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NBCUniversal to present unprecedented 6,755 hours of Rio Olympic programming, with most live coverage ever
NBC Sports June 28, 2016
Wrestling is expected to be featured on NBCSN and CNBC, plus potential time on NBC
Five U.S. freestyle Olympians to compete in German Grand Prix, July 2-3
Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling June 28, 2016
It is an Olympic tune-up for Daniel Dennis, Frank Molinaro, Jordan Burroughs, J'den Cox & Kyle Snyder
Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs featured in Hershey's "Hello From Home" campaign
Anna Lingeris, The Hershey Company June 27, 2016
Burroughs among three Team USA stars featured in Hershey's "Hello From Home" campaign
U.S. to send young talents to Pan American Cadet Championships in Lima, Peru, July 1-3
Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling June 27, 2016
The U.S. men and women competing were placers at the UWW Cadet National events this spring.
Ohio, Minnesota top Junior Freestyle Duals All-Tournament Team; 12 make team in both styles
USA Wrestling June 26, 2016
Ohio and Minnesota each have five members of the Junior Duals Freestyle All-Tournament Team.
Anthony, Winchester, Velte, Graff, Smith win golds for the USA at the Canada Cup
Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling June 25, 2016
USA champs: Victoria Anthony, Jacarra Winchester, Mallory Velte, Tyler Graff, Morgan Smith
Strong Ohio lightweights close out 37-21 win over Illinois in Junior National Freestyle Duals finals
Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling June 25, 2016
Big wins by Lucas Byrd (100), Oscar Sanchez (106), Dylan D'Emilio (113) & Drew Mattin (120) clinched it.
Bonus Points Ep. 46 featuring U.S. men's freestyle coach Bill Zadick
Richard Immel, USA Wrestling June 24, 2016
Listen to Ep. 46 of the USA Wrestling Bonus Points podcast with host Richard Immel
Minnesota tops Junior Greco-Roman National Duals All-Tournament Team with five members
USA Wrestling June 24, 2016
Six 2015 Junior National Greco finalists made the 2016 Junior Duals All-Tournament Team.
NCAA champ and freestyle star Dustin Kilgore joins Air Force Academy coaching staff
U.S. Air Force Academy June 24, 2016
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LONG TIME COMING: It's now less than a week away from the Dodgers 2014 Cactus League opener against the D-backs at Salt River Fields - Talking Stick. Today, the squad hit the fields at Camelback Ranch for their seventh full-squad workout.
Just a couple of Dodger pitchers tossed to live batters today as Paco Rodriguez and Jamey Wright worked to a group of minor leaguers on Field 6. In addition to those hurlers, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Matt Magill, Pedro Baez, Jarret Martin and Carlos Frias threw regular bullpens.
Dodger left-hander Paul Maholm threw on flat ground today and is likely to throw a 'pen in the next couple of days according to Dodger Manager Don Mattingly. Maholm has been experiencing some tenderness around the elbow and is being slowed down for precautionary reasons.
Dodger outfielder Yasiel Puig was held out of action today after fouling a ball off his right leg yesterday. Puig will not undergo any further testing at this time and he is expected to be a full participant in tomorrow's workout.
THE GAMES BEHIND THE GAMES: The Dodgers will play two intra-squad games on Sunday, Feb. 23 and Monday, Feb. 24 on the back fields of Camelback Ranch - Glendale. Pitchers scheduled to throw on Sunday include Matt Magill, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Chris Perez, Brian Wilson, Kenley Jansen and J.P. Howell. On Monday, Stephen Fife, Dan Haren, Chris Reed, Paco Rodriguez and Jamey Wright each will pitch.
NEW SEASON SEAT OPPORTUNITIES: Two new Dodger season-seat opportunities on the club level are among the limited season seats still available. Among the new improvements for the upcoming season is a newly-renovated executive club bar and food service located on the left-field side. Club Level season seat holders will receive in-seat food and beverage service for the first time and they'll also be greeted with a new menu. The renovated food stand will include a full service bar and for the first time ever, the Dodgers also will offer season seats in the Stadium Club on the Front Row rail and the Loge Party boxes. The Stadium Club rail seats feature unlimited food and non-alcoholic beverages and are priced at $150 per game. The Loge Party boxes seating six, eight or 10 and located between the bases offer dedicated wait staff and an option of adding in-seat food and beverage service. For more information, contact a Season Ticket Representative at 323-DODGERS.
SAY CHEESE! (OVER AND OVER): Today, the Dodgers held their annual Photo Day, which ran from 7-10:00 a.m. Players, coaches and staff took hundreds and hundreds of photos for a variety of media outlets, including a special shoot for SportsNet LA, the club's brand new television network. MLB.com, USA Today, Baseball Digest, Topps and Getty were also on hand.
Tomorrow, the Dodgers will welcome the gang from MLB Productions, here to shoot interviews with Dodger players, coaches and legends for a variety of shows.
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I have
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I need to do the composition
$$L \circ M \circ L^{-1}.$$
So, I first did $M \circ L^{-1}$ which gave me
$$\frac{1}{{1 - \frac{z}{1 +i}}}.$$
From here, I changed $\frac{z}{1 + i}$ to $\frac{z(1 - i)}{2}$ and so my composition becomes
$$\frac{2}{2 - z(1 - i)}.$$
Now, doing the whole composition $L \circ M \circ L^{-1}$ I get
$$\frac{2}{2 - z(1 - i)} \cdot (1 + i).$$
Which I then multiplied out to get
$$\frac{2 + 2i}{2 - z + i}.$$
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March 9, 2000
Postgame Audio
LOS ANGELES - Jason Kapono scored 10 of UCLA's final 17 points as the Bruins hung on to beat Washington State 65-58 Thursday night for their fifth straight victory.
Kapono had 15 of his 17 points in the second half when the Bruins (18-11, 9-8 Pac-10) blew an 11-point lead and needed the freshman's steady shooting. He hit 7 of 8 free throws in the final 4:10.
Kapono overtook Reggie Miller for third on UCLA's list of single-season 3-point shooting with 70, the most ever by a freshman. He needs nine to break the school record of 78 set by Tracy Murray in 1992.
Dan Gadzuric added 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Bruins, who were coming off road victories at California and then-No. 1 Stanford last week in a late-season push to earn an NCAA tournament berth.
The Cougars (6-21, 1-16) continued their streak of never beating the Bruins in Los Angeles. They are 0-43 here since 1950, giving UCLA the third-longest home winning streak in NCAA history.
Chris Crosby led Washington State with 15 points and Eddie Miller added 14.
UCLA opened the second half with a 13-6 run, including three straight 3-pointers, to take its first double-digit lead, 42-31.
It didn't last long. The Cougars outscored UCLA 20-7 to take a 51-49 lead with 4:28 remaining on a 3-pointer by Crosby. He had nine points in the spurt, while the Bruins struggled with turnovers and missed shots.
But Kapono came through in the clutch, as he has many times this season. He grabbed a miss by Ray Young in the lane and scored and was fouled by Mike Bush, the Cougars' leading scorer who fouled out with six points at 4:10 remaining.
Kapono completed the three-point play to put UCLA back in front 52-51.
Crosby hit one of two free throws to tie the game before Kapono was fouled on a 3-point attempt. He sank all three free throws to put the Bruins ahead for good, 55-52, with 3:24 left.
Crosby again hit one of two free throws before UCLA reeled off six straight points for a 61-53 lead. Before that, the Cougars were down by four points when David Adams intentionally fouled Kapono, who hit both free throws and effectively ended Washington State's upset hopes.
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Gerard Klein (1937- ) is a French science fiction writer and distinguished
economist. He was the first among a new wave of science fiction fans turned writers, inspired by American science
fiction. He began publishing a series of Bradbury-influenced short stories in 1955. In 1958, he wrote a Van Vogt-influenced
novel, Le Gambit des Étoiles [Starmasters' Gambit] (1958) for the "Rayon Fantastique" imprint.
It established him as a major new talent, and from that point on, he has remained one of the best French science
fiction writers.
Klein followed up with Le Temps n'a pas d'Odeur [Time Has No Scent] (1963) for "Présence du Futur",
and the popular Argyre saga, describing the future history of Man. Written for Fleuve Noir's "Anticipation"
imprint under the pseudonym of "Gilles d'Argyre", these were comprised of five novels including the time-thriller
Les Tueurs de Temps [The Mote in Time's Eye] (1965). In 1969, Klein, who by then had become a renowned critic and
essayist, launched the prestigious "Ailleurs & Demain" science fiction imprint at Robert Laffont.
There, he published one major new novel, Les Seigneurs de la Guerre [The Overlords Of War] (1971), and a short
story collection, La Loi du Talion [The Law Of Retaliation] (1973).
Since then, Klein has devoted all his energies to his work as editor, anthologist and economist.
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The daily grind, rock opera, with a punk vibe combine into a brilliant musical by the acclaimed band, 'Green Day' presented by Lexus Broadway in Boston for a limited engagement at the Boston Opera House Friday, February 7 through Sunday, February 9 in 2014!
'American Idiot' is a Tony and Grammy award-winning musical that puts a new spin on work and society, featuring every song from Green Day's acclaimed album with some selections from their follow up, '21st Century Breakdown.' Its theme centers on the frustration of today's world through the eyes of 19 working class individuals. 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams,' '21 Guns,' 'Holiday,' and 'American Idiot' are just a few of the song featured in this thrilling musical.
Check out the slideshow for production photos!
All performances will take place at the Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Click here for tickets or call 1-866-523-7469.
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Florida's state parks encourage people to visit this February and celebrate the achievements and advancements of African Americans while recognizing the many ways they have enriched Florida's communities, culture and history.
"Florida's state parks are proud to offer interpretative programs that highlight's Florida history," Florida Park Service Director Donald Forgione said in a recent DEP press release. "From art exhibits and to living history reenactments to tours of the Cape Florida lighthouse, visitors are invited to learn more at Florida's state parks."
Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine was the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in the United States. Florida's governor in 1738 chartered the settlement as Fort Mose for Africans fleeing slavery. Once established, the colony continued serving as a sanctuary for those seeking freedom for the next quarter of a century. The story is depicted on interpretive panels throughout the park and replicas of a chosa (cooking hut), a small historic garden and barca chata (small Spanish flat boat) offer a glimpse into life at that time. More information about the park can be found at this website.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park in Cross Creek is the homestead of the Pulitzer prize winning author of The Yearling. The cracker style home and farm has been restored and preserved as it was when she lived there. At one time African Americans were living in small tenant houses on the property. Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston would exchange letters discussing how the Reconstruction in the rural south was changing racial relationships. Visitors to the park can tour the homestead Thursdays through Sundays. For more information visit the park website.
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne was one of the earliest locations for the Underground Railroad. Before the lighthouse was built the island served as a meeting place for runaway slaves and Black Seminoles awaiting escape via sea captains or board dugouts to safety across the Gulf Stream in the British Bahamas. In September 2004, Cape Florida was designated a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Site. For more information about this park visit the state park website.
For more information about Black History Month visit the Association for the Study of African American Life and History website.
Suggested Links
- Commemorate the Battle of Bloody Mose with re-enactors, music and food
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What to see in Ponce
Ponce Attractions
Laid-back Ponce is small and easy to explore on foot. Most of its attractions are gathered around the main square of the Plaza las Delicias, including the Parque de Bombas, Casa Alcaldia, Museum of Puerto Rican Music, and the Catedral de la Guadalupe.
Although Ponce isn't located directly on the coast, it's near enough that travellers looking for fun on the beach can head to El Tuque, or take guided snorkelling or jet ski tours.
Ponce is also ideally situated for trips to the beaches at Guanica, or the inland colonial town of San German.
Museo Castillo Serralles
Perched above the city of Ponce on El Vigia Hill is the restored residence of the Serralles rum-producing family. The…
Museum of Puerto Rico Music
This museum is dedicated to documenting the rich tapestry of the island's music history and pays tribute to Puerto Rican…
Parque de Bombas Fire Station
A unique attraction on the central Plaza de las Delicias is the unusual Ponce fire station, a landmark wooden building…
Ponce Art Museum
The 'Museo de Arte de Ponce' contains the largest art collection in the Caribbean, housed in a building designed by Edward…
Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center
This ancient Indian site, still being excavated, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the West Indies.…
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BioCryst Pharmaceuticals closed a $30 million financing deal, resulting in net proceeds of $23 million. The funding is intended primarily for BioCryst's R&D efforts including clinical development of BCX4208 and preclinical development programs, among general corporate purposes.
BCX4208 is a purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor for the treatment of gout. It is one of three late-stage compounds that BioCryst has in development. Under the deal, BioCryst transferred to a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, JPR Royalty Sub (JPR), certain rights under BioCryst's license agreement with Shionogi & Co. These include the right to receive royalty payments from commercial sales of Rapiacta® (peramivir), an antiviral against influenza, and future milestone payments.
BioCryst also transferred to JPR the right to receive payments under a new Japanese yen/U.S. dollar foreign currency hedge arrangement put into place by BioCryst in connection with the transaction.
JPR issued $30 million in aggregate principal amount of its JPR PhaRMA Senior Secured 14% notes due 2020 in a private placement exempt from registration under the amended Securities Act of 1933.
JPR's primary source of payment of principal, as well as interest and any premium, on the notes will be royalty and milestone payments the BioCryst subsidiary can receive under the license agreement with Shionogi, together with any payments made under the currency hedge arrangement.
BioCryst says its collaboration with Shionogi remains unchanged as a result of the deal. Morgan Stanley acted as placement agent for the transaction.
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Soon you could have access to secret information just by waving your hand, writes Sandrine Ceurstemont, editor, New Scientist TV. New digital signage allows you to decode invisible images by quickly moving your fingers in front of the screen.
AMOLED TVs stand out but at a price – IHS
Global shipments of TVs based on active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) technology are expected to reach 2.1 million units in 2015, up from just 34,000 in 2012, according to market analyst IHS iSuppli.
CES: Sony shows 55in, full HD "Crystal LED" self-emitting display
Sony has developed a self-emitting display technology, dubbed Crystal LED Display, which it demosntrated in a full HD, 55-inch prototype model at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, writes Richard Wilson.
Flexible OLEDs – The state of play
Were we not promised super-thin bendable, flexible and rollable organic LED (OLED) displays? Phones like Samsung's Galaxy and HTC's Desire have shown us that the rigid versions can deliver stunning images. So where are those flexies?
LED backlight design for large displays
LEDs use a DC supply, making them simpler to drive, there is no inverter, which improves efficiency, and their power consumption varies nearly linearly with brightness, simplifying power management. As a result the majority of small to medium displays are now fitted with them, writes Mike Caddy, displays product manager RS Components.


