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FRISCO, Tex. – MLS points leaders FC Dallas made an early season statement to the rest of the league by defeating the previously unbeaten LA Galaxy 1-0 at FC Dallas Stadium on Saturday night.
WATCH: Cudicini saves PK
As has become the norm for FC Dallas matches, the excitement came late as defender George John scored off a rebound when Eric Hassli's header hit the crossbar in the 87th minute. It was the 10th goal in the last 15 minutes of an FC Dallas match this season (four scored by Dallas, six by their opponents).
With both teams cancelling each other out in the first half (neither team had a shot on target), the match took a decisive turn in the 60th minute when LA defender Leonardo was shown red for taking down Dallas forward Blas Perez in the box. On the ensuing PK, Galaxy goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini guessed correctly and saved Kenny Cooper's attempt from the spot.
WATCH: Fernandez saves Donovan PK
Minutes later, the 10-man Galaxy earned a penalty of their own when John tripped up LA forward Jose Villarreal in the opposite box. LA captain Landon Donovan stepped up to take the PK only to be thwarted by goalkeeper Raul Fernandez, who dove to his left to make the stop.
Fernandez's save set up John's late heroics, although his game-winning header was marred by a projectile thrown by FC Dallas supporters which struck the defender in the head and left him on the ground during the minutes immediately following his strike.
The clean sheet was the fourth of the season for FC Dallas, who continued a trend of defensive dominance, especially in the first half of matches. Dallas has now shut out their opponents in the first half of all seven matches this season.
WATCH: John scores late winner for Dallas
While the home team fielded the same lineup that drew 2-2 in Toronto last weekend, the Galaxy welcomed Donovan into the starting lineup for the first time during the MLS regular season, while rookie left back Greg Cochrane, a second-round selection in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft, made his first career start.
Both teams will a enjoy a week of home cooking as FC Dallas plays the Vancouver Whitecaps next Saturday evening at FC Dallas Stadium (8:30 p.m. ET, MLS LIVE) while the Galaxy take on Sporting KC at The Home Depot Center in another nationally televised match on NBC Sports Network (10:30 p.m. ET/ 7:30 p.m. PT).


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ST. LOUIS, Ill. – The men's basketball team faced hosting Webster University in the first round of the men's St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament on Saturday. The Panthers could not contain the Gorloks and fell in a decisive 78-61 season finale at Grant Gymnasium. Obinna Agomo led GC in the losing effort, netting a team high 21 points while posting three boards and two steals.
Greenville struggled to find its groove early, falling to a 32-12 deficit early in the first half. Webster's junior guard, and first team all-SLIAC selection, Willie Trimble put on a first-half show, scoring 22 points while hitting 5-of-5 three-pointers in the first nine minutes. Webster would go on to hit 7-of-9 three-pointers to build a 48-24 halftime lead.
Trimble led Webster and all scorers, finishing with a season and game high 29 points, while going 5-of-6 from the three-point line and adding five steals.
The Panthers ended the season 12-13 while going 8-8 in SLIAC play. They earned a bid to their first SLIAC tournament since 1999.


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Malloy opens up about dyslexia struggles
The children at Greenwich's Eagle Hill School seemed impressed that in between his meetings with business leaders and residents around the state, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy took the time to speak with them Tuesday.
Instead of discussing his budget plan, Malloy, 55, candidly described his lifelong struggle with dyslexia, and how he was able to use his public-speaking and leadership skills to eventually capture the state's highest elected office.
The school serves students with language-based learning disabilities, and Malloy admitted he still has trouble writing, even when asked to sign autographs. Though he did not have much academic success until his junior and senior years of high school, Malloy said his mother recognized and encouraged him to develop his strengths as an oral communicator, and he gravitated toward politics.
"I was never going to win an essay contest, but if it was a speech contest I would do pretty well," Malloy said.
Malloy encouraged the students to develop their own strengths, saying they had the advantage of being among educators and peers who understand their challenges. When Malloy was in school in nearby Stamford in the 1960s and '70s, he had teachers who would compare his spelling tests with those of students who got As, thinking that would encourage him.
When Malloy enrolled at Boston College in the fall of 1973, he said he was the first person to attend the school with a learning disability taken into consideration.
"People thought I'd never be successful in life," Malloy said. "I want you to understand that I've been there, and that this too shall pass, that you find a way to work through it, and if you can combine working through and developing the skills necessary to communicate and be successful, and if you see in your mission being the nicest, kindest, most giving person you can possibly be ... then you're going to be successful in life."
