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FIFA's ace up its sleeve has always been its licenses. With EA's deep pockets bankrolling everything including league and player licenses, well-known commentators, official sponsors, and real-world brands, the FIFA franchise has always been the go-to place for the most authentic representation of world football. Traditionally, this has come at a cost to gameplay, but in the last few years a concentrated effort to develop the on the pitch aspect of the game has emerged – and to great effect.
FIFA is now, without question, the most popular soccer game on earth. You could even make the argument that it's the most popular sports game in the world (although in America a certain pig-skin franchise still reigns supreme). So with that in mind, the pressure on FIFA 13's publisher EA and developers EA Canada to continue to build on FIFA's momentum — not just in terms of popularity, but in quality — can't be understated. And with Konami's PES 2013 making massive strides this year and upping its own game, FIFA 13 needs to be more than just good – it needs to be great.
Vast improvements on the pitch
Simply put, FIFA 13 is an excellent soccer game. Without question the bulk of that excellence takes place on the pitch. Last year developer EA Canada took a big gamble and implemented a much more robust and user-controlled defending system. The responsibility of positioning your defender, implementing man to man pressure, and tackling were all given to the player. While it was initially difficult to adjust to for series vets such as myself, there was no denying that it breathed new life into an aspect of the series long ignored, and perhaps more importantly added another layer of realism and strategy.
This year EA has added even more nuance to FIFA 13's mechanics, but instead of there being one large new introduction in the vein of last year's Player Impact Engine, this year we are given a slew of improvements that help shape a much more realistic game. For starters, the ball physics and how they interact on the pitch and with players has been revamped; balls no longer feel magnetic or on-rails and exhibit a much more unpredictable character. Deflected shots now ricochet properly, and players no longer get sucked directly to the ball like a giant tractor beam.
Speaking of the ball, how it reacts to the players has changed a great deal for FIFA 13. Past FIFAs have always seemed to place players on a level playing field in regards to things like ball control. Send a long pass down the field and any player, regardless of whether they play for Real Madrid or Real Salt Lake, can control and trap it with dazzling ease. This is far from how it is in the real world, and EA Canada has wisely done away with this for FIFA 13. Now players trap, control, and move the ball around like they actually would — which means you should expect just as many clumsy touches and awkward passes as you would brilliant ones, but also expect to utilize Andres Iniesta's serpentine-like dribbling skill and Cristiano Ronaldo's blistering pace to your advantage.
It might seem frustrating at first, but the effect this has on gameplay and tactics cannot be overstated. FIFA 13 requires you play to your teams' strengths. So for Barcelona, a possession-centered game with intricate passing; for AC Milan, well… we don't really know what Milan is doing these days, but you get my point.
Another tweak to the gameplay comes by way of FIFA 13's Complete Dribbling system. If you've played FIFA Street earlier this year you'll be familiar with Complete Dribbling. For 2013, EA Canada basically yanked the mechanic from the Street franchise and plopped it right into FIFA 13. It works really well and provides the ability to navigate tight spaces with greater precision and control.
FIFA 13 also feels like a much more physical game, with the size, weight, and position of your player mattering now more than ever before. While you'll be able to create a great deal of space and slither by defenders with Arsenal's Santi Cazorla, or distribute the ball around as Xavi with laser-like accuracy, don't expect the same amount of freedom with the likes of Peter Crouch and John Terry. Instead, the games demands a higher degree of tactical awareness, so if you're trying to muscle your way past Vincent Kompany with the likes of Lionel Messi expect to get shoved off the ball every time.
But more than anything else, the improvements made to your teammate's AI is what will have you singing loud into the rafters long after you pop the game disc in. In FIFA 13, players make intelligent runs and do so without requiring your command. What's more they actually attempt to stay onside! Keeping possession and passing the ball around is now much more effective, and the ability to deliver that perfectly timed through ball to an industrious attacker brings forth a feeling of joy and accomplishment. Altogether you feel more like you're surrounded by a living, breathing team who share the same goals as you: winning the match.
It's clear EA Canada spent a great deal of time trying to get the fluency, subtlety, and realistic characteristics of the beautiful game into FIFA 13, but some issues do creep up. Crossing this year seems much less forgiving, but if you are feeling generous that could be chalked up to the improved (read: more realistic) physics. On the pitch play has a tendency to feel a little too fast at times, especially in comparison to last year's outing, as well as the recently released PES 2013. It's not a deal-breaker by any means, but it's certainly palpable.
Fresh paint can't hide the cracks
Where FIFA seems to have gotten the least amount of love and attention is in the graphics department. Visually, FIFA 13 isn't all that different from FIFA 12. Sure it looks sharper, is more polished, and features some nice new contextual animations, but it's by no means the highlight of the show. And that's ok. But where I feel compelled to call FIFA out is with the seemingly lazy manner it presents some of the top footballers around the world. And really it's been doing this for years now.
While some players are spot on and represent their real-life counterparts with almost photorealistic accuracy, many of the game's established superstars, like Clint Dempsey, Leonardo Bonucci, Oliver Giroud, and Mirko Vucinic, look awkward and lazily done. It might not be as visually polished overall, but in comparison to PES 2013's character models, FIFA lags behind its rival.
Presentation: In a league of its own
What should come as no surprise is how much FIFA 13 excels and manages to best its past editions in the presentation department. Martin Tyler and Alan Smith return for commentary duty alongside Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend, while newcomer Geoff Schreeves provides touchline injury reports.
For FIFA 13 EA has tried to make use of its partnership with ESPN, with the beginning of the match taking on a more "televised" theme, and the ESPN name used to some degree similar to the other EA Sports games. It isn't done with a great degree of enthusiasm though, and seems like it was more of an afterthought than anything else. It would be nice to see the FIFA series take advantage of its ESPN license similar to how the Madden series does. And while it doesn't detract from the presentation it doesn't really add anything to it either.
The long road to stardom
As for content, there is a lot to be had in FIFA 13. In addition to the popular pokemon-esque Ultimate Team mode, Be A Pro mode returns alongside a revamped Career mode. Here you have the choice of either steering your team to promotion or top-flight success as club manager, or battling it out on the pitch as a budding talent in an effort to lead your club to glory. New this year is the ability to get called up to the national team as a player or coach, adding another layer of drama and determination to you weekly matches.
Interestingly my season campaign began with a bit of whimper. I took the reins of a player looking to break into Arsenal's first team. After being given a chance to shine in a few pre-season friendlies, the gaffer felt my time would be better spent out on loan in a lower division. After denying a few teams my obviously overlooked talent, I finally settled on a Bradford City and eventually guided them to first division promotion with my midfield performances rivaling that of an orchestra conductor. Needless to say that caught the eye of the footballing world, and I was duly called back to Arsenal and given a place on the U.S. national team.
In addition to a more drama-filled career mode, two key additions make their way to FIFA 13: Skill Challenge and Match Day. The first is a series of challenges ranging from simple dribbling skills to free kick practice. On top of being able to tackle these one by one from the main menu, you're also given the opportunity to complete one before each match begins. There are different levels ranging from bronze, silver, and gold, with difficulty naturally progressing for each subsequent level.
