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Portable Keyboards
The electronic keyboard is a very practical and low cost way to start playing a keyboard. Many will come with basic keyboard skills instructions.
Whereas a digital piano will usually have a fairly standard and basic feature set, portable or 'home' keyboards come in a variety of different keyboard lengths and sizes, and generally include a host of digital sounds and accompaniment features. They usually have built-in speakers, and battery operation is common with smaller models.
These keyboards take full advantage of digital technology, providing autoaccompaniment features which quickly allow beginners to play pieces of music. Drum, bass and chord parts can be triggered, shaped and stored in memory using the left hand, whilst the right hand plays the melody. Schools often choose portable keyboards to provide entry-level instruction for young beginners, as immediate results can be mixed with basic teaching and act as an introduction to the piano when it is felt that the child has reached a sufficient standard. Look for 2 headphone sockets so that a tutor can listen in as well!
What to look for
- 5 octave (61 black and white full size keys) keyboard. This length of keyboard allows full piano repertoire to be played and is ideal for the beginner. Don't forget a height adjustable stand for the keyboard.
- Full size keys. This means the keys are the same size as an acoustic piano.
- Touch sensitive (also known as touch responsive) keys. This means that, like an acoustic piano, the volume of the notes is louder when the keys are struck harder. Also known as semi-weighted or fully weighted piano-action keys.
- Sustain pedal input. This allows connection of a sustain pedal, which enhances the expressiveness of the performance.
- USB or MIDI connections to PC.With 'sequencing' software installed within a PC, these connections allow players to record, store and arrange music within a PC environment.
- Digital effects, such as reverb, chorus and delay enhance the overall sound of the instrument.
- On-board song recording (or sequencer). This allows players to record their own performances and store within the keyboard. Many instruments offer 'multi-track' recording.
- 'Hybrid' keyboards. These are keyboards that offer an extended range of keys (76 or 88 notes) which combine the functions of a keyboard with more piano like performance potential.


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Stingrays are related to sharks (some folks call them "flattened sharks"), unfortunately while sharks may be family, they are also the biggest predators of stingrays. Stingrays often take on the color of their environment for defense. Stingrays spend a lot of time motionless, partially buried under sand. Stingrays are usually docile and harmless, though they will use their barbed tails in defense (usually if they are stepped on). Stingrays may be as small as a few inches or up to 5 to 7 feet long, Stingrays have no bones, they are primarily made of cartilage. Stingrays are carnivores, hunting their prey (small fish, crabs, shrimp) at night.Stingrays use their sense of smell and special electro-receptors to hunt their prey. Stingrays have a lifespan of 15 to 25 years.

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Mumford And Sons Gear Guide
Mumford And Sons Gear Guide
The most complete guide to Mumford & Sons guitars, amps & pedals on the web!
In May 2015 the Mumfords returned with a new chart-topping album - 'Wilder Mind' - and, more surprising, a brand new sound! It wasn't quite as shocking as Dylan going electric but... almost! So we'll look at the new gear they've been using recently, too!
Marcus Mumfords' Guitar
That bold, stadium filling sound could only really come from a steel string dreadnought, so if the D28 is a little out of your price range why not try the Martin DX1-AE electro acoustic instead?
Another guitar used by Marcus was a beautiful vintage Gibson ES-125 archtop guitar, which has a P90 pickup. He also uses a G7th capo.
For extra Americana flavour, Marcus also turns to the occasional mandolin.
As far back as 2011 Marcus could occasionally be seen playing a Gibson ES-335 Semi-Acoustic guitar, as at the Bonnaroo music festival:
In 2015, however, Marcus swapped the acoustic for a Fender Jazzmaster, a favourite amongst indie and alternative rockers! He uses a sunburst Fender American Vintage '65 Jazzmaster, but if you're looking for something cheaper, the Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster can save you a few hundred pounds! And if you're on a budget, Squier makes some excellent and very affordable Jazzmasters!
Ben Lovett's Keyboard
When it comes to playing accordion Ben has used a Roland FR-7x accordion, a high end model costing around £4000. We have the Roland FR-3x, a fantastic pro level instrument with versatile features and sounds. Here's the Ben using his customised Stage 2 at the Brits.
Winston Marshall's Banjo & Electric Guitar Rig
They've been making waves recently with a range of acoustic instruments with period accurate appointments but modern build/sound quality. What could be more Mumford than a Resonator Uke or swining Dixie Banjo.
We've spied Winston setup with a pedal board, being a black and white aerial shot it's hard to make out some of the colour coded Boss pedals but there's clearly Boss Graphic EQ and TU-3 tuner pedals as well as Electro Harmonix Memory Man and Holy Grail Plus. They can get pretty raucous but it seems unlikely that the Mumfords would be packing a fuzz pedal (although there is clearly some banjo distortion on 'Lover Of The Light') but he definitely had two Boss delay pedals, either the Boss DD-3 or Boss DD-7. He also uses a few Boss LS-2 Line Selector pedals.
On a recent photograph, you can see four Marshall amps on his setup, but only two with mics in front of them:
On new song 'The Wolf', he also uses an eBow.
Ted Dwane Bass Rig
He's currently using a Fender Jazz Bass and an two Ampeg SVT-VR bass head amps, into one SVT-810AV and two Ampeg SVT-15E bass cabs.


