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As if a weekend in Las Vegas isn't wild enough for Southern Californians, a Nevada entrepreneur is about to add five more hours of party to either end.
After striking an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad last week, the Las Vegas Railway Express is one step closer to bringing to life the X Train, a luxurious "party train" complete with big screen TVs, recliners and two ultra lounges.
"The whole idea is when you get on a train, you feel like you're in Las Vegas," said Michael Barron, president and CEO of the $100 million venture that hopes to launch its maiden voyage on New Year's Eve 2013. "It's essentially a nightclub on wheels."
Tourists can't get from Southern California to Las Vegas by rail alone, and Barron's company isn't the first to try and fix that. The much-talked-about XpressWest project proposes a high-speed train connecting Sin City to the region from which it draws 25 percent of its tourists.
But it's a multi-billion-dollar proposal that would require setting new tracks, and it's often panned as a "train to nowhere" because the first phase would start in relatively obscure Victorville, about 100 miles outside of Los Angeles.
The X Train proposal calls for an Amtrak crew aboard a 576-passenger train that runs at standard speeds on traditional tracks.
It would start in Fullerton, Calif. — already home to an Amtrak station and part of Southern California's Metrolink commuter train network — and end in downtown Las Vegas.
A conditional agreement with Union Pacific, approved Nov. 16, will allow the company to use a rail line that's currently limited to freight trains and hasn't served passengers since Amtrak discontinued its Desert Wind service in 1997 due to low ridership.
Tickets for the adults-only train would cost $99 each way and include a meal and beverage, with plenty more alcohol available for purchase. To keep ticket prices low, the company would try to make money booking Las Vegas hotels and entertainment for passengers.
With initial plans for one trip a day on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday, Barron believes he can attract tourists weary of the weekend traffic gridlock and perhaps hung over from their weekend revelry.
"Sunday is horrific," Barron said of the Interstate 15 corridor that links Las Vegas and its neighbor. "So now you've been up for 40 hours gambling and you have to drive for seven hours — that's just horrible. But people do it in spite of that!"


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Serious Heat: Mustards to Spice Up Labor Day Cookouts
Andrea Lynn, senior editor of Chile Pepper magazine, shares thoughts and observations from the fiery food world.
Note: On Wednesdays, Andrea Lynn, senior editor of Chile Pepper magazine, drops by with Serious Heat, with additional writing by Lillian Cho.
Think a lone jar of Dijon or squeeze-bottle of yellow in your fridge covers all your mustard needs for the Labor Day grilling holiday? Well, we were under that assumption too until we went on a quest to find the best spicy mustards around. From orange to white, smooth to chunky, mild to weepingly hot, each mustard we sampled was so original that by the time we had reached the end of the taste-test, we were mustard maniacs. These are our top favorites. But we're still open to opinion. What are your favorite mustards that pack a punch? Check out ours after the jump.
Appalachian Naturals Chipotle Honey Mustard A lazy glow of chipotle provides smokiness while the wildflower honey adds hints of sugar, a fabulous juxtaposition of flavors when combined with the stone-ground mustard and variety of spices. It's just begging to be thickly spread on top of a hot dog.
True Natural Taste Organic Hearty Horseradish Mustard A delightful, white mustard that is velvety smooth and elegantly textured. Extra spicy, super creamy and wonderfully horseradishy, slather this on practically anything from a pastrami sandwich to roasted asparagus. Or just eat it by the spoonful, as we were caught doing it at our desks.
Beaver Wasabi Mustard Proceed with caution--this extra spicy mustard is worth every flame-filled bite. The creamy mustard is definitely wasabi-centric but provides a smooth burn. Pile it high on a burger!
Cherith Valley Jalapeno Cilantro Mustard This piquant and bold mustard with chunks of chiles and onions smells like fresh salsa. Though it may look like a traditional yellow mustard, the flavors go a few steps further, with a carefully balanced mix of mustard, jalapeno and fresh cilantro.
Sprecher Brewing Company Spicy Brown Beer Mustard Crack open this mug-shaped jar to find a perfect complement to brats and burgers (funny how those things go well with a beer to drink, too). The airy, bubbly mustard flavor practically dances around in the mouth and the fairly mild heat makes it even more tempting to guzzle down.
Restaurant Lulu Gourmet Mustard with Herbs de Provence Opening this mustard is like unleashing a jar full of the Provencal sun. A mild mustard with a slight throat-warming punch, it has loads of whole mustard seeds and a massive blend of herbs. The taste is savory, garlicky, and floral from subtle lavender.
Robert Rothschild Farm Raspberry Wasabi Dipping Mustard Although the raspberry taste doesn't command center stage, bask in the berry aroma of this lush mustard that delivers a kick of wasabi. The flavor combination might sound unusual, but it works so seamlessly, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it. Use this mustard to enliven boring old deviled eggs.

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The book "Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation" by Ellen Fitzpatrick, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, will be made into a major documentary film produced by TLC and involving many A-list actors, including Kirsten Dunst, Anne Hathaway, Laura Linney, and Betty White.
TLC has announced that it has commissioned the two-hour film "Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy," which will be executive produced by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Bill Couturié's The Couturie Company in partnership with Amblin Television. The film revisits the months following the assassination of President Kennedy, when the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy became the heart of the nation, leading its citizens – and her own children – through a dark and difficult time.
The film will debut as an exclusive television event on TLC this fall in honor of the 50th anniversary of the president's assassination.
The documentary is based on Fitzpatrick's book, which examines the extraordinary collection of letters sent to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy following the president's assassination and creates an incredible portrait of the nation's grief from such a cross-section of American life.
Within seven weeks of the president's death, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. And for the next 46 years, the letters would remain essentially untouched until Fitzpatrick began conducting her research.
Her book culls about 300 of these extraordinary letters into three parts: Americans' vivid recollections of November 22, 1963; their views on politics, society and the office of the presidency; and personal experiences of grief and loss.
"Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy is a beautiful and moving tribute to a nation at a time of mourning, and to a remarkable woman who exemplified strength in the face of such pain. While the country lost its president, Jackie Kennedy lost her husband and the father of her children, and these letters explore how some of the most relatable moments can happen during such a remarkable time," says Amy Winter, general manager of TLC.
Twenty A-List celebrities have lent their recognizable voices to give life to these powerful letters from everyday Americans, including a polio-stricken 13-year-old who offers words of strength for the first lady, a Peace Corps volunteer who mourns the loss while stationed in Ethiopia and an African American woman who expressed her pride and gratitude for President Kennedy's work in the civil rights movement.
