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Updated 5:26pm Monday 28th April 2014 in News By Rebecca Perring, Senior Reporter
Teenage boys were robbed of their valuables, including iPhones and a portable speaker, during an alleyway attack in Harpenden.
The incident took place at about 4.30pm on Saturday, April 26. The four victims were walking through an alleyway off Shakespeare Road when a man ran past and stopped in front of them.
Two other men then approached the victims from behind. One of the victims was punched to the face and the theives demanded they hand over any valuables.
The group have made off with one portable speaker, two iPhone 4s and an iPhone 5.
The suspects are described as follows:
• A mixed race man, 18 to 19yrs old, 5ft 8ins to 6ft tall. He is described as having a big belly and a black chin-strap style beard. He was wearing an all grey 'True Religion' tracksuit that had thick stitching. He was wearing the hood up and was carrying a small black bag that had a strap that went across his body.
• A mixed race man, 18 to 19yrs old, 5ft 8ins to 5ft 11ins tall. He had braces on his teeth and was wearing a grey tracksuit with the hood up and white trainers.
• A white man, 16 to 17yrs old, 5ft to 5ft 3ins tall. Had a high pitched voice and was wearing a blue Ralph Lauren hooded top with the hood up and a black peaked cap underneath and light blue jeans.
Detective Sergeant Carolyn Taylder said: "Whilst thankfully no-one was seriously injured, this was understandably an ordeal for the victims to go through. I would ask anyone who was in the area at the time and saw what happened to contact police. I would also appeal to anyone who is aware of someone having come into possession of the items taken unexpectedly to contact officers.
"I would also like to reassure members of the public that there will be increased patrols in the area, but I would also encourage people to consider some crime prevention advice below."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Herts Police non-emergency number 101 quoting crime reference number F2/14/590. Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Shaun Tuck scores twice as Witton Albion cruise to comfortable victory at home to Eastwood Town
1:09am Sunday 25th November 2012 in Match reports By Andrew Simpson, Senior Sports Writer
WITTON supporters fly a flag with Brian Pritchard's name on it, but his standard bearers on the field continue to attract attention from longing admirers.
A third successive win – the hosts' longest victory sequence since returning to the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League top tier– lifted the newcomers to second place.
An outstanding individual performance from striker Shaun Tuck, spoiled only slightly when his hunger for a hat-trick affected his aim late on, made the difference against opponents emboldened by shutting out the home team for more than half an hour.
The Badgers, brittle after seven straight defeats, crumbled at the moment the former Skelmersdale front man flashed in the game's first goal six minutes before the break.
When Steve Foster swept in a second soon afterwards following goalkeeper Richard Stainsby's gaffe, the outcome was settled.
Eastwood had been obdurate from the outset, although Witton rarely played at a pace that allowed them to put pressure on a backline they pierced four times a fortnight ago.
The story might have been different had Tuck not skewed a free header off target in the first five minutes.
Hunger to score undiminished he scampered away from Eastwood skipper Romaine Graham soon afterwards, the defender's recovering tackle taking the ball away from the target.
These were only episodes though, fragments of flow.
Josh Hancock, scoreless since September, shot tamely when his sight of goal was clear on 24 minutes.
Another quarter hour passed before Witton went ahead, Tuck firing home with fury after Foster's flick had sent Hancock into a space from which he could deliver a perfectly-weighted assist.
Foster all but walked in Albion's match-clinching second, reacting quickly when the Badgers' net-minder allowed a greasy ball to squirm from his grasp.
When Stainsby stuck out a boot to block Mathew Wood's low drive from the hosts' next foray forward, Eastwood were eager for the respite of half time.
They preferred to limit damage rather than risk anything in attack in the second half, although only Albion's inaccuracy prevented a heavier defeat.
Hancock danced past two tackles after cutting inside from the left touchline, his angled effort narrowly missing a post on 51 minutes.
Witton, unflustered in defence despite seeking a season-first back-to-back clean sheets, continued to dominate.
Tuck toe-poked in a third goal midway through the half, diverting the ball past Stainsby at the far post to take his season tally to 15.
He was favourite to hit a second hat-trick in less than a month, only to shoot too close to Eastwood's number one after making his own opportunity on 72 minutes.
Travis Munn's brave block thwarted substitute Jamie Harrison when he shaped to score after Anthony Gardner's raid down the right.
Witton have more points at the end of November this term than they did last, a measure of progress not even the most optimistic of Albion fans could have foreseen.
Witton Star Man: Shaun Tuck. Witton's idea of the player they had signed from former rivals Skelmersdale is becoming reality. Even more exciting is a burgeoning alliance with Steve Foster at the point of Albion's attack. Tuck's finishing was erratic in truth, but his flourish for the opening goal was a treat worth waiting for.
Witton (4-4-2) Cooper (GK), Gardner, Ben Harrison (Glover 79), Booth, Wood, Andrews, Sheehan, James, Hancock (Jamie Harrison 71), Tuck, Foster (Shaw 71). Subs not used Clayton, Moseley. Goals Tuck 39, 67 Foster 41. Booked Wood (foul).
