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The Phillies faltered late and blew a seventh inning, two-run lead that led to a 5-4 loss at the hands of the struggling Milwaukee Brewers on Friday. Aramis Ramirez got the winning base hit with men on the corners and one out in the ninth, securing the come-from behind win for the Crew and halting the Phillies' win streak before it could reach six games.
The Phillies spotted Cliff Lee a four run lead, but he struggled as the game went on. Lee departed with the score tied at four in the seventh, and the offense fell dormant and failed to score against the Brewer's bullpen.
Lee labors a bit through his seven innings
The left-hander had just one clean inning and gave up four runs for the first time since May 1 (albeit only three earned). He allowed eight hits and uncharacteristically walked three batters. Until today, he had walked three in just one other game, and had not allowed a walk in his previous two starts. Lee did strike out nine batters, however, which givs him 20 strikeouts in his last two starts.
The big blow for Lee came in the seventh when he allowed a triple to Jean Segura after a lead-off walk to Norichika Aoki. Aoki scored on the play, and Segura came around to score as well after a throwing error to home plate by Freddy Galvis.
Phils got starter out early, but failed against 'pen
The Phillies knocked around Brewer's starter Alfredo Figaro, touching him up for four runs and seven hits in just over five innings of work before he departed, but they could not touch the Milwaukee bullpen. Five Milwaukee relievers combined to hold the Phis hitless through the final three and a third innings. The only two base runners came on walks in the seventh and eighth.
Sloppy fielding continues
A huge throwing error from Freddy Galvis in that seventh inning allowed Jean Segura to come all the way around and tie the game on what would have been an RBI triple . Delmon Young also took forever to get to Segura's batted ball, and after several weeks of acceptable play his defensive ineptitude is showing clearly. The Phillies continue to make bad plays that cost them runs, and in this case perhaps cost them the game.
This was a bad loss. The Brewers are a bottom tier team that the Phillies could have easily put away and extended their momentum with a six game win streak. But instead, that momentum comes to a screeching halt. Nobody was impressive in this game (except maybe Erik Kratz, who clubbed his eighth home run). Lee struggled, the offense abruptly stopped after Figaro left, the bullpen did not get the job done, and the defense was suspect yet again.
Up Next…
The Phillies will look to start a new streak tomorrow with Kyle Kendrick (6-3, 3.12 ERA) ont he hill against veteran lefty Tom Gorzelanny (1-0, 2.01 ERA). Game time is 6:15 (7:15 ET) at Miller Park.
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Charlie is too soft with his pitchers…
This was a bad lost for them. As well Howard got plunked on his wrist. Started out good and to feces.
As well Adams is complaining of soreness…
Why the heck was Jeremy Horst in the game to face three straight RH batters, who happen to be Milwaukee's three best hitters? Also, why didn't they walk Ramirez (.383 OBP) to load the bases and pitch to Lecroy (.303 OBP)?
Ditto, hk. No clue why they'd bring Horst in the ninth inning of a tied game (unless its against 3 straight lefties and Bastardo had been already used). That move made no sense to me.
What the bats taketh, the gloves giveth away.
The Dipsy
And that defense by D Young. Seriously, look at the replay… He basically walked to that ball that went to to the corner in RF. Had he been just a second faster he'd keep Segura at 3rd and not force what ended up being a bad/rushed throw from Galvis. I don't care how hot he gets if he's giving up runs defensively. Make him the DH/Full-time PH if you want, but he needs to stop seeing playing time in RF. It's so damn clear to everyone… the Phil's insistence on keeping him there is just utterly absurd.
hk – I was thinking the same thing. Maybe someone wasn't available out there?? No sense at all.
And another thing that makes no sense is Delmon Young being on this team. Seriously….2 men on, one out….and he swings at the first freaking pitch! No plate discipline whatsoever! Yeah, yeah, yeah….he can sometimes mash a baseball over the fence. But he can't really field that well and he CERTAINLY can't run. I'm done with hearing Charlie say, "I feel like he's close. He's real close. I want to give him some more ABs so he gets his timing down."
Manny – Seriously….I'm ready to start a petition to get this guy off the team.. This nonsense HAS to stop. Delmon Young is a total waste. I'd rather they go with a Nix/Mayberry platoon and just keep Revere in center, despite his own troubles out there. He's a WAY better fielder than Young!
You know I'm 100% with you on this.
Or to keep Mayberry in the lineup more don't play Revere every day in center. Use Mayberry there as well for some games. If Charlie juggles it right I think it could work.
Delmon Young is definitely non-essential personnel. In 9 seasons his measly offensive WAR is 6.5, while his defensive WAR is -8.6
Whether you believe in metrics, or the eye test, it doesn't matter. Because they both show the same thing, his defense costs his teams more games than his offense wins.
But they don't show that on the "backs of baseball cards" now do they 🙂
What you and others don't understand about Delmon Young is that Delmon Young is a baseball player.
That's pretty funny.
hk, That was good hearty laugh for this early on a Saturday morning.
Lefty, you raise a good point about metrics vs. the eye test. Sometimes…not all the time…. metrics don't tell the whole story and there's more to a player than just his WAR. But this is a great example of the OVERALL value of advanced metrics, such as WAR…..because the -2.1 that you mention for Delmon certainly is more than validated by what we are seeing transpire out there on the field.
I know they are "enamored" with his power, the fact that he has the ability, with one swing of the bat, to do some real damage. I get the allure. This team does need power, especially from the right side. But at what expense?? And what other options do they have? Is Mayberry the answer? I tend to think that with more regular playing time he would be MORE valuable to them, especially when you factor in his defense and speed.
So then the question remains….what are they waiting for? If they can clearly see that JMJ is a better option and that with a combo of him, Nix and Revere in CF and RF…why hang on to Delmon at all? It just makes zero sense to me.
I think it is pretty clear they want DYoung in the lineup for his bat, and they don't really care about defense. If they cared DBrown would of been playing RF as he has a better arm. Mayberry has had plenty of time to prove himself..Ruf in LF ..Brown in RF or they have to go outside organization.
Chuck, It takes them a while to see these things especially when an investment has been made, no matter how small that investment. Maybe they're still mourning the loss of Durbin's salary? I don't know.
Seriously, do you think there is any chance that they could just put him on the bench and let him play a "Matt Stairs type" of role? Or would they not be able to control their desire to put him on the field, so he has to be let go completely?
Your point above is why I opposed the Young signing when it happened. At that time, many people – you may have been one, but forgive me if you were not – stated that the monetary commitment is not large, so they'll just cut Young if he sucks. My argument was that they were signing a guy who sucked the past two seasons due to his mediocre offense and bad defense and base-running, so if they got pretty much what he produced in 2011 and 2012, they'd keep running him out there. Now that Young is producing as expected and as he did for the past two years, I see no reason to believe that they'll cut him loose.
As G7 says, they probably look at his .454 SLG and think they're getting their money's worth despite the fact that his defense and base-running are so poor that he's costing the team runs when he's on the field and when the need to pinch-run for him and/or replace him pm defense is costing them runs when he's not. If the team had a RF who could field and run the bases, Lee would not have pinch-run for DY in the 9th inning vs. Cincy – yes, I know they came back to win that game – and KK would not have had to pinch-run for Rollins in the game they lost vs. MIL last Saturday.
