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Ron Paul gleefully boards the blame-Bush wagon
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq.And even if he were the only candidate who allegedly understands economy, he still wouldn't be worth backing with twisted, offensive viewpoints like what he's throwing out. No wonder the MSM is hoping he'll win the Iowa caucus by the chance that sensible voters would stay home in case of snowstorm on January 3. And thus, no wonder the MSM like CBS is so useless.
"Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq," the Texas Republican told a group of mostly young backers in Iowa. He went on to suggest officials are now setting the stage for an invasion of Iran. [...]
Paul's libertarian views - on the foreign policy front, he wants to dramatically reduce the U.S. military presence abroad and end all foreign aid - put him at odds with many Republican voters. A poll from Gallup this week found that 62 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters see Paul as an unacceptable nominee.
On "Face the Nation" last month, Paul said that while the average American didn't cause the Sept. 11 attacks, " if you have a flawed policy it may influence it."Sorry, but even blaming a government and/or its policy is far too easy. For too long now, Paul has blamed government policy yet failed to make a clear condemnation of al Qaeda and jihadism. He also doesn't seem to clearly understand that even if the west wasn't free and prosperous, they'd still antagonize, because it's part of the Koran to attack infidels. To ignore the ideologies and mindsets of the terrorists is what's dangerous, and come to think of it, so is Paul himself.
"I think there's an influence and that's exactly what the 9/11 commission said that's what the DOD has said and that's also what the CIA has said and that's what a lot of researchers have said," said Paul. "…our policies definitely had an influence and you talk to the people who committed it and those individuals who would like to do us harm. They say yes we don't like American bombs to be falling on our country and we don't like the intervention that we do in their nation so to deny this I think is very dangerous. But to argue the case that they want to do us harm because we're free and prosperous is very dangerous notion because it's not true."
He added: "So I'm saying policies have an effect but that's a far cry from blaming America. I mean in America, you're supposed to be able to criticize your own government without saying you're un-American."


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Naledge, who is 1/2 of the rap duo Kids In The Hall, releases his Brain Power 2 mixtape today. The free project features BJ The Chicago Kid, Vic Spencer, Willie The Kid, Kid Highlife, Saint The Good boy, DJ Moondawg and a few others. It features some "Pinky and The Brain"-inspired cover art.
This is the first we've heard from the Chicago rapper since his Au PainDoré EP, which dropped back in 2013.
Naledge is best known for his work with duo Kidz In The Hall, who released their debut album, School Was My Hustle, through Rawkus records. How does his solo material compare to his work with the group?
01. Check a Bag
02. 63rd and Hayes Feat. Bun B & DJ Moondawg
03. Piggyback
04. Stain
05. Chicago Rules The World Feat. Parkay
06. The Hangover Song
07. Sparklers
08. The Lanipop Song Feat. Saint The Good Boy
09. Amnesia Feat. Willie The Kid
10. Hole in my Soul Feat. Sulaiman
11. Remy At Noon
12. Fiona Apple
13. 4Eva Freestyle Feat. Saint The Good Boy
14. Fake it Til You Make It
15. Riding Down Stony
16. DayOne
17. Either Way It Goes Feat. BJ The Chicago, Kid Highlife & Vic Spencer

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Kentucky Embarks on Four-Game Road Swing
March 20, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Following a nine-game home stand and a second-place finish at the UK Invitational, the Kentucky softball team will embark on a four-game road swing that begins with a midweek tilt at Western Kentucky on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET.
Kentucky (12-15) turned in a second place finish with a jumpstart UAB team earning the title. Senior Brittany Cervantes sparked the Wildcat offense with three doubles and a home run. The game-winning blast against NC State to send the home team into the championship game of the tournament marked the 36th long ball of her career. That tally is the new standard in Wildcat allure.
Cervantes also quietly broke the UK career record for RBI with a pair on the weekend. She now has 137 career RBI which is also a Kentucky record.
Senior Chanda Bell was spectacular in the circle for the Wildcats in a two wins. In the victories, Bell tossed 9.2 innings of action and struck out 21 batters. Her 13 strikeouts in a complete-game shutout of UMKC marked the 33rd time in her career she has eclipsed 10 or more Ks in a single outing.
Sophomores Lauren Cumbess, Ellen Weaver, Ginny Carroll and Krystal Smith all contributed nicely to the offensive effort. Cumbess batted over .350 for the weekend. Weaver and Smith struck for home runs. While, Carroll had a two-run double and a round-tripper while driving in five two-out RBI on the weekend.
Western Kentucky owns an impressive 19-10 overall record heading into the midweek clash with the Wildcats. The Hilltoppers and Wildcats have faced one similar opponent this season in Florida Atlantic. Both of the squads have picked up victories over the Owls.
WKU has faced one other Southeastern Conference opponent thus far. South Carolina claimed an early season 5-4 win in eight innings of action over the Hilltoppers on neutral turf.
Western is paced by a trio of batters notching a .300 batting average or higher led by a .302 clip from the bat of Katrina Metoyer. Amanda Thomas has a team-high six home runs and Olivia Watkins reigns supreme on the base baths with 11 stolen bags on the season.
In the pitching circle, Kim Wagner boasts a 1.69 ERA and a 9-3 record. She's also struck out 88 and limits opponents to a .213 batting average.
Following the trip to Western Kentucky, the Wildcats will remain on the road for a three-game swing at No. 18/21 Auburn for their second conference series of the season.
For continuing coverage of the 2012 UK softball season log on to UKathletics.com.


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Fulbright Winners Prepare for International Work
27 Glee Club Concert to Feature Faculty Progeny
of Blanchard to Be Offered May 2
Professors Benfey, Cobb, Nicholson, and Savoy Honored with Faculty
German Theaterfest Set for May
Week at MHC
Fred LeBlanc
Rocío García (middle), Sylvia Lee (right),
and Casey Brienza (left) recently won Fulbright awards.
While peace activists
demonstrate and diplomats negotiate, Fulbright scholars work toward
peace and understanding between nations by teaching and studying
in more than 140 countries worldwide. Three Mount Holyoke scholars
are eager to join that global effort. With generous awards from
the Fulbright Program, they will depart this summer for academic
exchanges in Korea and Mexico.
Rocio Garcia '03
Foreign-owned assembly plants on Mexico's border, maquiladoras,
are notorious for low wages and poor working conditions. Nevertheless,
they are the destination of thousands of workers (mostly women)
who migrate from across Mexico. Psychology and Spanish major Rocío
García would like to examine the barriers women who may
want to emigrate to the United States face, as her mother did
in the 1970s. Thanks to a Fulbright grant, García will
soon be able to study this issue.
