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Top of the table Saints head to West Yorkshire on Saturday to take on Leeds United in front of the cameras, and not only will there likely be a former Saints player on the Elland Road's sides bench, but also a Saints fan….
Maik Taylor
The German born, Northen Ireland international goalkeeper Taylor started his semi-professional footballing career while still serving in the British Army. Stationed in Hampshire he represented Petersfield and Basingstoke Town's respectively before joining Farnborough Town where he was part of the team that won the Southern League Premier Division in 1994.
It was while playing for the now defunct club that he was spotted by League Two Barnet and was given his first professional contract. His performances at Underhill soon meant he was destined for greater things, and just a season and a half later he was heading back to Hampshire and the Premier League.
Graeme Souness was the man who took the gamble on the lower league keeper, signing him in the January of 1997 for a fee of £500k. He replaced the ageing Dave Beasant and soon had the fans on his side with some impressive shot stopping, representing the club he had supported as a child. Saints fans finally felt like they had their replacement for Tim Flowers, albeit somewhat late.
Sadly for Taylor, Souness was to leave in the summer, and despite Taylor's proficient displays the Scotsman's replacement Dave Jones bought his namesake and number one from Stockport County with him.
Paul Jones was immediately installed as first choice and Taylor had to make do with a place on the bench, a victim of a rare season in Saints history where they had two good stoppers in one season! Taylor headed for Kevin Keegan's Fulham on 17th November 1997 for £800k, surprisingly dropping to the second division. After nearly 200 appearances for the Cottagers and two league titles he moved on to Birmingham City. He also established himself as the first choice goalkeeper for Northen Ireland gaining 88 caps between 1999 and 2011.
He signed for Leeds United in Novemeber 2011 and recently had his contract extended to the end of the season, now aged 40.


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Are there differences in judging/evaluation in VJP versus HZP, or are the dogs measured against the same standards? I've read that an HZP dog is expected to show a more "finished" or experienced search than what is looked for in VJP. But how about i.e. Spur/track, is the dog required to show a better performance in tracking to get a 10 in the HZP than what he needs to get a 10 in the VJP?
It would be interesting to hear how folks think about evaluating litters or lines with regards to test scores. Would you place higher value in the average scores in the VJP, or would you rather look at the same scores (for track, nose, search, point...) in the HZP? I know that in reality it's not as black and white as this, but I would like to hear how people reason around this.


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Google Street View Hits ThailandKevin (เควิน) Khaosan
Google Street View launched in Thailand recently, the culmination of a six-month project that covers 95 per cent of Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket. The service provides "panoramic views" of the capital's major arteries – Sukhumvit Road, Silom Road, many of the Bangkok's surrounding areas, and of course it features Thailand's leading backpacker and budget tourist destination – Khao San Road. Thailand is the second Southeast Asian country to be featured on Google Street View, after Singapore which launched at the end of 2009. According to Pornthip Kongchun, Head of Marketing for Google Thailand, Google Street View was launched with promoting Thailand's tourism industry in mind.
"In Thailand, the next cities for Street View will be Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Nakhon Phanom, Hat Yai and Nakhon Si Thammarat, and also Thailand's World Heritage cities," Khun Pornthip was reported as saying. Suraphon Svetasreni, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) added "The first priority is Thailand's World Heritage. We plan to allow Google Thailand's Street View team to collect images of the World Heritage sites started in Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, as well as Sri Satchanalai".
As far as Khao San Road is concerned, it's pretty decent coverage which includes surrounding areas like Rambuttri Road and Tani Road. Unfortunately, there aren't any nighttime pictures (or if there are we missed them) and for many, they might only recognize Khao San Road at night! That's not really the point of the service though.
The problem they are going to face on Khao San Road is the very "fluid" situation on the strip. New businesses open and close regularly, and it's already clear that the current pictures were taken a couple of months ago.
