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Bars, Bars, Bars (and I don't mean nightlife!)
So this time around, I got smart - bring along LOTS of different brands, LOTS of different flavors. Some bars feel more like candy, and I've got no problems with that. Some bars feel more like a healthy snack, which is preferable at other times. Some bars are light, and some really fill you up. Some are totally natural, others are more heavily fortified. I must admit, I like the idea of bars, a yummy, healthy snack that fuels you up and keeps you going. I've become quite an appreciator, and especially after the bar-sampling of my recent travels, I really love trying new brands and flavors. I thought I'd share with you some of my new favorites and some of my new least favorites. This way, you can wisely portion out your precious $1.50
First, the sad news of my least favorites.
"Organic Food Bar"
I should have known from the nondescript name, and from the unappealing packaging, these bars were weird and nondescript. Thick and chewy like the old Power Bars I used to eat pre-vegan, but not tasty enough to make up for it. I found the texture to be disturbingly "non-food-like" and the flavor to be icky. I can get into weird texture, but weird flavor/bad flavor is a deal breaker. I took one bite... found the courage to give it a chance with a second bite, and then threw it out. Sad but true.
"Raw Revolution" (Hazelnut Chocolate flavor)
This one wasn't as bad as the previous one, but still not something I'll buy again. Heavy and moist, and bit on the slimy side. Very shiny. Which is a bit off-putting. But most of all, I was disappointed with how many more almonds there were than hazelnuts in the bar. I *love* the famous chocolate-hazelnut flavor combo and this bar didn't live up to either billing. It just tasted like a fruit based raw bar. Fine I suppose, but disappointing.
Think Organic
I don't remember the flavor I tried. It had an okay, fruity flavor, but it was hard and tough. Like a half-inch thick piece of stale fruit leather. Hard to tear off bites, and all the bits got stuck in my teeth. I was happy that I had only brought along one. I ate it, but I won't go back for more.
Now, the good news about some of my favorite brands and flavors:
Clif Bar
Ah, the classic! How many times have I been traveling in areas of the States with low-vegan-population-density and been SO grateful to find a Clif Bar at the convenience store? For that alone, I will always be grateful. I appreciate that the Clif Bars are fortified with vitamins, so that when I'm living off them in China, I know I'm getting some percentage of necessary vitamins. When the mood is right, I like the heavy, chewy density that really fills me up. After some of those sad, sad meals in China, finding my Clif Bar in my purse was a seriously good feeling. I usually like the Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip flavor, but I wanted to use this opportunity to branch out and try a few new flavors, all of which I really liked:
Maple Nut: a bit more on the candy side, and tasty. Filled with, but not overwhelmed by, a nice maple flavor, and with crunchy nuts. A good crunch-chew texture balance.
Blueberry Crisp: good! breakfasty! And seriously blueberryish! I don't always like "blueberry-flavored" things, if you know what I mean, but this obviously has real blueberries in it, and I really liked it. I will defintely look for it again.
Oatmeal Raisin Walnut: very food-like. Feels like a healthy snack. Not as much like candy, more like a trail mix bar. Nuts, fruits, and grains.
Nectar Bars
The semi-new raw offerings from Clif, which I quite like. I don't end up buying them often, because I usually reach for a Lara Bar when I'm looking for simple, raw ingredients, but I have enjoyed the Nectar Bars that I've had. I took a few along on the trip to India, and they were quite happily consumed! Their Cocoa Nectar bars are also quite good, I especially like the Chocolate-Walnut flavor.
Also, a special shout out for the "20g Protein Builder's Bar." These are very candy-like, but are seriously tasty in my opinion. I like the Chocolate Peanut Butter and Chocolate Mint flavors. The bars consist of a clif-bar layer covered with a layer of thick nougat-y stuff (!), and then coated in chocolate. They are FULL of calories and protein. That's hard to justify when I'm looking for an afternoon snack at home, but can be quite useful when your stomach is rumbling with a bok-choi-and-white-rice induced lack of protein. It's a far cry from the simple ingredient list on the side of a Lara Bar, but it packs a punch that lasts much longer.
Odwalla Bars
I hadn't really tried Odwalla bars before these two trips, and I am definitely a new fan. My top favorite is definitely the "Chewy Nut Bar: Sweet & Salty Almond" Mm! I only took one to India, and made sure to take a couple with me to China. It's chewy, nutty, crunchy... and just like it says - a little bit salty and a little bit sweet. A nice snack.
I also liked all the other flavors I tried, even "Superfood", which I was skeptical about. "Banana Nut" was very nice. Their "Odwalla Bar!" like (compared to the Chewy Nut Bars) are soft and a bit bready, a bit lighter and more airy than the Clif Bar. Feeling more like a baked good. They feel generally quite healthy and less like candy, which is nice when you are actually hungry for food and nutrients.
Since the trips, I have definitely added Odwalla Bars to my list when I'm looking for a little snack, and I look forward to trying more flavors.
Lara Bars
Well, you've probably all tried these. I really love them. I love that the ingredients are few, simple, and natural. I like that I know and can pronounce each ingredient. The Lara Bar isn't an adequate meal replacement, but it does make a nice addition to a meal, or serve as a tide-me-over snack. They are healthy, fruity, and truly flavorful. No weird additives or aftertastes. A nice moist, food-like texture. I really think Lara Bars are great. Some of my new favorite flavors are: Cherry Pie and Ginger Snap. Big time YUM. Cashew Cookie is a bit more mild, which I didn't like quite as much.
I also really like their JOCOLAT line - raw and chocolatey. Unlike the Raw Revolution bar, these bars are raw and really live up to their chocolatey name. I especially like the Chocolate Mint and Chocolate Orange flavors. I think these bars are really great. It's a nice alternative to a candy bar when you are looking for an indulgence that won't fill you with remorse (and icky ingredients).
Art's Pro Bar
Last, but not least! I really love these ProBars. At $3.50 a pop, they are a bit of an investment. But if you think of it as an inexpensive lunch or breakfast, the price looks a bit better. These bars are all vegan, all organic, all unprocessed. They are seriously filling and really good. ProBars have a good texture profile that is very food-y, that is both chewy and nutty. When you are done, your tummy feels as though it has eaten FOOD. This can be such a blessing, in the land of bars. Individual flavors stand out, but the overall flavor combination is successful as a whole. I particularly like the Original Blend, but really I've enjoyed the other flavors I've tried. Koka Moka is a bit more "candy-ish" but quite yummy. If you have a chance, and $3.50, I'd recommend giving them a try. I'm eager to try the other flavors, and hope that they come out with more.
If you made it to the end of this long post, I commend you. Your quest for bars is laudable.
Home-cooked food coming right up!
