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Excerpt: 'Jungle Jack: My Wild Life'
Jack Hanna shares hilarious stories about life with the animals in new memoir.
Sept. 12, 2008 -- One of "Good Morning America's" favorite guests, Jack Hanna, has just released a memoir called "Jungle Jack: My Wild Life," which chronicles more than five decades of his passion, devotion and love of animals.
"GMA" was the first national TV program to feature Hanna and his amazing animals. He was an instant hit, and the rest, as they say, is history.
In the chapter below, Hanna describes how he got started in TV, and he shares some of his favorite funniest moments from "GMA" and "Late Night With David Letterman."
Chapter 13: Lights, Camera, Animals!
All this television stuff started, unintentionally, after I got to Columbus. Seeing me in some colorful local news interviews, the producer of a cable talk show asked me if I'd host some animal episodes. As an opportunity to promote the zoo, I accepted.
My next stop on the local circuit was Hanna's Ark, a family-type show on WBNS (CBS) that featured my daughter Kathaleen and me as co-hosts. With her trademark pigtails, she was only eleven but stole the show every time. She took the job very seriously, learning not only her lines but mine as well, to help me when I would forget. And she was completely fearless with the animals. She never flinched when a huge, black, hairy tarantula was placed on her arm, or when she was filming five feet from a spitting cobra. At Sea World one of the segments we filmed was the water skiing show. While one of the performers was skiing, he held Kathaleen who then climbed on top of his shoulders. Suzi said the ballet lessons paid off —she even pointed her toes! Though she certainly had her share of scratches and bites, she never said a word about it. We would open with an animal at the zoo, then go to footage of the same species in the wild, then come back and close from the zoo. I loved the concept, and it was fun while it lasted.
After two years and forty-eight episodes, Hanna's Ark was shelved. I was somewhat upset at the time, since the station announced that we didn't have enough animals to tie in to the wild because we were a small zoo. Tell the people that Hee Haw was creeping up on us—which it was—but don't tell me, a zoo director with some six thousand animals, that we don't have enough animals left.
But ending Hanna's Ark turned out to be a blessing. Shortly afterward, Channel 4, the local NBC affiliate, offered me a series of one-hour wildlife specials. These shows enabled me to learn (as I taught) about wild animals at the farthest reaches of the earth. We covered Egypt, East Africa, China, India, the Galápagos Islands, Alaska, Antarctica—you name it. And the result was an avalanche of invaluable publicity for the zoo.
A special bonus to our agreement was a small weekly bit every Friday called Zoo Day. I'd take an animal to the studio, or a crew came to us, and we just talked about what was going on at the zoo. It was a fantastic weekend reminder.
Angela Pace, the anchorperson for my first five years of Zoo Days, was, at the beginning, deadly opposed to the segment—she thought it had no place on a serious newscast. But we hit it off so well and had so many good times together that it did not take long for her to come around.
Our greatest Zoo Day segment ever was the one on which Betty White, my favorite camel, let out what sounded like a torrential downpour splashing down on the studio floor—something like when you've got a broken gutter in a thunderstorm. It was way too loud to ignore, so I just interrupted my spiel on what the camel ate and said, "Guess what, Angela? Betty's going to the bathroom."
Angela, meanwhile, was trying to step out of the camel's way. And I figured we'd better get Betty off, so I went to pull her with the rope, but she slipped in her own urine and ended up knocking me and Angela down. Next, I brought out a few little goats to promote spring fever at our Children's Zoo. I guess they must have all just eaten, because when they got to the same spot, they all started going to the bathroom, too. By now, I was laughing so hard I was crying; Angela was trying hard to maintain her composure.
"Let's have one more look at Betty White," I said to Angela.
"No, uh . . . Jack, I don't think we have time," said Angela, just as Betty came storming back in, butting Angela out of her way, sending her flying to the floor again. In one split second, ol' Betty was in and out of the frame.
As Angela attempted to pick herself up off the floor to sign off, I went to grab Betty White, who was now standing in a corner of the studio. In traditional camel fashion, she wouldn't budge. The last thing the viewer saw was me tugging on that camel, with the picture jumping up and down from the cameraman laughing so hard.
Why anyone would look at that tape and still invite me into their studio, I have no idea. But soon to follow was my big start on national television. In 1983, Patty Neger, associate producer from ABC's Good Morning America called. She had seen on the AP wire service a story about twin gorillas being born here in Columbus. She asked if they could do a live remote with me from the zoo, and I said fine. It all went off very smoothly, but I have to say it's hard to miss with a couple of twin baby gorillas.
"I was the first person to put Jack on national television. . . . You can blame it all on me." —Patty Neger, Coordinating Producer, Good Morning America
A year later Patty checked in on us again with the idea of doing a birthday party for the twins. We had a birthday cake, the whole bit, and by this time the twins were total hams. They were all over me, pulling my earphone out and chewing my safari shirt. The GMA people liked it, and Patty told me to call her if there were any more significant births happening at the zoo.
The following spring, while in New York on some other business, I told Patty about Taj, the white tiger cub born to yellow parents that Suzi was raising at home because of the cub's leg disability. Patty said they had a last-minute opening and asked if I could get Taj to New York immediately. Suzi wasn't home, but the GMA people somehow managed to track her down—before I did—on the golf course during Jack Nicklaus's Memorial Tournament. Hours later, Suzi and Taj were on their way to New York City. Suzi carried Taj with her in a crate, and on the plane, Taj received star treatment. The pilot welcomed the "white tiger cub," as Taj's boarding pass was registered, to the plane, and the man sitting beside Suzi asked her for Taj's boarding pass. "My wife will never believe I sat next to a tiger cub on the plane," he told her. The next morning, Taj joined me for my first Good Morning America studio appearance with Joan Lunden. And boy, did she "awww" them!
My next appearance was again in the studio, with two lion cubs and a sandhill crane. Kathleen Sullivan was the host and that crane was flapping its huge wings so much that Kathleen's hair was blowing like she was in a wind tunnel. The cubs were crawling all over my lap, and I just went on with the interview as though nothing was happening.
What I was going through was nothing compared to Debbie Casto's ordeal the night before. Debbie, our marketing director at the time, had just been kicked out of the Plaza Athénée Hotel. Around ten o'clock, she had taken one of the lion cubs for a walk on the marble floor of the hotel's foyer, and somebody got uptight. Debbie wound up sleeping in the manager's office on a cot with the two cubs.
Anyway, that particular show cemented Good Morning America's relationship with the Columbus Zoo. Producer Sonya Selby-Wright suggested having me appear on a monthly basis, and at the same time GMA officially "adopted" the Columbus Zoo with the twins' second birthday party. An aardvark and a couple of baby wallabies were presented on the air to hosts David Hartman and Joan Lunden, with the understanding that GMA would adopt them, which includes the cost of feeding the animals for a year.
"Every single time Jack was going to be on, I'd come home and say to my kids, 'Guess who's going to be on next Thursday?' They would yell, 'Jack Hanna!' Jack was the guest, the star that they always wanted to see." —Joan Lunden
For the first segment under the new arrangement, Joan Lunden traveled out to the zoo. We greeted her at the front gate with a welcoming committee that looked like a Noah's Ark with zookeepers. Joan loves animals, and aside from an embarrassing moment when Oscar the gorilla disrespectfully nailed her with his infamous crap toss, she had a great time touring the zoo.
It makes it much easier for everyone when a TV personality likes the animals that I bring on, especially on live television. There are no rehearsals, so it's hard to predict a tense situation, and, of course, it's a well-known fact that animals react differently to tension in human beings.
