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Orange Saffron Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Sometimes, even when we see ourselves as complex, delicate Pavlovas, we have to accept that there are days when we are simply pound cake. Not that I am knocking pound cake. I recently tried out Edna Lewis's version and concluded that my life was now distinctly divided between the periods before I first tasted this cake, and after.
But I do have a point here. Sometimes we do hard stuff, sometimes we take short cuts. Sometimes we enter the kitchen with bold intentions, and ingredients shortages, time or personal failure impede us. At those moments we do not give in, we pivot. So here is a fast save for the holidays, when you may have big ideas about a side dish that somehow come undone, or you are simply in search of an easy burst of American comfort for the table.
I fully intended to make Sweet Potatoes Anna with Prunes on Rosh Hashanah, but was felled by my realization far too late that I was out of prunes, and could not find my mandolin. But, I deeply craved sweet potatoes on the table, and moved quickly to Orange Saffron Mashed Sweet Potatoes.
I tripled this recipe so I would have enough for eight guests, four of them children. I loved that I could toss these guys in the oven and go about trying not to mess up my fish and desserts for an hour. When that wonderful smell of slightly smoldering sugar began to fill the kitchen (followed by the sizzle and burning smell of sweet potato dripping to the floor of my oven, which yes I just cleaned but am I complaining?) I grabbed them and let them cool until I could comfortably peel them.
Can we pause here to appreciate the way sweet potato skins just sort of slide off like a silk nightgown, revealing the tantalizing orange flesh beneath? Okay, thank you.
So now you are mashing this all up with the spices by hand, preferably with a masher but a big old wooden spoon will do just fine, too. Add some more olive oil. I can tell you want to. Stop sneaking bites.
I left this on the stove for an hour or so until my guests arrived, then gave it a quick reheat. I cannot tell you this is the most exciting dish I have ever made, but it is familiar and delicious and a perfect side dish bailout, when your mind, or hands must be somewhere else.
Orange Saffron Mashed Sweet Potatoes by SmallKitchCara
Serves 2
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 tablespoon good-tasting olive oil
- 2-3 tablespoons orange juice, preferably fresh
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 1 pinch saffron threads, ground between your fingers
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or more to taste
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Roast the sweet potatoes on the oven rack for 45 minutes to an hour, until they're quite soft. Set aside until they're cool enough to handle.
- When the potatoes have cooled slightly, scoop the flesh out of the skin, add the orange juice, nutmeg, saffron, and salt, and gently mash so the potatoes are nearly smooth but not gluey. Taste for citrus flavor and salt, then warm in the microwave or on the stovetop if they've cooled and serve hot
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Friday formally declined to award Purple Heart medals to the victims of Major Nidal Hasan's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, saying the move would damage his ability to receive a fair trial.
The Army in a position paper said that awarding the medal to those wounded and posthumously to those killed in the November 2009 attack would 'set the stage for a formal declaration that Major Hasan is a terrorist' because the medal is presented to military members who are 'wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States.'
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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer's guide to Microsoft's most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions development, from planning through deployment and administration.
The authors begin by introducing BizTalk Server's architecture and key integration concepts. Next, they offer in-depth coverage of BizTalk's foundational features, including schemas, maps, orchestrations, and pipelines. You'll learn how to effectively utilize both standard and custom adapters; monitor integration services; leverage cloud computing via Windows Azure; implement operational BI solutions; and make the most of business rules and BizTalk's Business Rules Engine (BRE).
The authors offer best practices and "in the trenches" tips for everything from managing deployments through implementing state-of-the-art mobile RFID solutions. No other book offers this much useful, pragmatic, and tested knowledge for successful BizTalk development.
Brian Loesgen is a Principal Architect Evangelist on Microsoft's Azure ISV team. A six-time Microsoft MVP, he has extensive experience in building advanced enterprise, ESB, and SOA solutions. He has coauthored eight books, including SOA with .NET and Windows Azure. Charles Young, a principal consultant at Solidsoft, and Jan Eliasen, an IT architect at Logica, have each been honored repeatedly as BizTalk MVPs, and are highly respected bloggers in the BizTalk community. Scott Colestock, chief architect for Trace Ventures, specializes in using BizTalk to implement integration and service orchestration solutions. He is a member of Microsoft's Architectural Advisory Board and a BizTalk MVP. Anush Kumar, CTO of S3Edge, served as Microsoft's RFID business leader and was heavily involved in designing and architecting its BizTalk RFID offerings. Jon Flanders is an independent consultant, instructor for Pluralsight, BizTalk MVP, and author of RESTful .NET.
- Apply BizTalk Server's sophisticated, scalable message exchange model to support virtually any business requirement
- Get your schemas right the first time, so you can avoid major problems downstream
- Use BizTalk Mapper to create maps for transforming inbound and outbound XML messages and supporting business processes
- Use orchestration to automate even highly-complex processes
- Utilize adapters and WCF to integrate any application, service, or system
- Extend your application's reach with Windows Azure AppFabric
- Capture key BizTalk infrastructure, services, and business metrics
- Build powerful rules-based solutions with Microsoft's Business Rules Framework
- Establish an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that uses BizTalk Server as core messaging infrastructure
- Efficiently manage, configure, and troubleshoot BizTalk through the Administration Console
- Create RFID applications ranging from simple label printing to end-to-end business processes
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Brian Loesgen is a Principal Architect Evangelist with Microsoft on the Azure ISV team. Based in San Diego, Brian is a six-time Microsoft MVP and has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB, and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/ developer of the "Microsoft ESB Guidance," initially released by Microsoft October 2006. He is a coauthor of the SOA Manifesto and is a coauthor of eight books, including SOA with .NET and Windows Azure, and is the lead author of BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed. He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft, and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a cofounder and pastpresident of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-president of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Architecture SIG, and is a member of the editorial board for the .NET Developer's Journal. Brian has been blogging since 2003 at http://blog.BrianLoesgen.com, and you can find him on Twitter as @BrianLoesgen.
Charles Young, MVP, MCPD, is a principal consultant at Solidsoft, an independent integration specialist working with BizTalk Server and related technologies. He has been a professional developer for a quarter of a century, worked for several years as a technical trainer, and has more than a decade of experience as a consultant. Charles has worked extensively with BizTalk Server since joining Solidsoft in 2003. He architects, designs, and implements enterprise-level integration applications for public- and private-sector customers, delivers seminars and workshops, and maintains a blog site. In recent years he has specialized in the area of decision systems and business rule processing and is vicechair of Rules Fest, an annual technical conference for developers and researchers involved in the implementation of reasoning systems.
Jan Eliasen, MVP, MCTS, has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and has been in the IT industry since 2003, currently working at Logica as an IT architect, focusing on delivering solutions to customers that meet the customers' needs. He started working with BizTalk 2002 just after graduation in 2003 and has been working with BizTalk ever since. He has passed the exams in BizTalk 2000, 2004, 2006, 2006R2, and 2010 and is a five-time MVP in BizTalk Server. He is a well-known contributor on the online MSDN forums and a blogger at http://blogs.eliasen.dk/technical/. You can follow him on Twitter as @jan_eliasen.
Scott Colestock lives and works in Minnesota. He has consulted on BizTalk, WCF, CQRS architecture, Agile methods, and general performance engineering. Recently, he has focused deeply on mobile and SaaS architectures using Windows Azure. He is an MVP and frequent speaker at conference events.
