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I was among a few here who tasted it at barrel-proof before they bottled it -- wow, was that something special! They diluted it (to 100 proof) and raised the price. Bad move. Can't really blame them, though -- they don't have a lot of experience with this sort of thing.
It's excellent rye, and each of us just has to decide whether or not to overpay for a singular experience. I did, but I have all I want now.
I did as well and have 2 bottles from Barrel #5, I think 77 and 83? anyway I have not opened one yet.
"So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey"
- #1 (91): super-ripe fruit, impatient oak, waves of spice
- #2 (89): dryer, oakier
- #3 (91): fruity, soft
- #4 (90): enormous
- #5 (93): early rye surge
- #6 (87): juicy, vanilla
- #7 (90): even, soft, honeyed
- #8 (95): the works, massive rye
- #9 (91): sharp rye, salivating
- #10 (93): complex, sweet
- #11 (93): rich, juicy, spicy
- #12 (91): near identical to #1
- #13 (91): citrus and toasty
- #14 (94): big rye and marzipan
- #15 (88): major oak influence
- #16 (90): spicy and toffeed
- #17 (90): flinty, firm, late rye kick
- #18 (91): big rye delivery
- #19 (87): major coffee input
- #20 (91): spicy sugar candy
- #21 (94): subtle, fruity
- #22 (89): molassed rye
- #23 (94): soft fruit, massive rye
- #24 (88): intense oak and caramel
- #25 (93): heavy rye and spice
- #26 (92): subtle, delicate rye
- #27 (94): delicate rye throughout
- #28 (96): salivating, roasty, major
- #29 (88): hot, fruity
- #30 (91): warming cough sweets
- #31 (90): aggressive rye
As you can see, the range is from 87-96, with an average of 91.
Thanks Tim, nice work there. Brett made the offer to go through and look for certain barrel #'s, but I decided against it. The way I see it, no matter what barrel my bottle comes from, it will be great Rye.
He has a heap of it - he was after the 23yo and his distributor didn't have any as he still had too much of the 21 - so what did Brett do? He purchased all of it! That's why he said he would look - he's bound to have a few different ones.
They have also reduced the price to $129.99
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day" - Frank Sinatra
Thanks Tim! While I am still 'sitting on the fence' on whether to fork out the bucks for an R21, your info makes me lean ever so slightly to the buy side. The only ones I have come across are from barrel #11 which is a higher ranked one according to the book. Just have not (and may never) totally justify spending over $150 incl tax when a $40 bottle of VWFRR may be every bit its equal on my novice palate.
Well I just received my Rittenhouse 21 from Binnys, and they sent me 2 bottles instead of 1. They are both from barrel #19. According to the notes Tim posted from Murrays Whiskey Bible, this is not only the lowest scoring barrel, but has 'major coffee input'. I hate coffee!!
I guess you can't win them all. Maybe I should have specified a barrel number!
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day" - Frank Sinatra

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Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer in 'Parks and Recreation.' / Mitchell Haaseth/NBC
Thats my spaghetti, Chewbacca, mumbled a jet-lagged Andy Dwyer this season on NBCs Parks and Recreation. Andys brain works in mysterious ways, but his goofiness never grates, thanks to the naive exuberance that actor Chris Pratt brings to the character. Pratt is so comfortable with being a lovable, doughy lug on the quirky sitcom that his transition to a buffed Marvel leading man for Guardians of the Galaxy, out Aug. 1, is all the more impressive. Hes Peter Quill, a renegade dude whose partners in fighting to protect the universe include the deadly green Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and a gun-toting raccoon. But before he goes all superhero, Pratt will enter the world of 3D computer-animated action in The Lego Movie, opening Friday. He provides the voice of Emmet, a regular Joe of a Lego guy whos swept into, yep, a battle to save the world. Wed rather see Andy take on Pawnees villainous Councilman Jamm, but if anyone should be a Lego everyman, its Pratt.


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Bose makes SoundLink Wireless Mobile Speaker official
updated 09:10 pm EDT, Thu September 15, 2011
Bose SoundLink takes Bluetooth speakers upscale
True to its teases last week, Bose unveiled its take on a wireless audio system. The SoundLink Wireless Mobile Speaker is a bigger much more powerful alternative to a Bluetooth speaker like the Jawbone Jambox but with its own design touches. A nylon or leather cover grafted into the design both protects the front when on the road and folds back to serve as a stand.
At three pounds and two inches thick, the SoundLink is less portable than the Jambox and meant for backpacks or messenger bags. Bose still claims eight hours of completely wireless use on a lithium-ion battery that it notes can be replaced.
The speaker will work with any Android, BlackBerry, iOS, or other device that can send audio out through Bluetooth's standard A2DP protocol. Bose is orchestrating a hard launch and should have the SoundLink in stores now for $300 in the simpler nylon version and an LX version with both leather and chrome trim. Different colors of nylon and leather cases are available for $30 and $50 each.


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Thoracic Surgeon Lebenthal Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center Staff
PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 21, 2008)—Thoracic surgeon Abraham "Avi" Lebenthal, M.D., a new resident of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center's surgical oncology department. He has a special interest in the treatment of patients with diseases of the gastro-esophageal junction and esophageal cancer. His advanced training included two additional years focused on minimally invasive approaches to thoracic malignancies, including cancers of the lung and esophagus.
Lebenthal comes to Fox Chase from the division of thoracic surgery at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he completed four years of clinical fellowships in one of the world's largest thoracic surgery training programs. He was the first minimally invasive fellow to train in thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's and gained great experience in the full spectrum of procedures such as video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), advanced laparoscopy, endoluminal diagnostics and therapeutic endoscopy techniques, including bronchoscopy, laser therapy, photo-dynamic therapy and stenting.
"Excellence in modern medicine is about doing things for and not to our patients, about knowing how to tailor a solution for an individual patient," Lebenthal said. "The values that a physician brings with him-his compassion, his ability to smell the roses and to appreciate life-are all key to his understanding of life's bigger picture. These values together with the skills that I've acquired during training enable me to offer the best possible medical care to my patients," Lebenthal believes.
As an instructor at Harvard, Lebenthal was responsible for training residents and fellows in thoracic surgery. He was also staff surgeon in the division of trauma at Brigham and Women's Hospital, routinely managing patients with complex and severe injuries.
