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You have a dream you're in a house — only, it's not your house, it's someone else's. You walk through a long hallway, and you eventually find yourself having dinner with your high school French teacher. You realize there's a test, and you haven't studied since the '80s. You wake up in a cold sweat.
What does that mean?
"Most of the dreams we have are due to anxiety," said Adele Nozedar, author of the book "Freaky Dreams: An A-Z of the Weirdest and Wackiest Dreams and What They Really Mean" (HarperCollins). "The highest proportion of dreams that we have is about things we are worried about."
Nozedar, who studied psychology in the U.K. and wrote two books about the meaning behind signs and signals, analyzed over 150 dreams for her book. They ranged from the bizarre — "I was throwing Phil Collins' chicken off a cliff"— to funny— "I dreamed of a children's story that features an amazing creature that's half butterfly and half mermaid. She's called 'Buttmaid.' " There were also the recurring themes such as losing your teeth, not wearing any clothes in public, being chased, falling, flying, and not being prepared for a test.
"All of the most popular recurring dreams have to do with some sort of anxiety — such as fear of exposure, loss of control, and not being prepared," she said. "The only one that doesn't is the flying dreams. If you're soaring above rooftops this is great. It implies confidence in yourself and satisfaction with your life."
Her background in studying signs and symbols led to her to include an alphabetical symbol glossary in her book.
"An acorn can be a sign for a new beginning, or a germ of an idea," she said. "If you're dreaming you're in a zoo, especially an animal in a cage, that could mean part of your personality is being held captive for some reason."
While some dreams may be helping us work through our issues, Nozedar said some dreams lead to discoveries while we are awake. Madam C.J. Walker, an entrepreneur in black hair care products, claimed to have developed the formula for a scalp conditioner from a dream.
"The thing that tied all the invention dreams together where people were finding solutions in their dreams is that they were obsessed," she said.
If you're having a hard time remembering your dreams, Nozedar said to interrupt your sleep patterns.
"The first phase of dreaming happens 90 minutes after you've gone to bed," she said. "Set the alarm and keep a notepad and pencil by your bed."
Another way, she said, is to eat food that is difficult to digest just before you call it a day.
"Those who ate stinky cheese, like a Stilton or blue cheese, just before bed had really wild dreams," she said. "You could also just have a baby, because guess what, rumor has it that new babies will keep you up at night."
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January 30, 2013
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Travis Strachan of Union (Ky.) has been named NAIA National Men's Swimmer & Diver of the Month for the 2012 - 2013 season, the national office announced Wednesday. Strachan was selected based on his performances in the month of January and was chosen out of a pool of candidates nominated by NAIA men's swimming & diving programs.
Strachan, the Freeport, Bahamas native, won every individual and relay events he participated in January. Strachan won the 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter freestyle relay on Jan. 18 against WVU Tech and Bethel (Tenn.). Six days later at Milligan (Tenn.), Strachan won three more events, the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly and 400-meter freestyle, against Milligan and Lindsey Wilson. He capped off the month of January at home by winning four events (50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter freestyle, and 200-meter freestyle relay) in a home meet against NCAA Division II King (Tenn.), Bethel (Tenn.) and Campbellsville (Ky.). Strachan led the Bulldogs to a 13-1 record in dual-meets this season, the best in program history.
The final Swimmer & Diver of the Month award will be announced on Feb. 20.
Nominees: Zach Johnson, Cumberlands (Ky.); Nolan Hill, College of Idaho; Aaron Buchanan, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Cody Barnes, Asbury (Ky.); Corey Hall, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.).
2012-13 Composite Award Winners
Dec. 5: Trevor Ehrenheim, Asbury (Ky.)
Jan. 30: Travis Strachan, Union (Ky.)

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This is NOT your mama's can of creamed corn! Instead, it's Alton Brown's recipe for homemade creamed corn, full of summer-fresh corn sweetness and real corn kernels, accented with fresh rosemary or fresh lavender. This is absolutely gorgeous, a must-make recipe when summer's sweet corn is at its finest.
Families sometimes give special names to special foods and even not-so-special but favorite dishes. There's the alphabet name: ask for HMO when you'd like my friend Elise to cook up hamburger with macaroni and onions. There's the toddler name: ask for a poobah fafa and you'll get a peanut butter sandwich in my then-baby sister's lingo.
As a kid, a 'Deluxe' was mashed potatoes topped by creamed corn poured from a can, my mother's attempt to extend leftovers with an incongruous air of 'haute'. I loved that comfort-food combination then, still do!
As an adult, a cook and a foodie, however, I revel in re-discovering the fresh versions of vegetables today known in their less-than-fresh forms.
FRESH CREAMED CORN is nothing like the toothless stuff from a can. The kernels are plump and full of corn flavor. All on its own, no mashed potatoes required, it's a luxurious side vegetable, deluxe indeed.
Time to table: 30 minutes
Makes about 4 cups (easy to halve)
- 8 ears fresh corn
- 1 tablespoon bacon fat or butter
- 1/2 an onion, diced small
- Kosher salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (or curry powder, for color only so optional)
- 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal (not stone-ground)
- Sprig of fresh rosemary or fresh lavender, optional
- 1 cup whole milk (see TIPS)
- Salt & especially pepper to taste
Leaving stems on for handles, husk the corn (see TIPS). With one hand, hold an ear tip-down in center of a large bowl. With a knife, slice off swaths of corn kernels top to bottom. When kernels are off, use the knife's dull edge to scrape the cob top to bottom on all sides, collecting remaining pulp and milk in the bowl (see TIPS).
In a large skillet, melt bacon fat on medium til shimmery. Add onion, cook gently til translucent (see TIPS). Add corn and salt, cook for 2 – 3 minutes, stirring often, til liquid begins to cook off. Stir in sugar, turmeric, cornmeal and rosemary or lavender. Add milk, cook til corn is soft, 2 – 3 minutes. Remove rosemary or lavender, season to taste.
Serve and savor, immediately or if you like, make in advance and gently rewarm.
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This is the last Kitchen Parade column to appear in print in my local papers, as they tighten their belts to face a weak economy. It's been a thrill to write for you, to hear from readers touched by the stories or inspired by the recipes, to carry on the column my mom started nearly 50 years ago. I thank you, I thank Dwight and Don and all the staff at the papers.
But -- good news, new Kitchen Parade recipes will continue to be published here online at KitchenParade.com. First, I've already written nearly a year's worth of new columns. Second, I also publish online only recipes, family favorites like my Mom's Blueberry Coffeecake and Homemade Frozen Yogurt with Blackberry Sauce.
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In re the corn: cornmeal?!? Seriously?? I've never seen that ingredient in any creamed corn recipe I've had. Wouldn't it be "grainy"? Interesting...veeery interesting.
Anonymous ~ timing is everything!
Sally ~ thank you, friend. I'm broken-hearted about it, for sure. But it's also helped me think through how to expand Kitchen Parade online and of course, there's irony that so much content is moving online (not just recipes but everything) and that is one of the very pressures the papers are experiencing.
As for the cornmeal, it acts as a slight thickener (think polenta) which further separates the consistency from canned cream corn. That said, I did test with my favorite stone-ground cornmeal and yes, it IS too grainy. So just the plain yellow cornmeal is the trick, although optional.
I boiled up the remaining ears of our Delaware farmer's market corn before it got too old, then noticed I had all the ingredients for my mom's corn casserole. Voila-scrape the kernels off the cobs, mix with Jiffy cornmeal muffin mix, eggs, butter, a can of creamed corn, substitute Greek yogurt for sour cream and bake. Presto! Fresh tasting, used up pantry ingredients, and got side dishes for a few nights.
I even made it this morning when it was cooler, and will nuke to reheat for dinner.
(Yes, I realize I am commenting about a recipe I didn't even bother to make, but you INSPIRED me to update an old favorite, so thanks!)
I think it's terrible that your column will only be online, but I'm glad you're still online!
Fortunately, website technology means that I won't have to stop being your reader altogether. And it's ironic, too, in that the very same application of technology is contributing to the cost squeeze that you (so generously) mention as forcing newspaper management to make tough choices.
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There's a great line from the film Easy Rider, where Dennis Hopper's character, Billy, asks, "What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about," and Jack Nicholson's character, George, replies, "Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things… they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
Living in a post 9-11 world, where it's normal for elderly grandmothers to be submitted to invasive pat-downs before boarding a flight, where peaceful protests are met by legions of armor-clad riot police, where tweets and Facebook postings are routinely tracked by Homeland Security, and where anyone looking vaguely Hispanic must carry government-issued ID with them at all times if they happen to be living in certain states, it seems pertinent to ask the simple question, "What is freedom?"
If you look up its meaning in a dictionary, you'll generally find something along the lines of, "exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc.; the power to determine action without restraint." That doesn't seem like something that should require a PhD in philosophy or political science to make sense of, yet what does it really mean for everyday people living everyday lives in a country that proudly brands itself as the "land of the free"? How does this concept guide and shape our thoughts, our actions, our beliefs and our society?