García will begin conducting research on emigration barriers
to Mexican women this August, when she becomes a student at La
Universidad de las Americas in the central Mexican state of Puebla.
A pioneer in migration research, the school offers García
a two-year master's program in United States studies of
North America and the chance to study with Jose Antonio Alonso,
a professor who has written extensively on the sociological aspects
of maquiladoras.
"Once I have gained an understanding of the barriers women
must overcome to emigrate from Mexico to the United States, I
will have a better comprehension of the barriers women who have
immigrated have overcome," says García, who ultimately
hopes to become an attorney involved in immigration or labor laws
in the United States.
García is well on her way to understanding this important
aspect of the Mexican community. In addition to her family background,
she is connected to the community through leadership positions
in several organizations dedicated to raising awareness of Chicano
issues, immigrant rights, and social justice, including Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán and the East Coast Chicano
Student Forum. She also spent the summer of 1998 living in the
central Mexican state of Guanajuato, where she promoted community
health with the program Amigos de las Américas. Living
on her own in a new country and carrying out such a large-scale
project with the help of community leaders was difficult at the
age of sixteen, says García. But the experience challenged
her to become independent and fueled her desire to understand
Mexico's political, social, and economic systems.
"I plan on staying involved with education, immigration,
and social justice issues," says García, "anything
I can do to remain an active part of the community. I am absolutely
thrilled to receive this honor and take another step toward building
a bridge between cultures and better understanding the immigrant
culture. Gaining this understanding is crucial to me so that I
may be better equipped to serve the Mexican community as a leader
and activist."
Casey Brienza '03
Casey Brienza doesn't speak a word of Korean and hasn't
been to Korea since a New Jersey couple adopted her as an infant.
Still, she has no doubt she will thrive as a Fulbright teaching
assistant in Korea. "I teach English as a foreign language
now and I love it," says the English and Asian studies major
who has worked as a language tutor and Speaking, Arguing, and
Writing Program mentor for nonnative speakers of English in the
course Writing Across Cultures. "During my years at college,
much of my most valuable time spent inside and outside the classroom
has been in conversation with these students," she says.
Language has also been an important part of Brienza's learning
experience at Mount Holyoke, where she has studied both Spanish
and Japanese. In Korea, she will have six weeks of intensive language
training at Kangwon National University in Chunchon before being
assigned to teach conversational English twenty hours each week
at a Korean middle or high school.
"Each new language that I have learned has added depth and
formality to my understanding of English and ability to conceptualize
my own native language from the perspective of a foreign speaker,"
says Brienza. "As such, I adhere to no one philosophy of
teaching and, indeed, have never studied education per se. I work
with students strictly on a case-by-case basis, determining a
practical course of action based upon their abilities, needs,
and desires. I work to allow my knowledge of the language to complement
the students' knowledge and learning styles, not to override
Brienza's assistantship will not only introduce her to a
third foreign language and formalize her teaching experience—both
useful for her future as a professor of English—it will
also allow her to better understand a cultural identity she calls
"totally American." "At Mount Holyoke I discovered
I loved spending time with international students, especially
students from Asia, not because I believed I was one of them,
but rather because they, far better than anyone else, understood
that I was not," says Brienza, who was born in Korea but
adopted at three months old. "These international students
accepted me as purely American in a way that the bulk of white
America never will. Without misguided presuppositions of ethnic
or national identity as we shared our lives, we saw eye-to-eye.
And, indeed, much of what distinguishes one culture from another
are 'superficial elements' such as food, holidays,
name brands, and mass media. However, there are occasional subtler
elements as well. With their guidance, I learned what underlying
beliefs, attitudes, and cultural assumptions make me truly American."
Says Brienza, "The cliché is eminently true—we
do need others to understand ourselves."
Sylvia Lee '03
It is ironic that history major Sylvia Lee will be a Fulbright
teaching assistant in Korea next year. Lee's parents, originally
from South Korea, introduced their daughter to their childhood
home when she was in seventh grade, a two-week trip that Lee calls
a "vacation gone wrong." Feeling miserable and out
of place, Lee vowed not to return to Korea. As a child Lee also
vowed never to become a teacher, the career her parents urged
her to pursue.
"It's funny and fitting that I'd apply to do both now, to
live what was once my worst nightmare," says Lee. "I
find that I am drawn to the classroom, and I am honestly eager
to go back to Korea—to strengthen my language skills and
to immerse myself in the culture from which I once felt so disconnected."
Like Brienza, Lee will receive six weeks of language and teaching
training, then be assigned to live with a family and teach in
a middle or high school in a rural or small metropolitan area
of Korea. She hopes to create a classroom environment in which
students feel comfortable learning English. "I anticipate
that my encouraging attitude and willingness to acknowledge myself
as a learner will help my students feel more at ease," says
Lee, who remembers struggling to learn Korean during Saturday
classes at the Korean language school she attended as a child.
In preparation for her new adventure, Lee is researching techniques
for teaching English as a foreign language and increasing the
amount of Korean she speaks at home with her family. But Lee,
who now envisions a career as a high school history teacher, already
has lots of ideas about how to create an effective curriculum,
such as incorporating newspapers, films, and other elements of
everyday life and building on the interests and joys of her students.
"I truly want my students to have fun with English and the
curriculum that I help develop, as well as gain confidence in
their own conversational skills," she says.
To get to know her students, Lee plans to lead school activities
and organizations, develop a pen-pal program with Korean American
students in the United States, and be as visible as possible in
day-to-day operations. "I want my students to know that
I care about being in the school, and more importantly, that I
want to be there for them."
"Living in Korea for a year and teaching English to middle
and high school students is everything the seventh-grade version
of myself would have feared and loathed. Yet having developed
a passion for the classroom and a true longing to know more of
my Korean heritage, serving as a Fulbright English teaching assistant
is an opportunity to feed the passions I have for my future and
for my own personal growth."
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Garth Brooks to Let Fans Take Center Stage at Nashville Shows
Garth Brooks says when he does a concert, he looks forward to hearing the audience sing to him. The living legend kicks off his nine-concert series at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena tonight (Thursday) with a double bill, and ends the series Dec. 22 with the same. He'll also do two concerts on Dec. 21.
"I say this … and please don't think I'm being a smart aleck … but I travel thousands of miles to hear my audience sing," Garth told media at a press conference held Thursday afternoon prior to the first show. "That's the truth. If you've ever seen a Garth show, when the audience starts singing, it makes everything sound better."
