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This page summarizes the different types and complexity levels for the integration of components in SMILA.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conventions
- 3 Integrating BPEL services
- 4 Integrating data sources
- 5 Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
Due to its architecture SMILA allows for the easy integration of third-party components into its framework. Actually there are three different possible integration scenarios available that are depicted in the following table.
|Integrating BPEL services
|Integrating data sources
|Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
|This is probably the most frequently used integration scenario. It allows for the integration or exchange of functionality (services, 3rd party software, etc.) used to process records in the workflow engine.
|Integrating your own crawler or agent implementations is another common scenario for adding functionality to SMILA. By doing so, further data sources can be unlocked to provide additional input to SMILA.
|This scenario is particularly intended for the experienced (SMILA) developer and comprises the possibility to exchange existing implementations of the SMILA core components by your own implementations.
|The figure demonstrates how you can integrate the functionality of your service or your piece of software to SMILA by adding it to the workflow engine.
|The figure above exemplary shows how you can add your own crawler implementation to SMILA. Please note that though you may also add an agent implementation likewise this option is not shown in the figure. This was chosen due to simplicity.
|The figure above demonstrates how two of the SMILA core components -- connectivity and data store -- may be exchanged by your own implementations. These components serve as examples only, that is, you may also exchange other core components such as the blackboard service or the delta indexing manager.
|The above figures exemplary demonstrate at which levels in the SMILA architecture an integration of new components is applicable. However, for simplicity reason, we restricted the above figures to the index processing chain while completely ignoring the search processing chain that offers the same integration options (except for the integration of agents and crawlers), but is currently not in the focus of this page.
Handling of Character Encoding
To make processing of data in SMILA easier: If external data must be converted to a string (e.g. an attribute value), the crawler, agent or any other component accessing an external data source should try everything that is possible to ensure that the conversion is done using the correct encoding. For example, HTTP clients should use the encoding reported by the HTTP server. If the data source does not provide information about the character encoding, you can use the class org.eclipse.smila.utils.file.EncodingHelper that tries to convert a byte[] to a string by trying to detect the correct encoding from a byte[] by checking BOMs or checking XML and HTML content for instructions and finally by using UTF-8 or, if this fails, the default platform encoding. You may find this helpful.
On the other hand, if valid string data must be converted to a byte[] (e.g. if it is stored as a attachment after pipelet processing), the conversion must always use UTF-8 encoding.
Integrating BPEL services
As already shown in the overview above, SMILA offers the possibility to integrate your own service or piece of software into SMILA BPEL workflows. In SMILA we simply call these workflows pipelines. A pipeline is the definition of a BPEL process (or workflow) that orchestrates pipelets, processing services, and other BPEL services (e.g. web services).
There are several options on how to achieve this:
- Simple: The easiest method to add functionality is to invoke a web service by using the standard functionality of BPEL. However, the disadvantage is that not all data of SMILA records are accessible if you opt for this method of integration.
- Default: The recommended way to integrate additional functionality in SMILA is to provide Java implementations of one of two available interfaces that allow for an easy creation of the above mentioned pipelets and processing services.
- Advanced: This method extends the default mechanism by providing an alternative procedure for integrating processing services that do not run in the same OSGi runtime as the BPEL workflow but in another OSGI runtime that may even run on a remote machine.
Simple: Integrating web services
The simplest way of integrating additional functionality in SMILA is to call a web service, which is a standard BPEL workflow engine functionality independent of SMILA. However, there are some limitations concerning the input and result data to/from web services: The workflow object (a DOM object) that enters the BPEL workflow in SMILA contains only the record IDs by default. That means records and the data contained therein - attributes, annotations, and attachments - are not accessible from a BPEL workflow because it can only access and use the values contained in the BPEL workflow object.
To overcome this restriction you can add additional data to the workflow object by adding filters in the configuration file located at org.eclipse.smila.blackboard/RecordFilters.xml. These filter rules define which attributes and annotations should be copied to the workflow object to make them accessible in the BPEL workflow. Additionally, you should not forget to include all attributes and annotations in the RecordFilters.xml file that you wish to write data to. Though filters work on attributes and annotations there is no possibility to access attachments of records because binary data is not reasonable in DOM.
A good example for this use case is the integration of the Language Weaver web service. The Language Weaver Translation Server provides a web service interface that translates a text into another language. This service could easily be used within SMILA to extend its functionality.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Default: Integrating local SMILA pipelets or processing services
The default and thus recommended technique to integrate functionality or software in SMILA is to provide a pipelet or a processing service that runs in the same OSGi runtime as the BPEL workflow engine. Pipelets are easier to implement as they require only standard Java knowledge but lack the functionality of processing services to be shared between multiple pipelines and to be accessed by multiple threads. Another difference is that the lifecycle and configuration of pipelets is managed by the workflow engine whereas processing services are handled by OSGi runtime. For further information on pipelets and processing services refer to Pipelets and ProcessingServices.