As it turns out, important clues to answering this can be found in America's most recent elections. Regardless of one's political affiliation (which for many serves as the sole determiner of their elation or disappointment with the results), it seems evident that 2012 will go down in history as a turning point, for it was far more than just a contest of competing visions for who is best-equipped to lead the nation, but rather a referendum on liberty itself. By this, I don't mean the presidential race or the shakeup in the Senate. The real action was to be found in the various state-level initiatives regarding gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana for both medical and recreational use. These issues are of primary importance, for they cut to the core of what it means to be free.
Not everyone likes, or agrees with homosexuality. Likewise, not everyone uses – much less condones – pot. But that's the whole point. Freedom does not mean freedom from offense or freedom from discomfort; it means freedom from arbitrary constraint upon one's actions. To tell two loving, consenting adults that they are not allowed to enter into a sacred union of their own free will can hardly be considered as being on the side of liberty. To tell a responsible adult that he or she is forbidden to partake in the use of a natural plant that has been used for thousands of years by cultures around the planet, that has shown incredible promise for alleviating a wide range of illnesses, that has been proven to be far less harmful than either cigarettes or alcohol (both of which rank as more damaging to personal and societal health than even LSD or Ecstasy), and which contains an active chemical that is found naturally in breast milk, is the height of absurdity.
Why are we as a society of the 21st century still trying (and failing) to legislate morality? Why are we still interfering with people's private pursuit of life, liberty and happiness by locking them up for victimless crimes? As philosopher John Stuart Mill pointed out 150 years ago, "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it."
Whether it's the illegality of B.A.S.E. jumping, of public nudity, or even taking your own life when terminally ill, we as a country have a lot of work ahead of us if we hope to ever be a truly free society in anything but name. Freedom can be frightening, it can be messy, it can be impious and distasteful, but it can also be empowering, uplifting, and exhilarating – all of which makes it so precious and essential. It's why people throughout the ages have found it worth fighting, sometimes even dying for – something those on both the left and the right would do well to remember.
Freedom is the right to build a mosque where you wish as well as the right to burn a Qur'an if you so choose. It's the right to ingest, inject, or inhale whatever intoxicant brings you pleasure or excitement; the right to give or receive any bodily appendage into any orifice of any other consenting adult of any gender (or conversely, the right to abstain from any and all of the above). Freedom means the right to think for yourself and the right to question everything, yet if you prefer, it's the right to let others think for you and to blindly accept all that you're told – whatever floats your boat. It's the right to do business in a free marketplace without undue interference and red tape as well as the right to band together to demand better pay and conditions without fear of reprisal. It's the right to bear arms yet the responsibility never to seek out "second amendment solutions" against those with whom you disagree (otherwise it's self-defeating to all the liberty it's meant to uphold). Freedom is the right to wear a Guy Fawkes mask or a tricorn hat with equal enthusiasm.
Libertarians are roundly mocked by liberals and vice-versa for their respective stances on a wide range of issues, but this seems at best, unhelpful. After all, both terms are derived from the same concept, "liberty." Both camps are supposedly built upon the common idea of freedom. Isn't this precisely what conservatives have lost sight of (much to their detriment)? If you're not harming anyone else (and this includes damaging the environment, such as the air we all breathe and the water we all drink) then what possible basis can there be for restricting anyone's rights or freedoms to do as they wish?
To quote Mill once again:
[T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise… The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others… Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
America is a land of great promise, built upon a noble ideal – the idea that the people themselves have the right to determine their own destiny – not God, not a divinely appointed king, not some elite minority of the rich and the powerful – everyone. The future belongs to all of us and we hold it squarely within our collective hands. What kind of a future do we want for ourselves, our children, and the planet itself (including all the non-human life forms who share it)?
As George from Easy Rider lamented, "You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it." To which Billy replied, "Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened."
All change starts with the individual. Let's be bold. Let's be brave. Let's be free!
Colby Hess is a freelance writer and photographer living near Seattle, WA. He is currently writing a book about science, philosophy, and freethought. Follow him on Twitter @ColbyTHess


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According to the Fedco Seeds website, the Marfax Bean is ideally suited to cooler climates as it matures in 86 days, and is a delicious brown baking or soup bean.
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The Marfax Bean is one of the Renewing America's Food Traditions Grow-out varieties, so be on the look out for it this fall in restaurants and in farmers markets.
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Well, we'll open our Bibles now to the nineteenth chapter of Revelation and look again at the marriage of the Lamb...the marriage of the Lamb. What a great privilege it is to dig into the Word of God on the Lord's day. What a joy.
We're gonna study the Word now. If you have your Bible, turn to the 11th chapter of Hebrews. Hebrews, chapter 11, the continuing study of the subject of faith. And my, how our hearts have been blessed and thrilled as we've studied the subject of faith in this chapter. We have already seen the life of faith, the walk of faith, the work of faith, the pattern of faith, the victory of faith and tonight we come to the life of Moses beginning in verse 23 and the choice of faith, or the decisions of faith, either one. We're gonna talk about what faith accepts and what it rejects.
True faith is very selective, very selective. It chooses very carefully. Now, as we've seen, before we get into this, in this particular chapter, the Holy Spirit, as in all of the book of the Hebrews, is writing to Jewish individuals. And he wants his Jewish readers to understand the absolute priority of faith because, you see, in Judaism at this particular time, works had become the dominant factor. And the point that he is making in the 11th chapter is that the new covenant, which is the first 10 chapters, is only received by faith, not works. God is not approached by works. He is not approached by religiosity or ceremony or some kind of ritual. He is only approached by simple faith, believing in Him, trusting in Him apart from any works of your own. And that's been his point and he makes it in great detail and at great length in the 11th chapter, repeating over and over again, "by faith," "by faith," "by faith," "by faith." And he does this so frequently because it is such a foreign commodity to his readers. They are so used to works as a way to God, that they need carefully to be dealt out, step by step, an understanding of faith. The legalistic, ritualistic concepts that were in their minds needed to be supplanted by the concepts of faith. And in order that they might not think faith is a new thing, a new heresy, as it were, he uses all Old Testament people to illustrate faith...that it's nothing new, God has always operated on the basis of faith. He has always operated on the basis of simply believing in Him apart from any kind of system of religion. And now, Moses is the next man in giving us the full picture of faith. We learned how to live by faith from Abel. We learned how to walk by faith from Enoch. We learned how to work by faith from Noah. We learned the pattern of faith from Abraham. We learned the victory of faith in the face of death from Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. And now we come to the decisions of faith, the choices of faith, and we learn that from Moses and also from his parents in a brief mention in verse 23. Now, Moses was a man of faith. Moses believed God. Moses came before, really, the system that he received on Mt. Sinai, the system of commandments. And before all of the laws and rituals that were Israel's, Moses before all of that, believed God and that was the key to his life. And Moses sets for us, I think, a great standard for the decisions that true faith must make.
Now, life is made up of decisions. We know that and that's a simple truth but ________. You get up in the morning; your first decision is to get out of bed. Your next decision is what you wear. Your next decision is what you eat. You go about life always in a process of making decisions. Life is only a question of decisions. In terms of the Scripture, temporal things and eternal things are based upon your decision. I always think of I Kings, chapter 20 where the king gave a man a particular assignment, said watch this man. It was the middle of a battle and he said, if he gets away, you'll pay with your life. And he came back and the man had gotten away. And he said to the servant, What happened? How did he get away? And the servant replied, While I was busy here and there, he was gone. That's a rather ridiculous answer. But his decision was to fool around and he paid the consequences. There are decisions that face us, very severe and very important decisions. Moses, a man of faith, learned to make the right ones.
Now, Christian maturity, people...and here's one angle on a definition of it...Christian maturity is making right decisions. That's what it is. You can always tell a mature Christian by the decisions that he makes. And you can always tell an immature Christian by the decision that he makes. He makes wrong ones. Put it another way. Holiness is making right decisions. Carnality is making wrong ones. All of life is decisions and all of the Christian life is decisions. And really, your Christian life rises or falls in terms of maturity and holiness on the basis of the decisions that you make. When Satan tempts, you either decide to say no or yes. When opportunity calls and you have a time when you can communicate to somebody the truth of Jesus Christ; you either take it or you don't. Everything is a decision. The time comes for you, you have a few spare moments you might spend reading the Bible, you make a decision. You either read the Bible or you don't. You get up on Sunday morning, you have an opportunity to come to a seminar or class, study the Bible, you make a decision. Either you get up or you don't. And invariably, sooner or later, it's gonna touch your whole Christian life, the decisions that you make. In business you have a decision. You have an opportunity to make a lot of money or to do what's right. And sometimes you have those kind of decisions. Believe me; we all do. Even in the ministry we do. Not usually related to making a lot of money but situations that could be beneficial to us or we do what's right. And we either grab that opportunity for the glory of God or we lose it.