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Love your bar post! I did my thesis on bars (Factors influencing nutrition bar purchases among natural foods shoppers, to be exact) and I didn't eat one for about a year after finishing the project! When bars rule your world, they're easy to get sick of. But when you're traveling in a non-vegan world they're a life saver.ReplyDelete
great bar reviewReplyDelete
Thanks for the great reviews, Amey! I'm a huge Luna bar fan (they are my daily breakfast on weekdays) and I've recently started eating Clif bars for dinner on the nights that I'm running around. My favorite Clif bar flavor is Peanut Toffee Buzz w/ the Crunchy Peanut Butter one being the runner up. I'm among the few vegans that haven't tried Lara bars. I just seriously object to the amount of fat they contain for so few calories. It's not worth it to me. Someday, I'll give them a try just to say that I did, though! I really appreciate you taking the guess work out of the rest of these!ReplyDelete
What an informative post! I could have used this pre-trip, as I learned the hard way that Lara bars don't fill you up. (Luckily this only happened twice.)ReplyDelete
Glad I saw this post... I'm going on a trip to middle of nowhere colorado in may and will be needing to bring lots of bars! Now I know which ones to avoid and which ones to stock up on! I got to try my first lara bars at vegfest this past weekend and really liked them :-)ReplyDelete
- debby8:14 PM
i love to shop at www.wholeandnatural.com. they have all kinds of healthy and natural kosher food and snacks. the stuff is fresh and low prices.ReplyDelete
seeya, debby
btw i used a coupon bldc08 try it
it's weird, I'm not really a bar person, but it's not that I don't like them, I just don't buy them. That said, thank you for this rundown!! Having no experience a writeup like this is gold!ReplyDelete
Actually, I have tried the Larabars (yum!), and I used to ADORE the Nature's Path Optimum bars - what do you think of those ones? The blueberry flax one was my favourite, it had a great crispy texture and blueberry flavour, and also the cranberry ginger!
Great blog! I'm a HUGE bar consumer as a vegan with a toddler, a small business, and a musical career. Bars are the only way to support my dietary choices.ReplyDelete
I'm sad you didn't like the Organic food bars! Those are by far my favorite; raw, whole foods, and 100% organic, these are the ones I feel best about giving to my daughter. My local grocery no longer carries them, but I drive 30 minutes to get them elsewhere!
And I found the Odwalla bars to have something of a chemically taste/aftertaste, which I chalk up to the excessive chemical fortification they use.
I totally agree with the Larabars Love. (except Cashew Cookie is my fave flavor! LOL!)
Thanks for the excellent blog!
vegyogini: I had a similar issue with the larabars until I considered how much of the fat was from nut meats, which is so important for our bodies!
I think the raw bars taste too raw. I love all the Clif and Lara bars. I hope you will try another couple of my favorites - Odwalla Berries GoMega and Strawberry Pomegranite!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:20 AM
After reading your bar review I bought a couple of Clif bars to try. I had "carrot cake" with a cup of tea and the sugar content was way too intense for me. Never again. I gave the other bar away.ReplyDelete
After a decades of having a powerful sweet tooth, I recently tamed the sugar monster. Now, fruit satisfies.
Great and thorough post. Lots of bars out there, glad ours mad the list. One correction, PROBAR is not 100% or "all" organic as you stated. It's more in the neighborhood of 80-85% organic and certified organic by the state of Utah. It's hard to be 100% organic with so many raw items in the bar, but we'll keep working to get there.ReplyDelete
If you'd like to sample any of our new flavors from the new line, drop me a line and I'll send some your way - kendall AT the probar dot com
- Anonymous9:49 AM
HI Amy, I am Dan O'Connor's mom. I live in South Lake Tahoe and discovered your blog online cruising through the Sentinel. I never knew exactly what a vegan was, but your recipes and pictures are awesome and inspiring. You may turn a lifelong omnivore into a vegan someday. Keep up the good work. Linda Baumgart (formerly O'Connor)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the post. I already love Clif bars but now after this I feel I can safely add a few more different brands.ReplyDelete


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Blue Horizon - a special project I have been working on
For a few months, I have been hinting about a special project I've been working on. I can finally reveal what it is! I've been working with Blue Horizon, a sustainable seafood company based in California. Blue Horizon's products are available at many different retailers across the US and Canada, and most notably at Whole Foods. I have been in charge of styling and photographing Blue Horizon's line of products and help convey everything the company stands for.
The projects that I take on are always ones that I feel a particular affiliation for– and this project was no different. Blue Horizon is committed to sustainable fishing practices, and only uses fish and seafood caught from environmentally sustainable, small community-based fisheries. They use all-natural ingredients without synthetic growth hormones or preservatives. Blue Horizon's commitment to ethical fishing techniques and its mandate against any practices that participate in destroying the ocean's ecosystem was one of the aspects that first really drew me to work with this company. We worked for several weeks finding the look for the packages. Blue Horizon wanted their packages to be a reflection of what they stand for. We thus worked on achieving a look that would convey the freshness of the products and remind consumers of the the richness of the ocean as well artisanal fisheries.
In a world where food production often fails to respect moral standards, eating responsibly has been increasingly important for me. Blue Horizon is taking several steps in the right direction and I couldn't be more proud to have contributed to such a great company. Here is a glimpse of some of my work...you will soon be able to find the rest of the packages in stores! If you're curious to find out more about sustainable fishing practices and how to always buy ethically caught fish, visit Blue Horizon's website. You can also sign up for their newsletter here where you will receive a special discount coupon to try some of their goodies.
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- Natalie said...
Congratulations! So exciting - and beautiful photography as always!
- August 31, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- stephanie said...
Well, when they say photography sells... I'm not a regularly interested by frozen food, but these really appeal to me! Great job!
- August 31, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
stephanie: Thanks, I hope you give them a try! I think frozen foods sometimes get an undeserved bad reputation. A lot of frozen foods are frozen right at the peak of freshness and are thus really perfect once you eat them. As long as frozen foods are not filled with preservatives, additives and all that "junk" they can really be a great dinner option.. especially seafood that you can't necessarily find fresh year-round!
- August 31, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- Elra's cooking and baking said...
Congratulation! I can see why you got the job :)
- August 31, 2011 at 9:10 PM
- The Galley Gourmet said...
Congratulations! Such beautiful work. You really captured the quality of the food. I will certainly keep my eye out for their products at Whole Foods. Thanks for stopping by my blog and introducing me to yours. It's lovely-- just lovely!
- August 31, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Your photos sure make the product look incredible. I'm going to check out the link. I could see eating both of those dishes! Sounds like a great company.
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Congratulations! How exciting this must be and the photos looks absolutely gorgeous! Great job!
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Nice pictures - good packaging.
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Coffee!!: Miss Shelver strikes again, but this one must use men's room, I gather
A while back, I wrote about a self-absorbed female Darwinist* who was misshelving Mike Behe's Edge of Evolution in the "religion" section of the bookstore, to make some odd personal point:
At a blog called "biologists helping bookstores," a Pasadena-based woman whose handle is Shandon explains how she deliberately misshelved Mike Behe's Edge of Evolution, and a number of other books - distributing them around the store according to her private tastes.Well, the misshelving bug has struck Darwinists again.
Here is another one - a guy, apparently, this time - helping to make life a bigger pain in the neck for everyone, in defense of Darwin:
Today I went to Hastings and had my camera with me. The copy of Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell I moved a few months ago was in neither the science nor religion section, and was probably purchased. Today I moved The Edge of Evolution and The Darwin Myth away from the shelve directly under where copies of Dawkins's The Greatest Show on Earth were, and placed them next to – I just had to – the Adventure Bible and the Princess Bible in the religion section.Now, if I had to say one thing about modern Darwinism that should raise suspicion in any citizen anywhere, it is this: The lengths to which these people will go to prevent their fellow citizens from discovering information that they are actually looking for.
If you ever wondered what a world run by Darwinists would look like, well, this is what it would look like: An unending stream of busybodies running your life by limiting goods and services, in the name of "evolution" or some similarly unquestionable cause. The big thing is to render the cause, whatever it is, unquestionable, by whatever means needed.
