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I nursed my daughter until she was 4 and hated the last 3-4 months of it. She was still nursing 3-4x a day on days I worked and begged constantly on my days off. As a "reward" for weaning she got to go on a vacation (one week) with grandma and auntie. Weaning was horrible. My mom did not tell me until later, but she cried every night for "milky". When she came home it was no better, she asked to nurse for months after. I think she still would if I would let her.
Now my son is two and I'm not ready to wean him yet, but am due in feb with #3. Did I make weaning more difficult by tandem nursing (but brother gets "milky"). I do not want a repeat of what happened the first time. Is there any age that is easier to encourage weaning at? My sister's kids all just stopped on there own, and the longest one "only" nursed for 23 months.


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According to Jessica Reyna of J&S Motorsports, the car, owned by Mark Heidaker and driven by Patrick O'Gorman, shot right passed its previous record of 267 mph.
The same car has dominated the top speed at the mile this year, setting a record of 267 mph in March. Before that, the top speed at the mile was set in 2012 at 257.7 mph.
More good news this year came from Shannon Matus, who has been organizing the Mile for the past 10 years with her husband, Jay.
She crushed the rumor that the event would be moved to Houston next year.
"Beeville is home to the Mile," Matus said Friday afternoon.
Even some of the drivers at the Texas Mile Saturday believed last weekend's competition might have been the last one here.
Matus said she and her husband started the Mile at the former Navy landing field in Goliad, and it stayed there for seven years.
Matus said that even in those years, Beeville was like the headquarters of the event. She said home for her and Jay was the Best Western Motel during those years.
When the Navy decided to start using the Goliad runway for its touch-and-go practice runs three years ago, Jay and Shannon approached Joe B. Montez, executive director of the Bee Development Authority, and they entered into an agreement to bring the event to the crosswind runway at Chase Field.
Last weekend's Mile marked the third year for the event to be held here and the 10th year of what has become one of the nation's foremost speed competitions.
The event being organized in Houston is an entirely separate racing attraction and is not associated with the Texas Mile.
"We aren't going anywhere," Matus said.
Beeville car owner and driver Albert Garces enjoyed the support of his family as he prepared to make his first run this year in his 2001 Pontiac Trans Am.
Garces did not get on the track until Saturday afternoon, and he managed to cross the mile marker seconds later at 171.5 mph.
Garces has been one of the drivers running the mile since it came to Chase Field three years ago.
A southeast wind blew most of the day Saturday, but that apparently had little effect on the speeds of the trucks, cars and motorcycles running in the event.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Archive for February 2012
28 February, 2012
By chance, I happened to read William Shawcross's new book Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11 and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed straight after finally catching up with Deborah Lipstadt's The Eichmann Trial, which was published last year.
Published in: Melanie's Blog
27 February, 2012
Hands up all those who actually know someone in the Socialist Workers' Party. Hmm, just as I thought.
Published in: Daily Mail
23 February, 2012
On Monday, I wrote in the Daily Mail about the shocking case of a seven year-old boy who was branded a racist by his primary school after asking a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was 'brown because he was from Africa'. As I wrote, this was hardly a one-off incident.
Published in: Daily Mail
22 February, 2012
In an impassioned piece in that fine and feisty on-line newspaper The Commentator, Robin Shepherd sets out the stark case that Europe may now be staring at the end of democracy.
Published in: Daily Mail
22 February, 2012
You thought 'Climategate', the data manipulation/shady practices scandal at the high temple of anthropogenic global warming theory, East Anglia's Climatic Research Centre, marked the nadir of the whole AGW swindle? Think again.
Published in: Daily Mail
20 February, 2012
The word 'Orwellian' has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.
Published in: Daily Mail
17 February, 2012
Whatever one may think about David Cameron's policies, the general view is that he is an adroit politician. How extraordinary, then, that he should have got himself into such an invidious position with his meeting yesterday with the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.
Published in: Daily Mail
17 February, 2012
An invitation to appear as a Question Time panellist always sees your columnist dusting off her tin helmet, not to say donning full body armour and making her last will and testament.
Published in: Jewish Chronicle
13 February, 2012
You may not think it to look at him, but the mild and courteous Michael Gove is fast coming to resemble a black belt in martial arts. Maybe he has been having lessons on the quiet.
Published in: Daily Mail
8 February, 2012
So what should be done in Britain about foreign terrorist suspects and the European Court of Human Rights?
Published in: Daily Mail
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YWCA Bristol's Annual Easter Event
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Fun-Filled Family Event & Pancake Breakfast
What could be more fun than an "eggstravaganza" of Easter fun?!
YWCA Bristol's Annual Easter Eggstravaganza event will be a fun-filled morning complete with a pancake breakfast, pictures with the Easter Bunny, a cake & goody walk, and other fun activities. There will be a bake sale with luscious treats, a handmade craft sale, and specialty Easter baskets for sale.
This year's event will be held on Saturday, March 23rd at YWCA Bristol, 106 State Street, Bristol TN from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The pancake breakfast and pictures with the Easter Bunny will be available from 9 -11 a.m. Reservations are required for breakfast and can be made by calling the YWCA at (423) 968-9444. All proceeds from this event will go directly to the YWCA Children's Center.


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A splendid villa at Todi, tailor-made for your comfort and tranquillity: only 5 charming self catering apartments decorated and furnished tastefully, in a 16 acres farm that produces its own wine and cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil using the natural methods and enthusiasm of yesteryear
La Torriola is located on the hills, just in front of the most beautiful side of the city of Todi, only about 2,5 Km away from the E45 Orte-Ravenna.
The strategic location of the holiday apartments La Torriola, in the centre of Umbria and in the centre of Italy, allows you to reach all the main sites of Umbria with a short drive (Perugia, Assisi, Orvieto and Spoleto are at about 1/2 hour drive). Roma, Firenze and Siena are between 1 and 1/2 and 2 hour drive.
A QUIET STAY made of relaxation and walks, an ACTIVE HOLIDAY to tone muscles and recharge your batteries, a GASTRONOMIC TOUR to discover prestigious Umbrian restaurants and wineries, a trip to some of the most beautiful villages in Italy, or to the local markets and the craft shops?
Choose day by day to dip in the pool or stroll through the olive grove, to walk in the woods looking for mushrooms or ...to wander in the alleys of Todi to buy goodies
La TORRIOLA took its name from TORRE di IOLO, an ancient tower at few steps from the villa
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SL / Championship "Partnerships"
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Dewsbury Rams are with Bradford Bulls,Hunslet with Leeds,York with Hull,Whitehaven with Saints ,Batley going to announce something with a Super League club in the next few days,more then likely with Huddersfield Giants .Can't think of any more Championship clubs.
