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New Mexico Lt. Gov. Diane Denish tours the Eastern New Mexico Rehabilitative Services Health Center in Clovis with CEO Robert Spencer on Friday.
By Tonya Fennell: CNJ staff writer
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish visited Clovis Friday to tour local facilities and meet with Air Force officials.
Denish is seeking re-election in the Nov. 7 general election on the Democratic ticket with Gov. Bill Richardson. They are running against Republicans John Dendahl for governor and Sue Wilson Beffort for lieutenant governor.
Denish began her day at Eastern New Mexico Rehabilitative Services Health Center. She toured the center, which provides rehabilitative services to people with mental and developmental disabilities, and ate lunch with the staff. According to her spokesperson, Chris Cervini, Denish was interested in ENMRSH because she had heard about the programs offered.
Denish said she discussed early childhood development and Richardson's proposed funding for autism research.
"Early intervention is best for a productive life," Denish said. "It (ENMRSH) is an impressive place that serves a lot of people, and it has been well managed."
A driving tour of Cannon Air Force Base followed. According to Cannon public affairs officer Capt. Rebecca Garcia, Denish viewed the F-16s, hangars, housing and various infrastructure throughout the base.
Denish said the main focus of the tour revolved around the new Special Operations mission for Cannon.
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The lieutenant governor said she discussed the $5 million the state has allocated for land acquisition at the Melrose Bombing Range and Richardson's proposed tax cuts for active military personnel.
Denish also attended a community reception at the Clovis Civic Center, where she met with Clovis Mayor David Lansford and Portales Mayor Orlando Ortega.
Lansford said the purpose of the come-and-go event was to thank Denish for her hard work. "I want to express my gratitude to the lieutenant governor specifically for the work she has done to keep Cannon," Lansford said, "and for the way she conducts herself as lieutenant governor."
A Hobbs High School graduate, Denish ended her day in the bleachers at Leon Williams Stadium as the Hobbs Eagles battled the Clovis Wildcats.
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Fins and Feathers doubles space
January 16, 2013 —
Things are going so well for Fins and Feathers Pet Supplies at 222 Willow Avenue that it is nearly doubling its space by 1,200 sq. ft to a maximum of 3,200 sq. ft.
It has taken over the space next door that was occupied by R3 Hardware, which has moved to larger space on Honesdale's Main Street formerly occupied by the state liquor store.
"This industry is one of the top 10 businesses in the country," said owner Brian Batten, 36, a life-long Wayne County resident.
"Even when business is bad, people want to keep their pets," he said.
Batten has three part-time employees who are animal specialists, and said, "If business gets any better, I will definitely hire. Time will tell."
Fins and Feathers carries salt-water fish such as sea anemones, sea urchins, angel fish and corral – anything that comes out of the sea, he said. Birds ranging from finches to macaws are also carried in the store. It does not sell dogs or cats.
"I don't want to be a puppy mill," he said, referring to businesses that breed dogs at a fever pitch. "These businesses tend to not take care of the dogs and abuse them."
To celebrate the expansion, Fins and Feathers is hosting a grand opening on January 19 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
"We're going to have a DJ," Batten said. "Also, we'll be handing our prizes every half hour and other gifts. We hope that attracts more people."

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From Moscow to Siberia to the Far East region, JDC supports Jews in 600-plus locations, aiding elderly and impoverished families who live in each of Russia's nine time zones. More than two decades after the fall of Communism—which hindered the development of Jewish life in this vast country for over 70 years—JDC continues to create opportunities for Jews to reconnect to their tradition and to develop Jewish communities that are capable of responding effectively to the needs of their members.
Today, in collaboration with the local Jewish community, JDC:
- Saves Russia's poorest Jews by helping struggling families and elderly living in substandard conditions with inadequate pensions. JDC provides food cards for the purchase of groceries in local supermarkets and covers medicines and skyrocketing winter heat costs for needy Russian Jews; services disabled and homebound children and elderly with home care; and works to integrate at-risk and special needs children and their families into formal and informal educational frameworks.
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- Rescues victims of emergencies: The leading killer of women age 45-55 in Russia today is breast cancer; half of the women diagnosed with the illness every year lose their lives to it. JDC's Women's Health Empowerment Program (WHEP) tackles this crisis by improving early detection, providing counseling and peer support services for women with breast cancer and their families, and facilitating partnerships among government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the medical community.
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I flew out from NY on Saturday for the show. While I suppose a refund is better than nothing, it doesn't make up for all the travel costs, which were pretty substantial. I'd much rather get some kind of voucher I can use to attend a future club show than get a refund, and I suspect many other people who attended to show would prefer that too.
I was at Saturday's show, as well as the Monday show, and I enjoyed them both. I do wish TP would stop ending his shows with American Girl - keep us all in suspense a little longer.
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"It does everything I need." That's what many application developers, especially in Europe, say about Qt. This week, the O'Reilly Network profiles the graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit Qt, and explains who's using it and why.
Buttons, menus, text displays, graphic images, along with a mouse or similar pointer -- these are the on-screen fundamentals most contemporary computer users recognize. For end-users, what's important is that buttons click consistently and fonts display crisply. Very few programmers directly code these visual elements. Instead, they rely on GUI toolkits, or, as they were often called until just a short time ago, "widget sets." These are "parts boxes" of standardized buttons, labels, and other displays that developers combine to synthesize a working interface. "Widget" is the industry jargon for these standard graphical pieces.
From the outside, a toolkit has two aspects. First, its application programming interface (API) specifies how coders use it. The second aspect is the bundle of visual appearances the toolkit provides. Qt has advantages in both these areas.
The most prominent toolkits for most of the last decade were Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) for Windows, and Motif for Unix and the MacOS. These toolkits had very little portability outside their natural homes. For example, people have tried to implement Motif for Windows, but the results have generally proven to be expensive, fragile, and incomplete.
In contrast to these, Norwegian-based Trolltech AS deliberately designed Qt to be portable and currently makes versions available "for Microsoft Windows and all major brands of Unix," according to its web site. Moreover, in mid-June, Trolltech released Qt/Embedded, a version of Qt for embedded applications running Linux which does not require the X11 windowing software typical of Unix workstations. This means that, for the first time, programmers can use the same practical GUI toolkit for both their desktop and dedicated-embedded hardware. By doing so, we may see faster development of full-featured television consoles, kitchen appliances, automotive control centers, portable communicators, and the explosion of other embedded devices.