In his opening statement at the press conference, Garth recalled a Jeff Bridges movie, 'Starman,' in which Bridges played the part of an alien who visits Earth. As he is being taken into custody at the end of the movie, someone asks Bridges' character what he learned about the people who live on the planet. "His reply is one of my favorite lines ever in a movie," Garth said. "He said, 'When things are at their very worst, you guys are at their very best.' That's a great line about humanity and what people can become. That's what I've seen since I saw you (media) last — the very best of people. We are doing nine shows and everyone who is associated with these shows is volunteering their time, even after one show turned into nine shows. They are in it for the long haul. I'm very proud to be a part of this."
Garth is doing his regular show, not the stripped-down version that he does in Las Vegas at the Wynn Theatre. The audience will not see him fly across Bridgestone Arena, however, as the singer admits that takes a lot more preparation than they had time for with this series of shows. His full band will join him, as will singer/songwriter and super guitarist Steve Wariner, along with wife Trisha Yearwood and special guest Karyn Rochelle. Garth speculated that he might have to ask the audience to do a lot of singing because, "with nine shows, I think there's a good chance I'll be spent early on. But right now I'm wired up and really excited about getting out there and having a good time."
The singer says it has been very gratifying to hear that people are coming to the show from all over the U.S. and Canada, and that they are showing their support for the people in middle-Tennessee who were victims of the floods that hit the region in May of this year.
"When we held our press conference in October, we told people if ever they were going to see a Garth show, this one would be the one. We put out the call and people answered it. I am very proud that people responded in such a positive manner to the call."
The country superstar says he has a special advantage in that he has been a Nashville resident, and he's been able to look at the city as a non-resident as well. "People who live in the city can be a little prejudiced when they say they have a great city, so you figure you'll hear a little more honest assessment from people who visit here. But you know, you hear the same thing from the people outside Nashville. They said it's the greatest big city/small town combination you can get."
Garth added that in addition to raising money for flood victims, he also wanted to make sure that people knew Nashville was back and open for business. He did the shows during Christmas to emphasize the economic impact that these shows could have on the city. Along with the concert series, Opryland Hotel and Resort has re-opened with a full schedule of Christmas shows including the Rockettes, ICE, SNOW and the Oak Ridge Boys Christmas show. The Country Music Hall of Fame is also open, and most downtown restaurants and clubs have been back in business since a few weeks after the flood waters receded.
Since he has not done an arena show in several years, Garth joked that he'll be pacing back and forth and wondering, "How am I gonna get in those pants?" He went on to say an arena show is his favorite kind of show to do, and he and his band are very excited to be together again. "We look forward to being together again and dong this series of shows. After a show we did for Walmart a few years ago, we came off the stage saying 'Wow, it still sounds the same.' Hopefully we can say that when we come off the stage tonight.
"Everyone, no matter how many emails I sent to them, always responded that they were excited to be a part of this," Garth continued. "Steve Wariner, who is a hero of mine when I was growing up, kept saying thank you for letting me be a part of this experience. I told him I was the one who should be thanking him!
The show is being filmed for a one-hour special for Armed Forces Network. "It is a good way to let these men and women know that we miss them and love them," the singer said.
Garth will fly home after each of the first couple shows, but next week after his girls are out of school he said he and Trisha will probably stay in town. "Our girls have finals tomorrow, but I think Allie may be here for the show tomorrow night. She is the one who wants to sing and I don't think I can keep her away," the proud father relayed. "She would quit school tomorrow if I let her … well they would all quit school … but she would quit and be a singer if she thought she could get away with it. The girls are also getting ready to go spend part of their Christmas holiday with Sandy, so I'll not see them for a few days. I have to get in all the hugs and time with them that I can before they leave."
Ticketholders have been asked to bring a toy for a child to be donated to the Marine Corps Reserve Toys For Tots drive. New unwrapped toys will be collected and distributed to children throughout Middle Tennessee.


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This edition of our NBA Trending column will focus on how road teams have fared this season. Through Monday, March 7, NBA road teams are a combined 380-564 SU (40%), but have a winning ATS mark of 481-443-20 (52%) when playing on the road, which includes Toronto's two "road" games in London against "home" team New Jersey. We found some interesting trends when conducting our road breakdown below. Basketball lines.
Best ATS Road Records
1. New York 22-8 (73%)
2. San Antonio 20-10 (67%)
3. Memphis 22-12 (65%)
4. Dallas 20-11 (65%)
5. Philadelphia 19-11 (63%)
Dallas and San Antonio are the two best road teams in the league SU, both winning over 70% of the time. But the other three teams on this list are all sub-.500 road teams. New York is only one game under .500 SU (15-16), but Memphis is 14-20 SU and Philadelphia is 11-20 SU away from home.
Worst ATS Road Records
1. Washington 9-21 (30%)
2. New Jersey 12-19 (39%)
3. L.A. Clippers 12-18 (40%)
4. Orlando 12-16 (43%)
Washington is the worst road team in the league at 1-29 SU, New Jersey is tied for second-worst at 4-27 SU and the Clippers are sixth-worst at 6-25 SU. The oddball here is Orlando, which has the seventh-best SU road mark in the NBA at 16-13.
But let's dig a littler deeper in terms of favorites and underdogs.
Road Favorites: 182-96 SU (65%), 139-134 ATS (51%)
Road Underdogs: 187-463 SU (29%), 331-304 ATS (52%)
Six teams have not been favored on the road at all this season — Cleveland, Detroit, Minnesota, New Jersey, Sacramento and Washington. However, these five teams have been road favorites at least 20 times.
Most Times Favored on Road
30 L.A. Lakers: 21-9 SU (70%), 17-13 ATS (57%)
25 Miami: 18-7 SU (72%), 15-10 ATS (60%)
22 Boston: 15-7 SU (68%), 10-12 ATS (42%)
21 San Antonio: 16-5 SU (76%), 13-7 ATS (65%)
21 Orlando: 14-7 SU (67%), 10-11 ATS (48%)
All five of these elite teams are winning at least two-thirds of the time SU when favored on the road, and have combined for a quality 65-53 ATS mark (55%).
In terms of best success as a road favorite, there are five teams winning at least 60% ATS when favored away from home.
Best Road FAVORITE ATS Records (min. 5 games)
1. Philadelphia 4-1 (80%)
2. San Antonio 13-7 (65%)
3. Portland 7-4 (64%)
4. Houston 5-3 (63%)
5. Miami 15-10 (60%)
Philadelphia and San Antonio were also on the list of best ATS road records overall, but three new teams join this group.
Portland is 0-2-2 ATS when it's a road favorite of 4 or more points, but the Blazers are a stellar 7-2-1 ATS when favored by less than 4 points away from Rose Garden.