Eastwood (4-4-2) Stainsby (GK), Raven, Graham, Travis Munn, Piliero, Green, Rogers, Aaser (Witton 79), Holland, Harris, Bradley Munn (Selvam 46). Subs not used none. Booked Rogers (foul).
Referee Paul Hodkinson (Preston)
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recent good times with friends were writing a new record now, and have some shows coming up
We made new shirts pick one up here
our demo is now online for download
Track #5 of our Demo "Die By The Board". Recorded in May 2013 at Elephantwest Studios Vienna, AT.
heres another track from the demo 'not for you'
Our last show sold out in 48 hours, we have had too many emails and messages about tickets etc to even count. So we have decided to put a show on the night before at the OLD BLUE LAST. For any of you who know this venue, you know it is small and the show will be stupid.


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For the past 10 years, the discerning florists at Cattails to Roses by Eve have assembled artful arrangements for all of life's bouquet-worthy events. Traditional creations abound, but staffers also concoct contemporary arrangements inspired by European design and the Japanese art of ikebana. In addition to working with live plants, specialists can immortalize bridal bouquets for posterity or harness the power of lightning to reanimate desiccated potpourri. In order to accommodate more of the community's blossom collectors, the shop's bilingual staff is able and willing to speak in Spanish.
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Reporting from the Erie Canal, N.Y.—"OK, captain," crackled the reply. "Stand by and I'll get the bridge out of your way." Captain! I confess to a frisson of self-important excitement. Bells rang, the bridge raised majestically, the mid-canal light flipped from red to green, and we were on our way west. By late morning, we reached Pittsford for brunch on the patio of the Village Coal Tower Restaurant, an eatery wrapped around a coal-storage silo from earlier canal and railroad days. Before casting off, we wandered through Pittsford's prosperous downtown, admiring the period architecture.
The lift bridges and locks were the punctuation marks of our journey. Locking through was easy, and we each had our assigned duties. Karin or I at the tiller and thruster would nuzzle Seneca up to one of the lock walls. To hold us in place, Chuck, in the forward cockpit, and Laurel, aft, would grasp (gloves provided) vertical cables or ropes that ran the height of the lock, and up or down we'd go. Then the lock tender opened the gates, and we were on our way.
In Spencerport, we docked across the canal from the Galley Restaurant, with signs that read, "Attention boaters! Heading east? Last stop for 3 hours! Home of the world famous 'Galleyweck,'" "beef on weck" being a variety of steak sandwich indigenous to western New York.
We resisted and dined aboard, and while Laurel and Karin were tuning up dinner — a bacon, tomato, green bean and avocado salad — a band in a nearby park was tuning up as well. About 6:30, the music, mostly in the country and pop vein, early Beatles and the like, started up, and Laurel and I danced on the park's lawn. We had been tipped off about the Sunday night music by a passenger's entry in the dog-eared, water-stained composition-book log we found aboard (from 2000 to 2002, oddly, but still useful).
The canal, which stretches nearly 400 miles from Buffalo on Lake Erie's shore to the Hudson River at Albany, was the brainchild of New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton. Though initially derided as Clinton's Folly when it opened in 1825, it changed transportation patterns, populated upstate New York and helped make New York City the country's greatest seaport.
Before long, however, railroads began to provide fierce competition, and throughout the 19th century the Erie Canal was enlarged and improved to meet it. Between 1905 and 1918, the canal was dramatically altered and largely rerouted to accommodate much larger vessels, then renamed the New York State Barge Canal. After the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959, commercial traffic plummeted, and the Erie Canal regained its original name and became primarily recreational.
The next morning, Karin and Laurel took two bikes off Seneca's roof and rode west for seven miles on the Canalway Trail System. As we navigated west, Chuck and I spied them from time to time, red and blue dots amid the greenery, pedaling along the wildflower-bordered path. At Adams Basin, they dismounted and perched on the elevated pedestrian walkway, waving to us as we slid underneath. Then at Brockport we heaved the bikes back on the roof before walking to Seaward Candies for homemade "caramelicious" ice cream and root beer floats.
From there the days and miles spun on, a lovely routine of alternating views — dockside homes, some grand and some modest, deep rock cuts, marinas, towns redolent of the era when the canal brought them to life, woods, fields and a path often populated by walkers or bikers.
At Lockport, the end of our westering, we were hoisted through two huge locks (a boost of just less than 50 feet ) and tied up to visit the original five-lock staircase through which water still flows, the small canal museum, the Erie Canal Discovery Center and the First Presbyterian Church across the street, which boasts original Tiffany glass windows, and to take a fine lunch alfresco at Shamus Restaurant. Then we began to retrace our route.
The Medina Railroad Museum, in Medina, housed in a vast freight house that once belonged to the New York Central, had walls lined with train memorabilia and, in its center, a wonderful model railroad layout, beautifully scenic with cars and locomotives beyond counting. We ducked briefly up to Rochester, a pleasant detour on the Genesee River, then continued east, churning on past Macedon with the idea of going as far east as time would allow.
We finally ran out of hours and turned back at Palmyra. For our last night, we tied up on the wall just below Lock 29, a peaceful, grassy spot with fields stretching north. Chuck grilled steaks and we ate them as a last cabin cruiser locked through eastbound and the lock tender signed off for the night. The sun was gone, and the yellow streaks on the slick pool below the lock turned orange, red and finally silver gray.
