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If any Arizona fan tries to tell you last year was expected to happen, don't believe them. Just about everything about 2007 was a surprise: Arizona's offense fizzled, our bullpen proved a tower of inconceivable strength and we survived the loss of Randy Johnson, while Doug Davis and Livan Hernandez pitched out of trouble with cheerful abandon, both men apparently pitching permanently from the stretch. Despite playing in a hitter-friendly park, we had the lowest average in the NL, scored 20 runs less than our opponents and still managed to post the best record in the league. We then swept the Cubs in three delicious games - more on them later - and though the wheels fell off the Saguaromobile in the Championship series, the season can only be described as exceeding all expectations.
More of the same in 2008? I certainly hope not. My digestive tract can not cope with another year of 52 one-run games, accompanied by six more months of every statistical analyst on the planet telling us we shouldn't be winning. No: this year, I want the Diamondbacks offense to be what we thought it would be last year, and then some, while Randy Johnson's back should possess the suppleness of a well-oiled young willow, and Dan Haren joins Brandon Webb at the top of the rotation to form a 1-2 punch unrivaled in the majors. KTHXBAI.
Wishful thinking aside, there does seem ground for optimism. Most of the roster return from last year, with the majority young enough that they'll be better, simply through age and experience. The few changes are indisputably improvements, most notably replacing Hernandez with Haren in the rotation, a move not far short of the Mets acquisition of Johan Santana, as far as impact. Sure, the D-backs sold a good chunk of the farm to do it, but with the exception of 2B Orlando Hudson, the entire starting lineup is signed at least through 2010. Given that, hoarding prospects was pointless - after all, you don't get any additional wins for having a really-good Triple-A roster.
Certainly, the Arizona rotation is a thing of potential beauty. Webb will likely be one of the Cy Young candidates again, while Haren started the All-Star game for the American League last year. Randy Johnson's back is once again a question mark, but apparently feels much better than last year, and Davis will walk far too many people, yet somehow escape. Then there's Micah Owings, who might be the best-hitting pitcher since Babe Ruth last took the mound - just ask the Braves, against whom he went 4-for-5 with two homers and six RBI, plus seven innings of three-hit ball in a game last August.
We should, hopefully, not be relying on the bats of our pitchers this year, and if there's an area where the D-backs really need to improve, it's at the plate. It was a young team, and it showed: in particular, shortstop Stephen Drew and right-fielder Carlos Quentin were weak spots. Quentin has gone, swapped for an A-ball player who became part of the Haren deal, and is replaced by phenom Justin Upton. The list of 20-year olds who played full-time in the majors of late is short: in fact, over the past fifteen years, it's Adrian Beltre, Andruw Jones and A-Rod. Upton is that good, potentially. Drew remains, though may find some of his playing time given to Chris Burke if he struggles again.
Elsewhere, Chris Young's 32-homer rookie season led the team, stealing 27 bases to go with them - just don't look at the 141 strikeouts or the on-base percentage which ended at only .295. It was notable that a lot of the Arizona players had significantly better second halves; 1B Conor Jackson and C Chris Snyder, in particular. I would hate to point fingers, but do note that the D-backs fired their hitting coach, Kevin Seitzer, at the All-Star break. The team added 38 points of OPS in the second half, with September being the offense's best month, by quite some distance. Here's to more of that in 2008.
The bullpen kicked ass, with just about every member outperforming all expectations, capped by Jose Valverde, who led the majors in saves, and also in opposing fans irritated, thanks to his patented post-save celebrations. He's now gone, traded to the Astros, so we'll get to see what life is like on the receiving end this year. Replacing him is Brandon Lyon, almost the anti-Valverde: far less demonstrative, and possessing four decent but not overpowering pitches, rare for closers, who usually dominate with two. I'm hoping our relief corps get given some more runs to play with, but they should be reliable, and the addition of Chad Qualls will help plug the gap left by Valverde.
It is kinda scary to think that veteran presence and leadership in the Arizona clubhouse will now be supplied by Hudson and Byrnes. This is because Tony Clark left the D-backs contract offer on the table while shopping around, only for it to be withdrawn. (He ended up getting a shorter, less well-paid deal with the Padres, for whom Adrian Gonzalez played 161 games at first-base. Clark's ass may well have fused with the pine on the Petco bench by season's end.) One suspects that things will go well, as long as things are going well - but as we saw at the All-Star Game, he couldn't even control his dog. Can a man driving a 2005 GMC van, which Byrnes calls the "shaggin' wagon," really command respect from his teammates?
One good step forward is the feeling that the D-backs are finally building rivalries with other teams. The Rockies are probably the most likely contenders, with both organizations building from within, and on a limited budget: there is some dislike there, with Troy Tulowitzki a particular lightning-rod for hatred. The problem is that it's still too "nice," though the hurling of bottles onto the field at Chase, after a questionable umpiring decision in the NLCS, certainly showed that the fans in Arizona could be provoked into passion, albeit not perhaps in a manner approved by Bud Selig.
For, let's be honest, Phoenix is a town of fickle, frontrunning fans - an inevitable result of being a city where almost everyone is from somewhere else and brings their loyalties with them. Nowhere is this more apparent when the Cubs come to town and all their fans living in Arizona suddenly come out of the woodwork. [I got a lot of flak during the season for observing how it was odd they feel such fierce loyalty to Chicago, yet apparently have no desire to live there...] But I have to say, something about the late-August series against Chicago galvanized the local fans, and by the time of the playoff series, Chase Field was no longer Wrigley South. Here's to more of that in 2008 as well.
The NL West promises, once again, to be among the tightest divisions in baseball - save the Giants, who will suck in a manner you'd expect, given the replacement of Barry Bonds in the cleanup spot by Bengie Molina. But I think the addition of Haren has kept the Diamondbacks at the front of the pack, and if the offense can perform even adequately, our pitching staff will do more than keep us in most games. Unlike last season, you won't find Arizona at 66/1 for the World Series this year, and if the anticipated division title occurs again, no-one will fancy facing Webb and Haren, with a side-order of Big Unit, in the playoffs.


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I've heard good things about this band but the only song I've heard was on my friend's myspace and it was nothing special, it sounded like a lot of Solid State bands...hopefully that's the only song like that.
im a bit biased because i love most all of the solid state bands.
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Posted 18 February 2008 - 06:37 PM
Now you get the idea Villagers...post away and may we all be prosperous 10 years from now
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Posted 18 February 2008 - 08:37 PM
If I can just get this dang Ph. D finished that is! I was hoping to have my rough draft in in March... looks like late summer now. I have to have 80,000 words, which is about 125 pages of Times New Roman at 12 point font. I have 30 done so far.
