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Most Websites are customized for a specific locale, with the locale defined as a geographical region or political entity that shares a common language, culture, and customs. While this may not be a significant issue to most people, it may pose some interesting challenges to those conducting business on the Web. By its very nature, ecommerce is all about facilitating commerce across national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. While the Web may have opened up businesses to a truly international clientele, Web-based firms have to contend with the all-too-probable scenario of non-English-speaking users struggling to understand their sites' content. As many businesses have come to realize, every Web surfer who turns away because of the site's English-centric nature is a potential customer lost.
So, is there an easy, manageable solution to this problem that keeps you from having to run multiple versions of the site? Well, if the dynamic content for the Website is generated through Java technology, there sure is! That's because the Java platform intrinsically supports the development of locale-independent applications through various classes supporting internationalization found within the
java.io, and
java.text packages. Internationalization itself is the name given to the design process wherein an application's country, language, and culture-specific information is isolated and typically encapsulated within some external files or objects. Consequently, making your application compatible with an entirely new language or country does not have to involve a major rewrite of your presentation logic; rather, it now merely involves creating an additional version, specific to the new locale, of the external files. The process of creating these locale-specific entities (be they files or objects), along with the associated translation of text, is called localization.
Websites based on JavaServer Pages (JSPs) lend themselves more easily to internationalization than those developed using servlets. This is because the technology facilitates the separation of presentation from application logic. Now, let us examine this premise in detail by developing a global version of the Music Without Borders online store that was demonstrated in my earlier article on JSP architecture (see the Resources section below for a link to this story). The online store is based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture to maximize the separation of presentation from content.
Although internationalizing a JSP-based Web application is not particularly difficult, it is a task best initiated at the design stage. Toward this end, all locale-specific textual data that constitute an application's user interface, such as page headers and trailers, user messages, form button labels, dates, currencies, and so forth, are first identified and isolated from the application within external files. These entities, which hold different values under different locales, are also known as resources; a grouping of resources within an external class or property file is known as a resource bundle or, simply, a bundle.
The Java 2 SDK provides the abstract base class
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ListResourceBundle and
PropertyResourceBundle. The bundle for a supported locale can be defined as either a classfile (by using
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PropertyResourceBundle). Both these mechanisms then allow your application to access the values for resources by name, just as you would with a
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JavaScript is stronger than ever on the client side, and it's gaining ground on the server side, too, with technologies such as Node.js. Meanwhile, HTML5 is reviving HTML, and CSS gets more powerful every day.It makes the Web's client side look like a good investment today.
Looking out a couple years, two factors will be key to software development: The explosion of mobile and the change in the development paradigm bought by Windows 8 and Metro.
When I first heard "mobile is the future" in 1999, it looked like the mobile explosion would happen within five years. It's taken longer and has come through native applications for smartphones rather than mobile-optimized websites. And developer-to-consumer applications have done more to drive mobile than business-to-consumer and business-to-business solutions. But mobile has finally arrived.
An effective mobile strategy must deliver applications to one or more mobile platforms. Each platform has its own software development kit and programming language, and requires developers to gain new skills and master new tools.
Windows 8 Development
Using JavaScript to create Windows applications isn't completely new. A decade ago, the .NET platform came with native support for JScript as a programming language. At that time, however, JScript was used principally to glue together Windows client and server apps. In Windows 8, the HTML5/CSS/JavaScript triad can be leveraged to build native apps in quite a different way. It's one thing to use a Java Script dialect like managed JScript to compose a Windows user interface and backend logic; with Windows 8, you use the Web metaphor to build both a UI and the behavior.
Windows 8 will offer several ways to build applications. The simplest is based on C# and XAML. The high-performance approach uses C++ and XAML and places direct calls to the underlying WinRT system, Windows 8's new runtime system. With the Web-based approach, applications use HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and leverage the Windows Library for the Java Script (WinJS) framework to access native functionalities of the underlying platform.
WinJS is a library of CSS and JavaScript files, and it contains JavaScript objects that address the needs of Metro apps. It has controls for building a native user interface and experience, plus facilities for storage, networking, data binding, navigation, and application lifecycle.
All WinJS objects are related to underlying WinRT objects inthe same way .NET Framework classes are bound to underlying WinRT objects when you use C# to write a Windows 8 Metro application. WinRT is exposed to developers through several programming paradigms. One of these is the Web paradigm, which you can use with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to build full Windows 8 applications.
There's a common architectural thread that unites mobile and Windows 8 applications written with a Web-like approach. The Web engine — be it on a server, a desktop, or a mobile device — takes care of HTML/CSS for the user interface, and JavaScript code glues together underlying objects and implements the desired behavior. However you look at it, client-side Web skills are going to be important for a long time.
Dino Esposito is a frequent contributor to Dr. Dobb's. His most recent book, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC was published by Microsoft Press.

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Pork is absolutely delicious any which way you cook it and it seems like sea lice, which are like ocean maggots apparently, would agree too. The sea lice do most of the heavy eating and shrimp come in to finish the job. It's disturbingly exciting.
Why did scientists throw a dead pig in the ocean? Well, they wanted to get a better idea of how bodies decompose underwater. The experiment, led by forensic scientist Gail Anderson from Simon Fraser University in Canada, shows a pig carcass inside a cage and tracks its entire progress. New Scientist says:
Sharks are unable to tuck in since it's enclosed (as is the octopus lurking at the end of the video), giving sea lice exclusive access to the remains. They enter orifices in droves to feast on the animal from the inside out and congregate on the cage bars to prevent other arthropods, like shrimp, from getting a bite. "By the end of the fourth day, the sea lice had left and the pigs were reduced to bones," says Anderson.
Shrimp come into finish the job but when the scientists retrieved the bones, they were "strangely" jet black for 48 hours. They've never seen that before and are looking at what caused the turn in colour. Watch the video — it ain't pretty.


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Ferrari will catch up with Red Bull - Alonso
Fernando Alonso is in little doubt that Ferrari will catch Red Bull this season and wants to be in a position to capitalise should Mercedes falter again.
Alonso is fourth in the drivers' standings, but his Ferrari is currently off the pace of the Red Bulls and at the Canadian Grand Prix he finished 14 seconds behind race winner Daniel Ricciardo. However, Alonso is confident Ferrari can close that gap to put itself in the running for podiums and second place in the constructors' championship.
"I'm an ambitious driver and I try to help my team all the time," Alonso said. "My ambition now is to try to help my team get second place in the constructors' championship. We lost lots of points but we will try to recover as soon as possible.