I hear that someone has complained about the problem to the bookstore- and hope that others will, and that the current Miss Shelver runner-up will be asked to take courses in information science, or something.
Earlier, I wrote to friends,
I used to write for Canadian Bookseller Association's trade magazine, so I know whereof I speak when say this:
No one has any right to mess with a private business's arrangement of legal inventory. They arrange it for customer convenience. (Except that the front tables and the end caps of shelves are usually sold to a publisher willing to pay a premium.)
And nothing is so time-wasting for the bookstore sales associate and the customer who is running between errands (= "Honey, if you are picking the kids up at the plaza gym anyway, could you pick me up a copy of Signature in the Cell?") as this scenario:
The computer reports three copies of the book, but no one can find them. Were they stolen? Ruined? Unintentionally misshelved by a new, inexperienced employee? No information on these possible explanations is likely. Thieves, for example, and people who accidentally spill pop on a book usually flee and do not e-mail the store to explain. Also, it is seldom worth interviewing an inexperienced employee, as it will only terrify her and she usually does not remember exactly what she did anyway.
So the assistant manager is called. Then the manager.
The store looks bad. But it isn't the store's fault - rather that of the intellectual vandal who deliberately misshelved the books, who is long gone, to congratulate himself somewhere on his heroic feat - which any old lady in a walker could have done, incidentally. So he should get some medal of honour? From which government? Where?
As a punishment, he should be forced to do the store's year-end inventory. The store would then find the books, eventually, and he might learn something in the process. Maybe he wouldn't need the courses in information science.
*I would like to think there are non-self-absorbed Darwinists, and comfort myself with the thought that people do not always live down to their convictions.
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Tim McGraw concert tickets and an autographed Florida Georgia Line poster are amongst items country fans may be interested in when the Music for Newtown auction begins on March 25. Additionally, the Avett Brothers and Thomas Rhett have donated items to benefit the families of victims and first responders from the December tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The most coveted item still promises to be the electric guitar with Taylor Swift's autograph, but McGraw concert tickets for his June 30 show in Holmdel, N.J. are sure to draw significant attention. Rhett has offered an autographed copy of his acoustic EP, and the Avett Brothers have donated an autographed vinyl copy of their most recent album 'The Carpenter.'
Non-country artists supporting the auction include the Eagles, Colbie Caillat, Jack Johnson and Gotye. Four tickets to a May taping of 'The Voice' are up for auction as well. The bidding begins at 3PM ET on March 25 and lasts until 3PM ET on March 27. One hundred percent of the proceeds go to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund. Republic Records is the sponsor of the online auction.


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by Janice J. Heiss
Oracle Java EE Expert Arun Gupta provides glimpses into Java EE 7.
Published February 2013
At the annual IOUC (International Oracle User Community) Summit, held January 14–16, 2013, at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, more than 100 top user group leaders from around the world gathered to share best practices, provide feedback, and receive updates from leading Oracle developers.
Of particular note was a session by Oracle Java evangelist and Java EE expert Arun Gupta entitled "The Java EE 7 Platform: Higher Productivity and Embracing HTML5," which offered a window into the rich possibilities that will be available in Java EE 7 upon its release in the spring of 2013. Gupta took the attendees through some major developments in Java EE 7:
In addition, he discussed the implementation status of Java EE 7, looked ahead to Java EE 8, and addressed the challenges and potential pitfalls involved in establishing a standards-based cloud programming model.
Gupta began the session with a brief discussion of Java EE 6, released on December 10, 2009. The intervening years have seen more than 50 million Java EE 6 component downloads, establishing it as the world's premier application development platform. The success of Java EE 6 constitutes the fastest implementation of a Java EE release thus far.
"In addition to Oracle, companies such as IBM, SAP, Hitachi, Red Hat, Fujitsu, and Caucho have adopted it," said Gupta. "There are 18 implementations of compliant Java EE 6 application servers today. Every month or so, we see a new vendor coming in."
He pointed out that Java EE 7 offers higher productivity; less boilerplate; richer functionality; more default options; and HTML5 support in the form of WebSocket and JSON. Although Java EE 7 offers a standards-based platform with a lot of innovation, Gupta observed, "There are not enough standards in the cloud with W3C and other standards bodies. More standards are needed so that we can define a Java API for the cloud. Premature standardization can also be a problem if not enough innovation has taken place. So what is the right thing for the platform? We have reached out to the community, the core group members, and the executive committee of the Java Community Process and have focused on providing higher productivity and on embracing the HTML5 platform more closely. We are going to use dependency injection a lot more, which will give developers the ability to write less boilerplate code and offer richer functionality such as batch applications and caching. Similarly, for HTML5, we are embracing WebSocket functionality and the ability to parse and generate a JSON structure. We are providing support for HTML5-friendly markup as part of JSF."
He then discussed the most important features of Java EE 7.
"We are building several new features in JAX-RS 1.0," explained Gupta. "We are introducing a new client API in 2.0 that will enable you to invoke a REST endpoint in a standard way. We are providing extension points, methods filters, and entity interceptors that improve how to do request and response and how to do pre- and postprocessing very easily, which will be useful in addressing cross-cutting concerns such as logging or security, which you can easily do as part of your REST endpoint."
Other new developments include asynchronous processing for both the server and the client, enabling more-scalable applications, hypermedia support, common configuration to simplify the REST endpoint, and more.
For more on JAX-RS 2.0, check out Gupta's blog entry on this topic.
Gupta pointed out that the last version of Java Message Service was released in December 2003—before JDK 1.4. Although JMS is stable and extensively used, he explained that it needed to catch up with subsequent changes in the Java platform such as generics, injection, and annotation. Java EE 7 leverages the new functionality to improve the way developers write JMS code. With JMS 2.0, developers will use less boilerplate code and will be able to take advantage of resource injection, meaning greater functionality and more-effective, simpler code.
Gupta demonstrated how it took 20 lines to send a simple message with JMS 1.1 whereas with JMS 2.0, it could be done in 6 lines with cleaner and more semantically readable code. "This is a huge improvement," he remarked.
Gupta turned to Java API for JSON Processing 1.0. whose original purpose was to parse and generate JSON when it was first introduced into the platform. Gupta remarked, "If you are familiar with JAXP, you know that it has an event-driven StAX streaming API and a DOM-based API. The same analogy applies to Java API for JSON Processing: it has a streaming API and an object API."
Streaming API
Object model
"What has been missing," said Gupta, "is the ability to take a POJO and place an annotation so that it will automatically do the binding for you as in JAXB. This improvement is forthcoming."
JSR 356 defines how to write a standards-based WebSocket application. It defines not just the service endpoint but also ways it can be written with either an annotation-driven or an interface-driven model. A separate client-side API will be introduced as well.
"The WebSocket protocol works by having everything on the wire functioning as a data or control frame," explained Gupta. "So an API or an SPI for data frames can be defined, enabling developers to manipulate the data frames. For example, you can use the SPIs to perform some WebSocket extensions for things such as compression or multiplexing. We are often asked how this can work in a Java SE environment. Whether it gets defined and approved in JSR 356 is to be determined. But Tyrus, the reference implementation for JSR 356, will provide a client profile."
Gupta explained that Bean Validation was a new specification introduced in Java EE 6. Instead of defining validation constraints—such as the number of characters allowed in a name or the number of elements in a list—as part of the application logic, they could be more easily defined with annotation. "An annotation," said Gupta, "is put as a constraint on a method, and the Bean Validator, which is part of Java EE, automatically kicks in and honors those constraints."
