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Datenschutz- und Cookie-Hinweise, Bastion Hotel Groep B.V.
Version: 2
Date: 9 October 2018
This is the privacy and cookie statement for the websites www.bastionhotels.nl, www.bastionhotels.com, www.bestwesternschipholairport.nl and www.bestwesternschipholairport.com of Bastion Hotelgroep B.V. (hereinafter referred to as "Bastion", "we" or "us"). You will find more company and contact information at the bottom of this privacy and cookie statement.
If you use our websites, we (and third parties engaged by us) may process privacy-sensitive data from you. That may also be personal data. Bastion attaches great importance to process your personal data in a careful and secure way. This Privacy and Cookie Statement explains to you what data is collected, for what purposes this data is used and how we handle it.
Bastion recommends that you carefully read this privacy and cookie statement. Please note that this privacy and cookie statement can be changed regularly, for example when new functionalities are added to the websites.
General assumptions
Bastion considers it of great importance to handle your data in a safe and careful manner. That is why Bastion uses different core values:
- Providing information. We want to inform you as good as possible about how and why we process personal data. We do this through this privacy and cookie statement.
- Limiting the collection of personal data. We pay close attention to the fact that the collection of personal data is limited to what is required for your use of our websites and the products and services that you purchase from us.
- Securing personal data. We take measures (both technical and organizational) to protect your data and also require third parties who process personal data on our instructions.
- Permission for the processing of personal data. We ask for permission to process your personal data in cases where this is required under the General Data Protection Regulation.
- Rights of data subjects. We respect your rights with regard to the processing of personal data, such as your right to view, correct or remove personal data.
In this privacy and cookie statement you can read how Bastion puts these core values into practice. If you have any questions after reading this privacy and cookie statement, please feel free to contact us via the information as stated at the bottom of the statement.
Processing your personal data
If you use our websites, you may leave personal data behind. Which personal data that is, depends on the functionalities that you use via the websites. Below we explain for each functionality which personal data we process about you and for which these personal data are used.
Contact via the website
If you have questions or comments about our services, you can contact us directly via the websites. You can easily fill in a contact form on the websites. You can also use the chat function during our opening hours to submit your question directly to one of our employees.
If you use the contact form, we need a number of personal data from you in order to process your request. You are therefore requested to provide the following information in the contact form:
• First Name
• Sex
• E-mail address
• Telephone number (optional)
• Your question or request
You grant us permission to process this data. The personal data you provide to us via the contact form will be stored by us for as long as necessary to handle your request in an appropriate manner. Our employee may ask you to provide additional information if this is necessary to handle your request. We will delete your personal data as soon as it is clear that your question has been answered satisfactorily.
You can sign up for our monthly newsletter on the websites. Through our newsletter we keep you informed of exclusive offers and service messages through personalized e-mails. If you want to sign up for our newsletter, we will store your e-mail address so that we can send you the newsletter. We also register the time at which you registered for the newsletter. Bastion must be able to prove that you have registered yourself and that your data has not been obtained in any other way.
You grant us permission to process this data. At the bottom of each newsletter of Bastion you will find a button with which you can easily unsubscribe. Once you unsubscribe from the newsletter, your e-mail address and the time of registration will be removed from our database. From that moment on you will no longer receive any newsletters from Bastion.
To reserve
On the websites you will be able to reserve with us and then manage this reservation. For reserving a hotel room, or by using an action, we ask you for different information from you, or from the persons on whose behalf you make the reservation, to provide us. We will retain the data that you enter in this form until our services have been fully completed, subject to any statutory retention periods. You grant us permission to process the following data:
• Account information (optional)
• Payment details
• First and last name
• E-mail address
• Phone number
Private account (formerly guest card)
Bastion offers you the possibility to create an account on our website. This way you can easily and quickly reserve a room. Moreover, you receive exclusive offers and you have access to your own online environment. To create a private account, we ask you the following information:
• First and last name
• Sex
• E-mail address (optional)
• Address (optional)
• Telephone number (optional)
• Date of birth (optional)
• Birthplace (optional)
• Occupation (optional)
• Company data (optional)
• Nationality (optional)
We will keep this information for the duration that your account is active. After canceling your account, we will delete your personal data as soon as possible, subject to any legal retention periods. We process this data on the basis of the agreement that you enter into with us when you create an account.
Business account (formerly Company Card)
Bastion also offers you the possibility to create a business account on our website. It is possible to book on account or to make fixed price agreements. In addition, you will receive exclusive offers and access to your personal business environment. To create a business account, we require the following information from you:
• First and last name
• Sex
• E-mail address
• Phone number
• Profession
• Visit and billing address company
• VAT number
• Other company data
• Payment details
We will keep this information for the duration that your account is active. After canceling your account, we will delete your personal data as soon as possible, subject to any legal retention periods. We process this data on the basis of the agreement that you enter into with us when you create an account.
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This statement does not apply to websites of third parties that are referred to on our own website. We can not guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We advise you to read the privacy statement of the relevant website before using these websites.
Bastion believes it is important to handle your personal data in a safe way. For this reason we offer our website via a secure connection. This security can be recognized in most Internet browsers by a green lock in the address bar. The personal data you provide via the website are sent encrypted. In this way, it is more difficult for malicious parties to intercept your personal data. We also work hard internally to process your personal data in a secure manner. For example, we work with target-related access restrictions and there is control on the assigned powers of our employees.
Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data:
• You can ask for an explanation about which personal data is being processed and for what purposes that personal data will be used.
• You can have errors corrected in processed personal data, or delete personal data that is obsolete or redundant.
• You can withdraw the consent you have given via the website to process certain personal data at any time.
• You can lodge an objection to the way in which you use personal data.
• You can ask if we want to transfer your data to another party.
• You have the right to limit the processing of your data.
You can contact Bastion directly if you wish to exercise your rights, or if you have a question about how Bastion handles your personal data. See our contact details at the end of this privacy and cookie statement. To prevent misuse, Bastion can ask you to identify yourself if you turn to us to exercise certain legal rights.
Authority Personal Data
Of course Bastion will gladly help you if you have complaints about the processing of your personal data. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (the Dutch Data Protection Authority) or another European data protection officer.
Changes to this privacy and cookie statement
We reserve the right to amend this privacy and cookie statement. Changes will be published on our website. It is advisable to consult this statement regularly so that you are aware of any changes.
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Bastion Hotelgroep B.V.
Postbus 7024
3502 KA Utrecht
E-mail: [email protected]
Telefoonnummer: +31 (0)30 267 16 16
KvK-nummer: 20081363
BTW-nummer: NL804546654B01
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According to Mark
8 In those days, there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. So he summoned the disciples and said to them: 2 "I feel pity for the crowd,+ because they have already stayed with me for three days and they have nothing to eat.+ 3 If I send them off to their homes hungry,* they will give out on the road, and some of them are from far away." 4 But his disciples answered him: "From where will anyone get enough bread in this isolated place to satisfy these people?" 5 At this he asked them: "How many loaves do you have?" They said: "Seven."+ 6 And he instructed the crowd to recline on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, gave thanks, broke them, and began giving them to his disciples to serve, and they served them to the crowd.+ 7 They also had a few small fish, and blessing these, he told them to serve these also. 8 So they ate and were satisfied, and they took up seven large baskets full of leftover fragments.+ 9 Now there were about 4,000 men. Then he sent them away.
