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REVIEW Like drive-in movie theaters, the white-mantled colobus, and Henry VIII's wives, the increasingly rarefied qualities of elegance and generosity are most certainly doomed to extinction, rendered worthless in our schlock-culture era of crass and sass. This is not so, thankfully, in the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, who, in his eponymous, conceptually rigorous, utterly gorgeous midcareer retrospective at the de Young Museum, single-handedly rescues refinement and magnanimity along with windblown silver screens, leaf-eating African monkeys, and those half dozen Catherines, Janes, and Annes from the dustbin of history.
Including some 120 black-and-white photographs taken with a large-format camera during the past three decades and glowing with a numinous luminosity, the exhibition is so richly (in all its connotations) conceived and presented, so brimming with the artist's and curators' intelligence and desire to simultaneously challenge and enrapture viewers, that it stands not only as the year's best big local museum show but also as a timely reminder that we must look beyond the horizon ostensibly separating sea from sky, for that is where the truth lies.
Sugimoto's work is all about true lies. He is fascinated with artifice that yearns for authenticity and with impervious factual data that melts into dream logic. Unlike many Japanese photographers of his generation he was born in 1948 who are attracted to either the grisly chic of atomic apocalypse or the fleshy flash of alarmingly nubile Harajuku teens, Sugimoto generally eschews the stereotypical tropes that now largely define, at least from afar, his homeland's manga-mad visual vocabulary. This is quite likely due to his singular vision as much as to his transcontinental toggling between New York and Tokyo since the early '70s. Inspired during his childhood by chirping crickets, electronic gadgets, and bedtime stories and later by André Breton's surrealist manifestos, Giorgio de Chirico's otherworldly paintings, and the teachings of a Buddhist priest who told him that the only human reality is shit, Sugimoto has coalesced his influences into a clearly unified yet constantly surprising oeuvre at once classical in its formal precision and postmodern in its beguiling content.
Moving fluidly from representation to abstraction to the uncanny, the exhibition beckons viewers into a carefully designed sequence of dimly lit galleries showcasing thematically linked series of large-scale images. Sugimoto also designed the site-specific installation, playfully using the room's curved sides, dramatic spotlights, and a particularly effective wall of mirrors to supersede spatial certainty.
Nature and culture tussle for authority throughout the show, notably in photos of dioramas taken at the American Museum of Natural History, where Sugimoto spent many afternoons during his first months in Manhattan, staring at taxidermied polar bears and handcrafted manatees posed in ersatz habitats. Equally fake yet lifelike are Henry VIII and his unfortunate beloveds, whom Sugimoto photographed in all their waxen glory at Madame Tussauds, looking as if they were sitting for 16th-century portrait painter Hans Holbein the Younger. (Be sure to take a careful count of Anne Boleyn's fingers.)
Nature triumphs in Sugimoto's masterful seascapes or does it? The longer you gaze at these nearly monochromatic studies, the vanishing point where ocean meets sky recedes ever farther, and soon enough they cease to resemble the sea see? and transform but not transfigure into Ad Reinhart or Mark Rothko paintings.
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A Glimpse into Recreational Neuroscience
Hormones. We readily accept that some behavior is influenced by brain chemistry. One phrase we often hear is about menstruating or pregnant women, "That's just hormones talkin'." This piece of brain trivia confuses as much as it may placate because the idea that certain phases are "hormonal" creates false opposition between a chemically manipulated female brain and an unalterable male brain. The truth is, testosterone changes male behavior as dramatically as estrogen does, but an aggressive male is not usually thought of as being "hormonal." Though a woman's neuro-chemical makeup has a more regular cycle than a man's, why think in terms of being "hormonal" and the rest of the time… "normal?"
The goal of recreational neuroscience is to understand mental function more precisely. The question shouldn't be "are the hormones talking?" The question should be, "what are they saying and who is doing the talking?"
The Language of Limbic System vs the Prefrontal Cortex
As you learn to detect these elegant chemical illocutions, you start to recognize how much is really going on inside your head. You realize that the emotion you feel may not
be a response to the world at the moment, but rather a lively cast of chemical characters. Finding out what they are saying and knowing where they live in your brain may help to understand emotions more clearly. Let's first examine the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex since it is useful to know when the limbic system is having a word and when you are actively sorting out information.
Paul Maclean's "Triune Brain" theory is a good place to start. Proposed half a century ago, Maclean's vision of the brain's organization is both an evolutionary story and a topographical one. His theory describes the brain as an archaeological site that resembles a series of settlements stacked one on top of the other. The deeper you dig, the father you go back in time.
At the deepest level, the reptilian brain also known as the brain stem controls the body's basic metabolic functions. Like heart rate and breathing, the brain stem is instinctive and primitive like a reptile. It is incapable of emotional complexity or any genuine thought reacting purely on self-preservation..
The second layer in the triune brain is known as the paleo-mammalian brain or the limbic system. This is the seat of emotion and memory, consisting chiefly in the regions of the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the hypothalamus. Our primary emotions, mostly fear and anger emerge from this territory and can be highly reactive. Incoming stimuli charged with emotional associations of the past are expressed in the hippocampus or the amygdala.
Stacked on top of the brain stem and the limbic system is the neocortex. Consisting of two hemispheres that spread across the surface of the brain, it is most distinctly considered the highest and most evovled human component of the brain's architecture. The neocortex is in use when actions are deliberate. For instance, when processing long-term interests or communicating complex sentences or abstract thought. These hallmarks of intelligence require a conscious effort, not like the reactive or emotional associations of the deeper systems.
Maclean's model has fared remarkably well over the past fifty years. His basic evolutionary story and the movement from brain stem to neocortex is now widely accepted.
What we know about the intelligent brain (neocortex) or "base instincts" with a strange life of its own, (limbic system) is that the "rational" you and an "emotional" you aren't always in sync. Brain science has now given us more accurate descriptions of these two sides of a personality now mapped within specific regions of the brain.
What these insights can do for self-awareness is that they can help us see our interactions with a new clarity and detect long-term patterns or split-second instincts that might otherwise go unnoticed because they operate below a conscious level. Sometimes it's because we're so familiar with certain limbic patterns that they're taken for granted.
That said, neuroscience is as relevant to the healthy individual as it is to the mentally ill. Those of us wrestling with the small triumphs and tragedies of everyday life can benefit as much as those who are battling more forbidding demons. Knowing something about your own brain can be as valuable as any therapy or drug and realizing that our emotions are the felt sum of dozens of neuro-chemical changes can make it easier to inhabit your head.
The last few decades of research has revealed the way life experiences wire the brain as meticulously as genes do. A memory can transform a perception of the present especially when it gets rewritten into a new associative context. This happens every time it is activated by revisiting a thought. In other words, when we remember something, we create a new memory that's shaped by the changes that have happened since the memory last occurred. Every time it is recalled, it carries more weight. The problem is that this associative process could limit or derange one's perception of the present. Understanding the impact of past events on the present illuminates a more useful path from the limbic system to the neocortex.
Once you start to recognize when the limbic system is talking, it starts to pop out at you as clear as a headache or a dizzy spell. That knowledge certainly can make you feel like a more discriminating user of the brain.
But, if understanding brain chemistry were simply a matter of observing effects and memorizing the nomenclature, it would be no more than cocktail party chit-chat. There's just so much more to the neuro-map, but despite this vast and complex field, it is still worthwhile to learn some basics about brain chemistry. Not that you can erase the side effects of a hormone or a neurotransmitter just by understanding it, but you can put it in context, and anticipate the way in which it could alter your judgement. That conscious awareness (or intelligence) has the capacity to intercept behavior in a profound way. To become a better user of the brain, let's take a look at the heavy hitters:
Serotonin plays a key role in "rejection sensitivity." Low serotonin rejection sensitivity hinders the ability to take risks that might actually make life better. For instance, Prozac increases serotonin and as a result, vulnerabilities fade. In other words, small slights and minor social disappointments roll off one's shoulders more easily.