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Kandi Burruss feels so strongly about an ex-band mate that she refuses to participate in an Xscape reunion. On March 24, Radar Online reported that the "RHOA" diva refuses to get the group back together because Tamika Scott never apologized publicly.
Burruss joined Tiny Harris on "Watch What Happens Live" with Adam Cohen on Sunday night. The two reality stars were part of the group Xscape in the 1990's. When talking to Cohen about a possible girl group reunion, Kandi was quick to put her foot down.
Kandi explained that former friend Tamika Scott said some real bad things about her and never apologized to her satisfaction. The way she sees it, Tamika took her comments public initially and she wants a public apology.
Although Kandi did admit that Tamika apologized to her in private, she is just not over it yet. To that Tiny responded that Scott would do that.
Kandi has been asking for a public apology for years as was reported by Eurweb in 2010. Tamika Scott was very public when she went on the Hot 97 radio show in New York. Scott told the world that Xscape broke up because Kandi Burruss had sex with Jermaine Dupri. A charge that Kandi hotly denies.
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Submissions for the Guilds' top doc award, recognizing outstanding achievement in documentary feature writing, may be received from September 10 through December 3, 2009.
Documentary screen nominees are set to be announced, in addition to Original and Adapted Screenplay award nominees, on January 11, 2010. The WGA Documentary Screenplay Award will be presented at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards slated for Saturday, February 20, 2010, at simultaneous ceremonies hosted in Los Angeles and New York.
First presented in 2005 to spotlight the writer's primary role in the collaborative creative process of documentary filmmaking, past winners of the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award include writer-directors Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me in 2005), two-time winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room in 2006; Taxi to the Dark Side in 2008), Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil in 2007), and most recently Ari Folman for Waltz with Bashir at the 2009 Writers Guild Awards this past February.
Established to recognize that the majority of today's non-fiction films are, in fact, written, the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award continues to highlight both Guilds' increased industry outreach efforts to build a viable and diverse community of nonfiction writers, with the ultimate goal of bringing more compelling documentaries and other non-fiction films under a Writers Guild contract.
Qualifications for WGA Documentary Screenplay Award eligibility include:
The 2010 Writers Guild Awards will be on Saturday, February 20, 2010, at ceremonies held simultaneously in Los Angeles at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel and in New York City.
Further inquiries about the WGA Videogame Writing Award may be directed to Melissa Gage in the WGAW Awards Dept. at (323) 782-4571; email: Melissa Gage, or to Nancy Hathorne in the WGAE Awards Dept. at 212-767-7812, email: Nancy Hathorne.
For more information about the 2010 Writers Guild Awards submission process, guidelines, and official entry forms, please visit www.wga.org or www.wgaeast.org.
For media inquiries about the 2010 Writers Guild Awards Los Angeles show, please contact Gregg Mitchell in the WGAW Communications Department at: (323) 782-4574, email: Gregg Mitchell; or visit online at: www.wga.org.
For media press inquiries about the 2010 Writers Guild Awards New York show, please contact Sherry Goldman in the WGAE Press Office at (718) 224-4133 or email: Sherry Goldman, or visit online at: www.wgaeast.org.
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) are labor unions representing writers in motion pictures, television, cable, new media, and broadcast news. The Guilds negotiate and administer contracts that protect the creative and economic rights of their members; conduct programs, seminars, and events on issues of interest to writers; and present writers' views to various bodies of government. For more information on the Writers Guild of America, East, visit www.wgaeast.org. For more information on the Writers Guild of America, West, visit www.wga.org.


