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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Michael Cave,
v. Docket No. CR-07-1016
Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Daniel S. O'Connor, Esq.
Shaevel & Krems, LLP
141 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
Appearance for Respondent:
James C. O'Leary, Esq.
Massachusetts Teachers'
Retirement System
One Charles Park
Cambridge, MA 02142
Administrative Magistrate:
Sarah H. Luick, Esq.
Pursuant to G. L. c. 32, § 16(4), the Petitioner, Michael Cave, is appealing the October 26, 2007 decision of the Respondent, Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System (MTRS), denying his request for creditable service under G. L. c. 32, § 3(4) for his work at the University of Connecticut (UConn) for three semesters during 1969 - May 1970. (Ex. 2) The appeal was timely filed. (Ex. 1)
A hearing was held January 9, 2008, at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA), 98 North Washington Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, pursuant to G. L. c. 7, § 4H. Various documents are in evidence. (Exs. 1 - 11. Exhibit 10 was filed post-hearing, and is comprised of UConn Employment Authorization forms for Dr. Cave's employment as a Graduate assistant. Exhibit 11 was filed post-hearing, and is a few letters of the UConn President to Dr. Cave informing him that the Board of Trustees had appointed him a Graduate assistant. Added to Exhibit 6 is a January 7, 2008 letter to the MTRS from James G. Henkel, Ph.D., of the UConn Research and Graduate Education Office and an Associate Dean of the UConn Graduate School, addressing policies in effect for Graduate assistants.) The parties entered into some stipulations of fact and filed pre-hearing memoranda. ("A") Dr. Cave sought an expedited hearing. ("B") One tape was used. Dr. Cave testified. Both parties filed briefs by February 26, 2008 when the record closed.
1. Michael Cave, d.o.b. 10/31/46, is a current member of the MTRS in his position as Department Supervisor in the Needham Public Schools. He has been with the Needham Public Schools since 2002. Dr. Cave became a member of the MTRS with his employment as a teacher in the Wellesley Public Schools from 1973-1980. He was a department head in the Acton Public Schools during the 1980-1981 school year. He became a K-12 advisor in the languages department of the Andover Public Schools during the 1981-1982 school year. He became a teacher in the Newton Public Schools the 1982-1983 school year. He taught in the Auburn Public Schools the 1983-1984 school year. He taught at a private school 1984-1989. He taught at the Nashoba Regional High School the 1989-1990 school year. He then left teaching to work in the insurance industry, but returned to teaching in a private school out of state for the 1991-1992 school year. He taught in the Medfield Public Schools for the 1992-1993 school year, and continued teaching there until he began working for the Needham Public Schools. (Testimony)
2. Dr. Cave received his B.A. degree in June 1968 from South Connecticut State College. He majored in Spanish and minored in Italian. He entered a graduate program in languages at UConn in September 1968 to get his M.A. in Spanish, and then his doctorate by June 1972. (Testimony)
3. Dr. Cave had the option to do a full academic program toward his graduate school degrees, or he could do a half academic program and half employment program as a graduate assistant, teaching introductory Spanish classes to UConn undergraduates. He decided to do the half academic/half employment program. He began this work for the semester that started in September 1968. He worked doing research, and supervising an undergraduate language laboratory. Starting with the Spring 1969 semester in February, Dr. Cave taught two introductory level undergraduate Spanish courses. The introductory courses were numbered 181, 182, 183, and 184. He worked at least half the time of a regular professor who typically taught three or four courses per semester. He worked independently and did not work under the direct supervision of a professor . He devised, administered, and graded tests and quizzes. He did not have his grading overseen or approved by a professor. He created and assigned homework. He provided office hours for the undergraduate students just like the professors did. He and the other graduate assistants determined what textbook and syllabus to use, but used the standard textbook the regular professors were using to teach the same courses. This textbook was written by one of the UConn professors. Dr. Cave taught the two classes during the day between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM. (Exs. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11. Testimony.)
4. Dr. Cave was paid for his work as a graduate assistant from the regular UConn payroll and not from any special payroll. He was paid by the State of Connecticut. For most of the time he worked as a graduate assistant, he did not have social security deductions taken from his pay. At this time he does not qualify for a social security retirement allowance. He never received a federal tax form 1099 for his teaching work. Each academic year he was appointed a graduate assistant by the UConn Board of Trustees. He also had an employment authorization form each year he did this work like any UConn regular employee. He had to be a graduate student in good standing to be able to gain this annual employment. He did not receive a tuition break for working as a graduate assistant. He did not need to do this work to gain either the M.A. or Ph.D. degrees. The languages department assigned the courses the graduate assistants taught each year. Because they were teaching the same courses as some of the regular professors, the Graduate assistants were listed on the course schedule along with the regular faculty. The lecturer category at UConn was a part-time teaching slot which was paid at the same rate of pay as the graduate assistants. The Assistant professor category had to have a masters degree. The professor category had to have a doctorate degree. Dr. Cave's graduate assistant work did not count toward securing tenure. (Exs. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11. Testimony.)
5. Dr. Cave never had any formal evaluations done of his teaching work as a graduate assistant. At one point he requested a formal observation of his teaching work. He never saw a formal job description for graduate assistant in the languages department. (Ex. 6. Testimony.)
6. Dr. Cave taught two courses during the Spring 1969, Fall 1969, and Spring 1970 semesters. He taught all these courses at the main campus in Storrs, CT. (Exs. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11. Testimony.)
7. Once he received his M.A. degree in June 1970, Dr. Cave continued to be appointed a graduate assistant, but taught only one course, and received a grant to cover the other work he did while continuing to work toward his doctorate degree. (Exs. 10 & 11. Testimony.)
8. In October 2007 Dr. Cave sought to purchase for creditable service his graduate assistant teacher work at UConn for the Spring 1969, Fall 1970, and Spring 1970 semesters. He completed the MTRS form for purchasing out-of-state public school service, including securing information from his employer. He filed this form June 12, 2007. ("A". Exs. 3 & 4. Testimony.)
9. By letter of decision of October 26, 2007, the MTRS denied Dr. Cave's request. He filed a timely appeal, and sought an expedited appeal hearing. ("A" & "B". Exs. 1 & 2)
Dr. Cave has presented sufficient evidence to prove that he is entitled to do a purchase under G. L. c. 32, § 3(4) of his graduate assistant teaching work for UConn from February 1969 - May 1970 when he was teaching two Spanish courses during each of three semesters to undergraduate students. He is a current member of the MTRS who previously worked a job that was the equivalent of a professor teaching Spanish courses to undergraduates at UConn. He has shown he worked at least half time doing this teaching work.
G. L. c. 32, § 3(4) states in pertinent part:
Any member in service … who is employed in a teaching position or as a principal, supervisor or president in a school or college, … who had rendered service in any other state for any previous period as a teacher, principal, supervisor or superintendent in the public day schools or other day school under exclusive public control and supervision, or in a public academy, or as a teacher, principal, supervisor or president in a state normal school, state teachers college or like institution, or other college under exclusive public control and supervision, or in a public academy, … may, before the date any retirement allowance becomes effective for him, pay into the annuity savings fund of the system … an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as regular deductions from his regular compensation for such previous period, … had such service been rendered in a public school of the commonwealth and had he been a member of the teachers' retirement system during the period the service was rendered; …. [N]o credit shall be allowed and no payment shall be accepted for any service for which the member shall be entitled to receive a retirement allowance from any other state …. Such member shall furnish the board with such information as it shall require to determine the amount to be paid and the credit to be allowed under this subdivision ….
The issue in Dr. Cave's case was argued well by the parties in their briefs. While working as a graduate assistant, Dr. Cave had to do work equivalent to the work performed by one of the Section 3(4) listed positions. This means he could not be doing this teaching work for just academic credit, working as an assistant to a regular professor who guided him in doing his work, or doing work other than teaching work. His work at UConn during this time period has to satisfy the definition of teacher found in G. L. c. 32, § 1. Mackay and Manning v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (CRAB), 56 Mass. App. Ct. 924, 925 (2002). The Section 1 definition of teacher reads in pertinent part as follows:
… any person who is employed by one or more school committees or boards of trustees … on a basis of not less than half-time service as a teacher … in any public school as defined in this section ….
