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The Voice 2013: Best Performance From the Season 4 Battle Rounds, April 22, 2013 (VIDEO)
In the final week of battle rounds on The Voice 2013, the competition is getting more intense as contestants fight for the opportunity to stay on the show by winning the battle or snagging one of the coveted steals.
There were plenty of impressive performances last night, but the most upsetting element was the eliminated contestants versus the stolen ones. The talented pool of eliminated contestants was significantly stronger than those who were stolen.
For example, eliminated rocker Jacqui Sandell, powerhouse Jessica Childress, and blues singer Patrick Dodd were much more impressive than stolen contestants C. Perkins or Luke Edgemon. The loss of such talent was very disappointing and caused us to question the judgment of the four celebrity coaches.
One of the most enjoyable performances of the night was between folk duo Midas Whale and Beale Street performer Patrick Dodd. Singing Elvis Presley's "Burning Love," the threesome had a great time on stage, embracing the bluegrass version of the popular tune.
But the best performance of the night has to go to the very first battle. Team Usher's Vedo and Jessica Childress graced us with a sassy, effortless performance of Bruno Mars's "Locked Out of Heaven." Their chemistry and flawless harmonies had us hooked from the start. Working together, these two took us out of the "battle" mentality and transported us to a magical land where riffs are executed perfectly and high notes ain't nothin' but a thang.
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We have seen an increase in cross-functional teams using predictive analytics at UMUC. This growing, collaborative culture is helping us to better serve our students, from the time they apply to the time they graduate.
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History: Empanar is Spanish for "to bake in pastry." In Latin America, empanadas have pastry crusts, a variety of fillings and are either baked or fried. These traditional pastries come in one shape (semi-circle) and many sizes – from the empanada gallega, big enough to feed a family, to empanaditas, tiny ravioli-size pastries. Our popular version of the empanada is a single-serving size turnover.
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Most who give advice about Digg say that the fastest way to get to the front page is by being active, picking out the right friends, digging all of their submissions, and waiting until they add you back. Once you have enough friends, look for strong content to submit and VOILA! you hit.
For most, this is the most valid plan. It can take time and effort, but it's possible to take an account that isn't very old and get it to the front page within a couple of weeks. There is another tactic that's faster but requires Instant Messaging in bulk (ie, semi-spamming) to get to the front page. This is a valid way as well and an entire post can be written about the proper use of IM as a Digg front page strategy.
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It's probably no surprise that a man who drapes himself in fur and hosts an annual White Party would come in at number one on Forbes' Top 5 Wealthiest Hip-Hop Artists list for the second year in a row. How do they all avoid getting ketchup all over themselves? It just doesn't add up.
With a net worth of $550 million dollars, Diddy is currently living large off Bad Boy, Ciroc, Sean John and a host of other ventures. Forbes projects that Diddy's Comcast cable channel Revolt might make the rapper a billionaire in 2013, and make us want to weep into our hands after paying our student loan bill. Who are the other rappers at the top of the (financial) game, you ask? Click through to find out. We'll give you a hint: it's probably exactly who you'd think it would be.
2) Jay-Z: $460 million. In addition to touring, Jay made a buttload of cash selling Rocawear in 2004. On an unrelated note, the fact Bey isn't on this list yet is a travesty.
3) Dr. Dre: $270 million. Dre's fortune doubled in the last year, and he's got the company behind Beats by Dre to thank for it! Oh right, and all of us for shelling out the dough to buy them.
4) Birdman: $125 million. As the cofounder of Cash Money Records, Birdman is profiting off our love of Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil' Wayne. One day, you three. One day…
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I believe it's in John somewhere where is says God is love. The idea of a loving God is imprinted into our minds, but when i hear of a vengeful god, and a wrathful god, I don't understand it. Can someone please explain to me how a loving god is wrathful ?
Hi phi,
What's God got to be mad about?
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I believe it's in John somewhere where is says God is love. The idea of a loving God is imprinted into our minds, but when i hear of a vengeful god, and a wrathful god, I don't understand it. Can someone please explain to me how a loving god is wrathful ?
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Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
against ungodliness of men, not the man himself.
Self righteousnes
This piece of writing by Lorraine Day might be helpfull:
God's "Wrath"
The first problem we must address is that the translators have taken great license with the translation of various words in the Bible. "Wrath" and "anger" are no exceptions.
In the New Testament, two Greek words are both translated "wrath." They are orge (#3709 in Strong's Concordance) which means desire, or violent passion and thumos (#2372) which means passion, breathing hard, or fury.
The translations in the Old Testament are much more varied. Each number on the right in the list below is for a different Hebrew word. But they ALL are translated "wrath." The Hebrew language is very precise. Each word has a specifically different meaning. This shows that the translators arbitrarily chose to translate all of these different words as "wrath." But they do NOT all mean wrath
The Hebrew word aph (#639) means rapid breathing in passion.
Chemah (#2534) is defined as hot with passion
Ebrah (#5678) means outburst of passion
Qetseph (#7110) means, literally, a splinter or "chipped off". Freely translated it means to be displeased, to fret or possibly to burst out.
Kaac (#3707) - to be grieved or sorrowful, to be troubled.
All these words have specific meanings which denote a passionate displeasure or a sorrowful troubled spirit, yet they are ALL translated "wrath." This, of course, makes God appear violent, frightening and vengeful, apparently the way the translators chose to present God to the world, a "ferocious" God that agrees with their own theology. A more accurate translation is that God is passionately sorrowful or troubled.
God, Himself, Defines His "Wrath."
Human beings define wrath as "intense anger, rage fury, vengeance" according to Webster's New World Dictionary. But God defines His wrath in a totally different way.
Look at Romans 1:18: "For the wrath (Greek word orge) of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold (suppress) the truth in unrighteousness." Then verses 24, 26 and 28 tell us how God demonstrates His wrath:
Verse 24: "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves."
Verse 26: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change (exchange) the natural use into (for) that which is against nature."
Verse 28: "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate (debased) mind, to do those things which are not convenient (fitting)."
So we see that God's wrath is just giving us up to our own sinful ways to reap what we have sown. He doesn't punish us. He doesn't harm us in any way. He just let's us go the way we have chosen. We then punish ourselves by our wrong decisions.
God has given us the 10 Commandments as a guide for our life. He says that if we obey them, our lives will be easier and happier. If we don't obey them, our lives will be harder and more sorrowful - - - NOT because He's going to punish us, but because the natural result of our actions and behavior will bring us sorrow and pain.
When our children were young, we warned them not to play in the street. We didn't say, "If you play in the street, I'll kill you." No, we said "I love you and I don't want to see you hurt. If you play in the street, you might be injured or killed."
It's the same with God. He says, "I love you and I want your life to be happy and healthy. If you don't obey the guidelines I have given you, I won't punish you, but you will punish yourselves by bringing on yourselves the results of your behavior. You will reap what you have sown."
So we can understand that God's wrath is totally different from man's wrath
The "wrath" of man, the remainder of it, God's Word says He will restrain! It also says
that the "wrath" of "Man" worketh NOT the Righteousness of God.
But many times, "man" thinks it does!