Wish me luck!
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Posted 19 February 2008 - 06:30 AM
Oh and hopefully they would of invented food whereby you dont put weight on !! lol
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In 10 years, I hope to be looking forward to celebrating my 10th anniversary with my beloved husband (we are getting married this November)
10 years from now I hope to have built a successful production company from the ground up with the help of my younger brother (he's a freakin' creative & technical genius...I'm mostly just people relations and the business managing/organizational aspect). We are currently in the beginning stages of business development, the first of the video cameras arriving yesterday. Next on our agenda is to capture some demo footage by doing a couple of weddings really cheap. So if anybody knows anyone who's getting married in Wisconsin, feel free to give them my email! LOL. I'm also pretty sure I'll be living in the same house I'm in now with my husband and daughter in 10 years. I will be either a long-standing member of the paranormal group I recently applied to or will have started my own (unless of course the science catches up and figures everything out by then). I would like to start writing again...It's been a long time since I've been inspired to do so, but it was something I loved once upon a time. I would like to have had the time to take some more University classes...not for a degree, but just for the knowledge (I'm a geek, I know). Oh, and I will have a precious little orange tabby kitty kat that I call CeCe and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Tallulah.
Posted 19 February 2008 - 09:18 AM
10 years from now, I would be younger by 10 years. Living out of my home country, living life in my own terms. Possibly be a motivational writer.
I love how you think Moon...was gonna say I'll be *coughfortytwocough* but i'll go with younger!
Or do things worth the writing.
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Well, dang it leonie! You need to move over here! My best friend has a photography business...if working for me doesn't work out
1. Proffessional or just a brilliant photographer
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Me, well, I just hope to still be alive in 10 years, lol! I try to to plan that far ahead. I just like to take life as it comes and be happy with what I get (or really ticked off depending on the situation! lol).
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St. John's (Antigua), Dec 21: The West Indies and Sri Lanka will renew their rivalry when they face each other in a limited overs Tri-Nation Series next year, that also involves powerhouse India.
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There's something distinctly androgynous about the guy too. The voice, the dainty mannerisms, and the never ending drama queen bull****.
There's something distinctly androgynous about the guy too. The voice, the dainty mannerisms, and the never ending drama queen bull****.
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Rumours going around that KP's gonna get dumped anyway.
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Will say this once and then nothing else. Defamation laws quite clear in Aus.be careful.
Guessing Twatter, but whose feed?
Find myself almost wishing it's true, actually. The ECB, cast here in the role of cuckolded spouse, not accepting such a craven and flagrant twelfth hour promise the errant partner can change and that he's loved them all along. #yougogirl
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Rumours gathering pace that KP has been cut adrift. Disciplinary as a result of texts and video, or the end of the line?
Boycott to come out in support of KP. Ink it in.
Very similar temperaments as players, even if polar opposite MOs.
Why would the ECB publish that video and then drop him? Would be a dickish move of the highest order. And we are certainly in no shape to drop Pietersen.
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I don't think the video was published with the ECB's permission...
this is so epic. love kp. love ecb. love cricket. love jonny bairstow.
Maybe KP knew he was cut of, and just made the video to make himself out to be the victim. Realistically speaking, he would have lost nothing by doing so - if it is indeed the case. Would make an interesting double bluff. What if the double bluff is called though and they put him in the ODI squads? Mmm.
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yes it's pretty likely he did know by the time he released the video and it was just some last ditch attempt to regain selection and to win the pr war should he not be selected.
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No, it isn't clear, but the text doesn't really support Edward attacking Jacob.daffystjob wrote:Thanks for all your replies, I does seem to make sense to me now that that little punch up might be / is due to Jacob's imprinting. I hadnt though too far from the book but as was mentioned it isn't too clear in the book what the immediate affects of the imprinting on Jacobs & Edward's relationship.
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On the other hand, I'm absolutely sure he wanted to.
This scene was always going to have to be changed. And, frankly, if there ever was going to be a time when Edward snapped, this would be it. Yeah, it places Jacob in "victim" status, but it also shows Edward as being very relatable while making it crystal clear that he is the father and is going to be enforcing boundaries on Jacob. And that is a very good thing for everyone, including Jacob.
I would take that scene as the newly updated and improved canon, and just sit back and enjoy it.
JazzGirl, we still get to see Edward "the man" during the delivery and saving Bella's life. This is Edward at his finest hour. If they screw that up, then I'll be mad.
Put those two together, Edward saving Bella's life followed by a major smackdown on Jacob, and Edward would be looking pretty good.
You want a good scene? Imagine Jacob and the Cullens downstairs arguing, and then everyone looks to the staircase and there is Edward staring at Jacob in absolute cold fury. And then he starts stalking him while Jacob starts backing up.
P.S. For Jacob fans, no insult is intended. Trust me, this will actually help him a lot. In fact, everyone will benefit. There were two main problems with that scene, which was the lack of boundaries set down for Jacob, and Jacob's inability to even recognize a need for boundaries. A state of bewilderment with a measure of chagrin would have come off much better for him, so that he is portrayed as at least being aware of the extraordinary delicacy and awkwardness of the situation. The way the canon scene comes off is that Jacob is lost in himself and totally self-absorbed, which is NOT what you want to portray following his imprinting on a baby. Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. What isn't set in the book must absolutely be set in the movie.


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"The Capitalist Ventriloquist" is a new musical comedy about dynastic hedge funds, the demands of billionaire investors, misguided parental expectations, and the struggle of the son of an imperious hedge fund owner for self-determination. He's a mathematical whiz-kid whose father expects him to report directly to work after graduate school and create a trading algorithm that will protect the firm against lightning-fast computer trades, which sway the market to perplexing and perilous extremes. But the son's inner voice since childhood tells him he'd rather be a ventriloquist - specifically, a singing ventriloquist.
The son's alter ego is his dummy, Randy, who longs to be in show business but whose acerbic quips prompt the son to say, "Sometimes you sound just like my father."
After graduation, the son dutifully takes his place at the fund. But instead of crunching numbers, he engages in stealth rehearsals with Randy behind closed doors. His father is in an especially touchy spot, because the boy is engaged to the daughter of his biggest investor, who only keeps his money in the losing fund for her sake. The girl loves our hero, but she's not too keen to walk down the aisle with a ventriloquist. Worst of all, the dummy is awfully easy to kidnap or maybe sell on line. The son's only allies are his father's secretary, who secretly admires him, and a wily talent agent who, remarkably, can't exactly be bought.
