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In the depths of slumber I
Slither the passage of night.
Hedonistic dreams unfold one upon the other
until you are no longer within reach
but a far off memory from waking life.
Transparent mica from an ancient site
of subconscious, not even that,
something sparkling that disrupts the air
I am transformed to the
flickering tongue of a snake foraging
A wayward river,
as fluid as the night.
as fluid as the night.
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Submarine Force Museum Home of Historic Ship Nautilus
- USS Nautilus History
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- TM2 Henry Breault
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Submarine Force Medal of Honor Recipient
VADM Lawson P. Ramage
Commanding Officer, USS PARCHE
"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of this life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of the USS PARCHE in a predawn attack on a Japanese convoy, 31 July 1944. Boldly penetrating the screen of a heavily escorted convoy, Commander Ramage launched a perilous surface attack by delivering a crippling stern shot into a freighter and quickly following up with a series of bow and stern torpedoes to sink the leading tanker and damage the second one. Exposed by the light of bursting flares and bravely defiant of terrific shellfire passing close overhead, he struck again, sinking a transport by two forward reloads. In the mounting fury of fire from the damaged and sinking tanker, he calmly ordered his men below, remaining on the bridge to fight it out with an enemy now disorganized and confused. Swift to act as a fast transport closed in to ram, Commander Ramage daringly swung the stern of the speeding PARCHE as she crossed the bow of the onrushing ship, clearing by less than 50 feet but placing his submarine in a deadly cross-fire from escorts on all sides and with the transport dead ahead. Undaunted, he sent three smashing 'down-the-throat' bow shots to stop the target, then scored a killing it as a climax to 46 minutes of violent action with the PARCHE and her valiant fighting company retiring victorious and unscathed."
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University Counseling Center
- The Student Counseling Center is open 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday.
- Walk-ins are welcome (especially in crisis situations); however, there may be some wait time.
- Appointments for counseling may be made by calling 903.565.5746 or coming by the University Center Room 3170.
- Depending on a student's schedule, most appointments can be made within the week.
First Session
- Students are asked to arrive 15 minutes in advance of their appointment time to complete intake paperwork. Intake assessments are located on secure iPads in the reception area of the Student Counseling Center.
Session Length
- All appointments are scheduled as 50-minute sessions unless otherwise noted by the counselor.
Please note that email is not an appropriate medium for counseling.
- We value your privacy.
- Since The University of Texas at Tyler reserves the right to monitor email usage, your privacy cannot be guaranteed.
- Additionally, the staff of the Student Counseling Center are not able to respond to concerns in a timely fashion via email. Staff does not maintain 24 hour access to their email accounts, and may only check their email once per day or less and not on weekends.
- For these reasons, the Student Counseling Center maintains the policy not to use email for communication of any kind with clients or potential clients. This includes the use of email to make appointments.


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Website: www.revelstokechildcaresociety
Open Monday to Thursday 9 am to Noon and 1 to 4 pm
Thursday evenings 4 pm to 7 pm
Friday's 9 am to 4 pm for Child Care Providers and Affordable Child Care Benefit application support. Recommended by Appointment
We link families and child care providers in the communities of Revelstoke by offering free consultation, support, and referral services to parents seeking child care.
Child care providers are supported though information, outreach, resource library networking and learning opportunities.
Parents are supported through parenting information, our resource library, parenting workshops, and general community referrals regarding children and families.
We work with the community to strive for quality inclusive child care services that meet the needs of local families and promote the healthy development of children.
The new funding will help families with the financial challenge of child care depending on factors like family size, type of care and household income. You can apply starting August 1st, 2018. Benefits begin September 1, 2018. To find out if you qualify and how to apply visit: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/family-social-supports/caring-for-young-children/child-care-funding/child-care-benefit For additional information or support, contact the Revelstoke Child Care Resource and Referral at 250-837-6669.
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In the days of Pinterest, us moms have this notion that we have got to have our stuff together. We need to pack stuff like hummus in our kindergartners lunch boxes in recyclable containers and modge podge personalized crafts to put in the lunch box so that our kids know we love them... You know what? PB&J works just as well. But, let's face it, PB&J is not Pinterest worthy.
Here's the thing, though. Pinterest (or any other social media) is NOT real life. It's the made up life that we conjure when we have too much time on our hands (really, does anyone have too much time on their hands these days?)
I think that this notion of perfection scares most would be adoptive parents just as fast as anything. We have bought in to this lie that in order to parent kids who have been through trauma and loss and who might not speak our language or who might have special needs or who might be older than tiny infants, that we have to be perfect. That somehow we must carry these necessary special skills in our guts and goodness and perfection must radiate out of our pores. I am just as guilty as anyone as buying in to the lie.
For me, the perfection lie crept into my brain with our first foster placement last summer. I was determined that I was going to show this girl what being in a functional family felt like. However, in trying to make life so perfect for her, we did her a massive disservice. I set the bar so high that it was not sustainable. It's like doing the Atkins diet. At first, you are killing it. Who needs carbs? And then a few weeks or months in you get to the point that you'd actually kill someone for a potato and a roll. My first foster care journey was very much like that. I played June Cleaver to the tune that I should have won and Oscar. But about 6 weeks into it, I could not sustain the facade. I crashed and burned miserably because as humans, we are not meant to fire on all cylinders all the time.
Not to mention, that when this child went back home, she would not be going back into a home where people were perfect. In many ways, spinning my wheels so hard and so fast toward to make our home Camelot, was probably the very worst thing I could have done for her. You guys, this is so hard. This is especially hard when you have social workers in and out of your house every single week judging you and checking in on you. I lived in fear that someone would take away my parent card if they knew that in my real state of parenting that we eat fast food at least three times a week and sometimes I just don't make my kids do their homework because I want them to play outside longer and sometimes I declare bedtime to be an hour early because I am cooked!
For me, this whole perfection lie was something that only came with fostering and adopting. I didn't feel that kind of monumental pressure with the children that I gave birth to. But something about being entrusted with someone else's child kicked me into high gear and I believed all the lies that my brain told me about needing to be 100% awesome every minute of the day to make up for lost time. If you hear nothing else- hear this. YOU CAN NOT MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME. IT IS IN THE PAST. IT IS OUR CHILDREN'S PAST AND WE JUST NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SIT WITH IT.