Other than a short, chilly run to Macedon Landing the next morning, that was it for our canal adventure. Because I can't say it better, I'll cede the last word to someone named Carol, who had written in the log book that "this trip has surely strengthened our bond with special friends. We didn't miss the telephone, computer, microwave or car. We wouldn't even have known what day it was except for the S, M, T, W, etc. on our pill cases."


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Authorities are urging people to take extra caution when ice fishing.
They said recent warm temperatures did not impact the amount of ice, but melted the snow off the top of it.
Still, officials warn people can never be too safe when venturing out on frozen lakes and rivers.
"You can never take enough safety precautions," said Lori Eberhard, Park Manager at George Wyth State Park in Waterloo.
Eberhard said it's better to be safe and measure or "test" the ice frequently.
"Don't trust somebody else because they were out there. Just because you were out there two days ago doesn't mean it's the same. It might be thicker, it might not be," she said.
Eberhard said 2-inches of ice will typically hold a person, and 8-inches is usually thick enough for a vehicle. However, she said frozen lakes and rivers are never really safe for anyone because weak spots can form just about anywhere.
According to Eberhard, weak spots can form from sunlight, strong wind and the current of the water beneath the ice.
Ken Depuew of Decorah has been ice fishing for 10-years. He measures the ice frequently to make sure he's avoiding the danger zones or weak areas.
Depuew spent Saturday fishing with his friend on Brinker Lake at George Wyth State Park in Waterloo.
"We always play it safe," he said. "If it gets to the point where it's too warm or something, we stay off the ice."
He said catching a fish isn't worth risking his life.
Depuew said he carries ice picks, a flotation device and 50-feet of rope in case the ice breaks and he falls through. He also recommended fellow fishermen use the buddy system.
Eberhard said she wants people to have fun while fishing, but one can never be too safe.
"Any sport that you do, there's always a safety factor. If everybody takes the safety precautions, you're less likely to have a tragic event happen," she said.
Ice fishing is free at George Wyth State Park for fishers who have their license.


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January 2008 update
My electronic journal made it until August 13 (below), but I've kept up my paper journal, and I'm pleased to report that I did make it to 365 things (368 actually) by December 31. This year will now be all about severely reducing the amount of things I accumulate. You can read articles about my project from The Portland Press Herald and from The Sentry.
|August 13, 2007
Well, I've got something else to add to the list, but I'm not happy about it. About a week ago, my printer just stopped working. I tried about six different things to try to get it to work, going to the manufacturer's website, Googling for similar problems with my printer, and finally calling technical support. Tech support suggested I take it to an authorized repair center in Weymouth, Massachusetts (only 125 miles away). I looked on Amazon.com, and saw that my printer averaged a "one star" rating by other users, who seemed to say that it lasted about a year and a half before quitting (mine lasted 4 years). I realized it was probably the end. So today I went to Best Buy and bought a new printer. Not happy to be shelling out the money, but since they're all "multipurpose" printers now, at least now I also have a scanner and a copier.
I just realized I can't add my old printer to the list until I actually get rid of it, so I'm going to post it on Freecycle now and will add it when it goes.
August 11, 2007
Also, to the dump:
|August 9, 2007
211. I cleaned the freezer a bit and threw away five frozen breast milk bags. All of them are well over a year old. Also, our freezer was so full that it didn't properly closed and it had been propped open slightly all night. I don't think anyone is going to want thawed and refrozen year-old breast milk, and my kids never wanted it except straight from the source.
212. I Freecycled a glass butter dish that I got when we moved into this house and I thought what? That we were suddenly going to become butter dish users?
Today was Pirate Day at Kindercamp. The kids were supposed to arrive
dressed as pirates. Who has full-on pirate outfits hanging around their
house. Well, apparently, despite decluttering, we do. Henry wore a bandanna
and the eye patch that came with that pirate kite I Freecycled.
August 8, 2007
|August 6, 2007
I realize that writing down everything I get rid of is like keeping a food diary. When you keep a food diary, you realize that there are things you would eat without thinking about it (the leftovers on your kids' plates), but once you write it down, you're more accountable. I thought that I would be much closer to 365 things by now. I thought that, surely, the yard sale would bump me into the 300s. Now I wonder if 365 things is too many? Looking around at my clutter, which is still here, I certainly feel like I've got that much to get rid of. But I really had hoped to hit November with only 15 more things to go.
|August 4, 2007
Emily and Scott were going to stop by on their way back from Blue Hill, but they decided to keep going on home because Wylie was sick. I suddenly realized I'd done a lot in the week since they'd been here: bought mulch and put it on the front garden, organized and cleaned the corner spice cabinet, organized the go-down. Well, maybe not so much, but they were all sort of big things. Do I normally get all that done in a week? The mulch thing, for instance, seemed like it took a month to do, maybe because I'd been looking at our weedy garden for so long and knew I wanted to do it. And I bought the mulch on Monday, and put it on the garden on Friday, and the days in between yawned wide like a year and it seemed like there was no way the buying and the putting on happened in the same week. I don't think I would have realized it except for knowing that I hadn't yet bought it when they left last weekend, and now it was on the garden. Maybe I'll take note of more of these kinds of accomplishments. Or maybe not, in case this really was an unusually productive week.
|August 3, 2007
210. Two unsalvageable sippy cups (bad milk experience), recycled.
|July 31, 2007
I relisted four of the yarn auctions on eBay that didn't sell before, and three of them sold.
