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The Jefferson County School District is warning parents that rumors on social networking sites about threats to other schools in the district are not true. District officials are urging students to share only information that is factually based.
A 32-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday afternoon outside Deer Creek Middle School, wounding two students, before faculty members tackled and disarmed him.
Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood, who is accused of shooting the students with a high-powered rifle, was quickly subdued by faculty members and held down until he was taken into custody by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. Math teacher David Benke reportedly tackled the suspect, and at least two other adults assisted.
Beginning March 15, some trail segments will become one-way only for mountain bikes on alternate days at Apex Open Space Park near Lookout Mountain.
The park connects the parking lot at Heritage Square with the Lookout Mountain Nature Center on Lookout Mountain.
The affected trails are Enchanted Forest, a middle segment of Apex Trail and a future trail that will provide a second route onto the park from the trailhead in the parking lot at Heritage Square.
• 4:30 p.m.: Evergreen Fire Protection District Board of Directors. Deadline to submit self-nominations. Forms can be obtained at the district headquarters, 1802 Bergen Parkway in Evergreen. Director terms are four years, expiring in 2014. Seats held by Jeff DeDisse, George Goldbach and Charles Simons are up in 2010. All three incumbents intend to run for new terms.
When Paul Casey, executive director of the Colorado Haiti Project, returned from a trip to Haiti last week, he was overwhelmed by the need and suffering he encountered and largely underwhelmed by the degree to which big relief agencies were making an impact on rural areas.
The Colorado Haiti Project, which is based in Louisville, concentrates its efforts on a regional enclave, Petit Trou de Nippes, about 80 miles west of Port-au-Prince.
A trial rather than a plea bargain appears to be in store in the case of Ken Berry and his wife, Anne Wakeford Berry, an Evergreen couple accused of securities fraud.
A judge has set a trial date in July for the couple, who now have separate attorneys, although they appeared together in Jefferson County District Court on Feb. 16.
Anne Berry's attorneys, Matthew Margeson and Jeremy Reed of Margeson and Reed of Denver, filed a motion asking the court to separate the trials instead of holding them concurrently. Margeson and Reed joined the case in September.
The Canyon Courier inadvertently published a photograph of the Rev. Vera E. Guebert-Steward with the obituary for H. Frost Theiss in the Feb. 10 issue. The obituary was republished on Page 8 this week. Pastor Vera continues to be in good health.
For many, the annual drive by local Girl Scouts to sell cookies is one of the sweetest times of the year. But the effort also proves a sweet deal for mountain area charities.
Groups such as the Evergreen Animal Protective League and Alpine Rescue will benefit from this year's sales by the Blue Spruce Unit of the Girl Scouts. The unit, with 27 troops, includes 290 girls from schools in Evergreen, Indian Hills and Clear Creek County.
Under a program called Hometown Heroes, each troop chooses a local charity to receive a donation of cookies.
When the Ice House Café opens its doors to musicians on Thursday nights, the result is like having a bunch of friends and relatives making music in someone's living room.
Thanks to entrepreneurs Charles and Cindy Shirley, the no-cover open-mic night has been a regular feature at the Ice House in downtown Evergreen for the last two years. The only requirement for taking the stage is to sign up and show up.
Members of the Ice House musician community are holding a benefit for Charles Shirley, co-owner of the Ice House, from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at Center/Stage in Evergreen. Refreshments, wine and beer will be available. The suggested donation amount has not been decided.
Shirley has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is without insurance. The proceeds will be used to pay for his $30,000 surgery. As a result of the diagnosis, Cindy and Charles Shirley have decided to offer the Ice House for sale for $175,000.
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the isthmus in the VM
By John.Rose-Oracle on Mar 17, 2014
This is a good time to consider new options for a "native interconnect" between code managed by the JVM and APIs for libraries not managed by the JVM.
Notably, Charles Nutter has followed up on his JVM Language Summit talk (video on this page) by proposing JEP 191, to provide a new foreign function interface for Java. To access native data formats (and/or native-like ones inside the JVM), there are several projects under way including David Chase's data layout package, Marcel Mitran's packed object proposal, and Gil Tene's object layout project.
This article describes some of the many questions related to native interconnect, along with some approaches for solving them. We will start Project Panama in OpenJDK to air out these questions thoroughly, and do some serious engineering to address them, for the JDK.
Let us use the term native interconnect for connections between the JVM and "native" libraries and their APIs. By "native" libraries I simply mean those routinely used by programmers of statically compiled languages outside the JVM.
the big goal
I think the general, basic, idealistic goal is something like this:
If non-Java programmers find some library useful and easy to access, it should be similarly accessible to Java programmers.
That ideal is easy to state but hard to carry out.
The fundamental reason is simple—the languages are different.
C++ programmers use the
#include statement for pulling in APIs,
but it would be deeply misguided to try to add
#includes to
the Java language.
For more details on how language differences affect
interconnection, see the discussion below.
Happily, this is not completely new ground, since managed languages
(including Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell, Python, Lua, and more)
have a rich history of support for native interconnect.
Most subtly, even if all the superficial differences could be adjusted, the rules for safe and secure usage of Java differ from those of the native, statically-compiled languages. There is a range of choices for ensuring that a native library gets safely used. The main two requirements are to make VM-damaging errors very rare, and (as a corollary) to make intentional attacks very difficult. We will get into more details below.
Besides safety, Java has a distinctive constellation of "cultural" values and practices, notably the features which provide safety and error management. So, the access to C APIs must be be adapted to the client language (Java) by means of numerous delicate compromises and engineering choices to preserve not only the "look and feel" of Java expressions but also their deeper cultural norms. By using the metaphor of culture, I don't imagine a "Java way of life", but I observe that there are "Java ways" of coding, which differ interestingly from other ways of coding. Cultural awareness becomes salient when cultures meet and mix.
Anyway, to get this done, we need to build a number of different artifacts, including Java libraries, JVM support mechanisms, tools, and format specifications. A number of possibilities are enumerated below.
why this is difficult
First, let's survey some of the main challenges to full native interconnect.
syntax: Since the languages differ, Java user code for a native API will differ in syntax from the corresponding native user code, sometimes surprisingly. For example, Java 8 lambdas are very different in detail from C function pointers, although they sometimes have corresponding uses. Java has no general notions corresponding to C macros or C++ templates.
naming: Different languages have different rules for identifier formation, API scoping (packages vs. namespaces), and API element naming. Languages even have differing kinds of names: Java has distinct name spaces for fields and methods, while C++ has just members.
data types: Basic data types differ. Booleans, characters, strings, arrays differ between the languages C++ uses pointers, sometimes for information hiding, sometimes for structurally transparent data. Java uses managed references, which always have some hidden structure (the object header). And so on. A user-friendly Java interconnect to a native API needs to adjust the types of API arguments and return values to reduce surprises.
storage management: Many native libraries operate through pointers to memory, and they provide rules for managing that memory's lifetime. Java and native languages have very distinct tactics for this. Java uses garbage collection and C++ libraries usually require manual storage management. Even if C++ were to add garbage collection, the details would probably be difficult to reconcile. A safe Java interconnect to a native API needs to manage native storage in a way that cannot crash the JVM.
exceptions: As with storage management, languages differ in how they handle error conditions. C++ and Java both have exceptions, but they are used (and behave) in very different ways. For example, C++ does not mandate null pointer exceptions. C APIs sometimes require ad hoc polling for errors. A user-friendly Java interconnect to a native API needs a clear story for producing exceptions, which is somehow derived from the native library's notion of error reporting.
other semantics: Java's strings are persistent (used to be called "immutable") while C's strings are directly addressable character arrays which can sometimes change. (And C++ strings are yet another thing.)
performance: Code which uses Java primitives performs on a par corresponding C code, but if an API exchanges information using other types, including strings, boxing or copying can cause performance "potholes". I expect that value types will narrow the gap eventually for other C types, but they are not here yet.
safety: I'm putting this last, but it is the most difficult and important thing to get right. It deserves its own list of issues, but the gist of it is the JVM as a whole must continue to operate correctly even in the face of errors or abuse of any single API. The next section examines this requirement in detail.
safety first
The JVM as a whole must continue to operate correctly when native APIs are in use by various kinds of users.
