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If you're feeling hemmed in and know that there's much more to you than what you're currently experiencing but don't know quite how to access it, then "Leap of Perception," by Penney Peirce deserves a read. Penney wrote about working with dreams and intuition long before working with either became common. Through her simple, guided exercises and partly through the subtle energy of awareness that she transmits through her writing, Penney invites us to step into expanded states of consciousness.
The magic of Penney's descriptions about states of consciousness is that by drawing awareness to them, she makes them recognizable, and from that place of awareness we can shift into a more expansive state. Most of us, most of the time, hang out in the place of linear perception. But Penney invites us to step into the Intuition Age by making a leap into spherical perception. "After changing from linear to spherical perception reality functions differently," she writes. "For starters, there is no outside world!" Did you grasp that? "Linear reality is like a donut and its empty hole," she says. "Because you're looking elsewhere for what you want, for validation of who you are, and for the meaning of life, you don't experience your true self in the center. You can feel 'mindless' or 'out of your mind.' Your consciousness has 'left your body' to occupy other points of time and space – and in effect, 'nobody's home.' You, yourself have become a gap!"
If that sounds familiar, if you've been feeling empty and like you're not enough or don't have enough, Peirce encourages us with her reassurance. "To transform and find Intuition Age perceptions, you need to take up your rightful place in the center of the here and now and in your body starting with the center points in your head and heart."
Part of the magic of her writing is that her astute observations help us to identify experiences we're having that feel less than satisfactory, and she shows us ways out (or in) and the shifts can happen instantaneously. This is ancient wisdom written for today, right now, in clear terms that have the ability to transform your perceptions in an instant.
Bio: Debra Moffitt is the award-winning author of Awake in the World: 108 Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life and "Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery" (Llewellyn Worldwide, February 2013). A visionary, dreamer and teacher, she's devoted to nurturing the spiritual in everyday life. She leads workshops on spiritual practices, writing and creativity in the U.S. and Europe. More at http://www.awakeintheworld.com and on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/DebraMoffittAwakeintheWorld
The things we need arrive at the right time, and so it has been with Mark Nepo and his work. For those of us on a spiritual path, Mark's writings possess the power to immediately move us into connection with a subtle and powerful awareness at the deepest, most soulful level. Though Mark Nepo's writing has been with us for a while, it wasn't until Oprah received a copy of Mark's Book of Awakening through one of her staff assistants that it came to the notice of millions. This all happened at a critical time.
I first interviewed Mark around the time he'd just lost his day job and faced some health problems. At what seemed like one of his darker hours, Oprah also discovered Mark's work, and that darkness turned to light as his book, which he'd written some ten years earlier, became a New York Times bestselling book. Oprah recently did two more interviews with him for upcoming shows from her home in Hawaii. Regarding all the success, Mark remains grateful but unfazed by the recognition of his work, and he continues to teach and practice presence in much the same way as before. I asked him to share some his recent experiences, as well as tell us more about his latest book, Reduced to Joy. He's also offered us one of the poems from his book at the end of this post.
Debra Moffitt: You have written about awakening, silence, and finally joy. Reduced to Joy, your latest book of poems, feels like a culmination of your many years of spiritual connection. Are joy and bliss the final experiences that arrive on the spiritual journey?
Mark Nepo: I'm not sure there is any final experience to this mysterious journey. I think we continue to be brought closer and closer to the aliveness we carry. For me, joy is different than happiness. While happiness is a fleeting mood, joy is larger and more lasting than any one feeling. If each feeling is a wave of emotion, then joy is the ocean that holds all feelings. As I get older, I'm coming to realize that joy is central to our knowing peace. It's one deep way that we access Oneness. I'm also beginning to see that joy is the hum of Oneness. It's the sensation of being connected to life itself. Another way to speak of joy is to say that it's the reward for facing our experience. Often, what keeps us from joy is the menacing assumption that life is happening other than where we are. So we are always leaving, running from or running to. What keeps us from joy, then, is often not being where we are and not valuing what is before us.
Debra Moffitt: How did Reduced to Joy come into being?
Mark Nepo: Poems come slowly. They break surface like dolphins after long stretches of going under. So writing a book of poems for me is different than writing my other books. I have to sit when I'm able and try to make heart-sense of what life has been doing to me and with me. Like wringing out a sponge, I squeeze what matters onto the page, let it dry, and see what's there the next day. One by one, they gather into an instructive whole. All this is to say that by trying to make sense of my own experience, I've discovered a theme to the journey, that we are all reduced to joy, worn away of all excess. To survive this, we often need to hold each other up in order to discover and return to what matters. This book explores these essential relationships, which keep shaping me.
Debra Moffitt: I love the title of your book. As your poem, "Where is God?" expresses, it seems that once all is stripped away there's nothing more to obscure joy. Can you speak more to what joy is and is not and how we might know the difference?
Mark Nepo: After all these years, I'm beginning to see that tranquility is the depth of being that holds what we think and feel, not the still point after we've silenced what we think and feel. Serenity is the depth of being that holds difficulty, not the resting point after we've ended difficulty. And peace is the depth of being that holds suffering and doubt, not the raft we climb on to avoid suffering and doubt. This leads us to joy, which is much deeper and larger than any one feeling. Happiness, fear, anxiety, contentment, doubt, regret, unworthiness, anger, despair—all these and more are the waves that rise and fall in the sea of being.
Debra Moffitt: Is there anything else you'd like to share with readers?
Mark Nepo: These poems have been retrieved and shaped over the last thirteen years. They have been my teachers about the nature of working with what we're given till it wears us through to joy. My hope is that the poems in this book will serve as a threshold to an underlying connection to the greater life we are all a part of. I hope the book will be a resource for you when faced with the difficulties of living. I hope the poems will confirm that, no matter the struggle you find yourself in, you are not alone. May these poems be honest companions on the journey to joy.
A Poem from Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo reprinted with his permission.
Where is God?
Can you feel the excitement in the air? The days are hot and sunny, and summer officially begins this week on June 21st. It's the longest day and the shortest night in the Northern hemisphere. I love this day. In the South of France it's celebrated by jumping over bonfires as a way to gain courage and embrace the power of light and fire. That tradition dates back to pagan times, long before the Catholic church arrived to taint it with negative views about the appreciation of nature and the power of the five elements.
There's a whole history of rituals related to this day and ways to honor and capture some of the magic of this mystical portal into summer. For centuries people have gathered at Stonehenge to welcome the season. Author Deborah Blake who writes on magic and rituals says, "The earth is at its most fertile and life is bursting out all over." She advises that this is the best time for magical work "for abundance, fertility, and any kind of growth."
I love it both as a time that presents an opportunity to burn away the old habits and baggage that no longer serve. And at the same time it's a moment where the whole world feels alive with the vibrant, radiant energy of sunlight. It feels like a time of great possibility and a moment to enjoy life to its fullest. In France the day often coincides with the "Fete de la Musique", a country-wide music day where you'll find people playing harps on street corners, rock bands pound out a rhythm from pubs, and orchestras spontaneously set up in open squares to play under the rising moon.
How will you spend the solstice? Make a plan to turn it into a special day. Go to the beach for a picnic with your beau. Dance with girlfriends under the moon in a grove of trees. Paint or write on a project that your heart yearns for you to create. Kiss a loved one. Join me at Esalen Institute June 21st-23rd for a magical writing retreat. Play! Happy summer.
Bio: Debra Moffitt is the award winning author of Awake in the World: 108 Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life and "Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery" (Llewellyn Worldwide, May 2013). A visionary, dreamer and teacher, she's devoted to nurturing the spiritual in everyday life. She leads workshops on spiritual practices, writing and creativity in the U.S. and Europe. More at http://www.awakeintheworld.com and on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/DebraMoffittAwakeintheWorld
Stepping onto the spiritual path isn't all peace and roses. It pushes us into a place that moves us beyond our usual comfort zone. As we attune to the highest within us and listen to inner guidance, that guidance sometimes pushes us to try new jobs, to stretch into new creative projects, and to sometimes to move to new places. Author, radio host and intuitive, Bernadette Dickinson experienced just that as her inner life awaken. She lived in Seattle, but over several years her dreams kept pointing to a move to Colorado. She says she worked in marketing, but a series of events occurred which acted like questions from the Universe that said, "Are you ready to move now?" Bernadette says, "I really wasn't, but it quickly became clear that if I didn't life was bound to get more difficult."