Charlie Gibson, who took over as co-host from David Hartman, had a nasty moment, just before we went on. It was Charlie's first week, it was a brand-new set, and it was my first appearance with him. There was a large group of television reporters on the set, and I'd brought along a cougar, a red-tailed hawk, and a fox for my talk about North American animals. "People ask me, 'What's it like to be Jack's producer?' You can't produce Jack. You point him in the right direction, and you pray." —Patty Neger
About thirty seconds before our cue to go on, I picked up the fox , and it tried to nip me a little, nothing too bad. I held it firmly in my lap, and as Charlie sat down opposite me, he asked to hold the fox. I could not say no—actually, I could have and should have, but I didn't. I handed Charlie the fox, and it bit him hard on the index finger.
With only a few seconds until we were on, Charlie let the fox down without saying a word and reached into his pocket for a handkerchief to smother his bleeding finger. "Today, we have Jack Hanna with us from the Columbus Zoo," he said, cool and on cue, without any reference to the bite.
Meanwhile, I was holding a cougar, and the fox was running all over the set. Charlie asked me some questions very professionally, while I tried hard not to look at his finger, which was bleeding like a stuck pig.
"There weren't many things Charlie and I fought over; we didn't usually try to one-up the other. But every now and then we would fight over doing the Jack Hanna spot." —Joan Lunden
The minute the show was over, Charlie just asked me what kind of shots he needed, before rushing out the door to a doctor. I told him tetanus shots, but I did not mention that foxes can carry rabies. A photographer from the New York Post was there, and Charlie got a lot of mileage from the bite in the next day's paper. I was on Late Night the following week, and, predictably, Letterman had a few laughs at Charlie's and my expense.
Since that first appearance in 1983, I've continued to appear regularly on Good Morning America, now about once each month. The agreement that we have with Good Morning America is a prime example of how the public has changed in its perception of zoos. We're more concerned with preserving species than we are with showing off exotic animals. GMA wanted the viewer to learn something about animals (often about threatened or endangered species) and still enjoy the animal as well. (For Letterman, you can just turn that around.)
"It was fun television, but we were all impacted by Jack's love of animals, his dedication to educating people about animals, and his passion for protecting animals in zoos and in the wild." —Joan Lunden
Many people think that I earn big bucks from all the television shows I do, including Letterman and GMA. I am there to represent the Columbus Zoo and the animals, not to make a million. The expenses—which, with animal travel, can be considerable—are covered by the networks, not taxpayer dollars. But the amount of TV time that we accumulate in a year would come to millions of dollars if we had to buy it in advertising.
Now, what I do on the David Letterman show is different. My philosophy is similar to that of Walt Disney: "I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained." I'm a character on David Letterman, and I accept that role—it's not all that much different from me in real life anyway, especially when I'm away from the zoo. It's also very different from what I do for Good Morning America, and it reaches a different audience, possibly an audience not typically exposed to animal programming. But on Letterman, people mostly play for laughs, which is something we've managed to do for years now without demeaning or hurting any of the animals.
And along with the laughs, people do learn about animals on the Letterman shows too. I'd like to think that even David Letterman, between all the jokes and the put-downs, has managed to learn something about animals, not necessarily from me but from the animals themselves. They're the real stars.
I had been doing Good Morning America for about a year when I received a call from Laurie David (now Laurie Lennard, former wife of Larry David), the talent coordinator at that time for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman. They were looking for an animal person who could get along with Dave, and Patty Neger had referred me, saying she knew just the guy.
Well, I hated to admit it, but I had never watched the show, mainly because of my job hours. I'd heard of it, but had never seen it. When the show came on, I was in bed. All the same, I told her, "Sure, I'll go on. Just tell me when and where."
Meanwhile, the local media all came to me saying, "Don't go on that show, he'll tear you apart." I thought he was just a talk-show host like I'd seen on Carson, and I wondered what they were talking about. Tear me up? What's he want to tear me up for?
On Valentine's Day 1985, my first Late Night date, snow threatened to cancel the whole thing. We were going to take the animals east in a zoo van, but the roads were mostly closed, and travel was impossible, especially with exotic animals. I was desperate, but I knew we'd get there somehow. If I called the Letterman people and said I couldn't make it, what were my chances of ever being asked back?
A friend of mine, Dale Eisenman, said he'd fly all the animals, no problem. Most of the animals were small, but I hadn't told him about Spinner, the eighty-five-pound baby pygmy hippo. The animals would not fit in his plane, so he found another one and pulled the back seats out so that Spinner, two capuchin monkeys, a pelican, a crow, a European hedgehog and a pig could all squeeze in.
The animals got to the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center just in time for the show, and I was totally psyched, pumped up and ready to show our zoo to the entire country. David and I met on the air, the way it is with most of his guests. I brought the capuchin monkeys out, and got a big laugh when I told him they didn't like women. I caught some flak for this, but, hey, it was true—they didn't like women. The pelican wouldn't eat the fish, Henry the crow flew up into the audience and wouldn't come back, and the pig was running around all over the place. We—my staff and I—just kind of let things happen. David was very polite and courteous, and I knew he liked the pygmy hippo. But I do remember him looking at me like I might be a little crazy.
Although I didn't plan it or realize it then, the helter-skelter, animals-all-over-the-place idea set the trend for future appearances. I'd found my niche. People who know me know that I'm at my best when I'm doing fifty things at once.
The producers were pleased and even asked me not to plan any other late-night talk-show appearances. The host seemed to have a good time, too, and I knew this was important in terms of being invited back. When they officially asked me, a month later, if I could appear during ratings week in May, I was elated.
For the next show, I brought two young elephants, Boomer and Belle, who weighed in at two thousand pounds each. They barely fit in the freight elevators in Rockefeller Center; another six months and I would have been out of luck.
The pachyderms were a big hit, and it was on this show that David started to kid me a bit. He asked me how the lesser anteater I'd brought on the show got his name, and I said, "Because they eat less than other anteaters." He made a face, like sure, Jack, and everybody laughed. I wasn't trying to be funny or to set myself up; I was just kind of preoccupied when he asked—some animal had disappeared under his desk. It wouldn't be long before he'd be telling me that I wasn't really a zoo director, that there really wasn't any zoo in Columbus.
Everything on the Letterman show happens spontaneously; there is no script. But we still have to have the animal situation under control—you can't just bring them out in any order. Once we had a cheetah on the show, with a variety of other animals, half of which might be the cheetah's prey in the wild. As I was going over the list, the producer asked me, where was our "wow" animal? We were starting with the cheetah and ending with a Chinese pheasant, and I think he would have liked it the other way around. "We can't bring the cheetah on with those other animals," I told him. "We'd have a scene right out of National Geographic. It wouldn't be pretty."
We bring animals on the basis of their availability, their health, their temperament—how they'll react to rock music, for example—and we also try to vary the selection from show to show. Ideally, I'd like to have as many "wow" animals as possible on there. They're all "wow" animals as far as I'm concerned, but I know that if I bring a snail and a housecat on the show, my future in promoting the animals and the zoo wouldn't be too bright.
In a sense, I'm between a rock and a hard place on this. The producers would like to have wild animals running all over the place—that's the big payoff. But just as a singer knows what songs he can sing and in what style, as a zoo director, I know what animals I can handle, where I can put them, how fast I can pick one up and a host of other intangibles that crop up. Dave obviously has to get the laughs, that's what the show's for, but I'm also out there to make sure nobody gets hurt; him, me or the animals. And in the process, I hope to educate the viewing audience a little as well.
One of our nuttiest visits ever was when I brought up a couple of full-grown camels. I weighed and measured them, like I do with all the animals before we come on, but I forgot to measure their humps. They had plenty of room in the elevator, but the ceiling where they got off was too low. And I learned a new animal fact: once a camel's walking straight in a narrow hallway, you can hardly turn him around. We walked them down the hallway to the studio, and their humps took out just about every ceiling panel—ruined them, lights and all.