Dopamine is more like a pleasure accountant than a pleasure drug. It monitors expectations and anticipates rewards. Low dopamine can induce cravings and addictions or intensify hunger. It also propels us to search for new rewards in our environment. In terms of your brain chemistry, right now as you read these words, you are under the influence of chemicals that are practically indistinguishable from drugs that could get you arrested. The difference is our brains are vastly better at regulating the release and re-uptake of endogenous drugs than of exogenous ones.
One of the ways that recreational drugs achieve their potency is by short-circuiting the brain's normal maintenance work. No one overdoses on endorphins, but thousands die every year from heroin. Regular substance abuse can cause long-term neurological damage as brain scans of chronic speed or cocaine users have amply demonstrated. One study scanned dopamine receptors in the brains of alcoholics, overeaters, and cocaine addicts. In scans of healthy brains, the dopamine-rich areas showed up as two symmetrical bright red blotches, fading out to green at their peripheries. (Red signals the most active areas.) In the brains of alcoholics and overeaters, the red spots were fractional compared to those in the normal brain, meaning they stored a reduced dose of the brain's natural supply of dopamine. In the brains of cocaine addicts, the red spots were nonexistent.
The dopamine damage indicted by long-term drug use is significant enough that it's hard to argue against society trying to prevent people from abusing drugs like cocaine and amphetamines. By the way, another dopamine leaching culprit is lack of sleep.
Adrenaline: the fight, flight or freeze hormone is activated by the adrenal glands with a sudden surge of energy. Quaila, the brain's interpretation of its internal state in relation to the external world is constantly adjusting adrenaline levels. Increased adrenaline can be detected by number of ways, one is that the hormone diverts blood form the extremities to the core. Body temperature drops at the hands and feet or sweating occurs. So when you hear a stress-inducing sentence, language centers and working memory decodes the meaning and puts it front and center in your consciousness. As the stress response is triggered, it releases either adrenaline (to recruit cortisol) or oxytocin.
As far as brain chemistry goes, these two strategies are available to cope with stress. You can load up on adrenaline for fight-or-flight, or you can cool down with oxytocin to "tend-and-befriend." Usually a male will unconsciously opt for the aggressive strategy of adrenaline while women are more inclined towards oxytocin, but not always. These hormones are distinct and clearly two different kinds rides.
Oxytocin: Feelings of attachment are partially instigated by oxytocin, but it goes beyond that primary emotion. You can fight your way out of stress by destroying your enemy, or you can reduce it by reaching out. Actually, a lot of people say oxytocin is the cuddly hormone. Kind of, but oxytocin is much more evasive than that because it is not linked with emotion. Distinguished Psychologist, Shelly Talyor at UCLA says, "older women who perceive their husbands to be non-supportive have chronically higher levels of oxytocin. It may be that when social support needs are not met, oxytocin levels go up as a signal to seek out social contact. Once found, it resumes to normal levels. So, oxytocin may in fact not be the "feel good" hormone. It may be the "feel crummy" hormone that leads it to taking steps to feel better. Oxytocin triggers the drive for social attachment, it's the opioids supplying the "warm and fuzzy" feeling that is experienced when we connect.
The activity in the prefrontal lobes consists mostly of neurons talking to each other in very small regions of the neocortex while the limbic system causes a cascade of events throughout the body. The release of these emotional responses to the environment or "external events" is often in the form of adrenaline leading to stress.
So why does free association usually gravitate toward emotionally negative thoughts? The answer is that memories experienced under the influence of strong emotions are more locked in a deep embrace with the limbic system. If you feel terror swell inside you or convulse with anger, the limbic system is involved. When such a thought is revisited over and over, you're increasing the emotional weight of the memory. It might seem cathartic to analyze and relive highly charged events in all their emotional intensity, but because of the way the brain's emotional and motor systems interact, reliving events only makes the negativity more powerful. With some traumatic events, you may be better off simply forgetting about it. But what about events that we can't put out of our mind, either because they return compulsively or because our daily routines force us to confront them?
The way to progress is wire the brain so that recreating the event in your head no longer unleashes an emotional response.
The way out of a damaging association is to make a new one with less charge. In other words, when recreating the traumatic experience in a safe environment, it rewires the neural association in that moment. Reliving the traumatic event without something negative happening again (real or imagined) forges a new association in your head dampening the original emotional response. By reconsolidating the memory, we make a new memory in the process with new connections. By doing this, you reduce the weight of that thought.
Neuro psychologist and author of the book, Buddha's Brain, Dr. Rick Hanson, has some practical tips to defuse highly charged thoughts. Here's how to do it:
- Activate a useful waking state and notice how you feel in the present moment. It may not be a perfect day, but basically you're okay. Now sink into that feeling of being okay. Hanson says to "marinate" in it.
- The next step is to instal this feeling of being okay and intensify the state by staying with it and enjoying it. Do this several times a day for about 30 seconds.
- When a negative thought comes up, associate it with your feeling of being okay.
- The association helps the brain to learn how to take in the good and reduce the charge of negative associations.
- Create more episodes of useful growth (actively feeling alright) by strengthening more neural structures.
This formal contemplative practice of "activation and installation" should be practiced every day. You will feel better about yourself by creating a positive cycle of well-being. This is what Rick Hanson has coined, "hardwiring happiness."
In one way or another all our experiences are chemically conditioned. The first step is learning to recognize the release of specific chemicals in the brain. Learning to identify your internal pharmacy should be a touchstone of the examined life. We feel serotonin's rejection-sensitivity and social confidence, dopamine's exploratory push for seeking pleasure and adrenalines' sudden lift. There's cortisol's frayed edged, the endorphins' of oceanic bliss and oxytocin's drive to make emotional bonds. These are some of the humors of the modern world, the drugs your brain relies on to push you toward certain objectives and away from others. It entities us to understand the unique and predictable patterns of each chemical release.
If you know something about your mental medicine cabinet, you can account for biased judgement. Learning to recognize which chemical is front and center won't make it go away, but you can identify patterns, and if your response seems inappropriate, you can consciously discount the drugs in your head.
So this is your brain in all its multiplicity. You are part reptile, part mammal, and part homo sapien. You are a twitchy amygdala, you are a dopamine fiend, you are under the spell of oxytocin. You are an unthinkably complex series of connections and links spun together by your genes and by life's experiences. You are an intelligent free agent and a walking assembly of patterns and waves, clusters of neurons firing in and out of sync with one another.
All this beneath the surface of your awareness is a world reeling. At any given time, your background mood and foreground emotions are a measure of the various chemicals swirling around in your head. To a certain extent, hormones do much of the talking and they are highly influential.
Understanding brain chemistry in context explains how it may effect our judgement and allows us to be a more discriminating user of the brain.
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Johnson, S. (2004). Mind Wide Open. New York: Scribner.
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Decompression in Action
"A child needs your love most when he deserves it the least," wrote the columnist Erma Bombeck, yet I was curious how she might have reacted to a Mendota inmate I'll call Brandon: a plump, freckled, red-haired boy of 14, with pale lashes over narrow blue eyes. He wound up at Mendota with a long rap sheet, including charges that he'd assaulted an employee at his school and sexually molested a 5-year-old girl. Still, if you managed to ignore his shackled wrists and prison garb of white sweatshirt and sweatpants, he looked more like a Norman Rockwell portrait of a boy told to sit in a corner than the monster described in his file.