The second introduction adds the greatest amount of depth and longevity to the FIFA experience. With Matchday FIFA 13 attempts to keep up to date with the happenings and goings of the season. That means team lineups, formations, and player form are all tracked from what its taking place in the real world and accurately transports it to the game. It's a very small, but far-reaching introduction that will keep gamers happy, as the mid-season form of players and the shuffling of rosters around the winter break tend to alter the landscape a great deal.
Truthfully, FIFA has never had difficulty keeping players coming back for more footie fun, but little touches like this really do a lot to keep the game fresh and up to date, especially considering the ephemeral nature of world soccer. Of course, if you're team ends up plummeting down the league table you might not be so inclined to mimic that in the game, so thankfully FIFA 13 allows you to play with Matchday turned off.
Another new feature is EA Sports Football Club, which serves as an online shop of sorts. Here you earn rewards, unlock items such as new boots, old-school kits, and other player-related swag. Building up your virtual currency is as easy as completing skill challenges and playing matches. It's nothing groundbreaking, but will keep players busy throughout the course of the year as they strive to reach the 100 levels and nab all the game's unlockables.
Another staple of the FIFA series is its online play. There aren't really many new editions this year, only refinements. Online Pro Clubs implements the excellent online season mode setup, so taking your virtual club online with 10 other buddies makes for a much more interesting affair. Generally, EA does an excellent job managing and maintaining the online experience. Thus far I haven't really encountered many online glitches or issues, although there is a tendency for the matchmaking to lose connection frequently, but I imagine this will be ironed out over the next few months. The time I did manage to spend in game was smooth. Some noticeable lag crept up, but otherwise online matches behave themselves and offer a never-ending array of human opponents to demolish or succumb to.
There isn't much more to be said about FIFA 13, EA Canada has delivered in style and a midst a growing amount of hype. FIFA 13 doesn't provide that groundbreaking leap FIFA 11 did, but it does build on the changes implemented to last year's effort and continues EA's dominance in the soccer arena. It doesn't really blow its competition out of the water, but FIFA 13 is better in virtually every way from FIFA 12, and for gamers (and FIFA fans) that's really all that matters.
Score: 9 out of 10
(This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360, using a copy provided to us by the publisher)


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Ballymena & Antrim Times reporter Lorna McKay has been spending the week in Zambia covering the work of Concern in the region.
Joining her on the trip are Rose Caldwell, Executive Director of Concern UK, Darren Vaughan, Concern NI press officer, and Judith Hill and cameraman Tommy Hassan from UTV.
The group are viewing at first hand Concern's RAIN project in the Mumbwa district.
RAIN - Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition - aims to prevent child and maternal malnutrition among poor rural communties.
The project has been set up in a bid to tackle chronic under-nutrition in the country where one in two children are considered to be stunted.
It is hoped that the project, which was launched in the area in 2011, will then roll out across other areas.
Danielle Harvey, Concern Country Director for Zambia, said: "If we can improve nutrition, we can reverse those effects.
"If we can make those changes before a child reaches two, it can make all the difference.
"If you can produce food rich in nutrients, and eat that food all year round, it can improve the nutrition of both mother and child."
The project aims to educate local women on growing nutritious food, something they wouldn't normally have a say over as this has been primarily the man's decision.
Through RAIN, it is hoped that through the education programme, husbands will see the benefit to their family by allowing some of their land to be used to grow nutritious crops.
On the first day of the trip, the group travelled to Muchena Village in the Milandu ward.
The group were treated to a warm welcome by Mainess Munamalambo and her husband Shadreck Hanga'ndo and friends from the local women's group.
Mainess is a beneficiary of Concern's RAIN initiative and husband Shadreck is extremely supportive and enthusiastic about their participation in the project.
Through the RAIN project, Mainess, with the help of Shadreck, has established a vegetable garden, growing 11 different crops for the household's needs.
Among the crops Mainess and her husband are growing are carrots, tomato, spinach, onion, cow peas, sweet potato, giant rape, and okra.
The garden is extremely self sufficient with goat manure - from goats provided by Concern - used to fertilise the garden.

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A move to York coincided with the opening of the Quilt Museum and Gallery. New volunteers were recruited and a great chance to meet people and make new friends. Workshops for volunteers encouraged beginners like me to have a go.
Helping Sarah Humphrys with her workshops also taught me lots of new skills alongside the youngsters attending. I even rekindled my joy of helping children to learn.
Quilters Retreats based in York provided a great opportunity to meet with people from all over the country. Sandra Meech encouraged us to use digital photography to inspire our work. Her quilts were just amazing and the 3 days were great fun.
Ineke Berlin provided an opportunity to use transparent fabrics, lutrador and screen printing. My neighbour on this occasion was from Norfolk.
I now have the confidence to create my own work for competitions. I have just finished my piece for the Finnish challenge and am currently designing a quilt for Chinese Whispers at Loch Lomond 2014.


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Nick Fairley raised a few eyebrows last week when he declared himself and Detroit Lions teammate Ndamukong Suh the best defensive tackle tandem in the NFL. Suh is backing his teammate's boast with no hesitation.
"We've in essence put a target on our back, and that's fine," Suh said, via the Lions' official website. "I've had a target on my back since I was a rookie, so I'm excited for it."
It could be argued that Cincinnati Bengals superstar Geno Atkins and a cadaver are the best defensive tackle duo in the NFL, but Suh and Fairley have a strong case.
Although Suh understandably was dinged as overrated in 2011, he was an absolute terror to quarterbacks in the second half of last season. Perhaps Warren Sapp lit a fire under him. Whatever the cause, Suh's 58 combined sacks, hits and hurries were second only to Atkins among defensive tackles last season.
While Suh still leaves a lot to be desired in the run game, Fairley showed an impressive knack for taking down both running backs and quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage before he landed on injured reserve with a shoulder issue. He was Detroit's most disruptive defensive player in November before Suh took the baton in December.
The only question is if Suh and Fairley can put it all together for a 16-game season. With the addition of No. 5 overall pick Ziggy Ansah, offensive lines will be picking their poison when playing the Lions this season.
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8 Quirky Types of Hospital Visitors
Hamsa Ramesha | Allhealthcare
Nurses, you've seen it all. You're on the frontline when it comes to patient care. From the most disgusting patient cases (mysterious bodily fluids and "code brown") to the most heartwarming (pediatric miracles!), what haven't you seen on your floor?
Unlike doctors, you don't just deal with a patient's medical condition; you're often left to face the patient's family and friends too. On the job, your people skills are just as important as your medical ones. Whether it's lending an ear to distressed parents, or patiently listening to an angry tirade, a big part of your job is to take care of your patient and their loved ones.
Like your patients, hospital visitors come in all shapes, sizes, and attitudes. Most may be considered normal, but there are a few characters in the mix that definitely stand out. In a humorous tribute, we've rounded up eight examples of some of the quirkiest visitors ever to grace the whitewashed walls of the hospital.


