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The Singleton Pattern is used to make sure only one object of a particular class is ever created. This can be useful when when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across a system; perhaps for efficiency where creating lots of identical objects would be wasteful, perhaps because a particular algorithm needing a single point of control is required or perhaps when an object is used to interact with a non-shareable resource.
Weaknesses of the Singleton pattern include:
- It can reduce reuse. For instance, there are issues if you want to use inheritance with Singletons. If
SingletonA, should there be exactly (at most) one instance of each or should the creation of an object from one of the classes prohibit creation from the other. Also, if you decide both classes can have an instance, how do you override the
getInstance()method which is static?
- It is also hard to test singletons in general because of the static methods but Groovy can support that if required.
Example: The Classic Java Singleton
Suppose we wish to create a class for collecting votes. Because getting the right number of votes may be very important, we decide to use the singleton pattern. There will only ever be one
VoteCollector object, so it makes it easier for us to reason about that objects creation and use.
Some points of interest about this code:
- it has a private constructor, so no
VoteCollectorobjects can be created in our system (except for the
INSTANCEwe create)
- the
INSTANCEis also private, so it can't be changed once set
- we haven't made the updating of votes thread-safe at this point (it doesn't add to this example)
- the vote collector instance is not lazyily created (if we never reference the class, the instance won't be created; however, as soon as we reference the class, the instance will be created even if not needed initially)
We can use this singleton class in some script code as follows:
Here we used the instance 3 times. The second usage was even in a different thread (but don't try this in a scenario with a new class loader).
Running this script yields (your hashcode value will vary):
Variations to this pattern:
- To support lazy-loading and multi-threading, we could just use the
synchronizedkeyword with the
getInstance()method. This has a performance hit but will work.
- We can consider variations involving double-checked locking and the
volatilekeyword (for Java 5 and above), but see the limitations of this approach here.
Example: Singleton via MetaProgramming
Groovy's meta-programming capabilities allow concepts like the singleton pattern to be enacted in a far more fundamental way. This example illustrates a simple way to use Groovy's meta-programming capabilities to achieve the singleton pattern but not necessarily the most efficient way.
Suppose we want to keep track of the total number of calculations that a calculator performs. One way to do that is to use a singleton for the calculator class and keep a variable in the class with the count.
First we define some base classes. A
Calculator class which performs calculations and records how many such calculations it performs and a
Client class which acts as a facade to the calculator.
Now we can define and register a MetaClass which intercepts all attempts to create a
Calculator object and always provides a pre-created instance instead. We also register this MetaClass with the Groovy system:
Now we use instances of our
Client class from within a script. The client class will attempt to create new instances of the calculator but will always get the singleton.
Here is the result of running this script (your hashcode values may vary):
Guice Example
We can also implement the Singleton Pattern using Guice. This example relies on annotations. Annotations are a Groovy 1.1 feature and will need to be run on a Java 5 or above JVM.
Consider the Calculator example again.
Guice is a Java-oriented framework that supports Interface-Oriented design. Hence we create a
Calculator interface first. We can then create our
CalculatorImpl implementation and a
Client object which our script will interact with. The
Client class isn't strictly needed for this example but allows us to show that non-singleton instances are the default. Here is the code:
Note the
@Inject annotation in the
Client class. We can always tell right in the source code which fields will be injected.
In this example we chose to use an explicit binding. All of our dependencies (ok, only one in this example at the moment) are configured in the binding. The Guide injector knows about the binding and injects the dependencies as required when we create objects. For the singleton pattern to hold, you must always use Guice to create your instances. Nothing shown so far would stop you creating another instance of the calculator manually using
new CalculatorImpl() which would of course violate the desired singleton behaviour.
In other scenarios (though probably not in large systems), we could choose to express dependencies using annotations, such as the following example shows:
Note the
@Singleton annotation on the
CalculatorImpl class and the
@ImplementedBy annotation in the
Calculator interface.
When run, the above example (using either approach) yields (your hashcode values will vary):
You can see that we obtained a new client object whenever we asked for an instance but it was injected with the same calculator object.
Spring Example
We can do the Calculator example again using Spring as follows:
And here is the result (your hashcode values will vary):
Further information
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Two improvements:
1. The Classic Java Singleton
Better assure that the constructor cannot be called by accident - which can happen easily as Groovy currently doesn't respect privacy. It's as simple as this:
private VoteCollector() { assert ! INSTANCE }
2. Singleton via Meta Programming
It's much easier using ExpandoMetaClass. Simply add following few lines to
Calculatorclass and it becomes a singleton.
private final static INSTANCE = new Calculator() Calculator() { Calculator.metaClass.constructor = { -> INSTANCE } }
Now the extra meta class as well as the intialization procedure are not needed any more:

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An example of using threading with SwingBuilder to do lengthy operations in the background so GUI event handling remains responsive. This sample code demonstrates many of the issues that may occur including replacing the content of a "please wait" message with something else, and safely changing "realized" components only on the EDT (Event Dispatch Thread). This sample happens to use tableLayout, which can get pretty slow but that is a good stresser for the demonstration.
