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Wayne Rooney's unhappiness at Manchester United last season stemmed from being forced to play in midfield but he says he is now settled at the club under new manager David Moyes.
It had been widely reported that the 27-year-old was upset at life under former manager Alex Ferguson and that he wanted to quit the club he joined in 2004, with Premier League rivals Chelsea making three bids for the striker.
United refused to sell and Rooney has since started the season strongly, scoring three times in six league matches and netting a brace in his one Champions League appearance against Bayer Leverkusen.
"I didn't feel I got a consistent run of games up front," Rooney told reporters ahead of Friday's crucial 2014 World Cup qualification match against Montenegro at Wembley.
"I actually felt when I played midfield I did OK, but I didn't want to play there.
"I've no problem in the past playing out of position, but I felt I deserved the right to play in my position and that wasn't happening. I think naturally I was a bit disappointed and maybe that affected some of the games I played. Maybe when I'm a bit older, losing my legs a bit, I can go back there."
Rooney scored 12 league goals in United's title winning campaign, but he took a back seat to Robin van Persie following his arrival from Arsenal, with the Dutchman the league's top scorer with 26.
"Everyone at the club knew that's where I wanted to play and I think that's why I was disappointed because I got told to play in midfield. I didn't want to, but I'd always go in and try to help the team. There had to come a point where for my own career I had to be a bit selfish really."
Rooney, who burst onto the scene as a 16-year-old under Moyes at Everton, was also believed to have been upset at Ferguson publicly airing claims that he had submitted a transfer request.
He said that he was now happy at the club and content with life under Moyes, despite their shaky start to the season that sees United lying ninth after seven matches.
He would not reveal whether he was keen to extend his time at Old Trafford when his current deal expires however.
"David Moyes has come in, he's playing me up front and I'm enjoying it. You can see I'm playing and I'm happy in my football.
"I'll have more discussions with the club and we'll see what happens from there. I've been settled all summer. I've spoke to the people who matter at the club and we've known ourselves what we're doing. I'm sure the club has made that clear."


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What did we use?
Toilet paper, and paper towel rolls
Stickers to decorate them up
That's it ! So easy to put together and my child Loved it!
I have seen several of these on pinterest, blogs and other sites. I have posted several styles in the past we have tried ourselves or want to try.
Marble run with PVC pipe
and our portable marble run
The inspiration on this such day was a post from More than ABC's and 123's I had pinned on pinterest. Looking back at hers I see things I want to change in mine!
We just did ours on the refrigerator . Yep , that is my old white and somewhat colored on fridge in the photos.
I just hot glued magnets to the back of the toilet paper rolls and as you can see I just let C add stickers to them.
Here he is putting a magnet in and watching where it goes.
We used more tubes, less tubes, mix matched paper towel and toilet paper. Took some off , added them back . Just rearranging them to see what happened when we would do this or that. C had a blast.
Best of all we had all of the supplies on hand except for the magnets. This activity cost me a whole $1.97 for the magnets and that was it!
Many of our marbles ended up finding their way under the fridge. Wonder how that happened?
One happy toddler = one happy mommy

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Kyle Lohse hit hard in his second straight start today. The good news is the light hitting Pirates will be in town next week. That may give him a chance to get back on track. The Pirates are hitting .254 as a team (the Cardinals are hitting .281). The bright spot today: two more home runs for Ryan Ludwick. Don't know how you take him out of the line up right now. He's leading the team in home runs and batting average.
Cant get enough of watching the action at the 17th hole at the Players Championship. It's the nastiest 140 yard par three in history. About a dozen more balls hit the water today. I hope the wind picks up over the weekend. Last year, 50 balls hit the water in round one and 94 got wet over the four days. Ernie Els is as mild mannered and even tempered as any golfer I've ever seen and today, after taking a triple bogey six, he said they should blow up the hole. He was serious.
I used to live for the Celtics--Lakers rivalry in the 80's so I'd love to see that match up in the NBA Finals. I believe the Lakers will make it. I think they're the best team in hoops right now. Until tonight I was doubting my Celtics. But, they blew out Cleveland in game two. What Kevin Garnett has done with the Celts is amazing. He IS that team.
Yankees right hander Mike Mussina won his 255th game tonight. I've known he's been good. I didn't know he's been that good. He'll might make the Hall of Fame despite not having any 20 win seasons. That shows you how consistent he's been. He's won 13 or more games in 14 of 16 seasons.
Arizona right hander Brandon Webb improved to 8-0 today. He's just the third pitcher in the last 50 years to start 8-0 with an ERA of less than 2.25. Pedro Martinez did it in 1997 with Montreal and Fernando Valenzuela did it as a rookie with the Dodgers in 1981. Valenzuela's numbers that year are staggering. His ERA in his first starts was 0.50 and he completed all 8 starts with five shutouts.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A family of North American Indian languages of the eastern part of Canada and the United States that includes Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Erie, Huron, and Wyandot.
- n. A member of an Iroquoian-speaking people.
- adj. Of or constituting the Iroquoian language family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of or pertaining to a Native American language family including the Iroquois and Cherokee.
- n. A member of the Iroquois people.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating, one of the principal linguistic stocks of the North American Indians. The territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes, of whom the Five Nations, or Iroquois proper, were the chief, extended from the shores of the St. Lawrence and of Lakes Huron, Ontario, and Erie south, through eastern Pennsylvania, to Maryland; that of the southern tribes, of whom the Cherokees were chief, formed part of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. All of the tribes were agricultural, and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as Iroquois.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
Sorry, no etymologies found.
By the time Céleron passed through, it had become a gathering place for Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples from the whole Ohio Country, most with grudges against the Six Nations, the French, or both.
Falling Woman, the ancestress of the Iroquoian tribes of the North Eastern portion of North America, was said to have tumbled out of the watery sky into the waters below.
I have been exploring the Iroquoian and West African pantheons lately.
Edward Morris 11:21 pm: I grew up in a waste dump built on an Iroquoian burial ground, Hollidaysburg, PA., which is stuffed so full of ghost stories I had to become an author. last sentence would not fit for some reason. g/a
They have seen the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking societies they encountered in the Northeast as too different from British societies to have exerted lasting changes on them.
There, too, the native groups, descended from Mississippian societies, were far more hierarchical and autocratically ruled than the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking groups in the Northeast.
The same goes for the pre-emptive illegal occupation of sovereign lands formally a part of Mexico, the Iroquoian and Cherokee nations, and other Native American tribes not listed.
Some Indians formed confederacies such as the League of the Five Nations, which was made up of certain New York-Pennsylvania groups of Iroquoian speech.
In the centuries before Molly Ockett's birth around 1740, the Abenaki, an eastern Algonquian tribe, maintained their historic homeland over an area stretching from the Iroquoian tribal lands in southern Québec to the northern Massachusetts border and from the Passamaquoddy territory in eastern Maine to the shore of Lake Champlain in western Vermont.
The Susquehannock were a powerful Iroquoian-speaking tribe who lived along the Susquehanna River and its branches from the north end of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, across Pennsylvania, and into southern New York.


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Brand: Pearl
Pearl's Brush Beat fiberglass cajon is designed to speak remarkably well when played with brushes and other implements. The front and sides of the cajon feature uniquely textured areas which fade to a smooth feel at the top of the instrument.
