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In the small amount of time I have had testing and looking over NAS products, it has become increasingly clear NAS vendors see tremendous value in the home user. If we look back just a few years ago, NAS appliances were, to be honest, tedious devices to setup. This left a lot of users not wanting to mess with and use these devices as most saw them as very expensive external hard drives.
In the past year, things have changed, with most vendors going for that user-friendly approach including intuitive apps that people want, case and point HD Station. What started out with one vendor in QNAP now has every NAS manufacturer including it within their products.
Then came along the cloud movement, which really stemmed from average users, like you and me, wanting options to store our files easily without all the mess of setting up an extensive network, or having great knowledge about networking. With QNAP, they have all of the underlying network knowledge built into an application that configures it for you with a few clicks here and there.
As I stated in the introduction, there are a plethora of cloud storage options available to you. What it really comes down to is cost, where as you can see in the graphic above, services like Dropbox charge you nearly $1500 per year for ten users and 2TB of storage. If you have more users and need more storage, you're looking close to seven grand for 50 users and 10TB of storage, per year!
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The urology in these two volumes is presented by Dr. Campbell. It does not differ greatly in arrangement or presentation from that found in the standard textbooks on the subject. The general discussion does not differ from one on the urology of adults, except that data on children are included. The material is covered thoroughly, with particular reference to conditions met frequently by the pediatrician, such as infections, enuresis and anomalies of the genito-urinary tract. Diseases of the external genitals are discussed and pictured. A great deal of space is used in describing and picturing operative procedures.
Dr. Lyttle's contribution consists of about 45 pages on chronic interstitial nephritis. He gives a fine presentation of the accepted opinions on the nephritides, nephrosis and related conditions.
The subjects discussed by both authors are well covered, and both should be commended for their presentation of material. However, there is no doubt that
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------Ecclesiastes 11:7,8 Nothing on earth is more beautiful than the morning sun. Even if you live to a ripe old age, you should try to enjoy each day, because darkness will come and will last a long time. (CEV)
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I think that citalopram will be finally approvedsoon (Sept or Oct.).Can anyone contribute somemarketing analysis and post them here?How muchmarket share FRX will get? And how long will FRX take toreach the maximum ? Current stock price is 33after split. Last year it was 15-18.Should Iwait for FRX drop to 30 or buy it now.
We have had FRX in our portfolio for a couple ofyears now and I am glad to see them coming up...noguarantees, but approval looks good to me on celexa....maybeshouldn't wait too long to make decision on buy...might notgo to 30...good luck!
when is this supposed to "hit the market". i'm not sure if i spelled "celexa" correctly but i am referring to the drug which is comparable to prozac.
Bear Stearns put FRX on their list Wednesday as a "neutral". I believe this is the lowest rating they give. Most brokerages prefer to use warm and fuzzy words like these for "sell".


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Professor certified as health geneticist
Published: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 11:46 a.m.
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THIBODAUX — A Nicholls State University professor has become the first certified public health geneticist in Louisiana.
Such specialists study genetics from a population-wide standpoint to look for trends in diseases like cancer, diabetes and asthma.
Associate Professor John Doucet completed a certification program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., over the past year.
"Normally, a patient goes to the doctor to be treated, but the doctor doesn't look beyond the single patient or beyond the patient's immediate family," Doucet said.
"Many of the more chronic diseases the majority of Americans contract are genetic," he said. "We're understanding more and more about the genetic components. We're looking at more common diseases with the interaction with many genes."
Doucet has been at Nicholls for 12 years. He is acting head of the biological sciences department and director of Nicholls' honors program.
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On June 7th, over 50 members of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club gathered together to conduct 3 beach cleanups - at Middle Island itself, at a rocky beach around Middle Island and at Round Island. A Noel Croucher and 2 RIBs shuttled people back and forth. The outcome was amazing - it is great what 50 people can do in one hour. All loved it and requested we organize this more often. Next one to come in Autumn!
Fresh water river dive, max depth around 10m so good for every level of diver. Historic bridge with biker meeting point.
Dive Against Debris day with Beach Barbeque. DAD specialty available on the day.
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To celebrate World Water Day 2015, we will be organizing a Beach cleanup in collaboration with Panga Chumvi Resort and with the help of ZANREC, an innovative waste management company on Zanzibar Island. The event will start at 10am , as the tide will start going out, so plenty of time to pick up the maximum of trash!
Únete a nosotros ¿Cuál es el plan? Una mañana maravillosa para nosotros y para el medio ambiente, el domingo 25 de mayo del 1014, realizaremos una jornada de limpieza y recolección de basuras en una de las playas más visitadas por los buzos en la Isla de Barú.
Programa: Clean up de la playa "Palitos", certificación de Project Aware, 1 fun dive, refrigerios y regalo sorpresa!
Incluye los elementos de recolección, los traslados en lancha, bebidas hidratantes y la certificación de Project Aware y 1 inmersión.
This AWARE project is planned in conjunction with my attempt to set a new Guinness World Records in the category of Longest Open Saltwater Scuba Dive.
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Studio: Lionsgate
Director: David Barrett
MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, language and brief sexuality)
Screenwriter: Tom O'Connor
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Julian McMahon, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Richard Schiff, Vinnie Jones
Genre: Action
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After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter, Jeremy Coleman (Duhamel) barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against a crime lord, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals Service. As his new identity becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get is life back and save the lives of those he loves.


