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UNIVERSITY CENTER, MI — A bill is on schedule for introduction next week that officials say will increase jobs in the growing environmental tech industry.
On Monday, State Rep. Charles Brunner is discussing the Green to Gold jobs legislation, bill 5599, at Delta College.
Green to Gold provides business capital for clean-tech startups to get their ideas off the ground, which allows opportunities for innovation and job creation.
"If we can get this fund set up, it will be helpful in job creation, which is the whole idea behind this," Brunner said. "The bill is basically to set up a loan fund for companies that will receive a low interest loan — it's not a grant— for companies involved in manufacturing products that relate to advanced transportation, windmills, etc."
The legislation covers the retraining that will give Michigan workers the skills necessary to help these businesses grow.
The interest rates have not been determined.
Aaron Baylis, Chairman of the Bay County Republican Party, said that his main concerns would be where the money comes from in the loan fund and whether or not any of the businesses might turn into another Solyndra.
"The default mechanism related to job creation is interesting, though," Baylis said.
Brunner will discuss the legislation with Peter Sinclair, a climate educator and contributor to Yale Forum on Climate Change who has traveled the country promoting Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Tuth", and Colin Rumsey, a veteran and IT professional.
The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on Monday at Building L Room 133 at Delta College, 1961 Delta Rd.


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A continual struggle with writing this blog is trying to keep it picture led and not wander off into the top stories from the week that may not have produced the best pictures. This week in Asia we have seen the arrival of U.S President Obama in India, U.S Secretary of State Hilary Clinton doing the rounds, the first election in Myanmar for 20 years (no prizes as to who will win though) not one, but two Qantas jets getting into engine difficulty, the continuing tensions between Japan and China, the failed bid by BHP Billiton to take over of Potash, currency woes as we prepare for G20 in Seoul later this week and let's not forget Afghanistan and bombs in Pakistan. So where to start? Mick Tsikas produced my favourite picture of the week, a fan at the Melbourne Cup; one can only admire the oral control it takes to shout in celebration while holding firmly onto a lit cigarette. I thought this was a skill that died out with the passing of Humphrey Bogart.
Photographers' Blog
The story behind the Pulitzer picture
Reuters Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif tells how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Myanmar during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot.

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I grew up playing soccer as a goalkeeper. For as long as I can remember I have always loved wearing the cool jersey and having the fancy gloves. As a youth, in middle school, high school, and even club soccer in college I was always the guy they stuck in the net.... and I loved it. The guys I loved watching when I was younger were Tony Meola and Jorge Campos. Both of them were awesome during the 1994 FIFA World Cup. That was a time in U.S. soccer history that was fun to experience because the sport was getting national attention and the MLS was just around the corner.
Being a self proclaimed "goalie weenie" I thought I would put together a list of the most recent GK's for the City Islanders and a few links of interest about them. I also included a few photos (click the image for a much larger view). I have always loved seeing different goalies and their uniforms. Sometimes I love when they match and coordinate with their team's colors and other times I love when you have a uniform like Campos wore that was just plain crazy!
Danny Cepero
Cepero has been loaned to Harrisburg for the 2008 season by the New York Red Bulls. He is the current number one keeper. He had a minor injury during the season and helped in the broadcast booth with commentary during the Invica TV coverage.
CLICK HERE for his Penn Athletics bio
CLICK HERE for his Daily Pennsylvanian article
CLICK HERE for the Red Bulls press release about his signing
CLICK HERE for the Metro Fanatic article about him being on loan
Danny in yellow vs. the Pioneers
Brian Pope
Pope played in the pre-season with the Houston Dynamo of the MLS. He then joined the City Islanders. Was thrown into action for a few games this season when Cepero was injured and responded well. Played in the US Open Cup during the second half of the Yakima Reds match. Also started his first game in the Open Cup against CPB. Also played a period in the scrimmage against the NY Red Bulls.
Pope during warm-ups before the Cleveland match
Matt Nelson
Played last season with the City Islanders as the number one keeper and helped them win the championship. He had the best single season stats for a keeper in team history. Then went on to play a few games with the Vancouver Whitecaps of USL-1. In 2008 signed with Crystal Palace USA and played against the City Islanders in the Open Cup!
CLICK HERE for Matt on wikipedia.org
Dave Kern
Is the all time City Islanders leader in almost every statistical category. Has played more games as a City Islander than any other keeper. Was a member of the 2007 championship team. Also went on to win the MISL championship with the Baltimore Blast.
CLICK HERE for his Baltimore Blast bio
Sam Bishop
Has been a part of the City Islanders team for the last 4 seasons. Recently was a member of the 2007 championship team. He played in the International Friendly match vs. the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2007 also. Has also dressed for the City Islanders in 2008 during Cepero's injury as the back up to Brian Pope.


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Results tagged ' Peoria Chiefs '
Minoring in Twitter: Team bonding in Peoria
By Danny Wild
Maury Povich's long-running daytime talk show has devolved (my mom watches all the time) into two related subjects: DNA tests and lie detectors on sketchy characters. How is that relevant? Imagine the entire Peoria Chiefs' team gathered around the TV waiting to see a dramatic paternity test revealed — Tyrell Jenkins, the Cardinals' No. 7 prospect, said a little Maury drama is just what the Chiefs needed on a recent road trip to Burlington:
70 mph winds here in Burlington. Looking ugly out.. On a better note gettin some great team bonding in watching Maury!! #YouAreNotTheFather
— Brotha Jenkins™ (@TyrellJenkins14) May 30, 2013
Staying with Jenkins, he also helped us continue the great trend of this recurring feature in revealing the sleeping habits of road-weary Minor Leaguers. Meet Nick Martini on the Chiefs' team bus:
😁😁😁 vine.co/v/bYpdYHMiKpZ — Brotha Jenkins™ (@TyrellJenkins14) May 30, 2013
It's one of those videos that just gets funnier the more you watch. Meanwhile, Twins right-hander Trevor May, an accomplished DJ on his off-days, is seeking the public's help in his next tune:
Who wants to make me a melody!
— Trevor May (@Trevmay54) May 30, 2013
Bucs prospect Jameson Taillon reminds us it's not all bright lights and adoring fans in the Minors. Sometimes, when you're not being filmed while sleeping on a bus, you're stuck without air conditioning:
Sweating the whole way to Portland, Maine. #AcPlease — Jameson Taillon (@JTaillon19) May 30, 2013
Marlins pitcher Beau Wright asks:
Are Bonita fish big? — Beau Wright (@LeftbutWright35) May 30, 2013
It's actually spelled "Bonito" and they are "medium-sized."
Reno's Zeke Spruill was thirsty and also had a question:
Why doesn't water come in a can? — Ezekiel Spruill (@zekespruill) May 31, 2013
Through the magic of the Internets, I found that though some water is packaged in cans, it's usually sold in clear plastic bottles so as to show it's purity and clarity. Makes sense, we'd all like to know we're not drinking swamp water.
Braves outfielder Cody Livesay prefers grammar and words like "knaidel" to the NBA Playoffs, and really, who can blame him?
If you don't feel like watching the basketball game, there's a #spellingbee on ESPN that should get pretty intense. — Cody Livesay (@Livec1) May 31, 2013
Pirates catcher Tony Sanchez Tweeted earlier that he'd like someone to come wear his jersey on Thursday and take his place at the plate against a knuckleballer. He then offered up expert advice:
Keys to hitting a knuckleball… Close your eyes and swing really hard. — Tony Sanchez (@Tony26Montana) May 31, 2013
Tony then followed that up with a photo of Bucs No. 1 prospect Gerrit Cole showing his newfound Indianapolis pride (he's from California):
Only thing worse than the jersey is the grey undershirt. Sweet look Gerrit. #Loser twitter.com/Tony26Montana/… — Tony Sanchez (@Tony26Montana) May 29, 2013
Marcus Stroman is back from his suspension and now subject to being miserable on bus rides like the rest of baseball:
Bus rides stink! Not looking forward to that 14 hour one to Akron, OH next week. Lol #dagger — Marcus Stroman (@MStrooo7) May 31, 2013
Jupiter catcher Alex Burg is getting acquainted with rain delays in Florida's Palm Beach:
Rain delay = arts and craft time! My new tape bracelet thanks to @j_nicolino22#baseball#raindelay… instagram.com/p/Z4CE-pGMCA/ — Alex Burg (@amburg1) May 29, 2013
Future Yankees dressed as cowboys? It could be a reality according to Trenton's Mike O'Brien:
Bowie clubbie said @trentonthunder has the most guys who wear cowboy boots than any other team in the Eastern League #GotHeem #Southerners — Mikey O'Brien (@OBMikey) May 27, 2013
On the topic of cowboys, Cody Decker chimes in:
"Get off your high horse!"- Me talking to a cowboy, riding his drug addicted horse… — Cody Decker (@Decker6) May 27, 2013
We'll end with Jeremy Barfield's take on an early Sacramento rally:
We scored a touchdown & a field goal in the 1st inning tonight. That was my official welcome to the PCL. I didn't hate it.