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PROS / It supports social media activity monitoring.
CONS / The online manual isn't keyword searchable.
VERDICT / Surfie would have ranked much higher on our top 10 list if it offered any support channels beyond email and the online user guide.
An internet filter software program with the tools necessary to detect cyberbullying, Surfie scores high on our top 10 list for the additional inclusion of a variety of filtering and blocking features. It unfortunately falls short in the area of help and support, providing an in-depth user guide and email support, but no channels to get in touch directly with tech support by live chat or phone.
Considering it scores low in help and support, we might have expected Surfie to fare poorly when compared to the best pornography filters and internet safety tools available. The reason it still does well is due to a combination of factors, including ease of use and filtering and blocking capabilities.
Installation is simple thanks to a setup and configuration wizard that first helps you create an administrator ID and then takes you step-by-step through the process of creating accounts for the different users you want to monitor and protect. When setting up the initial user profiles, you can assign the name and password that your child uses to key in to get online. Presets are available that let you customize the online experience based on age and maturity level.
Diving deeper into individual user settings you find that you can elect to turn on or off features like Facebook monitoring, time control, website filters, chat filter and file sharing controls. You can also turn on email reports and alerts, which can be used to notify you immediately of objectionable activity. It is unable to take screenshots of activity and has no ability to monitor email, but Surfie can provide you with comprehensive reports of online activity. The admin dashboard can be accessed remotely from any web browser, and the software is compatible with PCs running Windows Vista, XP, 7 and 8.
Surfie can also monitor a number of chat applications, including such frequently used programs as Skype, Yahoo Messenger and iCQ, among others. Once you select the chat applications you want to monitor, you can then type in specific keywords that, if used, will send you an alert. This is greatly beneficial for identifying cyberbullying and nipping it in the bud early on. You can also block or allow contacts from having access to messaging your child.
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Although we think of Puerto Vallarta as a beach destination, mountain biking has been a popular activity in the bay for years. To further promote the activity, VeloBike PV and the Ciclista Amigos Bike Club have announced the second annual Madre Tierra Mountain Bike Race, to take place this Sunday, August 18, at the Vista Vallarta Golf Club. The race features categories in all ages, from 5-6 year-old children to 50+ advanced cyclists. A total of $19,650 MX will be awarded among the three top winners in the junior, beginner, intermediate, women's free and advanced categories.
Folks interested in participating in this event have up until Saturday, 8 PM to register. Registration and more information can be obtained by visiting VeloBike at Galerías Vallarta, via email at email@example.com or by calling (322) 209-0716.


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Budgeting and saving money may be the responsible things for any working stiff to do, but that doesn't make them any fun. But all of that changes when you turn good financial planning into a video game. Then, saving becomes surprisingly enjoyable.
For years, reports have been circulating around the Internet on how popular games like World of Warcraft and FarmVille inadvertently teach players good financial planning through the use of an in-game economy and currency. A number of developers are now taking this revelation one step further with apps and online games designed to help users reach their financial goals through a video-game-style leveling system. This new breed of software is fun, affordable and – in our opinion – surprisingly effective. Here are a few games that are worth giving a try.
1) Payoff. Payoff is a new startup service that makes achieving your financial goals a rewarding experience. After you enter your goal into the system, Payoff will link itself to your financial accounts. It'll set a number of benchmarks, and you'll be rewarded for making progress.
When you reach a benchmark, you'll receive a badge, a token or possibly even a cash "sur-prize" of up to $25. The numerous checkpoints and rewards put your goals in perspective and help keep you motivated throughout the entire process, making it easy to keep up momentum until you cross the finish line. As far as we're concerned, that kind of encouragement is an excellent payoff.
2) StickK. StickK is a general goal-setting app that can be used for anything from losing weight to starting a business to paying down your credit card debt. Curiously enough, the app is sort of like the antithesis of Payoff. Instead of earning rewards for reaching benchmarks, you can instead set "stakes" with StikK as a consequence for failing to reach your goal.
Setting "stakes" means putting up a certain amount of money into a sort of escrow. If you reach your goal for that period – like paying $100 back on your credit card – you'll get your money back. If you don't, the money will either be sent to a charity, an anti-charity (a company you hate) or a friend, in case you happened to be getting in financial shape as part of a wager. StikK also requires you to enlist a third-party referee for any proposed goal. The referee, often a friend or family member, is responsible for confirming your achievements (or lack thereof) to ensure that the system stays honest.
If you're a big believer in the benefits of negative reinforcement, then StikK is certainly the service for you.
3) Cakehealth. Cakehealth allows you to have your cake and insure it too. This little medical expenses app has been called the "Mint of healthcare apps" because it combines both medical expense budgeting and healthy living into one comprehensive piece of software.
The app makes managing your physical and financial well-being fun. Colorful status bars track your progress in several categories. The more responsible and healthy you are, the fuller the bars become. It's a simple program but an incredibly useful one if you've got a chronic medical condition that needs caring for
4) Epic Win. You can't talk about "gamified" apps without mentioning the granddaddy of them all – Epic Win. Epic Win turns your to-do list into an immersive RPG game that features loot, leveling up and the occasional epic battle.
Every time you complete a task – like paying a bill or going to the grocery store – you'll move up a space on the game board and uncover new, rare items to equip your avatar with. Additionally, Epic Win recognizes different categories of chores and will level up your avatar's stats accordingly, so while your neighbor might finish the game as a financial wizard, you might find yourself as a scrub-brush-wielding Viking, depending on how dirty your kitchen is. At the moment, Epic Win is only available for the iPhone, but it's so useful and fun that it might be worth an Android user's while to pick up an iPhone just to play it.
If you're having trouble keeping your finances in order, then you might not be having enough fun with your budget. With the help of these awesome financial games, you can pay down your debts and level up through all of your financial goals faster than a Blood Elf Paladin with an Heirloom item set. For all of you non-geeks out there, that guy levels up crazy fast.


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Chrome seems to use it's own PDF reader which is fairly nice, but is there any way to display the table of contents in it? Some PDFs simply lack pages for a traditional index and simply use the PDF TOC feature.
Related: can it show me the page number and allow me to enter one to go to?


