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Eyam Hall, one of Derbyshire's historic gems, was actually built as a wedding present and has remained a much loved family home for over 300 years. With romantic features and an idyllic garden, the Jacobean manor house is the perfect backdrop for your special day.
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We offer exclusive use of the Entrance Hall or Thatched Pagoda for your ceremony which are available throughout the week.
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The Willamette Valley in Oregon is host to two-thirds of Oregon's wineries and vineyards. More than 200 wineries make their home here as it is one of the best Pinot Noir producers in the world. Many outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, and golfing make this an attractive destination when visiting nearby Portland. A popular tourist area, the Willamette Valley is also host to many fine restaurants.
While Portland cooking is certainly highly regarded, the Oregon Wine Region holds its own. The most discerning Portland, OR Chefs look to the rich, volcanic soil of this area for fresh berries, cheese, meat, hazelnuts and grapes for their regional dishes. Restaurants featuring regional dishes are plentiful, as chefs work with the bounty at their disposal.
Oregon Chefs do not have to look far for a romantic setting for the most picturesque Oregon weddings. Many of the wineries and bed and breakfasts in this area are perfect for ceremonies and receptions. All of the best that this region has to offer can be found here.
In its January 2002 issue, Gourmet magazine called Oregon "…the next Napa. It's the Burgundy of America, rich in produce, laden with seafood, and blessed with fabulous wines. Chefs love it. This port city draws from an extraordinary natural larder—in the forests and in the mountains there are mushrooms and berries beyond imagining."
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Cooking with fine is fun, but you obviously can't drink our famous Oregon wines until you are 21. That doesn't mean that you can't learn to cook with wine with friends and family. In fact, it is a lot of fun to learn how to cook from people that you know.
Cooking with wine is at the heart of French cooking and French cooking is popular in the beautiful Pacific Northwest Pick up a cookbook at Powell's book store and learn the basics in classical French cooking. If a book is not how you learn best, turn on the TV. Many channels offer great cooking programs for you to learn from.
From light white wine sautés to rich and textured burgundy sauces to red wine reductions to poaching in port wine, friends will enjoy the mouthwatering delights you serve at your next dinner party. So while in Portland, Oregon experience one of the best wine cultures in the world.
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Is there any way of insert a row in a table and get the new generated ID, in only one statement? I want to use JDBC, and the ID will be generated by a sequence or will be an autoincrement field.
Thanks for your help.
John Pollancre
using getGeneratedKeys():
You can use the
Actually, I think nextval followed by currval does work. Here's a bit of code that simulates this behaviour with two threads, one that first does a nextval, then a currval, while a second thread does a nextval in between.
The result is as follows: Session1 nextval is: 47 Session2 nextval is: 48 Session1 currval is: 47
I couldn't comment otherwise I would have added to Vinko Vrsalovic's post:
Updating de sequence after getting a nextval from it is an autonomous transaction. Otherwise another session would get the same value from the sequence. So getting currval will not get the inserted id if anothers sesssion has selected from the sequence in between the insert and select.
Regards, Rob
The value of the auto-generated ID is not known until after the INSERT is executed, because other statements could be executing concurrently and the RDBMS gets to decide how to schedule which one goes first.
Any function you call in an expression in the INSERT statement would have to be evaluated before the new row is inserted, and therefore it can't know what ID value is generated.
I can think of two options that are close to what you're asking:
However, I suspect what you're really asking is whether you can query for the last generated ID value by your current session even if other sessions are also inserting rows and generating their own ID values. You can be assured that every RDBMS that offers an auto-increment facility offers a way to query this value, and it tells you the last ID generated in your current session scope. This is not affected by inserts done in other sessions.
The id generated by a sequence can be obtained via
ran in the same transaction as to get a consistent view.
I think you'll find this helpful:
Source: Thread: Oracle / JDBC Error when Returning values from an Insert
I couldn't comment, otherwise I would have just added to dfa's post, but the following is an example of this functionality with straight JDBC.
However, if you are using something such as Spring, they will mask a lot of the gory details for you. If that can be of any assistance, just good Spring Chapter 11, which is the JDBC details. Using it has saved me a lot of headaches.


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Steamworld Dig for Linux Review
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- Game: Steamworld Dig for Linux
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Steamworld Dig is a 2D adventure game at heart, but it's also one of the few platform mining adventures out there.
