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Physicist looks to stars
By Gillian Smith — Staff Writer
Luke Keller, associate professor of physics, has been awarded four nights at the Very Large Telescope in Chile this June. The telescope is operated by the European Southern Observatory at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal, a 2,635-meter high mountain in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
Keller will be exploring systems outside of this galaxy and will work with a research team of students when he returns next semester to analyze the data.
Staff Writer Gillian Smith spoke to Keller about his opportunity to view and analyze solar systems.
Gillian Smith: How did you first become interested in astronomy?
Luke Keller: I've always been interested in where things come from. Since I am a physicist and astronomer, origins of solar systems and stars have always been a fascinating question for me.
GS: How did the opportunity to observe stars in Chile come to you?
LK: It's a proposal process, kind of like applying for a grant, except instead of money you get time on the telescope. Twice a year they allow people to submit a proposal, which was a three-page essay about what project I had, why I needed their big telescope to do it and why I couldn't do it anywhere else.
GS: What did your application essay focus on?
LK: I had two arguments. One is that the objects that I am looking at are only visible from the southern hemisphere. I needed an observatory in the south, which is why I chose the Chilean telescope. That telescope is one of the biggest on the earth. I needed it to be big because the objects I am looking at are extremely faint.
GS: What are the objects you'll be looking at?
LK: I'm 95 percent sure that they are very young solar systems like ours. They are located in another galaxy outside of the Milky Way, which makes them chemically different. In other words, the chemical elements that are available there to form the planets are in slightly different proportions than they were when our solar systems were formed. I'm trying to figure out if that makes them form different planets.
GS: How did you discover these solar systems?
LK: They had been observed before, but the people who had observed them didn't recognize them as young solar systems. What I did was I found a fairly large list of objects that might be [solar systems] and then I used the Spitzer Space Telescope to look at them last year. The ones from that observation [that] looked the most like planetary systems are the ones I chose for this project.
GS: Who is on your research team?
LK: Myself, my students, an astronomer that I work with in England and an astronomer at Cornell [University] who I have been working with for a few years.
GS: What do you think will be the most rewarding aspect of this trip?
LK: We get to look at these new solar systems in more detail than we ever have. That's exciting. It's also kind of cool to go to the big observatory. It's a very exciting place to be.


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When a Depressed Teenager Won't Get Out of Bed
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Why not start your evening with a swing as Hudson Lewis provides his unique tribute to the Rat Pack, with many of the songs you will recognise such as Come Fly With Me, That's Life, Mr Bo Jangles, New York New York and My Way, and also swing versions of modern classics including Oasis and Nirvana.
Hudson Lewis can cover the whole day and evening's entertainment with background and Party Dance Music/Disco before, between & after the live sets up to Midnight. A typical party night would be; background music to start, then one set of swing, one set of rock and pop and the third set soul baby! All the sets put together to make sure everyone is up and dancing and to keep the dance floor full!
This is a cabaret show with the songs and artists you love and enjoy.
for Only available between 1 and 5pm. 1 Hour or 2 x 30 minutes set(s) of low key swing i.e. Rat Pack, Michael Buble etc. To include the use of the PA for speeches where practicable.
This package provides you with 2 x 30 minutes or a 1 Hour performance where Hudson Lewis aims to mix in a bit of everything to appeal to everyone's tastes, i.e. Rat Pack, Michael Buble etc Rock, soul; and up to date styles for example Kings Of Leon, Stereophonics, Rock and Soul. A great package.
This is the ultimate package designed to suit all your requirements and provides you with choices. You choose the songs that you want Hudson Lewis to sing!! This package provides you with One Hour thirty minutes of Hudson Lewis mixing it up!! Two x forty five minute or three x thirty minute sets.
Aiming to make this a night to remember!!
This is not a stand alone package and can only be booked as an additional package to those above. This is our Party Dance Music / Disco package. This package will give you background music for guest's arrival / during dinner and dance music between sets as applicable! Also the use of our PA system for evening speeches.
With this package you can also choose the music and songs which mean something to you.
In 1996 I saw an advert in the local paper looking for a lead singer of a 13 piece soul band. Soul was my main music, Otis Redding, James Brown, Sam and Dave etc. I decided I would go along and audition. When I arrived I was told to sing "try a little tenderness". I knew the song well, but I had never sung it in front of anyone let alone an audience and with a microphone! I was terrified! I sang, and I would love to say I sang like an angel, but it was more like a wounded duck, waiting to be put out of my misery! I prayed they would stop playing, which after a lifetime they did. Needless to say I was thanked very politely then told to leave. But this did not deter me. A few weeks later the same advert appeared so I applied again. Upon my arrival they recognised me; they told me that seeing as I was here I might as well "have a go". I had nothing to lose, so I sang with all my heart and they loved it. I was in; I was the lead singer of a band!
Then in 2001 I got the opportunity to be an entertainer in Cyprus. For the first time I had to sing solo. It was an amazing experience and a year later I moved to Tenerife and then in 2003 to Zante. When I returned home to the UK I continued as a solo artist and won a few competitions on the way. Wanting to spread my wings a bit further I joined the Caxton Theatre in Grimsby and appeared as the tramp "Merluche" in the play "trap for a lonely man". Also in this play, as the lead role, was Tony Kirk!
We got on well and had many of the same interests, star wars, Jack Daniels, and singing! He told me he was in a band called "Revolution" and I should come along and have a look. So one night I did just that and went along to see them. I was amazed! The band was so tight and Tony's voice was incredible. The first thing I thought was I want to manage this band and over the course of the play which we were in at the time, (which was around three months) Tony and I became great friends. He asked my advice on moving to Tenerife as a solo artist and I told him that it was a great opportunity and he should at least give it a go. Several months later I received an email from Tony asking what I thought of being in a duo. My immediate thought was, yes! So when Tony arrived back in England we got together to rehearse whenever we could and in August 2006 we hired the Caxton Theatre for our first ever show as "Lewis and Kirk" in the Unleashed Show. The night was an amazing success with standing room only. In 2012 we had decided that we had decided that it was time to bow out whilst we were on the top!
Singing with Tony was such a pleasure. Not only is he a fantastic singer and entertainer that I admire, but he is also one of my closest friends.
Now as a solo artist again I believe that if people have as much fun as I do, then I have set out to do exactly what I wanted, and that is to entertain. I hope you enjoyed reading this and if you made it to the end, thank you for taking the time, and I'll buy you a drink at my next show.


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Q: using sencha touch with rails 3.1 I created an example app on how to use Sencha Touch,Rails 3.1, Devise and Mongodb.
I put the Sencha Touch files in public folder, but i would like to know if there is a way to put it in the assets folder, doing it the rails way.
My issue is that everything gets compiled into one big javascript file, and i don't really want the code that is used for the non login part of the app always available.
you can see the source code for the app here: link
Thanks

A: move your javascript files to app/assets/javascripts/views/...view.js then they will be compiled for each individual view.

