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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Some University of Oregon fans say it's getting crowded in the bleachers. The problem: Jumbo seat cushions.
So the school proposes to limit cushions to 17 inches wide.
University spokeswoman Julie Brown says there have been "a few complaints" about extra-wide cushions taking up too much space at venues with bench-style seating, such as Autzen Stadium and Hayward Field. The benches include seat numbers, but no lines to mark just how much room each spectator gets.
Besides ensuring comfort for spectators squeezed between neighbors with cushions, the university wants to maintain the allocated stadium seating capacity. The presence of large cushions has yet to curtail capacity, but Brown said the school wants to get ahead of the issue as manufacturers expand their menu of cushions and portable seats with larger options.
"It's something that has been happening with a little bit of an increased frequency," Brown said.
Fans bring cushions and portable seats to games to provide comfort for their backs and bottoms, and — especially in Oregon — to avoid wet benches on rainy days. The proposal, in addition to the width requirement, would limit seats to no more than 10 inches deep, with a seat back height that does not exceed 19 inches.
The plan calls for boxes at the gates, like those at airports for carry-on luggage, to determine whether cushions make it into the game or track meet.
A public hearing is scheduled for July 17 on the Eugene campus. If approved, the rules would be in place for the upcoming football season.
Similar rules are in place at other college stadiums and arenas. For example, fans entering Boone Pickens Stadium at Oklahoma State University are limited to cushions no wider than 16 inches. The University of Mississippi prohibits "any portable seat that impedes on the comfort and enjoyment of a fan in an adjacent seat."
Brown said Oregon settled on 17 inches because "it's a relatively standard size."
The National Football League announced last week it is banning fans from carrying seat cushions into its 32 stadiums. The NFL said it was a security decision because cushions can be used to conceal explosive devices.


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The Agriculture Department's preliminary data shows January milk production in the top 23 producing states totaled 16.1 billion pounds, up 1 percent from January 2013. The 50-state total, at 17.26 billion pounds, was up 0.9 percent from a year ago.
Revisions reduced the original December estimate by 19 million pounds, to 15.7 billion pounds, down 0.3 percent from December 2012. That put 2013 annual production in the U.S. at 201 billion pounds, up 0.3 percent from 2012. Revisions to 2012 output increased the total 213 million pounds and revised 2013 output was up 32 million pounds from last month's report.
January cow numbers in the 23 states totaled 8.51 million head, up 6,000 head from December and 7,000 more than January 2013. The 50-state total showed a decrease of 13,000 head from a year ago. Output per cow in the 23 states averaged 1,891 pounds, up 17 pounds from a year ago, up 19 in the 50 states.
Production by state
Checking the top states, California's January production was up 4.7 percent from a year ago, thanks to a nice 90-pound increase per cow and 1,000 more cows. California will be the state to watch in coming months as to the effects of the severe drought there. Wisconsin was down 2.9 percent, as the cold weather took its toll, dropping per cow production by 55 pounds. Cow numbers were unchanged. New York was up 0.3 percent, despite a 10-pound drop per cow. Cow numbers were up 5,000 head.
Idaho was up 0.4 percent, on a 55-pound gain per cow, though cow numbers were down 14,000. Pennsylvania was up 0.4 percent, thanks to a 20-pound gain per cow but cow numbers were off 4,000 head, and Minnesota was down 2.1 percent, again with weather reducing output per cow by 20 pounds. Cow numbers were down 5,000.
The biggest decline was in Illinois, down 4.8 percent, followed by Missouri, down 4.4 percent, and then Wisconsin. The biggest increase was in Colorado, up 5.8 percent, followed by Kansas at 5.3 percent, and then California.
Other states of interest include Arizona, up 0.8 percent on 2,000 more cows. Output per cow was off 5 pounds. Michigan was up 1.3 percent, thanks to a 10-pound gain per cow and 3,000 more cows. New Mexico was off 0.9 percent, due to a 40-pound loss per cow. Cow numbers were up 3,000. Texas was up 3.3 percent on a 40-pound gain per cow and 5,000 more cows. Washington was up 1.7 percent on a 10-pound gain per cow and 3,000 more cows.
FC Stone dairy broker Dave Kurzawski said the report is "neutral to slightly bearish versus pre-report expectations, but the 1 percent increase is not enough to meet up with the kind of demand we've had. Spring flush could have a bigger impact on market sentiment later this spring, but not now," he said.
USDA's Livestock Slaughter report estimated 270,200 culled dairy cows were slaughtered under federal inspection in January, up 13,500 from December 2013, but 26,700 less than January 2013.
Media watch
Watch for the major media to all of a sudden taken an interest in milk prices. USDA announced the March Federal order Class I base price at a record high $23.64 per hundredweight, up $1.62 from February, a whopping $5.84 above March 2013, and equates to about $2.03 per gallon. It is the price that all federal orders use to determine the order's Class I milk price after adding local Class I differentials and will surely result in higher prices at the grocery store but we won't see the media attention when the prices fall as we know they will. The First Quarter Class I average stands at $22.38 per cwt., up from $18.33 at this time a year ago, $17.38 in 2012, and $16.44 in 2011.
The two-week National Dairy Products Sales Report averages used in calculating the Class I value showed butter at $1.8476 per pound, up 25.4 cents from February. Nonfat dry milk averaged $2.0718, up 4.5 cents. Dry whey averaged 62.38 cents, up 3 cents, and cheese averaged $2.3213, up 29.1 cents from February.
Cash traders were busy analyzing the latest Milk Production and Slaughter reports and anticipating the afternoon's January Cold Storage report Friday morning, Feb. 21. Cash cheese prices reversed two weeks of losses. The blocks closed the President's Day Holiday-shortened week at $2.1625 per pound, up 5 3/4-cents on the week and 53 1/2-cents above a year ago. The barrels closed at $2.1575,up 9 1/2-cents on the week and 52 3/4-cents above a year ago. Only two cars of block traded hands on the week and eight of barrel. The NDPSR-surveyed block price hit $2.3216 per pound, up 4.4 cents. Barrel averaged $2.3244, up 2.3 cents.
Butter closed Friday at $1.7850, up 1 1/2-cents on the week and 19 1/2-cents above a year ago. Seventeen carloads were sold on the week. NDPSR butter averaged $1.8595, up 2.2 cents.
Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed at $2.0450, up 2 1/2-cents. NDPSR powder averaged $2.0766, up 0.8 cent. Dry whey averaged 62.83 cents, up 0.8 cent.
The Agriculture Department's latest Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook predicts that milk supplies will increase in 2014 as a modest herd expansion is forecast for the second half of the year. Yield per cow was forecast to rise year-over-year, but no change was made in the February forecast from January. Exports remain strong, but higher milk production, both domestically and globally, could pressure prices later in 2014, according to the Outlook.
Corn, soy prices
The most recent USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report raised the 2013/14 season-average price of corn to $4.20-$4.80 per bushel. Higher expected exports lie behind the price rise; global trade and strong export sales support increased U.S. corn exports.