Houston is scoring 111.8 PPG in eight games as a road favorite, but does not have a better success rate because it is allowing 106.8 PPG.
Miami's value has a heavy correlation with point spreads. The Heat are 6-2 ATS when favored by at least 8 points, but just 1-4 ATS with a spread of 5.5 to 7.5 points. They are also 7-0 ATS when giving 3.5 to 5 points, but just 1-4 ATS when giving less than four points. Also, the Under is 15-10 (60%) when Miami is a road favorite, but the Over is 7-1 (88%) when the Heat are a road underdog.
Worst Road FAVORITE ATS Records (min. 5 games)
1. New Orleans 4-8 (33%)
2. Memphis 3-6 (33%)
3. Oklahoma City 5-8 (38%)
4. New York 2-3 (40%)
New Orleans is 2-7 ATS when favored by at least 2 points on the road. Six of these ATS losses were also SU defeats, with the only non-covering SU win being a 75-71 snooze fest at Sacramento back on Nov. 21. Basketball betting lines.
Memphis is 0-5 ATS when favored by at least 3½ points, with just one SU win in this scenario, a two-point victory at five-point underdog Toronto. The Under has been a great play when the Grizzlies are favored on the road, occurring 78% of the time (7-2).
Oklahoma City attracts shootouts when it is favored on the road. The Over has hit 9-of-13 times (69%) with the Thunder scoring 105.9 PPG, and the opponent pumping in 104.8 PPG.
New York is a surprise here, considering the Knicks own the best ATS road record in the league, but 2-3 is not a huge sample size. However all three ATS defeats were also SU defeats, two to Cleveland and one to Minnesota.
The sample size is obviously a lot greater for road underdogs than it is for road favorites with 24 NBA teams pitted as road dogs at least 15 times this year. The L.A. Lakers (4), Boston (7), Orlando (8), Miami (8), San Antonio (8) and Chicago (13) are the six exceptions.
Best Road UNDERDOG ATS Records (min. 15 games)
1. New York 19-5 (79%)
2. Memphis 18-6 (75%)
3. Dallas 12-4 (75%)
4. New Orleans 14-8 (64%)
5. Philadelphia 15-10 (60%)
Four of these five teams (NY, MEM, DAL, PHI) were also on the list of best road ATS records, so it's not a big surprise they are part of this list too, considering most road teams are also underdogs. But the one exception here is New Orleans who was just shown to be the worst road favorite in the entire league. The Hornets are only 3-4 ATS when getting fewer than 4 points, but when the spread is +4 or higher, they are a whopping 11-4 ATS (73%). They are keeping scores close on the defensive end, as the Under has occurred 71% of the time (17-7) New Orleans is a road underdog.
Worst Road UNDERDOG ATS Records (min. 15 games)
1. Washington 9-21 (30%)
2. New Jersey 12-19 (39%)
3. L.A. Clippers 11-15 (42%)
4. Indiana 10-13 (43%)
5. Portland 7-9 (44%)
Washington, New Jersey and the L.A. Clippers were the three worst road teams ATS, so their inclusion on this list was also expected. Indiana has a strong 6-4 ATS when pitted as an underdog of less than 7 points. But when the Pacers get 7+ points from the elite NBA teams, they are just 4-9 ATS, losing those games by an average of 11.5 PPG (106.8 to 95.3 PPG).
Below are the top NBA road teams in terms of Over/Under.
Highest OVER Pct. in Road Games
1. Utah 20 Over, 11 Under (65%)
2. Cleveland 19-11 (63%)
3t. Dallas 19-12 (61%)
3t. San Antonio 19-12 (61%)
5. Washington 18-12 (60%)
San Antonio (6-2 Over as road underdog) is the only team on this list among the 10 highest-scoring road clubs in the NBA, placing sixth in road points. Dallas (10-4 Under as road favorite) ranks 11th in points on the road, Utah is 13th, Washington is 21st and Cleveland is 25th. However, the Wizards have allowed 108.8 PPG on the road and the Cavaliers are surrendering 108.2 PPG away from home, and only Minnesota (109.4 PPG) has allowed more than these two on the road. Basketball scores.
Highest UNDER Pct. in Road Games
1. Detroit 21 Under, 10 Over (68%)
2. New Orleans 24-12 (67%)
3. Memphis 21-12 (64%)
4. Golden State 19-11 (63%)
5. Chicago 19-12 (61%)
Chicago and New Orleans rank 2nd and 3rd in fewest points allowed on the road, but the others are not in the Top 10 in this category. Detroit is 11th, Memphis (7-2 Under as road favorite) is 14th and Golden State is 27th, or fourth-worst in the NBA.


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THIS WEEK: Dakota State (S.D.) (2-1 overall record) plays their first home volleyball match of the season Wednesday evening as they host Morningside (Iowa) (4-0) of the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC). There will be a junior varsity match at 6 p.m., followed by a varsity match at 7:30 p.m. at DSU Fieldhouse. DSU will play four matches in the Corn Palace Invitational Friday and Saturday in Mitchell, S.D.
BEST START SINCE 2006: The Trojans kicked off their 2014 campaign in the Mustang Invitational and finished with a 2-1 record, the best start in the first three matches of the season since 2006. DSU dropped a hard-fought season-opening match versus Saint Ambrose (Iowa) in four sets, but bounced back to win the final two matches. The Trojans defeated Hannibal-LaGrange in three straight sets and host-team Mount Mercy (Iowa) in four sets. The final match of the Mustang Invitational versus Ashford (Iowa) was canceled due to wet floor, creating unfavorable playing conditions. In 2006, Dakota State opened the season with two straight victories and extended their best start with a 4-1 record.
TWO TROJANS SELECTED TO NSAA PLAYERS-OF-THE-WEEK: The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) has selected two Dakota State volleyball athletes in the first edition of the Players-of-the-Week, announced on Aug. 25. Stacey Westby was named to NSAA Volleyball Setter-of-the-Week after she was selected to the Mustang Invitational last weekend. She registered a total of 66 set assists in the invitational (6.0 assists per set) and recorded a double-double of 30 assists and 15 digs versus Saint Ambrose (Iowa). Carly Rozell was chosen as NSAA Volleyball Offensive Player-of-the-Week. She smashed a total of 32 kills and averaged 2.9 kills pet set in three matches. Rozell hit .288 and added 25 digs (2.3 digs per set). She had two solo blocks and eight block assists. Rozell recorded two double-doubles in the tournament.
