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Pinnacle is a national real estate provider that manages and invests in multifamily residential communities. As one of the nation's largest third-party managers of multifamily housing, Pinnacle serves 26 states. Headquartered in Dallas, Pinnacle has offices in 16 cities across the nation.GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITIONThe Maintenance Supervisor provides maintenance support and is accountable for delivering on our commitments to our residents. This includes quality move-in, resident satisfaction, quality and timely service and personal attention to our residents. The Maintenance Supervisor responds to our resident's service request and is instrumental in helping Pinnacle deliver superior customer service to our residents.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1.Prepares all market-ready apartments, which may include painting, carpet cleaning/repair, general repairs, and housekeeping to ensure a quality product to our residents.2.Completes resident service request in a timely manner.3.Has knowledge of various maintenance functions including and not limited to plumbing, pool maintenance, air conditioning, heating, general carpentry skills, appliance, electrical, painting, caulking, snow removal, scheduling, and life safety issues.4.Maintains grounds, pools/ hot tubs, common areas, and dog parks to keep them clean, free of trash, debris, and other safety issues.5.Performs on-call emergency procedures as required.6.Reports any maintenance issues that affect the budget such as life safety, vacant repairs, property damages, and common-area needs to the manager.7.Schedules and performs preventative maintenance, and records such activities.8.Is knowledgeable of state, local, and federal housing laws, codes, policies, and systems regarding maintenance.9.Attends and participates in training programs as required by Pinnacle and local city and state jurisdictions.10.Provide superior customer service and represents the company in a professional manner at all times. 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Court orders arrest of Pakistani prime minister
By The Associated Press
This article was published January 15, 2013 at 8:35 a.m.
ISLAMABAD Pakistan's top court ordered the arrest of the prime minister in a corruption case Tuesday, the latest clash between the government and a judiciary that has repeatedly pressured the country's political leaders.
The Supreme Court order against Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was related to a case involving private power stations set up to provide electricity to energy-starved Pakistan. The judges are investigating allegations that the bidding process was marked by corruption.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered the arrest of 16 people involved in the case, including Ashraf, who previously served as minister for water and power, said the written court order.
An adviser to the prime minister, Fawad Chaudhry, said any attempt to arrest the prime minister would be unconstitutional since he enjoys immunity from prosecution while in office.
"We consider it a judicial coup, and it is part of a greater plan to derail democracy," Chaudhry said.
The Supreme Court clashed repeatedly with the government over the past year, especially over an old corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts. Pakistan's top court convicted Ashraf's predecessor, Yousuf Raza Gilani, of contempt of court for refusing to reopen the case and ousted him from office.
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Soul Eaters is a hillarious manga and anime series that chronicles the adventures and tasks of three aspiring scythe carriers who are trainees at the Death Weapon Meister Academy (humans who can yield scythe weapons to destroy evil villains stalking Death City) and their partners, who can transform into weapons for their meisters so they can acquire the 99 souls of evil beings and the soul of one witch to be accepted by Death himself to use their scythes to carry out his will.
The three main characters are a shy teenage girl named Maka Albern and her partner Soul Eater who has the ability to turn into a scythe as a weapon. The twist with this duo is that Maka is secretly attracted to Soul Eater and always becomes jealous or angry when Soul Eater doesn't pay her any attention. Black Star is a young boy who likes to consider himself to be a silent and deadly assassin, yet always fails to be silent and fails in acquiring evil souls. His partner is Tsubaki who can transform into many different kinds of knifes and swords and continuously has to work with and handle Black Star's outrageous tendencies to prove that he is the greatest assassin at the academy. And finally there is Death the Kid, who happens to be Death's son. His partners are a pair of sisters, Liz and Patty Thompson, who can transform into pistols for Death the Kid. The only problem is that Death the Kid has an obsessive compulsive disorder where everything he sees and touches has to be correctly aligned or else he becomes too distracted to complete any of his missions for the academy and tends to leave the sister's behind to complete the mission on their own.
I was introduced to this series by a few friends of mine and while I was watching the first episode and watched as Soul Eater litterally swallowed an evil red soul in the shape of a tear drop and then burped in Maka's face after the two of them handily dealt the evil being its deathly blow, I knew this series was for me. There is intense fight scenes in each episode that are crossed with hillarious jokes and jabs at each character's quirks as their adventures unfold. I've only watched the first three episodes of the series but I already know I want to keeep learning more about these characters and the crazy academy they are a part of. The library has series 1-10 for the manga version of Soul Eater and has the whole collection in anime as well.
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TORONTO - The Toronto stock market erased early losses to close higher Friday as investors bought into beaten-down mining stocks.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed 67.56 points higher at 15,625.73.
The Canadian dollar was down 0.22 of a cent at 91.97 cents US amid data that also showed stronger than expected Canadian economic growth.
Statistics Canada reported gross domestic product ran up at an annual rate of 3.1 per cent in the second quarter, higher than the 2.7 per cent read that economists had expected. First-quarter growth, which was affected by a severe winter, was revised downward to a gain of 0.9 per cent compared with an earlier reading of 1.2 per cent.
On a monthly basis, GDP climbed 0.3 per cent in June versus the 0.2 per cent rise that had been forecast.
U.S. indexes were modestly higher while traders played it cautious going into the long Labour Day weekend amid fears of a wider Russian incursion into Ukraine and a big letdown in U.S. consumer spending data.
The Dow Jones industrials climbed 18.88 points to 17,098.45 as other data showed consumer spending dropped 0.1 per cent last month, against the gain of 0.3 per cent that generally had been expected, with weakness most pronounced in the auto sector.
The Nasdaq ran ahead 22.57 points to 4,580.27 and the S&P 500 index was up 6.63 points to 2,003.37.
Other data showed a sharp uptick in manufacturing activity in the American Midwest. The Chicago Purchasing Managers Index surged to 64.3 in August from 56.5 in July.
Investors watched the Ukraine conflict for signs of further escalation after the country's president said that Russian forces had entered the southeastern part of the country, which had largely escaped earlier fighting between Ukraine forces and pro-Russian militias.
European Union foreign ministers met Friday to weigh adopting a tougher stance on the Ukraine crisis amid increasing calls to beef up economic sanctions against Russia.
The tepid market performance Friday also comes at a time when indexes are close to record highs, raising questions about what is needed to push markets even higher.
"It's a common thing, eventually, the markets fully price in everything," observed Colin Cieszynski, senior markets analyst at CMC Markets Canada.
Toronto and New York markets both gained ground this past week. The Dow industrials posted a 97- points or 0.57 per cent advance, while the TSX gained 90 points or 0.6 per cent, led by consumer staples, industrials and telecoms. But the TSX was held back by the financial sector, down 1.15 per cent this week despite a steady parade of earnings news from the big Canadian banks that largely beat expectations.
Stock prices for the big banks are or near record or 52-week highs as the results started to come out a week ago and the financial sector is still up 11 per cent year to date.
"There was nothing wrong with the earnings reports, they were fine," Cieszynski said.
"But because expectations were running so high, people just used it as an excuse to take profits again. But they'll be back."
The financial sector erased early losses to move ahead 0.26 per cent.
Resource sectors provided lift with the gold sector ahead about 1.56 per cent while December gold backed off $3 to US$1,287.40 an ounce.
The energy sector rose 1.07 per cent as October crude in New York gained $1.15 to US$95.70 a barrel.
December copper gained one cent to US$3.16 a pound and the battered base metals component, down six per cent this month, gained 0.3 per cent.


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Manchester City could lose star midfielder David Silva, as contract talks stall over the Spaniard's wage demands.