Public day school is defined in Section 1 as follows:
… any day school conducted in the commonwealth under the superintendence of a duly elected school committee ….
UConn is a public institution. Dr. Cave was appointed to his annual graduate assistant position by the Board of Trustees, and his wages were paid by the State of Connecticut. I found Dr. Cave's testimony to be credible that during this time period a regular professor carried a teaching load of three or four courses per semester so that teaching two courses per semester would be at least half time teaching. The issue the parties dispute is whether or not Dr. Cave was teaching independently or whether he was only an assistant to a professor or to a Department Head carrying out the teaching tasks the professor created, devised, and ultimately graded.
The MTRS relied on the information provided by James G. Henkel, Ph.D. who is currently the Associate Vice Provost of the Research and Graduate Education Office and an Associate Dean at the Graduate School of UConn. Dr. Henkel addressed the policies in effect when Dr. Cave was a graduate assistant. He acknowledged that Dr. Cave was at UConn before he came there in 1977, but believed the policies were the same then as now for graduate assistants. He stated they were not faculty members and only some worked with "a degree of independence," but that they all worked "under close supervision of faculty." He acknowledged there is no certification necessary to teach at UConn, and that to be a graduate assistant only involves being in good standing in the program. He stated most graduate assistants work in the laboratories or provide undergraduate students with discussion sessions, and only occasionally deliver lectures which is usually done to fill in for a faculty member. He stated they work about ten to twenty hours a week and are paid proportionately. He stated only "some submit grades as instructors of record," and that the grades they determine "are checked and approved by faculty." (Ex. 6) In providing this opinion, Dr. Henkel did not specifically address graduate assistants in the languages department, and did not state his opinion covered every graduate assistant's circumstances.
Dr. Cave testified in agreement with some of what Dr. Henkel stated, but differed with him by clearly explaining that he worked without any direct supervision, was paid a set amount of compensation each year, and taught the two courses each semester at issue. I conclude Dr. Henkel's opinion does not overcome the credible and detailed account of his work that Dr. Cave provided. I conclude Dr. Cave did work independently and not as an assistant to a Professor during those three semesters. I conclude he was not simply carrying out the syllabus, using the exams, and delivering the lectures that a supervising professor had already established. Rather, Dr. Cave created and devised his lesson plans, his exams, and lectures for his undergraduate Spanish courses, courses that were also taught by regular professors during the same time period. He was believable when he stated he did not have his grades reviewed by any professor before they were filed. The fact that the graduate assistants who were teaching the introductory Spanish classes decided as a group to use a UConn professor's textbook does not make Dr. Cave's teaching work not independent. He credibly testified that all the regular professors who were also teaching these introductory Spanish classes used this same textbook.
The Section 3(4) standard to apply is not the job title of the prior out-of-state public teaching service, but the function previously performed. In Lachance v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (CRAB), 62 Mass. App. Ct. 1118 (2005), the Appeals Court held that the work previously performed had to be the equivalent of the work of a Section 1 teacher, or the equivalent of one of the listed positions in order to be able to purchase that prior service for creditable service. Mr. Lachance worked as a geographical research assistant at University of Rhode Island after securing his undergraduate degree there. At the time he lacked a graduate degree and he did not hold any teacher certifications. He worked under the direction of an associate professor who held a doctorate. He worked full time. He taught the laboratory sessions that were part of the associate professor's courses. He helped the associate professor with his research, and was listed as a coauthor on some academic articles. He also took over some of the assistant professor's lectures. The Appeals Court did not find this work to be the equivalent work of a professor or Section 1 teacher; and Mr. Lachance was unable to purchase this out-of-state service under Section 3(4). Dr. Cave's circumstances were not like those of Mr. Lachance.
A different outcome is found in the case of Wheeler v. MTRS, CR-99-555 (DALA, 8/25/00) (No CRAB Dec.) where this same Section 3(4) standard was employed. Ms. Wheeler worked in Arizona as a school psychologist, but did that work along with an internship because she was working toward her doctorate. She was paid less than a regular school psychologist, but she fully performed and was fully qualified to do all the essential duties of a school psychologist in this Arizona public school. The internship aspect of her job was viewed as an extra component, and not one that altered her work as a school psychologist. These facts were sufficient to allow Ms. Wheeler to purchase this out-of-state service for creditable service under Section 3(4).
In Squeglia v. CRAB and MTRS, Suffolk Superior Court Civil Action No. 00-2416 (King, J.) (5/2/01), the job title was not found to be a controlling factor on entitlement to creditable service through Section 3(4). Ms. Squeglia worked in Ohio as a learning disability tutor. She was paid by the hour and did not have her own classroom. In contrast, the leaning disability teachers had their own classrooms and were paid a yearly amount on a regular basis. But, Ms. Squeglia was required to have and did have, her teacher certification. She was also allowed membership in the Ohio contributory retirement system for teachers. She ended up working over half time as a learning disability tutor. Since the nature of the work she performed was the same as the work performed by a learning disability teacher, Ms. Squeglia was permitted to purchase this out-of-state service for creditable service through Section 3(4). The job title of tutor does not appear in the Section 1 definition of teacher. This decision shows that Dr. Cave's title of graduate assistant does not prevent him from utilizing the benefit of Section 3(4).
The MTRS relies on the case of Bevelander v. MTRS, CR-95-749 (DALA, 9/13/96) (CRAB, 2/5/97), arguing Dr. Cave cannot prevail in his request. Dr. Bevelander worked as a teaching assistant while working toward a graduate degree at the University of Illinois. He taught undergraduate Spanish courses. The grades he gave had to first be reviewed by a professor assigned to review the work of all the teaching assistants. Dr. Bevelander, on these facts, was not able to utilize Section 3(4) to purchase this out-of-state prior service for creditable service. Dr. Cave's circumstances are different in significant ways since he had the same degree of independence in terms of teaching his Spanish classes as a regular UConn professor had in teaching the same class. He also did not have the grades he gave out first reviewed by a supervising professor. No findings showed Dr. Bevelander functioned as the equivalent of a regular professor.
For these reasons, the decision of the MTRS is reversed, and Dr. Cave is able to purchase for creditable service through Section 3(4), his UConn graduate assistant teaching work done for three semesters between February 1969 and May 1970.
Sarah H. Luick, Esq.
Administrative Magistrate
DATED: April 30, 2008
This information is provided by the Division of Administrative Law Appeals .


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Nigeria denies will allow gay married diplomats
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is denying reports the minister said he would allow gay married diplomats to be accredited.
A statement Monday says Minister Olugbenga Ashiru has at every opportunity reiterated that foreign countries should not impose their values on Nigerians.
It says the vast majority of Nigerians "are against gay marriages and gay rights, as they are not part of our customs, religions or laws."
The official News Agency of Nigeria last week quoted Ashiru as saying that if diplomats with same-sex spouses were posted to Nigeria there would be no choice but to accredit them because they come from countries that have laws allowing same-sex marriage. It said he spoke to the agency in an interview in London.
Nigerian legislators have passed a bill criminalizing same-sex marriages.


