of Jason Heyward courtesy of Chip Jett.

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I updated some of my field recording videos with footage from mixing at Park Road Post, check it out:
And it is such great news: The Orator/O Le Tulafale is to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival, which is a truly awesome achievement! Congratulations to everyone involved!!!
Here's links to previous posts on our work on the film, looking forward to attending the premiere in Apia on October 1st!
- First set of photos from my first recording trip, February 2011
- Second set of photos from trip to Savai'i
- Third set of photos from time spent at Tufutafoe, Falealupo Peninsula, Savaii
- Fourth set of photos from Savai'i
- Video of dawn timelapse shot at Lucias Lagoon, Savai'i
- Video of recording at the beautiful beach at Saleapaga
- A debrief from first record trip to Samoa (for sound recordists!)
- Video of the Alofaaga Blow Holes, Taga, Savi'i
- Recording geckos at night, Savai'i
- My cutup video/beatbox of coconut husking at Manunu Village
- Recording rain in Samoa
- Field recording trip to Samoa 2, May 2011
- Recording Flying Foxes in Savai'i
- a 360 degree Quicktime VR from Tufutaafoe, Falealupo Peninsula, Savai'i
Ah what a beautiful country – can't wait to go back!


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HashMap Performance Improvements in Java 8
HashMap<K, V> is fast, versatile and ubiquitous data structure in every Java program. First some basics. As you probably know, it uses
hashCode() and
equals() method of keys to split values between buckets. The number of buckets (bins) should be slightly higher than the number of entries in a map, so that each bucket holds only few (preferably one) value. When looking up by key, we very quickly determine bucket (using
number_of_buckets) and our item is available at constant time.
This should have already been known to you. You probably also know that hash collisions have disastrous impact on
HashMap performance. When multiple
hashCode() values end up in the same bucket, values are placed in an ad-hoc linked list. In worst case, when all keys are mapped to the same bucket, thus degenerating hash map to linked list - from O(1) to O(n) lookup time. Let's first benchmark how
HashMap behaves under normal circumstances in Java 7 (1.7.0_40) and Java 8 (1.8.0-b132). To have full control over
hashCode() behaviour we define our custom
Key class:
class Key implements Comparable<Key> { private final int value; Key(int value) { this.value = value; } @Override public int compareTo(Key o) { return Integer.compare(this.value, o.value); } @Override public boolean equals(Object o) { if (this == o) return true; if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false; Key key = (Key) o; return value == key.value; } @Override public int hashCode() { return value; } }
Key class is well-behaving: it overrides
equals() and provides decent
hashCode(). To avoid excessive GC I cache immutable
Key instances rather than creating them from scratch over and over:
public class Keys { public static final int MAX_KEY = 10_000_000; private static final Key[] KEYS_CACHE = new Key[MAX_KEY]; static { for (int i = 0; i < MAX_KEY; ++i) { KEYS_CACHE[i] = new Key(i); } } public static Key of(int value) { return KEYS_CACHE[value]; } }
Now we are ready to experiment a little bit. Our benchmark will simply create
HashMaps of different sizes (powers of 10, from 1 to 1 million) using continuous key space. In the benchmark itself we will lookup values by key and measure how long it takes, depending on the
HashMap size:
import com.google.caliper.Param; import com.google.caliper.Runner; import com.google.caliper.SimpleBenchmark; public class MapBenchmark extends SimpleBenchmark { private HashMap<Key, Integer> map; @Param private int mapSize; @Override protected void setUp() throws Exception { map = new HashMap<>(mapSize); for (int i = 0; i < mapSize; ++i) { map.put(Keys.of(i), i); } } public void timeMapGet(int reps) { for (int i = 0; i < reps; i++) { map.get(Keys.of(i % mapSize)); } } }
The results confirm that
HashMap.get() is indeed O(1):
Interestingly Java 8 is on average 20% faster than Java 7 in simple
HashMap.get(). The overall performance is equally interesting: even with one million entries in a
HashMap a single lookup taken less than 10 nanoseconds, which means around 20 CPU cycles on my machine*. Pretty impressive! But that's not what we were about to benchmark.
Suppose that we have a very poor map key that always returns the same value. This is the worst case scenario that defeats the purpose of using
HashMap altogether:
class Key implements Comparable<Key> { //... @Override public int hashCode() { return 0; } }
I used the exact same benchmark to see how it behaves for various map sizes (notice it's a log-log scale):
Results for Java 7 are to be expected. The cost of
HashMap.get() grows proportionally to the size of the
HashMap itself. Since all entries are in the same bucket in one huge linked list, looking up one requires traversing half of such list (of size n) on average. Thus O(n) complexity as visualized on the graph.
But Java 8 performs so much better! It's a log scale so we are actually talking about several orders of magnitude better. The same benchmark executed on JDK 8 yields O(logn) worst case performance in case of catastrophic hash collisions, as pictured better if JDK 8 is visualized alone on a log-linear scale:
What is the reason behind such a tremendous performance improvement, even in terms of big-O notation? Well, this optimization is described in JEP-180. Basically when a bucket becomes too big (currently:
HashMap dynamically replaces it with an ad-hoc implementation of tree map. This way rather than having pessimistic O(n) we get much better O(logn). How does it work? Well, previously entries with conflicting keys were simply appended to linked list, which later had to be traversed. Now
HashMappromotes list into binary tree, using hash code as a branching variable. If two hashes are different but ended up in the same bucket, one is considered bigger and goes to the right. If hashes are equal (as in our case),
HashMap hopes that the keys are
Comparable, so that it can establish some order. This is not a requirement of
HashMap keys, but apparently a good practice. If keys are not comparable, don't expect any performance improvements in case of heavy hash collisions.
