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Agreed, the natural conclusion of this is that the first principle of loose coupling is "ubiquity". If something runs readily on all platforms legacy and my mother's typewriter (too), loose coupling code forms (as in life forms) can survive and maybe thrive on top of it. Without such a substrate, they are out of luck and die as so many good technologies or concept did in the past. The second principle of loose coupling is cost. If it costs too much ain't a loose coupling solution. So XML is here, why go back? (I don't think that you are suggesting too, I think you are pointing to the fact that the concepts behind XML -i.e. the metamodel of XML- is the real value, and I totally agree). If only we had already agreed on a common information model, we would also have an ubiquitous semantic namespace that we could all use to share data, information and knowledge...(sight). The good (maybe the difference with other technologies) but at the same time the bad thing about XML is that you can seamlessly carry data, metadata (beyond the node names - e.g. Webber's BizCodes), processing instructions, bits or complete process definitions (I can send you a purchase order and the collaboration that I want you to execute to process this purchase order with me)... XML has moved to the semantic level the notion of a method call. No longer targets, methods and arguments are separated. XML has unified the way we express that, of course at a cost, forcing us to agree on semantics. Some people might say this cost is too high and actually prevents us to achieve loose coupling. I am ready to debate objectively on this. I think the best approach would really be to go at the metamodel level, agree on all the concepts that need to be in place and their relationships and then look back at the existing technologies and map it back. Surely we could conclude that the best way is to use HTTP facilities, or not, the important thing is that it is much easier to agree at the metamodel level than it is at the technology. So personally, I see this debate over URL encoded method calls as a bit childish, get, post, update, whatever REST, UNREST... But how many fax machine would you need if your fax machine could understand what is a purchase order, an urgent message for the boss, some spam, ... IMHO, the vision of web services is to enable just that, build a metadata framework that enables me to process/route/transform every bit of message that hit my organization (whether it is an internal or external message). The challenge is of course to make it as simple as possible such it also becomes an "ubiquitous" technology without creating a mess or should I say a hell in this case. So there might be a few verbs to this ubiquitous fax machine because we need to agree on a basic namespace to relate to the nature of an incoming message, personally I don't have a strong opinion either way. However, the only thing I know is that it'd better enable loose coupling !! or else it will become another CORBA or DCOM. When you say: >> I want to >> decouple the service definition from the actual implementation, so I can >> gain considerable benefits. Actually, we are passed beyond that point, as the notion of method calls blurs so it the implementation of the method call. Web services is not so much about hiding the implementation, it is rather to completely change the notion of implementation. Web services are about specifying an action (very close to the semantic level) and let decide the implementor of this action how it is going to deal with it. This is why I am always very sad when the debate is focusing on modeling "APIs". APIs don't exist anymore in the web services space. If all one want to achieve is add an XML layer to your xxxCI, one is missing the point (see my argument about pipeline architecture below too). At this point, you must be thinking about why is this guy talking so much about fax machines? Well to me it is the prototypical example of loose coupling. It too relies on a small set of ubiquitous technologies and protocols... JJ- On another note you say (and this is another debate I think): >> Am I forever destined to use IIOP or RMI? Or can I also consider using >> XML for these scenarios? >> One approach would be to say: XML is only good for loosely coupled >> services, for everything else use IIOP/DCOM/DCE/whatever. If you look at the struggle it is today (2003) to have a valid abstraction of what is a "business object"? and what is the best way to spread it over different tiers. I contend that the only thing we know today is that it is not an "objet", i.e. represented by a single class. Business objects do have very specific properties that make XML a good fit to represent the data they contain. Just like there is JDO/ADO today, there will be one day or another XDO simply because XML is a superior technology to represent datasets and maps to ER far beter than object graphs (!? -think of a multilevel bill of material), because aggregation of heterogenous result sets is trivial, because XML travels better up to the presentation tier, because XML has a far better metadata driven datatyping/validation framework, because business object need also to travel beyond the presentation layer,... So my guess is that web services are going to be a mainstream technology, so will be business process technology, ultimately that will bring so many constraints on the architecture of business applications that the natural evolution will be to use XML data streams all the way from and too the database. Only then will we have a business object concept that is easy to implement and use. Ultimately, the real paradigm shift is not between Get+URI and Post+action it is in the fact that data, method invocation and code is unified under one umbrella and that this becomes a "stream" that is processed in a pipeline architecture. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Assaf Arkin [mailto:email@example.com] >>Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:44 PM >>To: Jean-Jacques Dubray; email@example.com; 'David Orchard'; 'Mark >>Baker'; 'Ugo Corda'; 'Champion, Mike' >>Cc: email@example.com >>Subject: RE: Myth of loose coupling >> >>> There is one point that I did not see brought up into the discussion (I >>> may have missed it too): "well formed" versus "valid" XML. >>> >>> HTTP enables loose coupling in the sense that it is ubiquitous, >>> everybody has a system that can listen in. But from a pure technical >>> perspective it is not as less coupling as CORBA or DCOM. >>> >>> The real difference between traditional "brittle" technologies and XML >>> technologies (XML, XSLT, XPATH amongst other) is that now one can think >>> building systems were the content of a message does not need to be >>> understood in its entirety in order to take action. This is very >>> different from the object world where you have to know a whole class or >>> interface structure before one can interact with the data set. >> >>I am not sure that the XML approach is technolgically superior to the >>IIOP/CDR approach. Afterall, you do have a uniform way to represent the >>data >>(CDR) and you can propose tools that perform the same functionality as >>with >>XML: transformation, extraction, even human-readable representation. >> >>Where XML seems to excel over IIOP, DCOM, TxRPC, RMI, DCE, IDE and a >>variety >>of other protocols/formats is in the network effect. You have cheap (free) >>accessible technology to transform a document or extract pieces of it. >>Even >>if it was invented for styling HTML pages, you can use it to transform >>invoices. At the very least you can edit a document using NotePad or vi. >> >>You can have the same set of services for IIOP, but they are not readily >>accessible, they don't work for DCOM or IDE, and usually they are task >>specific, so you can look at IDLs and network packets, but you can look at >>content or persisted data. >> >>I wouldn't say IIOP is brittle, I would just point out that the network >>effects plays to the advantage of XML is giving an overall better value >>proposition with a ready made solution to many of the problems that with >>IIOP would actually require you to buy or develop very specific solutions. >> >> >>> Another aspect of XML technologies it enables developing systems that >>> can serve up data in the format that the consumer of the information >>> want. This enables another degree of loose coupling by reducing the cost >>> of implementation of a server that can interact with a large variety of >>> clients. >> >>You can build a service that creates data in the form of an object model >>given in Java. You can then serve it in binary form (e.g. CDR) or in >>textual >>form (e.g. XML). You can have multiple CDR representations, you just