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NOPD looking for missing 15-year-old Tory Mitchell
NOPD looking for missing 15-year-old Tory Mitchell
NOPD says it is looking for a missing 15-year-old.
Police say Tory Mitchell was last seen May 19 at about 5 p.m. in the 1800 block of Saint Roch Avenue.
Mitchell's mother told police he spent the day with a relative in the Eastern New Orleans area.
Police say Mitchell had been informed of which bus to catch to get back home in Chalmette, but he did not arrive at the scheduled time.
A younger sibling said that Mitchell made comments about possibly visiting a female who lives in the Iberville Housing Development.
Mitchell's cellphone has been turned off, and he did not attend school Monday, police say.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 821-2222.


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DOJ wants your tips on Trayvon civil rights
Editor advises: 'Stop race-baiting, you tyrannical jackasses'
President Obama's Department of Justice wants Americans' tips on Trayvon Martin's civil rights to build its federal case against George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of second-degree murder charges Saturday.
The DOJ is asking that all tips be sent to [email protected].
Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told the Orlando Sentinel the federal government is appealing to civil rights groups and community leaders to help build its case.
Tom Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, held a conference call on the matter Monday afternoon.
Arnwine said FBI representatives and several federal prosecutors were also on the call, along with Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Laura Murphy, Washington chapter head of the ACLU; and several national, state and locally based "human relations" groups.
"They were calling on us to actively refer anyone who had any information," she told the Sentinel. "They said they would very aggressively investigate this case."
WND reported Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to launch a federal civil-rights investigation into the case against Zimmerman.
"Experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal prosecution is appropriate," the Justice Department said.
In a televised address, Holder said, "We must not, as we have too often in the past, let this opportunity pass. We are resolved, as you are, to combat violence involving or directed at young people to prevent future tragedies and to deal with the underlying attitudes, mistaken beliefs and stereotypes that serve as the basis for these too common incidents."
"And we will never stop working to ensure that in every case, in every circumstance and in every community," he concluded, "justice must be done."
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and other House Democrats called a press conference Monday to urge the department to "conduct an immediate and thorough investigation," and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is pressuring the DOJ to continue its probe by posting a petition on the website MoveOn.org.
"The most fundamental of civil rights – the right to life – was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin," the group wrote.
Read today's full report about the Zimmerman case:
- DOJ wants your tips on Trayvon civil rights
- More evidence ties Martin attorneys to protest agitator
- Obama's race-baiting on Trayvon 'political tactic'
- Jeantel admits Trayvon 'whooped' Zimmerman's 'a—'
- Next Trayvon-style trial? Starts in September
- Zimmermans fear Obama tapping their phones
- Fed case against Zimmerman 'very unlikely'
- Stunning rescue reported from black mob attack
- Holder, Obama: Sharpton-style race-baiting criminals
Breitbart.com Editor Ben Shapiro called the Justice Department's new tip line a "desperate attempt to build a case."
He tweeted: "I have a tip for the DOJ: Stop race-baiting, you tyrannical jackasses."
Meanwhile, Americans expressed outrage on Twitchy over the DOJ's tactics:
- "I saw George Zimmerman eating a Wonder Bread sandwich; he's clearly racist."
- "Hey Holder, in the 'infamous words of dear leader,' you lost; Zimmerman won. Let's not forget Hillary's profound words, 'At this point, what difference does it make?'"
- "Didn't the Nazis have the Hitler Youth to inform on people for their show trials? Eric Holder has the 'Civil Rights' Youth."
- "Classic witch hunt. DOJ doesn't have any evidence, so they need us to make some up for them."
- "Then they better investigate Eric Holder."
- "That is so un-American that it defies description. Basically, they are looking for anything in his life to use against him."
- "Flood the inbox with newspaper reports of whites murdered or raped by blacks, since government's own statistics show that in interracial crime, blacks attack whites many times more than whites attack blacks. … If there's anyone 'preying' on another race, it's blacks preying on whites. 'Knock Out King,' 'Polar Bear Hunting,' there are no white equivalents of these 'games.'"
- "In an 'unrelated' case, the DOJ has set up a hotline and special website to investigate all whiteys and 'creepy a– crackers'"
- "Even the left has got to be upset at this fascist move."
- "I cannot believe the rioters and their sympathizers can't see that they are being herded like sheep by the media, Hollywood libs and the government. Nobody should be that gullible."
- "They want examples of racism? Of black kids getting killed? Time to report Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and all the other racist lefties who spouted off hate after the verdict. And be sure to forward every news article of gang shootings. Make them have to sort through it all to find any 'tips.'"
- "If Holder put this much effort into doing his actual job, he might not be seen as the joke we all see him as."
- "Why isn't the DOJ going after NBC for those doctored 9-1-1 recordings? Or all of those Trayvon 'supporters' who made death threats on Twitter and Facebook? … What the hell is going on in this [expletive] country?!"

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Semiconductors are the building blocks (used to make integrated circuits/computer chips, flash memory) of most all consumer electronics, including PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players, etc. A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity is in between that of a metal and that of an insulator. Most commercial semiconductors are created using silicon. There are several different semiconductor industries: Semiconductor - Equipment & Materials, Semiconductor - Broad Line, Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits, and Semiconductor - Foundry.
While the current 20 year annual average growth of the semiconductor industry is on the order of 13%, this has been accompanied by equally above-average market volatility, which has lead to significant if not dramatic cyclical swings. The semiconductor industry has gone through 6 major cycles since the 1970's, caused mainly from worldwide recession, overcapacity, and inventory burn.
When the semiconductor industry cyclically bottoms out, the semiconductor industry's value chain both upstream (i.e. semiconductor equipment manufacturers) and downstream (i.e. PC/consumer electronics manufacturers) are also affected. The last major semiconductor downturn occurred in 2000-2002, and was considered to be the harshest contraction the industry ever experienced. Global semiconductor sales plummeted from over $200B in 2000 to $160B in both 2001 and 2002. Semiconductor revenue was on an upswing since January 2002, however, the financial crisis has lead to a contraction in revenue as 2008 sales were 2.8% lower then 2007.[3] Sales in December 2008 were down 22% y-o-y,[4] reflecting the true impact of the financial crisis.
The $250B semiconductor industry generates over $1,200B in electronics systems business and $5,000 billion in services, representing close to 10% of world GDP. This correlation to the global economy and its own business cycles is a main driver for semiconductor cyclicality.
Obviously linked to the health of the economy, demand for consumer electronics including PCs, digital TVs, iPods, etc. are strongly correlated with semiconductor demand. As PCs inch ever closer to saturation among developed countries, demand for them will decrease as well as for the chips used to make them work.
The semiconductor industry's operating costs and capital expenditures are uniquely high because new manufacturing plants, or fabs, can cost them up to 25% of annual revenues, or as much as $3-4B. Running them overcapacity for too long can decimate a semiconductor company's profits. Unfortunately, large capital expenditures are a continuous pain point for this industry because advances in technology, i.e. the ability to put more functionality on a smaller chipset (see Moore's Law), often render older fabs and all of the expensive machinery in them obsolete. Thus, the frequent need for new, state-of-the-art fabs can often create overcapacity scenarios as the need for technology innovation doesn't match current market demand.
It's a well known fact that many consumer electronics have short product lifecycles. This creates inventory complications among players in the electronics value chain because of the inherent difficulty in predicting how many electrical components will be needed for a certain product before that product becomes obsolete. Given that semiconductor manufacturers need to run their fabs at high capacity to be cost-efficient, they are at risk of creating large inventories of product destined for last year's model of the iPod that no one wants anymore.
The semiconductor industry is consolidating. National Semiconductor (NSM) agreed to acquire Cyrix Corporation and Intel (INTC) said it would acquire Chips and Technologies Inc. With growing consolidation, it is easier to mitigate the volatility caused by overcapacity and inventory burn because large players can predict downturns and thus pre-emptively slow down manufacturing. Analysts are predicting further semiconductor consolidation, in part leading to a maturation of the industry that will slow growth but also volatility.
Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Samsung, Vishay Intertechnology (VSH) and Maxim are major semiconductor manufacturers that could be hit hard in a downturn, especially if their pre-existing fabs are rendered obsolete or if they've invested too heavily in new fabs in a time of low sales. A severe contraction in this market isn't always a bad thing, however. Intel (INTC), by far the largest semiconductor player, used the 2000-2002 downturn to refocus its energies by investing in new facilities that would eventually reap higher profits through greater production efficiencies as the industry swung back into its expected upturn. It also diversified into WiFi and WiMax chips, knowing that PCs were nearing a saturation point in developed countries meaning that microprocessor sales (by far Intel's most profitable business) would inevitably slow down. Recently, Intel decided to build a 300mm wafer fabrication plant in Dalian, a city in northeast China. The $2.5 billion project, dubbed Fab 68, will be the company's first wafer fab in Asia. The facility is scheduled to begin production of chipsets in the first half of 2010.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) and United Microelectronics (UMC) are two semiconductor foundries that manufacter chips for the likes of Broadcom (BRCM) and Xilinx (XLNX), two completely "fabless" chipmakers who focus most of their attention on innovative chip design and marketing. Semiconductor foundries, who focus solely on churning out chips, in theory, can better manage the huge investments needed to keep up with the latest in manufacturing technology. These foundries of course will sink and swim with their chip-maker partners.
Applied Materials (AMAT), KLA-Tencor (KLAC), and AVX (AVX) are leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers. The link between semiconductor equipment manufacturers and chip-makers is very strong. When the chip-makers decrease capital expenditures in expectation of slower growth, these companies will feel the contraction.
Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), and Apple (AAPL) are leading examples of electronics/computer hardware manufacturers who depend on chipset innovation to help make their devices run faster, store more information, and provide more functionality. A contraction in the semiconductor industry often necessitates lower capital expenditures, meaning that new fab with the faster chip will take longer to build, and that next generation computer with the faster chip won't be ready on time. This could hurt overall consumer electronics computer sales. On the other hand, a glut of semiconductors can drive OEM manufacturing costs down given downward pressure on chip prices, which could help OEMs expand per unit margins and potentially mititgate lower sales volume.
Given to a chicken vs. egg analogy, most semiconductor downturns are blamed for waning global demand for electronics/computer hardware.


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A Paean to Aix
I work by poolside and sip local wine in cafés crowded with fetching Frenchwomen glowing from the Mediterranean sun. Eat your hearts out, working stiffs
Sooner or later, everyone experiences one of those moments of terminal frustration with the corporate grind that can turn a mild man into an ill-tempered brute. Most people are sensible and mature about dealing with it. They simply go home, kick the cat, have a drink and tell themselves that things will be better tomorrow. I was not so sensible. I left an overpaying job on Madison Avenue and went off in search of sanity and the ultimate luxury—the kind of independence that allows you to choose exactly where and exactly how you wish to live. And, such is the unfairness of life, I have been lucky enough to find it.
The process of achieving a consistently pleasant daily existence has taken several years, because to live outside the system is in many ways more expensive than staying within it. But making enough money to escape was only part of the problem; there was also the question of where to escape to, given that the options extended from Alaska to the South Pacific. The perfect spot was out there somewhere, but how did one set about finding it?
We started with the climate. My wife and I had spent our formative years under a perpetual cloud in England, where, as is well known, there is no such thing as a climate, only weather. Regular and predictable sunshine was essential. So, for us, were good food and drink, which immediately disqualified some sunny and promising possibilities. If the nearest decent restaurant is a plane ride away, as it can be in parts of Australia, for instance, it tends to discourage any thoughts of a spontaneous evening out.
The choices began to narrow rapidly once we were honest enough to admit that we would make unsuccessful hermits. A simple life is all very well as long as it doesn't involve sacrificing certain basic necessities—friends, books, music, fine old buildings, the attentions of an accomplished barber and a local store that sells foie gras. For these and many other reasons, we now live in Provence, halfway between Avignon and Aix, with the Lubéron mountains at the end of our back garden. Our house is a converted mas, or farmhouse, that began life in the eighteenth century as one room and spread haphazardly over the next 200 years. Everything is solid. The spiral staircase was cut from local stone, and the walls were built to withstand the winds of the mistral, which, they say, can take the ears off a donkey. An enclosed courtyard separates the house from the pool, and terraces of vines, cherry trees and almond trees stretch for miles along the valley, polished by the extraordinary clarity of the light. All in all, to borrow from W. C. Fields, I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia.
A hundred miles and a hundred years away is the strip most often associated with the south of France, the Côte d'Azur, which, unfortunately, has grown to resemble a garlic-scented Coney Island. We are well back from the sea; grapes are more important than tourists, and people live here year-round. This is important to point out, because it means that life doesn't stop at the end of the season, as it so often does on the coast. Finding someplace open in Saint-Tropez in November is only slightly easier than finding a parking spot in August.
For eight months a year, I live mostly outdoors. Breakfast is on the terrace under the vine trellis, facing the early-morning sun. I walk to work in forty-five seconds, devoid of attaché case, tie, socks or panic, and I write. I'm not fussy about the medium I write for: books, articles, film scripts—whatever comes along, and whatever allows me to continue enjoying working conditions that Cézanne would have envied. My desk is ten yards from the pool and five yards from the sunbathing terrace. From the window, I view vineyards and mountains. Never before have I had an office that I so actively liked, and I could happily spend a lot of time in this one if I weren't so easily distracted by the everyday curiosities of rural life in Provence. To a foreigner reared in cities, these are strange and absorbing. The business of the melon field is still fresh in my memory, and it will give you an idea of what I mean.
Our neighbor Faustin, the farmer who takes care of the vines around the house, appeared one evening looking unusually spruce and purposeful. He had important news: The wine produced from our six acres of vineyards—Côtes du Lubéron—was about to be upgraded in status and given_ appellation d'origine contrôlée_ classification. As a result, it would become more expensive, and local vineyard owners would make more money. Clearly, said Faustin, the more vines one had, the more money one would make. I couldn't disagree with that, so he moved on to a second glass of pastis and his proposition. It seemed to him that our melon field would be more profitably employed if it produced grapes; melons he dismissed with a wave of his glass as being too demanding in terms of time and water. By coincidence, he had done an estimate, and the field would accommodate 1,300 new vines in place of the tiresome melons. Was I interested?
It needs to be said here that Faustin divides his working year between two occupations. From spring through autumn, he nurses the vines. In the winter, he sharpens his knives and visits the local farms as a one-man abattoir, killing the pigs, ducks and rabbits that have been fattened up for Christmas. I found myself curiously reluctant to argue with a man who slits throats for a living. I agreed that the extra vines sounded like a good idea, but I thought no more about it after Faustin left. He is a ruminant among men and not given to hasty action. In any case, nothing happens quickly in Provence. Perhaps next spring he would get round to it.
At seven o' clock the following morning, a tractor was plowing up the melon field, and two days later, the planting team arrived—five men, two women and four dogs, under the direction of Monsieur Beauchier, who has been planting vines in the Lubéron for forty years. With their bamboo rods, their balls of twine and their big wooden triangles to measure the distance between vines, they moved in a slow but raucous procession up and down the field. It appeared to be part of the ritual that lengthy conversations were always conducted between the two people farthest away from each other, a distance of about 300 yards, while the intervening members of the team cursed the dogs, argued about the straightness of the lines and made unflattering remarks about one another's hats.
Halfway through the afternoon, work stopped for the Provençal version of the coffee break. The team sat on a grassy bank above the vines, looking uncannily like a Cartier-Bresson photograph, and demolished four liters of wine and a basket of the sugared slices of fried bread called tranches dorées. How anyone could walk straight afterward, let alone plant straight, is beyond me. And yet, when they had finished, the field was impeccable in its symmetry, and noticeably quiet. I could get back to work again.
