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The department wants to remind snowmobilers to use caution when driving to prevent more tragedies on trails across the state.
"Speed, alcohol and night-time operation are the three most common factors with our fatal accidents," said DNR Conservation Warden and Snowmobile Safety Administrator Gary Eddy said.
In the 2011-2012 season, there were ten snowmobile fatalities.
The DNR is encouraging snowmobilers to:
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-Practice "Zero Alcohol"—that means refraining from drinking any alcohol until you're home and done riding for the day.
-Take a safety course. Snowmobile safety certification is required of all operators at least age 12 and born on or after January 1, 1985.
The La Crosse County snowmobile trails opened at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 22. Trail groomers have reported a lot of ice under the fresh snow and caution snowmobilers to be careful.
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Zaillian leaves indelible stamp on 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Hotly anticipated film teams scribe with Fincher for first time
As the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Schindler's List" and co-scribe of such acclaimed films as "Clear and Present Danger," "A Civil Action," "Hannibal," and most recently, "Moneyball," there's no question that Steven Zaillian has the ability to create compelling book adaptations for the big screen.
Successful screenplays notwithstanding, Zaillian recognized, though, that he had a bit more of an onus to contend with when prepping the harrowing thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" for the big screen. As if the fact that author Stieg Larsson's original novel was an international best-seller wasn't daunting enough, the book had already been adapted into a hugely successful film in Sweden in 2009.
Undaunted by the inevitable comparisons sure to come his way over his take on the novel, Zaillian said the best way to deal with any potential scrutiny was not to deal with the original film at all.
"The notions are sort of there in the back of my mind, but it doesn't make me do something that I normally wouldn't do in any other situation," Zaillian told me in a recent interview. "I wasn't able to keep completely out of my mind everyone who has read the book, but I could keep everyone out of my mind who had seen the Swedish version of the movie because I haven't seen the movie. I have no idea what that movie is like, so I approached our version as I would adapting any other book."
And while the American version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" has been cut, printed and is ready to be unleashed upon audiences Tuesday night, Zaillian said that will see the Swedish version eventually -- but probably not until his screenplay isn't so fresh on in his mind.
"I'm afraid to see it now because I'll say, 'Oh, wow, we should have done THAT. That was really good,'" Zaillian said, laughing. "I didn't really see the value of seeing the other version going into our release."
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" first follows the separate lives of disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and a brilliant but traumatically damaged computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Their paths eventually converge, when a successful Swedish business magnate (Christopher Plummer) hires Mikael to try to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of his niece 40 years earlier.
Utilizing their adept research skills, keen senses of perception and a little bit of happenstance, Mikael and Lisbeth discover the mystery involves far more brutality and carnage than they ever could have imagined.
While Zaillian didn't have access to Larsson, who died in 2004 ("I always want the author to feel good about the script being made from his book," Zaillian said, "And if they do object to it, I want to know why"), he's confident that when he eventually meets the author's family, they'll be happy with the adaptation.
"I guess you could say that there's a lot in book that's not in the movie, but that's because the book is 600 pages long," Zaillian observed. "But in terms of the important moments, it's there, I think. I hope they'll like it."
Zaillian's work has attracted him to several A-list directors over the years -- from John Schlesinger and Steven Spielberg, to Sydney Pollack and Ridley Scott (twice).
Working with David Fincher for the first time with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," Zaillian, 58, knew that Fincher the perfect person was at the help to handle the dark complexity of the screenplay. After all, prior to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Social Network," Fincher cut his teeth on the crime thriller genre with such riveting films as "Seven," "Fight Club" and "Zodiac."
The odd thing, Zaillian said, was the less the two worked together, the more successful and efficient the screenwriter-director relationship became.
"We talked throughout the shooting of the film, but it was more like I was on-call if David wanted something clarified or revised -- he's pretty self-sufficient," Zaillian said, laughing. "I never inserted myself into the process. I went to Sweden for about 10 days to do some revisions and talk with the actors and go through the scenes."
"Otherwise, David doesn't need anybody else there to tell him what to do. He's does his work ahead of time and we worked very closely on the script until he was happy," Zaillian added. "Once he's happy, he's on his own, and that's the way he likes it."
Now that the film is completed, Zaillian said he's the happy one -- and concluded that Fincher has proven once again that he's earned his reputation as a genius director.
"When people describe him directing 'Seven,' they might think of David as being particularly good at directing at a certain kind of story or a certain kind of scene -- but the truth is he's good at every scene," Zaillian said. "He approaches every scene as if it's the most important scene in the movie. Whether its scenes of extreme violence, scenes of tenderness or even scenes of people walking down the street, it doesn't matter. He approaches it like it's crucial to the movie to do it right."
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Anyways no one cares about Vargas...he's done. Cotto on the other hand should fight Judah for a rematch...that's if Judah mans up. Judah had Cotto hurt early but the tides turned after the couple of low blows (that were supposedly not intentional). Regardless that changed the momentum of the fight. It neutralized Judah's quickness for long periods of time which allowed Judah's face to be turned into one big open cut. I think the fans want to see it...both would get rich, another sold out Garden...what more could they both ask for?