But here's the kicker. In life we get so many opportunities to do it over. When Scarlett joined our family over 6 months ago, I vowed that I would not do what I had done with out foster daughter. I vowed that I would take on her hurts and just BE with her. I couldn't parent the hurt out of her. I couldn't parent that ugly parts of her past out of her. I couldn't parent the fear out of her. What I could do is just sit with her. I could listen. In listening, I learned that the very best thing I could do for my child is just to be present with her and help her feel what she needs to feel to try to make sense of things. She didn't expect me to fix them (which is hard for me because I'm a fixer). She just wanted acknowledgement. She just wanted to hear, "I'm sorry that happened to you." And then she'd just want me near. And that? That takes no skills. No perfection. It just takes patience and love and a willingness to wear someone's hurt like a blanket so they know they are not alone. Eventually, I'm finding that that blanket gets less and less heavy as we all learn to carry it together.
It's not a clean house, or homemade dinners, or being able to talk through every single interaction you have with your child. It's just being present. In such a distracted society, being present is difficult, but not impossible. I find that we make so much progress in our house when I can just be still and be present and just listen. (This is still a massively hard skill for me.) Our kids from difficult pasts just want to be heard. They want to know that their voice matters.
I think back across the generations of my family. I think back to having a teen mom myself. I think that as an adult, I look at my mom and realized that she did the best that she could. Really, that's all that I want for my kids- to look back and see that I did the best that I could. Not the best. But the best that I could. Because really, sometimes the best that we can do is just mediocre and that's okay. I screw this whole parenting thing up daily and yet somehow my kids are still madly in love with me. (Truly, I can't figure it out. It must be all the therapy. Whatever.) It's life's most awesome, wonderful, amazing mystery.
If the notion of needing to be perfect is holding you back from really considering adoption, then truly examine yourself. Broken vases don't need a complete remodel and refiring, sometimes they just need superglue. Just like kids with hurts don't need perfect parents. They just need willing ones who are ready to meet them where they are. Yes, it's difficult. Yes, there are days when you don't want to do the hard stuff. Yes, there are days when the tasks at hand and the therapy appointments seem overwhelming. (Remember how I once said if I ever wrote a book I'd title it 'The first year of adoption is going to suck and first grade homework will make me an alcoholic?) It's real life and real life is messy. But there is so much beauty in the messy. Messy is where the growth is.
My favorite times with my newest daughter are the ones where we are just sitting on the couch and she tells me stories. Being trusted with those stories from her past are such an honor. The key is being present- the other stuff is just fluff. Meeting her right where she is (not where she was six months ago or where I hope to be with her a year from now) is all she wants. It doesn't take perfection to sit in the present.
Right now, AdoptUSKids is running a campaign called "You don't need to be perfect to be the perfect parent." There are currently 102,000 children available for adoption who are looking for imperfect people to be their perfect parents. For more information, visit www.adoptuskids.org.
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If you're working with a large or small group of participants and want to make the design of The Leadership Challenge® Workshop more application-oriented, this activity might be of interest. The exercise is designed for intact teams, cross-functional teams, and public sessions where people represent various organizations. The goal of the activity is to create coaching partnerships that are practical and provocative. Participants focus on their real work issues and specific ways they will Challenge the Process. The steps in the activity integrate the essentials of the practice and move participants from concept to action planning. The activity goes like this:
GOOD SPOT - After the Innovation Quiz and discussion on Outsight (The Leadership Challenge® Workshop Facilitators Guide, Third Edition Revised page 151 in the 3-day script and page 304 in the 2-day script), segue into applying concepts to participants real world. Steps 1-4 take about an hour, including setup and debrief. Let participants know you will be helping them with timing.
STEP ONE - Give folks 8 minutes solo time to determine their challenge AND their idea on how to address their challenge. There are blank pages at the end of The Leadership Challenge® Workshop Participants Workbook, Third Edition Revised where people can jot down ideas.
STEP TWO - Layout the Coaching Partnership Process (flip chart the instructions below ahead of time or put on a PowerPoint® slide). Note to facilitator: suggest that within each pair one person go through the whole process. Then, switch to the other person and start the process again. It's fine if they choose to innovate!
Create Coaching Partnerships
2 minutes: What's your challenge AND idea? (Don't bog down in the problem.)
2 minutes: What assumptions are you making?
5 minutes: How will you build your business case to strengthen your idea and get buy-in from stakeholders?
3 minutes: Specifically, what next steps will you take over the next 60 days to get this idea in motion?
STEP THREE - Move the Coaching Partnerships to the next level:
Briefly, walk people through "Defying the Critics" on page 90 of the Participants Workbook.
5 minutes PER PERSON: Coaching partner takes on the role of the critic when it comes to the specific idea his/her partner has described. The other person has to experiment with "defying the critic."
STEP FOUR - Revisit Action Plans:
Briefly, walk people through "small win" ideas on page 93 of the Participants Workbook.
5 minutes AS PARTNERS: Revisit their Action Plans to incorporate some small win ideas listed on page 93.
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The KTA Asian Championship season has blasted off with an incredible week of kiteboard action from the beautiful Indonesian island of Bintan. Located South East of Singapore Bintan as we now all know has been one of Asia's best kept kiteboarding secrets, one that surprised every rider by producing a week of near perfect wind conditions from a country that everyone had cast doubts on as being not likely to deliver good results.
Regardless of all the pre-event concerns however clearly the riders had faith and the first event of the season broke all KTA entry records with 123 competition entries for freestyle and racing with the later offer three class divisions – RB, TT and the new Weekend Warrior Fun Race class. In addition to this the Indonesia also played host to the launch of the KTA's new training iniatives the KTA Kite Kids programme that saw 20 local youngsters take the opportunity to learn to power kite and take their first steps perhaps towards a future kiteboarding lifestyle.
The event was fully supported from the word go by the local government department the Bintan Regency who were the title sponsor in partnership with the Agro Beach Resort our host location and base for the week. It was from the Agro beach front that all the action would unfold on either its mirror flat reefed lagoon or as later wind shifts would dictate, from the open water beyond the reef that benefit from the Venturi wind effects from the islands that form the sea board backdrop to this stunning location.
Local support for the KTA's first appearance in this part of Asia was further endorsed by the full support of the Indonesian Sailing Federation the PORLASI who sent local race officials to help in the running of the event. It was great to see so many partnerships working behind the scenes bring all the aspects together that made this event so successful and enable us to run the additional elements for the local community – the KTA Kite Kids, the Weekend Warriors Fun Race and finally with the support of the IKA local Riders Grants to help 11 Indonesian riders enter the mail event.
Finally though things were underway with a breakfast style Opening ceremony and Jong race -Jong's are a traditional Indonesia sail boat that are raced as scale models in the open water . They formed quite a sight as they mingled with the kiteboarders also up and out there early to showcase the sport to the gathered government officials and crowds. It was 'past meets the present' on the land too as the traditional Indonesian musicians and dancers performed to greet the KTA and all the riders to Bintan. Carrying on in this vein the Regent Mr Ansar Ahmad rounded off his formal welcoming speech by strapping on a waist harness and launching a kite for what turn out to be the first time he had ever flown one. Things were always safe of course in hands of KTA Open Champion and KTA Kite Kids instructor Kathrin Borgwardt, but never the less it was clear the Indonesia kite tradition was in the blood.