_The author, clearly overworked, as he labors in his
"office" at his home in Ménerbes. _
But not for long, because the next distraction is never too far away. The postman delivers a package of books and tells me how to prepare a wild boar for the pot. Our clarinet-playing plumber arrives to check a hiccup in the water supply and expounds his theory that Mozart would have made a first-class electrician. A man who will not give his name pulls up in a white Mercedes stuffed with purportedly genuine Oriental rugs and offers miraculous reductions for cash as he carpets the drive. There is always something, and at the end of the morning comes the most regular and welcome interruption of all: the sound of a cork being drawn from a bottle. This is the signal for a swim and a glass of Kir. Drying off in the sun, I brace myself for lunch.
Lunch is not a meal to be rushed anywhere in France and particularly not here in Provence—first, because of the heat, which makes any sudden or industrious movement between noon and three o' clock inadvisable, and second, because of the food. Burgundy may have its snails, Brittany its oysters, Normandy its cream, but down here we have herb-scented lamb from Sisteron; fish from the Mediterranean; tiny, delicate goat cheese from Banon; olive oil as thick as honey; and fruit and vegetables that look like paintings and taste, as one frenzied gourmet put it, like angels copulating on your tongue. These good things are on our doorstep; our nearest town is Cavaillon, which is a market center for much of the produce grown in southern France. And so, the day before the Parisians get them, we can come home with armfuls of young asparagus, trays of peaches, melons you can smell six feet away, peppers, plum tomatoes, aubergines, figs, pink-streaked onions and rose-colored garlic, cherries, strawberries and grapes the size of pearls.
All of this, of course, needs to be assisted by a glass or two of wine, and it is one of my domestic duties to make sure there is always a comfortable sufficiency in the cellar. There are worse chores. Gone are the days of spending a hurried half hour in a jumped-up liquor store that masquerades as a wine merchant; instead, I take the day off and drive up to the vineyards round Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas and buy direct from the factory. I have come to like men who make wine. In my experience, they are hospitable fellows who take pride and pleasure in their work ,and most of them have a sales pitch that I can swallow without the slightest resistance. Monsieur Bernard, who makes his Côtes du Rhône in Vacqueyras, is a good example.
The contrast between the heat outside and the coolness of the cellar, the distinctive and musty smell of grapes giving their all, the beaming face of Monsieur Bernard and his uncle's impressively tinted nose—before tasting a drop, you know you have come to a serious establishment. The glasses are polished and lined up in front of you, maybe six or seven of them, while you are asked what it is you want. Something sturdy to put away for the winter, to go with a thick game stew? A lighter red, which won't interfere with your after-lunch game of tennis? (I can't play tennis, but it seems churlish to spoil their fun.) Maybe the white Côtes du Rhône, less well known than the red, but dry and delicious? Or the house pink? But why make a quick decision? Since monsieur has taken the trouble to come personally, all of them should be tried.
And all of them are, while the uncle with the nose tells you which corner of what field each wine came from and what is indisputably the best dish to accompany it. (Maybe they're frustrated cooks, but all the winemakers I have met possess the ability to talk a stupendous menu as you sniff and sip. If there was ever a law against lip smacking and kissing the tips of the fingers, most of them would go out of business and become accountants or insurance salesmen.) As the afternoon wears on, the wines taste progressively better and naturally become progressively more expensive, and you know you're being gently traded up. But it is done in a leisurely and charming fashion, and anyway, you say to yourself as they load half a dozen cases into the back of your sagging car, you have cut out the middleman. You leave with an invitation to come to the vendange, the grape gathering, and with the feeling of a job well done.
But as diverting as country life is, we occasionally feel the need for contrast, to spend a day or two among people with smart clothes and diaries full of important appointments. For a concentrated whiff of high chic and foul air, there is always Paris, which is an hour by plane from Marseilles. Somehow, though, whenever we go on an outing, we never get farther than Aix.
It takes forty-five minutes to drive through the mountains, and you come into town at one end of what must be the most handsome main street in France. From spring until October, the Cours Mirabeau divides Aix with a pale-green tunnel formed by the plane trees that were planted during the seventeenth century. To call it a street is to do it an injustice; it's an avenue, short but perfectly proportioned, and there is a nice geographical distinction made along its length between work and more frivolous activities. On the shady side, appropriately enough, are the offices of banks, real-estate agents and lawyers. On the sunny side are the cafés.
I have liked almost every café that I have been to in France, even the ratty ones in the hill villages, where flies are more plentiful than customers, but I have a soft spot for the cafés of Aix, and the softest spot for all of Les Deux Garçons. It has been on the Cours Mirabeau almost as long as the plane trees, from the look of it. Successive generations of proprietors have put their profits under the mattresses and resisted the temptation to redecorate, which in France usually ends up in a welter of bad taste and plastic, and the interior probably looked much the same fifty years ago as it does today. The ceiling is high and nicotine-stained, the bar is polished copper, the waiters have aprons and flat feet, as waiters should, and the clientele spills out of the dark interior onto the terrace under the trees. And what a clientele it is—posing, parading, practicing with great gusto the art of the social kiss and generally showing form. Aix is a university town, and there is clearly something in the curriculum that attracts pretty students. My friend Michael, who works in the film business and is a connoisseur of such matters, agrees with me that nowhere in the world can you see so many lovely young ladies as you can sitting outside Les Deux Garçons on a fine June day, letting your eyes swivel and your beer go flat.
_The Auberge de la Loube restaurant in Buoux. _
It is tempting to stay there until the show closes, but it would be a pity to miss the rest of Aix, because it is a beautiful and civilized place. Cobbled streets, graceful architecture, a flower market, fountains everywhere, good shops and restaurants, a summer music festival—there is everything here a man could reasonably want, but without the tension of big cities. And it has an ambience that can make the most mundane transactions enjoyable. The last time I was there, for instance, I went to cash some traveler's checks and received a neat bundle of 100-franc notes that had been expensively scented. That's the kind of town Aix is.
The only drawback is that it's a little too far away from home after a good dinner, bearing in mind the mountainous road and the recent enthusiasm shown by the French police for inviting motorists to blow into le ballon. Since I have devoted a great deal of time and money to maintaining a healthy level of alcohol in my bloodstream, I feel sure that any intimate contact between myself that a Breathalyzer would end badly. And so, when we go out to dinner, we go to one of the restaurants that can be reached by a short drive along back roads.
There is no shortage of choices. A characteristic that I find admirable in the French is their willingness to support good cooking, no matter how remote the kitchen may be. The quality of the cuisine is more important than the convenience, and a Frenchman considers it quite normal to drive for two hours, salivating en route, in order to eat well. Consequently, it is possible for a restaurant to prosper in what might appear to be the most isolated and unpromising location. We are lucky. There are perhaps a dozen gifted cooks within twenty minutes of where we live.
The closest is in our local village, less than two miles away. Chez Marie is at the end of an alley, just behind the ramparts of Ménerbes. Marie herself is worth the trip; she is a striking woman of a certain age, and in the heat of the summer, her chef's outfit is shorts and high heels. Here, as in many of our local restaurants, there is an extraordinary contrast between the ancient surroundings and the modern sophistication of the food. You can be sitting in a room that is 300 years old, with stone walls a yard thick, a vaulted ceiling and a fireplace big enough to roast a small flock of sheep en brochette, and eat food that is as delicate and beautifully presented as anything you would find in Paris. I have had mussel soup served under a paper-thin dome of pastry, sorbet made from fresh rosemary, fish terrines of three colors and textures, lamb and duck that barely needed a knife and always, to go with that final glass or bottle of wine, the local cheese. Not the miserable selection of middle-aged and perspiring blobs that in other countries passes for a cheese board, but a dozen or more varieties arranged on a bed of vine leaves and barely old enough to be allowed to stay up so late.
