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Boehner rebuffs Republican open to Obama's tax agenda
House Speaker John Boehner this morning rebuffed the one congressional Republican who has said the GOP should agree to President Obama's plan to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for most taxpayers before addressing the rest of the nation's fiscal issues.
Yesterday, Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., suggested Republicans should help pass an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for income under $250,000, as Mr. Obama has pushed them to do. That would leave the 2 percent of Americans who earn more than $250,000 still facing a tax hike when the cuts expire at the end of the year.
"I think we ought to take the 98 percent deal right now," Cole told Politico. "It doesn't mean I agree with raising the top 2. I don't."
Republicans should fight for extending the current tax rates on higher income levels only after extending them for the middle class, Cole suggested.
The White House has accused Republicans of holding the middle class tax cuts "hostage" by insisting on extending all of the tax cuts. Cole said it was time to strip the White House of that argument.
Boehner said Tuesday that he does not agree with Cole.
"I told Tom earlier in our conference meeting that I disagree with him," Boehner told reporters Wednesday morning. He said that half of the taxpayers who would see higher rates are small business owners.
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The Bush-era tax rates are set to expire at the end of the year. Negotiations over the tax cuts are part of the so-called "fiscal cliff" negotiations under way between House Republicans and the White House. The "fiscal cliff" refers to a series of tax increases and spending cuts slated to go into effect on January 1, which could potentially send the U.S. into another recession. Along with the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts, it includes the expiration of the payroll tax holiday that Mr. Obama instituted. Around $1.2 trillion in cuts to both defense and non-defense programs are also set to kick in on January 2 unless Washington acts.
While they oppose raising income tax rates, some Republicans say they are open to increasing tax revenue by closing loopholes and tax deductions.
"We have done our part, we have put revenues on the table," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said today. Now, he continued, Democrats should do their part by agreeing to scale back Medicare and Medicaid spending. "It is important we put these drivers of the deficit on the table and include them as any agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff," he said.
The White House and a top Democrat said yesterday they wanted to consider entitlement reforms after averting the "fiscal cliff".
Cantor criticized the Obama administration for not engaging in "serious discussion" over entitlements.
"We have not seen any good faith effort on the part of this administration to talk about the problem we are trying to fix," he said. "This has to be part of the agreement, or else we just continue to dig the hole deeper."
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Last night at Madison Square Garden, the Knicks avenged their loss last week by beating the Charlotte Bobcats 91-87. The Knicks did some good things tonight but overall this was not a championship type effort. Despite outplaying Charlotte, the Knicks could not finish them off and let them linger the entire game. Eventually, it took a miss on a wide open 3 to seal a Bobcats defeat. Melo and Amar'e combined for 47 points but shot only 13-43 collectively from the field. Tyson Chandler and Iman Shumpert were fantastic tonight. Chandler finished with 20 points, 13 boards and 3 blocks. Shumpert had 16 points brought some great energy on both sides of the ball.
Here are some notes from the game:
- The Knicks bench scored 3 points tonight. 3 points. Douglas had a basket and Jorts had a free throw. That was it. If this Knicks team wants to compete for a championship, they will need to get more from the bench. Douglas is killing the Knicks right now because he is so out of whack that he cannot even shoot anymore. Jorts is going to be inconsistent on offense because he is more of a defender/rebounder. Walker is Walker. Novak can only shoot 3's and Jerome Jordan isn't rotation ready yet. The Knicks desperately need Jared Jeffries and Baron Davis to return to the lineup because right now the depth on this team is nonexistent.
- Due to the lack of depth, Coach D'Antoni was forced to play the starters all more than 35 minutes last night. With injury-prone stars like Tyson Chandler and Amar'e Stoudemire, playing those kind of minutes is dangerous. I understand that in this shortened season wins are very valuable but at the same time, D'Antoni has to keep the big picture in mind. Do you really need to play Amar'e 39 minutes against Charlotte? Why not put in Jerome Jordan for 3 minutes here, Jorts for another 2 minutes there? This team will be in the playoffs. It will be what they do in the playoffs that defines the 2011 Knicks. In order for them to make a run, the Knicks need all their stars healthy and fresh to go when playoff time rolls around.
- Speaking of Tyson Chandler, he was fantastic last night. Chandler has actually played very well the last 5 games, recording 3 double-double's and scoring over 20 points twice. The Knicks finally got him the ball on cuts and alley oops to the basket. If the Knicks want those shots, they are there all day with Chandler especially when Amar'e and Melo are on the court.
- Amar'e Stoudemire is showing signs of improvement. Yes I know he was only 10/25 from the field. Yes I know, according to Hoopdata, he was 3-12 at the rim. I know he wasn't great on defense (again). I will say this though. At least he got to the rim 12 times. He only took 5 shots from 16 feet and longer. Stoudemire is starting to realize that his best offensive trait is his ability to get inside. The midrange is important yes, but Stoudemire is starting to realize his constant driving of the ball opens up the midrange. He took 3 midrange shots and hit 2 of them. If he can continue to drive to the paint, his mid-range will come. Stoudemire still isn't playing to where he needs to be but he's improving.
- I think Carmelo Anthony is more banged up then he leads people to believe. The last two games, he hasn't dominated. He hasn't been bad and he did step up in the clutch against Charlotte but I think his back is really bothering him. Against Philly, he will be guarded by Andre Iguodala who is a pretty good defender. If Melo isn't 100% then he may be in for a long night.


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Can someone please explain to me why Ozzy gave up the immunity idol to Whitney? I missed some time in the middle of the show, so I may have missed discussion of Whitney being at risk for being sent out to Redemption. Clarification appreciated!! Thanks!
^ I think that their logic was based on the fact that they were sure that they would draw stones. At some point Ozzy says that Upolu would want the stronger players of Savaii to draw stones. So they would not vote Keith because then he would be immune from the drawing, so Upolu would vote for someone weak to be immune for the stones and so a strong player to be eliminated. Or something like that, equally convoluted!
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On Oct. 3, Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR) gave an invited three-hour tutorial at the 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'11), in Brest, Bretagne, France.
Baras spoke on "Wireless Information Infrastructures and the Future Internet: Protocol Components, System Architectures, Security and Privacy." The talk explored several topics critical to broadband communication infrastructures, which are expanding rapidly and are becoming ubiquitous. Baras presented a new methodology to design wireless communication network protocols based on the decomposition of protocols into fundamental components and the use of optimization techniques for tradeoff analysis and synthesis. The new formal and model-based approach allows a systematic study of network performance and cross-layer analysis and design of routing, scheduling, MAC and PHY layer protocols. This approach, called Component Based Networking (CBN), combines and extends ideas and methods from component-based software engineering, formal models, performance models, optimization and trade-off analysis, compositional synthesis.
