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Recent Tips and News on Java, Java EE 6, GlassFish & more :
Recent Tips and News on Java, Java EE 6, GlassFish & more :
• Transparently adding WebSockets to your application using SwaggerSocket (Jeanfrancois Arcand)
Now that GlassFish 3.1.2 has been released, we can look at the updated list of supported platforms: operating systems and JVMs.
Operating Systems (in no order of preference :) -
JVMs :
• Oracle JDK 1.6.0 u29 and beyond
• Oracle JDK 1.7.0 u2 and beyond
• Apple JDK 1.6.0_24 and beyond
• JRockit 28.2.2
• IBM JDK 6 and JDK 7
The official information is available in the Oracle GlassFish 3.1.2 certification matrix and also includes browser, database certifications and more.
With new releases of the JDK (updates to Java 6 or better yet, Java 7, more on that later) you may be tempted to upgrade the JVM used by GlassFish without changing your user or system settings.
Byron has a blog for you on How GlassFish picks up Java.
His post covers starting GlassFish with the
asadmin CLI and the order in which the appserver will consider JDK installations. My favorite way to specify a given JDK is the use of
AS_JAVA in
glassfish/config/asenv.conf (your mileage may vary). Check out the other possibilities.
Byron even has the links to the source code so that you can study the actual implementation (and who knows maybe improve it).
After shipping the JDK 7 Developer Preview a few months back, the team still seems to be on track to ship JDK 7 this summer.
Mark Reinhold has shared that JDK 7 was in "Rampdown mode" with only fixes to showstopper bugs being accepted (definition in Mark's email).
While Project Coin, now supported by two majors IDEs: NetBeans 7 and IntelliJ 10.5, has been well covered in various venues, there are many many more features in JDK 7 that you should probably be looking forward to.
The latest episode of the JavaSpotlight podcast has part 1 of an interview with Henrik Stahl covering many of those smaller (think Project Coin type of features - small but useful) in almost every direction you look: swing, locales, unicode, nio2, class-loading, jdbc, jaxb, jaxws, javadoc stylesheets (finally!), and many more.
Without spoiling the fun, part 2 of the interview should be up next week and will cover plans for Java 8 and the converged JVM. In the meantime, make sure you check out Henrik's "JRockit is Now Free" blog post.
As promised in his earlier "JDK 7 is Feature-Complete" post, Oracle's Mark Reinhold now announces the availability of JDK 7 Developer Preview.
This is not quite a beta but it has close to 500 bugs fixed since the feature freeze from about a month ago.
Just like any software approaching the release line, it will get harder by the week to get fixes in (they'll need to be serious bugs and require rather risk-free fixes) so you should really consider testing your software on this build and report any issues.There is a dedicated forum for feedback for this release.
There is no Mac OS X version yet, but this link should get the Apple aficionados happy.
NetBeans 7.0 beta 2 is now out and you can download your copy from this download page. As previously discussed this version has enhancements for GlassFish 3.1 and now ships with an almost final version (b41 to be precise).
One of the main goals for NetBeans 7.0 is alignment with Java SE 7 (project Coin, etc.) but other important features include support for Oracle WebLogic Server (check out this screencast), HTML 5 editing, Maven 3 support, overall improved Java EE support for CDI, JAX-RS, JPA and Bean Validation, and now also support or Git (1.7.x).
Check out more details about this on this page and be sure to read the release notes. Finally note that NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2 is available in no less than 6 languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.
Remaining true to their viral marketing approach, the JRebel guys posted results for another "productivity report" with comments on the reactions. With the obvious caveat about surveys in general and self-selected samples in particular, the figures are encouraging for Java EE adoption and GlassFish deployment figures.
In our experience, the more people use GlassFish 3.x the more they adopt Java EE 6 and the lighter their application becomes with no third-party frameworks (see this recent story). This may in turn lower the requirement for JRebel.
In this other TheServerSide developer survey, the take-away is "Java 6 and Java EE 5 are the winners". Looking at the details, that's more than 70% of developers (at home, 64% @ work) reporting usage of Java EE 5 or Java EE 6 and thus being now free from EJB 2.x and XML-hell.
In his post, Richard is a bit disappointed with the adoption of Java EE 6, but with 30% of the developers using Java EE 6 at home less than a year after the specification shipped and with GlassFish as the only available implementation for a while, this sounds to me like very strong adoption. Java EE 5 adoption didn't happen overnight. Remember, it shipped in 2006.
Oracle (like Sun) provides the Java EE 6 SDK in 4 main bundles: full or Web Profile, and with or without the JDK bundle. We just updated the JDK bundles to reflect the latest JDK: JavaSE 6u22, which includes performance improvements and security vulnerability fixes.
Although the JDK software is only available in the +JDK bundles, the top level about file (e.g. "about_sdk_web.html") has been updated and all bundles are impacted.
The effort to get this update depends on how you install it and whether you are downloading from scratch or not. For example, if you have the previous version and use the GlassFish update center, you will only need to update the module that has that about file; see snapshot. And, if you are not using a +JDK bundle, that's all there is to the update.
For more details of the update process, see this older and longer entry describing the situation for JavaSE 6u21. Related posts are tagged updatecenter.
PS: At the time of writing this note, the JavaEE SDK download page still seems to have the u21 bundles, but the Update Center repositories have already been updated.
Last week the JCP released the List of Candidates to the JCP Executive Committee. Since then, Oracle has issued a couple of comments and, given the interest in the topic, I'm copying them below.
In a post to the JUG Leaders mailing list, Oracle commented on their choice of Hologic for one of the ratified seats; I'm coping the first paragraph verbatim below; check the full email here.
"There has been quite a lot of discussion over the past week about our JCP EC nomination. We thought we would offer our perspective. We nominated Hologic, as with Credit Suisse earlier, to inject some much needed Java end-user and business perspective into the Executive Committee, as opposed to standards, technologist, technology vendor, and developer community perspectives - all of which are already well represented. Those roles also overlap, as we have well-recognized technologists, like Josh Bloch, who are also representing vendor interests. JCP members may disagree with the need for more end-user perspective on the EC, but we think it's an important view that has been underrepresented to date. Having the perspective of a company whose business depends on Java technology -- not as a technology vendor, but as an informed consumer of Java technology -- is valuable."
Then, in a separate statement, Oracle commented on Doug's absence and Java SE 7 and 8:
"Oracle highly values Doug Lea's contributions to Java and hopes to continue to engage him in the community moving forward. We were disappointed with his decision to not seek another term on the JCP Executive Committee. We believe that the EC is ready to move Java SE 7 and 8 forward, and we will be submitting those specification requests very shortly. With the specification requests for SE 7 and 8 in place, the JCP's normal mechanisms for advancing Java - technical work going on in expert groups, subject to EC approval - will be functioning again. Although we are committed to improving the JCP, we also believe that the JCP is fully capable of supporting vigorous debate and deep involvement and contributions from a variety of individual and corporate participants, and we feel confident that the vast majority of EC members would agree."
Java SE 6 update 21 is now available (Downloads, release notes, bug fixes).
This release includes performance improvements, support for Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM, and Google Chrome, and Visual VM 1.2.2. The Java EE SDK still includes u20; an update with u21 is tentatively scheduled for next week.
The actual release was a few days ago but the official post just came out. BTW, Java SE News is now at BOC; I can't wait for BSC and BOC to be merged so we only have to track one site.
