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On November 1, 2016, the French government published the first decree implementing the new Law on Foreign Workers of March 7, 2016.
The decree establishes that visa applications for two new immigration categories – "Talent Passport" and Intra-Company Transfer (ICT) Employees on Detachment (a.k.a. secondment) – must be submitted at French consulates. Processing delays are expected until detailed procedures have been announced and fully implemented.
The decree also clarifies the occupations that are now exempt from the work permit requirement for up to three months.
Applications submitted before November 1, 2016, will be processed according to the previous regulations.
Talent Passport
This four-year permit is now available for the following categories:
- Change of status for students holding a Master's degree from France
- European Blue Card
- ICT "salarié en mission" with a local employment contract in France
- Scientists/Researchers
- Applicants holding a Master's degree who wish to open a business in France
- Foreign nationals who present a project in innovation that have been recognized by an official administration
- Foreign nationals who invest directly in France
- Artists
ICT employees on detachment
This category will now include three separate permits:
- ICT Employee on Detachment – issued for an employee who is on an assignment in a senior management position or to provide expertise, to a company in France that is part of the same group as the home country employer
- ICT Trainee – issued when there is an approved training agreement within the framework of an internship with an institution or company of the same group as the home country employer
- Mobile ICT Employee on detachment or Mobile ICT Trainee – issued if the foreign national already holds a residence permit issued by another EU country under one of the above categories (ICT Employee or ICT Trainee)
Short-term assignments
For assignments of up to 90 days, a work permit will no longer be required for:
a) Employees on a local contract in France working in the following areas:
- Sports, cultural, artistic and scientific events
- Professional conferences, seminars and workshops
- Film, audio-visual, entertainment and phonographic publishing production and distribution, if the employee is an artist or technical personnel that is directly part of the production or project
- Modelling
- Personal services and domestic workers during the assignment in France of their private employers
- Education given occasionally by visiting professors
b) Employees on detachment (secondment, as defined the French labor law article L. 1262-1):
- Assignments for audits and experts in information technology, management, finance, insurance, architecture and engineering
Assignees in these categories who do not qualify for a visa waiver will still need to obtain a short-term Schengen visa, documentary requirements for which have not as yet been indicated.
This summary was prepared using information obtained by Peregrine Immigration Management.
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Any developers out there who missed their chance to get a carrier free Nexus One directly from Google have been given another opportunity. As the title says, the phone is back available straight from Google according to the Android Developers Blog. I have the Nexus One and got it straight from Google back in January, it is an amazing handset. Any aspiring developers out there looking for an Android phone to help test out their code can't go wrong with this.
Also, anyone can buy the phone, you just have to pay the 25 dollar developer fee and the $529 dollar cost of the phone. What a deal. Nexus One forever! Go Android!


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It's not often – well ever, really – that 150 of the world's wealthiest billionaires and near-billionaires gather in one place at one time, particularly to talk about how they plan to give all that money away. But that's just what philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Jacqueline Novogratz, Leon Black and Steve Case – and their peers – gathered together to do this past June.
"The importance of philanthropy is evidenced by the fact that so many prominent individuals took the time to travel to New York and share their ideas," says Bill Woodson, Managing Director, Co-head of Private Banking Americas UHNW Business at Credit Suisse.
Forbes Insights, together with Credit Suisse, used this unprecedented gathering to better understand how the world's wealthiest approach giving back. What we found surprised us: yes, legacy is important, but not as important as making an impact as quickly as possible. And billions of dollars can make a tremendous impact -- it can truly change the world. More than half of Summit attendees who participated in the Forbes Insights/Credit Suisse poll said that they expected to see a meaningful return on their philanthropic investment within 10 years, while four in 10 were prepared for an impact that stretched beyond their lifetime.
And they were risk takers, applying the same aggressive approaches in their charitable endeavors that they used in their business activities. Two-thirds invested in either early- or growth-stage philanthropic endeavors, rather than the old tried-and-true established charities with long track records. In short: they were looking to make their mark, take risks, and solve the world's most intractable problems – the huge knots that no one had yet been able to untangle.
As a follow up to the historic Summit, Forbes Insights and Credit Suisse conducted a wider study of some of the world's wealthiest to gain deeper insight into the motivations, strategies and financial philosophies of some of the world's most charitable givers. The research shed light on the total lifecycle of philanthropy -- from the moment an individual first decides to use his or her fortune to do good to the legacy he or she plans to leave behind -- and the spirit of giving they hope will live on in their descendants.
The results of that research formed the basis of Next-Generation Philanthropy: Changing the World, a deeper exploration of the impulse to change the world and the mechanisms – both financial and familial – employed by the world's wealthiest to do so. Those who participated in our study bring the same tenacious, pragmatic approach to giving away their wealth as they brought to amassing it in the first place. This makes sense; the approach and business acumen that resulted in tremendous success in the business arena are bound to make the most impact in philanthropy – and when you get right down to it, business and giving are not really all that different. Both require a results-driven approach, a strong strategic vision, the ability to surround oneself with the right team for the job and the understanding that the biggest risks most often result in the biggest rewards. Fifty-three percent found applying their business experience to their philanthropy an effective and successful approach to giving – a sentiment that only increases with wealth.
"From the beginning, our projects contained a detailed description of the goals, often with intermediate milestones, the ways and means in which they could be achieved, and the achievements measured and demonstrated. Over the years, we became more experienced in this area and more sophisticated in defining objectives and tracking to what extent they could be achieved," says Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny, former owner of construction materials manufacturer Swiss Eternit Group.
This business approach extends to the way they get the job done as well: more of our wealthy respondents partner with businesses (40%) for their philanthropic endeavors than with government agencies (22%) or other non-profits (28%).
In other words, even when it comes to charity – an arguably altruistic endeavor – the world's wealthiest still turn to the for-profit sector to maximize their impact. Indeed, three in 10 reported they had encountered numerous hurdles in engaging with government infrastructure in their efforts to give. As with the Summit attendees, eight in 10 of the wealthiest preferred to give to early- or growth-stage endeavors, rather than the more established organizations. Why allow yourself to get snagged in the stickiness of so much red tape when you can use other channels to move more quickly? Venture capitalism isn't just for growing the next Facebook; it can also apply to the cure for malaria, or educating a generation of poverty-stricken girls in the third world.
But what surprised us most in our Forbes Insights study was something that also emerged among attendees at the Summit: not just the scope and scale of the wealth they plan to disburse, but how quickly they plan to do so. More than half – 54% -- of respondents to the study planned to leave more than a quarter of their assets to charity. As wealth grows, so does the impulse to give. Close to half of those with more than $20 million in investable assets plan to leave half or more of their wealth to charity; nearly 1 in 5 of those with over $50 million in investable assets plan to give it all away. A massive level of giving, to be sure – but those with the greatest amounts to give planned to give it away the fastest. Billionaire Stephen Ross agrees with this sentiment: "I was brought up with the idea that it is important to give back and not take anything for granted." He plans to leave over half of his estate to a foundation.
Giving on such a massive scale requires a global perspective, to be sure, and the respondents to the Forbes Insights/Credit Suisse study noted that there was a greater conversation happening about giving globally. But that doesn't mean that the wealthiest aren't still impacted in at least some aspects by the forthcoming elections in the United States. Nearly two-thirds believe that the elections will impact tax policies – which in turn impact their charitable giving. And half said the elections will impact the climate for philanthropy.
But one thing is certain: the culture of giving is rapidly becoming the prevalent one. Fifty-five percent of those with investable assets of $20 million or more say that they've seen a greater culture of giving in the last five to 10 years, and 73% say philanthropy has become a more dominant topic of conversation during that time. And the great thing about those with the greatest means to make a difference is, they're not ones to be satisfied just to sit around and talk. They're the ones who turn talk into action.