Trust and reputation are critical concepts in networks – communication, control, computer, social, web-based, economic, biological. Trust evaluation leads to the development of relations and collaborations. These evaluations are based either on direct 'communal' monitoring and inference by the nodes, or on indirect references and credentials. Baras described new fundamental ways for analyzing and evaluating trust in autonomic networked systems. The indirect evaluation process is modeled as a path problem on a directed graph, where nodes represent entities, and edges represent trust relations. He described a novel formulation of trust computation as 'linear' iterations on partially ordered semirings, and demonstrated how this theory can be used to analyze several key problems on the performance of trust algorithms. He presented the methodology of constrained coalitional dynamic games that he has developed for studying the effects of trust on collaboration.
He described and solved various problems of wireless network security, information assurance and trust in dynamic wireless networks. These included detection and defense against attacks, detection of propagating viruses, evaluation of intrusion systems, attacks at the physical, MAC and routing protocols, trust establishment-dynamics-management. Authentication is the process where claims of identity are verified. Most mechanisms of authentication (e.g., digital signatures and certificates) exist above the physical layer, though some (e.g., spread spectrum communications) exist at the physical layer often with an additional cost in bandwidth. Baras introduced a general analysis and design framework for authentication at the physical layer where the authentication information is transmitted concurrently with the data. He described further extensions to OFDM and multicarrier wireless devices. He also described several other methods for authentication and security at the physical layer including the use of signal characteristics to authenticate mobile wireless devices, the discovery of unshakable physical characteristics in fingerprint sensors, the use of special-purpose trusted chips for increasing the security of portable computers and wireless devices and the use of hardware-based security towards establishing compositional security schemes.
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The Ravens lost 34-17 to the Bengals on Sunday, ending their hopes of making it to the playoffs.
Running back Ray Rice spent most of the first half of that loss as an observer, playing only on the first and last series of the half before playing a larger role in the second half of the game. Rice was questionable on the Friday injury report because of a thigh injury, but coach John Harbaugh and Rice said after the game that he was for situational reasons.
On Tuesday, though, Harbaugh said he didn't have an answer about why Rice was out when the topic came up during his season-ending press conference.
"I really can't explain that adequately, in all honesty," Harbaugh said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com. "That was something that happened during the game that, when I looked over and saw it, I put him back in the game. I don't have that answer for you right now. He should've been out there."
Rice's role is one of many things that the Ravens will have to figure out during the offseason. He dropped to 3.1 yards per carry this season, some of which can certainly be explained by offensive line struggles. Harbaugh said he has "complete confidence and belief" in his coaches, including run game coordinator Juan Castillo, without ruling out changes in the staff.
Rice also had a hip injury early in the season, which clearly sapped him of some burst that never really reappeared as the season unfolded. Rice has averaged nearly 300 touches a year in his first six seasons, so staying healthy isn't something Baltimore can take for granted moving forward. Bernard Pierce got more work this year as Rice's No. 2, but his results were also down from last season which leaves several potential routes for the Ravens to take as they try to improve for next season.


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By Dean Irvine, CNN • Updated 12th June 2014
When the CEO of a major international airline says that half of the passengers on his planes are "uncomfortable," you might think the carrier in question had a major PR disaster on its hands.
But what Alexandre de Juniac, CEO of Air France-KLM apparently meant by "uncomfortable" was more of the Gallic, philosophical variety; that people are just unsettled when they sit on his planes and not even an extra few inches of legroom can placate their metaphysical disquiet.
"If I give them more space, they will probably be happier, but it will not change their uncomfortable feeling because they are not comfortable in the air," he said, talking to CNN's Richard Quest at the recent International Air Transport Association (IATA) AGM in Doha, Qatar.
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That sentiment is borne out in some recent research by U.S. PR firm Ketchum.
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And for de Juniac the experience is key and currently lacking.
From the moment a ticket is booked on a website all the way through to the moment the passenger arrives at their destination, it needs to be improved, he believes-- even if some things are out of an airline's control, such as long immigration queues and poorly equipped airports.
"The experience of travel is from 'home to home,'" he said. "We (as an industry) need to do better."
However some question whether or not the industry as a whole needs to do better to collectively to boost its image.
"The reputation of airlines in America are particularly bad, but elsewhere in the world it's seen as pretty good because it is still aspirational to fly," said Rowena Olegario, senior research fellow at Oxford University.
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18. The figure shows the number of units per unit volume of a mixed solution according to the volume of NaOH (aq), which is added to the volume of HCl (aq) when adding NaOH to 20 mL.
Choose the right thing from the next edition. (However, the volume of mixed solution is equal to the sum of the volume of each solution before mixing.)
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aA(g)+3O2(g)->CO2(g)+bB(g) (a, b is Response factor)
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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir's Paul Dyer Named AO in Australia Day Honours List
Paul Dyer's achievements as co-founder and artistic director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir have today been recognized by his inclusion in the Australia Day Honours List.
Paul has been awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) for his 'distinguished service to the performing arts, particularly orchestral music as a director, conductor and musician, through the promotion of educational programs and support for emerging artists".
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"It is a wonderful honour for me, says Paul. "I am so grateful to the people of Australia who have embraced the Brandenburg so strongly.
"When we started the Orchestra in 1990, there was no skill or tradition in the use of period instruments or playing on gut strings in Australia. We had to start from scratch."
'Many fine musicians and students took the leap of faith with me. This award acknowledges just how far we've come in bringing the exquisite sound of period music to life in Australia in the modern age, and with a distinctive Australian style.
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Best management: Pollstar magazine names Dave Matthews Band bossman Coran Capshaw manager of the year at a star-studded gala. (D.C.'s 9:30 Club was named best nightclub.)
Most iffy job security: A February 8 AP story claims the idea of paying $5 million to buy out the contract of UVA coach Pete Gillen, due to the squad's 2-7 ACC record, is "gaining support." Gillen says he's in for the long haul.
Most innovative ploy to get domestic partner benefits at UVA: Gay rights activists and 2003 grads Andrew Borcini and Andrew Bond ask Casteen to extend benefits to UVA employees, and threaten to start accepting donations on the website, DontGivetoUVA.com, if the university doesn't come up with benefits, the Cavalier Daily reports.
Worst bioterrorism: The poison ricin is found in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's Senate office.
Most embarrassing realization: What the heck is ricin? (A castor bean derivative that doesn't die under the irradiation that's now standard in Congress.)
Worst blow to Governor Mark Warner: Republicans shoot down his tax reform plan.
Coldest slap at Albemarle/Charlottesville in the General Assembly: A Senate bill demands the western 29 bypass be built, despite local objections, Bob Gibson reports in the Daily Progress. County supervisor/bypass opponent Dennis Rooker calls the measure "punitive."