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Lebenthal received his elementary, middle and high school education in the United States and holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship. He earned his bachelor's degree in medical science and, in 1993, his doctor of medicine degree at Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel's premier medical school. In 2003, he earned his master's degree in health administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev School of Management in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Lebenthal's Israeli army service included active duty as battalion physician and platoon commander in an elite infantry unit. He received a Letter of Distinction for Bravery for treating and evacuating critically injured soldiers under fire. He then served as brigade physician for a unit responsible for half of Israel's border with south Lebanon.
Later he gained administrative experience as assistant physician to the chief medical officer of Central Command and as commander of Jerusalem District Army Medical Facilities. His last duty was company commander, as a major in the reserves, in an elite paratrooper brigade, where he commanded the medical company for eight years.
Lebenthal completed seven years of general surgery training at Hadassah Ein-Karem, Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, and passed his general surgery boards in Israel. During his training, he spent a year as senior surgical resident at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City. He began his Harvard fellowship in thoracic surgery in 2004.
"At Harvard, I learned that you are only limited by the expectations of your mind," said Lebenthal said. Reflecting on his military service, he noted that "thoracic surgery is similar to the army special forces in that we are asked to push the envelope every day, the risks are real and success depends on prudent judgment, sound practice and precision of execution."
"I came to Fox Chase because it has three key ingredients for success: a proven track record, a great dedicated team and a population in need of advanced and innovative thoracic surgery," he said. "Most importantly, there is strong institutional support to develop the systems that will enable us to grow."
Lebenthal will work closely with Walter J. Scott, M.D., F.A.C.S., chief of thoracic surgery, who holds the Center's Gloria and Edmund Dunn Chair in Thoracic Surgery.
"I am looking forward to contributing my skills in minimally invasive surgery for esophageal and lung cancers and open surgery for mesothelioma," Lebenthal said. "Together with Fox Chase Cancer Center's internationally known programs in medical and radiation oncology, our team will provide the region's best thoracic cancer care."
Lebenthal is married to Sarit Lebenthal, a teacher currently on maternity leave. They have two daughters and two sons ranging in age from 12 to 8 months.
Fox Chase Cancer Center, part of the Temple University Health System, is one of the leading cancer research and treatment centers in the United States. Founded in 1904 in Philadelphia as one of the nation's first cancer hospitals, Fox Chase was also among the first institutions to be designated a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1974. Fox Chase researchers have won the highest awards in their fields, including two Nobel Prizes. Fox Chase physicians are also routinely recognized in national rankings, and the Center's nursing program has received the Magnet recognition for excellence four consecutive times. Today, Fox Chase conducts a broad array of nationally competitive basic, translational, and clinical research, with special programs in cancer prevention, detection, survivorship, and community outreach. For more information, call 1-888-FOX CHASE or (1-888-369-2427).


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A stylish all–inclusive worth bragging about, Grand Velas proves that it is possible to build an one-price luxury resort that is upscale, classy, and impressive all around.
The Grand Velas Suites and Spa Resort in the Riviera Nayarit area north of Puerto Vallarta has created a refreshing twist on the concept of paying one price for everything: a contemporary design, spacious rooms, consistently good restaurants, and premium liquor service set this distinctive resort apart from the rest. A gem that rises far above the cheesy competitors that dot the Mexican coastline, Grand Velas is an oasis of elegance, offering upscale style and superior service—a place that just may shatter all your stereotypes about what a vacation in a place like this can be. In another rarity for the area, you won't be bothered by sales reps pitching timeshares either.
A well–equipped gym and state–of–the–art spa receive high marks as two of the best in the region. You can also take advantage of several water sport activities or use one of three nearby golf courses.
The rooms here are a pleasant surprise to the upside. The smallest accommodations are junior suites, basically a larger–than–normal standard room with a nice–sized Jacuzzi. Parlor Suites include two rooms, followed by the spacious Grand Master and Presidential Suites that come complete with furnished wraparound terraces, outdoor whirlpools, and all the expected extras. All rooms have balconies with panoramic views, marble décor, quality custom furniture, and come loaded with the amenities, including a well–stocked complimentary minibar and snacks that get replaced each day. You can enjoy English channels on the 42-inch flat-screen TVs, plug in your music player, and surf the web with no extra charges.


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Volume 9 (2015)
On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the 21st Century
Forrest Stuart
Race/Ethnicity and Stop‐and‐Frisk: Past, Present, Future
Jose Torres
Fragmented to Death: The Study of Violence and the Utility of Criminology
Stacy K. McGoldrick
"The Penal Couple": An Examination of the Relationship Between Victimization and Offending and Its Implications for Criminal Justice
Heather Zaykowski
Dealing with Difference in Desistance Theory: The Promise of Intersectionality for New Avenues of Inquiry
Jamie J. Fader and LaTosha L. Traylor
Popular Punitivism: Finding a Balance Between the Politics, Presentation, and Fear of Crime
Christopher M. Campbell
Social Science Discourse and the Biopolitics of Terrorism
Michael Blain
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself…and Crime: The Current State of the Fear of Crime Literature and Where It Should Go Next
Billy Henson and Bradford W. Reyns
Police Crime: The Criminal Behavior of Sworn Law Enforcement Officers
Philip Matthew Stinson Sr.
Volume 8 (2014)
Conceptual Remixing in Criminology: Tracing Durkheim and Marx's Influence on Etiological Theories of Crime
Cindy Brooks Dollar
Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
Matt Vogel, Katherine D. Stephens and Darby Siebels
Policing Disaster: An Analytical Review of the Literature on Policing, Disaster, and Post‐traumatic Stress Disorder
Kelly L. Faust and Thomas Vander Ven
Recidivism, Redemption, and Desistance: Understanding Continuity and Change in Criminal Offending and Implications for Interventions
Kiminori Nakamura and Kristofer Bret Bucklen
Proving Themselves: The Status of LGBQ Police Officers
Susan L. Miller and Terry G. Lilley
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption
David Jancsics
The Network Structure of Crime
Andrew V. Papachristos
Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior
Matt Vogel
Drug Use Among Latino Youth: Two Popular Criminological Perspectives Infused with Latino Culture
Albert M. Kopak
Neighborhood Scale and Collective Efficacy: Does Size Matter?
