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Beach at Trouville, 1888
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Charles Ricada, Paris (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20 March 1893, lot 32, for Ff 400).
Georges Feydeau, Paris (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 11 February 1901, lot 23, as Sur la plage, for Ff 1,400, to);
[Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold 20 March 1920 to];
Devilder, Roubaix, France.
[André Schoeller (1879-1955), Paris, sold 4 May 1936 to;]
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Co$t of crime
Not only does crime not pay, but many times it costs a criminal cold, hard cash.
Last year, people convicted of traffic violations, misdemeanors, and felonies paid nearly $700,000 in fines to Marietta Municipal Court and Washington County Common Pleas Court.
Most fines are dictated by the Ohio Revised Code, but considerations for imposing fines vary greatly for municipal and common pleas courts.
In common pleas court, a defendant's ability to pay a financial sanction is taken into consideration, said Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Ed Lane.
"The vast majority of criminals are indigent and don't have assets," explained Lane.
Some cases, such as drug felony cases, have minimum mandatory fines, ranging from $1,250 to $10,000, said Lane. However, to assess a fine judges have to find that the guilty party will have the ability to pay. Therefore, even mandatory fines are often waived, he said.
Often felony offenders with the ability to pay a fine have been convicted of theft or fraud, and therefore restitution to the victim is a greater concern, said Lane.
"In those cases, I'm more concerned about the assets going toward restitution. I'd rather see that money go back to the victim rather than the state," he said.
Marietta Municipal Court Judge Janet Dyar Welch agreed that restitution is the most important financial obligation a defendant has once convicted.
"It's right there in the statute. Making restitution is one of the purposes of sentencing," she said.
But unlike in common pleas court, solvency is not considered in handing out fines in municipal court, said Welch.
"Fines are controlled by the state. They set out what fines have to be ordered," she said.
Because indigent defendants are still assessed a fine in municipal court cases, Marietta Municipal Court ended up collecting vastly more in fines last year than did Washington County Common Pleas Court.
Washington County Common Pleas Court collected $9,045 in fines in 2012, said deputy clerk and bookkeeper Linda Farley. Most of those are collected from drug cases, she added.
In contrast, the Marietta Municipal Court collected $659,000 in fines, said Municipal Court Administrator Jason Hamilton.
"Fines are almost always imposed in municipal court and they are almost never imposed in common pleas," noted Washington County Assistant Prosecutor Kevin Rings.
While inability to pay is one factor that keeps felony offenders from being given a fine, Rings also pointed out that felony offenders typically serve longer jail sentences.
"The fine is part of the punishment. If the court imposes a lengthy incarceration, they don't usually double down and impose a fine as well," he said.
In municipal court, fines are collected on all misdemeanor offenses, said Welch.
Under the Ohio Revised Code, misdemeanors include offenses such as disorderly conduct, domestic violence, petty theft, public intoxication, vandalism, some OVI charges and certain drug abuse and possession charges.
Both fines and court costs collected in Municipal Court are distributed among a vast array of accounts, said Welch.
Last year Municipal Court collected $172,000 for the court special projects fund. That fund is put toward paying off the cost of the new court facility and financing necessary upkeep, which saves city taxpayers from footing the bill, said Hamilton.
Municipal Court money also goes to the Ohio Victims of Crime Fund ($60,000), the City of Marietta ($227,300), and other county agencies ($447,000), which could include Belpre, Beverly, Lowell and New Matamoras police departments, said Hamilton.
Some money also goes toward an indigent defense fund, which helps pay for public defenders, he said.
However those examples just scratch the surface, said Hamilton.
Neither the judge nor the court has any say in determining where the fines end up, said Welch.
In fact, a variety of factors go into that determination. These could include how the offense is charged, who it is charged by and other special factors, she said.
For example, a portion of fines for hunting and fishing violations are given to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Fines collected in common pleas court are simply divided between two agencies, said Farley. Seventy percent goes to the Washington County Sheriff's Office and 30 percent goes to the Washington County Prosecutor's Office, she said.
For people who absolutely can not pay their fines, the municipal court allows them to perform community service to pay off their debt, said Welch.
While the community service projects are not a source of revenue, they still benefit the city, said Hamilton.
There is also a portion of fines that go unpaid, he said, but that number is hard to assess. For some uncollected fines, the city uses a collection agency.
In 2012, the municipal court sent $285,000 worth of unpaid fines to a state approved collection agency, said Hamilton. That number represents well over half of the fines that go uncollected, he said.
However, that is not to say that all $285,000 went unpaid. Defendants sometimes work out payment schedules with the court even after the fines are sent to a collection agency, he said.
For those who ultimately do not pay, warrants can be issued, he said.
While it is no secret that fines help fund several organizations and projects, it is important to remember that the purpose of collecting fines is not to fill city, county, and state coffers, but rather to punish the criminal, said Welch.
"You are not supposed to look at offenders as if they are an ATM. You have to look at them based on the statute, and assess a fine that the state has determined is a reasonable punishment," she said.

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I want to take a few moments to talk a bit more about the programmatic piece of Governor Blagojevich's Higher Standards, Better Schools plan unveiled this past Thursday. As many of you are aware, I am very much in support of strengthening high school graduation standards and I have used the "bully pulpit" provided by the state superintendency to speak about increasing high school capacity in Illinois.
Currently, Illinois has some of the lowest graduation requirements in the country. Other than the eight states which have no set requirements, we sit at the bottom of the barrel. But we know that requirements can help make a difference: Illinois students who take the ACT core curriculum score four points more in math, and three points more in science on the ACT than their peers who take less than the core.
I realize that a significant number of districts already go well beyond the minimum requirements and I applaud that local initiative, but I do believe that low expectations are communicated by the present graduation policy in our state. Students do better when we challenge them--and policies communicate expectations just as much as practices and behaviors do. As a state, we can do better.
I share the Governor's desire to challenge all high school students to prepare for some sort of post-secondary educational or career development experience. For those students who are college-bound, the expanded Advanced Placement and dual credit-dual enrollment funding will encourage course-taking that improves student readiness for the rigors of a college curriculum. The State Board's previous support for Career and Technical Education is also enhanced to serve those students focusing on career preparation programs. It is my hope, too, that the Governor's push for arts and foreign language grants, and writing-intensive courses, will sustain a focus on the arts and humanities in Illinois high schools that is eroding.
We want to allow schools sufficient time to respond to these program improvements. The ramp-up schedule would phase in all of these changes out through the Class of 2012.
I look forward to the conversation on these proposals that will take place around the state as this initiative makes its way through the legislative process.
Have a great spring week—and of course—ILL-INI!
Randy Dunn
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President Bush orders flags flown at half staff
President Bush has ordered flags flown at half staff in memory of Pope John Paul, II, the head of state for the Vatican, an independent nation recognized by the State Department. The flags shall remain at half staff until sunset the day of his interment. The U.S. Flag Code provides authority to the President to order that the flag be flown at half staff, including at school buildings. Attached is the link to the President's proclamation.
Changes to Illinois Accountability Workbook proposed to USDOE
As the student assessment period for ISAT is winding down and for PSAE is winding up, we are all considering what the results on student and school achievement will be for 2005. We know the hard work of teaching and learning has been ongoing, and that students continue to progress and move forward. We also know that the target for making adequate yearly progress (AYP) moves up in 2005 from 40percent to 47.5percent in 2005.
