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Virtual Umbrella: Why We Chose Virtual Reality
Samantha Kingston will explore why she bet her career on virtual reality and what it's really like running a marketing company solely for VR, looking at trends and what challenges are ahead for 2018.
Virtual Umbrella is an award-winning marketing consultancy specialising in Virtual Reality. Virtual Umbrella has worked on a number of notable projects including creating a virtual reality cinema in Cannes, curating and running a technology hub as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and providing immersive experiences along the BBC and Imperial War Museum.
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Samantha Kingston is the award-winning client director at Virtual Umbrella. Virtual Umbrella is a marketing and PR agency specialising in virtual reality. Samantha fell into the VR industry by accident but has spent her time in the industry building up her own company and working with the VR industry in the UK, Europe, and US. Samantha is an advocate for Women in tech and VR and she is often found moderating panels on equality in the workplace. In 2016 she won the regional and national 'New Business' award at Venus Awards, highlighted as one of MCV 30 under 30 and one of the rising stars of BIMA100 2016.
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(Recipe from allrecipes.com) Pet Tip: How to Keep Your Pet Healthy A researcher at the University of Hertfordshire, England, has proven that pets and their owners often look, think and act alike. Unfortunately, that's not always a good thing -- pets and humans can have similar weight problems. It's estimated that between 25 and 40 percent of dogs and cats and 31 percent of people in the U.S. are overweight. Just like humans, overweight dogs and cats are more likely to get a number of diseases and health problems, including diabetes, heart disease, skin conditions, liver disease and joint problems. So putting yourself and Fido on a diet and exercise regiment will result in a better lifestyle for everyone. Here are some AVMA pet weight-loss tips: - A visit to your veterinarian is the best way to determine if your pet is overweight, but there are a couple of common-sense guidelines: A dog should have a discernible waist without fat deposits, and ribs should be easy to feel while stroking a dog. In cats, if there is any rounding of the abdomen or bulging in the back, limbs, neck or face, you've got a fat cat. - Carefully measure the food you give your pets and feed them at least twice a day. If the pet hasn't finished their food in about 20 minutes, take the bowl away to discourage overeating. Dogs and cats fed once a day, or continuously, tend to be the fattest. - Monitor the number and size of the treats you give in praise. A large dog treat can be over 100 calories, while a small treat has as little as 10 calories. If you can't help but treat your beloved pet, break them in half to cut the calories. - Diet pet foods are available but must meet certain standards to qualify for that designation. For instance, "low-calorie" dog food must be no more than 310 calories per cup for dry food or 90 calories per 1/2 cup wet, and "low-fat" or "lean" must be no more than 9 percent fat in dry food and 4 percent fat wet. - High-fiber pet foods can help a pet's diet by making your best friend feel full with fewer calories. No-salt, canned string beans can be added to either dry or wet food to provide bulk and fiber with very few calories. - The more exercise the better. Research has shown that dogs are 10 percent less likely to be obese for each hour of exercise they got every day. - To exercise a cat, engage them with a feather, string or laser pointer, and try to get them running after a toy as they swat at it. To exercise a dog, consider agility training, play time with other dogs, and chasing a ball or Frisbee. There is no better exercise for dogs, horses and humans than a brisk walk. - Hypothyroidism is a common cause of obesity in humans, dogs and cats, but it's much easier to diagnose in humans. If your dog or cat is obese without a clear cause, make a veterinary appointment. - If your pet is a little on the pudgy side, and you think it might benefit from an increased exercise regiment, see a veterinarian first. No exercise program should begin without a veterinary checkup. If your pet is more than 20 percent overweight, consult your veterinarian immediately. - ARAcontent Tip of the Week: Help Your Child Be Ready to Read Some tips to prepare your child for reading: - Talk to your infant and toddler to help him learn to speak and understand the meaning of words. Point to objects that are near and describe them as you play and do daily activities together. Having a large vocabulary gives a child a great start when he enters school. - Read to your baby every day starting at 6 months of age. Reading and playing with books is a wonderful way to spend special time with her. Hearing words over and over helps her become familiar with them. Reading to your baby is one of the best ways to help her learn. - Use sounds, songs, gestures and words that rhyme to help your baby learn about language and its many uses. Babies need to hear language from a human being. Television is just noise to a baby. - Point out the printed words in your home and other places you take your child such as the grocery store. Spend as much time listening to your child as you do talking to him. - Take children's books and writing materials with you whenever you leave home. This gives your child fun activities to entertain and occupy him while traveling and going to the doctor's office or other appointments. - U.S. Department of Education, Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, Educational Partnerships and Family Involvement Unit, Reading Tips for Parents, Washington, D.C., 2003. GateHouse News Service

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Many will already know of Pimobendan as it is widely used for MVD dogs, but this is very interesting. Simon Swift is the cardiologist who has worked with the UK Club and is currently urging them to be far more proactive about MVD and their breeding practices. This is from www.ukpets.co.uk.
Monday 10 July 2006
Canine Heart Drug Breakthrough
Dogs suffering from heart failure can gain an extra nine months of life
over conventional treatments by using a newer therapy, according to a
new study.
The most common heart disease in dogs is caused by degeneration of the
heart valves, causing them to become leaky.
The study found that dogs with congestive heart failure, due to valve
problems, treated with a conventional ACE inhibitor lived on average for
128 days – some four months. However those who started on the newer
drug, pimobendan (Vetmedin, Boehringer Ingelheim), lived on average 415
days – around 13 months.
The study also found a rapid response to the newer treatment. Boehringer
claims that within seven days over 50% of dogs were symptom free.
Around 20,000 dogs a year in the UK develop a type of heart failure
called mitral valve disease. The problem is most common in small breeds,
with Cavalier King Charles spaniels being especially vulnerable.
Overall, of the 6 million dogs in the UK around one in ten (10%) will be
diagnosed with various forms of heart disease during their lifetime.
Mr Simon Swift, a veterinary cardiologist from Liverpool University, who
has a special interest in canine heart problems, said the latest study
added to a growing pool of data that pimobendan increased longevity as
well as improving quality of life.
"The evidence increasingly pointed to pimobendan being used as
first-line treatment for canine heart failure rather than an ACE
inhibitor, instead of being kept in reserve as rescue therapy," he said.
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Insert some pencils and that's it! So easy! I used some yellow/orange standard pencils 'cause they matched the tag really well, but wouldn't these be cute with Halloween pencils from the dollar store, too?!


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Remember the notorious DLL Hell problem? About a decade ago, before the advent of the .NET platform, most applications were based on dynamic-link libraries, and multiple apps often shared DLLs.