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Ravens 7, 49ers 3
Key play: Joe Flacco threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to receiver Anquan Boldin, giving the Ravens a 7-0 lead.
Key stat: The Ravens went 51 yards to score on their first drive.
Not in the box score: The national anthem performed by Alicia Keys lasted two minutes and 40.3 seconds (unofficial) and shattered oddsmakers' "over-under" of two minutes and 10 seconds. The Ravens won the coin toss and chose to kick off. The 49ers had a penalty on each team's first possession. Getting open for the touchdown, Boldin went past linebacker NaVorro Bowman and safety Donte Whitner. A third-down sack by Ravens edge rusher Paul Kruger led the 49ers to kick a 36-yard field goal. After colliding with tight end Vernon Davis, Ravens safety Ed Reed left with a knee injury. The Ravens had converted on all three third downs when Ray McDonald and Aldon Smith sacked Flacco to force a punt at the end of the quarter. Flacco looked in control, though, eluding defenders and throwing with touch and precision.
Second Quarter
Ravens 21, 49ers 6
Key play: Three Ravens created a turnover by 49ers rookie LaMichael James, halting San Francisco at Baltimore's 25.
Key stat: For the first time in a Super Bowl, a 49ers quarterback was intercepted when safety Reed caught Colin Kaepernick's overthrow of Randy Moss.
Not in the box score: Ravens speedster Jacoby Jones got by 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver for a 56-yard touchdown, making it 21-3. In San Francisco's previous five Super Bowls, Joe Montana and Steve Young had 17 TD passes without an interception. Reed had returned from a knee injury. As Ravens cornerback Corey Graham held James at the end of a first-down run, linebacker Courtney Upshaw dislodged the ball, which lineman Arthur Jones recovered. The Ravens followed with a 75-yard scoring drive, building their lead to 14-3. Next came Kaepernick's interception. Stopping a fake field goal a yard short of the first down, the Niners' Darcel McBath tackled kicker Justin Tucker at San Francisco's 6. But the Niners then went three and out.
Third Quarter
Ravens 28, 49ers 23
Key play: The Ravens' Jacoby Jones took the opening kickoff 108 yards, tying the NFL record for a kick return.
Key stat: Not long after a power outage halted the game for 34 minutes, the 49ers went a 17-0 run to pull to 28-23.
Not in the box score: Jones, who grew up in New Orleans, ran through a tackle at Baltimore's 20 and pulled away for the touchdown, his second of the game. When half of the Superdome's lights went dark, the Ravens led 28-6 with 13:22 left in the quarter. When play resumed, the Ravens won on third-and-13, forcing a punt. The Ravens went 84 minutes between middle-quarter possessions. Scoring San Francisco's first touchdown on a 31-yard pass play, receiver Michael Crabtree shook off a hit by Ravens enforcer Bernard Pollard. A missed field goal by the Niners' David Akers was nullified by Chykie Brown's running-into-the-kicker penalty; Akers then connected from 34 yards. Two Ravens — Bernard Pierce and Haloti Ngata — left the game with injuries.


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What a sorry spectacle: obstinacy and all-night speechifying from one side, name-calling and refusal to rescue entitlement programs from the other. As the righteous bray on and blame, President Barack Obama's approval rating flops. Much more of this and he'll score as miserably as Congress does. No wonder that, in RealClearPolitics' average of polls, 27 percent of Americans say their country is headed in the right direction — and 64 percent say it's on the wrong track.
So off-putting. We can think of only one debacle as obnoxious: the decades leading to this moment, under Republican and Democratic presidents and Congresses, when pretty much everyone joined as one in festive orgies of overspending, over-borrowing. As their reward for the clubbiness and decorum we don't see in today's fractious Washington, we're paying fat federal pensions to retired presidents, senators and representatives who nurtured today's lethal culture of debt.
That this culture of debt isn't the overriding issue of the moment — all of us and our yet unborn descendants owe nearly $17 trillion to buyers of U.S. securities — is another failure of spine that afflicts majorities in both parties. Instead they have us focused on the shiny object right over there: the partial halt to federal spending that will commence if they don't reach a budget deal for the fiscal year that starts today.
Both sides want to frighten those "fellow Americans" they're always invoking. Many Republicans talk in scary terms of what harms Obamacare will wreak on the body politic as its insurance provisions lurch to life. Many Democrats talk in scary terms of the consequences if some federal spending is suspended.
Much of this, you know, has precious little to do with Obamacare or federal operations. The U.S. is barely 13 months from a midterm election that could reconfigure official Washington to the triumphal advantage of one party or the other. As groups, neither Republicans nor Democrats look like winners right now. Each side is angling for advantage. And for campaign contributions. Did we mention campaign contributions?