Anush Kumar is the chief technology officer at S3Edge (www.s3edge.com), a software solutions company focused on Auto-ID technologies, which he helped cofound following a distinguished career at Microsoft that spanned closed to a decade of working on multiple incubations from concept to shipping. In his last avatar at Microsoft, Anush was BizTalk RFID's leading light from early incubation of the project to its recent productization efforts, and has been heavily involved in the design and architecture of the RFID product, with multiple patents to his name. His efforts have also resulted in the vibrant partner and customer ecosystem for the product, and he is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in this space. Prior to RFID, Anush worked on the business rules engine for BizTalk Server 2004, technology that has been deployed by several enterprise customers to improve agility and increase efficiency of their business processes. In his spare time, Anush enjoys backpacking off the beaten track; volunteers for organizations focused on education; and is a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, cricket, cooking, bungee jumping, and of course, All Things RTVS™ (http://rtvs.wordpress.com), his blog that spans RFID, and more! Anush holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from University of Madras and a Master degree in Engineering from Dartmouth College.
Jon Flanders is a member of the technical staff at MCW, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful .NET and ASP Internals, and was a coauthor of Mastering Visual Studio.NET. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST and how REST connects to products such as SharePoint 2010. You can read his blog at http://www.rest-ful.net/
Table of Contents
Foreword xxii
Part I The Basics
1 What Is BizTalk Server? 3
A Brief History of Application Integration 3
BizTalk Server Capabilities 7
Adaptation 7
Mediation 8
Exception Handling 8
Orchestration and Choreography 9
Performance and Scalability 9
Security 10
Insight 10
Electronic Data Interchange 11
RFID Event Handling 11
What Is a "Typical" BizTalk Solution? 11
BizTalk Server, WCF, and WF 12
Summary 14
2 Schemas 15
BizTalk Schemas 16
XML Schema Definition 16
Properties 17
Internal Schemas 18
XML Schemas 20
Existing XSDs 20
Generating an XSD 21
Creating an XSD 21
Flat File Schemas 36
Add Existing Schemas 38
Creating by Hand 38
Flat File Schema Wizard 47
EDI Schemas 60
Messages That Are Not XML and Not Flat File 60
Pass-Through Pipeline 60
Custom Disassembler 61
Custom Editor Extensions 61
Third-Party Components 61
Property Promotion 61
Distinguished Fields 63
Promoted Properties 65
Property Demotion 66
When to Use What 67
Versioning of Schemas 69
No Long-Running Transactions and a Short Downtime Acceptable 69
Long-Running Transactions or a Short Downtime Is Unacceptable 70
Testing 71
Validate Schemas 71
Validate Instances 72
Generate Instances 74
Unit Testing of Schemas 75
Testing Using Pipeline Tools 80
Schemas for Scenario Used in This Book 81
FineFoods.Common.Schemas 81
FineFoods.CreditCheck.Schemas 82
FineFoods.Customers.C1701 82
FineFoods.Customers.C1702 83
FineFoods.Customers.Schemas 84
FineFoods.Inventory.Schemas 84
FineFoods.Orders.Schemas 84
FineFoods.PurchaseOrders.Schemas 87
Summary 88
3 Maps 89
The Mapper 90
Layout of Mapper 90
Initial Considerations 92
Creating a Simple Map 94
Functoids 108
String Functoids 111
Mathematical Functoids 112
Logical Functoids 113
Date/Time Functoids 115
Conversion Functoids 116
Scientific Functoids 116
Cumulative Functoids 117
Database Functoids 118
Advanced Functoids 120
Third-Party Functoids 122
Advanced Maps 123
Mapping Optional Fields 123
Looping Functoid 123
Index Functoid 125
Database Lookup 127
Scripting Functoid 129
Functoid Combination 131
Combination of Functoids for If-Then-Else 131
Create Separated List 132
Table Looping Functoid 132
Conditional Creation of Output Nodes 135
Custom XSLT 136
Cross Referencing 136
Building Custom Functoids 140
Initial Setup 141
Normal Functoid 146
Cumulative Functoid 151
Developing Advanced Functoids 155
Deployment of Custom Functoids 157
Debugging 161
Testing of Maps 163
Validating Maps 164
Testing Maps 164
Debugging a Map 167
Unit Testing 168
Summary 172
4 Orchestrations 173
Orchestration Designer 174
Defining Orchestrations 177
Building Orchestrations 178
Messages 182
Variables 186
Shapes 188
Delivery Notification and Handling Retries 217
Calling Pipelines 218
Web Services 221
Dehydration and Rehydration 228
Correlations 229
Convoys 234
Parallel Convoys 234
Sequential Convoys 235
Zombies 236
Transactions 237
Atomic 238
Long Running 240
Compensating Code 241
Persistence Points 246
Exception Handling 247
Debugging 250
Send Out Messages 250
Debug and Trace 250
Breakpoints in Orchestration Debugger 250
Summary 255
5 Pipelines 257
Stages in Pipelines 258
Stages in a Receive Pipeline 259
Stages in a Send Pipeline 261
Built-In Pipelines 262
Receive Pipelines 262
Send Pipelines 263
Built-In Pipeline Components 263
XML Components 264
Flat Files 268
Encoding, Encrypting, and Signing 272
BizTalk Framework 275
Validator and Party Resolution 280
Custom Pipelines 283
Using the Built-In Pipeline Templates 283
Creating Custom Pipeline Templates 284
Custom Pipeline Components 287
Resources, Attributes, and Constructors 288
Interfaces 292
Message and Context Interfaces 305
Miscellaneous Functionality 309
Streaming 314
Properties 317
Really Fast Pipeline Component Implementation 323
Deployment 324
Debugging 327
Pipeline Component Wizard 329
Testing 330
Pipeline exe 330
Unit Testing 331
Summary 334
6 Adapters 337
BizTalk Adapters 337
Native Adapters 338
Line-of-Business Adapters 339
BizTalk Adapter Pack 339
Host Adapters 339
Third-Party and Custom Adapters 339
Additional Microsoft Adapters 340
The Role of WCF Adapters 340
Adapter Characteristics 340
Direction 341
Push and Pull 341
Message Interchange Pattern 341
Hosting 342
Configuration 342
Batches 343
Transactions 344
Message Context 344
Metadata Harvesting 344
Registering Adapters 345
Creating Adapter Handlers 346
Port-Level Configuration 349
Configuring Receive Locations 350
Configuring Send Ports 352
Adapter Properties 355
Deploying Bindings 355
Native Adapters 357
File Adapter 357
Robust Interchange 357
Polling Locked Files 358
File Renaming 359
Reliable Messaging Issues 359
Path and File Names 359
Security 360
Additional Send Handler Issues 360
FTP Adapter 360
FTP Issues 361
Handling Duplicate Messages 362
Staging Files in Temporary Folders 362
Raw FTP Commands 363
Secure Messaging 363
HTTP Adapter 364
Using HTTP Receive Handlers 364
Using HTTP Send Handlers 366
Additional Configuration 366
MQ Series Adapter 367
Using MQ Series Receive Handlers 368
Using MQ Series Send Handlers 369
Managing Queues 369
Configuring MQSAgent 370
MSMQ Adapter 370
Using MSMQ Receive Handlers 371
Using MSMQ Send Handlers 372
Authenticating and Securing Messages 374
POP3 Adapter 375
Using POP3 Receive Handlers 376
Handling Encrypted Messages 377
SMTP Adapter 377
Using SMTP Send Handlers 378
Windows SharePoint Services Adapter 379
Using WSS Receive Handlers 380
Using WSS Send Handlers 381
Mapping SharePoint Columns 383
SOAP Adapter 383
WCF Adapters 384
Windows Communication Foundation 385
Comparing WCF to BizTalk Server 386
The Role of BizTalk Native WCF Adapters 388
Hosting Native WCF Adapters 389
The WCF Service Publishing Wizard 389
Publishing Orchestrations 392
Publishing Schemas 392
WCF Send Handlers 394
Importing MEX Endpoints 395
Importing Metadata Files 396
Dynamic Ports 397
Configuring WCF Adapters 397
Addresses and Identity 398
Bindings 399
Behavior 400
Security and Credentials 401
Message Handling 402
Using the SQL Server LoB Adapter 404
WCF LoB Framework and SDK 404
SQL Server Adapter 404
Polling and Notification 405
Performing Operations via a Send Handler 407
Additional Adapter Capabilities 408
Metadata Harvesting 409
Summary 412
Part II Advanced Topics
7 BizTalk 2010 and WCF: Extensibility 415
WCF Extensibility 416
The WCF Channel Stack 416
ABCs Reviewed 417
ServiceContract in BizTalk 418
WCF Behaviors 420
Example of WCF Extensibility in BizTalk 420
Summary 429
8 BizTalk and Windows Azure 431
Extending the Reach of BizTalk Applications 431
The AppFabric SDK 432
Receiving Messages 433
Sending Messages 434
Static Send Port 435
Dynamic Send Port 436
ESB Off-Ramp 436
Using InfoPath as a Client 438
Summary 439
9 Business Activity Monitoring with BizTalk BAM 441
BAM and Metrics 441
What Is BizTalk BAM? 442
Using BizTalk BAM 444
End-to-End, High-Level Walkthrough of the BAM Process 444