207. Two cones of embroidery floss, 99 cents
208. Three cones of rayon weaving yarn, $12.50
209. Four cones of cotton weaving yarn, $2.25
|July 26, 2007
Given to the diaper service:
203. Thirteen used prefold diapers
204. Five diaper doublers
To Goodwill:
|July 25, 2007
201. Feeling mildly guilty about this: threw away one of Henry's art projects. It was his "invention" from Leonardo da Vinci week at preschool (which was, I think, last October). It was a piece of Styrofoam painted black, with an upside-down can, some large metal washers, and bamboo skewers stuck into it. It looked kind of like a weapon. It's been on top of the refrigerator since he brought it home. Sometimes it spit forth little Styrofoam balls. It was time for it to go.
The (new) diapers sold today on eBay:
|July 23, 2007
Exciting dump run.
199. Huge trailer-load of vinyl siding from our back porch (Dave has started to rip off the siding, which is the beginning of a large amount of piggyback projects).
200. A chair that we got for free on the side of the road (I apparently have a problem picking up free chairs that I then decide I don't want). This chair was sort of cool, an old metal rolling office chair, but the plastic on the seat was all torn, and the wheels were squeaky, and generally we had no place for it. I tried to sell it in the yard sale, and to give it go Goodwill (they wouldn't take it) and to Freecycle it, and in the end, it went to the dump.
While at the dump, a guy asked me where I got the SoPo sticker on the back of the car. I told him that I made it, and he wanted to buy three. Luckily I keep an envelope full of SoPo stickers in Dave's glove compartment (I was driving Dave's car, since the van doesn't have a trailer hitch). I paid $10 to dump the trailer of junk, and made $9 in SoPo stickers. Not bad!
Also of note: made it to 200 things today.
|July 20, 2007
All my eBay auctions ended yesterday, and I made a whopping $139.47. On yarn! And only ten of them sold. So:
189. Six skeins of vintage sock wool, $3.48
190. Rowan magazine #35, $15.51
191. Three cones of linen weaving yarn, $17.05
192. Fourteen cones of cotton warp yarn for weaving, $36.00
193. One cone of wool/cotton weaving yarn, $11.09
194. One skein of Artful Yarns Museum wool yarn, $2.00
195. Two skeins of Sirdar Rio cotton yarn, 99 cents
196. One skein Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton, $1.80
197. Four cones silk weaving yarn, $43.00
198. Five cones of chenille yarn, $8.55
I started all the auctions at 99 cents. I love to think of people bidding against each other for things that were sitting in a box in our shed.
I also discovered that you can print the shipping label directly from
your printer through Paypal, and then leave the package on your doorstep
for your mailman to pick up. This is HUGE for me. It was often a real
trial trying to get both kids and several bulky packages into the post
office, and then to try to deal with shipping them out. We do have an
automatic postal center at our post office, so I usually didn't have to
stand in line, but wrangling the kids was still a major chore. Printing
the labels on my own printer will save me hours.
|July 19, 2007
I posted some other diapering things on Freecycle, and the owners of our diaper service are going to take them for a new client of theirs who doesn't have many supplies. So:
185. 4 diaper covers
186. 2 all-in-one diapers
187. 3 doublers
Also given away on Freecycle:
|July 18, 2007
I've relisted the diapers, since some of them were unused (I pulled out the used ones).
|July 17, 2007
I listed some cloth diapers and diaper doublers on eBay. A few hours after I listed them, the listings were removed. Apparently you're not allowed to list used diapers on eBay. Who knew?
|July 16, 2007
I've gotten several emails from a woman begging me to give her the pirate ship kite, that her kid loves pirate ships, and she's having a pirate ship birthday party for him, and she needs the kite. Which is fine, but I didn't need the subsequent email saying, "Hi, not sure if you understood, but I need the kite for a party this Friday" and another saying, "Hi, haven't heard back from you yet."
|July 15, 2007
184. Pirate ship kite, given away on Freecycle. This is one of those items that I should have thought about before buying. Several months ago we were going to the Bug Light Park nearby and flying kites every weekend, or at least watching all the professional kite flyers. We only had this one small kid's kite, and it was a pain to fly, often diving into the ground in a somewhat dangerous manner. I decided we needed a new kite, but they're not that easy to find around here, since the cool kite store downtown went out of business. I found a website that had a ton of kites, and also had user comments. For some reason, I decided to buy not one, but two kites. I got a little ahead of myself. I got a dolphin and a pirate ship. The dolphin is six feet long, but at least you can sort of fold it in half and store it flat. The pirate ship, however, once you put it together (which took me a ridiculous amount of time) was about 2x2x3. It was huge. And not something you could store casually in the back of the car. It was one of those things that sort of made my heart sink every time I saw it, because it was just a mistake to buy two kites in the first place, and especially to buy one that's so huge. We did fly it once, and Henry was a little afraid of it. Eli didn't care about it at all. Dave was recently cleaning out the garage, and I saw how the pirate ship kite took up about half the garage, and just had to get rid of it. I posted it on the Portland Freecycle since those posts go up more quickly, and said it would go to the first person who could come get it. Someone responded that she could come in a few hours, so it went to her. The tricky part was that Henry was right there when she showed up. I explained to him that we have three kites (pirate ship, dolphin, plus original small kite) and this nice lady didn't have any, so we were going to share with her. He was totally fine with that, partially, I'm sure, because of his mild fear of the pirate ship. So all was good.
|July 12, 2007
I listed 18 things on eBay today. I don't think I've ever had so many things up at the same time. It's mostly all yarn leftover from the yard sale, and a few knitting magazines.