Qt's growth was rapid even before introduction of Qt/Embedded, though. Programmers like its clean design. GUI work has long been seen as a particularly apt area for object-orientation, that is, expression of programming solutions in terms of "object" constructs. Widgets are natural examples of objects, in the computing sense. However, historical contingencies have left the dominant widget sets incompletely object-oriented, and correspondingly clumsy to code efficiently.
One example of Trolltech's intelligently portable design is its QPainter rendering class. It's simultaneously efficient in operation and general in application. "General" means here that a programmer has full control of whether QPainter paints to a:
This is typical of the flexibility and uniformity of the Qt API.
This care in design is also important because GUI programming differs from traditional application work in that its fundamental requirement is to handle "events." Older computing models were more sequential: The computer first does one thing, then another, and continues to completion.
With a GUI, however, the job of the computer is roughly to set up a display, wait for a user action (a click somewhere on the screen, or a keystroke, for example), respond to that action, then wait for the user again. "Callback" is the technical label for the functionality that creates these dialogues. When a user clicks on a selection, the computer "calls back" to a piece of code that's already been defined. However, such popular languages as C and C++ were originally designed for more sequential processing. Callbacks have always had a slightly uneasy position in C and C++; their integration with the rest of these languages is a bit bumpy.
Qt, in contrast, has a strong object-oriented design, implemented in the C++ object-oriented language. Moreover, the Qt designers invented a novel mechanism of "signals and slots" to express callback requirements. Signals and slots make it easy to use good C++ style in coding GUIs. In particular, Qt has been more successful than other toolkits at encouraging production of customized "components," that is, specialized widgets that can be engineered once and used many times. Even the simplest "Hello, World" hints at this capability:
#include <qapplication.h>
#include <qpushbutton.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
QApplication example(argc, argv);
QPushButton quit("Quit", 0);
quit.resize(75, 30);
QObject::connect(&quit, SIGNAL(clicked()), &example, SLOT(quit()));
return example.exec();
Trolltech documentation thoroughly explains component-based development.
Qt is also a leader in "internationalization," that is, the ability to create displays appropriate to different countries and human cultures. Qt fully supports, for example, Unicode, which gives it the ability to show not just the alphabet used for English and all the other Western European languages, but also Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, other oriental languages, and essentially all written human tongues.
I've heard that many programmers also like Qt for its outstanding documentation. Trolltech has been quite successful at providing tutorials and references that make developers feel "at home" with the toolkit.
Trolltech has also been aggressive in striking business deals that support development goals. Qt OpenGL is an extension to Qt which makes the OpenGL library fully available to Qt programmers. Trolltech has been innovative in setting up licenses which simultaneously protect both its revenue and developers' need for transparency and accountability.
All these strengths, along with more technical ones beyond the scope of this introduction, simplify development and maintenance of sophisticated GUI applications with Qt. Qt is particularly capable on the "high end" of high-speed or high-complexity GUI programs. The result is that some of the most important GUI projects that have appeared in the last few years have been based on Qt:
The most famous of all the Qt-based projects is the KDE desktop environment which ships with several Linux distributions. KDE is a showcase for Qt flexibility and performance.
Is there a payoff in all this cool developer-functionality for end-users? How do users react to the visual displays made by Qt-based applications?
Most developers understand that the shape of widget corners and calculation of border widths is essentially a fashion industry. However, Qt has a couple of characteristics that make it look like a winner in this arena.
The first design strength is that it has reasonable, and even exciting, defaults. Suppose a system administrator writes a minimal Qt-based control panel to mediate his customers' use and configuration of a command-line program. The smallest Qt application has a distinctive appearance and behavior that's widely seen as "professional" and occasionally "pretty." Even in these very simple cases, Qt brings end-users a level of comfort.
At the same time, one of Qt's customizability dimensions is support for "themes." What this means to end-users is that a Qt application can look entirely like a Windows application, for example, whether it's hosted on a Windows or Unix machine. It could also look like a Motif application. In fact, the same application can have either appearance, or one of several other selections, independently of the underlying OS. What's more, the selection between the appearances is open not just to the programmer, but to the end-user as well. Users can configure a properly written "themed" application to fit their personal preferences or organizational standards.
These possibilities hint at the excitement currently stirring the world of GUI toolkits. In the past, many programmers and independent software vendors (ISVs) specialized as "Windows programmers" or "Unix shops." Now, a sufficiently compelling application has the potential to be far more universal. Qt-based applications are in step with this trend because they run correctly on Windows and Unix, and they look good on each. In principle, Qt and other toolkits with comparable strengths have the potential to grow beyond the confines of any single OS or CPU.
So is everyone using Qt? No, at least not yet. Many development organizations have a substantial investment in older toolkits, including third-party packages that enhance their value. Tk and Visual Basic are easier for beginners, at least in several common situations. More crucially, organizations with an interest in MacOS generally use Tk or one of the specialty toolkits, because Qt is not yet available for MacOS. "Development [of Qt for MacOS] has started, but it's too early to estimate a release date," according to Trolltech Product Manager Eirik Aavitsland. Trolltech programmers are currently targeting "both MacOS 8/9 and MacOS X support," according to Aavitsland.
Most objections to Qt appear to involve its license. GUI toolkits span a wide range in the liberality of their licenses. Qt occupies a position somewhere in the middle. Aavitsland summarizes, "For commercial developers, Qt has a normal commercial library license, and there aren't even any run-time fees or royalties."
Trolltech's Free Edition is less conventional. The company deliberately chose a nearly unique business model in simultaneously "offering the full freedom of the open-source world while at the same time ensuring active development and support by a professional company. This makes Qt an attractive choice for both commercial and open source development," in Aavitsland's words. Unlike other companies -- JavaSoft, Digital Creations, Metro Link, Caldera, and many others -- searching for a similar balance, Trolltech has explicitly created distinct but linked licenses targeted for both worlds.
Trolltech provides a Free Edition for Unix-based development and deployment of open-sourced and noncommercial applications. Noncommercial applications can also be delivered to Windows end-users without licensing fees. However, the only development package available for Windows has a purchase price -- over $1500 US, as of June 2000 -- high enough to discourage casual hobbyists.
