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Submission + - Sweden defends Wiki sex case about-face (skunkpost.com) 1
crimeandpunishment writes: "Mistake? We didn't make a mistake." That's what Swedish prosecutors said Sunday as they defended their handling of a rape allegation against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said the prosecutor who issued the arrest warrant Friday did not make a mistake, even though a higher-ranked prosecutor withdrew the warrant the next day. A spokesperson for the Authority said "The prosecutor who took over the case yesterday had more information, and that is why she made a different assessment than the on-call prosecutor". Assange, who was in Sweden seeking legal protection for the site as it prepares to leak more Afghan war documents, told a Swedish tabloid newspaper "I don't know who's behind this but we have been warned that for example the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for us".

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The campaign issued an urgent appeal, and in a matter of days, it raised more than $5 million, including a $1 million donation from Alan C. Ashton, the grandson of a former president of the Mormon Church. The money allowed the drive to intensify a sharp-elbowed advertising campaign, and support for the measure was catapulted ahead; it ultimately won with 52 percent of the vote.
As proponents of same-sex marriage across the country planned protests on Saturday against the ban, interviews with the main forces behind the ballot measure showed how close its backers believe it came to defeat — and the extraordinary role Mormons played in helping to pass it with money, institutional support and dedicated volunteers.
"We've spoken out on other issues, we've spoken out on abortion, we've spoken out on those other kinds of things," said Michael R. Otterson, the managing director of public affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormons are formally called, in Salt Lake City. "But we don't get involved to the degree we did on this."
The California measure, Proposition 8, was to many Mormons a kind of firewall to be held at all costs.
"California is a huge state, often seen as a bellwether — this was seen as a very, very important test," Mr. Otterson said.
First approached by the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco a few weeks after the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in May, the Mormons were the last major religious group to join the campaign, and the final spice in an unusual stew that included Catholics, evangelical Christians, conservative black and Latino pastors, and myriad smaller ethnic groups with strong religious ties.
Shortly after receiving the invitation from the San Francisco Archdiocese, the Mormon leadership in Salt Lake City issued a four-paragraph decree to be read to congregations, saying "the formation of families is central to the Creator's plan," and urging members to become involved with the cause.
"And they sure did," Mr. Schubert said.
Jeff Flint, another strategist with Protect Marriage, estimated that Mormons made up 80 percent to 90 percent of the early volunteers who walked door-to-door in election precincts.
The canvass work could be exacting and highly detailed. Many Mormon wards in California, not unlike Roman Catholic parishes, were assigned two ZIP codes to cover. Volunteers in one ward, according to training documents written by a Protect Marriage volunteer, obtained by people opposed to Proposition 8 and shown to The New York Times, had tasks ranging from "walkers," assigned to knock on doors; to "sellers," who would work with undecided voters later on; and to "closers," who would get people to the polls on Election Day.
Suggested talking points were equally precise. If initial contact indicated a prospective voter believed God created marriage, the church volunteers were instructed to emphasize that Proposition 8 would restore the definition of marriage God intended.
But if a voter indicated human beings created marriage, Script B would roll instead, emphasizing that Proposition 8 was about marriage, not about attacking gay people, and about restoring into law an earlier ban struck down by the State Supreme Court in May.
"It is not our goal in this campaign to attack the homosexual lifestyle or to convince gays and lesbians that their behavior is wrong — the less we refer to homosexuality, the better," one of the ward training documents said. "We are pro-marriage, not anti-gay."
Leaders were also acutely conscious of not crossing the line from being a church-based volunteer effort to an actual political organization.


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Brenda Clews, poem, reading, mix: http://brendaclews.com ; Buz Hendricks, music: http://www.somewhereoffjazzstreet.com/
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix (see videopoem & words here): http://brendaclews.blogspot.com/2010/10/interstices.html Le Pandorien, music- 'Spirale noire op 2,' from his album, "Pandora Moon": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/44226
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews Music, Lena Selyanina's piano solo, 'Summer Morning,' from "Snowstorm Romance": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/73627
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews Livio Amato's, 'Dream Opening,' from his album, "Sensitivity": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/62537
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews LaiYouttitham's song, "Alone," from his site: http://www.laizmusic.com/mp3-download.php
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews Frank Harper's 'Moon's Eve,' from "Fingerstyle - Set 1": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/62508
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews ; Ka eN, "Oriental Dreams": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/42617
Soundtrack for my videopoem, Glint, at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D3vTpxfFuU Backgound music is "Madrox, in my head," by Arena of Electronic Music, a Creative Commons license: http://www.jamendo.com/track/477297
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews/celestial-dancers; Chriss Onac, track "TRANSE" from his album, TRIBAL: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/23954
for J.P. Brenda Clews, poetry, voice, mix; Music, Roger Stephane, 'Lointain,' from his album, "Picasso": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/62258
Brenda Clews, poetry, voice and mix: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews Matt Samolis, music, a section from: "Trio for Flute, Cymbals, & Glass": http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49419
Poetry, reading and arrangement by Brenda Clews; music by Bruno Blequent.
love poem accompanied by jazz piano
text of this prosepoem at my Art & Writings website: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews/celestial-dancers composed 2007; recorded 2008; in 2009 paired with "Go Away Blues," by Jazz Street Trio: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/37834
Poem about a founder of Tibetan Buddhism and Queen of Tibet, the 8th century Buddha, Yeshe Tsogyal. (9:28 min) The words of this poem may be found at my website: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews/bliss-queen
I wrote and recorded the poem, which may be read at my blog: http://brendaclews.blogspot.com/2009/07/meridians-of-culture.html Experimental avantguarde music in the background: 'Lambkins Black,' by Alphacore: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/37831
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June 11, 2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn., one of the nation's premier basketball venues, will be the site of the 2014 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championship, Commissioner Mike Aresco announced Tuesday.
"We are very excited to have the first American Athletic Conference championship at FedExForum," said Aresco. "We received significant interest from many outstanding venues. FedExForum is an outstanding facility and the Forum, the city of Memphis, the University of Memphis and the local community will combine to create a wonderful inaugural event that our teams, coaches, administrators and fans will embrace and enjoy."
The dates of the 2014 championship are March 12-15. Each game of the 10-team tournament will be televised on the ESPN networks. The championship game on Saturday, March 15, will be televised on ESPN. The tournament will begin with two first-round games on Wednesday, March 12. Two quarterfinal doubleheaders will be played on Thursday, March 13, followed by a semifinal doubleheader on Friday, March 14. Game times will be announced at a later date.
FedExForum has a seating capacity of 18,400. It is located off historic Beale Street and its vibrant and popular entertainment district.
FedExForum is the home to the University of Memphis men's basketball team and the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. The building also has hosted regional rounds of the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Championships. After the American Athletic Championship, it will host the second and third rounds of the 2014 NCAA Championship in the South Regional.
The first season of men's basketball under The American banner will include a very strong nucleus of teams, starting with Louisville, the 2013 national champion. Memphis is coming off a 31-5 season, which included advancing to the third round of the NCAA Championship. Temple also played in the third round of the NCAAs while compiling a 24-10 mark. Cincinnati finished 22-12 while participating in its third straight NCAA tourney. Connecticut, UCF and Houston all enjoyed 20-win seasons.
For 2013-14, the American Athletic Conference will include the University of Central Florida, University of Cincinnati, University of Connecticut, University of Houston, University of Louisville, University of Memphis, Rutgers University, University of South Florida, Southern Methodist University, and Temple University.


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#1 Rock's new toy03-28-2012, 01:09 AM
I've been so busy assembling all the info for the accountant that didn't know that SR and Rock were starting a new forum.
Hope everyone enjoys it. One thing that's finally forced me to be more concise in my posting is a problem with the right index finger. I can barely use my right hand. I normally can type at about 70 or more words per minute, but not now. Signing my name or otherwise writing in cursive is almost an impossibility. I've been on a form of prednisone & also antibiotics all week and it still hurts like hell. Going to the doc to get the results of the bloodwork.
So enjoy the scarcity of my posts and relative brevity of the ones I do get on here. Hopefully history will repeat itself and I'll be blabbing away again as usual.
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
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I have been making many resolution tests on my camera lenses, with resolutions up to 80 lp/mm using the RIT test patterns. When I try to enlarge these patterns in my rigid Durst 138s at 2X, 3X, 4X & 6X with both a 100mm Schneider Componon or a 210mm Componon, all I have for resolution on my Ilford Multigrade V paper is a 10 to 12 lp/mm.
Has anyone measured paper resolution?