Silva is holding out for a deal that would put him up alongside City's £200,000-a-week top earners before committing to a new long-term deal at the Etihad Stadium. (Daily Mail)
Liverpool will tell Andy Carroll to decide on his future by the end of the week, as the Reds look to avoid another deadline day drama over the Anfield striker. (Daily Mirror)
Andre Villas-Boas is showing some interest in bringing Carroll to White Hart Lane, and is also considering a season-long loan offer from Stoke City for midfielder Tom Huddlestone. (The Guardian)
Zenit St Petersburg have made a fresh approach to permanently sign Andrey Arshavin, with Arsenal seeking £10million for the 31-year-old forward. (The Times)
And finally, Alexander Buttner has completed his medical ahead of a £3.9million switch to Manchester United from Vitesse Arnhem. (Sky Sports)
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Agribusiness Team Places Third in Puerto Rico Marketing Competition
Thursday, Nov. 08, 2012
The Department of Applied Economics' Agribusiness Club sent a team of five agribusiness students to Puerto Rico to compete in the 2012 Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) Student Food Marketing Challenge. Out of the seven participating teams this year, the USU Agribusiness team ranked in the top three after the first round, presented in the second round and placed third overall for the competition. This year's team was comprised of Lauren Scales, Paul Urzagaste, Trevor Knudsen, Emma Shoaf and Nat Jitwarawong.
The FDRS Student Food Marketing Challenge gives agribusiness students the opportunity to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations. The competition began with a real client explaining their unique marketing dilemma. The student teams were then given several hours to create a 15-minute oral and visual presentation that synthesized, evaluated and proposed solutions to the problem. All team members were required to participate in the presentation and the ten-minute question and answer session that followed.
"Each competition is a new challenge," said Trevor Knudsen, a senior majoring in Agribusiness who has participated in several FDRS Challenges. "The neat thing is that you are making a plan [for] a company that they may actually use."
The marketing challenge this year came from Martex Farms. Martex Farms sells a variety of fruits and is trying to expand to New York and Florida where native Puerto Ricans have migrated. Martex Farms wants to wholesale green bananas to restaurants in those specific states.
The USU Agribusiness team called various locations to note who buys green bananas, how many they buy and why people buy them. The team then created a presentation based on their findings. They proposed that instead of selling to restaurants, Martex Farm should sell green bananas peeled, pre-cooked and ready to eat. The presentation outlined how selling ready-to-eat green bananas would be more beneficial than selling to restaurants, gave a simple marketing plan and even listed a tasty green banana recipe.
Kynda Curtis, the agribusiness club advisor, believes students enjoy the competition and want to keep coming back.
"The competition gives students skills that have real world application," said Curtis.
The trip was funded by a variety of sources, including the APEC department, ASUSU and donations solicited by the students for the College of Agriculture silent auction.
Other teams competing included the University of Kentucky, University of Idaho, University of Minnesota, Cal State - Chico, Texas A&M and Cal Poly. Texas A&M and Cal Poly took first and second place at the competition, respectively.
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GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won 397
An anonymous reader writes "As if we needed further proof that DRM really is more trouble for publishers and consumers than it's worth, Good Old Games, the DRM-free download store that specializes in retro games, has yet more damning evidence. In an interview this week, the store's managing director says that its first venture into day one releases earlier this year with Witcher 2 was a storming success — and the version that hit the torrent sites was a cracked DRM version bought from a shop. The very definition of irony."


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ATLANTA (JAN. 17) - Northeastern shot 55 percent in the first half to spark themselves to a 68-55 win over Georgia State Thursday night in women's basketball at the GSU Sports Arena.
Listening to Georgia State head coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener post-game, it was a case of the good, the bad and the ugly. The good was Northeastern's first-half shooting as the No. 12 three-point shooting team knocked down 7 of their first 11 treys to build a 41-30 halftime lead. The bad and the ugly all belonged to Georgia State, who shot just 2-of-19 outside the 3-point arc, was outrebounded 38-31, and didn't defend much all night according to the coach.
"We didn't guard them all night and were especially lackadaisical in the first half," coach Baldwin-Tener lamented post game. "We talked, we prepared, we practiced and then we just didn't do any of that on the court. We had no intensity from start to finish and I am extremely disappointed in the overall effort. Obviously, Northeastern can shoot the ball as they have all year long and they did in the first half tonight. But, we did not play to win tonight."
The stat sheet reflects some of the effort Coach Baldwin-Tener was speaking of. Georgia State, who entered No. 3 in the NCAA in 3-point defense (.237) was lit up by Northeastern's outside shooters (7-of-12 in the first half alone). GSU, who was No. 43 in the NCAA in blocked shots (4.8) did not have a single one tonight for the only time this season. GSU, who was No. 19 in field goal defense at 33.8%, allowed 47.4% for the game. GSU, who was No. 44 in rebound advantage with a +6.4 average, was a -7 with a 31-38 disadvantage tonight. GSU, who has held eight of its 14 opponents to under 50 points this season, nearly gave up that many in the first half to Northeastern (41).
Northeastern (10-6, 3-2) was led by redshirt senior guard Kashaia Cannon who scored 21 points, including 16 of those in the first half with 4-of-6 3-point baskets. Cannon had her 20th point with 17:28 still to play in the game. Senior guard Deanna Kerkhof added 19 more points with 3-of-5 outside the arc. Center Jewel Tunstull contributed 14 points , nine rebounds and three blocks.
Georgia State (9-6, 1-3) got 14 points, six rebounds and three steals from senior center Cody Paulk. Sophomore guard Kayla Nolan added 10 points, six assists, four rebounds and four steals.
Northeastern grew an 11-9 advantage at 15:06 to a 25-11 lead at 10:35. GSU closed back to six and 27-21 23 at 7:16 and 30-23 at 6:34 when Northeastern made three straight 3-pointers to open a 39-23 lead at 5:05. The Huskies went to the locker room with a 41-30 halftime lead.
In the second half, GSU made its final challenge of the game, reducing the lead to seven points at 47-40 at 14:19 and 51-44 with 9:35 to go. But, Northeastern's 8-0 run with a Kerkhof trey quickly made it 59-44 at 7:00.
A few sprinkles of positives for GSU was its13-of-15 free throws (86.7%) and 11 steals off 17 Northeastern turnovers.
Georgia State returns to action Sunday when it hosts James Madison at Noon in the Sports Arena.


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Feb 28, 2013, 03:21 ET from British American Tobacco Plc
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2012 proved to be a very good year for BAT with increased constant revenues, operating margins and profit. The results would have been stronger had it not been for an adverse currency impact but overall, the company hit or exceeded all of the targets it set itself for the year.
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Findings from a 1,000 person national survey about adults' attitudes on juvenile services showed strong support for a system realigned around rehabilitation. Four out of five adults in the survey thought judges should be in charge of transfers; and three out of four believe juvenile offenders should be approached with the idea that they are highly capable of positive growth. The survey was commissioned by the Campaign for Youth Justice, a grantee of MacArthur's Models for Change juvenile justice reform initiative.
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2010 GFS Roadtrip Game 6: Brewers at Angels (6/14/10)
On the morning of June 14, 2010, we woke up in our KOA camping cabin in Chula Vista, California. We had a night game on tap in Anaheim and only a two hour drive. So we had some time to kill and we had two plans — Hollywood and lunch with my cousin.
We left the San Diego area early and headed straight to Hollywood for a little sight seeing. We parked in a parking garage connected to the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard and then we hit the street on foot:
Top Left – the very first star we saw on the walk of fame was the Los Angeles Dodgers, which was fitting for our trip.
Top Right – we walked the sidewalk a bit and took some pictures with people of interest, like Matt Damon, Bruce Lee, and Kermit the Frog.
Bottom Left – right at the entrance to the street, there was a Mariners Mickey Mouse, which was also fitting for our trip. I guess for the All-Star game there are Mickeys all over the city, one for each MLB team. Later in the day, we found the Angels Mickey in front of the Big A.
Bottom Middle – Tim got his picture with wax Samuel L. Jackson at Madame Tussaud's.
Bottom Right – Tim put his feet and hands in Humphrey Bogart's (and others) cement prints at Groman's Chinese Theatre.