Most schizophrenic bills coming out of the House of Delegates on emergency contraception: One prohibits colleges and universities from distributing the morning-after pill; another requires public schools to instruct students that the pill can be used to prevent pregnancy after a rape.
Sternest nod to affordable housing: Albemarle supervisors approve a policy that requires that developers include 15 percent low-cost housing in their projects.
Least likely candidate for Mother of the Year: Samantha Morris is convicted on two felony counts of child neglect February 3 and faces up to 10 years in prison after her five- and two-year-old sons the toddler naked– were found wandering around alone her trailer park while she was asleep with a male friend September 29, according to a Liesel Nowak report in the Progress.
Best sign bigger isn't always better: The Richmond mall called Stony Point Fashion Park, despite being about half the size of its rival, Short Pump Town Center, generated almost as much in sales, logging about $18.5 million during November to Short Pump's $20.7 million, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Best review: The mega-selling Covesville author is back at the top of his game, according to the New York Times' Janet Maslin, in a review of John Grisham's latest legal drama: ''The Last Juror does not need to coast on its author's megapopularity. It's a reminder of how the Grisham juggernaut began."
Best duet: At the Grammy Awards, Charlottesville's own Dave Matthews shares a mic with Sting and sings "I Saw Her Standing There" to honor the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Vince Gill, with Virginia Beach's Pharrell Williams playing drums, rounds out the Grammy's Fab Four.
Best commercial: Brady Bushey Ford parodies Howard Dean's Iowa litany-laden concession speech. Yeeaarrgghh!


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Basketball Coaches Clinic Set for Wednesday
October 22, 2001
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Oct. 22, 2001
NORFOLK, VA. - The Hampton Roads Hoop Summit Coaches Clinic hosted by the Old Dominion University men's basketball staff is Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 4 p.m. -9 p.m. at the Athletic Administration building. Admission is free to all area coaches.
This year's clinic will feature former Monarch head coach and Virginia Sports Hall of Famer Paul Webb, along with Blaine Taylor and Kenny Gattison. For more information, call the basketball office at 683-3362.
The Hampton Roads area can get their first look at the Monarchs Friday night at the Blue-White Scrimmage, beginning at 7:35 p.m. in the fieldhouse. Admission for the game is $5.00.


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Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, Street in Moscow, 1909, titled, numbered and inscribed in Cyrillic (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 25 1/2 by 31 in., 65 by 79 cm. Est. $1.2/1.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
annual autumn auction of Important Russian Art in New York will be held on 1 November 2011. In response to persistent demand for rare and historic works with exceptional provenance, the sale will offer 26 museum-quality masterpieces spanning important genres in Russian art, from 19th century paintings to the early avant-garde and Soviet eras of the 20th century. The auction is estimated at $19.4/28.2 million in total, with a strong average lot value of nearly $1 million, and will be highlighted by pictures from two American institutions: Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagins Pearl Mosque at Delhi, on offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and a group three works by Nicolai Fechin that includes Bearing Away the Bride, on offer from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. A selection of works will be on view in Moscow from 1820 October, before returning to New York for the full sale exhibition opening 26 October in Sothebys York Avenue galleries, alongside the auctions of Impressionist & Modern Art and 19th Century European Art.
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The three paintings by Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin on offer from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City will be led by Bearing Away the Bride, the most significant and monumental canvas by the artist ever to appear at auction (est. $3/5 million). Proceeds from the sale of the three works will help fund future acquisitions of Western materials at the Museum, which is Americas premier institution of Western history, art and culture.
Bearing Away the Bride is the key painting from Fechins exceptionally rare Russian period that defined him as a mature artist, having arrived at the distinct style and ethnographic interests that would characterize his long and prosperous career, and is among the most singularly accomplished of his entire oeuvre. The work was inspired by Fechins travels to remote villages outside Kazan during the summers of 1906 and 1907, where he encountered members of the Cheremis (now Mari) tribes, among others. It depicts a traditional wedding ritual performed by the Cheremis in the village of Lipsha. According to native custom, the newlyweds would return to their respective childhood homes after the wedding ceremony itself, and remain apart for a full week. Fechin here depicts the moment when the groom returns to his wife and escorts her to their new, shared home.
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The November auction will also feature Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagins Pearl Mosque at Delhi, the most accomplished painting from the artists famed Indian series and his most significant canvas to appear at auction in over a century (est. $3/5 million*). The monumental work measuring approximately 13 by 16 feet is on offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), along with seven works in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 November.
Vereshchagin was unquestionably the most famous of all Russian painters during his lifetime. In 1874, he acquired sufficient funds to visit India with his wife and embarked on a two-year journey throughout the country. No other major artist had ever visited India at the time, and Vereshchagin found much inspiration in the intensity of the landscape. Upon his return to Paris in 1876, Vereshchagin set to work on Pearl Mosque at Delhi, which was his largest canvas to date and perhaps the most monumental of his entire oeuvre. Often considered the best, most technically adept output of his career, Vereshchagins Indian series features numerous depictions of architectural monuments, all of which he realistically captured with painstaking attention to detail a testament to the lasting influence of his training under Jean-Léon Gérôme.
19th Century Paintings
In addition to Pearl Mosque at Delhi, 19th century works in the November auction will be highlighted by Ivan Ivanovich Shishkins Sandy Coastline from 1879 (est. $1.2/1.8 million). The work is a marvel of natural rendition that borders on Romanticism, wherein the bright coast and the glowing tops of the abstracted tree trunks contrast with the darkened sky. Shishkin simultaneously depicts the un-idealized reality of the scene, capturing the forests struggle for survival in an inhospitable terrain. The composition might be seen as a metaphor for prerevolutionary Russias precarious viability, meager foundations and impending political unrest, but also and its will to endure.
Early Avant-Garde
Featured on the catalogue cover will be Natalia Sergeevna Goncharovas Street in Moscow from 1909 (est. $1.2/1.5 million). One of the most revolutionary figures of her generation, Goncharova is further distinguished as the most valuable and collectible of all female artists. While most of her canvases from the early-20th century focused on Russian peasant life, Street in Moscow is distinct for its portrayal of a refined bourgeois cityscape, which she embeds with amusing commentary on social classes. Meanwhile the presence of street signs underscores Goncharovas interest in Russian folk art, making this one of the earliest examples of Russian avant-garde painting.
Also on offer from this period is Still Life in a Tavern in a Minor Key by Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov, which similarly represents one of the earliest contributions to the Russian avant-garde (est. $700/900,000). Working in a revolutionary Neo-primitivist style, Larionov emphasizes the Eastern origins of the imagery in this still life by featuring a traditional samovar and cup.