At that time, DLLs were identified primarily by name, and version info often wasn't recorded properly. If a new application inadvertently replaced a shared DLL component, other apps that used that component would break. The solution to this problem came with the .NET platform and Global Assembly Cache, which gives registered components strong names that contain details such as version and author information.
With this problem solved, developers now are grappling with a new one: the third-party DLL Hell.
In the beginning of the .NET era, applications used only a few commercial third-party libraries, mostly for user interface needs. The number of these components per application was low, and managers knew which ones they were because they had to pay for them.
Today, there are many more high-quality, third-party components available. In addition to top commercial suites of user interface controls, you'll find quite a few well done, free, open-source libraries.
Increasingly, .NET software projects are based on a variety of third-party components. On average, a project can use six or seven of them. For example, an ASP.NET MVC project may have an IoC framework, a mocking library, ELMAH or something similar for error handling, perhaps the Microsoft Enterprise Library, DotNetOpenAuth for authentication against social networks, NHibernate or some Entity Framework extensions, jQuery and friends, maybe some other facilities for mobile and HTML 5 views and client side validation...the list goes on and on.
There are two problems with third-party components. Companies must ensure that developers only use an approved set of libraries. And developers face the problem of repeatedly going through the same (often cumbersome) configuration procedure for a given library a frustrating and time-consuming operation.
Referencing some of these third-party components isn't as easy as referencing an assembly. More often than not, you must first download binaries to the development machine, and then browse your hard disk in order to reference them in the new project. Sometimes, you must repeat the operation for multiple assemblies. And sometimes you also have to enter changes in the configuration file of the .NET application and add ad hoc source files to the project. With few exceptions, referencing a third-party component is painful.
The NuGet Solution
NuGet is free package-manager application aimed at making it easier for developers to reference third-party libraries from within a Visual Studio project. NuGet provides a command line and GUI frontend, so packages can be quickly installed and uninstalled. It acts as a host for uploaded packages and lets developers discover them by name and tag-based searches.
Integrated in Visual Studio 2010, NuGet lets developers reference a commonly used third-party library with one click. You open the package manager, scroll the list of available packages, pick the one you're looking for, accept the license agreement (set by the package author, not Microsoft), and download.
Each NuGet package contains files (sources, data, help, and binaries) to be added to the Visual Studio project and instructions for the manager. Once the download is complete, the package manager copies the files and sets up the project as appropriate. This means, for example, that assemblies in the package are added to the list of existing project references and changes required to the configuration file are merged with the current configuration file.
In a couple clicks, you're set. NuGet definitely saves time.
Vibrant .NET Community
According to Phil Haack, one of the NuGet architects, its primary goal is to foster a vibrant .NET open-source community by simplifying the way in which .NET developers share and use open-source libraries.
In this regard, NuGet was a great success. Launched less than a year ago, it's one of the most compelling open-source projects. A large and growing number of .NET developers use it, and just the fact that adding a dependency is so easy represents a good reason to add more third-party componenents and libraries. (I think this is similar to what happened in the '90s with Visual Basic and VBX components.)
Companies often put strict boundaries around which frameworks and libraries their developers can use, and they often designate a select group of people to approve the third-party components that can be used. Open access to NuGet's repository doesn't necessarily break these policies.
NuGet package managers read the feed of available libraries from a location on a Microsoft website where developers can upload custom packages for others to use. And, unlike the Apple Store and Windows Phone 7 marketplaces, there's no approval workflow for submitted packages.
NuGet can be configured to point to a shared folder on an intranet, letting a company have its own local NuGet installation. Developers enjoy the benefits of NuGet, while managers ensure that developers access only an approved set of libraries. In addition, organizations no longer need to produce internal documentation on how to locate and install approved libraries.


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Sunday, August 29, 2010
I changed my mind. I wasn't going to write about it.
"It" was one of the worst weeks of my life: Aug. 27 to Sept. 3, 2005.
August 27: My then 82-year-old mother tells me she is not evacuating New Orleans. She and her older sister decide they will stay in my mother's house in the suburbs near the airport. They've been through many hurricanes before, and they know what will happen.
August 28: My aunt, who lives on Jourdan Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward, is dropped by one of my cousins at my mother's house. The Lower Ninth flooded during Hurricane Betsy in 1965. My cousin offers to take both my mother and aunt to Baton Rouge to another cousin's house. Both sisters, who come from stubborn Germans on one side and opinionated Creoles on the other, refuse to go. "We'll be all right. We've been through this before. What's the worst that could happen? We lose electricity for a few days?" I don't like the answer but I understand it; I've been through hurricanes in New Orleans, too.
August 29: Katrina comes ashore between New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The eye passes almost directly over my brother's house in Washington Parish. Years ago, Washington Parish was a place of small towns and farms. Now it is still that, but it's also becoming a northern suburb of New Orleans. We will not hear from my brother and sister-in-law for a week.
August 30: President Bush declares "we've dodged a bullet;" it appears that New Orleans has indeed missed the big one. I talk with my mother on the phone; they have no electricity but they're okay.
That night, I'm sitting in a parents' function at my youngest son's high school when my BlackBerry buzzes. My youngest brother who lives in Houston sends this email: "The 17th Street Canal levee has broken; the city is flooding." He knows, and I know, what that means: the 17th Street canal borders Jefferson and Orleans parishes and is connected to Lake Pontchartrain; the levee has broken on the New Orleans side. The West End, Lakeview, Lake Vista – some of the wealthiest parts of the city – are flooding. The wealthy sections on the Jefferson Parish side are also flooding.
Then come reports of other levee breaks. The Industrial Canal levee near the London Avenue Bridge, six blocks from my aunt's house, had borken wide open. The levee along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet has reportedly dissolved; 90 percent of St. Bernard Parish is underwater. The cousin who tried to take my mother and aunt to Baton Rouge lives in St. Bernard, and she would later tell me, in a way only a native New Orleanian can, that her house had only six inches of water – on the second floor.
Eighty percent of the city of New Orleans will be under water in less than 24 hours. More than 1600 people will die in the New Orleans area and another 200 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
August 31: Miraculously, my mother still has phone service, but no electricity or water. And the flooding stopped about a mile from her house. Trying to call her is problematic at best – virtually impossible unless it's 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. She had filled the bathtub with water, but that is fast disappearing.
In the meantime, we're trying to track down relatives. They're scattered across several states. Some had evacuated; some got out right ahead of the storm. Two elderly cousins, who lived in an especially low area of the city, can't be found. There's some comfort in knowing they live on the second floor of a duplex.
We still can't get through to my brother in Washington Parish.