Are there better ways to hold schools and districts accountable than what is contained in the current Illinois Accountability Workbook for NCLB? We believe so. The State Board of Education has accepted the opportunity from the U.S. Department of Education (USED) to seek changes in the workbook. The agency submitted a letter on March 31, 2005 of changes under consideration in Illinois. Over the next few weeks those considerations will be discussed with the State Board, some advisory groups, staff of USED, and others.
We appreciate the work of an ad hoc group within Illinois that has helped us formulate ideas to date. Once a final agreement is reached on the issues, staff will prepare the final wording for the workbook. Once that is approved, it will be posted on the agency's NCLB web site (www.isbe.net/nclb), just as the revisions made in May 2004 were displayed. We will keep you apprised in the meantime.
Early childhood block grant continuation applications go electronic
The Illinois State Board of Education is preparing to offer continuing applications for the Early Childhood Block Grant (ECBG) through the Electronic Grant Management System (eGMS) for school year 2005-2006 (FY06). All Early Childhood Block Grant programs funded in FY05 will apply online for their FY06 continuation grant funds.
FY06 will be the second year for eGMS. During 2005-2006 school districts applied for five NCLB grants online through the NCLB Consolidated application in eGMS. Benefits of eGMS over the paper process include:
Like the electronic expenditure reports currently submitted by ECBG recipients, access to online applications in eGMS is through the State Board's Web Application Security System (IWAS). Applicants will need to make sure that their approval groups are properly assigned through IWAS in order to access the appropriate ECBG application(s) in eGMS. Two ECBG continuation grant applications will be available – a birth to three application and a three to five application. Applicants will complete both applications if they are authorized to offer programs for birth to three and three to five. Grant funds will be preloaded in the eGMS system and will appear on the Budget Detail page of each application.
ISBE will notify applicants of the availability of the Early Childhood Block Continuation Grants via the Superintendent's Message and information will be posted on the Early Childhood Block Grant webpage http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/html/block_grant.htm. The grant applications are expected to become available during the first week of April.
Criminal history record information symposium announced
In an effort to inform non-criminal justice users regarding the Illinois Criminal History Record
Information program, the Bureau of Identification in conjunction with the Elgin Police Department and the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police will be conducting a Criminal History Record Information Symposium. This symposium is scheduled for Wednesday, April 27, 2005, from 8:00 am - 12:30 pm. This event will be held at The Centre located at 100 Symphony Way in Elgin. In times of heightened security, is important that CHRI users understand what information is available to them through ISP. This information presented will help users make good hiring and licensing decisions on potential child care users, health care workers, local government applicants and general employment staff. We will educate attendees on the following matters:
• Role of ISP, BOI as the State Central Repository
• Uniform Conviction Information Act
• Name Check vs. Fingerprint Check
• Processing Procedures
• Sex Offender Registration Database
• Accessing FBI CHRI Records
• How to Interpret a Rap Sheet
• Inquiry and Response Methods
• Fiscal Procedures
2004-05 Illinois teacher salary study online
This document is now available online http://www.isbe.net/research. It is a PDF document and can be found under "Updated Information" at the website. Hard copies are not available.
What's important now with child nutrition
National School Lunch Program Workshops Scheduled for June
The Nutrition Programs Division will be conducting a series of workshops during June for business managers, food service directors, administrators, and others responsible for the administration of school-based Child Nutrition Programs. What's Important Now (WIN) With Child Nutrition workshops will highlight changes that will impact nutrition programs as a result of the Child Nutrition and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Reauthorization Act of 2004. Sessions will cover such topics as household applications, verification of eligibility, menu planning (including Offer vs. Serve), meal counts, and local wellness policies. In addition, staff from the Illinois Department of Public Health will present important information regarding food safety. A special session will be offered to provide assistance to sponsors implementing a new School Breakfast Program.
All workshops will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. with registration beginning at 8 a.m. The special how to session on implementing a School Breakfast Program will be held from 3–4 p.m. Pre-registration is required for these workshops. To pre-register, go online to http://www.isbe.net/nutrition/htmls/workshops.htm.
For further information on the workshops, contact the Nutrition Programs staff at 800/545-7892 or email email@example.com.
Weekly news clips
This week's news clips can be accessed at http://www.isbe.net/news/2005/newsclips/050401.htm


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- Satellite galaxies and fossil groups in the Millennium Simulation
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- Sales, Laura V.; Navarro, Julio F.; Lambas, Diego G.; White, Simon D. M.; Croton, Darren J.
- Abstract
- We use a semi-analytic galaxy catalogue constructed from the Millennium Simulation (MS) to study the satellites of isolated galaxies in the Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmogony. The large volume surveyed by the MS (5003 h−3 Mpc3) , together with its unprecedented numerical resolution, enable the compilation of a large sample of ∼80 000 bright (Mr < −20.5) primaries, surrounded by ∼178 000 satellites down to the faint magnitude limit (Mr=−17) of our catalogue. This sample allows the characterization, with minimal statistical uncertainty, of the dynamical properties of satellite/primary galaxy systems in a ΛCDM universe. The details of this characterization are sensitive to the details of the modelling, such as its assumptions on galaxy merging and dynamical friction time-scales, but many of its general predictions should be applicable to hierarchical formation models such as ΛCDM. We find that, overall, the satellite population traces the dark matter rather well: its spatial distribution and kinematics may be approximated by a Navarro, Frenk & White profile with a mildly anisotropic velocity distribution. Their spatial distribution is also mildly anisotropic, with a well-defined 'anti-Holmberg' effect that reflects the misalignment between the major axis and angular momentum of the host halo. Our analysis also highlights a number of difficulties afflicting studies that rely on satellite velocities to constrain the primary halo mass. These arise from variations in the star formation efficiency and assembly history of isolated galaxies, which result in a scatter of up to approximately two decades in halo mass at a fixed primary luminosity. Our isolation criterion (primaries may only have companions at least 2 mag fainter within 1 h−1 Mpc ) contributes somewhat to the scatter, since it picks not only galaxies in sparse environments, but also a number of primaries at the centre of 'fossil' groups. We find that the abundance and luminosity function of these unusual systems are in reasonable agreement with the few available observational constraints. Much tighter halo mass–luminosity relations are found when splitting the sample by colour: red primaries inhabit haloes more than twice as massive as those surrounding blue primaries, a difference that vanishes, however, when considering stellar mass instead of luminosity. The large scatter in the halo mass–luminosity relation hinders the interpretation of the velocity dispersion of satellites stacked according to the luminosity of the primary. We find L∝σ3 (the natural scaling expected for ΛCDM) for truly isolated primaries, that is, systems where the central galaxy contributes more than 85 per cent of the total luminosity within its virial radius. Less-strict primary selection, however, leads to substantial modification of the scaling relation: blindly stacking satellites of all primaries results in a much shallower L–σ relation that is only poorly approximated by a power law.
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 382, no. 4 (Dec 2007), pp. 1901-1916
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- Dark matter; Dynamics; Galaxies; Halos; Kinematics; Statistical methods
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Cubs Out to Early Lead Against Sox
Travis Wood got some help from Randy Wells in getting out a bases loaded one out jam in the third inning. Big blow of the day was a two out two-run homer from Edgar Gonzalez. Bottom of the 4th, 3-1 Cubs. Check back tonight for a full recap.


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I wrote some stuff you might like to read.Saturday, December 22nd, 2012
So, I mentioned last week that I wrote a review of Kerry Hardie's most recent collection, The Oak & The Ash & The Wild Cherry Tree for The Edinburgh Review Issue 136. You can now buy the issue online! BUT, you can also read my review free and gratis — the folks at Gallery Press liked it so much that they put it on their website. Thanks folks!
