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There is nothing like having cancer at 31 years of age, and seriously facing your mortality, to put a different spin on birthdays. I don't mind the idea of getting older, I'm just happy to be alive. I feel that it has all been a gift, the last twenty years, and each year that passes is another deposit in my giftbag. So turning fifty hasn't bothered me at all. The giftbag grows. As it happened, my 50th birthday party was the best way possible for entering the next part of my life. It was a party held out on Yasgar's, I mean Cole's, farm, I mean property, half an hour out of Hamilton. And will be now and forever known as Kstock.
Friends are the best. I come from a very small family – one sister, neither of us with children – our parents having died over ten years ago. In the background is a large Ukrainian clan but they mostly live far away. Vi and Andy taught us to nourish and honor our friendships and both my sister Maggie and I have benefited from their counsel. And now that I am fifty, with no children, and Maggie and her husband Tom living far away in Washington State, it is even more important that I have great friends. And they really came out of the woods for my birthday, and many of them really cranked it out to make it a great one.
Chuck, Mike, Freda, MaggieMike and Freda Cole, who have held some rocking parties over the years, know how to do it. Freda, east coast gal, can't make enough food (and others contribute) and it is always beyond delicious. We will never starve at one of her gatherings. Mike takes care of the outdoor details – together they make everything flow. They are both real gracious hosts when the strangers start arriving and welcome all into their home. They moved to this big old farmhouse over a year ago and it is definitely made for holding an event like Kstock. There must have been close to one hundred folks there, but we were spread out around the property, there was lots of room for camping, lots of room for dancing – people could wander off for private tete-a-tetes, or whatever you might wanna do in the bushes.
Sol, Amelia & Jaaziah in the bushes
Maggie & MIke on the bacon
My seeester Maggie came from Washington State and spent a couple days with Freda and Mike getting ready, helping Freda with food, and making the huge signs that could be seen a kilometer away on the road – "Kstock 2008" – for those who didn't know where they were going. The Kstock thing started with my friends Treeza and Rick north of Toronto (and Terry, Steve and Gloria), who not only started saying "we're going to Kstock" but on my birthday card Rick provided a copy of his original ticket from the real Woodstock – kinda brought it all together.
Treeza & get-down Gloria
Chuck, Stu, Dawson & Coral
Then the gang from Westport came to truly turn it into a musical happening. Chuck, Carolyn, Marty, Sandy, Stu, Dave, Helen, John, Susan, Dawson and Coral filled their vehicles (a bad day for footprints in carbon) with instruments, speakers and camping gear and brought their various musical talents up the highway.
Nineth Line – a jump 'n jive band kept us hopping;
King of the Swingers – a kinda roadside swing 'n dixie-style band brought the music off the stage and made us laugh (and keep dancing);
Then the "other band" played by the campfire with mandolin, accordian, stand up bass and guitar, beautiful renditions of bluegrass, country and folk tunes (most notably, for this little Steve Earle worshipper, Copperhead Road). The music never stopped from early in the evening till I don't know when in the early morning hours. Nineth Line had learned a couple new songs for the occasion – I've been bugging them to learn a Latin rhythm or two and they got it done. They were hot that night, and just kept getting hotter as the night went on.
Since I love to dance more than just about anything (well, dancing on a big rock in the middle of a lush forest beside a lake with a beautiful man who dances is ideal) this party played out just as I would hope to celebrate…we danced from start to finish, and I saw most of the folks up on their feet at some point. Of course, in Canada I've always found the dance floors filled more with females than males and this night was no exception – I'll always remember a wild night in Montezuma, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, when there were about thirty men dancing and only four women. Now that! was a dream…but I digress.
Then there were the people who had come from far and wide for the occasion: my sister probably came the furthest, from the mountains of Washington State. But the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee were represented by our friend Kathy Lowery, who left Hamilton and married an old sweetheart (and he is), Stan, a few years ago. Freda, our friend Dean, and I have ventured down a few times to Tennessee to visit them on their beautiful porch that looks out on those perty mountains. In that time we've become friends with some of theirs, particularly William and Missy Murphy and William's parents Gerry and Shorty. We've spent a lot of hours on Kathy's porch with the gang playing bluegrass and singing. William's dad, Gerry, has been struggling with cancer for a couple of years and without him able to join in, William and Missy stopped playing music. At Kstock, they got up on the stage and sang a few sweet songs again, despite the lengthy absence from strumming and singing, and it was wonderful to hear them. They've got a couple of the biggest warmest smiles in the state, and that they would jump on their motorcycle and drive north from Tennessee for Kstock was another gift in my giftbag.
A couple days before the party, I got a phone call from my friend Jean Trickey, from Little Rock, Arkansas, who said she had booked her ticket and was on her way! We've managed to spend some great weekends together in the last couple of years, her daughter's wedding in Little Rock, and the 50th Anniversary of the Little Rock Nine, of which Jean is one of those brave teenagers who back in 1957 walked through the hateful crowd to be one of the first black kids to attend Central High School. I had gone last year to Little Rock for the 50th, (a phenomenal occasion it was), seen John Lewis the freedom fighter, met Ruby Bridges the little girl in the Norman Rockwell painting, shook Bill Clinton's hand, got snagged on his secret service guy…again, I digress…but Jean had been so busy on these occasions that we really only got to talk a bit late at night when she finally could sit down. So to have her come for the weekend for my birthday, stay for a few days and have some down time to just talk (alot about Barack and Hillary of course), to dance as we love to do, and to see her get up on the stage and belt out "Women be wise, keep your mouth shut, don't advertise your man" (a wise old song) was another big deposit in the gift bag.
Jean being here brought out her sons Isaiah (we had real Toronto paparazzi there) and Sol from Toronto and their kids, Amelia and Jaaziah, who added extra joy and energy to the occasion. (Many of these photos were from either Isaiah, Peter or Marty – thanks guys)
K, Sol, Isaiah, & Miss Kathy from Tennessee
The Trickey clan is always interesting, fun, dynamic, and loud (in this gang, I don't feel like the loudest in the room) – great to have three generations represented at Kstock. (Notice the photographic image of me on the cake – what will we eat next?)
Kay, Sol, Amelia & Jaaziah talk cake business
And then there was my soul sister Cocky who lives in a nature sanctuary outside of Freeport, Maine and her partner Peter MacMillen. They had been up in Temagami, on Peter's beautiful island, and came down from the north for the event. Cocky has been here in the Hammer often, but Peter went well out of his way for this one.
And along with my close friends Linda and Bill Murray from Charlton (along with Jean and Cocky, we all lived up in the Temiskaming area of northeastern Ontario for years – the Murrays still do), Patti and Leo Lessard and Terry and Ted from Mattawa, they brought the fresh clean northern air down to the Hammer. Cocky, Jean and I are a feisty trio when we get together, which doesn't happen very often, but I love these women and to have a few days together was beautiful.
Beyond these folks there was Bill and Cheryl from Virginia, Lynda and Carole representing Guelph, friends from Toronto, Freda's family, fine Hammerfolk and good neighbours, a number of old high school friends I hadn't seen in years, the now-getting-old kids of friends, and a couple of my favorite dogs, Alpha and Ziggy. It all added up to the best party ever.
After this wild summer of rain and thunderstorms, the sky was completely clear, the temperature perfect all night long for being outside dancing (I guess some people were sitting) or around the campfire, people camped in comfort and peace, and we all woke up to more sunshine. Freda and Mike and gang made us a big breakfast, only after making a deal with the Swingers to play just a few more tunes in the morning. That Stu can drum on anything! We swam in the pool and I opened my gifts (the ones not already in the giftbag).
Stu, John & Marty, most of the Swingers
I ceremoniously burned the box full of paper copies of Walking with Wolf (Steve Earle was doing his Sirius radio show in the background as this happened – it was all so poignant). I have been printing out copies of the manuscript for how many years? and no longer need them, so I put the box on the coals and slowly watched it catch fire and disintegrate. It was a cleansing and a celebration. If I do nothing else of value in my life, I managed to get this book written and published while Wolf and I are still alive, and miraculously before I turned 50!
It was at the moment that the last of the overnight guests had got in their cars and honked their way down the road, leaving only Freda, Mike, Maggie, Cocky, Jean and I with Isaiah and Jaaziah, that the storm hit. Everything had been cleaned up, put inside, as we could see the storm approaching over the fields. There was some heavy rain that we watched from the porch, amazed that this whole outdoor event went on without a hitch, not a drop of rain to spoil anything, no chance for a mud-dance like at the real Woodstock. Just as the storm seemed to have subsided there was one HUGE thunderclap with one HUGE bolt of lightning – Jean was just putting her hand on the outhouse door and was shook to her bones. Jaaziah was in the car, but Isaiah was still outside and could hear the sizzle of electricity in the air. I think Jean's hair went a little curlier and we all jumped and were rocked all over. Just one CLAP that carried the power of the whole dark sky. How lucky were we that none of us were hurt by this extremely close electrical jolt – it would have been a horrible way to end perfection – and life has been so good for me lately that a bolt of lightning almost feels inevitable – and that the storm waited until our friends were safely on their way home. One last grand hurrah, the big finish, to Kstock 2008! The gratitude I feel to all my friends who came out and worked, then played, so hard is impossible to express. Peace, love and grooviness will have to do!