Real-Time Versus Scheduled Aggregations 446
Defining Activities and Views 447
Progress Dimension 450
Data Dimension 450
Numeric Range Dimension 450
Time Dimension 450
Using the Tracking Profile Editor 452
Using the BAM APIs 453
DirectEventStream (DES) 453
BufferedEventStream (BES) 453
OrchestrationEventStream (OES) 454
IPipelineContext Interface 454
Creating a Higher-Level API Specifically for Service Metrics 454
Working with the WCF and WF Interceptors 457
Using Notifications 460
Rapid Prototyping 460
REST and BAM 461
Managing BAM 461
BAM Database Considerations 461
Deployment and Management 461
Security 462
Scripting Deployment 462
Summary 465
10 The Business Rules Framework 467
The Importance of Rules 468
Processes and Policies 468
Business Policies 469
Policy Externalization 469
Policy Scenarios 471
Business Versus Executable Rules 472
Business Rule Management 473
BRMS and the BRF 475
Example Scenario: Order Processing 476
Incomplete and Implicit Business Rules 478
Indirect Policy Mapping 478
Technical Policy 479
Data Models 479
Programmatic Bindings 479
Priority 479
Traceability 479
Refactoring 480
Testing, Publishing, and Deployment 480
Managing Change 481
Real-World Rule-Processing 482
Using Vocabularies 483
What About Performance? 484
Inference and Reasoning 485
The Business Rules Framework 487
Introducing the BRF 487
Rule Storage and Administration 488
Rule Deployment 489
Rule Modeling 495
Rule Execution 497
Components and Tools 499
Microsoft Business Rule Language 499
Business Rules Database 499
Pub-Sub Adapter 504
Rule Store Components 505
SqlRuleStore 505
OleDbRuleStore 505
FileRuleStore 506
Rule Set Deployment Driver 507
Business Rules Language Converter 507
Business Rules Engine 507
Policy Class 507
Policy Tester Class 509
BizTalk Server 2010 Rule Engine Extensions 511
Rule Definition and Deployment 511
The Rule Composer 512
Loading Rule Stores 513
Using the Policy Explorer 516
Using the Facts Explorer 520
Composing Rule Conditions 525
Creating Rule Actions 530
Rule Engine Component Configuration 532
Testing Rule Sets 534
Vocabularies 538
Strategies for Vocabulary Versioning 543
Publishing and Deployment 545
The Rules Engine Deployment Wizard 546
Using Rules with BizTalk Server 547
ESB Toolkit 547
RFID Server 548
Using Rules in Custom Code 548
Policy Management in the Administration Console 548
The Call Rules Orchestration Shape 551
Policy-Driven Features of the ESB Toolkit 556
The RFID Server BRE Event Handler 558
Summary 561
11 Rule-Based Programming 563
The Roots of Confusion 563
Declarativity 564
Set-Based Programming 565
Recursive Processing 565
Blended Paradigms 566
Limits of Expressivity 567
Understanding the Rule Engine 568
Understanding Production Systems 568
Understanding Short-Circuiting 571
Using OR Connectives 573
Understanding Implicit Conditions 576
Common Rule Patterns 577
Implementing Quantification 577
Handling Negation-as-Failure 581
Using Strong Negation 583
Designing Rule Sets as State Machines 584
Exploiting Situated Reasoning 587
Rule Engine Mechanisms 589
Understanding Working Memory 589
The Match-Resolve-Act Cycle 590
Introducing the Rete Algorithm 593
Managing Conflict Resolution 594
Forward- and Backward-Chaining 595
Working with Facts 597
Using Typed Fact Classes 597
Handling XML Documents 598
Setting XPath Properties in the Rule Composer 599
XML Type Specifiers 600
Handling XML Namespaces 602
Reading and Writing XML Data 602
Managing Optional XML Nodes 603
Handling ADO NET DataTable and DataRow Objects 606
Handling Data Connections 607
Handling NET Types 609
Invoking Static Type Members 613
Optimizing Rule Sets 615
Controlling Side Effects 615
Optimizing the Rete Network 617
Programming with the Rule API 618
Using the Policy Class 618
Handling Long-Term Facts 623
Implementing Compensation Handlers 624
Using the RuleEngine Class 627
Implementing Custom Rule Store Components 628
Managing Deployment Programmatically 630
Creating Rules Programmatically 633
Summary 637
12 ESB with BizTalk Server 639
What Is an ESB? 639
Introducing the Enterprise Service Bus 639
What Problems Does an ESB Solve? 640
What Are the Components of an ESB? 641
Dynamic Routing 643
Dynamic Transformation 644
Message Validation 644
Message-Oriented Middleware 645
Is BizTalk a Fully Functional ESB? 645
What Is the ESB Toolkit? 645
History of the ESB Toolkit 646
What Is in the ESB Toolkit? 646
What's the Difference Between Native BizTalk Server and BizTalk Server with the ESB Toolkit? 646
The Magic Behind an ESB 647
The ESB Toolkit Stack 649
Itineraries 650
Specifying Itineraries 651
The Itinerary Lifecycle 652
Dynamic Resolution: The Resolvers 653
Adapter Providers 655
Service Composition 656
Messaging-Only Implementations 657
Unified Exception Management 658
Exposing Core Services 660
Distributed ESBs 660
REST and BizTalk ESB 661
A Stylistic Comparison 661
Incorporating REST into the BizTalk ESB 662
Management 662
Provisioning and Runtime Governance 662
SLA Enforcement 663
Monitoring 663
Organizational Considerations 664
Ensuring a Smooth Transition 664
Gatekeeper Process 665
Summary 666
Part III Deployment and Administration
13 Administration Console Concepts 669
Introducing the Administration Console 669
BizTalk Group Properties 670
BizTalk Settings Dashboard 672
Group Hub and Query View 678
Applications Node 680
Platform Settings 681
Hosts 681
Host Instances 681
Servers 682
Message Boxes 683
Adapters 684
Summary 685
14 Deployment Concepts 687
The Work to Be Done 687
"Application" as a Formal Concept 689
Where Does It All Begin? (Inside Visual Studio) 691
Folder and Project Structure 691
Namespaces and Assembly Names 692
Applying Strong Names 693
Setting Deployment Properties 694
Fine Foods Solution 696
Deploying from Visual Studio 697
Binding and Starting the Application 698
Edit/Debug Cycle 700
Handling Binding Files During Development 703
Creating and Managing Deployable Packages 704
Other Types of Resources 707
Binding Files as Resources 708
Deployment Scripts as Resources 709
Exporting MSI Files 712
Handling MSI Export on a Build Server 713
Deploying MSI Packages to a BizTalk Group 715
Import/Install via Command Line 717
Handling Other Deployables 718
Business Activity Monitoring 718
Rule Vocabularies and Policies 719
Handling Upgrade and Versioning Scenarios 719
Summary 720
Part IV RFID
15 BizTalk RFID 723
RFID Overview 724
The BizTalk RFID Framework 725
Installation Notes for BizTalk RFID 727
Device Applications 731
Vendor Extensions and Extensibility 743
Tag Operations 749
Introducing RFID Processes 756
Exception Handling 771
Debugging (Process Hosting Model) 773
Integration and Deployment Considerations 773
Summary 778
16 BizTalk RFID Mobile 779
Mobile RFID Overview 779
The BizTalk RFID Mobile Framework 780
Installation Notes 781
Device Applications 782
Running Your First Mobile Application 787
Barcode Support 791
BizTalk RFID Mobile Connector Architecture (Store and Forward) 792
Remote Device Management 796
Summary 798
Closing notes 799
Index 803
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Its the weekend before rifle season here in Northwest Missouri and the pre-rut has begun. I have had a handful of encounters with some of my hit list bucks but just can't seem to punch their ticket. It seems like every time i get close something out of my control goes wrong. But that is why its called hunting! With that being said I decided to take my girls with me into the woods for some quality time! So we got our camo on and headed to the Primos ground blind. I also deployed "Tad" the decoy in hopes to take attention from the noise and movement from my two little girls. We got all comfy and ready to rock about 3:00. The next 2 hours were very interesting to say the least! Both Sydney, who is a 1st grader and Savanna' who is in kindergarten had to take bathroom breaks and of course at separate times! They finally Talked me into letting them call a deer in at about 5:00. At this point, between the bathroom breaks and the "deer calling" that sounded more like a tuba being beaten with drum sticks, I was pretty sure we were not gonna see a thing, but wouldn't you know five minutes later we had a field full of does! So about ten minutes later one of them found its way directly in front of the blind (approximately 5 yards!) and I smoked her as my daughters said. So all and all it was a great hunt, one of my favorite to date. My dad used to always take me along and this was the first time I was able to take my children. Hopefully they are hooked just like I was the very first time my father took me! Until next time, bend it and send it!