Price isn't the only complaint raised about the license. For a variety of ideological and strategic reasons, certain organizations turn away from Qt, often to the GNU Programmers Licensed (GPLed) Gnome toolkit (GTK). Trolltech is well aware of the controversy.
Among its responses to Qt's user community was the March 1999 introduction of "QPL," the Qt Programming License, which refined the terms of the Free Edition. QPL differs from GPL principally in its treatment of in-house commercial work -- the applications a business writes to manage its own operation, for example. QPL encourages such businesses to pay Trolltech for a commercial license. Aavitsland concludes, "We are working on straightening out the few remaining Free Edition license issues."
Cameron Laird is the vice president of Phaseit, Inc. and frequently writes for the O'Reilly Network and other publications.
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Leave reality behind and experience the fantastical world of Le Rêve, created by Franco Dragone, at Wynn. French for the dream, Le Rêve, depicts a colorful aquatic wonderland of beautiful and mystifying characters. The experience starts when you first enter the theater and realize that this is not your typical showroom. The circular 1608-seat theater is situated around a pool that is 68-and-a-half-feet in diameter with the furthest seat only 42 feet from the water. The 27-foot-deep pool is kept at a comfortable 89 degrees Fahrenheit.Not only does the in-the-round theater put guests at a unique vantage point, but it also makes them feel like they are part of the show as there is no clear line between the audience and the stage. Gymnasts, aerialists and synchronized swimmers appear from every angle, at times ascending from the water, descending from the high arched ceiling or running through the theater and alongside the audience. If you are seated by an aisle, you never know when you are going to look to your side and see a masked face or other curious character staring right back at you.Le Rêve has a loosely woven storyline that begins with a woman and man dancing and then saying goodnight and goodbye to each other. The man departs the stage, and the woman lies down to rest on a bed. Together the woman and the bed slowly disappear underwater, signifying that her spectacular dream is about to begin.The music changes from soft and mysterious to loud and invigorating as creatures of the night arise from the water and emerge from the aisles and make their way to center stage. Some of them look playful and fun while others have a more malevolent appearance. Aerialists are lowered from the ceiling to join in the revelry, and soon the pool is transformed into a spectacular ring of fire.This is one of the many different scene changes in the show that takes place on a platform in the middle of the pool capable of rising 15 feet above the water. There are three additional lifts that enable performers to enter from backstage without having to get wet. They can disappear and reappear in seconds, creating a constantly changing stage area. Special lighting and water effects and a stimulating soundtrack performed live add to Le Rêve's spectacular production elements.Rain pours from the ceiling, smothering the ring of fire and revealing a bevy of beautiful women and then men who seem to materialize from the water. A tall, rotating, tree-like platform rises from the pool where male gymnasts do incredible poses and dives.Different acts and performers seamlessly flow into each other, resulting in a fast-paced and exciting journey where each scene is more amazing than the next. One of the signature acts in the show is a tango number performed with both synchronized swimmers in the pool and tantalizing tango dancers on the platform. It begins with red high heels and then legs appearing from the water and moving around to the upbeat rhythm of the music. Couples enter the platform creating a multi-level dance extravaganza.During another dance sequence, men with large white billowing fans walk onto the stage while the woman, whose character is dreaming, performs a whimsical dance routine. Beautiful patterns created by colorful lights are displayed on the fans as they seem to float and gracefully move above the stage. The audience also gets a view of the woman dancing on stage as a beautiful silhouette behind the fans.While the performers dazzle the audience on stage, in the air and from the water, what's going on behind the scenes is just as amazing. During the show there are 16 divers who aid performers underwater. There are also 100 hookah regulators in the pool to help performers travel underwater or to assist them when they are performing with their heads submerged for long periods of time.The fast-paced show means quick costume changes for the performers and a lot of running up and down stairs to get in position for their next act. A wardrobe attendant is on hand to operate one of the theater elevators, moving performers over 40 times during one 75-minute show. Eleven dressers are also working behind the scenes to assist the cast of 91 performers with 2,000 costume items.Back on stage, the cast continues to mystify the audience with more incredible performances. A lamppost is lowered with a man wearing pants and a suit jacket effortlessly leaning on it. As the lamppost hangs in mid-air the man balances his body away from the post and horizontal to the ground using only his incredible strength and agility to achieve this feat.Three more dream-like characters are lowered in a wire framed globe where they perform an amazing routine suspended above the water. They weave their way through the open frame and hang off of one another, creating a series of beautiful poses as the globe is lowered and then raised to different heights above the water. It is just one of many awe-inspiring moments in Le Rêve.Champagne CircleGuests who purchase the Champagne Circle seats get an extra special viewing experience. The Champagne Circle seats are the furthest from the stage but at only 42 feet from the water, this is still a spectacular view. 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The Federal Trade Commission is urging Congress to enact privacy legislation that would provide consumers with more transparency about the activities of data brokers that collect sensitive health and financial data.
Reacting to the FTC recommendation, two consumer advocates say the explosion of data broker activities in recent years, coupled with regulatory gaps, point to the need for some legislative reforms to protect consumer privacy.
A May 27 FTC report that examined nine companies describes data brokers as "companies whose primary business is collecting personal information about consumers from a variety of sources and aggregating, analyzing and sharing that information, or information derived from it, for purposes such as marketing products, verifying an individual's identity, or detecting fraud."
The FTC says data brokers raise privacy concerns for consumers because "significantly, data brokers typically collect, maintain, manipulate and share a wide variety of information about consumers without interacting directly with them."
The report notes: "In light of these findings, the commission unanimously renews its call for Congress to consider enacting legislation that would enable consumers to learn of the existence and activities of data brokers and provide consumers with reasonable access to information about them held by these entities."
Deborah Peel, M.D., founder of advocacy group Patient Privacy Rights, says federal legislators and regulators need to crack down on data brokers, especially those that deal with sensitive information, such as health data.
"This is clearly a case where the government must pass laws that require personal control over personally identifiable information to restore our rights to privacy, because we can't possibly do it ourselves," Peel says. "Worse, the FTC seems not to have a handle on the size of the health data broker industry. … "Personal information is the 'oil' of the digital age – and our personal information belongs to each of us. … If the data brokers want our data, they should just ask. If we think the benefits are worth it, we will say 'yes'."