""I heard that," trainer Mayweather said. "Good for Tony the Tyger. He only told the truth and the truth, as the saying goes, will set you free. We've got a perfect game plan. Tony said that Roy is yesterday's news in boxing and he is correct but once Tony puts a real blast on him in Biloxi, Roy Jones will become ancient history. There is no doubt in my mind that Hanshaw, at age 28, is in prime time while Roy Jones is just another summer rerun. We respect the man for what he used to be."
Mayweather Sr. has been known to run his mouth at people but now he's running his mouth to RJJ...the best of fighter of this generation...in his past couple of fights we have seen the old RJ. The only problem is that he is gun shy after getting KO'ed two consecutive fights. If he would let his machine gun hands go then everyone will be turn into swiss cheese and he will reign over the world again...just like the 90s.
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Few housing options for central Vermont retirees
Jeb Wallace-Brodeur / Staff Photo Residents gather for an afternoon visit at Westview Meadows in Montpelier on Friday. Clockwise from top right are: Wolfe Schmokel, Julio Lavin, Jan Spinks, Hannah Wasserman, Alban Richey, Edith Kent and Margaret Richey.
If you are in or nearing retirement and want to move to a local retirement community, few opportunities are available in central Vermont. Only two establishments, one in Montpelier and the other in Stowe, offer retirement living in the form of apartments that can be purchased with amenities suitable to active seniors. Westview Meadows at Montpelier and Copley Woodlands of Stowe are the areas sole properties dedicated to this living arrangement.
The type of retirement community discussed here does not include assisted living, which is for people who need help with the activities of daily living, such as dressing, eating and bathing, and cannot safely live alone. Neither does it include nursing homes.
Vermont does support retirement community living, but these communities are primarily in the Champlain Valley, Chittenden County and southern Vermont not in central Vermont, defined here as Washington, Lamoille and Orange counties.
Westview Meadows owned by OM Fisher Homes Inc., which also operates the Gary Home on Main Street in Montpelier is nine years old. The complex has 36 independent living apartments and 16 residential care apartments. Executive Director Dawn Provost said 50 people are on the waiting list for apartments. Currently three apartments are available, the first time for such availability since opening. Normally there is a years wait for an apartment, she said.
For retirees, Westview offers five different sized apartments ranging from a one-bedroom with one bath to two bedrooms and two baths, with a den. Each comes with a fully equipped kitchen. Apartments are purchased at a cost ranging from $150,500 to $249,500 depending on size. There is a monthly maintenance fee of $1,715 to $2,300 depending on size. Eighty percent of the purchase price is returned when an apartment is sold.
At Westview 60 percent of residents come from Vermont, most from the local area, Provost said. Forty percent are out-of-staters. These new residents, she said, moved here to be close to their children who live here.
While the monthly maintenance fee for an apartment may seem steep to some, when costs of owning a home are considered, said Provost, the fee is realistic. You have to look at your living expenses and see what you get here, and for a majority of people its cheaper to live here, she said. Residents, she said, wont have to pay for heat, snow removal, cable television and housekeeping, and one meal a day is provided. Residents do have to buy renters insurance, amounting to about 25 percent of homeowners insurance.
What makes Westview attractive to retirees, said Provost, is security with a secure building and friendships. According to her, it is a place with people who are active in their communities and a few who still work.
The primary reason people move here is that people want to retire, relax. Its what you saved your money for, she said. These are people who do not want to worry about leaving their home empty while they are away traveling.
Provost sees trends in her industry that may not be favorable. More and more people are waiting to move into communities like this, she said. They wait for either a health problem or a house problem before moving.
She does not see much competition in the central Vermont area from new retirement communities. What is affecting her industry is companies providing home health products and devices so seniors can stay in their homes.
The other nearby community for active retirees is in Stowe. Copley Woodlands has 40 units and provides on-site services including one meal a day in a dining room, scheduled van transportation, recreational, cultural and fitness activities, housekeeping, maintenance, night security and personal services coordination.
The facility opened in 1998; its units cost between $165,000 and $210,000.
Currently 10 units are unoccupied. Penny Davis, the executive director, said the relatively large number of unoccupied units is due to deaths, the stock market dropping in value, and the generally weak economy.
There the monthly maintenance fee is $1,823 for single occupancy and $2,430 for double occupancy. The fee includes all utilities, transport and outings. Units are also available to rent at a monthly cost of $1,656 with a service fee of $1,823 or $2,430 monthly, depending on occupancy.
Cost is an important factor in who can move to a community like Copley or Westview. I would think you have to be upper income to be able to afford to live here, said Davis. The people here are primarily professional people.
Davis said the common thread bringing residents to Copley was that they had family nearby.
A retirement community like Copley Woodlands or Westview Meadows may not be affordable for a large number of central Vermonters. Private-market retirement communities, and affordable retirement housing as well, depend on some level of scale to offer services, which is why we dont see as many facilities in rural areas or small cities, said Sarah Carpenter with the Vermont Housing Finance Agency.
Accountants say it is difficult to figure exactly how much money a person needs to purchase a unit at these facilities. But, they agree, a reasonably sized bank account is needed.
Without savings theyd have to have a few hundred a month for incidentals, and then medical expenses is the big one plus travel and personal enjoyment expenses, said Jeff Fothergill in Montpelier. He sees the inclusive cost of these units as limiting outside expenses to what you want for your personal life. Probably everything else is covered.