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A fan of aluminum and glass in life, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to be memorialized with bronze, in death. Hungarian software company Graphisoft is planning to unveil a bronze statue of Jobs on Dec. 21 as both a tribute to Jobs's life at Apple and for his support of Graphisoft itself during the 1980s.
"Apple gave us cash and computers at a time when Graphisoft was a young company with very limited resources; the technology represented by those computers was not even available in our part of the world," reads a statement on Graphisoft Park's Web site. "Even more valuable, Apple introduced us to its worldwide distribution network, which we rely upon to this day."
While Jobs, the innovator, constantly pushed Apple engineers to design smaller and smarter, Hungarian sculptor Erno Toth has built the bronze tribute statue at a slightly larger-than-life height of around six fee, five inches. Steve Jobs, the statue, will weigh approximately 485 pounds once complete.
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THE Jets took another tentative step on the tightrope walk to the A-League finals with a nil-all draw against two-time champions Brisbane at Hunter Stadium on Friday night, but only after benefiting from a controversial no-goal ruling in their favour.
The Roar appeared to have drawn first blood in the 43rd minute when Socceroos defender Jade North, who famously skippered the Jets to their 2008 grand final triumph, stabbed the ball into the back of the net, only to be ruled offside.
Replays suggested the decision was line-ball, and Brisbane coach Mike Mulvey was left to rue a call that could prove extremely costly in the race for the play-offs.
''Look, I haven't seen it, but Corey Brown, we brought him as our 16th player, he was upstairs and he said it was definitely a goal,'' Mulvey said.
''So that's disappointing. But that's football and these things happen. We're not going to dwell on it. We need to dwell on the positives.''
Like Mulvey, Jets coach Gary van Egmond said he did not have a clear view of the incident.
''I didn't even see the replay, so I can't comment on that, but I'm sure we've had a couple like that as well,'' van Egmond said.
Newcastle entered the round-22 fixture sixth on 26 points, one point behind fifth-placed Sydney and two ahead of both Brisbane and Melbourne Heart.
A win would have given the home side a five-point buffer on seventh position, at least temporarily, and allowed them to breathe a little more easily.
Instead they moved level with Sydney, who remain fifth on goal difference, and both Brisbane and Heart remain in striking distance.
If the Heart beat Sydney at AAMI Park tomorrow, Newcastle will be left clinging to sixth place on goal difference.
Van Egmond admitted he had mixed emotions about the result.
He was satisfied with his team's resolve in defence but would have preferred a win on home turf.
''Look, we're at home, if you get maximum points, you're five points away from them and it really puts you in a good position for the run into the finals,'' he said.
''But I think we can take quite a bit out of that, with the performance and the opportunities we created.''
The Jets face a battle of nerves in their five remaining games, the next three of which are in the space of nine days.
On Wednesday they face hoodoo team Wellington Phoenix in the New Zealand capital, followed by Melbourne Victory (away) on Sunday, Perth (home) on March8, Adelaide (away) on March15 and Western Sydney (home) on March29.
Last night was the fifth time Newcastle have kept a clean sheet this season and their second in as many games, after last week's 2-0 win against the Heart.
But they were lucky to survive with their goal intact after a nerve-racking first half played in often torrential rain.
Striker Besart Berisha, in particular, was menacing and Newcastle keeper Mark Birighitti produced a string of brave saves to keep him at bay.
At the other end of the pitch, Newcastle's only real chance came in the sixth minute when defender Josh Brillante produced a pinpoint cross for marquee striker Emile Heskey, whose diving shot hit the right-hand post.
Jets skipper Ruben Zadkovich prompted a diving save from Brisbane's Michael Theo in the 52nd minute with a fierce left-foot shot.
The slippery conditions resulted in a string of dubious challenges, and referee Lucien Lavedure was regularly reaching for his pocket, handing out seven yellow cards.
Given the weather, the 8310 spectators who attended the match deserved credit for their dedication and resilience.
Van Egmond fielded an unchanged starting line-up, although he tinkered with his bench, adding youngster Andrew Hoole at the expense of Craig Goodwin.
AAP reports: Singapore police said the suspected boss of a major football match-fixing ring was ''assisting'' investigations after the head of Interpol urged his arrest and an alleged associate was held in Italy.
Tan Seet Eng, also known as Dan Tan, who has been named in several probes and is wanted in Italy, is ''assisting Singapore authorities in their investigations'', police said.
It is the first time police have indicated Tan has undergone questioning.
Singapore has come under growing pressure to act after Europol linked hundreds of suspicious games worldwide to a criminal syndicate in the city-state.


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First Five Minutes of Half-Blood Prince Released in Germany
Jun 26, 2009
HBP Film
Heads up! The first five minutes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are now online. Seen here via Videoload in Germany, you need to register then access where it says "Exklusive" to watch the first five minutes of the film. If someone can capture this please owl us with more. SPOILERS AHOY!
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This is a great recipe for us---we have two of the ingredients all the time (when in season), the orange juice and orange zest as we have two orange trees in our back yard.
Cauliflower and Couscous Pilaf
http://images.agoramedia.com/diabeti...198/SD6369.JPG Quick Info: 6 Servings
Quick Meal
Contains Wheat/Gluten
Nutritional Info (Per serving): Calories: 163, Saturated Fat: 0g, Sodium: 239mg, Dietary Fiber: 6g, Total Fat: 3g, Carbs: 31g, Cholesterol: 1mg, Protein: 6g
Carb Choices: 1.5
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Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Rest Time: 5 mins
Total Time: 25 mins
- 1 tablespoon oil, olive, extra virgin
- 4 cup(s) cauliflower
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup(s) broth, reduced-sodium chicken
- 1 teaspoon orange peel (zest), grated
- 1/4 cup(s) orange juice
- 1/4 cup(s) currants, dried
- 2/3 cup(s) couscous, 100% whole-wheat
- 1/2 cup(s) scallion(s) (green onions)
1. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add cauliflower and salt; cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes.
2. Add broth, orange zest, juice and currants; bring to a boil over high heat. Stir in couscous and scallions.
3. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, until the liquid is absorbed, about 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.


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Team To Compete At FISA World Rowing Junior Championships In August In France
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale assistant women's crew coach Kate Maloney, who has helped guide the Bulldogs to top four finishes at the NCAA Championship in each of the last three years, will serve as a coach for the USRowing Junior National Team that will compete at the 2009 FISA World Rowing Junior Championships from Aug. 5-8 in Brive-La-Gaillarde, France. Maloney will work with the women's four without a coxswain.
Maloney, who served as an assistant for the U.S. Junior National Team Development squad for three years, is Yale's recruiting coordinator and is in charge of the novice eight. This spring, she guided the novice eight to Yale's first Eastern Sprints title since 1987. In 2007, she was selected as the CRCA New England Assistant Coach of the Year.
Maloney has considerable experience rowing for the United States as well. During her time at the University of Washington, she spent her summers rowing with the USA National Team, competing at the Nations Cup Regatta. In 1995 she won a bronze in the pair at Groningen, The Netherlands, and in 1996 she won a gold medal in the straight four at Hazewinkel, Belgium. Upon graduation from UW, Maloney moved on to the USA Senior National Team and began racing at the World Championships. In 1997 she raced in the 4-, and in 1998 she was in the USA 8+ that won a silver medal in Cologne, Germany. In 1999 she won a silver medal with the USA 8+ in St. Catharines, Ontario. Maloney finished her competitive racing career at the Sydney 2000 Olympics where she rowed in the USA 8+.