And I assure you "death" is an enemy to be overcome! And by that, I am not talking "casket" .....I am
talking the 'spirit' of this world.........it is to be overcome by the Spirit of God in us.
Jesus paid the penalty and nailed the law of sin and death, to the tree, and replaced it with the "wrath" of
God, which wrath is against our "enemies" instead of us.
In the book of Revelation, the word "wrath" means "orgy" and I sort of get this impression in myself
of God saying "It is enough!" They've suffered enough! When Elijah was hiding in the cave, running from Jezebel, that
sort of thing......God moved him on up higher.....they even wondered where he was! ha
I believe it more today than I did yesterday and I expect that all His words are gonna make us believe
it even more and more!
To HIM be all the glory!
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In our latest interview with one of our under-18 stars, we spoke to Michael Ihiekwe about Youth Cup progress and how he can improve in 2010.
It's been a good week for the under-18s following the Youth Cup win over Wolves. Is there a sense that the season is beginning to take shape after a difficult start?
Well the Youth Cup win has definitely given us a buzz ahead of this weekend's game. We had a great start winning the two tournaments in pre-season, but it's been a bit indifferent since then. Hopefully we can end the year on a high and kick on in 2010.
You're through to the fourth round. How important is it for you to be involved in that competition?
It's very important. I wasn't involved on Monday, so I'd love to get the chance to play at Anfield next time around.
Is there a particular team you'd like to face?
Not really. Like I say, I'd just love the chance to play at Anfield so another home draw would be great.
It's only your first year with the under-18s and you've maybe not featured as much as you would have hoped. How are you adapting to it?
It's good. It's a big step up from the under-16s. It's great to come in here on a full-time basis and I'm really enjoying it. Hopefully I'll get more minutes on the pitch in the coming months but I'm aware that there are a lot of players competing for positions.
For fans who are unfamiliar with Michael Ihiekwe, what type of player are you?
I've been a centre back for most of my life, but I've also played in central midfield a bit this season. I'm quite versatile, I can play anywhere across the back four.
You're a local lad from Allerton. It's safe to assume you grew up worshipping heroes wearing red shirts...
Definitely. I've always looked up to the usual players you'd expect a 17 year-old red to watch. Gerrard, Carragher... I was a big fan of Xabi Alonso as well. As a centre back I have always looked to the likes of Rio Ferdinand and John Terry too.
How's life under Rodolfo Borrell?
It's good. We all respect him as a manager and I think he will change things for the better in the years ahead.
How's he coping with the language?
He speaks great English anyway but he's starting to pick up some Scouse now too!
One man who is something of an adopted Scouser, is King Kenny Dalglish. How's the banter with our former number seven?
Ha ha. It's great to have him here. He's an absolute legend and the best player to ever pull the red shirt on. He talks to all of us from time to time and you can see him watching us when we are training.
A few of the under-18 squad have already been to Melwood to train. Have you?
I went up last season. I've not had a chance to go this year. Rafa sometimes comes down here to watch a few sessions and he's also down at the Academy looking at the reserves too.
One last question. What would you say is the best game of your career to-date?
Last season we had two great games against Everton. We won both of them 1-0 and it was great to be part of that.
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Create experiences that confirm promisesWritten by Tom Richard | | email@example.com
As a child, I remember putting my hand on a hot stove and hearing my father laugh as he said, "Ha! I bet you won't do that again, will you?"
Apparently I didn't learn my lesson, and I'm reminded of this every time I go out to dinner and the waitress puts a hot plate in front of me. As she sets the plate down, she cautions, "Don't touch the plate. It's very hot."
Invariably, what do I do? I slowly move one finger toward the plate and give it a little nudge, just to see how hot it really is. Over the years I have noticed that I'm not alone with my insatiable need to touch the hot plate that I was told not to touch. Everybody feels the need to touch the plate, including you.
If I were asked to diagnose the cause of the hot-plate-touching epidemic, I would conclude that we are all either idiots or we have an uncontrollable curiosity-killed-the-cat type of syndrome. While I cannot disprove the former, my gut says the latter is probably closer to the truth.
The easiest explanation is that we not only need to experience things for ourselves, but we value our experiences far more than we value the words of others.
If we are able to draw in our prospective customers the way a hot plate calls to a finger, on that experiential level, we would be able to get them to a place where they would do more than just hear the words we speak — they would understand them.
For a moment, imagine a restaurant selling expediency, quality and overall experience the same way you sell the things that are important to your product. If the restaurant sold the way an average business does, it would start with the waitresses bringing large trays of plates to the table. Before they put any of the plates down in front of the hungry patrons, they would stand at the front of the table and explain all of the wonderful efforts that went into making the gourmet meals. They would then try to reassure you that a wise choice was made in choosing to dine in their fine establishment. After a few well-aimed jabs at the aging competition, they would try to make small talk. Noting that the table is drooling and wanting its food, they would end their polite chit-chat and become serious.
Serving the first dish, they would place it on the table and then tout the benefits and features of the meal, sharing that the chef prepared it just for them, and that they and the restaurant where they are happily employed take their ability to prepare food with only the freshest ingredients very seriously. As they continue serving, they start to work in some rehearsed facts about the quality of their ingredients and the process of food preparation. As they finish with plate distribution, they work in some testimonials from previous restaurant patrons.
We can all be thankful that instead of going through that ridiculous process, most excellent restaurants take a more effective and simple approach to serving. They allow us to experience their excellent service, quality meals and enjoyable experience instead of telling us about it.
Now, there are two parts to creating an effective experience. First, you must have the energy and passion behind your words in order to set up the experience and create a desire to touch that hot plate. Secondly, you need to create an experience that confirms that what you said is, in fact, as hot as you said it was going to be.
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This book is an eclectic compendium of the essays solicited for the 2010 Mathematics Awareness Month web page on the theme of Mathematics and Sports. In keeping with the goal of promoting mathematics awareness to a broad audience, all of the articles are accessible to college level mathematics students and many are accessible to the general public.
The book is divided into sections by the type of sports. The section on football includes an article that evaluates a method for reducing the advantage of the winner of a coin flip in an NFL overtime game; the section on track and field examines the ultimate limit on how fast a human can run 100 meters; the section on baseball includes an article on the likelihood of streaks; the section on golf has an article that describes the double-pendulum model of a golf swing and an article on modeling Tiger Woods' career.
The articles provide source material for classroom use and student projects. Many students will find mathematical ideas motivated by examples taken from sports more interesting than the examples selected from traditional sources. Among the authors are five women, five graduate students, and two undergraduate students.
