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8 This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit. 2He said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me,
The Basket of Fruit
This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit. 2He said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me,
"The end has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by.
The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,"
says the Lord God;
"the dead bodies shall be many,
cast out in every place. Be silent!"
Hear this, you that trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
saying, "When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain;
and the sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah small and the shekel great,
and practice deceit with false balances,
buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and selling the sweepings of the wheat."
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who lives in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?
On that day, says the Lord God,
I will make the sun go down at noon,
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins,
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and the end of it like a bitter day.
The time is surely coming, says the Lord God,
when I will send a famine on the land;
not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.
In that day the beautiful young women and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria,
and say, "As your god lives, O Dan,"
and, "As the way of Beer-sheba lives"—
they shall fall, and never rise again.
Am 8:1-14. Vision of a Basket of Summer Fruit Symbolical, of Israel's End. Resuming the Series of Symbols Interrupted by Amaziah, Amos Adds a Fourth. The Avarice of the Oppressors of the Poor: The Overthrow of the Nation: The Wish for the Means of Religious Counsel, when There Shall Be a Famine of the Word.
1. summer fruit—Hebrew, kitz. In Am 8:2 "end" is in Hebrew, keetz. The similarity of sounds implies that, as the summer is the end of the year and the time of the ripeness of fruits, so Israel is ripe for her last punishment, ending her national existence. As the fruit is plucked when ripe from the tree, so Israel from her land.
3. songs of … temple—(Am 5:23). The joyous hymns in the temple of Judah (or rather, in the Beth-el "royal temple," Am 7:13; for the allusion is to Israel, not Judah, throughout this chapter) shall be changed into "howlings." Grotius translates, "palace"; compare Am 6:5, as to the songs there. But Am 5:23, and Am 7:13, favor English Version.
they shall cast them forth with silence—not as the Margin, "be silent." It is an adverb, "silently." There shall be such great slaughter as even to prevent the bodies being buried [Calvin]. There shall be none of the usual professional mourners (Am 5:16), but the bodies will be cast out in silence. Perhaps also is meant that terror, both of God (compare Am 6:10) and of the foe, shall close their lips.
4. Hear—The nobles needed to be urged thus, as hating to hear reproof.
swallow up the needy—or, "gape after," that is, pant for their goods; so the word is used, Job 7:2, Margin.
to make the poor … to fail—"that they (themselves) may be placed alone in the midst of the earth" (Isa 5:8).
5. So greedy are they of unjust gain that they cannot spare a single day, however sacred, from pursuing it. They are strangers to God and enemies to themselves, who love market days better than sabbath days; and they who have lost piety will not long keep honesty. The new moons (Nu 10:10) and sabbaths were to be kept without working or trading (Ne 10:31).
set forth wheat—literally, "open out" stores of wheat for sale.
ephah—containing three seahs, or above three pecks.
making … small—making it below the just weight to purchasers.
shekel great—taking from purchasers a greater weight of money than was due. Shekels used to be weighed out in payments (Ge 23:16). Thus they committed a double fraud against the law (De 25:13, 14).
6. buy … poor for silver … pair of shoes—that is, that we may compel the needy for money, or any other thing of however little worth, to sell themselves to us as bondmen, in defiance of Le 25:39; the very thing which brings down God's judgment (Am 2:6).
sell the refuse of … wheat—which contains no nutriment, but which the poor eat at a low price, being unable to pay for flour.
7. Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob—that is, by Himself, in whom Jacob's seed glory [Maurer]. Rather, by the spiritual privileges of Israel, the adoption as His peculiar people [Calvin], the temple, and its Shekinah symbol of His presence. Compare Am 6:8, where it means Jehovah's temple (compare Am 4:2).
never forget—not pass by without punishing (Am 8:2; Ho 8:13; 9:9).
8. the land … rise up wholly as a flood—The land will, as it were, be wholly turned into a flooding river (a flood being the image of overwhelming calamity, Da 9:26).
cast out and drowned, &c.—swept away and overwhelmed, as the land adjoining the Nile is by it, when flooding (Am 9:5). The Nile rises generally twenty feet. The waters then "cast out" mire and dirt (Isa 57:20).