The competition proper began the next day with a full programme of course racing that gave the RB racers and the TT class a full day of what would by the time the Weekend Warriors joined them by a 50 race week in total between them all. This season for the first time see the KTA Asian continental tour fully sanctioned as an ISAF world ranking series and it was great for the KTA competition team to be joined by ISAF International Race Officer Simon James and International Judge Prasart Sribhadung to help us step up the game and ensure that the riders who had traveled from far and wide for this event got the very best out on the water. It was pretty safe to say that by the end of the day everyone was more than stoked.
Leading riders at this early stage for the women was again Kathrin Borgwardt in the RB class who led the way from Liezl Tio, Fawn Benyapa Jantawan and Aya Oshima, with the TT class lead being held by Rebecka Maudal from Dina Muldasheva, Bengul Aykurt and Anny Barlow. For the guys the current reigning Asian champion Yo Narapichit Pudla was making it clear he meant business and if anyone wants his title they are going to need to work very hard to take it, though first time visitor to the KTA Denmark's James Joyce and KTA regular Tanner Aykurt were very much up for that challenge. In the men's TT a big impact was being made by Atte Kapple not only because he was making TT champion Jay Ortis and fellow Philippino Doque De los Santos fight him all the way, but also because he was riding in the RB class also, meaning he never left the water, except to change the board for the right one for the class he was in.
Day two of competition was again an early start as KTA Competition Director Stephan Hertig sort to take full advantage of the beach front flat water heaven to run the first heats of the freestyle single eliminator. Basically the tidal patterns for the week meant that freestyle would lead things out most days while the water was high enough in the lagoon to be followed by the racing outside the reef in the afternoons and with the consistent day long wind that held up around the 20kt mark this should have been perfect. However, the wind direction did not quite play ball and it soon became apparent that without the usual prevailing cross-shore wind that the location expects this time of the year that even the freestyle would need to move outside the reef. So the decision was made early and the team efficiently and quickly relocated to judge tower two on the reef. What a good call that was and the riders blasted their way through the singles, fully powered up all the way.
It was soon clear that there had been a leap in the level of many of the freestyle riders over the closed season and with the girls fielding almost as many riders as the guys KTA freestyle is looking very healthy indeed. As well as changes in the racing side of things KTA freestyle is also looking to the future and has taken on the new PKRA scoring system that limits the number of jumps from each rider to focus on the quality rather than quantity of moves.
At the end of the single eliminator the top positions were as follows:
Men – Long Nguyen Duc, Yo Narapichit Pudla and Reynard Along Gajisan
Women – Kristiin Oja, Victoria Soloveykina and Ali Dudfield
The racers again also in action on day two with a further 6 races fired off to end the day's proceedings. Then evening then settled into buffet dinner by the Agro Resort pool with big screen open air KTA movie night that featured the full TV show edit of KTA 11/12 season that is currently doing the rounds on TV channels across Europe and Asia with BBC Worldwide and the Outdoor Channel.
The following day the action continued out on the reef tower with the freestyle riders once again enjoying strong winds. The double eliminators of course always offer the opportunity for good drama and potential comebacks and the crowds were not disappointed as the KTA's youngest rider Christian Tio fired his way through two heats beating riders twice his age only to be halted at a later stage. Turkish riders Tanner Aykurt and Kerem Balik along with Frenchman Stephane Decenciere were also back in the mix and riding hard. On the girls side of things Asian Champ Aya Oshima was trying to fight her way back, moving past visiting UK riders Polly Crathorne and Sukie Robertson but not quite the end able to unseat the top three. The finals though were taken to the wire with the first super final for the season as Kristin and Victoria fighting it out a further two times in a battle that would see Victoria final turn the tables and take the top slot.
For men the winners place on the podium stayed firmly with Vietnam's Long showing that all his hard in the close season had paid off. He is certainly going to be someone to watch as the season unfolds and we all look forward to the head to heads to come when the unfortunately AWOL Asian Men's Champ Ken Nacor returns for round two.
At this stage of the event it was also the turn of the Weekend Warriors to show what they were made of as they joined the TT fleet in what for many was their first racing experience. With the addition of the 29 Weekend Warriors the TT Class looked awesome as it tracked back in towards the reef and the upwind mark. Running off of a staggered start with the men's TT leading out for the first one followed women and the Warriors who combined for start two, as you can imagine the pack was quite a sight.
It was a long day on the water but the day/night still had plenty to offer for everyone as the Bintan Regency invited the KTA to join them at the 2013 Bintan Cultural festival, something that gave many of the KTA team and riders the chance to dress up (never something you have to ask twice of course) in traditional Indonesian costume. Everyone then joined the hundreds of locals to savor the delights of the Bintan street food and market stalls and be entertained by dancers and players from across the various regions of the country. Set to the backdrop of what looked to us like an Arabian style palace this was a very different KTA night indeed!
The final day of this cracking first round dawned with white caps already settling in to signify another solid day on the water lay ahead. With the freestyle now done and dusted it was going to be a full on race day with the RB Class leading off and looking to lay down 6 races to give team a good return for the event. The running order was as follows -3 men/women RB class back to back, then 3 men's TT and 3 women's TT/Weekend Warriors alternate, with the RB fleet back out to finish things with a final 3 back to back races.
Key battles were once again being played out though it was fair to say that Yo in the men's and Kathrin for the women's RB along with Rebecka and Atte in the TT remained dominate throughout.
All week the weather had been playing ball, with blue skies to join the wind which meant we could stay with the outdoor theme for the awards and closing party. So with the riders gathered, the speeches of thanks given and beach BBQ devoured the moment that defines any competition got under away and the champions of KTA Indonesia were crowned. In total the riders were enjoying a US$ 15,000 prize package between them courtesy of our title brand sponsor Cabrinha and it was all smiles as awards were hosted aloft in celebration.
Thank you also to our other tour sponsors Maelstorm, Kite Zone and Blue Orange Ville who's combined support is also critical for the KTA session.
TOP 3 for the KTA Indonesia
Freestyle MenLong Nguyen Duc (VTN) Tanner Ayurt (TUR) Yo Narapichit Pudla (THA)
Freestyle WomenVictoria Soloveykina (RUS) Kristin Oja (EST) Ali Dudfield (AUS)
RB Class WomenKathrin Borgwardt (GER) Liezl Tio (PHI) Aya Oshima (JPN)
RB Class MenYo Narapichit Pudla (THA) James Joyce (DEN) Taner Aykurt (TUR)
TT Class WomenRebecka Maudal (NOR) Dina Muldasheva (RUS) Bengul Aykurt (TUR)
TT Class MenAtte Kappel (SWE)
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ANNAPOLIS, Md.—The Harvard heavyweight varsity and second varsity eights claimed hard-fought wins as part of the Crimson's four wins in five races in the Adams Cup regatta against Navy and Penn Saturday morning on the Severn River.
