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Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Relaunch 3D Interactive Web Sites
Oct 2, 2008
Burger Lovers Can Now Customize Site and Interact With Virtual
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – Oct. 1, 2008 – Carl's Jr.® and Hardee's® have again transformed the way fans can bond with their burgers and each other. Both brands relaunched their Web sites this week with an updated look, expanded interactivity and new customer loyalty program.
The sites, carlsjr.com and hardees.com, feature an enhanced "young, hungry guy's" dream bachelor pad, starting with a virtual, 3D living room landing page and a large, flat-screen TV playing Carl's Jr. and Hardee's latest television ads. A library of some of the brands' hottest historical ads is also accessible. Site visitors can now select a virtual roommate who will interact with them each time they login to the site. And because we all know guys like gaming, the site allows visitors to sign up for the "Burger Slayer" loyalty program, earning points that can be used to customize the look of the living room and eventually unlock "hottie" roommate options and other brand fan freebies.
"When we first partnered with Spacedog Interactive, now part of Mendelsohn│Zien Advertising, to design and launch state-of-the art Web sites for both Carl's Jr. and Hardee's in 2005, the sites were unlike anything anyone was doing in the industry because they focused more on an aspirational lifestyle for our 'young, hungry guy' customers," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants. "But, since that time, others have copied our approach – in some cases very closely, indeed - so we wanted to regain our leadership with relaunched sites that take the virtual living room environment and the overall brand interaction potential to a whole new level. The new 3D capability and full live-action video capability will also allow us to do cool things like have special guests, including hot new bands, make exclusive appearances on the sites in the future."
The living room landing page has been updated with 3D modeling as well as real-time day-to-night transitions. On the coffee table: a full meal from Carl's Jr. or Hardee's, which changes depending on the time of day visitors log on – as does the scene outside the window.
The site was designed by the digital division of Mendelsohn│Zien Advertising, formerly operated as digital design and marketing firm, Spacedog Interactive. Mendelsohn│Zien is the Los Angeles-based agency known for creating the brands' edgy, iconic advertising campaigns.
Visitors to the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Web sites can also explore and interact in 3D thanks to a partnership with ExitReality. The technology allows users to experience the traditional, 2-dimensional sites as 3-dimensional spaces and even convert their profile pages on social network platforms, such as MySpace and Facebook, into 3D environments. The ExitReality 3D component is available to download on the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's sites.
In conjunction with the launch of these new sites, CKE Restaurants has partnered with Lionsgate for a promotion in support of their recent theatrical release "My Best Friend's Girl". Consumers visiting the Carls' Jr. or Hardee's sites can click on the movie poster in their virtual living room and enter the "Shave an Eyebrow for Love" contest for the chance to win $1,000. The site will serve as a platform to promote other such partnerships in the future. Movie clips are able to be viewed on the site's flat-screen TV.
Aside from the new and improved interactivity, consumers looking for nutritional information or restaurant location will be able to easily navigate and access the information. Since the sites were created using the Ruby on Rails framework, the information is easily updated and can be customized for visitors wanting to gather nutritional information for each menu item or an entire meal.
About CKE
Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the end of its fiscal 2009 second quarter, ending September 8, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,100 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,170 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,917 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a location near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.carlsjr.com or www.hardees.com.


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He taught me songs and music and sometimes we would make cassette tapes, him playing and me singing. My grandma listened to these tapes of our songs up until the day she died; the last time I visited her (in July, 36 weeks pregnant, eeking in a last trip to see her before Hal arrived) she made us listen to them. I hid outside in the yard because I was shy and she and Luke laughed at me and they smiled when I finally came back in the room, eyes all twinkly every time, they had been telling secrets. "I just always wish you had done more with your singing," she would say. And I would smile because I didn't know how else to respond.
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I decided to be brave and submit a singing video for The Fifth Annual Blogger Christmalhijrahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert if for no other reason than than the knowledge that it would have made my grandparents really, really happy. A singing video! Like singing, on video, on YouTube. This is the girl who wouldn't listen to the tapes of her ten year old self singing just four months ago. But I made myself try. Of course I kept getting two thirds of the way through and then forgetting a word or Alice would come in crying or Clark would run up and clasp his hand over my mouth. I was frustrated and kept putting the project off and I wanted to say, forget it, no, this is silly, I quit, but Luke encouraged me after the crazies were in bed last night to just do something short and quick and so I did and it turned out okay, I'd say, even though I had to sing low and quietly to not wake up the kids on the other side of the wall, even though, like most things in life, it isn't perfect or exactly right. I can't hold out for exactly right anymore, or I'll never jump. So I sent my just recorded video (thank you iPhone 4) in five minutes before midnight last night and it felt like so... not a big deal. Really. Truly. I don't even feel embarrassed. It's just, you know, whatever. Funny how you can get braver, just by making yourself be braver.
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Finance & Development, March 1982
- Bank activity: New approach to World Bank management; recent IDA credits and Bank loans
- Fund activity: Loans and purchases reach new high in 1981; data on Fund transactions and new loan commitments; Manaqinq Director's speech at Davos
- Global interdependence in the 1980s: A selection from the speech delivered by the Bank's President in Tokyo on January 13, 1982
- Future financing of the World Bank and IDA—some issues: Excerpts from Mr. Clausen's remarks at a seminar in Washington, D.C. on January 7, 1982
- Surveillance over exchange rates: A review of the purposes and process of surveillance by the fun
- Debt in developing countries: some issues for the 1980s: Major questions arising out of the size of external debt and problems associated with servicing it
- Promoting trade among developing countries: an assessment: Is there an economic basis for promoting South-South trade? An empirical analysis
- Economic development and the private sector: Private enterprise and development—comparative country experience
- Comparing government expenditures internationally: A report on a study of government expenditures in over 90 countries and a means of comparing them
- Rehabilitating watersheds: Reforestation, though necessary, is only part of a broader development strategy to preserve watershed environments
- Narrowing regional disparities by fiscal incentives: A cost-benefit analysis in designing incentives could improve their effectiveness
- Review article: Oil and the world economy—a different perspective
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Rehabilitating watersheds: Reforestation, though necessary, is only part of a broader development strategy to preserve watershed environments
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Angelina Jolie continues to share the brave story of her decision to get a preventative double mastectomy with fans.
In a new interview with EW, the Oscar-winning actress, who went under the knife in May 2013 because she was at a very high risk of developing breast cancer, revealed that her mission to stay healthy is far from over.
"There's still another surgery to have, which I haven't yet," the "Maleficent" actress explained. "I'll, you know, I'll get advice from all these wonderful people who've I've been talking to, to get through the next stage."
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In addition to her previous risk of breast cancer, Jolie also has approximately a 50 percent risk (the actual number varies based on the individual) of developing ovarian cancer, of which her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from at only 56.
