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According to new reports, Samsung's latest smartphone could have completely different specifications when it is released in North America later this year.
Samsung has announced the Galaxy S III will be available in Canada from the 20th of June, on a number of leading Canadian networks. The press release leads to some interesting conclusions, however. The specs are quite different to the I9300 specifications we've previously reported.
If this press release is to be believed, the Galaxy S3 coming to Canada and North America will be a completely different model to the European variant. We knew Samsung would release a 4G version, but this is a new concept altogether. The press release indicates this edition of the Galaxy S3 will contain 2GB of RAM, while the quad-core processor has been replaced with an unspecified dual-core version.
One of the key features of the Galaxy S3 was its quad-core processor. Bumping up the RAM from 1GB to 2GB could help run multiple applications simultaneously, but reducing from quad-core to dual-core might have significant performance impacts. Unless Samsung has found a more efficient processor, with a higher clock speed than the one included in their international variant.
What do you think of the new specifications? Are you going to wait for the North American version? Or will you buy the Samsung Galaxy S III from overseas?
Full Press Release below:
MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 30, 2012 /CNW/ – Samsung Electronics Canada, today announces the models details and availability date of the much-anticipated GALAXY S III. Beginning June 20th, the Samsung GALAXY S III will be available through leading Canadian wireless carriers and authorized national retailers.
"We are very excited to bring the highly anticipated GALAXY S III to Canadians so they can experience firsthand, the power, performance and passion that Samsung is known for," said Paul Brannen, Vice President, Enterprise Business Group, Samsung Canada. "This next generation of the GALAXY S series is sleek and stylish, and offers users features that promote sharing, and are intuitive and powerful, allowing Canadians to enjoy a more human experience with their smartphone."
Natural Interaction
Smart enough to detect face, voice and motions, the GALAXY S III adapts to the user, providing users an interface that is convenient and natural.
- With the innovative 'Smart stay' feature, the GALAXY S III recognizes how the user is using their device such as, reading an e-book or browsing the web. By having the front camera identify eye motion the phone maintains a bright display for continued viewing pleasure.
- The GALAXY S III features 'S Voice,' an advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to user commands. S Voice presents powerful functions in regards to device control and commands, such as allowing the user to play a favorite song, turn the volume up or down, send text messages and emails, organize schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photo.
- With 'Smart alert' the GALAXY S III will alert the user by catching any missed messages or calls with a vibration to notify missed statuses when picked up after being idle. If the user is messaging someone but decide to call them instead, they can simply lift phone to their ear and 'Direct call' will dial their number.
Easy and Instant Sharing
The Samsung GALAXY S III is more than a personal device that can be enjoyed by one user – it wants to share and experience smartphone benefits with family and friends, regardless of location with the following features:
- With the new 'S Beam,' the GALAXY S III expands upon Android™ Beam™, allowing a 1GB movie file to be shared within three minutes and a 10MB music file within two seconds by simply touching another GALAXY S III phone, even without a Wi-Fi or cellular signal.
- The 'Buddy photo share' function also allows photos to be easily and simultaneously shared with all friends pictured in an image directly from the camera or the photo gallery.
- 'AllShare Play' can be used to instantly share any forms of files between GALAXY S III and tablet, PC, and televisions that are DLNA enabled, regardless of the distance between the devices.
- The 'Group Cast' feature that allows users to share their screen among multiple friends on the same Wi-Fi network; users can comment and draw changes at the same time as co-workers- witnessing real-time sharing on individual devices.
- The preloaded 'Dropbox' application provides an even more convenient sharing experience, supplying 50GB of free storage for two years for not just image and music files, but now also for video content. With the GALAXY S III files can also be instantly uploaded through data networks without requiring WiFi access.
Uncompromised Performance
With a 4.8″ HD Super AMOLED display, the GALAXY S III offers a large and vivid viewing experience. Samsung Mobile's heritage Super AMOLED display even enhances to HD and 16:9 wider viewing angles. To ensure faster content sharing and connectivity, the GALAXY S III offers Wi-Fi Channel Bonding which doubles the Wi-Fi bandwidth.
The GALAXY S III not only presents features with enhanced usability, but also provides an ergonomic and comfortable experience through its human-centric design. Its comfortable grip, gentle curves, and organic form deliver a rich human-centric feel and design. Available in Pebble Blue and Marble White at launch, Samsung will introduce a variety of additional color options.
The GALAXY S III also sports a range of additional features that boost performance and the overall user experience in entirely new ways, with features such as:
- 'Pop up play,' users can play a video anywhere on their screen while simultaneously running other tasks, eliminating the need to close and restart videos when checking new emails or surfing the Web.
- An 8MP camera features a zero-lag shutter speed that lets users capture moving objects easily without delay, with the'Burst shot' function that instantly captures twenty continuous shots, and the 'Best photo' feature that selects the best of eight photographs, the GALAXY S III ensures users a more enhanced and memorable camera experience.
- HD video can be recorded even with the 1.9MP front-facing camera, which users can use to capture a video of themselves. An improved backside illumination sensor further helps to eliminate blur in photos that result from shaking, even under low light conditions.
- With Samsung Hubs, users can continually refresh phone content through the 'Game Hub,' which provides access to numerous social games, while Video Hub, a new service offering to the Canadian marketplace, brings users high quality TV and movies for rent . Furthermore, Samsung Music Hub will offer a personal music streaming service.
The GALAXY S III will be available for purchase in Canada starting on June 20, 2012. Samsung is pleased to be working with all of the leading wireless providers in Canada, to give our customers a choice of service provider. The SGH-i747 variation of the GALAXY S III will be available from Bell Mobility, Virgin Mobile, SaskTel, TELUS and Rogers Wireless. The SGH-iT999 model will be available from Videotron, Wind and Mobilicity.
Additional Features Include:
- Processor:
- Snapdragon S4 Dual Core 1.5 GHz
- Qualcomm MSM8960 Chipset
- OS (Shipping): ICS 4.0.4
- Data: LTE (SGH-i747 variation) and HSPA+ 42 (SGH-iT999 variation)
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
- Weight: 133g
- Memory: 16/32GB internal memory (SGH-i747)/ 16GB internal memory (SGH-iT999)
- Expandable microSD up to 32GB
- Display: 4.8 HD Super AMOLED 1280×720 (306ppi)
- Connectivity: NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, MHL Video Out
- Camera: 8MP Rear-facing, 1.9MP Front-facing
- Battery: 2100 mAh
- Other:
- TouchWiz with Motion UX
- S Beam
- AllShare Play enhance functionality
- MP3/ACC+/WAV audio player
- DivX/Xvid/MP4/WMV/H.263/ H.264 Video Player
For pre-orders, specific pricing and details, please visit your nearest carrier or retailer. For multimedia content and more detailed information, please visit www.samsungmobilepress.com. In addition, you can find a product introduction video at http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxys3/media.html.
* All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.
*Android, Google, Android Beam, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Latitude, Google Play, Google Plus, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Places, Google Navigation, Google Downloads are trademarks of Google Inc.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Canada delivers unrivalled consumer experiences. Samsung enables Canadians to pursue their passions by offering abroad range of award-winning digital consumer electronics, IT, telecommunications and home appliance products. The Canadian arm upholds Samsung's global mission to provide consumers with innovative digital convergence products that possess exceptional technology, quality, features, performance and value. As a result of its commitment to innovation and unique design, Samsung has become one of the most decorated brands in the electronics industry. The company was ranked #17 in BusinessWeek/Interbrand "100 Best Global Brands" and was named as one of Fast Company's "50 Most Innovative Companies of 2011."