July 11, 2007
|July 10, 2007
182. Recycled a Tupperware container that was breaking and flaking.
|July 9, 2007
181. I threw out the plastic placemat we'd been using for Eli. It was a cute one that fastened to the table with suction cups. However, it had become uncleanably greasy from Eli's ongoing butter habit, and was just gross.
|July 1, 2007
180. Crusty magnet from a Thomas the Tank Engine magnet set. The picture had ripped off, so it was just an amorphous black shape. Thrown away.
June 30, 2007
June 27, 2007
June 26, 2007
June 23, 2007
So that's $101.30. Good money, though not sure if it was worth it for
all the work. But at least that stuff is gone, and off to better homes,
and it's $101.30 I didn't have before. Now, here's the list of items taken
immediately to Goodwill:
Seventy-five iitems in one day, not bad. At this point, the almost-halfway point in the year, I'm, well, I'm almost halfway. Will I need to have another day like this, though, where I get rid of 75 items at once? I certainly need to do better than the 8 items I got rid of in April.
And here, at the halfway point, do things feel differently? I'm not
sure they do. I am still bringing things in to the house, so it's not
really like there are 175 fewer things in the house. And I feel like the
hidden spaces - closets, attic, shed (still!), filing cabinet, pantry
(what we call the "go down" because you go down the basement
steps to get there), kitchen cabinets - all these spaces still seem disorganized
and cluttered. I feel like I need to start at one corner of the house
and go through each spot to organize it. Having two kids, though, there's
not really a lot of time that presents itself for this activity.
June 21, 2007
June 11, 2007
June 7, 2007
June 2, 2007
May 22, 2007
May 21, 2007
May 20, 2007
May 9, 2007
May 7, 2007
May 3, 2007
May 1, 2007
All of the bras were different sizes, so I wasn't really expecting one person to take them all. But someone replied and said something to the effect of, "We're five women living in a house, and we all wear bras!" so that worked for me.
April 30, 2007
April 25, 2007
April 23, 2007
April 22, 2007
April 19, 2007
April 18, 2007
April 17, 2007
April 16, 2007
April 1, 2007
March 31, 2007
March 25, 2007
March 24, 2007
March 23, 2007
I did have a brief moment wondering whether I could add Peatie to the 365 things list (has this whole project made me ruthless?) but since I wasn't really wanting to get rid of him, I'm not going to put him on.
March 19, 2007
March 18, 2007
March 14, 2007
March 9, 2007
March 4, 2007
64. Broken laptop screen top, fixed.
February 28, 2007
February 23, 2007
February 22, 2007
February 21, 2007
February 20, 2007
February 19, 2007
While at Goodwill, I found two pairs of Gap jeans for $5.00 each. Two days ago I ordered two pairs of jeans from Gap.com, since my current jeans have a hole in them at the bottom that I keep catching my heel on, and I needed some more long-sleeved t-shirts, so I thought I'd order jeans at the same time. But my Goodwill purchase today means I can return the new jeans, and save myself $100.
February 18, 2007
February 17, 2007
February 16, 2007
February 13, 2007
February 9, 2007
58. One cat hair mitten.
February 6, 2007
February 5, 2007
55. One small ball pump. It was on the back porch, and was sort of old and crusty. Both boys kept handling it, and it's needle-y sharp bits plus the fact that it looked like it was harboring tetanus made me snatch it away and pitch it.
February 4, 2007
I got them on eBay when Henry was little and they were not that attractive and never really fit him. They'd probably fit Eli now, but they're summer pajamas. Plus, they were sort of ugly.
February 2, 2007
January 31, 2007
January 27, 2007
January 25, 2007
January 24, 2007
January 22, 2007
January 19, 2007
January 18, 2007
I'll also add the magazines I sent out:
Also, three magazines went to a woman who lives in Cape Elizabeth, who
just stopped by to pick them up (so easy!):
January 17, 2007
Though I'm happy to say that all 12 of my knitting magazines sold on eBay last night, for a whopping (and unbelievable) total of $179.50. There was one that you could get from the publisher as a back issue for $6.99, and it sold for $22.45. Why? I think people just get caught up in the auction fever and don't think about what they're doing. I feel a little bad about this. But not too bad.
I'll add the magazines to the list once they are actually shipped and out of the house.
In an effort to get things moving out of the house again, I brought seven
books to the local bookstore.