CORN PALACE CLASSIC: Dakota State will be competing in the two-day Corn Palace Classic event on Friday and Saturday. The Trojans will face a pair of foes from the North Star Athletic Association Conference in the classic. DSU opens up the classic with a match-up with Dickinson State (N.D.) on Friday at 3 p.m. and play in the night cap versus host-team Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) at 7 p.m. The Trojans face Valley City State (N.D.) at 12 p.m. and Johnson & Wales (Colo.) at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. All matches will be held at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, S.D. The matches with Dickinson State and Valley City State will be counted as non-conference matches.
NATIONAL RANKINGS: According to the DakStats-NAIA statistical website as of Tuesday, Dakota State is ranked in three different categories. The Trojans are 25th in the nation in blocks per game (2.3) and 35th in digs per set (16.8). DSU is 40th in the nation in hitting percentage of .209. Katherine Gonzalez is 46th in the nation in digs per set with an average of 4.6 digs.
TEAM LEADERS: Carly Rozell leads the Trojans' offense attack with 32 kills and averages 2.9 kills per set. She leads the team with five service aces (0.5 aces per set) and ten blocks (0.9 blocks per set). Stacey Westby produces 66 set assists through three matches this season (6.0 assists per set). Katherine Gonzalez leads the Trojans' defense with 50 digs (4.6 digs per set).
CHASING HISTORY: Dakota State's Stacey Westby is inching closer to breaking a new DSU Volleyball school record for most career assists. She is currently 37 assists away for tying the school record, where she accumulated a total of 3,113 set assists after the completion of Saturday's match. Jill Weisser holds the DSU school record for most career assists with 3,150 assists from 2000-04.
LAST MEETING: Morningside (Iowa) won the last meeting by outhitting the Trojans 47-19 on Aug. 28, 2013 in Sioux City, Iowa. The Mustangs swept DSU in three straight sets by the scores of 25-11, 25-21 and 25-20. The Trojans swept Dickinson State (N.D.) in three straight sets (25-19, 25-21 and 26-24) in both teams' last meeting on Sept. 3, 2011 as part of the Corn Palace Classic. Dakota State hit .259 in the match compared to the Blue Hawks' .087. The Trojans swept the season series with their long-time rival Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) last season, winning both matches in four sets. DSU split a pair of meetings with Valley City State (N.D.) with each team winning on the road. The Trojans won the last meeting with Johnson & Wales (Colo.) on Oct. 6, 2012 in the Johnson & Wales Tournament in Denver. Dakota State won by the scores of 25-19, 25-23, 17-25, and 25-12.
THREE-MATCH HOME STAND: The Trojans continue their busiest schedule next week as they kick off their three-match home stand. Dakota State will host Mount Marty (S.D.) on Sept. 3, Grace (Neb.) on Sept. 5 and Waldorf (Iowa) on Sept. 6.
DOUBLE-DOUBLES: Two DSU players posted double-doubles in the season-opening match versus Saint Ambrose (Iowa) on Aug. 22. Carly Rozell had 11 kills and 13 digs. Stacey Westby added 30 assists and 15 digs. In the Mount Mercy (Iowa) match on Aug. 23, Rozell added another double-double of 17 kills and 12 digs.
LAST TIME OUT: Dakota State went 2-1 record in the Mustang Invitational on Aug. 22-23. After dropping a hard-fought season opening match versus Saint Ambrose (Iowa), the Trojans went on to win two straight matches versus Hannibal-LaGrange (Iowa) and Mount Mercy (Iowa). Morningside (Iowa) went undefeated in its home tournament, defeating Valley City State (N.D.), Central Methodist (Mo.), Evangel (Mo.) and Mayville State (N.D.). Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) defeated Dickinson State (N.D.) in Dickinson on Aug. 23 in four sets. Valley City State (N.D.) was winless in four matches in the Morningside Tournament.
COACHES' CORNER: Amy Veenhof enters her sixth season as head coach at Dakota State. She has coached five all-conference players and nine NAIA Academic All-American scholar athletes. Her teams had been named to NAIA Scholar Team four times. Megan Kusler is in her third season as an assistant coach.
STAY CONNECTED: Stay connected with Dakota State volleyball and athletics all season long at www.dsuathletics.com. The Trojans are also on Twitter; just log onto www.twitter.com/GoDaSUAthletics. The Dakota State University Athletics can be found on Facebook on https://www.facebook.com/DSUTrojanAthletics.
WATCH & LISTEN: Dakota State will be carrying a live video and audio broadcast of the volleyball matches on Wednesday night. Go to http://streaming.dsu.edu/Athletics-Live to watch the match. Jon Hunter, the Voice of the Trojans, will do the audio broadcast for DSU Athletics home events this season. The links also will be available on www.dsuathletics.com on the 'Live Games' tab above the 'Upcoming Events.'
LIVE STATS/PLAY-BY-PLAY: Dakota State will be providing the live stats/play-by-play in volleyball on Tuesday and Saturday nights. Go to http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/Team/TeamSchedule.aspx?association=10&sg=WVB&sea=NAIWVB_2013&team=1962 and click on the letter 'W'. The link also will be available on www.dsuathletics.com on the 'Live Games' tab above the 'Upcoming Events.'
UP NEXT: Dakota State kicks off their three-match home stand on Wednesday, Sept. 3. The Trojans welcome their in-state rival Mount Marty (S.D.) with a junior varsity game at 6 p.m., followed by a varsity match at 7:30 p.m. DSU continues their home stand versus Grace (Neb.) on Friday, Sept. 5 with a junior varsity starting at 6 p.m. and varsity at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, DSU hosts Waldorf (Iowa) with a JV match at 1:30 p.m. and varsity match at 3 p.m. All matches will be held at the DSU Fieldhouse.
Nick Huntimer, Dakota State University Sports Information Director


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What is a 'good conference'? I've been thinking a little about this since Labour conference, which received less than stellar reviews from the assembled journalists.
On one level, it's an easy question to answer. A good conference is one that increases the number of punters who want to vote for you, and sustains that support for a reasonable period of time.
Unfortunately, there are relatively few examples of such a 'good conference'. The most recent is probably the 2007 Conservative conference, which put the kibosh on any Labour plans for a snap General Election – as an article by Andrew Hawkins of Comres points out, this generated a seven point 'bounce' that was sustained for at least a month.
More often though, 'conference bounces' are by definition, a short term phenomenon. Look at the monthly averages of YouGov polling and try to discern which party 'won' conference season in any of the last four years. It is a fool's errand.
So are conference bounces real, or just an imposed narrative on random variation and already existing trends?
One advantage of recent years is the regular Yougov polling, which allows us to examine daily polls, and combine their results over time. So, let's have a look at what happens to party support week by week during conference season.1
The first interesting thing is how little happens. If you compare the week before and the week after conference season since the last election, in not a single case has party share changed by more than a point. Good conference or bad conference, great speech or disaster, it doesn't seem to have had an effect.