In the meantime, we watch the tragedy of incompetence play out on national television. The news media seem to have no trouble getting into the city; the federal government makes one misstep after another; and I could have told anyone that the state government would be worst than useless.
So people did in Louisiana what people did in Mexico City after the 1986 earthquake. They ignored their governments and undertook rescue operations themselves. Government at all levels failed in Hurricane Katrina. That failure would only get magnified when studies and reports afterward detailed the singular failings of the Army Corps of Engineers.
I join millions in going to the internet. The New Orleans Times-Picayune set s up a massive message board system, organized by regions and even neighborhoods. People swap critical information – like how to get around the roadblocks on the highways to get into the city to rescue family. (I admit it; I helped people do that. The neighbor of my mother's who slipped past the roadblocks, the man who would take the two sisters in their 80s out of New Orleans in a pickup truck and bring them to my nephew in Lafayette, tells my mother how he did it. She tells me. I tell lots of people on the message boards. It's so obvious that only the federal and state governments miss it.)
September 2: My mother and aunt leave with a neighbor for Lafayette and safety.
I don't recall what day it is, likely about a week or so after the storm, but I dial my sister-in-law's cell phone, and she answers. Their home in Washington Parish is intact; every tree on the property (40 acres) is down. The local neighbors have banded together to feed each other, help each other – and fend off any potential looter.
About the same time, a retired U.S. Army serviceman in Seattle I find on a message board helps me find the two elderly cousins – a grandson had convinced them at the last minute to leave with him, and they drove all the way to Cleveland, Ohio. We will learn later that the flood waters for a time covered both stories of their two-story duplex.
August 28, 2010: The Wall Street Journal publishes a five-year Katrina retrospective on one small stretch of homes in the Lower Ninth Ward – the 800 block of Jourdan Avenue. It is exactly that block where my aunt lived in her pre-Civil War home. (There is an online sidebar to the story -- and my aunt's story is third one down the list -- Laurentine Ernst.)
And that awful week is suddenly happening all over again.
9 comments:
- Bob Spencer said...
Great post. It must've been something. My sister lived and still lives in Belle Chasse.
- August 29, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Diane Walker said...
I'm so sorry all that pain is coming up again; how lovely that your family managed to survive.
And thank you for sharing so beautifully how that played out for you.
PS: I passed an award to you on my blog today...
- August 29, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Louise Gallagher said...
the Calgary Herald has an article today about New Orlean's resilience. I was stunned to learn some of the statistics -- the city decreased pop by 50%. 75% are back...
What an amazing place. What amazing people.
I too am sorry today brings so much pain back for you -- and am grateful you chose to write it out so eloquently and beautifully from your heart.
and PS -- I too passed an award on to you today.
- August 29, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- S. Etole said...
You write the truth in such a grace-filled way ...
- August 29, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Cassandra Frear said...
Quite the experience!
- August 29, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Maureen said...
Reading your post is like being there. We were in Portland, Maine, when the hurricane hit and everyone was where we were staying was trying to get news about friends there.
The picture you include tells well the story, too. Truly unforgettable.
- August 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM
anniversaries are for remembering.
and i am honored to remember this along with you today. the good, bad and the ugly of it.
to learn more about what happened, to remember how many lives were changed, and the fact that many are still dealing with the changes that it brought.
so many stories, is what i think, as it look at that photograph.
and your story is also a very good look at the state of the united states' government.
- August 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- Jennifer A. said...
I can't imagine. But I'm glad you wrote about it.
- August 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Duane Scott said...
Awesome post. VERY INTERESTING.
I'm so thankful you're all okay.
SO. Very. Thankful.
- August 30, 2010 at 6:46 AM


text: TV / Video E! Hits Upfront With Rebranding Now under NBCU's Bonnie Hammer, net adds series to solidify its pop culture pedigreeBy Sam Thielman|April 30, 2012 Share By Sam Thielman|April 30, 2012 Share How excited is E!? It's so amped, it's actually merging with the exclamation mark. The cable network is set to unveil a full-blown rebrand today (April 30) at its first New York upfront party, where it's celebrating a new-ish identity as a part of Bonnie Hammer's NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment group by unveiling an upgraded brand identity and several new series. First and foremost, there's the Nigel Lythgoe-produced Opening Act, a sort of anti-competition series in which Lythgoe (of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance fame) and his network of recording industry pals seek out promising amateur performers on the Web and surprise them with a chance to open for names like Nicki Minaj (and some even bigger acts are rumored). "[In other competition shows] the nerves are usually on the performers," said E! president Suzanne Kolb. "Now the nerves are all on us because we're hoping these people are really good. We're hoping it'll be closer to reality." There are other high-profile names on the slate, too. Married to Jonas follows Jonas brother Kevin and his new wife Dani as the pair deals with celeb/Muggle intermarriage. And there's Love You, Mean It With Whitney Cummings, a show that adds the omnipresent Cummings to E!'s lineup of comedians—her 2 Broke Girls on CBS was picked up for a second season in March. Despite a preponderance of celebrity-centric content, though (the Kardashians are still going strong on the network), Kolb said firmly that E! is "not a lifestyle network," at least not in the same way that term is defined at the other half of the NBCU cable group, Entertainment & Digital Networks (E&D). The two divisions are totally separate, and while E&D's Style and Bravo may have similar investments, E!'s new branding declares it a "pop culture" network, with a heavier emphasis on current trends. "Oftentimes when you say 'lifestyle' it can feel synonymous with 'female,' and we really do target and reach men and women," Kolb said. Statistics are less emphatic—E!'s Nielsen stats were about 74 percent female in Q1 (and Kolb said there probably won't be many male-only series on E!)—but the network wants to position shows across the gender gap. It's a good time for a rebrand for the network, which saw some slowdown in Q1 of 2012. (E! still ranks 19 and 17 in 18-34-year-old viewers in prime time and total day, respectively.) With distribution reaching nearly 100 million households, raised awareness from a new marketing push could bring some ratings gains. The goal, clearly, is to bring E! into line with some of Hammer's other properties, namely USA and Syfy—which recently had an unusually successful rebrand under Hammer and network president Dave Howe. An analysis from SNL Kagan shows affiliate fees and advertising revenue continuing upward. E! pulled in an estimated $215 million in ad revenue last year, up from the $202 million in 2010. Kagan predicts this year's numbers will end up around $236 million, with affiliate fees rising to around 23 cents per subscriber. There's also something at E! that none of those internal peers can boast: a newsroom. Yes, it's largely a newsroom devoted to movie stars and pop singers, but with the network styling itself "the pop of culture," it needs to partake in the 24-hour news cycle like any other organization trying to break stories. In some ways, Chelsea Lately star Chelsea Handler and The Soup's Joel McHale are being positioned as the nightly news anchors of the who-broke-up-with-whom world of celebrity gossip (see also McHale miming shooting himself in the head during a segment on a particularly vapid topic). There's a looming question, of course: Will the shiny new facade and the new programming additions make a difference to media buyers during the upfront? "The budgets will go up if they can prove they can get new viewers," said research head Brad Adgate of Horizon Media. "Their audience profile is fine. Shows [like E!'s flagship franchise with the Kardashians] aren't that expensive to produce, but sometimes it's hard to distinguish E! from other cable networks like VH1. So if they're trying to separate themselves from the rest of the competition, that's probably a good thing." Share http://adweek.it/2kLZZSh copy Adweek Adweek


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The first month of the 2012 season could not have gone any better for the Earthquakes — save perhaps a change of fortunes against the Houston Dynamo — and the team sits near the top of the standings in the MLS Western Conference. Leading the charge for San Jose is their talismanic striker Chris Wondolowski, who has tallied six goals in five games to start the season (More than one goal per game!). And while very few would predict that Wondolowski can hold that pace for an entire 34 game season, the retooled offense that the Earthquakes feature gives the two-time team MVP a golden opportunity to vault to the top of the MLS scoring charts for a third straight year.
