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It is my understanding one or more of Butler County's department budgets (solicitor, controller and human resources) are charged in part to Sunnyview, somewhere in the neighborhood of $230,000. If that is true, then will these departments be cut back after the sale to reflect the cost savings? If not, then there is no savings there.
Sunnyview was recently upgraded and I have read that millions of dollars was spent on renovations. Construction of the new proposed VA facility was supposed to cost about $60 million. Is our county home really worth only $13.2 million?
Once the sale is made, it's too late and we may lose an irreplaceable asset. I think a decision of this magnitude deserves to be fully discussed and ideas heard before a final decision is made.

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June 17, 2006
Convicted rapist Ruperto Gonzaga-Gama, 18, pleaded guilty to a second charge of felony rape Wednesday in Hood River County Circuit Court.
The charge stemmed from the Jan. 12 rape of a Markham Road woman. Gonzaga-Gama was sentenced May 1 to 16 years in prison for the rape of a Collins Road woman on Feb. 14.
For the Markham Road rape, Judge Paul G. Crowley sentenced Gonzaga-Gama to 100 months in prison that will be served concurrently with the previous sentence.
"As a highly dangerous sexual predator, you will be released into the community, not our community, not the U.S., but a community … so it is very appropriate you spend a lot of time in prison for whatever you have done but it would (also) be appropriate if you received some sex offender treatment," Crowley said.
Gonzaga-Gama is a native of Mexico and will be deported following the fulfillment of the sentence. The victim in the Markham Road rape did not make a statement at Wednesday's hearing.
"The horrible impact this has had on the victim and her family, I suppose only other victims can understand," Sewell said. "Both the victim and the state take comfort in the fact the suspect will be incarcerated for at least 16 years."
He said Gonzaga-Gama's guilty plea had kept the victim from having to testify during a jury trial. The rapist will have to also serve a 20-year period of post–prison supervision less time actually served. Judge Crowley added the condition that Gonzaga-Gama not be allowed contact with the victim in either case or their families.
In the Markham Road rape in January, the assault took place after 5:30 a.m. when the victim went outside because her dogs were barking.
In the Collins Road rape, Gonzaga-Gama assaulted the woman at knifepoint. He tied her up and stole an SUV.
She managed to get loose a few minutes after he had left and notified 9-1-1. After an aerial search conducted by the Hood River Sheriff's office, Sheriff Joe Wampler spotted the stolen vehicle behind a farm shed on Imai Road and law enforcement officers arrested Gonzaga-Gama shortly after.
At the May 1 sentencing, the Collins Road rape victim urged him to confess if he had raped anyone else. Sewell chose to file charges in the Markham Road case after noticing similarities between the two assaults.
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Outlook 2013: How Will U.S. Companies Spend?
Sprawling American conglomerates are generally pretty loaded up with cash these days, after years of cost-cutting. What are they going to do with all that cash in 2013? Tom Gara joins Markets Hub to discuss. Photo: Reuters.
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Hello,Is EVGA a good company? I'm sorry for all the questions - it's been years since I've built a system (other than order one from a company) and I'm trying to play catch up with all the technology and changes in companies (i.e., I remember when ATI was the major board manufacturer and not just a chipset maker - which as been bought up by AMD?? - so confusing ) .
Yup, EVGA is a good company. They have a really good limited lifetime warrenty on their cards too.
Try this card, an EVGA GeForce 6200. It has 256MB of GDDR2 video memory, runs on a PCI slot (which your motherboard should have plenty of), and it's only $50. They also make an AGP slot version (8x faster), but most motherboards these days have PCI Express instead.
Now I have questions on Hard Drives. I have always used Maxtor and have had good luck with them (even when Western Digital gave me grief) - but I can't seem to see them too readily anymore. Are they still a major company anymore? For a hard drive - I need it to be quiet! Other considerations: 7200 RPM, SATA, fast throughput, low power usage/heat output, as big as can be for under $100.
For CD/DVD drives, I usually only use LiteOn. I currently have this one: Here
I have a Western Digital Caviar drive and it hasn't given me any issues, plus it is nice and quiet and fast.
LiteOn tends to do well in reviews and such, but it is one of the only drives I have used for a while and they have let to fail me.Yup, that looks like the same drive, just SATA.
Hello,Looking at the reviews, it seems that NEC and ViewSonic are among the best. What do you think of this monitor:ViewSonic X Series VX2240W Black-Silver 22" 2msDVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
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From Imperative Programming to Fork/Join to Parallel Streams in Java 8
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Java 8 brings many features that let you write code in a more concise way. For example, instead of writing code as follows:
Collections.sort(transactions, new Comparator<Transaction>(){ public int compare(Transaction t1, Transaction t2){ return t1.getValue().compareTo(t2.getValue()); } });
you can now write the following more compact code that does the same thing but reads a lot closer to the problem statement:
The major features introduced by Java 8 are lambda expressions, method references and the new Streams API. It is considered the largest language change since the advent of Java 20 years ago. To find detailed practical examples of how you can benefit from these features refer to the book Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams and Functional-style programming written by the authors of this article and Alan Mycroft.
