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#116766 - 11/28/03 03:04 PM goat meat
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There was a post recently in which goat meat was called mutton. This started me hunting for a word for "goat meat".
It took me several days, but I have finally found one. Not in French where I thought it would be, but in Mexican Spanish, apparently: "Cabrito".
"For more than twenty years, the central Texas town of Brady has staged the World Championship Barbeque Goat Cook-off on Labor Day weekend. Cabrito is a delicacy that has its ardent admirers--and many detractors. To those who have failed to see the merit in a crunchy yet tender piece of goat meat, the blame must be placed squarely on the way its been cooked and on the fact that the goat you got probably wasnt a ten-to-eighteen-pound, suckling kid slaughtered at thirty to forty days of age. Older goat is often passed off as cabrito, but once they start browsing on grass, goats develop an unmistakable mutton flavor. "
#116767 - 11/28/03 03:14 PM Re: goat meat
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Thank you, Dr. Bill. I was wondering about that myself. I knew there was a good reason I've never eaten mutton...
#116768 - 11/28/03 03:25 PM Re: goat meat
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Registered: 09/06/00
Posts: 2788
Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
I think the proper term for goat meat is chevon.
#116769 - 11/28/03 03:53 PM Re: goat meat
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Dear Father Steve: Thanks for that. Here's a URL to document it:
http://www.cestoscreekranch.com/Page 2 - Meat Facts.htm
Dear Jackie: I ate a lot more mutton in the Army than I wanted to. We called it mountain goat.
#116770 - 11/28/03 04:06 PM Re: goat meat
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Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
Jamaicans do wonderful things with goat meat. I don't know if there is a unique Jamaican word for it. Many cultures curry goat meat. This is likely to mask the unpleasant flavour of mature chevon. By far the best goat meat is that of the kid, taken while it is still being milk fed and before its flesh begins to taste like mutton. The best defense a sheep ever had against slaughter for culinary use is what happens to its flavour when it leaves the teat and heads for the grass. Likewise goats.
#116771 - 11/28/03 04:19 PM Re: goat meat
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Dear Father Steve: I just had a sad disappointment. That new French dictionary did not have "chevon". It had chèvre = she goat, and chevreau = kid, but sob,sob,sanglots - no
"chevon". And I could find no way to inform the webmaster of this tragic discrepancy.
#116772 - 11/28/03 09:52 PM Re: goat meat
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
From a commercial site: At the present time there are two relatively new products for Queensland markets and these are Capretto (Italian for young kid) milk fed at approximately 3 to 5 months of age dressing between 6 to 12 kg and with pink flesh. Chevon which describes a heavier carcass dressing between 14 to 25 kg and showing no more than 2 permanent teeth.
#116773 - 11/28/03 10:57 PM Re: goat meat
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Registered: 07/20/03
Posts: 3230
Loc: Te Ika a Maui
Goat is a traditional favourite among Rarotongans, and as a child, I used to occasionally nip out of school at lunchtime to the home of some Raro friends two doors down, for roast (feral) goat and Raro dougnhuts. Abso-capri-lutely delicious!_________________________
noho ora mai
#116774 - 11/29/03 12:03 AM Re: goat meat
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Loc: Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok
Bill, "chevon" is a term coined by marketers, as is cervena for deer meat. The French root was used and abused, as is often the case!
#116775 - 11/29/03 03:52 PM Re: goat meat
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Loc: Caribbean
While living in Mexico, I had occasion to eat cabrito on many occasions. Cooked as barbacoa and served with fresh warm tortillas and homemade pico de gallo, it is just WOW
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With one history lesson under my belt, I fastened in and took the scenic route along the Delaware, through Barryville, NY to take a seat with friends, neighbors and countrymen at the Minisink Battleground Park, as Sullivan County historian John Conway joined antique munitions expert Tony Domingo and costumed re-enactors Kai Moessle and Jim Macarille in a presentation describing the battle in vivid detail. Fought at Minisink Ford on July 22, 1779, the battle of Minisink was the only major skirmish fought in the northern Delaware Valley, and was a "decisive British victory, as the colonial militia was hastily assembled, ill-equipped and inexperienced" (www.wikipedia.org). Prior to the annual ceremony of prayer and dedications held on site, the lecture and Q & A session that followed included hands-on artifact display, and included some fascinating weapons demonstrations by Domingo. Barryville's Debra Conway and Livingston Manor's Iris Gillingham participated in the re-enacting portion of the ceremony, joined by a dozen or so others, including several kids and young adults, who really helped make the entire story come alive.