These meals haven't been eaten in three-star restaurants. In fact, there's one not far away in Les Baux where the food is superb, but there is a little too much reverence in the air for us, and so we stick to simpler places: the Auberge de la Loube in Buoux, whose customer sometimes ride to dinner and leave their horses in the parking lot; Chez Michel in Cabrières for fresh truffles in the winter; Les Bories in Gordes during the game season; Tante Yvonne in Lambesc, where the cook is 81 and her husband, the head waiter, is 84—at any of these you can eat and drink memorably for about half the price of a modest lunch with Perrier at the Four Seasons in New York.
And so the daily business of keeping body and soul together is one of the great pleasures and advantages of France, but is there life between meals? And what about the legendary arrogance of the French, their lack of sympathy as you flounder in the complexities of their language, their reputed dislike of foreigners? No doubt this exists, particularly in Paris. Down here, perhaps because of the sun, it's different.
There are flaws in the Provençal nature—notably a cheerful contempt for punctuality—but how can you be irritated at people who smile so often and laugh so easily? Visitors from the cooler temperatures and less relad atmosphere of the north often find this vaguely suspicious. Parisians in particular like to say that the people of Provence are superficial blagueurs—that is, full of hot air—but I'll take a friendly blagueur anytime in preference to someone who keeps his distance and rations his laughter. There is also an unhurried politeness here that I like very much, which is expressed in a number of small ways, from shopkeepers who acknowledge your presence and bid you good morning (becoming rarer every day in cities) to the ritual of physical contact between acquaintances. Women kiss other women, and men, on both cheeks; men shake hands. If hands are not available because they are full, you will be offered a little finger to shake. If fingers are dirty from a day's work in the fields, a forearm will be extended. The important thing is to touch. Maybe it is all superficial, but it makes you feel you're among human beings who are pleased to see you, which in turn makes everyday life more agreeable.
Our slow and pleasant existence is interrupted once a year by the month of August, when tourists outnumber the wasps round an overripe melon and when the locals go into hiding. With temperatures in the nineties by midmorning, it is a month for the pool, for the siesta, for long, cool dinners in the courtyard and for unplugging the phone. We stay at home, except for a trip to the village of Bonnieux, five miles up the road, for the thrills of the annual goat race.
The course runs from the Café César through the narrow village streets, across a water obstacle by the old pump and back to the café again. Wagers are accepted by the lady who sits under a parasol by the starting line. The goats wear hats, unless they can shake them off and eat them, and their drivers are equipped with identifying numbers and stout sticks, as the goat is not a natural competitor and requires a measure of encouragement. The atmosphere is electric; a sporting event of this magnitude could make Bonnieux famous and the owner of the Café César a rich man. Never has the village seen such a chic and international turnout, and side bets are taken on how many elegant Parisian women will step in goat droppings before the morning is over. A good time is seemingly had by all, and there is inevitably at least one goat who manages to escape for long enough to eat somebody's garden before being arrested by the village gendarme.
_A well-stocked produce market in Aix. _
Normality returns in September. The tourists have gone, and the sun seems hotter than ever, bringing the grapes on our vines to that stage of heavy ripeness that signals the start of the vendange. Early in the morning, Faustin is out there cupping the bunches in his hand and sucking his teeth in contemplation. Should he give them a few more days to cook? This will help the alcohol content and make the crop more profitable. On the other hand, there is the risk of stormy weather and damaging downpours. Merde, but it's difficult. You can do everything right for eleven months a year and have it all ruined by two days of bad luck.
He decides to pick. With his wife, Henriette, their daughter, Françoise, their cousin Raoul the beekeeper from the Basses-Alpes, the inevitable dogs and a thirty-year-old Citren truck, he descends on our vines promptly at seven-thirty every morning to spend the day snipping off the bunches with surgical precision. During the week or so that it takes to harvest our small crop, they drop in every evening for a drink and punish the pastis; a bottle barely lasts two days. When the last vine has been snipped clean, we go down to the wine cooperative with Faustin (avoiding the main roads, because his truck ceased to be officially roadworthy several years ago), where the grapes will be turned into Côtes du Lubéron. The indicator on the big vat registers 12.5 degrees of alcohol, and Faustin is pleased. Another good year.
There is a peaceful and reassuring rhythm to life out here that could easily mislead you into assuming that the rest of the world feels as relad as you do. But rude awakenings come from time to time, usually announced over the phone. (In the good old days, the French phone system was atrocious, and your privacy was guarded by a French-speaking operator who refused to tolerate any nonsense in a foreign tongue. Now, alas, the system is automatic and alarmingly efficient.) The calls we receive are carefully timed to coincide with the start of dinner and are seldom short. There are two kinds.
The first is the call of duty, crackling with figures, dates, deadlines, items to be discussed, matters that need to be worked out. I sit there in my ignorance, thinking that this is the purpose of the call. I'm wrong. The purpose of the call is to arrange a meeting, which, at great personal inconvenience, the caller is prepared to attend in France. But not just in France; he is prepared—the things he has to do to make a buck—to come all the way down south to meet me at home. At first I was astonished that people who once found excuses not to come across London in a cab to meet me were suddenly eager to put themselves through the ordeal of a long weekend in Provence. I now know better.
The second is the call of friendship. Or if not friendship, exactly, the memory of an introduction in the distant past and the hope of sunshine in the immediate future. By coming here, we have become popular. I never knew so many people liked us. Come to think of it, I never knew so many people knew us. It is heartwarming and inconvenient. We find ourselves hunting for houses for them to rent or buy, negotiating with housekeepers and baby-sitters, driving to the airport to pick them up in hundred-degree temperatures, guiding them through the gurgling mysteries of French plumbing, making restaurant reservations, and, in extremis, stacking them in guest rooms.
After a hard morning by the pool, they gather at the bar in the courtyard, puce and thirsty from the sun, and tell us how much nicer this is than staying in a hotel on the coast. We agree. We prefer it, too. And then, over the fourth or fifth bottle of wine, sitting at the square stone table as the sun sets over the remains of a marathon lunch, they lean back and point out how convenient it all is. Why, you can be in Paris or London in a morning, New York in a day. I try to explain that I didn't come to live here in order to go there, and that if I'm going anywhere I'd rather go to Aix, but I know they don't really believe me. Either that, or they don't understand me, because they always ask the same question: "What do you do all day?"


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VPN, if set up properly can be quite secure (though nothing is impenetrable). What OS(s) are you planning on using for the VPN? Also, are you setting up a hardware VPN solution or a software solution?
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Windows 2000 will be the operating system that the user have. The actual firebox is handeling the VPN tunnell
I have found one of the most diffcult thing to do in a VPN connect is that you may not have control over what the end user always does. For example lap tops you install and configure the OS for the VPN etc and all works well during testing. Usually the users has elevated rights both at the firewall and their lap top? Unless you can control the end PC or lap top rights and policies fully then it can be secure if their son or daughter use the PC lap top to surf and do their thing you got a ton of problems. Emote users are diffcult to control even more so if they have senior status where you work and demand local admin rights on their systems but are totally lame users.
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Linda Frumkes has shared a remarkable blog of her Navy Dentist's father's wartime experiences. It will certainly "pull" you in.
Come back often to read the ongoing story.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 was the annual Fellowship Dinner between Christ Church and Mikveh Israel. Christ Church was founded in 1695. It was one of the first religious institutions in Philadelphia, and the first parish of the Church of England in Pennsylvania. Mikveh Israel is known as "The Synagogue of the Revolution" because of the active role played by many members of Mikveh Israel in the activities leading up to the Revolution, the Revolutionary effort itself, and the formation of the United States after the war was over. Similarly, Christ Church is known as "The Nation's Church" because of the famous Revolution-era leaders who worshipped there. Among the parishioners of Christ Church were Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, George Washington and John Adams.
It would be hard to argue against the need to promote a culture of compromise in our current political atmosphere, and American history is certainly filled with noble and notable examples. The Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, however is not among them.
28 August 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the landmark March on Washington. The brainchild of A. Phillip Randolph in the 1940s, he finally saw his dream come true when civil rights advocates descended on the Nation's Capitol to urge our government to address issues of freedom and economic equality.