Rachel E. Stein
Interrogating Whiteness Within Criminology
Justin M. Smith
At the Intersection of Urban Sociology and Criminology: Fear Of Crime and the Postindustrial City
Terressa A. Benz
Volume 7 (2013)
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder as the Medicalization of Childhood: Challenges from and for Sociology (pages 343–354)
Adam Rafalovich
Making it on the Outside: Understanding Barriers to Women's Post-Incarceration Reintegration (pages 265-277)
Tara Opsal and Allison Foley
Subordinating Myth: Latino/a Immigration, Crime, and Exclusion (pages 87-96)
Jamie Longazel
Explaining the United States' Penal Exceptionalism: Political, Economic, and Social Factors (pages 75-86)
Sarah Brayne
Volume 6 (2012)
Bad Sports: Explaining Sport Related Deviance (pages 949-961)
Ophir Sefiha
Overcoming the Neglect of Social Process in Cross-National and Comparative Criminology (pages 793–807)
Lonnie M. Schaible
Research on Women in Policing: A Look at the Past, Present and Future (pages 694–706)
Carol A. Archbold and Dorothy Moses Schultz
Rethinking Public Opinion in Penal Policymaking: Recommendations for Research (pages 601-613)
Elizabeth K. Brown
Delinquency Interrupted: Research into and Inside of Juvenile Correctional Facilities (pages 445-457)
Michelle Inderbitzin
Punitiveness and Political Culture (pages 365-375)
David A. Green
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An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Stigma Associated with Male Sexual Assault Victimization (pages 283-292)
Kevin M. Ralston
Global Mobility and Penal Order: Criminalizing Migration, A View from Europe (pages 113-121)
Vanessa Barker
Deviant Identity in Online Contexts: New Directives in the Study of a Classic Concept (pages 102-112)
R.J. Maratea and Philip R. Kavanaugh
Volume 5 (2011)
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Examining Race and Sex Inequality in Recidivism (pages 846–849)
Michael M. Wehrman
Problem-Solving Courts: Theory and Practice (pages 957–967)
Ursula Castellano
Social Equality and the Mobilization of the Law (pages 949–956)
Shannon Portillo
Risk Assessment Tools and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System (pages 850–858)
Lori D. Moore and Irene Padavic
Racial Profiling/Biased Policing (pages 763–774)
Clayton Mosher
More Than a Piece of Paper? Protection Orders as a Resource for Battered Women (pages 512–524)
Ruth E. Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin D. Fleury-Steiner and Susan L. Miller
'Green-Collar Crime': Environmental Crime and Justice in the Sociological Perspective (pages 499–511)
Brian Wolf
Trafficking in Humans: The TIP Report (pages 452–462)
Frances P. Bernat and Tatyana Zhilina
Juvenile Courts and Competency to Stand Trial (pages 439–451)
Angela Harvey
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Isn't Every Crime a Hate Crime? The Case for Hate Crime Laws (pages 392–394)
Randy Blazak
Isn't Every Crime a Hate Crime?: The Case for Hate Crime Laws (pages 244–255)
Randy Blazak
Examining Race and Sex Inequality in Recidivism (pages 179–189)
Michael M. Wehrman
The Paradigm Shift: Pornography Research, Sexualization and Extreme Images (pages 13–22)
Feona Attwood
Beyond Fear: Sociological Perspectives on the Criminalization of School Discipline (pages 1–12)
Paul J. Hirschfield and Katarzyna Celinska
Volume 4 (2010)
Parole Revocation in the Era of Mass Incarceration (pages 999–1010)
Jeffrey Lin
Immigrants' Perceptions of the Police (pages 924–935)
Yuning Wu
Drug War Politics: Governing Culture Through Prohibition, Intoxicants as Customary Practice and the Challenge of Drug Normalisation (pages 841–855)
Shane Blackman
In the Spirit of Selden Bacon: The Sociology Of Drinking and Drug Problems (pages 856–868)
Christopher R. Freed
Homicide–Suicides in the United States: A Review of the Literature (pages 430–441)
Marc Riedel
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A Hybrid Model of Moral Panics: Synthesizing the Theory and Practice of Moral Panic Research (pages 295–309)
Brian V. Klocke and Glenn W. Muschert
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Beyond Public Opinion Polls: Punitive Public Sentiment & Criminal Justice Policy (pages 156–168)
Natasha A. Frost
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An Overview of the Victims' Rights Movement: Historical, Legislative, and Research Developments (pages 95–110)
Jeanna M. Mastrocinque
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Assumptions and Evidence Behind Sex Offender Laws: Registration, Community Notification, and Residence Restrictions (pages 1–20)
Kelly M. Socia Jr and Janet P. Stamatel
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Volume 3 (2009)
The Death Penalty in the Post-Furman Era: A Review of the Issues and the Debate (pages 559–574)
Tony G. Poveda
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Contributions of the National Incident-Based Reporting System to Substantive Knowledge in Criminology: A Review of Research (pages 433–458)
Aki Roberts
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Basic Challenges to Prisoner Reentry (pages 183–195)
Doreen Anderson-Facile
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Volume 2 (2008)
The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic: A Sociological Analysis (pages 1719–1733)
Mary De Young
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Healing Victims and Offenders and Reducing Crime: A Critical Assessment of Restorative Justice Practice and Theory (pages 1734–1749)
Meredith Rossner
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A New Paradigm of Organized Crime in the United States: Criminal Syndicates, Cyber-gangs, and the Worldwide Web (pages 1750–1765)
Marjie T. Britz
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'Are You Top or Bottom?': Social Science Answers for Everyday Questions about Sadomasochism (pages 1766–1782)
Kathleen Guidroz
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Homicide Arrest Clearances: A Review of the Literature (pages 1145–1164)
Marc Riedel
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The Wayward Girl Revisited: Understanding the Gendered Nature of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency (pages 821–836)
Lisa Pasko
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Girls' Violence: Beyond Dangerous Masculinity (pages 837–855)
Katherine Irwin and Meda Chesney-Lind
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The Madness of the Mob? Explaining the 'Irrationality' and Destructiveness of Crowd Violence (p 675–687)
David Waddington
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Perceptions of and Responses to Stigma (pages 409–432)
Thomas P. LeBel
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Transgender and Transsexual Studies: Sociology's Influence and Future Steps (pages 433–450)
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
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Controversies Surrounding Mandatory Arrest Policies and the Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence (pages 451–466)
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Driver's side headlight looks damaged. Maybe they were in an accident.
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Chapter Sixteen
I knocked on the door to Maddy's house as I wiped my face to dry up my tears. "Hey what are you doing here?" Maddy asked yawning.
"I left Kellan." I heard a cup drop in the kitchen and shatter on the floor. Maddy gaped at me.