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At long last, dignityOctober 10,2012CAPE NEDDICK, Maine If you live for 80 years, Chuck Bennett told me, you see things you never imagined. Crazy, fantastical stuff.
A man on the moon. Amazing, he said.
The Soviet Unions disintegration. Also amazing.
And on Nov. 6, if the polls are right and his hope is fulfilled, the people of Maine may pass a referendum for same-sex marriage, which no state has adopted by popular vote before.
Thats equally amazing to me, he said. Ten minutes later, he circled back to say it again. I would like to reiterate how amazing it is.
Bennett was born in 1932 and grew up in Brooklyn without anything but slurs and clinical terms to describe his attraction to other men. In the late 1950s, he was forced out of the Navy for being gay.
He never found a long-term romantic partner, thwarted in part by a disapproving society with no obvious role models for him, and he bought his dream house on the ocean here 15 years ago with two close friends, because he didnt want to grow old alone and didnt expect to meet anyone special, not so late in the game.
You know that old saying, Born 50 years too soon? he asked me. I think I do feel something of that.
Maine is one of four states with same-sex marriage on the ballot on Election Day, a crucial moment for advocates and opponents alike. The referendums are the first and best tests of popular sentiment since President Barack Obamas history-making statement of support in May. (For more on this, visit my blog.)
In Minnesota, the vote is on an amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. But in Maine, Maryland and Washington, the vote is to permit it, and thus to join the six states where its already legal, thanks to legislatures or courts.
Advocates are most optimistic about Maine, and I traveled here last weekend for a sense of what victory would mean to someone whod known and braved a much different world. I found my way to Bennett, a courteous man with a soulful gaze and a precise way of speaking that reflects his long career in academia, first as a college English professor, then as a dean.
He recalled that during his teenage years, his only assurances that there were other people like him were newspaper stories about men arrested on Fire Island for obscene or depraved behavior.
For a while he dated women, but couldnt summon any real passion for them. He wasnt sure where that left him. Clearly, he wouldnt marry. But what about a relationship like that with a man?
In his late 30s, he had one, and wanted it to go on forever. It lasted five years. Nothing like it ever came along again.
He felt the need to be secretive about his sexuality and kept work colleagues at a distance. His parents died without knowing he was gay.
Starting in the mid-1980s, he marveled at the proliferation of gay characters in movies and on TV. He later joined efforts to end the ban on gays in the military, giving money to the cause.
But when gay advocates started talking about marriage, he thought it nuts, partly because they were buying into such a flawed institution. But also, he said, The likelihood of winning was so, so far-fetched.
One of his housemates, David Newman, 71, who is also gay, still has trouble understanding the way I do and gold bands became such an ardent, defining quest. He spent a lifetime trying, out of painful necessity, not to be tormented by the straight worlds norms, which excluded him.
How can somebody like me, who has made a significant investment in inventing an alternative world, come around to accept gay marriage? he asked, clarifying that he supports the referendum. Its just unsettling to him, this challenge to what he thought he was supposed to believe about such conventions.
For Bennett, the marriage focus of the Maine referendum is almost beside the real point, which is validation.
I see it as something of profound significance, he said. Whether anyone winds up getting married in Maine, I dont care. I care that they can get married. That right means that gay people are equal to straight people. It recognizes their dignity. His dignity.
I asked him if the absence of such recognition during most of his life made him bitter.
I was fortunate, he said, explaining that his family wasnt especially religious and his nature isnt self-punishing, so he never felt that being gay was some abomination. But it was certainly a limitation. A cause for hiding, or at least holding essential parts of himself in reserve.
Im inclined to look back not in anger, as John Osborne once said, but with some degree of sadness, he said. Everyone could have been happier. Everyone could have been more fulfilled if they hadnt been burdened with this prejudice.
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By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer
A few weeks ago, we at Freedom New Mexico were afforded the opportunity to speak with Clovis native Jerry Large, who now works as a columnist for the Seattle Times.
Large spoke with us about journalism and his history in it, and it sounded like we could be the same person. We both got our starts in New Mexico, and we both have the opportunity to write columns about whatever piques our interest. The only difference is he's a lot better than I am.
What I hate are commentators who make the people in mine and Large's position look bad, who ignore facts that nullify their grandiose arguments.
I got this feeling a few weeks ago from syndicated columnist Walter Williams. Williams complained Hillary Clinton was talking down to black voters when she said, "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe He brought me this far."