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RSR at Road America
My name is Corey Fergus. I race the #198 Honda Civic Si for RSR Motorsports in Grand-Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with co-driver Chris Puskar.
The eighth round of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge was held at Road America, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, home of the Johnsonville brat and Sargento cheese. No wonder it's my favorite track in the nation.
I think one of the reasons why I like it so much is because of the area that surrounds Road America. It's a beautiful area that reminds me of Northern Michigan, where I grew up vacationing at our family lake cottage. As far as the track itself, it's a 4-mile beast. It's fun to drive and has one heck of a gutsy turn, the kink: a 120 mph turn that's blind at turn-in. You better have your turn in spot nailed; otherwise you're in trouble. In fact, one mistake around the 4-mile track can really hurt your lap time. I like that it takes precision and consistency to be fast here. With over a 2:30 second lap time, it rewards drivers that are accurate and make minimal mistakes.
Not only was I excited to be heading to Road America because it's my favorite track, but the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am were racing at the same venue for the first time ever. In anticipation of the merging of ALMS and Grand-Am next year into the United Sports Car Series, we had scheduled one joint event for the year. I guess fans were excited too, because the pre-event sales for this were three times as high as the NASCAR Nationwide race there in June. It's always fun to see lots of fans at our races.
Because of the two series being together, our schedule was very spread out. Four days on track! On Friday we were done at 9:30 am so my family and I went fishing on Lake Michigan. My dad and I are pretty big fisherman so it was pretty cool when I caught an 8-pound Rainbow Trout. On the track, we spent most of our time getting the car set up for the race, trying to get a balanced setup that would not just turn a quick lap, but be consistent throughout the 2.5 hour race. We felt pretty strong heading into qualifying. Chris did a great job and put us in 3rd for the race. This race like the last, I was the finishing driver.
Our race started off with a bang, literally, as Chris got hit on the first lap dropping us to dead last. He worked his way up several positions before pitting for our driver change. During our pit stop a GS car blocked our pit stall, causing us to have to wait until they were done. Then, because of the car hitting Chris on the first lap, the driver side door wouldn't open, forcing us to hop in and out of the window. By the time I took off, I was in 23rd spot. In 30 minutes I managed to work my way up to 7th. But on lap 22 someone apparently forgot where the brake was and t-boned me hard, ending our race. It just wasn't our day.
As it turns out it wasn't our team's day either. We had all three team cars in the top 7 when I was taken out. The #197 car developed some issues later and the #196 car had about a 15 second lead with just over a lap left in the race and they ran out of fuel.
The Hondas were doing really well at Road America. Unfortunately the results don't show it. We'll just have to do well at our next race at Kansas Speedway, August 17 in Kansas City, KS.
See you at the track!
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DCI releases photos of 130 suspects wanted over electronic fraud
The fraud is said to have led to the loss of colossal sums of money from banks and other financial institutions – and sometimes involved insiders/COURTESY
By JOSEPH MURAYA, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 30 – The Directorate of Criminal Investigations on Wednesday released photos of 130 suspects wanted over electronic fraud and hacking into bank systems.
DCI boss George Kinoti said warrants of arrest for the suspects have been issued by the Chief Magistrate's court in Kiambu and Nairobi's Milimani and is now urging members of the public to volunteer information about the suspects.
The fraud is said to have led to the loss of colossal sums of money from banks and other financial institutions – and sometimes involved insiders.
The suspects' pictures are circulated in the daily newspapers.
"Any person with information to contact DCI headquarters -ECCU section, the nearest police station, call or SMS 0772 627 435, 020 334 3412, 020 286 1097 or email us on [email protected]," DCI Kinoti appealed.
In 2018, Kenyans lost millions of shillings to hackers and this did not spare financial institutions.
In early 2018, the National Bank of Kenya admitted losing Sh29 million in a fraud attack.
According to police records, financial institutions lost Sh17 billion to the fraudsters in 2016, an increase from Sh14 billion in 2015.
To address the risks posed to business continuity and the associated reputational risk arising from the increasing digitization of financial services, the Central Bank of Kenya issued a Guidance Note on Cybersecurity in 2017.
The note set out the regulatory standards to industry participants on assessment and mitigation of cybersecurity threats.
Under the regulations, banks were tasked to create safer and more secure cyberspace that underpins information system security priorities, to promote stability of the Kenyan payment system sub-sector, establish a coordinated approach to the prevention and combating of cybercrime, up-scale the identification and protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) among others.
They are also supposed to promote compliance with appropriate technical and operational cybersecurity standards in order to help maintain public trust and confidence in the national payment system.
Among the identified sources of cyber risk by the Central Bank of Kenya include a breach of institutions' databases exposing its data to cybercriminals, unauthorized access to privileged accounts – A non-privileged user who gains access to a privileged account could control the entire system.
For example, hiding criminal acts by modifying or deleting log files or disabling detection mechanisms.
Others include people related attacks like phishing, malware introduced through social engineering that can be utilized to gain privileged system access to critical systems while interconnectedness of institutions could lead to a compromise in the institutions' entry points such as through service providers.
In April 2016, detectives arrested 41 foreigners who were in the process of setting up a sophisticated communication centre in a house within Runda Estate in Nairobi.
READ: 41 foreigners arrested in cyber crime syndicate probe
Police said the suspects were targeting financial institutions in the country through a sophisticated hacking system.
In 2014, a cyber command centre, with the ability to disrupt communication systems in the country was found with the same estate.
UBS trader Kweku Adoboli guilty of fraud
House team grills Barclays Bank staff over Sh791m NYS fraud
Nigeria hunts bank worker over $39 million cyber fraud
Education Ministry takes steps to curb graft
Odunga quashes Parliament petition against Edward Ouko
National Bank officials hunted as Chase Bank bosses quizzed
Sh293m lost in bank fraud last month
Govt says efforts to restore hacked websites ongoing