10 Immediately he boarded the boat with his disciples and came into the region of Dal·ma·nuʹtha.+ 11 Here the Pharisees came and started disputing with him, demanding from him a sign* from heaven, to put him to the test.+ 12 So he sighed deeply in his spirit and said: "Why does this generation seek a sign?+ Truly I say, no sign will be given to this generation."+ 13 With that he left them, got aboard again, and went to the opposite shore.
14 However, they forgot to take bread along, and they had nothing with them in the boat except for one loaf.+ 15 And he warned them in no uncertain terms: "Keep your eyes open; look out for the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."+ 16 So they began arguing with one another over the fact that they had no bread. 17 Noting this, he said to them: "Why do you argue over your having no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand? Are your hearts still dull in understanding? 18 'Though having eyes, do you not see; and though having ears, do you not hear?' Do you not remember 19 when I broke the five loaves+ for the 5,000 men, how many baskets full of fragments you collected?" They said to him: "Twelve."+ 20 "When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000 men, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?" And they said to him: "Seven."+ 21 With that he said to them: "Do you not yet understand?"
22 Now they put in at Beth·saʹi·da. Here people brought him a blind man, and they pleaded with him to touch him.+ 23 And he took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside the village. After spitting on his eyes,+ he laid his hands on him and asked him: "Do you see anything?" 24 The man looked up* and said: "I see people, but they look like trees walking about." 25 Again he laid his hands on the man's eyes, and the man saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he could see everything distinctly. 26 So he sent him home, saying: "Do not enter into the village."
27 Jesus and his disciples now left for the villages of Caes·a·reʹa Phi·lipʹpi, and on the way he began to question his disciples, saying: "Who are people saying that I am?"+ 28 They said to him: "John the Baptist,+ but others say E·liʹjah,+ and still others, one of the prophets." 29 And he put the question to them: "You, though, who do you say I am?" Peter answered him: "You are the Christ."+ 30 At that he strictly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.+ 31 Also, he began teaching them that the Son of man must undergo many sufferings and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed,+ and rise three days later.+ 32 Indeed, he was making that statement openly. But Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.+ 33 At this he turned, looked at his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying: "Get behind me, Satan! because you think, not God's thoughts, but those of men."*+
34 He now called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them: "If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and keep following me.+ 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the sake of the good news will save it.+ 36 Really, what good will it do a man to gain the whole world and to lose his life?+ 37 What, really, would a man give in exchange for his life?+ 38 For whoever becomes ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him+ when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."+

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Thou born to sip the lake or spring,
Or quaff the waters of the stream,
Why hither come on vagrant wing?–
Does Bacchus tempting seem–
Did he, for you, the glass prepare?–
Will I admit you to a share?
Did storms harrass or foes perplex,
Did wasps or king-birds bring dismay–
Did wars distress, or labours vex,
Or did you miss your way?–
A better seat you could not take
Than on the margin of this lake.
Welcome!–I hail you to my glass:
All welcome, here, you find;
Here let the cloud of trouble pass,
Here, be all care resigned.–
This fluid never fails to please,
And drown the griefs of men or bees.
What forced you here, we cannot know,
And you will scarcely tell–
But cheery we would have you go
And bid a glad farewell:
On lighter wings we bid you fly,
Your dart will now all foes defy.
Yet take not oh! too deep a drink,
And in the ocean die;
Here bigger bees than you might sink,
Even bees full six feet high.
Like Pharaoh, then, you would be said
To perish in a sea of red.
Do as you please, your will is mine;
Enjoy it without fear–
And your grave will be this glass of wine,
Your epitaph–a tear–
Go, take your seat in Charon's boat,
We'll tell the hive, you died afloat.


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Julian Waits, the CEO of GFI's new spinoff ThreatTrack, discusses how his company intends to stand out in the growing federal and large-enterprise security space, especially in the new era of international cyber-attacks.
GFI Software this month said it has decided to spin out its enterprise security software technology business into a separate company called ThreatTrack Security. Backed by the same investors, Clearwater, Fla.-based ThreatTrack will target large government and defense agencies, as well as major enterprise business, including retailers and financial services firms.
Julian Waits, a veteran of the IT security industry and longtime friend of GFI CEO Walter Scott, will lead the newly formed company as its chief executive. In an interview with Redmond magazine editor Jeff Schwartz, Waits explained why GFI spun out its security business and how he sees using predictive analytics and big data to help customers anticipate advanced persistent threats before they strike.
J.S.: Why did GFI decide to spin out its security business? Waits: GFI as a company is 100 percent focused on the needs of small and medium businesses, meaning business entities that have roughly 1,000 users or less. As we looked at our security business, a great part of the growth outside of what we're already doing with Vipre, which has been focused primarily around our SandBox technology, and what we're doing with our ThreatIQ product. Today, sandboxing and advanced business threats aren't as big an issue in SMBs as they are today in enterprises and federal agencies. So we decided as a business to spin off the security business unit so it can focus on that and optimize it, while GFI continues to focus on small and medium business. Of course, we still have a core competency and a strong commitment to small and medium businesses and the consumers, but we're expanding our footprint into the federal government and late enterprises.
Will GFI continue to own a stake in this new company or will it be a totally separate business? It's a completely separate company, though we do have the same investors. You can think of it as sister-portfolio companies.
Are you sharing R&D or any other types of properties? We have OEM arrangements across both entities. For instance, in Vipre today -- specifically in the premium offering, both on the consumer and business side -- we OEM components of GFI's LanGuard. And in many of GFI's products, the MAX AV product and Vipre is included in the solutions. We'll continue to license technology from each other.
How much presence have you made into the enterprise? What started all of this -- over the last six to nine months in the sandboxing side of the business, we've had over 100 percent growth year-over-year, and all of those customers have been federal and enterprise. Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to share their names, but they're all household names. Think about it as large enterprises that are primarily concerned with targeted attacks and other forms of advanced malicious activity that concern them. From an industry perspective, you should assume large retailers, large oil and gas companies, and large financial institutions, which are all included in the customers that we've closed.
With so many security companies targeting that segment, how do you see ThreatTrack standing out? When you look at all of the companies entering this space, they're all basically "detections-are-us." Now what's happening is they're moving from what's already known to the stuff that's new that you haven't seen before. The issue is no one is really focused on remediating these issues. From our standpoint, detecting it is only half the battle. The real thing is when you'll be able to remediate the issue. Like a lot of other players in this space, FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, where they have network-based systems that are designed to look for new malware, none of them are addressing the issue of remediation and we plan to do both. We don't want to be another one of the 27 security tools that a customer buys to help pinpoint that there was a malicious file that came to the network. I want to pinpoint and I want to resolve it.