I Baseball
1. Sabremetrics: The Past, the Present, and the Future (Jim Albert)
2. Surprising Streaks and Playoff Parity: Probability Problems in a Sports Context (Rick Cleary)
3. Did Humidifying the Baseball Decrease the Number of Homers at Coors Field? (Howard Penn)
4. Streaking: Finding the Probability for a Batting Streak (Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le)
II Basketball
5. Bracketology: How can math help? (Tim Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy Langville, and Kathryn Pedings)
6. Down 4 with a Minute to Go (G. Edgar Parker)
7. Jump Shot Mathematics (Howard Penn)
III Football
8. How Deep Is Your Playbook? (Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn)
9. A Look at Overtime in the NFL (Chris Jones)
10. Extending the Colley Method to Generate Predictive Football Rankings (R. Drew Pasteur)
11. When Perfect Isn?t Good Enough: Retrodictive Rankings in College Football (R. Drew Pasteur)
IV Golf
12.The Science of a Drive (Douglas N. Arnold)
13. Is Tiger Woods a Winner? (Scott M. Berry)
14. G. H. Hardy?s Golfing Adventure (Roland Minton)
15. Tigermetrics (Roland Minton)
16. Can Mathematics Make a Difference? Exploring Tire Troubles in NASCAR (Cheryll E. Crowe)
VI Scheduling
17. Scheduling a Tournament (Dalibor Froncek)
VII Soccer
18. Bending a Soccer Ball with Math (Tim Chartier)
VIII Tennis
19. Teaching Mathematics and Statistics Using Tennis (Reza Noubary)
20. Percentage Play in Tennis (G. Edgar Parker) IX Track and Field
21. The Effects of Wind and Altitude in the 400m Sprint with Various IAAF Track Geometries (Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz)
23. What is the Speed Limit for Men's 100 Meter Dash? (Reza Noubary)
24. May the Best Team Win: Determining the Winner of a Cross Country Race (Stephen Szydlik)
25. Biomechanics of Running and Walking (Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich)
Mathematician Douglas N. Arnold, in his essay "The Science of a Drive," reviews how mathematics elucidates common physical phenomena in the context of a golf drive. He describes the double-pendulum model of a golf swing; the transfer of energy and momentum in the impact between club head and ball; and drag and lift in the flight of a golf ball.
Once the ball is in flight, its trajectory is completely determined by its launch velocity and launch angle and the forces acting on it. The most important of these forces is, of course, the force of gravity, which is accelerating the ball back down toward the ground at 9.8 meters per second per second. But the forces exerted on the ball by the air it is passing through are important as well. To clarify this, we choose a coordinate system with one axis aligned with the direction of flight of the ball and the others perpendicular to it. Then the forces exerted by the atmosphere on the ball are decomposed into the drag, which is a force impeding the ball in its forward motion, and the lift, which helps the ball fight gravity and stay aloft longer. Drag is the same force you feel pushing on your arm if you stick it out of the window of a moving car. Lift is a consequence of the back spin of the ball, which speeds the air passing over the top of the ball and slows the air passing under it. By Bernoulli's principle the result is lower pressure above and therefore an upward force on the ball.
Joseph A. Gallian was born in Arnold, Pennsylvania on January 5, 1942. He obtained a BA from Slippery Rock University in 1966, an MA from the University of Kansas in 1968 and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 1971. After serving as a visiting Assistant Professor at Notre Dame for one year, he went to the University of Minnesota Duluth where he is a University Distinguished Professor of Teaching.
Among his honors are the MAA's Haimo Award for distinguished teaching, the MAA Allendoerfer and Evans awards for exposition, MAA Pólya Lecturer, MAA Second Vice President, MAA President, co-director of the MAA Project NExT, associate editor of The American Mathematical Monthly and the Mathematics Magazine, advisory board member for Math Horizons, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Minnesota Professor of the Year, and recipient of the University of Minnesota Duluth Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research.
Over 150 research papers written under Gallian's supervision by undergraduates have been published in mainstream journals. He has given more than 250 invited lectures at conferences and colleges and universities and written more than 100 articles. He is the author of Contemporary Abstract Algebra, Cengage, 7th edition, coauthor of For All Practical Purposes, W.H. Freeman, 8th edition, and coauthor of Principles and Practices of Mathematics, Springer. He is the editor of two conference preceedings published by the American Mathematical Society and the Executive Producer of the documentary film Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest. Gallian has received more than $4,000,000 in grants.
Besides the usual math courses, Gallian has taught a Humanities course called the "The Lives and Music of the Beatles" for more than 30 years and a liberal arts course on math and sports. In 2000 a Duluth newspaper cited him as one of the "100 Great Duluthians of the 20th Century."


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The Program Being Evaluated
This project was an extension of the Early Assessment of Promising Policies and Practices to Prevent Childhood Obesity project, which the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) awarded to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to discover a variety of policies with the best potential to prevent childhood obesity. The project identified New York City's regulations for licensed day-care centers as a high priority for full evaluation. New York City's regulations designate the amount of time that children are to spend in physical activity, provide nutrition standards for foods on the premises, and place limits on television viewing.
About the Evaluation
The evaluation studied the regulations' impact on children's diets and levels of physical activity and the factors affecting implementation of the regulations.
The lead evaluators for this program were Laura Kettel Khan, Obesity Management Team for the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity for the CDC; Cathy Nonas, New York City Health Department; and Beth Dixon of New York University (NYU). The team worked with ICF Macro, who lead the study's implementation.
Summary of Methods
The project was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the evaluation team randomly sampled 200 city day-care centers (about 12%), ranging in size from 20 to 100 children, from low-income neighborhoods of the city. The team identified the most important factors affecting implementation of the day-care regulations. One of those factors was whether the city had provided technical assistance in services for nutrition and physical activity. Although the city subjects all licensed day-care centers to inspection and citation of possible violations, the Health Department provides special technical assistance to three higher-need neighborhoods in the South Bronx, East and Central Harlem, and North and Central Brooklyn. Other neighborhoods with similar demographics have yet to receive technical assistance from the city, making the day-care centers in those neighborhoods a high-quality comparison group for understanding the effects of such assistance. Other factors affecting implementation are likely to include staff turnover, day-care center infrastructure and capacity, and the operator's motivation to provide a healthier environment for children.
In the second phase, the evaluation team measured over two years the eating habits and physical activity levels of children attending the centers. For that phase, the evaluation team further studied 100 centers from the first-phase sample, based on the extent to which they were implementing the regulations. Centers that implemented the policy more completely were giving the children a greater "dose" of a healthy environment, thus allowing for more change in their diet and physical activity.
Products and Dissemination
Deliverables include an annual report on findings to date, as well as a final report to both RWJF and the New York City Health Department (for internal use only.)
UPDATE: On October 16, 2014, the CDC released a special issue of Preventing Chronic Disease that included the published findings from this evaluation.
Identifying promising strategies and testing the impact of local strategies to prevent childhood obesity.Learn more
RWJF and the CDC completed a two-year collaborative project to identify and assess local-level programs and policies that appear promising to improve the eating habits and physical activity levels of children.


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Los Angeles is finally back on track to getting itself an NFL team...again.
This is great news for the area. I hope USC gets in on the action by helping assist with the renovation project.LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2006 - As part of the city's bid to lure a National Football League team back to Los Angeles, the City Council today unanimously approved a proposed $800 million renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The plan, which calls for building a new 67,000-seat facility within the walls of the historic Coliseum, home of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics, would only go into effect if the NFL approves a team for Los Angeles. Wanting to have the project approved by Monday, when city officials are to make their pitch for a team to NFL owners meeting in Denver, the council barely discussed the matter before also approving architectural and signage designs and an alcohol-sales policy for the Coliseum.
As part of the deal to be presented to NFL owners, the council also agreed to spend at least $25 million to improve the neighborhood surrounding the Coliseum.