"We finished 14 seconds behind the Red Bulls, I don't think that is too big a distance or something that we cannot recover over the rest of the season. I am sure I will recover these 14 seconds and try to finish ahead of the Red Bulls the next time, that's my personal view and my personal target."
Alonso said Ricciardo's victory is proof that a race win is still possible for Ferrari despite the dominant form of Mercedes.
"We saw in Canada that anything can happen in Formula One. If someone had told us Red Bull would win a race in the first seven or eight races of the championship after the last winter test, no one would believe it. Mercedes was so dominant, but suddenly they had mechanical issues and you need to be there to take the opportunities and Red Bull was there. That gives us motivation and shows us how things can change in F1 during a race weekend - it can be the weather, it can be the safety cars, it can be many different factors that dictate the final result of a grand prix.
"So, can we win a race this year? Yes, obviously anything can happen. But that's not at the moment something that worries me too much. We have much bigger problems than trying to win a race, we will try to finish in the best possible positions in the races, try to get some podiums, try to help the team with points. That's the only thing I want."


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 23, 2009) – The current edition of the U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on March 23 includes briefs on national team players competing overseas, trivia questions, how to purchase replica national team jerseys, updated list of United States players competing professionally overseas (including non-National Team members) and much more.
For the complete PDF document that includes the international transfer list, trivia questions and other fan interaction sections, click here.
TRIVIA QUESTIONS: 1. Who was the first head coach to lead an American volleyball team into the Olympic Games? 2. Who scored the final point in the U.S. Women's National Team victory over China in the 2008 Olympic Games to clinch the Americans a spot into the quarterfinals? Answers can be found on page two in the full PDF version (click here) of the current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update.
JOINES, RICHARDS UPDATE: Jennifer Joines (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 U.S. Olympian, and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), a 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate, are competing for Fakel in the Russian professional league this winter. Fakel defeated Balakoskaya 25-23, 16-25, 25-21, 25-20 on March 19. Richards, who has been playing opposite for her professional team this season, charted 23 kills on 44 attacks along with a block. Joines added six kills on 12 swings, two blocks and an ace in the victory. Fakel lost in three sets to Leningradka on March 23. Richards and Joines will return to the court of Fakel on April 2 against ninth-place Indesit.
GLASS UPDATE: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 U.S. Olympian, is playing professionally in Russia with Universitet Belogorie. Her squad lost a marathon five-set match (20-25, 25-20, 22-25, 25-21, 15-11) on March 19 against Uralochka-NTMK. Universitet Belogorie was handed a 3-0 loss by Spartak on March 23. Without Glass in the lineup over the last several matches, Universitet has dropped from a tie for first place into a tie for fourth place with a 12-8 record. Prior to the Spartak match, Glass' team was in a four-way tie for second place and now tied with Spartak. Universitet Belogorie will look to stop the skid on April 2 against 10th-place Leningradka.
BOWN UPDATE: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a three-time Olympian and middle blocker on the silver-medal winning 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, provided a big lift for her Italian Serie A professional team Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi on March 22. Jesi rallied to defeat Solo Affitti Tradeco Cesena 20-25, 25-19, 20-25, 25-16, 15-12 as Bown scored a match-high 20 points. She collected 18 kills on 28 attacks with just three hitting errors for a .536 hitting efficiency and 64.3 kill percent. Bown added two blocks in the victory. Jesi, ranked fourth in the Italian Serie A standings with a 15-8 record and 43 points, plays seventh-ranked Zoppas Industries Conegliano on March 29.
SCOTT-ARRUDA UPDATE: Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), a four-time U.S. Olympian middle blocker, is playing for CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte in the Italian Serie A league. Castellana Grotte lost to Perugia 25-18, 18-25, 25-13, 22-25, 15-10 on March 16 in a match originally scheduled for the weekend of March 29, but moved up due to Perugia hosting the CEV Indesit Champions League finals the same weekend. Scott-Arruda turned in 12 kills and four blocks for 16 points while hitting with a 43 percent success rate. In its regularly scheduled match on March 22, Castellana Grotte swept Riso Scotti Pavia 25-21, 25-22, 25-16. Scott-Arruda pocketed six kills on 12 attacks with just one error for a .417 hitting efficiency and 50.0 kill percent. She added two blocks and two aces for a total of 10 points. Castellana Grotte, which remains in ninth place with an 11-13 record but just one point out of eighth place, is idle this coming week.
WILLOUGHBY UPDATE: Kim Willoughby (Napoleonville, La.), a 2008 U.S. Olympic Games silver medalist, is now playing for Despar Perugia in the Italian Serie A league. Perugia, which is hosting the CEV Indesit Champions League the weekend of March 28-29, moved its March 29 match against CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte to March 16 and held on to win 25-18, 18-25, 25-13, 22-25, 15-10. Willoughby scored a match-high 22 points with 15 kills on 41 attacks, six blocks and an ace. Perugia played fifth-place Yamamay Busto Arsizio in its regularly schedule match for the week on March 22 and lost 26-24, 25-22, 25-20. Willoughby, who played in all three sets but started just the second, charted eight kills, two blocks and an ace for 11 points in a reserve role. Perugia, now 12-12 on the season and in sixth place with 38 points, takes a break from the Italian Serie A schedule to host the CEV Indesit Champions League Final Four. Perugia faces Volley Bergamo in the semifinal round, while Turkey's Eczacibasi Zentiva matches up against Russia's Dinamo Moscow in the other semifinal.
TOM UPDATE: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), a three-time U.S. Olympian and Best Scorer of the 2008 Olympic Games, is playing with Hisamitsu Springs in the Japanese V-League. Hisamitsu Springs won both its matches last week to end the regular season with a 19-8 overall record. Tom notched 25 points in a 25-11, 25-17, 25-20 victory over Takefuji Bamboo on March 20. She tallied 19 kills on 37 attacks, match-high five blocks and an ace to go with a 68.2 service reception percent (15 of 22). In a battle to decide second place, Hisamitsu Springs blanked NEC 25-19, 25-15, 25-18 on March 21 in the regular season finale. Tom was credited with 11 kills on 21 attacks and just one error, while adding an ace for a 12-point performance. Hisamitsu Springs will be one of four teams competing in the round-robin Japanese V-League finals. Hisamitsu Springs has a rematch with NEC on April 3, followed by an April 4 contest against league-champion Toray and April 5 contest against fourth-place Denso.
