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Wisconsin's workers haven't only fought back with protests and recall efforts. Since Scott Walker began his attack on Wisconsin's public employees, faculty at three University of Wisconsin campuses have voted to join the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
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If Unions are the answer why do only 13% feel the feel the need to unionize. Maybe the 87% . know something like personal responsibility, self determination. They may want to succeed on their merits not just for belonging to a Union and gaining seniority so they don't have to perform.
At a time unions were needed. Today they are run by thieves for the benefit of workers who feel they deserve their job and shouldn't have to work for it. I do feel sorry for those Union teachers in Wisconsin. It is very difficult to support you family on $80K per year and be expected to work 190 days a year.
Comment by atlanta ralpha | March 27, 2011 |
The AVERAGE teacher salary in Wisconsin is $46,390 a year with a starting salary of $25,222. So nice for our TROLL to lie about $80K a year! Why don't you go to a REAL credible source, Ralph, instead of pulling your "facts" from your ass or most probably parroting what you hear on Faux News or Rush Limbaugh.
The biggest reason union membership has fallen in the USA is that we have lost most of our blue-collar jobs to outsourcing abroad. Uunions were once dominant and needed in manufacturing and mining. We are mostly a white-collar nation now…banking, insurance where unions have never been much needed (union members can only dream of the BENEFITS going to Wall Street).
Wisconsin teachers fare better overall than their NON-union counterparts in Texas where unions only have some power in the larger urban school districts. $41,744 is the Texas average salary, now. I was making $39K a year when I retired six years ago after 15 years on the job.
A study done by the Teacher Fair Pay Association found that the average teacher works a minimum of 8 hours and 37 minutes each day. 8:37 multiplied by an average school year (in some states) of 180 days is 1551 hours a year. (Texas has a 10 month, 187 day requirement). That is the minimum required for their daily tasks before their students. Teachers also have supplementary tasks that they must complete on an irregular basis. For instance I was a faculty sponsor for National Honor Society, junior class sponsor (car washes, etc. to put on a prom), spent many weekends at science/math contests, science fairs, etc. We were required to tutor BEFORE and AFTER school those students who needed extra help. These tasks such as pre and post school year activities, meetings, and continuing education seminars add up to an average minimum of 318 hours per year. This adds up to a grand MINIMUM total of 1869 hours per year! Check out these statistics:
– A teacher works a minimum of 1,869 hours per year to perform his/her minimum required work.
– However, the average number of hours per year worked by teachers is 2,108
– The average number of hours worked by first-year and second-year teachers is
2,534. It appears to be anecdotally-accepted that the stress of this workload often leads to illness, and that this workload at least partially accounts for the 30%+ of new teachers that leave the profession each year.
Compared to other Americans:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the average American veteran worker, outside of education, works an average of 34.6 hours per week, for 46 weeks (most have PAID vacations/holidays accounting for an average of 6 weeks), for a total of 1591.6 hours per year.
These findings put to rest the old fallacy that teachers don't work all that much. Teaching AP physics, I had to join the The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and attend weekend meetings/seminars at college campuses all over Texas where I was exposed to some Nobel Laureates, so don't begrudge the time spent nor some monies spent.
Since Texas encourages a Master's Degree (for which you get a whopping $500 stipend added to your salary each year), I spent many summers going to graduate school at Texas A&M, often paying my expenses but did write for and receive a Mellon Foundation grant for some expenses. After 21 graduate credit hours earned, and most of my summer vacations shot, I stopped going when I realized I would be retiring before I got my 36 hours needed for the $500 "reward". The only reason I considered going ahead was that having an M.A. would look good in my obituary.
Also, it is hard for a teacher to find a temporary job during the short summer break. I taught in a "year-around" school so only had 6 weeks off when I usually squeezed in one 3-hour graduate level course.
Comment by Grant in Texas | March 28, 2011 |
You neglected to add benefits paid by the taxpayer. Mulvey makes $46,687 in base salary and $25,481 which include health insurance, life insurance and retirement pay.
Hill makes $59,695 in base salary with an additional $28,398 in benefits.
In the private sector, those benefits are paid, in part, by the employee. With government education those benefits are paid for by the taxpayer.
I have see few if any teachers who work 11.5 hours per day which your example figures out to.
I guess I missed out on the job where you work 34.6 hours per week. Maybe because I want to be more than average and owning a small business demands a 60 hour workweek.
Jobs left the US because of three things. Outrages corporate taxes, uncaring workforce, Unions. If Obama wants to create jobs he should push the fair tax and companies will return to the US. The problem with the fair tax is politicians lose the ability to use taxes to their advantage, Obama has no interest in creating jobs. His only interest is in creating government.
Comment by atlanta ralph | March 28, 2011 |
I see where our TROLL Atlanta Ralph possibly got his "facts"…FOX News. However Politifact says that Fox overinflated teacher benefits in Wisconsin by only $14,000 and understated those benefits in the private sector by only $7,000. Nothing like FOX LIES!
Poor corporations like GE not only didn't pay any taxes on its BILLIONS earned last year but gets several BILLION instead from all of us taxpayers in tax breaks. There is a reason why Halliburton moved their "headquarters" out of Houston, sending 50 "managers" to their new "home office" in Dubai leaving behind 5000 people in their former headquarters building in Houston to do the work…can skip out on paying taxes.