Williams said it was akin to Clinton cozying up to Native Americans by saying, "Me come heap long way." What he didn't mention was that Clinton was quoting "I Don't Feel Noways Tired," by the late James Cleveland, who she credited in her speech.
Williams' columns usually extol a message of success through intelligent discourse and respect. He avoided intelligent discourse by taking Clinton's speech out of context, and didn't respect readers enough to give them all the facts.
Williams isn't the only one missing the boat on racism. Consider Glenn Beck, who hosts a syndicated radio show and a television show on CNN Headline News.
Beck lambasted Jesse Jackson for recent comments that presidential candidate Barack Obama was "acting like he's white."
I agree with Beck's reaction that Jackson made "an unbelievably racist statement." I only hope Glenn Beck will be just as harsh to … Glenn Beck.
You see, on Feb. 12, Beck referred to Obama on his radio program and said, "I thought to myself, he is — he's very white in many ways."
Maybe I'll let those guys off the hook if they call out Bill O'Reilly of Fox News.
O'Reilly recently had dinner with Al Sharpton at a Harlem restaurant called Sylvia's. O'Reilly said he, "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, (with) primarily black patronship. … There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.'"
Maybe he was expecting the pizzeria featured in Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" … who knows? Though O'Reilly might not be a racist, it doesn't help to be shocked that a restaurant full of black people would act like a restaurant full of white people.
As long as there are small-minded people, there will be racism. And those crying racism to score political points will always undercut those calling out racism in order to end it.
With a little research, it's never hard to tell which one is which.
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Chocolate and Lanky the clown will be there from 4-9 p.m., and face painters will decorate faces for all the kids to enjoy. There will be bumper cars, dry slides, a bunny carousel and more.
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Home List of Titles Combining optical tweezing and confocal microscopy for the study of cell mechanics
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- Title
- Combining optical tweezing and confocal microscopy for the study of cell mechanics
- Author(s)
- Bomzon, Ze'ev; Pham, Kim T. C.; Day, Daniel; Russell, Sarah M.; Gu, Min
- Abstract
- We have developed a system combining an optical tweezers and a confocal microscope for the study of cell mechanics. The system enables us to measure how mechanical forces are distributed within cells. This provides an important insight into the mechanisms by which how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Source
- Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007), Seoul, South Korea, 26-31 August 2007
- Publication year
- 2007
- Keyword(s)
- Cell mechanics; Computer networks; Confocal microscopy; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical forces; Mechanics; Microscopic examination; Optical cells; Optical microscopy; Optical tweezers; Plastics molding machines; Speed
- Publisher
- 9781424411733, 1424411734
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- Copyright © 2007 IEEE. Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
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Calories 367
Total Fat 19.5 g
Saturated Fat 3 g
Sodium 819 mg
Total Carbohydrate 34 g
Dietary Fiber 4.5 g
Protein 18 g
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Large egg 1
Salt ¼ teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Extra-firm tofu (about 2/5 of a block), drained and cut into 1-inch long pieces 6 ounces
Plain breadcrumbs ½ cup
All-purpose flour 2 tablespoons
Sesame seeds 1 tablespoon
Sesame oil 2 + 2 teaspoons
Small yellow onion, chopped ½
Garlic clove, minced 1
Baby portabella mushrooms, halved 3 ounces
Scallions, chopped into 1-inch pieces 4
Red bell pepper, cut into strips 1
Reduced-sodium soy sauce 1 tablespoon
Water 1 tablespoon
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- Add the remaining oil to the wok and then add the onion and garlic. Stir-fry for 1-2 minutes. Add the mushrooms, scallions, and bell pepper, and cook for another 2-3 minutes. (Reduce heat if the onions start to brown.) Stir in the soy sauce and water.


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Okay I had my one month check up yesterday. The doctor told me to supplement with formula each time I nurse. I'm thinking she was assuming that I have been nursing this whole time, but I've been pumping and giving him about 3 oz, but he has been known to drink up to 4oz and on occasion 5-6. She also said to feed him when he wanted to be fed, which I do, I don't starve him. Now I just don't think I should supplement him but my DF seems that we should. Good thing that I take care of the baby most of the time haha. I mean he hasn't had that bad of a weight gain. He was born at 6 lbs 3 oz, his lowest point was 5lbs 15 oz I believe, and he's now 7lbs 15.5 oz. It's not that bad is it? He's in the 25th percentile the doc said. I think I'll just make sure during the day I nurse him every 2 hours since he can go 3 hours without it. But at night he can sleep in 4-5 hour increments and I don't really feel like waking him up at night to get something to eat, but if it'll help him gain more weight than maybe I should? I guess I'm just looking for some reassurance that it's okay that my baby is not gaining too much weight. And I defiently will be on the look out of his diaper output now that I'm nursing him.
