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If this is the year you committed to get in shape, meet new people and put a little adventure in your routine, the MOV'n Dragons team can help with all three goals.
Now beginning its seventh season on the water, the Mid-Ohio Valley's only dragon boat team has grown to more than 50 members, including 20 who were new to the group in 2012. Based in Marietta, the group is made up of cancer survivors and supporters, including people of all ages and fitness levels.
And while the boat won't be on the water until spring, activities already are under way.
The first meeting of the year is at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Betsey Mills Club meeting room. Members also meet at the Indian Acres Boat Ramp at 9 a.m. each Saturday to walk the bike path. And the team's second annual pasta dinner fundraiser is planned for March 2 at the Betsey Mills.
"The Mov'n Dragons always welcome new paddlers," President Susan Corcoran said. "Dragon boating offers the perfect combination of good exercise and good fellowship, while taking part in the fight against cancer."
The group's other officers are Paulette Hall, vice president; Theresa Fitzgerald, treasurer; and Karen Wetz, secretary. Linda Lewis is now in her fifth year as coach.
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How to join the MOV'n Dragons
Here are some opportunities to learn more about the team:
Attend the first meeting of the year at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Betsey Mills Club meeting room.
Meet at the Indian Acres Boat Ramp at 9 a.m. Saturdays for a walk, talk and coffee break.
Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Plan to attend the team's new member orientation in early May.
Weather and Muskingum River conditions permitting, the team paddles from April to October each year. Practices are held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings, with members attending as many practices as their schedules allow. The Marietta College boathouse serves as the MOV'n Dragons' headquarters during the paddling season.
The team offers opportunities for strenuous practices and competitions - members competed last summer in Columbus; Alexandria, Ky.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Toronto, Canada - as well as more leisurely practices and outings. To accommodate all types of paddlers, there are both competitive and recreational teams.
"It was just amazing," Denise Highland, of Coolville, said after her first-ever race in September. "I wanted to go again right away."
Like several members of the team, Highland is a breast cancer survivor - or thriver, as dragon boaters say. Other team members have never experienced cancer themselves, but they appreciate being part of a group that advocates for and supports survivors.
For more information, visit the team's website at www.movndragons.org.
Mary Alice Casey is a writer, editor and member of the MOV'n Dragons.


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Pronounced: sigh-co-sex-u-al dis-funk-shon
Psychosexual dysfunction is the inability to become sexually aroused or achieve sexual satisfaction in the appropriate situations because of mental or emotional reasons.
Although psychosexual dysfunction is not life threatening, it can have a major effect on your relationships and self-esteem.
Psychosexual dysfunction is a sexual dysfunction that is due to psychological causes rather than physical problems, medical illnesses, or the side effects of medication.
Some of the psychological conditions include:
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Reduced sexual desire or activity is common among women and men. Before treatment can begin, it is necessary to determine whether the dysfunction may be caused by physical causes like diabetes , heart disease , alcoholism , heavy smoking, side effects of medications, or hormonal problems. Only sexual dysfunction due to psychological factors is called psychosexual dysfunction.
Factors that may increase your chances of developing psychosexual dysfunction include:
Symptoms of psychosexual disorder may differ for men and women.
Symptoms for men include:
Symptoms for women include:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms, your medical history, and your sexual history. A physical exam will be done. Make sure to tell your doctor about all the medications you are currently taking. Your doctor may also ask questions about your partner.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with blood tests.
You may have a psychological assessment. This can be done with:
Men may have tests done to assess erection ability. This can be done with:
Women may have additional tests done, such as:
If your doctor does not find anything significant from the examination or these tests, your doctor may refer you to a psychologist or psychiatrist.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. The most appropriate treatment will depend on the cause of the psychosexual dysfunction.
Some medications can alleviate the symptoms. However, to successfully manage psychosexual dysfunction, it is important to treat and manage mental and emotional issues.
Treatment options for psychosexual dysfunction include the following:
Medications may be prescribed to treat the symptoms, such as hormone therapy or medications used to treat psychological symptoms like anxiety and depression.
Medications for erectile dysfunction can also be tried in men.
Psychotherapy allows you to talk and work with a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or licensed counselor to figure out ways to deals with stressful or painful issues.
Sex therapists assist you by encouraging communication, teaching you about sexual fantasies, and helping you focus on sexual stimuli.
A psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or licensed counselor works with you to unlearn automatic behaviors.
Couples meet with a psychologist, social worker, or other type of mental health professional to discuss issues, including communications problems.
There are no known ways to prevent psychosexual dysfunction.
To help reduce your chances of developing psychosexual dysfunction:
American Psychological Association
Mental Health America
Canadian Psychological Association
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
AACE male sexual dysfunction task force. American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the evaluation and treatment of male sexual dysfunction: A couple's problem—2003 update. Endocrine Practice. 2003; 9(1):77-94.
Crenshaw TL, Goldberg JP, Stern WC. Pharmacologic modification of psychosexual dysfunction. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. 1987;13(4):239-252.
Cutler SJ, Smith W, et al. Treatment of sexual dysfunction. US Pharmacist. 2002;23(5).
Female sexual problems. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy website. Available at: http://www.aamft.org/imis15/content/Consumer_Updates/Female_Sexual_Problems.aspx. Accessed May 23, 2014.
Phillips NA. Female sexual dysfunction: Evaluation and treatment. Am Fam Physician. 2000;62(1):127-136.
Reiner WG, Gearhart JP, et al. Psychosexual dysfunction in males with genital anomalies: Late adolescence, Tanner states IV to VI, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 1999;38(7):865-872.
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5|25: Celebrating Five Years of Autism Science Day 15: Maternal Autoantibodies as Potential Risk Markers
The foray into the intersection between autism and immunology has borne many interesting results throughout the years, the latest of which is the discovery of maternal antibodies to fetal brain proteins. Three research articles published in 2008 from two groups of researchers from University of California-Davis/MIND Institute and Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University, reported the presence of "autoantibodies"(antibodies developed against self) in the blood of mothers who had previously given birth to children with autism.
In the ongoing search for biological risk-markers of autism, the two groups independently reported that abnormal antibody proteins were present more often in the blood of mothers who had given birth to children diagnosed with autism than those who had not. Both teams found that mothers whose children have specifically presented with a regressive form of autism have antibodies that bind to as-yet unidentified proteins present in fetal brains. In a third study, also from the MIND Institute, researchers found that exposing pregnant rhesus monkeys to purified antibodies isolated from the sera of mothers of children with autism resulted in offspring that developed extremely unusual stereotypic behaviors.