By the way, here is a panorama of the Chinese Theatre:
As we walked down the street, we came to a big tent where Top Chef was putting on shows. They had some games you could do on the sidewalk including a little putting green. On Tim's first "putt," he took a near full hack…
…and hit the bright orange golf ball across Hollywood Boulevard. The camera man's face in the middle picture is an instant classic. The funniest thing to me is that the camera man stopped filming as he made the shocked face. The arrow in the picture to the right is pointing to the ball resting on the other side of the street. Luckily, the ball weaved between several cars going both directions on its journey across the street.
After a short visit in Hollywood, we hit the road again and drove down to Huntington Beach…
…where we met my cousin Molly and her husband Eric for lunch at Ruby's at the very end of the pier. If you click on that beach panorama, Ruby's is the red roof at the far left.
While we waited for Molly and Eric to arrive, we watched surfers. This old school surfer on the left…
…made Tim's day when he waved at him as he paddled by. Baseball player, surfer, fireman, truck driver, Tim loves it when people out in the world wave at him. Tim loved watching the surfers. He was also amazed when a father and son fishing on the peir caught a little baby shark. We watched them unhook it and then throw it back into the water.
After lunch, we hit the beach for just a little bit of running around and splashing:
In the top left picture, Tim is making one of many tiny little "sand castles" — which really were just mounds of wet sand. The waves kept washing away his castles. In the top right, that is Molly standing between me and Tim. She went to high school about a mile from this beach — looks like a tough life, eh?
After lunch and beach time, we headed to our hotel in Anaheim. After a little relaxing (and a little running for me), we hit the road for a mile-and-a-half drive to Angel Stadium of Anaheim. This was the view as we pulled into the parking lot…
We got a shot of Tim standing on a big baseball as we approached the entrance…
…at the right side of that picture, the Angels Mickey Mouse is behind the guy in the green t-shirt.
The highlights of the entrance are a bunch of huge wood baseball bats…
…and two huge Angels caps. The hats were complete with New Era and size tags on the inside. By the way, these hats are size 649 1/2.
Once we headed into the stadium, we spent most of Angels' BP hanging out behind the bullpens in right field. Here was the view from section 258:
We headed to this section for three reasons: (i) the sections behind the dugouts were almost empty, (ii) there was very little chance that any homeruns would come flying in there hot and take out little Tim, and (iii) Joel Piniero was out in LF (in the field just above the home plate in the bullpen) and I hoped he might want to hook us up with a baseball like he had for my dad several days before in Oakland.
Joel never looked out toward us. However, at one point, a homerun came right toward us. It was going to bounce in the upper bullpen. As it bounced, it went out of our view and then…
…it hopped up directly into my glove. A clean catch on one hop. Tim was impressed with us. We got a ball without anyone throwing it to us. He asked me, "How'd you get that? No one threw it?"
He posed with the new acquisition right where we caught it:
Actually, we caught it just to the left of that little green fencing behind Tim.
After catching the baseball, we met up with my Dad in the seats by the LF foul pole. This was the view:
My Dad had already had enough of that section. He decided to head over to RF. I told him to hang out 20 rows deep once the Brewers started hitting so he could catch a Prince Fielder homerun.
After her took off, Tim and I watched this Angels pitcher…
…put on a "futbol" clinic with a baseball. The dude has some serious soccer skills.
Soon, Tim and I decided to do a little exploring. We headed out toward CF where we checked out the "Monster" sign in the "grass" in the big batters' eye area. The "grass" is actually some sort of field turf. We also grabbed this panorama:
And, what the heck, we got another picture of Tim with his Angel Stadium baseball:
Next, we headed a few feet to our left and checked out the big "A" rock formation and waterfall in the batters' eye:
Then it was on to RF. As you head from LF to RF, there is an open concourse that runs behind the seats in LF and behind the batters' eye in CF. As the concourse reaches RCF, it goes under the RF seats and there are a series of big tunnels…
…that head out to the RF seats.
We headed to the last row in the deepest part of RCF where we checked out the batters' eye from the other side. Its an odd batters' eye with the fake grass, big rock formation and water falls, and then a big green deck-like area right next to and in front of the RF seats.
Here was the view of the field from up there:
Next, we swung around to foul territory in RF. This was the view from the back of section 231:
Oh, by the way, my Dad didn't catch a homerun from Prince. He almost caught one from someone else, but he was robbed by another fan who was running wild out in the RF seats. Prince was blasting some bombs, deeeep bombs. My Dad did work his way down to the dugout area (which was generally closed off unless you had a ticket there) and got this picture of Prince hanging out down there:
Tim and I walked around the field level concourse next. Although there wasn't anything particularly special about it, I liked the field level concourse at Angel Stadium. It was nice and open with a lot of head room above.
Here is a look down the front of the concourse looking from the RF corner toward home plate:
Down at the far end of that last picture, I took this panorama:
Some usher had let my Dad down to the dugout (commenting, "we always like out of towners"), but this was as close to the dugout as Tim and I could get.
As we made our way around home plate toward the 3B side, we found this wall…
…I'm not sure if there is more to the Angels Hall of Fame or if this is it. If there is more, we missed it. This is all that we saw.
Here is a look at the concourse looking from home plate out toward LF…
…note the nice picture of former Mariner Joel Piniero. Also noteworthy, there is a Ruby's about half way down in that picture. That's the same place where we ate lunch on the pier in Huntington Beach earlier in the day. My Dad doubled up on the day having Ruby's for lunch and dinner.
Soon, we found ourselves back out by the LF foul pole:
Tim and I were hungry, so we headed to a nacho stand. After ordering our nachos, I realized that I couldn't find my wallet. I was praying that I left it in the hotel and had not lost it somewhere in the stadium. After the game, I discovered that is exactly what had happened. Anyway, no nachos for us, at least not just yet.
Eventually, we made our way back to section 258 where we'd got the BP homerun. My Dad found us and we hung out there a bit. Before long, a guy named Warren (who you might see commenting here from time-to-time under the name "yankeehater626") stopped by to say hello. Actually, he did more than that, he had a special gift for Tim. I'll show you it a little later.
It was great meeting and chatting with Warren. (Hi, Warren!) Notably, we chatted about the fact that Warren had just caught a foul ball and a home run ball at the same game at the Oakland Colesium (the day before Game 1 of the GFS Roadtrip) and several commentators on ESPN had apparently taken the opportunity to wrongfully mock Warren on the air when he was shown on TV giving the foul ball away to a young fan. Warren explained the whole situation and all of the media hype following it. It was very interesting…maybe he can provide a link to the blog entries he wrote about it in the comments here.
After splitting up with Warren, Tim stayed with my Dad and I did a little more exploring. First, I headed up to the upper deck in LF where it looked a little bit like this:
…and I made my way around the upper deck taking a bunch of panoramas. Like this one…
In the upper deck, the concourse is behind the seats and it is pretty narrow:
Heading back into the upper deck seating area, I noticed that the seats in the upper deck did not all look the same. Some of them (to the left) had an Angels logo (which is hard to see because it is just raised metal, no red or white paint or anything like that)…
…and some of them (right) had a weird yellow and white picture on them. You know what? On a hunch, I just typed in www.edison.com in my brower and confirmed that little picture is Edison International's logo. According to Wikipedia, from 1998 to 2003, it was called Edison International Stadium of Anaheim.
I took the pictures of those seats as I climbed to the back row to take a picture over the back of the stadium of the big "A" out front:
The sun in RF was blinding. I could hardly see when I got this panorama from the top of the stadium…
…visibility was no better when I reached the end of the infield seats and got this panorama:
After taking that panorama, I turned to my right and got this picture…
…showing the side of the scoreboard and the concourse at the top of the RF seats. That concourse is above the concourse that I mentioned earlier that runs from LF to CF and then under the RF seats.