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Setback for ash-dumping Lake Michigan ferry
Bill would stop 60-year-old SS Badger from operating
MILWAUKEE — Congress has handed a defeat to owners of a passenger ferry that dumps coal ash into Lake Michigan as it travels between Wisconsin and Michigan.
The U.S. House Wednesday passed a Coast Guard re-authorization bill that stripped language requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to give the go-ahead to the nearly 60-year-old SS Badger to keep operating.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports an identical bill earlier passed the U.S. Senate. It now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.
The ferry transports cars and passengers between Ludington, Mich. and Manitowoc, Wis. and is the last coal-burning steamship on the Great Lakes.
Environmentalists objected to the tons of coal ash that the Badger released into the lake on daily voyages during the shipping season.

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Check out Gisele Bundchen's face behind Ginnifer Goodwin last night. Amazing, right? Shall we Photo Assumption?
Errrrm... who invited all these Bs? Is that the girl from Twilight with the really bad pixie wig?
To be fair, Ginnifer Goodwin is a few steps ahead of Ashley Greene. And her makeup is great. I love how this pops. And even though she looks sour and miserable, as she does, I'm actually less annoyed with her than I am with Gisele who for some reason kept swanning her ass out like a cheerleader and making kissy faces with Tom Brady. A few years ago, they showed up on these steps and did the same thing and back then it was subtle and new. The problem is that she keeps replaying the same move at the same event in a dress that, though it's vintage McQueen, is hardly as exciting as the Versace from 2008 – click here for a refresher.
Vogue put out this book of photos a while ago and these two, from their Met Gala glorious past, graced a full page and I remember my friend Lara saying to me she could stare at that picture forever. This year, it just wasn't the same.
Back to Ginnifer for a minute...
Her dress is Topshop and now you're thinking OMG – I can totally go buy this on the high street and not spend so much money and it's the same way with the press getting all jizzy about the fact that this is not couture but then you read the fine print and realise the Topshop design team customed this for her and lengthened the store version and spent so much more time tailoring it to her specifications and it turns out you can't actually buy what she's wearing so, really, what's the point in telling me it's Topshop and accessible when, really, it's not at all?
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Best Met Photobomb: Gisele & Ginnifer
Check out Gisele Bundchen's face behind Ginnifer Goodwin last night. Amazing, right? Shall we Photo Assumption?


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Gualeguaychú Carnival The Carnival of the Country
As in previous years, during the next 2014 Summer months, on Saturdays (from January 4th to March 1st, and this Summer will also include March 2nd and 3rd -Sunday and Monday-), the city of Gualeguaychú will dress up to present one of the most expected shows in the area: the Gualeguaychu 2014 Carnival, which summons thousands of enthusiasts that enjoy the brightness, the joy, the thrill and the rhythm of the comparsas (social club's carnival dance group) parading before them at the local corsódromo (carnival runway).
During the Carnivals of Gualeguaychú, all the attendants experiment and feel the true sense of this majestic festival, getting rid of the social and cultural hindrances that structure modern society.
In this 2014 issue, the Carnival of the Country will present the comparsas Kamarr, O'Bahia y Papelitos, which will compete for the first prize as they display the quality of their costumes, the synchrony of their choreography and the great show made up by their floats which, in addition to the themes chosen by the directors, make attendants vibrate and dance as they try to leave a legacy to make the world a better place.
This artistic display has been around for over twenty years and is considered one of the most important carnival parades on earth, along with the carnivals of Rio de Janeiro and Venice.
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Release all your restrained feelings with us and let yourself be captivated by the comparsas' parade. Batucadas and multicolor feathers get hold of the scene, bringing King Momo back to life, exploding with renovated joy and energy, offering admirors the sensuality of dancing to the rhythm of a pagan festivity.


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Call me over-ambitious, but is there a way to at least simulate multiple liquids? Can I use the water texture as a floor while using Sewage as a liquid? Can you even use two different map texture packs at once? How so?
I want a small pool of water on this sewer level I'm making, and they are both in the same room. I also have planned a room filled with lava, but I know that you can put that on a separate level and have a transition between the two levels.
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January 31, 2013
A party or gathering with friends from the past gives you the opportunity to strut your stuff a bit. You've made tremendous strides and accomplished much in your life, so be pleased with yourself this week. Pass some of your wisdom along to others. Soul Affirmation: All that I need is within me.
Do not throw a wrench in someone's else plan and undermine their project to get ahead in what you are trying to do this week. Be peaceful and seek harmony in the relationships you have in your personal and professional life. You will go further than you think by helping co-workers and friends. Soul Affirmation: I get because I give.
This week your fortune will delight you in ways that you've never experienced before. Don't be slow in sharing good fortune with others who helped you achieve what you have. Fill their coffers as yours are being filled. A wonderful gift to have is the ability to give to others. Soul Affirmation: The success of others is the investment I make in myself.
This week do not seek the "highest" source of information for your answers. Look towards a humble source for the truth about your vibrations this week. The ability to learn from any of God's creation will lead to better answers than finite human knowledge will produce. Soul Affirmation: Truth is revealed in the smallest grain of sand.
This week your strong fortitude will be able to carry you though hurdles that you once perceived as insurmountable. Don't begrudge your situation or begrudge others for what they have. You will become a better person when you overcome any stumbling blocks in your path. You will look back and count it as a milestone. Soul Affirmation: What life has given me is sufficient to any task.
One of your greatest talents and gifts is the ability to give freely to others. Exercise it this week with a passion. You are very timely when others are in need. Your capacity to be a stronghold for others is remarkable. The power of giving will always supersede the feelings of neediness. Soul Affirmation: Being there for others is a way of being there for myself.
Living in the past has been one of your favorite things, do it this week. Memory will give you clues to the answer to a pressing problem. Ask for help in finishing up the week's work. Be diplomatic and you'll get all the help you need. Pretending to be a little bit helpless can work to your favor. Soul Affirmation: My needs will be met if I just ask.
There is a fresh discovery about yourself that you can make this week by taking a poll of friends. They are especially aware of your real self. It shines through on the surface of your life. Ask others what they see and listen well. Situate yourself so you'll be ready for it. Soul Affirmation: I enjoy the love that others have for me.
It is amazing how a restless soul like you can button down when you have to. This week is the kind of week when obligations must be met. The best way to get it done is to think about it with only half your mind. Let the other half roam around restlessly like you like your mind to do. Soul Affirmation: This week silence speaks loudest and truest.
You've done a lot of things in life that no one has agreed with at the beginning. Finding agreement this week will be difficult, but it should not deter you from moving forward. Feeling sorry for your loneliness will discolor what you are doing. Be happy that you are alone. Soul Affirmation: I accept fate and see good in it.
You should know by now that trying to be in two places at once is very taxing to your nerves! Slow down a bit and trust that you'll get what needs to be done accomplished. Give yourself a head start on all road trips so that you have time to enjoy the view. Soul Affirmation: Seeing my past clearly this week gives me a clear vision of my future.
An afterglow surrounds you during the week, and you may not feel like getting immediately into work-mode this week. It's okay to go with your feelings; the world will wait for a little while. Treasure happy moments. Soul Affirmation: Facing down challenges makes me feel good about myself.


