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Springtime for Jobs in February?
By Rick MacDonald
How strong will February's employment report be? The market will be braced for an upside surprise in nonfarm payroll growth when the monthly report is released on Mar. 4.
Wall Street's forecasts for February job growth have been on a steady upward march over the last couple of weeks, with the median estimate from Action Economics' weekly survey of economists jumping to 219,000 on Feb. 25, from 200,000 the previous week. And a "whisper" number of 300,000 circulating in the bond market fueled a sell-off in Treasuries -- and a jump in bond yields -- on Feb. 28.
In Action Economics' view, the odds are so one-sided in favor of a stronger-than-expected figure that the bond market may be set up for a relief rally if February payrolls come in below those lofty projections. Nonetheless, our own forecast calls for a rise of 240,000 on the month, well above the median estimate.
What makes us so confident? We think the litany of evidence supporting projections of a sharp bounce in February payrolls following the restrained 147,000 gain in January is fairly strong. Here's a review of the various data reports and other factors that support our outlook:
Initial Claims: The average reading for weekly first-time jobless claims in February will be close to 310,000. This is well below the average readings of 331,000 in January, 332,000 in December, and 337,000 in November. Similarly, the initial claims reading of 303,000 during the week that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) compiled data for the monthly report is well below the similar readings of 318,000 in January, 331,000 in December, and 335,000 in November.
Indeed, broader trends in payrolls and initial claims over the last two years have tracked fairly well. The recent drop in initial claims over the last four weeks raises the chance of an upside payroll gain in February.
Consumer Sentiment: The "current conditions" series from both the Conference Board's consumer confidence index and the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey have historically matched up well with the broader swings in the labor market. Both revealed jumps to multiyear highs in February.
The current component from the Michigan survey was unchanged in February, from January's 110.9, which left the series at the highest level since November, 2000. The present situations component of the Conference Board's index rose to 116.4 in February, from 112.1 in the prior month, which marked the highest level since September, 2001.
Help Wanted: The January Help-Wanted index from the Conference Board jumped to 41 in February, from 38 in January, which matches the highest level since September, 2002. The increase left a year-over-year growth rate of 8%, representing the biggest gain since the late 1990s. Moreover, the index has surged nearly 14% over January and February, which marks the strongest two-month growth rate in history.
Monster Employment: Employment-services outfit Monster Worldwide's (MNST ) January employment index (which will be updated later this week for February) surged to a record level, showing the second largest month-over-month gain since its inception in October, 2003. This strength ran in sharp contrast to the disappointing January payroll gain and may flag a need for reconciliation in the February employment report.
Factory Surveys: The employment components from the February factory sentiment surveys suggest a factory-payroll rebound following January's surprising 25,000 drop in manufacturing jobs. While it's clear actual payroll growth has undershot employment sentiment for much of this cycle, the decline in January appears to be an aberration that leaves room for a February rebound.
Weather: A return to more normal weather during the February survey week, compared to the abysmal conditions during the similar period in January, could provide an additional upside pop to payrolls. We have noted the risk that the January report was restrained by bad weather in the first half of the month. January data since then -- and anecdotal comments from auto dealers and retailers -- suggest that winter harshness indeed had a big impact.
The bad weather could explain other statistical oddities. Construction employment revealed an anomalous decline of 9,000 in January payrolls, compared to an average monthly payroll gain of 22,000 over the last 12 months. Aggregate construction hours worked dropped a hefty 2.4%. This weakness was in contrast to continued robust readings of housing sentiment measures, such as the National Association of Home Builders survey, as well other residential data that captured the full month (rather than just the first two weeks, when the weather was the worst).
Similarly, the wage and salary (W&S) data from the January personal income report revealed a much stronger rate of growth than implied by the January payroll data. One can calculate an implied aggregate wages figure from the employment report by multiplying payrolls, the workweek, and hourly earnings. Historically, this provides a close estimate for personal income, which is derived from unpublished data from the BLS that gauges activity throughout the month rather than in the survey week. In January, W&S growth was a hefty 0.6% larger than implied by the employment data. This is one of the largest discrepancies of the last decade.
Inclement weather around the survey week was a clear factor for two of these January W&S discrepancies, seen in 1996 and 1999. These distortions were followed by sizable payroll rebounds the following month, with payroll growth in February, 1996, recovering 435,000 from the 18,000 drop in January. Similarly, payrolls surged 396,000 in February, 1999, from a 113,000 gain in January of that year.
Overall, the February data should confirm that job growth remains healthy, boding well for the economic outlook. It would also suggest the excessive level of Fed policy accommodation in place for the last few years can continue to be removed. As such, the data should support a Fed tightening trajectory that most likely will continue at a "measured" pace well into 2005 and suggests upside risk to current market estimates.
MacDonald is global director of investment research and analysis for Action Economics
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SEOUL, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the South Korean government said Thursday that Seoul was backing away from claims it was the victim of a North Korean cyberattack.
A South Korean official was cited by the Yonhap news agency as stating intelligence agencies in Seoul had found signs that computer servers for the government's press room may have been compromised by a cyberattack emanating from North Korea.
Government spokesman Yoon Chang-jung said the press office's computer networks were more vulnerable that government systems because they were connected to commercial computer networks. He said, however, there was "some misunderstanding in the course" of delivering warnings, Yonhap adds.
Authorities early this week said a cyberattack on the website for a South Korean newspaper was tied to Pyongyang.
The misstep comes as South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye starts preparations for taking office in late February. The opposition Democratic United Party said the miscommunication on the cyberattack was "shameful."
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Now that it's in it's bajillionth season, I'm sure at least some of you have seen The Biggest Loser.
I swear to you, at least once a season, one of the trainers has to convince one of the contestants that they're 'worth it' and that in order for them to do the most for others in the best way possible, they must put their health first, and make themselves a priority.
OK, that's a very pleasant, straightforward way to say what Jillian usually yells, but the message is the same. Sometimes we have to put ourselves first.
Obviously this is easier for some of us than for others. At my house, the only one who relies on me is Paul the Fish, and he doesn't really give me too much grief when I head out the door.
There are times however, when work, family, travel, friends, etc leave little to no room for a run or workout.
I'd have to say, one of the biggest compromises I've had to make was while I was training for my first half marathon. Somehow I ended up with my long runs happening midweek, during November and December.
I work a standard schedule, usually starting between 7 and 8am and working until 3:30 or 4:30pm. Obviously 4:30pm in November doesn't leave much time for a 10mi run. I ended up using the last of my vacation time in 2hour per week increments in order to fit in my long runs.
Needless to say, for this half marathon, I've smartened up and my long run day is Saturday. Vacation time is much better spent on, well, vacation 🙂
What is the strangest/craziest/dumbest thing you've done to prioritize your run?
And on a strictly 'Jess-Related' note:
Last week my long run was 8mi, and I was tired (had 5mi and 4mi midweek runs that were longer than my usual midweek runs) but I felt fine afterward. My half marathon is on 10/2, so essentially I have this weekend and next weekend to fit in long runs. This weekend I have a 9mi run planned for Saturday. My question is: Next weekend, should I back my mileage down to maybe 7 or 8mi or should I try to fit in a 10mi run before the actual race?
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Jerry Brown was governor in 1978.
He - along with the Democrat-controlled legislature - were adamant opponents of Proposition 13 to reform how property was assessed for taxation.
In high growth areas such as San Jose, people were being forced out of their homes. Those homes' assessed value was based on comparable selling prices within roughly a two block area. If someone sold a house for an amount 10 times above what it was last assessed, all property within a two-block radius was automatically reassessed. That meant property tax bills on such homes impacted also increased 10-fold.
The legislature for more than 10 years had promised property tax reform but did nothing.
So voters who were fed up with the legislature that was essentially kowtowing to special interests that feasted on the growing flow of property taxes for their pet project, took matters into their own hands.
They signed petitions to get the Jarvis-Gann Property Tax Reform Act or Proposition 13 on the ballot.
Proposition 13 passed by an overwhelming majority. Brown changed his tune and became a convert to Proposition 13 after the election.
But what if Brown Version 1.0 did what Brown Version 2.0 did in regards to Proposition 8 regarding marriages if a legal challenge was undertaken by voters disgruntled with the outcome of the Proposition 13 election?
If he had simply refused to defend the initiative in the courts and had an attorney general who mirrored his opinion, we now know that neither Howard Jarvis, Paul Gann or other Californians who voted for the measure could not have argued its constitutionality in court.
That is what U.S. Supreme Court decided this past week when they declined to take up the Proposition 8 case effectively striking it down.
The court's ruling indicated authors of Proposition 8 had no legal standing to defend it since that was the state's prerogative.
The court essentially has weakened the California initiative process that is a century old by giving state government the opportunity to null and avoid it by simply not defending challenges to successful initiatives that they do not like politically.
And make no doubt about it. Brown's decision with both Proposition 13 and Proposition 8 were politically motivated.
Brown and every other elected politician since the beginning of time make moral judgments. They are not, as they'd like you to believe, simply neutral guardians of public trust. They have biases, opinions, and beliefs. It really can't be any other way. You couldn't even program a computer to make political decisions because it ultimately has to be programmed by humans that have biases, opinions and beliefs.
Brown Version 1.0 was adamantly against the death penalty based on his Jesuit upbringing. When voters passed an initiative upholding the death penalty he viewed to continue working against its implementation. He did not, however, short-circuit efforts to defend challenges to the initiative involving the death penalty.
That may have been because the attorney general back then was Evelle Younger. The governor and attorney general shared neither political views or political affiliation. That wasn't the case this time around with Kamala Harris in the attorney general's office.
While you may agree with the ultimate outcome of the high court's refusal to hear arguments in favor of Proposition 8 because the state did not make them, the decision invested bullet-proof veto power with the governor and attorney general over initiatives brought forth and passed by the people.
It effectively waters down the last remaining intact element of the reform movement headed by Gov. Hiram Johnson a hundred years ago in California that the people can access to counter government corrupted by special interests or one that is simply unresponsive.
The initiative process gave California something unique - direct democracy. Over the years initiatives have increased taxes, decreased taxes, established environmental standards such as the Coastal Commission, taken on toxins, legalized pot for medical use and has taken on a host of pressing concerns the legislature had refused to address.
The issues in the initiative process cut across political lines and almost always go after an issue that has been effectively controlled by special interests showering the legislature with campaign funds and enjoying lobbying access that the typical voter does not possess.
The reason there is no cry and hue in Sacramento over the mechanics of the Proposition 8 decision that has nothing to do with marriage, is obvious. It restores even more power to politicians of both Republican and Democratic persuasions.
They have a mutual interest in seeing the initiative process weakened.
It is the same interests that prompted elected officials to do nothing as the California Public Utilities Commission has been watered down over the years by packing the commission as well as key posts within the CPUC with former high-ranking officials of the very industries they are supposed to regulate.
The California Rail Commission — the name of the CPUC before it was changed — was also born in the reform movement. It was in response to ineffective politicians who were in the back pockets of Southern Pacific Railroad that used its monopoly status and power to set freight and passenger rates artificially high and to prevent competition from emerging in the markets they served.
Today, the CPUC is a shell of itself as shown by how PG&E has molded the supposed citizens' watchdog agency to bend to its interests..
Where is Hiram Johnson when you need him?
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Newport Gwent Dragons vs Llanelli Scarlets
Newport come into this on the back of a narrow loss to Edinburgh, and will want to keep their home record untarnished. Their openside flanker Lewis Evans has spoken of wanting "to make Rodney Parade a fortress". If that is to be the case they'll need to overturn their recent record against the Scarlets, who they haven't defeated in their last ten encounters stretching all the way back to 2008. The Scarlets, meanwhile, are playing their first away fixture of the season and have named a strong starting XV to take on the men from Gwent, which indicates that they're not just taking a win here for granted. I think that while the Dragons will be bolstered by that deserved win over Ulster a few weeks back, ultimately the day will go to the visitors, but only just.
Prediction: Scarlets by 3
Cardiff Blues vs Zebre
Cardiff got their campaign back on track with a win at home against Connacht last weekend. Next up they host the ill-fated Zebre, who began their game against Munster well (leading at half time) but ran out of steam towards the end of the second half. Having not lost at home to any Italian side ever, complacency is the only worry here for the hosts I feel, but even if they were to go behind to Zebre, I doubt their home crowd would let them away with that for very long!
Prediction: Blues by 23
Benetton Treviso vs Munster
Treviso are still chasing a first win of the season having lost to both Ospreys and Scarlets in recent weeks. They now host table toppers Munster but will not be too nervous about their opponents having defeated them quite convincingly in this exact fixture last season. This venue, the Stadio Mongio, is not a happy hunting ground for the men in red, having only won here once (in 2012). Munster themselves come in off the back of a win against Zebre in a game of decidedly two halves. As I warned last week, it seemed like complacency had set in before arriving and Zebre punished them for that in the first half. I'm betting the team talk in Munster's dressing room lit some fires under a few backsides leading to a much better performance in the 2nd half as they romped to a fairly easy victory. They can't afford to be so complacent against a team of Treviso's calibre but given the score-line last time they played here (34-10) I don't think that will be a problem.
Prediction: Munster by 10
Glasgow Warriors vs Leinster
This is by far the toughest game of the weekend to call. Glasgow are two from two thus far and come back to Scotstoun with a rare win from 'fortress Ravenhill'. They haven't gone three from three at the start of a season since 2002(!) and host Leinster who had an epic encounter with Ospreys last weekend which ended all square at 29-29. Who will win this one is almost impossible to tell, but I have no doubt it'll be close. Recent encounters have all gone Leinster's way but we should note that in this fixture last year, which ended 0-6 to the visitors, the conditions were horrendous. Leinster also narrowly beat Glasgow in the playoffs last season and were it not for a wayward conversion attempt the day could have easily gone to the Warriors. In fairness though, looking back at Glasgow's win against Ulster last weekend, it was an out and out mugging and went completely against the run of play. The heart says Glasgow, the head says Leinster.
Prediction: Leinster by 5
Ospreys vs Edinburgh
Ospreys snatched a draw away to Leinster at the death last weekend which is no mean feat. Considering their home record against Edinburgh in recent years and Edinburgh's poor away record, it's hard to see past a comprehensive win here although as it as I write this, I've yet to see a team sheet for them. If you're an Edinburgh fan you can take solace in their surprise win over Ospreys last season, albeit at home. A win at Liberty Stadium for them is another prospect entirely though!
Prediction: Ospreys by 20
Connacht vs Ulster
No team-sheets for this match mean I'm going in fairly blind. Connacht are undefeated at home thus far but since that fact is just based on one game against Zebre it hardly makes for an impressive record. They have only beaten Ulster once in their last 14 attempts back in 2012. It should be noted that they did beat Biarritz and Leinster here last season, so scalping big teams is not unheard at the Sportsground. Ulster are suffering from a two defeat slump and so if new coach Pat Lam is intent on making a statement, a win over Ulster would definitely make people stand up and take notice. As for Ulster, they must still be scratching their heads wondering what happened after what can only be described as daylight robbery by the Weegies last weekend in Ravenhill. For long spells during the second half an Ulster try to seal the win looked almost inevitable and I was quietly confident that my prediction of Ulster by 10 was going to be proved right. But before I could begin any self-congratulatory pats on the back, Glasgow's defence not only fended off wave after wave of Ulster attack, but managed to get to the other end of the pitch for a try at the very death. Connacht will need to be at their very best to deny an wounded Ulster.
Prediction: Ulster by 20
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Fairfield at Saint Peter's men
WHEN -- Today, 2 p.m.
WHERE -- Yanitelli Center, Jersey, N.J.
RECORDS -- Fairfield 5-2, 1-0 MAAC; Saint Peter's 4-3, 1-0 MAAC
ON THE AIR -- WVOF-FM 88.5 LINE-- St. Peter's by 2
SKINNY -- The Stags are coming off a 70-61 victory over Marist on Thursday in the conference opener. ... Junior Yorel Hawkins continutes to lead the Stags with 17.5 points per game. ... Freshman point guard Derek Needham (16.3 ppg) has scored in double figures in all seven games. ... Saint Peter's has won three straight. ... Wesley Jenkins leads the team with 14.7 ppg. ... Saint Peter's coach John Dunne is 0-6 against the Stags. ... Ed Cooley is 6-0 lifetime against the Peacocks.
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By Chuck Kajer, Managing Editor
The holiday season is a time of giving and sharing. Many families make a point of giving to foodshelves, coat drives, mitten drives, toy drives and other programs that benefit those who are needy.
All are worthy causes, helping families meet their needs during tough economic times. But none of these needs is more basic than food.
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Southampton v Reading
- The Royals have failed to win in their last five visits to the south coast, losing twice.
- Southampton have conceded a total of five goals in their last three league games, as many as in the previous 12 games combined.
- Nigel Adkins' side have won more home games than any other championship side, 15.
- Nine out of Southampton's 11 opening home fixtures yielded over 2.5 goals. Only two of the following 10 at St Mary's have followed suit.
- Reading have netted in each of their last 11 away games, setting a new Championship record for 2011/12.
- Ian Harte is a defender in form, having scored three goals in four games.
Barnsley v Cardiff
- The last three meetings between the sides have produced a total of 15 goals, including a 5-3 triumph for Cardiff in this season's reverse fixture.
- Cardiff have claimed a victory in four of their last six visits to South Yorkshire.
- The Tykes have managed just three goals in their last 10 matches.
Cardiff have drawn five of their last six matches
- The Bluebirds have found the net in 18 of their 21 away matches, a joint-league-high.
Birmingham v Bristol City
- Birmingham have beaten Bristol City in each of their last five meetings, scoring 11 and conceding four.
- Chris Burke has netted three times in his last four appearances and his double set up a 2-0 win for the Blues in the reverse fixture.
- The Blues have lost one home game this season, less than any Championship side.
Chris Hughton's charges have kept 11 clean sheets at St. Andrews, a joint-league-high.
- Birmingham have netted exactly three goals in their last four Championship outings.
- If Bristol City triumph they will equal a season-best three consecutive victories.
Burnley v Coventry
- On their last six visits to Turf Moor, Andy Thorn's side have returned with three points on one occasion.
- Charlie Austin has struck five goals in his last four appearances and it was his 90th minute winner that secured a 2-1 success for Burnley in the reverse fixture.
- The Clarets have won one of their last five home games.
- The Sky Blues have triumphed just once away from home this term, a league-low.
- Coventry have incurred just one loss in eight, winning two.
Crystal Palace v Ipswich
- Paul Jewell's side have triumphed on three of their last four visits to south London to face Palace.
- There have been four red cards in as many meetings between the sides.
- Palace have suffered defeat in four of their last five games and won only one of their last nine.
- Crystal Palace have drawn a league-high 10 home games this season.
- The Tractor Boys have not won away from home in their last five attempts.
Derby v Middlesbrough
- Boro have overcome Derby in eight of their last eleven meetings, keeping six clean sheets along the way.
- Since the 1999/2000 season the sides have met 13 times with an average of 3.3 goals per game.
- The Rams have lost one of their last seven games, winning four.
- Tony Mowbray's side have embarked on an eight-match winless streak, their worst run this season.
- Boro have managed no more than one goal in their previous eight fixtures.
Doncaster v Portsmouth
- The sides have met 13 times in all competitions, with Portsmouth coming out on top in nine.
- Doncaster have failed to win in nine games, the poorest current run in the division, losing six of their last seven.
- Rovers have also not kept a clean sheet in their last 14 in the Championship, the worst current run.
- Pompey have not won in their last seven away fixtures.
- Michael Appleton's side have failed to find the net in four of their last five matches on the road.
Leeds v Peterborough
- The sides have only met in three previous league meetings, with a total of 11 goals being scored, and nine of those coming after the break.
- Peterborough have scored in each of the seven matches they have played against Leeds (in all competitions).
- Neil Warnock's side have failed to win in five home games and host Peterborough on the back of three consecutive 2-0 defeats (overall).
- The Whites have kept just two clean sheets at Elland Road this term, a league-low.
- Posh are winless in their last nine games away from home.
Millwall v Leicester
- None of the last six league meetings between these two clubs have ended in a draw.
- The Lions have suffered defeat in seven of their latest nine home fixtures.
- Milwall have kept four clean sheets in their last five league matches.
- 18-year-old striker Harry Kane has scored in each of Milwall's last three victories, while Leicester winger Ben Marshall can boast the same feat for his side.
- Nigel Pearson's side have lost just once in their last seven fixtures, winning four.
Nottingham Forest v Blackpool
- Blackpool are unbeaten on their last five visits to the County Ground in all competitions, winning two.
- The teams' four most recent meetings have each produced more than 2.5 goals.
- Forest have failed to find the net in a joint-league-high nine home games this season.
- Steve Cotterill's side boast three clean sheets in their last four league encounters.
- Blackpool have scored in each of their last 18 league games, and are the first Championship side to do so in 2011/12.
- Ian Holloway's charges have lost three of their last four away fixtures.
Watford v Hull
- Hull are unbeaten on their last six matches against Watford, recording five victories, two of which have come at Vicarage Road.
- Former West Brom midfielder Robert Koren has scored in the 90th minute in consecutive matches against Watford.
- The Hornets have suffered defeat once in their last nine Championship games.
- Watford have conceded in 18 of their 21 home fixtures this season.
- Monday's home win over Middlesbrough ended a run of five consecutive defeats for the Tigers and was only their second success in 13.
West Ham v Brighton
- Brighton have triumphed once in 10 visits (in all competitions) to Upton Park, losing seven.
- The Hammers have failed to win at Upton Park in their last seven attempts, drawing six
- Ricardo Vaz Te has netted five times in his last four appearances.
- Brighton have not won away from home in their last five attempts.
- In 9 of their 21 away matches this term, Brighton have failed to get on the scoresheet.