Despite more surgery, the mother of six couldn't be more positive. Jolie says it's "lovely" to get mail from fans who relate to her struggle. She also says she couldn't be happier with her decision to have the mastectomy done last year.
"I'm great!...I'm very happy I made the decision," she said. "I was very fortunate to have great doctors and very, very fortunate to have a good recovery and have a project like Unbroken to have something to be really focused on, to be getting healthy for, and to be able to just get right back to work."
"I feel very, very close--much closer--to other women, and women who are going through the same thing," Brad Pitt's other half went on. "Wherever I go, usually I run into women and we talk about health issues, women's issues, breast cancer, ovarian cancer. I've talked to men about their daughters' and wives' health. It makes me feel closer to other people who deal with the same things and have either lost their parents or are considering surgeries or wondering about their children...The reason that I wrote it was to try to communicate and help and connect with other women and other families going through the same thing. And...I was very, very moved by all the support and kindness from so many people."


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #248
Come to our poor nature's night,
With thy blessed inward light,
Holy Ghost, the Infinite,
Comforter Divine.
We are sinfulcleanse us, Lord;
Sick and faintthy strength afford;
Lostuntil by thee restored,
Comforter Divine.
Like the dew thy peace distill;
Guide, subdue our wayward will,
Things of Christ unfolding still,
Comforter Divine.
With us, for us, intercede,
And, with voiceless groanings, plead
Our unutterable need,
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In us Abba, Father! cry,
Earnest of the bliss on high,
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Your name will appear on your diploma exactly as it has been written on your degree sheet.
Report any errors or corrections affecting how your name will appear on your diploma by February 22. Liberal Arts and Engineering undergraduate students should contact Student Services 617-627-2000, and graduate students should check iSIS.
By logging in to Webcenter, you will be able to see that you are certified, check your Commencement venue, and check for any outstanding holds on your account. On Friday, May 15th, you will be able to see the latin honors you are receiving, if applicable. If you are to receive honors, your marching card must be stamped at the Student Services desk in Dowling Hall on Friday, May 15th from 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m..
To pick up your diploma, you will need your marching card and/or your student ID.
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I'm writing this from my hotel in Providence, R.I. It's gloomy out and I'm fighting a fever.
I wasn't as bad yesterday, when I showed up. I took a commuter train down from Boston. The cars were appropriately gloomy and empty, and the countryside grew more gnarled and eldritch-y as we neared Lovecraft country.
I'd booked tonight's show at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel for the express purpose of walking the Providence streets, and soaking up whatever oily ether H.P. Lovecraft must've breathed. I've been re-reading his stuff this past year, and it's clanging around in my head. Maybe a walk down the narrow lanes of downtown would put it into some sort of sad perspective. At around 6pm last evening, I ventured out:
Keep in mind, my fever was in its infancy. While I unpacked and dressed, I played Adam Curtis' excellent documentary THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES on my laptop, about the simultaneous rise of radical Islam and American Neo-conservatism. Like the war between Lovecraft's Old Ones and Shuggoth, these two splinters of fanatics, which had their roots back in the Cold War of the 50's, would eventually limn the lines of combat and stress we're all living under today.
I was finishing tying my shoes and listening to the documentary, which went into the short, apocalyptic life of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian Islamist and the father of the philosophy of Al Qaeda.
"Sayyid Qutb" sounds like one of those guttural, Lovecraft-invented names. If not the name of one of his spectral beasties, then of some doomed researcher of the unknown, who left a "noxious fragment" which led others to evil.
Keep Sayyid Qutb in mind as I leave the hotel to go walking around.
Directly to the left of the hotel's doors was the most ominous Chinese restaurant I'd ever seen. The sweet-flesh smell exhaling from his portal managed to pierce my swollen sinuses. On a TV over the bar, BETTER OFF DEAD was playing. Curtis Armstrong was tapping on a jar which held a calf fetus.
Three doors further down was Cellar Stories Books:
There was a huge window display of Poe, Lovecraft, and WEIRD TALES magazine. Also, a pulled quote from Lovecraft about the nature of Yog-Sothoth:
"Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate..." While I read these worse, a weird, echo-y whoop rang out, close behind me.
In the parking lot opposite the bookstore, four or five dark, dessicated drunks had gathered around the open hood of a wounded automobile and were making nonsense noises which bounced off the brick walls of the buildings surrounding the lot. They sounded like one, collective thing, barking confusion and alarm at the strange mechanics before them:
One of the group, a squat stick of a man in a wheelchair, peeled off and headed down the street, randomly "yipping" and "yowling" while sipping a beer. He got to a busy intersection and sailed into traffic, blithely missing a speeding car:
Something from an impossible dimension, with a scribbled intellect, was protecting him.
It was growing dark and windy, and I saw an open liquor store that sold medicine. I needed Nyquil. I headed for the door. Before I could go inside, a man on a bicycle sped up to me. He wore a tan Dickies windbreaker, an orange waffle shirt and a NY Yankees baseball cap:
"Hey-hey-ha, I know you. I know who you are. On the TV. There you are. I know you."
I didn't have the presence of mind to take out my camera and snap his face, but my mind took a picture all the same. His face looked -- reconstructed. Like the bones of the cheeks and forehead had been shattered, and then re-glued. There were faint criss-cross scars on his olive skin, and he'd grown a moustache to cover a particularly nasty scar at the corner of his lips, as if his mouth had torn open in a scream.
He launched into the following monologue, which I tried to remember as he said it. Keep in mind, when he spoke all of his words had to pass through a mouth that was in a permanent letter "o":
"You're real on that show. Realer than the rest of the TV. You can't fake it. Coins under the ground, and you hand 'em out and laughs. That old man. That old man's angry and you've got the coins."
I thanked him, and he told me he wanted to tell me "something else that wasn't a joke."
"Okay", I said.
"Give me two dollars."
I didn't. I had just enough for my Nyquil gels, and I pocketed them and kept wandering, going in a crooked spiral that took me away and then back to the hotel.
Taking up a whole corner was Big Nazo, a sort od art collective/studio/factory. Huge marionettes, costumes, and statues peered from the window:
Wow! I stepped inside. I don't know if they were actually open this late on a Sunday evening, but the door was chocked open, and I wanted to look at more of the amazing creations.
Two artists, their backs to me, sat Indian-style on the floor and worked on a green head.
One of them said, "You ever heard of Sayyid Qutb?"
The other said, "Qutb, Qutb, Qutb" like a chant.
My fever flared and I left without saying a word. They never knew I was there. I'd had enough.