He explained that constraints can be defined at one point and are automatically honored by the Bean Validator; they can be enabled, disabled, configured, or defined as custom constraints. "In Java EE 6, this was used primarily by Java Persistence API and JavaServer Faces," Gupta remarked. "In Java EE 7, they can be put on EJBs or simple POJOs."
JSR 352 offers new functionality in Java EE 7 for non-interactive, bulk-oriented, long-running tasks such as generating monthly bank statements, which involves processing thousands of accounts in the short processing time of the bank's network. "You just define a process, and it runs by itself on schedule," said Gupta. "Most of the concepts of JSR 352 are borrowed from Spring. Tasks can be run in parallel or sequentially. There is a full Java XML that will define what your task will look like, with defined steps and a complete task flow."
Gupta commented that JSR 236 was filed a long time ago and has recently gained momentum. It defines how you can create, for example, new managed threads. Java EE itself restricts the creation of new threads. Java EE is a managed application, so if the user creates new threads and the container and the runtime have no knowledge of those threads, how does it manage it? JSR 236 will enable developers to create managed threads that are known and managed by the container.
Reusable flows, HTML5-friendly markup, and resource library contracts are the big-ticket items for JSF 2.2. Faces Flow borrows core concepts from Oracle ADF Task Flow, Spring Web Flow, and Apache MyFaces CODI. It introduces
@FlowScoped CDI annotation, for flow local storage, and
@FlowDefinition, for defining the flow with CDI producer methods. There are clearly defined entry and exit points with well-defined parameters, so the flow can be reused.
Gupta closed the session with a brief discussion of the minor changes offered by Servlet 3.1 and Java Persistence API 2.1. He pointed out that although the changes in Java EE 7 for these are minor, they each received major overhauls in Java EE 6.
Gupta encouraged developers to participate in Adopt-a-JSR, where they can pursue their interest in particular Java EE 7 JSRs and download code, play with it, report bugs, and offer feedback to Java EE 7 specification leads.
Janice J. Heiss is the Java acquisitions editor at Oracle and a technology editor at Java Magazine.
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Jennifer Rubin: "Bush Is Back"
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Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin is seizing on a recent poll showing that George W. Bush's approval numbers are up to declare "Bush is back," arguing that America is starting to appreciate Bush's policies in the light of what she calls the "rotten" Obama presidency. To make her case, Rubin neatly excises from Bush's record every single massive failure and disaster that resulted in Bush leaving office as one of the least popular presidents in history.
Rubin managed to cram so much misinformation and nonsense into seven short paragraphs that it's tough to pick a place to start, but this one is worthy of special attention:
Why the shift? Aside from the "memories fade" point, many of his supposed failures are mild compared to the current president (e.g. spending, debt). Unlike Obama's tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11. People do remember the big stuff -- rallying the country after the Twin Towers attack, 7 1/2 years of job growth and prosperity, millions of people saved from AIDS in Africa, a good faith try for immigration reform, education reform and a clear moral compass.
"Aside from the 'memories fade' point, many of his supposed failures are mild compared to the current president (e.g. spending, debt)." Funny thing about those "spending" and "debt" failures of Obama's that make Bush's supposedly seem so mild: Bush-era policies are responsible for the lion's share of the current public debt and will continue exacerbating the debt situation long after President Obama has left office.
"Unlike Obama's tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11." This is false. There were a number of successful terrorist attacks between 9-11 and the end of the Bush presidency, most prominently the DC-area sniper attacks of 2002. But I'm dodging the real problem, which is the phrase "after 9/11." Her argument -- an argument she's made before -- is that the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, despite happening on Bush's watch, doesn't count against Bush. Why? She doesn't say. Rubin doesn't allow Obama any terrorism Mulligans, calling his record "spotty at best with Benghazi, Libya, Boston and Fort Hood."
"People do remember the big stuff." It's possible that Bush's failed (but "good faith") push for immigration reform features more prominently in the American consciousness than, say, Hurricane Katrina (which Rubin doesn't mention), but that seems unlikely. As for the "7 1/2 years of job growth and prosperity," that might not be as well remembered as the devastating global financial crisis that concluded Bush's time in office.
And what of the Iraq war, that generation-defining foreign policy disaster for which Bush will ultimately be remembered (the poll Rubin cites says 57 percent disapprove of the decision to invade)? It merits brief mention: "Unlike the current president, who's played politics with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, President Bush took huge political risks to back the surge in Iraq, which worked." How about the fact that Bush was personally responsible for launching a war based on bad intelligence? "Other supposed sins are in retrospect less attributable to him personally. (Many Western governments believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.)"
So if you look back at Bush's legacy and leave out 9-11, the thousands of dead and wounded in Iraq, the tragic failures of pre-Iraq intelligence gathering, the massive and ongoing debt and deficits, and Hurricane Katrina, you're left with a pretty rosy picture. Bush is back!
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DailyDirt: Small Houses For Fun & Profit
from the urls-we-dig-up deptAnother era of building McMansions probably won't be coming again anytime soon. Big houses built quickly and somewhat cheaply aren't in much demand nowadays. But there are a few designers who are working on really small houses (that could almost fit in a McMansion closet). Here are just a few examples of some extremely tiny living spaces that look nicer than you might expect.
- If you think you can live in a ~100 square foot house, you can build your own tiny little house -- and some nice floorplans are available for about $1 per square foot. These houses may not be as modular as a shipping container house, but they look more like regular houses -- slightly smaller. [url]
- Frank Lloyd Wright once designed a very, very small house... and he provided the design for free to a kid who asked nicely for a doghouse to go along with a summerhome that Wright also designed. The original doghouse was destroyed, but the doghouse has been re-created for a documentary. [url]
- A popup camper that can fit in a shopping cart doesn't look very comfortable, but it's a lot better than a cardboard box. The artist that designed this humble abode was planning for a "worst case" scenario of living on the streets -- during a zombie apocalypse? [url]
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Reducing the Number of Prices
The Postal Service has more than 10,000 prices contained in a 1,800-page customer manual known as the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM). The DMM provides individual and commercial mailers with information about postal services and standards for both domestic and international mailings. The Price List, also known as Notice 123, contains domestic and international retail and commercial prices for all postal products and services.


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(PEOPLE.com) -- I wanted to write about something else. Anything else. Last night's episode was filled with the classic "Jersey Shore" hilarity that viewers have come to love.
But let's be honest: There's nothing to talk about this week but the Snooki punch! Or lack thereof.
After heavily promoting the incident in which Snooki gets violently socked in the face by bar patron Brad Ferro on episode previews over the past several weeks, the punch heard around the world (wide Web) never saw the light of TV airtime. In a statement about pulling the footage, MTV says the incident "was a crime and obviously extremely disturbing."
So, the network sloppily applied a band-aid on the controversial scene and blacked out the screen during the actual moment of impact. Shots of an anguished Snooki, police hauling away her assailant and a message about MTV's anti-violence stance followed in an apparent attempt at responsibility and an effort to quell the criticism surrounding the show.
Here's one viewer who isn't buying it.
What the network did only adds to the curiosity about the event. Anyone with access to a computer can watch the punch; tens of thousands on YouTube already have.
MTV also claimed that the show will "make it clear what events transpired, including the full aftermath."
Really? Will we get to see the consequences for Ferro, a New York City high school teacher who was arrested on assault charges and placed in a "temporary reassignment center" in the school system? Somehow I doubt it.