And BTW, I put in 60 hours at least per week on my teaching job, arriving at school at 7-7:30 and most often grading papers, doing lesson plans, going to meetings until 7 each night. So cry me a river, Ralph, giving up 60 hours per week for your business. MOST Americans punch a time clock working for somebody else.
I see that Texas TIES last place with Mississippi for having the most workers (over a half million) being paid only minimum wages. But in the South, people have long been brainwashed to hate Labor Unions. The federal poverty level for a family of three was $18,310 last year. That means a single parent with two children and working for minimum wage would earn about $3,200 less than the poverty level. Almost makes "going on welfare" a wise financial decision.
Comment by Grant in Texas | March 29, 2011 |
I agree with you Grant. It is unfair that GE paid no taxes and many large corporations had to. Corporations should not pay taxes, it should be paid by the consumption/fair tax. This would increase investment in the US by companies, which would increase jobs in the US. Of course on the negative side, the fair tax takes away a lot of government power and they are all against it.
Unions and taxes are what is driving manufacturing jobs offshore.
Comment by atlanta ralph | March 30, 2011 |
The Daily Caller, a new REICH-wing Internet "news" source founded by "journalists" and political pundits Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, the latter a former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
I am sure our TROLL's link is "fair and balanced"!!!
Comment by Grant in Texas | March 30, 2011 |
Also, the "The Daily Caller" accounts of EXACT wages and "benefits" were never given on The Ed Schultz Show (benefits not even discussed nor in the Milwaukee Sentinel link at all. I guess The Daily Caller feels their readers are too lazy to fact-check.
Comment by Grant in Texas | March 30, 2011 |
It doesn't matter what reference is used, it will never be leftists enough for you but here goes anyway.
Comment by atlanta ralph | March 30, 2011 |
Sorry, to burst your bubble, Ralph, but I am not a far leftist (not changed most views since I was a registered Republican in the 1960's). I don't just go to leftist sites, instead visiting web-sites across the political spectrum. However, in my observations, "leftie" sources don't LIE like the REICH-wing sites seem so prone to do. I don't dispute base teachers' salaries from the REICH websites if they have credible citations (even Tucker Carlson's), but don't know where these sites are coming up with their tens of thousands in added benefits. Salaries of public workers are published and easily verified, but benefits can be all over the ballpark. I know I paid hundreds into my health/dental insurance out of each paycheck, along with a contribution to the Texas retirement fund. However, most of our school districts in this state are non-union, so benefits are mostly offered by districts as an incentive to join a faculty. Anyway, jobs in the private sector ALSO offer benefits of all kinds. So teachers shouldn't be offered the same? It is bad enough that people with master's degrees often are working for the same wages (sometimes even less) as high school graduates. I have told about a student of mine, age 22, with no job experience going to work at Dow Chemical right out of the U. of Texas as a chemical engineer for $63K a year. At the time I was earning only $39K after 15 years of teaching with close to 200 undergraduate and graduate school hours. I was not jealous hearing about his FIRST job, only happy that I was a person involved in his life who helped him reach that achievement….such are the unpaid benefits of teaching.
Also, as a single person, I had to live on my one income. Married people, whether both teach or even work elsewhere, do have the benefit of combined salaries, so don't understand the big "whoop-de-do" about married teachers in some articles. However, when children are considered, often working couples have to put out much money for added childcare so realize they have more money going out than I do without children.
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I just found this thread and I am so relieved that I am not the only one who felt this calling. I have been wrestling with this internally for about 2 years now and it's to the point now where I feel ready to give up pants and start covering. It's mostly for myself, as I have struggles with self-esteem issues for so long. I need to get closer to the Mother but there are so few pagans where I am and even fewer who would understand the call to cover. Please tell me you ladies still cover!!
I still cover :) welcome to the thread
yep. I'm here and I cover. Been covering full time for... 2 years now? and off and on a few years before that.
I only don't cover to sleep and sometimes if i'm just hanging around the house. :)
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Hello! I'm back and I'm covering again along with a more modest style. Happy to see this thread is still about
I've been reading through this thread (though not the entire thing) and am just fascinated by it. I am a Muslim convert, and before I converted to Islam I was practicing/studying earth-based feminist spirituality with a women's community. I really love covering my hair, but not only that--I love the concept of hijab as a whole. And it is not only for women, contrary to what many people think about hijab in Islam. Head covering is only part of it, though in Western culture it's the most obvious part.
I love hearing about women feeling "called" to cover, or to be more modest. It just confirms my belief that we all have this *remembrance* of our fitrah, our ability to live in alignment with and in surrender to our Creator, we have an innate desire to be worshipful and mindful and to "bring Spirit into the details" of our lives.
I wear my head covering in a sort of non-traditional way, in that I don't usually wear it in a distinctly "Arab Muslim" way. I often will wear it in a turban style, or in a bun, or tied once under my hair and with the ends wrapped around my neck to cover my chest. As time goes on I feel more and more compelled to have my neck be covered, which I didn't feel comfortable with for a long time because I felt like it was a big "identifier" and I still felt like a baby Muslim and pretty self-conscious around my family and "pre-conversion" friends. Interestingly and sadly, covering my hair has been something that has clearly made some friends/family uncomfortable. It's like I look foreign to them now.