Here's an easy way to strip out all the scarifying and go Big Picture, focusing on where this nation's finances truly stand:
In your mind, convert the federal budget to a simple calendar year. Under that protocol, Wednesday was Deficit Day. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, economists Jame R. Harrigan and Antony Davies explained that Washington by about 3 p.m. that day had spent all of the $2.7 trillion that the government collects every year from Americans via income, payroll, corporate, estate and excise taxes, as well as tariffs, fees and other income. After that moment: the deficit. The more than $10 billion that the federal government will spend every day from Sept. 26 through Dec. 31? You, little taxpayer, will borrow every penny. Those 97 days alone will add roughly another $1 trillion in debt to the pile.
Complete the exercise by asking yourself: If my household already owed the equivalent of six years' income, how long could I last if, each year, I spent all of my earnings by Sept. 25, then borrowed what I would spend until the end of the year?
Five years ago, as a candidate for president, Obama lambasted George W. Bush for eight years of funding the government with "a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children." Under Bush, the debt had leaped from $5 trillion to $9 trillion. "That's irresponsible," Obama said. "It's unpatriotic."
We quote this president not to chide him, but because he ... was ... correct. The debt that Republicans and Democrats together have created is irresponsible.
So spare us these manufactured moments of enlightened indignation from Republicans and Democrats alike. The financial fiasco our politicians have created is vast. Yet many of our leaders — today's just as yesterday's — are small. Their loyalty and love for their careers and party ideologies is now on display.
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SNOW HILL — A trio of Greene Central football players will travel together about an hour north on Highway 58 to suit up for N.C. Wesleyan College this fall.
Austin Batchelor, Ronshon Bullock and Travon Williams all played their entire varsity careers for the Rams and went through the recruiting process together before making a joint announcement Monday morning in the Greene Central media center in front of their family, coaches and members of the media.
"It means a lot," Batchelor said of playing at the next level with a pair of his high school teammates. "I put in three years of work with these guys. We have grown together, and now we've made it."
Each player brings with him a unique skill set that should benefit Battling Bishops, who finished their 2013 campaign with a 2-8 mark.
"I wish I had four years to coach these guys," said Greene Central coach Allen Wooten, who led the Rams to a 3-9 finish and first-round playoff berth in his first year last season. "They're good players and even better people. They have the willpower and the dedication to succeed at anything."
All three players were selected to the All-Free Press football team, and both Batchelor and Bullock were All-Conference selections as well.
Austin Batchelor: Quarterback
Batchelor ran the Rams' pistol offense as a senior and was a two-year varsity starter for Greene Central. He threw for 1,700 yards and 18 touchdowns and ran for another. He was a first-team selection at quarterback on the All-Free Press team and expects to compete for playing time immediately at the next level.
The Bishops only two signal-callers — both rising juniors — currently on the roster.
"I don't want to say anything bad about anybody, but I have looked at the film of those guys, and I have just as good an arm as they do," Batchelor said. "I plan to work hard and go in and compete right away."
Wooten agreed with his quarterback's assessment of the situation.
"The QB position is thin," he said, "and Austin is a natural fit."
Batchelor, who was also recruited by Methodist, visited Wesleyan in January and left feeling impressed by the small-school, family atmosphere in Rocky Mount.
The Bishops run a spread offense, and Batchelor said he felt like he was ready to make the different types of throws that will be required of him at the next level.
"The quick game, the slants, the deep game: I can make all types of throws," he said. "I still need to work on my footwork, timing and reading defenses, as well as knowing what to audible into and out of."
Batchelor plans to study criminal justice once he arrives on campus. For now, though, he is enjoying his accomplishment.
"It feels good," he said. "I'm 160 pounds. A lot of people looked down on me and told me I was too little and wouldn't ever make it. Not too many guys can say they have played college football."
Ronshon Bullock: Running back/Linebacker
Like many Greene Central players, Bullock was asked to play on both sides of the football for most of his career. He was primarily a linebacker as a freshman and sophomore. As the Rams' featured running back as a senior, his action at linebacker was much more limited in his final season in Snow Hill.
Wooten, who coached one of Wesleyan's starting linebackers when he was a position coach at North Pitt, said Bullock has the same build and could be asked to move to defense once he arrives on campus.
"He was 201 pounds in season, and he's up to 228 now," Wooten said. "He's filling out and growing into a man."
That size, combined with Bullock's quickness, figures to be an asset for the Bishops. Bullock said his coaches talked to him about playing both running back and linebacker during the recruiting process.
He rushed for over 900 yards and seven touchdowns and added 80 receiving yards and a touchdown through the air as a senior, good enough for an All-Conference nod.
Bullock visited Wesleyan in November, shortly after the end of his senior season, and liked the familiarity of the offense — the Bishops run a spread offense similar to the one installed by Wooten this year at Greene Central.