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Criminologists call for national offenders database
Criminologists at the Australian National University say the recent murder case of Jill Meagher shows parole boards need to make greater use of statistics to work out if someone is likely to re-offend. They are urging the setting up of a national database which they acknowledge would be expensive and time-consuming.
TONY EASTLEY: Criminologists at the Australian National University are urging parole boards to make greater use of statistics on past behaviour when assessing if someone is likely to re-offend.
They're urging the establishment of a national database to provide the information needed.
And they say had it already been available, it's unlikely the man who murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher would have been out on parole.
Samantha Donovan reports.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: The ANU criminologists say last year's murder of Jill Meagher in Melbourne and the recent alleged violent assault by a convicted murderer in Sydney show parole authorities aren't doing a good enough job predicting if a criminal is likely to re-offend.
Professor Rod Broadhurst.
ROD BROADHURST: Past behaviour is still one of the better predictors of subsequent behaviour. When we look at cases of homicide for example or sexual violence we find that perhaps about half of our offenders that are classified or grouped as homicide offenders have some kind of prior record, some kind of prior history of offending. And some of those have prior histories of offending in a violent way.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Professor Broadhurst and his colleagues recently studied what happened to 900 West Australian murderers when they were released from custody between 1984 and 2005.
ROD BROADHURST: Twenty per cent of them actually did re-offend for another grave offence or another homicide. But the trouble with that count is of course two things. One is that it doesn't include whether or not they committed offences in another state other than WA, so it undercounts the national - so it's conservative.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Professor Broadhurst says a national database on offending would be invaluable to help parole boards calculate the risk of re-offending. It would link data from the police, the courts and health and corrections departments. But he says a lack of time and money have prevented the establishment of such a service.
ROD BROADHURST: In the past, parole boards have played with risk assessment tools. Part of the problem is that this data has to be updated and it has to be updated literally on a daily basis because it has the only dynamic value, it has to have the latest data.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: But some people would argue though that statistics don't take into account that someone may have been rehabilitated in prison. What do you say to that argument?
ROD BROADHURST: Well there's no argument that parole and probation are very, very useful policy instruments. You know, we're not arguing that parole somehow or other is at fault here.
But what we're saying is parole authorities, when they assess the risk of offenders, can do better if they take account of statistical measures, actuarial measures of risk.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Professor Broadhurst acknowledges steps would need to be taken to ensure the information remained confidential.
ROD BROADHURST: When we collect sensitive data like criminal records and we tie that to juvenile records and perhaps records about substance abuse or about mental health and so on, into such a database, obviously privacy is a major concern.
We think that the privacy issues can be handled through proper confidentialisation. What has to happen is it has to be locally done, it has to be linked routinely and has to be fresh, recent data.
TONY EASTLEY: Professor Rod Broadhurst from the ANU. Samantha Donovan our reporter.