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BUDAPEST, Hungary A major snowstorm and violent gusts of wind forced thousands of people to spend the night in their cars or roadside buildings after being stranded on a major Hungarian highway.
Rescue officials said wind gusts of up to 62 mph and trucks jackknifed across the M1 highway between Budapest and Vienna led to the traffic jams. On Friday, rescuers cut across guardrails to allow vehicles to leave the jammed highway on makeshift roads.
Snowdrifts up to 10 feet high and the violent gusts blocked off major roads across the country and the storm also left more than 100,000 people without electricity.
Some 5,700 cars were stranded on the roads while 18 trains were stuck between stations, the Disaster Management Agency said, adding that over 100 people were injured in traffic accidents and other snow-related accidents.
So far, more than 8,000 people have taken refuge in heated buildings set up by the agency to take in stranded travelers.
Interior Minister Sandor Pinter said police and rescue units had been alerted, while military vehicles with caterpillar treads had also been called in to take part in rescue operations.
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Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff, founders Lloyd Frink and Rich Barton, and VP of Rentals (& former CEO of Rentjuice) David Vivero. :
Analyst believe rentals could contribute lightly to revenue in 2013 with a greater impact in 2014.
Graham continues to believe Zillow is attacking a large, nascent market with alacrity. Zillow hopes to bring ~1 million rental listings onto the platform by year-end, which would be ~1,000 additions per day for the rest of the year. Once this milestone is reached, management believes it can pursue monetization through several mechanisms.
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With sin, selfish inclination comes naturally. But being inclined to do something, even naturally does not mean you must oblige that nature.
For instance, I could be selfish and bang everything moving. That may be cool for me, but if I did that I would be disappointing Jehovah who did not make us for that lifestyle, and hurt my wife, and my kids. Potentially ruin my family. So out of love for them, to make them happy, and have a happy home, I refrain from such selfish activity. Even though my selfish inclination says go for it.
Instead of maybe playing madden, or working out, or basketball with my spare time, I sometimes use that to go knocking door to door trying to tell people about God's heavenly Government that has real answers and solutions for mankind. This information could very well save their life. Most of the time they decline. Should I say "self, you could have been playing Madden or something instead"?
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A crowded field
By Patrick Curran on Oct 25, 2011
The annual elections for the Executive Committees are currently taking place, and this year we have a record number of candidates.
Executive Committee members serve three-year terms, and each year one third of them are up for reelection. Some of the members are nominated by Oracle to ratified seats (as the Process Document states, nominations are chosen "with due regard for balanced community and regional representation,") while others are self-nominated to elected seats.
This year Ericsson, Intel, and SAP have been nominated for ratified seats on the SE/EE EC, while IBM, Nokia, and SK Telecom have been nominated for ratified seats on the ME EC. (All of these candidates must be approved by the membership during the election.)
We have a total of nine candidates for two elected seats on the SE/EE EC: Azul Systems, Central Ohio Java Users Group, CloudBees, John Harby, Jushan Jayathilake, Software AG, Tongtech, Gaurav Tripathi, and Twitter . On the ME EC the competition is a little less fierce with "only" five candidates for two seats: aicas, ARM, Cox Communications, Werner Keil, and Alex Terrazas. You can learn more about the candidates by visiting the nominees page at jcp.org or by listening to a recording of a recent Meet the candidates conference call.
The large number of strong candidates is, I believe, an indication of the renewed interest in the JCP. If you're a member and have not yet voted, please do so. A high voter turnout will show the candidates that we appreciate their interest and commitment. They can't all win, but they do deserve our support.


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New Data Regarding Workers' Access to and Use of Leave
On August 16, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data from the 2011 American Time Use Survey. Among the findings were that:
- 4 in 10 workers lack access to paid leave; and
- Low-wage workers, Latino workers, those with poorer health, and those whose jobs place them in direct contact with the public (such as retail and hospitality, including food service) are less likely to have access to leave and more likely to lose wages when they take leave.
San Francisco was the first city in the country to enact paid sick days in 2007, and a recent survey showed the ordinance has worked well for employees and employers alike. Studies show that paid sick days also protect public health.
Sharon Terman, Director of the Work & Family Project at Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, said, "The data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reinforce the need to guarantee paid sick days as a basic labor protection for all workers in this country. No one should have to lose pay or risk their job because they get sick or need to care for a sick family member.


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Oahu rock climbers, cut off from scaling public lands, team up with the same state agency stopping them from their sport.
Ever since a rock-fall accident happened at the Mokuleia wall last year, Oahu rock climbers have been grounded from state land.
"Almost everything is on public land. What's closed down is not just the Mokuleia wall, there's Makapuu and a bunch of other spots that have been closed down," said Kaneohe resident Zachery Knoebel.
Instead of climbing along Hawaii's natural rock formations, many island climbers are now taking on something even more challenging: legislation that limits the state's liability.
"We are aware the Department of Land and Natural Resources has been working with legislators to amend our liability laws for the past ten years, but every year its been shut down," said Mike Richardson with Climb Aloha.
In the past, Hawaii has been held liable and paid out multimillion dollar settlements for those who have died after going off a trail or who were killed at scenic spots around the state.
Because current liability laws aren't clear over who is responsible when risky activities take place on public lands, the state has shut down the land to everyone.
"As long as it is not clear then the state has some hesitancy because there may be some attorney that wants to go after the deep pockets of the state of Hawaii," said William Aila, the DLNR Chairperson.
When it comes to liability, Aila and most climbers are in agreement and support bills that would shift liability to those taking part in the activity, instead of the state.
One measures that would shift the liability has already been killed this legislative session, but another will be heard next week.
Without a change to the law, Aila said he'd be hard pressed to open state lands to climbers. Aila added that if lawmakers do not change the liability, he was working on a backup plan that may be able to help, but one that is admittedly a longshot.


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Bomber kills 6 in Afghanistan ahead US deal talksBy KATHY GANNON
The Associated Press | November 17,2013AP Photo
Afghan policemen remove a damaged vehicle Saturday after a powerful car bomb exploded in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The suicide bomber targeted the site where a security agreement with the United States will be discussed.KABUL, Afghanistan A suicide car bomber tore through the Afghan capital Saturday, just hours after President Hamid Karzai announced U.S. and Afghan negotiators had agreed on a draft deal allowing U.S. troops to remain in the country beyond a 2014 deadline.