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Except, it never works. It never has and it never will. Increasing enforcement has never -- not once -- been shown to be an effective long term solution to stopping infringement. It does appear to have short-term effects, as it makes people scatter from actions that are easily trackable, but within a few months (six seems to be about the consensus), file sharing activity tends to find a new path and get back to the same trajectory it was on before.
We've now got some more data to support this. A few years back, Sweden passed a very draconian and aggressive enforcement law known as IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive), which had the result of a temporary blip in file sharing that disappeared pretty quickly. And now, a new research report has come out showing that just as many 15 to 25-year-olds share unauthorized content online as did so at the time IPRED became law. In fact, a larger percentage of that age group share "heavily," rather than in smaller amounts.
"We can safely say that the repressive legal developments in this field have very weak support in informal social control mechanisms of society", says Mans Svensson, Ph.D. in judicial sociology, one of the researchers doing the study. "The social pressure is close to non-existent."So why is it that we keep seeing countries pass these kinds of laws? And why do entertainment industry lobbyists keep pushing for them when they're so woefully ineffective in doing anything positive?


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — An autopsy report says the son of famed professional wrestler Ric Flair died from a toxic combination of heroin and prescription drugs
The body of 25-year-old Reid Fliehr was found March 29 in a Charlotte hotel room with drug paraphernalia. Fliehr had followed his famous father on to the pro wrestling circuit.
Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner Thomas Owens' report released Friday says toxicology tests found Fliehr's blood had traces of clonazepam, a muscle relaxant, and alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug commonly marketed as Xanax.
Ric Flair's real name is Richard Morgan Fliehr. The peroxide-blond wrestled for some 40 years and was known as The Nature Boy.
The 64-year-old Flair said Friday he is still grieving for his son, whom he described as "fighting a battle he couldn't win."


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If you haven't seen it yet, Stephen Walt's piece ("Where Do Bad Ideas Come From?") in the new issue of Foreign Policy demands a read. He starts with the obvious – that we never learn from our mistakes – but asks, when it comes to our policy decisions about the world, why?
The possibilities are probably endless, but Walt narrows them down. They come from age, a willful amnesia about what the generation (or more) before us learned from doing the same thing. They come from our optimism, or our naivete, that we can do better this time around. (David Rieff tackles narrows this particular blunder to our 21st century believe that we can technologize our way to success, a path he damned pretty persuasively recently in The New Republic.) They come from silence, imposed by political power in undemocratic regimes and by social taboo in democratic societies. They come from the strange inertia created by success. And they come from, and back to, good old interest: behind the policy that's chosen, there's always someone (or many someones) with political or, often, financial upside. (If for some reason you need any reminder of that, check out the NYT story on the Boeing-State Department, um, "synergy.")
Most of Walt's examples are about warfare – we could have learned from the French, but we went ahead and fought Vietnam anyway. And we could have learned from what we experienced in Vietnam, but we went regime-changing in Iraq and Afghanistan anyway. It's interesting that the architects of the latter policies were also involved in Vietnam and therefore the generational argument – that new generations resist internalizing past generations' mistakes – don't apply. Maybe that makes the "we can do better" argument all the stronger?
But there's another idea that begs to be part of this conversation: development. We've been at "development" for 50-odd years – or longer, depending on how you feel about the historical evolution of the whole thing. Maybe you don't think development is a "bad idea" – Walt chose clear liberal targets for a reason, I'm guessing – but it certainly shares the characteristics of other ideas he raises, namely, something we've done over and over that hasn't worked.
A few years ago, Harper's Magazine published a piece about the the first Millennium Village, in Kenya. The piece is buried behind a pay wall, unfortunately, but among the takeaways was this: Sauri, the site of the village, has been a pilot site of Great New Development Ideas before; in fact, the piece says, more than half of the research MVs at the time (2007) were built in places with histories of development projects. It makes some sense – the article says the idea was to avoid inexperience and cultural barriers that can impede development work early on – but it also makes weird science.
Last summer in Sierra Leone, I met an American guy working on a justice access initiative. He was not your Ivy League bona fide development worker. He was brash; he didn't use the empty but politically acceptable vocabulary. He had a haircut I'd never see in a major American metropolis. But he was smart and committed to his work, and as I had breakfast with him and a Sierra Leonean colleague, he said to me in passing, "I hate the word 'sensitization.'" To his colleague, he said, "What are we talking about, right?" And to both of us, or no one in particular, he said, "What we're really talking about is cultural engineering. So we should just say that, because that's what we're doing."
I thought of that guy when I read Walt's article, because there's another reason I think we repeat bad ideas: we invent and use language – even grammar – that allows us to willfully lie to ourselves. "Sensitization." "Capacity building." Even "local ownership," which I like to imagine as revolutionary when people first bandied it about at meetings, has come to feel like an empty abstraction.
It's not development workers' fault, of course. The field doesn't have final say on these, or so many other, things; it's the guys back home, contending with the politicians and diplomats who pull the budgetary strings, who sanction our language. And I'd lay the blame first at the feet of the diplomats, who have spent centuries refining this linguistic game before imposing it on the allegedly apolitical projects they fund.
But while we're on the "why" of bad ideas, I think that's one of them. Here's another I think development suggests: Sometimes, you just can't do nothing, even if every rational synapse in your brain is screaming, "This has never worked, and there's no way it can work now." And that's the rub – for development, for aid, for advocacy. What do you do with a moral imperative to act when the actions themselves are (at best) unlikely to work?
– Jina Moore is a freelance reporter based in Kigali, Rwanda who blogs here.


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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns lauded the Bush Administration for record farm income projections for 2005 during a keynote address at the Commodity Classic, the annual national meeting of corn and soybean farmers, held recently in Austin, Texas.
Johanns said U.S. farm income would top $78 billion in 2005 and farm equity would exceed $1 trillion.