Steamworld Dig is not a game developed by a large company and it shows, but not in a bad way. A big development studio would have insisted on useless features like boss battles or some other gimmicks. The guys from Image & Form have managed to go around these modern "requirements" and delivered something that should keep people occupied and interested for hours on end.
Surprisingly enough, this game has been ported from 3DS and released simultaneously on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. This is somewhat different from the usual norm, but we, the Linux players, have learned not to be too picky, especially when it's about a good game.
Story and gameplay
Right from the bat you will understand that this is not your usual 2D adventure. It stands out through a unique art style and a funky steampunk atmosphere that blends perfectly with the game.
You will step into the shoes of Rusty, a mining robot powered by steam that arrives in the city of Tumbleton to explore the mines left by his uncle Joe, which you will find lying dead. The only inheritance consists of a vast mine and an old pickaxe.
As you might expect, you will start mining with the most primitive instruments, but you will be able to start the upgrades soon after the first round of explorations. The first item on the list will be a better pickaxe, followed by ladder, oil reserves, and more.
You will also find out that the mines are not exactly empty and that the ore will not come by easily. Most of the time you will just be driven by the upgrade system to get more metals and to improve your tools, but there are other things down there besides some fossilized creatures and precious metals.
Right from the beginning, when I understood the premise of the gameplay, I had an overwhelming feeling that it was somehow related to the dwarves' story from Lord of the Rings. When Gandalf talks about the dwarves from the Mine of Moria, he says they were too greedy and they dug too deep, unveiling an ancient evil hidden in the mountain.
This feeling followed me during the gameplay. Every time I strayed from the story path in some distant corner of the mine, just to unveil an entrance that was well hidden and that couldn't have been found without a lot of persistence, I immediately thought I had dug too far and something would strike from the shadows.
If there's something bad that can be said about Steamworld Dig is that it lacks the element of surprise. Sure enough, you will find a lot more interesting things buried, including the remnants of the human civilization, but there is nothing down there that could have pushed the game over the edge.
Rusty has two main resources that are necessary, fuel and water. If the fuel is not really an issue, the water, which is required for a lot of upgrades, is pretty scarce and the lack thereof will always haunt you.
You will always have to choose between advancing further down and hoping that some of the enemies you will defeat drop some fuel, or returning to the surface, cashing out of the gathered ore, and upgrading something.
The path to the main objective is usually quite clear and easily obtainable but, if you don't go on exploring all the corners, it's going to be very difficult to progress further. There are a lot of secrets buried in the mines, from very special ores, to entire rooms of goodies.
Steamworld Dig could have used a deeper storyline and a lot scarier and enigmatic stuff down into the mine, but it will do just fine the way it is. It's not exactly long, but the fact that the levels are randomized should provide more than enough re-playability.
The Good
- Beautiful art style
- Randomly generated levels
- Secrets buried deep in the mine
The Bad
- Should have provided more enemies
Sometimes it is enough for a game to just be pretty but, in the case of Steamworld Dig, it's a little different. The title comes with an addictive gameplay and the feeling that a major discovery is a just around the corner is constantly badgering the player.
In the end, Steamworld Dig is fun to play and gives the players an enigma to solve and a pickaxe to get to it. If you can trim everything from the gameplay, it seems that those two elements are everything you need for a great game.


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OU Football Notebook: Hundreds of fans flock to watch first hour of practice
The first hour of Thursday's practice was open to the public, and a few hundred fans lined the hill behind the OU Rugby Fields to get a glimpse of the Sooners, who were practicing in shorts and shells.
Not dressed for practice was redshirt freshman defensive end David King, whose absence might complicate a muddled battle for the position. Freshman center Ben Habern has been hampered by a lower back injury but participated in contact drills. Partial participants who were held out of contact drills included junior running back DeMarco Murray, who has an injured hamstring, and Brian Lepak, who is recovering from a high ankle sprain.
JIMMY STEVENS DELIVERS COUPLE OF CROWD PLEASERSSophomore kicker Jimmy Stevens earned two of the three loudest cheers of the day, drilling 50- and 53-yard field goals during special teams practice. Stevens was named to the Lou Groza Award watch list. The honor is given to college football's best kicker. Stevens, a Heritage Hall product, made eight of 11 field goals in 2008, but missed five extra points.


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The second-quarter performance was boosted by strong growth in sales of pediatric combination vaccines. Net sales of Pentacel((R)) (the first 5-in-1 pediatric combination vaccine licensed in the United States in June 2008 against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b) reached euro 83 million for the quarter.