Apparently you can request an update from Google if you find that pictures are over three years old, but if they post pictures that old you might find Khao San isn't recognizable from Google Street View! That said, it's all interesting stuff and great KSR is covered so well. Images can be accessed through the Thai version http://maps.google.co.th/maps and through the English version http://maps.google.com/maps. Check it out!


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Handling Arduino Events in Java
In my previous blog, I showed how to write a Java application to run on a host computer, which interfaces with a sketch running on an Arduino to turn an attached light on and off. Someone asked if it's possible to handle continuous events from an Arduino, and the answer is yes. Let's see how.
Arduino Event Handler
I've been using RXTX for the communication between the Arduino and Java over a serial connection. In my next blog, I plan to explore some alternatives, but let's stick to RXTX for now. I won't review too much here, but after connecting to the Arduino (details in a previous blog), you set up your event listener with two lines of code:
// Add event listener serialPort.addEventListener(this); serialPort.notifyOnDataAvailable(true);
You need to pass a reference to a class that implements the
gnu.io.SerialPortEventListener, which includes just one method:
serialEvent(). A
SerialPortEvent object is passed as the lone parameter. Implementing this method is straightforward; just check the event type for
DATA_AVAILABLE and process the data by reading from the serial port's
InputStream. You need to set this up with one line of code prior to the event like this:
// Setup input reader for incoming data from Arduino input = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( serialPort.getInputStream() ));
Temperature Sensor
To make the event processing interesting, I'm using a temperature sensor I bought (along with many others) from ManyLabs. My kit came with a shield that allows multiple analog and digital sensors to be connected to an Arduino. I placed the shield on my Arduino, plugged the sensor into port S1, and wrote a simple sketch that publishes the sensor readings over the serial port. Let's walk through this:
int tempSensorPin = 0; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); //Start the serial connection with the computer //to view the result open the serial monitor } void loop() { //getting the voltage reading from the temperature sensor int tempSensorVal = analogRead(tempSensorPin); // Formula for converting voltage to temp in C const int B=3975; float Rsensor = (float)(1023-tempSensorVal)*10000/tempSensorVal; double TEMP = 1 / (log(Rsensor/10000)/B+1/298.15)-273.15; // now convert to Fahrenheit float temperatureF = (TEMP * 9.0 / 5.0) + 32.0; Serial.print(temperatureF); Serial.println(" degrees F"); delay(1000); //waiting a second }
The sensor works by generating a voltage reading that varies by temperature. The trick is to take this reading, convert it to a temperature using a formula (it's simpler than it may appear), and then convert to either Celsius or Fahrenheit. To "publish" this as an event over the serial port, simply use
Serial.print and/or
Serial.println, assuming you've initialized the serial port as I have in this example.
You should be able to verify your temperature reading by using the Arduino Serial Monitor to view the output, which is sent once per second.
The Java Side: Using JavaFX to Show the Temperature
I thought it would be neat to show the temperature via a fancy JavaFX user interface. I found a nice set of JavaFX gauges as part of the SteelFX project thanks to Jim Clarke and the JFXtras Labs. I believe Gerrit Grunwald was one of the main contributors to this gauge, although the lab's home page includes a long list of contributors.