She writes, "I took a week off to get clear on what needed to happen and make some choices. During that week, Spirit opened up the "plan" for me. After realizing I had a strong pull to go, I moved to Colorado. I was shown a general area and after 3 calls, rented a house with 2 acres over the phone. Within 3 days I was living in Colorado . I had no idea what I was going to do for work, how I was going to make it or even what the area was like. It took a huge leap of faith but, 13 years later I am living on that same piece of property. I built a 3300 sq ft house, a greenhouse, and am raising dairy goats, chickens and I produce a lot of our family's food."
She felt her Spirit was urging her to physically move and yet she resisted. I asked her "How do you reconcile the difference between Spirit and the part of you that doesn't want to follow that inner guidance?" I love Bernadette's response. She says:
"I've been resisting Spirit a good part of my life. I was born a natural Clairvoyant and Clairaudient. Being raised in a Christian home, these gifts were not honored. I kept my gifts hidden as much as possible and it caused me a lot of turmoil. Throughout my life I found, when I listened to Spirit and did what I was told, things went really smoothly. When I resisted, there were so many obstacles, so much struggle. When I'm in resistance to Spirit's urgings I tend to get very depressed and sad. I start getting physically ill and things around me start to malfunction. It's fairly easy to reconcile my ego desires at this point, due to the intense lessons I've endured resisting Spirit."
I asked her some more questions to help us understand how to work with inner guidance. Here's the short Q&A
Q: How do you receive inner guidance?
Bernadette Dickinson: Sometimes I get guidance in dreams, very lucid dreams. At other times, messages come through visions. I meditate a lot, during that silence Spirit can easily speak to me. I tend to have warnings show up in very unusual but obvious ways when I'm going in the wrong direction.
Q: I love your comment: "If you think the spiritual path is boring, you are way wrong." Please speak more to this.
Bernadette Dickinson: We tend to think of spirituality as a burdensome practice. It is just the opposite. I learned many years ago that if I make my spiritual walk the priority, everything lines up perfectly. I've learned so much about the workings of the Universe by focusing upon Spiritual growth. It never bores me to learn and experience miracles. It's quite exciting to ask for guidance or assistance from Spirit, knowing that the answers will come in the most profound, unexpected ways. When you ask for assistance, suddenly someone shows up in your life experience that is just what you need. When you ask for guidance, things start appearing to give you that guidance. It can be an email, a phone call, a road sign. The Universe is unlimited, likewise, the experience of Spirit working in our lives is unlimited.
Q: You said that part of us tends to create drama. Which part is this? How does that happen to you?
Bernadette Dickinson: As humans, we are programmed to operate from our Ego Mind. The Ego tends to focus on selfish desire and intellect. When we are unaware or unconscious of the ego, we tend to create emotional fixes. It shows up in the form of immediate gratification. It bolsters our sense of pride, arrogance and a false sense of connection. When we are disconnected from Self and Spirit, we feel like something's missing. We feel empty, sad and experience a deep sense of longing. The Ego wants to soothe that, giving us ideas of filling that void with things outside of ourselves. We think we need to focus on something outside of ourselves, be it food, sex, attainment of physical things. In this case, we do things to ourselves and others that is not based on Love but fear. We create a false connection and immediately feel lack, disconnection, discontent. Rather then redirect ourselves to our Soul Self, we reach outside again, repeating the same cycle of distraction and disconnection. It's a vicious cycle, damaging our bodies, hurting others and even the environment. Our soul longs for connection, a knowledge of self and Source/God. When we override the Ego, quiet the mind, our inner guidance directs us to what we really need. Once we make the connection to Self, we are able to observe our emotions, thoughts and desires from a place that allows us to make a deep connection to All That Is. In those moments, the "needs/desires" dissipate and we realize we have no need of anything outside of ourselves.
I tend to create drama when I'm overwhelmed. Something happens or it doesn't, I instantly want to react by "doing" something to fix what is happening. I find when I'm not grounded, I emotionally react to things and blow them up with words, accusations, fears. If I'm bored and what an emotional fix, I might start an argument with someone. It's crazy to me, that we are so attracted to emotional drama. When I feel the urge to create any kind of drama, I know it's time to stop, get quiet and check in with my inner guidance to see what's really going on. Once I identify the internal cause, I can calmly follow the guidance to peace.
Q: Is there anything else you'd like to share?
Bernadette Dickinson: There is so much I'd like to share with others. Most of all, I want everyone to know they have the power to create their own reality. They have power to make deep connections that are real. Life is very exciting and fulfilling when we have faith in Divine guidance. It becomes peaceful, joyful and ever expanding.
Bernadette's website is www.bernadettesvision.com. She also wrote a book called: "30 Days to a Charmed Life". It's a workbook filled with exercises to help anyone change their life. It reveals the ways she worked through her own fears, lack, and misunderstandings "to become who I am today." There's a link on her website to Kindle Ebook version.
Bio: Debra Moffitt is the award winning author of Awake in the World: 108 Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life and "Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery" (Llewellyn Worldwide, May 2013). A visionary, dreamer and teacher, she's devoted to nurturing the spiritual in everyday life. She leads workshops on spiritual practices, writing and creativity in the U.S. and Europe. More at http://www.awakeintheworld.com and on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/DebraMoffittAwakeintheWorld


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Women in Radiology
As women seek leadership positions in radiology, they often still encounter road-blocks. How can a woman break through the glass (or rad) ceiling? One suggestion offered by leading women radiologists in this RSNA article is that since every woman is unique, it's important to set individual goals that can help establish a clear purpose and track.
Social Media Connecting Female RADs
We use social media to share everything from news articles, to health tips, to recipes, to pictures of our pets. Why not use it as a productive tool for women in radiology? Read how female physicians have joined together to create groups across social media for sharing everything from the latest and greatest in medicine, to balancing motherhood with their careers, and tips to alleviate burnout.
Shattering Radiology's Glass Ceiling
Dr. Amy Patel, Former Chief Resident at the University of Kansas-Wichita, and current Breast Radiology Fellow at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Washington University in Saint Louis, shares her experience as the first female chief in an all-male program.

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Celebrate the best of California cuisine and award-winning craft brews at the very first onsite brewery in Downtown Disney.
Try taste-provoking ice cream at a family-run scoop shop featuring handmade, small-batch, seasonal flavors made with local ingredients—now in the Downtown Disney District at Disneyland Resort.
Emm-I-See delightful Mickey displays, enjoy photo ops in themed rooms and more at this pop-up experience in the Downtown Disney District.
Enjoy a quick bite at an open-air café, sip handcrafted cocktails, indulge in gourmet cupcakes or savor an exquisite sit-down dinner—there's something to please most every palate!
Browse boutiques for must-have apparel and accessories, discover amazing art collectibles and shop at one of the world's largest Disney stores!
The Downtown Disney District is conveniently located in the heart of all the action and is easily accessible for Guests of the Disneyland Resort.
Enjoy 3 hours of parking when you make a $20 minimum purchase and receive validation from any Downtown Disney location (including quick-service restaurants, merchandise locations and kiosks)—or up to 5 hours of parking with validation from any Downtown Disney table-service restaurant.
Beyond these validations, each additional hour costs $14, charged in 30-minute increments, with a minimum $7 charge after the initial 15-minute grace period. Additionally, the maximum daily parking and lost ticket fee is $56. Parking is subject to capacity.
Guess who's coming to the Downtown Disney District? Prepare to be wowed with these exciting new dining options sure to tempt taste buds—scheduled to open this winter!
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Celebrate the best of California cuisine and award-winning craft brews at the very first onsite brewery in Downtown Disney.
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Craving craft burgers and beer? Or perhaps an over-the-top milkshake suits your fancy? Look no further than this fabulous fusion of luncheonette-style food, beverages and old-school hip hop music!