On a lighter note, our shore house seven were especially amusing this week in the first 50-some minutes of the episode. Sammi breaks the cardinal rule of the "Jersey Shore" and falls in love with Ronnie, while Pauly D and Mike are luring and losing women faster than you can say "The Situation."
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WCW The Best of Monday Nitro Volume 1 was a very strong WWE DVD release, but Volume 2 is even better. The reason is that with Volume 2 WWE has made more of a concerted effort to showcase the cavalcade of talent that the WCW Monday Nitro television program featured. While stars such as Hulk Hogan, Sting, Ric Flair, Scott Hall, Lex Luger, Randy Savage and Kevin Nash are all featured in this one, they don't dominate the DVD in the way they did in the earlier one.
By taking this approach, the DVD has some truly special matches. In this collection is a match from 1996 between Jushin Liger and Dean Malenko that has a wonderful ebb and flow to it that truly demonstrates why professional wrestling is considered an art form. The maneuvers in this match are crisply executed and the story that they tell in the ring is first rate. And it is not the only entry in the collection from the WCW cruiserweight division.
There's a great match from 1996 pitting Rey Mysterio versus Juventud Guerrera, which is only slightly marred by when the cameras during the match focusing on Ric Flair coming out to drink champagne with Miss Elizabeth and Woman. There is also a great 1997 six-man cruiserweight tag team match pitting Rey Mysterio, Juventud Guerrera and Hector Garza against Psicosis, Silver King and La Parka that's full of all sorts of crazy spots. As well, there's a very intense 1998 match between Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero during the days of the Latin World Order.
Diamond Dallas Page is featured in a number of high quality singles matches against Jeff Jarrett, Chris Jericho, and Sting. The 1996 match with Jarrett demonstrates that the two had great chemistry in the ring, while the 1998 match against Jericho makes you wish that it was longer. It is the match against Sting from 1998 for the WCW World Heavyweight Title that provides Diamond Dallas Page with the best opportunity to tell a lengthier story in the ring. The match has a good back and forth flow with some nice hard and snug action throughout and a good ending.
Volume 2 also features some very early single matches for both Booker T and Bill Goldberg. The 1997 match between Booker T and Jeff Jarrett is an excellent prelude for some of the matches the two would have later on, while Booker T's match with Randy Savage showed how much Booker T had developed by that point and Savage's knack for putting over younger talent. The Goldberg matches include the first match from the infamous winning streak against Hugh Morrus circa 1997 and a very entertaining WCW U.S. Title match from 1998 against Raven. These particular matches help to explain to those who may not have been watching in the late 1990s what a phenomenon Goldberg was.
Tag team matches are prominently featured as well in Volume 2. There is an extremely stiff and hard-hitting 1996 match between the Road Warriors and the Steiner Brothers that is a great example of why tag team wrestling was special. The match has several reversals and changes of fortune between the two teams before ending up with a bit of a surprising finish to the match. There is also an additional match with the Steiner Brothers versus Public Enemy that goes all over the arena and features a rare sighting of blood on a WCW program.
Of course, no collection showing the Best of WCW Monday Nitro would be complete without some of the infamous moments in the history of the program and Volume 2 is no exception. Included is Madusa's trashing of the WWE Women's Championship and the very short match between Rey Mysterio and Kevin Nash. The birth of the NWO Wolfpack is also featured during which you can clearly see how it confused the crowd somewhat and was an early indication of some of the problems the angle would face later on. Jericho's confrontation with Goldberg is featured as well.
In addition to the aforementioned Public Enemy and Raven matches, the most hardcore matches featured in Volume 2 are a 1999 ladder match between Scott Hall and Bam Bam Bigelow and a 2000 House of Pain match putting Sting versus Vampiro. By 1999 WCW had a habit of having a massive amount of outside interference and screw job finishes for a lot of their matches and this does manifest in a lot of the matches from this period and later. There is also from 1999 the last World Title match between Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan, which, while nowhere near the quality of their earlier matches was interesting from a historical perspective.
The collection also contains some short features on Spring Break, Nitro Parties and the Nitro Girls which gives viewers an idea of the diversity of the WCW Monday Nitro program and also how popular it was at its height. Once again Diamond Dallas Page is the host for WCW The Best of WCW Monday Nitro Volume 2 and does an effective job of informing the viewer of what was happening in WCW as you move down through the years. Page also talks a bit about what Randy Savage meant to him which is very touching.
What's been written here is only a partial listing of the quality matches and materials featured in WCW The Best of Monday Nitro Volume 2 and while it doesn't feature every match or feud that I would have liked it is an extremely strong release from WWE. With any luck there'll be a Volume 3 somewhere down the road!


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'Doctor Who' Showrunner Steven Moffat Defends Peter Capaldi's Older Casting
Though most of the surprise behind 'Doctor Who''s heralded 12th Doctor casting lay in the decision not to shake things up with a new race or gender, plenty of fans were similarly caught off guard that the 55 year-old Peter Capaldi would take the franchise away from its younger-skewing recent history. We've heard 'Doctor Who' mastermind Steven Moffat defend Capaldi's casting before, but what does he have to say on the age difference?
"The Doctor's always said he's thousands of years old, and suddenly he's going to look closer to what we know he secretly is," Moffat says in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. "He's going to look like an older man. A fiercer man. He won't be the dashing young man he was a minute ago, and I think that'll be rather exciting."
'Doctor Who' has made no secret of skewing younger over the years, starting with the initial 2005 revival series headed by Christopher Eccleston, moving into the more female-friendly David Tennant, and more recently its youngest casting yet in heartthrob Matt Smith. True, an older Doctor lands closer to the series' roots, though we can't quite shake the image of younger 'Doctor Who' fans initially brought to the series by Smith's charm and good looks, now presented with a much older man in the title role.
[Peter Capaldi]'s always looked like Doctor Who, how has this taken us so long?! Because the moment you say his name, you go 'Of course!' Because he's got the hair, and he's got the look, he's brilliant, he's known to be a fan, of course it's bloody him!
The question of what took so long only grows when you consider that Capaldi actually appeared on 'Doctor Who' in 2008 as marble merchant Caecilius, opposite David Tennant in season 4 episode "The Fires of Pompeii." Even more, Capaldi also appeared on 'Torchwood: Children of Earth' as Permanent Secretary to the Home Office John Frobisher. Oddly enough, Capaldi even played a doctor of the "W.H.O" (World Health Organization) in 'World War Z.'
Well, what say you Who-vians? Will 'Doctor Who' alienate any of its younger viewers in casting an older Doctor, or will Peter Capaldi prove his worth when the eighth series begins in 2014?


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Rashid Bashir completed his BSEE from Texas Tech University as the highest ranking graduate in the College of Engineering in Dec 1987. He completed his MSEE from Purdue University in 1989 and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1992. From Oct 1992 to Oct 1998, he worked at National Semiconductor in the Analog/Mixed Signal Process Technology Development Group where he was promoted to Sr. Engineering Manager. He joined Purdue University in Oct 1998 as Assistant Professor and was later promoted to Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Courtesy Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Since Oct 2007, he is the Abel Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering, Director of the Micro and NanoTechnology Laboratory (a campus wide clean room facility) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the campus-side Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, a collaboratory aimed to facilitate center grants and large initiatives around campus in the area of nanotechnology. He has authored or co-authored over 120 journal papers, over 140 conference papers and conference abstracts, over 80 invited talks, and has been granted 34 patents. He is a fellow of IEEE and AIMBE..