After recording a strong finish in 2011, and taking into account his goals-per-game average to start 2012, Wondolowski now counts 43 regular season goals for his Earthquakes career. Following his ascension to No. 2 on the all-time San Jose scoring list last October — his tally against Sporting Kansas City moved him past Landon Donovan for that honor — Wondolowski has only Earthquakes Hall of Famer Ronald Cerritos ahead of him. The Salvadoran striker netted 61 times for San Jose over six seasons, and to many longtime supporters remains the best goal scorer ever to grace Earthquakes blue.
However, Wondolowski is quickly — indeed, very quickly — catching up to Cerritos, and he has made it clear that he would be honored to one day replace him at the top of the all-time Earthquakes scoring chart. In fact, if Wondolowski can keep up his current 2012 season scoring rate, he would take over that title sometime this summer!
Okay, perhaps keeping a greater than one-goal-per-game average over a 34-game schedule is unrealistic, but even rational thought leans in that direction when you look at just what the Earthquakes have assembled this year in their quest to return to the postseason following a difficult 2011. The San Jose striker practically drools at the thought of what is to come the rest of this season in terms of creating scoring opportunities.
"Absolutely, the team is doing an amazing job and creating so many chances," said a beaming Wondolowski when asked what to expect from the Earthquakes' offense. "We have a lot of ways to break down teams. This year we have guys that can beat the defense off the dribble, we have guys that can that slip guys in, we have guys that get wide and get good service in there. It makes it nice, and it makes my job so easy."
To hear it from Wondolowski, easy for him means that opposing defenses are in for a challenge when they face the revamped Earthquakes offense. Furthermore, they must now deal with a striker in Wondolowski who, at just 29 years old, is hitting the prime years of his career. Add in his confidence boosting offseason U.S. National Team training camp under the tutelage of head coach Jürgen Klinsmann — a man who knows a thing or two about scoring goals — and the mind wanders thinking about what heights Wondolowski will reach in 2012…
Okay, back to reality. Wondolowski's blistering start to the current campaign begs the question as to when Cerritos should be at hand to pass the proverbial torch to a new Earthquakes scoring champion. Can the current No. 1 rest easy for 2012 and wait to buy his ticket for a match in the Earthquakes' new stadium sometime in the next few years? Should Cerritos start scanning discount travel websites for a good deal on an October — or earlier — ticket to Mineta San Jose International Airport? Perhaps the numbers can give a clue as to when to expect that ceremony.
Before joining the San Jose Earthquakes in a trade from the Houston Dynamo in 2009, Wondolowski had scored a grand total of four goals in 39 appearances across five MLS seasons. However, since that fateful trade, the numbers have been staggering:
- 43 goals in 77 regular season appearances since 2009 for a 0.56 goals-per-game average.
- 40 goals in 61 starts since the beginning of 2010 for a 0.66 goals-per-game average.
- 115 shots on goal since 2010 for a scoring conversion rate of 37%
- 14 goals in his last 14 starts for a perfect-and-pleasing 1.00 goals-per-game average.
That last statistic really puts into perspective just how unstoppable Wondolowski has been recently and just how possible it will be for the striker to surpass his team record scoring tally of 18 goals from his 2010 Budweiser Golden Boot season. The all-time MLS leader in goals-per-game is Stern John with 44 goals in 55 appearances for an average just a shade over 0.80. Cerritos netted 61 times in 148 appearances for San Jose, a 0.41 goals-per-game average. Given that most of the appearances from both players came during the goal-happy early years of MLS, Wondolowski's current scoring rate in comparison becomes that much more impressive.
Can Wondolowski catch Cerritos in 2012 — a feat that would require him to score another 18 goals before the end of the season — or will an inevitable cooling-off delay that accomplishment into 2013? Don't sell Wondolowski short yet, as just this week he admitted that he still doesn't feel that has reached his potential thus far in the early season.
"To be truthfully honest, I should have more goals right now," said an almost apologetic Wondolowski. "I should probably have a couple more from some of the easy chances I haven't finished. I've gotten some to go, but I haven't been sharp. Hopefully the goals keep coming."
Look out folks, because if Wondolowski truly hasn't ascended to the peak of his abilities this season, then topping the MLS goal charts for a third-consecutive year is not out of the question. And for Cerritos, he might need to get some torch-passing practice in for later this season, just in case.
Robert Jonas is a writer for CenterLineSoccer.com and SJEarthquakes.com. Send him feedback on Twitter: @RobertJonas


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Anytime Fitness, Hastings, MN, is suing the Kingston, MA, Board of Health, which requires automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in health clubs and a staff member certified in the use of an AED during all hours of operation.
The Kingston regulation differs from the Massachusetts state law, also known as Kayla's Law, which requires AEDs in health clubs and staff members certified to use an AED during staffed business hours. Anytime Fitness is a 24-hour key-card club that usually is staffed during normal business hours but not during overnight hours. The Anytime Kingston club typically operates with staffing from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays, according to the complaint filed April 1.
"Unless and until this matter is resolved, Anytime Kingston will not be able to stay in business as the Board has threatened to engage in litigation to remove its permit and shut it down," the complaint says.
Each Anytime club has an AED as well as an emergency button on a wall in the club, according to Anytime Fitness spokesperson Mark Daly. Other safety initiatives in each club include personal security devices and surveillance cameras that can be monitored remotely by off-site club staffers, Daly adds.