I watched as Brandon met in a locked room with Michael Morrison, a lanky psychiatric tech supervisor who'd come to discuss Brandon's third serious conduct offense in two months: he'd shouted, "I'm going to beat your ass! I'm going to fucking kill your ass!" at another inmate from behind his cell door. As I'd learn, the conversation that ensued is the bread and butter of Mendota's decompression diet.
Morrison, who wore a gold crucifix earring, settled himself next to Brandon in the room's lone piece of furniture, a wide-seated blue plastic chair. Sitting close enough that their knees nearly touched, he handed the teenager a typewritten account of the beat-your-ass incident. Brandon glanced at the page.
"That ain't true!" he blurted, pausing only an instant before smiling and muttering, "Yah, it's true."
"Thank you, I appreciate your honesty," Morrison quickly replied, in what I by then recognized as his adherence to a Mendota mantra to "seek one thousand opportunities for praise."
Like Tyler, Brandon had been kicked out of Lincoln Hills. He'd attacked staff members, exposed himself to other inmates, threatened to kill his mother, and smeared feces on his wall. He continued to engage in "fecal misconduct," as it's known in correctional circles, throughout his first four months at Mendota. On the day that he met with Morrison, however, his walls had been clean for several weeks, and his behavior had been generally improving.
Brandon had been diagnosed with both AD/HD and conduct disorder, the latter psychiatric lingo for juvenile delinquency. His records show he'd been severely abused for several years. By his first birthday, neighbors and others had made 16 complaints to child welfare officials concerning his parents' alleged mistreatment. By age 8, he'd been sexually abused by a neighbor and thrown down a flight of stairs. By age 9, he himself had been charged with multiple sex offenses. He spent four years in a series of residential programs, and then another year at Lincoln Hills, as his behavior worsened.
What does it take to break a cycle of abuse that, in many cases, has lasted for generations? Research suggests it can often boil down to something as simple as a caring bond with just one person. Morrison aimed to fill that role for Brandon. This Mendota employee's own father had left home when he was a child, and at 12, Morrison had been arrested for stealing a neighbor's car. It wasn't until one of his middle-school teachers had taken him under her wing—escorting him to basketball games, teaching him to fold laundry, but, mostly, just listening—that he'd felt capable of graduating from high school.
Morrison's continuing gratitude for that intervention has made him work all the harder at Mendota. He's made a special effort with Brandon, sometimes checking in on him as many as eight times a day, he said, because "he's so young, and this place can be overwhelming. Part of him wants to do good and be productive, but then when he has a setback, he becomes hopeless."
During the meeting in the day room, Morrison's eyes held no judgment, only friendly curiosity. "Is this beef still boiling?" he asked Brandon. "Do you still want to fucking kill him?"
The boy shook his head.
"So what are you going to do if you see him again?" Morrison asked.
"I'm gonna leave him alone."
"Are you a man of your word?" Morrison asked. He held out his pinky.
Brandon pinky-sweared.
If Morrison had gone by the book—the state juvenile corrections code—he'd have placed Brandon on six days of "security" status for that third offense. That would mean that Brandon would have had to stay in his cell for all but two hours of each day, allowed to come out only with shackles on his wrists and ankles. But Morrison decided to show leniency. After considering Brandon's generally improving behavior and good attitude during their meeting, he told him he could return to school in just three days. He also promised Brandon that he'd look into his request to get a bigger cell.
"That ain't that bad!" Brandon replied.
Morrison got up to leave. "What's the goal?" he reminded the boy.
"Get off security," Brandon said.
"And—" Morrison prompted, his hand on the door.
"Stay off security!" Brandon chanted, grinning broadly.
"Right! And remember to keep that cell clean," Morrison told him, on his way out.


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Trouble Talk
By Trudy Ludwig
Maya's friend Bailey loves to talk about everything and everyone. At first, Maya thinks Bailey is funny. But when Bailey's talk leads to harmful rumors and hurt feelings, Maya begins to think twice about their friendship. In her fourth book for children, relational aggression expert Trudy Ludwig acquaints readers with the damaging consequences of "trouble talk"--talking to others about someone else's troubles in order to establish connection and gain attention. Includes additional resources for kids, parents, and teachers, as well as advice from Trudy about how to combat trouble talk.
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• The Little Black Dress has been around for 5,000 years.
• Did you hear about the Chanel fashion show in a Scottish castle this week? It wasn't far from Edinburgh. I think Lar's invite must have gotten lost in the mail.
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• The countdown for the second season of Girls has begun!
• Lar mentioned that H&M is taking the most steps toward more ethical consuming than other fast fashion chain, and now they've taken one more step (in the right direction): recycle your old clothes at H&M starting in February — woohoo!
• If you still aren't convinced that garment workers' rights should be something you need to worry about, read this article from yesterday's New York Times about last month's factory fire in Bangladesh.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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CurryLove Says:
December 7th, 2012 at 10:37 am
Can I just tell you that I bought a Campbell's Soup in-a-bag and it was delicious when I finally got to eat it. Too bad half of it spilled everywhere when I opened it, because SOUP IN A *BAG* is, in theory and practice, a really dumb idea.
Have a great time at the event on Saturday!!! Love the proposed outfit
AsianCajuns (Cath) Reply:
December 7th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Hahaha. I was wondering about the practicality of soup in a bag. At least it was yummy!
Snapshot Fashion Says:
December 7th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
so fun! i wish i lived closer. seems like you have quite the blogging community there in atlanta. one reason i'm sort of happy to go back to nyc. i feel like my blog is all alone out here…*sigh*
and just an FYI…if you are into vintage. i'm going to be putting up a post about a local vintage store in the next day or two. the one i did the photoshoot with the other day stay tuned!!!
AsianCajuns (Cath) Reply:
December 7th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
I can't wait to see that post!
Too bad you're not moving to ATL. You'd be an awesome addition to the blogging community here.
Snapshot Fashion Reply:
December 9th, 2012 at 11:25 am
well you'll just have to move to NYC now! hahaha! or at least visit sometime!
Kristen Parks Says:
December 7th, 2012 at 7:34 pm
I just have one thing to say: I'm sorry I didn't start reading your blog YEARS AGO. (Where WAS I?)


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Spain has more than 80 brown bears living in the wild, 20 of which are in Cantabria. This exceptional animal, which generally shelters in the mountains and forests of Cantabria, is endangered as a species because of the region's expanding human population. In spite of all of the efforts that have been made for their protection, the bears are forced to go and live in yet more remote areas. The brown bears of Cantabria are one of the smallest types in the world: a fully grown male weighs approximately 440 lbs. Most of them are situated in the western part of Cantabria and do not usually show themselves. However, other than these wild animals, other brown bears can be found in the various natural parks where they live in relative liberty and are therefore easier to spot.
The brown bear has adapted to various environmental factors, including, habitat, food availability and climate.
In spain, as well as Italy and France, live the European population's most threatened grizzly bear.
Iberian bears are endangered and face constant threats due to the small size of their population.
In Spain there are two populations of bears: one in the Cantabrian Mountains and another in the Pyrenees.


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UNR's debate team, which is ranked 2nd nationally in Parliamentary debate, will be going to the national finals March 16-23. The team includes, from left, Jakob Christensen, coach Phillip Sharp, Kelly Brill and Jonathan McGuire. Photo by Tim Dunn/RGJ
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Roel De Nijs wrote:how would you handle an InterruptedException (if you call object.wait() you have to catch such an exception)?
1. do you just log it ?
2. do you rethrow it in a RuntimeException ?