For more information, please visit www.samsung.ca.
You can also Like Samsung on facebook.com/SamsungCanada or follow Samsung on twitter @SamsungCanada. For customer service inquiries, please call 1-800-SAMSUNG (1-800-726-7864).
Via: Vodafone
Check out our Pricing Page for more information about where to buy the Samsung Galaxy S III. It's available for pre-order today from Amazon and other retailers.


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Aug. 15, 2013) – A private-sector investment the University of Maryland Eastern Shore made in 2004 will pay safety dividends in its classrooms starting this fall.
The university has committed to purchasing 200 Bulletproof Whiteboards manufactured by Pocomoke City-based Hardwire LLC.
Hardwire and UMES announced the transaction this week at the 2013 Maryland Association of Counties summer conference in Ocean City, where they also shared a vendors' booth to promote both entities.
"UMES is the first university to adopt the Bulletproof Whiteboard as a critical layer of its student and faculty security system," Hardwire founder George Tunis said.
"It's 'back-to-school' season, and as a result of its leadership, UMES will be one of the safest campuses in the country as students return to school," Tunis said.
Classes for the fall semester at UMES resume Aug. 26.
Tunis launched his high-tech company in 2000 with high-tensile strength, twisted-steel wiring for reinforcement of buildings and infrastructure. After America's military was mobilized for the war on terrorism, Hardwire began "to work on armor protection for ground vehicles, aircraft, boats and personnel."
That transition occurred with help of a $250,000 loan arranged in 2004 by the Maryland Hawk Corp., a UMES-affiliated, non-profit organization that focuses "on the commercialization and entrepreneurial development of intellectual property." The Maryland Hawk Corp. eventually extended Hardwire a second, $500,000 loan.
Tunis noted the first loan enabled "expedient delivery of armor to soldiers, which resulted in thousands of saved lives."
"The Bulletproof Whiteboard is a direct derivative of this same military armor that Hardwire and UMES scaled for the war effort, and it is now available for schools," he said. "Hardwire is proud to work with UMES in making our students safer."
UMES faculty members will be issued the 18-inch by 20-inch Bulletproof Whiteboards for use in their classrooms. Like first-generation whiteboards, they can serve as portable writing tablets during delivery of lectures and labs.
University officials see the technology as another proactive step among many the university has taken to provide a safe learning environment.
"Classroom safety is not a pleasant topic," UMES President Juliette B. Bell said. "Unfortunately, campus violence is a reality that we have to be prepared for, and this technology allows us to be proactive rather than reactive."
"We appreciate and applaud Hardwire for its innovative adaptation of this technology to potentially save lives. Their entrepreneurial spirit serves as a great example for our students," Bell said.
Tunis equates his company's newest product as being "Similar to a fire extinguisher, which buys time for the fire department. The Bulletproof Whiteboard is a tool that buys time until the police arrive in an active- shooter incident."
UMES campus police Chief Ernest Leatherbury agrees.
"As a professionally trained police officer for some three decades, I'm always encouraged when I see new technology that helps keep people safe," Leatherbury said.
"This is so accessible. And it's not cumbersome."
UMES utilizes a variety of strategies to bolster and maintain a secure campus, including instant electronic alerts that go out to e-mail addresses and cell phones and notices that appear on special monitors around campus.
"The whiteboards are just one more tool in our tool box," Leatherbury said.
Bill Robinson, director, public relations, (410) 621-2355


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I had always assumed I would stop breastfeeding my son at age 1 (we'll, to be honest when I was younger I was opposed to the idea of nursing at all). Now that DS is almost oneN he just seems so small, and so attached to me and nursing, that I can't see myself stopping right away. DH lived in south america for awhile and they nurse their children for years so he is fine with whatever. My MIL is very pro bfing also. My sitters and other friends don't seem to be, however. My BIL (DH's brother), who takes care of my son some of the days I work has made it clear that he thinks it is weird to nurse babies after they can talk.
I was reading that the WHO says to bf babies until they are at least 2. I am not sure if I will go that long, but definitely until at least 16 months. Here are my questions. How often do you bf a toddler? Should bfing continue to be a primary source of nutrition and, if so, how long is that the case? How do you start the weaning process, when I am ready? And how do I deal with the people who are against continuing to bf after 1?


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Evergreen School opens to wide acclaim One-of-a-kind environmental school offers unique lessons
There's a brand new school that just opened that is green on the outside and green on the inside. It's called the Evergreen Elementary School and it is the newest school in the Western Wayne school district. It is called Evergreen because it is a totally green school in construction and instruction. It will be attended by pre-Kindergarten to grade 5 students.
It was the host to 20 members of Sustainable Energy Education and Development Support (SEEDS), a Northeast Pennsylvania environmental group, who heard of its uniqueness and unusual educational programs on October 1.
The Evergreen Elementary School is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building; LEED is a certification program and a process created by the U.S. Green Building Council to encourage building that enhances the environment. The school is the brainchild of Andrew Falonk, superintendent of Western Wayne School District, who worked on his dream of a green school for a number of years.
One of its main features is the geothermal heating system, which supplies heat in the winter and cooling in the summer. Under the school's softball field, there are 72 wells, 400 feet deep. Pipes suspended within each well circulate water by pumps in the closed-loop system. Under the ground, the water takes on the temperature of the earth, around 55 degrees, and is boosted to a higher temperature with heat pumps, which provide heat to the 102,000-square-foot building.
"Even though we received some solid grants from the state, I can tell you that schools that are built like this equal the cost of conventional schools," said Frank Ward, school district treasurer.
There are re-claimed wastewater and low-flow plumbing fixtures that reduce the water demand for the building. A green garden on the roof serves as an outdoor classroom and retains storm water that would otherwise need to be controlled elsewhere on the building site. The high efficiency air filtration system provides for the comfort and health of occupants.
Classrooms are designed to take advantage of natural daylight. Placement of glass is determined in each room to admit the most natural light, without allowing heat to enter the building. Automatic lighting controls reduce energy consumption by sensing occupancy and the amount of daylight.
The selection of building materials was based on recycled content and low emitting properties.
Treated wastewater, stored in two large sumps, is used to irrigate the sport fields and landscaping.
School as living environment
"We will use the school building itself as a learning ground in which students can actually see the effects of their actions on the environment," said principal Ellen Faliskie. "It has been proven that schools that emphasize the environment have a greater attendance rate than other schools. We expect to see that happen here."
Teachers will receive a lot of in-service training to help them use the school to enhance learning in math, science, reading and writing, she said. Teachers will also develop curricula that they will share with other schools that seek to use the environment as a teaching tool.
"We will utilize programs developed by environmentalists like John Jose, who is developing such programs for the Wayne Highland School District," Faliskie said. "We are not only developing our own programs but are eager to find outstanding programs from other school districts throughout the country. Our engineering company, Burkavich Design of Clark Summit, will assist us in contacting similar networks of schools in other states, she said.
The school replaces two older schools: the Lake Elementary School and the Hamlin Elementary School.