A compilation of news of interest:
JSF 2.0 went into Public Review Draft and Jim has posted more entries in his series showing how to take advantage of the new functionality. In the first one, he describes how to write an AJAX-aware Editable Text Component - sources are here. The second is a SwitchList - sources for an AJAX-aware variant are here (I suspect Jim will write about that version soon).
Arun has written two pieces on how to use the GlassFish v3 Gem with Merb. In the first one he covers the basics while the second Provides a Scaffold for a typical application. The posts have already been used successfully by Ashley Towers, Grant Michaels, iamclovin. Aded - Also check on details on Grant's Experience.
The winners of the Student Contest on MySQL and GlassFish (Official Rules, Announcement) have been announced. They are grouped into two categories, Campus Ambassadors and General Students, with one Grand Prize and several (4/3) Second Prizes on each. The winners are from Brazil (4), India (3), China (1) and the US (1). Full details (and photos) in the Winner Announcement - and thanks to Arun for the tip.
More Translations, this time of the download pages of GlassFish v3 Prelude to 7 languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese - see Ogino's Note;
JavaFX will be launched this Thursday, Dec 4th, but the previews are starting to show. Chris - the original inventor of F3, the precursor to JavaFX - has a Thank-you note, while Robert has published the Reference Manual (thanks to Octavian for the tip). Stay tuned for more news during the launch.
And, in the meantime, on OpenJDK-land, Mark is describing the issues involved in today's Monolithic JDK, which we need to address if we want this infrastructure to be widely available as the basis for efforts like JavaFX.
Update 10 of JDK 6 was recently made available and is being announced today. Don't be fooled by the numbering, Java 6 Update 10 is an important release for anything desktop in Java and of course for the upcoming Java FX release later this year. Of course, Java 6 Update 10 can also run GlassFish and other server-side jobs (the custom applet loading screen just isn't as useful in that case...).
"Update 10" (also referred to as the "Consumer JRE") has a very nicely redone Java Plugin with "draggable applets" (probably blurring yet even more the lines between RIA, RDA, and other silly acronyms :-). Also part of the release are a new Swing look-and-feel, the Java Kernel and QuickStarter, a new comprehensive install /deploy set of tools (JavaScript & Java), and more. This earlier detailled article goes into more details.
Finally, I'm enjoying very much "ThePlanetarium" as a source of information for all things Java SE (similar to what we do here on TheAquarium). Danny has a great list of resources for Java 6 Update 10.
The latest released JDK is JDK 6 Update 7; we just refreshed the Java EE/GlassFish-related SDKs to include that update - see announcement.
• Java EE / GlassFish
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The original Planet of the Apes film featured Oscar-winner Charlton Heston who brought Judah Ben-Hur and Moses to the big screen. He plays confident, charismatic astronaut George Taylor who lands on an upside-down world where intelligent apes rule over speechless, mute, feral humans.
In its famous ending, the Heston character, Taylor, encounters the partially destroyed remains of the Statue of Liberty–letting him know—and the audience—that the upside-down planet of the apes was not another planet, but was a future Earth.
While it never revealed the full story about how human civilization on Earth made a transition to ape rule, subsequent planet of the apes films played out the story from that point during the period 1970-1973.
Then in 2001, Tim Burton re-envisioned the "Planet of the Apes" series with his remake of the the film, called simply "Planet of the Apes." According to the Wikipedia article on the series, Burton's film ". . . received mixed reviews, with critics generally believing it failed to compare to the original. Much criticism focused on the confusing plot and twist ending, though many reviewers praised the special effects.The film succeeded in the box office, taking in a total of $362,211,740."
This false start became the real thing in 2011 with the release of a new prequel reboot of the series starring James Franco. Called "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," it was written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and directed by Rupert Wyatt. This film finally tells the story of how of the transition to ape rule on Earth happened, from the beginning. Genetic experiments on apes in a laboratory leads them to a cognitive and behavioral transformation to a higher intelligence.
"Rise" ends with a global pandemic of a simian flu, which originated with the genetic experiments. It spreads across the world like a fungus on a rotten orange.
Then in 2014—the subject of this review—continues the great revival of the story and the series with the sequel to the prequel "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes." "Dawn" picks up a decade later after only one out of 500 hundred humans surviving he simian flu.
Not only does this latest "Apes" film offer superb, lively storytelling, it also blends a subtle emotional range on the part of the ape actors with a brand-new, high-tech computer graphics imagery (CGI), which transforms the facial expressions of human actors into realistic facial expressions by the apes. This was done by the New Zealand company Weta Digital and is out-of-this-world.
The wide and subtle expression of emotions, realistic ape body movements, and believable non-verbal facial expressions convey realistic depictions of the apes speaking, relating, living, as, well, human. Or very, very human-like. This combination of things raises the level of animals speaking realistically to an entirely new level.
The apes in "Dawn" live in a Bay Area redwood forest. They get smarter and pass on their intelligence and other genetic enhancements to their children.
The story focuses on them and their interactions with a remnant group of surviving humans who are immune to the simian flu that killed everyone else and collapsed civilization.
To prevent spoilers I won't tell the story beyond this set up – but I will say that the film gets high marks in every aspect of filmmaking – story; character development; music, special-effects; computer graphics magic; epic themes of war and peace; dialogue and comfort; and allegory on multiple levels for possible near future dystopian life on Earth as well as human origins from the beginning.
Andy Serkis as the founder chimpanzee Caesar captures the attention, and grabs the hearts, of the audience.
The ape-playing actor cast is made their athleticism and mimicry of apes work to create behavior so real-looking and authentic that I forgot I was looking at computer graphics, I forgot I was looking non-human characters.
What are the surprising messages of "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"?
Caesar and the other apes, with their family relationships, warm friendships, and competitive rivalries, led me to see characters in a story who were essentially human, only played by multiple types of apes – chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and human apes – us. Rather than humanizing the apes, the film ape-izes the humans, or both—giving us an allegorical depiction of an epic conflict.
This epic conflict is not only a drama of how wars start and might be prevented, but also shows a microcosm of the very real history between the first humans, and those they displaced and eradicated – their non-human predecessors, and their non-human competitors, the Neanderthals in Europe about 40,000 years ago.
Art mirrors life both actual and potential. Let us notice the recent proliferation of dystopian catastrophes in many films.
Think of the older films like "The Omega Man," the 1968 version of "Planet of the Apes," "On the Beach," "The Day After." Think of more recent dystopian films like "2012," "Elysium," "The Hunger Games" series, and "Divergent."
"Dawn" shows us a collapse of civilization and constitutes a shocking warning about our civilization. It conveys the message that the civilization we have taken millennia to build, can fall in a virtual instant. It let's us know this:
We the 21st-century are standing at the edge of a Y on the path on our journey of civilization. These films are the day-mares of a global society envisioning and fearing the catastrophe towards which we are traveling at an ever accelerating rate.
One way—our current trajectory—leads to war, pollution, excess growth, overshoot-and-collapse, and ultimately ecocide–Easter Island writ large, along with all the associated, unimaginable, catastrophic horrors that would go with such a singularity in human history as the global collapse of civilization.
The other way—an obvious sane path—leads to law, sustainable living, and a soft landing towards global prosperity and Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek-like prosperous future on Earth.
These are the choices. It's pass or fail. Do or die. As Klatuu warned in a previous film—the original, 1951 version of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" about the human propensity towards large-scale self-destruction:
". . . this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you."