9. "Darkness" made to rise "at noon" is the emblem of great calamities (Jer 15:9; Eze 32:7-10).
10. baldness—a sign of mourning (Isa 15:2; Jer 48:37; Eze 7:18).
I will make it as … mourning of an only son—"it," that is, "the earth" (Am 8:9). I will reduce the land to such a state that there shall be the same occasion for mourning as when parents mourn for an only son (Jer 6:26; Zec 12:10).
11. famine of … hearing the words of the Lord—a just retribution on those who now will not hear the Lord's prophets, nay even try to drive them away, as Amaziah did (Am 7:12); they shall look in vain, in their distress, for divine counsel, such as the prophets now offer (Eze 7:26; Mic 3:7). Compare as to the Jews' rejection of Messiah, and their consequent rejection by Him (Mt 21:43); and their desire for Messiah too late (Lu 17:22; Joh 7:34; 8:21). So, the prodigal when he had sojourned awhile in the "far-off country, began to be in want" in the "mighty famine" which arose (Lu 15:14; compare 1Sa 3:1; 7:2). It is remarkable that the Jews' religion is almost the only one that could be abolished against the will of the people themselves, on account of its being dependent on a particular place, namely, the temple. When that was destroyed, the Mosaic ritual, which could not exist without it, necessarily ceased. Providence designed it, that, as the law gave way to the Gospel, so all men should perceive it was so, in spite of the Jews' obstinate rejection of the Gospel.
12. they shall wander from sea to sea—that is, from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean, from east to west.
from … north … to … east—where we might expect "from north to south." But so alienated was Israel from Judah, that no Israelite even then would think of repairing southward, that is, to Jerusalem for religious information. The circuit is traced as in Nu 34:3, &c., except that the south is omitted. Their "seeking the word of the Lord" would not be from a sincere desire to obey God, but under the pressure of punishment.
13. faint for thirst—namely, thirst for hearing the words of the Lord, being destitute of all other comfort. If even the young and strong faint, how much more the infirm (Isa 40:30, 31)!
14. swear by the sin of Samaria—namely, the calves (De 9:21; Ho 4:15). "Swear by" means to worship (Ps 63:11).
The manner—that is, as "the way" is used (Ps 139:24; Ac 9:2), the mode of worship.
Thy god, O Dan—the other golden calf at Dan (1Ki 22:26-30).
liveth … liveth—rather, "May thy god … live … may the manner … live." Or, "As (surely as) thy god, O Dan, liveth." This is their formula when they swear; not "May Jehovah live!" or, "As Jehovah liveth!"


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Sicco Mansholt
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|Sicco Mansholt
|President of the European Commission
|In office
22 March 1972 – 6 January 1973
|Vice President
|Wilhelm Haferkamp
|Preceded by
|Franco Maria Malfatti
|Succeeded by
|François-Xavier Ortoli
|European Commissioner for Agriculture
|In office
1 January 1958 – 21 March 1972
|Walter Hallstein
Jean Rey
Franco Maria Malfatti
|Preceded by
|Position established
|Succeeded by
|Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza
|Minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Food Supply
|In office
24 June 1945 – 1 January 1958
|Prime Minister
|Wim Schermerhorn
Louis Beel
Willem Drees
|Preceded by
|Hans Gispen (Trade, Industry, and Agriculture)
Jim de Booy (Shipping and Fishing)
|Succeeded by
|Kees Staf
|Personal details
|Sicco Leendert Mansholt
13 September 1908
Ulrum, Netherlands
|29 June 1995
(aged 86)
Wapserveen, Netherlands
|Political party
|Social Democratic Workers' Party (1937–1946)
Labour Party (1946–1995)
Sicco Leendert Mansholt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsɪkoː ˈleːndərt ˈmɑnsɦɔlt]; 13 September 1908 – 29 June 1995) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Labour Party. He was the Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Fishing, and Food Supply (1945–1958), European Commissioner for Agriculture (1958–1972), and fourth President of the European Commission (1972–1973). He is one of the architects of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union.
