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DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Mark Little, newly appointed CTO of the JBoss division of Red Hat. In this interview, Mark provides an update on some of the new architectural features in the Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0 including improved transactional and messaging support. He also provides a status update on several other key projects, such as Seam, JSR 299 (WebBeans), JBoss OSGi as well as the latest Drools 5.0 release. Mark also revisits the REST vs. WS-* debate and delves into how cloud computing and REST are helping Red Hat productize its SOA offerings. Finally, he provides his vision for the future of the JBoss platform and its ecosystem of evolving projects.
The complete transcript of the interview has been provided below:
DZone: We are sitting today with Mark Little, CTO of the JBoss division of Red Hat. Mark was previously chief architect and co-founder of Arjuna Technologies, and has been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-'80s. More recently, Mark was SOA technical development manager and director of standards at JBoss, prior to taking over as CTO in March. Mark, firstly congratulations on your new role.
Mark Little: Thanks so much.
DZone: During his tenure, Sacha Labourey was pivotal in growing JBoss Europe from a business perspective, as well as seeing through the JBoss transition to Red Hat post-acquisition. Is Sacha's work complete, or will you be continuing to focus on some of those things?
Mark: It's probably accurate to say that the first phase of Sacha's work is complete. We are in a much stronger position in Europe now than we were prior to the Red Hat acquisition of JBoss. The goal there is to prove globally that we're now concentrating on APAC and South America as well. I can see that as the second stage of the work that Sacha started.
DZone: As newly appointed CTO, what are some of your biggest challenges in the short term?
Mark: I think that probably the biggest challenge that I have at the moment is to continue the integration of JBoss and Red Hat. When Red Hat acquired us, we had our own processes, our own way of doing things. The Red Hat guys had very similar things. Over the last couple of years, we've tried to redefine processes as unified development methodologies. We've gone somewhere down that line; we haven't completed it. We need to make that more streamlined and agile. But we've taken things that are very central things. In some cases, just because Red Hat have some processes that seem to work for operating systems it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll work for middleware and vice-versa -- so it's bi-directional. It's not like we're having to adopt Red Hat approaches to integrate JBoss into Red Hat. Red Hat is being very, very flexible in adopting some of the things that we believe could provide a beneficial change to their process.
DZone: The JBoss ecosystem of projects continues to grow at a very rapid pace. JBoss Cloud, Infinispan, and JBoss OSGI are just a few examples of some of the more recent projects that have been added to the portfolio. What are the specific criteria needed in order for something to become an official JBoss project?
Mark: There aren't really any specific criteria – they're more like guidelines. If somebody thinks that a component in a project, for instance, might be more applicable to other projects or to the wider community, they can spin it out and create a new project. So for instance, the JBoss messaging team has been working on JBoss Messaging 2.0 for a long time, and one of the areas that they've been looking at in terms of improvement over JBoss Messaging 1.4 is performance and reliability and scalability. And one thing that's part of that is a new high-performance logging implementation.
There are other areas both within and outside JBoss that could also use this logging implementation. At the moment, we are actually spinning that out as a separate project where it can be more easily consumable.
If it stays within the Messaging project, then you have to consume the project, JBoss Messaging, in order just to get that small component that you may have needed. Although there are no strict guidelines, we tend to do it often on an as-needed basis, and we're very, very lightweight in that regard.
DZone: The enterprise application platform, or the EAP, combines popular JBoss.org technologies like Hibernate, clustering transactions, together with the JBoss application server. At what point does a JBoss.org project graduate to become part of the EAP?
Mark: It's a combination of things. Obviously customer need. The EAP is a commercial-facing product, so obviously what our customers want, we'll work very, very hard to provide them with. But with very few exceptions, what we also try to do is make sure that that thing gets trialed in the community for as long as possible. And that's one of the good things about the whole open source methodology. So we will try to have something as a community-consumable projects for 6, 9, maybe even 12 months before we push into EAP.
There may be a need for exceptions, but we do those as exceptions, not as part of the rules. So we would really like to have projects consumed by the community, so you get community feedback on the quality. And we can modify the project much more flexibly and dynamically in the community than we can in a platform which is not very scalable and slow to move from one place to the next.
DZone: Switching gears a little bit, can you give us an update on Seam and JSR-299?
Mark: JSR-299 is the dependency injection JSR that we've been working on, driven by Gavin King in collaboration with Oracle, IBM, and others in the Expert Group. It's been progressing quite nicely. It passed the vote to proceed to the next stage of adoption. I think at this stage, we're six to eight weeks away from being included in [Java] EE 6. So that standardization work is progressing very nicely, and JBoss and RedHat as a whole is always behind fulcrum standards, so this is why we think it's very important to have it standardized, so we can have it adopted much more widely than just our own implementation.