One student asked Malloy whether he still gets criticized for having a learning disability.
"I get called a lot of names," said Malloy, who faced a crowd of critics during a public forum at Eastern Middle School Monday night, "but nothing that has to do with having a learning disability."
Dave Kates, Eagle Hill's activities director, arranged Malloy's visit, which was helped by the governor's friendship with a current student's family.
"We thought it was a wonderful opportunity for the kids," Kates said.
As the children filed into the auditorium, a girl asked Kates, "How'd you get the governor?"
"The president's next," Kates quipped.
Students said they found Malloy's talk encouraging.
Though Hannah Katzman, 15, expected a boring lecture, she said hearing that Malloy still faces challenges related to his learning disability inspired her.
Malloy's talk also inspired Katie Nelson, a 13-year-old who is co-captain of the school's varsity field hockey team. Katie said she has recognized she is good at math, and Malloy renewed her drive to focus on her strengths.
"I thought it was really nice to hear from someone who has had a lot of success in his life, and how he overcame the challenges that we are dealing with every day," Katie said. "It sort of inspired us to try harder and we can do things that probably aren't within reach right now, but we can accomplish big things in the long run."
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — Work on the ambitious Panama Canal expansion project was halted Wednesday after talks broke down on how to settle a dispute over $1.6 billion in cost overruns.
Panama Canal Authority Administrator Jorge Quijano told a news conference the stoppage will give authorities time to analyze how to proceed on the project to widen the canal.
"I don't even want to suggest that the next steps will be easy or risk-free," a visibly angered Quijano told reporters in Panama. "What I do want to make clear is that we will not yield to blackmail."
The Panama Canal Authority and the Spanish-led construction consortium leading the expansion blame each other for the overruns. They were negotiating how to pay for the unplanned extra costs when talks broke down.
An agreement "is now no longer possible," Quijano said, adding that the consortium had ordered its employees to stop work.
Other foreign contractors and project managers have expressed an interest in completing the 30 percent of work that remains on the third canal lock, according to canal officials, but Quijano declined to provide details about its plan B except to say that under no circumstances would a 2015 deadline to complete construction be pushed back.
"They are leaving and we are staying. The project is going to be finished. It must go ahead with or without them," Quijano said.
The consortium, which is led by Spain's Sacyr SA and includes firms from Italy and Belgium, says that 10,000 jobs are immediately at risk. In a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, it said Panama's failure to resolve the impasse threatens to overshadow a summit of 34 hemispheric leaders, including US President Barack Obama, which the Central American nation will host next year.
"Instead of celebrating Panama's vital role in global commerce, leaders will be regretting that the ACP and Panama have abandoned negotiations," the statement said, referring to the canal authority by its Spanish initials.
In Europe, the EU's Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani said news of the work stoppage was "unexpected" after Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli had made a statement on Tuesday indicating that the parties were close to an agreement.
"I trust and hope that the parties reconsider their positions in the coming days," said Tajani, an Italian whom the European members of the consortium had asked to intervene in the dispute. "Interruption of the work would be bad news for employment, for the worldwide economy, for the expansion of the canal and for the parties themselves."
Martinelli called on Panamanians to close ranks behind the canal authority, whose autonomy is guaranteed by the constitution, accusing the consortium of acting irresponsibly.
"We're going to finish the canal whether it rains, thunders or there's lightning," the billionaire president told reporters on Wednesday.
The project, which is already running nine months late, would double the capacity of the 50-mile (80-kilometer) canal, which carries 5 to 6 percent of world commerce.
The consortium blames the extra costs largely on problems with studies that the Panamanian authority conducted before work began. It says geological obstacles encountered while excavating have prevented it from getting the basalt needed to make the vast amounts of concrete required.
Quijano said the consortium had maintained "an inflexible position."
Sacyr's share price plunged on the news of the work stoppage, falling almost 7 percent in Madrid trading.
Many experts say the roots of the dispute lie in the consortium's underestimation of project costs when it won the contract in 2009 by submitting by far the lowest bid: $3.1 billion for its portion of the job, $1 billion less than a bid by U.S. construction giant Bechtel.
In the United States, ports have invested billions of dollars in dredging, raising bridges and renovating docking infrastructure to accommodate the new generation of larger ships, including liquefied natural gas tankers, that could pass through an expanded Panama Canal.
Associated Press writer Mark Stevenson contributed to this report from Mexico City, Kathia Martinez from Panama City, Alan Clendenning from Madrid and Juergen Baetz from Brussels.