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The Paris Agreement required the 196 Parties to the UN Climate Convention to limit temperature increases to 2° or 1.5°C below preindustrial levels. While COP21 benefited from a high degree of mobilization linked to the adoption of an international agreement, COP 22 on the other hand has received rather less attention. Yet the stakes remain significant. In its haste, COP 22, being called the "action COP" or the "agriculture COP", is in danger of adopting various misguided solutions for agriculture.
From a climate justice perspective, which is more than a technical approach, we are facing a political and paradigm-related dilemma. From this perspective, we focus on the root causes of the climate crisis from where we propose real solutions while rejecting and demanding an end to false solutions.
On the occasion of the UN climate change negotiations in Lima, Peru – known as COP20 – we reaffirm that rejecting REDD+ and 'environmental services', two manifestations of the so-‐called 'green economy', is a central part of our struggle against capitalism and extractive industries and the defence of territories, life and Mother Earth.
An examination of the destructive environmental record of Repsol, Glencore Xstrata and Enel-Endesa in Latin America and worldwide is clear evidence that transnational corporations should have no place in decision-making around the climate.
This paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed.
Bidwai is a rare analyst. He writes as a man of the South, but at the same time he can be extremely critical of the South's negotiating postures.
Dramatic changes around food, climate, energy, and finance in recent years have pushed questions of land use and land control back onto the centre stage of development discourse, at the very moment when the same conditions are spurring an unprecedented rush for land and water across the globe.
Still there seems no progress among countries to commit to increasing the level of emission reductions for this decade. Why are the climate talks stalemated and what should be done to break the deadlock?
Why do we need to oppose plans to price nature? What are the alternatives?
Sustainable development, promised at the Earth summit in 1992, failed because it was equated with economic growth, consumerism and increased corporate power. Without sharing wealth, knowledge and power, humankind will not survive.
Former Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon speaks of his successes and frustrations in government, what the EU can learn from Latin America in confronting a debt crisis, and warns of the dangers of marketising nature under the guise of a 'green economy.'
The European Commission's promotion of 'bioeconomies' as a central focus at Rio+20 is more about protecting banking, biotech, manufacturing, agribusiness and energy sectors then defending vulnerable communities and the environment.
Demonstrating the economic value of nature once seemed at the forefront of progressive thinking, but on the ground it is turning into the latest wave of landgrabbing. What went wrong?
He wrote one of the most progressive laws for nature conservation. He organized the first international climate conference for common people. And now he wipes the floor with the UN proposal for a 'green economy'. The Bolivian Pablo Solón thinks we should treat nature with more respect.
How does transnational capital function? Where does it operate? What globalised logic does it follow? What is the magnitude of its abuses and its social, economic and environmental irresponsibility? And what challenge do we see emerge for us, the people?
TNI will be attending the Peoples Summit at Rio+20 and organising workshops on investment and energy. The Peoples Summit is organised by social movements from all over the world and will be held at the Aterro do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, during the official Rio+20 Summit (UNCSD) from June 15-23.


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There is no doubt that IT budgets will be cut next year. The size of the cut is hard to predict, but I think that it could exceed the Gartner's forecast.
This, however, could finally give a shot in the arm to the long stagnated SOA projects. What makes me say that? Well, as I've been advocating all along, SOA represents an inexpensive way of adding flexibility and achieving new goals. SOA does not have to require significant new investments. Done smartly, it could be a great way of implementing new functionality without ripping the existing systems apart, which is undoubtedly won't fly in light of highly constrained budgets.
To prove this point, in spite of lackluster economy, the demand for SOA architects has been booming.
There is one caveat to this view – organizations need to stop approaching SOA from the infrastructure standpoint (i.e., what ESB product do I need?) and start using it as a solution to real business needs. I'm not entirely sure that it's going to happen, but bad economy could be just the motivation for that.
Bobby Wolf posted a great article about a wide-spread problem plaguing many SOA implementations: over-engineering of SOA infrastructure, meaning that people rollout products that are not particularly required to implement their business services. He specifically talks about ESBs, but I would say that "you ain't gonna need it" principle should be applied to any component of a SOA stack. For example, why implement a super-expensive BPM suite (or a BPEL engine) when an organization is simply trying to build some data services? Or why pay for a registry if there are only a handful of services in place?
What many people don't realize is just how many SOA-related features are already provided by application servers. Open-source Glassfish server supports JAXR Web services repositories, XSLT mediations, JBI integration and provides extensive Web services monitoring capabilities. It can be augmented by several open-source JBI-based ESBs, such as OpenESB. Other application servers provide similar set of features, although using different technologies (e.g., SCA instead of JBI in IBM products). With an application server being so powerful, there should be a very good reason and business rationale for upgrading to commercial SOA/integration products.
In my mind the right strategy for any SOA is to first implement some services that provide immediate value to the business stakeholders. These services should be implemented using the products already owned and used by an organization (or by using open source ones). After the initial success of this implementation, the organization can evaluate commercial products to see how these products will help implement next set of business requirements/goals more efficiently.
SOAP-based services currently dominate the enterprise landscape. Main reasons this are:
SOAP, however, is far from perfect. It adds complexity and overhead and makes implementation of message intermediaries (e.g., gateway products) more difficult (XML message has to be parsed in order to obtain any information about the message, such as an operation name). On the other hand, the uptake of WS-* standards has been very slow, perhaps with the exception of WS-Security, so the benefit of WS-* integration with SOAP failed to materialize. Another supposed SOAP benefit is the protocol neutrality, i.e., a SOAP message looks the same over HTTP, JMS, RMI or any other supported protocol. However, most services are implemented using HTTP, or in some cases, JMS without any headers (unless WS-* is used), so this benefit has limited value.
So it is fair to say that in many instances, SOAP itself does not add any value to Web services implementation. Nevertheless, it's continued to be used because of the reasons listed above. But this situation might be changing in the future.
WSDL 2.0 fully supports HTTP binding. WSDL 2.0 stirred a lot of controversy (I personally think that it's a step forward from WSDL 1), however, it was finally accepted as a W3C recommendation in June, so we can fully expect that vendors support will follow.
Additionally, JAX-RS specification was created and included into Java EE 6. This will also promote development of RESTful services behind the firewall.
Currently, there a preconceived notion that REST is only good for Internet/WEB 2.0 environment, whereas enterprise services should all be using SOAP. The emergence of the two new standards will help change this notion.
Ideally, developers should be able to use the simplest binding that gets the job done. HTTP/REST can be a good choice for many "query-style" services. Services that accept more complex data can use "Plain Old XML" over HTTP post. Finally, services that have to rely on WS-* specifications will utilize SOAP. In all these cases, developers should be able to use same set of APIs for invoking the service and same set of annotations (obviously, with different parameters) for creating the service.
Perhaps this is how Web service development will be done in the future, but we are certainly not there yet.
XML appliances are capable of extremely fast XML parsing and transformation (sometimes the term "wire-speed" is used). The speed is achieved by using hardware acceleration, specially written XML parsers and XSLT engines (you won't find Xerces on these devices) and optimized operating system (usually, a trimmed-down version of Linux or BSD).
How fast are XML appliances? I'm not aware of published benchmarks; however, I did have a chance to conduct an informal performance testing of DataPower XI50 for a client and the results were quite impressive; for example we saw little to no overhead validating medium-size XML schemas.
Clearly, offloading as much XML processing as possible to an appliance could be a performance booster. So what kind of processing could be done on the device? Here are my recommendations based on the capabilities of the DataPower appliance; the situation could be slightly different with devices from other vendors. (more…)
A Web services registry is arguably one of the most important components of SOA. The registry provides a single source of information about all services in an enterprise.
