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Training a Deaf Dog: The Ultimate Guide to Living With a Deaf Dog
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You may have a deaf dog, just discovered that you dog is becoming deaf or you may be looking after someone else's deaf dog. Regardless of the circumstances in which you now find yourself you will almost certainly experience some of the practical challenges in living with canine deafness. My own dog Sabrina was deaf for her entire life. In memory of my best friend and most loyal companion, Sabrina, I have written this book in the hope that other owners of deaf dogs can benefit from my own experiences of living with, training and caring for Sabrina throughout her life. The book is packed with useful, practical information and will help you to improve the quality of your deaf dog's life Use hand signs with your dog Help you to avoid some of the pitfalls of living with canine deafness Avoid the most common communication errors between you and your deaf dog Ensure that others, especially children, know how to behave around your deaf dog. Introduce other pets to your deaf dog... More > and much more...< Less
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Leveling Question
Yo. Hey. I'm brand new. I actually registered for the sole purpose of asking a question, since I couldn't find an answer to it anywhere else. Does anyone know if it's possible to remove the levelling cap at level 20 in KOTOR1? I love this game, but it's awfully frustrating to be roadblocked ten or fifteen hours before you even step foot on the Star Forge.
Anyway, if anyone can help, that'd be great. I'm still a complete noob at this modding thing, so hopefully, it's just editing the swkotor.ini file or something simple like that.
Look forward to hearing something from you guys.
No, it's impossible. Several people have attempted it, but it is impossible.
Seriously? I could've sworn I'd read something a few months ago about just adding the XP requirements for levels after 20. Guess I was mistaken. Bummer.
Someone tried it, again. And couldn't get it to work... again. I'm afraid that cap is there to stay.
If you could figure out how to decompile the .exe file into its sorce form you might be able to edit it but no one has done that if its even possible.
That's illegal, against the EULA, and also against the rules, as is discussion of it.
*Nods head in agreement* -RH
So...I looked into a save game editor (I think it's called KSE) that claims to be able to edit your level above the cap. If I read it right, that auto-adjusts your vitality and force points, but won't automatically grant you more attributes, skills, feats, or powers, but those can be edited eventually. I figure that if you can figure out at what experience intervals new levels would come, and what bonuses should come with them, you could theoretically use the save game editor to artificially give your characters those bonuses.
It's kind of the long way around, and it doesn't have the convenience of just removing a cap or extrapolating an algorithm, but wouldn't it serve the same purpose?
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...ok so there are two this week. First up, the new edition of Rue is live here. If you are suffering through the southern hemisphere winter, all the summery goodness in this latest edition will warm your soul, trust me!
And the second is the fantastic new online shopping concept from the super-talented Anna Spiro. I'm sure many of you are already all over this, but if you haven't heard about it get over here and check it out! It's a unique and clever concept where you can find gorgeous vintage and limited edition pieces that you can hand pick from the seasonal vignette. Naturally I've already made my first purchase which I will definitely show you soon...
Have a great Friday all :)
Abbey x
Friday, July 29, 2011
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Labels: Online magazines, Online shopping
3 comments:
- Kristine Kennedy said...
Arrrggghhh! How frustratingly beautiful is Anna Spiro's online?? I wanted everything in the picture but so much of it was already sold...tears
Gorgeous post today - adore the dress on the cover of Rue xx
- July 29, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Vic Bibby said...
How amazing is Anna's new online concept! Can't wait to see what you purchased. I love, love, love the chinese linen storer but, alas, it was sold by the time I got there. xxx
- July 29, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- Couture Carrie said...
Love that armchair!
- July 29, 2011 at 10:20 PM
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Some may think with the approach of fall in the US, that wildfire season is almost over. Not true. In many places around the country and the world wildfire season is just getting started. In some places like the American West and parts of Australia wildfires are a threat year around. That is why it is never too late to prepare for wildfires to keep all the members of the family, including pets, safe. Chuck & Don's Pet Food Outlets would like to share these tips.
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- Extinguish open flames: Do not leave your pet unattended around open flames such as candles, appliances and fireplaces.
- Pet proof your home: Look for areas where pets might start fires such as stove knobs and loose wires and fix appropriately or keep pets away.
- Secure young pets: Keep puppies and kittens confined away from potential fire hazards when you are away from home.
- Keep pets near entrances: When leaving pets alone, keep them in areas or rooms near entrances where firefighters can find them easily.
- Practice escape routes with pets: Keep collars and leashes ready in case you have to evacuate quickly or if firefighters need to rescue your pet.
- Affix a Pet Alert window cling or decal to a front window or door (these stickers can be found at any Chuck & Don's store): This very simple task provides critical information for rescuers during house fires and other emergencies.
How to be prepared for a natural disaster:
- Pack a kit to sustain yourself, family members and pets for at least 72 hours. Include pet meds, current vaccine papers and food in the kit.
- Make a list of friends and family who can take pets temporarily in emergencies and keep a list of veterinary hospitals, boarding kennels and pet-friendly hotels in the area.
- Create a "buddy plan" with nearby relatives, friends or neighbors to help each other with animal evacuation. This can be especially helpful for horse-friendly and other large animal neighborhoods.
- Keep all pets current on vaccines and other preventative healthcare for fast and easy boarding.
- Microchip pets and put on identification tags with current information in case they get lost.
- Have current photos of pets, both digital and paper, to help with identification.
- Transport pets in their own kennel or cage and have the carrier labeled with your name, address, phone number and alternate contact information.
- For smaller pets, such as rabbits, rodents, birds and reptiles, make sure to have appropriate travel cages, bedding and foods ready for emergencies.
Learn about these and other pet care tips at the Chuck & Don's Blog on the website.
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School Board looking at options to 'fix' salary scales
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The King George School Board is hoping to 'fix' its salary scales.
By 'fixing,' members appear to mean getting two percent increments between each of the steps on each of the scales.
But 'fixing' may not include equating the step numbers to the years of experience for individuals placed on the scales, which has been traditional in school divisions across the state.
At least not in the short term.
Fixing it gradually over a few years is one of the options under consideration. Other options would compress some of the first six or seven steps into fewer steps.
There was also a discussion of 'capping' the highest step on the scales at a lower number than the current step 31. There was no methodology discussed for that potential change.
No decisions were made and more hard numbers were requested to be developed and estimated by the administration, including costs for the Virginia Retirement System.
Last week, the School Board only looked at possible versions of future teacher salary scales, but members made it clear that they wanted to fix the scales for all employee groups.
They started with the teacher scale because that is the largest employee group, with changes to that scale having the largest effect on future budgets.
The School Board went over several versions of different scales. One was devised by the division administration, one by Mike Rose, and one by Ken Novell.
Chairman John Davis pushed the notion of fixing the scales beginning at mid-year, this fiscal year, beginning in January 2014.
The cost to implement any versions of the reviewed scales during the current fiscal year is unknown, though Davis said he thought it wouldn't be that much money.
The cost of implementing a new teacher scale was estimated between less than $100,000 and up to nearly $2 million, but figures are not reliable, as they are loosely estimated.