Since I don't work for a major league baseball team, and don't know all the ins and outs of the business side of the sport, I try not to be quick to negatively judge my favorite team's abilities to do their jobs. So I'm quite certain that I was one who did not oppose the Young signing, and "stating that a small monetary commitment is not too large so that means that they could quickly dump a guy" sounds just like something I probably said.
i think it's also fair to say that recent history shows that the team has signed a few guys, like Dontrelle Willis, to major league contracts with incentives, and has a track record of letting some of them go fairly quickly. So if I and others to assumed that possibility, it just doesn't seem so far fetched an idea to me.
So, you were obviously correct on this call right from the start, and clearly no one is happy about it. My biggest complaint is the mentality of how all teams value power so highly, and can't see that a huge percentage of balls put in play do not go over the fence, so you better have players capable of catching, and throwing the damn ball.
@Schmenkman, if you're reading this- do you know what that percentage is by chance? Don't go to any trouble, I just thought you might know. It would make for a more convincing argument if I had the number.
Anyway it looks like this years "front office Wigginton award" goes to Delmon Young. I guess that slugging % is like candy or a drug that they, as well as many other teams FO's, just can't stay away from.
The point of my comment earlier today was not to say, "I told you so" or to pat myself on the back, the point was to say that I think it is unrealistic to expect them to release Delmon. He is pretty much performing as any reasonable person should have expected him to perform, so I think Delmon is in line for at least another 60 PA's and he'll get more after them if his performance in those 60 PA's is similar to his performance so far. If his hitting falls off, then he may be released. The only other thing that could possibly get him released is if Cliff Lee and/or Cole Hamels tell Charile that they really don't want Delmon playing the field behind them. Hopefully, Cliff went into Charlie's office last night and complained about Delmon's effort on Segera's triple and told him he refuses to pitch again with Delmon in RF.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if that's just what Cliff did. I still think he's one of the reasons for Victorino being shipped out.
Don't give up hope friend, they may still cut him loose yet.
G7 – Mayberry HAS proved himself…at least as far as being a better option than Delmon at this point for right now for this season. Forget Ruf for now. Think Brown in left, Revere/Mayberry in center, Nix/Mayberry in right. THAT combination, if done right, is a FAR better option that trotting Delmon out there all the time. What's the issue here? I don't get it.
As for Delmon and his bat. Yeah, Lefty's got a point. Let him be a right-handed Matt Stairs. That's really all he's good for.
And this "investment" thing??? That makes me sick. What they are paying him is PEANUTS. Just cut him loose and eat the go&&amn money. They did it with Durbin and they can do it with Delmon, too. Christ.
Apparently, there weren't many options left in the BP. Adams has a bum arm right now and DeFratus and Stutes have pitched a lot recently and needed a break. Still, using Horst against the best righties Milwaukee has seemed like a bad idea.
The real problem, though, was the bad play in the previous inning. D. Young is one of the worst defensive outfielders I've ever seen, and I've watched right fielders in T-ball games. Speed would help, but then a team would still be dealing with Young's misjudgements of flies and his tungsten hands. Galvis has not been a defensive wizard lately, either.
The Phils' bullpen is still a dismal place, particularly when it's used frequently in the short starts of Cloyd and Pettibone. Adams has been unhealthy and perhaps shouldn't have been signed.
I'm not going to fault Amaro directly, because scouting reports have a lot to do with roster decisions. But the scouting has been poor when slugs like D.Young or old health risks like Adams are being signed. One look at Young would show even an idiot that he has no clue about what a glove is, either for batting or defense. Adams might still have something left, but he was signed as an expensive upgrade when health and age should have indicated an incentive based deal.
What I'm saying is that although Amaro may not be directly at fault, it's likely he's the one who hired the clowns that give positive scouting reports on negative players. Therefore, he's indirectly culpable at the very least.
They should trade d young.. someone will gamble on him being a dh.. either way he'll look a lot better on someone else's team… leave revere in center and bat him lower in the lineup… use Mayberry and nix in right or bring up ruf put him in left and Brown in right… if it's power they want ruf has it not to mention he gets on base at a good rate.. start playing Hernandez at second over Galvis, because Hernandez is a better player … maybe it's time to hand the manager duty over to ryne Sandburg as the Phillies are 112-112 in there last 224 games the last two seasons, impressive…
Charlie has always played it one game at a time, trying to put his best offensive lineup out there..while resting his regulars when needed..now trying to get back in the race against the bad Marlins and Brewers. He will probably get Hernandez a spot start here and there..probably even tonight..we ave seen the Mayberry/Nix platoon before..I have to believe the plan was to see Brown, Revere and DYoung in the everyday lineup..otherwise Rubens offseason was a failure except for MYoung.
It's not that d young is a terrible player he just can't run and he can't field.. he'd be a decent dh in the al… something around this team has to change
Delmon Young is being showcased as an AL DH. Someone will take him for a low level prospect. Please take a look at Nix's ABs over the last six weeks before you start wishing for a Nix/Mayberry platoon…nothing short of putrid. PS Something happened to my log-in ability for this site. I re-registered but have yet to hear from the site administrator. If you see this please help.
Of the hitters with enough PA's to qualify since 2011, Delmon Young ranks 145th out of 175 in wOBA (right below Emilio Bonifacio and Jeff Francouer) and 142nd out of 175 in OPS (right below Alberto Callaspo, JP Arencibia and Pedro Alvarez). Throw in that Delmon is a bad base-runner in the ~25% of his PA's when he has to run the bases and I don't see any AL that would trade for him. I hope I'm wrong.
Someone will trade for him.. nobody thought Vernon wells would be traded, and twice he was traded bad contract and all.. it happens every year.. youngs contract is cheap someone will take him… then just play Mayberry in right or call up someone from the minors…
He (DYoung) will need to keep playing and continue to hit in order for him to be trade..we need to hope he gets hot!
Nix hasnt been that good the last few weeks. He couldnt even catch up to the fast ball yesterday on that foul tip strike out. I had a yearning for some wings and stepped out. I was shocked when i return to see the game tied. This Adams signing is already going sour. Just a shame game got away from them like that.
Howard not in the line up vs a lefty.
however they want to justify it or call it.
It shows me they are trying to win.
I am proud of them.
They are almost up to a fantasy baseball level.
Yes I had sat Howard vs Gorzelany myself about 3 days ago.
So much negativity with Delmon Young. It seems to get contagious where everyone says "me too" in their criticism toward Young. My "eye test" tells me differently. Since he played RF regularly, he surprised me with his fielding and hustle making some difficult plays. He is not a speedster in getting to a line drive hit but it's not for a lack of effort. I will give him credit for losing weight and learning to play RF.
If there is to be criticism with fielding, fans here should be looking at Freddy Galvis. He with the "little league' bat (.228 BA) made his third error on a throw that allowed the tying run to score in the 7th inning of last night's game. I still think he is overrated as an infielder. And why is he playing and not Frandsen? The Phillies with their toothless offense don't have the luxury of putting an automatic out (Galvis) in the lineup. Frandsen at least can give the team a better option on offense.
The PN writer says.. "Nobody was impressive in this game (except maybe Erik Kratz).." Huh? Dominic Brown had a double and a walk but I guess the writer expected another HR from Brown? (chuckles)
young has gotten better but he still sucks in the field.. I agree with you on Galvis I've been saying it for days… Hernandez is up until Chase comes back, Hernandez had real good numbers in the minors they have to play him at second…
Frandsen and Hernandez in tonight's lineup..DYoung batting cleanup..
Are you serious about his defense? Did you watch him last night on Segura's hit or last weekend in Hamels's and Cloyd's starts vs. Milwaukee? Between Delmon and his namesake at 3B, it seems as though Phillies pitchers have to get 28 or 29 outs per game.