Fothergill does not think people living primarily on Social Security can afford Westview or Copley. He does not see this form of retirement living as realistic for folks without other income sources and substantial savings. Its a matrix between savings and income sources like Social Security and pensions.
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damn, i tought nobody was interested in trading for spree...
i totally disagree with this one, it would have been better that rose trade
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L.A. has had internal discussions about trading for the Knicks' small forward, even running his name by a certain center who had trouble getting his shot off against Yao Ming.
No word on what it will take to get Sprewell, although the two Lakers mentioned, Derek Fisher and Samaki Walker, add up to only $4.5 million in salaries. That's about $8 mil shy of Sprewell, so more players would have to go to the Knicks.
Fisher and Walker???
that's just unacceptable!
damn, i tought nobody was interested in trading for spree...
i totally disagree with this one, it would have been better that rose trade
don't get so pumped, this trade won't happen
this is the stupidest thing i ever heard..
i just can't imagine spree wearing a laker jersey...
swiff, why do you think it won't happen?
do what you gotta do!
after his 9-9 record i think the lakers became more interested in aquiring him
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but still don't think will happen!
why not?
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he's more like to be a sixer
do you think that a spree-van horn trade would be acceptable for the knicks??The Knicks are shopping the 6-5 Sprewell because their three aims are to get younger, get longer and obtain a player or players with shorter-term contracts at less than maximum. The Sixers' Keith Van Horn fits the first two criteria but not the financial one. Van Horn is making $12M this season - similar to Sprewell - and has one more contract year. That extra year is a crucial factor in the new way of Cablevision thinking, with James Dolan facing a $40 million luxury-tax bill this summer.
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that would be the stupidest trade ever, after the ewing one
van horn has some good rebounding, but spree is a better 3 pointer
now when he plays so well and unselfishly we want to trade him?
tipically layden!
it better be just a fake rumor
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good point there.. i agree
i also believe we shouldn't do any transactions till the end of the season
"I just want to be known that I played hard, did what I had to do to help the team win," Latrell Sprewell said when asked how he'd like to be remembered as a Knick.
"Anyone who's seen me play here pretty much understands that."
Tonight, Sprewell could be playing his final Garden game as a Knick.
this makes me feels so bad..., it's kinda depressive.. anyway he will be remebered as one of the best players we ever had, as a player that made history in NY
i still hope it won't happen, but if it does, i hope we get somebody who can replace him
if anybody remembers last season end, there were all kind of rumors about trading spree, but in the end he remained a knick
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don't know if the links are still working, but you can figure it out from the titles2002-05-04: Lee Spiked for NBA Lottery Picks
2002-04-21: Shooting From the Lip: Dunk Chaney, Not Spree
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2002-04-18: Latrell, Dolan Confer
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2002-04-17: For a Change, Knicks Will Hold Line
2002-04-17: Spree's Fine Mess
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there are still reasons to worry, right?Trade rumors continue to swirl around both the Blazers and the Knicks as Wednesday's trade deadline loomed. The most talk was centered on whether New York would deal Latrell Sprewell. ``I can't speak for everybody, but I've tried to just focus on the road trip and keep us in good playoff position,'' Houston said about the distraction. ... Knicks reserve center Michael Doleac, who went to high school at Portland's Central Catholic, earned a warm round of applausewhen he entered the game.
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i no we have to rebuilt, but do we really have to deal spree? is this the only way?
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When having a Virtualbox guest system running and pressing the right Ctrl key to capture the keyboard, awesome still captures all key combinations. E.g. Mod4+Right goes to the next tag instead of passing the key combination through to the guest system.
This works in serveral other windows managers like xmonad and openbox so I consider this as a bug of awesome.
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I can confirm this. However awesome is grabbing keys, it seems to be higher priority than virtualbox in keyboard grab mode. I've had this happen on awesome 3.5.9 and virtualbox 4.0.2_OSE


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Clearing the air around e-cigarette facts and fictionJune 15,2014Parents have been lighting up with questions about e-cigarettes and whether they are really a safe alternative to regular cigarette smoking. Let me take a deep breath and cough out some information on this topic.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices designed to look and feel like regular cigarettes. E-cigarettes contain cartridges filled with a liquid that contains nicotine, as well as other chemicals that may be cancer-causing, and thus have the same addictive potential as a real cigarette.
In fact, some e-cigarettes can have as much nicotine as a whole pack of cigarettes. The heating device in the e-cigarette converts the liquid in the cartridge into vapor, which the user inhales. The process is referred to not as smoking but as vaping.
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Use of e-cigarettes has doubled, with one in 10 high school students recently reporting having tried an e-cigarette. These are not regulated by the FDA and thus do not have to follow the same rules as other regulated nicotine products, which makes their purchase easier for children and teens, especially online.
Thus the name of the game is to educate your children and teens about these devices so they do not use them, let alone become addicted. If you or your teen smokes and wants to use e-cigarettes to quit, remind him or her that this is not a great idea, since e-cigarettes mimic smoking too closely to change the smoking behavior. You and your child are better off trying nicotine gum or a patch to prevent nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
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i agree David. Its the games against the teams around us in the league that are most important
If any of the promoted sides get within 30 of Fev this season that's their result of the year , but those games are irrelevant.
Dual Reg -again!