How do you manage to get on the radar screens of CIOs and CSOs at large enterprises, given your heritage in the small- and medium-business market? It's all word of mouth. We've done a small amount of marketing while we were under the GFI moniker, but it has primarily been work of mouths. At trade shows we'll sit there and one of the world's largest retailers comes in and says, "We need one of those because we get phishing attacks that are changing on us daily and there's no amount of AV or firewall or IP that we can buy that we can deal with this because they can only deal with what's known already."
What are the biggest threats you're dealing with? You have to separate it between the ones that are enterprise customers and the federal government. We [GFI] were actually one of the vendors involved with discovering Flame from a federal government perspective. I've actually done a webinar on it. Again, under the GFI moniker, it wasn't a business we wanted to emphasize as not something we've made a lot of hay over but we were one of the vendors there. When you look at large enterprises, it just depends on the nature of their business. In the case of the retailer, it's people trying to come up with an interesting way to steal credit card numbers and other personal information that can be used to steal your money. With our oil and gas customers, it's primarily around malware created by environmentalists. By using our toolsets, we can help our customers more proactively get in front of them.
For those not familiar with your toolset, how does it address these threats? There's no such thing as a standard signature from one AV product to the next but the truth is most things are signature based, whether it's IDS, IPS or AV. So by using our SandBox [marketed by the new company as ThreatAnalyzer], it gives a full behavioral analysis of what's going on in the particular file, and...you can use that to create your own customized signature that you can then create and basically put inside whatever perimeter tool that you're currently using. That's the way our customers have been currently using it. They capture the behavior, they create a signature that they then place inside of Qualys or Rapid7 or whatever the tool happens to be that they use or they use for correlation purposes in ArcSight.
To what extent are your tools being used to address threats coming from China, Iran, Russia and North Korea to address some of these large-scale attacks? I can tell you today ThreatAnalyzer is used in over 60 percent of the U.S. cyber defense infrastructure with large three-letter defense agencies who were already involved in that fight. We're used. Pretty much [if] you name the agency, they're a customer.
These attacks are getting faster and wreaking more havoc than ever. Where do you see this going? I wake up every morning terrified by what new things are going to come out, be it from a cyber-espionage or a warfare perspective. It's only going to get worse. It's not going to get better based on our own internal intelligence that we've done. And we cooperate very much with the federal government. There's information that we're privy to that most people don't get. Our goal is to make our solution smarter and smarter. We do believe that you have to not only cover the network but also cover the end points. There's a set of heuristics, especially using big data techniques such as genetic algorithms and machine algorithms and a plethora of things against a Hadoop database, that allow us to basically get a detection from what currently takes us three or four days to an hour or less. We call it ThreatNet.
Are enterprises becoming more proactive as these threats heat up? Enterprises want to become more proactive. The big issue is they still think about it from [the perspective of] "How do we respond to a threat once it occurs?" So they look at tools like ours and others and it still becomes "How do you fit in the overall ecosystem of what we're using?" The way we're approaching the problem is to create a set of strategic relationships, which we already have around HP around ArcSight and companies like RSA with NetWitness. When we integrate into many of the tools, even to the point where our tools are embedded in the case of NetWitness Spectrum, they use our SandBox in the case of selling that. We're more proactive in the overall ecosystem because with the enterprise, 90 percent ask, "How are we going to respond to it?" While they desperately want to get in front of it, they know most of the time they're going to be reacting to it. The more tools they can put in place, not only to detect it but to help in the response process, like being able to create an auto-remediation as we're going to do.
What do you see as the next key advance in countering these threats? I do think it's associated with big data. One of the biggest voids in the market is being able to get more and more data from a customer set. For instance, there's a large set of my customers that classify the data so they won't share, mainly in the federal and intelligence industries. Whereas on the enterprise side, they've shown a huge interest in being able to share with us if it means that we can remediate faster with things they haven't seen before. The more of that data we can collect, the more fancy analytics stuff we can use to do our job a lot faster. There's no way we'll be able to anticipate an APT before it's created. God knows they're becoming more and more sophisticated. All we can do is become more sophisticated about how rapidly we can respond to it and it's going to take a community to do that.
Has President Obama's executive order last month helped motivate companies to share information? Tremendously. In our sales pipeline and our closures this quarter, we've seen an uptick that's directly related to the national address that he did.
To what extent has the BYOD movement created security issues that need to be addressed. Is that an area you've been addressing? Absolutely. We have an Android SandBox today, which quite frankly we weren't sure about how we were going to market it late last year, so we went out and met with some of our customers in the Washington, D.C. area in New York. And we were blown away with the amount of interest that they have with the ATKs that have happened in the Android world. Of course if you see any of this data, there's more and more malware statistically on the Andorid platform than almost anything right now. It's a huge issue. We'll see what happens. Now we're hearing more things happening in the iOS world and the Apple world. There's not a huge concern over that but there's a huge concern as it relates to Android.
How are you leveraging the GFI partnerships, including with Microsoft, or are you establishing your own? As a division, we just took those partnerships with us. Microsoft is a very strategic partner to us. I'm not at liberty to say everything that we do with them but suffice to say, our tools are used on their network every day.
Given your long tenure in the IT security industry, how would you characterize the current state of affairs? I think this is one of the most exciting times to be involved. The last couple of years has been stagnant in terms of security vendors providing new technologies to address a lot of these more complex problems. But I think based on, quite frankly, a lot of the marketing of FireEye and Palo Alto, and more specifically the Mandiant report that came out where it finger-pointed China as being very much involved in cyber offenses on their part and corporate espionage, it just brought to life everything that's going on. So the industry is going through a renaissance from a security perspective. Everyone is understanding it's not just what we know, we have to deal with the stuff that's coming out every day faster.
Can that be done or are we all toast no matter what we do? The thing that bothers me about all of this is I still believe 80 percent of security problems are risk management problems. What you have to focus on first are the systems and the applications that are most critical to your environment. Many enterprises approach security almost the same way they approach compliance. It's more about "Let's make sure we don't get caught this way because this became big news and if it happens to us, we're in The Wall Street Journal and we'll all lose our jobs," and it's less about true risk mitigation.
I think it all starts around a process completely built around people and the processes they use in their environment and technology should be used third. Are there a set of perimeter defenses and AV technologies that everybody should have? Absolutely. It comes down to what's the most critical. If I'm an operating entity, my financial systems are absolutely critical. If I can't send out a bill, I go out of business. If I'm a software company, I have to make sure my development systems are protected. If I'm taking a sales view of my Web site and I've done things proactively, again from a risk mitigation perspective, be assured I can do business no matter what happens. The DDoS attacks, what's our response to that? What we're doing is going after advanced, persistent threats added to what's known. The key thing is to really start with a risk mitigation strategy for your enterprise.