These features enable programmers to write more concise code, and additionally they let programmers benefit from multi-core architecture. In fact, writing programs that execute gracefully in parallel is currently the preserve of Java specialists. However, thanks to its new Streams API, Java 8 changes the game and lets everyone more easily write code that leverages multi-core architecture.
In this article we will compare different methods to compute the variance of a large data set using
- An imperative style
- The fork/join framework
- The Streams API
The variance is used in statistics to measure how far a set of numbers is spread out. It can be calculated by averaging the squared difference from the mean of the set of numbers. For example, given the numbers 40, 30, 50 and 80 representing the ages of a population, we can calculate the variance by:
- calculating the mean: (40 + 30 + 50 + 80) / 4 = 50
- taking the square difference from the mean of the set of numbers: (40-50)2 + (30-50)2 + (50-50)2 + (80-50)2 = 1400
- finally averaging it: 1400/4 = 350
Imperative style
A typical imperative implementation of the variance formula is as follows:
public static double varianceImperative(double[] population){ double average = 0.0; for(double p: population){ average += p; } average /= population.length; double variance = 0.0; for(double p: population){ variance += (p - average) * (p - average); } return variance/population.length; }
Why is it imperative? Our implementation describes the computation in terms of a sequence of statements that change state. Here, we are explicitly iterating through each element of the population array and updating two local variables (average and variance) at every iteration. This kind of code is excellent for a hardware architecture that only has one CPU. Indeed, it maps very straightforwardly to the instruction set of a CPU.
Fork/Join framework
However, how would you write this implementation to execute on multiple-core architectures? Should you use threads? Should they synchronise at some point? The fork/join framework introduced in Java 7 alleviated some of these difficulties, so let's try to develop a parallel version of this algorithm using it.
public class ForkJoinCalculator extends RecursiveTask<Double> { public static final long THRESHOLD = 1_000_000; private final SequentialCalculator sequentialCalculator; private final double[] numbers; private final int start; private final int end; public ForkJoinCalculator(double[] numbers, SequentialCalculator sequentialCalculator) { this(numbers, 0, numbers.length, sequentialCalculator); } private ForkJoinCalculator(double[] numbers, int start, int end, SequentialCalculator sequentialCalculator) { this.numbers = numbers; this.start = start; this.end = end; this.sequentialCalculator = sequentialCalculator; } @Override protected Double compute() { int length = end - start; if (length <= THRESHOLD) { return sequentialCalculator.computeSequentially(numbers, start, end); } ForkJoinCalculator leftTask = new ForkJoinCalculator(numbers, start, start + length/2, sequentialCalculator); leftTask.fork(); ForkJoinCalculator rightTask = new ForkJoinCalculator(numbers, start + length/2, end, sequentialCalculator); Double rightResult = rightTask.compute(); Double leftResult = leftTask.join(); return leftResult + rightResult; } }
Here we develop a RecursiveTask splitting an array of doubles until the length of a subarray doesn't go below a given threshold. At this point the subarray is processed sequentially applying on it the operation defined by the following interface.
public interface SequentialCalculator { double computeSequentially(double[] numbers, int start, int end); }
With this infrastructure it is possible to recalculate the variance in parallel as follows.
public static double varianceForkJoin(double[] population){ final ForkJoinPool forkJoinPool = new ForkJoinPool(); double total = forkJoinPool.invoke(new ForkJoinCalculator(population, new SequentialCalculator() { @Override public double computeSequentially(double[] numbers, int start, int end) { double total = 0; for (int i = start; i < end; i++) { total += numbers[i]; } return total; } })); final double average = total / population.length; double variance = forkJoinPool.invoke(new ForkJoinCalculator(population, new SequentialCalculator() { @Override public double computeSequentially(double[] numbers, int start, int end) { double variance = 0; for (int i = start; i < end; i++) { variance += (numbers[i] - average) * (numbers[i] - average); } return variance; } })); return variance / population.length; }
The bottom line is that, even with the help of the fork/join framework, the parallel version is significantly harder to write, and eventually debug, than its sequential counterpart.
Parallel Streams
Java 8 lets you achieve this in a different way. Instead of writing how a computation should be implemented, you describe what it does in broad brush strokes using the Streams API. As a result, the library can figure out how to implement the computation for you and make use of various optimisations. This style is called declarative programming. In Java 8 specifically, a parallel stream is designed to leverage a multi-core architecture. Let's see how you can use them to run our first attempt of calculating the variance in a faster way.