no attacks from untrusted code: Untrusted code must not be allowed to subvert the correct operation of the JVM, even if it makes very unusual requests of native APIs available to it. This implies that many native APIs must be made inaccessible to untrusted code.
no privilege escalation from untrusted code: Untrusted users should not be able to access files, resources, or Java APIs via native APIs, if they would not already have access to them via Java code.
no crashes: It must be difficult for ordinary user code, and impossible for untrusted code, to crash the JVM using using a native API. Native API calls which might lead to unpredictable behavior must be detected and prevented in Java code, preferably by throwing exceptions. Pointers to native memory must be checked for null before all use, and discarded (e.g., set to null) when freed.
no leaks: It must be difficult or impossible for ordinary user code to use a native API to use memory or other system resources in a way that they cannot be recovered when the user code exits. Native resources must be used in a manner that is scoped
no hangs: It must be difficult or impossible for ordinary user to cause deadlocks or long pauses in system execution. Pauses for JVM housekeeping, like garbage collection, must not be noticeably lengthened because of waits for threads running native code.
rare outages: Even if code is partially or fully trusted, errors that might lead to crashes, leaks, or hangs must be detected before they cause the outage, almost always.
no unguarded casts: If privileged Java code must use cast-like operators to adjust its view of native data or functions, the casting must be done only after some kind of check has proven that the cast will be valid. This implies that native data and functions must be accessed through Java APIs that fully describe the native APIs and can mechanically check their use.
From these observations, it is evident that there are at least three trust levels that are relevant to native interconnect: untrusted, normal, and privileged.
Java enforces configurable security policies on untrusted code, using APIs like the security manager. This ensures that untrusted code cannot break the system (or elevate privileges) even if APIs are abused.
Normal code is the sort of code which can run in a JVM without a
security manager set. Such code might be able to damage the JVM,
using APIs like
sun.misc.Unsafe, but will not do so by accident.
As a practical way to reduce risk, we can search normal code
for risky operations, which should be isolated, and review their use
for safety.
I think many of the tricky details of native interconnect are related to this concept of privileged code. Any system like the JVM that enforces safety invariants or access restrictions has trusted, privileged code that performs unsafe or all-access operations, such as file system access, on behalf of other kinds of code.
Put another way, privileged code is expected to be in the risky business. It is engineered with great care to conform to safety and security policies. It supports requests from non-privileged code—even untrusted code—after access checks on behalf of the requester. Privileged code needs maximum access to native APIs of the underlying system, and must use them in a way that does not propagate that access to other requesters.
engineering privileged wrapper code
In the present discussion, we can identify at least two levels of binding from Java code to native APIs: a privileged "raw access" to most or all API features, and a wrapped access that provides safety guarantees that match the cultural expectation of Java programmers.
So let's examine the process of engineering the wrapper code that stands between normal Java users and native APIs.
In current implementations of the JDK, native APIs are wrapped in hand-written JNI wrapper code, written in C. In particular, all C function calls are initiated from JNI wrappers.
(There is plenty of other privileged code written both in Java and C++.
Much Java code in packages under
java.lang and
sun is privileged
in some way. Most of it is not relevant to the present subject.)
Ideally, wrapper code should be constructed or checked mechanically when possible.
In the present system, the
javah tool assists, slightly, in bridging between
Java APIs and JNI code. JNI wrapper code is checked by the native C compiler.
And that is about all. Surely Java-centered tools could do more.
On the other hand, as we saw above, bringing the languages together is hard. No tool can erase the cultural differences between Java and native languages. There will always be ad hoc adjustment to reduce or remove hazards from native APIs. Such adjustments will usually be engineered by hand in privileged code, as they are today in JNI wrapper code.
We must ask ourselves, why bother to build new mechanisms for native interconnect when JNI wrappers already do the job? If manual coding will always be required, perhaps it is better to do the coding in the native language, where (obviously) the native APIs are most handy. In that case, there would be no need for Java code ever to perform unsafe operations. Isn't this desirable?
I think the general answer is that we can improve on the trade-offs provided by the present set of tools and procedures. Specifically, by using more Java-centered tools and procedures, we can improve performance. Independently of performance, we can also decrease the engineering costs of safety.
better performance without compromising safety
Safety will always trade against performance, but—as Java has proven over its lifetime—it is possible with care to formulate and optimize safety checks that do not interfere unacceptably with performance.
Classic JNI performance is relatively poor, and some of the reasons are inherent in its design. JNI wrappers are created and maintained by hand, which means that the JVM cannot "see into" them for optimizing them.
If the JNI wrappers were recoded in Java (or some other transparent representation) then the JVM could much better optimize the enforcement of safety checks. For example, a program containing many JNI calls could be reorganized as one which grouped the required safety checks (and other housekeeping) into a smaller number of common blocks of code. These blocks could then be optimized, amortizing the cost of safety checks across many JNI calls.
Analogous optimizations of lock coarsening or boxing elimination are possible because all the operations are fully transparent to the JVM. By comparison, there is much unnecessary overhead around native calls today.
This sort of optimization is routine when the thing being called can be broken down into analyzable parts by the JIT compiler. But C-coded JNI wrappers are totally opaque to it. The same is currently true of the wrappers created by JNR, but they are regular enough in structure that the JIT can begin to optimize them.
In my opinion, a good goal is to continue opening up the representation of native API calls until the optimized JIT code for a native API call is, well, optimal. That is, it can and should consist of a direct call to the native API, surrounded by a modest amount of housekeeping, and all inlined and optimized with the client Java code.
Making this happen in the compiler will require certain design adjustments. Specifically, the metadata for the native API must be provided in a form suitable for both the JVM interpreter and compiler. More precisely, it must support both execution by the JVM interpreter and/or first-level JIT, and also optimizing compilation by the full JIT. This implies that the native API metadata must contain some of the same kind of information about function and data shape that a C compiler uses to compile calls within C code.
lower engineering costs for safety
I also think that coding more wrapper logic in Java instead of C will provide more correctness at a lower engineering cost. Although wrapper code in C has the advantage of direct access to native APIs, the code itself is difficult to write and to review for correctness. C programmers can create errors such as unsafe casts in a few benign-looking keystrokes. C-oriented tools can flag potential errors, but they are not designed to enforce Java safety norms.
If direct access to C APIs were available to Java code, all other aspects of wrapper engineering would be simpler and easier to verify as correct. Java code is safer and more verifiable than C code. If written by hand, it is often more compact and simple than corresponding C code. Routine aspects of wrapper engineering could be specified declaratively, using specialized tools to generate Java code or bytecode automatically. Whether Java wrapper code is created manually or automatically, it is subject to layers of safety checking (verifying and dynamic linking) that C code does not enjoy. And Java code (both source files and class files) can be easily inspected by tools such FindBugs.
The strength of such an automated approach can be seen in the work noted by JEP 191, the excellent JNR project. For a quick look at a "hello world" type example from JNR, see Getpid.java. Although the emphasis on JNR is on function calling, integrated native interconnect to functions, data, and types is also possible.
Side note: My personal favorite example of automated language integration is an old project that integrated C++ and Scheme on Solaris. The native interconnect was strong enough in that system to allow full interactive exploration of C++ APIs using the Scheme interpreter. That was fun.
One way we can improve on the safe use of these prior technologies is to provide more mechanical infrastructure for reasoning about the safety of Java application components. It should be possible to create wrapper libraries that internally use unsafe native APIs but reliably block their users from accessing those APIs. To me this feels like a module system design problem. In any case, it must be possible to correctly label, track, review, and control both unsafe code and the wrapper code that secures it.
wrapper tactics
A likely advantage of Java-based wrappers is easier access to good engineering tactics for wrapping native APIs. Here are a few examples of such tactics:
- exception conversion: Error reporting conventions specific to native languages or APIs can be converted to Java exceptions.
- pointer handles: Native pointers which can or must be freed can be stored in Java wrapper objects which nullify the saved pointer when it is freed, and check for this state as needed.
- wrapper objects: Native data can be encapsulated inside Java objects to mediate access by providing a safe view. The object can use an internal handle field to manage native lifetime.
- (Future wrapper values: In cases where stateless wrappers can do the job, value types are likely to provide provide cheaper encapsulation in the future. This would be the case with primitive types not in Java, such as unsigned long or platform specific vectors. When native lifetime is not an issue, value types could also provide encapsulating views of native pointers, structs, and arrays.)