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ITHACA, NY – The Alfred University football team defeated host Ithaca College, 21-19, Saturday afternoon at Butterfield Stadium, snapping the Saxons' 12-game losing streak at Ithaca.
The Saxons had not won on the Bombers' home turf since the 1982 season and with the win AU snapped a two-game losing streak in conference play, improving to 6-3 on the season, 3-3 in Empire play. With the loss, Ithaca falls to 4-5 (2-5 Empire 8).
Senior linebacker Nick Clark had seven tackles (including a sack) for the Saxons, giving him 363 for his career and breaking the school record of 359 formerly held by linebacker Wil Greene (1993-96). Clark also had an interception that thwarted a third-quarter Bomber drive and rushed for a touchdown.
Alfred led 21-12 when Phil Neumann tossed an eight-yard TD pass to Joe Ingrao to make it 21-19 Saxons with just under four minutes left in regulation. Junior tailback Tyler DeRosa returned the ensuing kickoff 32 yards to midfield. Three runs by sophomore tailback Austin Dwyer produced a first down and freshman wideout Christian Smith rushed for five yards on third-and-four to give AU another first down. With Ithaca out of timeouts, the Saxons were able to run out the clock and secure the victory.
Dwyer finished with 129 yards on 28 carries and DeRosa had 30 yards on nine carries.
The game was close throughout. AU took a 14-6 lead after Clark bulled into the endzone from three yards out to cap a 14-play, 78-yard drive with just under two minutes left in the third. The Saxon drive came after Clark's interception at the Alfred 22-yard line with 3:52 left in the third. Ithaca had a chance to tie the game at 14 when Dan Ruffrage returned a punt 43 yards for a touchdown with 12:08 left in the fourth, but the two-point conversion attempt failed at Alfred led 14-12. On its ensuing possession, AU drove 68 yards in eight plays before senior quarterback T.J. Kilcarr hit junior tight end Adam Schutz with a 15-yard TD pass to put Alfred up 21-12. Dwyer ran for 34 yards on the drive.
Kilcarr finished 17-of-30 for 211 yards and two touchdowns with one interception. Sophomore wide receiver Justin OIiver had three catches for 70 yards and a score and Schutz had five catches for 53 yards and a score. Sophomore wideout Josh Phillips caught four passes for 42 yards.
AU led 7-6 at intermission, despite a late Bomber drive inside the Saxon 5-yard line late in the second in which Ithaca settled for the second of Andrew Rogowski's two first-half field goals. The first, from 28 yards 2:49 into the contest, staked Ithaca to a 3-0 lead. AU took a 7-3 lead 2:52 in to the second when Kilcarr capped an eight-play 70-yard drive with a 40-yard scoring pass to Oliver.
Ithaca had a chance to take a halftime lead when Jarrett Naiden broke free for an 86-yard run to the Alfred 2-yard line with under two minutes left in the half. But after a one-yard Naiden rush on first down, the Bombers sent Rogowski out to kick a 19-yard field goal with just over a minute left before intermission.
AU dominated the stat sheet, producing 394 yards of offense (211 passing, 183 rushing) to 239 for Ithaca (112 passing, 127 rushing). The Saxons had 22 first downs to nine for Ithaca and converted nine of 18 third downs to only four of 15 for the Bombers.
AU senior end Marcellus Jones (sack) and junior tackle Mike Raplee each had five tackles and junior end Chris Steeves had a sack.
Neumann was 10-of-31 for 112 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Ruffrage caught three passes for 55 yards and Ingrao had four receptions for 22 yards and a touchdown. Naiden had 18 rushes for 141 yards.
Eric Toporoff and Will Carter each had 12 tackles to pace the Ithaca defense. Joe Gilfedder had nine stops and Mike Conti had an interception for the Bombers.
Alfred is in action next on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 1 p.m. at home against Empire 8 foe Utica, in the regular season finale for both teams.


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2011: Returns for her junior year as one of the most dominate pitchers in the region … is a highly competitive pitcher that can throw any of her pitches for strikes … is an innings eater that has the ability to pitch a high load during the year … fields her position well and has a great will to win … is also a good hitter that contributes to the Spartan line up … has a school-record 41 career wins with a 2.32 ERA in 68 appearances … has 37 complete games and a school-record 17 shutouts … enters the season needing just 49.2 innings to take over the school record for innings pitched … owns a career .271 batting average with 17 runs scored, seven doubles, one triple, four home runs, and 22 RBI.