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Blair County crime numbers fall, but murders, drugs raise concerns
In a year during which Blair County's crime rate dropped, the number of homicides tripled in 2012, according to unofficial data from the state police Uniform Crime Report.
The number of murders jumped from two in 2011 to six in 2012, with four of those deaths coming last month during a shooting rampage in Geeseytown.
Jeffrey Lee Michael, 44, of Hollidaysburg killed Kimberly A. Scott, 58, of Duncansville, Kenneth Lynn, 60, of Hollidaysburg and William Rhodes Jr., 38, also of Hollidaysburg, on Dec. 21.
Michael was shot to death by pursuing state troopers during a gun battle on Juniata Valley Road; his death was ruled a justifiable homicide.
It was the first time since 2008 that there have been six murders in a year in Blair County.
Overall, Blair County's crime rate dropped 9.8 percent in 2012, the report showed.
Murders fall under Part I offenses, the most serious crimes, which fell 19 percent. The Part I drop was precipitated by a 21 percent decrease in burglaries and thefts.
Blair Township Police Chief Roger White couldn't put a finger on the reason for the drop.
"It has something to do with officer presence. Being seen might help some," he said.
White speculated that high gas prices and a down economy have also helped to reduce crime.
"Traffic is down. Our officers are seeing less cars than normal on their patrols," he said. "Traffic seems to go away after 10:30, 11 at night. People aren't out and able to commit crimes.
"The public is also helping more. We had an increase last year for suspicious vehicles and people. Residents are more aware of their surroundings and are reporting anything out of the ordinary."
The drop in thefts helped Allegheny Township have an overall crime decrease of 19.5 percent for 2012.
"We have dedicated officers, and we're being more visible and proactive instead of being reactive," township Chief P. Richard Books said.
Part II crimes, including drug sales and possession, vandalism, sex offenses and driving under the influence, fell about 5.7 percent.
The number of heroin and cocaine cases investigated by Altoona police went from 107 in 2011 to 51 in 2012, in large part because of the arrests made during the "Operation Last Call" probe into alleged drug activity based out of a state prison and the Corner Bar in Altoona, Detective Sgt. Troy Johannides said.
"Cocaine is almost nonexistent," Johannides said.
The number of drug sale offenses for narcotics other than heroin, cocaine, marijuana and synthetic drugs increased 213 percent in Altoona – partly because of a shift back to heroin.
Some heroin addicts either sell the methadone or suboxone they receive from drug treatment to continue their habits or keep the medicine and still get high, knowing they'll take another dose of the medicine the next day, Johannides said.
"Heroin has been on the rise for the last year or two," he said.
Eight people picked up during November and December drug sweeps in Blair County were arrested on suboxone-related charges.
Because of Operation Last Call, investigators were able to focus more on other drug cases – another reason for the 213 percent jump – Johannides said.
"We needed to take care of the heroin and cocaine cases, because there is more danger to the community with them," he said.


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I may be one of the few people left in America who have never tasted a Shamrock Shake. I'm kind of afraid to, because what if I love it? I don't need any more things on the "sugary" side of life to tempt me. That said, I don't know anyone who HAS tasted these who doesn't love them. In the spirit of that, I've decided to do a giveaway for ALL of for 15 of my readers to win a coupon for a FREE McCafe Beverage of your choice- maybe a Shamrock Shake, maybe something else- the coupons are good through 12/31/12 and can be used at any participating McDonald's in the US!
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Denton County,Tx. – Jesse Lee Day, 68 of Sanger, Denton County, died January 3, 2008 in Denton Regional Hospital, Denton.
Memorial Graveside Services will be tomorrow, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008 at I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Carrollton, Ky., at 11 a.m.
Mr. Day was born June 7, 1939 in Carrollton, Ky. to the late Alfred and Pearl Day. He was a construction worker.
CAMPBELLSBURG, Ky. – Donald Eugene Mitchell, 81, of Campbellsburg, died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, at the Masonic Home of Shelbyville, Ky.
Funeral services were held Sunday, Aug. 9, at Ransdell Funeral Home, Bedford, Ky. with the Rev. David Coy officiating. Burial was in the Moffett Cemetery, Milton, Ky. with full military honors conducted at the graveside by the Fort Knox honor detachment and the American Legion Jefferson Post 9.
Mr. Mitchell was born on July 15, 1927 in Bedford, Ky. to the late Otto and Mary Alice Jones Mitchell.
C. Todd Smith, 41, of Bedford, died Monday, August 4, 2008 at his residence.
Born February 19, 1967 in Louisville, he was the son of Robert L. Smith, Sr. and Barbara J. (Cox) Smith.
He was of the Baptist faith and an avid hunter and fisherman. He enjoyed watching football.
MADISON, Ind., - Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Menke, 22, of Madison died Monday Aug. 4, 2008, while defending our Nation against Global Terrorism, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
WARSAW, Ky. – Helen Gullion Maxwell, 85, of Warsaw died Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008 at the Gallatin Health Care Center, Warsaw.
Funeral services were Monday, August 11, at 2:00 p.m. at Ten Mile Baptist Church, with the Rev. Wayne Gullion officiating and Bro. Edwin Kirkpatrick, and Rev. Tim Calloway assisting. Burial was in the Warsaw Cemetery, Warsaw.
Samuel Ellis "Sam" Kidwell, 90, of Milton, died Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at Hanover Nursing Center in Hanover.
Born Sept. 18, 1917 in Trimble County, he was the son of William and Lottie Fox Kidwell. He was a life-long farmer who enjoyed hunting and caring for cattle. He was a U.S. Army veteran serving in World War II and an avid University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Survivors include two nephews, William A. Ward and Terry Graves, and several great-nieces and nephews.
His parents, a sister, Beryl Ward Graves, and a nephew preceded him in death.
Robert Whayne Leatherman, 51, of Sulphur, died August 6, 2008 at his residence.
Born February 15, 1957 in Shelbyville, he was the son of the late Ora Lee Davis and Tommy Leatherman.
He was self-employed and helped many with farm work as well as his regular jobs. He loved to hunt and fish.
Survivors include a brother Tommy Leatherman, Milton; sister Sharon Finney, Pleasureville; aunt Thelma Berry, Port Royal; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
James Richard Troxell, 76, of Seymour, Ind. died Sunday, August 3, 2008 at Hospice of South Central Indiana Inpatient Facility, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Ind.
Born October 19, 1931 in La Grange, he was the son of the late Richard James and Cordie (Kirby) Troxell.
He retired as process engineer at RCA in Indianapolis, Ind. and served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He was dedicated to his job and his family.
NEW LIBERTY, Ky. –Robert "Bobby" Robbins, 61, of New Liberty, Ky., died at his home Tuesday, July 29, 2008.
As of press time Tuesday, funeral arrangements were pending at Graham-Dunn Funeral Home, 213 Fifth St., Carrollton.
Additional information will be posted on our web site, www.mycarrollnews.com, as soon as it becomes available.
CARROLLTON, Ky. – Robert "Bobby" Cyrus Robbins, 61, of Carrollton died Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at his home.
Funeral services were Friday, Aug.1, at Family Worship Center, 2520 State Hwy. 227, Carrollton, with the Rev. David Wotier officiating. Burial was in Owenton Cemetery, Owenton, Ky.