J.J. Engles wrote this of opportunity. "Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune on my footstep wait. Cities and fields I walk. I penetrate deserts and seas remote. And passing by hovel and mart and palace, soon or late, I knock unbidden once on every gate. If sleeping, wake. If fasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow me, reach every state mortals desire and conquer every foe, save death. But those who doubt or hesitate condemn to failure. Penury and woe seek me in vain and needlessly implore. I answer not. I return no more." Shakespeare said this. "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries." Napoleon used to say that in battle there is a crisis in every fight. There is a period of 10 to 15 minutes on which the issue of the battle depends. To gain this is victory; to lose it is defeat. You see, everything in life becomes an opportunity to gain for the glory of God or to lose. They only come once. The Greeks had a statue called Opportunity. On the front it had long flowing hair; on the back it was bald. You could grab it coming at you; you couldn't get it going by (laughter). That was Opportunity. Since the beginning of time God has given men choices that affect his life. The first man that had a choice was Adam and he took the wrong one and everybody went with him. Every turn of life turns on the decision that you and I make. Either I grasp every opportunity for the glory of God or I miss some. I choose the way of the flesh, the world and Satan. And the way men have continued to decide, determines their destiny, both temporal and eternal.
Deuteronomy 30, verse 19 says this. "I call Heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore" says God, "choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." You have a choice. Joshua 24:15, you remember these great words? "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve...but as for me and my house"...what?..."we will serve the Lord." I Kings 18:21, Elijah on Mt. Carmel said, "How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him...if Baal, follow him. And the people answered him not a word." All men make a choice. All Christians live in the process of making choices. Abel chose God's way, "a more excellent sacrifice." His brother didn't and his brother was cursed. Abel was blessed. Enoch chose God's way, to walk with God. The rest of the world didn't. Noah chose God's way, to obey God and do what God said. The rest of the world didn't. They drowned. Abraham chose God's way, to live a life of faith. The people in whose land he dwelt didn't and they were destroyed. Isaac, Jacob and Joseph chose God's way, to believe God for what they couldn't see and in it they conquered death. The heathen refused to believe God and death conquered them.
There have been others in the Bible who have made the right choices. In I Kings 19:18 it says "Yea [Yet] I have left me 7,000 in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal and every mouth which hath not kissed him." God says, I've got 7,000 who made the right choice. An illustration of this comes to my mind in the book of Nehemiah, which is a great book. I think it's in the 10th chapter at verse 28. "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims and all they who had"...those are various leaders..."and all they who had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God..." You see? They had separated themselves from the people of the land unto the law of God. "...their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one having knowledge and having understanding. They did cleave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath..." Now here's a good thing. In other words, they swore something. "...to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes." Now, this is post-revival Israel. They got a great revival under Nehemiah and now they are, sort of, you know, saying we promise, we swear upon ourselves a curse if we don't do it, that we will follow God. They made a right choice. Josiah, the king, in II Kings 22:2, it says of him, this. "And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord..." And not only that, but listen to this great statement. "...and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." He made his choice and he walked in it.
And now we come to Moses and Moses shows us the choices that faith makes. And these are great truths for us to see. And, you know, whenever faith makes a right choice, Satan is immediately thwarted. Now, right choices are made on the basis of faith because sometimes the things that Satan throws in front of us are very alluring to the flesh, right. And we really don't see any immediate spiritual substitute that's gonna be nearly so interesting. I mean, when Satan comes along and says, look, if you do this in your business, you'll probably make $50,000; now, it might be a little shady but go ahead and do it. And we think to ourselves, well, no; that would be wrong. I better do what the Lord wants. What are the dividends? Well, uh, gee, a little joy, maybe (laughter). Let's see, joy as against $100,000, $50,000, well...see. You know, in other words, maybe sometimes as we think about it, the spiritual commodity that becomes ours isn't nearly so enticing as the other thing. And so we have to say, by faith, God, I'm going to believe. Although at this point, I really think I could use the other way; I'm gonna believe You and do what's right. That's how faith operates. And when you've done that you put up the shield of faith. Remember that in Ephesians 6:16? You know what the shield of faith is?...just believing God. Every time you believe God, Satan's arrows are stopped. Satan comes along and says do this, do this, do this. You say, I don't want to do that. God said to do this. Here's another thought. We've been through this when we went through Ephesians. But you know that every time you sin, who have you believed? Who did you believe when you sinned?...Satan. So if you don't want to sin, who do you start believing?...God. Therefore, what is the shield against sin?...faith. That's what's called the shield of faith. All you gotta do is believe God. It's amazing how stupid we are. We believe Satan and we know he's the father of lies. He doesn't do anything but lie. Moses lived by faith. The shield was up in the life of Moses. He was a man of faith. Now, this is a fantastic point to the Jewish reader because, you see, Moses was always associated, not with faith but with what?...with law, works. Moses, the great Mosaic Law. We always think of Moses in accord with rules and ritual and ceremony and legalism and not so. He was man of faith. Now, the record of the life of Moses, of course, covers the Old Testament from Exodus, chapter 2 to Deuteronomy, chapter 34, so about four of the books of the Pentateuch are about this man, Moses. He was a tremendous man. He was the greatest of the Old Testament figures and his greatness was not based on legalism; it was based on his faith in God. He really believed God. He believed God in the midst of unbelievable circumstances.
Now, as we look at him, we're going to see the decisions that faith makes. And I think he gives us a great standard. We'll look at some of it tonight and then we'll look at the rest of it next Lord's day evening. First of all, Roman numeral I, if you want to keep an outline: Things faith rejects. What did he reject? And this we'll find in verses 24 through 27. Now, he was a man of faith. Faith accepts certain things and says no to certain other things. What things does true faith reject? Number one, the world's prestige...the world's prestige. I love this. Verse 24: "By faith Moses, when he was come to years"...we know how old he was at this point, 40 years old..."refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter..." That's interesting. You see, Moses, for 40 years had written to the...risen, I should say, to the heights of Egyptian society. He had been one of the Hebrew babies that was supposed to have been killed by Pharaoh. Remember that Pharaoh sent out an edict to have all of the newborn babies in Israel killed, thrown into the river. But the parents of Moses, Amram and Jochebed...and we'll talk about them in a few minutes...were careful to hide him. They hid him three months in the house and then, finally, when they couldn't hide him any longer, apparently he got to running around and yelling a lot and they had to put him in the river. So they built a little boat for him, put him in the river, he floated down. And Pharaoh's daughter was down there taking a bath at the river, saw this little basket come floating by, opened it up and there was little Moses in it. What a fantastic circumstance. And she took Moses as her own son. And so Moses had grown up in the society of Egypt, the wealthiest, most advanced civilization in that part of the world. And to be the son of Pharaoh's daughter meant, technically, that you were the prince, and in a technical sense had the right someday to even rule in the land. Boy, you didn't get any higher. The greatest ruler in the world was the Pharaoh and Moses was in line.
Now, go to Exodus, chapter 2 and let's look at the story and just pick up a few points of interest. Exodus, chapter 2, verse 5:"And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walked along by the river's side. And when she saw the ark among the flags"...(reeds)..."she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child and behold, the babe wept"...par for the course..."And she had compassion on him and said, 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'" Here she discovers little Moses. Verse 7: "Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go"...isn't it interesting that the little baby's sister has run along the river to make sure that little Moses was gonna be okay?...Miriam...verse 7, "Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee?'" She knew just the one. "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Go.' And the maid went and called the child's mother."...got Jochebed..."And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, 'Take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took the child and nursed him." That's quite a recovery process that God brought about, wasn't it? Just fantastic. Now, it says there, and this is the point that I want to pull out of here..."take this child away and nurse it for me"...Jochebed took the child and weaned the child. There's a possibility that this was a three-year period according to some. Some scholars feel that it was as many as 12 years that she kept Moses in her own home. And during that time, he would receive the full training of the Jewish home. He would be instilled and ingrained with the Messianic hope. I kind of lean toward more than three years, somewhere maybe between three and 12...long enough so that they could have taught him Messianic truth...long enough so that he would have had the great promise of Abraham that had been reiterated to Isaac, Jacob and Joseph reiterated to him so that he knew what God had planned for his people because it's apparent later on that he did know it. So however long he stayed, however many years Jochebed was able to raise her own son, it was long enough to instill him with the great truths that were Israel's promises from God that they not only would leave Egypt, but that God had promised them a great Deliverer someday and that he knew well the great Abrahamic Covenant of a great nation, a great seed and through them the world would be blessed and the land would belong to them and all of this undoubtedly was drilled into little Moses. But after the training period was over, he rejoined the royal court. And when he rejoined the royal court, he was in the position as the prince of Egypt. He was in the position to receive everything that Egypt had to offer. You couldn't get any higher than that unless you were the Pharaoh himself. The name given to him was Mosheh. It means "because I drew him out of water." Now, between verses 10 and 11 is a gap. It says in verse 10 "the child grew and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and she said, 'Because I drew him out of the water.' And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown..." Now, between verse 10 and 11 is a gap of many years, at least 30 years, as Moses is growing. These are years of his maturing. And if you check with Acts, chapter 7, verse 22 in the sermon of Stephen, you'll find that Stephen says, during those years, Moses was exposed to all of the wisdom of the Egyptians. So he had a fantastic education during those years, being educated at the highest level of education in the house of Pharaoh and learning the things that only the Pharaoh's house could teach and communicate, with all that was available, he was exposed to the wisdom of the Egyptians.