The above mentioned restriction of integrated web services using the BPEL default engine functionality does not apply to pipelets and processing services. Both have full access to SMILA records by using the blackboard service, which makes it easy to read, modify, and store records.
In general pipelets and processing services follow the same (sometimes optional) logical steps (of course this depends highly on the business logic to be executed). These steps are:
- Read the configuration (optional)
- Read input data from blackboard (optional)
- Execute the business logic
- Write result data to blackboard (optional)
In terms of the pipelet or processing service that implements the business logic you are totally free to use any desired technology. Some of the posibilities include:
- Using POJOs (For examples refer to the XML processing pipelets)
- Using any local available OSGi service, even other processing services (For an example refer to the Aperture pipelet that uses the ApertureMimeTypeIdentifier processing service.)
- Using other technologies such as JNI, RMI, or CORBA to integrate remote or non Java components (As an example consider the integration of Oracle Outside In Technology.)
- Typical examples for pipelets are the XML processing pipelets. These lightweight pipelets are used for XML processing (e.g. XSL transformation). Each pipeline uses its own pipelet instance.
- A good example for a processing service is the Lucene index service. It provides functionality to index records in Lucene indexes and can be used from multiple pipelines in parallel.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
- How to write a pipelet
- How to write a processing service
- How to integrate the HelloWorld web service as a pipelet
Advanced: Integrating remote SMILA processing services
Integrating data sources
Due to the architecture of the SMILA connectivity framework it is easy to include additional data sources by providing appropriate implementations of agents and/or crawlers.
- A typical agent is a FilesystemWatcher. It monitors a folder (or folder structure) for changes (creation, modification, or deletion of files/folders) and reports those actions to SMILA.
- Typical crawlers are the FilesystemCrawler or the WebCrawler. The first iterates over a folder structure and sends all encountered files to SMILA. The latter traverses the links of HTML pages, follows links to other HTML pages, and sends these pages as well as other resources (images, PDF files, etc.) to SMILA.
Further reading
Please consult the following how-to tutorials for a more detailed technical description:
Integrating alternative implementations of SMILA core components
The component-based architecture of SMILA even allows you to provide your own implementations of SMILA core components. More info coming soon...
A typical example is an alternative implementation of the DeltaIndexingManager that does not store its state in memory but in the file system or in a database.
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Latimer, the Democratic nominee for Westchester County Executive, is proposing state legislation to create a POLICe program for Westchester that would provide five grants to law enforcement agencies to create police organization liaisons in immigrant communities.
Latimer's proposal comes in the wake of the failure of the Westchester County Board of Legislators to override County Executive Rob Astorino's veto of the Immigrant Protection Act.
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At 10:20 a.m. Oct. 20, the Costa Mesa Donald Dungan Library, 1855 Park Ave., will participate in the 2011 Southern California Shakeout, the largest earthquake drill in United States history. The purpose of the drill is to motivate Southern Californians to be prepared for a big earthquake and to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophes.
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Shoppers can be reasonably confident that the price of a box of their favorite cereal will not budge in the time it takes to push a cart down a supermarket aisle. But that may change as stores begin to experiment with the kind of minute-by-minute price adjustments made online.
More web retailers are using software that fluctuates prices throughout the day in order to draw shoppers' attention and better manage inventory, according to The Wall Street Journal. By its count, Amazon.com changed the price of one General Electric microwave nine times in 24 hours, pricing it as high as $871.49 and as low as $744.46.
That kind of price control may be impossible in a physical store without arming legions of employees with price guns, but experts say that to combat "showrooming" (where shoppers visit stores but buy the goods online) — and just to keep up — the tactics are being rolled out on a limited scale. The most common iteration is the Black-Friday-style door-buster deals, in which the first 100 or so shoppers get a product at a steep discount. Other stores use a round of advertised sales that last just an hour or two during the day, says James Bieri, principal at Stokas Bieri Real Estate, a Detroit-based retail consulting firm. The Journal found that Best Buy often followed Amazon in adjusting its online pricing. (Best Buy did not respond to requests for comment on whether that strategy might extend to its physical stores.) But these daily changes are often limited to one or two shifts at most and to just a few items, since store associates must switch out all the sale signage, he says. For now, anyway.