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well now that barrow are sick of losing there have made a u-turn on there stance on dual reg. i wonder if there fans will do the same, they have a topic called workington vikings basically just having a dig at us. but they dont seem to realise we beat them easily using 1 playing and travel to york with none in our squad. in my opinion if your going to have these principles you stick with them, not change your mind after 5 games.
Barrow are not the only one's doing u-turn over dual reg, although Holty sounds as if he is going down the loaning route rather than full partnership DR. A certain poster on here that posted umpteen posts on various forums about playing DR correctly has been crying out this week for his team to select 2 or 3 from their SL partner. Double standards seems to be the in term at the moment.
I remember when .............................
"It is impossible not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Workington Town, the fall guys this season for the Super League's determination to retain it's European dimension, in the shape of Paris. While the French have had every assistance to survive, the importance of having a flagship in a heartland area like West Cumbria has been conveniently forgotten." - Dave Hadfield - Independent 25th August 1996.
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Its now not a level playing feld with the antics of other clubs, so if he needs to loan players then he has to. At least with a loan you get a player for a minimum of a month and none of this week to week business.
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Craven, Davies, Gilmore, Gore, Kavanagh, Lawton, Owens and Pickersgill have either made 1 or zero appearances for Widnes so far.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Holty then went and got one or 2 of the above on a months loan?
Posted 09 March 2013 - 08:09 AM
A certain poster on here that posted umpteen posts on various forums about playing DR correctly has been crying out this week for his team to select 2 or 3 from their SL partner. Double standards seems to be the in term at the moment.
Keith what are you saying?! I can't believe this could be possible! Unlike a Mr BKM who appears to feel that you mean him and has started a thread dedicated to you. You are so lucky Keith, he obviously feels you will be compelled to answer his challenge because he has made a thread dedicated to it. But as you haven't named him I really can't see the point of his ire. Next it will be pistols at dawn on Parton shore!!
Keith you must learn to be much more considerate and not damage his delicate feelings with your reckless accusations and loose language.....
Posted 09 March 2013 - 08:38 AM
there big and hard hiding behind a computer screen!
shouldnt name people on forums...its out of order....
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Posted 09 March 2013 - 03:04 PM
Craven is out for two months , Gilmore & Owens have played regular in there under 19's , Gore has just come back from injury and has had game time ,Lawton has only just started training after breaking his hands. Davies wouldn't get in the Barrow side at the moment Kav has played twice BUT Pickers could really do with some game time . Hulmey has been playing and from what I hear might have another option for games if Workington are okay. Lawton was supposed to be on a years loan Worky before he got injured no not sure where that stands now
There's plenty of Widnes squad players who need some game time, apart from Hulme of course, as they have been twiddling their thumbs the last 4 - 5 weeks. Widnes will be keen they need to be match-fit if they need to be called into the first team as and when injuries kick-in.
Craven, Davies, Gilmore, Gore, Kavanagh, Lawton, Owens and Pickersgill have either made 1 or zero appearances for Widnes so far.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Holty then went and got one or 2 of the above on a months loan?
Posted 09 March 2013 - 05:36 PM
Lee Morton
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Posted 09 March 2013 - 10:27 PM
get linked up dual reg lee. Get one or two a week to boost the squad and if your lads bag a win the confidence will grow. You got haven soon they are there for the taking.
if we dont bulk up our (raiders) squad soon it'll be relegation for sure unfortunately.


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Mike McCarthy clearly had had enough. The topic had been brought up repeatedly ever since the 2013 NFL Draft concluded, so the Green Bay Packers coach – and action film aficionado, who knew? – answered the question with a question.
McCarthy had just been asked for the umpteenth time about the potential impact of a vastly improved running game, after quarterback Aaron Rodgers and what had been a virtually unstoppable offense in 2011 saw a steady diet of two-high safety looks throughout the 2012 season.
With not one but two big-name rookie running backs having been added in the draft – second-round pick Eddie Lacy of Alabama and fourth-round pick Johnathan Franklin of UCLA – and the offensive line having been overhauled, it seemed to be worth asking: Did the guy calling the plays – McCarthy – believe he could get opposing defenses to respect the ground game enough to force them out of those two-shell looks and stop daring his team to run the ball against them.
McCarthy leaned back in his chair and smiled.
"Did you ever see the movie The Fugitive?" he asked. "It's awesome."
The coach, of course, was referring to the 1993 action hit starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, based on the 1960s television show.
"You remember that scene up in the gutter, where he's getting ready to jump off the waterfall?" McCarthy continued. "Harrison Ford turns around and he says, 'I didn't kill my wife.' And what does Tommie Lee Jones say?
I don't care, came the reply.
"Exactly," McCarthy said. "I. Don't. Care. Now, what was your question?"
Can you get defenses to respect your run game?
"I. Don't. Care. I don't care," McCarthy repeated. "Because we're going to run it when we're going to run it, and we're going to throw it when we want to throw it."
As the play-caller, McCarthy will indeed make those decisions, with Rodgers having some freedom at the line of scrimmage – as he's always had – to check from a run to a pass or vice versa. But while McCarthy can claim until the cows come home that he doesn't care what his opponents think about his running backs – DuJuan Harris, Alex Green, James Starks, Lacy and Franklin – the fact remains that defenses' lack of respect for what Cedric Benson, Green, Starks, Harris and Ryan Grant might do was indeed an issue for the fifth-highest scoring offense in the NFL last year.