The blast, which killed six people near where thousands of tribal leaders will discuss the deal next week, was a bloody reminder of the insecurity plaguing the country after 12 years of war.
The suicide bomber attacked security forces protecting the Loya Jirga site, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. He said the blast killed six people and wounded 22. Among the dead were two security personnel, he said.
Sediqqi said Afghan security forces had prior knowledge of the suicide bombing, but were unable to stop the attack. He did not elaborate.
No group immediately claimed the attack, though blame is likely to fall on the Taliban, who have adamantly opposed the presence of any foreign soldiers in Afghanistan.
Karzai called for the Loya Jirga, a national consultative assembly of tribal elders, which will begin meeting Thursday to discuss the proposal. Some 3,000 elders and influential figures will debate the Bilateral Security Agreement.
Without its approval, Afghanistan likely will refuse to sign the agreement. If the Loya Jirga does approve it, the agreement still requires final approval from parliament, Karzai said.
U.S. officials refused to comment on the draft, describing the effort as an ongoing diplomatic process. Karzai provided few details regarding how and when the draft was finalized, but said there still remain differences between Washington and Kabul on the deal.
Negotiations have been protracted and often acrimonious. In the end it took a surprise visit to Afghanistan in October by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to produce the outlines of a deal.
Earlier, two senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press that Afghanistan had sought specific security guarantees, particularly against cross-border incursions by insurgents from neighboring Pakistan.
Washington is cautious about any commitments that could lead to a conflict with Pakistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the deal was still being negotiated.
Karzai described a laborious negotiation process that sometimes came down to fine details of phrasing.
There was one word that we didnt want in the agreement but (the U.S.) wanted it and in the end they agreed to not use that word, he said, without identifying the offending word.
Karzai did not say what the draft said about U.S. service members immunity from prosecution in an Afghan court. They could still face prosecution in a U.S. court.
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Japan Culture Exchange Program!July 31st, 2013 by Alan Herrera-Flores '15
Before starting the SEP part of our internship, we found out that the Amity Foundation was hosting a cultural exchange between students in Japan and China! This was great news given that conflict over the Diaoyu Islands and rioting was (and is) still prevalent during that time.
This event took place in a bookstore by the name of Avant-Garde Bookstore, which was situated in what used to be an underground parking lot! It was quite an interesting site with more books than your average bookstore, and was a great place to host the event. First there was a presentation on daily life in Japan, and comparing education from the start of primary school to the first year of college. It seemed that much of the audience found the topic interesting, and stayed for the interactive activities after the presentation (small fishing games and trying out different traditional Japanese outfits).
One similarity between the education of China and Japan is the College Entrance exam at the end of one's grade school career which is the most significant factor in a student's acceptance into top ranked Universities. I will likely be delving into this topic more deeply in the near future!


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Find Your Passion: Singer to 'Drive On' Following Graduation
By Sarah Caroline Willcox
With the world in the rear-view mirror of a red convertible Ford Mustang, Katy Montalto, a May 2010 graduate of The University of Alabama, found the inspiration she needed to put her thoughts on paper.
The double major in telecommunication and film and musical theater grabbed her camera to record a video for one of her original songs, unknowing she would finish as a finalist in Country Music Television's music video contest for budding artists.
The contest, CMT's Music City Madness, for unsigned artists began in October 2009. Montalto, a 21-year-old Trussville native, says she learned of it in September from her brother who had heard about it on the radio. She says he knew she had been writing songs and suggested she participate.
"I looked into [the contest] a few weeks before it was due, grabbed a camera from Reese Phifer and recorded one of my original songs in the Samford Media Center in [Amelia Gayle] Gorgas Library," Montalto says. "My boyfriend helped me film it in [Munny] Sokol Park."
The song Montalto chose was one of the first she had written titled "Drivin' On." Montalto says the song came to her while she was driving in the car one day and is both literally and figuratively about a road trip. The bridge of the song talks about bumps in the road, comparative to ups and downs in life.
"Part of it is just forgetting what's going on sometimes and getting in the car and driving on," Montalto says. "When I need to think of something, sometimes songs just come to me when I'm driving by myself."
For the actual filming of the video, Montalto says her boyfriend, Daniel Lincoln, a real estate finance graduate of the UA graduate school, helped her film the video in Sokol Park and in downtown Northport. She says her knowledge of camera angles and broadcasting was helpful in shooting the footage. After two days of filming, she and Lincoln took the video to the Samford Media Center to match the music track with the lip-syncing.
Growing up in Trussville, Ala. Montalto says she's been interested in music for as long as she remembers, performing concerts for her parents soon after she learned to talk and learning to play the piano at a young age. In high school, she began taking voice lessons and picked up guitar in college. It wasn't until last year that Montalto began pursuing songwriting. This has become, she says, her passion and focus for her future.
"[Songwriting] is the best way to express your feelings," Montalto says. "Music has always kind of been my outlet to show what I want to put out there in the world."
So when CMT placed its final 64 music-video contestants on its Web site, Montalto says she was pleasantly surprised at the results. Each week, for six weeks, viewers voted, and contestants with the most votes advanced to the next round. The top 20 videos were featured on CMT, and Montalto made it far enough to be able to show her talent on national television.
"I made it to the top eight, which was the 4th round," Montalto says. "The winner got an audition with Valory Recording Co., got to meet Reba McEntire and was featured on CMT. I didn't even know if I was going to get in the top 64, so advancing was really fun."
Raphael Crystal, director of the musical theater department, has worked with Montalto on basic musicianship skills, musical theatre performance and repertoire of musical theatre material. Crystal has also helped Montalto in her decisions about songs she should sing for auditions and what kinds of songs are right for Montalto's voice, personality, acting and singing style. As far as insight on Montalto, Crystal has plenty.
"Stardom is something you can never predict, but [Montalto] certainly has the ingredients," Crystal says. "Frankly, we don't train students to be stars; we try to give them the skills to become working professionals, which – take my word for it – is a tremendous accomplishment for any performing artist."