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Join thousands of others on March 27th in participating in the 22nd Annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range.
The Memorial March commemorates the Bataan Death March that occurred in the Philippines on 12 April 1942 and pays tribute to veteran survivors of this ordeal. The Memorial March takes participants through 26.2 miles of rugged desert terrain where elevation varies from 4,100 to 5,300 feet. In 2010, about 5,400 marchers and runners from the United States and allied countries came to White Sands Missile Range to participate in the United States' largest memorial road march competition.
For more information visit: http://www.bataanmarch.com/
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A poem from:
I thought I saw an atheist, once, walking down the street.
I checked for horns, I checked for tail, I checked for cloven feet;
Began to tremble frightfully—my heart was in my throat—
Then sighed in happy recognition, for 'twas but a goat.
I thought I saw an atheist, down near a swollen stream
With scaly skin, and blood so cold, I couldn't breathe to scream!
I looked into his bulging eyes, and prayed "God, grant my wish"
Then laughed in my embarrassment—it only was a fish.
I thought I saw an atheist, with fur and pointed claws,
And wicked teeth for chewing up Judeo-Christian laws,
I ran, and tripped, and fell to earth, then hid behind a log—
It caught me, though, and licked my face—of course, it was a dog.
I thought I saw an atheist, though cleverly disguised
Not giant and reptilian, but human, normal sized,
It looked to be engaging in productive, useful labor;
But no, this was no atheist—this person was my neighbor!
I thought I saw an atheist; in fact, I saw a few!
My neighbor, and the grocer, and the cop, and maybe you!
I even found some in the church, right there beneath the steeple;
It turns out, to my great surprise… that atheists are people.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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Welcome to the Asia Markets live blog, a running account of what the region's stock markets are doing, along with other news. Today, Hong Kong gets an energy boost, Shanghai welcomes a soy-sauce maker, Australia\'s dollar turns 90 (again), and Japan\'s market sits it out.
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- 7:18 pm
- Sydney stocks seesaw
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They opened flat, they then moved lower, and now they're trading higher, but only just.
At this point, the S&P/ASX 200 us up 0.1%. Volumes are looking thin, with various reasons not to trade: Japan is closed today, investors are waiting to hear U.S. Fed chief Janet Yellen's testimony, and so on.
At least with earnings season underway, it's no longer just about offshore stock leads, commodity prices and the RBA. Among three large-caps with earnings or updates out, ANZ is up 1.5%, Macquarie is down 3.5%, and Cochlear is way down 9.9%. (Read here for more details.)
The moves come ahead of a pair of second-tier data points: the NAB Business Survey and housing finance numbers for December, both due out at 11:30 a.m. Sydney time (7:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern time Monday).
- 7:35 pm
- Happy National Foundation Day (Stocks may fall tomorrow)
- by Mike Kitchen
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Japanese markets are on hiatus to celebrate National Foundation Day, said to mark that day back in the seventh century B.C. when the nation's first emperor — Jimmu (pictured here) — was crowned.
While not so controversial as, say, Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, the holiday was seen as "nationalistic" enough to be banned following World War II. It was reinstated in a more low-key form in 1966.
No holiday for the Nikkei Average futures in Singapore though, which are currently trading 0.8% lower. This may partly reflect a slight gain for the yen, with the dollar easing to ¥102.18 from around ¥102.41 at the close of Monday's stock trade.
When Tokyo does reopen, we'll be watching shares of Nissan Motor, which said after yesterday's close that its quarterly net profit surged 57% from a year earlier, but also that meeting its fiscal-year profit and sales targets may be a heavy lift.
- 7:37 pm
- Markets check -- 8:37 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
- 8:42 pm
- Your Australia data digest
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Some Australian data have hit the wires, nudging the nation's currency higher. Here's a summary:
Business confidence (Jan.): National Australia Bank's business conditions index neared a three-year high, while business confidence index rose to +8 from +6, the first gain in four months. (Read more here.)
Housing prices (fourth-quarter ): Average home prices in the major cities rose 3.4% in the October-December period, beating expectations for a 3% gain, according to The Wall Street Journal. (Read more here.)
Home loans (Dec.): Approvals for housing loans slipped 1.9% seasonally adjusted, confounding expectations for a 1% gain, also based on a Wall Street Journal forecast. (Read more here.)
The net result was a gain for the Australian dollar, as Stan Shamu at IG Markets noted on Twitter:
AUD/USD nudges through 0.90, now facing January highs at 0.9086 #AUDUSD
— Stan Shamu (@StanShamu_IG) February 11, 2014
- 8:49 pm
- Markets check -- 9:49 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.8%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.5%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.2%
- 9:46 pm
- Hong Kong stocks: It's a gusher! (sort of)
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is trading higher (up 1.1%), Hong Kong's H-share index is trading well higher (up 1.7%), and even the Shanghai Composite has reversed its early losses (up 0.5%).
One of the key themes in Hong Kong today is energy, including news late Monday that PetroChina /quotes/zigman/21986/realtime HK:857 /quotes/zigman/257868/delayed /quotes/nls/ptr PTR has made one of the largest natural-gas discoveries in China since 2001. (Read more here.)
This was enough to send PetroChina shares up 1.7% in Hong Kong, though the Shanghai shares /quotes/zigman/1876553/realtime CN:601857 rose a mere 0.2%.
And it seems there was enough buying interest in the sector to go around, with Cnooc gaining 3% in Hong Kong, and Sinopec (aka hina Petroleum & Chemical Corp.) advancing 2.6%.
Over on the Chinese mainland, meanwhile, Foshan Haitian Flavouring & Food Co. /quotes/zigman/27795193/realtime CN:603288 exploded 44% higher in its debut, triggering circuit breakers that suspended trading until five minutes before today's close.
The strong showing by Foshan Haitian — which makes soy sauce, vinegar, MSG and the like — suggests appetite for new issues in Shanghai is still strong, now that the yearlong suspension of IPOs is over.
- 10:12 pm
- Markets check -- 11:12 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.7%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.6%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.1% (premarket)
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.5%
- 11:15 pm
- Is mum still the word in China?
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China is set to implement new rules on state secrets, with the goal of increasing government transparency, according to a new Caixin Online report.
There was a time when even your run-of-the-mill economic data were considered classified, with leakers risking serious prison time. And while much has changed in recent years, the new guidelines — set to take effect in March — may allow access to more information about what makes China tick.
And yet…
While Caixin notes the new rules have the express backing of Premier Li Keqiang, they also omit some previously planned language defining what exactly a secret is, as well as certain steps officials should take to ensure a more open government.
What it does retain is a statement that "possible leaks of state secrets should be reported to departments in charge of state secrecy with 24 hours."
So maybe, the more things change, the more they [redacted by MarketWatch censor].
- 11:27 pm
- Markets check -- 12:27 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.6% (on break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4% (on break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.6% (reopened after brief technical glitch)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.3%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.4%
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Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.8%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.9%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.6% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5% (closed)
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.4%
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- Markets check -- 4:15 p.m. in Hong Kong
- by Laura He
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Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.6% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.7% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5% (closed)
- 4:35 am
- Chinese insurers rally in Hong Kong on broker lift
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Hong Kong stocks rallied 1.6% on Tuesday, as the mainland's largest insurers shot up after China's top state-owned investment bank gave a buy recommention, and J.P. Morgan also reportedly recommended a trading buy of China equities.
Both China Taiping Insurance Holdings Co. Ltd and China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. surged more than 5%, and Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China jumped 4.5%.
China International Capital Corp. predicted a surge in life insurance premier income for 2014 and strongly recommended Chinese life insurance companies.
J.P. Morgan said in a recent note that the Chinese market would rebound up to 20% in the coming weeks when economic growth measures stabilize and stocks' valuations bounce back, according to a Bloomberg report.
Asia's largest oil and gas producer — PetroChina Co. Ltd. ended the session with a 1.7% gain, after the company said it discovered a large natural gas reserve in China's southwestern Sichuan basin. Offshore oil producer CNOOC Ltd. advanced 3.8%.


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Hitman creator IO Interactive is moving onto something new after Hitman: Absolution, with the series continuing at Square Enix's new Montreal studio. But how will this crazy arrangement work, and who will shape the future of Hitman? IO has answered a few questions.
"It's like with Treyarch and Infinity Ward," Absolution director Tore Blystad told Official PlayStation Magazine, drawing a comparison with Call of Duty's pattern of alternating developers. "You have an IP that has been developed. They will feed off each other, as well as somethings that stand out. I think with these big franchises it takes a long time to develop just one game. If you can, work a little bit in parallel at least and help each other out."
Square Enix Montreal will have its own take on the murder simulator, though, and Blystad likens it to the Alien series. "Every time someone gets their hands on a franchise they do something different. So rather than doing the same thing again you get another take on the character from a fresh perspective."
It won't be left entirely to its own devices, mind, as IO will still watch over the series. Blystad says several of the studio's "key developers" are from IO, so it's not a wholly new team either.
Our Andrew was jolly pleased with Absolution, so it'll be interesting to see how Square Enix Montreal's first entry shapes up. Not everyone is thrilled with how Absolution shook up the Hitman formula, though.