The Brush Beat Cajon is modeled after Pearl's popular Boom Box Cajon, which features a fixed-snare system, as well as a built-in bass port that magnifies the cajon's subsonic frequencies for a dynamic low-end sonority. The classy black and white finish with singular pinstripe gives this cajon a slick, stylish look. Pearl's Brush Beat Cajon offers a new way to explore cajon performance.
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* Karl Dubost wrote: >Le 9 janv. 2013 à 09:28, Piotr Dobrogost a écrit : >> In http://trac.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-21#section-3.2 >> one reads >> >> "Multiple header fields with the same field name MUST NOT be sent in a message unless the entire field value for that header field is defined as a comma-separated list [i.e., #(values)]." > >To add to Piotr comment and give a bit of context: > >Let's imagine a situation where I want to send multiple qualified Link: such as: > > Link: </2012/07/26/csstests/csshttplink.css>;rel=stylesheet > Link: </>;rel=next > >According to the quoted paragraph, The sender (server in this case) MUST not send that but > > Link: </2012/07/26/csstests/csshttplink.css>;rel=stylesheet, </>;rel=next > >Is it a correct understanding? The Link header appears to be defined as taking a comma-separated list, <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5>, so the "MUST NOT" above does not apply to the Link header. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/Received on Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:00:12 UTC
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It's been three weeks since Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 Alpha 2 was released (compared the usual two weeks, due to the tour of Chernobyl), but the third alpha release for this next release codenamed "Lyngen" is now available. Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 Alpha 3 is carrying mostly internal changes and improvements to pts-core, but there are some externally visible changes too. The start of the suite-to-pdf option has been introduced, various bug-fixes, text-based interface enhancements, tweaks to the generated graphs, and compatibility with older versions of PHP 5.1/5.2.Full story »
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Quality Pearl
Guide For Buying Quality Pearls
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Beppe Iachini praised Siena's spirit after they recovered from a shock to beat Pescara 3-2. "It was a complicated situation, but the players believed."
The Tuscans had gone 2-0 up at half-time, but were pegged back on 2-2 at the Adriatico before Innocent Emeghara snatched the winner on the counter-attack.
"We started so well and were able to impose our tempo in the first half, but after the break lost intensity and allowed Pescara to get back to 2-2," said the Coach.
"We got scared after Pescara netted their first goal, but then we recovered and did well to win the game. It was a complicated situation, but I compliment the players because they believed."
Siena went into this weekend in joint-penultimate position with Genoa and Palermo, while Pescara now seem doomed after an eighth consecutive defeat.
"People thought we were already relegated when I arrived, as we were so far behind Pescara and had to fight back, not to mention the six-point penalty."
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Spring clean your clutter
2012-09-09 09:18
The Quick Shift Diva Kate Emmerson, a lifestyle and clutter expert, provides some basic rules for all your physical clutter.
The best way to tackle anything is a little bit at a time.
Go to www.kate-emmerson.com and sign up for a free course on how to quick shift.
You will then qualify for a 50% off voucher for Emmerson's step-by-step 28-day spring cleaning guide that provides bite-size tasks to tackle daily:
1 Rooms
Each room has a main function.
For example, your bedroom is just that and not a dumping ground for everything else. Keep what is relevant
for its function in that space, and nothing else if possible.
2 Own home
Every item you own has its own home.
This is the place where it lives and everyone who lives in the home knows where it belongs.
Ideally everyone in the home knows how to reach any given item in less than a minute – but that may take some time to train all involved.
3 Like with like
Keep and store like with like.
For example, medicines together, table mats together, all plugs and adaptors together.
4 Uniformity
Use the concept of "easy on the eye" to create a feeling of uniformity.
If an item feels out of place, it probably is.
5 Jars
Use small plastic, wooden, wicker or even glass jars to keep like with like and to stop all things morphing and meshing together in a drawer.
6 Store stuff
Store stuff according to where you will naturally retrieve it.
It doesn't matter how much stuff you have, but you must know where it is and be able to find it in a minute.
7 Donate
When sorting out your drawers, look at each item and ask: Do I love it? Does it add value? Do I use it?
And if not, throw it out or donate it to a charitable home.
8 Stick to rules
Teach any staff to stick to your new rules, systems or place for items.
It is up to you to ensure that it goes into the proper place.
9 Guide children
Never underestimate what children are capable of doing with their rooms and items if you guide them – expect them to put stuff back.


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Words Without Words: A Visual Dictionaryby Maria Popova
If we could re-learn our SAT words, this is how we would do it.
We love, love, love words and language, especially whenever lingo-love and beautiful design meet. So we're all over Words Without Words by Slovakian-born, Stanford-educated, Los-Angeles-based designer Veronika Heckova — a lovely visual dictionary of words with abstract, complex or underused meanings.
The project is part Radiolab homage to words, part Johnny Carrera's visual dictionary of curiosities, and altogether wonderful.
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pkgsrc/x11/Xfixes fails to build on my FreeBSD 7 system: ...checking for fixesext >= 2.0... Package fixesext was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fixesext.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'fixesext' found configure: error: Library requirements (fixesext >= 2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
*** Error code 1 X11_TYPE is native.Does this imply that fixesext.pc is supposed to be supplied by FreeBSD, not by pkgsrc?
Looking at pkg/31086, I could work around the issue setting PREFER.fixesproto=pkgsrc. Nevertheless I wonder why this seems to be necessary.
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The description of mod uses expressions the expression (a idiv b)*b+(a mod b) that is (one assumes) XPath/Xquery, (although other cases of explict xpath examples the operators have op: or fn: syntax so this probably ought to be op:numeric-multiply(op:numeric-integer-divide(a,b) ,b)... however it also uses the phrase the result obeys (a/b)*b+(a mod b) = a. Division is truncating division, analogous to integer division, not [IEEE 754-1985] rounding division. The expression there is a valid Xpath, but not the desired expression:-) I assume that the second sentence is intended to give a local definition of "/" but a) I think some other syntax should be used in preference to "/" to avoid confusion, and b) I don't think "analogous to integer division" is clear enough as a specification. If a and b are positive I assume you want something equivalent to the Xpath floor(a div b)*b+(a mod b) = a Although It's not clear whether mod should be _defined_ that way in terms of the Xpath floor and div (which may affect certain edge cases). David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________Received on Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:20:15 UTC
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Pfizer Cites Safety in Pulling Thelin, a Blood Pressure Drug
By DUFF WILSON
Published: December 11, 2010
The drug company Pfizer is withdrawing the blood pressure drug Thelin from Europe, Canada and Australia and halting clinical trials it was conducting in a years-long quest to gain approval in the United States, the company said on Friday.
Thelin, a treatment for severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, can cause life-threatening liver problems, Pfizer said after two patients died in a clinical trial.
The Food and Drug Administration has rejected applications to market the drug in the United States at least three times in recent years, out of concern that the risks outweighed the drug's effectiveness -- concerns apparently validated by Pfizer's announcement.
Drug companies and some business and political interests have often complained that the F.D.A. is too cautious to approve new drugs and medical devices, depriving Americans of needed treatment. Those critics say Europe has acted more in patients' interests by approving medical advances faster.
But today's voluntary withdrawal shows such wariness was warranted in the case of Thelin.
The drug was approved in Europe in 2006 and in Canada and Australia in 2007, even as the F.D.A. was turning back applications to bring it to American markets.