"Dawn" gives us an epic dilemma drama which teaches us some of the lessons of thinking, behaving and living which we need to choose for taking the high road on the sane path to a viable, prosperous future.

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FOP Release 06-01 Minor: Specifications
Implementation Date: August 18, 2006
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- State/Local Child Support Agencies
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Describes the following Federal Offset Program enhancements for implementation in August 2006:
- Decrease Passport Denial Threshold from $5000 to $2500
- Create a New Exclusion Indicator 'INS' to Exclude Cases Certified on the Federal Offset File from an Insurance Match
Each enhancement includes a section describing the Summary of Changes, Background, Description of Changes, and Impact on States. Additionally, depending on the enhancement, it may include the Input/Output Record Specifications.
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Dynamic tessellation on DX11 games does look very nice, especially when it's in relation to anything cloth based like flags, clothes etc and it's nice to see water behave more lifelike when it ripples properly as you enter it.
I run duel ATI HD5850 cards in my rig and sadly the only game I have at the moment the uses DX11 is Colin McCrae's Dirt 2 game. Battlefield Bad Company 2 out very soon will support DX11, so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out against the current DX10 beta.
The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct
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Vulcan you mention the game DiRT2. I must admit as far as DX11 games go, DiRT2 has definitely set a benchmark in high end gaming. The likes of BC2 and other DX11 I am yet to see come anywhere close in comparing in quality and all round fantastic performance. I only have the 1 ATI HD5870 and getting 80fps with everything maxed on DiRt2.
Where video cards are concerned, I won't be purchasing another Nvidia again as ATI has just blown any of my previous experiences I may of had with Nvidida. The future may tell another story, but for the time being I'm one happy bloke.
|23rd February 2010, 10:06 AM
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Father an interesting Trailer here if you didn't get a chance to view it.
Nvidia GF100 Rocket Sled Trailer - Voodoo Extreme
|23rd February 2010, 11:51 AM
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YouTube - Dirt 2 - DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 Split Screen Benchmark
Like I said, developers are not likely to spend that much time developing for DX11 specific features when the two biggest platforms, the 360 and PS3, don't support the added features it provides. Up until about 6 months before the release of the 360 a lot of games were still built to DirectX 8 standards with a few DX9 bits tacked on for almost the same reason (like Half Life 2, NFS:MW ect) the only game that really pushed DX9 in 2005 was FEAR.
|23rd February 2010, 10:35 PM
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We need you, Citizen!
|24th February 2010, 10:21 AM
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Regardless of DX support on consoles, as for graphics and gameplay.... this is the most detailed and realistic game I've played to date, and I still think it's a benchmark.
The likes of BC2, and other DX11 games currently out, I'm yet to see anything that can blow me away as much as this game does, and I look forward to future releases where focus and time is spent on the finer details of a game.
Forcing DiRT2 in DX9, and then playing it in DX11, noticeable difference on PC.
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LORAIN — A handful of protesters showed up at Lorain City Hall to draw attention to the Head Start sex abuse case involving Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen.
Protesters carried signs that said "Free Nancy" and "Justice for Smith and Allen," among other things.
Following their 1994 trial, Smith was consigned to prison for 30 to 90 years, while co-defendant Joseph Allen was sentenced to serve five consecutive terms.
After ordering new sentencing hearings, Burge acquitted both Smith and Allen in 2009, saying he believed they were wrongly convicted. Smith — who, like Allen, has maintained her innocence — was accused of taking 4- and 5-year-old children on her Head Start bus route to Allen's home, where the children were sexually abused.
Earlier this week Burge declined to send Smith back to prison, deciding instead to continue the hearing to resolve issues involving the state Supreme Court's orders.


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After having enjoyed a week off whilst the Wild Card teams were doing their thing, the Broncos will get of to a slow start today offensively. It will take them the better part of the first quarter just to get their blood flowing.
There's little question in my mind that Baltimore will come out of the tunnel more ready to play. Fortunately, Denver's defense will be aware of this and they'll stem Baltimore's tide while Manning and the boys warm up. The Ravens will work their way part way down the field on their first possession (Denver will win the toss and defer), but they'll settle for a field goal to take a 3-0 lead.
Baltimore's cracking the score board first will cause some nervousness among the Broncos faithful. It will escalate when the Broncos struggle on their first possession and are forced to punt.
The Ravens will mount a second drive late in the first quarter, led by the hard-charging Ray Rice. This time they will reach the red zone and threaten to score a touchdown. But, after two unsuccessful tosses into the end zone, Baltimore will settle for three once again, boosting their temporary lead to 6-0.
If there's one thing we know about playoff football, settling for field goals won't get the job done. Baltimore will be reminded of this truism when, early in the second quarter, the Broncos strike. Matt Prater will only be needed to tack on the extra point after Brandon Stokely posts the game's first touchdown, putting the Broncos up 7-6. They will never trail again in the game.
By half time the Ravens will have finally scored a touchdown and the Broncos will have scored another. The teams will go into the locker room engaged in a tight battle at 14-13. Some Denver fans will feel a sense of panic while others will realize that the Broncos best efforts will come in the third quarter.
Denver will receive the opening kickoff in the second half. Strapped with a one-point advantage, they'll take to the air. Peyton Manning's mission will be to get this game put away. The Broncos will score quickly, in six or fewer plays. Manning will hit Decker and Thomas on a rapid drive resulting in a touchdown that deflates the Ravens, putting Denver ahead 21-13.
The Ravens will score nevermore. The 13 points they posted in the first will be all they'll muster for the entire game. Denver's early second half strike will prove to have been the kill shot. Over the course of the second half Matt Prater will be summoned to post two field goals in helping the Broncos to put the game away.
The final score will be 27-13.
The opening line for the AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos will be Denver -3.5.


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High School Musical 3: Senior Year Movie Reviews
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Release Date: Oct 24, 2008
Genre: Musical
Rating: (G)
User reviews on High School Musical 3: Senior Year
ok i havent seen it and really dont plan on it at all, i freakin hate High School Musical, sooo annoying!! It is everywhere u go and they suck at acting in the movies, i wuldnt waste my money or time 2 c this movie. Just flat out re re'd up! Srry not offendin anyone, just i really cant stand vanessa H., i mean wat kinda role model is she? seriously like c'mon! her and freakin miley cyrus! they both arent worth a crap! i wuldnt give this any stars but i have to give one to b able 2 post this lol!!
High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the Grease for the present generation. Sure some might get mad at the comparison, but look at the cheesiness that was Grease through unbiased eyes and then look at the fun cheesiness that is High School Musical 3. I admit HSM3 is, more clean cut (no one almost gets pregnant, defective typewriter is the best line ever) but it is also a Disney production so you can't really be too surprised at that.\n\nThe multi talented cast hams it up a bit but it is still fun to watch and although I thought I wouldn't enjoy it I really did. There is some real chemistry between Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens, that makes the movie that much more believable. Although I'm jaded enough to think that there is no way their romance will last through college, but then I'm a tad bit cynical. But it's still cute and it makes you want to watch it.\n\nAshley Tisdale and Lucas Garbeel as Sharpay and Ryan were definitely my favorite characters throughout the three different movies. The bad guys that aren't really that bad but are a little over the top, and fun to watch. And the musical numbers are all rather catchy so that you find yourself humming them at random times throughout the day.\n\nIf you have kids, secretly love watching musicals, love high school based movies or just love Disney movies in general than you have to watch this movie, and actually you should probably watch the first two as well, just to be safe.
LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! This movie had everything drama romance and humor. The songs were fantastic!!!! I love Zac Efron he made this movie!!I cant believe its over the 4th one wont be as good. this movie is great for little kids or anybody. it is worth it. GO WILDCATS!!!
I have to say it wasn't my kind of movie. My girlfriend just had to see it though. I thought it was just boring and not a good use of my time. This is more of a kid or girl movie i guess. I wouldn't suggest seeing it
My daughter and I absolutely LOVED this movie. We liked it better than any other one they made...I don\\\'t buy dvd\\\'s that often but when this comes out we will be getting it. Great songs and dancing. The colors the productions were all amazing. Hope this helped
Great Family Film! Its nice to have musicals back that can speak to our younger generations in a clean cut way! Way to Go Disney! I took both of my kids ages 4 and 7...they loved it even more then HSM and HSM2! Great dancing and music for all.
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Dr Andrew Blakers (Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems and the ARC Centre for Solar Energy Systems at the Australian National University): "
According to the Clean Energy Council report, PV installation rates have risen from about 20 Megawatts (MW) total capacity nationally in 2008 to about 800 Megawatts in 2011. Expected demand will fall in 2012 – perhaps to about 500 MW – because of the end of high feed-in tariffs. But, as mentioned, the economics of PV are now so attractive that long-term, rapidly rising demand is likely. Putting it into context, we'd need about 3,000 MW of PV to be installed each year to achieve 50% of electricity from PV in 2040 – obviously a feasible proposition given this year's performance."


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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Cardenas, Steven (Abelardo)
Cardenas, Steven (Abelardo), guitarist; b. Kansas City, MO, 5 February 1959. He was raised by parents Abelardo & Uba Cardenas and he had three siblings, Susan, Alan, & Carolyn, none of them musicians. He has a son, Adam (b. 1998). Steven studied privately with guitarist Danny Embrey (late ' 76 / early ' 77) and pianist John Elliott (late ' 77 / early ' 80) while in Kansas City. He attended Shawnee Mission South High School (1974-77), where big band and music theory classes were part of the curriculum. Classes were led by Jim Cochran and Marie Lerner respectively. Subsequently attended Johnson County Community College and was in big band for two years (1977-79) led by conductor Jim Smith.
Cardenas has diverse credits as a performer and recording artist. Having started his musical career in Kansas City, he is now an integral part of the jazz community in New York.
Cardenas has backed up such greats as Eddie Harris, Marilyn Maye, Jay McShann, and Slide Hampton. He has played at various jazz festivals throughout Europe including the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on three separate occasions. In recent years he regularly performed with such diverse artists as Maria Muldaur, Paul McCandless of the group Oregon, trumpeters/composers Mark Isham and Jeff Beal, bassist Marc Johnson, and newcomer Norah Jones. Currently he is a member of the Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, as well as a quartet led by drummer Joey Baron called "Killer Joey". In addition to this, he leads his own trio performing at various venues around New York City.
Along with his performing and recording experience, Cardenas is a private instructor with the New School in New York and was invited by California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as guest faculty for the winter/spring semester 2003. Previously, Steve has taught at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, and has also led jazz workshops at Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Camps.
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Various artists: Kansas City Jazz Spectrum (1978); Gary Foster: Kansas City Connections (1985); Ida McBeth: Now Here It Is (1986); Paul McCandless; Premonition (1991); Jeff Beal; Objects In The Mirror (1991); Alex Murzyn: Alex Murzyn (1991); Windham Hill Sampler w/ Paul McCandless: The Bach Variations (1993); Paul Hanson: The Last Romantics (1993); Jeff Beal: Three Graces (1993); Severin Browne: From The Edge Of The World (1994); Duo w/ John Beasley: 10/10, Tribute to Thelonious Monk (1994); Paul Hanson: Astro Boy Blues (1994); Jeff Beal: Contemplations (1994); Kalani: Pangea (1994); New York Guitar Trio: Raising The Standard (1995); Tom Coster: From The Street (1995); Dave Glenn: Little Big Band (1995); Brandon Fields: Brandon Fields (1995); Joel Harrison: 3 + 3 = 7 (1995); Kalani: Insights (1995); Rob Suddeth: Just One Of Those Things (1997); The Paul Motian E.B.B.B.: Monk and Powell (1998); Rebecca Martin: Thoroughfare (1998); Peter Ecklund: Reminiscing In Music (1998); Steve Million: Truth Is (1998); Various artists: Who Loves You, A Tribute To Jaco Pastorius (1998); Mark Isham: Miles Remembered: The Silent Way Project (1999); Arthur Kell: See You In Zanzibar (2000); Joey Baron: Killer Joey (2000); The Paul Motian E.B.B.B.: Europe (2000); Various artists: The Music of Eric von Essen Vol. III (2000); The Paul Motian E.B.B.B.: Holiday For Strings (2001); Alexis Cuadradro: Metro (2001); Mike Fahn: Close Your Eyes and Listen (2001); Rebecca Martin: Middlehope (2001); David Brandom - Home (2002); Kate McGarry: Show Me (2002); Rebecca Martin: People Behave Like Ballads (2004); Alexis Cuadrado: Visual (2004)
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Played on various recording projects that were either locally released or not released for use as a demo (1977-84, 1987-1990)
Sessions at W. 54th Street w/ Mark Isham and the Silent Way Project, PBS (1999)
Guitar Player magazine article, November 1998.
Worked on Thelonious Monk Fakebook
Websites w/ profiles - freshsoundrecords.com; allmusic.com; songtone.com; guitarsite.com
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Rosie These are fab little lanters and look so pretty They are heavy and sturdily built.. Great light effect.. Easy to install just pull tab on battery and set you light as to what effect you want and hang.. Battery's are charged and ready to go.. Very nice product.. Only Con.. made in China... UGH September 19, 2011
Rated 5 out of 5 by Innovative Great light! I have a steeply sloping driveway bordered by a retaining wall that is almost flush with the surface of the driveway. These lanterns provide a beautiful, soft accent to the top of the wall and define the edge of the driveway for drivers who are unfamilar with the driveway alignment. Missing as an option is an adapter that would allow one to flushmount the lanterns to a concrete surface. Pipe flanges available from any hardware store will serve the purpose, but the threaded plastic nipple on the bottom of the lanterns is not a standard NPT fitting. Consequently, I had to file down and rethread the plastic nipple. October 24, 2011
Rated 5 out of 5 by stinkygator4 Like how it looks, but (see below). Like how it looks, but have to re-read the instructions for how the lighting works. My husband and I are in our 70s and, for us, some instructions are easier to follow than others. October 24, 2011
Rated 5 out of 5 by OutdoorDecorator Beautiful Product This lantern is very attractive and easy to assemble. It really adds to a landscape. October 24, 2011
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Where can I get these lanterns repaired? I have two lanterns that the spring mechanism that secure the battery fell off inside of the top. One other
lanters metal lop on top broke off. One morning the lantern was lying on the gro und next to it's shepards hook. I own 10 more of these. They are beautiful and I have made a big investment in acquiring them. Can these be repaired? thank you.
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Unfortunately these are imported and Improvements does not carry parts for this item such as the lantern tops that house the battery compartments where two of your battery 'springs' became useles due to the springs braking. The lantern top handles(or loop) are not available as parts either. Improvements has not had any prior issues on this item.