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Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher moving in together
Us WeeklyHome is where the heart is -- and for Mila Kunis, that means home is where boyfriend Ashton Kutcher is. Namely, at his 9,000-square-foot mansion in the Hollywood Hills.PHOTOS: Mila and Ashton's hot romanceAs the Feb. 25 issue of Us Weekly revealed, Kunis, 29, and Kutcher, 35, are taking their relationship to the next level: cohabitation. A source says the "Black Swan" star has been bunking with her "Two and a Half Men" actor beau while her own house is being remodeled, and she may make the move official soon."Ashton's male roommate is moving out to make room for her," the insider tells Us of the "Oz the Great and Powerful" actress. Adds another pal, "They really are perfect for each other."PHOTOS: Mila's sexy style transformationIndeed, the former "That '70s Show" co-stars have seemed totally in sync ever since they first stepped out together last spring, four months after the actor and Demi Moore announced the end of their six-year marriage. And though Kutcher and his ex are still legally wed, he and Kunis are definitely committed to each other. In recent months, they've taken their relationship to Australia, Italy, New York, and Iowa, where they dined with his family at Red Lobster.PHOTOS: Ashton's love lifeKunis even planned a special surprise birthday party for her man: a star-studded fete at Go Kart World in Carson, Calif., with food from Umami Burger. (James Van Der Beek was among those in attendance.)"They were friends first, and then it switched to love," a source tells Us of the couple. "That's a great foundation for a relationship."i>Keep clicking for more photos of the happy couple ...© Pacific Coast News


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While most people thought that Syria was going to be the biggest thing to come out of the G-20 for futures, the impact of tapering on the emerging markets really was the hot subject. As emerging markets have been getting crunched and a flight to safety on precious metals became apparent it now seems that the emerging markets are going to fight back as countries like India and Brazil are fighting desperately to try and slow the flight out of their QE supported currencies.
Russia not only is signaling to the U.S. not to attack Syria but to also be careful with that taper thing. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia India and China) sought to fight back against the ill effects of the taper by creating an anti -taper pool of $100 billion to try to stop the run on their QE supported currency and into precious metals.
Tapering fears has caused a run to precious metals by these BRIC countries as the people desperately try to hang onto the value of their ruble, rupee, real. In China gold demand is soaring as the uncertainty surrounding government policies is causing economic fear even more gold buying. Gold sold off as the dollar got strength from strong U.S. data and rising yields, but also from the fact that Brazil's central bank maintains its market intervention. India also has been desperately trying to stop a run to precious metals. The BBC reported that the new head of India's central bank, Raghuram Rajan, has said he will take strong measures to tackle the issues facing the economy. Mr. Rajan, a former chief economist at the international Monetary Fund, takes over at a time when India's economy is grappling with challenges on various fronts. Its currency has weakened sharply and its growth rate has dipped to a 10-year low.
And of course you had Syria talk. President Obama seemed to enlist Australia on his side but failed to convince many others. China and Italy also warned about the potential damage to the global economy if indeed President Obama decides to go to war in Syria. A lot of those concerns revolve around what might happen to the availability and price of oil.
Yesterday's Energy Information Report seemed to suggest that the world will be looking to the U.S. to make up for any shortfall. WTI gained on Brent as U.S. crude supply fell and U.S. refiner ran like crazy! U.S. exports are surging!


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AVE MARIA, Fla. -- While a full trialist list should be released this week, one current guest player the team isn't exactly keeping under wraps is PDL and Indiana Fire Academy alum Rich Balchan.
After a reasonably strong rookie campaign a utility defender and even central midfielder for Columbus in 2011, Balchan, 24, was limited to just a few Reserve appearances last season as he toiled through a niggling sports hernia injury first suffered in July 2011.
"My groin is good now, its 100 percent," Balchan told Chicago-Fire.com Sunday. "It was pretty frustrating though. I rehabbed for six or eight weeks and was ready to go and I tweaked it again and had another surgery.
"It was up and down, up and down three times there over the last year and a half. It's a blessing to be healthy now after all of that."
Placed on waivers over the offseason, the Fire claimed a player they played a part in producing during his college years with a view towards him adding more proven league depth on the backline.
Because he was claimed off waivers, Balchan's MLS rights currently belong to the Fire though he is an unsigned invitee to training camp. A strong showing in training camp though seems likely to lead to a contract offer.
"Rich is a guy we know well that came into MLS his rookie season and had a very good year," Frank Klopas told Chicago-Fire.com. "He's had some setbacks with injuries and I think he's a guy we're going to look at right now -- if he can get that form back that he had his first year then we're going to be very happy."
With 19 MLS games under his belt, Balchan could end up being the player that fills the role as the team's utility defender or even push incumbent starter Jalil Anibaba on the flank.
"I'm really fortunate to have this opportunity after being out for so long," he said. "Since getting picked up on waivers I've been excited to get into camp and prove that I belong with this team. I know I do, I just have to prove it."
Klopas seems to carry that same confidence.
"If he gains the form he can have a big impact."


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GayAsianBoy wrote:
My family is CRAZY over K-drama because the actresses are very pretty. And they think the stories are fascinating, but for me K-drama is just not for me.
Although I have seen this gay Korean movie about a gay King who has male a lover, then forced his lover to impregnate his own wife, it was fascinating.
I like watching Chinese drama more, especially the ones set in the traditional age.
Western TV series I watch are Fringe, Once Upon a time and Revenge. I love sci-fi, magic and martial arts/espionage stuff (which is Revenge).
Right now, I'm really enjoying the parody animes (Gintama, Ixion Saga DT and Cuticle Detective)
The guys are good looking too, but that's not why I watch them.
Watching K-dramas instead of sleeping....;D
I don't watch anything here, I used to watch anime here but not anymore.
to old for Pokemon but i love it
no J or K drama for me just anime
to old for Pokemon but i love it
well i do watch tv but not as much anymore. hm... i heard about these um j-drama, k-drama ,and etc but never actually seen them before. kinda sounds interesting maybe i dunno. kinda feel likke watching an episode or two of one maybe to see if im into it. Anybody have any suggestions for a person who doesn't watch drama but is interested in perhaps starting?
I <3 you ALL so much :D
Also why do people like watching these dramas? im just curious please don't get angry at me for not knowing i just never been exposed to dramas
I <3 you ALL so much :D
Well, first post ever (awesome?) and I'm pretty much here for the anime. I've been curious about some of the other shows though like My Little Nightmare. I'm big on sci-fi and slice of life stuff but just not sure where to start (outside of anime). Given I haven't looked very hard though.
Any other shows I do watch are fairly mainstream; Futurama, Walking Dead, Family Guy, Stargate, Firefly, etc. I think the closest I've come to a k-drama is Girls' Generation - Gee which I discovered through Monty Oum then went on to realize I was like 3 years behind. Catchy as heck, no lie.
Ive watched a few things from the drama section since picking up the black friday all access deal. Iris was a good show. Its full of action, suspense and espionage. Moon that embraces the Sun was good too, though its all dialogue driven with little to no action. I'd probably watch more, but the drama catalog is kinda lacking. I prefer more action, sci fi, or martial arts shows.
-> insert witty one liner here <-
Wuxia i love!!
Time to collapse
I'm here for the anime. I don't watch any of the dramas. My favorite kinda of anime is action/adventure but I also like slice of life and syfy. I don't watch anything on network tv.. most of it is crap.. I do however watch The walking Dead and Falling Skies. However 95% of what I watch is anime and most of it here on CR, but I am watching Psycho Pass on another legal site.
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
i was only subscribed/ paying for anime but i started watching "my little nightmare" so now im subscribed to drama too...... i need to unsubscribe now
PhyongHwa wrote:
I originally came here because I'm a K-drama addict. My second fave was Wuxia. Currently most of what I watch is (romance ) Anime here.
It seems like all everybody watches here is Anime. Is it true? Anybody else watch the dramas? What do you watch here? What if any, is your favorite genre?
I rarely watch Anime on here now a days, to be honest, i never really watched Anime on Crunchyroll, I subscribed as soon as it became a legal simulcast site more to support the industry. Unless Crunchyroll releases simulcast within the next few hours after the episode first airs,or I am overseas, I wount really use Crunchyroll. I wount use other sites either for that matter.
I have yet to give K dramas a chance though, not very interested in the subject, i might look into the titles and see if any sounds interesting enough to watch. As for other shows i watch, I do watch a few shows on American television. I watch House of lies, Castle, Suits, and Top Gear, the UK version, watched a couple of episodes of the American version and it was not very good. That's about it for other shows i watch.
I watch 2 Broke Girls, American Horror Story, & The Walking Dead.
I watch a lot of different tv series, not just anime, but if you are talking about other things here on CR then nope.
If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick.
Only k-drama I've seen was Full House - loved it. As for non-K-Dramas, I enjoy are Supernatural, Bones, Burn Notice, Dexter, Flashpoint and Once Upon a Time.