More cost estimates and scale versions are expected to be brought forward at future meetings.
The division's traditional seniority scales ideally provide for annual raises based purely on longevity. But the method fell apart for the King George division and most others across the state starting in about 2009.
That was due to the effects of lower state and federal revenues going to education as a result of the economic bust in 2008 and the continuing lagging economy.
Like King George, numerous divisions put a freeze on pay raises for the successive three or four years. So King George, like many divisions across the state, has ended up with a scale that no longer has steps that equate to longevity, or years of service.
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Today marks the release of the second issue in writer Jen Van Meter and artist Javier Pulido's four-issue Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Black Cat miniseries. I recently had occasion to email interview Van Meter about the project, the overall collaboration experience and transitions, as well as near-term Hopeless Savages (Oni) plans (plus heist genre recommendations and covert gardening tips). After you read the interview, please be sure to check out the seven-page preview that CBR posted last week.
Tim O'Shea: In prepping for this miniseries, did you go back and read past Black Cat appearances for background? Are there any writers in particular whose approach to the character appealed to you more than others?
Jen Van Meter: I spent the most time with the early Marv Wolfman material, honestly. I like to go back to the beginning whenever I'm asked to take on a character I don't feel I know well. The things I loved about her, particularly in Amazing Spider-Man 195, were her fierce determination and her strength — the Femme Fatale stuff is there, but it's really overshadowed by her toughness in his treatment of her. I looked at or revisited many other appearances and caught up on the most recent stuff, but I think I really relied on Wolfman the most to tell me who she is.
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Martina Klein
"The best way to fight exhaustion is to flow with the delirium." -Martina Klein
Martina is well known throughout the Spanish-speaking world as a top model. Over the past decade she's worked for everyone from Yves Rocher to Kodak, appeared in dozens of Spanish magazines, and even become a TV personality.
All that adds up to a whole lot of sexiness and desirability for Martina. But don't just take our word for it. In 2001, Martina was chosen as the Most Attractive Woman by readers of Hola magazine.
Such exposure helped to make Martina Model of the Year at the 2000 Cibeles Fashion Show in Madrid, while in 2001 she was chosen Woman of the Year by GQ magazine. Nevertheless, Martina's fame is centered in the Spanish-speaking world. She has yet to make herself well known within the lucrative American market.
Martina Klein BiographyMartina Klein Korin was born on December 7th, 1976, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The daughter of architects, Martina also has a brother, Tommy. In 1988, the family moved to Barcelona, Spain. But Martina, having grown up in Buenos Aires, has kept a special place in her heart for the city and her native Argentina. Indeed, the rest of her family still lives there, and Martina has stayed in touch with both family and friends.
In 1991, at age 15, Martina first began working as a model, and soon found herself increasingly swept up in the fashion world. While she was in high school, she went to all her castings accompanied by her mother Adriana, and modeling was only a part-time job. But once Martina graduated in 1994, she attended even more castings than before.
a model for good
After high school, Martina attended university, studying history. But she found academia not to her liking, and dropped out without completing a degree. Thereafter, Martina devoted herself to her modeling career. Soon she was doing ads for Renault, Bollicao, Kodak, Coca Cola, Mercedes Benz, Lee Cooper, Kas, Trident, Levi's, Yves Rocher, El Corte Ingles, Wella, Don Algodon, and Mango. More recent campaigns included those for Guess?, l'Oreal, Risk, Cebado, Caroche, Triumph, Zoco, Kleymac, Aninoto, Llongueras, Pronovias, Mango, Margon, and Anti-Flirt.
At the same time, Martina made her presence felt on the runways of New York, Paris, London, and Milan. Since she was based in Barcelona, Martina made a point to appear in Spanish fashion shows, such as the l'Oreal, Cibeles and Salo Gaudi, where she helped showcase many hot Spanish designers. Throughout the '90s, she traveled the world as a top international model.
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Yet Martina wanted to try new things. In 1999, she took a sabbatical, studying writing (which remains a hobby), contemporary dance, art, and drama. In addition, Martina took a crack at television work. In 2000, Martina began work as a contributor in the Spanish television program Los 1000 i una for her local Catalan channel. She has also been interviewed on other Spanish programs, such as Lo + plus, La cosa nostra and Maldita la hora.
Martina certainly didn't give up modeling, and her explorations of other media didn't hinder her career. In 2000 she was chosen as Model of the Year at Madrid's Cibeles Fashion Show, and the following year Martina was chosen as Woman of the Year by GQ magazine. Hola magazine readers declared Martina the "Most attractive woman" that February.
Martina has hardly slowed down since her travels have taken her from the Mediterranean to New Zealand to the Caribbean and back. But Martina's hectic schedule has yet to wear her down. While working in Greece last fall, Martina couldn't help thinking about the fashion shows she was missing back in Spain. "It's funny how," Martina observed, "while [they were] on, I would give anything to get a break, a siesta, a few minutes of silence." With such an irrepressible spirit, we undoubtedly haven't heard the last of this 26-year-old beauty.


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Student/Teacher Interaction:
- Although videoconferencing might look like television, it differs in that it is a live two-way interaction. Students are expected to ask and answer questions, and participate in activities.
- The classroom teacher should plan to take an active role in the lesson as well. It is helpful if he or she calls upon students to ask and answer questions at the Museum teacher's request. The classroom teacher may also need to repeat the students' questions and comments if students are far from the microphone.
- If possible, it would be great if all students can been seen on camera at once during the lesson. Careful consideration of microphone placement so that all students may be clearly heard is also conducive to a successful lesson. However, please don't move the microphone around during the lesson, unless it is of the handheld type, as it creates a loud and distracting noise that will be heard by the Museum teacher.
Making the Most of Our Time Together:
- If possible, set up your videoconferencing environment to resemble your normal classroom environment. This simply maintains the kind of structure students are used to and creates a familiar environment that signifies learning. If your students are used to a non-traditional learning environment then you may try something different.
- It might be helpful for students to have paper and pencil available for participation in various activities or for taking notes.
- If students or the classroom teacher have not yet experienced a videoconference, it is a good idea to introduce them to the equipment prior to the lesson date. This allows everyone to get used to the camera, microphones, etc.
- Familiarizing the students with the procedures you will use ahead of time will help the lesson go more smoothly.
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- Please be mindful of the Museum teacher when operating the camera. Moving the camera too quickly around the room, or zooming in and out on the students at a rapid pace can be disruptive to the lesson.
- We have found that many older students (middle school and beyond) become quite shy or act out if the camera is focused too closely on them alone. This tends to hamper an effective dialogue between the students and the Museum staff.
- Please turn off the Picture in Picture (PIP) feature while a lesson is in progress. We have found that students become easily distracted and/or self conscious when they can see themselves and the other students and this can effect the quality of the lesson.
- If possible, please give the attached sheet to the school or district's technology coordinator(s) so as to avoid any firewall issues during our scheduled time.