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Senate Republicans Block Bill for Ill 9/11 Workers
Senate Republicans blocked a bill providing as much as $7.4 billion in health costs for thousands of volunteers and workers ill from toxic dust after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
The 57-to-42 vote along party lines cut off debate three votes short of the 60 needed to bring the bill to the floor under the Senate's procedural rules. Republicans objected that the program would have been financed by eliminating a tax break given to foreign corporations with U.S. subsidiaries.
The bill, named after James Zadroga, a New York City police officer who died of respiratory disease after working on recovery operations in the trade center rubble, passed the House of Representatives in September.
The Senate vote is "a tragic example of partisan politics trumping patriotism," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an e-mailed statement. He urged the Republicans to reconsider.
"We have a collective responsibility to care for the heroes -- from all 50 states -- who answered the call of duty, saved lives and helped our nation recover," Bloomberg said.
Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said today's procedural vote hasn't killed the bill.
"Republicans asked that the Senate first pass the funding bill and the bill to prevent tax hikes," he said in an e-mail. Democrats "can call a vote on it again after the tax and government-funding bills are complete."
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, criticized Republicans for derailing the bill after reaching an agreement this week with President Barack Obama to keep the Bush-era tax cuts in place for top earners.
"Republicans denied adequate health care to the heroes who developed illnesses from rushing into burning buildings on 9/11," Reid said in a statement. "Yet they will stop at nothing to give tax breaks to millionaires and CEOs."
More than 30,000 workers and survivors of the 2001 attacks responded to the attack site while it burned for several weeks. Last month, 10,043 settled lawsuits claiming illness and injury from the alleged failure of the city and 140 contractors to adequately protect them. They will participate in a fund of about $625 million created by the U.S. government.
Thousands more already have chronic illnesses or are at risk of developing them over the next 10 years, Bloomberg has said, citing health officials. The money provided by the bill would have been deposited into a fund through 2020.
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Very beautiful!
Gorgeous work! It almost makes me miss winter. The coloring is marvellous.
I dont want winter for at least seven months, but this really nice piece reminds me of it in a different - and so romantic! - way.
wonderful technique and colors
Beautiful winterday, love it.
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#1 Apr 12, 2012
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Mastic Beach will hold the 2012 Budget Hearing on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Town of Brookhaven Senior Nutrition Center, 369 Neighborhood Road, Mastic Beach, New York. Copies of the tentative 2012-2013 budget will be available during regular business hours at the Mastic Beach Village Hall, 427 Neighborhood Road, Mastic Beach, New York on April 10, 2012.
#2 Apr 12, 2012
I looked at it and it needs a breakdown/translation when they put 1.5 million dollars and call the spending a silly name so we can't understand exactly what is being spent and what it is being spent on.
#3 Apr 12, 2012
I saw it and fell down when I saw $97,000 for cultural arts expenses. In case you are confused that is for carnivals parades floats and more Coney Island murals. That is ridiculous.
#4 Apr 12, 2012
And the 84 grand for the "parks department"?!? We don't have any parks! Why do we need 84 thousand for NO PARKS!?! WTF is up with this Vision?
#5 Apr 12, 2012
The trustees will now sic Mr' Snead on you if you dare ask to FOIL any village docs. Snead has now been appointed "FOIL Appeals Officer". What a crock this village has turned out to be.
#6 Apr 12, 2012
Who wants to bet a MILLION dollars, that I will gladly donate to the village, that they will NEVER post this new "budget" on the village web-site?
Anyone? Brady? You prepared to lose a million dollars?
#7 Apr 12, 2012
The longer this type of stuff with the family jobs etc goes on the quicker i am to see a petition started to dissolve the village. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this is heading down a one way road. The wrong way.
#8 Apr 12, 2012
I want to know, what happened to COST NEUTRAL while keeping the SAME EXACT SERVICES? I looks like to me that we are paying far more than we were for far LESS services! Who is to blame for this? Paul or Joe? I mean, it can't be any of the other Vision Team members, can it?
#9 Apr 12, 2012
Next the vision team will be selling us the idea that they need salaries of only 1 dollar. Problem with that is it will cost us to put them into the NY State pension system the minute they start drawing a salary.
Petition to dissolve while we are still solvent anyone?
#10 Apr 12, 2012
Garys da bomb Mastoidz dont vote occupied sniffin glue and downing deep throat
#11 Apr 13, 2012
there are NO PARKS that belong to mastic beach village. all parks are town owned and operated. why do we need a parks department?
what is a foil appeals officer? i thought that FREEDOM OF INFORMATION act was so that anybody could get a copy of what they want. where's the freedom in that????
is there another salary for the foil appeals officer? just wondering
#12 Apr 13, 2012
Hope so.
#13 Apr 13, 2012
Village Board Meeting April 10, 2012
"Appointing Timothy Brojer as Village Administrator"
"Appointing Timothy Brojer as Village Code Enforcement Official"
"Appointing Jennifer Brojer as Village Deputy Treasurer".
Are these jobs being posted so village residents who are interested can apply?
Timothy Brojer is the village building inspector. So he has 3 job titles now?
This is getting very confusing.
#14 Apr 13, 2012
Sounds like 4 checks going to the Brojer family.
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#15 Apr 13, 2012
where did you see 1.5 mill. being called a "silly name" the only thing I saw close to that amount was refuse... which I thought everyone knew means garbage. Did I miss an item?