I hope they are good to the Coliseum. I would hate to see them defile a landmark that has such rich history. I think this renovation project will help Los Angeles's chances of getting another Summer Olympics.


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her backup is called Mountain Man, not the mountain men. Amazing show.... really she can rock. and mountain man, well i'm plain in love
"that includes us that used to be the only diversity"
Sorry Jackie but there was never only white people in New Orleans. That sentence makes sense out of the mouth of a local Amerindian only. How much you want to bet we don't put any statues of TRUE natives up in our airport...
the Gulf!
RENOVATION before DEMOLITION
And Ben & Jerry's is awesome.
Entergy of New Orleans acted dangerously and mendaciously toward the people of the state of Vermont. After leaking radioactive tritium into the ground and lying about it, how sick it made me to see the propaganda in local papers. The standard form was something like this: a full page ad with gorgeous green mountains and plenty, plenty of trees. And "Entergy Cares" or something. This after a summer at home in New Orleans with the same ads by BP. Shrimpers, not Trees. Plenty of fishermen. BP Cares.
So good on these Vermonters for helping spread the word on Entergy's dirty plant and lying ways. S
Shame on Entergy, a New Orleans company, for shamelessly acting exactly like a corporation that destroyed livelihoods of Entergy's own customer base and put an already teetering ecosystem into full trauma.
Sorry so sprawling but this narrow Hippie viewpoint gets us nowhere.
As does this "reporting":
The Times-Picayune reports that Entergy sued to keep the plant open
"Against the wishes of some Vermont officials"?
More like a 26-4 vote of the state Senate against providing a certificate to continue operating not only beyond the plant's designed lifespan, but after years of dangerous plant management, including the release of radioactive material into the land and Connecticut River, and continued lies about such incidents.
rest in peace, champ. may all your buildings still standing be maintained.
"Reflect on Louisiana's first 200 years of history". You know a white man said that. I mean, are we seriously not talking about or teaching our kids this state's natural history and history of her people long before any Europeans showed up? What about Poverty Point, three THOUSAND years old and a larger undertaking than anyone in this state is willing to take on today. This "education" is stale, dangerous, and shortsighted.
That building from 1954 is still there, intact underneath the atrocious white panelling. Density, yes yes yes. Here? No No No. This is the Vieux Carre. Stop its prostitution; they've somehow cede the first block of it over time. If only I could tear down the Sheraton. I understand the size/financing issue. Move across Canal Street! Let's grow smart: build the CBD up and up before letting anything of height anywhere else. If you do build, make like the Hearst building in Manhattan: preserve the original building down below, and build your tower on top. But I agree no more than 120 feet at most. And make it distinctive if you want a building in the middle nation's most distinct architectural metropolis. Better yet... just please move it across Canal.
The concourses are only marginally wider; even if they've been doubled in width they were effectively only widened the width of the food carts (~6'), which are now placed behind the the columns that used to mark the edge of the concourse, with plenty of wasted space behind the carts now. I didn't notice nicer bathrooms, only that they took out the more sanitary and easier round sinks. The flooring tiles are cheap and anonymous looking. The food really is bad (why can't it be Jazz Fest good?). At least the Bloody Marys are still the best in town.
I find it pathetic the Times-Picayune gets this story up ASAP yet fails to carry pressing news stories. It's been over 24 hours and still nothing on the terrible attack on Norwegians. RIP Ms Winehouse, my heart sank to hear this. Brings back terrible gut feelings from the 2008 winter heroin wave.
"Creoles of color"? Hilarious! and redundant.
great great story
Drew Brees I love you so much, and your cover shot looks SO GOOD. I might actually be in love with you. More than the Saints?? BREES>REX
Well singe,
I'm in the city so I can't speak for the marshes first hand, but I've had one friend and one professor tell me they personally dug four inches into the sand down on the coast and found oil.. There's plenty of places it is still coming ashore. Not so sure how seafood has/has recovered, or to what degree. I always ask "where your shrimp from?" because I will only eat LA shrimp. If it is tainted, I'm going down with the boat. Except today I got a poboy and the woman behind the counter didn't know where the shrimp were from but she said it was so good I had to have it and so I did. Thanks for asking about us. How's things up there?
Get out of your car and walk this sinking soil. Now.
** Nocca Drama spent the spring at EJ. I spent the fall at boarding school before coming back in December.
I wore those tights. Leotard, actually. Talk about embarrassing walking into class the first day. Then I realized "We're all of us wearing leotards and looking ridiculous. I'm a go for it." Mr Vrazel and Ms Shea were still there, and such. amazing. instructors. But we only had two weeks at NOCCA before the hurricane came. Spent the spring semester at East Jeff (thanks, JP). Sadly NOCCA was kinda taken from me. But Mr Mackie, I looked up to you even then. Congratulations. I try to do what I need to. Glad to hear it's what I should, from someone whose work is true and real and amazing.


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Where I Should Be: 5,000
NaNoWriMo Word Count: 3,486
Total Word Count: 12,890
So me and NaNoWriMo didn't get off to the best start this month. I had a very busy day Friday and was basically just exhausted by the time I got home from work. I did open my Word document, but I basically just stared at it for a long time before eventually giving up. I hated the idea of being behind already, as anyone who's done NaNo before will know how difficult it is to catch up, even if it's by just a day. I knew though that even if I did manage to write something it would be total garbage, and I would want to re-write it the next day anyway. I know, I know. There are probably a ton of you out there who are shouting that it's about quantity not quality that matters during NaNo, which is true, but I still hate the idea of writing garbage just for the sake of it.
I'm slowly catching up, little by little, but I'm still struggling. While I don't totally hate what I'm writing, it's not brilliant. I'm finding it difficult to take it slowly and really think about the words. Instead, I'm just charging ahead and hoping for the best, which is fine for now, but I don't see it being beneficial in the long run. The other problem with being behind is that I don't feel like I have enough time to plan. My usual writing style is to have the basic structure of the story (what I like to call the 'dots') and then I plan what happens between each dot as I write. So currently I know what my next dot is, but I'm struggling to work out how to get there. I'm kind of hoping that if I just keep writing, the solution will appear out of nowhere.
Anyway, enough procrastinating. I have words to write. But before I go, I'll leave you with a little snippet of what I've written so far:
'The zombies hammered against the door. Stale flesh against glass, slamming into it over and over again, growls of frustration echoing from their throats. Evidently their comprehension skills didn't stretch quite far enough for them to be able to work out switches or doors.' – The Cured, Chapter Four
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The Ravens roster turnover this offseason has left a lot of question marks for the defending Super Bowl champs, but former Ravens center Matt Birk isn't concerned.
"The Ravens may be better next year," Birk said in an appearance on the NFL Network. "I really do think the Ravens might be better next year."
Birk, who retired this offseason after a 15-year career -- the last four in Baltimore -- acknowledged the loss of several key players, but praised the offseason moved by Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome.
"It's a different team, and it's built a different way," Birk told NFL Network. "You're not gonna replace Ray Lewis or Ed Reed, in certain aspects. You're not gonna get a franchise middle linebacker right out of the gate."
But Birk had high praise for the way Newsome shored up the defensive line, adding free agents Chris Canty and Marcus Spears.