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Chicago art dealer Richard Gray, long a cornerstone of the city's arts scene, has passed away at the age of 89. Gray cultivated and supported a range of artists over the course of his life and work, including Alex Katz, Theaster Gates, and David Hockney. "The reality is, sooner or later—but not so much later—it's all going to be all over for me, and I accept that. I know it," Gray said in 2007. "It doesn't change one iota my ability to continue, every day, to be active and involved and committed, to gain from everything around me, what people are doing—artists, musicians, family." Read More »
Installation view of Ellsworth Kelly: Black & White Works at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2018. Photography by Steven Probert.
Organized by Ellsworth Kelly's long-time life partner photographer Jack Shear, Black and White Works at the FLAG Art Foundation sheds light on the pioneer colorist's paintings using primarily black and white, a body of work occupying one fifth of his entire repertoire. Coinciding with the Blanton Art Museum's unveiling of Kelly's monumental 2,715 square-foot architectural work Austin, which also introduced a new path in the late artist's expansive career, the exhibition proposes a fresh approach Kelly's legacy. Containing sculptural experimentation and geometric curiosity, the works on view demonstrate his unending interest in pushing the boundaries of abstract precision, architectural balance, and optic illusion within the limits of two seemingly opposite and mute colors. Contrasted with the artist's signature exuberance and his equally precise monochromatic color palette, the works Shear brought together both evoke characteristics from Kelly's most iconic while and challenging the viewer to expand their interpretation and appreciation of his larger oeuvre. Read More »
MoMa has announced the acquisition of 324 works on paper by ninety-seven artists from the holdings of Merrill C. Berman, a Rye, New York–based investor who amassed a collection of 20,000 early twentieth-century works on paper. "By representing crucial figures—often women and artists from lesser-known geographies—missing or underrepresented in our collection, this extraordinary body of work is especially welcome as the museum continues its commitment to diversifying modernism's narratives with its forthcoming expansion in 2019,"says Christophe Cherix, the MoMA's chief curator of drawings and prints. Read More »
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A panel of three Macomb County officials is scheduled to decide Tuesday whether a Warren woman can proceed with her effort to recall Mayor James Fouts and City Clerk Paul Wojno.
The county Election Commission will convene at 8 a.m. to determine if recall petition language submitted by Karen Spranger is clear and factual.
Spranger, 61 and a frequent critic of city officials, claims Fouts has �abused� city operations and Wojno has failed to adequately maintain government records.
In a 120-word complaint filed April 1 against Fouts, Spranger alleges the mayor has threatened employees with violence. She also claims:
- Water rates were recently increased by $1 and that the mayor blamed Detroit with no explanation for the increase.
- A mayoral appointee spied on Warren residents and is under investigation by the FBI.
- Unspecified lawsuits have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Laws were passed that only help the mayor�s personal views.
Fouts was ill Monday and not available for comment, said Amanda Mika, executive administrator of the mayor�s office. He previously countered the recall bid is an attempt by his political enemies with ties to the previous city administration to smear his reputation and re-election chances in 2015.
Spranger charged Wojno has not maintained all �necessary� city records and failed to adequately training poll workers.
In her 155-word petition against Wojno, Spranger said the clerk:
-Failed to provide minutes of City Council meetings.
-Has �forsaken� his oath of office.
-Maintains a voting list that includes names of people who are deceased.
Wojno said Monday he will attend the commission meeting.
�Of course I�m going to go,� he told The Macomb Daily. �I think there were extremely inaccurate remarks made about my staff, my election workers and myself. I think it�s important to be there just in case the commission does ask a question.
�I�m not going there to criticize. I think she�s made some highly unfair and inaccurate statements,� the clerk said.
Wojno has called the petition wording rambling and misleading. He said it�s impossible for his staff to maintain records for all departments at City Hall.
The mayor and clerk are both in their respective second, 4-year terms. Under term limits in Warren, both men could run for a third and final term in their current office next year.
Spranger insists she is nobody�s political puppet, adding she researched the recall process and wrote the petition wording without help from others.
�I realize it�s wordy. This is my first experience doing this at all,� she said. �If I have to resubmit new language, I will lean how to do it in a constructive way.�
Spranger has challenged her property assessments numerous times. City assessors and the Board of Review denied her homestead exemption, as city officials seek years of back taxes they say she owes. She appealed to the Michigan Tax Tribunal, which upheld the city�s decisions. Spranger has appealed to the Michigan Court of Appeals to review her cases.
The county Election Commission is composed of county Clerk Carmella Sabaugh, Treasurer Ted Wahby and Macomb County Chief Probate Judge John Foster. The election panel will meet at the Clerk�s Office conference room on the first floor of the court building, located at 40 N. Main in downtown Mount Clemens. The meeting is open to the public.
For many years, county election boards were required to determine whether proposed recall language was clear. Changes to state election law passed in December 2012 by the lame-duck Legislature forced the county election panels to also decide whether the reasons stated are accurate.
If Spranger�s petition wording is deemed clear and accurate, she and her supporters must collect signatures from 9,603 registered Warren voters � equal to 25 percent of the total number of ballots cast in Warren among all gubernatorial candidates in the November 2010 election � to force a recall election.


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How many square feet is 1 yard of concrete?
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Nebraska Ready for Unknowns in ASU Attack
Lincoln, Neb. - The Nebraska football team continued preparations for Arkansas State on Thursday, practicing for 90 minutes in the Hawks Championship Center and outdoors on the Ed and Joyanne Gass Practice Field. The Huskers wore jerseys and shorts during their second-to-last workout before facing the Arkansas State Red Wolves on Saturday.
Head Coach Bo Pelini addressed the media following practice. Pelini acknowledged the challenge of facing a first-year head coach for the third consecutive week, but emphasized that the Huskers are prepared to adjust.
"We saw what they did through the first two games," Pelini said. "I have a little bit of history with him (Gus Malzahn), and I also know what he did while he was at Auburn. It's a little bit of a mix-and-match of all those things. We're just going to have to wait and see what they do against us. I'm not really sure what we're going to see, and we're going to have to make our adjustments on the run."
Pelini also said Husker linebackers David Santos and Zaire Anderson are likely to pick up some quality playing time on Saturday if they're needed against the Arkansas State attack.
"It depends on what personnel groupings they put out there. They had a good week of practice and I think you'll see more of them. That's what we're anticipating."
When asked how much the two young linebackers had grown, Pelini said the unexpected nature of the last two games presents a challenge for younger players such as Santos and Anderson.
"(They've grown) a lot, but they have a lot way to go," Pelini said. "They're learning. It's a lot harder on guys like that to come along when you're practicing for so much and you really don't have a good idea of what you're going to see. It makes it hard on an inexperienced guy, because formationally, it gets crazy with all the motions and things we've been seeing. It's a little bit harder for them to adjust, but I think they've learned and grown a lot in the last three weeks, even though they haven't gotten a lot of game snaps. They've been preparing themselves and they'll get their opportunity on Saturday."
As for Husker running back Rex Burkhead, Pelini said his status remains in question for this Saturday's game.
"I would say right now he's doubtful," Pelini said. "Like I said, I want to make sure he's absolutely 100 percent before we put him back out there. But you know, he's chomping at the bit to get out there. We'll see how the next 48 hours play out."
The Huskers will conduct a final walk-through practice tomorrow before facing Arkansas State on Saturday. The game is slated for an 11 a.m. CDT start and will be broadcast live on ESPN2.