There are probably few people here that would claim D. Young doesn't at least try. But "E" for effort just doesn't translate to "A" for skills. He reminds me a bit of King Kong atop the Empire State Building. No matter what he did, he just couldn't shake those airplanes. Like Young, he was just too big, clumsy, and awkward.
I was one of those who originally thought he should at least be given a chance. I've given him a chance, but really, it was only one game which convinced me he's terrible. I might still wish the effort could transform him into a fielder, but I also know now that that would be like wishing the aforementioned Kong could suddenly dance the lead in Swan Lake.
Thing is…if Delmon gets hots and thus becomes legit trade bait….will Ruben just keep him cause he thinks he's helping the team??? Don't get me wrong…I LOVE what he potentially can do at the plate. But since we're an NL team, that's just not good enough in my opinion.
If Delmon gets hot, Ruben might extend him for $30M / 3 years.
I don't know which is sadder: Delmon Young or the fact that his contract rewards him a bonus for maintaining a certain weight. Ridiculous on all accounts.


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Editor's Note: In their new book Java Generics and Collections, authors Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler offer the thorough introduction to the syntax and semantics of Java 5.0 generics that you'd expect from an in-depth book on the topic. But they go a step further by considering the real-world, practical concerns of using generics in your work. Unless you're starting a project from scratch in Java 5.0, odds are you have a legacy code-base that does not currently use generics. Is bulk-converting it to use generics in one release a realistic option? Assuming it's not, you need to consider your options for a gradual introduction. Fortunately, the implementation of generics makes this eminently practical, as they describe in Chapter 5, "Evolution, Not Revolution," which we are excerpting over the course of the next two weeks on ONJava.
One motto underpinning the design of generics for Java is evolution, not revolution. It must be possible to migrate a large, existing body of code to use generics gradually (evolution) without requiring a radical, all-at-once change (revolution). The generics design ensures that old code compiles against the new Java libraries, avoiding the unfortunate situation in which half of your code needs old libraries and half of your code needs new libraries.
The requirements for evolution are much stronger than the usual backward compatibility. With simple backward compatibility, one would supply both legacy and generic versions for each application; this is exactly what happens in C#, for example. If you are building on top of code supplied by multiple suppliers, some of whom use legacy collections and some of whom use generic collections, this might rapidly lead to a versioning nightmare.
What we require is that the same client code works with both the legacy and generic versions of a library. This means that the supplier and clients of a library can make completely independent choices about when to move from legacy to generic code. This is a much stronger requirement than backward compatibility; it is called migration compatibility or platform compatibility.
Java implements generics via erasure, which ensures that legacy and generic versions usually generate identical class files, save for some auxiliary information about types. It is possible to replace a legacy class file by a generic class file without changing, or even recompiling, any client code; this is called binary compatibility.
We summarize this with the motto binary compatibility ensures migration compatibility—or, more concisely, erasure eases evolution.
This section shows how to add generics to existing code; it considers a small example, a library for stacks that extends the Collections Framework, together with an associated client. We begin with the legacy stack library and client (written for Java before generics), and then present the corresponding generic library and client (written for Java with generics). Our example code is small, so it is easy to update to generics all in one go, but in practice the library and client will be much larger, and we may want to evolve them separately. This is aided by raw types, which are the legacy counterpart of parameterized types.
The parts of the program may evolve in either order. You may have a generic library with a legacy client; this is the common case for anyone that uses the Collections Framework in Java 5 with legacy code. Or you may have a legacy library with a generic client; this is the case where you want to provide generic signatures for the library without the need to rewrite the entire library. We consider three ways to do this: minimal changes to the source, stub files, and wrappers. The first is useful when you have access to the source and the second when you do not; we recommend against the third.
In practice, the library and client may involve many interfaces and classes, and there may not even be a clear distinction between library and client. But the same principles discussed here still apply, and may be used to evolve any part of a program independently of any other part.
We begin with a simple library of stacks and an associated client, as presented in Example 5.1. This is legacy code, written for Java 1.4 and its version of the Collections Framework. Like the Collections Framework, we structure the library as an interface
Stack (analogous to
List), an implementation class
ArrayStack (analogous to
ArrayList), and a utility class
Stacks (analogous to
Collections). The interface
Stack provides just three methods:
empty, push, and
pop. The implementation class
ArrayStack provides a single constructor with no arguments, and implements the methods
empty, push, and
pop using methods
size, add, and
remove on lists. The body of
pop could be shorter—instead of assigning the value to the variable, it could be returned directly—but it will be interesting to see how the type of the variable changes as the code evolves. The utility class provides just one method,
reverse, which repeatedly pops from one stack and pushes onto another.
Example 5-1. Legacy library with legacy client
interface Stack {
public boolean empty();
public void push(Object elt);
public Object pop();
import java.util.*;
class ArrayStack implements Stack {
private List list;
public ArrayStack() { list = new ArrayList(); }
public boolean empty() { return list.size() == 0; }
public void push(Object elt) { list.add(elt); }
public Object pop() {
Object elt = list.remove(list.size()-1);
return elt;
public String toString() { return "stack"+list.toString(); }
class Stacks {
public static Stack reverse(Stack in) {
Stack out = new ArrayStack();
while (!in.empty()) {
Object elt = in.pop();
return out;
class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Stack stack = new ArrayStack();
for (int i = 0; i<4; i++) stack.push(new Integer(i));
assert stack.toString().equals("stack[0, 1, 2, 3]");
int top = ((Integer)stack.pop()).intValue();
assert top == 3 && stack.toString().equals("stack[0, 1, 2]");
Stack reverse = Stacks.reverse(stack);
assert stack.empty();
assert reverse.toString().equals("stack[2, 1, 0]");
The client allocates a stack, pushes a few integers onto it, pops an integer off, and then reverses the remainder into a fresh stack. Since this is Java 1.4, integers must be explicitly boxed when passed to
push, and explicitly unboxed when returned by
Next, we update the library and client to use generics, as presented in Example 5.2. This is generic code, written for Java 5 and its version of the Collections Framework. The interface now takes a type parameter, becoming
Stack<E> (analogous to
List<E>), and so does the implementing class, becoming
ArrayStack<E> (analogous to
ArrayList<E>), but no type parameter is added to the utility class
Stacks (analogous to
Collections). The type
Object in the signatures and bodies of
push and
pop is replaced by the type parameter
E. Note that the constructor in
ArrayStack does not require a type parameter. In the utility class, the
reverse method becomes a generic method with argument and result of type
Stack<T>. Appropriate type parameters are added to the client, and boxing and unboxing are now implicit.
Example 5-2. Generic library with generic client
interface Stack<E> {
public boolean empty();
public void push(E elt);
public E pop();
import java.util.*;
class ArrayStack<E> implements Stack<E> {
private List<E> list;
public ArrayStack() { list = new ArrayList<E>(); }
public boolean empty() { return list.size() == 0; }
public void push(E elt) { list.add(elt); }
public E pop() {
E elt = list.remove(list.size()-1);
return elt;
public String toString() { return "stack"+list.toString(); }
class Stacks {
public static <T> Stack<T> reverse(Stack<T> in) {
Stack<T> out = new ArrayStack<T>();
while (!in.empty()) {
T elt = in.pop();
return out;
class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Stack<Integer> stack = new ArrayStack<Integer>();
for (int i = 0; i<4; i++) stack.push(i);
assert stack.toString().equals("stack[0, 1, 2, 3]");
int top = stack.pop();
assert top == 3 && stack.toString().equals("stack[0, 1, 2]");
Stack<Integer> reverse = Stacks.reverse(stack);
assert stack.empty();
assert reverse.toString().equals("stack[2, 1, 0]");
In short, the conversion process is straightforward: just add a few type parameters and replace occurrences of
Object by the appropriate type variable. All differences between the legacy and generic versions can be spotted by comparing the highlighted portions of the two examples. The implementation of generics is designed so that the two versions generate essentially equivalent class files. Some auxiliary information about the types may differ, but the actual bytecodes to be executed will be identical. Hence, executing the legacy and generic versions yields the same results. The fact that legacy and generic sources yield identical class files eases the process of evolution, as we discuss next.