Early life and studies[edit]
Sicco Leendert Mansholt was born on 13 September 1908 in Ulrum, Groningen, Netherlands.[1]
Mansholt came from a socialist farmer's family in the Dutch province of Groningen. Both his father and grandfather were supporters of early socialist leaders such as Multatuli, Domela Nieuwenhuis and Troelstra. His father, Lambertus H. Mansholt, was a delegate for the socialist SDAP party in the Groningen provincial chamber. His mother, Wabien Andreae, daughter of a judge in Heerenveen, was one of the first women to have studied Political Science. She organised political meetings for other women, usually in their own homes.
Mansholt attended the HBS-school in Groningen and after that went to Deventer, to the School of Tropical Agriculture,[1] where he studied to become a tobacco farmer.
He moved to Java in the Dutch East Indies, nowadays Indonesia, and started work on a tea plantation.
He returned to the Netherlands in 1936, unhappy with the colonial system. He wanted to become a farmer and moved to the Wieringermeer, a polder, reclaimed in 1937. There he started his own farm.
He married Henny J. Postel in 1938, and they had two sons and two daughters.[1]
In the years of the Second World War he was an active member of the Resistance. He helped people who were in acute danger to hide in the Wieringermeerpolder; he organised clandestine food distributions for the western provinces.
Local politics[edit]
Mansholt became a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in 1937,[1] as a secretary of the local party. He had several public functions for the SDAP in Wieringermeer, including that of acting mayor of the Wieringermeer community.
Minister of Agriculture[edit]
Immediately after the war, in June 1945, socialist PvdA Prime Minister Schermerhorn asked him to take a seat in his cabinet as minister of Agriculture, Fishery and Food Distribution. He was the youngest member of a cabinet, aged only 36.
He was a member of 6 cabinets in total: Schermerhorn-Drees in 1945; Beel in 1946; Drees-Van Schaik in 1948, and another three Drees administrations: 1951, 1952 and 1956. As Minister of Agriculture during this time, he was one of the key architects of the EC's Common Agricultural Policy. In 1954 the parliamentary debate about the budget for the Department of Agriculture was postponed: the Minister was ice-skating the 200 kilometer long Elfstedentocht in the Dutch province of Friesland, which he skated twice in his life.
European Commission[edit]
In 1958, he became one of the Commissioners of the new European Commission. He was Commissioner for Agriculture and vice-president of the institution. He modernized European agriculture.
He became President of the European Commission on 22 March 1972 (Mansholt Commission) and continued in that position until 5 January 1973. It was around that time he was heavily under the influence of Club of Rome.
Life after politics[edit]
Mansholt published his autobiography De Crisis (The Crisis) in 1974.[1]
He lived his last years in on an old historic farm in the quiet village of Wapserveen in the province of Drenthe (north-east Netherlands), where he died there on 29 June 1995.[1]
His daughter Lideke also died in 1995, aged 53.
Further reading[edit]
- Johan van Merriënboer: Mansholt: A biography, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2011, 642pp., ISBN 9052017573
External links[edit]
- Media related to Sicco Mansholt at Wikimedia Commons
- Archival material on Sicco Mansholt, Member of the EC Commission, and on the 'Mansholt Plan' can be consulted at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence
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|Minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Food Supply
|Succeeded by
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|Preceded by
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Here is a link that might be useful: biochar on rose forum
I've gotten messages from my anti-virus program saying that they isolated the "threat" that came from the biochar link on the Rose Forum.
I've been playing with charcoal for years just to see if I learn anything about how well it works.
Is there a 'safe' website that might have the same information? :)
My anti-virus program didn't react to the link---it is for "Cowsmo Compost"---try & google Cowsmo Compost & see if it still triggers your anti-virus program. They only have one video link re bio-char so nothing really different from what I've found searching the web. Another reason I posted the link is, they are the first source of the of biochar that I've seen in my part of the state---they are located just north Waumandee, WI (between La Crosse & Eau Claire). I've got some additional info from them that they are not making the bio-char themselves & there is some compost added to what they sell so it has some nutrient value. I'm planning on driving done there in Apr to buy some & try it on my roses.
maplerbirch, I have a question for you since you have been expermenting with charcoal---some of the discussions about biochar indicate that it may raise your pH like wood ashes but the person at Cowsmo said he had no info about the pH effects of the product he was selling---have you observed any pH changes with your tests or seen any info that says pH is significantly changed when using biochar? TIA Larry
I was lead to believe that charcoal was pH neutral, and pH didn't seem to be any kind of factor.