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Imagine playing a head-to-head puzzle fighting game on iPad as Raz from Psychonauts against Sweet Justice from MMoJ! In Double Fine High, players from competing high schools smash tiles on a grid playfield to win the round. Satisfying "tap to smash" gameplay gets players interested, but complex linked swipe gestures give experienced players an advantage. Double Fine High is inspired by the competition-based gamplay of puzzle fighting games past such as Super Puzzle Fighter, Magical Drop, and Bejeweled. And all set in the drama and story-filled universe of Double Fine's games!


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Revolution 2020
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Varun Dhawan: I have NOT replaced Arjun Kapoor in Revolution 2020 adaptation!12 months ago 1
Here's the latest goss about two of the hottest actors of the present times... Everyone is privy to the information that Chetan Bhagat's Revolution… Read Article ▶
Alia Bhatt and Aditya Roy Kapur should play the lead in Chetan Bhagat's Half Girlfriend adaptation, think fans!1 year ago 8
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Though the book will release in October, fans can pre-order Half Girlfriend on a e-commerce website Chetan Bhagat's next novel Half Girlfriend… Read Article ▶
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The 2 States writer has written the screenplay of Salman Khan's much-awaited Kick. And here's what he has to say Chetan Bhagat has turned a… Read Article ▶
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Was all the excitement to be a part of Rajkumar Gupta's directorial venture a hoax? Read on to find out... The national award winning actor… Read Article ▶
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CityLights starring Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa releases this Friday. The actor says he is not aware of his star status Rajkummar Rao and… Read Article ▶
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Rajkummar Rao bags a role in Chetan Bhagat's Revolution 2020. Read on to know why was he chosen? Rumor has it that the National Award winning actor… Read Article ▶
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What made the director choose Myra over Alia. Read on to find out. Earlier this week we reported that Alia Bhatt has been considered for Chetan… Read Article ▶
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Chetan Bhagat claims that Arjun Kapoor is the best choice for Krish's role in the film. Read on to know why... It is not a lesser known fact that… Read Article ▶
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FORT WORTH - The NCAA announced this weekend's NCAA Super Regional. TCU will host Pepperdine beginning Saturday, June 7 at 3 p.m. Game two of the Super Regional is slated for a 5 p.m. start on Sunday, while Monday's if necessary game is set for 6 p.m. on Monday. The entire Super Regional will be televised on ESPNU.
TCU (45-15) swept its way through the NCAA Fort Worth Regional, defeating Sam Houston State 6-1 in the championship game. Pepperdine entered the NCAA San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) Regional as the No. 3 seed and swept its way through to the NCAA Super Regionals. The Wave defeated the host school, Cal Poly, 10-6 in the championship game.
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With all the bad news coming out of Afghanistan, I thought I'd look for the silver lining in the latest storm cloud, the firing of General Stanley McChrystal for his and his staff's contemptuous comments about their civilian bosses. At least one group of soldiers is leaving America's longest war ahead of schedule.
5 thoughts on "Early Withdrawal"
Now it is really this presidents problem. From now on His name is on every move good or bad. Interesting times ahead.
We have a Community Orginizer who has never worn as much as a Boy Scout uniform, firing an Army General and dictating how to run a war. May God help us!!
The most important point missed is the law of the land, the Constitution. The president is the Commander in Chief. There is a hierarchy. General Douglas MacArthur blew it by going out of line and was fired and rightly so by President Harry Truman. McChrystal ditto. Do you think ol' Stanley expects his troops to toe his line? Damned straight. And so must he to his boss, the President. Never mind your political opinions and editorial comments, this is simple and straight forward. ol' Stanley strayed way over the line last year in London and just recently here. The military has a code and demands the straight and narrow. Buh-Bye Stanley and do not let the down whack your hind quarters on the way out of your bunk quarters. Now let us hope General Betrayus realizes there is no semblance between Uraq & Afghanistan. Good luck.
Donald, good commentary and I agree with you 100%.
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Record: 10-6-0, Finished 1st in NFC East Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 363 points (22.7/g), 9th of 30 in the NFL.
Allowed 341 points (21.3/g), 21st.
Differential of 22 points (1.4/g), 12th.
Expected W-L: 8.6-7.4.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -1 (-0.1/g), 17th.
Simple Rating System: Total 0.6, Offense: 2.1, Defense: -1.6, SoS: -0.8, versus averages of 0.0.
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Born in the year of the fire dragon, Am a deeply spiritual person and am drawn perhaps through predilection, to cultures and things of eastern origin. Love nature, Climbing and Bouldering, Bushwalking (trekking, hiking), Languages (esp' Spanish, French, Thai and Tibetan),
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in the current climate crisis it is essential to look at new way to be sustainable. Australia being the most arid continent on the planet really should pick up on this model. Lobby councils to change building codes, we need a climate [r]evolution.Tue, June 24, 2008 - 6:00 PM permalink - 1 comment
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www.berzinarchives.com/web/x/...59.html --Lam-rim (Graded Stage) Material
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Ven. Choden Rinpoche of Sera Je Monastery, one of the highest of the Gelug lamas, was virtually unknown outside Tibet until 1985. He neither escaped his country after 1959 nor was imprisoned; instead, he lived in a house in Lhasa, never leaving his small, dark, empty room for nineteen years, even to go to the toilet, and never cutting his hair and beard.Mon, January 7, 2008 - 11:27 PM permalink - 3 comments
"He spent all his time on that bed, meditating," says Rinpoche's attendant, Sera Je monk Ven. Tseten Gelek.
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Moments like dew amongst the rays of the dawn sun, swiftly pass on the wings of time,Wed, October 31, 2007 - 2:55 PM permalink - 3 comments
here there are no troubles, no drama and no woes, only the pervasive poise of the serene.
However, the moments drop away into the bright luminious of all that is, has or will be,
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KHYEN! KHYEN! E Ma Ho!Wed, September 5, 2007 - 3:46 PM permalink - 5 comments
At this excellent place whirled with auspiciousness,
Which attracts continuously the collection of fortune and the blessing of the prosperity,
Which grants what is desired with delightful dance,
In which prosperity appears just as magnet attracts metals.
Please bestow all fame, wealth, fortune and blessing (luck)
Of the Assembly of Brahma, Mahadev, Indra,
The famous god (Mukyu) and the Universal Monarch,
Who are the highest of the samsara.
Please bestow a... read more
I am speechless in the light of Buddhas embraceSun, July 15, 2007 - 10:33 PM permalink - 2 comments
Hold me now in the dark night of samsara, that I may cherish others for all of my days
Which like dew on the morning grass, show's it''s conditioned nature to be fading, fading,
As a rainbow in the gentle breeze.