We assume that you have some familiarity with streams in this section. However as a refresher, a Stream<T> is a sequence of elements T that support aggregate operations. You can use these operations to create a pipeline which represents a computation just like a pipeline of UNIX commands. A parallel stream is simply a stream that will execute the pipeline in parallel and can be obtained by calling the method parallel() on a normal stream. To brush up on what a stream is, refer to the Javadoc documentation.
The good news is that a few numeric operations such as max, min and average are built-in in the Java 8 API. They can be accessed through primitive specialisations of a Stream: IntStream (primitive int-valued elements), LongStream (primitive long-valued elements) and DoubleStream (primitive double-valued elements). For example, you can simply create a range of numbers with IntStream.rangeClosed(), calculate the maximum or minimum element in a stream using the method max() and min().
Coming back to our initial problem, we would like to use these operations to calculate the variance of a large population. The first step is to create a stream from the population array. We can achieve this using the Arrays.stream() static method:
DoubleStream populationStream = Arrays.stream(population).parallel();
A DoubleStream supports the method average() which we can use:
double average = populationStream.average().orElse(0.0);
The next step is to calculate the variance which makes use of the average. Each element of the population needs first to have the average subtracted from it and the result squared. This can be viewed as a map operation which transforms each element into another one using a lambda expression (double p) -> (p - average) * (p - average). Once this is done we can calculate the sum of all resulting elements by calling the method sum().
But not so fast! Streams can only be consumed once. If we re-use populationStream we will get the surprising error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: stream has already been operated upon or closed
So we need to get a second stream to calculate the variance as show below:
public static double varianceStreams(double[] population){ double average = Arrays.stream(population).parallel().average().orElse(0.0); double variance = Arrays.stream(population).parallel() .map(p -> (p - average) * (p - average)) .sum() / population.length; return variance; }
By making use of built-in operations in the Streams API we've rewritten our initial imperative style code in a declarative and concise way which reads almost like the mathematical definition of the variance. Let's now explore the performance of the three versions of our implementation.
We wrote the three versions of our variance algorithm in very different styles. The streams version is the most concise and is written declaratively, which allows the library to decide on an adequate implementation and leverage the multi-core infrastructure. However, you may wonder how they perform? To find out let's create a benchmark to see how the different versions compare. We calculate the variance of a population of 30 million random numbers between 1 and 140. We used jmh to investigate the performance of each version. Jmh is a Java harness supported by OpenJDK. You can run the benchmark yourself by cloning the project from GitHub.
The benchmark was run on a Macbook Pro 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, with 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3. In addition, we used the following version of JDK8:
java version "1.8.0-ea" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b121) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b63, mixed mode)
The results are illustrated in the histogram below. The imperative version took 60ms, the fork/join version 22ms and the streams version 46ms.
These numbers should be treated with caution. It's likely that you will get very different performance if you run the test on a 32-bit JVM for example. However, it is interesting to notice that adopting a different programming style using the Streams API in Java 8 opens the door for optimisations behind the scenes that are not possible in a strictly imperative style and in a much more straightforward way than is possible with fork/join.
About the Authors
Raoul-Gabriel Urma started his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge at the age of 20. His research centers on programming languages and software engineering. He holds a MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and graduated with first class honors, having won several prizes for technical innovation. He has worked for large companies such as Google, eBay, Oracle, and Goldman Sachs, as well as for several startup projects. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at Java developer conferences and is also an instructor for Java courses. Twitter: @raoulUK and Website.
Mario Fusco is a senior software engineer at Red Hat working at the development of the core of Drools, the JBoss rules engine. He has extensive experience as a Java developer, having been involved in (and often leading) many enterprise level projects in industries ranging from media companies to the financial sector. Among his interests are functional programming and domain specific languages. By leveraging these two passions, he created the open source library lambdaj with the purposes of providing an internal Java DSL for manipulating collections and for allowing a bit of functional programming in Java. Twitter: @mariofusco.
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Parallel Java Streams
Edward Harned
Perhaps I can shine a light on why the basic F/J is so much faster than the streams version. The streams do not do parallel processing, they do paraquential,
Since F/J is essentially a failure it is necessary to switch to sequential to avoid stack overflows and out of memory errors.
Yes, I wrote the article. I've been doing parallel applications for several decades and I pointed out the problems with F/J years ago to no avail.