- resource scoping: APIs which require critical sections or paired primitives can be mapped to the Java try-with-resources syntax or refactored into a callback driven style (using lambdas).
- language feature mapping: Corresponding types and operations
can usually be mapped according to simple conventional rules.
For example, a C
char*can usually be represented by a Java
Stringobject at an API boundary. (But, these mappings must be tunable on a case-by-case basis.)
- static typing: The Java type system can represent a wide variety of type shapes.
- design rule checking: Ad hoc usage rules for native APIs can be enforced as executable assertions in code wrapped around the unchecked native API.
- interfaces: Every transfer of control or data into or out of a native API can (and should) be mediated through a Java interface. In this way fully abstract API shapes can be presented directly to the (unprivileged) end user without exposing sensitive implementations.
Most of these tactics can be made automatic or semi-automatic within a code generation tool, and apply routinely unless manually disabled. This will further reduce the need for tricky hand-maintained code.
Interfaces are particularly useful for expressing groups of methods, since they express (mostly) pure behavior rather than Java object implementation. Also, interfaces are easy to compose and adapt, allowing flexible application of many of the above tactics.
As used to represent an extracted native API, an interface would be unique to that API. Uses of such interfaces would tend to be in one-to-one correspondence with their implementations. In that case JVMs are routinely able to remove the overhead of method selection and invocation by inlining the only relevant implementation.
questions to answer, artifacts to build
A native interconnect story will supply answers to a number of related questions:
How do we simplify the user experience for Java programmers who use C and C++ APIs? (The benchmark is the corresponding experiences of C and C++ programmers, as well as the experiences of today's JNI programmers.)
What appropriate tools, APIs, and data formats support these experiences? Specifically, how is API metadata produced, stored, loaded, and used? How are native libraries named and loaded?
What appropriate JVM and JDK infrastructure works with native API elements (layouts, functions, etc.) from Java code (interpreter and JIT)?
How performant are calls and data access to native libraries? (Again, the benchmark is the corresponding experiences of C and C++ programmers, as well as the experiences of today's JNI programmers.) enjoyed by their primary users (programmers of C, C++, Fortran, etc.).
What are the definite, reliable safety levels available for using native libraries from Java? This includes the question: What is the range of options between automatic, perhaps unsafe import, and engineered hand-adjustments?
What are the options for managing portability? This includes the use of platform-specific libraries, and a story for switching between platform-specific bindings and portable backup implementations.
Answering these questions affirmatively will require us to build some interesting technology, including discrete and separable projects to enable these functions:
- native function calling from JVM (C, C++)
- native data access from JVM or inside JVM heap
- new data layouts in JVM heap
- native metadata definition for JVM
- header file API extraction tools (see below)
- native library management APIs
- native-oriented interpreter and runtime "hooks"
- class and method resolution "hooks"
- native-oriented JIT optimizations
- tooling or wrapper interposition for safety
- exploratory work with difficult-to-integrate native libraries
Project Panama in OpenJDK will provide a venue for exploring these projects. Some of them will be closely aligned with OpenJDK JEPs, notably JEP 191, allowing the Project to incubate early work on them.
Other inspiration and/or implementation starting points include:
- the Java Native Runtime package and the libffi native call binder
- Java data layout packages
- JVM support for new layouts (IBM packed objects, Sun Labs Maxine hybrids, Arrays 2.0)
- metadata-based native API extractors (WinRT metadata)
- existing JVM infrastructure (class files, SA, JNI, sun.misc.Unsafe)
A native header file import tool scans C or C++ header files and provides raw native bindings for privileged Java code. Such tools exist already for other languages, and can get colorful names like SWIG or Groveller.
For the present purposes, I suggest a simpler name like
A high-quality implementation for Java could start with an
off-the-shelf front end like libclang.
It would apply Java-oriented rules (with hand-tunable defaults)
and produce some form of metadata, such as loadable class files.
A toolchain that embodies many of these ideas could look something like this:
/-----------| /-----------|
| stdio.h | | stdio.java |
|------------| |------------|
| |
v |
|------------| |
| jextract | <-----/
| stdio.jar | /------------|
|------------| | userapp.jar|
| |------------|
v |
|------------| |
| jvm | <--------/ /---------|
| | <--------------| libc.dll |
|------------| |----------|
stdio.java file would contain hand-written adjustments to the raw API from the header file.
stdio.jar file would contain automatically gathered metadata from the header file,
plus the results of compiling
The contents of
stdio.java could be straight Java code for the user-level API,
but could also be annotations to be expanded by a code generation step in the extraction process.
The code in
userapp.jar would access the features it needs from
The implementations of these interfaces would avoid C code as much as possible,
so that the JVM's JIT can optimize them suitably.
Side note: The familiar header file I am picking on is actually unlikely to need this full treatment. In a more typical case, a whole suite of header files would be extracted and wrapped.
For bootstrapping or pure interpretation, a minimum set of trusted primitives are required in the JVM to perform data access and function call. these would be coded in C and also known to the JIT as intrinsics. They can be made general enough to implement once in the JVM, rather than loaded (as JNI wrappers are loaded today) separately for each native API. For example, JNR uses a set of less than 100 specially designed JNI methods to perform all native calls; these methods are collectively called jffi.
Building such toolchains will allow cheaper, faster commerce between Java applications and native APIs, much as the famous Panama Canal cuts through the rocky isthmus that separates the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Let's keep digging.
Appendix: preserving Java culture
Let's go back to the metaphor of culture as it applies to the world of Java programming.
Here is a list of benefits about Java that programmers rely on, which any design for native interconnect must preserve. As a group, these features support a set of basic programming practices and styles which allow programmers great freedom to create good code. They can be viewed as the basis of a programming "culture", peculiar to Java, which fosters safe, useful, performant, maintainable code.
Side note: This list contains many truisms and will be unsurprising to Java users. Remember that culture is often overlooked until two cultures meet. I am writing this list in hopes it will prove useful as a checklist to help analyze design problems with native interconnect, and to evaluate solutions. Also, I am claiming that the sum total of these items underlies a unique programming culture or ecosystem to Java, but not that they are individually unique to Java.
- basic type safety: Pointers, integers, and floats must not be confused; conversions must be explicit and must preserve VM integrity. This applies to values of all kinds, in memory and elsewhere.
- basic operation safety: Any basic VM operation either completes according its specification, or produces a catchable exception. It cannot corrupt memory or any other VM state.
- class safety: Pointer conversions must be explicit and checked. There are exceptions for conversion to a Java superclass (which is always safe), to a Java interface (which is always checked later at any use point), and to an erased generic type (which is checked implicitly).
- storage lifetime safety: No block of memory can be accessed after it has been deallocated. This is why we have automatic storage management.
- variable domain safety: There is no way to obtain "garbage" or indeterminately initialized values of any type (especially pointers, of course).
- API type checking: Every use of an API, such as a method call, is fully type-consistent with its definition (such has a method definition). This requirement serves the earlier ones, of course; it shows up in detail in the operation of Java's dynamic linkage rules.
- late linking: All uses of names, including class, method, and field names, are resolved and access-checked not only at compile time but also at run time. Separately compiled modules (classes) cannot observe the implementation details of other modules.
- concurrency safety: Race conditions between threads can be prevented, or their effects can be predicted usefully, or (at worst) they cannot violate the other safety invariants.
- error manifestation: Exceptional or erroneous conditions are not discarded. They are manifested as thrown exceptions, which will be caught and/or displayed.
- access control: Non-public or otherwise restricted API points cannot be accessed except by their specified users. Access is enforced at all phases of compilation and execution. System internals cannot be touched except by highly trusted code.
- appropriately concise: Typically, Java code does not pay for any of Java's built-in safety features by unnecessary verbosity. Safe and sane practices are encouraged by simpler notations. The "semantic payload" of a bit of code is not obscured by any necessary ceremony. (But note next points.)
- predictably explicit: Typically, complex or potentially expensive features of Java are made explicit by a visible syntax, such as a method call. (This point is in tension with the previous point, and reasonable people differ on the proper resolution.)
- explicit types: Java code has reasonably strong static typing, with many types explicitly written in the source code. (Notably, declaration types are explicit on the left, despite type inference elsewhere.) This feature catches errors early and gives IDEs helpful context for each name.