Early-20th Century Masters
Further highlights from the early-20th century include canvases by Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky and Nicholas Roerich. Konchalovsky finished the powerful and vibrant Pines in 1920, dating it to one of the artists most sought-after periods (est. $800,000/1.2 million). In terms of its synthesis of color, texture and form, the work is a superb representation of the aims of the Jack of Diamonds group, which the painter helped to found in 1909, and demonstrates the raw vitality of Konchalovskys work. And We Continue Fishing is the fourth of six paintings in Roerichs Sancta series (est. $1.2/1.5 million). These allegorical works are meant to represent a spiritual journey, and they are unique within the artists work from the 1920s for their distinctively Russian setting and imagery. The work exudes a simplicity of form and a reverence of subject that evokes the nature of icon painting.
Soviet Era Works
Paintings from Soviet-Era artists will be led by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodievs Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman (est. $3/4 million). Kustodiev was approached by the Central Bureau to prepare decorative designs for the first anniversary celebration of the October Revolution in 1918. The result was a series of large-scale panels that decorated Ruzheinaya Square in what was then Petrograd, and it is all but certain that Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman was executed as part of this remarkable cycle. The composition centers on one imposing figure the equestrian statue featuring Tsar Peter I, St. Petersburgs founder. The bold palette and exuberant technique evoke Kustodievs own intense nationalism.
Another highlight from this period will be Faces of a Generation by Aristarkh Vasilevich Lentulov (est. $1.4/1.6 million). In the 1930s, Lentulov adjusted his style to reflect the drastic changes occurring around him, and the resulting works from his Industrial Period are among his rarest and most emotive. The laborers at the heart of the revolution figure prominently in his paintings from this period, their faces dominating the artists monumental canvases and infusing them with psychological intensity.
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Frenchman Edouard Dubois produced a stunning performance to win the Kärnten Golf Open presented by Mazda, carding a nine under par 63 in the final round to overturn a five shot deficit behind overnight leader Andrea Pavan.
The Italian had led from the start after opening rounds of 63 and 64 gave him a seven shot halfway lead. That advantage was cut to five after he posted a 70 on day three in response to Dubois' sparkling 65, and it was reduced to nothing by midway through the final round as he struggled to a level par 72.
Pavan had to settle for second, four shots behind Dubois at 19 under, while Englishman Andrew Johnston's 66 gave him a share of third place at 16 under alongside compatriot Chris Paisley and Swede Bjorn Åkesson, who both carded 70.
It was on the front nine that Dubois again laid the foundations for a sublime score at Golf Club Klagenfurt-Seltenheim. Yesterday he was six under at the turn; today he was five under, and he picked up more shots at the tenth, 14th, 16th and 17th. The 16th was the turning point as Pavan's bogey put his rival two shots ahead, and the 18th was the final nail in the coffin as the Italian hit his second shot in the lake en route to a double bogey.
"It's amazing," said Dubois, who earns a cheque for €25,600 and rises from 68th to seventh in the Challenge Tour Rankings. "I played like I was in a dream. I was six shots behind Andrea after two holes today but then I got on a roll and the birdies kept coming. It felt like I couldn't do anything wrong.
"I holed a very long putt on the seventh – maybe 20 metres – and it was around the turn that I could feel something happening, I thought maybe I could win. I had another good birdie on the tenth to go into the lead and I was never behind after that.
"I was a little bit nervous on the 18th but not so much before that. That surprised me a little bit – I just felt so good. It's my first Challenge Tour win and it feels so brilliant. It's great for my place in the Rankings, for my confidence, everything."
Pavan rued his bad luck in the final round, but admitted he could take plenty of positives from the week despite not winning.
"I started off okay but made a three-putt on the fourth which was annoying," said the 22 year old from Rome. "I couldn't get my wedges really close and the putts weren't dropping. I made two good up-and-downs on the ninth and tenth and they were crucial.
"Meanwhile Edouard was playing unbelievable golf so I knew I had to make something happen. I knew I had to put some pressure on him. On the par five 14th I hit it really close and made the putt for birdie, but then he made a long putt for birdie too.
"On the 16th I got a bad break – the ball was stuck on the lip of the bunker on a down slope. I was thinking par at worst but didn't hit it great and then had a tough shot from the rough. On the 17th I made a good putt for birdie from about five metres and I'm thinking it's down to one shot going down the 18th, but then he holes another long putt to make four too. What can you do?
"On the 18th I knew he wasn't going to make bogey so I tried to go right at the pin but it ended up going in the lake. The first two days were great; perhaps the weekend I should have done better. I didn't feel like my game was at its best and I still shot 19 under so I can't be too disappointed."
Dubois' 23 under par 265 is comfortably the lowest total score of the season, beating the previous best set by Nicolas Meitinger and Maximilian Keiffer at the Allianz Challenge de France by eight shots.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will make Japanese language Kindle e-readers and tablets available next month, as the U.S. online seller joins a slew of e-book makers in trying to win market share in the world's second-biggest publishing market.
Amazon began taking pre-orders on Wednesday for its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, which starts with a price tag of 8,480 yen ($110), and Kindle Fire tablet, which has a base price of 12,800 yen ($160). Both devices will be available from November 19.
The online retailer also said it will start offering Kindle e-book titles on its Japanese website from October 25, with a selection of more than 50,000 Japanese-language titles, including books from local publishers such as Kodansha Ltd and Kadokawa Group Holding.
The launch pits Amazon against local players Rakuten Inc, which debuted its Kobo e-reader device in July, and Sony as well as Apple Inc and Google Inc, in competing for digital content market share in Japan.
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Back in 2008, digital cameras fell into two basic categories: point-and-shoot cameras, and digital single-lens reflex cameras (digital SLRs or DSLRs). Now, there's a new camera category that attempts to bridge this divide: Four Thirds Cameras. These cameras combine the compactness of a point-and-shoot camera with the advanced features of a DSLR camera. Depending on who you talk to you, you'll hear these cameras called "Micro Four Thirds", "Interchangeable Lens Compacts", "Hybrid Digitals" or even "EVIL cameras" (Electronic View-finder, Interchangeable Lens).
Basically, the appeal of these cameras is that they are small enough to fit into a jacket pocket, but are capable of taking professional photographs. So, if you want to take high-quality photos while traveling, hiking, or while strolling through the city, these cameras are for you. Because they have interchangeable lenses, they allow for a photographic versatility previously unavailable on a compact digital camera.
Four Thirds Cameras achieve this compactness by doing away with the mirror lens system, and some of the manual controls normally found on DSLRs. Instead, Four Thirds cameras use a LCD viewfinder, and typically have most controls accessible via on-screen menus.
Like DSLRs, these cameras have image sensors that are much larger than point-and-shoot cameras, which makes for better photos, especially in low light.
Right now, only four companies make interchangeable lens compact cameras: Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony. Olympus and Panasonic use the Micro Four Thirds standards, while Samsung and Sony have proprietary systems.