No need to calculate average first when streaming
Markus Krüger
// Helper class for intermediate fields.
private class VarianceTmp {
double mean, m2;
int count;
public static double varianceStreams(double[] population) {
VarianceTmp tmp = Arrays.stream(population).parallel().collect(
(tmp, x) -> {
double delta = x - tmp.mean;
tmp.mean += delta / tmp.count;
tmp.m2 += delta * (x - tmp.mean);
(tmpA, tmpB) -> {
double delta = tmpB.mean - tmpA.mean;
int countAB = tmpA.count + tmpB.count;
tmpA.mean += delta * tmpB.mean / countAB;
tmpA.m2 += tmpB.m2
+ delta * delta * tmpA.count * tmpB.count / countAB;
tmpA.count = countAB;
return (tmp.count <= 1) ? 0 : tmp.m2 / (tmp.count - 1);
An added benefit of this approach is that the input argument doesn't need to be an array, it could be an iterator or stream; there is no need to keep all values in memory at once.
Re: No need to calculate average first when streaming
Rajesh Joshi
Re: No need to calculate average first when streaming
Markus Krüger
However, as the article currently stands, a reader might believe that the implementations shown here are suitable for real use. Which sadly is not the case, for reasons listed in the wikipedia article I link to.
Commenting on how to improve the calculation of variance also gave me a possibility to demonstrate the use of Stream.collect(), which I believe to be a useful tool.
Other performance from my laptop
benjamin fuentes
The information about OS
Name of the OS: Windows 8.1
Version of the OS: 6.3
Architecture of THe OS: amd64
Available processors (cores): 4
Free memory (bytes): 60689448
Maximum memory (bytes): 919076864
average :49.99299774874399
Sequential variance : 833.454385192641
Time : 160ms
average :49.992997748747015
Fork variance : 833.4543851928006
Time : 237ms
average :49.99299774874777
Stream variance : 833.4543851928023
Time : 273ms
weird, that average calculation differs on same array of elements ...
Re: Other performance from my laptop
benjamin fuentes
The information about OS
Name of the OS: Windows 8.1
Version of the OS: 6.3
Architecture of THe OS: amd64
Available processors (cores): 4
Free memory (bytes): 60689448
Maximum memory (bytes): 919076864
average :50.00379441649668
Sequential variance : 833.6599070601363
Time : 158ms
average :50.003794416505926
Fork variance : 833.6599070600581
Time : 236ms
average :50.00379441650572
Stream variance : 833.6599070600663
Time : 274ms
average :50.00379441650572
Stream variance2 : 833.6599070600663
Time : 68ms
// Helper class for intermediate fields.
public static class VarianceTmp {
double mean, m2;
int count;
public static double varianceStreams2(double[] population) {
VarianceTmp varianceTmp = Arrays.stream(population).parallel().collect(
(tmp, x) -> {
double delta = x - tmp.mean;
tmp.mean += delta / tmp.count;
tmp.m2 += delta * (x - tmp.mean);
(tmpA, tmpB) -> {
double delta = tmpB.mean - tmpA.mean;
int countAB = tmpA.count + tmpB.count;
tmpA.mean += delta * tmpB.mean / countAB;
tmpA.m2 += tmpB.m2
+ delta * delta * tmpA.count * tmpB.count / countAB;
tmpA.count = countAB;
return (varianceTmp.count <= 1) ? 0 : varianceTmp.m2 / (varianceTmp.count - 1);
Re: Other performance from my laptop
Markus Krüger
public static double varianceImperative(double[] population){
double average = 0;
double variance = 0;
int count = 0;
for (double p: population) {
double delta = p - average;
average += delta / ++count;
variance += delta * (p - average);
return variance / (count - 1);
private static double varianceForkJoin(final double[] values) {
class VarianceTmp {
double mean, m2;
int count;
class VarianceTask extends RecursiveTask<VarianceTmp> {
private int from;
private int to;
public VarianceTask(int from, int to) {
this.from = from; this.to = to;
protected VarianceTmp compute() {
if (to - from <= 1_000_000) {
VarianceTmp tmp = new VarianceTmp();
double mean = 0, m2 = 0;
int count = 0;
for (int i = from; i < to; i++) {
double delta = values - mean;
mean += delta / ++count;
m2 += delta * (values - mean);
tmp.mean = mean; tmp.m2 = m2; tmp.count = count;
return tmp;
int split = from + (to - from) / 2;
VarianceTask taskA = new VarianceTask(from, split);
VarianceTask taskB = new VarianceTask(split, to);
VarianceTmp tmpA = taskA.compute(), tmpB = taskB.join();
double delta = tmpB.mean - tmpA.mean;
int countAB = tmpA.count + tmpB.count;
tmpA.mean =
(tmpA.count * tmpA.mean + tmpB.count * tmpB.mean)
/ (countAB);
tmpA.m2 += tmpB.m2
+ delta * delta * tmpA.count * tmpB.count / countAB;
tmpA.count = countAB;
return tmpA;
VarianceTmp tmp =
new ForkJoinPool().invoke(new VarianceTask(0, values.length));
return (tmp.count <= 1) ? 0 : tmp.m2 / (tmp.count - 1);
Also note that my previous way of combining means was imprecise. I've replaced
tmpA.mean += delta * tmpB.mean / countAB;
tmpA.mean = (tmpA.count * tmpA.mean + tmpB.count * tmpB.mean) / (countAB);
in the fork/join code, you should do the same for the stream code.