Prescription price increases for second tier drugs are continuing to rise at a faster rate than the top 100 products, according to a new retail pharmacy price index, the NACDS PRIME Index, prepared by the University of Minnesota for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. Through the first half of 1992, prices for the second 100 drugs increased 8.7% on an annualized basis, according to the University of Minnesota. The top 100 products had an annualized inflation rate of 7.5% during the same period. Similarly, in 1991, the prices for the second 100 products increased 10.9% compared to 9.5% for the top 100. The University of Minnesota notes that the higher price increase rates for lower volume products represent at least a five-year trend. Looking back at price data through 1987, the university says: "clearly, the lower volume drugs...have on average had higher inflation rates over the past five years." The new index is an analysis of AWP price changes for the mix of products sold through community pharmacies. It is conceived as a way of representing price trends for pharmacy, excluding the effects of deal prices by groups such as HMOs, the military and hospitals. NACDS describes the PRIME Index as a "'pure price change' index, in contrast to the [Consumer Price Index] and the [Producer Price Index], which are influenced by price, product mix and product quality upgrades." In the last two years, pharmacy prices have appeared to increase more rapidly than manufacturer prices, according to comparisons between the government's Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index. The PRIME Index maintains that the growth rate of the prices paid by community pharmacies actually has exceeded both the government indices. The index was developed by the University of Minnesota PRIME Institute, headed by Steven Schondelmeyer, PhD. It draws its AWP pricing information from MediSpan's Master Drug DataBase. "Even though the AWP does not represent the actual price paid by pharmacies for drug products, there is typically a constant relationship between these list prices and the actual acquisition cost for most pharmacies," an analysis accompanying the index notes. "Manufacturers nearly always raise their list prices and their actual transaction prices to traditional community pharmacies at the same rate." The index shows that in the first quarter of 1992, 60% of the top 200 products posted price increases averaging 5.8%. In the second quarter, those products changing in price averaged increases of 6.1%. The new index calculates 1992 figures based on a cohort of drugs chosen by sales volume to represent the top 200 drugs by 1991 dollar volume sold through community pharmacies. "In 1991, the top 200 drugs represented 72% ($23.8 bil. of $33 bil.) of prescription drug purchases that retail pharmacies made from manufacturers," the analysis maintains. NACDS says that the index will eventually be expanded to cover the top 500 drugs. "In the first quarter of each year, the top 200 drugs by retail pharmacy purchases from manufacturers will be identified (through IMS America) and the PRIME Index will be adjusted to account for the new sales mix data," the analysis notes. "The 1992 PRIME Index is based on the 1991 sales mix and the 1993 PRIME Index will be based on the 1992 sales mix." The PRIME index finds that manufacturers developed a pattern of more frequent price increases from 1985 to 1991. "In the 1970s and the early part of the 1980s drug products would typically increase in price once a year," an analysis notes. "From 1985 to 1990, the top 20 drug products averaged about 9.5 months between price changes," and during 1991 "the time interval between price changes has decreased further to average only about 8 months between changes." This year, there was a larger number of increases in the first quarter than in previous years. "The first quarter of 1992," a summary of the first survey reports, "saw an unusually high percent of the Top 200 drug products increase in price with 60% posting a change in this three-month period." The University of Minnesota interprets the high first-quarter figure as further signaling "an increase in frequency of price changes." The early changes in 1992, however, may reflect a slowing in the frequency and rate of price increases: as manufacturers prepared to hold to lower AWP increases this year, they may have instituted them earlier to get the full twelve-month benefit of the higher prices in 1992 operating results. "The annualized increases in the PRIME Index have ranged from 7.1% to as high as 12.3% over the past five years," the analysis notes. "The three lowest rates over the five-year period have been in the last three quarters." Speaking at an Aug. 31 session of the NACDS pharmacy conference in Chicago, association President Ronald Ziegler said that the new index "will serve as the benchmark for tracking prescription drug price changes at the manufacturer level." Ziegler characterized the development of the NACDS PRIME Index as part of the association's policy of "aggressively and effectively addressing issues relative to pharmacy operations and reimbursement."


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Q: GWT RCP - SerializationException Started a new project from scratch, converted to JPA, my persistence provider is EclipseLink, added the necessary libraries (eclipselink.jar, eclipselink.jar, javax.persistence, mysql-connector-java-5.1). Tested the connection, ping ok. Then created a new package New > JPA > Entities from Tables > Selected all Entities and Key generator > Identity.
GestorIpca.java
            GestorIpcaService.util.getInstance().getLista(new AsyncCallback<ArrayList<Docente>>() {

                @Override
                public void onFailure(Throwable caught) {
                    Window.alert("Erro na Ligacao efectuada");
                    caught.getStackTrace();
                }

                @Override
                public void onSuccess(ArrayList<Docente> result) {
                    Window.alert("Ligacao efectuada com sucesso:" + result.size());
                }
            });

GestorIpcaService
@RemoteServiceRelativePath("greet")
public interface GestorIpcaService extends RemoteService {
    String greetServer(String name) throws IllegalArgumentException;

    public static class util{
        public static GestorIpcaServiceAsync instance;
        public static GestorIpcaServiceAsync getInstance(){
            if(instance == null){
                instance = GWT.create(GestorIpcaService.class);
            }
        return instance;
        }
    }
    public ArrayList<Docente> getLista() throws IllegalArgumentException;
}

GestorIpcaServiceAsync
public interface GestorIpcaServiceAsync {
        void greetServer(String input, AsyncCallback<String> callback)
                throws IllegalArgumentException;

        void getLista(AsyncCallback<ArrayList<Docente>> callback);
    }

GestorIpcaServiceImpl
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class GestorIpcaServiceImpl extends RemoteServiceServlet implements
        GestorIpcaService {

    public ArrayList<Docente> getLista() throws IllegalArgumentException  {
        //Criamos um EntityManager
        EntityManager em = JpaUtil.getEntityManagerFactory().createEntityManager();
        //Criamos a consulta
        String consulta = "SELECT r from Docente r";
        //Executamos a consulta
        Query q = em.createQuery(consulta);
        ArrayList<Docente> lista = new ArrayList<Docente>(q.getResultList());
        return lista;
    }
/*  public static void main(String args[]){
        GestorIpcaServiceImpl serviceImpl = new GestorIpcaServiceImpl();
        for (Docente docente : serviceImpl.getLista()){
            System.out.println("nome: " + docente.getNome());
        }
    }
    */

In this file i tried to run as > Java Application and in Console showed me 2 records.
Package com.GestorIpca.factory
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;

public class JpaUtil {
    private static final EntityManagerFactory emf;
    //Método estático
    static{
        //BLoco try
        try
        {
            //Criação de EntityManagerFactory
            emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("GestorIpca");
        }catch (Throwable e){
            //Controlar as excepções
            System.err.println("A criação de SessionFactory falhou" + e);
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
        }
    }

    public static EntityManagerFactory getEntityManagerFactory(){
        return emf;
    }
}

My persistence.xml was created automatically. Placed inside META-INF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="GestorIpca">
    <provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>