I'll also add the three knitting magazines that got sent out today:
I stopped by the consignment shop in Portland today to see if any of the things I dropped off there in December sold. They gave me a check for $30.50, which I thought was pretty good. Of course I had out-of-control notions that I would get $100, especially after my eBay magazine coup. When I was picking up Henry at Cottage Road, Susannah walked in wearing a skirt I used to have. I didn't remember giving it to her. She had just bought it at the consignment shop in Portland; it was one of the ones I dropped off in December. If I had known I would have just given it to her!
January 12, 2007
January 11, 2007
January 10, 2007
Also today I threw away:
January 9, 2007
The veil was the first thing I really hesitated about. There is all that
emotional history attached to it, and the memory of feeling like a princess
because of it on my wedding day. I borrowed the dress from my friend Jean
and so the veil was really the big item that I still have. But. It was
being stored shoved in a box in the garage, so it's not like I took extra
care to preserve it in acid-free paper or anything (it was in fine shape,
it's just that if I hadn't made that effort, did I really want to keep
it). And the boys won't want it, so should I save it for their future
brides? No one really wants to wear the wedding stuff of their mother
in law. Their own mother maybe, but not the mother in law. I went
back and forth a bit, and finally called Teresa, who said she thought
I should keep it. But I think by that point I had talked myself into getting
rid of it. Mostly because keeping it would mean that I should preserve
it in some way, and I didn't really want to make the effort, which means
right there that it should go. I do have the shawl from my wedding (which
had also been shoved in the box in the garage, but I had been looking
for this shawl for years so I was glad to have found it), and the earrings
I wore, so some future granddaughter can wear those to her wedding. Oh,
and I also realized that my veil wasn't even that nice in the first place.
I bought the tulle and some satin piping and a comb and some little satin
roses and had my seamstress make it. I think it cost $30.
January 8, 2007
Also got rid of:
January 7, 2007
I feel a little bit bad throwing all these things away and adding to landfills but so much of what I'm chucking really is garbage. No one would want it, and it would seem disrespectful to try to unload broken things on Goodwill or Freecycle.
This is the end of my first week. I am averaging two things a day, which I'm sure I won't be able to keep up. But what if I did? What if I got rid of 730 things this year? How would my life change?
January 5, 2007
January 4, 2007
As I had expected, being in the mode of decluttering definitely feeds on itself. I keep wanting to add things to the list. I see a lot of things that the boys never use that I wonder if I can get rid of without Henry noticing. And there are things - undersink, old food in cabinets - that I would have never really seen or been complacent about if I hadn't been thinking about things to get rid of.
January 3, 2007
5. Threw several things out from a little-used cabinet (where things
often languish for years without being seen. One was the rest of a container
of teff, which I bought thinking it would be Our New Grain, but which
we obviously haven't taken to eating. Teff apparently means "lost"
because the grains are so small, and I do remember having an issue when
some of it spilled.
I just posted two things on Freecycle but I'm not adding them to the list until they're out of the house.
8. A Halloween book that we'd constructed out of some magazine, that
had long ago lost its cover. It was shoved down into the bottom of the
toy basket. Recycled.
Somehow it seems that the house is already looking brighter. I don't think this is possible after the removal of nine items, so I just must be deluded (as usual).
January 2, 2007
Last night I had a dream where I was all flabby and dissatisfied with my body (note: my dream body was exactly the same as my actual body) and in the dream I was having all kinds of trouble finding time to shower. Conclusion: my anxiety dream is not at all an exaggeration of my real life.
I've posted my first Craig's List ad, for an old wool rug. It's a pretty nice wool rug, but is woven and impossible to vacuum (I didn't mention this fact in the ad). The other major reason for getting rid of the rug is that it comes from my mom's ex-husband, The Man of Whom We Do Not Speak. Certainly it's got to be bad feng shui to keep this relic around. I listed the rug for $50, but I'd be glad to get anything for it. I even contemplated giving it away on Freecycle, but I thought I'd try for some cash first.
4. Recycled the superfluous cardboard dividers from our ornament boxes, as I was taking out the tree. Our ornament storage boxes are designed for three levels of ornaments, but this assumes you have tiny ornaments; I have never been able to fit more than two levels. But I've been stuffing the extra flattened dividers back into the boxes every year. Why? Out they go!
January 1, 2007
Eli got his sixth tooth today. Does this mean the new year be all about teeth for him?
December 27, 2006
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On a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server, you run the Test-SystemHealth command and then you run the Test-OwaConnectivity command in the same Exchange Management Shell window or through Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager. In this situation, the Test-OwaConnectivity command operation fails and you receive the following certificate validation error message:
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Loosely Coupled Reloadable Capabilities for CRUD Applications
Antonio has an interesting series entitled NetBeans Platform on Standalone Swing Applications. I've been following especially the parts relating to the "reloadable" capabilities, since I think the area of "capabilities" is one of the most powerful yet least understood parts of the NetBeans APIs.
So, below I reproduce a small part of Antonio's Tweet scenario, but converted to a database scenario. I still have open questions about all of this, but here's a start for discussion anyway.
- Begin by creating a new NetBeans Platform application named "CustomerCRUD" or whatever else you'd like to call it..