Bullock was also recruited by UNC-Pembroke and Methodist and said choosing a school was a difficult decision. Ultimately, that decision came down to a couple of factors.
"They have a good football program and a good major," said Bullock, who plans to study exercise science.
He also likes the idea of playing college football with a pair of his high school teammates, adding, "I can still be with my boys."
Most importantly, Bullock said he feels like he can contribute right way to the Wesleyan program.
"I have good field vision, and I tackle good," he said. "I still have the linebacker skills. I need to work some at running back, on my juking and my footwork."
Travon Williams: Offensive/Defensive line
Williams lost his mother about six months ago and found the perfect way to make her proud. Wesleyan's location is convenient for the lineman and his family, which include his grandmother, Delores Williams.
"I can shoot home anytime, I guess," he said, "and I made my grandma and mama proud."
Being close to home was another factor Williams did not take lightly.
The biggest of the Wesleyan signees from Greene Central, Williams also saw more time on the field than either of his teammates, as a staple on the offensive line and at nose guard on defense.
Offensively, Williams notched 14 pancake blocks while playing both guard and tackle. His prowess at nose guard, however, is what earned Williams All-Free Press distinction, as he recorded 35 tackles, including 10 for a loss, to go along with a pair of sacks and three blocked kicks.
He visited Wesleyan with Bullock in November. Like Bullock, Williams plans to study exercise science. Unlike Bullock, Williams is unlikely to continue his career as both an offensive and defensive player, as the Bishops have him pegged as a defensive lineman.
That's fine by Williams.
"I prefer to play more defense," he said. "I feel like I can make plays happen for other people, not just for myself."
Williams was also recruited briefly by N.C. A&T State University, but he said the opportunity to play for Wesleyan was too much to pass up.
"It feels good," Williams said of having a chance to play alongside his high school teammates. "You have to meet new people in life, too, but I'm glad to have them by my side."
Williams already has the size and strength of a college football player and said he plans to work on his speed and footwork in the offseason.
Wooten said he expects all three athletes to fit in well at Wesleyan.
"All three guys are very humble," Wooten said. "They're not cocky or arrogant. They're hard workers and will be good members of the program."


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March 27, 2012
GREENEVILLE, T.N. - Falling behind early, Pfeiffer University couldn't find a way to dig themselves out of the early hole dropping a 9-3 decision to host and #13 Tusculum on Tuesday night at Pioneer Park. The win gives the Pioneers their eight-straight victory now at 28-5 on the year while the Falcons drop to 17-14.
After a three-up, three-down top of the first, the Pioneers jumped on the visitors for three with Cade Stallings and Cody Coffman RBI-singles finishing with a Carlos Santana sacrifice fly. Adding one in the second on an Alexi Colon double, Tusculum would make it a 5-0 lead on an Eric Conley single in the fifth.
Colon and Coffman would get the best of the Falcon pitching staff in the sixth pushing the advantage to seven while adding their final pair of runs in the seventh.
Pfeiffer's three runs would come in one bunch during the ninth Kevin Price, started with an infield single that scored Jacob Yates. Price would later score on a passed ball while Cole McGraw drove in the final run with his single to left.
Tusculum's Dylan Hochevar picked up the win tossing eight innings, allowing no runs on just three hits while whiffing nine. Coffman concluded 4-for-4 with a pair of RBI while Colon wrapped the night up 3-for-4 with three runs driven in and pair of runs scored. Yates and McGraw each collected two of Pfeiffer's eight hits on the night.
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"This is real big," said Northside's Davion Ayabarreno, who along with teammate Josh Cabrera were named to the all-tournament team. "It feels good to be a part of it."
Ayabarreno ended with 10 points and 10 rebounds while Cabrera finished with 11 points and 10 boards for the Monarchs.
Ryan Chester scored 13 points to lead the Dark Horses, who also got 11 points from Osharmine Jones, Shian Bradshaw and Thaxter Spruill. Chester and Bradshaw also made the all-tourney team.
But the big difference was Parker, who scored 22 points between the second and third quarters to help Northside take a 54-48 lead into the fourth quarter after the Monarchs trailed 29-22 in the first half.
Parker finished 11 of 20 from the floor, including three 3-pointers.
"What an animal he is," Marshburn said. "He took it upon his shoulder and hit some shots. Jamal is just a big-time player. He's been that way all year long and that's why he's going to get some awards."
Ayabarreno agreed Parker was a difference in the final.
"Jamal got hot and then we started to play defense," he said.
The Dark Horses shot 57 from the floor in the second quarter to take a 35-30 lead into halftime. However, Clinton shot just 26 percent in the second half.
Northside also scored the first 12 points of the third quarter.
Ayabarreno got things started with a jump shot and Parker followed with a 3-pointer to tie the game at 35-35. Korey Curry made a free throw to give the Monarchs a 36-35 edge before Cabrera and Parker followed with layups.