"It's ironic and unfortunate that the Kingston Board of Health is making it more difficult for the people who live in and around Kingston to participate in healthy lifestyles," Daly says. "Anytime Fitness clubs are in 1,600 communities worldwide, and in none of those communities is there a local restriction like there is in Kingston. There is no doubt that Anytime Fitness puts at its highest priority the safety of its members and staff."
Jake Pylant, the owner of the Kingston Anytime club, told The Kingston Reporter that he has received a letter from the Massachusetts chapter of the American Heart Association, which said Anytime's business model is safe. The American Heart Association declined to comment for this story.
The Kingston regulation was adopted after the Anytime club opened, according to the newspaper. Kingston has filed a motion to dismiss the suit.
"I hope it's not too long before reasonable people prevail, and this case is closed," Joe Casna, the Kingston Board of Health chairman, told the newspaper.
Kayla's Law is named for Kayla Richards, who died in 2007 after she went into cardiac arrest during her workout at a gym in Plymouth, MA. She was 22.
Last month, the state of New York, after a unanimous 141-0 vote, enacted a new AED law in which health clubs must have at least one AED on the premises during staffed business hours, with at least one staff member certified to use an AED. The notation of staffed business hours is more in line with the Anytime Fitness business model. The bill became law on June 1.


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[This is a re-post of our article from last week. However, since there will be plenty of people who are seeing The Avengers for the first time this weekend, we wanted to re-post it for those who didn't understand the brief scene from the middle of the end credits. Also, make sure you stay till the very end of the credits.]
If you stayed seated during the credits of The Avengers (and by this point, you know you should for a Marvel movie), you may have had some questions about what you saw. It's a scene, or rather, a moment that plays strictly to the comic geeks in the audience. But what about everyone else? If you were left confused by what you saw, hit the jump for an explanation. [WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD (Obviously)]
[Seriously, turn back now if you haven't seen The Avengers. I'm telling you the ending.]
After The Avengers have defeated the Chitauri army by sending a nuke into their mother ship, we see their leader talking to a mysterious figure. The Chitauri leader says that the humans are not to be underestimated, and to face them would be "to court Death itself." And then the mysterious figure turns his head and we see Thanos, The Mad Titan, smiling. Cut to black and the rest of the end credits.
So who the hell is Thanos?
If you were unfamiliar with the character, you were probably left wondering, "Who is that purple gentleman and why is he grinning?
I'm going to say right up front that I haven't read any comics with Thanos, and my information comes from the Marvel Wiki. I'm going to hit the major points about who Thanos is and the threat he poses.
Like any comic book character, Thanos has had a long and convoluted history in the Marvel Universe. Thanos first appeared in Iron Man #55 (1973), and so lots of weird shit has happened in the almost forty years since he's been around. He's literally already out there since he's a member of a cosmic race known as The Eternals, but he's born "misshapen and monstrous", especially when compared to rest of his race of pretty people. From there, Thanos has one consuming passion that runs almost pretty much through his entire story:
He is obsessed with Death. So when the Chitauri leader says that to fight The Avengers would be "courting death itself," it gives Thanos a smiley face.
Comics being comics, death isn't only a concept; it's a literal being. From the Marvel Wiki:
Growing in power and infamy as he traveled the universe, Thanos once met Death itself, as it appeared to him embodied in a female form. Thanos was infatuated with the being, and endeavored to make himself worthy in order to earn her love in return. With an army under his command, he nearly destroyed his former home of Titan, declaring himself its ruler. He then sought out the powerful Cosmic Cube [known as the "Tesseract" in the movies], and a number of Earth's heroes assembled to confront him.
Let me take a break to say that I don't know if Marvel is using this storyline as a premise for The Avengers 2. With all of their movies, Marvel has constantly had to wrestle with how much they can take from the comics and how much they have to cater to mainstream audiences. Now back to Thanos…
In addition to his Death fixation, Thanos is also known for being the wielder of the Infinity Gauntlet. You may have caught it at Comic-Con a couple years back, or possibly you've seen it in some behind the scenes set photos from Thor because the Gauntlet is in Odin's vault. So what's the big deal about this weapon? Again, from the Marvel Wiki:
Mistress Death believed that there was a cosmic imbalance in the universe – that there were more living than there were dead. As a result, Death resurrects her loyal servant Thanos, who is appointed the task of killing off half of the population of the universe. Not only is Thanos' power augmented by Death, he is granted access to the Infinity Well, where he realizes the power of the Infinity Gems. After much plotting and scheming, Thanos wrestles the gems from their owners and gains mastery over Power, Mind, Space, Reality, Time, and the Soul.
And this thing is sitting in Odin's vault, which, as we saw in Thor, ain't exactly fool-proof. I'm not sure if this will be the new MacGuffin, but Thanos without the Infinity Gauntlet is like Captain America without his shield or Thor without his hammer. The weapon is inseparable from the character. Also, Marvel didn't trot it out at Comic-Con, and sit it next to Asgardian helmets and Captain America's shield simply because people like shiny things (I mean, they do, but that wasn't the only reason).
Looking ahead to The Avengers 2, Thanos' Death-obsession and the Infinity Gauntlet are the two things you should currently keep in mind because Marvel put them on the table. There are other elements from Thanos' history Marvel could try to weave in such as Adam Warlock or the Infinity Watch, and I'm interested to see how complex the studio is willing to make the movies. No matter the level of complexity, Marvel has apparently announced the villain of The Avengers 2, and now you know a little bit more about him.
*Also, credit where credit is due: Latino Review reported Thanos would be in the movie back in May 2011.


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What's the NRA's big attachment to assault weapons? Why do we have to suffer the weapons of mass murder?
One NRA member from Texas told an NPR reporter, "As far as I'm concerned, if you can afford to buy a tank, you should be able to buy a tank." He explained: "the Second Amendment was put in not to hunt, not to go plink at cans, not to shoot at targets. If and when tyranny tries to take over our country, we can fight it." NRA President Porter, too, wants people to be "ready to fight tyranny." Porter, told an audience last June, when he was NRA vice-president, that "We got the pads put on, we got our helmets strapped on, we're cinched up, we're ready to fight, we're out there fighting every day." Read the rest of this entry »


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Q. How can I pay for my order?
A. Kitking can take payment by card/debit card, cheque, paypal, bank transfer or cash in house Credit/Debit Card – You can order and pay online or over the phone on 0800 0478434, or in house. We do not charge a premium for this service.
Cheque – Please make all cheques payable to Kitking Ltd and post to 54 Syston Street East, Leicester, LE1 2JW. Please also put the name of the person who placed the order on the back of the cheque.