#16 Apr 13, 2012
Which copy are you looking at? The one on the website? Oh that's right it's not posted on the website for everyone to see.Perhaps we need to file a FOIL with Mr. Snead so we can see a copy.
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#17 Apr 14, 2012
I went down to village hall, where copies have been available for a few days. But with a response like that I doubt you have even seen a copy. It appears as if you and trying to fuel a fire.
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#18 Apr 14, 2012
sorry I meant *are* not *and*
#20 Apr 14, 2012
I agree it should be posted, but why the "KneeGrow" alias?
#21 Apr 16, 2012
bump for meeting tonite
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This application contains subject matter related to subject matter disclosed in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/843,713, filed on Aug. 23, 2007, and U.S. application Ser. No. 11/843,968, filed on Aug. 23, 2007.
This invention relates to a service registry and repository system and method. In particular this invention relates to a service registry and repository system and method for accessing an object in an object repository using a treat as function in a path expression.
A service registry and repository registers and stores service descriptions as part of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) promising business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. These promises are addressed by separating service descriptions from their implementations, and using the service descriptions across the life cycle of the service. Standards-based service metadata artefacts, such as Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), XML schema, policy or Service Component Architecture (SCA) documents, capture the technical details of what a service can do, how it can be invoked, or what it expects other services to do. Semantic annotations and other metadata can be associated with these artefacts to offer insight to potential users of the service on how and when it can be used, and what purposes it serves.
Service descriptions are used by analysts, architects, and developers during a Development Phase of the SOA life cycle to locate services to reuse and to evaluate the impact of changes to service configurations. Service descriptions are used by deployers in a Change and Release Phase and by administrators in a Runtime Integration Phase. It is used in the Operation Phase of the life cycle to support policy enforcement required by Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to present a more comprehensive view of the managed service environment. Service descriptions are used by various technologies for different purposes and needs to be persisted in a reliable and accessible format. Service descriptions are variously described as metadata, objects, documents, entities and artefacts.
A service registry and repository is an application that persists service descriptions as a data objects in a relational database system. Typically a user uses a graphical tool to design classes that represent the service descriptions that need to be persisted. Java objects, that represent the classes, are compiled into binary files. Database schema is generated that can represent the objects and is installed into a relational database (IBM�DB2�, Oracle� etc). The objects are registered with service register and stored within the repository. The objects are persisted and retrieved directly from the object database. IBM and DB2 are registered trademarks or trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.
One type of service registry and repository stores the descriptions as objects within the repository and queries the repository using an object query language. An example of this type of service registry, IBM WebSphere� Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), uses an IBM object query language called XMeta Query Language (XMQL) for internal communication with the repository. WebSphere is a registered trademark or trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and other countries. XMeta Query Language (XMQL) is a declarative object query language designed for the efficient retrieval of objects stored in a repository such as WSRR. XMQL allows the use of the dot operator for accessing predefined properties on a given modelled object type. XMQL also allows a dereferencing operator for traversing relationships between any two given object types. The XMQL query expression is defined in the context of a given package registered with WSRR. XMQL has a "SELECT-FROM-WHERE" type of structure and returns a set of objects.
Patent publication U.S. Pat. No. 7,028,028 (Enosys Markets Inc.) discloses a system for querying markup language data stored in a relational database according to markup language schema. The system translates from the input XML query language to apply corresponding query instructions to the underlying relational database using a relational database query language such as SQL.
Although a relational database query language is a useful way to access objects in a repository it does not return complex collection of objects as an object query language can. As such, an object query language is a powerful way to access objects in a repository. Furthermore, object query languages provide additional features such as object references and dot notation where SQL does not. However, one problem for users accessing objects in the repository is that a specialized object query language can be counter intuitive if one is used to a different query language such as a path expression query language. XPath is a path expression language that is more suitable for accessing content within an XML instance document than for accessing objects in an object database but many users are familiar with it and prefer to use it to locate objects.
XPath defines a query using a path to point to a type of object, if the XPath query further defines the objects it wants to select by a property or relationship of a subtype but not necessarily the that type then it uses a treat-as expression. For instance, the XPath expression for selecting 3 wheeled Italian cars would be defined as selecting from objects that are Italian vehicles that can be treated as cars with three wheels. This is because three wheels is a property of cars but not necessarily vehicles and Italian is a property of vehicles. It would be advantageous to be able to use an XPath treat-as expression to access objects in a service registry and repository.
According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a method of managing an object database for objects as described in claim 1. During the translation process optimizations can be made. For instance predicate functions in the path query might normally be translated in a separate process. Within a translation process from path query to object query there is an opportunity to perform the query predicate functions.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described, by means of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is a master metadata repository for service definitions. Such service definitions include traditional internet services that implement WSDL and XSD interfaces with SOAP/HTTP (simple object access protocol and hypertext transfer protocol) as well as a broad range of SOA services that can be described using WSDL, XSD and policy decorations. The service definitions might use a range of protocols and be implemented according to a variety of programming models. WSDL stands for web service definition language. XSD stands for XML schema definition language where XML is extensible mark up language. SOAP and HTTP stand for simple object access protocol and hypertext transfer protocol respectively. SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 10 (WSRR) is a Java™ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application that runs on a WebSphere Application Server 8 and uses a relational database as a backing store for service metadata persistence. As such, it takes advantage of the role-based access control provided by WebSphere Application Server so that role-based views and access control can be turned on when WSRR is deployed as an enterprise-wide application. Referring to
The registry and repository core 12 offers both registry function and repository function for service metadata. The repository function allows users to store, manage and query service metadata artifacts holding service descriptions (WSDL, XSD, WS-Policy, SCDL or XML documents). It not only takes good care of the documents containing service metadata, but it also provides a fine-grained representation of the content of those documents (for example, ports and portTypes in WSDL documents). The registry function makes provision for decorating registered service declarations and elements of the derived content models with user-defined properties, relationships, and classifiers. The registry and repository core provides a rich query interface 14 that makes use of those decorations when a search is performed to find entities such as a service endpoint or service interface.