My experiment was limitted to innoculating, then mixing with compost/vermiculite for potting soils. I was interested to see if potted plants could thrive w/out additional fertilizers.
Since I have such a large % of OM, it would be expected that any pH issues would be buffered.
Below is a link to the best article I've found so far on bio-char, p.3 has some info on pH.
Here is a link that might be useful: bio-char link
That is a good article on the subject. It is good to understand that char goes through changes until it is settled and they did a very good job of expressing that.
Interesting that it starts out alkaline , but once it 'fills up' with nutrients and microbes the pH neutralizes. So char's pH is a non-issue, according to this article. Is that what you got out of it?
First time I heard the "MM' reference. :)
ive read some on biochar and i like what ive read on its
uses in gardening.. im going to buy some next spring..
seems best way to apply is using with compost..and/or with compost tea..then apply to soil..as i guess the biochar
will soak up nutrients and hold it..?? yes??
still learning here..so appreciate any thoughts/insights
I was going to buy & try some biochar last spring but just didn't get the time to go pick some up so can't offer any personal observations...maybe next spring. The link I posted to Hawaii Biochar changed... below is a new link to that article:
Here is a link that might be useful: U of Hawaii article


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The gold was won by a 16-year-old Chinese wonderkid, Ye Shiwen, in a world record time of 4min 28.43 sec.
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Miley was almost six seconds adrift, with reigning world champion elisabeth Beisel taking silver and another Chinese teenager, li Xuanxu, claiming the bronze.
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So I am currently in the fermentation stage of my first brew. I just realized that I never took an orginal reading. From what I read missing the orginal isn't that big of a deal, but helpful to guide to see where you stand. I believe from the look of it my reading would be lower than what the recipe is looking for because I boiled off a lot more than expected. I started Saturday so I have a few days of fermentation
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When should I take my next reading? From what I read I should wait until the fermentation process is finished then take a reading. Then take another a few days after to ensure the fermentation is complete around 14 days? Does this seem right?
Or should I take a reading now?
Welcome to the obsession Sam.
If you did an extract brew (which I'm going to assume you have), not taking an OG isn't a big deal. You said you boiled off more than expected, so your OG will actually be higher than the recipes (same amount of fermentables, less volume).
You pretty much got it right on. Wait until day 12-14 and take a reading. Then wait another 2 days and take reading number 2. Fermentation should be done by that point unless something odd happens, but it's good to get into the habit of taking 2 readings.
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What he said. There are two primary reasons you take hydrometer readings. The first reason is that you want to find out what your starting gravity and final gravity is so that you can determine the ABV of your brew, among other things. Since you missed the OG reading, you will just have to take an educated guess based on the kit info that you have. The second reason you take readings is at the end (the ones done days apart) to find out whether fermentation is complete and that the beer has stable readings....which you identified yourself as needed. So just hang tight and take your readings when the fermentation looks to be complete.
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The saga of Mad Max continues with Tom Hardy in the driver's seat. Check out this cool production video.
Charlize Theron & Michael Fassbender get sexy and sweaty in an industrial, artsy, erotic shoot for "W" magazine.
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe in Ridley Scott's prequel to Alien. Oh, it should also be noted that this trailer was done entirely with construction paper. Charlize Theron still looks pretty hot though.
It's the holiday season, and with it (hopefully) comes vacation days during which you can go sledding, skiing or just stay at home and drink too much eggnog while watching Netflix. If you opt for the latter (and we certainly are), here are twenty movies that'll fill you with the holiday spirit when the weather outside is frightful.
This weekend's offerings include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Sitter, Young Adult and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Charlize Theron manages to look completely ridiculous in an equally ridiculous piece of low-rent dystopian sci-fi nonsense.
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OFPP's Gordon reflects on mythbusters, acquisition workforce
Host Roger Waldron talks procurement and other issues with Dan Gordon, outgoing administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget.
