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Looking for the best stylish mens winter boots to try? We rounded up our top picks based on skin type, coverage range, texture, and even price..
Top 10 Stylish Mens Winter Boots Review and Comparison
SaleBestseller No. 1
Kamik Men's Nationplus Snow Boot,Dark Brown,12 M US
- Seam sealed waterproof
- Synthetic rubber shell
- 200B Thinsulate insulation
- Rustproof speed lacing system
- Moisture wicking lining
Bestseller No. 2
Kamik Men's Hunter-M Snow Boot Black 10 M US
- Waterproof knee-high boot with -40-degree Fahrenheit temperature rating featuring removable 8mm thermal-guard liner and adjustable snow collar
- Kamik
- Black
Bestseller No. 3
L&M Men's Winter Snow Boots Shoes Waterproof Insulated 2008 (9, Black 2008)
- ✅Premium 100% Water Repellant Upper Nylon Waterproof Outer Sole Snow Boots
- ✅Shaft Measures Approximately 11" From Arch Snow Boots
- ✅Easy Pull On With Both a Drawstring & Ankle Velcro Strap
- ✅Perfect For All Outdoor Winter Snow Activities Snow Boots
- ✅-Wonderful Day -Ships From USA- is the ONLY EXCLUSIVE seller for this product listing。
SaleBestseller No. 4
Columbia Men's Bugaboot Plus IV Omni-Heat Mid Calf Boot, Black, Phoenix Blue, 10.5
- Techlite lightweight midsole for long lasting comfort, superior cushioning, and high energy return
- Combination of leather, nylon, webbing and metal hardware. Techlite shell. Waterproof seam-sealed construction. Omni-Heat reflective lining. 200g insulation. Rated -25F/-32C
- Michelin WINTER COMPOUND. Cold Temperature firm grip to -30 DegreeC/-22 DegreeF. Anti-slip rubber, good abrasion resistance.
SaleBestseller No. 5
Sorel Men's Conquest Snow Boot, Bark, 13 M US
- Rated to -40 degrees F
- Waterproof leather
- 400g Thinsulate Ultra insulation
- Built-in gaiter bootie with bungee drawstring and barrel-lock enclosure for deep snow
Bestseller No. 6
LABO Men's Brown10" Winter Snow Hunting Boots Shoes Waterproof Insulated 108 BROWN-11
- Leather
- Waterproof
- Heel Height: 10 INCH
- Rubber sole
SaleBestseller No. 7
Timberland White Ledge Men's Waterproof Boot,Dark Brown,10 M US
- Our White Ledge Men's Hiking Boots have premium full-grain waterproof leather uppers, seam-sealed waterproof construction, and rustproof speed lace hardware with hooks at top for secure lacing.
- LOOK NO FURTHER for trail-ready performance and style. Our selection of men's hiking boots, waterproof hiking boots, casual boots, and casual shoes is designed to fit in with your outdoor-ready ensembles.
- TIMBERLAND HAS YOU COVERED whether you're looking for men's boots, women's boots, or kids boots. For the best in hiking boots, rain boots, work boots, casual shoes & boots & more, choose Timberland.
- WHAT YOU NEED IN THE OUTDOORS: Timberland has the gear you need for all your outdoor adventures, including jackets and coats for outdoor activities, backpacks and luggage & outdoor accessories.
- THE BEST IN OUTDOORS: Trust Timberland's line of high-quality men's, women's, and kids boots. hiking boots, outdoor gear, and activewear for all your activities from the trail to the sea to the streets.
Bestseller No. 8
Columbia Men's Newton Ridge Plus II Waterproof Hiking Boot, Black/Black, 9.5 D US
- ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY: This Columbia Men's Newton Ridge Plus II Waterproof hiking boot features Techlite lightweight midsole for long lasting comfort, superior cushioning, and high energy return as well as Omni-Grip advanced traction rubber sole for slip-free movement.
- HANDY FEATURES: This men's hiking boot is crafted of a waterproof full-grain leather and suede lightweight construction as well as a durable mesh tongue for breathability and comfort during treacherous days out on the trail or on the mountain.
- ADJUSTABLE FEATURES: The Newton Ridge Plus Waterproof II hiking boot features a lace-up closure for an adjustable, secure fit.
- DURABILITY: This men's waterproof hiking boot is lightweight and durable.
- This Columbia Men's Newton Ridge Plus II Waterproof hiking boot is the perfect waterproof addition to a treacherous day out on the trail or up the mountain.
Bestseller No. 9
DREAM PAIRS Men's Force-1 Black Insulated Waterproof Winter Snow Boots Size 12 M US
- Durable Rubber outsole with multi-directional lugs for traction on varied FORCE
- Cold-weather boot featuring waterproof shell bottom unit, 200g Thermolite insulation rated to -25F
- Cushioned EVA footbed for supportive comfort. All-weather protection and a toasty layer of insulation.
- Premium Water Proof Upper, Oil and Slip Resistant.
- Measurements: Heel Height: 1 in, Platform 0.75 in, Circumference: 13 in, Shaft: 6 in.
Bestseller No. 10
Quicksilk Denoise NY Men's Waterproof Snow Boots Hiking Boot (9 D(M) US, Light Gray)
- Faux Leather
- Rubber sole
- Padded collar for added comfort
- Lace-up front
- Wide Fit
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The diesel engine has been around since 1893, the Mini Cooper S arrived in 1963. Now the two are in a May-December romance for the ages. It's called the Mini Cooper SD. But will anyone understand their special love?
By way of its 2.0-liter common-rail turbodiesel, the Mini Cooper SD gets a 60 percent power bump over the base-model Mini One D and 28 percent over the Mini Cooper D. That's 143 hp and a relatively massive 225 lb/ft of torque. Nonetheless, 0-62 mph happens in a second later than a gas-fired Cooper S, at 8.1 seconds. Top speed is a London traffic-camera-triggering 134 mph. Efficiency buffs will happily regard Mini's hybrid-like MINIMALISM features that include brake energy generation and auto start/stop.
Mini's offering the SD experience in all of its UK models: hatch, Clubman, Countryman and Countryman All4. Woefully, like most diesels, the SD is strictly a non-US model. Sad Day.

