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Youthful face of mercy can change the world, pope tells young people
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By Junno Arocho Esteves
KRAKOW, Poland (CNS) — The youthful face of God's mercy can change the hearts of people who have lost hope, Pope Francis said.
A young person who is touched by Christ is "capable of truly great things," the pope told thousands of young men and women July 28 at the welcoming ceremony of World Youth Day in Krakow.
"Today the church — and I would add, the world — looks to you and wants to learn from you, to be reassured that the father's mercy has an ever-youthful face and constantly invites us to be part of his kingdom," the pope said.
Arriving at Blonia Park in his popemobile, Pope Francis was enveloped in a sea of red, yellow and blue as pilgrims donned brightly colored ponchos to shield them from the rain.
Taking his seat on the main stage, the pope was welcomed by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow and six young men and women representing Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Australia.
After presenting the pope with a custom pilgrim's backpack, a group of young performers from around the world entertained the pope and the crowd by dancing traditional dances. The dances ranged from a young Indian woman swaying to the tune of sitar to a couple masterfully dancing to tango music.
Following the Gospel reading, the pope thanked the youth for their presence, greeting them warmly saying, "At last, we are together."
Encouraging them to cheer for St. John Paul II, the pope thanked his predecessor for initiating World Youth Day.
"From heaven, he is with us, and he sees all of you: So many young people from such a variety of nations, cultures and languages, but with one goal: that of rejoicing that Jesus is in our midst," he said.
The pope noted the festive atmosphere of World Youth Day and praised the "enthusiasm, dedication, zeal and energy" of the young men and women who make God's love palpable to the world.
However, while extolling the virtues of a young, merciful heart, the pope also lamented young people "who seem to have opted for 'early retirement.'"
"It worries me to see young people who have 'thrown in the towel' before the game has even begun, who are defeated even before they begin to play, who walk around glumly as if life has no meaning," he said.
Deep down, he added, "young people like this are bored and are boring."
The celebration in Poland, the pope continued, offers an opportunity for young men and women to help each other and "not be robbed of the best of ourselves."
Pope Francis encouraged the youths to look to Jesus to receive a "true passion for life" and to "give the very best of ourselves."
"Are you looking for empty thrills in life, or do you want to feel a power that can give you a lasting sense of life and fulfillment? Which one do you want: empty thrills or the power of grace? To find fulfillment, to gain new strength, there is a way. It cannot be sold, it cannot be bought, it is not a thing, nor an object. It is a person: His name is Jesus Christ," the pope said.
He also invited them to dedicate their time in Poland to listening to Jesus and to each other in order to live a full life and to embark "on the adventure of mercy."
"Here we are, Lord! Send us to share your merciful love," Pope Francis prayed. "We want to affirm that our lives are fulfilled when they are shaped by mercy, for that is the better part and it will never be taken from us."
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Entry #54
by Jodi MacArthur
The demon raced upon the star. Its legs were liquid mercury, its hair onyx and flame. Upon its fingers a platter of twilight sat. A black hole ripped through the platter, an inverted tornado rose from it, sucking the life from the star.
The faster the demon leapt, the more exhausted the star became until the particles loosened and blasted into a thousand dark voids.
The demon fell into the chaos of dead stardust. He licked his mercury fingers and closed the platter of twilight like a book.
"Libra, your scales are unbalanced." The human crouched upon an air disk, breath tubes inserted into her neck like piercings. She wore a slick white suit and wielded an X-800 Obliteration gun.
Libra held up his fluid fingers and motioned them in the silent tongue they both understood. Says who?
"The Big Eye."
A giant red eye opened behind the woman. A serpentine slit of sapphire glowed from the iris. Another blink and it was gone.
The woman fired up her X-800. Dark hair fell across her brow. "The Big Eye here by punishes you to the Seventh Hell of Dementia." She glanced at invisible entities. "Second floor, boys."
No, no, anything but that! Libra motioned.
"You should have taken your meds." The woman smiled, aimed and fired.
A bright light shot into his eyes. Arms bundled to his chest, a needle of fire in his shoulder, Libra was rolled away into the void.
27 comments:
- Chris Alliniotte said...
Wow. There's layers upon layers here of starlight, demons, and madness.
The twists in reality make it uncertain what is actually happening, but I love the sci-fi angle, and the too-human desperation of Libra at the end. J-Mac storytelling at its best. - July 18, 2011 11:42 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
Lovely writing. Poetry with meaning. Excellent.
- July 18, 2011 12:01 PM
- Aimee Laine said...
Quite the fantasy. I can't tell if it's true sci-fi or the Libra's mind in some sort of dream-like state. ;)
- July 18, 2011 1:37 PM
- Michael Solender said...
Way cool take Jodes! Love it!
- July 18, 2011 5:42 PM
- Jodi MacArthur said...
Chris ~ its like you can read my mind or something man. You nailed it. It's one of my explorations into the open interpretation narrative stories. There are actually three aspects (stories) someone can pull out of this depending from what angle or background they are coming from. Thanks for finding me here. I see you have a story up tonight, I'll check it out!
Charles ~ Hey you! What a surprise to see you here. Thank you so much for the compliment. I'm glad you found it so.
Thank you, Aimee. It was intentionally open to interpretation. Thanks for commenting. Appreciate it.
Thanks, Mike S! I hope you will have an entry here. xx - July 18, 2011 8:49 PM
- fairyhedgehog said...
I was so puzzled until "you should have taken your meds" and then it all fell into place.
- July 19, 2011 4:17 AM
- Unknown said...
Jeez, Jodi, where the hell did you just take me? Crazy brilliant! :-)
Col - July 19, 2011 12:35 PM
- Unknown said...
Is this real or fantasy? The inner workings of the demented mind or science fantasy born of the same? Nicely done...
Dottie :) - July 19, 2011 1:48 PM
- Jodi MacArthur said...