- transparent code: Programs are represented using bytecode, which automated tools can inspect, verify, and transform. User-written annotations can help guide these tasks. There are easy to use, open source implementations of offline processors for both source code and bytecode, as well as the VM itself. Multiple good IDEs exist.
- transparent data: Data can be inspected using reflection
and other ubiquitous self-description machinery such as
toStringand debuggers. (Transparency of data is balanced with access control, of course.)
- robust performance: With moderate programmer care and experience, simple single-threaded programs tend to not show surprising performance "potholes", not even when they are composed together. Multi-threaded programs preserve and scale up throughput with additional CPUs, in the absence of algorithmic bottlenecks.
All of these benefits are familiar to Java programmers, perhaps even taken for granted. The corresponding benefits for a native language like C++ are often more complex, and require more work and care from the native programmer to achieve.
A good native interconnect story will provide ways to reliably dispose of this work and care before it gets to the end user coding Java to a native API.
This requires native APIs to be acculturated to Java by the artful creation of wrapper code, as noted above.

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Stimulus Hopes Don't Help Gold
Published on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:26 Written by Todd Shriber
Ahead of the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday, gold didn't get any support Tuesday. COMEX gold for August delivery fell $3.80, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,623.20 per troy ounce. Traders are now back to the business of hoping and praying that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will give some overt signal that more monetary easing is on the way.
In one indication that traders are expecting a heaping dose of quantitative easing, the U.S. dollar was whacked today as the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP) fell 0.75% on volume that was well above the daily average. Fed easing was one culprit for the dollar's demise, a move that should have boosted gold but did not.
Another move that should have helped gold but did not was a successful Spanish bond auction. Spain, the Euro Zone's fourth-largest economy was able to auction $3.8 billion in 12-month bills, topping the original target of $3 billion, suppressing alarmingly high yields on Spanish 10-years in the process. That's certainly not an invitation to load up on European sovereigns, but any good news regarding Spanish bonds is welcomed at this point.
The iShares Gold Trust (NYSE: IAU) and the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD), the two largest ETFs backed by physical holdings of gold, each lost more than 0.4% on the day and both funds are found nestling near some important technical areas. The iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) gave up almost 1% on light volume. Suddenly that ETF appears destined to find its way back to support at $26. That assumes more easing doesn't come to pass.
Even on a day when stocks soared, proof risk on was sort of working, the other white metals did nothing to impress. The ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and the ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL) each lost about a third of a percent on anemic turnover.
There was some interesting action among the mining ETFs today. For example, the Global X Silver Miners ETF (NYSE: SIL) notched a small gain and came to a dead stop right at resistance at $20. The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX) took a small loss, falling just shy of resistance at $47.80. The Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDXJ) added 3 cents, but closed well off its highs of the day. In GDXJ's defense, the ETF did close above $21, potentially bullish sign.
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As the director of the Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Therapies program, I provide care to children with heart failure, cardiomyopathy and heart transplantation in a way that emphasizes respect for each child and clear communication with families. We provide innovative treatments for extremely serious illnesses that bring about the very best outcomes.
One of the most memorable moments of my career was with a critically ill patient awaiting a heart transplant, who was not expected to survive another 24 hours. We petitioned the FDA for a permit to use a miniature, external heart-pump that was not approved for the U.S. use at the time, thereby saving the child's life. The pump, called the Berlin Heart, subsequently underwent clinical trials in the U.S., and is now available for other children awaiting heart transplantations. Superb colleagues, dedicated staff, and a commitment to advanced treatment, helps us consistently provide outstanding care.
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DEAR AMY: I am jealous of my boyfriend's sister. I don't like feeling this way.
We have a long-distance relationship and see each other every four or five weeks. We talk every day, but I get jealous when he spends time with his sister. She lives nearby, and they are close. They spend a lot of time together, especially when she is between boyfriends. To make things more complicated, he is separated and lives next door to his wife.
I realize that I am jealous because he gets to have emotional support, whereas I am alone. My siblings do not live near me, and I'm not close with them.
I have tried to tell myself not to care. It's not like I fear it is a romantic situation, but when he was sick recently, she took care of him. Once I went to visit him, and he invited her to join us on an outing. Help me to put this into a healthy perspective.
Grappling Girlfriend
DEAR GIRLFRIEND: First of all, your boyfriend isn't quite divorced. If he was, it might remove that niggling doubt and insecurity that's settling around you like a fog.
It seems that you are jealous not only of the specific person he has a relationship with, but of the relationship itself. So the answer here is for you to do the hard work required to develop close and supportive friendships of your own. The more secure you feel, the less pressure you'll place on this man to fulfill all of your emotional needs. Given the distance, he can't provide everything you want.
Your boyfriend's sister is not going away. You should get to know her on your own. If you have a friendship with her, your jealousy will dissipate and the fog will start to lift.
DEAR AMY: I have been a teacher for years and run a nursery school out of my home. This year, I have a child whose mother is supportive and positive about my school, but never addresses me by name.
If she emails me, she just writes, "Hi"; if she leaves a voice message, she does not address it to me by name. This is the same in face-to-face conversations.
I was thinking about writing her an email or asking her in person why she never says my name but am afraid to upset her.
Could you give me advice on how to tactfully solve this problem?
DEAR NAMELESS: I'm going to advocate for an attitude of curiosity and honesty -- probably much like what your students demonstrate when they encounter behavior they don't quite understand.
This would best be handled in person with this parent, not via email. Say to her, "I have to bring up something a little bit awkward. I've noticed that you never seem to address me by name. Is there a reason for that? The kids call me Ms. Smith. You can call me that or Helen."
Stop and listen to whatever she has to say. Then tell her, "I know you understand how important it is for the children to address people by name, so this would be a good thing to model."
Don't approach this like it's an unforgivable sign of disrespect. Be neutral and in charge and shelve your bewilderment.
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Weather Journal: Sweater Weather Returns
Wednesday's partial sun and cooler weather heralds the return of sweater weather to Greater New York – and this time it's here to stay.
It finally feels like October in the tri-state area, thanks to seasonable temperatures, waning daylight and the abundance of leaves littering the ground. Greater New Yorkers should get used to the chill in the air because it won't disappear any time soon; Wednesday's high temperatures will be slightly below normal and the rest of the workweek looks damp and gray.
On Wednesday, daytime highs reach the mid 60s in northeast New Jersey and across New York City's five boroughs, with temperatures three to five degrees cooler along coastal Connecticut and on eastern Long Island. The day will be a bit breezy; winds shifted to the northeast overnight Tuesday and increase in intensity through Wednesday afternoon, producing gusts between 10 and 15 mph.
Clouds build in throughout the afternoon as an area of low pressure moves in from the south. Evening stays cool, with lows falling into the mid 50s in Manhattan, while parts of Orange County, N.Y. and interior Connecticut will see lows in the 40s.
Monday's rain was the first measurable precipitation to fall on the region in more than two weeks. Central Park received a quarter of an inch, Trenton, N.J. about half an inch, and more rain is on the way. After Wednesday, clear skies and dry weather disappear for a few days as another rainstorm tracks north toward Greater New York. A system off the east coast is expected to mix with rainy remnants of Tropical Storm Karen and deliver high winds and precipitation to a large swath of the northeast on Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday's Greater New York forecast roundup:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
- Actual High: 66; RealFeel High: 64
- Actual Low: 56; RealFeel Low: 47
- Weather: Partly sunny and breezy
- Brooklyn: 65/55
- Queens: 67/55
- Bronx: 66/54
- Staten Island: 65/54
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 64/41
- Trenton, N.J.: 65/52
- Islip, Long Island: 65/53
- New Haven, Conn.: 64/49
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MORLEY -- A 1-year-old Scott County boy received serious injuries after being struck by a moving vehicle Saturday.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol at 6 p.m. on Scott County Road 91 inside the Morley city limits, an accident occurred as child-pedestrian Rayne M. Nauert of Morley ran into the path of the vehicle driven by Clint B. Roderick, 39, of Scott City.
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Published: Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 10:37 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 10:37 p.m.
Pre-registration is required for the Steubenville on the Bayou Youth Conference planned for June 27-29 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd.
Details: 850-3171 or www.steubenville.org.
The conference, which draws teens from across the country, is sponsored by the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux.