The announcement also presents a reversal to other recent actions over drug safety where Europe acted sooner or more decisively than the United States.
Last month, the F.D.A. pulled the painkilling drug propoxyphene, sold under the Darvon and Darvocet brand names, from the United States market because of its heart risks. Britain banned it in 2005 and the European Union banned it in 2009.
In September, the F.D.A. severely restricted prescriptions of the diabetes medicine Avandia, while the drug was banned in Europe, after concerns about heart attack risks.
Worldwide sales of Thelin were $44.4 million in the first nine months of 2010, Pfizer said. The drug maker, which is based in New York, acquired Thelin when it bought Encysive Pharmaceuticals in 2008.
Pfizer has been beset by a management changes, federal investigations and a series of research setbacks in recent months. Late Thursday, the company announced that it was paying $4.5 million cash severance to Jeffrey B. Kindler after he unexpectedly retired Sunday as president and chief executive.
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How to make an Electric Skateboard
Making an Electric Skateboard
Here are a few posts about the key point to look at when making an electric skateboard
Reviews and blog
This section is really me dissecting other peoples project to steal the good stuff and slag on the stuff I don't like.
Electric skateboard kits
Making life easy, here are some links to electric skateboards kits. There are a couple of companies selling really good kits these days so keep it in mind.
Boosted board reviews
Boosted boards had a massive kickstarter and was really the beginning of the interest in electric skateboards for most. They even did a Ted X.
Best electric skateboards
So here are a list of some of the electric skateboards that you can buy now
About this blog
I created this blog because I wanted to make an electric skateboard and I couldn't find much information on the topic at the time (back in late 2012). The hope of this blog is to provide some information on the topic and most likely highlight a few pit falls so you can avoid the mistakes I made.
I didn't come up with anything new here, I just spent some time looking at the few good examples I saw of electric skateboards and the rest is trial an error. Hopefully you have less error. As you can see from this picture I'm pretty slap dash with my finishes but many go for a bit neater finishes if you're that way inclined.
At the time the only electric skateboard you could buy was a terrible clunky Chinese boards with rubber wheels. I wanted something a bit nicer, so I started to look around.
These days there are a number of high quality pre-built boards (most great quality and at an okay price) and a few people selling kits and parts. Check out the links if your interested but personally I've always liked making and learning new things even if it's not perfect. The journey vs destination and all that.


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You are a member of MegaForce and have been sent to the city of Sardoun. Sardoun is under attack and you must defend it. You are armed with the Moto-Fighter, a sort of armed motorcycle with flight ability. When you are on the ground, your missiles fire down and forward, at an angle. When you are in the air, your missiles fire straight ahead.
The object is to destroy enemy fighters, destroy or avoid ground-launched rockets, destroy fuel depots and destroy the enemy headquarters. Any enemy fighters that get past you will head to Sardoun and bomb a building. You will see a red flash at the top of the screen with the words 'Defend' when Sardoun is in trouble.
Every second you are playing, you use one gallon on fuel. If you run out of fuel, you lose a life. You can shoot fuel tanks to replenish. If you destroy all the tanks of that depot, a prize will appear that you can shoot (but may not want to). See 'Prizes' for details. Each tank destroyed is worth eighty points and ten gallons of fuel.
Each enemy fighter destroyed is worth 100 points.
Each ground rocket destroyed is worth 300 points.
Each tower of the enemy headquarters destroyed is worth 300 to 600 points. If you get them all, you get one more point.
Each tower of Sardoun destroyed is worth 100 to 400 points and ten gallons of fuel each BUT if all the towers are destroyed, you will not be able to get any more points that round and will lose a life at the end of that round.
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Whoopi, Sherri Shepherd Join 'The View'
Comedians Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd are joining The View next season, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Final negotiations for the comic duo are underway and an official announcement is expected next week. The current View hosts include Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The other strong contender was comedian Kathy Griffin.
Whoppi and Sherri guest co-hosted The View together earlier this month — Monday, July 9.
You can catch Sherri "guest co-host" again this Friday with guests John Travolta and Queen Latifah.
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High School students can choose from our four types of programs—expeditions, community service programs, photo workshops, or university workshops—and experience what it's like to be on assignment for National Geographic. On all of our high school programs, you'll pursue a project related to your area of interest. That could mean creating a field guide, a portfolio of photographs, or a proposal for a project to carry out at home. At the end of the trip, you'll share what you've created with the group, and return home with a meaningful and tangible project.


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We know that all the UFC monkeys out there still haven't gotten enough of that yummy octagon action, and to be honest neither have we. Voted champion by IGN out of a most impressive list of Dreamcast fighters at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Crave Entertainment's Ultimate Fighting Championship has steadily become one of the most eagerly awaited titles of the Summer. Only weeks away before the final product storms it's way onto store shelves, we thought that we'd take one more look at the sizzling hot fighter before the finished copy firmly takes hold of our Dreamcasts.
Looking better with every build, UFC is sporting some serious graphical muscle. Flaunting some of the most realistic skin textures you have ever seen, the fighters themselves look just like their real-life inspirations. Chest hair, scars, and various other body marks have been given the full-on treatment, and coupled with a plethora of wicked shading techniques, the realism of every bout is down right eerie.
Movement is another strong point in the UFC arsenal. Taken from hours and hours of match footage, consultation with fighters, and actual motion capture, the bouts breeze along at a silky smooth 60 fps... and that game isn't quite finished yet! Idle animations like Kevin Randleman's habit of jumping in the air like a kangaroo and Bas Rutten's subtle shoulder wiggle have also been meticulously thrown in for the hell of it, pushing the believability envelope that much further.
The most spectacular display of realism in the game so far however, has to be the player entrances. Absolutely identical to the Pay-Per-Views and Blockbuster rental tapes we've been watching over the years, the camera work during the aisle march is incredible. It all starts at the foot of the curtain as the fighter makes his long walk to the octagon and pans around from angle to angle. Then come the pyrotechnics, real-time shading effects, and the very busy animation of the best looking audience I have ever seen in a game that has audiences. You can actually see the camera men and ring crew as they shuffle around the arena, preparing to watch the naturally brutal fight!
Once both characters have entered the arena, the announcer Bruce Buffer introduces them. Announcing their statistics and accomplishments as the television screen displays an ESPN-like graphic of that fighters abilities, the camera pans to each combatant as he eyes his opponent and does his pre-fight warm-up motions. Once the announcements have been made, "Big" John McCarthy takes over and prepares the foes one last time, asks them if they're ready, and then ends the ceremony with a boisterous "LETS GET IT ON!" Truly awesome and a sight that has to be seen to be believed.
As mentioned in our last preview, game modes have finally taken shape and are each and every one essential to experiencing all that the game has to offer. Gaining victories in "UFC Mode" will earn you Silver Championships which will not only allow that fighter to compete for "Championship Road" and the Gold Titles (and secret characters), but will also unlock an extra feature for "Career Mode". Once you've gotten all the extras in "Career Mode" that you can handle, feel free to sit back and assemble a pit fighter of your very own. Moves, abilities, and the color of your outfit are completely interchangeable and manipulated rather easily with a few simple button presses. The only gripe I have about making your own guy right now is that you can't seem to alter height, weights, and ages. But hopefully that will be addressed before the final copy sails on to retailers.