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|Paramount, Calif.
|High School:
|Valley Christian
|High School
Kari Korver was one of only three players to play in all 37 games, making 36 starts (not "senior day") … was voted as a team captain by her peers for the second straight year ... scored in double figures in 17-of-37 games … made at least one three pointer in 32-of-37 games and drained multiple treys in 25-of-37 contests … led the team in three-pointers made (74), attempted (179), three-point field goal percentage (.413) and free throw percentage (.825, 80-for-97) … scored a season- and career-high 23 points in a home win over USC (Jan. 18), scoring 10 straight points for UCLA to open the second half ... went 8-for-8 from the charity stripe against the Trojans, which was tied for the 10th-best performance in the Pac-12 on the year … scored 15 points and hauled in a season- and career-best eight rebounds in a win over Cincinnati (Dec. 2) … made a personal-best 21 consecutive free throws before missing her last attempt in a loss to Oregon State (Jan. 3, 2015) ... made a season-high five three-pointers in the WNIT Semifinal win at Michigan (Apr. 1), setting a UCLA single season record with 73 on the year (ended with 74). HONORS: Was chosen as a second team Pac-12 All-Academic selection. PAC-12 STATISTICAL RANKS: All Games: 29th - Scoring (10.1 ppg); 3rd - Free Throw Percentage (.825); 6th - 3-Point Field Goal Percentage (.413); 7th - 3-Point Field Goals Made Per Game (2.0). Pac-12 Games: 11th - Free Throw Percentage (.800); 8th - 3-Point Field Goal Percentage (.382), 7th - 3-Point Field Goals Made Per Game (1.9). NATIONAL STATISTICAL RANKS: 21st - 3-Point Field Goal Percentage (.413); 147th - 3-Point Field Goals Made Per Game (2.0).
2013-14: Tore her right ACL and lateral meniscus in a workout on Sept. 25, 2013 and missed the season due to a medical redshirt ... was voted a team captain by the squad, despite being injured and unable to play.
Was one of only three players to play in all 34 games, making eight starts … she scored 11 points off the bench (3-for-5 from three-point range) in her first collegiate game (a home win over San Diego State on Nov. 10) … exploded for a career-high 17 points on a career-high five three-pointers (out of 10) and added a career-best three steals to go with three rebounds, one assist and one block in the win at Arizona State (Mar. 1) … led the team in three-pointers made (38) and attempted (110), shooting 34.5 percent from beyond the arc … also led the team in free throw percentage (.920, 23-for-25) … scored in double figures in five games … made at least one three-pointer in 21 games, including 10 games with multiple treys. HONORS: Was named an honorable mention selection to the Pac-12's All-Freshman Team by the coaches. PAC-12 STATISTICAL RANKS: All Games: 6th - 3-Point Field Goal Percentage (.343). Pac-12 Games: 4th - 3-Point Field Goal Percentage (.365), 9th - 3-Point Field Goals Made Per Game (1.5).
Lettered four years at Valley Christian (Cerritos, Calif.) under head coach Katie Hardeman ... missed her entire senior year after tearing the ACL in her left knee ... earned All-CIF and All-State honors each of the three seasons she played... averaged 25.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.4 steals and 1.5 blocks as a junior in 2010-11 ... averaged 19.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.2 steals as a sophomore in 2009-10 as Crusaders went 25-8 and reached CIF Division 5AA State Championships ... averaged 17.3 points as a freshman in 2008-09 ... won women's three-point contest at 2012 American Family Insurance High School Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championship ... played club basketball for Cal Sparks.
Full name: Kari Erica Korver ... right-handed ... born Nov. 11, 1993 in Lakewood, Calif. ... parents are Ken and Lisa Korver ... has one older brother, Kurtis, and one older sister, Kristi ... four cousins played Division I basketball, including Kyle Korver, who plays for NBA's Atlanta Hawks (10th year in the NBA) ... lists the coaching staff and closeness to home as reasons she decided to attend UCLA ... biggest thrill so far in her athletic career was a game-winning three-pointer against league rival Whittier Christian in high school ... hobbies include hanging with friends, going to the beach and reading ... undeclared major.


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Ticket collection for pop show
by Kate Smith
Fans can pick up tickets for North East Live.
Tickets for the upcoming North East Live concert at the Stadium of Light will be available for collection from 10am Monday 10th June, for those fans who have purchased vouchers in-person from the Stadium of Light ticket office.
Concert goers are urged to exchange their vouchers as soon as possible and are strongly advised not to leave the exchange until the day of the show on Saturday 22 June.
The Stadium of Light's ticket office will be open from 10am until 1pm on Saturday and Monday - Friday 10am until 5pm.
Fans are advised to avoid voucher exchange on June 13 and June 20 as concerts taking place on those days.
In order to collect their tickets, fans must ensure they bring the vouchers issued at the time of purchase and a form of identification, such as passport or drivers licence, is also required. Once issued, tickets cannot be replaced or refunded.
Hospitality customers are advised that their tickets and packs will be dispatched week commencing June 10th.
The Stadium of Light ticket office also has a limited number of tickets available to purchase for all three shows – Bon Jovi (Thursday 13 June), Rihanna (Thursday 20 June) and North east Live (Saturday 22 June).