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Funniest Instagram DM Memes
Just in time for the holidays, Instagram updated with a new direct messaging function.
With this new function you have the ability to share pictures and videos with anyone privately. With less than a half hour minute into it's drop, memes surfaced on timelines across the board, making it known that only creepers will benefit with this function. Hide your girls and check your men because relationships will be tested and friendships may be violated.
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CARROLLTON, Ga. - A four-run sixth inning erased an early deficit and paved the way for the Georgia Southwestern baseball team's 5-3 win at West Georgia on Wednesday evening.
The Hurricanes improve to 7-19 after putting back-to-back wins together for the first time this season. West Georgia falls to 12-18.
The Wolves struck first in the ballgame when JoJo Underwood singled home Shaquille Jackson in the third inning. UWG pushed across two more runs in the fourth to open its lead to 3-0.
GSW was held to three hits through the first five innings, but things changed in the sixth. Josh Sanders opened the frame with a single to center field. After a pair of UWG errors and an infield pop out, Neal Chambless drove in the first Hurricane run with a single through the right side. Corey Benson followed with a RBI single through the left side and two runs scored on the next at bat when Les Cromer reached first on an infield single that drew a throwing error to advance the runners.
Stephen Eldridge added an insurance run in the seventh inning when his single to left brought home Evan Alderman.
GSW relief pitcher Zach Smith (1-3) picked up the win after closing the game with 4 2/3 scoreless innings. Smith held UWG to one hit and struck out four. Hurricane starter Earl Dupree threw the opening 4 1/3 innings and allowed three runs - two earned - while walking two and striking out a batter.
UWG starter Chris Burdette (0-2) took the loss after being charged with four unearned runs in 5 2/3 innings on the hill. GSW collected six hits off Burdette. He walked three and struck out three. Ashley Claxton and A.J. Sunstrom covered the final 3 1/3 innings for the Wolves.
Cromer led the Hurricanes at the plate with a three-hit night. Eldridge and Benson added two hits apiece.
Underwood was the only UWG batter to finish with multiple hits. He went 3-for-4.
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From diversity to inclusion
Move from compliance to diversity as a business strategyMarch 7, 2014
The world has become highly diverse, but many companies have not—especially when it comes to combining diversity with the inclusive culture needed to truly drive value.
In 2014, promoting diversity is an expected commitment; like workforce safety, it's now a ticket to play. And while unwavering support is claimed, far fewer organizations can talk to the benefits of diversity beyond the attraction of talent and reputation. Why is that? Surely a focus on diversity is the way to uncover and optimize talent? Is it focus, effort, a failure to move diversity from the fringe to the center, or level of difficulty?
One clear factor, according to our global survey, is that only one company in five (20 percent) believes it is fully "ready" to address this issue. The gap between the urgency of this trend and companies' readiness to address it is particularly wide in Japan, South Africa, and China (figure 1).
Why are so many companies falling short? One view is that many companies still treat diversity primarily as a matter of compliance—a regulatory box to be checked. Not enough organizations take the next essential steps of creating a work environment that promotes inclusion in all its variations. Taking a step back from individual organizations to a more country-based analysis, we can see that most countries do not have a strong sense of readiness and most hover around a medium sense of urgency.
Using this lens, we see two major themes emerging that can help companies transition from simply meeting minimum regulatory requirements for diversity to building an inclusive workplace that inspires all employees to perform at their highest level:
- Diversity of thinking as a business imperative
- A focus on inclusion as well as diversity itself
Diversity of thinking as a business imperative
Organizations can start by broadening their understanding of diversity to focus not only on the visible aspects of diversity, such as race, gender, age, and physical ability, but also diversity of thinking. This means deriving value from people's different perspectives on problems and different ways to address solutions. It's a complex world, it's a global world, and maximal participation is required from every workplace participant from the bottom to the top. Thinking of diversity in this way helps organizations to see value and to be conscious of the risk associated with homogeneity, especially in senior decision makers. And this means that diversity is no longer a "program" to be managed—it is a business imperative.
Uncovering talent: A new model of inclusion3
An importance advance in thinking about inclusion is the recent work on "uncovering talent" from Kenji Yoshino, at NYU Law School, and Christie Smith, the head of Deloitte University's Leadership Center for Inclusion. Their research suggests that current inclusion initiatives often implement formal inclusion (that is, "participation") without recognizing how that inclusion is predicated on assimilation. In response to pressures to assimilate, individuals downplay their differences. This behavior is referred to as "covering" and can include how individuals behave along four dimensions:
- Appearance: Individuals may blend into the mainstream through their self-presentation, including grooming, attire, and mannerisms.
- Affiliation: Individuals may avoid behaviors widely associated with their identity, culture, or group.
- Advocacy: Individuals may avoid engaging in advocacy on behalf of their group.
- Association: Individuals may avoid associating with individuals in their own group.4
Yoshino and Smith's research reports that covering behaviors are widespread, costly to individuals and their organizations, and often misaligned with values of inclusion. Organizations should be interested in covering not because they are "playing defense" against lawsuits, but because they are "playing offense" to create a more inclusive culture over and above legal compliance. Most Fortune 500 companies are seeking to create that kind of culture.
Linking diversity of thinking and inclusion
Bringing these two themes together—diversity of thinking and inclusion—we suggest that organizations consider the importance of diversity when it comes to meeting specific business objectives:
- Accessing top talent: Companies should recruit top people from a globally diverse workforce. The importance of leadership pipelines, the No. 1 priority in our global trends survey, underscores the importance of broadening leadership pipelines and accelerating the development of diverse leaders. Given the transparency of the employment "brand" today, in order to attract the best people, organizations must create a diverse workplace. When candidates research a prospective employer online, interact as customers, or interview with the company, they have to feel as if they would "fit" into the work environment.
- Driving performance and innovation: A significant body of research shows that diverse teams are more innovative and perform at higher levels.5 Companies that build diversity and inclusion into their teams reap the benefits of new ideas, more debate and, ultimately, better business decisions.
- Retaining key employees: One reason people leave organizations is that they feel they no longer "belong." Or perhaps they feel they will "belong" and thrive in another organization that appreciates their unique value. A company that fails to create a diverse and inclusive workplace risks alienating or excluding key employees, who are then more likely to disengage or eventually leave the organization.