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The undead are wreaking havoc in Maine — in a unique emergency preparedness drill, at least.
About 100 first emergency responders from eight counties in Maine were summoned to Bangor to contain a "zombie apocalypse" Thursday in an exercise intended to train them to react to a mass casualty event, the Bangor Daily News reported.
The participants: Bangor residents outfitted with makeup and fake blood to look as "undead" as possible.
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In the exercise, the emergency personnel were tasked with treating the zombie-infected participants to prevent them from becoming zombies.
"If they don't receive the anti-zombie drug, they progress to stage two and then on to the 'undead' stage," Kathy Knight, director of the exercise's organizer Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center, explained.
The whole point of the exercise, according to Knight, was to get first responders to "think outside the box" in dealing with a potential pandemic scenario.
"This gives us the opportunity to do something a little bit different, but it still has the same principles that would apply in a real situation," Knight told the Bangor Daily News.
"The entire thing is very similar to any regular pandemic influenza planning," she told the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. "So we can use what we learn here in the planning for that type of event."


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 20, 2012) – Five players from the USA Volleyball beach program have signed letters of intent to play sand volleyball at Southern California (USC), Pepperdine and Florida State.
Sara Hughes and Alexandra "Allie" Wheeler have signed to play for Anna Collier at USC. Delaney Knudsen will play Nina Matthies at Pepperdine. Sierra Sanchez and Julia Thompson have signed to play for Danalee Corso at Florida State.
In 2012, Hughes, who attends Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., finished fourth with Summer Ross at the 2012 FIVB Junior World Championship in Halifax, seventh at the NORCECA Beach tour stop in Chula Vista (with Kirby Burnham), ninth at the FIVB Youth World Championship in Cyprus (with Justine Wong-Orantes) and 25th at the Manhattan Open (with Lilla Frederick). She also competed in the 2012 FIVB Thailand Open (with Kaitlin Sather).
In the summer of 2011, she was ninth at the FIVB Youth World Championship in Croatia (with Wong-Orantes), 17th at the Manhattan Open and 25th at the FIVB Junior World Championships in Halifax (both with Caitlin Racich).
Indoors, Hughes played with Mater Dei and helped her Long Beach Mizuno club team win a gold medal at the 2011 Girls' Junior National Championships in the 16 Open division.
Wheeler, who attends Archbishop Mitty in San Jose, Calif., has been a member of the USA Volleyball Beach High Performance Under-19 program. She is the first northern Californian to receive a scholarship to play NCAA Division I sand volleyball. Indoors, she helped Archbishop Mitty to a 34-0 record and the 2012 CIF Central Coast championship, earning All-West Catholic Athletic League first team honors. Her Vision Volleyball Club won a silver medal at the Girls' Junior National Championships.
"We are extremely delighted to welcome Sara and Allie to the Trojan Family," Collier said. "Sara is regarded as the top sand volleyball recruit in the nation. She is very experienced and athletic for her age. She will be the foundation of our program in the coming years. Allie is an up-and-comer who is just beginning to tap into her sand potential. Her successful indoor experience will translate well to the sand game."
Knudsen, who attends Valencia High School in California, has held an AAA rating in the California Beach Volleyball Association rankings since the age of 16. She won the under-16 division of the USA Volleyball Beach High Performance Championships in 2011. Most recently, she finished third in September's Santa Cruz Open. Indoors, Knudson was voted an All-Foothill League first team member in 2011 and named Foothill League Player of the Year in 2011.
"I'm really excited about my first sand volleyball recruiting class," Matthies said. "Delaney is a very focused young lady and has set lofty goals for herself. I'm excited to be a part of her future and help her fulfill some of those goals. Her work ethic is amazing and she is going to be an incredible leader for our young kids."
Sanchez plays with Knudsen at Valencia High School. Both were named to the 2012 USA Volleyball 19-under A1 beach roster and also competed together at the Manhattan Beach Open, although they did not get out of the qualifying bracket. They were instrumental in Valencia winning the inaugural title May 5 in the AAU Southern Pacific Girls' Interscholastic Beach Volleyball final.
Thompson is the only non-Californian of the five. She plays for Barrington High School in Illinois and began playing beach volleyball competitively in 2011. That same year, she won the U16 division of the USA Beach Junior Tour National Championships in Chicago with partner Emily Casaletto. Indoors, Thompson also plays for the Sky High Volleyball Club.
The AVCA has announced that the 2013, 2014 and 2015 AVCA Sand Volleyball Championships will be played in Gulf Shores, Ala., with USA Volleyball's Gulf Shores Region as a partner. The 2012 AVCA Sand Volleyball Championships, which was the inaugural event, was also played in Gulf Shores.
Scott Ayakatubby, Janice Opalinski-Harrer and Adam Johnson were inducted into the Beach Volleyball Hall of Fame on Nov. 16. Earlier inductees Greg Lee (1997) and Mike O'Hara (1992) were also honored at the ceremony in Hermosa Beach, Calif.
The induction ceremony was held at the Hermosa Beach Historical Museum, which has offered the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA) its first physical hall of fame location.
The FIVB has produced an Olympic Beach Volleyball Review issue of its publication Volleyworld. To view the publication, click here.


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It's become conventional wisdom that many of today's workers will see their jobs replaced or transformed by ever-smarter machines. Who needs bus drivers and truckers when self-driving vehicles take over the road —and what happens to the thousands of body-shop workers who won't be needed to repair dents when the sensors in these new vehicles head off fender benders?
A recent paper from Oxford University suggested that 47% of U.S. jobs are at high risk of being computerized in the next few decades, with potentially frightening consequences for workers.
Such concerns have raised urgent questions about the skills individuals need to survive in the workforce of the future. Not only is technology displacing workers, as it has in every economic transformation, but it is changing so rapidly that workers and employers are finding themselves unable to keep up, a situation that creates the paradox of a skills gap amid high unemployment.
"The Industrial Revolution required a major reskilling and upskilling, and so does the digital revolution," said Charles Fadel, co-author of "21st-Century Skills" and founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign an organization devoted to understanding the requirements of the labor market. He was speaking at a gathering last week of economists, business representatives and workforce experts from North America and Europe that addressed the impact of technology on the labor market. The event was organized by the European Commission in concert with the Conference Board and Cornell University.
But more of the responsibility for that reskilling is shifting from governments and employers to workers. The reasons for this change are complex and varied, participants noted: governments—and the education systems they design and oversee—aren't very good at keeping up with the rapid pace of skill evolution; companies seem to be spending less money on training because they don't expect employees to stick around long enough to get a return on the investment; and high unemployment transfers pressure to individual workers to keep their knowledge fresh.
Some countries are trying to be proactive. This year, the United Kingdom will require schoolchildren to learn software coding from the time they enter primary school at age 5 until at least age 16—becoming possibly the first country to mandate such courses.
In most places, it is up to workers to continually master new technologies. And not every person has the ambition, time or flexibility to do so. As Fabio Rosati, the chief executive of online freelance marketplace Elance.com, told The Wall Street Journal a few months ago, the skills that are in highest demand by employers are turning over every two to three years now.
"One reason people don't want to study ICT [information and computer technology] is because the skills change so quickly. They don't want to have to keep updating their skills," said Lucilla Sioli of the European Commission's digital-technology initiative, called DG Connect. This is not laziness, she underscored—simply a concern that the pace of innovation creates enormous pressure for workers in these fields.
It remains unknown, too, what psychological and emotional toll this skills turnover and insecurity takes on workers who fear they're constantly falling behind.
"We're seeing rapid depreciation for IT skills," said Sonny Tambe, professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and an expert on the high-tech workforce. "So what happens to engineers over 40? You go to Silicon Valley [and ask that question] and you can see the panic in some people's eyes." (That won't surprise the folks featured in this story about ageism in the high-tech world.)
Market forces, theoretically, should clear up this problem, as they have in past economic transitions, when competition propelled wages for sought-after workers higher and workers adjusted their skills to meet demand. That is happening today, but the process is slow and uneven, especially because the slack labor market is helping employers put off concerted, large-scale investments in training.
And companies themselves may be obstructing the naturally equilibrium-seeking labor market. The so-called skills gap has been manufactured by employers who simply don't want to raise wages enough to nudge the skills of workers into equilibrium with demand, suggested an investment banker. "Companies that say 'I can't find the workers I need' are leaving out the rest of that sentence. What they mean is, 'I can't find the workers I need at the price I want to pay.'"