HANEEF-PARK UPDATE: Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.), a two-time U.S. Olympian, is competing for the Pioneer Red Wings of the Japanese V-League. She played in two matches last week to conclude her team's regular season. Haneef-Park scored 27 points, all on kills coming from 60 attacks, in a 25-21, 14-25, 25-21, 21-25, 15-13 loss to first-place Toray on March 20. In the season finale, Pioneer defeated ninth-place JT 22-25, 25-15, 25-22, 25-22 on March 21. Haneef-Park was credited with 29 kills on 60 swings and one ace on 11 serves. Pioneer ended the season in sixth place with a 13-14 record and a 1.02 set won-lost ratio, just 0.02 behind fifth-place Toyota Autobody's 1.04 ratio and identical 13-14 record.
METCALF, STALLS UPDATE: Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), a 2004 Olympian, is playing for Eczacibasi Zentiva of the Turkish professional league along with 2008 Olympic Games alternate Tracy Stalls (Denver, Colo.). Eczacibasi rallied to defeat Fenerbahce 22-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-10 on March 18 in the second match of the Teledunya Turkish Cup Final to win its sixth consecutive Turkish Cup trophy. Earlier, the Eczacibasi had won the first meeting in four sets. Metcalf scored eight kills on 29 attacks with a block for nine points in the victory. To view photos, click here. In its return to Turkish League play, Eczacibasi Zentiva defeated Karsiyaka 25-13, 25-13, 25-21 on March 21. Stalls chalked up six kills on 10 attacks with just one error in starting the match. Metcalf did not play in the victory.
NNAMANI UPDATE: Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.), a two-time Olympian now playing professionally in Turkey for Galatasaray, led her team to a 25-22, 25-20, 25-12 victory over Nilufer Belediye Spor on March 21. She contributed 12 points on 10 kills, one block and one ace as Galatasaray limited its opponent to a 31 kill percent for the match. Nnamani also received 11 of her team's 51 service receptions without an error in the victory.
McGINNIS, HUGHES UPDATE: Angie McGinnis (Fraser, Mich.) and Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.), both alternates on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, are now competing for Besiktas JK Bayan of the Turkish professional volleyball league. Fenerbahce Acibadem got the best of Besiktas on March 21 with a 25-14, 25-22, 25-20 victory in Istanbul. McGinnis set Besiktas to a 32 kill percent for the match while posting one kill herself on five attempts. Hughes came off the bench to start the second and third sets and totaled four kills.
BUSSE, CRIMES, PRESSEY UPDATE: Toa Baja, competing in the Puerto Rico Super League, features three players who trained with the U.S. Women's National Team during 2008. Cassie Busse (Prior Lake, Minn.), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) all are sharing a heavy offensive load for Toa Baja. The Llaneras continued its win streak with a 25-23, 25-21, 23-25, 25-17 victory over San Sebastian on March 18. Crimes tallied 16 points with eight kills, six blocks and two aces in leading the way, while Pressey and Busse each contributed 14 points in the victory. In the loss, former U.S. National Team players Shonda Cole (17) and Jane Collymore (16) combined for 33 points while Allison Daley chipped in 11 points. In its second match of the week, Toa Baja topped Bayamon 19-25, 25-19, 25-23, 17-25, 15-12 on March 20. Pressey tallied a match-high 16 points while Crimes and Busse followed with 15 points apiece. Jordan Larson led Bayamon in the loss with 14 points, 13 digs and 14 service receptions. Toa Baja ended the week with its third victory, a 3-1 win over Guaynabo to stretch its win streak to 17 matches to start the season. Toa Baja has a three-match lead over second-place Corozal with five matches remaining in the regular season.
OTHER AMERICAN STANDOUTS IN PUERTO RICO LEAGUE: Jordan Larson compiled 16 points all on kills in leading Bayamon to a three-set victory over Ponce on March 18…Kelly Wing hammered out 20 points and Vicky Brown added 15 points as Juncos topped Ponce in four sets on March 20…Kristee Porter contributed 22 points to lead Corozal to a four-set victory over Caguas on March 20. Erin Moore tacked on 13 points in the victory…Nicole Fawcett provided 19 points in a five-set Carolina victory over San Sebastian on March 21. Kylie Atherstone and Erica Short added 13 points each. Jane Collymore scored a match-high 20 points in the loss for San Sebastian, while Jessica Jones added 17 points and Shonda Cole 16 points…Porter tacked on 17 points, all kills, in leading Corozal to a sweep over Juncos on March 22. Wing tallied 11 points in the loss…Mayaguez swept Ponce on March 22 as Jessica VanderKooi charted 14 points in the victory…Nicole Fawcett poured out 10 points in leading Carolina to a four-set victory over Caguas…For more highlights from the Puerto Rico Super League, click here.
2009 PAN AMERICAN CUP COMING TO MIAMI: USA Volleyball will host the Eighth Annual Women's Pan American Cup June 26-July 4 in conjunction with the USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships in the Miami area. The nine-day Pan American Cup, which will tentatively have three of the four 2008 Olympic Games semifinalists (Brazil, USA and Cuba), will be played on the campuses of the University of Miami and Florida International University. A total of 12 teams are scheduled to compete in the event, which serves as a qualifying event into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix. The top three teams from NORCECA in the Women's Pan American Cup and the highest placing South American country will earn berths to next year's premier annual event. "USA Volleyball is extremely excited about the opportunity to host one of the largest international volleyball events in Miami and to pair it with the 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships," USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said. "It will provide a unique opportunity for our developing young volleyball players to be exposed to elite international volleyball teams from North America, South America and the Caribbean. The two events will also generate terrific excitement in the community and lead to greater popularity for the sport." The tournament schedule and competing teams should be available soon once teams have confirmed participation. Ticket prices and online purchasing will be available at http://usavolleyball.org/event/event/572 once determined. For the full story, click here.
USAV, ANAHEIM MOVE FORWARD ON WOMEN'S TEAM RELOCATION: The Anaheim City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to authorize City staff to negotiate an agreement with USA Volleyball that would relocate the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team to train in Anaheim at the American Sports Centers as early as this spring. The vote is a step forward in the process that would move the U.S. Women's National Team to Anaheim from its current home at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Once the agreement is finalized, Anaheim would be designated the Official Host City for the U.S. Men's and Women's National Volleyball Teams through the 2016 Olympic Games. The American Sports Centers, which has been the training site of the U.S. Men's National Team since it moved to Anaheim in 2006, has agreed to host the U.S. Women's National Team as well. The facility, which opened in March of 2004, is the largest indoor court facility in the United States featuring 22 volleyball courts, 16 basketball courts and nine indoor soccer courts. Among the ASC's other tenants is the Southern California Volleyball Association, one of 40 regions within USA Volleyball. For the complete story, click here. For player reactions to Anaheim City Council's vote, click here. To read an Orange County Register article on Hugh McCutcheon, click here.