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Home List of Titles Blue shifted intramolecular C-H dot operator dot operator dot operator improper hydrogen bonds in conformers of zidovudine
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- Title
- Blue shifted intramolecular C-H dot operator dot operator dot operator improper hydrogen bonds in conformers of zidovudine
- Author(s)
- Chen, Fangfang; Selvam, Lalitha; Wang, Feng
- Abstract
- Blue shifted C–H stretch vibrations caused by C–H···O intramolecular improper hydrogen bonds in zidovudine (or AZT) conformers are employed to differentiate its conformers. Two sugar–sugar C–H···O(5′) improper hydrogen bonds, existing in conformers of AZT with apparent drug potency, are related to their unique sugar puckering, showing C(3′)-exo or -endo orientations. Aqueous solution causes a global red shift in IR spectra, but remains reduced blue shifted C–H stretch frequencies. Molecular electrostatic potentials (MEPs) of the conformers and orbitals such as 40a of AZT-B and 37a of AZT-C, which are found to be responsible for the intramolecular improper hydrogen bonds, are also given in this study.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Molecular Simulation
- Source
- Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 493, no. 4-6 (Jun 2010), pp. 358-363
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural); 1007 Nanotechnology
- Keyword(s)
- Blue shifted C-H stretch vibrations; Hydrogen bonds; Zidovudine
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- Elsevier
- 0009-2614
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- Copyright © 2010.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the Postgraduate Research Award from the Faculty of ICT in Swinburne University of Technology, the Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Award (SUPRA), an award under the Merit Allocation Scheme at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australian National University and Swinburne University Supercomputing Facilities.
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text: The Scole Experiments 0x6a656666 posted:12/16/2012 12:24:40 PM Looking for some info on the Scole Experiments. One of the more unique documentaries I've seen on spirit communications. If you haven't heard of it, check out the documentary below: Bacci was pretty convincing. And I wonder if anyone has managed to recreate the 'channeled' Thomas Edison device for perfect spirit communications.breeld posted:12/17/2012 7:12:38 AM That`s interesting, Jeff. I just looked it up and bookmarked it to read when I have more time. Levinus posted:12/18/2012 6:13:35 AM The Scole experiments can barely be called that. There were all sorts of preconditions that had to be met. Lights had to be off, certain things HAD to be in the room, etc. It isn't an experiment without a control. Just because a lot of freaky things happen in a room... I highly doubt that it would stand up to the rigors of my own inspection. I watched the documentary and got the strong feeling the room was rigged with lots of gimmicks. And, despite the proclaimed YEARS of research...they had about five seconds of footage and none of it was conclusive at all. While I firmly do believe in the existence of ...something...after death, I don't believe the nonsense in the Scole room was anything but trickery. If I was in their situation and had a fraction of the evidence they claimed...you can sure as hell be I'd have video, pictures, control groups, duplicate experiments to get the same results, pages and pages of data with moon phases, solar activity, my own health... And I would get similar things from a massive group of experts. Doctors, physicists, engineers, psychologists. Where is their data? Their footage? Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Best Extreme Doom Metal Album of the Year.
I'll wait for the new Esoteric to make that decision, but Mournful Congregation sure do look like a likely candidate.
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What the piss bros, Colosseum definitely crushes any of these guys.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.07.2012 at 15:39Finally the limited to 100 wooden box set of the Book Of Kings arrived today:
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This was my 2011 vote for Extreme Doom category.
It just slightly beat out Esoteric, "The Waterless Streams" was the tie breaker.
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Yeah it is. Been stroking it since receiving it this morning until I had to leave for work and will be stroking it again when I get home hahahaha.
The gold on the album cover is embossed btw.
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No danger of a tsunami or natural disaster was reported after residents across the state were awoken to malfunctioning emergency sirens in locations across Maui, Molokai and in Pearl City.
The first of the faulty sirens was believed to have sounded in Pearl City, on Kamehameha Highway near the police station, at 1:18 a.m. Friday.
Reports indicate that the initial siren lasted for about 5 - 10 minutes. Firefighters were called out to help address the faulty siren when it was said to have sounded again.
On Maui several sirens malfunctioned about an hour later.
Civil Defense reports that the various sirens across the Valley Isle falsely sounded between 2:15 - 3:15 a.m.
It is believed that a siren in Lahaina was the first to malfunction, and that when Civil Defense attempted to fix those sirens other sirens were triggered.