In terms of Seam, that has been progressing extremely well. The Seam team has also taken on the implementation of the reference implementation from JSR-299. They've been working to integrate the Seam framework into other containers. Obviously it works well within the enterprise application platform. They've been integrating it into our SOA platform.
And generally again, going back to what I was saying earlier, that community adoption, pushing it through the community route, is going extremely well and successfully in lots of projects. And that's been influencing it outside of the standard as well.
DZone: In a recent blog entry Dimitris Andreadis suggested that at best, maybe 20% of real-world systems stand to benefit form an OSGI-based kernel for building modular applications. In other words, the average system, in his opinion, really doesn't benefit from the super-modularity afforded by an OSGI-based architecture. However, shortly thereafter we saw the beta release of JBoss OSGI 1.0. Mark, would you agree with Dimitri's sentiments on OSGI? And secondly, what are the motivations behind adding OSGI support to JBoss AS 5?
Mark: I agree with Dimitri's statements, but I'd actually make it wider. I'd say it's not just OSGI. Let's not concentrate on whether OSGI only tackles 20% of the architectures out there. Lots of companies, going back almost 10 years, have looked at providing flexibility in their containers within J2EE more recently, and even before Java came along. Flexibility like that provided by OSGI, or even our own micro-container, is extremely important to a certain set of applications. It's also very important for a product company in order to allow us to use different products essentially on the back of the same components, with different configurations of these components.
Yes, it's not something that every single developer out there is going to want. Out of the box, probably 80% of developers will be very happy with a default EAP configuration. But there may be some developers who need a bit more flexibility and maybe don't need something like Web Services, or don't need transactions or messaging. They may want to configure out of a system in a dynamic way without having to come back to the company in question and getting them to modify the code.
So from that respect, yes, OSGI definitely does not tackle a space that a 100% of users will want, but it still tackles a very important area. From our perspective around OSGI, we've been working with OSGI maybe for the last few years. We've made announcements about OSGI before, and the JBoss OSGI announcement that you mentioned is another step in that direction.
We see OSGI as important to allow us to offer to our customers the ability to take services that may have been written and deployed outside of JBoss and deploy them onto our application server.
Before there was a standard for a service model, like in OSGI, that would have been very difficult, if not impossible. So we don't actually see within JBoss's OSGI a replacement for our own micro-container. In fact our own micro-container is in many ways a superset of OSGI functionality.
What we need is a standard way to allow users to migrate their services or applications from other application servers or other containers into the JBoss ecosystem.
DZone: Can you describe some of the work being done around the core middleware services in the next major release of the JBoss Application Server?
Mark: Yes. We updated quite a bit in the next release of the EAP. The next major release is EAP 5. That would be based on JBoss AS 5.1. Amongst the major changes are things like support for distributed transactions. We've had a distributed transaction manager in JBoss for the last four years now. It's standards-based, based on the JTS. But we have not actually been able to support it in the application server, at least in a platform release like this, I should say.
That is now coming, so EAP 5 will have support for the JTS in it. Following on from that as well, we'll have support for our Web Services transactions product. So this is the one that we've again had for a number of years. We've demonstrated interoperability with Microsoft, IBM, and others on this.
And the EAP 5 will be the first firmware that customers will be able to get support for. It will be in JBoss AS 5.1 as well. So the community, again, will be able to play with that. In fact they're already doing that and we're getting some good feedback from the community in the forums.
I mentioned it earlier, but the JBoss Messaging team has been doing a fantastic job of improving the JMS implementation. JBoss Messaging 2.0 will be in EAP 5. So people will be able to get a hold of that and see the performance and scalability advantages that those guys have been concentrating on a lot.
We'll have a new Web Services stack in EAP 5. We made an announcement a few weeks ago -- in fact I think it was one of the last things that Sacha announced -- about adopting the Apache CXS project as our default Web Services stack. So that's coming. There will be a preview of that in the EAP 5 so customers and users are going to be able to play with that and give us feedback.
Probably the biggest change in EAP 5 is one we've referenced already, the micro-container. So everything has to be re-architected to work with the micro-container and that gives us the flexibility of architecture that we need to allow us to support the new models that are coming in the community and in the industry.
DZone: The JBoss Drools team has recently released Drools 5.0, that contains some interesting new features. Can you give us an overview and tell us how those are being driven into the JBoss product portfolio?
Mark: So the Drools team, lead by Mark Proctor, has been doing some very cool work in rules over the last few years. This has sort of culminated in Drools 5.0, which obviously includes the core rules engine but they've also added support for CEP, a complex event processing implementation. They've added some support for lightweight workflow systems.
And probably the most immediately interesting one from a customer perspective is the Business Rules Management system. This is what we are driving into our next platform release, the DLMS, which we're announcing imminently. It has been in the community. It's a repository for storing your business rules and managing them and tagging them. We've had a lot of positive feedback from early adopters on this, as well as from the community. So we have high hopes for this, and it should be the next big thing in our platform release.