REPLICA JERSEY AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED TIME: Are you looking for a unique gift for your volleyball loved ones? USA Volleyball has the answer with replica jerseys from its 2008 Olympic Games indoor teams being made available for a limited time by clicking here. The U.S. Olympic Women's Team replica jerseys, priced at $65 apiece, are available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large. Replica jerseys are available for all 12 U.S. players who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games. Each replica jersey will have the Olympian's name on the back with their jersey number on both the front and back. In addition, USA Volleyball has several other 2008 Olympic Games apparel items commemorating the unprecedented indoor and beach volleyball success obtained in Beijing. Products available on the online store include short and long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies in multiple designs.
OLYMPIC COMMEMORATIVE APPRAREL ON SALE: USA Volleyball has unveiled five commemorative logo designs to appear on apparel saluting USA Volleyball's medal successes at the recent Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Beijing. Apparel can be purchased by clicking here. Men's and ladies' T-shirt designs are $15, while the youth T-shirt size is $13. Long sleeve t-shirts are $18, crew sweatshirts are $23 and hoodies are $30. Sizes XXL and larger have a slightly higher price. USA Volleyball's success on the Olympic grand stage in Beijing has never been achieved by any other nation since volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964. The U.S. Olympic Men's Indoor Volleyball Team, which was named the United States Olympic Committee Team of the Month for August 2008, captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games without losing a single match. Women's Beach Volleyball (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh) and Men's Beach Volleyball (Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers) both came back from Beijing with Olympic Games gold medals. The U.S. Olympic Women's Indoor Volleyball Team captured the silver medal in Beijing, as did the U.S. Women's Sitting Team during the Paralympic Games. No other country has ever participated in the gold-medal match of all four Olympic Games volleyball disciplines during the same year. Team USA added a fifth gold-medal appearance at the Paralympic Games.


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Aprilia RSV4 evolves radically to continue being the best superbike ever the result of an extraordinary and winning project, born out of Aprilia's successful racing experience.
More than one second per lap faster than before, thanks to the new Öhlins suspension systems, the new braking system and the new APRC electronic controls package that includes Cornering ABS and the Downshifter. The 201 hp Euro 4 engine combines with a seven-time world superbike champion chassis architecture.
Front - 330 mm floating double disc with aluminum carrier. Brembo M50 4-piston mono-block radial calipers. Radial pump and steel braided brake lines.
Rear - 220 mm disc. Brembo 32 mm 2 isolated piston caliper. Rear brake pump with integrated reservoir and steel braided lines.
ABS - C-ABS Bosch 9.1MP, de-selectable, adjustable to 3 mappings, with RLM (Rear wheel Lift-up Mitigation) strategy.
Front - 3.5 x 17 in. cast aluminum alloy wheel, with 3 double spokes.
Rear - 6 x 17 in. cast aluminum alloy wheel, with 3 double spokes.
Front - Radial tubeless. 120/70 ZR 17
Rear - Radial tubeless. 200/55 ZR 17
Dry - 397 lb. (180 kg)
Wet - 450 lb. (204 kg)
4.9 gal. (18.5 l)
Reserve - 1 gal. (4 l)
Front - Sachs adjustable steering damper. Sachs upside-down fork, 43 mm fork body. Adjustable spring preload, independant rebound and compression.
Wheel travel - 110 mm
Rear - Double-sided aluminum swingarm Sachs single shock absorber with remote reservoir, adjustable spring preload, independently adjustable compression and rebound, APS progressive linkage
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Bono and Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, left, join religious leaders, members of Congress and others seeking world debt relief during a meeting at the White House, in Washington DC, Oct. 2, 2000.
Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, left, poses with Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., center, and Bono at the American Ireland Fund 9th Annual Gala Dinner, in Washington, March 15, 2001.
Bono gives the peace sign as he walks with President Bush on their return to the White House following a speech by the president at the Inter-American Development Bank, March 14, 2002. The two held a meeting in the Oval Office to discuss AIDS and Mr. Bush's initiative on U.S. aid to poor countries.
Bono jokes with HIV/AIDS infected children at a hospice in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 30, 2002. Standing at left is U.S. Treaury Secretary Paul O'Neill, talking to Sister Benedicta, middle. O'Neill and Bono's visit to Ethiopia concluded a 10-day joint tour of Africa.
Joined by actress Ashley Judd, left, and actor Chris Tucker, right, Bono makes a point to a crowd on Chicago's South Side, Dec. 4, 2002. The stop was one of several on the singer's seven-day bus tour through seven Midwestern states to raise awareness of the epidemic in Africa.
Bono poses for photographers after being awarded the Chevalier of Legion of Honour by French President Jacques Chirac, at Elysee Palace in Paris, Feb. 28, 2003. Both men were 2003 Nobel Peace Prize nominees; the honor went to Iranian Shirin Ebadi, for her efforts for democracy and human rights.
Bono and his wife, Alison, along with U2 band members Adam Clayton and The Edge, from left, arrive for the 75th annual Academy Awards, March 23, 2003, in Los Angeles. High school sweethearts, Bono and Alison married in 1982 and have four children. At far right is The Edge's wife, Morleigh Steinberg.
Bono speaks with Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, left, during rehearsal for the Pavarotti & Friends 2003 annual charity concert, at the Novi Sad Park in Modena, Italy, May 26, 2003. The 2003 benefit was to raise funds to help the United Nations deal with the humanitarian emergency created by the Iraq war.
Bono hugs former South African President Nelson Mandela, at the Nelson Mandela AIDS Benefit Concert in Cape Town, South Africa, Nov. 29, 2003.
Bono kisses Coretta Scott King, right, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., following a news conference, Jan. 17, 2004, in Atlanta. The singer-activist, whose 1984 hit "Pride (In the Name of Love)" was written about the slain Civil Rights leader, was to be honored with the Humanitarian Award, one of the highest honors from The King Center.
Bono speaks at a rally to launch the "One" campaign, an effort to rally Americans and encourage political leaders to help fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, May 16, 2004, in Philadelphia.
Bon greets Luseane Pese, a 10-year-old leukemia patient from Hawaii, at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Oct. 19, 2004, in Memphis, Tenn. Bono was in Tennessee to receive the National Civil Rights Museum's International Freedom Award. Bono, known for his support to increase awareness of the AIDS crisis facing Africa, met with St. Jude researchers who are at work to develop an HIV vaccine.