This next panorama was taken from that concourse behind the RF seats:
On my way back to our seats to meet up with Tim and my dad, I headed down into the RF seats and then into the concourse below the RF seats. At the opening of the concourse under the RF seats, I walked by Angelitos, which appeared to be a Mexican restaurant…
…and then behind a seating area where people were eating dinner behind the batters' eye.
Finally, I made it back to our seats. We sat in LF in section 260. It was game time and this was our view:
I think this is the first time that Tim has ever had a "child" ticket. His seat in LF was only about $5.
Speaking of $$, I still had no wallet. So my Dad bought us those nachos we'd had our eyes on…
…huge and tasty chicken nachos, to be exact.
After the nachos, we headed to the concourse to grab some ice cream helmets. I couldn't find ice cream for awhile and did a bunch of walking in the concourse. And I took this panorama from the concourse behind section 208:
…Tim had to get a tasty, but personally disappointing, chocolate malt cup. That's right — NO ICE CREAM HELMETS!!!
I had a discussion with two ladies at the concession stand trying to figure out the ice cream helmet situation. The first lady told me they used to have ice cream helmets, but now they only have rally monkey cups. She did not speak highly of the rally monkey cups. It did not matter, I was having no part of a rally monkey cup.
Here is the deal, I'd love to have an Angels ice cream helmet in our collection. An Angels helmet shows we attended a game in Anaheim. It doesn't endorse the Angels. Its just memorabilia. But the rally monkey, he's different. The sole purpose of the rally monkey is to support and encourage the Angels. We neither support nor encourage the Angels. In fact, I'd be happy if they went 0-162 each season.
So, no rally monkey cups for us. And, sadly, no Angels ice cream helmet either.
Anyway, there was a game to be played. And, thankfully, the rally monkey would have to stay in his cage on this night.
The Angels got the scoring started in the second inning. Kevin Frandsen hit a double to RF that scored Howie Kendrick and Juan Rivera. And, that would conclude the scoring for the Angels on this night.
One thing that I really liked about Angel Stadium is pictured below…
…its the thin scoreboard right behind home plate. It was so nice not to have to scan down the LF or RF line looking for the count or number of outs. All of the information was right there in front of us as we watched the batters.
Now, bring on the Brewers.
The Brewers got the game winning runs in the top of the third inning. First, George Kottaras (whose career first homerun landed about 15 feet from us last season in Boston) hit an RBI double scoring Alcides Escobar. The Brewers then loaded up the bases so Ryan Braun could unload them with a grand slam, his 10th homerun of the season.
Speaking of Braun, he was stationed right in front of us in LF during the bottom half of each inning:
During the game, several Angels stood on the LF wall watching the game from the bullpen. I thought it was interesting that this guy…
…was standing on an unearthed pitcher's rubber.
There were plenty of interesting sights around the ball park in addition to the game. Like at Dodger Stadium three days ago, there were beach balls bouncing all around the stadium. We caught a beach ball twice so Tim could hit them. He quite enjoyed that.
Each time Hideki Matsui came to the plate, a group of fans in RF held up cards spelling out…
…M-A-T-S-U-I-L-A-N-D. I'm guessing this was some sort of reference to the fact that Disneyland is right down the road.
In CF, there is a row of trees popping up above the fence. From our seats, I noticed that the trees are not planted in the ground…
…they are in big box-looking things.
After Braun's grand slam, the score stayed at 5-2 until the top of the sixth inning. In the sixth, the Brew Crew tacked on an extra run on a unique play. Casey McGehee hit a deep fly ball to the warning track in CF. If left untouched, it would have hit the wall right in front of those big potted trees. However, nine time gold glove winner Torii Hunter raced over and jumped to make a spectacular catch, but the ball would not cooperate. The ball hit the pocket of Hunter's glove, rattled around, and popped out and over the fence for a solo home run.
Torii Hunter couldn't believe it. Neither could the rest of us. You can check out the play HERE.
The Angels were trailing 6-2. So Tim was happy:
I kept watching for Prince Fielder to blast a mammoth shot….
…but he never did. In fact, he went 0-4 on the day.
Throughout the game, this guy (who, I guess, might have been the soccer playing pitcher from above)…
…kept walking to the bathroom and then standing at the top of those stairs while a bunch of little kids screamed at him for baseballs. Eventually, he walked over and handed out a couple balls — two to little kids and one to an allegedly cute girl, I believe.
Angels Stadium has two big screens. One of them was behind us. The bigger big screen was in RF and looked like this:
Tim is a goofy kid with an active imagination. So at some point, he thought it would be fun to stand around…
…balancing his hat on his shoe.
Above, I mentioned that Warren brought Tim a special gift. Here it is:
I just mentioned in the entry for our first game in San Diego that I don't like it when fans try to give baseballs to Tim at games. This is the exception. From reading our blog, Warrent knew we are huge Ken Griffey, Jr. fans. So he gave Tim this baseball that Griffey hit for a homerun during BP the last time he was in Anaheim, which was shortly before retired. I set up this picture like this because Warren mentioned that he caught the ball in RCF, just above where Tim is holding the ball in this picture.
A huge, Thank you, Warren!
This ball is now sitting in a case in a special spot in Tim's room.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, I wanted to head back up to the upper deck in RF. I wanted to take some more pictures because the sun was so bright out there before the game. My dad wanted to check it out up there too, so we all headed toward RF.
On the way, I took this shot from the upper concourse behind the RF seats:
Tim was still acting goofy when we reached the upper deck…
…and the view was much better up there with the sun down:
The seventh inning was another big inning for the Brewers. First, they scored two runs on a double by Corey Hart. Hart later scored on a single by Ryan Braun.
Casey McGehee was hit by a pitch after Braun's single. McGehee was on first when Carlos Gomez grounded into a potential double play. But McGehee prevented the double play by taking out Angels short stop Erik Aybar, and I mean he took him out. Out of this game, and out of about the next 9 games as well.
Everyone rushed to Aybar to check on him…
…well, everyone but Angels leftfielder Juan Rivera. Eventually, Rivera noticed he was the only Angel fielder who had not gathered around Aybar. He walked reeeeealllly slowly toward the infield and finally joined the rest of his team before the trainers helped Aybar off of the field.
A little later, we noticed something in the sky behind 3B…
…it was nightly celebration at near by Disneyland.
We decided to walk around to the 3B side to see if we could get a better view of the fireworks. We ended up watching the end of the game from right here…
The Angels still couldn't get anything going. Here is Hideki Matsui…
For good measure, the Brewers added a twelfth and final run in the top of the 9th inning on a bases loaded ground out b Alcides Escobar.
And that was it. Final score 12-2 Brewers.
An usher took our picture before we headed back to the hotel:
By the way, at no point during this Angels home game were we ever in Los Angeles. Not the City of Los Angeles. Not the County of Los Angeles. Los Angeles was nowhere in sight at this California Angels of Anaheim, Orange County, California home game.
2010 Fan Stats:
14 Games
14 Teams (Mariners, Orioles, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Angels and Athletics; Phillies, Dodgers, Pirates, Braves, Mets, Brewers, Padres and Nationals)
12 Ice Cream Helmets (Orioles (3), Phillies, Padres (2), Pirates (2), Mets, Dodgers, Athletics & Nationals)
33 Baseballs (6 Mariners, 2 Angels, 3 Athletics, 3 Brewers, 3 Nationals, 2 Blue Jays, 5 Umpires, 1 Phillies, 1 Mets, 4 Braves, 1 Orioles, 1 Dodgers, 1 Padres)
9 Stadiums (Camden Yards, Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Citi Field, PNC Park, Oakland-Alameda County Stadium, Dodgers Stadium, PETCO Park, Angel Stadium of Anaheim)
11 Player Photos (Ryan Rowland-Smith (2), Chad Cordero, Mike Cameron, Joel Piniero, Frank Catalanotto, Billy Wagner, Jeff Suppan, Tommy Hanson, Jeff Weaver and Scott Olsen)
1 Umpire Photo ("Cowboy" Joe West)
8 Autographs (Ryan Rowland-Smith (2), Chad Cordero, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Joel Piniero, Frank Catalanotto (2), Billy Wagner (2), Jeff Suppan, Tommy Hanson, Jered Weaver and Scott Olsen)
5 Kids Run The Bases (Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Citi Field, PNC Park, PETCO Park)
When we made it home after the Roadtrip, Tim has his No. 24 baseball action figure (unfortunately, a righty) hit the Griffey ball that Warren gave to him…
…and then for good measure, we added in an opposing pitcher…
…thanks again, Warren.