There are a number of commercial registry/repository products but all of them are quite pricey. Also, smaller organizations or organizations just starting with SOA may not need the full power of a commercial registry/repository product; most of it functionality will remain unutilized. On the other hand, existing registries do not do a particularly good job of managing dependencies between services as well as between service consumers and service providers. Dependency management must be a key consideration in SOA since, unlike in the case of monolithic applications, an SOA consists of a large number of "moving partsâ€, that is, services. In a well developed SOA most services depend on other services and these services in turn may rely on some other services. Being able to manage and analyze services dependencies is required in order to be able to implement robust and maintainable SOA.
Open source Maven project has become something close to a de-facto standard in the area of dependency management for building Java-based projects and components. (more…)
Layer7 announced that its appliances will support Java-based custom assertions. Details are sketchy at this point but apparently Layer7 will provide a proprietary SDK for developing assertions. This could be much more powerful mechanism than XSLT-only facilities in IBM DataPower.
So how long before appliances begin supporting JBI and SCA components? The trick here of course is to make sure that an appliance is still a robust low-maintenance device that can't be brought down by a rogue application thread. But if Layer7 was able to figure it out for Java in general (I wonder if they use a general Sun JDK or some kind of a special JDK build), there is no reason why an appliance can't start supporting more advanced specifications such as JBI/SCA.
Several SOA vendors are trying to put together comprehensive suites of SOA products that in theory should be capable of addressing all aspects of SOA, including governance, integration, business process management and others.
Formation of SOA suites is having a tremendous impacts on how SOA products are selected as many organizations are being tempted to settle for "one stop shop" approach as opposed to doing proper product evaluation within each SOA product category. (Interesting discussion about SOA suites is available at ZDNet).
So what is a SOA suite and how offerings from different vendors support different aspects of SOA? The table below attempts to answer this question. (more…)
There is an interesting and somewhat controversial interview with ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg where he claims that SCA and JBI are just going to "muddy the waters" as opposed to provide real help to SOA architects.
I certainly agree with his assessment that SCA (can't really speak about JBI) is more of a generic component-centric programming model than a SOA implementation framework. I blogged about it before. However, I do think that SCA is going to provide a lot of value in the area of application architecture and just general component reuse. A technology or a framework does not have to be about SOA to be useful.
Developers working with REST and XML/HTTP services have traditionally used light-weight APIs, such as java.net classes or Apache HttpClient. Web services APIs provided by JAX-RPC were SOAP and "enterprise" only and they required J2EE libraries. The situation changed with the release of JAX-WS and its inclusion into Java SE 6. JAX-WS supports RESTful services; also, its Dispatch interface allows clients to work with XML directly as opposed to having to use object mapping or completely unwieldy SAAJ API. A nice example of using JAX-WS to implement a client for a RESTful service is available in Mark Hadley's blog.
However, I don't think that JAX-WS is going to become the primary way of implementing RESTful clients just yet. In many situations, HttpClient provides more flexibility and control over HTTP calls.
For example, it is very straightforward to turn on basic authentication for a client using HttpClient APIs: (more…)
Lori MacVitte from F5 had a few comments about my post on using XML appliances in ESB capacity. While I don't completely agree with some of her specific points about what ESB capabilities are missing from XML appliances (for example, parallel processing is employed by most appliance vendors, transactionality is also supported for relevant protocols (although no XML appliance can act as an XA transaction coordinator)), the overall observation is correct – there is (and there always will be) a big difference between software-based ESBs and hardware-based XML appliances.
Software ESBs are implemented on top of application servers or messaging products. As such, they are infinitely flexible. Even if certain feature (e.g., some fancy transformation) is not supported by the ESB product out of the box, it can always be custom-developed using Java or other language supported by the product. This custom code can use all the facilities of the underlying application server, such as transaction management, connection pooling and so forth. (more…)
IBM recently announced that DataPower XI50 appliance now supports transformations developed using WebSphere Transformation Extender design studio. This is the same technology used in the Message Broker product. Additionally, support for WebSphere Registry and Repository has been added. From the announcement:
New offerings being announced today include the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50, which now supports direct database connectivity including IBM's DB2 data server extending the XI50's enterprise service bus capabilities. It also adds support for WebSphere Transformation Extender design studio providing common data transformation tooling across IBM's ESB portfolio. The XI50, along with a new version of the WebSphere DataPower XML Security Appliance XS40, now integrates with the IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) to offer enhanced governance capabilities and improve service interoperability, reuse and connectivity.
So why is it significant? (more…)
Batch processing (a.k.a. "bulk processing") is dull and boring compared to the new world of SOA, Software as a Service and Web 2.0. It's hardly ever mentioned these days, so one can get an impression that batch processing all but disappeared from an enterprise and got replaced by "enterprise mashupsâ€, or, at the very least, Web services.
Of course, nothing can be further from the truth. While Web services indeed begin playing a key role in many organizations, batch files still remain one of the most widespread form of system integration due to a large number of "legacy" systems that rely on it. At the same time, batch processing presents certain challenges to developers; these challenges include high volume/high throughput requirements since batch processing is inherently "spikyâ€, ability to deal with failures, which usually requires checkpoint/restart capabilities and many others.
The way batch files are processed varies greatly from system to system; in most cases developers end up creating their own custom frameworks to handle batch processing requirements. (more…)
Open source soapUI tool has a number of benefits over developing test cases in Java using JUnit framework. Some of these benefits include:
Overall, soapUI allows developers and testers to create tests quicker and also makes tests easier to manage and update.
However, one needs to understand shortcomings of this approach. soapUI uses its own Web services client. The way it creates test messages is different from how regular (JAX-WS-based and other) Web services clients work. soapUI completely skips the step of generating Java classes from WSDL. It does not have to deal with XML marshalling/unmarshalling from/to Java objects. As a result, you are not invoking your service the way it will be invoked by real Web service consumers.
Technically, it may not be an issue in a majority of cases. The fact that soapUI is able to parse your WSDL/schema and generate test message means that you have a valid WSDL that should also be consumable by other technologies. However, it is possible that your WSDL/ schema may lead to sub-optimal (albeit perfectly valid) generated classes. For example, the schema that defines <addresses><address>...</address>...</addresses> XML will result in JAXB compiler generating Addresses class that returns the list of type Address. This may or may not be how you want Java classes to look like for the clients. Perhaps you may want to consider to get rid of <addresses> so that no extra class is generated.
In other words, using soapUI (or similar UI-based Web services testing tools, such as SOAPScope) does not allow you to understand all the details of how your Web service will be consumed in the real world.
Another advantage of JUnit test cases is that they can be used as examples illustrating the use of your service. The test classes can be published along with other Web service documentation or handed over to consumers to help them jump-start their client implementations. Unfortunately, soapUI test cases can't be used for this purpose.
The shortcomings of visual testing tools such as soapUI can be addressed by complementing soapUI tests with JUnit tests. I usually start with soapUI since it is so easy to get up and running with it. Once soapUI test is implemented, I go back to Java, generate Web services client classes from WSDL and implement a JUnit test class. The logic that goes into a JUnit test class obviously depends upon a Web service. But at the very least, there should be one JUnit test per service that invokes the service using generated classes and libraries provided by your Web service product of choice. This way, we can see exactly how our services will be consumed by our clients.
This is a brief tutorial describing how to create a Web service using WSDL and annotations.
The approach presented here allows you to design and implement your WSDL/Schema and Java classes
independently without having to generate anything. You can then use annotations
to map Java classes to appropriate WSDL and Schema elements.
Since JAXB and JAX-WS have sensible defaults, the number of annotations can be kept to the minimum.
In my opinion, it is always best to develop WSDL and schemas by hand to ensure that the service contract is appropriately defined and also that the schema can be re-used (by other services) and extended if necessary. I do not recommend using annotations for automatically producing WSDL and schemas at runtime as this leads to simplistic schemas and WSDLs.
Generating classes from WSDL/schema sometimes makes sense, say in situations when you have to use a pre-defined schema. However, as with any code generation, it creates a maitainance problem especially if there is a need to put behavior into generated classes. So it is desirable to be able to evolve object model and service implementation classes independently from WSDL/schemas. You can do it quite easily by following the steps below.