Why is all of this so important? Malicious software, aware of hashing algorithm we use, might craft couple of thousand requests that will result in massive hash collisions. Repeatedly accessing such keys will significantly impact server performance, effectively resulting in denial-of-service attack. In JDK 8 an amazing jump from O(n) to O(logn) will prevent such attack vector, also making performance a little bit more predictive. I hope this will finally convince your boss to upgrade.
*Benchmarks executed on Intel Core i7-3635QM @ 2.4 GHz, 8 GiB of RAM and SSD drive, running on 64-bit Windows 8.1 and default JVM settings.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Matthew Jaggard replied on Wed, 2014/04/30 - 8:53am
This doesn't make any sense. You return zero from your hashCode() so the tree structure would also be just a list, not a proper tree and you'd still have to do equals() on half of the objects on average.
So, given that the results don't follow your reasoning, what is the reason or did you just make up the results?!!
Arthur Walker replied on Wed, 2014/04/30 - 10:08am in response to: Matthew Jaggard
For the collision test, hashCode is made to always return 0 but the values of the keys remain different, and that's what Comparable checks when ordering the Keys in the collision tree. Therefore, the reasoning still stands. If the keys are comparable, the tree used for the hashCode collisions can get better performance if the keys are comparable and different.
Matthew Jaggard replied on Wed, 2014/04/30 - 10:46am in response to: Arthur Walker
Tomasz Nurkiewicz replied on Wed, 2014/04/30 - 3:11pm in response to: Matthew Jaggard
No, HashMap does not require keys to be Comparable. Otherwise it would have been major backward incompatibility.
If keys aren't comparable and we get significant hash collisions, it would just behave as bad as it used to prior to Java 8 (or even worse). But if they are Comparable, we get the benefit of using trees rather than linked lists. So it's a good practice, not a requirement.
Pierre-yves Saumont replied on Mon, 2014/05/05 - 3:26am
You writes that "The number of buckets (bins) should be slightly higher than the number
of entries in a map, so that each bucket holds only few (preferably one)
value." There are two problems with this affirmation.
First, buckets do not hold values, but entries, which are key/value pairs (in the form of Map.Entry). If it would store only values, there would be no mean to handle get() when it leads to a bucket containing several values.
One thing that is worth mentioning is that collection view of the map have no specific order, but all version of Java until Java 7 give the same order for a non rehashed map. Due to changes in the implementation, Java 8 gives a different order. So, some programs that appeared to be working in Java 1.7 while relying upon map order will break in Java 8.
Matthew Jaggard replied on Mon, 2014/05/05 - 11:31am in response to: Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz, I didn't say that they had to be comparable. I said that the implementation of comparable has to be compatible with equals/hashcode. So in previous code I've had entities where equals and hashcode are based on the id but comparable is based on the value of an invoice (for example) - previously I could check if the entity was a key in a hashmap without populating anything except the id. Now I'd have to load the whole entity.
Tomasz Nurkiewicz replied on Mon, 2014/05/05 - 12:33pm in response to: Pierre-yves Saumont
Pierre, everything you say is obviously right. It was a mental shortcut from my side, thanks for clarification. With regards to key/value pair distribution - it's even worse. Keys with different hash codes may still land in the same bucket, even if otherwise they could be easily distributed.
Also I agree with your statement about order of entries in a map. But unspecified order in HashMap is so strongly emphasized that I don't believe it will impact reasonably written software. On the other hand I saw unit tests breaking after migration from Java 6 to 7 because order of entries in HashMap changed - so it's not really the first time.
Tomasz Nurkiewicz replied on Mon, 2014/05/05 - 12:39pm in response to: Matthew Jaggard
Hi Matthew, good point, thanks for clearing this. However note that it is (and always was (?)) strongly recommended that Comparable is consistent with equals:
From: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Comparable.html
Comparator interface is less strict with that regard.


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Jamal Crawford mentioned as being available in trades
We're directly mentioned in this piece by Sam Amick (SI). What would POR ask for? Would Randy's expiring be enough? Jamal would be a sick fit. We only need him to do one thing: score. And that's what he does. He's 6'5'', right? Decent size at the 2.


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Poems & Ravings
Book Four
By by Leon Karla
This book takes you through a personal journey of my life and feelings in the 1980's with images from now 2008, to accompany most of them. My moods were very up or down never plateaud.
About the Author
Born in 1959, Always been drawing since I can remember...could be better but parents wouldn't support and even repressed my only love in life (drawing) so...I left home 1980ish, and came to Australia at the age of 18 to start a independent life, never looked back. Now I teach it, live it and breathe it with my very supportive wife and children. Follow your passion!
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I'm Jamie. I'm 21 and female. Here I blog/reblog things related to (but not limited to): movies, travel, various television shows, and music. I rearrange my page quite often.
I really wanted to like this movie more than I did. Maybe if I hadn't seen it in 3D? But then, I didn't love the book...
Martin Scorsese Asa Butterfield #Hugo #ontheset
Asa Butterfield was tremendous. He handled himself more maturely than any other child actor I've ever seen.
Martin is my hero


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|Presentation on eagles slated in Three Lakes
The Nicolet Bird Club of Three Lakes will host a free public presentation titled "Our Magnificent Eagles" given by Ron Eckstein Monday, June 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Three Lakes Town Office, located at 6965 W. School St.Eckstein — a retired emeritus wildlife biologist of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) who managed the statewide eagle and osprey conservation and survey programs for more than 20 years — will share his knowledge and experiences of the eagle population.
The presentation will focus on the DNR's eagle conservation program, the annual breeding and nesting surveys, trends in the health and growth of the eagle population, and will share facts and points of insight into the behavior of these birds.
Eckstein's talk is based on years of in-field experience including personally banding more than 1,500 eaglets in the nest and erecting more than 70 osprey nest platforms.