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Donnerstag Dez 23, 2010
Montag Aug 31, 2009
High-performance TCP/IP programming on the JVM
By schmidtm on Aug 31, 2009
I've recently created a white-paper about several options to do TCP/IP programming on the JVM. I'm giving here the introduction and the table of contents to give you an impression what's this all about. The white-paper comes with full source-code and is 27 pages long, so it's a bit too much for a blog entry. Get it here, if you want to take a look.
The purpose of this document is threefold. Firstly, it should give the reader a historical overview of the TCP/IP networking API's, programming paradigms, and various coding styles on the Java Virtual Machine. Secondly, it presents a couple of new options, programming-models, and demonstrates the same with Scala, one of the new languages available on the JVM. Lastly, a small and simple benchmark was conducted, to relate these different strategies with to each other on the metrics of performance.
The discussion is centred wholly around the Java Virtual Machine for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, one regularly deals with several programming languages and several libraries. Basing everything around the JVM provides the opportunity to eliminate issues such as the language implementation, memory management, interfaces to the host operating-system, etc. Besides this advantage, the JVM is the foundation for a large amount of Open Source libraries, tools, including excellent support from a couple of free IDEs that it became the platform of many web applications. The platform is mature, versatile and widely available.
To showcase the various API's, languages and programming models, and to give the programmer an impression as to how such source code looks like, five very trivial server programs that write a simple HTML page to any client, which tries to open a TCP/IP connection to such a server, were created. Since all five programs run on the Java Virtual Machine, this page-generating method has converged to a single utility-class, which is shared among the five programs. Therefore, risks arising from inconsistent behaviour and performance, because the programs were developed in different programming languages - Java and Scala, were eliminated.
Table of Contents
Classic Java networking IO:Sockets
One connection = one Thread?
Java New I/O: Java NIO
Non-blocking I/O
NioServer example
NIO Frameworks, enter: Grizzly
Problems with plain NIO
The Grizzly NIO framework
The Actor Model
Network API evolution
Threading API evolution
Actors: shared-nothing versus shared data
Functional and Object-Oriented programming combined
Statically typed
Running inside the Java Virtual Machine
Modern language constructs: closures, type interference, pattern matching, powerful literals etc.
Excellent Actor library nicely integrated in the language
A simple Scala server using the Actor Model
Sending messages
Receiving messages
Combining the Actor Model and NIO
The Benchmark
Benchmark setup
Page generation
Freitag Mai 29, 2009
FileBench ported to Mac OS X
By schmidtm on Mai 29, 2009
I recently ported the benchmarking utility FileBench to Mac OSX. The chief attraction of FileBench is, that one can define the I/O operations put on the filesystem in something called the "Workload Definition Language". So - it's not a fixed benchmark, burden the system with the very same load pattern over and over again but an amazingly flexible Software which can simulate various workloads like file servers, databases, web servers etc.
FileBench was created by Richard McDougall who is a Solaris and Systems programming guru and one of the authors of the famous Solaris Internals book. More information about FileBench could be found at the official touch base here. FileBench is now included in OpenSolaris. Take a look here for the sources. There is also a SourceForge-Version landing page for sources which build on Linux.
Here's an example, how this definition language looks like:
On the FileBench homepage and in the distributions "workloads" directory one can find many more examples how to write these definitions.
Here is an console-log of loading and running the varmail benchmark:
$ /opt/filebench/bin/go_filebench
I've created a Diskimage including an Apple Installer package which installs the software into /opt/filebench. Just download the image file and you could install the program in an Apple fashion:
As a next step the process of creating the Mac-version from the OpenSolaris sources should be automated like this:
Here's the first version of the script, the skeleton and a set of patches to automate this.
Dienstag Mai 12, 2009
UNIX DaytimeServer - the Scala way
By schmidtm on Mai 12, 2009
Here's how it looks like:
1 package daytimeserver 2 3 import java.io.IOException 4 import java.nio.ByteBuffer 5 import java.util.Date 6 import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey 7 8 import com.sun.grizzly.{ ProtocolFilter, Context, Controller, ProtocolChain, 9 DefaultProtocolChain, ProtocolChainInstanceHandler, TCPSelectorHandler } 10 11 import com.sun.grizzly.util.OutputWriter 12 13 class MyTCPSelectorHandler extends TCPSelectorHandler { 14 15 override def onAcceptInterest(key:SelectionKey, ctx: Context ) : Boolean = { 16 var channel = acceptWithoutRegistration(key) 17 18 if (channel != null) { 19 configureChannel(channel) 20 var readKey = channel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_READ | SelectionKey.OP_WRITE) 21 readKey.attach(System.currentTimeMillis()) 22 } 23 24 false 25 } 26 } 27 28 class MyProtocolChainInstanceHandler extends ProtocolChainInstanceHandler { 29 30 private var protocolChain = new DefaultProtocolChain() 31 32 def poll() : ProtocolChain = protocolChain 33 def offer(instance: ProtocolChain ) : Boolean = true 34 } 35 36 class DaytimeWriterFilter extends ProtocolFilter { 37 38 def execute(ctx: Context) : Boolean = { 39 if (ctx.getProtocol() == Controller.Protocol.TCP) { 40 var channel = ctx.getSelectionKey().channel() 41 var now = (new Date()).toString() + "\\n" 42 var buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(now.getBytes()) 43 44 OutputWriter.flushChannel(channel, buffer) 45 46 channel.close() 47 buffer.clear() 48 } 49 false 50 } 51 52 def postExecute(ctx : Context ) : Boolean = false 53 } 54 55 object DaytimeServer extends Application { 56 57 val PORT : Int = 1405 58 var controller = new Controller() 59 var tcpSelectorHandler = new MyTCPSelectorHandler() 60 var pciHandler = new MyProtocolChainInstanceHandler() 61 var protocolChain = pciHandler.poll() 62 63 tcpSelectorHandler.setPort(PORT) 64 controller.addSelectorHandler(tcpSelectorHandler) 65 controller.setProtocolChainInstanceHandler(pciHandler) 66 protocolChain.addFilter(new DaytimeWriterFilter()) 67 68 try { 69 println("Starting Daytime server running on port " + PORT) 70 controller.start() 71 } catch { 72 case ex: IOException => println("Exception:" + ex) 73 } 74 } 75
Donnerstag Feb 26, 2009
Writing a UNIX daytime server (RFC 867) using Grizzly 1.9.x
By schmidtm on Feb 26, 2009
This week, i started to write some kind of "Hello, World" programs for the superb Grizzly NIO framework. I used Jean-Francois Arcand's intro documentation as a foundation.
My goal was to create a simple Grizzly version of the UNIX daytime server (RFC 867). I based my tiny little program on Grizzly 1.9.7 therefore i had to remove the DefaultPipeline/setPipeline code which was needed with Grizzly 1.0.x in his examples. The tricky part was to tell Grizzly to process the ProtocolFilter on an accepted connection, rather than waiting for some data coming upstream. This is how the daytime server works - you connect to it, you get the date/time and the server closes the connection.
Thanks to Oleksiy Stashok's reply on the grizzly users mailinglist this was fixed quite fast.
Here's my poor man's version of a unix daytime server:
24 public class Main { 25 26 private static int PORT = 1405; 27 28 public static void main(String[] args) { 29 Controller controller = new Controller(); 30 31 TCPSelectorHandler tcpSelectorHandler = new TCPSelectorHandler() { 32 33 @Override 34 public boolean onAcceptInterest(SelectionKey key, 35 Context ctx) throws IOException { 36 SelectableChannel channel = acceptWithoutRegistration(key); 37 38 if (channel != null) { 39 configureChannel(channel); 40 SelectionKey readKey = 41 channel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_READ | SelectionKey.OP_WRITE); 42 readKey.attach(System.currentTimeMillis()); 43 } 44 return false; 45 } 46 }; 47 48 tcpSelectorHandler.setPort(PORT); 49 50 controller.addSelectorHandler(tcpSelectorHandler); 51 52 ProtocolChainInstanceHandler pciHandler = 53 new ProtocolChainInstanceHandler() { 54 55 final private ProtocolChain protocolChain = new DefaultProtocolChain(); 56 57 public ProtocolChain poll() { 58 return protocolChain; 59 } 60 61 public boolean offer(ProtocolChain instance) { 62 return true; 63 } 64 }; 65 66 controller.setProtocolChainInstanceHandler(pciHandler); 67 68 ProtocolChain protocolChain = pciHandler.poll(); 69 protocolChain.addFilter(new DaytimeWriterFilter()); 70 71 try { 72 System.out.println("Starting Daytime server running on port " + PORT); 73 controller.start(); 74 } catch (IOException ex) { 75 Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); 76 } 77 78 } 79 } 80 81 class DaytimeWriterFilter implements ProtocolFilter { 82 83 public boolean execute(Context ctx) throws IOException { 84 if (ctx.getProtocol() == Controller.Protocol.TCP) { 85 SelectableChannel channel = ctx.getSelectionKey().channel(); 86 87 String now = (new Date()).toString() + "\\n"; 88 89 ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(now.getBytes()); 90 91 OutputWriter.flushChannel(channel, buffer); 92 93 channel.close(); 94 buffer.clear(); 95 } 96 97 return false; 98 } 99 100 public boolean postExecute(Context ctx) throws IOException { 101 return false; // game over 102 } 103 104 }
Freitag Feb 20, 2009
Running Openbravo on Glassfish v3
By schmidtm on Feb 20, 2009
Last week i tried to run Openbravo 2.40 on Glassfish v3 (prelude version). Here i like to share my findings and how to get this setup running for those who follow. I neither explain how to install the necessary database nor the tomcat installation. The database was in my case PostgreSQL. I did the installation on a MacBook Pro/Intel running Mac OS X 10.5.6.
I had to get the "official" installation image for Openbravo on my platform (Mac OSX) which asks for the location of a pre-installed tomcat and login credentials for either a Oracle or PostgreSQL database. You have to run the standard installation process to get all schemas and data loaded into your preferred DB.
This can take up quite some time, but after this installation Openbravo could be found in tomcat's webapps directory: $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/openbravo/openbravo.war. Trying to deploy this WAR-archive right away to Glassfish fails for reasons I'm going to explain below. Since there is one slight modification to Openbravo's deployment-descriptor (WEB-INF/web.xml) needed, we're unpack openbravo.war into it's own directory and deploy the application out of this directory.
The problem with the existing deployment-descriptor is, that it's written for Servlet 2.3 webcontainers like Glassfish v2 or tomcat. Glassfish v3 adheres to the Servlet 2.4 specification which is a bit picky about url-pattern. In principle this means you have to code this:
this way:
This is tracked, accepted and fixed as issue 7493 in Openbravo. Once this change makes it into Openbravo, this whole document becomes obsolete. But till then you have to apply this patch to WEB-INF/web.xml to rewrite the deployment descriptor.
After this modification, just deploy Openbravo using Glassfish's admin GUI using this trail: Applications/Web Applications/Deploy ...:
After a few seconds the new deployed application should show up in the list of your web-applications:
Now you should be able to login using Openbravo's default account Openbravo/openbravo :
which in turn take you to Openbravo's main dashboard:
Dienstag Apr 22, 2008
Groovy, Grails & NetBeans talk @ University of Karlsruhe
By schmidtm on Apr 22, 2008
Today I'm going to give a talk about Groovy, Grails and how NetBeans supports these two at the Java User Group Karlsruhe meeting.
... And here are the Slides.
Montag Mrz 31, 2008
Grails update.
By schmidtm on Mrz 31, 2008
I'm back from my Easter-vacation and just stunned about the feedback I've got for this blog.
Thanks so much to all of you!
I haven't figured out whether and how i could answer to individual comments, but i guess this isn't possible.
So here some answers and hints:
1. UNC path, @ChinaBoy:
This issue was once tracked by us here:
Dialog-box after creating a new Grails-project
After some testing I considered it fixed. Obviously it isn't. I'll look into it asap.
2. Netbeans 6.1 Beta or Development build, @Stefan:
Please take a look here:
There you can find the always up-to-date NBM's from our continous-integration system.
Take the 6 modules prefixed "org-netbeans-modules-groovy\*":
3. Stop App on Windows, @JS:
"stop application doesn't work"
That's right, this is an issue (only) under Windows since there is not the concept of process-groups under Windows.
Details can be found here:
Stop Application does not work anymore
I'm already working on a fix for this, so expect some relieve within the next one or two weeks.
"although the contextual menu is great, wouldn't it be great to have a small toolbar with 5 buttons (new [domain, controller, view, taglib, service]) and their keyboard shortcut?"
This is a great idea. I've created an issue to track this:
Adding Toolbar-buttons for common grails actions
Thanks for your input!