I washed down the Nyquil with a bowl of the hotel's superlative chicken soup, and tried to remember when I'd first read Lovecraft. But my head was full of cement, and nothing came:
The Nyquil extinguished any dreams I might have had, and I woke to church bells. There's a church near the hotel that peals out on the hour -- first orderly, flat tones for whatever time of day it is, and then a weird, discordant fistful of notes that sounds like two trolls are chasing each other back and forth between the bells.
I boarded a cab while the bells were going BONG BONG BONG for noon and headed off to Swan Point Cemetery. The driver, who's skin looked like he'd fended off daily ice pick attacks, drove us aimlessly around the grounds, getting lost. The wind was blowing leaves and blossoms off the trees and in the blue-grey light of the coming story it looked as if we were underwater.
A helpful caretaker pointed us in the right direction, and we found the obelisk with PHILLIPS on it. Behind it, on a little marker, was Howard Phillip's name, his birth and death dates, and the phrase "I AM PROVIDENCE":
Little stones, a lead fishing sinker, and coins were left on the grave. A piece of yellow legal paper had a quote from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" written on it. It was held down by a smooth rock. A white piece of paper, nearly disintegrated, was held down by its own small rock. I leaned down, but the writing was in...Arabic.
I called Harlan Ellison, and he revealed to me he was one of the people who donated money to have the headstone erected in 1977. Before that, Lovecraft's remains were..elsewhere, and his name was simply carved on the Phillips family monument. Not enough for his haunted fans, I guess.
Harlan told me a joke about a dachshund sending a telegram. A cemetery car drove by, slowed, and the occupants pointed at me. It was starting to rain:
The driver got even more lost trying to get us out. A huge, hairless man cam out of a nearby chapel. One of his eyes was glued shut by overgrown skin tags. He told us to follow him, and he led us to the exit in a little cart, also the property of Swan Point.
The Swan Point Cemetery symbol looks almost the same as the symbol on the Swan Station hatch in LOST.
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LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, recently received two grants totaling $14,000 to provide for five student scholarships and to acquire the VineUp software to facilitate a pilot mentoring program between John Deere employees and LETU students.
Seven LETU engineering alumni who currently work at John Deere have volunteered to participate, according to Paul Boggs, director of LETU's Office of Sponsored Programs.
The purpose of the initiative is to create graduates who meet today's workforce needs and to reduce employer training costs for new graduates. Also the goal is to ensure that LETU engineering students are gaining the skills required in the workplace during their educational journey and to improve student motivation and persistence to succeed at LeTourneau in their future careers. The program also allows LETU students to build a network of professional contacts in their chosen fields.
The Houston Chronicle recently reported that mentoring programs provide relevant experience, decrease employee turnover, increase employee morale, and enable companies to find future talent.
The new VineUp software program will enable the matching of mentors and mentees, based on personal and professional characteristics, and will facilitate their engagement throughout the program.
The first cohort of students to benefit from the mentorship will include students from LETU's Honors College, who meet high academic standards including high SAT/ACT scores and high grade point averages.
"This population will have the drive and motivation needed for this initiative to be successful for both LETU and John Deere," Boggs said. "The mentors will be given specific training and guidelines, since this has been found to be effective in mentoring relationships, with women as well as men in STEM fields."
The program seeks to improve student readiness for employment by improving the LETU engineering curriculum, based on industry needs, according to Dr. Ron DeLap, LETU dean of the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology.
"Ultimately this program should be beneficial to employers who will have to spend less time and money to prepare new STEM graduates to be functional and productive in the workplace. We also expect this program to improve motivation and engagement in the mentees and improve the employer perception of readiness and effectiveness of LeTourneau graduates."
Once the program is determined to be successful for employers, mentors and mentees, it is expected to expand into other academic areas besides engineering. LETU plans to seek additional grant funding and donations from employers to continue the program.
The program also includes research that will help determine the program's success, including surveying both mentors and students on their perceived readiness of the students for the workplace before the project begins and after the project is completed. The student mentees will also provide feedback on skills and competencies they perceive students need in the 21st century on an ongoing informal basis throughout the program, so this data can be analyzed qualitatively for trends. Once these students complete the program, graduate and are employed, their employers will be surveyed on how well these graduates compare to other new graduates in their employ, to determine the program's success.
The new software will be purchased this spring, with training over the summer and confirmed mentors and mentees announced by late summer. Mentors at John Deere will be trained over the summer to allow the mentorship to begin in Fall 2014 through Spring 2015.
Mentees can be in any year in school, but are only eligible to receive the scholarship once during their college career. Besides engineering majors, John Deere is interested in accounting, finance, computer science, management information systems, marketing and supply management majors. All participants must be eligible to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis.
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Sharing a house or an apartment with a roommate or two can be a great way to save money. Just make sure to protect your credit, because an unscrupulous roommate can wreck your credit rating in a hurry.
Here are four of the ways your roommates can wreck your credit, along with some tactics to help you reduce your risk.
1. Swiping Your Social Security Number
If a roomie gets a hold of your Social Security number, they can pretend to be you, just like that. They already have the same address as you, and with your Social Security number they'll be able to apply for credit, bank accounts, even car loans using your name and your credit history.
So guard your Social Security card and other private financial information. Keep these items in a locked desk drawer or in a safety deposit box.
Never carry your Social Security card in your wallet or leave your wallet out in common areas of a shared house or apartment.
2. Intercepting Your Mail
Does your roommate or roommates have first dibs on the mail? Make sure they are trustworthy. Let's say you've just moved to a new area and opened a new bank account or credit card account. If a roommate intercepts your personal financial information, such as bank account numbers, credit card numbers, etc., they can do what they want with the account and you'll be stuck with the bills and a credit mess to clean up.
Always keep track of important mail that you're expecting, and follow up with senders if you don't receive something you should have. Check your bank and credit card statements frequently, and track your spending so you can easily recognize any purchases you didn't make.
3. Not Paying Their Share of the Bills
If the lease and utility and other accounts are in your name, it will hurt your credit record if a bill goes unpaid or the rent is paid late.
A roommate who fails to pay his or her share of monthly bills on time can be a real headache for your financial life and for your credit rating. And if a roommate moves out without giving you any notice, you may be stuck with the full cost of the rent and other expenses all on your own. If your roommate pays late or misses payments, it's probably a good idea to start looking for a new roommate.
So choose your roommates carefully, ask for references and check them. And make sure they have the means to pay their share of the rent each month.
4. Going Online as You
If a roommate swipes the password information for your online accounts, they could go online as you and charge up your bank and credit cards any way they wish.
This is why it's important to protect your password information and change your passwords frequently. Keep your laptop in a locked room when it is not with you.
It's important to take good common-sense measures to protect yourself, including checking your credit regularly for signs of fraud. You can check your credit reports for free once a year from each credit reporting agency through AnnualCreditReport.com – look for accounts that aren't yours. And checking your credit scores regularly – which you can do for free using a site like Credit.com – can tip you off to problems with your credit if you see an unexpected drops in your scores.