DZone: Revisiting an old debate from a few years ago, is the REST versus WS-* debate truly over in your opinion? Given what we've seen over the last couple of years with the new APIs coming around RESTful architectures, would you say that REST has officially won that debate?
Mark: No, it's definitely not over in some areas. There are some people that will continue to debate REST versus WS-* in the same way that other people will continue to debate Apple versus Windows. It's the right tool for the right job. I think REST is very good in certain areas, and I think at the end of the day the web is based on RESTful principles. We know it works, we know it scales, we know its fault tolerant. So there's a really good use case there for why we should use REST.
But Web Services do bring benefits as well. Interoperability, development interoperability, wide industry adoption. So there are things that Web Services bring today that REST simply does not have. And it's not that REST cannot provide them, it's simply that the industry has not as yet got behind REST to define things like transactions and complex security protocols and management. All of these things are what you find in the WS-* architecture.
So I think in terms of REST versus WS-*, we should have as industry actually get over that and start to use REST where it makes sense and use WS-* where it makes sense, educate each other in terms of where you should maybe be using REST when you're currently using WS-*, and vice-versa.
But stop having these little arguments. They really don't progress us too much forward these days. They did over the last few years, they highlighted that maybe REST was overlooked too much by certain areas of the industry. I think we've pretty much raised REST in terms of what people know about it. Now let's start to use it and start maybe to drive these additional standards into REST.
DZone: There have been some interesting projects that have come to light recently. Folks like Bill Burke have been working on RESTEasy project and there's the JBoss Cloud project that Bob McWhirter has been leading. What is JBoss's vision for how SOA applications will be built moving forward. Are technologies like REST and cloud computing going to be important driving forces behind how JBoss ultimately productizes its SOA offerings?
Mark: Yeah. Certainly REST in terms of SOA is a very valid architectural principal. In general, we've been talking about supporting REST in our SOA platform for a long time. The work that Bill's been doing on the RESTEasy project makes that a lot easier. Obviously it's standards compliant, which is very important to us for everything we do. So we definitely see REST being pushed further and further into our SOA platform. As I mentioned on the REST and WS-* debate, I don't think it would be to the exclusion of other approaches -- SOA is technology agnostic. You can do a good SOA implementation based on CORBA or email, that doesn't have to be on REST or HTTP. As long as you can maintain the flexibility of allowing people to use the model that speaks best to the underlying implementation, that's the best case for it.
And cloud, the work that Bob's been doing, again that does feed into SOA. This being across the industry, not just with us, that SOA platforms, SOA suites, whatever you want to call them, are increasingly being used as the basis for developing applications that are then pushed into the cloud because SOA is about loose coupling, it's about hiding implementations and in some areas, its also about hiding where services are, whether it's composite services or individual services. And the cloud kind of subsumes some of this. So if a service is deployed on the cloud, a SOA platform should be able to hide that but also needs to be able to accommodate that.
So a lot of what's been happening in projects - RESTEasy, JBoss cloud, the Infinispan work - I would see those definitely being big driving forces for where SOA is going from a Red Hat perspective in the future.
DZone: At one point it seemed that JBoss was trying to build everything it needed within its own ecosystem. That seems to be changing though.
Mark: Yes, for a number of reasons. Probably the most public one is that we're only a limited-size company and the things that we could do and that our customers want us to do, we simply can't do them all in-house. But also, there are very good implementations of other software components that are out there that are not JBoss components. It makes a lot of sense, again from an open source perspective, for us to collaborate and cooperate with those ecosystems, wherever they are. For instance, as I mentioned earlier, we're now using the Apache CXF project as our Web Services stack. We still maintain our own Web Services stack at the moment, but the aim is that CXF will become the default Web Services stack at some point in the future.
We're also working with the Apache Qpid community now with the JBoss Messaging team. AMQP is a standard in the works that will hopefully become a standard. That has several implementations, one of which is called Qpid in Apache.
We've had groups in Red Hat working on AMQP-based messaging solutions in C++ and Java. We're now working with those within Red Hat and within the Apache community to drive our technology from JBoss Messaging into Apache Qpid, to include that and give the benefits back to the community as well.
So in general, we're definitely opening up and trying to cooperate and collaborate a lot more with different communities, and not trying to develop things in-house so much.
DZone: Now, Mark, you yourself have been making some noise in the area of SOA governance, in particular around process governance and testable architectures. Can you give us a flavor of what that's all about and where you think it'll be going in the coming months and years?