Mr. Robbins was born Jan. 4, 1947, in Carrollton to the late Carl and Scottie Ball Robbins. He was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 134, Carrollton.
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- Commodity prices expected to remain high for next decade
- Middle class growth
- Trade increasing
- Policy errors
• Commodity prices should remain at historically high levels for the next decade.
• If realized, 2012 will be another record setting year for all measures of farm income.
• "We have not seen as positive an outlook for 30 years."
Some wood may need knocking on here, but a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service spokesman expects commodity prices to remain at historically high levels for the next decade.
Michael Dwyer, director of the FAS Global Policy Analysis Division, says "things never looked so good — if you have a crop to sell," this year. "If realized, 2012 will be another record setting year for all measures of farm income."
And Dwyer, speaking at the recent inaugural Southwest Ag Issues Summit in Austin, said that trend likely will continue, unless some outside force — worsening recession or government trade policy errors, for instance — derail this train.
He said ag income has risen 40 percent in the last four years — during a time of "economic malaise. We've seen a time of great prosperity for American agriculture and not at the expense of the taxpayers. Farm programs have not been expensive. The point of a safety net is that in good times farmers don't need payments."
The numbers that project continued high farm prices for the next decade were compiled before the impact of the most recent drought was known. "Figures for 2012 likely will be higher," he said. "Also, meat and poultry is trending up for the next 10 years."
You can check current commodity prices now.
The trend is not just national, but global. "We see a booming demand for meat, especially in developing countries. Things look pretty good."


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(Feb. 28, 2012)-Antonio Fargas, a comedic actor best known for his role of "Huggy Bear" in the '70s television show, "Starsky and Hutch," will be the master of ceremonies at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Gala, March 3.
Fargas's career has spanned over 40 years and includes success in film, television and stage.
Fargas starred as "Henry" in the movie, "Across 110th Street," alongside Anthony Quinn and with 2011 Gala guest Pam Grier in the movie, "Foxy Brown," as "Link Brown." Some of his other film credits include "Shaft," "Car Wash," and "Pretty Baby."
The actor had recurring roles in the mid-80's on ABC's soap opera "All My Children" as Angie Hubbard's father and most recently as "Doc" in the sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris." He also appeared in "Martin" and "Living Single."
Fargas' stage career includes performances on and off Broadway including "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death," and "The Great White Hope." Most recently, he played the part of "Toledo" in a revival of August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England.
Tickets are still available at two levels—an Oscar ticket for $175 and a VIP ticket for $500. Both include gourmet hors d'oeuvres, a four-course dinner in the presence of celebrity guests, dancing to live music and souvenir photos. The VIP ticket adds preferred seating at the Gala and special receptions with celebrities at the Courtyard Marriott in Ocean City on March 2 and one hour prior to the Gala on March 3.
Call Veronique Diriker at 410-651-8142 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to purchase tickets.
Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580, email@example.com.
Bill Robinson, director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-621-2355, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The State Department of Land and Natural Resources is working with its federal partners to locate and track the floating dock last reported north of Molokai.
The department is considering all of its options for handling of the dock and working on contingency plans in coordination with other agencies, to protect marine resources and prevent its arrival in nearshore areas.
State officials are inviting fishers and boaters or pilots to contact DLNR main administrative numbers at (808) 587-0400 to report timely sightings and locations.
If it is after hours they should leave a detailed message of the location, GPS if available, description of debris, and their contact information so staff can follow up with further questions if needed.
We are working to set-up a specific number for tsunami debris but for now people can call the main line (808) 587-0400 and the information will be forwarded to the correct staff depending on the area.
"In an abundance of caution, the Coast Guard is periodically sending out a Broadcast Notice to Mariners. We would also like to remind mariners as always to remain on the lookout for debris or any other dangers while at sea," said Cmdr. Martin Smith, chief of marine environmental response for the 14th Coast Guard District.


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America's got talent!
Young re-enactor Brett Dirie's salute to our troops brought a tear to the eye, as did Silvia Hoffmanbeck's angelic voice, while Kathy Aleschus' rendition of "Baby Face" with partner Andy White encouraged tears of laughter. Kathy Bernitt, Richard Barkley, Ken Rodgers, Lou Setren, violinist Amelia Brooks and future American Idol contestant Jeff Newton serenaded, strummed and strutted the stage along with the rest of the talented cast. Judges Montana and Dharma made sure that everyone (deservedly) received an award. Distillers, entrepreneurs and banjo players all have something in common in the mountains we call home, proving that reality TV has got nothin' on us. These folks are America and boy, have they got talent!
[To view a complete album of pictures from the talent show, go to www.facebook.com/theriverreporter.]
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WHAT IS IT? The Arai XD4 is the fourth generation of the original, do-it-all, Arai XD helmet. With some reconfiguring, it can be used as a motocross, street, adventure or karting helmet. It is less expensive than four separate helmets, but not by much.
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(1) Multipurpose. It's no secret that different disciplines require different helmets. You never see Valentino Rossi at a MotoGP wearing a motocross helmet, or Chad Reed at a Supercross with a full-face visor. There used to be no such thing as a helmet that could be used for street, karting, dual sport, enduro, adventure and motocross?at least not until Arai released the original XD helmet 10 years ago.
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CNJ staff photo: Gabriel Monte Roosevelt County's Ryan Schmidt slides home with a fifth-inning run as American catches Jarron Hill tries in vain to pull down a high throw during Friday's District 3 11-12-year-old all-star matchup at Beachum Field.
By Dave Wagner: CNJ sports writer
One swing of Will Murdock's bat swung all the momentum Friday night at Beachum Field.
Leading off the fourth inning, Murdock just missed Roosevelt County's first hit of the night on a foul bloop down the right field line on the previous pitch. He then launched the next offering over the left-center field fence to break a scoreless tie, and Roosevelt County went on to a 10-0 win over American in a losers bracket game of the District 3 Little League 11-12 all-star tournament.
American's John Myers worked a perfect three innings, but Murdock's blast opened the door and Roosevelt County ended the game in the bottom of the fifth on the 10-run rule.
"Our bats broke out, finally," Roosevelt coach Donald Martinez said. "I knew it was a matter of time."
Roosevelt County also got some help from American, which played well early behind Myers but committed six errors in the final two frames.
"It rattled them," American coach Duwain Hill said of Murdock's shot. "They just kind of fundamentally fell apart (after that)."
Myers threw only 26 pitches to get through three frames, but needed 34 in the fourth — and the help of a line-drive double play — in facing 10 batters.
Meantime, Roosevelt left-hander Ryan Schmidt was overpowering, allowing only two baserunners — Ty Mote's one-out double to right-center in the second and a leadoff walk to Jarron Hill in the fourth. He struck out 10 batters.
"He threw his heart out tonight," Martinez said. "He did a good job out there. He had a great (regular) season as well."
Reyes Chavez added a two-run single in Roosevelt County's five-run fourth, while Zach Blaeser ended the game and capped a five-run fifth with a two-run single.
Only five of the runs were earned against Myers, who finished with one walk, three strikeouts and one hit batsman.
Hill said the majority of the players on his squad are 11-year-olds.
"We did excellent the first three innings, but we're just a young team," he said.
He said he knew his team would have its work cut out in the tournament.
