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Start: Wooperton Street
Finish: Nothe Gardens
Distance: Approx 2.5km
Terrain: Mainly flat but some steps and steep slopes
Thomas Hardy is one of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literary history, and his associations with Dorchester are well documented. Lesser known is his connection with Weymouth and how it played a part in his writing. Known as Budmouth in his novels, Weymouth was close to Hardy's heart and he lived here for several years as a young man and would visit throughout his life. Hardy was keenly interested in and observant of life going on around him, storing in his mind scenes of people and everyday life and would recall these in his writing.
This walk is primarily aimed at Hardy enthusiasts with extracts from some of his novels and poems, but it is accessible enough for anyone to enjoy.
Hardy arrived in Weymouth in 1869 aged 28. He was a disappointed and depressed man. He had spent five years in London hoping to become an accomplished author or successful architect. Neither had happened. His first book had been rejected and the London air had taken its toll on his health. He returned to Dorset with nothing to show for his time in London. With a heavy heart he agreed to take a job with R Crickmay, a Weymouth architect who specialised in restoring local churches. He found himself lodgings in a small street near the inner harbour and this is where we start our walk.
The Walk
Start at No 3 Wooperton Street (a small road that connects Park Street to Commercial Street).
It was here that Hardy lodged between 1869 – 1871. These houses originally looked directly onto an inlet of the Backwater, later filled in to become a timber yard and is now a car park.
When Hardy first walked through the door in the summer of 1869 he had no idea that success would soon be here. In autumn 1869 he started on his novel Desperate Remedies; a story which focuses on a young man called Owen Graye who finds lodgings in Budmouth (Weymouth) and takes up the position of local architect – sound familiar? Desperate Remedies became his first published novel in 1871.
Walk onto Park Street and turn left and turn right onto Gloucester Street. Once you reach the Esplanade cross over onto the seafront and turn left walking towards Greenhill.
The Esplanade consists of splendid Georgian buildings, built in the late 1700's as tourists started to arrive to enjoy the benefits of the sea. In 1869 Weymouth was still booming and with its beautiful sea views and crisp fresh air Hardy's spirits soon lifted.
Amble along the esplanade until you reach the Prince Regent Hotel (opposite the War Memorial).
Hardy notes that after his first interview with Crickmay he was standing "opposite the Burdon Hotel on the Esplanade, facing the beautiful sunlit bay" as he listened to the town band play the Margenblatter Waltzes. Nearly fifty years later he wrote a poem entitled "At a Seaside Town in 1869" – with the subtitle Young Lovers reverie:
The boats, the sands, the esplanade,
The Laughing crowd;
Light – hearted, loud
Greetings from some not ill-edowed;
The evening sunlit cliffs,the talk,
Hailings an alts,
The keen sea-salts,
The band, the Morgenblatter Waltz
Take a look towards Osmington Hill and see if you can spot King George III riding his white horse. This was cut into the Limestone in 1808. The White Horse is 280 feet (85 m) long and 323 feet (98 m) high in size. Hardy mentions it in The Trumpet-Majopr when his character John Loveday takes Anne Garland too see the making of the horse – "forty navvies at work moving the dark sod so as to lay bare the chalk beneath."
Cross over at the pedestrian crossing near Brunswick Terrace and turn left heading towards town.
We will now pass a cluster of hotels with Hardy associations.
Look out for The Langham. This hotel is mentioned, by the name Belvidere, in Deperate Remedies when Miss Aldclyffe interviews the heroine Cytherea Graye and engages her as a lady's maid.
Carry on walking until you reach the Royal Hotel (a favourite haunt of King George III – please look at my Georgian Walk for more details).
This hotel was rebuilt in late 1900's, so after Hardy lived here. But the original hotel played an important part in Hardy's life and he would often visit here. In September 1869 a new assistant came to Crickmay's office (who was afterwards written into Desperate Remedies as Edward Sprigrove). In November 1869 this assistant persuaded Hardy to take quadrille classes ( a dance performed by four couples in a rectangular formation) at the Royal Hotel. Hardy stated that he found the Weymouth girls heavier on the arm than London girls! But despite this unfortunate predicament of the local girls Hardy was still able to enjoy a bachelor lifestyle and he often fell in and out of love.
In 1869 he wrote the poem The dawn after the dance:
Here is your parents' dwelling with its curtained windows telling
Of no thought of us within it or of our arrival here;
Their slumbers have been normal after one day more of formal
Matrimonial commonplace and household life's mechanic gear.
I would be candid willingly, but dawn draws on so chillingly
As to render further cheerlessness intolerable now,
So I will not stand endeavouring to declare a day for severing,
But will clasp you just as always—just the olden love avow.
Through serene and surly weather we have walked the ways together,
And this long night's dance this year's end eve now finishes the spell;
Yet we dreamt us but beginning a sweet sempiternal spinning
Of a cord we have spun to breaking—too intemperately, too well.
Yes; last night we danced I know, Dear, as we did that year ago, Dear,
When a new strange bond between our days was formed, and felt, and heard;
Would that dancing were the worst thing from the latest to the first thing
That the faded year can charge us with; but what avails a word!
That which makes man's love the lighter and the woman's burn no brighter
Came to pass with us inevitably while slipped the shortening year . . .
And there stands your father's dwelling with its blind bleak windows telling
That the vows of man and maid are frail as filmy gossamere.
In Under the Greenwood Tree Dick Dewy drives Fancy Day home, past the two semi circular bays of the old Royal Hotel.
Nearby is the large Gloucester Hotel. This was built as a private residence for the Duke of Gloucester and became the annual summer home for George III in 1789. In the Trumpet Major, Hardy describes how when the King was in Weymouth "the popular Georgian watering place was in a paroxysm of gaiety. A picket of a thousand men mounted guard every day in front of Gloucester Lodge" to ensure the safety of the King.
Its hard to miss the large Kings Statue standing magnificently in the middle of the road. Cross over carefully for a closer look.
The "Grateful Inhabitants" of Weymouth held a General meeting to "consider of the most proper mode of celebrating the 50th year of the king's reign. They commissioned a life like statue "as a memorial to future ages of the Virtues of the Monarch and of the Gratitude which this town feels for having been so frequently honoured by the Royal Presence."
King George III was not a well man and he was advised that sea bathing might be a cure for his malady. Bathing machines were introduced to Weymouth and became very popular. Take a look at the bathing machine that is near the statue.