It is estimated that about a third of the sirens on Maui and Molokai sounded as a result of an attempt to cancel the tone at the West Maui location
A mechanical issue related to the recent upgrade of the siren system was identified as the culprit of the false alerts. Technicians were sent out to resolve the problem.
We will have more on this rude awakening on KITV 4 News at 5, 6 & 10 p.m.


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by Bob Huber: CNJ columnist
I've been out of focus the last few days — a flu bug bit me — but I've kept busy wallowing in self pity and researching the bad side effects of medicines I saw advertised on television. When you have the flu, you do silly stuff like that.
What I really wanted was a summer day on a grassy knoll in Akron. There I'd sit with a long-legged blonde who would pat my hand and softly murmur, "Poor, poor boy."
But instead, into my fogged brain popped memories of old-time pharmacists who were all called "Doc" in those days, because they were everything we wanted a doctor to be — trustworthy, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind and a Boy Scout leader.
Real live doctors, you understand, were busy clipping coupons in their offices up on the second floors of bank buildings. Theirs was a higher calling like removing tonsils, mending high school athletes, and parlaying local elections.
Anyway, drugstore docs in those days doled out only three medicines in most cases — aspirin, Milk of Magnesia, and Old Granddad, not necessarily in that order. That's because their patients usually had only three problems — headaches, lower tract miseries, and nagging mortgages.
But today we have pills for everything ranging from toenail fungus to late car payments, and with each pill come worrisome side effects. Some warnings say you could get palpitations, dropsy, or both, complicated by late night phone solicitations.
To show what I mean, let's pretend that someone discovers the Fountain of Youth and sells the product on television. Keep in mind that even this great elixir has its drawbacks. I can see the ad now:
"Hi, I'm Dr. Greg Cyanide. I have a PhD in Dull Stuff from the North Dakota Branch of the University of Nicaragua. No offense, but if you haven't drunk from the Fountain of Youth yet, you may not live to see the sunset."
This guy goes on to say there could be side effects, but they aren't as bad as being old. Ask anyone over 70, he says, and they'll tell you that old age ain't for sissies.
Anyway, he says if you partake of the fountain's waters, you'll become an overnight teenager, but side effects might tag along such as hyperactivity, acne, warped thinking, sexual fantasies, total selfishness, and a nagging concern about where to part your hair.
What's more, you may get an uncontrollable urge to participate in sports and hold up convenience stores, and that may lead to bad knees, brain damage, runny nose, and an unremitting addiction to pizza and cheerleaders.
You may also develop an inability to handle a car while kissing a girl as you drive 80 miles an hour through town.
And you may also talk too loud, drink enormous quantities of fluids straight from cans, and have an endless craving for fast food as well as the numbers on your parents' credit cards. In rare cases you may even resign Rotary Club and join a street gang.
Well, I could go on, but you get the picture. It's a case of a cure being worse than an illness, or as they say in medical circles, "Which came first, the pill or the pain?"
So when the flu bug chomped down on me, I decided to let viruses fall where they may. I didn't want to worry about some remedy causing warts or excessive nasal hair.
Besides, everyone knows that the only sure cure for flu is a couple fingers of sour mash, a big black cigar, and a steaming bath. They don't really cure, but who cares?
To bolster my resolution, I remembered the time I tried to stop smoking and went to my hometown pharmacist, old Doc Kronke at Alpine Drug. I was all strung out and hard to get along with.
He gave me a Valium and said, "When you find yourself digging through the trash for a butt, just pop this pill. You'll relax right away."
So the next day, after several hours of raging twitches coupled with the attitude of a Zulu warrior, I popped the tranquilizer. A few minutes later my cloudy brain said, "What the heck, while I'm waiting for this pill to take effect, I may as well have a cigar."
At the same time I told Doc I always felt tired when I quit smoking, so he gave me some pep pills. What happened? I smoked faster.
As Doc always said, "Old folks shouldn't rely on pills anyway. What they need are preservatives."
Bob Huber is a retired journalist living in Portales. He can be contacted at 356-3674.


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Stewart arrested!!!!!
Motocross superstar James "Bubba" Stewart Jr. could have been living out a fantasy of being a cop or simply running late for a flight Monday afternoon when, according to authorities, he flashed red and blue lights at the truck in front of him on Interstate 4.
But that Chevy Silverado happened to be filled with legitimate off-duty officers.