3. defer it with Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); ? (like said in this article)
K. Tsang wrote:"Java Concurrency in Java"
Bernd Wollny wrote:thread-1 finally unlocks, but thread-2 is still in wait-state and needs some notify-call, right? totally confused now....
Surely you will react on that Interruption in a way not to proceed in lock()-method on server-side right? And what sees the client in such a case?
Roel De Nijs wrote:I know my good buddy Roberto Perillo (still waiting for invitation to sunny Brazil ) also used a thick client and I believe he wrapped the InterruptedException in a RuntimeException (but I could be wrong here and then he certainly will correct me).


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|By Janice J. Heiss, October 2006
Charles Ditzel, a partner area architect at Sun Microsystems, has worked with Java technology for ten years, focusing on the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), and on Sun Java Enterprise System architecture (formerly Sun ONE). He concentrates on helping Sun's partner companies implement Java platform applications and is passionate about Java tools. He conducted sessions at the 2006 JavaOne Conference on both the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) -- the original open-source, free IDE -- and the Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE. Before joining Sun in 1989, Ditzel worked at Boeing for 10 years. Among other things, he worked on software for robot work cells and programmed robot subsystems.
We met with him to get an update on the challenges of helping partners migrate to Java platform software and to discuss recent developments in Java tools.
You spend a fair amount of time helping partners integrate Java technology and Java Enterprise System software into their solutions. What are the challenges in doing this?
In Sun's partner area, we participate in various projects with partners ranging from system integrators, to resellers, to consultants, to ISVs. The biggest challenges are often more cultural than technical. A partner may be entrenched in a non-Java technology solution -- for example, such as Microsoft -- and my job is to help them cross the cultural divide.
"Sometimes in the Java software culture, we forget that other developer cultures see things through a different lens."
Partner Area Architect, Sun Microsystems
Sometimes in the Java software culture, we forget that other developer cultures see things through a different lens. Think about it: We are so used to terms such as servlets, applets, Swing, Jini technology, application servers, POJOs, NetBeans, Eclipse, JXTA, and EJBs -- and even then, we talk about EJB 3.0 versus EJB 2.0. The Java technology nomenclature itself can create a real communications divide.
Ten years ago, tools to ease migration simply didn't exist. I remember in 1998 walking into a very large Fortune 500 company that had Visual Basic and COBOL programmers who were interested in tools to facilitate migration. I had little to offer them.
Today, we have tools that are familiar and easy to use -- even conversion tools. And migration is much easier. Today, a .NET developer can grasp Java tools much more comfortably than could developers in 1995. For example, they can use the refactoring in the NetBeans IDE and take advantage of the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder, of UML, SOA Visual Designer, collaboration and mobile tools, and profiler. And they also realize that the Java programming language now offers higher-level infrastructure pieces dealing with identity, portal, security, and application deployment, along with a wealth of enterprise features.
Sixteen Reasons to Use the NetBeans IDE
Some developers who don't use Java technology still think in terms of 1995 Java software and believe that Java platform applications are slow and don't scale well, but this is not the case. Just look at the widespread use of Java applications. Java software is being used to develop both fast-paced video games like Tribal Trouble and to develop large, critical enterprise applications. Enterprise Java applications have spawned a multibillion dollar industry in which Sun, IBM, BEA, JBoss, and other companies compete.
You presented a session at the 2006 JavaOne Conference in which you explored reasons to use the NetBeans IDE. How is NetBeans doing now, compared to Eclipse?
NetBeans is on fire. I've been at Sun for more than 17 years, and I've never seen such fast innovation in such a short period of time. Not to take anything away from Eclipse -- they certainly have done some cool stuff in the past as well. But the NetBeans IDE is really transforming our expectations about development environments and rich-client platforms, as well as offering high-end sophisticated enterprise features. The NetBeans IDE 5.0 and the upcoming 5.5 release are changing everything. This year at the 2006 JavaOne Conference, we talked about 12 reasons to use the NetBeans IDE -- in reality, we gave 15 reasons. The NetBeans IDE can be viewed in various ways: as a development environment, a rich-client platform, and of course, as a community. The NetBeans IDE is a simple download. It's relatively small, 36 to 58 megabytes, depending on the version, but it contains a ton of stuff. Comparing NetBeans with Eclipse on download size and features leaves you wondering how the NetBeans IDE developers put so much into so little space.
"NetBeans is on fire. I've been at Sun for more than 17 years, and I've never seen such fast innovation in such a short period of time."
Partner Area Architect, Sun Microsystems
The basic Eclipse 3.1 download gives you an editor, debugger, compiler, and the underlying rich-client substrate. The NetBeans IDE provides these features and more. For example, to build a graphical user interface (GUI), NetBeans provides the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder, the best free Java technology-based GUI builder. Eclipse 3.1 requires you to download Visual Editor Project, which is another 7 or 8 megabytes, and has nowhere near the features of the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder.
If you want to build a Struts, JavaServer Pages (JSP), or JavaServer Faces technology-based web application with the NetBeans IDE, it's already included, whereas with Eclipse, you have to download a 180+ megabyte Web Tools Platform (WTP) project that lacks Struts support and requires yet another module for JavaServer Faces technology support.
The same is true of the web services baked into the NetBeans IDE. Eclipse requires the big WTP download. Recently, Eclipse 3.2 has tackled some of its compatibility problems by introducing Callisto -- a simultaneous release focused on compatibility. The jury is still out on this, but it is still very big. The NetBeans IDE has reliably released compatible downloads of profiler, mobility, enterprise, collaboration, and other projects for quite a while, not to mention the NetBeans platform itself.
Switching to the NetBeans IDE
Many developers who are migrating their applications to NetBeans from other IDES have interesting stories to tell.
The out-of-the-box features in the NetBeans IDE are one of the strongest reasons to use it. Some Eclipse developers have pointed to this as a big reason for switching. Why should you have to download a myriad of plug-ins to get the basic features you need? NetBeans has a healthy plug-in ecosystem, but the basics -- and a lot of advanced features for, for example, the Java EE platform -- are right there in the standard NetBeans IDE release. The NetBeans IDE comes with "batteries included." Adding features in the NetBeans IDE is easy through an Update Center that allows quick and transparent download and install.
Also, the NetBeans IDE has a sophisticated profiler, so you know what's going on in your application. And the new Jackpot project offers a nice rule-based approach to transforming source code. The NetBeans IDE also offers developer collaboration tools, which allow remote code walk-throughs and remote pair-programming. Building mobile applications for cell phones is a breeze when using the visual development tools that the NetBeans IDE offers in its mobility pack. The enterprise pack, which was recently announced and is now in public beta, offers support for some of the most sophisticated XML Visual Schema tools and SOA Visual Design tools.
At NetBeans Software Day, the NetBeans IDE team previewed the Sun Java Studio Creator IDE features inside of the NetBeans IDE. What is now being called the Visual Web Pack is pretty exciting. And in the past few months, a lot has happened. Java SE platform lead Danny Coward's NetBeans plug-in takes C# and VB.NET and transforms them into Java technology sources. NetBeans IDE developer Tim Boudreau has shown a Java Web Start software app, BeanNetter, that takes components based on JavaBeans component architecture and turns them into NetBeans IDE plug-ins, which, when loaded into the IDE, populate the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder component palette with new visual components.
Every time I read the blogs of Geertjan Wielenga, Gregg Sporar, Brian Leonard, or Roman Strobl, I come away with something new.
NetBeans is hot, and developers are recognizing this. The Java Developer Journal just awarded the NetBeans IDE an Editor's Choice Award.