Bono and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, right, address a plenary session on Africa during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2005. Top business leaders, heads of state from around the world and NGOs gather for the annual forum.
Bono, left, gestures during a meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 28, 2005.
U2 members Bono, right, and The Edge, left, accept the band's award for best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal, for the song "Vertigo," at the 47th Annual Grammy Award, Feb. 13, 2005, in Los Angeles. In background are U2 drummer Larry Mullen, bassist Adam Clayton and award presenter John Mayer, from left to right.
Bono, also known as Paul Hewson, is shown during an interview in Los Angeles, Calif., May 26, 1981. Formed in 1976, U2 often writes big songs about heavy issues, with lyrics about civil rights, politics and religion.


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Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
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Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
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Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning
While I definitely liked the Max Payne videogame and certainly appreciated its sequel, I would have to admit that finding the infamous Kung Fu mod has made me like the game even more.
Whereas plugging bullets into a virtual human being while moving at bullet time can be extremely fun, I personally find it more entertaining to keep said bullet time while kicking someone in the head. Just turn on God mode, then go for it, and you'd be experiencing the game in a whole new way.
Lots of interesting mods out there, and these mods pretty much prove why I still like PC games for the most part, as I'm doing practically the same thing right now as I'm playing Justice League in my Freedom Force game, as it certainly enhances my enjoyment of the said game.
I haven't been able to do much else beyond play games on my PC as of late. Regardless, the times I find myself doing stuff like talking to Clair or Sacha are still fairly important moments I spend away from the computer screen... then again, since I talk to them over YM, maybe not...
Anyways, try the Kung-Fu mod out for yourself, and be amazed!
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I definitely like where Ricoeur is going with his discussion about the narrative. Inasmuch as the terms seem to fly over my head on the surface, a closer look would actually show me that I intuitively know and understand his terminologies, only in a more communications-oriented way, as Ricoeur's ideas seem to be well-grounded in Comm theory. That being said, I'm certainly pleased about classes, and I have no qualms whatsoever about the flow of the discussion.
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Not really. I have done a lot of writing, but they're mainly for work. Ah, well.


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I grew up watching Sesame Street. In fact, my mami likes to laugh and say I watched it until I was 12 years old :/. And my favorite show ever was Reading Rainbow (I was crushed when they discontinued it), followed closely by Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and 321 Contact.
And you all may have figured out by my incessant shares on Facebook and Twitter that my kids and I are AVID WordGirl
Anyway, last week, I attended the PBS Annual Meeting in Denver. (You may have seen my picture on the MM Facebook page!) It was so much fun! I got to meet many of the characters my kids have fallen in love with, including the Cat in the Hat, Princess Presto, Hooper, and even Curious George.
But I think the highlight of the trip may have been meeting Joanne Byrd Rogers, wife of the famous Fred Rogers. She was there for the exciting announcement that PBS is launching a new series based on her late husband's show.
PBS is describing Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, a show created specifically for preschoolers and focuses on their emotional development, as their next signature series. The show is a collaboration between PBS, the Fred Rogers Company, and Out of the Blue Enterprises (Blue's Clues, Super Why). And you can definitely see the influence of each organization on the final product. Take a look...
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood will premiere with a one-hour special right after Sesame Street on Monday, September 3rd. You can learn more on their new website.
As a parent who grew up loving Fred Rogers' show, I was moved by all the familiar elements that have been incorporated in this new series. Trolley, King Friday's castle, O the Owl's tree, even the song that little Daniel sings, take me back to my own childhood. And I'm SO thankful that my own children can now experience a similar show and create their own special memories.
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Did you know that chewing gum is made from petroleum? It is. Why do I know this? You see, Ava (age 3) has recently taken quite the interest in chewing gum. Jody and I let her have a piece and she did well with it – didn't swallow it I mean. However, now that she's had a taste, she wants more, more, more. You could say she's a chain chewer. She'll chew one piece for a minute or two, spit it out and pop another in her mouth.
This new habit made me question what all goes into chewing gum. Jody did a search on Wikipedia and found this: Chewing gum is a type of confectionery which is designed to be chewed rather than swallowed. Traditionally, it was made of chicle, a natural latex product, although for reasons of economy and quality many modern chewing gums use petroleum-based polymers instead of chicle.
Mmmm, petroleum. /gag If I don't want my kid to ingest pesticides and growth hormones in her food, I sure as hell don't want her gnawing on petroleum in her gum. Oy.
Of course his next search was to find a natural chewing gum alternative to crude oil, which lead him to Glee Gum. Glee Gum is all natural chewing gum made with sustainably-harvested rainforest chicle.
Jody picked up three packs of Glee Gum at Vitamin Cottage and Ava has been happily chewing on chicle ever since. The only problem with chicle is that it gets stuck in your teeth much more easily than slippery old petroleum. So there have been a few occasions where I've had to retrieve gum from Ava's mouth – it likes to get stuck between her teeth and gums. But I'd rather fish around in her mouth than worry about her ingesting petroleum. 😉
Which brings me to my next story. Guess what artificial colors are made from. C'mon, guess! That's right – petroleum as well (in addition to coal tar and insects)! Thanks to Greenstylemom for sharing this bit of information and putting a damper on my recent M&M
gluttony consumption.
Here's a bit more about some of the artificial colors…
Blue No. 1 uses coal tar as one of its components. Because of the use of coal tar, many organizations and circles are speaking out and boycotting products using colors with coal tar because it is a carcinogenic in large quantities, known to cause tumors in lab rats.
Red No. 40 can be found in sweets, drinks and condiments, medications, and cosmetics. It has caused allergic reactions in people as well as hyperactivity in children.
Yellow No. 5 or Tartazine can be found in soft drinks, instant puddings, flavored chips (Doritos, etc), cake mixes, custard powder, soups, sauces, kool-aid, ice cream, ice lollies, candy, chewing gum, marzipan, jam, jelly, marmalade, mustard, horseradish, yogurt, noodles, pickles and other pickled products, certain brands of fruit squash, fruit cordial, chips, tim tams, and many convenience foods together with glycerin, lemon and honey products.
Tartrazine, however, does produce the most common allergic react, especially among those with an aspirin intolerance and ashtma. Some research has linked Yellow No. 5 to early childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and hyperactivity. It is banned in Austria and Norway.
Yellow No. 6, also known as Sunset Yellow FCF, is an orange coal tar-based food dye found in orange squash, orange jelly, marzipan, Swiss roll, apricot jam, citrus marmalade, lemon curd, fortune cookies, sweets, hot chocolate mix and packet soups, trifle mix, breadcrumbs and cheese sauce mix and soft drinks. It is the color most prominently seen in DayQuil. It is capable of causing allergic reactions such as abdominal pain, hyperactivity, hives, nasal congestion, and bronchoconstriction, as well as kidney tumours, chromosomal damage, and distaste for food.