Horses drew the bathing machines across the sands into deeper water where the king would descend the steps directly into the water. This is described in The Trumpet-Major "The royal bathing machine had been drawn out.. Immediately that the King's machine had entered the water, a group of florid men with fiddles, violincello, a trombone and a drum came forward , packed themselves into another machine that was in waiting and were drawn out into the waves in the king's rear….then a deafing noise burst from the interior of the second machine….it was the condensed mass of musicians inside striking up the strains of God Save the King, as his Majesty's head rose from the water."
Bathing is also mentioned in The Dynasts in which Prime Minister Pitt calls on the king to discuss the war with Napoleon. The King is glad to give him audience but first stresses that Pitt should enjoy the change of air and delights of Budmouth. George III tells Pitt:"the bathing is unmatched elsewhere in Europe …the air like liquid life."
King George was not the only one who liked to take a dip.Whilst Hardy lived in Weymouth he became a good swimmer and took 7.00am morning dips. He would lie on his back on the surface of the waves, rising and falling with the tide in the warmth and the morning sun. He said after the depression and tiredness of London, his tonic exsistence by the sea seemed ideal and that physically he went back ten years, "almost as by the touch of an enchanted wand."
Cross over onto the seafront and take in the view of Weymouth Bay.
Today Weymouth is a popular resort, but maybe even more so in Georgian times. In the Dynasts, Sergeant Young recalls the happy times when the regiment was quartered here " Now Budmouth-Regis was exactly to my taste when we were there with the Court that summer, the King and Queen a-wambling aboput among us like the most everyday old man and woman you ever see ." He then sings of happy times the troops had. This is known as the Hussar's Song – it has four verses – the first is:
When we lay where Budmouth Beach is
O, the girls were fresh as peaches,
With their tall and tossing figures and their eyes of blue and brown!
And our hearts would ache with longing
As we paced from our sing-songing
With a smart Clink! Clink!up the Esplanade and down
Hardy loved to walk along Weymouth Bay, especially on a summer's evening when it was lit by the magical hour of the setting sun. Hardy enjoyed rowing and as dusk fell he would row out to the bay and admire the lights that shone out along the sea wall.
He expresses his love for this light on the poem "On the Esplanade" which has a subtitle Midsummer 10pm:
The horizon gets lost in a mist new-wrought by the nigh:
The lamps of the Bay
That reach from behind me round to he left and right
On the sea wall way
For a constant mile of curve, make a long display
As a pearl-strung row
Under which in the waves they bore their gilets of light:
All this was plain; but there was a thing not so
Continue along the Esplanade towards the Pavillion Theatre which is ahead of you.
The Pavillion opened in 1960 after the original theatre on this site (named the Ritz) burnt down during refurbishment. It took just one hour to burn down.
In Sept 1927 Hardy received a standing ovation at a dramatization of the Mayor of Casterbridge showing at the Ritz.
To the right of the The Pavillion is the harbour. This is where you want to head next.
You can still see the old railway tracks in the road that used to carry cargo such as potatoes from the ferry terminal to the Weymouth Train station.
Go up the steps onto the raised quay, known as Custom House Quay. ( Please refer to my Harbour Walk if you would like more information).
Thomas Hardy appreciated the beauty of the harbour and would often visit here. Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma stayed in a house right over the harbour in August 1879 when he was writing The Trumpet- Major in order to visit locations to be used in the novel. The exact house is not known. During their stay Hardy's mother holidayed with them and they visited Upwey, Portland and other beauty spots. The weather was mostly wet and Hardy refers to the pleasure-steamer bell ringing persistently with no response except from a school party from eight miles off. Hardy vividly describes this in The Life: The steamer-bell ringing persistently,and nobody going on board except an unfortunate boys' school that had come eight miles by train that morning to spend a happy day by the sea. The rain goes into their baskets of provisions, and runs out a strange mixture of cake juices and mustard water, but they try to look as if they were enjoying it – all except the pale thin assistant-master who has come with them, and whose face is tragic with his responsibilities. The quay seems quite deserted till on going along it, groups of boatmen are discovered behind a projecting angle of the wall – martyrs in countenance, talking of what their secrets would have been if the season had turned out fine; and the landladies faces at every lodging house window watching the drizzle and the sea it half obscures." –
There are many interesting buildings – such as the Harbour Masters Office, Custom House and my personal favourite the Old Fish Market. Just past the fish market is the Town Bridge. There has been a bridge here since 1597 in an attempt to bring the fighting communities of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis together.This bridge is the sixth and was built in 1930. Pause at the harbour wall and look at the main arch under the bridge towards the inner harbour. This is the view (even though it was a different bridge) that Hardy thought of when he wrote The Harbour Bridge:
From here,the quay, one looks above to mark
The Bridge across the harbour, hanging dark
Against the day's -end sky, fair green in the glow
Over and under the middle archway's bow:
It draws its skeleton where the sun has set,
Yea, clear from cutwater to parapet;
On which mild glow, too, lines of rope and spar
Trace themselves black as char.
Climb the steps that lead onto the bridge and cross over to Trinity Road.
Walk along Trinity Road and then turn right into Trinity Street. I won't bore you too much with the history of the harbour as I have covered it in my other walks But I will point out the Old Rooms on the left hand side of the road. It's an Elizabethan building that once backed onto the harbour and was the home of Mayor Thomas Giear. In 1618 he was found guilty of defrauding the King and was fined the massive sum of £2000. It became an inn and during the Napoleonic Wars it became known for smuggling and press gangs. In Hardy's drama epic of The Dynasts (a three-part verse of the war with Napoleon) he starts Act V in "King George's Watering Place" ie. The Old Rooms Inn. Hardy describes how boatmen and burgers are talking bout the death of Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805. One of the boatmen sings a ballad that had been on sale in Weymouth. It tells of a great local storm that occurred on the same night as the Battle of Trafalgar:
"In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land,
And the Back-sea met the Front sea, and our doors were blocked with sand,
And we heard the drub of Dead-man's Bay, where bones of thousands are,
We knew not what the day had done for us at Trafalgar"
Carry on along Trinity Street and then cut across Hope Square and turn into Spring Road. Continue into Horsford Street and walk till you reach Barrack Road.
Near here is a small alley called the Lookout:"Throughout our history, men of Weymouth alerted to possible danger by sea-borne invaders, climbed from the snug streets of the old town and gazed out into the Channel from the Lookout." (Ricketts,1975).
From here you can see the cove which appears in a scene from Hardy's "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion", and is based on a true local tragedy.