"The Capitalist Ventriloquist" is the seventh collaboration among Tom Attea (book and lyrics), Arthur Abrams (score) and Mark Marcante (director) and the trio's second with Angela Harriell (choreographer). The foursome last assembled for "Living in a Musical" (TNC, 2010). It was a romantic musical comedy about a song-and-dance man, an admirer of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, who lives in an imaginary world of the classic American musicals but tumbles for a girl from the rock-and-rap world. The Village Voice (Leslie Minora) pronounced it "... as appealing and enjoyable as the vintage glass bottles of Coca-Cola in its lead character's fridge," adding, "Naturally wholesome but nonetheless hilarious, 'Living in a Musical' is plain and simply charming."
At The Actors Studio, Attea and Abrams enjoyed a ten-year apprenticeship with Charles Friedman, the original director of the stage classics "Pins and Needles," "Sing out the News," the musical version of "Street Scene," "Carmen Jones" and other shows. At that time, Friedman had been collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein, who had died. The trio collaborated on the revue,"Brief Chronicles of the Time," which premiered at The Actors Studio in 1982.
Tom Attea (book, lyrics) has had seven musicals with Arthur Abrams presented by TNC, which also produced one of Attea's plays, "Life Knocks" ("Great humor and ebullience ... good, genuine laughs ... Attea's talent as a playwright is evident." -- Kessa De Santis, PunchIn International). Attea has received a TNC/Jerome Foundation emerging playwright grant and is an active member of The Dramatists Guild. He first came to TNC at Abrams' urging to contribute skits for a revue Attea would name "It's an Emergency, Don't Hurry," on the theme of the world's lethargy in responding to urgent issues. Mark Marcante was the director. Attea went on to write a musical a year with Abrams, all of which were directed by Marcante. Attea says of the theater's artistic director, "Crystal Field deserves credit for being a steady champion of us and of all people who write for the theater and hope to make a distinguished contribution. She has been kind enough to be a steady champion of mine. In fact, I don't know another person in the Off-Broadway venue who is as supportive of emerging talent, and I don't know, in this competitive and political world, if I could have found another artistic director or theater as inviting and supportive as the one she administers. She is to creators of theater every bit as great a mentor as Lee Strasberg used to be for actors at the Studio."
Arthur Abrams (composer) has been pianist for the Martha Graham Dance Company and Merce Cunningham and for various venues including The Waldorf. His awards include a DAAD music fellowship to Mannheim, Germany, a scholarship to the Orff Institute at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and a Meet the Composer grant for the score of "The Golden Bear." His theatrical scores include "The Golden Bear" and "Sketching Utopia," both with book and lyrics by Laurel Hessing, directed by Crystal Field; "Master and Margarita" from the novel by Bulgakov, adapted by Jean Claude van Itallie and directed by David Willinger; and "The Open Gate," based on the novel, "The Manor" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, adapted and directed by David Willinger. Abrams was composer, pianist and music director for "The Golden Age of Second Avenue," a documentary film about the golden age of the Yiddish Theater produced by Arthur Cantor. The piece is often shown on PBS. (In the film, he accompanies Molly Picon.) He was music director and pianist for the recent Lambs Club presentation of "Yankel in America" starring Theo Bikel.
Mark Marcante (director) is Executive Production Director of TNC and a prolific designer, actor and director there. This is his seventh production with Tom Attea and Arthur Abrams., with whom he has collaborated on "It's an Emergency, Don't Hurry," "Life Knocks," "Lincoln Plaza," "Abstinence," "Dropping in on the Earth" and "Living in a Musical," among others. His other TNC directing credits include "British Music Hall," "Ruzzante Returns from the War," "Benny's Barbershop" and "Strangely Wonderful." He also co-directed "One Director Against His Cast" with author Crystal Field. Marcante hails from Pennsylvania and worked as technical supervisor and workshop instructor at the Allentown Arts Center. As an actor, he has appeared in TNC's award-winning Street Theater ensemble since 1986 and played leading roles in several critically acclaimed productions at TNC.
Angela Harriell (choreographer) joined the team for its last show, "Living in a Musical." She is director and choreographer of TNC's popular annual "Nutcracker: Rated R" and founder and choreographer of the cabaret dance troupe, The Love Show. Her choreography has been called witty, moving, unique and theatrical with narratives that are simultaneously autobiographical and universal. Richmond Shepard (Seven Lively Arts) wrote, "the brilliant Angela Harriell... could be the next Susan Stroman." A graduate of Fredonia University, where she received The Graduate Scholarship for Ballet, she has worked with Elisa Monte and David Brown dance, Randy James Danceworks and taught ballet at Binghamton University. Her work has been seen at The Flea Theater, HERE, The New York Burlesque Festival, White Wave Dance Festival, The Philly Fringe Festival's Late Night Cabaret, and at different nightclubs throughout New York. Cointreau and Vogue magazine have commissioned pieces from her. Her work has twice been presented at special galas at the National Arts Club.
The actors are Kevin Melendez as the ventriloquist, Grace Morales as the fiancee, David Slone, Esq. as the hedge fund owner, David Zen Mansley as the fiancee's father, Julie Smith as the ventriloquist's mother, Bob Homeyer as the agent and Laura King as the secretary. The ensemble includes ChrisTina Johnson, Jason Jacoby, Natalia Saltiel, Kayleigh Shuler, Lucas Thompson and Madison Turner.
Set design is by Mark Marcante. Assistant director is Jonathan Weber. The dummy is designed by Lytza Colon and David Zen Mansley. Costume design is by Susan Gittens Hemley. Lighting design is by Alexander Bartenieff. Sound design is by Steve Mc Mulllen and Alex Santullo. Stage manager is Tashika Futch and ASM is Natasha Velez.
The musicians are Annie Lebeaux (Piano), Art Lillard (Drums) and Will Woodard (Bass).
Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, presents "The Capitalist Ventriloquist" October 6 to 23, 2011. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10; the box office number is (212) 254-1109 and you can buy tickets online at www.theaterforthenewcity.net.


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When a 19-year-old woman enlistee sought guidance from a Navy recruiter in the Alamo Heights office, he advised her how to get out of the military, got drunk with her and her cousin and then sexually assaulted the enlistee, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Juan Jose Pena, 28, was arrested Monday at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Alamo Heights police said.
The Navy has been cooperating with the Police Department since it learned of the allegations, Navy spokesman Jeffrey G. Nichols said in an email.