- Understanding customers: There's a thin line between customers and employees, with current and former employees purchasing their companies' products and services, acting as advocates, and sensing customer needs. How better to understand and respond to diverse customer needs than by tapping into diverse employees? From where we sit, this is one of the most significant gaps in the diversity story, with the breadth of ideas and experiences from a more diverse front line falling by the wayside as decisions are made by more distant, homogenous teams that sometimes fail to fully include diverse perspectives. In a broad range of industries—including retail, hospitality, food service, oil and gas, insurance, and even banking—a diverse workforce creates opportunities to appeal to a more diverse customer base.6
Diversity is the measure: Inclusion is the mechanism
What this all adds up to is that high-performing organizations recognize that the aim of diversity is not just meeting compliance targets, but tapping into the diverse perspectives and approaches each individual employee brings to the workplace. Moving beyond diversity to focus on inclusion as well requires companies to examine how fully the organization embraces new ideas, accommodates different styles of thinking (such as whether a person is an introvert or an extrovert), creates a more flexible work environment, enables people to connect and collaborate, and encourages different types of leaders.
While nearly one-quarter of executives (23 percent) believe their companies have done an "excellent" job creating a culture of inclusiveness, and defining what it means (24 percent), the overwhelming majority rate their effort as "adequate" or "weak." Clearly, there is much more to be done to turn the vision of diversity and inclusion into a daily reality (figure 2). Much more than a focus on programs, this effort needs to focus on cultural change: behaviors, systems and symbols, and an explicit understanding of the extent and causes of "covering" in organizations.
Research by Deloitte Australia shows that high-performing organizations are characterized by their commitment to diversity and a culture of inclusion. In the areas of customer service, innovation, safety, and more, the message from employees is the same: Organizations that support diversity and that also make employees feel included are much more likely to meet business goals than those organizations that focus on diversity and inclusion in isolation (or focus on neither).7 The question is, how do you get there?
One essential component of building a strategy of inclusion is recognizing the biases in the way each of us receives and processes information and the historical biases in our systems of work.8 Addressing these processing biases is critical because leaders—as they themselves feel high levels of inclusion—often do not understand levels of alienation in an organization. Given the critical importance of retention in our survey, inclusion becomes a key strategy for success.
Lessons from the front lines
BHP Billiton's marketing division was highly diverse in terms of gender and ethnicity in non-executive positions, but there was a demographic mismatch between the global talent pool and the company's senior team.9
Mike Henry, the president of health, safety, environment, and community, marketing, and technology, observed this misalignment. He concluded that the only reasonable explanation was an unconscious bias within the organization and a tendency to do things as they had always been done—particularly the fact that leading talent was primarily sourced from BHP Billiton's traditional hiring bases in Australia, the United Kingdom, North America, South Africa, and the Netherlands.
Following the closure of BHP Billiton's marketing office in The Hague—a traditional hub for recruiting and developing marketing executives—Henry decided to take action to prevent narrowing the leadership pipeline even further.
With strong support from the CEO, Henry began seeking out broad-based leadership engagement and took steps to understand BHP's unconscious biases. He led by example, taking the Harvard Implicit Association Test and sharing the results with his team. He aimed to prove his commitment to diversity and inclusion and show that he could only mitigate his own unconscious biases by being aware of them first.
Next, Henry had BHP Billiton's marketing organization conduct an inclusive leadership program for its top 150 leaders, which included measuring perceptions on diversity and inclusion. The program involved interactive workshops, storytelling, videos, self-paced activities, homework, coaching, and reading, all designed to help leaders shift their mindsets and behaviors. And it broadened the conversation from one about diversity to one about diversity and inclusion, from demographics to diversity of thinking, and from compliance to business imperative. To help take this from a program to a sustained focus of attention, Henry appointed a full-time diversity and inclusion manager to implement change. During a time of downsizing, this was a potent symbol of the value he placed on diversity and inclusion.
These steps yielded several notable results. Nine months after the first leadership intervention, 88–94 percent of leaders reported that they understood what they needed to do, that they had changed their behaviors, and that they knew they were accountable for change. Critically, 72–76 percent of staff agreed that their leaders were behaving differently—that is, more respectfully and inclusively—and that their teams were now more collaborative. In 2013, the program was expanded to include all leaders and all staff, which was a huge investment of time and energy. Mindsets have shifted, and while employee statistics have been slow to change, the 2013 results of BHP Billiton's marketing organization's annual "inclusion index" diagnostic reveal that representation of women and talent from outside the companies' traditional hiring bases has increased at leadership levels—a trend that has continued year on year since the first diagnostic was run in 2011.
Where companies can start
Many organizations have not put enough effort into understanding what makes people feel included. Do employees feel they are known and valued as individuals? Are they well-connected to other people in the organization? Are they given a voice in decision making? Is there an understanding of the types and extent of covering in the organization (appearance, affiliation, advocacy, association)? In addition to examining these fundamental questions, companies looking to build a more inclusive workplace should consider the following steps:10
- Create inclusion labs to help educate leaders about unconscious bias and covering behaviors: Encourage leaders to honor other people's opinions and promote constructive debate. Understand covering biases and behaviors and approaches to changing them. Leadership drives inclusion; the process should start at the top.
- Embed diversity and inclusion in leadership pipelines and programs: Include the diversity and inclusion initiative in leadership development programs, new manager programs, and talent acquisition programs. Give particular focus to supporting diversity of thinking—for instance, by selecting people from diverse backgrounds for leadership development.
- Conduct a gap analysis of talent systems and processes: How is the principle of merit-based decision making transparently embedded into systems, from recruitment, remuneration, and training to career development opportunities and succession? Review the outputs of these decisions in terms of equity, such as via a pay equity audit.
- Develop a diversity and inclusion scorecard and measure business impact: Hold leaders and managers accountable and identify outliers in the diversity and inclusion initiative.
- Install governance and resource the effort appropriately: Create a council with representatives from different parts of the business that is properly resourced to be a change agent.
Originally published at Deloitte Insights


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How to Decorate Your Thanksgiving Table with Homemade Tablecloths
Tablecloths are an inexpensive item to create for holiday decorating. Table coverings add a decorative flair and protect tables, mask ugly scars, or hide unsightly plastic card tables that are used for additional serving stations or seating.