More retailers are experimenting with brand-focused stores within stores, which could make it easier to offer sales on select groupings, Bieri says. Kohl's has also been rolling out digital price tags, which can be changed with a few clicks on the computer, says Edgar Dworsky, founder of advocacy site ConsumerWorld.org. (Kohl's did not respond to requests for comment.) Even with high-tech signage, price changes are likely to be limited, so that shoppers won't be discouraged from sticking around and browsing. "It defeats their purpose if you have to pick up those jeans and run to the checkout," Bieri says.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The student organizers of a planned satanic mass at Harvard University say their intent is purely educational, but the Roman Catholic church says participants are putting themselves "dangerously close to destructive works of evil."
The mass scheduled for Monday is organized by the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club and is part of a series of events exploring different cultures and religious traditions.
The student club said in a statement that "the performance is part of a larger effort to explore the religious facets that continue to influence contemporary culture."
"Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes, but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices," the statement said.
The Harvard Extension School said it supports "the rights of our students and faculty to speak and assemble freely," and noted that the group also plans Shinto, Shaker and Buddhist events.
The Boston Archdiocese, however, says the mass mocks the Catholic Mass.
"For the good of the Catholic faithful and all people, the church provides clear teaching concerning satanic worship," the archdiocese said. "This activity separates people from God and the human community, it is contrary to charity and goodness, and it places participants dangerously close to destructive works of evil."
The Rev. Michael Drea, senior chaplain at the Harvard Catholic Center, said the academic freedom argument is a smoke screen.
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Donor fatigue hits Inauguration
President Barack Obama cleared the way to let corporations give big money to his Inauguration, but there's one problem: Corporate America isn't in a giving mood.
Where President George W. Bush cleaned up for his second inaugural — 45 companies gave $250,000 each — only nine companies have ponied up for Obama's. And donations from the deep-pocketed folks who helped Obama raise over $1 billion for his campaign haven't been pouring in either.
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One in-house Democratic lobbyist said there was little appetite to participate among executives he canvassed. "We don't have one CEO that was really interested in attending," the lobbyist said.
In recent days, organizers were still trying to get at least two restaurants — Central and Fiola — on the inaugural parade route to be rented out, according to several sources.
Obama has made a habit of changing or finessing the rules on corporate giving for his top events like the Democratic National Convention and Inauguration. And the president, an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, is facing a backlash from good-government groups and Democrats for accepting the corporate donations for the Inauguration and other events because they see it as selling access.
"He was elected by the people," said Lisa Gilbert of Public Citizen. "They are going to be the ones gathered at the Mall to hear his inaugural address. He should turn to them if he needs money to celebrate in the manner he wants."
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That's the way it was four years ago, when corporate donors were blocked from giving to the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The donors, and how much they gave, were also disclosed. But with Obama donors fatigued after the billion-dollar campaign, the rules have changed. Corporate cash is in, there are no caps on donations and only a bare-bones list of donors' names is provided.
In 2008, two-thirds of the cash for the Democratic National Convention, or $40 million, came from corporate sponsors. For 2012 in Charlotte, the Democrats said corporations would be banned from contributing. But through a separate account, the New American City Fund, convention organizers took in nearly $20 million in corporate cash, and the party accepted in-kind contributions from big-name companies such as AT&T, Duke Energy, Microsoft and Coca-Cola.
Also this weekend, Obama's reelection campaign committee is converting into a tax-exempt group that would accept unlimited corporate money.
( Also on POLITICO: How President Obama's inaugural app mines data for Democrats)
Regardless of the rules, the fact is that while the Obama team's fundraising arm was able to pull unprecedented amounts of money from individuals, it doesn't have a deep bench in corporate fundraising. Several sources familiar with the inaugural committee told POLITICO it is still well over $10 million short of its fundraising goals.
That's led organizers to switch gears to focus more on retail contributions as corporate money hasn't come in at the pace they expected.
Given the difficulties raising corporate money, Adam Smith, spokesman for the Public Campaign Action Fund, suggested Obama shouldn't have bothered.
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The government faces a challenge from Philip Morris Asia to its plain packaging of tobacco products. The company claims the law violates an investment agreement between Hong Kong (its base) and Australia. Another challenge has been launched at the World Trade Organization. Read our article.
The good news is that in August the State of Sao Paolo fined Philip Morris International for marking tobacco to kids via its Be Marlboro campaign. This was in response to a counter-campaign by CTFK, FCA and others. (See Germany entry below).
On the negative side, a challenge from the National Confederation of Industries has delayed the coming into force of a ban on tobacco additives. It was supposed to apply from September, 2013. Read our article.
Philip Morris International is challenging a ban on its Be Marlboro campaign. Authorities outlawed it for illegally encouraging young people, ages 14-21, to smoke.
Read about the action, led by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, to end the Be Marlboro campaign.