I've often wondered, too, what kind of boyhood he had, what it was like to be in Pharaoh's house. Recently, some archeological discoveries have uncovered some of the things that they believe to be the toys of Egyptian children in those days. Through archeology and some other related studies, some things have come to light that are interesting. I'll just give you a few of the things that I discovered in my reading. Children were generally, in that day, very carefree and they played much like children today. Apparently they used sticks, stones and made objects out of clay, mud and bits of broken pottery...much craft that they have found. Among the more wealthy children, some toys were probably used. Tops, miniature weapons and several elaborate mechanical toys have been discovered, toys that operated by the pulling of strings. Swimming, horseback riding, hunting, playing with pets would all be experiences of a young boy in Egypt. It's another interesting note that we have found some indication of the hairstyles. The girls let their hair hang loose or braided it into pigtails. The boys' heads were shaved except for one long lock on the side, which was braided down over the ear. Certainly a lovely style (laughter). They found an 11-year-old mummy with that on his head, best they could tell. So Moses grew up, a childhood in Egypt, but even all this training in Egypt and being absorbed in the society of Egypt never really blunted his knowledge of the hope of Israel and the promise of God and the promise of the Promised Land. The formal education of Egypt, which included the reading and the writing of hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts, their copying of texts, the language of Canaan...undoubtedly, he learned several languages. All of this was refining his God-given ability to be a leader and to write the Pentateuch, which he wrote...the first five books of the Bible. All of this education went together to make him God's man. Forty years in Egypt God trained him and made him something, then 40 years in the desert He broke him back to nothing, and for 40 years he used him. So when Moses reached the age of 40 he faced a very crucial decision. Now, he had to choose whether to become a full-fledged Egyptian without any reservation or to join his own people, Israel. Now, he had a key to making the decision and that was his faith in God. All through those 40 years, he'd never wavered, apparently, in his faith in God. For 40 years, he enjoyed the privileges, the prestige, the status, the honors of a prince in Egypt, with all the royal rigmarole that went with it, but the time came to face the biggest decision of his life. And it's very apparent that God came to him. God spoke to him somehow. God indicated to him that he wanted him to go back to his people, Israel, and lead them out to the Promised Land. He had to make a choice whether to throw aside everything that he had in the palace and go live with slaves or to forget the call of God and grab what he had. In Acts, chapter 7, again, going back to Stephen's sermon, which deals so interestingly with the character of Moses, just pulling out a couple of things. It says in verse 23 of Acts 7, "And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian." He killed him. "For he supposed his brethren would have understood"...watch..."how that God, by his hand would deliver them, but they understood not." You see, he knew that God had already called him to be the deliverer. And he thought, if I go in there and show that to them, and I'll smite this Egyptian, I'll kill him, that'll prove to them whose side I'm on. They'll know that I'm to be their deliverer, but they didn't buy it. They didn't buy it. But he knew what God wanted out of him. Now our text here tells us, in Hebrews 11, what he did with the honor of the palace. And in simple words, he chucked the whole thing. I love it. What it says is this. "by faith Moses, when he was come to years"...w.what's the next word?..."refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter." Moses did not seek the world's prestige. He sought that which was the will of God. He knew God had a better kingdom. He knew God had a better reward. Prestige and honor and fame is a powerful thing. Most people live all their lives dreaming about attaining it. You know that? Sure we do. We put ourselves in the position of famous people. Most people live trying to get up higher on the social ladder. Moses gave it all up. And you say, well, I've given it up, too. I've never had it, but I'm giving it up (laughter). Moses had it and gave it up. You know, though, the world has its evaluation system. How do you get honor in this world? Well, usually one of four ways. Number one, you're in the right family. If you're born in the right family, you're honored. If your name happens to be Prince Charlie (laughter), you know, or Lynda Bird or Tricia Nixon or anybody. If you just happen to be in the right family, you are automatically thrust into the public eye with a measure of greatness and you may not have any at all. You may have. You may not. Another thing that the world uses to measure prestige and honor is money. If you have a lot of the greenies, you see, you'll get the honor of the world. I don't think it's always honest honor, but you get it. Another thing is education. If you have enough degrees after your name, certain people think that that's what it's all about. And then, of course, if it isn't right family, money and education, it's position, if you happen to be in a particular position, if you happen to be famous because of what you do. Maybe it's athletics, maybe it's entertainment, maybe it's finances, maybe it's business. I don't know, whatever it may be. But you see, all of that has no relation to God's greatness. He honors people on a totally different basis. He's not interested in what family you came from, how much money you have, how much education you've got or what position you have in the world. That is not remotely the concern of God in terms of greatness. And I can prove that to you because I want to introduce you to a man who was greater than Moses. I want to introduce you to a man who's greater than David, Abraham, Elijah or anybody else who ever lived in the Old Testament. This man was greater than all of them. You say, you're talking about Jesus, aren't you? Nope. I'm not at all. I'm talking about a man you wouldn't believe. Listen to this. Terrific! Verse 15 of Luke 1: "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord..." You say, who is it? Back up, verse 13: "But the angel said unto him, 'Fear not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard, thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, thou shalt call his name"...what?..."John"...the greatest man that ever lived up until this time, John the Baptist. You say, what made him great? Right family? No. He was just born to a simple priest, Zacharias and Elisabeth. You say, well, being a priest was a pretty good thing, wasn't it? There were so many orders of priests that you only got to serve in the temple a couple of times a year. A priest was a very humble thing. You say, well, he probably had a lot of money. He didn't have too much money. He lived in the desert. Couldn't afford too many real fancy clothes. He wore a camel's skin, sort of a modified Tarzan suit (laughter). You say, well, he must have had a tremendous education. He didn't have any education at all. You say, well, what a lofty position. Not very much of a position...he was out there and he even had a strange diet. The Bible says he ate locusts and wild honey. And I don't care how you try to convince me, grasshoppers with honey on them still doesn't make it(laughter). Simple family, no money, no education, a desert wanderer with the most bizarre kind of clothes and diet, yet he shall be great, not in the sight of the world, but what?...the sight of the Lord. Now let me give you a verse that used to shock me until I began to settle upon what God sets as His standard for greatness. Matthew 11:11...don't ever forget this verse. It's great. Listen to this. "Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women"...that certainly takes in most of us(laughter)..."Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist." Well, that's a powerful statement. You say, what made him so great? Well, there's a couple of things that stand out in Luke 1 that made him great. Number one, he was obedient. Number two, he was filled with Spirit. Number three, he turned many of the hearts of the people of Israel to God. You see, God measures greatness totally different than the world. Totally different. John said, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." All that the world has is "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life" and all these things are gonna perish. "But he that doeth the will of God abideth"...w.what?..."forever." Jesus said, "If any man will come after me let him"...first thing..."deny"...what?..."himself, take up his cross, follow me." The disciples said, "We have forsaken all to follow thee." What'd they forsake?...fishnets. (Laughter) Big deal. Moses abandoned the palace. First article in the covenant which Moses received from God was "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." He must have the preeminence. Moses is a classic, absolutely classic example of self-denial. My friends, as long as you can break with God in order to preserve any worldly interest of yours, then you don't really operate on faith. The strength of faith is proven by self-denial.
Baron von Weltz renounced his title, his estates, his revenues, and he went as a missionary to British Guyana. And today his body fills a lonely grave in British Guyana. This is what he said. As he renounced his title, he spoke these words: "What is it to me to bear the title well-born when I am born again to Christ? What is it to me to have the title Lord, when I desire to be the servant of Christ? What is it to be called Your Grace when I have need of God's grace? All these vanities I will away with and all else I will lay at the feet of my dear Lord Jesus," end quote. Thus, did Moses. He really didn't care about all the things that the world had to offer. In fact, he didn't even care about any of the things the world had to offer.
You know, I'm not famous and I've never been close to being famous. But we all have had, at some point in our life, a little taste of it. And I can remember when I finished college, that I had 13 school records in various athletics. And on the last day I was there, I went and I looked at the record board, you know, and I just kind of enjoyed looking at it (laughter). And, you know, it was important then. I mean, I had worked hard. And I remember I came back the next year and I only had eight. Somebody broke five of them. I came back two years later, and somebody lost the record board (laughter). Boy, what a lesson! (Laughter) I was talking to Neal Steinhauer who comes to our church who held the world's record in shot put and he was saying that he had a long telephone conversation the other night with Jim Ryun. You know Jim Ryun, the great miler? Jim said that through all of the trials and troubles that he has had, which came to a climax in Munich, he has discovered that the most preeminent and important thing in his life is the person of Jesus Christ. And he's completely given himself to serve Jesus Christ with his whole heart. And he's found out that all of the accolades and the applause of the world don't measure just the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Of course, this over joys his wife who's been a Christian all along. I always think of Brian Sternberg. You remember Brian Sternberg who was the world's greatest pole vaulter? He was working out on a trampoline one day and he landed on his neck and he's been paralyzed ever since, just almost a vegetable in a wheelchair. Through that he came to know Jesus Christ. And all of the accolades and all of the honors and the status that the world came to give him can't even begin to touch what he knows in Jesus Christ. Boy, the world doesn't have much to offer when you compare it with what the Lord offers and Moses knew it. So Moses did not choose the world's prestige. He chose, rather, to lower himself to join the slaves of Israel and be their leader.