Bank Transfer – Our bank details are as follows
Bank – Barclays
Account Number – 735692009
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For International payments please contact us.
Paypal – Our paypal address is firstname.lastname@example.com Just forward the payment to us with your details. There is normally a 2% levy added for paypal payments made from outside the European Union, so please add this to the total.
Q. Do you Export?
A. Yes we supply all over the world. For European destinations there are standard shipping charges which can be found on our website. For destinations outside the EU shipping costs are calculated on the size and weight of the order. Send us details of your enquiry and we can quote you. For destinations outside the EU we can take off the UK VAT Tax when buying adult sizes, which will save you about 17% of the goods value.
Q. How long will my order take to be delivered?
A. We carry large stocks of most items in the budget section of our site, so without decoration, delivery can be virtually the next day. For items in the branded section, an average without decoration is 7-10 days as we have to order the goods in for you.
If there are delays due to suppliers stock issues we will normally inform you within 24 hours of you placing the order. If your order has printing/embroidery, please extend these delivery times by 1-2 weeks at certain busy times of the year this could be extended further.
Q. Can I order samples?
A. Yes you can we cannot send them for free, so all we ask is that you purchase them from us and we would then refund anything you returned unwanted. For these small orders call us and we can reduce the shipping fees.
Q. Are all your products genuine?
A. 100%. All branded products are purchased directly from the relevant brands with no third party involvement.
Q. How do I get a quote or get an answer to a question?
A. We can quote over the phone on 0800 0478434, or you can email your enquiry to firstname.lastname@example.com or you can fill your own basket on the website and then print it off
Q. Can I order odd items further down the line when new players arrive?
A. Yes of course. Just get in touch with us.
Q. How do I progress my order?
A. We do not have an automatic system for telling you how much longer the order will take so contact us at email@example.com or call us on 0800 0478434.
Q. Do you do a price match with other suppliers?
A. Yes we do. Contact us by email or phone and let us have the details. We may ask you to let us see the competitors quote and in most cases we can even beat the price.
Q. Do you print and embroider?
A. Yes we have in house facilities which allows us great flexibility for 'urgent jobs'. Please see the main website for pricing options. If we can't do it, nobody can.
Q. How do I inform you of what personalisation I need ie numbers, club badges, sponsors logos?
A. If ordering online there is an opportunity to add files to your order if you have specific names/numbers/sizes etc. There is a section 'additional information' where you can put this information. If ordering any other way, just email us the files after placing the order.
Q. Are you nice people to do business with?
A. Yes you will always find us friendly, attentive, and keen to help. We understand that teamwear is very complicated and you may need advice with your enquiry. So get in touch with us and we will assist and advise throughout the ordering process.
Q. Can I order with an official purchase order?
A. We only accept purchase orders from government based organisations (schools, colleges, universities, councils, nhs, etc) All football clubs, members of the public and private companies must pay at the time of ordering.
Q. Can I return items?
A. We are a business to business trade website, so all customers are deemed as business customers. This means that if we have supplied what you have ordered, you do not have an automatic right to be able to return the goods. If you have goods to return contact us by telephone or email to discuss the issues. If your returns have been approved we will send you a returns form to complete. You must then return the goods at your own expense.
No goods that have been decorated can be exchanged.
No goods will be accepted for return after 14 days of delivery.
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Three Alamance County stores sold alcohol to underaged buyers during a law enforcement operation Thursday tracking alcohol sales.
The Alamance Alcohol Law Enforcement Team found that most of the 20 stores its operatives attempted to purchase alcohol from complied with state laws Thursday, requiring identification and refusing to sell to underaged buyers.
Clerks at three stores � the Fairway One Stop, at 1382 S. Church St. in Burlington, Family Fare, at 301 S. Main St. in Graham, and the Marathon, at 807 W. Haggard Ave. in Elon � sold to underaged patrons.
North Carolina uses the Stoplight Driver�s License model: for those 15-17 the background border is red; for those 18-20 the background border is yellow. Both of those licenses are vertical. For those over 21, the background border is green and the license is horizontal.
In a release, Alamance Citizens for a Drug Free Community encouraged parents and adult to talk about alcohol with their children and asked retailers to be vigilant of underage buyers.
�We strongly encourage retailers to make sure their clerks are properly trained and follow the laws�, said Karen Webb with the Alamance Citizens for a Drug Free Community.
Officers with Burlington police, Graham police, Elon police, Alamance County Sheriff�s Office and N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement conducted the operation.
The following stores complied with state laws:
Tommy�s Mini Mart � 538 Trollinger Street, Burlington
Shell� 2309 South Church Street, Burlington
Sav-Way � 2753 Alamance Road, Burlington
BP � 2611 Maple Avenue, Burlington
Harris Teeter � 2950 South Church Street, Burlington
Kangaroo Express � 1110 Huffman Mill Road, Burlington
Lowes Food � 1191 University Drive, Burlington
6 to 1 � 201 Harden Street, Graham
Stop & Shop � 406 East Harden Street, Graham
Citgo � 419 South Main Street, Graham
Kangaroo � 110 West Haggard Avenue, Elon
Phoenix Mini Mart � 901 East Haggard Avenue, Elon
Jay�s � 951 East Haggard Avenue, Elon
Alamance County:
Eagle Food Mart � 3767 Boy Wood Road, Graham
Snow Camp Mart � 8007 Snow Camp Road, Snow Camp
Shell � 3535 South N.C. 87, Graham
Indian Valley Mini Mart � 609 Greenwood Drive, Burlington


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This chapter discusses the service configuration and resource organization capabilities provided by Oracle Service Bus. It highlights features that support service discovery and change management. This section is intended for IT deployment specialists who are responsible for configuring services in an SOA.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Oracle Service Bus has a robust resource configuration and organization framework for creating, organizing and configuring resources and ensuring semantic integrity between resource dependencies. It provides features to rapidly test, deploy, and, reverse resource configuration updates if required.
Oracle Service Bus has a built-in Project Explorer that allows logical grouping of Oracle Service Bus entities, allowing developers and administrators to better organize related parts of large development projects. For more information, see "Working with Projects, Folders, and Resources" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Oracle Service Bus resources can be organized into separate projects. Projects are non-hierarchical, disjointed, top-level grouping constructs. All resources (such as services, WS-Policies, WSDLs, XQuery transformations, and so on) reside in exactly one non-overlapping project.
Resources can be created directly under a project or be further organized into folders. Folders may be created inside projects or inside other folders and are similar to directories in a file system, with the project level being the root directory. Descriptions can be added to all projects and folders to further enhance navigation. Figure 4-1 shows the project and folder views in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console.