Net sales of seasonal influenza vaccines rose by 3.3% to euro 32 million.
In May 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration licensed the new sanofi pasteur influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in Swiftwater where production of influenza vaccines has already begun. This facility, representing an investment of $150 million, will produce 100 million doses per year when operating at full capacity. It will take the Group's total production capacity in the United States to 150 million doses of trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine per year.
Sanofi Pasteur received several orders to produce a vaccine against the new A(H1N1) influenza strain, including two contracts from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as a contract from the French government. Sanofi Pasteur is in discussion with several other governments and announced last June its intent to donate 100 million doses of influenza vaccine to the World Health Organization to help developing countries face the influenza pandemic.
Net sales of Menactra((R)) (quadrivalent meningococcal meningitis vaccine) were up 2.5% at euro 110 million. Filing of Menactra((R)) Infant/Toddler 9 to 12 months in the United States is scheduled for the second half of 200
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The Flower begins with one circle, signifying the I AM consciousness creating form from formlessness. The next circle evolves the Vesica Pisces as it overlaps, a space that contains several essential geometric ratios, including knowledge about light. More overlapping circles create the Seed of Life, or Genesis Pattern. Additional circles give birth to the 3-D Egg of Life, a biological key, until the Flower reaches 19 circles. The perfect symmetry of the Flower of Life also contains the Seed of Life, the Kabalistic Tree of Life and Metatron's Cube, a geometric metaphor for the elements.
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This luxury ball gag teams secure leather straps and metal fastenings with a 5.5 inch rubber ball to ensure a filling fit that prevents the wearer from making noise during play. A perfect bedroom bondage gag for any level of experience.
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Bought this ball gag a little while ago now but it is a firm favourite in our play!
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The ball is of a large size but fits comfy with me, and can't imagine many women struggling to fit it in their mouth. Has been used on both partners, and yes we both love it.
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Wouldn't say it was for beginners who are a little intimidated, but I do say go for it for those who are interested in some good ball gag fun, as this was my first one also.
After a while, maybe 30/45 minutes, I can feel the straps on the corners on my mouth which begin to hurt, but 45 minutes is plenty of time to play with it. Breathing also is easy even though the ball is large.
Overall, fantastic product and long-lasting for something that's used in maybe more rough play!
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Reviewed: April 19, 2015 by redqueenwildboy, a Bisexual Going Steady Female
I got hold of this particular gag back when it came as part of a gag and blindfold set, but even on its own it is great value for money.
A very pleasant sensory experience - the soft suede-textured leather on the inside surface smells great, and the rubber ball smells weirdly of vanilla... not sure if this is deliberate, but it's certainly a nice touch!
The ball itself is firm rubber, and although not the biggest size out there, I find it jacks my jaw open to its fullest extent if it's pulled tight enough to sit on my premolar teeth. Great if you like your gag experience to feel a little bit extreme, but maybe not ideal if you're intimidated by the idea of ball gags and are looking for something petite. I've managed about half an hour of continuous wear before it got too uncomfortable.
Nice metalwork - pretty and reliable, with smoothly set grommets in the strap. I've not experimented with attaching tethers to the O-rings, but they're great for spreading put pressure over the sides of my face if it's in tightly.
A great investment for experienced players, and folks who want to experiment with ramping up their sensory/power play. Even a seasoned gear snob would be hard pressed to turn their nose up at this. Well done, Lovehoney!
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I purchased this in red and have to say, it's so pretty! I love that it's a little different than the standard black ones!
My partner loved that he could finally shut me up!
It fits perfectly. Even though I have a smaller mouth, I found it quite comfortable. My jaw was slightly sore the next day, but that's to be expected. ;)
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- The colour, the fit.
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- Nothing really.
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- It's gorgeous and works well.
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Red Hat buys virtualizer Qumranet
U.S. Linux distributor Red Hat has bought the virtual computing solutions vendor Qumranet.
Red Hat gave notice in their press conference this morning that it is taking over the virtualization applications KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and SolidICE from Qumranet, Inc. KVM has already been a component of the Linux kernel for two years. Via this acquisition, Red Hat predicts short development times and ensures comprehensive hardware support, thereby providing a strategic advantage over other solutions. SolidICE is a desktop virtualization system that can coexist with Linux or Windows. According to Red Hat CEO and President Jim Whitehurst in response to the acquisition, Red Hat thus becomes one of only two enterprises worldwide that offers complete virtualization solutions, emphasizing its equal rank with Microsoft as technology leader. Red Hat clarifies its target customers on its website in that it will offer Windows desktop users a secure and scalable virtualization platform. According to Red Hat's concept, the product will manage Windows as well as Linux server and desktop virtualization.