Fairyhedgehog~ Thank you! And can I say I love your pen name. Adorable
Col~ To the stars and back, Mate! Thanks, and I wonder how you found me here. Hmmm
Hi Dottie, I appreciate your ponderings, glad you enjoyed. - July 19, 2011 3:43 PM
- bluesugarpoet said...
And behind door number three...scary as hell - and I like it! Which reminds me - gotta go take my meds. :) Great writing! ~Jana A.
- July 19, 2011 5:57 PM
- Jodi MacArthur said...
Ha ;-) Thank you, Jana!
- July 19, 2011 8:38 PM
- Lisa Gail Green said...
WOW, Jodi, you rock my friend! That was seriously cool. I loved the imagery, and the sci-fi angle too. So much packed into 250 words.
- July 19, 2011 10:07 PM
Jodi! You're here!
Sorry it took me so long to catch up and read your story. Amazing, as I've come to expect.
Sci-fi, meds, a cool gun, and the sadness of slipping beyond reality.
Stellar flash. - July 20, 2011 12:46 AM
- PJD said...
I hate to use the term prose poetry, and that's not what I mean. I think I mean that this is brilliant in that every word fits perfectly into its place. Not just in meaning but in cadence, texture, gravity. This is dazzling. I love it. One of my favorites.
- July 20, 2011 2:31 AM
- Precie said...
What a ride! I love how you combine larger-than-life sci-fi with human perspective.
- July 20, 2011 1:47 PM
- Old Kitty said...
Poor Libra!!! But what a way to go!! Excellent! Take care
x - July 20, 2011 6:06 PM
- Michele Zugnoni said...
Your descriptions are wonderful, as is your world building. I felt transported into another land. Nice work.
Thank you for sharing! - July 21, 2011 3:11 AM
- Jade L Blackwater said...
beautiful descriptions! I especially like He licked his mercury fingers and closed the platter of twilight like a book. succulent.
- July 21, 2011 2:45 PM
- Richard Levangie said...
Some vivid, hyper writing, and lots to think about. Well done!
- July 22, 2011 12:01 AM
- Jodi MacArthur said...
Thank you so much everyone. I really appreciate the feedback.
- July 22, 2011 2:16 PM
This is just so frenetic and gorgeous. I wanted it to keep going. I wanted to hear you put words together, longer.
- July 22, 2011 4:09 PM
- Aniket Thakkar said...
"The woman fired up her X-800. Dark hair fell across her brow. " -- You've just described my dream date. :)
I loved the place you took us, and the fact that you deserted us there to find our ways back, was umm.. perfect for the setting. Thanks for sharing this. - July 25, 2011 11:43 AM
- JaneyV said...
Jodi - your use of language in this piece is stunning. I enjoyed reading it very much.
- July 25, 2011 4:27 PM
- EC said...
Your first few paragraphs in this are so amazingly elegant, I was immediately swept away, and I loved where you took me - to a world between the worlds. Excellent work, Jodi.
- July 25, 2011 5:49 PM
- Jodi MacArthur said...
Thanks again for commenting everyone. I really enjoyed writing this, and I'm super glad you all enjoyed reading.
- July 27, 2011 3:47 PM
A flight into psychosis? That's the pull I felt. I like the challenge of the piece. Solidly written. I especially liked the pacing and sentence structure.
- July 31, 2011 11:06 AM
- Jodi MacArthur said...
Thanks, Jason!
- July 31, 2011 12:59 PM

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We had lots of time to visit, play, shop, hike and enjoy the beautiful Autumn colors. Here are some pictures of the highlights:
My parents have this incredible oak tree in their back yard.
It was the perfect source of fall leaves!
Emily enjoyed resting in the pile. :0)
There were lots of cousins to play with, including a brand new one to love. Grace is holding Aidan, my sister Amy's new baby.
Uncle Steve was the victim of many loud games of Uno!
One of the trip highlights for Grace was the horse ride that Grandpa treated her to.
It was a 45 minute guided ride through the woods and she loved every minute of it!
Other exciting news was that Benjamin caught his first fish ever! He also said it was the biggest fish ever. ;0)
A short time later, Grace caught her first fish.
Poor Emily seems to have my luck when it comes to fishing. A lovely catch of seaweed!
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I have read your response to the project for an 'Organisational Platform of a General Union of Anarchists', a project published by the group of Russian anarchists abroad.
My impression is that either you have misunderstood the project for the 'Platform' or your refusal to recognise collective responsibility in revolutionary action and the directional function that the anarchist forces must take up, stems from a deep conviction about anarchism that leads you to disregard that principle of responsibility.
Yet, it is a fundamental principle, which guides each one of us in our way of understanding the anarchist idea, in our determination that it should penetrate to the masses, in its spirit of sacrifice. It is thanks to this that a man can choose the revolutionary way and ignore others. Without it no revolutionary could have the necessary strength or will or intelligence to bear the spectacle of social misery, and even less fight against it. It is through the inspiration of collective responsibility that the revolutionaries of all epochs and all schools have united their forces; it is upon this that they based their hope that their partial revolts - revolts which opened the path for the oppressed - were not in vain, that the exploited would understand their aspirations, would extract from them the applications suitable for the time and would use them to find new paths toward their emancipation.
You yourself, dear Malatesta, recognise the individual responsibility of the anarchist revolutionary. And what is more, you have lent your support to it throughout your life as a militant. At least that is how I have understood your writings on anarchism. But you deny the necessity and usefulness of collective responsibility as regards the tendencies and actions of the anarchist movement as a whole. Collective responsibility alarms you; so you reject it.
For myself, who has acquired the habit of fully facing up to the realities of our movement, your denial of collective responsibility strikes me not only as without basis but dangerous for the social revolution, in which you would do well to take account of experience when it comes to fighting a decisive battle against all our enemies at once. Now my experience of the revolutionary battles of the past leads me to believe that no matter what the order of revolutionary events may be, one needs to give out serious directives, both ideological and tactical. This means that only a collective spirit, sound and devoted to anarchism, could express the requirements of the moment, through a collectively responsible will. None of us has the right to dodge that element of responsibility. On the contrary, if it has been until now overlooked among the ranks of the anarchists, it needs now to become, for us, communist anarchists, an article of our theoretical and practical programme.