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|Alzheimer's disease is characterized by progressive memory loss and cognitive deficits, accumulation of ß-amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles within the brain, and neuronal death. In addition to ß-amyloid and tau pathology, mitochondrial dysfunction and free radical damage are also hallmarks of AD brain, suggesting that oxidative stress might be important in AD pathology. In the companion study we set out to define the role oxidative stress plays in AD pathogenesis by chronically treating mice that model human AD with the superoxide dismutase (SOD)/catalase mimetic, EUK-207, starting before the onset of pathology and cognitive deficits, and continuing until 9 months of age, when the AD phenotype is established. In the present study, we initiated the treatment after the onset of pathology at 9 months of age. After 3 months of treatment, cognitive performance, brain ß-amyloid and tau pathology as well as oxidative stress were analyzed. At 12 months of age, 3xTg-AD mice exhibited a decline in performance in both contextual and cued fear memory tasks as compared to wild-type mice; EUK-207-treated 3xTg-AD mice did not display any deficit in fear conditioning performance, as compared to wild-type controls. Chronic treatment with EUK-207 protected against increased levels of oxidized nucleic acids and lipid peroxidation in brain and reduced ß-amyloid, tau and hyperphosphorylated tau accumulation in amygdala and hippocampus of 3xTg-AD mice. Our results thus confirm a critical role for oxidative stress in AD progression and strongly suggest the potential usefulness for salen-manganese complexes as a treatment for AD. ❧ Systemic injection of kainate produces repetitive seizure activity in both adult and juvenile rats. However, while kainate-induced seizure results in neurodegeneration in the limbic system of adult rats, juvenile rats have been repeatedly shown to be immune to the neurotoxic effects of kainate. The mechanisms underlying this differential effect of seizure activity in adult and juvenile rat brain are not clear. We previously reported that kainate-induced seizure activity differentially affected calpain activation in neonatal and adult rat brain. We recently discovered that calpain could truncate the phosphatase PTEN, resulting in mTOR activation and stimulation of protein synthesis, including Arc synthesis. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of kainate-induced seizure activity on levels of calpain, PTEN, mTOR, and Arc in hippocampus from adult and postnatal rats. In adult rats, seizure activity rapidly stimulated calpain-2, as evidenced by decreased in drebrin and PTEN levels throughout the hippocampus. It was also associated with increased mTOR and Arc levels in fields CA1 and CA3 4 h after seizure initiation. PTEN truncation was blocked by systemic injection of the calpain inhibitor calpepetin before KA injection, but mTOR and Arc levels were not affected. Interestingly, in p12-14 rats, seizure activity was not associated with a rapid calpain activation and PTEN loss in any field of hippocampus, possibly due to lack of ERK activation. However, levels of mTOR were increased 1 day after seizure initiation, but levels of PTEN and Arc remained unchanged. These results indicate that seizure activity produces very different effects on the calpain→PTEN→mTOR and Arc cascade in hippocampus from juvenile and adult rats. Whether these different effects are related to the different neuropathological consequences of seizure activity remains to be determined.
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"The Hunger Games" has been a worldwide best seller, and now it's the first legitimate blockbuster of 2012, having taken in a record-setting $155 million in its opening weekend. But what, exactly, is the secret behind the phenomenal popularity of the story? The film's cast and crew give PopcornBiz their take on the appeal of author Suzanne Collins' creation.
Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen): Because this is the generation that's obsessed with reality television and watching people's lives fall apart while we eat popcorn. This is the new generation that's kind of started this obsession, and I'm every bit a part of it. Also, I think that people love following a character like this who's a hero that doesn't mean to be a hero, that kind of goes against all odds and fights back when something is wrong and doesn't stay quiet.
Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne): Any great stories have characters that you care about. For me as a fan of the books, when I was reading those books, you have so many very strong characters, very good people that are in a horrible situation and you want to see them get out of it. You care about them, you're there with them, so that was kind of where it was for me and also you have this extraordinary girl that's providing hope and courage to everyone around her, that they can have the courage to stand up, and if we come together we can fight this.
Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark): I think the whole world that Suzanne created is so interesting – the idea of combining reality TV with a totalitarian dictatorship government is interesting. As well as the way Suzanne writes: she's realized that kids these days aren't like kids in the '90s, '80s and other decades. They're so much more advanced. I have a 15-year-old brother that you can talk to like he's a full adult, so she doesn't condescend to the readers, she doesn't talk down or try to spoon feed them information. It's done in a very level-playing-field kind of way. I think that's kind of why adults can read the book and find it just as interesting as teens do.
Gary Ross (director): I think that on the one hand it's a harrowing premise that's completely engaging, but I think the fact that Katniss fights to preserve her own humanity in the face of it and won't play their game and stays a human being. Really what this comes down to is a very human story and someone who finds her own ethical center. And in finding that and saying at the beginning she's fighting to survive and [learn if] she's willing to sacrifice her life rather than violate her own morality, an empathy she's discovered within herself – that's resonant with anybody and that's the reason I wanted to do the film.
Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket): First of all you start with a rebellious teenage girl. Hello – classic heroine. Love triangle – great. That totally draws all the ladies in, and then there's this crazy battle royale happening – good for guys. They love that stuff. Then you have all this crazy political stuff, which my father-in-law loves. Suzanne's pulling from really great literature. I think there was a lot of [George] Orwell. There's Greek and Roman literature in here. We have to remember that in ancient Rome they had Bread and Circuses and threw people to lions for entertainment. In our human history, we're not great with each other. We treat each other pretty badly. So I don't think that this is very far off, and that's why I think it's hitting a chord with everyone. It's reminding people that light and love and hope can be more powerful, obviously, than the dark side. George Lucas really said it all the best: Don't choose the dark side.
"The Hunger Games" Stars Analyze the Blockbuster Phenomenon
"The Hunger Games" has been a worldwide best seller, and now it's the first legitimate blockbuster of 2012, having taken in a record-setting $155 million in its opening weekend. But what, exactly, is the secret behind the phenomenal popularity of the story? The film's cast and crew give PopcornBiz their take on the appeal of author Suzanne Collins' creation.


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kidzsearch.com > wiki Explore:images videos games
A fairy or færie (Old English spelling) is a supposed magical being that flies in the air. They are usually depicted as small girls or women. Some færies have certain jobs, such as the Tooth fairy, who gives money or treats under the pillow of small children who have had a tooth fall out. A fairy tale is a story with a plot involving fairies. These stories are usually for children. Fairies can also be found in folklore, for instance, in Ireland and Scotland, fairies are still held as creatures that were defeated by the human race thousands of years ago and now live in caverns in the world of faerie. These mystical creatures are believed to be made after a kind of angel. Fairies come up in many fictional books such as "Peter Pan" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles".