Then just when I think things are cooling down, something big happens like the NetBeans IDE Enterprise Pack or the NetBeans IDE Native Compiler modules or Tor Norbye's app that allows Visual Basic (VB) sources to be compiled into Java bytecodes.
Besides the out-of-the-box features of the NetBeans IDE, what other reasons do Eclipse users -- or you -- give for making the switch?
Simplicity. The NetBeans IDE offers simplicity in its advanced features and in existing Java technology standards. It also offers simplicity in integrating and using existing Java technology-based open-source and commercial projects in developing. The profiler, the mobility pack, enterprise UML modeling, enterprise SOA Visual Designer, full Java EE 5, Jackpot with its next-generation refactoring on steroids, new subversion support, collaboration, and of course, the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder are just a few examples of what the NetBeans IDE offers.
Stay tuned for the next wave of innovation, such as the upcoming Visual Web Pack, new fast 6.0 editor features in the NetBeans IDE, which will make web application development radically easier.
You mentioned in your blog that NetBeans and NetBeans technology adoption is now happening among Eclipse corporate members such as JBoss, Lattix, and Genuitec, to name a few. Tell us about this.
JBoss made a big announcement at the 2006 JavaOne Conference endorsing the NetBeans IDE. If you look at the JBoss site and the NetBeans site, there is a nice bundled JBoss Application Server Bundle. Lattix has offered its Lightweight Dependency Modeling tool within the NetBeans IDE, while Genuitec now offers the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder to its Eclipse customers through MyEclipse IDE. I expect to see more Eclipse members use NetBeans IDE technologies in different forms.
Are there any misconceptions about NetBeans and Eclipse that you would like to dispel?
"One big misconception is the idea that Eclipse and NetBeans should
somehow merge, or that all parties should build one IDE."
Partner Area Architect, Sun Microsystems
One big misconception is the idea that Eclipse and NetBeans should somehow merge, or that all parties should build one IDE. The Java technology ecosystem needs competing development environments to stimulate innovation. Some in the Java community have an idealized view of the world and think that if everyone joined one project, we would produce the best software. But look at what's happened in the past five years: The existence of competing development environments such as NetBeans, Eclipse, JDeveloper, IntelliJ IDEA, and others has been great for the developer. The tools have become better and better at a faster and faster rate. Eclipse and NetBeans have been mutually beneficial to each other.
What is the primary fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the NetBeans IDE?
One item of FUD is that Swing toolkit-based apps are slow, which might have been true a while back, but today Swing performance is quite good and getting better. Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 5.0) has all sorts of improvements that make Swing not only faster but better. And Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) is even better. The argument that a native toolkit like SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) is faster has lost steam because Swing has become quite fast and offers great GUI fidelity.
We also occasionally hear that the layout manager,
GroupLayout, which the NetBeans IDE GUI Builder uses to create its great user interfaces (UIs), causes some sort of lock-in or is proprietary. It's in JDK 6 and included as a library for use in JDK 5.0 and 1.4. As you can see, it's neither a lock-in nor proprietary.
You presented a session on the Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE at the 2006 JavaOne Conference. What would you say to Microsoft VB developers who are considering shifting to Java technology?
Please, come in and get your feet wet -- you will find the Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE familiar and productive. You can drag and drop a web service or database table onto a component to visually lay out your web application, and select a button to deploy it to an application server. There are new Web 2.0 Ajax components and new JavaServer Faces components that make building advanced web applications much easier and much more sophisticated. We demo'd a mapping component built into our web application.
It's hard not to be impressed with the ease of use and power available in Creator, which is free and provides easy ways to build web apps. Creator is based on the NetBeans IDE, and I encourage VB developers to try the current Sun Java Studio Creator IDE and the upcoming NetBeans IDE Visual Web Pack. Both will be familiar and useful to developers who use VB.
What should developers understand about the relative virtues of .NET and Java technology? Why should C# and VB.NET developers consider moving to Java applications?
Originally, Java software was about "Write Once, Run Anywhere." It still is, and it's also about a community evolving the platform and creating the most compelling development and deployment environment available. As a result, there are now lots of powerful tools from open-source and commercial projects. The entry costs with Java technology approach zero -- free design tools, free IDEs, free profiler, free app servers, and free databases, to name a few. I hope .NET developers look at the Java programming language's underlying power in building applications that can run on many hardware platforms and across many operating systems.
I invite them both to leverage what the community has already created and to help evolve the platform. The language evolves and is driven by the community, resulting in a dynamic influx of innovation and concepts that continuously improve the platform. Java technology developers are building fast-paced games, mobile apps, large enterprise applications for critical functions, smart-card identity applications, graphical apps that deal with stock transactions, advanced scientific applications that simulate Mars Rovers, applications that deal with financial transactions, Jini technology-distributed applications that transact on the majority of airplane ticket sales, and much more. The Java programming language is not about a single company but is a large community that continues to evolve the platform around the fundamental concept that software should be able to run without boundaries. For a .NET developer, this has to be empowering.
Java Sun readers may know you best for your Java Technology Pointers web site. How did that site come about?
Early on, I realized that I was unable to easily keep up with changes in Java technology, so I started keeping a list of interesting articles and trends. Other developers in my local Java User Group had similar concerns, so I started sending out Java Technology Pointers, a compilation of Java technology-related links that has since migrated to Java Sun.
I also have created a compilation of Swing toolkit-related links called Swing Pointers that can be linked to off the java.net desktop. I've been surprised by the popularity of both.
What has impressed you in monitoring developments in Java technology?
Java technology performance in game development has advanced. The improvements in the speed of Java technology-based graphics and Swing is very good news. I also saw a video browser done in a Java technology-based app -- very impressive. In addition, my jaw dropped when I recently saw the size, scope, and financial implications of some new Jini technology applications.
Do you have any reflections on the open-sourcing of the Java programming language?
I've always been a bit cautious on this front. Java software is a multibillion dollar industry. I'm sure that open-sourcing will be done thoughtfully with a strong focus on keeping compatibility intact. Think about it: Compatibility is the critical core feature of the Java programming language.
Do you have any closing thoughts?
The new scripting APIs in Java SE 6 open up a lot of possibilities. Two talks I attended at the 2006 JavaOne Conference on Groovy/Grails and JRuby were very interesting. They both are languages on top of the Java virtual machine. * Just as Eclipse and NetBeans improve on each other, projects like JRuby make Java platform applications better. Sun has hired two JRuby developers, which is good news.
Recently, I've been experimenting with Solaris Zones partitioning technology, and I've found it very useful. With a single Solaris OS machine, you can create zone partitions that allow you to isolate your efforts. For instance, it's possible to run your app server in one zone, a database in another, development work in a third, and so on. Each zone resembles a completely separate machine with different root passwords. I also have been looking at Grails, a Groovy-based web framework -- also very powerful. I am looking forward to the many new technologies and projects emerging -- Java SE 6, GlassFish, NetBeans IDE 6.0's new editor features, visual web app features in the visual web pack, new NetBeans IDE GUI Builder features, enterprise pack, and a lot more.
Though I know it can sound clichéd, the computing industry -- both hardware and software -- never stops evolving. It's so fascinating and exciting to watch and be a part of. What most excites me is that what we do can so positively affect the world at large, possibly save lives or make life easier for some people, lead to the discovery of new knowledge and information, and allow us to look at things in new ways. I'm jazzed! This is very exciting work.
* As used on this web site, the terms "Java virtual machine" or "JVM" mean a virtual machine for the Java platform.
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But for famed Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, who will sing God Bless America prior to the first puck's drop, he wouldn't miss this assignment for anything.
"You get an opportunity like this once in a lifetime," said Tynan. "Screw the weather."