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Posted 19 October 2012 - 11:13 PM
were talking teams here who have had millions from sky, are about to drop there acadamie teams to save money, teams who are going bankrupt at an alarming rate. What can championship clubs who get 100k a year and have made the championship the most exciting league in the game possibly learn from those clubs. Even national conference teams must have juniors at all age groups to join the league. Im not saying super league clubs should have teams from U8s but surely from 14s upwards they should have teams at every age group. There supposed to be the standard bearers of the game but cant even afford an u18s team its disgraceful. Selby Warriors run 3 junior teams and are about to start a u8s. We get nothing from anyone we do sponsored bike rides, raffles you name it to fund these teams yet these clubs the self styled elite dont run any, then you get people like the York fan thinking its great because they will get 4 or 5 players, then we get the fools running the game trying to tell us there doing away with the teams for the games best interest, you couldnt make it up
I agree with everything you say Lowfield. As much as I'd like to take SL seriously, I simply can't and this is a prime example of why I can't. If they stopped importing expensive overseas "stars" and concentrated that cash upon developing the game, I may sit up and listen but they can't even be bothered with the basics - and junior development has to be the most basic requirement of all. I'm fed up of being lectured on these forums about how everything depends upon money and unless lower league clubs can find a rich benefactor they're wasting their time. Well we're witnessing at first hand just what these wealthy clubs will do to save a few bob. You really do have to ask what do they spend it on?
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Warrington - Swinton
As a director of Barrow RFC I don't want to get involved in this debate (though I do have very strong views on the subject). I can however state that Barrow WILL NOT be joining the list
Posted 20 October 2012 - 06:34 PM
Posted 20 October 2012 - 06:36 PM
Great news, i feel sorry for the players in the Championship squads who won't get a look in when the SL players roll in to town then be expected to play when the SL clubs call them back.
As a director of Barrow RFC I don't want to get involved in this debate (though I do have very strong views on the subject). I can however state that Barrow WILL NOT be joining the list
Looking forward to seeing Barrow back down at the Big Fellas Stadium next season
Posted 20 October 2012 - 06:47 PM
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As a director of Barrow RFC I don't want to get involved in this debate (though I do have very strong views on the subject). I can however state that Barrow WILL NOT be joining the list
Very, very pleased to hear that mate. Would of been very easy for you to sell your soul, made up you havent, i will go to Barrow next season now and give you some of my money. In fact we should as fans boycott the away games at the feeder teams, might make them think
Posted 21 October 2012 - 08:23 AM
For what it's worth I think SL clubs will go back to a full academy set up in the medium term anyway.
i]Mr. Burns: Woah, slow down there maestro. There's a *New* Mexico?[/i]
Posted 21 October 2012 - 10:02 AM
Well here is my take on things. As you clearly state it will at least in the short term benefit teams like Yours who can not afford to compete in this league ( perhaps you should drop down then), but in the long term it make you somewhat reliant on the bulls. To me it lacks ambition and indeed does make you a feeder club, you are keeping Bradford players warm untill THEY want them, not like the loan system where you have a player for a set period of time.
As a dewsbury fan the link up with we have with the bulls I don't see it as selling the clubs soul or killing the game at this level. Nor do I see us as a feeder club. Last year we had a lot of loans and DRs I put that down to money as we couldn't have a big enough squad to manage with injuries and so dipped into the loan market for cover. Instead of coming from different clubs they will more than likely come from one as long as they are good enough to compete it isn't an issue for me. Beside the players there are other bits to this link up such as using Bradford's training pitch , may not seem much but when the weather is bad ours is unusable. The club then have to hire an all weather pitch which costs money we don't really have. Once one club starts it becomes a race. If your near the bottom of championship and a rival joins up you can't get left behind or the club face a financial hardship in CC1.if you've got the money to dismiss these link ups that's great but what if you haven't ?
For what it's worth I think SL clubs will go back to a full academy set up in the medium term anyway.
Over the last couple of years I have made more of an effort to get to away matches not just to support my team but to support teams like yours with my money. I even linked your cheerleaders up with sponsorship as I wanted to support OUR league! I am in future going to concentrate on my own team as it would seem that some teams your included are only too happy to pick off the SL scraps whilst weakening integrity of our competition. Sad days indeed.
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One thing about it, it certainly takes the pressure off the managers, probably giving a false sense of security.If SL clubs can afford to loan players out, doesn't that indicate that they are overmanned, a factor leading to financial troubles in the future.
Good point Bob additionally are we absolutley sure that the SL clubs will pay the total wages for the loanees. I haven't read that they will. I know in the past they have for the odd player, but if there are 4/5 what's the situation then. What expenses overall are they covering in this scheme.


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Apparently so. According to Todd Zolecki of MLB.com, Phillies management was not happy with some of the goings-on during Saturday's 13-4 blowout loss on National TV. So much so, they closed the doors and had a meeting about it.
General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Friday the team needs to play well before the All-Star break or there could be changes to the 25-man roster. So when the front office watched players giddily shower Jonathan Pettibone with sunflower seeds and place a batting helmet and paper cup (with gum as an adhesive) atop his head Saturday during a FOX in-game interview in a 13-4 loss to Atlanta, it did not sit well.
It sparked Amaro and manager Charlie Manuel to call a team meeting before Sunday's game.
It sounded like they had a tough audience waiting for them.
"I'm not doing the in-game interview today," Cliff Lee barked at a Phillies media relations staff member beforehand in front of a MLB.com reporter. "If they're going to get mad about that, we're not doing them anymore."
Asked about the meeting, Amaro said, "I have nothing to say."
Did it go well?
"Nothing to say," he repeated.
"I'm not going to comment at all about that," Lee echoed.
Interesting. It appears some of the powers-that-be were none too happy with smiling and laughing during a rout.
Are you all about keeping it loose during a long season, or are you too upset with how they handled things during the in-game interview?
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Hallelujah..at least someone has a pulse in the organization..I found the in game interview and seed tossing to be ridiculous myself..
Baseball (and sports in general) really boil down to one thing – entertainment. The interview hijinx were entertaining and I think that pitchers on their off day can enjoy themselves in a dug out. I'm on team cliff.
Win first then yuck it up later…looks like the meeting had a positive effect based on today's performance..
What was the score at that point during the interview? I think it was only 3-1 or 4-1. Saw nothing wrong with what they were doing.
I'm glad someone beat me to it. The game wasn't out of hand at that point. Im sure no one on the bench was laughing by the time that game was over.
Seriously? With everything that has gone wrong this season? – Goofy interviews by pitchers on their off-days is what management is worried about?
Um hello! Your bullpen is a shambles, many of the players on the roster are at an age that health is a constant issue, and your minor league system can't seem to produce a single decent every day major league player.
Yup, Throwing sunflower seeds and funny hats during interviews, that's the reason the team with a 160 million dollar payroll can't play .500 baseball. That's what gets the closed door meetings called. They're worried about their stinkin' image? I'm starting to believe this club really is being run by a bunch of PR people who scout by reading the backs of baseball cards.