He then defended the administration's proposed budget cuts, which, if enacted, would take a significant chunk out of that record income.
A recent report from USDA chief economist Keith Collins says record government payments helped push net cash farm income projections to $78.1 billion, slightly ahead of 2004. The government safety net kicks in to help farmers overcome projections for a $13 billion drop in the value of U.S. agricultural marketings for 2005.
Numbers from the Office of Budget and Planning Analysis indicate that government payments would account for $24 billion of the $78.1 billion income projection for 2005.
Collins presented his estimates at the Agricultural Outlook Forum 2005 at Arlington, Va., the day before Johanns addressed the corn and soybean growers.
During a press conference following his Commodity Classic address, Johanns responded to a Farm Press question regarding how the proposed cuts will affect cotton farmers. "Cotton farmers will understand that in order to have an economic chance, we have to do all we can to balance the federal budget," he said.
He added that regardless of the crop - "cotton, corn, rice or soybeans - balancing the budget is an absolute necessity. Running a huge deficit can't be a good thing for agriculture. We can compete with anyone but we have to get our budget in place."
Johanns also defended re-opening the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 because: "In reality so many things have happened." He pointed to the war on terrorism and the invasion of Iraq as significant factors that have changed the economic climate since the 2002 law was signed.
He said agriculture has not been singled out to take a harder hit than other agencies. "We will be as fair as possible."
Speakers in a legislative update session disagreed with that assessment. Both Mark Halverson, minority staff director on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Vernie Hubert, ag committee staff member for the majority party, said agriculture takes a disproportionate hit in the president's budget proposal.
Halverson said Sen. Tom Harkin (Iowa), ranking member of the Senate ag committee, said instead of being penalized ag should be recognized for staying within its budget the past two years.
"Sen. Harkin sees no need to re-work the farm bill," Halverson said. "That re-opens the farm bill and it already has been re-opened to some extent with annual appropriations."
Hubert said the farm bill actually spent $15 billion less than budgeted since it was enacted in 2002. "We should be recognized for that," he said. Both pointed out that ag cuts, compared to other mandatory spending reduction proposals, is out of line.
"The ag budget represents less than 1 percent of all government mandatory spending," Hubert said. "But (proposed mandatory budget cuts for agriculture) add up to an 8 percent reduction. Other mandatory spending cuts (from other agencies) average 5.6 percent."
He said ag discretionary reductions hit 9.6 percent, compared to other discretionary cuts at .3 percent."
"We're taking a disproportionate hit," Halverson said. "And the biggest impact comes from user fees, such as APHIS (and other regulatory agencies) and in farm commodity programs."
He said direct payments, counter cyclical payments and marketing loans all would be cut in the president's proposal.
Also, the new payment limit, 85 percent of program payment yield, would take a significant chunk out of farm income. He offered a hypothetical example, an Iowa corn and soybean farm, 250 base corn acres and 150 base soybean acres, all planted. The loan deficiency payment takes the biggest hit, he said, and, based on 2004 yields and prices, "only 54 percent of the corn in Iowa would be eligible."
The hypothetical farm would lose $7,700 under the proposed cuts.
Other programs scheduled for significant reductions include key conservation titles such as wildlife programs and EQIP.
"This budget proposal is a big deal," Hubert said, "even though it happens every year and it is not a done deal."
He said the proposal goes to both houses of Congress and those bodies, including various committees, develop a "views and estimates letter," which goes back to the budget committees to be drafted into a proposal.
"The dominant theme we've seen in both the House and Senate (ag committees) views and estimates letters has been, 'don't open the farm bill.' It was a very good bill and has helped agriculture make historic gains," Hubert said.
Johanns said continued gains depend on improved trade.
"The key for agriculture," he said, "lies in improved trade, especially through CAFTA. CAFTA is exactly what agriculture needs in the United States. The sugar industry has some concerns but the agreement will not affect the U.S. sugar industry significantly. For agriculture to succeed, we have to have open markets. That's what CAFTA does."
Johanns said most of the potential CAFTA trading partners already have access to the U.S. market and 99 percent come in duty free while U.S. goods still face stiff tariffs going into those countries. CAFTA would either do away with tariffs or phase them out over time, he said.
But Halverson said re-opening the farm bill now, two years before the law is up for re-authorization, sends a signal to trading partners that could weaken U.S. agriculture's position in negotiations.
"Our competitors have screamed at our farm bill," Hubert said, "but we have supported our farmers up to the limit of our obligations. This law allows us to do that. Why, two years before reauthorization, and with WTO talks looming, should we make changes? Agriculture, as always, has been responsible with spending."
Halverson said the United States has run a positive trade balance in agriculture but the gap is narrowing to the point that the U.S. could soon import more food and fiber than it exports.
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This week, I'd like to talk about what I did last week. Well, last Friday night to be specific. You see, it seems to me the older you get, the more energy it takes to do things, like, oh I don't know, maybe go out on the town, on a Friday night. It's all too easy to go home, and then decide to stay home, for this reason or that. Well, I'm happy to report, last Friday, we hit the road and went out, right after work.
By 6 p.m., we were at the brew pub. There were so many beers on tap that I hadn't tried yet, I had the crew make me custom tasting tray. I felt like a tourist! Then, it was on to the dinner course. So far, so good.
By 7:30 p.m., we were in the "way-to-early-to-go-to-where-we-wanted-to-go" time period – and I figured that the music didn't start at the River City until 9 p.m. But that's ok, it's Friday -- and I'm gonna check this show out. So it's off to cruise town. My girlfriend mentions that there's probably time to catch a movie, but that seems like a lot of scheduling work to me. Let's head to one of the tasting rooms. So after driving around the block five times to try and find a space, we finally land and head in. Problem was, of course, yours truly didn't check the times on the door, and although the door was unlocked, the establishment was in the process of closing for the night. My first thought, of course, was "Closing for the Night?" I glance at my watch, yup, 7:30, hmm, well, this is a tasting room, not a bar, and…… ok, let's try the other one on the corner.
7:35 p.m. Well, this corner winery is open, and my friends the Fenderbenders are jamming along in the corner. Bands playing around here have to be able to fit in some pretty tiny places. This band has 5 people in the corner, with all the guitars, sound gear, drums and speakers. And then people need room to dance. Not an easy task. So we settle into this scene for a while, and enjoy the music.
8:30 p.m. Well, I better head over to River City and see what's going on. I don't want to miss this, you know. So I stick my head in the room, and there's not a lot of activity. No band loading in, just a few folks at the bar. No sign of Kate Gaffney. Ok, back to the tasting room.
9:15 p.m. The Fenderbenders are on what I believe to be their 6th "last song." Two of their band members had to leave early, and the 3 remaining kept playing. OK, I better go check on this River City thing again.
9:16 p.m. There's still no sign of Kate. My girlfriend appears beside me, she finally has the sense to ask about the music tonight (I guess that's the same as men asking for directions) and yes, the music will start, should be about 10.
9:16 and 3 seconds p.m. "Ten!?" I check my watch. Sigh. If I have one more glass of wine, I'll be asleep. OK, I'm out, and I'm going to make this show. Hang in there. I can do this.
10:00 p.m. I made it. I actually made it to 10 o'clock, and here it is. This is tougher than New Years Eve. Ok, we're here, a few more folks are here, but there's still not a huge amount of stage activity. But there is actually a guitar on stage. That's a good sign.
So my mind is processing all this waiting around. What could be different about this? I know it's not a huge amount of time between 7:30 and 10, but in some cases that can be a while. I almost felt like I was sitting around an airport, waiting for a delayed flight.
So then it hits me -- I've got to talk to somebody about this. So a conversation starts up with Shawn, the bartender. You know, I've been in this place a few times – I usually come down to see Jackstraw, and the Tony Furtado band did some really good shows there in past years. I've also played music there a few times. Not a lot, but here and there. I'm really surprised that Shawn recognizes me, and that he remembers me playing there. So we get to talking.