For more information, contact Bill at (715) 891-5084.
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Farm salmon pose clear reproductive threat to wild gene pools
Why some fish can't go with the flow
Have you ever been snorkelling or scuba diving on a windy day when there are lots of waves? Did you notice how much that flow of water against your body affected your ability to swim and control your movements ...
Trawling restrictions crucial to preserve biodiversity
EU, Iceland and Nordic mackerel quota talks break down
Survey set to prove northern fish disease-free
Increased use of medicines in Norwegian fish farming
The increase in sales of agents to treat sea lice infestations continued in 2013. However, sales of antibacterials showed a reduction compared to the previous year. Sales of anthelmintics showed a slight ...
Why marine fish don't go into the deeper blue
3D scans map widespread fish disease
Distinctive flashing patterns might facilitate fish mating
Scientists have shown for the first time that deep-sea fishes that use bioluminescence for communication are diversifying into different species faster than other glowing fishes that use light for camouflage. ...
Species matters in a noisy world
Fish exposed to increased noise levels consume less food and show more stress-related behaviour, according to new research from the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter. However, the way fish ...
Ninety-five per cent of world's fish hide in mesopelagic zone
Competition breeds new fish species, study finds
Competition may play an important role during the evolution of new species, but empirical evidence for this is scarce, despite being implicit in Charles Darwin's work and support from theoretical studies.


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Cash boost for football in Chandler's Ford (From Hampshire Chronicle)
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Updated 10:36am Tuesday 19th February 2013 in Eastleigh
GRASSROOTS sport in Hampshire has received a boost after a Chandler's Ford primary school was awarded a grant of more than £20,000.
Knightwood Primary School will use the cash to install floodlighting so that they can extend the use of their all-weather pitch.
The award of £22,026 comes courtesy of the country's largest sports charity, the Football Foundation.
Paul Haydon, headteacher, said: "We are very grateful to the Football Foundation for this grant because it will help us to offer greater opportunities for sport both within our school and also for the benefit of the local community."
Paul Thorogood, the charity's chief executive, said: "Knightwood Primary School has been extremely energetic and has worked tirelessly in partnership with the Hampshire FA to secure this funding, and I am thrilled to see their hard work rewarded with this substantial Football Foundation grant."
Funded by the Premier League, The Football Association and the Government (via Sport England), the foundation has awarded around 8,000 grants worth more than £420m.
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Tag Archives: Gummy bears
A while back JCamm featured the wild Amazon reviews of people who claimed Haribo's Sugarless Gummy Bears were giving them "the shits."
Sugarless gummy bears. FUCKIN' SUGARLESS GUMMY BEARS! POW...POW, POW! They're tearing the ass out of our country, one unsuspecting American at a time. At least that's
There is a well-trafficked YouTube channel devoted to running experiments with a red-hot ball of nickel. Follow your dreams, kids. Anything is possible.


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A man found badly injured in southwest Atlanta died on Friday. The Fulton County medical examiner's office identified the man as 51-year-old Marion Johnson Jr. of Atlanta.Police found Johnson just before 1:30 a.m. on Laurelmont Drive with severe head injuries.He died later at Grady Memorial Hospital.No cause of death has been released.
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Sherwood police are trying to track down the person who left a hidden camera inside a bathroom at Starbucks.
The hidden camera was discovered May 1 at Starbucks, 20661 S.W. Roy Rogers Road. Police said the camera was in a unisex public restroom.
Investigators said they don't know of this happening at any other Starbucks locations in the area. Police have not released what kind of camera it is, but they said it was in a location that could capture graphic images.
The Sherwood Police Department has been working closely with Starbucks to try and identify a suspect in the case.
Starbucks released a statement to Fox 12 about the case. It says: " We take our obligation to provide a safe environment for our customers and employees very seriously and we are concerned to learn of this disturbing incident. Our store partners took swift action as soon as they discovered the recording device by immediately alerting the police department. We are now supporting police in their investigation in every way possible and have provided them with surveillance footage."
Surveillance images are being released to the public in hopes of identifying someone considered a person of interest at this point.
He is between 48 and 55-years-old, standing 6' tall to 6'4" with a medium build and graying hair. He was clean shaven with no tattoos or other identifying marks seen.
If you recognize this man, he is wanted for questioning by officers. Contact Detective Debbie Smith at 503-925-7117 with any details.
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An unknown person has been admitted to a California hospital and tested for a possible Ebola infection.


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News: V-Nasty Turns Her Back On Kreayshawn: "Stop Lyin To The Magazines"
Monday, Dec 3, 2012 9:52PM
West Coast rapper V-Nasty has had a change of heart and put her close-knit bond with Kreayshawn on the line by throwing a flurry of public disses at her.
Nasty took offense to one of Kreay's tweets and proceeded to air her out.
"@KREAYSHAWN tried to help are yu f*ckin serious b*tch stop actin like yu was the best friend ever !!! At one time yu were but now NOTIME," Nasty tweeted December 2nd.
"And bitch ain't never got a pimp Dolla never !!!!! Never pimped no bitch stop lyin to the magazines hoe"
"Just like when rick Ross call that b*tch out infront of cameras on the red carpet and didn't say sh*t" (V-Nasty's Twitter)
Kreay's tweet about lending a hand to those in need subsequently led to Nasty's comments.
"All I do is try and help and it always blows up in my face. I haven't learned my lesson though. Still helping as much as possible #PosiMob," she tweeted Sunday (December 2). (Kreayshawn's Twitter)
Last year, Kreay talked about her White Girl Mob bringing back a sense of female unity to hip-hop.