Towards the end of 2012, politics seemed to dominate news cycle. This could hardly be surprising in an election year, but this increased public awareness generated a lot of questions, and almost every media outlet had something to contribute. Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln" fit quite easily into this discussion, even though Spielberg insisted on waiting until after the election to premier his film (link).
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Cherry Phosphate
Soda phosphates are a class of drink the has disappeared from the beverage world. Yes, many places claim to sell "phosphates" but they aren't the original article. To be considered a true phosphate the drink must include "acid phosphate" and not citric acid or lemon juice. The problem is acid phosphate stopped being produced decades ago. But, when I was researching Fix the Pumps, I discovered the recipe for this long lost acidulent. With a freshly made bottle of acid phosphate in hand, the once supremely popular Wild Cherry Phosphate was a drink I needed to try.
The Cherry Phosphate and the Wild Cherry Phosphate were two drinks that were found at every soda fountain. The regular version uses cherry juice and sugar as the key flavour components, and the wild version uses wild cherry bark for the flavour.
Wild cherry bark is widely available through herb companies and is sourced from the Choke Cherry tree. Like apricot kernels and bitter almonds, wild cherry bark contains amygdalin (laetrile, nitriloside) which, in the presence of water, hydrolyzes to form hydrogen cyanide, benzaldehyde or acetone. Cherry bark produces about 0.4% by weight of amygdalin, whereas apricot kernels can have up to 3%.
Extracting the components of wild cherry bark can be done a couple of ways, but the method I've selected uses water and glycerol (4:1) as the solvent. Boiling water can be used but the high temperature breaks down some of the unique flavour components. Dilute alcohol can be used as a solvent, but this increases the levels of prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) in the extract. According to old pharmacy manuals, the use of glycerin is said to check the production of the prussic acid making it a better choice for beverage purposes. This is unconfirmed in modern literature.
The fact remains that wild cherry bark has been used for centuries as an effective cough syrup and bitter tonic for appetite and digestion. Many herbal remedy sites recommend making a cough syrup by filling a glass jar one-third full with wild cherry bark and then filling with Southern Comfort (!). I don't recommend that.
The recipe included here uses a combination of cherry juice and 1 oz of the bark for 20 oz of syrup. This means the amount of hydrogen cyanide produced is minuscule. Historical recipes call for twice as much bark or more. This method gives the unique flavor of the bark while keeping any concerns about cyanide to a minimum.
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1 oz (30 ml) Cherry Bark
4 oz (120 ml) Cherry Juice
1 oz (30 ml) Glycerin
4 oz (120 ml) Water
10 oz (300 ml) Sugar
Water to make 12 oz (360ml)
Mix the glycerin with 4 oz of water, add to the bark and macerate for 24 hours. Filter the liquids off the bark and then 4 oz of warm water and macerate for another hour. Filter and add this extract to the first one. Add the cherry juice and if needed water to make 12 oz of liquid. To the liquid dissolve the sugar without any heat.
Wild Cherry Phosphate
1½ oz Wild Cherry Syrup
1 tsp Acid Phosphate
In a 10 oz glass add the wild cherry syrup and the acid phosphate. Fill the glass with cold soda water and mix with a spoon if necessary.
This Wild Cherry Phosphate tastes amazingly good. It has the flavour of almonds and cherry, but a very natural taste and not even remotely close to the artificial cherry cough syrup flavour.
Once you've tried a Wild Cherry Phosphate it becomes obvious why this drink was popular for decades. But everything great must have some downside. There's that hydrogen cyanide thing, which isn't a big deal but some people are easily frightened. I still wouldn't recommend going on a bender though, but hey look I'm still writing. Secondly, wild cherry bark makes a great tonic for the stomach but it can also make some people drowsy, which isn't necessarily great for a bar. Unless of course you have an annoying customer who needs to be sedated.
Other than that, a properly made Wild Cherry Phosphate is a drink everyone should try. If you liked this post check out the Angostura Phosphate and Ammonia Coke posts.
From time-to-time, I must tap my inner car salesman to let you know that buying Fix the Pumps is a great way to support Art of Drink. If you've enjoyed reading this post and the other articles here, then the book is like a 180-page post, not including cover, TOC, index, etc. Also, if you've ever thought "that was a good post, if I ever meet Darcy I'll buy him a drink" I'll happily accept book sales in lieu of a drink. OK, enough of the inner car salesmen for now, but really, Fix the Pumps is full of great content and contains a full dissertation on acid phosphate and other unique ingredients used at soda fountains that could easily be used behind the bar.


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The road to the Democratic Party's renewal runs through Allen County, Ohio. And Sherrod Brown is on it, looking for the towns his party forgot and the voters who got away. "We have a government in Washington that has betrayed the middle class and the working poor in this country," the Democratic Senate candidate tells a crowd gathered in the back of a Carpenters Union hall in Lima, the manufacturing town that is the turbine in the county's sputtering economic engine. "You know what I mean when I say 'betrayed.' There's no other word for it. And I'm not one of those Democrats who is going to hesitate to talk about that betrayal. The stakes are too high for places like this." "Amen!" comes a call from the crowd. "Sherrod's talking the language people here talk," says Derry Glenn, a Lima city councilman, who stands in an open doorway at the back of the hall. "You start by establishing that you understand what's wrong. Kerry never did that."
Theoretically, Lima should be Democratic turf. A blue-collar town with a solid union base and a substantial African-American population, this city of 40,000 has lost 8,000 manufacturing jobs and a quarter of its population over the past two decades. A few years back, a PBS documentary crew titled a report from Lima Lost in Middle America. Though Lima still has a Ford plant and an Army tank facility, the deindustrialization that has hammered Ohio during George W. Bush's tenure has taken a particular toll here. The local unemployment rate sits at 6.9 percent, a full point above the Ohio rate, which is a full point above the national rate. Yet in 2004, Democrat John Kerry only managed a tie with Bush in the city, while the Republican swept Allen County by a 2-to-1 margin. The inability of the Democrats to capitalize on economic issues to put towns like Lima in their column has contributed mightily to Republican domination of Ohio, where all major statewide offices are in GOP hands and where the last two presidential elections handed Bush the electoral votes he needed to secure the presidency. No matter what one thinks about the electoral shenanigans Republicans pulled before and during the 2004 presidential vote, a Democrat has to hold his own in places like Lima and Allen County if he wants to win by a big enough margin to put talk of recounts behind him. "We are going to do a lot better than Kerry in these towns," Brown says, as he whirls through another sixteen-hour day at senior centers, union halls and Farm Bureau meetings in communities that don't see many big-name Democrats.
Brown, a seven-term Congressman who gave up the chance to be a key player in what may be a Democrat-controlled House after November to challenge Republican Senator Mike DeWine, knows he must change his party's fortunes in Lima and a dozen other mid-size factory towns if his gamble is to succeed. And he recognizes that he will not crack the political codes of blue-collar counties that voted for Bush by repeating talking points produced by Democratic strategists in Washington. He's got to go deeper to make a connection that renews old loyalties and protects him against Republican attack strategies that have allowed the party to dominate Senate contests in Ohio and nationally.
What Brown offers Lima is an economic message that owes more to William Jennings Bryan than Bill Clinton, who always ran weaker in Ohio than he did nationally. Brown is not just another critic of the free-trade policies of the past several administrations. He wrote the book on the subject, The Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, which earned him praise from author Tom Frank for being the rare Democrat who actually understands what's the matter with Kansas–and, perhaps, Ohio. He preaches a fair-trade gospel that begins with a promise to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement and other trade deals to protect workers, the environment and communities–as opposed to encouraging multinational corporations to entertain relocation outside the country. But Brown's no "back to the future" populist; he recognizes that altering trade policies won't bring all the lost jobs back. He wants Democrats to adopt industrial policies that champion the development of new industries in old manufacturing towns. Brown's "we need to make Ohio the Silicon Valley of alternative energy" pitch has resonated with CEOs who don't typically talk up Democrats. "Sherrod understands that Ohio can remain a manufacturing state if we've got a federal government that supports the development of new industries," says Thomas Willis, president of Precision Energy & Technology, a fuel-cell firm, who appears with the candidate to vouch for Brown as the real friend of small manufacturers in a race with DeWine. Brown builds his message out with a promise to restructure tax policy to favor working families rather than billionaires and runaway corporations–he's for childcare, homebuying, college-tuition and elder-care tax credits; he's against tax cuts for the rich–and with talk about redirecting money spent on the Iraq War to meet domestic needs.