2010: Had a record breaking year in the circle for the Spartans as she was 27-6 with a 1.98 ERA in a school record 201.2 innings pitched … the 27 wins broke the single-season school mark by 11 wins … had 43 appearances including 35 starts … registered 17 complete games with 10 shutouts … held opponents to .245 batting average … named to the All-CAC first team while she also earned Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III All-Atlantic Region honors as a second-team pick … she led the CAC in wins and innings pitched while she was second in strikeouts, third in ERA, and third in opponents batting average … started the season winning her first 16 decisions before suffering a loss … had at least one strikeout in 37 of her 43 appearances … had one walk or less in 30 of her 43 appearances … had a strikeout to walk ratio of 2.2-to-1 … was brilliant in a six-inning no-hitter against Gwynedd-Mercy on March 1 as she struck out a season-high seven with one walk in the Spartans' 8-0 win … threw shutouts in four of her first six starts of the year … at the plate, she hit .270 with 17 hits in 63 at-bats with eight runs, three doubles, four home runs and 15 RBI … had a .508 slugging percentage and a .313 on-base percentage … had a .980 fielding percentage with just two errors in 100 attempts … had a pair of multi-hit games during the year as she was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored with a home run on March 20 against Mt. Aloysius while she also had a pair of hits in the April 3 game at Salisbury.
2009: Made an immediate impact on the Spartan squad as a freshman as she went 14-9 with a 1.57 ERA in 25 appearances … earned first-team All-CAC for her outstanding season … led the nation in strikeout to walk ratio as she recorded 87 strikeouts while she only walked eight during the year … had 20 complete games with seven shutouts and one save … held opponents to a .232 batting average … began her career with back-to-back shutouts as she blanked Goldey-Beacom and Roanoke on February 27 as she allowed five hits in both games … threw a one-hit shutout on March 31 against Gallaudet as she struck out five in the big Spartan win … registered her first career save on April 26 in the second game against DeSales as she threw the final two-thirds of an inning, preserving the 4-3 Spartan win … at the plate, had her first collegiate hit in the February 27 game against Roanoke … established a career-high with two hits six different times during the year … had her first career extra base hit with her double in the April 5 contest against Wesley … in that Wesley game, she went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored … also had two hits, two RBI and a triple in the April 16 win over Stevenson … finished the year hitting .272 with nine runs scored, four doubles, one triple, and seven RBI … posted a .346 slugging percentage, a .314 on-base percentage, and a .976 fielding percentage.
Personal: Is the daughter of Joe and Bonnie Therres … is a business administration major … lists her parents Joe and Bonnie as the people she most admires … named USA Softball pitcher Jennie Finch as her favorite professional athlete … played for the Bayside Blues during the travel season … was an All-County and All-SMAC conference selection in addition to being the Thomas Stone High School MVP as a senior.


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South Routt School Board earns state honor
November 13, 2012
Oak Creek — When a panel of six judges from across the state met this year to select an outstanding school board to recognize at the Colorado Association of School Boards' state convention later this month, South Routt quickly rose to the top of the list.
"Basically, what we were looking for is exemplary leadership, not only within the school district but also within the community. That's what we saw in South Routt," said Ann Fattor, a former CASB president and one of the judges who helped decide to name the South Routt School Board as CASB's All State School Board for 2012.
South Routt edged out about 17 other boards across Colorado that had been nominated for the honor.
Superintendent Scott Mader on Tuesday congratulated his board members for the accomplishment, which comes with a $2,500 prize they can spend on any educational purpose.
"They're not just a good school board, they're a great school board," Mader said. "In all aspects, they care deeply about the school district and have a real passion for what's going on at our schools."
Fattor said South Routt became an early favorite for the award in part because of some of its recent accomplishments that include collaborating with the Steamboat Springs School District to provide a wider range of technology services to its schools.
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The board also recently has helped launch a new endowment fund that aims to raise millions of dollars to support the district in the future.
"We're really excited we got this," South Routt School Board President Tim Corrigan said. "It's not so much for recognizing the work the board has done but recognizing the work of all the students and staff in the district."
In addition to Corrigan, the South Routt School Board is made up by Vice President Joel Harris, Treasurer John McCollum, Secretary Gina Hange and members Jules Palyo, Jamie Hoff and Brett Mason.
The board plans to celebrate the honor at its regular board meeting Thursday night, and it will be recognized at the CASB convention Nov. 30 in Colorado Springs.
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This decision was made after a 12 month agonizing debate over whether or not to try the switch... again. Interwoven into the decision was the fact that almost two years ago to the day I had already tried the switch . I reflect on why I bought my first Mac, why it ended up on eBay, and why I struggled over the decision to buy my second Mac. Did I make the same mistake twice? You can read how I feel about my decision, and what the outlook looks like.