The participating talent includes Bérénice Bejo, Demián Bichir, Jessica Chastain, Chris Cooper, Viola Davis, Zooey Deschanel, Kirsten Dunst, Anne Hathaway, Allison Janney, John Krasinski, Melissa Leo, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mark Ruffalo, Octavia Spencer, Hailee Steinfeld, Channing Tatum, Betty White, and Michelle Williams.
"I'll never forget where I was when JFK was killed. No one will. It cast a dark shadow over America. The world, really. Afterwards, the American people poured out their hearts to Jackie. The strength and wisdom of the nation, coming out of profound tragedy, rings clear in these letters. As soon as I read them, I knew I had to make a movie around them and the time they so eloquently evoke. Luckily, Amblin TV and TLC agreed," said filmmaker Bill Couturié.
Ellen Fitzpatrick, a professor and scholar specializing in modern American political and intellectual history, is the author and editor of six books and has appeared regularly on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She has been interviewed as an expert on modern American political history by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, CBS's Face the Nation, and National Public Radio. The Carpenter Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, where she has been recognized for Excellence in Public Service, Fitzpatrick lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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This can be considered the Year of the Wide Receiver in the state of Florida, with the pass-catchers taking the most spots of any position in the Orlando Sentinel's first release of the 2014 Florida Top 100 college football prospect rankings.
Running backs, however, are among the most elite prospects in this year's recruiting class. There just aren't as many standout rushers as last year.
The 2013 recruiting class was dominated by running backs, with 18 rushers represented the final Florida Top 100. This year's version has just eight running backs, but there are some star-caliber players near the top.
Plantation American Heritage running back Sony Michel leads the way, and there is one word one of the state's most experienced recruiting analysts has for Michel.
"Special" is what long-time Miami-based recruiting analyst Larry Blustein calls Michel.
"Here is an athlete who has played at a high level since the 8th grade," Blustein said. "While there are some great football players in this current class, none combine the talent, skill level and the potential to dominate like Sony. He has been at the head of this class since the day he put on a uniform."
Coaches and recruiting types have been watching Michel (5-11, 205) run circles around upperclassmen since he was an eighth-grade phenom, and now it's Michel's time to shine. In four seasons on the Heritage varsity, Michel has racked up 4,819 yards and he missed his entire sophomore season with a torn ACL. His best season was as an eighth-grader when he had 1,825 yards and 18 touchdowns. Coming back from his ACL injury last year he had 1,264 yards and 18 touchdowns. He has 58 rushing touchdowns in his career.
Michel is also quite versatile as a pass-catcher out of the backfield, and he's one of the state's best return men. He has not committed to a college and said earlier this spring he is focusing on Miami, Georgia, Notre Dame, Alabama and Florida State, but he was also at Florida's spring game last week.
Some might argue two guys at Miami Central are equally talented, if not better. The first argument, however, is which running back is better of the Miami Central duo of Dalvin Cook (5-11, 190) and Joseph Yearby (5-9, 190).
We're giving Cook the nod because of his versatility and quickness, but any high-school coach in the state would love to have either. If college coaches play their cards right, they could get both of them together at the next level.
Cook is currently committed to Florida, while Yearby, who had been committed to Florida State, is now pledged to Miami. Both, however, have said they would love to play college football together.
So of the top four players in state this year, three of them are running backs, with only five other running backs making the cut in this round of the Sentinel's Florida Top 100.
That brings us back to the receivers and there are some dandies in this bunch. Overall, 18 receivers make the list and the top few are difficult to separate among Homestead's Ermon Lane (6-3, 190), Tarpon Springs East Lake's Tay Scott (5-10, 175) and Fort Myers Dunbar's Ryshene Bronson (6-3, 180), a UF commit. There are 10 receivers in the Top 50, including Orlando locals Roderick Proctor of Dr. Phillips at No. 46 and Lake Nona's Ryan Sousa at No. 48.
The other top position players on the list offensively are quarterback Quinton "Winky" Flowers (6-1, 200) of Miami Jackson; offensive tackle David Sharpe (6-6, 290) of Jacksonville Providence; offensive guard Mason Cole (6-4, 285), a Michigan commit, of Tarpon Springs East Lake; and tight end Moral Stephens of Perry Taylor County.
Defensively it's tackle Khairi Clark (6-3, 325) of Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna; defensive end Chad Thomas (6-4, 230) of Miami Booker T. Washington; linebacker Kain Daub (6-3, 234), an FSU commit, of Jacksonville Sandalwood; Cross City Dixie County cornerback Duke Dawson (5-11, 190), a UF commit and cousin of 2013 UF signee and Dr. Phillips safety Marcell Harris; safety Trey Marshall of Lake City Columbia; and the top athlete is Daytona Beach Seabreeze CB-RB-WR Charles Nelson (5-9, 168).
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Os_Recruiting and Facebook at Orlando Sentinel Recruiting and now on Pinterest at Orlando Recruiting.


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Versatile Gonzalez back with Padres, hoping to stick
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Because he can play a premium position, shortstop, Alberto Gonzalez was faced with multiple potential landing spots this offseason, as several teams expressed an interest in signing him to a Minor League deal.
When the Padres showed interest, Gonzalez jumped at the chance to return to the team that employed him during the 2011 season, when he hit .215 and had a career-best 32 RBIs.
"I'm happy here, a lot of the players are still here. They're friends and it's a good staff and a very good manager," Gonzalez said on Tuesday.
Gonzalez played in more than 20 games each at shortstop, second base and third base in 2011. And even though his average in 247 at-bats wasn't much to look at, he did hit .278 with runners in scoring position and .311 with RISP and two outs.
Gonzalez was acquired at the end of Spring Training in 2011 by then-general manager Jed Hoyer in order to bolster the infield depth. The move allowed the Padres the chance to send Everth Cabrera to Triple-A to get more at-bats after he struggled badly in 2010.
This offseason, the Padres signed Gonzalez on a Minor League deal with an invite to Spring Training. He will get a chance to make the team as an extra infielder, but there will be plenty of competition in camp.
Coming back was the easy part. Now he's got to find a way to stay.
"They know me, so this is better for me that a lot of people here know me," he said.


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An Introverted Pastor's Calling
An Introverted Pastor's Calling
Noted theologian and founder of Desiring God Ministries, John Piper confessed that he is an introvert affected by brokenness, but God used him anyway to build a powerful ministry and pastor it successfully for 33 years.
This week, in a discussion about his 33 years of ministry with 75 pastors, Piper confessed to not really being a people person and shared how God was able to turn that feature of his personality into a blessing for his congregation.
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Faith Fairchild and her husband are celebrating a big anniversary with a trip to Italy, filled with exquisite indulgences—the art, the Chianti, the food, the Ferragamos! After a weekend in Rome, they'll travel to Tuscany, where Faith's former assistant Francesca has opened a cooking school.