More on Credit Reports and Credit Scores:
- The Credit.com Credit Score Learning Center
- What's a Bad Credit Score?
- How Credit Impacts Your Day-to-Day Life
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Working with java.net: tips and tricks for project owners
In the past two years I've managed the OpenESB open source project. This project is hosted on java.net. In this post I outline a number of tips and tricks I've learned while managing this project on java.net. This is useful information for my successor, but it also may be useful to other people who are managing projects on java.net.
Web presence
An important factor in the success of an open source project is its web presence: it will be the first point of contact between a potential new user and the project.
New visitors will want to see answers to these four items immediately:
- What is it?
- License?
- Getting started
- Downloads
It is important that the links to these pages are static, i.e. that they do not change. That is because a new visitor may enter the site through a link on a different site or through a search engine. For this very reason, it is especially important to keep a single downloads page rather than a page per version, so that users do end up immediately on the latest version, rather than a previous (old) version.
Looking at the front page of OpenESB, these four items are immediately apparent, and the links are permanent. Two more items are important: a visitor will judge a project for it being
- Alive
- Active mailing list
- Recent/frequent announcements
- Professional
- Well organized, thought through
- Documentation easily found and comprehensive
- Inviting
- New users should feel welcome to not just use the product, but also to participate in the community.
You be the judge how well these goals have been met. Let's look at the mechanics of java.net now.
java.net project web site
How java.net processes HTML files
The HTML files for a project's web site are stored in the project's VCS system in a directory called www. There's a big twist here: although the HTML files are ordinary HTML files, i.e. with an <HTML>, <HEAD> and <BODY> tag, the java.net web server reads the HTML files and does a number of substitutions on the file before it writes the resulting file to the client.
Conceptually, there is a java.net template HTML file which has its own <HEAD> element, its own <BODY> element with static content, and some placeholders in these two elements for:
- some elements of <HEAD> element of the user defined HTML file, e.g. <TITLE>
- the contents of the project_tools.html file
- the contents of the <BODY> element from the user defined HTML file
As such, the project owner has to perform special tricks to have the page displayed in other ways than the standard java.net way.
In OpenESB we have several java.net projects. All of them should have the same look and feel, i.e. the OpenESB "brand" and a common navigation. The same goes for the OpenESB wiki.
How OpenESB organizes HTML files
Each project has the same project_tools.html file. This file takes care of the following:
- It includes custom CSS files. These files override the java.net styles.
- It hides the standard java.net navigation bar. For admins, the navbar display can be turned on: the state is maintained in a cookie. The value in the cookie can be toggled by loading the admin.html file in OpenESB: https://open-esb.dev.java.net/admin.html.
- Loads the menu. The menu is defined in a separate JavaScript file.
- Displays the search box
- Sets an event handler that is invoked when the page's loading is complete. The event handler manipulates the layout of the page and invokes Google Analytics.
As a result, the other HTML files in OpenESB or any of its sub projects don't have to bother with the common look and feel, the menu, etc. All of that is taken care of by project_tools.html, which as mentioned should be duplicated to all the OpenESB projects.
Some or if you will, many, HTML files in OpenESB have another common style element: a right hand side bar that displays common advertising for downloading GlassFish ESB, the wealth of components, and the a partner highlight. This right side bar is taken care of a separate JavaScript file. Files that should display this right hand side bar should explicitly be formatted to do so: it should contain a table in which the right column loads the JavaScript of the right hand side bar.
Previewing HTML
The fact that the look and feel of an HTML file is now defined in project_tools.html makes it difficult to see what a file will actually look like when deployed (i.e. checked in into the project's VCS) on java.net. There is a workaround: I created a directory that when deployed on a web server, emulates the java.net environment. To edit a file with the ability to preview it without checking in the file, follow this procedure:
- Load the file in your browser through java.net's web server, e.g. https://open-esb.dev.java.net/Downloads.html.
- Save this file to the emulation directory, e.g. Tomcat/webapps/ROOT/Downloads.html
- Now load the file into your browser through your local web server, e.g. http://localhost:9080/Downloads.html. This should look identical to what was loaded from java.net.
- Locate the text in the file to be edited. Change the text and save the file. Reload the file in your browser. Repeat this step until the file looks OK.
- Do a diff using a tool like Araxis Merge, or Beyond Compare between the local file and the file that was checked in into VCS, e.g. diff Tomcat/webapps/ROOT/Downloads.html and open-esb/www/Downloads.html.
- Merge the changes into the VCS file, i.e. open-esb/www/Downloads.html. Save and check in into VCS.
Here is the directory for Tomcat. If you use it for projects other than OpenESB, you can remove many of the files. Make sure to leave branding and css directories in tact. If you intend to reuse project_tools.html, don't forget to change the Google Analytics account ID.
Unfortunately, java.net uses SSL for all its files. This is unfortunate for two reasons:
- Files do not get cached in the browser: every time a user opens his browser and goes to OpenESB, all the images, style sheets, etc are reloaded again.
- To avoid security warnings in Internet Explorer, files that are included in an HTML file also should come through SSL. This rule is violated on the OpenESB main page (of all places!) where it loads a dynamic list of news item from a non-https server.
There's no workaround for this. Collabnet promised a long time ago that SSL would be removed but this still has not happened.
Changing the menu
The menu is defined in a json like format in a file called menu.js. This file is duplicated in the wiki. See below. Make sure to use absolute URLs because the file is used from different projects, i.e. different roots.
Wiki (not on java.net)
OpenESB is not using the java.net wiki infrastructure. I don't recall why this decision was made. New projects should probably evaluate the java.net wiki infrastructure before considering setting up a wiki elsewhere.
The OpenESB wiki is hosted on a machine hosted at Sun/Oracle, not at Collab net. It is collocated with other wikis, e.g. GlassFish, UpdateCenter, etc. The wiki engine is JSP wiki. The templates have been adapted to look and feel like the java.net OpenESB web site.
Since java.net has / used to have a lot of downtime, and to avoid having this downtime impact the wiki, the menu.js file is duplicated on the wiki. That java.net uses ssl is another reason to duplicate the file. For the same reason, the icons displayed in the menu are also duplicated on the wiki server.
Users are managed separately from java.net. User management / restrictions are necessary to avoid spam. Spam has been a been big problem on the OpenESB wiki and the other wikis collocated with it. Cleaning up spam can be done by directly manipulating the text files that make up the wiki page.
JSPWiki security is configured to use JAAS. This fact is important if the wiki needs to be setup on a different GlassFish server. In that case make sure to update the server.policy file of GlassFish. The policy file specifies that only "validated" users can edit pages. Users are stored in a user database and a group database. The latter specifies group membership, of which the "validated" group is important. Both files are in the etc directory of the wiki directory.