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By Ty McTier: I look down at my wrist and see that I am wearing a wristband that says "Angelo Dundee Family." A smile beam across my face as I remember back to when I first met this gentle giant of the sport of boxing.
I met Angelo Dundee, boxing's greatest ambassador and trainer two years ago when I attended the grand historical re-opening of the 5th Street Gym in Miami, Florida with my brother Jace McTier. Jace displayed his recent paintings of the master trainer and his fighters featuring this historic trainer. Angelo made me feel welcome and talked to my brother and I like we had known him for years, but that was Angelo- when you met him he treated you like you were wearing something that said, "Angelo Dundee Family".
Angelo, through the eyes of Jace McTier, was on display at the funeral service in Clearwater Florida. On the stage behind his casket were five paintings chronicling the history that Angelo was so much responsible for making happen. Special thanks to the Dundee family for all of the young careers that Angelo continued to mentor. His love and care that he exhibited in his life were clearly evident through every conversation that echoed in the auditorium before, during and after his funeral. Angelo has brought one of the honored guests, Matt Baiamonte and Dino Spencer alongside him to continue his legacy of training elite fighters at the 5th Street Gym. Past students of Angelo's in attendance included Muhammad Ali, Pinklon Thomas, David Estrada and Kristina Swanson among many others. Angelo's family was so gracious to share their dad and grandfather with so many "adopted" family members around the world. The paintings of sports artist, Jace McTier, were displayed at the funeral and throughout the events of the day.
Jace McTier had this to say about what Angelo has meant to him:
"It was an honor to be able to know Angelo. He made me feel like part of his family and opened up many doors for me. It was a blessing for me to be able to participate and show through my artwork, in part the rich legacy that Angelo was such a huge part of. When he first saw my paintings he said,
'I love your colors, they are great, fantastic! You've got the right boxing technique in your paintings; everything is where it needs to be," Angelo said pointing to a painting of Ali throwing his great straight right. "Listen, I helped another artist get started in boxing…You ever hear of an artist by the name of Leroy Neiman?'
"Yes", I replied, knowing he was talking about the great Leroy Neiman. 'Well I helped make him famous and I'm going to do the same for you, kid.' Angelo said with a smile. And that's exactly what he did- the doors he opened for me helped me to start doing work for middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and gave me the opportunity to meet George Foreman and his family as well as countless others. Aside from Angelo helping further my career in the sports world, he has truly left an impression on me by the life that he lived. Just in the short time that I knew him, I have been influenced for the better. Having witnessed him at private events with only his family and with everyone else on the streets of Miami and Tampa I can truly say that Angelo treated EVERYONE like family. Family is his legacy, in and out of boxing, and I am blessed to have known the great Angelo Dundee and his entire family. God bless you Angelo, and thank you for everything."
Jace, who is no stranger to painting color masterpieces, started his career by painting numerous works from his Grandfather's World War II black and white photographs. Jace learned this difficult trade long ago and has since perfected it. It is no small feat to render in color what is only recorded in black and white. The paintings displayed at the funeral brought out the vibrant tension of the moment and the cohesion of trainer and fighter. These snapshots of history help show the viewers that the view that counts, is the view from the corner.
Everything Angelo did was about family; you couldn't talk to the man without his family somehow finding their way into the conversation. There are two reasons for this, first he loved his family, and second, they were present alongside the events of his life, to leave them out was to not tell his story. Our prayers and condolences go to the Dundee family, especially the grandchildren. Even I feel a loss although I only had the chance to be around Angelo a few times, he was and is a special person and will be greatly missed.
February 14, 2012
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These distortions of scale within an image can be removed through orthorectification. During orthorectification, digital scans of aerial photos are subjected to algorithms that eliminate each source of spatial distortion. The result is a georeferenced digital mosaic of several photographs with uniform scale throughout the mosaic. Features near land are generally georeferenced with greater accuracy while the accuracy of features away from land is generally not as good. Where no land is in the original photographic frame only kinematic GPS locations and image tie points were used to georeference the images. After an orthorectified mosaic is created, photointerpreters can accurately and reliably delineate boundaries of features in the imagery as they appear on the computer monitor using a software interface such as the Habitat Digitizer.
Prints and diapositives were created from the original negatives. Diapositivies were then scanned at a resolution of 500 dpi using a photogrammetric quality scanner, yielding one by one meter pixels for the 1:24,000 scale photography. All scans were saved in TIFF format for the purposes of orthorectification and photointerpretation.
Georeferencing/mosaicing of the TIFFs was performed using a variety of softcopy photogrammetric software including Socet Set Version 4.2.1, Autometric Softplotter, PCI OrthoEngine, and Erdas OrthoBASE. First, lens correction parameters were applied to each frame to eliminate image distortion. Airborne kinematic GPS was then used, to provide first order georegistration.
Image to image tie-points were then used to further co-register the imagery, especially for photos taken over open water when ground control points were not available. Fixed ground features visible in the scanned photos were selected for ground control points (GCPs) which were then used to georeference imagery. GCPs were measured using a Differentially-corrected Global Positioning System (DGPS). We obtained points with a wide distribution throughout the imagery, especially on peninsulas and outer islands whenever possible since this results in the most accurate registration throughout each image. Only ground control points for terrestrial features were collected due to the difficulty of obtaining precise positions for submerged features.
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A High Court order enforcing the exhumation of a Christchurch man's body might be needed to finally return his body to his partner, after it was taken to Bay of Plenty by his family to be buried with his ancestors.
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a bid for James Takamore's body to be kept at the Bay of Plenty burial site, against has partner's wishes.
Mr Takamore was interred at a marae at Kutarere in accordance with tikanga, or Maori customs and tradition, after he died from an aneurism in 2007.
Since then Denise Clarke, his partner and executor of his will, has been in a legal battle to have his body returned to Christchurch, where he lived with her and their two children for 20 years.
Mr Takamore was originally from Taneatua in Bay of Plenty, and had returned to the North Island only twice in 20 years since moving to Christchurch.
He had specified in his will that he wanted to be buried, but did not say where.
Ms Clarke had intended for him to be buried in Christchurch, but before that could happen the Takamore family collected his body and buried it in Bay of Plenty.
Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal ruled it was unlawful for Mr Takamore's family to take his body, but his sister Josephine Takamore appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court yesterday ruled in Ms Clarke's favour.
Ms Clarke's lawyer Gary Knight told Newstalk ZB today that the case might still have to go back to the High Court where an order to enforce the exhumation of Mr Takamore's body could be ordered.
"As far as we're concerned we've got a sufficiently clear mandate from the court that we are able to go back and carry out an exhumation process via the high court, if we can't do it by mutual agreement with the family."
It was not yet known whether the family would co-operate with Ms Clarke, Mr Knight said.
Ms Clarke yesterday said her reaction was "extreme relief" that the fight had finally come to an end after five years and four months.
She said the reburial would happen in a matter of weeks.
"I'm hoping, all going to plan, early next year. It won't be months, it'll be weeks. It's not going to drag on another year anyway."
The Supreme Court yesterday said there was "significant cross-cultural misunderstanding" between Ms Clarke and Mr Takamore's sister and extended whanau.
Three of the justices said there was common law rule under which personal representatives had both the right and duty to attend to disposal of the body of a dead person.
"The rule becomes operative where there is no agreement or acquiescence among the family on what is to be done, where arrangements have broken down, or where nothing is happening."
Mr Knight said the decision was "curiously cautious".
"It's probably left the role of executor weaker as a result of the decision than it was previously. It's given a supervisory role to the court whereas previously the executor's powers would have been considered all inclusive."


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Stanley Jordan
This debut record from Stanley Jordan features the guitarist's extraordinarily idiosyncratic tapping technique on a variety of material. Jordan's revolutionary approach to the instrument, consisting of striking the fretboard with both hands to sound notes, allows him access to musical possibilities that are simply out of the reach of other guitar players. It is in his hands that the guitar attains a level of self-accompaniment formerly held only by the piano. Fortunately, Jordan puts his prodigious chops to good use making good music. One area in particular in which he is terrifically talented is in the reinterpretation of modern pop material. His version of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," accompanied only by the subtle percussion of Sammy Figueroa, dismisses the British melancholy of the original for a light-as-air interpretation that brings out the playfulness in the melody. Also impressive is Jordan's cover of Michael Jackson's "The Lady in My Life," which the guitarist gives a smooth, sultry reading. On the flip side, Jordan also proves that he is not out of touch with the history of jazz, with delightful versions of "Freddie Freeloader," "'Round Midnight," and "A Child Is Born." The guitarist's sidemen, who include drummers Omar Hakim and Peter Erskine, are all seasoned professionals, and they play well, but no matter how good the group performances on Magic Touch are, they are no match for the shocking polyphony of Jordan's solo material. It is there that the record really comes alive. Jordan's later albums were not to capitalize on the promise shown on his debut, but in Magic Touch the guitarist had something truly special. An instant classic, and one of the definitive moments of modern jazz guitar. ~ Daniel Gioffre


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The 2-State Solution
It's looking like once the Israelis pull out of the West Bank and Gaza, all non-Muslims will be killed. By all means, give them their own country -- call it the "Palestinian Asylum."
Enough with the blatant brainwashing by the elite media - they must really think we're stupid! Since when is what one believes to be true more important than what is true? It isn't, yet time after time we see news media asserting speculation as truth. I'm sick of it. "Fake But Accurate" is a poke in the eye to those who would be the fourth branch of government.
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Another way of speaking English disappears as fisherman's death spells demise of rare dialect
LONDON – In a remote fishing town on the tip of Scotland's Black Isle, the last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect has died, taking with him another little piece of the English linguistic mosaic.
Scottish academics said Wednesday that Bobby Hogg, who passed away last week at age 92, was the last person fluent in the dialect once common in the seaside town of Cromarty, about 175 miles (280 kilometers) north of Scottish capital Edinburgh.
The Biblically-influenced speech — complete with "thee" and "thou" — is one of many fading dialects which have been snuffed out across the British Isles.
Across the world, regional languages and dialects have disappeared as rural populations move to urban areas and compulsory education and mass media combine to iron out the kinks in local speech.


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TCM's coverage from the 9th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Thursday – Sunday evening in Hollywood, CA.
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TCM's coverage from the 9th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Thursday – Sunday evening in Hollywood, CA.
A boy and a horse forge a close friendship after being shipwrecked together in Africa.
Cary Grant does everything to keep his ex-wife and star reporter Rosalind Russell from re-marriage in Howard Hawks' classic comedy HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940).
Steve McQueen and a souped-up Mustang go roaring after the mob in San Francisco in BULLITT (1968).
Two brothers love the same woman at a perilous Indian outpost in THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE(1936) starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and David Niven.
A Parisian girl (Leslie Caron) is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage in GIGI (1958), winner of nine Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Auto racers find danger and romance at the legendary European road race – GRAND PRIX (1966), starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Yves Montand.
When a football player dies early, he gets a second chance in the body of a crooked industrialist.
Cary Grant does everything to keep his ex-wife and star reporter Rosalind Russel from re-marriage in Howard Hawks' classic comedy HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940).
Three models pool their resources to rent a posh penthouse in hopes of snaring rich husbands.
A tenement doctor (Spencer Tracy) finds his marriage to a European refugee (Hedy Lamarr) threatens his practice in I Take This Woman, 1931, directed by W.S. Van Dyke II.
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob in INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949), directed by Clarence Brown and based on the novel by William Faulkner.
A hitchhiker wearing nothing but a trench coat leads detective Mike Hammer into an atomic conspiracy in Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
In A Letter to Three Wives, 1949, a woman claims to have run off with one of their husbands. But which?
Academy Awards for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay went to Billy Wilder's groundbreaking study of alcoholism, The Lost Weekend, 1945
A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once in LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY (1938) starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.
A prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a small kingdom court a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country in Ernst Lubitsch's THE MERRY WIDOW (1934).
James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland star in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935), Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who encounter fairies in an enchanted forest.
During World War II, a 4F tries to help the woman he loves cover up a surprise pregnancy in Preston Sturges' acclaimed The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, 1944.
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, 1939, Frank Capra's masterpiece about a naive young senator (James Stewart) who uncovers political corruption.
Albert Finney is Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in the all-star MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974).
"Can two divorced men share an apartment?" Find out in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, 1968, with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirt in POINT BLANK (1967) starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson.
The first astronauts fight for their place in space in The Right Stuff, 1983, the film version of the book by Tom Wolfe.
Three Army buddies during World War I get mixed up with the mob in peacetime in THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939) starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting are Shakespeare's ill-starred teens in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, 1968.
Paul Muni as the original Scarface (1932) directed by Howard Hawks, produced by Howard Hughes.
A straitlaced Soviet agent is seduced by Paris and a high-stepping film producer in Cole Porter's musical SILK STOCKINGS (1957) starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.
Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education.
Women at a theatrical boarding house vie for choice roles in Broadway productions in STAGE DOOR (1937), starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Eve Arden and Lucille Ball.
A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom in A STAR IS BORN (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly in Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker.
A silent-screen star (Gloria Swanson) becomes involved with an unemployed screenwriter (William Holden) in Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Blvd (1950).
A samurai (Toshiro Mifune) murders his lord to steal the throne in Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance in To Have and Have Not, 1944, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
College coeds go looking for love during spring break in Fort Lauderdale starring Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton and featuring the famous theme song by Connie Francis.
A secretary becomes so valuable to her boss that it jeopardizes his marriage in Wife vs. Secretary, (1936), starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow.
A lowly adman tries to better his lot by courting a glamorous Hollywood star in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, 1957.
A British barrister (Charles Laughton) gets caught up in a couple's tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband (Tyrone Power) for murder. Based on the Agatha Christie novel.