Let me start off by giving you a little background about me. I am a thirty-two year old self proclaimed (and proclaimed by many others as well) geek. I have been using computers to write code since I was thirteen years old. Hammering out Basic and Machine Language on my Commodore Vic-20. Today I am a Software Engineer who enjoys writing Java and can wrangle Vi with the best of them. After my Vic-20 and Commodore-64, I graduated to an IBM PC clone to head off the college with. My only Apple experience had been when I was exposed to them in the 6th grade. We ran the Logo program (the little turtle guy) and a GUI word processor which was amazing to me. Besides this short lived experience with Apple computers, I never used them again. They were always a bit out of financial reach of my family, but I envied the kids that owned such beautiful computers. I stayed within the PC line for my personal computers and have worked on Sun and HP for work. I also started working with Linux pretty early on because I was running a 4 line BBS and was trying to write an application on Linux that could route Internet mail to my BBS.
I am thinking back to when Apple computers recently caught my eye. I recall being a real PC power user (always having the latest and fastest of everything in my PC) and laughing at those crazy Apple users. I remember thinking to myself, "What a boring experience, those people can't even get to a command line and tweak their setting." I was wondering when Apple would just go out of business and die. Those thoughts were pretty consistent in my mind for many years. Until... one day I was watching television with my wife and I saw it... an ad for the Apple Titanium PowerBook G4. I remember thinking to myself, "Wow! That is a beautiful machine." I immediately navigated my web browser to www.apple.com and was in for another huge surprise. Apple had recently released a new operating system called Mac OS X based on one of my favorite OSs, FreeBSD. I couldn't believe it. I have always loved and admired FreeBSD. I love the elegance and beauty of it. I love the philosophy of it. Unfortunately, I have only been able to be a FreeBSD supporter by way of user and cheerleader, but I admire and respect all of the individuals who put long hours into it.
I poured over all of the specs for the PowerBook and OS X. I was impressed. My wife could tell that I had that fixation about me that could only be cured by one thing... owning one. But alas things would have to be put on hold for just a bit while my wife and I tended to our newly born son. The time off from work tending to baby and mom made me a little stir crazy. I couldn't stop thinking about all of the amazing things I would be able to do with my new PowerBook. My wife finally said to me, very lovingly, "Honey, go get your computer." I think she was just tired of me asking her if I should buy it or not. So I trucked on over to the new Apple computer store and introduced myself to my new laptop. The purchase was not quite the fan-fare I thought it would be. I made sure to tell all of the employees that I came in contact with that this was my first Apple computer out of about twenty Wintel PCs. In the end, I think they thought I was more goofy than anything else. While waiting for the final checkout, I started chatting with a woman who had owned Macs her entire life and had that "Think Different... Apple or die attitude." I couldn't wait. I just couldn't wait to be part of a culture that loved their computers so much that they were willing to charge into verbal battles on their behalves and emblaze their environmentally friendly vehicles with Apple logos. I was ready.
I journeyed home and opened it up. I was so excited. I planned to learn all about my new computer, get it all set up, and have my Windows based laptop on eBay within weeks. Then I slowly started to realize something. My new PowerBook that was supposed to be faster than my PC despite the Mhz gap was terribly slow. Then other things started to chip away at my excitement. All of the software that I currently owned and used on my PC was not available in a Mac version or even worse, if a Mac version was available, I was not eligible for upgrade pricing. Purchasing software for a new OS is considered a new purchase in the eyes of software manufacturers. I had heard about a product by Connectix called VirtualPC which would allow me to run all of my PC software on my new Apple. So once again, I returned to the Apple store and purchased a copy. If the computer didn't run slow enough with native applications, it ran my PC applications even slower, unacceptably slow. So I antied up some more bucks and increased the RAM on my 400Mhz PowerBook to 1 Gigabyte. Surely that old Windows trick would work on the Apple side too. I started to become sad. I had passionately wanted this machine. I was planning on replacing my Wintel laptop with it. I was ready to start my basic training to become a Mac fanatic. Instead, I sat in sadness as the launcher icons bounced mockingly as I waited to get some work done. It became obvious I would not be able to replace my Wintel laptop with my new PowerBook and at almost $3,500 spent so far, this toy was far to expensive to keep around. Sadly, I took the "buy me" snap shots, packed her up and posted her on eBay. I took a bath on the sale because the new, faster and improved PowerBooks had been announced. I made my final "6 month same as cash" payment to MBNA months after my PowerBook was gone.