So here's what I'd like to see. I would like The River City to seriously consider extending the music scene to include an early set. Here's my idea of an early set: 8-9:30 p.m. That's the early set. Half hour break, and it's 10 p.m. Perfect time to start the second set.
This way, busy folks can come in and enjoy an early set, and the late night crowd can enjoy their evening, too. And I also mentioned that whenever possible, let's get local bands to play an opening set. It's great to have a venue in town that hosts Portland and regional music, and I appreciate that. I would just like to see a connection develop between Hood River local music and these bands coming in for the weekend. It sounds like win-win to me.
10:15 p.m. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment I've been waiting for. I had front row seats, and they turned off the satellite radio. And most importantly, I was still awake. This is getting serious. Is someone in the sound booth? I think so…..hold on, yeah, ok, they're turning the guitar on. Here we go!
The River City was pleased to announce (trumpets blaring)…….the opening performer for Kate Gaffney.
Luckily, it was only for two songs.
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Two months ago the PBS show, "NOW," examined the issue of hydraulic fracturing and its apparent environmental and health impacts. PBS built its story around the exceptional efforts of Josh Fox, the maker of the recent award-winning documentary, "Gasland."
Fox decided to make his powerful documentary after the gas industry began knocking on doors in his rural Pennsylvania neighbourhood, offering landowners about $5,000 an acre for drilling leases.
He had already heard of "distress signals" in Dimock, PA, so Fox traveled there to interview local residents. He quickly recognized a pattern of potentially lethal problems: residents could light their taps on fire, a water-well had dangerously exploded, livestock and pets were losing their fur, and heavy metals and other contaminants were suddenly showing up in the local water table.
After visiting Dimock, Fox was shocked at the absence of public and political awareness and felt some responsibility "to get out the information to people who needed to know it." Fox pointed out one important detail which may help explain the surge in shale gas production during the past half-decade: the 2005 energy bill suddenly exempted the natural gas industry from the Safe Water Drinking Act. According to Fox, "The EPA was totally 100% taken off the job" and state inspectors are overwhelmed.
Here is the link to the PBS interview with David Brancaccio (23 mins):
A recent "FRAC Act" initiative is underway to repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing:
This 2009 ProPublica article provides an excellent analysis of the fracking issue and contains many supporting links:


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Some say a rose by any other name is just a rose; a gordlinia by any other name, however, is far from just another gordlinia. During this season of giving, University of Delaware Botanic Gardens' (UDBG) own gordlinia, a rare tree characterized by large "fried egg" white flowers and deep maroon fall foliage, has been donated to the Woodburn Garden Project as plans unfold to establish the historic grounds at Woodburn, the governor's residence in Dover, as a public garden.
UDBG has been selected as one of several official partners for the project, which is being coordinated in two phases by Delaware's Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs.
Landscape architect Rodney Robinson, a UD alumnus who hails from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, heard about the plant this September through a colleague at work and visited UDBG to purchase the unique species, which is a hybrid between two native trees (Franklinia and Gordonia).
When he later became involved with plans for phase one of the Woodburn Garden Project at the home of Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, Robinson knew the gordlinia was the "last piece of the puzzle." A call to Melinda Zoehrer, assistant director of UDBG, followed quickly to see if the botanic gardens would be interested in donating the tree to what will one day be a popular garden focal point in the Dover area.
Ken Darsney, state horticulturist for Delaware's Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, visited campus recently to secure the tree, which has wowed many by its beauty and rarity. "The gordlinia will be used during phase one of the planting," he said. "We are going to interpret the garden from different angles to tell stories. It has been a lot of work, but we are happy. Phase two will be a formal garden located in the back of the residence."
"The Woodburn Garden Project is an important way for our students and faculty to help tell the state's botanical story," said Mark Rieger, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. "We are particularly honored to have been asked to contribute to this important effort and look forward to our continued partnership."
A formal ribbon-cutting for the garden is slated for spring 2014 at Woodburn. Woodburn has served as the official residence of the governor of Delaware since it was purchased by the state in 1965. The Georgian mansion is considered to be one of the finest examples of late-18th century architecture in Delaware.
The house was built by Charles Hillyard III around 1798. Hillyard bought the land at a sheriff's sale for 546 pounds, 4 shillings and six-pence in 1784. At the time of purchase, the estate measured approximately 29 acres and was located outside the town limits of Dover.
Article by Nancy Gainer
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Agreement will enable ARM to offer advanced manufacturing facilities for its popular core in China
CAMBRIDGE, UK – July 30, 2003 –ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, today announced that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China's most advanced pure-play semiconductor foundry, has joined the ARM® Foundry Program and has licensed the ARM7TDMI® microprocessor core. The agreement follows the collaboration between ARM and SMIC to develop an ARM7TDMI core-based test chip that has been successfully validated in silicon.
Shanghai-based SMIC is the first foundry in mainland China to join the ARM Foundry Program, and is an important addition to the manufacturing support available to ARM Partners in the region. SMIC will offer fabless semiconductor companies and design houses access to ARM technology in a cost-effective and flexible manner.
"We are developing our Foundry Program with SMIC and this announcement is an important step in our relationship with SMIC. It significantly strengthens our support for customers in China who now have access to SMIC's world-class manufacturing expertise for their ARM core-based designs," said Jun Tan, president, ARM China. "We continue to see a great deal of innovation within the Chinese semiconductor market and increasing business opportunities for ARM, and look forward to extending our relationship with SMIC even further."
"In today's competitive market, many of our customers are looking for faster time-to-market and greater flexibility for the design and manufacture of their products," said James Sung, vice president of marketing & sales, SMIC. "Joining the ARM Foundry Program enables us to meet these needs by offering industry-leading, ARM low-power 32-bit microprocessor cores alongside our advanced manufacturing capabilities."
The agreement with SMIC demonstrates ARM's sustained commitment to the Chinese market. In July 2002 ARM opened its offices in Shanghai. The company has announced seven Partners in the region including two tools distributors, Impact and Watertek; three IC design Partners, ICC, SHHIC, and ZTEIC, who have licensed ARM technology; and one Approved Training Center Partner, Watertek. ARM also recently announced that Southeast University in Nanjing had joined the ARM University Program.
SMIC joins existing ARM Foundry Partners, AMI, Anam, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Silterra, Tower Semiconductor, TSMC, and UMC, as members in the Program, bringing the total number of Foundry Program members to eight.
ARM7TDMI core-based Design Kits, targeted to the SMIC process technology, are available to license from ARM immediately. Silicon-verified cores are available from SMIC from Q3 2003.
About the ARM Foundry Program
The ARM Foundry Program is an innovative business model that enables fabless semiconductor companies in emerging markets to gain access to ARM processor technology for use in the design and manufacture of advanced system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. There are currently 58 Partners in the Foundry Program, which was launched in 2000. ARM now offers the core, the ™ core, the ™ core and the ™ core through the Program.
The Foundry Program offers a flexible partnership model that accelerates the time-to-market for ARM core-based designs and enables OEMs, which do not have access to fabrication facilities, to work directly with an approved ARM semiconductor foundry. Unlike a traditional ARM license, where a licensee gains both manufacturing and design rights, the ARM Foundry Program builds a three-way Partnership between ARM, an approved silicon foundry, and an OEM.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in markets such as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions.
About SMIC
SMIC is the first pure-play advanced IC foundry in China to achieve volume production of 8-inch wafers at 0.18um and finer technologies. Established in April 2000, SMIC is a Cayman Islands company with three 8-inch fabs in volume production in Shanghai. In May 2003, Semiconductor International Journal, a leading publication in the semiconductor industry, awarded SMIC's Fab 1 for its excellence with the prestigious Top Fab of the Year 2003 award.