Mark: Yeah. Process governance or testable architectures, it actually dates back a number of years to a standards discussion that was going on in W3C around the Web Services Choreography Description Language. This is an effort that was supported by a number of major vendors at the time, Oracle included, all to define a Choreography Description Language which was based around something called pi calculus. This allows you to define your services which are active in a choreography. Precisely define the roles and relationships, their interaction patterns, and to prove - in a formal methods way - whether they will work correctly in a deployed environment.
Now, as its name may imply, the Web Services Choreography Description Language was originally intended for Web Services. But like many of the Web Services standards that are out there, it actually can be used quite easily outside of the context of SOAP and HTTP.
So what we within JBoss have been doing for the past couple of years is working with some partners in the community to take this WS-CDL, as it's known, and apply it to general SOA. We have been working with our JBoss ESB project to allow services as defined in the ESB to be defined within WS-CDL, and then you can test them, you can simulate them, and you can prove - before you've even deployed anything - whether the services have the right interfaces or whether they have the right roles and relationships or whether the will exchange messages correctly.
And then you can deploy them into the wild, if you like, and monitor them in runtime, to continue to ensure that they behave according to the way that you originally intended.
This has actually gotten a lot of feedback from the community as well as from analysts and other partners, who find it's quite interesting, because one of the problems with - it's distributed systems, not just those based on SOA principles - is proving that they work before you actually put them out there into the real world. It's still more of an art than a science.
What testable architectures does is try to put the emphasis back onto the science and away from the art. So we're quite excited about the work that we're doing. We think it's an obvious differentiator for what we're doing in JBoss in the SOA space. We're going to be pushing forward, as I said this is being done primarily in the community for the last year and a half. The next phase of this is to do a tech preview for our platform and we'll see where we go from there.
DZone: Mark, switching gears a bit, JavaOne is approaching very quickly. Can you give a sense of some of the key areas of focus for JBoss at the show this year? And for those that are attending, are there any particular sessions that you'd recommend?
Mark: At JavaOne this year, we'll have a booth, as we always have. We'll be having quite a lot of sessions presented by some of the key project leads who are attending JavaOne . We've got a few sessions within JavaOne ourselves. They include a focus on work we've been doing around REST and transactions, some work that the Drools guys have been doing with some fairly important customers. There's actually quite a lot within JavaOne as whole that is JBoss-specific. I won't recommend one over the other; I think they're all very, very good. If anybody needs to attend any JavaOne sessions, particularly the JBoss ones, you'll get good value for money.
If you are around, I definitely recommend you come to the JBoss booth, because we will have a mini-theater where we will be presenting things on all aspects of JBoss. We've got many sessions on our new micro-container architecture. We'll be talking about OSGI, we'll be talking about ESB, our SOA strategy. We'll have talks from the Drools guys on the BRMS and JBoss Drools 5.0.
It's also worth mentioning about the JBoss Drools team having a bootcamp, which is going on currently with JavaOne . I think it's probably over-subscribed at this stage. But if you check out the JBoss Drools website, you never know, you may just get in if somebody cancels.
DZone: Can you provide us with a sneak preview of what the JBoss Premier is going to be about this year at the show?
Mark: Obviously I can't say too much. I can probably hint. We've already talked about the next generation of our EAP products, EAP 5. So we may be doing something around that. There's also the BRMS release, so we'll talking about that. And there will be a very strong message in the area of standards and openness.
DZone: JavaOne this year is coming right on the heels of the recent announcement of Oracle acquiring Sun. I wanted to get your perspective on whether this in any way affects Red Hat/JBoss's position towards the Java platform.
Mark: I think it's obviously a very important announcement. It has the potential to change the whole landscape, not just for us, for lots of companies, big and small. We're at a stage where we really don't know what we don't know. Oracle and Sun continue to act as independent companies. They have to, at this point. The acquisition hasn't completed. We just have to see what Oracles does going forward. Certainly in the past when we've been working with them in the JCP project, they've made some statements about how they want Java and the JCP to be much more open and led in a more community-driven manner. So hopefully, they'll continue with that line of thinking. We'll just have to wait and see.
DZone: Can you describe some of your major goals in the coming years from two perspectives: from the perspective of the JBoss community as well as JBoss, the business.
Mark: I probably could summarize both in one sentence: Global. I think it's really important that we grow the community. The JBoss community is big and thriving. I would like the see the JBoss open source community continue to grow, continue to be a place where people could, consider having projects that are not necessarily ever going to make it into the JBoss or Red Hat products, but somewhere that, basically, as a good place to drive an open source project. When you're creating an open source project, currently you are probably thinking about Apache, CodeHaus, and SourceForge it would be nice if you thought about JBoss in that way as well. And we have had a few groups come to us and suggest that over the last year or so. My goal is to make that much broader.
From a business perspective, we want to grow into other areas, other non-English-speaking areas of the world. As I mentioned earlier, APAC, Latin America. These are all big areas for us. On our platform, they need to take into account the differences, sometime, subtle, sometimes not so subtle, that those areas will require from them. Obviously, we'll want to think about starting about internationalization.