Multiplayer possibilities haven't been forgotten either. With "Tournament" you can grab up to eight of your buddies (or mix and match them with CPU-controlled pain mongers) and duke it out in a systematic elimination for the number one spot. Possessing an easy to use interface and a wide selection of different fighters, chances are good that gamers will flock to this option like flies on rotting meat.
Speaking of fighters, there are a ton. Each with their own unique styles of hand-to-hand combat and all are extremely deadly. Real life superstars like Tito Ortiz and Maurice Smith join some of the lesser known of the bunch (plus a truck load of original characters) to keep those trigger fingers active. Still tweaking the balance between the styles and techniques even as we speak, we'll reserve judgment on the gameplay system until the final review. But Tekken fans take note, this is going to be your type of game (with a dash of DOA 2 thrown in for good measure).
With only a few weeks left before the shrink-wrapped version of Crave and Anchor's little battle child explodes into markets, anticipation and expectations seem to be getting higher by the second. In that delicate position where a game's future relies on how great it can be or how great it could have been, Ultimate Fighting Championship is going to be one to watch!
-- Jeremy Dunham, IGNDC
Crave and Anchor's take on the Ultimate Fighting Championship has come along quite nicely since our previous play test. Not that it was looking bad or anything, but this latest build seems to confirm that the game is going to be more than just a quick play through for UFC fanatics and graphics whores.
Included in this latest build are full versions of the various modes of play, most of which we commented on last time. Here's a full rundown:
UFC Mode: Choose a player and go through a tournament where every entry but your own is set up by the computer. You're given the option of watching or skipping all CPU vs CPU matches.
Tournament Mode: Create your own tournament, filling in anywhere from one to all eight slots with CPU or human-controlled players.
Champion Road: If you face defeat from any of 12 challengers, you're out of the running. In order to enter this mode, you need to be a silver belt holder in the UFC tournament (uhh... I'm not sure which tournament mode is in reference here).
Exhibition: Pick a player, pick an opponent, are you ready, are you ready, let's get it on! - simple as can be.
Training: This works like any other fighting game. Select a fighter and an opponent and train against a CPU dummy. You can start off in various positions, and as you train, the bottom of the screen displays the commands you've input. Standard stuff...
Career: Create a new player and take him on a series of matches against opponents of progressively higher level. Each time you defeat an opponent, you earn skill points, with the number of points being determined by the level of the opponent and how many rounds you needed in order to win (the highest level gives you 608 skill points for winning in the first round, for instance, while the lowest level gives you a mere 14 skill points for winning in the first round). Skill points can be exchanged for new moves and for building level in endurance, stamina, punch skill and kick skill. You can save your fighter for use in the other modes of play.
The career mode is looking like it's going to be one of the more enjoyable parts of the game mostly because of the freedom you're allowed in creating your fighter. You can select from five different fighting styles: sumo, kick boxing, jiu-jitsu, submission fighting and pit fighting. The build of your fighter can be changed to five different types: sumo type, shoot type, normal type, jiu-jitsu type and wrestling type. Finally, you can select from five different colors and five different voices. Of course, the need to raise your fighter in skill should go a long way towards ensuring that everyone ends up with a slightly different fighter.
And, yes, the game is still looking to be a must-have for the UFC fanatics and graphics whores. Anchor, the group working out of Japan on the game's development has done some amazing things in the past, but this is looking like their finest graphical achievement. The image quality, player models and player animation are unmatched, making for a true-to-live recreation of the sport, but added to this version are more detail for the crowds and even cleaner FMV for the realtime/FMV mixed intros (see below for a description on this incredible display). There are a few added niceties in the mix as well, including triple-take replays and highlight reels between rounds. The lip synching of the announcer and some of the sound effects are the only things that need a bit of work, but despite that, this game is looking like a perfect example of how Dreamcast should recreate a sport.
The build we have isn't labeled as final, although it certainly seems to be close to just that. The game is set for release in early September, and if this latest look is any indication, you should definitely be on the lookout for real fighting from Crave.
-- Anoop Gantayat, IGNDC
IGNDC named Crave's Ultimate Fighting Championship Dreamcast fighting game of E3. Not impressed? Consider then that the game was going up against the likes of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, and Power Stone 2... ahh, there you go.
No, we weren't staging some massive boycott against Capcom - it's just that UFC really is an incredible fighter, even in its early form. Developer Anchor, a group that's worked with the likes of Sega and Namco on various fighting projects looks set to bring Dreamcast owners one of the best looking and playing fighters on the system - a tall order for a system jam packed with quality fighting games.
Fans of the real life Ultimate Fighting Championship sport are obviously going to dig this game, especially considering the attention to detail going into it. The fighters look amazingly human, with realistic muscle tones and flexing skin (picture the fighters of Tekken Tag Tournament on the PS2, and you have an idea). The fighter animation is also amazingly lifelike, with realistic kicks, punches, grabs, and standing motions - and it's all already locked in at 60 frames per second. What's that? Anchor has experience with Sega fighting games? Well that explains it! Add to this more visual clarity than you'd expect to see out of your television, making this the cleanest looking game since Ready 2 Rumble, and you have a game that could draw crowds and sell a ton of Dreamcasts in the process.
Crave and Anchor have seen fit to make UFC not just a sight to look at, but an authentic representation of the sport and all its surroundings. Each fighter looks the part, and is listed with his individual fighting style and birth place. And just wait until you see the amazing fighter intros. If you've found yourself disappointed by the lackluster intros in most wrestling games, you'll be blown away by these. Anchor has came up with the brilliant concept of mixing pre-rendered CG backgrounds and crowds with real time fighters, ala Space Channel 5. The result is an amazing display before the fight, where the crowd is full of life and cameramen seem to follow your fighter around - and the effect is even more seamless than it is in Space Channel. The only problem, unfortunately, is that the crowds during the intro look so stunning that the in-game crowds end up disappointing. Who knows, though - maybe Anchor is working on this as we speak.
UFC is thankfully not just a game for fans of the sport, as everyone should be able to apprieciate the gameplay. The fighters feel swift enough to be in any fighting game out there, and there's no delay what-so-ever from when you input moves to when the moves come out. This game's feel has nothing to do with awkward, in stark contrast to many wrestling games out there which feel unresponsive.
Don't get me wrong, though, you're given full control over your character in spite of this. You use the analogue controller to move around, two buttons for kicking, and two buttons for punching, and can achieve blocks and grabs by doing different combinations of these. From the game, it seems that the UFC sport is centered around the two fighters locking up into a hold position, then pummeling one another while jostling for the upper hand. I only wish game companies would send out moves lists with these early builds, as the chance of my figuring out the 3000 promised moves and 1200 promised combos looks pretty slim otherwise.
I was able to figure out a few things from the build, though. There are a few modes of play available from the start, including a versus fight mode in which you and a second player or CPU opponent fight one another, and a tournament mode in which you enter a tournament with fifteen other fighters. In this latter mode, you fight your single match and watch the CPU go at it for the other matches - something that can be quite entertaining, considering how beautifully the game is put together (of course, you can skip out on the CPU matches if you want). The other modes of play aren't accessible in the build we have, but include a career mode, in which you fight for the championship title and defend it, an edit mode in which you can customize a fighter's look and fighting style, and a training mode.
It's everything you'd expect from a standard fighting game, coupled with the atmosphere of the UFC, where every blow shakes the Earth. We're expecting the Dreamcast version of Ultimate Fighting Championship in September. Check out these awesome movies and screens while you wait for your chance to fight like a man.