    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Ano</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Categoria</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Curso</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Disciplina</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Disponibilidade</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Docente</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Sala</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Semestre</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.TipoCurso</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.Turma</class>
    <class>com.GestorIpca.shared.User</class>
        <properties>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/timetable"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="root"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="k771u3"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Last step > Run as > Web Application
Error > Could not connect to database and print a stack trace in Eclipse Console
[EL Info]: 2011-05-09 10:03:08.78--ServerSession(8068087)--EclipseLink, version: Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.2.0.v20110202-r8913
[EL Info]: 2011-05-09 10:03:09.297--ServerSession(8068087)--file:/C:/Users/Martinho/WorkSpace/GestorIpca/war/WEB-INF/classes/_GestorIpca login successful
Starting Jetty on port 8888
   [WARN] Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call
com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.SerializationException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeWithCustomSerializer(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:764)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeImpl(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:727)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serialize(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:616)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.writeObject(AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.java:126)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter$ValueWriter$8.write(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:152)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeValue(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:534)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponse(RPC.java:616)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponseForSuccess(RPC.java:474)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:571)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processCall(RemoteServiceServlet.java:208)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:248)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.doPost(AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.java:62)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:362)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:729)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler.handle(RequestLogHandler.java:49)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:843)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:647)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
    at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)
    at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395)
    at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:488)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeWithCustomSerializer(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:746)
    ... 30 more
Caused by: com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.SerializationException: Type 'org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectSet' was not included in the set of types which can be serialized by this SerializationPolicy or its Class object could not be loaded. For security purposes, this type will not be serialized.: instance = {IndirectSet: not instantiated}
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serialize(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:614)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.writeObject(AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.java:126)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter$ValueWriter$8.write(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:152)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeValue(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:534)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeClass(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:704)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeImpl(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:734)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serialize(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:616)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.writeObject(AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.java:126)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter$ValueWriter$8.write(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:152)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeValue(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:534)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeClass(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:704)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serializeImpl(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:734)
    at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.impl.ServerSerializationStreamWriter.serialize(ServerSerializationStreamWriter.java:616)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.writeObject(AbstractSerializationStreamWriter.java:126)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.core.java.util.Collection_CustomFieldSerializerBase.serialize(Collection_CustomFieldSerializerBase.java:45)
    at com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.core.java.util.ArrayList_CustomFieldSerializer.serialize(ArrayList_CustomFieldSerializer.java:38)
    ... 35 more
[ERROR] 500 - POST /gestoripca/greet (127.0.0.1) 57 bytes
   Request headers
      Host: 127.0.0.1:8888
      Connection: keep-alive
      Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8888/GestorIpca.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997
      Content-Length: 132
      Origin: http://127.0.0.1:8888
      X-GWT-Module-Base: http://127.0.0.1:8888/gestoripca/
      X-GWT-Permutation: HostedMode
      User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.30 Safari/534.30
      Content-Type: text/x-gwt-rpc; charset=UTF-8
      Accept: */*
      Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
      Accept-Language: pt-PT,pt;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
      Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
   Response headers
      Content-Type: text/plain

Note: I changed in package com.GestorIpca.shared all my classes generated from tables
public class Ano implements Serializable

to
public class Ano implements IsSerializable

changed also my GestorIpca.gwt.xml and added this lines in end
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.*Collection"/>
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="-.*List"/>
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="-.*Map"/>
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="-.*Collection"/>
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="+java.util.HashMap"/>
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="+java.util.LinkedHashMap"/>
<extend-configuration-property name="rpc.blacklist" value="+java.util.ArrayList"/>

What am i missing?

A: I depends on how your entities were defined. Maybe there are connections that GWT RPC doesn´t like. in this case i´d suggest create DTO´s or implement RequestFactory

A: Without knowing what your entities look like I would guess from the exception that the reason is probably how your entities get enhanced by your persistence provider:

What this means for GWT RPC is that by the time the object is ready to be transferred over the wire, it actually isn't the same object that the compiler thought was going to be transferred, so when trying to deserialize, the GWT RPC mechanism no longer knows what the type is and refuses to deserialize it.

Cited from: http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/webtoolkit/articles/using_gwt_with_hibernate.html
That article also suggests how to create DTOs to solve this problem.

A: I know this is a very old question, but I ran into this exact issue tonight.
GWT Serialization doesn't seem to like java.util.Set. I almost feel like it was confusing java.util.Set with org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectSet.
Once I switched Set to ArrayList, the error went away.