Maternal antibodies have been previously implicated in other conditions such as the movement disorder Myasthenia Gravis and Grave's disorder, the most common form of hyperthyroidism. In these diseases, an autoimmune condition in the mother can affect the child because antibodies directed against self proteins can cross the placenta to affect the developing fetus, likely by binding and disrupting the action of the proteins recognized by the antibody. However, the specific meaning and mechanism of action of the autoantibodies found in the mothers of children with autism is still a mystery.
Given the overarching need to find biomarkers that can help parents diagnose their risk of having a child with autism, many follow-up studies are underway to determine the significance of these maternal antibodies. Foremost among them is the identification of the actual proteins targeted by the antibodies, which would provide critical knowledge about the mechanism by which fetal brain development is disrupted. Meanwhile, these findings represent important knowledge that can be used for risk assessment in the future, particularly by women planning pregnancies. And although the correlations found apply only to a subpopulation of autism spectrum disorders, they represent a group for which an intervention can be devised when the pathological role of these antibodies is understood. A role for the immune system during brain development, and in particular, in disorders such autism, is an area of investigation that has remained far less explored than others. However, the year 2008 showed that it is an area rapidly gaining momentum and that should provide many more insights in the upcoming year.
Since this story was first run: A potential connection between ASD and autoimmune disorders has grown stronger with the 2009 publication of a study that made use of the nationwide psychiatric health registry in Denmark to explore family histories. Among several new links, researchers have discovered a connection between maternal rheumatoid arthritis and an increased risk for ASD in the child.
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Then along came the Bread Maker's Apprentice Challenge and when I decided to jump onboard, bread as we knew it would never be the same. And that's a good thing. Well, maybe not for the birds.
Pizza Focaccia (makes one 14" pizza)
2 1/2 cups unbleached high-gluten or bread flour (I used Sir Lancelot high-gluten flour)
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp instant yeast
3 TBSP olive oil (plus more for the pizza pan)
3/4 cup plus 2 TBSP to 1 cup room temperature water
Insert the plastic dough blade into the work bowl of your food processor. Add flours, salt and yeast. Pulse 3-4 times to mix dry ingredients
Place pan in oven and reduce oven temperature to 450 degrees. Bake for 8 minutes then remove from oven and place your toppings on the dough. Return pizza to oven and bake for an additional 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown and cheese is melted. Remove from oven and transfer pizza from pan to a cooling rack. Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving.


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Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 8:39 p.m.
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Fletcher Community Park's outer greenway, which runs across Cane Creek Bridge, is closed today and Friday due to storm damage, said Fletcher Parks and Recreation Director Greg Walker.
The majority of the park is open to the public.
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Finding a natural solution
By Rachel Schwartz
kale recipes, kale benefits, cows and environment, cancer defense, Dirty Dozen, vitamin K, beta-carotene
Rachel Schwartz is a Natural Home & Garden editorial
intern. She attends the University of Kansas where she studies
Journalism and writes columns about environmental and organic health for
the campus newspaper, The University Daily Kansan. She is passionate about reducing her carbon footprint and filling her body with the best possible foods.
Over the past few months, my uncle and dad have both started
eating healthier meals. Most of the foods they're trying are ones that you and
I eat everyday or at least have heard of. A new one for me, though, is kale.
After searching, I found out that kale is one of the most nutritious veggies
out there! Kale even has many of the health benefits, minus the environmental
impact, that beef
Take a look at these facts. Kale takes about 60 days to
fully grow. Cows can take up to two years until they are ready to be used to
make beef. All kale needs to grow is water, soil and sunshine—hardly a
pain-staking process. Cows raised for beef must be fed 16 pounds of grain and
2,400 gallons of water. Also, beef
production is one of the greatest contributors to global warming. No doubt
about it, kale is the better choice for the environment.
Kale is also chock full of nutrients, some of which help fight
diseases. Beta-carotene, one type of antioxidant kale contains, is believed
to fight, most notably, cancer. Including kale regularly into your diet also provides
glucosinolates, which prevent many different types of cancer including breast
cancer, ovarian cancer and colon cancer. Kale is also rich in omega-3 fatty
acids and vitamin
K (just one cup of kale contains 1,020 percent of the recommended daily
allowance of vitamin K), both of which act as an anti-inflammatory and, as a
result, help fight against health problems including arthritis and asthma.
Kale also contains high levels of nutrients such as calcium,
fiber and iron. Kale contains more iron per calorie than its rival beef.
Compared with milk, it contains more calcium per calorie, making it a good food
to eat to help prevent osteoporosis. In 100 calories of kale, 7 percent of that
is fiber,
making kale a great helper in the digestive process.
When buying kale, you will always want to buy the organic
variety, because conventional kale is part of the "Dirty
Dozen." This means that it is one of the foods that contains the highest
pesticide residue, so, since you would (should) anyway, go organic.
Interested in trying kale? Check out these recipes! Make kale
chips, white
bean and kale stew, or sauté
of kale with wild rice and garlic. Take it from me: kale is also delicious
in addition to being nutritious!
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I was having a bit of trouble with PMS streaming to two Blu-Ray players, one a Sony BDP-S480 and another the Sony BDP-S470. The issue had to do with MKV. The S480 plays them flawlessly, even though it's connected via a repeater bridge. The S470 will only give me stuttered playback even though it's hardlined to the primary router, unless I attempt to transcode which is very hit and miss. My question is: Is the reason for this disparity due to the support for MKV for each player, or am I missing a setting in PMS? A separate issue had to do with subtitles. When I playback an MKV with subtitles on the S480 PMS steps in and transcodes the file, leading to slower start-up. If I check "Definitely disable subtitles" it will make MKV playback stop all together. Again, is there a setting I'm missing or do I just have to strip the subtitles and remux? Thanks in advance.


text: Die Antwoord is, in a word, crazy. Hailing from South Africa, Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er are provocative, outlandish and wildly inappropriate, and this newest video for "Rich Bitch" is no exception from the Die Antwoord rule. But instead of featuring Ninja's hard rapping style as most of their other songs tend to do, this clip showcases Yo-Landi in all of her glory. Clad head-to-toe in gold lamé – and once even dressed as a nun – her distinctive voice cuts through the track. Most importantly, if you want to see Yo-Landi with her gold American Apparel leggings around her legs and rapping from a gold toilet, then sneak a peek at this week's MVP, after the jump.


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People in Colorado, Washington state and Oregon will soon vote on initiatives that would allow adults 21 and over to buy marijuana at government-regulated shops.
They focus on the evils of prohibition and the economic benefits to the states and cities of pot tax revenues. There is no pretense of wanting to make pot available solely to help people suffering from serious medical conditions.