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Staten Island, NY – Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement today following the debate among candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.
"It's encouraging to hear all the candidates for the RNC leadership say they are proud to be pro-life and would be ready to work in coalition with pro-life activists across the country. All the candidates agreed that Planned Parenthood should be defunded, and that was also welcome news."
Father Pavone continued, "The candidates recognize that a majority of Americans favor at least some restrictions on abortion and that it is vital to ensure that every pro-life American is registered to vote, and energized to take part in the political process.
"Despite suggestions from some top GOP lawmakers to put social issues like abortion aside while concentrating on the economy, there can be no truce on abortion and it's more important than ever for the RNC chairman to promote that message."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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On April 11th, members of the Digital Scholarship Team presented initial work in analyzing the text of the Indianapolis Recorder at IUPUI Research Day. The Indianapolis Recorder is one of the nation's oldest and most prominent African American newspapers, and the University Library has a digitized collection covering the vast majority of issues published between 1899 and 2005. The full text of more than 96,000 pages is currently available for export from the ContentDM platform as a tab delimited or XML text file (1.3GB).
To highlight potential use for this dataset, the Digital Scholarship Team performed some basic textual analysis and visualization using VOSviewer, a software program originally designed to analyze bibliometric networks. Using VOSviewer, the team created term co-occurrence maps of the most frequently occurring and highly relevant words in the text of the Recorder. As an example, a term map of all the issues published in the 1960s is compared with a term map of all the issues published in the 1970s.
Term map created from issues published in the 1960s.
Term map created from issues published in the 1970s.
The colors indicate the density of the terms in the text, the size of the terms correlates to their frequency of usage, and their proximity to one another indicates terms being used in the same context (http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1109/1109.2058.pdf">Van Eck & Waltman, 2011). For example, as one expects, the term "church" is frequently used with "minister" and "congregation." Perhaps more interesting is the visual representation of the change from using the term "negro" (clearly visible in the lower left of the 1960s map) to the term "black" (visible in the lower left of the 1970s map). This represents a significant shift in language, one that is clearly visible in the text of the Recorder. Creating a similar term map for the issues published in the 1980s and 90s, one would likely see the emergence of the term African American.
One question many people have when faced with visualizations is what can we learn from them, the inevitable so what. It is true we must be cautious about the conclusions we draw from these types of visualizations, realizing they are only as good as the data that support them. In the case of the Recorder there are limitations to the data (for further discussion see http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4263">http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4263). However, visualizations allow us to identify patterns and trends over longer time-scales, larger amounts of data, and at higher levels of complexity, what Matthew Jockers refers to as www.matthewjockers.net/2011/07/01/on-distant-reading-and-macroanalysis/">http://www.matthewjockers.net/2011/07/01/on-distant-reading-and-macroana...">macroanalysis.
While textual analysis combined with visualization by itself will not answer any research questions, when used as one tool in a researcher's ever-expanding digital toolkit, it provides useful insights. Visualization can present us with patterns that confirm what we already know, employing a new methodological approach to validate existing research. Or, exploratively, it can help us identify new patterns that we can investigate further using other methodologies.
Van Eck, Nees Jan, & Waltman, Ludo. (2011). http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1109/1109.2058.pdf">Text mining and visualization using VOSviewer. ISSI Newsletter, 7(3), 50-54.


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Clarkson University President Tony Collins Visits White House with Anaheim Ducks
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Clarkson University President Tony Collins (center) joined Clarkson alumni and Anaheim Ducks Todd Marchant (left) and Kent Huskins (right) and their team at a White House reception with President George Bush on Wednesday, February 6, honoring the 2007 Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks.
Marchant was a Golden Knight from 1991-1993, playing two seasons of collegiate hockey before skating with Team USA in the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Huskins played for the Golden Knights from 1997-2001. Read more about Marchant's Clarkson career at http://www.clarksonathletics.com//Sports/mhock/2006/toddmarchant.asp. Read more about Huskins' career at Clarkson at http://www.clarksonathletics.com//Sports/mhock/2004/kenthuskins.asp.
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Where else can you bid on a pickup truck of
You can Saturday at the 11th Hey Day sponsored by the Conanicut Island Land Trust. The biennial celebration of open space in Jamestown will take place at the Dutra Farm on Weeden Lane from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday is the rain date.
And if all the people wearing wacky headgear make you think you might be in the wrong place, they're just participating in the Crazy Hat Contest. You can too!
Silent auction host John Biddle is looking out for the garden purists. Also up for bid is a pickup truck of not only manure, but well-rotted manure, and a pickup truck of rich, dark topsoil.
Need some shade on your property? An exotic coral-bark Japanese maple and a dawn redwood, both professionally planted, can be yours.
Other auction items include an evening with the Amari Quartet, four rounds of golf at the Jamestown Golf Course, photography, two pairs each of adult and children's KEEN shoes, island jewelry, a two-month membership in the Jamestown Fitness Center, a harbor cruise on board the Louise with cheese, wine and crackers, an original handbag, baskets of New Zealand wines, California wines, mixed champagnes, and Australian wines, plus numerous gift certificates for local businesses.
Bring along donations of small toys that can be given out as prizes for children's games.
There'll be hayrides, intriguing nature walks, and you can refuel your energy with food while listening to the foot-stomping music of Emily Anthony's much loved Jamestown Fiddlers. The Jamestown Community Band, and the Jamestown Community Chorus will entertain with their superb sounds.
Exhibits will include respresentatives from the Aquidneck Island Land Trust, the Audubon Society of R.I., Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Jamestown Historical Society, Friends of the Conanicut Battery, Jamestown Conservation Commission, Jamestown tree committee, and the Rhode Island Grange.
The event is free and volunteers are welcome.
Questions? Call Arek Galle at 423-9890 or Carol Lynn Trocki, 423-2633.
Giving your plate scraps to Biff or Fluffy is not a good idea says Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"Many pets occasionally have upset stomachs or intestinal distress, i.e. vomiting or loose stools. Many times this is due to some dietary indiscretion like getting into the trash, finding a carcass outside, or getting table scraps that were too rich for their system. The best ways to avoid these problems are to keep your pet's diet consistent, avoid feeding them people food, keep them supervised while outdoors, and try to keep them from snacking on every smelly item they find outside.
"If your pet does develop intestinal issues, it is often best to withhold food for part of the day and then feed them a bland diet like boiled rice and boiled chicken or hamburger (not fried, not grilled, not sauted, but boiled). If your pet is vomiting frequently, has potentially ingested foreign material like toys or trash, is lethargic, or has another illness already, you should definitely contact your veterinarian as soon as possible to schedule a visit."
Thanks, doctor. Roadkill is for the birds.
A reader told us the Indian burial ground behind the Jamestown School on Lawn Avenue is in terrible condition. "Disgraceful," she said.
Sounds like a good class project.
Has anyone seen our osprey friends at the creek? Have they called it a summer?
Congratulations to Kay and Bud Carr of Ocean Avenue. The couple will celebrate a golden wedding anniversary tomorrow. They were married in St. Mark.
Russell Benjamin of Pemberton Avenue dropped off the following comments to "share with our community readers":
"How come tomatoes are so expensive at the store and they are grown close to home while bananas are so cheap and they have to travel halfway around the world to get here?"
"You know times have changed when you see Federal Express and DHL trucks making deliveries to the post office."
Thanks, Russell.
*** Back to "The Old Lamplighter." Charlie Masso says the only vocalist he can remember singing that song was Bing Crosby. He adds, however, that others had recorded it ,but none come to mind right right now.
Charlie did leave us with one of his famous "posers." When Frank Sinatra cut his LP (later on CD) "In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning," he was going through an unhappy period in his life. The cause of that unhappiness is the reason the album contains titles such as "I'll Be Around."
Why did Frank select those particular songs?
Twelve members of Boy Scout Troop 1 will be helping out at the Hey Day Saturday. Adult leaders Harry Chase and Mike Perry will provide supervision.
Islander and professional photographer Onne van der Wal is showing his world renowned photography in Booth 19 at the Newport Boat Show now underway through Sunday.