Ugggh, stories like this really annoy the ___ out of me. Sorry folks, sometimes I just gotta vent.
Well said, Lefty.
Perfectly said!
Great response and I share your frustrations.
Lefty, while I agree with most of what you said, the minor league system part kinda pissed me off. Being from an area that I can go see either the Triple-A Lehigh Valley or Double-A Reading it's not the minor league systems fault. It all comes back to Amaro. The teams have no talent to work with, Amaro has traded it all away in the last 3 years. Guys that were doing great in Reading and were promoted to Lehigh Valley and would have eventually been promoted to the Bigs, were traded away for players Amaro could have on the Phils roster immediately!! He was not thinking ahead and keeping guys in the minors who could be molded into great big league players.
Panda, I agree with you. Lefty never said it wasn't Amaro's fault. In fact Lefty has said that many times in this forum over the last few seasons.
Panda, I have to agree with you 100 % !! they gave away some good talent and now have a lot of young kids who are just not ready. At a time when we need strength we don't have it !!
Panda, good comment., point well taken.
Please understand that all I meant was what I said. I didn't specify WHY the system is in the condition it's in, and frankly I don't have enough time to follow it closely enough to know or discuss. I read Jay Floyd's columns here at PN, and that's about the extent of my knowledge.
What I see is the final product once they come up. And after Dom Brown a few years ago, I haven't seen much to get excited about. I am hopeful about Franco, and Ruf, and a few others, but I think back to the days when Rollins and Hamels and Utley and Howard were all coming up. We just don't see that kind of supply chain anymore. That's what I meant, I'm sure there are lots of hardworking people there trying their best with the low picks we've had over the past number of years.
I agree with almost all you said, except the Minor League system. Yesterday Ruf gave us some idea of what is out there.
It seems frightening to think of 20+ million dollar every now and then player, has anyone in baseball ever had their contract bought out, in these contracts are there no performance criteria? I think the only way this is going to get resolved is to clean house, there seems to be something in the clubhouse that isn't healthy, thus seed throwing. I am not sure who is running this club? B. Giles?Amaro? The major millionaires who have no say in how club is run, but again, notice the stands are full. Maybe a boycott day by the fans might get some attention. Gave up our season tickets this year.
The problem with Ruf is he is 26 years old. He is much older than most of his competition in AAA and older than a good number of major leaguers. And he won't ever be more than an average replacement major league starter, if he even hits that, which is doubtful. If you want a real example, we will need to look at Singleton when the Astros finally call him up.
Great comment! Totally agree! It was funny, stupid, and somehat inappropriate, but worthy of a "closed door meeting"? Management needs to get their priorities in order! It was the only thing in that dismal game that made me smile.
I grew up watching Dutch, Dykstra, Kruk, Wild Thing and so on, the Phillies have always been a lite silly team. They weren't loosing by 12 yet, and the biggest deal in the organization is the lack of consistency. They are either kicking ass or getting their asses kicked. Keep it lite and keep the stress low. They are a team and the dynamic is still there. Amaro was just embarrassed when he should have just shook his head and moved on. Take the stick out of your ass and go with it.
At the end of the day, its just a game. I think it sets a great example to kids watching, that will badly losing they are still having fun.
I thought nothing was wrong with the interview but my husband was very upset over it. I remember last year Hunter Pence running into and knocking over Samuel at third and him and Victorino being hysterical about it for innings. i thought that was inappropriate for the way they were playing and to be laughing. i tweeted them both and told them that if I sucked at my job rhe way they did and laughed about it, i wouldnt have a job! nothing was done about that except to get rid of both of them later on.
I am surprised that there are two sides here… My thought was that it had to be done. Perhaps it was an emotional reaction on the part of ownership/management but this team needs to find a reason to ratchet it up and maybe this was it. This team has been less business than teams in the past… There is seemingly less urgency and less ownership of the overall results which haven't been great. We all know that the team as we know it is one bad stretch away from being blown up… Rube doesn't want to do it but he will have no choice if they can't cut the deficit. Rube is conflicted and upset and probably doing everything he can behind closed doors to convince ownership that they can turn it around. The last thing he wants to see right now is his team of well paid professionals – $160 million payroll serves as proof – acting like they don't care in the dugout during a game where they have gotten shellacked. The preparation needs to be better, the sense of accountability needs to be greater and if we have any shot, the play needs to be elevated from here until the All-Star break just to get back in it. I'm sure they didn't really need to hear it but there is a lot riding on the next couple weeks… It's now or never.
This team has way more serious problems than goofing off in the dugout! They need to have more conversations about their lacking performance on the field!
I gotta disagree with some of you and say that when a team is playing and losing like this team is at times…then there is no place for antics like that on national TV. Like G7 said above…"win first then yuck it up later." I'm glad that Amaro and Charlie had the balls to say something to these overpaid clowns.
And what's with Cliff Lee and the attitude?? Acting like a baby now and questioning it??? Dude…. just shut up and go out and pitch. You're making $25M per. I've got no symapthy for you.
I don't like to see them losing but I wouldn't want to see them depressed in the dugout. Depression leads to two things; a bad season or amphetamines. It's a long season and they should stay loose. Plus, they're entertainers. I would love to see them win. But if they're not winning then they should do something else to enjoy themselves (play around in the dugout just a bit). Nobody should be threatened for having fun, because after all, even though there's a business side, it is a game.
I'm not saying they have to be depressed. Staying "loose" is fine. I get that. But this was over the top being on national TV and all. It just sends the wrong message in my opinion.
I think the management was completely justified. Especially with Mike Adams, who could not pitch his way out of a wet paperbag, all that cabbage to throw sunflower seeds. What is next having a couple of beers while Pap finished the game. This team needs a checkpoint, they completely blow, and it seems they just don't care.
Adams is hurt…that's why he was struggling. Not saying he should be exempt from management's comments, however.
I think it's stupid needing to have this meeting. None of the guys horsing around were pitching. If they were pitching that day, then I could understand. It's not their fault the Phillies stink. It's injuries and the bullpen. It's also the O's fault because they can't get any runs. If something this little is that bothersome they have issues. Try focusing on fixing your team!
Frankly, I don't appreciate the idea that FOX Sports is anything but silly in itself. Making it out to be the greatest interview in the world. Talk about jokes! The commentators were thinking we're going to get this terrific interview and make ourselves look great! Please….While I am disappointed in the way the Phillies have played this year, I think letting off steam is better for the overall health of a team then to let it stew. These guys do have a tendency to act silly at inappropriate times, but it is a game. It sounds to me that management (Ruben and Charlie) are having the jitters here about their own jobs. Let us all start seeing sports as they are, as someone else mentioned, it is entertainment. If you're worried about your own job, don't make everyone else depressed about it.
That's what the meeting was about.. Fixing the team..do you think there would of been a meeting if they won the game?