"The sailor has been removed from all recruiting duties pending further investigation," he wrote.
In a phone interview he said the Navy would look at disciplinary action after the "civilian" criminal case ran its course.
Pena could face charges in addition to sexual assault, Alamo Heights police Sgt. Tom Vitacco said Tuesday.
Pena's arrest comes amid increased scrutiny and awareness of sexual misconduct in the military, focused in the last year on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, home of Air Force basic training.
So far, 32 instructors there have been accused of improper conduct with 62 recruits and students, 59 of whom are women. Prosecuted in the military court system, some instructors have been convicted, or like Staff Sgt. Craig LeBlanc on Tuesday, pleaded guilty.
Information wasn't immediately available on whether other reports of sexual misconduct or sex assault have come from local Navy offices.
On Tuesday, the front doors of the Navy recruiting office in the 5200 block of Broadway, where the alleged assault occurred, were locked and the blinds closed though the lights were on. A phone message left at the office was not returned.
The arrest warrant affidavit for Pena and a separate San Antonio Police Department report involving the cousin, whose name was redacted, provide varying details on who did what to whom and when.
On the afternoon of Dec. 21, the enlistee and her 24-year-old cousin went to see Pena to talk about changing from active duty status to the reserves, according to the affidavit.
Pena advised her to go to boot camp and if she didn't want to stay, he told her to report to her command staff that she was "not happy" so that she could get out of the Navy, the affidavit said.
After the conversation, he invited the two women to stay past office hours and drink with him. He provided the liquor, shut the doors and blinds and both women got drunk in the office's main area, police said.
At some point, the cousin said she saw Pena on top of the enlistee, who was passed out or vomiting, as he allegedly assaulted her.
The cousin left in the enlistee's car, later telling Alamo Heights police that she went to seek help. She hit a parked car several blocks away and was arrested for driving while intoxicated. She later was released to talk to detectives about what happened at the recruiting office, the police report said.
Pena, after the alleged assault, drove the enlistee home, leaving her half-naked on the front porch. Her roommate called police.
Pena contacted his partner at the recruiting office and told him he was in trouble and needed help removing alcohol from the office, the affidavit said. The partner told police he noticed two pairs of women's underwear in the office that Pena described as "gifts" to him.
According to the affidavit, Pena said he had sex with the cousin and that there was sexual activity involving the enlistee, according to the affidavit. The cousin said she didn't remember giving him consent.
Pena's behavior, if reports are true, is "entirely inappropriate," said former Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin, who is on the board of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, which is critical of the military's handling of sexual misconduct and assault claims.
"I think the overarching issue is abuse of power," Coughlin said, adding that providing alcohol to an underage person is against the law. "Even suggesting, 'Let's sit around and have some drinks' is so out of bounds."
"A recruiter would know he's breaking the law when he's doing that," Coughlin added.
In January a Houston-area recruiter for the Air Force, Tech Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez was accused of multiple crimes involving 18 women who sought to join the military.


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Questions and Answers:
Proposal to protect financial interests of the EU
Why do we need to protect the financial interests of the EU?
The EU already has legal instruments in place to protect the EU's financial interests when crimes such as fraud, corruption or money laundering are committed. However, the current rules can be strengthened even more to better protect tax payers' money. Member States still have very diverging rules on the definition of these crimes against the EU budget and hence the level of sanctions that are applied. Such differences have a negative impact on how efficiently the EU can protect its financial interests. For example, the conviction rate in cases involving offences against the EU budget varies considerably across the EU from one Member State to another, ranging from 14% to 80% (with an EU average of 41%). Stronger measures against fraud, such as defining common offences in all EU Member States, can help to deter criminal activities against the EU budget and to protect EU public money equally in all EU Member States. Putting in place a stronger system for deterring, investigating and prosecuting offences against the EU budget will better protect taxpayers' money and make it easier to recover funds.
How do definitions of crime and levels of sanction vary in EU Member States?
With respect to fraud, Member States have different definitions of this crime leading to sanctions that can vary from no minimum sentence (e.g. the UK or Ireland), a maximum of 6 months imprisonment (e.g. Austria) up to a maximum of 12 years imprisonment (e.g. Romania).
With respect to the crime of money laundering, the maximum term of imprisonment ranges between 2 years (e.g. Finland) and 20 years (e.g. Austria).
Definitions of the crime of the obstruction of public tender procedures also vary from one Member State to another, leading to sanctions as different as a mere administrative fine (e.g. Bulgaria) to 5 years of imprisonment (e.g. Germany, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Spain).
For a full overview of sanctions applied in Member States against the crime of fraud, see the table in Annex 1.
Why is the Commission proposing this Directive?
This Directive is being proposed to clarify, harmonise and strengthen Member States' criminal law as regards offences related to the EU budget.
There are considerable differences in the level of protection of the EU budget across Member States. Since 2000, 281 out of a total of 647 cases transferred by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) to national judicial authorities were dismissed. Conviction rates for these cases range from 14% to 80% across Member States, with an EU average of 41%.The differences are largely due to a patchy legal framework.
The 1995 Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests, the main legal act in the area of criminal law and protection of the EU budget, did not provide sufficient harmonisation and enforcement in the Member States.
There are several reasons to explain the different levels of protection in the EU:
For example, public sector service providers, officials of international organisations or elected officials are not always covered by corruption provisions. Another example is that some Member States do not provide for a minimum imprisonment period, or set a maximum sanction of a few months for these crimes.
What offences and minimum sanctions does this proposal cover?
The offences in this proposal all affect the financial interests of the European Union. They include fraud, obstruction of public procurement or grant procedures, corruption, money laundering, and misappropriation.
The proposed minimum sanction for these crimes would be 6 months imprisonment, provided that the financial damage to the EU budget was above a specific threshold laid down in the proposal. The maximum sanction would be at least 5 or 10 years imprisonment, depending on whether or not the offence was committed by an organised group.
This means the sanctions would be proportionate to the damage caused. The proposal includes a three-step approach with thresholds of damage (or advantage obtained by the offender) defined in financial terms to determine the seriousness of the crime. Member States would therefore be obliged to provide for the following sanctions for cases of fraud and misappropriation:
Proposed sanction system for fraud and misappropriation
Step 3: Damage of EUR 100 000 and above
Step 2: Advantage of EUR 10 000 – 99 999
Step 1: Advantage up to EUR 9 999 (without particular aggravating circumstances)
Member States could nevertheless impose more stringent provisions than those laid down in the proposal.