The Packers haven't had a 100-yard rusher in their last 43 regular-season games, more than twice as long as any other active streak in the NFL. And according to ESPN Stats & Information, the Packers' running backs have combined for 12 rushing touchdowns and are averaging just 3.8 yards per rush over the last three seasons – the fewest in the NFL for both categories. No wonder teams played both their safeties back to take away the deep ball and force Rodgers & Co. to drive the length of the field on them.
During his 2011 NFL MVP season, Rodgers had 40 completions of 25 yards or more while starting 15 games. (He sat out the regular-season finale when there was nothing to play for.) Last year, in 16 starts, Rodgers had 33 such plays.
"If teams want to play us a 2-shell defense, we're going to have to be able to run them out of it," offensive coordinator Tom Clements said. "If we're able to do that, get them into some 1-high looks, that's to our advantage. So we're going to try to be efficient in each aspect.
"(The lack of a running threat) had an effect. In previous years, our action passing game was very productive. We hit some big shots down the field. And we didn't get the type of reaction on the run-fakes that we had gotten previously, when we were able to run the ball better. Hopefully we get that and they have to come up and stop it, and we get that reaction."
Which running back will present that threat will be decided in training camp, which kicks off July 26. Harris finished the season as the starter, having moved up from the practice squad on Dec. 1 and announced his presence in his Packers debut against Detroit at Lambeau Field on Dec. 9, running seven times for 31 yards – including an 11-yard run on his first carry that saw him barrel over Lions safety Ricardo Silva. Later, Harris added a 14-yard touchdown run and ended up playing 126 snaps in regular- and postseason play, carrying a total of 62 times for 257 yards (4.15 yards per carry) and four touchdowns in six games.
But Harris missed the entire offseason – first with an undisclosed injury, then after having a fist-sized cyst surgically removed from his lung – and he'll have to fend off the two rookies and two ex-starters to remain in the go-to role.
"It would have been a big camp to get him back for since he hasn't gone through one with us last year," running backs coach Alex Van Pelt admitted. "Competition brings out the best in everybody. It's going to be tough to fight for spots and fight for carries, but that's what you do. Especially the running back room, you need that depth."
You also need productivity, and as McCarthy well knows, Jones' tough-guy character, U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard, does indeed end up caring that Dr. Richard Kimble did not in fact kill his wife. Perhaps by season's end, McCarthy will be acknowledging a run game that made a world of difference.
"We've tweaked our run game a little bit and we're doing some stuff that we think will help us improve, regardless of the runners. So I'm excited about the run game," Van Pelt, who was a quarterback as a player, said. "If you can tackle the running back with six in the box and keep him to 2, 3 yards a carry, you can sit in Cover-2 all day and play the pass. What we've got to do is make them honor our run game and have to bring an extra guy down. That's what we're shooting for.
"It's frustrating for the quarterback to run the ball against Cover-2 for no gain or 2 yards. If we have good numbers, we should have good angles in the run game and explosive gains. But it's everything coming together – receivers doing a great job blocking, the line, and the back feeling it the right way. But if we have good numbers, we should be successful in the run game."


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anyone got advice for them?
i'm getting ready to send out a 4-track EP/tape that clocks in at 8:50 total.
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Posted 23 August 2013 - 11:11 AM
be polite, release stuff on your own, develop an independent following, do a few things that will make yourself stand out, bring a solid square deal to their table, maybe even tip it in their favor as incentive.
Posted 03 October 2013 - 09:23 AM
Advice on sending out a demo? Include a cover letter, a bio (one sheet), a photo, the demo with contact info. Send to labels you think will actually sign you. If you have press clippings xerox them and send them too. Someone said you should showcase yourself more when writing them. Specifically I took it as including quotes from past press. You want the label to know people are interested in you. Labels are a business, so money is first. They want to know that if they sign you, there'll be an audience already started to buy your product.
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Judgment for UkraineJanuary 27,2014We may have thought the Cold War ended in 1989 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the current unrest in Ukraine is a somber reminder that there still is a tense rivalry between the east and the west and that not every government embraces the democratic principles we may tend to take for granted.
The United States and the European Union both would like Ukraine to choose to ally itself, economically and politically, with the west. Russia, however, understandably is determined to preserve and promote its long-standing economic dominance in the former Soviet satellite.
Although the persistent protests in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities may appear to be largely over economic priorities, there are also disturbing vestiges of the old that is, decidedly undemocratic Soviet style of politics in the behavior of the nations political leadership.
The government led by President Viktor Yanukovich has imposed Draconian laws designed to discourage political protests and has spurned a pending agreement that could lead to Ukrainian membership in the European Union. His preference is to bolster his nations ties to Moscow.
One of the principal demands of the protesters is that the present regime free Yulia Tymoshenko, the founder of the political party known, in English, as Fatherland and the inspiration for 2004s Orange Revolution that at least temporarily brought new political freedoms and a long overdue sense of optimism to Ukraine.
The Yanukovich government imprisoned Tymoshenko in 2011 but her party has nevertheless nominated her for president in next years elections, even though she may still be in custody.
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Three things unite us, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said recently. The first is disagreement with the current economic situation; the second is that we see European integration as the only future for Ukraine; and the third is the struggle against the current authoritarian regime.