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Check it out! The 2015 Oregon Legislative Session has come to a close; learn more about the outcomes of OEA's key priority bills in our 2015 Legislative Summary + Report Card (pdf download).
Track it!
- Is there a particular bill that you're interested in? Check out OEA's Bill Tracking tool. You can monitor the progress of any bill before the Oregon Legislature.
OEA's Priorities This Session
Strengthen Public Education
- Community College Budget: Return to pre-recession funding levels for community colleges.
- K-12 Budget Roll-Up: Maintain post-recession investments in public education to avoid teacher layoffs or cuts to school days and hours.
- Allotment Cut Equity: Require that when across-the-board allotment cuts occur to services on which Oregonians rely, tax expenditures are cut by the same percentage.
Maximize Student Learning
- Student Assessment Bill of Rights: Ensure that parents and students are informed about statewide standardized summative assessments and how the results will be used; expands parents' right to opt students out.
- Moratorium on the Use of High-Stakes Assessments: Remove the "high-stakes" from statewide summative assessments to better promote student learning. Prohibit using results to rate schools or evaluate educators; create a work group to evaluate the effectiveness of the Smarter Balanced Assessment.
- English Language Learner Student Success: Improve opportunities for English language learners to succeed in public schools by expanding the resources available and broadening the options for demonstrating English language proficiency.
- Professional Educator Engagement and Influence in Education Policy: Ensure that professional educators are represented on all boards and commissions that set state education policy to support student success.
- Accelerated Learning That Best Serves Students: Ensure dual credit and accelerated learning programs give high school students an accurate and meaningful college experience.
Respect the Rights of School Employees
- "Upskirting" Ban: Close a loophole in Oregon law by making it a crime to take an image of a person's intimate areas without consent, and to circulate it.
- Public Contracting Transparency: Create greater transparency of contracting costs as public agencies bid on work and provide worker protections.
- Full Time Equivalency: Allow community college faculty who work part time at multiple institutions to qualify for health care benefits.
Building a Better Community
- Motor Voter Expansion: Allow Oregonians of legal voting age who obtain a driver's license at the DMV to be simultaneously registered to vote.
- Health Care Rate and Reimbursement Reform: Create a Health Care Rate Review Board that will help ensure appropriate reimbursement rates by health care providers.
- Paid Sick Leave: Allow all Oregon workers access to paid sick time to heal from illness or injury or to care for a sick family member.
- Raise the Minimum Wage: OEA joins a broad coalition advocating for a significant increase in the minimum wage.
Download OEA's Priorities Walk Card.
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olden terms for you, used in the time where knights and shit ruled
in other words, not me
in other words, not me
how may i help thee?
thee is a dumbass
thee is a dumbass
от Andrew R, Mannnnnn 22 юни 2006
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When a person's thighs blend into their knees without any tapering.
Not only does she have cankles, but thees too!
от Lesley Bozic 27 август 2005
When a person's thigh meets there knee in a non-tapering fashion. Very gross and very unappealing.
Person 1: Damn, son! That girl is thick.
Person 2: Way too thick for me, she's got thees!
Person 2: Way too thick for me, she's got thees!
от sohs.soccer14 06 ноември 2011
A nickname name given to the East Carolina Pirates.
Person 1: David Garrard is having a good season. Where's he go to school?
Person 2: The E!
Person 2: The E!
от tmurda56 13 ноември 2006
quick, playful 'n cute expression of humor.
oh yea, i'm a tote tease. t'hee ;))
от peter a r 10 декември 2006
'Thee' means its the official one of something, and that its 'thee' original, rather than 'the' original. its a way of saying something is unique and is unike anything else.
~Thee one and only Charles walked in our class today!
~Thee official kill Justin Biebers parents group.
~Thee one and only... ...Blair Ritchie!
~Thee official kill Justin Biebers parents group.
~Thee one and only... ...Blair Ritchie!
от BS ind. 04 февруари 2014
An obnoxious spelling of the word "the" that has gained recent popularity in local music scenes. It is often used (seemingly pretentiously) in band names.
Thee Emergency
Thee Oh Sees
Thee Oh Sees
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I have problems logging in through gdm although ssh and login work
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The Skyline girls basketball team got 28 points from Tilar Clark and another 25 from Rylee Jensen on its way to a 69-40 route of Shelley Wednesday night in Idaho Falls.
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Protecting the wildlife of the Falkland Islands.
This part of the Conservation web site is currently under construction.
"In partnership with government, industry and the global community, Falklands Conservation will engage and empower the people of the Falkland Islands to take action with us to conserve biodiversity and manage landscapes and seascapes for the benefit of nature and people"
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Combining with an extracellular signal and transmitting the signal across the membrane by activating an associated G-protein; promotes the exchange of GDP for GTP on the alpha subunit of a heterotrimeric G-protein complex.
Interacting selectively and non-covalently with any protein or protein complex (a complex of two or more proteins that may include other nonprotein molecules).
Combining with a Wnt protein and transmitting the signal across the plasma membrane to initiate a change in cell activity.
Interacting selectively and non-covalently with Wnt-protein, a secreted growth factor involved in signaling.
The series of molecular signals initiated by binding of a Wnt protein to a frizzled family receptor on the surface of the target cell, followed by propagation of the signal via beta-catenin, and ending with a change in transcription of target genes. In this pathway, the activated receptor signals via downstream effectors that result in the inhibition of beta-catenin phosphorylation, thereby preventing degradation of beta-catenin. Stabilized beta-catenin can then accumulate and travel to the nucleus to trigger changes in transcription of target genes.
Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a retinoic acid stimulus.
A series of molecular signals that proceeds with an activated receptor promoting the exchange of GDP for GTP on the alpha-subunit of an associated heterotrimeric G-protein complex. The GTP-bound activated alpha-G-protein then dissociates from the beta- and gamma-subunits to further transmit the signal within the cell. The pathway begins with receptor-ligand interaction, or for basal GPCR signaling the pathway begins with the receptor activating its G protein in the absence of an agonist, and ends with regulation of a downstream cellular process, e.g. transcription. The pathway can start from the plasma membrane, Golgi or nuclear membrane (PMID:24568158 and PMID:16902576).
Any process that stops or reduces the rate of GTP hydrolysis by a GTPase.
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a neuron.
The series of molecular signals initiated by binding of a Wnt protein to a frizzled family receptor on the surface of the target cell, where the signal is passed on via the JNK cascade.
Any process that activates or increases the activity of a GTPase.
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The cost to attend is $5. Hikers should bring water and sturdy walking shoes. Call 541-482-3241 for more information.
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We turn today to San Francisco and ask what sort of care do people with HIV/AIDS receive here, and a natural starting point for this question is to look at treatment — specifically antiretroviral therapy.
In 2010 San Francisco became the first city to institute a policy of offering treatment to everybody with HIV, and so I asked Diane Jones, RN, a nurse at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, how that works in practice. Here's what she said:
"Most people who we offer [antiretroviral therapy] to want it," said Jones, who has worked for 30 years as an HIV/AIDS nurse at Ward 86. "Between 80 and 90 percent of our 3,000-plus patients are on antiretroviral therapy."
There are still issues to be faced in getting medicine to people who want to take them, she said, including navigating insurance and benefit programs and dealing with stigma.
Jones has a lot to say about stigma and how it has burdened people living with HIV/AIDS since the very beginning of the epidemic. Socially stigmatized HIV/AIDS continues to fuel the disease in the United States and worldwide. It keeps people from getting tested, it prevents people from disclosing their status, it keeps people out of care, it makes treatment more difficult, and for far too many people living with HIV, it adds undue stress to their daily lives.
In this video, Diane Jones discusses how stigma continues to live unabated in many ways today — and how that is apparent when people are first diagnosed with HIV. Despite the advent of highly effective, lifesaving antiretroviral therapy and other advances, people today face many of the same psychological burdens as people diagnosed years ago, Jones said.
In recognition of the importance of this issue, the official declaration of the XIX International AIDS Conference calls for addressing stigma and ending discrimination as central elements to ending the AIDS epidemic. Read about it in the Washington D.C. Declaration.
Diane Jones, RN is a nurse at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH).
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Jim Butta uses his favorite phrase to end the Friends of Coal Bowl game by saying/writing, "the one thing they will never be able to point to will be a Marshall win. Without that, there is no rivalry." He did it again on Sept. 2.