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Ashton Kutcher may not be able to save Apple stock from its downward slide Thursday, or change its gloomy sales outlook.
But the movie star may help Apple fans to relive the company's glory days under the late Steve Jobs.
Finally, there's a clip posted on the Entertainment Weekly site from the upcoming Jobs biopic starring Kutcher and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak.
In this scene, Jobs and Wozniak are in the garage of Hewlett-Packard, the iconic Silicon Valley giant where the two once worked, arguing over the future and promise of the computer operating system.
Jobs is frustrated that his parter-friend doesn't share his excitement about the technology.
"This is freedom," Jobs says. "This is freedom to create and do and to build as artists, as individuals."
"Look, you're overreacting," Wozniak says. "If you were developing this for freaks likes us, and I doubt you are, nobody wants to buy a computer. Nobody."
Jobs disagrees, as the scene highlights the late Apple co-founders celebrated ability to anticipate and shape the tastes of consumers.
"How does someone know what they want if they've never seen it?" he says.
You can check out the clip here. Don\'t be surprised if you see a Microsoft ad at the start.
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SSD Roundup: Indilinx vs. Samsung vs. Intel (or why size matters)
Over the past few weeks we have seen an influx of companies getting into the SSD game. Most have been memory makers like Patriot and Crucial. One can see their motivation, since a memory maker without a line of Solid State Drives seems out of place. Most of these companies have opted to go the easy route, adopting and rebranding technology from Samsung, Indilinx and JMicron. We obtained a few samples from these newcomers to help fill some gaps in our performance figures, the biggest of which being the fact that smaller capacity SSDs from Samsung and Indilinx are rated at lower speeds than larger capacities based on the same controller.
The contenders:
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OCZ Vertex Turbo 120 provided by OCZ
The Indilinx Barefoot controller: 4 physical channels, each of which can address 16 'virtual' channels.
We also included an OCZ Vertex, Intel X25-M, and VelociRaptor 300 as reference benchmarks for our testing.
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The Prairie Zine Project is a student-led initiative on the University of Minnesota, Morris campus aimed at increasing the influx into our small, remote community of progressive voices on social issues. An old vending machine is being refurbished so that it can distribute zines on campus, and will be located in the University library for student use. We are interested in receiving zines that are related to feminism, gender issues, environmentalism, politics, art, and personal zines such as comics, poetry and narrative. Due to limited funds, we are sending out a request this first time around for zine folk to send us what they can. Although our campus is small, there is a lot of excitement around this project. It could be a great opportunity for publicity!
If you have a zine you'd like to submit, please send us at least 5 copies, along with your contact information for possible future orders as we receive more funding. Feel free to send us descriptions of other zines you may have that you think would be good for our project. If you have any questions, shoot an email to Laura Weldy at firstname.lastname@example.com. Zines can be submitted to the following address, preferably by April 15, 2011:
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I was in WHSmith today and I saw a copy of the special edition of Black Hawk Down! It was a double-disc with 3 commentaries. How come the Brits get it before us?
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has just announced the full specs for their new special edition reissue of Milos Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt. Debuting on May 13th, the film is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby digital 5.1 surround, with plenty of new extras: two audio commentaries with cast Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton and Courtney Love, and the writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, deleted scenes with optional commentary, the featurettes "Free Speech or Porn?" and "Larry Flynt Exposed," and trailers. Retail is $29.95.


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Lady Gaga's 'Vampire Diaries' Boyfriend, Taylor Kinney — Hunk of the Day [PICTURES]
"I have an inability to know what happiness feels like with a man…" Oh, cry us a river Lady Gaga. You seem pretty happy with Taylor Kinney, your own sexy 'Vampire Diaries' hunk.
The two met on the set of Gaga's 'You and I' video, which, by the way, is one of the hottest music videos ever if you haven't seen it yet. After that, the two have been hitting the town and throwing back whiskey shots.
Kinney is known primarily for his acting and modeling projects, but this man is a bad boy at heart. He got arrested back in 2002 for swearing and public intoxication. Wait, maybe that just makes him an idiot and not a bad boy.
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Taking a much deserved holiday in the Eastern Mediterranean gave me too much time to reflect on the daily goings on in my upside down Country back home.
The newspapers came through thick and fast thanks to new digital technology and what a revelation it brought.
As the West continued its bombing campaign on behalf of "Ëœdemocracy' and the economic world of my host holiday home continued on its downward spiral of bankruptcy the one headline that grabbed my attention was: "Louis groped me!' and then followed the next day by "ËœCowell backs Louis 100%"
Well that's that settled then I thought, with calls probably costing 35p per minute and 10p going to charity. Is this the best the British newspapers can do? I further thought.
Then came the usual new Labour Leader speech rolled out every few years by the invisible opposition Leader wanting a headline. "We must reform and change if we want to win" pumped out the red tops on behalf of Ed Miliband (advisor of the last Leader who bankrupted us. Ho hum).
On the back of an Arab spring they die in their thousands in a people's revolt all over Africa and the Middle-East for democracy and Ed Miliband goes the other way and wishes to remove democracy by stopping elections to his shadow Cabinet.
Oh, how I laughed out loud.
Ed uses the usual change and reform speech to get rid of party democracy to make Labour much better. If you say so Ed, but the rest of us will just laugh and laugh. Maybe Ed is secretly angry by the clumsy outburst by Ed Balls who wanted a £50bn VAT cut without telling anyone in Labour?
Not to be outdone, surely the best headline of my holiday came from the usual sensible and well respected Jack Straw MP.
Jack normally keeps his senses intact by not bringing his personal animosity to the arena and usually tells a good story, but this one was a corker of immense WMD sexed up stupidity.
"ËœThe Euro is doomed and will go soon', came the hysterical story and given more credit than it deserved by the EU rabid press.
This is the headline that gave me the most curiosity considering it came from a man who is considered to be a well considered and thoughtful man.
If we were to shove our fingers into a light socket and get a shock, should we all blame the electric company, I thought?
In a "Ëœhit and run' crime involving a child and car arises, should we blame the car producing company or the driver? I pondered.
So why did Jack Straw blame the Euro currency and not or Portugal or anyone else whose economy goes into freefall?
I came to the conclusion that Jack must be one of those hysterical antis that pop up now and again yelping out nonsense that they know to be nonsense.
This type of person rabbits on about how useless they all are (EU) and how great we are and that we should just pull out and have done.
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The Tories have loved Europe just as much as any Labour Leader you can think of and signed up to everything put before them, but not to that awful Euro currency being used by Germany, the Country doing very well indeed and bailing everyone out in the process. Again proof if any more is needed.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israelis are growing increasingly skeptical over whether or not they can trust American security guarantees as they watch a previously US-occupied Iraq crumble in the face of a jihadist onslaught.
Over the past few weeks, the armies of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have scored major victories in northern Iraq, and are now said to be moving on Baghdad itself.
One of those victories was the conquest of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Reports indicate that the US-trained and equipped Iraqi army units in Mosul folded like a house of cards as ISIS approached.