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Hopefully we can just move on now and this will just die off...Offensive line coach faces up to mistake
Friday, June 01, 2007
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Larry Zierlein does not send many messages through e-mail anymore.
"I'll leave that computer alone," the Steelers' new offensive line coach declared yesterday.
It's something he wishes he had done two weeks ago today, when he tried to pass along to an individual an X-rated video clip that was sent to him. Instead, he inadvertently hit a button that delivered the naughty e-mail to NFL general managers throughout the league, including one to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
"It was 100 percent unintentional," Zierlein said yesterday, speaking publicly for the first time about his embarrassing mistake. "I don't even know how to mass e-mail, I don't know these machines very good -- just a 100 percent unintentional thing. I hit the wrong button."
Doug Whaley, the Steelers' 10th-year pro personnel coordinator, sent the e-mail first to Zierlein.
Zierlein, 61, said he will use computers to work on only football stuff from now on. He sent a note of apology to everyone around the league as well as to those in the Steelers' organization. He said the past two weeks have not been easy as he has seen his name linked to the story that was carried around the country.
"It's hard because I made an inexcusable mistake -- unintentional or intentional. It was inexcusable. It was hard for the fact, first for the organization [and] what they had to explain and go through, [and] my family -- what they're going to have to hear.
"So it was tough, but, when you've been at this stuff as long as some of us have, tough things happen and you have to move on and that's what we're doing. I made a mistake, unintentional."
Dan Rooney, the Steelers' chairman, spoke to Zierlein about the incident but the coach declined to reveal what was said.
"I will say this is a very supportive organization," Zierlein said.


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On the day before Lent, members of St. Catherine of Genoa were more concerned about what they could give than what they would be giving up.
The church welcomed residents in the Avancer-Genesis program Tuesday to the church for a Mardi Gras celebration that included food, music, crafts and other activities. The Avancer-Genesis program serves special needs adults in a assisted-living community setting with houses located in Genoa, Sycamore, DeKalb, Cortland and Davis Junction.
Linda Dolder, a member of the Respect Life Committee for St. Catherine, said the Mardi Gras party was a way to help the Avancer residents participate in a social setting and integrate into the larger community.
"They just love meeting people and doing these kind of activities," Dolder said. "It's important to get them mixed in with the community and it's a lot of fun. Just look at all the smiles."
St. Catherine and Avancer-Genesis have established a strong relationship in the past few years with events such as Valentine's Day dances and summer barbecues becoming annual staples. A group of residents even goes to the weekly Sunday Mass.
The partnership has become increasingly important, said Avancer-Genesis staff member Carol Barnes, especially as the organization grows. The group just finished building a house in Cortland last week, bringing the total number of houses to 16.
Barnes said about four to six people live in each house, but it is important for the residents to have interaction outside of their comfort group. Many residents warm up to their surrounding right away as evidenced by the group's excitement to meet Dolder's granddaughter and a visiting dog.
"They're growing to know so much more about our individuals now," Barnes said of the St. Catherine congregation. "They all have developed some sort of relationship with each other."
Don Ahles, pastor for St. Catherine, agreed with Barnes and said the residents have become a fixture at Sunday Mass. He said many members are disappointed when the group is unable to come for their weekly visit.
"They didn't make it out last Sunday and everyone was looking for them," Ahles said. "These are the easy things to do. It helps us become aware of needing to be part of the whole community we're in."
St. Catherine is not the first church to work with Avancer-Genesis, Barnes said, but it has become the most involved. Barnes said because residents' homes are so spread out some people go to Salem Lutheran Church in Sycamore and others to New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in DeKalb.
With more than 90 people and counting in the program, Barnes said community partnerships would be important for support.
"St. Catherine has been wonderful and very good to our people," Barnes said. "I think we'll definitely be doing more together in the future."
On the day before many people give up something for Lent, Dolder said people should give up stereotypes about adults with disabilities.
"We have to respect all life," she said. "They are just as much a part of our community as anyone else."


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I know its alittle early for A game thread but this is the game thread we will use TOnight, I will have the lineups in Alittle bit so We can!! I would bet that the lineup will be the same except for maybe freel!!
I know its alittle early for A game thread but this is the game thread we will use TOnight, I will have the lineups in Alittle bit so We can!! I would bet that the lineup will be the same except for maybe freel!!
Code:Reds Braves 1. R Freel, 3B 1. M Giles, 2B 2. A Dunn, LF 2. E Renteria, SS 3. K Griffey Jr., CF 3. C Jones, 3B 4. R Aurilia, 1B 4. A Jones, CF 5. B Phillips, 2B 5. J Francoeur, RF 6. A Kearns, RF 6. M Diaz, LF 7. D Ross, C 7. A LaRoche, 1B 8. J Castro, SS 8. T Pratt, C 9. E Milton, P 9. H Ramirez, P
let me be the first to complain about richie batting cleanup and juan starting
Looks like we have ourselves a platoon at 3B and SS.
Narron has got to go.
I feel illOriginally Posted by OnBaseMachine
Last edited by Chip R; 07-07-2006 at 10:31 PM.
Go Gators!
I knew Edwin wouldn't play today. Narron is awful!!!
Why oh why does Narron keep batting Aurilia 4th? Dude must have pictures...
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
Well...On the bright side, Freel's leading off and Dunn's batting second.
It falls apart south of Griffey, though.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
castro in for felipe i can see felipe can't hit righ handers this season freel in teh lineup always a plus dunn batting second good rich batting 4th=bad bad bad
Not very impressive on paper, but it seems like we do tend to win when Aurilia
plays 1st...
I don't like Castro for FeLo, but everything else passes the look test. We need Uncle Milty to pitch like the old pro he is. We need to make a statement that we are not going to lie down and die.
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.-Jimmy Buffett
I think Narron is just tired of shoddy defense.
In Narrons defense Felipe had some really weak swings last night and overall horrible at-bats and just looked tired. Not sure why the over-valuing of Castro though- the guy is a defensive replacement plain and simple.
"YES! He rips it. Is it high enough? It's gonna be gone! Adam Dunn has done it again. Big #44 can take all day to round the bases here, thats done and gone- lookout dunner they're waitin for ya at home plate." - George Grand
"Did that just happen?" - Chris Welsch
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Children played a significant role in Monday's ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $855 million Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago just as they helped with the 23-story hospital's design. A patient advisory board contributed ideas such as a CT scanner painted to look like a yellow submarine and an outdoor garden so children on chemotherapy can escape from medicine smells and breathe fresh air.
A near life-size sculpture of a humpback whale and baby hang in the lobby, donated by Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, among the many pieces of art donated by the city's cultural institutions. There's also a wheelchair-accessible, scaled-down fire truck to play on. Elevators have interactive art, including drawings of cars with buttons to push to make the horns honk.
The scientific edge for the new facility comes with its strategic location on the campus of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and connected to Northwestern's Prentice Women's Hospital. The new site will help the hospital build its relationship with the medical school and retain pediatric specialists.
The hard work of moving from the current location in the city's Lincoln Park neighborhood to a spot near the city's high-end Michigan Avenue shopping district begins Saturday at 6 a.m. That's when hospital staff members plan to use more than 20 ambulances to move about 160 patients from the hospital's old quarters about three miles away.
Patient care experts have been planning the move for years, conducting monthly exercises to make sure each child gets the right care in transit. Patients to be moved include about 37 sick babies in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, said Sherri Ewing, associate chief nurse executive. Each of the sickest patients will require about 90 minutes to move, Ewing said.