"That now becomes the strength of the defense," Birk said. "And to fall into Elvis Dumervil? Are you kidding me?"
With the rebuilt front, and Dumervil and Suggs rushing off the edge, Birk said that, "Dean Pees, the defensive coordinator for the Ravens, he's going to have some fun."
And the defensive strength doesn't end there. Birk noted that the Ravens will also benefit from the return of cornerback Lardarius Webb from his season-ending ACL injury.
Webb "might not be a household name," Birk said, "but he is one of the top cornerbacks in the NFL."
Birk pointed out that the offense has a lot of weapons returning, and he downplayed his retirement as a key roster development. But Birk joined the chorus concerned about the loss of Anquan Boldin, who was traded to the 49ers.
"Anquan Boldin became the go-to guy in the playoffs," Birk said. "They didn't replace him. They don't have that guy. But you do have two great tight ends in Dennis Pitta and Ed Dickson .... two backs, Torrey Smith, Jacoby (Jones). I mean, you've got weapons. And you've got the quarterback happy, and locked up for a long time."
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Source: PWInsider- The Godfather is returning to the squared circle on a full-time basis. Promoters interested in booking the former WWE Intercontinental Champion can contact Joe DeFalco, at [email protected] for information, rates and availability.
After parting ways with WWE in 2002, The Godfather changed industries; he manages the strip club Cheetah's in Las Vegas, Nevada. He apparently caught the wrestling itch again in recent years as he has been making more frequent appearances at independent events and conventions, sometimes as his other notable persona, Papa Shango.
- Total Divas begins airing in Australia on Thursday, October 17 at 8:30 p.m. on E!.
- Perhaps the most muscular wrestler in the history of WWE, The Warlord, is this week's addition to the Alumni section on WWE.com.
The story of his mainstream career coming to an end in 1996 due to an automobile accident is acknowledged in his profilehe continues to compete at independent events on a sporadic basis. WWE also states that his work inspired future greats such as Chris Jericho and Batista. The Warlord crossed paths with Jericho early in the Canadian wrestler's career, and assisted him with food matters while they traveled together overseas and in Japan. In the case of Batista, the multi-time WWE Champion has cited The Warlord as his all-time favorite wrestler.
"Batista names me as his favorite of all time," said The Warlord in a 2010 interview with WWE.com. "It's the biggest flattery I've ever had, and it really means a lot."
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President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce Illinois Republican Rep. Ray LaHood as his choice to become the next secretary of transportation, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos reports.
If confirmed by the Senate, the Illinois lawmaker will replace Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters in overseeing the Department of Transportation and its key agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
LaHood is the first registered Republican who would be joining the Obama administration, and just the second non-Democrat. Obama has tapped current Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a registered Independent who considers himself a Republican, to stay on in his current position.
On Wednesday, Republicans were already reacting to the choice.
"Ray LaHood is a good friend, a solid member of our congressional delegation, and would make a fine addition to any administration," said Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna in a statement.
The new transportation secretary will play a critical role in getting a stimulus package up and running. Creating jobs and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure is just one of the challenges the incoming secretary faces, and there are a number of nasty labor issues that have been stewing beneath the surface that will need to be addressed.
In early December, Obama vowed that his administration would invest in transportation.
"We will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investments in our national infrastructure," Obama said.
On Wednesday, a long-time Democrat and a former transportation official in the Clinton administration told ABC News that many Democrats are "greatly disappointed" by the pick.
"LaHood is a decent guy, but Democrats were anxiously looking for a Democrat to be in this position because it is a choke point for much of the economic stimulus package," he said.
On the other side, another Democrat and former DOT official said, "LaHood is a huge consensus builder and has a great reputation on the Hill. He is very popular with staff and with members. People see him as a smart guy and someone who understands the needs of both rural and urban America."
Obama has not yet decided who will replace acting administrator Robert Sturgell at the high-profile Federal Aviation Administration.
Until the new administration takes office, Peters has vowed to make the transition a smooth ride.
"My goal is clear," Peters said in a statement shortly after the election. "On Jan. 20, give the next Administration a transportation system that is safe, that is innovative and that is helping move our American economy. I am counting on all of our employees to help in that effort, as well as the transition process."
Upon taking the helm at DOT, LaHood would immediately confront several critical issues. The DOT inspector general's office issued its yearly report on Nov. 17, in which it stressed top challenges for the year ahead. Issues of runway safety, airline inspections, air traffic controller training and bridge and tunnel safety all made that list.


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VESTAL, N.Y. – The University of New Hampshire women's track and field squad is in third place after day one of the America East Championships, held at Binghamton University.
Binghamton is in first place with 63 points as Albany is in second with 50 points. Vermont finished the day in fourth place with a total of 47.50 points as Maine is in fifth with 33 points. Stony Brook (13), UMBC (10) and Hartford (8) round out the remainder of the field .
Senior Keely Maguire (Georgetown, Mass.) took second place in the preliminary round of the 1,500 meter run as she crossed the line with a time of 4:47.98. Laura Rose Donegan (Melbourne, Australia) earned silver in the finals portion of the 3,000 meter steeplechase. She finished the event with a time of 11:00.06.
Keyla Salazar (Nashua, N.H.) earned eight points for New Hampshire as she finished second in the hammer throw. She hurled a distance of 48.51 meters.
Freshman Lauren Perrodin (Coral Springs, Fla.) earned the third seed in the preliminary round of the 100 meter dash, breaking the plane with a time of 12.21. Anne Twombly (Exeter, N.H.) took the third seed in the 800 meter run. She crossed the line with a time of 2:12.89.
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Have I said recently how much I hate people???? Haha omg I just can't even aaaah. Im so pissed I can't even type it all out.....
Granted its a combination of 3 AMAZINGLY stupid people all pissing me off within like 3 hours....from incompetent leaders, to micro-management, to "oh im so insecure with myself I'm going to accuse you of not being my friend and call you out on facebook, post something on YOUR timeline where your whole family and friends can see it, like im a highschool freaking girl" (this is C from all that drama) so yeah....unfriend.
Just. Im so ready to go to OPs plt in October...hopefully then 2 of the tree problem people mentioned will no longer be a problem...and if 1 of the 2 ends up being my team leader AGAIN I will flip out. Straight up I will go up the CoC because this crap is NOT going to fly anymore....im not going to make a deal of it now because I hopefully only have 2 more weeks with this assclown.
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At the 2011 Iowa State Fair this week, attendees were invited to vote for their favorite G.O.P. Presidential Candidate the only way people with no knowledge of Iowa would randomly guess people from Iowa would: By putting corn kernels into jars.
Here's all fourteen potential candidates and their corresponding corn jars (Click For Full Size):
FUN FACT: Did you know all U.S. presidential elections were determined by corn kernels in jars until the electoral process was modernized in 1988? TRUE. Watch the political documentary Unsheathing The Corn, it's eye-opening.
Two particular jars that caught our attention:
1) Poor McCotter. I don't know who you are, but this is like 'empty restaurant' sad:
2) Aaaaaandddd, there's this:
Kind-of-Sidenote: My wonderful sister-in-law is from Iowa, and I've greatly enjoyed witnessing this exact exchange occur anytime someone finds that out:
Person: You're from Iowa? [Pause, as they think of anything they know about Iowa for follow-up question] Are you from Des Moines?