Currently, the range of lenses made specifically for these cameras is limited. But you can fit them with older lenses by using a simple adaptor ring. They actually support a wider range of lenses than most DSLRs, because they have a thin lens-to-sensor distance. This means you can make use of lenses from Canon, Nikon, Leica M, Contax / Konica, Contax G, Sony / Minolta A-mount, Olympus 4/3, Olympus PEN, and even cinema C-mount lenses. Note, however, that these lens may be manual focus only and require an aperture ring or control mechanism for usability.
Here is our round-up of the best "Micro Four Thirds" or "Interchangeable Lenses Compact" cameras for under $600:
Olympus PEN E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds Camera
The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is the Micro Four Thirds camera that has received the most recommendations from experts and buyers. We surveyed reviews on the major camera review sites: Imaging Resource, DPReview, CNET and Amazon.
The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is a sturdy, 12.3-megapixel camera that includes a built-in pop-up flash. You can purchase this camera with a 17mm lens, making for a very portable configuration.
Reviewers say this camera takes great photos, rivaling the quality available from the best DSLR cameras. Additionally, this camera has the Olympus JPEG engine which is regarded in the business as one of the best. It has a 2.7-inch LCD screen that incorporates a "Live View" function, replacing a built-in viewfinder.
This camera does have a few drawbacks. Reviewers say the auto focus feature is quite slow, and that the camera has noticeable delays between shots compared to a DSLR (although a firmware upgraded has helped this). Also, the camera has no manual control wheel but instead has menu commands for adjusting aperture, shutter speed and exposure. Those who are accustomed to a control wheel might find this process tedious. It has a maximum shutter speed of 1/2000th sec — most DSLR cameras have max of 1/4000th sec or above.
Also, the battery life is not stellar on the PEN E-PL1. Most reviewers said the camera lasted only one full day of use before needing a recharge (about 290 shots per charge). Some reviewers suggest bringing extra batteries if this is an issue.
- Solid, compact construction
- Features a pop-up flash
- Features image stabilization
- Delays between shots
- Slow Auto-Focus
- No manual control wheel (for aperture, shutter, and exposure adjustments)
- Battery life is not great
- Maximum shutter speed 1/2000th sec, vs. 1/4000th for most DSLRs
Overall, this is a top-rated, rugged camera that can take gorgeous pictures. The slow auto-focus and menu-based controls may frustrate some. Selling for under $500, this is a great step-up from a point-and-shoot camera, it provides many of the advanced features found in DSLRs.
The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is available at Amazon for $490. The older Olympus Pen E-P1 with a slim-line 17mm lens is available here.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 Micro Four Thirds Camera
The Lumix DMC-G2 is another Micro Four Thirds camera that gets top marks from expert reviewers. Like the Olympus PEN PL-1, the quality of the images from this camera are typically stunning, and on par with images from a quality DSLR.
The Lumix DMC-G2 features 12.1-megapixels sensor, and a touch-screen LCD that rotates 180° from side to side and tilts 270° up and down. Reviewers were very impressed by the build quality and the ergonomics of this camera. They say the camera is quick to start up, and has snappy performance, compared to its competition.
On the negative side, reviewers pointed out that the camera has no image stabilization, and the image quality is poor in ISO 1600 and above. The Lumix DMC-G2 is also not the most compact camera of its kind — it's a bit heavier and larger than the Olympus PEN E-PL1.
- Fast auto-focus
- Fast start-up time
- Easy-to-use menus
- LCD accurately shows the image you'll get
- LCD screen can be rotated
- Sturdy build
- Not as quite as compact as competition
- Image quality in ISO 1600 and above is not as good as a DSLR
- Delay between photos is 0.5-1 secs
The Lumix DMC-G2 is available at Amazon for $547.
Sony Alpha NEX-3 Interchangeable Lens Camera
In response to the Micro Four Thirds cameras introduced by Panasonic and Olympus, Sony has created its own line of compact, lens interchangeable cameras. So far there are only two cameras in this line: the Sony Alpha NEX-3, and the Sony Alpha NEX5. These cameras use E-mount lenses, but other lenses can be used together with an adaptor.
The Sony Alpha NEX-3 is one of the highest rated cameras of its type, priced under $500, and directly competing with the two cameras we reviewed above. Sony's Alpha NEX3 is even more compact that those cameras. Sony claims it's the world's smallest and lightest interchangeable lens camera. The exact dimensions are: 117 x 63 x 33mm, and it weighs 297g (10.5 oz). Despite its size, this camera boasts a sensor that is 50% larger than the Micro Four Thirds format. This is a breakthrough unique to Sony, and reviewers say this improves image quality overall.
The NEXs don't have a built-in flash, but come with an attachable external flash, which draws its power from the camera's main battery.
One thing to note — the range of lenses available for this camera is quite limited at this time. You can use A-mount lenses (used by Sony's Alpha DSLR cameras) by using a LA-EA1 adaptor. This is an optional accessory. The bundled 18-55 mm F3.5-5.6 lens has a metal finish and is of excellent quality. However, you will need buy a compact lens if you don't want to obliterate the camera's slim profile (see photo above). You can buy this camera with a 16mm lens bundled with it.
- High resolution image sensor
- Good ISO performance
- Good build quality
- Tiltable high-resolution screen
- Good point-and-shoot support
- Limited lenses available
- LCD hard to see in bright sunlight
- Potentially short battery life (if screen is left on)
The Sony Alpha NEX-5 is very similar to NEX-3, the only important difference is the that NEX-5 supports 1080 HD video recording. It sells for $699 from Amazon.
The Sony Alpha NEX-3 is available from Amazon for $499. The 16mm version is available here.


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So I'm at the point where the main things I have to do in the game is start taking on the Vicious level dungeons, and I'm finding myself a little overwhelmed. I think I've gotten at least okay at the game, but feel like there have to be some major strategies I'm missing out on, because I don't really feel like I know how to beat any of them. The closest I've come was getting to the Matron in DI with no resources left, but other than that not much progress has been made.
What are some of the strategies commonly used?
EDIT: Thanks to a barbarian Taurog run, I was able to beat the Matron, but I don't feel like I understand how to do it WITHOUT a barbarian, either. Which I guess says to me I don't have the knowledge I need?


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If you're among the estimated 27 million Americans who suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee or hip, then perhaps you've tried the nutritional supplements glucosamine and chondroitin. They've been marketed for joint health for about 20 years, and sales are still brisk. But do they help?
Some horses might say yes. The supplements were first tried in horses, and there's some evidence that the supplements might improve joint function for them.
Glucosamine and chondroitin are also marketed to dog owners. But what about us humans? Unfortunately, researchers say that for us the results just don't match the glowing testimonials.
It would seem to make sense that glucosamine and chondroitin could help. They're both natural substances found in cartilage, that hard connective tissue that pads joints.