Campaigners forced the cancellation of a tobacco fair planned for Bali in February (see our article). The government continues to delay ratifying the FCTC, but did implement pictorial warnings on tobacco packages in July.
Ireland, Republic of
The tobacco industry launched a strong misinformation campaign after the government started a process to introduce plain packaging. Read our article.
Along with Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe: tobacco-producing countries that will be quick to react to the report of the FCTC Article 17&18 working group on sustainable alternatives to tobacco production.
Read our fact sheet on the FCTC and tobacco farming.
The FCTC Conference of the Parties will be held here, 13-18 October, 2014. FCA's web page for COP6.
New Zealand
Plain packaging legislation has been introduced in Parliament. Read our article.
Nigeria and Uganda
Intense debates continue in both countries over proposed tobacco control legislation.
Read how advocates are countering tobacco industry interference in Uganda.
Victory! Singapore
World Tobacco Asia was scheduled to be held in Singapore in November, but after opposition the industry cancelled the event. Earlier this year advocates forced the cancellation of Inter-tabac ASIA in Indonesia. (See above).
Earlier this year Singapore hosted talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free trade deal that threatens tobacco control. Read our article.
Victory! Sri Lanka
The tobacco industry's various court challenges to new graphic health warnings ran their course. The result? Packages must have warnings covering 60 percent of surfaces as of 1 Jan. 2015. Read our article.
Victory! Thailand
Big Tobacco suffered another court defeat in June. The decision means Thailand can go ahead with implementation of the world's largest pack warnings, covering 85 percent of pack surfaces.
The government is considering introducing plain packaging. Read our article.
UN Headquarters
At the follow-up to 2011's NCD Summit on 10-11 July UN Member States reiterated support for accelerated FCTC implementation. Read our article.
The government continues to fight a trade dispute with Philip Morris International at the World Bank. Read our article.
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text: Hello all. We are building some Network Area Storage gear around some high-end imaging and data acq. systems. Reliability for storage of this data is a big time must. To date, we have built all of this lab's gear around SCSI drives because it has been our research and experience that SCSI drives are better built than IDE drives. However, when looking at these drive arrays and NAS appliances, it is very clear that SATA drives are really driving large scale storage. What has been the general experience on this list of SATA vs SCSI in terms of performance, reliability, quoted as well as real-world failure rates, etc? Which SATA drives are considered 'the best' the way, say Seagate drives are held in high esteem for SCSI? And, if anybody likes any particular RAID and/or NAS system, let's hear your stories. About 1.4-1.7 Terabyte raw space. Thanks for your collective help and attention. Hernando Vidal, Jr. Tesseract Technology


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Those bleeding heart New York Post mercy-me's are at it again. They're whinnying up a tizzy about the Yanks' refusal to publish an ad for "Confessions of a She-Fan," by publicity-mad, potty-mouthed playgirl Jane Heller in the team's new Cathedral of Clean.
We've read the She-Fan book. In terms of public outrage and blaspheme, it makes Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" read like "Goodnight Moon." Listen: If Heller's poisonous allegations go uncensored by the Tower of Stein, it could lead to anarchy.
We had a similar incident at IT IS HIGH when we discovered the secret notes Alphonso had been writing to Kim Kardashian. We dealt with it. You readers never had to glimpse the hell that we did. Randy Levine's war room is just doing likewise.
In her attack book, Heller claims that:
1. The Yanks have not won a World Series since 2003. Yeow. This is her way of turning the screw, jabbing red-hot pins into the foreskin of Yank faithful just to watch them squirm. We hoped that the literary genre of spleen-venting hate went out with "Bliss My Ass," Kathy Lee Gifford's angry 1994 takedown of the Pope, but Heller clearly hopes to bring it back. Let the record show that we know: The Yanks have won every Series since 2003! She-Fan can say whatever the hell she wants. It's a lie.
2. Beloved, mirthful, iconic YES host Michael Kay, physically, has a "big head." This oft-repeated cheap shot stems from Kay's genetic condition of the endocrinal glands, which causes a painful cranial bloating made more noticable by his choice of neckties. But here's the real story. Insiders believe Heller's malicious lie is a last-whack revenge groinshot that stems from their broken love relationship. We will not dignify such an allegation, by printing it here. But something is up, and it's not Kay's hatsize.
3. Watching Yankees Classics on YES is like "watching reruns of Pretty Woman, where Julia Roberts always ends up with Richard Gere." She said it, not us. REPEATING: She said it, not us. We have sent copies of this damnation to both Mr. Gere and Ms. Roberts so that they can take appropriate legal action and be forewarned if Heller ever tries to buy ad space at one of their movies.