But, along with pecorino, panna cotta, and prosecco, it looks like murder and mayhem are also on the menu! On their fist night in the Eternal City, the Fairchilds stumble upon a dying man in the Piazza Farnese. Mysterious characters from Rome resurface in Tuscany. And somebody is intent on sabotaging Francesca's new business. It's up to Faith to put everything right—and still whip up a mean Spaghetti a la Foriana, of course!


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Blue Hill Brings Vegetable Yogurt to the Masses
Blue Hill announced last week that they're releasing a line of flavored yogurt. But don't expect vanilla and strawberry—they're going savory with four vegetable flavors: beet, squash, tomato, and carrot.
All of the yogurt is made with milk from from grass-fed cows on farms in the Northeast, including Blue Hill's own farm in the Lower Hudson Valley. The idea is a yogurt that can be eaten solo or used as a condiment or ingredient, like sour cream.
What does a savory yogurt taste like, let alone carrot or beet yogurt? These aren't Dannon or anything like baby food; the texture is thin and loose, running off a spoon, and the flavor is tangy but more subdued than, say, Greek yogurt—more subtle and nuanced, less rich.
Despite its vivid color, the beet is the most muted of the bunch: tangy at first, then the sweet, earthy flavor of the beets kicks in. More beet would be overpowering; this is just right.
In contrast, the bright orange carrot yogurt was anything but subtle. The carrot's sweetness brought out the yogurt's natural tang for something that's less overtly carrot-y and more bright and fresh. Squash works similarly, but with all the deeper fall flavors I've been craving the past few weeks. Someone called it a savory pumpkin pie: it had the intense earthiness and savoriness of a squash purée with the tart punch of the yogurt to balance things out.
The tomato yogurt, our favorite of the bunch, had the fresh acidity that I would expect out of tomatoes. It would go great over some toasted country bread with a little olive oil and sea salt. As with the carrot yogurt, the tomato's natural flavors complemented those of the yogurt with flavors reminiscent of summer.
You can find the yogurts at Whole Foods throughout the Northeast, $2.99 for a six ounce container. While I wouldn't necessarily trade out my breakfast yogurt for one of these, they're well suited to eating straight or subbing in for ingredients like sour cream or crème fraîche. We suspect they'd make quick yogurt dips even quicker.
More info at bluehillyogurt.com.
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Finding a studio apartment in Orlando is easier when you use online listings to help you conduct your search. By taking advantage of the many online rental listings that are available, you'll be able to find out about studios, 1 bedrooms and other types of apartments for rent in the Orlando area. Online listings can provide you with extensive information on available units that includes floor plans, photographs, amenities descriptions and other property details.
Looking for a studio apartment in Orlando is the perfect excuse to explore the city's 88 distinct residential neighborhoods. However the greatest concentration of apartments for rent in Orlando can generally be found in the downtown area.
With 238,000 residents, Orlando may only be the fifth largest city in Florida. However thanks to the presence of theme parks like Walt Disney World, Orlando is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and hosts some 35 million visitors annually. Downtown Orlando is one of the city's most lively, colorful area. Living in an apartment downtown can put you right in the midst of Orlando's coolest bars, restaurants clubs and lounges. Other neighborhoods in Orlando you may wish to look for a studio include College Park, Metrowest, Rosemont and UCF.
Renting a studio apartment is a great way to save a few bucks on rent each month. Studios are apartments in which the living quarters and sleeping quarters aren't separated from one another. Apartments of this kind are great for single people, students and even couples who are just starting out.
One of the keys to living in a studio is learning how to subdivide the space effectively between living, sleeping and working space. One of the main advantages to renting a studio is that their affordability makes it possible for you to live where you'd like while enjoying the freedom to spend your money on things other than rent.


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The week in review
Most number of bummed people: Those who had scored tickets to see Michelle Obama July 20 in Main Street Arena. Understandably, she canceled after the horrific mass shooting at the Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.
Most Cavaliers in the Olympics: UVA has 13 athletes going to London, tying for the most in the ACC with Florida State and UNC, according to the 'Hoo-centric blog streakingthelawn.com. Representing the USA are: Lauren Perdue and Matt McLean, swimming; Paige Selenski and Michelle Vittese, field hockey; Becky Saurbrunn, soccer, and Will Coleman, equestrian. Somdev Devvarman competes for India in tennis; Katya Bachrouche swims for Lebanon; David Karasek and Yannick Kaeser swim for Switzerland, Inge Janssen is on the Netherlands women's rowing team; and Lori Lindsay, and Scot Robison are USA alternates in soccer and the 400 freestyle relay, respectively.
Most improved? With the harsh NCAA sanctions against Penn State, including vacating every win between 1998 and 2011, that means former Cav coach Al Groh now has more wins over the past decade than Joe Paterno, says streakingthelawn.com.
Oddest grand larceny charge: UVA professor Glen L. Bull with the Curry School is charged July 19 after a handbag is stolen around 10 pm July 18 from a building in the 400 block of East Main Street, according to the DP.
Latest source of college financial aid: Food stamps, reports WINA. The Virginia Department of Social Services says the program's expenditures by college students grew from $447,000 in January 2007 to almost $3 million by January of this year.
Worst crash: A motorcycle and Dodge Neon collision in Nelson County at the intersection of routes 151 and 840 leaves bike passenger Rina I. Beaulieu, 75, of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, dead, and her husband, Alphonse R. Beaulieu, 76, being treated for life-threatening injuries, according to a release. The driver of the Neon, a 17-year-old male from West Virginia, allegedly blew through a stop sign and struck the Beaulieus, say Virginia State Police. Charges are pending.
Latest in ex-teacher/former cop child-porn case: Charles Farrell Long waives his right to a preliminary hearing July 23, and the charges go to the grand jury, according to Bryan McKenzie in the Progress. The former Burnley-Moran fourth grade teacher is charged with two counts each of possession and production of child pornography.
Latest lawsuit against Western State: The family of Cesar Chumil, 59, who spent 15 years in seclusion at the Staunton psychiatric hospital, claims he was unconstitutionally segregated and denied medical care before he died from colon cancer in 2009, the News Leader reports. Records obtained by the AP show that Chumil, who was born in Guatemala, averaged 300 assaults against staff and another 100 against patients over each of the next seven years while he was housed with other residents.
Latest approval for a popular grocer: The Albermarle Architectural Review Board has okayed the plans for the Fresh Market in Albemarle Square, reports Charlottesville Tomorrow.
Best news for U.S. 29 north congestion: The $13.8-million Hillsdale Drive Extended, which is supposed to relieve traffic on Seminole Trail, gets fully funded by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, part of the deal for Albemarle Supes okaying the controversial U.S. 29 Western Bypass. Charlottesville Tomorrow has the story.