- Generate a Customer entity (with a related Discount entity) via wizards in the IDE, as described in the first parts of the NetBeans CRUD Application Tutorial. Then you will have a JAR containing the Customer.class, Discount.class, and the persistence.xml file. Put that JAR, together with the database server client JAR (e.g., DerbyClient.jar) and the JPA-related JARs (e.g., EclipseLink JARs) into a library wrapper module (named "CustomerLibraries", for example), all of which is described in the tutorial above. You now have one module, a library wrapper module, that contains about 4 different JARs.
- Next, create a second module (named "CustomerAPI", for example), which will contain your API classes, together with the capabilities that should be made available to other modules. (Or maybe the capabilities should be in a separate "CustomerUtilities" module.) In this module, we will have four classes, all described in the next step.
- We start by creating capabilities that we are going to be reusing throughout our application in a loosely coupled way. First of all, we'll create a capability for reloading entities, followed by a capability for reloading our view:
public interface ReloadableQueryCapability {
public void reload() throws Exception;
public interface ReloadableViewCapability {
public void reloadChildren() throws Exception;
Next, we create a data access object that will access the database, via a SQL string passed into it:
import client.Customer;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;
public final class CustomerSearchDAO {
public List<Customer> search(String search) {
EntityManager entityManager = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("CustomerPU").createEntityManager();
javax.persistence.Query query = entityManager.createQuery(search);
List<Customer> customers = new ArrayList<Customer>();
List<Customer> resultList = query.getResultList();
for (Customer c : resultList) {
return customers;
And we finish our API module by creating a query object to which we'd like to assign the capability for it to be reloaded. Therefore, we need to implement the Lookup.Provider class and return a Lookup that contains an implementation of the ReloadableQueryCapability:
import client.Customer;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.netbeans.api.progress.ProgressHandle;
import org.netbeans.api.progress.ProgressHandleFactory;
import org.openide.util.Lookup;
import org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup;
import org.openide.util.lookup.InstanceContent;
public final class CustomerQuery implements Lookup.Provider {
private List<Customer> customers;
private Lookup lookup;
private InstanceContent instanceContent;
private String sqlstring;
public CustomerQuery() {
customers = new ArrayList<Customer>();
// Create an InstanceContent to hold abilities...
instanceContent = new InstanceContent();
// Create an AbstractLookup to expose InstanceContent contents...
lookup = new AbstractLookup(instanceContent);
// Add a "Reloadable" ability to this entity
instanceContent.add(new ReloadableQueryCapability() {
public void reload() throws Exception {
ProgressHandle handle = ProgressHandleFactory.createHandle("Loading...");
CustomerSearchDAO dao = new CustomerSearchDAO();
List<Customer> result = dao.search(sqlstring);
for (Customer customer : result) {
if (!getCustomers().contains(customer)) {
public String getSqlstring() {
return sqlstring;
public void setSqlstring(String sqlstring) {
this.sqlstring = sqlstring;
public String toString() {
return sqlstring;
public Lookup getLookup() {
return lookup;
public List<Customer> getCustomers() {
return customers;
Our API module is now complete. It contains database access code, together with reload capabilities, one of which we're already using in our query object to enable it to be reloaded.
- Create a third module ("CustomerViewer", for example), where everything described in this step will be created. First, we create a new Action that will receive a Lookup. In the Lookup we look for the ReloadableViewCapability and, if it is there, we call the implementation's "reloadChildren" method. What that does we don't know, that depends on the implementation we get from the Lookup that is passed in.
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.AbstractAction;
import org.my.api.ReloadableViewCapability;
import org.openide.util.Exceptions;
import org.openide.util.Lookup;
public final class ReloadAction extends AbstractAction {
private ReloadableViewCapability reloadableViewCapability;
public ReloadAction(Lookup lookup) {
reloadableViewCapability = lookup.lookup(ReloadableViewCapability.class);
putValue(AbstractAction.NAME, "Reload");
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (reloadableViewCapability != null) {
try {
} catch (Exception ex) {
Next, in the same module, we create a factory class which we will, later, attach to the root node of our view. The factory class runs the query, retrieved from the Lookup of the query, and now the call to "getCustomers" on the query contains the current state of the database.
import client.Customer;
import java.util.List;
import org.my.api.CustomerQuery;
import org.my.api.ReloadableQueryCapability;
import org.openide.nodes.AbstractNode;
import org.openide.nodes.ChildFactory;
import org.openide.nodes.Children;
import org.openide.nodes.Node;
class RootNodeChildFactory extends ChildFactory<Customer> {
private CustomerQuery query;
public RootNodeChildFactory(CustomerQuery query) {
this.query = query;
protected boolean createKeys(List<Customer> list) {
// get this ability from the lookup ...
ReloadableQueryCapability r = query.getLookup().lookup(ReloadableQueryCapability.class);
// ... and use the ability
if (r != null) {
try {
} catch (Exception e) {
// Empty
// Now populate the list of child entities...