Cliff Lee can do whatever he wants. Hes Cliff Lee. Best player we've got. Baseball is entertainment not brain surgery. Lighten up. If they want to do something construtive, get some better players so we can win!
What??? Cliff Lee can do whatever he wants just because he's Cliff Lee?? Explain the logic in that.
Yes, please explain the logic in that. I have had enough of the Cliff Lee-can-do-no-wrong in this town! Especially when Cole Hamels can do no right after what he's done for the franchise.
I'm kind of in the middle on this one.
One the one hand, I think that it would be unfortunate if the guys took a somber approach to hard times on the field. When they're on the field, they need to be focused on the game and doing their absolute best to win, but when a group of pitchers who are not active in the game decide to have fun while another is interviewed on TV, I have no problem with it. In fact, I found myself laughing hysterically while it was going on. I appreciated that they were able to have fun and stay loose in spite of the team's sub-par performance.
On the other hand, if management's actions in calling the meeting lights a fire under the guys and gets them to perform better, then I like that, too. The one fear that I do have is that management is getting frustrated to the point where they are going to try to manage by fear, which creates an environment where guys will not perform at their best, and some may want out of the situation altogether. As long as management uses the opportunity the right way and doesn't attempt to overdo it, I think the meeting could have been a good thing.
The meeting was likely about way more than throwing seeds. The team has played badly on far too many occassions and that needed to be addressed. The interview incident was the "straw that broke the camel's back," and although it may have been a poor excuse, the meeting would have occurred at some point in the near future, simply because you can't play like garbage half the time without being told about it. Keeping loose is one thing; acting like imbeciles while doing nothing positive is something entirely different.
While I agree with Lefty that there are more issues than throwing seeds, I will continue to maintain that some of those issues fall on some of the underperforming players themselves, and that their stupid behavior is indicative of that.
Absolutely agree George..if they were 10 games up and won Sat night instead of embarrassing themselves on the field, no team meeting..kind oif reminds me of the scene in Moneyball where Jeremy Giambi is dancing on a table after a loss and Billy B comes in and reams em out..
I think in game interviews are the most ridiculous thing in the world anyway.
Especially when it's FOX.
In general, I find in-game interviews more anoying than ridiculous. I tune in to watch a game, and all I get is a player or coach's ugly face staying stupid things. I want to know the pitch count, the score, who's on base, how many outs, and all I get is "I…cliche…other cliche…ya know?…um…cliche." I'd much rather see where the fielders position themselves than have to watch players making asses of themselves.
It's about time someone in management got mad about this team's performance. I want the players on my team to care as much as I do, and not think it's funny when you're getting your ass kicked on national television.
The team is not playing poorly because they are goofing around in the dugout. They are playing poorly because they are a crappy team, put together by a crappy GM. Hopefully, someone pointed that out to Rubes during the meeting.
Also, the in-game interview is terrible and deserves to be treated with complete disregard.
Yeah, but the goofing around in the dugout when they are playing like sh!t… "a crappy team"…sends the wrong message to all the teammates, the rest of the organization and to the fans.
Chuck, I get where you're coming from, but they had just taken 3 of 4 from the Pirates and Braves, and were in a 3-1 game at the time.
Although I didn't see the interview it sounds like it got a little silly, but in general I don't have any issue with some levity during the grind of a 162-game season.
If, and it's a big if, but if Cliff Lee is being quoted in context, then I agree with Chuck that he is being a jerk. I don't feel any different than I did about this report on the closed door meeting than I did last night, but I agree about Lee.
if you want to surmise, as George has done, that this was just the straw that broke the camels back, That's very possible and I can buy into that. But that's not how it was being reported in the above posting, which is what I reacted to. My response was to these exact words-
"Phillies management was not happy with some of the goings-on during Saturday's 13-4 blowout loss on National TV. So much so, they closed the doors and had a meeting about it."
Some of those "goings-on" probably included being completely overwhelmed 13-4, playing rotten defense, and the bullpen not doing any kind of damage control. It's also likely the press put their own spin on things. Phils management doesn't usually say out loud their exact reasons for meetings, and never mentions what is actually said in those meetings.
Well, I think it could have been that proverbial "straw." And so what.. SOMETHING had to be done. Their play has been too inconsistent so far. I hear schmenkman when he says that they had just won 3 of 4 games and that it was only 3-1 at the time in this game. ..
But I think they are at a point in the season where it's make it or break it. A little shake-up is good sometimes and maybe was warranted here. They responded yesterday and rebounded back nicely. Let's see how things play out against the Nats this week to see if it has any long-term effect.
I think when one of the BEST guys on the team is goofing one of the BEST rookies we have had in a while, it's all in good fun and not that big of a deal. I think it is a little mis-placed anger on the part of Ruben and company where they had the opportunity to focus on something that was visible to everyone and make a big deal about it. Lots of other teams do goofy stuff on the FOX interviews.
I'm sure though that the meeting had far more to do about the teams struggles and not so much about seed throwing.
Spot on Johanna, on all points. But I think what you said about lots of other teams doing this every Saturday is important. I can't blame this silliness as a symptom of a lackadaisical team not trying to win. Other teams doing it are winning.
This team as constructed by management, may just not be good enough to go very far this season, and nothing they do on air is going to change that. It doesn't mean that they are not trying their best on the field of play, I think they are. Guys like Jimmy Rollins who have played all 89 games, and people think he is not giving it his all. Does anyone know how hard that is for a man in his mid thirties? Every single day after the WBC, and ST. Sheesh, so they had a little fun.
To me, it is pretty simple. Management is frustrated. Players (who do care) are frustrated.
Management had a closed door meeting. I am sure that the hi-jinks during the interview were mentioned. However, that was not the point of the meeting. It was about a team under-achieving.
Management says: Win some ballgames, we buy. Lose some ballgames, we sell.
Pretty simple.
Charlie and Ruben are totally correct. Clowning around when you're getting spanked by another team makes it look like you don't care (or is a sign that you really DON'T care). Time for Rollins, Cliff Lee, Papelbon, Ruiz, Michael Young and Delmon Young to go. I wish Howard could be dealt too, but we're stuck with him. Keep Utley if you can at a reasonable price.
I didn't see it, but I understand it was a 3-1 game at that point — is that not correct?
I'm directly in the middle here… you don't want the team to get tight — in fact, I can recall this team being quite loose and fun-loving in their prime, with Victorino and Rollins making light of things — but I can understand people (whose jobs are possibly on the line) in management getting a little touchy when they perceive that losses are not hitting the team hard.
Does this make it more likely that Cliff is going to go?