"I knew it was going to be a rebuilding year," Hill said. "We didn't have many 12-year-olds in our league, but next year we ought to be strong."
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Increased international trade and the relative ease of world-wide travel allows insects to move from their native home to the United States. A new stink bug, the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stal), was found in Pennsylvania in 2001. It was accidentally introduced into the Allentown, PA, area, possibly in shipping containers from Asia. The brown marmorated stink bug is known to occur in six eastern Pennsylvania counties and two adjacent New Jersey counties.
The brown marmorated stink bug is native to Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. It is both a direct pest and an indirect pest. In its native range, it feeds on a wide range of trees, shrubs, fruit crops, and legumes. The adults usually feed on fruit and the immatures (nymphs) tend to feed on leaves and stems as well as fruit. Heavy feeding on fruit will cause the fruit surface to become depressed, spongy, and often discoloured.
Leaves that have been fed on usually develop stippled areas approximately 1/8 inch in diameter. In New Jersey, large numbers have been seen feeding on late-season peaches.
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The general body shape and appearance of the brown marmorated stink bug is similar to most other stink bugs. It is between ½ and ¾ inch long, shield-shaped, and dark brown in color. The wings do not quite cover the abdomen allowing the distinct, alternating black and white abdominal segments to show. The last two antennal segments have an alternating light and dark pattern. The margins of the pronotum are smooth.
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– Andy Warhol's Advice for Kathryn Bigelow: Who can we credit for convincing "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow, who attended at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in the 1970s, to switch from fine art to film? Andy Warhol, apparently. In a recent cover interview for TIME, Bigelow recalls: "I think I had a conversation with Andy Warhol somewhere in all this, and Andy was saying that there's something way more populist about film than art — that art's very elitist, so you're excluding a large audience." [Vulture]
– Gago and Zwirner Go Head-to-Head for Koons: Larry Gagosian is nothing if not competitive. Only a few months after launching a massive Anselm Kiefer show outside Paris to coincide with Thaddaeus Ropac's own major exhibition of the same artist, he has announced a presentation of new and recent work by Jeff Koons is coming to his 24th Street gallery this May. This just happens to be around the same time David Zwirner will hold its own much-discussed exhibition of the American artist's work in New York. Gagosian also plans to present a monumental steel sculpture by Koons from his new "Antiquity" series at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht on March 15. [NYT]
– Upstart Rep Moves to Stop Funding Oklahoma Arts: Twenty-three-year-old state representative Josh Cockroft (R-Tecumseh) has introduced a bill to eliminate state funding of the Oklahoma Arts Council (OAC), an organization that receives an annual state subsidy of $4 million and generates some $29 million in tax revenue each year. Cockroft, whose other champion causes include safeguarding Oklahoma residents against federal gun control regulations and a "personhood" amendment to the state's constitution giving fertilized eggs full rights, said in defense of his move against the OAC: "The time has come to set priorities and to exercise spending discipline." [LAT]
– Modigliani Institute Prez Arrested in Forgery Scandal: After a two-year investigation, Italy's art forgery task force has placed Christian Parisot, the president of Rome's Modigliani Institute, and dealer Matteo Vignapiano under house arrest due to their involvement in the sale of allegedly fake works complete with false certificates of authenticity. The authorities also seized a painting, four bronze sculptures, and 13 prints purportedly made by Modigliani but allegedly fake. [TAN]
– New Search Engine for Nazi-Looted Art: The new searchable online database German Sales Catalogs, 1930-1945, a project of the Getty's Provenance Index, brings together more than 2,000 digitized sales catalogues from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and other neighboring or Nazi-occupied countries in the years before and during World War II. The massive database includes records from 35 different institutions including the Kunstbibliothek of Berlin's National Museums and the Heidelberg University Library. [Iris]
– Ice Age Artists Were Pros: Were there professional artists in the Ice Age? According to Jill Cook, a curator at the British Museum — where the exhibition "Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind" opens next week — the answer is yes. "Some of the things we have from digs are a bit rubbish; some of them almost look like apprentice pieces. But the best things are masterpieces and would have taken hundreds of hours to produce," Cook said. "This was a society that valued their producers." [Guardian]
– Christo Hasn't Given Up on "Over the River": The environmental artist's long-planned (and long-delayed) "Over the River" project in Colorado may be on hold pending legal challenges, but 77-year-old Christo and his team are diligently laying the groundwork so he can one day suspend nearly six miles worth of silvery fabric above the Arkansas River. The artist is currently sponsoring the clearing of railroad tracks along the project route and beginning work to mitigate the impact "Over the River" would have on local bighorn sheep. [AP]
– Iconic "Chinese Girl" Painting for Sale: A painting that inspired millions of prints, t-shirts, mugs, and posters —Russian painter Vladimir Tretchikoff's 1950s canvas "Chinese Girl" — is up for sale. Though it may not be exceedingly familiar to American audiences, the work has apparently been described as "the most famous painting in the world." It will hit the auction block as part of Bonhams's South African art sale in central London with a high estimate of £500,000. "Millions of people — perhaps your parents or grandparents — bought a lithograph of this painting, hung it on their wall and admired it for years, if not decades," says writer Boris Gorelik. [Independent]
– Dutch Reject Nazi Loot Claim: The Dutch government's restitutions committee has turned down all but one of 189 claims filed by heirs of the Jewish art dealers and brothers Nathan and Benjamin Katz seeking the return of works they say their family lost after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. "Ownership of most of the works has not proved very probable," the committee said. "During the occupation, the Katz brothers often acted as middlemen and intermediaries for German buyers." Included in the claims were 65 works the brothers sold to museum director Hans Posse that were destined for Adolf Hitler's Fuehrermuseum. The one work that will be returned to the Katz's 21 descendents is Ferdinand Bol's "Man With a High Cap." [Bloomberg]
– IMA to Host Matisse Exhibition: The Indianapolis Museum of Art is gearing up to host a major exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Henri Matisse this October. Surprisingly, the lion's share of the 80-piece show will come from the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, which the IMA says has one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Matisse's work. The show will also feature musical performances in the galleries inspired by the artist's jazz portfolio. [AP]
A glimpse of Jeff Koons's "Antiquity" series
Robin Rhode's Playful New Show Crowdsources Art From a Classroom of Bronx Kids
EMERGING: Matthew Watson's Regal Portraits Treat Art World Insiders as Nobility
Are Cars the New Warhols? Inside the Turbo-Charged Market for Collectible Autos
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It makes me unbelieveably sad that the looterang is engineering only. Do you realize that just that one item would make engineers rich beyond their wildest dreams? Seriously… obscenely rich. I'm just saying.
Great comic as always😀
Poor girl. Envying those privileged engineers and their fun gadgets.
I'm currently leveling engineering on my dwarf hunter, and so far it's really fun. Though a lot of work.🙂
As always, a very nice comic!😀
Lol, this is why I decided to level eng on my Mage😀 Well, there may have been a little prodding from Rades also.
Engineering ftw!