"I know people are hating on The White Girl Mob, but we're not going after anyone's head, we're not trying to kill hip-hop or whatever people are trying to say. I'm just trying to make a new wave of girl empowerment and girl gang and new wave Spice Girls or some s**t like that. People read into it way too deep. They gotta remember that we're all kids just trying to have fun when it comes down to it." (VIBE)
Former White Girl Mob member Lil' Debbie said dicey words from V-Nasty gave her an early exit last winter.
"This all had happened in L.A., like, I'm not going to lie - I lost it. It was so stressful! I mean, so much sh*t was going on! You know, it's so hard to get thrown in the middle all of this new stuff... I never dreamed of anything like this happening. We weren't ready for it. ... I'm not going to sit here and say I'm completely right in everything. Look, I lost my best friends and to see some of the things that they say about you in social media is hurtful. You just begin to question yourself, you know what I'm saying? You question who you are. Vanessa would call me up and be like, "B*tch, nobody knows you, they only know you 'cause you look like Kreayshawn." That sh*t was hurtful!" (Karmaloop)


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October 3, Common Hour
Moderator: Milla Riggio, James J. Goodwin Professor of English, Trinity College
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The odds are poor that a public campaign to win Pollard's release will succeed. But if Israel is going to do anything at all, its actions should be concentrated in the public realm.
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Despite this, Pollard was sentenced to life. So far, he has served 25 years, much of it in solitary confinement and in maximum security prisons. His health is poor. He has repeatedly expressed remorse for his crime.
Pollard's sentence and the treatment he has received are grossly disproportionate to the sentences and treatment meted out to agents of other friendly foreign governments caught stealing classified information in the US. Their average sentence is seven years in prison. They tend to serve their sentences in minimum or medium security prisons and are routinely released after four years.
The only offenders who have received similar sentences are Soviet spies Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. While Pollard transferred documents to Israel over a period of 18 months, both Ames and Hanssen served the Soviets – the US's primary enemy – for decades. Their espionage led to the death of multiple US agents operating behind the Iron Curtain.
Pollard was given a life sentence because then secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger wrote a classified victim impact assessment to the sentencing judge in which he insinuated that he had transferred information to the Soviet Union as well as to Israel. Weinberger reportedly attributed the deaths of US agents to Pollard's activities.
Weinberger's accusations were proven false with the subsequent arrests of Hanssen and Ames. As it turned out, the damage Weinberger ascribed to Pollard was actually caused by their espionage.
OVER THE past five years, and with increased urgency over the past several months, several former senior US officials who had firsthand knowledge of Pollard's activities have called for his immediate release. Former CIA director R. James Woolsey has stated that, contrary to Weinberger's allegations, none of the documents Pollard stole were transferred to the Soviets or any other country. A few months ago, former senator Dennis DeConcini, a past chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to immediately release Pollard from prison. And in October, Lawrence Korb, who served as assistant secretary of defense under Weinberger, became one of the most outspoken champions for Pollard's release. Korb currently works for the Center for American Progress, which is closely allied with the Obama White House.
The renewed interest in Pollard's plight has garnered a great deal of attention in the local media as well. After Korb's initial call for Pollard's release in an op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times in October,
published a cover story in its weekend news supplement about Pollard's suffering. Reporter Ben Caspit demanded that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu formally request that Obama commute Pollard's sentence and release him from prison.
article caused a spike in media coverage of Pollard in November. And this month, Pollard was back in the news when the government intervened to help his former wife Ann and her father make aliya after the consulate in New York discovered they were both ill and living in poverty.
Public pressure on Netanyahu seems to be working. Before Monday, Netanyahu refused to make any public statements regarding Pollard. At his recent meeting with Obama, he refused to deliver a letter signed by 109 of the Knesset's 120 members formally requesting Pollard's release. On the other hand, heavy public pressure caused Netanyahu to initially agree to speak at Monday's rally for Pollard's release at the Knesset. Netanyahu canceled his appearance at the last moment however, and insisted on sufficing with a private meeting with Korb and Pollard's wife Esther. Obviously more pressure can and should be applied.
On the face of things, it seems that this is a particularly inauspicious time to renew the campaign to release Pollard. This is true first of all because of the nature of the current president who is the only one with the power to release him.
By now there is little question that Obama is the most hostile US leader Israel has faced. It is hard to imagine the circumstances in which he would agree to do something for Israel that his vastly more sympathetic predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton refused to do.
In light of Obama's attitude, at first blush it makes more sense to try to advance Pollard's case through quiet diplomacy. This is the argument that cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser made in testimony before the Knesset earlier this month. Hauser appeared before the State Control Committee to respond to State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss' recommendation that Netanyahu set up a ministerial committee to oversee a public, formal campaign calling for Pollard's release.
But on second thought, the current campaign is eminently sensible. To understand why, we must consider the relative benefits of quiet, behind the scenes diplomacy and loud, public diplomacy.
Quiet diplomacy works well when all sides share a perception of joint interests and when its exposure is likely to change that perception. For instance, Israel and its Arab neighbors perceive a shared interest in blocking Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But given the nature of Arab politics, that perception, which enables the likes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain to work with Israel on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, disappears the moment cooperation is made public.
Likewise, Lebanon's Sunnis and Christians share an interest with Israel in defeating Hizbullah. But their ability to work with Israel on defeating Hizbullah is destroyed the moment such work becomes public.
Quiet diplomacy does not work when there is no perception of shared interests. For instance, regimes that repress human rights to maintain their grip on power have little interest in cooperating with free societies, when the latter demand that they free political dissidents from prison. Quiet diplomacy in the field of human rights between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War never succeeded, because the Soviets realized that opening up their tyranny to domestic criticism would destroy the system.
And today, as Cairo's fake parliamentary elections and Teheran's continued repression of democracy protesters shows, the Obama administration's quiet diplomacy with the Muslim world regarding human rights and democracy has utterly failed.