Follow us @DisneylandToday on Facebook and Twitter to stay connected! From brand-new dining and shopping options to live events and entertainment, you'll receive the latest news, happenings and special offers to help make the most of your Downtown Disney District visit. With so much to see and do, you won't want to miss a minute!


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Imagine that framed artwork suddenly comes to life and you change the channel on it, just as you would with a regular TV. What if, that beautiful framed artwork can function as your TV at the same time? Experience one of the hottest trends in home décor right in your living room, now made affordable due to mass production. The Universal TV Frame allowed user to encase their flat-panel TV inside a picture frame, looks just like a museum painting. Giving your television the high-end custom built look, without the high-end cost.
Our Patented smart design eliminates the IR remote control, and sounds problems associated with covering up a flatscreen TV with a picture frame. This is what differentiates us from your local custom frame shop. We've streamline what was once a costly, custom process with long turn-around time, into a quick, practical solution for the home décor industry. Now there's a new standard, at LCD Fashion we present a new way to enjoy flat panel television.
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A gift in a Will is a personal gift of great importance and a lasting legacy to your beliefs and values.
Many Australians hold a life-long love for the zoo - a place that represents their earliest memories of animals, and a place they have visited repeatedly and enjoyed throughout their lives.
At Zoos Victoria we are privileged to be realising the final wishes of countless Australians who have cared deeply for wildlife, who have held a sentimental appreciation for 'their zoo', and who named our organisation as a beneficiary in their Will.
Leaving a gift to Zoos Victoria – no matter what size – ensures that we continue to provide our animals with the highest quality of care and offer our visitors a quality experience that becomes a memory for life.
Your gift will also support the conservation efforts that Zoos Victoria undertakes in Australia and overseas to protect the natural habitats of threatened species.
Please read information for making your Will.
Several times each year, we receive notification of gifts that have been left to the Zoo from someone that we have never met. While we are always incredibly appreciative and grateful for this gift, we're also saddened by the fact that we did not know about these people's intentions, or their interest in wildlife and the Zoo, during their lifetime.
If you intend to leave a gift to Zoos Victoria in your Will, please consider advising us, so that we are able to keep you informed of events, activities and our plans for the future. Let us acknowledge your intentions and your love for wildlife during your lifetime, so that when you go, you know where your support will go.
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US ISP Suddenlink Claims The DMCA Requires They Disconnect Users
from the more-like-Sudden-UN-link deptTorrentFreak has the news that US cable ISP Suddenlink has implemented its own form of a three strikes policy, and defends it by falsely claiming the DMCA requires it. Torrentfreak has the transcript of a discussion between a customer who has been cut off and a Suddenlink rep blaming the DMCA:
Customer: I want to reconnect my internet service. They said I got 3 DMCA letters and they said that by law I had to be disconnected. Is that true?This is, of course, not true. The DMCA has no requirement that ISPs disconnect people after three accusations (not convictions) -- and it especially doesn't say that ISPs don't need to offer a refund when they do this. For all the fighting by the record labels trying to get a three strikes policy into law and complaining about the DMCA, perhaps it makes them happy to know that some ISPs are simply pretending the DMCA is a three strikes policy.
Suddenlink rep: Yes, your internet was disconnected due to DMCA. When the internet is disconnected due to DMCA, it can not be reconnected for a minimum of 6 months.
Customer: The DMCA makes that requirement?
Suddenlink rep: Yes.
Customer: So you're stating, for the record, that by law, the DMCA law, that you have to disconnect users for receiving 3 DMCA letters?
Suddenlink rep: You have no choice in the matter.
Suddenlink rep: It is the DMCA policy that it can not be reconnected for 6 months.
Suddenlink rep: It may be the DMCA policy or it may be the way we go about following the DMCA guidelines.
Customer: The law states that?
Suddenlink rep: Once the 3rd offense occurs, it can not be reconnected for 6 months.
Suddenlink Rep: The information I have on the DMCA states: This law was enacted in 1998 to protect against illegal downloading of copyrighted material like movies, music, etc. As an Internet Service Provider (ISP), Suddenlink , and other ISPs, must implement a policy of terminating internet service of customers who repeatedly share copyrighted files.
Of course, customers may think otherwise, and may prefer to find an ISP that actually believes in due process and actually supports its users against unsubstantiated accusations of file sharing.
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Chicago's teachers have just walked off the job, and most of the media coverage is quick to point out that this is the city's first strike in a generation. But is anyone really that surprised by a public school union striking just as kids are supposed to be heading back to class in September? Wouldn't you be a lot more shocked if you logged on to Amazon.com and were greeted by the message that its site was down due to an employee walkout? Or if you took the kids to the movies to see the latest cartoon extravaganza and found picketing ticket-takers? What is it about public schools—and other government enterprises, for that matter—that have made their unions so much more dominant than those in the private sector? [Two thirds of the public school workforce is unionized compared to about 7 percent in the private sector].
Competitors. Or, rather, the lack of them. Private sector workers can only demand so much from their companies before the demands become self-defeating. Get a pension package that's too cushy, a salary that's too far above the market rate, and the employer will have to pass those costs on to customers. And if those higher prices aren't accompanied by correspondingly better quality, customers will simply go elsewhere—hurting the employees who asked for more than the market would bear.
And there's the problem with public schooling: there's no "elsewhere." If you don't like the way your local school district is run, there isn't a competing school district vying to provide your kids with a better education at a lower cost. You've got no place else to go, and unions know this. So they can ask for more employees to be hired, better pensions or health benefits, and they can demand that their compensation not depend on their performance. And there's very little that parents and taxpayers can do about it.
That's what's happened in Chicago, where the average teacher's salary is about $75,000 (almost 50% above the citywide private sector average), public sector retirement benefits are so generous that Illinois owes $203 billion for this purpose that it simply doesn't have, and the teachers' union has decided that it will not go along with the district's plan to make salaries depend partly on classroom performance.
In the absence of real private sector competition and parental choice, public school unions have been able to drive up the system's costs without needing to show improvement in performance. Sooner or later, Illinois will adopt a system, like education tax credits, that provides real choice and competition, because the current system will ultimately bankrupt the state.


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Gaming heads has been working away on a line of enormous Team Fortress 2 statues for literally years now, and are only now moving onto their fourth one. But that's OK. When they turn out as nice as they have been, it's worth the wait.
The latest is my second-favourite Australian in the TF2 universe, a man whose accuracy and ability to pull of wearing a silly hat more than makes up for his slender build.
The Sniper should hopefully be out in Q2 2013, and will retail for $US220 (or $US235 for a slightly fancier, limited edition variant that comes with an African shield).
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Through fieldwork and lab work, archaeologists have been piecing together what happened to bring about the collapse of Copán, once a thriving center of Maya civilization. In this activity, you'll be following in the steps of the archaeologists who studied Copán, looking for clues to how it collapsed. You'll be trying to answer two questions:
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VIDEO: Ryan Blake on Day 4 of the NBA D-League Showcase
RENO, Nev. — For the better part of a week, morning through night, the squeak of rubber soles on hardwood floor is louder than any sounds that come from the stands. What passes for a crowd often looks like a handful of marbles rolling around in a bathtub.
The truth is the bare bones atmosphere inside the Reno Events Center makes the annual NBA D-League Showcase more closely resemble a testing lab than an extravaganza. It belies what has been a resounding success.
Now in its 13th season, the D-League continues to grow as both a business model and the future of cultivating young basketball talent. In short, it is the most scouted professional basketball league on the planet, and not just for this week when coaches and general managers from every NBA team are on hand.
"Players have come to realize that a league where you can get a direct call-up to an NBA team is the cleanest, fastest way to reach their goal," said Ryan Blake, NBA director of scouting. "There aren't hoops you have to jump through to get free from a foreign contract. There's the closeness and familiarity that lets everyone keep up and know who they are."
Fourteen of the league's 17 franchises now have exclusive relationships with NBA teams, either through direct ownership or a hybrid management. The realistic goal, according to many officials, is to one day have 30 teams, one for each NBA club.