Hardy describes how two young Hussars, Matthaus and Christian, live in an army camp near Bincombe village and were homesick for Hanover. Matthaus had fallen in love with a local girl named Phyllis, who he would meet at the wall at the end of her garden and which overlooked the soldiers' camp. But she was engaged to someone else and their love could not be fulfilled. Desperate and disappointed in love, The Hussars stole a small boat from the harbour and set off via the Nothe Cove back to Hanover, but they were picked up by an English cutter near jersey. Found guilty of desertion they were marched back to Bincombe, where Phyllis watches shocked by her garden wall:
"What she beheld at first awed and perplexed her; then she stood rigid, her fingers hooked to the wall, her eyes staring out of her head, and her face as if hardened to stone.
On the open green stretching before her all the regiments in the camp were drawn up in line, in the mid-front of which two empty coffins lay on the ground. The unwonted sounds which she had noticed came from an advancing procession. It consisted of the band of the York Hussars playing a dead march; next two soldiers of that regiment in a mourning coach, guarded on each side, and accompanied by two priests. Behind came a crowd of rustics who had been attracted by the event. The melancholy procession marched along the front of the line, returned to the centre, and halted beside the coffins, where the two condemned men were blindfolded, and each placed kneeling on his coffin; a few minutes' pause was now given, while they prayed.
A firing-party of twenty-four men stood ready with levelled carbines. The commanding officer, who had his sword drawn, waved it through some cuts of the sword-exercise till he reached the downward stroke, whereat the firing party discharged their volley. The two victims fell, one upon his face across his coffin, the other backwards.
As the volley resounded there arose a shriek from the wall of Dr. Grove's garden, and some one fell down inside; but nobody among the spectators without noticed it at the time. The two executed Hussars were Matthäus Tina and his friend Christoph. The soldiers on guard placed the bodies in the coffins almost instantly; but the colonel of the regiment, an Englishman, rode up and exclaimed in a stern voice: "Turn them out — as an example to the men!"
The coffins were lifted endwise, and the dead Germans flung out upon their faces on the grass. Then all the regiments wheeled in sections, and marched past the spot in slow time. When the survey was over the corpses were again coffined, and borne away."
They are buried in an unmarked grave at the back of Bincombe Church, near the wall. Phyllis is buried nearby.
This is the end of the Thomas Hardy Walk. I hope you have enjoyed it.
To return to the Harbour just retrace your footsteps but if you have the time and the energy I do recommend that you explore the area more by wandering around the Nothe Gardens.


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'Power shift'? France and Germany mark 50 years since historic pact
"It may be our best kept secret that our chemistry actually works," said the German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference in Berlin Tuesday.
French President Francoise Hollande is in the German capital for a jam-packed line up of events to mark the historic Elysee Treaty, signed on 22nd January 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle and the West German chancellor Konrad Adenaur.
The governments of both countries will gather at the chancellery, with lawmakers from France's National Assembly visiting the Reichstag for a debate with the Bundestag, the German parliament.
For a long-time cooperation between the two nations has proven the backbone to the European project. Charles de Gaulle said Europe was "a coach and horses, with Germany the horse and France the coachmen".
Drawing on their historical ties, Angela Merkel and Francoise Hollande announced at a press conference Tuesday that they want to further deepen and stabilize European economic and monetary union.
"If you look back at the past eight months, I'm very happy with what France and Germany have been able to accomplish to get the euro zone out of its crisis. If you look at the results, it's clear we're on the same wavelength," Hollande said to reporters in Berlin Tuesday.
As the UK drifts further and further away from Europe, both politically and ideologically, the main decision's concerning the continent's future will likely be taken in Berlin and Paris. But the two nations are not without their disagreements.
Despite being firmly committed to the Euro, both are at odds on how to solve the Eurozone financial crisis.
Merkel believes that cutting deficits and austerity is the only long term solution, while Hollande believes only fresh spending will bolster growth. He also wants more solidarity and risk-sharing and a bigger euro-zone budget to deal with economic problems.
There is rising concern among Germans and financiers about the state of the French economy, who "don't want to catch a cold if your [French] economy sneezes", RT's correspondent in Berlin, Peter Oliver, reported.
(1st row LtoR) French Senate President Jean-Pierre Bel, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Joachim Gauck, French National Assembly President Claude Bartolone, German Bundestag President Norbert Lammert and French President Francois Hollande, are applauded by the audience upon arrival before a joint session of the French National Assembly and the Bundestag at the German lower house of Parliament (Bundestag) on January 22, 2013.(AFP Photo / Odd Andersen)
On the surface Franco-German military ties appear close, even sharing a fighting brigade, formed in 1987, but in reality in recent years France often appeared more in tune with British foreign policy.
While France has been quick to deploy forces in Libya and Mali, Germany has been reluctant to commit troops and has so far promised only limited logistical aid.
Wolfgang Schaeuble the German finance minister, said that "Germany didn't want to be a major player in foreign policy," citing Germany's 20th century history as a reason not to become too involved. "How could we be, after Hitler and Auschwitz?" he said Monday to the Handelsblatt business daily.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks next to French President Francois Hollande (L) as they address a press conference at the Chancellery on January 22, 2013.(AFP Photo / David Gannon)
Despite Schaeuble's comments, Germany appears far more involved now in global politics, than it was 23 years ago when the country was reunited.
Judith Winkler, a political scientist from the Free University of Berlin, explained that there has been a shift in the balance between France and Germany since the end of the Cold War.
"Since before the end of the Cold War, it was Germany that carried the economic weight and France that carried the political weight, now there has been a shift towards political weight for Germany as well, at least from a French perspective. So that has certainly made co-operation more difficult," she said.
Over the past 50 years of formal friendship, sustained German economic success – thanks largely to Germany's export of manufactured goods – has transformed the country into Europe's indispensable power, overtaking France in the process.
There is also a general lack of vision as to which way Europe is heading, Professor Max Otte from the Worms University of Applied Sciences, told RT.
"There have been times when the French-German tandem has been more effective to be sure, the thing is, is that the overall vision for Europe is lacking, its diverging, and so we won't see Europe make great progress towards a more unified continent any time soon", he said.
General view of the joint session of the French National Assembly and the Bundestag at the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag on January 22, 2013.(AFP Photo / Odd Andersen)
(L-R) German First Lady Daniela Schadt, German President Joachim Gauck, and former German President Richard von Weizsaecker arrive for a concert at the Berliner Philarmonie Concert Hall on January 22, 2013.(AFP Photo / Carsten Koall)
(L-R) German First Lady Daniela Schadt, French President Francois Hollande, German President Joachim Gauck, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrive for a concert at the Berliner Philarmonie Concert Hall on January 22, 2013.(AFP Photo / Carsten Koall)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint meeting of the German lower house of parliament, Bundestag and French National Assembly at the Reichstag in Berlin January 22, 2013.(Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch)


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10 Tips for Porting to the NetBeans Platform
10 Tips for Porting to the NetBeans Platform
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I'm aware of several groups of developers who have recently started porting Swing applications to the NetBeans Platform. In the aftermath of the JSR-296 meltdown, that trend is likely to become even more prominent.