Anyway, just for anyone who's interested, the concept of hijab is about humility and modesty in one's relationship to God--not to Men, not to other people, just before God. It is a "covering of our adornments," a recognition of the sacred nature of our bodies (awrah), an honoring and dignifying of our femininity. It has nothing to do with shame or any concept of inferiority or inequality. And it's not only a scarf. That's part of it, but it's also in wearing loose clothing (sooo comfy!!), guarding one's speech (trying not to gossip, be mean, etc.), lowering our gaze around people who we might feel lustful toward (which I see as a great sign of respect for those men AND as an acknowledgement of sisterhood--I do it to respect those wives and girlfriends and others, to indicate that I am not *in competition* with you for your men!), not being gaudy or flamboyant or extravagant in our behavior or in our CONSUMPTION. It is about simplicity and humility but also about strength and dignity. At least, that is what it has come to mean for me. I can see over time a pull to simplify--whereas I have a *ton* of scarves and use them as a fun accessory (so it's easy to SHOP, SHOP, SHOP), I know women who I greatly respect and admire who, for example, usually only wear blue or black. And I can see that making my hijab trendy can be a distraction from it's real purpose, to keep me more mindful of God...just some of the things I think about.
Men should observe hijab too. They also have an awrah, though it is different from women's (obv bc their bodies are different), and should really also be wearing loose clothing that covers the body, not be showy, lower their gaze around women, use gentle speech, not be vain, grow their beard, etc.
Love hearing about non-Muslim desire to incorporate this--the benefit is really universal. May the peace and blessings of our Creator be upon all of you!
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As a child I saw Muslims about and thought their head coverings were so beautiful that I would convert one day ( I was like 5 and didn't even know a name for the faith, lol)
Then as a Catholic convert I very very nearly became a nun. I LOVED the habit but not the whole "obedience to the church" deal. I wanted to worship all day not follow a bunch of dudes rules.... anywho.
I have always felt drawn and called to cover my head. I have thought a lot about writing a book about all the religions reasons for it. It is something deep in my soul.
I think I will now that I am an empowered Christopagan because- it reminds me of the divine above me and my values, it is to honor the blessed mother, and to cover the crown chakra.
i love many of the values of modest for men and women but fear the anti sex ideology that goes with most of that.
Can you be sex positive and modest???
I'm a pagan and I cover.
Can you be sex positive and modest? May I suggest you read or explore the Catholic teaching of Theology of the Body. It is a wonderful teaching.
Hebaume39, I will have to check that teaching out!
As a Vodouisant, I'm kind of both Catholic and pagan at the same time. :) I don't cover every day at this point - only during ceremonies or when I'm doing work for the spirits - but who knows what I'll be called to do in the future?
What are people's favorite sources for head coverings? I've gotten nice ones from two Etsy shops - maryann4000 and SpecificallyRandom .
Joining in here... I haven't started covering yet but it's been weighing on my mind a lot lately. I LOVE the look of some of the covers at Garlands of Grace but don't have the money to spend on that especially if I end up not using it much. I did find a nice pattern to make a headband type cover so I'm going to try that first with some scrap fabric. (Just gotta get done with holiday crafts before starting other new projects!) I think the headband that can be stretched or gathered to change size will be the easiest way to move into this new phase. We'll see how it goes once I can actually get one sewn up!
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I enjoy wearing a kerchief covering almost every day. I only have three though, so I don't do it all the time. When I'm at festivals, I love veiling with silk or even an extra sarong. For me, it isn't about modesty. I'll do this at a clothing option festival with half my body uncovered. Part of it is the mystery, part of it is the convenience of not having hair blowing into face (my hair is very fine), part of it is covering up so I don't burn (I sunburn easily), but mostly I just like it.
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On the benefit side, there is an analysis of the improvements in business process, by looking at what it would have cost if various government agencies and departments were to do the same work without the system. Particular attention was placed on the permitting department, and the time it used to take to pull together maps and spatial data about a property before the system was in place. The results of various workflow savings were compiled and monetized by output type and agency to measure cost savings and productivity benefits overall.
The report takes a very detailed look at costs and benefits, and after the fact of the investment, which is rare. Given the authoritative nature of the report, with a rigorous methodology and interviews with more than 200 individuals representing a broad range of use cases, this report should stand as a shining example to defend and promote the utility of GIS.
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This is an important study that should help inform others as a cost justification, and a blueprint of determining the value of efficiency gains in workflows. The report doesn't contain a breakdown of the value by category, although this would be interesting insight to have in order to help determine the highest-value returns from different GIS applications.
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The contribution of the private sector and civil society to improve nutrition.
Group four (4) consists of a small number of students of the University of Guyana and form part of the graduating class of 2014 from the Economics Department. The aim of this group is to contribute to discussions such as this in an effort to help develop policies that better the lives of the poor and society as whole such as tackling the problem of food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide.
Our first attempt in this post will be to effectively contribute to the discussion on the roles that the private sector and civil society can play in improving nutrition in the diets of the poor and less fortunate.
All posts hereon are a compilation of the views of each member in the group.