text: >Number: 31112 >Category: lib >Synopsis: malloc.conf and system programs >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: lib-bug-people >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: net >Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 01 00:01:00 +0000 2005 >Originator: Ken Raeburn >Release: NetBSD 2.0 >Organization: MIT >Environment: System: NetBSD venix.mit.edu 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Nov 30 21:04:03 UTC 2004 builds@build:/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/alpha/200411300000Z-obj/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC alpha Architecture: alpha Machine: alpha >Description: The malloc man page says: EXAMPLES To set a systemwide reduction of cache size, and to dump core whenever a problem occurs: ln -s 'A<' /etc/malloc.conf I had set malloc.conf->AJ, and many months later, rebooted. On startup, fsck_ffs died on an unclean file system with an "allocation failed" error. The file system is about 4G, and the machine has >1G RAM, and unlimiting the process memory size didn't help. Removing malloc.conf made it work just fine: It cleaned up some unreferenced files and stuff, and my system came up. While the man page describes how to set the 'A' option system-wide, persistent across reboots, this may be a poor idea. One thing the man page does not mention is that the 'A' option is very bad for a program which tries to make allocation requests but can handle failures cleanly and continue. For example, a program that runs a garbage collector on malloc failure, or a program that caches information it's read if it can get the extra memory to do so -- like fsck_ffs appears to do at first glance with inode data. I have no reason to believe that the 'J' option was causing any problems, or that fsck_ffs has a bug relating to this situation. (It is possible that there is a bug, and that the failed allocation was for some absurdly large size that was read out of memory scribbled on by enabling the 'J' option. But it appears that there are parts of the fsck_ffs code that cope well with running out of storage.) >How-To-Repeat: The fsck_ffs failure only happened when I had an unclean file system with unreferenced files. I don't know what other cases will trigger it; a forced check of another, clean file system did not. >Fix: Don't recommend 'A' in system-wide options, only in MALLOC_OPTIONS and malloc_options. Describe the sorts of cases where 'A' may be inappropriate, and how one should be extra careful with options set via malloc.conf for system-wide effect. (Is 'A' the only one likely to be a problem?)