That, in fact, may be the biggest win of the JSR-296 project—it helped developers take the next step in their projects, which they otherwise might not have done. I.e., developers abandoned the JFrame, swapping it for the JSR-296 SingleFrameApplication class. Since it was so easy to get started with JSR-296 (I refuse to call it "Swing Application Framework", simply because the name arrogantly and mistakenly implies that there is no other Swing application framework), especially with the help of the tools in NetBeans IDE, many developers did so, quickly bringing their applications to fruition.
However, it's never been more than a JSR and its development has ceased, as described in the warning you'll see when you try to create these applications in NetBeans IDE 6.9:
And so, now even more developers are in need of the NetBeans Platform, since that's the most logical next step for your Swing application, especially if you've committed yourself to a larger source base, which is what the adoption of JSR-296 implies, i.e., you didn't find the JFrame sufficient, you wanted to focus on your domain rather than its infrastructure, hence you needed lifecycle management, and an Actions system, and Tasks. So, now you still need them, and they're all available in the NetBeans Platform.
Here, based on quite some interaction with developers entering the process of porting applications to the NetBeans Platform, are my top 10 practical tips for getting you started:
- Follow the CRUD Tutorial. Yes, there are many tutorials you can take and screencasts you can watch. However, if there were to be one specific tutorial, which would it be? It would be the NetBeans Platform CRUD Application Tutorial. I was recently in touch with a developer who was pretty confused about many things relating to the NetBeans Platform. After following that tutorial, the kinds of questions he ended up asking were markedly different, far more in line with the idioms of the NetBeans Platform. That specific tutorial covers the most typical scenario on the NetBeans Platform and in the process you learn a LOT about the typical ways of working on the NetBeans Platform, the processes, the APIs, everything you're going to need to learn at some point anyway. So why not follow that tutorial and you'll be off to a flying start. (The completed CRUD application is available in the IDE from 6.9 onwards, both as a Maven-based application and an Ant-based application.)
- Print Out the NetBeans Platform Refcard. A very big problem when confronted with the NetBeans Platform is that of scope. In other words, what does the NetBeans Platform provide, exactly? Why would you use what when? Again, the screencast series helps a lot in that regard, but you should really get (for free) and print out the Essential NetBeans Platform Refcard. It really covers everything on a very global level, as well as drilling down to the finer details, giving you lots of code tips and tricks along the way.
- Prototype. Do a quick prototype. I.e., right after having followed the two steps above, you actually already have everything you need. It's all a lot less complicated than it might seem. Make a back up of your source code, create a new NetBeans Platform application in NetBeans IDE (or use one of the Groovy scripts provided by the IDE for the same purpose), create a new module, and then stick all your code into that single module. Next, create library wrappers for all your third party libraries. Set dependencies as required, create a TopComponent (which you know how to do, since you completed step 1) and then display some of the data in a new window in your new application. That's it, your first prototype is complete.
- Turn External JARs into Modules. A frequent pain point is where developers say: "Really? Do I need to turn all of my libraries into library wrapper modules? Why?" Well, the idea is that you're creating a modular application, which lets you benefit from dependency management, versioning, and information hiding. It is a great benefit to also be able to version and manage the dependencies of your 3rd party libraries. You can even put multiple JARs into the same module (via Ctrl-Click and Shift-Click in the "Library Wrapper Module wizard"). However, you need to think about the wisdom of putting multiple JARs into the same module, as (remember!) you're creating a modular application, so only those things that NEED to be in the same module should be in the same module.
- Think on Module Boundaries. When to create a new NetBeans module (or OSGi bundle)? It is very important that you read the article How to Split an Application into Modules?
- Register Action Classes. Since the 6.7 release of the NetBeans Platform, you typically do not need to subclass the NetBeans Platfor's Action classes anymore, as explained in Which NetBeans Platform Action Class Should I Use? Why is that a good thing? Because now you can simply copy the ActionListeners and AbstractActions from your original application and paste them into your NetBeans modules. Once you've done so, all you need to do is register them correctly and then you're done. That means that porting your Action classes to display them in menus, toolbars, and have them invoked from keyboard shortcuts is a question of registration, rather than recoding the classes.
- Love the Layer. The layer is your best friend. A "layer" is an XML file, of which each module can have at most one. Each layer is added to the virtual filesystem of the application at start up. You can register anything you like in the layer and then, from your Java code, you can read that layer. That sounds very abstract, but look at "Pluggable JXTaskPane" for a very simply and typical example. That's also the magic to turning your application... into a platform! Create a folder in the layer (i.e., simply by typing in an XML file) named "Products" and then each module providing a new product can register a folder below "Products". Then in your code, you can iterate through the Products folder, find all the products, and then display them in a window in the application. Service providers can be registered in the layer too, as explained in How Do NetBeans Extension Points Work?
- Keep the JPanels. You have JPanels in your original application? Wonderful. You can use them without making any changes whatsoever. Create a new TopComponent class (either via the wizard in NetBeans IDE or by simply subclassing "TopComponent"), then call "add(myJPanel)", and then you're done. No more work needed than that. You can do the same thing with the Options window or a wizard. I.e., you might find that a JPanel can be used to configure something (in the Options window or in a wizard), as well as as an edit panel in a window. So you can reuse that same JPanel in multiple different places, simply by calling "add(myJPanel") in whichever NetBeans Platform container you're working on.
- Participate in the Community. You'll definitely get more out of things by participating, which mainly occurs in the email@example.com mailing list. All sorts of questions are asked and answered there and, as you learn more, you should make use of the opportunity of sharing your knowledge with others. You can really have an impact on some very cool applications being developed all over the world!
- Porting is a Process. Remember always that porting is a process. Typically, it takes place over many releases of your product, so plan accordingly, since there should be no regressions for the end user. For example, in the first release after you start porting, you might simply port the JPanels to TopComponents in your new NetBeans Platform application. In the next release, you might want to wrap your business objects into Node classes, so that they can be displayed in explorer views, including the Properties window. Etc. Take it slow and pace yourself. If you have a few weeks or months to work on the porting process, depending on the size of the source base, that should be OK. However, if you have less time, consider working in stages, choosing the features you want to use for each release. You only need to use as much as you need, there's no rule (except for the runtime container, which is mandatory) saying how much of the NetBeans Platform should be part of your application.
OK, that's the end of my list! What do you, reading this article, think? Do you have other tips?