The building manager came up and really let me have it. I apologized and told him I'd pay for the damage. He told me this would cost more than $5,000. By now, a crowd of NBC personnel had gathered around like it was a big party—we probably cleared every office on the entire floor. I'd been trying to concentrate on the show coming up, and now I was a wreck about the damage.
Barry Sands, who was Late Night's producer then, came out and told me not to worry about it, that the building people don't run the show. I told Barry I was really sorry, but I never noticed that he had a camera shooting this whole fiasco, that he was going to open the show with it. It looked like a tornado had struck.
Well, of course, all this was a big hit. David just shook his head at me and said, "Oh, Jack, Jack . . . ," like can't you ever just come up here and be normal? Dave, of course, had to ride the camel and almost knocked his head on one of the studio spotlights, but otherwise the show went great.
When it was time for us to leave, the maintenance people had already fixed a few panels and three or four lights. I'm sure they didn't consider that we had to get the camels back downstairs again. Our dromedaries knocked out those lights and panels the same way they did coming in. Now the building guy was doubly mad. Since then, they put us in a maintenance room instead of the dressing room. But that's fine with us, as long as we're able to mop up all the mess.
In another wild Letterman experience, I was I bitten by an animal on camera. A friend of mine, Leslie Whitt, director of the Alexandria Zoo in Louisiana, flew in a young twenty-pound beaver that I hadn't handled previously. All went well while I held the beaver on my lap. Then I demonstrated how she could swim by placing her in a glass tank in front of Dave's desk.
The beaver was still okay as I lifted her from the tank—with dripping water drenching me and the stage floor. As I got up to take the beaver off during the commercial break, she started to slide out of my hands. I grasped the base of her tail with my right hand, and she chomped down on the space between my left thumb and index finger; I slid on the wet floor, went down on one knee, scrambled up, and hung on to the beaver until an assistant repossessed her. And all this on camera. Not one of my most graceful exits.
In the two minutes allotted to the commercial break, I wrapped paper towels around my bleeding hand and slipped on a flesh-colored rubber glove just as we went back on the air. Sometimes the show must go on. We finished the segment, which included electric eels, a Chinese crested dog, and a yak. The glove on my left hand was rapidly filling with blood, so I was very anxious for the segment to end—especially before Dave had a chance to make some comment about my beaver bite.
Immediately after the segment, Suzi Rapp, one of the handlers on that trip, turned to me and said, "Jack, how are you going to get an ambulance at five-thirty in New York City, especially at Christmastime?"
Simple. "I'll just run."
After several blocks I reached Roosevelt Hospital. Once there, people thought I was a shooting victim with blood spattered all over my clothes. Of course, the first question was, "What happened?" I didn't want to tell them that a beaver bit me on the David Letterman show, so I improvised.
"My beaver bit me." Strange looks were exchanged. "My beaver bit me in Central Park." I'm not sure they ever believed me, but they patched me up just the same.
The next time I was on the show, Letterman said to me, "Jack, I hope you learned your lesson."
"What's that, Dave?"
"You never mess around with another man's beaver."
After that, I began bearing the brunt of David Letterman's jokes on a regular basis. I don't mind; I really don't. I know Dave loves the animals. He treats them better than he does most of his guests. And I'm always amazed at his knack for coming up with the lines.
"Have these guys been eating onions, Jack?"—when I brought out the twin gorillas.
"Is this your idea of a good time in Columbus?"—when I showed him how a chinchilla takes a dust bath.
"Jack, you're 100 percent sure this is a female, right?"—when I had him milk a goat.
Of course, sometimes I step into it. Like when he's asking me how far a particular bird can fly, and I'll say, "Oh, they'll fly real far, Dave." He'll just look at me without saying anything for a few seconds, the audience will laugh, and I'll think, uh-oh . . . here it comes. "You're not a zoo director, are you, Jack?" he'll say. "There is no zoo in Columbus, is there?"
On Letterman, the punch lines continue even after I'm long gone. They'll sometimes have a special emergency bulletin that comes up after I leave that says something like, "Attention viewers: Please be on the lookout for large mountain lion. Last seen leaving the Sullivan Theater. If you spot it, please be sure to contact Jack Hanna at the Columbus Zoo." You wouldn't believe the calls we get!
Since the eighties, I've continued to visit Good Morning America about once a month and David Letterman about three times a year. In the meantime, I began making my rounds on Larry King Live, Ellen, Maury, the FOX News network, CNN programs, and many others. I have lots of fun on the shows and really enjoy the interaction with the hosts and the audience, but because I rarely watch TV, I don't always recognize some of the other celebrities I run into.
When doing Letterman a few years ago, I was in the green room with this nice, blonde young lady. To be friendly, I asked, "So, do you sing or something?"
She smiled. "Yeah."
"Hi, I'm Jack Hanna." I held out my hand.
"Britney," she replied, shaking my hand. She came out to see the animals, and one of my handlers later explained that she was pretty popular.
On another trip, Suzi Rapp and I were heading to Letterman, and this oddly tall guy starts running toward me from across the street. "Mr. Hanna! I love you!" he booms when he catches up. Um, okay, I'm thinking. I thanked him, and we went on our way. Afterward, Suzi told me he was on some show about a guy named Raymond.
Once, my wife, Suzi, and I were sitting in the green room at a television station, and Suzi was grooming one of our long-haired Angora rabbits, trying to get rid of its tangled fur balls. Rabbit hair was just flying everywhere. There were a few other people around, and noting one lady's country-western style of dress, I said to her, "So what do you do?"
"I'm a country music singer," she answered with a familiar twang.
"Oh, really?" I continued. "What's your name?"
"Reba McIntyre." Now, I do listen to country music, and that was one name I did know. I was so embarrassed that I was afraid to ask the other girl's name.
It doesn't hurt my feelings if people are clueless who I am. I don't consider myself a celebrity. Actually, I don't really even like the word because it's taken on such a negative connotation today. Yeah, people know my face from seeing me on television, but who am I kidding? I know who they're watching, and it sure isn't me. It's that cute little baby barn owl, a cuddly cub, or Fluffy, the largest snake in captivity. Next to that, how could a person like me expect to rise to celebrity status?
I think the closest I've gotten was in 1996, when People magazine named me one of its 50 Most Beautiful People. I had never really read the magazine, but one day somebody called me from New York and said that I'd been chosen for their most beautiful people issue. What? Was this some sort of joke? Once they convinced me it was, in fact, not a joke, they wanted to come take my picture. I told them, "Oh, no, I've got plenty of pictures. I'll send you one." Still they insisted on a photo shoot.
When the issue came out, I couldn't believe it. "Devastatingly sexy," Helen Gurley Brown was quoted as saying. Sheesh. And even my friends, Betty White and Bo Derek were in on it, offering quotes for the magazine. Boy, did I get ribbed after that! Charlie Gibson called the office and very politely asked, "May I speak to the world's most beautiful person?" I was flattered, but I don't think I'll ever live that one down.
On the flip side, I've also, out of habit, forced my "celebrity" on poor, unsuspecting victims. While filming in New Orleans, Dan Devaney, our sound guy, and I plopped down on a park bench, and this guy came by and held out a piece of paper. I was probably thinking about everything but that piece of paper. Automatically, I took it out of his hand, signed it, and handed it back with a smile and a nod. "OH . . ." he began, a little stunned, "I just wanted directions." Golly day, was that humbling!
When we go into truck stops, most of the time no one recognizes me until I open my mouth. They'll say, "That's amazing! You sound just like Jack Hanna!"
And I'll say, "Yeah, people tell me that all the time."
For the most part, we do try to be low-key when we're traveling. It's quicker and easier to unload the animals if there's not a crowd around. Kate, my assistant, faces a unique challenge when it comes to booking a place to stay. Most places don't allow pets, much less zoo animals. It's gotten tough enough just to get them in—most people know what's up when Jack Hanna checks in—and most of them have to be exercised, cleaned, watered, and fed too. We've made a few friends in the hotel business and have learned where we're welcome and where we most certainly are not.