need >>a >>toolkit that lets you support multiple representations. You can have >>multiple XML representations, again you need a toolkit that lets you >>support >>multiple representations. I don't know where you could get the former, but >>I >>know where you can download multiple tools to do the later. >> >>Because XML transformation tools are readily available, and they all >>support >>the same transformation languages, and there are hundred of books and >>articles telling you how to use them, that's something we do on a daily >>basis. Not something we do with IIOP. So you get XML deployed in more >>places, which results in more tools and more information on how to use >>this >>tools, which further increases the network effect. >> >>That's actually how we got to be here in the first place. It wasn't the >>superiority of HTTP/HTML/XML over other solutions, but the ubiquity of it >>all. >> >> >>> (I know these two statements are trivial however they must be part of a >>> discussion on loose coupling). >>> >>> All these technologies are completely standard, available on all >>> platforms. This is why you can get loose coupling if you want too (it >>> has a cost of course). It is too often that I see the web services >>> discussion entrenched into modeling an API. What is such a big deal >>> about modeling an API? What are you going to get that you can't get at >>> looking at a Java or C# class? All this is metadata. >>> >>> It is time to use XML for what it is really useful for: carrying complex >>> data sets, semantically accessible (as opposed to structurally >>> accessible), this approach has tremendous benefits when connecting 100s >>> to 1000s of entities together (how can you do it without loose >>> coupling?). >> >>The question that one would ask is: if XML is so great why can't I use it >>everywhere? >> >>On the one hand I have these loosely coupled services, where I don't want >>to >>work at the API level. I want to carry complex data sets that are >>semantically accessible. Like purchase orders and invoices. I want to >>decouple the service definition from the actual implementation, so I can >>gain considerable benefits. >> >>On the other hand I have these tightly coupled services. Two components in >>the same system, two separate layers in the same stack that are decoupled >>by >>some low-level interface. Am I forever destined to use IIOP or RMI? Or can >>I >>also consider using XML for these scenarios? >> >>One approach would be to say: XML is only good for loosely coupled >>services, >>for everything else use IIOP/DCOM/DCE/whatever. Another apporach would be >>to >>say: services should only be loosely coupled. The concept of distributed >>components does not exist outside the domain of network interactions. Your >>services are either loosely coupled, or they do in-process calls. Yet >>another approach would be to say: go right ahead and use XML wherever you >>see fit, even if all you are doing are out-of-process calls to two >>components that are part of the same application (at least IIOP and DCOM >>let >>you do that). >> >>I personally believe that XML would benefit more for the network effect, >>and >>the network effect would greatly increase, if we could use XML everywhere. >>Between loosely coupled systems that exchange data that is semantically >>accessible, and between components that are tightly designed but separated >>by boundaries of their containers. In some cases I worry a lot about >>having >>the proper form of abstraction, in other places I worry a lot about not >>over >>engineering the solution with too much abstraction. In both cases I use >>XML >>for its obvious benefits without passing judgment that one approach is >>radically differen from the other. >> >>arkin >> >>> >>> I wrote a couple papers back in 1999 on the subject in case anyone is >>> interested to read: >>> >>> An eXtensible Object Model for Business-to-Business eCommerce Systems >>> (short) >>> http://jeffsutherland.com/oopsla99/Dubray/dubray.html >>> >>> Business Object Modeling: An XML-based approach >>> http://www.odx.it/doc/businessobjectmodeling.pdf >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Jean-Jacques Dubray____________________ >>> Chief Architect >>> Eigner Precision Lifecycle Management >>> 200 Fifth Avenue >>> Waltham, MA 02451 >>> 781-472-6317 >>> email@example.com >>> www.eigner.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-----Original Message----- >>> >>From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] >>> On >>> >>Behalf Of Edwin Khodabakchian >>> >>Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:22 PM >>> >>To: 'David Orchard'; 'Assaf Arkin'; 'Mark Baker'; 'Ugo Corda'; >>> 'Champion, >>> >>Mike' >>> >>Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com >>> >>Subject: RE: Myth of loose coupling >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>Dave, >>> >> >>> >>> There are kind of 2 different definitions of loose coupling: >>> >>> 1) Changes to the interface do not affect software >>> >>> 2) Changes to the software do not necessarily affect the interface. >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm focusing on #1, not #2. >>> >> >>> >>Then you are correct. >>> >> >>> >>> I also 100% agree with having "coarse-grained" or >>> >>> "document-oriented" web services. But I don't think this has >>> >>> much to do with loose coupling. >>> >> >>> >>I agree that coarse-grained has much to do we >>> >>performance/reliability/efficiency/latency. My definition of >>> >>coarse-grained though is more about combining multiple operations into >>> >>one call and passing in as much data as possible ( a.foo( A ); a.goo( >>> B >>> >>) -> a.foogoo( A union B ). >>> >> >>> >>My point was slightly different here: >>> >>Imagine that Verisign is publishing a MerchandRegistration service to >>> >>allow merchands to register to their online payment service. >>> >>Registration is slightly different for merchants that want to offer >>> Visa >>> >>only compared to merchants that want to offer Visa + Mastercard. There >>> >>are difference in the XML form that needs to be submitted and the back >>> >>end process Verisign goes through. >>> >> >>> >>DESIGN OPTION A >>> >>As a developer, I can decide to design the application as one service >>> >>with 2 operations: >>> >>Operation #1: processVisaRegistration( xmlVisaOnlyForm ) >>> >>Operation #2: processVisaAndMasterCard( xmlVisaAndMasterCard ) >>> >>This is what most developers using today's web services toolkit would >>> be >>> >>encouraged to do. >>> >> >>> >>DESIGN OPTION B >>> >>As a developer, I create 2 Web Queue resources with a generic >>> interface: >>> >>WebQueue #1: https://www.verisign.com/payflow/visaOnly >>> >>WebQueue #2: https://www.verisign.com/payflow/visaAndMasterCard >>> >>Get on those resources returns the meta information regarding the XML >>> >>data required by each queue. POSTing the correct XML document >>> initiates >>> >>an asynchronous process. >>> >> >>> >>Let's imagine that Intuit is using versign service for visaOnly and >>> eBay >>> >>is using Verisign for visaAndMasterCard. >>> >> >>> >>Let's imagine that a new regulation comes and the visaAndMasterCard >>> XML >>> >>data structure changes and you need to deploy a new version of the >>> >>service. [Note: given that both services are asynchronous you cannot >>> >>simply overwrite the old version. You need side by side versioning for >>> a >>> >>period of time.] >>> >> >>> >>In design A, this simple change impacts both Intuit and eBay. In >>> design >>> >>B only Intuit is impacted. >>> >> >>> >>This could be a design pattern or best practice that developers could >>> >>adopt. But please not that if Web service were forced to be good web >>> >>citizen and expose a generic interface, then developers would be >>> >>constrained (good) to design applications using B. I believe that it >>> >>would also help a lot of developers while decomposing complex >>> >>interactions into resources. >>> >> >>> >>Finally, as described in this example and Mike's previous expense >>> report >>> >>use case, I think that generic interface (REST) and extensible >>> envelope >>> >>and metadata (SOAP/WSDL) could be orthogonal rather than conflicting: >>> >>Web services could be built on top of RESTFul resources and still >>> >>provide all the benefits SOAP Features and XML Schema provide. No? >>> >> >>> >>Edwin >>> >>>Received on Thursday, 9 January 2003 08:41:21 UTC
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Libby Purves has spoken out about a history of sexism at the BBC. The Radio 4 presenter explained that her memories of experiencing difficulties as a woman, within the organisation were brought to the fore when she was asked to complete a 'respect and dignity in the workplace' survey, sparked by the recent Jimmy Savile scandal.