The Crimson freshman and third varsity eights also won, as Harvard's varsity, second varsity and freshman boats all stayed unbeaten on the season. The varsity (6-0) picked up Harvard's 50th win in 77 races for the Adams Cup and extended its streak of dual opponents defeated to 19. Back home on the Charles River, the Crimson fourth varsity defeated the Syracuse second freshman eight and Holy Cross third varsity eight.
Harvard led throughout the varsity race, but Navy (6-1) was close behind all the way down the course and trailed the Crimson by less than a boat length at the finish. The Crimson won by 1.9 seconds in 5:59.3. Penn (2-6) placed third, 12.6 seconds behind Harvard. The boats faced a quartering headwind of 8-10 miles per hour and a three-inch chop throughout the course.
The Crimson faced another stiff challenge from the Midshipmen in the second varsity event. The race played out in a similar fashion, with Harvard holding off Navy by about a second with a winning time of 6:05.76. Penn was third in 6:29.67.
The order of finish stayed the same in the freshman eight race, but the margin was wider, as Harvard's time of 6:13.96 was good for a six-second victory. The Harvard third varsity won in 6:20.5, topping a pair of Navy crews by about nine seconds.
Navy's second freshman eight spoiled Harvard's threat of a sweep by winning the final heavyweight race of the morning. The races alternated with the Haines Cup lightweight regatta. The Crimson lights topped Navy in three of five races, including the varsity eight.
Varsity Eight
Harvard 5:59.3
Navy 6:01.2
Penn 6:11.9
Second Varsity Eight
Harvard 6:05.76
Navy 6:06.77
Penn 6:29.67
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Harvard 6:20.25
Navy 3V 6:29.05
Navy 4V 6:29.55
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Freshman Eight
Harvard 6:13.96
Navy 6:20.09
Penn 6:27.14
Second Freshman Eight
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While Mehmet Nihat Ömeroğlu, a retired member of the Supreme Court of Appeals and the first ombudsman of Turkey, was taking an oath of neutrality in parliament on 5 December, opposition deputies gave him a hostile reception. Some turned their backs, while others drummed on their tables.
Deputies from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) held up signs bearing the slogan "Akbudsman", the "AK" being a play on the name of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and thereby implying that Ömeroğlu would be far from impartial.
But most of the criticism directed at Ömeroğlu is due to his role in a Supreme Court of Appeals verdict against slain Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Ömeroğlu was one of the judges who approved the sentencing of Dink under the notorious Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which outlaws "publicly denigrating" the Turkish nation.
Dink was later shot dead by an ultranationalist youth in front of the offices of the Armenian weekly newspaper "Agos" in Istanbul in January 2007. The perpetrator of the attack, Ogün Samast, said he had been motivated by Dink's "insulting Turkishness" – another phrase from Article 301.
The infamous article was amended by parliament a year after Dink's assassination.
Ömeroğlu court verdict a "death sentence"
Speaking to the media after Ömeroğlu's election by parliament on 27 November, Dink's brother, Hosof, said the appeals court verdict had been a "death sentence" for journalist Dink. "Instead of calling those who gave this verdict to account, they are rewarded," he said.
In a 2010 ruling on the Dink case, the European Court of Human Rights underlined that "the approval, by the Supreme Court of Appeals, of the penalty given to Hrant Dink because of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code is a violation of freedom of expression." The court also stated that the article was used like a weapon against Dink, that the 301 case cleared the way for his death, and that the state had taken no action to protect the journalist.
In an article published on 28 November, Özgür Mumcu, a columnist for the daily newsaper "Radikal" and a lecturer in law at Galatasaray University, outlined why in his view, Ömeroğlu is unsuited to his new role.
"A judge who found an 'insult to Turkishness' in the article that Dink wrote for the Armenian diaspora and which said, in short, 'Do not dwell on the Turks; instead of that, strengthen your ties with Armenia,' is now the chief public auditor […] As a person whose decision has been registered by an international court as being against human rights, he is to audit the public administration from the point of justice."
"A foolish remark"
In response to criticism of the controversial Dink verdict, Ömeroğlu said he had not even been aware that the name in that case was "Hrant", since it was written as "Fırat" – Dink's name on the registered documents. But the ombudsman's defence led to further questions, since the court documents did in fact bear the name Hrant in parentheses next to his official name, Fırat.
"It is not clear how he intended to clear his name with such a foolish remark, given that it makes little difference whether it was Dink, or anyone else, involved in a case that concerned state interference in the right to free expression […] This left Ömeroğlu looking like a liar at worst or as someone who was at best not in full command of his job on the Supreme Court of Appeals," Semih İdiz wrote in a column for the daily newspaper "Hürriyet" on 6 December.
Opposition parties are also questioning Ömeroğlu's neutrality, pointing out the fact that the witness at his son's wedding was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. They also underline that his son works at the state-owned aviation firm Turkish Airlines (THY). It is Ömeroğlu's responsibility to review possible complaints about public institutions, including the THY. Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Çiçek also proposed Ömeroğlu for the position of undersecretary during his former post as justice minister.
The presentation of his résumé to parliament has also come under fire, since included details such as the fact that he does not drink or smoke, two qualities highly appreciated by Prime Minister Erdoğan but certainly not compulsory for a job application in a secular country like Turkey.
Ombudsman or 'chief qādi'?
The EU has long demanded the introduction of an ombudsman's office in Turkey, and this was added to the constitution via a referendum on 12 September 2010. The authority is expected to examine, research and provide input on all kinds of operations and activities, as well as monitoring the attitude and conduct of the administration, determining whether it is functioning in line with a sense of justice based on human rights, as well as being fair and in accordance with the law.
However Ömeroğlu seems to believe that the office of ombudsman in Turkey is not inspired by Europe, but that in fact Europe was inspired by the Ottoman justice system.
In an interview with the Anatolia news agency the day after his election to the post, he referred to Swedish King Charles XII and his exile in İstanbul at the beginning of the 18th century. It was there that the king had the opportunity to examine the Ottoman justice system, and decided to adapt the "chief qādi" (kadı in modern Turkish) concept as the basis of the ombudsman system, Ömeroğlu claims.
Ömeroğlu's critics note that the role of the chief qādi at the time was to ensure that the administration's decisions were in accordance with Sharia. They also underline the fact that the chief qādi was an instrument of the state, whereas an ombudsman's office should be just the opposite.