How do you see addressing cloud computing in terms of protecting data, as well as providing your technology as a SaaS offering? Today at GFI, one of the products they have that they OEM'd from us using their own cloud-based infrastructure is called GFI Cloud. That's for those who want all the protection of AV on their endpoints from a business perspective but not have to deal with all of the administration associated with doing so. We used to call it a micro SMB market but what we've found is even larger enterprises are considering it just as larger enterprises are considering outsourcing all their e-mail, just like Office 365 and Google are moving forward. We have a two-pronged strategy. The first component is to provide our AV technology through a cloud-based infrastructure today through GFI [and that] in the near future will be offered by us directly. The second component on that is to utilize [and] to build these next-gen solutions like ThreatNet. In the past, ThreatNet has been used on a small scale by us to protect files from our customers to do some form of correlations, primarily for building remediation for files we haven't seen before. Our next generation of ThreatNet customers will have to opt out rather than opt in. In some industries they'd never opt in. Again, whether it's federal or intelligence, we'll have to have a specialized network, but we plan to take everything we possibly can, put it in a cloud-based offering again, utilizing Hadoop with analytics to just really unleash the data that we're getting about what's going on the environment.
Speaking of Hadoop, how many experts have you brought on board to advance the use of big data analytics to predict future threats? What we're advocating is whether you're involved in the project or not, our entire engineering department is being educated on Hadoop and the associated systems. In our case, it happens to be Cloudera we're using to implement this. I really do think it's where security is going.
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Guaifenesin is used to help clear mucus or phlegm (pronounced flem) from the chest when you have congestion from a cold or flu. It works by thinning the mucus or phlegm in the lungs.
This medicine is available both over-the-counter (OTC) and with your doctor's prescription.
Do not give any over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medicine to a baby or child under 4 years of age. Using these medicines in very young children might cause serious or possibly life-threatening side effects .
Before using Diabetic Siltussin DAS-Na
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Although there is no specific information comparing use of guaifenesin in children with use in other age groups, this medicine is not expected to cause different side effects or problems in children than it does in adults. However, check with your doctor before using this medicine in children who have a chronic cough, such as occurs with asthma, or who have an unusually large amount of mucus or phlegm with the cough. Children with these conditions may need a different kind of medicine. Also, guaifenesin should not be given to children and infants younger than 2 years of age unless you are directed to do so by your doctor.
Do not give any over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medicine to a baby or child under 4 years of age. Using these medicines in very young children might cause serious or possibly life-threatening side effects .
Many medicines have not been studied specifically in older people. Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults. Although there is no specific information comparing use of guaifenesin in the elderly with use in other age groups, this medicine is not expected to cause different side effects or problems in older people than it does in younger adults.
Breast Feeding
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Interactions with Medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Interactions with Food/Tobacco/Alcohol
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Proper use of Diabetic Siltussin DAS-Na
Drinking plenty of water while taking guaifenesin may help loosen mucus or phlegm in the lungs.
For patients taking the extended-release capsule form of this medicine:
- Swallow the capsule whole, or open the capsule and sprinkle the contents on soft food such as applesauce, jelly, or pudding and swallow without crushing or chewing.
For patients taking the extended-release tablet form of this medicine:
- If the tablet has a groove in it, you may carefully break it into two pieces along the groove. Then swallow the pieces whole, without crushing or chewing them.
- If the tablet does not have a groove, it must be swallowed whole. Do not break, crush, or chew it before swallowing.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
- For regular (short-acting) oral dosage forms (capsules, oral solution, syrup, or tablets):
- For cough:
- Adults—200 to 400 milligrams (mg) every four hours.
- Children 6 to 12 years of age—100 to 200 mg every four hours.
- Children 4 to 6 years of age—50 to 100 mg every four hours.
- Children and infants up to 4 years of age—Use is not recommended .
- For cough:
- For long-acting oral dosage forms (extended-release capsules or tablets):
- For cough:
- Adults—600 to 1200 mg every twelve hours.
- Children 6 to 12 years of age—600 mg every twelve hours.
- Children 4 to 6 years of age—300 mg every twelve hours.
- Children and infants up to 4 years of age—Use is not recommended .
- For cough:
Missed Dose
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Precautions while using Diabetic Siltussin DAS-Na
If your cough has not improved after 7 days or if you have a fever, skin rash, continuing headache, or sore throat with the cough, check with your doctor. These signs may mean that you have other medical problems.
Side Effects of Diabetic Siltussin DAS-Na
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Less common or rare
- Diarrhea
- dizziness
- headache
- hives
- nausea or vomiting
- skin rash
- stomach pain
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Commonly used brand name(s)
In the U.S.
- Allfen
- Altarussin
- Amibid LA
- Antitussin
- Bidex 400
- Diabetic Siltussin DAS-Na
- Diabetic Tussin EX
- Drituss G
- Guaifenex G
- Guaifenex LA
- Mucinex
- Robitussin
In Canada
- Balminil Expectorant
- Balminil Expectorant Sugar-Free
- Benylin-E
- Benylin E Extra Strength Chest Congestion
- Broncho-Grippex Expectorant
- Resyl
- Robitussin Extra Strength
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Nursery Rhymes Lyrics, Origins & History
Nursery Rhymes Lyrics, Origins and History
The history and origins of most nursery rhymes reflect events in history and where available we have included both the meanings, history and origins of everyone's favourite nursery rhymes. Two examples of these types of nursery rhymes history and origins are 'Ring a Ring o Rosies' which refers to the Bubonic plague and 'Remember Remember' nursery rhymes which allude to Guy Fawkes' foiled attempt to blow up the English Houses of Parliament! Many of the words and nursery rhymes lyrics were used to parody the royal and political events of the day, direct dissent would often be punishable by death!
Over 100 Additional Online list of Nursery Rhymes, History and Origins
Strange how these events in history are still portrayed through children's nursery rhymes, when for most of us the historical events relationship to the nursery rhymes themselves are long forgotten! Help us to maintain our history and heritage through the words and lyrics of old Nursery Rhymes online.
Online List of Lost Lyrics of Old Nursery Rhymes
A Wise Old Owl Nursery RhymeAiken DrumAn Apple a Day lyricsAs I was Going to St. Ives lyricsBaa Baa Black Sheep rhymeBig Ship Sails on the Ally-Ally-ohChristmas is ComingCry Baby Buntin lyricsDiddle Diddle DumplingDing Dong Bell rhymeDoctor Foster lyricsFor Want of a Nail rhymeGeorgie Porgie Nursery rhyme Goosey Goosey Gander lyricsGrand Old Duke of YorkHark hark the Dogs do BarkHere is the Church rhymeHey Diddle Diddle lyricsHickory Dickory Dock lyricsHorsey Horsey RhymeHot Cross Buns rhymeHumpty Dumpty story Hush-a-bye BabyItsy Bitsy Spider lyricsJack and Jill went up the Hill Jack be Nimble rhymeJack SpratJohn Jacob Jingleheimer SchmidtLadybug Ladybug rhymeLittle Bo-Peep rhymeLittle Boy Blue rhymeLittle Hen Nursery RhymeLittle Jack Horner lyricsLittle Miss Muffet rhyme Little Robin Red breastLittle Tommy Tucker rhymeLondon Bells Nursery RhymeLondon Bridge is Broken downLondon Bridge is Falling down Lucy LockettMary had a Little Lamb lyricsMary Mary Quite Contrary Mondays Child rhyme
Most children love being told nursery rhymes. The most popular nursery rhymes are listed here with their origins - perhaps nursery rhymes bring back fond memories of your childhood! Can you remember the tunes to the nursery rhymes? The most popular nursery rhymes are Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Sing a song of sixpence and last but not least Hey diddle diddle! these examples of nursery rhymes have been passed down generation to generation up to thirty times!