In an interview with Radio Times, Purves revealed that when she complained about having production work cancelled, it was suggested that the cause may be a failed personal relationship with a senior male colleague. That was back in 1974 but in 1982, a three month pregnancy caused her to be removed from presenting The Boat Show. Although the producer cited safety grounds as the reason for her removal from the show, Purves insists that it was in fact "the terror of a pregnant woman on screen." When a female controller of Radio 4 suggested that she concentrate on documentaries, Libby argued that they did not pay a living wage. The response came "But you're married - money's not an issue, surely?" Attempts to control her wardrobe when she appeared on TV soon led Libby to turn on her heels and hurry back to the world of radio presenting, where, at least, she had some control over what she wore.
The Independent have reported on the Radio Times interview which details incidences of sexism throughout Purves' career.

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text: [ On Saturday, May 5, 2001 at 02:11:52 (+0200), Thomas Klausner wrote: ] > Subject: Re: pkg/12705: pkgsrc/www/mozilla for 0.8.1 fails to build on i388 1.5T > > Your mozilla build (opposite to mine, which work on 1.5S and 1.5U) > seems to find a threads library in /usr/pkg, which it shouldn't, if > I'm not mistaken. It does indeed find /usr/pkg/lib/libpthread*, and it MUST, at least from what I can understand of the package build dependencies. Mozilla requires gtk+, which requires glib, which appears to require pth if you're not on SunOS. Note this from pkgsrc/devel/glib/Makefile: .if (${OPSYS} != SunOS) DEPENDS+= pth>=1.3.2:../pth .endif Here's the info from my build system $ /usr/sbin/pkg_info -nR pth glib gtk+ Information for pth-1.4.0: Required by: glib-1.2.9 gtk+-1.2.9 ORBit-0.5.7 Information for glib-1.2.9: Requires: pth>=1.3.2 Required by: gtk+-1.2.9 ORBit-0.5.7 Information for gtk+-1.2.9: Requires: glib>=1.2.9 pth>=1.3.2 -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <firstname.lastname@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com> Planix, Inc. <firstname.lastname@example.com>; Secrets of the Weird <firstname.lastname@example.com>


text: In article <firstname.lastname@example.com> email@example.com (Erik E. Fair , Time Keeper) writes: >Two systems: a SPARC LX and a Sun 3/60. >Both sup'd -current as of this morning. > >In trying to build /usr/bin/pax, the SPARC is perfectly happy, and the Sun >3/60 says: > >pushd /usr/src/bin/pax >/usr/src/bin/pax /tmp >root@chronos 59} make >cc -O -Werror -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -c buf_subs.c >cc1: warnings being treated as errors >buf_subs.c: In function `appnd_start': >buf_subs.c:240: warning: `cnt' might be used uninitialized in this function >buf_subs.c: In function `rd_skip': >buf_subs.c:443: warning: `cnt' might be used uninitialized in this function >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >21.0u 8.0s 0:37.74 77.0% 0+0k 223+40io 184pf+0w > >The compilers were both last installed on Jul 18 (the last time they both >completed a build). > >BTW, the variable in question is uninitialized. Why does the Sun 3 catch >it, and the Sun 4 ignore it, with identical sources and compile-time >options? I don't think it is uninitialized... Looks like a bug with long long variables on the sun3. christos


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|Oracle Payments Implementation Guide
Release 12.1
Part Number E13416-05
Oracle Payments returns a response object to each API that an electronic commerce application calls. If the operation fails, then the response object contains status value (IBY_FAILURE), indicating that there was a failure while processing the request. In these cases, the electronic commerce application can get more information about the failure by checking the error code and the error message. Errors can happen in Oracle Payments for various reasons. For example, wrong or duplicate data passed by the electronic commerce application, time out while communicating with Payment Systems, etc. All the errors that can occur in Oracle Payments can be categorized in these groups:
The table below describes the most common errors.
|Error Code
|Communications error. The payment system, the processor, or Oracle Payments electronic commerce servlet is not accessible. You should resubmit the request at a later time.
|Duplicate order identifier.
|Duplicate batch identifier.
|Mandatory fields are required.
|Payment system specific error. Check BEPErrCode and BEPErrMsg in response objects for more information.
|Batch partially succeeded. Some transactions in the batch failed and some were processed correctly.
|The batch failed. You should correct the problem and resubmit the batch.
|Requested action is not supported by the payment system.
|Insufficient funds.
|Invalid credit card or bank account number.
In each payment request, a payment instrument from which the money is transferred to the payee's account is involved. Generally this information is given by the end user of the electronic commerce application. Sometimes the end user might enter wrong instrument number or an instrument number that does not have enough funds. To detect these errors, Oracle Payments provides two error codes that help electronic commerce applications to prompt the end user for correct information.
The error codes due to invalid or duplicate data and their descriptions are given in the table below.
|Error Code
|Insufficient funds
|Invalid credit card/bank account number
Since payment processing requests involve a number of different components connected over networks, time-out errors or communication errors are possible. For example, a processor successfully processes a payment request, but the network connection between the payment system and Oracle Payments, or the network connection between Oracle Payment's PL/SQL API package and Oracle Payments electronic commerce servlet break down, causing the electronic commerce application not to receive the result. In some cases, electronic commerce application might crash before receiving a response. Before the crash, payment processing may have completed. Therefore, when electronic commerce application calls the API with the same information, Oracle Payments considers this a duplicate request and raises an error. To recover from such errors, Oracle Payments provides two approaches.
In the first approach, which is applicable to OraPmtReq and OraPmtCredit, the electronic commerce application can try the request with the retry flag set up to TRUE. This makes Oracle Payments retry the request if it has not processed the request. Otherwise Oracle Payments sends the same response that was sent when this request was first made.
In the second approach, which is applicable to all other operations except OraPmtReq and OraPmtCredit, the electronic commerce application needs to find out if the transactions went through successfully to re-execute any lost transactions. To enable the merchant or business to query the status of a transaction, you need to integrate the Query Transaction Status API in the electronic commerce application. This API returns all existing records for a particular transaction identifier on a payment system.
The table below describes the communication error code and its description.
|Error Code
|The payment system, the processor, or Oracle Payment's electronic commerce servlet is not accessible. You should resubmit the request at a later time.
These errors occur if payees or payment systems are not configured properly. Make sure that the URLs are entered correctly and the payee's payment system identifiers are configured properly.