Whenever a change to registry or repository content is detected by registry and repository core, it invokes all validation and notification function that are registered in the validation register 16 and the notification register 16. Both kinds of function are considered extension mechanisms that can be used to customize how WSRR reacts to changes. Validation function can be written and registered that the registry and repository core will execute when changes are made to the content. For example, a validation function that checks for completeness of a service definition. Notification functions can be written and registered to communicate changes to the content of the repository. The registry and repository core comes with an out-of-the-box JMS notification plug-in. The registry and repository core has a subscription capability that allows your users to register their interest in consuming notifications.
Through the governance component 14, WSRR supports a rich set of extensible governance functions, including the ability to model service life cycle model for governed entities, define valid transitions between service states, write and plug-in validators to guard the transitions between states, and designate (notification) actions to be taken as result of the transition. It also provides interfaces to analyze the impact of changes to WSRR content, and provides auditing of such changes.
The classification component 22 allows service descriptions and parts of service definitions to be annotated with corporate vocabulary and to capture the governance state. WSRR classification systems are captured in web ontology language (OWL) documents that are loaded into Registry and Repository using the administrative interface. WSRR entities can be classified with values from these classification systems, which allows classification-based queries to be performed, and access restricted based on classification.
The access controller 24 supports a fine-grained access control model that allows for the definition of which user roles can perform specific types of actions on corresponding artifacts. Visibility of services can be restricted by business area and user roles can be restricted from transitioning services to certain life cycle states. This is in addition to the role-based access control provided by the WebSphere Application Server.
The administration interface 26 support the import and export of WSRR content for exchange with other WSRR repositories and provide a JMX-based API for Registry and Repository configuration and basic administration. These support interactions with the Access Controller and with the Classifier.
User interface 28 comprises a web interface and an eclipse plugin interface to enable interaction with WSRR. A servlet-based web user interface (UI) supports is the main way for users representing different roles to interact with WSRR. The Web interface supports all user roles, offering lookup, browse, retrieve, publish, and annotate capabilities, as well as governance activities, such as import/export and impact analysis. A subset of this user interface is offered as an Eclipse plug-in to meet developer needs and analyst users needs that use Eclipse based-tooling. The Eclipse plug-in is used primarily for lookup, browse, retrieve and publish capabilities. The Web-based user interface can also be used for performing service metadata management and governance.
Programming interface 30 uses Java and SOAP APIs to interact programmatically with registry and repository core 12. These APIs provide basic CRUD operations, governance operations, and a flexible query capability based on XPath. The SOAP API is used to communicate content using XML data structures. The Java API is used to communicate content using service data object(SDO) graphs. Using either the user interface 30 or the programming interface 28 documents and concepts managed by WSRR can be created, retrieved, updated and deleted. However, logical entities in the logical model cannot be modified and these can only be changed by updating a document that contains the logical entity. Concepts can be created, retrieved and deleted.
WSRR supports two application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used to interact with the registry and repository core 12; the governance component 20 and the administration interface 26: a Java-based API and a SOAP-based API. Both APIs support publishing (creating and updating) service metadata artifacts and metadata associated with those artifacts, retrieving service metadata artifacts, deleting the artifacts and their metadata, and querying the content of the Registry and Repository. The programming APIs use Service Data Objects (SDO) to capture the data graphs inherent in the content model, allowing access to physical documents, logical parts of the physical documents, and concepts. The SOAP API uses XML documents to similarly represent Service Data Objects to communicate content structures in both the physical and logical model.
XPath expressions are used to perform searches with the query interface 14 for coarse- and fine-grained queries. Queries can be performed using semantic annotations, properties, and all or parts of physical service metadata artifacts. Fragments of metadata be returned (such as endpoints), all metadata be returned, and both metadata and documents be returned. In addition to "free-form" XPath-based queries, a set of pre-canned queries are available to use to address common paths through the WSRR content model. An XPath expression identifies the type of managed entity to be returned and filters that capture the managed elements related to the desired object. Extensions are provided to include classification annotations in a query. For example, if the search is for all WSDLServices that have a port that refers to a binding that refers to a portType named "StockQuotePortType", the following query expression would be used:
/WSRR/WSDLService[port/binding/portType/@name='StockQuote PortType'];
The governance component 20 allows analysis of the impact of changes to specific artefacts through an API. A set of predefined impact queries is available to help you navigate through the registry and repository content according to popular patterns, such as which WSDL files import or use this XSD. In addition one can use Governance operations to request life cycle transitions for a governed entity as well as the configuration of e-mail notifications for users interested in specific content changes.