Lost Lyrics of Old Nursery Rhymes
list of 112 Additional Online Nursery Rhymes, History and Origins
The Identity of Mother Goose & her Nursery Rhymes!The Chapbooks and the Nursery Rhyme
Secret History of Nursery RhymesMother Goose Origins
Nursery Rhymes & Origins
It's no wonder the historical origins of Nursery Rhymes have become obscure as even though the nursery rhymes lyrics may have changed only slightly over so many re-tellings the English language itself has changed over the last six hundred years as anyone reading Shakespeare for the first time could not fail to notice!
As I was born and bred in London my favourite nursery rhymes are London Bells and its counterpart 'Oranges and Lemons' which recreate the sound of the chimes of many old churches once in London, however now I know the origins of the lyrics for this nursery rhyme the true rhyme meaning and origins of the last sentences are even more sinister than I had imagined as a child. The other is 'Pussycat Pussycat' - every child's dream must once have been 'to go up to London to visit the Queen'. Believe it or not the origins and history of the nursery rhyme 'Hey Diddle Diddle' are fully known and if you want to know what a runcible spoon is - check out the 'Owl and the Pussycat' for the origins and definition of Nursery Rhymes...
Knowledge of English History and the English language undoubtedly assisted in the analysis of the lyrics and origins of these nursery rhymes, however we can normally offer little definitive proof other than author names and earliest traceable publication dates of the nursery rhymes.
Educational ResourceThe contents of www.rhymes.org.uk are subject to Copyright Laws - the referencing protocol suggested for this nursery rhymes site is as follows:Alchin, L.K. rhymes.org.uk (Nursery Rhymes lyrics and Origins)e.g. Retrieved November 16 2007 from www.rhymes.org.uk
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As the second auction in California's landmark cap and trade program approaches, a coalition of states on the opposite side of the country – that have been cost-effectively reducing their carbon pollution while saving their consumers money – announced plans to strengthen their emission reduction goals. Last week, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) – the nation's first cap and trade program which sets a cap on carbon dioxide pollution from the electric power sector in 9 Northeastern states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont) – released an updated Model Rule containing a number of improvements to the program, primarily a significantly lower (by 45%) overall cap, realigning it with current emissions levels.
Since the program took effect in 2009, emission reductions in the RGGI region have occurred faster and at lower cost than originally expected. This has primarily been the result of increased electric generation from natural gas and renewables which have displaced more carbon-intensive sources like coal and oil, as well as investments in energy efficiency that lower overall electricity demand. These reductions have been accompanied by lower electricity prices in the region (down 10% since the program began) and significant economic benefits: a study from the Analysis Group estimated that electric consumers would save $1.1 billion on their bills over 10 years from the energy efficiency improvements funded by allowance revenue, and further, that these savings would generate over $1.6 billion in economic benefits for the region.
The new lower cap allows RGGI to secure the reductions already achieved, and push forward towards more ambitious pollution reduction goals. The changes to the program are the result of a transparent and comprehensive program review process set in motion through RGGI's original Memorandum of Understanding – a mechanism that is successfully fulfilling its original intention by allowing the states to evaluate results and make critical improvements.
While the changes will go a long way to fortify the program, there is room in the future for the RGGI states to look to California's strong program design for additional enhancements. For example, RGGI's updated Model Rule creates a Cost Containment Reserve (CCR) – a fixed quantity of allowances which are made available for sale if allowance prices exceed predefined "trigger prices". A CCR is a smart design feature which provides additional flexibility and cost containment – however, RGGI's CCR allowances are designed to be additional to the cap, rather than carved out from underneath it as in CA's program (ensuring the overall emission reduction goals will be met). California's program has displayed enormous success already, with a strong showing in their first auction.
In the meantime, the RGGI states should be commended for their success thus far, and for their renewed leadership as they take important steps to strengthen the program. These states have achieved significant reductions in emissions of heat-trapping pollutants at lower costs than originally projected, all while saving their citizens money and stimulating their economies, transitioning their power sector towards cleaner, safer generation sources, and laying a strong foundation for compliance with the Carbon Pollution Standards for power plants being developed under the Clean Air Act. Such impressive achievements provide a powerful, concrete example of how to tackle harmful carbon pollution and capture the important co-benefits of doing so.
The bottom line is that cap and trade is alive and well on both coasts as the states continue to lead the charge on tackling climate change in the U.S. while delivering clear economic benefits.


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US states are identified by a 2-digit number, while US counties are identified by a 3-digit number.
The first two of the five-digit fips codes, the state's, are not marked, only the three-digit numbers per county are shown under the names of the counties on the Wisconsin state vector map.
More from FIPS code:
Federal Communications Commission
– County seats names
– County name-fips code
– County seat sign
– County shape
The County seats,county FIPS codes AI map of Wisconsin file in vector format enable the user organise level of structuring of map.
A vector file (ai, pdf) has flexible tools for displaying elements of maps
- you can discrete or arbitrary scaling map
- performing group operation with selected features
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A visual introduction to machine learning
In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions.
Keep scrolling. Using a data set about homes, we will create a machine learning model to distinguish homes in New York from homes in San Francisco.
First, some intuition
Let's say you had to determine whether a home is in San Francisco or in New York. In machine learning terms, categorizing data points is a classification task.
Since San Francisco is relatively hilly, the elevation of a home may be a good way to distinguish the two cities.
Based on the home-elevation data to the right, you could argue that a home above 73 meters should be classified as one in San Francisco.
Adding nuance
Adding another dimension allows for more nuance. For example, New York apartments can be extremely expensive per square foot.
So visualizing elevation and price per square foot in a scatterplot helps us distinguish lower-elevation homes.
The data suggests that, among homes at or below 73 meters, those that cost more than $19,116.7 per square meter are in New York City.
Dimensions in a data set are called features, predictors, or variables.
Drawing boundaries
You can visualize your elevation (>73 m) and price per square foot (>$19,116.7) observations as the boundaries of regions in your scatterplot. Homes plotted in the green and blue regions would be in San Francisco and New York, respectively.
Identifying boundaries in data using math is the essence of statistical learning.
Of course, you'll need additional information to distinguish homes with lower elevations and lower per-square-foot prices.
The dataset we are using to create the model has 7 different dimensions. Creating a model is also known as training a model.
On the right, we are visualizing the variables in a scatterplot matrix to show the relationships between each pair of dimensions.
There are clearly patterns in the data, but the boundaries for delineating them are not obvious.
And now, machine learning
Finding patterns in data is where machine learning comes in. Machine learning methods use statistical learning to identify boundaries.
One example of a machine learning method is a decision tree. Decision trees look at one variable at a time and are a reasonably accessible (though rudimentary) machine learning method.
Finding better boundaries
Let's revisit the 73-m elevation boundary proposed previously to see how we can improve upon our intuition.
Clearly, this requires a different perspective.