Now let's consider the case where the library is updated to generics while the client remains in its legacy version. This may occur because there is not enough time to convert everything all at once, or because the library and client are controlled by different organizations. This corresponds to the most important case of backward compatibility, where the generic Collections Framework of Java 5 must still work with legacy clients written against the Collections Framework in Java 1.4.
In order to support evolution, whenever a parameterized type is defined, Java also recognizes the corresponding unparameterized version of the type, called a raw type. For instance, the parameterized type
Stack<E> corresponds to the raw type
Stack, and the parameterized type
ArrayStack<E> corresponds to the raw type
Every parameterized type is a subtype of the corresponding raw type, so a value of the parameterized type can be passed where a raw type is expected. Usually, it is an error to pass a value of a supertype where a value of its subtype is expected, but Java does permit a value of a raw type to be passed where a parameterized type is expected—however, it flags this circumstance by generating an unchecked conversion warning. For instance, you can assign a value of type
Stack<E> to a variable of type
Stack, since the former is a subtype of the latter. You can also assign a value of type
Stack to a variable of type
Stack<E>, but this will generate an unchecked conversion warning.
To be specific, consider compiling the generic source for
Stack<E>, ArrayStack<E>, and
Stacks from Example 5.2 (say, in directory
g) with the legacy source for
Client from Example 5.1 (say, in directory
l). Sun's Java 5 compiler yields the following message:
% javac g/Stack.java g/ArrayStack.java g/Stacks.java l/Client.java
Note: Client.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
The unchecked warning indicates that the compiler cannot offer the same safety guarantees that are possible when generics are used uniformly throughout. However, when the generic code is generated by updating legacy code, we know that equivalent class files are produced from both, and hence (despite the unchecked warning) running a legacy client with the generic library will yield the same result as running the legacy client with the legacy library. Here we assume that the only change in updating the library was to introduce generics, and that no change to the behavior was introduced, either on purpose or by mistake.
If we follow the suggestion above and rerun the compiler with the appropriate switch enabled, we get more details:
% javac -Xlint:unchecked g/Stack.java g/ArrayStack.java \
% g/Stacks.java l/Client.java
l/Client.java:4: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call
to push(E) as a member of the raw type
for (int i = 0; i<4; i++) stack.push(new Integer(i));
l/Client.java:8: warning: [unchecked] unchecked conversion
found : Stack
required: Stack<E>
Stack reverse = Stacks.reverse(stack);
l/Client.java:8: warning: [unchecked] unchecked method invocation:
<E>reverse(Stack<E>) in Stacks is applied to (Stack)
Stack reverse = Stacks.reverse(stack);
3 warnings
Not every use of a raw type gives rise to a warning. Because every parameterized type is a subtype of the corresponding raw type, but not conversely, passing a parameterized type where a raw type is expected is safe (hence, no warning for getting the result from
reverse), but passing a raw type where a parameterized type is expected issues a warning (hence, the warning when passing an argument to
reverse); this is an instance of the Substitution Principle. When we invoke a method on a receiver of a raw type, the method is treated as if the type parameter is a wildcard, so getting a value from a raw type is safe (hence, no warning for the invocation of
pop), but putting a value into a raw type issues a warning (hence, the warning for the invocation of
push); this is an instance of the Get and Put Principle.
Even if you have not written any generic code, you may still have an evolution problem because others have generified their code. This will affect everyone with legacy code that uses the Collections Framework, which has been generified by Sun. So the most important case of using generic libraries with legacy clients is that of using the Java 5 Collections Framework with legacy code written for the Java 1.4 Collections Framework.
In particular, applying the Java 5 compiler to the legacy code in Example 5.1 also issues unchecked warnings, because of the uses of the generified class
ArrayList from the legacy class
ArrayStack. Here is what happens when we compile legacy versions of all the files with the Java 5 compiler and libraries:
% javac -Xlint:unchecked l/Stack.java l/ArrayStack.java \
% l/Stacks.java l/Client.java
l/ArrayStack.java:6: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to add(E)
as a member of the raw type java.util.List
public void push(Object elt) list.add(elt);
1 warning
Here the warning for the use of the generic method
add in the legacy method
push is issued for reasons similar to those for issuing the previous warning for use of the generic method
push from the legacy client.
It is poor practice to configure the compiler to repeatedly issue warnings that you intend to ignore. It is distracting and, worse, it may lead you to ignore warnings that require attention—just as in the fable of the little boy who cried wolf. In the case of pure legacy code, such warnings can be turned off by using the
-source 1.4 switch:
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Editor's note: The following profiles of presidential candidates are intended to help voters decide whether individual freedom will advance or retreat if the candidate is elected.Today we focus on leading Democratic candidates. We'll look at Republicans on Thursday.
Hillary Clinton
A Hillary Clinton presidency poses substantive threats to individual freedom. Her statist approach would injuriously intrude into nearly every aspect of life.
Clinton would have the government dictate everything from alternative energy choices to tax-funded universal preschool and tax-funded universal health care, retarding market solutions in each area.
She would eliminate tax cuts, interfere with the housing market's self-correction by freezing foreclosures and impose arbitrary carbon dioxide cap-and-trade programs to save us from the nonthreat of global warming.
Basically, Clinton views government as the default problem solver, even for problems that don't exist. She doesn't recognize that government's intrusion creates problems, while it impinges on personal freedoms.
To justify government intrusion, Clinton claims "income inequality has risen to the highest levels since 1929, and wages have stagnated."
Her class-warfare approach ignores the fact that family income generally reflects how many and how much family members work. Income is about as widely distributed as any time in U.S. history. It was much more concentrated among top earners before World War II. Indeed, middle- and lower-income families fared best during the Reagan boom years, 1982-89. Today's poor are tomorrow's rich, and vice versa, thanks to economic mobility, not government aid.
These are facts, except to Clinton, who sees instead oppression, stagnation and inequality in order to justify the laying on of government's heavy hand with its incentives funded by other peoples' tax money and its disincentives of regulation and penalties.
Rather than recognize that government subsidies and mandates drive up education and health care costs, Clinton prescribes more of the same. The hubris of this government-centric, top-down approach leads her campaign to proclaim that: "Hillary would transform our economy," as if government dictates and redistribution of wealth are effective and beneficial.
Her approach is epitomized in Clinton's unfortunately resurrected new version of the disastrous health care program from her husband's first term. This one is estimated to cost $110 billion, reason enough to fear another Clinton administration.
John Edwards
If you listen to former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, you might be tempted to look around, pinch yourself and see if this is for real.
He describes two Americas, one where the rich live with unalloyed wealth and escape any accountability for their actions, the other a world out of Dickensian England, where the poor wear rags and live in hunger.
He refers to "(o)ne America that does the work, another America that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks."