Best place to catch drive-time folk and roots: WTJU 91.9 now offers those genres from 4 to 6pm.
Worst rabid beaver attack: Two sisters, 11 and eight years old, are attacked July 15 while swimming at Lake Anna in Louisa. According to the Free Lance-Star, someone shot the beaver, which tested positive for rabies, and the girls are receiving treatment. The Virginia Department of Health says it's the fourth time in the past decade a beaver turned up with rabies.
Worst giant snake incident: What may have been a python seen squeezing an opossum to death behind the Boathouse Grill gets stabbed by a restaurant employee before the serpent slithers off last weekend. NBC29 reports that the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries says it was probably an escaped or released pet.
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No, Paterno won more games than Al Groh and the world of football officialdom is just playing the game of saying it ain't so even though it's still as so as it ever was.
Everyone knows how that game works...
Say it ain't so, Joe!
Joe knew and did nothing ... the question is: Why?
Pretty sad for an old couple to get juked that way by some wretched inattentive 17 year old. Until there are real consequences to negligent homicide people are going to keep driving like they're the only ones on the road and expect if anything happens to another driver the worst will be a temporary rise in their insurance premiums. After all: "It was an accident"... with the implication contained in the word that it simply couldn't be helped. It's an accident when a tree limb falls on you and knocks your brains out. These other things are not accidents...
how about a followup on the dead woman found on O hill over a month ago?


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A fascinating teaching technique, delivering quality content with a well-thought quizzes system! It' hard to find better courses in the domain of Finite Difference and Spectral Element methods
This is an excellent course as I have found. The instructor has taught us many important concepts including the detailed codes. I would love to join further courses from Prof. Igel.
By tom w•
This is an excellent course. Professor Igel did an excellent job putting this material together. His intimate familiarity and comfort with the material is certainly key to the clear explanation of concepts he provides.The subject material was something I should have learned at a younger age. Those planning to pursue a career in Geophysics will benefit greatly from this course. Many topics are covered in the course, the use of Green's functions is clarified, finite difference methods are derived and illustrated using Taylor series expansions, pseudospectral methods are developed... It was nice to return to uses of Chebyhev polynmials, Lagrange and Legendre polynomials and get a better grasp of their use. The psudospectral section was particularly fascinating since geophysicists routinely use Fourier transforms in their analysis and the applications to simulation provide new insights into their use.There is much to be gained through the course. I suspect it is at an intermediate level and serves as a good foundation for more advanced study. The Jupyter notebooks were excellent and provide an excellent resource for further study and application. They also serve as excellent examples of Python coding of various finite difference and finite element simulations along with applications going beyond this course.
By Niels C N•
Heiner Igel is an excellent teacher and he stops Just before the real complications begin as he should at this introduction level. The format of the course is such that Heiner Igel explains to the viewer while hand-written equations and drawings appear absolutely synchronized in the background. Then there are programming exercises where you can run simulations in Python (using Jupyter Notebooks). The programs are well-structured and easy to follow and manipulate to test out the theories. Super well prepared - it has clearly taken a very long time to put this course together. The explanations are detailed enough to get a good feel for the numerical methods and their implementations, but not such that everything is painstakingly derived mathematically. Overall a good introduction to numerical methods without too many complications, but you do get a feel for how complicated it could quickly become.
By Sean B•
I can't say enough nice things about this course. I struggled with numerical methods as an engineering undergraduate, but Dr. Igel did a fantastic job of presenting and explaining the material. The few errors are quickly resolved and explained. Other courses I've utilized have forums full of confusion about quizzes and unresolved errors; those simply aren't present here. The supplementary materials are amazing and abundant and the instructor clearly enjoys what he's teaching. I hope Dr. Igel will present more courses soon! Enjoy!
By rasheed a•
This is a great course! It has the perfect amount of theory and practice of seismic wave propagation. I had a lot of fun experimenting with the Python codes and converting them to MATLAB. Thank you for the effort you put into its development, Dr. Igel. Moving forward, I wonder if you planned to develop a similar course for the inverse problem.
By Mohammed E F•
A fascinating teaching technique, delivering quality content with a well-thought quizzes system! It' hard to find better courses in the domain of Finite Difference and Spectral Element methods
By Noah L•
Well thought out. The material is ordered logically and easy to follow. This online course compliments the book from which it is based on.
By James S•
Excellent coverage of the fundamentals. Would love to see another course like this developed that covers more advanced material.
By Deleted A•
A great course for anyone interested in numerical methods applied to the wave equation. Clear and engaging lectures.
By Manoj J•
An excellent course for anybody intending to learn numerical analysis with Python.
By Vu N•
This is a perfect course to introduce the learners to the world of numerical methods and finite element methods. The technical contents are deeper than what I initially thought about, but the programming examples and the quizzes helped clarifying many things that I was not clear.
The Jupyter notebook is a very good editing tool and programming environment because the comments (markdown) can be edited with mathematical symbols. The setting of the Jupyter notebook allows the learners to go back and change each code block to modify/troubleshoot and study in a good way.
It is good that learners are allowed to access all the course materials and graded parts for free. I like that way because I can arrange my time to finish the course first and pay the fee to upgrade (get the certificate) later. In other courses I paid the fee upfront but I was later too busy on other things and couldn't finish those courses and then lost my money.
By Anubhav•
I finally finished the course today. It was so much fun. So, I had already done a course in FEM and used FD to solve some basic engineering differential equation problems. I took this course for a better understanding of algorithms that goes behind a real life problem scenario (the ones which can hang your calculator if tried to solve on). This course takes on all the most used numerical techniques and covers them quite efficiently- FDM, FEM, SEM. You may not find a lot of derivations of formulae used in this course for obvious reasons (check the title of the course). But that is very usual, otherwise each weeks will require a separate course by itself. I would like to specifically stress upon the efficiency of using Jupyter notebooks for python codes. It made the understanding of algorithm part very smooth and couldn't be better. Thank you Coursera and the course instructors for making this journey a great one.
By Yohanes N•
I am very proud of completing this course! I could say that this course is very recommended for everyone. The course contents assume that you're familiar with engineering maths, but the courses are highly understandable and interactive. Plus, there are Jupyter notebooks to accompany you programming in Python. Heiner Igel is a very brilliant professor, he always responded to most of my questions and gave valuable feedback. Just perfect, hoping there's a sequel of this course! Thanks very much.
By Portia S•
This course is by far the best Numerical Methods MOOC course . The lecture breaks down the physical meaning of the mathematics and helps you visualize the solution. The practical exercises are great for people who are learning with the intent of using the skills and not just for obtaining a passing grade. The lecturer answers queries promptly and teaches the subject with enthusiasm . I was encouraged to apply my mind. Thank you.