Consider using golds, browns, and oranges for Thanksgiving. Or if you prefer patterns, remember that Thanksgiving celebrates the bounty of Nature.
Round tablecloths for holiday decorating
Measure the diameter and height of your table and then use the measurement guide shown here to determine how much fabric you need.
If the diameter of your tabletop differs from the sizes listed in the chart, take your table measurements with you to the fabric store. The salesperson there can help you calculate how much fabric you need.
|Table Diameter
|Yardage Amount for a 10-inch Drop (45- inch-wide fabric)
|Yardage Amount for 10-inch Drop (54-inch- wide fabric)
|Trim Amount for a 10-inch Drop
|Yardage Amount for a 30-inch Drop (45- or 54-inch-wide
|Trim Amount for a 30-inch Drop
|30 in.
|2-7/8 yards
|1-1/2 yards
|4-1/2 yards
|5 yards
|8 yards
|36 in.
|3-1/4 yards
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|5 yards
|5-1/2 yards
|8-1/2 yards
|48 in.
|4 yards
|4 yards
|6 yards
|6 yards
|9-1/2 yards
|54 in.
|4-1/4 yards
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|6 1/2 yards
|9-1/2 yards
|10 yards
|60 in.
|4-1/2 yards
|4-1/2 yards
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|10 yards
|10-1/2 yards
|66 in.
|5 yards
|5 yards
|7-1/2 yards
|10-1/2 yards
|11 yards
|72 in.
|7-3/4 yards
|5-1/4 yards
|8 yards
|11 yards
|11-1/2 yards
If you need two lengths of fabric to achieve the width, cut the fabric in half crosswise, and then cut one piece in half lengthwise.
Sew 2 and 3 on either side of 1 to avoid having a seam down the center of the table.
To cut your circle, follow these instructions:
Fold the seamed fabric into quarters and pin all four layers of fabric together.
Place a yardstick at the centerfold and pivot, marking off a measurement that is one-half the diameter all the way around.Cut a circle out of fabric.
Cut through all four layers.
After you've cut your circle, hem with a 1/4-inch double hem and add any desired trims.
Holiday-related square tablecloths or runners
Before making square tablecloths or table runners, you need to determine how much fabric you're going to need:
Measure the length of the table.
Measure the height from top of table to floor and then add 2 inches for seam allowances.
Add the measurements from Steps 1 and 2 to determine the total length of fabric you need.
Measure the width you want your tablecloth or runner to be (add 2 inches for seam allowances).
Add the total inches in Steps 3 and 4 and add 2 inches for seam.
Add Steps 3 and 4 to determine the total length of fabric you need.
Divide your answer from Step 6 by 36 to get the total yardage amount of fabric.
Your fabric needs to be cut to this length.
To make a tablecloth or table runner, you need the following materials:
Fabric cut to size (refer to the measurement guide)
Thread (For a no-sew option, use fabric glue.)
Straight pins
Sewing machine
Tape measure
Iron/ironing board
When you have all the materials you need, follow these instructions:
Press all edges 3/8 of an inch to the wrong side
Press again 1/2 of an inch to the wrong side
Use a straight stitch to sew all edges approximately 3/8 of an inch from the edge of the fabric.
For a no-sew option, use fabric glue to fuse the hem in place.
For a designer variation, sew cording, welted beading, or other decorative trim to the edges of your tablecloth or table runner.


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Video-messaging app Snapchat is now more popular than ever, despite news that its self-destructing videos can be saved and the release of a rival version by Facebook.
Facebook Poke, released before Christmas, was the social-network's attempt to jump on the popularity of the apps that delete their messages automatically, which have also been linked to young people 'sexting' inappropriate material.
Analysts had thought that the rival app, along with news that easily available tools allowed iPhone users to save Snapchat videos, would dent the rise of the app. But Facebook's Poke has rapidly fallen down app popularity charts, despite a concerted PR effort by the social network, which revealed that founder Mark Zuckerberg had written code for the app himself and that it has been created in just weeks. Snapchat, however, has retained its position in the upper reaches of both Amazon and iOS's app category charts.
Snapchat users can specify the lifespan of their picture and video messages, but once opened none can last longer than 10 seconds within the app.
Now the service is being hailed as one of the top apps for 2013, in large part because it gained widespread popularity among teenagers with smartphones before gaining media attention.
Both Facebook and Snapchat have warned that although their messages delete automatically, users should consider that they can be saved if users make specific efforts. Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel told Buzzfeed's Katie Notopoulos "there will always be ways to reverse engineer technology products - but that spoils the fun!".
Facebook said that: "While Pokes disappear after they are read, there are still ways that people can potentially save them... because of this, people should think about what they are sending, and share responsibly."
A six-month Channel 4 and NSPCC investigation into sexting spoke to children between the ages of 13 and 16 last year.
"I get asked for naked pictures ... at least two or three times a week," one 15 year old girl said. A boy the same age said: "You would have seen a girl's breasts before you've seen their face."
Professor Andy Phippen from Plymouth University, who carried out the research for the NSPCC, said, "This is mainstream, this is normal, this is almost mundane for some of the people we spoke to."
Jon Brown from the NSPCC said "Good quality sex education is absolutely critical. It needs to start actually in primary school. It needs to be age-appropriate if we are able to help them navigate their way through these pressures."
Snapchat claims, however, that it is largely used for sending pictures that are not permanently wanted by its users, rather than for inappropriate pictures and videos.
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Taxes and Spending
Paul Krugman is now claiming the fact the US is not a 100% free-market economy justifies ever-higher taxes on "the rich."
Legal SystemU.S. History
Bureaucracy and RegulationLabor and Wages
Profit-oriented business organizations that demand political conformity in the workplace are mimicking government agencies, and we must turn to Mises's book Bureaucracy for guidance.
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Early breast cancer usually does not cause physical pain, and symptoms may not initially be noticeable. As the cancer grows, it can cause changes that include:
If you notice any of the above symptoms, contact your doctor immediately for an examination.