His research interests include BioMEMS, Lab on a chip, nano-biotechnology, interfacing biology and engineering from molecular to tissue scale, and applications of semiconductor fabrication to biomedical engineering, all applied to solve biomedical problems. He has been involved in 2 startups that have licensed his technologies.
In addition to his own research group, he is the PI on an NSF IGERT on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology and PI on an NIH Training Grant on Cancer Nanotechnology. He is also a project lead on an NSF Science and Technology Center on Emergent Behavior of Integrated Biological Systems (head quartered at MIT, and partners at GT and UIUC).
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Dying Light Trailer: An Epidemic of the Undead
This newest undead trailer for Dying Light has it all: zombies, zip-lines, slow-motion hopscotch and a piano medley.
The PlayStation Blog has released a new trailer for Dying Light, the upcoming zombie apocalypse first-person shooter. Are you a fan of the slow, Romero-style of zombies? Dying Light has them. A fan of the more recent, '28 Days Later' type who can run for infinitely long distances? Dying Light has those too. Similar to the Left 4 Dead and Dead Island series, Dying Light also has its fair share of abnormal walkers, such as the oversized, hulking zombie and acrobatic, smaller ones.
In its recent trailer, "Epidemic," Dying Light shows off just how fast the world can go to hell after a zombie outbreak. What the trailer insinuates, is that sometimes, the human survivors can be the real monsters.
Repairing barricades, securing supplies and fighting to survive can eventually take its toll on people. This is where the survivors you encounter come into play in Dying Light. Much like the crazed survivors of the Dead Rising series, the trailer hints that you're going to have to also fight off other humans if you truly want to survive. The little girl in the trailer shows that there is a human aspect to the game as well, and you might have to protect what's yours and the people you care about from other survivors.
Dying Light is expected for a March 31 release on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.


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DANIELSVILLE - William Lester "Buster" Morrison, 93, died Wednesday, December 5, 2012.
A native of Madison County, he was the son of the late William and Willie Morgan Morrison. Mr. Morrison was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Evelyn Belk Morrison; and siblings, Watson, Marion and Pete Morrison, Jeanette Hudson, Pauline Fitzpatrick, Dolly McEntire and Ginny Sue Wilbanks. He was a retired farmer, school bus driver, and mechanic with the Madison County Board of Education. He was a member of the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church for many years.
Survivors include children, William L. Morrison Jr., Brenda (Farris) Gary, Cheryl Elaine Cefalu, Dianne (Chet) Mingledorff, and Gail (Eddie) Fisher; sisters, Joyce Daniel and Betty Morrison; 15 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and a special caregiver, Nicolas Cefalu.
Graveside services will be held Saturday December 8, at 2 p.m. at Wesley Chapel Community Church cemetery. Chet Mingledorff will officiate. Pallbearers will be grandsons. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday, December 7, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Lord and Stephens Funeral Home, Danielsville, is in charge of arrangements.
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Spring planting is near: join the Arbor Day Foundation, receive 10 free trees
Joining the Arbor Day Foundation is an ideal way to get in the mood for spring planting. Anyone who joins the Foundation in February 2017 will receive 10 free Colorado blue spruce trees or 10 free redbud trees to plant when the weather turns warm.
The free trees are part of the nonprofit Foundation's Trees for America campaign.
The Tree City USA program has supported community forestry throughout the country for the past 40 years.
The trees will be shipped postpaid at the right time for planting, between March 1 and May 31, with enclosed planting instructions. The 6- to 12-inch trees are guaranteed to grow, or they will be replaced free of charge.
Members also receive a subscription to the Foundation's colorful bimonthly publication, Arbor Day, and The Tree Book, which contains information about planting and care.
To become a member of the Foundation and receive the free trees, send a $10 contribution to TEN FREE COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE TREES or TEN FREE EASTERN REDBUD TREES, Arbor Day Foundation, 100 Arbor Avenue, Nebraska City, NE 68410, by February 28, 2017, or visit arborday.org/february.


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Technical Support
Here are some helpful guides to keep your Canyon in top shape! Just pick the relevant category to find the solution to your issue.
Adjusting of front derailleur
Adjusting the front derailleur requires a little skill. You have to use a little trial an error until you find the optimum adjustment. It is therefore advisable to proceed with the adjustment in small steps.
1. Check first whether the chain is worn. You can only perform the adjustment if the chain is in good condition.
2. Then check the height of the front derailleur. Then actuate the shift lever so that the front derailleur moves outwards as far as it can go. When in this position, the lower edge of the outer guide plate must be 1-2 millimeters above the tips of the teeth on the large chain ring. Picture 1 If the front derailleur is in the wrong position, slacken off the bolt slide the front or rear derailleur upwards or downwards on the seat tube as required.
3. Then check the correct lateral position of the front derailleur. Look down on the mechanism from above. The outer guide plate runs exactly parallel to the large chain ring. Picture 2 If the front derailleur is not in the correct position, slacken off the bolt and swivel the mechanism on the seat tube until you achieve the precise position required.
4. Now shift onto the smallest sprocket on the cassette and onto the largest front chain ring. In this position the outer guide plate should be so close to chain that it almost touches it. This is adjusted by H-screw on the front derailleur, which is the outer screw. Please note that sometimes the screws are not marked. If this screw is difficult to turn pull the front derailleur outwards slightly with your hand to relieve pressure on the screw. The chain so close to the inner guide plate that it almost touches it.
5. Now repeat this procedure for the small front chain ring and shift onto the largest sprocket on the cassette. You can restrict how far the front derailleur moves inwards by turning the L-screw, which is the inner screw. Picture 3
6. Now check the cable tension. In this position pull the cable until it's slightly taught. Picture 4 Picture 5 You can adjust cable tension either via the shift lever on the handlebar or the adjusting screw on the down tube. Now shift onto the next largest front chain ring. If you are unable to do so, it is often the case that there not enough tension on the cable when the chain is on the smallest front chain ring.
7. When using a triple crankset, first shift onto the middle front chain ring and the largest sprocket on the cassette. There should now be a very small clearance between the chain and the inner guide plate. Picture 6 If this is not the case readjust using the adjusting screws via the shift lever on the handlebar or the adjusting screw on the down tube.


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As the White House prepares to convene its summit on health care on Thursday, Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Roger Hickey, who will attend the White House meeting, is stressing the importance of a public insurance plan as a crucial tool to address the rising cost of health care, which, as President Obama declared at last week's fiscal summit, "is the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face by far."
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) will be hosting a press call at 9:30 am Thursday, March 5 prior to the president's summit. Call-in number 1-800-895-0231, code: health care. For more information on the call contact Jacki Schechner (202) 454-6196. Hickey, a founder and steering committee member of HCAN, will not be on the call but is available for comment at other times.
Hickey is joining with MoveOn and HCAN to counter the influence of lobbyists who are trying to "cut the heart out of the Obama health plan," as their email to supporters warns. Hickey will hand deliver a petition containing 250,000 signatures to members of Congress at the summit.
"The president understands that a public health insurance option is key to expanding coverage, controlling costs, and improving quality in health care," Hickey said. "Because of this, the president's plan says that people will have the choice to keep the health insurance they have or they can 'enroll in the new public plan or an approved private plan.'"