The administration interface 26 provides a JMX-based administration API that supports basic configuration and loading and managing of metadata in support of repository content, such as classification and life cycle management. The administration API allows you to load definitions of state machines to be used to model the life cycle of governed entities, and to load classification systems described in OWL. In addition, the administration API supports registration of plug-ins for validation functions or additional notification functions.
Referring to
Service Description Entities 302 stored and managed in Registry and Repository comprise physical documents 306; logical derivations 308 and concepts 310. Physical Documents 306 are XML documents that are known as service metadata artefacts. Logical derivations 308 are the finer-grained pieces of content that result when some types of physical document are shredded as they are loaded into Registry and Repository. Concepts 310 are generic entities that are usually typed, and represent anything that is not represented by a document in Registry and Repository. All three types of service description entities can be use in queries, have service annotations applied, and have relationships established from and to them.
The most elemental building blocks for the WSRR are the physical documents 306 such as XSD, WSDL, SCDL or WS-Policy documents. In addition any XML service metadata artifact type or binary document can be stored in WSRR and receive the benefits of broader visibility, reuse, management, and governance. The coarse-grained model made up from registry objects that represents those documents is referred to as the physical model. Documents are versionable objects in the WSRR content model, which means that in addition to a URI, name, and description, they also have a version property.
For some of the physical document types, WSRR derives logical objects and stores them in logical derivations 308. For instance, WSRR can "shred" a document upon receipt into a set of logical objects to enable users to explore WSRR content beyond the boundaries of the files stored. Logical objects are not versionable. For some physical document types, WSRR defines a predefined properties and detects relationships to other physical documents. An XSD document, for example, has a target Namespace property and the relationships with other imported XSD documents, other redefined XSD documents and other included XSD documents. When an entry for a certain physical document is created in WSRR, it is introspected for relationships to other artifacts. If not already represented in WSRR, a related artefact is also added, and in either case the relationship between the artifacts is recorded.
The set of logical derivations comprises the logical model of WSRR. The logical model has entities such as portType, port, and message related to WSDL files, and complexType or simpleType related to XSD documents. Elements of the logical model have properties and relationships reflecting a subset of their characteristics as defined in the underlying document. For example, a WSDLService element has a namespace property and a relationship to the ports it contains. It is important to note that all individual results of document shredding are aggregated into one logical model that represents not only the content of individual documents, but also relationships between content in different documents.
WSRR stores other types of service metadata using the XML Document, a generic document type. Documents of type XMLDocument are not decomposed into the logical model.
WSRR uses a concept to represent anything that does not have a physical document. Concepts 310 are used to represent a reference to content in some other metadata repository, such as a portlet in a portlet catalogue or an asset in an asset repository. It can also be used to group physical artifacts together to govern them as a unit; for example, concepts can be versioned.
In addition to content directly related to entities 302, WSRR supports a number of metadata types that are used to describe entities 302. These metadata types are referred to as service description metadata 304. WSRR supports three types of service semantic metadata types: properties 312; relationships 314; and classifications 316. All three types describe physical model entities, logical model entities, and/or concepts. For example, service description metadata can be used to associate a property "businessValue" with a physical model entity representing a WSDL file. It might also be used to define a new relationship "makesUseOf" between an entity in the logical model representing a "portType" and an entity in the physical model representing an XML document. Furthermore one could create a classification of "importantThings" and associate it with a "port" entity in the logical model and with an entity in the physical model representing a "Policy" document. This enables semantic queries to target individual elements of the service metadata, and meaningful dependency analyses to take place prior to making changes.
Properties 312 are simple name/value pairs that are associated with any of the Service Description Entities 302. Some properties are assigned by the system, such as the unique id, the owner, and the last time the service entity was changed. These system-assigned properties cannot be changed. Others are derived through the "shredding" of a key-type service description document into its logical model. Properties of this type include name and namespace. Sometimes these system-assigned values are allowed to be changed and properties can be created. Such a user-defined property can be used as a simple, unstructured and untyped extension mechanism. Properties 312 can be used in queries, and can be used to establish fine-grained access control.
Relationships 314 tie together one source service description entity to one or more target service description entities. Every relationship is given a name and a source is only allowed to have a single relationship with a given name. Some relationships are assigned by WSRR during the "shredding" of key types of documents. The relationship established between XSD documents based on the importing of one into the other is one such system-assigned relationship. Relationships can also be user defined. For example, a user can: relate a concept that represents an external object to a service using a user defined relationship; relate all of the service description documents that will be governed as a unit to a governable entity; and/or relate a monitoring policy to a service endpoint.
A user can load classification 316 into WSRR where they can then be used to apply semantic meaning to service description entities 302. Classification systems are documents encoded using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). WSRR represents OWL Classes as classifiers and interprets the subTypeOf relationship between those Classes as establishing a classifier hierarchy. Other OWL concepts such as data or relationship representing properties or other built-in OWL relationships are ignored. A classification system is imported into Registry and Repository as a whole and can not be modified via WSRR. Updates are done by importing a modified version of the ontology. Any Class in the underlying ontology can be used as a classification; the same classification can be used to classify multiple entities and an entity can be associated with multiple classifications.
In one embodiment the invention is provided as discrete nested logical entities within the Query manager 14 as shown in
The XMQL query engine 420 is a standard XMQL query engine using an XMQL query expression to access objects in WSRR.
The XPath query translator 400 performs the translation between an input XPath expression and returns as output a XMQL expression.