"Thirty for 30 is something that we're closer to than I ever expected at this point," said D-League president Dan Reed. "Ten NBA teams have acquired a 1-on-1 relationship in the last three years and we have more and more teams constantly getting interested. The idea is to eventually be more of a real farm system for the NBA."
The number of NBA players with D-League experience is now approaching 30 percent and could hit 50 percent in the not-too-distant future. The Spurs' Danny Green played in the D-League as did the Rockets' Patrick Beverley and Jeremy Lin.
More of the big clubs also have come to understand the value and utilize in-season assignments of young players to the D-League. Last season Jeremy Lamb spent much of his time shuttling between Oklahoma City and Tulsa to get playing experience and now is a key member of the Thunder rotation. Reggie Jackson cut his teeth with the 66ers a year before. Beverley signed a year ago with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, made his D-League debut here at the Showcase and four months later was starting in the playoffs in Houston. Terrence Jones went from being a Vipers regular to starting for the Rockets this season.
"I think it's still a little bit of a stigma, but it's going away," said Gersson Rosas, Rockets executive vice president of basketball operations, who filled the role of Vipers GM the past four years, winning two D-League titles and getting to the finals three times.
"I don't think Terrence would be who Terrence is now without the time that he spent here last year. I think that's a great testament to the league and it's a great testament to Terrence that he applied himself, he got better and once he got the opportunity he made the most of it.
"Having said that, affiliated teams have a big advantage because they have 1-on-1 relationships and they're also the ones hiring the coaches and staff and that staff is spending a lot of time preparing the team. As a result, the philosophy is cleaner and the result is cleaner because you can develop players and get a better feel of where they're at."
The next logical step in the league's own development would be to establish a system for NBA teams to sign players to D-League contracts that do not count against the 15-man NBA roster and yet maintain their rights. Currently, except for players who are on temporary assignment from the NBA, any other NBA club can swoop in and sign any D-Leaguer.
If an NBA team could hold signing rights and exclusivity, then D-League salaries for some players could rise dramatically from what they are paid now, roughly $25,000 per season. It could also enable the D-League to compete with some of the top European leagues for frontline prospect talent. At the very least, some executives say, NBA teams should have the right to match any offers that come to one of their D-League signees by another NBA club
"The biggest strides the league has made over the last few seasons is the talent level," said Rosas. "In the next five to 10 years, it's all only going to get better."


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SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. — In politics, it is generally not a good omen when a candidate's supporters argue that he still has a chance of victory — if the opponent's supporters neglect to vote.
But this was Virginia Republican Party Chairman Pat Mullins's version of the power of positive thinking in an interview this weekend. The path for star-crossed GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, Mullins said, looks like this: "If turnout is in the 30s, the low 30s, we're gonna win. If it gets higher up in Fairfax [in Democratic-leaning Northern Virginia], say like 40, it's likely we won't. I don't think it's going to hit 40 anywhere. I'm looking at 32."
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For context, 72 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in last year's presidential election and 40 percent voted in the most recent governor's race.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama ties Cuccinelli to GOP obstructionists)
This valiant effort at optimism is the kind of thing a campaign does in the closing hours when it becomes enveloped with an unmistakable stench of impending doom.
Almost anyone who has been around politics for long in either party knows the feeling. The heart demands a cheerful, resilient sprint to the finish. The brain, which has internalized the polls and analyzed the crowds, knows there is virtually no rational reason for cheer.
Listen to the talking points from the Cuccinelli campaign and its surrogates, and watch their decisions over time and money, and all the signatures of a classic political death march are on bright display.
( QUIZ: How well do you know Ken Cuccinelli?)
* The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day. True.
* This election belongs to the people, not the pollsters and pundits. True.
* Politics, like the rest of life, is full of surprises. Supremely true.
But the reality — as the political veterans voicing these talking points know better than anyone — is that surprises like the one Cuccinelli needs are rare indeed. The last top-flight poll that had him ahead came out six months ago, although three outliers in the past week showed the race within the margin of error.
And the same depressing polls Cuccinelli publicly dismisses have driven the candidate's decisions. His strategy for the past couple of weeks has been the equivalent of hospice care for a very sick patient. Real efforts at getting well — such as trying to persuade swing voters in the vote-rich Northern Virginia suburbs — have been all but abandoned. The alternative is palliative care, trying to ease the pain and wait for a miracle by focusing the candidate's time and message on stimulating turnout among the conservative base that is already with him.
( QUIZ: How well do you know Terry McAuliffe?)
"We don't need to convince one more Virginian, not one," Cuccinelli told 150 supporters at a weekend rally here. "We just have got to get the ones who already agree with us about 'first principles' to the polls on Tuesday. That's all we've got to do to win."
This mentality is why he's wrapping up Monday night with Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman who ran three quixotic bids for president, at a rally in Richmond.
As campaigns always do in these circumstances, they grasp desperately at those polls that show the race tightening — even if one of them was conducted by a club of college students in Massachusetts.
And Cuccinelli's surrogates have added the local twist that Virginia conservatives have treasured for decades: don't let the liberal Washington Post try to tell us what to do.
( PHOTOS: Ken Cuccinelli's career)
"He can be a great governor, but to win we've got to defy the odds," said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who flew in for two rallies Saturday. "If you listen to The Washington Post, they want you to just sit down and give it up."
Walker then assured the crowd that the race is tightening.
"The reason it's getting close is because the voters are looking beyond … what The Washington Post and what the Washington elites say about this state and about this country," he said.
The candidate himself has tried to keep the mood light with self-deprecating humor. Democrat Terry McAuliffe and his allied outside groups crushed Cuccinelli and his backers by a factor of 25-to-1 in the air war last week.
( PHOTOS: Terry McAuliffe's career)
"If you own a television, you know that," Cuccinelli joked to supporters. "If you don't, my opponent will buy you one if you'll vote for him."
"I shaved my horns just for you all," he deadpanned at another stop later.
While Cuccinelli tries to keep his campaign on life support, many people who were never enthusiastic about nominating a zealous social conservative in an increasingly moderate state have been working for weeks on their unflattering obituaries.
"By all rights Cuccinelli should be walking away with this thing," said Tom Davis, a former congressman who represented Northern Virginia in the House. "And what's happened is we're getting skunked … it's just very sad."


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Brian Jacques, High Rhulain, Mary Norton, Nintendo, The Borrowers Afloat, The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time 3D, The Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword, Wii U
That's a bit more like it. 2011, though not without its difficulties (including two of the most problematic and stressful house moves of all time), was a considerably better year than 2010. Highlights included my moving to London to live with great buddies Ryan and Tom, flying to New York for a week for my brother's wedding and the admittedly faltering launch of the Nintendo 3DS.
Any new piece of hardware launching is a special occasion but Nintendo's new handheld got off to an inauspicious start in a debut year marred by start-up problems. A day one line-up and launchw window devoid of any must-have titles, the eShop delay, disappointing early sales, all signs of a flop. Not even the wonderful The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time 3D could improve the system's fortunes enough to avoid a drastic price cut and the unveiling of the aesthetically displeasing Circle Pad Pro was as good as Nintendo admitting they'd ballsed-up the hardware design. What a difference Mario makes. With Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 finally available the fledgling console's fortunes have been transformed and sales figures have skyrocketed to record-breaking levels. The Wii meanwhile seems to be on its last legs with flatlining sales and a damaging shortage of quality new titles. However The Legend of Zelda – Skyward Sword gave the Wii faithful reason to be cheerful before year's end. Finally the DS, the little handheld that could, has been coasting along to a dignified death as its more advanced successor gains steam, throwing up a few more well-received games to take it into its dotage. It hasn't been the easiest year for Nintendo but in this time of transition for the company they've kept things ticking along in preparation for a crucial year ahead.