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Further information on "Discovering the Southern Ridges" can be found here and a copy of the Southern Ridges Map can be found here. I decided to explore a segment of the Southern Ridges today, and decided my start point to be Alexandra Arch Bridge. Once alighting from the bus service 51, I started taking my camera out and snapping photos!
Although I couldn't really see any wildlife, there were many different plants, leaves and flowers for us to learn something about nature out there along the trail. The route would be a very interesting and challenging for runners, narrow paths on certain sectors facing big crowds. Overall, it was really fun, tomorrow I would write up on my next segment of the Southern Ridges Discovery – Henderson Wave Bridge.
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New York Knicks: Why people who know Kevin Knox best believe he is prepared for NBA
People who know Kevin Knox the best laud his work ethic, humility and competitiveness. It's why they say he's ready for his next steps in the NBA.
New York Knicks: Why people who know Kevin Knox best believe he is prepared for NBA People who know Kevin Knox the best laud his work ethic, humility and competitiveness. It's why they say he's ready for his next steps in the NBA. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2yOfbqT
Chris Iseman, NorthJersey Published 10:02 a.m. ET June 28, 2018 | Updated 10:34 p.m. ET June 28, 2018
Kevin Knox And Mitchell Robinson are the new Knicks first-round NBA Draft picks NorthJersey
Knicks introduces first-round NBA Draft pick Kevin Knox And Mitchell Robinson at a press conference in Terrytown, on Friday, June 22. (Photo: Marko Georgiev/NorthJersey.com)
Emily Moore frequently heard the comment as she walked around Islands of Adventure, chaperoning Tampa Catholic's seniors at "Grad Bash."
"Oh my god, that's Kevin Knox."
Moore recalled hearing it over and over again as she watched Knox walk around with his classmates as they celebrated their graduation at the Orlando, Fla., theme park.
By that point, Knox was one of the top basketball recruits in the country, holding a slew of offers from schools that included Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina.
His national profile was rising, but that didn't make a difference to him.
Knox, who stood out at 6-foot-9, couldn't understand what the big deal was.
"He was always such a bigger deal to everyone else than he was to himself," said Moore, Knox's former guidance counselor at Tampa Catholic.
People who have known Knox since early in his high school days say that level of humility hasn't left him.
The story continues below the gallery.
2018 NBA draft: Every first-round pick
No. 1: Deandre Ayton, Phoenix Suns Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 2: Marvin Bagley III, Sacramento Kings Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 3: Luka Doncic, Atlanta Hawks (traded to Dallas Mavericks) Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 4: Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 5: Trae Young, Dallas Mavericks (traded to Atlanta Hawks) Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 6: Mohamed Bamba, Orlando Magic Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 7: Wendell Carter Jr., Chicago Bulls Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 8: Collin Sexton, Cleveland Cavaliers Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 9: Kevin Knox, New York Knicks Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 10: Mikal Bridges, Philadelphia 76ers (traded to Phoenix Suns) Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 11: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Charlotte Hornets (traded to Los Angeles Clippers) Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 12: Miles Bridges, Los Angeles Clippers (traded to Charlotte Hornets) Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 13: Jerome Robinson, Los Angeles Clippers Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 14: Michael Porter Jr., Denver Nuggets Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 15: Troy Brown, Washington Wizards Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports
No. 16: Zhaire Smith, Phoenix Suns (traded to Philadelphia 76ers) Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 17: Donte DiVincenzo, Milwaukee Bucks Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 18: Lonnie Walker IV, San Antonio Spurs Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 19: Kevin Huerter, Atlanta Hawks Nicole Sweet, USA TODAY Sports
No. 20: Josh Okogie, Minnesota Timberwolves Jason Getz, USA TODAY Sports
No. 21: Grayson Allen, Utah Jazz Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 22: Chandler Hutchison, Chicago Bulls Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 23: Aaron Holiday, Indiana Pacers Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports
No. 24: Anfernee Simons, Portland Trail Blazers David Butler II, USA TODAY Sports
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They also recognize the same unrelenting work ethic that Knox applied equally to academics and basketball. Knox craved improvement in each area of his life. He was never satisfied.
Knox will now take those same characteristics to the New York Knicks.
The 18-year-old declared for the NBA draft after starring at Kentucky, which proved to be the right move. The Knicks drafted him ninth overall, coveting his upside and potential. They believe he can become a high-impact player, though he will need time to develop.
Knox will need to put the work in. His past indicates he will have no problem doing so.
"If he sees an area where he needs to improve, he's not going to wait for someone to say, 'Well Kevin, you need to do this,'" said Cheriese Edwards, the assistant principal at Tampa Catholic. "He always took the initiative to figure out what he needed to do so he could improve his grade, improve his understanding, just to continue to get better."
Knox the competitor
Knox's demeanor belies his competitiveness.
He doesn't always look fired up on the court, typically leaving his emotions unrevealed.
Thomas Dziagwa, Knox's close friend and former teammate at Tampa Catholic, knows well that Knox's appearance doesn't tell the whole story.
Kevin Knox (Kentucky) is interviewed after being selected as the number nine overall pick to the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2018 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. (Photo: Brad Penner, Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports)
"If it comes to video games or basketball, he's one of the most competitive people I know," Dziagwa said. "It could be tic tac toe and he's going to try to win. It could be a crossword puzzle and he's going to try to finish it first."
On the court, Knox accepted whatever role he was given as long as it ended with a victory.
"All he cares about is winning, and that's the type of teammate he is," said Dziagwa, who now plays for Oklahoma State.
The Knicks have already seen Knox's competitiveness up close.
Knox readily participated in group workouts throughout the pre-draft process. He was part of a six-player workout for the Knicks.
"You see a lot of top guys in the top-10 lottery do solo workouts but I decided in the beginning I want to do group workouts," Knox said. "I wanted to compete. I wanted to go at people. I wanted to show people what I've really been working on."
'He's worked for everything'
Knox spent portions of the final two years at Tampa Catholic traveling with USA Basketball, playing in tournaments in places such as Argentina and Spain.
Edwards, who was then the school's dean, said Knox still never missed any assignments.
When he struggled in his one of his classes, Knox sought additional help from the teacher on his own without having to be prompted.
Kevin Knox was drafted ninth overall by the Knciks in the 2018 NBA Draft. (Photo: Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports)
"He was always the first one to say, 'I'm going to take care of it," Moore said.
It was the same level of dedication he showed in basketball.
Knox, who was the quarterback for Tampa Catholic's football team his first two years of high school before shifting his focus completely to basketball, woke up at 6 a.m. each day to get to the gym and put up shots before school began.
Then after practice later in the day, he would be the last one to leave.
"He's worked for everything he's earned," Dziagwa said.
Edwards has been working in secondary education for 14 years. She said Knox's work ethic is unparalleled in her experience.
"It's just something that's natural for Kevin," Edwards said.
The teammate and classmate
Several special needs students at Tampa Catholic work as statisticians for the school's sports teams. Knox forged a relationship with one statistician named David who assisted the basketball team while Knox was there.
Kevin Knox is introduced before the SEC Championship game in St. Louis in early March. (Photo: Matt Stone, Courier Journal)
David recently returned to the school to visit some of his former teachers. At one point he ran up to Edwards, excitedly telling her about how Knox was going to be in the NBA draft.
"He was just so excited, like this was my best friend and he's about to go in the draft," Edwards said.
As much as he was known as a star basketball player in high school, Knox was known just as much as being someone who could get along with seemingly anyone.