California' medicinal marijuana law was supposed to limit pot use to people with medical conditions. Many people with serious illnesses are able to get marijuana at dispensaries without having to purchase the drug illegally from a dealer and face state prosecution. But the law also allows any adult to purchase pot at a medical marijuana dispensary. So long as he or she has a medical marijuana ID -- which doctors and osteopaths dole out like gum drops for a price. Recreational drug users all over the state have taken advantage of the law which has helped land dispensaries in hot water with the feds.
California's prosecutors have shut down more than 600 statewide since they launched an aggressive campaign in October.
In July, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag came gunning for Harborside Health Center. Harborside of course is the cash-cow pot dispensary with branches in Oakland and San Jose and more than $20 million in annual sales. It was featured on the TV reality show "Weed Wars." Haag's office filed a civil forfeiture claim to seize the property that Harborside leases in an effort to shut it down.
On Wednesday, there was a new wrinkle in the Oakland marijuana wars.
City Attorney Barbara Parker announced that Oakland had filed a suit against the federal government to block the forfeiture claim. Oakland was none too pleased at the prospect of losing more than $1 million in sales tax revenues from Harborside.
According to the city's complaint, the property on Embarcadero "is vital to the safe and affordable distribution of medical cannabis to people suffering from chronic and acute pain, life threatening and severe illnesses, diseases and injuries."
Oakland officials allege that the federal government also exceeded a five-year statute of limitations. That city officials built a whole regulatory framework around medical marijuana based upon assurances from federal officials that so long as dispensaries stayed within the confines of state law, they would be allowed to operate.
Oakland became the first city I'm aware of to sue the federal government on behalf of a pot dispensary.
Marijuana advocates are over the moon. But others are incensed that Oakland officials are going to court to protect a marijuana dispensary.
Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, one of the top law firms in the state, is taking the case pro bono.
David Levine, a professor of law at UC Hastings and expert in civil procedure, questions whether the city of Oakland even has standings to file this particular legal action. He called it "an enormous long shot."
Oakland officials have no way of knowing whether a dispensary -- Harborside or any other -- is complying with state law. How many patients have legitimate medical conditions versus all the people who just want to get high.
There is no regulation or oversight of the doctors writing prescriptions or the people getting them.
Californians could have dropped the "medicinal" facade in 2010 by passing Prop. 19, the marijuana legalization measure. But it failed.
It appears that voters were happy to let the medical marijuana law operate as de-facto legalization but were unwilling to come right out and support legalization.
"It seems that California has settled on this strange ambiguous thing where it's not legal or illegal," says Robert MacCoun, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley who has studied U.S. and international drug laws.
Yet there is nothing ambiguous about possession and sale of marijuana under federal law.
Federal prosecutors assert Harborside's sales volume suggests illegal sales which would violate state and federal laws. The operators insist they have not broken any laws.
Harborside has 100,000 people listed as patients.
Multiply that out by all the people buying marijuana from thousands of medical marijuana dispensaries across California.
That's a whole lot of sick people. Or maybe not.
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.


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On Saturday, Jan. 26, the Missouri Department of Transportation's Northeast District will be selling some excess equipment as part of a consignment auction that will be held at the Wheeler Auction lot in Paris. Approximately 100 pieces of equipment are expected to be sold. Some of the items include: pull brooms, snow plows, batwing mowers, air compressors, generators, among many others.
The auction is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. For information on the auction visit Wheeler Auction's website at http://wheelerauctions.com/main/Auctions/20130126Consign/20130126Consign.html .
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. -- The State of South Carolina wants an alleged cop-killer to die for his crimes. Solicitor Strom Thurmond of the Second Judicial Circuit confirmed this to News 12. He says he does not have a public comment, but he says the notice of death speaks for itself.
"On Thursday of last week, Mr. Carter was [given the] notice of the state's intent to seek the death penalty in his case," said Aaron Walsh, who has a legal practice in Aiken.
The attorney will represent the alleged cop-killer, Stephon Carter, in court.
"The state has declined to speak about any of the facts of this case, and at this time, I'm also going to decline to speak about any specific facts of this case," he said.
The shooting happened on Dec. 20 of last year around 8:28 p.m. An incident reports says Officer Travis Griffin responded to gunshots on Teague Street. An unlisted complaint informed the officer that the shots had been fired by Carter, who left in a Black Impala.
A short while later, he pulled over the Impala, which Carter was driving, on nearby Brandt Court. The report says Griffin was talking to Carter outside the car, along with Sgt. Tracy Seymour and Public Safety Officer Scott Richardson when Carter pulled out a gun.
It says he shot Griffin in his bulletproof vest, which prevented injury, but then Carter shot and killed Officer Richardson as he fled the area.
Officers fired back, striking Carter in the buttocks. The wound required him to use a colostomy bag, according to Carter's former lawyer, Carl B. Grant of Orangeburg.
On Dec. 22, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division charged Carter with the murder of Richardson and the attempted murder of Griffin.
Carter was transferred from the Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center to the Richmond County Detention Center in early January, still wearing his hospital gown. Carter was under a 24-hour surveillance watch with a Richmond County deputy by his side at all times.
Carter appeared before Judge Jennings in Richmond County a few days later. He waived his right to an extradition hearing, and within the hour, he was transported to the Aiken County Detention Center to await his next hearing.
In mid-February, Circuit Court Judge Jack Early denied bond. Carter waived his right to appear at the bond hearing at the Aiken County Courthouse.
At the hearing, Solicitor Thurmond told the judge other handguns were found in Carter's black Impala. He said the bullets recovered from Griffin's vest and Richardson's body were 38-caliber, matching Carter's handgun. The officers were using 40-caliber Glocks.
At the time, the state decided to hold back on releasing dash-cam video that apparently captured the incident. That week, Judge Early also agreed that the video should not be released for the time-being.
Now, the Solicitor's Office has decided it wants Carter to die for the alleged crime.
"To make a case in South Carolina, and this would be generally speaking of any case, you have to find, of course, the existence of the alleged murder and then one or more aggravating factors," said Walsh, who will continue to represent Carter.
He says that he is not certified to try a case involving the death penalty, but the state will soon appoint an attorney from Columbia to help. Walsh says he'll remain as Carter's local counsel.
Circumstances for the death penalty, as set by South Carolina Code, includes a list of factors including dismemberment of a person, murder of a child or murder of multiple people. In this case, Walsh says the alleged murder of a law enforcement officer while he's performing his official duties will likely be the circumstance the state cites in pushing for Carter's death.
"Without speaking for the state in any way, certainly, I believe they think that aggravating factor would apply," Walsh said.
First, though, a jury of 12 will have to find Carter guilty of murder.