You may also remember me writing a few weeks ago about the launch of sci-fi poetry anthology Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems From The UK? I was super-chuffed to have three poems in it, and I'm even more super-chuffed that the folks over at Nature picked one of them to go in their "Where Rockets Burn Through" podcast this week. Thanks again!
Aaaand this is a bit of a scary one, but I am proud of myself for writing it and chuffed that it was published at xoJane, which is rapidly becoming one of my all-time favourite sites. I've written here before (but then destroyed the link in post-publication-panic) about my teenage struggles with a rather extreme form of thanatophobia. It seemed pertinent to write about it in a rather more serious way, given the recent OBSESSIVE APOCALYPSE HYPE that I'm sure you've all noticed. Of course, the world didn't end yesterday — hooray! But I wanted to draw attention to this anyway. And for the first time ever, I connected to a fellow thanatophobia sufferer (in the comments), so double hooray!
Happy holidays!
You can also visit Read This Press for poetry and typewriter paraphernalia! Alternatively, check out Edinburgh Vintage, our sister site. If you want to get in touch you can follow OneNightStanzas on Twitter, or email claire[at]onenightstanzas.com. I reply as swiftly as I can!


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Dr. Jacob Stratman
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Chair, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Marquette University
M.A., Missouri State University
B.A., William Jewell College
Jacob Stratman received his B.A in English and Secondary Education from William Jewell College where he met his future wife, Julia. After graduation he taught English and coached soccer in the Springfield Public School system in Springfield, MO for six years. During that time, he completed his M.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at Missouri State University. Feeling a call to continue his education and work with college students, he earned his PhD in English-American Literature from the fine Jesuit community of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was there that he and his wife were educated about Social Catholic Teaching and the great responsibility for Christians to engage with social justice issues. Crossroads Presbyterian Church in Mequon, WI. was also instrumental in their spiritual growth.
Dr. Stratman's research areas include religion and literature, Paulo Freire's pedagogical theories, teaching writing and literature for social change, teaching literature in the secondary schools, and nineteenth-century American Literature.
Here at JBU, Dr. Stratman emphasizes writing for social change in his English I course and teaching literature for social change in his English II course. He also teaches American Literature to 1900 and Masterpieces of Literature. Working alongside the English Education majors, he teaches the Young Adult Literature course.
The Stratmans have two wonderfully energetic boys named Benjamin Curtis and Jude Hadley. Dr. Stratman spends his free-time cooking, reading, running, and praying about ways to change the world.


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For Immediate Release
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
ISBE working to increase literacy for children and families
More than $2.4 million in federal grants awarded to 17 educational partnerships; Money used to help high-risk, low-income families
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) today announced more than $2.4 million in family literacy grants awarded to 17 educational partnerships involving school districts, regional offices of education, higher education institutions and community organizations around the state. The Illinois Even Start Family Literacy Program grants are designed to help the state's earliest learners, as well as their families, improve literacy skills.
"The Even Start program is a remarkable program on many levels. We are providing quality educational opportunities and early childhood interventions for parents and children, alike," said State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch. "At the same time, we are helping the parents become better teachers for their children. By helping the whole family, we are helping each child reach their full potential."
The Even Start grant comes from federal funding as part of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The focus of the program is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of low-income families by offering a unified family literacy program for parents and children, birth through age 7.
Locally, school districts and regional offices of education partner with community organizations, community colleges or local libraries to help parents improve their literacy or basic educational skills and help parents become full partners in educating their children. In addition, they work to assist children in reaching their full potential as learners. For example, teachers supervise and support parents as they work with their children in literacy activities, such as reading out loud, so that the parents will continue to foster their children's literacy at home.
Since Fiscal Year 2002, more than $54.9 million in grants have been awarded to 72 programs and served more than 15,000 families. In Fiscal Year 2007 alone, 44 Even Start programs served 1,292 at-risk families, including 1,939 children and 1,352 adults. Each family was provided the support they needed to be successful in school, at work and in the local community. Many of these families had at least one parent that was unemployed and/or did not have a high school diploma or G.E.D.
The Even Start grant is made for a four-year period dependent upon sufficient funding from the federal government for future years. Thirteen of the partnerships were awarded a continuation grant, while four partnerships were awarded a new four-year grant.
The 17 partnerships receiving the Even Start grants, totaling more than $2.4 million are:
New four-year grants:
- Bloomington-Normal Even Start Program – DeWitt-Livingston-McLean ROE 17 and Western Avenue Community Center
- Joliet Community Even Start – Grundy/Kendall ROE 24 and Joliet Junior College
- Urbana Even Start Program – Urbana School District 116 and Champaign County Head Start/Early Head Start
- Whiteside County Family Literacy Partnership – Whiteside ROE 55 and Tri-County Opportunities Council
Continuation grants:
- Cahokia Even Start Program – Southwestern Illinois College and Cahokia Unit School District 187
- De LaSalle Institue/21st Century Urban Schools Even Start – 21st Century Urban Schools and De LaSalle Institute
- Decatur P.S. Even Start – Decatur Public Schools District 61 and Richland Community College
- Five-County ROE Even Start Family Literacy – Alexander/Johnson/Massac/Pulaski/Union ROE 22 and Southern Seven Health Department Head Start
- Harrisburg/Southeastern Illinois College Even Start – Harrisburg Community Unit District 3 and Southeastern Illinois College
- Hull House Start – Jane Addams Hull House Association and Chicago Public Schools 299
- Kaskaskia College & ROE 13 Even Start – Kaskaskia College and Clinton-Marion-Washington ROE 13
- Mattoon Adult Education Even Start – Mattoon Community Unit District 2 and Embarras River Basin Agency, Inc.
- New Hope (Pontiac & Chenoa) Even Start Literacy Project – DeWitt-Livingston-McLean ROE 17 and Heartland Community College
- Northwest Illinois Even Start – Freeport School District 145 and Highland Community College
- Taylorville PREP/PAT Even Start – Taylorville Community Unit School District 3 and Lincoln Land Community College
- Tri-County Even Start (DuQuoin) – Tri-County Special Education and DuQuoin Community Unit School District 300
- Universidad Popular Families Learning to Teach – Universidad Popular and Chicago Public Schools 299


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My LO is 8 months old and took awhile to "like" some solid foods, we haven't been pushing it, but lately he's nursing less (especially on one side) and no matter what I've been feeding him seems to have more "solid" poops, which I know is normal, but he always is grunting and seems to be constipated....
I've cut out carrots, baby oatmeal and dairy (although he looooves yogurt) and he still seems to have problems. I give him tons of fruit and then avocado puree w/ olive oil at dinner... Any suggestions for other good foods (I know the "p" fruits/veggies help) or others to avoid that I may be forgetting?
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Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Thanksgiving recipe mainstays: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, cranberry raw relish, apple, pecan, and pumpkin pie
The following is a re-post of What's on your Thanksgiving menu? and recipes from a few years ago with a few additions. Recipe links are below.
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Save the herbs
Last year, I decided I would try to save a few herb plants over the winter in the house.
My experiment was 2 fold: to have some fresh herbs over the winter months and to save the price of buying the plants again the next summer.
So I dug up the plants from my garden and plunked them into a 3 Cup container. (Larger would have been better.)
Outside of placing them in a sunny location (east exposure) and watering occasionally, that was the extent of the tender loving care I gave them.
While they didn't exactly thrive, they did survive. The photo was taken last spring just before putting them back in the garden. They also supplied me with fresh rosemary and the occasional spearmint leaves. The creeping thyme I found did not need to be wintered in the house; it survived outside just fine.