The FAO reported under its nutritional country profile, Guyana – "A significant proportion of children under five years of age suffer from malnutrition (survey data indicate that 14% were underweight for age; 11% had low height for age and 11% had a low weight for height. About 40% of adults are overweight, with the prevalence of obesity increasing with age. Significantly more women are obese compared to men."
As evident in the above statements the problem in Guyana is not one of hunger but rather the consumption of less nutritional foods at an early age. Most malnutrition cases occur in the rural areas where there is an abundance of foods that contain a large amount of carbohydrates and starches and do not have much of a nutritional content. The reason for the consumption of such low nutritional diets can be premise on the lack of knowledge of the rural poor on the types of foods and combination of food that are required to promote a healthy diet. The other factor that restricts them from consuming a healthy diet also can be pinpointed to the fact that some lack the income to fund such diets while some are guilty of having the income to fund such diets but tend to mismanage it due to their cultural diets and habits: alcohol consumption and tobacco usage are just some.
Some may argue that the primary cause of the poor being malnourished can be linked to their low incomes. We beg to differ. Although this is one of the major causes, it is not the primary cause. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo best explained it in their book "Poor Economics; A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty" when they said "…Equally remarkable, even the money that people spend on food is not spent to maximize the intake of calories or micronutrients. When very poor people get a chance to spend a little bit more on food, they don't put everything into getting more calories. Instead, they buy better-tasting, more expensive calories."[1]
It makes economic sense if you would think about it. When consuming one basic type of food for probably years you tend to suffer from a case of prolonged diminishing marginal utility, but without the income to change your diet you have no choice but to continue consuming these basic, not so nutritional foods if you want to survive. However, with the increase in income; given ones taste and preferences, the poor would tend to deviate from the regular years long diet and move toward a tastier, utility maximizing diet now that they feel somewhat 'richer'. However, these tastier foods are more expensive and subtract a large fraction of their income but might not increase their caloric or nutritional intake as found in the "flight to quality" in Abhijit V. Banerjee's and Esther Duflo's book, "Poor Economics; A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty".
Therefore, the role that the private sector and civil society can play in fostering the improvement of nutrition for the poor is to fund and be a part of workshops that aim at educating the poor on the cons of being malnourished, their required nutritional intake and the types of food that will contribute to their increased nutritional intake. Once educated on the benefits of eating the right types and amount of food only then will the increases in income of the poor (nominal or real) by the private sector and civil society be effective in increasing the nutrition for the poor and malnourished as iterated by many.
[1] Poor Economics; A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty


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My sweet hubby works at the Home Office of Costco Wholesale. Today was their twice yearly Employee/Family and Friends Craft Fair. I set up shop, looking forward to meeting new people and transforming their furniture. For fun, I added some little goodies for spring oohing and ahhing. The girls helped me make these spiffy little wallets…
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Although my slipcover business is going gangbusters, it is so fun to shake it up a bit with little projects that can brighten one's day with a little bit of color and a design pleasing to the eye. A friend of mine has a little shop on her blog, Simply Stork, which gave me the idea to give it a try myself. So on my sidebar you will note that I have a shop! Up to 5 items at a time, just a little bit of Marvelous Miscellany when the whimsy grabs me =). Enjoy, and remember, I can sew pretty much anything to your specs. Color, size, details, it's all up to you. Contact me if you have an idea or a question, I would love to hear from you!


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…and wish I had known right from the start!
Wicket is awesome. But…
Even if you instantly like Wicket's Object-oriented modular approach, you have quite some learning ahead of you before you can use it's powers well.
There are plenty of good books, example website and tutorials out there, and the code is well-written. So there's nothing to worry about. Eventually, you will grasp it.
But if you're like me, you read fast, and thus miss some points. I learnt a lot by reading answers by smart people in discussion forums. Here's me giving back something to the community: My "must-know list" I wish I had had when I started learning.
Nothing new or exciting for seasoned Wicket developers. But maybe something for newbies. And definitely a must-read for anyone starting in our new company.
Wicket Session size!
This is something I learned about way too late! You have to use Models for just about everything, or your session size will simply explode. This may not be a problem for a rarely used application on a powerful server, but it can become a nightmare if you have thousands of users in parallel, or if you are using Google App Engine like us, which enforces a strict 1MB session size maximum.
We did a separate document for this topic alone. Read more about optimising wicket session size here.
I rarely read documentation. So it took me several months of dead-ugly code to figure out some of the most basic cool feature of Wicket. It's the enclosure.
Consider this problem: You want to display an optional value. To display it, you need additional context. What do do with the context when the optional value should get hidden?
Maybe you have a user object, and each user has a first name, and a second name. And then some users have a nickname too. You display them in a table, each one gets a row.
|Last name
|First name
Now let's assume some people don't have a nickname. That looks ugly be default:
|Last name
|First name
So let's assume you don't want to show the Nickname row for people who have no Nickname. You could either introduce a WebMarkupPanel for the entire row, add the nickname label to it, and if the nickname is null, make that WebMarkupContainer invisible.