Even though I use the word "create" when describing some of the steps, the same approach will also work for updates or refactoring caused by changes in service requirements.
The steps are the following:
public String add( Person person )
xsd:token instead of
xsd:string since "token" does not allow
carriage return, tabs, and leading spaces:
<xsd:element name="person">
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<xsd:element name="ssn" type="xsd:token"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xsd:element name="firstName" type="xsd:token"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xsd:element name="lastName" type="xsd:token"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="address" type="Address"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xsd:import namespace="http://person"
schemaLocation="person.xsd" />
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<xsd:element name="status" type="xsd:string" />
// By default JAXB uses getters/setters for marshaling/unmarshaling
// Using fields access allows us not to define getters/setters for
// all mapped instance variables.
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SoapUI Project (you can import it into SoapUI).
You can also download all files in a zip file.
The final version of Basic Security Profile 1.0 (BSP) was recently been released by WS-I. This is certainly a welcome event; WS-Security is broad and complex and it has been plagued by interoperability issues for quite some time (although the situation has improved in the last year or so). The BSP document seems to have pretty good level of details with plenty of good examples that are easy to follow.
I looked at a few messages generated by Axis used in conjunction with Apache WS-Security implementation called Rampart and at the first glance they seem to be compliant with BSP, although all my examples use WS-Security username token profile, which is the simplest form of passing credentials with WS-Security.
As an example, Rampart generates the correct form of the password tag, which includes "type" attribute (this attribute is not mandated by WS-Security, however, it is required by BSB):
BSP is going to make the use of WS-Security more widespread, although this is not going to happen overnight. Currently, none of the public Web services (Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon) use WS-Security, which is not surprising since the standard is not fully supported by such languages as PHP, Python and Ruby (although some aspects of WS-Security are supported in PHP). Even platforms for commercial services, such as StrikeIron, don't use it (StrikeIron does support WS-Security for communication between its broker and service providers, but not for client calls).
In any event, I'm pretty confident that we can count on rising WS-Security adoption in an enterprise.


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Baltimore City Hall
Baltimore City Hall is the official seat of government of the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. The City Hall houses the offices of the Mayor and those of the City Council of Baltimore. The building also hosts the city Comptroller, some various city departments, agencies and boards/commissions along with the historic chambers of the Baltimore City Council. Situated on a city block bounded by East Lexington Street on the north, Guilford Avenue (formerly North Street) on the west, East Fayette Street on the south and North Holliday Street with City Hall Plaza and the War Memorial Plaza to the east, the six-story structure was designed by the then 22-year-old new architect, George Aloysius Frederick (1842–1924) in the Second Empire style, a Baroque revival, with prominent Mansard roofs with richly-framed dormers, and two floors of a repeating Serlian window motif over an urbanely rusticated basement.[2][3]
|Baltimore City Hall
|General information
|Architectural style
|Second Empire style, a Baroque revival
|100 North Holliday Street, (between East Lexington and Fayette Streets), facing City Hall Plaza/War Memorial Plaza. Baltimore, Maryland 21202
|Town or city
|Baltimore, Maryland
|United States
|39°17′28″N 76°36′39″W / 39.291°N 76.61073°WCoordinates: 39°17′28″N 76°36′39″W / 39.291°N 76.61073°W
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Baltimore City Hall
|100 N. Holliday St., Baltimore, Maryland
|less than one acre
|Frederick, George A.; Bollman, Wendel
|Architectural style
|Renaissance, French Renaissance Revival
|NRHP reference #
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|May 8, 1973
|Design and construction
|George Aloysuis Frederick, (1842–1924)
The building's cornerstone was laid on the southeastern corner of the new municipal structure (on the northwestern corner of Fayette and Holliday Streets) in October, 1867 (with a famous historical photograph taken of the ceremony) audience stands and crowds from overhead on East Fayette Street with the east side of Holliday Street visible behind the stands showing the famed Holliday Street Theatre, where in November 12, 1814, the new poem by Francis Scott Key, (1779–1843), "The Defence of Fort McHenry" was first performed on the stage and next door (to the north), Prof. Knapp's School [attended by famed writer/author/editor H. L. Mencken in the 1880s and the townhouses where the Loyola College and Loyola High School were founded in 1852, just to the left (south) next to the theatre was the vacant lot formerly housing the Theatre Tavern where the new song the Star-Spangled Banner was often sung to the merriment of all [later the CHS/BCC playground], and the edge of the old "Assembly-Rooms" social/concert/dance hall for the elite that later was home to the Central High School of Baltimore (later the Baltimore City College, 1843–1873), when the Theatre and School perished in a large famous fire. The massive new "pile" of a City Hall, acclaimed by many throughout the nation, was officially dedicated on October 25, 1875, $200,000 under-budget from its $2.5 million appropriation, amazingly and proudly in those "Robber Baron" Gilded Age times of the 19th Century.
The site for the "new" building was selected and some designs were submitted before the American Civil War. The cornerstone for the building, under Frederick's new design, was not laid until 1867; construction was completed eight years later. At a cost of more than $2 million (in 1870s money), the Baltimore City Hall is built largely of many courses and rows of thicknesses of brick with the exterior walls faced with white marble. The marble alone, quarried in Baltimore and Baltimore County (famous "Beaver Dam" quarry), cost $957,000.[4] The segmented dome capping the building is the work of Baltimore engineer Wendel Bollman, known for his iron railroad bridges. At the time of its construction, the cast iron roof was considered one of the largest structures of its kind.[5]
By the end of World War II, City Hall was showing signs of age and deterioration. The slate roof leaked, the exterior marble was eroding in places and the heating, cooling and electrical systems needed to be replaced. Even the cast iron dome's fastenings had rusted through and many plates were cracked. In 1959, 15 pounds of iron ornament came loose and plunged 150 feet into the Board of Estimates hearing room. In 1974 the city voted to renovate the old city hall rather than build a new one. Architectural Heritage Inc., in association with Meyers, D'Aleo and Patton Inc., local architects, were retained to begin the design. The ceremonial chambers were restored and the office space was doubled. In the process the dome was disassembled and put back together. Two years and $10.5[6] million later the Mayor, the City Council and other city departments moved back into the building.[7] Usable space was increased almost twofold after the renovation, by fitting in two extra floors, by replacing dead storage space in the basement with offices, and by moving corridor walls to maximize office space.
In 2009, a building survey found that sections of the building's marble exterior were cracked and crumbling due to age. The city approved spending $483,000 for repairs to be made the same year.[8]
On October 11, 1883, James F. Busey, a Democratic ward operative, was shot and killed outside of City Hall. The man who shot him, William T. Harig, was also a Democrat from another ward. The two got into a political argument and after some punches were thrown, both men drew their pistols and began firing at each other in rapid succession. Busey fired wildly; Harig did not, hitting Busey four times. Harig was taken into custody and charged with murder.[9]
Nearly 93 years later, Charles A. Hopkins stormed the temporary City Hall with a hand gun and killed a city councilman. On April 13, 1976, Hopkins, angered that his restaurant was being shut down, killed Dominic Leone, a member of the Baltimore City Council. Hopkins also wounded another city councilman, a police officer and a mayoral aide during the shooting spree. Hopkins was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings but has spent most of his life since then at mental health facilities. In 2007, a Baltimore judge reduced his level of confinement.[10]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Baltimore City Hall". Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original on 2008-04-14. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
- ^ Arthur Townsend (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Baltimore City Hall" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ City Hall: History of Construction and Dedication. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. 1878.
- ^ Dorsey, John; Dilts, James D. (1981). A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Second ed.). Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-87033-272-4.