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text: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:08:12PM +0000, Brian Ginsbach wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:07:34PM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost > wrote: > > Synopsis: NFS mount problem with IRIX6.5 > > > > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open > > State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost > > State-Changed-When: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:07:33 +0000 > > State-Changed-Why: > > submitter can't test, problem may still exist > > The PR isn't exatcly clear (to me anyway) as to what the problem > is. I have used and continue to use NFS mounts between IRIX 6.5 > NFS servers and NetBSD NFS clients for years with no problems. Am > I missing something? Only that most of us don't have IRIX on hand to test. :-/ If you don't see the problem, my guess is that probably it was fixed a long time ago. Alternatively, it could have been caused by mounting on a mode 700 mount point or some other config issue that we don't have enough info to duplicate. So unless anyone objects I think I'll close the PR. -- David A. Holland dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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Dr. Marchand was the pivotal force in the creation of technology that allowed us to colonize the stars. But now it appears that an even better technology has been discovered, and Marchand wonders if he actually helped humankind at all.
With his consciousness "smithed" into a chimpanzee's body, Marchand will visit the Tycho Brahe (the starship that left earth so many years ago to colonize new worlds) and explore with its crew and colonists until they find a home.
Originally published in If, Nov. 1964.
Reprinted in The Best of Frederik Pohl, 1975 and Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Bluejay 1986.
Original title: Father of the Stars
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Adventure→ Space Travel & Exploration
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Toronto police say they have arrested a suspect in connection with alleged sexual assaults they say happened at an
Ontario farm more than 30 years ago.
They allege the incidents occurred between 1977 and 1983 at a Sagamore Farm group home in Parham, Ont., about 300 kilometres east of Toronto.
Police say it is alleged that three boys between the ages of 10 and 12, who were staying at the farm, were sexually assaulted by a man who worked at the site in "a position of trust."
They say 63-year-old Philip Wood, of Toronto, was arrested Thursday.
Wood has been charged with four counts of gross indecency and four counts of indecent assault on a male and will appear in a Toronto court on Sept. 9.
Police believe there may be more victims.


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In one of the best weeks in a disappointed sales year, Boeing won orders for 23 new jets last week, the company reported.
Those new orders, five 777s from Ethiopian Airlines, seven 777s from Turkish Airlines and 11 737s from unidentified customers, raises Boeing's new total for the year to 40 net orders.
The company has booked orders for 129 new airliners, but has lost 89 prior orders to cancellations. Most of those cancellations, 73, were for 787 Dreamliners, a plane already two years late with its first delivery.


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Skip to comments.First Presbyterian gay ordination since rule change
Posted on 09/30/2011 2:30:06 AM PDT by Cronos
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) plans to ordain the first openly gay candidate for ordination since the denomination struck down barriers this year to clergy who have same-gender partners.
Scott Anderson will be ordained as a teaching elder on Oct. 8 at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison.
The new policy won approval from a majority of the denomination's 173 presbyteries, or regional church bodies, and took effect on July 10.
The denomination eliminated language in the church constitution requiring that clergy live "in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness." The new provision instead requires ministers to "submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
And I've never heard anything so meaningless as The new provision instead requires ministers to "submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life."
How's he gonna teach around that pesky .. "Sodomites are an Abomination in God's eyes" thingy!?
simple, he'll say that in his personal interpretation, that was for that time only....
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."
My next door neighbor is a Presbyterian minister. Took hi years to get ordained because he was too conservative. I can't figure that one out.
I can't figure out why he would still stay if they do not want conservatives? They have embraced the pink movement utterly
Anyone notice how Satan has slipped into so many churches now using Political Correctness!?
I guess that it is Now Politically Correct and a form of Affirmative Action to allow Satan to not only access but to also TEACH in our houses of Worship!!?
The Catholic Church is under fire for not wanting to adopt out or place foster kids in the hands of perverts.
They are under fire for not wanting to perform a marriage ceremony for two people of th same sex.
Catholic Doctors and Nurses are under fire for not wanting to perform abortions.
Catholic Pharmacists are under fire for not wanting to provide abortion drugs.
They are under fire from Lesbian Nuns who want to be Priests.
So far they are holding out pretty well.
On the down side they have been infiltrated by pedophiles who see the Priesthood as easy pickings. They have weeded out many but they cannot deny their history of having hidden the fact that it was going on, and they have to know that problem still exists.
They are shoving illegals at us to fill the pews and it is taking money from parish's to pay off the law suits.
I will stick as long as they do, but it is apparent that Government is against any religion that does not conform.
The separation of Church and State has become an act of the Government trying to make Church's conform. Freedom of Religion is taking a beating right now.
Wolves to lead the flocks.
Give him what he deserves....an empty room.
So this "church," in fulfillment of prophesy, rather than remaining the bride of Christ becomes the whore of Satan.
evidently yes.
Why promote something you dont want to see? This is my first question to all?
27 'But I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly.
29 To anyone who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek as well; to anyone who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from someone who takes it.
31 Treat others as you would like people to treat you.
32 If you love those who love you, what credit can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit can you expect? For even sinners do that much.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to get money back, what credit can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount.
35 Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36 'Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
Exactly. Alex -- as our voice from the Presbyterians, would you know why the pastors are so gung-ho for this?
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Political parties in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday welcomed the Madras high court order staying the execution of the three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and adoption of a resolution by the state assembly appealing to the President to reconsider their mercy pleas.
Welcoming the high court order and the resolution, Communist Party of India put on hold its proposed fast on September 3 to press its demand for commutation of the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan.
Admitting a petition by the three, the high court stayed for eight weeks their execution fixed for September 9.
CPI state Secretary D Pandian in a statement thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and members of the assembly for passing the resolution requesting President Pratibha Patil to reconsider the clemency petitions of the three convicts, which she (the President) had recently rejected.
Principal opposition in the assembly Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam welcomed the adoption of the "unanimous resolution".
Taking a dig at Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi's remarks on Monday that had Rajiv Gandhi been alive," he would have saved the lives of the three persons," deputy leader of DMDK legislature party Panruti S Ramachandran said in the assembly "if Gandhi was alive, the case itself would not have arisen."
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Vaiko, who has been in the forefront of the campaign for commuting the death sentence of the three, said the entire Tamil community was "rejoicing" over the high court order and thanked Jayalalithaa for her initiative in the assembly.
"The innocent have been saved and justice established," he said in a statement. Paattali Makkal Katchi also welcomed the state government's move for passing the special resolution in the assembly.
"However, this is only the first step. The chief minister has to call for a cabinet meeting and pass the resolution and then meet the governor and hand it over," PMK founder S Ramadoss said in a statement.
"All MPs in both the Houses of Parliament should also raise their voice in support of this resolution," he said.
Puthiya Thamizhagam President K Krishnasamy, while thanking Jayalalithaa in the assembly, compared her to Mother Teresa, saying she had "saved" the lives of the three Tamils.
Film director and founder leader of a pro-Eelam outfit Seeman told reporters that the court order was a "victory for democracy and justice" and thanked Jayalalithaa for moving the resolution.