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Walking through the CEC 2007 JavaFX Message Prompter Source
By user13366078 on Oct 16, 2007
Now that I'm back from CEC and out of jetlag, I've had some time to clean up the CEC 2007 Message Prompter source code. Thanks to all those who asked for it, that was quite a motivation.
The CEC Message Prompter source code is free for your reading pleasure under an as-is basis, no warranty, no support, etc. Still, comments are of course very welcome.
The easiest way to try this out is to load up NetBeans (I use the current Beta 6), install the JavaFX module, then create a new JavaFX project. The stuff in the source code archive goes into the src subdirectory of your new JavaFX project. Choose "Main.fx" as the main class and feel free to enable Java Web Start.
In order to compile/run the app, you also need JAXB 2.0 (or use J2SE 6) and the mySQL JDBC Connector installed in NetBeans as libraries and assigned to the project you use for this app.
After starting the app, you'll see the window above. To the top is the message source selection GUI. Choose whether you want to have a database or a URL (for XML) connection. A sample XML file with some messages is included, so you probably want to use the URL method. Enter the file URL where you have your messages stored into the URL field, then click on the right (next) or left (previous) or the X (clear) buttons to display the messages. The optional Session field is for filtering messages by session ID but we never got to use it yet.
Before I start with the code, a few words of introduction: This is my first JavaFX project and I welcome any suggestions on how to better code in JavaFX. It is also my first Java/NetBeans project since a long time, so I'm sure I can still learn a lot more about how to properly do it. But the learning journey into creating this app has been a fun and instructive one, so I hope this code can help others learn more about JavaFX too. If I had to do it again (And I hope I will, next year), I'd do some stuff differently, which I'll discuss at the end of this posting.
Let's walk through the code in roughly the order of how the message flow works:
- The basic idea is this:
- The audience sends their questions, feedback, messages etc. to the CEC backstage team through either Email, Instant Messaging or SMS through special Email or IM accounts or mobile phone numbers. The CEC backstage team reads the messages and stores them in a database where they can be approved, marked for deletion, marked for display on the Message Prompter and assigned a sequence to display in.
- The CEC Message Prompter is the application that the people on stage and occasionally the audience see/s and where the current question to be asked to the people on stage is displayed. So the app has to fetch messages from the database and display them on screen on demand and in a visually intuitive way.
- For testing/development/backup purposes, the Message Prompter can also accept messages out of a single XML file instead of a database.
- The top level directory is supposed to go into the src subdirectory of a NetBeans JavaFX project, but I guess you could as well include this easily into any other IDE or just work from the command-line out of this directory. CECMessage.xsd is an XML schema courtesy of Simon Cook that defines the XML format for a list of messages. ExampleMessages.xml contains a bunch of messages for testing purposes. Most of the source code is in the cecmessaging subdirectory which is the name of the Java package bundle for this app. If you apply the Message schema to the JAXB xjc.sh script, it creates the java classes in the org/netbeans/xml/schema/cecmessage directory which describe the corresponding java objects.
- Some things are best left to real Java, in this case the message fetching and conversion into JavaFX digestable classes. The nice thing about JavaFX is that it can seamlessly use Java classes for doing any heavy-lifting. Messages can come in as an XML file or from a database, in both cases they are fetched from Java helper classes that handle the complexity of fetching messages and who return an object structure to the main JavaFX application.
In the case of messages coming in as a single XML file, the file is parsed by the XMLHelper class in cecmessaging/XMLHelper.java using the JAXB framework. The resulting object structure can then be interpreted by the JavaFX main class. Make sure you include JAXB 2.0 or later if you use J2SE 5, in J2SE 6 it's already included.
If messages are to be retrieved from a database, then the DBHelper class in cecmessaging/DBHelper.java is used. It uses the mySQL JDBC connector for database access but you could easily plug in any other database connector. For simplicity, the database data is converted into a JAXB structure as if it was coming out of an XML document. Here is the definition of the database that Simon created:
Database: cec Table: messageBoth XMLHelper and DBHelper sort the messages by the displayOrder field, then by id. The sort comparator for this particular ordering is in CECMessageComparator.java.
Field Type id int(11) sender varchar(100) message text topic varchar(100) timeSent timestamp session_id int(11) device varchar(10) approved tinyint(1) deleted tinyint(1) to_be_asked tinyint(1) display_sort_order int(11)
- The heart of the Message Prompter lives in cecmessaging/Main.fx.
- It starts with a few data structures:
- The AnimValues class stores font sizes, colors, duration and other parameters used for animation. JavaFX does not let you specify defaults as part of the class definition, hence the attribute commands.
- The Message class is modeled after the corresponding JAXB CECMessage class. It adds a few attributed to track a particular message's color and font size. The font size and color of a message depends on its position (whether it is highlighted or not) and can change while it is animated during transitions. That's why we need to keep track of them. The alive attribute is not used right now, it may become useful if I rework the animation stuff.
- The Tag class is for handling, well, tags. Every word that shows up as a message, author, device or topic is treated as a tag and a tag cloud is generated based on how often the word shows up on the screen. This class stores the tag word, counts the number of appearance and stores the current font size of that tag on screen. Again, we need to track font size for animation.
- The MessageList class is the main model class the application uses. It contains an AnimValue class, a list of Message class messages and list of tags. It knows where the messages come from and where the original message data in JAXB format is. It keeps track of the GUI Labels that graphically represent the messages on screen plus it knows how many messages to display at once, which one is to be highlighted and other useful parameters.
- The following operation statements are really methods. They are written in script-like manner rather than in object-oriented manner. This means that they are not associated to a particular class other than the main one. Next time, I might use a more strict object-oriented approach, but hey, this is a scripting language, isn't it?
- MessageSignature computes a single string out of all fields in a message for comparison purposes. Somehow .equals or .toString didn't work for me as expected, so Implemented this simple mechanism to see if two messages are equal.
- ClearMessages clears all messages, its associated Label objects and makes sure that dying messages are animated and their tags updated. Actually, today the death of a message isn't animated yet but I hope to implement a nice way of dying for messages. I loved my Apple Newton back then in the 90ies and it had this nice animation where deleted stuff would vanish in a puff of smoke :).
- CecmToMessage takes a JAXB message created by the XMLHelper or DBHelper class and creates the corresponding JavaFX Message instance. It also handles basic true/false associations for the approved and deleted fields, which are meant to be boolean but are actually strings in the XML schema.