The XPath register 408 stores the XPath query expression so that it may be operated on by the node generator, register and validator 410. The example 408A in
The hierarchical node generator, register and validator 410 operates on the stored XPath query expression by building the node hierarchy, registering the hierarchy and validating that the hierarchy and the nodes conform to what is expected by the service registry and repository. The reference 410 in
The tracker 414 comprises register for each of: FROM clause; WHERE clause and selector. The FROM clause and WHERE clause registers are appended after processing each node in the hierarchical node register. The selector may depend on the class of the node that is being processed.
Subtracker 415 is used to translate an XPath Query that contains a 'treat-as' expression into XMQL. The subtracker 415 builds up the subselect clause that becomes part of the WHERE clause that is managed by the top level tracker 414. Subtracker 415 can contain a further subtracker that corresponds to a further use of treat-as within an XPath expression. A recursive relationship allows for the treatment of models with more than one occurrence of a relationship to a supertype which has subtypes that have relationships not defined on the supertype.
The SELECT clause generator 416 derives the SELECT clause from the last known selector if it is valid; this derivation gives a reasonable approximation and is correct much of the time. However, other factors may be taken into account for more complex XPath expressions where a simple approximation is not correct.
The XMQL register and generator 418 bring the SELECT clause; the FROM clause and the WHERE clause together as a complete XMQL expression. See 418 in
If the tracker 414 contains a subtracker 415, then an EXIST clause has to be added to the WHERE CLAUSE. If the WHERE CLAUSE is empty then only the EXIST clause is added otherwise it is combined with the rest of the WHERE CLAUSE by an AND operator. The EXIST CLAUSE is of the form EXIST (XMQL SELECT statement).
The XPath tree node processor 412 controls the individual processing of the nodes in the hierarchical node tree and loops back to process each node of the tree. When all the nodes are processed then the XPath tree node processor hands control back to the XPath query translator 400.
The node counter 452 points to the current node.
The node search type locator 454 acquires the XPath expression for the current node and finds the class of node and the properties associated with it. If the located search type is not the same as in the search type register then tracker selector register is incremented and the search type register 456 is updated with the located search type.
The FROM clause generator 460 combines the current node and the current selector into a FROM clause portion if the search type is of the FROM class. The FROM clause portion is added to the tracker 414.
The WHERE clause generator 462 translates a predicate using properties associated with the particular search type into a WHERE clause portion if the search type is of the WHERE class. The WHERE clause portion is added to the tracker 414 or sub-tracker 415. If the WHERE clause generator 462 processes the sub-SELECT clause of the subtracker 415, it adds in addition to the portion related to the predicate a condition that links the scope of the sub-select clause to the scope of the select clause.
Treat-as processor 564 is called to check for treat-as expressions. The processor detects the start and end of a treat-as expression in an XPath expression. The start of a treat-as expression triggers the XPath node processor to use the subtracker 415 instead of the tracker 414. The end of the treat-as expression triggers the XPath node processor to use the tracker 414 again. All other node processing remains mostly the same and, in the main, dealing with translating of the treat-as expression is a case of whether which tracker 414 or subtracker 415 is used.
The query management system is one embodiment of the invention. In a preferred embodiment the invention is provided as a process as shown in
In step 500 an input XPath query is received.
In step 502 an abstract syntax tree representation of the XPath query is generated as a set of Java objects.
In step 504 the highest node in the syntax tree is located. This node represents a top level type in the WSRR SDO hierarchy. The node is saved as "Current Search".
In step 506 the node tree is input to process 600 and a tracker 414, subtracker 415 and selector are output.
In step 508 the selector is saved.
In step 510 the Selector Clause is derived from the selector saved in the tracker 414 as a starting expression for the XMQL query. A simple derivation for simple XPath expressions is to use the last selector value after the node processing. However, for more complex XPath expressions a more complex algorithm involving the use of the current selector, the current search class and the sequence of steps from the last predicated step in the original expression is used. If the subtracker 415 is set as the current tracker then a subSelector clause is derived from the subtracker 415.
In step 512, the FROM Clause in the tracker 414 is appended to the expression in the XMQL register. If the subtracker 415 is set then a subFrom clause is derived from the subtracker 415.
In step 514, the WHERE Clause in the tracker is appended to the expression in the XMQL register. If there is a treat-as expression and a subXMQL query has been formed then the subXMQL query is combined with the XMQL using the syntax "WHERE EXISTS (subXMQL)" where (subXMQL) is the subXMQL query.
In step 516, a translation process renders the composite XLQL expression for the XPath treat-as query. The composite XMQL expression is provided as input to the XMQL engine to access objects in the object repository.
The processing of the node tree, process 600, is explained in with reference to
The process starts, step 600, at the root of the abstract syntax tree. In this embodiment the root node is verified as WSRR, this identifies the query as being targeted towards a service registry system. In the tracker and subtracker, the FROM register and Where registers are nulled, and the selector is set to the first node of the abstract syntax tree.
In step 602, the tree is examined for a node to process and exits back to process 500 if all the nodes have already been processed.
In step 604, the XPath expression for the current node is acquired.
In step 606, the search type is located by lookup. Properties associated with the located search type are similarly acquired.
In step 608, if the new search type is the same as a current search type then the process misses step 610 and starts again at 612 using the current search type found in the search type register.
In step 610, the selector is incremented and the newly found search type is saved in readiness for updating of the FROM and Where clauses in step 612 and 614.