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Forget about sales numbers and balance sheets. Forget about ground clearance and tire regulations and laws that make cars vanilla. Forget about Camrys and Accords. Forget about reality. This is about the dream cars manufacturers should build. Cars that serve the minority. The 1 percent. The drivers.
Here are 10 cars that could be built using parts (engines and transmission, largely) that already exist. In that sense, they aren't utterly impossible. Most won't be built because they're too wild. Or too deadly. Or too costly. Others, however, should already exist.
Whatever the case, we want every single one.
Audi R8 Tom Kristensen Edition
Forget Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Tom Kristensen is a living legend among drivers and race fans, with his palm print immortalized a record eight times in the Saint Nicolas district of Le Mans, France. How does a race driver get his hands cast in bronze for display in a small French town? Simple: Win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The R8 Tom Kristensen Edition honors the famous Dane with a special version of Audi's new 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8. Massaged to make 610 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque, it matches the output of the R8 he drove to victory back in 2000. The Quattro all-wheel-drive system is scrapped in the interest of weight savings and rear-drive nirvana, while a three-pedal, six-speed sequentially shifted manual will be the only gearbox. To top it off, the R8 TKE's full-carbon bodywork is painted to match the silver and red livery of the winning No. 8 car.
This one is as easy for Audi as, say, one Le Mans win.
Chevrolet Sonic Boom
Chevy does well for itself with performance players at either end of its product line. The Corvette ZR1 successfully takes the fight to the bank-account-draining exotics, while the Sonic RS brings bold design to a competitive subcompact segment. But its standard 138-hp 1.4-liter mill isn't even competitive with the other hot rods in the class: Ford's Fiesta ST and Fiat's 500 Abarth.
By combining the best thing that ever happened to a Corvette with the only relevant small car Chevy has ever built, the brand has an undeniable image changer. Shoehorning the ZR1's supercharged LS9 V8 into this diminutive hatch is no small task. The longitudinal arrangement means losing the backseat and coupling the transaxle directly to the engine. But it's worth it. We're talking 638 hp driving the rear wheels through the C7's all-new Tremec seven-speed manual with active rev-matching technology.
Think BMW 1 Series M Coupe, if the M Coupe had an engine for each of its rear wheels. This isn't playing by the traditional Motor City code of warfare, and that's a good thing.
And Chevy thought its current ZR1 was crazy.
Ford F-150 SVT Super Raptor
Good ideas are born out of necessity. The day we watched a YouTube video of an SVT Raptor launching more than 90 feet to its death was the day we realized Ford needs to build a more robust (and far more powerful) beast.
The Super Raptor is the beast to vault hooning to another dimension: a redneck's ultimate fantasy. Ditching the weak-sauce 6.2-liter V8 (411 hp? Hah, that's cute) and replacing it with the 662-hp 5.8-liter supercharged Shelby GT500 V8 is just the beginning. Never again will you be burdened with annoyances like "approach speed." With 37-inch self-inflating beadlocked tires and 25 inches of Ram-trampling suspension travel damped by electronically adjustable magnetorheological shocks co-developed by Delphi and Fox Racing, the Super Raptor is every wannabe desert racer's reason for living. It's a literal trophy truck for the street.
The Super Raptor's version of "launch control" monitors midair throttle for perfect body pitch and automatically softens the suspension upon detecting an impending touchdown. When roaming the urban jungle's highways, the suspension can stiffen for a wallow-free ride. True, you may never see the inside of another parking garage, but real badasses don't need shade anyway.
Come on, Ford. Build one they can't break.
Honda CRZ-Y
Honda's CR-Z could be a hit with the sport hybrid crowd, assuming those people actually exist. Right now the biggest hang-up is its 130-hp 1.5-liter IMA engine trying to drag around 2,700 pounds. The result is a worse power-to-weight ratio than a Kia Rio.
There are rumors of a non-hybrid powertrain, but our solution retains the car's initial eco-friendly philosophy without being such a wuss about it. Raiding the parts bin across the street, the CRZ-Y utilizes SH-AWD hardware from its Acura brethren. But rather than try to cram an Acura RLX engine into its schnoz, the 310-hp V6 and seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox are mounted beneath the hatch to drive the rear wheels. Individual electric motors drive the front wheels, just like the upcoming 2015 Acura NSX. Total output is 370 hp.
On the steering wheel is a manual regeneration switch to force-charge the hybrid battery pack and a push-to-pass button to channel the juice back through the system for a brief boost of 30 additional horses. Sure, you'd sacrifice the rear seats, but some cargo space could be had by utilizing the remaining space under the hood. We wouldn't even mind if the CR-Z looked exactly the same, though our version looks a few orders of magnitude cooler.
If you're running off "the power of dreams," it can't hurt to dream a little bigger.
Infiniti XS
Infiniti lost the custody battle for the sixth-generation R35 GT-R, due largely to heritage making a strong argument in Nissan's favor. Still, this doesn't excuse the fact that Nissan's premium brand is yet to fill the throne atop its product line. Infiniti needs a halo car and we've got its angel right here.
Based on the Emerg-E Concept, the Infiniti XS super coupe utilizes a repurposed version of the GT-R's twin-turbo V6. Stroked to 4.0 liters and arranged longitudinally behind the front seats, it's coupled to the GT-R's six-speed dual-clutch gearbox, which sends power to a fortified ATTESA E-TS all-wheel-drive system. Making an easy 800 hp in full attack mode, Nissan's new dial-an-engine feature will allow for deactivation of two cylinders, effectively turning this gas gulper into a more socially responsible 2.7-liter V4. Godzilla will always be cool, but it's nothing compared to life in XS.
It's the car Infiniti president Johan de Nysschen will build if he has the guts.
Mazda MX-5 Miata Coupe
The 2013 Mazda MX-5 Miata (or just "MX-5" to the guy trying to distance himself from the stigma) is one of the best cars ever built for the driving enthusiast. But it's never been the focused driving machine it should be. It lacks two crucial components: structural rigidity and power.
The solution is obvious. Not only are fixed roofs "manlier," they also serve to improve handling, make bodies more aerodynamic, and in most cases, improve cargo space. And considering we live in an age where Kia Optimas are pumping out 274 horses, there's no excuse for this Miata coupe to make less than 200 hp. Under its hood sits a proven 263-hp 2.3-liter four-cylinder from the 2013 Mazdaspeed 3. This coupe transforms the current MX-5 from cute and fun to purposeful and capable. It should have been built 15 years ago.
Don't pretend otherwise, Mazda.
Mitsubishi Outlander Evolution
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution XI is a long way out at best, and that's if natural selection doesn't catch up with it first. We can only handle uncertainty for so long, which is why the Mitsubishi Outlander Evolution must happen now.
Starting with the 2013 Outlander shell, Mitsubishi Ralliart U.K. will provide its FQ-400 version of the 2.0-liter 4B11 engine (which includes a new ECU, fuel injectors, turbocharger, intercooler and exhaust system) to push output to 403 hp and 387 lb-ft of torque. Mitsubishi's six-speed dual-clutch gearbox will handle shift duties, while the Super All-Wheel Control system manages torque distribution across front, rear and center differentials. If it wasn't obvious already, this thing was built for the dunes of Dakar, which means it's easily over-engineered for any actual road you might visit.
If Ford can make a success of the SVT Raptor, there's room in the world for this badass Outlander.
Nissan Versa V6
Popularity isn't always desirable, especially if it's earned by being the cheapest mass-produced subcompact available in North America. With that in mind, Nissan's Versa makes the perfect charity case for developing a lust-worthy car of our dreams. Exploiting Nissan's alliance with Renault, the Versa will channel the original Renault R5 Turbo and Clio V6, evolving into a spectacular two-seat, midengine, rear-drive homage to homologation.
Fenders stretch and flare over huge 285-millimeter rear tires driven through a six-speed paddle-shift sequential gearbox, sourced from Renault's Alpine A110-50. The engine (a derivation of Nissan's naturally aspirated VQ35 V6) generates 400 French-tuned hp and 311 lb-ft of torque from air drawn through its ducted fender flares. Launch control and effortless sub-4.0-second 0-60-mph times are expected, but a new Pendulum Turn Mode feature will combine torque vectoring and the company's SynchroRev match technology for hairpin-destroying speed.
Nissan, this is your ticket back to being cool. Think about it.
Porsche Cayman GT3 RS
If Cinderella were a car, her name would be Cayman. Cayman isn't tasked with scrubbing floors and toilets around Stuttgart and forbidden to attend royal balls, but she is destined to forever live in the cold shadow of her elder sibling: 911 Carrera. Frankly, we're tired of Porsche pretending to throw us a bone with an inferior (yet still pretty good) substitute that is the Cayman R. We demand an uncompromised effort, the sum of Porsche's greatest parts, which would culminate in the Cayman GT3 RS.
A direct-injected 475-hp, 3.8-liter flat-6 fitted with forged pistons and titanium connecting rods is centrally mounted and paired with the latest-generation seven-speed PDK. Its carbon-skinned aluminum unibody weighs no more than 2,800 pounds. All the usual high-tech goodies like dynamic engine mounts and Porsche torque vectoring are included, as are forged aluminum center-lock wheels wrapped with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup rubber. The 911's track record speaks for itself, but it's standing in the way of a more proficient platform starving for power.
Porsche, we dare you to prove us wrong.
Tesla Model R
With its Lotus-based Roadster a distant memory, Tesla Model S family sedan production in full swing and a new gullwing Model X SUV on the horizon, Elon Musk and the Tesla team are due for a dedicated all-electric performance car. The Model R coupe trades passenger seats for a more useful cargo, something Musk himself claims is the future of electric mobility.
Its stressed battery-casing substructure grows slightly to accommodate additional lithium-ion cells, totaling 100 kilowatt-hours, but that energy feeds two competition-spec supercapacitor modules. These supercapacitors, seen in use on Toyota's TS030 Le Mans Prototype, are designed for the perpetual dumping and scavenging of enormous amounts of power on command, in an instant. This means that your maniacal driving tendencies won't be as wasteful. With a Model S Performance motor mounted on each axle, the all-wheel-drive Model R produces a synergistic total of 832 hp and can send an asphalt-rippling 886 lb-ft of torque to the ground.
Musk has already proven he's not a wuss. The Model R can only reinforce the notion.