// And return true since we're all set
return true;
protected Node createNodeForKey(Customer key) {
Node customernNode = new AbstractNode(Children.LEAF);
return customernNode;
Finally, we create our root node. This is where we hook in our ReloadAction, as well as the RootNodeChildFactory:
import javax.swing.Action;
import org.my.api.CustomerQuery;
import org.my.api.ReloadableViewCapability;
import org.openide.nodes.AbstractNode;
import org.openide.nodes.Children;
import org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup;
import org.openide.util.lookup.InstanceContent;
public final class RootNode extends AbstractNode {
private CustomerQuery query;
private InstanceContent instanceContent;
public RootNode(CustomerQuery query) {
this(query, new InstanceContent());
private RootNode(CustomerQuery query, InstanceContent ic) {
super(Children.create(new RootNodeChildFactory(query), true), new AbstractLookup(ic));
this.query = query;
this.instanceContent = ic;
// Add a new ability for this node to be reloaded
this.instanceContent.add(new ReloadableViewCapability() {
public void reloadChildren() throws Exception {
// To reload this node just set a new set of children
// using a RootNodeChildFactory object, that retrieves
// children asynchronously
setChildren(Children.create(new RootNodeChildFactory(RootNode.this.query), false));
public String getDisplayName() {
return "Query: " + query.getSqlstring();
public Action[] getActions(boolean context) {
// Pass the Lookup, which now contains ReloadableViewCapability, to the Action:
return new Action[]{new ReloadAction(getLookup())};
As usual, create a new TopComponent. In it, create a new query object, populate the root node (which creates the children), using ExplorerManager.Provider and BeanTreeView:
CustomerQuery query = new CustomerQuery();
query.setSqlstring("SELECT c FROM Customer c");
RootNode node = new RootNode(query);
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
add(new BeanTreeView(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
associateLookup(ExplorerUtils.createLookup(em, getActionMap()));
What you have done above is create a small demo application (a small subset of Antonio's application) using reload capabilities that are added to the Lookup of objects (the query and the root node) and then retrieved from it where needed.
Next, once the above has been commented on by Antonio and others, I'd like to see how the above works in a SaveCookie in a foreign module.
Note: Continue with part 2 (on save capability) and part 3 (on create capability).
Geertjan Wielenga replied on Fri, 2011/04/29 - 5:45am
A better ReloadAction would be like this:
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import org.my.api.ReloadableViewCapability;
import org.openide.awt.ActionRegistration;
import org.openide.awt.ActionID;
import org.openide.util.Exceptions;
import org.openide.util.NbBundle.Messages;
@ActionID(category = "Customer", id = "org.my.viewer.ReloadableViewAction")
@ActionRegistration(displayName = "#CTL_ReloadableViewAction")
public final class ReloadAction implements ActionListener {
private final ReloadableViewCapability context;
public ReloadAction(ReloadableViewCapability context) {
this.context = context;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev) {
try {
} catch (Exception ex) {
And, in the RootNode:
public Action[] getActions(boolean context) {
List customerActions = Utilities.actionsForPath("Actions/Customer");
return customerActions.toArray(new Action[customerActions.size()]);
Toni Epple replied on Mon, 2011/05/02 - 11:02am
Hi Geertjan,
great tutorial!
Right now the two main benefits of you implementation are that you're shielding the UI from the implementation details (JPA), and you can add additional capabilities without breaking backward compatibility by using Composition instead of inheritance.
Maybe you could enhance it by further decoupling:
If I understand it correctly, there's no way to declaratively swap implementations, because RootNode knows the CustomerQuery class, which in turn knows DAO, which knows the PU and everything else, right? So in the end the Ui is still coupled to the implementation.
You could place Customer and Discount in a separate Module from the Derby.jar, so they can be reused without JPA. CustomerQuery could implement an SPI (ICustomerQuery) and register itself as a service implementing the interface in default Lookup. Then RootNode can retrieve the registered Service from the Lookup to CRUD the DataObjects (Customer, Discount) and you could easily replace "JPADerbyCustomerQuery" with a different impl (e.g. based on serializing to files).
Matthew Russell replied on Tue, 2011/09/27 - 4:15am
I have quick question though...
Unless I'm understanding the code incorrectly, the reload action minimizes the children nodes underneath the root node. I've worked around this by creating a new action "expand" that fires a function call to the viewer to expand the root node. Is there a better way to auto expand the root node on a refresh?
Matthew Russell replied on Wed, 2011/09/28 - 6:11am in response to: Matthew Russell
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Important note: Before baking in a mug, make certain that your mugs are oven-safe. Not all mugs can be used for baking. If you do not have oven-safe mugs, you can bake these in cupcake tins with cupcake liners – simply cut the baking time down to about twenty minutes. The number of mugcakes that you can make with this recipe will depend on the size of your mugs.
Hot Buttered Rum Mugcakes
Yields: 5 Large Mugs
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream, melted
1/2 cup rum (I prefer to use a dark or spiced rum, but any rum you have on hand would work.)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream the butter and sugar.
3. Mix in the eggs.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
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6. Stir in the vanilla ice cream, rum, and vanilla extract.
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1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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I was thinking about the welcome to the JD message Timmay was going to put together. But he hasn't yet (or I z'd it thinking it was about baseball stats) and I don't want to try and do anything alone, so I thought I'd just find some random things Dave had said about JDs.
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A RUGBY club was just one of a number of community projects to benefit from funding from a housing trust.
Golden Gates Housing Trust handed Bank Quay Bulls £1,520 to help pay for new kits and expanding their under 16s and 18s teams.
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