But also, growing the community there. If we grow the community adoption, then that inevitably leads to growing the subscriptions and the business. So the two, I think, need to be tied together. I don't think that we should look at growing the business without trying to build a community, and likewise, I think growing the community should have a knock-on effect on the business, if we do it right. And that's certainly one of my main goals going forward.
I know Sacha tried to successfully do that when he took over after the Red Hat acquisition, from Marc [Fleury]. Certainly, now that the baton has been passed, I want to continue making the inroads that he had set in place, and keep the momentum going.
DZone: Mark, once again, congratulations on your new role at JBoss, and thank you very much for your time today.
Mark: Thank you very much, too.


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Jamboree/ national events??
I am new to the jeeping scene, as I restore/ build my YJ, I was curious if there were any traveling sanctions or conventions month to month or a few times a year, if so where would I find this information? As it would be a blast to see the country meet new people and hit up some trails!
It helps to fill out your profile and let people know where you are.
As far as Jeep Jamboree, look closely at the details, it's usually a very mild wheeling trail for a half day and can cost you a ton of cash as they charge per person, not per vehicle.
There are a lot of off-road clubs, normally not to tough to track down, but expect to find varying degrees of club activity and outings.
Thanks! I am trying to plan next Spring/summer/fall trips and see the country. That should give me enough time to get everything sandblasted,built up a bit, and powder coated /painted. Are there any event list websites you would recommend?
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THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- A study that followed
recently unemployed people for five months -- or until they landed
a new job -- found that staying positive and being persistent
helped people find work sooner.
"It's very, very tough," said study co-author Ruth Kanfer, a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "It's not like learning a skill, where maintaining a positive attitude can be easier as you see improvement with your effort. You submit resumes, but get almost no feedback on how you're doing or what you could do to improve your chances of finding a job."
Not surprisingly, those with a positive, go-getter outlook did
better than those who were more fearful and anxious. But
personality traits were secondary to self-management in terms of
success. From week to week, those who did the most to develop
routines, seek support and keep self-defeating thoughts in check
were those who put in the most hours on their search.
The findings are published in the April issue of the
Academy of Management Journal.
The study took place between January and July 2008. During that
time, 128 of the 177 people (72 percent) found new jobs.
In early 2008, the U.S. unemployment rate ranged from 4.9
percent to 5.6 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. In March 2012, the unemployment rate was 8.2
Eva Parsons is an executive coach. "Over the years, especially
in the last few years, I have talked to quite a few executives who
have been laid-off or downsized in an organization," she said.
Parsons recalled one client: "He was a pretty senior executive
in a global company and he was laid off. And he went right to work
and he said, 'I'm approaching this as if this is my job now.' He
was at his desk every day and he had a list of things he wanted to
accomplish. Mostly networking initially, but also revisiting his
resume or his CV and making sure that everything was current."
Study participants had not been fired or quit, but were laid
off, downsized or otherwise let go. All received Minnesota
unemployment benefits, were between the ages of 25 and 50, and had
at least a bachelor's degree. Most were white. Sixty percent had
recently lost professional, technical or managerial jobs; the rest
were in clerical, sales or other fields.
On average, they put in 17 hours searching for a job each week,
but that dipped to 14 hours toward the study's end. Mental health
gradually rose, and then declined slightly with a final uptick.
Weekly online assessments of participants uncovered either an
"approach" attitude -- striving for personal growth, developing
skills and energetically pursuing goals -- or one of avoidance.
"Avoiders" had a more defensive posture and were most concerned with avoiding failure and emotional disruption. They were also more sensitive to criticism.
Kanfer said self-defeating thinking includes: "'I can't do
this'; 'I'm not likely to find a job'; 'I keep getting nos'; 'No
leads,' allowing those thoughts to dominate you."
Parsons said job seekers "have to do the usual things that
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do to manage stress."
She added: "When they feel like they've been hit in the gut and
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part of the discipline."
If a job search drags on, Parsons recommended finding or
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share your strategy with and touch base with on a weekly or
biweekly basis, and compare notes and keep each other motivated. If
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it was a pretty autumn afternoon, so @todorrobot and I went for a walk through town…
(ps: my tank is from Be Apparel — locally made, great quality prints and super hot designs. check 'em out: www.livelovemichigan.com/)
This is a thing that exists.
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I had a fun & quiet morning hanging out in my shop and taking some photos of all of my holiday displays. Here's a little tour!
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400 S. Main St. Eaton Rapids, MI.
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This very talented young lady is one of our "regulars" at the shop and she and her friends are all so awesome & motivated. You can check out more of her covers on youtube and she's also got an EP on itunes here.
Go show her some love!