— Jeremy Barfield (@Baseclogger) May 27, 2013
Chipotle Tweet of the Week
Darin Gorski first announces his addiction and then comforts himself on it:
Just casually had chipotle for lunch 5 days in a row and didn't think twice about going again today. That may be a little excessive — Darin Gorski (@darin_gorski20) May 30, 2013
Glad so many people have the same addiction to chipotle I do, maybe it's not a problem!
— Darin Gorski (@darin_gorski20) May 30, 2013
Prospect Uniformed: Rays Shortstop Hak-Ju Lee in Every Minor League Jersey He's Worn
People seem to forget that MLB.com's No. 32 overall prospect Hak-Ju Lee was traded. Lee was shipped along with right-handed starter Chris Archer from the Cubs to the Rays almost two years ago to the day, on Jan. 8, 2011 in the Matt Garza deal. The 22-year-old South Korean shortstop has strengthened his prospect stock since switching organizations. He is expected to play ball at Triple-A Durham next season, representing his third team in Tampa Bay's system and fifth overall. Here are the previous four, in a gallery.


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As a company born on and designed for AWS, Dome9 has more specialized security support for AWS than any other cloud platform. From security group policy automation to agentless cloud API orchestration to visualization of CloudFormation templates, we've built a unique user experience dedicated to improving security and manageability for the AWS security administrator. Dome9 SecOps is typically the security operations console for our customers on AWS.
Security Visualization for AWS
Dome9 SecOps includes Clarity, a visualization console that can help enterprises gain the visibility and control they seek in the cloud, and drastically cut down on the time it takes to identify network misconfigurations. Clarity enables dynamic and real-time topology maps of your security groups and instances, even CloudFormation templates.
Tamper protection
Stop unauthorized users and applications from modifying security groups without your permission. Automatically revert mistaken or malicious policy configurations. And the new Region Lock feature guarantees that no network changes can be made to the region, unless created via the Dome9 console. With Region Lock, newly detected security groups will immediately have their rules cleared on both ingress and egress.
Centralized security management
Consolidate policy controls across your EC2 and VPC security groups and instances and across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Build security policies using a simple web-based interface with the Dome9 SecOps console with one single policy working across groups of servers over multiple cloud accounts and cloud platforms. Policies update automatically as servers come and go, or are modified.
Readable and reusable policy objects
Don't settle for cryptic. With Dome9 SecOps, you can create meaningful policy names and descriptions for your AWS services. Never write the same IP address twice either. With Dome9 SecOps, you can define custom lists of IPs to reference in whitelists and rulesets.
Additional controls
– Configuration management – continuous monitoring of security configurations across server instances and AWS security groups.
– Dynamic Access Leases – leave ports closed by default, and open secure, on-demand access through a single click on a browser or mobile app.
– File Integrity Monitoring – encapsulated within the lightweight Dome9 agent for both Windows and Linux
– Compliance auditing – create a detailed archive of ALL policy changes across accounts and regions.
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Innovative R&D and optimal investment under uncertainty in high-tech industries: An implication for emerging economies
In order to continue on the path to convergence with advanced countries, emerging countries need to strengthen their research capabilities. Often they try to do this through the development of strategic industries. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the effectiveness of policies aimed at the development of strategic industries in emerging economies. The paper develops a three-phase model for product innovation with capital investment under uncertainty to study the investment decisions of a manufacturer in an industry facing a volatile market demand for new inventions. The findings demonstrate the importance of interactions between market structure, a firm's market power and the associated cost of adjustment. The paper draws out implications for emerging economies with regard to policies striving to develop strategic industries in sectors such as semiconductors and information technology.
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The Racers (3-0) trailed by 13 points in the opening half and were still down 59-52 after Chris Obekpa's basket with 7:27 left. That's when Murray State started its go-ahead run. Wilson hit a 3-pointer to draw the Racers to 59-57 and Dexter Field tied it up seconds later with a basket after stealing the inbounds pass.
Ed Daniel put the Racers up with two foul shots and Isaiah Canaan closed the run with a 3-pointer to lead 64-59.
St. John's (2-1) came within 64-62 on D'Angelo Harrison's three-point play with 3:39 left, but got no closer. Harrison led the Red Storm with 27 points.
St. John's faces No. 16 Baylor in the third-place contest Sunday. Baylor lost to Colorado earlier on Friday.


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GRAND RAPIDS – ArtPrize 2012, the fourth radical exhibition and competition created by social media entrepreneur Rick DeVos, is underway.
Venue Registration for ArtPrize 2012 opens today, continuing through April 12 on the road to the fourth international competition and social experiment, focused on expanding and broadening the conversation about art.
Any space within 3 square miles of downtown can volunteer to be a venue. Some 164 parks, museums, bars, restaurants, vacant buildings were venues for ArtPrize 2011, and more than 500 places have served as venues since the inaugural event in 2009.
"It's a great day for ArtPrize, and it's the start of a great year," said executive director Catherine Creamer.
ArtPrize allows any place or space within its district to create an art exhibition during the 19-day event, which will be held Sept. 19 through Oct. 7.
Venues can begin registering on ArtPrize's website, which has had a makeover for 2012.
ArtPrize 2011 displayed work by 1,582 artists from 39 countries and 43 U.S. states. Some 300,000 to 400,000 people participated in the event that awarded a total of $498,000 in prize money including the $250,000 first prize to California artist Mia Tavonatti, a native of Iron Mountain now living in California, for her stained glass mosaic, "The Crucifixion."
A total of $560,000 in prizes will be awarded this October, including a $20,000 prize for Best Venue.
ArtPrize gave an unplanned Best Venue award last year to Site:Lab, which organized a show of large-scale installations in the former home of Junior Achievement at 2 E. Fulton St. at Division Avenue under the sponsorship of the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design.
"Many venues really are pushing the envelope in what they can do," Creamer said. "Last year we awarded it to Site: Lab as a surprise because they did such an extraordinary job."
The City of Grand Rapids, which manages several past ArtPrize venues, such as Calder Plaza downtown, also is searching for curators interested in organizing shows for public spaces.
"Curating those parks is such an incredible opportunity for a young or even an established curator to show what they can do," Creamer said.
ArtPrize 2011, among its 164 venues, had eight Exhibition Centers serving as hubs, showcasing at least 25 works of art and providing such amenities as voter registration and selling ArtPrize merchandise.
ArtPrize 2012 is adding a new category, dubbed Showcase Venue, which will offer more than a standard venue though not as much as an Exhibition Center.