(Slightly annoying note: For some reason, Datawrapper doesn't have 0.5 marks on their charts, instead rounding to the nearest whole number. So you see two 1's on chart below. The first is actually 0.5, and so on.(
This can't simply be a reflection of an unchanging electorate, by the way. Party vote shares between the years vary considerably. It's just that the conference season itself barely shifts them at all.
So does conference season achieve nothing? No, because there is a shift during the conferences themselves. In each Conference week, the relevant party gets a small, but noticeable uptick compared to the week before.
You'll probably notice that Labour's 2013 conference stands out, with an increase their vote share by 4 points over the previous week.
However, even this is overstated. If you compare each party conference week with the week before the conference season began then Labour conference in 2013, still scored well: 2 points ahead of the base week2. However, the average increase for each party is again less than a single point.
Further, if Labour 2013 is the single example of a significant increase during conference week, even that rapidly deflated, and by the end of Conference season Labour were back where they began. Labour in 2013 polled 0.2% less in the week after party conference season than in the week before it.
Overall, there is almost no change in polling averages between the week before and the week after conference season. If you stare hard, you might claim the Tories do slightly better, as they are the only party that has averaged a tiny increase in their vote share in the 'post' week compared to the base week.
However, I expect this is much more to do with being the last conference than anything to do with superior conference communication. So this year, with the Lib Dems last, they might get the benefit.
From this, I conclude two things.
First, Labour's conference last week was not bad in polling terms. In Labour Conference week, Labour increased their share of the vote by 0.6 points, from 35.8 %to 36.4%. That's more than in 2011 or 2012, but less than in 2010 or 2013. It's more or less in line with this parliament's average for all three parties. In other words, neither triumph nor disaster.
In terms of actual voters, Labour conference performed exactly as you'd expect it to, in that it did very little.
Second, it seems that overall, the 'conference bounce' is a pretty negligible factor in most years. If you want a best guess on where the polls will be in mid October, it is effectively – where they were in Mid-September. The rest of it is largely imposing narrative on Brownian motion.
Good job I'm on holiday from Thursday, then, eh?
- Methodological note: What I've done is take the YouGov polls for the week before, the three weeks of and the week after, conference season, and then compare them. I've taken each party's conference week and compared it with both the immediately preceding week and the 'base week'. I've also looked at the average polling for the week after conference season and compared it with the base week [↩]
- I'd also point out that the run up to conference season had been very negative for Labour. The polling during conference may have simply been a return to the mean [↩]


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Now some of these words will be used in a small example. Please memorize this example for use in everyday speech.
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Concurrent multi-scale modeling of civil infrastructures for analyses on structural deterioration—Part I : Modeling methodology and strategy
Li, Z.X., Chan, Tommy H.T., Yu, Y., & Sun, Z.H. (2009) Concurrent multi-scale modeling of civil infrastructures for analyses on structural deterioration—Part I : Modeling methodology and strategy. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 45(11), pp. 782-794.
This paper aims to develop the methodology and strategy for concurrent finite element modeling of civil infrastructures at the different scale levels for the purposes of analyses of structural deteriorating. The modeling strategy and method were investigated to develop the concurrent multi-scale model of structural behavior (CMSM-of-SB) in which the global structural behavior and nonlinear damage features of local details in a large complicated structure could be concurrently analyzed in order to meet the needs of structural-state evaluation as well as structural deteriorating. In the proposed method, the "large-scale" modeling is adopted for the global structure with linear responses between stress and strain and the "small-scale" modeling is available for nonlinear damage analyses of the local welded details. A longitudinal truss in steel bridge decks was selected as a case to study how a CMSM-of-SB was developed. The reduced-scale specimen of the longitudinal truss was studied in the laboratory to measure its dynamic and static behavior in global truss and local welded details, while the multi-scale models using constraint equations and substructuring were developed for numerical simulation. The comparison of dynamic and static response between the calculated results by different models indicated that the proposed multi-scale model was found to be the most efficient and accurate. The verification of the model with results from the tested truss under the specific loading showed that, responses at the material scale in the vicinity of local details as well as structural global behaviors could be obtained and fit well with the measured results. The proposed concurrent multi-scale modeling strategy and implementation procedures were applied to Runyang cable-stayed bridge (RYCB) and the CMSM-of-SB of the bridge deck system was accordingly constructed as a practical application.
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Adam Gilchrist (left), Harbhajan Singh, Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar talk turkey during the third day of the Test in Sydney.
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How did all this begin?
The race scandal that has split the cricket world had its origins long before Harbhajan Singh tapped Brett Lee on the behind with his bat during the Sydney Test.
The bad blood began to bubble before even the acrimonious one-day series in India, where Andrew Symonds was racially abused by crowds in Vadadora and Nagpur and, in Mumbai, by the Punjabi spinner at the heart of the controversy.
It began when Australia and India clashed in a semi-final of the Twenty20 world championship in Durban, a South African city with a big Indian population and a rambunctious crowd.
The Australian and Indian dug-outs were side by side and the Australians were irritated by the noise emanating from the Indian bench, and apparently by the presence of BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi, who had ensconced himself among the Indian players.
Yuvraj Singh had pounded six sixes in an over against England earlier in the tournament. When Yuvraj went out to bat against the Australians, Brad Hogg, who was not playing, reportedly called out after him: "Wonder who's going to hit six sixes today." When the first shot sailed over the boundary rope, the Indian bench, well within earshot of the Australians, counted down. "Five, four, three " All harmless banter between opponents, but it gained an edge after India had conquered Pakistan in the Twenty20 final. Before the first game of the Australians' subsequent tour of India, Symonds criticised the extravagant celebrations laid on by Indian politicians after Mahendra Dhoni had led the Indian team to victory over Pakistan. "We have had a very successful side and I think watching how we celebrate and how they celebrate, I think we have been pretty humble in the way we have gone about it," Symonds said. "Personally, I think they have got far too carried away with their celebrations. It has definitely sparked passion inside of us."
In India, the jousting escalated, and Harbhajan became Australia's enemy No. 1. Both sides agree a meeting took place between Harbhajan and Symonds after the seventh ODI in Mumbai but differ over the agreement that was struck. The Australians claim Harbhajan called Symonds a "monkey", and that Symonds insisted on sorting the matter out privately. According to Australian team sources, both men agreed the word was unacceptable and it was this unwritten agreement that was broken by Harbhajan in Sydney. Indian team manager Chetan Chauhan, however, claimed they simply agreed not to sledge each other, and that it was Symonds who broke the pact. The Australians' response is that the meeting would not have taken place if Harbhajan had not racially abused Symonds in the first place.