As CEO of Qumranet Benny Schnaider confirms, all Qumranet employees will transition to Red Hat. "We could not have found a better partner," he states. Red Hat paid around $107M in cash for the company. The acquisition should have an effect by the end of Red Hat's February 2009 fiscal year, with the revenue in the following year expected to be $20M.
Up until now the Linux distribution had set Xen as the virtualization solution for its Enterprise product RHEL. In a conversation with Red Hat manager Paul Cormier, he confirms that Xen as a component of RHEL 5 would be supported at least until 2014. However, the new Hypervisor, presented at this year's Red Hat Summit conference and to be available end of 2008, will be based on KVM. Red Hat is working on a management infrastructure to support the KVM technology.
Microsoft as technology leader in VM. I do not think so.Referencing:
"Red Hat thus becomes one of only two enterprises worldwide that offers complete virtualization solutions, emphasizing its equal rank with Microsoft as technology leader."
VMware is the undisputed leader in Virtualization. Microsoft is (has been playing) second fiddle with HyperV being the first offering from MS that migh begin to gain significant market share. That makes RedHat number three if you exlcude all the other players (and their ar a bunch).
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BROOKFIELD John Elis David Jed Threlkeld, 29, died unexpectedly at his home Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.
Jed was born in Randolph on Jan. 30, 1983, the youngest child of Linda (Wangsness) and David Threlkeld. He attended Brookfield Elementary School, Randolph Union High School and Randolph Area Vocational Center, graduating in 2001. He spent his junior year of high school in Scottsdale, Ariz. He played soccer and lacrosse.
Jed loved the woods, fishing, gardening, little kids and animals, particularly his dog, Kaya. As a little boy, he and his pony, Champ, were best of friends, and he loved riding Champ over the jumps. He was a kind and generous person, always ready to lend a helping hand to his friends. He loved his nephew, Lucian, and his niece, Elise, very much. Jed was employed as a framing carpenter in Arizona for several years. His company sent him to work in Hawaii for a period of time, which he enjoyed. He most recently worked as a carpenter for van de Ven Construction.
Jed is survived by his mother, Linda Runnion, and stepfather, Norman Runnion, of Brookfield; his father, David Threlkeld, and stepmother, Mary Pat Threlkeld, of Southington, Conn.; his sister Elizabeth Threlkeld White and her husband, Andrew, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., his sister Kirsten Threlkeld and her husband, Mark Fowler, of Burlington; his brothers, Erik Threlkeld, of Montpelier, Luke and Mark Threlkeld, of Southington, Conn.; his beloved nephew, Lucian White; and his cherished niece, Elise Fowler.
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BALSAM -- A trio of talented singer/songwriters will share the spotlight in the next Songwriters in the Round session on Saturday, Aug. 27, at the historic Balsam Mountain Inn.
Casey Kelly, Leslie Ellis and Todd Cerney will showcase their wonderful voices and interesting insights while playing songs they've authored for famous musicians, as well as a few of their own originals.
Kelley, who's written for many of Nashville's major acts, has been described by a music critic as "possibly the best songwriter in Nashville." His number one songs include: Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West; Soon by Tanya Tucker; Somewhere Down the Line by T.G. Shepherd; and George Strait's country music standard, The Cowboy Rides Away.
Ellis is an accomplished singer/songwriter who won a Grammy for her vocals on Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. She's also featured on Thomas Dolby's latest album, Forty, and sang the song Six Times Around the Sun for the soundtrack to the CBS mini-series "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town." Ellis founded Working Jane Music and released her first solo album in 1996.
Cerney is a versatile musician who has penned many songs for artists from Lynyrd Skynyrd to John Anderson. His works include I'll Still Be Loving You by Restless Heart.
The Songwriters session is in the inn's 100-seat Seven Springs at Balsam restaurant and will be accompanied by a gourmet dinner buffet. The evening begins at 7:30 p.m. Cover charge is $7 per person, plus dinner charge (about $24 to $27). Reservations are encouraged as most sessions sell out.