4. At one point in a post-season game against Cleveland, Ms. Heller confronted a "tub of guts in a Lofton jersey" by shouting "SHUT YOUR FUCKING RALLY PIE HOLE!" Heller should be grateful that the Yank do not demand that her mouth be publicly scrubbed with anticeptic soap.
In fact, considering that the new park will be the first ever sprayed to conquer illegal microorganisms, isn't it right to hope that it will sanitized of improper words?
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Yankeetorial: Team Right to Ban Inflamatory X-Rated She-Fan Confessional
Those bleeding heart New York Post mercy-me's are at it again. They're whinnying up a tizzy about the Yanks' refusal to publish an ad for "Confessions of a She-Fan," by publicity-mad, potty-mouthed playgirl Jane Heller in the team's new Cathedral of Clean.
7 comments:
- Whitey Fraud said...
Despite the fact that she's "moved on," I will continue to stand by her. Or at least, stand behind her.
- March 28, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- SUPERFRANKENSTEIN said...
Wow. Our She-Fan is a Page Six boldfaced name. I'm going to start wearing a necktie around here.
- March 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Dear Editor?Owner Duque,
I can't believe you brought up that Kim Kardashian issue/conflict again!!!
When is history, history?
I thought we turned that page. I thought the lawsuits were settled. I thought Kim and I were "done."
Weren't our First Amendment rights upheld?
How much more time will I have to spend in jail protecting sources?
Do I have to stay "south of the border" all season? Again?
Do I have to go back out to LA and beg her to stop texting me?
This is like the return of the Taliban.
- March 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Maybe it was her drunken heckling at ST that did it.
She-Fan = Shitlisted.
- March 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- Ross said...
You guys are endlessly hilarious. Thanks for the LOL-worthy post!
- March 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- She-Fan said...
I can't type. I'm laughing so hard... I... can't... breathe....Pure genius.
- March 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM
"the foreskin of Yank faithful"
Speak for yourself. I'm a lean, clean love machine.
- March 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM


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[hook x2: e-40]
every time i stop, hoes like look at him
every car i drive, n-gg-s want one of them
they pointin', they pointin
they like dammmmmn
they pointin', they pointin
they like dammmmmn
[verse 1: e-40]
like ricky ross, everyday i'm hustlin'
gettin' off weight (like who?) jennifer hudson
pack a hammer, thor
shooter, score
slide through batches think i'm hecka rich
breakin' necks, turnin' heads like the exorcist
thumbs up like the like b-tton
eatin' good, no rib touchin'
runnin' with a bundle, never fumble
countin' so much bread i got carpal tunnel
stock paint (from where?) maaco
beige, like a potato
they hate me on the outside, love me in the inside
suck me in the back seat while i let a friend drive
half a pound two stacks, half a unit 10-5
i stay out here by sully so you know a hustler been fly
[verse 2: juicy j]
my pockets some'n serious, mansion on a hilly
main that n-gg- got more cheese than a philly
shoelace tied but a n-gg- still trippin'
i'm lionel richie high, i'm dancin' on the ceiling
never marry a hoes, i just marry checks
that's how you stay on top, missionary s-x
rubberband business, know you heard of that
i got the town talkin, know you scurred of that
none less than ten figures, you know what i'm worth
record sales, show money, not including merch'
club full of b-tches, pocket full of franks
blunt full of weed, cup full of drank
me going raw dog, ain't no way in h-ll
before i risk my life it be a cold day in h-ll
but b-tch take it off, here we go show and tell
and i'm f-ckin' that p-ssy like i'm fresh out of jail
[verse 3: 2 chainz]
parallel park while i'm ghost riding
black diamonds man i'm racial profiling
i'm so fly man i need a co-pilot
so i might let your d-mn ho drive it
lil' hair pullin' man i like rough s-x
dropped out, i ain't never p-ssed a drug test
you know my lingo baby let's mingle
so i got a thousand dollars worth of singles
i got racks in the cargo of my camels
still, still won't give her nathaniel
life a gamble so i had to make a bet
these ain't air max but make a check
they took me out the streets but it's still in me
i been sellin' work since we had bill clinton
i'm the voice of the streets so they still listen
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The Israeli Zionist organization Im Tirtzu last week hosted the "Zionist Conference for Human Rights" in Tel Aviv. Among the invited speakers was Father Gabriel Nadaf, spiritual head of the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum, a body that encourages young Arabic-speaking Israelis (they prefer to not be labeled as "Arabs") to join the Israeli army and fully integrate with Israeli Jewish society.
In his address to the conference, Father Nadaf noted that "there are many regimes (in the region) that do not care about equal rights, they only care about catering to an elite that terrorizes the rest of the population, while brushing off the issue of human rights and dehumanizing others."
But, the Greek Orthodox priest explained, "In Israel, we [non-Jewish minorities] do not experience this."