The stunt earned Stewart — known to his fans as the "Tiger Woods of Motocross" — a trip to jail and a felony charge of impersonating a law-enforcement officer after he and his passenger were arrested at Orlando International Airport. Passenger Quinault Thames Jehrrod, 44, faces a charge of tampering with evidence.
Stewart didn't tell officers why he operated the flashing lights — which according to the arrest report he purchased at a flea market — but experts say the dangers of police impersonation are real and could be psychologically motivated.
"There are cop wannabes who either want to be a police officer and have been rejected by police or it's their way of [living] the fantasy of their life dream," said Tod Burke, a former Maryland police officer and professor of criminal justice at Radford University, Radford, Va.


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The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) was rolled out for JavaOne 2006 at an innocuously titled session. Due to what I assume was a timing miscommunication, the Google Blog scooped the presentation, but the impact was no less felt.
Figure 1. GWT includes a console window with hierarchical logging.
Figure 2. Java execution in the test browser allows for step-through debugging of code.
As they say, "But wait! There's more!" GWT also includes a basic RPC framework for making calls back to your server application in the form of a servlet. The
RemoteServiceServlet allows you to implement service methods on an implementation and expose these to your generated Ajax application. This is done by simply adding new
public methods to the servlet, and the GWT will handle serialization and deserialization to and from the client. How much would you pay for a framework like this? Don't answer yet!
GWT also includes a set of core DOM mapped classes and layouts that are more familiar to desktop application developers, such as the dock panel and horizontal panel. Prefabbed widgets such as
PopupPanel for context popups,
DialogBox for popup blocker friendly dialogs, and
StackPanel for Outlook-bar style displays. There is also a URI and History management system for maintaining a bookmarkable and "back buttonable" state through your application.
GWT is really just an executable Java application with some hooks into Tomcat and either Mozilla or MSIE under Linux and Windows, respectively (sorry Mac users, you are out of luck for now). When you download the GWT, it comes with several sample projects, including "KitchenSink," the GWT equivalent of SwingSet. You can run the batch file in the samples/KitchenSink directory to see it run. Two things will pop up: the GWT server monitor application and browser window where you can see the application run. Executing
java com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell --help with your platform's *dev.jar and gwt-user.jar will show you the options available:
Google Web Toolkit 1.0.20 GWTShell [-port port-number] [-noserver] [-logLevel level] [-gen dir] [-out dir] [-style style] [-notHeadless] [url] where -port Runs an embedded Tomcat instance on the specified port (defaults to 8888) -noserver Prevents the embedded Tomcat server from running, even if a port is specified -logLevel The level of logging detail: ERROR, WARN, INFO, TRACE, DEBUG, SPAM, or ALL -gen The directory into which generated files will be written for review -out The directory to write output files into (defaults to current) -style Script output style: OBF[USCATED], PRETTY, or DETAILED (defaults to OBF) -notHeadless Causes the log window and browser windows to be displayed. Useful for debugging. and url Automatically launches the specified URL
Google includes an
applicationCreator script that will generate a set of batch files, scaffolding classes, and directories for a new GWT project. For our purposes here, however we are going to bypass this and start from scratch. First you will want the GWT Maven plugin installed. You can install this by unzipping the plugin project and typing
maven plugin:install-now. Also, you will want to copy the gwt-user.jar to ~/.maven/repository/com.google.gwt/jars/ manually. Since this JAR needs to be included in your final WAR file, it needs to be registered as a dependency in the Maven POM file.
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GWT uses a basic structure that might seem a little alien at first, so let's take a quick tour. The code we will be using is available as a ready-to-run application in the Resources section. It provides an implementation of a simple Table class that will toggle a CSS element on a selected row and an RPC call to fetch information for the table from the server.
First is the [Module].gwt.xml file. This is an XML marker in your project that maps to an
EntryPoint class for a particular module. Think of a module as being a self contained display, like a
JFrame. In "Table.gwt.xml," our module is as follows:
<!-- Inherit the core Web Toolkit stuff. -->
<inherits name='com.google.gwt.user.User'/>
<!-- Specify the app entry point class. -->
<entry-point class='com.totsp.gwt.client.TableEntryPoint'/>
Next, to start up our module, we need a root HTML document to run. Here we are using src/java/com/totsp/gwt/public/Table.html. To embed your entry point into your HTML document, you need to include two things. First, add a
meta tag that indicates what the module you want to include is:
<meta name='gwt:module'
Second, at the point in the HTML where you want the GWT to start rendering, you include the gwt.js boilerplate JavaScript file:
<script type="text/javascript"
This will then run a default script and inspect the
gwt:module value to decide what it needs to start up. Also notice that you place your HTML host page, CSS files, and graphic assets in the
public package of your Java source tree, not in the web app. This is a little counter-intuitive, but the
GWTShell and the
GWTCompile steps expect to load them out of here. You can't, however, really put them in the web app folder, because GWT will clobber them with defaults if you do.