- MessageToLabel creates a Java Swing Label object that displays the message on screen. The nice thing about the JavaFX Label implementation is that it understands HTML. So we can use HTML freely here to control how the message is to be seen. Notice the bind statement where the Label text is: It ties the Label's text content to the Message's attributes (color, size, content). This means that whenever any of these attributes are changed in the Message object, the corresponding Label object is changed as well! This is a very nice mechanism for Model-View-Controller like programming and a big time saver when coding.
- The messageDisplayable function decides whether a message is supposed to be displayed. This is just a logic expression checking the approved, deleted and toBeAsked fields and filtering by sessionId (In case one wants to restrict messages to a particular session). One could have implemented the filtering at the XMLHelper or at the DBHelper level, but I felt it would be better to have full control over displaying messages from the app itself.
- UpdateMessages checks all currently displayed messages against their counterparts in the XML file or the DB. The idea here is that we want to be able to change a message even if it's already displayed in the application (you know, when accidentally a bad word came through :) ). This is called regularly before adding new messages to the screen.
- compareMessageOrder does just that. Messages come in already sorted, but we still need to decide on ordering when going through them to detect whether a message is missing etc. (The naming is wrong, it should start uppercase. This is because this operation started as a function but then if-then is not accepted in functions by JavaFX...).
- NextMessage adds a message to the display list. It also deals with the unexpected complexity of deciding which message to highlight in certain corner cases. For instance, when we want to preview 2 messages, the third one is to be highlighted, but if you only have 0-2 messages on screen, the highlight should be on the last etc. When done, the message animator is called to animate any newly higlighted or unhighlighted messages and the tags are updated.
- PreviousMessage does the opporsite of NextMessage. Again, the handling of the highlight is a tad more complex than I would have wanted it. Again, we animate here as well.
- RefreshTags goes through all messages displayed on screen and makes sure the tag list is up to date. Then it starts animation for those tags that have changed.
- AnimateMessages checks all messages and whether their font sizes match their position and highlighting status. Then, it animates all messages that have changed their status into their destination sizes and colors. Animation is handled through the dur operator. It assigns a list of values to a single parameter in sequence, during a specified time. So when we want a piece of text to grow from 0 to 20 pixels in size during 500 milliseconds, we say something like text.size = [0..20] dur 500. Very nice! Color animations work by applying a string array with the color values in sequence to a string variable. I wasn't confident on how the animation works in terms of concurrency (for instance, if another thread happens to change a value while it is animated) and I've seen cases where the font sizes weren't correct (and that cost me quite some sweat drops!) so I added some watchdog code to make sure the font size is correct after the end of the animation. Now that I've seen the CEC 2007 JavaFX session (sic!), I know a bit more about how this is supposed to work so hopefully I won't need it any more :).
- AnimateTags does similar things to the tags, a tad easier to do.
- The LoadProperties stuff is not used at the moment, so isn't the properties file included with the source. I was planning to outsource all relevant defaults and constants into an external properties file, but didn't have the time to do it. But here's a start...
- The Main part is fairly straight forward: It first instantiates the MessageList model structure with some default values, then proceeds to instantiate the GUI elements. Another nice thing about JavaFX is the declarative syntax where you just write down the GUI class with all the desired values and the runtime system takes care of instantiating the classes, hooking them together and assigning values to them, as well as tying in the methods to be called when a GUI element is activated. Also, the bind command is your best friend here in that it automatically binds GUI attributes to the model classes and saves you the hassle of implementing callback methods etc. You don't even need a GUI builder, just write down the widget hierachy and you're done. Very convenient.
That was it. All in all, learning JavaFX was a fun experience. And you can do it too, just go to the OpenJFX website and check out the tutorials and references.
What would I do differently if I had to write this app from scratch? Probably one or more of the following:
- Use real object oriented style by attaching methods to classes etc. Possibly different classes in different files, loosely coupled by the main class, as in this nice Mariah Carey website example.
- Rework the animation so it works on triggers. Triggers are a way of coupling code to variables, similar to binding. So, whenever a variable is changed, the trigger code gets executed. For instance, the tags could be updated and animated using triggers.
- Introduce more eye-candy. JavaFX comes with full Java2D support, so I'd dig in deeper into its classes to implement nicer animations.
- Make it more interactive by letting GUI elements slide in and out only when necessary so there's more real estate for the messages.
- Introduce images and symbols to help with the eye-candyness.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoyed this JavaFX example. Let me know your thoughts by using the comment function or by sending me email!


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The second "Hobbit" movie narrowly led the box office on an exceptionally crowded and prosperous post-Christmas weekend.
Total box office receipts rose nearly 10% from the same weekend a year ago, but with a dozen new movies opening in the two weeks before the holiday, audiences had a bevy of choices and ended up spreading their dollars widely.
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" grossed $29.9 million, bringing its box office total to $190.3 million in the U.S. and Canada.
More surprising was the No. 2 movie, Walt Disney's animated "Frozen," which benefited from a lack of clear options for families despite having opened before Thanksgiving. Its ticket sales surged 47% from last weekend as the musical took in $28.8 million and raised its domestic total to $248.4 million, making it the second highest grossing Disney-produced animated movie of all time, behind "The Lion King."
Several other movies were packed behind the top two, all enjoying solid results.
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HAYWARD -- At one time, the line of people waiting to get into La Imperial would stretch down the block. But business has fallen off at the restaurant, which will close in December, ending 40 years as "the home of the super burrito."
The Gilbert family, which runs the Mexican restaurant, had talked about closing for some time, said Martin Gilbert. Like many local eateries, the restaurant has been hit hard by the economic downturn.
"Business isn't what it used to be," he said. But they kept it open for the sake of his mother, Maria Gilbert, who founded La Imperial in 1972. "This was my mother's life blood, and she loved it."
Maria Gilbert's death in June was a big factor in the decision, her son said. "We'd rather close now on our terms rather than be forced to later," he said.
Since the family announced the closing on Facebook, there has been an outpouring of support.
"When I heard the news, I was devastated," said John Lyell of San Leandro, who called the food "awesome. ... My wife went in and had to tell everyone, 'You made a grown man cry.'"
Lyell said his family has been going to La Imperial since the 1970s. "It's my daughters' favorite restaurant, it's my parents' favorite restaurant and it feels like family," he said. "I consider everybody there part of my extended family."
The family decided to let community know of the impending closure in advance so that people could say their goodbyes.
"We don't want to just put a 'closed' sign on the door. We have a very loyal customer base, and we consider them more like family than customers," said Gilbert, who was 11 months old when La Imperial opened.
They didn't want to repeat what happened when Banchero's, another longtime Hayward restaurant, shut its door this past summer, he said. "A lot of Banchero's customers are our customers. They were upset they didn't have a chance to make a final visit," he said.
Fans have been lamenting the end of La Imperial both on Facebook and at the restaurant. "There have been a lot of tears," Gilbert said.