text: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:37 +0900, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: > > > Not under etc, please. First of all because nothing should use > > ${LOCALBASE}/etc directly. > > Isn't that a foregone cause? Last I looked, tons of stuff installed from > pkgsrc defaulted to ${LOCALBASE}/etc for configuration information. Not completely, but it's "work in progress". Lots of packages have been converted to use the bsd.pkg.install.mk framework to install their configuration files under PKG_SYSCONFDIR instead of PREFIX/etc. (Personally, I consider broken any package which touches PREFIX/etc directly.) > > Furthermore, I don't see them as configuration files; they are extra > > information associated with the installed packages. And you should > > never have to modify them by hand. > > One or both of these is true of many other things already in /etc, such > as dumpdates, localtime, passwd, pwd.db, rc.conf.d/*, rc.d/*, rc.subr, > release, skeykeys, and the list goes on. Hmm true. > > So this is why I proposed libdata: because it's extra information used > > by some tools which the user should not edit directly. (We are already > > using that hierarchy for multiple packages, following this rationale.) > > That seems just fine to me, too, for this particular case. (Despite > being changing information, which is not really what I'd thought of for > libdata, if you lose the packages, the configuration files are safely > deleted as well, since they're easily regenerated, so there's no point > in putting them in some place where they're easy to back up separately.) I'm not sure I understand you here. It's "changing information", but it only changes at well-known points: i.e., when installing a new package or when removing an existent one[1]. If you blow away your LOCALBASE, that information will also be removed - and it will be automatically reconstructed when you install any other package. The same happens for other packages that actually use libdata, such as scrollkeeper, gstreamer or gtk2. They only update the information in that tree during (de)installation of packages, and they keep no local configuration information. [1] As an unrelated note: this won't cause any problems with ro-mounted LOCALBASEs. -- Julio M. Merino Vidal <email@example.com> http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmmv/ The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/


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TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher and his players have talked this week about blocking out all the distractions that come with a game like this.
Not getting caught up in the hype of a top-10 matchup Saturday against Clemson on national television (ABC, 8 p.m. ET). Or ESPN's popular College GameDay being in town.
Or the frenzied crowd in excess of 82,000 that's expected in Doak Campbell Stadium.
Fisher calls it "the clutter."
Still, they also all said it's why they're at Florida State in the first place. For stages like the one they'll have when the No. 4 Seminoles host the No. 9 Tigers. It is this first time since 2007 that Atlantic Coast Conference teams meet with both in the top 10.
"This is definitely why we came here," said starting safety Terrence Brooks. "Florida State is a big football school. I mean we came here to play in big games and give ourselves big names here. This is the game we all want, where we can our name out there.
"It's a great opportunity."
Said senior defensive tackle Everett Dawkins: "It's fun. It's a big game. Everybody's going to be watching. As a football player, this is what you want. You want everybody to be looking at the Florida State-Clemson game."
Brooks, was a reserve defensive back for the Oklahoma game last Sept. 17, still remembers quite vividly the energy in the stadium that night.
Though the Seminoles wound up losing to the then-No. 1 Sooners 23-13 it was as electric as any Doak Campbell Stadium crowd in recent memory. Maybe ever. And Saturday night could be very similar.
"That was one of the best experiences of my life," Brooks said of the Oklahoma game.
"It was unbelievable. I've never been in that type of atmosphere. It was wild. It was up-tempo. It was just crazy. And I loved it. I loved that feeling. Actually getting the opportunity to do it again -- I mean, you count your blessings."
Florida State (3-0) is fourth in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll and leads the country in virtually every statistical category defensively. Clemson (3-0) is ranked ninth and has one of the highest-scoring offenses in the nation, led by All-America candidate Sammy Watkins at wide receiver.
Whoever wins Saturday night will have an inside track to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and stay on course for a possible national championship game.
Whoever loses will be in serious trouble in both regards.
"This is a very important game," Fisher said.
"But hopefully during our time at Florida State we're going to play a lot of important games. And you have to learn to deal with those things, issues, whatever you want to call them -- distractions or fun.
"And it makes it fun, too. Everybody's watching. That's why you want to play. It doesn't add pressure. It doesn't reduce pressure. It's still the game of football and you learn to adapt to those situations."
Redshirt senior linebacker Vince Williams said Saturday night's showdown is the biggest game of his career at Florida State.
"And I've been here half a decade," he added.
It's bigger than last year's Oklahoma game because of the conference title implications. And because he thinks Florida State is a different team than it was 12 months ago.
"Playing against Oklahoma we always felt like we were the underdogs," Williams said.
"I think that's the mindset a lot of us had. We really didn't believe the hype that we had going into that. Now we don't care about the hype. We just want to destroy everybody that we play. That's the difference.
"Now we feel like we're the top dogs and we're trying to run the table."