Before we learned the ropes, we made the mistake of taking a sarus crane for a walk in the lobby of the Rihga Royal, not the kind of hotel where birds were typically allowed. Still, we figured the marble floor would be easy to clean. After prancing around for a while, the birds started cawing and scratching on the marble floor and startling some of the other guests. Before we knew it, we were doing some swift talking with the manger, the birds ended up in his office, and we weren't allowed to stay there anymore.
For a while, we did find a nice home at the Mayflower. We've stayed there for years and are sad to see it—and its welcoming owners—go. Our rooms were a mini zoo, with monkeys dangling from the luggage rack and penguins in the bathtub. The bar was downstairs, so you always had people double-checking the number of drinks they'd had when they saw a big cat walk by.
One of the most challenging aspects of cohabitating with animals is the constant lack of sleep. Many of the animals are nocturnal: an owl will hoot, a cat will pace, an alligator in the bathtub will thrash and splash around all night. After three or four days of this, you can turn into a zombie. But I've never heard anyone complain, and the animals seem to enjoy the change of scenery.
Without my handlers in the promotions department, there would be no Good Morning America or Letterman or Larry King Live for Jack Hanna—no television shows of any kind, for that matter. In fact, I probably couldn't give a speech at a grade school without somebody to help me with the animals.
I do about forty to fifty live shows a year, too, in which the handlers are indispensible. I mostly just do the talking, speaking to the audience about the animals, trying to tell them things they can relate to. The handlers continue to have the animals entering and exiting the stage, pointing out details on the animal as I speak. We'll show them the quills of a porcupine or explain that a binturong smells like buttered popcorn—fun facts that will help the audience walk away remembering information about that animal.
Before and after the shows, I autograph postcards for everyone who wants one. I see everyone from toddlers to Red Hat ladies, animal lovers all. After the shows, the handlers bring out some of the animals for a little show-and-tell. Everyone seems to love that. Be it television or a live theater show, I have three or four handlers stationed off-stage, ready to take care of any situation that might arise. They know when or when not to come on, when to keep an animal from going into the audience. They're a very dedicated group of people.
The keepers feel fortunate to go on national TV; they also get to travel, and they play a part in our various public relations programs. They receive credit for their hard work back at the zoo that they might not ordinarily receive if the Columbus Zoo weren't in the spotlight. I try to give everyone the opportunity to participate, and I'm grateful that they do it with so much enthusiasm. I could never do it without them.
Naturally, I consider television and live shows important educational tools for the benefit of wildlife. However, taking animals on national television has been a bone of contention among my critics in the zoo world and animal rights activists. They've said that I'm showboating, that I'm misrepresenting wildlife, that the alien conditions cause the animals undue stress and that these trips generally serve little purpose. I couldn't disagree more. Although the regulations are getting tougher and the list of acceptable outreach animals is shrinking, I'll continue to do everything I can to bring these animals to the public as a means of promoting animal conservation and awareness.
Entertainment-oriented shows reach large audiences, audiences that might not be in tune with the worldwide wildlife situation. If we can capture the attention of the millions of young people who watch the Letterman show, we can gain new recruits to the role of conservation. The national exposure of well-known television personalities endorsing our zoos and supporting endangered wildlife is invaluable, and the live animals that appear on the tube are our best salesmen.


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Zakseidov, How about something like this: First[{y[3], y'[3]} /. NDSolve[{y''[t] + y[t] == 0, y[0] == 1, y'[0] == -1}, y, {t, 0, 3}]] Kevin zakseidov2 at gmail.com wrote: > Dear Mathematica gurus, > 1. I use NDSolve for integration from some t0 to some tf, but I'm > interested only in FINAL VALUES y(tf),y'(tf). > How to do it (I mean: avoiding InterpolatingFunction and saving all > intermediate values)? > 2. I use WorkingPrecision -> 32(or larger). Final values y(tf),y'(tf) > are of lesser Precision than 32D so i can't use them directly for > further integrations. I do some manupulations to take more artificial > digits... > But what's the best way for doing it automatically not manually? > 3. In other words: I need only values of y(t), y'(t) in fixed t_i with > fixed interval d. > How to do it using NDSolve economically without InterpolatingFunction > (which I guess takes a lot of time if MaxSteps -> 10^8(or larger))? > Thanks a lot, > zakseidov >

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- Bob Greene: A disabled man was robbed in an elevator at Chicago's Union Station
- He says police investigator revolted by crime against man, trapped with robbers
- He says alleged assailants arrested. He laments such people often get off on lesser charges
- Greene: If we shrug and accept when helpless victimized, we too are robbed -- of humanity
So that I could best understand the depth of his revulsion for the crime, the police investigator suggested that I pay a visit to the elevator where it allegedly took place.
The elevator is just a few steps inside the Canal Street entrance to Chicago's Union Station. The train station, in the decades before the jet age, was the indispensable hub for America's interstate travel. It remains, in the Amtrak era, cavernous and rife with echoes. It is as if the structure was designed to make mere mortals feel small.
The vast station, when it is filled with passengers heading to and from Amtrak trains and local commuter lines, can lead a person to half-believe that in the bustle no one notices him.
Unless someone is making it a point to notice.
"He is 27 years old," said Michael MacDonald, an investigator for Amtrak's police department. "He is able to travel by himself. He's a very likeable guy."
The man he was talking about suffers from cerebral palsy. Physically slight, he has only one leg. He has three fingers on each hand. With determination and quiet daily courage, he is able to get around independently by using a motorized chair.
"There are people who hang around the front door and look for victims," MacDonald said. "Prey."
Pickpocketing is usually the crime of choice. Officers inside the train station are on alert for thieves who attempt to relieve travelers of their wallets on escalators or stairways.
MacDonald has worked in law enforcement for 30 years. Some offenses still have the power to infuriate him, because they violate not only the law, but any basic definition of humanity.
As pedestrians stream through that Canal Street door, rushing to make their trains on the lower level, few even glance toward the little elevator landing to the right of the entrance.
On surveillance video recorded in August, MacDonald said, the young man, trying to get to a commuter train, is clearly visible entering the station. Because he is unable to use stairs, he steers his chair to his right, toward the elevator.
Also on the video are two men, MacDonald said, who "follow him right to the elevator. Both get on with him." The elevator is small, relatively cramped, with a low ceiling.
What reportedly happens next is what is so ghastly. The man in the motorized chair has his cash and a cellphone zipped into a satchel strapped to his waist. This is his custom when he leaves the house; he lives with his mother, and the cellphone is his lifeline.
On the surveillance video, the men who have followed him to the elevator -- later identified by police and by the Cook County State's Attorney's office as Demetrius Thomas, 48, and Terrell Jones, 49 -- strike up a conversation with him.
Then, according to investigators, one guards the elevator door to make certain no one else tries to enter, while the other reaches down and takes what he wants from the man in the chair.
They allegedly take his phone and cash. They seem to be in no hurry; because of his missing fingers, he cannot grasp the items as they are taken from him. He does his best to resist, but it is as if the men are casually removing items from a store shelf. Then, leaving him in the elevator, they simply walk away and go back into the city.
The young man, alone in the busy train station, told an Amtrak police officer what had been done to him. ("Nothing like this had ever happened to me before," the young man told me the other afternoon. "I tried to respond to it with as much grace as I could. But after it was over, it just felt like such an indignity.") From the surveillance video, investigators made still photos and showed them around. One officer assigned to Union Station recognized Demetrius Thomas as a man who had been warned to stay out of the terminal. The next time he showed up he was arrested for criminal trespass and, according to MacDonald, said that Terrell Jones had been his accomplice in the elevator robbery.