"integration with servers inside the IDE: right-click on a grails project -> deploy to -> GFv3/JBoss/Tomcat"
This is definitely on our wish-list, but don't expect something in this area in the short-term.
4. CodeCompletion documentation, @baijianhua:
Hi - I feel really sorry to forget to mention that you have to have:
- JavaDoc enabled for the JDK: Tools/Java Platforms/J2SE "Javadoc"
- The "original" directory-layout from the groovy-docs-\* download-file unpacked right below the $GROOVY_HOME setting provided under Tools/Options/Groovy. For example if your groovy system is here:
you need to have:
This is hardcoded at the moment which is bad for several reasons, I know. This might be better placed in the customizer dialog, right after the $GROOVY_HOME setting itself. What about that?
Donnerstag Mrz 20, 2008
News from Grailsland
By schmidtm on Mrz 20, 2008
The past
Last year November Martin Adamek and me started to work on a full-featured set of modules to support the Groovy programming language and the grails application server. After being quite impressed (and a little bit depressed) about the feature-set of the Intellij Groovy/Grails plug-in, we wanted to create something similar for NetBeans.
One key responsibility of all OpenSource projects is to carefully look around what's already out in the world. Re-use of existing sourcecode and/or leveraging existing libraries is a given in this culture. Therefore we started off our work by using the existing, but inactive coyote plug-in. Doing a language plug-in. with an extensive feature-set comparable to the Intellij plug-in. goes way beyond the scope of the otherwise very helpful Schliemann framework.
This left us with the cumbersome tasks of coding everything from scratch against the NetBeans Editor API. Luckily we soon discovered Tor Norby's GSF Framework. GSF's purpose is to help creating exactly what we were about to create - A new scripting language support module. GSF really achieves this goal and has been one of the reasons, why we are able to develop so many features in such a short period of time.
Here are the modules and there main duties:
Collection of helper- and utility classes alongside the Customizers.
Editing Groovy sourcecode files. All the bells and whistles like syntax-highlighting, folding resides here.
Support for editing Groovy server pages files (GSP).
Here's all the code interfacing with an ex-process grails server. Architecture-specific execution of the "grails <target>".
Support for the new NetBeans project type "Grails-Project" together with all visual components like Wizards, Actions, Node-renderers and the like.
Wrapper module for the ones above to show-up as a single entity in NetBeans PluginManager.
The present
NetBeans 6.1
Initially we started in NetBeans old CVS trunk which soon became NetBeans 6.0. We soon realized, that we need to use some new API's, therefore the suite of modules needs NetBeans 6.1 as a minimum.
Please use the daily snapshots from the NetBeans source-repository continous integration system (Hudson), which can be found here:
By using these builds, you are going to get all the pre-configured development UpdateCenter which include our modules.
... Or work with the NetBeans sources from the mercurial repository:
and build it yourself (it is easy!, No really it is, no one forced me to write this.)
Here's a great description, how to do this:
The Modules
The Plug-ins are available from the UpdateCenter, therefore just go to:
Tools > Plug-ins > "Available Plug-ins" > "Groovy and Grails"
and install them.
The sourcecode for the Groovy/Grails modules lives in the "contrib" repository:
contrib repository webinterface
there are six subdirectories starting with "groovy.\*".
If you build them in this order:
- groovy.support
- groovy.editor
- groovy.gsp
- groovy.grails
- groovy.grailsproject
- groovy.kit
using ant:
ant -f groovy.\*/build.xml
you have them automatically up and
running the next time you start NetBeans.
So what are you getting by using these modules? Pictures entering the stage:
- Method-completion including JavaDoc
display for Groovy and Java:
- Code Folding of Groovy sourcfiles:
- Starting, stopping of Grails-Server:
- Importing existing Grails projects.
Well arranged display of project structure:
- Groovy/Grails module settings
integrated into NetBeans options dialog:
- Marking of sourcecode errors:
- Easy navigation of Groovy sourcecode
by using a navigator view:
- Customizing of Grails Environment and
Serverport. Auto-deploy to Glassfish Appserver:
- Starting common grails-tasks from
context menu:
- Status of running grails server
displayed in status-line:
- Syntax Highlighting:
I would love to get feedback about this project. No matter how much planning one is doing, at the end of the day the software should be used and should be usable for real live users. Therefore I'm bleeding to get your feedback. What you like, what you don't like, what you think we should implement. Ideally, you file your bugs and wishes right where they will end-up anyway and that's the NetBeans issue-tracking system Issuezilla.
We have our own Component-name which is (you guessed it): "groovy".
The Issuezilla landing page could be found here:
The future
There are still many, many things
missing from the modules. Depending on the interest, people are showing for the initial release (
we won't make it into NetBeans 6.1 ), these are candidates
for features of the next release:
- Debugging support. (yes - it's sad but true, that we have no debugging support at the moment)
- MultiView for easy navigation between corresponding Model-View-Controller files.
- Refactoring support.
- Martin Adamek's Blog - martin.adamek.sk/
- Tor Norby's Blog - blogs.sun.com/tor/
- Coyote project - coyote.dev.java.net/
- Project Schliemann - wiki.netbeans.org/Schliemann
- NetBeans 6.1 Beta - www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/
- NetBeans Main source repository - hg.netbeans.org/main/summary
- NetBeans Contrib repository - hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib/summary
- Daily Hudson NetBeans builds - deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/trunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/nbbuild/dist/zip/
- Working with NetBeans sources - wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources
- NetBeans Issuezilla - www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html
- Intellij Groovy & Grails module - www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/groovy_grails.html
Mittwoch Jan 31, 2007
Presentation Slides: "Create Web 2.0 applications using Sun tools"
By schmidtm on Jan 31, 2007
And here you can find the Slides. Go for it!
JDK6 DTrace Probes presentation at Sun PartnerUniversity 2007 Berlin
By schmidtm on Jan 31, 2007
Hi, i've got some requests for the slides on my presentation "JDK6 DTrace probes".
You can get them here. Please feel free to comment and discuss the topic here as well.
hope that helps,
PS.: By popular demand i've added the D and Java Sources as well: dtrace-jvm-probes.tar.gz
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This is the 13th article in the genealogy project "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks."
Paternal fifth great-grandfather, Nathaniel Everett, married a woman named Elizabeth, and she is the subject of this profile.
Elizabeth's last name is not known, nor is anything about her lineage. Two books on the Everetts of North Carolina have brief mentions of her as the wife of Nathaniel Everett, son of Nathaniel Everett and Mary Mitchell.
A.K. Register, a certified genealogist, a member of the Everett family, and author of Everett/Everitt Family: A Genealogical History, mentions that Nathaniel Everett most likely married around 1727, when he was about 20 years old.
The book, "Nathaniel and Mary (Mitchell) Harrison Everett of Tyrrell (now Washington) County, North Carolina and Some of their Descendants and Related Families Vol. I" by Jane Stubbs Bailey and Vernon L. Everett, Jr. has a little more information on Elizabeth.
Their book states that in a 1720 deed, Nathaniel Everett announced his intention of giving his land to his son, Nathaniel, who was encouraged to marry before age 21. That would make the marriage to Elizabeth occur around 1726 or 1727 and supports the information from Register's book.
Nathaniel Everett never named a wife in any documents until he mentions Elizabeth in his will in 1782.
Nathaniel Everett fathered 17 children, but it is not known if Elizabeth is the mother of all 17 children or if there was a first wife before her.
The Bailey-Everett book lists Nathaniel's children as being born from about 1727 to about 1757. This comes from first land purchases and sales, marriages, militia lists, and census data.
In his will, Nathaniel left to "my well beloved Wife Elizabeth Everitt during her life the plantation and Land wheron I now Dwell my riding horse Bridle and Saddle and a third part of all the movable Estate." The will mentions Elizabeth two more times in the will.
Elizabeth is alive in April 1787 when Nathaniel's sons, Thomas and Joseph, as executors of their father's 1782 will, are in court for a family issue dealing with heirs and inheritance. Elizabeth is not mentioned by name but referred to as "the widow of the deceased."
There are no other records of Elizabeth after that court date.
No one is certain when Elizabeth was born, who her parents were, when she married, how many children she had, or even when she died. Her mysterious life leaves genealogists wanting more.
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Eugene, Ore. - The women's basketball program's freshman class of Darriel Gaynor, Jasmin Holliday and Amanda Johnson are in Eugene this summer, taking classes and getting to know the city they will call home for the next four years. Each week a different player will be updating www.GoDucks.com on how things are going for the trio. This week, Jasmin checks in to tell us about the second week of school, life in the weight room, and a visit to the Olympic Trials.
We are now halfway done with summer school and let me tell you - they definitely know how to keep us busy over here. We've been doing everything from conditioning, to going to class, and it sure hasn't been easy.
Coming to Eugene, I knew I would have a busy schedule, but I never knew it would be as crazy as it really is. Don't get me wrong, I'm having lots of fun meeting new people and experiencing the college life, but it's a huge transition that takes a lot of getting use to.
After experiencing the first week of college in Eugene, I went into my second week a little more confident and prepared. Going from conditioning, to class, to study hall everyday can be tiring, but I started to get the hang of it the second week.
I've learned how to manage my time very wisely, considering I used to be the worst procrastinator just two weeks ago. I love the new freedom that I get here. But I quickly discovered the more freedom you get the more responsibilities come along with it.
What I look forward to the most is playing open gym twice a week. That's when we get to showcase our talent on the court playing anywhere from 3-on-3 to 5-on-5, and there's a lot of competition playing with the Ducks. It gets me excited for the upcoming season and what we have to offer with all our talent.
On the other hand, what I really struggle with is weightlifting. Just typing the word makes me cringe. Lifting here at Oregon is no joke! It's probably the best pain I've ever experienced, and I say that because although I struggle with it, I know it's going to have a great effect on me once the season rolls around.
We finally went to the Olympic Trials to see what it was all about. And it's just how it looks on TV... lots of people, food, and cheering was what we observed. Pretty crazy and hectic, but still very cool!
The first two weeks of summer school have been an amazing experience, and I hope to have many more awesome experiences to come in my
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"With no underrobes,
a gust of spring wind."
~ Yosa Buson, 18th century Zen poet
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This is why those Zen monks tended to hang out in out of the way places.
Deep in the mountains, nobody can see your ass.
Shinning globes of flesh
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Feb. 18, 2013
SEATTLE - Senior Kristi Kingma from the women's basketball team has been named the GoHuskies.com Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of Feb. 11-17.
Kingma led a record-setting night as Washington demolished Oregon, 97-71 at Matthew Knight Arena. Kingma made a Pac-12 record 11 3-pointers as the Dawgs made 18 as a team to also set a conference record.
She made five long-range bombs in the first half and six more in the second. She shot 11-17 from beyond the arc and 12-19 overall to score a career-high 35 points. The senior who leads the Pac-12 in 3-pointers made finished just one shy of the NCAA record of 12.
The Dawgs scored a season-best 97 points, but it wasn't just the hot shooting. Washington dished out 25 assists, forced 16 Oregon turnovers and outrebounded the Ducks, 48-40.
Kingma who missed all of the 2011-12 season with a torn ACL added to her Pac-12 leading total of 3-pointers. She now has 76 this season, just three shy of her own school record for a single season. In conference, Kingma has really picked it up, making 46 3-pointers, while shooting 39 percent from beyond the arc.
Other nominees include: Jayce Ray (baseball), C.J. Wilcox (men's basketball), men's varsity 8 (men's crew), women's varsity 8 (women's crew), Max Manthou (men's tennis), SooBin Kim (women's golf), Lauren Rogers (gymnastics), Bryana Walker (softball) and Natali Coronel (women's tennis).