Glucosamine is an amino sugar that may help renew cartilage, and chondroitin sulfate is a complex carbohydrate that is thought to help cartilage retain water. Arthritis causes pain, swelling and stiffness in joints and damages cartilage over time. So the thought was maybe extra glucosamine and chondroitin could help maintain and even repair the damage.
That was plausible enough for the National Institutes of Health to fund a $12.5 million randomized clinical trial to test the supplements' effectiveness. It assigned 1,583 people around the country to take either glucosamine, chondroitin, a combination of the two, an anti-inflammatory drug (celecoxib) or a placebo. Neither participants nor the researchers knew what they were taking.
The vast majority of patients reported no significant difference in pain relief between glucosamine, chondroitin, a combination of the two and placebo.
In all, 60 percent of patients taking the sugar pill said their pain was reduced by about 20 percent, while 66 percent of those taking the supplements reported similar pain reduction. The results were published in 2006 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
But for a small subset of patients, those with moderate to severe arthritis pain in a knee, there was some benefit.
"About 79 percent had a 20 percent or greater reduction in pain, compared to about 54 percent for placebo," says Dr. Allen Sawitzke, a rheumatologist at the University of Utah Hospital and Clinics and co-leader of the GAIT study. "So some patients who have severe pain may get more benefit than somebody who's got a mild case."
Because the number of patients in that group was so small, Sawitzke cautions that finding is only preliminary and needs to be confirmed by further study.
Two large studies currently underway, one in Europe and one in Australia, may help answer that question. They're expected to wrap up within one year, which Sawitzke says "will either reopen the debate or put an end to it, depending on the results."
But the findings from the GAIT study were crystal clear, says Dr. David Felson, a rheumatologist at Boston University School of Medicine. There was just no benefit for most patients who took the supplements compared to placebo, "meaning that it didn't relieve pain any better than placebo." The supplements didn't affect structure of the joint (they did X-rays), and it didn't cause any delay in the progression of the disease compared to placebo, he adds. "It basically didn't have any effect."
On the other hand, Felson says he doesn't disabuse patients of the notion that the supplements are helping if patients truly believe they are, even though a month's supply can cost $30 to $50. "Far be it from me to take away either the placebo effect or an idiosyncratic reaction that might be of benefit," he says.
And if taking supplements or a placebo pill make it more likely that people will be active and lose weight, that's a good thing, according to Dr. Patience White, a rheumatologist and spokesperson for The Arthritis Foundation. "My goal as a practicing physician is to decrease pain so patients will actually do the things that really make a difference in terms of changing the natural history of osteoarthritis, which is weight reduction and physical activity," she notes. People have a hard time exercising and losing weight if they hurt.
There's abundant evidence that losing weight and regular exercise are the most effective treatments available for osteoarthritis pain, White adds. "It's quite striking," she says. "If you lose only five pounds, you're talking about the equivalent of 20 pounds [less stress] across those knees, so you can imagine it would make quite a difference."
Pretty much any type of exercise seems to reduce pain and increase flexibility, according to Felson. "There have been a variety of different exercise studies which have tried everything from water aerobics to walking to muscle strengthening, and they all seem to work."
Twenty-seven million people in this country have joint pain because of osteoarthritis. And sales of a supplement that's supposed to help them are booming. It's a supplement called glucosamine chondroitin.
NPR's Patti Neighmond reports on how well it works.
PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYLINE: Here's the rationale for why the supplement might help. Glucosamine and chondroitin are both natural substances found in and around the cartilage of the joints. Rheumatologist Allen Sawitzke at the University of Utah says they're found in the cells of cartilage.
ALLEN SAWITZKE: Cartilage is - got cells in it like the rest of the body but it also has what we call matrix, which is just proteins and kind of like Jell-O, I guess we'll call it.
NEIGHMOND: And that Jell-O-like substance is what protects joints when knees or hips are jolted. It also helps with flexibility.
And because osteoarthritis is a wear and tear disease - where cartilage actually degenerates - the idea is that taking extra glucosamine and chondroitin might help maintain and even repair the damage.
Findings from a large study Sawitzke worked on suggest that for certain patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, there may be some benefit.
SAWITZKE: In people with moderate to severe pain there seemed to be some relief.
NEIGHMOND: Those patients reported 25 percent greater pain relief than those taking other treatments or a placebo. But it was a small number of patients, and in fact, the vast majority of people in the study who took the supplements did no better than those who took the placebo.
David Felson is a rheumatologist at Boston University School of Medicine.
DAVID FELSON: Meaning that it didn't relieve pain any better than placebo; meaning that it didn't affect the structure of the joint - they got x-rays to evaluate structure of the joint; that it didn't cause any delay in the structural progression of the disease compared to placebo - that it basically didn't have any affect.
NEIGHMOND: Even so, sales of the supplement are in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Felson says that's largely due to hype.
FELSON: There's a lot of advertising out there that suggests that glucosamine is effective and chondroitin is effective, even though the best evidence suggests they don't work.
NEIGHMOND: So, the question for most people is simple: Are they wasting their money buying these supplements?
PATIENCE WHITE: Anything that can help people with their pain is wonderful.
NEIGHMOND: Dr. Patience White is a rheumatologist and spokesperson for The Arthritis Foundation.
White says the placebo effect is powerful. And in the study 60. percent of patients taking a placebo reported significantly less pain. And if people feel less pain - no matter what the reason, she says - that's a good thing.
WHITE: My goal as a practicing physician is to decease pain so they'll actually do the things that really make a difference in terms of changing the natural history of osteoarthritis, which is weight reduction and physical activity - both of which people won't do when they hurt.
NEIGHMOND: And White says there's been lots of research proving that the most effective treatments for osteoarthritis, particularly of the knee, is exercise and weight loss.
WHITE: It's quite striking that if you lose only five pound you're talking about the equivalent of 20 pounds across those knees so you can imagine it would make quite a difference.
NEIGHMOND: And, when it comes to exercise, rheumatologist David Felson says it really doesn't matter what kind you do.
FELSON: There've been a variety of different exercise studies which have tried anything from water aerobics, to walking, to muscle strengthening and they all seem to work.
NEIGHMOND: Probably by boosting muscle strength - around the failing joint. So exercise is definitely the way to go, but if you're taking glucosamine chondroitin supplements anyway, and you think they help - then Felson says here's no harm in doing it. The supplements have been shown to be safe.
Patti Neighmond, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Here are some tips to consider that will help things move quickly with your servlets.
3.2.1 Pregenerate Content Offline and Cache Like Mad
Pregeneration and caching of content can be key to providing your site visitors with a quality experience. With the right pregeneration and caching, web pages pop up rather than drag, and loads are reduced "sometimes dramatically "on the client, server, and network. In this section I'll provide advice for how best to pregenerate content and cache at the client, at the proxy, and at the server. By the end of this section you'll feel compelled to generate new content during request handling only in worst-case scenarios.