This year I brought in the rosemary and mint again, and I will try a pot of parsley too.
My other gardening experiment this year will be to move a parsley patch close to my back door and cover with a translucent plastic bin when the temperatures head to the teens and lower. Between the warmth radiating from the south side of the house and the hardiness of parsley, I should have fresh parsley for Thanksgiving stuffing and other culinary delights all winter long.
So what do you have to lose? The weather should still hold for today and tomorrow. Get out the trowel and save those herbs!
The "Cheap Date" - dinner & movie under $14
Last Friday night, my husband and I went on a cheap date. We had had a busy week getting our kitchen emptied out for the floor re-finishers, so cooking was out of the question. We were both too tired to go out for dinner at one of our favorite places like Singha Thai,* but we did need to eat dinner.
How about going to that new Asian place at Brookfield Marketplace?, I asked. That seemed to click. The Asian Chef, the latest addition to Brookfield Marketplace on Greenfield Ave, east of Moorland Rd., just moved in a few weeks ago and so far, is getting rave reviews--at least from us and some of our neighbors.
Asian Chef offers a wide variety of choices and even lets you choose white or brown rice. The cost/value quotient seems right too. You can get a very adequate lunch or dinner for $4.75. (Some choices are more.) Since there really wasn't a good place to eat amid our chaos at home, we chose to dine in.
After our tasty dinner we went over to the Pick 'n Save to see if they had one of those Red Box movie rental for a $1 kiosks. Yes, they did. We picked out Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. That proved to be a winner too. It was a great story of South Africa during their early post apartheid days in 1995. Freeman plays President Nelson Mandela; Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the nation's Rugby star. Mandela uses the country's nearly all white Rugby team to unite the country.
The closeup shots of the Rugby games were reason enough to watch this movie. (Yikes, they make American football players look like wimps!) But watching a segregated nation come together was the real story. Invictus was inspiring.
Spoiler alert: My favorite scene was when the underdog South African team played New Zealand, the favorite, in the World Cup. New Zealand attributed their success to the Maori war dance that they did just prior to every game. It was very intimidating. In contrast, the South African team got on their knees on the field and thanked God for their win. It was one of those good vs. evil moments.
Rating: Invictus was rated PG-13. There was only 1 F-bomb that I heard, and it was said with a rather thick accent. There was one scene where Damon and his wife are shown in an embrace and they fall onto a bed in a hotel room. The audience doesn't see them on the bed though. So as movies go, it is pretty tame. Check out what Common Sense media has to say about the movie if you are unsure your teens should watch.
So that was our cheap date. Sometimes simple is simply perfect!
Been to the new ALDI almost in Brookfield?
Yes, it is true! Another ALDI grocery store moved into Brookfield - almost.
It is located on the Wauwatosa side of 124th Street on Burleigh Rd. next to the OfficeMax store, in the Lowe's shopping center. (Actual address is 12120 Burleigh)
They opened 2 weeks before Christmas. I stopped in that week and they were busy!
I shopped there again yesterday* because they had a fruit sale: cantaloupe for 89-cents, grapefruit for 29-cents, bag of navel oranges for $1.49, and bananas for 39-cents/pound. What a deal.
They seem to be well received, even in almost Brookfield. Like me, many shoppers bring their Sendiks heavy plastic grocery bags to reuse at ALDI.
People are interested in ALDI stores. From the weekly blog reports I receive from Brookfieldnow, I have noticed that 2008's posts on ALDI show up nearly every week on my page view totals.
Few stores consistently offer the same values as ALDI stores. Most of their products are made by mainstream companies, just relabeled for ALDI with their labels. The packages are often the same size and colors as the mainstream company, just the design is different. Other products are the same as other private label products. Their butter for example is the same as Roundy's butter, but at a cheaper price.
Plus, ALDI backs all of their products with a double your money back guaranty--even their produce. I once returned a moldy pineapple, which can happen anywhere, and they insisted on giving me double my money back. How refreshing.
So what do you have to lose? If you have never been to an ALDI store, give them a try ...don't forget to bring your quarter and bags. (See ALDI 101 below)
Past Posts: Shopping ALDI's 101: B.Y.O. B, Q, and C & New Loaction News
Just What Can You Find at ALDI's? Lowe Prices for One!
In Praise of ALDI's and Trader Joe's: Wish We Had Both!
*I shop at ALDI nearly every week but usually at the Hwy 100 store in West Allis, south of Greenfield Ave.
Too many tomaotes got you in a jam? Try TOMATO JAM!
Sometimes a homegrown tomato supply can be a feast or famine situation; after waiting forever for the first few fruits, they then all ripen at the same time. So, if you have had your fill of BLTs and tomato salads, maybe you would like to try this old fashioned favorite: tomato jam.
10 years of sleeping on air
Recently, there have been some local commercials advertising their double sided mattresses over others single sided mattresses. The double you can flip; the single sided manufacturers say you don't need to flip. I didn't even know there were single sided mattresses, but the idea that you don't have to flip them seems far fetched. I have to think not flipping would result in a mattress sagging much faster?
But I have not flipped our mattress since we purchased it in 1999 and it is still as perfect as day one. Why? Because it is an air bed, not an inner spring, and we love it.
Even after 10 years, we often still say, I love this bed, when we crawl in at night. I am glad I don't have to flip it either. I used to single-handedly do battle flipping our former innerspring queen size. It was challenging back then; I can't imagine doing it now that I am 10 years older!
Because we were disappointed in the past by how quickly even a good mattress started to sag, we looked into getting an air bed. We checked out the mall air bed models and decided air was the way to go.
It wasn't until I looked for an under-bed drawer platform to set the air bed onto, that I discovered the Anderson Bed Co. ad in the back of my Martha Stewart magazine. It was there I saw their version of the air bed, the Ultimate Bed. We chose the Ultimate Bed over the Sleep Number bed because the Ultimate had a layer of memory foam on the top and used wool in their mattress pad.
The beauty of an air bed is that there is no sagging. It does lose a little air over time, but you just push the individual inflate controller and it pumps to desired firmness. I also sleep better on air. Because the 2 sides of the bed are separated, I don't notice when husband rolls over. There isn't that ripple effect of movement that used to wake me up.
Sleeping on air is a different experience. You nestle in and tend to stay in one position longer which gives a better night's sleep. That is especially important for light sleepers.
The Ultimate Bed is one of the few examples of new and improved that truly is. I highly recommend it. Check it out for yourself. Granted, the price was higher than a traditional innerspring mattress, but considering it is still as good as day 1 ten years later, we figured it would pay off in the long run.
As for the drawer platform, we got ours at PM Bedroom Gallery on Bluemound Road. It was more standard in height than the one Anderson offered and so our air bed looks just like a regular bed.
So that is my testimonial on sleeping on air, in case you were thinking about a new mattress and wondered what those air beds are like. Other family members have purchased Sleep Number beds and like them too. Either way, air beds arrive in a big carton and require a little set up. It is pretty straight forward. My 10 year old did it for me. If you move, you just disassemble. I do rotate the 3 sections of memory foam from time to time, but these are light weight -- nothing like my fights with the innerspring.
Whichever company you decide on, with air, you'll never flip again!
I am not affiliated at all with the Anderson Manufacturing Company, nor do I receive any compensation for my opinion. This piece was posted purely for information purposes.
In honor of State Fair, try a cream puff recipe!