"What?" She asked shocked. I nodded as I fought the urge to cry again.
"I left him. I packed up when he was at work and was ready when he came home." She pulled her robe around her tighter as a breeze blew on us.
"Come in, it's cold." I picked up the car seat and walked in as Bob came walking into the room.
"I put the water on for some tea." I nodded as I put my bag down on the floor.
"Do you think we can stay here while I get back on my feet?" I asked her as I took a tissue off the table to blow my nose.
"Of course, Sweetheart. You can stay in your old room." She pulled me into a hug as I tried to calm down.
"I'll go get your bags." Bob said clearing his throat. He gave me a quick rub on my back before walking out.
"Come sit down, Char." She sat me on a stool in the kitchen as she got cups for the tea. "What happened? Did you talk to Kellan?" I nodded.
"I did. He cheated on her with me." I looked down sadly as she handed me my cup of tea. "He wanted a paternity test." She stared at me wide eyed. "So I left. I said we would work out visitation for Jamie." I took a sip of my tea. I shook my head. "Hurt me once, shame on me. Hurt me twice, shame on you. Hurt my baby, and I will kill you." I gave a humorless laugh.
"Oh Charlotte." She gave me a sad look.
"I thought he changed. But I guess he didn't. Everything he told me was a lie. Everything." I shook my head. "How can I ever trust him? He lied about every little thing he said in New Hampshire." I put my face in my hands. "I hate myself for falling for it." I felt arms wrap around my shoulders as I sobbed into my hands."Why do I have to love him?" I cried.
"I know baby." Maddy rubbed my back leaning her cheek against my head. "Love hurts so much."
"Why did he have to hurt me?" I sobbed quietly. "Why did I have to believe him?"
"You were pregnant with his baby. You wanted it to be real. You still do." I shook my head.
"No, I don't want to see him. I hate him." I picked my head up to look at her. She wiped my cheek.
"You don't mean that. You're just hurt and tired. You could never hate a person." I sniffled as she picked up a tissue handing it to me. I blew my nose as she pushed my hair behind my ear. "Why don't you go set up for Jamie and change while I make her a bottle?" I shook my head.
"I think I'll just breast feed." I smiled weakly at her as I wiped my face with my sleeves.
"Okay. I'll bring you a glass of water." I walked into the front room to see Bob holding Jamie as she stared up at him. He looked up as I walked in.
"Hey." He gave me a weak smile.
"Hey, Sweetheart." He rocked Jamie as she gave a whimper. "I put everything upstairs. We'll get through this, Baby." I could feel the tears coming on. "I know, Baby. But we're here to help. Do you want a hug?" I nodded at him as he pulled me into a one armed hug. "I'm sorry, Baby." He sighed leaning his chin on my head. "I'm always going to be here for you no matter how my kids screw up." He whispered as Jamie moved in his arms to get closer to me. "I promised your parents when they left that I would take care of you. I always will." I looked up at him as he smiled. "You're my baby too. He screwed up bring time with you." I nodded leaning my head on his shoulder.
"Is there something wrong with me?" He rubbed my shoulder.
"Of course not. My son is just an idiot." He kissed my head. "He doesn't know what he's losing." He sighed. Bob was always my second Dad especially after my parents moved to Africa. I really think that's the reason why they let me stay. I already thought of them as parents. They gave me my career. They gave me a home for most of my High School and College career.
"Bobby." He stroked my hair.
"Come on let's get you settled in." He handed me a squirming baby as she rubbed her face on his chest. "Little baby here wants her Mommy." I put Jamie on my shoulder as I wiped my nose again. "Come on." He pulled me gently upstairs. I walked into my old room and sat down on the bed and sighed. Bob pulled out the pack and play and set it up so I could lay Jamie down after her feeding. "Do you need anything else?" He asked as I laid Jamie on the bed pulling her pants off making her kick her legs happily. I picked up my bag pulling out some pajamas as Bob put the other bags in my closet.
"Thank you." I smiled at him as I felt the pain of a head ache coming on. Bob kissed my head before leaning down to kiss Jamie making her give a breathless sigh. Maddy came in putting my glass of water on the nightstand.
"Here you go, Charlotte." I smiled at her as I pulled the pack and play up to the bed.
"Thank you, both of you." They smiled at me.
"Don't worry about it sweetheart." Maddy put the diaper bag next to the crib. "We're just down the hall if you need anything at all. Just call to us." I nodded at them smiling.
"Thank you so much. We won't be here long. Just till I can get back on my feet and get an apartment. I'll need to come off my maternity leave early and take on some more hours." Bob shook his head.
"Not now, we'll talk about this tomorrow. You need to get some sleep. You had a tough day. Get some rest now." I nodded as he closed the door. I looked at Jamie as she sucked on her hand. I picked her up putting her on my knees as I leaned back on the bed.
"Mommy will always love you Jamie. Even if Daddy doesn't. Mommy will. I will always take care of you my little angel. Whether Daddy wants you or not, I will always want you." I leaned down to kiss her nose. "I promise I will do the best I can to take care of you. We'll figure it out, Sugar." She whimpered as I pulled down my shirt for her to breast feed. "I promise." I whispered quietly to myself as I closed my eyes to think….
I rang the doorbell to the house taking a deep breath. The door opened and Kellan stared at me before rubbing his eyes. "Hey." I cleared my throat as he opened the door more so he was standing in the doorway.
"Hey." He looked terrible. He didn't look like he slept much; his eyes were blood shot and red. He wasn't wearing a shirt and I knew he still had bedhead. He ran a hand through his hair squinting at me. "What are you doing here?" His voice was raspy. I felt terrible. He's been crying.
"I promised you I would help set up the nursery." I couldn't look any better. I couldn't sleep through the night no matter how hard I tried. It wasn't because I had to wake up every 3 hours for a feeding, no it was because I was just getting dreams. Dreams I would wake up crying to. Jamie slept better than I did. "Did they deliver the furniture?" He opened the door inviting me in.
"They came a couple hours ago." He cleared his throat loudly trying to get the rasp out. "I have them in the room. I was going to put them up later." I nodded slowly not knowing what to say. "Would you like something to drink?" He turned to look at me. I wasn't mad at him anymore. I couldn't be. He looked pained, haunted even. There wasn't much left in his eyes.
"Tea would be nice." I whispered looking away from the scorching blue that seemed to follow everywhere I looked. He walked into the kitchen to put on the tea pot. I walk in behind him standing in the door way. He picked up an empty bottle of whiskey and put it into the recycling. "It's not like you to drink." He looked everywhere but at me.