"You could put him in any situation with any group of people, and he gets along really well with a lot of people," Dziagwa said. "He's just a really good person."
Knox was never blinded by his own success on the court or his rising national profile.
Moore said he was more concerned about others than himself.
"It's his intuition on how other people feel about things," Moore said. "He could always tell when someone was having a bad day or needed a pep talk or a high five in the hallway. It's exceptional these days to see a young person with that kind of intuition."
'He's just going to stay true to himself'
David Fizdale has indicated that he would have no problem putting Knox into the starting lineup right away.
It would be a big way for Knox to begin his development.
It remains to be seen what type of player Knox will become in the NBA. But the people who know him best believe he will do what it takes to reach the potential that he's shown.
He will not be satisfied just making it to the NBA.
Knox will have that same work ethic. The same humility. The same drive for success.
"The big lights and everything doesn't change his personality," Dziagwa said. "He's just going to stick to he is and he's going to stick to what got him to where he's at now. He's just going to stay true to himself."
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Dan Devine
Devine from The Savitar, 1965
Biographical details
(1924-12-23)December 23, 1924
Augusta, Wisconsin
May 9, 2002(2002-05-09) (aged 77)
Minnesota–Duluth
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Michigan State (assistant)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
Green Bay Packers (GM)
Head coaching record
173–56–9 (college)
25–27–4 (NFL)
Accomplishments and honors
1 National (1977)
1 Border (1957)
2 Big Eight (1960, 1969)
Inducted in 1985 (profile)
Daniel John Devine (December 23, 1924 – May 9, 2002) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Arizona State University from 1955 to 1957, the University of Missouri from 1958 to 1970, and the University of Notre Dame from 1975 to 1980, compiling a career college football mark of 173–56–9. Devine was also the head coach of the National Football League's Green Bay Packers from 1971 to 1974, tallying a mark of 25–27–4. His 1977 Notre Dame team won a national championship after beating Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Devine was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1985.
Early life and military service
Born in Augusta, Wisconsin, Devine later went to live with an aunt and uncle in Proctor, Minnesota. As a star at Proctor High School, Devine started at quarterback as a freshman and later became known as "The Proctor Flash," a name given to him by his friend Lute Olson. He also competed in three other sports during his four years at the school, and graduated in 1942.
Devine then enrolled at the Duluth State Teachers College (now the University of Minnesota Duluth), and was team captain of both the basketball and football teams, playing as a 170 lb. (77 kg) quarterback. His time at the school was interrupted after his enlistment in the Army Air Corps during World War II, where he became a B-29 flight officer. He graduated from college in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in history.
Early years as a coach at Michigan State
Devine earned his first coaching job as head coach at East Jordan High School in Michigan, reaching his interview by a combination of bus travel and hitch-hiking. Following two undefeated seasons at the school, he accepted an assistant position at Michigan State University in 1950 under head coach Clarence Munn. For the next five seasons, he helped the Spartans achieve success, including winning a national championship in 1952.
On February 5, 1955, Devine accepted the head coaching position at Arizona State College, now Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona. Joining him as an assistant was Frank Kush, who would have even greater success at the school after Devine's departure. During his three years with the Sun Devils, Devine compiled a record of 27–3–1 (.887), including a spotless 10–0 mark during his final campaign. In that last season, Devine's team led the nation in total offense and scoring, averaging just under 40 points per game in the latter category.
His success at Arizona State resulted in an offer from the University of Missouri, which he accepted on December 18, 1957. At first, Devine was reluctant to accept the position; his flight to Missouri had developed engine trouble. In addition, Devine had hot chocolate spilled on him by a stewardess during the flight, which arrived six hours late.
Over the next 13 years, Devine would turn the once-dormant program into a consistently competitive school that finished with a Top 20 ranking nine times. His record of 93–37–7 (.704) included four bowl game victories, with his winning percentage passing that of his predecessor Don Faurot. He left Mizzou with the second most number of wins as coach in school history, behind only Faurot. He is now third after Gary Pinkel passed him in 2013.
After finishing 5–4–1 in his first year in 1958, Devine (with two years left on his contract) gained some job security when a group of Mizzou alumni funded a $150,000 life insurance policy that covered him as long as he remained as head coach of the Tigers. The investment paid off as Missouri never lost more than three games over the next decade.
In 1960, the Tigers began the year unranked, but after shutting out SMU 20–0, in the season opener, moved up to 16th and continued to head upward in the weekly rankings. Following that win with eight straight victories, Missouri became the top-ranked team in the country following a 41–19 victory over Oklahoma.
Needing only a victory over Kansas to clinch a national championship, the Tigers (favored by a touchdown) instead were stunned in a 23–7 upset loss. After an Orange Bowl victory over Navy on January 1, 1961, Missouri finished the year ranked fifth in a season which saw upwards of four teams claim a share of the national title. Kansas was later forced to forfeit 2 games in a vote by Big 8 schools (3–5) because the Jayhawks' Bert Coan had received a ticket to a college all-star game by a Kansas booster and was thus voted ineligible by the Conference. The Big 8 chose not to vote on the issue mid-season, though it was known prior to the game. Missouri claims the 1960 game as a win by forfeit—thus making 1960 the only undefeated and untied season in school history.
While never again reaching that level, Missouri maintained its strength throughout the 1960s, with Devine taking on the added duties of athletic director in 1967 after Faurot stepped down from that post. During his three years in the latter role, he made a key hire when he selected Norm Stewart to head the fortunes of the school's men's basketball squad.
After finishing 9–1 in 1969, a season capped off with a massive 69–21 win over KU that saw Jayhawk coach Pepper Rodgers showing the peace sign to Devine late in the game and Devine "return half of it", Missouri faced Penn State in the 1970 Orange Bowl. The Nittany Lions entered the game with a 28-game winning streak, and extended the string by intercepting seven Tiger passes in a 10–3 defensive battle.
After suffering his first losing season in 1970, Devine left Missouri on January 14, 1971, to become the head coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL, succeeding Phil Bengtson.
Devine acknowledged the pressure of the position but had the benefit of not immediately following legendary coach Vince Lombardi. Bengtson had endured three years of unrealistic expectations following Lombardi's brief retirement after Super Bowl II.
Devine's career in Green Bay got off to a painful start when he suffered a broken leg following a sideline collision in the season opener, a 42–40 loss to the New York Giants.
After finishing 4–8–2 in 1971, Devine headed a brief resurgence that "The Pack is Back" by dethroning the four-time division champion Minnesota Vikings in 1972 to reach the playoffs, the Packers' first post-season in five years. The Packers lost 16–3 in the first round to the Washington Redskins at RFK Stadium on Christmas Eve.
The Packers did not reach the postseason for another decade, during the expanded 16-team playoffs of the strike-shortened 1982 season. Green Bay would not return to the playoffs in a non-strike year until 1993 and would not win another divisional title until 1995. Unable to recapture the success of 1972, Devine's final two seasons at Green Bay were disappointing (5–7–2 in 1973 and 6–8 in 1974).
Midway through his last season as Packers head coach in 1974, Devine engineered a memorable trade in which Green Bay exchanged two 1st round picks, two 2nd round picks, and a 3rd round pick for 34-year-old quarterback John Hadl from the Los Angeles Rams. The Packers were 3–3 at the time with lackluster play from quarterback Jerry Tagge, and Devine apparently believed an experienced quarterback was the last piece of the puzzle.
Hadl, however, would play only two years as a Packer, winning just seven games while throwing 29 interceptions during that span. Meanwhile, the Rams used the picks acquired in the trade to draft players who would help them dominate the NFC West in the 1970s. To this day, many Packer fans have never forgiven Devine for the trade, which is widely reckoned as the worst trade for a starting quarterback in NFL history.[1]
Devine's wife was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the season.