What if Marshall and WVU resume playing the game at some point in time? Butta and all the other WVU fans, which are fearful of the "WVU Rapture"-the Saturday in September if the unthinkable might happen when Marshall would actually win a game against WVU-should take time to study some history about the WVU "rivalry" with Penn State. These games started in 1904. This rivalry shows a record of nine wins for WVU, two ties, and 48 loses to Penn State. From 1956-1983 WVU lost 27 times and tied one game (1958). In the concluding games 1984-92 WVU won two and Penn State won seven times. With 48 wins; nine loses and two ties, I guess by Butta's definition this was a rivalry game to the Penn State faithful fans.
Whatever reason(s) Ollie Luck and WVU fans put forth for ending the Friends of Coal Bowl, be sure to replace the game with a "rivalry" match-up. Like, do not lose a profit making game for the state of West Virginia and all the fans that live within the boundaries. According to Butta, Marshall is not a rivalry game. The opinion of current Morgantown decision-makers is a Marshall game is irrelevant in the current BCS standings. Does a win over James Madison determine the tie breaker for one of the two positions in the BCS Championship game this season?
Pitt is a rivalry. Why not play the Backyard Brawl at the start of each season with Pitt? Will Ollie want to play the Pitt money-making rivalry game instead? Be careful, WVU might lose occasionally. Pitt leads the series 61-40-3.
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Items stolen from unlocked cars
Published: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:46 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 7:20 p.m.
Christmas gifts and other items were stolen from unlocked cars and trucks parked outside Houma homes and apartments late Sunday or early Monday, police said.
The vehicles were parked on Mall Circle and Duet Street and at Bayou Gardens, Canterbury apartments, Terrebonne Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said. All were left unlocked.
Stolen items included gifts, medication and a pool stick, deputies said. Anyone with information is asked to call the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office at 876-2500 or Crime Stoppers, at 1-800-743-7433. You could qualify for a cash reward.
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a1 Tenerife Conservación, C/Maya No. 8, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
a2 Elittoral S.L.N.E. (Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Studies), Edificio Polivalente II, Parque científico tecnológico, Planta baja, oficina 19, Campus de Tafira, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Dedicated surveys were conducted along the south-west and north-east coasts of Tenerife (Canary Islands), between 1997 and 2006, to gather baseline information on cetacean diversity, abundance, spatial and temporal distribution. A total of 1016 sightings of sixteen cetacean species was recorded during the study period. Sightings were recorded throughout the year although the period in which the highest number of species were sighted was in spring and summer (from May through to August). The most frequently sighted species were bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), which together comprised 82% of the total sightings. These were followed by common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) and dense beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) which represented 9% of the total sightings. Most sightings were recorded along the south-west coast of Tenerife, where the distribution of the different species seemed to be influenced by water depth. Calves were present during sightings of almost every recorded species, especially in toothed whales. Two mother–calf pairs of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) were also observed. This suggests that the surveyed area, or at least the south-west sub-area, might play an important role as a calving ground for the four most frequently sighted species. The information acquired in this study indicates that the waters around Tenerife constitute an important habitat for cetaceans.
(Received July 01 2009)
(Accepted May 01 2010)
c1 Correspondence should be addressed to: Manuel Carrillo, Tenerife Conservación, C/Maya nº8, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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djdee2005 wrote: I don't buy this "alternate consciousness" and "new level of thought" crap. Its your brain on a fucking chemical. If you inhale gasoline, you're not going to figure out the truth to life's secrets. I'm all for legalization, simply because I don't think chemicals are the gvoernment's responsibilty, but lets get real here - psychadelic drugs are not a gateway to "higher conciousness" any more than any other chemical is.


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NFL Study Belatedly Confirms Its Alumni's Cognitive Disorders
With a maddening sluggishness that can perhaps best be described as Congressional, the National Football League has spent years resisting a conclusion that retired NFL players and the medical community have long taken as a given — that the frequency and treatment of concussions in the NFL produce devastating long-term effects. So it was a great relief when the NFL's long-awaited and much-delayed study on brain injury and its effect on players finally confirmed, on Tuesday, what everyone already suspected — that retired NFL players suffer Alzheimer's, dementia and other cognitive diseases at a far higher rate than other members of the population, and that frequent concussions likely have something to do with it.
"The N.F.L. has long denied the existence of reliable data about cognitive decline among its players. These numbers would become the league's first public affirmation of any connection, though the league pointed to limitations of this study,"Alan Schwartz writes in the New York Times. "The findings could ring loud at the youth and college levels, which often take cues from the N.F.L. on safety policies and whose players emulate the pros. Hundreds of on-field concussions are sustained at every level each week, with many going undiagnosed and untreated."
In the Washington Post, Joel Achenbach finds the report sobering. "We all love to watch the game, but what we don't see are the downstream consequences," Achenbach writes. "[If] the brain damage is as bad as this study says, it raises the question of whether colleges and the NFL can keep denying that they've got a serious medical problem at the foundation of the sport."
The Baltimore Sun's Ken Murray puts the NFL's brain-related issues in context by focusing on Ravens center Matt Birk, who has agreed to donate his brain to Harvard University Boston University School of Medicine after he dies to aid in continuing research. At Pro Football Talk, Mike Florio wonders where the NFL Players Association, the union that's supposed to be looking out for injured players, has been all these years.
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The Boston Red Sox have lost seven of their last nine games, and have not looked good in doing so. Still, despite starter Clay Bucholz getting shelled in a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, the Red Sox locked up the American League Wild Card spot thanks to a Texas Rangers loss. Boston is set to meet the Los Angeles Angels in the first round of the playoffs next week, and the Boston Herald's Michael Silverman cautions Sox fans not to worry too much about the team's late-season slide. "Once the playoffs begin, momentum grinds to a halt," Silverman writes. "Clocks are reset. Temperatures get recalibrated. Come the playoffs, hot doesn't mean squat."
The Angels sewed up the American League West title several days ago, but they're still suffering a public-relations hangover from their post-game celebration. The team doused the jersey of Nick Adenhart — the rookie pitcher killed earlier this year by an alleged drunk driver — with beer and champagne as part of the celebration, and some, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving, thought the move was in poor taste. In the Los Angeles Times, Bill Shaikin defends the Halos' celebration. "The Angels did nothing wrong," Shaikin writes. "They did it exactly right. They celebrated as they grieved, once again focused on supporting Adenhart's memory, and his family." ESPN's Eric Neel has more on how the Angels have grieved for Adenhart all season.
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Nobody likes the BCS system, really, but most of the complaints about it usually arrive deeper into the winter, when it has become clear that some deserving team(s) will miss out on a chance at a national championship because of the vagaries of this goofy system. Yahoo's Dan Wetzel is ahead of the game, though, noting that last weekend's wild upsets seem to have made very little impact on this week's rankings.
"The voters who participate in the Harris Interactive and USA Today Coaches polls apparently did not pay any attention [to those upsets]," Wetzel fumes. "Hey, why would they? These are only the people whom the empty suits of the Bowl Championship Series have empowered to determine how the sport's champion is crowned… This is the BCS. It's not a one-time mistake. It's the all-the-time plan. Ridiculous votes happen when you conduct ridiculous elections."
If seventh-ranked USC is to make its way back into the top tier of the afore-dissed polls, it will have to do so without star halfback Stafon Johnson, who was injured in a scary weightlifting accident on Tuesday. Johnson underwent seven hours of emergency surgery on his neck and larynx after dropping a 275-pound bench-press bar on his neck. In the Los Angeles Times, Gary Klein reports that Johnson's muscular neck saved his life, and that the Trojans' leading rusher in 2008 could eventually return to the field. Dan Woike of USCFootball.com was glad to hear the news. "Johnson is more than a name or a number," Woike writes. "He's not an anonymous guy with a helmet carrying the football. No, Johnson is a person with a huge personality, and he never let anyone forget it."
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Friday is decision day on the venue for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and there's little potential-host cities can do now but wait. Well, in Chicago's case, Mayor Richard M. Daley can also hope that President Barack Obama's overseas lobbying on the Windy City's behalf boosts his bid's prospects. In the Journal, Douglas Belkin describes the gamble Daley has taken with his all-out pursuit of the Games. Elsewhere in the Journal, Roger Thurow, Thomas Catan, Yuka Hayashi, John Lyons and Matt Moffett break down the pros and cons of the finalists for the bid.