A Chicago police detective knew where to find Terrell Jones: in Cook County Jail. It seems that, one day after the Union Station robbery, he had been arrested for a crime a few miles away. At the Northwestern Memorial Hospital complex, a 75-year-old woman was visiting her ailing husband. Alone in an elevator, she was easy pickings. Police had apprehended Terrell Jones for allegedly robbing her.
Both men face eight felony counts for what they allegedly did to the young man in Union Station. They have entered not guilty pleas; I asked a representative of the office of the Cook County public defender whether the lawyers assigned to the men would discuss the case or comment on it, and he declined on their behalf. What we refer to as the justice system will now kick in.
Cases such as this one can come and go, news blips competing for the attention of a busy public already barraged by torrents of bad news. Strong-arm crimes against those least able to defend themselves are on occasion described as "petty" when the victim is not seriously injured. Judges sometimes allow offenders to plead to lesser charges, to speed up the process and unclog the overloaded courts system.
The assistant state's attorney prosecuting the case -- Mary Lou Norwell -- specializes in crimes against the elderly and the disabled. It has come to this: The very people whom society as a whole should be most dedicated to helping are instead so often targets of soulless crime that a special subcategory of prosecution has been developed to deal with those who would hurt them.
Once we begin to shrug at the inevitability of such crimes -- once we begin to accept that, in a cold world, this is just the way things are -- we are heading down a dark and sorry path. Because once we stop caring, we, too, have been robbed of something precious.
The young man's cellphone and his money, Investigator MacDonald told me, are long gone; he will never see them. "I count my blessings," the young man told me. "I don't want to be a 'woe-is-me' type. I've never been that kind of person." Out of a sense of duty, he rode a train back into the city so that he could attend a police lineup to identify the alleged offenders.
There will be status hearings and continuances, and eventually, when and if the case goes to trial, the young man will, in his motorized chair, with considerable difficulty make his way to the courthouse to testify. When he entered the train-station elevator that day, the two men who followed him became an unwanted part of his life for years to come. He had no say. The victims never do.


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Wash out: New developments raise mud and ire
When the city recently painted a white stripe down the center of the Rivanna Trail, many trail-goers called it an unwelcome intrusion. But some say they're really seeing red now: red mud.
It's on the Trail and in the Rivanna River. And it came from construction of two housing developments. "It's an ongoing problem," says Rob Hull, a Riverside Road resident who took photos of the recent mudslides that covered the trail and the Riverview Park entrance after a heavy rainfall.
While the city added provisions to its water protection ordinance a year ago to help prevent such mud movements, Hull and others say the city isn't enforcing its own law.
The law is "essentially worthless," says Louis Schultz, whose frequent citations over too-tall weeds in his Woolen Mills yard have been the subject of local news reports. "There are steps that somebody who's going to disturb the soil should take to prevent erosion," says Schultz. But in this case, the developer, he says, "clearly didn't do it."
Hull points out the contradiction that a developer touting "sustainability" would allow silt to flood the river, harming wildlife and eventually polluting the Chesapeake Bay.
"It's an oxymoron to say environmental developer," says Hull. "Are you going to take into consideration everything about the environment?"
Richard Price, architect and developer for RiverBluff Conservation Community, a development of 22 "sustainable" homes being constructed on a bluff high above the Trail, says there's no way for a developer to please everyone. The site (once the subject of a suggested "land swap" by Stan Tatum) was zoned by-right for 65 townhouses. Instead, the development clusters the houses on a cul-de-sac, Price points out, to create less environmental impact than another developer might have caused.
In addition, he says his firm, the Folsom Group, has made every effort to preserve the wooded nature of the land and has gone well beyond typical erosion control measures for construction sites.
On a recent tour of the RiverBluff site, Price points out extensive silt fencing as well as state-of-the-art drainage technology, including a "rain garden," a trench that will soon be filled with absorbent soil and planted with native species. He says the rain garden will contain all but the most torrential downpours, and when water does overflow, it will be directed down a terraced slope, which helps slow the water's velocity and prevent flooding.
Down the road at River's Edge, the drainage issue is even more difficult because the storm water from all of Riverside Road empties onto the land. Architect Chris Hays, Price's partner at River's Edge, a community of 10 homes slated to fill one and a half acres at the entrance to Riverview Park, says improving drainage for the entire neighborhood is the goal. To that end, he says, he and his partners have worked closely with the city and are offering their design services for the creation of another rain garden along the edge of the park entrance.
Jim Tolbert, the city's head of Neighborhood Planning, insists that the city does enforce its water protection ordinance, though he acknowledges that there were erosion issues at the inception of the RiverBluff project.
"They did not do a good job when they first started developing," he says. "We had some rain, some issues, but we came down on them, and they did a really good job."
During the recent storm that knocked out power throughout the city and flooded roads, Tolbert says, it was unavoidable the silt fences would be breached.
"I don't know that there are any erosion controls that would not have failed in some places," Tolbert says. And, he points out, Price and his team were out cleaning up the mud before the City had a chance to come inspect.
"They're on top of it," he says.
Raymond Gay from the state's Department of Environmental Quality agrees that the RiverBluff developers are operating within the law. They received a permit from the Army Corp of Engineers to breach wetland, he says, and when he visited the site in early July "things looked as they should look," with silt fences and sediment ditches in place, and grass seed planted.
Hull, however, isn't buying it. He believes that no matter what Price and his partners claim, the development is bad news for the Rivanna River and the wildlife that lives in and around it.
"Houses are flying down the mountain in California. You don't have to be that smart to figure it out," he says. "If you remove trees from a flood plain, you're going to have a problem."
Recent rain sent some of the dirt excavated from RiverBluff onto the Rivanna Trail.


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My post When Life is Hard, was intentionally vague. I didn't want to bring attention to my friend's (or their blog) before they were ready.
Saturday, February 07, 2009
But Tony and Charity have posted asking for prayer. Please pray for them today and whenever the Lord might bring them to your mind.
This weekend, and the days ahead, are sure to be difficult.


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- 8 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 14 tablespoons (13/4 sticks) unsalted butter, diced
- 2 tablespoons seedless raspberry preserves
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter six 3/4-cup soufflé dishes or custard cups. Arrange dishes on baking sheet. Mix chocolate, butter, and preserves in saucepan. Stir over low heat until chocolate melts. Remove from heat; cool to lukewarm, stirring often, about 10 minutes.
Whisk eggs, sugar, and vanilla in large bowl to blend well, about 1 minute. Gradually whisk in chocolate mixture. Divide batter among prepared dishes.
Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out with some moist batter still attached, about 20 minutes. Let cool 30 minutes (centers may fall). Serve cakes warm or at room temperature.


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Slowey solid, but 'pen relents in 14th as Marlins fall
Righty tosses five scoreless, relievers retire 24 straight before defeat
MIAMI -- Although Ricky Nolasco is no longer a Marlin, the usual lack of run support he received accompanied his vacated rotation spot on Monday night.
The Marlins bullpen retired a franchise-record 24 straight batters, but the Marlins failed to take advantage at the plate, stranding 12 base runners in a 7-1 loss to the Braves in 14 innings in front of 15,745 fans at Marlins Park.
After each team posted only one run through 13 frames, Atlanta's bats woke up when Chris Hatcher came on to pitch the top of the 14th. The usual big-inning recipe of walks, errors and timely hits helped the Braves notch a six-run frame.
Justin Upton delivered the game-winning hit, doubling home two runs to give Atlanta a 3-1 lead. The Braves followed with a pair of two-run singles.
"We were hoping to get multiple innings out of Hatcher there," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "Obviously, that didn't happen."
The loss marked Miami's first losing streak of four or more games since dropping nine straight from May 21 to May 30.
"We had tons of opportunities and just couldn't get the big hit," Redmond said. "In those games, those close games, it comes down to who's going to get it, and they got it.
"We've been on the other end of those games as well. It's tough. You battle and you fight and tonight, it just didn't happen."