Cream puffs usually top the list of must have food treats at the State Fair. In case you didn't get your fill, why not make your own? They are not difficult to make, plus you can make them yourself for a fracton of the State Fair price
Popeye Pizza, a.k.a. Quick Spinach Pizzas
These little pizzas were inspired by a spinach pizza, dubbed "Popeye Pizza" that Jacks Pizza used to make about 20 years ago. I gave Popeye a Greek flair by adding the Feta and Kalamata olives. The pizzas are so easy to make, they hardly qualify as needing a recipe--they're more like assembling than cooking. But they are tasty just the same. Add a nice tossed salad and you have dinner.
If ever there was a reason to grill out, Sunday was it, for June 21st marked both the official 1st day of summer and Father's Day. It also marked my 1st full meal prepared outdoors.
In honor of Father's Day, I made grilled, marinated hanger* steak, chicken, red and green peppers, Vidalia onions, plum tomatoes, and mushrooms. Along with that I served Asian cabbage salad and fried mixed brown and wild rice. (It looks good enough to eat, don't you think?) We all thought it quite tasty.
I have made this marinade for years and used it in grilling beef, chicken and veggies. It is quite simple and is made from ingredients you probably have on hand. The original recipe came from Better Homes and Gardens Golden Treasury of Cooking.
MARINADE: Mix all ingredients in a pint size jar.
1/2 Cup oil. I use olive oil.
1/4 Cup lemon juice. You could use fresh, but bottled works fine too.
3 Tablespoons Soy Sauce
2 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce, I use Lea & Perrins
2 Tablespoons prepared mustard. My favorite is Plochman's Premium Natural Stone Ground
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 large clove of garlic, minced
Put the lid on the jar and shake until mixed. It is best to marinade the meat either the night before or the morning of your grill out. To cut down on grilling time, I prefer to pre-cook the chicken by simmering for around 1/2 hour, depending on the size of the pieces. The beef I marinate raw. I put the beef in a separate Zip-Lock bag from the chicken and poured about 1/3 of the marinade in each bag. Zip shut. Keep the meat bags refrigerated until grilling time and don't forget to rotate the bags several times during the marinading process to evenly distribute the flavors.
I also pre-bake the onion halves because I like the onions well cooked. I just peel, cut in half, and place in a baking pan with a little olive oil. Bake at 350 until they start to soften. After they are cooled, I skewer, put in a plastic bag, and refrigerate.
Keep the remaining marinade in the closed jar refrigerated until grill time.
The steak took about 8 minutes on each side. It was cut in 2 inch by 10 inch strips, and I grilled it just like that. You can use the remaining marinade juices to baste the meat when you first put it on the grill. Don't use any of the marinade containing raw meat juice after your first basting.
The jarred marinade may be used on the vegetables--don't forget to use a separate brush.
This was enough marinade to serve 4-6 people. I marinated about 2 1/2 pounds of steak and 1 pound of chicken and still had some to baste the veggies while grilling. (We had lots of left-overs, yum.)
I have used sirloin roast, which is often less expensive than sirloin steak, and chuck steak too. The lemon in the marinade tenderizes the meat, I believe.
*I purchased the hanger steak from Sendiks in Elm Grove. It came already marinaded in au jus juice, then I added my marinade. The hanger steak was very tender and at $4.99 / pound on sale, not a bad price considering there was no waste. The butcher told me it was from a cut next to the T-bone. It looks a lot like flank steak. (They also had it with a teriyaki marinade, but we thought it too sweet.)
Making room for Heirloom Tomatoes
This will be my 3rd year planting heirloom tomatoes. If you have not tried any, make room for 1 or 2 this year. Their flavor is spectacular and their color and shape fun. I don't think you will be disappointed.
As promised, OATMEAL RAISIN MUFFINS
I have been making these oatmeal muffins ever since the oat bran craze came on the scene--maybe 15 years or more ago?
Ever roll your own? I do; I roll OATS!
Yes, I have been rolling my own for about 10 years now--oats, that is. I make my own oatmeal.
Tomato Tortellini Florentine Soup: Spinach soup even kids like!
This tasty soup concept came from New Orleans via a friend. While visiting relatives there several years ago she was served this delicious soup. Being the great cook she is, she had to recreate it upon returning home. Fortunate me, she shared her recipe. Yum! I make it several times a year.
Wow! Now that is a good, cheap pizza
I cannot remember when we started the tradition of having frozen pizza on a Saturday night at our house. It may date back to when my husband and I were first married in the late 1970s. It is a tradition that has stuck over the years though. The brand may have changed, but menu has stayed the same. (I joke it is against my religion to cook on the weekend.)
Biscotti Nocciole Cioccolato (hazelnut, chocolate cookies)
It is no secret; I love coffee! And what goes better with coffee than a good cookie? Biscotti, of course!
Cookie marathon nearly finished, 2 hurdles to go
For as long as I can remember, baking cookies has always been a part of celebrating Christmas. My mom would let my sister and I help, even though that meant the task would take longer and the kitchen be messier. It is a cherished memory.
Town of Brookfield Aldi now open!
Well, today is the day. After months of discussion and remodeling, the new Aldi store opens its doors today at 19555 W. Bluemound Road.
Spice it up! Tomato & pepper salad
Do you still have green tomatoes sitting on your kitchen counter? I do. (I treasure every one.)
Start planning now: Free admission to Disney theme parks & free Disney dollars
Around this time of year, I usually start thinking of vacation destinations for the coming year. How about this one?
Happiness is a homegrown tomato
It sure took long enough. I planted earlier than other years, and my tomato plants looked great. Yet those green tomatoes just would not ripen!
Homemade Baked Beans
What cookout or casual gathering would be complete without baked beans? Homemade ones are not difficult to make and taste ever so much better than canned. Like most things you make yourself, they are less expensive than canned or deli varieties. I make them a day ahead, starting them in the evening and cooking all night.
Auntie Lu's Outstanding German Potato Salad
Good German potato salad is a difficult thing to find. To my husband, there really is no other kind of potato salad, except German. The deli varieties and even restaurant offerings are always a disappointment, but my Auntie Lu's German potato salad, ah, now you are talking delicious!
As Promised: 3, 4, 5 or More Bean Salad Recipe
Since many of you might be needing an easy salad recipe for your July 4th festivities, I thought I better honor my promise from the Aldi's comments to share my 3 Bean Salad recipe. (I will try to post my German Potato Salad and Baked Beans recipes too before the 4th.)
Silvia & Rocky Make My Day AND Save Me Money
Meet our kitchen dynamic duo: Silvia, on the left, and Rocky, on the right. They both make our day begin! (They were named by their manufacturer, Rancilio, not us. We do refer to them by name though.)
"For Your Convenience" Packaging Shrinks, But Not Price
Before we breezed out of town last weekend, I purchased some Edy's Slow Churned Ice Cream in what formerly was the half gallon size and tossed it in the basement freezer. (I know ice cream has not been 1/2 gallon for years. It is actually 7 cups.)
Just What Can You Find At ALDI's? Low Prices For One!
I have shopped ALDI's for years now. It all started with "Big Tom" ketchup. We were a very brand loyal "Heinz" ketchup family and would not ever consider anything else on a burger. But a bargain hunting uncle of mine loved to shop at Aldi's and he would share the wealth with family. He gave us several "Big Tom" ketchups from Aldi's. Oh well, I can use them in meat loaf or something, I thought.
Shopping Aldi's 101: B.Y.O. B, Q, and C & New Location News
Want to shop at Aldi's? Here is a primer. B, Q, and C stand for Bags, Quarter, and Cash. Better bring your own.
In praise of Aldi's AND Trader Joe's: Wish We Had Both!