Bwahahaha. *adjusts sprockets on goggles, activates nitro boots & speeds off into the night*
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06 July 2012
So, Ted. As is the wont of MacFarlane projects, it features a grown man paired with an incongruous, short fantasy sidekick; specifically, we are here in the company of 35-year-old Boston layabout John Bennett (Mark Whalberg), who once, 27 years ago, made a wish that his big stuffed teddy bear would come to life; this wish was granted by a beneficent universe, and all these years later, that bear (voiced and played in performance capture by MacFarlane) remains John's roommate and slacking buddy; together the boys smoke pot, tell dirty joke, and resume smoking pot. This Edenic idyll is interrupted only because John is head-over-heels in love with Lori (Mila Kunis), who has all the patience in the world but still kind of would like it if her boyfriend of four years would finally maybe push Ted out and grow up a little bit. Sort of like a Judd Apatow production, only instead of depicting with sagacious approval the protagonist's growth into being a responsible adult male, Ted does somewhat let John off the hook, in a weird way: he gets all the growth and development, and then in the end the movie implicitly says, "nah, that's okay, go back to how you were".
Which is as much to say: don't bother looking for thematic density. You shall be disappointed by what you find. As is true of so very many American comedies, particularly the R-rated ones, Ted is at its absolute worst when it tries to have actual, real content; the wobbly-executed "man-child becomes a man" theme is certainly an example, as is the inexplicable and fantastically unnecessary intrusion of a thriller subplot in the film's last quarter, which does nothing but inflate the piece to a 106-minute running time that it does not deserve (is there a living soul who would have bitched about a 90-minute Seth MacFarlane feature?), while also ruining the tone of everything that has gone before, and frequently worked. The only possible justification I can dream up is that Ted is completely obsessed with 1980s pop culture - the legendarily gaudy Dino De Laurentiis version of Flash Gordon is an important recurring motif - and there was that weird thing in the 1980s where plenty of innocuous-looking comedies suddenly turned into cruel-minded action films just in time for their third act. It didn't work in any of those, and it doesn't work in Ted, but at least this permits us to declare it conceptually sound.
But still, hugely pointless. The chief appeal of the film, incontestably, is all the early scenes of John and Ted hanging out and saying crude things; the shock value of seeing a big fluffy teddy bear cursing and getting high and making leering sexual gags providing most of the comedy, while the startlingly easy rapport that Whalberg and a CGI effect share provides the warmth. I must say this on the film's behalf: while it certainly wallows in the random-for-randomness's-sake jokes that make Family Guy such a slog - literally the very first actual joke in the whole movie comes when the silky-voiced narrator (no less an authoritative presence than Patrick Stewart!) recounts the traditional Boston Christmas tradition of beating up the local Jewish kid, a joke that represents all of the worst tendencies of the film's comedy and none of the good ones - much of Ted's humor is character- and situation-based, growing increasingly sharp and funny as we get a better sense of the main characters' relationship with one another. And sure, all that a lot of that context does is to let us know that, indeed, Ted is prone to saying rude things, but at least it feels like that's part of who he is, rather than him simply being a construct that permits MacFarlane and co-writers Alec Silkin & Wellesly Wild to be arbitrarily politically incorrect.
Another big point in the film's favor, and one I was honestly not expecting at all: the filmmakers commit to their premise in a big way. Ted is, at all points, a talking teddy bear come to life through magic: this is a fact known to all the characters and the world at large (he was briefly a celebrity in the '80s; this is not a thread that gets much of a workout, though a scene where he "meets" Johnny Carson is notable for reminding us that what was bleeding-edge technology less than 20 years ago in Forrest Gump, now can be used for a quickie gag in a frat comedy). He never drifts into being just a little gimmicky person; his plush toy nature remains an important element of his character throughout. Moreover, the visual effects used to put Ted in with the real people are absolutely superb; most massive tentpole effects-driven extravaganzas don't nearly such consistent or believable effects work - Ted is a detailed, thoughtful cartoon character, who interacts with his surroundings in such a nuanced and particular way that in hardly any time at all, it stops even really registering that he's not "there".
Minimally, then, we cannot accuse the filmmakers of laziness. Ted is a work of love and passion, believed in by the people who put it together; and while we may or may not agree that this much time and emotional energy is useful for a project whose signature moments involve a teddy bear discussing his sexual history, I will defend to the death MacFarlane's right to make the best possible version of that character that current technology allows. It shows in the finished project: this is a movie they believed in. God bless 'em.
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- Colin said...
For me, the genius (that's right, genius) of Seth MacFarlane isn't the randomness or the non-sequiturs or the potty humor but a certain cadence, a certain rhythm to his character's rants and diatribes, that is as unique and as instantly recognizable as "Seth MacFarlane" as a Wes Anderson movie is instantly recognizable as "Wes Anderson" - that, and an impulse to pursue jokes past their obvious punchlines into a more nebulous territory where they often seem as though they are in danger of fizzling, and then pulling a second, or even third, less obvious punchline seemingly out of thin air, an impulse that strikes me as sort of intellectually brave and even highbrow, even if the content of those jokes is decidedly lowbrow. Don't get me wrong. I have every faith in the accuracy of your judgment of "Ted" as merely "fine". No defensive fanboy, I. But I do think - or at least I hope - that someday Seth MacFarlane will do the really brave thing, forsake his lowbrow roots, and surprise us all with a movie on par with Woody Allen. But, like the protagonist of "Ted", he first has to grow up.
- KingKubrick said...
I respect your right to your opinion. I laughed at a few Family Guy episodes in the early seasons so I can understand the appeal but Woody Allen is one of the greatest, if not the greatest screenwriting genius in the history of Cinema. I'm not even attempting to be hyperbolic. Maybe MacFarlane has it in him, Allen wasn't a genius out of the gate, but it's a long, long shot.
- Tim said...
Colin- Oh, I'm certainly not saying that pro-MacFarlane sentiments are unwelcome; I just suspect that the ones that would come in from a rotten link would be less constructive than some. I do agree that the man can write a good snatch of dialogue - I don't like to give away good jokes in reviewing comedies, but there's an exchange early on involving the phrase "hugging gun" that was, I thought hilarious. That said...
...Woody Allen is in a class above everybody else, and I even thing his "early funny ones" had quite a lot of out-and-out genius in them, unless by "out of the gate" you mean his wobbly '60s stuff and not his pre-Annie Hall run as a writer-director.
Zev- There are better Wahlberg performances out there, but he's still definitely "good". There is certainly less Pinocchio in it than you might think.
- Colin said...
OK, so I was probably overreaching with the Woody Allen comparison. And I'll admit my high opinion of him is as informed, if not more informed, by what I know of him from interviews as it is by his works. But I think the man is incredibly smart, incredibly talented, and incredibly creative, and if he's limited by anything it's lack of ambition, or fear of accusations of pretentiousness, or of having sold out, from his fratboy fan base, or something. And KingKubrick, it's actually the later episodes of Family Guy, when MacFarlane started becoming less concerned with narrative, that I find funniest.
- Faster, Harder, More Challenging GeoX said...
I really *do* like early Family Guy stuff, but that's very easy to forget, since the later stuff is just incredibly lazy. Also, the misogyny. Oh, the misogyny. That shit is enough to sour me on the man for good.
- JD said...
When Family Guy first came out, it really did seem edgy (to me, at least)--I had never seen anything that crass or grotesque on broadcast TV, and cutaways and funny-unfunny-funny again jokes seemed new. It routinely generated a great deal of controversy, and got axed after the third season, leaving people to wonder how much futher it would've pushed the envelope.