Cabrera then completed a three-point play to give Northside a 42-35 lead with 4:45 left in the third quarter.
"No. 1, we had good defense. We had pressure and we really shut down the driving lanes," Marshburn said. "We also had to get on the boards because No. 42 (Spruill) and No. 24 (Bradshaw) were really hurting us in the first half on the boards.
"I told the guys to start sharing the basketball and start making them work on defense. If our defensive pressure picked up a little bit and we crashed the boards, we could get in some transition."
The Monarchs extended their lead to 58-48 with 7:20 left in the game on a layup from Ayabarreno. Still, the Dark Horses remained competitive, getting to within 62-57 with 3:50 left.
"With about 19 seconds to play, I could finally take a deep breath and relax," Marshburn said.
Parker had just five points in the final eight minutes, but it was his teammates who helped the Monarchs keep their lead as nine players scored at least 2 points.
Ayabarreno scored 7 points in the fourth quarter while Korey Curry added 6 in the period.
"We got kids who will compete and who are not going to back down," Marshburn said. "Frankie Morrison, he came in and really gave us a spark for three to four minutes. He had like two or three blocks and scored on a play where he drew a foul. We just have a room-full of guys who go out there and compete."
And now the Monarchs can make a claim they have been wanting to make all season.
"We are the best team in the conference," Parker said.
Northside 12 18 24 20 — 74
Clinton 9 26 13 14 — 62
Cabrera 11, Parker 30, Kr. Curry 4, Ayabarreno 10, Adams 2, Ko. Curry 7, Hilton 2, Morrison 2, McCarthy 6. Totals— 28-59 15-31 74.
Smith 2, Bryant 7, Chester 13, Jones 11, Underwood 5, Bradshaw 11, Evans 2, Spruill 11. Totals— 24-65 9-18 62.
3-Point Goals— N 3 (Parker 3), C 5 (Chester 2, Bryant, Jones, Spruill). Rebounds— N 47 (Cabrera 10, Ayabarreno 10), C 37 (Spruill 8, Bradshaw 7). RECORDS— N: 22-3, vs. TBA in state 2-A playoffs. C: 19-7, vs. TBA in state 2-A playoffs.


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The Sharks play the Blues this weekend and Plumtree will be willing them to victory. It is his way.
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage still faces the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation, a judge ruled Wednesday.
A trial date was not set for Maj. Nidal Hasan, whose attorneys say he wants to plead guilty to 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the 2009 attack on the Texas Army post.
The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, said she would consider Hasan's motion at a hearing next month, but Army rules prohibit judges from accepting guilty pleas in death penalty cases. Under the military justice system, a commanding general decides if the death penalty will be sought, and plea bargains in capital cases are not allowed.
Hasan's attorneys have filed motions indicating that if his current guilty plea isn't accepted, he instead will plead guilty to unpremeditated murder, which does not carry the death penalty. Even if the judge accepts Hasan's guilty pleas to lesser charges, Hasan still would face a death sentence if prosecutors decide to move forward with the trial and jurors convict him on his original charges, military law experts said.
"I'm 100 percent confident that the prosecutors would go forward with a trial," said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, who is not involved in Hasan's case. "They've been preparing this case for three years, and they're ready. And the families deserve justice. This is a death penalty case."
Hasan faces execution or life in military prison without parole if convicted.
Hasan, 42, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by police the day of the rampage, had a thick black beard as he sat in his wheelchair by his attorneys Wednesday. Hearings set for Thursday and Friday were canceled because all matters on the judge's agenda had been discussed.
Defense attorneys had argued that Hasan should be spared a possible death sentence because the military justice system's process for deciding capital cases is unfair and inconsistent. They also claim Fort Hood's commanding general was not impartial when he decided in July 2011 that Hasan would face the death penalty.
Witnesses have said that a gunman wearing an Army combat uniform opened fire after shouting "Allahu Akbar!" _ or "God is great!" in Arabic _ inside a crowded medical building on Nov. 5, 2009, where deploying and returning soldiers received vaccines and other tests. Hasan was also about to deploy to Afghanistan.
Hasan's trial was to start in August but was put on hold when he appealed the former judge's order saying his beard would be forcibly shaved before the court-martial unless he shaved it. Although facial hair violates Army rules, Hasan first showed up in court in June with a beard, later saying it was required by his Muslim faith.
After a few rounds of appeals, the military's highest appeals court in December tossed out the judge's order and removed him from the case, saying that he appeared to show bias against Hasan in some instances. Osborn then was appointed to oversee the case.
In December, during Osborn's first pretrial hearing in the case, she told Hasan that she won't hold the beard against him but that military jurors might. Jurors likely would be told not to consider Hasan's appearance when deciding on a verdict.
Osborn also ruled Wednesday that she doesn't have the authority to rule on whether the previous judge's orders for Hasan to shave violate his religious freedom. The military appeals court's December ruling did not address that issue. That means Osborn won't order Hasan to shave.