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I absolutely agree that "netdo" ain't gonna work. Hands on transmission is really the only thing that does. As some have already pointed out above though, the exploration and description of this stuff is an important way of opening up doors for people. If it wasn't for some of the stuff I have experienced firsthand over the last year or so, I'd probably still be doing the same thing I always have. However, Ive gleaned a lot from reading all of the posts from "Aikido outsiders" over the past few months. Not only has it broadened my horizons intellectually, it has also given me a lot of direction of where to go to at least start finding some of what I have been missing. Maybe I'm the exception to the rule, I don't know. I do know that it is important that in order to improve ourselves and advance our art information is needed...information that at this point is not only hard to find, but doesn't even exists in many practitioner's minds. I think that "netdo" can definitely be a tool to change that, and I appreciated the time and effort that goes into the dissemination of this kind of info. For me, its brought me to the point where I'm actively going out to get the "hands-on", maybe it will do the same for others, and the level of everyone understanding can leap up a notch.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:
SECTION 1. The second sentence of section 11-4-3 of the charter of the town of Southbridge, on file in the office of the archivist of the commonwealth as provided in section 12 of chapter 43B of the General Laws, is hereby amended by striking out the words "twenty-five" and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- 15.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding section 42C of chapter 54 of the General Laws or any other general or special law or town by-law to the contrary, the following question shall be placed upon the official ballot and submitted to the voters of the town of Southbridge at a regular or special town election to be held in the year 2012:
"Shall an act passed by the general court in the year 2012, entitled 'An Act relative to the recall of elective officers in the town of Southbridge' be accepted?"
The town counsel of the town of Southbridge shall cause a fair and concise summary of the question to be included below the ballot question.
If a majority of the votes cast in answer to this question are in the affirmative, this act shall take effect in the town of Southbridge, but not otherwise.
SECTION 3. The regular or special town election in section 2 may be held concurrent with the November 2012 state election.
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Republican governor and GOP leaders in several other states are facing increasing pressure to back off from deep spending cuts to education and social programs in light of higher than expected revenue projections as the economy improves.
The surge in revenue is giving rise to an awkward question — are the governors making the deepest cuts because they have to or because they choose to?
The issue is unfolding in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, Colorado and several other states where tax revenue forecasts have turned up just as legislatures are working through budget reduction packages.
Users of syracuse.com called on all states, especially New York, to continue to hold the line despite predictions of increased income. Here's what one user, zatoichi, had to say:
"Increased revenue or not, New York state needs to maintain its vigil to reduce spending. I, for one, am tired of living in a state that allows generous welfare benefits and does not require those supposedly needing assistance to work for them. As far as education goes, the school districts need to limit their their spending on administrative salaries and benefits and forgo all the spending on glorified campuses, athletic fields and additional courses that are not required for public education."
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Ted Mattox, the mayoral candidate whose Montclair slate is running under the slogan "Your Voice ... Your Money ... Our Future," has emerged as the campaign's big spender.
The at-large councilor's "Thrive Montclair" slate has chalked up $21,868 in expenditures heading into the May 13 non-partisan election, almost twice as much as the "Partnership Montclair" slate headed by Joyce Michaelson, an at-large councilor and deputy mayor.
"I think it reflects we're serious about the campaign, and we're going to do what it takes to win," Mattox said.
The expenditures, revealed in pre-election filings with the state's Election Law Enforcement Commission, are the first real glimpse of the campaign warchests in a contest where money played a big role four years ago.
In 2004, the biggest spender, the "Leadership Montclair" slate headed by Edward Remsen, swept six of the seven seats on Montclair's governing body in an election where 18 candidates spent at least $143,087 -- or $21.67 for each of the 6,603 voters went to the polls.
Though Mattox so far is outspending his competitors, it's largely his own money, according to last week's 29-day pre-election filing.
His warchest of $22,054 includes $15,637 out of his own pocket, according to the ELEC filing, and he spent $21,868, leaving him just $186 on hand at the end of the reporting period.
So far, Michaelson's "Partnership Montclair" slate has receipts of $15,205, with expenditures of $11,975, leaving her campaign with $3,230 on hand, according to her slate's filings.
Yesterday, Michaelson was unfazed about Mattox's level of spending and talking up a "meet and greet" that a week ago brought out Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, mother of Michaelson's 2nd Ward runningmate, Peter Zorich.
"I have broad-based community support," she said. "We're spending what we need to spent."
The third slate, mayoral candidate Jerry Fried's "Unity Montclair," filed a report saying -- at least up to last week -- it did not expect to spend more than $9,700, which is the ELEC filing trigger for a slate of three or more candidates. But that could change.
"We're intending to spend more money as the election gets closer," Fried said.
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Good morning!
—Guess the weather computers were fooled by Thursday's weather.
The 18-inch blizzard last year at this time was also a surprise, wasn't it?
December is like spring training for weather people.
They get on top of their game by January.
—All sunshine today.
Highs will be in the upper 30s.
Same for Saturday, except in Cedarville, where it will be summer-like outside Dino's.
—Bob Feller dies at age 92.
When you reach the 90s, people no longer know you're alive.
"I didn't know Bob Feller was still alive,'' was the comment on Thursday.
How many know that Johnny Pesky (Pesky pole at Fenway Park) is still alive.
Or Bobby Doerr?
Or Virgil Trucks?
Phil Cavaretta and Eddie Joost were both born in 1916.
The oldest person still alive who has attended the Bridgeton Invitational Baseball Tournament is ex-Giant and former Willie Mays teammate Monte Irvin, at 91.
Not counting Paul Hunsberger.
—Emilio Narvarro, who played in the Negro leagues, is the oldest living professional baseball player at age 105.
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"Hope this letter finds everyone well!
"It's time for the Port Elizabeth Fire Co. Chicken Pot Pie dinner.
"It will be Saturday, Jan. 8.
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"Please leave us a message if there is no answer and we will return your call.
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"The cost is $12 for adults and $6 for children 3-12.
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"All takeouts are $12.
"If you will be placing an order for three or more takeouts, we kindly ask that you bring your own basket or box; it makes it much easier to carry.
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E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
—"Hi, Jack,
"Just a reminder that on Saturday, at 2 p.m., David and Mary Fuentes and the Tearing Down The Walls Ministry will be out on the streets at the intersection of East Commerce and Pearl streets (across from the High Rise) to hand out hats, gloves, sweaters, coats and candy canes.
"They will also have live music and a Christmas scene.''
— Nicole Stewart-Seawright
—Remember those photos of the Gems in Monday's paper?
They weren't taken by Al Solanik.
They weren't taken by Linda Solanik.
They were taken by Michael Solanik.
Or is it the video his mother is talking about at www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdTsIVs4cvU.
It's all about the Gems in Bridgeton Midget Football.
—By 1,683 to 1,043, Kingsway School District voters rejected borrowing $22.7 million to fund the $31.1 million school project.
Had it been approved, about $8.4 million was to be paid through a state grant.
—Remember us telling you Woodstown was going to a public safety director rather than a police chief?
They hired him.
The council unanimously voted to offer the position to retired New Jersey State Police Capt. Cristopher Simmermon at Tuesday night's council meeting.
Simmermon accepted.
Simmermon will be signed to a three-year contract with an annual salary of $65,000, but he said there are still some details of the contract that need to be worked through.
Police Chief George Lacy and Sgt. Richard Boultinghouse, second in command under Lacy, previously announced they would be retiring from the department at the end of this year, leaving a vacancy in the department's leadership.
—Paul Hunsberger has interviewed a man who climbs the highest mountains in the world with people with disabilities.
Like Mount Everest with blind people.
Want to know more about Eric Alexander.
Listen to "Meet Your Minister'' on WSNJ AM 1240 on Sunday, Dec. 26, at 9:05 a.m.
—But, he's never climbed with a 92 year old.
—Tony Rossello, of Palms Springs, Calif., sends us a newspaper with the headline, "Law enforcement army sweeps Indio's gangland.''
"Dear Jack,
"I thought you would like to know about what is happening in my back yard.
"You see, Cumberland County and Bridgeton are not the only places that have gang problems.
"This article is just one example of what law enforcement is trying to do out here in Palm Springs.
"You guys are not alone. It seems like this garbage is everywhere.
"Give my best to Sister Helen Raphael.
"Yes, Sister Thaddeus died a few years ago.
"Did you find out what high school has the Cumberland County trophy?
"Hey, Shep, I feel your pain.
"I also have PTSD, diabetes and health problems attributed to Agent Orange, too.
"Hang in there, my Vietnam vet. We have to stick together.''
— Tony Rossello
—Glad the government is paying you well for your Agent Orange afflictions.
—What's the best thing on the menu for breakfast at Dino's, at 350 Main St., in Cedarville?