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Just heard this week that I've been invited for interview. After a panic trying to hunt down my educational certificates which have scattered to all corners of my house after a couple moves (including a very staggered migration of every thing from my parents' house over to NL), I was able to set the date today and will be going over on the 3rd December.
Anyone else heard anything?
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This is a VHF repeater located on top of the Radisson Hotel in downtown Winnipeg – and is run by the MRS group (Manitoba Repeater Society). Today, I was part of a group who went up to ensure the COS was operating and that it would work properly with the IRLP setup on that site. We confirmed all is good with the network/etc and started logging state changes in the controller as Yuri probed the controller and did the soldering to wire it up. After reviewing some online documentation on the controller pins/etc, we were able to isolate the proper connection – and viola – proper DTMF recognition on the software side 🙂
Our little group consisted of Ed, Yuri, Derek, Robert and myself — only took about 2.5 hrs to complete the operation …
Some pics of the work site below:
73, Dan ve4drk


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Truffles is our new chocolate labrador, she joined the family today and came from a lovely home where she had the best possible start to her life.
She was born on June 2nd so is now 7 weeks old.
We picked her up this morning and she was a good girl in the car, she did travel on my knee most of the way instead of the crate she was supposed to be in!
She investigated the garden and house and then settled down in her playpen and had a sleep.
After her lunch we introduced her to the other dogs. We have Harvey our daughter's dog staying at the moment so it was a lot for Truffles to cope with.
We intoduced them one by one and Truffles thought it was great. The only problem we had was that they wanted to play with her and they are so big compared to her,, any play will have to be supervised.
She quickly realised that Cleo was the best to play with. After a play in the garden she had another sleep.
She has a playpen in the lounge and a crate in the utility where she will sleep tonight with the other dogs. We are hoping that although she can't curl up with them yet she will have them for company and won't keep us awake!
Truffles is 8 weeks old today, She has been to the vets for her first injection. She enjoyed her visit.
She is still being a good girl during the night although she likes to get up early and lets us know all about it!
She has her evening meal with the big dogs and is learning to sit and wait until we tell her she can have her food.
We have had Truffles for 2 weeks now. She is still getting us up very early and is into everything but she is doing really well. She is spending more time in with the big dogs and really enjoys playing with them.
She has started to have some basic training and has already mastered the sit. We are trying to make sure that she is sitting before being made a fuss of. This is in the hope that she won't jump up!
Truffles continues to do well. She has had her 2nd injection now and has been microchipped.
She has now discovered the pond!
She isn't waking up so early now which is great and toilet training is going well.
Cleo is still her best friend but she doesn't mind who she plays with!
Truffles is now 4 months old and has just finished her Puppy classes. She certainly wasn't the best behaved puppy but was very enthusiastic. She did manage to get her certificate. We now have to wait until November 21st before she can start proper training classes.
She is now big enough to join the other dogs on a walk up to the top field once a day. She enjoys running around up there and has been very good with the sheep.
Truffles is now going out twice a day with the other dogs. She is no longer sleeping in her crate.
Truffles started training classes in November. She did well at her first one but things have gone downhill since then! She gets so excited, things she does really well at home she won't do there.
She enjoyed her first Christmas party!
Jan 2013
We are having to keep a close watch on Truffles near the fire. She would get in it if she could.
Training classes start again on Jan 9th, can't say I'm looking forward to it!
Truffles loves training classes!!!! She knows when it is training night and is eager to go. As soon as she is out of the car she will make a dash for the door. Once in there she is beside herself with excitement. All thought of behaving herself goes out of the window. She forgets all the work we have done at home ( She does everything really well there, honest!)
Truffles was a good girl and passed her test with flying colours. For once we both did everything right! She now goes up into the next group and gets to meet another group of dogs. She will no doubt think that that is a good excuse for her to get excited.
Truffles is starting to settle down again with the new group of dogs, she still thinks she should be able to play with every dog she meets. We have started to do some work of the lead! So far she has been very good!
Along with the other dogs Truffles spent a week in kennels while we were at Center Parcs. She seemed to have enjoyed her stay.
As expected Truffles didn't pass her next test. She was very good apart from her sit stay. She kept sliding down and wouldn't stay in a sit. We are going to giveup on classes for a while. She will do everything really well at home but gets so excited at classes it isn't really worth it. The main purpose of classes is for socialisation and she is the most sociable dog around! 5 year old Grandson did say that he should go with us to the test because she does what he says, she does as well!
Truffles had to spend some time at the vets and was really ill. We don't know what caused it but she had Gastroenteritis. Luckily she is back to normal again.
Just realised how long it is since I wrote anything about Truffles.
She is still as mad as ever, we keep waiting for her to settle down but it isn't happening.
She still adores the children and loves playing with them.
At the moment (Jan 2014) she is in season which is a bit tricky when Harvey is around. She is not mature enough yet to think about putting her in pup.
She has turned out to be like her father, a very short legged labrador so we will have to watch her weight.
March 2015.
We are hoping that Truffles is in pup but won't know for a few weeks. We took her to see a miniature poodle called Teddy. We are hoping that if she is in pup we will have smaller puppies than we would have had using a standard poodle.
May 1st 2015
Truffles gave birth to 2 pups today. We had been hoping for a couple more but it wasn't to be.
She wasn't sure what to make of it all at first but has settled down now into being a good mum.
Truffles was a great Mum, the puppies put weight on rapidly and turned out to be great puppies. Truffles was relieved when her time as a mother came to an end.
March 2016
Much to our surprise Truffles has come into season a month before we expected. Timing is awful as we are going away next week and the dogs are going into kennels. Luckily the kennels are happy to take her and we will have to interupt our holiday to take her to the stud dog. We are only Center Parcs, Elvedon and the stud dog is in Newmarket so it will only take half a day. We will take her back home after she has been to the stud dog. Our son and family are staying at the house overnight and joining us during the day so she will be fine. We come home anyway the following day.
Truffles visits to the stud dog went well so we are keeping our fingers crossed she is in pup.
It became obvious fairly soon that Truffles was in pup. She put a lot more weight on this time.
On June 8th Truffles had her second litter of 8 puppies. She was really unhappy during her labour so we decided that it would be her last litter.
August 2016
We decided to keep one of the puppies, so Spice has joined the family. They have now all gone to their new homes. Truffles was again a brilliant mum and did a good job with her family. Like last time she has now gone into heavy moult and we have a two tone Labrador.
On October the 6th Truffles went to be spayed. She has recovered well from her operation. We will have to be really careful with her now to try and make sure that she doesn't get fat. Not easy with a labrador!