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Rumor: Minnesota wants Rudy Gay?
David Kahn says he plans to call two agents at 11 o'clock Wednesday, when the NBA's free-agency negotiation period begins. I hear from a good league source that one of those two guys is Memphis forward Rudy Gay.I texted David Kahn for a confirmation or denial Monday evening and he did not respond.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: This makes sense.
The lowly Minnesota Timberwolves should target Rudy Gay, the athletic swing with the Memphis Grizzlies. While young and talented, Gay has been overlooked because this year`s free agent class features superstars Chris Bosh, LeBron James, Joe Johnson, Amar`e Stoudemire, and Dwyane Wade.
But Gay has the explosiveness to become an All-Star. And the Wolves are desperate for a small forward to complement their bevy of point guards and power forwards.
Best of all, Gay is ripe for the picking because Minnesota - which has just $25 million in committed salary for 2011 - can afford to float a big ticket offer, while small market Memphis may lack the resources to match.
So perhaps the Wolves make a splash in this summer`s free agent market.
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About Headbhang
No, no, you got it all wrong! It's VIDEOGAMES, of course, what is to blame for the riots...
If the book I just finished reading got it right, there will be a new budding nation in orbit around the Earth and "ck" in English will somehow been simplified to just k.
Geek points to whoever guesses what book that is :P
Not quite, unfortunately. If they were, they would be making
All your continent are belong to US!
Heh. I hope a good black metal band will give it the good twist it deserves...
I've quoted him before, but here it goes again:
"1) everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it, until it's been around for about ten years, when it gradually turns out to be alright, really."
- Douglas Adams, on inventions & technology
These news makes me angry, so angry I've gone and donated to the girl's charity thing. May these assholes rot in bankrupcy soon.
And that strikes you as a nice, fair system for the artist, Michi?
The people in the Dragon's Den example ALSO get the money UP FRONT, you know? Why should the recording industry operate in a different way?
Who says UK and USA can do that?
I hadn't heard of Kickstarter until now, but now I have and I think it's brilliant It's pretty much what I've had in mind that more people should be doing.
Already found something I want to help fund, actually! Gypsy music by Sanda Weigl. :)
I like it, although I'm a bit afraid it would encourage people to take the sport of just driving along cameras nicely just for the sake of increasing their chances...
Dude, if you got those problems, you really are doing it wrong.
One of the problems with the official, legal channels is that none of them come even close to the convenience the internet has to offer if you go to the right places. Huge selection, perfect quality, great speeds and a helpful and knowledgeable community of music fans.
Even without factoring in the issue of price, not even iTunes or Spotify can compete with some of the resources the "pirates" have put together. How can they hope to get people to pay if they can't offer something comparable in terms of digital distribution?
Do you honestly believe Mike is that stupid?? If so, you are thicker than I thought.
He understands very well the issue of fixed costs and the need of recouping them somehow for a business to make sense. Only the dumbest of the "freetards" would miss that.
What he does is to suggest alternate ways of recouping those costs, and making a profit, which does not involve trying to sell stuff whose price is naturally forced down by the laws of the market, which will dictate that goods with (near-)zero marginal cost will be regarded as free *regardless of their initial fixed cost*. He is not saying it should be like that, just points out that it just IS, whether you like it or not. Gravity makes objects fall down. The market makes infinite goods become free. You can try to make things fly and you can try to charge for infinite goods. It's possible, but you are swimming against the current.
To be honest, I'm not yet convinced that every form of content can be succesfully supported by alternate means. Sometimes the fixed costs do seem too high, and the scarcities too insignificant, for certain businesses to seem viable. There are no guarantees that everything can survive in a changed landscape. It may be that artificial measures would be necessary to keep certain things afloat. I don't know. But I DO know that the less you waste your energy fighting against nature, the better.
I concur that it would be a good idea (and to have it somewhere convenient for quick access).
So much discussion takes place here because of misunderstanding of terminology, "scarcity" being a recurrent theme.
To be honest, it is understandable. Scarcity in its economic sense DOES mean something quite different from the colloquial, intuitive meaning and if the difference is not clear from the start to everyone, disagreements due to miscommunication will never end.
It is all made worse since sometimes the concept of scarcity in its colloquial meaning does come up meaningfully sometimes. For instance, "artificial scarcity" can be applied both in the economic sense (pretending or trying to force some infinite good to appear scarce) and the colloquial one (limiting the quantity supplied of some non-infinite good such that it is rare and the demand for it exceeds it). It can be rather confusing for folks who don't immediately get the distinction and is the source of much misunderstanding and disagreement.
You *may* have a certain point, but I don't think I'm convinced...
Mike has already dealt with the Rolls Royce case, which bases its appeal on exclusivity, and for which the infinite good of prestige is a good thing. *Everyone* knows about Rolls Royce and I'm sure they love when people talk about them.
Some things do derive at least some of their appeal from their obscurity (not exclusivity), though, but for that to translate into better profitability I think an unusual condition needs to be met, namely that excess demand actually *harms* the product.
You seem to have your example of that secret club in mind. Clubs have the characteristic that its demand is part of the product itself, because the people (what kind and how many) go there definitely influence the experience you get and thus ought to be controlled.
Bouncers and prices are the natural way of handling it, but may not be ideal in some conditions, such as if huge queues are not practical due to the location or if your target market isn't the über-rich. Therefore, controlled obscurity might be a good alternative, but that is only because the demand is a very important component of the product itself.
Another example could be how some metal (or indie) music fans, for instance, definitely seem to like and seek bands based on how "underground" they are, and may soon lose interest if they seem to be getting too much visibility. This would certainly translate into some lost fans, but whether this detracts from the overall demand and profitability would depend on whether the added visibility fails to attract enough new people to compensate for the initial loss. The music would need to be quite onerous (or bad) for that to be the case.
Of course, not everyone is concerned with maximum profitability (thank goodness), and some people are willing to stick with sub-optimal profits in order to be loyal to a particular vision, ideology or aesthetic.
Mike is right that current copyright law makes all this mess possible.
Where today he failed is in doing his homework to realize about the background of this, which makes it clear that this is not about the money for Gaiman, but about his desire to prevent McFarlane to succeed with his continued jackassery.
Yep, the novelty now is that McFarlane came up with the twist of re-inventing Medieval Spawn as "Dark Ages Spawn" in order to sidestep Gaiman's share of the copyright, and Gaiman decided he would not allow any of that crap. I'm not sure if it still holds, but at least until some time ago, McFarlane STILL owed him a share of the revenue.
Dick move, perhaps, but clearly not fuelled by greed. And in any case, I disagree.
McFarlane abuses copyright (and lies) to block Gaiman from working on Miracleman and after trying to deny Gaiman's co-ownership of Medieval Spawn & co. rights and failing, proceeds to try to sidestep them by making a rip-off copy of them.
Seriously, if anyone is to be lambasted for exploiting the mess that are copyright laws it needs to be McFarlane. Gaiman really is just playing on the defensive, as any reasonable person should.
Read http://www.oafe.net/articulation/0409.php for some of the background of this mess, as well as http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/02/last-legal-post-for-long-time.asp


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Here's an example of my first post on February 15th, 2008:
Being based in Kelowna, I'm heading off to Vancouver tomorrow to meet with my producer, Ruth Vincent about my documentary One Big Hapa Family. This will be the first time we will have met after I revised my original proposal a few weeks ago. Needless to say, after I revised the proposal, it was over 7 pages long…and according to Ruth, 4 pages too long.
So far I've secured funding with my first version of the proposal last year by obtaining grant money from the British Columbia Arts Council, National Association of Japanese Canadians Endowment Fund for Cultural Development, and the National Film Board through a Filmmaker Assistance Program grant. The original proposal was intended to make a short documentary. Around 8 - 12 minutes long. After some discussion with Ruth a few months back, we decided this concept could possibly work for TV. So I went about revising the proposal for a 44 minute broadcast hour documentary. We're hoping to submit the new proposal with the hope of obtaining a pre-license fee and maybe even securing a second window broadcaster.
Here's a synopsis for the revised One Big Hapa Family documentary:
One Big Hapa Family is a 44-minute high definition live-action with animation documentary that highlights a Japanese-Canadian family reunion. The documentary explores why over 95% of Japanese-Canadians are in interracial marriages, the highest out of any other ethnicity in Canada, and how their children perceive their multiracial identities. Animation and narration are used to transition from narrative story structures to interview formats while exploring a unique outlook on Canadian multiculturalism from the perspective of Japanese-Canadian children of mixed decent, interracial couples, and opinions from Japanese elders who lived through WWII.
This blog will be a diary focusing on the pre-production, production, and post-production One Big Hapa Family. Being half-Japanese and half-European decent, the topics covered in One Big Hapa Family are very personal to me. In my animated film, "What Are You Anyways?" I explored my own experiences growing up of mixed-Asian decent in the small Canadian city of Kelowna. The film had phenomenal success screening at over 40 international film festival and winning 7 awards. Recently I just finished a new classically animated film, Yellow Sticky Notes, which premiered at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival where it won the Animasian Award for Best Animation. The film was created using over 2300 yellow sticky notes and animated straight ahead with only a black ink pen.
My filmmaking is created using thousands of hand drawn images. With One Big Hapa Family, this will be my first venture into the realm of live action. I'm bound to make a ton of mistakes along the way and I know making this documentary will be a true adventure that will push my filmmaking to the limit. This blog will serve to entertain, educate, and inspire people to see just what it takes to make a long form documentary from a guy who's used to making all his films by hand with a pencil and some paper. This blog will be candid, honest, and real and highlight the process of creating a broadcast documentary from a guy who knows nothing about making a documentary!