"Yeah well, my girlfriend just left me and took my daughter with her." I looked down at my hands blinking back the tears as he put his hands flat on the counter. We stayed in the awkward moment of silence listening to the water boiling on the stove. "Where are you guys staying?" He finally looked at me in the time I've been standing here.
"With your parents for the moment." I nodded as the water started to boil. I watch him take it off and pull out a cup.
"I'm glad you have somewhere comfortable to stay." He cleared his throat as he poured himself a cup of coffee. "Milk and sugar?" He asked already taking it out.
"Yes please." I whispered running a hand through my hair as he handed me the cup. "She was good last night. I think she missed you though." I watched him take a deep breath.
"I didn't mean for this to happen, Char." He turned to look at me, the tears brimming in his eyes. "I never wanted us to be like this." I took a cautious sip of my tea to see if it was too hot. "Not where we can't even talk to each other." I looked down at the caramel color liquid in my cup.
"I did do a lot of thinking last night, Kellan." He gave me a hopeful look. "How can I trust you?" His shoulder slumped.
"I don't expect you too." He swallowed loudly. "I didn't think you'd leave." He looked back at me. "I didn't think it'd hurt this much."
"You didn't even fight for me. You didn't say anything. You didn't tell me to stay." I watched the tear roll down his cheek.
"I couldn't think of anything to say. I couldn't breathe. I was losing the best thing I had. The two most important people in my life." The next tear followed its sibling. "I couldn't think of anything to change your mind. I couldn't think of anything to take what I did back. There are no words to take this hurt away, Charlotte." I shook my head as the traitor tears ran down my face without my permission. He walked closer to me. "I'm so sorry. For everything I did." He caught my tear on his finger. "I didn't have anything that would keep you here. I don't deserve you." He shook his head as more tears rolled down his cheek. "Please, forgive me." He pressed his lips to my forehead. "I'm begging you, please." I felt his tears hit my cheeks. "Please, please, forgive me."
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migrating tomcat web apps in eclipse to maven advice - where to start?
Stuart Swearengen
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Jul 25, 2012 04:55:35
I thought it was about time I start using
or at least prototype to see if it will do what I want. I'm hoping it can make the whole ant build+release process faster?
I have a series of large applications running in
, build using ant and hudson for releases and eclipse for local dev environments. So, where to start looking at moving to maven?
given that:
I don't want to impact the developer / debug experience
eclipse + wtp + tomcat + selennium + svn + hudson is always in the mix
how do you migrate?
would there be a local build in maven and a remote one for builds? or just one?
can maven do all the code checkout / labelling/ running
code/ deploying?
any good stuff to read? poms seem impenetrable at first glance as do archetypes
any recommendations on useful eclipse tools
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I strongly recommend getting Eclipse + WTP out of the mix when doing nightly and production builds. Myself, I have a firm policy on all projects that they must be buildable from the command line with only Maven (or Ant) with no IDE installed on the computer at all. I also design my webapps so that any environmental information comes from external sources so that the exact same WAR file can be used on development, test, and production machines without alteration.
The "mvn clean deploy" goal will do a complete cleanup, compile, packaging and deployment cycle. I don't know about checkout, since I normally checkout before commencing work on a project. Maven will, however, automatically pull in binary dependencies; that's one of Maven's most celebrated characteristics.
For production builds, I can do a step further. Once I check all the changes in, a "mvn release:prepare" followed by a "mvn release:perform" will tag the production build in version control, run the unit tests, build javadocs and create/deploy a project management website (the "mvn site" goal). One-button solution.
Just in case you hadn't already figured it out - yes, the same maven project (and POM) does all of this, whether it's development, Beta, or production. I run my development builds inside Eclipse. I don't use WTP however, since I frankly consider WTP to be an abomination (I use sysdeo).
If you don't have the m2eclipse plugin installed into Eclipse, I believe it's located at tigris.org.
An archetype is basically just a snapshot of a prototype project, and fairly easy to create and easier to use.
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At least you don't have to explicitly specify each and every dependency (unless you want to), since Maven will transitively resolve cascading dependencies.
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Start off with some reading. A good place to start is Better Builds with Maven:
Work your way through that using simple test projects.
Then for a better detailed look, read Maven: The Complete Reference:
That provides a better understanding of Maven.
Once you understand Maven better, then you can start converting your existing projects into Maven.
To answer your specific questions:
1) We use only a single pom.xml which does the builds on both the developer's machine and on the build machine. The build can be run from within Eclipse (which I never do, but it's what my colleagues do) or from the command line (the only way that I build). We use profiles if there are differences in the build (there are lots of them, but mostly configuration related, but in some instances hat are additional goals that get run on the build machine)
2) Leave the checkout to Eclipse and Hudson. What do you mean by "labelling"? Maven runs unit tests automatically as part of the build. Maven can also run integration tests, but doesn't run them automatically. But you can use profiles to run integration tests automatically on the build machine, assuming that your build also sets up the environment. (We haven't got that far in our builds but our environment is a little unusual.) And what do you mean by "deploying"? In Maven terminology, "deploy" means to upload the resulting artifact into a remote repository (you will want to set up Nexus or Artifactory as a repository server in your build environment, that us where you "deploy" to). But if you mean "deploy to an app server", then yes it can be done, the details depend on the app server and availability of plugins (google searches often yield handy plugins).
3) See above
4) Tim mentioned m2eclipse, it is a must have.
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As I said, I inject environmental information from the server itself. I tried doing it via profiles and I didn't care for the results. Since I've been burned by having the wrong WAR installed on the wrong server, a "one-size-fits-all" WAR is much safer for me. I use profiles for case such as doing my testing on Tomcat and deploying to WebSphere, where the dependencies vary.
The Maven "release" plugin, as I said, does a major job. A number of the jakarta projects use it as a one-button solution to update the app, the javadocs, and the support website all in one swell foop. I shouldn't have used the term "labelled", however. When the source code archive is a Subversion archive, the release plugin creates a
for the source code that was released. It also automatically bumps the version number in the POM.
Don't confuse the different types of deployments, though. The simple "deploy" goal can be used to push a jar out to a Nexus server. The release:deploy goal updates the project website. IIRC, to deploy to an appserver, you have to use an appserver-specific goal such as "tomcat:deploy".