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Are We There Yet?: Resin 4 Java EE 6 Web Profile CertificationWednesday, October 27th, 2010
After a long few months of hard-work, we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for getting Resin 4 Java EE 6 Web Profile certified!
We are now passing the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 1.2, JSTL 1.2, JSF 2.0, Bean Validation 1.0, CDI 1.0, JPA 2.0, JPA 2.0 and JMS 1.1 TCKs. Note, although JMS is not part of the Java EE 6 Web Profile, we are still implementing it since a number of our customers have asked for a lightweight messaging option in Resin.
The last TCK that we need to pass at this point in order to be Java EE 6 Web Profile compliant is EJB 3.1 Lite. As such, we do have the basic functionality for stateless session beans, stateful session beans and singleton beans including life-cycle, concurrency, registry/look-up, interceptors, security and transactions. Indeed, Adam Bien recently blogged about the usability of the current Resin 4 development release: http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/java_ee_6_server_resin and we have been demoing full-stack Java EE 6 applications for a while now including at JavaOne 2010 (albeit without EJBs, using EJB service annotations/aspects directly in CDI managed beans).
At this point, it is a matter of working through the cases caught by the EJB 3.1 Lite TCK. I'd say a majority of it is minor bug-fixes with singletons having the most and stateless session beans the least amount of issues.
Although technically not part of EJB 3.1 Lite, we are also implementing scheduling, asynchronous processing, remoting (Hessian based) and message driven beans because we feel these are valuable parts of the EJB specification. We will also include a JCA implementation for better resource pluggability. At this point, we have the basic functionality of timers/scheduling as well as asynchronous processing done. The remoting and the message-driven bean/JCA parts still need significant work, including creating a new messaging model around CDI events as a supplement to the older message driven bean model. My personal guess is that we will have the officially Java EE 6 Web Profile certified release of Resin 4 by the end of the year. We will then have a few releases focused purely on stability, optimization, foot-print, start-up/shut-down time and runtime performance since these have always been primary differentiators for Resin.
The final release of Resin 4 will allow us to then focus on some of the work around CDI portable extensions that we wish to do including Seam 3 modules/Arquillian integration as well as things like HTML5/WebSocket, modularity, cloud/NoSQL APIs, etc.
Obviously, Resin 4 is a very important milestone for us as a team but is very significant for the Java EE 6 ecosystem too. I would expect the JBoss guys to announce their final Java EE 6 compatible version shortly after us, probably followed by Geronimo, WebLogic, etc. It seems IBM has been uncharacteristically proactive with the WebSphere Java EE 6 work too.
In the meanwhile, do send us your comments and wish us luck on the final stretch of the Java EE 6 implementation marathon!


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Over the years, we have had a lot of fun with the Corrections section off the New York Times. That section constitutes a running commentary on the bias so often manifested in that newspaper; even more strikingly, it sometimes reveals a stunning lack of high school-level knowledge of history, science and literature on the part of Times reporters and editors. Today's Corrections include a mind-blowing example of this genre:
The About New York column yesterday, about an imagined conversation with God at a Manhattan diner, referred incorrectly to the Bible to which the thickness of the menu was likened. It is the King James Version, not St. James.
I'm speechless.
I'd link to the original article, but I can't: it's part of "Times Select."


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Given the persistent concerns about protecting the government's computer systems, the most recent of many congressional hearings on how to fix the Federal Information Security Management Act was perhaps as maddening for its old refrains as it was encouraging for the renewed desire to deal with them. It certainly was no surprise that witnesses testifying late last month before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Government Management, Organization and Procurement Subcommittee agreed that FISMA has generally failed to make agency systems more secure.
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Although the messenger was new, the message was familiar: "Despite the improvement reported by agencies, the federal government's communications and information infrastructure is still far from secure," Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said, adding that agencies will never get to security through compliance audits alone. Government and private-sector experts continue to maintain that agencies need to adopt a real-time, enterprise-based risk management approach to securing the nation's information infrastructures. That said, the hearing reflected new attention to FISMA and the Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2010 (H.R. 4900), which the committee is reviewing. The bill would go beyond FISMA's original provisions by requiring continuous system monitoring accompanied by penetration testing. It would also create a National Office of Cyberspace at the White House to oversee the nation's cybersecurity posture, require independent auditing of the effectiveness of programs, and include security requirements in acquisition policies. However, the problem with legislating new information security practices is how quickly technologies evolve and unleash new and unforeseen threats. So it wasn't surprising when the technology community, while praising the intent of the legislation, quickly hoisted warning flags urging Congress not to erect barriers to innovative solutions. The better alternative, most experts agree, is using sound risk management disciplines. Bureaucrats might find them too inexact compared with verifying compliance, but if done well — which is to say, if government taps into the insights learned by the private sector — agencies stand a better chance of mitigating cybersecurity risks more quickly and coherently than they do now. Assuming the bill moves forward — and we hope it will — it will certainly benefit from work released last month by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the final version of its "Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach." Developed jointly with the defense and intelligence communities, the new publication (S.P. 800-37) provides an important reference for moving past compliance in the battle against cyber threats.