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We're talking a lot here about the technical part of photography, but what are the other related disciplines that help us create better pictures? What one needs to master to be a photographer? When answering, please also explain why you think it's relevant and how do you apply it to photography.
I don't think there's a specific answer to this question because most other artistic disciplines can help your photography. Studying paintings or learning to paint yourself can allow you to see light and shadow in everyday scenes around you as well as teach you about classic composition techniques. So, I think painting is a great thing for a photographer to study. But even something like flower arranging, I suspect, would help you see symmetry and abstraction better.
I don't think you really need to master anything to be a photographer, or to take good pictures. Obviously knowing the technical stuff is really important, but mastery of it, isn't a requisite to producing amazing photographs.
There are some virtues (not necessarily disciplines) that have helped me:
Outside of these, I would say the one discipline you should master is your job. Money helps heaps in photography. It's expensive. You can absolutely be an amazing photographer with an inexpensive kit, but give that same awesome photographer a even better (read: more expensive) kit, and see how much their photographs will improve.
Composition, including the rule of thirds and golden ratio, is an essential topic that photographers should learn about.
Knowing how to create a well-lit, tack-sharp photograph isn't of that much value if the photographers are aesthetically boring. Understanding composition is one step to creating visually pleasing images.


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We have three main languages with which we perform system tasks: Bash, Ruby, and PHP, and Perl. Four, four main languages.
We use managed environment variables to provide authorization info that automated scripts need. For example, a mysql user account and password.
We'd like to use one single managed file to maintain these variables. In some instances, for example, in cron, these environment variables are not available. They are made available in CLI scripts because we source the env file in everyone's profile. But something like cron doesn't do that.
On the CLI, when the env file is sourced, any given script can access those variables. Bash has them directly, PHP in $_ENV, ruby in ENV, etc.
We can't source the file into non-Bash scripts, because most languages implement shell commands by running them in a subshell.
We considered parsing the Bash, converting to the script's lang, and running the equivalent of "exec(parsed_output)" on the resulting strings.
What is a good solution to providing managed environment vars to scripts running in cron, or similar?


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Listen, Fanfarlo, I've been bottling this up and I just can't take it anymore. I like you…a lot.
I can't believe I first heard Fanfarlo () over four months ago. It wasn't until I saw them at SxSW (their first US show, which was one of my favorites of SxSW) that my band crush on Fanfarlo went into overdrive though.
The young British band's sound seems simple enough: they have an interesting and nicely orchestrated upbeat pop sound. The vocals have a crooned quality to them and the music swells and fades. And while this isn't break-through or life-changing music I do hear something new in their songs.
Here are a couple great songs from them songs. "Harold T Wilkins" is just excellent upbeat pop throughout. "We Live by the Lake" is a melancholy song with fitting vocals and trumpet lines.
Fanfarlo – Harold T. Wilkins (mp3s)
Fanfarlo – We Live By the Lake (mp3)
If you listen and become a super fan, perhaps you should check out these plans to make a fanfarlophone:
Fanfarlo's stuff isn't widely available in the U.S. but eMusic has a few songs available. "Harold T. Wilkins" and other are available from iTunes. (You can also buy the buy the original vinyl of Harold T Wilkins or the CD of Fire Escape/ We Live by the Lake.) You can also download "Sand and Ice (demo)" for free on their myspace page.