More than a top chip foundry, SMIC provides customers with a full range of services that includes design services, mask manufacturing, wafer fabrication ranged from 0.35um to 0.18um and 0.13um copper backend line services, as well as testing capabilities. In addition, customers also have access to the innovative genius of the in-house R&D team staffed by leading industry experts. As part of its dedication towards providing high-quality services and protecting the environment, the foundry's three fabs in Shanghai have achieved ISO9001 and ISO14001 certification.
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Agreed. But is the 5 extra goals he gets you vs. Moulson really worth the 1st and 2nd rounders?RoyalDude wrote:Wow
Vanek has way more top shelf talent than Moulson
Could be a deadly combo with one of the best young player in the game in Tavares
Since 09/10:
Moulson: 304 GP 118 G
Vanek: 280 GP 110 G
Over their careers Vanek is a .42 G/GP (34.44 goals over 82 games), while Moulson is .37 G/GP (30.34).
If NYI can re-up Vanek and he shows chemistry with Tavares, they win this deal. But that's a lot to give up for a rental player, imo.


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Rosenstrasse (+)
This well-done docudrama is a fictionalized account of a true incident that took place in Berlin.
The movie opens on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where a Jewish family is sitting Shiva (period of mourning). The deceaseds wife, Ruth (Jutta Lampe), is shown covering the mirrors in the house with cloths, and her observance of such Orthodox rituals surprises her children.
The film shifts back and forth to Germany under the Nazis at about the time of the battle for Stalingrad. Orders were issued in Berlin to round up and ship to concentration camps the Jewish spouses of non-Jewish Germans, referred to by the Nazis as Aryans. Most of the film deals with the Christian women who with great courage stood in front of the building where their husbands were incarcerated demanding their release, even when soldiers with machine guns were posted in front of the crowd.
Ruths daughter, Hannah (Maria Schrader), is engaged to a non-Jew, and Ruth has made it clear that she opposes the marriage. Hannah, wanting to learn about her mothers past and understand why she is so hostile toward her Christian fiancé, travels to Berlin. She interviews one of the Christian women, Lena (Katja Riemann), who at great personal cost did what she could to save her Jewish husband, Fabian (Martin Feifel), from certain death.
The roles are beautifully played. While the script lends itself to melodrama, it never goes that route. Nevertheless, it will and certainly should evoke tears. It is worth seeing this film, especially during this period of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, to help us count our blessings in this country and reflect on the current rising tide of anti-Semitism throughout Europe.
Criminal (+)
Two years ago I reviewed the sensational Argentinean film Nine Queens, on which Criminal is based. In my review I stated, This is an intriguing movie from the first frame to the last.
Regrettably, Criminal is a distant second in both acting and execution. John C. Reilly and Maggie Gyllenhaal are brilliant actors. Unfortunately, in this film they seem uncomfortable in their roles and give very ordinary performances. On the other hand, Diego Luna gives an excellent performance.
The plot is devoted to numerous scams primarily carried out by Richard (John C. Reilly) and Rodrigo, (Diego Luna). Rodrigo was a loner plying his trade in relatively minor scams involving small amounts of money. He later joins Richard in a scam involving a forged document with the value of $750,000. Valerie (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is Richards sister, is also cast as someone sexually attracted to Rodrigo. But since she looks old enough to be his mother, it doesnt work.
The half-dozen scams pulled off by various con artists make this a pleasant film to watch, but for real excitement, rent Nine Queens. It is so far superior to the American version of the same script.
Ed Koch
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
States My Ancestors Lived In
7 comments:
- Kristin said...
I like the map idea. i think i will do that too. thank you!
- March 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Becky, where in Massachusetts and Vermont? Anything I can help with?
- March 22, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- Heather Rojo said...
Oh, that's so interesting! My ancestral map would be so boring. I still live within an hour's drive or so of where everyone arrived before 1650. I think it's very cool how your family went in a straight line westward!
- March 22, 2011 at 9:05 PM
- GrannyPam said...
That looks like a straight path west. Really straight.
- March 23, 2011 at 4:16 AM
- Janeen said...
You have been awarded "One Lovely Blog " award. You can collect it on my blog, They came in Ships, on the Finding my Irish Roots blog, at the bottom of the blog.
- March 23, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Bill George said...
Thanks for this map link. Saw it listed on the latest Geneamusing.com web site with credit to you. I've already used the map and also noticed the many other graphics-like utilities there are on the Bighugelabs.com web site. Let me return the favor with an ani-map web site I use a lot to figure out when cities and counties were formed in history. I am not connected with them. http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps.html#county.
Bill George (http://www.billgeorge.com)
- March 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Thomas said...
Hi Becky! You certainly have some great stuff. I sent you an email 3/12 regarding some Carothers info. Wondering if you got it?
Tom Miller
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Great tool kit for on the go. Really love the brad setter. I just keep the kit in my bag ready to take with me when I walk out the door. Love the fact that is magnetic I just use the ruler or the magnetic posts (that purchased separately) to hold down my project while I cut or stamp etc.
Just recevied this tool kit. It is great. The set is compact, but all of the tools are full size and work great. The price was amazing to get a mat and 4 tools. The ruler is easy to read and being magnetic is great. The scissors are nice and sharp and the tweezers have a great grip.I am very pleased with this set and recommend it to anyone. The shipping was fast and the sale price I receive was excellent. The pink color is so cute as well. Happy Scrapping!
I got this as a Christmas present for my niece who is just starting out making cards. She hasn't seen it yet, so I can't say whether she likes it or not, but I may have to get one for myself based on what I saw of the kit before I wrapped it.
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Big 12 Morning Five: Halloween EditionPosted by cwilliams on October 31st, 2011
- Jayhawk fans received some frightening news on the eve of Halloween (see what I did there?) when Bill Self announced Tyshawn Taylor and Elijah Johnson will be suspended for Kansas' two exhibition games. While Self mentioned they have been "terrific since school began," he stated they broke a team rule that he had warned carried severe punishment. Kansas will still likely coast in these exhibition games, but in a season where there are more question marks for the Jayhawks than usual, this is not the best way for KU to start its season.
- Missouri defeated Missouri Southern 114-68, in the One State, One Spirit Classic, in Joplin, Missouri. But the outcome of the basketball game was the least important aspect of the event. Despite the Tigers winning the actual game, score this one a victory for the entire state. The game provided a two-hour distraction from a community still suffering from a F5 tornado that devastated the entire city. What a way for the Big 12 college hoops season to kick off.
- Legendary Oklahoma and Oklahoma State play-by-play announcer Bob Barry, Sr., passed away on Sunday. Barry began his announcing career at Norman High School, where his unique voice and dynamic personality made him a local legend, and caught the eye of Oklahoma's head football coach Bud Wilkinson, who eventually hired him for Oklahoma athletics. Barry, Sr., did basketball play-by-play for both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. OU President David Boren stated that Barry was "loved by Oklahomans across the state." Rest in peace, Mr. Barry, and our thoughts and condolences are with your family.
- NewsOK.com has an article up stating that the Big 12 is not yet done with expansion, despite conference commisioner Chuck Neinas stating they were. Also, he goes on to say "don't count out Louisville to Big 12 just yet", and calls Neinas' claim that the Big 12 has not considered expanding to 12 "utter nonsense." If any of these allegations are true, one thing is for sure: Big 12 basketball would have another fantastic team in its conference.
- One of the more cleverly named college basketball websites, searchingforbillyedelin.com, has come out with their Big 12 preview. The article discusses how the Big 12 title is up in the air, and it's attainability is realistic for almost every Big 12 squad. Also, they discuss how the Big 12's recruits are getting better and more prestigious each year, especially at Kansas and Texas.


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Hoppy Easter!
The Easter Bunny has officially hopped into our homes, hid all the eggs and left lots of loot for some bunny to find.