Father Nadaf concluded by declaring how "proud" he is to live in Israel, and insisting that "Israel is a shining example of human rights in the Middle East."
Predictably, the views of Father Nadaf and other members of the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum have not been popular with the Muslim Arab community, nor with its representatives in the Israeli Knesset.
Earlier this month, Father Nadaf's son was violently attacked on the streets of Nazareth by those opposed to local Arabic speakers identifying with the Jewish state. Nadaf and others said it was incitement from the likes of Arab Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi that resulted in the attack on his son and continued tension between Arabs and Jews in the land.
But Tibi, who last week wrote in an American publication about what he called Israel's "Jim Crow" treatment of local Arabs, is coming under increasing fire for his hostile rhetoric and approach.
Deputy Knesset Speaker Hamad Amar, a member of Israel's minority Arabic-speaking Druze community, responded to Tibi's accusations with his own article accusing his Muslim colleague of representing "all that is wrong with parts of the Israeli Arab leadership."
"In our whole region consisting of over 350 million Arabs, there are only 1,658,000 Arabs who have complete political and religious freedom and have the right to vote in full democratic elections. It is no coincidence that all of these Arabs live as full and equal citizens in the one Jewish State," wrote Amar.
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National Charity League of Glendale was established in 1942 to provide assistance to needy elderly people. For many years they held fundraisers with a specific goal: to build and operate a retirement facility in Glendale.
By 1963, some 20 years after they were founded, they had raised enough money to build that facility.
Surprisingly, instead, they presented their funds, more than $50,000, to the Verdugo Hills Sunshine Society, which was already operating Twelve Oaks Lodge at 2820 Sycamore Avenue in La Crescenta.
The money was given with the stipulation that it be used to build a new residence hall for needy elderly women, wrote Petty Preston, Women's Editor, in the Glendale News-Press, Oct. 12, 1963.
During their fundraising phase, Preston explained, National Charity League leaders had realized that the Sunshine Society served a purpose almost identical to theirs; they decided to join efforts with that group rather than duplicate services.
Twelve Oaks had been established in 1935 after Effie Fifield turned her La Crescenta property over to the Sunshine Society to be used as a home for elderly men and women who could not afford to pay high fees.
The board of trustees of the Verdugo Hills Sunshine Society operated the Twelve Oaks retirement facility. At the time Charity League presented their gift, the board of trustees was headed by Harry M. Keller. Also on the board of trustees were Bernard Anawalt, Thomas Bonetto, Guy Carlton, John Craig, Lee Lawhead, Homer Martin and Lee Merritt. (Anawalt, Bonetto, Craig, Lawhead, Martin and Merritt had all served on the board of trustees since the society's inception in 1935.)
Construction on the new building began immediately. It was to be called Stern Hall in memory of True Aiken Stern, a charter member of Charity League, and the person who initially inspired the project.
National Charity league assumed full cost of the building, Preston noted. The nine units were all reserved for women. Graham Latta was the architect and the general contractor was Sid Hansen.
In 1963 when the News-Press ran Preston's story, social etiquette dictated that married women used their husband's first name and that if a group of women were listed, the word Mesdames preceded the list. In that vein, here are the names of those who served on the NCL building committee: Mesdames Hal Anawalt, Merritt S. Dunlap, Karsten M. Ericksmoen, J. Lee Gregg, George Irving, Ray Kidd, Paul Martin, Dean Miller, Alden C. Waite and Harold Wescher.
Mrs. Max Eddy Utt chaired the committee and Mrs. G. G. Heswick was league president at the time.
Stern Hall was dedicated in May, 1964 and the Ledger, May 17, 1964, noted that NCL had donated $54,000 to fund the building, which was "equipped with ramps and all the modern facilities recommended for the aging."
On hand to give guided tours at the dedication were NCL hostesses, Mesdames George Blech, Spencer Fleming, Frank Henry, Roy Hutchinon, Mrs. Ida Holtgreven and Mrs. Edna Miles. Mrs. Dean Miller was in charge of the dedication ceremonies. With the addition of the Stern building, Twelve Oak Lodge increased their capacity to serve 44 residents.
Twelve Oaks is now operated by be.group, founded in 1955 as Southern California Presbyterian Homes.
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The 2009 Station Fire, which ravaged the San Gabriel mountains above La Crescenta, show just how extensively George Le Mesnager's vineyards once covered their slopes. "Old irrigation pipes all around the property, revealed by the Station Fire, attest to their large operation," according to Stuart Byles, director and winemaker of the Stonebarn Vineyard Conservancy at the old George Le Mesnager property. It is now Deukmejian Park.