The only other two options Improvements can suggest are to 1) purchase new ones or 2) as a helpful hint - if you place a small piece of tin foil under the battery where the spring was located it may make contact and work fine without having to replace the whole item. Thank you.
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I have 6 of these and I love them. But the tops are very faded after a couple years, can they be restored?
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There are outdoor metallic spray paints out in the market today that can be used. These can be purchased at your local hardware or home improvements stores. Make sure to cover the components and any other area where you do not wish paint to show. You would need to match up the color as close to what the base is.
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The Ford model lineup was dramatically redesigned for 1933, using scaled-up drawings from the British Model Y. The three-window coupe was given a more gracefully angled greenhouse - it was the most streamlined of all Ford's 1933 cars.
This car was acquired by Nick Alexander from Milton Robson. Mr. Robson had the car restored by Ernest Allen. Mr. Allen accidently passed away midway through the completion of the project, and Robson kept the unfinished project, setting it up as a display piece, before its acquisition by Mr. Alexander.
After the purchase, the restoration work was completed by Mr. Alexander's own shops. The car has aluminum heads and manifold, rumble seat, and optional factory glove box radio. The car is finished in Aurora Red wheels and pinstripe. the upholstery is correct, rose beige mohair with taupe carpet, and the rumble seat is done in brown leather.
The rear window cranks down for ventilation or conversation with the rumble seat passengers. A lever next to the window crank opens the rumble seat. There is a wood grain dashboard, nicely set off by the engine-turned instrument panel in front of the driver.
In 2012, this car was offered for sale by RM Auctions at their Monterey, CA sale. The car was estimated to sell for $90,000 - $125,000 and offered without reserve. As bidding came to a close, the car had been sold for the sum of $99,000 inclusive of buyer's premium.
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Harkening back to the days of horse-drawn coaches taking travelers cross-country between 'stations', the wood-bodied 'woodie' station wagon would become a unique bridge between eras.
Due to their need of constant care and maintenance, any wood-bodied automobile was not for the least affluent of society. They not only required constant care but the ideal place in which to store them and this was not in great supply during the 1930s when the concept started to really catch on.
John Moir would be one of those able and willing to maintain such an amazing piece of wood-working art. This particular example, a 1933 Ford v-8 Station Wagon would be just such an example of what could be.
Unrestored and highly original inside and out, this particular example even retains its original paint livery and the name of its first home—Bon-Air Farms. Situated along the Atlantic coast, Hampton would be first founded during the 17th century and would become a popular tourist destination during the 20th century. However, agriculture would still be a big part of the local economy and Bon-Air Farms would be just one of those farms within the area. The Ford Station Wagon would then be a big asset to the farm.
Following its years with Bon-Air Farms, the 1933 station wagon would become a part of a museum based in Glen, New Hampshire. This time would help to protect the automobile from the harsh elements and would lead to the car being able to retain its original condition.
The state of the Ford would draw Moir. He would end up purchasing the car from the museum and would take great pains to keep the car in its unrestored state. This would include keeping the car out of the elements and only driving it very sparingly. In fact, as the automobile came to auction as part of RM Auctions' 2014 Hershey event there was just a little more than 23,000 miles noted on the odometer.
Boasting of an interior showing only minor signs of cracking and aging, original wood inside and out and a rather well known provenance, the 1933 Ford V-8 Station Wagon would garner estimates leading up to the auction of between $70,000-$100,000. When the gavel fell to bring bidding to an end, the final sale price would be $82,500.
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The quintessential hot rod automobile would have to be Ford's Roadster. Boasting of aggressive and evocative styling, the roadster remains the benchmark of the hot rod some eighty years later.
Simple, and yet, sophisticated, the Roadster was the ideal automobile for its time. Coming in a number of different styles, Ford's Model B suited nearly every American. Complimented by its V8 engine, Ford's buyers had the foundations of a whole different automotive genre.
Utilizing the modern construction methods of the day, Ford's Model B would be straight-forward, but with some intriguing touches. Compared to the 1932 example, the '33 Ford would have a stretched wheelbase and revised front grille. The pointed grille added to the look of the car and seemed to blend nicely with the flowing fenders and the rest of the car.
The look, and the simplicity of the design, made the Ford the perfect canvas for aspiring car tuners. Chassis 263309 would be a particularly intriguing example.
One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of the acumen of the Ford's abilities than chassis 263309. Originally purchased in '33 by Harry Warner, the Ford Roadster would be used on his honeymoon. However, it wouldn't be long before this symbol of a love and devotion would be tuned into a speed demon.
Warner had begun work with Lockheed Aircraft at the time of his buying the Roadster. However, Harry wasn't without aspirations of his own. Having met Wayne Horning, Warner would go all-in to help form Wayne Manufacturing.
Wayne Manufacturing would soon earn a name for itself producing 12-port cylinder heads. The men needed a means to test the cylinder heads. What better specimen than that which Warner had used on his honeymoon.
Quickly the two men went to work adapting and evolving the car making it a test bed. As with the day, the Roadster would soon become a regular at drag strips and in speed trials. These events were not about moments of pride as much as they were moments of real world development for the 12-port cylinder heads.
The Roadster would continue to be an important figure within Warner's sphere. All the way up into the 1970s, the Ford would be called upon to perform its test duties. When finally retired in the 1970s, 263309 would be passed to Harry's son Dan. Some fifteen years later, the car would finally leave the Warner family becoming the property of Bill Swanson.
Swanson's purchase of the Roadster in 1994 signaled the beginning of a decade-long restoration project that would include the input and help of many different and talented people. Art Hernandez, Art Chrisman and Pete Eastwood would all play a part in the car's restoration efforts.
True to the purpose of the restoration, Swanson would decide to return the car to original as much as possible. This would include replacing the engine with a correct Flathead V8 utilizing three Stromberg carburetors and Ardun overhead-valve heads to develop around 225hp.
The current owner would procure the Ford in 2003 and would give a further nod to history by acquiring a 12-port Wayne-head inline six-cylinder engine that remains with the car and its Flathead engine.
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in 2003, this quintessential Ford Roadster would be made available for sale through Gooding & Company's Arizona auction. Estimates prior to auction had the Ford drawing between $125,000 and $175,000. However, bidding for the car would be enthusiastic and the final sale price would be a very healthy and surprising $242,000.
By Jeremy McMullen
The Ford Model 40 V8 rode on a 112-inch wheelbase and rode on 17-inch wire spoke wheels. Power was from a 90-degree L-head V-8 engine that displaced 221 cubic-inches and produced 75 horsepower. The engine was mated to a three-speed sliding gear transmission with floor shift controls. They had an X-member double-drop frame and mechanical internal expanding brakes at all four corners.
The design was curveacous with a one-piece bumper and streamlined appearance. All bodies, regardless of the bodystyle or the color, were delivered with black fenders.
The V-8 engine was well received. When first introduced in 1932, there were over 200,000 examples sold during that year. It outsold the four-cylinder Model B cars, which reached 185,000 units. Evolutionary upgrades were made to the engine throughout its production run. Earlier improvements included an improved ignition and cooling system, with a new aluminum head that had a compression ratio of 6.3:1, giving horsepower a boost to 75.
The new design was influenced by British styles. The Ford Motor Company, Ltd, had been operating in Britain since 1911 and the Model T proved popular there.
Ford enlisted the help of Eugene Turenne Gregorie , called 'Bob' by his friends, to help in the design. 'Bob' had designed yachts for the Elco Corporation and at Cox and Stevens, a New York naval architecture firm. He had also worked at coachbuilders Brewster & Company. His work at Brewster brought him to the automobile industry and soon became well-regarded for his talents.