Second thing, Moses said no to the world's pleasure...to the world's pleasure. Verse 25, great verse; listen to this. You know it already probably. "Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy"...what?..."the pleasures of sin for a season." He'd just rather suffer with the people of God than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Now, let me tell you something, folks. Sin is fun. It is terrific. We enjoy it. It has very, very enjoyable characteristics for a season. Hamartias apolausis...sin is fun...the enjoyment of sin, the pleasure of sin. Now, Moses was called to give his life for his people. He knew it. Now, he had a choice. I either do what God tells me to do or I disobey. Now, it'll be fun to disobey from a human standpoint. I get to live in palace, have all the goodies that I have, all the women I want, all the money I want, all the this, this, this, this, all the power I want, all the authority I want. That's a lot of fun to have all that stuff, but God said go down to those people who are in slavery and assign yourself to them. That's the choice I have. To stay is sin; to go is obedience. He chose to do what?...to go. And so he considered not the enjoyment of sin. To have sought to retain his place in the Egyptian court would have been sin. Now, let me say this, it's not sin to be in the Egyptian court unless God tells you to be somewhere else. You with me? It's not sin to have certain things. It's not sin to have money. It's not sin to possess certain things and to have certain honors and certain things in the world in terms of status. It's not sin unless you choose it over what God calls you to do. Then it's sin. Of course, sin can be fun for a season, but only a season. I like what Job 20, verse 5 says."The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the enjoyment of the hypocrite is for a moment." See, very brief. In fact, there's a couple of other passages that maybe we ought to look at in connection with that. Job...I'll read them to you...Job 21:7, this is kind of a complaint. "Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?" Do you ever ask that question of God? How come all the crummy people do so much better than I do?(Laughter) "Their seed is established in their sight with them and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them." How come the wicked do so well? "Their bull gendereth..." In other words, their cows have other cows. "...faileth not. Their cow calves and casteth not her calf." They don't have problems raising cattle. "They send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance." They've got happy, healthy kids. "They take the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the flute. They spend their days in wealth..." And then, bang, like somebody dropped a bomb, "...and in a moment, they go down to Hell." Zap! Boy, what a picture! Here's all the happy, and having calves and little children dancing and it's going along and in a moment they go to Hell. That's what he says. Yeah, sin is real good for a little while. And in a moment it's over. Psalms 73, verse 12: "Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world. They increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocence." He says I'm purified but I'm poor. "For all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning. If I say I will speak thus, behold, I should offend against a generation of thy children. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me until I went into the sanctuary of God"...watch this..."then understood I their end." Did you hear it? He says I cleaned my life up and it didn't go well for me. I got chastened, kicked around, plagued and buffeted. I looked at the rich and they had it all and I didn't understand until I went into the sanctuary of the Lord and I considered their...what?...end. Sin is fun for a season, and only for a season. Isaiah said this, chapter 21, verse 4, "...the night of my pleasure hath...turned into fear..." Let me give you another verse, a potent verse. James 5:5: "You have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton"...put your hands on everything you could get..."you have nourished your hearts"...now watch this bomb..."as in a day of slaughter." You ever seen them fatten up a pig for slaughter, fatten up cattle for slaughter? He says, ah, you nourished yourselves. You did what you want. You got fat and sassy as in a day of slaughter. People, judgment comes and it comes sudden and it comes swift. Moses said sin is fun, but it's so brief, it's so brief. And the highest, most lasting joy is to do what God says. You know, I think David probably had a lot of fun with Bathsheba. I think that _____ when he saw old Bathsheba over there taking that sunbath, oooh, he liked that, see. (Laughter) ___________ said, mm-mm, that's Bathsheba; I'd like to get to know her. And I think he just had a lot of fun with Bathsheba. But later on in his life, he cried out in the night of his guilt, "My sin, my sin is ever before me." And then he watched his children break his heart. He watched the little baby, the product of that relationship with Bathsheba, die. He watched his son, Absalom, rebel against him and be hanged. He watched horrible things occur in his life. Sin was fun. I bet if David had to do it over again knowing what he knows; he wouldn't do it. You see, what the Lord does is give us pleasure forevermore. That's the kind I want. Isn't that the kind you want? Forevermore. You see, so Moses, he made a conscious choice to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. And that's an act of faith. He actually believed God. And he believed that if he did what God wanted him to do he'd come out better in the end.
Beloved, God has called us all to holiness. He's called us to come apart from sin. And it's not always easy 'cause the world is throwing all kinds of garbage in our path and it's so easy to reach down and pick it up. But Moses believed God and he said, God you want me to do what's right and you'll honor me for it and I'll do it. Now watch this, real faith. I mean, people, if you really believe God, what're gonna do? You gonna do what God says?..of course. Who's interest does God got on His heart?...yours...yours. The devil doesn't care about you. He only wants to devour you. If you really believe God, two things you'll do: You'll reject the world's prestige for the honor that only God can give and you'll reject the world's pleasure for the everlasting pleasure that only He can give. I think I'll stop there and next time we'll take it from there. Let's pray.
Our Father, we are grateful that, clearly, the Word of God gives us the choices that faith makes. If we really did believe You, we'd do what was right every time 'cause we know You love us. I always think about it in terms of my own children. I say to them, You know, I only tell you this because I love you. I tell them not to go out in the street because I don't want them to get hurt; it's not because I want to deprive them. And Lord, I know you work with us the same way. You tell us, Don't do that. I'm not trying to restrict you; I want you to have real joy. Oh, God, save us from wanting to climb the ladder of the world. Help us to want, more than anything else in all existence to have You honor us by saying, Well done, good and faithful servant. And Father, save us from being preoccupied with the pleasures of the world that bring joy for a season and tragedy forever. Help us to realize that we cannot sin without having it affect us and the people around us. Help us to pursue holiness with a passion. Help us to do what Moses did...refuse to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter and choose affliction with the people of God if we have to suffer, rather than the pleasures of sin for a season. God, may our faith be the kind of faith that makes right decisions.
While your heads are bowed tonight, just a little prayer of dedication with your heads bowed and your eyes closed. There are some of you here tonight, I know, that have never really met Jesus Christ. You've never invited Him into your life. Maybe you've been in church and you've been in some kind of religious structure, but you're all wrapped up in the world's affairs and pleasures of sin and you just really can't stay out. But you'd like to begin tonight by placing your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You'd like to begin the life of faith. If that's the case, right where you sit, all you have to do is say, God, I want to know Jesus Christ tonight. I want Him to come into my life. I want to believe. If your heart is crying out to grasp God, it's as simple as your own faith. He's there. Believe it. Christ is alive. Believe it. In your heart, all you have to say is, God, I want to believe. I want to trust You. I don't want to become the devil's victim. And you can invite Jesus Christ into your life right now, right where you're sitting, and your life will be transformed from this moment, forever. Boy, what a promise that is. Others of you are Christians. Maybe tonight God just spoke _______________. He's spoken to my heart about a lot of things this week as I've studied. One of the things is, you know, it's an easy temptation for us, so easy, to want the accolades of the world. If you've been searching for that above everything else, above..._________anything wrong with wanting to accomplish things in the world, to do your best, to be thought of as a diligent worker, as the best at your trade or your profession, nothing wrong with that at all, as long as in it all Jesus Christ gets the glory and the preeminence and as long as that's never set above that which He desires for you to do. If the consuming desire of your life is to please Him and these things come as a byproduct, then you've done it right. If you pursue these things, you've done it wrong. And maybe there's some of you who've been trapped in the pleasures of sin. And in your heart you know tonight that you want to be released and you want to know the pleasures that are forevermore, the joy unspeakable and full of glory that's ours when we do what is right.
Our Father, we thank You that the Word is clear and it's incisive and it cuts us, opens us up. Thank you for Moses. Dear God, what a man he was. _________learn from him. Father, for whatever we need of our life tonight, we know You have the supply. We pray that we'll come believing You for it. In Jesus' name. Amen.


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By Yuji Okada & Chou Hui Hong - Mar 29, 2013 12:27 PM GMT+0400
Japan, the biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, plans to list the world's first futures contract for the supercooled fuel on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange within two years.
The futures will be for cash settlement in dollars and based on an index price for spot LNG cargoes delivered to Japan, Takashi Ishizaki, the director for the commerce policy division at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, said by phone today. While the contracts won't be for physical delivery, they will allow Exchange Futures for Physical, or so-called EFP, transactions that enable traders to swap their futures positions for a physical holding.
LNG futures will allow consumers and producers to hedge against price swings, while challenging the current method of linking the fuel's cost to oil. That's more important after Japan's bill for LNG climbed to a record last year, helping push the nation's trade deficit to an all-time high, as it switched to thermal electricity generation after the shutdown of its nuclear plants. The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, or Tocom, will consider how to implement the contract after a council set up by the ministry agreed with the proposal today, Ishizaki said after the meeting in Tokyo.
"We always seek opportunities to list new futures contracts, although it takes time to develop," Tadashi Ezaki, the president of Tocom, the nation's largest commodity exchange, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. "We are keen to create a market that meets the needs of domestic and oversees investors."