Re: No need to calculate average first when streaming
Markus Krüger
tmpA.mean += delta * tmpB.mean / countAB;
tmpA.mean = (tmpA.count * tmpA.mean + tmpB.count * tmpB.mean) / (countAB);
Compensated sum
Paul Sandoz
If you want a more apples-to-apples comparison do:
public static double varianceStreams(double[] population) {
double average = Arrays.stream(population).parallel()
.reduce(0.0, Double::sum) / population.length;
double variance = Arrays.stream(population).parallel()
.map(p -> (p - average) * (p - average))
.reduce(0.0, Double::sum) / population.length;
return variance;
My guess is if you do that then the results will be much closer (my results indicate a parallel uncompensated sum is about 2x faster than a compensated sum)
I thought i could optimize the average operation by removing some redundant computation, but it appears the Kahan summation dominates. See the following issue for details:
Oh, and one can safely ignore the first comment on this thread referring to paraquential, it's completely wrong.
Re: Compensated sum
Edward Harned
Here, there is one ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateParallel
return new ReduceTask<>(this, helper, spliterator).invoke().get();
for the stream but since WorkThreads do not save individual ReduceTask results in a common object (the parallel technique), the ReduceTask.onComplete() uses getLocalResult() for each individual ReduceTask sequentially, hence paraquential.


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Will PSY hit it big with another 1.5 billion views? Only time will tell for this gentleman hero.
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"Flexibility" takes on a whole new meaning with this unique property that has not one but two individual homes. That each is pretty spectacular (in its own way) is a bonus. The property includes a stately Victorian home and a carriage house that was renovated in 1990. Technically condominiums — the master deed grants each use of a large yard — they are essentially stand-alone homes. Buy both and use one as income property or create a family compound. On the other hand, each can be purchased separately.
"Flexibility" takes on a whole new meaning with this unique property that has not one but two individual homes. That each is pretty spectacular (in its own way) is a bonus, but I digress.
The property includes a stately Victorian home and a carriage house that was renovated in 1990. In the larger Victorian, systems including the roof, windows, heat and hot water have all been updated. Technically condominiums — the master deed grants each use of a large yard — they are essentially stand-alone homes. Buy both and use one as income property or create a family compound. On the other hand, each can be purchased separately. Let's review…
ADDRESS: 27B Spinale Road, Swampscott
BATHROOMS: 1 full; 1 half
LIVING SPACE: 2,009 sq. ft.
The carriage house is filled with surprises. Perhaps the biggest surprise is size: it's huge. And then it gets better.
While the first floor has an open concept design for the primary living areas that include the kitchen, family room and dining room, clever architectural devices that are not walls allow each "room" to have its own discrete space. For example, the family room is one step down from the kitchen and the dining room is two steps up. Each has a distinct area yet all are open to each other.
Everything in the kitchen is big from the soaring vaulted ceiling to the roomy U-shaped working area with a peninsula that seats two and a floor-to-ceiling pantry. An eat-in area is also in the kitchen that overlooks the family room — remember this is one step down — with its own vaulted ceiling and two skylights. Full glass pane sliders with a Palladian topper opens to the deck that runs the width of the house.
Hardwood flooring is a focal point in the spacious dining "room" that is adjacent to the formal living room that runs front to back. This sizable room is directly off the front entry.
The first floor also has a half bathroom with tile wainscoting and a pocket door. A spacious den/office off the back entrance has a double closet.
Three nicely sized bedrooms on the second floor have double closets while the master bedroom has a really big walk-in affair. The sleeping chambers share a very large bathroom with a huge skylight. This room also has a tub/shower combination and tile floor along with a linen/medicine closet.
ADDRESS: 27 Spinale Road, Swampscott
BATHROOMS: 1 full; 2 half
LIVING SPACE: 2,835 sq. ft.
Classic. That is the essence of this grand Victorian with graciously large rooms, 10-foot ceilings, 12-inch deep bump boards, four panel doors with period hardware and wide, detailed window and door frames. And the floors are simply spectacular.