"We'll all breathe easy when everyone's tucked in safely in their bed at night knowing that they'll get the best care possible that we can provide to them," the new hospital's CEO, Patrick Magoon, said during Monday's dedication.
With confetti flying over a crowd of 700 in the closed-off street in front of the hospital Monday, former and current patients waved from a balcony. The festivities featured children among the speakers, including 13-year-old cancer survivor Jam Ransom-Marks, who told how she and other patients helped give advice to create "kid-friendly" spaces in the new hospital.
"We were even able to share our stories with construction workers when we led them in bend-and-stretch exercises," Ransom-Marks said. The exercise sessions for the workers who built the hospital were coached by young patients.
Named for a Chicago philanthropist who is both a grateful mother and a former nurse, Lurie Children's replaces Children's Memorial Hospital. Major benefactor Ann Lurie's $100 million gift in 2007 was believed at the time to be the largest amount given by an individual to a children's hospital in the United States. Her late husband, Robert H. Lurie, was a business partner of real estate investor Sam Zell and a part owner of the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox.
Shortly after Robert Lurie's death from cancer in 1990, Children's Memorial saved the couple's teenage son from dying of salmonella poisoning.
Ann Lurie spoke at Monday's ceremony, devoting her remarks to quotes from an email she received from Children's Memorial patient Kendall Ciesemier, now a student at Georgetown University.
"'I am so unbelievably thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this project as the hospital has been a second home to me since I was 4. ... It's an incredible hospital. Incredible," Lurie read from Ciesemier's email. "'It's actually kind of a shame that you have to be sick to experience this facility. Sick kids certainly deserve this place to heal."'
Children's Memorial held a closing reception for bereaved families Sunday, which included the dedication of a red jewel crabtree that will be planted in a nearby park. A plaque near the tree will celebrate the lives of the children cared for by Children's Memorial for 130 years.


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Understanding UDDI and JAXR
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Are there any standard namespaces and/or classifications that are expected with any UDDI provider?
|Other Taxonomy
Obviously, you need to get the unique keys of these
tModels to reference them in your category bags.
The best source for understanding identity and category bags is the "UDDI data structures" document (PDF) from UDDI.org.
Can tModels be categorized as well?
So far we have seen how a business entity can make use of category bags using
tModels. In addition, UDDI allows
tModels themselves to be categorized. Why?
Let's draw a parallel to a hierarchical file system. Directories are used to categorize files, but directories can also be categorized under parent directories. Just like directories on a hard drive,
tModels can be hierarchically organized.
Let's talk about a service called
getUniversalTime(), which will return the current universal time anywhere in the world. Two competing companies might provide implementations of this service. A business service is tied to a company and not visible outside of that company. So you will end up with the following:
Both of these do the same. To indicate that they both implement a concrete conceptual service called
getUniversalTime(), you can define a
tModel as follows:
name: Get Universal Time
category: uddi-org:types, wsdl
[implying that this a service as
described by a WSDL document]
The above definition indicates that
getUniversalTime() is a WSDL service that can be implemented by any organization.
Now that I have clarified the relationship between
tModels and bags, I can show you the UML representation of a
From the diagram, you can see that a
tModel is basically a name and description. In addition it can contain a URL for further details. A
tModel can also be identified using an identity bag and categorized by a category bag.
How many other types are there in the uddi-org:types category?
While categorizing a
tModel, we have learned that some of the categories to which a
tModel can belong to are pre-defined by the UDDI -- WSDL, SOAP service, etc. Here is a list of some of these pre-defined categories in the
uddi-org:types namespace.
identifier(Unique identifier)
So How Do You Go About Creating a Service in UDDI?
- You start out defining a
tModelfor your service. This requires a name for your service and one of the above types of service. Of course, you can always create your own categories if you don't particularly care for the above choices.
- You define a business service under your company, pointing to the
tModelyou have created above.
- In the business service definition, you will need to specify a URL pointing to the actual WSDL document defining inputs/outputs to your service (assuming you are using a WSDL-compliant service).
Please refer to the excellent article by Andy Grove in the November, 2001 edition of Web Services Journal to see an example of this.
What are tModels Used For in UDDI?
tModels are used for the following purposes in UDDI:
- Identifying and categorizing business entities
- Identifying and categorizing business services
- Identifying and categorizing
- Aliasing/binding business services to their abstract
Quick Reference to UDDI Terms
When you read literature about UDDI, it is very annoying to read terms that are fairly abstract. What the authors are trying to do is to draw parallels from the rest of the industry to the concepts in UDDI. However, it's very helpful to draw comparisons (however remote) to aid in our understanding of UDDI concepts.
Interfaces and Implementations
A service binding is considered a case where interfaces are tied to their implementations; a binding element specifies a
tModelInstaceInfo and an
instanceDetail together. The
tModelInstanceInfo points to a
tModel that actually defines a service name.
instanceDetail is expected to provide some specific detail about this service.
Again, an example will help. For the "Get Universal Time" service, the detail is expected to provide the actual WSDL document that defines inputs and outputs. In addition, the
accesspoint of a binding is expected to give you a physical machine and a port where this service is implemented. With this background, one can conclude the following:
- The
tModeldefined for a service is the interface allowing multiple companies to provide multiple implementations.
- Service binding is the implementation.
Namespaces appear all over the programming languages Java, C++, and XML. They may be called different things, but they all provide a context under which a name makes sense. In UDDI, a
tModel represents "name." When you refer to this name as your category, you are essentially saying, "I belong to this name." In this sense, a
tModel is representing a namespace.
Technical Fingerprints
When a service is registered as a
tModel, one has the option of registering the protocol used to communicate with that service (such as WSDL, SOAP, etc.). Hence, a given
tModel has a fingerprint of WSDL or a fingerprint of SOAP, depending on which specification it is using. Thus
tModels are considered technical fingerprints, each adhering to a certain technical specification. If
tModel can represent a "technical fingerprint," I could also argue that a
tModel can also be said to represent a "protocol" as well.
Taxonomy is synonymous with (and equivalent to) categorization, classification, and namespaces. Taxonomy provides a context under which identifiers such as numbers and names make sense. For example, US tax and ISBN numbers only makes sense when you know that they are US tax numbers or ISBNs. This sort of classification is sometimes called taxonomy.
White Pages
A listing of business entitites in the UDDI registry and the ability to search for companies based on their name.
Yellow Pages
These categorize business entities into their business categories and other sorts of applicable categories.
Green Pages (Technical Specifications)
These add the ability to understand a service definition and its access requirements with the help of a series of documents.
serviceBindings and
tModels help this cause.
Example XML for UDDI
I cannot possibly leave you without providing a decent reference where you can find example XML documents for the UDDI, to help you solidify your understanding of UDDI.
- The first excellent reference is provided by Andy Grove in the November 2001 edition of the Web Services Journal under the title of "Understanding UDDI
tModels and Taxonomies."
- The second example is available online at http://dcb.sun.com/practices/webservices/overviews/overview_uddi.jsp.
JAXR is a Java XML API for working with service registries. As we have discussed so far, all elements of a UDDI are described using XML documents. In a sense, if you are able to send an XML message containing a service definition, the UDDI registry should be able to register it or update it, as the case may be. Let us see how one can accomplish this if you don't have any tools:
- Write the necessary XML for the service definition.
- Understand SOAP headers so that you can send your XML file as a SOAP attachment to the UDDI registry.
- Access SOAP client Java API to accomplish step 2.
- Deal with SOAP programmatically.
- Depending on the UDDI service (sorry to overload this term here), construct messages to accomplish that UDDI task.
- For each message, go through steps 2 and 3.
If you have access to JAXM, you can do a better job of the same interaction. Because JAXM allows you to send XML messages without concern for SOAP headers and is strictly a message-oriented protocol, using this approach, the above sequence becomes:
- Write the necessary XML for the service definition.