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Aug 11, 2012 04:21:00
Thanks for the replies, some great help in there. Sorry for the delay a collarbone break stopped me. As I thought, it may take me some time to get all the legacy projects migrated.
One of the points I worried about the most was that by removing eclipse+ wtp, the debugging experience would be less good to devs. It seems you all have gone down the command line route,potentially invoked in conjunction with an IDE.
How are you debugging the code if you need to? remote debugging like
or just using logging?
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The developers still use Eclipse to develop and debug. The point is that Maven builds instead of Eclipse specific settings. M2Eclipse imports project configuration from Maven so you only have one set of configuration.
You will "affect" developer experience as:
1) They will need to install M2Eclipse.
2) You'll want to refactor the directory structure of your project to "the Maven way."
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Personally, I use logging. Perhaps just out of habit. But many of my co-workers debug from within Eclipse. They also installed the WTP/Maven tools (don't have eclipe up right now so don't have the exact name, but it is usually the first result in the Eclipse Marketplace when you search for Maven).
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Toxic Dagger/Victimiser?
I'm debating on going with axes or knives, so I was wondering if Toxic Dagger and the +damage skills when enemies have status effects are worth more than say, Helm Splitter/Parallax/etc.?
I'm not far enough into the game to worry about the ultimate weapons by far, just curious as to which would be more useful.
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Toxic dagger works on some bosses, but all in all, it is relatively worthless. Daggers have low attack and their abilities rely on status effects to do damage, which is very annoying when u only have a low chance of envominating etc. with dagger moves. AXes are stronger+ you get axe man, a move that gives you a much higher chance to crit, this move is wonderful for grinding on slimes. Overall, go with axes.
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I don't have experience with the daggers, but in my experience status effects (against enemies) are unreliable.
Axes on the other hand are the only weapons besides spears that are great for hunting advanced metal slimes for leveling, and they have skills that do damage while potentially lowering the enemy's defense. The group attack you can get might be decent too; we'll see.
Given the choice between low damage with a small chance of a status effect and high damage with some chance of lowering defense, I'll take the second option, but it's up to you. Having never used daggers beyond the Ranger quest, I may be underestimating them.
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Inventions can be such a problem. They're handy, no question, but they clutter our lives and add to our credit card bill. You start depending on them, but they don't work quite as well as you hoped, and then the only thing to do is make ANOTHER invention to fix the first one. It's a career, I tell ya.
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It wasn't until a few hundred years ago that western civilization viewed the world in terms of planned change or planned improvement. Previously, life remained relatively static in terms of new objects appearing to help the daily chores, and the word "technology" as a popular idiom is really only a development of the 20th century. Now, of course, we expect computers and frozen dinners and heart valves to be much better next year. And they will be, with genuine improvements, and not just bigger tail fins and a new ad campaign.
What can we expect for the future? Well, until the Four Horsemen show up (War, Famine, Operating System Incompatibility, and Warranty Expiration), plan on more and better stuff, and nowhere to store it. That's the dilemma of our lives -- you can get almost anything you can conceive of, but moving to a new apartment becomes a significant life event. But just because YOU don't have any closet space doesn't mean I can't throw a few ideas against the fan and see what sticks.
Let's start with a decent spam filter, one that applies electric shock to the genitals of the sender proportional to the number of people annoyed. Each returned spam would apply about a tenth of a volt. If 1000 think it's junk, respond, 100 volts -- a nasty but survivable jolt. 100,000 PO'd recipients, 10,000 volts -- total vaporization of the offending organization. Junk e-mail solved.
Next, I could use a cell phone jammer with a range of about 20 feet. You plug it in your cigarette lighter in your car (Do they still make car lighters?), and every jerk with an SUV and a cell phone has to hang up and redial if he gets near you on I-4. If enough of us vote with our wallets for this, a serious problem can be solved with no legislation. And if you did break down, you walk ten steps from the road and you can still get help.
Yard work is still such a chore, and NASA has made such strides in automating robotic vehicles. We need an automated self-propelled neural network leaf blower. It would come out of your garage, blow all the leaves onto the neighbor's yard, and then retire. Later, the neighbor's machine will come out and do their lawn. Obviously, the bigger the motor, the better. Everyone gets a clean sidewalk, plus shows off how much they can spend on annoying gadgets. And if you neighbor has a barky dog, go away for a weekend and program the thing to run at 3 AM.
And speaking of barking dogs, it's a proven fact that owning a dog makes people go deaf. Try knocking on the door of someone with a beagle. "Oh, is that MY dog barking? I'm so sorry…" But they're not, they just like the sound. Now, American native cleverness can solve this problem. If you put a big ultrasonic speaker up in your eaves and cranked about 100 watts of 25 kilohertz, it drives a dog nuts. Either run this all day while you're at work and wear out the dog's vocal cords, or run it at night and the owner will strangle the dog himself.
Sure, I'd like to see a cure for world hunger or abundant free energy or one of those Star Trek transporter thingies, but I'm not counting on it. It's probably better to focus on the problems we can solve at hand rather than attempt the impossible. Like an easy to remove cellophane wrapper for CDs.


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Well, the Warriors answered the call last night and played as their best game of the season in a huge win over the Suns. It got a bit interesting in the last three minutes but the result was really never in question.
The Warriors came out with the energy and intensity that they needed to play with to beat a team like the Suns.
Jason Richardson was unconscious. If he can play remotely close to the level he did last night the Warriors have another key offensive option that also rebounds. It was nice to see him go off like he did last night.
Biedrins' dunk over Stoudamire was rowdy!! I did not see that coming. I always say watching the games that Biedrins needs to learn to dunk more as he gets some bunnies blocked underneath when he should be throwing them down. A great dunk though for sure!
The momentum must continue on Sunday against the Grizzlies. They are the worst team in the league. It is another must win for the Warriors on Sunday before a tough three game road trip to Memphis, Houston and San Antonio. Go Warriors!!
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Yeah, when I posted last night that it was the first time in forever I had heard Sir Charles talk somewhat positively about the Ws, it was all relative to what he usually does. Not once did he say "the Warriors are not a playoff calibre team" or anything like that, and no real bashing of them. At halftime Kenny and the other guy (forget his name) were saying that Phoenix was going to catch up and probably win the game, and Charles disagreed.
And when they showed the standings at the end, Charles said that the teams below the Ws are out of it and it's a 2 team race for the playoffs. He didn't say who he thought would get in, the other announcers kept going on about how much ground the Ws had to make up and that they didn't think they would do it.