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Former University of Miami and Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was murdered in his home back in November of 2007, and the story made a quick, facile impact on the sports discourse. Some pundits quickly seized upon Taylor's murder as an example of the NFL's culture of thugged-out violence; once it became clear that Taylor was not a part of that culture, the narrative changed. (Fixer emeritus Carl Bialik ably covered that shift in this space.) And that, seemingly, was that.
Except, of course, that it wasn't that. Taylor was hugely generous with his family during his life, but when he died intestate, his $5.8 million estate passed largely into the hands of his young daughter and longtime girlfriend; his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, among others, were left out of the loop. Now, nearly two years after his passing, the Washington Post's Amy Shipley details what has happened to Taylor's family after his passing stopped being a big story.
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With a bartender's build, crusty mustache and baseball lifer's resume, Sal Fasano was perfectly cast in the role of fan favorite. The veteran backup catcher, who spent parts of 13 seasons in the bigs, wore his role with some grace during his major-league tenure, but hung on these last two seasons for an unusual reason. His two-year-old son, Santo, has a rare (and very expensive) heart condition, and Fasano's entire 2009 season was dedicated to the goal of getting to the majors for just one game, so that his son's expensive surgeries could be covered by the gold-plated Major League Baseball health insurance program. Fasano never got that call from the Colorado Rockies, and is now left in a position that's sadly familiar to a great many Americans — wondering how he's going to pay for health care. At Sports Illustrated, Jeff Pearlman tells Fasano's sad story with heartbreaking understatement.
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GOP establishment money men ride to Dewhurst's rescue
Some of Texas' biggest establishment moneymen are riding to the rescue for David Dewhurst in his Senate race. A super PAC supporting Dewhurst has made a $1 million media buy to air a commercial attacking rival Ted Cruz. A new filing at the Federal Election Commission shows that the money came largely from GOP uber-donors Harold Simmons and Bob Perry. Simmons is a Dallas investor and owner of a nuclear waste site in West Texas. He gave the pro-Dewhurst Texas Conservatives Fund $500,000. Earlier this year, Simmons gave another pro-Dewhurst PAC, the Conservative Renewal PAC, another $500,000. Bob Perry is a Houston homebuilder whose business has benefited under Lt. Gov. Dewhurst and Gov. Rick Perry (no relation). Bob Perry gave $100,000. Also contributing to the superPAC was Houston-based Dealer Computer Services, $200,000, and Houston investor Charles Tate, $100,000.
Dewhurst is the front-runner in the race but polls indicate that Cruz might be closing the gap. Dewhurst announced last week he was putting $6 million of his own money into the contest. Meanwhile, superPACs on all sides have weighed in. Political veteran Rob Johnson, a former Dewhurst chief of staff and briefly campaign manager for Rick Perry's failed presidential campaign, heads the Texas Conservatives Fund. The group is airing a TV ad that accuses Cruz of being insufficiently conservative and attacks him for representing a Chinese tire-maker in a legal dispute over a patent. Cruz has gotten help from the Club for Growth super PAC, which has aired spots charging that Dewhurst is a moderate member of the political establishment.


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The former central defender represented Inter as a player and was an assistant coach during Roberto Mancini's period as manager.
Mihajlovic has had spells managing Catania, Bologna and Fiorentina, and was linked with the post last year.
Inter have completed two wins and two losses this term in Serie A under current manager Andrea Stramaccioni.
"I was close to taking charge of Inter in the past, but then nothing came of it," said Mihajlovic.
"It's not a closed chapter though because Inter are a dream for all coaches."
Mihajlovic feels Stramaccioni could come good as Inter coach despite a faltering start to the league campaign that has left them six points behind unbeaten leaders Juventus after only four matches.
"He's young, like me," said Mihajlovic.
"But being talented is what is the most important thing and he did good things with the youth team."
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Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 5
Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers,
with Drum and Colours.
1 Hang out our banners on the outward walls.
2 The cry is still "They come!" Our castle's strength
3 Will laugh a siege to scorn; here let them lie
4 Till famine and the ague eat them up:
5 Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
6 We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
7 And beat them backward home.
A cry within of women.
What is that noise?
8 It is the cry of women, my good lord.
9 I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
10 The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
11 To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
12 Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
13 As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
14 Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
15 Cannot once start me.
[Re-enter SEYTON.]
Wherefore was that cry?
16 The queen, my lord, is dead.
17 She should have died hereafter;
18 There would have been a time for such a word.
19 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
20 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
21 To the last syllable of recorded time,
22 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
23 The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
24 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
25 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
26 And then is heard no more: it is a tale
27 Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
28 Signifying nothing.
Enter a Messenger.
Thou comest to use thy tongue;
29 Thy story quickly.
Gracious my lord,
30 I should report that which I say I saw,
31 But know not how to do't.
Well, say, sir.
32 As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
33 I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
34 The wood began to move.
Liar and slave!
35 Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:
36 Within this three mile may you see it coming;
37 I say, a moving grove.
If thou speak'st false,
38 Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
39 Till famine cling thee; if thy speech be sooth,
40 I care not if thou dost for me as much.
41 I pull in resolution, and begin
42 To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
43 That lies like truth. "Fear not, till Birnam wood
44 Do come to Dunsinane," and now a wood
45 Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
46 If this which he avouches does appear,
47 There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
48 I gin to be aweary of the sun,
49 And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
50 Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
51 At least we'll die with harness on our back.


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DANVILLE -- On a recent sunny, 50-degree morning, 70 students from The Athenian School discovered an activity better than speed-reading, speed-texting or speed-dating -- speed-planting.
In less than 50 minutes, an unused, steeply-pitched hillside on the 75-acre campus went from scraggly to stupendous as 125 fruit trees became an orchard.
Working in teams of two after receiving a brisk, CliffsNotes-style agricultural lesson -- one holds tree, other shovels dirt, knot stays above soil or tree will die -- students happily explained why they were excited to participate.
"It's going to produce fruit for how many years? Like, 50?" asked Emma Schwarez, a 16-year-old Walnut Creek resident. "There's nothing better than that."
Her partner, Simone Batiste, 15, from Oakland, agreed. She had felt hunger's pain during a 40-hour fast undertaken last fall to raise awareness.
"When I connected to the purpose; the pain stopped, because the cause was worth it," she said.
More than earning "A's" in the community service projects that the college preparatory school requires of all students, altruism also fertilized the enthusiasm of Pierson Tan, who spearheaded the project.
"I've always had an interest in environmental conservation," he said. "In eighth grade, I planted saplings, and I remember thinking, 'These trees will be here a lot longer than I will.' And also, there are people starving, even here in the Bay Area. That's most important to me -- not sending food off to faraway countries but helping people right here."
Taking his initial, modest idea (to supervise eight 10th-grade students as they planted 10 trees), Tan worked with history teacher Matt Zahner to put his feed-the-locals project into action.
The swift and secret sauce that brought together stick-sized trees and stone-shaped clumps of dirt to break the bonds of hunger and build an orchard came from Siamack Sioshansi's The Urban Farmers, an East Bay all-volunteer nonprofit devoted to eradicating hunger (primarily through tree planting and fruit and vegetable gleaning). Urban Farmers donates all harvested produce to Bay Area food banks.
"He just kept showing up," Zahner said, about Sioshansi. "Our mission of environmental responsibility and commitment to service dovetailed with his. It all fit perfectly."
The young apple, pear, olive and fig trees planted at Athenian will not bear fruit until 2016 and beyond. After Sioshansi told the students each tree would deliver up to 100 pounds of fruit, the subsequent math was cause for celebration; wiping out any complaints about the delayed gratification.
"At 125 trees, that's 12,500 pounds," Sioshansi explained. "A farmer can grow five pounds of food, any food, to feed one person for one day. You will be growing a banquet for 2,500 people -- enough to feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next 50 years."
William Brown, 16, of Danville, mentioned another silver lining of the project: re-purposed water.
"The orchard will catch the runoff from the baseball field above, so we won't have to do as much irrigation. There are no losers -- everyone wins!" he exclaimed.