By Honam Y•
My background is optical physics and quantum optics. However, I think that this course should be a pretty clear and straightforward introduction and explanation to people who just start learning linear algebra and concepts of basic wave mechanics. This is the first time for me to study seriously finite difference and elements simulations. I deeply appreciate finite approaches and associated mathematical skills.
By Phillip L•
Incredibly good jupyter notebooks. Very good balance between theory and application. I would have liked to learn about more differential equation than the elastic wave equations and how the methods learned in this course can be applied to other pdes. But then again... "waves" is in the title of the course, so it's not too surprising that waves are the focus of the lecture.
By Muhammad B S•
One of the best things about this course is the professor's elegant and lucid explanation of difficult concepts of numerical methods during his scintillating lectures. He is actually aware of his field very well. And the integration of properly commented Jupyter notebooks justified it's name as to "A practical introduction......". Thanks, Professor!!
By Daniel S W•
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After being drained by the millions of acres to make way for agriculture, wetlands are staging a small comeback these days on farms. Some farmers restore or construct wetlands alongside their fields to trap nitrogen and phosphorus runoff, and research shows these systems can also retain pesticides, antibiotics, and other agricultural pollutants.
Important as these storage functions of wetlands are, however, another critical one is being overlooked, says Bill Mitsch, director of the Everglades Wetland Research Park at Florida Gulf Coast University and an emeritus professor at Ohio State University: Wetlands also excel at pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and holding it long-term in soil.
Writing in the July-August issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, Mitsch and co-author Blanca Bernal report that two 15-year-old constructed marshes in Ohio accumulated soil carbon at an average annual rate of 2150 pounds per acre—or just over one ton of carbon per acre per year.
The rate was 70% faster than a natural, "control" wetland in the area and 26% faster than the two were adding soil carbon five years ago. And by year 15, each wetland had a soil carbon pool of more than 30,000 pounds per acre, an amount equaling or exceeding the carbon stored by forests and farmlands.
What this suggests, Mitsch says, is that researchers and land managers shouldn't ignore restored and man-made wetlands as they look for places to store, or "sequester," carbon long-term. For more than a decade, for example, scientists have been studying the potential of no-tillage, planting of pastures, and other farm practices to store carbon in agricultural lands, which cover roughly one-third of the Earth's land area.
Yet, when created wetlands are discussed in agricultural circles, it's almost always in the context of water quality. "So, what I'm saying is: let's add carbon to the list," Mitsch says. "If you happen to build a wetland to remove nitrogen, for example, then once you have it, it's probably accumulating carbon, too."
In fact, wetlands in agricultural landscapes may sequester carbon very quickly, because high-nutrient conditions promote the growth of cattail, reeds, and other wetland "big boys" that produce a lot of plant biomass and carbon, Mitsch says. Once carbon ends up in wetland soil, it can also remain there for hundreds to thousands of years because of water-logged conditions that inhibit microbial decomposition.
"And carbon is a big deal—any carbon sinks that we find we should be protecting," Mitsch says. "Then we're going even further by saying: We've lost half of our wetlands in the United States, so let's not only protect the wetlands we have remaining but also build some more."
At the same time, he acknowledges that wetlands emit the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), methane, leading some to argue that wetlands shouldn't be created as a means to sequester carbon and mitigate climate change. But in a new analysis that modeled carbon fluxes over 100 years from the two constructed Ohio marshes and 19 other wetlands worldwide, Mitsch, Bernal, and others demonstrated that most wetlands are net carbon sinks, even when methane emissions are factored in. And among the best sinks were the wetlands in Ohio, possibly due to flow-through conditions that promoted rapid carbon storage while minimizing methane losses, the authors hypothesize.
The concerns about methane emissions and even his own promising findings point to something else, Mitsch cautions: It's easy to undervalue wetlands if we become too focused on just one of their aspects—such as whether they're net sinks or sources of GHGs. Instead, people should remember everything wetlands do.
"We know they're great for critters and for habitat, that's always been true. Then we found out they cleaned up water, and could protect against floods and storms," he says. "And now we're seeing that they're very important for retaining carbon. So they're multidimensional systems—even though we as people tend to look at things one at a time."


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You can use the pkgrm system utility described in the pkgrm(1M) man page to perform the following tasks:
Remove a package from the global zone and all non-global zones
Remove a package from a specified non-global zone only
The SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES and SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW package parameter settings must match the correct value, either true or false, to remove packages. Otherwise, the desired result will not be achieved. For more information about the effect of these package parameter settings, see About Packages and Zones. For more information about how to check these package parameter settings, see Checking Package Parameter Settings on a System with Zones Installed.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
While in the global zone, run the pkgrm command followed by the package name.
global# pkgrm package_name
To remove a package from a specified non-global zone only, the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES package parameter must be set to false.
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This summer we are surveying and testing sites on and around the Mohonk Preserve in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State. Today, actually, we are in the lab, despite it being a beautiful day, because we are between sites, waiting for permission to work at the site we next wish to visit. Our testing at the first rockshelter we worked at this summer involved griding out the space in the shelter and then digging, very carefully, 5 50×50 centimeter squares to determine what sort of remains were in the shelter. Once this was done we decided to dig a number of additional pits in order to fill out our understanding. The cultural materials we found have been brought back here to the archaeology lab at Vassar College to be cleaned and analyzed. They will then be either a) returned to the landowner with a report, b) donated to the Daniel Smiley Research Center at Mohonk, with a report or c) donated to the NYS Museum in Albany, with the report. This will be at the discretion of the owner of the property, but we hope that he will donate them to the Mohonk research center.
Yesterday, after the excavation was complete, we returned the dirt to the squares so that the site integrity would be maintained. Today we are cleaning and recording the artifacts. Next week we will start the process all over again at another site.
Our major aim in this project is to understand how the prehistoric people of the mid-Hudson Valley used the Shawangunk Ridge in their annual round. It seems like most of the sites were used as winter hunting camps during the Archaic or pre-agricultural period in the area, around 6-3,000 years ago, but very few sites on the ridge have been professionally excavated, so we are collecting more data to verify or amend this picture.
We are me, Professor Lucy Johnson, and 4 student Undergraduate Science Research Institute interns from Vassar College. You can follow us on our blog, http://blogs.vassar.edu/ursi-archaeology/.


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October secret policy makes a distinction between 'network defense' and 'cyber operations,' report says.
President Obama reportedly issued a secret military directive to defend U.S. networks, bypassing Congress and the American public to advance the administration's security goals.
The new policy directs the Defense Department on how to act against adversary networks when federal or private computer systems are in jeopardy, The Washington Post reports.