Particularly disappointing for the Marlins was how the heart of the lineup -- Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna and Logan Morrison -- fared with runners on base in the fourth, sixth, seventh and 13th innings.
After Ed Lucas reached scoring position with a one-out double in the fourth, Stanton walked, Ozuna flew out to right and Morrison grounded out to second.
Stanton led off the sixth with another walk, but Ozuna and Morrison followed with back-to-back flyouts.
Justin Ruggiano and Lucas drew consecutive one-out walks in the seventh, but Stanton struck out swinging and Ozuna grounded out to first to the end the threat.
The middle of the lineup finally showed some promise in the 13th, when Stanton led off with a single -- Miami's first hit since the sixth -- and Ozuna was hit by a pitch.
But Morrison put a dent in the threat by grounding into a double play. An Adeiny Hechavarria flyout stranded Stanton 90 feet from home.
"Those guys, they're going to go through some tough spells," Redmond said. "Everybody does. Those guys will be back out there again tomorrow and come back in those situations. ... I believe in those guys. I know they'll come through with the big hits. It just didn't happen tonight."
Hechavarria scored the Marlins' lone run in the fifth after leading off the frame with a single up the middle. The base hit extended the rookie's hitting streak to a season-high eight games. He finished 2-for-6 to record his 15th multihit game.
Braves starter Mike Minor retired the next two batters after Hechavarria before allowing back-to-back singles to pinch-hitter Placido Polanco and Ruggiano. Hechavarria scored on Ruggiano's hit.
Polanco's base hit proved key, but it came at a cost. Slowey was done after five innings.
"My spot came up," Slowey said. "We obviously scored that run and the hope is that we can make that last."
Slowey exited the game after giving up only four hits in five scoreless innings. With Miami trying to decide how to address Nolasco's vacated rotation slot in the second half, Slowey made a strong case to rejoin the rotation on Monday night.
"I was thankful for the results," Slowey said. "I wish I could've gone longer. Obviously, in a game like that, you want to go wring out every last pitch you have."
"It was tough because he's making the start, and he hasn't thrown more than two innings in a month. He gives us five solid innings, and he was done. It was time to move on," said Redmond.
Once Minor exited the game after 6 1/3 innings, the bullpens battled.
Miami's bullpen was solid through the 13th inning, giving up only one run and retiring 24 Atlanta batters in a row.
"You look at the job the bullpen did," Slowey said. "They did a wonderful job. They really did a great job of giving us opportunities to put the game away."
Redmond added: "The bullpen guys did a great job. I was happy with the way we pitched."
The Braves' bullpen countered, giving up only two hits in 7 1/3 scoreless frames and retiring 15 Marlins in a row between the eighth and the 12th.
"Their guys threw great, too," Slowey said. "They're a great pitching staff, great bullpen. They have been all year. Any run that we get is tough to come by, especially against those guys."
The Marlins had several opportunities to earn their third straight victory against the NL East-leading Braves, but repeatedly came up short. In the midst of a season-best run, Miami wants to do more than simply come close.
"You want to win these games," Slowey said. "You want to win games [in which] you feel like you have a great team kind of on the ropes. It's tough not to win."


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CONCORD — The New Hampshire Supreme Court has declined a request from the state to get involved in a legal battle over voter registration forms, saying it will reserve judgment on the matter until after the upcoming election.
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Supreme Court has declined a request from the state to get involved in a legal battle over voter registration forms, saying it will reserve judgment on the matter until after the upcoming election.
At issue is a law requiring new voters to sign a statement saying they are subject to all residency laws when they register to vote in New Hampshire. That includes laws compelling them to get a driver's license and register their cars in the state.
Strafford County Judge John Lewis blocked implementation of the law last month, saying it could confuse out-of-state college students seeking to vote in New Hampshire. Lewis sided with plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the state, including the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire.
Voter registration court documents
9/24 Superior court order
9/28 AG's appeal to the Supreme Court
10/1 Speaker O'Brien's motion to intervene
10/4 AG objects to O'Brien getting involved
10/5 Judge Lewis revises court order
10/9 Supreme Court rules on emergency motion
Lewis granted a preliminary injunction against the voter registration law on Sept. 24, effectively placing the change in voter registration practices on hold as the November election approaches.
The decision stoked the ire of Republican lawmakers in the House, including Speaker Bill O'Brien, who helped to shepherd the new voter registration law to passage earlier this year over Democratic Gov. John Lynch's veto.
O'Brien called Lewis' decision "judicial activism of the worst sort," and accused the attorney general's office of failing to make the strongest possible case in support of the voter registration law in court.
The attorney general's office is now petitioning Lewis to reverse his ruling and allow the voter registration law to take effect. It has also asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of Lewis' decision.
In a split decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied the attorney general's request to grant an emergency stay of the lower court's decision — a move that would have allowed the state to continue using the disputed voter registration form.
Voting in the majority were Senior Associate Justice Gary E. Hicks and Associate Justices Carol Ann Conboy and James P. Bassett. They indicated the Supreme Court will wait for the lower court to make a final ruling on the voter registration lawsuit before it takes up the matter. And that isn't likely to happen before the Nov. 6 election.
"Because of the complexities of the issues raised and the imminence of the upcoming election, we think it unrealistic to expect that this case could be concluded in both the superior court and this court prior to the election," reads the ruling.
Dissenting were Chief Justice Linda Stewart Dalianis and Associate Justice Robert J. Lynn.
"Because a duly enacted statute carries a presumption of constitutionality and because, without reaching the merits, we regard it as an open question whether the petitioners will ultimately prevail, we would grant the state's emergency motion to stay," reads a dissenting opinion.
In response to the ruling, the League of Women Voters said it was pleased the Supreme Court acted promptly, since new voter registrations have already been printed in response to the superior court injunction.
"The bottom line is that students can register to vote in New Hampshire for this presidential election even if they intend to move away after they graduate — whether that is next spring or five years from now," LWV of New Hampshire election law specialist Joan Flood Ashwell said in a prepared statement.
Secretary of State Bill Gardner saw less finality in the Supreme Court's decision, which shut down the possibility of emergency intervention by the court, but didn't address the constitutional questions in the case.
"The decision is that there's no decision, right?" Gardner said. "It's unknown at what point there will be one."
During the last presidential election, 76,755 people registered to vote when they showed up at the polls on Election Day, Gardner said, representing about 12 percent of all voters who cast ballots that year. If a court battle continues over the voter registration forms, Gardner said he fears it will lead to a slow-down at the polls this year.
"This argument is about the process to become a registered voter, and a lot of people — it could be as much as 100,000, are going to be registering that day, filling out that form," Gardner said, "and what we don't need is misunderstandings of what it means when you fill out that form. And the more questions that people have when they're registering, the longer the lines are going to be, and the more time election officials are going to have to spend answering questions to prospective registrants, and that has the potential to be quite harmful to this process."
Discussing the court case, Gardner said he's concerned the plaintiffs continue to merge the issue of registering to vote with the act of voting.
"This is what it should be about: Are we denying anyone the opportunity to vote in the election?" he said.
In his original ruling, Lewis ordered the state to stop using the new voter registration form, which was in circulation for about one month, and also ordered the Secretary of state's office to add a statement to its website indicating college students are not required to register their cars in New Hampshire as a consequence of voting.
In a hearing in Strafford County Superior Court last week, Gardner and the attorney general's office argued that Lewis' ruling was overly broad, and that the statement posted to the secretary of state's website was confusing.
Lewis conceded those points Friday and amended the ruling, allowing the secretary of state to remove the statement from the website.
House Speaker Bill O'Brien has asked to become a party to the suit, both in the lower court and in the Supreme Court, speaking as a representative of the House of Representatives. The attorney general's office has asked judges to prevent O'Brien from being accepted as an intervenor.