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If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.Tue, July 10, 2007 - 4:48 PM permalink - 4 comments
–His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Chandrakirti explained three types of compassion: compassion aimed at suffering, aimed at phenomena, and unaimed. With the first, we look at animate beings in light of their suffering and develop the wish for them to be free from both that suffering and its causes. One source of their suffering is their unawareness that they even have any problems, let alone their not knowing the causes of their problems. For example, our friend becomes upset at the slightest thing that goes wrong and sees th... read moreSat, June 30, 2007 - 4:18 AM permalink - 0 comments
September 8th, 2006 Geshe Lama Konchog studied in Sera Monastery in Tibet from the age of 7 to 32 (1934-1959). Geshe-la had attended initiations and teachings by Pabongka Rinpoche, Trijang Rinpoche and Pari Rinpoche. He also completed many retreats like RINCHUG GYATSA and other short retreats of the deities he had initiation, staying in the labrangs of these Great Lamas. He completed his Geshe studies and was about to take his final exams in 1959, but had to escape Tibet. He left with only th... read moreWed, May 30, 2007 - 6:04 AM permalink - 0 comments
Rinpoche said please practice as much as you can, life is not long, the nature of this life is impermanent and death can happen at anytime. This is the foundation of Buddha's teachings, and this was the last advice Buddha gave, before showing the aspect of passing away.Fri, May 18, 2007 - 8:48 PM permalink - 2 comments
Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta.
Rinpoche sends you his love and prayers.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice for daily practice
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As I sit on my meditation cushion,
My heart is filled with gratitude to you,
My precious masters,
For showing the intrinsic nature of mind,
Beyond grasping.
My eyes are filled with tears of devotion to you,
The jewel of my heart.
When I think of the inexhaustible ocean of your wisdom,
Your kindness and unfathomable qualities,
I truly believe that you are the essence of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
Please remain inseparable from the lotu... read more
Of logicians & reasonSun, February 25, 2007 - 1:57 AM permalink - 2 comments
Why is the sphere of the egocentric mind so pervasive in modern society?
We pride ourselves on the notion of being civilised and evolved, so much so that we feel it is necessary to offer advice to others when all the while our advice is rendered useless in the light and dark of personal interest.
How many of us do away with the need to criticise others [those possessing mental continua and/or inanimate objects], only to focus our keen sense of cynicism upon our... read more
When we find the reference of yab and yum (masculine/feminine consort or father/mother consort) applied to deities, we shouldn't make the obvious mistake of assuming that this has to do with male/female in the physical sense. The deities are not male and female beings, but masculine and feminine energies. The bipolar imagery of the masculine and feminine illustrates the primordial union of appearance (or form) and emptiness. One of the descriptions of this imagery is that the masculine aspect... read moreSun, January 21, 2007 - 3:50 PM permalink - 0 comments
I just returned from some amazingly fortunate teachings and my first Nyingmapa empowerment; {Guru Rinpoche.} Also a Ngondro transmission and teachings on Dzogchen amongst other things from Khenpo Tendzin Norgay... oh and I took refuge again.. Rejoice, Rejoice.... Special thanks to Guru Rinpoche, Khenpola, Markla, Wendyla, Ordained and Lay Sangha friends and all beings for the most precious opportunities that rain down as a shower of blessings; May all benefit...Sun, January 21, 2007 - 12:03 AM permalink - 2 comments
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CompassionSat, December 23, 2006 - 5:22 PM permalink - 1 comment
Having compassion is like trading places with another person.
When you put yourself in the other person's place, then you'll naturally feel what is needed of you. That's exactly what compassion is!
You can't have compassion without feeling the pain of others.
If you are not able to sense others' pain then you are not able to cultivate compassion. It's always like this, not only for compassion, but also for acceptance, forgiveness, everything. The cultivation of these all be... read more


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Filed under Catalyst Online, Features
In an important decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a public school district must pay for a mentally retarded student to attend a parochial school. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, all disabled students are entitled to special education at state expense. But until now it wasn't clear whether the state was required to pay for the services of a disabled student to attend a parochial school. State School Boards Associations were quick to denounce the court's affirmation of school choice and said they may appeal the decision.


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A photographic trip through time to the lost city of Seoul, now buried beneath megatons of concrete, glass and steel. Lost City is a street-level view of a noisy, bustling, vibrant city as it suffered the birth pangs of South Korea's transformation from a subsistence economy to a world-class industrialized nation. The author spent more than a year roaming the thoroughfares and back streets to complete this photo essay.
Marvin Wolf began his life in photojournalism as an Army combat photographer in VIetnam. His career took an unexpected turn when he was awarded a battlefield commision as an infantry officer, but he never stopped shooting pictures. After leaving the service he completed his college education, then taught photojournalism parttime while accepting assignments from a multitude of magazines and corporate clients. Reunited with his teenaged daughter in 1984, he segued into writing books because the responsibilities of fatherhood limited his travel. Even after a dozen books and several screenplays, however, photography remains his passion. No longer soliciting assignments, Wolf occupies himself with self-directed projects, a balance of mining his extensive files and creating new images.
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Here are some Elkhart County agencies offering help in applying for Obamacare
The online exchange to apply for coverage can be difficult to navigate and these groups have experts who can help.
ELKHART — Several local organization are poised and prepared to offer help if you're trying to sign up for coverage on the Obamacare health care exchange.
The online exchange, www.healthcare.gov, is meant to be the go-to spot to apply for coverage and get a glimpse of the available health care offerings. The deadline to sign up for care for 2014 is March 31.
Applying via the website is supposed to be do-it-yourself proposition, but it can be complicated, and following are some places that can offer help, free of charge:
- Elkhart General Hospital: Call the hospital's Health Coverage Enrollment Center at 524-7586 or, for Spanish-speakers, 524-7518. The email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Heart City Health Center, Elkhart: Call Krystal Anderson at 584-7362 or, for Spanish-speakers, Jose Alvarez at 584-7369. Heart City is a non-profit clinic geared to the uninsured and low-income people.
- Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital: To set up an appointment to speak with one of the hospital's experts, call 364-2383. The hospital has also created a toll-free number offering answers to frequently asked questions at 877-566-4660. The hospital manages a website with useful information, iuhealth.org/goshen/for-patients/enroll.
- Maple City Health Care Center, Goshen: Call the non-profit clinic at 534-3300 for more information.
The specific care offerings are available on going through the application process. Four companies are offering plans in Elkhart County, they are:
- MDwise, an Indianapolis-based non-profit health care company.
- Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, or PHP, a physician-sponsored non-profit health insurance company based in Fort Wayne.
- Managed Health Services, or MHS, a managed-care entity based in Indianapolis, through its Ambetter branded products.
- Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, the health insurance company.
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Queens Community House is committed to the personal growth of the diverse people it serves and to the creation of self-reliant, open, responsible communities. Established in the settlement house tradition, it embodies the core belief that all persons can and want to grow and that all can contribute. Through broad-based, innovative leadership, it offers programs and services which help all people improve their lives and work together to strengthen their communities. Queens Community House is more than a social service provider: it is a welcoming, extended family for both new and long-time residents.
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I attended pre-school at the QCH, participated in their after school programs, and through my teen years it continued to be a safe place, a place to hang out or meet friends and be a part of.
Everyone there is helpful, commited and truly a part of the community they serve.
I hope the organization continues to thrive and serve generations of children and families to come.