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I am already neutered and up to date with shots.
MJ is a little bigger than your average cat, which together with his handsome face, white booties, heart-shaped nose and lemon-lime eyes add up to one unforgettable appearance.
This curious, lovable guy would make an excellent companion for a bachelor, although he does well with young children and could make a wonderful pet for the right family. He tolerates being in close quarters with other cats, but is something of a loner when it comes to the feline persuasion.
MJ is neutered, microchipped, vaccinated against distemper and rabies, combo-tested negative for FIV/Leuk, and treated for all parasites.
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Pro Career: The Cardinals second round selection (40th overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft, appeared in seven games (one start) as a rookie before an ankle injury landed him on injured reserve on 11/18/14.
2014: Appeared in seven games (one start) before going on injured reserve … had three catches for 38 yards and two special teams tackles … made NFL debut vs. SD (9/8) … collected first career reception with a 16-yard catch in the fourth quarter and had one special teams tackle @ NYG (9/14) … had one special teams tackle @ Den (10/5); left the game with an ankle injury … inactive (ankle) the next three games … returned to action @ Dal (11/2) … made first career start and had a 17-yard reception in the third quarter vs. StL (11/9) … recorded a five-yard reception vs. Det (11/16); left the game in the second half with an ankle injury … placed on injured reserve (ankle) on 11/18.
College: After beginning his career at Notre Dame as an outside linebacker, made the transition to TE prior to his sophomore season and went on to become one of college's football's best blocking TEs … started 20 of 26 games at TE played in two seasons, hauling in 37 passes for 573 yards and six TDs … went on to become a first-team FBS All-Independent team selection and a semifinalist for the Mackey Award as the nation's top TE … a semifinalist for the Mackey Award as a junior in '13, was one of just four offensive players to start every game for the Irish … finished third on the team with a career-high 32 receptions for 498 yards (15.6 avg.) and five TDs, grabbing 61.5 percent of the 52 passes targeted to him … 24 of his catches produced first downs and 18 of his catches gained at least 10 yards, including 10 for 20 yards or longer … made the transition from OLB to TE during 2012 spring practice and went on to start seven of 13 games at TE as a sophomore ... one of five Irish players to log multiple catches of 25 yards or more ... gained 75 yards on five receptions, including his first career TD … scored his first career TD on a seven-yard reception at Boston College … as a freshman in '11, played in 12 games for the Irish as an OLB, including one start vs. Michigan State ... recorded 20 tackles (eight solos), a tackle for loss, two QB pressures and a fumble recovery.
Personal: Attended Servite (Anaheim, CA) High School where he helped lead the team to the Trinity League title as a sophomore and the 2009 California state title as a junior … named the Los Angeles Times Lineman of the Year as a senior in 2010 when the two-way standout played both guard and defensive tackle, helping the team compile a 14-1 record, their second straight CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division title and runner-up in the state playoffs … also named co-Lineman of the Year in the Trinity League by the Orange County Register … on defense, he received All-CIF Southern Section Pac-5 honors from the Orange County Register and was a first-team all-county selection, along with being a two-time first-team all-Trinity League honoree … as a junior, also appeared at TE and caught 16 passes for 128 yards and three TDs … uncle is Hall of Fame offensive lineman Bruce Matthews, the 19-year NFL vet and 14-time Pro Bowler selected in the first round (ninth overall) of the 1983 draft by the Houston Oilers. His cousin, Jake Matthews, was a two-time All-American offensive tackle from Texas A&M who was drafted by the Falcons in the first round (sixth overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft. His other cousin, Kevin, was also an offensive lineman for Texas A&M, and although he was not drafted coming out of college in 2010, he suited up for both Tennessee and Washington the last three seasons … was enrolled in Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame, majoring in Management Entrepreneurship.
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Tight end built to succeed, but injuries have made journey rocky thus far
Fells' big game underscores Arians' confidence in position that had question marks
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Notes: Tight ends will start camp on sidelines; Palmer ready for preseason


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VB:any advice appreciated, thanks, cheers.Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Excel.Range) If Not Intersect(Range("I1"), Target) Is Nothing Then Range("L1").ClearContents End SubIf you like these VB formatting tags please consider sponsoring the author in support of injured Royal Marines
Sub Hide_EmptyColumns() 'To hide columns with no data in row 2 Application.ScreenUpdating = False With Sheets("Sheet1") Dim col As Range For Each col In .Range("E2:FH2").Columns col.EntireColumn.Hidden = _ Application.Sum(col) = 0 Next End With Application.ScreenUpdating = True End SubSo when the user selects a market from the drop down list and runs this macro, the macro only shows the market they chose. However this isn't done automatically.
but you cannot do the reverse?! i.e.Geoff


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Miami Dolphins WR Brandon Marshall: "It's too calm"
Let's not make this an issue about diva receivers. That's too easy. The truth is Brandon Marshall's BORED.
Seriously, that's what he admitted on Thursday during his weekly Miami Dolphins press conference (keep your Dan Henning cheap shots to yourself).
This admission doesn't surprise me, and it shouldn't surprise you. The Dolphins like their players to be vanilla, bland, uninspiring, boring (again, keep your Henning cheap shots to yourself).
This regime wants workmen, not showmen, which is the exact reason they had a "no diva receiva" policy before adding Marshall, who is colorful, charismatic, playful, electric, and most importantly, child-like.
That last one makes him fun to watch, but difficult to manage. Children get bored easily. When that happens they are a challenge to supervise.
Brandon is bored, and he intends to do something about it.
Maybe it's because of his week long rehab for the hamstring injury, which kept him out of the Oakland game. Laying down for an entire week makes you restless. Trust me, I've been there.
Maybe it's because of his touchdown drought (just one score this season, which obviously has people who own him in fantasy football leagues pulling out their hair).
Whatever the reasoning for his admission (honesty comes to mind) Marshall wants to spice things up a bit, and he wants your help.
"I'm gonna push the envelope a little bit, but that's bad when you get a penalty and stall drives," Marshall said explaining why it was wrong to toss the ball to Jay Cutler in the loss to the Bears, drawing a penalty. "I've been thinking of other ways where I can push the envelope without getting fined or getting some flags thrown.
"I've got to get creative. I've been too boring this year," Marshall said. "Of course I only got one touchdown, but if I get in the end zone I need to do some celebrations. Some dances! Do something!
"Ya'll have any suggestions? Any ideas let me know," Marshall said. "Just give me something."
The diva, who has carried on like a caged tiger this season, needs to be freed.
You folks know I'm all about giving power to the people, so help the man out on some touchdown celebrations, or ways he could spice up the Dolphins, possibly entertaining himself, his teammates, and you during the Dolphins final five games.
Throw him a few suggestions.


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Finding Berlin for Leica Explorers
You may noticed that I got chosen as one of the Leica explorers and currently hanging out in South America doing something like Finding South America for Leica. If you wanna follow me on my trip with every 24 hours photo updates head over to my Leica Blog. PowPow!


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First Big Test for New SEC ChairTweet
June 13, 2013
The appointment of Robert Rice as counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the first big test for Mary Jo White, the new head of the SEC, according to an article in CNN Money.
A press release about Rice's hiring failed to disclose that while recently at Deutsche Bank, Rice was named as a respondent in a complaint over the improper firing of SEC whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi.
Ben-Artzi alleges that Deutsche Bank understated their losses by up to $12 billion.
From the article:
According to the Financial Times, Rice led Deutsche's internal investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar misstatement. While Deutsche asserts that it did nothing wrong, the SEC is supposedly still looking into the accounting fraud allegations.
Because of this, Rice and the SEC would seem to be in a bit of a conflict. The SEC requires company proxies to disclose certain potential conflicts of interest and related party transactions by directors. Shouldn't Rice's involvement on this significant Deutsche matter been openly disclosed?
The article raises the concern that because Rice was involved in this potential improper firing of a whistleblower, hiring him to be the counsel for the SEC might have a chilling effect on future whistleblowers.
Read more at CNN Money.
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(A) Prior to the filing of the real property abstract wherein is set out the "true value in money" of the various classes of real property, the county auditor shall file the following with the department of taxation:
(1) One set of depth and other land price schedules including a county map showing tillable farm land prices used;
(2) One set of all building schedules of every class, type and grade;
(3) In the event other approaches, such as computer assisted appraisals, are used, as provided in rule 5703-25-07 of the Administrative Code, documents describing the method and application.
(B) These documents shall be open for public inspection during regular office hours.
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