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The WalkAlong event will take place Saturday, May 4, and participants can choose one of three routes. The guided tours, which last about two hours, will depart from the Columbia Archives (at 10227 Wincopin Circle) at 10 a.m.
One tour will focus on the architecture of Frank Gehry, including Merriweather Post Pavilion and the former Rouse Co. headquarters.
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For 30 years, Clayton Patterson has doggedly documented the streets and culture of the Lower East Side, compiling a massive archive of the neighborhood and its denizens, from punks to pushers to police. And he's had had a big impact too: His footage of the 1988 Tompkins Square Park protests and subsequent riot lead to major reforms in the NYPD.
We posted on Patterson's most recent brush with the law at a crime scene last month and thought it would be interesting to talk to this photographer/artist/activist about his experiences with the police and being arrested a whopping 14 times. We were right.
Being arrested 14 times is outrageous! Do you attribute those largely to having a camera, or were there other circumstances involved?
Both. The camera intimidates many cops; firemen tend not to care. It is odd because the world we live in is documented from so many different directions, however most of the cameras are corporate or government.
What is your frame of mind when photographing crime scenes and/or police? Do you have to go in preparing yourself for a confrontation?
One never wishes for a confrontation. The goal is to avoid the conflict. You are there to document the scene, not create one. However, you must never let your rights be violated. You must protect your civil rights. That is a social obligation that all of us are responsible for protecting.
Do you feel like it's not worth photographing the cops anymore because there will likely be a confrontation and you'll be arrested for the 15th time?
I have been threatened with arrest 15, 16 times – yes, I am tired of it. I would like an easier path, however nobody else documents my area like I do. It is a forgotten piece of Manhattan real estate, so if not me, then who? There has to be a record and a moderator of the local events.
Why don't you carry something like a wearable recording device (like a Vievu) to document your encounters?
I have no idea what a Vievu is. My best defense was my backup, Elsa Rensaa, the woman I have lived with since 1972. But there is only so much you can do. It is not always the arrests that are the worst. It can be the charges and the beatings. I have been knocked unconscious, had teeth knocked out, and so on. And I have continuously been in court since 1988 with one case or another. I have one remaining case, a federal case. We are talking many years in court, and it is just another day for the cops and the court, meanwhile for me it is a serious undertaking, which also has many potential dangers connected to it, as well as the expense and the time. Remember, the moment of glory is short. All the noise and glamour is gone in an instant. The court cases go on and on. Alone, on and on, for years. It gets isolating.
Does it sometimes feel like it's a big game – i.e., "They'll arrest me for taking pictures of them and throw on some BS charges, which will just get dropped, and then I'll sue"?
Never. It is never just a game or just for fun. There are always consequences and always the potential of physical danger. I am getting too old to get beaten up. I am tired of the constant stupid struggle. And remember, suing is bad for their career. The cops, through court and other such systems, can work angles in their favor, but costing the city money is a big no-no. And suing can take years. It is never easy to find a lawyer who will sue the cops. That is a rare specialty area.
Just to get a lawyer, the case must be very clear-cut. The evidence in your favor must be clear-cut, and often they want indisputable video or recorded evidence in your favor. It's what made me such a nuisance. I was good at getting the evidence with the video camera. By using the camera I got more cops in trouble than anyone else has in the history of America. It's what made me stand out. I had the guts and drive to do it, as well as the skills to get the shot. To get the shot, you have to be right where the action is.
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If John wrote the book of revelation/apocalypse in Greek then how would he have written anything that resembled the Arabic letters "666" that they show in all those occult movies?
Actually, if written in Arabic, it would look like a an English Number "7" so it would be "777."FYIIn Christ,Hadel
Aw shucks, that means that the end of the world must really be next year, on July 7.
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At my son's recent appointment his doctor who is "supportive" of breastfeeding noticed that he has dropped from just over the 25th percentile in weight at 7 mos to just over the 10 percentile at 10 mos (he weighs 18 pounds 3 ounces). She was concerned by this and mentioned the "F" word...supplementing with formula. My son had been nursing about 5 times per day in addition to solids twice a day (meat, veggies, fruits, yogurt), a small amount of water and a small snack (rice cookie) per day.
I have since tried to increase his breastfeedings to 5-6 times per day and on the doctors suggestion, tried to increase his solids with 3 meals plus a snack.
My son will be weighed again at his one year appointment and I am worried what will happen if he continues to drop in percentile on the weight chart. Even though I did make it clear that I am not comfortable with FF the doc did mention that she must "intervene" if a baby drops at least two lines on the growth chart.
I should mention that my son has recently become very active. He crawls alot, babbles and says a few words. He also has two older sisters that distract him (sometimes at feeding time). Also, although he does communicate his needs he is not by any means a demanding baby.
I guess I am just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and what might work to help DS put on a bit more weight


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1. Re: DP55KG Issues with SATA 2.5tbwhale Jan 21, 2012 1:29 AM (in response to JWS1642)
I am not sure if enabling UEFI boot is enough. You may actually need to install the OS in UEFI mode. Before that, are you able to format the HDD when it is reported to be "not initialized"?
2. Re: DP55KG Issues with SATA 2.5tbBoyet Jan 21, 2012 8:53 PM (in response to JWS1642)
Must set HDD to AHCI mode, set boot to uefi and install your OS.
3. Re: DP55KG Issues with SATA 2.5tbwhale Jan 22, 2012 6:38 AM (in response to Boyet)
After enabling UEFI boot, use F10 to open the boot menu, and boot into UEFI.
4. Re: DP55KG Issues with SATA 2.5tbBoyet Jan 22, 2012 9:44 AM (in response to whale)
F10 is needed only if the boot device where the installer is located is not the first device in the boot sequence. Since the os is not yet installed under UEFI you have to install the os first with the assumption that you let the installer create the GPT partition to fully access the space beyond 2 Tb.