As İdiz also noted: "The gap between the AKP's claim to be instituting 'advanced democracy' in Turkey and the actual situation on the ground continues to grow. The recent election of the country's first ombudsman, required for Turkeys' European Union bid, is one of the latest indications of this, though by no means the only one."
Normally the election of an ombudsman should be a joyous event, signalling, as it does, a genuine step toward 'advanced democracy', İdiz further notes. "But this is Turkey where it is possible to take the most noble of institutions and corrupt its meaning and function in ways that defeat the purpose of the exercise," he says.
Fatma Kayabal
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The 27-year-old hit .260 for Milwaukee last season with 19 homers, 51 RBIs and 37 stolen bases in 43 chances. He made $1,987,500.
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David Beckham and oldest son Brooklyn had a scare Friday morning after his black Cadillac Escalade was involved in a minor collision on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.
The soccer star was heading southbound on the highway when he had to swerve "to avoid a stalled vehicle in the car pool lane." Beckham ended up clipping a gold Mitsubishi, according to a spokesperson. "Thankfully, he and Brooklyn were not injured."
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Cops in Pittsburgh arrested 66 protesters and braced for a huge march through downtown as the leaders of the world's 20 largest economies met for a second day.
Anti-war, anti-capitalist and environmental groups, all linked by opposition to the policies of the G-20 contries, vowed nonviolence for their afternoon march, for which the city issued a permit. Organizers estimated there will be 5,000 marchers.
Earlier, cops arrested 66 people after 19 businesses were vandalized around the city. Anarchist groups were encouraging their ranks to use today for small "actions" against corporate outlets, banks and check cashing stores. On Thursday, police arrested 42 people and protesters broke windows at 14 businesses.
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I bumped into my friend Sarah the other day. As we stood in the hot, dry Colorado air, I asked about her summer. Turns out she and her family had just returned from their annual trip to Norway, where her husband's parents live.
I tried to contain my jealousy, which I found wasn't easy in 100 degree heat. Ah, peaceful, idyllic, never-sweltering Scandinavia. Staying with grandparents, eating delicious dairy products, and sleeping between crisp, clean linens. A vacation where your biggest concern is which berry patch to visit each afternoon.
My family had recently returned from a different kind of vacation. On our trip, my husband Todd and I discussed how helpful it would have been to have relatives in some of the East Coast cities we were visiting. Not only would this have lowered the price tag of the vacation, but it would have allowed more downtime between explorations. And there probably would have been fewer wrong turns and buses taken during our forays.
For this year's vacation, we extended our familiar Washington, D.C. trip, where I have family, to include New York City and Boston. As our three kids get older, they are increasingly interested in U.S. history and geography. Our home state of Colorado only has so much to offer in these departments. Additionally, a while back our 13-year-old attended a lecture by Peace Corps volunteers. By the end of the talk, he was inspired to do a future Peace Corps stint—and his enthusiasm has been consistent for over a year.
As Todd and I have pondered our son's travel visions, we've realized that, although our kids are excited about seeing the world, they have few skills for the budget traveling they'll probably undertake in college and beyond. Although we won't be able to offer them Europe any time soon, frugal travel is something we can definitely provide! Since we didn't have family in New York or Boston, our latest vacation was an ideal time to begin actively teaching our kids "feet-on-the-ground" travel.
For starters, our trip involved no rental cars, taxis, and Broadway shows or expensive activities. But there was a train (from Washington, D.C. to Boston and back through New York), as well as subways in three cities, local buses, and many miles of walking—with stops for frappés, cannoli, or deli sandwiches, depending on the city. In the end, we discovered that feet-on-the-ground travel was not only inexpensive, it was also a green way to travel—another skill we wanted our kids to learn.
Frugal travel means a lot of walking over varied surfaces. In our experience, a backpack worked best because it allowed both hands to be free. The children (ages 13, 12, and 9) carried their clothes and raingear in their own backpacks. At times, we walked miles through cities and rode subways wearing our backpacks, so it was vital that they were compact and light.
Having our hands free of luggage allowed us to be more alert during our big-city explorations. Being aware of our surroundings kept us safe from unexpected traffic, but also encouraged us to take in the details of each new place. People-watching became one of our most enjoyable travel activities. Teaching the children to remain alert while traveling also helped them notice earlier when we'd become lost, which inevitably occurred.
One early morning, we were the sole group at the bus stop that our guide book recommended. Something didn't seem right, since it was rush hour and there should have been people waiting with us. We scanned the area and noticed a crowded stop across the street and up a hill. This turned out to be the stop we needed. Safely ensconced within the correct bus, we took our kids through the thinking process that led to the right bus. If in doubt, follow the crowd. Bad advice for middle school life, but wise counsel when traveling. Chances are the crowd knows the correct way. If not, ask someone in the group for further help.
If all three give you the same answer, you can assume it's correct. We were surprised at the inaccurate information people and our guidebooks gave us in big U.S. cities. Additionally, we talked to our children about who to ask for help when traveling. (For example, someone who is currently at work and wearing a uniform and name tag, such as a subway employee. If they couldn't find a person of this description, we gave them the same advice we do in our hometown: "Look for a mother with young children and ask her for help.") When we needed assistance during our trip, we often had our kids be the ones to ask for directions (while we stood nearby).
When you find yourselves crammed into a Boston T (the rickety green line no less) with more rowdy Red Sox fans than should be able to fit in one train, laugh about it. Make eye contact with your kids through the sea of jerseys, and let them know that this is, in the end, funnier than it is uncomfortable. It's these crazy or embarrassing vacation moments that become the stories your family will retell.
Teach your children how to read city and subway maps, and bus schedules. Have your kids figure out how much money your family needs to ride the subway. Then have them buy the tokens (with your coaching). Let them plan your route as much as possible. Allow young children to hand the money or pass to the bus driver and to push the stop button when it's time get off.
Our feet-on-the-ground, frugal vacation helped our kids become fully engaged with the places we visited. They have strong memories of the sites we saw, the people we met, and, as our nine-year-old recently reminded us, the smells we experienced. "This place smells like the Hudson River by the ferry," she recently exclaimed at a lake in Colorado. Our children quickly became adept with numerous systems of public transportation as well.
I still have a soft spot in my heart for Scandinavia. Perhaps our children's solo travels will take them there some day. But in the meantime, Todd and I are laying the foundation for our future solo travelers to explore the world with budget traveling tools at their fingertips, and small carbon footprints on the road behind them.