Poor Aldi's*. The Town of Brookfield Plan Commission squelched their plans for a new store. One of the reasons cited in the Community Watch post was that, "Some members of the Plan Commission said they were wary of the discount
grocer's reputation and the type of customers and tenants the store
would attract to Bluemound Plaza..." (near Best Buy)
Tuesday is Coffee Bargain Day at Alterra
Today is Tuesday, and I must make my monthly
pilgrimage to Alterra coffee at Mayfair Mall. (It is usually the only reason I venture over to Mayfair!)
Heirloom Tomatoes, Everything Old Is New Again?
I actually got my tomato plants into the soil yesterday! That is a record for me--usually I don't get them it until the first week in June. I am pleased with my accomplishment. :)
Thanks Mom
My mom was an amazing woman. Her priorities were God, Dad, us, others, then herself. She was kind, generous, and a whiz at managing money. Since the economy is in the news so much these days, I will focus on her money management talents.
Sendik's Anniversary Party: Lots of samples and prizes
I just got back from a trip to the Elm Grove Sendik's. Wow, lots of tasty samples, good deals, and drawings for prizes.
More blessed to give than receive, so stop shopping!
A number of years ago, my family decided to quit giving Christmas presents to each other. As my witty husband said, if I want a personal gift, I will buy it personally.
The Turkey's last stand
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Albert Einstein once said, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Indeed, the pursuit of scientific truth has been all about simplifying a theory's underlying assumptions so that we can deal with the issues that really matter. The same can be said for enterprise software development.
A key to simplifying enterprise software development is to provide an application framework that hides complexities (such as transaction, security, and persistence) away from the developers. A well-designed framework promotes code reuse, enhances developer productivity, and results in better software quality. However, the current EJB 2.1 framework in J2EE 1.4 is widely considered poorly designed and over-complicated. Unsatisfied with the EJB 2.1 framework, Java developers have experimented with a variety of other approaches for middleware services delivery. Most noticeably, the following two frameworks have generated a lot of developer interest and positive feedback. They are posed to become the frameworks of choice for future enterprise Java applications.
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These two frameworks share a common core design philosophy: they both aim to deliver middleware services to loosely coupled plain old Java objects (POJOs). The framework "wires" application services to the POJOs by intercepting the execution context or injecting service objects to the POJO at runtime. The POJOs themselves are not concerned about the "wiring" and have little dependency upon the framework. As a result, developers can focus on the business logic, and unit test their POJOs without the framework. In addition, since POJOs do not need to inherit from framework classes or implement framework interfaces, the developers have a high degree of flexibility to build inheritance structures and construct applications.
However, while sharing an overall philosophy, the two frameworks use very different approaches to deliver POJO services. While numerous books and articles have been published to compare either Spring or EJB 3.0 to the old EJB 2.1, no serious study has been done to compare Spring to EJB 3.0. In this article, I will examine some key differences behind the Spring and EJB 3.0 frameworks, and discuss their pros and cons. The topics covered in this article also apply to other lesser-known enterprise middleware frameworks, as they all converge on the "loosely coupled POJO" design. I hope this article will help you choose the best framework for your needs.
One of the most compelling reasons for developers to choose the Java platform is its vendor independence. EJB 3.0 is an open standard designed for vendor independence. The EJB 3.0 specification is developed and supported by all major open source and commercial vendors in the enterprise Java community. The EJB 3.0 framework insulates developers from application server implementations. For instance, while JBoss's EJB 3.0 implementation is based on Hibernate, and Oracle's is based on TopLink, developers need to learn neither Hibernate- nor TopLink-specific APIs to get their applications running on JBoss and Oracle. Vendor independence differentiates the EJB 3.0 framework from any other POJO middleware frameworks available today.
However, as many EJB 3.0 critics are quick to point out, the EJB 3.0 specification has not yet reached the final release at the time of this writing. It will likely be another one to two years before EJB 3.0 is widely adopted by all major J2EE vendors. But even if your application server does not yet support EJB 3.0 natively, you can still run EJB 3.0 applications in the server by downloading and installing an "embeddable" EJB 3.0 product. For instance, the JBoss embeddable EJB 3.0 product is open source and runs in any J2SE-5.0-compatible environment (i.e., in any Java application server). It is currently under beta testing. Other vendors may also soon release their own embeddable EJB 3.0 products, especially for the "data persistence" part of the specification.
On the other hand, Spring has always been a non-standard technology and will remain that way in the foreseeable future. Although you can use the Spring framework with any application server, Spring applications are locked into both Spring itself and the specific services you choose to integrate in Spring.
From a very high level, the Spring framework sits above application servers and service libraries. The service integration code (e.g., data access templates and helper classes) resides in the framework and is exposed to the application developers. In contrast, the EJB 3.0 framework is tightly integrated into the application server and the service integration code is encapsulated behind a standard interface.
As a result, EJB 3.0 vendors can aggressively optimize the
overall performance and developer experience. For instance, in
JBoss's EJB 3.0 implementation, when you persist an Entity Bean
POJO using the
EntityManager, the underlying Hibernate
session transaction is automatically tied to the calling method's
JTA transaction, and it commits when the JTA transaction commits.
Using a simple
@PersistenceContext annotation (see
later in this article for an example), you can even tie the
EntityManager and its underlying Hibernate transaction
to an application transaction in a stateful session bean. The
application transaction spans across multiple threads in a session
and it is very useful in transactional web applications, such as
multi-page shopping carts. The above simple and integrated
programming interface is made possible due to the tight integration
between the EJB 3.0 framework, Hibernate, and Tomcat inside of JBoss.
A similar level of integration is also archived between Oracle's EJB
3.0 framework and its underlying Toplink persistence service.
Another good example of integrated services in EJB 3.0 is clustering support. If you deploy an EJB 3.0 application in a server cluster, all of the fail-over, load-balancing, distributed cache, and state replication services are automatically available to the application. The underlying clustering services are hidden behind the EJB 3.0 programming interface and they are completely transparent to EJB 3.0 developers.
In Spring, it is more difficult to optimize the interaction
between the framework and the services. For instance, in order to
use Spring's declarative transaction service to manage
Hibernate transactions, you have to explicitly configure the Spring
TransactionManager and Hibernate
SessionFactory objects in the XML configuration file.
Spring application developers must explicitly manage transactions
that span across several HTTP requests. In addition, there is no
simple way to leverage clustering services in a Spring
Since the service integration code in Spring is exposed as part of the programming interface, application developers have the flexibility to assemble services as needed. This feature enables you to assemble your own "lightweight" application servers. A common usage of Spring is to glue Tomcat together with Hibernate to support simple database-driven web applications. In this case, Spring itself provides transaction services and Hibernate provides persistence services--this setup creates a mini application server in itself.
EJB 3.0 application servers typically do not give you that kind of flexibility in picking and choosing on the services you need. Most of the time, you get a set of prepackaged features, some of which you might not need. However, if the application server features a modular internal design, as JBoss does, you might be able to take it apart and strip out the unnecessary features. In any case, it is not a trivial exercise to customize a full-blown application server.
Of course, if the application scales beyond a single node, you would need to wire in services (such as resource pooling, message queuing, and clustering) from regular application servers. The Spring solution would be just as "heavyweight" as any EJB 3.0 solution, in terms of the overall resource consumption.
In Spring, the flexible service assembly also makes it easy to
wire mock objects, instead of real service objects, into the
application for out-of-the-container unit testing. In EJB 3.0
applications, most components are simple POJOs, and they can be
easily tested outside of the container. But for tests that involve
container service objects (e.g., the persistence
EntityManager), in-container tests are recommended, as
they are easier, more robust, and more accurate than the mock
objects approach.