The directive, which was signed in mid-October, apparently addresses gaps in legislation, lexicon and departmental jurisdictions.
It authorizes the military to make "a distinction between network defense and cyber operations" -- which are aggressive actions -- when confronted with a computer threat, the Post reports.
"What it does, really for the first time, is it explicitly talks about how we will use cyber operations," a senior administration official told the Post. "Network defense is what you're doing inside your own networks. . . . Cyber operations is stuff outside that space, and recognizing that you could be doing that for what might be called defensive purposes."
Congress is logjammed on legislation that would help companies -- which operate 80 percent of U.S. critical infrastructure -- defend themselves against breaches. Cyber intrusions cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars a year and are capable of disrupting vital services, such as electricity and transportation.
In the meantime, federal agencies are vetting an executive order that would direct the private sector on specific steps to secure its networks, but the document wouldn't carry much enforcement weight. Industry is reluctant to participate in sharing information about threats without liability and privacy protections.
Monday's report indicates that the new directive addresses some privacy concerns. The policy "also lays out a process to vet any operations outside government and defense networks and ensure that U.S. citizens' and foreign allies' data and privacy are protected and international laws of war are followed," the Post writes.
It's unclear whether the directive would shift more responsibility for protecting networks from the departments of Homeland Security and Justice to the Pentagon.
Now Defense is finalizing new rules of engagement for cyberspace that apparently will be informed by the new directive. According to the Post, these rules "would guide commanders when and how the military can go outside government networks to prevent a cyberattack that could cause significant destruction or casualties." Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in October said that the rules "will make clear that the department has a responsibility not only to defend DoD's networks, but also to be prepared to defend the nation and our national interests against an attack in or through cyberspace."
A separate presidential directive in 2003 designated Homeland Security to be "a focal point" for the security of cyberspace, but since that time the department has lacked the authority to fulfill its mission, some lawmakers argue.
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Recipe: Bourbon Praline Sweet Potatoes
Tom Ryan adapted this recipe from the cookbook of a good friend, Alex Patout, who has been cooking in Louisiana for decades. This can me made up to two days in advance.
Makes 8-10 servings.
5 large sweet potatoes or yams
¼ pound (1 stick) salted butter
½ cup white sugar
I teaspoon vanilla
? cup milk2 eggs, beaten
½ cup heavy cream
1 cup light brown sugar
? cup melted butter
I teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons bourbon
1 cup chopped pecans
In a large baking pan, roast the sweet potatoes at 350 degrees for about 1½ hours, or until very soft. Split, let cool slightly, and scoop into a large mixing bowl. Mix with an electric mixer to mash. While still warm, mix in the butter, sugar, vanilla and milk. Mix well. Then add the two beaten eggs, mix for 30 seconds, and transfer to a large casserole dish. Make sure there is room for the praline topping later. Refrigerate.
To make the praline topping, bring the heavy cream to a boil in a small saucepan. While boiling, stir in the brown sugar. Stirring constantly, keep a vigorous boil going for about 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add the melted butter and stir rigorously, then add the vanilla and bourbon. Add the chopped pecans and mix well. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread the praline mix evenly over the refrigerated sweet potato mixture. Bake for 45- 60 minutes, or until the entire praline layer is bubbling.


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Just one day after its unveiling, Amazon's Kindle Fire's cloud-based web browser, Silk, is already under fire by security experts and privacy advocates for endangering the confidentiality of user data.
For many techies, the coolest part of the Fire isn't the device itself, but the software, specifically Amazon Silk. The web browser uses the ultra-high speed connectivity of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) service to make page load times significantly shorter. When a user navigates to a webpage, Silk offloads a portion of the work to Amazon's servers to speed up load time – which means that the user will connect to Amazon instead of directly to a website.
Amazon itself explains this in its Amazon Silk Terms & Conditions: "The content of web pages you visit using Amazon Silk passes through our servers and may be cached to improve performance on subsequent page loads."
The problem? That also gives Amazon a complete record of your Web browsing history. Those same Terms & Conditions also reveal that, along with your browsing history, Amazon will log IP and MAC addresses, which it can store for up to 30 days.
What's worse, even secure HTTPS connections, like online banking, will go through Amazon. Theoretically, there should be no interruption in the chain between you and any secure HTTPS site you visit. When you use Silk on the cloud (default mode on the Fire), Amazon will be a middleman even in these so-called secure connections.
Based on what we know so far, the security and privacy implications are frightening. Under the Patriot Act, Amazon is subject to government requests for information about any individual user who is under investigation. The Patriot Act has relatively low due process restrictions. Under the controversial law, enacted after the September 11 attacks, the government can even prevent Amazon from notifying targeted individuals that their data is being turned over to authorities.
Of course, government requests aside, the Silk browser still reveals a treasure trove of user data for Amazon to use as it wishes.
For every user that browses on Silk, Amazon will have access to his or her IP or MAC addresses, as well as a thorough account of each user's browsing history and profile.
"Amazon Silk also temporarily logs web addresses known as uniform resource locators ('URLs') for the web pages it serves and certain identifiers, such as IP or MAC addresses, to troubleshoot and diagnose Amazon Silk technical issues," Amazon writes in its Terms & Conditions. "We generally do not keep this information for longer than 30 days."
"Every page they see, every link they follow, every click they make, every ad they see is going to be intermediated by one of the largest server farms on the planet," writes one concerned blogger. "People who cringe at the data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought to be just floored by the magnitude of Amazon's opportunity here. Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other stores your customers are shopping in and what prices they're being offered there."
Silk isn't the first browser to use this controversial split browsing model. Google's Opera Mini also sent traffic through company servers, drawing scrutiny for endangering user privacy and security.
And to be sure, very few people have actually used the Kindle Fire and its Silk web browser, so there are still questions about its features and about Amazon's privacy policy.
But the revelations are enough to make many security experts wary. For now, potential Fire users should heed two pieces of advice: Amazon Silk's default mode is cloud-based browsing, but the browser will come with an off-cloud mode, so people have the option of not sharing sensitive data. If you use the Fire, turn off cloud browsing.
With the Kindle Fire, and so many other products and services we use, it's wise to remember these words from Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at security firm Sophos:
"While most of us roll our eyes when confronted with long privacy policies and pages of legalese, privacy risks lurk around every corner. If you buy a Fire device, think carefully as to whether your privacy is worth trading for a few milliseconds faster web surfing experience."
Husna Haq is a Monitor correspondent.


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The National Lacrosse League invites fans to suggest candidates for the next round of nominations for the NLL Hall of Fame. Fans can submit their suggestions via the National Lacrosse League's Facebook and Twitter pages until Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The Hall of Fame selection criteria is listed below.