It is in cases like this where public, noisy diplomacy comes in handy. Public campaigns are helpful when one government wishes to persuade another to do something it doesn't want to do. Last week we received a reminder of the effectiveness of such behavior with the publication of protocols of meetings held by president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office.
One such meeting involved a conversation between Nixon and secretary of state Henry Kissinger following a meeting with prime minister Golda Meir. She had asked Nixon to support the Jackson-Vanek amendment that linked US economic assistance to the USSR to the latter's willingness to permit Jews to emigrate. Kissinger opposed the request, telling Nixon, "The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
On the face of it, Kissinger was right. Using humanitarian considerations to weaken Soviet tyranny probably didn't help US arms control negotiators score points with Leonid Brezhnev. But on a deeper lever, he was completely wrong.
The Jackson-Vanek amendment not only forced the Soviets to permit limited emigration of Jews. It started a process of opening the Soviet system, which ended up destroying the regime just a decade later.
SINCE TAKING office, Obama has only used public diplomacy in the Middle East to convince one government to take action it believed was antithetical to its interests. Last year he waged a forceful, unrelenting public diplomacy campaign to convince Netanyahu to abrogate Jewish property rights in Judea and Samaria. And it worked.
Although it harmed the sacrosanct pillar of Zionism that Jewish rights are nonnegotiable, although it weakened Netanyahu's standing with his party and voters and although it empowered the Palestinians to expand their political war against Israel on the international stage, Netanyahu gave in. The public pressure Obama exerted on him compelled him to act against his interests.
The US is not an evil empire. And it is hard to see how a clear demand for Pollard's release on humanitarian grounds will have any fundamental impact on its nature.
And that is fine. But the fact is that Obama has no interest in freeing a suffering Israeli agent who was railroaded by Weinberger and remains in prison due to the efforts of Israelhaters who wrongly insist he did untold damage to US national security. Indeed, many of Pollard's detractors are members of Obama's political camp.
Israel can't expect a lot of help on this from American Jews, although they stand to be major secondary beneficiaries if Pollard is released. The impact of his case on the US Jewish community has been debilitating. Although the US and Israel are strategic allies which share many of the same interests and fight the same enemies, Israel's detractors in the US foreign policy community use the Pollard case as an excuse for questioning the loyalty and patriotism of American Jews who serve in the US government and support Israel. His continued incarceration casts a long shadow over American Jewry.
The odds are poor that a public campaign to win Pollard's release will succeed. But if Israel is going to do anything at all, its actions should be concentrated in the public realm. As we have seen, quiet diplomacy, the strategy the Netanyahu government tried until now, will never get him out of jail.
And Israel must act. Pollard's unfair, unjustified and discriminatory sentence and treatment are a dismal symbol of Jewish vulnerability. His personal suffering is inhumane, real and unrelenting. He needs us to stand up for him.
And so we must. And so we will. The time has come, against all odds to shout that Pollard must be freed. Now.
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THR_33 Smile Scan
When someone approaches the tea house they are visually scanned by by the OMRON Smile Scan.
"The system measures the degree of a person's smile from a camera-recorded facial image based on its original criteria using facial key point movements. The resulting data is displayed onscreen with a percentage reading from 0% to 100%."
In THR_33 this percentage controls how much the tea-house "eyes" open - so if they are smiling the "eyes" will allow for a direct line of sight between the visitor and the robots.
When TST_003 (the toaster) "sees" someone with its passive infrared sensor it will initiate its toasting cycle - it stops roaming and both its toasting drawers extend. Also, the inside of the robot illuminates.
When RDO_002 (the radio) "sees" someone with its passive infrared sensor it will play a randomly chosen sound sample from a library of samples of robots from science fiction movies.
When MXR_011 (the mixer) "sees" someone with its proximity sensor it will spin away from them (we figured when it is in regular use it would have to mix in one direction only - so in the tea house it would spin whichever way takes its fancy).
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Thirty years ago today, playwright William Gibson premiered Monday After the Miracle, the sequel to his Tony-winning hit The Miracle Worker.
The Miracle Worker premiered on Broadway in 1959, bringing acclaim to playwright William Gibson and director Arthur Penn. Gibson and Penn both earned Tonys for their work, as did Anne Bancroft for her portrayal of Annie Sullivan.
Two decades later, Gibson and Penn reunited for a sequel called Monday After the Miracle. Jane Alexander, by then a Tony winner and three-time nominee, played Annie Sullivan. Karen Allen, fresh from Hollywood success in Raiders of the Lost Ark, played Helen Keller.
The play opened at the Eugene O'Neill on Dec. 14, 1982. Though New York Times reviewer Frank Rich panned the production, he defended the effort to revisit the characters of The Miracle Worker. "No one can accuse Mr. Gibson or Mr. Penn of exploiting their Broadway hit of a generation ago," he wrote. "How one wishes that the work itself rose to the high level of its creators' aspirations." In light of poor critical reception and attendance, the play closed four days later.
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It's going to be nuts and it's going to be awesome. The new CBA sounds like it's closer and closer to becoming a reality, and in the next couple of weeks it seems pretty likely a deal will get done bringing the lockout to an end.
Sure, they'll be some waffling, threats, explosions in the media and scary signs of disaster still to come in this process, but I truly believe this is the beginning of the end. The threat of losing money is becoming too big and all parties are going to cave. Everybody else is already caving.
So here's the deal: If a new CBA is complete before or on July 21st, we're looking at free agency starting no less than a week later. The first pre-season game is August 7th and the first week of pre-season for all teams starts on August 12th. Can you imagine? There is basically no turn around whatsoever on getting players acclimated to new playbooks and new teams. Teams are going to be signing people in a frantic craze; in an attempt to fill out their roster in a limited time frame.