Suzita Cochran is a child and family psychologist and mom of two boys and a girl who lives in Boulder, Colorado. At her parenting blog, Play. Fight. Repeat. (www.playfightrepeat.com) she writes on topics such as helping kids "stop at enough" in today's overflowing-with-options-and-items world. Follow her on Twitter @playfightrepeat and Facebook.


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A DAMA for Roberto
ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori flew to the International Space Station on a flight opportunity provided by the Italian space agency, ASI, in agreement with NASA. The Shuttle mission will carry the NASA designation STS-134, but Vittori's is named 'DAMA' by ASI.
During his 16-day mission, Roberto acted as a Mission Specialist with a multitude of tasks with the Space Shuttle and its robotic arm, he carried out six ASI-sponsored experiments and was a test subject for ESA experiments to study possible changes in his body during his flight.
Elementary and middle school students all over Italy were challenged during the last year to come up with a name and logo for Roberto's mission. More than 2000 suggestions from around 200 schools were received.
In addition to providing Roberto's third trip to the Station, STS-134 delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. This fundamental instrument gave the hint to a young pupil to use the initial letters of 'dark matter' to form the winning acronym DAMA.
Following the same idea, an 11-year-old girl from Modena drew the logo that Roberto wore on his spacesuit. AMS-02 inspired her to sketch an antimatter particle emerging from the trail of the Space Shuttle, with the Italian flag in the background.


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A short time ago I wrote about the avalanche of internet douchebaggery that descended on Jennifer Hepler, a writer for Bioware who had the temerity to. . .well, open her mouth and offer an opinion about games. Then Reddit got hold of it, and the next thing you she is being subjected to a torrent of misogynist abuse. The level of pure hate directed at her was as revealing of a new, desperation on the part of hardcore gamers concerning the changing trajectory of game development as it was entirely typical of the neanderthal attitudes toward women held by many players and assiduously cultivated by game designers.
Well, it seems the bottom feeders are at it again. Recently, pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian put up a proposal on Kickstarter. Sarkeesian runs the videoblog Feminist Frequency, where she offers thoughtful analysis of specific pop culture artifacts (like the Hunger Games series) or more general media phenomena relevant to gender issues. One series of videos, Tropes vs Women, looked at a some of the most common stereotypes governing depictions of women in popular culture. For her Kickstarter project she proposed an ambitious series of videos that would apply the Tropes vs Women concept to the world of videogames. Given the shockingly retrograde depictions of women in most videogames (if they make an appearance at all) there is obviously enough material for an extensive series. Sarkeesian is seeking funding to undertake a lot of background research for the videos, since her intent is for the videos to be freely available and supplemented with materials that would allow them to be used as teaching resources (the original Tropes vs Women videos are being used in this capacity). The problem was, Sarkeesian made the same mistake as Jennifer Hepler.
She opened her mouth.


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A Maxim is a big grey wolf. He is independent and relays on no one. Maxim has a handful of close friends that see him for who he really is. Maxim's are not what they seem from an outsiders perspective, they often appear as jerks or know-it-alls but they are really big softy's once you get to know them. Maxim's are beautiful with thick hair and deep eyes, eyes that aren't afraid of contact. Maxim's are confrontational and are not afraid of a challenge. A Maxim can be careless with girls hearts and often ends up breaking them.
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The soft-porn magazine my brother has.
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An utterly worthless "men's magazine" (men being 15 year olds) that's about half advertisements, the other half consisting of articles encouraging you to buy certain hot, new products (read: more advertisements). Though often purchased for its promise of titillating female celebrity photos, the American version fails completely at this task as it is afraid to show its models in anything less than conservative lingerie.
After getting to the eighth page of my new issue of Maxim without seeing anything other than ads, I decided to close the idiotic periodical before I lost any more brain cells.
by willtopower July 10, 2008
A laddie magazine, so softcore, they don't show nipples or bush. Porn for people who are afraid to buy porn. That being said, at least they have female celebrities in there.
OMG! Jennifer Love Hewitt was on the cover of Maxim! We can gaze into her enormous cleavage once again!
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FC Tokyo 0-1 S-Pulse
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Att. 22405
Line Up
GK Hayashi
DF Yoshida (65)
DF Iwashita
DF Jong a Pin (45+1)
DF Lee (53)
MF Muramatsu
MF Ono (49)
MF Brosque (24, 74)
MF Omae
FW Ito
FW Franca (5, 56)
Subs used
Takahara on for Ito (67)
Takagi on for Ono (67)
Hiraoka on for Omae (77)
Report - Against all Odds
Up in the capital yesterday, 9 men S-Pulse pulled a mini miracle out of the hat. At 9 v 11 away from home with 15 minutes still ahead of us, nobody would have dared dream of getting a result. Step up super sub ex-Tokyo Verdy Toshiyuki Takagi. Ten minutes after coming on he smashed it unstoppably past Gonda to send a disbelieving away end into an explosion of orange ecstasy.
Had the pleasure of bumping into a couple of Brisbane Roar fans after the game over for the ACL match on Wednesday with Tokyo. Will save you fellas a couple of seats on Thursday if you're coming down!
The Orange Army was out in force
It was a long old last 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes stoppage time)
All smiles at the end
Highlights. The second yellow for Franca was really harsh if you ask me. He jumped, using arms to gain hight. That his hand (not his arm, not his elbow) brushed the Tokyo player's face was unlucky at worst. To give a second yellow is a very clumsy decision by the ref. It was repeated later for the second yellow for Brosque though, so Nishimura is clearly a man with control issues.
Toshiyuki's belter is everything as good as I remember and sent us delirious. Nearly broke the net with that one. All credit to Taka who dinked in a perfect little ball in between the two defenders.


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… Democrats have had no interest in pointing out how closely President Obama has followed the playbook written by George (W.) Bush. And of course Republicans are the ones who helped write that playbook, so they don't have much interest in revisiting it.
On Section 215 of the Patriot Act:
It seems extremely likely from what we know so far that this business records authority has been transformed into a large‐scale people‐tracking authority. … It strikes me as extraordinarily subject to abuse. It strikes me as a dangerous power to grant, even in this most vital task.
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A variable of a class or object. In TopLink, an attribute describes all instance variables of a class. Every attribute contains a single mapping. Attributes store primitive data such as integers, and simple Java types such as
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The means by which a data source validates a user's identity and determines whether or not the user has sufficient privileges to perform a given action.
The implementation of the bean. The bean is accessed from the client using the home and remote interfaces.
bean-managed persistence (BMP)
A scheme for persisting entity beans that requires the developer to manually code the methods that perform the persistence.
Compare to container-managed persistence (CMP).
Has a persistent superclass and also has subclasses. By default, queries performed on the branch class return instances of the branch class and any of its subclasses. However, the branch class can be configured so that queries on it return only instances of itself without instances of its subclasses.