The Campaign for America's Future, working with health policy experts, has published a number of studies showing a public health insurance plan would drive down costs and promote high-quality care. Polling shows a choice in health care plans is appealing to most Americans, and experts predict if a large number choose the public insurance plan (like Medicare), it will not only be more efficient than most private insurance plans, it will also have the leverage to institute cost-saving and quality-enhancing reforms with an impact on the whole health economy. Hickey warns that without a public plan option to compete with private insurance, health costs will continue to skyrocket. In 40 states the top three carriers account for between 60 and 100 percent of the market.
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The following reports and resources make the case for a public plan option:
• "Obama Health Plan" by Barack Obama http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/HealthCareFullPlan.pdf
• "The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System" by the Commonwealth Fund at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Feb/The-Path-to-a-High-Performance-US-Health-System.aspx
• "The Case for Public Plan Choice in National Health Reform: Key to Cost Control and Quality Coverage" by Jacob Hacker Ourfuture.org/hacker
• "Health Care for America" by Jacob Hacker at http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp180.html
• "A Public Health Insurance Plan: Reducing Costs and Improving Quality" by Frank Clemente http://ourfuture.org/public_plan
• "Call to Action: Health Reform 2009" by Senator Max Baucus http://finance.senate.gov/healthreform2009/finalwhitepaper.pdf
• "Leaders and Experts Agree that a Public Insurance Option is Critical to the Success of Obama's Health Reform Proposals" by Institute for America's Future http://institute.ourfuture.org/files/Public_plan_quotes_Obama_Baucus_others.pdf
• "Voter support for a public health insurance plan" by Lake Research Partners http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/public_rejects_insurance_industrys_misleading_claims_new_poll_shows


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Event Parking
For weekday games (Mon.-Fri.), guests are asked to park in Lot 10 which is located south of the football stadium. All other lots on campus require a daily pass which can be purchased for $6.
For weekend games (Sat.-Sun.), guests may park in the student section of Parking Structure I which is located south of the softball stadium.
Click here for a detailed campus map.
- Exit Eastbound Hwy. 50 at Howe/Power Inn Road. Veer right, following the California State University, Sacramento sign to Hornet Drive. At the light, take a left on College Town Drive. Shea Stadium is about 200 yards past the parking structure on the right.
- Exit Westbound Hwy. 50 at Howe/Power Inn Road straight ahead to College town Drive. Once on College Town Drive, follow same directions as above.
- Exit Westbound Business 80 at J Street. Make at left turn on to J Street, and follow for about four miles. Enter the front entrance at CSUS and take a right on College Town Drive. Shea Stadium is located about a quarter-mile on the left. Parking is about 200 yards past the field in the parking structure.


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Daniel Rudd, James Augustine Healy, Elisabeth Clarisse Lange, Augustus Tolton, Pierre Toussaint are among the names that resonate for Black Catholics."
Informed estimates place the number of Catholics of African descent in America at about 3% of the total Catholic population of the United States. Within the worldwide Church itself, recent data show that persons of African descent comprise nearly 25% of all Catholics.
With so few black American Catholics, it's a wonder that there's any significant national black Catholic history to celebrate. But there is; oh, there is!
I am a second generation African-American Catholic. Both of my parents were converts. On the other hand, my wife traces her Catholic roots at least to 1722 and an unbroken direct line of descent ever since.
National Black Catholic History Month was first proclaimed in 1990 by the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus (NBCCC) to honor and celebrate the achievements and legacies of black American Catholics. The NBCCC is one of several groups that make up the National Black Catholic Congress. Among the others are The African-American Bishops of the United States, The National Black Sisters Conference, The National Association of Black Catholic Administrators, The Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver, the National Black Seminarians Association, and the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, which is located at Xavier University in New Orleans.
It was a thrill for me to learn about black Catholics in America. While I was growing up in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, I never saw a black priest. I was shocked when one day my father gave me a copy of the Josephite magazine, which is published by the Josephite Brothers, originally a "black" (now the say "interracial" order of religious men, including priests). In fact, I was over 40 years old before I encountered a black priest. I'd met a Chinese-American priest when I was about 20.
Again, my wife's experience was different. Growing up in the very Catholic town of St Louis, she always saw the multiple ethnicities of Catholicism, and encountered a black priest in elementary school. But when she entered the Army as a second lieutenant in 1974, being black and Catholic became an administrative nightmare. The personnel folks apparently had a manual that said "Black= Baptist," or at least "Black ≠ Catholic." Her dogtags and records were changed several times to "White/Catholic" or "Black/Baptist." [May be it was just the Army. . . I had no such problem when I entered the Air Force in 1972!]
I think the first time I ever met another black Catholic who was not in my family was in the Air Force in 1972 when I met my friend Dave Ross.
At any rate, there is a lot of black Catholic history, and we'll be bringing some of it to you here at The Catholic Gene during this month. Let's start with a timeline of Catholic Africana.
AD 40 The Ethiopian Eunuch is baptized by Philip the Deacon (Acts 8:26-40), bring the first black convert to Christianity.
189 St Victor I became first Pope from Africa.
311 St Melchiades becomes second Pope from Africa.
354 St Augustine is born in Africa
492 St Gelasius becomes third (and so far, last) Pope from Africa.
1491 King Nzinga-a-Nkuwu Mbemba (Afonso the Good) of the Kongo and his subjects made their profession of faith.
1518 King Nzinga's son, Henrique, is consecrated the Titular Bishop of Utica by Pope Leo X, becoming the first native bishop of West Africa.
1526 St Benedict the Moor is born.
1527 Estevanico becomes first African to set foot in future United States.
1565 Town of St Augustine, Florida, is founded. Black Catholics arrive in Florida.
1579 St Martin de Porres is born.
1500s-1800s Transatlantic Slave Trade thrives.
European explorers bring Africans to Western hemisphere.
1829 Mother Mary Lange founds the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an order for religious women of color in Baltimore.
1854 Daniel Rudd, founder of National Black Catholic Congress, is born a slave in Kentucky.
1854 James Augustine Healy, first African-American priest (or was he? See upcoming post) is ordained.
1869 St Josephine Bakhita is born in Darfur (Sudan);sold into slavery at age 6.
1886 Augustus Tolton, said to be first African-American priest (but was he really? See upcoming post), is ordained.
1889 Daniel Rudd convenes first National Black Catholic Congress.
The twentieth century brought opportunities and challenges for black Catholics in America. But first, there was the slavery issue.
Tomorrow: St Martin de Porres


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Bobby Chinn first arrived in Vietnam 15 years ago after noticing a lack of Western-influenced restaurants. He's now the chef and owner of the Hanoi-based Restaurant Bobby Chinn. Among a wild array of other things, Chinn has been the host of World Café Asia and World Café Middle East, and is the author of "Wild, Wild, East," a book about Vietnamese cooking.
AsianSupper (AS): You were one of the first foreign chefs to set up in Hanoi -- what originally attracted you to Vietnam? And what's kept you interested?
Bobby Chinn (BC): I was just a kid during the Vietnam War so I didn't really know much about what we were fighting for, like most Americans. My father suggested that I come out and have a look and I was very privileged to visit when I did, which was around 1992-3 as the country was in transition from moving away from a central market economy to a free market economy. I traveled to many different provinces and cities and read their history and developed an even great respect for the people. It was a very special time, there was no industrial expansion, the air was clean, most people were on bicycles, and there was no traffic, no litter or all the waste that capitalism brings. Everything moved slower, the food was cheap, there was a great sense of happiness, a very youthful market where people seemed to be content if not happy. Then there is the food, and I really do love the variety and quality of food here. In a nutshell, I fell in Love with Vietnam, and 16 years later, that feeling has not changed. I was able to be who ever I wanted to be, and this allowed me to make my dream come true.