Similarly, a higher export forecast for soybean meal supports the advance in prices from January to $425-$465 per ton. The outlook for forages appears steady, as January preliminary alfalfa prices are reported in January Agricultural Prices at $185 a ton, down from $187 in December and well below the January 2013 price. 2014 feed prices should be lower than last year, says USDA.
The February dairy cow forecast was raised fractionally from January to 9.26 million head. Sharply higher year-over-year springer prices, combined with flat heifer calf prices, suggest some short-term herd expansion, though there may be caution on the part of producers toward a longer term expansion. USDA predicts the expected feed and milk prices will push the calculated milk-feed price ratio to the highest in several years. Milk yield was unchanged from January at 22,230 pounds per cow. However, year over-year, milk yield is expected to increase by 1.9 percent from 2013.
The Outlook also showed increased projections for 2014 Class III and Class IV milk prices from last month's report. The First Quarter Class III price was pegged at $21.30 per hundredweight, up from the $19.75 expected a month ago. The Second Quarter Class III is $19.25 per cwt., up from $18.20. The year's average, at $18.70, was up 50 cents from last month's projection, and compares to $17.99 per cwt. in 2013 and $17.44 in 2012.
The First Quarter Class IV milk price was pegged at $22.30 per cwt., up from $21.75 a month ago. Second Quarter Class IV is $20.95 per cwt., up from $20.80. But, the year's average, at $20.20, is down a nickel from last month's Outlook, and compares to $19.05 per cwt. in 2013 and $16.01 in 2012.
USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service reports butter and milkfat exports in December totaled 22.6 million pounds, up 182 percent from a year ago. Cumulative 2013 U.S. exports totaled 202.7 million pounds, up 89 percent from 2012. U.S. butter quota imports were down 61.5 percent from a year ago for December to 1.25 million pounds. Cumulative U.S quota imports totaled 10.88 million pounds, down 20.6 percent from 2012.
This week's Global Dairy Trade auction saw the weighted average for all products slip 1.2 percent from the Feb. 4 event, led by a 5.4 percent drop in milk protein concentrate and a 4.5 percent drop in anhydrous milkfat. Butter was down 3.8 percent, Cheddar cheese was off 1.7 percent, Skim milk powder was off 0.1 percent, and whole milk powder was down 0.3 percent. The only gain today was in buttermilk powder, up 3.1 percent. All of the commodity prices are at historically high levels despite the downturn from the last auction.
The average butter price equated to about $2.0802 per pound U.S., down from $2.1523 in the Feb. 4 event ($2.0294/lb. on 80 percent, down from $2.0998). The Cheddar average was $2.1977 per pound, down from $2.2385.; skim milk powder, $2.1682, up from $2.1527 per pound, and the whole milk powder average was $2.2675, down from $2.2702 in the last event.
CWT approves exports
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 21 requests for export assistance this week to sell 4.149 million pounds of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese, and 848,780 pounds of 82% butter to customers in Asia, Central America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
The product will be delivered through April and raised CWT's 2014 cheese export sales to 20.54 million pounds of cheese, 6.24 million pounds of butter and 698,865 pounds of whole milk powder to 18 countries on four continents. These sales are the equivalent of 330.3 million pounds of milk on a milkfat basis.
Milk production is moving higher across most of the nation despite adverse weather, according to USDA's weekly update. Cooperatives in California report increases resulting from dairy farmers managing dairy rations and keeping dairy cows in the milking string longer than usual. Dairy producers in the East expect a falloff in milk volumes as snow and ice storms affect cow comfort.
Washington court battle
Court challenges to a dairy farm expansion in Wisconsin have been making the news lately but an ongoing court battle regarding dairy operations in Washington state could have huge ramifications for dairy producers across the U.S.
Jay Gordon, executive director of the Washington State Dairy Federation, said the case originated with the Environmental Protection Agency, not the litigation but an issue involving the Safe Drinking Water Act that collectively challenged four dairy operations in the Yakima Valley.
The situation was resolved with the EPA about a year ago, according to Gordon, but then a group of environmental attorneys representing environmental groups filed suit under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Gordon said there have been other cases filed against various livestock producers and farmers in the U.S., going back to the late '90s in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas, but this is in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which "generally tends to lean a little more liberally." The concern is, "Does the RCRA apply to farmers," and the court recently expanded the case to include pharmaceuticals, phosphorus and hard metals, not just nitrates.
The case will be heard against the three remaining families, four dairy operations, as one of the original operators has settled and exited the dairy business because of this challenge, Gordon said. The trial will be held in September and the court is being asked to rule, for the first time in the United States if a dairy farm is subject to the RCRA laws.
Those laws typically regulate dumps, landfills and materials that would be discarded, according to Gordon, and what the environmentalists are asking is for the court to rule that farmers are "effectively dumping nitrates when we're growing crops, fertilizing, if we have any pharmaceuticals in our manure that show up in groundwater, that constitutes dumping under federal law."
"The ruling will set precedent across the country," Gordon warned, "that if you have fertilizer in your corn field, manure in your corn field, it doesn't really matter, and you get a big rainstorm and it washes that fertilizer down below the root zone, the environmentalists charge that makes you a dump under federal law and you can be enforced against by EPA or sued by attorneys." There is more information posted as well as links to other sites detailing this case at www.wadairyfederation.org.

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LOS ANGELES Target is, apparently, in the movie-making business now. On Thursday, the retailer hosted an intimate premiere at the SLS Beverly Hills for its new film series, Falling for You, an event that included a Q&A with the stars and a five-course dinner menu designed by the Bazaar's José Andrés.
The film, starring big names Kristen Bell, Nia Long, and Zachary Abel and directed by Mad Men's Phil Abraham, is less than 12 minutes in all and will be released via Target.com/FallingforYou in three episodes beginning today. It will highlight fall fashion, beauty, and home products that are available exclusively at Target, and it includes interactive components that allow guests to shop and share product in each episode by way of a streaming sidebar that doesn't interrupt the movie-watching experience.
Another twist: The short narrative is actually a love story starring characters whose role it is to pitch ideas for the production of a big Target fall event in New York. Indeed, the party is actually scheduled for that city on October 10, and it will also stream live as a continuation of the movie, merging the scripted story with real life.
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Release # 04-163 Tylers Hotline: (800) 992-3744 x804
CPSC Consumer Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908
CPSC, Carrier Commercial Refrigeration, Inc. Announce Recall of Grocery Frozen Food Case Heaters
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announces the following recall in voluntary cooperation with the firm below. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of product: Defrost heaters used in grocery store frozen food cases
Units: 16,000
Heater Manufacturer: Electro-Heat Inc., of Allegan, Mich.
Food Case Manufacturer: Tyler Refrigeration, of Waxahachie, Texas, a division of Carrier Commercial Refrigeration Inc., of Charlotte, N.C. Hazard: Moisture building up pressure inside the defrost heater can cause it to forcefully eject from the frozen food case, possibly injuring bystanders.
Hazard: Moisture building up pressure inside the defrost heater can cause it to forcefully eject from the frozen food case, possibly injuring bystanders.