What does the proposal say about the statutes of limitation?
The period within which the investigation, prosecution, trial and judicial decision for the offence must take place, would have to be at least five years from the time when the offence was committed, according to the proposal. It should be extended to at least ten years if it was interrupted by investigations or prosecutions.
Currently, prescription periods vary widely, ranging from 1 to 12 years (see table in Annex 2).
How much of the EU budget is affected by fraud?
In 2010, Member States reported €617 million worth of suspected fraud cases involving EU public money, which is less than one percent of all EU expenditure and revenue concerned.
Can this proposal have an impact on the recovery of misused EU funds?
The proposed Directive would facilitate the work for police officers and prosecutors working on cases involving multiple jurisdictions. For example, a prosecutor who wanted to freeze criminals' assets through seizure or confiscation would benefit from the existence of harmonised law in all EU jurisdictions. This would result in more effective recovery of EU money.
What is the legal basis for this proposal?
Article 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) provides that Member States shall counter fraud and any other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the EU, by taking measures that act as a deterrent and effectively protect the EU budget. The TFEU also provides a legal basis for the harmonisation and strengthening of Member States' criminal law.
The proposed Directive would replace the 1995 Convention. If adopted, this proposal would have to be implemented by all EU Member States, or they could face legal action at the European Court of Justice.
What other measures are foreseen by criminal law to protect the EU budget?
There are many legal acts in criminal law to protect EU financial interests, one of the most important being the 1995 Convention, which will be replaced by this proposal.
The Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant contributes to a better protection of EU financial interests by making easier the surrendering of suspects from one Member State to another. Other important legal measures are the Directive on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and several Framework Decisions concerning the confiscation of crime-related proceeds.
What are the next steps towards improved protection of the EU budget?
The proposal will now be transmitted to the European Parliament and Council for discussion and adoption. This proposal feeds into the greater plan of protecting the EU's financial interests. The Commission foresees to put forward a separate proposal for a Directive on the harmonisation of procedural criminal law in the Member States in 2013. It will aim, firstly, at aligning rules for the collection and use of evidence in criminal procedures and, secondly, at better communication and cooperation between national authorities and OLAF.
See also IP/12/767
Annex 1
Annex 2
Please note that this table gives an approximate picture of the situation in Member States by December 2011
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ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — The defending champion Indiana Fever had a losing record while struggling through an injury-plagued season, were without one of their best players, and their offense was among the worst in the WNBA.
Still, they do have experience, and now they're one win from returning to the Eastern Conference finals.
Shavonte Zellous scored 20 points to lead the Fever in an 85-72 victory over the Chicago Sky in the opener of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Friday night. Briann January and Karima Christmas had 16 points each, Erlana Larkins added 12 points and 11 rebounds, and Tamika Catchings scored 11 points.
BOX SCORE: Indiana 85, Chicago 72
Indiana was in control for most of the night against the conference's top seed. The Fever led 50-37 at halftime and extended the advantange to 19 on Catchings' basket with 5:36 left in the third quarter. The Sky got no closer than 12 the rest of the way against a defense that allowed a league-low 70.5 points per game.
"When you come in somebody else's gym, it's important for you to get the hot start instead of letting them get the hot start and then you try to play catch-up," Zellous said.
The Fever were without injured star Katie Douglas, who is day to day with a different back injury than the one that limited her to just four games during the season, but playing short-handed in big games is pretty much the norm for Indiana.
The Fever lost nine players to injury this season and four for at least 16 games, and are the only playoff team with a losing record. During the title run last season, Douglas was lost in the conference finals and Jeanette Pohlen tore her left ACL in Game 2 of the Finals.
All that experience Indiana has helped Friday, while Chicago was playing its first playoff game.
"They are very, very good. The missing link is playoff experience, and that's what they're getting this year, and it's going to be so good for them for the future," Indiana coach Lin Dunn said. "They're young, they're getting the experience of what it's like to be in the playoffs, and we certainly didn't think we had the advantage."
Indiana does now, and Chicago coach Pokey Chatman said the reasons went beyond experience.
"I don't knock Lin's comment for playoff experience," Chatman said. "I mean that's great for you guys to write about, but it boils down to 94 by 50, 10 feet, 11 players cutting and screening, 50-50 balls."
That partly became apparent for the Fever on offense, something that hasn't helped them much this season. But on Friday it propelled them to the brink of eliminating Chicago on Sunday in Indianapolis.
The Fever had the league's lowest shooting percentage at 39.3, but made 51 percent of their shots. In the first half, Indiana shot 56.7 percent from the floor, including 66.7 percent on 3-pointers, and led by 13 at halftime.
For Chicago, it was a disappointing start to the franchise's first playoff appearance. In their eighth season, the Sky had a team-record 24 wins and led the East by seven games. However, they lost to Indiana for the fourth time in five meetings this year.
Elena Delle Donne scored 20 points to lead Chicago after receiving the league's Rookie of the Year award before the game. Epiphanny Prince had 19 points and Sylvia Fowles, selected as the Defensive Player of the Year, added 16 points and 10 rebounds.
None of that, however, helped Chicago earn its first playoff win.
"There were several defensive shortcomings," Chatman said. "When there's too many to remember you know it's been a tough night.
Delle Donne only scored four points after halftime, and said the Sky "weren't able to get into a flow." But much of that was because their defense struggled.
"Because when we're playing great defense, getting stops, we're able to run in transition and get the matchups we want," Delle Donne said. "But when our defense isn't clicking we tend to struggle offensively."
Indiana exploited that, thanks in part to its experience in games like Friday.
"I think being the defending champions and going all the way through the playoffs like we did last year short-handed really has helped this team make it through this season," Dunn said.
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A large and geographically diverse AVA capable of producing a wide variety of wine styles, the Columbia Valley AVA is home to 99% of Washington state's total vineyard area. A small section of the AVA even extends into northern Oregon!
Because of its size, it is necessarily divided into several distinctive sub-AVAs, including Walla Walla Valley and Yakima Valley—which are both further split into smaller, noteworthy appellations. A region this size will of course have varied microclimates, but on the whole it experiences extreme winters and long, hot, dry summers. Frost is a common risk during winter and spring. The towering Cascade mountain range creates a rain shadow, keeping the valley relatively rain-free throughout the entire year, necessitating irrigation from the Columbia River. The lack of humidity combined with sandy soils allows for vines to be grown on their own rootstock, as phylloxera is not a serious concern.