Israeli analyst Guy Bechor, a regular media commentator, noted in an op-ed for the Ynet news portal that "the Americans built this army, trained it and have invested tens of billions of dollars in it in the past decade. But its thousands of soldiers have escaped without fighting, leaving their shoes and clothes behind, as well as advanced American military equipment, an airport, hospitals and prisons."
It is important to note that in addition to pouring so much into building the Iraqi army, US President Barack Obama deemed that force ready and capable of handling the state's security when he withdrew US forces in 2011.
Why is this important to Israelis? As Bechor explains:
"Those same hallucinating Americans designated a security plan for us in Judea and Samaria, like the plan they designated for Iraq. US Secretary of State John Kerry, with all his security experts, thought that it would be enough to have an American plan on paper in order to stabilize a [Palestinian] regime and a state there."
In fact, the Americans have played this game with Israel before in the strong pressure applied on the Jewish state to abandon the Gaza Strip in 2005. Not two years later, the US-trained and equipped Palestinian Authority was routed by Hamas and Gaza became a haven for jihadists of all stripes.
Bechor and many other experts are convinced the same would occur in Judea and Samaria - the so-called "West Bank" - if ever the two-state solution were to come to fruition.
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Ask Me Anything: Teaching with Comic Books!
Have you ever used comic books to teach? Tim Smyth has, and he is ready to share his secrets with you in our first "Ask Me Anything" on VoiceThread! Learn how Tim has used comics to teach his high school students about the Civil Rights marches, Japanese internment camps, and more during this special, one-week … Continued


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in the Siamese peninsula. The white pristine beach stretch was discovered
during the railroad exploration in 1909 during the reign of King Rama V.
Known for the warm, soothing climate along with its serene beach, Hua Hin
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noble families. It was the resort's royal endorsement which has given Hua
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Following the recommendations of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), important rainforest areas in Madagascar and the Everglades National Park (USA) have been added to the List of World Heritage in Danger at the World Heritage annual meeting, currently taking place in Brasilia.
The World Heritage Committee decided to remove the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from the List of World Heritage Sites in Danger, despite IUCN´s recommendation to the contrary.
The Rainforests of Atsinanana are critically important to the survival of Madagascar's unique biodiversity. Over 80 percent of species there are endemic and include rare and threatened lemurs. But since the 2009 political crisis, illegal logging of precious woods has drastically increased and lemur poaching for bushmeat, previously unheard of in Madagascar, is developing at a worrying rate, with a reduction in population density of 30 to 75 percent observed in some places.
"The ongoing illegal logging of precious woods in parts of Madagascar is of serious concern and is having serious impacts on endangered lemurs," says Tim Badman, Head of World Heritage at IUCN. "In adding this site to the Danger List, we are calling for international action to halt illegal logging and to also ensure that no illegally logged precious woods from Madagascar enter national markets."
The Everglades National Park, a sanctuary for birds and reptiles and home to 20 rare, endangered and threatened species, has been added to the Danger List upon request by the USA. It had previously been on this List from 1993 until 2007 because of the large amount of water diverted from the Park to nearby cities, which dried out the wetland habitats and caused a 90 percent drop in the population of wetland birds.
"We commend the USA's request to re-inscribe the site on the danger list, and its plans for major infrastructure overhaul to restore the Everglade's fragile wetland ecosystem," says Mariam Kenza Ali, IUCN World Heritage Conservation Officer. "It reflects the role of the World Heritage Convention in supporting restoration efforts for the wetland habitats."
The Galapagos Islands, which have been called a unique "living museum and showcase of evolution" were inscribed on the Danger List in 2007 because of threats posed by invasive species, unbridled tourism and overfishing.
"IUCN´s recommendation for the Galapagos was that it should not be removed from the Danger List as there is work still to be done," says Tim Badman, Head of IUCN´s World Heritage Programme. "But we recognize the major efforts of the Ecuadorian government to rectify the situation there."
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
• Pia Drzewinski IUCN Media Relations Officer, m +55 61 8125 8748 e [email protected]
• Brian Thomson IUCN Media Manager, m. +55 61 8219 4408 e [email protected]
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Kidd dismisses Balotelli rumours
Manchester City assistant manager Brian Kidd has described reports that Mario Balotelli is set to be out of action until the end of November as nonsense.
After arriving at Eastlands from Inter Milan, Balotelli's £24million move to the Premier League has so far fallen flat. Injured on a goalscoring debut against Timisoara last month, Balotelli was sent back to Italy to begin rehabilitation after a knee operation that City hoped he would be back from within a couple of months.
Yet sources in Italy earlier this week claimed the damage was more extensive than City initially thought, but Kidd said: "There is nothing sinister in this. Mario has had the operation, he has come back and is now on with his rehabilitation. Wherever these other rumours are coming from, they are nonsense."
Balotelli was also up for discussion by manager Roberto Mancini who dismissed as 'a joke' claims the controversial youngster, who has attracted more than his fair share of negative headlines in the past, was waving an AC Milan shirt from his hospital bed following the knee operation.
It seems bizarre that someone who has played such a minimal part in City's season should be of such interest, although it emphasises just what a news story the big-spending Eastlands outfit have become.
With Emmanuel Adebayor not risked for the Europa League opener with Salzburg in Austria on Thursday evening, Mancini has just two fit forwards in skipper Carlos Tevez and Brazilian Jo, who was thought to be surplus to requirements with the Blues but now has a key role to play.
"Jo is a good player," stressed Mancini.
"I hope if he plays on Thursday he will score. He has a good attitude and technically is very good as well.
"He is important to us."


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Having a parent with the human immunodeficiency virus has a significant negative impact on an adolescent child's adjustment.
To assess the adjustment of adolescent children to having a parent with the human immunodeficiency virus over 6 years, following the delivery of a coping skills intervention.
A randomized controlled trial with repeated evaluations that was analyzed with an intention-to-treat analysis. A skill-based intervention was delivered in 3 modules over 24 sessions, with the third module being delivered only if parents died.
Setting and Patients
A representative sample of parents with the human immunodeficiency virus (n = 307) and their adolescent children (n = 423) was recruited from the Division of AIDS Services in New York City; 51.5% (n = 158) of the parents died.
Main Outcome Measures
Employment and school enrollment, receiving public welfare support, early parenthood, mental health symptoms, and the quality of romantic relationships.
Over 6 years, significantly more adolescents in the intervention condition than the control condition were employed or in school (82.58% vs 68.94%), were less likely to receive public welfare payments (25.66% vs 36.65%), were less likely to have psychosomatic symptoms (mean, 0.24 vs 0.31), were more likely to report better problem-solving and conflict resolution skills in their romantic relationships (mean score, 4.38 vs 4.20), expected to have a partner with a good job (mean, 4.57 vs 4.19), and expected to be married when parenting (mean, 3.05 vs 2.40). With marginal significance, the percentage of parents in the intervention condition (34.6%) was less than in the control condition (44.1%).
Physicians must consider the psychosocial consequences of illness-related challenges on children and provide interventions.