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On Saturday another opposition leader, Yatsenyuk, declined an invitation from President Yanukovich to become Ukraines prime minister while still another former international heavyweight boxing champion Klitschko refused to accept the position of deputy prime minister in charge of humanitarian issues.
This was a poisoned offer by Yanukovich to divide our protest movement, Klitschko declared. We will keep on negotiating and continue to demand early elections.
If both offers were designed to persuade the protesters to cease their demonstrations, the tactic was a total failure, at least for now.
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Telegraph linky. It's like something out of a 1970s sitcom...
"We didn't fight those fuzzie-wuzzies on the beaches just so young men could sodomise each other in time to the Archers theme tune"
"I want gay marriage banned because I want to be called gay when I skip and play outside of Parliament and it not mean something beastly and horrid"
"We swivel-eyed loons don't like these gay people at all, not only am I going to vote against it as it stands but I'll be submitting an amendment that allows such marriage but automatically deports them to our prison island of Australia along with anyone who disagrees with us"
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"Use your head," my mother used to warn. "You need to think about what you're doing." Regardless of Mom's attempts to drill this into my thick skull, I've always been a little late to the party when it comes to planning and more often than not suffer the consequences. No surprise then that with only a few pages left on this year's calendar, I'm falling behind schedule as the holidays begin in earnest. Pondering what the next year will bring reminded me that I'd been presented with the rare opportunity to observe a calendar-in-the-making photo shoot happening in Shohola, PA. Intrigued, I made my way to a charming farmhouse setting where a dozen beautiful young ladies were posing for photographer Michael Bloom (www.michaelbloomphoto.com) amid a crew of assistants, all of whom were working hard for a common cause: The Allyson Whitney Foundation.
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Dr. Amen's Love Affair with SPECT Scans
Daniel Amen loves SPECT scans (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography). And well he should. They have brought him fame and fortune. They have rewarded him with a chain of Amen Clinics, a presence on PBS, lucrative speaking engagements, a $4.8 million mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and a line of products including books, videos and diet supplements ("nutraceuticals"). He grossed $20 million last year. Amen is a psychiatrist who charges patients $3,500 to take pretty colored SPECT pictures of their brains as an aid to the diagnosis and treatment of conditions including brain trauma, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions, anxiety, depression, dementia, and obesity. He even does SPECT scans as a part of marriage counseling and for general brain health checkups.
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A time for dancing and celebrating the many cultures that call Hawaii home.
After undergoing a two-year $135 million renovation, it is KPT no more. The Kalihi housing project is now known as The Towers at Kuhio Park.
A blessing of the first partnership here between the state and private developers in transforming public housing.
It's a partnership between The Michaels Development Company, Vitus Group and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.
Residents say it was a long time coming.
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Most people know about hepatitis B; babies get vaccinated for it at birth. But fewer people know about hepatitis C. C is actually more common than B, but most chronically infected people don't know they have it. You might think ignorance is bliss, but patients who have no symptoms today may have liver cancer or a liver transplant in their future. Until recently, treatment for this stealth disease was disappointing, but according to three recent, large controlled studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the virus has been tamed. A short course of a new antiviral drug with few side effects was 99% effective in removing the virus from the blood.
In the beginning, there was jaundice. Patients turned yellow, developed flu-like symptoms, and sometimes died. Eventually doctors figured out that jaundice was a sign of liver disease and the condition was named hepatitis; and by the time I graduated from medical school in 1970, scientists had identified two viruses that caused infectious hepatitis: hepatitis A and B. Hepatitis A infection was transmitted by the fecal-oral route, usually by contamination of food; hepatitis B was transmitted by needles and blood products. Prevention was limited to good hygienic practices; treatment of acute hepatitis was limited to bed rest, supportive care, and IV fluids. Contacts could be given gamma globulin. In fulminant cases and chronic hepatitis, steroids were used. No treatment was very effective. Death and cirrhosis often ensued.
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Editor's Note: This is Part 3 of a multi-part series on EJB inheritance. Part 1 deals with inheritance and entity beans and Part 2 focuses on table mapping.
Inheritance is not only for entity beans. Session beans may also take advantage of inheritance.
A session bean's life revolves around pure business logic. Implementing session bean inheritance is nowhere near as hard as it is with entity beans. Home interfaces are plain, containing no tricky business logic. The problems we had with entity beans were regarding access or lifecycle of the bean, not the actual bean invocation. There were issues also regarding the mapping of in-memory objects to database tables. These problems are gone in the case of session beans.
Still, I feel it is important to show you how to do session bean inheritance. I want to make sure people have the right technique, even though this technique may seem obvious. Secondly, I would like to mention the importance of factories when dealing with inheritance. Message-driven bean inheritance will be the topic of a future article.
A note about the example source code
Download the source code for this article. This zip file contains a WebLogic Server domain, EJB source code, and a PointBase database. Install this under C:\inherit.
My two previous articles were based on WLS 7.0, but this article is based on WLS 7.0 Service Pack 1. The start scripts contain the newest PointBase drivers. For the administration console, the username is still
Why would one want to use session bean inheritance? For the same reasons as stated in my previous articles: abstraction, reuse, and maintainability. But in this case, we don't want to project data onto a hierarchy; we want to do that with pure business logic. When is this useful? Here are a few examples:
I'm sure you can think of many more examples. Let's now define a business story for our session bean examples.