- Use the JAXM API to send and receive XML messages. The SOAP stuff is hidden by JAXM.
- Depending on the UDDI service, construct messages to accomplish that UDDI task. (For example, registering a service with a UDDI registry may contain the exchange of four messages.) This means you are still dealing with XML content.
Here comes JAXR to the rescue. Here, you only need to work with a high-level Java API that will internally generate all of the necessary messages and transact them through JAXM. The interesting point to note is that JAXM will be used to accomplish the task.
Let's look at the stated goals for JAXR:. (This list is directly taken from (JSR 93.)
- Support for industry-standard XML registry functionality
- Support for registration of member organizations and enterprises
- Support for submission and storing of arbitrary registry content
- Support for lifecycle management of XML and non-XML registry content
- Support for user-defined associations between registry content
- Support for user-defined multi-level classification of registry content along multiple user defined facets
- Support for registry content querying based on defined classification schemes
- Support for registry content querying based on complex ad hoc queries
- Support for registry content querying based on keyword based search
- Support for sharing of Web services
- Support for sharing of business process between partners
- Support for sharing of schemas between partners
- Support for sharing of business documents between partners
- Support for trading partner agreement assembly and negotiation
- Support for schema assembly
- Support for heterogeneous distributed registries
- Support for enabling publish/subscribe XML Messaging between parties
JAXR is expected to support not only UDDI, but other similar registry standards (such as ebXML) as well.
"Understanding UDDI tModels and Taxonomies" by Andy Grove, Web Services Journal, November 2001.
If you have access to this magazine, this should be your first read to get an overall idea of UDDI and
tModels. You can follow this up by reading the data model as documented in a PDF document at uddi.org. This reference is also a good source to get example XML for the UDDI.
UDDI Data Structure Specification (PDF)
This is the most comprehensive and valuable document for not only using UDDI, but understanding it. If you to read only one document on UDDI, read this one.
UML of the UDDI
Recently the DTD of an XML is being increasingly represented using UML. UML, being pictorial, can much more easily convey the structure of an XML document. With this trend, this document from XMLModelling.com can give you the minute details of UDDI, represented as XML. The only drawback might be that too much detail in a UML diagram could overwhelm the reader.
UDDI at Microsoft
One thing you can gain from the Microsoft Web site is the ability to understand the UDDI registry from the perspective of its GUI interface. For example, how can one register a service graphically, and how can one search for services on the Web?
This document explains the basic UDDI structures and their programmatic and online manipulation. For the GUI of a UDDI, refer to this document.
IBM'S UDDI Documents
This URL explains the relationship between WSDL and UDDI.
"Hangin' with the JAX Pack", a three-part series by Al Saganich at OnJava.com.
This series is an excellent and lucid introduction to the JAXPACK API that includes JAXP, JAXB, JAXM, JAX-RPC, and JAXR.
Satya Komatineni is the CTO at Indent, Inc. and the author of Aspire, an open source web development RAD tool for J2EE/XML.
Return to ONJava.com.


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On Saturday, Nov. 17, Ayer and Shirley will go the ballot box once again. This time it is to decide whether or not we will invest in our schools and our community by renovating the 50-year-old Ayer-Shirley Regional High School.
There are many reasons to say yes to the project. The building is decaying and it is time to act. It is part of any generation's legacy to leave behind resources and services that are better for the next generation. An educated populace is a good thing for all of us. We have taken care of the other facilities in both communities and now it is time for the high school.
But let's talk about the money and whether it makes sense. The answer again is yes. There is no disagreement that the building is aging and needs significant repair. The cost of the repairs alone has been determined to be $31 million and that is just to bring the building to code, with no improvements made for the delivery of educational programming.
So the question is: Is this the right time and is it a good price? With respect to timing, the school district has to send out $2.3 million in checks to other towns to educate Ayer and Shirley students, and that is destroying the district both psychologically and financially. In most communities, most children enjoy going to school together for 13 years and building friendships that last a lifetime. Here, less than half of the students who go to elementary school in Ayer or Shirley are enrolling in ASRHS.
So what about the price? Well the Building Committee has secured an unbelievable level of reimbursement -- 70.25 percent. This is a good 10 percent above the average for a district our size and demographic. The interest rates are at record lows, which means that borrowing will never be cheaper. The construction industry is just starting to come back and the cost of securing bids, subcontractors and materials is still very low. Put it all together and it is a perfect storm economically for this project. It will never be as cost effective as it is right now. If we delay, it will only get more expensive. Not only will we risk losing the 6 percent reimbursement from the state for being a new region (that is over $3 million), but also the cost of borrowing will only go up and the cost of construction will only go up. Time will also cause the choice-out problem to escalate further and ultimately cost taxpayers more money as we try to plug the holes. The building will break down and we will have to spend money to fix problems just to keep it open.
It was Ben Franklin who said, "time is money." He was never more correct than in the case of this project. It has to be done; there is no way around that. The longer we wait, the more it will cost. Investing now will set a positive course for the next two to three decades for the region and the two towns. Students will choose to stay in their hometown and go to their home high school and that is good for everyone. People will choose to buy homes here and open businesses here and that will be good for all of us. This project is the single most important economic-development program that either community can implement. It is critical not just for the students, but critical for all taxpayers. It is not just about a school building, it is about the heart and lifeblood of a community. It is about building the future for Shirley and Ayer. So it is time to choose. Time is money, and if you want to save money, then the time is now to vote yes on the high-school project.


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New Movie Releases — 'Skyfall,' 'Nature Calls' and 'The Comedy'
Stay in the voting spirit this week and head to the theater to vote with your dollar. Do you like action and international intrigue? How about comedy? The choice is yours with this week's newest releases!
In 'Skyfall,' Agent M's past comes back to haunt her and James Bond's loyalty is put to the ultimate test in the latest 007 installment.
'Nature Calls' tells the story of brothers Randy and Kirk, who have never gotten along. Things don't get any better when Randy takes over Kirk's son's sleepover for an unforgettable scouting trip.
Don't be fooled by the title: 'The Comedy' is a dark, subversive tale of an aging hipster wandering aimlessly through life with his friends and waiting for his father to die so he can claim his inheritance.
Directed by Sam Mendes
Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Javier Bardem
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'Huge Bear' Attacks EDGE Office!
Reading the title of this column, you're either thinking that one of the hibernating mammals of the ursus major, picnic-basket-stealing variety came prowling by EDGE; or, alternatively, you might be picturing one of those fellows who doesn't like to shave his face or body. Wrong on both counts.
From time to time, your humble columnist has a chance to attend wine tastings and write about them for EDGE. This led recently to an opportunity to bring a winemaker into the company's Boston-based home office for a private tasting of his vineyard's wares. The label was the delectably named Huge Bear winery. Owner Timothy Carl was in Boston to promote the label with local restaurants and wine shops.
Having attended Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. in genetics, Carl has ties to Boston. His parents were vintners who saw their vines destroyed by blight; Carl moved away from the world of wine making for a time, and embarked on a career in the restaurant world, where he became a sous chef, giving him deeper insight into what makes for a great wine pairing with any given sort of dish. During his time in Boston, Carl saw his children grow into adults; the city is home to his family.
But Carl always had the intention of returning to the traditional family business, and now he and his wife not only cultivate a vineyard in California's Knights Valley. Carl is also part owner of the label. "I'm a sixth-generation grape grower," Carl told EDGE, "and she's a fourth-generation grape grower."
The EDGE staff loved the wine, but even more popular was the name emblazoned on the bottles.
"Where the name actually came from was, I was going through the archives of some old newspapers in the San Francisco area," Carl told the EDGE staff, who had assembled around the table in the office's conference room. "California started in the middle of the 1800s, and there was a group of settlers that lived in Knights Valley, and that's where I live; that's where the vineyards are. There was this headline that said, 'Huge Bear Attacks Knights Valley.' And I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that is it! That is the coolest name! Because it's perfect for what we're trying to do."