Due to wallet restrictions I've been less than ambitious in my pursuit of new games this year. Of the titles I picked for my Top Ten Most Anticipated Games of 2011 there's still two I haven't got round to buying, two that have been delayed to this year and one (the second DS Fire Emblem title) that was never released in the UK (which made me equal parts sad and angry). I still plan to get Okamiden and Kirby's Epic Yarn as well as Sin and Punishment – Successor of the Skies, a game still left over from 2010, as soon as I can afford them. However I won't let my woeful lack of new game acquisitions stop me from announcing my Game of the Year. Ideally I'd like to wait until I've reviewed every 2011 release I have managed to get my hands on before declaring my decision but this is the first of five annual posts I have in the pipeline and I don't want them to get backed up. Plus I don't think there's much chance of the four games with reviews pending (Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Star Fox 64 3D and Xenoblade Chronicles) supplanting either of my choices for GOTY and runner-up. So without further ado…
Rose Red Prince's 2011 Game of the Year
The Legend of Zelda – Skyward Sword (Wii)
As you may have guessed from my Skyward Sword review I like Zelda quite a lot. Each new instalment is the cause of much fevered anticipation and this time was no different. Skyward Sword may have had its shortcomings but it was still a massively high quality experience packed with innovation and excitement built on a strong foundation of new and existing gameplay mechanics. The big draw was the brilliantly realised Wii Motion Plus sword combat which singlehandedly vindicated motion controls as a legitimate part of hardcore gaming but the game made bold steps in other areas too introducing a host of new concepts and focusing on diversity for a varied, compulsive experience. The bold, impressionistic art style, orchestrated soundtrack, increased difficulty and massive length all went towards a hugely satisfying package that should not have left any stalwart fans feeling short-changed. A worthy, if predictable winner. Read my full review here.
Runner-up: The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS)
It's going to be an interesting year ahead for Nintendo with the 3DS gathering pace and a slew of big new titles on the way. The handheld faces stiff competition from Sony's PlayStation Vita which launches soon and with Smart Phone gaming proving more and more lucrative it looks like Nintendo might not have it all their own way this time around. The big new development however is the Wii U which is set for release in the second half of the year. Nintendo's first HD console will have to be very special indeed if it is to keep up with rival machines with Microsoft set to reveal the successor to the Xbox 360 at E3. Promising a renewed focus on core gamers and online functionality and with pioneering new technology the company might have enough to beat the highly-stacked odds. No first party games have been unveiled as yet and the final specs and complete functionality of the machine remain unknown but with great strides being made with the 3DS' online features and industry insiders making promising noises the signs are good. I'll be revealing my Top Ten Most Anticipated Games of 2012 in due course.
As always 2011 never saw me going without a good book to read either in bed, during lunch breaks, on the train (including, newly, the London Underground) or wherever the urge takes me. The year marked the end of an era with the sad death of Brian Jacques aged 71. Brian's work on the Tales of Redwall inspired my lifelong dream to be an author and though the quality of his long-running series dropped off in his later years they are books that will always keep a fond place in my heart. I am still working my way through the series one by one, something I've been doing since 2010 and with seven books still to finish they're set to keep me occupied for some time to come. Once again I didn't read a single book published in the preceding twelve months so instead my Book of the Year and runner-up are the best titles I discovered for the first time in 2011.
Rose Red Prince's 2011 Book of the Year
High Rhulain – Brian Jacques
After a succession of so-so additions to the Redwall saga this little doozy popped up and rediscovered a little bit of what made the series so special to begin with. Featuring an effortlessly likeable heroine backed up by a diverse and balanced cast of memorable characters and a refreshing focus on adventure High Rhulain turned out to be the most eventful and enjoyable title since The Legend of Luke and a possible indicator of Jacques starting to find his form again. I'll have to plough on through the last few tales to see if it was a one-off or the start of a Renaissance. Either way it qualifies for my Book of the Year. Read my full review here.
Runner-up – The Borrowers Afloat – Mary Norton
Hopefully I should be able to get the last handful of Redwall titles reviewed by 2013 so you can expect more of Jacques' work to feature on the site in the coming months but I'll be sure to spice things up and read the odd book by other authors at some point, maybe.
It's been an odd year for films with few standout blockbuster releases that achieved critical acclaim to match ticket sales. With dull predictability, movies like Transformers – Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides both made worldwide gross of 10 digits as did the rather more deserving Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. But it was darker, more artistic films that found the most praise from critics with films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Drive and We Need to Talk about Kevin among the most revered. Animation is my big thing and it's been a decent twelve months with corkers like Disney's Tangled, Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin – The Secret of the Unicorn and Ghibli's Arrietty leading the way ahead of good sequels like Kung Fu Panda 2 and Cars 2 (which no-one seemed to like but me). I've seen enough films last year to make a list of my Top Ten Films of 2011 so you can expect to see that in the near future.
There are lots of exciting films on the way in 2012 including some major heavyweight franchises. In the world of animation it looks like this year could turn out to be something of a Renaissance for stop-motion, which makes me very happy indeed. Instead of going into detail here let me invite you to check back soon for my Top Ten Most Anticipated Films of 2012.
And what about me? I'm already working hard to get ahead and make some career progress and am pursuing a number of different options. I haven't written for either of my two novels in a while but, time permitting, should be getting back on that horse soon too. My New Year's Resolution this time last year was to go to the cinema more often. I definitely kept that one. This year I'm resolving to be bolder in everything I do. So get used to that. And get used to this blog's crisp new look too.


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A component that provides an HTML-based tree from data supplied by a backing bean. The tree is highly customizable and allows for fine-grained control over the appearance of each of the nodes depending on their type. Almost any type of JSF component (text, image, checkbox, etc.) can be rendered inside the nodes and there is an option for client-side or server-side toggling of the expand/collapse state.
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e.g. Not a Visual Component
Links to javadoc and tlddoc
<t:tree2 [tomahawk_tree2_attributes] [alt_location_attributes] [ui_component_attributes] > <f:facet name="..."> ... nested tags... <f:facet name="..."> <f:facet> ... nested tags... </f:facet> ... </t:tree2>
The Tree2 component renders a tree representation of your data with a HTML table. The tree is dynamic: nodes are expanded or collapsed when the user clicks them. The component supports both client side interaction through JavaScript, and server side interaction. In the latter case, each user click results in a request/response cycle, which re-renders the tree in the new view state.
Note that in the latter case only the visible (expanded) data is sent to the client. In the first case (client side tree), the entire tree is sent to the browser with every HTML response. Each node of the tree carries a sizable amount of HTML code with it (think 200 characters on average, depending on the amount of information you want to show in for a node), and this information is sent to the browser also for nodes that are not visible to the end user when the page is rendered, because one of their ancestor nodes is collapsed. If you have a tree, e.g., 4 levels deep, with 10 children on average for each node, you will transmit 10 + 102 + 103 + 104 = 11 110 nodes of 200 characters, or 2 222 000 characters, or roughly 2MB of data. This example should make clear that, although the client side tree gives a very good user experience, you could grow a bandwith problem very rapidly, so be aware. This tree is fit for small trees, or medium sized trees on an intranet or over a broadband connection. For large trees, or when you need to take into account low-bandwidth connections, you should use the server side tree.
You can choose between client-side or server-side interaction with the clientSideToggle attribute. <t:tree2 clientSideToggle="false" ... gives you the servers-side interaction. true (client-side interaction) is the default for this attribute.
Show the "plus" and "minus" navigation icons (default is true.) Value is ignored if clientSideToggle is true.
Show the connecting lines (default is true.)
Perform client-side toggling of expand/collapse state via javascript (default is true.)
Include the root node when rendering the tree (default is true.)
Preserve changes in client-side toggle information between requests (default is true.)
Don't need any extra configuration.
Notes and Known issues
Some known issues like incompatibility to other frameworks/component libs
Live example see: http://www.irian.at/myfaces/home.jsf
Example with styles: http://www.j4fry.org/J4Fry_Quick_Setup_Tomcat_MyFaces_Hibernate/index.faces
- how should I store the tree in my model?
- (how) can I use tree2 in portlets?
- (how) can I use tree2 like tree for [Tree Table]?
- (how) can I use tree2 in facelets?
- what is the difference between server side and client side?
- how can I lazy load the nodes of tree? (nodes only load when I click on their parent)?
- is lazy load ajax enabled?
- How can I control which nodes are expanded from the backing bean?
- How can I Show the same tree in different pages?
- How can I user Tree2 for navigation?