In This Series
EJB Free and Open Source Tools Summary
EJB Inheritance, Part 4
EJB Inheritance, Part 2
EJB Inheritance, Part 1
In the previous article, points could be redeemed for air flights using simplistic rules. A trip from New York to Chicago would cost the same number of points as a trip from New York to San Diego. But now the requirements have changed. A business decision was made that the number of points needed to buy a trip would be proportional to the distance traveled. An approximation of this distance can be calculated based on the zip codes of the departure and the destination airports. This only applies in the USA. For flights to Canada, there's a flat rate. For overseas flights, time zones are taken into consideration, instead.
On top of that, there is an administrative charge of 1,000 points, which applies to all regions except overseas, where the charge is 1,500 points. In some countries a tourism tax applies, also charged as points. Regular customers pay the full price. Gold customers get 15 percent off (before fees). Platinum customers get 30 percent off (before fees). The following table contains a summary of the rules used to calculate point redemption.
Table 1. New business logic requirements
|Administrative fees
|Subtract the departure airport's zip code from the arrival airport's. Keep the absolute value of this value. This new value represents the number of points needed for this flight.
|1000 points
|The flat fee is 10,000 points.
|1000 points
|Count the number of time slots between the departure airport and the arrival airport. Multiply this value by 3,000. Add the country's tourism tax fees.
|1500 points
As with our previous examples, these are completely bogus rules and calculations, and should not be used for any serious business logic; they will serve, however, to illustrate the question at hand: how do you implement session bean inheritance?
You may have guessed from looking at the code of our previous example application
(look for a big
if else if ... block) that objects are
well suited for this calculation.
The design of this system is straightforward: the base class is
with subclasses
CanadaPointCalculator and
Note that the points themselves are not objects in this system, but the point calculators are.
They are, of course, session beans. Here's the class diagram:
Figure 1. Point calculator classes diagram
Here's a quick overview of the various steps required for my technique. We will then cover each step in more detail.
SessionBean. Write bean subclasses
extending base bean class.
EJBObject or
Create sub-interfaces extending base business interface.
EJBHome or
Write home interfaces for subclass, extending
EJBHome or
EJBLocalHome as usual.
Don't extend home interface of base class.
ejbActivate(), and
ejbRemove() methods. These can be inherited. Overridden methods should call the corresponding super method first.
Note: In my previous articles, I forgot to mention the other methods of the bean lifecycle:
ejbLoad(), and
ejbStore(). These should be treated similarly to
ejbCreate methods. They can be inherited, but if they're overridden, they must call the corresponding methods in
super first. Also, pay close attention to the scope of class members. It would be a good idea to make
EntityContext objects protected instead of private.
First let's implement the bean classes. The base class is
SessionBean. The subclasses are
CanadaPointCalculatorBean and
OverseesPointCalculatorBean, extending
PointCalculatorBean. We will leave the implementation of
create and
remove methods for later. Here's a code snippet that will help you understand what this step involves:
Example 1.
//Removed for readability: package, imports.
public class PointCalculatorBean implements SessionBean {
// Removed for readability: constructor, session
// context, activate, passivate, create, remove.
public int getPoints(String departureAirport, String destinationAirport) {
try {
Connection c = ds.getConnection();
Statement s = c.createStatement();
s.execute("SELECT ZIP FROM AIRPORT WHERE ID = '" + departureAirport + "'" );
ResultSet rs = s.getResultSet();
if(!rs.next()) throw new Exception("Airport code not found for departure.");
int zipDeparture = rs.getInt(1);
s.execute("SELECT ZIP FROM AIRPORT WHERE ID = '" + destinationAirport + "'" );
rs = s.getResultSet();
if(!rs.next()) throw new Exception("Airport code not found for destination.");
int zipDestination = rs.getInt(1);
return Math.abs(zipDeparture-zipDestination);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("ERROR! Can't get zip codes. " + e);
return 0;
public int getAdministrativeFees() {
return 1000;
That piece of code requires some time to digest. But how about this one?
Example 2.
//Removed for readability: package, import
public class CanadaPointCalculatorBean extends
basepointcalculator.PointCalculatorBean {
public int getPoints(String departureAirport, String destinationAirport) {
return 10000;
A lot smaller don't you think? This is reuse at its best!
Related Reading
Enterprise JavaBeans
Now we will write the business interfaces. These will follow a similar structure
to the bean classes: the base interface is
PointCalculator, extending
and the subinterfaces are
CanadaPointCalculator and
PointCalculator. Here is the remote interfaces code of the example
I wrote:
Example 3.
public interface PointCalculator extends EJBObject {
public int getPoints(String departureAirport, String destinationAirport)
throws RemoteException;
public int getAdministrativeFees() throws RemoteException;
Example 4.
public interface OverseasPointCalculator extends
basepointcalculator.PointCalculator {
public int getTax(String destinationAirport) throws RemoteException;
I didn't show you the
CanadaPointCalculator interface because it is empty.
getTax() method is a specialization of the base interface.
You may be wondering why I used remote interfaces instead of local ones here. There's no design reason; I just wanted to demonstrate that my technique works with both.