Incidents/Injuries: Carrier Commercial Refrigeration Inc. has reports of four incidents where the defrost heater forcefully ejected, and in two instances, the defrost heater penetrated through the end of the frozen food case. In one incident, a consumers leg was broken.
Description: The recalled defrost heater was used in Tylers wide island frozen food end cap cases in grocery stores. The recalled defrost heaters (which are not visible to consumers) are Electro-Heat Defrost Heater Model 51957100. The Tyler wide island frozen food end cap cases with the recalled heaters are models NCE, NFE, NGE, NCGE, NFJEA, NCJEA, NCJGEA and NFJGEA. The model and serial number is located on the data plate, which is on the front inner panel of the case.
Sold at: Grocery stores nationwide use these wide island frozen food end cap cases with defrost heaters to display food items. The cases with heaters were sold by Tyler Refrigeration from the mid-1970s to the present.
Manufactured in: U.S.A.
Remedy: Tyler will replace the recalled defrost heater with a Cal-rod hairpin style heater in all wide island frozen food and ice cream end cap cases.
Consumer Contact: Tyler will contact its grocery store customers to set up appointments for the replacement of defrost heaters in these frozen food cases. For more information, contact Tylers toll-free number at (800) 992-3744 x804 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit Tylers Web site at http://www.tylerrefrigeration.com
Media Contact: Margaret Gan-Garrison at (860) 674-3370.
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Nashorn - The Combined Power of Java and JavaScript in JDK 8
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Starting with the JDK 8 Nashorn replaces Rhino as Java's embedded JavaScript engine. Nashorn supports the full ECMAScript 5.1 specification plus some extensions. It compiles JavaScript to Java bytecode using new language features based on JSR 292, including invokedynamic, that were introduced in JDK 7.
This brings a 2 to 10x performance boost over the former Rhino implementation, although it is still somewhat short of V8, the engine inside Chrome and Node.js. If you are interested in details of the implementation you can have a look at these slides from the 2013 JVM Language Summit.
As Nashorn comes with JDK 8, it also adds very neat support for functional interfaces, as we shall see in more detail shortly.
Let's kick it off with a very small example. First you might want to install the JDK 8 and NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, or Eclipse. All of them provide at least basic support for integrated JavaScript development. Let's create a simple Java project consisting of the following two example files and let the program run:
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In line 12 we use the engine's "eval" method to evaluate any JavaScript code. In this case we just load the top JavaScript file and evaluate it. You might find "print" to be unfamiliar. It is not a built-in function for JavaScript, but Nashorn provides this and other convenience functions that come in handy in a scripting environment. You could have also embedded the printing of "hello world" directly into the string passed into the "eval" method, but having your JavaScript in a file of its own opens up a whole world of tooling for it.
Eclipse currently has no dedicated Nashorn support via its JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT) project, however, basic tooling and editing for JavaScript are supported:
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IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 (Community and Ultimate Editions) provides outstanding JavaScript and Nashorn support. There is a full feature debugger and it even allows refactoring to be synchronized between Java and JavaScript; so for example if you rename a Java class that is referenced from JavaScript or if you rename a JavaScript file sourced in from Java, the IDE will modify the corresponding references across languages.
Here is an example of how you can debug the JavaScript called from Java (note that NetBeans also provides JavaScript debugging as shown in the screenshot below):
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You may say the tooling looks nice and the new implementation fixes the performance as well as the compliance problem, but why should I use it? One reason would be general scripting. Sometimes it comes in handy to be able to throw in any kind of string and just let it be interpreted. Sometimes it might just be nice to not have a compiler in the way, or not to worry about static typing. Or maybe you are interested in the Node.js programming model, which can be used with Java as we will see at the end of this article. There is also a case to be made that developing JavaFX will be much faster using JavaScript as opposed to Java.
Shell scripts
The Nashorn engine can be called from the command line using the jjs command. You can call it without any argument, which will bring you into an interactive mode, or you can pass the name of a JavaScript file you want executed, or you can use it as a replacement for a shell script, like this:
#!/usr/bin/env jjs
var name = $ARG[0];
print(name ? "Hello, ${name}!" : "Hello, world!");
To pass in program arguments to jjs, prefix them with "--". So for example you might call:
./hello-script.js -- Joe
Without the "--" prefix, the parameter would be interpreted as a file name.
Passing data to and from Java
As I indicated above you can call JavaScript directly from your Java code; just obtain an engine and call its "eval" method. You can pass in data explicitly as strings ...
ScriptEngineManager scriptEngineManager =
new ScriptEngineManager();
ScriptEngine nashorn =
String name = "Olli";
nashorn.eval("print('" + name + "')");
… or you can pass bindings from Java that can be accessed as global variables from inside the JavaScript engine:
int valueIn = 10;
SimpleBindings simpleBindings = new SimpleBindings();
simpleBindings.put("globalValue", valueIn);
nashorn.eval("print (globalValue)", simpleBindings);
The results of a JavaScript eval computation will be returned from the engine's "eval" method:
Integer result = (Integer) nashorn.eval("1 + 2");
assert(result == 3);
Using Java classes in Nashorn
As mentioned before, one of the most powerful features of Nashorn comes from calling Java classes from inside JavaScript. You can not only access classes and create instances, but you can also subclass them, call their static members, and do virtually anything you could do from Java.
As an example let's take a look at threads. JavaScript does not have any language features for concurrency and all common runtimes are single-threaded or at least without any shared state. It is interesting to see that in the Nashorn environment JavaScript could in fact run concurrently and with shared state, just like in Java:
// this is how we get access to Java class Thread
var Thread = Java.type("java.lang.Thread");
// subclass with our run method
var MyThread = Java.extend(Thread, {
run: function() {
print("Run in separate thread");
var th = new MyThread();
Note that the canonical way to access a class from Nashorn is by using Java.type and you can extend a class using Java.extend.
Functional delight
By all counts, with the release of JDK 8, Java has - at least to a certain extent - become a functional language. You can now use higher-order functions on collections, for example to iterate over their elements. A higher-order function is a function that takes another function as a parameter and does something meaningful with it. Have a look at this example in Java
List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(3, 4, 1, 2);
list.forEach(new Consumer() {
public void accept(Object o) {
System.out.println(o); } });
In this example, instead of iterating over the elements using an "external" loop as we would traditionally have done, we now pass a "Consumer" function to the "forEach" operation, a higher-order "internal-looping" operation that executes the consumer's "accept" method by passing in each element of the collection, one by one.
As already mentioned, the functional language approach for such a higher-order function would rather accept a function parameter rather than an object. While passing around references to functions per se is not traditionally Java's province, JDK 8 now has some syntactic sugar for expressing just that using lambda expressions (aka "closures") . For example:
List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(3, 4, 1, 2);
list.forEach(el -> System.out.println(el));
In this case the parameter to "forEach" has the form of such a function reference. This is possible, because Consumer is a functional interface, (sometimes called a Single Abstract Method type, or "SAM").