- ^ "An Engineer's Guide To Baltimore". Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original on September 2, 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Baltimore City Hall, Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD. Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress. c. 1981. Archived from the original on 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Linskey, Annie (May 21, 2009). "Things falling apart at Baltimore City Hall". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2009-06-04.[dead link]
- ^ "Baltimore Shooting Affray: Ward Politicians Engage In Target Practice". the New York Times. 1883-10-12. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
- ^ "Baltimore judge reduces level of confinement for City Hall shooter". The Daily Record. Baltimore. 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
External linksEdit
- Media related to Baltimore City Hall at Wikimedia Commons
- Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore City, including photo from 1971, at Maryland Historical Trust
- George A Frederick website
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-46, "Baltimore City Hall, Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD", 25 photos, 1 color transparency, 30 data pages, 3 photo caption pages


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Peter was kept in prison, but the Christians were constantly praying to God. Luke tells us in verse 5 that the church was praying for Peter. A church building can't pray. The people are the church.
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Warrior Sisters is a group of volunteers that set out to fill the gap that traditional women's crisis groups could not. Every Sunday, they teach free self defense classes to ladies of all ages so that they can feel safe and empowered in all aspects of their lives.
Rachel Collins and Elizabeth Hayes are two of the small group of women that came together to create WS. "After working in a variety of women's shelters, on crisis lines, and at rape centers, we felt there was a need to fill in the gaps," Collins said.
They feel that the emotional support battered women receive is imperative, but it doesn't teach the skills to empower women with the confidence and ability to resist physical violence.
"We believe that all women have the right to access free verbal and physical defense training. Services to provide support and healing after violence or abuse has happened are essential. Accessible training to recognize red flags and resist abuse as it's happening is another essential part of ending violence against women," Collins said.
After Wendy Watson, a Lane Community College graduate, experienced attempted robbery, she decided to get a gun. After contemplating her decision she thought, "But if I am too scared to use my phone to call for help in this situation how am I going to handle a gun?" Watson decided not to get a gun and instead, began attending WS trainings. "Now that I have found Warrior Sisters, I feel more confident and empowered to make the right decisions in an escalated situation," Watson said.
In addition to reality-based physical defense techniques, trainings include practice in awareness, using one's voice, identifying red flags of verbal coercion, setting strong verbal boundaries, and even using de-escalation techniques with someone who has become aggressive or violent.
These techniques are practiced in the classes. During the training, the coaches sit down with the participants and discuss possible scenarios for violence or unsafe situations. Then they demonstrate how to remove oneself from these situations with moves that they have the participants practice. "Practicing these moves helps you remember them, it's called muscle memory," Hayes said.
According to Collins, a majority of abuse and rights violations women experience begins as verbal abuse or coercion, then later turns into physical violence. "Self-defense programs that only include physical techniques are missing a huge piece of the puzzle," Collins said.
In order to address these verbal abuse and coercion pressures that many women face daily the group splits off into smaller groups and practices how to say "no" in a very determined and straightforward way. They want students to know that they do not always have to explain themselves.
Amy Elliot, a regular student of the classes feels "It is imperative and crucial for all people to become empowered verbally and physically." A mother of two small children, Elliot is committed to self-defense for the sake of modeling it for her children and community. "Thanks to the Warrior Sisters, I am able to unfold and embody my power responsibly," Elliot said.
Collins and Hayes are excited about the work they are now doing with teens. They are currently working with two groups: the Academy of Arts and Academics in Springfield and Spencer Butte Middle School. Collins says that the parents love it and have been very supportive.
Word is spreading about this organization. They did almost 100 trainings in 13 states last year. Individuals and group organizers find them on Facebook, Instagram, and their website. They welcome opportunities to work with women's groups in the local area and across the nation.
The trainings are open to women of all ages and physical fitness levels. They are free so that everyone may have access to them. WS receives support from a variety of different sources: donations of equipment, free spaces for workshops, and items raffled off in fundraisers. They also accept donations on their website.
Free trainings are Sundays 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m through Dec. 30 at Art of War MMA, 251 W. 7th Ave., Eugene. There is also a class on Tuesdays from 8 a.m.- 9 a.m. for which there is a fee usually on a donation basis. Collins suggests that people attend the free class then if it feels right for them they can sign up for additional classes.


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I was thinking about Augusta being "ranked 50th best small town in which to live" by the website Livability.com. As someone who has lived here for decades, I'm inclined to agree, for the most part. I've raised two children here who attended our public schools and benefited from the influence of some talented educators.
We have proactive community members and business leaders committed to making Augusta a great place, as can be seen in the support of organizations like Lithgow Public Library (which, along with the state and UMA libraries, makes three libraries in one town!), the ongoing revitalization of the downtown/riverfront area, the Augusta Boys and Girls Club, and others.
We're the kind of town where electing a black mayor was no big deal. Bill Burney served both as mayor (1989-1996) and on our school board (1997-2011) for years. Though black in this "white state," around here, Burney is just another one of our tireless community leaders who is as Augusta as the counter at AHOP where I first met him when I was waitressing as a teen in the early 1980s.
It's the kind of town where a bald, black, Navy veteran senior citizen was just about every student's favorite substitute teacher. I've written about my friend Cobby before, and it sounds like a friend bragging, but it's true — you can ask around. In his retirement years, he worked as a sub and was well into his second generation of adoration from students when he passed. Teens and adults all over the greater Augusta area and her diaspora were devastated.
And Augusta has the storied history of Cony Athletics, of which I played a teeny, tiny part. My boys and their friends have mocked my former jock-ness by pulling out my varsity jacket from time to time to wear jokingly, but truth be told it's kind of nice to be part of a local legacy, and it was a nice place to grow up.
Some things have changed since I was young, though. As the article about Augusta's new ranking pointed out, the city was also ranked the most dangerous place to live in Maine by another ranking site in early 2015. This ranking was due to a high incidence of property crime, which police attribute largely to Maine's drug problem. I don't agree with the idea of characterizing Augusta as dangerous per se because I think there's a difference between having a property crime problem and being a dangerous place.
Among the many reasons for differentiating is, as many Maine families know, some of the property crime happening in the name of supporting addiction occurs between people who know each other, even among family members.
But putting the two rankings together in my head got me to thinking about the opening lines of "A Tale of Two Cities": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." I was thinking about the difference between the residential neighborhood in which my mom lives and the neighborhoods that were available to me when a long-term relationship ended and left me in a financially compromised situation several years ago. In my mom's neighborhood, if the car and house doors are locked at night, I feel safe.
The neighborhood I landed in as a broke single mom of two felt anything but safe. My immediate neighbors included folks who had a variety of frequent visitors for variety of reasons. The woman and man across the street hosted local law enforcement at least two to three times a month during their domestic squabbles, enabling me to witness my first live forced "cuff and stuff" at gunpoint.
The woman in the apartment next to theirs had a variety of men who visited her regularly. They usually stayed for a half hour to an hour, and some seemed to be regulars with standing weekly appointments. One of my former students reported that she shared the nature of her business and her pricing methodology with him, but he declined her offer.
My other neighbors and fellow tenants came and went during my couple years there, but they, too, had their own questionable traffic going in and out of their apartments, occasionally distracting law enforcement from the couple across the street. I feel pretty confident in saying that some amount of criminal activity happened within spitting distance of me while I lived there on a daily basis. Anyone who visited my family at that location, except those who came looking for the previous tenant to hook them up with "stuff," would second that statement. Many prompted me to write a book about my time there.
It would be a sad story to write, though, and one not unique to Augusta. It's the story of "small town everywhere" in Maine, and it's the story of Maine itself. It's the tale of two Maines.
Looking back over the years, there's only one major factor to which I can attribute our state's demise into this dichotomous reality where there are those residents who are very financially secure and successful, and those residents who struggle: the loss of manufacturing. I'm not speaking from a place of facts and figures, but a sense of how things were when I entered adulthood in Augusta and how things are now as my children do so.