Truffles with Spice Feb 2018
Just realised i haven't updated Truffles page for a long time!
Truffles is fine. In spite of all our efforts she has put on a lot of weight.
Now we only have Spice and Truffles, Truffles has started to join Spice on the social walks.


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vested interest
Based in Gainesville, FL and Boston, MA
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Simian Interface
1425 NE 7th Ter
Gainesville, FL
(352) 256-8602
vested interest is an indie game studio in Gainesville, Florida. The team is comprised of designer/artist/programmer Jonathan Yuhas and designer/writer Josh Leeper.
HistoryOrigin story
Late in 2007, game designer Jon Yuhas and writer Josh Leeper were assigned to the same windowless office at the Florida branch of Ignition Entertainment. While working on the core design of a first person shooter, they were inspired equally by retro games and the burgeoning world of indie games. After Ignition was abruptly shuttered, they prototyped an asymmetric co-op shooter/RTS called _monkeyrobot with a small team of former Ignition employees. Ambitiously, a mobile tie-in was loosely designed, but _monkeyrobot was shelved as most of the team found jobs.OVNI
Still unemployed but committed to smaller-scale game development, Jon and Josh built some quick and dirty Flash prototypes using Adam Saltsman's Flixel library. The most promising was OVNI, which featured a cloaking, hovering UFO piloted by an alien hired to harvest meat from livestock (and eventually other lifeforms). Hosted on Kongregate and Newgrounds, OVNI had a positive reception, which encouraged them to keep going with small, simple games.
Deciding that _monkeyrobot would be too difficult to revive with just two people, they dusted off the design for the _monkeyrobot mobile tie-in, a 'Simian Computer Interface Trainer', and started to experiment. The first playable Flash demo required the player to move colored squares into a specific arrangement indicated by a picture-in-picture window before a timer ran out. This demo was the foundation of what became simian.interface. Playtesting with friends and relatives helped them tune the difficulty curve and encouraged them to strip the game down to its simplest elements. After a long phase of polishing, simian.interface was released on Flash game portals and received very positive reviews.simian.interface++
Former Ignition producer Scot Kramarich saw the potential of simian.interface and pitched it to Chillingo. The game was ported to Unity and was released for iOS. Reviewers and players agreed that the game was fun and beautiful but not quite long enough, so Jon and Josh began experimenting with procedural puzzle generation. A new mode called infinite_loop mode was developed which featured endless procedural level generation, randomizable story screens, dynamic music remixing, and variable backgrounds. After more than a year of polishing and the addition of a timed_evaluation challenge mode, the new modes were added to simian.interface and the title was changed to simian.interface++. The iOS version of the game received the new content for free, and simian.interface++ is now available for PC/MC on Steam and the Humble Store.
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Belfast's legacy to the Israelis
They both lived in the north of the city, they married sisters and both became distinguished statemen of the Jewish state. London-based Steven Gaffe recalls their Belfast connection
AT Cliftonpark Avenue, Belfast, at the end of the First World War, lived one infant, Chaim Herzog, destined to become president of the state of Israel. And, remarkably, living nearby was another youngster, born Aubrey Solomon Meir, better known to the world as Abba Eban.
Mr Eban, died last Sunday, in Tel Aviv, aged 87. He was an outstanding Israeli foreign minister and diplomat, who secured for his country precious time in the tense run up to the 1967 Six Day War.
Eban's Belfast years occurred from the tender age of two, following the untimely death of his father. Struggling to make ends meet, his London-based mother was forced to dispatch the youngster to the care of relatives in Belfast. He lived near the Herzog family in the north of the city.
If Abba Eban betrayed little of his Belfast background in later life, it was the first of a bizarre set of coincidences which had his career run parallel to Chaim Herzog's.
Both men were educated at Cambridge, where they became firm friends, and both fought Hitler serving as officers in the British Army.
Eban and Herzog were attracted to Palestine, where they contributed their immense talents to the Zionist movement. Both rose to the highest diplomatic rank possible in the new state of Israel, representing their country at different times in the United Nations.
Eban became Israel's first UN ambassador in 1948, and two years later served also as ambassador to the US. Herzog took up the reigns at the UN in 1974, when Israel stood isolated in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.
Even greater prizes lay ahead. Herzog became president of Israel in 1983. Eban was for eight years Israel's foreign secretary and was for a time deputy prime minister. These two men, right at the heart of Israeli politics for over four decades, even married sisters.
Eban married Suzy Ambashe, from a distinguished Jewish family living in Egypt. It was through his former neighbour off the Cliftonville Road, that Chaim Herzog met his wife, Suzy's younger sister, Aura.
Belfast provided more for Abba Eban than his first link with Chaim Herzog. It also gave him a step-father and his new name.
The family which looked after him in Ulster was the Elliott family, who had two boys studying medicine at Queens. Eban's mother was working for her brother, a doctor in a run down district in the east end of London. The surgery was overwhelmed by a flu epidemic.
A desperate call for help to the Elliott boys had to be turned down, as neither had qualified yet. But they knew a young Scottish doctor then practising in Belfast. His name was Isaac Eban.
Eban agreed to help out at the surgery in London, where he met Abba's mother, and fell in love.
After their marriage, and the end of the Great War, Aubrey Meir was brought back to London, where both he and his elder sister adopted the name of their step-father.
The remarkable legacy of Chaim Herzog (who died in 1997) and Abba Eban is not without controversy in Israel.
BOTH accepted, ahead of their time, that Israel's best means of security would ultimately come from a settlement with the Arabs, once the latter finally came to accept the Jewish state's right to exist. Sadly neither's hoped for peace has come to pass.
But they were also perceived by their fellow Israelis as being patrician and aloof, and were respected rather than loved by an electorate, who prefer their leaders to be more rough and tumble, dogmatic and emotional.
The effortless success of Herzog and Eban at almost everything they turned their hands to, from journalism to broadcasting, as well as politics and diplomacy, inevitably gave rise to envy as well as to admiration.
But in Belfast, at the end of the Great War, few in the local Jewish community could have foreseen in their wildest dreams what lay ahead for these two children in their midst.
The Jewish people had then been without a state to call their own for almost two millenia.
From this tiny outpost of the Jewish diaspora emerged two statesmen who were to play a pivotal role in the success of Israel in bringing this homelessness to an end, and the survival of the new Jewish state in a largely hostile world.


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Today as a part of the ongoing MPB Insights interview series Christopher Durham, founder of My Private Brand, talks to Charles Kaye, CEO of Greenblendz. The series features short interviews with executives from private brand manufacturers consisting of five questions. The project is based on one main principle: the less useless words, the better. The goal is to give readers as much thought provoking, insightful information as possible. Less is more.