But then it came back from the dead, saw the TV landscape move towards more graphic stuff (CSI, I'm looking at you), spawned imitators (and had The Simpsons move towards grosser humor), got syndicated on a number of channels and saw two further series created by the same man.
So the original episodes lost their impact because they no longer seemed fresh, and the new episodes try to make up for it by going back to a dry well for another fight scene/cutaway gag/blood-and-guts/one-joke character bit, or being lazily offensive under the guise of being "edgy."
And that's why I can't stand to watch "Family Guy" anymore. That, and the character design and animation is absolutely hideous.
- Riley Redgate said...
With the impending Ted 2, I thought I'd glance back at your first Ted review. And I do feel weird commenting on this three years after the fact, but I've got to say, I'm kind of surprised by this review. Specifically, I'm surprised you didn't address that one scene involving the Asian neighbor who barges in with a live duck in one hand, stared at by a room full of white people as he yells in the most stereotypically garbled accent. As an Asian-American, I've never in my life felt more alienated/othered/outright mocked by a movie than this one. (Not even frickin' Sixteen Candles felt more baldly racist.)
I remember that scene so vividly, despite my earnest efforts to erase this whole movie from my memory. And I remember walking out of the theater wondering if, at this point in time, white people still just see all Asian people as this movie does: as thin, ridiculous caricatures with names to be laughed at and a complete inability to culturally assimilate. Seriously -- "This my home long time"? Christ, MacFarlane, really?
I don't know. It's been like 3 years and I'm still weirdly angry about this movie, and I don't even know why. Maybe it's because I thought I was signing up for a chill, probably-bro-ish comedy, and what I got was a sucker punch to Asian-Americans' collective dignity.
(not even starting on the misogyny because jesus, where does one begin there)
- Tim said...
I truly remember not a single goddamn thing about the movie at this point, and that doesn't make me even a little bit sad. But I'm perfectly willing to believe in your take on it, because of course MacFarlane would do that. "Not even frickin' Sixteen Candles felt more baldly racist" - that's about as savage a criticism as it gets.
Anyway, it'll be something else to anticipate hating about Ted 2.


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Lucene is a Java library that adds text indexing and searching capabilities to an application. It is not a complete application that one can just download, install, and run. It offers a simple, yet powerful core API. To start using it, one needs to know only a few Lucene classes and methods.
Lucene offers two main services: text indexing and text searching. These two activities are relatively independent of each other, although indexing naturally affects searching. In this article I will focus on text indexing, and we will look at some of the core Lucene classes that provide text indexing capabilities.
Lucene was originally written by Doug Cutting and was available for download from SourceForge. It joined the Apache Software Foundation's Jakarta family of open source server-side Java products in September of 2001. With each release since then, the project has enjoyed more visibility, attracting more users and developers. As of November 2002, Lucene version 1.2 has been released, with version 1.3 in the works. In addition to those organizations mentioned on the "Powered by Lucene" page, I have heard of FedEx, Overture, Mayo Clinic, Hewlett Packard, New Scientist magazine, Epiphany, and others using, or at least evaluating, Lucene.
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Like most other Jakarta projects, Lucene is distributed as pre-compiled
binaries or in source form. You can download the latest official release from
Lucene's release page. There are also nightly builds, if you'd like to use the
newest features. To demonstrate Lucene usage, I will assume that you will use
the pre-compiled distribution. Simply download the Lucene .jar file and add its
path to your
CLASSPATH environment variable. If you choose to get
the source distribution and build it yourself, you will need Jakarta Ant and
JavaCC, which is available as a free download. Although the company that
created JavaCC no longer exists, you can still get JavaCC from the URL listed
in the References section of this article.
Before we jump into code, let's look at some of the fundamental Lucene
classes for indexing text. They are
Document, and
IndexWriter is used to create a new index and to add
Documents to an existing index.
Before text is indexed, it is passed through an
Analyzers are in charge of extracting indexable tokens out of text
to be indexed, and eliminating the rest. Lucene comes with a few different
Analyzer implementations. Some of them deal with skipping stop
words (frequently-used words that don't help distinguish one document from the
other, such as "a," "an," "the," "in," "on," etc.), some deal with converting all tokens
to lowercase letters, so that searches are not case-sensitive, and so on.
An index consists of a set of
Documents, and each
Document consists of one or more
Fields. Each
Field has a name and a value. Think of a
Document as
a row in a RDBMS, and
Fields as columns in that row.
Now, let's consider the simplest scenario, where you have a piece of text to
index, stored in an instance of
String. Here is how you could do
it, using the classes described above:
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
* LuceneIndexExample class provides a simple
* example of indexing with Lucene. It creates a fresh
* index called "index-1" in a temporary directory every
* time it is invoked and adds a single document with a
* single field to it.
public class LuceneIndexExample
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
String text = "This is the text to index with Lucene";
String indexDir =
System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir", "tmp") +
System.getProperty("file.separator") + "index-1";
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer();
boolean createFlag = true;
IndexWriter writer =
new IndexWriter(indexDir, analyzer, createFlag);
Document document = new Document();
document.add(Field.Text("fieldname", text));
Let's step through the code. Lucene stores its indices in directories
on the file system. Each index is contained within a single directory, and
multiple indices should not share a directory. The first parameter in
IndexWriter's constructor specifies the directory where the index
should be stored. The second parameter provides the implementation of
Analyzer that should be used for pre-processing the text before it
is indexed. This particular implementation of
Analyzer eliminates
stop words, converts tokens to lower case, and performs a few other small input
modifications, such as eliminating periods from acronyms. The last parameter is a
boolean flag that, when true, tells
IndexWriter to create a new
index in the specified directory, or overwrite an index in that directory, if it
already exists. A value of false instructs
IndexWriter to instead add
Documents to an existing index. We then create a blank
Document, and add a
Field called
fieldname to it,
with a value of the
String that we want to index. Once the
Document is populated, we add it to the index via the instance of
IndexWriter. Finally, we close the index. This is important, as
it ensures that all index changes are flushed to the disk.
As I already mentioned,
Analyzers are components that
pre-process input text. They are also used when searching. Because the search
string has to be processed the same way that the indexed text was processed, it
is crucial to use the same
Analyzer for both indexing and
searching. Not using the same
Analyzer will result in invalid
search results.
Analyzer class is an abstract class, but Lucene comes with
a few concrete
Analyzers that pre-process their input in different
ways. Should you need to pre-process input text and queries in a way that is
not provided by any of Lucene's
Analyzers, you will need to
implement a custom
Analyzer. If you are indexing text with
non-Latin characters, for instance, you will most definitely need to do this.
In this example of a custom
Analyzer, we will assume we are
indexing text in English. Our
PorterStemAnalyzer will perform
Porter stemming on its input. As stated by its creator, the
Porter stemming algorithm (or "Porter stemmer") is a process for removing the
more common morphological and inflexional endings from words in English. Its main
function is to be part of a term normalization process that is usually done
when setting up Information Retrieval systems.
Analyzer will use an implementation of the Porter stemming
algorithm provided by Lucene's
PorterStemFilter class.
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.StopFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.LowerCaseTokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.PorterStemFilter;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.Hashtable;
* PorterStemAnalyzer processes input
* text by stemming English words to their roots.