Don't want to waste Shep's money.
Let's look at some reviews:
"Dino's is great and cheap and portions are huge and people are nice.''
—"Dino's is a top notch restaurant with its great strombolis (feeds at least 2) pizza and great personalities. We never had a bad meal there and drive over 50 miles once a month for our stromboli and cheese fries. This place is truly a gem in Cumberland County.''
—"What a great place. John, Jimmy and all the girls make you feel like your at home. One of our favorite places. We love Dino's!
—Sounds like a good place to ring the Salvation Army bell on Saturday morning, from 9 a.m. to noon.
—"Take the $500,000 and invest in the Veterans Home, in Vineland, rather than build a chapel.
Add some wings to house the homeless veterans.''
— phone caller
—"Let the grass do its thing.''
—"After hearing her story, the woman walked the girl the rest of the way to the Indian Avenue School and contacted the police.
"This woman is a true hero.
"Bless her for caring and being so observant.
"No telling what would have happened to this girl had she not intervened.
"More people should be this brave.''
— California Connie
—Wounded Warriors phone card drive saw 91,895 minutes collected in phone cards.
They were sent out Dec. 15 from Bridgeton Post Office and were to be received at noon on Dec. 16 by Col. John Gaal at Walter Reed.
—"That's what I call an accurate description of Shep, the drill instructor acting as a therapist on the Geico commercial.
"Shep does have a sense of humor, as was displayed during his bell ringing stint.
"As to Kenny, well he also mentioned that if I thought my hiney puckered driving across the old bridge, for me to hike along the rocks.
"He gave me a more graphic description of what my backside would do.
"Oh, I don't sweat the pony tail pullers.
"It's the women who hold a pair of scissors and threaten to cut it (pony tail) off that bothers me (grin).''
— Joe Young
—"I would like to comment on Mr. Ramos' billboards.
"We need to be ready for Jesus' second coming and prepare by receiving Jesus into our hearts by faith and prayer.
"Yes, Judgment Day is coming, but no one knows, but God — Matthew 24:36.
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only."
"Jesus said this.
"No human can predict, or is to predict the day of His coming, and go against what the Bible says.''
— Rev. Betty Mitchell,
First United Methodist Church
—We never had the chance to meet Sarah Feinstein.
For that, we feel cheated.
So, we can only go by what others say.
Sarah departed this earth on Dec. 21, 2002.
Far, far too soon.
Her father has told us that one of her fears was not being remembered.
The following remarks were prepared and presented by Barbara Heinrich, CRNP, at Sarah's funeral.
"I have known Sarah nearly 9 years … ever since I became a nurse practitioner at the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children's Hospital.
"I always looked forward to seeing Sarah at her outpatient office visits, and especially enjoyed spending time talking with her during her hospitalizations when things weren't as rushed.
"Sarah always seemed be doing, or if not doing, then planning something very interesting and always a little off beat.
"Who else would think to name a lizard, 'Lassie?'
"Yes, there was definitely something very special about Sarah, something that, after you spoke with her, caused you to step back and look at the world from a different angle.
"Those of us who were involved with Sarah's CF care sometimes found it hard to understand Sarah's way of looking at things.
"From the time I first met her, it was clear to me that Sarah was her own woman with strong convictions about how her life would be lived.
"Each decision she made regarding her medical care was made with these convictions in mind.
"I have to be honest and say that I didn't always agree with her choices.
"But Sarah knew what was important to her, and she had the resolve and determination to stick to her principles.
"There was a core of steel in that frail body that
all of us on her team truly admired, in spite of the challenges it sometimes presented us!
"And, yet, along with her strong convictions, there was a gentleness that will always, for many of us, be associated with Sarah.
"I was always curious about the source of Sarah's strength of character.
"I'm sure a case can be made for genes and family influence.
"But in discussions I have had with others in the last two days, and from my own observations, I have come to appreciate the strong influence Sarah's spiritual nature has had on her character.
"For all her own problems, Sarah rarely drew attention to or focused on herself.
"She had a keen sense of other people's needs, and sought to help when she could.
"At the hospital, she would frequently speak with parents of younger children who were facing the diagnosis of CF for the first time.
"Many times, I would go in for a teaching session with these parents, prepared to comfort them when the crying inevitably started, and find that the parent had spoken with 'this sweet girl who had CF,' and she had answered all their questions about what it was like for a child to live with CF.
"They were always relieved to have gotten an honest answer that also gave them the hope that maybe CF wouldn't be so overwhelming on a day to day basis.
"Sarah's sense of the spiritual was apparent in her appreciation and respect all of creation.
"She took delight in the stars in the sky, even creating a website to help others locate celestial objects.
"She loved nature and took great joy in flowers especially; and she shared that joy by giving her flowers to other children when she left the hospital.
"Animals (both furry and scaly) were a special love of hers and she had a real bond with her pets, though I have to say that I never understood how someone who loved animals so much could be so unlucky with deer.
"Sarah also knew how to celebrate and appreciate each day, seeing the beauty, humor, and adventure in the present moment.
"I looked forward to, and yet dreaded her descriptions of her latest restaurant adventure.
"She could describe in great detail every amazing smell and taste.
"It would always leave me so hungry hours before my next meal!
"And yet I always found myself coming back for more …
"Sarah also had a sense of her own place in creation.
"She understood the connectedness that unites us all.
"She saw life as a cycle of birth and death, and was comfortable with knowing that one day she, too, would die, and her body would return to the dust of the earth.
"Sarah and I didn't talk much about what happens after life here ends, but she was of the opinion that whatever is destined to happen, its occurrence would not be dependent on whether she believed in it or not.
"She was so comfortable with not knowing for sure.
"As intelligent as she was, Sarah was OK with not having all the answers. In fact, I'm sure many of you have found that while in conversation with Sarah, she would inevitably start asking some pretty tough questions.
"How many of us were always trying to answer those questions as she simply watched us and smiled?
"You see, that was another bright facet of Sarah's spiritual nature — her ability to be content with all the unanswered questions.
"I know I speak for all those who cared for Sarah at Children's Hospital — the doctors, nursing staff, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, social workers, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, office staff, ward clerks and all who were a part of her hospital world, when I say that we will miss her very much.
"Sarah was a very special person, and we all feel privileged and blessed to have been able to share in even a small part of her life.''
—When you live your life like that, you don't worry about when the world is going to end.
There is too much to live for.
— Nina
—Dec. 16 was the annual Millville Senior Center Luncheon.
A check from FMBA Local 63 was presented to Director Sylvia Stites by Keith Mitchell, president of the local, for the luncheon.
There was a visit from Sen. Jeff Van Drew, Assemblymen Nelson Albano and Matt Milam.
Below, from left, Dave Smith, Keith Mitchell, Sylvia Stites, Mike Lippincott, and John Garton.
—Here is my "Grown Up Christmas Wish"
Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee;
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies.
Well, I'm all grown-up now,
And still need help somehow. (Can you still help somehow)
I'm not a child,
But my heart still can dream.
So here's my lifelong wish,
My grown-up Christmas list.
Not for myself,
But for a world in need.
No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start, (and wars would never start)
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.
As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree (wrapped beneath the tree)
Well, heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul.
No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.
What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth.
(there'd be)
No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end, oh.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.
"Just to add a few personal thoughts, wouldn't it be nice if TV commercials about medicines and their warnings and disclaimers could be eliminated?
"To require everyone speak and write English?
"To exclude political ads in all media?
"To move past the veterans chapel and road repairs?
"To forbid all forms of junk mail and telemarketers?
"To have the New Jersey Department of Education have schools focused on developing students in areas of Reasoning, Respect and Responsibility rather than the current focus on Money/Power, Politics and Testing?
"May the holiday season be a time to renew friendships and spend time with family looking forward to a new year of hope.''
— Dave Hitchner
—If Bridgeton Mayor Albert Kelly pulls off saving the "DMV'' in Trenton today, it will be a political miracle.
Word on the Republican street is some workers have already been transferred out of the Bridgeton DMV in anticipation of the closing and they've bumped others at another DMV.
And those workers have bumped others elsewhere.