In Edwards' view, private corporations such as Wal-Mart, which provides low-priced goods and decent jobs, and pharmaceutical companies, which provide life-saving drugs, are the prime evils, whereas the government, which taxes and regulates, is the savior.
It's hard to think of a policy more antithetical to the views on this editorial page and those of the nation's founders.
He is adamantly opposed to free trade, preferring instead a government-micromanaged scheme called "fair trade." He is an advocate of mandatory unionization. He wants to massively increase federal spending to "help" the poor. He wants to increase the federal minimum wage and engage in a new version of those disastrous urban-renewal schemes.
He wants to dramatically increase federal environmental restrictions. He promotes a socialized health care plan. He doesn't want to do anything significant about the Social Security problem. He promises higher taxes. He advocates a shareholder "bill of rights" that will penalize corporations.
He advocates universal, government-funded preschool programs. Even though wealthy people pay the bulk of taxes in progressively taxed America, he wants to shift even more of the tax burden to those who create the jobs and the wealth that keep the economy humming.
Even on issues on which we might expect him to be OK, he's bad. For instance, Edwards adamantly opposes the decriminalization of marijuana. We agree with him on the need for sentencing reform and he isn't as bad as the other Democratic candidates on the Second Amendment, owing perhaps to his upbringing in the rural South.
So, Edwards is basically wrong on everything.
Barack Obama
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is in some ways the most intriguing candidate to emerge this year.
Born of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother, he has offered the promise of moving beyond the confrontational poses that have kept issues dividing baby boomers — abortion, civil rights, war and peace, the scope of government — from being resolved rather than fueling fundraising efforts on all sides.
He opposed the Iraq war before the invasion. He has talked about merit pay for teachers. He can inspire people to idealism with his speeches, and he talks about reaching across party lines to find pragmatic solutions.
Until recently, Obama seldom overtly mentioned race, pointing perhaps toward a day when his being African American is no more significant than Rudy Giuliani seeking to be the first Italian-American elected president.
All that said, Barack Obama has seldom put much policy flesh on his sometimes gauzy idealism. His record, however, suggests a fairly standard-issue, left-liberal Democrat whose first-reach solutions will call for more government — typically the opposite of what should be done, from a freedom perspective.
He supported the McCain immigration legislation, has co-sponsored restrictions ostensibly calculated to reduce global warming and promote energy independence, and he sees an active role for the government in managing the economy.
Although he has opposed the Iraq war, he seeks a more active role for the U.S. in Darfur and other conflicts. His comments about pursuing al-Qaida in Pakistan whether the Pakistani government likes it or not demonstrated a certain naïveté about foreign affairs.
He seeks universal health care tightly regulated by government, with only slightly fewer mandatory elements than Sen. Hillary Clinton's approach. He also supports a more active role in education for the federal government.
He's for repealing the Bush tax cuts and is not shy about wanting to tax "the rich" and corporations more onerously and to restrict the use of offshore tax havens. He supports a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions.
Sen. Obama may be vulnerable on the experience issue, though he has more national-level policy experience than Bill Clinton did when he was elected. Unfortunately, his calls for "change" usually involve more government programs, not private or free-market approaches.


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Work on the exterior of the Critical Care Center is wrapping up and now focus is being placed on the interior of the building.
Roughly 300-350 people are working on site each day on everything from picking furniture to the placement of the coffee pots. The director of construction says these types of building projects are about more than just the bricks and mortar.
"We use these projects to transform care; to eliminate the barriers that our facilities currently have whether it's implementing technology we know will assist in the work flow; to improve safety or quality, or whether there's innovations in design that will allow us to capture efficiencies that our existing facilities won't allow us to capture," said Kari House, Gundersen Lutheran's director of construction.
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This post originally appeared on the White House blog on December 16, 2011.
This afternoon, First Lady Michelle Obama visited Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling to deliver hundreds of toys that White House staff donated to Toys for Tots, an annual holiday toy drive organized by the Marines. She thanked volunteers and military families for their hard work and dedication to the 60-year old program.
This is hard work. It takes people who take time out of their own families, time to come, shop, sort toys, make sure things get out. I mean, this doesn't happen automatically; it happens because people give up time, precious time with their families to make this happen. So this wouldn't be possible without all of the volunteers. So I want to extend a very big thank you to all of you, especially all of our troops and all of our military families who have led this effort this year, and who lead it every year.
Mrs. Obama made military families a focus of this year's White House holiday celebration, and today she thanked them for all they do for our nation--and still finding the time and energy to run programs like Toys for Tots.
At the White House, we're paying tribute to our military this holiday season.All over the White House there are signs of your strength and your sacrifice and your courage.At the White House, we're showcasing the stories and the pictures of our fallen heroes.
We're giving guests an opportunity to send a thank-you note to troops overseas.And once again, we collected hundreds of toys from White House staff, which I've had the honor of bringing here today.
She also encouraged everyone to do their part, no matter how big or small.
You don't have to live in the White House.You don't have to spend a fortune.You don't have to be an expert in military life to be a part of this effort and to lift families up.You just have to be willing to give just a little bit back to your community and to your country.
For more information:
- Read more about this year's holiday theme, Shine, Give, Share, which pays tribute to our troops, veterans, and their families
- Find out where you can donate locally to Toys for Tots
- Learn more about Joining Forces, the First Lady's initiative with Dr. Jill Biden to support veterans and military families.
- Add your own thank younote to an online card that troops all over the world will see.


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Now, Mark, Leigh, Morgan, and myself all got together and put a whole bunch of blogfest ideas in a poll and had you vote on which one you'd like to do. And this is the one that won! So thrilled to finally get to announce it!
Fairytale Madness BlogFest!
AUGUST 13th – 17th
Have you noticed that by changing one detail; one event, one character trait, one thought...you can completely alter the rest of the story?
For this bloghop we are exploring "What If?"
Not only do we want it to be fun, but it will hopefully be a fun writing exercise and make for some great reading during the hop!
To enter:
Think of your favorite "well known" fairytale and ask "What If…!"
Then, pick one of these four categories:
· Best Plot Twist
· Best Love Story
· Best Tragedy
· Best Comic Relief
Finally, write a scene(s) illustrating a new detail of the fabled fairytale that changes our perspective.
Is it a plot twist? (Cinderella gets knocked up by the Carriage Driver…)
An unknown romance that comes to light? (Snow White dumps the Prince for Grumpy…)
A tragic loss occurs? (The Three Little Pigs are too late to save their house…)
A little comic relief? (Hansel and Gretel win a trip on Euro Rail, sponsored in part by M&M's…)
Whatever the change…It's limited only by your imagination – but please keep it PG-13 :)
Other Rules:
· Post your story during the week of August 13 to 17.
· Flash Fiction – 300 WORD MAX. (You don't have to tell the whole story in three hundred words. Pick what works to illustrate your point.)
JUDGING CATEGORIES and the respective judges:
|Best Plot Twist- Cassie Mae
|Best Love Story- Morgan
|Best Tragedy - Leigh
|Best Comedy- Mark
Leigh is offering: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Morgan is offering: A FULL manuscript critique!
Cassie Mae is offering: $25 Amazon Gift Card
Mark is offering: A $25 Hawaiian care package (incl. $5 USPS Priority Shipping) Winner can choose from any number of small items such as candy, trinkets, Kona Coffee, etc.
Sound fun? Well, if you want to join us in this please pick a team, grab the team picture and use it for your post. It's not required, but we'd LOVE for you to spread the word!