Coming to Buffalo is no problem for Tynan, who is most associated with the New York Yankees, but has grown into a huge hockey fan, and a devoted follower of the Sabres.
"I have a huge association with the Sabres, they're my hockey team," Tynan said. "They're a great bunch of men. They're a great association. I've grown to love Buffalo, grown to love the Sabres, and I love the hockey games. It's the most intense sport anyone can watch. Ice hockey is the most physical, dramatic, driven game I've ever seen. And when you're right down on the sideline, with just the glass protecting you, it's the scariest thing imaginable, but it's an adrenaline driver."
|Irish tenor Ronan Tynan sings God Bless America prior to Game 2 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Semifinal game between the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers on April 27, 2007 at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York.
Not long after that, Tynan met Steve Janaszak, the backup goalkeeper on that 1980 U.S. Olympic squad.
"He was delighted to meet me and I was delighted to meet him," said Tynan. "He asked if I had ever seen Miracle and I said; 'It was amazing. I was so proud of you. I felt like I was there.' Every American has great patriotism, and when you watch a movie like that, you come out saying; 'Go USA.' I was taken by it. I thought he was a class, class guy. About two weeks later, I got a photograph with all the players' signature from the 1980 game, which is unique. That's a treasure.
"That generated my real interest in going back and looking at a couple things. Ice hockey, when you see it on television it's not as powerful, but when you're there it's unbelievable."
Tynan, who also does motivational speaking, was invited to sing before a game by Sabres Managing Partner Larry Quinn. Quinn also asked Tynan to speak to the team.
"When the Sabres approached me, my interest was huge," Tynan said. "I wanted to do it because, one, I wanted to see a live hockey game. But because I do a lot of motivational speaking, Larry said; 'Would you speak to the team?' I was taken aback by it, but also honored. Even though the players are half my age, there was an instant connection with the guys. They won that night and the next time I came back, they had a huge plaque on the wall with two sabers on it, with the quote I said to them. The quote, in a nutshell, is; 'The will is inside you. And when you capture it, it brings out the finest in you.' I said to them no one man is a team, a team is a unit, an army, and when you combine the force of an army, you have the will."
The team won that night, and the next time Tynan went into the Sabres' dressing room, he found a plaque hanging there with his name and his quote.
"Then I knew straightaway this was my team," he said.
Tynan, who has homes in Ireland and Florida, spends a great deal of time at his apartment in New York City, and when the Sabres hit the area, Tynan tries not to miss them. New York fans have adopted the 6-foot-4 native of Dublin as their own thanks to his many memorable appearances at Yankee Stadium.
"I've been at games where the Sabres have played at Madison Square Garden, and the fans say; 'Ronan Tynan, yeah.' And they think, he's a Rangers fan because of the Yankees. Has to be. And underneath my coat, I have Sabres all over. And they say; 'No kidding! What the heck!'"
He told a similar story of a trip to Nassau Coliseum for an Islanders-Sabres game, and how he found himself in an elevator with Quinn, a priest and another man.
"This priest gets in the elevator and he says; 'Ronan Tynan, 'tis marvelous, you're here for us, you're here for the Islanders.'" Tynan then opened to his coat, and much to the priest's chagrin, Tynan was decked out in blue and gold.
"He says; 'You traitor! I can't believe it! Mother of God, what are you doing supporting Buffalo?'"
But Tynan does support Buffalo, and the Sabres, and while he sings only a few times per season at HSBC Arena, he finds other ways to promote the team and town. Sunday night, he played a sold-out concert at the Buffalo Philharmonic, which featured Sabres goalie Ryan Miller and forward Drew Stafford on guitar.
One thing Tynan won't do, though, is put on a pair of skates. The 47-year-old had both legs amputated below the knees at age 20 due to an automobile accident, but the loss drove him to become an elite Paralympic athlete. Most of his success was on the track, but after some cajoling by friends, he tried skating on a rink near London.
"They said; 'Come on Ronan give it a try,'" said Tynan, who reluctantly agreed. "They put me out in the center, which is really bad. I got up, got my balance, and I put two hands out and I looked and saw this crowd coming, and I thought; 'I'm going to get killed. I just fell flat. I knocked people head over heels, and in the process I got torn in the side by a skate, and I needed 14 stitches in my side. That was the extent of my skating career."
So, instead, he's stuck to singing, and has been immensely successful. And he'll lend that successful, well-known voice to the NHL Winter Classic, despite anything the weather might have in store.
"You're praying that you keep going and the cold won't freeze the voice box," he said. "I'll stay indoors as much as I can until I sing, and once it's done I'll try and enjoy the game."


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According to a study by Congress's nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, 7,500 estates would be better off under full repeal in 2010 than under the 2009 rules -- but more than 60,000 would be worse off.
At fault is the conversion from a stepped up basis for capital gains tax purposes at death to a carryover basis rule after repeal. For anyone with $1.3 million to $3.5 million in wealth and substantial appreciation in capital assets that has not been taxed, and some people a little over the $3.5 million level, estate tax repeal is a tax increase.


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In L.A.: POP-EYECONIC GROUP SHOW AT CHGJuxtapoz // Friday, March 21, 2014
This past weekend we stopped by Corey Helford Gallery for the opening reception of their latest group exhibit "Pop-Eyeconic." Looking to explore the iconic characters who define popular artistic symbolism, we have asked an ambitious and diverse group of artists - from street to surreal to New Classicist - to provide one new work each, featuring their choice of POP ICONS that have special meaning to them, but rendering the icons in each artist's own particular style and placing them in situations relevant to that artist's usual subject matter.
IN L.A.: Crucifixion group show @ Corey Helford GalleryJuxtapoz // Tuesday, December 18, 2012
We stopped by Corey Helford Gallery for their latest exhibition "Crucifixion," a group exhibition inspired by the images and symbolic influence of the crucifixion. The exhibition features new works from Glenn Barr, Ray Caesar, Victor Castillo, Ron English, Natalia Fabia, Korin Faught, Sarah Folkman, Nancy Fouts, Eric Joyner, Benjamin Bryce Kelley, Maria Kreyn, Marco Mazzoni, Buff Monster, Annie Owens, Michael Page, Chris Pugliese, Candice Tripp, Mark Dean Veca, Nicola Verlato, Tom Neely, Lola, Tom Bagshaw, and Amy Sol.
Top 20 Photoreal ArtistsTop List // Thursday, December 13, 2012
Over the past 6 months, we have noticed a trend that we thought was true and was proven correct. Our readers love a good hyperreal, photorealstic painting. Each artist with the skill to create a photorealistic piece has their own style and strengths, and we combed over our content from the past year to bring to you the very best photoreal painters featured Juxtapoz.com. Don't blink and make sure you look closely. These are the talents that make you have a double take.
Drawing from Natalia FabiaTattoo // Friday, August 03, 2012
Pen, ink, and highlighter are not just items on a student's school supply list, but are also the tools used to create this lovely drawing from artist Natalia Fabia. Inspired by light, color, punk rock music, hot chicks and sparkles, Fabia is fascinated with hookers, which fuels her paintings of sultry women.
Natalia Fabia's Tattooed VixensTattoo // Tuesday, July 17, 2012
'Natalia Fabia is of Polish descent and was raised in Southern California where she graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Inspired by light, color, punk rock music, hot chicks and sparkles, Fabia is fascinated with "hookers", which fuels her paintings of sultry women.'
Natalia Fabia's Erotic PaintingsErotica // Thursday, May 10, 2012
Natalia Fabia is of Polish descent and was raised in Southern California where she graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Inspired by light, color, punk rock music, hot chicks and sparkles, Fabia is fascinated with "hookers", which fuels her paintings of sultry women. Her work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions including Thinkspace Gallery, M Modern and The Shooting Gallery.