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Color Texture Space Value Shape/Form Definition - A mark with length and direction
created by a point that moves across a surface. Actual Line - usually an outline or
a line you can actually see. Implied Line- Lines are not actually seen. Contour Line - an edge Lines Can: Color Primary Secondary Tertiary or Intermediate Hue- a common name for
a color. Intensity - How bright or how dull a color is . Intense colors are bright.
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3 to 5 colors adjacent
to each other on the
color wheel. Triad Colors
3 colors spaced equal
distance on the color
wheel. Monochromatic
"one color" with
values of
that color. Complementary Colors are colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel. Warm Colors
Colors such as red, orange,
and yellow. These colors
remind one of fire or sun. Line Elements of Art Cool Colors
remind one of
cool things
such as water Color Value Value refers to how light or dark a hue is. Value can be used to create a strong contrast. Shade - is a color plus black Tint is a color plus white Texture Texture refers to the way a surface feels
when you touch it, i.e. rough or smooth. Implied texture-the illusion of actual texture Actual texture- the way something feels. The diagonal lines that come together
at the vanishing point. Space One Point Perspective Two Point Perspective Atmospheric or Aerial
Perspective Vocabulary Horizon Line Orthogonals Vanishing Point eye level diagonal lines that converge
at the vanishing point a point where diagonal lines
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such as circles, squares, or triangles. Forms are three dimensional, like spheres, cubes,
and pyramids. Organic shapes and forms remind you of curves in
plants, clouds, people, and other naturlal forms. Geometric shapes and forms are usually precise and regular. These shapes and forms are used to suggest machine-made things or parts of the environment created by people. Charles de la Fosse
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Odama! (or: Pinball done different, and so, so right)
This may sound blasphemous to the gamers who read Backstage, but I've really, really cut back on console gaming as of late - so much so in fact that I disposed of my Xbox 360, stopped playing through Black for the PlayStation 2 about mid-way through, and spend what little gaming time I have on the DS Lite these days. Last night, I made a big exception: I fired up my Nintendo GameCube and turned on a game I've been anxiously waiting to play for around two years now: Odama, developed by Vivarium for Nintendo, just released this week. My advice would be to just stop reading for a few minutes and open up one of these links, clicking on Spider Temple or Kurawa Plains, for example. The movies really say more than I can.
The deal with Odama is this: it's really clever. Like, so clever that some people aren't going to understand it, apparently and regrettably including the usual crop of game critics. But as Metacritics' rankings suggest - in early polling, at least - the game is scoring better (8.7/10) with users than critics (68/100), and it's my feeling that people who do understand it will be really impressed by what Vivarium has pulled off. This company, best known for its freaky Dreamcast talking fish title Seaman, has managed to successfully fuse two totally disparate game genres: pinball and light military strategy, here blended under a Japanese feudal samurai theme.
There's an elaborate backstory, which I'm going to skip save to note that you control a giant wrecking ball called the Odama and a battering ram-like bell humorously called the Ninten-do. Your hand controller controls the pinball flippers, and thus Odama. A free packed-in microphone accessory controls the battering bell. In order to complete each level, set on military battlefields populated by two armies worth of soldiers and obstacles, you need to knock the Odama ball into enemy soldiers and specific targets, then use voice commands to send the Ninten bell through the holes you create. If the bell makes it from the bottom to the top of the screen within a time limit, you advance. If not, you fail. And by the way, the pinball tables, if you can call them that, can be in 3-D - say, wrapped around the sides of a mountain, which you rotate. Additional details are at Read More, below.
Other than the fact that Odama is legitimately fun, challenging, and totally unlike any other pinball game I've played, what's most impressive about this concept is how thoroughly realized it is. From the first moment the game's narrative begins, you're caught up in the Japanese feudal sights and sounds in a way that transcends the actual visual quality - it's obvious that Vivarium isn't the most gifted of visual developers when things zoom in for close-ups - and that's mostly because the concept works so well on the macro level. You're not just playing pinball. There are lives, and military victories, at stake.
Battlefields are filled with rushing streams of water, hundreds of people, burning fires, and, of course, this huge black ball that's rolling through everything. For once, the pinball doesn't have shiny silver invulnerability; here, it possesses weight and a sense of momentum, littering the field with bodies, and occasionally, temporarily finding itself wrapped up in them. Smack the mystical Ninten-do bell with the ball and a tone rings out across the battlefield, magically knocking down enemy soldiers attempting to block the bell's path. Pick up a green power-up and Odama transforms enemy soldiers it touches into conscripts for your army. There's a humanity in the levels that makes them more compelling than typical pinball tables, aided by the fact that you're constantly learning new ways to control your own people on the ground.
As it turns out, the progress of your bell is aided by reserves of soldiers you call up by the dozens from the bottom of the screen. Using the microphone, you can bark at them to "rally" to items scattered on the fields, "press forward," turn left or right, and more; on some missions, you can order them to close a dam to allow the bell to pass through watery rapids, or fetch keys to open up alternate pathways for the bell to travel to the top of the screen. The key to success is juggling the demands of controlling your armies and paddling around the Odama ball; it's impossible to win without developing some skill at doing both.
Though graphics and sounds aren't the superstars here, it merits a note that Odama looks really, really nice running in progressive (480P) mode on a HDTV, and sounds just right when you're playing it. Its occasional lack of detail on zooms-in is thoroughly made up for by the clean, realistic look of the levels as a whole. Similarly, the audio isn't insane and overbearing; it's appropriate to the action, and not distracting given that you're using the microphone with some frequency. Like Nintendo's earlier Pikmin titles, this is a game that's easy on the eyes and ears, and focused squarely on providing a compelling gameplay experience.
There's some sad irony in the fact that reviewers bemoan the lack of originality in games, then squander the opportunity to praise truly innovative and well-executed ones like Odama. It's especially telling that Metroid Prime Pinball - a pretty but decidedly me-too pinball title for Nintendo DS - rated a higher-than-Odama 79/100 from critics, but an almost identical-to-Odama 8.8/10 with users. I'm thinking that professional reviewers, who are used to chewing up and spitting out 3 new games a week, got sucked in by the Metroid license and the ease of playing a familiar, fast-paced pinball game, rather than really sitting back and considering what made Odama special. And I'd be willing to bet that if Nintendo re-released this as Advance Wars Pinball - even without significant other changes - the game would rank higher. But that's besides the point: regardless of what the critics may say, Odama is very, very much worth playing.
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I've never posted in iLounge before but I must say. This is a good article. Goes to show that iLounge isn't a "me-too" site that just mimics the opinions of the supposed critics. Kudos for a good review. I've not played the game before but I am tempted to now.
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I think there used to be a time when quirky games like this (and I used to play and enjoy quite a few) were praised for their originality. Unfortunately these days there are less and less of such titles, and it strikes me that the movement of gaming to a more mainstream audience has perhaps caused this perceivable shift in reviewer attitudes.
Maybe thats why I too play less and less games these days.
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I got this game yesterday. The difficulty is moderately high, almost to the point of frustration. But oh so rewarding when you pass a level. This is the firts console game ive bought since Ikaruga and im not disapointed.
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Timbral agility was all on display as Iven and Schiff picked their way through a programme of Schubert, Brahms and Schumann.