When parents have a chronic or terminal illness, their children face many challenges.1 In particular, adolescent children often assume responsibility for household tasks, care for younger siblings, and provide emotional support for their parents at the expense of their own developmental needs.2,3 If a parent dies, children lose their most important bond and face various long-term stressors and adjustment problems.4-7 Parental death is considered the most difficult developmental challenge for children.4,8 This article describes the results of an intervention to mitigate the negative outcomes of parental illness on adolescent children of parents with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) over 6 years.
In the United States, about 125 000 children have been bereaved by parental HIV,9 with about 15 000 parents dying annually.10 Simultaneously, more children are living with a parent with HIV, because highly active antiretroviral therapies have substantially expanded the quality and lifespan of persons with HIV.11,12
At least 750 000 children are coping with HIV in the United States, and their families are likely to be headed by single parents living in East Coast inner cities who are African American or Latino.13 In addition to HIV-related stigma,14 a family's low income, ethnic minority status, and previous drug use are likely to increase the negative impact on adolescent children living with a chronically ill parent with HIV.
Given these stressors, a coping skills intervention was designed and evaluated in a randomized controlled trial for parents with HIV and their adolescent children. There were significant benefits for the families over 4 years.15-17 Parents decreased their emotional distress and problem behaviors over 2 years, and they were also less likely to relapse into substance abuse or to be drug dependent over 4 years. Their adolescent children reported less emotional distress and fewer problem behaviors over 2 years. At 4 years, the youth were less likely to have children and were more likely to make use of positive coping styles. These benefits were substantial, leading us to examine the intervention outcomes at 6 years.
In early adulthood, the primary developmental tasks are to establish intimate relationships, make parenting decisions, and become employed.18 Therefore, to examine the intervention's outcome at 6 years, we focused on these developmental outcomes and on indicators of positive adjustment on social, behavioral, and mental health outcomes for the young people.
The intervention was based on a cognitive-behavioral skill-building model, and was delivered in small facilitated groups, similar to other successful HIV-related interventions for adolescents.19 The intervention was delivered in 3 modules. Each module addressed either parental or adolescent tasks related to the parents' phase of illness (eg, coping with negative emotions, planning for the future, or reducing risk acts).
A representative sample of 71.6% (307/429) of parents with HIV with adolescent children (aged 11-21 years) was recruited from New York City's Division of AIDS Services. Of the 429 eligible parents, 307 were recruited: 65 (15.2%) were untraceable, 46 (10.7%) refused to participate, and 11 (2.6%) were severely ill or incarcerated and were not recruited. With institutional review board approval and informed consent, permission to recruit adolescents was obtained from parents with HIV and then from their adolescent children. From 307 parents with HIV, 423 adolescents were eligible for participation (mean per family, 1.5; SD, 0.7; range, 1-5). During the study, 28 of these youth reached the age of 11 years and became eligible for participation, but had not been followed up for 6 years at the termination of the study. Thus, 395 adolescents were eligible for the 6-year follow-up.
As shown in Figure 1, families (parents with HIV and all their adolescent children) were randomly assigned to the coping skills intervention condition or the control condition. Over 6 years, 158 (51.5%) of the parents with HIV died. The number of deaths did not significantly (P = .76) differ by condition.
Outline of the study design and the flow of participants during the 6-year intervention delivery and the follow-up assessments for parents with the human immunodeficiency virus (PWHs) and their adolescent children. The asterisk indicates that an assessment was completed at least once annually; dagger, ineligible includes parental nondisclosure, death, nonattendance, and late enrollment; double dagger, the adolescent was eligible after parental death; and section mark, 6-year follow-up rate.
Retention was high during the 6-year follow-up (Figure 1). For adolescents in the intervention condition, the annual reevaluation rate ranged from 84.6% to 94.7%; the rates in the control condition ranged from 81.5% to 93.8%. While parents were not assessed after the 5-year follow-up, the reassessment rates were similarly high. The rates over 5 years ranged from 74.0% to 93.9% in the intervention and control conditions. Of the 395 adolescents eligible for the 6-year follow-up, 317 (80.3%) were assessed at 6 years, similar across the intervention and control conditions.
Families in the control condition were given access to a broad range of services based on need to parents with HIV and their children, including rent subsidies, home care, child care, food banks, mental health services, and medical care. Each parent with HIV was assigned to a social worker who functioned as a case manager.
Focus groups, pilot work, and previous research informed the intervention design, which was based on social learning theory and cognitive-behavioral principles.20 A detailed manual contained the specific goals, activities, and scripts for each session (available at: http://chipts.ucla.edu).
In module 1, parents with HIV met together for 8 sessions and focused on adapting to their HIV status, maintaining healthy lifestyles, coping with negative feelings related to their diagnosis, and making decisions about disclosing their status to others. In module 2, parents with HIV and their adolescent children were invited to attend 16 sessions; some sessions were joint and others separate for parents and adolescents. For the parents with HIV, module 2 aimed to reduce their emotional distress and help them maintain positive family routines, assist their children with avoiding high-risk behaviors, and make custody plans for their children. For adolescents, module 2 aimed to improve coping with their parent's diagnosis and possible death and learning skills to reduce high-risk behaviors (sexual acts, substance use acts, and teenage pregnancy) and emotional distress. If their parent died, adolescents in the intervention condition were invited to attend 16 sessions in module 3. The new guardian was also invited to attend, with the content focused on having a positive youth-guardian relationship and setting new life goals.
Quality assurance ratings were conducted on 10% of videotaped intervention settings to ensure high fidelity of the intervention delivery. Process ratings completed after each session indicated high levels of trust and cohesion among the groups.
Among the 153 parents with HIV randomized to the intervention condition, 27 were ineligible to attend the intervention because they died, were too ill, or were in jail soon after randomization. Sixty-three parents with HIV died during the next 2 years, the delivery period for modules 1 and 2. Of the 126 parents with HIV able to attend any of the modules, 95 (75.4%) attended sessions. Attendance at the intervention was lowest among fathers (9 of 30 attended) and mothers who spoke only Spanish (2 of 13 attended) compared with other parents. Parents with HIV attended a mean of 15.2 sessions (SD, 7.7 sessions; range, 1-24 sessions).
For adolescents to attend module 2 of the intervention, parents had to disclose their serostatus to the adolescent and to be in relatively good health. There were 97 ineligible adolescents for the module 2 intervention because their parent died, was too sick, was in jail, never disclosed his or her serostatus, or never attended a session. In addition, 12 adolescents aged into the study over time and had not been enrolled 6 years when data collection halted, totaling 109 ineligible adolescents. Of the 103 eligible adolescents, 84 (81.6%) attended the intervention of module 2. There were 100 adolescents eligible for module 3: 70 had guardians, 2 became guardians for siblings, and 28 lived independently. Of the eligible adolescents, 56 (56.0%) attended module 3; 26 (55.3%) of the 47 caregivers also attended.