Red wines make up the majority of production in the Columbia Valley. Cabernet Sauvignon is the dominant variety here, where it produces wines with a pleasant balance of dark fruit and herbs. Wines made from Merlot are typically supple, with sweet red fruit and sometimes a hint of chocolate or mint. Syrah tends to be savory and Old-World-leaning, with a wide range of possible fruit flavors and plenty of spice. The most planted white varieties are Chardonnay and Riesling. These range in style from citrus and green apple dominant in cooler sites, to riper, fleshier wines with stone fruit flavors coming from the warmer vineyards.
A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. It can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and the best exmples can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Riesling is best known in Germany and Alsace, and is also of great importance in Austria. The variety has also been particularly successful in Australia's Clare and Eden Valleys, New Zealand, Washington, cooler regions of California, and the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Tasting Notes for Riesling
Riesling can be a sweet or dry white wine. In any case it usually has a high acidity and stone fruit, citrus, spice and floral notes. At its ripest, it leans towards juicy peach, nectarine and pineapple, while cooler climes produce Rieslings redolent of meyer lemon, lime and green apple. With age, Riesling can become truly revelatory, developing unique, complex aromatics, often with a hint of petrol.
Perfect Food Pairings for Riesling
Riesling is quite versatile, enjoying the company of sweet-fleshed fish like sole, freshly shucked oysters and most Asian food. Sweeter styles work well with fruit-based desserts.
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'Defendant' In Prenda Law Case Reveals He Agreed To Take A Dive
from the incredible deptBack in December, we wrote about one of Prenda Law's latest tricks (or, rather, a whole bag of tricks) involving using shell companies (who appear to be controlled by Prenda itself, where the CEO may have been faked via identity fraud) to file cases against a single "named" defendant who settles quickly... but part of that "settlement" is that the "defendant" agrees to allow discovery of a long list of "co-conspirators." Prenda argues that those co-conspirators cannot fight back against discovery, because they're not "defendants." And, thus, Prenda gets a big list of names/contact info of more people to shake down.
As we noted, there was some suspicion that the "named" defendants and their lawyers were somehow in on the deal -- and the judge in at least one case flat out asked Prenda's John Steele, and the defendant's lawyer Adam Urbanczyk, if they "were in bed together" to come up with such a settlement. At the time, we pointed out that it was still a big leap to assume that, but now there's a bit more evidence. In one of these cases, involving the likely-Prenda-shell-company Guava, one of the named defendants, Spencer Merkel, has filed an incredible affidavit in which he admits that Prenda had offered him a "settlement" in which he would be "named" in a lawsuit and agree to cough up his BitTorrent log files. And Prenda provided him with the lawyer who would then represent him thousands of miles from his home.
Michael offered me a settlement deal. The deal consisted of the following parts:Now, throughout all of this, he believed that Prenda was representing Hard Drive Productions, one of the porn companies that Prenda used to represent, but whose cases they dropped entirely not too long ago to focus solely on these questionable shell companies they claim to be "representing."
a. I would agree to be sued.
b. Prenda would ask for, and I would provide, a copy of the bit-torrent log from my computer. The excuse for gathering this log is that it would corroborate the IP address evidence that they had already gathered through the use of Prenda's sottware.
c. Prenda would, upon receipt of the information, dismiss the case against me.
4. In discussion of the settlement, Michael stated that he did not know of any pro bono attorneys in Oregon, but could provide the name of an attorney who might take my case in Minnesota. Because I cannot afford to pay an attorney, I agreed to be sued in the state of Minnesota. I then retained my attorney, Trina Morrison, based on the information provided to me by Prenda Law.
5. Before the start of this case, I had not heard of Guava LLC. I believed that I would be sued by Hard Drive Productions, Inc. I believe that Guava LLC's case against me is based on my admission to Michael that I downloaded the video at issue in the Hard Drive Productions case.Oh, and it gets worse. After all of this... Prenda went after him again, which seems to be why he's now willing to speak out about the "deal."
6. Before the case against me was filed, I had not heard of Alpha Law Firm. I believed that opposing counsel was Prenda Law.
7. Afier subpoenas were served in the case against me, I learned of Guava LLC's and Prenda Law's practice of finding one John Doc to be a named defendant, and then discovering the names of and requesting settlement money from other John Does by issuing subpoenas to ISPs.
8. Last week, on 01/15/13, I was once again contacted by Prenda Law Firm. I received a voice mail from someone on behalf of Prenda Law stating that I needed to make payment arrangements or I would be sued.At the very least this raises very serious questions about the conduct of Prenda Law and some of the lawyers who represented these named defendants. Given that Prenda is already dealing with serious questions in multiple courts about possible fraudulent activity, finding out that they may have effectively blackmailed a defendant into taking a dive, for the purpose of "agreeing" to discovery to find another batch of people to go after, can't look good.
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Ten ways to spot a liar:
• Liars tend to stare too long and too hard;
• Overly controlled, rigid body movements (few hand and arm movements in order to avoid looking nervous);
• Liars blink, on average, nearly twice as frequently as truth-tellers;
• Increased speech hesitation (more "ums," "ahs" and "ers" in their stories);
• They use more tentative words such as "maybe," "guess" or "perhaps" (avoiding commitment to the lie);
• Absence of distress or sadness in the upper face;
• More lower-face happiness (a smirk when attempting to appear sad, for example);
• Slower speech rate and longer pauses (allowing more time to construct a plausible story);
• More likely to raise their eyebrows; and
• False smiles; muscles contract around the mouth only, no contraction of the muscles around the eyes.
The truth about lying: Research shows fibbers like Lance Armstrong really do have 'tells'
They are among the infamous liars of our generation.
Lance Armstrong, the iconic cycling champion and cancer crusader, spent more than a decade angrily denying he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
Edmonton's Michael White tearfully asked the public to help him find his missing, pregnant wife — the same woman he had, in fact, stabbed to death and dumped naked in a ditch.
Bernie Madoff deftly orchestrated a $65-billion US Ponzi scheme, the largest investor fraud perpetrated by a single person in U.S. history.
But science is catching up, and exposing the secrets etched in a liar's face.
Forensic psychologist Dr. Stephen Porter, the founding director of the University of British Columbia Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law, says he and his colleagues can help authorities and doctors spot the telltale signs of deception.
In a newly published study, Porter and his colleagues report how their one-day, "deception detection" workshop is dramatically improving the ability of legal and mental health professionals to discriminate liars from truth-tellers, from a level of about pure chance, or no better than a coin toss, to 81 per cent accuracy.