There's no need to dynamically regenerate content that doesn't change between requests . Yet such regeneration happens all the time because servlets and JSPs provide an easy way to template a site by pulling in headers, footers, and other content at runtime. Now this might sound like strange guidance in a chapter on servlets, but in many of these situations servlets aren't the best choice. It's better to "build" the content offline and serve it as static content. When the content changes, you can build the content again. Pull the content together once it is offline rather than during every request.
Take, for example, an online magazine, newspaper, or weblog ('blog). How do the pros handle templatization without burdening the server? By pregenerating the content. Articles added to a site are written and submitted in a standard format (often XML-based) which, when run through a build process, produces a comprehensive update to the web site. The build reformats the article into HTML, creates links to the article from other pages, adds the content into the search engine (before the HTML reformatting), and ultimately prepares the site to handle heavy loads without extreme resources. You can see this in action with 'blog tools such as MovableType. It's a Perl application, but it generates content statically, so Perl doesn't even need to run on the production server.
As another example, think of an e-tailer with millions of catalog items and thousands of visitors. Clearly, the content should be database- backed and regularly updated, yet because much of the content will be identical for all visitors between updates, the site can effectively use pregeneration. The millions of catalog item description pages can be built offline, so the server load will be greatly reduced. Regular site builds keep the content fresh.
The challenge comes where the static and dynamic content meet. For example, the e-tailer might need servlets to handle the dynamic aspects of its site, such as an item review system or checkout counter. In this example, the item review can invoke a servlet to update the database, but the servlet doesn't necessarily need to immediately update the page. In fact, you see just such a delay with Amazon.com updates "a human review and subsequent site build must take place before you see new comments. The checkout pages in our example, however, can be implemented as a fully servlet-based environment. Just make sure special coordination is implemented to ensure that the template look and feel used by the servlets matches the template look and feel implemented during the offline build.
220.127.116.11 Pregeneration tools
Unfortunately, few professional-quality, reasonably priced standard tools are available to handle the offline build process. Most companies and webmasters either purchase high-end content management systems or develop custom tools that satisfy their own needs. Perhaps that's why more people don't practice offline site building until their site load requires it.
For those looking for a tool, the Apache Jakarta project manages its own content using something called Anakia. Built on Apache Velocity, Anakia runs XML content through an XSL stylesheet to produce static HTML offline. Apache Ant, the famous Java build system, manages the site build. Others have had success with Macromedia Dreamweaver templates. Dreamweaver has the advantage of viewing JSP, WebMacro, Velocity, and Tea files as simple template files whose HTML contents are autoupdated when a template changes, providing a helpful bridge between the static and the dynamic.
There's a need here for a good common tool. If you think you have the right tool, please share it or evangelize it. Maybe it's out there and we just haven't heard of it yet.
22.214.171.124 Cache on the client
Pregeneration and caching go hand in hand because caching is nothing more than holding what you previously generated. Browsers (a.k.a. clients ) all have caches, and it behooves a servlet developer to make use of them. The Last-Modified HTTP header provides the key to effective caching. Attached to a response, this header tells the browser when the content last changed. This is useful because if the browser requests the same content again, it can attach an If-Modified-Since header with the previous Last-Modified time, telling the server it needs to issue a full response only if the content has changed since that time. If the content hasn't changed, the server can issue a short status code 304 response, and the client can pull the content from its cache, avoiding the doGet( ) or doPost( ) methods entirely and saving server resources and bandwidth.
A servlet takes advantage of Last-Modified by implementing the getLastModified( ) method on itself. This method returns the time as a long at which the content was last changed, as shown in Example 3-6. That's all a servlet has to do. The server handles issuing the HTTP header and intercepting If-Modified-Since requests.
Example 3-6. The getLastModified( ) method
public long getLastModified(HttpServletRequest req) { return dataModified.getTime( ) / 1000 * 1000; }
The getLastModified( ) method is easy to implement and should be implemented for any content that has a lifespan of more than a minute. For details on getLastModified( ) , see my book, Java Servlet Programming , Second Edition (O'Reilly).
22.214.171.124 Cache at the proxy
While implementing getLastModified( ) to make use of client caches is a good idea, there are bigger caches to consider. Oftentimes, especially at companies or large ISPs, browsers use a proxy to connect to the Web. These proxies commonly implement a shared cache of the content they're fetching so that if another user (or the same user ) requests it again, the proxy can return the response without needing to access the original web server. Proxies help reduce latency and improve bandwidth utilization. The content might come from across the world, but it's served as if it's on the local LAN "because it is.
The Last-Modified header helps web caches as it does client caches, but web caches can be helped more if a servlet hints to the cache when the content is going to change, giving the cache a timeframe during which it can serve the content without even connecting to the server. The easiest way to do this is to set the Expires header, indicating the time when the content should be considered stale. For example:
// This content will expire in 24 hours. response.setDateHeader("Expires", System.currentTimeMillis( ) + 24*60*60*1000);
If you take my earlier advice and build some parts of your site on a daily basis, you can set the Expires header on those pages accordingly and watch as the distributed proxy caches take the load off your server. Some clients can also use the Expires header to avoid refetching content they already have.
A servlet can set other headers as well. The Cache-Control header provides many advanced dials and knobs for interacting with a cache. For example, setting the header value to only-if-cached requests the content only if it's cached. For more information on Cache-Control , see http://www.servlets.com/rfcs/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9. A great overview of caching strategies is also available at http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs. This site also includes tips for how to count page accesses even while caching.
184.108.40.206 Cache on the server
Caching at the client and proxy levels helps if requests came from the same person or organization, but what about the multitude of requests from all the different browsers? This is why the last level of caching needs to happen on the server side. Any content that takes significant time or resources to generate but doesn't generally change between requests is a good candidate for server-side caching. In addition, server-side caching works for both full pages and (unlike other caching technologies) parts of pages.
Take, for example, an RSS text feed. In case you're not familiar, RSS stands for Rich Site Summary and is an XML-based file format with which publishers advertise new content. Affiliates can pull the RSS files and display links between sites. Servlets.com (http://www.servlets.com), for example, pulls and links to servlet- related articles, using RSS with O'Reilly's Meerkat (http://meerkat.oreillynet.com) as the RSS newsfeed hub.
Suppose you want to display an RSS feed for an affiliate site, updated every 30 minutes. This data should absolutely be cached on the server side. Not only would it be slow to pull an RSS feed for every request, but it's also terribly poor form. The cache can be implemented using an internal timer or, more easily, a simple date comparator. The code to pull the stories can check on each access if it's time to refetch and reformat the display. Because the data is small, the formatted content can be held in memory. Example 3-7 demonstrates sample code that would manage the story cache. On top of this cache might be another cache holding the actual String (or bytes) to be displayed.