Her: No.
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It was a wild month in St. Louis. The Fourth of July weekend kicked things off with a bang, featuring a custom hot rod and motorcycle showcase, an All-American barbecue hosted by St. Louis' favorite Elvis-impersonating clown and a free B-52s show under the Arch. The music continued throughout the month with shows from Lady Gaga, Common, Nelly, Hole, and Kings of Leon. When they weren't at shows, St. Louisans were enjoying the local art scene and whipped cream parties. Click through for the best and wildest images of July 2010.


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Grub Street has learned that Greg Hunt, the owner of Amsterdam Billiards (his brother, Ethan, co-owns Lucky Strike Lanes, and his sister-in-law's family founded the Angelika Theater), has taken the space at 240 Columbus Avenue. What's his plan? "The Upper West deserves its own Elaine's," Hunt tells us. "There hasn't really been a grown-up cocktail lounge since Cafe Central in the early eighties." To that end, he plans to open a restaurant and classic cocktail lounge called Cafe Tallulah this March. The plan for the food is moderately priced French bistro fare, and Hunt says he is in talks with "a couple of prominent, very visible Upper West Side restaurateurs" to run the operation. As for the Elaine's part, it isn't just hyperbole: Hunt says he's planning on attending the Elaine Kaufman estate auction next month.
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text: In a post from a different forum on this site last week (since removed), it was stated that your Dolphins "have a shot at beating the Pats" if A) they pound Moss at the line of scrimmage and take him out of the game. And B) they put relentless pressure on Matt Cassel. Did everyone see the pass Moss pulled back from? He is guaranteed 9 mil. a year--regardles of effert put forth! (Big mistake Patriot nation.) How many receivers like Troy Brown, or Wes Welker would have had the courage to go after that ball? I can think of many more. Last two games, 6 catches for 48 yds. and ZERO TDs. Players of his supposed talent are usually easily able to carry their team on their back's through times of adversity. This once and for all proves that Randy Moss is NOT this caliber of player! I also told you all to have faith in the "Big Tuna." He taught the "Genius" everything he knows and he also knows his weaknesses. Don't think for even a second Bill Parcells had nothing to do with that incredible gameplan. I also touched upon the Pats age on defense, and yesterday proved that that defense consists of players who are clearly past their prime, or too green to adjust to a creative opponents game plan. Rejoice Dolphin nation, and look around the AFC--if the Dolphins can build from this and play like that each and every week--anything could happen. It was a great day for Vikeman yesterday, as well. A. Winfield quite possibly saved our season! So Randy, put this in your Patriot pipe and smoke it--In every part of this great country, people are rejoicing--except in New England. YOU have a chance to show everyone just exactly what you are made of--except me because I already know. Heads up--the implosion--it's coming Randy!!!!!!!!!! P.S--listening to sports radio in Boston this morning is awesome!


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What does being a former TIGER have to do with it? He didn't learn that in college!
You know, I see that stat about the +500 yards passing that WV laid on us. Maybe I should, but I have never been bothered by it.
LSU knew going in that the quarterback (Just can't pull out his name right now) was a prolithic passer. So they let him pass. Short ones. All he wanted. Because he was passing, they played a LOT of plays. But the Mountaineers could never put a good drive together, because LSU allowed almost no long passing. Each drive died after a couple or more first downs. They seldom got near the red zone.
Their running stats were embarrassing. Shut down.
The game went exactly as Miles and Friends designed it to go. LSU won with plenty of flair over a very good offense and a prolithic passing quarterback.
So the passing statistic against WV was a moot point.
I am not predicting a blow out, but think it will be a confortable lead. Maybe 35-27, LSU.
Geaux Tigers! Roll The Tide!!!
1st, we're talking about Preseason Polls. They mean nothing when it comes to a team's abilities. It's only a popularity poll. Like the team, I am not concerned.
2nd, it the Associated Press. They took themselves out of the picture when they withdrew from the BCS polls after the 2003 season. As much as I dislike it, the BCS is the rule of the land for now. AP did not want to be part of that. They have no sway in any polls. Period.
This year's LSU team is much more stable than the 2008 team. Jefferson, the quarterback is multiples better than the Hatch/Lee combo of last year. The defense is solid. As good as Alabama's.
You are kidding yourself to say that LSU has no offense. There are some great weapons on the offense, and they have begun to play as a team the past two games. Coaching was being way too conservative the early part of the season. They realized that watching the Florida game films, and loosened the player leashes a great deal. The result was a solid Auburn defeat and a 42-0 shutout of Tulane (I agree that this one is not so much to bragg about, but does illustrate that the offense has solidified)
LSU's loss to the Tide last year involved one of those pick-six's that we saw so many of from out inept quarterbacking, AND a blocked field goal. Alabama was #1 in the nation at that time, and LSU (then #12) took them into overtime. This Alabama offense is NOT better than the 2008 Alabama team. The freshman quarterback is just not gelling as fast as they wish he would.
The Alabama defense is good. We can expect nothing less of a Saban defense, and it does show. They've only allowed 91 points in 8 games. LSU's defense has allowed 97. Clear draw.
Giving Alabama a field goal advantage because of the home field, I still believe that LSU is better by 10 points or more.
I would hope that the ref is NOT repremanded too badly for this incident. It's pretty clear his intention were in self defense. It sure looks funny, though!
Gonna remember this one for a long time.
One fact for sure, Cherokee.....Les is no joke. Like it or not, fans from other teams have to face the facts. Les is for real and as good as any of the best today.
But keep convincing yourselves that. Put your money where your mouth is. We'll take every penny of it.
LSU 31 - USC 20, and done in style.
Bring on Georgia!
All we hear from the PAC10 fans is that the SEC teams won't schedule BCS teams...which a look at any SEC schedule will disprove.
Then, when word comes out that a game is being schedued with the likes of West Virginia, Washington, and Oklahoma, we hear idiotic comments from the moron fans of other BCS wannabees.
All we hear from the PAC10 fans is that the SEC teams won't schedule BCS teams...which a look at any SEC schedule will disprove.
Then, when word comes out that a game is being schedued with the likes of West Virginia, Washington, and Oklahoma, we hear idiotic comments from the moron fans of other BCS wannabees.


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February 23 - Keynote titled OSGi in the Enterprise: Agility, Modularity, and Architecture's Paradox
March 22 - 25 - Tutorial on Modular Architecture
June 14 - 17 - Sessions titled Turtles and Architecture and Patterns of Modular Architecture
July 26 - 30 - Two sessions on rich mobile applications and one on agile development. Half day tutorial on software process improvement.
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The #osgi alliance response (http://t.co/KrN8XNWg) to the @mreinhold #jigsaw announcement (http://t.co/9YvcDdqC). 2012-08-29
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I want to be careful here, but also very clear - I advocate OSGi and modularity, though am concerned about its future. In some circles, OSGi is hailed as a disruptive technology; in others, it lives in relative obscurity. There are some indications that adoption is growing, and possibly at some point, it'll catch like wildfire. But right now, OSGi is the most widely acclaimed technology that nobody is using.