AS: In the 15 years you've been in Hanoi, in what ways has the food scene changed (or not changed)?
BC: The proliferation of restaurants on all levels. Whether it is a one dish wonder, new concept like doner kebabs or gigantic seafood restaurants, the restaurant scene has changed just as dramatically as the skyline. There are more foreign chefs and foreign restaurant owners then before, so the variety of ethnic food has also expanded. The street food has changed a lot, where many vendors gave up selling local dishes from their houses to consumer electronics, or the rising price of real estate is sending some of those out of business. There is also a movement to prevent the walking vendors from setting up shops on the sidewalks, especially the old quarter, although there is a lot of resistance to this as it is part of the culture. Maybe they will follow Singapore and Malaysia, where they developed food court concepts. Farmers are also growing produce that was not available before, and the variety keeps on expanding. Imported meats, seafood and dairy are now readily available.
AS: Free association time! Describe Vietnamese food with the first 5 words you think of.
BC: Fresh, light, healthy, contemporary with a lot of contrast (in color and textures)
AS: What's your daily routine when you're in Hanoi? What markets do you hit and what do you look for?
BC: I have travelled so much that my routine has been lost and only recently have I been able to try and get back into a routine with discipline. I like to get up early and go to yoga class at 6:45 am. I then work out for another 45 minutes then I take a long walk around the lake. I swing by the restaurant and check up on the kitchen and make sure that everything is working. I generally do email and admin just before lunch, pop in and either help out for service or plan additions to the menu and new dishes. (This is usually done after service.)
When I am in Hanoi, I generally greet our guests by the door or the dining room to get feedback on service and food. I could be cooking, I could be waiting tables, or even bussing them, it really depends on where I feel I can help the operation. Sometimes however, being in the capital I am invited to events ranging from National days, cultural events, wine tastings, launches etc. Many of the wet markets have been closed down in favor of supermarkets. Most of my suppliers have moved to different areas, so its no longer the one stop shopping wet market I used to have. I have long-standing relationships with my suppliers and they know my standards so I don't visit the markets with the same frequency as when I first moved here.
AS: You recently moved your restaurant from its original location on 1 Ba Trieu Street location to 77 Xuan Dieu Street. What was behind the move, and did you think of starting anew elsewhere in or outside of Vietnam?
BC: My rent increased to the point that it would not be economically viable to stay at the location. I moved the restaurant to my house as a temporary measure as I had developed the infrastructure over 8 years and felt a great obligation to our dedicated staff which had become an extended family to me and the idea of closing and leaving them didn't seem right. I would have felt guilty if I just closed down altogether. This was supposed to be a holding pattern while a better location opened up. I would have liked to have done something in Singapore at the IR, as I have a lot of faith in how things work over there. The Singapore Tourism Board is doing a lot to encourage tourism and the local market love food. I would open in a heartbeat if the right deal came my way.
AS: Where do you think the most interesting cooking is happening right now?
BC: I am biased towards San Francisco because they have taken sustainable organic farming to a level where the ingredients do all the work, and the entire city seems to be serious foodies. As far as technique finesse etc., Spain, France and Japan are high on the list, but I think there are talented chefs all over the world, some are known but the majority are unknown. You can name a city and say there are great chefs in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, London, Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. These chefs, their food and ideas are not limited to the geography from where they made a name for themselves. With the Internet, trade magazines, cookbooks, u-tube which allows many to replicate, or borrow techniques without leaving their own backyard. There are some great restaurants in Singapore and KL etc. and there are many young passionate cooks that are busy learning all these ideas, techniques and finesse knowing that one day that they are going to make a name for themselves and pop up on the international scene as creating cutting edge food in the middle of some place you've never heard about.
AS: Your cooking has been described as Californian/French/Vietnamese. How would you describe your cooking? Are you bringing in different influences these days?
BC: I think as a cook we evolve, or stagnate and I am committed to pressing the envelope in trying new things. Filming World Cafe Asia changed the way I look at food. I am moving towards more sustainable ingredients, back to the roots, the basics. I am trying to let the ingredients play the central role and make food healthy where medicine is food and food is medicine. My menu is moving towards more global comfort food with Californian sensibilities. It's more about execution then the creativity of it all as I see my customers are looking for the basics. I am trying to make my food lighter, more nutritious bringing out the natural flavors with great presentation. I have tasted so many wonderful dishes filming and that was so inspiring, that I want to make such dishes possible where the product mix becomes more important then the actual creativity.
The French Vietnamese thing was my ego food. As if my food needed an explanation of what it is and what inspired me to cook it, create it etc. To show where the ideas came from or the influences that changed the dish. Then in season 2 and 3 of World Cafe Asia I changed. I could eat sushi anywhere in the world, but is it right? I went diving and saw the destruction of the coral reefs and visited fish markets all over Asia and the Middle East to see endangered species being sold. I don't want to make gastro-porn, where I take a non sustainable product and dress it up on a plate and make it look sexy. You are either part of the solution, or part of the problem and I want to develop creative alternatives that are part of the solution.


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Fifth Harmony Talk Halloween Costumes, Candy + Hub Bash [EXCLUSIVE]
Fifth Harmony are performing on the Hub Network's First Annual Halloween Bash, which is a 50-state costume competition that airs Saturday, Oct. 26 at 8PM ET on the kid-and-family-friendly network.
PopCrush spoke to all five of the ladies, and while they would not reveal what costumes they themselves would wear while performing, they did hint that their look would be unified and make them "click as a group." They also revealed their favorite Halloween candy; what someone dressing up as a member of Fifth Harmony for Halloween would need to incorporate into their costume; and more!
You gals are used to performing on TV, thanks to your 'X Factor' history. So let's discuss something more important. Since it's Halloween, will you be wearing costumes while performing at the Hub bash?
Normani Hamilton: You bet we will wearing costumes! We have something spooky planned. It is going to be cool event. It's the first-ever and it'll be cool. Plus, it's extra cool for us, since we are away from home and don't get to have a real Halloween.
If Fifth Harmony fans wanted to dress up as the band for Halloween, what would they have to incorporate into their costumes to be "right on" when representing you?
Dinah Jane Hansen: My hair is super thick, so [the hair would] have to be all out, looking delicious. And [they'd have to be] wearing swagged out clothes, and they have to be wearing heels. I wear heels everywhere, even if I was walking down a mountain.
Lauren Jauregui: A leather jacket. And a beanie.
Normani: There would have to be some type of sparkle on their body and they'd have to have their nails done. They would have to have crazy nails.
Camila Cabello: They would have to wear a bow!!
Ally Brooke: Probably [something] neon. They would have to wear neon or a fedora, or something short, a skirt or a dress.
What is your favorite Halloween candy of all time?
Camila: KitKat.
Ally: I love Snickers!!
Nomani: Gummy worms, or something sour.
Dinah: Snickers, and those eyeballs candies. They are creepy.
Lauren: I like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Your EP drops on Oct. 22! Tell us something about it to get your fans excited.
Ally: We're really looking forward to people hearing it, since the sound is different and you can hear the range and variety in our voices. We got to co-write other songs, too.


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