O'Brien has criticized the attorney general's handling of the voter registration case, and accused the state's lawyers of "turning the Constitution on its head" by seeking to keep the Legislature out of the legal proceedings. O'Brien argues Lewis erred by "not construing SB318 to expand the definition of residency."
In a new motion filed in Supreme Court on Tuesday, O'Brien once again argued through an attorney that he should have the ability to intervene in the voter registration lawsuit. O'Brien pointed out that the attorney general's office has refused to challenge whether the plaintiffs in the case have standing to challenge the voter registration law.
The lawsuit against the voter registration law was brought by the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire and the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in September. Two University of New Hampshire students and another pair of out-of-state college students are also named as plaintiffs.
"The real dispute in this case is between, on the one hand the General Court and Secretary of State Gardner who seek to have the law interpreted to mean what it says and argue that this plain-meaning interpretation is constitutional, and on the other hand the Petitioners and the Attorney General," the speaker's motion reads.


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1. Make 401(k) contributions by the end of the year Not good at regularly saving for retirement? Make up for it by investing part of - or your entire -year-end bonus. For 2013, the maximum 401(k) contribution for people younger than 50 is $17,500. It's a simple way to help build your retirement savings.
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15. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0michaelschuetz Oct 12, 2010 3:05 AM (in response to blabno)
Hi Bernard,
thanks for your interest.
I did use plain Java EE 5 environment including Servlet 2.5.
I have not started with @In Enricher yet, but discussed details with Aslak, already. I will therefore implement this arquillian-seam2 extension within the next few weeks. When this is done, I will summarize results within blog entry.
Till then, you could checkout sample code I created for JUDCon talk/live demo last week:
Feedback welcome.
16. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0detailleo Nov 25, 2010 10:38 AM (in response to tagnegilles)
Thanks for the post Michael.
Can you tell me where I can find the SeamUtil class ? I found out is was part of the de.still.sp.it.util package ... but unable to find it...
Thanks a lot for your help,
17. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0michaelschuetz Nov 25, 2010 6:55 PM (in response to detailleo)
Hi Octave,
here you go: https://github.com/michaelschuetz/seamArquillian-judcon2010/blob/master/seamArquillian-it/src/test/java/com/acme/it/util/SeamUtil.java
As mentioned earlier, I will implement this integration with assistance of Aslak within next few weeks to hide this kind of glue code.
18. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0vra5107 Nov 28, 2010 8:09 PM (in response to michaelschuetz)
I am trying to setup arquillian on a project that uses seam 2.1 and jboss 4.2.3. I am progressing well so far. But I see an error. This is attached to the post.
If I am not wrong, the ear is missing an application.xml file. This statement from AbstractSeamItTest.java is creating an application.xml in the ear right ? would you please throw some light on this.
final EnterpriseArchive ear = ShrinkWrap.create(EnterpriseArchive.class , "test.ear") .addModule(ejb) .addModule(war) .addManifestResource("jboss-app.xml") .addModule(MavenArtifactResolver.resolve(MAVEN_SEAM_ARTIFACT));
AbstractSeamItTest.java.zip 1.0 KB
arquillian stack trace.zip 1.5 KB
19. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0vra5107 Nov 29, 2010 10:45 PM (in response to vra5107)
The toughest part about this stack trace is that the message is very vague (to me) doesn't point the problem. If you are able to understand the stack trace, please help me understand it. It will help me move forward.
20. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0detailleo Nov 30, 2010 1:48 AM (in response to michaelschuetz)
Thanks a lot!
I can now instantiate Seam component with Componant.getInstance(...) but still unable to create test with the ComponentTest() {} ... template or with FaceRequest... I can test EJB however
In all case, Arquillian seems really promissing !!!
21. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0michaelschuetz Nov 30, 2010 8:08 PM (in response to vra5107)
Hi Venkat,
well - Unfortunately, AS 4.2.3 is right (-: There is no application.xml. Java EE 5 / 6 compliant containers technically don't need it, obviously. I tested against AS5.1, 6MS3 and GF3.
Anyway, It would be clean and expected to add application.xml (although you loose some sort of flexibility)
So, just add sth like this to your abstract class:
Please ensure you choose same module names as defined in your abstract test class.
Hint: Having defined the following in arquillian.xml enables you to check what has been generated (so, the EAR's content):
Sorry for those troubles and hope that helpes.
22. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0michaelschuetz Dec 1, 2010 5:28 AM (in response to detailleo)
Hi Octave,
hm, sounds like two different things:
1) With provided SeamUtil class (see initializeSeam() https://github.com/michaelschuetz/seamArquillian-judcon2010/blob/master/seamArquillian-it/src/test/java/com/acme/it/util/SeamUtil.java#L20) you should be able to access and test both EJB and POJO Seam components.
2) ComponentTest and FacesRequest both are from Seam2 org.jboss.seam.mock package. AFAIK, there is no need to mock as Arquillian enables you to test straight within in container.
@Dan: Hi Dan, would appreciate if you could validate this statement briefly.
If you intent testing JSF/GUI part you might be interested in Arquillian's JSFUnit and Selenium integration.
If I did not get your issue yet, please provide some code snippets.
23. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0blabno Dec 18, 2010 8:48 AM (in response to vra5107)
Venkat, is your project with seam and arquillian using maven? If so then please post a skelton of it.
I need to test my seam app with JSFUnit and I'm tired with cargo starting my JBossAS 4.2.2.GA every time.
24. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0vra5107 Dec 20, 2010 3:36 PM (in response to blabno)
Hello Barnard
Well, our project uses seam and maven so far. I have been assigned the task of setting up integration testing which I have been working on for some time. I am yet to complete the setup. To the best of my knowledge I was not packaging the ear properly (i.e. was not adding all the necessary classes and configuration files) . So I have requested the Project initiator to validate my setup and am waiting for it.
Please let me know if you would have me commit the partially completed setup. By the way the link to our project is attached below.
25. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0blabno Dec 21, 2010 2:59 AM (in response to vra5107)
Hi Venkat,
If tests based on Arquillian and Seam work on JBoss 4.2.X then please post that project.
26. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0vra5107 Dec 21, 2010 12:11 PM (in response to blabno)
Sounds good, I had a plan like that already. I will post the code once I get them running( Speaking optimistically) .
27. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0michaelschuetz Dec 30, 2010 5:41 PM (in response to vra5107)
Hi to all,
short update: started to work on integrating Seam2 and Arquillian out of the box. JIRA has been filed: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-347
28. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0michaelschuetz Jun 21, 2011 10:09 AM (in response to michaelschuetz)
Huh, more than 30.000 visits, already - I'm really impressed.
Unfortunately, I did not have time to really finish work on that. I am attracted by Seam Forge, currently (-:
So, I look forward to finish this work within the next two month.
29. Re: Arquillian + seam 2.2.0davided80 Jun 22, 2011 8:08 AM (in response to michaelschuetz)
just as feedback, at work we are using with Seam + Arquillian + JBoss 4 .
I created them using the latest version of arquillian and JBoss AS Containers that you can find on github.
I used Michael branch to see how to integrate them.


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The news of Sheen's casting as the POTUS in Machete Kills comes via Rodriguez's Twitter feed along with the following image:
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This Orthodox Church, dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, is located on the Pioneers Street, 2a, in the town of Kalinkavichy in the Homiel Province of south-eastern Belarus. The swampy and woody area in South Belarus and North Ukraine is called Polesia (meaning woody land). It is one of the largest European swampy areas.
GPS coordinates: 52.121776 Lat, 29.334681 Long, 124 m
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vjmite (4590) 2012-01-07 19:04
Hi Sergiy,
The warm light in this photo is fantastic. It brings out the beautiful blue colors of the church and the domes. Good composition with the bell tower in the foreground and the domed church behind. Well exposed and perfectly sharp.
emka (150057) 2012-01-07 21:13
Hi Sergiy,
We have also Polesie in Poland, maybe the same, as it is near Belarus border. And the churches there are also blue like here. Superb shot in blue nit in blue hour.