-- Anoop Gantayat, IGNDC
Some rather delicious game details have come about on the "in the know" horizon since our last delightful gander at UFC. Most notably, Crave announced via press release the full line up of fighters to be included in the game:
Another interesting twist of fate finds the Dreamcast version of the game being developed by none other than Anchor Inc. For those unfamiliar, Anchor is a motley gathering of talent that includes members of the Tekken, Tekken 2, Soul Edge, and Toy Fighter development teams. With personnel so experienced in the ways of the modern 3D fighter, it will be interesting to see how such a realistic fighting sim will turn out in their hands. With their experience, however, we're confident that if anyone can pull it off, they can.
The game's Dreamcast incarnation is expected to hit stores in Q3 of this year. While some of us will simply be waiting with baited breath, rest assured that others will pass the time by unleashing their mad sick vale tudo skills on their coworkers. We hope we're prepared for this.
-- Matt White, Ultimate Fighting Contributor
One fact of life you just can't get around is that there are just some things that are in short supply. Endangered species, good movie-based video games, attractive women with great personalities who aren't already dating Mr. Right.....the list goes on and on.
However, one area in gaming will never making that list. Fighting games on the Dreamcast. From Street Fighter to Dead or alive 2, if you can name it, chances are it or something very close to it are already on the system or on its way.
The thing is, one area is most certainly a bit lacking, and that is a realistic fighter. You know, one without all the high flying, over-the-top insanity found in most offerings. No frills, no pageantry, just a knuckle-bleeding, tap-out conceding street brawl where the last man standing is the guy who can dish out just a little bit better than the next guy can take it. And no, I don not mean that ballet of brutality known as "professional wrestling." What I'm talking about is a game based on one of society's last true bastion of legal ass-whuppin,' the Ultimate Fighting Championships.
It's the type of no-nonsense fighting that should scare parents, but ironically enough, has basically been an underground phenomenon limited to hardcore fans, but Crave Entertainment has a little title in the works that could very well change all that. Ultimate Fighting Championship is well underway, and from the looks of things, it could very well bring this little-known dynamo into the gaming spotlight.
Crave has given us some early info on the title, and from what we have seen of the UFC and its competitors, it could very well be the fighting simulation enthusiasts have been waiting for. Hop into the ring and get ready to lay it all on the line, because the only thing worse than fighting dirty is backing away from a bit of good, clean combat. These guys don't hold anything back, and whether it's a knee to the head or a vicious kick to the face, the footage I've witnessed on the official homepage for the UFC is enough to convince me that this game will have its place on the Dreamcast.
Basically, what we're looking at here is a "real" fighter, where every move has real consequences. Forget taking a ton of abuse to the head and getting back up for that 22 hit chain combo of doom. There's no pretty little lighting effects, and you can forget pulling out a chair or slamming someone on a table. It's all about power and intelligence. One wrong move can put you on the wrong side of your opponent's fist, where as playing it safe can keep you on your feet against the toughest adversary. This is the sort of thing UFC will attempt to convey, with less of an emphasis on insane moves and impossible combos, a big push towards precision and realism. You can pull off anything you'd expect to be able to do in real life, and as a result, you'll spend as much time on the ground as you would on your feet, and by the same token, reversals and submission holds will be just as important as taggin' a guy with a right cross. Think K-1 with variety and responsiveness, not to mention without all the sucking.
Just about anything goes in the UFC, and the same will be true of the game, which will feature over 22 real fighters from the Championships, as well as some additional characters created specifically for the game. Each fighter will have a basic set of moves, such as punches, kicks, and grapples but will have a large list of maneuvers that are tailored to their individual fighting styles. The combatants of the UFC have a wide variety in this regard, and you'll see everything from Jujitsu to Greco-Roman wrestling techniques go head-head-head with a little bit of old-fashioned street fighting, and at 60 FPS, you can expect each fighter to look his best, and for that matter, to move with an incredible level of realism as well.
As you can see from the screens we've included, this game has some amazing detail, and Crave expects that each character will be composed of at least 5,000 polys apiece. Expect things like fully articulated hands and feet, as well as realistic facial textures that are dead ringers for their real-life counterparts. Crave has taken countless photos with the actual combatants, as well as spent a good deal of time in the studios with the fighters and announcers to make sure that everything is as authentic as possible.
Of course, they wouldn't want people who aren't huge fans of the sport to miss out on getting their own piece of the action, so you can expect a complete create a player mode to be included as well, with a career mode that will allow you to work you player up the ranks. The system will give you a set number of points to work with, and between appearance, fighting style, and moves, you'll form your fighter and try to take him to the top. With each victory, your fighter will find an opportunity to advance his skills, and possibly become the next champion. Novel, I know, but it should be pretty sweet.
Little else is known at present, but you can expect more details to surface in the near future, including the game's developer, who is rumored to include several members of some well known fighters of the past. We'll be keeping you posted on the game's progress, but if it shapes up as well as we think it will, the likes of Dead or Alive 2 and Soul Calibur may have found their real-life counterparts.
-- Brandon Justice, IGNDC


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I'm a bit rusty, but its good to be back in the sewing saddle again. Thought i would start with something easy going, so decided to make an 16th Century corset, inspired by those lovely corsets Cate Blanchett wore in Elizabeth The Golden Age.
I spent ages drawing my pattern as little pieces of memory started to flood back in, but that went really well and i was impressed i didn't forget anything. I'm making almost all my costumes miniature these days, because it makes you work harder and my resources are only stretching so far at the moment. It was great until i got to sewing the boning in (i'm using cocktail sticks that you get from your supermarket for this) when i realized the front looked great and the back looked awful, so bit to remember next time. I also missed out the long front on the corset that they had in the later half of the 16th century, not a big deal though, will do another one like it some other time. Sewing by hand reminds me how much i miss my ancient sewing machine, i'm going to have to rescue it from storage. I've almost finished it, so will post the finished product soon.


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IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition for Linux and Windows, V5.1 For building service-oriented applicationsIBM United States Software Announcement 204-059
April 6, 2004
(Corrected on May 14, 2004)
The Description section is revised.
|At a glance
WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5.1, optimized for developing applications that deploy to WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) V5.1, delivers a next-generation composite application development environment for building service-oriented applications that extend and integrate your existing IT assets.
- Helps improve IT responsiveness by leveraging a service-oriented architecture to build modular applications that are designed to adapt quickly to change
- Helps extend and integrate your existing infrastructure by creating reusable services out of a variety of back-end systems using a broad portfolio of adapters and Web services interfaces
- Helps maximize developer productivity by quickly constructing new process-based applications using drag-and-drop development tools to visually coordinate the interactions between your software assets
- Helps anticipate change by taking advantage of business rules to embed adaptable business logic into your applications and business processes
- Helps protect your infrastructure investments by building on the open, industry-leading, industry-tested, industry-supported WebSphere platform to minimize development and administration costs and maximize choice of solutions today and tomorrow
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Most companies today face a growing problem. The past 40 years of IT evolution have left them with an enterprise-computing infrastructure that is heterogeneous, widely distributed, and complex. Business logic and application data typically are scattered throughout the organization across multiple software assets. Furthermore, companies can face constant pressure to create new applications that integrate business logic and application data within the organization and with suppliers, partners, and customers in order to cut costs, build customer loyalties, and gain a competitive advantage. However, this integration remains complex, expensive, and risky.