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I'm sorry, but the new SP 800-37 is not at all that much different then the previous versions. Along with the new 800-53 Rev 3, these are both just more of the same old fantasy academic exercises that further illustrates how clueless that NIST still is, in regards to the complexity of today's information systems. By the time you get through trying to apply these 2 new NIST pubs to large complex systems, you will have wasted even more money and generated more paperwork then ever before. When the heck is NIST going to wake up? You get a bunch of clue less security geeks together from NIST, NSA, Intel, DoD ...wherever, all you're going to end up with is this never ending wasteful exercise that OMB and NIST have shoved down our throats since 2002. These products are good for class room networks and computer science classes, but they have no practical (emphasis on practical) utility in the real world. How sad that the Federal government remains mired in this ludicrous quagmire orchestrated by NIST.
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This has been a really interesting topic of discussion for us here at Wize. A lot of us are into watching television series and there's so much more to the experience than just the quality of the show. Obviously everything else is a non-issue if the show content doesn't interest you, but let's assume you have a set of shows that you love (i.e. American Idol, 24, Lost, Family Guy, 30 Rock, Grey's Anatomy, etc.), there are a bunch of other thing that go into your overall viewing experience.
Over at Wize, we have a bunch of pages dedicated to helping people find the best flat panel televisions for watching television, or even the best flat panel televisions for your family rooms. These are televisions that people around the web have written about for those exact situations.
Ok, let's assume that you have the right equipment and it's setup for optimal performance, there are some unique ways that you can continue to enhance your experience by leveraging the power of the Web. A really great site that we've come across recently is Predictify, which is a prediction platform that adds an interactive dimension to the news and popular events. I'm a huge fan of American Idol and I recently came across some awesome dialogues and community questions about American Idol and had a great time adding my personal insight. It's a great way to keep the excitement of your favorite shows even after the show ends. On top of that, you can actually earn some money as well. Looks like there's a $ question about John Grisham live on the site right now.


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Things I've quit doing at my desk
We need to think of our desks as workstations.
In reality, we do all sorts of things at our desks that aren't real work (or affect our ability to produce our best work).
Here are things I'm trying to quit doing at my desk:
- Thinking: Nobody does their best thinking sitting at their desk. When you reflect on your biggest "Ah-Ha!" moments, how many of them occurred while you were staring at a screen? If you're like me, your best thinking happens when you're not at your desk: taking a walk, going and asking another person for help, drinking a coffee, in the shower. Your desk is for executing; do your thinking elsewhere.
- Socializing: When I sit down at my desk, I want to be in work mode. I want to prioritize my most important tasks, and then complete them with the fastest velocity possible. Socializing while I'm at my desk sullies the purity of the workstation. This is why the water cooler is actually a brilliant social construct: when you want to hang out, you can get up from your workstation and go to the socialstation. I think every office should have a socialstation, a place (or time in the morning) where team members can hang out, and talk informally.
- Procrastinating: Check Facebook, check Twitter, go on YouTube, check email, mindlessly read blog posts. I think that breaks, and downtime, are important in a work day. But again: I think maintaing the purity of my desk as a place where I work is important. If I need some "mindless" time, I think it's better to walk away from my desk and have a place and time limit where I do that. It's also important that we catch ourselves when procrastinating and ask ourselves: "Why?" Are we procrastinating because we're tired? Hungry? Bored? Are we stuck on a problem? Are we just feeling lethargic and need to get up and move around? Figure out what's at the source of your mindless net browsing, and deal with the problem.
- Sitting: for the past 18 months I've been using a standing desk. I've realized that the best part isn't that I'm standing all day; it's that I'm not sitting. A standing desk allows you to stand, sit, lean, and put one leg up while you're at your workstation. Even better, I've felt more freedom to just walk away when I'm faced with a problem and need to do some thinking (or when I'm tired and need a break).