Figure 4-1 Project Explorer View of Oracle Service Bus Projects and Folders
Resources can be moved between projects or folders and can be renamed. Any Oracle Service Bus resource, project or folder can be cloned to create a copy of that resource with the specified target identity. Cloning a project or folder copies all artifacts in the project or folder to a different location.
Resources that are located in one project can reference and use resources that are defined in other projects. Dependencies are preserved when resources are renamed and moved. All references to a renamed or moved resource are automatically adjusted. An additional capability of the Project Explorer is the ability to track which resources outside the current folder are referenced by resources residing in it. Viewing these references gives both the location of the referenced resource (in the format of <project name>/<folder name>/<resource name>) and the type of resource referenced. For more information about referenced resources, see Section 4.2.5, "Tracking Dependencies."
Oracle Service Bus provides a number of capabilities to organize large numbers of resources in the resource cache. The resources in the Oracle Service Bus resource cache include WSDLs, XML Schemas, XQueries, XSLTs, MFLs, WS-Policies, Business Services, and Proxy Services. Oracle Service Bus relies on user-configured metadata for resources and services to determine how to process messages.
Oracle Service Bus is focused on supporting a set of trusted IT department specialists who manage the resources and services in the resource cache on behalf of the organizations they represent. All such users are defined as integration administrators or integration deployers and have full permissions to modify all the resources in the resource cache. Integration monitor users have full read access to the resource cache but cannot modify any resources. Typically, they are users who search or browse for resources or services. Integration operator users have full read access to the resource cache and can only change the operational characteristics of the services.
For more information about Oracle Service Bus users and roles, see "Security Configuration" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
This section describes change management in Oracle Service Bus.
One of the most important features of Oracle Service Bus is the Change Center, which is key to making configuration changes inside the service bus. The Change Center has the unique ability to lock its current configuration while changes are being made. This lets the service bus continue to receive and process requests for services while configuration changes are being made in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console.
Additionally, changes being made to the configuration will not affect the current configuration until they are "activated." Once this is done, the changes go live instantly and Oracle Service Bus immediately uses the new configuration.
Under heavy load conditions, request messages may fail if they arrive while a proxy service pipeline is in the process of being activated. Once the proxy service pipeline activation is complete, new requests are processed normally.
If activated changes cause unpredictable, undesirable events, the Change Center also provides the capability to undo any changes made for any session. Task Details provides information on which resource was changed, who changed it, and when. An entire session or individual changes within a session can be rolled back, enabling Oracle Service Bus to roll the affected configurations back to the prior state.
For more information on Change Center, see "Using the Change Center" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Before you make modifications to resources in Oracle Service Bus, you must create a session. All modifications are made using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console in a given session.
Figure 4-2 Session Management in the Change Center
A session can be considered a sandbox environment in which changes are kept private to the user making those changes. In other words, they are not visible to other concurrent users making modifications. Modifications made in a session are not deployed in the server until the session is activated. Only one session can be active at any time and should only log into the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console through one browser.
To compare a resource modified in a given session against the resource that is already deployed to runtime, you can temporarily exit the session, view the deployed resource, then reenter the session and view the changed resource. All resources are visible in the session. The view of all resources in a session is called the session view—it is a merged view of the unmodified deployed resources and the resources modified in the current session. Therefore, the session view at any point in time shows the configuration state if the session is activated at that point in time. The view of resources outside any session is the view of the deployed resources.
All individual session modifications, individual session activations, and undo operations for a session are performed in transactions to prevent data loss in the event of a failure. Sessions are persistent and long running—the restart of a server does not result in the loss of active sessions. This means that you can modify the configuration in a single session over a period of days (during which time the server can be stopped and restarted) if necessary. Each user has their own session, and can work in it independently without the need to lock other users out of the system.
You cannot activate a session if another user is already in the process of activating their session. If another user is activating a session when you try to activate your session, the Activate button will be disabled and you will have to wait until the other session is activated before you can activate your session. In certain circumstances, the Activate button may not be disabled if you did not refresh the page or if you are directly using MBeans. In this case, you will time out after a short while.
Administrators have permissions to access other user's sessions and view ongoing changes, make updates in those sessions, or discard them.
For more information, see "Using the Change Center" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Sessions use an optimistic scheme for conflicts. When you activate a session, the changes you made to resources in that session become visible immediately in other sessions. If you deploy a changed resource that is open in another user's active session, the other user's session receives a message in the Change Center indicating that the deployed resource has changed in the runtime since the user started modifications. The user of the active session can then:
Discard the changes to the resource in the current session. That is, refresh the resource in the session with the newly deployed resource.
Activate the current session, which results in the resource in the runtime being overwritten with the current session's changes. This is the default behavior.
For more information, see "Using the Change Center" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
The system keeps a log of all users who activated a session along with any resource modified by the session and when it was modified. This provides the enterprise with auditing and tracking facilities in addition to a history of changes made to a particular resource or project. The log is visible in the Change Center in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console.
A crucial part of managing a large number of resources is establishing and exploring dependencies between resources. For example, it is useful to identify the WSDL that a service implements, or the XQueries used by a message flow configuration. Oracle Service Bus provides this capability by automatically tracking the references between resources and creating a graph of the dependencies. In both session views and deployed views, the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console displays for a given resource:
The resources that it references
The resources that it is referenced by
Also, for each project and folder, the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console displays other resources outside the project or folder that reference resources in the selected project or folder. The Oracle Service Bus Administration Console also displays the resources that a given project or folder references. This aids dependency tracking—you can easily navigate the dependency graph in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console by clicking on the names of the referenced resources.
You can use this functionality to identify the dependencies between departmental projects or between departmental projects and corporate-wide shared projects in the resource cache.
Dependencies are preserved when resources are renamed and moved. All references to a renamed or moved resource are automatically adjusted.
Oracle Service Bus protects the integrity of all resources in the session view. You can view a list of all current validation errors for all resources in the session view by clicking the View Conflicts link in the Change Center. Changes to a referenced resource can cause validation errors in any resources that reference it.
Oracle Service Bus allows you to create resources with most semantic errors. However, all such errors must be fixed before a session can be committed.
There are certain classes of validation errors that are never allowed. If you attempt to update a resource that has one of these disallowed validation errors, your update will fail. For example, where your configuration requires an XQuery, you cannot enter arbitrary text in place of the XQuery. If you try to do this, your update fails. The XQuery and XPath editors in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console provide a facility to validate your expressions. Click Validate to validate your XQuery and XPath expressions at design time. This reduces the possibility of runtime errors as a result of invalid configurations.
You can undo tasks that you have performed in your Oracle Service Bus configuration during your current session, and you can undo session activations outside of a session.