So, somewhere, people will get laid off.
But, you have to try.
You have to take a stand.
And we applaud the mayor for trying.
—What is sad is there haven't been more protest buses going to Trenton from here for other causes in the past, particularly at the county level.
—Will John "Nicey'' Daddario come out of Upper Deerfield as a Republican freeholder candidate in November?
—Traffic crawled at 8 mph through Bridgeton Thursday afternoon.
And, still, they had to drag fire policeman Whitey Ruberts out of mothballs for a fender bender across the street from his Broad Street home.
That was us asking you if you were getting mileage for your effort, Whitey.
—We'll see you Saturday morning, from 9 a.m. to noon, at Dino's, in Cedarville, for the Salvation Army bell ringing.
Don't let the snow keep you away.
It never stopped Shep in Vietnam.
Or Linda Quay from answering an EMS call.
They'll both be there.
So will Jennifer Boggs, who made the lights go out at ShopRite last Friday night while ringing the bell..
—Give us another day, Janice Laws.
Look for them on Saturday.
—MY KIND OF TOWN: Where there will be snow Sunday into Sunday night, bank on it.


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It has been another great summer for American Legion baseball and the games will likely be even more competitive in this weekend's playoff games.
Dutchtown-based Gauthier-Amedee and Mandeville-based LLOG Exploration are the only teams left standing in the American Legion Sixth District Tournament and they will be dueling it out Monday after rain postponed play.
The game was postponed with Gauthier-Amedee leading LLOG Exploration, 2-1, after one complete inning of play on Thursday. Both teams qualified for the Southeast Regional on July 5-9 at Kirsch Rooney Stadium earlier this week.
The teams qualified when LLOG Exploration eliminated Salmen-based Post 185 by a score of 12-6 and Gauthier-Amedee advanced by default after Brusly-based Post 160 forfeited when they were unable to field enough players.
Who will win the American Legion Sixth District Tournament? Vote in our poll and let us know.


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"I'm the oldest of four kids in my family and we were all lucky enough to have the same teacher for first grade. She taught us how important learning is and how getting an education is invaluable. All she asks of her students is that they give 100-percent like she does. She made learning fun and we love her for that. She is so committed to her students."
Congratulations to Mrs. Deb Frisinger, the recipient of the Golden Apple Award.
"I didn't know when I woke up this morning that this was going to be my lucky day - but it is! And I've seen other teachers get this award on TV when I was watching and I thought, 'how cool that would really be' - but I never thought or dreamed that it would be me one day" says Deb Frisinger.
Teaching at Holland Elementary for 17 years, Deb Frisinger says her love of young children and their willingness to learn is what keeps her coming back year after year.
"They call me 'mom' - some call me 'grandma' - some call me 'mrs. Frisinger', but you know, I feel like in their lives I am a person that they can always come to" says Deb Frisinger.
Robert and Matthew Buchanan are the two youngest of the Buchanan children. Their oldest sister Bridget, now 15, wrote the nominating letter.
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I'm starting to wonder who loves the spinach/artichoke combination better – me or Rachael Ray? I guess it's her, since she is the one actually coming up with the recipe, but I just keep getting drawn to these ingredients!! And I'm glad I was drawn to this one, because it is a real winner.
I always struggle with using all the produce from our garden, because it produces a lot for just 2 1/2 people. But so far, I've picked every cherry tomato that has been ripe and I've used it or eaten it, thanks to recipes like this one! And home grown tomatoes are SO much better than store bought ones. This is my favorite time of year for food! And I was so excited to discover that a new grocery store in my neighborhood sells refrigerated pizza dough – the good stuff. I used it for this, and it was actually pretty fantastic. Especially since I don't have time to make it from scratch for a weekday now since I'm working. The only problem I had with this recipe is that the original recipe said to bake it for 20 minutes. I checked on mine at just after 12 minutes, and if it would have gone any longer, it would have been burnt. So, I've adapted the instructions below – just make sure you keep an eye on it!
But really, if you are a fan of the spinach/artichoke combo, you will LOVE this recipe. I practically ate the whole thing myself. And it reheats fairly decently – which I always love!
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons chopped flat leaf parsley
- salt and pepper
- 1 pound refrigerated pizza dough
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella (about 8 ounces)
- 5 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
- One 13.75-ounce can artichoke hearts, drained and quartered
- ½ pint grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 cups fresh spinach, chopped
- Place the rack in your over in the lower third of the oven. Place an inverted baking sheet on the rack and preheat the oven to 500F.
- In a large bowl, combine the olive oil, garlic and parsley. Season with salt and pepper.
- Using oiled hands, stretch the pizza dough to fit a parchment-lined baking sheet. Spread 3 tablespoons of the garlic mixture onto the pizza dough, leaving a ½-inch border. Sprinkle with the mozzarella and 2 tablespoons of the parmesan.
- Toss the artichokes, tomatoes and spinach with the remaining garlic mixture. Arrange on top of the cheese. Sprinkle the remaining 3 tablespoons of parmesan on top.
- Place the baking sheet on top of the inverted baking sheet in the oven and bake until the crust is crisp and golden, about 12 minutes.
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- Adapted from Every Day with Rachael Ray February 2010


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We're going back to Mississippi. How did you get to Mississippi in the first place? How old were you and what were you doing there?
I got to Mississippi because I was Black and I was 22 initially, and a law student who had been in a sit-in movement because Mississippi was the worst symbol of the segregated prison. I was represented then. I was a Black kid who wanted to be useful and I was angry and I wanted to change things. I was raised to change things and so were all my friend from SNCC had gone from the sit-in movement in Atlanta where I was a senior at Spelman College, down to register voters in Mississippi. Bob Moses whom I admire deeply was down there. I had gone off to law school but I went down to see them and to alleviate my guilt and to give me enough fuel to get through the rest of law school so I could come back to Mississippi.


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Lack of support may be downfall of Alpine Days
At the end of every summer for the past 30 years, Val-ley residents
have looked forward to attending Alpine Days, the last event of the festival
season to offer a parade, carnival games, music and merchants galore.
Remember the teen dance? The sticky snow cones? The fireworks
display sponsored by the Wyrsch family on one of the last, gorgeously
warm nights before school started?
Those memories are, well, now just memories the Alpine Days
festival of North Bend will not return next year because of a lack of volunteers.
"I think it's a huge shame," said Susan Burklund, 2000 Alpine
Days festival committee president. "But I think we brought it to a new level."
Burklund was one of just eight volunteers who made this year's
festival happen, and even flourish, with additional children's games and
a more spread-out merchant row.
But even with this year's success, the committee can't go on.
According to longtime Alpine Days committee member
Sue Beauvais, it takes at least 20 volunteers to make a great festival
without burning the committee members out.
"It`s just too much work for a handful of people," she said.
The committee set a deadline of mid-October for people to respond
to ads they placed in the Valley Record, in the Upper Snoqualmie
Valley Chamber of Commerce newsletter and on fliers handed out around town.
But no one stepped up to the plate, and by this time of year, plans
should already be under way.
As for their budget, Burklund explained that $3,000 was donated to
the Special Olympics, with a little left over in case anyone revives the event.
The committee's story is a familiar one to other small-town
festival committees.
It starts when excited volunteers full of ideas and energy join a
festival committee. They spend time planning, meeting, calling vendors, sending
out contracts, arranging entertainment and seeking donations. This year, it
took $25,000 to run Alpine Days, not to mention the year-round planning.
After a few years on the committee, the number of volunteers
decreases and those left standing notice the committee work increasing,
and their jobs, families and friends start to suffer.
"I think it's just a `volunteerism' thing," Burklund said, explaining
that most volunteer groups she's known have eventually had the same
problems. "The core volunteers seem to be the same people over and over and
I just think new people need to step in."
Beauvais explained that it's satisfying to bring a weekend-long
event from planning stages to fruition.
"You get to the point where you see all the bugs worked out on
Saturday and all the volunteers can look at it and say, `We did that!'" she
said. "There's a lot of pride in ownership with that but I'm not going to
knock myself out for it any more."