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ANAHEIM – The Lakers have the superior size, but the Heat has the more formidable inside game.
Not inside as in down low, but inside as in low down.
Here's the skinny you need to know on the fattened-up Heat: This is a team that will operate all season with the most primal, most potent of motivation. And the drive has nothing to do with proving the LeBron James critics wrong.
No, what really will be pushing the Heat – and should be of most concern to the Lakers – is the collective desire of James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to prove themselves right.
The difference in semantics is minor; the difference in meaning is not.
In the history of sports, roughly every team ever assembled has been able to rally against some form of evil, congregating outside forces, if not real than conveniently perceived. Little known fact: Goliath privately complained that he never received a lucrative shoe deal.
Us-against-the-world wouldn't be a bigger cliché in sports even if it vowed to take it to the next level and give 110 percent in playing it one game at a time.
The Lakers, the two-time defending champions, the team picked by the NBA's general managers, by Sports Illustrated and even by Wade as favorites to win the title again, could cite the snubs of outsiders.
With all the attention being hung on the Heat, the Lakers could manufacture an avalanche of disrespect, noting how Miami's Big Three already is being celebrated as a celestial body despite possessing fewer rings than Saturn.
It's mostly silly rhetoric. And not unlike the idea advanced by James and Wade that they've been gathering the words of the doubters and how those words will be the fuel firing their very souls this season.
Yeah, right, and nobody gave the New York Yankees and their store-bought roster of multi-millionaires has any chance of surviving the Texas Rangers.
Beware, though, of the athlete intent on justifying himself and his behavior. Watch out for the man driven by validation.
And the Heat has three men – three world-class athletes – determined to show how wise they were, how savvy they were, how right they were. Only one thing closes their case: a championship.
An impetus from the outside always will pale compared to a thrust from the inside.
During their most recent championship incarnation, the Lakers have clung to the belief that it's always about them and nobody else. In other words, they're the best team, and if the best team does what it's supposed to do, the Lakers won't lose.
The notion – much like the Lakers themselves – is partly arrogant and partly admirable. With consecutive titles, it's also wholly true.
But what about now, after all the clatter and happy chaos in Miami?
"Why would anything change?" Lamar Odom said Tuesday, apparently less enthralled by the Heat than, say, ESPN is. "I think it's even more so now. That's not a cocky saying we have. It's the truth."
Sitting nearby, teammate Derek Fisher, unsolicited, offered, "I'd have to agree with that."
So the Lakers already are in postseason form, even arriving in Orange County with Andrew Bynum hobbling, just like every other June. They were here to play the Utah Jazz, who, in keeping with our theme, still aren't good enough to beat the Lakers in a series.
And here we were, still a week left in the preseason, on a night when the Lakers were playing in a hockey team's home, basically already writing about the NBA Finals.
Sorry, but that's how it is now in this league. The NBA, until someone else gives us a reason, will be a league of only two teams.
Tallying all the unwarranted technical fouls might be the only way to keep things – by which we mean the Charlotte Bobcats, second quarters and the months of November through March – vaguely interesting.
The Lakers will dominate local news because they are the Lakers, a team capable of making Sasha Vujacic a media sensation.
The Heat will dominate nationally because ESPN, mercifully, has decided to forego the charade. Once a proud network, now a preening infomercial.
"You have to go with what works for you," Odom said. "Every team does the same thing. That mentality has worked well for us. Nothing has happened since the end of last season that would change that, right?"
Well, the Heat has changed, mightily so. And the Lakers have changed a bit, too, pretty much all for the better.
"We've added a few pieces physically, but I think our mentality also is stronger," Odom said. "That's what makes us the team we are, that strong mentality."
The Heat has some strength upstairs, as well. And beware: Inside, the Heat will be the strongest opponent these Lakers have faced yet.


text: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, alexis bory wrote: > > Just a question about mod rewrite, I'm doing the same, thing Alexis, but > > have you managed to be able to point a http://toto.com (ie without the > > www) ??? > > Hi, if there is no special DNS record, there are 4 cases : I have a toto.com IN A xx.xx.xx.xx for example. I don't think I explained myself very well :-) It wasn't really a logs question. > - it points on the same dir than www.toto.com , this case makes the requests > with and without "www" to be merged all together in the per-site log. > (just adding a line in the RewriteMap). This is what I would like to happen, at the moment I get a 404. I was wondering how you make http://toto.com become www.toto.com on the fly. Ah so you have a rewritemap??, is yours a dbm or text file? Do you mind showing me where you put it in the httpd.conf? :-) Is it.. toto.com www.toto.com Cheers James > - it points on redirect page so the later request become www.toto.com, this > case generate a separate log if you create a distinct dir, up to you to > have a report on it.(if you create a distinct dir, you need to add a line > in the RewriteMap, and a dir, and a html page) If we call this new dir > toto.redi , then it will be ignored by the script and there won't be any > new separate log. > - it points on another web site. > > Look at the LogFormat directive with the {Host}i value in the begining. > That's what we check when splitting the general access.log. > > LogFormat "%{Host}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" > \"%{User-Agent}i\" %T %v" full > > We try to limit "special cases" as much as possible, and we host only web > sites on wich we have entire control, it helps... > > > alexis > >