Lakin Moser, 17, said he sees "both sides of the hunger coin" where he lives in Oakland. His father is active in the nonprofit Opportunity International, so Third World poverty is frequently discussed at the dinner table.
"Every time you look at it, it's still shocking. But because of that, I don't take as much for granted," he said.
Perception, as much as dirt, was shifted for Noah Lourie, 17, of Berkeley.
"This has taught me that poverty isn't necessarily defined by a person who is inept. It's more defined by the situation they're in. Being in a position of privilege, it's our responsibility to help people who aren't in a good place," Laurie said.
Standing on the hill above the young farmers, Sioshansi was proud. He said the 12,500 pounds of fruit the orchard will eventually produce will be donated to The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties and to Monument Crisis Center. Inedible fruit that falls to the ground will go the Lindsay Wildlife Hospital.
But his satisfaction was fleeting.
"All the schools have fields like this," he claimed. "They need to wake up to students' and parents' concern about food, environment, hunger. Schools say, 'Kids might get sick,' and 'Kids will throw fruit, and we'll get sued.' You have to have a vision to fill a vacuum of need."
Tan, nearly finished with his speed-planting, dared to dream, saying, "I have a little brother, so I hope when he's a junior, he'll be part of picking the harvest and sharing the fruit."
To learn more about The Urban Farmers, visit http://www.theurbanfarmers.org. To follow Athenian School, go to http://www.athenian.org.


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Work Under Pressure
- What is Working Under Pressure
- How to improve Working Under Pressure
- Abilities that can affect Working Under Pressure
- Resources/references
What is Working Under Pressure?
Working under pressure involves tackling difficult situations which are challenging to resolve. The difficulty of the situation may be the result of time constraints, complex problems, unrealistic expectations, competing demands, limited resources, limited control, or a combination of any of these challenges. To work effectively under pressure you must remain calm and composed within demanding situations and focus on getting the job done to the best of your ability.
The intensive pace of the modern working environment often places substantial demands and stress on people. To succeed in this environment graduates need to learn to manage these demands and cope with potentially stressful situations while maintaining professionalism and effective performance.
Working Under Pressure is about demonstrating:
- Control - Remain calm in difficult situations. Dont let emotions cloud your judgment or your focus on the situation.
- Evaluation - Take time to assess the situation and rationally identify the key factors and potential solutions available.
- Planning - Develop a logical and realistic plan, broken down into manageable tasks.
- Stress management - Recognise when you are feeling stressed and take effective actions to ease pressure on yourself. Excessive stress will impact negatively on your performance and health, so learn to identify and manage it properly.
- Take time to assess the situation and dont allow yourself to rush into making rash emotionally-driven decisions.
- Learn to manage your time and resources effectively. Make an effort to be well organised in order to reduce pressure on yourself.
- Think positively. Negative thinking closes down your options, generates anxiety and leads to poor performance. Learn to look for positive aspects and opportunities in a situation.
- Delegate. Where possible and suitable, delegate responsibility to others to reduce pressure on yourself in difficult situations.
- Focus on the tasks and responsibility over which you have control. Dont waste time and energy worrying about other peoples responsibilities when you can only take action in relation to your own commitments.
Learn to manage stress:
- Recognise signs that you are experiencing stress; for example, feeling hot and tense. Use stress management strategies which work for you; for example, take a quick walk, use humour, or have a chat with someone to clarify your options.
- Learn to balance your time between work and social activities. Overworking can be a false economy and can generate stress and career burn out.
- Take regular exercise each week and eat a healthy diet avoid over indulgence in alcohol.
- Dont over burden yourself with an excessive workload.
Working Under Pressure can be affected by difficulties in the following abilities
(Impairments that may impact on the particular 'ability' are shown in brackets)
- Flexibility (autism; Mental Health Difficulties)
- Managing Stress (autism; Mental Health Difficulties)
- Stamina (physical impairments; Mental Health Difficulties)
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Unchain the Courts - An Essay on the Role of the Federal Courts in the Vindication of Social Rights
Michael A. Berch
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Arizona State Law Journal, p. 437, 1976
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Burger has restricted the anticipated growth of constitutional doctrines developed in the 1960's during the Warren Court era. In this essay, Professor Berch traces these restrictions in the context of the poor seeking access to the lower federal courts for the vindication of their constitutional rights. While the Court has shut off or severely curtailed access in many cases, chiefly by the strained application of the standing rubric, the opinions do indicate faith in the political process for eventual solutions. The essay envisages the failure of the political process to solve many of the problems confronting the poor and disadvantaged and an eventual return of these grievances to the federal courts.
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Keywords: federal courts, jurisdiction, constitutional law
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E3 Day 1 Impressions: STAR WARS 1313 and More
Our contributor Seth Robison is at E3 in Los Angeles, and here are his impressions from Tuesday, the expo's opening day.Star Wars: 1313
LucasArts is playing their just announced Star Wars title close to the vest with a sadly hands-off presentation in a small theater off the E3 show floor, but still accomplished their goal of whetting the appetites of gamers looking for that next great single player experience from the franchise. 1313 will be the first M-rated Star Wars title and that cryptic number refers to the 1313th floor of the city planet of Coruscant, way down by the core, that has become overrun with crime and become the most dangerous place in the galaxy. LucasArts let it be known that they are bringing their top-level visual talent and technology to the game, with extensive motion-cap including recording faces in conversation to better translate non-verbal communication.
Dead or Alive 5
Tecmo Koei/Team Ninja's energetic 3D fighting franchise is back with a new entry, revitalized with a sleek new look. The fighting remains very technical, with little of the over-the-top flash of its 2D counterparts. Put simply, mistakes will be punished. New features are interactive stages which can damage fighters (particularly funny is the circus stage where you can knock a foe into a clown's mouth and have him fired out of a cannon). Devs on hand were eager to add that there were "competition ready" stages that do not feature these elements.Also new are special moves with unique animations and the ability to directionally blast your foe, but that can only be used if your health is low. The game's roster not only includes a bunch of returning DOA favorites (like Ryu, Zack, Tina, Ayane, Hitomi, Christine and more) plus Virtua Fighter's Akira. New fighters announced at E3 were a… fleshed out Sarah from Virtua Fighter and DOA's Bass. Only the verses mode was demoed, but there will be a story mode as well as online multiplayer. When pressed, and in the light of the practice of other fighter game devs, it was revealed that any DLC made for the game will be free.
Avengers: Battle for Earth
For Kinect and eventually Wii U, one of the first titles to take advantage of the raised profile of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is a game that is being called a "Motion Fighter." One-on-one fighting takes place from a third-person perspective and attacks are deployed by performing their animations physically. For example, a strike using Thor's hammer requires your to rear back with your arm and pitch the Uru metal skull-splitter with a forward motion.The combat isn't the fas-paced action of traditional fighters but is almost rhythm based and your performance is is used to fill a super meter that will allow you to frantically whup on your opponent when it is deployed. The cel-shaded comic book-like visuals fit well and the character specific animations you have to perform mean in this game a Hulk smash isn't a joystick/button combo, its actually you doing the smashing.
It would be easy to say that this castle-smashing siege weapon Kinect game is a cousin to the phenom Angry Birds, and that's partially right. Here though you not only control the direction, aim and power of your shot; you are also the cannonball.Different kinds of shots can be controlled in different ways: winged shots can glided in with your arms, regular balls can be nudged inflight and exploding shells can be triggered remotely but making a "boom" gesture. The game scores you for competitive play as well.
Devil May Cry
The DMC reboot revealed the franchise's transition to a more typical third-person hack-and-slash affair. The new, goth-style Dante is a more foul-mouthed fellow who is still using a blade and dual guns, but is augmented with a kind of grappling hook with a alternate Devil/Angel mechanic that either pulls objects towards Dante, or Dante towards them. This is used in combat as well as for light puzzle-solving and platforming.In the demo, first Dante fights through a possessed city tries to kill him by slamming buildings together and collapsing churches on top of him. In boss battle against a giant acid spitting slug with a face and claws, the old DMC challenge returns as a challenging and lengthy fight ensues. After exposing and beating on its glowing weak spot for a while, a string of grappling sequences and a chase is needed to bring it to a close. Fans of the franchise needn't worry — elements like the combo ranking system return as do the use of special items to revive in the middle of a fight. Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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