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John Parham from J&P posted a great blog the other day – reminding us of whats important and whats great about being into motorcycles…
This is from J&P's Blog. Its a great site to check out
The American Dream
J&P Cycles® truly is a business representative of the
American Dream. Jill and I started by selling parts out of the back of a van from a small town in Iowa. Now, we are the world's largest retailer of aftermarket parts for motorcycles. It took a lot of work, sacrifices, dedicated employees, a strong family and some luck to get to this point.
The reason I am writing this letter is to hopefully help us all realize the simple things in life truly matter most. I was diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis in the fall of 2007 (I never smoked cigarettes). Pulmonary Fibrosis is a lung disease, where your lung tissue becomes scarred and dies, never growing again. I have had 55 percent lung capacity since 2007, at least until March 16, 2010. That was the day I was admitted to the hospital for emergency colon surgery. That surgery went well, but in recovery, I got pneumonia and spent 33 days in Intensive Care as well as another 19 days in the hospital for a total of 52 days. My lungs are now damaged further and I am on oxygen at all times. I have had to learn how to swallow food and liquids all over again. I have never worked so hard in my whole life as I have in the last 10 weeks. I can walk short distances up to 75 feet, but then my oxygen levels drop to very low levels. My only hope to live is a lung transplant. Why am I telling you all this? It is not to feel sorry for me. I am a fighter; I want to live. Jill and I have way too many things we still want to do. One is watch our grandchild, Kaiden grow up.
But through these last two months, I have realized how important certain things in life really are. My family has provided never ending support and has always been there for me, especially Jill. My friends have, as well. I have seen friends in the last 10 weeks, I haven't seen in years, and have received cards from all over the world. It really makes you realize how lucky you are. Believing in God and praying for strength to continue to keep going everyday is important. I had a lot of people praying for me and I appreciate it so much.
When you think about it, the most important thing is your health. You have to take care of yourself. Then, you need your family, friends and faith to help support each other.
As I laid in the intensive care unit, I dreamed of such simple things like being at home to sit on my front porch to smell the grass and hear the birds sing. It's amazing how one's priorities change when faced with a severe illness. So, please take time to think about all the things in your life that are important then look at them again if the doctor told you that you only had one year to live.
If you haven't seen the movie "Bucket List" with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, it's a good movie. Maybe a little extreme with things they were able to do, but Jill and I created a bucket list three years ago and now we are on our second list. Many of the things were quite simple, but we just never took the time to do them before.
Last year Jill and I were married for 35 years and J&P Cycles® had their 30th year in business with over 22,000 people attending our Open House. My next dream is in the works right now as we remodel a 36,000 square foot former Wal-Mart building off of Highway 151 and move the National Motorcycle Museum to this location. We will have the Arlen Ness, Awesome-Ness exhibit as well as many other motorcycle exhibits on display during the J&P Cycles Open House this year.
The final thing I want to talk about is becoming an organ donor. Let's face it, we love to ride motorcycles and with that comes a higher chance of getting hurt or killed in a traffic accident. If you are not already, please consider signing up to be an organ donor. There are thousands of people on waiting lists to receive an organ transplant. Some even die before one becomes available. It's like giving the gift of life to someone else. To find out more about organ donation visit:www.organdonor.gov. Next, click on the header "Be a Donor" then "how to register to be a donor in your state." From there, you will be directed to specific information for your state on how you can become a donor.
Jill and I wish to thank you for your business all these years. Motorcycles have been my life for almost 34 years. I cannot think of a better industry to be in. We have made so many friends and have met so many wonderful people and customers over the years. Motorcycle people are real – what you see is what you get. And, they are the most generous, loyal, honest and helpful people you will ever meet.
God bless all of you!
Ride Safe!
John Parham


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Audi used the Shanghai DTM race to debut a TT GT4 turnkey racer planned for production in 2012, though inexplicably called a concept. The car will feature a racing body, roll cage, fuel cell, and 340 hp TFSI engine.
The Audi Quattro Concept remains a concept, although we hear it's being built in small numbers. If you're interested in racing and don't want to wait around for Quattro Concept, the TT GT4 fits the bill nicely, assuming you can handle a $160,000 bill.


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This course is designed to help you understand the process of compiling a set financial statements using a final trial balance and other background information and the sundry disclosures required for a set of financial statements.
The key disclosure information from the Accounting Standards will be considered for each of the primary statements, as well as notes relating to the primary statements.
Key topics:
In this course you will receive information about the topic area, and explore many application scenarios via a case study.
This course consists of one online course and one online assessment.
This course is specifically designed for finance professionals who are involved in external reporting, financial management and financial accounting.
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In 2003 the nation of Nepal decided to allow captive breeding of rhesus monkeys for research and export, despite monkeys being sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists. Two facilities were established but only one amassed monkeys. From the start Nepal-based groups protested and even sued the government to block the plans. Monkey supporters held demonstrations in the streets of Kathmandu. A mountain guide carried a banner calling on Nepal to "Stop the Monkey Business" to the summit of Mount Everest. Meanwhile one US-supported facility in Lele had acquired over 300 monkeys.
In August Nepal's new Forest Minister, Mr. Deepak Bohara, ordered the Lele facility to be closed down and all 300 monkeys to be rehabilitated and released. A colony this large has never been released before, making such a feat the largest endeavor of its kind. Nepal-based animal groups are looking for funds and expertise for the unprecedented project and working to make sure the Minister's order sticks.


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To say that this week has been busy would be an understatement. How did it get to Thursday night and I still haven't posted anything?!
I'm reinstating the buoy because of late I've been unable to stop collecting great foodie resources & I've got to share them (don't want to be selfish). I'm not much of a typical foodie (no red wine or goats cheese for me, arigato), but I still can appreciate high-quality food when it goes in the mouth. Also lately I've been nibbling on some sweet culinary memoirs -- sometimes reading about food is as satisfying as actually consuming it. Who knew?
I'll share my links in a second, but I was wondering if people wanted to share their personal "food rules". Michael Pollan's only got about 64 (my favorite being #13, eat only foods that will eventually rot), but I think I can be more streamlined & stick to three. These aren't taped on my fridge or anything, but they are my main sub-conscious filters when I fire up the stove.
Alisha's food rules:
1. simple (food should add value, not stress)
2. unprocessed (could all the ingredients in this product be found in a well-stocked cupboard vs. science lab?)