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An article in this month's Hurdle Magazine (which comes out June 14th) will feature a training session with an athlete who needed help breaking the habit of kicking out her lead leg. Here's a snippet of that article, which is entitled "Learning to Cycle:"
On top of the hurdle, Nadia's lead leg remains bent so that she can properly cycle it, and then cycle the trail leg as well. A lot of hurdlers will flatten out their lead leg at this point in clearance and try their best to "skim" the crossbar along the length of the entire leg. That's not what we want to do. We want to create a downhill angle like we have here, so that we are coming DOWN on the hurdle, and will therefore be able to come off the hurdle faster than we went into it. You can also see that Nadia's forward lean is more pronounced, as she pushes her chest down over her lead leg thigh, minimizing her airtime, pushing herself back to the ground. I've always said that the lean is not just about hurdle clearance, but even more importantly about creating speed off the hurdle. Meanwhile, Nadia's trail leg is in excellent position, with the knee facing the front and the toe cocked to avoid contact with the barrier. The lead arm is crossing the body, but if that's as far across as it goes, then she'll be okay.
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I recently received an email from Michael Daniels of Baton Rouge, LA. Daniels went to high school with Rodney Milburn, the 1972 Olympic champion in the 110 hurdles. A biography that I wrote on Milburn, The Quiet Champion, is available to read on this website.
Daniels is the project leader of the J.S. Clark Memorial Walkway in Milburn's hometown of Opelousas, LA. (J.S. Clark is the name of the high school Milburn attended; it no longer exists). A bust of Milburn will be a feature of the project. The bust is already completed, and was sculpted by DJ Dawden of Utah. Clark says that, "like all of us, Dawden felt a kinship to Rodney. I sent him about 10 pics. He did a composite using those and he added the gold medal. All of Rodney's family cried when we had the unveiling."
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At my new teaching job I gave the students an extra credit assignment that involved writing a one-page response to an episode of Spike TV's reality show "Coaching Bad." If you haven't seen it, it features a group of about six coaches from various sports (including one track coach) and shows how they have serious anger issues and control issues and can be very abusive to their athletes. The host is former NFL star Ray Lewis, who tries to get the coaches to see the errors of their ways, and tries to get them to change for the better.
So I was reading through my students' responses, when I came across a line in one of them in which the student referred to one of the coaches as a "very bad coacher." Coacher? At first I thought it must've been a typo, but then I realized that this student, who had no athletic background whatsoever, assumed that "coacher" was the right word to identify someone who coaches. When I returned the papers I asked him about it, and he said "Yeah, coacher."
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If you are interested by the Comet concept and still need to decide which server to use, I recommend you take a look at the latest CometDaily article called Comet Gazing: Maturity. This is quite interesting to see the fast adoption of Comet, and the growing list of Web Server's Comet-only features supported....Of course I'm biased when it is time to pick the right implementation....mixing fish and bear produces really fast Comet :-)
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You can find the original post with different tacos and salsas here: http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2012/06/homemade-taco-recipes.html I'm making everything this weekend for a birthday party and will update forks accordingly.flag if inappropriate
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Short ribs are very fatty, so it's important to stay on top of them to prevent flare ups. This is very much like the way I've seen these made in Korea. Simple but very tasty. If using really sweet onion like Vidalias, there's no need to rinse. Otherwise a quick rinse will make the onion mild enough so as to not overwhelm the taste of the meat.flag if inappropriate
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Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The European Financial Stability Facility issued six-month debt for the first time, selling 1.5 billion euros ($1.9 billion) of securities a day after the euro region's temporary bailout fund lost its top credit rating.
The EFSF sold the 182-day bills at an average yield of 0.2664 percent, it said in a statement. Investors bid for 3.1 times the amount of bills sold, little changed from the 3.2 bid-to-cover ratio at a Dec. 13 offering of three-month bills. The facility's longer-dated bonds underperformed their euro-area peers after the Standard & Poor's downgrade to AA+ from AAA.
"The fact that the bill auction has gone so smoothly is encouraging," said John Davies, a fixed-income strategist at WestLB AG in London. "The much bigger hurdle will be when, say, the EFSF comes to market with a five-year bond."
The EFSF, designed to finance rescue packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal with bond sales, owed its AAA rating to guarantees from its sponsoring nations. Two of those sovereigns, France and Austria, were cut on Jan. 13 to AA+ from AAA by S&P, which also downgraded seven other euro countries.