December 20, 2011(Encore presentation January 3, 2011)
Survey: CHCOs worry about retaining committed workforce
Retaining good employees in spite of pay freezes and cuts to employee benefits will be the biggest challenge facing agency human resources officials next year. Federal News Radio asked chief human capital officers to reflect on 2011 and make predictions for 2012.
DISA Global Combat Support System-Joint tops list of successful IT buys
Army Lt. Col. Camilla White, the deputy program manager for the GCSS, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss some IT-acquisition best practices learned from her experiences with the Increment 7 investment.
New tool vending room improves Navy's processes
Cmdr. Dianna Wolfson is the project superintendent at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for the USS Newport News Engineered Overhaul, describes tool sharing program that saves time and money.
Library of Congress, TIGTA offer telework security lessons
Security is a major telework concern for the Library of Congress and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. But, both agencies have found ways to make it work for them.
New FedRAMP standards first step to secure cloud computing
OMB sets a six-month deadline for initial capabilities to be ready. Along with the cloud security standards and process, the administration highlighted other accomplishments on the one-year anniversary of the 25-point IT Reform plan. The White House said a new draft shared services strategy will focus on commodity IT services.
New online toolkit aims to help agencies combat fraud
Helena Sims, the director of Intergovernmental Relations at the Association of Government Accountants, told In Depth with Francis Rose that agencies can face a variety of fraud and it's often difficult to detect all the "red flags." A new online toolkit created by the AGA aims to help agencies tackle fraud.
What's happening in the federal market?
Host Roger Waldron will discuss a wide variety of procurement issues, with Judy Marks, CEO of Siemens Government Technologies.
December 06, 2012(Encore presentation January 10, 2012)
OPM highlights hiring reform best practices
Agencies are measuring their progress towards hiring reforms and implementing technology to track applications and identify bottlenecks. Those are some of the best practices shared in a memo from the Office of Personnel Management. Overall, it said, agencies are progressing toward the governmentwide goal of filling vacancies in 80 days or less.
Getting the most out of telework
Experts give tips on how they are making telework work for them.
GSA offers tips for trimming fat from agency budgets
Steve Kempf, Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, joined with Francis Rose to discuss ways agencies could meet their goals to cut inefficient spending.
VA, House lawmakers spar over veteran-owned contracting program
The department must decide by Dec. 15 whether or not it will follow GAO's recommendations after losing a bid protest decision. VA tries to explain why service-disabled veteran owned firms do not receive the highest priority for all contracts. Lawmakers express frustration over the agency's explanation.
Analytics helps agencies turn data into decisions
A new report from the Partnership for Public Service and IBM's Public Sector Business Analytics and Optimization Practice points to the importance of analytics in measuring agency performance. But the report emphasizes that data collection is only the first step in turning facts and figures into usable information.
Best Places list is a recruiting tool
The annual rankings can serve as a recruiting tool for agencies, said Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership.
New strategy gives agencies a "springboard" for increasing diversity
Agencies have four months to develop diversity and inclusion plans under a broad, brief governmentwide strategy released Thursday. Proponents say, by making the President's Management Council responsible for progress, the strategy will succeed where past measures have failed.
Survey names best places to work in federal government
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Surface Transportation Board top the Partnership for Public Service's annual list of best places to work in the federal government. "The survey won't give you all the answers, but it'll tell you some questions to ask," said John Palguta, the partnership's vice president for policy.
Report: Federal whistleblowers don't sense letup in agency retaliation
Federal employees increasingly perceive less agency wrongdoing but that doesn't necessarily mean the threat of retaliation for reporting such misconduct has similarly decreased, according to a new Merit System Protection Board report.
Managers take a bite of Apple for their agencies
David Johnson, a senior analyst at Forrester, has been looking at what managers need to do to integrate Apples into their agency's network.
Lessons for managing dashboards
Brand Niemann, director and senior scientist at Semantic Community, compiled his four lessons for keeping your dashboard on target.
Lessons on inpiring staff from military leaders
Tim McManus is the vice president for Education and Outreach at Partnership for Public Service.