Now let's write the home interfaces, except in this case we'll have three
unrelated interfaces. These are
OverseesPointCalculatorHome. All three interfaces should extend
Don't make the
CarLoanHome and
MortgageHome extend
PointCalculatorHome. This is because -- as stated in my previous articles --
the return type of the inherited
create method(s) would be wrong for subinterfaces. Here's the code I came up
Example 5.
public interface PointCalculatorHome extends EJBHome {
PointCalculator create() throws CreateException, RemoteException;
Example 6.
public interface OverseasPointCalculatorHome extends EJBHome {
OverseasPointCalculator create() throws CreateException, RemoteException;
These code fragments are not that interesting, so let's move on.
The last step is to implement the lifecycle methods:
ejbPassivate(), and
ejbActivate(). Write them in the base class; they'll be inherited in the subclasses. If you override a method, simply have the method call the right method of
super. In our example, all lifecycle methods are in
the base class, and inherited in the subclasses.
Example 7.
PointCalculatorBean lifecycle methods
public class PointCalculatorBean implements SessionBean {
protected SessionContext ctx;
protected DataSource ds=null;
public void ejbActivate() { }
public void ejbPassivate() { }
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx) {
this.ctx = ctx;
public void ejbCreate () throws CreateException {
try {
InitialContext jndiCtx = new InitialContext();
ds = (DataSource)jndiCtx.lookup("inheritDS");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("ERROR! The initial context
could not be retrieved. " + e);
public void ejbRemove() { }
Note how the
ejbCreate() method is used in the base class to create the data
source object used by all three beans.
In my previous articles, entity objects were created by the client code. This may be acceptable in some situations. But sometimes the creation of objects depends on involved business logic, which doesn't belong on the client.
Factories play a key role when using hierarchies of beans. A factory is an object used to create objects of a hierarchy. A factory can be used to create a single object or a list of objects. In any case, each object produced can be of any type in that hierarchy, but it is cast to a base class before being returned to the caller. That caller doesn't have to know what type of object it is. We can use a factory to keep the creation business logic out of the client code and on the server side. In our RTM example, a factory is used for creating the right point calculator object, as shown here:
Example 8.
PCFactoryBean, creational business logic
public class PCFactoryBean implements SessionBean {
public PointCalculator getPointCalculator(String departureAirport,
String destinationAirport) {
try {
Connection c = ds.getConnection();
Statement s = c.createStatement();
s.execute("SELECT COUNTRY FROM AIRPORT
WHERE ID = '" + destinationAirport + "'" );
ResultSet rs = s.getResultSet();
if(!rs.next()) throw new Exception("Airport code not found for destination.");
String country = rs.getString(1);
if( country.equalsIgnoreCase("USA") ) {
return pcHome.create();
} else if( country.equalsIgnoreCase("Canada") ) {
return canadaPCHome.create();
} else {
return overseasPCHome.create();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("ERROR! Can't create point calculator. " + e);
return null;
Then a client can use this factory like this:
Example 9. Using
public int redeemPoints(String departureAirport, String destinationAirport) {
PCFactoryHome pcHome;
InitialContext jndiCtx=null;
int pts = 0;
try {
jndiCtx = new InitialContext();
pcHome = (PCFactoryHome)jndiCtx.lookup("PCFactoryEJB");
PCFactory factory = pcHome.create();
PointCalculator pc = factory.getPointCalculator
pts = pc.getPoints(departureAirport, destinationAirport);
pts -= (int) ( pts * getRebate() );
if(pc instanceof OverseasPointCalculator) {
//In the special case of overseas a tax may apply.
OverseasPointCalculator opc = (OverseasPointCalculator)pc;
int tax = opc.getTax(destinationAirport);
pts += tax;
int fees = pc.getAdministrativeFees();
pts += fees;
if(getPoints() < pts) return 0;
return pts;
} catch (...) {
The two things to notice in this piece of code are:
instanceof keyword.
This enables the client to use specialization methods. An example of this
is above in italics.
Note that I chose to implement my factory using a stateless session bean. But there are other ways. One could implement a factory using:
Related Reading
Java Enterprise Best Practices
So far we've only seen stateless session beans. The exact same technique can apply to stateful session beans. The difference is that the clients have access to each object instance and keep this access.
It is easy to modify this example slightly so that the client can book multiple
flights. The session bean would keep track of which airports are visited along
the way. A method could be added to append a new airport code to the list. Then
we could have a method,
getPoints(), with no arguments, which
would perform the calculation and keep the results. The client can then access
all of this information.
Not too painful, is it? This process should work with most J2EE application servers, as the EJB specification openly tries to make inheritance of session beans possible. This was not the case with entity beans because, for example, finders are not polymorphic. Simplicity of the session bean concept helps a lot, too.
As we've seen, the usage of factories is a very natural addition to EJB inheritance.
In the next article, we'll see how to implement inheritance using message-driven beans.
Emmanuel Proulx is an expert in J2EE and Enterprise JavaBeans, and is a certified WebLogic Server 7.0 engineer. He works in the fields of telecommunications and web development.
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Au Contraire Monsieur, the bulk of Asia is to the south and east of Pakistan which would make it in the West or Central Western area
That's just playing semantic games. South Asia, as you well know, is the Indian subcontinent taking in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal and Bhutan for good measure. West Asia is the MIddle East.