Here's the kicker, a number of these dyes have been banned in countries around the world because of their link to cancer, tumors, allergic reactions and hyperactivity in children, yet they are still used in foods in the good ol' U.S.A.
Note to self for future sweet binges: Chocolate = good. Chocolate with
cancer-coating artificial dye coating on it = bad.
Thirdly, on another related note, thanks to my friend Melissa for sharing the article: Scientists make gut-brain connection to autism. (The bolding below is mine.)
Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic-type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.
It's wonderful to see a scientific study finally acknowledge what many parents have already come to realize on their own. (Jenny McCarthy was recently talking with Oprah about this with regard to her autistic son.)
Dr. Martha Herbert, assistant professor in neurology at Harvard Medical School, told CBC News that the study opens up a new way of thinking about the disorder.
"Now we're learning that the brain and body can influence each other," she said.
Excuse my cynicism here, but NO KIDDING! This hardly seems like news to me, but I guess I should be happy that science is catching on that there IS a mind-body connection. Perhaps they will realize that this can apply to many other things as well. I'm crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath yet.


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I am facing an issue regarding the closing of socket.
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Issue that I am facing is "it did not close the socket while @resolving host and goes for Hostresolved"
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Yuma Union High School District
Logo is for a public high school district located in Southwestern Arizona that was established in 1909 and that currently has 6 schools. The logo needs to symbolize the District's vision which is "Where Great Minds Grow". This vision is not only for their students but their family of employees as well. They are constantly improving through their strategic plan which is titled "Our Stars, Our Future". They are proud of their history and the diversity of their community.
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We are a public high school district that offers a variety of college and career readiness courses and that serves a diverse population in our crossroads desert community in the Southwest corner of Arizona next to California and Mexico. The target audience for this logo includes the communities of Yuma, Somerton and San Luis, Arizona; parents and students moving to the Yuma area, including military families; anyone that applies for a position with Yuma Union High School District; anyone interested in investing in the future of the Yuma metropolitan communities.
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001. A very sniffly sunday post today, I have the flu. Fingers crossed it's gone by Wednesdays Cosmopolitan Blog Awards. I've spent most of today with my duvet and a bottle of Night Nurse. I didnt even move from my bed till midday. I hate this time of year when the weather changes, my body seems to reject it all and make me a grumpy ill person. Reading alot of other peoples summary posts today I noticed a fair few people on the sicky bandwagon too ):
002. As I mentioned above its Cosmopolitan Blog Awards on Wednesday! I'm staying over to party with some other bloggers which I'm really looking forward to (illness permitting!)! The competition is really tough this year and I think its one of those things that can go either way, especially as some of my favourite bloggers are in my category! Some really stiff competition in the both the Beauty Blog Categories, I really didn't know who to vote for in those ones! Excited about seeing all my blogging faves IRL though! So fun! I've picked my outfit and everything!
003. Decided its finally time to get rid on the ombre, I love it but its just not for me anymore. Its too "done" and I think its had its time, so its byebye! And potentially hello blonde. I was actually blonde till I was about 13, then I started dying my hair and then now its just naturally the brown it is now. If I can drag my bum to the hairdressers in the morning Im gonna see how much it would cost. I obvz dont want to be peroxide blonde, just a natural warm sandy blonde colour, like the Ombre in my hair already just all over.


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EEF/User Guide
The EEF workflow is the same than many others projects of the Eclipse Modeling Project :
- Modeling : In the first step, you have to define some models (conforms to EEF metamodels) describing the graphical components that will be generated by EEF.
- Generating : Once the EEF models defined, the second step in the EEF development is to call he EEF generating module. EEF bring an Acceleo module that generate the java classes for the components defined in the preceding step.
- Customization : An optional third step can be done by customizing java code to add features that aren't directly accessible by the EEF generation. The third component of EEF is the runtime that is used by the generated code. This runtime is extensible, so you can substitute the generated code by your code and bring new features.
The custom can also be done by adding custom code in dedicated area in the generated code (called "user code area"). Acceleo will keep this code in the next generators invocation.
This document will describes all these steps in the user point of view.
EEF Modeling
The EEF editing components are designed with three models conform to four metamodels. This models are :
- The views model : This is one or more ViewsRepository that we be used to edit the EMF models. These views can be stored in several categories.
- The components model : This a context PropertiesEditionContext that describes the controllers associating the elements of the views with the metamodel properties that they have to edit.
- The eefgen generation settings model : it allows the user to define settings for the generation. Thus, the target directory, the legal notice, and many other option can be set up in this model.
Warning : The EEF intializer create the two first models in only one file !
Views model
The views modeling is made with a model conform to the EEF views metamodel. The root element of this model is a ViewsRepository. A ViewsRepository has a name and an optional documentation. A RepositoryKind property can be set but isn't used in the generation. This will be done in the next release.
A ViewsRepository contains Views and/or Categories. A Category doesn't step in the generation, it's just an element used to organize the Views. A Category only have a name and a documentation.
It's possible to create Views in a ViewsRepository of in a Category. A View represents a list of editors, called in EEF ElementEditor, which will be generated in the final editing component. A View shouldn't necessarily be defined for a particular element of the mapped meta-model and you don't have to create one ElementEditor for all the structural features of a given type. We'll see in next section that views can be referenced in several contexts. A View have a name, a documentation and can be defined as Explicit or not. A View is explicit when it is directly used by a component, not when it is referenced or compounded (see advanced topics).
The atomic part of a view is an ElementEditor. It's one or more widgets allowing to set the value of a EMF object property. Mostly, an ElementEditor is a label (for the name of the property) with a widget to enter the value and if the property has documentation a question mark displaying this documentation.
An editor have a name, a documentation and mainly a representation. This representation is a Widget of a Toolkit. This representation defines during the generation the widget to generated in the parts. The available widgets are listed in next sections.
The last concept for the view modeling is the Container. A Container group together widgets in order to generate graphical delimitation around these widgets or to change the default layout use by EEF. A container have a name, a documentation and a representation defining the behaviour of the container.


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Any person involved in a transaction or proceeding. A group of voters organized for the purpose of influencing governmental policy, particularly through the nomination and election of candidates for public office.