To add a user, the group database needs to be updated. This can be done through the web interface, http://wiki.open-esb.java.net/EditGroup.jsp?group=Validated or can be done by editing the group file directly.
The raw data files and user management files of the wiki can be accessed through SSH.
Since the user management of the wiki is separate from java.net, users can choose a different userid on the wiki than they do on java.net. Allowing this is a mistake in retrospect: editing the wiki requires a SCA (Sun Contributor Agreement) or employment in Sun/Oracle, and having to manage/audit two sets of users instead of one is a waste of time. Again, in retrospect.
java.net user management
Anybody on java.net can request developer privileges. When that happens, an email is sent by java.net to the project owner. An automated process is setup that replies automatically to the user list asking the applicant for his motivation, background, etc. This reply is specified in role-approval.policy in the www directory.
For some reason, many people ask for developer privileges. They are not known, have not contributed or communicated before, and are never heard from again.
Consequently, this automated process sounds nice, but is useless in practice. A better process is that someone first communicates on the mailing list, proves he/she is serious and able to contribute, after which the project owner grants privileges. Before privileges are granted, a signed SCA needs to be on file. This process is documented on the OpenESB web site.
The link to the membership management page is displayed in the java.net nav bar. Recall that the nav bar is hidden. To toggle display of the nav bar, load https://open-esb.dev.java.net/admin.html. Alternatively, jump to the page directly: https://open-esb.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMemberList.
When a user is granted commit privileges to a project, he/she also automatically gets commit privileges to the code repositories of the sub projects. E.g. granting commit privileges to open-esb also gives commit privileges to open-jbi-components, a sub project of open-esb. This is only the case if the VCS of the child project is of the same type as the parent project. Since open-jbi-components and open-esb both use CVS, open-esb committers have access to open-jbi-components. However, if the VCS system is different, e.g. openesb-builds uses SVN, separate access to this project needs to be granted next to open-esb.
java.net email management
Email lists are managed by an email list manager running in java.net. This email list manager is only partially integrated in java.net. Users can click on a button on the java.net site to subscribe to an email list. What effectively happens is that it will register the email address that is associated with that user at that moment in the list server. Similarly, a user can unsubscribe through a button, which will remove the email list associated with that user at that moment. Where this knowledge comes in handy? There is confusion if the user changes his email address associated with his java.net id between subscribing and unsubscribing. Sometimes users get so confused that they'll need help unsubscribing from the list. After all the last thing you want is repeated posts of "how do I unsubscribe from this list?".
Here is another task with respect to email: spam. Protecting the list to spam is very important. Therefore lists should be setup as "discuss" or "moderated". A setting of "discuss" means that only "subscribed" or "allowed" posters can post. If someone posts a message who is not in the "subscribed" or "allowed" list, the message will be forwarded to the list owner(s) for review. Replying to that message will allow the message to be posted. To avoid getting too many of these "review messages", frequent posters can be added to the "allowed" list. The "allowed" list is accessible from the email management page.
The link to the email list management page is displayed in the java.net nav bar. Recall that the nav bar is hidden. To toggle display of the nav bar, load https://open-esb.dev.java.net/admin.html. Alternatively, jump to the page directly: https://open-esb.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList.
Nabble is a view on the mailing list. OpenESB has integrated it on the web site. Note that posters are identified by their "from" email address only, but posters on Nabble somehow do not need to be in the "allowed" of "subscribed" list. This is fortunate, but puzzling from a technical point of view.
This brings me to one more email list related tasks: once in a while, someone posts an email that he/she wants to revoke. For example, someone could accidentally send a private email to the list, or include confidential (customer information for example) information in an email.
Of course there's no such thing as undoing the sending of an email. Subscribed users will have received the email by the time that the sender notices the mistake. However, there is an option to remove the email from Nabble and from the java.net mail browser. Note that there are two places where the email needs to be removed: both Nabble and java.net. Removing the mail there at least makes the mistake less visible and will make it harder for the mistaken email to be picked up by search engines.
java.net automation
Some of the management tasks on java.net can be automated. Kohsuke has developed an extensive set of tools that provide a Java api to java.net web interface: https://javanettasks.dev.java.net/.
I've written a few tools to make community management easier. One such tool is used to make an inventory of all the users in the community with commit privileges. Everybody in this list should either be a Sun/Oracle employee, or should have signed an SCA. The tool loads and parses the list of signatories (from https://sca.dev.java.net/CA_signatories.htm) and compares this list with the one extracted from java.net. Discrepancies are people who are currently or have been Sun/Oracle employees. Since it is difficult to track who is no longer an employee (especially with the layoffs that used to happen every now and then), the tool can email all "discrepancies" and ask them to either submit an SCA or to verify employment by clicking a link pointing to an internal server. These tools are available on https://open-esb-build.dev.java.net/svn/open-esb-build/trunk/community-mgt/.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
OpenESB under Oracle
It's been a few months since Oracle acquired Sun. At the time there were a lot of questions about what Oracle would do with OpenESB. On Feb 15, I posted a plan to the users mailing list. What was the plan? And how is the plan coming together? How is OpenESB doing a few months after the acquisition? What will the future hold for OpenESB?
First, let's try to understand Oracle's perspective. Oracle already has an integration product: the SOA Suite. Through the BEA acquisition it got another one, and through the Sun acquisition it got yet two more: CAPS and OpenESB. Of course there's no sense in keeping high levels of investments in all these products; it makes much more sense to focus on one product. What is this strategic product? Oracle is very clear about that: Oracle's strategic SOA middleware platform is the Oracle SOA Suite. Consequently, Oracle has reduced the level of investment in OpenESB.
That was the bad news. Now for the good news. Oracle could have just pulled out from OpenESB and let it fall into a black hole. Or worse, it could have taken the site down, removed the downloads, or put other obstacles in place. It did not. It did quite the contrary.
Although Sun was the main sponsor behind OpenESB, Oracle recognized that a lot of people made investments into OpenESB, either in the community or into their own company by using OpenESB, and with a feeling of responsibility and fairness, Oracle decided to help the community to find a way to stand on its own, so that all these investments would bear fruit for as long a time as possible.
Did you invest in OpenESB? Let's look at what will change for you depending on the kind of investment you made.
What will change for you
What will change for you if you bought GlassFish ESB support? Nothing will change: you are still fully supported. The same Sun SOA Support department is still available to help on issues. Should patches be created to address issues, the full Sun SOA Sustaining department is still there to create patches.
Are you using GlassFish ESB but did not buy support? Unlike Sun, Oracle is no longer trying to sell GlassFish ESB licenses to new customers. Instead, you may rely on community support, or commercial support provided by one of the OpenESB community partners. The user mailing list is nowadays less frequented by Sun/Oracle engineers, but other community members have stepped up and are keeping the mailing list responsive. More about that below.