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In every contest there are winners, and there are losers. The winners go on to fame and fortune, and get to further emasculate and humiliate their conquests by having them serve as their house-boys for a month, performing all sorts of menial, discomforting tasks: laundry, dishes, foot-massages, you name it. Basically, the losers get shit on, and I think that's unfair. So let's give some due attention to these temporarily fallen heroes.
Junior dos Santos – JDS endured an incredible beating at the hands of Cain Velasquez. It's hard to even describe what happened to JDS as a "weakness," and the good thing for him is that Cain is probably the only heavyweight in the world with the ability to exploit it. And that means after his face heals up, JDS is gonna be looking to lay a serious hurting on whomever the UFC decides to pit him against next. My guess is JDS will face Alistair Overeem should he lose to Antonio Silva.
Joe Lauzon – The fact that Lauzon isn't an elite lightweight has been known for some time, and shouldn't diminish whatsoever his legitimacy and/or talents. Lauzon is the new Chris Lytle – a guy who realizes he will likely never be a UFC champion so just goes out there and fights like Maximus while fattening his retirement account with mad bonus checks. And there's nothing wrong with that. Next up, some well deserved time off to let the hatchet wound over his eye heal up. Then, well shit it don't even matter. Lauzon will make it a thrilling brawl against anyone.
Tim Boetsch – Sure, Tim broke his hand, took a head-butt and an eye-poke, and looked awful near the end as he got TKO'd by Consta Philipou. But did anyone really believe he was championship material? Tim was getting handled by Yushin Okami before landing that perfect KO shot, and was the beneficiary of a Hector Lombard who looked like he had cinder-clocks attached to his feet. Don't get me wrong, even though Tim has gone as far as he's going to go in the UFC, he's a very tough middleweight who can at least compete with the best of them. And he looks like a guy who slugs Coors from a can and builds decks for a living. We need more guys like that in MMA. As for his next fight, a bout with Jake Shields (if he's still a middleweight, who the hell knows!) could win the Shittiest Fight of the Decade award. That would be fun for the fans.
Alan Belcher – Okay, is it safe now to say that Belcher was riding some overrated hype based on his win over the even more overrated hype granted to Rousimar Palhares and his mythical leg locks? I think it is. When was the last time you saw a top fighter tapped via leg lock? It just doesn't happen often. Belcher had nothing for the stifling grappling attack of Yushin Okami…like literally nothing. Being a talented striker means little if you cannot keep the fight vertical. It's great to add a BJJ blackbelt to the repertoire and all, but at top level MMA, you simply must be able to wrestle. Well, unless you're Anderson Silva. The good news is that Belcher is still only 28 years old, and is an athletically gifted fighter, which means he can plug this glaring hole in his game. First though, he needs some confidence after getting so thoroughly smothered. Hey, Leben just lost too, sounds like a decent match-up to me.
Chris Leben – Woe is Leben, woe is he. Leben has been battling the same demons he has since we were first introduced to this crazy bastard back in 2005 on TUF 1. Those battles have resulted in two drug suspensions and a 35 day stint in the hokey for DUI. His most recent suspension, for which he was making his return at UFC 155, was for OxyContin – which knocks your fuckin' block off. Some guys drink. Some take roids. Some break out the hard drugs. Leben has a history of all three. Not good. I sincerely hope one day soon…like now, he can conquer those demons. As for fighting, Leben is much the same fighter he's always been. He looks to land bombs. Sure, he's developed a nice guard, but you don't win decisions from the bottom. Leben has become a UFC staple though, and it's hard to imagine a middleweight division without him. Until his next fight is announced, let's just hope Chris can take it one day at a time.
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The DataBean package is a java library providing functionalities of mapping a database table to a Java class (databean). The coding of the databean class must conform to a preset pattern so that the instances of the databean classes can perform common database operations without using much of the ugly SQL. It will not completely eliminate the SQL code in your application, but in many cases, all you need is to write some simple SQL condition, like:
String cond = "id=" + id;or
String cond = "username='" + username + "';
DataBean is functional, stable, light-weighted, and easy to use. It can make your application much easier to code when dealing with not so sophisticated database operations.
DataBean is free. you can download it from sourceforge.
When designing an application, the most common approach is to start from the data model, in which you will draw the table schemas that your application will use. After that you will write Java classes that will work with these tables. There are many ways to do this and many frameworks exists for this purpose, for example, the Enterprise Java Bean(EJB) framework from Sun and some XML based object-relational mapping tools. Those frameworks are absolutely good, there are no questions about that. But in too many cases, you only have a small to medium sized project, and these frameworks are over-weighted to fit into your application.
This was the situation I had a year ago when I started work on a digital library project. The most common database operations the project had were just select, update, delete, and insert from or into one or a few tables. I was looking around for a object to relational mapping package. My requirement was that it must be robust, light-weighted, functional, and easy to use, but I couldn't find a single tool that fit my needs completely. So comes this DataBean library.
In the DataBean framework, you will write one class to map to each database table. This class is a Java Bean, meaning that it is coded completely based on the Java Bean coding style. But in addition to that, this class will have codes to enable it to map to a table, which will be explained in detail in the following section. I called so patterned class a DataBean class and an instance of such a class a data bean. The database table that a data bean maps to is simply called the associated table of the data bean.
The core class of the library is the Table class, which encapsulates the common database operations in its methods calls. Each data bean class will have a class-wide(statically declared) Table object. This Table object is responsible for the database operations initiated by the actual data bean instances. When doing the mapping between the containing DataBean class and the database table, it reflects the properties of the containing class using the Java Reflection framework. This requires the DataBean class to declare its properties as public, and is something considered to be a sacrifice when using the DataBean library.
As said, DataBean class has a preset coding pattern. The variant in the coding is the table schema. Given a table schema, the DataBean class code ought to be automatically generated. Although we don't have such a tool yet, it is in the todo list. Anyone who has experience on the code generation tool is encoraged to work on this.
The current release has been tested under MySQL, the most popular open source database server. It is not tested under other DBMS due to the tight schedule I have. But it should work because all the SQL used is standard based, though some keywords may change, for example, auto_increment column on MySQL would become identity column on other platform.
To test it, you would need MySQL installed. first unpack the distribution file and modify the com.youyounet.db.DBInterface.java file. If you want to use the default connection pooling package, you will also need to include struts.jar file in your classpath. A copy of this file is included in the distribution. Modify the settings in the com.youyounet.db.DBInterface.java file and compile all the source files. Read through the following examples and you can start testing it yourself.
It's probably easier to illustrate this through an example. Let's say you have a database table called User which has the following schema
create table Users( UserID bigint not null auto_increment, primary key(UserID), Username varchar(20) not null, unique index(Username), Password varchar(20) not null, LastLogin datetime, Tmstamp timestamp )
The data bean class mapping to this database table will have the following code
import com.youyounet.db.*; import java.sql.*; import java.util.*; public class User extends DataBean{ //the following few lines of code defines the mapping of the class properties to //the table columns. public static Hashtable fieldMap = new Hashtable(); static{ fieldMap.put("userID", new ColumnAttribute("UserID", 6)); fieldMap.put("username", new ColumnAttribute("Username")); fieldMap.put("password", new ColumnAttribute("Password", 8)); fieldMap.put("lastLogin", new ColumnAttribute("LastLogin")); fieldMap.put("tmstamp", new ColumnAttribute("Tmstamp", 16)); } public static Table table = new Table("Users", //table name "com.jdb.data.User", //class name fieldMap); public Table getTable(){ return table; } //after the above mapping code, the following is just the standard Java bean definition public int userID = -1; public String username = ""; public String password = ""; public Timestamp lastLogin = null; public Timestamp tmstamp = null; public int getUserID(){ return userID; } public void setUserID(int var){ userID = var; } public String getUsername(){ return username; } public void setUsername(String var){ username = var; } public String getPassword(){ return password; } public void setPassword(String var){ password = var; } public Timestamp getLastLogin(){ return lastLogin; } public void setLastLogin(Timestamp var){ lastLogin = var; } public Timestamp getTmstamp(){ return tmstamp; } public void setTmstamp(Timestamp var){ tmstamp = var; } public int getID(){ return getUserID(); } }
All the actual data bean classes must extends the abstract DataBean super class. The first part of the class code is dedicated to the mapping of the class properties to the database table columns. No magic of this, simply put the class property names as keys and table column attributes as values in the statically decalred fieldMap. All the names are case sensitive. After that, declare a class-wide table object and pass the table name, the class name, the fieldMap as the arguments. This table object is responsible for doing the database operations for the instances of the class. Finally, give a get method for the table object. This completes the mapping. The remaining code of the class is simply standard Java Bean styled code and will not be explained here.
Once having all these defined, we can do something like this, for example:
User user = new User(); String username = request.getParameter("username"); String password = request.getParameter("password"); if(!user.load("Username='" + username + "'")) //username not in database, do something; if(!user.getPassword().equals(password)) //password not correct, do some thing; long now = System.currentTimeMillis(); user.setLastLogin(new Timestamp(now)); user.store(); //the user record will be updated.
The type of data bean properties that could map to a database table column is not limited to the known Java SQL types. Composite property can also map to a table column of type BLOB provided that the composite property can be serialized to a binary stream.
1. show the use of transactions.
The table:
CREATE TABLE resourcepolicy( policy_id INTEGER auto_increment, PRIMARY KEY(policy_id), resource_type_id INTEGER, resource_id INTEGER, action_id INTEGER, role_id INTEGER REFERENCES role(role_id), )
This is a table storing permission policies for resources. Correspondingly, we can have a data bean class to map to this table:
public class ResourcePolicy extends com.youyounet.db.DataBean{ public static Hashtable fieldMap = new Hashtable(); static{ fieldMap.put("policyID", new ColumnAttribute("policy_id", 6)); fieldMap.put("resourceTypeID", new ColumnAttribute("resource_type_id")); fieldMap.put("resourceID", new ColumnAttribute("resource_id")); fieldMap.put("actionID", new ColumnAttribute("action_id")); fieldMap.put("roleID", new ColumnAttribute("role_id")); } public static Table table = new Table("resourcepolicy", "com.youyounet.authorize.data.ResourcePolicy", fieldMap); public Table getTable(){ return table; } public int policyID = -1; public int resourceTypeID = -1; public int resourceID = -1; public int actionID = -1; public int roleID = -1; public int getPolicyID(){ return policyID; } public void setPolicyID(int var){ policyID = var; } public int getResourceTypeID(){ return resourceTypeID; } public void setResourceTypeID(int var){ resourceTypeID = var; } public int getResourceID(){ return resourceID; } public void setResourceID(int var){ resourceID = var; } public int getActionID(){ return actionID; } public void setActionID(int var){ actionID = var; } public int getRoleID(){ return roleID; } public void setRoleID(int var){ roleID = var; } public int getID(){ return getPolicyID(); } }
Now you want to add some policies to a resource (insert some policies records into the table for a resource) in a transaction. Here is the code:
public static void addPolicies(Vector policies, Resource resource){ if(policies == null || resource == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("in addPolicies: passed in parameters" + " contains null value."); DBContext c = null; try{ c = new DBContext(); //initiate the transaction Iterator k = policies.iterator(); while(k.hasNext()){ ResourcePolicy policy = (ResourcePolicy)k.next(); policy.setResourceID(resource.getID()); policy.setResourceTypeID(resource.getType()); policy.create(c); //insert the policy record to its associated table } c.commit(); //commit the transaction }catch(Exception e){ try{ c.abort(); }catch(SQLException se){....} .... }finally{ try{ c.reset(); }catch(SQLException sqe){ ....} } }
2. Show selection of data beans
Using the same table and data bean class as above, now if we want to select policies for a specific resource, here is the code:
Vector policies = new ResourcePolicy().select("resource_id=" + resource.getID() + " and resource_type_id=" + resource.getType());
3. Show the bean iteration
Still using the same table and data bean class as above, now let's iterate through all the policies defined for a resource. We can first select a vector of policies for the resource and iterate through that vector. But we will use another method:
Iterator k = new ResourcePolicy().iterator("resource_id=" + resource.getID() + " and resource_type_id=" + resource.getType()); while(k.hasNext()){ ResourcePolicy rp = (ResourcePolicy)k.next(); .... }
4. Show the composite bean property mapping
Suppose we have a web application that requires users to fill up a multi-page form. Users will have an option on each page, letting them to save the uncompleted form. When they login back next time, the application will present them with the form at the exact place they left off last time and let them to resume the process. Let's say we have a JSP bean called SubmissionData that will contain all the information the user filled in. This information is not final, it needs to be processed until it can be stored in database tables. When the form is not completed, we cannot process the information contained in the SubmissionData bean but we need to store the bean somewhere so next time it can be fetched. Here is the table to store the uncompleted submission information:
CREATE TABLE submission( submission_id INTEGER auto_increment, PRIMARY KEY(policy_id), userID INTEGER, submission_data BLOB, //to store the SubnmissionData bean step INTEGER, //the step where was left off tmstamp TIMESTAMP )and here is the Submission data bean class:
public class Submission extends DataBean{ public static Hashtable fieldMap = new Hashtable(); static{ fieldMap.put("submissionID", new ColumnAttribute("submission_id", 6)); fieldMap.put("userID", new ColumnAttribute("user_id")); fieldMap.put("submissionData", new ColumnAttribute("submission_data")); fieldMap.put("step", new ColumnAttribute("step")); fieldMap.put("tmstamp", new ColumnAttribute("Tmstamp", 16)); } public static Table table = new Table("submission", //table name "com.youyounet.data.Submission", //class name fieldMap); public Table getTable(){ return table; } public int submissionID = -1; public int userID = -1; public SubmissionData submissionData = null; public int step = -1; public Timestamp tmstamp = null; public int getSubmissionID(){ return submissionID; } public void setSubmissionID(int var){ submissionID = var; } public int getUserID(){ return userID; } public void setUserID(int var){ userID = var; } public SubmissionData getSubmissionData(){ return submissionData; } public void setSubmissionData(SubmissionData var){ submissionData = var; } public int getStep(){ return step; } public void setStep(int var){ step = var; } public Timestamp getTmstamp(){ return tmstamp; } public void setTmstamp(Timestamp var){ tmstamp = var; } }
When the submission is suspended, we can save the submission data in the following code:
//if the submission is suspended the first time ..... Submission submission = new Submission(); submission.setSubmissionData(data); //data is the instance of SubmissionData submission.setStep(step); submission.setUserID(uid); //the submitter's id submission.create(); //insert the row ..... //if the submission was suspended before and was suspended again ..... submission.setSubmissionData(data); //data is the instance of SubmissionData submission.setStep(step); submission.store(); //update the row .....
You don't have to worry about the timestamp column, it will be taken care automatically. Next time when the user is logging back, we can fetch the umcompleted submission data as easily as like this:
Submission submission = new Submission(); if(submission.load("user_id=" + uid)){ //uid is the user's ID SubmissionData data = submission.getSubmissionData(); //then populate the form with the stored data and present it to the user }else{ //the user didn't leave an uncompleted form //do something else; }
That is it. There is one requirement though, the SubmissionData bean must be serializable so that it could be written to a binary stream.
OK, so you have some idea about what DataBean is. The examples above only demonstrate some of the functionalities that DataBean has. For more information you can refer to the API doc (also included with the distribution). I encourage you to use it, test it, contribute to it, and make it a better library that everybody can use.
Mike Zhang