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As a child growing up in Queens, attending middle and high school here and having witnessed the Mets win the World Series in '86 I have a strong affinity for this great borough. When I began my search last year for a non-profit board to join there were a few important things on my criteria. For one the organization had to be focused first and foremost on serving its community. At QCH their core mission is to serve the people of the community, from the children to the adults and seniors alike, through its rich programs and services. I had the opportunity to tour some of the facilities and see the programs in action. I was so impressed and moved by the impact these programs are having in the community. For example QCH offers free English for Speakers of Other Language (ESOL) classes at its Jackson Heights location which have afforded many the opportunity to move up the socio-economic ladder. I was also able to visit the Pomonok Senior Center in Flushing and witness how the many activities offered, eg Arts & Crafts, dancing, are enriching the lives of the seniors there. Another important criterion for me was the people of the organization. At QCH it is led by the Executive Director, Irma Rodriguez, who is committed, passionate and exudes energy for this organization. I see this love and passion in the staff and volunteers of QCH. Lastly it is an organization that serves over 20,000 people in the community that I call home in its approximately 20 locations by a committed staff of over 400. I am proud to be a board member of the Queens Community House.
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My teen-age son has found a place where he can volunteer and give back. When he was younger, he went to the early childhood center and the summer camps. Now, by volunteering, he has discovered a talent and interest in working with younger children. The Queens Community House is a place where he has been able to learn and grow at all different ages.
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I moved to the Borough of Queens several years ago and was really struck by Queens Community House (QCH) -- each of the staff takes on so much work and there isn't a lot of ego. Without trumpeting the fact that they serve such a broad diversity of races, ethnic and cultural groups, they maintain an open door to everyone in the community. I also like the way QCH infuses community organizing into every aspect of the work, transforming it from just run of the mill human services to all in the community from the very young to the very old to a very special organization that manages to stay close to the people it serves and true to its mission.
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Attorney General Eric Holder continues to gain praise in the LGBT community. In remarks to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on Tuesday, Holder took aim at the Boy Scouts of America for its policy that bans gay adults. The AG told the gay rights group that it is a policy that only "preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes."
Although there is little Holder can do as far as forcing a change in policy, speaking out against a ban that the Supreme Court ruled as a constitutional right adds even more momentum to the fight by gay Boy Scout leaders and supporters for "iconic American institution" to instill equality and fairness amongst all members.
Holder used comparisons to the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to support his criticism of the organization. He said, "If these men and women are fit for military service, then surely they are fit to mentor, to teach, and to serve as role models for the leaders of future generations."
Ironically, the man who helped in the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been recently named as the president of the organization. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was a scout himself, admitted back in May when he was named as the head of the organization's executive board that he is personally in favor or change, but pursuing it at this time would "irreparably fracture and perhaps even provoke a permanent split in this movement." Gates said that his focus is on local recruiting and fundraising.
In the meantime, the organization has lost funding from corporations like Disney because of the ban that still discriminates against gay adults. The group did modify its policy to include gay non-adult members, but there remains hope that the Boy Scouts will eventually become fully inclusive. Holder is also holding onto that hope because as he said in his remarks, the policy is "a relic of an age of prejudice and insufficient understanding."


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Pork Spedini with Mushrooms & Bruschetta
Throughout Italy you will find kebabs called spedini: skewers of various meats often combined with bread cubes. In this recipe, you cook the meat separately and pile it on thick slices of toast brushed with a garlic-mushroom and olive oil mixture (that's the bruschetta). Brine the lean cubes of pork loin first for juicy pork with great flavor.Yield: 6 servings
Active Time: 75
Total Time: 225
Brine & Pork
- 1/2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 20 fresh sage leaves, divided
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 cup room-temperature water
- 3 tablespoons kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 cups ice cubes
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless pork loin, trimmed and cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
Basting Oil, Kebabs & Bruschetta
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 16 cremini or white mushroom caps (2-inch diameter)
- 1 medium red onion, cut into 1-inch chunks
- Pinch of salt, plus 1/4 teaspoon, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 3 slices crusty whole-wheat bread, cut in half
- To brine pork: Place porcini, garlic, pepper and 8 sage leaves in a small bowl. Add boiling water and soak for 45 minutes.
- Strain through a fine-mesh or paper-towel-lined sieve into a medium bowl. (Reserve the solids in a small microwave-safe bowl.) Add room-temperature water, kosher salt and brown sugar to the strained liquid; stir until the sugar is dissolved, then stir in ice cubes. Add pork; cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- To prepare basting oil & kebabs: Preheat a gas grill to medium or prepare a medium-heat fire in a charcoal grill.
- Add oil to the reserved porcini. Microwave on High for 1 minute.
- Remove the pork from the brine; pat dry (discard the brine). Divide among three 12-inch flat metal skewers, alternating with the remaining sage. Alternate mushroom caps with onion on three other skewers. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the porcini, garlic and sage to another small bowl; season with a pinch of salt and set aside. Brush all the kebabs generously with the flavored oil. Sprinkle the mushroom kebabs with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper.
- Grill the kebabs, turning once or twice and lightly basting with the oil, until the pork is firm and the vegetables are soft and beginning to brown, 10 to 12 minutes. (If flare-ups occur as you baste, use a squirt bottle to put them out or move the kebabs away until the flame dies down.) Remove to a clean large plate and cover loosely with foil.
- To prepare Bruschetta: Brush one side of bread slices with flavored oil. Grill until golden brown, about 1 minute per side.
- To serve, divide the Bruschetta among 6 plates. Top with pork and vegetables; scatter the reserved porcini, garlic and sage on top.
Tips & Notes
- Make Ahead Tip: Equipment: 6 (12-inch) flat metal skewers
Nutrition Per Serving
|25 g (4 g sat, 17 g mono)
|64 mg
|12 g
|24 g
|2 g
|445 mg
|514 mg
Nutrition Bonus Zinc (16% daily value)
Carbohydrate Serving 1
Exchanges 1/2 starch, 1 vegetable, 3 lean meat, 3 fat
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by JAMILETH RUBIO
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The Huskies released their 2014 eleven game schedule they will officially enter into the NCAA Division I FCS and Southland competition. They will play five of eleven games at home and six away.
In a press release by HBU Athletics, Steve Moniaci demonstrates his excitement for the new football season and how the stadium will impact the campus "We are excited about our first official season of NCAA football and as a member of one of the premier FCS conferences in the Southland," Moniaci said. "We are also looking forward to opening our new home stadium on campus and delivering what we expect to be tremendous regional rivalries to our fans."
Join the Huskies as they open the season at home in the new on campus stadium on Sept. 6 against McMurry.
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College Hockey:Kessel scores again as Minnesota sweeps Clarkson
POTSDAM, N.Y. — The No. Minnesota Golden Gophers scored a goal in the second period and two in the third to earn a 3-0 win over No. 7 Clarkson, today, in Potsdam, N.Y., sweeping their opening series on the road.
Freshman forward Amanda Kessel got her third goal on the weekend when she scored an unassisted goal at 16:39 in the second, threading it to the right corner and past Lauren Dahms right shoulder.
Anne Schleper added an insurance goal at 8:52 in the third when she capitalized on a power play, getting a rebound on a Kelly Terry shot. Megan Bozek added to the lead when she scored a power-play goal at 14:40 to put the game at 3-0. Bozek ripped a shot from the right point, while Kessel added the single assist for her sixth point of the weekend.