Oak flooring with wide picture-frame trim in the spacious front parlor is an example. Of course, this room also has a three-window bay area, embossed radiators, and a stunning marble fireplace.
A matching parlor complete with oak flooring — remember, double parlors were standard in Victorian houses — is on the other side of the foyer. Paneling added to the walls is an easy take-down.
Period features like a large butler's pantry/larder with built-in cupboards add character to the spacious eat-in country kitchen. Admittedly the kitchen needs updates but with new cabinetry, appliances and lighting, the results will be spectacular. The bonus, though, is the room itself — big. Forget about needing to take down walls as the space is ready to go.
The dining room is another large space with its own period charmer: an original built-in china cabinet and two huge windows. Picture frame trim surrounds maple floor boards in this room, too. Incidentally, the dining room has a handy pass-through to the kitchen.
One of the most impressive features, however, is that both the dining room and the kitchen have access to a massive four-season room that runs the width of the house. Most likely a former porch, this sun-filled room has windows on three sides and a huge closet. A half bathroom is also here and has access to the back staircase.
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An exquisitely crafted newel post at the bottom of the front staircase (complete with coffin turn) in the foyer is a great start to the journey upstairs. Like the first floor, the second level is memorable and even the ordinary isn't.
Take the full bathroom. Although the built-in cast iron tub/shower combination is an eye-catcher, the wainscoting — subway tile with black bull nose trim complemented by black and white floor tiles — is truly striking. This huge room also has its own linen closet.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill has been hospitalized after suffering another seizure following his team's 21-13 loss to Northwestern in Minneapolis.
Kill coached the entire game and conducted his postgame interviews Saturday before returning to the locker room. Once there, school officials say he had a seizure.
The school says Kill was immediately attended to by team medical staff and is alert and resting comfortably at the hospital.
Kill has dealt with seizures for years. He had several in his first season as coach of Minnesota last year, most notably on the sideline during a game against New Mexico State.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — The number of gray wolves in Washington nearly doubled in the past year, according to a new survey released Friday by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The survey found at least 51 wolves in nine packs in Washington state, including five successful breeding pairs. The 2011 study documented just 27 wolves, five wolf packs and three breeding pairs.
Wildlife wolf program director Nate Pamplin said the actual number of wolves is likely much higher, since lone wolves often go uncounted and those that roam Washington but do not den here are not included in the survey. Biologists already suspect there are two additional wolf packs in the state. Using estimates of the average pack size in other western states, Pamplin said there could easily be as many as 100 wolves in Washington
"The survey shows that our state's wolf population is growing quickly," Pamplin said in a press release. "That growth appears to be the result of both natural reproduction and the continuing in-migration of wolves from Canada and neighboring states."
The recovery of wolves in Washington state is a heated topic. While many environmental groups hail the development, advocates for ranchers blame wolves for killing livestock. Several bills intended to improve wolf management are pending in the Legislature, including a tongue-in-cheek proposal to import wolves from rural parts of Eastern Washington to populous Western Washington.
A wolf pack is defined as two or more wolves traveling together. A successful breeding pair is defined as an adult male and female with at least two pups that survive until the end of the calendar year.
One of the nine packs represented in the survey is the infamous Wedge pack, which now has two confirmed members in northeastern Washington. Last summer, the Department of Fish and Wildlife killed most members of that pack to end a series of attacks on an area rancher's cattle that left at least six calves dead.
and 10 other animals injured.
Pamplin said biologists do not know whether the two wolves living near the Canadian border in Stevens County are members of the original Wedge pack or whether they are new arrivals from inside or outside the state.
"Either way, we were confident that wolves would repopulate that area," he said. "We really hope to prevent the kind of situation we faced with the Wedge pack last summer by working with ranchers to use non-lethal methods to protect their livestock."
State Sen. John Smith, R-Colville, said the growing number of wolves shows that recovery is exceeding expectations.
"We must put a plan in place now for wolf population management as recovery targets are reached," Smith said, adding that the state must "act now to provide for public safety and economic safeguards."
Noah Greenwald, with the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity in Portland, Ore., said wolves have the ability to reproduce quickly.
"Wolves have a tremendous ability to recover," he said. "They are smart, adaptable animals."
He cautioned opponents of wolves to learn to live with the animals.
"Polls show the majority of people want to see wolves return and are glad to see wolves return," Greenwald said.
The gray wolf is listed by the state as an endangered species throughout Washington and is federally listed as endangered in the western two-thirds of the state. Once common, wolves were eliminated in most western states during the past century because they preyed on livestock.
Under the state's Wolf Conservation and Management Plan, wolves can be removed from the state's endangered species list once 15 successful breeding pairs are documented for three consecutive years among three designated wolf-recovery regions.