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Yes, we're still on the subject of Windows 7's user interface overhaul. We know what's going to change, we know what it looks like, but there's one important question that has not really been given much stage time: why? At PDC, one session was dedicated to just that question. Speaking is Chaitanya Sareen [.wmv], part of the windows user interface team. He'll place the changes in Windows 7 into context, talk about Windows' user interface history, and he'll explain why certain changes were made. An interesting insight into the goals of the Windows 7 interface.


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Scarce 1953 Bowman Color Unopened Cello Pack (Low Number)
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $1,880
Graded VG+ 3.5 by GAI. Extremely rare original unopened cello pack of 1953 Bowman Color baseball cards. Clean and tightly sealed cello pack with corner tears, which are all so common with cello packs from this era, and solely responsible for the modest technical grade. The cards and the pack itself have a MINT appearance! Only extremely close examination allows for a few small cello tears to be detected. The top card is Smokey Burgess. Card #22 of Bob Porterfield appears on the bottom of the pack. This is a particularly rare unopened cello pack, among the rarest of all 1950s unopened packs and the first 1953 Bowman cello pack we have ever seen (we have heard of the existence of only a few other examples over the years), direct from the "golden era" of baseball cards. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$1,500+. SOLD FOR $1,880
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It's best to keep a watchful eye on the New York state Health Benefit Exchange.
It's best to keep a watchful eye on the New York state Health Benefit Exchange.
The federal government recently announced a delay regarding the new health insurance program known as the Affordable Care Act.
The delay involved the small-business health options program, or SHOP.
This feature would allow employers to select their employee health plans. However, it applies only to the federally run health exchange and not the New York state exchange.
So, as far as New York state is concerned, the exchange is still proceeding at full speed to implement the ACA in New York beginning on Jan. 1, 2014.
To get there is no easy task. The New York Health Benefit Exchange was conceived last year to be an organized marketplace for New Yorkers to shop and enroll in health insurance plans. The two components of the exchange remain as follows:
An individual exchange serving individuals and families A small-business health-options program as noted above, called SHOP, serving small businesses and their employees
The individual component would enable people who live in New York state and are not eligible for Medicaid to acquire health insurance. Those low- to moderate-income people would receive tax credits plus cost-sharing benefits to reduce the health-plan costs. Businesses that have up to 50 employees will be able to access the exchange for coverage and perhaps tax credits.
So how do you obtain information and answers?
The exchange will have a navigator and an in-person assistant to help with the many expected questions. They will be trained to guide individuals and employers. You can also elect to obtain coverage information through your insurance broker or agent.
For employers, the exchange will provide a choice of health plans. Here are some key points:
Select among qualified health plans that are offered by one or more insurance companies. Select a "metal" tier plan of coverage such as gold, platinum, silver or a comprehensive catastrophic plan. Potentially qualify for a tax credit up to 50 percent (35 percent for nonprofits) of eligible premium costs.
Premium rates offered under the exchange will be the same for a specified pool of individuals. This means that there is no consideration for each participant's medical condition or cost experience. It would also spread costs of different medical conditions across an entire cross-section of a community.
The difference with this community rating approach may be significant regarding the premiums to be charged — unlike an experience rating method that uses a specific defined group's history of medical claims in order to calculate the insurance premium rates.
So stay tuned.
Open enrollment begins Oct. 1, just a few short months away, with more information, rules and rates on the way.
Again, the effective date is Jan. 1, 2014. If you have not visited the state Health Benefit Exchange website at healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov, now is a good time.
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Duke's Bohemian offers fresh seafood in a bar setting – 7
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar invites different kinds of customers to step through its door at the corner where Allen Street turns into Wadsworth. ¶ Live music lovers, dancers, diners and drinkers are all courted. Looking for a potent cocktail of food, fun and frosty drinks, spiked with diverse live music? Duke's would like a word with you, because it's the only place in Allentown that offers a broad live music selection and a full dinner menu. The kitchen serves until 3 a.m. ¶ We were there for the food, during daylight, and chose a patio table out back, where we could feel the breeze and admire the flower boxes of begonias and petunias. The dim interior, with dark wood and beer coolers, said "bar," but the menu swiftly signaled the kitchen's ambitions.
Like lobster gnocchi ($14) as a starter, or french fries not only hand-cut, but anointed with tartufo bianco truffle salt ($8). Highlighted by a strong undercurrent of fresh seafood, and I don't mean haddock, this is not your dad's bar food.
Raw clams and freshly shucked oysters, two items that many tavern kitchens do not gamble with, are here in force. Soft-shell crab was a special when we visited last month, $18 for two with beurre blanc, sauteed broccolini, roasted root vegetables and garlic mashed potatoes.
Another special, the truffled Angus burger, involved a truffled beef and mushroom patty, truffled arugula, Parmigiano Reggiano, tomato dijon aioli and a fried egg ($14). Gabrielle Alfieri, who owns Duke's with husband Patrick "Doogie" Duquin, ex-Hutch's maitre d', said that burger will survive a menu rewrite taking effect this week.
So will the pride of the appetizer section, the never-fried wings, which are BBQ chicken digits ($11) that have been brined, dry-rubbed, smoked and grilled. We tasted them as part of the Duke's Pub Sampler ($25), alongside a half-dozen clams casino, eggplant "wings," four raw oysters and truffle fries.
Those wings had smoky flavor right down to the bone and admirable tenderness. The fried, breaded eggplant batons felt like as much coating as interiors but got gobbled anyway. "You're getting me to eat eggplant," Cat pointed out. (Vegetarians might like these and a quesadilla.)
The fries were some of the best I've seen this year – crispy but light, well-seasoned while still tasting of potatoes. We finished them, a rare event.
The clams casino surprised with a load of bacon, and the clams underneath the chile-flake-spiked breadcrumb mixture were fresh. The sampler's oysters, served with shallot mignonette, were spot on: cold, briny, plump to the point of crispness.
The Bohemian salad ($8) was a low-impact way to ingest some foliage, the usual field mix plus goat cheese with a few seedless grapes and pecans, with bracing pickled onions.
For mains, I asked for the soft-shelled crabs, and Cat got that truffled burger.
The crabs arrived perched on a slab of potatoes that were not pasty but did need more flavor. The broccolini had apparently been rolled on the grill for smokiness but had picked up a scorched note along the way. The crabs were cooked expertly in a thin coating that emphasized the crispiness of their post-frying shells. The tangy beurre blanc was beige and thick as gravy.
The burger was a satisfying hunk of ground beef, cooked accurately and exhibiting a decent crust. But between the truffled beef and truffled arugula atop it, I hit truffle oil overload, and I'm usually fairly tolerant. The fried egg perched atop the burger was appropriately runny.
For dessert, we had flourless chocolate torte with ice cream and the chocolate peanut butter crunch bar (both $6). The torte was a big ol' fudge bomb, no surprise. The crunch bar, two big wedges studded with crunchy, salty pretzels, beat Reese's cups by a mile. We made sure it left with us.
Service was adequate, with a trainee looking after us part of the way. I noticed a strong spilled beer smell on the patio, which may have been a temporary condition, and I do understand, from extensive experience, that people spill beer in bars. Unfortunately, stale beer in daylight whispers frathouse, even if the menu says gastropub.
The meal we had at Duke's Bohemian wasn't perfect, but its menu has some excellent dishes and its treatment of seafood suggests a commendable seriousness of intent.
If you're looking to have a good meal in Allentown and listen to live music, Duke's is the place to beat.
Duke's Bohemian Grove Bar: 7 plates (Out of 10)
Fresh seafood, smoked wings, truffled fries alongside live music raise the bar in Allentown.
WHERE: 253 Allen St. (240-9359, dukesbohemiangrovebar.com)
HOURS: 5 p.m to 3 a.m., seven days a week.
PRICE RANGE: Appetizers, $8-$13; burgers and sandwiches, $10-$15; entrees, $10-$25.
PARKING: On the street; small lot across street.
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Celtic rue 'missed opportunity'
Celtic have described Monday's reconstruction veto as a missed
opportunity for Scottish football.
And Celtic expressed confusion over St Mirren and Ross County's
change of heart.
Celtic proposed a change in the voting structure for future
league reconstruction to a 9-3 majority instead of the current
11-1, but both Saints and County rejected the compromise at today's
Scottish Premier League meeting.
A club statement read: "Clearly we are disappointed that today's
proposals have not been voted through. We believe this is a huge
missed opportunity for the whole of Scottish football.
"We were pleased a number of months ago to have achieved
unanimity across all clubs on the proposals for the way
"We do not understand the rationale now offered for rejecting
these proposals and the unwillingness to take the game forward
"It is unfortunate that the vision shown by the vast majority of
clubs is now not shared by all.
"We believe these positive proposals would have fundamentally
enhanced Scottish football for the future."
Celtic had agreed to give up a significant proportion of their
potential prize money, given they are expected to win the league
for the next few years, to secure the 12-12-18 structure.
They believed the game needed freshening up with chief executive
Peter Lawwell admitting concern at the number of Parkhead
season-ticket holders who have not been turning up this season.
The statement praised SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster for his
efforts and continued: "We understand today's events are
unfortunate and the implications for the game will generate some
uncertainty. However, Celtic has strong foundations and will look
"We have enjoyed a tremendous season, we are on the verge of
securing back to back SPL titles and yesterday we ensured our place
in this season's Scottish Cup final.
"This, at the end of a season where we joined Europe's elite as
one of the top 16 clubs across the continent.
"While we have not reached agreement on these proposals, our
club is fundamentally in a very healthy position and now we move
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Police investigating the robbery of a Papa John's Pizza delivery driver last March had little to go on - no identification of the suspects and no physical evidence - but they did have the phone number used to order pepperoni and bacon pies and lure out the driver.
The day after the robbery, police got a court order and discovered that the owner of the phone was a Clyde Johnson from Parkville. Officers also discovered that Johnson, 23, had been arrested in connection with two prior pizza-delivery robberies and he had used his own phone to place the orders, according to Assistant State's Attorney Andrew Kowalczyk.
Police secured a warrant for Johnson's arrest based on the phone number and the similarities between the cases and on Wednesday Johnson pleaded guilty to armed robbery. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Last year, more than one delivery driver a week was robbed in Baltimore, according to police statistics, and in the majority of cases the order was placed as a ruse - in the others drivers were ambushed as they brought a legitimate order.
In the Johnson case, an order for the two pizzas and a Sierra Mist soda came in to the Harford Road Papa John's from Johnson's phone. The caller gave his name as John, according to court documents.
The Northeast Baltimore apartment given as the delivery address does not exist. But when the driver arrived he went up to the second floor and a man wearing a black mask, whose stature resembled Johnson's, told him the apartment was downstairs.
Another man appeared and pulled a knife while the first man punched the driver in the face. After a struggle, the two men took the pizzas, the driver's keys and $55 in cash and fled.
Johnson was convicted in connection with one of the previous robberies, which took place in August 2010, and sentenced to 10 years in prison, with eight years of the time suspended, court records show. He declined to address the judge Wednesday and his attorney also declined to comment after the hearing.
In October, The Sun's Jonathan Pitts traveled with a delivery driver to get a sense of the dangers he faced nightly.
One of the men in the Johnson case threatened to pull a gun if the driver did not stop struggling, but he did not need medical treatment. Other drivers have not been so fortunate: in October a driver was shot in the stomach as he was making a delivery.
At the end of May, 20-year-old Dayone Jackson was convicted of attempted second degree murder in connection with the attack, according to online court records.