So why are we talking about lambdas in a discussion of Nashorn? Because in JavaScript you can write code like this as well and Nashorn is especially well prepared to bridge the gap between Java and JavaScript in this case. In particular, it allows you to even pass plain JavaScript functions as implementations of functional interfaces (SAM types).
Let us have a look at some plain JavaScript code that does the same thing as our Java code above. Note that there is no built-in list type in JavaScript, just arrays; but those arrays are dynamically sized and have methods comparable to the ones of a Java list. So, in this example we are calling the "forEach" method of a JavaScript array:
var jsArray = [4,1,3,2];
jsArray.forEach(function(el) { print(el) } );
The similarity is obvious; but that isn't all. You can also convert such a JavaScript array to a Java list:
var list = java.util.Arrays.asList(jsArray);
See? And yes, this is JavaScript running inside Nashorn. As this is now a Java list, you can call its "forEach" method. Note that this is not the same "forEach" method that we called on the JavaScript array, but rather Java's "forEach" method defined on collections. Still, we are passing in a plain JavaScript function here:
list.forEach(function(el) { print(el) } );
Nashorn allows us to provide plain JavaScript function references where a functional interface (SAM type) is expected. This is thus not only possible from Java, but also from JavaScript.
The next version of ECMAScript - which is expected to become final this year - will include a short syntax for functions that will allow them to be written nearly as Java lambdas, except that it uses a double arrow =>. This will drive the alignment even further.
Special Nashorn JavaScript Dialect
As I mentioned in the introduction, Nashorn supports JavaScript in the ECMAScript 5.1 version plus some extensions. I do not necessarily recommend using those extensions, because being neither Java nor JavaScript, they can feel unnatural to either developer. On the other hand there are two extensions that are used throughout Oracle's documentation, and so we should become familiar with them.
First let us set the stage for the first extension. As you have seen before, you can extend a Java class from JavaScript using Java.extend. If you want to subclass an abstract Java class or implement an interface, you can use a more convenient syntax. In this case you can virtually call the constructor of the abstract class or the interface and pass in a JavaScript object literal that describes the implemented methods. JavaScript object literals are just name / value pairs, similar to what you may know from the JSON format. This allows us to implement the Runnable interface like this:
var r = new java.lang.Runnable({
run: function() {
In this example we are virtually calling the constructor of Runnable with an object literal that specifies the implementation of the run method. Note that this is something the Nashorn implementation is giving us, it would otherwise not be possible in JavaScript.
The code of this example already looks similar to how we would implement an interface as an anonymous inner class in Java, but not quite. This brings us to the first extension, which lets you pass the last parameter after the closing ")" when you make a constructor call. Doing this, our code looks like this ...
var r = new java.lang.Runnable() {
run: function() {
… which does exactly the same thing, but has an even greater resemblance to Java.
The second frequently used extension is a shortcut for functions that allows you to omit both the curly braces as well as the return statement for the method body in a single line function. Thus our example from the previous section:
list.forEach(function(el) { print(el) } );
could be expressed as the slightly more terse:
list.forEach(function(el) print(el));
There are several companies using Node for serious applications, among them Walmart and Paypal.
Let's take a look at a small JavaScript example that I have adapted from Node's website:
// load module 'http' (this is blocking) to handle http requests var http = require('http');
// when there is a request we return 'Hello, World\n' function handleRequest(req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello, World\n'); }
// we listen on localhost, port 1337
// and give handleRequest as call back
// you see the non-blocking / asynchronous nature here
http.createServer(handleRequest).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
// logs to the console to reassure that we are on our way
console.log('Get your hello at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
To run this code you would need to install Node, then save the above JavaScript code into a file, and finally, call Node with this file as a parameter.
The goal of Avatar.js is to provide the same core API as Node by binding libuv to Java classes and then making them accessible to JavaScript. Even though this may sound cumbersome, it works surprisingly well. Avatar.js supports a large number of Node modules and the support of "express" - the mainstream web framework for Node - indicates that this could indeed work with a large number of existing projects.
Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, there is no binary distribution for Avatar.js. There is a readme that explains how to build it from source, but if you are not so much into building from scratch, you can also get the binaries without building yourself. Both approaches do work, but I recommend the second one for quicker results.
Once you have set up your binaries and put them into a lib folder, you would then call the Avatar.js framework using something like:
java -Djava.library.path=lib -jar lib/avatar-js.jar helloWorld.js
We assume that the demo server (the code above) is saved in a file called "helloWorld.js".
Again, let us ask, why is this useful? The good people at Oracle (slide 10) see a couple of use cases for such a library. I mainly concur with two of them, namely
- you have a Node application and want to use certain Java libraries to complement the Node API
- you want to switch to JavaScript and the Node API, but need to embed legacy Java code either partially or completely
Let me give you an example of the first use case. JavaScript currently has just a single type for expressing numbers called "number". This would be equivalent to the Java "double" precision, with the same limitations; JavaScript's number, like Java's double is not able to express arbitrary range and precision, for example when dealing with money.
In Java you could use BigDecimal, which supports exactly that. But JavaScript has no built-in equivalent, so you could just access the BigDecimal class from your JavaScript code and have a safe handling of monetary values.
Let us look at an example web service that calculates the percentage of some amount. First we need to have a function that does the actual calculation:
var BigDecimal = Java.type('java.math.BigDecimal');
function calculatePercentage(amount, percentage) {
var result = new BigDecimal(amount).multiply(
new BigDecimal(percentage)).divide(
new BigDecimal("100"), 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_EVEN);
return result.toPlainString(); }
In JavaScript there are no declared types, but apart from that the code looks pretty similar to the Java code I have written for this task:
public static String calculate(String amount, String percentage) {
BigDecimal result = new BigDecimal(amount).multiply(
new BigDecimal(percentage)).divide(
new BigDecimal("100"), 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_EVEN);
return result.toPlainString();
We just need to replace the handleRequest function of the Node example above to complete our code. It goes like this
// load utility module 'url' to parse url
var url = require('url');
function handleRequest(req, res) {
// '/calculate' is the path of our web service
if (url.parse(req.url).pathname === '/calculate') {
var query = url.parse(req.url, true).query;
// amount and percentage are passed in as query parameters
var result = calculatePercentage(query.amount,
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end(result + '\n');
We use a second core module of Node to process the URL of the request to parse out the query parameters for amount and percentage.
When I start the server (as shown above) and issue a request like this
The second use case would make sense when you decide to migrate your existing JEE application to JavaScript and Node. In this case you can easily access all your existing services from within JavaScript. Another related use case would be to have a new piece of server functionality built using JavaScript and Node that still can benefit from existing JEE services.
Project Nashorn has enhanced the original JDK 6 Rhino implementation by greatly improving performance for longer running applications, for example when used inside a web server. Nashorn integrates Java with JavaScript and even takes the new lambdas of JDK 8 into account. A real innovation comes with Avatar.js, which builds on those features and provides for integration of enterprise Java and JavaScript code while being largely compatible with the de-facto standard for JavaScript server programming.
Complete examples including Avatar.js binaries for Mac OS X can be found on Github.