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In every JSF application view state is kept either on the client or on the server. How do you make sure this state is smaller? The 'com.sun.faces.compressViewState' comes in handy here. It makes it so that the Mojarra runtime will Gzip compress the view state. Note the context-param is set by default to true, so only if you want to turn it off you will need to do something. In your web.xml file...
on Feb 12, 2014
Today we are covering what the "com.sun.faces.sendPoweredByHeader" context-param does. Historically the JSF runtime would send the "X-Powered-By" servlet response header that would tell what the backing engine was (for Mojarra 2.2.x it would show "JSF/2.2"). To make it possible to turn this on or off this context-param was introduced. From a security perspective it would be smart to keep it off...
on Feb 11, 2014
The "com.sun.faces.validateXml" context-param makes it possible for you to have the Mojarra JSF runtime verify your configuration files against the faces-config.xml schema. If an error is found you will immediately be made aware as deployment will fail until you fix the problem. Note when you are ready to go to production the "com.sun.faces.validateXml" context-param should be set to "false". In...
on Feb 7, 2014
By convention in Faces Flows the page that is the start node has the same name as the flow, but is it possible to change that? It sure is, read on! We'll dive into the Faces configuration file that will make this work. <faces-config version="2.2" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"...
on Feb 6, 2014
The results of the most recently completed Java.net poll suggest that Java EE 7 is finding increasing use, impacting more projects and the daily work of more and more developers over time. This is one more indicator that the Java EE 7 release has to be considered a major success: the release occurred less than a year ago, yet the impact is already considerable. A total of 149 votes were cast...
on Jan 26, 2014
The JavaEE team at Oracle has been busy processing the feedback from the JavaEE 8 Community Survey Question 6 in part one of the survey reads: "Is there any one de-facto standard technology in this space [Server side web MVC framework, aside from JSF] to which we should look for inspiration". For those respondents that answered yes to that question, fully half of them cited Spring MVC. By way...
on Jan 13, 2014
Why would you add a placeholder component to the tree using ui:component? Well, sometimes you need to add content dynamically, but you also need to be able sure where it ends up. Why would you need to know where it ends up? Well imagine the following scenario <ui:component id="component1"> <ui:include rendered="#{myBean.include1Yes}"...
on Jan 2, 2014
Lets start with a small quiz: Can you find 3 differences in the pictures below? Yeah, you got it. That was an easy one. :) Surprisingly, implementing preview for extra asset types has been relatively simple as well. When coming up with the architecture of DAM, the Magnolia team chose to not generate previews and thumbnails of assets directly in the module, but rather delegate this functionality...
on Dec 31, 2013
Global Education and Learning
What is Java? Java is an high-level programming language created by James Gosling from Sun Microsystems on 1991, released on 1995. Nowadays, Oracle Corporation has the steermanship for Java. Its license is GNU General Public License (GPL). Is executed on more than 850 millions of devices on all over the world. Java applications are compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (...
on Jan 30, 2014
In object oriented programming, polymorphism is a feature that allows you to provide a single interface to varying entities of the same type. This is analogous to the interpretation of the same concept in the field of Biology. To understand how this works in Java, we must consider inheritance and the ways by which the Java programming language makes method calls. When you create a class in Java...
on Jan 7, 2014
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The columnar storage is good, especially when there are lots of tabular fields (this is quite common). In querying, the data to traverse is far less than that on the row storage. Less data to traverse brings less I/O workloads and higher query speed. However, the Hadoop application consumes most time on the hard disk I/O without columnar storage. Both Hive and Impala support columnar storage, but...
on Jan 24, 2014
(Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al
HTML Online Editor Sample I have been contemplating for a number of months about reviewing a cache of articles and videos on topics like Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, etc... and finally took the time to do it - may be this was the point in my intellectual progress when was I required to do such a thing! Thanks to Attila-Mihaly for giving me the...
on Jan 17, 2014
Every once in a while I run into someone that has a JVM that is running back to back collections and yet the heap is still almost full after each attempt! When they discover that their problem is related to the JVM not having enough memory they often ask the question, why didn't the JVM throw an OutOfMemoryError? After all my application is not making any forward progress and the reason is Java...