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Bali jersey dress
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by schnui
Brisbane, Australia
I made this dress to take to Bali in July. I had a wonderful holiday at a women's retreat for 10 days. Yoga, massages, walks on the beach, shopping and sightseeing and this dress was perfect for most of it. This pattern is from Burda Style magazine 2/2013 #114
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Nov 22, 2013, 09.49 PMby GULSEN GOKSEL
It's clear to see you love to sew. I hope to see on you.
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Nov 23, 2013, 06.49 AMby schnui
Thank-you. I must buy myself a tripod for my camera and then I will take photos of me in my clothes.
Oct 19, 2013, 02.06 PMby yenny lee
Sorry for miss clicked schnui..i just wanna reply ur respond..its nice tho cos working with this kind of motifs also still difficult for me and u did it very well :D
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Oct 20, 2013, 01.50 AMby schnui
Thanks again yenny lee.
Oct 19, 2013, 11.10 AMby yenny lee
This so lovely!! Are you really use sarung bali for this dress? I still cant believe it u made sarung bali looks so expensive :D i love this! :D
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Oct 19, 2013, 11.59 AMby schnui
Thank-you yenny lee. No, this dress is not made of sarongs but of jersey knit. I cannot wear sarongs because they always fall off me.
Oct 3, 2013, 11.40 AMby Innamc
Great choice of fabric, the dress looks FAB! I am still thinking what to make dress or top. :-). I like your dress much more, then from magazine! :-)
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Oct 3, 2013, 10.25 PMby schnui
Thank-you so much for your sweet comment. I saw this fabric in my favourite fabric shop and quickly purchased it, not having any real idea what to make with it. This pattern really was meant to be for this fabric. If you make either the top or dress, I am sure you will be happy with both. Just don't buy a jersey that is too heavy because the waterfall detail will roll forward, making the facing show.
Oct 2, 2013, 05.22 PMby Irina Schwab
Jusy superb! Sounds like you had great time! Wow!
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.57 PMby schnui
Thank-you Irina. Yes, I did have a great holiday in Bali.
Oct 2, 2013, 04.44 PMby kisses
Very lovely dress and fabric. The fabric is really perfect for the style
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.57 PMby schnui
Thanks Kisses. Yes, this fabric was perfect for this pattern. It wasn't too heavy for the waterfall detail at the front. I think if the fabric is too heavy, the facing rolls forward.
Oct 2, 2013, 02.11 PMby Ellen Hatteland
Lovely dress – and I can imagine you look beautiful in the dress. The fabric is colorful and cheers you up and I understand you had a great holiday :-) I have also made one of these, but yours is amazing :)
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.55 PMby schnui
Thanks so much Ellen for your very lovely comments. Summer is already here in Brisbane and this dress is going to get a lot of use. I am sure your dress is beautiful too; like everything you sew.
Oct 4, 2013, 08.54 AMby Ellen Hatteland
Thank you so much – I will try to post my dress from Tenerife when we're on holiday :) Cheers!
Oct 2, 2013, 09.52 AMby liliv-1
A perfect dress my friend, another one to add in my wishlist! You have posted so many lovely things these days!
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.03 AMby schnui
There is more to come!! I am going to have to buy a tripod as my dummy isn't true to size. Thanks for the comments on my Bali dress.
Oct 2, 2013, 10.12 AMby liliv-1
This is so good to hear! You will post photos with your garments on, I can' t wait to see them!!
Oct 2, 2013, 10.15 AMby schnui
I am going to have to read the camera manual on how to take photos with the timer. Hopefully it will be easy.
Oct 2, 2013, 09.46 AMby The Tropical Sewist
Lovely fabric choice! Did you have any problems with a gaping neckline from the weight of the fabric drape there, though? I looked at a similar pattern but was afraid to make it because of that (real or imagined) problem!
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.07 AMby schnui
Hi Stranger!! No problems with this jersey. It isn't very heavy but it is very good quality and did exactly as it should. The only tricky thing was cutting it out on my cutting table which wasn't quite wide enough. It wanted to run away all the time. I think you should give it a go as it is very cool and comfortable and Bali has a similar climate to Singapore. Hope you have been well and sewing lots.
Oct 2, 2013, 10.56 AMby The Tropical Sewist
Sorry I've gone missing! Been a bit busy of late (and not just with dressmaking ;p ) and when that happens the interwebs is the first thing to drop off the schedule :((. I have hangups because when I try these lovely draped dresses on in shops, the first thing I notice is how they gape, and then I can't wear them without fussing with inner layers! Admittedly the shop ones are mostly made with lightweight jersey or some cheap stretchy material, and the drape just makes them too heavy for the fabric. I contemplated reinforcing the neckline, but have no idea how to do it! Interfacing of course wouldn't work for a knit.
Oct 2, 2013, 11.37 AMby schnui
You can buy an interfacing that works well with jersey. It looks like webbing or like bandage webbing. It isn't thick or stiff and gives stability to knit fabrics. You can buy it at Spotlight and I think you have a Spotlight in Singapore.
Oct 2, 2013, 09.26 AMby Anniemollison
Hi Marjorie, this looks beautiful. Much nicer than all those sarongs! I can't believe you made a dress for Bali too. We might start a new trend here.x
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.10 AMby schnui
Thanks Annie. I always make something for holidays and usually at the very last minute. This dress I did make in plenty of time but the night before I left, I decided I needed navy blue leggings to wear under my Tiramisu dress on the plane. I hate getting cold on planes. Guess what I had to quickly take off when I arrived in Bali!!
PS: I can't make a sarong stay on so I have to make cool dresses to wear.
Oct 2, 2013, 09.25 AMby velvetribbon
Beautiful dress and fabric! I am sure you have a great time in Bali. I went there on August and I love the place so much:)
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Oct 2, 2013, 10.13 AMby schnui
Thanks so much once again Velvetribbon. I too love Bali and will definitely go back again. I really didn't know what to expect when I went but it was so much better than I thought it would be. I didn't stay near the major tourist resorts but near a very quiet beach.
Oct 2, 2013, 07.18 AMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous dress, i made one of these as well. Your holiday sounds like my idea of heaven. i bet you had a lively time and your beautiful dress must have recieved lots of compliments x
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Oct 2, 2013, 07.25 AMby schnui
Thanks Mary. You probably were the one who inspired me to make this dress and it was perfect for the holiday. I sweat quite a bit and Bali has high humidity, so I just would rinse this out and then hang it up overnight and it was ready to wear the next morning. No ironing required!!
Have a look at this link.
Oct 2, 2013, 05.49 AMby janene
Not sure what's lovelier – the dress or the idea of that retreat! A perfectly lovely dress for the occasion in any case!
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Oct 2, 2013, 07.22 AMby schnui
That is so sweet of you Janene but really the retreat was amazing.
Have a look at this link and it will give you a bit of an idea. Bali isn't too far from Australia and it doesn't always get a good wrap but I think that is due to most of the party going holiday makers that go there. But for me it was beautiful and the Balinese people were absolutely gorgeous.
Oct 2, 2013, 05.01 AMby rita61
Lovely fabric print for this dress style. Hope you had a great holiday.
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Oct 2, 2013, 07.18 AMby schnui
Thank-you Rita, I had a wonderful time and came home very refreshed and relaxed. The massages were the best.
Oct 2, 2013, 01.16 AMby quiltsewsewsue
Absolutely gorgeous! The fabric is perfect for this style. Your retreat sounds great!
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Oct 2, 2013, 07.17 AMby schnui
Thanks Sue and the retreat was wonderful. This is the link for you to see for yourself.
It is owned by an Australian lady but women from all over go to it. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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|2008 Election:
|McCain's book
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|Palin's booklet
|Keyes' book
|Nader's book
|Barr's book
|2008 Debates
2008 first presidential debate, Barack Obama vs. John McCain, at the University of Mississippi
The first of three presidential debates between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama took place at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, on Sept. 26, 2008. The topic of the debate was slated to be foreign policy, but the financial meltdown that occured in the weeks leading to the debate meant the economy became a major topic anyway. Those financial crises included the federal takeover of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, the quasi-governmental mortgage-makers; and two private companies, AIG and Washington Mutual. Sen. McCain reacted to these crises by suspending his campaign to return to Washington, and asked to postpone this debate. Sen. Obama responded by claiming that the president needs to be able to "multi-task." The debate went on as scheduled, after a high-profile meeting between McCain, Obama, Pres. Bush, and several cabinet officials and members of Congress. Pres. Bush's proposed bill, which would let the Treasury decide how to spend $700 billion on bailouts and relief, was rejected by Congress on the same day of this debate. The high-profile meeting did not produce a new resolution to the crisis.
The debate was sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a bipartisan organization. The moderator was Jim Lehrer, anchor of the PBS "NewsHour" program. The debate was watched by 52 million people (not a record, since it was a Friday evening).
The mainstream media will interminably discuss who "won" this debate. At OnTheIssues.org, we view the voting public to be the winner of ALL debates. We deeply respect Sen. McCain for proposing a dozen Town-Hall-style debates over the summer; and deeply resent Sen. McCain for temporarily withdrawing from this debate. Debates are the single best way to get to know candidates -- shirking debates should warrant voting against a candidate, in our view. But that's not how people define "winning." So....
We view that McCain "won" the debate on points. He made several points which Obama could not answer well; for example:
However, "winning" the debate is irrelevant -- it's just one battle in the larger war of the election. In this debate, Obama clearly won the larger-scale victory towards election, because he succeeded at appearing as McCain's equal in presidential stature and in foreign policy knowledge. Millions of undecided voters saw Obama as looking adequately prepared for the presidency -- a key issue on which many voters were waiting to see how Obama performed. He passed muster on this issue. Neither candidate turned the other's supporters to their side -- which is what the pundits mean byt heir analysis of who "won" -- but we suspect that many previously undecided voters turned to Obama at this debate. That's what "winning" REALLY means -- how people will vote on November 4th -- and Obama clearly "won" the debate in that respect.
How can we say that McCain won the debate but Obama won the larger electoral victory? Well, I'll make an analogy to my days as a high school wrestler. High-school wrestling matches are scored by "Team Points" -- if you win your match, you gain one Team Point; if you trounce your opponent, you gain three Team Points; if you pin your opponent, you gain six Team Points. My coach gave me an achievable goal: "Go out there and don't get pinned!" I was a lousy wrestler, but I excelled at NOT getting pinned. So at the end of a typical bout, I would be trounced by my opponent, who would be applauded by his team bench, and then I would return to my team bench to even louder applause. Why? Because I had saved my team three Team Points, in comparsion to getting pinned. My coach formulated a strategy that counted on my ability to not get pinned -- and I came through, every time. Despite losing my matches, I made my team's larger victory possible.
McCain needed to pin Obama in this debate. Obama did not get pinned. Hence even though Obama "lost" this debate, he succeeded ni his larger strategy of gaining votes for the election. McCain will now need to pin Obama in the next two debates. All Obama needs to do is struggle to a draw, or just lose by a little bit, and he will get elected.
Gov. Palin has a similar goal as Obama had, in her upcoming debate with Sen. Biden. Palin's goal is to simply appear reasonably knowledgeable and not flub anything -- if she succeeds at that, she will allay all fears of her preparedness for the vice-presidency. We'll see on Thursday....
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Sustainable human society
Works to catalyze a transition to a sustainable human society through the active leadership of faith communities
registered as a non-profit organization in Israel (amuta), and is fiscally sponsored in the U.S. by Jumpstart, a registered 501(c)3. Current supporters include The Julia Burke Foundation (US), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), the British Shalom/Salaam Trust (England), the Pratt Foundation (Australia), the German Embassy in Israel, the Anne Frank Funds, and private donors.
the Seminary Faith and Ecology Project promotes Christian, Muslim, and Jewish seminary education on faith and ecology. By focusing on the formation of the education and values of emerging clergy and faith leaders, ICSD seeks to create a multiplier effect that will spread to the student future communities and congregations. Runs courses in seminaries in North America, Rome, and the Holy Land.
the Women's Interfaith Ecology Project brings together young Christian, Muslim, and Jewish women in Jerusalem through workshops and events aimed at promoting environmental sustainability, strengthening trans-community relations, and overcoming religious differences.
the Faith and Science Earth Alliance engages the world's principal religion and science leaders, teleconferencing, conferences and momentous meetings, the project produces valuable content with which to engage the public. Video content from these meetings, disseminated via social media and news outlets has proven to be effective in promoting public awareness, political will, policy, and action.
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text: The snowman's heart-warming plight in the John Lewis Christmas adverts have moved the nation. 'Horrible Science' illustrator Tony De Saulles has come up with some fiendish ends for a friendly snowman in his new book 99 Dead Snowmen. Tony's snowman Stan has to make it through 99 ingenious unhappy endings, from a hot cup of tea to a lonely old lady. We present some of the 99 endings in this picture gallery. There are many more in the book, available from the Telegraph book shop and all good book stores.Picture: 99 Dead Snowmen by Tony De Saulles