The core of the workshop is formed from more than a decade's worth of research into what Porter calls extremely high-stakes lies: lies of considerable consequence, to the deceiver and to the deceived. Lies not just in the criminal context, but also in personal relationships, government, politics and business.
Liars, Porter says, tend to "leak" their true emotions from their faces. The corrugators, the so-called grief muscles in the middle of the forehead — the facial musculature least under our conscious control — don't get activated as they would if someone were really in agony.
There's also often the flash of a subtle and fleeting smirk when someone attempts to fake sadness.
Skilled liars will use fewer words and fewer sentences and, contrary to popular thinking, they have no trouble maintaining eye contact with the target of their deception. If anything, "they kind of burn holes through you," Porter says.
Emerging research is proving what Darwin taught more than a century ago, Porter says. That is, when people are experiencing a powerful emotion such as fear, remorse, anger or excitement, it is virtually impossible to keep from communicating those emotions in their faces.
And the opposite is true: If you're not feeling a particular emotion, it's hard to fake it.
Penny Boudreau struggled to look genuinely distraught when she made a tearful public plea in 2008 for the safe return of her missing daughter, Karissa, whom she had strangled two days earlier. Except she couldn't get the muscles associated with true sadness and distress working. Boudreau showed more surprise than anything, Porter says. "Raise your eyebrows as high as they can go. That's what she looked like most of the time."
At one point in the televised footage of that plea, she starts covering her face — a desperate measure "that we see in a lot of these individuals who are trying to communicate a false expression."
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton "is one of the most convincing actors that I've come across," says Porter, who uses in his workshops a video clip of Clinton denying his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky as one of the best documented examples, he says, of "effective deception."
In the video, Clinton stares and glares at the audience, and famously waves his finger in the air while claiming, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
Despite the aggression and confidence, almost challenging people to disagree with him, Porter can see flashes of fear in Clinton's face, and even surprise. When Clinton refers to Lewinsky as "that woman," it's classic distancing language. "High-stakes liars unconsciously, or perhaps somewhat consciously, don't want any sort of connection with the person they're lying about," Porter says. "They sort of depersonalize the individual."
More recently, Porter scanned the televised doping confessionals of cyclist Armstrong, as well as other interviews the disgraced cyclist gave over the years in which he denied cheating. Porter says he saw manifestations of fear and anger "that were inappropriate in the context.
"I suspect that, given the high stakes that were involved in maintaining those deceptions, to a trained, scientifically informed observer, there were probably a lot of clues he dropped along the way in his behaviours, his speech and his facial expressions," Porter says.
Porter and co-author Leanne ten Brinke, whose PhD dissertation focused on the topic, reveal some of these cues of duplicity in another study published in December in the journal Law and Human Behavior.
Their paper, "Cry me a River," described as the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, was based on exhaustive, frame-by-frame coding of televised videos of 78 "pleaders" — people publicly pleading for the safe return of a missing loved one.
In about half the videos, the pleader actually turned out to be the killer.
On average, people tell two to three lies a day, every day of their lives, Porter says. Daily life deception, on the "little white lies" scale, is necessary for good social relationships, he says.
"Imagine a world in which everyone told the truth — where everyone said what was on their minds. It would quickly spiral into chaos," he says. "We have to be selective in what we tell people we're thinking."
Lies of consequence are another matter. Given that they are harder to tell than more trivial, mundane lies, the researchers hypothesized that serious lies should trigger more subtle yet detectable behavioural cues or "leakage."
When they reviewed television footage of "pleaders" gathered from news agencies around the English-speaking world, including Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the team found that deceptive pleaders showed less upper face sadness or distress than genuine pleaders.
The upper facial muscles are connected to a primitive part of the brain called the limbic system, Porter explains. When someone experiences true distress, those muscles instantly become active, and beyond voluntary control.
"The deceivers weren't able to mimic that, because we assume most aren't feeling genuine distress." They try their best to fake distress. "But it comes out looking more like surprise in the upper face. They basically look like a deer in the headlights."
The deceptive pleaders also showed subtle signs of happiness in their lower faces: They occasionally smirked when delivering the crucial "direct appeal" — the moment where the pleader asks the perpetrator to let the missing person go, or for the missing person to make contact.
Overall, says Porter, "we're seeing a lot of emotional leakage, including incomplete expressions of sadness."
They also show disgust in the lower face. Think of seeing or smelling rotting meat. "There is an immediate physiological response where your upper lip moves toward the nose, and there's crinkling around the nose."
The researchers saw flashes of that expression in many of the deceptive pleaders, but rarely at all among the genuinely distressed. That facial cue could relate to a kind of lingering, visceral reaction to the killing, Porter says. Or even a lingering "revulsion" for the victim, even while they're professing how much they love them and want them back.
Porter says liars, because of biases and false assumptions about how they're supposed to behave, dupe many people.
"Liars know the stereotypes. Liars know you're supposed to look someone in the eye if you're telling the truth," Porter says.
"They also know they're not supposed to look nervous." So they overcompensate. They use few, if any, hand or body movements.
Their stories also tend to contain fewer details than truths, because liars have to worry about not slipping up, he says.
The studies of deceptive pleaders also showed the killers blinked at a rate nearly twice as frequently as the genuinely distressed — a behavioural twitch that could be due to the sheer effort of having to appear truthful, what researchers called the "cognitive load" of lying.
To lie on a grand scale requires considerable effort, Porter explains. "People are thinking, 'I have to monitor what I say, I have to monitor my facial expressions and body language.'
"If you're engaging in any task that requires a lot of cognitive effort, your blink rate tends to increase."
In a videotaped police interrogation, sexual sadist and convicted killer Russell Williams, the disgraced Canadian colonel sentenced to two concurrent terms of life in prison for killing two women, goes from cocky and confident at the start of the three-hour interview, to totally emotionally defeated as each piece of evidence is placed before him. "He's a military man. He's trained to appear strong and confident," Porter says. "But as the interrogator gradually shows him that the gig is up, he becomes deflated, and his demeanour and facial expressions reveal that pretty clearly."
Porter's group is now researching human remorse — what it is, and how to differentiate real from fabricated remorse, particularly in legal situations such as parole hearings or sentencing, "where remorse is an extremely powerful factor in legal decision-making," he says.
They're also looking at what is known as the "Dark Triad" personality, a trifecta of three personality traits: narcissism; Machiavellianism (using deception, manipulation and flattery for wholly selfish gains); and psychopathy.
Porter cautions that it's not certain that the knowledge gained from studying "pleaders" could be extrapolated to other types of lies.