Only the collective spirit of its militants and their collective responsibility will allow modern anarchism to eliminate from its circles the idea, historically false, that anarchism cannot be a guide - either ideologically or in practice - for the mass of workers in a revolutionary period and therefore could not have overall responsibility.
I will not, in this letter, dwell on the other parts of your article against the 'Platform' project, such as the part where you see 'a church and an authority without police'. I will express only my surprise to see you use such an argument in the course of your criticism. I have given much thought to it and cannot accept your opinion.
No, you are not right. And because I am not in agreement with your confutation, using arguments that are too facile, I believe I am entitled to ask you:
1. Should anarchism take some responsibility in the struggle of the workers against their oppressors, capitalism, and its servant the State? If not, can you say why? If yes, must the anarchists work towards allowing their movement to exert influence on the same basis as the existing social order?
2. Can anarchism, in the state of disorganisation in which it finds itself at the moment, exert any influence, ideological and practical, on social affairs and the struggle of the working class?
3. What are the means that anarchism should adopt outside the revolution and what are the means of which it can dispose to prove and affirm its constructive concepts?
4. Does anarchism need its own permanent organisations, closely tied among themselves by unity of goal and action to attain its ends?
5. What do the anarchists mean by *institutions to be established* with a view to guaranteeing the free development of society?
6. Can anarchism, in the communist society it conceives, do without social institutions? If yes, by what means? If no, which should it recognise and use and with what names bring them into being? Should the anarchists take on a leading function, therefore one of responsibility, or should they limit themselves to being irresponsible auxiliaries?
Your reply, dear Malatesta, would be of great importance to me for two reasons. It would allow me better to understand your way of seeing things as regards the questions of organising the anarchist forces and the movement in general. And - let us be frank - your opinion is immediately accepted by most anarchists and sympathisers without any discussion, as that of an experienced militant who has remained all his life firmly faithful to his libertarian ideal. It therefore depends to a certain extent on your attitude whether a full study of the urgent questions which this epoch poses to our movement will be undertaken, and therefore whether its development will be slowed down or take a new leap forward. By remaining in the stagnation of the past and present our movement will gain nothing. On the contrary, it is vital that in view of the events that loom before us it should have every chance to carry out its functions.
I set great store by your reply.
with revolutionary greetings
Nestor Makhno
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– File system performance enhancements
A wide variety of file system performance improvements are present in FreeBSD 4.5. This includes enhanced directory performance through an improved layout algorithm, more effective caching of directory data, as well as performance optimizations for large directories. Also, soft updates, which improves both performance and safety of the file
system, is now enabled by default during the install for most file systems.
– Stability improvements
There have been a large number of VM, UFS, and NFS stability fixes that should result in improved behavior under high load.
2. Is this release the last before version 5, or there is an additional one to be expected?
Robert Watson: There will be at least one more minor release, 4.6, before 5.0-RELEASE, which will consists of a similar class of changes: performance and stability enhancements, and a conservative set of feature improvements. As part of the road towards 5.0-RELEASE, we'll also make at least one developer snapshot available, to allow early adopters to experiment with the new technologies in 5.0, as well as broaden the testing base.
Once 5.0 is out the door, we'll continue to provide a high level of support for the 4.x branch, including at least one minor release on 4.x. 5.0-RELEASE will include a number of broad architectural enhancements that may take some time to settle, so some consumers may wish to stick with 4.x for the time being.
3. Please tell us about the performance of the Java VM featured in 4.5.
Robert Watson: The feature here is the nativeness rather than the performance. The FreeBSD Foundation has negotiated with Sun to release a natively compiled version of the JDK for FreeBSD. Right now, it's in final conformance testing, and will probably be available shortly after 4.5-RELEASE. This will be a dramatic improvement for those doing Java development on FreeBSD, bringing greater stability, better support for the native feature set (such as JNI with native libraries), and probably some amount of performance also. It will also permit the JDK to grow stronger native support for the up-coming 5.x features, including fine-grained threading through Scheduler Activations, a work in progress for the 5.x branch.
4. What is the best new feature to be found in version 5, in your opinion?
Robert Watson: Personally, I'm looking forward to two of the major new features that will be production-ready by 5.0: fine-grained SMP support in the kernel, and support for a variety of new security services.
Support for fine-grained SMP in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT has involved a fundamental redesign of the FreeBSD kernel. For those interested in the details, it has involved a change in the threading and locking model of the kernel, from an older co-thread model to a fully preemptive kernel based on modern locking primitives. Previously, SMP was supported with a single "Giant" lock, which limited the kernel to executing on a single CPU at a time; this realized some of the performance gain of the SMP computing architecture, but presented a substantial bottleneck for kernel-intensive loads. In 5.0, a much larger set of relatively fine-grained locks will be present, allowing concurrent execution of the kernel on many CPUs at once. To do this, much of the older code of the system is being carefully analyzed and modified to clean up previously under-specified behavior, and a number of subtle bugs have been identified and fixed. The end result of "SMPng" is a much cleaner and more efficient kernel architecture, with
careful documented assumptions. This work has been a serious undertaking, but I think it will be well worth the wait.