Gregorie used his nautical background to create a slanted flat windshield back, and employed a similarly sloped grille whose silhouette suggested a heart shape. The doors were hinged at the rear and opened in 'suicide fashion. The headlamps were mounted directly to the fenders.
This new design was introduced as the Model Y in February 1932. The Model Y was well received and quickly put into production. For the 1933 American Ford, Edsel wanted a more graceful design than the 1932 style.
For the 1933 model year, and with the longer wheelbase, the design of the Model Y was simply scaled up. The Model Y's proportions were mechanically scaled.
The public responded, with sales for 1933 models increasing some 40 percent over dismal 1932 sales.
By Daniel Vaughan | Dec 2009
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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Steven Ihm, a senior on the University of Iowa men's golf team in 2013-14, has earned a sponsor's exemption for the PGA TOUR's John Deere Classic for the second-consecutive year. After competing in last year's event as an amateur, Ihm (Ranked 25th in World Amateur Rankings, 11th in US Amateur Rankings) will officially make his professional PGA TOUR debut on July 8.
"I am honored for the opportunity to compete in the John Deere Classic again this year, and could not ask for a better tournament to make my pro debut," said Ihm. "This is a great chance for me to jump start my pro career and I am truly grateful for this opportunity."
"We would like to thank Clair Peterson and the tournament board for allowing Steven to make his second start on the PGA TOUR right here at home at the John Deere Classic," said UI head coach Mark Hankins. "Steven has had a great career at the University of Iowa, earned this opportunity through his collegiate and amateur play, and is looking forward to competing at TPC Deere Run as he begins the next stage of his golf career. I am very proud of him and continue to appreciate his positive impact on our program."
Ihm, a native of Peosta, Iowa, is currently ranked 24th in the men's world amateur golf rankings. He became the first Hawkeye to earn three All-Big Ten honors in his career, earning first team all-conference accolades as a junior and senior after earning second team honors as a sophomore. Ihm is also a three-time PING All-Region honoree.
Ihm won the third and fourth individual tournament titles (Hawkeye-GRE Invitational, Boilermaker Invitational) of his career as a senior, tying former Hawkeyes Blad Klapprott and Sean McCarty for the second-most career tournament victories in program history.
Following his fifth place finish at the 2014 Big Ten Tournament Championships, Ihm was named to the tournament's All-Championship team. Ihm was tabbed as the Big Ten Golfer of the Week five times in his career, and was named Golfweek National Player of the Week on April 21 following his victory at the Boilermaker Invitational. Ihm shot a final round 64 -- equaling the second-lowest round in program history -- leading the Hawkeyes to the team title.
In his career, Ihm registered two of the top four single-season scoring averages, and three of the top 16, in program history. His 2013-14 average of 71.45 is the second-best mark in program history.
Ihm joined elite company as he won the 60th Annual Sunnehanna Amateur in June, 2013. PGA TOUR professionals such as Rickie Fowler, Webb Simpson, and Lucas Glover won the same event early in their careers. Ihm shot an eight-under par (272) for the four-round tournament, winning by two strokes over Cory Whitsett of Alabama.
In last year's John Deere Classic, Ihm birdied his first hole and posted a 36-hole score of 140 (71, 69, -2), missing the cut by two strokes.
The 2014 John Deere Classic, held at the Tournament Players Club (TPC) Deere Run in Silvis, Ill., marks the 44th annual PGA TOUR event in the Quad Cities and the 16th year for John Deere as the title sponsor. This year's tournament, which features a purse of $4,700,000 and a winning share of $846,000, runs from July 8-13.


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Bookscanners are devices which allow people to rapidly scan their books to a digital format, so they can take their books with them without having to take the paper with them. Jigsaw has talked about building one in the past and Chloe took the lead in organizing the project.
Commercial bookscanners are expensive, but recently a DIY community has sprung up around making inexpensive and open source bookscanners. They have been featured in Wired and bOING bOING and different designs and techniques are detailed at http://www.diybookscanner.org.
We estimate that the project will take at least 350$ to complete, accounting for materials and two Canon A480s. To ensure that we have enough money to make this project successful we're looking to raise 425$.
The bookscanner will be a great way to archive out-of-print books and photo albums. It will be capable of scanning at least A4 sizes, which is larger than most textbooks.
When the bookscanner is complete, anyone will be able to come in to Jigsaw to scan their books. Throw in some money so you can take your books with you anywhere, even while they're sitting at home on the shelf.
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I am looking for a gun for my wife. I am leaning towards a LC9, but have heard some good things about the Walther Pk380. What is your experience? I want a gun that is easy to operate, first and foremost. She has trouble with the S&W 642's trigger being a little heavy, how is the DA trigger on the PK380? Is the safety in an intuitive position? Any thoughts?
I know, I plan on taking her to shoot some, but unfortunately my favorite gun store is short on stock right now, and particularly doesn't have this one. She doesn't like what I own now, so I am thinking she kind of just wants to pick one that is her own.


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The library construction bid was awarded at last Thursday's Chelan City Council meeting- after an amendment was made to transfer additional funding into the library construction budget.
The amendment became necessary after bids came in that were $80-$100 thousand higher than anticipated, partly due to asbestos removal.
City of Chelan Administrator, Paul Schmidt, says in order to accept the low bid for construction, the council needed to add $80.
The council awarded the bid to Blodgett Construction, out of Wenatchee.
Schmidt says that although moving forward to accept the low bid was a recommendation from him- he still has concerns with the lack of wiggle room the transfer of funds will leave in the budget.
City officials plan to continue seeking grant funding and fundraising to cover the additional costs for construction- which is set to begin this Spring- with plans for the library to move into their new building by fall."CLICK HERE" for Audio"CLICK HERE" for Audio


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It was only three month's ago that Jennie Garth went public about her relationship with media executive Michael Shimbo, in an Instagram post, but today it was confirmed that the two have parted ways.
The Los Angeles based Garth and the San Francisco Shimbo broke up while in Austin, TX for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix.
Rumor has it that the difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship caused the breakup.
The couple were didn't shy away from attention where their relationship was concerned. The two attended the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco in August and often posted pictures of themselves together on social networking sites.
Garth's 11 year marriage to Peter Facinelli ended in March 2012 with the divorce being finalized June 13, after a year-long separation. She was also linked to musician Jeremy Salken in January.


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Are Peace Negotiations in the Cards?
Are Peace Negotiations hosted by Russia and France in the cards? Today, President Obama is meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu and the Palestian Authority's Abbas and then hosting a three-way meeting with both leaders. Officially all parties claim they have "low expectations." [more inside]
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SA VIGNAC. Welcome to the world of Raymond Savignac, the greatest poster artist of all time, and inventor of the little Bic man. Joyous, naughty, simple, elegant, and beautiful.
Salman Rushdie defends fellow writer Michel Houellebecq,
Salman Rushdie defends fellow writer Michel Houellebecq, the autonomy of the literary text and its right to be considered on its own terms with characters of every sort.
blimey charlie the french are getting right hot
blimey charlie the french are getting right hot under the collar. There is growing indignation in france at the creeping use of the english language. Well now it seems that the EU, with an impeccable track record of supporting the french is suddenly ruffling a few feathers.
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Bosses of a nighclub which opened less than three months ago after a £1m refurbishment held discussions with an insolvency practitioner yesterday.