Or you could take the shortcut: Set the visibility of the nickname-Label to invisible, and let an Enclosure handle the rest:

Last name

First name
 <wicket:enclosure child="nickName">
Nickname name
 </wicket:enclosure>

Sweet!Obviously this is a very simple use case. Enclosures are super useful especially in complex scenarios, and we use them day in day out. It just took us a while to figure out they existed.
Session fixation prevention vs login intercept redirection
It seems to be good practice to call session.replaceSession() to prevent session fixation attacks. That's fine, and it works on my local machine. However, if run on Google App Engine (and presumably other clustered web servers, since GAE just uses Jetty) then there's a problem, which took me months to realise.
When people want to get to a certain password-protected page, and they have to log in, then they get redirected to our login page. Once logged in, they continue to their desired page. Or do they? Well, not anymore after we added the replaceSession().
The replaceSession kills the redirection, but only on the actual webserver. What we ended up doing was gather the continuationURL, store it, replace the session, and then force th continuationURL onto Wicket again. I bet there are more elegant ways, but Googling around didn't find me a better solution yet, so here is the code to get and set the destination:
private String getOriginalDestinationUrl(Page page) { PageMap p = (PageMap) page.getPageMap(); Field field; try { field = PageMap.class.getDeclaredField("interceptContinuationURL"); field.setAccessible(true); String inter = (String) field.get(p); log.info("got " + inter + " from field access"); return inter; } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException("error getting the continuation.", e); } } private void setOriginalDestinationUrl(String value, Page page) { PageMap p = (PageMap) page.getPageMap(); log.info("Setting intercept to " + value); Field field; try { field = PageMap.class.getDeclaredField("interceptContinuationURL"); field.setAccessible(true); field.set(p, value); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException("error setting the continuation", e); } }
Thanks to Nico and Stephan from tasqade for this hint!
Attribute Appenders. Pure Win. Or Pure Evil? It depends.
You have to love AttributeAppenders. A simple, foolproof way to dynamically add a CSS class to your Label, or to add a title to your Image. Dynamically, that is. How else would you get those nifty tooltips when hovering on an image, or a different CSS class depending on whether we're currently dealing with positive votes (green colour!) or negative votes (red color!). You can even pass your Components around through your app, add multiple Appenders, and Wicket ensures there's no duplication in the resulting code. I used AttributeAppenders a lot because they are so fun!
userLogo.add(new AttributeAppender("title", new Model(userName), "")); userLogo.add(new AttributeAppender("class", new Model("userIcon"), ""));
Until I realised how heavy they can be on the server. App Engine doesn't like big sessions, and neither do I. There's a hard cap of 1MB when App Engine refuses to store your session, and even in the 200K region I get uneasy, since even these 200K incur serialisation and deserialisation costs. My main gripe with Wicket is that it stores all its components in the session for the last n pages you visited. This does add up. Now, the problem is that AttributeAppenders also end up in the page tree and thus in the session. And if you were as happy-go-lucky as me, then chances are you have many AttributeAppenders in there. Each one may just cost 40 to 120 bytes or so. But if you display 30 rows of data, and each row is heavily decorated and linked (author! recipient! project! parent message! votes! etc) these hundreds of Appenders do add up too!
Fortunately, I was able to cut the number in half by analysing each Appender and checking if there's some other way. Often I had just added Appenders because I was lazy. Or because I thought some tooltips might add value (but they didn't really). Sometimes I had used Appenders because I thought it was a nice way to factor out the classes into ONE spot, even if the links were built from 20 different pages. Sometimes I had one class for case A, and one for case B (e.g. red negative votes vs green positive votes), and I could make one the default, and have a class only for the less likely case (negative votes in my example).
So there's no need to panic or stop using AttributeAppenders, and premature optimisation is evil anyway. Use AttributeAppenders for 99% of the cases. Only if you just know that a certain link will be pervasive through the whole app, it may make sense to think about memory and performance.
So in the above example, I keep using the title to display the username since there's no other way. But the class now is wired into the component in the HTML.
Attribute Modifiers
There are times when you need to attach CSS class X under these conditions, and class Y else. Like adding some visual cue that a component in a list is active (green) or inactive (red). It's easily done with AttributeAppenders, as discussed before. But if you also want to use Wicket AJAX to toggle the state of the component, then the class needs to update. This doesn't work with Appenders, you need dynamic Attribute Modifiers! Their downside is that they overwrite any existing attributes (e.g existing CSS classes) so I typically start out with Appenders, and only use Modifiers when required)
Here's an example of putting a class onto a listItem (in a user list) depending on whether a user is active, locked or never logged in before.
listItem.add(new AttributeModifier("class", new Model() { @Override public Serializable getObject() { String cssClass="userRow "; User user = userModel.getObject(); if ( !user.isActive() ) { cssClass+="userLocked "; } if (user.isGuest()) { cssClass+="userGuest "; } if (user.getLoginCounter()==0 && !user.isFake()) { cssClass+="userNeverLoggedIn "; } return cssClass; } } ));
Pretty URLS, combined with lazy class loading
Surprisingly, some people don't know about the mount()-methods. These methods turn the default ugly URLs into something nice. It works like this
mountBookmarkablePage("/authenticate", PleaseAuthenticatePage.class);
However, if you have many URLs to mount (we have hundreds), then Wicket needs to do a lot of classloading at the startup. In some circumstances this can be a problem. Like, when you're on App Engine and instance startup has to be fast, and classloading can at times be slow. A lazy loading mounting can be very useful in that case. Using the class below, the mounting needs to be slightly adjusted, et voila you've got a blazing fast startup experience again.