Manufacturing offered work and wages all over our state like a giant economic safety net. Growing up in Augusta, it was a commonly held thought that, no matter what, you could walk into Carleton or Statler or Digital or any of the other manufacturing entities in the area and get a job that paid the bills. Sure, you could go to college or undertake some other career endeavor, but if all else failed, and even if it didn't, you knew there was a job on an assembly line waiting for you somewhere.
Now, if all else fails, and even if it doesn't, you can patch together a meager lifestyle with an assemblage of retail and telemarketing jobs. If there are kids involved, the patchwork lifestyle might include some amount of public assistance. Big box stores can't match manufacturing as an economic safety net, and neither can a focus on tourism alone, a subject I've harped on before.
Augusta, like most Maine communities, is among the best places in America to live, but it is also facing the challenges of a changing economy and resulting economic despair.


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Martin also wants to campaign against burglars getting legal aid to sue for compensation if they are injured during a break-in, his MP says.
North West Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham met Martin at Highpoint Prison in Suffolk on Friday to discuss how to bring about changes to the law.
Martin, 58, is due to leave prison on 28 July, having served two-thirds of his sentence for the manslaughter of 16-year-old Fred Barras who was shot during a burglary at Martin's farmhouse.
Burglar Brendon Fearon, who was wounded in the 1999 robbery at Emneth Hungate, is currently suing the farmer for £15,000 compensation for his injuries.
"He feels very strongly there should be a campaign first of all to get legal aid changed, whereby burglars and intruders can't get legal aid to sue for damages against householders whose houses they had broken in to."
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If you are a Bible reader, likely you've read passages such "God cannot lie" and, speaking of Jesus, "no deception was found in his mouth." Yet once again we find "Bible scholars" claiming that God, Jesus, and the Bible accounts are all liars. They claim that Jesus never really died, but merely fainted and was subsequently revived. Now who do we know that takes pleasure in calling God a liar? Oh, yeah, Satan the devil. Does that mean, then, that these scholars are actually the "Devil's Bible Scholars"? Decide for yourself.
I found one website that made an attempt to debunk the "swoon theory" but it fell very short from providing the most profound reasons for rejecting the theory. What reasons are those? Fulfilment of scriptural prophecy and God's grand purpose for salvation. The prophecies regarding Jesus' life and death. (Start reading at the heading "Was Jesus the Promised Messiah" to the end of the article.) If Jesus did not die, then he didn't actually become the sacrificial lamb. He didn't actually save us from our sins. He didn't qualify to bring Satan to an end. Yet indeed he did all those things.
I am not only shocked but disgusted with so-called scholars that are so shortsighted, they completely forget that a single-event discreditation like this ripples across the whole lake of the Bible message. Essentially, they really do not believe the Bible they claim to base their faith on. Or maybe they truly have no faith at all but this is merely an intellectual exercise with them. If so, the Greeks of Paul's era would have loved these men.


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Catalog Number102649736
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Dimensions10 x 8 1/8 in.
FormatPhotographic print
DescriptionThis is a black and white an unidentified man on the right of the image holding a cord and pushing a button while looking at one of the lighted panels. Text on verso side reads "Picture 21 A close-up of two accumulators showing the operation of addition taking place. The unit on the left is storing the number +1203762893 as indicated by the lighted neons. The next accumulator, which will transmit its number, is storing +3033331112.". Written in pencil on small white round label on original protective sleeve was "1108-9".
CategoryPublicity photograph; Identification photograph
SubjectENIAC (Computer)
Collection TitleJ. Pres Eckert papers
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Our private label services come with all account access that is highly secured to prevent hacking, phishing, and attacks by viruses and trojans via the public internet. The best VoIP reselling platform is the one with the best security. In addition, we built a dynamic and integrated DoS/DDoS heuristic engine into our system. From login to phone provisioning you are protected.
4. Specifically designed for the Small to Medium Business (SME) Marketplace
We do not believe that players such as large carriers and manufacturers adequately cater to small to medium-sized enterprises. Our system is positioned to be the best private label VoIP reselling platform for small to medium businesses. Whether you sell to a customer with four or four thousand extensions, our system will accommodate your needs.
5. VoIP Resellers have their own private partition on the Talking Platforms System
You create unlimited profit centers, products, pooled minute packages, and brands to sell to different markets. Your customers only know about your company and services. You run your business, not us, but we are always here to help you grow your customer base.
6. Unlimited Extension to Extension (ON-NET) Calling
Unlike many providers, Talking Platforms does not charge for Extension to Extension or ON-NET calls. Many providers consider this an actual call and deduct it from your total overall calls or charge you for that traffic. Talking Platforms is one of the best private label VoIP resellers in the market.
7. Self-contained Billing and Accounting System
Our wholesale platform comes with an advanced integrated billing and accounting system gives you full control over your finances. Each profit center acts as an accounting system, control debtors, sales, tax, and nominal accounts. You can create customer statements, run profit, and tax calculation reports along with the facility to export such data to third-party accounting systems. Our billing and accounting support proration and postpaid just like a large telephone company.
8. Recurring Billing Cycles
A wide range of recurring billing cycles is available including weekly, 4 weekly, monthly and yearly. We support manual and automatic billing.
9. Flexible Invoicing
Your customers can view invoices online, print, or download as a PDF document, all available in your own branding including logos.
10. Generic Products Billing
Hosted VoIP solutions may not be your core business, so you may want to add your own services and products to the phone service invoice. With our generic product billing, you can add as many of your products and services to the phone service invoice as you like as either a one time or recurring charge.
11. Payment Gateway
Want to have our system charge your customers in a safe and white label format? Not a problem with our simple credit card payment gateway and freedom from PCI compliance. Several providers may allow you to charge credit cards in their systems, but did they communicate you are responsible for PCI compliance? If not, you are exposed up to $250,000 per credit card fraud incidence. Talking Platforms is the best private label VoIP reseller program provider because we take care of this for you. Obtaining PCI compliance on your own can involve months of paperwork and fees, and from there, any changes on your system require the entire process to take place again.
12. Manual or Automatic Taxation/Regulatory Fees
You choose how you want to charge for Taxation and Regulatory Fees. Manual methods are included at no charge with the integrated billing and accounting engine. If you would like a comprehensive method for adding all related taxes and regulatory fees, our platform includes an optional and integrated SureTax system that will provide you the capability.
13. White Labeled
Log in to the system from your own website. Our white label VoIP reseller program includes URLs, branding, invoicing and login pages that are specifically you. We use your subdomains to further segment your customers from ever knowing you are on a 3rd party system.
14. Customer login
Should you wish to do so, your customers can access the platform from your website and configure and control their own PBX. Extension users can log in to see their individual accounts and set forwarding. We also provide permission rules for your customer administrators.
15. White Label End User Support program (optional)
Don't think you can resell VoIP services > technical support to your customers due to lack of resources or the expense of adding on specialized technical support personnel? Talking Platforms works hard to produce the best private label VoIP reselling service for you and your customers with our White Label End User Support program which gives you an instant technical support team that specializes in the services you offer.
Contact us at 202-747-0064 to sign up with a local, American VoIP company that cares about your business' success!


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Theatre News Online September 11, 2012By Laura & Mike Clark • Sep 12th, 2012 • Category: Published Elsewhere
Theatre reviews for the Washington DC region, published September 11, 2012. (8 articles)
- ShowBizRadio: Review of Artists' Initiative's Boom
- Maryland Theatre Guide: Theatre Review: 'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity' at Woolly Mammoth
- DC Metro Theater Arts: "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity"
- ShowBizRadio: Review of the Globe Theatre's Hamlet at Folger Theatre
- ShowBizRadio: Review of Constellation Theatre Company's Taking Steps
- DC Metro Theater Arts: 'Funny Money' at The Little Theatre of Alexandria
- DC Metro Theater Arts: 'Schoolhouse Rock Live!' at Riverside Center Dinner Theater
- Alexandria News: Funny Money
This article can be linked to as: http://washingtondc.showbizradio.com/goto/8609.