Record Imports
Japan paid 6 trillion yen ($64 billion) for a record 87.3 million metric tons of LNG last year, customs data show. The gas, which is chilled to a liquid for transport by tanker, cost an average $16.70 per million British thermal units, or almost six times as much as the $2.83 average price of U.S. gas traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange last year.
All but two of the nation's 50 atomic reactors are still shut pending safety checks after the March 2011 earthquake that caused a meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima plant. The country's trade deficit was 6.9 trillion yen in 2012.
The trade ministry wants a future for cash settlement rather than physical delivery to attract traders who don't have access to infrastructure such as regasification terminals, according to Ishizaki. It also plans to encourage LNG buyers in South Korea and Taiwan to participate to increase liquidity, he said. The government will ask Singapore, which is vying to become Asia's LNG trading hub, and the U.S., which is becoming an exporter of shale-gas-derived LNG to Japan, to list a similar contract.
Ministry Assessments
The trade ministry, which oversees energy policy and commodity futures trading, set up the council in November to consider the possible listing of the contracts. The council includes officials from Mitsubishi Corp. (8058), Mitsui & Co. (8031), Sumitomo Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, Tokyo Electric, Tokyo Gas Co. and Inpex Corp.
The ministry may begin publishing its own spot price assessments that can be used for the LNG futures, Ishizaki said, without giving a time frame.
Chubu Electric Power Co. has signed a binding agreement to buy 1 million tons of LNG a year from the Wheatstone project in Western Australia for as much as 20 years, Chevron Corp. said in a statement e-mailed today. Wheatstone is owned by Chevron, Apache Energy Ltd., Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Kyushu Electric Power Co. and a unit of Tokyo Electric. (9501)
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Kenneth Royal Murdoch:
A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
|Murdoch, Royal, 1898-1981
|Kenneth Royal Murdoch Papers
|12 boxes, 1 oversize folder (5.04 linear feet)
|The papers of poet Kenneth Royal Murdoch contain handwritten and typescript drafts of prose and poetry, children's stories, plays, extensive correspondence, and personal material.
|Open for research
|Gift, 2005 (Gift no. 12451)
|Processed by:
|Hope Rider and Liz Murray, 2005
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
|The papers of poet Kenneth Royal Murdoch contain handwritten and typescript drafts of prose and poetry, children's stories, plays, extensive correspondence, and personal material. Although his works were published under the name Royal Murdoch, he was known to his friends and family as "Kenneth," the name he also employed in his correspondence. The collection is organized in three series: I. Works, 1941-1982; II. Correspondence, 1940-1981; and III. Personal.
|The works in Series I. include drafts of three published books: The Disrobing: Sex and Satire (edited and published posthumously by Winston Leyland of Gay Sunshine Press, 1982), Gargantua's Mouth (1946), and New Friends of Mother Goose (1958). Also present are drafts of an unfinished novel "Letters to Xenophon Ho," as well as numerous poems and playscripts. Ideas and sketches for works can be found in numerous notebooks and notes on various subjects.
|Series II. Correspondence, 1940-1981, bound in date order by Murdoch, contains incoming and outgoing letters, primarily typed transcriptions of personal correspondence. Correspondents include Murdoch's mother Mary Snyder, sister Sadie Woodhead, friends such as Winston Leyland, Stavros Mannesis, Felice Picano, Cyril Sloane, and Edward Watkins; and fellow poets including Peter Dent, Marianne Moore, and André Spire. Loose materials from the bound volumes, such as original letters, photographs, and personal papers, are foldered separately and follow the bound letters.
|The personal material in Series III. includes promotional blurbs for works by Murdoch, Spanish vocabulary aides, "Poems and Prose, 1954-1974" by David Malberg, diplomas from high school and college, photographs, and cancelled stamps.
|Books and personal effects received with the collection were transferred to appropriate departments within the Ransom Center. The material is in good condition with the exception of fragile drafts of "The Letters to Xenophon Ho" that were photocopied to facilitate access without using the original draft pages.


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Bobby Valentine's first spring training with Red Sox
Bobby Valentine's first spring training with Red Sox
Bobby Valentine has brought a new energy to the Red Sox this year after replacing Terry Francona.
Valentine shagged balls himself in the outfield during a spring batting practice.
Valentine smiled as he prepared to talk to reporters early in camp.
Before pitchers and catchers took the field for their first workout, Valentine gathered everyone together.
Valentine moves quickly even at age 61. "Whatever you do, don't get in front of me," he says.
Valentine tossed a stray baseball into a basket as he walked briskly off the field.
Valentine, whose management style is hands-on, pushed shortstop Mike Aviles into position during a drill.
Valentine and general manager Ben Cherington are both in their first season at their current positions.
The umpires were late to a spring training bout with the Twins, so Valentine relaxed in the dugout.
Valentine has been frank in public comments, even about established stars such as Ortiz.
Valentine pedaled to work on a foggy morning in Fort Myers.
Valentine visited a Fort Myers after-school program that provides reading and tutoring services.
Now Valentine is tasked with recharging a club that failed poorly to end last season.


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This chapter provides an overview of developing and implementing inbound B2B integration flows and describes how to identify the B2B document and analyze requirements, add inbound routing rules to an AIA B2B interface, develop new requester B2B connector service, develop or extend an existing Enterprise Business Service, develop or extend an existing requester ABCS, configure Oracle B2B and define trading partner agreements, deploy and configure AIA services and finally how to test and go live.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
Section 21.1, "Introduction to Developing and Implementing Inbound B2B Integration Flows"
Section 21.2, "Step 1: Identifying the B2B Document and Analyzing Requirements"
Section 21.3, "Step 2: Adding Inbound Routing Rules to an AIA B2B Interface"
Section 21.4, "Step 3: Developing a New Requester B2B Connector Service"
Section 21.5, "Step 4: Developing or Extending an Existing Enterprise Business Service"
Section 21.6, "Step 5: Developing or Extending an Existing Provider ABCS"
Section 21.7, "Step 6: Configuring Oracle B2B and Defining Trading Partner Agreements"
Section 21.8, "Step 7: Deploying and Configuring AIA Services"
Figure 21-1 shows the high-level steps involved in developing a simple inbound business-to-business (B2B) flow from an application to trading partners using Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA).
Most of the preceding steps are described inChapter 20, "Developing and Implementing Outbound B2B Integration Flows." This chapter is referred to whenever applicable.
The first step in building an inbound B2B flow, as shown in Figure 21-2, is to identify the B2B document that must be generated by the flow. As a part of this step, you must also analyze the requirements for the AIA services that must be built or extended to support the flow.
The only differences in this step for the outbound B2B document flows and the steps for the inbound B2B document flows are as follows:
The source and targets in the mapping are reversed. The B2B document received from trading partners is the source of the mapping. The AIA Enterprise Business Message (EBM) is the target of the mapping.
At the end of this step:
The B2B document is defined in Oracle B2B.
The XML schema of the B2B document is uploaded in the AIA Metadata Repository.
The Enterprise Business Object (EBO) and the EBM to be used in the integration are identified.
Functional mapping between the B2B document and the AIA EBM is complete.
For more information about identifying the B2B document and analyzing requirements, see Section 20.2, "Step 1: Identifying the B2B Document and Analyzing Requirements."
The next step in building an inbound B2B flow, as shown in Figure 21-3, is to add routing rules to the AIAB2BInterface Infrastructure service.
In inbound B2B document flows, the AIAB2BInterface service listens for new B2B documents received by Oracle B2B and routes them to the requester B2B services, as shown in Figure 21-4.
The AIA B2B Interface composite has a JMS adapter to listen for new inbound B2B documents processed by Oracle B2B. The trading partner agreement in Oracle B2B is configured to route inbound B2B documents to the AIA_B2B_IN_QUEUE JMS queue.
The AIA B2B Interface identifies the B2B document type of the inbound B2B document and routes the document to the requester B2B Connector Service (B2BCS) Implementation that is responsible for processing the B2B document.
For example, if the B2B document type is OAG_Process Invoice, then the AIA B2B Interface routes the document to the OAGProcessInvoiceRequesterB2BCSImpl service.
The input to the requester B2BCS Implementation is the B2BM element. The B2BM element is defined in the AIAComponents/EnterpriseObjectLibrary/Infrastructure/V1/Meta.xsd file.
The AIA B2B Interface constructs the B2BM element from the B2B document received from Oracle B2B as described here:
/corecom:B2BM /corecom:B2BMHeader /corecom:B2BMID
Mapped from: B2B document JMS header property MSG_ID
Description: The unique identifier generated by Oracle B2B for the inbound B2B document.
This field is to correlate the AIA flow with the corresponding transaction in Oracle B2B.
Example: 5602359000000
/corecom:B2BM /corecom:B2BMHeader /corecom:B2BDocumentType /corecom:TypeCode
Mapped from: DOCTYPE_NAME
Description: The document type of the inbound document as identified by Oracle B2B.
Example: OAG_PROCESS_INVOICE
/corecom:B2BM /corecom:B2BMHeader /corecom:B2BDocumentType /corecom:Version
Mapped from: DOCTYPE_REVISION
Description: The document revision of the inbound document as identified by Oracle B2B.
Example: 9.0
/corecom:B2BM /corecom:B2BMHeader /corecom:SenderTradingPartner /corecom:TradingPartnerID
Mapped from: FROM_PARTY
Description: The source (from) trading partner of the B2B document.