Plaintiffs and defendants are Parties in lawsuits, for example. They have the right to make claims and defenses, offer proof, and examine and cross-examine witnesses at trials. They can pursue appeals after unsatisfactory judgments if they satisfy designated criteria.In the United States, the Democrats and the Republicans make up the two major national political parties.
n. 1) one of the participants in a lawsuit or other legal proceeding who has an interest in the outcome. Parties include plaintiff (person filing suit), defendant (person sued or charged with a crime), petitioner (files a petition asking for a court ruling), respondent (usually in opposition to a petition or an appeal), cross-complainant (a defendant who sues someone else in the same lawsuit), or cross-defendant (a person sued by a cross-complainant). 2) a person or entity involved in an agreement. 3) a common reference by lawyers to people or entities involved in lawsuits, transactions, contracts, accidents, as in "both parties knew what was expected," "he is a party to the contract," "he was not a party to the criminal conspiracy..." (See: plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, contract, indispensable party, necessary party, proper party, real party in interest)
party(Litigant), noun adversary, appellant, appellee, challenger, charger, claimant, complainant, contender, contestant, controversialist, defendant, disputant, libelant, opposing party, petitioner, plaintiff, suitor
Associated concepts: adverse party, defect in parties, disinnerested party, indispensable party, jurisdiction of parties, material party, mutuality of parties, necessary parties, nommnal party, nonjoinder of parties, opposing party, party-in practice, prevailing party, proper party, real party in interrst, substantial party
Foreign phrases: Saepe constitutum est, res inter alios juuicatas aliis non praejudicare.It has often been decided that matters adjudged between others ought not to prejuuice those who are not parties.
party(Participant), noun attendant, cooperator, partaker, participator, partisan, partner, sharer
Associated concepts: accommodation party, competent party, guilty party, injured party, innocent party, real party in interest, third party
party(Political organization), noun association, body, caucus, club, coalition, combine, confederation, faction, group, league, lobby, organized group, party machine, political machine
See also: actor, amicus curiae, appellant, applicant, assemblage, character, complainant, constituency, contender, contributor, denomination, individual, litigant, participant, person, petitioner, privy, side
PARTY, practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement. Vide Parties to contracts; Parties to 'actions; Parties to a suit in equity.


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Even with a limited production run ending in 1857, the Model 1844 32-pdr Field Howitzers saw service in the war, and were actually issued to the Federal field armies.
The writers of Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War linked the 32-pdr Field Howitzer currently on display at Petersburg to Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery.
The 32-pdr on the rails has the registry number "12" from Ames Manufacturing, and also bears the inspectors initials -LABW for Louis A. de Barth Walbach. The authors of the above mentioned work, citing records from Rock Island Arsenal, identified registry number 12 from Ames as the issued to Battery H, and seeing service at the battles of Shiloh, Murphreesboro, and Chickamauga.
Readers may recall I've often mentioned Battery H, 5th US Artillery with regard to the Shiloh Battlefield (first and second positions indicated by War Department tablets). In his report on the battle of Shiloh, Brigadier General William Nelson, commanding the Army of the Ohio's Fourth Division, identified the battery, commanded by Captain William Terrill, armed with "four 12-pounder brass guns and two 10-pounder Parrott guns," adding "It was handled superbly" (OR, Series I, Volume 10, Serial 10, p. 325). In his official report, Captain Terrill specifically mentioned the employment of Napoleon guns, but nothing about howitzers (Ibid., pp. 321-3). And, to add more weight here, in his report of the ammunition expenditure during the battle, Captain J. H. Gilman, inspector of artillery for the Army of the Ohio, tallied the ammunition used by Terrill's battery, setting the total at 242 rounds – 76 from the Parrott guns and 166 from "his light 12 pounders" (Ibid., p. 301).
After action reports from the battle of Murphreesboro stated that Battery H, 5th US Artillery, then under the command of Lieutenant Francis Guenther, was similarly armed with Parrotts and Napoleons (OR, Series I, Volume 20, Serial 29, p. 238). Later, in an ordnance report dated June 30, 1863, the battery's armament is listed again as Parrotts and Napoleons (OR, Series I, Volume 23, Serial 35, p. 967). Clearly the battery did not go into action at Shiloh (or at later battles) with 32-pdr howitzers. I would offer that Battery H was among those formed early in the war as the regulars expanded. As such, the battery may have received 32-pdr howitzers initially, before re-equipping with handier pieces by April 1862.
Better documented is Battery D, 1st New York Artillery Battalion (later becoming the 32nd Independent Battery) , which served the Army of the Potomac. The battery served, under the command of Captain Edward Grimm, with the rest of the 1st Battalion, as part of the Third Brigade of the Artillery Reserve during the Peninsula Campaign (1862), and with six 32-pdr howitzers. Both Henry Hunt (then a Colonel commanding the reserve) and Major Albert Arndt (commanding the 1st NY Battalion, and the 3rd Brigade of the reserve) mentioned Grimm's battery in their official reports. While not conspicuous, the 32-pdrs were mentioned several times, particularly with regard to Malvern Hill (OR, Series I, Volume 11, Serial 13, pp 236-241, 264-5).
At some point later that summer, command of the battery shifted to Captain Charles Kusserow but Battery D retained the 32-pdrs. Although placed under the V Corps, along with the rest of the 1st NY Battalion, no returns indicate the battery saw action in the 2nd Manassas. However, as the Army of the Potomac reacted to the invasion of Maryland, the 32-pdrs rolled north towards Sharpsburg, Maryland. On September 17, 1862, Kusserow's Battery deployed on a ridge line east of the Middle Bridge, just north of the Boonesboro Pike.
The ridge is in the background, behind the War Department tablets in the photo above. In this position, the 32-pdrs certainly commanded the approaches to the bridge, and could thwart any Confederate counter attack in the sector. But with a range of only 1500 yards, the gunners could not support offensive actions up the road.
On this cut from the War Department maps, I've indicated the battery's position with a blue box. The two blue lines, measured to 1500 yards, indicate the range of the 32-pdrs from that position. The howitzers fell just short of Confederate positions on the Sunken Road and skirmishers along the Boonesboro Pike. The 32-pdrs may have offered significant firepower if sent forward, but one must question how easily that could be accomplished. If Captain Tidball advanced Battery A, 2nd US Artillery with 3-inch Ordnance Rifles by hand into position, how well could 32-pdrs at twice the weight, pulled by eight horses each, have moved closer to the enemy?
By the time of Fredericksburg (December 1862) the battery received six 3-inch Ordnance Rifles. Battery D continued to serve with the Army of the Potomac through June 1863, as part of the Artillery Reserve. However by the time of the Chancellorsville Campaign, the battery was then re-designated the 32nd New York Light Artillery (OR, Series I, Volume 25, Serial 39, p. 247). The battery served the rest of the war in the XXII and VIII Corps, notably around Harpers Ferry.