On the security side, I'm very excited about the TrustedBSD features that will be present in FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. This includes basic new security functionality, such as file system ACLs, but also a number of advanced features such as support for Mandatory Access Control. We'll be shipping support for Multi-Level Security, a fixed-label Biba integrity policy, Low Watermark (LOMAC) floating label integrity policy, and an experimental Type Enforcement implementation. To do this, we've developed a new security extension framework for FreeBSD 5.0, allowing the development and incorporation of security features at a much lower cost than the previous "hack and slash" security extension approach. A great deal of effort has also been put into improving the assurance of the FreeBSD system:
abstractions have been improved, security functionality has been isolated and carefully documented, security regression tests have been introduced, and more. Users of existing security features in FreeBSD, such as jail, will notice that the degree of integration is tighter, and level of functionality higher. Making this functionality available as part of the base FreeBSD system will provide this broad suite of security features to FreeBSD users in a manner not previously possible using widely available open source systems.
5. Does the FreeBSD project have any plans to target "the desktop", or the server market is the only focus?
Robert Watson: As with many other operating system cores, you could consider FreeBSD to be a building block for constructing larger or more complex systems. FreeBSD has been successfully used to support large server clusters (over 4000 FreeBSD servers are used in the Yahoo server environment), as well as workstation environments. An example of success for FreeBSD as the core of a workstation environment is Mac OS X: Darwin successfully combines elements of FreeBSD, Mach, and NeXTStep, along with the Aqua display environment to produce a strong desktop product. As with Linux, you can combine FreeBSD with the XFree86 window system, and a windowing environment of your choice to build quite a reasonable desktop environment.
Users of recent versions of FreeBSD will have noticed a dramatic improvement in sound support quality, and this improvement has continued in 4.5-RELEASE. Likewise, integration of the KDE and GNOME desktop environments has improved. Obviously, there's more work to do, but I think it's easy to demonstrate that the FreeBSD Project has a continued commitment to the desktop. This will only improve as we move forwards.
6. Are there plans to re-write the installation process in a more graphical or easy to use way?
Robert Watson: Yes. There's on-going work on a new installation and management framework called libh. This framework provides a configuration and installation back end that may be plugged into a variety of UI front ends, including a traditional text based user interface, and graphical front ends based on X11. While this is a work in progress, we have high hopes that this framework will allow us to improve the user experience not only at install-time, but also for day-to-day management activities. Look for more news in this space.
7. What do you think about the Linux advancements recently? New VM, scheduler, preemptive patches…
Robert Watson: I think these are all exciting improvements to the Linux system, and many mirror changes that are already present in FreeBSD, destined for FreeBSD 5.0, or things that we should definitely be doing :-).
As you know, the FreeBSD Project has long prided itself in having a scalable and tightly tuned high-performance virtual memory system. Part of the recent contention in the Linux community over virtual memory has been whether or not to adopt more aspects of a Mach/FreeBSD-like VM system. I think it's fair to say that the VM story isn't finished yet: we'll be eagerly watching for new VM techniques in the Linux space that we can learn from.
The scalability improvements in the queue for the Linux scheduler are ones that will probably be required to improve FreeBSD scheduler behavior also. As support for SMP improves, these problems will become more visible, and reducing contention in the presence of scheduler activations (a more scalable threading technology that Linux has not yet adopted) will help to some extent, but not entirely. I encourage the Linux community to publish the results of their research and experimentation in forums such as FREENIX and USENIX so that the broader open source and operating system communities can learn from their experiences.
Support for a preemptive kernel is actually part of our on-going SMP architecture. There are two important parts to this work: (1) redesigning the kernel to support fine-grained locking so as to improve the concurrency and reentrance of the kernel, and (2) increasing the opportunities for switching the active task to reduce latency on
latency-sensitive transactions. For (2) to be really effective, you need to have first done (1). We actually have a number of FreeBSD 5.0 systems running with fully or partially preemptive kernels, and this should be a bullet feature for 5.0 when it ships later this year. We've certainly kept an eye on the work on the Linux side, and likewise hope to see that work described in detail in publications. I personally follow the Linux-kernel mailing list, but know that many FreeBSD developers don't due to the volume of messages involved (no doubt this is true of Linux kernel developers regarding FreeBSD mailing lists :-).
Another feature that you don't mention is the on-going work on improved support for access control in Linux. We have been watching this work closely, as we have related work going on in FreeBSD and TrustedBSD also. While the FreeBSD and Linux kernel implementations differ substantially, I think it's important that we continue to provide application developers with a consistent and standards-compliant development environment. As this new functionality becomes available, it will be important for FreeBSD and Linux security developers to work hard towards this goal, and collaboration may be one of the most important ways to make that happen. No one expects the same kernel modules to run on both FreeBSD and Linux, but it would be nice if security-extended versions of applications could run on both easily.
There should be an exciting assortment of Linux and BSD-related papers at FREENIX this summer. Likewise, for those interested in FreeBSD and other BSD-related work, I recommend the BSD Conference hosted by USENIX in San Francisco next month. Both will provide insight into the innovative and fast-paced work going on in the open source operating system communities. I hope to see you there.


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If you're comfortable working with lumber you can save yourself a few hundred bucks by making your own laundry pedestal, all for around $60 worth of lumber, plywood, paint, and two sets of drawer slides.
Home remodeling weblog Just a Girl shared the pedestal project her family recently undertook. They chose 2x4's to keep the project affordable and added braces every six inches or so for added durability. After the basic box for the pedestal was assembled the drawers were constructed from ½" plywood and were attached to the pedestal with the drawer slides. Next the top of the pedestal was constructed, again with ½" plywood, and after that the drawer fronts were made with scrap MDF. Decorative trim was added to the drawer fronts and then everything was painted white to match the appliances.
No plans or exact dimensions were given, but this is the type of project you should be able to figure out the dimensions without too much trouble.
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Have you visited the Power BI Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, event listings, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft.
We want to hear what's got you thinking about Power BI and Business Intelligence! Blog posts can be anything from opinion pieces on the latest industry trends, to helpful tips and how-tos for your fellow Power BI users, to even "trip reports" from your local User Group meeting or Microsoft event.
To get started, simply message me, @Jessica, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic. Together we'll make sure you can preview how your post will look once it's done, and set a publication date.