Warm regards
besnard (59196) 2012-01-07 21:21
Bonjour Sergiy
Une belle image de cette église en harmonie avec le ciel. Tu as su bien cadrer pour nous faire découvrir l'ensemble dans sa totalité.
Je te souhaite un bon dimanche.
SnapRJW (31631) 2012-01-07 21:54
What an impressive church Sergiy - I like the fact that the bell-tower in the FG is bathed in warm light and you have captured it with very crisp focus. Looking beyond, the church itself is almost all in shade but the golden crosses twinkle and glitter in the sunlight. A question... why are these churches painted blue and white? Any idea? Warm regards rosemary
mesutilgim (0) 2012-01-07 23:07
Hello Sergiy,
Interesting sacral architecture with quite unusual but nice colors.
Very good pov and perfect ligth management.
The dominant pale blue color is quite interesting and influences calmless and piece to the viewer.
TFS and have a nice Sunday
Best regards
pajaran (100750) 2012-01-07 23:30
Dobar dan.
Dobar tekst o mestu i crkvi ...
Dobar snimak Pravoslavne crkve, lepa fotografija.
Dobra ostrina snimka i kontrast kojim ste istakli lepotu arhitekture.
Dobar rad i kompozicija, lepe boje, moje cestitke na dobrom prikazu.
Imajte lep dan i vreme za odmor, kod nas je pao sneg.
Sve najbolje.
Good day.
Good article on the place and the church ...
Good shot of the Orthodox Church, beautiful images.
Good Sharpness and contrast image which you have pointed out the beauty of architecture.
Good work and composition, beautiful colors, my congratulations on a good view.
Have a nice day and time for the holidays, here is the snow fell.
All the best.
siudzi (34141) 2012-01-08 2:02
Hi Sergiy,
Wow! What a spectacular design of this wonderful architecture! Love all details and that incredible blue tone. Very well seen and presented place. Thanks for sharing.
holmertz (91202) 2012-01-08 2:34
Hello Sergiy,
This is a straightforward composition, well done. It gives us a fine view of the bell-tower and the church with their beautiful colours and fine details. You must have found the best possible place for this photo.
Kind regards,
siolaw (38294) 2012-01-08 3:27
Hi Sergiy
That looks very tall and impressive! You have flawless quality of colours and contrasts, the image is as sharp as it gets.
Good balance between FG and BG too.
Sergiom (117241) 2012-01-08 6:35
Bonjour Sergiy,
C'est magnifique ce bleu pâle. Le pont de vue nous offre une belle perspective sur l'ensemble des bâtiments et donne une belle profondeur à cette image bien nette.
dale54 (17436) 2012-01-08 8:05
sergiy hello,very good work,love the color in this,wonderfull blue!great pov too! tfs! dr
ines8 (6128) 2012-01-08 8:39
Hi, Sergiy,
A wonderful photo, fantastic light,splendid colours and details.
Warm regards,
Sonata11 (34119) 2012-01-08 9:22
Hello Sergiy,
Wonderful composition of the Orthodox church, excellent POV and DOF as well, lovely light and colors, very good clarity and sharpness, very nice photo work. The architecture is so impressive.I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing.
Have a nice Sunday,
siamesa (28231) 2012-01-08 10:12
Boa tarde Sergiy
Lovely churches. The blue and gold make a fantastic effect in the architecture. Superb capture.TFS
saxo042 (38078) 2012-01-08 10:25
Hi Sergiy,
An interesting picture with a good note, an upload in the true TE spirit! A very good POV too with the church tower at the third and all the other building behind. A fantastic blue colour to all parts here!
Kind regards
jlbrthnn (76041) 2012-01-08 11:48
Hello Sergiy,
The church "skyscraper" is surprising, given the other more traditional architecture. It is always beautiful religious architecture, beautifully and richly decorated. I like to see on the bulbs, all the symbols of the Orthodox tradition. The light, colors and sharpness are excellent as usual. Bravo.
Have a nice evening.
npecanhuk (79329) 2012-01-08 13:04
Hi Sergiy!
Wonderful church!
Very attractive and truly beautiful picture!
Sharpness, exposure, management of light, colors, vertical format, chosen pov and composition are all excellent!
TFS - congrats,
jhm (200815) 2012-01-09 4:01
Hello Sergiy ,
You chose a very well angle and placed the church excellent to the left side this gives more space to the rightside.
Excellent composition and good presentation.
Very well done, TFS.
I wish you a nice week,
adramad (65740) 2012-01-09 9:23
Hello Sergiy.
Splendid composition and seldom seen, at least for me, is the first time I see this building, which is not well within the ecclesiastical complex if part of the church or bell tower, fantastic and original, the most conventional building we see behind is also magnificent with its beautiful color and charm of domes and finials.
A magnificent job in brightness and sharpness, I love it.
Most cordial greetings.
paololg (31448) 2012-01-09 9:56
Ciao dear Sergiy,
very interesting and curious the architecture of this orthodox church. I do not know how to define the style of the building in the FG, it may look like a bell, because it has the bell, but also to a minaret, or a mosque or a temple in India. In any case, this is a wonderful picture, characterized by your usual photographic stunning. Congratulations!
Ciao, have a nice Tuesday!
lakshmip1949 (19081) 2012-01-09 12:25
Hello Sergiy,
Very beautiful image with lovely architecture and colors.The church tower in the front looks beautiful with all the light falling on it. I like the same blue looking different in light and shade. This shot is captured with perfection. Superb colors, lighting and sharpness.
shevchenko (20560) 2012-01-10 3:26
Hi Sergiy,
The blue church is harmonious with the blue sky, nice view under soft sunlight, lovely local church, it is just unique and beautiful, good frame, tidy shot, distinct image, well done.
mkamionka (58672) 2012-01-12 1:25
Hi Sergiy,
Beautiful architecture. I am so glad to see something from Belarus. This country is so underrepresented on TE.
And such a great postcard. I like the clean well saturated colors which go so well with the uniformly blue sky. Excellent presentation, it is a real treasure.
kordinator (8738) 2012-01-12 13:39
Dear Sergiy
This is fantastic composition.
Lovely colors of this Orthodox Church and wonderful architecture under amazing sky.
Great depth of field.
Extraordinary work.
Kind regards
serp2000 (47063) 2012-01-14 8:04
Привет, Сергей,
Голубые стены на фоне лазурного неба и очень контрастно смотрятся за счет белых колонн. Не силен в церковной архитектуре, это что, Колокольня? Или просто ворота к основному зданию? Полесье , значит. Никогда не бывал в тех краях. Это тоже велопробег был?
Отличного выходного!
jmdias (100626) 2012-01-22 3:33
interesting the different style of the church here. I liked the shapes and the colors, you framed it very well and the light and sharpness are perfect. well done. TFS.
daddo (28728) 2012-02-26 14:54
Zdravo Sergiy. I have overlooked your gallery of late and I see that I have missed some beautiful images of churches. I do like your compact, vertical composition which present these architectural beauties in close proximity and in different light. Clarity is superb, so are the natural colours. A little gem.My compliments. Pozdrav. Klaudio.
thebest (4276) 2012-12-15 0:01
Hello Sergly,
Wonderful - the colours - the lighting & the incredible architecture of these churches is amazing.
The content of your photo is exceptional.
Kindest regards,
fritzi007 (14698) 2013-02-17 5:45
Hello Sergiy,
beautiful Orthodox church. The entire design, including the color is fabulous!
Have on the return flight Moscow-Vienna seen this country as the European Amazon, really truly spectacular!
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- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2011-08-19
- Categories: Architecture
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- Exposure: f/5.6, 1/250 seconds
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