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HIV positive 15 years; 60 yr old; Atripla. 400 cd4, undetectable
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Second ENT evaluation, no need for adnoidectomy, sinus forming mucus and recommended to irregate daily. ENT says, -mucus build up is expected of HIV status, nothing to worry about.-
Your opinion?
You wrote: I do not consider this enlargement of your adenoids a sign of advanced HIV infection. Your CD4 cell count would be a better barometer of the status of the infection.
Chronic enlargement of these glands in the throat can occur even among those without HIV and when troublesome sometimes must be removed. Most ENT are reluctant to surgically remove these glands full of lymph tissue unless pressed. Certainly, the tissue can be sent for pathological evaluation to rule out cancer but if both sides are enlarged, cancer seems unlikely to me.
I would seek out a second opinion of an experienced ENT doc. Your HIV doc should be able to recommend someone.
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Sounds like good advice. Keep your adenoids. You can find a better excuse to eat ice cream.
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CHAIRMAN Ken Stewart says he will support any decision taken by manager Steve Cuss regarding Billy Maybury's future at Wimborne Town following the defender's conviction on two counts of assault.
Maybury was sentenced to a 12-month supervision order, 125 hours of community service and charged £570 in costs having lashed out at Alexander Gill and Adam Wilson after an evening in Bournemouth nightclub Cameo last November.
The 20-year-old left-back initially joined the Magpies on loan from Cherries where he came through the youth setup prior to his release in April 2012. Having made the move permanent, he signed a contract in March, committing his future to the Cuthbury club until the summer of 2015.
When approached by the Daily Echo, Cuss refused to discuss the situation or Maybury's future at the club, while Stewart said he did not wish to comment on what he considered "a private matter".
Stewart added: "Steve Cuss is the man in full charge of the team and all I can say is that it is down to him to make any comment for the club."
Bournemouth Magistrates' Court heard that Maybury approached both men on the dance floor at Fir Vale Road club at around 3.30am on the night in question.
Prosecutor Heather Jackson said: "After a short discussion, he head-butted Mr Gill to the face, causing him immediate pain. He then punched Mr Wilson, causing him to fall to the ground and become unconscious."
Initially, Maybury had told the court he was not guilty of two counts of assault by beating.
However, he changed his plea last month, and told magistrates he was "sorry" for the attack. "There has been a mistake made here," he said. "No one deserves what I did. I acted prematurely to the situation and I'm sorry about it."


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Dell isn't exactly known for its cutting-edge fashion, but it's definitely creating a buzz for the New Year with its "Crystal LCD" monitor. To look at the flash ad on Dell's site, you'd think it was a new Mercedes that was being rolled out.
First impressions seem to be somewhat mixed, as Boing Boing and others have criticized this museum piece as being all about show and short on specs, notably its size and resolution (22 inches, 1,680x1,050). And Dell is baiting the detractors by adorning it with a price tag of $1,199--which, as Gizmodo notes, is $899 more than the company's other LCDs with similar technicals.
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The Officer Bryan Hebert Memorial Foundation is raising funds for scholarships and scouting projects, and raffle tickets for a unique commemorative item are on sale now.
"Of all the novel things you can raffle, this is pretty neat," the nonprofit's founder Sgt. Bobby Anderson said of the queen-sized Memory Quilt drawing prize. "It's made from different police officers' shirts. The quilters took the shirts and made them into patches for the quilt. It's amazing."
Jacob Davis' Eagle Scout project was more than just a chore for the 16-year-old Beaumont teen. He completed the wheelchair accessible planter's box not only for Calder Woods residents to enjoy, but also in hopes of stimulating his grandfather's memories of working in his garden when he lived at home.
Residents at a Beaumont nursing home are enjoying the outdoors under a brand new gazebo, thanks to the hard work of a local Eagle Scout and his friends.
For his Eagle Scout Service Leadership Project, 17-year-old Caleb Long and a team of volunteers recently completed construction on the new addition at College Street Health Care, a non-profit retirement facility in Beaumont.
What does it mean to be a Boy Scout? Is it merely rules, merit badges and campfire songs, or is it more? Daniel Carter Beard, one of the first national scout commissioners of the Boy Scouts of America, once said, "We must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the men of the future."
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Southeast Texas has yet another Eagle Scout, and this one is helping his local first responders meet the challenges of rural county living.
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Caleb Hughes, 16, of Beaumont's Troop 117 at Trinity United Methodist Church, built the three benches with the help of his stonemason grandfather, Conroy Hughes Jr., and said the project was a much-needed addition to the park, which was badly damaged after Hurricane Ike.
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Getting Torque To Work
Although Torque is a great tool and remarkably effective once you get it going, many people have trouble setting it up. The documentation seems particularly weak in this area (possibly because there are so many different databases, drivers, and parameters to consider.)
This document is an attempt to help people figure out what's going wrong with their setup by listing the problems and solutions that other people have had.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!! If you have had problems setting up Torque and solved them, add your experiences to the list. The more people who contribute, the better the document!
Getting Torque to generate the schema and object files
This is a listing of the typical problems people have trying to get Torque to generate their object files and schema files.
- My problem was that I couldn't generate the java source code by running ant -f build-torque.xml. Everything else was working perfect, I got no error messages from Ant, sql code was generated and I could run that to generate my mysql database and tables and everything else. My mistake was that I wasn't setting the right name for my database schema xml file. If the project name in build.properties is "pitchers" ("torque.project = pitchers"), the schema xml file (in the schema folder) needs to be named as "pitchers-schema.xml" i.e in the format "project-schema.xml"
Might be a dumb mistake but that's what it was.
-- Vikas
Another note on this issue: I was working from a database to XML, and was confused by the fact that when a schema is generated by from an existing database it is called schema.xml rather than xxx-schema.xml. It took me ages to work out that i had to rename to schema.xml to xxx-schema.xml, but after I had the .java files were generated correctly. Maybe the solution to this confusion is to have turbine issue a helpful warning message when it finds schema.xml but not xxx-schema.xml?
-- StuartYeates
1#2. My problem turned out to be fairly simple to fix. When I was browsing the site I didn't find any references to what column types were allowed. I mistakenly put LONG and BOOLEAN in. This causes the build to fail without any information on what went wrong or where. After I changed my types to BIGINT and BIT everything worked correctly. Refer to the DTD for the available data types.
Hope this helps
Pete's tip is the solution when you get "Exception thrown by 'generator.parse'" errors from ant.
When I got errors about @DATABASE_DEFAULT@ from ant create-db, I found that changing that string in id-table-schema.xml to the name the database listed in my schema made things run smoother. Notably fixing "Unknown database" errors from create-db.
This is somewhat related to the problem encountered by Pete. Received a 'generator.parse' error using the default target from Ant.
The problem turned out to be from a datatype in the source Oracle schema. Used the torque 'jdbc' task and the resulting xxx-schema.xml file had an empty type attribute for any columns which were defined as Timestamps in the source Oracle schema. Modified the original ddl to change all Oracle 'Timestamp' columns over to the type 'Date'. Once I rebuilt the schema in Oracle, re-ran the torque jdbc task, torque's default (main) task worked fine.
-- Kyong Park (2004-04-27)
I also recieved an "Exception thrown by 'generator.parse'" error when using the Torque Maven plugin. This was fixed by specifying torque.useClasspath = false in my properties file.
-- Pål Brattberg (2004-06-06)
I'm using postgresql 8.0. Getting table definitions only worked for me after adding 'torque.database.schema = %' to the build.properties file.