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Snoop Dogg, MC Eiht & RBX - What Does It Take
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It's that time of the week to take a walk down memory lane with our Flashback Friday picture gallery.
What is Flashback Friday you may ask? Well, we at the newspaper have dug into our archives to find some of the best, worst and all the pictures in between from yesteryear.
Every two weeks we will be putting out another collection of photographs covered by the paper.
In this edition of Flashback Friday, we take a look at what was happening in and around Merton in 2005.
Scroll through the picture gallery above, and stay tuned for two weeks' time when Merton gets another showing with 2005: Part 2.


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2015 Honda Fit Second Drive
Do our San Diego impressions of Honda's miracle package hold up in Michigan?
Weeks after the long-lead drive in pleasant San Diego, we got a chance to sample the Honda Fit's manual and automatic, new and old, on the mean streets of southeast Michigan at the tail end of the worst and snowiest winter on record. We even got to sample a few competitors at the same event. How did our initial impressions hold up?
Well, after driving the new and old Fits back to back on Michigan roads, I had difficulty sensing a big improvement in ride quality or reduction of transmission noise. We have a lot of noisy bumps here, and perhaps they just overwhelmed my ears and backside. An improvement was noticeable between the new Fit and a current Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa sampled on the same day on the same roads. And the Yaris' quaint four-speed slushbox's wide-ratio spacing in the lower gears certainly hampers its acceleration as compared with the Fit and Versa CVTs. Meanwhile the Versa's CVT lacks the Fit EX's paddles and crisp downshift programming.
Climbing out of a '15 Fit and into a '13 (there was no 2014 model), the quantum improvement in plastic-iness in the new car is stunning. It simply seems like a class-above vehicle, but then most manufacturers are getting religion where interior fit, finish, gloss, grain, and craftsmanship are concerned, at every price point. The center console is cleverly designed to accommodate a full-size iPad, with a USB port to charge it inside the bin, and a cord pass-through to allow wires out for a passenger's headphones. The improvement in rear-seat space is indeed impressive, and I sampled the seats' "relax" mode, wherein you remove the front seat headrest, slide the seat fully forward, and recline its backrest until it lies flush with the rear seat cushion, forming a lovely chaise lounge for the back-seat rider. (The resulting horizontal surface is too short and lumpy for a quality rest-area catnap.)
The new six-speed manual shifter has a light and precise feel about it and the shorter throw is appreciated, but it almost feels as though it could be shift-by-wire with good haptic feedback. There's nothing wrong with that, per se, but Miata owners won't prefer it. A closer study of the manual gearing reveals that overall gearing in first is 4.1 percent shorter, while second, fourth, and top gears are nearly the same. Third is 5.9 percent taller and fifth is nearly 10 percent shorter. What that all means is that, rather than all gears being spaced closer together, the gaps between 1-2, and 2-3 are actually wider spaced than in the old five-speed, while the upper gear ratios are closer together. We applaud Honda for not getting greedy and going taller with the sixth-gear ratio, as that would surely have reduced the car's ability to pull minor grades in top gear. The torque peak is at a lofty 4600 rpm, which equates to 85 mph in fifth, 94 mph in sixth (with 16-inch tires) -- meaning most cruising and grade-scaling happens well below the torque peak.
Two-pedal models benefit from the CVT's 14 percent broader ratio spread, which is primarily applied to the gas-mileage end (higher speeds) of the range with a 12.5-13.5-percent taller top-gear ratio. Overall low gearing is just fractionally (0.5-1.4 percent) shorter at the launch end, but the torque converter (and added horsepower and torque) provides an amply nimble hole-shot for those occasions when you absolutely positively must get ahead of the car in the other lane.
The blue/green glowing Eco minder lights that flank the speedometer like parentheses seem like a 21st-century interpretation of the simple vacuum gauge "economy meters" that cars got during the first gas crises, in that during my drive it amounted to a throttle position/hill grade sensor, which doesn't make for a very useful eco-coaching aid.
Other impressions: I love the resolution of the 800 x 480 dpi center screen, I miss a proper volume knob for the sound system, and I find the Lane Watch feature gimmicky. Adjust your mirrors properly, and there's no need for that homely camera wart and its associated cost.
Bottom line: I wholeheartedly agree with Kim's initial character assessment of our nicely matured, deeper-voiced, better-mannered Fit.