private void myMount(String path, String className) { mount(new LazyBookmarkablePageRequestTargetUrlCodingStrategy(path, className,null)); } ... myMount("/10-things-about-apache-wicket-i-love", "com.praisemanager.web.site.ThingsAboutWicketPage.class");
Want to toggle visibility of a panel with ajax?
setVisible(false) is great to hide a component based on some on-the-fly calculation, for example during the initial page rendering But to show that component later on during a Wicket Ajax request, you'll have to mark that component. Otherwise setVisible(true) simply won't to anything. Call
, in addition to setOutputMarkupId(true). Of course, don't forget to add that component to the AjaxRequestTarget.Admittedly, this is very basic knowledge. But it's a bug I kept running into a few times until I remembered.
Important addition: Override onConfigure()!It's pretty obvious that there is a setVisible() method on each component. It's not quite as visible that you shouldn't use this directly while you're processing an AJAX request. Instead, override the onConfigure() method, and inside it use setVisible(), based on the objects' models' state. The AJAX request merely states that the said component is dirty and needs to be re-rendered. ("addComponent()")
Careful with those AJAX requests
The Wicket AAJX integration is just great. It saves us just so much time. Of course we could use jQuery (and for more advanced stuff we do) but all the boilerplate code like hiding additional tabs, changing things on the fly, etc are taken care of. BUT:
Sessions time out, pages get evicted from the pagestore. This disconnects entry forms and Wicket AJAX actions from their back-end, and renders these ugly "Session expired" pages when people need them the least, e.g. after submitting a carefully crafted performance self-assessment. To some extent you just have to live with that. But to some extent you will have to mitigate the effects. Here two of the things we do to reduce the pain:
- Whenever the browser window is reactivated after more than 5 minutes of absence, a jQuery snippet calls the server and asks a little JSON backend "is there a session for this user"? If not, then jQuery will render an overlay, letting the end user know that their session has expired, and that most likely their next action will fail. We do give people the option to ignore the warning and to continue working on the page, but at least they have been warned:
- Wicket AJAX is super useful and easy to build, so in most cases we rely on it. The same applies to regular forms. But there are pages where our users are simply known to stay longer. They will often leave the browser window open over night or over the weekend, and want to resume editing a form on another day. On these pages we do not use Wicket forms. The save-button (and the auto-save) on that form merely trigger JSON requests to store the data. This means that even if the session had expired, the save operation would still work. Oh sure, you need to take care of security matters all by yourself then, but we found that this extra effort was totally worth it. Before we had lots of complaints of users who lost their data due to Wickets page expiry, now it's almost none. Also, we autosave eagerly, so that even in unlikely events of failure the user gets a warning early on, and doesn't lose too much.
Include your resource files and have them cached in the browser. But only until the next deployment.
It is seriously easy to make panels, components and pages incorporate JavaScript and CSS files. Just put this into a panel, for example, and you don't have to worry about imports in the HTML file anymore.
add(CSSPackageResource.getHeaderContribution(IndexPage.class, "global.css")); add(JavascriptPackageResource.getHeaderContribution(IndexPage.class, "jquery.tools.min.js"));
Now, about caching. On one hand you want stuff to be cached for a long time to make the UI more responsive. Ensure that your application server has a long timeout (or use getResourceSettings().setDefaultCacheDuration(); with some high value)
On the other hand, you want to clear caches after a redeployment. It's easy. Just append a timestamp to your resources (at least the ones that change frequently). How to get that timestamp? Easy too!
/** Method that loads a stuff from a file into a list **/ public List loadFileToArray(String filename) { List loaded= new ArrayList(); try { InputStream istream = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filename); // Get the object of DataInputStream DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(istream); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); String strLine; //Read File Line By Line while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) { loaded.add(strLine); } //Close the input stream in.close(); } catch (Exception e) {//Catch exception if any System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage()); } return loaded; } ... private static String timestamp=null; /** base class constructor **/ public BasePage() { if (timestamp==null) { List l=new Util().loadFileToArray("timestamp.txt"); timestamp=(String)l.get(0); } add(CSSPackageResource.getHeaderContribution("/css/global.css?v="+timestamp)); }
As you can see, we load a timestamp from a file called "timestamp.txt", and store it in a static variable. So it only happens once, upon rendering the first page. Then we add that timestamp as a parameter to our CSS file. Each time the timestamp changes, the browser will get a new version of it. The key is to generate the timestamp into the file when you rebuild your code. Easy. Use ant:
<target name="timestamp" description="creates timestamp for our resources"> <delete file="${basedir}/src/main/java/timestamp.txt"/> <echo file="${basedir}/src/main/java/timestamp.txt">${time}</echo> </target>
Don't bother componentising too early.
Wicket is perfect at modularising your code. I just love it. However, it is so simple that you really don't have to do it as the first thing. It is perfectly fine to delay it a bit, until your architecture becomes more stable, and until you know how your components are really going to look and interact.