Burklund, too, felt the pressure and exhaustion, and needs to devote
her time to her two young children.
This will be the only time in 30 years that the festival will not run,
except for 1994, when a local merchant sponsored the festival instead of
the Alpine Days Committee and called it North Bend Days. Not quite the
same, Beauvais said.
The entire committee made the decision to halt next year's festival,
but that doesn't mean the idea is dead.
Burklund said the committee has kept rights to the festival's name,
will keep its licenses current and has hung on to tents and other necessary items.
"I think that somehow, somebody is going to pick up the torch, but
it's going to be too late to have a good [festival]," Beauvais said.
North Bend Mayor Joan Simpson was saddened by the recent news.
"What's been unique is that it is a community-sponsored event
and it's part of the whole North Bend history," she said.
Anyone who wants to continue the tradition of planning Alpine Days
and has the time to commit should call Susan Burklund at (425)
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Tuesday, January 2, 2001
Just as the proving ground for automotive technology is the
racetrack, research in GPS (global positioning system) has always happened on
the battlefield.
The U.S. government began using satellite signals for submarine
navigation in the 1960s. Today, the system has evolved so the 24 satellites
circle Earth in six orbital planes with each satellite passing over a given
point every 24 hours. Users gain a four-dimensional fix (x, y, z axes and time)
by triangulating between the time lags of signals received from any four
The whole system is controlled from Schriever Air Force Base in
Colorado Springs, CO (www.shriever.af.mil), and works so well
that the military scrambled the signals, allowing civilians accuracy only within
100m. But after President Clinton ordered them unscrambled in May 2000, the GPS
system began working within a fraction of that error, spawning new consumer
applications in cars, boats, cell phones, and pagers. (The U.S. military can
still re-scramble them regionally at any time).
Now KVH Industries (www.kvh.com)
is returning to the system's roots for its latest advance-the TACNAV(TM)
tactical navigation system for armored vehicles. The product provides position
data for every vehicle, even navigating by dead reckoning when satellite signals
are jammed. And it creates a single interface that includes the vehicle location
and azimuth, gun turret angle, and target location. It has a contract to supply
the systems to an undisclosed Southeast Asian country.


text: MEEKER I Meeker Elementary School will hold a "buy-one, get-one-free" Scholastic book fair on April 9 and 10. The fair will run from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 9 and from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on April 10 at the elementary school library, 201 Ute Rd. Books will be available for all ages, and all members of the community are welcome to peruse the books in the fair. For more information, contact Kay Bivens at 1-970-878-9050, Ext. 110.


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Why does the code in so many robust enterprise system solutions become hard to understand, maintain, and reuse? The main reason is that development teams do not apply best practices in a disciplined way when performing use-case realizations.
According to the IBM Rational Unified Process®, or RUP®, "A use-case realization describes how a particular use case is realized within the design model, in terms of collaborating objects." The goal of a use-case realization is to produce a well-structured object-oriented design for implementing behavior defined in the use case.
Fundamentally, to use object-oriented design means to properly assign responsibilities to objects that compose the system and define the messages that pass among them. This requires skill in assigning responsibilities as well as using design patterns.
Two critical principles for responsibility assignment
Two responsibility assignment principles play a major role in achieving good object-oriented design: high cohesion and low coupling. Cohesion is a measure of the strength and focus of an object's responsibilities. It is said that an object is low in cohesion when it takes on responsibilities that should be performed by other objects; in other words, high cohesion requires limiting an object's responsibilities. High coupling results when an object relies on too many other objects. Therefore, low coupling requires limiting the dependency level among objects.
In theory, these two responsibility assignment principles seem easy to understand. In practice, they are hard to comprehend and master, especially for programmers who are making a transition to object-oriented application development. In part, this is what "thinking in objects" refers to; it is the most difficult skill to learn in the object-oriented world and also the most critical. Failure to apply the principles of high cohesion and low coupling while performing use-case realizations represents a serious risk to a software development project.
Why? Enterprise system solutions nowadays commonly adopt a multi-layered system architecture, with separate layers for presentation, controller, application, domain, and persistence. A use-case realization may require work on each of these layers. However, the most complex and critical application behaviors -- such as assigning responsibilities for business rules, business logic, or business entities -- fall within the application and domain layers. If the logic is not distributed in a correct and balanced way within these layers, there is a big risk that the system will not evolve properly as more and more functionality is added. Over time, the system (or subsystem -- the same issues apply) may become so complex that the code is hard to understand, maintain, and reuse. That is why it is so important for developers to become proficient in applying the principles of high cohesion and low coupling to the application and domain layers of a system when performing use-case realizations (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Applying the principles of high cohesion and low coupling is especially critical within the application and domain layers of an enterprise system architecture.
Processes do not address the problem
The reason that applications frequently fail to embody the principles of high cohesion and low coupling relates to real-world software development processes. After a team defines goals for a current iteration, the first step is often to analyze their requirements and document them in use cases. After the use cases are reviewed and considered stable, the next step is to do an object-oriented analysis to support them; this involves creating a domain model (which quickly gets outdated as the project evolves). After that, the final step is to prioritize the use cases and assign them for implementation.
From this point on, use cases are normally delegated completely to the developers, with total reliance on their object-oriented design skills. Typically, they write code directly from the use-case flow of events, implementing object responsibilities and collaborations on the fly. Unfortunately, there are no quality measures for their use-case implementations except system tests, which are conducted later on. If these are successful, the new features are released into production without any verification that they were designed in accordance with high cohesion/low coupling principles.
This is a serious gap in quality control. Simply ensuring that an implementation complies with use-case requirements is not enough; unless teams pay special attention to the implementation's design, the consequences may be dire.
Some software development processes suggest modeling and designing software visually as a best practice to avoid this problem. However, some vendors promote the use of their visual modeling tools without emphasizing the importance of keeping models in synch with design decisions and changes during implementation. When the models become dated, teams often abandon them, failing to take advantage of their code-generation capability. For them, models are simply an informal way to think about or communicate a solution. They do not create an accurate set of model and design diagrams for the whole system, so there is no documentation for reviewing or controlling the quality of its internals.
Code reviews are designed to target this issue. They are normally conducted by the system architect or delegated to the team's more skilled developers. However, they are typically conducted too late in the development process, when use-case implementations are already complete, and it is time-consuming and expensive to engage in a big refactoring effort or a complete reimplementation -- if the review indicates that such an effort is needed.
Rather than trying to fix an implementation after the fact, teams need a set of practices to drive quality throughout the development effort.
Use-case realization best practices
In this section, I will describe a proven set of practices that teams can apply to build quality into use-case implementations and ensure that they adhere to the principles of high cohesion and low coupling. Briefly, these practices are:
- Design use-case realizations in team sessions.
- Communicate design ideas using interaction diagrams.
- Apply design and responsibility patterns.
- Code responsibility abstractions during design sessions.
- Get clearance before making major design changes.
- Audit changes that occurred during design implementations.
Perhaps you are asking yourself, "Does my team really need to pursue these best practices? We are all highly skilled senior developers with plenty of object-oriented experience."
The answer is "Yes"! Even on such a team, each member cannot possibly know all the tips and tricks for every tool or framework the development organization is using. Team members should always be learning from each other; this promotes both quality and consistency in the technical solution. By following these best practices, collectively, team members should be able to expose all risks and then target them effectively.
Design use-case realizations in team sessions
Use-case realizations should never be done in solitary by a single developer. This raises the risk that the person will assign and implement responsibilities on the fly, neglecting to ensure that they are cohesive and coupled correctly. It is far more effective to do use-case realizations in team sessions that include, at a minimum, the system architect and the developers responsible for the implementation. Other technical stakeholders can attend as needed (see Figure 2), but the focus should remain on object-oriented design. Business analysts, for example, need not participate unless they are required to clarify something in the use case. Doing use-case realizations in team sessions will also help less experienced developers improve their design skills and increase their likelihood of exposing potential implementation risks.
Figure 2: Use-case realization team sessions should include the system architect and developers responsible for implementing the use case.