What can you do to address these challenges?
You can leverage the power of open standards and the flexibility of a service-oriented architecture by using WebSphere® Studio Application Developer (AD) Integration Edition V5.1 in conjunction with WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) V5.1 to build and deploy composite applications that make it easy to reuse your existing infrastructure and that are designed to adapt to change.
In addition to a full Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development environment, WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1 provides easy-to-use tools for creating reusable services out of a variety of back-end systems and for choreographing the interactions between those services using Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL).
New in WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1
- Business process designer for creating BPEL 1.1 process flows
- Integrated BPEL debugger
- Enhanced performance for install and debug function including support for J9 hot swap
- New visual condition builder to direct the execution of BPEL processes
- Automated migration of process flows created with WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.0 to BPEL
- Unit test environment for WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1
- Full support for all the features included in WebSphere Studio AD V5.1.1 including support for Workbench V2.1.2, support for building Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) compliant Web services, and support for Java development kit (JDK) 1.4.1
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|Key prerequisites
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Hardware and software requirements
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|Planned availability dates
- April 6, 2004, English electronic software delivery
- May 5, 2004, National languages electronic software delivery
- May 28, 2004, media and documentation
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WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1, optimized for developing applications that deploy to WBISF V5.1, delivers an application development environment for building service-oriented applications that extend and integrate your existing IT assets.
As a result of rebranding, a product name has changed. WBISF V5.1 is the follow-on product to WebSphere Application Server Enterprise V5.0.
Together, WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1 and WBISF V5.1 provide:
BPEL support
BPEL defines a model and a grammar for describing the behavior of a business process based on interactions between the process and its partners. Support for BPEL includes:
- Application assembly, deployment, and runtime support for BPEL-based business processes
- Intuitive drag-and-drop tools to visually define the sequence and flow of BPEL business processes
- A visual business process debugger to step through and debug BPEL business processes
- Compensation support to provide transaction "rollback"-like support for loosely coupled business processes that cannot be undone automatically by the application server
- A standards-based (XML Path Language (XPATH) / Extensible Stylesheet Transformation (XSLT)) transformation wizard to map data between nodes in a process
- Integrated fault handling to provide an easy and integrated means of performing in-flow exception handling
- Support for including Java snippets and artifacts as part of a business process
Human workflow support
Human workflow support expands the reach of BPEL to include activities requiring human interaction as steps in an automated business process. Business processes involving human interaction are interruptible and persistent (a person may take a long time to complete the task) and resume when the person completes the task. Human workflow support includes:
- Staff activity nodes to represent a step in a business process that is performed manually
- Ability to assign people (for example, direct reports) to specific instances of a process via staff queries that are resolved at runtime using an existing enterprise directory
- Graphical browser-based interface for querying, claiming, working with, completing, and transferring work items to another user
- Advanced work item management support for managing the creation, transfer, and deletion of work items
- Dynamic setting of duration and calendar attributes for staff activities
- Dynamic setting of staff assignment via custom attributes
Back-end system connectivity
WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1 provides integrated, open standards-based support for building Web applications and BPEL business processes that integrate with back-end systems including:
- Integrated tool support for using J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.0 resource adapters to access back-end systems
- Enhanced tool integration for JCA adapters with tool plug-in extensions (available from IBM and IBM Business Partners)
- Support for the entire suite of WebSphere Business Integration Adapters
- Easy-to-use tools for creating services out of JCA resource adapters and including those services as part of a BPEL business process
- Enhanced JCA 1.0 resource adapters included for CICS®, IBM Host On-Demand, and IBM Information Management System (IMS)
- Sophisticated wizards to manage the low-level data handling requirements for JCA resource adapters
- Wizards to quickly and simply expose CICS or IMS programs as enterprise services including the ability to import definitions from COBOL, C structures, CICS basic mapping support (BMS), and IMS Message Format Service (MFS) definitions
Business rule beans
Business rule beans offer a powerful real-time framework for defining, executing, and managing business rules that encapsulate business policies that vary based on changes in the business environment. For example, a simple business rule might be, "If a customer's shopping cart is greater than $X, then offer a Y% discount." Business rule support includes:
- Deliver easy-to-use tools for defining, executing, and managing business rules
- Cheat sheet for defining business rules
- Update business rules at runtime using a straightforward user interface without the need to bring the application or server down
- Organize business rules into logical categories using the business rules beans framework
- Define a start and end date for when the rule is in effect
- Use business rules with BPEL4WS processes to automate decisions and increase process flexibility
Programming model extensions
WBISF V5.1 and WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1 help accelerate large-scale application development by allowing the user leverage the latest innovations that build on today's J2EE standards including extended messaging, dynamic query service, internationalization service, application profiling, asynchronous beans, object pools, startup beans, scheduler service, work area service, activity session service, and last participant support. New programming model extensions include:
- Distributed Map offers an interface to enable J2EE applications and system components to cache and share Java objects by storing a reference to the object in the cache in order to improve performance.
- Container Managed Persistence over Anything extends the existing J2EE Container Managed Persistence (CMP) framework to support any backend system or service that supports create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) methods.
Best-in-class development environment
WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1 builds on the WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.1.1 to provide a best-in-class integrated development environment for building, testing, integrating, and deploying J2EE applications, Web services, and business processes.
For more information on WBISF V5.1, visit
For more information on WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1, visit
Feature and interface improvement replacements
In keeping with the IBM commitment to open standards, the IBM Common Connection Framework (CCF) is replaced with JCA in WBISF V5.1. CCF functions will be delivered in this release for migration purposes. IBM recommends that you put migration plans in place to remove application dependencies, and build all new applications on the new, replacement interfaces.
IBM will continue to support these replaced interfaces until end of service of this release. Afterwards, support will be withdrawn. CCF broke new ground upon release and has significantly influenced the evolution of the now industry-standard JCA. IBM is committed to open standards. Our strategy is to help customers move toward industry standards as they provide the necessary function. IBM recommends that you put plans in place to complete migration of CCF applications to JCA within the next three years.
Support of business processes created with WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.0 is being deprecated in WBISF V5.1. Business processes created with WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.0 need to be migrated to a process based on BPEL using the Migrate option provided with WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition 5.1.
Several Process Choreographer API Interfaces and methods used for business processes created with WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.0 or earlier are deprecated. A detailed list can be found in the Java Documentation provided with Process Choreographer. The recommended migration action for the deprecated APIs is available on a detailed level in the JavaDoc for the appropriate API.
Additional information on feature and interface replacements can be found in the WebSphere Business Integration Information Center:
Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act
WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition is capable, as of May 28, 2004, when used in
accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section
508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly
interoperates with it.
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|Product positioning
Integration is the heart of e-business on demand. It is about integrating data, applications, processes and people across and beyond your company, giving you the power to leverage existing IT investments while having the flexibility to adapt quickly to changing business conditions.