"The EFSF's obligations are no longer fully supported either by guarantees from EFSF members rated AAA by S&P, or by AAA rated securities," S&P said yesterday. "Credit enhancements sufficient to offset what we view as the reduced creditworthiness of guarantors are currently not in place."
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The decision was a "mechanical consequence" of the previous rating cuts and "does not represent in any way a lack of trust in the European financial backstops," European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj told reporters in Brussels today.
"The EFSF has sufficient means to fulfill its commitments under current and potential future adjustment programs," said Klaus Regling, chief executive officer of the EFSF, said in an e-mail late yesterday.
S&P said governments "may currently be exploring credit-enhancement options" and if the EFSF adopts improvements "sufficient to offset its now-reduced creditworthiness," the rating company "would likely raise" the rating back to AAA.
Euro-area finance ministers will discuss at a Jan. 23 meeting how to respond to the downgrade, a person familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
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Investors have taken the S&P downgrades of euro-area nations in their stride in an echo of the rally in Treasuries that followed the company's downgrade of the U.S. last year. French borrowing costs fell at a sale of one-year notes yesterday and borrowing costs also dropped for Spain today in its first debt offering after a two-step cut by S&P.
Japan's support for the EFSF won't be immediately affected by the rating cut, Finance Minister Jun Azumi told reporters in Tokyo today.
The facility plans to to hold "regular" auctions of three-, six- and 12-month bills, Christophe Frankel , deputy chief executive officer of the EFSF, said in an e-mailed statement. Today's auction "confirms investors' confidence in EFSF as a high quality issuer," he said.
Still, the extra yield investors demand to hold the EFSF's 2.75 percent bonds due July 2016 rather than benchmark German government debt increased nine basis points, or 0.09 percentage point, to 163 basis points. The spread has widened 15 basis points from Jan. 13, the day France and Austria lost their AAA ratings at S&P. Ten-year EFSF debt underperformed all other euro-area sovereigns, bond-spread data show.
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Regling underscored the fact that the EFSF, which has a capacity of 440 billion euros, will be replaced by a permanent fund in July. The European Stability Mechanism will be less vulnerable to rating changes, he told reporters in Singapore.
Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who leads euro-area finance ministers, said the EFSF "will continue to be backed by unconditional and irrevocable guarantees by euro-area member states."
While S&P left the door open to return the EFSF to AAA status, it also said that if enhancements are "not likely to be forthcoming," it would change the outlook to negative to "mirror the negative outlooks of France and Austria."
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble indicated the government won't increase its guarantee on the facility, saying the nation's liability of 211 billion euros is sufficient to ensure the EFSF's ability to lend.
"The guarantee sum that we have is sufficient by far for what the EFSF has to do in coming months," he said yesterday in an interview on Deutschlandfunk radio. Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Jan. 14 that she was "always of the opinion that the EFSF doesn't necessarily need a AAA rating."
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DAWSON -- James Calvin Laye, 86, of Parrott, passed away on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at Willson Hospice House in Albany. Graveside services will be held on Friday, March 9, 2012 at 11:00 A.M. in the Parrott City Cemetery with Elder Hugh "Buddy" Blankenship officiating. A visitation will be held at Harvey Funeral Home on Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M.
James was born May 16, 1925 in Parrott, GA to the late James Calhoun Laye and the late Daisy Eudora Culpepper Laye. He was a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Preston.
Preceding James in death were his parents; his wife, Mable Valula Leverett Laye; son, Steve Laye; one brother and four sisters.
Survivors include sons, Lawrence Calvin Laye (Maria) of Parrott, Don Laye (Susan) of Parrott, and Eddie W. Laye of Columbus; eleven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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An erection can be induced as a physiological response even when psychologically the man does not want sex. Yes, a man can be raped by a woman.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
I also want to say that I didn't mean the question in any bad way. I was just curious and since I'm not a man or a doctor I don't know how things work. So, I was in no way belittling rape to a man!
I didn't think you were belittling it. Lots of guys don't know that they can be raped.
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The male doesn't need to be drugged, just overpowered. And it doesn't have to be anal sex. A male can be, for lack of a better term, forced to get an erection. It may not have the full power of an erection based on actual physical desire, but the involuntary simulus response is the same. Unless a guy has a physiological reason why they cannot get an erection, like needing drugs to get or maintain an erection, they can get an erection.
Just ask any guy who rode a school bus wearing loose fitting pants or shorts when they were 15.
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