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Compare to bean-managed persistence (BMP).
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data definition language (DDL)
The data definition part of the structured query language (SQL). TopLink Workbench can generate DDL creation scripts that can be used to create tables on the desired database.
A database session provides a client application with a single data store connection, for simple, standalone applications in which a single connection services all data store requests for one user.
A relational persistence framework term that refers to making the framework automatically generate the object descriptor metadata (including such things as mappings, login data, database platform, locking, and foreign keys). Default mapping is available for TopLink projects using EJB 2.0 CMP applications with OC4J.
dependent class path (IBM WebSphere)
Location where nonbean classes are specified. TopLink requires that the bean classes be included here since they are referenced by the project.
A set of XML files that provide the additional required information to install an EJB within its server. Typically, this incudes security, transaction, relationship, and persistence information.
Compare with TopLink descriptors.
An TopLink object that describes how an object's attributes and relationships are to be represented in relational database table(s). An "TopLink descriptor" is not the same as a deployment descriptor, although it plays a similar role.
By default, TopLink accesses public attributes directly when writing the attributes of the object to the database or reading the attributes of the object from the database.
Compare to .
There are two basic ways of storing object attributes directly in a table:
The information can be stored directly if the attribute type is comparable to a database type.
If there is no database primitive type that is logically comparable to the attribute's type, it must be transformed on its way to and from the database
TopLink provides five classes of direct mappings.
Compare to relationship mapping.
EJB are server-side domain objects that fit into a standard component-based architecture for building enterprise applications with Java. They are objects that become distributed, transactional, and secure components. TopLink Workbench uses three types of EJB: session beans, entity beans, and message-driven beans.
The TopLink equivalent of an SQL conditional clause. TopLink expressions are specified using the
Expression and
ExpressionBuilder classes.
EJB that represent a persistent data object. TopLink uses two schemes for persisting entity beans: bean-managed persistence (BMP) and container-managed persistence (CMP).
A performance enhancement that defines a subset of object attributes to be loaded initially and ensures that all other attributes are loaded on demand.
Used to cache objects for performance and to maintain object identity.
See also object identity.
A relationship in which the source and target are public objects that exist independently; the destruction of one object does not necessarily imply the destruction of the other.
Compare to private relationship.
The TopLink term for lazy loading.
By default, when TopLink retrieves a persistent object, it retrieves all of the dependent objects to which it refers. When you configure indirection (also known as lazy loading, lazy reading, and just-in-time reading) for an attribute mapped with a relationship mapping, TopLink uses an indirection object as a place holder for the referenced object: TopLink defers reading the dependent object until you access that specific attribute. This can result in a significant performance improvement, especially if the application is interested only in the contents of the retrieved object, rather than the objects to which it is related.
TopLink supports a variety of types of indirection, including: value holder indirection, transparent indirect container indirection, and proxy indirection.
Describes how a child class inherits the characteristics of its parent class. TopLink supports multiple approaches to database implementations that preserve the inheritance relationship.
The Java EE Connector architecture (JCA) adapter is a way to persist Java objects to a nonrelational data source, such as XML.
The Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is the core Java technology platform. It provides software compilers, tools, runtimes, and APIs for writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in Java.
The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is an environment for developing and deploying enterprise applications. Java EE includes a set of services, APIs, and protocols for developing multitiered web-based applications.
A Java EE container is a run-time environment for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) that includes such basic functions as security, life cycle management, transaction management, and deployment services. Java EE containers are usually provided by a Java EE server, such as Oracle Containers for Java EE.
The JMS API is a protocol for communication that provides asynchronous communication between components in a distributed computing environment.
Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
The JDBC specification recommends using a JNDI naming service to acquire a connection to a database. TopLink supports acquiring a database connection in this fashion. To take advantage of this feature, construct and configure an instance of
oracle.toplink.jndi.JNDIConnector and pass it to the project login object using the
setConnector method.
The Java Persistence API (JPA) provides a POJO persistence model for object-relational mapping in both Java EE and Java SE applications.
TopLink is the default JPA persistence provider in OC4J.
The Java Transaction API (JTA) specifies the interfaces between a transaction manager, a resource manager, an application server, and transactional applications involved in a distributed transaction system.
A synonym for indirection.
A synonym for indirection.
This is the term used for indirection in the Java Persistence API (JPA).
A synonym for indirection.
Has a persistent superclass in the hierarchy but does not have subclasses; queries performed on the leaf class can return only instances of the leaf class.
Compare to branch class.
A mechanism that ensures one user does not overwrite another users's work. TopLink descriptors support optimistic and pessimistic locking policies.
An EJB that processes asynchronous Java Messaging Service (JMS) messages. For TopLink clients, a message-driven bean is simply a JMS consumer with no conversational state and no home or remote interfaces.
The application registers accessor methods for the attribute.
Compare to direct access.
A TopLink query that is created and stored, by name, in a session for later retrieval and execution
Ensures that each object is represented by one and only one instance in the application; that is, multiple retrievals of the same object return references to the same object instance, not multiple copies of the same object. Violating object identity can corrupt the object model.
See also identity map.
The object-relational data type paradigm extends traditional relational databases to include object-oriented functions. Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, and other DBMS databases allow users to store, access, and use complex data in more sophisticated ways.The object-relational data type standard is an evolving standard concerned mainly with extending the database data structures and SQL (SQL 3).
Object-relational data type descriptors describe Java objects that you map to special relational database types that correspond more closely to object types. Using these special object-relational data type database types can simplify mapping objects to relational database tables. Not all relational databases support these special object-relational data type database types.
Also known as write locking; allows unlimited read access to objects. A client can write an object to the database only if the object has not changed since it was last read.
Compare to pessimistic locking.
A piece of a message transmitted over a packet-switching network. One of the key features of a packet is that it contains the destination address in addition to the data.
A number of hops that session data packets can take before expiring. The default is 2.
See also packet.
Objects are locked before they are edited, which ensures that only one client is editing the object at any given time.
Compare to optimistic locking.
Plain Old Java Object.
In TopLink, POJO means just a regular Java object model class and is used to refer to using the TopLink API directly rather than using TopLink API indirectly by way of CMP or JPA.
A field (or combination of fields) that uniquely identifies a record in the data source.
A relationship in which the target object is considered to be a private component of the source object; the target object cannot exist without the source and is accessible only through the source object; furthermore, if the source object is destroyed, the target object is destroyed as well.
Compare to independent relationship.
A type of TopLink indirection.
Introduced in JDK 1.3, the Java class
Proxy lets you to use dynamic proxy objects as place-holders for a defined interface. Certain TopLink mappings can be configured to use proxy indirection, which gives you the benefits of TopLink indirection without the need to include TopLink classes in your domain model or use weaving.