To show the temperature, I used the code that Jim Clarke wrote about, which leverages FXML for the gauge definition. I modified the FXML file only slightly to set the temperature units and the class name within my project. After creating a JavaFX project, I modified the
start() method as below:
@Override public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception { // Use FXML to get the panel and the child radial gauge Parent panel = FXMLLoader.load( this.getClass().getResource("/steelfx/Gauge.fxml")); if ( radialGauge == null ) { ObservableList<Node> children = panel.getChildrenUnmodifiable(); radialGauge = (Radial)children.get(0); } // Setup the scene and stage and display it StackPane root = new StackPane(); root.getChildren().add(panel); Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 300); scene.setFill(Color.web("#333")); primaryStage.setTitle("Arduino Temperature Guage"); primaryStage.setScene(scene); primaryStage.show(); // Now start up the Arduino communication initArduino(); }
initArduino() method is from my previous blog. The only other place where I needed to add any specific temperature processing and display code was in the method that handles the Arduino events:
@Override public void serialEvent(SerialPortEvent spe) { try { switch (spe.getEventType() ) { case SerialPortEvent.DATA_AVAILABLE: String inputLine = input.readLine(); int end = inputLine.indexOf("degrees"); if ( end > 0 ) { String temp = inputLine.substring(0, end); radialGauge.setValue(new Double(temp)); } break; default: break; } } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e.toString()); } }
This code parses the temperature value from the published
String, and sets the gauge's value accordingly. That's it! As the temperature changes (which you can force by holding or blowing on the temperature sensor), the gauge will update dynamically as well. Click here for the full listing.
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"Many people like to get larger capacity magazines simply to save time reloading while they're at the range.
"When you're paying by the hour for range time, a lot of people do feel the need to stock up as much as possible."
America wouldn't want to infringe on anyone's range time. That costs a pretty penny. So of course Republicans in Congress will fight to the death a limit on the capacities of killing machines.
The above quote from a Virginia gun dealer is contained in Lethal Passage, Erik Larson's penetrating 1994 examination of the firearms industry and the culture that makes it click.
For his book, Larson followed the path of the Cobray M-11/9 which ended up in the hands of a 16-year-old who killed a teacher at school. He would have killed dozens if the gun hadn't malfunctioned.
Faulty merchandise. What an embarrassment for the makers. But they got their money, and their middle man did, too. So all was well ultimately.
Talk about embarrassments: In Larson's reporting you read all about people who make carnage their most important product.
Consider the gun dealer who advertised a "Whitman Arsenal": a seven-piece set of the exact weapon models Charles Whitman took up into the University of Texas tower in 1966 when he killed 16 and wounded 32.
Larson demonstrates that what the gun lobby calls a grand struggle against oppression actually is a battle over profit margins. And don't forget that range time.
Second Amendment rights? Nah. Sum it up with two "C"s — commerce and convenience.
"Gun manufacturers have little interest in saving lives," writes Larson, "although they struggle to convey the image that they are the last defenders of hearth and home."
Parents everywhere should have appreciated what American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said the other day when the National Rifle Association, intoning to a trumpet chorus, said the best route to safer schools was for each to train and arm a volunteer among the staff or faculty.
Said Weingarten, "We must leave those decisions to the people who know our schools best — not those acting as a proxy for gun manufacturers."
That's you, National Rifle Association.
Now we see the merchants of death — sorry, folks, but you make it too easy — fighting reasonable steps like those taken by Colorado and Connecticut lawmakers who voted to limit magazines on firearms.
For guns that can fire blindingly excessive rounds and easily can be converted from semiautomatic to automatic, Larson has a term he prefers instead of "assault weapons."
He calls them "spree weapons" — as in, "The 20-year-old went on a killing spree inside the elementary school."
"Spree" is a more sporting term, more in keeping with what guns are about — plinking cans, obliterating targets, imagining federal agents at the door out to take away one's spittoon.
It was telling that in both Connecticut and Colorado, the key issue wielded by the gun lobby wasn't public safety at all but good ol' commerce. In Colorado, Magpul Industries, which manufacturers large-capacity magazines, has said it will leave the state. The same with gun manufacturers who've threatened to flee Connecticut.
What a thrill to hear policymakers say to these players: "Hasta la vista, baby."
Both legislatures voted for universal background checks. The gun lobby's chief argument against that is that they don't work. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research has multiple studies to demonstrate that they do.
But let's face it. The whole argument comes down to our partners in crime — convenience and commerce — and Uncle Jed having a right to sell his AR-15 in the driveway without "gummint" interfering.
Just so we understand what this is all about.
Longtime Texas newspaperman John Young lives in Colorado. Email: email@example.com.