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South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Allegedly he was spitting on people, throwing beer, and starting fights.
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Projects/Plugin support improvements
Motivations, Priorities & Requirements
Motivations: there are a number of motivations behind the creation of the plugin architecture framework.
- Desire to separate pluggable interface from its implementation;
- Desire to provide simple and clear mechanism that facilitates additions of new pluggable interfaces and their implementations (modules);
- Handles both built-in and dynamic plugin modules;
- Allows multiple implementation of the same pluggable interface;
- Provides uniform way to supply parameters for plugin configuration;
- Allows one plugin implementation (module) to use services provided by the other plugin implementations.
Requirements: from these items we have developed a more formal set of requirements covering the design and the implementation of the framework to support the plugins. These are as follows:
- Allow third parties to implement multiple plugin modules for each pluggable interface.
- Allow a plugin module to build as dynamic or built-in from the same source code.
- Allow third parties to more easily create new plugin modules.
- Provide a uniform method for configuring discovery of plugin modules.
- Improve readability of code that calls pluggable interfaces.
- Allow easier creation of new pluggable interfaces.
- Allow incremental transition of existing pluggable interfaces to the new framework.
Architecture Overview and Concepts
The architecture for the plugin framework is shown in the following figure. The participants and components are described in the section below.
The following is a summary of participants and components within the architecture. Further details are provided in the sections below.
Plugin Manager: The plugin manager provides a set of generic capabilities that are independent of individual plugin interfaces. The plugin manager implements operations that manage plugin configuration and plugin registry services. It is responsible for managing plugin handles and provides discovery capabilities for consumers or callers.
Pluggable Interface: A pluggable interface is an interface that can be implemented by a third party in a modular manner. An implementation of a pluggable interface is referred to as a plugin module. Furthermore, a pluggable interface itself consist of a consumer interface and provider interface (see below).
Plugin Module: A plugin module is an implementation of a pluggable interface. For example, in the Figure Plugin_A is shown to have two implementations (modules).
Consumer: The consumer or caller is the entity that uses the plugin module. The consumer or caller may also perform discovery of available modules prior to using them.
Collaboration: Flows
As shown in the above Figure, the plugin architecture is designed based on the notion of pluggable interfaces, each of which are defined based on an abstract design.
When a third party wishes to develop a loadable plugin module (e.g. Plugin_Module_A1) that implements a specific task (e.g. implement password quality check), the developer of the module must conform to the pluggable interface (Pluggable Interface A) defined for that "family" of plugin modules.
The consumer (or caller) that later makes use of the plugin module, must invoke functions implemented in that module through a specific consumer interface (Consumer_Interface_A). Discovery (and filtering) is triggered by the first load operation (within a krb5_context).
(Note: The previous version of the architecture, the abstract design was explain in terms of object-oriented classes. However, in order to avoid confusion with respect to the language of the implementation, in the current architecture we have intentionally used the term "abstract definition". The intent here is to denote the fact that abstract definitions are logical constructs that are not implemented).
Architecture Components
In this section we provide further details on the components of the architecture, describing its features and behaviors.
Plugin Manager
The plugin manager provides a set of generic support capabilities that are independent of individual pluggable interfaces. It centralizes the discovery process for plugin modules. Typically, consumers of pluggable interfaces do not call it directly. Instead a consumer calls a loader function (of the specific pluggable interface) which in-turn calls the plugin manager.
In this architecture, the
krb5_init_context() functions will create and configure a plugin manager context that will exist in the krb5_context. A consumer application may use
krb5_get_plm() to retrieve the plugin manager context so it can register its own built-in plugin modules. Libraries such as libkadm5 register their own built-in plugin modules this way also.
The plugin manager locates plugin modules using both a numeric identifier (that designates a plugin interface) and a string (that names a module which implements that pluggable interface). The primary way to use the plugin manager is to query it for the vtable constructor for a specified module (or a set of vtable constructors for all modules of that interface).
As a lower-level interface that supports backward compatibility for older loadable-module provider interfaces, the plugin manager can create an opaque locator handle for a specified module. The plugin manager also supports looking up sets of locator handles (for all modules implementing a specified pluggable interface).
Additional functions in the plugin manager interface allow for lookups of symbols in the plugin module (if supported by that module).
The plugin manager keeps track of modules through its registries. These are discussed as follows.
Registry of built-in modules
This registry keeps track of built-in modules. Typically, libkrb5 will initialize this with locators for all of the built-in modules that are linked into it. Applications can also register private built-in plugin modules using this registry.
Registry of loadable modules
This registry keeps track of a few additional items needed for locating loadable modules. This includes a base directory pathname to a directory tree of plugin modules. Each subdirectory of the base directory has a name that corresponds to the pluggable interface identifier for the modules that intended to be in that subdirectory. Caching of vtable constructors of previously-loaded dynamically loadable modules can occur.
Pluggable Interfaces
A pluggable interface is an interface (possibly internal to a library) that can be implemented by a third party in a modular, well-compartmentalized manner. These implementations of pluggable interfaces are called plugin modules. Pluggable interfaces allow a consumer to use the capabilities of the interface without needing to be aware of the implementation details. In particular, a pluggable interface prevents the consumer from needing to know whether the module is a built-in or a dynamically loadable module.
Pluggable interfaces can be one-to-one, or one-to-many. An example of one-to-one is the DAL, and an example of one-to-many is preauth.
A pluggable interface has two parts: a consumer interface and a provider interface. Typically, library code implements the consumer interface, and application code or other library code calls the functions of the consumer interface.
Consumer interface
The consumer interface isolates the consumer from implementation details of the pluggable interface. The consumer does not generally need to know about whether a given module is built-in or dynamically loaded. The implementation of a consumer interface is essentially a glue layer, and can make use of domain-independent (not specific to any pluggable interface) capabilities of the plugin framework. The consumer might explicitly register a new plugin module that it implements: this capability is part of the plugin manager.
A consumer of a pluggable interface uses an opaque handle (obtained from a loader function that is part of the pluggable interface) to call the methods of a plugin module. Each method of the consumer interface is an ordinary C function that takes the opaque handle either explicitly as its first argument or implicitly by some means such as a module name. In essence, these pluggable interface functions in the architecture are wrapper functions that call through function pointers contained in the opaque plugin module handle object.
A handle can represent:
- the plugin module itself
- a resource to which the plugin module provides access (e.g., a ccache handle)
- a set of plugin modules (e.g., the set of all available preauth mechanisms)
One rationale for using wrapper functions instead of having the consumer directly invoke methods through a function pointer is to make it easier for debuggers and analysis tools to recognize when a particular interface method is being called. (Function pointers might have identifier names that look nothing like the actual name of the function they point to, in addition to enabling confusing aliasing.)
The loader function is specific to the pluggable interface. One reason is for type safety: there will be a distinct opaque handle type for each pluggable interface, allowing compile-time checking to catch some sorts of programming errors. Another reason is backward compatibility: it allows a pluggable interface to support plugin modules that implement an older provider interface.
Provider interface
A plugin module is a unit of code that implements (among others) the provider interface portion of a pluggable interface. Plugin modules can be built in or dynamically loaded. Several alternatives exist for the form of the provider interface, but some have significant advantages in allowing the plugin module to use identical source code for both built-in and loadable modules.
A built-in module is a module whose executable code is located within the library shared object or executable program file, or behaves as if it were. (While separate library shared objects that the calling library depends on can contain "built-in" modules for the calling library, this can cause problems with cyclic references.) The distinguishing characteristic of a built-in module is that, as part of program startup, the operating system automatically maps the executable code of the module into the address space of the process that calls it, without any explicit action by the library or program.
A dynamically loaded module is a module whose executable code is located within a file that is distinct from the library or program that calls it. The plugin framework uses the runtime linker (or equivalent) to explicitly map the executable code of the module into the process address space. (In POSIX systems, this is typically done using
Loadable module provider interface
The domain-independent part of the provider interface of a loadable module consists of a single exported function symbol, which denotes the vtable constructor function for that module. The signature of the constructor is specific to the plugin interface the module implements. The contents of the vtable are also specific to the plugin interface.
The constructor usually takes as arguments the following:
- an interface version number
- a pointer to a caller-allocated vtable structure for the interface,
- the size of the structure (as an added precaution against version mismatches).
The name of the function symbol is constructed from the name of the plugin interface and the name of the plugin module. This allows the caller to see just from the symbol name which interface and plugin it is calling.
DELETE- Although the caller (actually the plugin support code) allocates the vtable structure in the above description, one alternative is to have the module perform the allocation of the structure itself. This can cause problems if the module uses a different memory allocator than the caller.
DELETE - Another alternative is to have the vtable constructor instead return a pointer to a compiled-in vtable. This might cause performance problems related to copy relocations.
Built-in-module provider interface
A built-in module provides the same interface as a loadable module. In this architecture we use an exported function symbol for each loadable module implementing a pluggable interface.
Plugin Registry
Domain Specific and Domain-Independent Modules
The architecture recognizes two "types" of plugin modules, namely domain-independent (not specific to a particular pluggable interface) modules and domain-specific modules. The intent here is to have a number of pluggable interfaces, each encapsulating a set of related capabilities in a way that allows third parties to implement the interfaces easily (both domain-specific and domain-independent).
- domain-independent
- plugin manager
- generic plugin registry and support services
- provider interface
- the generic interface that a plugin module implements to interact with the plugin manager
- domain-specific
- this includes the pluggable interfaces
- consumer interface
- the interface that a user of a plugin accesses
- provider interface
- the interface that a plugin module implements to interact with the consumer
A consumer of a pluggable interface initializes the plugin manager (usually implicitly via
krb5_init_context()) and uses the consumer interface to access the services of the plugin moudle. The bulk of the consumer interface is a set of ordinary C functions that takes an opaque plugin module handle as a parameter (which may be provided implicitly, depending on interface). Typically the consumer obtains an opaque plugin module handle by calling a domain-specific plugin loader, which is part of the consumer interface.
The provider interface has both a domain-independent part and a domain-specific part. The plugin manager interacts with the domain-independent part of a plugin module, while the consumer interface implementation interacts with the domain-specific part of a plugin module. The same plugin module source code can be built as either a built-in or dynamically loaded module.
Operational Flow
- The
krb5_init_context()function initializes a plugin manager context that resides in the krb5_context.
- It registers libkrb5 built-in modules (from static tables), and reads location parameters of dynamically-loaded plugin modules (if any) from the
krb5.conf(or other configuration profile).
- It calls the plugin manager methods to configure the locations of dynamically-loaded plugin modules.
- The consumer calls the plugin loader function (for the desired pluggable interface).
- The loader function calls the plugin manager to retrieve the vtable constructor function for the appropriate module and builds an opaque module handle to give to the consumer.
- The plugin manager looks up the vtable constructor to give to the loader function of the pluggable interface.
- The consumer calls the wrapper functions (of the pluggable interface), passing the opaque module handle in order to access the capabilities of the pluggable interface.
Adding new modules at run time
An application can register its own plugin modules at run time by calling the plugin manager function to update the registry.
Backward compatibility
Older dynamically loadable modules that don't conform to the "vtable constructor function" provider model can be handled with specialized loader functions. If a pluggable interface needs to support a legacy loadable module of this sort, it can contain a more elaborate loader function that uses the lower-level capabilities of the plugin manager to:
- obtain an opaque locator handle for a module (or set of modules)
- look up data or function symbols from a module locator handle (or set of locator handles)
he following functions are meant to be used by a consumer of pluggable interfaces:
- initialize a plugin manager context
- shut down a plugin manager context
- register a vtable constructor (e.g., for a built-in module)
- set the base directory for dynamic plugin modules
- set the search path for dynamic plugin modules of a specific interface
The following functions are meant to be used by a loader function of a pluggable interface:
- get a vtable constructor
- get a set of vtable constructors
The following functions are meant to be used by a loader function that needs to do lower-level operations (particularly for backward compatibility with older loadable modules). They are typically not implemented by registries that only track built-in modules:
- retrieve a module locator handle
- retrieve a set of module locator handles
- get a vtable constructor function from a module locator
- get a data symbol from a module locator
- get a function symbol from a module locator
- get a set of vtable constructor functions from a module locator set
- get a set of data symbol from a module locator set
- get a set of function symbol from a module locator set