By transforming our visualization into a histogram, we can better see how frequently homes appear at each elevation.
While the highest home in New York is 73m, the majority of them seem to have far lower elevations.
Your first fork
A decision tree uses if-then statements to define patterns in data.
For example, if a home's elevation is above some number, then the home is probably in San Francisco.
In machine learning, these statements are called forks, and they split the data into two branches based on some value.
That value between the branches is called a split point. Homes to the left of that point get categorized in one way, while those to the right are categorized in another. A split point is the decision tree's version of a boundary.
Picking a split point has tradeoffs. Our initial split (~73 m) incorrectly classifies some San Francisco homes as New York ones.
Look at that large slice of green in the left pie chart, those are all the San Francisco homes that are misclassified. These are called false negatives.
However, a split point meant to capture every San Francisco home will include many New York homes as well. These are called false positives.
The best split
At the best split, the results of each branch should be as homogeneous (or pure) as possible. There are several mathematical methods you can choose between to calculate the best split.
As we see here, even the best split on a single feature does not fully separate the San Francisco homes from the New York ones.
To add another split point, the algorithm repeats the process above on the subsets of data. This repetition is called recursion, and it is a concept that appears frequently in training models.
The histograms to the left show the distribution of each subset, repeated for each variable.
The best split will vary based which branch of the tree you are looking at.
For lower elevation homes, price per square foot is, at $1061 per sqft, is the best variable for the next if-then statement. For higher elevation homes, it is price, at $514,500
.Growing a tree
Additional forks will add new information that can increase a tree's prediction accuracy.
Splitting one layer deeper, the tree's accuracy improves to 84%.
Adding several more layers, we get to 96%.
You could even continue to add branches until the tree's predictions are 100% accurate, so that at the end of every branch, the homes are purely in San Francisco or purely in New York.
These ultimate branches of the tree are called leaf nodes. Our decision tree models will classify the homes in each leaf node according to which class of homes is in the majority.
Making predictions
The newly-trained decision tree model determines whether a home is in San Francisco or New York by running each data point through the branches.
Here you can see the data that was used to train the tree flow through the tree.
This data is called training data because it was used to train the model.
Because we grew the tree until it was 100% accurate, this tree maps each training data point perfectly to which city it is in.
Reality check
Of course, what matters more is how the tree performs on previously-unseen data.
To test the tree's performance on new data, we need to apply it to data points that it has never seen before. This previously unused data is called test data.
Ideally, the tree should perform similarly on both known and unknown data.
So this one is less than ideal.
These errors are due to overfitting. Our model has learned to treat every detail in the training data as important, even details that turned out to be irrelevant.
Overfitting is part of a fundamental concept in machine learning explained in our next post.
- Machine learning identifies patterns using statistical learning and computers by unearthing boundaries in data sets. You can use it to make predictions.
- One method for making predictions is called a decision trees, which uses a series of if-then statements to identify boundaries and define patterns in the data.
- Overfitting happens when some boundaries are based on on distinctions that don't make a difference. You can see if a model overfits by having test data flow through the model.
Coming up next
Next, we explore overfitting, and how it relates to a fundamental trade-off in machine learning. Check out Part II: Model Tuning and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff.
Questions? Thoughts? We would love to hear from you. Tweet us at @r2d3us or email us at email@example.com.
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- Machine learning concepts have arisen across disciplines (computer science, statistics, engineering, psychology, etc), thus the different nomenclature.
- To learn more about calculating the optimal split, search for 'gini index' or 'cross entropy'
- One reason computers are so good at applying statistical learning techniques is that they're able to do repetitive tasks, very quickly and without getting bored.
- The algorithm described here is greedy, because it takes a top-down approach to splitting the data. In other words, it is looking for the variable that makes each subset the most homogeneous at that moment.
- Hover over the dots to see the path it took in the tree.
- Spoiler alert: It's the bias/variance tradeoff!


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Confluence administrator's guide
About the Confluence administrator's guide
This guide covers features and functions that are only available to administrators.
For information on creating and administering spaces, See Spaces.
This guide assumes that you are using the Confluence default theme. If your Confluence site has been customized the header may look different, and menu items appear in different locations to the examples given in this guide.
- Getting Started as Confluence Administrator
- Manage Users
- Managing System and Marketplace Apps
- Writing User Macros
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- Integrating Confluence with Other Applications
- Managing your Confluence License
- Managing Confluence Data
- Configuring Confluence
- Viewing System Information
- Configuring the Server Base URL
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Reflection on breaking barricades
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From protesting with Anonymous to connecting with everyone – including the police. Ilaria writes.
This brings back lots of memories and tears to my eyes.
I do think Anonymous and Occupy are the best movements today and I have been working for Occupy in New York and a bit in London too. In the past I did break barricades and chanted chorus against the police in general. To break a barricade, in Italy was more difficult than here, we called it 'Sfondare' and it did feel amazing to be part of a protest against a system that wasn't fair. Also the element of danger, and the feeling of being all at one with the other protesters.
But the more I feed my spiritual and artistic side, the more I connect with every human on the planet. By hanging out with everyone and by having deep connection with all sorts of people, I can't help feeling that we are all the same and that's our strength.
Martin Luther King used to say that physical and verbal violence only brings up more violence and hate. Hate brings more hate, violence brings more violence. Today, looking at the protester, so close to my ideas of right and wrong, and then looking at the police officials, I can't help but thinking what is going on in their minds too.
They are humans like us, and I met so many lovely policemen in my life, that I can no longer see them as a whole-like system. Especially in London, I met lovely policemen at Notting Hill Carnival, for example, allowing partygoers to paint their faces and dancing with the people. Or the other evening, at the park, when I lost my phone, helping me with a torch, looking everywhere underneath the leaves. And many other times, when I met and had business to do, with lovely policemen, who tried their best to be fair and to defend and protect people.
Pier Paolo Pasolini used to say this in the seventies: 'A policeman has probably a family to feed and knows no other way to do it than that. A protester has often a family that feeds him without needing to work hard'
This is a simplification and it is not obviously always like this, but if the revolution has to become a Re-lov-ution, then we shouldn't feel hate, but love towards every other human being. Probably some of these men, standing there defending something they don't believe in anymore, would be on the other side, hadn't they a check to bring home at the end of the month.
Probably these same men and women, offended and spited in the face (instead of being talked to and smiled at), will develop hate towards protesters who could otherwise help them understanding what is wrong in the system and spreading the re-lov-ution on.
In Italy, the police killed Stefano Cucchi. No one was condemned. Things like these shouldn't be forgotten. Neither should all the other people killed, tortured and abused in police cells and in the streets everyday - The Ferguson shooting being the last big one in the news. The system has to change. But I wonder if we can find a better way than shouting offences with a mask on our face. I am sure lots of policemen will change side if we could find ways to connect with them. And maybe one day, we wouldn't even have sides anymore.
I know this is starting to sound all a bit too rhetoric, but as humanity, we are, really, all one.