-- seb
When using PostgreSQL the jdbc-target creates a schema.xml-File which reads "<database name="postgres">" - this is the user that connected to the database and therefore wrong. To have working java-Files generated later on, this entry needs to be changed manually to your database name.
-- StefanGaffga
another hint
If you get an error like:
[torque-sql] Couldn't read DTD specified in XML schema: db.apache.org [torque-sql] java.net.MalformedURLException
check in your conf files the Doctypes. <!DOCTYPE database SYSTEM "http://db.apache.org/torque/dtd/database_3_1.dtd">
-- knex
MS SQL Server insert-sql errors
If you're using the Microsoft SQL drivers, you must make sure all 3 .JAR files have their .jar extension in lowercase before putting them into the /lib folder. When you install the drivers, 2 of them are in uppercase by default. ANT only includes lowercase .jar files, leading to a ClassDefNotFound Exception when running the insert-sql task.
-- BarnyRelph
Torque tells you "IdGenerator for table 'xxx' is null"
After creating a Database-Scheme and successfully compiling the sources and creating the tables, i got the mentioned Error-Message. I spent a lot of time to find out what went wrong. The Sequences were created (i'm using an oracle Database) and everything seems to be fine. I put the word "native" in every place where it could make sense to force the engine to use my sequences but always the same Exception appeared.
'Solution:' You have to set the "adapter"-value for you Database-Connection. Otherwise the Engine does not know how to receive the PK. (If you use IDBROKER-Method in your scheme, you do not need this "adapter"-entry, but how to know, that you NEED this entry, if you do not use the ID-Table :-/ )
torque.database.default=survey_db torque.database.survey_db.adapter=oracle
-- SyncMaster
This error may also occur if Torque is initialized twice for any reason. The solution for this is to ask Torque if it is already initialized via Torque.isInit() before initializing Torque.
-- Thomas Fischer
Also check to see that you in fact are using a valid value for idMethod in your schema.xml file. One example is using 'idBroker' instead of 'idbroker'.
-- Thierry Lach
Getting a Torque application to run from the command line
This is a listing of the typical problems people have trying to get their first Torque Application to run.
When you're using ant 1.4.1 you'll have this error when trying to execute jdbc ant task.
Error "Could not create task of type: torque-jdbc-transform" ant -f build-torque.xml jdbc Buildfile: build-torque.xml jdbc: ["echo"] +-----------------------------------------------+ ["echo"] | | ["echo"] | Generating XML from JDBC connection ! | ["echo"] | Woo hoo! | ["echo"] | | ["echo"] +-----------------------------------------------+ BUILD FAILED ..../build-torque.xml:351: Could not create task of type: torque-jdbc-transform due to java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/apache/torque/task/TorqueJDBCTransformTask, method: generateXML signature: ()V) Incompatible object argument for function call Total time: 1 second
Typical eror when using torque with Ant 1.4.1. You need Ant 1.5.1 to use torque.
I am currently using Ant 1.6.1 and am getting this error for the custom task. Soft option is to comment out the task declaration in the build-torque.xml file, but I haven't yet determined the ultimate effects of this (java and sql generates OK and create-db target runs OK so far). Will post fix here if I find it.
Getting Torque to run within a web-server
This section deals with the trials and tribulations of getting your web-applications Torque-enabled.
There are several steps to help check that Torque is setup correctly with your web-application, before you start testing Criteria, Peers, etc.
Make sure that you can run the Torque sample applications from the command line. MANY PEOPLE FAIL THIS STEP.
- If you fail this step, you need to review the item on getting Torque to run on the command line. (Usually, there's a problem in the Torque.properties file, or libraries are missing, or something.)
- Write a very simple JSP file that contains a small scriplet that prints the results of "Torque.isInit()" Make sure it's true.
- If this step fails, you need to check a number of things:
Make sure you are initializing Torque - many people make a TorqueInitServlet and call Torque.init() when the Servlet starts.
Make sure the webserver can find the Torque.properties file. Usually this means specify an absolute path to the file Because of the way many webservers start up, you can't guarantee what the starting directory is for the webserver. Thus, local paths to the file often fail.
- Make sure that you've included your database driver in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
- Make sure that you've included the appropriate Torque libraries in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
- If this step fails, you need to check a number of things:
Getting Torque to run within a Junit test
This section deals with the trials and tribulations of getting your unit tests to work with Torque.
I have a base TorqueTestCase that I extend all of my test cases that use torque. I use this for any junit based tests I run. Although I have found that running Cactus style in-container tests works better for me over the long run where the container starts Torque up, but this will help you write tests if you are not in a webapp:
Create a class looking like this:
public class TorqueTestCase extends TestCase { public final static String TORQUE_PROPS = new String( "c:/fortius/src/test/conf/Torque.properties" ); private static Category log = Category.getInstance( BaseTestCase.class.getName() ); /** * Constructor for the AntTaskRunnerTest object * *@param name Description of Parameter */ public TorqueTestCase ( String name ) { super( name ); if ( !Torque.isInit() ) { log.debug( "Now starting Torque with path:" + TORQUE_PROPS ); try { Torque.init( TORQUE_PROPS ); } catch ( org.apache.torque.TorqueException te ) { log.error( "Could not start Torque!" ); fail( te.toString() ); } } }
Now, admittedly the torque.props is hardcoded, but this should get you started. Just make sure all your constructors do call the super(name) method!
-- EricPugh
Using Torque with multiple databases
This section deals with the trials and tribulations of using multiple databases with Torque.
By 'multiple databases', I mean the use case where there are (conceivably) multiple distinct database engines, each of which hosts one or more databases, all or many of which have distinct schema. We wish to access multiple databases from this environment from within a particular JVM/classloader/class, during a single run of the program. This tortured description brought to you in hopes of being very clear on what this HOWTO is for. Thanks to B. Yu for pointing out a possibile ambiguity. [I have removed his note as I believe it could be confusing, no insult intended!]
It's fairly easy to get multiple databases working. The following examples assume you are using JNDI, since it's what I know best, but the differences are restricted to the torque.properties file. Start off by choosing a handle name for each of the databases to which you will connect. In this example there will be two databases, with handles dbA and dbB. Do the following:
In the schema file for dbA, the <database> element must have a name attribute with value dbA. Likewise for the dbB schema file. When the object model files are generated (by ant -f build.properties om), the name will be hard-coded in them, and cannot be overriden.
- In the torque.properties file, create an adapter for each of your databases:
torque.database.dbA.adapter=mysql torque.dsfactory.dbA.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.JndiDataSourceFactory torque.dsfactory.dbA.jndi.path=java:comp/env/jdbc/dbA torque.database.dbB.adapter=mysql torque.dsfactory.dbB.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.JndiDataSourceFactory torque.dsfactory.dbB.jndi.path=java:comp/env/jdbc/dbB
- [Note: your JNDI path may be different!]
The key point here is the handle, emphasized in torque.database.dbA.adapter=mysql. The torque.properties file handles and the handles in the schema files must correspond. This is the a fundamental issue with getting multiple databases working with Torque.
Every use of the database in the code must reference a handle [this is a simplification, there is a default handle, and rules for automatic creation of a default handle, but... let's not go there]. Here is an example:
Criteria criteria = new Criteria("dbA"); criteria.add(SomePeer.SOME_FIELD, "some value"); SomePeer.doDelete(criteria);
-- Gary Shea
Installing from CVS
See: Building
Some further hints:
- When you install Maven, don't forget to set the environment variable MAVEN_HOME to the appropriate directory and to add the maven binary directory to the environment variable PATH.
If/when Maven complains about not being able to download jdbc-2.0.jar and jndi-1.2.1.jar you will need to download these manually and install them in your local Maven repository due to licensing. jdbc-2.0 is available at http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/download.html under the file name jdbc2_0-stdext.jar (click on the download link for JDBC 2.0 Optional Package Binary to get it). Download it, rename it to jdbc-2.0.jar and put it into the .maven/repository/jdbc/jars in your home directory. jndi-1_2_1.zip is available from http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/downloads/ (click the download link for Download JNDI 1.2.1 & More to get to it) - copy the file lib/jndi.jar into the directory .maven/repository/jndi/jars in your home diretory and rename it to jndi-1.2.1.jar. Do same for other jars.