3. local and organic where possible (enough said)
The amount of food rules I've constrained myself to in the past would vie with Mr.Pollan, but most of my own have been pretty stupid (ie daily Diet Dr. Pepper senior year of college) until the past few years, when I think I've got it down to the essentials and feel healthy and happy overall.
Without further ado, here are some amazing, as-close-to-edible-as-you'll-get links:
- A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg (blog: Orangette)
- Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard (blog: Lunch in Paris)
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
- Eating Rules -- Can you commit to no processed food for 30 days as part of the October Unprocessed challenge?
- The Stone Soup -- minimalist cooking with 5 ingredients or less
- Goop's food blog list -- Gwyneth curates a lovely blog roll of foodie fodder
- Great post about joining the canning revolution -- anyone out there tried it?
Food activism (the tastiest kind)
- Food Inc's Hungry For Change 10 simple things you can do to change our food system and blog
- Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Taco trucks
- el camion on 15th and Market (this one's for you Ballard)! Is it bad to eat fish burritos 3x/ week? Of course not.
What are your go-to food blogs? And what would you say are your unwritten food rules?
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CULTNAT is probably the only center in the Southern Mediterranean region whose mandate is to systematically document all aspects of a nation's heritage, whether cultural or natural, be it tangible or intangible; and to promote and raise public awareness towards its importance. In doing both, CULTNAT developed and applied advanced information technologies. Moreover, it built a strong network of professionals in the field of heritage documentation and preservation.
CULTNAT, developed a three-dimensional hologram of King Tutankhamun mask, located where the original mask is displayed in the Egyptian Museum Hall after it was transferred to the restoration lab. Hologram is the latest museum presentation technique in the world, substitute for other traditional methods.
Database Management Technology
CULTNAT owns a treasure of heritage documentation data in different formats (i.e. databases, images, videos, 3D models, documents, etc.). CULTNAT's target is to disseminate online all this heritage data to the researchers and public users. Therefore, the database technologies are used to build the CULTNAT Heritage Repository system that consists of: 1) a unified database for all the Egyptian heritage aspects, 2) Content Management System (CMS) that makes it possible for CULTNAT researchers to create, read, update and delete data in the unified database, and 3) search engine that helps the end users to query all CULTNAT heritage documentation assets.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
CULTNAT is implementing number of GIS solutions for enterprise heritage management that provides accurate information to scientific researchers, decision makers and casual users in a practical and accessible form that will eventually contribute to the management and conservation of all the aspects of heritage and will be published as an online tool.
In CULTNAT we use online mapping services, such as those offered by Google©, Yahoo©, Bing© and Mapquest© to display customized, clickable markers, paths and areas showing points of interest on the map and related descriptive information. Also we develop number of spatial analysis tools which allow users and researchers for better understanding.
Web Technologies
Dissemination is considered as equally important as documentation, for the message that it conveys and the awareness that it provides. A Web Unit was formed on 2006 to participate in the dissemination efforts with the first project of www.cultnat.org to work as a communication channel between the user and the immense amount of information that the center holds. Recently, the unit successfully participated in many projects.The Web Unit efforts are not limited to the design and development of websites, desktop applications and the innovation of designs, but also one of the main tasks is to maintain and insure the sustainability of many applications. Testing and evaluation are very essential in all stages of the development process.
The unit successfully joined in the evaluation process of many applications.
3-D Modeling
Augmented Reality
CULTNAT's R&D target is to develop an augmented reality system to allow for mixing real and virtual cultural-related data, to be used in ancient monuments to provide visitors with a unique experience. Integrating augmented reality systems with the CULTURAMA allows the user full control of his virtual travels through time and space.
The Advanced Documentation Techniques Lab
It started as a unit for Laser scanning & media production to be the first Laser scanning unit in Egypt and the Arab region. The Lab is growing to utilize many technologies; Totalstation surveying, Laser scanning, DGPS surveying, Photogrammetry, IR/UV spectroscopy, Ultrasound Microscopy and multi-spectral imaging. The Lab now is considered a unique and pioneer effort in Egypt for documentation and artwork investigation and work is done to establish a stronger, larger and more effective Lab to better serve cultural and natural heritage. The Lab successfully joined several researches in variety of fields some of such; conducting a large scale Archaeological Surveying for the Temple of Hathor which is located on the mountains of South Sinai, besides several mosques at El-Darb El-Ahmar.The Lab provided an integrated solution that covers not only the documentation with laser scanning, DGPS, TotalStation, Video and Still photography but also the dissemination phase that provided plans, 3d models, inventory system, CD Catalogue, printed Catalogue and online applications.
This project can be considered a unique effort towards the use of technology in full integration.
Panoramic Photography
Immersive Displays
Laser Scanning
Stereo Vision
Planetarium Movies
CULTNAT initiated another production line with creating its first full dome movie for planetarium display, "The Astronomical Myths" movie was created using state of the art technologies and according to international standards for high quality planetarium movies. CULTNAT showed its movie in the IPS conference (International Planetarium Society) hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in June 2010 and got a marvelous feedback from the visitors and experts of the IPS, it's worth mentioning that "The Astronomical Myths" is also the first Egyptian full dome movie.
Mobile Apps.
Egypt Travel App is designed to help you getting all the information you need to plan your trip to Egypt, discover the treasures of the Nile valley, enjoy the various activities on the white Med, get acquainted with the state of the art resorts on Egypt's Red Sea Riviera, and indulge yourself in Egypt's world famous deserts.


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Liberty News
Students serve the community on first Love on Lynchburg Day
Liberty University's Community Care Initiative held its first Love On Lynchburg (LOL) Day on Saturday, Feb. 23.
More than 100 students participated in 16 community service projects throughout the city, which ranged from cleaning homes of disabled residents to building wheelchair ramps, serving food to the hungry, constructing a youth media center in a low-income neighborhood; playing games, baking cookies, and entertaining residents at nursing homes; and beautifying city spaces.
CCI, launched in September 2012, focuses on meeting the short-term, immediate needs of the community. Every weekend, CCI sends out five to eight care teams of up to 10 students each, all led by students. Liberty fields requests from people seeking help for themselves or for their family and friends and also partners with charitable organizations to help meet their needs. More than 70 projects have been completed, totaling 2,255 hours of service.