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A tongue in cheek proposal to move wolves from the eastside of Washington to the west side should happen. Why ruin just part of our state. Maybe Oregon should consider the same proposal.. Send a few packs closer to the Cascadia wildlands and Conservation Northwest folks.... They're the promoters of this fight....
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I think that the software architecture Roo generates is great! I have a scenraio though where I need 2 different web UI's backed by the same domain and deployed on different boxes. How can I best utilize Roo's archticture to deal with this? Traditionally we have used a service layer and then wrapped it with a web service for the remoting but this doesnt seem to fit with Roo's rich domain object approach. What would Roo do?
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Senior MemberSpring Team
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Roo does currently support remoting via JMS. So one option is to create a complete application (including front-end) for the first box and then create a JMS listener to listen for object requests from your second application.
The relevant commands for JMS are as follows:
install jms -provider ACTIVEMQ_IN_MEMORY new java jms listener -class com.foo.MyListener add field jms template -class com.foo.MyService
Hope this gets you started.
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Note that you can also easily create a service layer in a Roo app. Roo turns on annotation scanning by default, so you can just write @Service classes (preferably behind interfaces) and access entities and the static finders on them.
So if you NEED a service layer, you can add one. Roo just doesn't generate one by default because it may not be necessary. But it doesn't do anything to preclude one.
Thank you both for your speedy replies. It never ceases to amaze me how quick these forums are!
So is the consensus that a service layer of sorts is required in this scenario? I'm more interested in how you would design Roo to generate an architecture to deal with this local and remote access rather than how you would currently use Roo to achieve what I've done previously.
One thing that I REALLY like about Roo though is the fact that it doesnt preclude you from doing anything, it just tries to help you as much as possible. Good work SpringSource!
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The point is that it is your architectural decision to have a service layer or not. As stated before, Roo makes it very easy for you to create one.
In your case this layer would act more as a facade for integration with remoting services and that is something you can best implement yourself since you know the purpose and architecture of your application better than Roo would.
As you stated before Roo does support you as much as possible to implement this (it enables component scanning, allows JMS integration, generation of new java types, etc) but the actual design of the service layer interface should be done by you as you know best what should be exposed via remoting and what should not .
Originally posted by Stefan Schmidt View PostThe point is that it is your architectural decision to have a service layer or not. As stated before, Roo makes it very easy for you to create one.
You're right in saying it's my decision and I'm just making sure I make the right one. It seemed natural to pose the question here as the architecture Roo generates is Spring best practice and I wanted to find out how best to architect this scenario using Spring whilst remaining as productive as possible utilizing Roo.
As far as I can tell though, if I want to use my generated persistent classes between both UI's then I would need to put my domain objects into a seperate jar and deploy them to both boxes. If I go down the service layer route then I can remote from the 2nd box but loose the ability to for example do address.persist(); I'd have to do addressService.persist(address); and therefore loose the richness from my domain objects and have to remove the @RooEntity annotation from all my domain objects. Am I right or missing an obvious trick here?
Thanks for your pointer so far.


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Daniel Craig Covers 'Rolling Stone' Magazine!
Daniel Craig suits up as he takes the cover of Rolling Stone's latest issue.
Here's what the 44-year-old actor had to share with the mag:
On the latest James Bond film, Skyfall: "It's quite good. It's got a lightness of touch and a wink to it, because, after all, this is a James Bond movie, for f*ck's sake."
On signing on to do more Bond movies: "I've been trying to get out of this from the very moment I got into it, but they won't let me go, and I've agreed to do a couple more, but let's see how this one does, because business is business and if the shit goes down, I've got a contract that somebody will happily wipe their ass with."
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Lions trial looms in Dublin
Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll and England's Chris Robshaw will be two of the players looking to impress British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland when their countries meet in the Six Nations.
Former Ireland coach Gatland, in charge of the Lions for this year's tour of Australia, will be in Dublin on Sunday for a match already being billed as a Six Nations title decider after both Ireland and England won their opening fixtures.
Ireland great O'Driscoll was given his first taste of Test rugby by Gatland, currently on sabbatical from coaching Wales, back in 1999 and after his starring role in last week's victory in Cardiff it's clear the 34-year-old's talent remains undimmed.
But injuries have been a problem lately and Gatland is concerned as to whether O'Driscoll, whose time as Lions captain in New Zealand in 2005 was cut short by a spear tackle in the opening minutes of the first Test, will be in good enough shape for a fourth tour with the combined side in June.
"The thing with Brian – everyone knows what a quality, world class player he is – it is him holding his body together for that period," Gatland said.
"We are going on tour for six weeks that are pretty intensive. Is his body able to handle that day in day out?
"One of the things I pride myself on is being able to manage players, looking after the experienced players who are important to your squad.