The set of Schubert songs that opened the evening provided a masterclass in collaborative thinking. Der Fischer and Fischerweise were were both marked by a particularly burnished tone from Iven, as she navigated phrasing and diction to craft a beautiful sense of line. Meeres Stille descended into pure night music with Schiff rolling out nocturnal arpeggiations and Iven responding with shaded intensity. Such an intimate aesthetic hindered the pair slightly as they turned to the nightmarish soundscape of Der Zwerg. Schubert's setting of Matthäus von Collin's narrative of obsession and sexual perversion surrounding a young queen and a dwarf required much more extremity in colour to project the song's dramatic peaks and troughs.
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"I'm on a club team that's kind of my life. I just wasn't able to find the time," Stein said. "This year, I wanted to do high school my final year. This is the first time I've swum against some of these girls, and I didn't know who the really fast girls in high school were."
Not that Stein's resume wasn't intact before. She has signed to swim for Stanford, and she was seeded in the top two in the 200-yard individual medley and 100 butterfly. Stein not only led the field but was less that half a second off both classification records.
"I mean, state records are nice, and it's definitely a good goal for the meet, but I'm still really happy with my swims today," Stein said. "I'm happy with how I'm seeded (today) and racing some really fast girls. Being seeded first comes with a lot of pressure, because people expect you to perform, but it's still a lot of fun and gets the competitive energy going."
Stein was timed in 2 minutes, 4.34 seconds in the 200 IM and 56.83 in the butterfly.
She is one of three swimmers to head into the finals as the top seed in two events.
Three-time state champion Emily Stucky of Montrose led the 50 and 100 freestyle fields and will be looking for her third straight state crown in the 50. The other is Lexie Malazdrewicz, a sophomore from Evergreen. She took the top spots in the 200 and 500 freestyles.
Defending team champion Thompson Valley did nothing to hurt its chances at repeating, with a meet-best 13 championship swims and seven more in the consolation round, with three divers in the rotation. D'Evelyn made a strong push with 11 and four, but has no divers entered.


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By Rita R. Robison, Consumer Specialist
A state Department of Health air monitor in Seattle has detected trace levels of radiation in connection with Japan's nuclear emergency.
The tiny amounts of radioactive iodine are millions of times lower than levels that would be a health concern, state officials said in a statement. Despite these very small amounts, the state's overall background radiation levels haven't risen.
These results are consistent with findings reported by federal and Canadian agencies and by independent researchers.
The department said, as it has indicated previously, because of the distance from Japan and air mixing, radiation reaching the state is so diluted no health risks exist here, making protective action unnecessary.
People in Washington shouldn't take potassium iodide, also known as KI, because of what's happened in Japan, the department advises. Only people who work in or around nuclear power plants during an emergency, or who live near such a plant and can't get away, should take KI.
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Around 150 people attended a storm spotter training class
conducted by the National Weather Service in Topeka March
2 at the Melvern Community Center.
Replacement of a boxed culvert closed a section of U.S.
56 Highway between Scranton and U.S. 75 from March through
Figures released from the 2010 census showed a 2.5 percent
reduction in county population from 16,712 to 16,295.
Carbondale City Council heard citizen complaints for the
third time since the beginning of the year at the March
7 meeting, where a business accused the department of not
responding to calls.
James Kahler's attorneys announced plans to use his
mental state as a defense in the capital murder trial. Kahler
was accused of killing four family members in 2009 in Burlingame.
Overbrook drained its water tower following concerns of
its structural integrity brought up by residents. The tower
was inspected the previous summer, but may have been damaged
by winter weather.
The Lyndon boys' basketball team placed second at
the Class 2A State Tournament in Manhattan, the team's
best postseason finish. The Osage City girls' basketball
team qualified for the 3A state tournament.
A freight train derailed April 1, one-half mile east of
Olivet, causing 21 of the 115 cars to leave the track. Cars
carrying sand and agricultural products overturned and were
significantly damaged.
County, municipal and school board elections were held April
5. There were 1,973 ballots counted, a turnout of about
18 percent of the county's 10,764 registered voters.
Blue Bucket BBQ, Topeka, placed first in the eighth annual
Smoke in the Spring barbecue competition April 8-9 in Osage
City. More than $12,000 in barbecue was sold during weekend.
USD 420 Board of Education hired math teacher Dena Paul
as principal of the elementary school for the 2011-12 school
Carbondale City Council accepted the resignation of police
chief Jon Reed. Burlingame residents and officials planted
trees in Sumner Park to celebrate Earth Day.
The Osage County Senior Center hosted its fifth annual senior
resource fair April 28, providing check-ups and information
to area elders.
An anonymous complaint led to a review of compatibility
with the American Disabilities Act at Huffman Park in Osage
Part II of the Top Stories of 2011 will be published in
the Jan. 5 edition of
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HOS 34-hour restart provision is far from popular
There has been no shortage of feedback from shippers and carriers regarding the new changes to the motor carrier hours-of-service regulations that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued in July.
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There has been no shortage of feedback from shippers and carriers regarding the new changes to the motor carrier hours-of-service regulations that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued in July.
In short, the feedback goes something like this: we don't like these changes and never wanted or asked for them in the first place.
The most commonly talked-about HOS change is definitely the 34-hour restart rule. As per the FMCSA, the new restart policy aimed to change provisions in the 34-hour restart, which allowed drivers to "reset" their workweek after 34 consecutive hours off duty. Under new rules, drivers are now able to reset their workweek only once every seven days—and the rest period includes two spans from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing John White told LM in a previous interview that "the real challenge is the restart is 34 hours and could be as much as 49 or 50 hours, depending on when a driver finishes his day and if freight is available. Another issue is if the driver has worked his seven days and now cannot start his 34-hour restart until 1 a.m."
LM reported last week that bipartisan legislation introduced by a trio of Congressmen—Reps. Richard Hanna (D-NY), Tom Rice (R-SC) and Michael Michaud (D-Maine) aims to halt the 34-hour restart provision.
As you can tell, again, this 34-hour restart rule, along with the other changes, are not gaining in popularity whatsoever within freight transportation circles.
"The 34 hour restart [rule] is a drain on both the carrier community and the shipper one, ultimately, resulting in impacts to the end consumer," said Jeff Brady, director of transportation for Harry & David, a multi-channel specialty retailer and producer of branded premium gift-quality fruit, gourmet food products and other gifts. "Trucking impacts the entire economy and with the last several decades of no cohesive highway infrastructure plans; the increases in congestion, at critical times of the day none the less, is impacting capacity. Capacity in trucking, or lack thereof, creates higher costs to get capacity commitments from an ever shrinking carrier base."
As you can tell, Brady was straightforward and direct in assessing the current landscape and the negative influence these new regulations are clearly having in a relatively brief span.
These rules are impacting all modes, he continued, but for Harry & David, where reefer capacity has already been stuck in contraction mode, due to things like diesel fuel increases since the 2008 run up and the impacts on drivers being asked to do more, with less, with more Federal rules and capital needed to operate small – medium carrier fleets, among other things, he said it creates "disastrous pockets of service failures, cost over-runs and on time performance issues"
within the supply chain.