Laura & Mike Clark started ShowBizRadio in August 2005 because they love live theater. They each have both performed in and worked behind the scenes in DC area productions, as well as earned a Career Studies Certificate in Theater from Northern Virginia Community College. Mike & Laura are each members of the American Theatre Critics Association, and Mike is a member of the Online News Association.


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Michigan battling flesh eating bacteria infection
DETROIT -- A Michigan woman is fighting for her life after being diagnosed with a flesh eating bacteria infection.
Crystal Spencer, currently in a Detroit hospital, has been diagnosed with Necrotizing Faciitis. This is the same infection that made headlines two months ago after a Georgia woman nearly died from the infection.
Doctors have removed part of Spencer's torso, about the size of a baby watermelon.
Her chances of surviving about about 30 to 40 percent.
"The surgeon keeps going in and cleaning it and cleaning it. But they're saying it could go either way," Jeff Spencer, Crystal's husband, said.
Crystal recently had surgery at a different Detroit hospital to remove an abscess on her leg. Her husband thinks that's where she got the infection.
He says he plans to sue.


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Q: What is dominant wavelength? Please specify the ranges of wavelength in red, green and blue color respectively.
A:Dominant wavelength is defined as the best range of wavelength showing the most natural color recognized by human eyes. Researches indicate that fixed colors with wavelength of 620-630nm (red), 520-530nm (green) and 460-470nm (blue), in fact mixed in a particular proportion, can get the pure white. That is, in display field, people use luminous materials with above wavelength to make "compounded" white more natural. In order to get a good balance white led display, we specify the led colors with wavelength within 4nm for each color.
Q: What is the brightness, viewing angle and wavelength of the LED?
A: Luminous Intensity is equal to the amount of luminous flux emitted into a very small solid angle at a defined angular orientation from the light source. The measurement for luminous intensity is the candela. Symbol is IV.
Viewing Angle is the total cone angle in degrees encompassing the central, high luminous intensity portion of the LED beam from the on-axis peak to the off-axis point where the LED intensity is 50% of the on-axis intensity. This off-axis point is known as theta one-half (θ 1/2). Two times θ1/2 is the LEDs' full viewing angle; however, light is visible beyond theθ1/2 point.
Wavelength is the distance between two points of corresponding phase and is equal to waveform velocity divided by frequency. It defines what color human eyes could recognize.
Q: For new Customers, what's LED Display or LED screen?
A: LED Display is a video display which uses light-emitting diodes. An LED panel is a small display, or a component of a larger display or screen. They are typically used outdoors in store signs and billboards, and in recent years have also become commonly used in destination signs on public transport vehicles. LED panels are sometimes used as form of lighting, for the purpose of general illumination, task lighting, or even stage lighting rather than display.
Types of LED Display
There are two types of LED panels: conventional (using discrete LEDs) and surface-mounted device (SMD) panels. Most outdoor screens and some indoor screens are built around discrete LEDs, also known as individually mounted LEDs. A cluster of red, green, and blue diodes is driven together to form a full-color pixel, usually square in shape. These pixels are spaced evenly apart and are measured from center to center for absolute pixel resolution. The largest LED display in the world is over 1,500 foot (457.2 m) long and is located in Las Vegas, Nevada covering the Fremont Street Experience. The largest LED television in the world, the Center Hung Video Display at Cowboys Stadium, is 160 by 72 feet (49 by 22 m), 11,520-square-foot (1,070 m2).
Most indoor screens on the market are built using SMD technology—a trend that is now extending to the outdoor market. An SMD pixel consists of red, green, and blue diodes mounted on a chipset, which is then mounted on the driver PC board. The individual diodes are smaller than a pinhead and are set very close together. The difference is that the maximum viewing distance is reduced by 25% from the discrete diode screen with the same resolution.
Indoor use generally requires a screen that is based on SMD technology and has a minimum brightness of 600 candelas per square meter (cd/m², sometimes informally called nits). This will usually be more than sufficient for corporate and retail applications, but under high ambient-brightness conditions, higher brightness may be required for visibility. Fashion and auto shows are two examples of high-brightness stage lighting that may require higher LED brightness. Conversely, when a screen may appear in a shot on a television studio set, the requirement will often be for lower brightness levels with lower color temperatures (common displays have a white point of 6500 to 9000 K, which is much bluer than the common lighting on a television production set).
For outdoor use, at least 6,000 cd/m² is required for most situations, whereas higher-brightness types of up to 7,000 cd/m² cope even better with direct sunlight on the screen. (The brightness of LED panels can be reduced from the designed maximum, if required.)
Q: Which chip vendors are you buying from?
A: It depends on the Customer's requirement. We can purchase from Japan, Korea, Europe, and USA. We are using chips mainly from Taiwan. Most take Brand of Chip packaged company such as Nationstar, KNLight Company, Kinglight Company, Anplight Company, Cotco Cree or Nicha etc


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In a letter to the father of Martine Vik Magnussen she passed on her sorrow over the fact the suspected killer remains at large after fleeing to Yemen within hours of her death.
The letter from Buckingham Palace is a boost for the campaign by Martine's father, Odd Petter Magnussen, to bring 23-year-old Farouk Abdulhak to trial in Britain.
The letter said that the Queen was "truly sorry" to read of the "terrible loss" of his daughter, and how his family had suffered.
It also said she sympathised with Mr Magnussen's "continuing distress" that Martine's killer remains free and added that the Palace would be referring the matter to the Home Office to pursue.
It comes as The Sunday Telegraph can reveal a previously unpublished photograph of Abdulhak brandishing a pistol, which he sent to Martine, one of his classmates, before her murder.
No extradition agreement exists between Yemen and Britain or Norway and Mr Magnussen has campaigned for the UK and Norwegian governments to maintain international diplomatic pressure on their Yemeni counterparts to hand Abdulhak over for trial.
Mr Magnussen wrote to the Queen asking her for her support, stating: "The lack of an extradition treaty between Yemen and the UK prevents justice prevailing.
"The only acceptable solution is a fair trial in this country. In a situation of continued stalemate it would be most appreciated if Her Majesty The Queen could assist in anyway possible to progress matters."
Replying on her behalf, Doug King, assistant private secretary to the Queen, wrote: "Her Majesty was deeply sorry to read of the terrible loss that you and your family have suffered, and the continuing distress caused by the fact that your daughter's killer remains at liberty.
"She has asked me to convey her sincerest condolences to you and your family.
"With regard to your request for Mr Farouk Abdulhak to be extradited from Yemen to the UK to stand trial, I'm afraid that this is not a matter on which Her Majesty can personally intervene.
"However she has asked me to refer the matter to the Home Secretary, The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, whose department is responsible for government extradition policy and who I hope will be able to advise you further."
Mr Magnussen said: "It was a very supportive message. The Queen must receive many letters like mine, so I was tremendously pleased she wrote such a specific and supportive response.
"She has obviously thought carefully about the issue of Martine's murder.
"The Queen has a tremendous reputation not only in Norway but around the world and for her to share her thoughts like this is very encouraging for me and my campaign to see that Martine's killer is brought to trail."
Martine's body was found half buried in rubble in the basement of Abdulhak's flat in Great Portland Street, central London, on March 16, 2008
The 23-year-old had been raped and strangled two days earlier, after going home with Abdulhak following a night out in Mayfair with friends.
Both studied at Regent's Park College, where Martine had recently come top of her class.
Within hours of her death Abdulhak fled Britain, using his father's private jet to travel first to Cairo and on to Yemen.
Abdulhak's father, Shaher, is one of the richest men in the country, running a string of businesses and enjoying close links with the ruling elite. He is suspected of sheltering his son behind the high walls of the family home in the capital, San'a.
Scotland Yard issued an international wanted notice for Abdulhak when discussions between Britain and Yemen to extradite him stalled.