Alyssa Grogan recorded a shutout with 18 saves, the sixth of her career.
The Gophers will host an exhibition game on Friday against the Minnesota Whitecaps and follow with a game against Wayne State at 2 p.m. on Saturday (10/9). Minnesota then opens the Western Collegiate Hockey Association season, Oct. 15-16 when North Dakota comes to town.
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text: German expert in guided missiles during World War II. On 17 May 1946 a location in the forest on the plateau of Vernon was chosen as the site for the Laboratory for Ballistic and Aerodynamic Research (LRBA). Here German specialists would be brought to assist France in development of a ballistic missile. Herbert Weiss had worked at Cuxhaven, and returned to Emmendingen thereafter. He talked to other German engineers about French rocket plans, including Jauernick and Habermann. It was agreed to send Doctor Graf to Paris in May 1946 to negotiate contracts between the scientists and the French government. By 15 May 1946 35 Peenemuende veterans at Cuxhaven had signed contracts with the French. Until the facility at Vernon could be completed, the French organised the German engineers in two groups. The Emmendingen Research Office was organised with Jauernick as Head of the Engine Group, and Otto Mueller in charge of the Guidance Group. Another 12 engineers were organised at Puteaux outside Paris. As of January 1947, Americans still knew Mueller's address only as "c/o Klinger", British Zone. Between March and May 1947 all of these engineers, by then around 90 in number, were moved to the new LRBA facilities at Vernon. The group had already been completing preliminary design work on a 40 tonne thrust hypergolic engine for the Super V-2. Mueller worked in France as head of the guidance division of LRBA from 1947-1952.


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Texas land commissioner, local officials, and veterans break ground for new Texas State Veterans Home in Tyler
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tyler home is first of its kind in Texas to offer cottage-like setting
Places where honor lives.
That's how Jerry Patterson, Chairman of the Texas Veterans Land Board and Texas land commissioner, described the planned Texas State Veterans Home in Tyler during a Wednesday groundbreaking ceremony held on The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler campus.
"We're proud to finally deliver for Smith County the eighth veterans home for Texas," Patterson said.
He was one of several speakers at the ceremony, which took place near the Camp Fannin Veterans Memorial. The veterans home will be located on 20 acres donated by UTHSCT.
At right, Patterson talks about the new Texas State Veterans Home while a member of the color guard at the ceremony displays the Texas flag.
From 1943 to 1946, Camp Fannin was a World War II infantry training camp that had a 1,000-bed Army barracks hospital.
After the war ended, the camp was decommissioned and the hospital barracks, along with 614 acres of land, was given to the state of Texas for a tuberculosis sanatorium. This facility was the genesis of what has become UTHSCT, the academic center for Northeast Texas.
The as-of-yet-unnamed Tyler veterans home will be the first of its kind in Texas, offering family-style living in a small, cottage-like setting to 100 veterans.
It will be the eighth Texas State Veterans Home built in Texas since Patterson wrote the legislation creating the long-term care program in 1997.
"Texas State Veterans Homes provide the best care anywhere, but we're bringing the very best to Tyler," Patterson told the 200 or so people in the audience.
"This veterans home embodies a revolutionary approach to long-term care that I'm proud to be able to bring to Texas veterans," he said.
UTHSCT President Dr. Kirk A. Calhoun said he, too was proud of the veterans.
"We hope to continue to do all we can to make sure that all the veterans of East Texas have access to all the services that they deserve. And they deserve a lot for their service," he said.
Unlike previous Texas State Veterans Homes, the Smith County home will consist of 10 cottages and one common building.
Each cottage is designed to encourage social interactions, mixing the best communal aspects of a home while still maintaining privacy and independence for residents.
An open kitchen, dining room, and large table are at the heart of each of the 10 cottages. Family-style meals will be served at the table and residents can enjoy each other's company afterward in a large living room with a fireplace.
A total of 10 private rooms, each with its own bathroom, will flank the hearth. Overhead tracks with slings in each resident's room will allow residents who can't walk unaided to be safely moved from bed to bath.
"We see past the construction equipment and the bricks and the mortar of buildings. We see the lives: the lives of our veterans that will be changed and properly honored for their service to this country," Smith County Judge Joel Baker said.
Other officials who spoke at the groundbreaking included Toby P. Cross, director of the Smith County Veterans Service Department; Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass; State Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler; Bill McLemore, congressional liaison, VA Heart of Texas Health Care Network; and John Anderson, president of the Camp Fannin Veterans Memorial.
The home will be built with a grant of about $12 million from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, with the remaining 35 percent paid for by the Texas Veterans Land Board.
The new Texas State Veterans Home will join seven others across the state in Amarillo, Big Spring, Bonham, El Paso, Floresville, McAllen and Temple.
Touchstone Communities, which has its headquarters in San Antonio, will manage the Tyler Texas State Veterans Home.
Touchstone Communities provides extensive health care services, including skilled-nursing care, assisted living, Alzheimer's care and rehabilitative services. Touchstone already manages Texas State Veterans Homes in Amarillo, Bonham, Floresville, and Temple.
Texas State Veterans Homes offer a broad spectrum of health care services, comprehensive rehabilitation programs, special diets, recreational activities, social services, libraries, and certified, secured Alzheimer's units, each with its own secured outdoor courtyard.
For 60 years, The University of Texas Health Science Center has provided excellent patient care and cutting-edge treatment, specializing in pulmonary disease, cancer, heart disease, primary care, and the disciplines that support them. UTHSCT's annual operating budget of $125 million represents a major economic impact of over $287 million to the Northeast Texas region. In FY 2009, scientists in the Center for Biomedical Research were awarded 80 competitive grants and contracts totaling $14.6 million. As the academic medical center for Northeast Texas, its graduate medical education program – with residencies in family medicine and occupational medicine – provide doctors for many communities throughout the region and beyond.


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Owners of NYC Institution Prime Burger Open 'The Prime' in Hastings-on-Hudson
It's a 40-minute train ride away.
Hamburger lovers and vegetarians alike lamented the closing of Prime Burger in midtown in 2012, after proprietors John and Michael DiMiceli abruptly learned that their decades-old diner didn't configure into the new owner's retail plans for the building. The DiMiceli brothers hinted at a possible relocation at the time, which now turns out to be a little more suburban than some had hoped, but here it is anyhow: The Prime is now up to full speed on Main Street. It may not have the sixties-era swiveling tabletops or space-agey hourglass lamps of the original, but it does have a stately new identity (it's "an American grille" with a full liquor license) and plenty of hamburgers, including "the Prime" itself, which comes with lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, and relish, for $12.95. And it's just a thirtysomething-minute ride away on Metro-North. [Larchmont Patch, Earlier]


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I've been promoted to Chief Architect for Java Enterprise Tools
By toddfast on Apr 06, 2006
I don't yet know all the changes this new position will bring, but I know one thing: it's not going to help me find more time to blog. <g>
I don't yet know all the changes this new position will bring, but I know one thing: it's not going to help me find more time to blog. <g>
A Common Situation
As a tool architect, I often hear from various teams or other engineers that they want me to build "tools for X", where X is some specific technology. Such requests are well-intentioned but often misguided. In such requests, I believe there are two factors at work:
Engineers generally love tools and understand their appeal, even if they can't always articulate what makes one tool more useful, easier-to-use, or more productive than another. I tend to think that this is the result of being primarily tool users and not tool authors; tools are a specialized domain like any other and require a certain amount of experience from an author's perspective in order to fully understand and articulate the opposing forces that must be balanced when designing a good tool.