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Police are searching for a man they suspect of robbing a Waffle House in Georgia while armed with a pitchfork on Thursday night.
Police said the suspect, who they later identified as Jeffery Willard Wooten, entered a restaurant in Norcross, Georgia, around 5:30 p.m. He herded the employees into the stockroom with the pitchfork and then attempted to open the cash register. When he was unable to do so, he picked up the cash register and left the restaurant, police said. As he was leaving the parking lot, he tripped and dropped the pitchfork.
Two employees followed the suspect into the parking lot. One picked up the pitchfork and chased him to a Rite-Aid that was adjacent to the Waffle House, police said
When the man arrived at his vehicle, a fight ensued and the man was struck with the pitchfork by one of the employees. As he was leaving in his white Ford F-250, the rear window was broken out by one of the employees, police said.
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After four tension-filled seasons, "Breaking Bad" has reached the beginning of the end. If the first two episodes of Season 5 are any indication, fans will be thrilled with the conclusion of Walter White's (Bryan Cranston) transformation from milquetoast chemistry teacher to ruthless meth kingpin. With the final 16 episodes being split up into two seasons — the final eight airing summer 2013 — I predict each shortened season's structure will feature a more break-neck pace than usual. And that's not a bad thing.
Usually creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan slowly and meticulously builds towards the climax with each season, but the first two episodes both have the sense of urgency usually reserved for late-season installments. It should be a taut, visceral swell to an explosive mid-season finale — and most likely an excruciating cliffhanger to wait out for a year.
Credit Gilligan for throwing the audience right back into the action, but also director Michelle Maclaren and director of photography Michael Slovis for intensifying everything — from the superb writing to the powerful acting — with the most visually stunning TV show on air.
After a particularly great (and ominous) cold open, Sunday's premiere deals with [Season 4 spoiler alert] the fallout of Walt killing (via ding!) Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). The thrill of the win is short-lived as Skyler (Anna Gunn, doing some impressively subtle work) finally realizes what "I am the one who knocks" fully means and Walt's dutiful DEA agent brother-in-law Hank (Dean Norris) continues to investigate Gus' operation.
While the premiere is another exhilarating season opening — bolstered by some wonderfully dark humor, including a fantastic callback to Jesse's (Aaron Paul) famous "Yeah Mr. White! Yeah science!" line — the second episode is in the pantheon of all-time greats.
In that episode Paul has a heart-crushing scene, demonstrating the damage this meth-dealing lifestyle takes on Jesse's soul, and Mike (Jonathan Banks) rivals his "No more half measures, Walter" badassness.
It's hard to predict how Gilligan will conclude "Breaking Bad," but he's given us all enough reason to have faith in his vision and storytelling. Pure and simple, this is the best show on television ... at least for 16 more episodes.


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Scenic Route 6 proposal in Honesdale?
Before broaching familiar debates on traffic flow and the police chief job description at its November 11 monthly meeting, the Honesdale Borough Council was treated to a slide presentation by Ed Coar of the Wayne County Planning Department. Honesdale has been invited to join the 110 municipalities that currently comprise the Pennsylvania Route 6 Heritage Corridor that runs through 427 miles and 11 counties of the state's northern tier. Coar described the presentation's purpose as "full disclosure regarding the implications of Honesdale's decision to sign on as a participating municipality in the corridor management plan."
Coar outlined the proposal itself, the process by which it will be accomplished, and the obvious advantages and disadvantages of participation therein. The ultimate goal of the proposal is to obtain Federal Register designation of Route 6 as an All-American Road. This would make it officially a National Scenic Byway and would secure its inclusion in the federal directory of scenic byways. An obvious advantage to becoming a member municipality is the boon to tourism expected as a result of "putting Honesdale on the map." In fact, the proposal was originally conceived by local tourist boards, and has been guided by them from its inception to the present.
But Coar cautioned that there are also several obvious disadvantages to participation. Chief among them is the requirement that each participating municipality pledge full compliance with the provisions of the proposal, which are as yet not clearly defined. Most of those provisions would center on land use management. When asked by the council if the borough would be liable for purchase of lands adjacent to Route 6 within its boundaries, Coar advised that grant money would probably be available for land purchases mandated by the provision, but that the borough would probably be liable for legal expenses associated with land use management.
One example of land use management already defined in the proposal is that of billboard use. Under the current proposal, billboards would be prohibited within the Route 6 corridor. New billboards would be prohibited. Existing billboards would be permitted under a grandfather clause until their current leases expire and prohibited thereafter. Coar noted that the corridor management plan may include elements not satisfactory to all participating municipalities.
After providing handouts of a portion of the Federal Register pertaining to the National Scenic Byways Program as well as brochures detailing Route 6 recreational facilities, Coar closed his presentation with the statement that the Wayne County Planning Department would continue to work with the council and its officials toward ensuring a fully-informed decision.
Returning to more familiar debates, safety committee chair Bob Jennings introduced a resolution to convene a meeting of the one-way traffic ad hoc committee at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, November 19 at Borough Hall, for the purpose of preparing a recommendation regarding traffic flow on Main and Church streets. Results of the Bogart Accident Analysis will be reviewed at that time, as will countless hours of tape from traffic surveillance cameras mounted on Church and Main Streets. Finance committee chair Scott Smith reminded Jennings that no recommendation about traffic flow should be made before factoring in PennDOT's cost figures for returning Church and Main to two-way traffic flow, which will be significant.
As police liaison, Mayor Ed Langendoerfer asked the council to provide a job description for newly-appointed police commissioner Rick Southerton. When president F.J. Monaghan stated that no job description for that position exists at this time, Langendoerfer protested that a newly-created position requires a job description. He was informed by councilman Harry DeVrieze that Southerton is Honesdale's third police commissioner and that his duties will be those of a non-working police chief.


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The new Surgeon General nominee and CAM: Is there a problem here?
Our fearless leader, Steve Novella, has informed me that he is traveling today. Unfortunately, I am preparing a talk for later today, and no one else seemed able to come up with a post; so I decided to adapt a recent post from my not-so-super-secret other blog and see what a different readership thought of it. I realize that I'm risking subjecting you all to Gorski overload, but, hey, if the world needs more Mark Crislip, why wouldn't the world need more David Gorski too? Steve will return next Wednesday, as usual.
I don't normally give a lot of thought to the Surgeon General because, quite frankly, in recent years it hasn't been a position of much authority or influence. That's why I didn't noticed late last week that President Obama had nominated a new Surgeon General. Normally, my failure to notice isn't such a big deal, because there really hasn't been a Surgeon General who has really been particularly well-known or had much of an impact since Dr. C. Everett Koop, although back when President Obama first took office Dr. Sanjay Gupta's name was floated as a possibility for the position. Obviously, he didn't get it. (I'm guessing that being a neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent probably pays much better than being Surgeon General.) To be honest, I didn't even know that the prior Surgeon General had stepped down, but apparently she did in July, leaving the position filled by an interim Surgeon General until a new one could be nominated.
The other day, I learned whom President Obama nominated to be her successor, Dr. Vivek Murthy, a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School:
President Obama will nominate Dr. Vivek Murthy of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital as surgeon general of the United States, the White House announced Thursday night.
Murthy is a hospitalist at the Brigham and is co-founder and president of Doctors for America, a Washington, D.C.-based group of 16,000 physicians and medical students that advocates for access to affordable, high quality health care and has been a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act.