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There's just one week until our Grand Opening… and I'm pleased to report that things are really starting to click into place!
I've just got a few photos to share today. We've been pretty busy trying to get as much as possible crossed off of our to-do lists… next week is sure to be an exciting one!
Read more at corey marie ♥ com…
Thanks to Craig Horky for the awesome illustration for our flyer!
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I seriously can't believe how much we've done in ten days.
We've torn down all of the plastic from the walls, and even started to put up the first coats of paint. (The hunter green wall is not one of our color choices!) We're kind of in love with the industrial look of the exposed brick, though at least SOME of it will get painted. It's even kind of fun to think about things like lighting fixtures and floor tiles.
We look pretty excited, don't we? As you can see, we've got a lot of work to do. I was up until 4:00 am last night because I just couldn't sleep. The ideas just kept coming and coming and it was all I could do just to keep up with them!
I ♥ my home town.
Tod & I went for a walk this afternoon and sat by the Grand River for a bit listening to all the frogs and birds. ♥♥
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A Los Angeles police bomb squad went to the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles today in response to a bomb threat phoned into the house of worship.
Police were sent to the area of Wilshire and Hobart boulevards after the threat was received shortly before 8 a.m., Officer Rosario Herrera, a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman, said without providing details. No evacuations were ordered, Herrera said.
The threat was phoned to the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, said Christina Mauro, one of its employees, in a telephone interview.
Founded in 1862, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple is one of the nation's best-known Reform congregations.
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Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody no 1, etc /Thomson, et al
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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis / Marriner
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We have been living in our own land constructing a house for 10 years.But a frontier land owner going to fence or construct a house without leaving a way for our communication. In this area there is no other alternative road for communication. Is there any provision in law to check the land owner to do the same?
I'm sorry to hear of your situation. Based on the information provided, I believe it would be inappropriate for a neighboring landowner restrict access to your land, especially if it is the only access point.
Our office is just up the road in Astoria and we would be happy to take a look at this matter for you. Give us a call (503) 325-1055.
It is very likely you will need to contact a lawyer. It sounds to me like you have a problem with easements. In oregon, there is a provision for easements for landlocked parcels, but they are generally disfavored. You may also have an easement, or right to use, based upon an adverse posession theory. It appears that english is not your first language, so it would be very adviseable for you to contact an attorney.
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The question is whether you have any easement rights or not. You should check the title to your property to determine if you have an easement agreement. If you do not have a written agreement there may be the basis for a prescriptive easement, and to get that will require you to hire an attorney.
I assume your question is about easements. Are you from another country? It is hard to understand, but if it is about access, I agree you need to consult a lawyer?
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Ricardo Wullicher
Ricardo Wullicher (born 21 May 1948) is a film director from Argentina. He is best known for his 1976 thriller La casa de las sombras (House of shadows).[1]
Wullicher was born in Buenos Aires. His 1972 movie Quebracho tells the story of "La Forestal," an English company extracting Quebracho trees between 1900 to 1963 in the northern province of Santa Fe. The wood and its main product, tannin, were highly-coveted between 1918 and 1945 and became a focal point of political and social struggles connected with the evolution of trade unionism, as well as the emergence of the Radical Civic Union and Peronism. It is considered an iconic film of its period, if now somewhat dated.[2] His 1978 documentary Borges para millones, about the writer Jorge Luis Borges, includes an interview with Borges and staged reenactments of some of his works.[3]
After the return to civilian rule in 1983, the government of Raúl Alfonsín abolished censorship, placing Wullicher and Manuel Antín in charge of the National Film Institute. The period that followed saw a renaissance in the Argentine film industry.[4]
Wullicher's 1995 film La nave de los locos (The ship of fools) is set in a small town in Patagonia, where a Mapuche Indian chief sets fire to a tourist complex that is under construction, and refuses to defend himself. The story contrasts his approach of waiting for help to arrive from the ship of fools, a traditional source of strength that caused him to start the fire, and that of his appointed defense lawyer, a white woman who argues that he acting in self-defense since the commercial structures were being built on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors.[1] His book Magic Bay (Spanish title: Bahía mágica) was the subject of the animated adventure film of the same name released in December 2002.[5]
Wullicher directed the following films:[6]
- 1972 Quebracho
- 1976 La casa de las sombras (House of shadows) (Thriller)
- 1977 Saverio, el cruel
- 1978 Borges para millones (documentary)
- 1981 De la misteriosa Buenos Aires (segment "Pulsera de los cascabeles, La")
- 1983 Mercedes Sosa: como un pájaro libre (documentary)
- 1995 La nave de los locos (The ship of fools)
- 2010 Para todos los hombres y mujeres de buena voluntad (short)
- ^ a b "The Ship of Fools". FilmFest Hamburg. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ "Quebracho (Ricardo Wullicher 1972 Argentina)". RebelDeMule (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ C. Jared Loewenstein (1993). A descriptive catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges collection at the University of Virginia Library. University of Virginia Press. p. 148. ISBN 0-8139-1333-0. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ Leslie Bethell (1995). The Cambridge history of Latin America. Cambridge University Press. p. 514ff. ISBN 0-521-49594-6. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ Cine Nacional: Ricardo Wullicher
- ^ Ricardo Wullicher at the Internet Movie Database
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Week one of the preseason begins tonight as NFL teams will step on the field for the first time since the Greeen Bay Packers won the Super Bowl.