House nightclub and Boutique Bar, formerly Escapade, which opened its doors on Wellington Street in the summer promising ''a fresh clubbing experience'', is believed to owe creditors thousands of pounds.
The club is being run by Mat Moriarty and Bill Surtees.
Steve Oddi, an insolvency case manager at O'Hara and Co, based in the Wakefield area, confirmed that he had met Mr Surtees yesterday.
He said: ''The situation is that we have been asked to advise them on various potential issues so they can assess their options and we have left it at that. We are not acting for them and have not been formally instructed.
''I can't say what the directors intend to do.''
He was unable to say whether the club would trade this weekend.
Neither Mr Surtees nor Mr Moriarty responded to Chronicle requests for comment.


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Better Mortgage Deals at Online Banks?
"I don't want to underwrite a mortgage I can't keep."
That's what Arkadi Kuhlmann, president and CEO of ING Direct, told a group of WSJ reporters Monday.
Given the beating that mortgage lenders (and holders) have taken lately, Kuhlmann's position makes sense. It also explains why ING Direct, an online bank, has been doing well while its larger, brick-and-mortar counterparts have floundered in recent months.
ING Direct offers a 5/1 year ARM online mortgage, an adjustable-rate mortgage where the rate adjusts after five years. The national average rate right now is 6.01% and the ING 5/1 ARM is 5.25%. Online banks MTG Capital, Emigrant Savings and E-Loan are also offering similar products.
To weary consumers, these online mortgages may sound too good to be true. Are they?
Let's peek behind the banking curtain for a second. ING Direct and other online banks are differently positioned than other financial institutions because they run banks in the style of Ikea, Wal-Mart or Amazon. Low overhead (no bank branches) allows them to serve up competitive products (low rates) for thousands of customers.
The theory behind offering a 5-year ARM is that the average American moves every five to seven years. So why would you pay a 30-year rate when it's unlikely you'll stick around that long?
So you pay the lower rate for five years. After five years, will your mortgage turn into a high-interest, un-payable pumpkin at the stroke of midnight?
Your rate will go up, but the banks assure the adjusted rate will remain below or around the national average — currently 6.01%, according to Bankrate. But there's no guarantee that it will stay that low. After all, you're not locked into a 30-year deal, just a five- to seven-year one. Even if you don't plan to stay longer than those few years, be sure you have a strategy in place for year six (and seven, and eight…).
ING's Kuhlmann says that he wants to retain customers, not sell off mortgages to large Wall Street firms. (Even if he wanted to, no one's buying right now.) And since he doesn't have to pay throngs of employees to staff thousands of branches, it makes sense that he can keep his rates and closing costs low.
Online mortgage lenders are also taking a cue from FDIC chair Sheila Bair and are offering more flexibility to help people repay their mortgages on more reasonable terms. Keep in mind that to qualify for one of these online mortgages requires a better-than-average FICO score, which means less risk for the banks. Your FICO score, or credit score, is a number that determines your risk as a lender. Generally, you need a score over 700 to get the best rates.
Many customers are still uneasy about online financial institutions. Before signing any fine print, make sure you bank has the same federal protections as their brick-and-mortar counterparts (FDIC insurance, Equal Housing Lenders, etc.). Go for the lowest rate (Bankrate and SmartHippo are good places to compare) and don't be shy about grilling customer service. Don't get into something you can't afford.
The mortgage world has been in the doldrums lately. But the online banking world is betting that what goes down will eventually go back up. And that at the stroke of midnight, a foreclosure-free Cinderella can stay at the ball.


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College Hockey:Big Wins And Bad Losses
I've commented before on the murky consequences of the four PairWise comparison criteria. For this purpose, the easiest way to think of the PWR is that it's the Ratings Percentage Index with several modifiers tacked on, each of which is meant to capture some notion of what a "good" team's performance should look like.
As I've said, the PWR and the RPI track closely together, so this way of thinking makes sense — the other pieces of the PairWise are really meant to tweak the RPI in specific ways.
Common opponents? This seems reasonable; if you want to decide which of two teams is better, one piece of the decision-making process might involve looking at how they fared against the same teams.
Head-to-head competition is even more obvious. If Team A beats Team B two or three times, it seems clear that we ought to believe Team A is better unless we have a lot of other evidence to the contrary.
And finally, looking at the record against "Teams Under Consideration" — the top 25 of the RPI — satisfies the concept that beating the best is what a good team should do, and that special attention should be paid to those games.
As always, though, the law of unintended consequences applies. Here's the problem in a nutshell: each of those three things is already built into the RPI. If Team A beats Team B, the win and the loss go into both team's RPIs, but also in the head-to-head criterion. Same goes for common opponents — those wins and losses are baked into the RPI, and then essentially get counted twice.
The worst offender, though, is record against TUCs. This has always been a cherished annoyance of mine, because it simply doesn't work the way it's intended.
How can I say that, you ask? Isn't it obvious that wins and losses against "good" opponents should be singled out for extra attention?
Yes, it is obvious — so obvious that once again, the RPI already does this. Beating, say, Boston University or Notre Dame provides a big boost to a team's RPI, the most important part of the PWR. Conversely, beating American International (no offense to AIC fans, but AIC was the bottom team in the RPI as of Sunday night) doesn't do much for your NCAA credentials.
No, what the record-against-TUCs criterion does is reward inconsistency. For a case study, I give you the Northeastern Huskies.
Disclaimer No. 1: some of you may recall my use of Northeastern as an example in another article recently, a Bracketology blog post. I do not live in Boston, I did not go to NU, and I am not campaigning for or against the Huskies. Northeastern just happens to be instructive this season in terms of the PairWise.
Disclaimer No. 2: I'm about to criticize a specific problem with the PairWise Rankings. This does not imply that I think that the PWR as a whole should be scrapped. I like the PairWise. I like its objectivity and its transparency. But I'd like it even more if it made more sense than it sometimes does.
Back to our narrative. Northeastern has an overall record of 20-8-4 and an RPI of .5675, fourth-best in the nation. But NU is only seventh in the PWR as a whole, mostly because of its record against TUCs: 7-8-4, for a .4737 winning percentage against TUCs. This is causing the Huskies to lose five PWR comparisons against teams with better TUC records but worse RPIs.
Check those two records a little more closely: 20-8-4 and 7-8-4. Northeastern is a perfect 13-0-0 against teams not "under consideration" — those currently outside the top 25 in the RPI. These are the teams that NU is definitely "supposed" to beat, and it does.
Big deal, right? So NU won a lot against bad teams? It becomes more impressive when you consider that no other team in the country has done that. Every other team has at least one little blip on its resume against non-TUC teams. Boston University lost to Providence. Notre Dame posted ties against Lake Superior State (twice) and Western Michigan.
I'm not saying this to criticize those teams, because you can't win 'em all. And that's exactly the point. According to some, "good" teams prove themselves by doing two things: you "beat the teams you're supposed to" and then "win the tough ones."
When you put those two together, you're basically asking for perfection. Beat the teams you're supposed to — the bad opponents. Win the tough ones — the good opponents. Any loss is a problem because you're breaking one of those two rules.
The rule Northeastern breaks is about "the tough ones." As we already mentioned, Northeastern is below .500 in games against TUCs despite being perfect against everyone else, and that's damaging the Huskies' PWR stats.