I often read comments on Phillies blog sites about Amaro giving away so much minor league talent in recent years, but could someone who feels this way please provide some names? Who are these incredibly talented prospects we gave away who are now flourishing for other teams? I think if you were to list all the minor league players traded away in recent years, you would find that very few of them have become productive major-league players.
that's true and I agree that what we gave up, or who, doesn't seem to be hurting us, plus you have to realize we were in the win now window and we played great had a good run and the ball didn't roll the way we would have liked it too… the major names to watch are d'arnaud cosart and singleton… they all should develop into very good players, several others have either debuted and not been very spectacular or haven't progressed much in the minors, those trades don't make us look like losers right yet anyway and I don't know if they ever will..
Some of those players traded have been too young to be called up yet, particularly the ones swapped for Hunter Pence, and they are doing quite well in the minors and will very likey be very productive in the ML in a couple of years. The catcher they sent to Toronto is also supposed to be excellent and will be arriving soon.
As in any trade, some of the players didn't pan out. But it's too early to say that all of them are bad. D'Arnaud, Singleton, and a few others have gotten consistently high marks from every scout who's seen them.
Santana a guy I forgot, also traded for pence has been very impressive as well, that was probably the worse trade of them all we gave up some good talent in that one
Of course, when a team trades away 18, 19 and 20 year old players for a proven veteran, the team that receives the prospects is not likely to get MLB results from the deal within 2 or 3 years. However, if you look back at deals like Texas trading Mark Teixiera to Atlanta for Neftali Feliz, Matt Harrison, Elvis Andrus and Jarrod Saltalamacchia in 2007, you see that in 2008 or 2009, you could not be sure of what Texas had received, but by 2010 and 2011, three of the players that they received were instrumental in the team getting to back to back World Series. Some minor leaguers who have been traded recently and are thriving as young and cheap players are:
1. Patrick Corbin, who is 10-1 with a 2.40 ERA this year. Corbin was traded to Arizona from the Angels in a deal for Dan Haren before the 2011 season.
2. Jean Segura, who is hitting .317 with 11 HR and 26 SB this year. Segura was traded to Milwaukee from the Angels in a deal for Zack Greinke last year.
I found an article that lists all the minor league players traded in recent years and how they have developed since. Looks like d'Arnaud, Singleton, and Santana are the only three worth fretting over.
I also wonder if this might be Ruben's little warning directed at Charlie.
"Listen, Charlie…I know you're a player's manager and all…but these guys need shaking up and what I saw on national TV sends the wrong message when you're basically playing .500 baseball and mired in 3rd place.. The deadline is a few weeks away, plus you're playing without a contract…basically a lame duck. Let's tighten things up a bit."
Something like that. How much of that meeting was Ruben and how much was it Charlie??
2 things mentioned in other posts hit home with me. moneyball, and the 93 phillies. billy beane teams, and the 93 phillies had one thing in common, they got on base. never seen a team like the 93 phillies, talk about walks, and working a count, plus adding to starters pitch count. look at this years a's team, what jumps out at your are the walks. and i never heard of most of the guys on the team. the more people on base, and the more pitches you see, the better the advantage to the batter, and more pressure on the pitcher. this team for the most part is fundamentally unsound. it's getting old. i knew the door had closed when they lost to the cardinals. i blame charlie for bad moves in the playoffs for the reason this team never won it all again. could this team have a late season surge ? i think their a chance. will it happen is another story. really, i'm ready to go with the youth movement. then the ball park will have the diehard baseball fans only, and not all these fair weather fans. the party is over it's time to rebuild !
Maybe Charlie should have been chastised for leaving Kendrick in for so long Saturday night . . . 5 ip 12 hits, throw in a couple of walks – that is horrible . . . at least the hijinx gave me something to watch other than poor baseball
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HONESDALE, PA — It is said that everybody has a dream. For an increasing number of people, that dream revolves around the concept of small-scale farming that reconnects the farmer and the community she or he serves. To support those dreams, Penn State Extension (PSE) will offer "Exploring the Small Farm Dream" to be held in Honesdale in March.
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Today we're delivering 172 audio tapes to Safe Sound Archive in Philadelphia where they will be put in cold storage to ensure their longevity. The tapes come from both the Quaker Collection and College Archives and include such content as the 1941 acceptance speech of Haverford honorary degree recipient Herbert Hoover and Howard Brinton's 1960s lectures on Quakerism as well as a series of oral histories conducted from the 1990s through early 2000s on the history of Haverford College. The recordings, comprised of reel-to-reels and cassettes, have all been digitized and are gradually being uploaded to our DSpace repository. The digitized recordings will help to make the content more easily accessible, while the storage of the originals at one of the country's premiere commercial audio archives will ensure that the master recordings remain viable should we ever need to transfer them again. Special Collections maintains hundreds more audio and video recordings and as time and funding allow we will continue to digitize and upload more content.


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Ron and Jane Beasley of Williston announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Caitlin Elizabeth Beasley, to Matthew Alan Snyder, son of David and Deborah Snyder of Williston.
Calvin Sr. and Ernestine Edwards celebrated 60 years of marriage Oct. 24.
Al and Carol Norman of Elberton, Ga. announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Ashley Caroline, to Spencer Andrew Risner, son of Carolyn (Tom) Ten Broeck of Williston and Bill Risner of Canon, Ga.
Jennifer Tyson and Clayton Stinson announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage Saturday, Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. at the Trail Riders Club, behind the Dixie County Health Department, off Hwy. 19 in Cross City.
Ms. Tyson is the daughter of Sue Tindale and Mr. and Mrs. James Tindale.
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Following the wedding at 2 p.m., the Stinson Family Reunion will be held at the same location. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish.
I was born and reared in Kentucky, resided in Georgia for 17 years and now Florida for eight. There's no question I am a Southern girl through and through.
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Coach Jamie Baker and his wife, Tricia, announce the engagement of their daughter, Makayla Baker to David Heinkel.
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Grosssssssssssssss! wwh sent me a shorter link to the amblypygid . This is the ugliest spider in the world except to other amblypygid s:
Edit: Well, actually the spider is an Ambylypygid. Close enough.
Second edit: Well, actually the word is spelled two ways on the above page, so I take the one in the red edit is incorrect. Here's the genus: Amblypygi
#84360 - 02/13/05 08:57 PM Re: amblypygid
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let us hope that it's not to be taken too literally.
ambly- dim; blunt
pygid (small?) rump
now, callipygian.. or spheropygian
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At risk of going off-topic (I don't know how it's looked upon here but some forums are very strict...):
1. 'Amblylypygid' is certainly a typo; the word is amblypygid
2. Amblypygids are not spiders, but belong to a different order -
3. - Amblypygi, which isn't a genus. The genus of the animal shown is Damon. There are around a couple of dozen genera in all.
Some south american spcies can reach in excess of two feet across the 'whips'.
The article is interesting, incidentally. It's a strange thing to lose in Brighton (not many people keep them, and they're generally both quite expensive and not easy to get hold of).
#84362 - 02/14/05 06:18 AM Re: amblypygid
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risk of going off-topic
Around here it's practically required.