Example 3-7. Caching RSS feeds
public Story[ ] getStories(String url) { Story[ ] stories = (Story[ ]) storyCache.get(url); Long lastUpdate = (Long) timeCache.get(url); long halfHourAgo = System.currentTimeMillis( ) - 30*60*1000; if (stories = = null stories.length = = 0 lastUpdate = = null (lastUpdate.longValue( ) < halfHourAgo)) { refetch( ); } return stories; }
As a second example, take a stock chart diagram as found on any financial site. This presents a more significant challenge because such a site can support thousands of stock symbols, each offering charts of different sizes with different time spans and sometimes even allowing graphical comparisons between stocks. In this application caching will be absolutely necessary because generating a chart takes significant time and resources, and dynamically generating every chart would balloon the server requirements.
A good solution would be multifaceted. Some charts can be statically built offline (as discussed earlier in this section). These charts would be served as files. This technique works for most commonly accessed charts that don't change more than once a day. Other charts, perhaps ones that are accessed heavily but change frequently, such as a day's activity charts for popular stocks, would benefit from being cached in memory and served directly. They might be stored using a SoftReference . Soft references free the memory if the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) gets low. Still other charts, perhaps ones that are less popular or actively changing, would benefit from being cached by servlets to the filesystem, stored in a semirandom temporary file whose contents can be pulled by a servlet instead of generated by the servlet. The File.createTempFile( ) method can help manage such files.
Many potential solutions exist, and this shouldn't be taken as gospel. The main point is that memory caches, temporary file caches, and prebuilt static files are good components of any design for caching on the server.
Beyond the server cache, it's important to remember the client and proxy caches. The chart pages should implement getLastModified( ) and set the Expires and/or Cache-Control headers. This will reduce the load on the server and increase responsiveness even more.
126.96.36.199 . . . Or don't cache at all
Even though caching makes sense most of the time and should be enabled whenever possible, some types of content are unsuitable for caching and must always be refreshed. Take, for example, a current status indicator or a "Please wait . . . " page that uses a Refresh tag to periodically access the server during the wait. But because of the sheer number of locations where content might be cached "at the client, proxy, and server levels "and because of several notorious browser bugs (see http://www.web-caching.com/browserbugs.html), it can be difficult to effectively turn off caching across the board.
After spending hours attempting to disable caching, programmers can feel like magicians searching in vain for the right magic spell. Well, Harry Potter, Example 3-8 provides that magic spell, gathered from personal experience and the recommendations of the Net Wizards.
Example 3-8. The magic spell to disable caching
// Set to expire far in the past. res.setHeader("Expires", "Sat, 6 May 1995 12:00:00 GMT"); // Set standard HTTP/1.1 no-cache headers. res.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); // Set IE extended HTTP/1.1 no-cache headers (use addHeader). res.addHeader("Cache-Control", "post-check=0, pre-check=0"); // Set standard HTTP/1.0 no-cache header. res.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
The Expires header indicates that the page expired long ago, thus making the page a poor cache candidate. The first Cache-Control header sets three directives that each disable caching. One tells caches not to store this content, another not to use the content to satisfy another request, and the last to always revalidate the content on a later request if it's expired (which, conveniently, it always is). One directive might be fine, but in magic spells and on the Web, it's always good to play things safe.
The second Cache-Control header sets two caching "extensions" supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Without getting into the details on nonstandard directives, suffice to say that setting pre-check and post-check to indicates that the content should always be refetched. Because it's adding another value to the Cache-Control header, we use addHeader( ) , introduced in Servlet API 2.2. For servlet containers supporting earlier versions, you can combine the two calls onto one line.
The last header, Pragma , is defined in HTTP/1.0 and supported by some caches that don't understand Cache-Control . Put these headers together, and you have a potent mix of directives to disable caching. Some programmers also add a getLastModified( ) method that returns a time in the past.
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Who saw that one coming?
With the release of the new expansion, I'm sure that most, if not all, of us will end up picking it up and immersing ourselves in the world and the lore behind the pandaren.
As with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, there is also the matter of the fact that there is a new class available with the release of Mists of Pandaria, the monk class.
Here's the thing, having gone through his expansion phase a few times now, we can more accurately predict what sort of paths that people will choose to take compared to when the Burning Crusade was first released when everything sort of took everyone by surprise.
So given that a new class will be released that will be able to fulfill the roles of melee dps, healer and tank, what does this mean for us?
Namely, it means that there's likely going to be a whole lot of people attempting to reroll so that they can play around at being a fat panda or a monk.
If you play really casually without really having a dedicated raiding guild that depends on you to be their tank, all the more power to you. Go out there when the expansion releases and do whatever gives you the most satisfaction, whether it's powering through to the new level cap or rerolling to try out a panda or a monk class.
If you have an alright raiding guild, to be honest, you'd probably still be alright rerolling when the expansion was released to make yourself a panda. While you'd be a bit behind everyone else when it came to hitting 90, chances are decent that your guild's makeup at 90 won't be the same as it is now at 85 so there should be room to do what you want and still be a reliable tank for your guild as it grows.
If you're standing on the cutting edge of progression, things aren't so freeform.
While you're definitely free to do whatever makes you happy and gives you the most enjoyment, you can't expect a serious raiding guild to sit there twiddling their thumbs and waiting for you to hit 90 with your new panda so that you can tank for them and they'll likely fill your spot with another tank who cares more about the guild's progression than being a pandaren.
In this case, I'd recommend getting your current main to 90 as your first priority so that you can assist your guild as soon as they scrape together enough 90's to start raiding and start levelling your new panda or new monk on the side.
Hopefully, it won't take all that long for you to pop him up to the max level and with a bit of sweet talk, you should be able to switch out your old tank for your new fat bear and everyone will be satisfied.


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Women at Work
Featuring photographs from UK Libraries' Special Collections, this exhibit celebrates women's history month. These images were originally included in the pictorial history Women in Lexington and were compiled to highlight the activities, achievements, and the lives of everyday Kentucky women. The theme women at work was chosen to highlight the diverse ways women have contributed to the workforce and how they were also breaking out of traditionally gender specific work activities.
Historically, Kentucky women have been crucial forces and contributed to a wide range of fields. They have contributed to the women's suffrage movement, the education system, charitable organizations, architecture, medicine, law, and key women's groups. By 1937, more women nationally were active in the workforce, but conditions did not improve for African American women until civil rights legislation.
Post World War II, Lexington developed further – manufacturing expanded, enrollment at the universities grew, the population increased and new housing crept into the farmlands. As the city grew, so did the opportunities for women in the workforce. By 1960, more women were getting jobs outside the home, and by 1969 the percent of women in the workforce was up to 43%, an increase from 25% in 1940. In 1963, Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, enacting the first federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination


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