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It's time to go fishing in Ireland
Ireland is recognised as being the outstanding fishing holiday destination in Europe. The vast variety and quality of fishing in Ireland makes it the perfect destination for your angling holiday.
Fishing News
Most recent reports
Catch of the Week
Paolo Massignani and Roberto Quaglia win Catch of the Week for this striking double hook up. #CPRsavesfish... Find out more...
For daily reports and news read the Irish Angling Update
Additional Fishing Resources
Irish Fishing Tackle Shops
A definitive list of all the fishing tackle shops in the Ireland. Arranged by county, details what each shop sells, an invaluable resource.
Fishing Guides and Ghillies
Here you will find contact details of all the ghillies, Irish fishing guides and casting instructors for flyfishing, coarse and sea angling in Ireland.
Fishing Charter Boats
A list of all registered and insured deep sea fishing, angling charter boats in Ireland. Irish Angling Regulations
A complete guide to all bye laws and regulations governing angling in Ireland.
Online angling guide for anglers with a disablity
An online angling guide for anglers with a disablity or restricted mobility featuring those fisheries which offer accessible angling.
River Basin District Offices
An introduction to and contact information for the River Basin District Offices.
Fishing in Ireland
The Irish climate is well suited to sport angling. It is temperate and kind to the angler with moderate summers, mild winters and adequate rainfall throughout the year. The warm waters of the North Atlantic Drift lap the south and west coasts, giving us a milder climate than our geographical location would indicate.
The result is a fabulous mixture of cold and warm water fish species, capable of exciting the specialist or casual angler on the annual family holiday. In fresh water, they range from Carp, more attuned to warm waters, to the Atlantic Salmon, which is a north Atlantic species. The marine species range from the cold water Cod and Coalfish to the Mediterranean loving Bass and the mid Atlantic Blue Shark.
Many Irish people enjoy fishing but we are happy to share our "riches" with our fellow anglers from all over the world. Few of us, however, fish for coarse fish (freshwater species other than the salmon and trout family) which means that our magnificent pike, bream, tench, roach, rudd and eel fisheries are largely left to the tourist, as is much of the sea angling, particularly along the south and west coasts.
Lakes, rivers and coastal stretches are surveyed and mapped, fisheries are managed and stocked, while banks and access routes to the waters edge are developed to ensure the visitor gets directly and easily to the hotspots. Most of the angling is organised around recognised angling centres which specialise in catering for the angling tourist. Salmon and trout fisheries are usually the property of an individual, club, organisation or the state and permission to fish is generally required except in the case of the state owned lakes, such as the Great Western Loughs and the Lakes of Killarney.
Some waters have seldom, if ever seen a rod and line but exploration is always an enjoyable part of an fishing holiday, so do not be afraid to "have a go", it might well result in the fish of a lifetime.