If he's confirmed by the Senate, Murthy would replace acting surgeon general Boris Lushniak. The surgeon general serves a four-year term and the post is essentially a bully pulpit to speak out on public health issues.


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The Dordt College education department, Bullfrogs and Butterflies Preschool, and The Learning Ship joined forces this summer and officially opened Stepping Stones Preschool on Tuesday, September 4.
Dr. Timothy Van Soelen, Dordt College professor of education, says the preschool will serve as a place "to assist parents in the social and academic development of their child, to prepare students to enter kindergarten and school readiness, to foster in each child a love for God, to foster in each child a love for learning."
Not only will this preschool benefit members of the Sioux Center community, but it will also help in the learning process of Dordt education students. Many of them will have the opportunity to spend 100 hours or more teaching in Stepping Stones classrooms. As of this fall, Dordt will offer paraeducator certification in five areas, including Early Childhood.
"Professor Marra approached Dordt with the idea of having the college purchase The Learning Ship Preschool and creating the opportunity for our elementary education majors, specifically those acquiring an early childhood endorsement, a 'learning by doing' experience," said Van Soelen of Gwen Marra, the director of The Learning Ship for 17 years.
Butterflies and Bullfrogs, a private preschool in Sioux Center owned by Dordt alumna Christy Hulstein, shared the mission to provide an excellent, faith-based preschool and also became part of the collaboration.
Stepping Stones Preschool, located in New Life Reformed Church in Sioux Center, had a successful opening last week, with 140 students enrolled and a staff of seven teachers. The ages of students range from 3 to 5 years old.
"Students are so excited to see their name next to a coat hook, to play with some really cool learning toys, and to meet their teachers for the first time," said Van Soelen. "The rooms looked incredible, and our teachers are as excited as the students. The Open House events and first days of school have been simply wonderful."
Two Dordt elementary education students have already been placed at Stepping Stones for their work-study assignments, while other Dordt students will start their field-based experience soon.
The staff and council of Stepping Stones Preschool are excited to begin this new venture that will train future teachers and help raise young children in a faith-based learning environment.
"There is a quote from Aristotle that states 'To learn is a natural pleasure.' We hope this is true for all students who attend Stepping Stones," said Van Soelen. "Preschool is a child's first formal learning experience; we want to provide a sure foundation for many years of learning."
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Construction has begun on what will become the largest mall on the island of Maui.
The 700,000-square-foot project in Kihei named the Piilani Promenade is touted as becoming the choice of where to eat, play and shop.
But, it's also generating controversy on the Valley Isle.
Piilani Promendae is being built along Piilani Highway in Kihei split by what will become Upcountry Road.
On the north side -- a 300,000-square-foot outlet mall with a mix of retail, restaurants and water features.
On the south side -- 400,000-square-feet of retail space that California developer Eclipse says will be a mix of national and local retailers.
"Once developed this project will provide retail that doesn't exist in Kihei today and if you live in South Maui you don't have to drive into Kahului to get the stuff you need everyday," said Charlie Jencks, liaison for Eclipse Development Group.
The developer is building a water tank to service the North Kihei area and the project is expected to create about 2,000 jobs.
Although the project broke about two weeks ago, there are three parties which have filed appeals to stop the construction.
One group, non-profit Maui Tomorrow, claims the retail project underway is far different from the industrial park approved in the late 1990s under former landowner Kaonoulu Ranch.
"It does say in light industrial zoning you can have limited commercial, but limited is the key word," said Irene Bowie, executive director of Maui Tomorrow. "This project has morphed into completely commercial with no light industrial component."
There are also major concerns about sprawling development and the impact on traffic.
"Piilani Highway right now is really suffering from gridlock at different times of the day," said Bowie.
But, the consultant for the developer says traffic will increase even without the mall because of two planned communities in Makena and a brand new high school near the site and road improvements are part of the planned malls.
The projected grand opening for Piilani Promenade is early 2014.
The Maui County Board of Variances and Appeals set a hearing date of July 27 to hear a motion by the county to dismiss an appeal on the permits for the project.
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TRISD Superintendent Kenneth Rohrbach said demolishing the buildings was part of the bond voters passed when construction of the new high school was approved. Revising that plan would mean checking with the counsel first and then bringing the topic to the TRISD board for discussion.
Liska proposed using the old buildings as a location for the Three Rivers Boys and Girls Club or as a storm shelter for the community.
"Their place isn't very good," Liska said. "Other cities re-purposed their old buildings, maybe it could be a rec center or storm shelter. We don't have one in Three Rivers."
Liska said he spoke with community members and alumni during last week's all-school reunion and heard many people say they want to keep the old gymnasium but not necessarily the classrooms attached to it.
Huff said TRISD alumni have a lot of memories attached to the old gym and would like to know the building's current status. Depending on the extent of repairs needed, the buildings could be salvageable.
"I think if we're told the repairs are more than the building is worth, then that would be the answer," Huff said.
Neither Rohrbach nor board president David Saenz said they were opposed to the idea. But the district would have to make sure doing so is cost effective and doesn't breach the bond's requirements.
"I'm 50/50 on it because that's why we built the new high school; I can see the concern about the Boys and Girls Club needing a place to play basketball," Saenz said. "I think we should talk about it."
The old gym wasn't the only TRISD building up for discussion during the school board meeting on Sept. 23. Two of the three 1,200- to 1,500-square-foot modular buildings on the middle school campus are in poor condition, and the district is looking into donating them to nonprofit organizations.
Rohrbach said the buildings are only worth between $1,000 and 2,000, and the cost of moving them is nearly double their value, depending on how far they are moved. Rohrbach said a staff member attends church in Sandia, and they could use a modular building, but moving it that far wasn't cost effective.
"The front building is worth too much to give away," Rohrbach said. "Moving expenses depend on how far they are taking them. To go to Sandia would be $10,000, quite a distance there. But to somewhere here in town, you're not looking at near as much money."
Rohrbach suggested notifying local nonprofit groups about the buildings and then discussing them further based on the feedback.


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International Boxing Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2014
The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced their newest class of inductees Wednesday in Canastota.
Headlining the class is former six division world champion Oscar De La Hoya, Joe Calzaghe and Felix "Tito" Trinidad.
Also going in the modern category are Barry Hearn, Richard Steele, Graham Houston and Neil Leifer.
The 25th annual Hall of Fame Weekend will happen June 5th through the 8th in Canastota.
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Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday unveiled its new family of solid-state drives (SSDs) intended for enterprise applications. The drives are based on single-level cell (SLC) memory and boast massive performance and rock-solid reliability. The drives are based on Toshiba's own controllers and hence will be vastly different than solutions offered by competitors.
Available in capacities of 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB, the MKx001GRZB family of SSDs deliver random sustained 90 000 read and 17 000 write IOPS [input output operations per second] and sequential sustained 510MB/sec read and 230MB/sec write throughput. This realizes read speeds more than 3 times faster than for Toshiba's current enterprise HDD, according to the company. The drives require 6.5W for operation, which is higher compared to SSDs by some other companies, but thanks to high I/O performance Toshiba declares "industry-leading power efficiency rating" of 13 800IOPS/watt. The SSDs come in 2.5" form-factor and with Serial Attaches SCSI interface.
The enterprise-grade SSD drives from Toshiba are based on single-level cell NAND flash memory from Toshiba, and are the industry first 32nm SLC-based drives for enterprises. Toshiba claims that controllers for the MKx001GRZB solid-state drives feature "know-how in controller and firmware design for enterprise HDDs".
Samples of the new SSDs will be available for customer qualification in the first quarter of 2011.