"We simply need to halt these regulations and realistically revisit them and understand the economic impact as a country," he concluded.
While I would suggest it is hard for most anyone to disagree with Brady on these points, it seems like it will be a while before the 34-hour restart issue gets addressed in a truly meaningful way.
So, for now, shippers and carriers remain focused on playing with the cards they are dealt while doing what they can to keep operating costs in check and keeping a close eye on capacity. This rule affects everyone running trucking operations, especially on the truckload side, so it bears close attention in the future.
If you want to tell me how the 34-hour restart and HOS regulations are impacting your operations, please drop me a line at [email protected].
About the AuthorJeff Berman, Group News Editor Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis. Contact Jeff Berman
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Report NEP-UPT-2012-09-30This is the archive for NEP-UPT, a report on new working papers in the area of Utility Models & Prospect Theory. Alexander Harin issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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The following items were announced in this report:
- Bruno Cara Giovannetti, 2012. "Asset Pricing under Quantile Utility Maximization," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2012_16, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
- Quang Nguyen & Marie-Claire Villeval & Hui Xu, 2012. "Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A field experiment in Vietnam," Working Papers 1226, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon.
- Glenn W. Harrison & Jimmy Martínez-Correa & J. Todd Swarthout, 2012. "Eliciting Subjective Probabilities with Binary Lotteries," Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series 2012-16, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, revised May 2015.
- Thomas Conlon & John Cotter & Ramazan Gencay, 2012. "Commodity futures hedging, risk aversion and the hedging horizon," Working Papers 201218, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
- Cheung, Stephen L., 2012. "Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment," IZA Discussion Papers 6762, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Philip J. Grossman & Catherine C. Eckel, 2012. "Loving the Long Shot: Risk Taking with Skewed Lotteries," Monash Economics Working Papers 41-12, Monash University, Department of Economics.
- Startz, Richard & Tsang, Kwok Ping, 2012. "Nonexponential Discounting: A Direct Test And Perhaps A New Puzzle," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series qt8pw4h6vk, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara.
- Cameron, Lisa A. & Shah, Manisha, 2012. "Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters," IZA Discussion Papers 6756, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Anmol Ratan, 2012. "Mistakes, Closure and Endowment Effect in Laboratory Experiments," Monash Economics Working Papers 22-12, Monash University, Department of Economics.


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Activision Blizzard raises fiscal outlook
Call of Duty and World of Warcraft provides publisher with strong results in March 2010 quarter
Activision Blizzard has announced that it is raising its earnings per share forecast for its March 2010 quarter following a stronger-than-expected performance in the first three months of this calendar year.
Its results, which will be announced on May 6, are now likely to yield an extra 2 cents per share bringing the total to 49 cents on a GAAP basis.
"We are tracking ahead of our March quarter outlook due to strong global demand for Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft and Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," said Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. "We benefited from the record breaking launch of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack, which was previously expected to launch in the June quarter. Additionally, certain operating expenses previously planned for the March quarter will now be incurred in the June quarter."
But despite the good news - a commodity that's been relatively sparse in the industry for the past year - he remained downbeat on the next few months. "It is always helpful to begin a year with great momentum," he said. "However, we remain cautious about the economy and consumer spending and the fact that the majority of our games are not expected to launch until the fall."
Meanwhile the continuing fallout from the row between the former leadership of Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward and Activision appears to have claimed two more victims today, with lead animator Mark Grigsby and lead character animator Paul Messerly both reported by Kotaku as having left the studio.


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Bitter, the duck brought up by swans journeys around the lake, meeting other birds and learning things about herself. There are a few "he's behind you" moments, a black coot pyramid in shadow puppets and some inventive uses of a compact, bright set to reveal an X-Factor-style judging panel of birds.
It's a story of identity, being different and bullying all wrapped up in a way that engages a captivated young audience. The puppets are believable, the singing entertaining, the Ugly Duckling character intriguing and the actors entrancing. It probably works best for an audience slightly younger than the recommended age group of 7+, but adults will love it too.
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PA 12-140—sHB 5499
Public Health Committee
SUMMARY: Prior law authorized a Department of Public Health (DPH)-licensed or Medicare-certified hospice to operate a specialized residence for the terminally ill that provides hospice home care and supportive services. This act authorizes only a DPH-licensed hospice to operate a residence and allows the hospice to also operate a "hospice facility" that provides hospice home care or hospice inpatient services. (The act does not distinguish between a facility and a residence. )
The act extends to a hospice facility the current requirement for a residence that it (1) provide a home-like atmosphere for patients for an appropriate time period and (2) cooperate with the DPH commissioner to develop licensure and operational standards.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
DPH Proposed Hospice Regulations
Currently, DPH regulates hospices that are considered free-standing or established as a distinct unit within a health care facility (e. g. , inpatient hospice facilities). DPH regulations define "hospice" under the broader category of "short-term hospital special hospice. " Inpatient hospice facilities must meet a variety of requirements concerning their physical plants, administration, staffing, records, and infection control. A home care program offered by an institutionally based hospice is also subject to DPH regulations. The program must address the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patient and family and provide services 24 hours a day, seven days a week (Conn. Agencies Reg. , § 19-13-D4b).
In March 2011, DPH published notice of its intent to amend these regulations to create a second licensure category for inpatient hospice facilities called "hospice facility. " The proposal keeps the existing "short-term hospital special hospice" licensure category so that facilities that want to continue to provide hospice services at a hospital level of care may do so. The new "hospice facility" licensure category would allow entities to create new facilities under regulations based on Medicare's minimum regulatory requirements for inpatient hospital facilities (42 C. F. R. § 418. 110). These requirements are less stringent than the department's current short-term hospital special hospice regulations.
DPH held a public hearing on the proposed regulations in April 2011. The proposal was submitted to the attorney general's office for final review in March 2012, after which it was submitted to the Regulation Review Committee for approval.
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Halogen bonding has emerged as a powerful tool for self-assembly due to its highly directional and hydrophobic nature. In spite of the number of one dimensional or infinite linear networks assembled by 1,4-DITFB with different acceptors, no example describing C–I π halogen bonding phosphorescence crystal has been reported. In this hot article Wei Jun Jin and colleagues at Beijing Normal University, China, describe a new organic phosphorescent co-crystal material based on 1,4-DITFB and carbazole. The team says that The halogen bonding of 1,4-DITFB with carbazole is selective, and the co-crystal microparticle suspension displays strong phosphorescence. Wei Jun Jin and the team say this is the first report of a phosphorescent co-crystal assembled by weak C–I π interaction. Read the article for free until 30th April.
Phosphorescent co-crystal assembled by 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene with carbazole based on C–I π halogen bonding: Hai Yue Gao, Qian Jin Shen, Xiao Ran Zhao, Xiao Qing Yan, Xue Pang and Wei Jun Jin, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 5336-5343.