About the Author
Oliver Zeigermann is a self-employed Software Architect/Developer, Consultant, and Coach from Hamburg, Germany. He is currently focused on using JavaScript in enterprise applications.
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I don't get it
C Curl
Questionable performance
Ivo Houbrechts
I have at least one use case where Rhino (with optimization turned on) outperforms Nashorn by far. See houbie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/follow-up-javascr...
Mixed Java/JavaScript debugging in action
Jaroslav Tulach
Different benchmarks show test different things...
Michael Ahern
In the benchmark sited "Cold" (or interpreted / first-time) runs of JS with Nashorn is slower than Rhino. However, with "warm" (once the JVM has time to optimize the bytecode) performance the performance is dramatically faster.
The test you are citing would always hit the cold case since it is doing a "static" compile of a LESS to CSS. This is a one-time (or once at app-startup) operation. Given the original benchmark - one would expect THIS to be SLOWER than Rhino.
However, if you are running a server like Vert.X or NodeJS (where the same code is hit over-and-over again) you should see dramatically better performance.
That said, where I would love to use Nashorn is for JS uglification or CSS compilation utilizing Node.JS stack tools for my legacy JEE applications. Given the benchmarks, it is interesting (as you point out) that performance would be SLOWER than Rhino - as these are one time operations.
It looks like a bit of work is still needed to optimize Nashorn for these use cases.
Re: Different benchmarks show test different things...
Michael Ahern
If you think about V8 or other mature JS engines they will make multiple passes through the JS code. On a first pass they would run it in interpreted mode to minimize the startup cost, while performing further optimization in the background.
Nashorn probably needs a first-pass run mode where it just interprets the JS to get the cold run bencharks back in line with or ahead of Rhino.
Re: Mixed Java/JavaScript debugging in action
Oliver Zeigermann
Nashorn has error when running React.js code. Any clues?
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Maybe this graph will help. It shows how bfing is a lot of effort in the beginning but gets better over time, whereas bottles always take more effort. (Excuse the lack of eloquence)
Maybe this graph will help. It shows how bfing is a lot of effort in the beginning but gets better over time, whereas bottles always take more effort. (Excuse the lack of eloquence)
We have a 2 month old too, and he is eating all the time too . I have found that hiding the clocks in the house helped me, it might sound weird but looking at the clock thinking "its 1 now, now its 2" really stressed me out. Once the clocks were gone and I could not quantify the amount of sleep I was not getting, I felt much better . And like all moms here I would highly recommend co-sleeping. I have also started early morning walks, because me and baby are up anyway and its nice to meet other people who are not asleep (its mostly grandpas and grandmas who like to coo over babys fat cheeks ).
I will just add my support to PPs.
1. Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with something (like constant nursing, baby won't go to sleep, or whatever) it's not so much that this really is so overwhelming but that I feel it is a non-job, and should not take time, and I should not be over-whelmed by it. Does that make sense? From my non-baby life (career in science) I am used to doing my best work, getting feedback, feeling accomplishments. It's harder to see the accomplishments with a baby because you feel like you've done all this work and the house is a mess and the baby is crying again! So it makes me feel great if my husband or anyone else expresses appreciation like "wow, you're doing such a great job with her, look how well she's doing" or "you're beautiful" when I haven't brushed my hair in a week. etc. I agree that Mommal's advice sounds kind of sappy but I would love for my husband to say that stuff to me. I would also love for my husband to ask me how I feel, how my day is going, what I need, and then do it. It sounds like you are helping your wife a lot.
2. I have written about co-sleeping on other threads but I will summarize my opinion again. I co-slept with baby, without DH, from 3 weeks. I immediately started to get lots of sleep, of course not all at once, but in lots of small snatches, so that I felt well-rested. DH also was well-rested as he was sleeping in another room and never woke at all. Everyone got SO MUCH MORE sleep. I didn't figure out side-lying nursing until 2 mo, and that helps sleep even more. I do not know how many times I wake during night or naps to nurse baby. I do not fully awake. This is so much better than getting out of bed!!!!
As regards concerns about safety. I read the primary literature on co-sleeping safety (studies of babies that died and did not die in co-sleeping and non-co-sleeping situations). Although I study a completely different subject, I have a pretty good understanding of statistics and did not find any evidence that I would increase my daughters risk of mortality by sleeping in the bed with her. Yes, the risk goes up if the baby is sleeping on a couch, or with an adult who is drunk or using drugs. I could find no evidence that risk of infant mortality increased when baby slept with mother in a bed. I imagine that governments issue blanket recommendations not to sleep with babies because a) they didn't understand the statistics, or b) it is easier to issue a blanket recommendation to everyone than to specifically target the drug users, sofa-sleepers, etc.
I suggest if YOU are receptive to your wife co-sleeping with baby, you might be able to help her master side-lying nursing by appropriately placing pillows, and then just let her drift off to sleep in the bed with baby for a nap this weekend, saying that you will watch them to make sure baby is ok. When baby wakes she can just pop a nipple in and drift back to sleep. At least, this has been my experience. Even if she can't do the side-lying, she could nurse in bed with pillows behind her back, and lay baby down beside her to sleep. Nursing makes me really sleepy so it helps me get back to sleep myself. Good luck!
I'm going to second the watch your wife nap with baby advice. That was how we survived the newborn phase with my first. I was frightened to cosleep, but could nap like that with DH sitting with us.
There has been a lot of support and advice in these responses, and although I wasn't looking for as much of the kind of advice that I'm reading, it has honestly been very helpful.
I pride myself on being a supportive husband, aiming well beyond what traditional gender roles consider spousal support. Whether it's one of the cars or some plumbing that needs to be fixed, or a new recipe or a torn shirt or sweater and I've got to break out the Singer, or don the apron, I'm all over it; but I have to admit that I could certainly stand to tell her how amazing, fantastic and beautiful she is more often.
Based on the accounts and many articles, I do believe that co-sleeping would bring us both more sleep. We've drawn a line in the sand about the co-sleeping, and we just aren't looking in that direction, but I believe that you're all correct, it would provide some relief without getting off the breast-feeding train. I'm not totally against co-sleeping, but I'm not FOR it either. My Wife is MORE anti-co-sleep than I am, and I'll wait until she says "maybe" on her own before I lean on the issue.
I recall seeing two or three posts about a growth spurt, and that was one of our theories as well -my wife was already familiar with the 3,6,and 12 week expectation (i was not). We aren't sure yet whether that's the case or not. His sleep pattern is creeping back to its prior norm of two three-to-four hour stretches at night, but it involves every trick we've got. happiest baby on the block has been an amazing tool, although we do have a fairly easy child.
Thanks again to all, please pardon my lack of presence, I'm on duty!
No worries for "lack of presence", dad. You have a newborn, and you need to be present at home a lot more than online!
If you're looking for a good, breastfeeding-friendly read on sleep, I suggest taking a look at Elizabeth Pantley's book "The No-Cry Sleep Solution".