Photos from the 1930s show large, planted areas extending well up into Dunsmore Canyon, he added. "Mesnager's son, Louis Le Mesnager, told the Daily News in the 1980s, 'Wherever there was a flat area, there were grapevines.'"


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Scholar Coauthors Book on Mining Company, Marquette Iron Range
By John Gagnon | Published
Upper Michigan is dotted with population centers associated with mining: from Iron River and Iron Mountain to Copper City and Copper Harbor. The region's copper legacy has been well documented, the iron legacy less so. Now comes a lode of information on Upper Michigan's iron ore industry—a story told in part by a Michigan Technological University scholar.
The new book, published by Wayne State University Press, is titled Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs And The Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006. The authors are Terry Reynolds, a professor of social sciences at Michigan Tech, and Virginia Dawson, an independent researcher from Ohio.
They have fashioned a chronicle about the start, rise, decline and survival of a company that was one of the region's earliest iron ore mining firms—one among a dozen large producers.
The business, founded in 1847, was initially called the Cleveland Iron Mining Co. It became Cleveland-Cliffs in 1890, when it absorbed a long-time rival and became the most important producer on the Marquette iron range. It is now Cliffs Natural Resources.
The authors assert that the book's title, "Iron Will," captures the company's "resilience in the face of panics, depressions, strikes, technical bottlenecks and bankrupt partners." Twice the company weathered a collapse of its backbone, the steel industry, most recently in 2001.
According to one scholar, this account is "a major contribution to the literature on Lake Superior metal mining and the best book on the Marquette iron range in many decades." Indeed, there have been several popular histories of the firm, but this is first scholarly study of the Michigan iron industry in more than 100 years.
Reynolds came to Tech in 1983. He served as chair of the Department of Social Sciences from 1990 to 2002. He stepped down from those duties to get back to teaching and research. A renowned scholar and prolific author. Reynolds' focus is the history of technology. He has written three other books in the field and has edited another three.
He and Dawson organized their saga around five themes:
• Sound management: Early-on, one leader was described as having "the courage to venture where favoring opportunity led the way." A father-son team, Samuel and William Mather, led the company for nearly a century and provided continuity that most of its rivals could not match.
• Ore depletion: An evergreen tree, situated on the top of the ore in a railcar, marked the first shipment of ore from a new mine; a broom announced the last shipment. This ritual was "repeated many times during the first 100 years of operation." In the 1950s, the company responded to the depletion of rich ores by developing a process of enriching the more abundant lean ores. The switch saved the firm.
• The cyclical nature of the business: The iron and steel industry has traditionally been plagued by periods of boom and bust. "Every economic upheaval . . . buffeted the iron ore industry." Survival strategies: acquisitions and partnerships.
• Labor relations: They ranged from amicable to contentious.
• Technology: Iron ore sells by the ton and relies on cheap, bulk transportation to markets throughout the Midwest. Reynolds says of the scenario, "If you can't transport iron ore cheaply, it's worthless." With the building of ore docks in Marquette, 15 miles of rail service from Ishpeming to the Marquette harbor and the opening of the Soo Locks in 1855, it became possible to earn a profit. With regard to technology, Cleveland Cliffs was sometimes a copycat, sometimes an innovator.
Reynolds and Dawson divvied up the workload on the book. He focused on the period 1847 to 1950; she wrote about 1960 to present. They combined efforts on the decade between. He concentrated on the technical aspects in Upper Michigan; she focused on the business operations in Cleveland.
Reynolds examined a variety of historical records, principally those at the Northern Michigan University Archives, which houses "vast volumes of materials" on Cleveland-Cliffs. He started researching in spring 2003 while on sabbatical; he completed the final draft in 2009 while on leave.
The biggest challenge, Reynolds says, was staying focused on the mining, for the company also had extensive interests in timber, lake shipping, wood products and land sales.
The company wanted a scholarly history of Michigan's iron ore industry, so it funded the project. The authors had a free hand. Reynolds explains, "We didn't want the company looking over us all the time, and they didn't want a puff piece. So they left us alone."
The publication process proved rigorous. Reynolds says it's "a relief" to have it done. "One thing about writing a book," he says, "it keeps coming back at you." He is referring to reviews, revisions and indexing. "You give birth to the same baby two or three times."
If it was a hard labor, it also was a important one. Upper Michigan's copper industry is long gone, but the iron industry persists. The firm that became Cleveland-Cliffs started with a toehold in the Upper Michigan wilds. Today, it is the only surviving independent mining company in the US focused on iron ore and the country's leading producer of iron ore pellets. Now its reach is far, with operations in the US, Canada, Australia and Brazil. The authors call that the company's survival over more than 160 years—a period marked by alternating prosperity and struggle—simply "remarkable."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Udayan Sinha, Altera Corp.