Additional Information
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Backing Bean
The tree2 component needs a TreeModel from a backing bean to operate. Usually, you give the TreeModel to the component using a value binding, like this:
<t:tree2 value="#{myHandler.treeModel}" ...
This requires a class MyHandler, of which myHandler is an instance (probably created as a managed bean). This class then offers, in the example, a method getTreeModel() that returns a tree model of your data.
public class MyHandler { ... public TreeModel getTreeModel() { ... } ... }
The tree model is actually a wrapper around a tree of TreeNode instances.
TreeNode is an interface, where only 4 methods are relevant to the operation of the tree2: String getType(), boolean isLeaf(), List getChildren() and int getChildCount(). All the other methods are leftovers, and should be removed in some future version. They demand an unnecessary effort of the developer of the backing bean.
int getChildCount() returns the number of children of this node. This can easily be implemented as:
... public final int getChildCount() { return getChildren().size(); } ...
The method appears in the interface to make lazy loading of the children possible. An implementor could write code that returns the number of children without actually instantiating objects for all children beforehand.
boolean isLeaf() returns true if this tree node has no children. Thus, a straightforward implementation can be:
... public final boolean isLeaf() { return getChildren().isEmpty(); } ...
Whatever the implementation is you provide, at all times the condition getChildren().isEmpty() ==> isLeaf() should hold. The isLeaf() actually controls how the node is rendered: as a leaf (which cannot be expanded further) or not.
String getType() decides how to render this particular node. In the JSF page, there should be facets nested in the <t:tree2> tage. The facet whose name matches the result of getType() will be choosen to render this tree node. There should be defined a facet with a name that matches the getType() of the tree nodes for all tree nodes in the tree. If no matching facet can be found for a given tree node, an error occurs. This method should never return null.
List getChildren() should return a List whose elements are of type TreeNode too, and that represent the tree nodes that should be rendered as the children of this tree node. The list should not contain null. If the size of the list does not match getChildCount(), you will get an error. The children are rendered in the order in which they occur in the list.
Using with Facelets
When using tree2 with Facelets you must be careful using inline EL inside a facet. For example
<t:tree2 ...> <f:facet name="nodeType"> #{node.description} </f:facet> <f:facet name="anotherNnodeType"> <h:commandLink ... value="#{node.description}"/> </f:facet> ... </t:tree2>
Because inline EL/text is transient, JSF prunes it from the tree after rendering, so when the link is clicked it wont be able to restore the nodes of the first type. You'll get an IllegalArgumentException: Unable to locate facet with the name: nodeType.
Changing the Content of the Tree
or: Lazy loading child nodes from backend when expanding a tree node
The mailing list has many questions and discussions for this task and i (Marcel - a JSF beginner) ended up with this workaround. If you have a better solution please update this text!
The problem with this workaround is that i needed to remove the '+' icon with
<t:tree2 ... showNav="false" ...>
and make the folder icon clickable with
<h:commandLink action="#{t.toggleExpanded}" actionListener="#{navigationBacker.processAction}">
to receive the mouse click events in my java code. In my NavigationBacker.java:processAction(ActionEvent e) i load the children nodes with data from EJB3-persistency.
The bad thing is that the + icon is now invisible, but i couldn't find a way to get the event when somebody clicks on the + icon. The org.apache.myfaces.custom.tree2.HtmlTree.java seems to register _expandControl = new HtmlCommandLink(); to get internally the + clicks, but i haven't found a way to receive the clicks in my code.
For navigation i use the TreeNode.getIdentifier() (see #{node.identifier} ) with entries like
which are the primary keys of the backend database tables (i didn't find a smarter solution for navigation yet but it works).
Here are the code snippets:
... <t:tree2 id="serverTree" value="#{navigationBacker.treeData}" var="node" varNodeToggler="t" clientSideToggle="false" showNav="false" showRootNode="false"> <f:facet name="project-folder"> <h:panelGroup> <h:commandLink action="#{t.toggleExpanded}" actionListener="#{navigationBacker.processAction}"> <t:graphicImage value="/images/yellow-folder-open.png" rendered="#{t.nodeExpanded}" border="0" /> <t:graphicImage value="/images/yellow-folder-closed.png" rendered="#{!t.nodeExpanded}" border="0" /> </h:commandLink> <h:commandLink action="#{navigationBacker.toViewId}" styleClass="#{t.nodeSelected ? 'documentSelected':'document'}" actionListener="#{navigationBacker.nodeClicked}" value="#{node.description}" immediate="true"> <f:param name="db_id" value="#{node.identifier}" /> ... </h:commandLink> <h:outputText value=" (#{node.childCount})" styleClass="childCount" rendered="#{!empty node.children}" /> </h:panelGroup> </f:facet> <f:facet name="person-folder"> <h:panelGroup> ... ...
... /** * Intercept when a lead node is expanded and load additional data. * @param event * @throws AbortProcessingException */ public void processAction(ActionEvent event) throws AbortProcessingException { System.out.println("Entering processAction()"); UIComponent component = (UIComponent) event.getSource(); while (!(component != null && component instanceof HtmlTree)) { component = component.getParent(); } if (component != null) { HtmlTree tree = (HtmlTree) component; TreeNodeBase node = (TreeNodeBase) tree.getNode(); if (!tree.isNodeExpanded() && node.getChildren().isEmpty()) { // navigation-view:foo:serverTree:0:0:_id4 // tree.getNódeId() == "0:1:0" // node.getIdentifier() == "car_id=7" // node.getType() == "car-detail" Map<String, String> map = splitKeyValues(node.getIdentifier()); // some helper to split "car_id=7" or "car_id=7&person_id=12" this.car_id = map.get("car_id"); if (this.car_id != null) { appendPersonsNodes(node); // see example below } this.person_id = map.get("person_id"); if (this.person_id != null) { appendLicensesNodes(node); // not shown } } } } ...
... /** Add to tree navigation for current car_id its Person childs */ private void appendPersonsNodes(TreeNodeBase carDetailNode) { VariableResolver resolver = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() .getApplication().getVariableResolver(); PersonsTable personsTable = (PersonsTable) resolver .resolveVariable(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), "personsTable"); List<Person> personsList = personsTable.getCarPersons(); for (Person o : personsList) { List<TreeNodeBase> list = carDetailNode.getChildren(); list.add(new TreeNodeBase("person-folder", o.getDescription(), "person_id=" + o.getPersonId(), true)); } System.out.println("NavigationBacker fetched " + personsList.size() + " Persons for carId=" + this.car_id); } ...
Here is a helper to find the f:param in a h:commandLink which is needed in many cases:
... /** * If the JSF h:commandLink component includes f:param children, those * name-value pairs are put into the request parameter map for later use by * the action handler. Unfortunately, the same isn't done for * h:commandButton. This is a workaround to let arguments be associated with * a button. * * Because action listeners are guaranteed to be executed before action * methods, an action listener can use this method to update any context the * action method might need. * * From http://cvs.sakaiproject.org/release/2.0.0/ * sakai2/gradebook/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/tool/gradebook/jsf/FacesUtil.java * Educational Community License Version 1.0 */ public static final Map getEventParameterMap(FacesEvent event) { Map<String, String> parameterMap = new HashMap<String, String>(); List children = event.getComponent().getChildren(); for (Iterator iter = children.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) { Object next = iter.next(); if (next instanceof UIParameter) { UIParameter param = (UIParameter) next; parameterMap.put(param.getName(), "" + param.getValue()); } } //System.out.println("parameterMap=" + parameterMap); return parameterMap; } ...
Note that in the above example the backer beans are in the session scope, which is configured in WEB-INF/examples-config.xml.
You may, at a later development stage, miss the browser back button functionality. You press the 'BACK' button of the browser and the navigation of the previous page (coming from the browser cache) does not work, now <x:saveState> comes into the game.
Put your backer beans in the "request" scope and declare them with
<x:saveState id="navigationBacker_Save" value="#{navigationBacker}" /> <x:saveState id="stindexScrollerList_Save" value="#{stindexScrollerList}" /> ...
in your jsp page, and all is well :-).
Note that the backer beans must be Serializable to use x:saveState.