Cpl. Joseph Silveria returned this past weekend from a seven-month deployment in Afghanistan, and headed to La Imperial as soon as he could. "This breaks my heart," he said of learning of the closure when he stopped for lunch Tuesday with his fiancee, Rebecca Ponce, who introduced him to the restaurant about six years ago. "I've made it a mission to get here every time I've had time off from the Marine Corps."
Though La Imperial became an important part of her life, Maria Gilbert did not set out to open a restaurant. La Imperial was originally a grocery store, but that began to change when a man staying at nearby Green Shutter Hotel stopped by. He smelled the food Gilbert was cooking for her husband in a kitchen in the back.
"He said he hadn't had a home-cooked meal in quite awhile and offered to pay for a serving" of what she was cooking, Martin Gilbert said.
The next day, others joined him for one of Gilbert's meals. And the food's popularity began spreading by word-of-mouth.
For awhile, there was a takeout window in the back of the store. As demand for Gilbert's food grew, the store got smaller and the restaurant larger, to its current 134-capacity seating.
In the late 1970s and through the '80s, the restaurant was a local hot spot.
"La is the best place in the world," said Mitch Pritchard of New York, who was a regular customer while he was growing up in Hayward. "I go there every time I'm home.
"It was not just a restaurant; it was a meeting place," he said.
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DETROIT — The news concerning A's starting pitchers has been uniformly good, but on Tuesday manager Bob Melvin expressed some concern about the status of Monday starter Jarrod Parker.
Melvin took Parker out of the American League Division Series Game 3 after the minimum five innings needed to get the win. Parker had a quick fifth inning, thanks in part to a double play, but he'd given up three runs in the fourth.
Oakland was ahead 6-3 at the time he was lifted, and he'd only thrown 74 pitches, so there was no overriding need seen at the time to remove Parker.
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East Stroudsburg area school board members have approved a new compensation plan for the district's administrative staff that includes raises through the 2014-15 fiscal year.
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The Story of JESUS for Children
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Discussion Questions
- How do the kids learn about Jesus?
- Name three miracles Jesus performs.
- Name three things Jesus teaches.
- What does Jesus mean to you?
- Is He your Savior?
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DescriptionIn the first century, a group of children meet together to talk about what they've seen and heard about Jesus. Some believe Jesus is the Son of God. But others think Jesus may just be tricking the people.
The children follow Jesus around, witness His miracles, and listen to Him teach. Jesus raises a girl from the dead, calls imperfect people like tax collectors to follow Him, teaches everyone to be kind and gracious to each other, and lets a woman wash His feet with tears. He teaches in parables no one really understands, calms a raging storm, gives sight to the blind, and helps those who no one sees as worth helping. He shows the children an amazing, powerful, and kind way to live. Benjamin and Sarah talk to the children watching their story about Jesus and what it means to believe who He is and accept Him as their Savior.
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DANVILLE -- Sad news for Will Ferrell fans: The Hollywood comedian will not be attending the San Ramon Valley High School prom.
Determined teacher Chad Cochran, who with his leadership students launched two videos over the past month in a bid to lure Ferrell to chaperone the school's May 10 senior ball, finally heard from Ferrell's publicist yesterday -- and got a dispiriting "no" to the invitations.
Their quest ended Monday, when the video-production and animation teacher got a phone call while he was setting up computers in his classroom for the day.
"I saw the area code and had a nauseous feeling in my stomach," he said. "That is pretty much how I have felt when I have received a call from an unknown area code for the past few weeks."
When he answered it, the gentlemen on the other line identified himself as Ferrell's publicist.
"He told me that he heard about our video and that Mr. Ferrell thought it was amusing," Cochran said. "However, he told me, Mr. Ferrell will be in Europe for two months around that time. And my heart sunk."
It was a very disappointing end to what had been a whirlwind of media coverage for the videos, the first one having crisscrossed the globe from Seattle, New York to Australia, and even landing on the popular website Buzzfeed.
"I understand that Will has a life and I am just some guy harassing him on the Internet," Cochran said. "That is not lost on me. ... But it was a letdown to hear it from a publicist. I can't lie about that."
It would have been nice to get even "an email from Will Ferrell that the school would have framed," he said.
"Or they could have sent a picture of Will that says 'leave me alone,'" he quipped.
Despite the sad news, his school was been amazingly supportive, he said: "They were all very sad to learn that my mission had failed."
Yet "a lot of people are helping me see how awesome this endeavor has been for me and for the students," he said.
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Yet, the school won't be looking to any other celebrities to fill the void, he said. Rather, "I think my best option is to start asking my wife's coworkers to switch nights so that she can attend with me after all," he said. "Besides, she is way cooler than any celebrity, and hotter, if I do say so myself."
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The dollar is at a new 18-year low and no one seems to be
upset. There are no headlines, no demonstrations, no scathing editorials. The
issue has not even been pulled into the domestic political arena by politicians
decrying the demise of one of the most enduring symbols of the United States.
Our trading partners overseas have also been very reticent to comment about an
unfair currency policy. What is going on? Doesn't anybody care? Or, is it
possible that a lower dollar is currently good for everyone? Please note
that the correct terminology is a lower dollar not a
weaker dollar. The Fed has been pursuing a "strong dollar"
policy since Treasury Secretary Rubin was in office, and this semantic nuance is
partially valid. The current value of the dollar is not due to it being weak, it
may have become relatively weaker than many other currencies, but it is not
weak. Really......It is just relatively weaker than it was before now and before
that it was relatively stronger than it had been before that, and......that's
how it goes.Some of the advantages of the current level of the dollar
are more obvious than others. For the U.S., trade is the easiest to see — our
exports cost less in foreign currency and imported goods from abroad are more
expensive. So the U.S. is exporting more and importing less, which should lead
to a better trade balance, which in turn will have a positive impact on the
current account balance. What about other countries? What's in it for
them? Anything? Yes, commodity price increases for most other countries have
been moderated by the dollar's decline. Crude oil prices have risen more than 50
percent since the beginning of 2010, from roughly $75/barrel to $114/barrel.