Crystal says he thinks the competition was great for Montalto, who, he says, has a lot of potential as an artist.
"She has a great voice, a wonderful kind of deadpan humor, and, of course, she's beautiful," Crystal says. "She's been an ideal student—talented, intelligent, conscientious, focused and eager to learn and improve."
With all of the right qualities for success, Montalto says she hopes to use the experience of the competition and her time at UA to further her career in music. As the uncertainty that comes with graduation comes closer, she says her dreams of theater or country music change every day.
"[Songwriting] and country music are my favorite things in the world. They really are my passions," Montalto says. "I change my mind everyday about what I want to do. It's scary and I'm not sure where to start … but I'm at least going to try."
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Sarah Caroline Willcox is a May 2010 graduate of The University of Alabama, who majored in public relations and minored in English. She is from Birmingham.
This story is part of the Find Your Passion series. To learn more about how you can find your passion at The University of Alabama, please visit UA Undergraduate Admissions.


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Over the past few years, much of the Java developer community has embraced the various pieces of J2EE, and in the process has given server-side programming the high status formerly enjoyed by client-side programming tools (GUI frameworks that include Swing). Now, the developer community is being challenged once more to weigh SOAP services to see if they can raise the bar for server-side programming.
The proponents of SOAP services believe:
The skeptics, on the other hand, see SOAP services as another attempt at bringing CORBA and COM to a much broader audience. They note that SOAP seems to require a lot of work for a simple call to an object, and argue that the benefits of UDDI are overstated as far as a business differentiation/sales tool.
So which is it? While some developers have already picked sides, those with an open mind will want to understand some of the core technologies before deciding whether or not to embrace SOAP services.
In this effort, I recently spent a good part of a week pouring through magazines and online materials looking for comprehensive information for the role and necessity of UDDI/WSDL for Services. I hope that by writing this article, I can save you a ton of time going through a similar exercise. I would not have written this article if UDDI were not interestingly abstract and complex. But it is both, so on with my findings.
The annotated references at the end of the article will work as references for the basic material. I intend to focus here on the tricky parts of the standard while only covering the basics for a comprehensive read. The article concludes with a discussion of Java APIs for XML Registries and Messaging (JAXR and JAXM, respectively.)
Let us start with the acronym. UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. UDDI's intent is to function as a registry, just like the Yellow Pages is a registry for businesses in a given metropolitan area. Like in the Yellow Pages, in a UDDI registry, companies will register themselves or their services under different categories. By browsing a UDDI registry, a developer should be able to locate a service and a company, and find out how to invoke the service.
Beside the Yellow Pages, UDDI also refers to White Pages and Green Pages. White Pages are a listing of business entities. Green Pages (here the phone book metaphor breaks down, unless there are some green-colored manuals hidden away at the phone company) basically represent technical documents necessary to invoke a given service.
UDDI definitions are general enough to accomodate services of different kinds, which are not necessarily SOAP services. A UDDI definition could represent a faxing service or a telephone service. UDDI, being a registry, is typically implemented using a database of sorts. In this database, there is a data model allowing publishing and querying of these pieces of information.
The UDDI data model contains the following main elements:
businessEntity: Represents a physical company.
businessService: Represents a service offered by a company.
bindingTemplate: Instructions on how to invoke a service.
tModel>: Good luck understanding this! (Just kidding, I will explain this later.)
Examples of UDDI XML documents are available here.
For an in-depth understanding of the data model, let's look at a UML representation of these data elements. Figure 1 shows the relationship between the four main elements.
From this diagram, you can infer that a business entity (a company) has a descriptive URL that can tell us more about the company, and a list of contacts at that company. In addition, a business entity has a list of business services. There can be multiple ways of invoking each business service. Each invocation is described by a binding template. Because a binding template describes in detail how to access a service, it can benefit from a series of documentation elements that describe how one can access the service. This connection between a binding template and its necessary documentation is accomplished through what is called a
tModel. In the diagram, this relationship is simplistically represented for now as a
bindingTemplate having a collection of
tModels. This relationship will be further explored in the coming pages. Unfortunately, before I can explain how
tModel>s relate to binding templates, we have to travel the detour of understanding what
tModels are.
Imagine a
tModel as an independent table in a database with the following columns: name, description, URL (that can tell you more about the name and description), unique key (to identify the name). In essence, a
tModel is something that has a "name" and "description." Of what use is such minimal information? And isn't that a waste, giving a database table to represent this minimal concept? Let us take an example and explore.
Here are a couple of entries in a fictitious
tModel database:
|Represents a fully qualified name of a java class
|Represents a JNDI name. Look at the J2EE specification
A few things can be noted by correlating a
tModel to a database table. First of all, a
tModel is an independent table, meaning it can exist by itself. Secondly, a
tModel is a lookup table providing a translation between a key and a representation of what that key is. In this sense, a
tModel is a reference table, like a dictionary. In some databases such a table is also known as a codeset.
In all cases, the above definitions will allow me to say:
com.mycompany.HelloWorld, 1
This implies that the string
com.mycompany.HelloWorld is a fully qualified Java class.
com.mycompany.HelloWorldHome, 2
This implies that the string
com.mycompany.HelloWorldHome is a JNDI name.
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So in a sense, the unique keys of
tModels are representing a concept, such as a "namespace." To illustrate this further, consider the following numbers:
How could you tell what these numbers are? You need a context, or a namespace, to establish that 904-555-1212 is a telephone number, 904-555-1213 is a fax number, and 1-56592-391-x is an ISBN number.
So in your
tModel database, you will define three entries: one for a telephone number, one for a fax number, and one for an ISBN number.
Let's say that your company "mycompany" has declared a helpline at number "1-800-my-helpline" and you want to register this with the UDDI. Then your data models will be:
company name: mycompany
Service name: helpline
tModel: key=11 (representing telephoneline), name=telephone,
description=telephone stuff, url:
some at&t url
accesspoint: 1-800-my-helpline
tModelInstanceInfo: 11
With this basic understanding of the
tModel, let us investigate, using a UML diagram, the relationship between a binding template and
tModels. As I have suggested earlier, this should lead us to a direct understanding of how a binding template achieves the "how to invoke a service" requirement of UDDI.