Pretty simple so far. Now we need to start actually writing our classes. The first one is our
EntryPoint implementation. This is what actually starts rendering stuff.
import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Window;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.RootPanel;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
public class TableEntryPoint implements EntryPoint {
private Table table;
public void onModuleLoad() {
table = new Table( null, "myTable" );
getData(); //just ignore this for the moment.
Looking over these classes, we have a few things here. First is the
Window class. This maps, roughly, to what you would think of as the JavaScript
window object. It exposes
alert() and
getClientWidth() among other things. The
RootPanel is a singleton class that returns the root for placing widgets via
get(). This singleton methodology is pretty convenient for working with, so we are going to add this to our classes. Next is
Widget. This is the base class for widgets and is used for event handlers, such as the following from the "Hello" example:
Button b = new Button("Click me", new ClickListener() {
public void onClick(Widget sender) {
Window.alert("Hello, Ajax");
To start up our
EntryPoint class, we need to override the
onModuleLoad() method with our code to build our display. For the purposes of this article, we are only going to use our simple
Table class.
Table class contains a very simple operation. It extends
FlexTable, then adds itself as a listener to itself. When a table row is clicked that isn't the header row (if there is one), it adds a CSS style name postfixed with
-selected to that row. Everything else is done in the CSS.
public void onCellClicked(SourcesTableEvents sender,
int row, int cell) {
.removeStyleName(selectedRow, selectedStyle);
if ((source.getHeaderRow() == null) || (row > 0)) {
.addStyleName(row, selectedStyle);
selectedRow = row;
The table also has a method for populating data from a
TableDataSource. Let's look at that next.
Our table class here just does a pretty simple thing: draw a table from a
TableDataSource implementation, then toggle a stylesheet class on the selected row so we can highlight it. To do this, we are going to extend the GWT's
FlexTable class. This is a class that represents an HTML table, but lets the author create table cells on the fly. To populate our table we are going to use a very simple
TableDataSource that we can fetch from our RPC servlet. For now, lets just look at the code.
The first step is to build your service interface. Ours is pretty simple:
public interface DataService extends RemoteService {
public Person[] getData();
Next, we need to create an
Async interface for the service. This is done entirely with naming conventions. You need to create an interface that matches the service interface and all methods. However, instead of return types, every method is
void and the last argument is an
AsyncCallback implementation, thusly:
public void myMethod( Param p..., AsyncCallback callback). Finally, the interface class name should match the
RemoteService interface name, postfixed with
For our simple service, it looks like this:
public interface DataServiceAsync {
public void getData(AsyncCallback callback);
Next, you need your service implementation. This needs to extend the GWT's
RemoteServiceServlet servlet and implement your service interface.
public class DataServlet
extends RemoteServiceServlet implements DataService {
public Person[] getData(){
Whew. Almost there. Now we want to add the servlet to both the web.xml (so it will be there when we deploy the war) and we want to add a declaration to our Table.gwt.xml file. This second entry tells the GWTShell to load the servlet and also mounts it in the testbed Tomcat and generates client stubs for you.
<servlet path="/DataService"
Now, we are ready to deal with the call itself. GWT only supports Asynchronous calls. There are a number of technical reasons for this, notably that the most obvious path to do a synchronous call would be to spin waiting for the response. Unfortunately, many browsers will not actually fire the
XmlHttpRequest event until said spinning is done. But hey, this is Ajax, not Sjax. Right?
Now we add the
getData() method to our
EntryPoint class. To do this, we need to get a
DataServiceAsync implementation from the
GWT class, then create an
AsyncCallback handler. This is a simple interface that just has an
onSuccess() and
onFailure() method to handle the return state of the callback.
private void getData(){
DataServiceAsync dataService =
(DataServiceAsync) GWT.create( DataService.class );
ServiceDefTarget endpoint = (ServiceDefTarget) dataService;
dataService.getData(new AsyncCallback(){
public void onSuccess(Object result) {
new SimpleDataSource( (Person[]) result ) );
public void onFailure(Throwable caught) {
Window.alert("Unable to get data from server: "
Notice the unfortunate cast to
ServiceDefTarget. Why they couldn't have made a
GWT.create(Class clazz, String url) method is a bit beyond me, but you gotta do it.