"HOOKERS" A Group Exhibition Curated by Natalia Fabia @ Corey Helford GalleryJuxtapoz // Friday, March 23, 2012
On Saturday, March 31, Corey Helford Gallery will open the group exhibition, "Hookers,"curated by Los Angeles artist Natalia Fabia. Fabia's curatorial debut will feature 22 artists' interpretation of the term "Hooker." Focusing on figurative painting, the exhibition highlights a wide range of accomplished artists whom Fabia admires, many of which she went to college with or studied under at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Opening Photos from Corey Helford Gallery's "In the Nursery"Juxtapoz // Thursday, February 17, 2011
We are playing catch up, showing opening night photos from Corey Helford Gallery's "In the Nursery" show that opened late January, 2011. But we have some photos here, so check them out after the jump . . .
Back Talk with Natalia FabiaJuxtapoz // Sunday, February 15, 2009
Natalia Fabia is the latest victim we attacked with our game of Back Talk. Not only is Natalia a rad young woman and a spectacular artist, she has a solo show, Hooker DreamEscape, coming up this Saturday, February 21st at Corey Helford Gallery. Inspired by everything from punk rock and tattoos to glitter and beautiful women, Natalia's paintings are like diving into a fantasy world inhabited by sexy ladies in surreal environments. Natalia may look like a sweet innocent young lady, but she's also got a little bit if a naughty streak in her (ever seen her portrait for Heroes & Villains? Wink, wink) so get down and dirty with the fabulous artist and check out Back Talk with Miss Natalia Fabia.


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In towns across Colorado, there is a problem. Though they are not surrounded by water, some small communities can be like islands - cut off from the advantages of technology because of reduced access to the Internet.
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November 29, 2015
A man is dead after crashing his motorcycle in Woodford County.
It happened last night on Old Frankfort Pike near Midway. Police say 44-year old Clinton Brown ran off a curve and hit two trees.
The coroner says brown died of massive head injuries. The crash happened near Brown's home on Shady Lane.
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Henry's 12th Street Tavern Restaurant Review: There isn't a more appropriate site for a brewpub than the shell of the original Blitz-Weinhard Brewery. Microbrew fans revel in setting their mugs on a refrigerated strip running along the edge of the bar. The enormous, multi-level restaurant attracts a mostly young crowd, particularly for happy hour. They enjoy the billiard room, plasma TV and Wii lounge, as well as the lengthy menu of tavern-style food that features oversize onion rings, sausage tasting plates, and burgers galore. If you're looking for something a little different, Henry's also offers seafood specials such crab and hazelnut mahi mahi, along with pan-Asian fare such as an ahi salad with fresh greens, plus sushi and pizza. And don't miss the Gorgonzola fries. If you're in the mood for something sweet, order the homemade ice cream sandwiches. Sunday brunch features a popular make-your-own Bloody Mary bar. Despite the party atmosphere, this is a perfectly fine place to bring children; Henry's staff greets everyone with a friendly and accommodating style.
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Mozilla renames BrowserID to Persona
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Mozilla BrowserID will be transitioned to Persona
Mozilla this week announced a change to its BrowserID online identity system. Initially just a rebrand, the service is now called Mozilla Persona, which Mozilla believes is better suited to user identity. To go with the name change, however, Mozilla does have feature and interface changes in development.


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Bank deposit robbery
A woman about to make a bank deposit for her company was robbed of three envelopes containing an undetermined amount of cash yesterday at Boland Way and Main Street, said police.
As the woman was about to enter the Bank of America near 1500 Main St. at 1:10 p.m., the suspect, an extremely thin man, 5 feet, 10 inches tall in his late 20s or early 30s with short black hair, shoved a sharp object into her arm, grabbed the envelopes and fled, police said.
Cruiser collision
A Springfield man was arrested Sunday night after driving his sport utility vehicle into a state police cruiser on Interstate 91, state police said.
Vernon Q. Jones, 52, of 15 Girard Ave., pleaded innocent in Springfield District Court yesterday to charges including operating under the influence of liquor, negligent operation and violating the open container law. He was released on his own recognizance. A pretrial conference is set for July 25.
Jones's Chevrolet Blazer hit Sgt. Andrew P. Bzdel's cruiser as Bzdel entered the highway from an emergency vehicle turn. HAMPDEN
Vehicle vandalism
Police said vehicles have been egged, covered with graffiti and had windows smashed over the past two weeks in the evening and early hours on Meadowbrook and Grist Mill lanes and Weir, Old Orchard and South roads. Anyone with information is asked to call (413) 566-8011. HOLYOKE
Man shot in back
A city man is in critical condition at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield after being shot in the back at 1 a.m. Sunday at Jackson and South Canal streets. Police said Edison Lajara, 19, of 28 Vernon St., suffered a wound that appeared severe but not life-threatening.
Police said Lajara was in a car when another vehicle pulled alongside and sprayed his car with automatic gunfire....
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They are multi-billion-dollar industry leaders, emerging firms pioneering new market opportunities and companies at just about every other stage of the corporate lifecycle. They are firms specializing in digital marketing, direct mail, teleservices, promotions, agency services, data and analytics, marketing technology, direct response broadcasting, multichannel marketing and specialized services. They are private equity investors, venture capitalists, holding companies and marketers themselves.
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In a ring, all in a ring - go
Move in order, in a row
Litter at a point, where you feel
Weight of the task, stop and congeal
Pore with a more fleet pace
The token of work, skilful race.
Twirl and linger, detour your move
Meet a compeer under a roof
Conspires with you a diverse plan
Stick to decree of your plan
Stop at a point or budge about it
Perfect your task, bit by bit.
Hush! The silent verdict move along
Like sleek segmented designs marching ahead
Till your dutiful array forges along
To carry a Leviathan out of its bed
The final sentence your chief shall give
"Dispose or devour it and live".
As wind fires its fancy around
Slack up impassively, devoid of sound
Summon of adversity may fall on way
If unimpaired, prolong your serving sway
Until the final thrust pounds upon you
Be a chum afore an outer view.
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Passion Fruit Yerba Mate
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As far as Adina's juice cocktails go, this is definitely one of our favorites. It features an interesting blend or flavors, including passionfruit, guava, and lemon as well as a subtle touch of yerba mate. This 10% juice, 30% mate blend is light, but complex in flavor. Organic certification is certainly a plus in terms of marketability. Our only suggestion with the product is with the wording on the front, which sends a somewhat confusing message to the consumer. Specifically, it's difficult to discern what the name of the product is (Tango Tropicale) from the other words on the bottle (Passion Fruit, Yerba Mate, and Argentina Inspired Cooler). Less is more, in our opinion.
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paul wheaton wrote: Or, more accurately, if there is a problem with fructose, I don't know what it is. Based on what little I know at this time, agave nectar is probably still quite good for you (provided you don't eat too much at one sitting) - because of the fructose.
Kerrick wrote: Kristen, you really don't need to link the same article on five different threads.