There will be five games tonight, with the nationally televised game featuring the San Diego Chargers and the Seattle Seahawks on ESPN.The game kicks off at 8 eastern, 7 central. Be sure to stop by AA to join in our open thread. We'll be chatting it up in the comments as we welcome back football and get an early scouting report on the Chargers.
Until then, here is your Morning Fix!
Running back – The bodies are the same as last year, only Thomas Jones, Jamaal Charles and Jackie Battle all have another year of wear and tear on their bodies. Dexter McCluster has been added to their group, but he'll be swinging back and forth at wide receiver depending on where he lines up on any given play. Are the Chiefs better at running back than they were last year? NO.
HALEY: "I think that all just depends on how much you see certain guys and what situations are they in. You could have a corner that sits out there and plays a coverage; because obviously we don't have everything in that we will have in at some point, and they might not throw the ball over there. So, that evaluation might not be as good, or you might not have as much information out of this game as you would've hoped. That's why we say, you're being evaluated every day, in everything you do. I think if you don't do that in any situation, last year, this year, 10 years ago, you know, you could have some problems. This is a moving sport with a lot of different variables. Again, it all depends on the situation."
The lack of an experienced backup is something new to Chiefs fans. The position has historically been occupied by a player with previous starting experience dating back to the early 1990s.
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Definition of saltcellar in English:
saltcellarSyllabification: salt·cel·lar
Pronunciation: /ˈsôltˌselər /
A dish or container for storing salt, now typically a closed container with perforations in the lid for sprinkling.
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- In Britain, potteries in and around London and Liverpool and as faraway as Ireland supplied the growing demand and turned out numerous forms, ranging from plates to posset pots, salt cellars, and vases.
- Souvenirs, of course, are also the product of more secular travel as were the famous 'Afro-Portuguese' ivory salt cellars and the carved ivory tusks from the Loango coast.
- You tip the salt cellar at the edge of your plate, and deposit just the right amount of salt there.
late Middle English: from salt + obsolete saler, from Old French salier 'salt-box', from Latin salarium (see salary). The change in spelling of the second word was due to association with cellar.
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A military judge said she'll announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks.
Army Col. Denise Lind said Tuesday she was still deliberating but she was confident she would have a sentence by Wednesday morning.
"At 10 a.m. tomorrow I will announce the sentence," Lind said about 2 1/2 hours into her deliberations.
Manning faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department diplomatic cables in 2010 while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. He also leaked video of an U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad in which at least nine people were killed, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
Prosecutors have asked for at least a 60-year prison term. Capt. Joe Morrow said in his closing argument Monday that a long prison sentence would dissuade other soldiers from following in Manning's footsteps.
"There's value in deterrence," Morrow said.
The defense has suggested a prison term of no more than 25 years, so that Manning, 25, could rebuild his life. Defense attorney David Coombs asked for a sentence that "doesn't rob him of his youth."
Prosecutors have requested a far longer prison term than other soldiers have received in recent decades for sharing government secrets.
Army Spec. Albert T. Sombolay got a 34-year-sentence in 1991 for giving a Jordanian intelligence agent information on the buildup for the first Iraq war, plus other documents and samples of U.S. Army chemical protection equipment. Marine Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the only Marine ever convicted of espionage, was given a 30-year sentence, later reduced to 15 years, for giving the Soviet KGB the identities of U.S. CIA agents and the floor plans of the embassies in Moscow and Vienna in the early 1980s.
U.S. civilian courts have ordered life in prison for spies, including Aldrich Ames, a former CIA case officer convicted in 1994 of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia and former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, convicted in 2001 of spying for Moscow.
Government transparency advocate Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, said the civilian cases, unlike the military ones, involved career intelligence workers who knowingly supplied foreign governments with U.S. secrets for years. Ames' disclosures caused intelligence sources to be executed. Hanssen compromised ongoing intelligence operations on a massive scale.
Duke University law Professor Scott L. Silliman said Manning's case doesn't rise to those levels. While Manning disclosed a vast amount of information, "I don't' think you could call Bradley Manning a spy," he said.
Military prisoners can earn up to 120 days a year off their sentence for good behavior and job performance, but must serve at least one-third of any prison sentence before they can become eligible for parole.