The value is the trading partner name as defined in Oracle B2B.
Example: GlobalChips
/corecom:B2BM /corecom:B2BMHeader /corecom:ReceiverTradingPartner /corecom:TradingPartnerID
Mapped from: TO_PARTY
Description: The destination (to) trading partner to whom the inbound B2B document was sent.
The value is the trading partner name as defined in Oracle B2B.
Example: Acme
/corecom:B2BM /corecom:Payload
Mapped from: JMS payload
Description: The actual JMS text payload that contains the B2B document sent by the trading partner.
Example: <?xml version="1.0"?> <PROCESS_INVOICE_002> <CONTROLAREA>…
To add a new routing rule to the AIA B2B Interface:
Open the $AIA_HOME/Infrastructure/B2B/AIAB2BInterfaceApp/AIAB2BInterfaceApp.jws application using Oracle JDeveloper.
Open the composite.xml file using Oracle JDeveloper, as shown in Figure 21-5.
Add a new service reference to the requester B2BCS that processes the new inbound B2B document type as shown in Figure 21-6. The next section of this document explains how to develop requester B2BCSs.
Add a wiring to the newly added service from the Receive B2BM Mediator component in the composite as shown in Figure 21-7.
Choose the Mediator operation ReceiveB2BMessage as the source of the wiring and the target as the operation exposed by the target requester B2BCS. Save your changes.
Open the file ProcessInbound.mplan as shown in Figure 21-8.
Add a new routing rule to invoke the requester B2BCS using the service reference added to the file composite.xml, as shown in Figure 21-9.
Add a new routing rule to the ReceiveB2BMessage operation.
Edit the filter operation for the newly added routing rule. Define the filter based on the B2B document type. For example, the routing filter in Figure 21-10 ensures that the EDI X12 Process Sales Order documents are routed to the X12 ProcessSalesOrder B2BCS Implementation.
Save your changes.
Deploy the modified SOA composite application.
This section includes the following topics:
Section 21.4.1, "Introduction to Requester B2B Connector Services"
Section 21.4.2, "How to Identify the Message Exchange Pattern"
Section 21.4.4, "How to Store a WSDL in Oracle Metadata Services Repository"
Section 21.4.7, "How to Support Trading Partner-Specific Variants"
The next step, as shown in Figure 21-11, is to develop the requester B2BCS to support the outbound B2B integration flow.
The requester B2BCS is very similar to a requester Application Business Connector Service (ABCS), with the only difference being that it integrates with trading partners through Oracle B2B instead of integrating with an application. Hence, AIA recommends that you familiarize yourself with the design and development of ABCSs (requester and provider).
For more information about developing ABCSs, see Chapter 15, "Constructing the ABCS."
The key function provided by a requester B2BCS is to enable inbound B2B document integration by performing the following tasks:
Receive B2B documents sent by trading partners from Oracle B2B.
Transform B2B documents into AIA EBMs.
Use EBMs as request payloads to invoke AIA Enterprise Business Services (EBSs).
Figure 21-12 illustrates the processing that takes place in a simple fire-and-forget message exchange pattern-based provider B2BCS.
Step-by-step instructions for developing B2BCSs are provided in the following sections.
Similar to outbound B2B flows, most inbound B2B flows can be modeled using the fire-and-forget message exchange pattern.
Responses to be sent to trading partners can be modeled using separate outbound fire-and-forget flows.
Also, depending on the protocol involved, Oracle B2B can be configured to automatically send a confirmation or acknowledgement message to trading partners.
For more information, see Section 20.3.2, "How to Identify the Message Exchange Pattern."
For more information about identifying message exchange patterns, see Section 14.3, "Identifying the MEP."
First, define the service contract (WSDL) of the requester B2BCS. The service contract of the provider B2BCS specifies how it is invoked by an AIA flow. The service contract specifies the B2B operation being implemented and the B2B document type that it is capable of processing as the input request message.
For more information about creating WSDLs for ABCSs, see Section 14.2, "Defining the ABCS Contract."
Following are the naming conventions recommended for use in the B2BCS WSDL definitions:
WSDL File Name:
Naming guideline: <B2BStandard><Verb><EBO>ReqB2BCSImpl.wsdl
Example: X12ProcessSalesOrderReqB2BCSImpl.wsdl
Service Namespace:
http://xmlns.oracle.com/B2BCSImpl/{Core|Industry/<IndustryName> }/<B2BStandard><Verb><EBO>ReqB2BCSImpl/<ABCSVersion>
Example: http://xmlns.oracle.com/B2BCSImpl/Core/X12ProcessSalesOrderProvB2BCSImpl/V1
The ABCS Service version is independent of the B2B document/standard version.
For more information about recommendations on versioning AIA services, see Section 16.8, "Versioning ABCS."
Service Name:
Naming guideline: <B2BStandard><Verb><EBO>ReqB2BCSImpl
Example: X12ProcessSalesOrderProvB2BCSImpl
Port Type Name:
Naming guideline: <B2BStandard><Verb><EBO> ReqB2BCSImplService
Example: X12ProcessSalesOrderProvB2BCSImplService
Operation Name:
Request Message Name:
As a SOA best practice, AIA recommends that all shared service artifacts, such as WSDL and XSD files, be stored in a central location that can be accessed by multiple services.
All of the AIA-shared artifacts are stored in the Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) repository. Storage of shared artifacts in the MDS not only makes them globally accessible, but also enables AIA to leverage features in MDS that support caching and clustering.
Provider B2BCS WSDLs are stored at the following location in the MDS: /apps/AIAMetaData/AIAComponents/B2BServiceLibrary/Connectors/wsdls/ <B2B_STANDARD> /ProviderB2BCS/ <VERSION> / <B2B_STANDARD> <VERB> <OBJECT> ReqB2BCSImpl.wsdl
Copy the handcrafted WSDL to the following location: $AIA_HOME/aia_instances/$INSTANCE_
/<VERSION>/<wsdl file>.wsdl
Run the UpdateMetaDataDP.xml file present in $AIA_HOME/aia_instances/$INSTANCE_NAME/config/.
Using a SOA-MDS server connection to MDS, verify that AIA Metadata has been supplied, as shown in Figure 21-13.
The WSDL can now be accessed using a URL similar to the following: oramds:/apps/AIAMetaData/AIAComponents/B2BServiceLibrary/ Connectors/wsdls/EDI_X12/RequesterB2BCS/V1/ X12ProcessSalesOrderProvB2BCSImpl.wsdl
The next step in the process is to develop the B2BCS. The requester B2BCS WSDL created in the previous step is used as the interface while you are developing the concrete B2BCS.
Because Service Constructor does not support the autogeneration of B2B services, use Oracle JDeveloper to develop the B2BCS. Develop a composite with a BPEL process based on the abstract WSDL created in the previous step.
Following are the key activities that must be developed in the B2BCS implementation BPEL.
To develop a B2B connector service:
Create a SOA Composite application containing a SOA project with a BPEL component.
Choose the WSDL created in the previous step as the interface for the SOA composite.
The values to be used for creating the SOA application and project are listed in Table 21-1.
Table 21-1 Values Used to Create the SOA Application and Project
Application Name
Project Name
Project Namespace
(Same as B2BCS WSDL namespace)
Composite Name
Composite Template
Composite with BPEL
BPEL Process Name
(Same as B2BCS WSDL namespace)
Base on WSDL
URL of B2BCS service WSDL referred from MDS
Define variable <B2BM>_Var.
This is the input variable to the BPEL process and is used in the receive activity.
Define the variable based on the corecom:B2BM global element defined in the Meta.xsd.
Define variable EBM_HEADER of type corecom:EBMHeader.
This variable is used to store the AIA process context information and is used by the fault-handling mechanism.
Define the variable based on the corecom:B2BM global element defined in the Meta.xsd.
Define variable B2BM_HEADER of type corecom:B2BMHeader.
This variable is used to store the B2B-specific AIA process context information and is used by the fault-handling mechanism.
Define the variable based on the corecom:B2BMHeader global element defined in the Meta.xsd.
Define variable <B2BDoc>_Var using the external B2BDocument definition.
This is used as the source of the transformation from EBM. This variable is then assigned to the <B2BDoc>B2BM_Var/Payload.
Define a partner link to the EBS.
This is the AIA EBS that is invoked by the requester B2BCS.
The abstract EBS WSDL can be referenced from: oramds:/apps/AIAMetaData/AIAComponents/EnterpriseBusinessServiceLibrary/Core/<EBO>/V<x>/<EBOName>.wsdl.
Transform the EBM to the B2B Document.
Use a transform activity to transform the EBM to the B2B Document format. Invoke an XSLT developed per the mapping created in the previous step.
Assign B2B-specific EBMHeader variables as shown here:
Element: corecom:EBMHeader/corecom:B2BProfile/corecom:SenderTradingPartner/corecom:TradingPartnerID
Source B2BM XPATH: corecom:B2BM/corecom:B2BMHeader/corecom:SenderTradingPartner/corecom:TradingPartnerID
Element: corecom:EBMHeader/corecom:B2BProfile/corecom:ReceiverTradingPartner/corecom:TradingPartnerID
Source B2BM XPATH: corecom:B2BM/corecom:B2BMHeader/corecom:ReceiverTradingPartner/corecom:TradingPartnerID
This way, the sender and receiver trading-partner information identified by Oracle B2B is passed on to the EBM.