From the application developer's point view, Spring's programming interface is primarily based upon XML configuration files while EJB 3.0 makes extensive use Java annotations. XML files can express complex relationships, but they are also very verbose and less robust. Annotations are simple and concise, but it is hard to express complex or hierarchical structures in annotations.
Spring and EJB 3.0's choices of XML or annotation depend upon the architecture behind the two frameworks: since annotations can only hold a fairly small amount of configuration information, only a pre-integrated framework (i.e., most of plumbing has been done in the framework) can make extensive use of annotations as its configuration option. As we discussed, EJB 3.0 meets this requirement, while Spring, being a generic DI framework, does not.
Of course, as both EJB 3.0 and Spring evolve to learn from each other's best features, they both support XML and annotations to some degree. For instance, XML configuration files are available in EJB 3.0 as an optional overriding mechanism to change the default behavior of annotations. Annotations are also available to configure some Spring services.
The best way to learn the differences between the XML and annotation approaches is through examples. In the next several sections, let's examine how Spring and EJB 3.0 provide key services to applications.
Spring and EJB 3.0 wire runtime services (such as transaction, security, logging, messaging, and profiling services) to applications. Since those services are not directly related to the application's business logic, they are not managed by the application itself. Instead, the services are transparently applied by the service container (i.e., Spring or EJB 3.0) to the application at runtime. The developer (or administrator) configures the container and tells it exactly how/when to apply services.
EJB 3.0 configures declarative services using Java annotations, while Spring uses XML configuration files. In most cases, the EJB 3.0 annotation approach is the simpler and more elegant way for this type of services. Here is an example of applying transaction services to a POJO method in EJB 3.0.
public class Foo {
public bar () {
// do something ...
You can also declare multiple attributes for a code segment and apply multiple services. This is an example of applying both transaction and security services to a POJO in EJB 3.0.
public class Foo {
public bar () {
// do something ...
Using XML to specify code attributes and configure declarative
services could lead to verbose and unstable configuration files.
Below is an example of XML elements used to apply a very simple
Hibernate transaction to the
Foo.bar() method in a
Spring application.
<!-- Setup the transaction interceptor -->
<bean id="foo"
<property name="target">
<bean class="Foo"/>
<property name="transactionManager">
<ref bean="transactionManager"/>
<property name="transactionAttributeSource">
<ref bean="attributeSource"/>
<!-- Setup the transaction manager for Hibernate -->
<bean id="transactionManager"
<property name="sessionFactory">
<!-- you need to setup the sessionFactory bean in
yet another XML element -- omitted here -->
<ref bean="sessionFactory"/>
<!-- Specify which methods to apply transaction -->
<bean id="transactionAttributeSource"
<property name="properties">
<prop key="bar">
The XML complexity would grow geometrically if you added more
interceptors (e.g., security interceptors) to the same POJO.
Realizing the limitations of XML-only configuration files, Spring
supports using Apache Commons metadata to specify transaction
attributes in the Java source code. In the latest Spring 1.2, JDK-1.5-style annotations are also supported. To use the transaction
metadata, you need to change the above
transactionAttributeSource bean to an
AttributesTransactionAttributeSource instance and add
additional wirings for the metadata interceptors.
<bean id="autoproxy"
<bean id="transactionAttributeSource"
<bean id="transactionInterceptor"
<bean id="transactionAdvisor"
<bean id="attributes"
The Spring metadata simplifies the
transactionAttributeSource element when you have many
transactional methods. But it does not solve the fundamental
problems with XML configuration files--the verbose and
fragile transaction interceptor,
transactionAttributeSource are all still
A key benefit of middleware containers is that they enable developers to build loosely coupled applications. The service client only needs to know the service interface. The container instantiates service objects from concrete implementations and make them available to clients. This allows the container to switch between alternative service implementations without changing the interface or the client-side code.
The Dependency Injection pattern is one of best ways to implement loosely coupled applications. It is much easier to use and more elegant than older approaches, such as dependency lookup via JNDI or container callbacks. Using DI, the framework acts as an object factory to build service objects and injects those service objects to application POJOs based on runtime configuration. From the application developer's point of view, the client POJO automatically obtains the correct service object when you need to use it.
Both Spring and EJB 3.0 provide extensive support for the DI pattern. But they also have some profound differences. Spring supports a general-purpose, but complex, DI API based upon XML configuration files; EJB 3.0 supports injecting most common service objects (e.g., EJBs and context objects) and any JNDI objects via simple annotations.
The EJB 3.0 DI annotations are extremely concise and easy to
use. The
@Resource tag injects most common service
objects and JNDI objects. The following example shows how to inject
the server's default
DataSource object from the JNDI
into a field variable in a POJO.
DefaultDS is the
JNDI name for the
DataSource. The
variable is automatically assigned the correct value before its
first use.
public class FooDao {
@Resource (name="DefaultDS")
DataSource myDb;
// Use myDb to get JDBC connection to the database
In addition to direct field variable injection, the
@Resource annotation in EJB 3.0 can also be used to
inject objects via a setter method. For instance, the following
example injects a session context object. The application never
explicitly calls the setter method--it is invoked by the
container before any other methods are called.
public void setSessionContext (SessionContext ctx) {
sessionCtx = ctx;
For more complex service objects, special injection annotations
are defined. For instance, the
@EJB annotation is used
to inject EJB stubs and the
annotation is used to inject
EntityManager objects,
which handle database access for EJB 3.0 entity beans. The
following example shows how to inject an
object into a stateful session bean. The
@PersistenceContext annotation's
attribute specifies that the injected
has an extended transaction context--it does not automatically
commit with the JTA transaction manager, and hence it can be used in
an application transaction that spans across multiple threads in a
public class FooBean implements Foo, Serializable {
protected EntityManager em;
public Foo getFoo (Integer id) {
return (Foo) em.find(Foo.class, id);
The EJB 3.0 specification defines server resources that can be injected via annotations. But it does not support user-defined application POJOs to be injected into each other.
In Spring, you first need to define a setter method (or constructor with arguments) for the service object in your POJO. The following example shows that the POJO needs a reference to the Hibernate session factory.
public class FooDao {
HibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate;
public void setHibernateTemplate (HibernateTemplate ht) {
hibernateTemplate = ht;
// Use hibernateTemplate to access data via Hibernate
public Foo getFoo (Integer id) {
return (Foo) hibernateTemplate.load (Foo.class, id);
Then, you can specify how the container gets the service object
and wire it to the POJO at runtime through a chain of XML elements.
The following example shows the XML element that wires a data
source to a Hibernate session factory, the session factory to a
Hibernate template object, and finally, the template object to the
application POJO. Part of the reason for the complexity of the
Spring code is the fact that we need to inject the
underlying Hibernate plumbing objects manually, where the EJB
EntityManager is automatically managed and
configured by the server. But that just brings us back to the
argument that Spring is not as tightly integrated with services
as EJB 3.0 is.
<bean id="dataSource"
<property name="jndiname">
<bean id="sessionFactory"
<property name="dataSource">
<ref bean="dataSource"/>
<bean id="hibernateTemplate"
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref bean="sessionFactory"/>
<bean id="fooDao" class="FooDao">
<property name="hibernateTemplate">
<ref bean="hibernateTemplate"/>
<!-- The hibernateTemplate can be injected
into more DAO objects -->
Although the XML-based Dependency Injection syntax in Spring is complex, it is very powerful. You can inject any POJO, including the ones defined in your applications, to another POJO. If you really want to use Spring's DI capabilities in EJB 3.0 applications, you can inject a Spring bean factory into an EJB via the JNDI. In some EJB 3.0 application servers, the vendor might define extra non-standard APIs to inject arbitrary POJOs. A good example is the JBoss MicroContainer, which is even more generic than Spring, as it handles Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) dependencies.