It was hoped Mr Abdulhak Snr, whose business interests include oil, tourism, property and the licence to produce Pepsi in Yemen, would pressure his son to hand himself over voluntarily.
But he denied all knowledge of Farouk's whereabouts, despite the family's lawyer, Mohammad Mahdi Baqwli, admitting to a Norwegian TV documentary team that the son was staying at the family home and studying Arabic at the nearby university.
It is thought that at one stage Abdulhak even visited his mother in Syria, before being expelled for travelling under a false ID.
Members of the Abdulhak family were spotted in the French ski-resort of Courchevel last Christmas, though Farouk was not thought to have been with the party.
Mr Magnussen is expected to seek an early meeting with the Home Secretary, once arrangements for the new government have been resolved, in order to press for renewed efforts to bring Abdulhak to trial.
Mr Magnussen is planning to return to Britain in the summer to plant a tree at Regent's College in his daughter's memory and continue his fight for justice.
The photograph of Abdulhak posing with a handgun is understood to have been taken by him only a few days before Martine's death.
He then sent it to Martine by email. It was later circulated among her friends. Detectives from Scotland Yard discovered the photograph after examining computer equipment in connection with the murder.
It is not clear whether the handgun Abdulhak is brandishing is a real or a replica firearm. He appears to have taken the picture on a webcam while sitting at a computer. On the wall behind him are family photographs and what appear to be children's drawings.
The respected international peace campaigner and human rights activist, former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik is now working behind the scenes in a bid to secure Abdulhak's extradition.
He is understood to be using the auspices of his Oslo Peace Centre for Human Rights to open channels of communication with those close to the Yemen government.
He said: "We want justice for Martine. We have great sympathy with the hopeless situation her family have found themselves in. When they contacted me and Oslo Peace Centre, we did not hesitate in agreeing to assist in any way we could."


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Re^2: Solving XS and dyld issues on Perl Mac OS Xby ait (Hermit)
|on Feb 23, 2012 at 21:08 UTC ( #955828=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
Also, do you have example of which CPAN modules fails on OSX. I've never had any problems...
Only the references to MySQL and Oracle modules and a few other mostly seemed that users were using source instead of the CPAN that came with their distro of Perl. My findings as mentioned in the OP were encountered whilst creating an XS modules on the Mac which for me was a first and I never had these problems in Linux.
I use the CPAN shell all the time with my MacPorts Perl and have never noticed any conflicts with system Perl. Could you please expand a little on how these problems may happen?
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Time Running Out for Troops, Veterans to Claim 'Stop Loss' Pay
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The special pay was approved by Congress as part of the 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act. Servicemembers and veterans who involuntarily served or were on "Stop Loss" from Sept. 11, 2001 to Sept. 30, 2009, are entitled to $500 for each month served past their contracted end-of-service, resignation or retirement date.
"This additional money, this benefit, was granted by Congress to recognize that continued service," Lernes "Bear" Hebert, acting director of the Defense Department's Officer and Enlisted Personnel Management office, said today in an interview with American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel.
The Pentagon announced the program Oct. 21, 2009. Those eligible must apply by Oct. 21, 2010, to receive compensation. And, survivors of servicemembers who were under 'Stop Loss' orders are entitled to the benefit.
The Defense Department wants to ensure everyone eligible for the special retroactive pay is compensated, Hebert said.
"We only have three months left for individuals to apply for this benefit," he said. "It's time to [apply] and get their application in. Notify anyone you've served with, even if they have separated, even family members of separated folks to apply."
Each service has its own criteria and specific outreach and application process. Members and veterans who qualify, or think they are eligible for the special pay must contact their individual services for eligibility requirements.
Information about the program, procedures and points of contact for each individual service can be found at www.defense.gov/stoploss [ http://www.defense.gov/stoploss ]
So far $111 million has been paid out to 25,000 troops and veterans affected by 'Stop Loss,' Hebert said. The average payout is $3,000 to $4,000 per claim, he added.
The Pentagon has about $423 million left in the program's fund.
"Congress authorized a fairly generous number, so we're not concerned about the money running out," Hebert said. "We are concerned about individuals getting their applications in."
The Pentagon and individual services have been reaching out to qualified members, veterans and beneficiaries through direct mailings, veteran services organization, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the media. Those efforts will be ongoing through Oct. 21, 2010, as there is much money left to be claimed, Hebert said.
"The services have been doing tremendous outreach trying to get to all the eligibles," he said.
Initially there was a large response for claims under the program, Hebert said, but applications have since slowed down.
"Applications have tailed off," he said. "We suspect that some individuals are either engaged or busy or haven't taken the time to apply. Part of our continuing efforts is to remind them that they only have about three months left to get their application in."
Still, Hebert said he expects a surge of claims as the deadline nears. He urges those who are eligible for the retroactive pay to take advantage of it now.
"Congress authorized this for a one-year period," he said, noting it would require Congress to pass a new law in order to extend the program. "This is firm, so individuals out there who think they might be entitled to this benefit need to get their application in."
An estimated 145,000 servicemembers, veterans and beneficiaries are entitled for the retroactive pay.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates maintains the authority to extend military service during a period of national emergency, an authority that dates back to 1983. Many of these "Stop Loss" troops were extended involuntarily in order for their units to preserve manpower and readiness in critical skill areas, Hebert said.
"The department uses it sparingly and only when it's absolutely necessary," he said. "It's contrary to the way we operate the all-volunteer force, but it's necessary in times when you have very high demands ... where you don't have a significant number of individuals with particular skills that you might need during a national emergency.
"It allows the department a bit of breathing room in order to re-establish additional personnel in those specialties," he added.
The Army is the only service with currently-serving troops affected by the 'Stop Loss' authority. But the Army is on track to have all involuntary service ended by March next year, Hebert said.
"['Stop Loss'] is a mechanism of last resort for maintaining forces during a national emergency, so while the authority for 'Stop Loss' will still exist, the secretary has made it very clear ... he wants the services not to use 'Stop Loss' at the current time," he said.
*Related Sites:*
Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay [ http://www.defense.gov/news/www.defense.gov/stoploss ]
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Defense Department to Compensate 'Stop Loss' Troops [ http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=56337 ]


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Instructions for Post-Treatment Care
Instructions for Pre-Treatment Care
Apply a cold compress to the treatment site as desired to reduce any redness after treatment. If make-up is desired, it is recommended that a loose mineral powder foundation (such as Youngblood's) be used.
Avoid any direct exposure to the sun for two weeks after a laser treatment and use a sunscreen with SPF 30 or greater at all times during the course of treatment.
In between treatments, shaving or trimming any regrowth is acceptable. Do not wax or tweeze the treated area, or your treatment will be less effective.
You may rub the treated area with a warm, moist washcloth or loofa sponge to assist shedding of the hair which may occur anywhere from 5 to 30 days after a treatment. Epsom salts soaks are also very effective to draw the detached and purging hairs to the surface of the skin.
Anti-inflammatory creams may be applied to the treated area if a post-zap breakout occurs. Hydrocortisone cream or antibacterial lotion works very well to help blemishes disappear.
After an underarm laser hair removal treatment, powder should be used instead of a deodorant for the first 24 hours.
Avoid the sun and/or tanning beds at least for two weeks before a laser treatment. Your skin cannot be tanned or sun-burned for a treatment as it will absorb the light that should be absorbed by the hair, making laser hair removal less effective and complications after treatment more likely.
Shave or trim the area to be treated prior to your appointment. It is important to have clean (no make-up, deodorant, powder, lotion or perfume), hair-free skin for a procedure. There should be no visible stubble whatsoever. Also stop bleaching any hairs in the treatment area 7 to 10 days before your treatment.
Stop tweezing, electrolysis and/or waxing, for 3 to 4 weeks before your first appointment (to allow hair to be present in the follicle for your procedure), as the laser targets melanin in the hairs' roots.