The league's Hall of Fame Committee will take the suggestions into consideration when putting together a list of nominees for the Hall of Fame's Class of 2014. A final vote by the league's Board of Governors will follow as to which nominees will become the next members of the Hall of Fame.
Nominees who do not gain admission into the Hall of Fame on their first year on the ballot are automatically placed on the ballot the following season. Pat O'Toole was the lone inductee of the Class of 2013 while last year's other first-time nominees were Pat McCready and Kaleb Toth. The two nominees did not receive the number of votes needed for induction but will again be on the ballot for 2014.
The NLL Facebook page can be found at Facebook.com/NationalLacrosseLeague while the league's Twitter page is located here: Twitter.com/NLL
Hall of Fame Selection Criteria:
In order for a player, coach, official or executive to be considered for the NLL Hall of Fame, their careers in professional indoor lacrosse must meet the following criteria:
-Player must be retired from playing professional indoor lacrosse in order to be eligible for consideration and shall be considered based on the individual's record, ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team and sport.
-Coach must have coached for at least eight seasons in professional indoor lacrosse. The coach can be active or retired.
-Official (referee) must be retired and have had officiated within the league for at least eight seasons.
-Executive must have been affiliated as an executive with a team or the league for at least eight seasons.
Current NLL Hall of Fame Members:
Class of 2006 (Founding Members)
Les Bartley
Russ Cline
Chris Fritz
Gary Gait
Paul Gait
Class of 2007
Mike French
Darris Kilgour
Tom Marechek
Class of 2008
Sal LoCascio
Johnny Mouradian
Tony Resch
Class of 2009
Dallas Eliuk
Jim Veltman
Class of 2010
Rich Kilgour
Dan Stroup
John Tucker
Class of 2011
Bob Watson
Class of 2012
Steve Dietrich
Class of 2013
Pat O'Toole
Media Recognition
Tom Borrelli (2007)
Neil Stevens (2008)


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Will face-time determine new DOT secretary?Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
Some of the current putative candidates to succeed Ray LaHood as President Obama's Transportation Secretary are not far behind Schumer. Some, however, might benefit from media training.
Chief among them is Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose lapse of judgment found him in a well-circulated photograph with bad-boy Charlie Sheen outside a Mexico hotel, looking something akin to fraternity brothers celebrating following an all-night party. Sheen, his chest well exposed, is seen with his arm around the neck of hizzoner, whose own top two shirt buttons are undone.
One can only imagine Sheen, in tow of Villaraigosa, showing up at a White House dinner and trashing the place, scandalously reminiscent of Sheen's NYPD-alleged 2010 trashing of a New York Plaza Hotel suite following a night of drinking and cocaine use in the company of a female that the New York Post identified as a "hooker."
The timing of the Baja, California rendezvous was awkward, with the word already circulating that the Association of American Railroads was supporting Villaraigosa's nomination. Hizzoner subsequently withdrew his name from consideration, but among politicians, second acts do occur—even if Sheen described Villaraigosa as a dude who "knows how to party … a terrific guy, a great mayor, and he can drink with the best of 'em: me."
Somewhat surprising was to see former Ohio Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette sandwiched between foul-mouthed comedians Bill Maher and Martin Short talking politics on a recent Maher cable show.
LaTourette, a House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee luminary until his retirement from Congress last year, also has been mentioned as under consideration for an AAR lobbying role. To his credit, LaTourette displayed an uncomfortable smile as Maher and Short commenced an inventory of oaths that might cause even Joe Biden and Dick Cheney to blush.
Michigan's former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who has been downplaying her possible nomination for the transportation post, is another recognizable face, having hosted a news analysis show—The War Room with Jennifer Granholm—on Al Gore's Current TV cable channel, departing when it was sold to Al Jazeera. Perhaps she is best recognized for her well-publicized and reported "hyperactive and sharp-tongued" 2012 Democratic National Convention speech supporting Obama's bailout of the auto industry and criticizing Mitt Romney's opposition.
Another frequently seen TV face is that of Assistant House Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.), whose nomination is being pushed by the Congressional Black Caucus. Although Clyburn expresses little interest in the post, he is a shrewd politician who knows the pick will be decided by the White House alone. As an aside, Clyburn's cousin is former Surface Transportation Board member William Clyburn, who himself is considered a possible Obama choice to return to the agency, notwithstanding captive shipper opposition.
Then there is the loquacious, erudite, and collegial former House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), who departed Congress after 36 years and whose acquaintance with the news media and lengthy committee-hearing soliloquys are legend on Capitol Hill. Unlike the more tactful Clyburn, Oberstar told minnpost.com that it "would be a great honor" to be nominated as Transportation Secretary. "It would certainly be the culmination of all that I've learned and trained for and developed over the years. I've been here since the [transportation] department was born [in 1967]."
Consider, also, as a possible nominee former Philadelphia mayor and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, more recently a Philadelphia Eagles football analyst for Comcast, and who also had a cameo appearance as mayor in the 1993 film, "Philadelphia." While his face is more recognizable in Pennsylvania, The New York Times termed Rendell's job in solving Philadelphia's fiscal problems "the most stunning turnaround in recent urban history," while Al Gore and former New York Mayor Rudy Giulliani both dubbed him, "America's mayor."
Rendell's most memorable quote came on Comcast when the Eagles cancelled a game because of an impending snow storm: "We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked, and they would have been doing calculus on the way down."
And who doesn't recognize the face of National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Debbie Hersman, an articulate media presence following high-profile railroad accidents? A former aide to Senate Commerce Committee Democrats, Hersman is especially keen when it comes to railroad public policy and safety issues. Her strong vocal support for implementation of Positive Train Control makes her less of a favorite of the railroad industry.
Is there an assumed candidate for Transportation Secretary whose face is not recognizable? That would be Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari, who formerly was Maryland's Deputy Secretary of Transportation. Good grief, an unknown face among these many luminaries? Well, so was fellow Marylander and Richard Nixon's vice presidential choice, Spiro Agnew, who, at the 1968 Republican National Convention, evoked, "Spiro who?" chants by delegates supporting the more recognizable Michigan Gov. George Romney for the post.
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An innovative idea to add another level of cooking to your Travel Kadai. The hook spikes into the ground beside your Travel Bowl and the Tripod Skillet allows you to cook a whole new range of tasty dishes.
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Gaming on the iPad (or any slate-style tablet) has one serious drawback: the lack of physical controls. For some games, such as Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja, touch controls are perfectly suited. But many iPad games attempt to emulate gamepads, joysticks, and other traditional control schemes by way of onscreen virtual controls. Lacking any kind of tactile feedback, and often covering up part of the screen, it's not an ideal solution.