* This Analyzer also converts the input to lower case
* and removes stop words. A small set of default stop
* words is defined in the STOP_WORDS
* array, but a caller can specify an alternative set
* of stop words by calling non-default constructor.
public class PorterStemAnalyzer extends Analyzer
private static Hashtable _stopTable;
* An array containing some common English words
* that are usually not useful for searching.
public static final String[] STOP_WORDS =
"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8",
"9", "000", "$",
"about", "after", "all", "also", "an", "and",
"another", "any", "are", "as", "at", "be",
"because", "been", "before", "being", "between",
"both", "but", "by", "came", "can", "come",
"could", "did", "do", "does", "each", "else",
"for", "from", "get", "got", "has", "had",
"he", "have", "her", "here", "him", "himself",
"his", "how","if", "in", "into", "is", "it",
"its", "just", "like", "make", "many", "me",
"might", "more", "most", "much", "must", "my",
"never", "now", "of", "on", "only", "or",
"other", "our", "out", "over", "re", "said",
"same", "see", "should", "since", "so", "some",
"still", "such", "take", "than", "that", "the",
"their", "them", "then", "there", "these",
"they", "this", "those", "through", "to", "too",
"under", "up", "use", "very", "want", "was",
"way", "we", "well", "were", "what", "when",
"where", "which", "while", "who", "will",
"with", "would", "you", "your",
"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i",
"j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r",
"s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"
* Builds an analyzer.
public PorterStemAnalyzer()
* Builds an analyzer with the given stop words.
* @param stopWords a String array of stop words
public PorterStemAnalyzer(String[] stopWords)
_stopTable = StopFilter.makeStopTable(stopWords);
* Processes the input by first converting it to
* lower case, then by eliminating stop words, and
* finally by performing Porter stemming on it.
* @param reader the Reader that
* provides access to the input text
* @return an instance of TokenStream
public final TokenStream tokenStream(Reader reader)
return new PorterStemFilter(
new StopFilter(new LowerCaseTokenizer(reader),
tokenStream(Reader) method is the core of the
PorterStemAnalyzer. It lower-cases input, eliminates stop words,
and uses the
PorterStemFilter to remove common morphological and
inflexional endings. This class includes only a small set of stop words for
English. When using Lucene in a production system for indexing and searching
text in English, I suggest that you use a more complete list of stop words,
such as this one.
To use our new
PorterStemAnalyzer class, we need to modify a
single line of our
LuceneIndexExample class shown above, to
PorterStemAnalyzer instead of
Old line:
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer();
New line:
Analyzer analyzer = new PorterStemAnalyzer();
The rest of the code remains unchanged. Anything indexed after this change
will pass through the Porter stemmer. The process of text indexing with
PorterStemAnalyzer is depicted in Figure 1.
Figure 1: The indexing process with
Because different
Analyzers process their text input
differently, note again that changing the
Analyzer for an existing
index is dangerous. It will result in erroneous search results later, in the
same way that using a different
Analyzer for both indexing and
searching will produce invalid results.
Lucene offers four different types of fields from which a developer can
Text. Which field type you should use depends on how you want
to use that field and its values.
Keyword fields are not tokenized, but are indexed and stored
in the index verbatim. This field is suitable for fields whose original value
should be preserved in its entirety, such as URLs, dates, personal names,
Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, etc.
UnIndexed fields are neither tokenized nor indexed, but their
value is stored in the index word for word. This field is suitable for fields
that you need to display with search results, but whose values you will never
search directly. Because this type of field is not indexed, searches against
it are slow. Since the original value of a field of this type is stored in the
index, this type is not suitable for storing fields with very large values, if
index size is an issue.
UnStored fields are the opposite of
UnIndexed fields.
Fields of this type are tokenized and indexed, but are not stored in the index.
This field is suitable for indexing large amounts of text that does not need to
be retrieved in its original form, such as the bodies of Web pages, or any
other type of text document.
Text fields are tokenized, indexed, and stored in the index.
This implies that fields of this type can be searched, but be cautious about
the size of the field stored as
Text field.
If you look back at the
LuceneIndexExample class, you will see
that I used a
Text field:
document.add(Field.Text("fieldname", text));
If we wanted to change the type of field "fieldname," we would call one of
the other methods of class
document.add(Field.Keyword("fieldname", text));
document.add(Field.UnIndexed("fieldname", text));
document.add(Field.UnStored("fieldname", text));
Although the
Field.UnIndexed, and
Field.UnStored calls may at first look like calls to constructors, they are
really just calls to different
Field class methods. Table 1
summarizes the different field types.
Table 1: An overview of different field types.
|Field method/type
Field.Keyword(String, String)
Field.UnIndexed(String, String)
Field.UnStored(String, String)
Field.Text(String, String)
Field.Text(String, Reader)
In this article, we have learned about adding basic text indexing
capabilities to your applications using
IndexWriter and its associated
classes. We have also developed a custom
Analyzer that can
perform Porter stemming on its input. Finally, we have looked at different
field types and learned what each of them can be used for. In the next article
of this Lucene series, we shall look at indexing in more depth, and address
issues such as performance and multi-threading.
Otis Gospodnetic is an active Apache Jakarta member, a member of Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, a developer of Lucene and maintainer of the jGuru's Lucene FAQ.
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Update time.....
We have had a painful few days. I spent yesterday just holding my LO after each BF session - to see how long she would last between feeds. The longest she lasted was one hour and 15 minutes (from the start of one feed until wanting the next). One time I managed to get her to sleep in her crib for a little while.
I understand what you guys are all saying about her needing/wanting to be with me rather than in her crib........but if that is the case, why does she settle down to sleep immediately after she has a bottle feed?
This morning we did 6 hours of exclusive BF-ing (ie no supplemental bottles after BF-ing). She went for 1-2 hours between feeds, but was not happy. Again, I got her into her crib once (for about 20 minutes), the other times I held her - she would fall asleep in my arms, but as soon as she was disturbed (even by me moving slightly), she would start crying and rooting. The last BF-ing session she only managed to last 30 minutes, then fed again, then only went 30 minutes again. As it was the end of the 6 hour window I gave her a bottle - she went nuts with the bottle, chugged the whole thing, and is now sleeping in her crib!! That's why I don't understand....if she is getting enough from BF, why is she soooo different (behaviour wise) when she bottle feeds?
While I would love to have her with me all day, I have to go back to work in a few weeks, so I don't see how it is going to help us to get her used to me carrying her around all day - only to then have to go 9 hours a day without seeing me.
I would like to be able to BF her when we are together (once I return to work I mean), and am concerned that she is maybe associating the supplementary bottle with sleeping (ie even if she gets enough from BF-ing, does she feel like she has to have the bottle to be able to sleep).
I'm thinking that I should keep doing a certain period of the day where we only BF, and then give her bottles for the rest of the day - in order to transition her to what our routine will be when I'm back at work. I'm hoping that the more we do that, the more she will get used to BF-ing, and will be content with it.
If that doesn't work then we may be nearing the end of our BF-ing. There is no way I can keep up all of the work associated with BF-ing (BF, bottle feed, pump) once I'm working again - I'm barely managing to do it now. The thought of giving up makes me very sad, as I love BF-ing her.....but I don't know what else to do.
I know a few people suggested co-sleeping, but we are really against that - just our personal choice (nothing against anyone who chooses to do it)