She denied Hasan's request to stop his chain of command from ordering him to shave, although it's unclear if that has happened.
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- Comer, J.P.(2009) From There to Here. Those Who Dared: Five Visionaries who Changed American Education. Carl Glickman, editor. New York: Teachers College Press. 49-80.
- Comer, J.P., Emmons, C (2009) Capturing Complexity: Evaluation of the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program. International Perspectives on Contexts, Communities and Evaluated Innovative Practices. Rollande Deslandes, editor. New York: Routledge (204-219).


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- Arteaga MF, Wang L, Ravid T, Hochstrasser M, Canessa CM. A short amphipathic helix targets Sgk1 to the ER-associated ubiquitin-conjugation machinery. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 103:11178-83, 2006.
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Nearly a decade ago the State of California took a bold stand to ban the production and sale of foie gras, a luxury food item produced by shoving pipes down birds' throats several times a day to force-feed them until their livers become fatty and diseased.
Major retailers including Safeway, Target and Costco refuse to sell foie gras and, according to one poll, nearly three-quarters of Americans want to see it banned nationwide. But as the implementation date of the California ban neared, it was not surprising that some groups rose up to challenge the law, taking their case all the way to federal court.
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After the ruling, foie gras producers defiantly insisted that "nobody is being harmed by foie gras" and announced they will continue their fight to end the ban. But for the time being, California's ban on foie gras remains happily and firmly in place.
~ No one is being HURT??!!
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One of the many horrifying practices in the food industry. If no one is being hurt, let's shove a pipe down the producers' throats, just to prove their (ridiculous) point.
To their 'no one is being hurt' claim, I'd say this: Let me feed your kid like that, then. Fair?
THANK YOU STATE OF CALIFORNIA!!!!! TO STOP THIS HEINOUS ACT OF BARBARISM TO ANIMALS IS FANTASTIC!!!! Now we probably need a task force to check restaurant menus to make sure Foie Gras isn't on the menu, because I don't believe professional chefs, and restauranteurs will give up the enormous profits from this so called delicacy. They will probably Black Market somehow to get what they want. ALSO, BRAVO TO TARGET, COSTCO, AND SAFEWAY, FOR REFUSING TO SELL THIS HORRID PRODUCT. THANK YOU ALL!!!!!
You will never change the minds of defective people but you can influence those who are apathetic. To gain support you must present the issues factually, and, pictures do help! Most people can't handle the thought of animal abuse, so until you bring it up, they remain uninformed and avoid anything to do with it. So get out there and teach! Also, fight! Lobby for stiffer fines and sentences on the malicious people who commit these acts. Take a few seconds to contact your state officials by e-mail or a quick phone call. The ASPCA does a wonderful service in providing the info on what bills are pending in each state. They make it so easy that if you don't respond, you are part of the problem.
These practices of hurting and destroying the living creatures of our Earth for our own luxurious and frivolous needs must be put to an end. There will always be fools and sadists and greedy idiots who do bad things to animals, but they are on the run. Let's run them and their stupid lies out of town. This bill is a start to raising awareness.
Yeah if you think no one is being harmed then let us do that sh*t to any of you cowards who don't feel like they can live without foie gras! Then you can eat your own fatty diseased liver!
'Nobody' is being hurt. The callousness of this statement reveals the producers true attitude about the animals they abuse. They do not consider them sentient beings. Shameful and disgusting.


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Definition of Extreme Poverty
Mar 2, 2009at 4:42 am
Living on less than $1 per day.
Mar 2, 2009at 5:31 am
Defined as when a person cannot meet their basic needs for food, water, shelter, sanitation, and health care.The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.25 per day. Over 1.4 billion people can be defined by this.
Mar 2, 2009at 6:27 am
The UN defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1 a day–which severely limits a person's ability to provide for their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter.
Mar 2, 2009at 6:37 am
Extreme poverty is living on less than $1 a day.
Mar 2, 2009at 7:27 am
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Mar 2, 2009at 9:00 pm
Less than $1 a day
Mar 3, 2009at 1:41 am
Extreme poverty is living on less than £1 a day
Mar 3, 2009at 5:58 am
Extreme poverty is not having adequate food, shelter and clothing…. and no hope of getting it in the future.
Mar 9, 2009at 10:11 am
The answer is:
Living on less than $1 a day. One in six people around the world lives in extreme poverty.
(Sources: unicef.org/mdg/poverty.html)
Mar 17, 2009at 2:26 pm
In the greater scheme of this, extreme poverty is really not having Christ.
Last week, I was in Medellin, Columbia in one of the projects, visiting one of my children and two of the children, that I had just found sponsors for.