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Indispensable Ocean - Blue Ribbon Panel Report
The Blue Ribbon Panel, which includes 21 global experts from 16 countries, emphasizes that without action to turn around the declining health of the ocean, the consequences for economies, communities and ecosystems will be irreversible.
Recent science from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Programme on the State of the Ocean has intensified the focus on declining ocean health.
"Ocean change is climate change and vice versa," said panel chair and ocean adviser to the IPCC Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. "With looming threats of rising sea levels, warmer waters and a growing human population we need healthy oceans and coasts to mitigate climate change, feed billions and protect coastal communities."
But there is good news: solutions exist that benefit both oceans and economies, according to the panel's report.
Convened by the World Bank to advise the Global Partnership for Oceans, the panel includes high-level players ranging from CEOs of some of the largest seafood companies in the world - including Thai Union Frozen Products, Bumble Bee Foods and High Liner Foods - to government officials and prominent marine conservationists.
According to the panel, fragmented approaches that fail to consider social, political, economic and ecological relationships will fail to meet the complex challenges facing ocean health. The report calls for an integrated approach to ocean investment and emphasizes the essential role of public-private partnerships.
The panel agreed that the Global Partnership for Oceans is a platform that brings together the multi-stakeholder support, technical expertise and finance needed to change the course on oceans.
"Getting to healthy oceans is a global challenge that needs the concentrated effort of big and small business, government, science and the people," said Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. "Though they brought very different world views, everyone on this panel agreed that we can't keep going with business-as-usual and all parts of society must be part of the solution."
The panel agreed there is no silver bullet to resolving urgent ocean challenges. It proposes these five principles to ensure effective GPO investments:
- sustainable livelihoods, social equity and food security
- a healthy ocean
- effective governance systems
- long-term viability
- capacity building and innovation
"Probably what impressed me most is that every member of this group was prepared to put aside their differences to work towards solutions to the problems affecting our oceans. Just goes to show what could be possible on the scale of the Global Partnership for Oceans." John Tanzer, Marine Director, WWF International.


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SAN ANTONIO – NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says Donald Sterling still hasn't signed off on the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers, but believes the process is nearing completion.
Sterling still hasn't agreed to drop his lawsuit against Silver or the NBA. Silver says Sunday he understands the banned owner's frustrations, but adds that "I think it's over."
Silver also says before Game 2 of the NBA Finals that there is "absolutely no possibility" of rescinding the lifetime ban or $2.5 million fine he handed down to Sterling following his racist remarks.
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This chapter describes adding, changing, and using named server configurations in Application Server. It contains the following sections:
A configuration is a set of server configuration information, including settings for things such as HTTP listeners, ORB/IIOP listeners, JMS brokers, the EJB container, security, logging, and monitoring. Applications and resources are not defined in named configurations.
Configurations exist in an administrative domain. Multiple server instances or clusters in the domain can reference the same configuration, or they can have separate configurations.
For clusters, all server instances in the cluster inherit the cluster's configuration so that a homogenous environment is assured in a cluster's instances.
Because a configuration contains so many required settings, create a new configuration by copying an existing named configuration. The newly-created configuration is identical to the configuration you copied until you change its configuration settings.
There are three ways in which clusters or instances use configurations:
Stand-alone: A stand-alone server instance or cluster doesn't share its configuration with another server instance or cluster; that is, no other server instance or cluster references the named configuration. You create a stand-alone instance or cluster by copying and renaming an existing configuration.
Shared: A shared server instance or cluster shares a configuration with another server instance or cluster; that is, multiple instances or clusters reference the same named configuration. You create a shared server instance or cluster by referencing (not copying) an existing configuration.
Clustered: A clustered server instance inherits the cluster's configuration.
See Also:
The default-config configuration is a special configuration that acts as a template for creating stand-alone server instance or stand-alone cluster configurations. Clusters and individual server instances cannot refer to default-config; it can only be copied to create new configurations. Edit the default configuration to ensure that new configurations copied from it have the correct initial settings.
For more information, see:
To Edit Port Numbers for Instances Referencing a Configuration
When creating a new server instance or a new cluster, either:
Reference an existing configuration. No new configuration is added.
Make a copy of an existing configuration. A new configuration is added when the server instance or cluster is added.
By default, new clusters or instances are created with configurations copied from the default-config configuration. To copy from a different configuration, specify it when creating a new instance or cluster.
For a server instance, the new configuration is named instance_name-config . For a cluster, the new configuration is named cluster-name -config.
For more information, see:
When you create a clustered configuration, Application Server creates a cluster configuration directory on the domain administration server at domain-root/domain-dir/config/cluster-config. This directory is used to synchronize configurations for all instances in the cluster.
If multiple instances on the same host machine reference the same configuration, each instance must listen on a unique port number. For example, if two server instances reference a named configuration with an HTTP listener on port 80, a port conflict prevents one of the server instances from starting. Change the properties that define the port numbers on which individual server instances listen so that unique ports are used.
The following principles apply to port numbers:
Port numbers for individual server instances are initially inherited from the configuration.
If the port is already in use when you create a server instance, override the inherited default value at the instance level to prevent port conflicts.
Assume an instance is sharing a configuration. The configuration has port number n. If you create a new instance on the machine using the same configuration, the new instance is assigned port number n+1, if it is available. If it is not available, the next available port after n+1 is chosen.
If you change the port number of the configuration, a server instance inheriting that port number automatically inherits the changed port number.
If you change an instance's port number and you subsequently change the configuration's port number, the instance's port number remains unchanged.
For more information, see:
To Edit Port Numbers for Instances Referencing a Configuration
To Edit Port Numbers for Instances Referencing a Configuration
In the tree component, select the Configurations node.
On the Configurations page, click New.
On the Create Configurations page, enter a unique name for the configuration.
Select a configuration to copy.
The configuration default-config is the default configuration used when creating stand-alone server instance or stand-alone cluster.
To Edit Port Numbers for Instances Referencing a Configuration
The following table describes the properties predefined for a configuration.
The predefined properties are port numbers. Valid port values are 1–65535. On UNIX, creating sockets that listen on ports 1–1024 requires superuser privileges. If more than one server instance exists on a system, the port numbers must be unique.
Property Name
Port number for http-listener-1.
Port number for http-listener-2.
ORB listener port for IIOP connections on which IIOP listener SSL listens.
ORB listener port for IIOP connections on which orb-listener-1 listens.
Port number on which the JMX connector listens.
ORB listener port for IIOP connections on which the IIOP listener SSL_MUTUALAUTH listens.
In the tree component, expand the Configurations node.
Select the node for a named configuration.
On the Configuration System Properties page, choose whether to enable dynamic reconfiguration.
If enabled, changes to the configuration are applied to the server instances without requiring a server restart.
Add, delete, or modify properties as desired.
To edit the current values of a property for all instances associated with the configuration, click Instance Values.
Each instance referencing a named configuration initially inherits its port numbers from that configuration. Since port numbers must be unique on the system, you might need to override the inherited port numbers.
In the tree component, expand the Configurations node.
Select the node for a named configuration.
The Admin Console displays the Configuration System Properties page.
Click Instance Values next to the instance variable you want to edit.
For example, if you click Instance Values next to the HTTP-LISTENER-PORT instance variable, you see the value of HTTP-LISTENER-PORT for every server instance that references that configuration.
Change the values as desired and click Save.
The Configuration System Properties page displays a list of all targets using the configuration. For a cluster configuration, the targets are clusters. For an instance configuration, the targets are instances.
In the tree component, select the Configurations node.
On the Configurations page, select the checkbox for the named configuration to delete.
You cannot delete the default-config configuration.
Click Delete.


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Updoc is a tool for creating checkable documentation and regression tests.
Please read more about it here: http://www.erights.org/elang/tools/updoc.html
E specification
The E specification contained in this wiki incorporates a test suite written in Updoc.
Updoc syntax and behavior
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An updoc test failure occurs when the actual answers resulting from evaluation are not equal (except for stack traces) to the expected answers written in the test script.
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In the Updoc environment, the text printed via the output objects
println is part of the results checked.
Semantics: stdout and stderr write to separate buffers. At the following times in the execution of each step, the contents of each buffer, if nonempty, are moved into answers named "stdout" and "stderr":
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