He also plans to be at the Annapolis Boat Show next month.
How the island is changing.
Sunday mornings at the dump were always joyous times of exchanging greetings with friends and strangers alike.
Now they're all strangers, and if you say "good morning" to them, they look at you like you have two heads.
As if we haven't had enough of product solicitation by phone, now it's automated political calls. Don't the pols realize how annoying it is?
It's going to be a long two months.
*** Be true!
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==Second Generation (2001-Present)==
==Second Generation (2001-Present)==
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The Lexus SC series is a personal luxury coupé sold by Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota. The first generation, available as the SC 300 or SC 400 was in production from 1991 until July 7, 2000. A second-generation model, the SC 430, went into production in 2001. The first generation SC 300/SC 400 were assembled at Toyota's Higashifuji Technical Center in Motomatchi, Japan. Until 2005, when Lexus was introduced in Japan, the SC was sold in that country as the Toyota Soarer.
The Lexus SC is a front engine, rear-wheel drive design and was sold with either I6 or V8 engines. The current SC 430 model is equipped with a 288-hp V8 engine. Assembly of the second generation Lexus SC occurs at the Kanji (Kanto Jidosha) assembly site.
Recent Changes
The SC 430 recieved a minor refresh for 2006. Updates included new five-spoke wheels and a modified grille. Additional colors included Tiger Eye Mica, which was also used for the 2006 limited Pebble Beach Edition version of the Lexus SC. Runflat tires were optional. the 2007 Pebble Beach Edition features Starfire Pearl for the exterior color.
Styles and Major Options
The SC 430 comes in one primary trim configuration, with many standard features and few options. A limited Pebble Beach Edition is offered for 2007, and production of the limited edition is allocated at 400 units.
SC 430 Standard Features
- Lexus voice-activated DVD Navigation System with Bluetooth® technology
- Mark Levinson® Premium Audio System with Automatic Sound Levelizer (ASL) and single-feed, six-disc CD auto-changer
- Remote Keyless Entry
- HomeLink® Transceiver
- Driver and Front Passenger Airbags
- Knee and Side Airbags
- Walnut or espresso bird's-eye maple wood trim
SC 430 Pebble Beach Edition - $2,405
- Starfire Pearl exterior
- Pimento Red leather-trimmed interior with black bird's-eye maple wood trim
- 18-in G-Spider alloy wheels
- Interior and exterior Pebble Beach® badging
- Pebble Beach® carpeted floor mats
- Rear spoiler
- Summer or all-season run-flat tires
SC 430 Individual Options
- Rear spoiler - $440
- 18 x 8.0-in Liquid Graphite alloy wheels with summer or all-season run-flat tires - $400
- Aluminum alloy wheels with summer or all-season run-flat tires - $400
- Wheel locks - $69
- Trunk mat - $69
- Cargo net - $59
- 18-in G-Spider alloy wheels - dealer option
- Car cover - dealer option
- Leather care kit - dealer option
- Touch-up paint - dealer option
Second Generation (2001-Present)Lexus showcased its new sports convertible, the SC 430, at the Paris Motorshow in 2000, and the car entered production the following year. Power was provided by a 4.3 L 3UZ-FE V8 engine mated to a five-speed automatic transmission.
Lexus designers from Europe and Japan worked together to create the convertible's sleek, streamlined design. The car features a retractable aluminium hardtop, all-leather interior, and 18 in alloy wheels. It can seat four and has a base price of US$63,825.
Competitors include the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class, BMW 6 Series, Jaguar XK8, and Cadillac XLR.
First Generation (1991-2000)
The SC 300 and SC 400 were mid-sized coupes available in the United States with a 3.0 L inline 6 2JZ-GE (225 hp and 210 ft·lbf, SC 300) or a 4.0 L V8 1UZ-FE (250 hp and 260 ft·lbf, SC 400). In Japan, an additional engine choice was a 2.5 L twin-turbo inline 6, good for 276 hp on the Toyota Soarer 2.5GT-T/TL. The V8 1UZ-FE motor, also used in the LS 400, was reported to have cost over US$400,000,000 in research and development. In 1996, the SC400's engine design was upgraded to 260 hp from 250 hp. In 1998, both the SC300 and 400 were upgraded with VVT-i and thus the ratings were raised to 290 hp/300 ft·lbf of torque for the SC400 and 225 hp/220 ft·lbf of torque for the SC300. Tests conducted on the new engines showed an acceleration for the SC400 of 0-60 mph in 6.0 seconds, and for the SC300 an acceleration of 0-60 mph in 7.5 seconds. [1]
The SC 400 was Motor Trend's Import Car of the Year for 1992. It also made Car and Driver magazine's Ten Best list for 1992 through 1995. The first generation Lexus SC was considered far ahead of its time, which is why it lasted for nearly 10 years without any major changes while comparible cars were being re-designed every 3-4 years.
In 2006 the SC430 was entered in the Super GT race series in the GT500 class (cars with approximately 500 horsepower). Extensively modified from the factory car, the engine used is a modified version of the SC430's 3U-ZFE V8 that was also used in the Toyota Supra race car from previous years.
The new SC430 based race cars were immediately competitive with former GT500 champion Juichi Wakisaka and no.2 driver Andre Lotterer driving the Open Interface TOM's SC to victory at the opening round at Suzuka giving the SC430 its first victory on its debut race.
External links
- lexus.com/models/sc/index.html Official Lexus SC430 Website
- Soarer Central - SC/Soarer Information and Forum
- lexus.australia.as/ Australian Lexus Soarer Club
- Intellexual - SC/Soarer FAQ
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- SuperGT Race Series Official Site
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GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The men's basketball team shot 50 percent from the field as they defeated Rhodes 75-64 in the second game of Greenville's season opening classic. The Panthers (1-1) rallied from an eight-point halftime deficit to outscore Rhodes by 19 in the second half for a convincing win.
K.J. Hilliard paced the Greenville scoring attack with 14 points as he moved into the starting lineup. Hilliard also tallied a team-high four steals.
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The USA Women's Eagle Sevens team will make their third Cup semifinal appearance in as many tournaments in the 2011-2012 season after dominating Pool D of the Hong Kong IRB Women's Challenge Cup tournament. Spain and Tunisia fell victim to a very fit and very physical Eagles outfit. On day two, the USA will play the Pool C winner at 10:05 p.m. Mountain on Friday March 23.
The USA had an early scare in its Hong Kong Sevens opener against Spain, finding themselves down 0-5 at half time. Vanesha McGee helped her team to fight back and close the gap early in the second half. A penalty against Spain late in the game opened the door for the Eagles and a cool drop kick sealed the deal and gave the USA a winning start in Hong Kong.
Tunisia was held scoreless and Navy's Jane Paar scored a try on her USA debut. USA captain Deven Owsiany got a brace in the Tunisia effort and Berkeley All-Blues standout Irene Gardner also chimed in on the score sheet.
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I try to be consistent, but again, I am a slacker.
I'm a little bit better when it comes to updating my Facebook page which is about to hit 1,000 likes! On it I share book deals and sales, new releases, links to reviews and more! When the page hits 1,000 likes I will be hosting a giveaway here!
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A South Korean man who has spent 24 years in prison for setting a fire that killed his daughter took a big step toward freedom Friday when a federal judge threw out his murder conviction, ruling it was based on now-discredited arson science.
U.S. District Judge William Nealon vacated Han Tak Lee's state conviction and life-without-parole sentence, ordering that Lee either be tried again within 120 days or released from prison.
Lee's attorney said he will try to get bail for his elderly client next week. Monroe County District Attorney E. David Christine Jr., who prosecuted Lee in 1990, said he will "very likely" appeal the ruling to the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Lee, a clothing store owner in New York City, had taken his volatile, mentally ill daughter to a religious retreat in the Pocono Mountains at the suggestion of the family pastor. Early on July 29, 1989, the cabin they shared became engulfed in flames. Lee escaped, but 20-year-old old Ji Yun Lee's body was found in the ashes, curled in the fetal position.