A typical pattern when dealing with lists of objects was to have a page class (PerformanceReviewListPage), which contained a specific panel to handle the actual list (PerformanceReviewListPanel). Turns out that it's so easy to extract the list panel later on, you may as well do it later on. If you really need it, that is. In my case, I didn't really often end up reusing the panel, and most of our pages are not that terribly long either. But it blows up the number of files when using autocomplete in your IDE, so why componentise too early.
Want to load additional components into your page dynamically?
Say you are rendering a list of item titles, and for each item you want to be able to load a detail view right into the list. Or you have some tree-like structure, showing a list of items, and want to ajax-load sublists into an element.
There is an almost trivial way to do this. It is called replaceWith(). All you need is to add an empty placeholder component underneath each item in your list. Now, if someone clicks that ajax-link, you create a new panel with the same ID, and call placeholderPanel.replaceWith(newPanel). THAT'S IT! I love Wicket!
The main problem is finding this part of the documentation, or to realise this is what you need. I searched for plenty of keywords, didn't find anyhting, and ended up using JQuery's AJAX functionality to load a specific sub-list-page into the current one. Which is a major PITA with Wicket, because then you suddenly run into problems with Wicket pagemaps, and the dreaded Page Expired errors.
So, for all the poor souls looking for this solution, here are the keywords I used to search for:
- wicket dynamic pages
- wicket ajax dynamic
- wicket modify page structure
- wicket progressive enhancement
I hope this helped. Again, replaceWith() is what you're looking for!
Want to display a list of items that have totally different presentations?
Say, an event list. Event A has three properties, Event B has only 2, and Event C should always be displayed with some additional icons and colours. You could have one panel for each event type, but that's a bit of an overkill in most cases. On the other end, having a single panel render different types of events would result in nasty IF statements and overly complex code. Fragments to the rescue. (I found them a bit hard to understand at first, but it is really worth the effort. You'll have one ling but simple IF statement like this
... else if (type==Event.COMMENT_CHANGE_PROJECT) { listItem.add(new FragmentCommentChangeProject("eventDetails", "fragmentCommentChangeProject", eventCreator,comment, project)); } else if (type==Event.USER_LOG_IN) { listItem.add(new FragmentUserLogIn("eventDetails","fragmentUserLogIn", eventCreator)); } ...
And then inner classes for each fragment, and neat simple HTML fragments like this
<wicket:fragment wicket:id="fragmentUserLogIn">  Andrew Lynch logged in. </wicket:fragment>
Autocomplete field: How to deal with duplicates, how to deal with custom designs
There is a very simple autocomplete component in Wicket Extensions. You've seen it, it works fine for basic use cases. But it fails miserably for duplicates, and if you want to display additional text in the dropdown.
But let's assume you write a user-picker. Since the component is String-based only, it cannot tell duplicate names from each other. You have two "Joe Smith" in your list (and you can tell them apart by their avatar), and select the second one? Whoops, the component only knows you selected a certain Joe Smith. Which could be either the first, or the second. Duplicates just don't work.
So we went and wrote our own component.
Now it turns out there's an even better component out there. You will want to check that one out too!


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Bedecarré won the competition, and to this day feels it was because he made a personal connection with his customers and delivered a quality promise. Bedecarré went to Stanford intending to be a liberal arts major, perhaps going on to attend law school or enter government or politics. He interned with Leon Panetta, who was a freshman congressman at the time and realized, in the time he spent in Washington, DC, he wanted to be doing things, not just talking about or arguing issues. His time and course load at Stanford spurred his interest in computers, technology and innovation, interests complemented by the love of communication he developed at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He soon developed a passion for advertising during his early days at Ogilvy & Mather in New York.
The three-piece entrepreneurial puzzle now intact, Bedecarré founded AKQA in 2000 in the middle of the dot-com bubble by helping to bring together four companies. He and his partners had a vision of how devices would be connected, how media and communications would be shifting to digital and how the skills of an ad agency and a technology web development shop combined would create something new.
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It was in this crisis that Bedecarré used all those skills he had learned through the years. In 2001, AKQA let go about 60% of the people it had just brought together. He closed offices. Partners with whom Bedecarré had worked for more than a decade were asked to leave, and the remaining management members loaned money back to the company to pay the employees who were retained and keep cash flow positive.
Through these tough times, Bedecarré remained focused on digital advertising, considered by many to be a risky strategy. Bedecarré credits reaching out to all of their key clients personally, almost all of which they still have today, with helping AKQA stay afloat.
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This week a group of teachers in East Tennessee pulled together in an effort to make things a little more bearable for the survivors of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
"We wondered with us being in Tennessee, how we could reach out and help those victims and those families. For a child, a teddy bear is safe and secure," said Kristi Snyder, a third grade teacher at Alcoa Elementary School. "After the shooting, we all wanted to give those kids a hug. If we can't do that, a teddy bear is the next best thing."
The Alcoa Elementary School teachers started their teddy bear drive earlier this week and have already collected 500 of the stuffed animals. Their goal is to collect 650 teddy bears.
"We picked 650 because that is about how many students attend the school. What we would like to do is be able to have one bear for each student when they go back to school," said Snyder.
This week the collected bears have come from local school children as well as donors from as far away as Florida.