I've been very impressed with your posts, function09. My DH was, too, trying to be a supportive BFing dad. But we were in over our heads. I just want to chime in on the "mental" aspects because it's not frequently discussed before you have a baby -- this is one area where career advancement, graduate degrees, a sense of logic, reading every book I could find before pregnancy, taking a breastfeeding class, etc. could prepare me for what nursing was really like. I'm a mid-30s mom and thought I was prepared! But the "baby blues" kicked in after a lot of trouble getting a start to breastfeeding, and I felt constantly like I was failing. Baby was gaining, everything was okay, but it just felt like I was terrible at it because baby was always crying. I knew babies cried, but I guess I didn't know there were sometimes no breaks!
The class and books and meeting with hospital LC made me feel like breastfeeding just happened and all would come easily. The class and hospital LC both said, "Babies eat every 2 hours." So when my LO wanted to eat 45 minutes of every hour during the day, plus sometimes 2 hours in a row, I felt like something was wrong. No one was around to tell me that was okay. I am kind of anti-internet, so it took me a long time to join this forum! So at least you're doing well with that.
Also, co-sleeping does not have to mean baby in bed with you. We had a co-sleeper that sat in our bed. Some people have some that attach to the bed. Some people just move the crib into their bedroom. There are options beyond baby in bed with you that might help if your wife is against it. This forum is a great place for advice and support, but you guys ultimately have to figure out what works for you and your family.
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You have to consider the sheer number of people who will come through your car throughout the day and account for the likelihood that you will have to deal with some unpleasant smells. For your own sake, and for the sake of your riders, get an air freshener that will be able to keep your car smelling good, but not overpowering.
The sign of a good Uber driver is often whether or not they have the right cord for your needs. While you may be a driver, it is likely that you have experienced the inconvenience of being in a taxi with music that you aren't enjoying, and having access to your phone can greatly improve the ride.
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As a rule of thumb, you should always bring at least one charging cable for an iPhone, one USB charging cable for Android phones, and an aux audio cord for passengers who want to play music. The minute you bring these Uber accessories into your car, you will start to see your ratings improve dramatically.
If you are driving for Uber, you will need access to your phone so that you can see the route, and holding onto it or leaving it in your lap is dangerous and irresponsible. A phone mount is one of the most necessary Uber accessories that you can opt for, and if there is a single thing on this list that you get, this should be it.
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Casey Anthony's lawyers seek more time
Attorneys look to solve money issues
Casey Anthony's lawyers seek more time
Attorneys look to solve money issues
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Casey Anthony's money woes could be closer to solvency.
Anthony's bankruptcy trustee and her attorneys say they are closing in on a compromise over the controversial proposal to auction off the rights to her life story.
The two sides filed a joint motion Friday asking for more time to work out a deal. The two sides have until May 9 to present case law to the judge.
In a hearing this month, the judge said he was skeptical about the idea of selling the rights to Anthony's life story to help pay off creditors.
As many as three bidders have expressed interest in buying those rights.
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The O.C.'s Adam Brody Returns to TV for "Adult" House of Lies Role
Dec 13, 2012 7:56 PM EST
It's a Chrismukkah miracle! The O.C. grad Adam Brody will make his long-awaited return to TV on the upcoming season of House of Lies, Showtime announced Thursday. Brody, 32, will play the owner of an adult toy company who forms a relationship with Je… Read more


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Frank Lloyd Wright may have been a boor, a tyrant, and a womanizer, but he was also a profoundly creative architect. His unique artistic ideals—buildings that connected organically to their surroundings, featured open living plans oriented around familial togetherness, and were experiments with advanced construction materials and techniques—had an immense and ongoing influence on design.
Many of the same statements could be applied to the Jeep brand. Having its beginnings in World War II—when its four-wheel-drive transport was created to ferry troops and weaponry across treacherous landscapes—Jeep's handsome upright appearance, accessible utilitarianism, and all-terrain capability have had a significant and lasting effect on the auto industry and American culture.
Thus, when it came to test-driving Jeep's latest Grand Cherokee offering, which is equipped with a high-efficiency diesel engine, we thought it fitting to take a spin to Lloyd Wright's most iconic property—Fallingwater, in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Grand Cherokee is one of our favorite SUVs, tracing its roots directly back to the Willys Jeep Station Wagon, which was the first mass-market wagon made for passengers. The Grand Cherokee also counts the Jeep Grand Wagoneer as an ancestor—the latter claiming the title as America's first luxury sport utility vehicle (and deemed a "cult object" by Vanity Fair just last year).
This particular, $53,685 Jeep is the only one offered in the United States with the high-efficiency diesel engine. It's rated at 28 m.p.g. on the highway, and with its large gas tank, the Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel is purported to go 680 miles on one fill-up. As it happens, this is exactly the round-trip distance from New York to Fallingwater. Kismet! Of course, we have a heavier foot than the robots at the E.P.A., so we managed to eke out just 610 miles from our tank, in mixed driving, through urban traffic, major elevation changes, and some freaky rain and snowstorms.
The Jeep handled the trip with remarkable aplomb. Not only did it return the aforementioned mileage numbers—quite remarkable for a 5,500-pound truck carting around a pair of gentlemen and all their weekend (and emotional) baggage—it was also outfitted with every necessary comfort and convenience feature. We had heated leather seats and a heated steering wheel, a leather-covered dash, a panoramic sunroof, a potent stereo, an actual electrical outlet, a (somewhat fiddly) touchscreen navigation system, and one of the most confidence-inspiring all-wheel-drive systems on the market. This features a Selec-Terrain system, with settings for topography, such as sand, snow, and rubble. We felt as sure-footed as Wright with his signature walking stick, and no less imperious.
Most appreciated in the Arctic mountain blizzards we endured was the remote start feature, which allowed us to warm the cabin—and all of its heatable surfaces—in advance of entering. Wright thought the hearth was the physical and spiritual center of the home; perhaps Jeep engineers believe the same thing?
Particularly auspicious from a Wright-ian perspective was the color of our test car. Wright consistently favored a rich, terra cotta–like hue, which he applied as his signature shade on furniture, tapestries, trim, structural members, and radiant poured-cement floors. Our truck shared this color. Wright called it, Cherokee Red. After this trip, we renamed it Grand Cherokee Red.


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a twin boost for American influence in the international sports world, USOC chairman Larry Probst joined the IOC on Tuesday and Anita DeFrantz was elevated to the Olympic body's powerful executive board.
The elections reflected the improved standing of the U.S. in the International Olympic Committee after years of strained relations, and gave further impetus to a potential American bid for the 2024 Summer Games.
"Having another member in the Olympic family, in the IOC, and having Anita on the executive board, I think it's a big deal and it's good news for the USOC and the United States," Probst said.
Probst was elected by a vote of 71-20, becoming the fourth U.S. member on the Swiss-based body. The chairman of video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. joins DeFrantz, Jim Easton and Angela Ruggiero as IOC delegates.
Probst is the first U.S. Olympic Committee president to hold IOC membership since Sandra Baldwin, who resigned from both posts in 2002 after admitting to having lied about her academic credentials.
Perhaps even more significant than Probst's election was DeFrantz's victory in a three-person race for a spot on the policy-making executive board. The U.S. has been without a voice on the board since Easton lost his seat in February 2006.