The iCade attempts to correct this problem by offering a joystick and eight buttons, laid out in a classic arcade format inside a miniaturized arcade cabinet. The product actually started life as an April Fool's prank on the novelty retail site ThinkGeek.com, but overwhelming consumer interest prodded the company to bring the $99 iCade to life (much like the Tauntaun sleeping bag, another ThinkGeek mockup that became a real product). The actual hardware is made by Ion Audio, a company best known for its plastic USB turntables and high-end Rock Band video game drum kits.
As pictured in the original April Fool's prank mockups, the iCade acts as a cabinet/stand for your iPad or iPad 2. The unit arrives in kit form, with some assembly required. The side and front/back panels are made of particleboard printed with retro graphics, and the kit comes with a page of Ikea-like wordless instructions, along with a handful of hex screws and a tiny allen wrench.
Construction was simple, but the front and side panels took a little elbow grease to fit together, and we managed to crack a plastic tab along the way. Our unit is the ThinkGeek version of the iCade, which has the same wood grain and color rainbow graphics as the original April Fool's mockup. If ordered directly from Ion (for the same $99) the graphics look much more generic.
To slide an iPad in, the top panel tilts open, and the tablet simply sits in a plastic docking cradle. There's no connector cable or locking mechanism in the cradle, so shifting the iCade even a little bit can move the iPad--we'd definitely not suggest moving it around with the iPad inserted. The interior compartment is much bigger than the iPad, meaning you've got a lot of empty space on each side of the screen; a tighter fit would make for a more arcadelike experience, but as it is, we were able to fit a finger alongside the iPad to adjust the volume controls.


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Bring a piece of the wild west into your son's room!
With its vibrant colors and western designs, these unique knobs will pull together your cowboy themed room. These knobs will add the perfect finishing touch to drawers, closet doors or armoires. Each knob is hand painted by a professional artist, using high quality, child friendly, water based paints and will surely last for generations to come.


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JavaServer Faces Rises in Popularity
With the advent of modern computer programming, development tools, databases, and Web platforms, the complexity of any software product or project has greatly increased. From the very beginning of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), different concepts, such as object reuse, inheritance, and libraries served the purpose of simplifying software development and maintenance. In recent years, these concepts have become inadequate. However, they are still greatly used and serve as a backbone for all the modern frameworks.
The development costs and time, ROI, testing, and maintenance are inevitably tied with the quality and scale of any software project. To keep up with the scale and complexities of software development, various frameworks have emerged.
"A framework is a defined support structure in which another software project can be organized and developed. A framework may include support programs, code libraries, a scripting language, or other software to help develop the different components of a software project."
This year, in recognition of the importance of the modern software frameworks, Developer.com's product of the year 2006 contest included the framework category. Different nominees have been carefully selected from various sectors and types of the software frameworks in Web development, desktop development, and IDEs.
The readers of Developer.com then voted over a period of time and their opinions were aggregated to find the final winner.
The Finalist Frameworks
|Web Development
|Desktop Development
|IDE Development
|JavaServer Faces From Sun Microsystems Inc.
|Eclipse platform from the Eclipse Foundation
|Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Framework from Microsoft Corporation
|Spring Framework from springframework.org
|Ruby on Rails from rubyonrails.com
Eclipse Platform
From the Eclipse Foundation
If you are a hard-core Java developer, chances are that you have heard of the Eclipse SDK. The Eclipse platform is perhaps the best known and most widely adapted product. Eclipse has also been extended and integrated as an underlying platform for many of the current commercial IDEs, such as IBM's WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD) product line, Rational XDE, M7 NitroX (recently acquired by BEA and soon to become part of its flagship BEA Workshop family), and many others. Due to its flexibility, the Eclipse platform is not only suited for the development in the Java language, but also many other languages are supported by it.
Originally the brain-child of IBM, Eclipse emerged as a collaboration project by several major software development companies, including IBM, SAP, Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle. Over time, many other vendors have joined in, and now the Eclipse Foundation community consisted of over 30 companies. The foundation oversees Eclipse's "vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software."
Even though Eclipse is a full-featured IDE, it is also a very extendable framework, and at its core is a powerful plug-in engine. As a framework/tools platform for software development, it is one of the best, with design GUI components and rules for building applications. Currently, Eclipse is gaining a lot of attention and is poised to become the de facto IDE and SDK for Java and other languages' development platform. All the major Java and C++ IDE vendors, such as BEA, IBM, and even Borland* are either actively developing for Eclipse or are considering adapting it in their products.
* Borland JBuilder 2007 will also be based on Eclipse SDK.
Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Framework
From Microsoft Corporation
In the MS Windows Desktop development world, the MS .NET initiative is well known and is considered to be the future of the Windows platform. The next version of MS Windows, codenamed "Vista," has the .NET framework tightly integrated with it. The SDK of the framework was released a few years ago and the current version, 2.0, was released in October 2005. The MS flagship IDE Visual Studio has been rewritten to support .NET framework development.
The framework supports writing applications in numerous different languages, such as C++, .NET, VB .NET, JScript .NET, and a new C# (C sharp) language developed specifically for the framework and bearing similarities with both Java and C++. MS .NET allows coding, compilation, and, most importantly, execution of the programs in any or all of these languages (a total of about 40) because, under the hood, all of them are compiled and run with Common Language Infrastructure or CLI, whose task is to provide a language independent platform for development, compilation, and execution. Microsoft's implementation of the CLI is called the Common Language Runtime, or CLR. In other words, the .NET framework works somewhat similarly to the Java Virtual Machine, where code is first compiled into special byte-code and then is executed in the JVM.
Since its conception, .NET framework was designed to have: high security, built-in support for Web Services, new ASP .NET (a replacement for the old Active Server Pages), ADO .NET (new and improved ActiveX Data Objects), new Windows Forms (WinForms), and managed wrappers for the widgets contained in the existing Win32 APIs.
The future of application development for the Windows platform will undoubtedly be contingent on the .NET framework and its evolution.
Spring Framework
From springframework.org
The Spring framework is a relative newcomer in the area of the Java Web-based frameworks for Web application development, but it has gained a lot of popularity due to its clear layered structure and many flexible features. It can either be used to complement such veteran frameworks as Struts and Tapestry, or can be used on its own. The framework is based on code published in Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson (Wrox, 2002).
Besides a main Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, the Spring framework incorporates several other design patterns, such as Inversion of Control (IoC), different abstraction layers, and strategy interfaces. It also has Java Beans management, JDBC Data Sources (also via an abstraction layer with excellent exception handling), Java Transacting API (JTA) support that does not require a J2EE container, and integration with other Java technologies directly or via strategy interfaces, such as Hibernate, JDO, TopLink, iText, Velocity, and Tiles.
As a worthy contender from the Java frameworks, Spring deserves a special mention among other nominees.
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