An object, owned by a descriptor, that controls the way the descriptor accesses the database. The query manager generates its own default SQL to access the database in a transparent manner.
TopLink supports two forms of query optimization: joining and batch reading. Their purpose is to optimize database access through reducing the number of database calls required to read a group of objects.
Persistent objects use relationship mappings to store references to instances of other persistent classes. The appropriate mapping class is chosen primarily by the cardinality of the relationship. TopLink provides five classes of relationship mappings.
Compare to direct mapping.
Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
A set of protocols that enable Java objects to communicate remotely with other Java objects.
A remote session is a client-side session that communicates over RMI with a corresponding client session and server session on the server side. Remote sessions handle object identity and marshalling and unmarshalling between client side and server side.
A name of the TopLink coordinated cache channel to which sessions subscribe in order to participate in the same coordinated cache.
EJB that represent a business operation, task, or process. TopLink can use session beans to make the regular Java objects they access persistent, or to wrap other legacy applications.
An artifact of caching, in which an object in the cache is not the most recent version committed to the data source.
A mechanism that enables client applications to transparently access multiple databases through a single TopLink session.
transparent indirect container indirection
A type of TopLink indirection.
Using this type of TopLink indirection, you can configure indirection for any relationship attribute of a persistent class that holds a collection of related objects as any of the following:
TopLink will use an indirection object that implements the appropriate interface and also performs just-in-time reading of the related objects. When using transparent indirection, you do not have to declare the attributes as
Newly created collection mappings use transparent indirection by default if their attribute is not a
For JPA entities or POJO classes that you configure for weaving, TopLink weaves value holder indirection for one-to-one mappings and transparent indirect container indirection for collection mappings
A transactional TopLink session that allows for a transaction to occur at the object level not only the database level. Changes to objects are not visible globally until the unit of work is committed.
A type of TopLink indirection.
Persistent classes that use indirection must replace relationship attributes with value holder attributes. A value holder is an instance of a class that implements the
ValueHolderInterface interface, such as
ValueHolder. This object stores the information necessary to retrieve the object it is replacing from the database. If the application does not access the value holder, the replaced object is never read from the database. To obtain the object that the value holder replaces, use the
getValue and
setValue methods of the
ValueHolderInterface. A convenient way of using these methods is to hide the
getValue and
setValue methods of the
ValueHolderInterface inside
get and
set methods, as shown in the following illustrations.
For JPA entities or POJO classes that you configure for weaving, TopLink weaves value holder indirection for one-to-one mappings and transparent indirect container indirection for collection mappings


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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
Two years into the Arab Spring, the winds of hope and change have turned into a tempest of fear and people are crying foul.
Shadi Hamid is the director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and knows many of the leaders now in power in Arab Spring countries. In the video above he shares his rare insight with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Many of us are truly sorry you felt it necessary to have a facelift...it's painfully obvious and has removed all trace of character and individuality from your features. What a shame that you feel your power and attraction for those who listen to you and read you are based on a surface. Bad choice, morally, politically, and aesthetically. You are not what we thought you were.
its quite sure, this is not an arab spring, its an arab automn or fall, arabs will rise again after 200 years.. they need top reconsider their ideology. the problem is not in the enemies but in arab mentality itself. they need enough courage and bravery to confront themselves and change historically not backward but frontward
Amen, Marwan!
Unfortunately, as long as Islamism (not Islam) remains a tool of foreign policy for the wealthy monarchies of the Gulf region and no international resolve to confront it, the MENA countries will continue to regress.
It is her personal choice. If it makes her feel better about herself than more power to her.
But can it be eazy just lk datz I don't understand
Bumpy eh? More like bouncing off a cliff. These islamofascists will return the Middle East into a war zone and drag us all down with them. Jihad is the game. Killing Jews and dechristianisation of the whole of the ME is the result
Think. That's too extreme. Shame you don't speak Arabic them eh?
those who came to power using Islam are the first to abuse islam. see how Mosrsi started to implementing brotherhood in every major sector in Egypt from day one, including his own family. his son who graduated 2012 now have a good position without doing the military service as every single Egyptian male. its not too early for a turning point. & Mossi shouldn't lead if he misunderstand what is Islam
He never misunderstood Islam. He implemented Shari Law as mandated by Islam. He wanted to be a dictator by issuing a decree that no Egyptian should object his doctrines.
Actually, he wants to rule like his prophet.
I agree, brotherhood leader picture him as a profit. Egypt is an Islamic country and always will be. no need to those extremist who just take advantage of religion and use poor youth & divide our society. they have no skills or knowledge to govern.
And that leaves an estimated 15 MILLION Egyptian COPTIC CHRISTIANS under an islamofascist dictatorship. That is enough people standing shoulder-to-shoulder to stretch nearly 6,000 miles between Morsi's Cairo, and Barack's Washington DC. Each and every one of those people suffer under the extreme authoritarian sunni government of Morsi implementing sunni islamic law over even Christians.
actually we begin to see the islamofascists impact in Egypt. the Egyptian Jihadists now on TV trying to mobilize youth to fight with them in Syria against Bashar. Bashar is a looser in my pinon but dragging young ppl in Egypt to fight against Alawes who r seen as Suni &Salafi enemies?, the only result is some more new Ben-ladenS. good luck USA
Democracy and Theocracy are fighting it out all over these Arab spring countries. I think the islamists will win over the secularists by using violence and rape in Egypt, which is on the verge of bankruptcy caused by the unrest.
in the middle east they called it the Jasmine revolution, the Arab Spring is something that sounds like a crappy Hollywood movie
Arab spring has gone down the icy slippery slope into burning abyss unable to climb out to democracy any time soon
Christian Amanpour seems to suggest that at the end of the road the much desired Arab democracy is anxiously waiting to be embraced by the Middle East 'populace'. While dreaming is permitted even on the air, her expectations are well above and beyond reality. The Arab nations will not change now or in the near future but there is a chance for such an event to happen by the end of this millennium. Or maybe the next if we are all still standing and breathing.
How about we get out of their way and let them live their lives as they see fit.
US can simply get out of their way but shouldn't cry when 911 happens again.The short way to heaven for those medical Muslims is to kill Americans
check this ..
youtube..com/watch?v=Bm21koV_IJ0 remove the extra dot
I don t see off any Arab spring i see only Millions Muslim Killed How can you call Arab spirng Look how mane Muslims Killed in Iraq Bosnia Palestina, Libija, Afganistan, Egipat for what People Killed Is This Muslim Fridom hmm so stuped fridom
Egypt becoming another Afgannistan
Wherever it appears this woman – it's bad luck!
She should be forbidden to sow hatred and wars around the world.
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