Prior to the 1970's, MSG was routinely added to baby food before the practice was stopped following government suggestions. Commenting on this issue, Dr. Olney, at the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University states, According to an NAS (National Academy of Science) Subcommittee, in considering the safety of added MSG in baby foods, one must remember that the levels added are small - not higher than 0.6 g%.... This means that one small jar of baby food (130 g) would provide about 0.78 g of MSG or 0.13 g/kg of body weight for a human infant weighing 6 kg. Based on our finding that an oral dose of 1 g/kg in the primate or 0.5 g/kg in the mouse is sufficient to destroy hypothalamic neurons, this leaves a 4 to 8 fold margin of safety for a human infant eating one jar, a 2 to 4 fold margin if two jars are eaten and so forth. This is substantially less than the 100-fold margin generally recommended to accommodate contingencies such as species or individual differences in susceptibility to the mechanism of a toxic compound. In support of their assumption that human infants are invulnerable to MSG-induced brain damage, the NAS Subcommittee pointed to absence of behavioral manifestations in human infants given intravenous infusions of protein hydrolysates providing 0.3 g/kg/day of free glutamic acid. Our demonstration that MSG destroys hypothalamic neurons in monkeys as well as mice at intake doses lower than those required to produce acute behavioral manifestations points to a serious flaw in this line of reasoning. The subcutaneous injection of protein hydrolysate (0.2 cc) produces, in 10 day old infant mice, a hypothalamic lesion unaccompanied by behavior disturbances (22)."


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Forums and Workshops
Presentations from the recent 2014 AMHOCN National Forum, and from previous Australasian outcomes conferences that were held in collaboration with Te Pou, are available to download. These presentations provide information about the use of the National Outcomes and Casemix Collection (NOCC) measures within mental health services, highlighting both implementation issues and the clinical utility of the measures.
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AMHOCN National Forum 2014
4th Australasian Mental Health Outcomes and Information Conference 2013
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2nd Australasian Mental Health Outcomes Conference
National Outcomes Forum 2010
Some presentations given during outcome measurement forums and workshops held within the Australian States and Territories are also available to download and organised by jurisdiction. Click on the relevant jurisdiction to view the available presentations. If you have any questions about presentations, please do not hesitate to contact AMHOCN.
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I want you to make me tremble into the night,
Ignore the inner voices and mask the shame,
Just make me bleed, just bring the pain.
I know you hate me, I fucking love it,
I know you feel it, you just won't admit,
The anger increases as you come near,
Just take it out, I'm already lying here.
I want the ropes to bite into my wrists,
Feel the blood trickling to our hips,
Let it mix with sweat as we start this war,
You aren't anything but a dirty whore.
I never said I wanted to make it out alive,
Because under your pressure is when I thrive,
Make me love it so much that I'll want to scream,
So that I'm covered all over with sweat that gleams.
I'm not looking for love, I'm looking for a fight,
And baby you better know how to do it right,
Because I want to be done when the night is through,
With no evidence except from your passion's tattoo.
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Iowa and federal officials have said the cyclospora outbreak apparently was caused by tainted vegetables, though they haven?t said which kind or where the produce might have originated.
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State and federal investigators should have been able to quickly pinpoint the source of a food poisoning outbreak that has sickened more than 140 Iowans since mid-June, a nationally known expert said Friday.
"This one is very solvable. This is one of the easy ones," said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "If this same number of cases had happened in Minnesota as happened in Iowa, this would have been solved weeks ago."
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A sign warns of radioactive material at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt. in this Dec. 1997 file photo. / File photo
The recent Entergy Vermont Yankee federal court decision said the Vermont Legislature cannot trump the federal government when it comes to issues of nuclear safety, but the same ruling affirmed Vermont's continuing authority for oversight of other Yankee issues, such as permitting and enforcement under the Clean Water Act.
That's good, because when your next-door neighbor is a nuclear power plant, bad housekeeping is more than just an annoyance. Vermont Yankee refuses to use its cooling towers adequately and instead discharges hot water — thermal pollution — directly into the Connecticut River. It cuts electricity production costs for Entergy, but as Vermont Yankee is an independent energy producer, any savings do not automatically reduce anybody's electric bill, meaning Vermont Yankee likely just pockets the savings.
The Connecticut River is a shared public trust resource that millions of us cherish as the heart of New England, so the Watershed Council questions if Louisiana-based Entergy should profit at the expense of the river. But using its court-affirmed authority to protect the waters of Vermont, the state can make sure Entergy uses its cooling towers to protect your river, and the Connecticut River Watershed Council is working toward that goal.
Entergy has known since 1978, from its own reports, that its discharge heats up the river all the way to Holyoke, Mass. Thermal pollution can be just as insidious as other kinds of pollution, and although it's invisible, it can harm river life. Heating up the river negatively affects wildlife and its habitat. The heating confuses and disrupts fish that look to changes in water temperatures to signal migration and spawning.
For more than 15 years, Vermont Yankee has been permitted to raise the temperature of the entire Connecticut River up to 13 degrees during winter months and up to 5 degrees in the summer and the fall. The plant can send up to 543 million gallons of heated water — some of it at 105 degrees — into the river every day. As if this weren't bad enough, in 2006 Vermont's Agency of Natural Resources allowed the nuclear power plant to increase summer river temperatures even more.
Vermont Yankee has been allowed to do all this under an expired water quality permit, so the Watershed Council has petitioned the Natural Resources Agency to begin the permit renewal process — stalled since 2006. Now that the court has ruled Vermont Yankee may not be shut down this March, it's time for the state to issue a new permit with tougher temperature standards for Yankee's discharges into the Connecticut River.
The council believes there is good science to back up those tougher standards — better science than the narrow, slanted view Entergy's consultants provided the Vermont to justify heating up the river eight years ago. A recently released council-funded expert analysis of Entergy's case to continue dumping thermal pollution came to some clear conclusions:
Vermont Yankee did not accurately describe the size and extent of its plume of thermal pollution.
Vermont Yankee did not provide enough information to prove it wasn't threatening our fish, including resident and migrating species.
It's simple: When a power plant like Vermont Yankee wants to dump thermal pollution into our river, the company needs to prove it will not harm the aquatic organisms. The Environmental Protection Agency has guidelines for how that analysis should be done. In particular, the EPA identifies five things that should be included in order to support a determination of whether or not fish communities will be harmed from a thermal discharge. Our experts found that none of the five were addressed appropriately in Entergy's presentation to the Natural Resources Agency.
Describing how a power plant's pollution affects a river and its fish and other inhabitants can be complicated, but on some level, the scope of Entergy's 2004 study doesn't even meet the common-sense test. After its own 1978 study revealed a 55-mile-long thermal plume in the Connecticut River, the company changed its tune and claimed in the 2004 study that the impact from the plume was only half a mile long. Entergy also only used a limited amount of temperature data and compiled it in a way to mask its potential variability.
With the volumes of information available about the river and having access to enormous consulting and computing horsepower, Entergy's entire approach to justify its thermal pollution is like using a handheld calculator and the back of an envelope to compute Vermont Yankee's impact on the river. Entergy simply isn't using the tools its has at its disposal in a way that will enable the permit writers — and all of us — to have a clear picture of the impact the thermal pollution from the plant has on the Connecticut River.
With our evaluation of the Entergy study in hand, the Watershed Council will be ready to provide the Natural Resources Agency with an independent, citizen-backed case for why Vermont Yankee has not made its case for more than 15 years of thermal pollution.
David Deen is Upper Valley River Steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council, founded in 1952. The council is the foremost citizen advocate for clean water and healthy human and natural communities in the four-state Connecticut River watershed.


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One Friday morning DVT Editor David Bly and three guests headed to Gold Butte in his X-Trail. Sharing car space with David and me were Charlie Cox, president of the Kokopelli ATV Club, and Nancy Hall, president of Friends of Gold Butte.
We hiked, looked at scenery and checked out petroglyphs. David and I took photos. We talked about Gold Butte and what it meant to us. There were differences in opinion, but all found common ground.
At the end of the day David said, "I think I've found the best way to create compromise on how to manage Gold Butte - put all the parties in a car together and drive out there." ...


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