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The world's press looks at the diplomatic jostling going on concerning Libya now that Gaddafi is no longer in charge. This goes from vying for contracts to taking the higher ground about ridding the planet of a tyrant. The Paris conference on Libya is the focus for the world press review this Friday, 2nd September 2011.
The Independent in the UK asks its readers to "Spot the Difference". It places a photo of President Nicolas Sarkozy greeting Muammar Gaddafi at the Elysee Palace in 2007 alongside another one of him greeting the two leaders of Libya's National Transitional Council on Thursday.
The Guardian's Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis has a piece entitled "Sarkozy the Libyan seizes the day". Chrisafis argues Libya is President Nicolas Sarkozy's date with history. She says: "By taking a leading role, the deeply unpopular leader hopes with one swoop to save the badly tarnished image of French policy in the Arab world, prove that France matters on the global stage and save his re-election battle for 2012".
The China Daily has an editorial headlined "Libyan people first". It says: "even while the dust has yet to settle, the haste with which NATO countries are scrambling to grab a share of the dividends of war has caused many to question the true intentions of military intervention". The paper's editorial argues Libyans need stability, "not foreign companies fighting over lucrative contracts". This editorial has to be read in light of China's own interests - Libya provided 3% of China's oil last year. Gaddafi's demise threatens Chinese investments in the country.
And Muammar Gaddafi features in a cartoon in The Australian (by Peter Brookes of The Times) which shows Gaddafi hiding under a cloak with Saif his son. They are disguised as a camel, and as they move along bank notes drop to the floor. Gaddafi tells Saif to "Shut up and keep walking".
While the Paris meeting of representatives of 60 countries focused on Libya, there were also discussions on the sidelines on Syria. The International Herald Tribune has a cartoon of a statue of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hanging precariously in mid-air. The pedestal is shown as a pile of rubble. Is he about to fall? The cartoon also includes the words: "In solidarity with Ali Farzat". He is the Syrian cartoonist who was dragged from his car and beaten up last week. His hands are broken and he now cannot do his work.
The same paper, in its editorial, says the world is fed up with Assad but the Syrian leader still has "powerful enablers". It condemns Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa for blocking a UN Security Council resolution that could impose broad international sanctions on Damascus and concludes that the complicity of those countries is "shameful".
A cartoon in USA Today echoes the concerns about Syria with a picture of Assad beating Ali Farzat's hands into a pulp as the cartoonist lies on the ground. Assad turns and stares saying: "Stop drawing those editorial cartoons that make me look like a foolish brutal tyrant".
Finally, one paper is looking at ageing. The Wall Street Journal Europe asks what it would be like to live to a century or more. Experiments on worms, flies and monkeys aim to slow ageing. The paper says scientists are on the brink of radically expanding the span of a healthy life but it has its doubts: "won't a society of centenarians just be miserable, tired and cranky?"
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DataAnotation NameSpaceSystem.ComponentModel. DataAnnotation namespace that provides set of attributes classes used for decorating class property with it, which is useful for validating class object. Besides attribute classes it also provide set of class which is helpful for validating class (Ex. Validator, ValidationContext, VlidationResult i.e. all classes with start with Validat**** ).
Below image show the all classes provided by DataAnnotation
Image shows the all classes not related to validation.
Find more about each class on MSDN : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations%28v=vs.95%29.aspx
How to use AttributeBefore start look this for creating custom attribute : Custom Validation Attribute Specific to Entity
Now to use Attribute in your entity you need to decorate your property of entity with attribute as below :
public class BankAccount { public enum AccountType { Saving, Current } [Required(ErrorMessage="First Name Required")] [MaxLength(15,ErrorMessage="First Name should not more than 1`5 character")] [MinLength(3,ErrorMessage="First Name should be more than 3 character")] public string AccountHolderFirstName { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage="Last Name Required")] [MaxLength(15,ErrorMessage="Last Name should not more than 1`5 character")] [MinLength(3,ErrorMessage="Last Name should be more than 3 character")] public string AccountHolderLastName { get; set; } [Required] [RegularExpression("^[0-9]+$", ErrorMessage = "Only Number allowed in AccountNumber")] public string AccountNumber { get; set; } public AccountType AcType { get; set; } [AccountBalaceCheckAttribute] public double AccountBalance { get; set; } }
As in above code BankAccount entity property decorated with the Attribute and also provided with the proper error message.
In code AccountBalance is property is decorated with Entity Specific custom validation attribute. To read about more please refer custom attribute link listed above.
How to validateTo validate entity DataAnnotation provides class called Validator, which allow to validate entity as listed in below code.
public class GenericValidator { public static bool TryValidate(object obj, out ICollection
results) { var context = new ValidationContext(obj, serviceProvider: null, items: null); results = new List (); return Validator.TryValidateObject( obj, context, results, validateAllProperties: true ); } }
Above code shows code for GenericValidator class , which is class to validate any entity. Class used to avoid writing code again and again when doing validation.
Above code class make use of Validator class with it TryValidateObject method which takes ValidationContext class object as input.
Below code shows how to use GenericValidator class for validating entity.
static void Main(string[] args) { var bankAccount = new BankAccount(); ICollection
lstvalidationResult; bool valid = GenericValidator.TryValidate(bankAccount, out lstvalidationResult); if (!valid) { foreach (ValidationResult res in lstvalidationResult) { Console.WriteLine(res.MemberNames +":"+ res.ErrorMessage); } } Console.ReadLine(); }


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Rosanne Cash, Time Traveller
Rosanne Cash surprised me right from the start, by calling her father Johnny Cash "a mystic," and revealing herself as one too. As much as any person I've interviewed, she leaned in close. She was ready to meet me on the adventure a real conversation can be — one full of revelation and beauty.
Language and music, in that order, were the early mediums of her spiritual sensibility. She describes herself growing up as something of a geek. She remains perpetually and intellectually restless. It took her awhile to find her own voice, indeed to imagine that a life of making and performing music could be desirable. She'd grown up experiencing the performer's life — incarnate in her famous, beloved father — as hard on those one loves. As she found her own voice, she found her own delight in joining her energy to an audience. In that exchange, she also discovered all the elements of religion that she desired: truth, beauty, mystery, creativity, and a sense of the divine.
We've put the word "time travel" in the title of the show we've created from my magical hour with Rosanne Cash. It's a phrase that comes up again and again — especially when we talk about the music that emerged from her grief a few years ago when she lost her father, her mother, and her stepmother June Carter Cash within a span of 18 months. From this period, the Black Cadillac album emerged with gorgeous songs and poetry about love before life and beyond life. Past, present, and future are often linked in the songs she writes, though they often begin, as she describes it, with a single phrase or image.
There are echoes of Einstein here. Our ordinary sense of past, present, and future as distinct compartments moving forward like an arrow, he said, is a "stubbornly persistent illusion." As it turns out, Rosanne Cash has long been aware of these echoes too, signing up for physics classes when her children were young, constantly in conversation with scientists now. She talks about songs in some of the same ways scientists talk about mathematics — as discoveries, waiting to be caught, as much as inventions. For Rosanne Cash, songs are embedded in the fabric of the universe; this image alone is a gift from my time with her.
I am left with a sense of a woman who has seen a lot of life and turned that into wisdom. She is raising five children, lost her voice for several years, and underwent brain surgery four years ago. She continues to work with these raw materials of experience and wrest purpose and joy from them.
Several people have told us that watching the video of this conversation moved them to tears. One emotional moment for her — better experienced on the video than by audio alone — comes when she tells me about performing at Folsom Prison in March of last year. There, her father created one of his most famous performances and an iconic album. While touring the prison, Rosanne Cash met a prisoner who served at San Quentin Prison when her father also played there in 1969, and was now spending the rest of his life in Folsom. Her eyes fill with tears as she describes her dialogue with these men about freedom, outer and inner, and the confusing human struggle to gain the latter, whatever our lives have brought.
There were clearly other stories here to be mined. But Rosanne Cash's openness, and her music, unlock stories of our own. We end our conversation with music, with her song titled "The World Unseen." It somewhat magically brings together the elements of Rosanne Cash's life and all of our lives — of poetry and mystery, of loss and love, of time travel. Here are the song's opening verses:
I'm the sparrow on the roof
I'm the list of everyone I have to lose
I'm the rainbow in the dirt
I am who I was and how much I can hurt
So I will look for you
In stories of the kings—
Westward leading, still proceeding
To the world unseen
~ Krista Tippett