"When he was 20 years old, he had that raw talent, he was incredibly quick and skilful and he was a very much 'get out there and play' kid and there was no pressure on him.
"In 2009 (on the Lions tour of South Africa) I was very, very impressed by his knowledge of the game, his understanding and experience.
"It was good for me to be involved as someone who had picked him for his first cap and then miss all the years in between and then see him as a 29-year-old. I really was impressed with that development," added the experienced coach.
Meanwhile Gatland reckons Robshaw has "reinvented himself".
Just two months ago the New Zealander said Harlequins loose forward Robshaw was not a "genuine" openside flanker and that he would only consider specialist No 7s for the series with the Wallabies.
However, just a few days later Robshaw led England to a spectacular win over world champions New Zealand at Twickenham and has since maintained the standard he set for himself against the All Blacks.
At Lansdowne Road he is set to be up against Ireland's Sean O'Brien, whom many pundits feel is more suited to playing at blindside flanker.
"Robshaw has done a good job for England and the same could be said for O'Brien with Ireland," said Gatland.
"Players have the ability to reinvent themselves. Sometimes it comes down to how players are refereed in different competitions.
"In the (English) Premiership it is a lot more open, with less competition on the ball, so you watch someone like Chris at Harlequins and he doesn't compete hard for the ball because he is not allowed to do so by the referee.
"But in international rugby referees allow that competition for the ball. England have worked hard on that area and they're competing more at the breakdown.
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Jon Gosselin's 22 year old girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, recently underwent plastic surgery to enhance her breasts on Sept. 16 according to the Star magazine. Since Jon has a reputation for gallivanting, Hailey is reportedly hoping the boob job will help curb his wandering eye.
"Hailey's been very self-conscious about her breasts," a friend reveals to Star. "She didn't like the way they looked."
Hailey was caught on camera leaving Natural Images Plastic Surgery in Nyack, N.Y., with her mother, Lauren, and father, Dr. Lawrence Glassman. According to a Star reporter, she looked disoriented and barely walking. Once she has recovered, she intends to get more work done for her beau.
According to the friend, Hailey also intends to fix her teeth and hair. "She says she wants whiter, bigger teeth so she can have a gorgeous Hollywood smile. She wants [her hair] long, straight and with a wave to look her sexiest for Jon."
No word yet on whether or not Jon splurged for Hailey's surgery. Jon has however been reported in the past has taking Hailey out on shopping sprees and lavishing thousands of dollars on her in designer stores.
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Beloved Harford County sheriff, state trooper dies
Theodore S. Moyer dies from long illness
A long illness has claimed the life of a well-respected man whose Maryland law enforcement career and commitments to youth mentoring spanned decades.
Maryland State Police and the Harford County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday the death of Theodore S. Moyer, who died the previous evening at his Edgewood home and surrounded by family. He was 83.
The Hagerstown native moved to Harford County as a new state trooper in 1951. His graduating class was the first to wear the Stetson hat and the shoulder patch that is still worn by troopers. Though his assignments and ranks changed throught he years, Moyer remained a resident of Harford County.
Moyer commanded the Greenbelt Post, and the North East, Valley and Bel Air barracks and of the Northern Troop. He retired in 1981 with the rank of major. Though, his heart never really left the department. Moyer served as president of the Maryland State Police Alumni Association. He and his wife also attended the annual Maryland State Police Fallen Heroes Ceremony, as well as award and promotion ceremonies and new trooper graduations.
Then, in 1981, Moyer was appointed sheriff in Harford County, where voters then elected him to serve in the office from 1982 to 1986.
Moyer was also a longtime youth coach, who was a friend and mentor to hundreds of young people during his life. He coached many championship football, baseball and basketball teams during almost four decades as a volunteer coach.
"We lost a great man in Sheriff Moyer. History will remember him for his contributions to the state of Maryland as a member of the Maryland State Police and for his contributions to Harford County as sheriff. Those who knew him on a more personal level will remember him for his devotion to his family and for his devotion to our youth. We wish him God's speed. He will surely be missed by all who knew him," Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane said in a statement.
Moyer is survived by his wife, Elaine, and the couple's three sons -- David, Michael and Steve -- and four grandchildren.
Steve Moyer followed in his father's footsteps by serving with the Maryland State Police, from which he retired as a bureau chief with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Mountain Christian Church, 1824 Mountain Road in Joppa.
A reception is scheduled to take place immediately after the memorial service at the Richlin Ballroom, 1700 Van Bibber Road in Edgewood.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the following:
Presbury United Methodist Church
P.O. Box 175
Edgewood, MD 21040
Maryland Troopers Association Foundation
1300 Reistertown Road
Pikesville, MD 21208