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Last month, Inktomi rolled out the latest version of the search engine it provides to partners such as MSN. But is Inktomi's "Web Search 9" better than previous incarnations? Indeed, is it better than its major crawler-based competitors, Google, AllTheWeb, Teoma and AltaVista?
"With the release of Web Search 9, Inktomi meets or exceeds all other search engines in the key metrics of search performance: relevance, freshness and index size," says Inktomi, on a summary page about the changes at the company's web site.
To back up its claims, Inktomi cited figures for two of the key metrics. For freshness, Inktomi claims to revisit all documents in its index at least once every two weeks. For index size, it claims to index 3 billion web documents, a new record (and one that Google also began claiming last month). But what about relevance? Inktomi had no figures to offer, here.
Inktomi's not alone in this. AltaVista also had a major relaunch last month. A press release describing AltaVista's new features and under-the-hood changes also notes that AltaVista provides "a new index that delivers unique, highly relevant results." Any figures to back this up? Nope.
Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. As we shall see, turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge challenge, but it's a challenge the search engine industry needs to overcome, for its own good and that of consumers.
Measuring Relevancy
There are many different ways that search engines can be tested, some good, some bad and often some that make sense depending on a particular situation. Let's examine a few.
"Anecdotal Evidence" is simply when someone reports a general impression they have with a particular search engine or the results of an isolated search. For example, many of my readers and others I encounter continue to give Google praise for the quality of its results. Anecdotally, Google is great. However, that doesn't tell us conclusively that it is the best. Similarly, when some people complained in October that Google's relevancy had "dropped," they gave anecdotal evidence of this, while Google defenders used anecdotal evidence to dispute the claim.
"Mega Search" is a style of test I usually find particularly bad. This is when someone performs a search, then looks at how many matches each search engine has found for the query. The engine with the most matches "wins," even though no quality has been determined.
"Ego Search" is another style that can be bad, and one that I still see journalists and others often perform. In an ego search, you look for your name. If you fail to come up tops for it, you conclude the search engine's relevancy is poor.
In some cases, perhaps this is true. If I search for "bill gates," it's reasonable to expect to find the official web site for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. But what if you aren't as well known as Bill Gates or have a popular name? What if you've built a web site in some free hosting service that is shared by spammers? These might be issues that push you down, and for good reason. Moreover, are you're going to condemn an entire search engine as bad, based on one search? Well, I've seen it happen.
Overture performs one type of internally-run relevancy testing that I'd describe as "Binary Search." In that, users are shown listings for a query and asked if they'd be happy with the result, if they'd consider it somehow relevant. The answer is either yes or no, a binary choice. Go through a list of 100 results, and if 95 of them are considered OK, then you could claim 95 percent relevancy.
That sounds great, but there's no nuance involved, no sense of whether things "more relevant" to the search topic are missing. It's equivalent to asking people to eat different types of cakes and answering whether each cake is simply edible. Edible is fine in some instances, but what you really want to know is who serves the best cakes consistently?
Overture is not alone in running internal relevancy tests. AltaVista runs one where its listings are compared to those from competitors, though branding and formatting is stripped away, so that users don't know which search engines are involved. The users rate which set of results is better or whether the sets are equal to each other.
There's still some sense of the "binary" in this type of testing. Is the user an expert in the subject they are searching on? If not, they might be unaware of important sites that are missing in both sets of results. That means both sets might be deemed relevant, even though someone expert in the subject might consider the relevancy to be poor.
Indeed, the subjectivity of searchers is one of the biggest challenges in relevancy testing. Two people could search for "dvd players," one person looking to buy a player and the other wanting to learn more about them. The first person might be pleased to get listings dominated by commercial sites selling DVD players, while the second person might prefer more editorial-style listings of reviews and explanatory pages. The mindsets of what's relevant are different, and it can be important to test relevancy for both intentions, commercial and non-commercial.
In what I call "goal oriented testing," subjectivity is brought a little more under control. In a goal test, you perform a query where you know a particular page really ought to appear, according to most people you might ask. The "Company Name Tests" I used to perform are like this, where a search for "microsoft" really ought to bring up a link to the Microsoft web site, for example. Few would dispute that.
Unfortunately, the problem with using company names as goal is that they really only test the "navigational" aspects of a search engine. Most people searching for a company by name probably want to reach that company, to navigate to its web site. That's an important role for a search engine to fulfill, but it's only one type of relevancy.
The "Perfect Page Test" that Search Engine Watch performed recently was a different style of goal-oriented searching, where we came up with a list of web sites that we felt many people knowledgeable about different topics would agree should be present for certain queries. Of course, the problem with that test -- as we pointed out with our article about it -- is that it doesn't measure whether other sites listed are also good. A search engine failing to bring up the target page for a particular query might get a bad score yet still have nine other highly relevant findings.
The limitations of this test is one reason why we didn't trumpet the winners of the test in the headline of the article. Indeed, we buried the scores under 12 paragraphs of explanation. And the fact that Google, Yahoo and MSN Search got an A on that test doesn't mean that all of their results are A quality, any more than AltaVista getting a D on the test means that all of its results are D quality. It only means that in this very limited, particular and narrow test, that's what was found. In other tests, the leaders could be failing while formerly poor performers might be succeeding.
Ideally, what you want is a battery of tests, with tens, hundreds or thousands of queries run and examined, tested in different aspects. How did this query perform for someone searching in "product mode?" How does this search engine handle a navigational query? What's an ego search bring up for some prominent people? And so on.
Search Engine Watch will take a stab at this by running small scale tests over time. However, the real solution is for the search engines themselves to come together, agree on some testing standards, contract to have these performed on a regular basis and crucially, agree to publish the findings no matter what.
Search Engines Need To Come Together
Relevancy testing isn't a job I'm stumping for. I'd be happy to help offer suggestions about how relevancy testing might be performed, and I'm sure other search engine commentators would be pleased to be involved, as well. But the job is really something a testing organization should take on.
There is precedent for this. The former eTesting Labs (now VeriTest, and the link wasn't working when I tried to visit today), for example, was contracted in the past by different search engines to run a battery of tests to measure relevancy. That company or others could be contracted by the search engine industry to conduct perhaps quarterly testing, according to criteria that the industry agrees on.
Public release of this data is also important. Some companies that contracted with eTesting Labs in the past refused to let the tests be made public, if they did poorly. Similarly, the NPD Group used to do consumer surveys, where the search engines' own users rated their relevancy. Those search engines that did well often released their figures, while those that did poorly kept quiet.