Simultaneously the euro has risen from $1.19/euro to $1.45/euro. This means that
in euro terms, oil has risen from EUR63/barrel to EUR78/barrel, or 24 percent,
versus the 52 percent rise in dollar terms. The same dampening effect is true
across the board for all commodities — from wheat to iron ore — which are priced
in dollars. This helps to keep foreign consumer and producer prices (inflation)
from rising too rapidly. This effect has contributed to the ability of the euro
zone to keep their interest rates low for longer than they normally would have
been able to do, which has helped to stimulate economic growth
there.Given the current circumstances, monetary policy in both the
United States and foreign countries is also being favorably impacted by the
lower dollar. The U.S. economy is being stimulated — similar to the effect of a
monetary easing or lowering of interest rates — by the increase in export
related economic activity. The increase in import prices has been a welcome
contribution to U.S. inflation, particularly as the threat of deflation was very
real for a time. As U.S. rates are already as low as they can go in a practical
sense, these effects are providing additional stimuli with lowering rates. In
Europe the opposite effect is taking place and is equally useful there. The euro
zone's inflation and growth would have probably resulted in a rate hike in the
past, but the current peripheral debt situation makes any rate hike very
problematic. The higher euro has made export prices rise, slowing demand for
European products which slows the economy. Additionally, the lower import prices
in Europe, which the euro's rise provides, are preventing inflation from rising
at an even higher rate.Other than the positive effects for the U.S. and
Europe, the list of reasons for lack of complaints must include one of the major
reasons for the lower dollar. This is the shift in the reserve policy
(composition of the FX reserves) of a group of central banks, primarily Asian.
The apparent increase of reserve diversification (Read: selling of USD), has
been a steadily increasing weight on the dollar and this, in the absence of
sufficient fundamental factors or sentiment, has determined the market's
direction. Now, with European economic fundamentals improving more rapidly than
those in the U.S., these flows are accelerating the dollar's decline. In some
instances the selling is almost a vicious circle. Several Asian currencies are
appreciating so rapidly against the dollar that the central banks of these
countries are intervening regularly in their local currency market (most of
these currencies are not freely traded) to slow down the appreciation. They sell
their local currency and buy dollars in the domestic market and then — since
they are trying to either reduce or maintain the amount of dollars they have —
they sell the dollars in the international market and buy euros, yen or pounds.
This then weakens the dollar, which put more upward pressure on their local
currency and off they go again. So, in effect, the countries which export the
most goods to the U.S. are also pushing the dollar lower.The current
outlook for the USD appears to be one of continued downward pressure. The higher
rates of economic growth in Europe and Asia will keep the monetary policy in
these regions tighter than that of the U.S. for the immediate future. This is a
negative factor for the dollar and, until the Fed signals that growth in the
U.S. has reached a level where they feel they must tighten monetary policy, it
will remain difficult for the USD to appreciate. Another likely dollar negative
will be the upcoming raising of the Federal debt ceiling, it looks like the
debate will be highly politicized and will probably not be confidence inspiring
either in terms of the willingness of the leadership of the political parties to
compromise or the value of the dollar for next three to six months.
The thing to remember is that the value of a currency is
relative to the value of other currencies and that it's not automatically good
to have an appreciating currency or bad to have a depreciating one. Also, it's
misleading to link the current status of the dollar to the potential loss of its
status as the worlds' dominant reserve currency. The diversification of reserves
globally started years ago and the current increased pace of dollar sales should
be viewed as a lagging indicator of the growth of the relative financial
importance of Europe and Asia, and not as a leading indicator of the decline of
the United States.
The dollar is currently undergoing an adjustment in its
relative value due to the past financial excesses of the United States and the
concurrent growth of other large, competitive economic powers. The situation
could certainly be better, but it is not a crisis, and the dollar is not a weak
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Several stores in Warren County were broken into overnight, adding to a toll that's been growing since the beginning of the month.
Officers were first called to the Cincinnati Team Apparel store at 5948 Snider Road around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday.
A detective told Johnson that at least four Mason stores were hit. In each case, the burglars broke windows out with landscape rocks, ran in and took the cash registers, police said.
But officials soon discovered that at least 15 businesses in Middletown, Lebanon and other Warren Co. communities were burglarized in the same way overnight.
Detectives from several jurisdictions met at the Warren County Sheriff's Office to pool information.
Authorities said same person or persons might be responsible for as many as 24 burglaries since Dec. 3.
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SAN JOSE -- Accusing a local trustee of engaging in a "feeding frenzy," an appeals court justice Thursday expressed outrage over a case that has brought widespread attention to excessive fees plundering the estates of elderly and disabled adults.
Private estate manager Thomas Thorpe of Los Gatos charged a brain-injured San Jose man $108,771 after just 4½ months' work -- and then billed him more than twice that much in a legal battle to defend his fees.
"What did he contribute to the whole process? For the $100,000, could you give me one example?" Justice Franklin Elia demanded of Thorpe's attorney, Ellyn Nesbit. "Give me a $20,000 example!"
At the rate Thorpe and his lawyers were running up bills in 2010, Elia said, there would soon be nothing left of 37-year-old Danny Reed's $653,000 in life savings.
"Ultimately, it became a feeding frenzy," the justice said.
In their first appearance before the 6th District Court of Appeal, lawyers on both sides of Reed's case made oral arguments Thursday, but a decision is not expected for weeks.
Reed's plight was first publicized in this newspaper in July to illustrate how some Silicon Valley estate managers and their attorneys have charged extraordinary rates as trustees and conservators appointed by Santa Clara County Superior Court judges.
After Thorpe submitted his $108,771 bill for a judge's approval, Reed challenged the fees in court. That led to $261,878 in additional charges for Thorpe and his attorneys to defend the original bill.
Exposure of Reed's case prompted a swift response by Superior Court judges, spawning new court rules reining in fees, as well as the prospect of statewide legislation.
Reed's lawyers, the San Jose father-son team of Matt and Mike Crosby, and Santa Clara County Public Defender Mark Dames, are arguing in the first of two appellate cases that Thorpe deserves no compensation at all. They question what -- if any -- benefit Thorpe brought to Reed's estate. They also claim Reed was not properly informed that a judge was replacing his mother, the former trustee, with a private professional and that his subsequent protests in court went unheeded.
Nesbit, Thorpe's attorney, argues that her client was acting on court authority and deserves the fees that were ultimately awarded by the lower court, albeit a reduced amount of $27,006. Although she was repeatedly interrupted by Justice Elia's impassioned outbursts Thursday, Nesbit said her client was appointed in "an emergency," when court investigators believed Reed's mother had mismanaged his funds. Thorpe was on "an urgent mission" to find the missing money, she said.
Reed, who was partially paralyzed after two cars struck him in separate accidents, placed his $1.7 million in awards from the resulting lawsuits in a court-overseen special-needs trust. His mother managed the funds and served as his trustee, until a routine review by a probate court investigator raised concerns about accounts she opened with the money.
Nesbit said Thursday that after the court appointed Thorpe to take over, he subsequently found Reed's townhome -- a key asset in the trust -- was "uninhabitable" because of hoarding, threatening its value. That resulted in more fees for service, as Thorpe arranged for a cleanup, she said.