Learn how you can use MATLAB and Simulink with FPGA development boards to verify hardware implementations of algorithm models.
In this webinar, we demonstrate how HDL Verifier can be used with Intel FPGA development boards to run test scenarios faster and verify implementations in real hardware. In this webinar, we demonstrate hardware verification of a floating-point Cholesky decomposition IP core, with the test bench running as a MATLAB/Simulink model and the design-under-test running on Intel development boards.
You'll learn details about floating-point IP cores from Intel that are available with Intel DSP Builder. Then we use demonstrations to show how HDL Verifier can be used with standard FPGA development boards, and how you can use built-in wizards in HDL Verifier to configure it to run with your own custom FPGA board.
About the presenters:
Robert Anderson is a Principal Application Engineer for signal processing and communications at MathWorks, with a focus on FPGA implementation. Robert has over 25 years of experience in hardware design and implementation. He earned his MS. in electrical and computer engineering from Northwestern University.
Udayan Sinha is a Product Marketing Engineer focusing on digital signal processing solutions at Altera. He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Davis.
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Watersports for HIV+ people
Mar 26, 2002
Hello from Italy and thanks a lot for your care Doc. I was just wondering if it's dangerous for me to drink somebody's piss. I've been recently tested poz (I was neg in June 2001) and the cd4 count is at 621, whereas the viral load is at the moment <400. Take care.
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Your question is somewhat difficult to answer because there isn't a whole lot of discussion in the scientific community about the risk of infections through watersports (getting pee/piss/urine on or in your body). There are certain infections that are known to be spread through contact with urine, and there are also a lot of gray areas. Be careful of people who are not speaking from a purely scientific perspective: people who tout urine therapy as a cure-all and those who wave their finger at you because they think it is a "dirty" activity.
Urine, when compared to other fluids in the body, is relatively sterile. Urine is primarily comprised of water, urea (proteins and amino acids), uric acid, and other bodily waste products.
There is no known risk of HIV transmission through contact with urine in or on your body. HIV cannot always be isolated in urine, and if it is, HIV concentrations are too small to pose a threat of infection. Some conditions contribute to blood being present in a person's urine, which would contribute to a risk of HIV transmission if your partner was infected. (This clearly does not pose a risk to you since you are infected, but it is something to keep in mind if you are the dominant/active/insertive partner).
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a virus that can be transmitted through urine. Many people are not adversely affected by infection with CMV. In some cases, CMV infection can lead to a mono-like illness, which usually resolves on it's own. Certain groups are at high-risk for more serious CMV-related complications: the unborn baby during pregnancy, people who work with children, and immunocompromised people, such as organ transplant recipients and the HIV infected.
Other infections of the urogenital tract could theoretically pose a risk of infection to you when you get urine in your body. Microorganisms that "live" in the urethra (like those that cause gonorrhea or chlamydia) or others that might be present in genital fluid (like hepatitis) could be carried out by urine and into your body. Mucosal contact (the lining of the mouth or rectum) with these organsisms could pose a risk for infection, but again, there isn't a whole lot of proof to support this.
So there is no absolute advice on your question. It is important as an HIV infected person to avoid infections that may compromise his/her health and facilitate disease progression. Whether or not urine poses a significant enough risk to you will be for you to decide.
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Boyes, Alma and Cousens, Cynthia (2010) Observational Learning through Professional Studio Practice In: 5th International Conference Challenging the curriculum: exploring the discipline boundaries in art, design and media, 12-13 April 2010, Berlin, Germany.
Boyes, Alma, Cousens, Cynthia and Stuart, Helen (2009) Learning Tool - Video Support for Live Demonstration In: Clews, David, ed. Dialogues in Art & Design:Promoting and Sharing Excellence. ADM-HEA/GLAD, UK, pp. 260-265. ISBN 978-0-9558978-1-8
Boyes, Alma, Cousens, Cynthia and Stuart, Helen (2007) Teaching and Learning by Demonstration In: European League of Institutes of the Arts International Conference 2007, 11 - 14 July 2007, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)
Boyes, Alma, Cousens, Cynthia and Stuart, Helen (2007) Exploring the role of demonstration in practice-based courses. In: Centre for Learning and Teaching Research Conference: Underpinning learning, teaching and assessment with pedagogic research, 19 October 2007, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)
Cousens, Cynthia, Stuart, Helen and Boyes, Alma (2008) Exploring the relationship between teaching and Learning through practice In: Houghton, Nicholas, ed. Enhancing Curricula: using research and enquiry to inform student learning in the disciplines. Centre for Learning and teaching in Art & Design 2008, London, UK, p. 250. ISBN 9780956038203; 9780956038210
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