Although Spring and EJB 3.0 both aim to provide enterprise services to loosely coupled POJOs, they use very different approaches to archive this goal. Dependency Injection is a heavily used pattern in both frameworks.
With EJB 3.0, the standards-based approach, wide use of annotations, and tight integration with the application server all result in greater vendor independence and developer productivity. With Spring, the consistent use of dependency injection and the centralized XML configuration file allow developers to construct more flexible applications and work with several application service providers at a time.
The author would like to thank Stephen Chambers, Bill Burke, and Andy Oliver for valuable comments.
Michael Juntao Yuan specializes in lightweight enterprise / web application, and end-to-end mobile application development.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Nations Visitor Center and The New York Water Way are just a few organizations in the North East that were hit by Sandy but never experienced a minute of computer down time. Why? The reason is simply that they have a Virtualized Environment provided by Thin-nology. Thin-nology is a privately held business solutions provider headquartered in Austin, Texas. For nearly 10 years, Thin-nology has used well-defined and sophisticated technology to help businesses reduce operational costs, decrease network downtime, and increase security. All their systems, data and operations were running the entire time Sandy pounded the North East.
In the aftermath of Sandy, the NY Subway was down and the bus service was almost non-existent. The New York Water Way kept functioning as normal. A big reason for their ability to function as normal was a decision they made some three years ago to join the Thin-nology VOSP System. Thin-nology's President, Kathryn Grona, reports that they have seen a huge increase in both web traffic and ticket sales processed through their system ever since Tuesday afternoon. As residents of New York, New Jersey, and the Northeast were forced to find alternative ways to get to their workplace safely, the NYWW was able to provide that option. Having their systems located in Austin isolated The New York Water Way from the ravages of Sandy. This enabled them to conduct business as usual for their regular customers, and more importantly, the throngs of other people who found themselves unable to use the subway or bus systems.
The decision to move your IT system to a virtual environment is made more and more by businesses that want to decrease costs and downtime. In all cases it comes down to a business decision and in most cases the virtual choice makes the most sense.
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Poster Presentation at the 53rd Annual SWCS Conference
San Diego, California, July 5-9, 1998
Joe Bagdon, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Amherst, Massachusetts
Steve Plotkin, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Amherst, Massachusetts
Eric Hesketh, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Amherst, Massachusetts
Robert L. Kellogg, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.
Susan Wallace, consultant for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the extent to which environmental risk from pesticides can be reduced within watersheds with more extensive adoption of environmentally beneficial farming practices.
Federal policies rely primarily on voluntary approaches by farmers and ranchers to curb externalities of agricultural production. Research has shown that the loss of agricultural chemicals from farm fields can be substantially reduced by using farm management practices tailored to: specific soils, local climatic conditions, the nature and extent of pest problems, and crops grown. Many believe that if these farming systems and practices were used more widely, significant improvements in water quality would result. Government programs are designed to provide technical assistance and cost sharing to encourage the voluntary adoption of these practices in areas that have potential for water quality impacts.
This study provides insight on how much water quality improvement might be attained by wider adoption of environmentally beneficial pesticide management practices.
Measuring Risk Using Threshold Exceedence Units (TEUs)
Aggregate environmental risk scores were calculated for each of the 36 watersheds.
TEUs are similar in concept to the acre-feet volumetric measure, since they are a multiple of acres times a measure of magnitude at a point. They are used here only to measure relative risk from one watershed to another; the higher the TEU score, the higher the risk.
There are approximately 21.5 million acres of corn and soybeans in the three study areas, with an average of 0.6 million acres per watershed. If at each "representative field," the per-sample-point risk measure was 1, total TEUs per watershed would be about 0.6 million. (A per-sample-point risk measure of 1 would occur if the concentration equaled the threshold for one chemical for each of the 50 years.)
A wide variety of economically feasible alternatives are available for farmers to use to reduce pesticide loss from farm fields. For example, potential alternative practices addressing herbicide use include:
Potential alternative practices addressing insecticide use include:
Although most of these alternatives can be simulated using NAPRA, it is not practical to do so without more information about specific pest problems than was provided by the farmer surveys. Instead, generic alternative management strategies were simulated as proxies for pesticide use reductions that could be achieved using combinations of the above practices. Three generic alternative management strategies were simulated:
Simulation of the adoption of environmentally beneficial farming practices demonstrates that substantial reductions in environmental risk are possible. For the 36 watersheds combined, simulation of alternative management practices reduced environmental risk as follows:
Results by watershed are shown graphically in Maps 1-20, and numerically in four tables in the Appendix.
Using NAPRA for Watershed Planning
NAPRA is an automated analytical tool for evaluating environmental risk of pesticide loss from farm fields. NAPRA utilizes the USDA/ARS environmental fate computer model GLEAMS to simulate pesticide loss in runoff and leachate. Concentrations of pesticides leaving the field are related to thresholds based on water quality standards and toxicities to provide a measure of environmental risk.
The NAPRA process for evaluating the need for technical assistance within a watershed has 3 basic steps:
Identify the areas within a watershed that have the highest risk because of the interactions of soil characteristics, landscape characteristics, climate, and present pesticide use and farm management practices.
Identify the kinds of alternative management practices that can reduce environmental risk in the highest risk areas.
Simulate the extent to which environmentally beneficial management practices need to be adopted in the highest risk areas to meet a specific goal of risk reduction within a watershed.
Water quality goals for a watershed will be determined by state and local governments. To achieve these water quality goals, the relatively simple field-by-field approach currently being implemented by NRCS must be expanded to assess the effects of alternative practices on a watershed basis. NAPRA can be used with the Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) or other land use and soils data to identify areas within a watershed that need special emphasis pest management planning. Field office staff in these areas can then consult with producers and crop consultants to ascertain existing practices, and to promulgate economically feasible alternatives. NAPRA can be used again to test the alternatives to determine if they are adequate to meet water quality goals for the watershed. Using NAPRA to target technical assistance to high risk areas within high risk watersheds is a practical way to substantially improve water quality with limited resources.
The ultimate goal is to help farmers choose pesticide management alternatives that reduce hazardous pesticide losses in environmentally sensitive areas. Adoption of practices such as reductions in pesticide use, improved efficacy of pesticide applications through integrated pest management, matching pesticide and management practice selection to site conditions, and the use of pesticides that are less toxic to the environment will be necessary. Using models such as NAPRA to estimate the environmental benefits of these practices can help agricultural producers make more informed decisions that meet the environmental goals of conservation planning.
Appendix: Results by Hydrologic Unit
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my guy sasuke, then itachi( uchiha comes first). then leave the rest to die
Gracious me, is more really needed?
Goodness gracious me; are you on a mission to convert me? God help me, I hope not.
itachi, cuz he would find a way out to free others!
im pretty sure each one of those people could break out easily by themselves. hahaha
Who the **** put a white cloth over Kakashi's mouth??
That Itachi is just a Genjutsu and Sasuke is a Kage Bunshin. The others can die for all i care.
First I'd save Itachi, who would help me save the others. Gaara could probably get out without any help.
Save them? Ive got them all where i want them.
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Gaara, easily. Next in line would be Kakashi. Forget the rest.
I'd like to save them all but as a self proclaiming Gaara fan, no need to really answer.
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