On many teams, a single member might perform multiple roles. For example, it is perfectly acceptable for the system architect to also act as a developer to implement part of the realization. However, even if one person is capable of doing every part of the design and implementation for a use case on a small project, it is imperative that creating the use-case realization be a team effort.
This effort should take place in two installments:
- Use-case realization team session to discuss and design the use-case realizations.
- Follow-up team session to discuss required design changes. Developers working on the use-case implementation should meet with the system architect to review current findings and revisit previous design decisions.
Communicate design ideas using interaction diagrams.
How many times have you seen design ideas scribbled on a whiteboard, using informal drawings that lack consistent semantics or notation? Designing objects visually is a great practice, but doing it without a well-defined modeling notation can do more damage than good when you attempt to communicate design decisions. Drawings can quickly become incoherent if the design is quite complex (see Figure 3). Well-defined UML interaction diagrams are far more practical than informal drawings. They provide an organized way to express ideas cleanly and succinctly -- and eliminate the risk of producing complex drawings that may not be possible to interpret correctly later.
Interaction diagrams are informal documents used to communicate design ideas that come up during the use-case realization team sessions. Their purpose is to aid in assigning responsibilities to objects and not to describe in great detail every aspect of a complex process. It does not matter whether you produce the diagrams with a visual modeling tool or merely draw them by hand; either way, you can use them effectively to communicate about an object-oriented design (see Figure 4).
The UML defines two types of interaction diagrams: sequence and collaboration. In a sequence diagram, object interactions are illustrated in a kind of fence format, adding objects from left to right. Collaboration diagrams can expand both vertically and horizontally to accommodate additional objects. Each diagram has its pros and cons, but both are relatively easy to draw.
Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham proposed the adoption of CRC cards to perform object-object design during team sessions. These cards are an excellent alternative to interaction diagrams, the only drawback being that they lack a visual representation of how messages flow among objects. However, development teams should be able to compensate for this during a design session.
Figure 3: An informal system drawing without well-defined modeling notation can quickly become incoherent.
Figure 4: UML sequence diagrams provide a simple, coherent way to represent systems.
Apply design and responsibility patterns.
A design pattern is a solution to a problem within the context of a particular architecture and framework; it reflects a way of doing things that bears repeating. Applying patterns can make a design and implementation more consistent, understandable, and of higher quality.
High cohesion and low coupling are the main responsibility assignment patterns to take into account when designing use-case realizations, but design patterns also play a key role in object-oriented design. Focusing on their application to the design in context during a team session provides an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge and reaffirm design skills. In addition, teams can create their own patterns and speed up design sessions. For example, if a development team has to design a simple CRUD (create, read, update, delete) process several times for different use cases, they might find themselves creating the same object responsibilities each time. When this happens, the team can decide to create a pattern and document it. Then, they can reference the pattern in interaction diagrams, eliminating the need to repeat the same details for each use case.
Each pattern should have a name that is shorthand for a particular design solution. This provides a rich and tailored vocabulary for the technical team -- for both verbal and modeling communication. For example, suppose a team has a shared vision for a pattern called "Entity Retrieval." When a designer says "We will apply Entity Retrieval here to get the Invoice for the Purchase," everyone on the team will understand the design and coding implications. A designer can also annotate an interaction diagram with a marker that calls out a pattern, eliminating the need to communicate fine-grained relationships and behavior involved in applying the pattern.
Code responsibility abstractions during design sessions.
Use-case realization sessions should produce a main output artifact; software development processes often suggest a design model composed of interaction and design class diagrams. However, as we noted, many times teams treat models as an informal way to think about or communicate a solution rather than as a set of specifications that must be implemented. Therefore, a formal a design model may not be the best output artifact for a use-case realization session.
Responsibility abstractions may be a better choice, unless the project source code is not accessible from the meeting location. Ideally, teams should code responsibility abstractions during their use-case realization sessions, in parallel with the design decisions they make (see Figure 5). Then, the developer or developers in charge of the use case should be responsible for completing their implementations afterwards.
This approach allows the team to reach consensus on a design that they will actually follow rather than just generating ideas that may never be implemented. This practice also exercises a minor degree of oversight for the design implementation; without it, there is no assurance that the design discussed during the session will be realized.
The focus of this session should be on coding responsibility abstractions that belong to the objects in the system's application and domain layers; as we noted earlier, this is where achieving the right levels of cohesion and coupling is most critical. Whether it is necessary to code responsibilities in other layers will be driven mainly by the system's architectural style and design decisions made during the use-case realization session. Code comments should also be used in the abstractions to detail specific ideas or behavior for a method to implement.
Figure 5: Sample code for responsibility abstractions
Get clearance before making major design changes.
No matter how careful a designer you are or how many times you revisit your design decisions, there is a risk that you will overlook something or fail to uncover a hidden problem. Designs are never one hundred percent correct; they can only be proven right or wrong during implementation. If a developer discovers a problem during implementation that the team overlooked during their sessions -- something that could lead to major design changes or pose serious risks -- then the developer has the responsibility to bring this to the system architect's attention by calling for a follow-up team session.
During such a session, the system architect and other team members can revisit the design and carefully assess the discovery. Ideally, the output artifact for such a session will be either code for correct responsibility abstractions or an informal design document with necessary corrections. Depending on the severity of the design issues, the system architect might even want to hold another meeting to revisit the whole use-case realization in context.
Developers should not call follow-up team sessions if they find only minor discrepancies between the design and its implementation that can be fixed with minor adjustments. These are to be expected; only the experience a team acquires over time as it conducts use-case realization sessions can minimize or even eliminate these problems.
Audit changes that occurred during design implementations.
Given the inevitability of these discrepancies between expressed designs and their implementation, the developer implementing the use-case realization should take responsibility for making minor adjustments. However, once the use-case implementations have been completed and unit tested, the system architect must audit the design implementations for accuracy. This is similar to performing a code review, but the focus is on verifying that the principles of high cohesion and low coupling have been properly applied, and that design decisions have been implemented in conformance with decisions made during the team sessions. Especially important is to ensure that the developers did not introduce major design changes without first calling for a follow-up team session. This architectural audit should be the last measure for verifying code quality before moving on to system testing.
In recent years, software engineering processes, in combination with object-oriented programming and improved development environments, have given software projects a greater level of control and therefore better probabilities for success. However, the processes are still not granular enough to enforce adherence to the principles of high cohesion and low coupling. It is still up to individual developers to apply these basic principles of good object-oriented design; compliance cannot be measured or automated by a software tool.
This article describes best practices that have worked well in targeting this issue for several projects. However, the main intent is to expose a problem that may be affecting many current software projects and encourage readers to work on it. My hope is that more teams will either follow the best practices described, develop new ones, or create new tools and techniques to enforce the correct application of the high cohesion and low coupling principles when performing use-case realizations.
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Throw out the record books, and the cliches, when Wagner College plays Georgetown in football.
Come to think of it, you can throw out the whole series after the Seahawks and Hoyas tangle Saturday in the non-conference season opener for both teams in the nation's capital. The five-year run of mostly hair-raising finishes will conclude as Wagner replaces Georgetown with Columbia in 2015.
"I think it's been a good rivalry back and forth," said Wagner head coach Walt Hameline. "It's a great academic institution and we wanted to align ourselves from that standpoint. It's a great place to play a football game but this is our last go-around."
The Seahawks are 2-2 vs. the Hoyas during the current run, including last year's 28-21 home victory after trailing 21-7 at halftime of the season opener. Georgetown hung on for a 13-10 triumph in 2012 after leaving Grymes Hill with a 24-10 win the prior season, and the 2010 opener went into double overtime before Wagner linebacker Keith Davis returned an interception 80 yards for the winning TD in a 22-16 thriller.
That game, at Georgetown, went into OT because of David Lopez's 54-yard field goal with six seconds remaining in regulation.
Wagner at Georgetown
Multi-Sport Field, Washington, D.C.
Saturday, noon
A pair of Wagner products, Detroit Lions linebacker Julian Stanford and Minnesota Vikings running back Dominique Williams, survived the NFL roster cutdown to 75 this week ... In other NEC action, Robert Morris hosts Eastern Kentucky and Bryant visits Stony Brook, both on Thursday night. Saturday's slate includes Duquesne at Buffalo, Saint Francis U. at Fordham, Central Connecticut State at Towson and Marist at Sacred Heart.