Harold Burgess, a resident at Guggenheimer Health and Rehabilitation Center, was delighted to play games with students, bake and decorate cookies, and hear students sing during LOL Day.
"Everybody was having a good time laughing and carrying on — we had a lot of fun," he said. "I like humor, a good laugh is better than a pill any day."
He said the experience benefits all the residents, and the students, too.
"It is good for (Liberty) students and it is good for us because we get to know what is going on in the outside world, and they may pick up some bits and pieces of what we went through when we were their ages, and that is good," Burgess said.
Glenda Fort, director of Parkview Community Mission on Memorial Avenue, was overjoyed to be a part of the first LOL Day. Parkview is the largest nonprofit food pantry in Lynchburg, offering groceries to 1,000 Lynchburg families monthly. They also deliver food three times a week to various households and offer a free dinner every Wednesday night to those in need.
"We love having Liberty students. It is a great experience for them, and it is great for the neighbors we serve to see them," said Fort. "Liberty historically always has such a great group of students with a great attitude and many of them really connect with our neighbors that walk through the doors, and what they do is priceless."
Carrie Doron, a junior at Liberty, was the student leader at the site, where the team unloaded a truck with more than 4,000 pounds of food. It was her first time helping at the mission through CCI.
"We are trying to get as many groups together as possible to show the love of Christ in the community and to be the hands and feet of Christ," she said.
A few miles away, in the Fairview Heights area, students were putting up drywall as they helped to convert an old shopping center property into a youth media center. The project is part of the Y.E.S. (Young Entrepreneurial Spirits) Program, an outreach ministry for 11- to 19-year-olds. It was founded by Liberty alumnus Ron Banks. Children come to the center on Saturdays to learn about video recording and to participate in a Bible study.
"Liberty University has been very instrumental in this program. They donated over 350 computers," said Banks. "Dr. Will Honeycutt (CCI faculty coordinator) and Liberty students have been a blessing. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that Liberty is helping with the vision God gave me."
Cory Collea, a senior at Liberty University, was the team leader at the site.
"Putting up drywall is a great way we can serve God and the community. It brings out so much joy. After people do this for the first time, I see they all want to come back and help out. This is really rewarding and humbling at the same time," Collea said.
CCI's motto is based on James 2:18: "Demonstrating Our Faith by Doing Our Neighbor Good."
"Our focus is to find tangible and lasting ways to demonstrate the love of Christ by serving people through short-term projects," Honeycutt said. "It has always been part of Liberty's mission to be salt and light in our world, and with such a large base of service-minded people, Liberty is positioned to meet the needs of our community."
The program is an optional supplement to the 20 hours per semester that is required of all Liberty students in their sophomore, junior, and senior years through the Christian/Community Service Office.
"Students sign up for CCI not because they are doing it for credit or for a class, it is for no other reason than they want to," Honeycutt said.
He said he hopes a "blitz" service day can be held each semester.
"We want to place as many students as possible in the community and do the most good we can possibly do for our neighbors on that day."


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The LRT 1100-2.1 features superb all-terrain manoeuvrability. The standard VarioBase® ensures that the Liebherr rough-terrain crane delivers a high level of safety and performance. The time-tested TELEMATIK telescoping system delivers high lifting capacities over the entire working range.
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|May 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT
This article tries to demonstrate that Java can be more productive than Ruby. We are going to develop the same application of the article Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited (part 1 [1] and part 2 [2]) but using POJO [3]s annotated with JPA [4] and a Model Driven Framework, OpenXava [5] in this case. The result is that with less code, and less time you obtain a more powerful application.
Ruby and rails: The regressive framework
Ruby on rails [6] is so elegant, so easy, so productive. I cannot avoid read and heard continuously these comments. For example, the article Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited of Bill Walton says:
"What would you think if I told you that you can develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you can with a typical Java framework?"
Oops! Ten times faster!
Well, after these comments I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. I need to know the true key of the productivity and programmer happiness.
After have a taste of RnR I found it a very classic framework, with old techniques:
Ruby is a dynamically typed [7] language, as Smalltalk [8]. I prefer statically typed [9] languages.
Scaffolding is passive code generation, as IDE wizards or AppFuse [10]. I prefer active code generation [11], or even better, no code generation at all.
Relational database centric: the code generators and ActiveRecord promote think first in tables after in classes. I prefer a more pure OO, as Hibernate [12], JPA [4] or even ODBMS [13].
MVC [14]: I'm looking for something newer and better that an old MVC framework.
The Java problem: Java developers
The productivity in Java world is a cultural problem, not a technical one. That is this is not a Java fault, it's our fault, we, the Java developers, need to design very beautiful architectures, to apply everywhere the GoF [15] patterns, to do everything reusable, to put 3 tiers in all our systems and to use web services [16] for all. We are not looking for simplicity, therefore we have not found it. But, Java is a very elegant language that allows simpler approach to software development.
Java productivity: The other way
A way for productivity is to use a Model Driven approach. That is, develop the model part, and only the model part, of our application, and to use a framework to produce all the application from it. MDA [17], OpenXava [5], Trails [18], NakedObjects [19], RomaFramework [20] and JMatter [21] are examples of this approach.
The goal
This is the main screen of the wanted application:
Basically, the app's supposed to do three things:
Display a list of all recipes.
Create new recipes and edit existing recipes.
Assign a recipe to a category (like "dessert" or "soup").
The Ruby on Rails first sprint
The first step using RnR is creating the new project, from command line you have to write:
$ rails cookbook2
Now you must create and configure your database.
Then it's the time for writing your first code, in this case SQL code:
drop table if exists recipes;
drop table if exists categories;
create table categories (
id int not null auto_increment,
name varchar(100) not null default '',
primary key(id)
) engine=InnoDB;
create table recipes (
id int not null auto_increment,
category_id int not null,
title varchar(100) not null default '',
description varchar(255) null,
date date null,
instructions text null,
constraint fk_recipes_categories foreign key
(category_id) references categories(id),
primary key(id)
) engine=InnoDB;
Obviously you have to execute these sentences against your database.
And the final step is generate the Ruby code, you only need execute the next command in the shell of your O.S:
$ ruby script\generate scaffold recipe recipe
$ ruby script\generate scaffold category category
Yes. You have the very first version of your RnR application ready to run.