Posts of the Month
Check out these great posts from the last month:
Creating Slopegraphs in Power BI, by David Eldersveld
Did you know that it's easy to transform Power BI's Line Chart into a Slopegraph? No DAX or fancy workarounds are required. Slopegraphs are a great way to judge the rate and magnitude of change by looking at the steepness of a line's slope.
Extracting Report Level measures DAX using SQL Profiler output, by Sergei Gundorov
In the May 2017 release of Power BI Desktop a new 'report measures' feature was released. It allows users who have connected Power BI Desktop to an external Analysis Services tabular model to write their own measures using DAX. Any user who has access to query the model can do this – just the same as if they were using Excel or SQL Management Studio to connect to the SSAS server.
First look at Power BI Report Server, by Daniel Christian
Power BI Report Server Preview was made available early May 2017 and this blog walks you through the installation, configuration and ends with a demo. The demo video shows how a report can built and added to the Power BI Report Server.
Power BI Desktop/DAX – Using Unicode (Arrows) as Measures in a Table, by Gilbert Quevauvilliers
In this blog post, Gilbert shows how to use Unicode characters to further leverage Power BI visuals within a table.


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We have a long love/hate relationship with technology. However, the problem is usually not technology itself, but rather the powers that are deciding its course. The conflict is apparent as we witness people standing in line overnight, eagerly waiting to buy the newest tech gadget, while at the same time every film about the future from Metropolis to Blade Runner to Avatar depicts a dystopia that is entirely built upon technology.
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Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.
Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster, and stronger. That's why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk, and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2009, BMC revenue was approximately $1.87 billion.
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Insurance is actually an arrangement which a company or a state undertakes to provide the guarantee of a specific amount of compensation to the person or entity for a specified loss, damage, illness or death in return for a specific amount of premium that is paid by the person monthly.
There are mainly four types of insurance policies:
• Life Insurance: it is a type of insurance that is done to provide financial security for the entire family in the event of the policy holder's death.
• Health Insurance: it is basically a type of insurance where monetary support is provided for any serious health related issues to the policy holder or his family.
• Property insurance: this type of insurance covers the policyholder in the event of damage to his property by fire or any other means.
• Auto Insurance: your car is too precious to you, so if it is stolen or damaged you will need a huge amount of money. This auto insurance will pay the policy holder's repairing costs.
But before you buy any insurance you must know all the benefits of that insurance. Insurance benefits the individual or any organization in many ways.
Some of them have been discussed below.
• The most important benefit of security is the payment of the losses that one faces. An insurance policy is a contract that is used to minimize the losses faced by the individual.
• It manages the cash flow uncertainty. Insurance provides the payment of for the covered losses. Therefore the problem for paying out of the pocket is resolved.
• Insurance complies with the legal assessments. Insurance meets the contractual requirements and also provides the legal evidence for the organization or the person to claim for the refund or losses.
• A very important benefit of the insurance policies is its measures for promoting risk control activity. Insurance provides all kinds of incentives to implement a loss control program.
• An uncommon benefit of security is the support it provides for the policy holder's credits. Insurance gives loans to individuals and organizations by guaranteeing that the lender will be paid the whole compensation if the loan amount or the property is destroyed.
• Insurance provides all kinds of the source to the investment funds. All the Insurance collect a specific premium from the policyholder and invest them in various schemes and pay the claims if they occur.
• Insurance also helps in reducing the social burden of the victims by giving them compensation.


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All merchandise is F.O.B. warehouse/origin, prepay and add and will be shipped upon receipt of full payment unless otherwise agreed upon. Please furnish shipping and routing instructions with each order. If not such instructions are received we have the option to ship accordance with what we judge to be the best possible way. All orders are shipped dock to dock, weekdays during normal business hours unless specified. Additional services such as lift-gate, inside delivery, re-routing, re-delivery, or other requests are subject to an additional fee at the customer's expense.
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Capital City Restaurant Supply is not responsible for damages or loss incurred in transit. All furniture shipped at purchaser's own risk after it has been inspected and securely packed. Before accepting merchandise from the carrier, inspect cartons for visible signs of damage and note any loss or damage on the delivery receipt. If there is loss or damage, make an immediate claim with the delivery carrier. In case damage is concealed and not determined until furniture is unpacked, keep the packing slip and notify the carrier immediately for an inspection. All claims of damage from transport should be filed directly to the carrier by the customer within 24 hours of receiving. Failure to indicate damages incurred by freight may result in a loss for claim. By signing the delivery receipt or bill of lading, the customer acknowledges the order was received in good condition.


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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
Opened by Benedikt Adelmann - 2013-01-29
Last edited by William F Pokorny - 2017-01-28
FS#269 - Transparent Objects inside Media Cause Artefacts
When placing a transparent object inside another object which contains media, artefacts may occur (see attached file). They look similar to specular highlights or are just strange white spots in the image.
I discovered artefacts of that kind first in the image of which MediaArtefactDetail.png is a cropped part. The code I managed to reproduce such artefacts with contained a "starfield" sphere
sphere { <0,0,0>, 1 pigment { rgbt 1 } interior { media { emission rgb 1/10 density { crackle form <1,0,0> density_map { [0.0 rgb 1] [0.05 rgb 0] } scale 0.002 } } } scale 1000 hollow on }
and a transparent sphere
sphere { <0,0,0>, 1 pigment { rgbt 1 } scale 2 hollow on }
which is, obviously, completely inside the other sphere. So is the camera.
Since the sphere has a pigment { rgbt 1 }, it should be completely invisible, which is correctly rendered as long as the scaling factor is 1 and hollow off (MediaArtefact1.png). Changing hollow to on does not yet produce the artefact, but the right half of the output image seems to be shifted by one pixel (MediaArtefact2.png). Changing the scaling factor to 2 (as it is in the above code) produces the artefact (MediaArtefact3.png). Changing the camera location (MediaArtefact4.png) does not change anything, the artefact just "moves with the sphere". Changing the sphere size again, however, seems to stir up the "stars" in the "starfield" sphere while not removing the artefacts (MediaArtefact5.png). Changing hollow to off again does neither (MediaArtefact6.png).