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ST. PAUL (WCCO) — The following text is the full analysis on current Vikings stadium proposals and the conclusions from Gov. Mark Dayton.
Arden Hills/Ramsey County
It is easy to understand why the Vikings like the Arden Hills site. Ramsey County has made another excellent, detailed proposal. The Vikings are truly wanted there. It has the advantage that the property is available for the project to begin.
However, the Legislature's unwillingness to permit Ramsey County Commissioners to increase either the general sales tax or the food and beverage tax without a voter referendum leaves the County with no apparent means to raise its local share. I have been told that neither the Senate nor the House majorities will change their opposition in the upcoming session.
That leaves the Vikings and the State of Minnesota as the project's only two financiers. The estimated cost of a new stadium in Arden Hills is approximately $1.1 billion. Even if the State increased its share from the previously stated $300 million to $400 million, the team's share would have to be $700 million. If the Vikings so want to be in Arden Hills that they will increase their financial contribution to that amount, the project is potentially viable. If not, it is not.
The other missing component of Ramsey County's proposal is the unwillingness of the Vikings owners to disclose their intentions with the property's 170 acres, which will not be used for the stadium. If the Vikings truly want to be in Arden Hills, they have thus far missed their opportunity to inspire decision-makers and the public with their vision for the site's entire development.
City of Minneapolis – Metrodome
Minneapolis' proposal submitted last Thursday was meager. However, it did identify a local share of funding, which, if affirmed by the Mayor, the City Council, and the Legislature, could make a stadium project there financially viable.
The City's stated position is that it prefers to build a new stadium at the site of the current Metrodome, because it is slightly cheaper than the alternatives. Amortized over the new stadium's expected life, however, that difference is relatively inconsequential. A first-rate stadium could unquestionably be built there, as it could almost anywhere for its expected cost. However, I personally believe the site lacks the potential for additional economic development and job creation, which the Arden Hills and Linden Avenue (Minneapolis) sites offer.
Key reasons for building a new stadium are the several thousand construction jobs it would provide for the next three years, and also the new commercial activity and permanent jobs it could generate once it is operational. The Metrodome has proven to be largely unsuccessful at stimulating new economic development nearby.
Additionally, while short-term considerations should not dictate the location of a stadium for the next thirty years, there would be serious problems with the Vikings playing their home games at the University of Minnesota's TCF Stadium during the three years of new stadium construction. Traffic congestion and parking shortages nearby are among the numerous problems, which have yet to be resolved by the University and the Vikings.
City of Minneapolis – Linden Avenue
An alternative site in Minneapolis is being referred to as Linden Avenue. The City and the Vikings have said little publicly about their discussions regarding this possibility. This site offers significant advantages over the Metrodome, particularly its proximity to Target Center, Target Field, downtown hotels, restaurants, etc.
However, serious concerns have been raised by the Rector of St. Mary's Basilica, which is adjacent to the Linden Avenue location. Those and other concerns would need to be resolved before that site is viable.
Clearly the necessary due diligence has not been completed by the proponents of the Linden Avenue location. Until those questions have been answered and it is better known what other unanswered questions remain, I could not recommend that site to either the Legislature or the people of Minnesota.
Furthermore, the Vikings' unwillingness to state the total amount they are willing to contribute to either Minneapolis project makes it impossible to make a final assessment of them. Additionally, the Minneapolis City Council has yet to vote, or send definitive representation of the ability to deliver a positive vote, on whether they approve of the City's proposed means of financing its local share at either site.
Shakopee, et al.
Of the additional submissions, only Shakopee's merits serious consideration, although several others deserve credit for their imagination and creativity! Unfortunately, Shakopee's proposal contains no local financial contribution to the project. Instead, it relies upon the expansion of gambling to one or two "Racinos," one located nearby the proposed site, to finance the public share of the project.
Passage of Racino legislation to fund a new stadium is speculative. Even if it were to pass, several years of litigation in federal courts should be expected. Proceeds from Racinos could not provide the assured revenue stream to back state-issued bonds until that litigation was resolved.
Regrettably, there is not yet a stadium proposal with a complete and sufficient financial plan, one which assigns equitable obligations to the Vikings, the local partner, and the State of Minnesota. And no site sponsor has adequately resolved the major unanswered questions, in order to merit the approval to proceed.
Unless the Legislature is willing to change its insistence on a voter referendum before Ramsey County can impose any kind of tax increase, the only two feasible sites become the Metrodome and Linden Avenue, both in Minneapolis. While issues surrounding these sites are not all resolved, they are potentially resolvable and should be addressed immediately. Also the Vikings must reveal their financial commitment to each project.
Otherwise, the lack of firm and binding commitments by the respective parties will seriously jeopardize any chance for legislative approval in this session. It is rumored that some legislators would prefer to postpone final action until 2013, because they want to avoid taking tough votes on a controversial project before next November's election. The inability of stadium proponents to complete their own preparations gives cover to that delay.
"We can't vote, because we don't have a specific proposal," has been the consistent, and legitimate, refrain of those wishing to avoid a vote. The longer it takes to finalize a proposal with a single site, with an agreed-upon, reliable, and equitable financing plan, and with satisfactory answers to important remaining questions, the less likely it is that a stadium will be approved by the Legislature in the upcoming session and, thus, this year.
I want to pay tribute to the outstanding leadership given to this project and the herculean efforts to advance it by Senator Julie Rosen, Representative Morrie Lanning, MSFC Chair Ted Mondale, and CSL consultant Mr. Craig Skeim, who has provided public decision-makers with extremely valuable information. Were it not for their unceasing efforts, there would be no prospect of a new "People's Stadium" and about the same likelihood of keeping the Vikings in Minnesota.
Daytons real analysis:
Arden Hills: I dont want the donut effect. Let me explain………….Snooze
Metrodome: I cant booze it up at the game for the next 3 years
Bascilica: My priest might get mad at me again
Mark Dayton: Key reasons for building a new stadium are the several thousand construction jobs it would provide for the next three years, and also the new commercial activity and permanent jobs it could generate once it is operational.
Mark Dayton is a bald faced liar. There are no economic benefits to taxpayer subsidized stadiums.
How about letting us vote on it Mark? Like you wanted voting for unionizing the Day Care providers (well you wanted some to vote, but not others).
There are no economic benefits? I am a steelworker. I put a Son through college building the Excel Center. I will put another Son through college building the Vikings stadium that will be built. Sorry Jill that you work at a job that doesnt give you the ability to provide for your children. I have a union job that does provide that. I do all of this and still live on the Iron Range. Come up to Gods Country and I will show you some great fishing holes.
The stadium does benefit a few individuals,, butt it does not benefit thee state as the people taxed to pay for iit. A football only stadium has no benefiits to the surrounding area.
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The Mountains of Detroit
This post is about what I see happening in Detroit. But to make sense of it, I have to take my readers east. Not east like Windsor Ontario east, but east like Vietnam, Burma, and Thailand east.
Witnessing the Feedum Freedom garden in East Detroit, I immediately thought about Zomia, the vast, mountainous "Appalachia" that rises between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin. Pulled on all sides by six different nation-states, the diverse people of Zomia have learned to practice what James C. Scott has called the "arts of not being governed"—a collection of alternative political-economies and cultural traditions that run counter to the coercive, hierarchical, and surplus-oriented states that dominate the rice-producing lowlands. Using the geography to their advantage, the renegades and castaways of the valley states turned the mountains of Zomia into a place of refuge, into a non-state space. In turn, Zomia not only became a region where communities could imagine new ways of organizing outside of the purview of the state, but also a homeland where people could turn these dreams into lived alternatives to the patterns of war, enslavement, and enclosure that gobbled up life down below.
Unlike Zomia, however, Detroit has few hills and no mountains. Instead, the zones of refuge like the Feedum Freedom gardens emerge because of a different kind of impenetrability, albeit a similar human desire to rethink and redefine property in the face of inequality and need. Deindustrialization, divestment, and the bursting of the real-estate bubble have, in addition to political obstacles, hobbled the state-apparatus to such a degree that enclosure itself has become too capital intensive. The only thing the government can do to mark its turf right now is to claim the empty houses and lots on paper and maybe bulldoze properties. What this says to me is that like the majority of the citizens of Detroit, the state, too, is wrestling with its own imagination and vision. In the meantime, those who believe that revitalization=recapitalization must desperately hope their version of progress wins out; they must pray that land one day becomes scarce again inside the city boundaries.
For Detroiters its possible to simply ignore or circumvent the grasp of the state, because its more like a boogeyman rather than a panopticon. Of course, this raises parallel issues of lack of public services like garbage collection, transportation, fire & police, and health care. But in the urban gardens of Detroit, cast as many are over empty lots and abandoned lands, tilling the soil is not only about providing food and healthy eating options, its about new ways of organizing and providing for neighbors. The urban gardens offer materialized evidence of the power of imagination in the face of state withdrawal. Not only do they call into question the definitions of private and public property, they also speak to the very ways Detroiters can begin to rethink their connections with each other and the ways they define their community. If bulldozed houses and reclaimed lots serve to symbolize post-industrial state power in Detroit, then the image of leafy kale and green jalepeños growing from the soil of a once abandoned lot point to a new, dramatically local, and potentially organic definition of true democracy.
The question, of course, is how to secure and defend these new spaces for the future.
From the vistas of Detroit, the future appears all but certain.


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Top After-Market NYSE Movers (Nordic American, Five Star, AbbVie, MetroPCS, Radioshack, Youku Tudou, Talisman, Navistar, General Cable, Qihoo 360)
The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were Nordic American Tankers, Five Star Quality Care, AbbVie Inc, MetroPCS Communications and Radioshack Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were Youku Tudou, Talisman Energy, Navistar International, General Cable and Qihoo 360 Technology.
Nordic American Tankers Ltd. (NYSE:NAT) shares surged 3.83 percent to $9.50 in post-market trading. The company announced Friday that it had acquired 100 percent of the shares of Scandic American Shipping Ltd, its management company since 2004.
Five Star Quality Care Inc. (NYSE:FVE) shares surged 2.21 percent to $5.56 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $2.98, a 52-week high of $5.98 and $260.71 million in market capitalization.
AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV) shares gained 1.92 percent to $34.50 in post-market trading. The company's stock was initiated with a "neutral" rating at UBS AG Friday with a price target of $36.00.
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE:PCS) shares advanced 1.51 percent to $9.68 in post-market trading. The company stock plunged nearly 2 percent in regular trading.
Radioshack Corp. (NYSE:RSH) shares advanced 1.35 percent to $2.25 in post-market trading after climbing more than 5 percent in regular trading.
Youku Tudou Inc. (NYSE:YOKU) shares plunged 2.23 percent to $21.48 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $13.82, a 52-week high of $32.75 and $3.59 billion in market capitalization.
Talisman Energy Inc. (NYSE:TLM) shares declined 1.94 percent to $12.04 in post-market trading. The company stock surged more than 4 percent in regular trading.
Navistar International Corp. (NYSE:NAV) shares fell 1.82 percent to $23.61 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $18.17, a 52-week high of $48.18 and $1.92 billion in market capitalization.
General Cable Corp. (NYSE:BGC) shares declined 1.75 percent to $32.12 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $23.73, a 52-week high of $34.89 and $1.63 billion in market capitalization.
Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE:QIHU) shares fell 1.70 percent to $32.44 in post-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $13.80, a 52-week high of $33.13 and $7.78 billion in market capitalization.


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Always a fan of a quick pun, so I had to pick up this cute little product from Soap & Glory.
Marvelips is a dual ended product with a neutral mauve lip shade and a gloss/highlighter on the other side.
I've come to realise I have a sick addiction to lip products. Can't get enough of lip sticks and lip glosses!
Here is the desired effect – how cute! Love her hair, love her make up:
The stick is a chunky one, with simple packaging:
I wasn't sure about Soap & Glory – when I used the products a few years ago I found them a little to perfumed for me but recently, ever since I bought the Hat Box, I have loved their goodies!Instructions!
The white gloss side – its very emollient, so to speak. Quite glossy, no glittery bits – its hydrating and adds a nice white sheen.
This is the lipstick side. I thought it looked a bit dark at first, but of course it isn't – its a lovely mauve-pink shade I imagine would suit most people.
Once again its very soft and feels glossy – no dragging on the lips and no drying at all.
The result (copying the cute picture on the box):
Instant porno lips innit? I kind of love it, I don't care if its a bit 80s with the darker lip line, drawn slightly outside of the natural lips.
I'd certainly recommend this – its not expensive and very wearable – you can wear either side on its own. It would work on most skin tones too I guess – lovely! Would like to see it in a peach shade too or a red!
What do you think?
Buy it from Boots, or here – its on offer at the moment for £5.33.