Now, we simply call the
setSource() method on our table object and voila, the table will render itself with the new data. Also notice that our objects that move from the server to the JavaScript world have to implement
IsSerializable. This also supports arrays and basic collections, although in my experience, collections are sometimes sketchy and may give you cryptic errors. It's best to avoid them where possible for the moment.
As anyone who has used (most) Ajax or RIA apps knows, the back button can be the bane of your existence. Fortunately, GWT includes a means of dealing with it. The
History class allows you to store a single
String token that you can use to capture the display state and redraw as needed. This is accomplished by inserting the token into the anchor part of the URL on the page and writing the
location.history as needed.
Let's modify our simple example to support the back button. First, we want to capture state changes and store them in the
History object. To do this, we will add a new
TableEventListener to our table in our
//Add a new listener to record the row history
table.addTableListener( new TableListener(){
public void onCellClicked(SourcesTableEvents sender,
int row, int cell) {
History.newItem( ""+row );
Now, we want to capture changes to the back button and update our selection on our table appropriately. So we will make our
EntryPoint a
public class TableEntryPoint
implements EntryPoint, HistoryListener {
public void onHistoryChanged(String historyToken){
table.onCellClicked( table,
Integer.parseInt( historyToken ), 0);
Now, whenever you click the back button, it will track back to the last selected item. The last step is to make sure our initialization works in case the page is bookmarked or gets a hard reload. To do this, we go back to our
getData() method on the
EntryPoint and modify the
onSuccess() handler of the
AsyncCallback. This will check to see if there is a stored token in the History object and reset the state of the table to the selected row stored in the history token.
public void onSuccess(Object result) {
table.setSource( new
SimpleDataSource( (Person[]) result ) );
if(History.getToken().length() != 0){
table.onCellClicked( table,
Integer.parseInt( History.getToken()), 0);
The final step is to go back and modify our HTML host page with a hidden iframe that the GWT script uses for history manipulation:
<iframe id="__gwt_historyFrame"
This is a pretty primitive example, but hopefully you understand enough to make use of the History class in a more complicated application. Figure 3 shows the sample application's table display.
Figure 3. Our finished table widget in the GWT browser.
There is still more coolness in the GWT. There is still more not covered here, included a JavaDoc based-annotation system for typing collections (Java SE 5 generics aren't supported for
IsSerializable), JUnit testing frameworks, and lots of cool widgets to use and extend. Also, be sure to check out the GWT provided examples. Although I admit I find some of the programming idioms a bit strange -- and it may simply be my history as "Not a GUI developer guy" -- they definitely give you a feel for what can be done with the framework. In fact the DynaTable example is a much more robust version of what we have built here.
The GWT Maven module provided with this article gives you a few options for working with the Google Web Toolkit in a Maven project. You will notice in the sample code provided the following set in the project.properties:
The first line is the path to your GWT installation. The second is the target you want the GWTShell to start with when you call the
gwt goal. This will run the shell and open the test browser.
compiletarget is the module declaration you want to use when you call
gwt:compile. Finally,
logLevel is the log level to show in the GWTShell when you are testing. You can look at the Mevenide properties panel in your project properties to see the rest of the settings. They pretty much map one-to-one with the command-line arguments for GWT.
The final target is
Lastly, you want to make sure you have a
gwt:compile executed before your
war:war Maven goal. You can accomplish this by adding in the project
<preGoal name="war:war">
<attainGoal name="gwt:compile"/>
How much would you pay for all this? Well, it is free. However, it is not under any OSI license you might be familiar with. Google has terms available -- basically you are free to use it, but not redistribute it outside your organization. Now, I am no lawyer, but I am seriously troubled by this clause, however:
you may not distribute Google Web Toolkit Development Tools or any services or software associated with or derived from them, or modify, copy, license, or create derivative works from Google Web Toolkit Development Tools, unless you obtain Google's written permission in advance.
One thing that GWT seems built to do is allow people to build new and interesting components. Indeed, when I first saw it, it screamed "whole new community" of GWT-based widgets. It would seem to me, however, that this is forbidden as a derivative work. It is also worth noting an interesting part of the privacy notice on the download page:
Privacy notice: When you use the Google Web Toolkit's hosted web browser, the application sends a request back to Google's servers to check to see if you are using the most recent version of the product. As a part of this request, Google will log usage data including a timestamp of the date and time you downloaded the Google Web Toolkit and the IP address for your computer.
Robert Cooper is an independent Java developer in the Atlanta area, working with J2EE technologies and web/web service projects.
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