In step 611 the process moves to 700 to handle any treat-as expression present. The first time a treat-as expression is encountered a subtracker 415 is initialised. In later iterations the presence of the subtracker changes the way the XMQL gets build up.
In step 612, the current node search type and the current selector are combined into a FROM clause and added to the tracker or subtracker depending which is set as the current tracker.
In step 614, if the current node has a predicate then it is translated using properties associated with the search type into a WHERE clause and added to the tracker or subtracker depending on which is set as the current tracker. If the WHERE clause generator 462 processes the sub-SELECT clause of the subtracker 415, it adds in addition to the portion related to the predicate a condition that links the scope of the sub-select clause to the scope of the select clause.
In step 616 the process loops back to step 602 and each node is recursively processed until there are no more nodes located in step 602.
The processing 700 of potential treat-as expressions is explained with reference to
In step 700, if the current XPath node is a treat-as expression then, in step 701, a new tracker 414 is created, initialised and set as the subtracker 415 current tracker object. After that the process returns 703 to process 600 at step 611.
In step 702 a check is made as to whether the current tracker 414 contains a subtracker 415. If it does not, the process return to the main method at 703. If it does, then the content of the tracker register of the XPATh Query translator 400 is replaced with the subtracker in 704 and after that the process returns to the main method at 703.
Node register 410 in
When process 610 processes the node with the XPath expression '(interfaces treat as element(interfaces, SCAWSDLPortType))[ . . . ]' it first updates the selector to 'a2' and the FROM clause to 'a1 in LogSCA::Export, a2 in a1->scaInterface'. It then identifies the expression as a treat-as expression in step 700. Hence a subtracker 415B is created and initialised with a selector 'a3' a FROM clause of 'a3 in LogSCA::SCAWSDLPortType' and a WHERE clause of 'a3.object_id=a2.object_id'. This part of the WHERE clause links the results of the subselect statement into the scope of the outer query. After encountering the treat-as expression the tracker object on which process 600 operates has been replaced with the subtracker 415B, processing of further XPath nodes only changes the subtracker 415B and not tracker 414B.
The processing of the last two nodes updates the selector to 'a4', the FROM clause to 'a3 from a3 in LogSCA::SCAWSDLPortType, a4 in a3->wsdIPortType' and the WHERE clause to 'a3.object_id=a2.object_id and (a4.name='BigEcho')' which can be seen in
'select distinct a1 from a1 in LogSCA::Export,
a2 in a1->scaInterface where exists (
select a3 from a3 in LogSCA::SCAWSDLPortType,
a4 in a3->wsdlPortType where a3.object_id=a2.object_id and
( a4.name='BigEcho' ))'
This is the final result in XMQL register 418.
It will be clear to one of ordinary skill in the art that all or part of the method of the preferred embodiments of the present invention may suitably and usefully be embodied in a logic apparatus, or a plurality of logic apparatus, comprising logic elements arranged to perform the steps of the method and that such logic elements may comprise hardware components, firmware components or a combination thereof.
It will be equally clear to one of skill in the art that all or part of a logic arrangement according to the preferred embodiments of the present invention may suitably be embodied in a logic apparatus comprising logic elements to perform the steps of the method, and that such logic elements may comprise components such as logic gates in, for example a programmable logic array or application-specific integrated circuit. Such a logic arrangement may further be embodied in enabling elements for temporarily or permanently establishing logic structures in such an array or circuit using, for example, a virtual hardware descriptor language, which may be stored and transmitted using fixed or transmittable carrier media.
It will be appreciated that the method and arrangement described above may also suitably be carried out fully or partially in software running on one or more processors (not shown in the figures), and that the software may be provided in the form of one or more computer program elements carried on any suitable data-carrier (also not shown in the figures) such as a magnetic or optical disk or the like. Channels for the transmission of data may likewise comprise storage media of all descriptions as well as signal-carrying media, such as wired or wireless signal-carrying media.
The present invention may further suitably be embodied as a computer program product for use with a computer system. Such an implementation may comprise a series of computer-readable instructions fixed on a tangible medium, such as a computer readable medium, for example, diskette, CD-ROM, ROM, or hard disk. The series of computer readable instructions embodies all or part of the functionality previously described herein.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that such computer readable instructions can be written in a number of programming languages for use with many computer architectures or operating systems. Further, such instructions may be stored using any memory technology, present or future, including but not limited to, semiconductor, magnetic, or optical, or transmitted using any communications technology, present or future, including but not limited to optical, infrared, or microwave. It is contemplated that such a computer program product may be distributed as a removable medium with accompanying printed or electronic documentation, for example, shrink-wrapped software, pre-loaded with a computer system, for example, on a system ROM or fixed disk, or distributed from a server or electronic bulletin board over a network, for example, the Internet or World Wide Web.
In an alternative, the preferred embodiment of the present invention may be realized in the form of a computer implemented method of deploying a service comprising steps of deploying computer program code operable to, when deployed into a computer infrastructure and executed thereon, cause the computer system to perform all the steps of the method.
In a further alternative, the preferred embodiment of the present invention may be realized in the form of a data carrier having functional data thereon, said functional data comprising functional computer data structures to, when loaded into a computer system and operated upon thereby, enable said computer system to perform all the steps of the method.
It will be clear to one skilled in the art that many improvements and modifications can be made to the foregoing exemplary embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention.