While it may be tempting to sit on bad news, if the search engines want us to take seriously their claims of relevancy, then they have to agree to release both the good and the bad. If a search engine does poorly, then that poor performance should be an excuse to work harder.
Spare Us The Noisy Stats
Why is getting a relevancy figure so important to consumers? First and foremost, it would bring a greater awareness that there are real choices in search.
I love Google's relevancy and cannot sing the praises of the company's work to improve the standards of search enough. They've been a driving force over the past few years in raising the quality of search, and they deserve all the success that their hard work has brought them. However, Google also has some very good competitors now (such as these major search engines). Some of these competitors may even -- gasp -- have a search algorithm that works better for some users, or search assistance features that Google lacks or even an interface that some users might like better.
Some search consumers may never bother trying some of these other search engines because they've been told or convinced that Google is the best. Regularly published relevancy figures would help in this. If it turns out that relevancy testing finds that Google and its competitors are all in roughly the same degree of relevancy, then users might then be willing to experiment more with others. It also means that they may pay more attention to choosing search engines for certain features, such as search term refinement options, the ability to see more results at once or spell checking.
A relevancy figure would also free us from search engines playing the "size card" or the "freshness card" to quantify themselves as better than the competition. Yes, having a large index is generally good. Yes, having a fresh index is desirable. However, neither of these stats indicates how relevant a search engine is. Nevertheless, the search engines keep pushing them at us, and in particular at journalists, in an effort to trump their competitors.
It's understandable. Journalists and others desperately want to quantify which search engines are the "best" in some way. Size and freshness figures are easy way for search engines to trot out numbers that can be turned into pretty bar charts. However, we've literally had years of this game being played, and it's tiring. It's also detracts from that most important factor, relevancy.
Do It, Or Have It Done To You
Ultimately, if the search engines fail to come up with an accepted means of measuring relevancy, they are going to continue to be measured by one-off "ego searchers" or rated anecdotally. Check out what a college student was recently quoted as saying, in a campus newspaper article about searching:
"Don't waste your time with any of the new [search engines". Ask Jeeves is useless and AOL is a piece of junk," the student said. "Just stick to Yahoo and Google."
Actually, Ask Jeeves is far from useless, given that it makes much more use of the high-quality search results from its Teoma search engine. As for AOL, since it is 100 percent powered by Google, calling it "a piece of junk" while simultaneously praising Google makes no sense. Meanwhile, Yahoo is now, in the vast majority of cases, providing the same results as Google, so "sticking" to just Yahoo and Google is essentially sticking to Google. So much for diversity in search.
I've simplified things a bit. Though Yahoo and AOL are powered by Google, they are not exactly the same as Google. Yahoo does have some additional features, while AOL lacks some of what Google offers -- but for AOL users, it also offers some things Google doesn't.
Nevertheless, this student is no doubt remembering some bad experiences at Ask Jeeves and AOL before their upgrades and unaware of recent changes at Yahoo. His anecdote is based on old data, but as there is no relevancy number to counter his claims, his anecdote gets the last word, rather than some more authoritative relevancy measures.


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G'day folks, for fear of being flamed for asking an open ended question on StackOverflow, I thought I'd bring it here instead and hope to muster up a good discussion.
I'm getting to the stage of my android learning path where I want to start
the applications that I create, and so far this is what I believe I'll need
Unit testing
- Testing the smallest parts of my code, preferably down to single methods. For example if my application is a calculator, and I have a method to add(int val1, int val2) then I would want a unit test(s) around that method.
Integration testing
- Similar to standard unit testing, however these should test "features" of the application rather than units of code. For example I'd want to test the addition functionality of my application by inputting some values, clicking a button, and verifying the response.
What I'm thinking about, is what
I be testing? Here is what I've come up with so far, can anyone please advise me if I'm on the right track, or what I should add?
Unit Testing
Test business logic, such as single methods in each of my classes (not overridden android methods, but my own ones)
Integration Testing
Test that when I click one button it does actually take me to another activity, for example if my "main" page has a menu, and I click a button to "start game", it actually takes me to the start game screen.
Test that I can load a set of data from a SQLite instance (not sure if this is better placed in UnitTesting, however it would require access to android classes)
My application is a 5 question multiple choice quiz, test from start to finish that this can be completed along with validation tests (making sure you can't move to question 2 if you haven't answered question 1)
UI Testing
Test that buttons actually appear on the screen (visibility checks)
Test that TextViews contain the same text as their resource counterparts in strings.xml
I've been Googling for a few days now, I can find various tutorials / blog posts about peoples experiences working with Robotium/Roboelectric etc, however I can't find anything that specifically advises what should or shouldn't be tested.
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I always layer my apps so that I separate those parts that interact with the framework and the parts that implement business logic or algorithms. The latter are easy to unit test since I don't have to worry about providing the framework (or a mock thereof).
Then when I want to integration test, I use this:
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Hi Peter,
Thanks for the comments (and link, bookmarked for a rainy day ;) )
Can you expand a little more on what you mean by layering? I'd like to understand a little more about how you do that, as I think it might be able to help me.
Are you suggesting something along the lines of keeping my activities as streamlined and cut down as possible, and only keeping "android" specific code there, and doing all my business logic outside of any class that extends from Activity? That is something I've thought of, however theres not much I can move out since pretty much everything I do will involve interacting with the android framework, such as reading/writing to SQLite, manipulating UI etc.
Also, how detailed do you tend to take your testing, do you test that buttons are on the screen, have the right labels, check that textviews contain the right text etc? Or is that slightly too pedantic?
Peter Johnson
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Aug 15, 2011 11:28:06
I have several approaches to layering:
a) I refactor my code such that any code that interacts with the framework (the Android SDK in this case) is in one class and all of my algorithms are in another class. I can the easily unit test the class that doesn't need the framework.
b) Similar to (a), but I move the refactored algorithms to separate methods within the same class. I usually do this is I have only an algorithm or two that I need to test. And this works well for unit testing Android code, even Activities, because the Android classes provide in the SDK are just stubs and don't do anything, thus there is no need to set up anything (like you might have to do with other frameworks).
c) I do something like a mock object: I pull out calls to framework methods into separate methods in my code. Then I extend the class in my unit test and mock the framework methods.
I agree. Here's the link:
subject: Android testing, what *should* I be testing?
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