The pastor gave a small devotional, sharing how much he appreciated the visit and how I was taking care of the poor. I felt kind of funny there, because I felt like I was visiting the rich. Not that it escaped me that I was in the midst of a very poor slum with gangs and drugs, but these children and their families were so dependent on God and Christ, that I felt like I was really the poor visiting the rich. Being dependent on God was to me a huge part of being very rich.
May 30, 2010at 11:05 am
I agree with not having christ.
Apr 15, 2009at 12:19 pm
@Kees Boer – I'm sure if they really were rich, they wouldn't be very dependent on god. I'm betting they wouldn't even care.
Apr 15, 2009at 12:57 pm
Hi, Jason, that's actually not so much my point. Rich people can depend on God. They have to make more of a choice to do so.
What I'm actually saying is that what we consider the "poor" in those countries are really the rich, because they are rich with dependence on God.
See, in reality, material possessions here on earth are very temporal. We have an eternity in front of us. Our lives here on earth are just like an entrance into eternity. Some people have been given a nice entrance, some a not so nice entrance. What we do with our entrance has an effect on the rest of eternity.
The most important thing is to realize that none of us deserve to enter heaven. We have all broken God's laws and if it were dependent upon our performance here on earth, we would all end up seperated from God in a place called hell. To go to heaven, we must have the righteousness of God or must be perfect. Rev. 21:27 says that even someone, who lies can not enter heaven. So, no matter what a person does, they can never enter heaven. You can sponsor 500 children, which would be a good thing to do, but it will never get you to heaven.
God saw that situation and He sent His Son, Jesus to die on the cross to pay for our sins. He was our substitute. In other words, Jesus took all of the blame of my sins on Himself and He paid for them on the cross, when He died. Then 3 days later, He rose from the dead, proving that your and my sins have been paid for.
Now, all He asks us to do to go to heaven, is to simply put our trust in what He did on the cross and all of our sins are forgiven.
John 3:16 is a famous passage. It sums it up nicely: "For God so loved the world (that's you and I), that He gave His only begotten Son (that's Jesus Christ), that whoever believes (That means to trust or to rely upon) should not perish (spend eternity away from God), but have eternal life.
If you have never placed your trust in Christ, you can do that right there where you are sitting. Simply rely upon what Jesus did for you on the cross. Some people do this by saying a prayer to God, like this (though saying a prayer is not necessary) "God I know I'm a sinner, but I believe that Jesus came to earth and die on the cross for my sins and I want to place my trust in Jesus as the One, Who paid for my sins. Thank you for dying for me. Amen."
If you just placed your trust in Christ, then you can know on the basis of God's Word, the Bible that you have eternal life. I John 5:13 says: "These things have I written to you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may KNOW that you have eternal life."
Now, here on earth we can continue this trusting relationship for other things too. And that's why many poor people are really rich. Because if they placed their trust in what Jesus did for them on the cross, they are going to heaven and their eternity is secure. I told a Compassion child not too long ago that the biggest mansion here on earth is a dump compared to what they will get when they get to heaven. (This Compassion child had placed his trust on Jesus to save him)
Dec 13, 2011at 5:44 pm
Because of course that's going to save the children in Africa correct?
Dec 13, 2011at 10:08 pm
Actually, that would save a lot of the problems in desperate poverty.
Let me give an example of Bolivia, because that's where I lived for altogether 7 months. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America. I worked there in very poor neighborhoods. A lot of the problem of the poverty there is spiritually based. It's not physical. Yes, there is obvious physical poverty there and it should be met. But the physical poverty issues like a lack of water, a lack of food, a lack of education, etc…. are symptoms of underlying spiritual problems.
Let me give an example of what happens all the time over there. A mother has to work 12-14 hours/day for around $2/day. She has a little girl that she has to leave home in her shack. This girl is there with a little beat up television and in the area there are many gangs. She never hears her mother tell her that she is loved. For all intents and purposes, she is being raised by the television, which is like American television, i.e. most of it pretty much a bunch of garbage. When she is 14 years old, she meets some boy, who tells her that he loves her. These words become very powerful and a year later, she is pregnant and the boy has run away to somewhere else.
Thus she gives birth to a little child and now she has to work 14 hours/day and the cycle started again.
Now, if you were to just "feed" this little girl and took care of her medicine, then that would be great. There is nothing wrong with that, but what this little girl really needs is to be in an healthy environment, to know about the love of Christ and to accept the Gospel. Then she knows she is being loved, then when a sponsor on top of that demonstrates that same type of love by praying for her, writing her letters, showing how much he cares for this girl, then you can see the cycle of poverty in this family broken. Then when she grows up, she will make a huge impact on her family. Then she can make a difference in her community. Now, you've really affected not just that girl, but you've affected that whole community. I've seen this happen so many times. Does that make sense? I can give a lot of examples of this, but I really believe that it is the Gospel in conjunction with the help to eliviate those symptoms that will ultimately break the cycle of poverty in those countries. Without that wholelistic approach you'll just be putting on "bandages," and you'll have to do it in the next generation again and again, and again.