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Civil War Poetry and Prose
By WALT WHITMAN
Dover Publications, Inc.Copyright © 1995 Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
First O Songs for a Prelude
First O songs for a prelude,
Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,
How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,
How at once with lithe limbs unwaiting a moment she sprang,
(O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!
O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,
How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
How Manhattan drum-taps led.
Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
With her million children around her, suddenly,
At dead of night, at news from the south,
Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.
A shock electric, the night sustain'd it,
Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
From the houses then and the workshops, and through all the doorways,
Leapt they tumultuous, and lo! Manhattan arming.
To the drum-taps prompt,
The young men falling in and arming,
The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside
with precipitation,)
The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court,
The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly
down on the horses' backs,
The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper, porter, all leaving;
Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements,
they buckle the straps carefully,
Outdoors, arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels,
The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again
at sunset,
Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,
(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their
How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and
knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
The blood of the city up—arm'd! arm'd! the cry everywhere,
The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and
The tearful parting, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother,
(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding, clearing the way,
The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers of the crowd for their favorites,
The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
(Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence,
Soon unlimber'd to begin the red business;)
All the mutter of preparation, all the determin'd arming,
The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines,
The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
War! be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
Mannahatta a-march—and it's O to sing it well!
It's O for a manly life in the camp.
And the sturdy artillery,
The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salute or courtesies merely,
Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)
And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta,
Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city,
Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
Eighteen Sixty-One
Arm'd year—year of the struggle,
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your
With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,
As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,
Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,
Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the
mountain top,
Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust
Heard your determin'd voice launch'd forth again and again,
Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp'd cannon,
I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
Into the school where the scholar is studying;
Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets;
Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those
No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?
Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Make no parley-stop for no expostulation,
Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer,
Mind not the old man beseeching the young man,
Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties,
Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,
So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird,
Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)
Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing
To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)
The idea of all, of the Western world one and inseparable,
And then the song of each member of these States.
Song of the Banner at Daybreak
O a new song, a free song,
Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
By the wind's voice and that of the drum,
By the banner's voice and child's voice and sea's voice and father's voice,
Low on the ground and high in the air,
On the ground where father and child stand,
In the upward air where their eyes turn,
Where the banner at daybreak is flapping.
Words! book-words! what are you?
Words no more, for hearken and see,
My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
I'll weave the chord and twine in,
Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,
I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
(As one carrying a symbol and menace far into the future,
Crying with trumpet voice, Arouse and beware! Beware and arouse!)
I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy,
Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
Come up here, bard, bard,
Come up here, soul, soul,
Come up here, dear little child,
To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the measureless light.
Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
And what does it say to me all the while?
Nothing my babe you see in the sky,
And nothing at all to you it says—but look you my babe,
Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
These, ah these, how valued and toil'd for these!
How envied by all the earth!
Fresh and rosy red the sun is mounting high,
On floats the sea in distant blue careering through its channels,
On floats the wind over the breast of the sea setting in toward land,
The great steady wind from west or west-by-south,
Floating so buoyant with milk-white foam on the waters.
But I am not the sea nor the red sun,
I am not the wind with girlish laughter,
Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes,
Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,
Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,
Which the birds know in the woods mornings and evenings,
And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
Aloft there flapping and flapping.
O father it is alive—it is full of people—it has children,
O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
I hear it—it talks to me—O it is wonderful!
O it stretches—it spreads and runs so fast—O my father,
It is so broad it covers the whole sky.
Cease, cease, my foolish babe,
What you are saying is sorrowful to me, much it displeases me;
Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
But the well-prepared pavements behold, and mark the solid-wall'd houses.
Banner and Pennant
Speak to the child O bard out of Manhattan,
To our children all, or north or south of Manhattan,
Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
For what are we, mere strips of cloth profiting nothing,
Only flapping in the wind?
I hear and see not strips of cloth alone,
I hear the tramp of armies, I hear the challenging sentry,
I hear the jubilant shouts of millions of men, I hear Liberty!
I hear the drums beat and the trumpets blowing,
I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,
I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from
a height,
I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again
to California;
Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,
See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more
to come,)
See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
Runs swiftly up indicating war an defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
Side of my banner broad and blue, side of my starry banner,
Discarding peace over all the sea and land.
Banner and Pennant
Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave!
No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
We may be terror and carnage, and are so now,
Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
Nor market nor depot we, nor money-bank in the city,
But these and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours,
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
And the fields they moisten, and the crops and the fruits are ours,
Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,
The forty millions of people,—O bard! in life and death supreme,
We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
This song to the soul of one poor little child.
O my father I like not the houses,
They will never to me be anything, nor do I like money,
But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like,
That pennant I would be and must be.
Child of mine you fill me with anguish,
To be that pennant would be too fearful,
Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy everything,
Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
Demons and death then I sing,
Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore, and my Western
shore the same,
And all between those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with bends and chutes,
And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
The Continent, devoting the whole identity without reserving an atom,
Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
Fusing and holding, claiming, devouring the whole,
No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,
Croaking like crows here in the wind.
My limbs, my veins dilate, my theme is clear at last,
Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
I burst through where I waited long, too long, deafen'd and blinded,
My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand,
Insensate! insensate (yet I at any rate chant you,) O banner!
Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall
again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with
May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good
Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,
Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars, (ever-enlarging stars,)
Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
O you up there! O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious,
Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner
and pennant!
I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing-I see them
I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
Flapping up there in the wind.
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