The artefacts are definitely no specular highlights. There is not even a light source in the scene that could produce any. I used POV-Ray 3.7 RC6 to render the images, but the artefact shown in MediaArtefactDetail.png already occured in POV-Ray 3.6 which I used to render that image.


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This is a beautiful 3-ply twisted continuous filament 100% silk thread by YLI. It is a smooth, bright, colorfast thread that works wonderfully for lace making, hand embroidery, and needlepoint, as well as many other applications.
This thread is approximately a size 40 and each card has approximately 22 yards of thread. Made in Japan.


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KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. ("KREF") (NYSE: KREF) announced today that it plans to release its financial results for the first quarter 2023 on Monday, April 24, 2023, after the closing of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
A conference call to discuss KREF's financial results will be held on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The conference call may be accessed by dialing (844) 784-1730 (U.S. callers) or +1 (412) 380-7410 (non-U.S. callers); a pass code is not required. Additionally, the conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet and may be accessed through the Investor Relations section of KREF's website at http://www.kkrreit.com/investor-relations/events-and-presentations. A slide presentation containing supplemental information may also be accessed through this website in advance of the call.
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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is delighted to announce the nominees for the 2012 AWFJ EDA Awards. The winners will be announced on January 7, 2013.
Listed by category and in alphabetical order, the nominees are:
Best Film
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Steven Speilberg – Lincoln
Best Screenplay, Original
Amour – Michael Haneke.
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
Best Screenplay, Adapted
Argo – Chris Terrio
Lincoln – Tony Kushner,
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
Best Documentary
The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh
The Imposter – Bart Layton
The Invisible War – Kirby Dick
Searching For Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul
Best Animated Film
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams – The Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin – Argo
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Best Ensemble Cast
Silver Linings Notebook
Best Editing
Argo – William Goldenberg
Cloud Atlas – Alexander Berner
Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor
Best Cinematography
The Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
The Master – Mihai Malaimare, Jr.
Skyfall – Roger Deakins
Best Film Music Or Score
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin
Zero Dark Thirty – Alexandre Desplat
Best Non-English-Language Film
A Royal Affair
Rust and Bone
These awards honor WOMEN only.
Best Woman Director
Andrea Arnold – Wuthering Heights
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Sarah Polley – Take This Waltz
Best Woman Screenwriter
Lucy Alibar (and Benh Zeitlin) – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Zoe Kazan – Ruby Sparks
Ava DuVernay – Middle of Nowhere
Sarah Polley – Take This Waltz
Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star
Gina Carano – Haywire
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games
Best Animated Female
Brave – Merida – Kelly Macdonald
Rise of the Guardians – Tooth – Isla Fisher
Wreck-It Ralph – Vanellope – Sarah Silverman
Best Breakthrough Performance
Samantha Barks – Les Miserables
Ann Dowd – Compliance
Alicia Vikander – A Royal Affair
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Actress Defying Age and Ageism
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
AWFJ Award For Humanitarian Activism – Female Icon Award
(Presented to an actress for the portrayal of the most positive female role model, or for a role in which she takes personal and/or career risks to plumb the female psyche and therefore gives us courage to plumb our own, and/or for putting forth the image of a woman who is heroic, accomplished, persistent, demands her rights and/or the rights of others.)
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Judi Dench – Skyfall
This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry
(Presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner-making, record-breaking, industry-changing achievement during any given year — such as Kathryn Bigelow's Best Director Oscar win, or for an actress having multiple outstanding films released during one year.)
Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook
Women Documentary Filmmakers, including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Detropia), Lauren Greenfield (Queen of Versailles), Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei Never Sorry) and Sarah Burns (The Central Park Five).
AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award
Sean Anders for That's My Boy
Sacha Baron Cohen for The Dictator
Gabriele Muccino for Playing For Keeps
Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent
Katherine Heigl – One For The Money
Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy
Reese Witherspoon – This Means War
Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn't
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Les Miserables
Unforgettable Moment Award
Argo – The runway chase.
Flight – Crash sequence
Les Miserables – Anne Hathaway as Fantine sings I Dreamed A Dream
Rust and Bone – Marion Cotillard as Stephanie dances in the wheelchair.
Zero Dark Thirty – Jessica Chastain as Maya says, "I'm the mother…"
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction
Anna Karenina – Keira Knightly and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Rust and Bone – Marion Cotilliard
The Sessions – Helen Hunt and John Hawkes
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made Award
Amazing Spiderman
Red Dawn
Total Recall
Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award
Flight – Denzel Washington and Kelly Reilly,..and Nadine Velazquez
Seeking a Friend For the End of the World – Steve Carell and Keira Knightly
Silver Linings Notebook – Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence


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The Inside Story of Baseball's Grand World Tour of 1914
As the 2014 season opens in Australia, they are really only following in the footsteps of the Giants and the White Sox from 100 years ago
The 2014 baseball season opens this weekend when the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks play two regular-season games in Sydney, Australia, more than a week before the rest of the teams officially hit the field. Certainly Major League Baseball hopes to illustrate the global popularity of American baseball – but it's been done bigger and better before. A century ago, an international tour yet to be equaled featured the New York Giants, Chicago White Sox, and Jim Thorpe, the man considered the greatest athlete on the planet who was simply glad to have a job.