IBM helps companies to realize the benefits of end-to-end integration through six core capabilities:
- Model business functions and processes
- Transform applications, processes and data
- Integrate islands of applications, processes and information
- Interact with resources anytime, anywhere with any device
- Manage performance against business objectives
- Accelerate the implementation of business processes
Each capability has the following qualities, built on a service-oriented infrastructure, that together make up IBM's world-class integration portfolio:
- Simple integrated development
- Secure and scalable deployment
- Proven experience
- Standards leadership
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement
Together, WBISF (previously WebSphere Application Server Enterprise) and WebSphere Studio AD
Integration Edition make up a core part of IBM's integration capability delivering a
next-generation composite application platform optimized for building service-oriented applications
that extend and integrate your existing IT assets. The platform also offers the qualities you would
expect from an industry-leading integration platform such as simple integrated development, secure
and scalable deployment, proven experience, and standards leadership.
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|Statement of direction
Additional platform support
IBM plans to make WBISF V5.1 available on z/OS® in the second quarter 2004, and OS/400®, in third quarter 2004.
Support for WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and WebSphere Business Integration Monitor
IBM intends to enable WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and WebSphere Business Integration Monitor to support WebSphere Studio AD Integration Edition V5.1 and WBISF V5.1. WebSphere Business Integration Modeler and WebSphere Business Integration Monitor are planned for availability in the second half 2004.
WebSphere Business Integration Modeler is a state-of-the-art product used to define, model, analyze, simulate, and report business processes extending WBISF with business tooling to visualize process impact for today's competitive global marketplace. WebSphere Business Integration Monitor is a real-time monitor that utilizes visual dashboards to provide a dynamic view of business processes, for business performance management and improved decision making.
All statements regarding IBM plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.
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|Education support
It is easy to learn about WebSphere® Studio AD Integration Edition and WBISF software. IBM has several educational options available to you. From classroom courses to onsite assistance and Internet-based training, if you are ready to learn we're ready to teach. See the wide range of offerings available to fit your learning needs at the developerWorks WebSphere site.
Refer to the IBM IT Education Services Web site for information on course locations and availability dates.
Call IBM IT Education Services at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs,
schedules, and enrollments.
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|Offering information
Product information is available through the Offering Information Web site at
and through the Passport Advantage® Web site at
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No publications are shipped with this product.
The IBM Publications Center:
The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive search facilities are provided. Payment options for orders are via credit card (in the U.S.) or customer number for 50 countries. A large number of publications are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded by all countries free of charge.
The IBM Publications Notification System (PNS):
The PNS enables subscribers to set up profiles of interest by order
number/product number. PNS subscribers automatically receive
notifications by e-mail of all new publications defined in their
profiles. These may then be ordered/downloaded via the Publications
Center. The site is available in English and Canadian French.
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Not only is Adrian Bridgwater a blogger for ZDNet UK's Core Techs, he is the editor for the ISUG Technical Journal. He has been nominated for a Computer Weekly IT Blog Award. Please go cast a vote for our Adrian! 🙂
Computer Weekly IT Blog Award -> Programming and technical blogs -> Adrian Bridgwater: Software application development
ZDNet's biography of Adrian:
Adrian Bridgwater a freelance journalist specialising in cross platform software application development as well as all related aspects of software engineering and project management.
Adrian is a regular blogger with ZDNet.co.uk covering the application development
landscape and the movers, shakers and start-ups that make the industry the vibrant place that it is.
His journalistic creed is to bring forward-thinking, impartial, technology editorial to a professional (and hobbyist) software audience around the world. His mission is to objectively inform, educate and challenge – and through this champion better coding capabilities and ultimately better software engineering.
Adrian has worked as a freelance technology journalist and public relations consultant for over fifteen years. His work has been published in various international publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Register, BBC World Service magazines, the UAE's Khaleej Times and SYS-CON's Web Developer's Journal. He has worked as technology editor for international travel & retail magazines and also produced annual technology industry review features for UK-based publishers ISC.
In previous commercially focused roles, Adrian directed publicity work for clients including IBM, Microsoft, Compaq, Intel, Motorola, Computer Associates, Ascom, Infonet and RIM. Adrian has also conducted media training and consultancy programmes for companies including Sony-Ericsson, IBM, RIM and Kingston Technology.
He is also a published travel writer and has lived and worked abroad for 10 years in Tanzania, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Italy and the United States.
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Software Freedom for Macedonia?
When I first heard that I would be visiting to speak in Macedonia, my initial thoughts were of a small isolated Eastern European nation. I had spoken in many other countries recently, usually about GNU Bayonne. The people who organized this event, however, wanted to use it to help launch a national free software movement in Macedonia, and so I thought for a long time, so I agreed and decided I would go and speak there primarily about software freedom, an issue of deep importance to me.
I first received the offer to speak in Macedonia while I was traveling abroad. In fact, I was attending the Bristol Software Conference at the time, and then a week later visiting France for what has now become the annual Libre Software Meeting. It was on my return to the US, and a family tragedy, that initially made me cancel all my immediate travel plans, however, including this event.
A week before the event, I was contacted, and, considering the importance of being able to reach and speak with hackers in that part of the world, I did finally consent to go. It was not until the day before that we were able to get airline tickets booked, however, so this trip was already very much in doubt before it happened, and seemed at best precarious. This led me to have even lower expectations.
What is "officially" called the "Former Yugoslav" Republic of Macedonia is a landlocked nation of 2 million people surrounded by the Kosovo region of Serbia in the north, Albania in the west, Greece in the south, and Bulgaria in the east. In that they were having national elections and a national holiday around the time I would be there, it was impossible for them to make travel arrangements for me to fly into the one major airport in the country. I was also reminded that Macedonia is not considered "safe" for air travel, in that the nation is not considered to have air traffic safety up to western European standards. Finally, my own State Department suggested American citizens should not travel to this country. With such overwhelming negative comments, my expectations had reached a very low point indeed, but I had agreed to go, and, at the last minute, the flight arrangements came through.
To visit Macedonia, I was flown to Sofia, in Bulgaria. Bulgaria is perhaps the most friendly of Macedonia's neighbors, and perhaps the easiest approach into the country. From there it is only a two or three hour drive to Skopje (pronounced Scopia), with, as I later learned, anywhere from a 1 to 12 hour delay at the border crossing being possible.
While I had many negative expectations about the country, I found that many of these expectations were very true, but of Bulgaria. The drive to the border was perhaps the most depressing drive I ever took. Everywhere one looked in Bulgaria there were large buildings falling apart. This was a very consistent theme. This trip reached a very low point when the car I was in had an accident about 20km for the border in some nameless Bulgarian town. The car was undrivable, and we were too far from the border for anyone's cell phone to work, so we were stranded, until the police would allow themselves to be paid, and we could arrange to get the car towed to the border.
Unlike most borders, there are checkpoints at both ends, and a kind of 1km no-man's land in between where time can stand still for many hours depending on the mood and circumstances of the border police. My entry into Macedonia consisted of helping to push an old Russian-made car with a smashed front end over this border with a short (under two hour) delay in "no-mans" land fairly late in the evening of my first day in the Balkans. This was clearly the most challenging nation I had ever visited. Little did I expect then that it would be very much worth all these difficulties to do so.
Even from the very first village we passed through after getting a cab at the border, it was immediately clear Macedonia was place very different, and much more alive than Bulgaria. Skopje itself has perhaps from 1/3 up to 1/2 of the entire population of the country in it, making it a fairly large and dynamic city.
I was staying next door to the Russian embassy, and the humour of this was not lost upon me. However, Skopje is very much a 24 hour city, and, even as an American, I felt and found I was perfectly safe wherever in the city I went. In fact, I felt safer in Skopje than many other foreign cities I have visited, and even than in some American ones at night. It also helped that English was a fairly common second language, and, unlike in some European countries, people that know English are quite willing to use it. I suppose trying to speak Macedonian is likely to break one's tongue, so it is no doubt out of politeness that they do not expect one to!