Again I tell you, it's going to be nuts, and there's going to be tons of NFL news pouring out after minutes. Guys like Adam Schefter are going to hate life. For us fans it's going to be an exciting time. I think there are parts of the off-season that we each enjoy, and when that's all condensed into a 2-3 week window we're going to get flooded with new info on the hour, not the day.I will say this: expect a lot free agents to re-sign with their old teams for one year deals. Don't expect myriad players changing teams and landing massive long term deals. Why? Because the time that was lost, and will be lost, will cost a lot of guys money. With the market being so uncertain after all this time off , players will prefer to test free agency next season when there's less questions.
Teams will feel more safe investing in their own players, and those same players will sign provided the deals are short term. Signing a one year deal with what they know will help stabilize their career, and you know most teams will extend their own free agents they care about over signing a new player they've had to no ability to talk with for months. The ability to properly meet with teams, research the cities, and study the "fit" for free agents is going to be on such a tight time schedule that there will be a lot of security with just coming back to the team they know with the same playbook. That bodes well for the Jonathan Goodwin's, Jermon Bushrod's, Lance Moore's, Heath Evans', Roman Harper's etc etc... of the world coming back to the Saints.
The teams with the most continuity and stability are going to have a huge advantage here, too. Teams with new head coaches, new quarterbacks or any major change in playbook are going to be seriously behind. I really believe, at least at the beginning of the season, the difference between the higher echelon teams and the lower echelon teams will be more pronounced than ever in the NFL. The NFL is famous for it's parity and how competitive it is, but this year I think it'll be different. The better teams will rise to the top and the bad ones are really going to struggle.
Teams like Carolina, for example, how are they going to survive? Brand new coach, brand new rookie quarterback that hasn't taken one look at the playbook yet. It's going to be hard for them to win games when the competition around them, namely the three other teams in the NFL South, had way more off-season stability. I wouldn't be surprised to see six teams go 4-12 or worse and see five to six teams going 13-3 or better. Hopefully the Saints can pull away from the pack early and create real separation while other teams are struggling to get on the same page.
All this said, we're going to see a lot of free agents signing places and it's going to happen really fast. Some moves are going to surprise us. I feel like in the past, when the Saints lost players, there was at least writing on the wall with the documented visits they would take. Now? Who knows. This could all happen in the blink of an eye.
I hope you've enjoyed your relative break from NFL news, if you consider the lockout period such, because it's about to ramp up like none other. Get excited!


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Volkswagen in Duluth
By Zeito on Apr 30, 2012 in Uncategorized
I am really thrilled that they were able to remodel and re-use the Saturn dealership by the mall as a Volkswagen dealership. According to local news reports, Volkswagen hasn't had a presence around here for 20 years. Does anyone know who the last dealer in the area was? I've heard there was once a place on the hillside that sold Volkswagens. Does anyone recall that?


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May 11th, 2009
I think this is a good idea—starting a blog on the School of Graduate Studies pages, that is. I am not planning on regretting it. I have been in the job less than a year and if there is one thing I have learned so far it is that there is an awful lot going on in this office. No day is like any other, and you never know what is going to come at you. Keeping your head down is not an option. I remember well a time when I could not imagine why anyone would want to dedicate most of their time to academic administration, and, in truth, like many of my colleagues, I more or less looked down upon many of those who had followed the call, so to speak. I thought that with few exceptions they were dangerously close to being dorks. Yet, here I am, occupying the very role I once failed to fathom. And I love it. Graduate Studies is a dynamic place, experiencing a surge of growth and an aggressive sense of possibility. The challenge to meet the high expectations Memorial has placed on the office is exciting. It requires strong team work, a heightened sense of responsiveness, openness to new opportunities, and a hell of a lot of energy. If I can keep leading my aerobics classes in the field house three times a week, with a weekly hula hoop session for core strengthening, then I think I can keep pace with the demands. Learning how to use more than one hoop at a time helps.
One of the major changes we are facing is sustaining a lively and fresh web presence. This blog is a part of our plan to reanimate the SGS pages, turning what is essentially stale or dead text and information into a much more developed site of activity. All you have to do is browse most major postsecondary institutions in this country to see just how tired they are. In the most egregious examples, the pages are way out of date and have that 1950s feeling—as if they were borne out of someone's how-to manual. In fact, they probably date from the mid-2000s, but everything dates so quickly now that if your pages fall behind you might as well be trying to sell a car without a radio.
For the vast numbers of students browsing for a place to study and a degree to acquire, an appealing, informed, and dynamic web site is essential. We're working on it. As with so many academic institutions, we require more hands-on I.T.personnel to help departments maintain their pages. If a unit is lucky enough to have a smart geek on faculty or in the graduate program then you can be sure their site will pop out from the rest. Philosopher and department Head James Bradley has a terrific idea. He wants to hire full-time faculty with both academic expertise and web skills whose annual duties would be divided between teaching 2-3 courses, maintaining department web pages, and creating online courses in cooperation with colleagues in the same discipline. One minute you're teaching Heidegger, the next you're loading up an interview with a living philosopher you managed to tape or shoot at your last international conference. Job descriptions for academics would start looking quite different:
Memorial University, in conjunction with the Philosophy Department, invites applications for an assistant professor to teach Philosophy and manage the unit web site with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2009. The successful applicant will be responsible for teaching the following courses: Metaphysics, Deductive Logic, and three introductory courses. Among the qualifications required for appointment is the Ph.D. degree in hand or expected by the beginning of fall semester, 2009. Candidates must demonstrate interest and potential excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, including online delivery. They must also demonstrate an ability to manage web content, be a strong writer and editor, with emphasis on story/contextual editing, and be experienced in the non-linear presentation of information.
Wouldn't that be nice? We should be moving in that direction, I think. Anyhow, this office gives me a lot to blog about, and so I shall be sharing my thoughts and experiences about grad studies matters on this site as regularly as possible, like it or not!