DeFrantz won by a single vote — 41-40 — against senior Canadian member Dick Pound. Malaysia's Prince Tunku Imran was eliminated in the first round.
DeFrantz and Pound are former IOC vice presidents. Both also lost to Jacques Rogge in the 2001 IOC presidential election.
DeFrantz, chair of the women and sports commission, had lost previous bids to return to the executive board.
"That's a terrific thing for the USOC to have some representation on the executive board. It's been a while," Probst said. "As an IOC member, I'm very excited about that."
The votes took place before the election of Germany's Thomas Bach as the new IOC president, succeeding Rogge.
Without a voice at the top IOC table and holding few top jobs in international sports, the U.S. had lost considerable clout over the years in Olympic circles — underlined by New York's defeat in the race for the 2012 Olympics and Chicago's first-round elimination in the vote for the 2016 Games.
Under Probst and CEO Scott Blackmun, the USOC has made significant strides in mending fences with the IOC and establishing an international presence. Last year, the USOC and IOC resolved a long-standing dispute over Olympic revenues that had kept the American body alienated from the rest of the world.
Probst's election comes as the USOC weighs a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Games. The U.S. hasn't hosted a Summer Games since 1996 in Atlanta or the Winter Games since 2002 in Salt Lake City. Several U.S. cities have expressed interest in trying to 2024.
Bach said it was a good time for the U.S. to bid.
"We appreciate his enthusiasm ... but that's something we've got to be very thoughtful about," Probst said. "Ultimately our board will decide if we will move forward with the bid. ... The first step is we have to decide that we are going to move forward and we have to go through a process of which city gives us the best chance."
In another election for a high-ranking position Tuesday, Australian John Coates moved up to become a vice president. He was the only candidate.
Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov also was among the nine candidates elected to the IOC on the final day of its general assembly in Buenos Aires.
Zhukov made it by a vote of 63-29, with two abstentions. The 29 votes against was the most received by the nine candidates, a possible sign of Russia's contentious relations with the West.
Among the other new members are former Olympic high jump champion Stefan Holm of Sweden and Kenyan distance running great Paul Tergat.
With Tuesday's elections, the IOC now has 112 members. The U.S. and Russia now both have four members. Britain also has four while Switzerland has the most with five.
Also elected Tuesday: KLM executive Camiel Eurlings of the Netherlands, Mikaela Maria Antonia Cojuangco-Jaworski of the Philippines, Bernard Rajzman of Brazil, Octavian Morariu of Romania and Dagmawit Girmay Berhane of Ethiopia.
Eurlings replaces King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who resigned his IOC position after acceding to the Dutch throne in April.
"Those are extremely big shoes to fill, I can assure you," Eurlings said. "But what gives me some comfort is that the king ... said that an honorary member can also be very active, so I know that he has a big sports heart and I'm sure that his sports heart will keep on beating."
AP Sports Writer Tales Azzoni contributed to this report.
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15 Inspiring Ideas for Making Edible Snowmen
You've heard of the Abominable Snowman? How about the Edible Snowman? He's much tastier. Whether you're throwing a party, planning a special holiday meal or just looking for something fun to make in the kitchen with your kids, here are fifteen ideas for making snowmen without putting on your boots and mittens.
Most of these are sweet, but a few are savory and we even found a few healthy treats, too. You don't have to replicate these exactly, but we think they'll get your creative culinary gears turning. So start looking around your kitchen to see what your family can make a snowman from.
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Soybeans (NYBOT:JSK14)
The Grains markets are gearing up for a big quarterly report on Monday, which will likely set the tone for the next big directional move in the grains. Currently, soybeans have been enjoying a pretty sizable bull trend move with prices trading above $14.40. Near-term momentum remains positive above $13.93 and the intermediate direction bias also favors the bull campaign.
Despite a positive directional bias in this market, traders should be on the lookout for some choppy trading ahead of Monday's report. A "calm before the storm" feeling could take over the beans and price action could be quiet ahead of the number. Technically, the $14.60 peak remains the most significant level of resistance on the chart with near-term resistance coming into play around $14.52'6. Support should be anticipated around $14.26'6 to $14.28'2 as well as $14.08'6 to $14.10. Traders should also monitor significant support around $13.78 as a break below this pivot could shift the directional bias to a more negative tone. This number likely won't come into play this week, but very well could play a role following Monday's report.
(May '14 Soybeans 30-minute Bar Chart) (eSignal)
E-Mini S&P 500 (CME:ESM14)
The S&P 500 is in an interesting technical position following yesterday's break below the intermediate term ascending trendline on the chart below. The market has been relatively range-bound throughout the month of March and the recent swing low has found support around the 1842.00 pivot on the chart. What traders will now need to determine is whether or not price will find support at the support pivots at 1842.00 and 1837.00, or if the recent breakdown from the previous ascending trendline is going to spark a deeper correction. Previous price action would suggest a sideways to positive bias. However, near-term momentum has not provided an "edge" for either side as price has been digestive at best. If the market is indeed going to remain in a sideways choppy range, than there may be an argument to be made for getting long around these levels on dips into support. With that being said, a bullish bias will be in serious trouble if weakness in price persists below the 1823.25 low on the chart. Until then, continue to expect choppy price action in the equity indices.
(Jun. '14 E-mini S&P 500 30-minute Bar Chart) (eSignal)
Euro (CME:E6M14)
The euro is currently flirting with a downside breakout from an intermediate term ascending trendline which very well produce a pullback down to the 1.3700 support pivot. Price failed from the 1.3165 support pivot overnight and has since started to roll over. If there is to be negative follow through on this technical signal, traders should look to the 1.3700 area as an initial objective to the downside. Below here, the next area of support on the chart doesn't come into play until 1.3634 to 1.3643. To avoid falling back on its heels, the euro will need to regain the 1.3765 technical pivot and hold above this level. If price action is unable to do so, than near term momentum could carry euro prices lower.
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Am I reading the grammar of this right?
at si quos haud ulla viros vigilantia fugit,***
ante locum similem exquirunt, ubi . . . .
***this was the hard line
Virgil seems to portray watchfulness (vigilantia) as something that can escape some men (quos . . .viros).
vigilantia, nominative singular, subject of fugit
quos . . . viros, direct object of fugit
They [implied subject of equirunt], whom [quos . . . viros ]watchfulness rarely leaves
first search out a like place, where [ such and such can be done]


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Shadow and her arthritis
Okay, so Shadow has been getting her cartophen shots for a while now, and is also taking Metacam daily. I can't say that I think the cartophen is doing a great deal to improve her mobility issues, but maybe is more so keeping her from deteriorating further than she is now.
Last month the vet had me try a week's supply of Deramaxx (I think it was, the large brown pill, he had me give her half a day) to see if it would help more than the Metacam. It did not.
Right now, while she doesn't seem to be in pain, it is obvious she still has mobility issues with her legs, that is more prominent when she is tired. Sometimes when she's eating her hind legs will just sorta fold up on her and she'll gradually sink downwards to the ground at her hind end. When that happens I normally give her a bit more meds. She generally gets her meds in the morning if she eats her breakfast, so I may top her up again at night if she's having difficulties.