Lee has long argued the fire was accidental, and in 2012, the 3rd Circuit granted his request for an independent examination of evidence. That review, completed in June by a magistrate judge, concluded that "much of what was presented to Lee's jury as science is now conceded to be little more than superstition."
At the time of his trial, investigators were taught that unusually hot and intense fires indicated the use of an accelerant and that arson could be confirmed by the presence of deep charring or shiny blistering of wood as well as "crazed glass," tiny fractures in windows. Research has since debunked these and other notions about arson.
Lee's case is one of dozens around the country to come under scrutiny because of outdated beliefs about how arson can be detected.
Christine said it's too early to say whether he will retry Lee if the 3rd Circuit rejects his probable appeal.
"I'd originally said it would be close to impossible because of the passage of time, but quite frankly, that decision should await a careful review of how many witnesses are still alive, where are they located, how much do they remember," Christine said. "There's no question it would be very difficult."
He said he continues to believe the jury got it right.
Defense attorney Peter Goldberger, who has worked on Lee's case for 12 years, said he sees no basis for an appeal and that it would be "impossible to try him fairly and ethically."
"We're very confident that this is the end," he said. "The time for delay is over in this case."


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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — International health groups are joining with the governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to eradicate cholera, and they say the project requires $2.2 billion over the next 10 years.
The effort will be led by the governments of the two countries. The Pan-American Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF will help execute the project.
The project would be the biggest endeavor ever to develop Haiti's barely existent water and sanitation system.
The tattered state of the country's infrastructure has contributed to the spread of cholera, which surfaced in October 2010. It has killed more than 7,600 people in Haiti and more than 420 people in the Dominican Republic.


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I'll return to Provence and Paris cafés shortly. First a small diversion. There are just 3 days left for my exhibit of café watercolors. It began with a cookie. Last summer I dropped into the Petrossian Boutique in New York and tried a chocolate cookie. I kept returning to visit that cookie. I noticed a small salon de thé in the back with a temporary exhibit of portraits. Hmmm...what a perfect place to hang my petit déjeuner paintings.
When a French aquaintence came to town, I suggested we stop in for a snack after visiting the MOMA. Christian being Breton, ordered the Baba au rhum. He said the rum was M.I.A. but it was still quite delicious. I returned on my own several times to eat and make sketches. And this March my watercolors found a temporary home in the tea salon.The rest is history :)
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Absolutely delicious! Beautiful watercolors! They should stay on these walls much longer. They are inspiring. At least, they can certainly tempt you to order more babas.ReplyDelete
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Part 2: In Memory Services that own their data, i.e., Object Oriented Service Development (SOA 2.0+)Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
In our last segment we introduced the concept of ProjectX, our next generation model to rapidly develop fast, scalable services, that are exposed as REST and WebSocket services. Please remember that ProjectX is a placeholder name and the final name is yet to be determined.
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Think Differently About Service-Oriented Development
In the same way NoSQL is an alternative way of thinking about data storage, ProjectX is a different way to think about writing services.
When you develop with ProjectX, you develop in a service-first manner, allowing you to spend your time on writing objects versus wasting time on cycles and iterations of complex schema design and schema migration. Not to mention you'll see a significant decrease in cache coherency issues.
How does it work?
If you recall objects are data and logic. Your data is in your objects and the objects that you have in memory have the data that you need. ProjectX just makes sure that those objects are backed up to disk. This allows you to write services that are in Java and only Java.
ProjectX and Non-Blocking RPC Services
Often when people think about services, they think about blocking RPC services like REST. ProjectX allows you to easily develop non-blocking RPC services, as well as allowing you to register callbacks and/or use one-way method calls. ProjectX allows these services to be consumed over HTTP/REST/JSON or WebSocket/JSON.
Object-Oriented Development Is Logic and Data Together
One of the original complaints about J2EE, was that it pulled developers away from the object-oriented model. You ended up writing procedural code and all of the data existed in the database. All services were stateless and had the logic in them. No services maintained their own state and relied on third-party frameworks to map objects to a relational database.
Many frameworks like Spring, CDI, Hibernate and Guice, mitigated some of the early issues with J2EE and its lack of OO. Also, the NoSQL movement made the mapping of objects to database easier. But, inherently the majority of modern service development still typically splits the data into a database or some sort of data store, which separates the data from the service. In this common model, services do not own their data.
Object-oriented programming means objects owning their data and logic. Stateless services are more akin to procedural programming. ProjectX allows true and productive OO development of your services.
Don't Misapply Distribute Caches and DataGrids
When you start using caches and DataGrids to speed up storage and retrieval to databases, you are trading the problem of latency for a new more complex set of problems that include but are not limited to: cache coherency issues and split brain to name just a few. These are not easy issues to handle.
In the ProjectX model, objects services own their data and the objects are in memory. ProjectX enables service developers to back those objects to disk in the most efficient manner possible. There is no longer database usage merely for data safety. You can still use a database for reporting, but now your operational data can exist purely in Java.
Did you know that a modern commodity hard disk can read/write up to 300 MB per second? If you are using SSD, the sequential reads are up to 500 MB per second. Phase shift memory and advances in Flash mean that this speed will increase. If you add RAID level 0 support, this speed can increase by several multiples. ProjectX journaling and data store takes advantage of sequential writes to ensure data safety at top speeds. More details about this are in subsequent posts.
Using ProjectX is as easy as just using a few simple annotations. Your code will look like code written for a typical service in EJB 3, Spring or Guice. But with ProjectX you can avoid the common mistake of using the database as a synchronization mechanism.
Using the database as a synchronization mechanism is an anti-pattern that causes many performance and scalability problems in service development. Rest assured, ProjectX is a Java POJO approach to development. Your code can be completely annotation free, or, if you choose to use Java EE/CDI, you can use a few annotations for productivity. Your code base has very little to no direct tie to ProjectX. It is just Java. We don't try to tie you to our platform.
The Real Expense of Abusing Caching
Using ProjectX also enables you to avoid the anti-pattern of duplicating all the data in the database and every possible query of that data in a data grid or data cache. By using a cache or adding a lot of complexity to your application, you may incur problems of cache coherency and split brain. If all you know is horizontal scaling and caching, every large-scale system looks like a nail. ProjectX can be the hammer.
It is very easy and, from my experience, very common to paint a project into a corner by abusing caching. Caching is the equivalent of applying a quick and dirty (as in dirty read) Band-Aid solution that can cause many operational and development issues down the road. Many have worked on projects that had 80 GB of data, but the same data existed in many cache layers to the tune of 12 TB of RAM. There are projects that solve all these issues with more horizontal scale out and more caching, and these projects can quickly become a vast waste of hardware and developer productivity – not to mention the near impossibility of properly invalidating a cache. Misapplying horizontal scale out and caching have wasted countless developer and operation-engineering years.
Using ProjectX does not preclude horizontal scale out and caching. But when you have services that are up to 10x – or as much as 100x – more efficient and don't require cache for all of their data; then you reduce cache coherency issues and you need less server instances. It would not be uncommon to replace 10 to 100 hardware servers written the traditional way with six to 12 servers using ProjectX. The ProjectX approach should also be 2x to 10x faster than normal service development (database, cache, Java REST lib, JPA, local cache and distributed cache.). Also, since you have fewer servers and fewer things to worry about (like cache coherency issues which are some of the least fun things in the world to chase down and debug), your operations costs should be 2x to 10x cheaper as well.
ProjectX fully supports horizontal scaling. You can service many more requests/connections from your services. ProjectX is, in fact, a distributed system for service development. More about this will be covered in the next post.
Services Should Own Their Own Data
ProjectX allows the service to own its data, and ProjectX provides fast storage mechanism for crash recovery. ProjectX allows your objects to be served out of memory.
In the ProjectX approach your operational data is your Java objects.
ProjectX provides journaling, replication and fast persistence. The emphasis is not on the persistence. The persistence is a foregone conclusion managed mostly by ProjectX for data safety. This feature allows you to focus on your business logic and derive real value from your services.
Do you want to focus on enhancing the business value of your service or on managing database mapping and cache coherency issues?