But before the bunny's big arrival, everyone from Kim Kardashian to Alyson Hannigan went to work creating the best baskets for their littlest loves. Meanwhile, Mario Lopez's daughter Gia and son Nico had a mini meet and greet with their new furry friend.
And the snapshots celebs shared on Sunday morning were to dye for: Country star Justin Moore's candid moment of his daughters with their colorful confections was eggs-tra adorable.
See how celeb kids celebrated the sp-egg-tacular holiday below!
Courtesy Mario Lopez; Inset:Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
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Yesterday saw the beginning of the much anticipated phase three of the beta of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and looking at the official forums and twitter quite a few still didn't receive the coveted invite (and boy, they aren't happy).
In order to help those that still didn't receive that mail feel better, or maybe to torture them a little bit (depending on the point of view), Here are 676 screenshots directly from the beta.
I hope it turn out to be a good game.. I really want a new FF game & i hate 13.. I havent enjoyed a FF game since 12
I was left out of beta, and I think this one might be the last one, so (im)patiently waiting for august 27! I've been waiting this for years (maybe the longest I've ever waited for a game so far), and I'm tired of it. This release just can't come soon enough!
Well it looks great for a open-world game that was first intended for higher spec'd PC's(ran pretty well on my 1120/3000 OC 650m 1GB GDDR5 i7 3610qm 3.1GHZ locked laptop, though). excited about the new engine and interface revisions, can't wait find the time to play later.


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Vibrio Vulnificus
Hi Roger,
Last month I had the misfortune of lacerating my leg on the sharp fin of my FE 160, and introduced a rather nasty salt water pathogen into my bloodstream. Even though Vibrio has a fairly high mortality rate, I've recovered most of the function of my leg and foot, and decided to continue windsurfing. But now that i know about this risk, I want to be a little safer next time, so I have a question for you.
In future I'm going to wear a full suit all the time to protect my legs and ankles from fin cuts, but I'm still concerned about the sharp tip and trailing edge of this Drake formula fin. Do these edges really need to be that sharp, or can I blunt them with a sanding block without loosing too much performance?
Another fin-related question if I may - I will be in the Ft. Myers, FL area this winter and would like to sail my formula board. Can you recommend a good alternate fin for this shallow-water area? Also, where do you launch on Pine Island to sail PI sound?
Thanks for your advice.
RE: Vibrio Vulnificus
Hello Splashtack,
Yes, you can take a sanding block and put a flat (better still a tiny radius) on the traling edge and tip of your formula fin without affecting the performance of the fin to a degree you will be able to tell.
We've been "blunting" the TE of fins that "whistle" for years with no affect on the performance.
Run the sanding block (with 240 or 320 grit abrasve paper) down the TE of the fin with the block perpendicular to the fore and aft axis of the fin. 2-4 passes down the fin will take the sharp edge off. Then turn your sanding block to a 45 deg. angle and "break" the sharp edge where the tiny flat meets the foil of the fin. Just once or twice down the fin and you will have a nice 45 deg. chamfer that won't cut you if you happen to rub your leg or arm against it.
As far as sailing in Ft. Myers, (at Sanibel Causeway) you can ususally get away with a vertical fin is you go out and find out where the deep areas are and which areas to avoid because they are shallow.
At Pineland (on Pine Island) the water is much shallower, so anyting larger than 40-42 cm will be a problem.
You could run a shallow water 40 cm fin, but I've found the Tangent Dynamics Reaper 42 cm weed fin to work very well in Pine Island Soun.
True Ames has a Shallow Water Weed design that I use as well.
Hope this helps,
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Singer-songwriter Paul Rodgers returns to the Royal Albert Hall for one night only on Monday, November 3rd for a special show to present work from his latest album, The Royal Sessions, alongside classic hits from his vast back-catalogue of Free and Bad Company.
All profits from the show will go to the Willows Animal Sanctuary & Animal Assisted Therapy Unit in Aberdeenshire. Learn more at www.willowsanimals.com
Live Nation pre-sale starts Thurs. August 14 at 9:00 AM. General On Sale starts Fri. August 15 at 9:00 AM. For more information and tickets visit LiveNation.co.uk
The Royal Sessions consists of covers of blues, R&B and soul records that inspired Rodgers as a young singer in the mid-'60s. Recorded at Memphis' Royal Studios and produced by friend and collaborator Perry A. Margouleff, the album features many of the same players who had graced the original tracks.
Paul will be joined by Reverend Charles Hodges Sr. on the Hammond B3, bassist Leroy Hodges Jr., guitarist Michael Toles, Archie "Hubby" Turner on the Wurlitzer, drummer Steve Potts, the talented Shontelle and Sharlisse Norman of The Royal Singers and The Royal Horns (Marc Franklin on Trumpet, James L. Spake on Baritone Sax, Gary Topper and Lannie "The Party" McMillan Jr. on Tenor Sax).


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Portrait of N M Seedo
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 103 x 71 cm
Date: c. 1957
Portrait of NM Seedo was shown in our exhibition Uproar! The First Fifty Years of the London Group, 1913-1963 in 2014. You can buy the catalogue in our online shop.
Leon Kossoff
Leon Kossoff was born in Islington, London, England, to first generation Russian immigrant parents. As a child he lived in the East End of London, where his parents ran a bakery. He studied in London at St Martin's School of Art from 1949–53, and at the Royal College of Art from 1953–6. Between 1950 and 1952 he also took evening classes at the Borough Polytechnic under David Bomberg.
With his fellow student Frank Auerbach, Kossoff developed a painterly style employing thickly applied layers of paint that are extensively reworked to reveal closely-observed portraits and cityscapes. His works are notable for their autobiographical content, representing close friends and family members, and very familiar parts of the areas of London in which he has lived: the familiarity of his subjects is crucial to Kossoff's close looking. Recurring motifs in his work include Kilburn Underground station, Christ Church, Spitalfields and Willesden children's swimming pool.
His paintings can be seen as an extension of his primary practice of drawing. The same direct, heavily worked style is evident in his drawing, Portrait of a Woman, which may depict his wife Rosalind. His etching, Two Seated Figures, takes the artist's parents as its subjects, and is closely related to a painting of the same name in the Tate collection. A series of etchings produced in response to, and directly in front of, Old Master paintings, reveals Kossoff's strong sense of artistic tradition. He produced different versions of a single painting in his closely worked, expressionistic linear style, working from Poussin, Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Kossoff had six solo exhibitions at Beaux Arts Gallery, London, between 1957 and 1964, and a further one-man show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1972. He lives and works in London.


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EliseT I'm still alive. I have some reviews I did for my blogs I could post here, but I didn;t always get an exterior if it was night.
buffetbuster Elise, we would love to have you submit some reviews! While a photo of the exterior is nice, it isn't a requirement. It is necessary to have at least one clear, quality photo of the food. If you have any questions or if I can help in any manner, please let me know.


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iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending July 21, 2013:
Top Songs:
1. "Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)," Robin Thicke
2. "We Can't Stop," Miley Cyrus
3. "Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)," JAY Z
4. "Radioactive," Imagine Dragons
5. "Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)," Daft Punk
6. "Treasure," Bruno Mars
7. "Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert)," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
8. "Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone") (Pop Version)," Anna Kendrick
9. "Safe and Sound," Capital Cities
10. "Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Top Albums:
1. "Magna Carta... Holy Grail," JAY Z
2. "The Blessed Unrest," Sara Bareilles
3. "Teen Beach Movie (Soundtrack)," Various Artists
4. "The 20/20 Experience," Justin Timberlake
5. "Trials & Tribulations," Ace Hood
6. "Night Visions," Imagine Dragons
7. "The 20/20 Experience — 2 of 2," Justin Timberlake
8. "Surfers Paradise," Cody Simpson
9. "Paradise Valley," John Mayer
10. "Hail to the King," Avenged Sevenfold