Maybe I'm too harsh. Or too impatient. Maybe I need to give it more time. I know some will argue that people are using OSGi, and they're right. Some are. But of the more than 6 million Java developers worldwide, those using OSGi and designing modular applications is only a very small fraction.
So what's the problem? What's needed to drive adoption? How will OSGi and modularity succeed?
One of the greatest inhibitors to adoption has been platform support. Until recently, few platforms exposed the virtues of OSGi to the enterprise developer. That's beginning to change, and should help drive adoption. Another obstacle is tooling, which I discussed a while back when lamenting that one of the biggest barriers to adoption is no migration path. With better tools, we're beginning to overcome that challenge.
But will it be enough? Will platform support and great tools help drive adoption? Sadly, possibly not. And part of the problem, I believe, has very little to do with the technology, and much more to do with its image.
So, what's in a name?
OSGi is the dynamic module system for Java!
Recently, I commented on a recent conversation I had with a conference organizer and his reluctance to accept my speaking proposal on modularity. The general sentiment was that it's an old, boring concept that can be traced back 40 years! He was interested in my talk on agility, but I explained that given the choice, I'd prefer to speak on modularity.
Currently, I'm participating in a similar conversation with the organizers of the Agile 2010 conference on a few sessions I've proposed on modularity. And now, Peter writes about a similar experience. This sends an important message to the OSGi community, and highlights an important challenge surrounding modularity. The message: Modularity is boring! The problem: The importance of modularity, and its support as a first class citizen on the Java platform, is not well communicated nor understood.
This is a serious problem that requires attention. In his post, Peter suggested that micro-services may be a more apt term for OSGi services, so as not to confuse the term with web services. He even hints at proposing a new JSR that would introduce the idea of micro-services as a new primitive on the Java platform. This is a good start, and micro-services isn't a bad idea, but more needs to be done. The problem is not that OSGi isn't a great technology with real benefits, the problem is that nobody cares about modularity.
Possibly it isn't that they don't care, but instead that modularity won't sell. Nobody wants to buy a 40 year old technology, they want to buy the next great thing. And without question, developing modular software is not a new idea. But in general, the ideas surrounding SOA were not new either. Yet, without question, SOA has garnered significantly more attention than OSGi over the past decade. SOA has had its day in the sun; OSGi and modularity have not.
This is not a technology problem. The real problem is that OSGi doesn't have a clearly articulated identity that explains why an organization must be using it, and organizations will adopt OSGi only if its adoption can be tied to real business benefits. Just like object-orientation in the 1990's and SOA in the 2000's, each were sold with a wonderful accompaniment of benefits that would reduce cost, speed delivery, model the real world, blah, blah, and blah. Whether they did or did not help organizations realize these benefits is arguable. Whether each were widely adopted is not!
OSGi has the potential to be this decade's most disruptive technology. Unfortunately, the virtues of OSGi run the very real risk of never coming to fruition if it's unable to cross the chasm. And sadly, it can never cross the chasm unless we find an effective way to sell, or reinvent, modularity.
Foremost, OSGi, modularity, and micro-services do not represent the paradigm shift that's necessary. Too often, we talk about OSGi in terms of its technical merits alone. Unfortunately, that's not enough. If OSGi is to cross the chasm, it is going to require something different. Something that people can really latch onto. Something that gets them excited. Modularity isn't enough. Nor is plug-in architecture. Nor any other technically superior thing that OSGi is.
Naturally, this is only my perspective. My opinion. But OSGi has been a widely acclaimed technology for several years, and it has achieved very little enterprise adoption. While the move by SpringSource to donate dm Server to the Eclipse Foundation was hailed as a great contribution to open source, it's also a clear indication that adoption of dm Server was gaining little traction.
Now, it is possible that an 800 pound gorilla could throw their weight behind OSGi and modularity that will help drive enterprise adoption. Maybe IBM's move to expose the virtues of OSGi to the enterprise will be enough. With other vendors following suit, and up and coming vendors such as Paremus on the rise, that just might be enough. But if it is enough, I still believe the enterprise isn't going to buy OSGi and modularity for the reasons we believe they should, they'll buy something else very trendy in which OSGi and modularity plays a central role. Something new. Something fashionable. Because as I recall Ivar Jacobson alluding to at a keynote a couple of years ago,
The software industry is more driven by fashion than the fashion industry.
Sad. But true! And hopefully when it happens it won't dilute the value of OSGi and modularity.
OSGi is a great technology solution. But we also recognize that technologically superior solutions often fail to win. One of the most popular stories is of the video tape format wars. So my little pontification here should in no way be interpreted as questioning whether OSGi is capable, but instead whether OSGi will.
You can choose to ignore me if you'd like, scoff at me, or call this a rant. Maybe I'm just impatient. Either way, I'll still continue to proclaim the virtues of OSGi and modularity. I believe in it…firmly! But the nagging feeling I have surrounding its ability to cement its place in the world of enterprise software development will continue to tug at me. And I wonder…will it ever succeed? And if so, how? And…when?
What do you think?
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We (Paremus) are seeing rapidly build traction / interest.
Perhaps we have a special viewpoint?
Perhaps it takes the fuses of two paradigm shifts the set the world alight? OSGi & Cloud concepts. Modularity and Resource abstraction?
The Paremus Service Fabric usually receives interest - not necessarily because it supports OSGi, not because it is built from OSGi - but because of the speed organisations can deploy and roll back complex composite systems across an arbitrary set of compute resource.
OSGi is a major enabler in our story - but like all good magic - the more it is invisible (courtesy on Nimble) - the better/ the more compelling / OSGi becomes ??
[...] cross the chasm and be adopted by the mainstream. Two recent blog post by Tony Baer of Ovum and Kirk Knoernschild of Burton Group which aren't too flattering towards OSGi made me think that maybe OSGi is in [...]
[...] answering this question, but as the technology matures, the question will be easier to answer. As I've alluded to, other factors that have little to do with OSGi's technical benefits will likely determine if [...]
Having just authored a book on OSGi recently, I can assure you that I (and my co-authors also) share your opinion. I am a pragmatist. OSGi solves a problem for me. But it is certainly no magic wand to achieve modularity. Modularity is indeed boring. But it's critical. For years now, Jeff and I have been trying to speak (and write) about how modularity is the real goal. OSGi is just one feasible tool to use toward that end. At EclipseCon last month, I was encouraged to hear the boring old modularity message loud and clear. So while I share your opinion, maybe I share only a fraction of your pessimism.
As developers, I certainly understand why we can get excited about OSGi and modularity. Especially for those that have experienced the benefits of modular architecture. But I can't help but think that modularity is going to be a tough sell, OSGi of itself even more difficult, and that it's popularity will only truly skyrocket when attached to the next technology trend or fad. However sad or wrong it may be!
I believe Richard makes a valid point in his comment. It's not the technology that garners the attention. It's what the technology enables. While OSGi enables and enforces modular architecture, modularity isn't trendy enough to sell. We must sell that which modularity enables. And that which modularity enables must be trendy enough to garner such interest.
[...] seems my recent post on OSGi has ruffled a few feathers. I've also received a few personal e-mails suggesting that I have [...]