The instigators of the around-the-world series of games were John "Mugsy" McGraw of the Giants, the most successful manager in baseball, and Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox. One night in December 1913, McGraw and Comiskey were having drinks at "Smiley" Mike Corbett's bar on Chicago's East Side, and the idea of a world tour came up. McGraw knew something about the business – he was in the midst of a 16-week tour of vaudeville theaters, where all he had to do was tell baseball yarns for a whopping $3,000 a week. Comiskey was already rich and McGraw was getting there, so making money was not the main motive for a journey around the globe. Both men were envious of the fame that Albert Spalding, seeking to spread the reach of his sporting goods company, had achieved when he had led players on an 1889-90 tour of several countries including New Zealand, Australia, Egypt and Italy. McGraw and Comiskey wanted to lead a bigger and better tour with teams representing the two biggest cities in the United States. The 25th anniversary of Spalding's adventure was approaching, so the time was right for a new edition.
The tour that McGraw and Comiskey envisioned would begin as a barnstorming trek across the country right after the 1913 World Series. Upon reaching the West Coast, the two teams and whoever else was allowed to tag along (especially reporters) would board a ship to take them across the Pacific. The tour's first stop on foreign soil would be in Tokyo and, going from east to west, the last one would be in London. In between the travelers would touch down in China, the Philippines, Egypt, Ceylon, France, and other countries with at least a rudimentary ballfield.
McGraw and Comiskey filled out most of the roster of current Giants and White Sox played, but they cast a wider net for a few famous and more colorful players. On board were future Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson, Tris Speaker, Urban Farber and "Wahoo" Sam Crawford. Among those joining them were James "Death Valley Jim" Scott, George "Hooks" Wiltse, "Bunny" Hearn, "Turkey" Mike Donlin, and others who nicknames matched their personalities.
The most famous of them all was Jim Thorpe. Regarded as the greatest athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, by 1913 he was also the world's most notorious one. That January, the Worcester Telegram reported that a few years earlier Thorpe had earned $2 a game playing professional baseball in the Eastern Carolina League. The ensuing headlines prompted the Amateur Athletic Union to begin disciplinary proceedings that would result in Thorpe being stripped of his medals. Newly married and needing to make a living, Thorpe jumped at the New York Giants' offer of a three-year deal that would pay him a $6000 annually, when most players in 1913 took home $2000 or less.
At the end of the season, the Giants, boasting a 101-51 record and dominating the National League, faced the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1913 World Series. McGraw had visions in his head of rounding the world as the world champion manager, but the Athletics took the championship in five games. The last loss, 3-1, was especially galling for McGraw because of what the New York Times reported as "witless blunders" by his team and being shut down by Old Man Plank, at 40 years old, the oldest pitcher in baseball.
The Giants, however, were still the marquee name in baseball. (The White Sox, at 78-74, had finished fifth in the American League.) The much-anticipated tour finally got underway on October 18 with an 11-2 Giants victory in Cincinnati, just one week after the end of the World Series.
What piece of the profits would the players get? None. According to James E. Elfers, author of the definitive account The Tour to End All Tours, the players had to actually pay to participate. Elfers writes:
"They had to put up a few hundred dollars to reserve their spot on the tour. Once they boarded the Empress of Japan the players got their reserve back plus a matching amount for the tour -- they had to put up $250 and got back $500. The money the tour made around the world -- and it was considerable -- was divided three ways after expenses were met. Comiskey, McGraw, and [Comiskey crony and promoter Jimmy "Nixie"] Callahan got all the profits. I'm sure the players thought that the trip itself was perk and profit enough, but the loser's share of the annual Chicago city series, which involved some of the tour players, was larger than the money they got for risking life and limb around the world."
After Cincinnati, the teams rode the rails through the heartland of America, with stops for games in places like Peoria, Springfield, Tulsa, Sioux City and El Paso, then on to the West Coast, where they worked their way up from San Diego to Seattle. Given that at the time the farthest-west major league franchise was the St. Louis Cardinals (which had lost 99 games in the 1913 season), the crowds on the coast were especially welcoming. The Los Angeles Times reported about the November 8 game, "A vast number of persons were found lined up fighting desperately to separate themselves from their money. The game was held until all of them succeeded in doing this that none might be disappointed."
On December 9, the Giants boarded the Empress of Japan and set sail to visit 13 nations and travel over 30,000 miles, mostly by water and rail, decades before deep-pocketed owners sprang for private planes. The notoriously thrifty Comiskey provided most of the $90,000 for chartered steamships and brought with him a $121,000 letter of credit for additional travel expenses. (Comiskey was also a notoriously savvy businessman, and he would enjoy an excellent return on his investment.) For their part, the players, many of who had never been out of the U.S. before, knew this was their only opportunity to see the world, and why not do it on Comiskey's dime while missing the New York and Chicago winter.
The western Pacific and subcontinent countries fascinated the players – once they got there. On the way to Japan they encountered a late-season typhoon which tossed 60-foot waves at the ship, and they were especially glad to reach Tokyo, where 5,000 Japanese fans attended the first game, 7,000 the second, both held in tiny stadiums. "Space was at such a premium that many of the fans sat on bamboo mats crammed into any open plot of land," Elfers writes. "To the Americans, it was all very heady and overpowering." Then for the teams it was on to China.
Thorpe proved especially appealing at the gate. To the foreign fans he was still the world's greatest athlete, and he was touted as such in advertisements and newspaper reports anticipating the arrival of the teams. And few were aware that in the 1913 season, he had appeared in only 19 games for the Giants and batted an anemic .143. The more romantic fans were thrilled that this was a honeymoon trip too, as Ina Thorpe was accompanying her husband on the tour. As the teams' steamship approached the dock in Shanghai, the waiting throng chanted, "Thorpe! Thorpe! Thorpe!" The great baseball players with him were viewed as merely members of the king's court.
After a stop in Hong Kong – where doctors had to certify that none of the visitors had smallpox -- the travelers arrived in Manila. In a ghostwritten account published in the New York Times, John McGraw reported:
In my baseball days I have been through many exciting incidents that have given me real thrills, but I never before had such a thrill as crept up and down my spine when the party of the world's tourists arrived here yesterday.
They were greeted by wildly cheering people. Many of the Filipinos had never seen a baseball game before and perhaps didn't know why they were cheering, but there were also many American military personnel on hand and later at the ballpark.