In Figure 2, I have elaborated the relationship between a binding template and
tModels. From the diagram, you can see that a binding template can point to a technical specification identified by a
tModel. This technical specification has two parts:
Now that we understand
tModels in some detail, let us move to the next level of complexity in UDDI, namely identity bags and category bags.
If conceptual understanding of the
tModels is the first obstacle in understanding UDDI, understanding the identity and category bags is the second obstacle. These bags are best described with an example.
Your company has a tax ID number for doing business in the U.S. If you were to operate in another country as well (say, Mexico), you would need to have a Mexican tax ID number in addition to your U.S. number. To capture this information about your company in the UDDI registry, you would do something like this:
Company name: mycompany
US tax number: 111111
Mexico tax number: 2223344
Some other number: 333333
...Other xml stuff
<keyedReference tModelKey="US-tax-code"
keyName="taxnumber" keyValue="1111111">
<keyedReference tModelKey="Mexico-tax-code"
keyName="taxnumber" keyValue="2223344">
<keyedReference tModelKey="other-stuff"
keyName="taxnumber" keyValue="333333">
... Other xml
See how the
tModels are being used as namespaces (
mexico-tax-code, etc.)? To further solidify your understanding of the identifier bags, Figure 3 shows a UML diagram.
From Figure 3, one can see that an identifier bag is a collection of key/value pairs within a given context. The context is essentially the namespace that can uniquely resolve the name/value pairs. This namespace is identified by a
tModel. The same is true with category bags. The only difference is that the namespace identified by the
tModel in a category bag points to a predefined category (or a "taxonomy").
Let's say I want to categorize my company as belonging to the "restaurants" category and geographically located in "Jacksonville."
Company name: mycompany
Applicable Categories:
Type of business classification: restaurant
city classification: Jacksonville
<keyedReference tModelKey="BusinessTypeClassification"
keyName="restaurant" keyValue="..">
<keyedReference tModelKey="CityClassification"
keyName="JAX" keyValue="..">
So far we have seen how
tModels have been used for the purposes of Identifier and Category bags.
tModels have essentially served as namespaces.
|Other Taxonomy
Obviously, you need to get the unique keys of these
tModels to reference them in your category bags.
The best source for understanding identity and category bags is the "UDDI data structures" document (PDF) from UDDI.org.
So far we have seen how a business entity can make use of category bags using
tModels. In addition, UDDI allows
tModels themselves to be categorized. Why?
Let's draw a parallel to a hierarchical file system. Directories are used to categorize files, but directories can also be categorized under parent directories. Just like directories on a hard drive,
tModels can be hierarchically organized.
Let's talk about a service called
getUniversalTime(), which will return the current universal time anywhere in the world. Two competing companies might provide implementations of this service. A business service is tied to a company and not visible outside of that company. So you will end up with the following:
Both of these do the same. To indicate that they both implement a concrete conceptual service called
getUniversalTime(), you can define a
tModel as follows:
name: Get Universal Time
category: uddi-org:types, wsdl
[implying that this a service as
described by a WSDL document]
The above definition indicates that
getUniversalTime() is a WSDL service that can be implemented by any organization.
Now that I have clarified the relationship between
tModels and bags, I can show you the UML representation of a
From the diagram, you can see that a
tModel is basically a name and description. In addition it can contain a URL for further details. A
tModel can also be identified using an identity bag and categorized by a category bag.
While categorizing a
tModel, we have learned that some of the categories to which a
tModel can belong to are pre-defined by the UDDI -- WSDL, SOAP service, etc. Here is a list of some of these pre-defined categories in the
uddi-org:types namespace.
identifier (Unique identifier)
tModel for your service. This requires a name for your service and one of the above types of service. Of course, you can always create your own categories if you don't particularly care for the above choices.
tModel you have created above.
Please refer to the excellent article by Andy Grove in the November, 2001 edition of Web Services Journal to see an example of this.
tModels are used for the following purposes in UDDI:
tModel definitions
When you read literature about UDDI, it is very annoying to read terms that are fairly abstract. What the authors are trying to do is to draw parallels from the rest of the industry to the concepts in UDDI. However, it's very helpful to draw comparisons (however remote) to aid in our understanding of UDDI concepts.
A service binding is considered a case where interfaces are tied to their implementations; a binding element specifies a
tModelInstaceInfo and an
instanceDetail together. The
tModelInstanceInfo points to a
tModel that actually defines a service name.
instanceDetail is expected to provide some specific detail about this service.
Again, an example will help. For the "Get Universal Time" service, the detail is expected to provide the actual WSDL document that defines inputs and outputs. In addition, the
accesspoint of a binding is expected to give you a physical machine and a port where this service is implemented. With this background, one can conclude the following:
tModel defined for a service is the interface allowing multiple companies to provide multiple implementations.
Namespaces appear all over the programming languages Java, C++, and XML. They may be called different things, but they all provide a context under which a name makes sense. In UDDI, a
tModel represents "name." When you refer to this name as your category, you are essentially saying, "I belong to this name." In this sense, a
tModel is representing a namespace.
When a service is registered as a
tModel, one has the option of registering the protocol used to communicate with that service (such as WSDL, SOAP, etc.). Hence, a given
tModel has a fingerprint of WSDL or a fingerprint of SOAP, depending on which specification it is using. Thus
tModels are considered technical fingerprints, each adhering to a certain technical specification. If
tModel can represent a "technical fingerprint," I could also argue that a
tModel can also be said to represent a "protocol" as well.
Taxonomy is synonymous with (and equivalent to) categorization, classification, and namespaces. Taxonomy provides a context under which identifiers such as numbers and names make sense. For example, US tax and ISBN numbers only makes sense when you know that they are US tax numbers or ISBNs. This sort of classification is sometimes called taxonomy.
A listing of business entitites in the UDDI registry and the ability to search for companies based on their name.
These categorize business entities into their business categories and other sorts of applicable categories.
These add the ability to understand a service definition and its access requirements with the help of a series of documents.
serviceBindings and
tModels help this cause.
I cannot possibly leave you without providing a decent reference where you can find example XML documents for the UDDI, to help you solidify your understanding of UDDI.
tModels and Taxonomies."