Although there were many reasons for nonattendance, the adherence rates of attendees were high. Among the parents with HIV who attended at least one session of module 1, the mean number of sessions attended was 5.8 of a potential 8 sessions. Among the parents with HIV who attended at least one session of module 2, parents with HIV attended a mean of 11.7 of a potential 16 sessions and adolescents attended 10.3 of a potential 16 sessions. Module 3 was attended for a mean of 10.3 of a potential 16 sessions.
A baseline interview was conducted with each parent with HIV and each adolescent as soon as possible after recruitment, and randomization occurred at the conclusion of the baseline interview. Each participant interview took approximately 1½ to 2 hours to complete. Follow-up interviews were conducted every 3 months for the first 2 years of the study and every 6 months thereafter, with annual reassessments for more than 80% of the participants. This report focuses on the youth's status 6 years following recruitment. Adolescents received $25 per interview.
All assessments were conducted in participants' homes or the research office by a 2-person interview team using laptop computers. Interviewers received a minimum of 18 hours of training in conducting standardized interviews, ethics, confidentiality, HIV/AIDS, and emergency procedures. Approximately 60% of the interviewers were African American or Hispanic, and 30% were bilingual in Spanish. Survey questions were read to participants in English or Spanish (based on participant choice) and were audiotaped for quality assurance (10% were randomly selected for monitoring).
As part of the baseline interview, information was collected on background characteristics, including sex, age, living situation, socioeconomic status, and HIV diagnostic and health status. The following outcome measures were collected at each adolescent assessment.
Parental death. Parent's date of death was recorded by routinely contacting the family and monitoring state records of death.
Employment or school attendance. Youth reported their attendance at school or on a job over the past 6 months. For those enrolled in school, youth reported their year of school attended, including year of college.
Public welfare. The prevalence of youth receiving any type of public assistance (including food stamps) was reported over the past 6 months.
Romantic relationships. Youth reported either the presence (1) or absence (0) of a primary romantic partner.
Quality of primary romantic relationship. For youth reporting a current romantic partner, the frequency of social support (emotional and material) and couple conflict (major and minor disagreements) experienced within the relationship was reported for the prior 6 months on a 4-item scale. Responses ranged from 1 (not at all) to 5 (once a day or more).
Conflict and problem solving. For those youth reporting a current romantic partner, the level of conflict regarding common challenges such as decision making, handling money, and alcohol or other drug use during the previous 6 months was reported on a 1 (not at all) to 5 (great deal) scale of 9 items. Internal consistency (α = .86) and reliability (r = 0.96) have been reported previously for this scale.21
Personal expectations. On an 11-item inventory adapted from McLoyd and Hernandez Jozefowicz,22 youth rated their future expectations regarding financial security and family life on a scale of 1 (not very likely) to 6 (very likely). Three subscales were generated: overall expectations, expectations for finding a partner or spouse with a good job, and the likelihood of pregnancy or parenthood outside of marriage.
Parenthood. The number of youth who became parents and the mean number of children were reported.
Texas Grief Inventory. This 13-item inventory assessed the intensity and nature of grief reactions.23 This inventory has a reported reliability coefficient of 0.81.
Somatic symptoms. The Somasick Scale,24 a 17-item scale developed to assess the frequency of physical symptoms from 0 (never) to 2 (often), was completed. High scores on the Somasick Scale have shown strong and significant correlation with functional impairment and psychiatric disorder.25
Emotional distress. Youth completed the Brief Symptom Inventory, a 53-item survey that yielded a global severity index (α = .96) and subscales for depression (α = .79) and anxiety (α = .77) for our sample; these values were consistent with those reported elsewhere for the global severity index (α = .90) and subscales of depression (α = .85) and anxiety (α = .81).26 Participants rated the level of severity for each symptom during the previous week on a scale from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely).
Smoking, alcohol, and other drug use. Young people reported their use (1) or not (0) of tobacco, marijuana, alcohol (>5 drinks), or other drugs, and the number of different drugs used was recorded.
The number of recent sexual partners and casual partners was reported.
Institutionalization. Youth reported whether (1) or not (0) they had lived within an institutional setting (jail or detention center, group home or other foster care institution, shelter, or on the streets) over the past 6 years.
An intent-to-treat analysis was conducted to examine the differences of outcome variables between the intervention and control conditions for young people at 6 years, including examination of the impact of parental death and the effect of an intervention × parental death interaction. There were no significant differences based on parental death for any outcome and no significant interaction effects; therefore, these are not reported. To adjust for clustering of multiple adolescents in some families, we used generalized estimating equation methods for the analysis. In this generalized linear model approach, binomial distribution was used for the binary outcomes and Poisson distribution was assumed for the count variables.
About half of the adolescents were female. The mean age of the adolescents at recruitment was 14.83 years (SD, 2.02 years; range, 11-21 years); at the 6-year assessment, their mean age was 20.9 years. At recruitment, almost all the adolescents were in school and only about half had experienced their sexual debut. About half had used alcohol by recruitment, while about two thirds reported never using other drugs. At recruitment, 7.1% of adolescents in the intervention condition and 11.8% of those in the control condition were parents. Their scores on emotional distress were comparable to adolescent norms for the general population.27 As shown in Table 1, the young people in the intervention and control conditions at recruitment were highly similar15,16 across sociodemographic characteristics and among outcomes examined (school enrollment, emotional distress, and sexual and substance use risk acts).
Although parents with HIV are not the focus of this report, it is important to describe the youths' families. Most parents with HIV were Latino or African American mothers. There was a large variation in parental ages, from 25 to 70 years (mean age, 38.1 years; SD, 5.6 years). About half (54.0%) of the parents with HIV had graduated from high school. Almost all households (93.7%) included children living in the home, while the remainder had children who were temporarily in foster care placements, group homes, or incarcerated; about one quarter of the households (26.7%) included an adult partner, 10.6% included a parent of the parent with HIV, and 9.9% included other relatives.
As with the adolescents, the parents with HIV in each condition were similar in sociodemographic characteristics, physical health status, emotional distress, and sexual and substance use risk behaviors at the baseline assessment.15 There were no differences in the measures used to assess the intervention outcome, and their tendency to give socially desirable answers was similar.
Table 2 summarizes the mean scores on each measure for young people in the intervention and control conditions. At 6 years, youth in the intervention condition were significantly more likely to be in school or employed and were less likely to receive public assistance in the past 6 months. Intervention youth also reported more positive expectations for their future life goals.
There were no significant differences on the Texas Grief Inventory or the Brief Symptom Inventory; however, the mean number of somatic symptoms was significantly lower for youth in the intervention compared with the control condition.
Most young people (69.3%) reported having a romantic relationship, with similar levels for those in the intervention and control conditions. Intervention youth tended to report the quality of their relationship as better and had significantly more effective conflict and problem-solving scores using the Kerig measure.21 Young people in the intervention condition were significantly more likely to expect their partner to have a good job and believed they were less likely to become pregnant without being married. With marginal significance, intervention youth tended to be parents less frequently than control youth. Among young people who were parents, the mean number of children was similar across conditions. The mean number of recent sexual partners and the prevalence of casual sexual partners were similar for young people in the intervention and control conditions.