text: Crysis 3, the sequel to the popular first-person, sci-fi shooters Crysis & Crysis 2 was officially announced in April last year by EA & that it had been in the making by developers at Crytek Studio. The game will feature a brand new singleplayer (campaign) mode and a revamped multiplayer mode with all new maps and game modes. Powered by Crytek's newest version of CryENGINE 3 – the same engine that powered Crysis 2, Crysis 3 will deliver one of the most amazing visual & audio experiences to date. Crysis 3 will be out on the PlayStation3, Xbox360 & PC on February 19 th, 2013 in the US & February 21st, 2013 in Europe & Australia.


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UnNews:McDonald's campaign to change dictionary definition of "hamburger"
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McDonald's campaign to change dictionary definition of "hamburger"
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The UK arm of McDonald's is planning a campaign to have the dictionary definition of "hamburger" changed.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "hamburger" to be "Ground meat, usually beef, shaped into large patties, and sautéed, broiled or grilled."
But Lorraine Homer from McDonald's said the firm felt the definition was "out of date, inaccurate and bad for business".
McDonald's plans a "high-profile public petition" this year to get it changed.
"We believe that it is out of date, out of touch with reality and most importantly it is having a negative impact on our talented, committed shareholders," wrote Jim Cantaloupe, chief people officer in northern Europe for McDonald's, in a letter seen by UnNews seeking support for the petition. "It's time the dictionary definition of "Hamburger" changed to something more indicative of the way McDonald's focus groups think about their delicious McDonald's hamburgers. I would recommend 'A delicious, healthy and filling meal as sold by McDonald's restaurants, great for eating on the move or when you're hungry.'"
Fairhurst says that in a survey of one hundred customers, more than ninety-five percent conceded that McDonald's hamburgers are at least two out of "delicious", "healthy" or "filling". Furthermore, nearly eighty percent agreed that the new definition described McDonalds hamburgers more accurately than the Oxford definition. Many attributed this to the removal of the word "meat".
McDonald's lawyers are also considering petitioning for a redefinition of "Cow Testicles" and "E. coli bacteria" in order to remove the "negative consumer impact" that the current dictionary entry has.
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- Stefan Stern and Jenny Wiggins "McDonald's seeks to redefine 'McJob'". Financial Times, March 19, 2007
- "McDonald's seeks 'McJob' rewrite". BBC News, March 20, 2007