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Florence Hoffmann, 98, of New Ulm died Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 at the Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm.
Florence Hoffmann, 98, of New Ulm died Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 at the Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm with Monsignor John A. Richter celebrating the Mass. Burial will follow in the New Ulm Catholic Cemetery. To leave an online condolence for her family or to sign the guest book go to www.mvfh.org. Visitation will be 4 – 8 p.m. Monday and 7:30 – 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home NORTH CHAPEL in New Ulm. The Christian Mother's Society will pray the rosary at 4 p.m. Monday at the Cathedral. The St. Joseph's – St. Elizabeth's Catholic United will pray the rosary at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New Ulm Area Catholic Schools, Way of the Cross, Oak Hills Living Center or to the donor's choice.
Florence Ann Penkert was born March 5, 1915 in New Ulm to Otto and Frances (Warta) Penkert. She was a 1933 graduate of Holy Trinity High School. After high school Florence worked at the Holy Trinity rectory and at Kloeckl and Penkert Grocery. She was united in marriage to Bernard Hoffmann on April 23, 1946 at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in New Ulm. After marriage they farmed in Cottonwood Township, Brown County until moving to New Ulm in 1972. Florence was a member of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, St. Elizabeth's Catholic United, Christian Mother's Society and the Ministry of Praise. Since retirement she was very active in volunteer work at the rectory, helping with funeral lunches and doing craft work for the societies and her family. Florence enjoyed gardening and visits from her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Florence is survived by her daughters and son-in-law, Sister Veronica Hoffmann, SLW of St. Paul, Karen and Richard Sellner of Sleepy Eye; a son and daughter-in-law Roger and Sharon Hoffmann of New Ulm; a daughter-in-law, Gayle Hoffmann of Morgan; grandchildren, Steve Huiras, Suzanne Lang, Valerie Martin, Ryan Hoffmann, Randy, Craig and Jeff Sellner, Julie Wilson, and Dustin Hoffmann.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Bernard Hoffmann on June 18, 2007; a daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Joseph Huiras; a son, Ronald Hoffmann on December 12, 2007; sisters, Rose (Louis) Adam, Sister Mary Grace SCC, Marie (Frank) Rubischko, Arline (Vernon) Bieraugel; and by her brothers, Elmer (Louise) Penkert, Walter (Dorothy) Penkert.


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Yahoo! Releases OSS Ajax and Design Tools 164
Cocteaustin writes "Today Yahoo! released the Yahoo! User Interface Library. This library is comprised of a number of dynamic HTML utilities and controls for building rich web UIs and Ajax applications. They are made available under an open-source license. In addition, Yahoo! released the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. This collection of design patterns for Web interaction is intended to provide Web designers prescriptive guidance to help solve common design problems on the Web. Both are free in both senses of the word."


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FLORENCE, S.C. – Some late missed free-throws combined with some Bobcat makes helped the Georgia College men's basketball team (9-7, 2-5 PBC) hold off a tough Francis Marion University (9-7, 5-4 PBC) squad 56-54 on the road Friday night.
GC made five of its last six free-throws and a big defensive rebound by Mike Augustine (Waterloo, Ill.) helped squelch any last-ditch FMU effort, ending a three-game slide for the Bobcats.
Ryan Aquino (Roswell, Ga.) led all scorers with a career-high 25 points, adding eight boards. Jared Holmes (Indianapolis) joined him with 10 points and five caroms. Scott Ferguson (Roswell, Ga.) narrowly missed a double-double with seven points and 10 rebounds.
Down 54-52 after GC's Tarrence Chatman (Macon, Ga.) hit one of two free-throws with 21 seconds left, the Patriots missed a shot on the ensuing possession. Zamarius McLendon worked his way to the foul line off rebounding contact, hitting the first shot from the charity stripe. Forced to miss the second on purpose, GC's Augustine dove and cradled the ball, drawing a tie-up with the possession arrow faced in the visiting team's direction.
Sophomore Aaron Robinson (Lawrenceville, Ga.) was fouled on the in-bounds pass, knocked down both tosses for his only points in the game and a 56-54 lead. With 5.5 seconds left, FMU couldn't manage a score on the other end despite two tries, and the horn sounded on the Bobcat win.
GC was out-shot 38 percent (20-53) to 34 percent (20-59) in the defensive battle. The Bobcats worked for the extra possessions on the offensive glass—winning 11-9—and in turnovers, causing 17 while allowing just seven.
The leading scorer for FMU was Liki Turner with 13 points, aided by a double-double from McLendon with 10 points and 11 boards.
The Bobcats continue their weekend road trip traveling to PBC foe UNC Pembroke Sunday, Jan. 22 set for a 3:30 p.m. start.
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Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNSby Ron Aitchison
Here are five things you can do to make sure your DNS is in good shape and not causing problems for the rest of the Internet, which, by the way, also includes you.
DNS Is Really, Really Important
Every time we get email, access a web page, make a VoIP call, or complete many other tasks, we use the Domain Name System (DNS). That makes DNS part of the critical infrastructure of the Internet.
This article describes five things that you can do to keep you and your organization safe as well as reduce unnecessary load on the DNS infrastructure:
- Reverse-Map Private (RFC1918) IP Addresses in Your DNS
- Ensure That Localhost Is Forward- and Reverse-Mapped
- Ensure That Your Domain Name Does Not Have a Lame Delegation
- Ensure That You Are Not Running an Open Recursive Name Server
- Ensure That Your Email Address Is Correct in the SOA RR
For each of the items discussed, the corrective actions and BIND configuration (named.conf) or zone file fragments are included.
Some DNS Background
DNS is a complex, highly distributed system that operates on the hierarchical structure of domain names, so it is worth briefly covering some background.
In tech speak, DNS resolves a name (domain name) into an IP address using a series of queries to authoritative DNS servers until the final answer, an IP address, is obtained. This process is referred to as forward mapping and is done in units called zones, which correspond to each level of the hierarchy of the domain name. To resolve the name
www.example.com, a local DNS server will query authoritative DNS servers for each level in the name, beginning with the root-servers, which will return a referral to the authoritative
.com gTLD servers. The gTLD server, when queried, will return a referral to the authoritative name servers for the domain
example.com, which finally will return the IP address we require. Sometimes it also useful to be able to start with an IP address and find the name allocated to it; email systems especially use this technique as part of an antispam arsenal. DNS performs IP address-to-name translation by manipulating the IP address and using reverse-mapped zones under the reserved domain name
There are two broad classes of DNS servers:
- DNS servers that operate on behalf of a group of users, either on a local network or within a larger organization--say, an ISP--and that provide what are called recursive services. These DNS servers will issue queries and follow any referrals to ensure their clients get the required answer. Such DNS servers typically maintain a cache of answers to save them from issuing the same query repeatedly, and for that reason are frequently called caching name servers or recursive name servers, or sometimes just resolvers. DNS records are maintained in the cache for a period determined by the Time to Live value associated with each Resource Record (RR).
- DNS servers that are either defined to be a master or a slave for the zone. The Resource Records obtained from these servers in answer to a query are marked with a special bit (AA) to indicate they come from an authoritative source. These servers are, not too surprisingly, typically called authoritative name servers.
Now, by way of illustrating the sometimes confusing nature of the DNS, some organizations (especially smaller ones) elect to run both caching and authoritative functions in the same name server. While this is not a recommended practice for reasons that we shall see later, it may be simply a pragmatic solution. Finally, each PC has what is sometimes, but erroneously, called a resolver, which typically caches results. In fact this is almost always a stub-resolver that needs the services of a caching or recursive name server to operate effectively, since it is incapable of following referrals.
The root servers are always the starting point for any new query cycle, which makes them the critical part of the critical infrastructure! There are 13 root-servers named
a.root-servers.net through
m.root-servers.net. Using anycast techniques, these servers are replicated across the globe. There are now well over 100 instances of the various root-servers in operational use, the majority of which now lie outside North America. The root-servers receive more than 2 billion queries per day, of which (according to some studies [6],) only 2% are legitimate queries! While the vast majority of unnecessary traffic relates to buggy software and badly configured firewalls, a significant proportion was caused by poorly configured DNS software.
So with all this information at our fingertips, let's look at five DNS issues that you should check to minimize unnecessary traffic on the DNS infrastructure, and help keep your organization running smoothly.
Reverse-Map Private (RFC 1918) IP Addresses
Up to 7% of the total traffic arriving at some root servers consists of reverse queries for private IP addresses, and a complete routing infrastructure (AS112) has been constructed just to handle this problem. Private IP addresses are any in the ranges 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, and 10.0.0.0/8. While ISPs are delegated the task of reverse-mapping public IPs, they have no such responsibility for private IP addresses. If you are running your own local recursive name server, it is your responsibility to make sure these IP addresses are reverse-mapped in your DNS configuration.
To illustrate reverse-mapping a zone, let's assume that we are using a private address range, 192.168.5.0/28 (16 IP addresses only). BIND's
named.conf file defines the reverse-mapped zone and should look something like this:
// named.conf fragment zone "5.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" IN { type master; file "192.168.5.rev"; allow-update {"none";}; allow-transfer {192.168.5.6;}; // ip address of zone slave }
The zone filename convention above uses
192.168.5.rev to make it simpler to understand, whereas the zone name must be
5.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. If you really enjoy writing reversed addresses, however, you could use "
5.168.192.in-addr.arpa" as the filename. Reverse maps are standard zone files, and may use zone transfers to update the slave (secondary) name server. The
allow-transfer statement just limits the source of zone transfer requests to the slave name server. The
allow-update statement is precautionary, and should be removed if you are auto-updating from DHCP or another source. The reverse zone fragment would look like this:
; reverse map for 192.168.5.0/28 $ORIGIN 5.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. ; Start of Authority (SOA) record defining the key characteristics of the zone @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2007040800 ; serial number 12h ; refresh 15m ; retry 3w ; expiry 2h ; min = minimum ) ; name servers Resource Records for the domain IN NS ns1.example.com. IN NS ns2.example.com. ; A RRs for name servers are not glue and therefore ; not necessary ; PTR RR maps an IPv4 address to a host name 2 IN PTR ns1.example.com. 3 IN PTR ns2.example.com. 4 IN PTR mail.example.com. ..... 14 IN PTR joe.example.com.
All the righthand names in this file must be Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs). That is, they must terminate with a dot. If the dot at the end of
mail.example.com was omitted, the
$ORIGIN substitution rule would generate a name of
mail.example.com.5.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA, which was probably not the intended result.
Ensure That Localhost Is Forward- and Reverse-Mapped
Just over 1% of the queries at the root-servers in one of the studies were for localhost. This means that in the study case, which was a subset of the total root-server query load, there were more than 12,000 DNS configurations with no localhost zone defined. Localhost is used by many applications as shorthand when referring to the local PC, and is always mapped to the loopback address 127.0.0.1 (or ::1 for Ipv6). Apart from creating unnecessary root-server traffic, it will slow down applications considerably. To resolve localhost (and its reverse map) the BIND named.conf file should have the following zone files:
// named.conf fragment // forward map zone of localhost zone "localhost" IN { type master; file "master.localhost"; allow-update {"none";}; allow-transfer {192.168.5.6;}; // ip address of zone slave } // reverse map zone of IPv4 localhost zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR-ARPA" IN { type master; file "localhost.rev"; allow-update {"none";}; allow-transfer {192.168.5.6;}; // ip address of zone slave }
The localhost forward-mapped zone file is normally supplied with most BIND distributions and may be called
localhost or
localhost.zone. The reverse-mapped zone file--again typically supplied with BIND distributions--is normally called something very meaningful like
named.local, which may help explain why it was omitted in more than 12,000 configurations. The localhost zone may be treated as shown, with a master/slave configuration (in which case the
allow-transfer statement is used to limit the transfer request source,) But in most cases, because the zone file is distributed with BIND, it is more normally defined as a master in all cases.
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In this session, Hannes proposes an alternative concurrency model for JavaScript that is based on the Actor model. Starting with W3C Web Workers, he will demonstrate how to build a system that has the benefits of threading, such as true preemptive scheduling without the pitfalls of shared data locking.
Hannes will focus on features aimed towards highly concurrent CPU-heavy server-side applications, including selective data sharing, concurrent lock-free data structures, functional programming, and read-only data.
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What Does the Fox Say? A Vine Answers That Question!
When Norwegian duo Ylvis released their video "The Fox" on September 3, they probably knew they had Internet gold. When I posted about it, there were only 2 million views of the video, but since that time (as of this posting) the clip has 19,909,016 views. Since hearing the song, a lot of people are asking the question "What does the fox say?" To which their friends answer with a shrug of the shoulders. Prior to today I didn't know either. Now a Vine is answering that very question!
Elizabeth Menezy posted this Vine that shows what appears to be a very excited fox making fox noises. I'm betting it's not the only sound a fox makes, but it's a fantastic start.
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How to Use the Pathways
Each pathway has up to four separate stages. The most important, basic courses are listed first. The first stage will include the required courses related to that pathway, if relevant, and students should generally begin with courses in the first stage and then move to courses in the next stage. It is likely that a student may not be able to complete all of the courses in a pathway, especially if one begins a specific pathway in his or her third year of law school.
Courses in each pathway have been designated as "Core," "Recommended," or "Other Courses to Be Considered." Core courses are essential to the pathway and are the most important ones to be taken. Recommended courses are not essential, but are quite helpful in that specific pathway. Other Courses to be Considered are courses that you may find interesting and useful, dependent on your professional goals and time. No student is expected to be able to take all of the courses listed in a pathway. Additionally, some pathways are interrelated and you may need to consult more than one to complete your education in a specific area.
Each pathway lists faculty members who teach in that area of law and who are available to provide further advice to students on their course selections and preparation for practice in that specific area of law. Students should make sure that they select courses needed to meet the other requirements for the J.D. degree.