Burnside reported two 32-pdr howitzers during operations on the North Carolina Outer Banks (OR, Series I, Volume 9, Serial 9, p. 369). Likely those 32-pdrs were still in use in the theater and served at the siege of Washington, N.C. in March-April 1863 (OR, Series I, Volume 18, Serial 26, p. 251). And in far away New Mexico, Brigadier General Edward Canby forwarded on battery equipped with four 12-pdr Field Guns and two 32-pdr Field Howitzers to New Mexico in June 1862 (OR, Series I, Volume 9, Serial 9, p. 679).
After 1862, the Federals moved most of the 32-pdrs to the fortifications. Battery Garesche, of the Alexandria line of fortifications outside Washington, D.C, received two 32-pdrs. One, and possibly a second, armed the fortifications on the east side of the Anacostia River.
Based on Official Records, the Confederates used the 32-pdr howitzers in fortifications also. Details related of some fortifications, such as Fort Donelson in Tennessee or Fort Walker defending Port Royal Sound in South Carolina, mention "32-pdr howitzers" but these may also be references to carronade-type weapons of the same caliber. Although not explicitly mentioned in the weapons mounted in the defense of Island No. 10, Confederate reports state 32-pdr howitzer ammunition was on hand, carried as a separate line item from munitions for 32-pdr guns (OR, Series I, Volume 8, Serial 8, p. 183). A Major J. Kellersburg, engineer operating in Texas, reported placing "two brass 32-pounder howitzers" in a battery along the Sabine River in October 1862 (OR, Series I, Volume 15, Serial 21, p. 834). At least two 32-pdr howitzers were used in the Charleston, South Carolina defenses, although these are hard to trace due to references to 32-pdr carronades as howitzers in some accounts.
Strictly speaking for the year 1862, sixteen (and possibly up to nineteen) of the 32-pdrs can be identified within the Official Records. Certainly impressive considering only twenty-five of the weapons were produced!
The 32-pdr howitzers served right up to the end of the war. During the siege of Petersburg, the 1st Connecticut Artillery employed two 32-pdrs at Battery Pruyn, along with a 24-pdr howitzers, a 20-pdr Parrott, and two 30-pdr Parrotts. The three howitzers were later moved forward to an advanced redoubt named Dutton. The Confederates assaulted the position on June 2, 1864. Colonel Henry L. Abbott, of the 1st Connecticut Artillery reported:
After driving in the picket-lines on June 2 the Twenty-second South Carolina Regiment, Colonel Dantzler, made a determined assault upon this redoubt. It was repulsed with severe loss by canister fire, the colonel himself being among the killed, of who 17 were counted. So demoralized was his command that a lieutenant and 22 enlisted men surrendered to the garrison rather than attempt to retreat under the fire. (OR, Series I, Volume 36, Serial 68, p. 193)
So while the range limited the weapons' effectiveness at battlefields such as Antietam, the weight of shot and canister made the 32-pdr devastating in the close confines of the trenches.


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Every so often, the state of Oregon remembers that it has a higher education system. Typically, this happens late in a legislative session, about the time of year when unsuccessful applicants to selective colleges get the word. In both cases, the message tends to be brief and discouraging.
But as next year's session of the Legislature approaches, interest in Oregon universities is at a level typically seen only at the Civil War game.
A special committee on university governance has sent legislators Legislative Concept 759, a plan for setting up the separate institutional boards eagerly sought by the University of Oregon and Portland State, not to mention Phil Knight. Gov. John Kitzhaber, whose interest in higher ed during his first terms was fairly tepid, is now an enthusiastic backer of the separate boards. The budget he released last week creates a new Department of Post-Secondary Education, as well as the new Higher Education Coordinating Commission. The new Oregon Education Investment Board will take its look at higher ed restructuring on Dec. 11. The leadership of the incoming House of Representatives may give higher ed its own standing committee.
Even state Treasurer Ted Wheeler is involved, talking about using some newly available state bonding capacity to help set up new scholarship funding for Oregon college students.
Suddenly, it seems all of state government is wearing a university sweatshirt.
As is often the case, people wonder what's underneath.
"What I want out of the session," says Oregon State President Ed Ray, a skeptic about creating new institutional boards, "is operating flexibility and resources."
Traditionally, higher ed has come up short in the Legislature in both of those areas. Kitzhaber's budget proposes a 7.2 percent increase for Oregon's universities, and he insists the fundraising power of separate university boards will provide a way to close some more of the fiscal gap.
"There isn't a well-regarded public university anywhere that doesn't have a lot of private funding," the governor told The Oregonian editorial board last week. "It's very important to have a model that can attract private money."
It's especially important in Oregon, where a university has to raise at least half the money for a new building or capital project itself.
In Ray's 10 years at Oregon State, the university has done well raising private money, notably in a recent capital drive, and he's not certain the new boards would change the odds. But if, as Oregon and Portland State backers expect, the restructuring changes the dynamic for attracting both private and matching state aid, the issue could reopen.
"If we're at a disadvantage because others have an institutional board, that's a new fact," Ray says. "My instinct would be to go to the university community and say, 'Talk to me.'"
The new structural focus on the state's universities at multiple levels -- an executive department, a legislative committee, institutional boards -- has to be useful for the system, typically a focus of Salem attention only for budget cuts. With an official state goal of 40 percent of Oregonians having bachelor's degrees by 2025, the new attention is vital; as the governor noted, this year the class of 2025 enters kindergarten.
But as Ray notes, Oregon's also not going to get there without some more resources going into the system, opening up some more capacity to produce all those additional degrees. Enrollment has been rising throughout the system, but the state's vaulting dependence on tuition to pay for it all carries its own costs.
Students who are not scared off by sticker shock can graduate with intimidating debt burdens. Out-of-state students paying out-of-state tuition, while financially alluring and a mounting part of the universities' strategies, may not do that much to raise the educational levels of Oregonians.
Still, all the new structural attention to higher education has to be useful.
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I encountered a picture of the steamer "Oregon" while reading a history of the Stone-Campbell churches. She was built by Rees, knocked down and re-assembled overseas, and operated on the Congo in Africa. A little noodling led me back to my Rees catalog, which includes another photo and a testimonial from the missionary that used the boat. All of these photos of her are bow-on shots, such that I can't tell if she was a screw-boat or a sternwheeler. Even the specs listing in the catalog doesn't say. Does anyone know?
As always, many thanks!