I could describe the extensive night life of Skopje, but I did not visit there for that purpose. I also learned much about Macedonian culture and history while I was there and visited their national museum. I found that to be equally interesting. Certainly, in the place that gave the world the Cyrillic alphabet, there is a long and deep understanding of the need to share knowledge for the benefit of society.
Brain washed people
Slavonic FYROMians, as you call them, previously Vardarians and before that pure Bulgarians should not be blamed because they were brain washed by communist Tito and now days by fascist VMRO. You should pity them because they are Bulgarians who due to brain washing are ashamed to admit it. Except of course all these free minded who redescovered their origins and got Bulgarian passports.
As for Alexander, FYROMians, except those in Pelogonia, live in the country of Dardanians and Illyrians and other enemies of the ancient Macedon, which clearly was Hellenic and created the Hellenistic world and spread the Greek language all the way to Asia and Egypt.
OSS community should be careful in adopting country names not recognized by UN in order not to contribute further to this conflict between FYROM and neighboring countries.
By the way, as long as 3 mil people in Northern Greece live in the region of ancient Macedonia and call themselves Macedonian Greeks, Greece will be unable to recognize FYROM, which truely is Western Bulgaria previously occupied by Yugoslavia, under another name, much as it will not be able to recognize a Peloponnesian country or a Thessalian country outside its borders.
Re: Software Freedom for Macedonia?
I think it's nice of your side to describe your trip to Macedonia or FYROM if you prefer as a nice thing. Altough I am for software freedom for Macedonia,FYROM, I think while we argue about the historical matter with our neighbours, we should concentrate on the matter which was brought up by somebody who has interest to bring some of its knowledge on the Balkan. Thank you for your interest in this matter and greetings from SmartFreak form MAcedonia(FYROM).
Re: Software Freedom for Macedonia?
Interesting and for sure more than good that our neigbhoors are interesting for us so much.
We have here one saying like this:
Behind the good horse (or car if u want) there is lot of dust
So, Go Greek ppl, make allways a coments against us, finnally the time will show who is wright.
BTW Do u know that Greek on thair own lenguage means "GAY", so they preffer to call them selfs Hellas
You manage neither English
You manage neither English not the Greek language vey well. You only show your ignorance and stupidity. Moron is a Greek word and fits you perfectly.
Read The F(riendly) History...
ask your B.P(rofessor)F.H.
Re: wrong subject
The subject should be "My trip in Bulgaria and Macedonia"
Re: Software Freedom for Macedonia?
I can tell that there is two options about Greek-Macedonian conflict:
1. They dont have much education about their history and history on the Balkan people at al.
2. They know everything perfect but they dont want to believe in that so they tell facts just to profit from that.
I think that is enough.
born Macedonian living Macedonian
Re: Install the history
"... if you think that Bulgarian version of the history is free ok, just share it with us, but don't try to force us to install it ..."
This explain a lot. That's what you do Macedonian: just install
the new version of history (if the history has a bug - e.g not writen appropriately). That's what you study in shool:
to install the history.
Note that patch for history is distributed by your government :))
Freedom: software, knowledge, mind
On knowledge: I'm afraid only the future would allow the opinions about history on all countries in the region (Macedonia, Trukey, Greece, Bulgaria) to converge on simple facts. I hope historians and people who write school textbooks on history will become conscientious enough.
On mind and software: Because the future is in the future, and we need something to happen _now_, we must concentrate on the things that stick as together and are moving us into a better future. The point is the free software development (in wide sense).
Simple history facts: Cyrillic script was modelled on the Greek upper-case letters in the early Middle Ages and was first introduced in Bulgaria in the 9th century(!). Much later, it became the
Re: Software Freedom for Macedonia?
1. There are very few USA citizens whoever actually leave their country, never mind their continent. Cool that you traveled, and cool what you went for.
2. Microsoft is currently getting grief from the European Union over monopolistic behaviour. The things that they did are currently described as "restraint of trade." I'm not sure of Macedonia's status as regards the EU (to my shame...) but It would be worth anyone who was and is being affected by this to contact the EU Monopolies Commission.
3. The free software movement should contact every company that was affected by M$'s behaviour. Showing the simple financial benefits of using Open-Source Software, as well as the ability to avoid the software audit problems, will convince most. Especially as they won't have to worry about a large multi-national dictating terms of trade.
4. Since the Open-Source Software/Free Software philosophy is based upon an accurate measurement of the energy costs of software developement, the computing service industry could be incredibly strong. This would give a large number of employment opportunities for the Free Software programmers.
4. The Macedonian Govt. should be involved immediately. A large multi-national Corporation has just tried to bully/bribe a number of their local companies to the detriment of their local industry.
5. The Macedonian Dept. of Industry should be involved as this is an ideal opportunity for Macedonia to develope an indigenous Software industry.
6. The EU is considering the wholesale adoption of Open-Source Software. This would also be an opportunity for the Macedonian Govt. to not only bolster their indigenous software industry, but also to cut their software costs by up to 70%, while ensuring that the money spent stays inside the Macedonian economy, rather than going to their trade deficit.
7. Considering the age-range of the local Free-software advocates/programmers, there is also the opportunity to cost-effectively develope an excellent Graduate/Post-Graduate university research program, which would translate, long-term, into a large amount of foreign capital and trade flowing into Macedonia.
Go Free Software. By behaving like that publicly Microsoft have completely screwed up. Use the opportunity wisely and well.
Meaure Twice.


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EXCLUSIVE: Ghanaian striker Emmanuel Osei Banahene terminates Sanliurfaspor contract
E. Banahene
Ghanaian striker Emmanuel Osei Banahene has terminated his contract with Turkish second-tier side Sanliurfaspor, Africanfootball.com has exclusively reported.
The 25-year-old is owned salaries from last season by the Sanliurfa-based side and has decided to part ways with the club.
Banahene made a huge impact for the club last season by scoring nine goals in 23 league matches
He was transferred to Turkish Super League side from Berekum Chelsea in 2010 and had loan spells Giresunspor and Karsiyaka.
Banahene terminated his agreement with Orduspor to join Sanliurfaspor on a free transfer.
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(CNN)A prominent congressman is pointing to a saga involving his pet rabbit as evidence of the poor judgment of the ethics office that Republicans briefly planned this week to disempower.
Duncan Hunter, whose conduct is being scrutinized by the House Ethics committee, will be faulted in an upcoming report for billing the flying of his children's pet rabbit on a plane and billing the charges to his campaign account, Hunter's spokesman told The Associated Press. That charge will be highlighted by the Office of Congressional Ethics, which House Republicans this week quietly tried to kill before President-elect Donald Trump told them to refocus their efforts.
"(The office) has in their report $600 in campaign expenditures for in cabin rabbit transport fees," Hunter's spokesman, Joe Kasper, told the AP. "Since travel is often done on (airline) miles -- which is entirely permissible -- the credit card connected to the account was charged several times even when his children were flying."
Hunter did not respond to a request for additional comment Wednesday. But he told the AP that it was "an obvious example of a mistake being made but (the office) wants to view it through a lens of possible intent. The same goes for many other expenditures."
Hunter's father ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.