Feb 23, 2010at 4:39 pm
I don't doubt your sincerity Kees but your spouting dogma will not feed the hungry people of the world. If jesus gave a hoot for the poor in the world he could help by not inflicting his 'disasters' upon them for a start! He does seem to get a kick out of punishing the most disadvantaged with his earthquakes, floods, wars and sundry other unpleasantness, unfairly heaped upon those least able to cope. Jesus Christ, you must be joking, when will you realise that religion is based on myth and fantasy?
Sep 12, 2010at 5:54 pm
Laura, If you knew, truly knew any materially poor person, then you would know God. God lives in the poor. Those that are materially poor depend and love God in a way that most cannot understand. Go and spend time with a very poor person-then you will meet and know God.
May 4, 2010at 7:29 am
Can not meet basic needs food, shelter, medicale etc.
Nov 8, 2010at 11:08 pm
People who live in extreme poverty are people who cannot meet the basic needs of food, water, shelter, sanitation and healthcare.
Too many people live in this state and too many people are ignoring the issue. Who ever gave the right for humanity to think that it is okay that we divide those poor and those rich, is a dick head. If we can't look after each other then our world will fall apart. Wait, it already is!
I am no preacher of God or any other form of religion. I just have strong beliefs in what i can do and in what humanity can do, to save what is left of Mother Earth.
Jun 10, 2011at 6:18 pm
I would have to say that there is nothing wealthy about dependence when there are countless others who will actively shape their own futures and that of their complacent peers.
Jun 10, 2011at 9:05 pm
Dependence on God is very rich, because He is souvereign over all. As a matter of fact, without trusting in Christ for our salvation, we are hopelessly lost, facing an horrific eternity. If you see for instance the temptations that Christ went through, all of them are temptations of Satan to get Christ to act independently of His Father. Just today, I spent the day with children in deep poverty. Many of them don't have food every night. But they are full of joy. And in many ways far richer than some children in Western countries that seem to have it all, but have no purpose and joy in their life. I've seen very "rich" teenagers become drug addicts….. Material possessions can be as much of a snare of Satan as deep poverty. Ultimately it is all about Christ. Without Him and a deep dependence on Him, we are very poor, no matter how successful or wealthy we seem to be here on earth.
Feb 19, 2013at 2:24 pm
Kees Boer,
Thanks for posting all of your discussions and definitions of extreme poverty and as well as deftly and lovingly answering those who understand it not. Thank you also, for your true understanding of poverty, life without Christ. As a former atheist, I know the hopelessness and meaninglessness of such a life.
I came from an upper class family, having all the material blessings, but no purpose for my life, beyond hedonism, which is ultimately empty living. Through a point of crisis, I became aware of what Jesus had already done for me, believed He had done so and was accepted by Him; the former Christ-hater, now free to live an abundant life, forever. Wow!!!!!!!! Such Joy and Assurance!!!!
Poverty, by the world's standard, will be that of the UN, and so it should. Abject and true poverty, is that of spirit, one dead to the abundant life Christ offers it, now, in this body, as well as eternal life, in heaven, with Him forever, one glorious day. When combined with material poverty, life without Jesus is despairing hopelessness beyond compare.
Compassion recognizes these needs, and combines the two opportunities, for material and spiritual provisions of a child in its care, in a unique way, as the sponsor and child relationally interact through letters to one another.
I'm in a season, where I have no means to pay the electric and water bills. BUT, I have Jesus' Spirit within me and all His Promises, among which are to never, never leave me or forsake me, and He's proving Himself True. His Body, which we call the Church, is ministering to me in ways I never imagined needing. From it, my Faith is being bolstered as I'm seeing Him provide for us, through His Children, The Church. I'm temporarily "poor", in material terms, but I'm incomprehensibly rich, in His Spirit.
I have one amazing story of His provision I wish to share. Last month, I told my husband that we must discontinue support of our Compassion child, as we had no means ourselves, and no way to fulfill our support to this darling child. He insisted against it. The next week, we received the unbelievable letter from Compassion, that our sponsored child no longer needed our financial assistance! What an amazing God-incidence! When income for us once again resumes, we will ever so joyfully continue to support another child through Compassion.
I needed your perspectives, Kees, for very personal reasons, today. Thank you for sharing them and encouraging me with it.
Keep up the good fight for these children!
Feb 20, 2013at 2:34 am
My simple note is a matter of thanking bro. Kees Boer for his honest, sincere and wonderful messages given to our fellow brethren here who commented concerning his explanation of those living poorly in terms of materials yet very rich in terms of their spiritual growth which resulted their dependence on God. Compared to those who has wealthy possessions yet, without Christ, are very poor. I hope and pray that bro. Kees would be able to read this note!
Apr 29, 2013at 1:43 pm
Selfishness and lack of dignity and understanding.