But Elia, the only justice who spoke at Thursday's hearing, scoffed at the notion that Thorpe did much at all. Although the trustee charged $9,764 just to research Reed's bank accounts, according to a forensic analysis of his bills, the information about where Reed's mother had placed the money had been provided to Thorpe even before his appointment by a county employee. It took that employee several hours on a single day to locate all the funds and determine that none were missing.
"What did they even appoint this man to do? The mother had done a very good job taking care of her son," Elia said. There was "nothing improper," nor any "malfeasance" proven on her part, and "the son himself said, 'I can handle this myself; why are they appointing people for me?' "
As Nesbit argued that Thorpe played a critical role tracking down the previously missing money and getting the house cleaned up, the justice cut her off: Why should such fees be awarded "for somebody who does who knows what -- for some cleaning?" As for the money thought to be missing, Elia pointed out: "They'd already found it!"
Reed has two cases now before the Court of Appeal. The second appeal challenges $145,000 in Thorpe's attorney fees that Reed was ultimately ordered to pay by a Superior Court judge in late July. In that ruling, Judge Franklin Bondonno said he was bound by state law to award Thorpe's attorney his "fees on fees," but implored the appeals court to overrule him.
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CHAR-KOOSTA PUBLISHED BY CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES, FLATHEAD AGENCY, MONT. Vol. 3 — 11 September, 1959 Quarter of a Million Dollars In Seven Weeks The traditional use of evergreen trees during the Christmas season, brings all Montanans in close contact with fragrance and freshness of the forest. Christmas trees probably add more to the period of "peace on earth, good will toward men," than any other product on earth. Indoors and outdoors Christmas trees have become essential for decorations in homes, parks and on streets. The spreading branches seem most fittingly, too, as a delightful hiding place for Santa Claus' presents for children and adults. Up to date on the Flathead Reservation, most of the Christmas tree yards are ahead of schedule in comparison to previous years despite the blight stricken area in the Valley Creek country, which does produce a large number of trees. There are thirty Christmas tree yards on the Reservation, besides individual Truckers who usually purchase trees and a few "fly by night" Truckers make up the trees that leave the Reservation. We class this program as worth a quarter million dollars and covers about seven weeks. Tribal stump-age amounts to about one fourth the purchase price per bale by the yards. For instance in 1958 Tribal stumpage amounted to a little over $50,000, therefore, the cutters must have received over $150,000 and there is a number of people who work in the yards by the hour. From all indications the Christmas tree income this year will be much higher, than any previous year. This year the Tribal Council set a minimum price of $2.00 per bale, the price the buyers must pay the cutters, or we would not have the program. Last year the buyers got their heads together first and told us what they would pay which was $1.75 per bale. At the present time the going price is $2.15 per bale. One of the impressive things about our program is many Flathead people are kept off the welfare rolls by this project. Some individuals make over $100 a day. School children take advantage of this program on week ends in order that they may put away a few dollars for school activities, clothes, etc. The depressing part of the program is some of our cutters have no regard for conservation. Of course, this is selfishness to themselves and others. In this case the good is condemned because of the bad actors. We hope for an even better season next year, and it is wonderful that our trees may make other people happy at a very important time of the year,as our trees reach all points of the United States and Cuba. Our Christmas tree field inspectors this year are Ray Gar-dipe of Arlee, Joe Parker, Camas Prairie, and Jack Garcia of Poison. In 195S, 3.6 million trees were shipped from over all the great state of Montana and that was four per cent below the 1957 figure. With the establishment of the tree plantations near many of the large cities in the west coast and also in the Chicago area, Montana Christmas tree growers must practice the best cultural work to produce trees to compete with those grown close to the market. Why can't we Tribal members let our conscience be our guide, and treat this program with respect and conserve our trees by taking care of them and use good management. If one doesn't care for themselves think of the children of this Tribe as a baby tree. The white man spends money for this tree plantation besides the expense of maintaining his program. Mr. Indian with the mountains on the Flathead full of Douglas fir, with not a nickle of investment, but still some of us are selfish and cut an 18-inch tree for a six-foot top. When the tree hits the ground, probably the tree will break anyhow, what have we then? A wasted tree, not even trimmed. The public opinion on the program among the Indian today is varied, some will say it's ridiculous and the disrespect for Tribal and personal property is being brought out, while others will uphold the program. Ordinances Affecting Enrollment of Members One of the important subjects of the present and the future of the Flathead Reservation is the problem of enrollment. Under our present Constitution and By-Laws of the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes, the governing body (Tribal Council) duly elected by the people, have certain authorities vested upon them with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his representatives. However, there were no provisions for the enrollment of the people born prior to the adoption of the Constitution and By-Laws of the October 28, 1935, whose names were not on that roll Nor were there any provisions made for emergencies such as World War II where children were born in foreign countries or other Slates, which did happen. Nor were there any reservations in the Constitution where the child may be denied enrollment because of negligence of the parents. It will be interesting to learn that the enrollment problem on this Reservation has been a problem since the day we signed the Treaty of July 16. 1855. One of the provisions of the Treaty was the Chiefs, who were appointed, would serve the Indian public. The Chiefs would receive $500.00 a year as long as they filled the bill in acting as executives. In their authority the enrollv' ment problem was handled. One of the laws they had was the western Indians would h3 enrolled on this Reservation, if approved by the chiefs, under an adoption law of their own. Today we see the results as we have people on the rolls who are descendents of the western Indians. The chiefs were skeptical of the plains Indian because of being war-like tribes however, some got by as we have enrolled members who are descendents of the Crees, Souix, Black-feet, etc. It is true that some of the western Indians could not make any headway with the Chiefs and were denied enrollment, therefore we had politics in our first Indian government because the Chiefs let the eastern tribes and Canadian Cree in. When the treaty was signed the Reservation was set out as the Salish, Koote- nai, ani the Upper Pend d'Oreille. Of course, in some of the first meetings with the chiefs and Isaac Stevenson, Territorial Governor, we would be governed by our own laws and we would respect the white man's laws. It has been a long trail since the Treaty was signed July 16, 1855, especially the changes in our white and Indian government. The Indians in the older days of this Reservation depended upon our local Catholic Priests and Sisters in recording their birth certificates with the Indian Agency and in some cases people who never went to a hospital for a maternity case, the child may have never been enrolled unless by coincidence that the name was entered in the books at the Agency by some official or someone who happened to be employed there; again we must admit politics and knowledge was the prime factor in the enrollment problem. Today the Tribal Council is facing a serious problem which is enrollment. Our chartered Corporation consists of (Continued on page 2)
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