Writer asked to be named only as Ilaria


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Batman Fluxx, as with all Fluxx card games, starts with one basic rule: Draw one card, Play one card. You start with a hand of three cards, so add the card you drew to your hand, and then choose one card to play, following the directions written on your chosen card.
As cards are drawn and played from the deck, the rules of the game change from how many cards are drawn, played or even how many cards you can hold at the end of your turn. No one can win until a Goal card sets the conditions for winning, which is typically collecting certain Keeper cards in front of you. Goals can keep changing, though, so you never know for sure how to win.
In Batman Fluxx, crime is running amok and no one can win with Villains on the table, so put on your utility belts and leap into the fray to help Batman and his friends clean things up!


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In addition to the review, we have the privilege of offering an excerpt of Chapter 14 to help you make your own decision. Chet Haase, one of the books authors introduces the excerpt as follows:
We've covered a lot about Swing and 2D rendering fundamentals by this time, and have also discussed animation basics. This chapter is an introduction to the Timing Framework library that makes Java animation programming much easier.As always, comments from others who have already read the book are welcome.
What are Filthy Rich Clients?
The term "Filthy Rich Clients" was only coined relatively recently by the authors to describe "applications that are so graphically rich that they ooze cool. [...] In short, they make users actually enjoy their application experience". With that in mind, the book goes on to explain how to utilise Java2D and Swing in order to enhance your desktop applications. The authors are eminently qualified to explore the topic. Chet Haase is a client architect at Sun Microsystems and works closely with Java2D and Swing. Romain Guy never seems to stand still for too long as he was worked in various areas of the IT industry. During his time as an intern at Sun Microsystems be rose to the ranks of Java Rock Star and gained a lot of kudos for developing and presenting two filthy rich clients at the last two JavaOne conferences.
Who is this book for?
Quite simply, this is for developers who what to make their Java desktop applications look "cool". As we can see with Windows Vista, Mac OS X, and Office 2007, various effects can actually enhance an application's usability. It's not just for media players and instant messenger clients. Naturally, there is no substitute for a fully functioning application behaving as the user expects. It is for those who want to take their rich client to the next level and try and create visually appealing interfaces to make users increasingly comfortable.
Why am I interested?
I've have developed a range of Java Swing applications for several years now. Although relatively content with the average desktop experience, one of my more recent projects met resistance due to its Java roots and unfounded performance "problems". Once I started making it filthy (although this was in the pre-filthy rich client era), the detractors were less bothered about the so-called Java problem and actually enjoyed using it because it looked cooler than the alternatives.
I must admit, I don't particularly enjoy getting my hands dirty writing Java2D code and extending JComponents. I'm usually perfectly happy to rely on a decent 3rd party look and feel, such as the rather good Substance Look and Feel to add a bit of glitz to my apps. I just want to write working applications. However, I always enjoy a visually appealing application, so I know I should offer a decent experience to my users also. And now here's a book to teach developers exactly how to do so.
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For the authors, the "filthy" aspect equates to effects and animations: Gradients, reflections, drop shadows, fades, transitions, etc. Java is extremely versatile and all the effects are possible; the problem is that there's a lot of groundwork required to achieve them. Firstly there are the fundamental graphic algorithms to grasp. Then these must be translated into something Java2D can compute. This is followed with how to get the images drawn to display and behave properly within Swing. On top of this, there are always performance issues to consider. In short, there is a real need for some experts to guide developers through the surprisingly complex world of creating graphically rich applications.
The book comprises of 19 chapters that are divided up into four parts:
- Graphics and GUI fundamentals
- Advanced graphics rendering
- Animation
- Effects
Although it's only part I with "fundamentals" in its title, in my view, the first three parts are all in fact laying foundations. Like with The Karate Kid, there's a lot of waxing on and waxing off before you get to kick-ass!
Part I lays out the most essential information in the journey to graphical enlightenment. The chapter on Swing and threading is perhaps as good a review of the topic as you'll ever read. This is followed by a tour through the most applicable parts of the Java2D package that you need to get to grips with. The final area is about understanding 'images' within a Java context: the various types, how to use them, and how to obtain optimal performance with them.
The real bread and butter elements come in Part II, where the reader is introduced to advanced graphics rendering techniques. It is here that you learn how to use composites, create gradients, draw reflections, and apply filters to images. It is also where you begin to learn the power of the GlassPane in Swing and how to use layered panes. It's within these chapters that you start to realise that there are caveats-a-plenty. Obviously, this is why the book exists in order to show you where potential "gotchas" lie and present best-practice.
Part III deals with animation and, speaking personally, was an extremely enjoyable read. This was surprising given that I didn't think I was that interested in the topic! Animation concepts are succinctly covered, as are the key assets within the Java platform that provide the tools for animations, namely timing mechanisms. The section ends with two chapters presenting Chet's Timing Framework. Its raison d'etre is to make animation and timing as simple as possible. As the book illustrates, there is a lot of boiler-plate code required in order to setup timers and determine the current progress of the animation. This framework takes all that tedium away, and it also provides many other useful classes for setting up triggers (events that cause the animation to begin) and interpolation (defining how frames progress throughout the animation). As libraries go, this is an extremely good example of a cleanly designed API that is very fit for its purpose and makes a potentially tricky task very easy to handle.
And finally, the climax of the book comes in part IV, which deals with effects. This is ultimately where you bring together the knowledge conveyed in the previous three parts and put it in to practice - it is here that you truly start to build filthy rich clients. Various static effects are demonstrated, such as blurs (for making backgrounds less distracting when popups are visible), drop shadows, reflections and highlights. There is a follow up chapter on dynamic effects, like fades, pulses, springs and morphs. A chapter on transitions is particularly interesting and presents a strong case for why interfaces should not instantly jump to various screens without making it clear how they relate to each other. This is also where the reader is introduced to the book's second library called Animated Transitions, written expressly for dealing with transitions. Again, it's another well thought-out API that is really going to make life easier for developers to add this type of functionality. It facilitates moves, scales, fades and rotations as standard, with the ability to plug-in your own custom transitions if need be.
The book is extremely well written and really rather absorbing. It is fairly informal in style, and given that it weighs in at approximately 600 pages, it is probably a good thing. Anyone who reads Chet's blog will know that he's not adverse to the odd corny-joke or two, and the book isn't immune from those - they don't really add a great deal, although they don't detract either.
In fairness this book does not cover terribly trivial topics, and given that the chapters are all easy to digest, it is a great testament to the authors' ability to communicate their field of expertise. The writing is great, the figures are always beneficial and the code snippets are very well utilised. A tricky balance, no doubt. The obvious difficulty is that trying to illustrate animations and dynamic effects by definition is not easy on a static medium. To make the most of the book you do have to spend some time with the sample demos and source code.
Code Examples
The difficulty in writing programming textbooks is getting the right balance in terms of the amount of code to embed with the pages of the book. It all depends on the concept being explained, of course. In Filthy Rich Clients, they do a pretty good job in this regard. There are many code samples demonstrating how various tasks should be written, which is exactly what you expect, yet each snippet is kept to the bare minimum, and very rarely due listings exceed a page in length. This is often achieved with substituting blocks of code with a single lined comment when such blocks are not essential for the understanding of the current sample. It's a good technique, and whilst it sometimes means you can't do a verbatim copy from the book's pages, much more digestable, and the reader is fully aware that the full code is available from the companion website.