Attack Knights Valley?
"Well, in a way," Carl said with a smile, "because we're trying to make a wine that is bog and bold. But here is the other tie: back to the story about the settlers in Knights Valley. They banded together and formed this group to try to hunt that bear, but also they formed a group that raised the bear flag and started California. In my mind, these people are motivated by the independence of this bear raiding their food stories, and at the same time they took inspiration to become an independent state [from the bear].
"In addition to that, in the 1850s, my family went out to California from New York, and started planting grapes--apricots, grapes, and almonds. So I like the historic tie to the bear, which is huge in terms of its tie to California history and my family history. And I love the idea of biology, because the grizzly bears in California were brought to extinction in the 1880s. There were five different species of grizzly bear. What we do with the profits from Huge Bear is put that back into land restoration for wild natural habitats.
"I'm also a Californian," Carl continued. "I understand that Huge Bear has connotations in California. I grew up in San Francisco in the '60s, '70s, '80s. I love what California is about; I love the spirit and the fact that we are diverse. So when you taste the wine, I hope you get a lot of the historic, iconoclastic rebelliousness of the state. It's just fun."
In 2005, Carl and four business partners--three of whom are from Boston--started the label. They have maintained their Boston ties from the beginning. "We're at Fenway," Carl noted, "and we're at the Boston Bruins. And there are restaurants in the area that carry our wines, and a couple of new, really hip retail stores that are carrying us as well. We do hope to fain a following in Boston; California has really picked it up, and Canada also. New York is really going crazy for our wine. Texas is actually another place that's excite about Huge Bear. I think they like the bigness of it, and it's a nice tasting wine.
"Ultimately, what we're trying to do is make a wine that is delicious and approachable."
The soil and climate of any growing region will affect the resulting wine, EDGE noted; what would we be apt to notice when it came time to sample the wines?
"I think in general the great thing about wine is that wine shows the personality of a place," Carl mused. "When you drink wine you can drink it because it tastes good , but also, hopefully, on some level, you are also learning about the place that it comes from. It's telling you a story about the land. What I hope you are gong to taste what Knights Valley can do for both a Chardonnay and a Cabernet."
Carl expertly wielded the wine opener and had the Chardonnay open in a moment. "We only make few hundred cases of this," he told the assembled EDGE staff. "This is very, very rare.
"What we're going to taste with the Chardonnay is that is has a richness; it's got components of pear, apple, and lemon. It was done in French oak, so it's going to have some subtle oak to it," Carl added. "But it's gong to be creamy and delicious and have enough acidity that it can stand up to a meal. You should be able to drink wines on their own, but then you should also be able to drink them with a meal--wine shouldn't overwhelm the food, but should enhance it.
"My early career was in the food business, so I was sous chef at a bunch of different restaurants in California, and trained out in California and Italy," Carl added. "What I learned in the food world was that you have to really think about balance. Ultimately, everything I have done has tied into wine."
The Huge Bear Chardonnay comes from 18-year-old vines. Carl poured a glass of the 2009 vintage. "This Chardonnay should be really balanced," he said. "It should have some pear, apple, and lemon, not to mention some floral characteristics. It should be nice and smooth.
"When I'm thinking about wines, I'm thinking about what I call 'football wines,' " Carl added. "They cone into your mouth and they have a nice shape: They really spread out on the mid-palate, and then they tail off to this nice finish. That's what we're looking for. There should be some character, there should be something going on."
Accompanying notes he had provided noted, "The cool weather of 2009 resulted in a Chardonnay that is both crisp and complex."
Not to mention full-bodied and riotously delicious on the tongue. This is not a thin and spiritless Chardonnay, the sort of wine that gives Chardonnay a reputation for being vanilla (in the sense of the word that denotes the uninspired, the routine, and the mild). The wine's structure is complex, as promised, with a floral nose, an oaky foundation, a freshness that peaks of white fruit, and a fundamental richness that is both discreetly sweet and full of character.
The response from around the table was unanimous: "Wow!"
"Very ice, dry finish," added EDGE's company CFO appreciatively.
Like many chardonnays, the wine had something of a buttery character. "We also use French oak" for the casks, Carl said, "so there's oak in there, but not too much. This would really work with a fish dish," noted Carl. "What I'll do with this is take some line-caught salmon and then go to any lumber store and buy some plank-cut white oak, soak it in water overnight, put on your grill--not over the flame, but off to the side--then put the fish on top of that that and cover it up and oh, my gosh. The fish gets very tender, it picks up some subtle components from the wood, and it marries just perfectly with this wine."
The wine also carries a hint of hazelnut, Carl noted, before sharing another recipe for crusting halibut with hazelnut.
Several EDGE staffers mentioned that they were less fans of white then red wines. Carl reached for the bottle of Huge Bear Cabernet, sharing a bit more family lore as he did so. "My family used to ship grapes during Prohibition," he recounted. "You used to be able to make wine for church, or you could also make a barrel of wine for your own use during Prohibition. But my family had a lot of grapes, and the church could only use so much out in California, so they would send these big, huge shipments on the train. The family story is that on the side of the train it would say, 'Warning: Do not add one part yeast, one part sugar, one part water. If you do, you'll make wine.' That was the recipe for making wine, of course, and so when they would ship their grape harvest out here, it would get sold!"
The Cabernet, vintage 2008, is full-bodied and very dry, with a mineral character, and carrying just a hint of tannin. Dark red fruit characterizes the flavor; the finish is redolent of chocolate with a dark cherry aroma, and a trace of sandalwood, lending the finish a spicy, almost incense-like quality.
"The majority of this fruit comes from mountainside vineyards un Knights Valley," the press notes read. "The volcanic soils of this special place leads to complexity in both flavors and aromas while maintaining structure and balance." There were 250 cases of this wine produced; it retails for $55 per bottle.
"Very soft," one staffer murmured.
'Yeah, this wine is very soft," Carl agreed, going on to explain how the volcanic soil makes for "a very soft tannin." Added the winemaker, "It's got this brambly, blackberry thing going on. It's got that football quality. Do this when you're tasting wine: Think about where it is in your mid-palate. How does it feel? Is it very thin, or is it kind of chunky? That, to me, is such a great indication of balance. Sometimes you'll get this sharp think in the back, but you want it to be very smooth.
The EDGE staff gave Carl a bit of good-natured ribbing over the wine's built-in appeal to the GLBT community, or at least a certain subset of it. Carl, whose mother is now married to a female spouse, was earnest in noting that he was aware of this. "I am immersed in a bunch of communities," he said, "but what's exciting for me is to find people who are passionate about the wine."
That extends to the vendors and restaurateurs with whom the label conducts business: "Anyone modern, anyone story-oriented, concerned with cooking organically, people who care about where their food is coming from--people who care about what they are doing."


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New game :) It's where I post three dogs, and you say if you think they're mixed breeds or not. If I tell you you were right, you get to do it next. Get it? :) For example, I post three dogs that are not purebred. And then someone says... 1.pure 2. not 3.pure, and they got it wrong, so someone else can guess. So here are the first ones:
1. Pure Doberman?
2.Pure Doberman?
3. Pure GSD?


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We would like to announce support for the MIT Kerberos and GSS-API libraries and the CyaSSL embedded SSL library for the Android platform. We have just finished a port of MIT Kerberos to Android as well as the development of a org.ietf.jgss (RFC 5653) compatible Java GSS-API layer. All project code has been released under the open source MIT license, with example client/server applications as well as a sample Android NDK application.
Please see our release blog post on yassl (dot) com for complete details. Source code can be found in the following GitHub repositories (links can be found in the original blog post on the yaSSL website): cconlon/kerberos-java-gssapi, cconlon/kerberos-android-ndk.
We are interested in hearing feedback from the community and are excited to see where the project goes from here. Please feel free to contact us at info (at) yassl (dot) com with any questions or comments.
Best Regards,