So, what differentiates amblypygids and spiders?
#84363 - 02/14/05 07:12 AM Re: amblypygid
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>So, what differentiates amblypygids and spiders?
amblypygids have curly tails..._________________________
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re: At risk of going off-topic
the lower you go down the topics, the less strict we become.. down here, (below the fold) it's not quite a free for all, but almost!
but up in Q & A about words, or A & I, we are a bit more titchy-- and well, complain.. if you start out 'off topic'
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Some south american spcies can reach in excess of two feet across the 'whips'.
And to think I used to want to visit S. Amer.
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yeahbut they got small feet :)
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The State Board of Education is considering the establishment
of a Financial Oversight Panel to guide efforts to address
the financial problems of the ailing Livingston School District
4. The district's financial condition will be discussed
at the State Board's meeting Wednesday in Chicago, and a vote
is scheduled Thursday.
"The Livingston district presents symptoms that are
all too common among Illinois school districts today,"
said State Superintendent of Education Robert E. Schiller.
"They're running out of cash and will probably
have to borrow more money to get through the end of the school
year. In cases such as these, the state needs to step in to
provide both immediate and long-range assistance."
Livingston, in Madison County, has been on the State Board's
list of districts "Certified In Financial Difficulty"
since 1988. The Livingston School Board voted in November
to petition the State Board to appoint a Financial Oversight
Panel, then subsequently rescinded that action. The State
Board will consider establishing an involuntary FOP because
the district's finances are deteriorating and the district
did not follow the financial plan approved by the State Board
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The State Board is authorized by state statutes to impose
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However, a recent audit of the district raised numerous concerns
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If a Financial Oversight Panel is established for Livingston,
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and approve every financial transaction of the district.
"This is a big step, but a necessary one,"
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deficit, and the situation is not getting better. In the near
term, state oversight such as this can help a district right
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Expanding Earth Theory
Before Continental Drift was the accepted theory on the formations of the Earth's surface another theory had some following. Expanding Earth theory's reasoning comes from continents matching up like puzzle pieces (same as Continental Drift). But instead of continents floating around on plates Expanding Earth claims the Earth has been growing since the era of the dinosaurs. Ways of growth are "explained" by phase change of the Earth's materials or gravity fluxes (which allowed dinosaurs to be so big).
Ask most geomorphologists about Expanding Earth and the answer received will be "no." But there are still holdouts like the video above.
8 comments:
- Dan tdaxp said...
The power of paradigms!
The important point near the end of the video is that, if this theory is true, it would change everything.
And indeed, it may be true. But there is real value in keeping background assumptions the same: you can have long periods of normal scientific work where theories are made ever more precise and accurate. If you change the assumptions too many times, you get a lot of rhetoric and scientific revolutions, but little actual progress.
Fascinating video!
- Deaner said...
Good stuff!
This is the first that I have heard about Expanding Earth Theory. It's not exactly something that I teach you in Geology class.
I thought this theory fascinating. Someone in my household (whom you know) keeps telling me the ocean floor continually is 'melting' and that is why the ocean floor isn't that old. What do you think? From South Dakota
- Ebal said...
Great blog excelant info.
- Jasper said...
Interesting theory.
The common geology also got a quite good explanation about why the ocean floor is that young (there is nothing new about that facts). Geologists claim the ocean floor constantly renews itself, there is a lot of proof for this theory.
It is tempting to believe in such a cool theory, but that raises a lot of questions. Biologists claim live started in the ocean, that is quite hard with a earth that only has some small seas.
- Goethe said...
As with global warming, people today readily embrace hair-brained ideas. ("If you don't believe in God, you will believe in anything." I think Chesterton said that or something like it.) Obviously President Bush has something to do with repressing the truth of the matter.
The reason the continents fit together was because they were originally one land mass! And fish fossils are much older than 10 million years old. Fishes occur at the end of the Cambrian break, at the beginning of the Ordovician period, ca.500 million years ago.
Still, it was fun to watch and to be impressed anew how much nuttiness is out there.
This post has many flaws. Fundamentally, continental drift is not the accepted theory on the formation of earth's surface. Plate Tectonics is the generally agreed upon theory that describes formation of continents, growth of new crust, earthquakes, the formation of mountain ranges, etc. etc. It agrees with continental drift in that continental crust have moved over the history of the earth, but continental drift provided no mechanism that would drive continental movement, among other flaws. The Expanding Earth theory was a theory that recieved some attention in the mid 20th century, but was quickly replaced by Plate Tectonics as new evidence was discovered.
The expanding earth theory has many flaws. Although the mechanism of expansion is often cited as a change in the gravitational constant, there is no evidence of this occurring in modern times and no proposed reasoning behind this change. In addition, expanding earth often cites the creation of new ocean crust at mid-ocean ridges as part of the driving force of expansion. This ignores the existence of subduction zones where oceanic crust is forced beneath a continental plate and is subsequently melted and returned to the mantle.
Any amount of research into the subject that is not conducted on youtube will reveal that expanding earth is an extremely flawed concept.
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OBV (Object by Value) was introduced in CORBA 2.3 to allow the exchange of CORBA Object value types. This powerful extension is very useful, for example, to design mutable applications. You can combine OBV with RMI-IIOP to allow Java clients to obtain a copy of remote object.
Before the OBV introduction, CORBA did not enable applications to transfer objects from the server to the client by copying. This is an annoying restriction in developing your Java/CORBA applications based on a CORBA vendor implementation, which does not support OBV. In this article, I'm going to explain how you can simulate the pass-by-value strategy in CORBA so that a client virtual machine can locally invoke methods implemented on a remote CORBA server.
Generally in CORBA, a client dial with a reference of a distributed object. Unlike CORBA, RMI -- since its first version -- allows passing of objects both by reference and by copy. In the first case, the behavior is the same as CORBA -- RMI clients obtain a remote reference of an object. In the second case, the whole object (data + code) is transferred to the client application, thus its methods are performed in the same virtual machine as the client.
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As you know, using CORBA it is even possible to develop client and server applications using different languages. Thus, a CORBA object may be written in C++ and accessed by Java client applications; consequently, the server can't transfer the Java bytestream of this object to the client, simply because there is no Java object. This is the main hindrance why the first versions of CORBA did not enable applications to transfer objects using the pass-by-value strategy.
The final purpose of this article is to simulate pass-by-value in CORBA, obviously in the case that both server and client are developed in Java, without using OBV and RMI-IIOP. I'm going to build a component which transfers the class bytecode from the server to the client application. To achieve this, first you have to figure out how CORBA works and in which way it can transfer an object by reference. I will show this by using an example. Afterwards, using the same example, I will implement an application simulating pass-by-value of objects and, consequently, the local method invocation.
To compile and execute the code presented in this article, you must use J2SE 1.4 with the new Portable Object Adapter (POA).