Most of the source code presented in the book are snippets from taken purposely written demo applications which are available for downloading. These are bundled in a zip file per chapter, and are aimed at being easily loaded and run using Netbeans. It would have been ideal if the authors had supplied compiled versions, perhaps as WebStart bundles allowing easy execution with just a double-click, although maybe I'm just being picky.
At the time of writing not all the examples are available. The demos for chapters 16-18 are absent (there are no samples for chapter 19, in case you were wondering), which is a shame as these are the ones covering the various desktop effects and transitions. As a consequence, it's not yet possible to obtain a copy of the Animated Transitions library.
Let us be clear, this book will not make you a better programmer. It will not teach you how to use Swing; nor will you learn how to architect desktop applications properly. Chet and Romain's Filthy Rich Clients is purely about how to go about enhancing various aspects of your existing, fully functioning desktop applications.
This is a great book: expertly written, clearly explained and a great pace. It doesn't stray beyond its remit and doesn't linger too long on any particular concept.
I wasn't surprised, but still a little dismayed that the area of look and feels wasn't tackled. Repeatedly extending various components per application is not a good long-term strategy. With all the hype that is starting to surround the forthcoming Nimbus look and feel it's clear that developers and users get excited at having an immediately attractive interface. At the end of the day, you can add all the transitions, drop shadows and reflections you like, but nobody is going to think that Swing's standard Metal look and feel is "cool". I appreciate it's a vast topic and perhaps too large to tackle along side the rest of the existing content. Some reference and pointers would have been interesting, however.
Minor gripe aside, there is still much to learn that will be beneficial. It is left as an exercise for the reader to determine which enhancements are suitable for their applications. I know that I was itching to try out every example after reading each effect being described. The authors must know that they are potentially about to unleash the desktop equivalent to pimp-my-ride! Caution should be exercised in order to avoid overdone, effect-laden visuals. Still, it's really positive to see a book showing off the excellent capabilities of the Java platform. There really is little excuse any more for Java not to conquer the desktop!
Copyright: This excerpt represents a portion of Chapter 14 from the new book, Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications, authored by Chet Haase and Romain Guy, published by Addison-Wesley, as part of Sun Microsystems Press, August, 2007, Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. ISBN-13: 9780132413930. For more information, please visit: http://www.informit.com/title/9780132413930.


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I recently gave a presentation about taking care of your body when you're under stress. For most of us, that would be every day. Wanting to give something to people that they could remember when they're caught in the middle of stress, I came up with three easy steps to de-stress. For the biggest effect, do these steps throughout the day and you'll probably notice stress doesn't get out of control nearly as often. Comment on your favorite de-stress technique and be entered for a prize.
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In 1963, Tom Berry was born. He was an only child of an only child, but was named after four generations of Scottish ascendants. His parents, both educators with doctorates, taught Tom to read before he entered kindergarten, where he was "skipped ahead" a year. Tom was subjected to a series of "gifted programs" and promptly began his historic rise to mediocrity.
Tom's baby picture.
When he was six years old, he was too young to be the first man to set foot on the moon. Instead, it was around that time that he followed a pack of feral dogs onto a frozen pond, where he broke through the ice and fell in. He clawed his way up through the jagged hole, clambered onto the ice, and ran home, where his mother made tomato soup, and he had some brand new toy cars called Hot WheelsSee My Little Cars.
Throughout his secondary education, he found himself the proverbial hexagonal peg in a square hole. His observations of the world around him, and an ample imagination diverted him from scholastic achievement. His tenure at Papillion-LaVista High School was so traumatic that since then his mind has eliminated nearly all memory of it in favor of NASCAR trivia.
He developed amazing talents for playing piano and guitar, and around the time he left High School, he became involved with the Voices of Omaha and the Omaha Symphony, so he killed some time being a music major at the local State University. There, he became dispirited at being forced into mandatory prerequisites, rather than the advanced classes he needed in order to improve. After flubbing his lines during an Italian oratorio, he fled in humiliation, and began dabbling in hotel/motel management.
Meanwhile, his mother had become a Media Guru with entire school districts at her disposal; at the same time his father Ph.D. initiated the "I.T. Revolution" by developing educational software and opening a computer store. Sadly, the family narrowly avoided becoming kajillionaires because, at the time, nobody knew what a computer was.
Although Tom was exposed to Apple IIs (and the first Macintosh) along with the prevalent TRS-80s and Amigas, he eschewed them in favor of local social networking, utilizing such Graphical User Interfaces as "Pac-Man" and "Asteroids."
Toward the end of the "lost decade" that was the '80s, Tom began his career in photofinishing and image manipulation. He attended industry seminars and enrolled in relevant curriculae at a local college. There, he scored an astounding 100 percent perfect score on his entrance exams by discovering that, when held to the light, one could discern the answers through the cover sheet of the test form.
Only later did he realize why he enjoyed photofinishing and photographic imaging— he was unconsciously using his talent for graphic artistry to alter reality. After making a particularly bizarre statement (common for him), Tom was once asked, "What color is the sky in your world?"
His quick retort was, "Any Colour I Like!A Pink Floyd video"
Through the 1990s Tom simulated flying Sopwith Camels and F-18 Hornets, and driving Formula 1 race cars. By cheering loudly at the television during football games, he helped lead the Nebraska Cornhuskers to back-to-back National Championships. Meanwhile, in one glorious summer, he single-handedly lost over 100 games of Nintendo Major League Baseball.
More than once he was seen playing assorted musical instruments in local taverns. It was in those taverns that he and his photofinishing colleagues competed in a weekly Mensa Team Trivia tournament and compiled a dominating 13 and 1 record. However, their results in volleyball tournaments were quite the opposite— in three seasons, the only match they won was on the night their opponents never showed up.
For a brief time at his peak, Tom was appointed Assistant Manager of a chain of six photo labs, while being courted by Kodak for a corporate position. Self-training for over a decade, he was prepared for the Digital Age. To his misfortune, the company he worked for— wasn't. It changed its business focus, but the company continued to decline, as the Digital Revolution wiped out the entire industry. The company's owners closed its store locations, and sold off the most expensive pieces of equipment, including Tom. The company no longer exists.
Three days after being released to free agency, Tom spawned, and the trauma of these incidents caused him to suddenly shun his high-profile Hollywood lifestyle. Currently living in seclusion, he declines interviews and is rarely seen in public. He keeps in practice adjusting reality through Photoshop wizardry, and continues to play guitar, piano, and computer (often at the same time). He studies subjects in many diverse fields and considers himself a typical renaissance man; jack of all trades and master of few.
Barricaded within his mansion, he reads (a lot), and writes about himself in the
fourth-person. He tries, fails, and optimistically tries again. Due to
a bitter falling-out with
Mattel, he no longer
plays with Hot WheelsSee My Little
Cars. Instead, he spends his days as caretaker of his ancestral
estate, crafting his masterwork and
tending the gardens of his mind.