Are you investing in OpenESB by contributing code or other artifacts, or are considering to do so? You will find that it has become easier to contribute. I've put together a new governance document that gives greater freedom to community contributors. Oracle can still exert influence, but that is intended to keep the peace in the community should that be necessary. Overall, you will find it easier to propose and implement new changes, to commit code, and last but not least, to influence the roadmap. This brings us to the future of OpenESB.
The future of OpenESB
The future of OpenESB revolves around OpenESB becoming an open source community that can stand on its own, i.e. without Sun or Oracle as the single major sponsor. That transformation will of course not happen overnight, and Oracle is committed to help with this transformation. For instance, Oracle will do periodic builds and post these on the downloads site. Another commitment is that Oracle will merge patches that it makes for customers, back into the open source repository.
What did Oracle do so far? Next to the governance document I already mentioned, the sources of GlassFish ESB v2.2 can now be found in the open source repository. The HL7 BC and the WLM SE are also back in the open source repository, and the binaries can be downloaded from the downloads page. The process of an automatic periodic build has incurred some delays due to technical issues, but is well on its way.
OpenESB today
How is OpenESB doing today? Let's look at the users mailing list. From the Users mailing list on Markmail, it can be seen that the list activity has declined a bit, but is not much below the activity of that of a year ago.
What we also can learn from Markmail is that community members who are not on the Oracle payroll are stepping up. For example, here are the most active posters for March:
Another metric that we can look at is the number of users. In GlassFish ESB v2.1 we introduced a feature in which NetBeans checks for updates upon startup. By looking at the traffic to the updates-server, we can estimate how many users there are of GlassFish ESB. I defined the number of users as the number of NetBeans installations that ping the server at least three times in a time window greater than five days. As can be seen, the number of users is going up.
In terms of a roadmap there are no concrete proposals from the community yet, but several members have expressed interest in continuing with Fuji.
More good news: a few new committers have joined the project and are contributing code.
Moving on… next stop: Google
I've decided it's time to move on. Yesterday I put in my resignation at Oracle. I'll be starting at Google in two weeks.
Why? Was Oracle such a bad place to work? Was it such a culture shock for a Sun employee that it just could not work? Could I not stand my manager? Could I not get along with my new co-workers?
If you're expecting a bitching session about big-bad-Oracle, I have to disappoint you. In the months that I've been at Oracle, I've come to the conclusion that it is a pretty decent company to work for. I like my manager, my co-workers are intelligent and pleasant, and the culture at Oracle is very similar as it was at Sun. So, honestly, no complaints there.
The reason for my leaving is that I've been doing SOA for 7+ years now. I've been involved in the complete lifecycle of two products: CAPS and OpenESB. Now, with my transition into Oracle, I was about to commit to a third SOA product. Before I dove into that, I did some soul searching, and realized that I ready for something new, something in a different field.
As I was looking for a change, I looked at what interesting companies there are here in Orange County. Google and Amazon came to mind. Google is said to be the engineering Valhalla, so I submitted my resume there. And surprise, surprise, I got an offer.
It's a big jump. It's starting from the bottom again… jumping into something brand new. Will I like the change? I'm eager to find out!


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Do you know what they say in Spain? The sap rises in the spring! It's because the days are longer, the countryside looks beautiful and the terraces of the bars are full of people who feel like being outdoors. There are many interesting things to do this season. For example, you can travel to the Jerte Valley (in Extremadura) and experience what it feels like to be surrounded by two million blossoming cherry trees. The hills look like they are covered with a spectacular white blanket. There are routes in this part of Spain and many other cultural and natural routes that lead to other places. You'll also love going hiking and observing the scenery in the Covadonga Lakes, Sanabria Lake, Arribes del Duero (where you can go on a tourist boat), Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, or Tablas de Daimiel National Park. You might also want to visit one of our botanical gardens. As for popular spring festivities, there is Easter week, and then the April Fair in Seville and the Festival of the Courtyards in Cordoba, where you can go for a walk round beautiful courtyards decorated with lots of pots full of geraniums, carnations and jasmines. And on the subject of flowers, in June we have the Corpus Christi, and in towns like San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Sitges and Ponteareas the streets are adorned with enormous carpets made out of petals. Just click on the image or the text that you want in order to find more information about each one of these plans. We also invite you to share your experience on social media with the hashtag #SpringinSpain.
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Courtyards Festival in Cordoba, a World Heritage event.
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Kenny wonders who's Johnny Damon's agent. Marc Teahen might wear #23. Bobby Jenks was offered a multi-year deal before he signed his arbitration contract. Kenny on Jordan Danks and Jared Michell: "this is 2010 and we have to win … They got to wait." Ozzie blamed Kenny for the 2008 team. Jeff Cox: "There's no 'i' in team, but there are 2 in 'idiot.'" Steve Stone to Greg Walker: "Can you make a guy who can't hit, hit?" "Um, no." Rick Hahn: [Gordon] Beckham has changed perception about length of development time. Doug Laumann: [Dayan] Viciedo "a man among boys," probably will end up @ 1B. Rick Hahn: We're re-investing in Latin American scouting infrastructure.
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SoulmanDK needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Logo for a media/entertainment company
http://www.regroup-esports.com (Currently pointed to http://www.meetyourmakers.com ) - Brand name is Regroup Esports
Regroup Esports
Desired Color Scheme:
Since the website is not build yet, we will base it of on the new logo, but preferably something fresh, but not to funky and not to neon-alike. But it may contain some sort of electronical creature, gizmo or the likes as eyecatcher
Desired Style:
Fresh, different, eye catching, but still corporate, with our background in mind.
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After long thinking we have decided to start a contest for a logo for the company Regroup Esports A/S that among other owns http://www.meetyourmakers.com and several other internet businesses within the electronic games industry.
Regroup Esports A/S is a media/entertainment company, primarily in the computer gaming industry, running a professional gaming team, holding LAN events, offering consultancy services, running gaming communities etc.
The logo should contain Regroup Esports and be unique. It will be used as a brand, and people should identify our other brands with it.
Deadline for submissions: Until we have found an entry that fits our expectations
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- Provenance
To 1915
Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), New York, NY, to 1915 [1]
From 1915 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Abel William Bahr, New York, in 1915 [2]
From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2441, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) was a collector and dealer born in Shanghai, China. After he left Shanghai in 1910, he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s)
Charles Lang Freer 1854 - 1919
Abel William Bahr (C.L. Freer source) 1877-1959
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- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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Hi! Welcome to the kids zone of Liverpool's Museums
The dinosaurs are here!
To celebrate, why not draw us your favourite dinosaur?
We will feature your drawing in our online gallery and the best drawing will win a snappy dinosaur!