Yet, the perspective of the non-tool experts is entirely understandable. In the broadest sense, a tool is just a piece of software specialized for making some task easier, and in this sense, all software qualifies as a tool to someone. Every professional technologist has used thousands of tools, and written perhaps hundreds of them in some form or another. Tools come in many distinct flavors—administration tools, analysis tools, application development tools, compiler tools, programming tools, Mars rover path plotting tools, and many more. However, for those unaccustomed to speaking about these specific variations, they are all just "tools". This leads to a fundamental disconnect between those immersed in tools and others who are not, and this is the primary motivation behind requests for tools for X.
I believe the main gap in understanding is that one can only understand a tool by understanding what general problem its user is trying to solve. This problem definition and the use cases behind it are usually implicit assumptions of someone when they ask for tools—they have a hard time solving some problem P, in problem domain D, using X. Naturally, they want a tool to help with X, but P and D often go either unmentioned or under emphasized. The hard part for those not accustomed to it is in understanding and judging the applicability and relevance of D, the problem domain, to a broader audience.
Let's take an example. I encounter a common perspective in my interactions with various Java technology groups at Sun. For years, Sun has been pumping out great specs and technologies at a phenomenal rate, and we have armies of brilliant people relentlessly expanding the boundaries of the state of the art. But most of these people are not tools experts (nor should they be). They are experts in other areas, but they all sense the need for great tools that enhance the value of their various technologies. But what are tools for X when X is JAX-RPC, JMS, or JBI? Is it possible to write tools for these technologies? Yes, absolutely. But the question we must ask is: should we?
A $4,000,000 Hammer?
How do we answer the question of whether we should build a tool for a specific technology? There are any number of equally valid axes on which we could measure value, but there is one constant goal for tools: adoption. Tools must be adopted in order to be useful; indeed, the only true value of a tool is in codifying a solution to something that it is otherwise hard to do over and over again into a repeatable, easy to replicate form. The value of a tool grows in direct proportion to the number of times it will be used. Thus, we can make a decision on the attractiveness of a tools-for-X request by evaluating whether the resulting tool will be of use to a sufficient number of users such that its development and maintenance costs are justified. Few people can afford to build a $4,000,000 hammer to pound $0.01 nails (though some part of me can't resist thinking what an awesome hammer it would be).
So, using this simple yardstick, do tools for, say, JAX-RPC the technology make sense? Given its current state and the way it is used in the industry, my answer is no. This isn't to say that tools for JAX-RPC wouldn't be of terrific value to some people, but it would be hard to argue that they would be terrific value to most people.
The primary reason is that JAX-RPC is just one technology out of hundreds that developers will use to build something that will solve a broader problem they face. The real problem that developers have is not in using JAX-RPC per se; although that may be difficult in itself, it's just a speed bump on the much-longer road to something bigger—the application. JAX-RPC will be just one small part of an application. The meat is not in tools for JAX-RPC, but in tools for using JAX-RPC and a large number of other technologies together in order to build an application.
The Reason Behind The Request
I tend to think that Microsoft panders to users when it uses the slogan, Where do you want to go today?™, but this question is actually the beginning of wisdom when applied to tools. Tool writers—and Microsoft is arguably at the top of the heap—must always start with this question when confronted with a request from someone asking for tools. It's dangerous to take such a request and execute on it blindly, as the result will almost certainly be a failure because the underlying reason behind the request for tools was not discovered.
In nearly all cases, people that ask for tools for X are actually asking for tools for application development, where application is a fluid concept. An application is really a solution to a heterogeneous, recurring set of problems, independent of any particular problem domain. An application is the bringing to bear of a solution to an instance of a recurring problem set. When this solution is canned for reuse, we call it a tool.
As an example, to engineers building say, JAX-RPC, one recurring problem they encounter is likely to be the building of JAX-RPC services (perhaps in order to test that all the other one-off, non-recurring problems they've been working through in the creation of JAX-RPC have been actually solved). This then becomes their problem domain, and naturally they gravitate toward thinking of tools for JAX-RPC as the specific problem domain which they need help solving repeatedly. However, JAX-RPC will be just one small part of another, broader type of application that includes many more parts, and many more technologies.
I'm not trying to be hard on the JAX-RPC people here; they are just serving as a convenient technology example. But the disconnect I've hopefully illustrated is at the core of quite common misunderstandings around what a tools organization is, and what it should be doing when building tools.
Give 'Em What They Want
As a part of the Enterprise Java Tools group at Sun, I believe our ultimate goal is to give people the tools that they want. And what do they want? Well, this is the enduring question in the tools business, and knowing the answer is a key part of running one. But, there are some pretty obvious clues to the right answer, which I think I can illustrate with a few specific examples: most people don't want administration tools, because administrators are few and far between; most people don't want JBI deployment tools because integration architects are rare (at least today); most people don't want disk format tools because the need to reformat a disk is infrequent; etc.
No, what most people want are application development tools. But what type of application? For the Java Studio Creator group, application means the traditional, Web-based, business application where information is collected from users via forms and processed information is then reported back to them. This is arguably the most prevalent type of application today, and the one that most people refer to implicitly when they use the term "application". This type of application and its related patterns are quite well-understood in the tools industry now, and the stratospheric ease-of-use and capability that tools for this application type have achieved is quite remarkable.
However, in the Java Studio Enterprise group, the definition of application is significantly different. Although there will always be a need for corporate applications, developers are beginning to focus less on building the same kinds of corporate applications over and over again. Instead, focus in the industry is now moving quickly toward Web services and service-oriented architectures used to solve advanced integration and B2B requirements. I contend that this is a new era, and now that corporate application development has been solved well within the Java realm, attention has turned to the next frontier: distributed applications that consist of heterogeneous, loosely-coupled services which collaborate in ways more complex than traditional client-server, human-to-computer interactions. These new types of applications are an order of magnitude more complex, and all the more difficult to build good tools for. For me, it's an exciting time to be building application development tools, and there's no time to waste building "tools for X".
Annotations to the Rescue?
As most of you already know, the Java Development Kit 5.0 (or JDK 1.5 for the traditionalists) introduces language-level metadata via annotations, the general syntax of which are specified in JSR-175. In addition to several novel uses, annotations offer a partial solution to the overbearing complexity of building enterprise applications in J2EE and other application environments. For example, EJB 3.0 will use annotations to generate home and remote interfaces for an EJB from a single source artifact. Annotations allow what is generally known as metadata-driven programming, in which metadata is attached directly to programming constructs to precisely describe their semantics. Over time, the increasingly overused (and widely disliked) XML-based configuration technique most of us are used to will be replaced—or at least largely supplanted by—use of metadata specified via annotations directly in source code.