Any other ideas on things I could ask the vet about giving her? I can't really afford to do physio on her although I would love to, but it's just not going to happen. Other than the occasional signs of weakness, she seems fine and happy.
I don't have any advice for you, but I'm sorry Shadow isn't doing so well with the Arthritis
BIG to you both. I hope you can find something that might help her feel a little stronger.
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Thanks Robin. I know I've said before that we can't fight old age, but I guess we can do our best to delay the inevitable. I feel blessed to have had Shadow for fourteen years, and have promissed her and myself not to let her suffer. I don't think she is yet, but she does struggle sometimes. I really have to watch her when she goes in the stairs. She does well if she goes slowly, but if she tries to run down with Halo she will fall and then I worry about her breaking a leg and I know that would be the end of her. Sweetie that she is she tries very hard to keep up with her younger sister Halo. Will be taking Shadow to the vet on Friday to talk to him about other possible treatments for her comfort. Thanks again for caring, you are a very sweet lady with a full plate of her own!
Too bad there isn't a place near you to take her swimming. It almost sounds like a muscle-tone issue. Poor dear.
Is there any physio you can do with her? I know they prescribe home exercises when a dog is recovering from surgery to keep them mobile--I wonder if the vet could give you some exercises to do with her that would keep her limber and give her a little more strength?
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Hazel, Shadow and water do not get along - at all! First time we tried bathing her she screamed so loud our pregnant neighbour came running out in a panic because she thought she'd been hit by a car! Shadow is like the pack "WATER - just say no!"
I do try to massage her legs some in the evenings. Unfortunately we don't get a lot of long walks in anymore (we used to go several miles a night) as I'm never certain we'll make it back home with her bad legs. I agree with you that is does seem to be a muscle tone problem at times also. Massaging the dog doesn't go over well with hubby though you know.... He gets jealous!
We'll have to make Shadow an honorary setter then!
If hubby gets jealous at all the massaging, have him do it! I was thinking more along the lines of passive bicycling and bending and flexing exercises, though.
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I'm glad she's still happy. And if we have Thorin to the age of 14, I will most definitely feel blessed!! Well, I feel blessed anyway lol, just will be moreso if he makes it that long
Thorin has been struggling with his arthritis for a little while as well. He's getting slower and slower going up the stairs. We're pretty sure now that his episode a couple of months ago was, in fact, a small stroke. He drags his hind leg quite a bit now and does what Shadow does, slowly slumps to the ground if he's standing to eat etc. We can't give him the Metacam until he's done with chemo. But overall, he's doing very well and doesn't seem to know there's anything wrong with him
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R.I.P. my sweet, handsome Thorin. You are missed dearly Dec. 25, 1999 - Mar. 4, 2012
not to cure it or anything, but we bought Brina a kundra bed when she had her surgery, when she lays on the floor she is stiff getting up, but when she sleeps on it, she steps "down" to get off the bed and seems a lot better, its a canvas mat, easy to clean and its up off the damp floor.
Robin, sorry to hear that Thorin is having these same issues. All we can do is keep them happy and comfortable. Poor baby Thorin, I feel so bad when they slump down when they're standing. Although it doesn't seem to hurt Shadow any, I think it hurts us more! I also thought Shadow had a stroke the first time she couldn't walk, but the vet assures me it was from swelling in her spine that her legs gave out on her.
Melinda, Shadow actually has one of the Costco dog beds, so she doesn't actually sleep on the floor, although that said, she moves back and forth regularly from bed to floor. She has such a hard time standing up when she's been sleeping on the bare floors (as opposed to the carpets), but still she'll get up off her bed and move onto the slippery floor with great regularity. I can always hear her when she gets up off the floor to go back to bed because he feet slide around on her and it takes her a second or two to get a good grip of the floor. Wakes me up regularly, but I listen to make sure that she's not having problems with her legs again and that in fact she is just slipping. There's only one area of our floor in the bedroom that doesn't have carpets on it (due to Halo being afraid of the slippery floor) and that's where Shadow has to lay. I tried covering it once thinking she'd like that, but no way. She wouldn't have it. I'm not sure that having a raised bed would help her only because I'm afraid she might slip getting out of it right now. But I will keep it in mind.
Thanks guys, will update next week after she's been to the vet again.
DD, Perkins, my red cattle dog, is 15 now, with the same issues as Shadow of course, possibly worse. I don't expect him to stand to eat anymore, I tell him to lie down on his bed, then I'll hold his bowl on an angle so he can reach all his feed. He has a Dick Wicks magnetic bed believe it or not, designed for people with arthritis but they also do dog ones. The foam in it is rippled(peaks and valleys) to take pressure off any sore parts, and the cover has magnets sown into it. I throw a dog blanket(cotton) over it to keep it clean and to stop him plucking the fleecy cover.
Outside, sometimes it is scary watching him standing on a bad day. He starts to sink, but it is not back onto the hocks, rather forward from the hocks, in other words his turn of stifle gets deeper as his topline goes down. He has to reposition himself after a while. Poor old dogs, hey? He was having trouble getting up a small half step into the house so yesterday Ian built him a ramp there. LOL. We already have a big one onto the porch for the dogs, now another, and I just haven't got used to it yet ! I nearly trip, or I jar myself because I am expecting to step down. At least he manages better though.
X rays taken here when dogs were say just 8 or 9 showed noticeable spondolytis, so I hate to think what they'd be like in their old age. Incidentally, re the Cartrophen, I've used it for two dogs, one it worked for, the other it didn't.
Don't have very much to add but what about a daily low dose of baby aspirin? Our Golden had very bad hips and we gave her 1 daily which seemed to help her mobility.
Looking forward to the update next week DD.
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Some have had success with Tramadol, a low dose to start may be an option your vet might have available.
Avoid biting when a simple growl will do
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I had good luck with the addition of Jarrow's True CMO, a cetyl myristoleate product. Sometimes a combination of different joint supplements can make the difference. The addition of Ester C or sodium ascorbate can help some.
Massage and stretching?
Awww poor shadow! give her hugs for me. i haven't dealt with any older pets really with my babies still being under 8. but i hope the vet can give you something to maybe help her more. and hugs to you too mom i'm sure it can be hard to watch sometimes! keep taking care! love you!
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DD,I know there is a difference between people and dogs,but I have Osteo- Arthritis and take 2 Tramadol pills a day,they really help,maybe like Growler says they would also help Shadow?
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Hey guys, couldn't get into the vet today, but will be shortly. Am going to certainly ask about the tramadol. It is comforting to me though to know that many of the symptoms Shadow is showing are common. GF and Rgeurts, knowing that your guys also sink down some gives me comfort to realize that she's not any worse than many others. It just seems so awful to watch them. But it has really helped to share on here and know she's probably not as bad as I think she is. I also realize that perhaps what I'm taking as pain is just simple weakness now. You guys have all been so helpful with sharing your stories and advice. Thank you so much.
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