Almost half of the youth in each condition smoked cigarettes. Among smokers, those in the intervention condition tended to be more likely to quit smoking for more than a day in the past 12 months. Intervention youth also drank alcohol on significantly fewer days and were less likely to have 5 or more alcoholic drinks in the past month compared with youth in the control condition. Other drug use and the mean number of drugs used were similar across the conditions, as was the 6-year cumulative rate of institutionalization.
Few studies have examined intervention effects over a long period. When examined, there are often unanticipated intervention benefits that result in domains not initially addressed in the intervention.28,29 In the current evaluation, there were significant improvements in the developmental tasks of early adulthood, even though some of these outcomes were not directly addressed in the intervention program delivered years earlier.
There seem to be "sleeper" effects of interventions that cannot be easily explained using current theoretical models. For example, the intervention condition resulted in significant improvements in several outcomes that cost society a great deal: higher rates of employment and fewer welfare payments. These results were unexpected when the intervention was designed. Yet, these societal benefits demonstrate the importance of providing interventions to young people facing significant family challenges, such as coping with parental HIV.
While most young people in the intervention and the control conditions tended to have romantic relationships (approximately 70%), the quality of the couple's interactions, relationship problem-solving skills, and expectations of employment and skills of their romantic partners were higher for young people in the intervention condition. Fewer young people in the intervention condition tended to have babies, which may have helped their romantic relationships be more positive, because fewer young people anticipated that they would need public assistance to raise their children.
An intervention must stimulate synergistic effects that spiral over time in positive or negative directions.30 Accordingly, young people in the intervention reported fewer somatic symptoms and fewer risk behaviors, as reflected in alcohol use and smoking behavior. Cumulatively, there were substantial personal benefits and more positive social and behavioral trajectories for young people in the intervention condition.
Almost half of the young people were bereaved by parental death, resulting in high rates of posttraumatic stress (M.J.R.-B., S. J. Lee, PhD, and S. Comulada, MS, unpublished data, 2002). Parental death from HIV may have fewer negative consequences than parental death from other diseases.16 In this study, AIDS orphans had guardians who were extended family members, were employed, had romantic partners, and were part of the child's life for many years.31 Thus, their lives may have increased stability following parental death, given the more stable lives of the guardians.
Because of HIV treatment advances (eg, antiretroviral therapies),3,11,12 medical settings have become the primary providers of care and more parents with HIV are living much longer with a chronic stigmatizing illness.13 Physicians must help patients cope with the HIV-related challenges facing their families for many years. This study indicates the long-term societal benefits when physicians address families' psychosocial needs, preferably in the context of medical care. Project Teens and Adults Learning to Communicate led to fewer young people on welfare, more employment or school attendance, and fewer risk behaviors 6 years later, even when the intervention was terminated several years earlier. These are robust findings and suggest that psychosocial services delivered in medical settings are likely to be cost-effective. In addition, the findings are likely to be applicable for children of parents coping with other potentially terminal illnesses, such as cancer.
Previous HIV-preventive interventions have been targeted at those at risk of acquiring or those infected with HIV. There is little information on the children of HIV-infected parents or on strategies to improve the anticipated negative outcomes for these children.
Our data demonstrate the need to address the psychosocial challenges influencing parents with HIV and their adolescent children. Adolescents who were randomized to receive an intervention demonstrated better adjustment 6 years later at work, in school, and in their interpersonal relationships. The intervention provides a model for future psychosocial interventions to improve the outcomes for young people affected by HIV.
Correspondence: Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, PhD, Center for Community Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 10920 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA 90024-6521 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for publication March 4, 2004.
This study was supported by grants 1ROI MH49958-04 and P30MH58107 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Md.
We thank the parents, caregivers, and adolescents who participated in this study, and the many faculty and staff who participated over 8 years.
Rotheram-Borus MJ, Lee M, Lin Y, Lester P. Six-Year Intervention Outcomes for Adolescent Children of Parents With the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158(8):742–748. doi:10.1001/archpedi.158.8.742
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As has been described in the application identity guide, when you choose application identity you are defining which fields of the class are part of the primary key, and you are taking control of the specification of id's to DataNucleus. Application identity requires a primary key (PK) class, and each persistent capable class may define a different class for its primary key, and different persistent capable classes can use the same primary key class, as appropriate. You specify the primary key class like this
<class name="MyClass" identity-type="application" objectid-class="MyIdClass"> ... </class>
or using annotations
@PersistenceCapable(objectIdClass=MyIdClass.class) public class MyClass { ... }
You now need to define the PK class to use. This is simplified for you because if you have only one PK field then you dont need to define a PK class and you only define it when you have a composite PK.
An important thing to note is that the PK can only be made up of fields of the following Java types
The simplest way of using application identity is where you have a single PK field, and in this case you use SingleFieldIdentity . mechanism. This provides a PrimaryKey and you don't need to specify the objectid-class . Let's take an example
public class MyClass { long id; ... } <class name="MyClass" identity-type="application"> <field name="id" primary-key="true"/> ... </class>
or using annotations
@PersistenceCapable public class MyClass { @PrimaryKey long id; ... }
So we didnt specify the JDO "objectid-class". You will, of course, have to give the field a value before persisting the object, either by setting it yourself, or by using a value-strategy on that field.
If you need to create an identity of this form for use in querying via pm.getObjectById() then you can create the identities in the following way
For a "long" type : javax.jdo.identity.LongIdentity id = new javax.jdo.identity.LongIdentity(myClass, 101); For a "String" type : javax.jdo.identity.StringIdentity id = new javax.jdo.identity.StringIdentity(myClass, "ABCD");
We have shown an example above for type "long", but you can also use this for the following
short, Short - javax.jdo.identity.ShortIdentity int, Integer - javax.jdo.identity.IntIdentity long, Long - javax.jdo.identity.LongIdentity String - javax.jdo.identity.StringIdentity char, Character - javax.jdo.identity.CharIdentity byte, Byte - javax.jdo.identity.ByteIdentity java.util.Date - javax.jdo.identity.ObjectIdentity java.util.Currency - javax.jdo.identity.ObjectIdentity java.util.Locale - javax.jdo.identity.ObjectIdentity
Since there are many possible combinations of primary-key fields it is impossible for JDO to provide a series of builtin composite primary key classes. However the DataNucleus enhancer provides a mechanism for auto-generating a primary-key class for a persistable class. It follows the rules listed below and should work for all cases. Obviously if you want to tailor the output of things like the PK toString() method then you ought to define your own. The enhancer generation of primary-key class is only enabled if you don't define your own class.
If you wish to use application identity and don't want to use the "SingleFieldIdentity" builtin PK classes then you must define a Primary Key class of your own. You can't use classes like java.lang.String, or java.lang.Long directly. You must follow these rules when defining your primary key class.
Please note that if one of the fields that comprises the primary key is in itself a persistable object then you have Compound Identity and should consult the documentation for that feature which contains its own example.