To enter, take a photo of it and send it to us here.
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Dorcas, aged 9
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3D render of small house as example of eco home with solar panel installation. Simple solar panel system with overview of hot and cold water flow.
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Consider a free-particle with a Gaussian wavefunction,
$$\psi(x)~=~\left(\frac{a}{\pi}\right)^{1/4}e^{-\frac12a x^2},$$ find $\psi(x,t)$.
The wavefunction is already normalized, so the next thing to find is coefficient expansion function ($\theta(k)$), where:
$$\theta(k)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \psi(x)e^{-ikx} \,dx.$$ But this equation seems to be impossible to solve without error function (as maple 16 tells me).
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Day 21: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Prize Pack
As we inch closer to the close of the 25 Days of Tegra, we thought it would be fun to up the ante by giving you a chance to win a double device prize pack. To enter to win today's prize, one of our favorite tablets paired with one of the hottest new QWERTY slider phones, all you've got to do is use your And Me Account to leave a comment below.
The Prize: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, Samsung Captivate Glide, Jawbone Jambox
Highlights of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 include an 8.9-inch LCD display, a dual-core 1 GHz Tegra 2 processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, 3MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0.
Highlights of the Captivate Glide include a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 8GB of internal storage, 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, a full QWERTY keyboard, 8.02.11 b/g/n/ WiFi connectivity, and runs on the AT&T network.
In addition to the pair of devices, you'll get a Jawbone Jambox speaker, a ridiculously loud Bluetooth speaker in a tiny, sexy package. We'll also toss in a $25 AmEx giftcard to get you started in the Tegra Zone with a couple of the best tablet games around.
Contest Rules
This contest is open to residents of the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Entries will be accepted for 23 hours after the contest goes live. We'll announce the winner on the calendar page and on our Twitter account as soon as we draw.
How to Enter
We've got another simple one for you today- all you've gotta do to enter is leave a comment below. To do so, you'll need to be logged in to your And Me Account, but you already have one of those, right? If you're logged in, you'll be able to comment. If you aren't you won't. Simple!
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Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger is credited with designing the Alien (née Xenomorph) from the iconic movies and games.
The character appeared in a 1976 work by Giger. But could it be actually much older than that?
That's what one internet user named Zhao is claiming in China. This painting, Zhao blogs, was allegedly discovered at a Beijing flea market and is believed to be the work of influential Chinese artist Qi Baishi.
Perhaps because China is often accused of stealing intellectual property, a cottage industry has sprouted up, with folks in China saying Western inventions are Chinese knock offs (take this Men in Black 3 claim). Then, there's the bit about people making crap up on the internet.
Baishi died in 1957, and if this is indeed his work, that would mean his "alien" was created well before Giger's painting Necronom IV (below) was completed.
Zhao's original post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo was uploaded in late December, and it now has well over six thousand comments. Some say that the alleged Baishi work was the uncredited source for the Xenomorph design. Others in China say this is a hoax. And then there are those who just want to believe.
But is this art even real? Biashi was noted for his fine brushwork, but much of his work focuses on flowers, insects, animals, and sea creatures like shrimp.
Even China's National Museum has chimed in on the controversy via its microblogging site. And while the National Museum is being coy and didn't verify (or deny) the work, it did offer, "The mixing of water colors and science fiction is truly a sight to behold."
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Eric Jou contributed to this report.
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|Yeah, it might be your park, but Republican leaders are throwing a tantrum. You shall not pass.
It's funny how the little things can be so irritating. Because of the government shutdown, I cannot take my students on a field studies class to one of the more stunning places in our country, Sequoia National Park. As a result, the communities near the park will not receive our business, and we will be traveling someplace else.
Irritating yes, but nothing like the uncertainty that our public servants, the park rangers, the FBI agents, the food inspectors, the diplomats, the people who are doing the necessary and important business of our country have to suffer at the hands of fools. So yes, this post is uncharacteristically angry, because I am very angry.
Congressional Republicans are a bunch of spoiled children conducting a public tantrum that is hurting millions of people. But don't expect them to ever understand that. They collectively seem incapable of empathy. And yes, in this description I am including my own representative, Jeff Denham.
I was taught civics and politics in high school. Elected representatives go to Washington and enact laws using specific processes that have served us well for more than 200 years. If political parties didn't like laws, they could be repealed. By a proper vote in both houses of Congress, and with the signature of the President. Usually we expect that our elected representatives understand how the political process works.
The Affordable Care Act will benefit millions of people. We've already let too many people die or go bankrupt because of health catastrophes in the absence of health insurance. We've been abused for years by health insurance companies acting as the dreaded "death panels" that Republicans keep trying to scare us with. The ACA will (and already has) provided coverage for millions without the caps and limits on pre-existing conditions. And millions will now pay less for health care. The law was passed by the duly elected members of Congress, and signed by the president. It was upheld by the Supreme Court, including the conservative Justice Roberts. It is the law of the land.
But because the spoiled children who pass as representatives of the Republican Party don't think that my children and my cousins and millions of others deserve health care, they've shut down the government, tossing hundreds of thousands out of work, and causing children and the elderly to go hungry. They've endangered all of us. All because they don't truly believe in democracy. The law was enacted. There was an election in which health care was a main issue. And they lost. Get over it, and get our country back to work. Extortion is ugly and morally wrong.
Comment if you wish, but this isn't a debate forum. Intelligent and well-considered objections only. If you decide to unthinkingly parrot Republican talking points, don't expect them last very long in the comments section.


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We live in the mobile age. We don't just want our mobile devices to work, we demand it. Heaven help the carrier with the most dropped calls, they might do something crazy like buy their competitor to improve their service! It's not just calls anymore, or text messages for that matter. It's data. Lots of data and the faster the better.
At this exact second, being 1300944696, the current fastest mobile network in the US is LTE from Verizon Wireless. I used such deep specificity because at the current rate of technology, it may not be when you read this. With all the changes and improvements going on, the existing network must remain solid. I found myself often curious of exactly how such a massive system is maintained, much less upgraded. During the CTIA: Mobile Focus event, Verizon Wireless invited a handful of members of the press out to see one of their mobile network centers, which they've dubbed "superswitches".
The Superswitch we visited, located in Orlando, Fl., is one of about 25 across the US. These control centers are designed to handle mobile calls, SMS, MMS, and mobile broadband for their respective regions. This particular Superswitch faces a somewhat unique problem given it's unfortunate proximity to extreme weather conditions, and as such is re-enforced to survive a Category 5 hurricane and still provide service to its area. While finite numbers were unavailable, this center handles millions of calls and texts, as well as tens of thousands of gigabytes of mobile data on an average day, and is designed to scale up rapidly for large events or emergencies. As we toured the facility, we were given some insight as to the dedication of Verizon Wireless and their employees to ensure these centers are operational.