Charles Kaye has spent four decades traversing the retail market arena wearing many different hats including manufacturers rep, CEO, product developer and marketing strategist. His ability to see and understand the big picture has kept him relevant in a rapidly changing retail environment.
Christopher: How did you get your started in the private brand business?
Charles: I began supplying Private Label NBE household chemical products to K Mart in 1971. In the early "80's I supplied them with NBE Private Label Motor Oil. At the time NBE was a commodity business that was driven strictly by price. Today Private Label has evolved into Private Brands or as we call it National Brands Better, which is clearly what todays Millennial shopper is demanding.
Christopher: What is your proudest accomplishment?
Charles: I have been fortunate to be a part of many exciting business opportunities during my career but I feel that being a part of a company who's mission is to formulate and provide consumer products that are literally healthier and safer for them is extremely rewarding. To know that my children are using our products on my grandsons is beyond gratifying.
Christopher: What will private brand look like in 20 years?
Charles: Clearly the most aggressive competition for the retailer is the internet. More than 30% of the Millennial purchases are now made on line. Retailers can only combat this with Private Brand programs that offer a distinct, proprietary value to its' shoppers. Today 28% of all purchases are in Private brand and I believe that this will more than double in the next 20 years. Our successes and data supports this.
Christopher: If you could give retailers one piece of advice what would it be?
Charles: Get actively involved in all aspects of your own brands. Truly understand what those brands stand for. Launch your brand with the same marketing strategy that a national brand would employ. Make your suppliers true partners not your banker. Invest in the long term growth rather than the short term ROI.
Today's consumer have too many choices. Make your store be that choice.
Christopher: What keeps you up at night?
Charles: Retailers that operate out of a rearview mirror, who are intimidated by innovation. The five "P's" of basic marketing (Product, Packaging, Placement, Pricing and Promotion) still has value. Mold them to your business model and today's available platforms. Pay attention to your data. Look forward not behind you.


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J. Carlos Ayus, MD; Joseph Varon, MD; Allen I. Arieff, MD
Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, Miami, Florida, 4 November 1999, and published as an abstract in J Am Soc Nephrol. 1999; 10:119A.
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Author Contributions: Conception and design: J.C. Ayus, J. Varon, A.I. Arieff.
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Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema is often associated with increased intracranial pressure and can be the initial manifestation of hyponatremic encephalopathy. Marathon runners tend to develop conditions that lead to hyponatremia.
To describe the development and treatment of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema in marathon runners that was associated with hyponatremic encephalopathy.
Case series.
One university hospital and two community hospitals.
Seven healthy marathon runners who had a history of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use. The runners collapsed after competing in a marathon and were hospitalized with pulmonary edema.
Plasma sodium levels, chest radiograph, electrocardiogram, cardiac enzyme levels, and magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomographic scans of the brain.
Patients had nausea, emesis, and obtundation. The mean (±SD) plasma sodium level was 121 ± 3 mmol/L, and oxygen saturation was less than 70%. Electrocardiograms and echocardiograms were normal. Chest radiographs showed pulmonary edema with a normal heart. Creatine phosphokinase-MB bands, troponin levels, and pulmonary wedge pressure were not elevated. Scanning of the brain showed cerebral edema. All patients were intubated and mechanically ventilated. Treatment with intravenous NaCl, 514 mmol/L, increased plasma sodium levels by 10 mmol/L in 12 hours. Pulmonary and cerebral edema resolved as the sodium level increased. One patient had unsuspected hyponatremic encephalopathy and died of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by brainstem herniation. All six treated patients recovered and were well after 1 year of follow-up.
In healthy marathon runners, noncardiogenic pulmonary edema can be associated with hyponatremic encephalopathy. The condition may be fatal if undiagnosed and can be successfully treated with hypertonic NaCl.
Ayus JC, Varon J, Arieff AI. Hyponatremia, Cerebral Edema, and Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema in Marathon Runners. Ann Intern Med. 2000;132:711–714. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-132-9-200005020-00005
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I love the minimalistic approach on this theme. It is colorful and fun yet really clean and fresh. This responsive theme would be excellent for a personal blog
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This is a very well designed multi-purpose premium WordPress theme. I like the simplicity of this theme and the typography.
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PinBin is a pretty cool theme with a masonary style layout. This would be a great portfolio theme.
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A theme in classic personal tumblog style. Fully featured, responsive and high resolution. Anew gives much content variety with all 10 post formats shown in a unique way
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You want to find out how to get treatment of jewellery and get and market it responsibly, whether you are supplying jewellery gifts, receiving them, or inheriting family heirlooms. This post will offer you with some crucial guidelines on how to best shop for jewelry.
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I've mentioned before in this blog about my love for all things celtics, so it should come as no surprise that I am still reeling from last week's game 7 finals loss to the Lakers.
The damn Lakers.
Maybe I should be happy that this team even went this far. Just last March, I was silently expecting a first round flameout by the celtics.
Then they started moving up each round, taking down Wade, Lebron & Dwight Howard. We made it to the finals. It was celtics v. lakers. A series for all the marbles. We had to get this.
You know the rest of the story.
Still, it was great to root for a scrappy, feisty team that still had a puncher's chance at the title even until the final minute of the season's last game. I must admit, however, that this playoff run has left me exhausted & deflated.
I really shouldn't complain. They made the finals & I've seen much worse.
In the 90's, I was that awkward teen with a celtic hat, rooting for a 15 win team. Earlier that decade, I collected newspaper clippings about Reggie Lewis, the team's young star, collapsing on the court then dying of a heart condition.
There was coach M.L. Carr (gag!), coach Rick Pitino (blech!), a season's worth of tanking for a shot at the Tim Duncan lottery (and ending up with Ron Mercer), team captain & mr. celtic: Rick Fox, uncle Dominique Wilkins & his #12 celtic jersey, John freaking Bagley & then future savior, Vin Baker.
whew, I'm tired.
But come november, you can bet I'll be at it again. Rooting for the team in green.