The Real Win: The Ability To Develop Faster and Streamline Your System
Just as NoSQL was built for horizontal scaling but found a home in the hearts of developers who wanted to avoid schema migration and wanted more productive, dynamic schema, ProjectX has big productivity wins as well. You don't have to be the next Internet sensation to get benefits out of ProjectX. If you want to focus on providing business value instead of feeding complexity then ProjectX is a good fit for you.
We feel once you start developing services with ProjectX that you will not want to develop them any other way. Instead of dumbing down distributed service development, we put the engineering rigor and computer science back into service development. You get to take full advantage of your distributed system. Ultimately, and most importantly, you get to focus on writing more collaborative, richer applications. Features that were once cost prohibitive, or could never be squeezed into the budget, are now easy to develop. ProjectX, is a very practical, user-friendly way to create massively collaborative and rich applications. It makes the nearly impossible development easy.
ProjectX makes sense for both enterprise applications and mobile applications that need to send six million requests per second. ProjectX is just simply a more productive way to build services.
Tune in next time when we show you some basic code examples from ProjectX.
If you would like to learn more about ProjectX or become an early adopter or early evaluator, please contact email@example.com.
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Los Angeles Area Cruise Ship Lawyers
Cruise lines have created an experience that is becoming a major form of vacation for American families, but that also comes with significant risk for the unprepared U.S. consumer. Hundreds of passengers are injured on these colossal luxury liners every year.
These consumers get injured in various ways– including rape, slipping, tripping, and falling, or being thrown overboard, never to be seen again by their surviving family and friends. When many of these injured travelers return from their trip, they wait too long to do anything and forgo their legal rights. The need for an injury attorney that specializes in cruise ship accidents remains vital to avoid "sleeping on your rights."
Florida Charters Don't Always Mean Florida Courts.
While many cruise ships have charters in Florida, the lawsuit does not have to be filed in Florida federal court. Inexperienced attorneys with no experience in cases like this can easily blow the contractual time to file a claim.
Many lawyers think the two-year statute of limitations applies and wait. So these poor souls can miss the claims provisions of the carriage license. In other words, you lose the case and the lawyer accidentally commits legal malpractice.
Unfortunately, the passage contract in international law and treaties restrict the rights of passengers, including where they can sue that they would normally take for granted. Some attorneys that attempt to sue in Miami will have the case rejected by the court clerk for improper jurisdiction and venue.
Ehline Helps Cruise Ship Victims All Over the State of California.
So this could place the right to sue in jeopardy as time passes. Our experienced attorneys will make no such mistakes. Our firm has successfully represented individuals from states like Georgia, Ohio, and Florida. Many had severe issues on cruise ships, including sexual assault.
Others had weight stacks fall on them in the ship's gym, slipping and suffering severe head injuries. Many of our clients will require long-term counseling, surgery, and can miss months or years of work.
- Most Risks Are Unknown to Passengers Till It's Too Late.
Many voyagers who cruise for the first time have no idea of all of these potential risks. Some became injured on tourist shore excursions and falsely assumed that they had to sue the defendants in their home countries. But this is where the Ehline Law Firm excellence comes into play.
Our lead attorney, Michael P. Ehline, has been recognized as outstanding in his field. His accolades and awards include being awarded with the "Cruise Ship Attorney of the Year" title. Michael has even lobbied the United States Congress to strengthen the "Passenger's Bill of Rights."
Michael Ehline is well known for his fighting on behalf of his clients and has even been featured on CNN. He works with Miami cruise ship attorneys for cases filed there. He has filed cases in federal court and California state court and is a licensed, high profile attorney.
When you hire us, Ehline and his staff will stop at nothing to get you results. We will fight big, multinational corporations and their high paid attorneys. Ehline Law is the great equalizer for cruise victims. In fact, in every case that we filed, we have won a payout to our clients.
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The Ehline Law Firm and its staff offer our experienced attorneys with specialization in cruise ship claims. Our firm is well versed in cases like this, including those against lines like Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Canaveral, and others.
We also handle cases like Princess Cruise Liner cases in the Los Angeles and San Pedro courts. Many suits against this company must be made in these jurisdictions, as seen in the passage contract.
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(i) Claims for Injury, Illness or Death: All claims involving Emotional harm, bodily injury, illness to or death of any Passenger whatsoever arising out of or relating to this Passage Contract or Your Cruise shall be litigated before a court of competent jurisdiction located in the County of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., to the exclusion of the courts of any other country, state, city, municipality, county or locale. You consent to jurisdiction and waive any objection that may be available to any such action being brought in such courts. (Read more here.)
Many cruises are not always safe and fun. Some may depart from Florida and face severe issues before reaching California. These can not only ruin a vacation but result in severe physical and mental harm — and in some cases, death. A wreck or serious accident can severely injure or kill passengers. There have also been horrifying cases of rape and murder.
There are also cases of infectious diseases breaking out on cruise ships. Victims can be left without legal recourse if they do not retain a skilled attorney to recover damages. Examples can include a Norovirus, Norwalk-like viruses, or guinea worms that can get caught in the Western Caribbean.
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Liability can be difficult to establish without the proper legal counsel. Furthermore, this can compound existing problems and necessitate a skilled attorney. We have assisted cases in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties and tourists from across the world.
Much of the case depends on the place where the injury or accident occurred. If this happened more than three miles off the California coastline, the maritime law applies. If it happened within the three-mile limit, then state law applies. When a terrible mishap has occurred, make sure to contact a skilled attorney at the Ehline Law Firm Personal Injury Attorneys, APLC immediately. Our specialization is necessary to take on a case like this that is so delicate and life altering.
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When a loved one is killed on a cruise ship, then the Death on the High Seas Act applies. This is separate from either maritime or state laws. This is a particularly complicated case, and one for our specialized attorneys to take on.
These catastrophes must be acted upon immediately as statutes of limitations could severely impact your case. When such an incident happens, you may be entitled to monetary compensation– but only if the matter is acted upon quickly.
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There could be severe issues stemming from a cruise ship accident. These could include months of lost revenue from work, limitations on how you could work, or even the need for a long-term caretaker. These all could severely impact your life. The Ehline Law Firm stands ready to make sure that the full circumstances are investigated and that you are able to rebuild yourself– mentally and physically.
Read the Passage Contract and Get a Lawyer.
The large corporations that own these ships are looking to pay you little or nothing. They can use the passenger tickets to limit the typical two or three-year statute of limitations and other rights. Also, they use a forum selection clause to make the port of departure the only legal venue to litigate a claim.
This could make LA the only city for this to happen in. If a passenger sues a shipping line in another location, the lawsuit can be dismissed.


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Lawrence Bender
The Bronx native graduated from UMaine in 1979 with a degree in civil engineering and a passion to pursue a career in dance. He launched his Hollywood career six years later.
Chances are you know his films, but haven't heard of him. That's the plight of the Hollywood film producer, even one who is on the A-list, who has an Academy Award for producing former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and whose three dozen films have grossed more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Those films include the Academy Award-winning Good Will Hunting with Robin Williams, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, as well as The Mexican with Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, Anna and the King with Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat and, most significantly, nearly every film directed by Quentin Tarantino, from the groundbreaking Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction to the Kill Bill series and the recent Inglourious Basterds, also with Pitt. The producer? Lawrence Bender, who graduated from the University of Maine in 1979 with a degree in civil engineering. His other focus at UMaine? Naturally, dance.
How did studying civil engineering and dance at the University of Maine help to shape your career as a producer?
A degree in civil engineering trains you to be a problem solver. That's one part of the brain. The other side is creative. In my case, I found dance at UMaine. Dance is this amazing thing that fills you up and expands you creatively. So, when it comes to producing, you're creating an art form that requires an enormous amount of practical problem solving. In a funny kind of way, you would never say, "OK, I want to become a producer. I'll get a degree in civil engineering, become a dancer, and then become a producer." Um, no. However, I happened to have managed those two things and they are exactly what producing requires. It's to be able to creatively tell a story and, at the same time, to solve all of the problems in order to tell that story.
You won the Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth. You've also been an activist for years. What did winning the award for that particular film mean to you and how do you think it will shape what you do going forward?