The new year found the teams in Brisbane, Australia. A disoriented Sam Crawford, accustomed to cold weather in January, commented, "It's a beautiful town, if only it would snow once in a while." One game was played there, then travel troubles jinxed them: After two games in Sydney, on January 9, where the Morning Herald reported, "If the appreciation and warmth of the greeting to the visitors by the expectant crowd of over 10,000 persons at the Sydney Cricket Ground counts for anything, the visitors need have no fears of success of their colorful adventure." Even McGraw had been moved to shout to the crowd, "I love Australians!"
From Sydney, the teams boarded a train in Melbourne to Adelaide, but delays turned the trip into an 18-hour slog. The game there had to be cancelled so the teams could hop on the HMS Orontes for India, prompting the Adelaide Advertiser to headline an article, "Discourteous Visitors; Local Baseballers Snubbed."
A long journey by ship, which included crossing the equator on January 20, brought the teams to Ceylon, where tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton greeted them, and the game was played at the Victoria Gardens Racetrack before a bemused audience that wondered why they weren't watching a cricket match. On January 23, the troupe headed for the Middle East.
Two games in Cairo opened February. For the players, more exciting than the games themselves was visiting the Pyramids and especially the Great Sphinx. With the latter, what made the visit special was watching Ivy Wingo, the Giants catcher, from 100 yards away throw a baseball over the Sphinx to where it was caught on the other side by Sox outfielder Steve Evans. Then the tourists boarded the German liner Prinz Heinrich, bound for Naples. After three days in Rome, where the travelers met Pope Pius X, they went to Nice then on to Paris. Rain washed out the games there, but undaunted, McGraw, Comiskey, and the players went sight-seeing.
England was the last stop, where in front of 20,000 spectators who included King George V, the Sox defeated the Giants 5-4 in 11 innings. When McGraw and Comiskey were presented to the king, who wore a black derby and dark suit and had never attended a sporting event at Chelsea Stadium before, they gave him three cheers and then accepted a ball from him to get the game started. After the game, King George had a message sent: "Tell Mr. McGraw and Mr. Comiskey that I have enjoyed the game enormously."
Finally, on February 28, it was time for the weary travelers to head home. They would do so in style – they boarded the Lusitania, the luxury liner that would be sunk by German torpedoes the following year killing 1198 passengers. A banquet welcoming the journeymen home was held in New York on March 7, and Comiskey hosted a second one three days later in Chicago.
Did the players finally get to go home? No, because spring training had already begun. No doubt hung over from the successful yet exhausting tour, the New York Giants finished the 1914 season 10.5 games out of first place. The White Sox fared worse, at 70-84 tying the newly-named New York Yankees for sixth place, 30 games behind the Athletics. Still, as McGraw had "written" after that last game in London, "The game was a fitting close for the great tour, which has been successful in every feature. The most notable thing to me about the whole trip was the expression of national good feeling at all points we visited."


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Published on 18 April 2011, updated 19 April 2011
IBM Form #: SG24-7835-00
Authors: Martin Keen, Rafael Coutinho, Sylvi Lippmann, Salvatore Sollami, Sundaragopal Venkatraman, Steve Baber, Henry Cui, Craig Fleming, Venkata Krishna Kumari Gaddam, Brian Hainey and Lara Ziosi
IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software V8 is the full-function Eclipse 3.6 technology-based development platform for developing Java™ Platform, Standard Edition Version 6 (Java SE 6) and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Version 6 (Java EE 6) applications. Beyond this function, Rational Application Developer provides development tools for technologies, such as OSGi, Service Component Architecture (SCA), Web 2.0, and XML. It has a focus on applications to be deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal.
Rational Application Developer provides integrated development tools for all development roles, including web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and enterprise programmers.
This IBM Redbooks® publication is a programming guide that highlights the features and tooling included with Rational Application Developer V8.0.1. Many of the chapters provide working examples that demonstrate how to use the tooling to develop applications and achieve the benefits of visual and rapid application development. This publication is an update of Rational Application Developer V7.5 Programming Guide, SG24-7672.
Part 1. Introduction to Rational Application Developer
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Programming technologies
Chapter 3. Workbench setup and preferences
Chapter 4. Perspectives, views, and editors
Chapter 5. Projects
Chapter 6. Unified Modeling Language
Part 2. Java and XML development
Chapter 7. Developing Java applications
Chapter 8. Developing XML applications
Part 3. Persistence and enterprise information system integration development
Chapter 9. Developing database applications
Chapter 10. Persistence using the Java Persistence API
Chapter 11. Developing applications to connect to enterprise information systems
Part 4. Enterprise and service-oriented architecture (SOA) application development
Chapter 12. Developing Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) applications
Chapter 13. Developing Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application clients
Chapter 14. Developing web services applications
Chapter 15. Developing Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) applications
Chapter 16. Developing Service Component Architecture (SCA) applications
Chapter 17. Developing Modern Batch jobs on computing grids
Part 5. Web application development
Chapter 18. Developing web applications using JavaServer Pages (JSP) and servlets
Chapter 19. Developing web applications using JavaServer Faces
Chapter 20. Developing web applications using Web 2.0
Chapter 21. Developing portal applications
Chapter 22. Developing Lotus iWidgets
Part 6. Deploying, testing, profiling, and debugging applications
Chapter 23. Cloud environment and server configuration
Chapter 24. Building applications with Apache Ant
Chapter 25. Deploying enterprise applications
Chapter 26. Testing using JUnit
Chapter 27. Profiling applications
Chapter 28. Debugging local and remote applications
Part 7. Management and team development
Chapter 29. Concurrent Versions System (CVS) integration
Chapter 30. IBM Rational Application Developer integration with Rational Team Concert
Chapter 31. IBM Rational ClearCase
Chapter 32. Code Coverage
Chapter 33. Developing Session Initiation Protocol applications
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