As the Java-based software industry (and the software industry as a whole) moves toward what ex-Microsoft employee and Intentional Software's founder, Charles Simonyi, calls Intentional Programming (IP), Java annotations will be a key element of reducing the overall complexity and amount of hand-coding needed to perform application development tasks. Annotations formalize the semantics of program elements, for the first time making it truly possible to define what it is that a developer knows but heretofore could not express formally in the actual application source. That is, metadata encoded in annotations help get knowledge out of developers' heads and put it directly into the source without requiring an irreversible translation to traditional programming constructs. The savings in terms of maintainability, portability, and transparency of Java applications will be very real, though it is perhaps still a bit early for most developers and architects to understand just how fundamentally annotations will change how they go about application development. Trust me when I say that annotations in Java will change everything you think you know about application development—they represent a true revolution for the Java platform.
With the introduction of annotations and metadata-driven programming for the Java platform, there are a few questions that are only just being asked by the general developer community. One of these is how annotations will affect application development, and specifically, how will they affect application development tools? Does the introduction of annotations mean that development tools will wane in their usefulness until we somehow arrive at a Nirvana where programming is so easy that all we need is the simplest of text editors to write the most complex applications?
I imagine there are a few people who would like nothing more, and for the small but outspoken group of developers who prefer to code every line by hand, annotations in their simplest form represent a potentially huge leap forward in productivity. However, these gains won't last, and thus the answer to the question posed above is a resounding no (which is fortunate for me, a tool architect in Sun's Enterprise Java Tools organization). Let me explain why.
Complexity Begets Metadata Begets Complexity Begets...
Metadata via annotations is one solution to the increasing complexity of application development. Rather than manage a number of separate artifacts (source code, metadata, etc.) that must be carefully kept in sync, annotations allow metadata to be attached directly to programming constructs. Although in the near term the same effective information may be stored in, say, an XML deployment descriptor and the first-generation of annotations now being defined (thereby making them semantically equivalent), language-level annotations are ultimately more capable, more powerful, and more convenient than metadata stored separately. In short, annotations, being easier to use, lead to increased use of metadata.
This is a a great result—increased use of metadata is a boon for application development because it makes more possible using less. But, it has at least one significant drawback: annotations become complex and unwieldy after a certain point. This is by no means an annotation-specific issue; any set of information becomes unwieldy and hard to manage when it passes a certain size. In the case of annotations, they work quite well when only a few are used and structurally they are relatively simple. However, the more numerous and precise the semantics of the elements being annotated, the more unwieldy annotations become as their number and structural complexity grows.
To that point, many people don't yet realize that annotations are themselves Java types, with most of the capabilities of traditional classes and interfaces. Furthermore, many people I talk to don't yet realize that annotations can effectively be arbitrarily complex, just like other types defined in Java. If you are familiar with JavaDoc-style attribute annotations (such as those used in XDoclet, whose values consist of just arbitrary string values), this is actually quite a difference. Annotations can be specified with most of the complexity found in normal Java classes, thus making them far more powerful and robust, but also potentially quite complex.
Although the nominal situation today is that there are few (if any) annotations used per unit of actual code, this trend will very quickly change as the complexity and adoption of annotations grows exponentially. The more that can be done by annotating something, the more annotations will be used. Our work here in the Java Studio Enterprise group has shown that it takes just a handful of annotations before they begin to overwhelm the element with which they are associated. It certainly can seem a bit ridiculous to see a one-line method with twenty lines of annotations preceding it, but in order to achieve the order-of-magnitude productivity gains that metadata-driven programming brings to the table, it is largely unavoidable and will become increasingly common.
Does this mean we're back in the same boat we were in before annotations were introduced? Frankly, yes and no. Keep in mind that once we begin talking about application development using metadata and annotations, we have suddenly begun talking about a fundamentally different type of application development. It may not yet be apparent, but we have entered a new era in which application complexity will increase by at least an order of magnitude, all made possible by extensive use of metadata. However, by using metadata (and eventually meta-metadata, meta-meta-metadata, etc.) application development itself doesn't need to become more complex, especially where tools can assist in limiting the impact of these quantum shifts.
Ultimately, application development is a zero-sum game—any gains in the ability to do more with less are almost immediately erased by the fact that even more complex problems become solvable. Thus, we've essentially just refactored the application development problem by introducing metadata-driven programming to Java. The tasks developers perform today will become easier in the short term, but these gains will soon be outstripped by the increasing complexity of next-generation applications. This is not something to lament; rather it is just the way of the world. For example, in the same way that 2nd-generation languages (2GLs) supplanted 1st-generation languages when they became too complex to use for generalized software development (a ridiculously short journey), 3GLs eventually supplanted 2GLs, and now Java plus metadata has effectively become a 3.5GL, featuring many of the benefits of a 4GL via annotations while retaining its general 3GL nature. Such is the technological treadmill that we perpetuate.
So, if annotations are ultimately not the long-term solution to application development complexity, what is? The answer should hopefully come as no surprise.
The Value of Development Tools
The oft-misunderstood and underestimated mission of development tools is essentially three-fold:
I assert that the Three S's as I'll call them (or S\^3 if you prefer) have been put to the test and proven true over and over again. Despite their near-term appeal as a way to reduce complexity in hand-written code, annotations will not decrease, but will in fact dramatically increase, the value of development tools.
This conclusion may initially seem counterintuitive, but upon reflection should be apparent. Apart from temporary improvements achieved by quantum shifts in methodology (of which the introduction of annotations is one), the long-term solution to application development complexity has always been the presence of good development tools, regardless of the technologies involved. Although development tools going forward using annotations will be significantly different than tools we have all used in the past, the fact that we now have annotations at our disposal really has no bearing on the fundamental value of tools because the level of complexity of the application development problem itself will essentially remain unchanged. We will instead now be able to achieve more for a given amount of effort, but the required level of effort will remain constant.
Ultimately, as a tool provider, I see annotations and metadata-driven programming as greatly beneficial to my business, and using them I look forward to helping developers tackle the next level of complexity in application development. Long live metadata, annotations, and good development tools!
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London Street Photography Awards 2012
Tuesday 15 November 2011
The Second London Street Photography Awards are open for entries, won last year by in-public's own Jesse Marlow who was flown all the way from Australia to receive his prize and see his work on show in London during the festival.
This award is unique in photography in recognising the work of those of us making images in public places around the world, last years awards revealed some fresh new talent.
Details of entry here.
In-Public was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers.
Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities, we are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to show their work because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment. The pictures remind us that, if we let it, over-familiarity can make us blind to what's really going on in the world around us.Read more


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My research focus is mainly pedagogical. I am interested in how student-led research in teaching laboratories affects student attitudes toward and retention in the biological sciences. Additionally, I am interested in whether there is a student learning trade-off between gains in analytical thinking skills and factual knowledge when students are taught using inquiry-based pedagogical methods.
From a biological perspective, I am interested in how genetic exchange affects the processes of adaptation to and speciation in novel environments. I use Tribolium castaneum as a model system.