Many writers maintain a private writing hut. The hut has one purpose: it's the place they go to write. They don't do anything else there. Once they can't write any more, they go do something else. I think we need to think of our desks in the same way: these are places where we get work done.
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Darren Sammy will look to put the knowledge of Lord's gained from his time as an MCC Young Cricketer to good use when he captains the West Indies in the first Test against England at the "spiritual place of cricket" starting Thursday.
The 28-year-old all-rounder spent three seasons, from 2003-2005, on the Lord's groundstaff programme which has helped nurture generations of future professional cricketers including England legends Denis Compton and Ian Botham as well as Australia's Mark Waugh and New Zealand's Martin Crowe.
Sammy, speaking at Lord's on Wednesday on the eve of the first Test, said his time at Lord's had been pivotal to his progress.
"I tell people that coming to England really changed the direction of my career. The coach here, Clive Radley (the former Middlesex and England batsman) the work he did with me, it exposed me to a whole new professional attitude towards cricket and I think that's something that has stuck with me."
Sammy is not the only player in the squad with youthful memories of Lord's.
"Darren Bravo he came here as a teenager for Trinidad and they told him he couldn't go on the grass and when everybody wasn't looking he took some grass and put it in his pocket. He said he was going to plant it in his back yard and call it 'Lord's'," Sammy recalled.
"But by the time he got to the Caribbean all the grass was brown."
Something all visiting players are especially keen to do at Lord's is get their name on the dressing room honours boards that record all those who've taken five wickets and/or scored a century in a Test innings on the ground.
"Kemar Roach said he's going to be the first one, Ravi Rampaul said it's going to be him and I myself think it's going to be me as well," Sammy said.
"There's a lot of inspiration that can be taken from Lord's, it's the spiritual place of cricket so hopefully magical things can happen for us."
West Indies arrive at Lord's with a record of just two wins in their last 30 Tests and are without several leading players, including opener Chris Gayle because of the lure of the lucrative Indian Premier League, disputes with the West Indies Cricket Board or, in some cases, a combination of the two.
However, Sammy insisted: "There's no frustration. Everybody's free to do whatever they want."
What was frustrating for Sammy was the way West Indies let things slip during a 2-0 defeat in a recent three-match series at home to Australia.
"We keep finding ourselves in winning positions and some way we keep letting it go," he said. "When you are playing against a champion team, they find a way to win so we need to have that way when we are on top.
"We've been competing and pushing teams down to the wire. If you look at the last series, a 2-0 scoreline doesn't reflect the way we played and hopefully we can eliminate these things in this series here."
A Test batting average of 19.09 and bowling average of 30.89 have led many to question Sammy's place in the side as an all-rounder.
But the medium-pacer and hard-hitting batsman said: "I come across that every day. When I bowl my job is to keep pressure on and that's what I do, go at 2.6 runs per over.
"Hopefully I can get some wickets in between and create pressure so the man bowling at the other end can get wickets as well.
"I am the captain, I just do what I do. Whenever I leave, whoever is captain, as long as the team go out and perform and show that fight, that never say die attitude that gets victories, then I'll be happy."
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Darren Sammy will look to put the knowledge of Lord's gained from his time as an MCC Young Cricketer to good use when he captains the West Indies in the first Test against England at the "spiritual place of cricket" starting Thursday.


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Publix Super Markets is issuing a voluntary recall for spinach dip because it may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes. The problem was discovered as a result of routine microbial testing conducted by Publix. The 16 ounce containers of prepackaged spinach dip were sold at Publix retail deli departments with a UPC of 41415-00062 and use by date of OCT 10 C1.
Consumption of products containing Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infection in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.
The spinach dip was sold in Publix grocery stores in Florida. The following counties in Florida did not receive recalled product: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee. Publix stores in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee are not involved with this recall.
"As part of our commitment to food safety, potentially impacted product has been removed from all store shelves," said Maria Brous, Publix media and community relations director. "To date, there have been no reported cases of illness. Consumers who have purchased the products in question may return the product to their local store for a full refund. Publix customers with additional questions may call our Consumer Relations department at 1-800-242-1227 or by visiting our website at www.publix.com." Customers can also contact the US Food and Drug Administration at 1-888-SAFEFOOD (1-888-723-3366).
Publix is privately owned and operated by its 147,500 employees, with 2010 sales of $25.1 billion. Currently Publix has 1,038 stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. The company has been named one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" for 14 consecutive years. In addition, Publix's dedication to superior quality and customer service is recognized as tops in the grocery business, most recently by an American Customer Satisfaction Index survey.