As the IT world makes the transition to cloud solutions, data that are now stored in individual users devices – desktop and portable PCs and tablet PCs – will increasingly be stored in server farms. The enterprise storage systems required for this are optimized in terms of overall performance, power and cost by structuring high performance devices with different capacities in layers.
The Toshiba enterprise SSD lineup forms the pinnacle of a tiered storage architecture that enables organizations to effectively tune the performance, capacity, endurance, and reliability of their storage environments. For data storage that requires high reliability and high capacity – but not the very rapid access to data provided by SSDs – Toshiba has also released the new MK x001TRKB and MKx002TSKB series hard disk drives (HDDs), the former with an SAS interface, the latter a SATA interface.


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On 12-22-2011, the Honesdale Borough Police filed charges of Retail Theft, Criminal Conspiracy and Receiving Stolen Property against Carl and Mary Strickland of Equinunk, PA.
Borough Police allege that on 10-13-2011 both Carl and Mary Strickland entered The Super Duper Market located on Willow Ave, in Honesdale. While in the store two shopping carts were filled with merchandise. The merchandise was then removed from the store, through the entrance door without being paid for. The pair then left the store with the unpaid items valued at $191.58.
The police learned the identity of the two on 12-10-2011 when the couple returned to the store and were shopping. They were observed by store personnel who then alerted the police to respond.
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Introduction to car stereo
Robert Ferency-Viars is the managing editor for the Crutchfield car A/V learning content, and has been with the company since 1999. A Virginia native from the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he loves spending time with his wonderful wife and sons, listening to music, writing, and playing games with friends. Robert's love for car audio began at 16 when he installed his first car stereo.
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A car stereo is the centerpiece of any car audio system. Also known as a radio, receiver, or head unit, today's car stereo performs a variety of complex functions so that we can better enjoy our drive time. To understand these functions, it's helpful to think of a car stereo as having three different sections:
Modern stereos are full of useful features and look great in your dash
- Source — This is the part that let's us choose what we want to hear. Sources may include a standard AM/FM tuner, CD or DVD player, satellite radio, iPod® or smartphone, or a USB input.
- Preamp — This is where all sound adjustments are made. The preamp section includes controls ranging from simple volume, balance, fader, source selection, and tone adjustments to sophisticated crossovers, equalizers, and time correction.
- Amplifier — The amplifier section boosts the small (low-voltage) audio signal coming from the preamp section into a larger (high-voltage) audio signal that's sent out to the speakers.
Why would I want or need a new car stereo?
A new stereo will give you better sound and more playback options than the typical factory stereo.
Better sound quality — Superior built-in power and better circuit design mean that an aftermarket car stereo isn't just louder than the typical factory stereo, it also produces cleaner, richer, more detailed sound. Enhanced tone controls in the preamp section mean that you can do a better job fine-tuning the music.
New sources — One of most common reasons to get a new stereo is to expand your system's music playback and other capabilities. Aftermarket stereos offer advanced capabilities, such as:
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We're also seeing increased integration of smartphone apps with both iPhones® and Android smartphones.
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More features — Advanced features on new stereos include full-color animated displays, customizable color schemes, touchscreen monitors, and precision sound controls like digital time correction and parametric equalization.
Cool cosmetics — Aftermarket car stereos, with their high-tech displays and cutting-edge layouts, can enhance the appearance of your car's interior.
Expandability — Auxiliary inputs, USB connections, and audio/video outputs let you expand your system by connecting portable music players, rear seat video screens, external amplifiers, and powered subwoofers to your new stereo.
Security — Features like detachable face plates and security codes help protect your investment from theft.
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It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number and variety of models in our car stereo listing. How do you know which one is right for you? Our expert shopping guides can help. Click on the links to learn more.
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By Casey Peacock: Freedom Newspapers
A 29-year-old Portales man was arrested last week and charged with cattle theft, according to a press release from the Roosevelt County Sheriff's office.
Christopher Neil Gay, 29, stole five heifers and a calf a month ago from a ranch on N.M. 267 near Floyd, according to police. Police located the stolen cattle at Gay's home on Baseline Road, police said.
Police identified the stolen cattle by brands and ear tags, according to Chief Deputy Malin Parker.
Police believe Gay was in the process of stealing more cattle from the same area Friday when he was arrested following a traffic stop on the Floyd Highway, according to the release. A witness who was familiar with the first theft told police he saw Gay and a female companion penning cattle in the same manner as the earlier theft.
Police found approximately 20 head of cattle in a set of pens at the same ranch as the earlier theft, Parker said.
Police believe Gay would pen the cattle and go back later and load them.
Police seized six cattle from Gay's property Friday and 19 Saturday after executing several search warrants, according to Parker. A livestock trailer was also seized.
"Being that this is a 2,500 square mile county, it is always an asset and benefit to the sheriff's office when citizens call in suspicious activity," said Sheriff Darren Hooker.
Gay is charged with larceny of livestock, receiving stolen property over $2,500 and under $20,000 and an attempt to commit a felony.
Gay was released Friday from the Roosevelt County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond, Parker said.
Parker said more arrests are possible.
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Russia sending Sochi Olympics torch into spaceBy DMITRY LOVETSKY
the Associated Press | November 06,2013AP PHOTO
A Russian police helicopter guards the Russias booster rocket Soyuz-FG with the space capsule Soyuz TMA-11M that will carry new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as the rocket is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday. The rocket is emblazoned with the emblem of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. For the first time, it will also carry an Olympic torch to space as part of the ongoing Olympic torch relay. The torch will be brought back along with the stations current crew. The rocket is scheduled to blast off on Thursday, Nov.7.BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan For the first time in history, the Olympic torch will be taken on a spacewalk. The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics torch will be sent to the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft this week and astronauts will then carry it outside the station. Heres a look at the Sochi torch.
The torch will travel into Earths orbit with the next space station crew, who blast off early Thursday from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russias Mikhail Tyurin, NASAs Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata of Japan are heading to the space station on a Russian Soyuz rocket that has been emblazoned with the emblem of the Sochi Winter Games.
For safety reasons, the torch will not burn when its onboard the space outpost. Lighting it would consume precious oxygen and pose a threat to the crew.
The crew will carry the unlit torch around the stations numerous modules before taking it out on a spacewalk.
The Olympic torch has flown into space before in 1996 aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for the Atlanta Summer Olympics but it has never yet been taken outside a spacecraft.
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy, who are part of the space stations current crew, will take the torch into open space Saturday when they venture outside the station. Kotov says they are planning to take the video and photos of the torch, hopefully when the space station flies over Russia and the southern resort of Sochi can be seen in the background.
The torch will stay in space for five days until the returning crew takes it back to Earth next Monday, when Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency plan to land in Kazakhstan.
The four-month Sochi torch relay, which started in Moscow on Oct. 7, is the longest in the history of the Olympics. For most of the 65,000- kilometer (39,000-mile) route, the flame will travel by plane, train, car and even reindeer sleigh, but 14,000 torch bearers are taking part in the relay that stops at more than 130 cities and towns.
Last month, the Olympic flame traveled to the North Pole onboard a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Later this month it will sink to the bottom of the worlds deepest lake, Lake Baikal. In February, the torch will be taken to the peak of Mount Elbrus, at 5,642 meters (18,510 feet) the highest mountain in Russia and Europe.
The torch will be used to light the Olympic flame at Sochis stadium on Feb. 7, marking the start of the 2014 Winter Games that run until Feb. 23.
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