So let's fiddle with history a bit. On Oct. 31, Northeastern lost to New Hampshire, and a couple of weeks later, on Nov. 16, NU lost to BU. Let's imagine the Huskies had won those games. Now, let's balance things out by taking NU's two wins over Merrimack on Jan. 9 and 10 and making them losses instead.
Look sharp, now. Our revised version of Northeastern has played the same schedule, and has the same 20-8-4 record overall. For that matter, it has the same Hockey East record and is still in first place in the league, although the PWR doesn't pay attention to that. All we've done is give NU two more wins against top competition and two more losses against Hockey East's last-place team (for completeness, Merrimack would be ninth in Hockey East rather than last had the Warriors won those two games, but you get the idea).
Is this new version of Northeastern more impressive to you than the real Northeastern? Beat BU and UNH, lose twice to Merrimack. Kind of a wash, isn't it?
Well, the PairWise doesn't think so. This fantasy version of Northeastern has almost the same RPI as before (.5675 vs. .5676), which isn't surprising — same schedule, same record, and those are the pieces of the RPI. But now two more of NU's wins are against TUCs. The result? This version of Northeastern is third in the PairWise, as opposed to seventh.
Now let's go crazy with our little experiment. On top of what we've already done, let's trade out some more wins and losses — how about Northeastern loses to Alaska-Anchorage, Bentley, Rensselaer and once more against Merrimack (all non-TUCs), and let's give the Huskies wins against Princeton, Minnesota, Vermont and another against BU (all TUCs).
Four more losses balanced out by four more wins. The same 20-8-4 overall record, but now produced by wild inconsistency. This version of Northeastern can beat anyone and lose to anyone with equal aplomb. There's no telling what you'll get on any given night.
And the PairWise loves it. This Jekyll-and-Hyde Northeastern is No. 1 in the PWR thanks to a spectacular record against TUCs of 13-2-4 — even though each of the TUC wins that we added to NU's record was counterbalanced by a "bad" loss. (To be fair, the extra wins against BU are important in the direct comparison against the Terriers, but that's only one comparison. The TUC record applies to every comparison.)
This is an extreme example, but the problem is real. Something like this happens every season, though less dramatically. It's happening right now — not just to Northeastern, but to Ohio State, for instance — and that's a concern. In short, the PairWise would rather have you beat a good team and lose to a bad one than vice versa.
That makes very little sense, and that is the point.
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A Giant's Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part One)
Chris Kelsey, an editor and regular contributor to jazz.com, recently published a smart commentary in this column on Ornette Coleman's controversial Blue Note recordings (see here and here). Now he turns his attention to John Coltrane's work for the Atlantic label, an expansive body of work that is too often lost in the shadows of the tenorist's later recordings for the Impulse label. Below is the first installment of Kelsey's three-part article. T.G.
John Coltrane's music was always a work-in-process. Most jazz musicians—even the greatest—spend their lives refining one style. Coltrane was an exception. He never ceased expanding and evolving. There were no stopping points in his music, only points of departure.
Some choose to see Trane's development simply as a manifestation of the cultural tumult of the 1960s. It was, to some extent, but it's a mistake to interpret it as being inspired by some '60s-radical desire to be seen as different. To imply as much, diminishes his accomplishments, makes it seem as if he were some jazz equivalent of Wavy Gravy or Timothy Leary.
Coltrane was no hippie; he was an inveterate explorer. Change was a constant in his music because he was hard-wired that way. Coltrane moved because he couldn't stand still. There was too much to do, and—as he was to discover—not enough time in which to do it.
Naturally, his recordings reflect that state of constant flux. Coltrane's '50s recordings with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk reflect tremendous growth, but his evolution began to truly accelerate in 1959—the year he began putting together his own band (a process that involved much trial-and-error), and began recording for Atlantic Records. It was a period of enormous change for Coltrane. By the time he had finished at Atlantic in 1961, he had metamorphosed from an ultra-progressive bopper to a musician concerned with redefining jazz's very boundaries.
Among his more easily identifiable accomplishments during those 28 months: he conceived and recorded some of the mostly harmonically elaborate jazz compositions ever written; recorded a signature tune ("My Favorite Things") that became something of a hit song, and in the process helped popularize a modal concept of playing jazz; reclaimed a long-neglected instrument (the soprano sax) for jazz; made a significant move in the direction of the avant-garde by recording with free jazz's top trumpeter, Don Cherry; refined saxophone techniques that would affect the way the horn would be played thereafter; and began incorporating techniques of world music into his concept. Pre-Atlantic, Coltrane was a potentially great, but relatively conventional, jazz musician. Post-Atlantic, he was well on his way to becoming one of the most influential jazz musicians of his or any other time.
By 1959, Coltrane was ready in every way to leave the employ of Miles Davis and form his own band. He was mentally and physically healthy. He was highly regarded by both critics and the jazz public. Most importantly, he had musical ideas he could only work on with his own group. Yet, while he'd led many recording sessions, mostly for Prestige, he had not yet taken the crucial step of leaving Davis and striking out on his own. Of course, leaving the most successful small group in jazz wasn't a decision he took lightly. Davis didn't want him to go, and Coltrane surely enjoyed the financial security the gig provided. In any event, the end of his time with Davis overlapped with the beginning of his period at Atlantic.
Coltrane's first recordings for Atlantic resulted in Bags and Trane, recorded on January 15, 1959 in New York City. Coltrane co-led the date with the Modern Jazz Quartet's vibist, Milt Jackson. The album reflects the grittier sensibility Jackson usually adopted when playing apart from the more consciously refined MJQ. The repertoire consisted mostly of standards and blues, along with Charlie Parker's up-tempo flag-waver, "Bebop"—a nod to a jazz era that was, by then, already receding into the mists. The leaders were joined by pianist Hank Jones, bassist Paul Chambers, and Jackson's MJQ band mate, drummer Connie Kay. It's a fine record, hard-swinging and full of top-notch playing. In terms of where Coltrane was at the time, however, it's backward-looking. He'd been-there-done-that, and was manifestly ready to move on, as his next dates for Atlantic made clear.
Giant Steps, Coltrane's first actual release for Atlantic (Bags and Trane wouldn't be issued until 1961), gave a more accurate picture of where he was as an artist. The recording of the album was actually a two-part affair. The first session took place on April 1, 1959 in New York City, with a band consisting of pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Lex Humphries. The quartet recorded several takes of three Coltrane originals—"Giant Steps," "Naima," and "Like Sonny"—but none were deemed satisfactory by Coltrane. The music from this session remained unreleased until several years after Coltrane's death.
A second session was convened on May 4 and 5, 1959, with a substantially different cast. Paul Chambers returned, but Walton was replaced by Tommy Flanagan, and Humphries by Art Taylor. Over the span of two days the group recorded all six tunes that ended up on the album, plus one—"Sweet Sioux"—that was rejected and later lost.
Giant Steps was a landmark. Not only did it present the apotheosis of his experiments with harmonic complexity ("Countdown" and the title track); more than any of his prior albums, it showcased his compositions, among them "Naima," a pedal-point-based ballad; "Cousin Mary," an ingeniously altered blues; and "Mr. P.C." a fast minor blues dedicated to bassist Chambers. The absence here of songs from the standard jazz repertoire is telling. Coltrane was much less interested in playing music written by others. Henceforth, he would mostly supply his own contexts, which would be inextricably linked to his evolving concept of improvisation.
This is the end of the first installment of Chris Kelsey's three-part article on John Coltrane's Atlantic years. Click here to read part two of this article.
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