-- Thomas Fischer (with major edits by ScottEade)
Using Torque with an existing database schema
- Verify that the JDBC driver and connection string is working - this can be easily done using SQL Squirrel since it is a pure JDBC client. If you can connect to your database, browse through your tables and view the JDBC metadata everything is fine. BTW SQL Squirrel also shows the JDBC class being used (saves you some digging through the docs)
- Set the Torque.properties with settings from 1. and run the 'jdbc' target to create a schema.xml
- It is time to look at the schema.xml since Torque might be confused about unknown column types and default values using proprietary SQL functions.
A good idea is to consider using complex object types by setting <database defaultJavaType="object">. This allows NULLable values within your Torque generated classes.
- Now it is time to run the 'om' and 'compile' target with the update schema.xml to generate the database layer and check if it really compiles
- As a final step you can create HTML documentation using the 'doc' target
-- Siegfried Goeschl
Maven, Torque and the torque:jdbc goal
If have spent some time trying to get maven to work with torque:jdbc and there seems to be little doco on either (at least for a complete maven and torque novice). So here are the steps I used to get it working with Microsoft SQLServer.
- Install an appropriate Java SDK
- Add the Java SDK bin directory to your path variable so that you can type 'java' at the command prompt and it successfully starts.
- Install Maven
- Add the Maven bin directory to your path variable so that you can type 'maven' at the command prompt and it successfully starts.
Use Maven to install the torque plugin as follows: (check the [Maven-howto for the latest details on this|http://db.apache.org/torque/maven-howto.html])
maven plugin:download -DartifactId=maven-torque-plugin -DgroupId=torque -Dversion=3.1.1
- Create yourself a project directory (this can be anywhere you like).
- In your project directory create a project.properties file as follows:
# ------------------------------------------------------------------- # # T O R Q U E S E T T I N G S # # ------------------------------------------------------------------- torque.project = MyDatabase torque.database = mssql torque.database.createUrl = jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433 torque.database.buildUrl = jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=MyDatabase torque.database.url = jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=MyDatabase torque.database.driver = com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver torque.database.user = dbusername torque.database.password = dbpassword torque.database.host = localhost torque.database.schema = %
Note the schema setting may be different for different database types as a hint the following java call is made to return tables
tableNames = conn.getMetaData().getTables(null, schema, "%", types);
Where schema is taken from the torque.database.schema settings in the project.properties files. If when you get to the generation step and it appears to works but you have a schema.xml file which contains no tables then its probably because the schema setting is wrong.
- create a src directory under your project directory
- create a schema directory under the src directory you just created.
- Obtain the jars for your chosen databases' jdbc library. e.g. for SQL Server you need msutil.jar, msbase.jar and mssqlserver.jar
- I had a real problem injecting these jars into the classpath, all of the normal techniques don't work with maven. I have found some doc which says to add the jars to the torque project.xml dependancies but I was unable to get this method to work and as soon as you update (re-install) the torque plugin you loose your dependancies. So the hack I came up with is to copy the database jdbc jars into the maven install. Under the maven installation directory (as of maven 1.0.2) you will find a lib\endorsed directory. Just copy your database jars into there and all will be well.
- run maven torque:jdbc at the command prompt making sure that your current working directory is your project directory.
- You should seem something similar to :
C:\dev\torque>maven torque:jdbc __ __ | \/ |__ _Apache__ ___ | |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~ |_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0.2 build:start: torque:init: torque:jdbc: [torque-jdbc-transform] Torque - JDBCToXMLSchema starting [torque-jdbc-transform] Your DB settings are: [torque-jdbc-transform] driver : com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver [torque-jdbc-transform] URL : jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=MyDatabase [torque-jdbc-transform] user : dbusername [torque-jdbc-transform] schema : % [torque-jdbc-transform] DB driver sucessfuly instantiated [torque-jdbc-transform] DB connection established [torque-jdbc-transform] Getting table list... [torque-jdbc-transform] Building column/table map... [torque-jdbc-transform] Processing table: dtproperties ... you should see each table and view in your database listed here ... [torque-jdbc-transform] Processing table: tblAccount [torque-jdbc-transform] Processing table: tblAllocation [torque-jdbc-transform] Processing table: vwWatchList [torque-jdbc-transform] C:\dev\torque/src/schema/schema.xml [torque-jdbc-transform] Torque - JDBCToXMLSchema finished BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 16 seconds Finished at: Sat Feb 05 06:47:00 EST 2005
- At the end of the above process you torque should have created a schema.xml under your project directory src/schema/
- Check the schema.xml actually contains your databases tables. If not check the torque.database.schema setting in your project.properties file.
Rename the schema.xml to MyDatabase-schema.xml where MyDatabase is the value you entered in your project.properties file 'torque.project = '. This is required as all other torque goals (e.g. maven torque:datadump) require the schema.xml to follow the above naming convention (how dumb is that!).
Hope this helps.
Errors during compile of Base objects
If you have database columns with names that are java key words your compile will fail. Torque does not check for this in v3.1.1 and it will attempt to make java classes with properties names like class abstract public private . See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/_keywords.html for a list of keywords. Those keywords are some rather seductive names for columns. Your options are to change your database column names from something like class to someprefix_class or to use the torque's javaName attribute in your schema.xml {{{<table name="classes">
<column name="class" javaName="vClass" size="120" type="VARCHAR"/>}}}
Using ant to build 3.1.1
Here are some hints for UsingAntForV311
a great hands on tutorial at http://users.volja.net/amanita1/
PROBLEM: jdbc (generate XML schema) task runs to completion, no errors but no tables are in the generated schema.xml ENVIRONMENT: hsqlDB 1.7.2 and Torque GEN 3.2-rc1
Sample trace when problem exists:
[torque-jdbc-transform] Torque - JDBCToXMLSchema starting [torque-jdbc-transform] Your DB settings are: [torque-jdbc-transform] driver : org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver [torque-jdbc-transform] URL : jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:1701/ [torque-jdbc-transform] user : sa [torque-jdbc-transform] schema : ${torque.database.schema} [torque-jdbc-transform] DB driver sucessfuly instantiated
The clue is the schema name. HSQLDB 1.7.2 and earlier apparently does not support schemas and the property file delivered with Torque has torque.database.schema commented out. I guess Torque finds no tables in some unknown schema and exits.
Place empty assigment for the schema name into build.properties as such:
torque.database.schema =
That works!
Creating tables for an MS SQL database
If you try to use the command 'maven torque:create-db' to generate your database and tables using MS SQL, you will get an error saying:
[torque-data-model] Using classpath [torque-data-model] Generating to file D:\Downloads\mytorquetest\target\sql\create-db.sql [echo]
- Executing the create-db.sql script ...
[sql] Executing file: D:\Downloads\mytorquetest\target\sql\create-db.sql [sql] [ERROR] Failed to execute: ECHO Not implemented [sql] [ERROR] java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for JDBC][SQLServer]Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'Not'. [sql] 0 of 1 SQL statements executed successfully
Don't worry if you get this error, the way around it is to manually create the database and then use the command 'maven torque:insert-sql' to create your tables
Received exception inserting new object - "inserting null value in not-null primary key column"
When I tried to create my first Torque project (other than the tutorial), I got a really wierd error trying to save a new Biller object. Torque complained that it was trying to insert a null "biller id" (the primary key for the object) when it ran the insert.
The problem was that I had copied some of the XML from the tutorial (bookstore) and in particular had the xml that read "<database name='bookstore'..." at the top. Since my database name was actually "billers" (and was referenced like that in my Torque.properties), it caused the problem. Once I changed the name of the database to be the correct one, it went away.


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