Suppose you would like to
implement a remote stack using CORBA. Clients making a connection to such a
distributed stack can invoke the
pop and
push methods in order to insert or take
out an element from the stack. This is the IDL for the interface of the
distributed stack object:
interface RemoteStack {
void push(in short value);
short pop();
You can compile the code
below using the new
compiler included in J2SE 1.4. Therefore, you may implement the object
like this:
import java.util.ArrayList;
// RemoteStack implementation
public class RemoteStackImpl extends RemoteStackPOA {
private ArrayList _s = new ArrayList();
public synchronized void push(short value) {
System.out.println("Push: " + value);
_s.add(new Short(value));
public synchronized short pop() {
if (_s.size()==0) return -1;
short value = ((Short)_s.get(_s.size()-1)).shortValue();
System.out.println("Pop: " + value);
return value;
RemoteStackImpl class uses an
ArrayList to store the elements as
short. The
pop method returns
-1 when the stack is empty; otherwise it returns the short value on the top of the stack and removes it from the
ArrayList. Using this strategy, you can only use the stack with positive values, but it is enough for our purpose. It is also important to notice that both
push and
pop show in the console the value of the element. This means you can figure out whether the methods run on the server or on the client side. Actually, the
java.util package already provides the
Stack class; I used that data structure just as an example for developing a distributed object.
Now you can write a CORBA server that exposes the developed stack implementation.
import org.omg.CORBA.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.*;
import org.omg.PortableServer.*;
import org.omg.PortableServer.POA;
import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.*;
public class RemoteStackServer {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
// Create and initialize the ORB
ORB orb = ORB.init(args, null);
// Create the RemoteStack implementation
RemoteStackImpl impl = new RemoteStackImpl();
// Activate the POAManager
POA rootpoa =
// Get object reference from the servant
org.omg.CORBA.Object ref = rootpoa.servant_to_reference(impl);
RemoteStack href = RemoteStackHelper.narrow(ref);
// Using NameService
org.omg.CORBA.Object objRef =
NamingContextExt ncRef = NamingContextExtHelper.narrow(objRef);
// Bind the "REMOTE_STACK" Object Reference in Naming
String name = "REMOTE_STACK";
NameComponent path[] = ncRef.to_name(name);
ncRef.rebind(path, href);
// Server Ready
System.out.println("REMOTE STACK SERVER READY.");
As you may notice, the
RemoteStackServer performs the following operation:
RemoteStackImpl instance.
POA Manager.
RemoteStackImpl instance to the Name Service with the name
Here is a sample of a client application making a connection to the remote stack server.
import org.omg.CORBA.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.*;
public class RemoteStackClient {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
// Create and initialize the ORB
ORB orb = ORB.init(args, null);
// Using NameService
org.omg.CORBA.Object objRef =
NamingContextExt ncRef = NamingContextExtHelper.narrow(objRef);
// Resolve the Object Reference in Naming
String name = "REMOTE_STACK";
RemoteStack remoteStack =
// Push (remote invocation);
// Pop (remote invocation);
short val = remoteStack.pop();
The code attempts a connection to the distributed object named
REMOTE_STACK. Then it invokes the
push method, passing
5 as a parameter. Eventually, it invokes the
pop method and you will see in the server console the following message, proof the distrubuted object works on the server side:
Push: 5
Pop: 5
In fact, the CORBA Name Service returns a reference to the associated implementation of the
RemoteStack object. This also means that when more clients invoke the
push method on this object, the elements will be inserted on the same distributed object. The
push and
pop methods work on a single object living on the remote server. In the previous example, you expect the result of
pop to be
5, because this is the last value the
push method inserted into the stack. This isn't always true. In fact, if, after the
push invocation, and before the
pop, another client invokes
push(18), the shown value will be
18. The point is clear: there is a single stack object, named
REMOTE_STACK -- and all CORBA clients get a reference to that object; therefore, the execution of the
push and
pop methods will be always remote.
In this section, I will show you how to simulate the local invocation using CORBA. Basically, the idea is the same as behind RMI: transferring the object bytecode from the server to the client application. Still, we make the client able to rebuild the remote object locally starting from the transferred bytecode.
As you know, a compiled Java object consists of a bytecode divided into one or more class files. Indeed, to make the example simpler, I assume there is just one class file. You can implement a CORBA service transferring the class file to the client, which dynamically instances the class by using the
Class.forName method. In this way, you can carry out the local execution of Java objects implemented on a remote CORBA Server.
The first step is to implement a CORBA object called
ClassLoader, which allows transferring a class file from server to client. The IDL is the following:
interface ClassLoader {
typedef sequence<octet> bytecode;
bytecode getImplementation(in string className);
ClassLoader interface defines the
bytecode user type consisting of a byte sequence. It declares the
getImplementation method as well, which takes a class name as a parameter and returns the associated Java bytecode. The implementation of this method searches for the file called
className + ".class" on the server machine, opens this file, and returns the byte sequence of which it consists. You can implement
ClassLoader like this:
import java.io.*;
import org.omg.CORBA.*;
// ClassLoader implementation
public class ClassLoaderImpl extends ClassLoaderPOA {
// Get the java bytecode of the remote object
public byte[] getImplementation(String className) {
try {
// Open the .class file
RandomAccessFile raf =
new RandomAccessFile(className+".class","r");
// Put the bytes in an array
byte v[] = new byte[(int)raf.length()];
// Return the bytes
return v;
catch (Exception e) {
return null;
The class is a CORBA object extending the
ClassLoaderPOA-generated skeleton. The
getImplementationmethod accesses the class file and fills the
v array with the bytes coming from the file. Now you can build the
ClassLoaderService CORBA server, exposing
ClassLoaderImpl as follows:
import org.omg.CORBA.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.*;
import org.omg.PortableServer.*;
import org.omg.PortableServer.POA;
import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.*;
public class ClassLoaderService {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
// Create and initialize the ORB
ORB orb = ORB.init(args, null);
// Create the ClassLoader implementation
ClassLoaderImpl impl = new ClassLoaderImpl();
// Activate the POAManager
POA rootpoa =
// Get object reference from the servant
org.omg.CORBA.Object ref = rootpoa.servant_to_reference(impl);
ClassLoader href = ClassLoaderHelper.narrow(ref);
// Using NameService
org.omg.CORBA.Object objRef =
NamingContextExt ncRef = NamingContextExtHelper.narrow(objRef);
// Bind the "CLASSLOADER" Object Reference in Naming
String name = "CLASSLOADER";
NameComponent path[] = ncRef.to_name(name);
ncRef.rebind(path, href);
// Server Ready
System.out.println("CLASSLOADER SERVICE READY.");
Clients accessing
ClassLoaderService obtain the CORBA object named
CLASSLOADER, which is a
ClassLoaderImpl instance. Using the
getImplementation method, a client will be able to load any class file stored on the server machine. Then, the client can use the bytecode to locally rebuild the Java object. Finally, we need a further service that converts the bytecode in a class file, writes that file on the client machine and, using the
Class.forName method, instances the object dynamically. You can make this client facility in this way:
import java.io.*;
public class ClassMaker {
// Create a class instace starting form the bytecode
public static Object make(String className, byte[] bytecode) {
try {
// Write the .class file
RandomAccessFile raf =
new RandomAccessFile(className+".class","rw");
// Instace and return the object
return Class.forName(className).newInstance();
catch (Exception e) {
return null;
ClassMaker class contains the static method
make, having as input the class name and the associated bytecode. By using
Class.forName and
newInstance, it returns an instance of the class behind the bytecode. Figure 1 shows the process to obtain a local copy of an object implemented by a CORBA server.