Meantime, the Indian board failed to investigate the monkey chants from the crowd until it came under pressure from the International Cricket Council to do so, and released a joint statement with Cricket Australia condemning racism.
What happened in Sydney?
During the 116th over of India's first innings, Harbhajan rocked onto the back foot and slashed Australian paceman Brett Lee over the slips for four. Lee has a warm relationship with many of the Indian players, including Harbhajan, through his off-field association with the country he first visited as a teenager. When Harbhajan tapped him on the bottom, he is believed to have said something like "hard luck" to the fast bowler, who was straining for his wicket.
Symonds intervened. "I'm a firm believer in sticking up for your teammate, so I stepped in and had a bit of a crack at Harbhajan, telling him exactly what I thought of his antics," the Queenslander said in his paid newspaper column. "He then had a shot back, which brings us to the situation we're facing."
At the end of the over, Harbhajan appears to call the Australian towards him. Channel Nine and ESPN footage shows them walking across the pitch together, talking all the while. There does not seem to be any great display of anger, but Symonds continues to chirp at Harbhajan over his shoulder as he walks away.
Matthew Hayden approaches from behind, and Harbhajan's batting partner Sachin Tendulkar attempts to defuse the confrontation. Ricky Ponting becomes involved and, in footage understood to have been made available to the ICC, can be seen holding two fingers up to indicate that this is the second time Harbhajan has called Symonds a monkey, including the Mumbai incident.
Symonds, Hayden and Michael Clarke all said they heard the offending remark, but it was not detected by umpires Mark Benson and Steve Bucknor, nor by Channel Nine's stump microphones. All that is captured are the reactions of Clarke and Hayden.
What was it about the Australians' behaviour that moved Anil Kumble to protest that only one team was playing in the spirit of the game?
Kumble is one of the few captains in world cricket to have struck an agreement with Ponting to accept the fielder's word on contentious catches. The Australians believe the spirit of the agreement was upheld, because Ponting did not claim to have caught Rahul Dravid in the first innings and Michael Clarke was certain he got his fingers beneath a ball to catch Sourav Ganguly in the slips in the second, moving Ponting to gesture towards Benson to raise his finger. "In my mind we lived that agreement," said an Australian team source. However, the captains' deal was threatened when Clarke stood his ground after edging a ball to first slip in the second innings. Kumble did not see why he should accept the word of a player who did not walk in such circumstances. "Someone edged the ball to slips in the second innings of the Sydney Test and stood there even when there was not an iota of doubt over the dismissal," Kumble wrote in his Hindustan Times column. "He then claimed a catch that showed more than reasonable doubt and said he was 100% certain it was clean."
What would have happened if the match was drawn?
It is possible that Indian teenager Ishant Sharma would be at the centre of a time-wasting controversy, having walked out to face Clarke's hat-trick ball in the closing stages of the Test with two right gloves. Kumble would be a national hero, having resisted the Australians for more than two hours. Ponting would have been criticised for conservative captaincy, having left his declaration too late. Steve Bucknor might have kept his job.
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Nearly half of America's youth ages 12-21 are not vigorously active on a regular basis, and rates of overweight and obesity in youth have reached unprecedented levels. Sedentary lifestyle, obesity, and related health problems (pediatric Type II diabetes) are especially pronounced in adolescent girls. This grant will support activities to raise awareness of the need for environmental and policy opportunities to foster active living among 12,000 Girl Scouts ages 15-17 and 4,500 Girl Scout volunteers in mid-central New Jersey through promotional events, publications, and Girl Scout-led, community-based projects (e.g., Walk Your Kids to School events). The project will be considered successful if it leads to the creation of a national Girl Scout Active Living Badge to reach the 3.8 million Girl Scouts nationwide, enabling them to become informed advocates for age-appropriate activities to create more activity-friendly schools, communities, and social environments.
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A continuous deterministic environmental model of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (HSPF), linked to an atmospheric deposition model (RADM) is used to examine nutrient loads to the Chesapeake Bay under different management scenarios. Model structures and calibration are generally described. Averaged over a ten-year simulation, loads under a limit-of-technology setting throughout the watershed are a 50% and 65% reduction from loads reflecting 1985 condition and in total nitrogen and total phosphorus, respectively. Urban loads which include discharges from point sources, on-site wastewater, disposal systems, combined sewer overflows and both pervious and impervious non-point sources, have the highest nutrient fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay among major land uses.
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Collin Audley Junior Midfield Denver Fort Collins, CO
Colin Jones Senior Defender Denver
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Defensive Player of the Year -- Angelo Amato, Monmouth
Rookie of the Year -- Chris Wheeler, Mount St. Mary's
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Sallhag St. Francis (NY) F 5-9 So. Vaxjo, Sweden
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Angelo Amato Monmouth D 6-0 Sr. Livingston, NJ
Matthew Jones Sacred Heart GK 6-2 Sr. Stoke-on-Trent, England
Player of the Year -- Michael Stephens (UCLA)
Freshman of
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Coach of the Year -- Jorge Salcedo (UCLA)
Raphael Cox MF Sr. Washington
Stefan Frei GK Jr. California
Maxwell Griffin F Sr. UCLA
Hector Jimenez MF So. California
George John MF Sr. Washington
Leopoldo MF Sr. UCLA
Brad Rusin D Sr. UCLA
Michael Stephens MF Jr. UCLA
Michael Strickland MF Jr. Stanford
Bobby Warshaw MF/F So. Stanford
Andrew Wiedeman F So. California
Offensive Player of the Year -- Conor O'Brien (Bucknell)
Defensive Player of the Year -- Jerry Dickinson (Holy Cross)
Goalkeeper of the Year -- David Cappuccio (Colgate)
Rookie of the Year -- Matt Makowski (American)
Head Coach of the Year -- Todd West (American)
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Kyle Miller, So., Holy Cross, F
Jim Taranto, Sr., Lehigh, F
Phil Purdy, Sr., American,
Conor O'Brien, Jr., Bucknell, M
Chris Ross, Jr., Colgate, M
Andreas Andrews, Sr., Holy Cross, M
Adam Gazda, Sr., Lehigh, M
Cooper Bryant, Sr., American, D
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Glenn Volk, Sr., Colgate, D
Jerry Dickinson, Sr., Holy Cross, D
Alejandro Melean, Sr., Holy Cross, D
David Cappuccio, Sr., Colgate, GK
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Freshman of the Year:
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M Patrick Murray, Furman
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D Wes Knight, College of Charleston
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Stew Givens, Oakland, Jr., D
Brian Harris, UMKC, Sr., F
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Stefan St. Louis, Oakland, Jr., F
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Freshman of the Year --
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Nick Barclay, Gonzaga
Kelin Briones, San Diego
Chinn, San Francisco
Frankie Lopez, Portland
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Ryan Peterman, San Diego
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1. Re: A better way to do ChangeListeners?James_D Jan 20, 2013 6:29 PM (in response to mfortner)I far prefer to use anonymous inner classes, or at most named inner classes, rather than having the surrounding class implement the listener interface(s).