Dr. Noreen Golfman is Professor of English and Dean of Graduate Studies. Her post secondary education included study at McGill, University of Alberta, and University of Western Ontario. She has been teaching and writing in the areas of Canadian literature and film studies for most of her career. She is the president of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, founding director of the annual St. John's International Women's Film Festival, and director of the MUN Cinema Series. Dr. Golfman's blog 'Postcards From the Edge' will be updated every Thursday.


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Three Bears Earn A-Sun Conference Cross Country Academic Awards
Macon, Ga. – Mercer University had three members of its cross country program named to the Atlantic Sun Conference's inaugural Academic All-Conference Team, it was announced by the league office on Thursday. The trio includes men's squad member Jacob Law, along with women's teammates Christina Kivi and Kacie Niemann.
Recognized from the Bears' men's team was Law, a junior, who has a 3.89 grade point average in mechanical engineering.
Law, a native of Crestwood, Ky., was a scoring runner for the Bears in each meet in 2011 and was also a member of Mercer's USTFCCCA 2010 NCAA Division I All-Academic Team a year ago. He ran a personal best eight kilometer time of 25:49.30 at the Royal XC Challenge (19th overall) on October 14. He has twice been a member of the A-Sun All-Scholastic Team and was a second team All-A-Sun finisher and All-Freshman Team member in 2009. He owns the No. 6 best time in the 8K and No. 2 time for 10K races in Mercer school history.
Law has been recognized on Mercer's President's and Dean's List each term and is a Presidential Scholar. He is also the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative for the men's cross country program. He volunteers as a church Sunday School teacher, as well.
Kivi is a senior art major (English minor) who psorts a perfect 4.0 g.p.a. Kivi has been named to the President's List every term and is a member of the Mercer Honors Program (2008-present), Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society (Spring 2009-present), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (Spring 2011-present), Order of Omega Greek Honor Society (2010-present) and is currently Alpha Delta Pi sorority president.
Kivi works also works with Mercer Ambassadors. Her extensive volunteer work includes: Ronald McDonald House philanthropy events (2008-present), Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure (2008, 2009, 2010), Salvation Army Bell Ringing (2008, 2009, 2010), First Baptist Church of Macon Monthly Babysitting (2008-2010), After-school Environmental Education at L.H. Williams Elementary School in Macon, (2009), Bizarre Bazaar for the Crossroads Writer's Conference, Macon (2011) and LEAP Service Days at Mercer (2011).
Kivi was a scoring runner for the Bears in every meet this season and a team co-captain. The Valdosta, Ga. native has three A-Sun All-Scholastic Team awards to her credit and was a member of Mercer's USTFCCCA 2010 NCAA Division I All-Academic Team.
Niemann, also from Crestwood, Ky., is a junior majoring in biology with a chemistry minor. She carries a 3.97 g.p.a.
Niemann was an A-Sun second team all-conference finisher in 2011, as well as in 2009. She was an A-Sun All-Freshman Team finisher in 2009, as well. Niemann owns the MU school records in both 5K and 6K races. She has seven of the top-10 Mercer 5K times in school history.
In her career, Niemann has been the MU team's top finisher in 16 of 17 races. She is a cross country team co-captain.
In the classroom, Niemann has been named to the A-Sun All-Scholastic Team twice (2010, 2009), was a member of Mercer's USTFCCCA 2010 NCAA Division I All-Academic Team and a three-time Mercer President & Dean's List honoree. She has twice earned the President's Scholastic Award (2009, 2010). Her academic honors include Organic Chemistry Student Award (2011), an invitation to Alpha Epsilon Delta, pre-medical Honor Society (2010), an invitation to Phi Eta Sigma academic Honor Society (2010) and recipient of the Citi Group Academic Scholarship (2009).
Niemann currently serves as the women's cross country representative and SAAC secretary. Her long list of volunteer/community work includes: Younglife Leader, second grade Sunday School teacher, AWANA volunteer, and working in the Special Events Team at Mercer. She also is involved in Coaches vs Cancer, Toys for Tots, Salvation Army, Medical Assistant at First Stop Urgent Care (Ky.), Women's Specialty Care (Ga.) and BCM mission trips to Mexico, Honduras, and Haiti.
The A-Sun introduced the new sport-by-sport Academic All-Conference teams this fall to recognize student-athletes who embody the conference's mission of Building Winners for Life. All the members of the team boast a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (GPA) or better and participated in at least half of their team's matches.


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5:00pm Sunday 5th January 2014 in News
A record number of students were offered jobs at Falmouth Marine School's annual industry day.
Representatives from over 20 companies attended the event to meet and interview students. PGL, a leading provider of school trips and children's adventure holidays in France and Spain, interviewed several watersports students on the day.
PGL representative, Dave Jury, said: "I was highly impressed with the students I interviewed today and would happily employ them all. I travelled four hours to get here this morning because I am guaranteed a high quality of RYA DIA qualified instructors.
"The way the course is designed is perfect for the industry, the students can complete by Easter, which is when the season starts. They have their dingy and sailing qualifications along with coaching experience and relevant knowledge to be a valued team member."
Representatives from across the marine industry both locally and nationally were also present, including Sunsail, Neilson, Cremyll Keelboats, Pendennis Shipyard, Voyager Adventure, the Royal Navy and Rockley Adventure.
Marine Science degree student Dephiny Cesarano, who secured a job offer from Voyager Adventure, said: "I'm delighted that I have left here today with a job. I will be spending my summer in Greece working with the hospitality team."
Watersports student Matt Riddout also had a successful day. He said: "I had several interviews and left with three potential job offers, I now need to decide which one I want.