I'll be ready.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013
Tip#717: Uplifting Reminders & Messages at Christmas - Rocky Balboa – Real Steel
Most of the evenings I was stuffed to the gills and happily bloated. So I just watched whatever movies were playing on the large flat screen TV. There was a double feature on boxing we saw that magically felt like they had messages for me for the New Year AND a reminder that my Dad's spirit was definitely with me this Christmas. He had passed away suddenly at Christmas time a few years ago. See: tip#313
This is the sixth installment in the Rocky film series where Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), now in his late 50's, is a widower and estranged from his son Robert (Milo Ventimiglia). With an opportunity to go back into the ring one last time, Rocky has a powerful dialogue with his son that ultimately brings them closer together. Seeing this scene made me feel like my Dad was still here motivating me to keep moving forward no matter how many times life keeps knocking me down. See: Rocky's empowering speech
This science fiction sports drama is about a future where robot boxers have replaced humans. Former boxer Charlie (Hugh Jackman) competes using his amazing robots when he must suddenly take his estranged 11 year old son, Max (Dakota Goyo), with him on the road. Max quickly demonstrates he is wiser beyond his years with excellent skills in operating robots, promotion and marketing. Together they make a highly effective team and achieve impossible goals. Again, seeing this made me remember my own Dad and how supportive he was with my creativity and my career. I missed him and yet this film made me feel he was still with me.
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Bonobos are notoriously promiscuous, with instances of group sex and females often engaging in same sex relations. Research published in the February edition of Biology Letters revealed that females cry out when copulating with either sex, and when two females are together, the lower ranking one cries out to signal her achievement.
"Female bonobos achieve power by forming coalitions with other females as well as males, so getting powerful female friends, and advertising it, matters," Zanna Clay, a primatologist at the University of St. Andrews University told LiveScience. "Like humans, sex among bonobos is not only used for reproduction, it is also important in other ways, such as friendship and bonding, and keeping close to powerful others."
Typically, female cries were seen to represent the ability to attract a superior partner and an aptitiude for sex, thus making themselves more attractive to other potential mates and increasing chances of reproducing. This recent study proves that the cries are used for other purposes.
When lower-ranking females copulate with either sex, it was found the chances of the inferior bonobo crying out increased as its partner's social ranking increased, irrespective of sex. This demonstrates that the main point of the cry is to announce new alliances -- but only the ones worth shouting about.
The endangered bonobo species are the closest living relatives to humans, along with chimpanzees, yet little is known about them. They can only be found in the wild in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making it difficult to study them for any extended period.
"The political instability and poor logistics of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the forest's remoteness, mean that research on bonobos still remains a great challenge," explains Clay.
The team spent a year monitoring the animals, but Clay admits more research would be needed to understand how bonobos interpret the calls.
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(Reuters Health) - A new review of online advertisements from pediatric "sleep coaches" finds that more than half do not have any previous health care or educational experience, and most have no more than a bachelor's degree.
Whether the prospective coaches are good resources for families remains to be seen, the authors write in The Journal of Pediatrics.
An emerging specialty in the U.S., sleep coaches don't need to be licensed in the states where they practice, and usually are not, the study team writes.
"Self-proclaimed sleep coaches, or people who treat childhood sleep problems who are not board-certified in sleep medicine or behavioral sleep medicine, have been around for quite some time," said lead author Dr. David G. Ingram, citing one woman who claims to have been helping families with sleep issues for 17 years.
Ingram is a board-certified pediatrician currently in fellowship training to be a board-certified pediatric sleep physician at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora.
"My anecdotal impression is that over the last 3-5 years the number of people doing this has increased quite a bit," Ingram told Reuters Health by email. "Frankly, this makes sense to me given how common sleep problems in children are, the enormous distress they can cause for the entire family, and how few board-certified pediatric sleep physicians and behavioral sleep specialists are out there to help."
Searching the internet, Ingram and his coauthors identified more than 100 sleep coaches advertising their services across the U.S.
Most described their approach as "coaching" caregivers to respond to a child to help the child learn to put itself to sleep.
Behavioral treatment of bedtime problems is actually well supported by studies, the authors note, but the sleep coach websites did not give much detail about their specific approach.
"While there are many previous studies demonstrating that behavioral interventions are effective for behavioral insomnia in children, I am not aware of any studies that have evaluated how effective sleep coaches are," Ingram said. "This is an important question that needs answering."
In-person consultations lasting one to three hours cost an average of $368, while group sessions could cost under $100 and overnight packages over $1,000, the review found.
All the sleep coaches Ingram's team identified cited a certification or training program of some kind, most commonly the Gentle Sleep Coach, a $6,000 four-month online course with a final exam and a requirement to work three pro-bono cases.
More than 40 percent of sleep coaches did not report a college degree, 25 percent had a bachelor's degree, 26 percent had a master's degree or doctorate and the remaining coaches had other advanced degrees.
Around six percent of the sleep coaches reported experience working as nurses, another six percent as psychologists, smaller percentages had worked in other areas of health care or education, and 54 percent did not report experience in health care or education of any kind.
Up to 30 percent of children have some form of sleep disturbances in early childhood, said Dr. Shalini Paruthi, chair of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine education committee.
"No medications are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of pediatric insomnia," Paruthi told Reuters Health by email. "It would be great if there was an effective, non-harmful, non-addictive, rigorously tested sleep medication for children, however currently no ideal hypnotic medication exists for children."
Most pediatricians are likely unaware of sleep coaches, but parents are seeking their advice, Ingram said.
"In my opinion, the primary risk of contacting a provider who is not board certified in a medical or psychological specialty (such as by the American Board of Sleep Medicine), is that they might miss an underlying medical, developmental, or psychological problem that affects sleep," said Melissa Moore of the Sleep Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She was not involved in the new study.
Sleep coaches may not have the experience to screen for conditions that affect sleep, like obstructive sleep apnea, reflux, seizures, depression and autism, she told Reuters Health by email.
Parents of children with sleep issues should start with a thorough evaluation by a general pediatrician, Ingram said.
"They may be able to solve the problem, or they may refer the child to a pediatric sleep physician or behavioral sleep specialist," he said. "There are also a lot of great books out there by well-reputed sleep specialists that offer practical advice that usually works, including Jodi Mindell's 'Sleeping Through the Night.'"
The online search may not have included all the sleep coaches practicing in the U.S., the authors write, but describing this emerging group will help in the development of guidelines for training, certification and insurance coverage.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1BeFhg3 The Journal of Pediatrics, online November 27, 2014.


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"The Hundred-Foot Journey" Begins Filming
Production has begun in southwest France on Lasse Hallström's adaptation of Richard C. Morais' best-selling novel "The Hundred-Foot Journey" at DreamWorks Studios and Participant Media.
The culinary drama follows the rivalry between a three-Michelin-star restaurant in France, and the Indian restaurant that resides just a hundred feet away.
The French restaurant is run by eccentric chef Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), who reluctantly forms a mentoring bond with a young Indian boy (Manish Dayal) whose family owns the rival restaurant.
Steve Knight ("Eastern Promises") penned the script, while Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake are producing. An August 8th 2014 release is planned.
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