on Jan 8, 2014
An essential part of a well-written unit test is a well-written assertion. The assertion states the behavior you expect out of the system. It should tell you at a glance what a test is trying to demonstrate. It should be simple and obvious. You should not have to decipher conditional logic or sift through for loops to understand what it is doing. In addition, any non-trivial logic in a test case...
on Jan 4, 2014
One day I found myself in the situation that I had to write a unit test which checks whether my code is annotated in a particular way. I wondered how one could do that without doing an integration test that actually processes that annotations. My first idea was to use the Reflection API, which in fact worked, but was not looking smart. In fact, I wanted to have a Hamcrest matcher instead, since...
on Dec 27, 2013
Java Desktop
Introduction to Class Diagram In any project's planning phase, the programmer should describe the behaviour of the different objects that are required to satisfy business use cases. However objects can't emerge from nothing, so you need a template that describe the type of objects that the system will have. As a result, you will need to show a diagram with all the classes involved and their...
on Jan 22, 2014
Why do we need to program? Technology is part of our life. The world is changing daily and everything is getting automated. Learn to program is the creative way we can take our ideas to the next level and express solutions to society. By designing programs, we learn several abilities like critical reading, analytical thinking and create synthesis. The programmer defines the problem, plans a...
on Jan 21, 2014
The Java is a platform which grown up quickly, for many rations such it can write once time and run anywhere, it runs languages on JVM. There is a myth that Java cannot compile its sources on run time, but it's truth? Have a dynamic language is important to make some projects, for example, calculate taxes to different cities, so the source should be on the database and each city it puts the...
on Jan 19, 2014
Open JDK
Interfaces are completely abstract classes in Java that provide you with a uniform way to properly delineate the structure or inner workings of your program from its publicly available interface, with the consequence being a greater amount of flexibility and reusable code as well as more control over how you create and interact with other classes. More precisely, they are a special construct in...
on Jan 18, 2014
This is my first blog on java.net! Happy new year! At 2014/01/11, A big Java EE 7 event has been held on China Nanjing Software Valley jointly organized by China (Nanjing) Software Valley Joint Management Committee and China Nanjing Java User Group. ChinaNanjingJUG(http://q.weibo.com/1696581) is founded at 2013, and focus on the promotion of Java EE and Java related technology into China....
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Having uncovered the dark secret of her enigmatic classmate, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan embraces her feelings for him, trusting Edward to keep her safe despite the risks. When a rival clan of vampires makes its way into Forks, though, the danger to Bella has never been more real. Will she make the ultimate sacrifice to protect the people dearest to her?
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I loved being able to visually see the book as it was written. Everyone in this book met my expectations on how each charactor would look. All as beautiful as discribed in the original book. I was so disappointed with the Twilight movie because so much of the book was lost. The story is about the love between Edward and Bella and what it took for them to get together. The movie change all that and added things that made not sense to me. This graphic novel lets you see the word as written for the most part. I love it. Here hoping they continue with graphics for the other books as well.
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15" drawer stack, how to configure?
Basically there is only room for 1 drawer stack of 15" in our tiny kitchen....
What is the best way to configure our one and only drawer stack?
Should the 4 drawers be of equal size or 3 shallower and then a deeper drawer? Is there a rule about drawer stacks?
I would go 3 equal and one deep plus a toe kick drawer since you are running low on drawers. We have two drawer stacks in our small kitchen and they are approximately 6/6/6/12/tk.
Geomeg - I also have a small kitchen. I went with the 3 smaller/1 larger but my recommendation would be to plan out what you need the drawers to store and then measure those items - plan around what you actually have!
I also recommend searching GW for the many posts that show how people organize their drawers - most have the title "Show me drawers" - below is a link to the latest post. It's amazing how much drawers can hold when done efficiently!
Here is a link that might be useful: Inside drawers...
On either side of our stove we have one 14" stack and one 15" stack. Each one has three drawers, one shallow for utensils/knives and 2 deeper ones.
In this particular stack we keep knives and turning forks in the top drawer, saucepans in the second, and frying pans in the bottoms. On the other side of the stove the top drawer has utensils used at the stove and on the sink (turners, can opener, spatulas, etc.). The second drawer is the bread drawer, and the bottom drawer holds dish towels and pot holders. This arrangement has worked well for us.