"It's fantastic that the college not only ensures that we have the skills and qualifications to get our dream jobs but they provide the opportunity to meet employers and apply for those jobs."
The marine industry day is supported by and held at the Maritime Museum in Falmouth and forms part of the college's commitment to forge long-term relationships with the industry, helping students to gain employment and to help businesses in the sector grow.
Once the students left the event, businesses were invited to join other business in the marine sector for an afternoon of networking and to discover latest developments in the industry and support available from the Cornwall College Group.
David Stedman, head of Falmouth Marine School, said: "It is great that the industry day was such a success. As well as helping students find employment it strengthens our ties with industry both locally, across the country and internationally."
Anyone interested in studying at Falmouth Marine School should email email@example.com or visit their website falmouthmarineschool.ac.uk.
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of comment does them no favours, the students have a lot to be proud of and dont need argument inciting comments spoiling it for them.
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A 14-year-old and under state championship swim competition at the Chatham County Aquatic Center was put on hold Saturday afternoon as Hazmat was called in. Some parents were concerned about the strong smell of chlorine and the potential health hazards.
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Levi Johnston told CBS' Maggie Rodriguez that he has dirt on Sarah Palin that could really damage her but he's not spilling the beans. The father of Palin's grandson did share a joke Palin made about her own son that won't help the former governor's public image. "Coming home from work and she'd be like 'where's my retarded baby?' All of this. It wasn't right," said Johnston.
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The invitation of Jesus Christ
Followers of Jesus Christ have been inviting people to become Christians for 2000 years. Here in Jamaica, the invitation has been going on for 500 years. While Christopher Columbus visited Jamaica in 1494, the first Spanish settlers (who were mostly Roman Catholics) came to Jamaica in 1509. There were no priests so there was no mass until 1512 when some Franciscan priests arrived in Jamaica.
About two months ago my column was "500 years of Christianity in Jamaica". It is the fact of 500 years of continuous Christianity in Jamaica that the entire Roman Catholic Church in Jamaica celebrates on Sunday in the National Arena. The celebration has nothing to do with the sins of the messengers, be they pope, bishop, priest, deacon or lay person. This is a point that has been missed by those who have reacted negatively to my column on Jamaica Observer online. The sins of the messengers are a separate issue that must be dealt with separately, whether in the heavenly or earthly court or both.
True, the people who respond to the invitation are many times as culpable as those who have been called to issue the invitation whose lives are not good examples, which persuades many to reject the invitation. But this is not a time to assess that. It is the time when we celebrate the fact that the invitation of Jesus Christ has been issued in Jamaica for 500 years. While it is true that with the coming of the English in 1655 the Roman Catholic Church was banned for 137 years, the fact is that there were other messengers from other denominations who carried on the invitation of Jesus Christ.
I notice that not many outside of the Roman Catholic Church have responded to the suggestion that 500 years of continuous Christianity should be celebrated. Is it because the idea came from the Roman Catholic Church, which is not a popular church in Jamaica? Or is it because there is a belief that Roman Catholics are going to issue some sort of stern lecture about the years that we were banned in Jamaica? Archbishop Charles Dufour has told Roman Catholics (or has told at least me at any rate) that it is not a time for bringing up things like this.
The celebration on Sunday takes place on the same day that the church celebrates the feast of Saint John the Baptist. As you might be aware, John the Baptist was the first one to issue the invitation to conversion when he said, "Repent, for the day of the Lord is at hand." For speaking the truth, John was beheaded when King Herod said he would grant his daughter any wish of hers. She took the advice of her mother. John the Baptist had prophesied that she had not been faithful to her husband and for that reason she wanted to get rid of him and did.
And while there have been missionaries of all churches, including the Roman Catholic Church that has been guilty of atrocities, like John the Baptist, hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic missionaries over the last 2000 years have been killed for proclaiming the truth as has happened here in Jamaica. The first martyr in Jamaica was one Father de Barona who died on the banks of the Black River while encouraging the Spaniards in their fight to retain the island after the English invasion of 1655.
Father DeBarona's main aim was the continuation of Christianity, as he did not consider Anglicanism as part of that. At least his intentions were good in thinking that only if Spain retained the island, then Christianity would prevail. But that having been said, the fact is that banning the Roman Catholic Church did not stop the spread of Christianity. The Anglican Church continued it, albeit only for the white estate owners while other Protestant churches in time brought Christianity to the slaves.
And even then there is evidence of an underground Roman Catholic Church during the period of the ban. This was in the Preston Hill area of St Mary where a boatload of African slaves of a Spanish African colony destined for Cuba was intercepted by pirates and taken to St Mary in Jamaica. These slaves refused to join any church other than the Roman Catholic Church, and while there could be no mass because there were no priests, the faith was kept and passed down for over 100 years by word of mouth.
The response to the invitation to Jesus Christ has caused many positive spin-offs for Jamaica. For example, the schools, hospitals and other forms of social outreach which many or all churches have been instrumental in establishing are worthy of mention. The Roman Catholic Church can boast of its schools, the fact that it had a hospital in Jamaica for many decades (St Joseph's Hospital was sold to the government some years ago), the fact that it was Roman Catholic nuns that rid Jamaica of leprosy, the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the credit union movement and in housing. Indeed, the first housing scheme in Jamaica, Homestead in Bamboo, St Ann, was built by the Roman Catholic Church.


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(Hopkins County) - Meghan Fleming of Beech Creek, KY was operating a 2008 Pontiac east bound on US 62 when her vehicle hydroplaned. This caused Ms. Fleming's vehicle to exit the right side of the roadway, where it struck a tree. The vehicle struck the tree then began to roll where it came to rest right side up facing east. Ms. Fleming and her passengers (Daniel Foe, Travis Hale, & Justin Nannie) were transported to Regional Medical Center for treatments to their injuries sustained from the collision.