If you are working in a session, you can view a list of the modifications you have made in the session by accessing View Changes in the Change Center. You can undo specific tasks in the Change Center. An undo operation can result in objects becoming semantically invalid. For example, if a WSDL operation name change is undone, the proxy service routing to that operation on the service that uses that WSDL is semantically invalid. These validation errors are displayed immediately in the Change Center when you click the View Conflicts link.
Although you can undo tasks in any order (provided that individual undo operations result in valid data), the resulting configuration may be different depending on the order of undo. The undo operation sets the value of the resource to the value it had before the change to that resource. If the task being undone was one that created an object, there is no previous state to which an object can be returned—in other words, no object existed before this task was performed. Effectively, the undo operation deletes the new object from the session. In this case, errors occur for the objects that reference the one being deleted. You can view such errors on the View Conflicts page in the Change Center.
When you are not working in a session, you can view a list of session activations by accessing View Changes in the Change Center. You can undo a session activation in the Change Center. When you undo a session, the session activation is undone and all the operations performed in the session are lost. The system does not allow you to undo a session activation if an error in the runtime configuration would result from the undo operation.
For example, if you attempt to undo a deployment that removes an object that is being referenced by another object, that undo operation is disallowed. For more information, see "Undoing Tasks" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
This section describes Oracle Service Bus service discovery features through Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI).
UDDI registries are used in an enterprise to share Web services. Using UDDI services helps companies organize and catalog these Web services for sharing and reuse in the enterprise or with trusted external partners.
A UDDI registry service for Web services is defined by the UDDI specification available at
UDDI registries are based on this specification, which provides details on how to publish and locate information about Web services using UDDI. The specification does not define runtime aspects of the services (it is only a directory of the services). UDDI provides a framework in which to classify your business, its services, and the technical details about the services you want to expose.
Publishing a service to a registry requires knowledge of the service type and the data structure representing that service in the registry. A registry entry has certain properties associated with it and these property types are defined when the registry is created. You can publish your service to a registry and make it available for other organizations to discover and use.
Proxy services developed in Oracle Service Bus can be published to a UDDI registry. Oracle Service Bus can interact with any UDDI 3.0 compliant registry including Oracle Service Registry.
Figure 4-3 Oracle Service Bus integration with UDDI
UDDI offers several benefits to IT managers at both design time and runtime, including increasing code reuse. UDDI also provides benefits to developers, including the following:
UDDI improves infrastructure management by publishing information about proxy services to the registry and categorizes the services for discovery. Thus growing a portfolio of services making it easier to understand and manage relationships among services, component versioning, and dependencies.
UDDI services can be imported from a registry to configure the parameters required to invoke the Web service and the necessary transport and security protocols.
UDDI promotes the use of standards-based Web services and business services development in business applications and provides a link to a library of resources for Web services developers. This decreasing the development life cycle and improves productivity. It also increases the prospect of interoperability between business applications by sharing standards-based resources.
UDDI provides a user friendly interface for searching and discovering Web services. You can search on criteria specified by you.
Oracle Service Registry
Oracle Service Registry is a version 3 compliant UDDI registry certified to work with Oracle Service Bus. It is not provided with Oracle Service Bus.
For information about Oracle Service Registry, see the Oracle Service Registry product documentation.
The Oracle Service Bus Administration Console makes the Oracle Service Registry or any version 3 UDDI-compliant registry accessible and easy to use. In working with UDDI, Oracle Service Bus promotes the reuse of standards based Web services. In this way, Oracle Service Bus resources can be searched for and discovered and used by a wide and distributed audience. Web services and UDDI are all built on a set of standards, so reuse promotes the use of acceptable, tested Web services and application development standards across the enterprise. The Web services and interfaces can be catalogued by type, function, or classification so that they can be discovered and managed more easily.
Permissions in Oracle Service Registry were developed so that administrators can manage users' permissions in Oracle Service Registry and create views into the registry, specific to the needs of the different user types. User permissions set in Oracle Service Bus govern access to the registries, their content, and the functionality available to you.
You can use the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console to publish proxy services to Oracle Service Registry. You can publish all proxy services to a UDDI registry—this includes the following service types: WSDL, Messaging, Any SOAP, and Any XML. For information on how to publish proxy services to a UDDI registry, see "Publishing Proxy Services to a UDDI Registry" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
You can import services from the registry as Oracle Service Bus business services. The service types supported are WSDL services with SOAP over HTTP binding and Oracle Service Bus proxy services (used primarily in multi-domain deployments). For information on how to import business services to Oracle Service Bus, see "Importing Business Services from a UDDI Registry" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
Service definitions in Oracle Service Bus can be automatically synchronized (both ways) with those in UDDI. Services can be automatically published to a UDDI registry after they are created or changed within Oracle Service Bus and business service definitions can be imported from UDDI and automatically updated when the original service is changed in UDDI. Alternatively, you can configure the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console to prompt you for approval for synchronization when a service changes in the UDDI registry. For more information, see "Configuring UDDI Registries" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
"UDDI" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus
Technical Notes can be found at the following URL:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/doc/tns.htm. Specifically, see Using WSDL in a UDDI Registry.
UDDI product and development tool information is available on the OASIS UDDI Solutions page at
The UDDI specifications, which are available at
These specifications define:
SOAP APIs that applications use to query and to publish information to a UDDI registry
XML Schema schemas of the registry data model and the SOAP message formats
WSDL definitions of the SOAP APIs
UDDI registry definitions (tModels) of various identifier and category systems that can be used to identify and categorize UDDI registrations
Technical notes and best practice documents that help you deploy and use UDDI registries effectively are available on the OASIS UDDI Web site at


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A jobless artist angry over what he sees as Ireland's disastrous foray into the euro zone has built a house out of $1.8 billion in shredded euro notes.
Frank Buckley's project is in the lobby of a Dublin office building that has been vacant for four years, since its construction. The island nation has been devastated by a construction bubble that burst and plunged it into a deep recession that is five years old and showing no signs of letting up.
"It's a reflection of the whole madness that gripped us," Buckley told Reuters. "People were pouring billions into buildings now worth nothing. I wanted to create something from nothing."
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Buckley got bricks of the shredded notes from Ireland's national mint and began "construction" in December. He now lives in the home and is planning on adding a kitchen.
Buckley himself was part of the bust, having gotten a mortgage to buy a half-million-dollar home at the peak of the boom even though he had no steady job. The home, in which his wife now lives, has lost at least one-third of its value, according to Reuters.
He says his new home proves one thing about the euro.
"Whatever you say about the euro, it's a great insulator," Buckley said.