See http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/How_JSF_State_Management_Works
Alternative Tree2 Lazy Loading Method...by jtmille3
The differences between my implementation and the one above is that my lazy loading happens in an extended TreeNode. Whereas the implementation above performs the lazy loading in the backing bean. With my example I can also leave the navigation buttons on the tree and leave the tree pretty much as is. Except for the extended TreeNode most of my code is an adaptation of the Tree2 example from the Apache MyFaces project.
JSP Code Snippet The clientSideToggle must remain false for my example. The client side tree will retrieve all nodes and won't work for this specific example.
<t:tree2 id="serverTree" value="#{treeBacker.treeModel}" var="node" varNodeToggler="t" preserveToggle="false" clientSideToggle="false"> <f:facet name="folder"> <h:panelGroup> <t:graphicImage value="/images/yellow-folder-open.png" rendered="#{t.nodeExpanded}" border="0" /> <t:graphicImage value="/images/yellow-folder-closed.png" rendered="#{!t.nodeExpanded}" border="0" /> <h:outputText value="#{node.description}" styleClass="nodeFolder" /> </h:panelGroup> </f:facet> <f:facet name="document"> <h:panelGroup> <h:commandLink immediate="true" styleClass="#{t.nodeSelected ? 'documentSelected':'document'}" action="#{treeBacker.selectedNode}" actionListener="#{t.setNodeSelected}"> <t:graphicImage value="/images/document.png" border="0" /> <h:outputText value="#{node.description}" /> <f:param name="docNum" value="#{node.identifier}" /> </h:commandLink> </h:panelGroup> </f:facet> </t:tree2>
TreeBacker.java - managed bean
public final class TreeBacker { private TreeModelBase _treeModel; private String selectedNode; public TreeBacker() { // Initialize the tree with the root node TreeNode treeData = new LazyTreeNode("folder", "1", "1", false); _treeModel = new TreeModelBase(treeData); } public TreeModel getTreeModel() { return _treeModel; } public void selectedNode() { this.selectedNode = this.getTreeModel().getNode().getDescription(); } public String getSelectedNode() { return selectedNode; } }
public class LazyTreeNode extends TreeNodeBase { private static final long serialVersionUID = -6870203633601493362L; public LazyTreeNode() { } public LazyTreeNode(String type, String description, boolean leaf) { super(type, description, leaf); } public LazyTreeNode(String type, String description, String identifier, boolean leaf) { super(type, description, identifier, leaf); } public List getChildren() { // if there are no children, try and retrieve them if (super.getChildren().isEmpty()) { // create dummy tree nodes for example int id = Integer.parseInt(getIdentifier()); for(int i = 0; i < id; i++) { super.getChildren().add(new LazyTreeNode("document","" + id, "" + id,false)); } } return super.getChildren(); } }
Controlling Which Nodes are Expanded from the Backing Bean
Showing the Same Tree in Different Pages
Invalid Bit Mask
If you are getting an exception "Invalid bit mask of ..." this means the renderer is encountering an unexpectd combination of events. One explanation is that you have a node indicating that is expanded but its a leaf. Make sure you are returning the correct values for the isLeaf method of the TreeNode interface and that you are not toggling the expanded state (in a custom TreeModel, TreeState class, etc.) in an inappropriate manner.
Tree2 Navigation
One possible use of tree2 is a navigation widget. If you use command links in your tree2 and provide action methods that cause navigation to jump to another view, the default behavior of the component will probably be undesirable. By default, the TreeState information (which stores the list of expanded nodes and the currently selected node) is stored in the component. When a new view is reached as the result of navigation, a new component tree is created and a new instance of tree2 is created along with an empty TreeState. This means that the nodes that you expanded before clicking the link will not show up as expanded.
Fortunately there is a relatively simple fix. Lets start with the problematic JSP that contains command links with action methods.
<t:tree2 id="wrapTree" value="#{treeBacker.treeModel}" var="node" varNodeToggler="t" clientSideToggle="false" showNav="true" showRootNode="false"> <f:facet name="category"> <h:panelGrid id="a" columns="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <t:graphicImage value="/images/yellow-folder-open.png" rendered="#{t.nodeExpanded}" border="0"/> <t:graphicImage value="/images/yellow-folder-closed.png" rendered="#{!t.nodeExpanded}" border="0"/> <h:outputText value="#{node.description}" styleClass="nodeFolder"/> </h:panelGrid> </f:facet> <f:facet name="item"> <h:panelGroup> <h:commandLink immediate="true" styleClass="#{t.nodeSelected ? 'documentSelected':'document'}" action="#{treeBacker.nodeSelected}"> <h:panelGrid id="b" columns="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <t:graphicImage value="/images/document.png" border="0"/> <h:outputText value="#{node.description}"/> </h:panelGrid> <f:param name="docNum" value="#{node.identifier}"/> </h:commandLink> </h:panelGroup> </f:facet> </t:tree2>
Now we need to configure a backing bean. Notice how we set it to session scope. Don't worry, we won't be storing copies of the entire data model in the session, just the tree state (which contains a simple map of expanded nodes and the currently selected node).
... <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>treeBacker</managed-bean-name> <managed-bean-class>org.apache.myfaces.petstore.backing.TreeBacker</managed-bean-class> <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope> </managed-bean> ...
The backing bean will maintain a copy of the TreeState. Note how we set the transient property to true. This tells the tree2 component not to use its copy of state information but to rely on the backing bean copy. To keep things simple we are loading static data from the application context. In a real world app you would probably use a strategy for loading data dynamically from the database.
public class TreeBacker implements Serializable { private TreeState treeState; public TreeBacker() { treeState = new TreeStateBase(); treeState.setTransient(true); } public TreeModel getTreeModel() { ServletContext context = (ServletContext)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getContext(); TreeNode rootNode = (TreeNode)context.getAttribute(PetstoreConstants.PETSTORE_DATA); TreeModel treeModel = new TreeModelBase(rootNode); treeModel.setTreeState(treeState); return treeModel; } }
Tree2 Lazy Loading -- number of children not known blog...by Andrew Robinson
Please see my blog posting for this discussion and code: http://andrewfacelets.blogspot.com/2006/06/myfaces-tree2-creating-lazy-loading.html
Using Tree2 in a Portal...by David Chandler
To run Tree2 with client-side expansion, you need JavaScript in the page <HEAD>. Normally, this gets added by the Tomahawk ExtensionsFilter. This doesn't work in a portal, however, because servlet filters don't run in a portal. There are some patches in MYFACES-434 (portlet filter) you may be able to use, but here's an easier workaround. I've used this successfully with Tomahawk 1.1.3 in both Jetspeed2 and Liferay.
So to summarize, you can use Tree2 1.1.3 in a portal without any of the MYFACES-434 patches if
- You use server-side toggle
You configure ExtensionsFilter as normal for the Faces Servlet
You disable the ExtensionsFilter configuration check as follows in web.xml:
<context-param> <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.CHECK_EXTENSIONS_FILTER</param-name> <param-value>false</param-value> </context-param>
If you are unable to set-up the ExtensionsFilter, you can use the imageLocation attribute (ex. imageLocation="images") to specify the directory where the images will be taken from.
Alternative way to use Tree2 in a Portal...by BenSmith
I was able to get tree2 (and the other MyFacesExtensionsFilter-dependent controls) working in a portlet by using the Portals Bridge Portlet Filter along with the Tomahawk Bridge filter and the Faces Response filter by Shinsuke Sugaya: http://palab.blogspot.com/2007/01/tomahawk-bridge-091-released.html
Maybe the Tomahawk Bridge and Faces Response filters will one day become part of official MyFaces...?


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Let these Acquaintance quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise
in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very
slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
- Lord Chesterfield
A person whom we know well enough to borrow from,
but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative
or acquaintance that you dislike.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than
a nodding acquaintance with a man.
- Edgar Watson Howe
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that
powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
- Ambrose Bierce
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a
nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
- Kenneth Williams
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in
Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements
who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
- Jello Biafra
soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance,
joke that they track my movements in order to know
where they will be deployed next.
- Christiane Amanpour
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions,
not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- George Washington
Acquaintance lessens fame.