Let me back up a few years. We screened Good Will Hunting at Camp David in 1998 for President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle and many others. At that point, I had been producing for a few years and was starting to feel as if there was something missing in my life: It was making a difference in the world. Even though as a filmmaker you can make a difference in the way we think and maybe feel, these people around me were actively making a difference in the way we live. That's what I felt I needed to do. What was missing for me was to find a way to take what I do and leverage it to help make a difference in the world. So, I started doing that. When I saw Al Gore give his presentation on global warming, like everybody in that crowd, I had a visceral reaction. Being a filmmaker, I had this nutty idea to approach Al Gore and make a movie. I feel like making An Inconvenient Truth was the culmination of everything I was training for in my life — making movies and trying to make a difference. Obviously, winning the Academy Award is the dream of a filmmaker, but as a filmmaker, you don't dream about things like the Noble Peace Prize. Still, there I found myself in Oslo with Al Gore, watching him receive it. It was probably as much a highlight in my life as any.
In your opinion, how did environmental issues fare under the Bush Administration? And under the current administration?
To be quite frank, the Bush Administration was a disaster for the environment in many, many ways. It's a shame. You know, we had an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report come out during the Bush Administration that involved 2,500 scientists and 130 countries, all agreeing with 90 percent certainty that global warming is occurring, that man is accelerating and helping create it, and that we have a very short amount of time to do something about it. Since then, the curves in the graphs have shown that we have surpassed the worst-case scenario for the IPCC report. The last eight years were a terrible, terrible thing for global warming. The only question is whether we can stop the dangers from becoming catastrophic. And that's hopefully what is happening with the current administration. Most people are focused on the economy right now, which we should be. But what people don't understand is that if you look at The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review that came out of London a couple of years ago, this economic problem that we're having pales in comparison to what's going to happen to the economy 20, 30 years from now, when the massive effects of global warming hit. The good news is that the solutions are abundant and usually involve jobs.
With so many of the world's issues being overlooked today, which issue is most deserving of a documentary now?
There are a lot of important issues facing us. Access to clean water is a massive problem. AIDS, poverty, overfishing of the oceans. When we elected Bush, it seemed that everything was great. We had President Clinton, economic expansion, no real wars — overall, things were pretty good. Now, we see what eight years can do to the planet. I'm working on a documentary about nuclear proliferation because I and many others feel that we're in the worst time — worse than even in the Cold War. If things continue in the pace that they're going, we could destroy the Earth with nuclear weapons. But again, with Barack Obama and the new administration, it does seem as if we can reverse things. I feel like this is an incredibly important issue. And a lot of the Cold War warriors, the hawks, have reversed their position and are coming out from a legacy point of view. So, it's not just the peaceniks who are saying, "no nukes." That gives me hope.
You've produced every one of Quentin Tarantino's major films. What has he learned from you?
That's a good question. I feel like Quentin and I are great partners in the sense that we trust each other quite a bit, and in trust, you are able to expand. I think one of the things that Quentin probably gets from me is that he knows that I am there 100 percent for him. We just made Inglourious Basterds. Big movie, very short amount of time to get it up and running; obviously there were a lot of big creative decisions, but there were a lot of little creative things that happened along the way that he just couldn't do. Quentin gave me the rudder of the ship and basically said, "get me to Cannes," and he trusted that I was going to do that in a way that was going to allow him to make his best picture. I think some of the best work comes out of producer/director teams, where the director and the producer work really well together. This movie allowed for that.
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On 50-yard football fields inside basketball arenas with lots of flashing lights and relatively few fans, an anonymously epic career continues.
John Dutton, at 36, plays a game for a "living" because he can.
And because it's a pretty neat way to fill the time between helping save the world.
And because no one has told him to stop.
"I don't have a plan," Dutton said on the topic of how long he will continue to play. "Until someone doesn't give me an opportunity."
The opportunities have not stopped yet, though Dutton would be the first to acknowledge opportunity can be a relative term.
Dutton, a Fallbrook High alum, is the quarterback for the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League, and as long as he starts he makes $1,600 per game. For an 18-game season.
"You look at our W-2, you'd wonder, 'How do you do it?' " Dutton said, laughing. "But I was more concerned with money when I was making more money. We don't do excess … God provides everything we need."
You can ask why this story is appearing in an NFL town, written less than two weeks before the NFL Draft.
The answer is that this kind of story needs to be told every once in a while in the midst of our screaming, angry, impatient sports psyche.
John Dutton is one of the guys who reminds you how great sport is. It's not all fantasy stats and seven-figure salaries. A man can love passing, be good at it and also have a higher purpose. And our interest can be a simple matter of rooting for a guy to play forever, wherever.
The trek so far: After leaving the great burgh of Fallbrook, Dutton went to the University of Texas (nine passes, three completions, 38 yards) and the University of Nevada (6,276 yards and two Big West Offensive Player of the Year awards), the Miami Dolphins (drafted sixth round in 1998, waived in training camp), the Atlanta Falcons (waived during 1998 training camp) and the Cleveland Browns (waived after breaking foot the first week of 1999 camp).
He's never taken an NFL regular-season snap, but he's thrown for almost 40,000 yards and 650 touchdowns in the AFL, with a passer rating that tops 110.0 in 12 seasons.
Watching him play on Easter Sunday, it was clear he can throw — across his body, off his back foot, while being chased. He finds open receivers quickly in places that don't look open. On a small field, with a three-man line, where teams combine for more than 100 points virtually every game, the quarterback is under constant pressure, and Dutton somehow slows that all down.
But a kid doesn't grow up striving for AFL stardom. Dutton told a coach in San Jose more than a decade ago he wasn't long for this league, that he was an NFL quarterback.
Shortly afterward, he was MVP of Arena Bowl XIX. He led the Colorado Crush to victory in Arena Bowl XVI in 2005. Dutton appeared on the first-ever EA Sports Arena Football video game in 2006. He made well over $100,000 six straight seasons (before the Arena league took a sabbatical and came back much more frugal). He was, for a time, occasionally referred to as the next Kurt Warner, cited as a plug-and-play QB who could make the move outdoors to help a team.
But his last NFL tryout was with the Denver Broncos in 2003.
The NFL dream faded.
"A while back," Dutton said, with no apparent regret.
Still, the Duttons don't rule anything out.
His wife called an agent recently, asking him to vet interest from NFL teams. Despite her consistent prayers that God would just show them that the NFL was out of the question, she believes that is not the answer she's gotten.
"We're not stupid," Terina Dutton said. "We know he should be done ... We know how crazy this sounds."
These are people possessing a faith without bounds but with feet on the ground.
"We're fine with whatever," she said. "We're good wherever."
With the Duttons, that is true as long as they believe God is guiding them to whatever and wherever.
And that's a helpful philosophy in that John Dutton hardly makes enough to support a wife and four kids (fifth on the way).
Two of those children are 15-year-old Ethiopian boys, Miki and Solomon, adopted four years apart.
The Duttons went to Africa six years ago and have spent a portion of almost every year since on the continent, establishing a number of ministries focused primarily on helping women and children.
John is now working to start Athletes for the Nation, a foundation with the mission of taking professional athletes to Africa.
His pitch to other professional athletes: "The impact when someone steps foot in that country, you can't help but be changed. Pay for your ticket and come with me. When we get back, we'll see."
A philosophy, essentially, by which Dutton lives.
Dutton doesn't believe he is going to ever play in the NFL. Nor does he believe he won't.
"I'm 36," Dutton said. "C'mon."
But that is followed almost immediately by, "God can do whatever ... There's no chance. There hasn't been a chance in eight years. But you can't limit God. I'm fine with whatever God has for me."


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5 Signs You're Not Doing Amazing
Look, I don't want to be an asshole here, but Amanda Bynes is claiming to be doing "amazing" right now, which is fine, except for the fact that the claim comes on the heels of the actress getting pulled over by cops repeatedly and acting kind of crazy. She's not going so far as to say that she's winning, but I feel like "amazing" might be a bit of a stretch.
To find out, let's take a look at a few things that are generally indicators that things are not amazing in your life:
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