Invoke the EBS.
Invoke the AIA EBS to process the EBM.
Compile the BPEL process and ensure that no errors occurred. You can use Oracle JDeveloper to deploy the BPEL process to a development server that has AIA Foundation Pack installed.
To make key metadata about the B2BCS available to the Project Lifecycle Workbench and Oracle Enterprise Repository, the composite.xml file of the B2BCS Implementation SOA composite must be annotated in a specific manner.
For more information about the Project Lifecycle Workbench, see Chapter 3, "Working with Project Lifecycle Workbench."
For more information about annotating B2B services, see Chapter 12, "Annotating Composites."
To annotate requester B2B Connector Services:
Table 21-2 lists the annotation elements that must be added to the service element composite.xml, as described subsequently.
Table 21-2 Service Annotation Elements in composite.xml
|Annotation Element
AIA/Service/InterfaceDetails/Service Operation
B2B Document Type processed by this B2BCS
B2B Document Version processed by this B2BCS
B2B Standard processed by this B2BCS
B2B Standard Version processed by this B2BCS
The following XML snippet, as shown in Figure 21-14, is an example of an annotated B2BCS called X12ProcessSalesOrderReqB2BCSImpl composite.xml.
The reference to the AIA EBS invoked by this B2BCS should also be annotated in the composite.xml. Annotation elements are listed in Table 21-3.
Table 21-3 composite.xml Annotations Used to Reference the AIA EBS Invoked by the B2BCS
|Annotation Element
Enter value "EnterpriseBusinessService"
EBS operation name
Annotations as they appear in composite.xml are shown in Figure 21-15.
For your reference, the $AIA_HOME/Infrastructure/B2B/src/B2BConnectors/EDIX12B2BCSApp/X12Process SalesOrder ReqB2BCSImpl/composite.xml file contains sample Requester B2BCS Impl annotations.
Support for Trading Partner-specific processing can be built into the requester B2BCS in a manner similar to the way they are built into the provider B2BCS.
For more information about how to build trading partner-specific support in B2BCSs, see Section 20.3.8, "How to Support Trading Partner-Specific Variants."
For more information about how to enable AIA services for error handling and recovery, see "Setting Up Error Handling" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Components and Utilities User's Guide for Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack.
In short, the following steps must be taken:
Associate a fault-policy.xml with the B2BCS composite.
Invoke the AIAAsyncErrorHandlingBPELProcess for business faults, as shown in Figure 21-16 and Figure 21-17.
While invoking the AIAAsyncErrorHandlingBPELProcess, the B2B-specific elements in the fault schema can be populated as shown in Table 21-4.
Table 21-4 B2B-Specific Elements in the Fault Schema That Can Be Populated by AIAAsyncErrorHandlingBPELProcess
|Fault Element Schema
Unique identifier of the B2B document
Document type of the B2B document being processed by the requester B2BCS
Document version of the B2B document being processed by the Requester B2BCS
Standard of the B2B document being processed by the Requester B2BCS
Name of the B2B software being used.
Oracle B2B
Sender trading partner, mapped from the B2BM
Receiver trading partner, mapped from the B2BM
Figure 21-18 provides the B2B-specific elements in the corecom:Fault.
The B2B details of the failed AIA service that are available in the fault instance are logged and available for debugging the failed flow.
The next step, as shown in Figure 21-19, is to develop a new EBS or use an existing EBS that is invoked by the requester B2BCS.
For more information about creating a new EBS, see Chapter 13, "Designing and Developing Enterprise Business Services."
The next step, as shown in Figure 21-20, is to develop a new or extend an existing provider ABCS. The provider ABCS processes the AIA EBM by invoking application APIs or web-services.
For more information about how to design and construct a provider ABCS, see Chapter 14, "Designing Application Business Connector Services" and Chapter 15, "Constructing the ABCS."
While you are developing this transformation from EBM to ABM, the Sender and Receiver Trading Partner information can be mapped to appropriate fields in the ABM to capture the source and target of the B2B message, as shown in Table 21-5.
Table 21-5 Sender and Receiver Trading Partner Fields in the EBM
|EBM Header Element
|Example Value
ID of the sending trading partner as defined in Oracle B2B. For inbound flows, this is the remote trading partner.
ID of the receiving trading partner as defined in Oracle B2B. For inbound flows, this is the host trading partner.
At the end of this step, all of the required AIA services for developing an outbound B2B integration flow are ready.
The next step, as shown in Figure 21-21, is to create trading partner agreements in Oracle B2B.
For more information about how to define trading partners and associate B2B capabilities with them, see "Configuring Trading Partners" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle B2B.
In addition, for EDI-based outbound B2B flows, Oracle B2B can be configured for batch processing of outbound documents. Parameters such as the batch size and time-out can be configured in Oracle B2B without having to make any changes to the AIA layer.
The next step, as shown in Figure 21-22, is to deploy the AIA services. You can deploy the services to a target Oracle SOA server using Oracle JDeveloper.
If any domain value mapping (DVM) and configuration files are used by the AIA services required for the outbound integration, you must enter data corresponding to your B2B configuration.
You can also use the Project Lifecycle Workbench application to create a bill of material XML file for the AIA project, which can be used to autogenerate a deployment plan. This deployment plan can be used to deploy the AIA services and resources that constitute the integration project in multiple development, test, and production environments.
For more information about generating bills of material, see Chapter 3, "Working with Project Lifecycle Workbench."
For more information about generating deployment plans, see Chapter 8, "Generating Deployment Plans and Deploying Artifacts."
In addition, configure the AIA Error Handling framework and set up appropriate roles to be notified of errors in AIA flows.
For more information about error handling, see "Setting Up Error Handling" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Components and Utilities User's Guide for Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack.
The next step, as shown in Figure 21-23, is to test and verify. Before you go live with your B2B integration flows with your trading partners, Oracle AIA recommends that you complete a sequence of tests for your newly developed or deployed AIA services, which constitute the B2B integration flow.
For more information, see Section 20.8, "Step 7: Testing and Verifying."
The final step, as shown in Figure 21-24, is to go live with your trading partner for the outbound B2B document flow. The AIA and Oracle B2B deployments are duplicated in the product servers and rolled out to the end users.
For more information, see Section 20.9, "Step 8: Going Live and Monitoring."


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Employers Are Hungry for Michigan Tech Students
By Jennifer Donovan | Published
Michigan Tech's fall Career Fair last week attracted 888 recruiters representing 280 companies. They conducted 4,186 interviews for jobs, internships and co-ops.
The Career Fair was the third largest in the history of career fairs at Michigan Tech. "But the factor that made this fair unique was how hungry the employers were for our students," said Jim Turnquist, director of career services. Prior to the Fair, many companies held special recruitment programs to attract students. Kohler sponsored a picnic on the lawn outside of the Memorial Union. Mercury Marine offered boat rides on Portage Lake, hosting more than 200 students. General Motors and Chrysler conducted "Ride and Drives," offering students an opportunity to drive a 2013 Camaro, Corvette, Cadillac or other GM or Chrysler vehicle.
The day of the fair, students packed both the basketball gym and the multipurpose room of the SDC. Turnquist estimated that more than 3,000 students turned out, dressed in their best and with hands full of resumes, to meet potential employers.
"Many of the employers mentioned that Michigan Tech students were some of the best prepared students they have met at any job fair," Turnquist said. "Usually, they said, they see students dressed in jeans, shorts and T-shirts, but not at Michigan Tech. Our students acted and dressed professionally. The employers even commented on how well most of the first-year students were prepared for the Career Fair."
"Is the excellent turnout at our Career Fair a sign that the economy is turning around?" Turnquist added. "Maybe. Or it is a sign that Michigan Tech students offer the skills the companies want and need?"
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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TALLAHASSEE (AP) - Water pollution rules that some environmentalists say are too weak are up for a final vote in the Florida Legislature.
The Senate is set for a roll call Wednesday on a bill that would waive a requirement for the Legislature to approve the rules.
The bill (HB 7051) passed unanimously in the House last week.
The state drafted the rules as a lower-cost alternative to nutrient standards proposed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Agriculture, business and utility interests support the state rules.
Environmental groups favor the federal rules. They contend the state's rules would do little or nothing to stop algae blooms from choking Florida waters.
The state rules are being challenged in an administrative law case. They also need EPA approval.


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Bat used to make last out in 2005 World Series
On Oct. 26, 2005, at Minute Maid Park in Houston, with the White Sox up 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth, Bobby Jenks faced pinch hitter Orlando Palmeiro. Two outs. Jason Lane was on second base. The count was 1-2. Palmeiro then hit a slow roller. Shortstop Juan Uribe charged the ball and fired to first to barely nail Palmeiro, setting off a wild celebration at the pitcher's mound. At auction, Harry Carays bought the bat for $18,400 and it's now on display at the Navy Pier location. Palmeiro reportedly donated the proceeds to charity.
Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune
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