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Police forces across Britain are preparing themselves for scenes of violence and disorder following 6 May, when hundreds of criminals are likely to be released into the community.
These individuals – known as 'honourable members' – are part of the notorious 'Labour Commons' gang that controlled parts of London for many years.
Since 1997 they have been able to use a combination of scare-mongering, intimidation and indolence to get their own way, even changing sides if someone made it worth their while. But following an election these hardened criminals could soon be joining the ranks of the underclass known as NEEPs – 'not in education, employment or politics'.
"The trouble is, these people have been making their own rules for so long they no longer know how to behave in normal society" Jon Bracewell, a spokesperson for the Association of Chief Police Officers, commented yesterday.
"They have no transferable skills, no prospects for the future. Thank goodness for the recent price rise in cider or they'd probably all be out of their tiny minds on Scrumpy Jack as well."
Some of these individuals will have lost their seats. Some will be so confused about which is their primary residence, having flipped it so many times, that they'll be completely unable to remember where they live and end up sleeping rough at The Athaeneum or 'popping round to see Anna-Marie – oh hang on – it's not Thursday is it…'.
There is some good news, however, as at least three of the individuals most at risk – known as Byers, Hoon and Hewitt – have shown some interest in starting a youth training programme which will give them an honest wage and a decent future. But sadly, the stain of being a politician will sit on their CVs for many years to come…


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And if a traveller does something similar, or even mutters the word bomb, they end up in jail for a day being interrogated.
A screener for the US Transportation Security Administration lost his job after pretending to plant a plastic bag of white powder in the carry-on luggage of a passenger at the Philadelphia International Airport. Rebecca Solomon was flying to Detroit on Northwest Airlines, the same city and carrier involved in the attempted …
And if a traveller does something similar, or even mutters the word bomb, they end up in jail for a day being interrogated.
(erstwhile) TSA guy: "Haha, just kidding; relax - you can get on the plane, you aren't going to be detained in one of the hidden white rooms here in the airport where we'd strip you naked and cavity search you until the police arrive and handcuff you and take you back to the station where you'd be put in a cell and interrogated for thirty-six hours until they decide to assign you a lawyer who will convince you to plea-bargain for a shorter felony sentence to commence a few months from now during which you'd be intimidated, beaten, and possibly raped by fellow inmates, mercifully culminating in your release in upstate New York penniless, creditless, friendless, homeless, and as an ex-convict nobody will hire.
Yeah, this was just a little bag-of-powder joke me and the guys like to pull, heh."
Paris, because she'd never frighten someone like that just for fun.
And should be good for a stint in the local gaol.
Nice they're hiring people of Gallagher's and Carrot Top's caliber. Gives a real clear picture of this supposedly vital piece of our nation's security infrastructure.
It's enough of a pain in the ass to fly, as it is and this hucklehead didn't think that someone might notice an incident like this? He should go to trial and get jail time, for being such a moron.
The Grenade just fits because I hate flying in and out of Detroit, even more now!
Considering the absolute shit-storm that the TSA would unleash on a *passenger* who tried the exact same "joke", this guy got off easy.
That anyone with enough working braincells to be able to breathe unaided could have possibly thought this would be a good idea, or that a TSA screener demonstrated something that could almost be mistaken for a sense of humor.
TSA does an excellent job of hiring the short bus window lickers of the world, no doubt about it.
Having been subject to enough 'random'* searches - I can assure you that even the higher ups in the TSA are idiots. I think that this might go all the way to the Homeland (in)Security.
* Random in that my kids and wife laugh every time they fly with me cause they know that I will get 'randomly' picked for extra screening. My kids even started videoing things until a few years ago when it was banned. (It was close to 100% for a while - and I fly 50 to 80k miles a year.)
* Random cause I look Arab (or Jewish) and have a beard.
The old "It's a young woman so it's funny to terrify her" gag? At least they've finally recognised that there are some things that security shouldn't be allowed to get away with.
Next month, he'll get to look at her naked.
I wonder if she prefers the white powder joke, or that.
And the reason the young woman was chosen as the object of the "joke?" Sounds like something the PFY would do.
If she was my wife or girlfriend and I was behind her when this happend I would have body slammed the dude for being a fool.
If a TSA screener ever asks me, "Where did you get this?" my reflexive response is now going to be, "The question is, where did *you* get it?"
Prison Transport Airlines.
I wonder if this the same person whole stole my son's medications out of our checked luggage? Fool.
In Japan the airport sometimes has luggage with marijuana inside to test the sniffer dogs.
The luggage was always something that did belong to the airport until one very clever airport employee (look for the oxymoron here) decided to plant a bag of marijuana in the luggage of a passenger without informing the passenger of course.
And then they couldn't find it.
Japan: the modern third world country
WTF because that happens a lot around here
I am all for freedom of speech, but for the time being cracking jokes about bombs and carrying bags of sugar/talc in hand luggage is not funny due to the fact that their are too many nutters around who will follow the letter of the law and next thing you're off to Gitmo. In a 20 years time, we may be able to look back find it funny, but for the moment, best keep your jokes to places where they can be appreciated. Jokes involving terrorism and airports, while in an airport, is not a very good idea right now.
"A TSA spokeswoman called the behavior "highly inappropriate and unprofessional" and said the man is no longer employed with the agency."
Probably because the FBI snapped him up as prime investigative material
No doubt this fscking ID10T suffers from "s--- for brains syndrome".
He should have been taken to Gitmo and waterboarded; then fired (assuming he survived).
Now that I think about it, a good and proper waterboarding just may cure his ailment. A judicious application of water at a high pressure and volume up his arse would do the trick.
Put what looks like a real bomb in is car Then put bunch of hate literature in the car . Call the cops aa say he wants to kill the president . Sure the cops might figure it out, maybe. But while he is getting raked over the coals and his life destroyed, call him up and said dude its just a joke.
There should be a movie in this somewhere. so *many* possibiliites
I hate seeing my tax dollars wasted on bullshit, but someone needs to learn a lesson and since it's illegal to thrash people with a tire iron a lawsuit will have to suffice.
...then where is the security?
Next we'll have bombs being smuggled through by some sympathetic security guard/baggage handler/idiot with a badge
When a violinist handed his violin case over and said, clearly, "it's NOT a gun". The guy was arrested (by a team of sub-machine-gun-toting SWAT members, no less); taken to the closest holding cells and interrogated for hours.
He was eventually fined - heavily - and released (after spending the night in jail). Their excuse? "You don't play jokes with security". Rightly so, maybe a tad overboard though.
How is this incident any different? Actually.. it is, but it is WORSE since the TSA clearly plant things in people's bags for fun.
Yeah, gotta love the land of the "free"....
c'mon you lot, can you imagine what her face must have been like?
yeah boarder rent-a-cop types are a pain but thats because at the begining of the decade they went from being desk clerk loosers to gun toting protectors of freedom. Finding one with a sense of humor is refreshing. Now we can only hope that word spreads to all of the analy fixated scum that abuse their newly found positions of power that its not on!


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