[...] I questioned whether OSGi and modularity would succeed in penetrating the enterprise. But what I really meant to question is whether OSGi will have the disruptive impact of which [...]
It is very very hard to find opinions of what might be "not so great" about OSGi, or reasons that hinder it's adoption. It's even harder to find that kind of info from insiders who truly know OSGi by heart.
Most criticism is received with flames, so most times it isn't even worth it to comment on critical posts, attracting flamers.
As a thank you for your article I want to live you this comment from a complete ousider to OSGi, who has been keeping it under watch for 2 years now. Perhaps you might find it somehow useful, o rperhaps you might give me some more insight on the value that I'm missing:
The reasons why I've passed on adopting OSGi as the core for developing software at my software company, are:
First of all, we are a software company that develops, deplyos and supports software as solutions, for telcos.
To us, modularity is not a goal on it's own. It's a means to an end. ¿what end? The technical benefits achieved by it, you know them. So at least for my company the issue is that the extent to which we might need those benefits afforded by OSGi's modularuty (like being able to deploy and kill individual runtime components, downsize or grow footprint, etc) is not large enough for us to want to pay for it's full price (more on the price later).
For isolation from other solution provider's systems we just reside on our own JVM, in its own server. For provisioning of resources, said server can be virtual. To integrate with third parties, SOA does the deal without putting us all in the same bed (JVM). And this is not for a technical reason but a business reason: ¿coexisting with oter vendor's software on the same JVM? ¿Having to demonstrate to the customer that OutOfMemory Exceptions or excessive CPU consumption is due to that other vendor?. It's not an attractive proposition unless we could charge lot for that feature, but the customer won't pay more for it, and they probably already payed VMWare to solve that kind of problems. Of course there is also "internal" isolation of our own modules from each other. However, as an architect I don't see isolation "beyond what can be done with packages" as something I want whithin my own product. I don't want people reinventing wheels, nor pointing fingers at each other. I want a collaborative culture, and a framework that forces isolation within my product into isles is not something I really want. I am an agilist, and thus a believer in not applying technical fixes to cultural problems.
About the feature of restarting individual components, we already deal with it, since redundant servers (needed by HA) allow us to make said restarts without much detriment to end users, and our customers are OK with it. OSGi could make us more dynamic on this, yes, and more fine-grained, but we are "just fine" as is. I reckon many other software developers don't have this luxury and could profit from OSGi, just not us.
About managing the complexity of dependencies, our software is in the thousands of classes and 40 MB in libraries, yet for us, Java's own classloader is still enough to deal with dependencies, and this -as I see it- is because the whole set of "what goes into the classpath" is under our control as the Software vendor with on-site support of the app in production, so we can just apply a tried-and-true-and-cheap way to keep a system that uses a lot of dependencies stable: stay with the versions of the libraries that are known to work, and not update any until we need a feature in the newer version that is worth the cost of spending time to evaluate that newer version and change our code to support it. This approach just works. We can stay a whole year with an old version of a library, yet the customer is happy, and it's not hard to keep the versions of libraries synchronized between our dev servers and the customers test and production servers. I belive in this regard that OSGi is a great technology that would make much more sense as a core for an IT department that needs to integrate software that it subcontracts from various providers (such as small companies and/or freelancers), or by company with a really really huge project.
OSGi could allow us to be more dynamic in handling dependencies, but for us, the co$t of the "issue of dependency management of third party libraries" gravitates more around analyzing, reading, testing, experimenting, and being sure the whole system will still work, which are labor-intensive areas in which OSGi does not provide significant savings. Testing frameworks and JUnit provide the value we need here. And regarding dependency management inside our own software, continuous integration and automated testing provides the kind of confidence we need in the "working solution". I see some value on OSGi here but not enough for the price.
So there are good things to be had with OSGi. It's just that once you have invested in solutions for the issues OSGi solves, your existing solutions might be technologically inferior, but they appear as free. OSGi, on the other hand appears with an apparent price of a "steep learning curve", stone age Java language (some OSGi advocates dare say "in very few cases are the features of java 5 useful", no comments), and a need for an app-wide migration, which I fear I wont be able to sell to management, given how hard it is to sell them refactoring efforts (for quality and maintainability).
If I was just comming to the business of software in 2010, OSGi would be my choice. But given what I currently already have, It's a business proposal thats not that bad, but not good enough for me to bet company money and/or carreer prospect on it.
please remember that I'm trying to criticize or denigrate from OSGi. I'm just trying to express why guys like me run away scared.
I wholeheartedly agree with Vladimir's comments. Companies ask what the compelling BUSINESS case is, and the benefit has to outweigh the cost. I am a big believer of OSGi, but that is the battle I fight every day.
Another big hurdle (coming from a large scale enterprise) is the cost of migration. If we were to start from scratch, OSGi would be a MUCH easier choice. However, in most cases, we don't start from scratch when OSGi is adopted. We migrate. First, the cost of migration is truly steep. Take an example of dynamic classloading (Class.forName). It's easy to say you shouldn't do dynamic classloading. However, if you already have hundreds of dynamic classloading points going on in your system, that's easier said than done. And the list goes on.
What I look to OSGi leaders for is proven and REALISTIC migration path suggestions that will ease a system into an OSGi ready state with a reasonable amount of cost. IMO, we need to focus more on practical issues of migration, and I think there lies the key to enterprise adoption.
Just my 2 cents.
The name "OSGI" is not cool, looks like a boring and nerdy acronym.
Someone could consider this as a minor problem, but it isn't.
Nobody would buy an IPhone if his name was "Apple Smart Communication Device", ASCD.
Remember this absulute true statement: "The software industry is more driven by fashion than the fashion industry".
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text: Unfortunately, the Browns have yet another early pick in this year's draft. The old mantra that we're "rebuilding" is quite frankly getting old. As a lifelong fan of Cleveland's most famed franchise I think it's imminent that this year we make some smart choices. We don't go for the Brandon Weeden move's in the first round that astound viewers across the nation, we don't draft the Braylon Edwards based on "wow" factor from various draft scouts. Our best draft picks of recent have been Joe Thomas and Alex Mack; small names, big output. It's necessary to look at the intangibles rather than the name, and we barely even keep the big names we draft. Braylon Edwards isn't even in the league anymore, Trent Richardson hasn't had a chance to escape yet, and Brandon Weeden will most likely retire here because he's already 30! It's true that every book you read is just a different combination of 26 letter's, the Browns are starting to look like the same bad book with only a few variations in those 26 letters. Don't be surprised if the new management trades back and don't be surprised if we don't get any players you've heard of before, but along with that don't be surprised if we have a successful year because a draft like this, which I rate at a solid B, has the potential to produce 10-15 pro bowlers within the next four years. With a good amount of early picks we could pick up two more pro bowlers, and that could pick up two more playoff wins, now wouldn't that be nice?


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Great Video of Ron Greene and the Royal Enfield model line-up at the NY Motorcycle show. Unlike myself when interviewed Ron never missed a word of a beat – most impressive.
The spot was produced by Crazy Al Cayne a HipHopper and a very nice guy. Check out his website at http://www.cac-tv.com/
Check out the spot here http://www.cac-tv.com/2012/02/royal-enfield-motorcycles/


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