Streaming video is available for a fee at guhoyas,com. Live stats will be available for no charge at the same website.
Both teams are hoping for fresh starts to disappointing 2013 campaigns. Wagner dropped to 3-8 after being picked to defend its Northeast Conference title, and Georgetown fell to 2-9 after a slew of defensive injuries proved too much to overcome.
All eyes are on Wagner's quarterback situation, where senior Brian Gehring has finally been named the opening-day starter, winning a bruising battle with red-shirt sophomore Chris Andrews, who orchestrated two late-season NEC victories last year.
Hameline made that announcement official Thursday morning, while maintaining that he's comfortable with both quarterbacks as potential starters. Gehring, the better passer during camp, and Andrews, a better dual-threat who orchestrated a pair of late-season NEC victories, had been running neck-to-neck since spring ball.
The Seahawks need stability at the position after a four-quarterback merry-go-round produced a NEC-worst 16.5 points per game and only 131.5 passing yards per game — sixth in the seven-team league.
There are high hopes on Grymes Hill for a quick turnaround similar to the 2012 NEC championship season. There are 62 returning lettermen, including seven offensive and defensive starters, and a convoy of potential playmakers at the skill positions.
"I think we have some really good athletes ... a lot of kids who can play football," said Hameline. "We're OK depth-wise right now too. The question we ask is how are they going to respond to adversity, because every football team will face those moments. Can they come from behind? Can they hold a lead and protect the football?"
Running backs Otis Wright, Brandon Peoples, Matthias McKinnon and Steve Rene are joined by senior tight end Bryant Watts, wide receivers Anthony Carrington, Lloyd Smith, Ralph Greene and Keith Foster, and H-backs Brian Scepaniak and Anthony Bulluck. They will operate behind a veteran offensive line that includes three fifth-year seniors — center David Fredrickson, right guard Kevin Messier and right tackle Brett Buzzard. Brus Palaj, a junior, and sophomore Matt Diaz anchor the left side of the line.
Defensively, the Seahawks are loaded with veterans, staring with a linebacking corps featuring seniors Trevor Loveland and Greg Hilliard on the outside and Max Wassel and Stefon Font-Toomer on the inside. Defensive linemen include senior tackles Daevonte Barnett and Patrick Gibbons, along with juniors Mike Mentor and Fidel Okoye.
An all-senior defensive backfield features cornerbacks Jarrett Dieudonne, Nevon Williams and Deangelo James, and safeties Daniel Mack, Daquan Cooper and Anthony Rivers.
Recent history, however, has not been kind to Wagner. Since 2008, there have been only two winning seasons (9-4 in 2012 and 6-5 in 2009) and the Seahawks are 59-64 in NEC games since the league was formed in 1996.
They were picked to finish fifth in this year's NEC race by a vote of the seven head coaches.
Their first four games are on the road. Florida International, Monmouth and Lafayette follow Georgetown on Wagner's schedule.
"That first game, you're also a little leery of where you are," said Hameline. "We'll go down to Georgetown and find out soon enough."
NOTES: Georgetown first-year head coach Rob Sgarlata is no stranger to the program, spending 18 years as an assistant, including the last eight as defensive coordinator. Kevin Kelly departed to become defensive coordinator at Ball State under Monsignor Farrell product Pete Lembo ... Georgetown senior linebacker Nick Alfieri averaged 10.2 tackles per game in 2013, ranking second in the Patriot League ... The Hoyas, 24-63 over the past eight seasons, are the lone Patriot League football program among seven not to offer athletic scholarships.


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A Harrisburg mother and grandmother allegedly received government funds for a child and used the money on themselves.
Oriano Merino, 31, and Raquel Cuni, 65, were indicted Wednesday and charged with theft of government funds and Social Security fraud, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Between March 2010 and May 2013, Merino and Cuni received supplemental security income and disability benefit payments as representative payees for their son/grandson. According to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, Merino and Cuni used the money for themselves.
The child has since been removed from the home and is under the custody of Dauphin County Children and Youth Services.
The maximum penalty for each woman is 15 years in prison on top of probation upon release and a fine. The case was investigated by the Social Security Office of Inspector General and is to be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daryl Bloom.


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China has been
eyeing the territorial right over Leo Island in the Yellow Sea, which South
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why Korea cannot sit back and watch the discord between China and Japan
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interests, using all possible and available means and measures.
Japan poured oil on
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Franklin Prather Sr. and Paul Capers moved in the same circles.
They ate together at the same Union Township restaurants, debated over town politics, had mutual friends and even lived around the corner from each other.
When Capers was murdered in his own home, residents of this tight-knit Vauxhall neighborhood had to live with the incomprehensible. The ones police suspected to be responsible for the death came from their own community, and from the Prather household.
A police investigation determined that Capers was targeted as part of a robbery scheme, allegedly engineered by Prather's son, his namesake, Franklin Prather Jr.
On Tuesday, the 39-year-old will stand trial in Elizabeth on charges that he robbed and killed Capers on July 3, 2006.
Assistant Prosecutor Caroline Lawlor said the killing resulted from a robbery gone bad. The younger Prather, who admitted to police he has paid people to sell drugs for him, supplied the .38-caliber gun and bullets to his neighborhood friend, Maurice Knighton, the prosecutor alleges.
Knighton is expected to testify against his friend, telling a Union County jury that it was Prather's idea to rob Capers, a businessman with a paving company, known for always having ready cash.
Knighton admitted he was involved, pleading guilty in June 2007 to aggravated manslaughter.
Prather Sr. said he has long been a political activist in Union Township and this is the municipality's way of getting back at him.
Prather Sr. was questioned by police in the early days of the investigation.
"I don't know why I am being dragged into something I know nothing about," said Prather Sr. "I am being treated like a criminal.
"The bullets could have belonged to anybody," Prather Sr. said.
Prather Sr. said he does not believe his son, who has known Capers for most of his life, could have killed him.
"I got jobs for him. We socialized. He knew my family; I knew his family," Prather Sr. said.
Prather Jr. pleaded not guilty.
His lawyer Frank Krack declined to comment on the case.
Authorities have Prather Jr. on videotape, admitting that he gave Knighton bullets, and that he chased Knighton to Capers' backyard when he heard gunshots. Prather insisted that he was not involved in Capers' slaying.
"I want to clear my name," Prather Jr. told police in 2006, shortly before he was charged with murder, felony murder and robbery.
"I am going to find out what I can," said Prather. "The man is dead for no apparent reason."
Capers' sister, Rebecca Palmer, said she is relieved her mother is not alive because the knowledge that a child of a family she knew well could be charged with killing her son would send her to her grave.
"Who would expect something like this, by somebody he knew," said Capers' 83-year-old sister. "We all got to the point where we didn't want to talk about it. We were all so hurt. He was a friend to everybody. We don't know how to accept it."


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Hurricane Sandy hits - gallery III - Monday 29, 2012
But residents in the tiny community of Ocean Breeze weren't seeing it. The ocean wasn't washing up on Capodanno Boulevard yet in that tiny three block stretch. Until about 7 p.m.
"I was watching it every 20 minutes," said one Ocean Breeze resident named Peter, who has lived there for all of his 36 years. "And then I saw it crest over Capodanno. At that point, I knew I had to get out and that was my window."
"I grabbed my dog and my bag, and that was it."
When he got to his Chevy Tahoe, fortunately an SUV that sits high above the road, water was cascading down the street. He tried to get down Quincy Avenue, but found it waist deep in water.
"I made a U turn on Quincy, got on Capodanno and punched through the water to Midland Beach.
"There were a series of highs and lows with the water spilling over Capodanno," he said.
"It started to get better in Midland Beach'" he said. "But there were downed wires sparking on Midland. By the time I got on Midland it was dry."
The Ocean Breeze/Midland Beach area lies in Zone A, which was under mandatory evacuation orders. Obviously, not everyone heeded that order.
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