So for example:
This often means you can reduce the scope of the references to your controls. It's also going to be much easier to replace the code with lambda expressions if and when you update to Java 8.
public class MyGraph { ... XYChart someChart ; XYChart.Series<DataType> someDataSeries ; ... someDataSeries.dataProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<...>() { public void changed(...) { ... } }); someChart.animatedProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>() { public void changed(...) { ... } }); }
2. Re: A better way to do ChangeListeners?mfortner Jan 20, 2013 8:29 PM (in response to James_D)Hmm. Not sure how that would work. I typically register MyGraph with whatever classes are producing the events... usually in the controller code somewhere.
dataSource.addListener(myGraph); smoothingProperty.addListener(myGraph);
3. Re: A better way to do ChangeListeners?James_D Jan 20, 2013 9:39 PM (in response to mfortner)Event handling code is, almost by definition, controller code. So it makes sense (to me at least) to have event handling code in the controller. You can put the code I showed previously
directly in your controller. (I suppose I thought "MyGraph" was your controller, though the name should have implied otherwise to me.)
someDataSeries.dataProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<...>() { public void changed(...) { ... } }); someChart.animatedProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>() { public void changed(...) { ... } });
However, if you really want to have the event handlers defined elsewhere, you can still do so, while using anonymous inner classes (or lambdas when we all upgrade next September):
and you can then do
public class MyGraph { private final ChangeListener<SomeDataType> dataListener = new ChangeListener<SomeDataType>() { @Override public void changed(...) { ... } }; private final ChangeListener<ISmoothable> smoothingListener = new ChangeListener<ISmoothable>() { @Override public void changed(...) { ... } }; ... public ChangeListener<SomeDataType> dataListener() { return dataListener ; } public ChangeListener<ISmoothable> smoothingListener() { return smoothingListener ; } ... }
But I recommend the approach I first suggested: I use this all the time.
dataSource.addListener(myGraph.dataListener()); smoothingProperty.addListener(myGraph.smoothingListener());
4. Re: A better way to do ChangeListeners?mfortner Jan 20, 2013 11:42 PM (in response to James_D)Ahh. In my code I tend to have separate controller classes. I use a fair amount of FXML, and this tends to reinforce that coding style. For me a class like MyGraph simply reacts to data changes, or configuration changes. And the controller glues the graph, and a smoothing configuration panel together. MyGraph, the DataSource and the Smoothing configuration don't really know that much about each other and tend to act as arms-length collaborators.
5. Re: A better way to do ChangeListeners?James_D Jan 20, 2013 11:54 PM (in response to mfortner)I think using anonymous inner classes would be perfect in that scenario, and will get around the problem of not being able to define one class to implement a listener interface twice. You can just define them exactly where you need (i.e. in the appropriate controller). As you have it, you actually have more coupling because the controller has to know about the class that implements the listener interface(s) (MyGraph in the example you use).
Incidentally, and you may know this: the problem arises because of the way Java implements generics, using type erasure. You could, I think, just define your class to implement ChangeListener<?>. Then in the (now rather general) changed(...) method, you could check to see which observable had changed and use some downcasts as appropriate. This is similar to the style that was first advocated when the AWT event handling model changed from Java 1.0 to Java 1.1, but the trend towards using anonymous inner classes defined at the point of use started to take over pretty quickly after that.


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Thanks Handyrick, Finally got the truck going. My timing was way off. Had to give the distributor a 180, and she it finally fired up. Wouldnt stay on much tho, but Had the fuel filter changed and it runs great now! I do however have another inquiri. I had heard somewhere to get better mileage itd be best to run with a lighter weight of oil. Id like to switch to synthetic, but whats a safe weight to use? I got 5w 20. Weve always used 10 30, but like I said Id like to try something leaner, see what happens.
Handy7rick here again.Reguarding oil weight,I have found that Synthetic oils will not stay in all engines,Sometimes even new rebuilt ones.Therefore, I always try the heavier weight of Synthetic, especially in V 8s,(10w30) being the thinnest .It still circulates better than conventional oil especially in Winter or Cold weather as Synthetic doesnt thicken at extreme Cold below Freezing.You still get less friction with Synthetic at most any weight.Some or many Hot Rods need 10w40 Synthetic to stay in at high RPMS.That weight is hard to find in Full Synthetic. 5w20,5w30 and 10w30 are most common Weights found in Full Synthetic,It even comes in 0 weight.I use Walmart or Advance or O'rielly brand Synthetic oil with much success.Walmart Super Tec Full Synthetic is most reasonable Priced (about $20.50 for 5 Quart Bottle) except when O'reilly auto parts has their Store Brand Full Synthetic on Sale at $ 3.49 per quart.I hope this helps you decide.Happy Hotrodding,handy7rick. By the way the number 7 as in the bible is the number for completion as God created the World in 6 days and on the 7th day He Rested.
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When my wife saw how serious I was about learning to sew upholstery materials, she hit Joanne's to find me a bunch of thick materials to practice on. She rummaged through the remnants and came across some of that Whisper vinyl, and brought it home along with a lot of other material. (The back of this stuff looks rather "furry" for lack of a better word - not a tightly woven cloth backing like other automotive/ marine grade vinyls I've seen.)
I've done some upholstery in the past, although I've never sewn before, and I know this stuff is pretty thin. I'm going to use the piece she brought me home to make a sewing machine cover.
Vince is right - this stuff won't wear well at all. Especially for something that's going to get a lot of wear like seats. It might work pretty well for door panels and rear shelves (package trays,) but other than that, I'd steer clear of it for automotive use.
We have a place here locally called Mill End Fabrics. They have a lot of upholstery materials, to include vinyl, foam, and batting, but like any other retail outlet, you're going to pay a retail price. That might be okay if you're just doing a seat or two, but it can get pricy real quick. They want $11.99 a yard for the marine grade vinyl I need to do my boat. That's actually not bad when you add in the fact that I won't be paying for any shipping, but as you can see it's going to add up pretty fast.
Just my 2 cents, and remember that I'm not a professional.
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