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On-Demand Stateful EJBsby Swaminathan Radhakrishnan
EJBs are the de facto standard when it comes to server-side components developed in J2EE. Session beans are used for business logic components and are primarily of two types: Stateful and Stateless. The type of the bean, stateful or stateless, is decided at deployment time through some deployment parameters. There are many scenarios where the decision of needing a stateful bean can be deferred until runtime. In this article, I will explain a pattern that can be used to dynamically choose a stateful bean at runtime.
Stateful and Stateless Session Beans
The session bean performs work for its client, shielding the client from complexity by executing business tasks inside of the server. The stateless session bean does not hold any conversational state with the client, and every request made to the bean needs to be accompanied with the data required for the processing the request. Stateful session beans, on the other hand, can hold state and support state across multiple conversations with the client.
The added convenience of stateful beans supporting conversational state comes at the cost of performance. Stateless beans give much better performance, as they do not have client affinity. EJB containers can pool stateless beans and can serve client requests from any bean in the pool, in the case of stateless beans.
The choice of having a stateful or stateless bean is a design-time decision, and the deployment descriptors of the EJB indicate the nature of the session bean to the EJB container. There is no paradigm in which the nature of a bean can change dynamically based on the result of processing.
An Example Scenario
Consider an example scenario: a search component needs to be developed that will allow the client to search the data store for various parameters. A customer search will be a part of the various searches offered by the component. If the client logs in as a particular customer, then any subsequent searches by the component should apply the customer's profile for searches. The associated searches could include a search for the list of products that the customer is eligible for. In the absence of a specific customer, this search would return results for a default user of the system. For the sake of keeping the example generic, I will not outline the specific searches but this scenario is common to many business applications.
I will explain a pattern to provide statefulness to stateless beans dynamically and will apply that pattern to the sample business scenario described above. The forces that necessitate the need for such a pattern are:
- There are currently only two broad classifications of session EJBs that exist.
- There is no way to convert a stateless bean to a stateful bean dynamically.
- Business scenarios demand a change from a stateless bean to a stateful bean based on the result of processing at runtime.
- The client should not have the burden of creating a stateful bean; it should be handled behind the scenes.
The Pattern
I will detail a pattern that will solve the issues we have with the current scenario. Create a focus class that is a POJO (Plain Old Java Object). The focus class will have the implementation logic for the component that needs to be developed. Model the component as both stateful and stateless session beans. The session bean will instantiate and use the focus class for fulfilling client requests. The client will, by default, access the services of the stateless bean through a delegate. If processing the request deems that the client needs a stateful service, a stateful service is created and the stateful service starts serving subsequent client requests. The stateful service also uses the focus class and passes on the client's state when invoking focus class methods.
The class diagram shown in Figure 1 has the main classes that are involved in the pattern and also shows the collaboration between the various classes.
Figure 1. Class diagram of stateless/stateful session bean pattern
The client is any Java object that needs to use the services offered by the EJB component. The client uses the delegate in order to interact with the service. The client is oblivious of the existence of both stateful and stateless services and consumes the services offered by the EJB.
The delegate here is a combination of a service locator as well as a business delegate pattern. The delegate is responsible for looking up the stateless service and making calls onto the service. The delegate is also responsible for parsing the returned dataset, storing the stateful bean's handle, and calling on the stateful service if the handle is valid. An alternative approach is for the delegate to parse the dataset when it's given as an input to a method, and call the stateful service if the handle points to a valid stateful bean.
Stateless Service
The stateless service is a stateless session EJB that offers the component services to its clients. The stateless service offers no conversational state with the client and is the bean that's looked up by the delegate class. The stateless bean makes use of the focus class to provide functionality.
Stateful Service
The stateful service is created on the fly by the stateless service when it determines that the request cannot be served by its stateless nature. This can be determined based on the requesting data or the processing logic in the stateless service. The stateful service is capable of storing state on behalf of the calling client and applies the state to any calls made on the focus class.
The dataset is a generic return type from the server to the client. The dataset has a placeholder for the actual data that's returned from the service as a result of the method call, and can store metadata about the returned data to the client. The dataset will also hold the handle to the stateful service and is used by the delegate to request data that's required of the stateful service.
Focus Class
The focus class has the main processing logic for the component. The focus class contains the base functionality and does not hold any state. It works on the data passed into it and holds no state between method calls. The focus class is used by both the stateful and the stateless service. As a rule of thumb, it's a good practice to have those methods in the focus class that are common to both the stateful and the stateless service.
The client instantiates and uses the delegate in order to make any calls to the component. The delegate has the logic to look up the stateless bean and makes the call to the corresponding method on the stateless service. The stateless service processes the request by calling on the focus class and obtains the results. The results of the processing are returned back to the client in the form of the dataset object.
If during the processing of the request, the stateless service determines that the service needs to store the state of the request for future processing, the stateless service creates a stateful service. The handle to the stateful bean is stored in the dataset object that's returned back to the client. The returned dataset also contains the resultant data for the client. The delegate could parse the dataset object before returning it back to the client and store the handle to the stateful bean as its state. The next time a call is made to the delegate by the client, the delegate would make a request to the stateful bean whose handle is being stored as a part of the delegate's state.
The stateful bean can use the state that it stores on behalf of the client and pass it on as an additional attribute to the focus class. The focus class need not be concerned about whether the request was made by the stateful service or the stateless service. The request made to the focus class from the stateful bean will have additional state information, and hence will allow the result to reflect any conversational state on behalf of the client. Figure 2 shows this relationship as a UML diagram.7
Figure 2. Interaction sequence between pattern participants
Applying the Pattern
I will use the above pattern to solve the example scenario. The client will use a
delegate to use the features of the search component. The delegate will have the lookup code and will
also expose the same set of methods exposed by the service. The client invokes the
method on the
delegate and the delegate calls the
searchParam1 method of the stateless service.
If the client calls the
login method, the delegate calls on the corresponding method of the
stateless service. If the search result is a single customer, the stateless service creates an instance of
the stateful service and passes the customer details to the
ejbCreate method of the stateful service.
The stateless service also creates an instance of the
DataSet and sets the customer data, as well as the stateful handle, to the
DataSet object. The delegate stores the handle and passes on the
DataSet to the client.
The client now needs to obtain the list of products associated with the customer. The client calls
the delegate's
retrieveProducts method. The delegate retrieves the stateful handle that
it has and calls the associated method of the stateful bean.
The associated class stubs used for this example scenario are given in the Resources section below.
Alternate Scenarios
The pattern is generic and can be used in a variety of applications. The pattern described above can be used where a value list handler needs to be used. The generic searches can be done using a stateless bean and when the result size exceeds a maximum size, we can create a stateful bean and pass back the results in the form of the dataset object. The client can approach the delegate for the next set of records and the delegate can go to the stateful bean that stores the details, such as last record processed, maximum number of objects, etc.
Related Patterns
Related Reading
J2EE Design Patterns
Service Locator Pattern: The Service Locator pattern reduces the client complexity that results from the client's dependency on, and need to perform, lookup and creation processes, which are resource-intensive. To eliminate these problems, this pattern provides a mechanism to abstract all dependencies and network details into the service locator.
Business Delegate Pattern: The Business Delegate acts as a client-side business abstraction; it provides an abstraction for, and thus hides, the implementation of the business services. Using a Business Delegate reduces the coupling between presentation-tier clients and the system's business services. Depending on the implementation strategy, the Business Delegate may shield clients from possible volatility in the implementation of the business service API. Potentially, this reduces the number of changes that must be made to the presentation-tier client code when the business service API or its underlying implementation changes.
Value List Handler: The Value List Handler pattern creates a Value List Handler to control query execution functionality and results caching. The Value List Handler directly accesses a DAO that can execute the required query. The Value List Handler stores the results obtained from the DAO as a collection of Transfer Objects. The client requests the Value List Handler to provide the query results as needed. The Value List Handler implements an Iterator pattern (GoF) to provide the solution.
The Dynamic EJB Statefulness pattern helps model components that exhibit both stateful and stateless behavior. A component using this pattern delivers the performance of stateless session beans and serves the stateful needs of clients. Clients of a component developed using the pattern have a simple unified interface and are hidden from the internal swap between the stateful and stateless beans. The pattern is a natural fit with other J2EE patterns, such as Business Delegate and Service Locator.
- Download the source code for this article.
- The list of all core J2EE patterns can be found on the Patterns Index Page.
- The J2EE tutorial has a detailed explanation of the workings of EJBs.
Swaminathan Radhakrishnan works as a senior technical architect for Infosys Technologies, Ltd.
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jamie_tickner wrote:I still don't know what purpose an iPad would serve!!
A very, very easy to use and locked-down internet/media device. Perfect for my parents for example, for whom the vast complexity of "normal" computers is an endless problem. I'd have no problems whatsoever with my folks downloading any app from the App Store -- if they get stuck, just press the Home button.
It's totally foolproof, and good that it is tightly controlled and locked down. Could you give your parents the same freedom on desktop Linux, the freedom to install anything they want in Synaptic? Breakage and trouble is just minutes away!
For many people who aren't interested in the complexity of computers, the file system and windows and close buttons and recycle bins and packages and the like, the iPad provides more freedom -- more freedom to use the internet, enjoy media and try software without complexity or breakage. I think this is really important when we talk about the definition of 'freedom'.
Of course, I'd rather it was technologically free as well; I hope we'll see some awesome Linux tablets to compete with or surpass the iPad. A free-as-in-freedom, Linux powered tablet with the ease-of-use and unbreakability of the iPad would be the best thing on the planet. We can hope!