Figure 1. Obtaining a local copy of a CORBA server-implemented object.
As you may notice, the client application requires the
CLASSLOADER service to obtain a local instance of
MyObjectobject. The
ClassLoader implementation, invoking
getImplementation, searches for the MyObjectImpl.class file and converts it into a sequence of bytes. That sequence will be returned to the client application, which builds the MyObject.class file on the client machine by using
ClassMaker. Eventually, the client invokes
Class.forName and
newInstance to create a local concrete instance of
MyObject. It is very important that the
MyObject interface be present in both the client and server applications. For the client, this is necessary because the
make method of
ClassLoader returns a generic Java object. Therefore, the client has to cast such a generic object with the right interface that is
MyObject. Obviously, the interface must be present on the server side as well, because it is implemented right there.
As stated earlier, both the client application and the
MyObject implementation must be developed in Java. On the contrary,
ClassLoadService and
ClassLoader can be written in other languages supporting IDL and CORBA. In fact, their duty is not Java-dependent -- they just allow transferring a file from the server to the client. Futher proof of this concept: I have written an IDL interface for
ClassLoader but not for
In this section, I will develop an example representing a client application that obtains a copy of a remote stack object by using the
ClassLoaderSevice service and
ClassMaker. The first step is writing the Java interface for the
public interface Stack {
public void push(short value);
public short pop();
Then, you can implement that interface on the CORBA server in this manner:
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class StackImpl implements Stack {
private ArrayList _s = new ArrayList();
public synchronized void push(short value) {
System.out.println("Push: " + value);
_s.add(new Short(value));
public synchronized short pop() {
if (_s.size()==0) return -1;
short value = ((Short)_s.get(_s.size()-1)).shortValue();
System.out.println("Pop: " + value);
return value;
After compiling
StackImpl, you can find on the server machine the StackImpl.class file. A client application that wants to obtain a local instance of
StackImpl has to make a connection to
ClassLoaderService service for getting a
ClassLoader implementation. Then, invoking
getImplementation, it receives the bytecode of the
StackImpl object (which is stored in StackImpl.class). Finally, the client application can build a local instance of
StackImpl by using the
ClassMaker class.
You can delegate the details about the creation of the
Stack instances to a factory, as shown in this code:
public class StackFactoryClient {
private ClassLoader _loader = null;
// Set the loader instance
public StackFactoryClient(ClassLoader loader) {
_loader = loader;
// Return a local instance of StackImpl
public Stack getLocalStack() {
// Use the ClassLoader service
byte bytecode[] = _loader.getImplementation("StackImpl");
// Make the object
return (Stack) ClassMaker.make("StackImpl",bytecode);
The constructor of the
StackFactoryClient class takes as the input parameter a
ClassLoader object, which represents a reference to the active implementation of
ClassLoaderImpl, which is the distributed object named
CLASSLOADER. That reference will be assigned to the
_loader attribute. The factory contains the
getLocalStack method, calling the
_loader.getImplementation("StackImpl") method and returning the instance of
StackImpl built by
ClassMaker. By means of
StackFactoryClient, each client application can get a local instance of a distributed
Stack object.
At this point, you are ready to implement a simple client application obtaining a local stack implementation by using the
ClassLoader service. The code is this:
import org.omg.CORBA.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.*;
import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.*;
public class StackClient {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
// Create and initialize the ORB
ORB orb = ORB.init(args, null);
// Using NameService
org.omg.CORBA.Object objRef =
NamingContextExt ncRef = NamingContextExtHelper.narrow(objRef);
// Resolve the Object Reference in Naming
String name = "CLASSLOADER";
ClassLoader loader =
// Stack Factory
StackFactoryClient factory = new StackFactoryClient(loader);
// Create a local Stack Reference
Stack stack = factory.getLocalStack();
// Push (local invocation);
// Pop (local invocation);
short val = stack.pop();
loader variable represents the Java reference of the
CLASSLOADER distributed object. The program creates an instance of
StackFactoryClient by passing
loader as a parameter of the constructor. Then,
getLocalStack returns the local instance of
Stack, which is stored in the
stack variable. Here,
push and
pop work on the client virtual machine, hence the output:
Push: 5
Pop: 5
will be shown in the client console.
The explained strategy presents some limitations. First, client and server applications must be written in Java. Second, the bytecode of a class is not always held in one class file. For the
StackImpl class, it was just one class file, but in other complex situations this is not always true, especially when there are inner classes. If you need
ClassLoaderImpl to work properly even in those cases, you must change the implementation in order to support multi-file transfer. A very efficient solution might be to archive the class files into a single jar and transfer it. Using this approach, you have to provide that the
CLASSPATH environment variable references this jar file.
This proposed solution doesn't deal with packages. In the previous examples, I didn't use package names for the classes. When a class belongs to a package, it is placed in a directory that has the same name as the package. Therefore, the
ClassLoaderService should be modified in order to search for the class file on the right server directory and transfer it to the same client directory. To fix this, you can use a jar file, as well. In this manner, the transferred file will be a single jar and, as you know, the name of the package is specified just inside of it.
Obtaining a local instance of distributed CORBA objects may be useful in some circumstances. Suppose you want to provide a CORBA service to run a heavy algorithm requiring many CPU hours. If this component is a Web service, a thousand applications could make a connection with it. In this case, the host machine could be so busy that it couldn't satisfy all requirements efficiently. To avoid that, you can let the service return not the result of the elaboration but the code of the algorithm, which will be executed on the client machine. You can do this using the pass-by-value strategy as I have mentioned. Hence, such a CORBA server will be a class provider and not, as usually is the case, an object provider.
You should note, however, that the latest CORBA 2.3 now supports the object-by-value; therefore, you can carry it out in java by RMI-IIOP.
Q. Mahmoud, "CORBA Programming with J2SE 1.4." java.sun.com, May 2002.
Giuseppe Naccarato has a degree in computer science and works as software developer for an IT company based in Glasgow (UK). His main interests are J2EE- and .Net-related technologies. Contact Giuseppe at http://www.giuseppe-naccarato.com.
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