In addition to the 650 bears that will go to the surviving students, some Alcoa Elementary School students also made 26 custom teddy bears in honor of each student and teacher killed at Sandy Hook.
"The First United Methodist Church donated money to let the kids go to Build-A-Bear and make the bears for each of the victims' families. The kids chose a victim they wanted to honor and learned something about that person. Then they designed the bears with things that the victim enjoyed. There was one teacher who died who liked the snow so the kids made a bear covered in snowflakes," said Snyder.
Olivia Piercy, a third grade student at Alcoa Elementary, chose to build a teddy bear in honor of Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung.
"I wanted to choose the principal because I like teachers and I want to be a teacher when I grow up," said Piercy. "I picked out a bear that is the 'school cool' bear with glasses."
Five-year-old McKenna Cameron clutched a camouflage teddy bear she made in honor of a student killed at Sandy Hook.
"This bear is for Chase Kowalski," said Cameron. "The reason I picked him is because he was in the Boy Scouts."
The custom bears also include an audio recording of the child saying the victim's name and "someone in Tennessee loves you."
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The research objective was to develop guidelines for applying the M1 Abrams tank driver trainer (DT) to train tank drivers, including determining tasks trained, developing rules for applying the training device features, justifying the use of these rules using principles of learning, identifying potential device features, and integrating the DT into the Armor program of instruction. The research classified the DT tasks according to the Training Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness Prediction Model (TECEP) which prescribes learning guidelines based on the behavioral activities, conditions, standards, and feedback of the tasks. Most of the tasks are procedural, but many of the procedures require voice communications, decision making, or both. One set of the DT programs presents the continuous movement tasks of driving such as steering. Some learning guidelines are common to all DT tasks (e.g., providing active practice and feedback) while others are specific to the type of task (e.g., high fidelity, continuous feedback for continuous movement tasks). Potential DT features pertain to all tasks (e.g. scoring tasks) or to specific tasks (e.g., increasing the number and repetition of decision-making tasks). Integration of the DT into the program of instruction considers use of the M1 tank technical manual, new programs orienting the trainee to the driving block of instruction and the driver's intercom, and changes in the device hardware and software.
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After a couple of media tours during construction, I'd been putting off a visit to the new Gettysburg visitor center museum. With all the ugly talk about it, I was prepared to hate the place.
I'd heard about the dearth of artifacts in the museum, the "downtown Manhattan" prices in the refreshment saloon, the tacky souvenirs that crowded out real books in the bookstore. I was warned to expect pushy Gettysburg Foundation staffers trying to shill $8 tickets to some insipid PC movie that had replaced the beloved electric map.
But I figured I'd better get over there and see it quick, before the Park Service decides to start charging to visit the museum, the latest controversy swirling around the embattled battlefield visitor center.
Besides, I thought it was time for a column on the topic, and I figured actually seeing the place before writing about it might be the journalistically responsible thing to do.
But as much as I hate to admit it, I thought the museum all by itself was well worth the $7.50 the park is proposing to charge to see it, along with the Cyclorama painting and the new movie (which is, by the way, a ripoff at $8).
I guess I should have remembered that hating the Park Service was itself part of Gettysburg's hallowed history. I suspect some might have even made up their minds about the place before actually visiting.
That's the only explanation I can come up with for all the acrimony over the center itself.
I suspect if I owned a business on Steinwehr Avenue, near the old center, I'd hate the new place. Not only is it farther away, the books and souvenirs are wonderfully displayed and accessible. There may be fewer books, but it looks like a lot more. And more than enough T-shirts and battle trinkets for any one trip to Gettysburg.
Yes, the food is on the high side, with $9 chicken caesar salads and $2.50 bottled water. But I also got to sample $3.50 peanut soup, served with hardtack crackers so unpleasantly tough they must have been authentic.
But it was the museum itself that won me over. Yes, there are fewer artifacts on display, but how many rows of rifled muskets do you need to see to get the idea? Now they tell a compelling story that's waited to be told at this, the nation's premier battlefield, for far too long.
That's why I'm heartsick about the proposed admission fee - "the new birth of fee-dom," I like to call it.
After all the solemn promises the museum would stay free, I hate the thought of giving the professional park-service haters the ammunition to blast so fine a facility. But what I really hate is that many visitors to Gettysburg will miss what might be the best Civil War museum in the country because of the cost. That's no way to treat a national shrine.
And why the rush to go back on their word? Why not wait until the Cyclorama has been open a while to see if it draws enough visitors? At $12, the painting and the so-so movie would be a better deal than the $8 I paid for the movie by itself last week.
I've heard plenty of good alternatives to a $7.50 admission fee suggested during the public comment period that closes Monday. We could lower the price of the movie and painting in hopes of attracting more visitors to make up the shortfall. A separate, token fee of a dollar or two might eventually be necessary for the museum, but it pays to try other alternatives first.
Why not ask Congress for a bailout? If we can afford $700 billion for Wall Street, surely Gettysburg is worth a paltry $1.7 million, the amount of the projected visitor center shortfall.
I don't expect the foundation - which has displayed a remarkably tin ear when it comes to listening to local sentiment - to agree. But the Park Service has shown itself willing to compromise in the past.
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