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Submission + - imslp.org Taken Down Thanks to MPA (imslpforums.org)
dsavi writes: The International Music Score Library Project's website imslp.org (A library of public domain scores and recordings of classical music) has been taken down by GoDaddy per a DMCA takedown request from the Music Publisher's Association. According to the MPA, a score of Rachmanioff's Bells is under copyright in the US, while according to IMSLP it is most definitely not. A DMCA counter-notice has been issued to GoDaddy by IMSLP, unfortunately there is a ten-day waiting period before the domain can be restored. While the imslp.org domain is down, the music library can still be accessed at PetrucciLibrary.org. Anyone who is interested in helping with counter-suing the MPA can email imslproject at yahoo dot ca.


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Rigaud is a town in the Montérégie region of Quebec about 75 km west of Montreal. While in many ways a typical rural Quebec town, it features Mont-Rigaud, a small mountain in the otherwise flat Ottawa River valley. The mountain attracts skiers, hikers, maple syrup enthusiasts and religious tourists. It can make for a pleasant stop for an hour or two on the way between Montreal and Ottawa.
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By car
Rigaud is within sight of exit 9 of Quebec Autoroute 40 (aka the Trans-Canada Highway). Turn left after the exit onto St-Jean-Baptiste street and drive about 1km to town centre. <by>From Montreal, this takes 45-60 minutes except at evening rush hour, when it can take up to 2 hours.
By train One commuter train stops at Rigaud to and from Montreal on weekdays. From Montreal, it leaves Lucien-L'Allier station at 5:20pm. It leaves from Rigaud back to Montreal at 6:50 am. It does not run on weekends.
By bicycle If you are biking along the Quebec portion of the south side of the Ottawa River, you will pass through Rigaud. If you are coming from Ontario or the Carillon ferry, you will reach it via Chemin de la Baie. If you are coming from the Montreal/Hudson direction, you will reach it along Chemin de l'Anse.
Get around
The centre of town is very small, mainly lying along the two streets at the base of Mont-Rigaud. It can be crossed on foot within minutes. However, most of Rigaud's main attractions (ski slopes, maple sugar shacks, hiking trails, restaurants) lie scattered around the mountain. Some of Rigaud's more secluded attractions are on different highway exits than the one that leads to the centre of town. You may need to drive for 10 or 15 minutes between different sites in Rigaud.
There are a few fast food places in the town centre. If you want authentic Quebec poutine (french fries, gravy and cheese), you can't go wrong.
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According to today's Bats game notes today,
Juan Francisco was activated
Chris Denove was sent to AA
Devin Mesoraco was assgined to AAA
Jason Isringhausen was put on the the DL
Jerry Gil was promoted to AAA.
The first four moves were expected, and should benefit the Bats tremendously in their quest for the division/wild card. So it is hard to complain about the Reds only using the Bats for player development, and not helping them win in a pennant race. But the Gil promotion does not help the Bats win, or help develop a player that could conceivably help the Reds.
Gil has walked 53 batters in 56 AAA innings. In his last 10 games he has walked 13 in 13.1 innings. His other peripherals are decent, and he must have had some luck, as his ERA is 4.66, but he clearly has yet to gain anything close to AA level control, and this fault makes him nowhere near being able to help the Bats, let alone the Reds in the near future. Guys like Joe Krebs and Lee Tabor - or pretty much anyone in the Carolina bullpen - would help the Bats more, and could even help the Reds soon. Could someone explain why Gil was brought up instead of Krebs?


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For the first time, researchers have been able to hack into the process of learning in the brain, using induced brain patterns to create a learned behavior. It's not quite as advanced as an instant kung-fu download, and it's not as sleek as cognitive inception, but it's still an important finding that could lead to new teaching and rehabilitation techniques.
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