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In its SEC filing, Barracuda Networks said its revenue for fiscal 2013 was $198.9 million, up from $160.9 million for fiscal 2012 and $142.1 million for fiscal 2011. Of that revenue, 70 percent was recurring revenue for fiscal 2013, compared to 73 percent in 2012 and 63 percent in 2011. About 26 percent of revenue came from sales outside of North America in fiscal 2013.
The company posted a $7.4 million net loss in fiscal 2013, down from a net income of $600,000 in fiscal 2013 and $3.0 million in fiscal 2012, according to the SEC filing.
The company also wrote in its SEC filing that it has a global network of 5,000 distributors and VARs in addition to its own sales teams.
Among the risk factors the company cited in its filing was a strong competitive environment. This includes competition from companies focusing on security and storage including Blue Coat Systems, Check Point Software Technologies, CommVault Systems, EMC, F5 Networks, Fortinet, Imperva, Juniper Networks, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec, as well as large diversified vendors such as Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and IBM, which have been acquiring security and storage vendors.
Barracuda has also run afoul of U.S. law regarding the sale of products to certain countries including Iran, Sudan and Syria, but it said those potential violations were "inadvertent" and happened because the company and certain resellers "did not have sufficient compliance procedures in place to prevent the transactions at issue."
Furthermore, Barracuda is in the early stage of a lawsuit brought against it by Parallel Networks LLC, which Barracuda believes is a "non-practicing entity," a euphemism often used for "patent troll."
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text: Let us say I have packages libfoo++1 and libfoo++-dev which make standard files /usr/lib/libfoo++.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libfoo++.so.1 -> libfoo++.so.1.0.0 and /usr/lib/libfoo++.a /usr/lib/libfoo++.la /usr/lib/libfoo++.so --> libfoo++.so.1.0.0 /usr/include/foo++/ Now, in some other distributions, these files are called foopp instead of foo++, and so to aid portability of client code, I put in the additional following links. /usr/lib/libfoopp.so.1 -> libfoo++.so.1 and /usr/lib/libfoopp.a --> libfoo++.a /usr/lib/libfoopp.la --> libfoo++.a /usr/lib/libfoopp.so --> libfoo++.so /usr/include/foopp --> foo++ I have a funny feeling that such links could break something, but I cannot find a case where it actually does. Can any of you? Cheers, -- Jens Peter Secher. _DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_. A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion. Q. Why is top posting bad?


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Well, World Cup Qualifying just got harder for the US, at home and certainly on the road.
Reports today say USMNT staple keeper Tim Howard is now out at least a month with broken bones in his back. Howard's EPL club Everton certainly now has lost any slim hope they had at Champion's League football as little-tested Jan Mucha will relieve the New Jersey-bred keeper.
For the US though, the challenge becomes threefold. First, they must replace Howard in net and select from a stable of players where Klinsmann has not necessarily crowned a number two. In all likelihood, Aston Villa man and understudy under Bob Bradley Brad Guzan will now deputize. Second, they must replace Howard's role of marshaling the defense–a problem that becomes exacerbated when one considers that Klinsmann looked to be pushing beyond the aging Carlos Bocanegra as a pairing at center back. The weight of leadership now falls squarely–perhaps on Omar Gonzalez and Geoff Cameron–neither of who have been the defacto leaders for their clubs over the past years.
Finally, it has appeared that Tim Howard–at least temporarily–had been bestowed the captain's armband for the States. Where, or rather who, does that arm wear go to now. Back to Bocanegra? Forward to Michael Bradley? Jermaine Jones?
Beyond Guzan, the role for the #3 and #4 keepers just got more interesting. In all likelihood, Nick Rimando is now this regime's Marcus Hahnemann while Sean Johnson still edges Bill Hamid for the role of promising youngster.


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Sports stampede at Clovis North
They're ridin' high in athletics at Clovis North High.
How? Count the ways:
** The Broncos' baseball team plays for the Central Section Division I title at home Friday against Stockdale at 4:30 p.m.
** The boys basketball program is about to pilfer the hottest coaching ticket in the section — Tony Amundsen — from Bullard.
** Brittany Pierce, a rising star in the girls volleyball coaching fraternity, was recently plucked from Sanger.
** The girls track and field team placed third in the section finals behind fab freshman Rhesa Foster (1st long jump, 2nd 100 HH, 3rd 100), sophomore Mikaela Smith (1st 800, 3rd long jump), Leigh Moffett (2nd 3,200) and Nicole Ballestero (2nd pole vault).
** And the Broncos captured the section D-I title in football.


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Salem theatre company holding auditions for fifth and final main stage production
The Salem Theatre Company (STC) has announced auditions for its fifth and final Main Stage production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance.
The company will have 15 performances in the STC theatre from May 9 to June 1. Shows will be held between Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. The show is to be directed by STC Artistic Director John Fogle.
Auditions will be held in six one-hour time slots on March 3, 4 and 5:
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Group two: Sunday March 3 at 8:00 p.m.
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Group four: Monday March 4 at 8:00 p.m.
Group Five: Tuesday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Group Six: Tuesday, March 5 at 8:00 p.m.
Those wishing to audition are asked to e-mail their headshot, resume and preferred audition time to email@example.com, and are also being asked to prepare a one to two minute dramatic monologue.
Roles to be filled include:
Tobias (between ages of 50 and 60) - A well-to-do, retired businessman, tolerant but tight.
Agnes (between ages of 50 and 60) - Tobias' wife. she is proper, tidy and a peace-keeper.
Claire (between age of 40 and 50) - Agnes's younger sister, she is a sharp-tongued "willful drinker."
Harry (between ages of 50 and 60) - Tobias's best friend, he is also retired and very much "at sea."
Edna (between ages of 50 and 60) - Harry's wife, she is entitled, imposing.
Terri Ogan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow her on Twitter.


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Restore your faith in free, Emily
To promote free checking (which banks seldom offer any more), campaign opens by acknowledging how much consumers have come to distrust "free," then asks, "what if free really meant free?" Concurrent with the advertising and targeting the same demo, FirstBank sponsors random, surprise, and undeniably free giveaways (500 delivery pizzas, 1500 lunch truck meals, over a hundred pedicab rides, two iPads), all tagged "Free Happens."
Print advertisement created by TDA_Boulder, United States for FirstBank, within the category: Finance.
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Dude, those are major point releases. Those are complete rebuilds of every package from source. Plus testing. That's a hell of a lot of difference than how long a single patch takes to make it through. Also, critical patches issued during that period bypass the process and are pushed out immediately. The only thing that is lagging is that Red Hat has gone SO long between RHEL 5 and 6. But RHEL 6 is going to have a heck of a lot of major changes from 5. Many major subsystems were replaced since RHEL 5.
Major point releases? You can call them that way, but RH call them minor releases. Major release is RHEL6 or RHEL5.
Then there is minor releases, 5.x and what you call minor releases are in fact micro releases (that's how Red Hat is calling it), little updates with some fixes. Those come to centos quicker than minor releases but not that quicker. CentOS is late about 7 to 15 days with micro releases. It still needs a fair amount of testing to maintain 100% RHEL compatibility.
But don't get me wrong, that is not bad thing. I would hate to see it come out same day as RHEL and then make some problem or even bork my server.


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Nara Rohit in Parashuram's film
Nara Rohit made an impressive debut with the film Banam. Now his second film, not yet titled, is now on floors. This is being produced by Vamsi Krishna Srinivas under the banner of S V K Cinema and directed by Parashuram who earlier helmed the films Yuvatha and Anjaneyulu.
The film is said to be a youthful romantic action drama and the first schedule of shooting is in progress at locations in and around Hyderabad.
The details of the female lead and the rest of the cast and crew are not available