The center, a plain and unadorned brick building, is surrounded by 10-foot wire fencing, and only secure persons are allowed onto the facility during normal daily operation. The exterior wall of the facility is a layer of brick and concrete with re-enforced steel surrounding the building. In the event of an emergency, like a hurricane, the employees on duty understand that they aren't going anywhere, and the facility is designed to support them for quite a while. Showers in the bathrooms, staff sleeping and eating areas, and a sort of training/conference room are always setup and ready should the worst happen. The walls inside the facility are also re-enforced, in the unlikely event that anything penetrates the exterior wall of the facility. The facility is designed to operate as both a standalone unit and a member of the team with NOCC oversight centers in NJ and TX to load balance across the entire network.
From the moment you step inside the facility, you are presented with giant sleeves of fiber optics and more suspended in the ceiling leading all over the facility. From the command center, the team has immediate access to the two data centers within the facility, each designed with failover systems should anything happen. For this facility, the first data room seemed near capacity, while the newer second room was nearly empty by comparrison.
This second room is also the home of Orlando's LTE service, and it was more than clear that this facility was designed to handle quite a bit of expansion as Verizon's services grow. The engineers running the facility are also constantly testing the network to ensure calls, texts, and broadband are live and functional, using a unique and even odd looking testing setup.
It takes more than staff to keep a building like this running. A triple shot of powerful, room-sized generators as well as four massive rows of very large batteries are in place should the lights go out. The batteries are capable of keeping the building powered for roughly 12-14 hours, and are safely installed to ensure any accidents that could cause leaks or any other harm are contained. Each rack has a 6-inch thick layer of absorbing material under is in the event of discharge, and the whole room is sunk a bit deeper than the rest of the facility to ensure anything that could happen would be contained to the room.
Two of the generators run simultaneously when not relying on battery live to power the facility in an emergency, and the third generator acts up in case of failure. In the event that another facility is unable to keep two generators running, a mobile generator that has been built into a large trailer is able to be delivered and used to keep the lights on. With two very large gasoline tanks underneath the facility, the generators are able to work with the batteries to keep the facility running as smooth as possible during a crisis.
It's not all about keeping a facility like this running on the inside though. Mobile networks tend to work very poorly when a hurricane has demolished the cell towers in an area. The team at this facility are prepared to follow emergency crews out into damaged areas and deploy a multitude of portable service generation devices. Oddly, the devices all have farm animal-like names. Previously I had been familiar with the Celltower On Wheels, or C.O.W. units. COW's can broadcast voice, text, and data anywhere it's needed, though currently there are no COW's in Verizon's lineup that mobilize LTE. They can go anywhere from emergencies to the Super Bowl to deliver a boost in service when many people are clustered together. The large portable generator I mentioned earlier is a Generator on a Trailer (G.O.A.T.) and come in a variety of sizes for any need.
Being no stranger to datacenters, this experience was still very impressive. Verizon Wireless clearly has designed this facility to exceed the need of the area, and ensure that the facility can stand up to severe conditions, giant sporting events, rapid expansion of a next generation network, and even a handfull of very curious members of the media. The staff here are dedicated to ensuring the demands of this mobile age are being well handled.


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Carol Willem Voges was born in Amsterdam. He developed an early interest in art and drawing, and found employment with the Joop Geesink animation studios at the age of 17. During World War II, he participated in the studio's production of an advertising film for the Dutch railways, 'Pierus Peddelaar'.
He also worked for the Toonder-Geesink studio, where he participated in the pencilling of early 'Tom Poes' strips, that were corrected by Toonder himself and inked by Wim Lensen. During the War, Voges furthermore made satirical drawings for the resistance, and also illustrated sheet music.
Professor Creghel (Pum Pum, 1957)
Voges replaced the Jewish artist Bob Uschi as the sports cartoonist in De Telegraaf. After the War, he became one of the main illustrators for De Volkskrant. In the second half of the 1940s Voges worked in a studio together with a certain J. van Bossum in Bussum. Under the label Studio Van Bossum-Voges, they made the illustrations for the book 'De muizen en de mooie hoed' by Pieter van Hemert (Kroonder, 1945) and the 'Prikkebaard' series by P.H. Fruithof (Kroonder, 1946).
For De Volkskrant, he also made his first and best-known creation, 'Pa Pinkelman'. This daily comic strip appeared in the newspaper Volkskrant and was written by Godfried Bomans from 1945 to 1952. The first six episodes appeared under the title 'De Avonturen van Pa Knetterteen'.
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The strip was very popular because of the absurd stories of Bomans, in which dignitaries and politicians often had a guest appearance. In 1976 and 1977, Voges cooperated on a television adaptation of the strip.
While working on 'Pa Pinkelman', Voges also created the newspaper comic strip about the sports monkey 'Jimmy Brown, Sportheld nr. 1' for the weekly Sportief and the regional press (1949-1957), as well as 'Professor Créghel' in Rotterdams Kwartet (1947-1949), 'Hertog Lieverlui dan Moe' in De Tijd (1948-1949), 'De Bewoners van Laag-Wapperen' in Kris-Kras (1956-1957) with text by Han G. Hoekstra. For the Shell magazine Olidin, he drew 'Opa' from 1957 to 1962 and 'Mex' from 1962 to 1963.
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Voges was furthermore an illustrator for Okki and for the children's book publisher De Eekhoorn, where he made drawings for several book series by Henri Arnoldus, like 'Tup en Joep', 'Pietje Puk', 'Oki en Doki', 'Jokkie' and Pim en Pidoe'.
Pa Pinkelman (March 1952)
Voges joined the weekly comic magazine Sjors, where he did 'Sjors van de Rebellenclub' gags with Gerard Michon from 1954 to 1963, followed by six 'Dinkie' stories (1963-67) and 'Bertram' (1968-69).
Bertram (Sjors van de Rebellenclub #38, 1968)
Between 1965 and 1988, he also worked for the weekly Donald Duck, where he drew covers and stories with Disney characters like 'Donald Duck', 'Dumbo', 'Gus & Jaq' and 'Chip 'n' Dale'.
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He was also present in Libelle with 'Mario en de Toverpluisbloem' in 1965 and 1966 and in Bobo with 'Wolla-Wolla' in 1972. In the final stages of his career, he was making drawings with 'Sesame Street' characters for Bobo. Carol Voges spent his final years in the Rosa Spierhuis in Laren. He was an influence on Dirk Stallaert, who particularly liked his 'Pa Pinkelman' stories. In the Dutch city Almere two streets were named after 'Pa Pinkelman' and 'Tante Pollewop', while a path was named after Voges himself, as part of the "Comics heroes" district.
Mario en de Toverpluisbloem
Carol Voges biography
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Inducks entry