- Claudius
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school
to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery,
or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
- Maria Monk
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws
means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
- James Prescott Joule
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom,
but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons
or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
- George Eliot
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians
in their personal appearance:
and have been always reputed,
since the first acquaintance made with them,
very civil and friendly.
- George Catlin
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve
them as some people do lords;
learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
- Laurence Sterne
The mere process of growing old together will make
the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
- Edward Koch
There we were, hundreds of us lined up,
waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us.
And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
- Gregory Peck
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative,
a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window,
not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging
me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge.
A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting
the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,
and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
- George Boole
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective,
and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons
of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to
just go in and have a peep,
I never admitted anyone.
- Henry Bessemer
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance,
unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy,
not diffident, but formal and unresponsive,
tending constantly to hold people off.
- Albert J. Nock
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs
may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill,
and yet without individual acquaintance with men,
their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult,
slow, and expensive.
- William Dunbar
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players:
one has so much to do,
in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance,
that, really, one has no time to mind the stage.
One merely comes to meet one's friends,
and show that one's alive.
- Fanny Burney
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl,
and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous,
that's a passing acquaintance.
When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear,
that's a rendezvous!
- Wally Schirra
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy,
it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor,
and that therefore, in its best analysis there could
be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
- Leland Stanford
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts,
and I attended a large number of them.
I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians,
several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
- James Weldon Johnson
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow
to like each other upon better acquaintance,
and this points to another way in which we may strive
to promote the peace of the world.
- Elihu Root
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger.
He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and,
though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence
felt by everybody about the place.
- Kenneth Grahame
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines,
and my acquaintance with so many of the officers,
the origin of which I have already mentioned,
enabled me to gain much important information as to
the position and designs of the enemy.
- Belle Boyd
A powerful attraction exists, therefore,
to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others
engrossing the time most completely,
and which is less benefited than most others by any
acquaintance with science.
- Charles Babbage
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
- Isaac Watts
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
- Marquis de Sade
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent
to all Departments and to major agencies of government
to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming
administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy
that will remain in place in the new Administration.
- Richard V. Allen
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.
Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.
Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made
that didn't work out as you hoped.
Forgive yourself for any financial decisions
that didn't meet your expectations.
Release your regrets if you choose
the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.
Today, choose love.
Choose to love yourself.
Choose to love your life.
Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,
acquaintances, and others who share your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends,
rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
- William Powell
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances
that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady
after she had written a book.
- Lydia M. Child
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances,
including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee,
in which case we feel 107.
- Martha Beck
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances.
No friends.
I figured I had a wife and children.
- Charles Bronson
I'm close with my parents.
I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close
friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand.
And that's how I like it to be.
- Calista Flockhart
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to,
while to the others we boast.
- Logan P. Smith
Your friends will know you better in the first minute
you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- Richard Bach
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances.
Those too big to pass through are our friends.
- Arlene Francis
Everywhere is nowhere.
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel,
he ends by having many acquaintances,
but no friends.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
She is such a good friend that she would throw all
her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I went to high school, which was a good thing because
I hadn't interacted with many people my age,
and I didn't really have friends.
I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
- Macaulay Culkin
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made
more friends than any music in the world.
You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
- Bill Monroe
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends.
I can't hide anything from them.
- Ian Somerhalder
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances,
but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
- Hattie McDaniel
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances,
and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason,
and never through mere fickleness.
- Giacomo Casanova
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers,
we outgrow acquaintances, libraries,
etc., at times before they're worn out and times -
and this is the worst of all -
before we have new ones.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil
discourse to another level.
I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished,
but you can disagree very much with the next guy and
still be friends and acquaintances.
- Leah Ward Sears
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ;
farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments;
farewell reading and preaching,
praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches,
and sufferings.
- Donald Cargill
My first experiences of academic friendship made me
smile in after years when I looked back on them.
But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown
so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
- Georg Brandes
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings
of antiquity and many deeds of the past,
in order to strengthen his character thereby.
- John Milton
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description;
one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
- Lord Chesterfield
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with
a whole family you can forget about them.
- Gertrude Stein
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared
dying to be intimately acquainted.
- William Hamilton Maxwell
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet;
the bylaws are shorter,
and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
- E. B. White
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
- John James Audubon
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted
with the idiom of country or rock music,
it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar.
Bars are a rehearsal place.
- Garth Hudson
To see and be acquainted with strangers,
in especial with men in honour and authority.
- Thomas Cavendish
The history of all the great characters of the Bible
is summed up in this one sentence:
They acquainted themselves with God,
and acquiesced His will in all things.
- Richard Cecil
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I live this trail. Recently, a two mile extension opened. I haven't been able to rid it yet but thought everyone would appreciate an update. Here is a link to the news article about the opening and plans for future extensions and connections with other trails in Jefferson County: https://bhamnow.com/2019/06/13/get-your-walking-shoes-ready-five-mile-creek-adds-two-miles-of-trail-in-gardendale-with-plans-to-become-the-longest-trail-in-central-al
Good 1mile start to catch Horse Creek trail.
Sumiton plus Horse Creek trail 4.2 miles. Nice ride, easy down and back on a beautiful day. Great warm up preparing for a longer trip. Scenery is very nice in March! Drove from Birmingham just to explore.
This was a fun little trail to ride our bikes on. We just wanted a casual ride and that's what we got! It is paved, flat, and shaded in some areas. There are shaded benches along the path which was nice. There are a few locations where the trail does cross over a back country road, so just be aware when you come to those. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed my ride and will be back as soon as I can!
Shared asphalt greenway for bikers, walkers, runners. Follows a beautiful creek. Screened from road traffic but not remote. Used by All ages. Popular morning, day & early evening. Although shared, most bikers know to shout "on your right!" as they overtake walkers. Plenty of parking at east end of trail. Pro: Wide, Shaded, Mowed & caretaken, Easy. : No potties unless Homewood field potties are open, a few car breakins recently so stash your goodies well, dog walkers sometimes don't clean up w/doggie bags.
There are benches and trash cans spread along the path. A nice Creek Trail breaks off the path giving you a chance to walk down to the creek and explore a couple of minor waterfalls (less than a foot high). There is one building that you can rest in from the shade or the rain
The trail is completely asphalt. It now runs from TS Boyd Elementary School all the way to Bevill State Community College. It is an excellent rail Trail--I ride it on a daily basis. Very Very nice!
The trail is really beautiful. There were lots of people walking and cycling. There are also areas where you can sit and even charge your phone. I enjoyed my walk and plan to go further next time to see more of the trail.
This is a cute little trail that runs along 1st Ave N. near Sloss Furnace. It's paved and very stroller/bike/skates/walking friendly. It leads right up to the Rotary Trail and right past that is Railroad Park. I like to start at the Jones Valley trailhead and walk all the way to Railroad Park for a few laps and then back. It's aroun 3 miles of you do that.
nice biking trail, watch out in the 2nd residential area there are some dogs that get close to you but never had one to come after me
We took a ride from Bham up Old Hwy 78 W to reach this trail. One end of the trail is accessible from Old Hwy 78W behind a Jet-Pep next to Horse Creek Golf. The other end is down Sharon Blvd towards Dora in the TS Boyd Elementary School Parking lot. The trail is wonderfully maintained. There are kiosks along the route for sitting with bike racks. We saw deer along the route grazing. The trail begs to be extended. Families walking the trail were friendly! On our return back to Bham we did our own grazing at Lee's Family Restaurant. Wonderful food!
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A broken bone requires emergency medical care. Your child might have a broken (fractured) bone if he or she heard or felt a bone snap, has difficulty moving the injured part, or if the injured part moves in an unnatural way or is very painful to the touch.
A sprain occurs when the ligaments, which hold bones together, are overstretched and partially torn. A strain is when a muscle or tendon is overstretched or torn. Sprains and strains generally cause swelling and pain, and there may be bruises around the injured area. Most sprains and strains, after proper medical evaluation, can be treated at home.
Reviewed by: Larissa Hirsch, MD
Date Reviewed: 14-04-2014