Manning will get credit for about 3 1/2 years of pretrial confinement, including 112 days for being illegally punished by harsh conditions at the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps brig.
Manning was convicted last month of 20 offenses, including six Espionage Act violations, five theft counts and computer fraud.
Under military law, the verdict and sentence must be reviewed -- and may be reduced -- by the commander of the Military District of Washington, currently Maj. Gen. Jeffery S. Buchanan. Besides the court-martial record, Manning's defense team can submit other pieces of information in a bid for leniency.
If Buchanan approves a sentence that includes a bad-conduct discharge, a dishonorable discharge or confinement for a year or more, the case will be automatically reviewed by the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
Further appeals can be made to the military's highest court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Amnesty International and the Bradley Manning Support Network have announced an online petition asking President Barack Obama to pardon Manning.
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painting is more intense than just following
"the-naked-me" (blog) has lots of followers - like friends in social networks."rest-01" (640x480px) shows a nude girl who took a selfshot (iphone - lowres)
i took the-naked-you and transformed it into analog oilpainting. My selfshot in front of painted "rest-01" (oil on canvas, 160x120cm) is titled "the-naked-you-and-me"
oilpainting as a kind of new media.
this is a different kind of blog interaction - somehow an artistic intervention in social network - I'm not just following her blog, i drop her image out of its online identity and put it into the reality of a painters studio.
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The Naked You and Me
On Photography as a Means of Self-Representation in Social Networks and the Sharing of Loneliness and Longing
As of December 2012, there are 86 million blogs with 38.5 billion entries on the internet platform tumblr.com.
Current growth rate: 77.7 million entries per day.
According to the operators, "Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything."
Much like the hand-written letter was expected to conquer distance and create immediacy, blogging is seen by countless bloggers as a way to overcome their loneliness through interaction with like-minded netizens. The sheer number of daily postings on one of many platforms, quoted above, indicates that some of these bloggers do find distraction in this activity.
Uploading an anonymous nude picture of oneself and tagging it as "nude," "naked," "private" etc. is apparently one of the most efficient methods to stage one's online persona. The uploaders seek a particular kind of attention which they would never dare pursue in their offline lives. As photographers, they manipulate themselves as their own models and thus create a second identity, showing what they wish to share with others anonymously although nobody is typically supposed to see it.
Their hope for confirmation is shattered by shamelessly simple comments that drown the nudes' individuality in a flood of banality. Variation does not often extend beyond "Hot pic" and "Thanks."
Theoretical Approach
"The Naked You and Me" is an experiment. The conventions of superficial interaction in social networks are challenged by a photographic work of art. In concrete terms, this project is an attempt to discuss the emotional content of other people's photographs with them (which is an unusual step for a reblogger), and thus to increase their immanent value.
Practical Implementation
Looking for a compliant nude model, painter X comes across a photo blog poetically and appropriately named "the-naked-me." From that blog, the painter extracts digital data that can be shared with all followers. Having modified his object, he claims it for himself as real, indivisible and non-shareable. In order to establish contact with his model, he starts the blog "the-naked-you-and-me." This blog has only one entry: the photograph "The Naked You and Me." It's a self-representation of the artist in his studio. He has chosen a nude picture from the blog "the-naked-me" as source material for an oil painting and placed a photograph of his own face beside the anonymous nude. The picture of the painter at work in his studio serves to demonstrate to the creator of the pictures on the photoblog "the-naked-me" how close her digital reproduction comes to people watching her in geographically indeterminate distances.
The actual reaction of the involuntary (but compliant) model and the photographer was very emotional. The ensuing personal email correspondence demonstrated that it is indeed possible for a single photograph to trigger a genuine response in an ocean of pictures and comments. The written reaction to "The Naked You and Me" spawned a relation between four identities — painter and model as well as two photographers promoting themselves. A 12,000-kilometer distance, a six-hour time difference — far enough removed to feel secure. And yet we can unsettle each other.
Title: The Naked You And Me
Description (short): artistic intervention in conventional blogging structures to challenge the role of photography in social networks.
Date of realisation: 11.12.2012
Published: http://the-naked-you-and-me.tumblr.com
The technical characteristics and the conditions of realization: download of lowres image from a weblog - projecting lowres image onto canvas - painting oil on canvas - photographing painter in front of his work editing image in editor - uploading image to weblog - contacting blogger of origin to publish the unusual kind of reblog
And the value of the work: after uploading to tumblr.com the image is cleaned of all copyright-information, is moved in directory "/1c5eceb88b1be20460aaf30aa06b679d/" and renamed to "tumblr_mev7ssFrdt1s0nbzao1_1280.jpg"
the value of uploaded images is defined by the number of followers who "like" it. the material value of photograph crumbles away in countless copies.


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