JAXR is a Java XML API for working with service registries. As we have discussed so far, all elements of a UDDI are described using XML documents. In a sense, if you are able to send an XML message containing a service definition, the UDDI registry should be able to register it or update it, as the case may be. Let us see how one can accomplish this if you don't have any tools:
If you have access to JAXM, you can do a better job of the same interaction. Because JAXM allows you to send XML messages without concern for SOAP headers and is strictly a message-oriented protocol, using this approach, the above sequence becomes:
Here comes JAXR to the rescue. Here, you only need to work with a high-level Java API that will internally generate all of the necessary messages and transact them through JAXM. The interesting point to note is that JAXM will be used to accomplish the task.
Let's look at the stated goals for JAXR:. (This list is directly taken from (JSR 93.)
JAXR is expected to support not only UDDI, but other similar registry standards (such as ebXML) as well.
"Understanding UDDI tModels and Taxonomies" by Andy Grove, Web Services Journal, November 2001.
If you have access to this magazine, this should be your first read to get an overall idea of UDDI and
tModels. You can follow this up by reading the data model as documented in a PDF document at uddi.org. This reference is also a good source to get example XML for the UDDI.
UDDI Data Structure Specification (PDF)
This is the most comprehensive and valuable document for not only using UDDI, but understanding it. If you to read only one document on UDDI, read this one.
UML of the UDDI
Recently the DTD of an XML is being increasingly represented using UML. UML, being pictorial, can much more easily convey the structure of an XML document. With this trend, this document from XMLModelling.com can give you the minute details of UDDI, represented as XML. The only drawback might be that too much detail in a UML diagram could overwhelm the reader.
UDDI at Microsoft
One thing you can gain from the Microsoft Web site is the ability to understand the UDDI registry from the perspective of its GUI interface. For example, how can one register a service graphically, and how can one search for services on the Web?
This document explains the basic UDDI structures and their programmatic and online manipulation. For the GUI of a UDDI, refer to this document.
IBM'S UDDI Documents
This URL explains the relationship between WSDL and UDDI.
"Hangin' with the JAX Pack", a three-part series by Al
Saganich at OnJava.com.
This series is an excellent and lucid introduction to the JAXPACK API that includes JAXP, JAXB, JAXM, JAX-RPC, and JAXR.
Satya Komatineni is the CTO at Indent, Inc. and the author of Aspire, an open source web development RAD tool for J2EE/XML.
Return to ONJava.com.
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Metabolism in living cells is tightly coupled to cellular ATP usage and extracellular release of acidic byproducts such as protons, lactic acid, and CO2. Events that disturb the metabolism of cells (such as toxic assault by a test material) will result in a change in the rate at which the cell releases these metabolic byproducts. The amount of these acidic byproducts can be measured by changes in the pH of the culture medium surrounding the cells.
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text: Due to some financial issues I wasn't able to buy my pump until this past Friday. I brought the Ameda Purely Yours, and tried it out. Ouch! The flanges look really big, although I wear a c bra. After pumping for about 10 minutes my breasts were so sore. I read the directions exactly, and did not begin on a high suction level. So I have been pumping since Friday and my breasts are so sore, and I have a headache. I am so sad because I have to return to work tomorrow and I only have three 4 ounce bottles. My son is now 15 weeks and weighs 18 pounds. He is very healthy and I never had a problem breastfeeding. I tried the Avent pump, but it takes a long time to get any milk. For his weight I want to leave four 6ounce bottles, because I will be working form 3:30 to 12 am. Once this weekend I was able to get 4 ounces in 10 minutes when I nuresed him on the pposite breast. I don't know what to do. I put in the the Avent silicone insert into the Ameda flange, and it felt so much better. Also, when I am with my son my milk let downs very fast, but I can not with the pump. Is it suppose to hurt this much? The flange fits, but this is so uncomfortable with its tugging and pulling. It feels so unnatural. I try to relax and massage my breasts, but it feels so abnormal. Please help as I am returnig to work tomorrow.


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"A Bombshell Dropped in Pittsburgh"
- 2008 Gold Glove winner
- 2008 All-Star
- 46 doubles in 2008
- 2008 Roberto Clemente Award winner
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Shock. I was in complete and udder shock upon hearing the news that Nate McLouth was traded to the Atlanta Braves. Our cornerstone player, fan favorite and all around best player has been dealt away. I just don't get it.
I'm all for improving the team. I want more than anything for the Pirates to win. I just felt lied to and dissrespected as a Bucco fan for the event that just occured. GM Neil Huntington, pictured to the left of Nate, claimed that he was a part of our winning future. He was a building block for the Pittsburgh turnaround, Not so much anymore. Gorkys Hernanadez, Charlie Morton and Jeff Locke will now be part of that glorious future. Ever heard of them? Me niether.
The Pirates play third fiddel in the city of Pittsburgh. The Steelers come first, the Pens come second, the Pirates come third. Its almost like the world has been turned upside down in the Steel City when the baseball team is brushed off. Now that the most recognizable player has been traded again, who can the casual fans identify with? They abided in Jason Bay-traded away. Brian Giles-traded away. Aramis Rameriz-traded away. While Bay, Giles, and Rameriz were traded away for younger talent, money was also in issue in each of the trades. McLouth is affordable. He was signed through 2011 making just in the low millions. WHile he was probably traded awya for upper-level prospects, we have enough. I guess you can never be too cautious about the future, but when management claims to want to win NOW, how is this move justified? I just don't see it, and if I can't see it, the casual fans of Pittsburgh surely wont be able to either.
Well Nate I guess Green Day said it best…
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The trade was very surprising. And when the Braves dumped Glavine yesterday also? It is unpredictable.
I'm sad for P's fans — McLouth is a fun player to watch. Hopefully, McCutchen turns out to be the player that the experts think he'll be.
Imagine what McLouth and McCutchen could have done playing together, check out what I wrote about the trade
I was shocked when I heard this. How do the Pirates ever expect to win when they do things like this???
Great ballpark – awful management.
I was shocked when I heard about this too. McLouth was one of their… probably their best and most explosive players.
That is just really sad. I'm so sorry that he's gone. I know what it's like to lose a fan favorite like that. Hopefully you will still be able to cheer for him in a Braves uniform. Those three prospects were actually talked about in a potential Jake Peavy trade, so hopefully they will have success with you guys!!