As the Packers' performance declined, Devine's relationship with the fans deteriorated, and his family started to get verbally harassed during games. An incident occurred where one of his dogs was shot by a neighbor. Devine claimed that the shooter was an angry Packers fan, but the farmer who shot the dog said that he shot the dog because it had been constantly straying onto his property, and he had warned Devine in the past that he would shoot Devine's dog if it came near his home again.
After a three-game losing streak knocked the Packers out of the playoffs, Devine resigned on December 16, 1974, to become the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. His departure was also controversial, as the Packers' board of directors were prepared to buy Devine out of his contract, but Devine told them that he was going to return to coach the team in 1975. Devine asked for his last season's paycheck to come in advance, and after it was given to him, he announced his resignation.
Devine had been a leading candidate for the head coaching job at Notre Dame in 1964, when Ara Parseghian was hired. When approached for the job following Parseghian's resignation a decade later, Devine accepted immediately, joking that it was probably the shortest job interview in history.
In his six seasons at Notre Dame, Devine compiled a 53–16–1 mark (.764). His lasting achievement came midway through this run, when the Fighting Irish won the 1977 national championship, led by junior quarterback Joe Montana. The regular season was highlighted by the Irish's 21–17 come-from-behind win over Clemson at Death Valley, when Devine repeatedly gave the middle finger salute to the raucous home crowd.
The championship season was completed with a convincing 38–10 win in the 1978 Cotton Bowl Classic over previously top-ranked Texas, led by Heisman Trophy winner Earl Campbell. The win vaulted the Irish from fifth to first in the polls.
Earlier in the season, before the annual game against USC, played at home on October 22, Devine changed the team's jerseys from navy blue & white to kelly green & gold, which would remain for the rest of his time at the school.
He also added names to the players' jerseys on a permanent basis when he took over at Notre Dame. Previously, names had been included on jerseys only during bowl games. (The traditional navy blue & white jerseys without names returned in the 1980s under Lou Holtz.)
Devine's teams won three bowl games, including consecutive Cotton Bowl Classics. In the 1979 Cotton Bowl Classic, the Irish trailed 34–12 with 7:27 remaining in the game. They rallied for 23 unanswered points behind ailing senior quarterback Joe Montana for an incredible 35–34 victory over Houston. The game, played in an unseasonal storm of freezing sleet and rain, became part of college football folklore, referred to as the Chicken Soup Game.
Because he had the unenviable task of following a legend, Devine came under heavy scrutiny while at Notre Dame and it was felt that he was never fully embraced by the Notre Dame community, despite winning a national championship. After a 5–2 start in his first season, rumors of incompetence were circulated and that Devine would be dismissed and replaced by Don Shula or even Ara Parseghian (who went so far as to say he would not return to coaching under any circumstances). Even on the day of the 1977 USC game, "Dump Devine" bumper stickers were being sold outside Notre Dame Stadium.
He also had the notoriety of losing to his old program, a shocking 3–0 loss to the Tigers at South Bend in 1978. It wasn't until after Devine had left Notre Dame that fans began to appreciate him.
Devine was involved in a game while at Notre Dame whose ending resulted in a rule change still in effect today. On September 15, 1979, the Irish faced the Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor in their season opener. With six seconds remaining, Michigan lined up for a game-winning field goal attempt. Notre Dame linebacker Bob Crable ran onto the backs of offensive lineman Tim Foley and defensive end Scott Zettek and was able to block the kick, preserving a 12–10 Irish victory.[2] A new rule was implemented the following season that prohibited this tactic.
On August 15, 1980, Devine announced that he would be leaving Notre Dame at the end of the 1980 season, saying he wanted to be able to spend more time with his wife. Notre Dame named Gerry Faust as Devine's successor on November 24, 1980.[3] At the time, Devine's Irish were enjoying a surprisingly successful season, with a 9–0–1 record and No. 2 ranking in the polls, behind only Georgia.[4] However, after Faust's hiring was announced, Notre Dame lost its regular season finale at rival USC, 20–3, and then lost the Sugar Bowl to Georgia, 17–10, giving the Bulldogs their first national championship and spoiling Devine's last game as a head football coach.
Later life and death
Devine moved back to Arizona and became a fundraiser for Arizona State's Sun Devil Foundation. In 1985, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, and then returned to his old school at Missouri seven years later as athletic director to help navigate the school through financial troubles. Devine was inducted into the inaugural class of the University of Minnesota Duluth Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.[5]
In 2000, Devine's wife died. His own health began to deteriorate in February 2001, when after undergoing heart surgery, he suffered a ruptured aorta. Fifteen months later, he died at home.[6]
In popular culture
Devine was portrayed by actor Chelcie Ross in the film Rudy. In the film, Devine is portrayed in a somewhat unfavorable light, acting as a hindrance to Daniel Ruettiger's dream of dressing for Notre Dame or appearing in a game.
Devine was reported to be incensed with how he was portrayed in the film, noting that he had planned to allow Rudy to play all along.
He also maintained that none of the players laid down their jerseys on his desk as a form of protest and if anyone had, they would have been kicked off the squad.[7]
Devine was asked by movie producers to allow his dramatized character to "play the heavy," to provide dramatic plot opportunities. While Devine agreed, he later wrote that he didn't believe Ross's portrayal would be as antagonistic as it turned out in the finished film.[8]
Bowl/playoffs
Coaches#
AP°
Arizona State Sun Devils (Border Conference) (1955–1957)
1955 Arizona State 8–2–1 4–1 2nd
1956 Arizona State 9–1 3–1 2nd
1957 Arizona State 10–0 4–0 1st 12 12
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1958 Missouri 5–4–1 4–1–1 2nd
1959 Missouri 6–5 4–2 2nd L Orange 19 18
1960 Missouri 11–0 7–0 1st W Orange 4 5
1961 Missouri 7–2–1 5–2 T–2nd 11 11
1962 Missouri 8–1–2 5–1–1 2nd W Bluebonnet 12
1963 Missouri 7–3 5–2 3rd 16
1964 Missouri 6–3–1 4–2–1 4th 18
1965 Missouri 8–2–1 6–1 2nd W Sugar 6 6
1966 Missouri 6–3–1 4–2–1 T–3rd
1967 Missouri 7–3 4–3 4th
1968 Missouri 8–3 5–2 3rd W Gator 17 9
1969 Missouri 9–2 6–1 T–1st L Orange 6 6
1970 Missouri 5–6 3–4 T–4th
Missouri: 92–38–7 61–24–4
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1975 Notre Dame 8–3 17
1976 Notre Dame 9–3 W Gator 12 12
1977 Notre Dame 11–1 W Cotton 1 1
1978 Notre Dame 9–3 W Cotton 6 7
1979 Notre Dame 7–4
1980 Notre Dame 9–2–1 L Sugar 10 9
Notre Dame: 53–16–1
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Win percentage
4 8 2 .357 4th in NFC Central – – – –
10 4 0 .714 1st in NFC Central 0 1 .000 Lost to Washington Redskins in NFC Divisional Game
5 7 2 .429 3rd in NFC Central – – – –
^ Beacom, Mike (October 21, 2011). "A look back at the Hadl trade". Pro Football Weekly. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011.
^ "A 1979 blocked field goal remains one of the defining moments of Notre Dame-Michigan football rivalry".
^ "Chicago Tribune – Historical Newspapers".
^ "November 24, 1980 Football Polls – College Poll Archive – Historical College Football, Basketball, and Softball Polls and Rankings".
^ "Dan Devine (1991) – UMD Athletic Hall of Fame".
^ Litsky, Frank (May 10, 2002). "Dan Devine, Football Coach, Is Dead at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
^ ESPN
^ "Real Rudy Ruettiger – Rudy Movie True Story".
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Moral Imagination, Mr. Lawrence
4 Jan 2017 28 Jun 2019
If you haven't seen Nagisa Ôshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, go watch it, because it's great, and there are some spoilers below. If you want a full plot refresher, Wikipedia's isn't bad.
The film concerns four men in Tanjung Priok POW camp on Java. Or it might be Bicycle Camp. Or it might be a place that creator/director Ôshima made up. Regardless, it's December 1942, about nine months after Java ceased to have white men in power and started having Japanese men in power instead. (The Javanese, alas, wouldn't have any power until the end of the war. Empires, man.)
The four men are
Colonel John Lawrence (British Army) escaped Singapore ahead of the Japanese invasion, was captured at Java's fall in March 1942. Having spent time in Japan pre-war, he feels he's familiar with the Japanese mind and serves as liaison officer between the Allied prisoner administration and their conquerors.
Captain Yonoi (Japanese Army), commandant of the camp.
Major Jacques "Straffer" Celliers (British Army), sent from India to Java after the island's surrender; almost executed as a guerrilla before Yonoi intercedes.
Sergeant Hara (Japanese Army), a bluff, impulsive everyday supervisor of the prisoners.