Yes, very little work, a simple "create table", and executing a wizard. Let's see the result.
The Rails result
This is the resulting application:
Little work. Little result.
The JPA on OX first sprint
Go on using OpenXava [5]. The first step using OpenXava is creating the new project:
$ ant CreateNewProject.xml -Dproject=CookBook
Now you must create and configure your database.
Then it's the time for writing your first code, in this case Java code:
package org.openxava.cookbook.model;
import java.util.*;
import javax.persistence.*;
import org.openxava.annotations.*;
@View(members="title; description; date; instructions")
public class Recipe {
@Id @GeneratedValue @Hidden
private Integer id;
@Required @Column(length=100)
private String title;
private String description;
private Date date;
private String instructions;
public Integer getId() {
return id;
public void setId(Integer id) {
this.id = id;
public String getTitle() {
return title;
public void setTitle(String title) {
this.title = title;
public String getDescription() {
return description;
public void setDescription(String description) {
this.description = description;
public Date getDate() {
return date;
public void setDate(Date date) {
this.date = date;
public String getInstructions() {
return instructions;
public void setInstructions(String instructions) {
this.instructions = instructions;
package org.openxava.cookbook.model;
import java.util.*;
import javax.persistence.*;
import org.openxava.annotations.*;
public class Category {
@Id @GeneratedValue @Hidden
private Integer id;
@Required @Column(length=100)
private String name;
public Integer getId() {
return id;
public void setId(Integer id) {
this.id = id;
public String getName() {
return name;
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
And the final step is to generate the dababase schema, you only need to execute the next ant target from your project:
$ ant updateSchema
Yes. You have the very first version of your OpenXava application ready to run.
Yes, very little work, a simple POJOs, and executing 'updateSchema'. Let's see the result.
The OpenXava result
This is the resulting application:
Note that the user can create,update, delete, generate PDF from list, export the list to excel, order by each column, paging with support for large resultsets and filter data. Moreover you can deploy directly, with no code, only executing an ant target, your application in a JSR-168 [22] portal, and the look & feel of the OpenXava portlet adapts to the look & feel of the portal.
This is, from first time, an application ready for production.
Little work, polished result.
From a philosophical point of view the difference here between RnR and OX is that in RnR you write first the tables and in OpenXava you write first the classes.
The controllers
Rails has generated for you the controller logic for the basic CRUD, you can see it here:
In the other hand OX has not generated any code for CRUD, OpenXava just have a generic code for doing CRUD and Printing, and it is assigned automatically to all entities. You can write your own generic CRUD logic, or you can write a specific logic for a particular entity, but you haven't a controller code for each entity. In this way, you have less code to maintain, and you can change the logic of all CRUD modules touching in a single place.
That is for controllers Rails uses generated code while OX uses generic code.
You can learn more about OX controllers in OpenXava wiki [23].
Adding a relationship
For adding a relationship from category to recipe in Ruby you have to write the next code in category.rb:
and this one in recipe.rb:
Yes, pretty simple. But, you have more work to do. You must edit cookbook2\app\views\recipe\_form.rhtml and add the next code:
<%= select("recipe", "category_id", Category.find(:all).collect
{|c| [c.name, c.id] }) %></p>
The result is:
For its part, in OpenXava you have to define the relationship using JPA in Category.java:
@ManyToOne(optional=false) @DescriptionsList
private Category category;
and in Recipe.java:
private Collection<Recipe> recipes;
And you do not need to touch any HTML-like code. You application will show just this:
You have a link for modifying or creating new categories from here.
Without adding any additional code if the user go to the Category module he will obtain a collection of Recipes in each Category, as following:
In this point the RnR application still does not have this features, you need to write some Ruby and HTML to code to obtain the same effect.
The main difference here between RnR and OX here is that in OX you do not write any HTML-like code, indeed you do not write User Interface code at all.
Calculating a initial value
The next step in the Ruby on Rails tutorial is to generated a initial value for a property. In RnR you have to edit the controller code in order to achieve it. Let's see it:
You modify the new and update method adding the line:
@recipe.date = Time.now
The equivalent in OX is adding the @DefaultValueCalculator annotation in model:
private Date date;
You obtain the same effect in a more declarative way.
That, while in RnR you put the code on controller, in OX the code for calculating initial values, for validations and for business logic in general is on the model. OX promotes moving business logic from controller to model.
As curiosity, in the RnR article says: "I modified the model files so I need to restart our web server." While using Eclipse WTP I only need to press Ctrl – B, and click on refresh in my browser in order to see the change of my model in my OpenXava application.
The main difference between Ruby on Rails and OpenXava is that RnR is a MVC framework, you have to write the model, the view and the controllers, and OX is a model-driven framework, you only need to write the model. The result is less code for a better application.
Another big difference is that RnR uses passive code generation; that is, it generates the code for you, but after it if you want to extend or refine the code you have to edit the generated code. OpenXava does not use code generation, the only code you have is the code you write.
You can find productivity inside the Java universe.
- OpenXava site [5]
- Article Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited (part [1] 1 [1] and part 2 [2])
- Other model-driven frameworks: Trails [18], NakedObjects [19], RomaFramework [20] and JMatter [21]
[1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/14/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-r...
[2] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/01/05/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-r...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_Java_Object
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Persistence_API
[5] http://www.openxava.org/
[6] http://www.rubyonrails.org/
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamically_typed_language#Dynamic_typing
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Static_typing
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppFuse
[11] http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?ActiveCodeGeneration
[12] http://www.hibernate.org
[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODBMS
[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services
[17] http://www.omg.org/mda/
[18] http://www.trailsframework.org/
[19] http://www.nakedobjects.org/
[20] http://romaframework.xwiki.org
[21] http://jmatter.org/
[22] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168
[23] http://openxava.wikispaces.com/controllers_en
[24] http://java.dzone.com/sites/all/files/rails-vs-ox010.jpg
[25] http://java.dzone.com/sites/all/files/rails-vs-ox020.jpg
[26] http://java.dzone.com/sites/all/files/rails-vs-ox030.jpg
[27] http://java.dzone.com/sites/all/files/rails-vs-ox040.jpg
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