However, "The idea here is that, if you're feeling an emotion that is very powerful — and Darwin taught us this more than a century ago — it's virtually impossible to keep that emotion from being conveyed in your facial expressions.
"You can get control of it after half a second, or a second," says Porter. "But it still comes out to the trained observer. And you can spot it."
Ten ways to spot a liar:
• Liars tend to stare too long and too hard;
• Overly controlled, rigid body movements (few hand and arm movements in order to avoid looking nervous);
• Liars blink, on average, nearly twice as frequently as truth-tellers;
• Increased speech hesitation (more "ums," "ahs" and "ers" in their stories);
• They use more tentative words such as "maybe," "guess" or "perhaps" (avoiding commitment to the lie);
• Absence of distress or sadness in the upper face;
• More lower-face happiness (a smirk when attempting to appear sad, for example);
• Slower speech rate and longer pauses (allowing more time to construct a plausible story);
• More likely to raise their eyebrows; and
• False smiles; muscles contract around the mouth only, no contraction of the muscles around the eyes.


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1. Re: Server behind the NAT firewall (again)Ronald Sigal Aug 25, 2010 9:08 AM (in response to Egidijus Vaisnora)
Hi Ejidijus,
I don't see anything wrong with your configuration.
* What do you mean by "Server is running on computer which doesn't have remote IP only local"?
* Is 10.198.138.148 the value you associated with "clientConnectAddress" or your localhost address?
2. Re: Server behind the NAT firewall (again)Egidijus Vaisnora Aug 25, 2010 10:31 AM (in response to Ronald Sigal)
"Server is running on computer which doesn't have remote IP only local"
jboss server is running on computer which has only network configuraiton and it is only local IP. This computer is accessed via router which makes makes NAT'ing to this local IP
Is 10.198.138.148 the value you associated with "clientConnectAddress" or your localhost address?
it is local ip
After debuging a while I found solution by entering serverBindAddress via URL parameter. I don't know it it is right configuration, but with this I got progress on issue:
<value-factory bean="ServiceBindingManager"
<null />
<null />
3. Re: Server behind the NAT firewall (again)Egidijus Vaisnora Aug 26, 2010 4:15 AM (in response to Egidijus Vaisnora)
Just information for other. My server was behind NAT router and it accepted connections from outside and from localhost. I have configured
ejb3-connectors-jboss-beans.xml file following and it works:
4. Re: Server behind the NAT firewall (again)natsuko Oct 18, 2011 4:39 AM (in response to Egidijus Vaisnora)
I have a similar problem, and I am using JBoss AS6. I believe the way of configuring ejb3-connectors-jboss-beans.xml is the right way for AS6 ?
[ Is that the only place to configure? ]
And I finally found some syntax explanation in JBoss Remoting Guide (version 2.5.4.SP2), in section 18.104.22.168. Multihome servers.
This is my scenario:
We have a physical Server A (internal IP: 192.168.2.187) within LAN, which connects to outside world via a modem/router. We use Dynamic DNS service for outside to connect to our Server A. So we have a web page that can be accessed this way: http://xyz.dyndns-server.com:8080/myweb/
For this Dyn DNS to work, the modem/router has to have forwarding address (xyz.dyndns-server.com => 192.168.2.187, with corresponding ports). We open up ports 8080 and 1099.
This is the line that I have in ejb3-connectors-jboss-beans.xml :
The problem is that, though my web application (html, jsp, servlet) is working fine, my Swing client somehow could not access the EJB3 (remote stateful session bean). My Swing client, running in any other workstation/PC within the LAN, can access my EJB3 bean in Server A just fine. I started the JBoss AS 6 with -b 0.0.0.0 option.
My Swing client uses the following for JNDI connection:
Can anyone help me out? What could be the root cause? Do I miss anything here? Thanks a lot.
5. Re: Server behind the NAT firewall (again)Ronald Sigal Nov 21, 2011 6:46 PM (in response to natsuko)
Hi Tew,
Are you saying that your Swing client is having a problem accessing JDNI on the server, i.e., it is unable to download the EJB3 client proxy? If that is the problem, then I can tell you that the JNDI implementation does not use Remoting, so the multihome trick will not work for JNDI.
The JDNI implementation is part of the Application Server code base, so, if I have interpreted your problem correctly, I suggest that you post the question to the "JNDI and Naming" forum here: http://community.jboss.org/en/jbossas/jndi.
6. Re: Server behind the NAT firewall (again)John Burgess Jun 27, 2012 7:14 AM (in response to natsuko)
You'll need to open ports 1098 (???more jndi of some sort) and 3873 (the actuall ejb3 bean) as well


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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A new Republican-dominated majority in the state Senate dedicated a rare block of time Tuesday to hear the views of a global warming skeptic who argued that federal scientists have been manipulating climate data to inflate temperatures. The views of retired geology professor Don Easterbrook are considered in the minority.
A 2010 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that 97 percent of the most cited and published climate scientists said climate change was a man-made problem.
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee has championed the issue of climate change as one of the primary concerns, but Republican Sen. Doug Ericksen said lawmakers needed to examine the issues raised by Easterbrook, a professor emeritus at Western Washington University. Ericksen said Easterbrook provided solid data, and the committee should be open to hearing all perspectives — something Ericksen felt wouldn't have happened previously.
"I guarantee you: In the past eight years, that hearing could not have taken place," Ericksen said after the work session. A Republican-dominated coalition seized control of the state Senate this year.
Democratic Sen. Kevin Ranker said the testimony was disappointing and the Legislature shouldn't spend time exploring whether climate change is real.
"We should be debating what we're going to do about it," Ranker said.
Easterbrook argued the climate has actually been cooling in recent years, and that carbon dioxide does not contribute to global warming. He said his climate numbers were different from those used by other scientists because, he argues, federal agencies — NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — tamper with the data and artificially inflate temperatures.
Easterbrook said he did not know why federal scientists would manipulate the numbers.
Western Washington University's geology faculty said in a position statement that they concur with rigorous, peer-reviewed assessments by the National Academies of Science, the National Research Council and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that global climate has warmed significantly and that human activities — mainly greenhouse-gas emissions — account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s.
"I think it's unfortunate that someone who really isn't an active expert in their field is being chosen to discuss this important topic," said Bernie Housen, chairman of Western Washington University's geology department.
A measure passed by the Legislature this year would lead to a study of the best practices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The original bill included a warning of the perils of climate change, but senators removed the language that Ericksen called "loaded."
AP Writer Phuong Le contributed to this report from Seattle.
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