Director Ôshima (center at right) cast in these parts one professional actor (Tom Conti as Lawrence), two rock stars (Ryuichi Sakamoto as Yonoi and David Bowie as Celliers), and a stand-up comedian (Takeshi Kitano as Hara). It turned out to be a stroke of mad genius, throwing into heightened relief the freighted relationships among these characters.
Casual commenters tend to focus on the homoerotic plot thread between Captain Yonoi and Major Celliers. But much as I love Bowie and find this his finest film turn, it's the other story axis that intrigues me: the broken, wavy line between Colonel Lawrence and Hara gunso.
When we meet them, Lawrence and Hara have known each other uneasily for some time. They're juxtaposed because Hara speaks only Japanese and Lawrence is fluent in it, yet each finds the other irritating, immoral, and incomprehensible. As they cautiously circle the burning eyebeams between Celliers and Yonoi, Lawrence and Hara warily ally, though Hara is equally happy to up and smack Lawrence without provocation.
British prisoners and Japanese guards: each side knows and respects its own culture. Just as certainly, the other side is an opaque, inscrutable mob, those foreigners over there whose behavior and values are just wrong at every turn. Group description is the only kind possible, and collective blame is the name of the game.
HARA: You are not soldiers, you are prisoners! So you lack discipline and you beg favors.
LAWRENCE: They were a nation of anxious people, and they could do nothing individually. So they went mad en masse.
When a contraband radio is discovered among the POWs, Yonoi singles out Lawrence to take the blame. Why torture and kill the one Brit with a chance of comprehending his captors? Deep down, it's because Lawrence comprehends too much: he knows what's in the boss's hot glances at Celliers, and Yonoi knows he knows. On the surface, though, it perfectly satisfies wartime Japanese justice.
YONOI: We must punish someone.
LAWRENCE: …You mean I'm to die because you think if there's a crime, then it must be punished, and it doesn't matter who is punished? You're not by any chance a Gilbert & Sullivan fan, are you? No – you're not very funny, really…..So I'm to die to preserve your sense of order.
Several sordid episodes later, a sake-drenched Sergeant Hara snatches Lawrence and Celliers from death row and restores them to the regular prison population.
HARA (in Japanese): Tonight, I'm Father Christmas!
CELLIERS: What's he saying to us?
LAWRENCE: …He thinks he's Santa Claus.
Hara reaches out of his genial cups with a cross-cultural reference, perhaps the only one he knows. In Java, the white men used to be in power. Now the Japanese are in power. But in this one act of grace, Hara's power becomes that of St. Nick, swooping down the chimney with the gift of survival.
The film's coda, four years later, finds the white men busy preserving their sense of order by executing brutal guards like Sergeant Hara. Since that fateful Christmas of 1942, Hara's learned enough English to say
HARA: I'm ready to die. [But] I don't understand. My crimes were no different from any other soldier's.
LAWRENCE: You're the victim of men who think that they're right – just as, one day, you and Captain Yonoi believed absolutely that you were right. And the truth is, of course, that nobody's right.
All the awe and awfulness of human relations come out in Tom Conti's delivery of this line.
The truth is, of course, that nobody's right: Lawrence isn't trashing accuracy. The Japanese guards did find a radio in the barracks. Hara was a violent, abusive guy.
The truth is, of course, that nobody's right: Lawrence isn't endorsing nihilistic relativism. Some options are better than others. He's spent half the film badgering someone toward wiser, less harmful choices.
In their extraordinary final encounter, Hara and Lawrence don't become friends. If the war were ongoing they'd be shooting each other. But in this brief exchange, they see each other as people: singular, culture-bound, fucked-up, foible-filled, precious people. If there is any ultimate truth, people are never equipped to know it, much less wield it against others. Even with the brightest minds and the best intentions, success will always be incomplete. Justice will always be partial. There is no completely right right. Lawrence and Hara forgive each other for being, in their own personal ways, only human.
David Bromwich's book Moral Imagination provides a term for these two enemies' achievement:
Moral imagination…the power that compels us to grant the highest possible reality and the largest conceivable claim to a thought, action, or person that is not our own, and not close to us in any obvious way. The force of the idea of moral imagination is to deny that we can ever know ourselves sufficiently to settle on a named identity that prescribes our conduct or affiliations.
Oliver Burkeman refers to something similar as
[a] kind of muscular compassion for your foes.
In a TEDxOxbridge talk, Henrietta L. Moore, William Wyse Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, says:
The ethical imagination is what saves us from our certainties. It's what saves us from stereotypes that come with unthinking difference. It allows us, very importantly, to connect to other humans as equals, to extend equality to those we do not know and will probably never know….
But the ethical imagination is not about compassion and tolerance, although those things are very important. The ethical imagination is about disruption. It's about disrupting your own way of thinking. About seeing things differently, imagining the possibility of connecting to other people in a different way.
Applying Moore's terms to people who committed recent terrorist acts, Morwari Zafar elaborates:
Society should focus on cultivating understanding and empathy – not peace.
The basic principle of having an ethical imagination is an honest pursuit of understanding and tolerance; of recognising and mitigating personal biases, and simply but sincerely being kind. It may sound terrifically facile. But it is humanity's one legitimate hope against bloodshed over differences by people who bleed the same.
Sean Blanda writes on Medium:
…you have to recognize that the Other Side is made of actual people.
But I'd like to go a step further. We should all enter every issue with the very real possibility that we might be wrong this time.
In the article 'The Difficulty of Imagining Other Persons,' Elaine Scarry declares, "The action of injury occurs precisely because we have trouble believing in the reality of other persons." Paul Bloom's Against Empathy glosses her conclusion thus:
A common response here is that we should try harder to feel for others….[But we] are not psychologically constituted to feel toward a stranger as we feel toward someone we love.
[Scarry] notes that someone who relies on empathy will focus on individuals with the goal of making their lives weighty, of making their joy and suffering and experience matter as much as one's own. This sounds noble, but we are not good at it….
Scarry suggests that we do the opposite. Don't try to establish equality and justice by raising others up to the level of those you love. Don't try to make them more weighty. Rather, make yourself less weighty. Bring everyone to the same level by diminishing yourself.
The truth is, of course, that nobody's right.
Michael Bess' Choices Under Fire adds:
Strengthening the edifice of peace, in this sense, requires from each of us a kind of ongoing reeducation of our emotional impulses: learning how to recognize within ourselves the reflex of abstraction that leads to dehumanizing other people – and countering it with an active effort of empathy and humane imagination, remaking the other back into a person once again.
Only learn that that horde opposed to you is made up of fallible, valuable, singular humans. Any group you claim is made up only of the same. Find someone you can see the way that Hara and Lawrence see each other. Read a first-person narrative by someone alien to you. Converse though translation is awkward. Even if you oppose everything that person stands for, you can recognize a singular human being there. Then convince someone else on 'your' side, not with slogans, mockery, or triumphalism, but with the deep knowledge that, in the biggest picture, nobody's right.
Or, as another holiday tale puts it:
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as…the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence remixes novellas by Laurens van der Post. The book's Lawrence vows this separate peace:
We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come….Thus between us, we shall cancel out all private and personal evil, thus arrest private and personal consequences to blind action and reaction, thus prevent specifically the general incomprehension and misunderstanding, hatred and revenge of our time from spreading further.
In an interview at the time of the film's release, van der Post said,
I hope that [people's] understanding will be enlarged. I hope their suspicion of judgment and justice will be heightened – [I hope they] see that, important as judgment and justice are, there are values that transcend those, and these are the ones that the modern world wants [i.e. lacks]: understanding, compassion, mercy, forgiveness.
This is a slight update of a post from my David Bowie crash course. Here's the next bit of Bowie blogging.
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