Here's an example of a composite (multiple field) primary key class
@PersistenceCapable(objectIdClass=ComposedIdKey.class) public class MyClass { @PrimaryKey String field1; @PrimaryKey String field2; ... } public class ComposedIdKey implements Serializable { public String field1; public String field2; public ComposedIdKey () { } /** * Constructor accepting same input as generated by toString(). */ public ComposedIdKey(String value) { StringTokenizer token = new StringTokenizer (value, "::"); token.nextToken(); // className this.field1 = token.nextToken(); // field1 this.field2 = token.nextToken(); // field2 } public boolean equals(Object obj) { if (obj == this) { return true; } if (!(obj instanceof ComposedIdKey)) { return false; } ComposedIdKey c = (ComposedIdKey)obj; return field1.equals(c.field1) && field2.equals(c.field2); } public int hashCode () { return this.field1.hashCode() ^ this.field2.hashCode(); } public String toString () { // Give output expected by String constructor return this.getClass().getName() + "::" + this.field1 + "::" + this.field2; } }


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas became angry and threatened to walk away from the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations during a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris last week, the Palestinian daily newspaper Al Quds reported.
Citing Palestinian officials present at the meeting, Al Quds explained that Kerry presented Abbas with a new proposed peace framework that the fuming Palestinian leader proceeded to reject as "madness."
According to the report, Kerry's proposal required Abbas to publicly recognize Israel as the Jewish state, left security control of the Jordan Valley in Israel's hands and obligated the absorption of 10 Jewish settlements into a future Palestinian state.
As icing on that bitter cake, the proposal granted the new Palestinian state a capital in the village of Beit Hanina on Jerusalem's outskirts, rather than control over the entirety of eastern Jerusalem, as demanded by Abbas and his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.
The Palestinians accused Kerry and the Obama Administration of having completely adopted the Israeli peace conditions.
The details of Kerry's proposal are likely to be tweaked in light of the Palestinian reaction. And when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week, he will come under pressure from President Barack Obama to officially accept that proposal, The New York Times reported.
Obama could appeal to Netanyahu that he has nothing to lose by accepting the Kerry proposal, as in its currently reported form it meets most Israeli peace conditions, and if the Palestinians continue to resist, they will be revealed as the true obstacle to peace.
Unfortunately, Israel has been lured into that trap before. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak went to Camp David in 2000 under similar assumptions. Even though it was clear to all that Arafat had scuttled the talks despite unprecedented land concessions by Barak, Israel was ultimately blamed for the ensuing wave of violence that engulfed the country.
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The hallmarks of our success have always been, and continue to be, that we are — all together — client committed, cause-oriented, and results-driven.
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What Is Government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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Classicist and Historian Donald Kagan to Deliver the 2005 Jefferson Lecture
Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University has been selected to deliver the 34th Jefferson Lecture. The annual lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is among the highest honors the federal government confers for recognizing achievement in the humanities, and carries a honorarium of $10,000. Kagan, who earlier received the National Humanities Medal, will deliver the lecture on Thursday, May 12, 2005, in Washington, D.C.
Kagan is known for his scholarship on war in the classical world as well as his commentary on the challenges faced by contemporary America. He was a nationally prominent advocate for a core curriculum. He is the author of a celebrated four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. His recent books include Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991), On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (1995), While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000, with Frederick W. Kagan), and The Peloponnesian War (2003), a one-volume history of the war. He has also published numerous articles and commentary in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Public Interest.
Born in Lithuania in 1932, Kagan received his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, his master's degree in classics from Brown University, and in 1958 his PhD in history from Ohio State University. Before coming to Yale in 1969, Kagan held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University and Cornell University. From 1988 to 1993, Kagan served as a member of the National Council on the Humanities. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, including four teaching awards at Cornell and Yale.
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All items > Knives > Automatic Knives > Piranha (Auto) > Piranha X
- Overall Length:7.45"
- Blade Length:3.30"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:154CM
- Hardness:60-61 RC
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:4.15"
- Handle Thickness:0.49"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Gray
- Weight:3.00 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Automatic
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This model of the Piranha X is the tactical version with a black finished blade, pocket clip and hardware. The handle is silver finsihed.
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Newsweek correspondent Bahari, who was held in detention for four months on manufactured anti-state charges in 2009, was sentenced by a
Bahari received a sentence of five years in prison for "congregation and mutiny with the intent to commit crimes against national security," four years for "collecting and keeping confidential and classified documents," one year for "propagation against the regime," two years for "insulting the [Supreme] Leader," six months for "insulting the President," and one year and 74 lashes for "disruption of public order."
Authorities interrogated Bahari for four months, he told CPJ, and coerced him to "confess" to a host of serious criminal acts on Iranian television. He was then convicted for an entirely different set of crimes.
"We condemn the conviction of Maziar Bahari," said CPJ's
Middle East and
Bahari has been part of an international campaign that includes CPJ called "Our Society Will Be a Free Society," advocating for the release of imprisoned Iranian journalists and writers, and has made numerous statements and appearances on their behalf.
Today CPJ and the Overseas Press Club of America sent a letter to
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling on him to bring an end to a
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For the holiday, we bring you an excerpt of Lincoln's 1863 proclamation which established Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.


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Stocks are closing sharply lower as traders worried about an escalation of tensions between Russia and the West following the downing of a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine.
Traders were also unsettled by poor corporate earnings and a weak indicator for the housing market.
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 161 points, or 0.9 percent, to close at 16,976 Thursday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 23 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,958. The Nasdaq lost 62 points, or 1.4 percent, to 4,363.
SanDisk, AutoNation and Mattel were among the biggest decliners after reporting results that disappointed investors.
Prices for gold and U.S. government bonds rose as traders shifted money into assets perceived as being relatively safe.
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Events Around the Community
Monthly Meeting, every second Tuesday at 7 pm, held at Leedy Grange Hall, 835 NW Saltzman
For more information about CPO1, see the county website
Monthly Meeting, second Tuesday of every month at 11:45 am, held at the Cedar Mill Bible Church. Free. Open to anyone interested in business in Cedar Mill. Free pizza! Bring your own beverage and some business cards. See website for schedule: cedarmillbiz.com
Events at the Cedar Mill Community Library 503-644-0043
Library Film Club features are shown on the last Wednesday of each month in the library's upstairs meeting rooms. Lively discussion follows each showing. The films are around 2 hours in length, so we will begin promptly at 6:30 pm and close up around 9:00 pm. These films are for ages 18 and over only. Refreshments will be provided.
These films are free and open to the public and are brought to you by a grant from the Washington County Arts, Heritage & Humanities Coalition with funding from the Oregon Cultural Trust.
Join us in the upstairs meeting room at 10:30 am on the last Friday of the month. Newcomers always welcome!
Join us every 4th Saturday for Open Mike Poetry. Come and read or just listen. We will be meeting at 10 am in the upstairs meeting room. See you there!
Whether you're hoping for publication, planning to self-publish, or writing just for fun, join us for a hands-on inspiring gathering of people who love to write. This ongoing group is open to people from a wide range of writing interests but no poetry, sci fi, horror or fantasy, please. Newcomers always welcome!
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Smoking injures blood vessel walls and speeds up hardening of the
arteries (atherosclerosis). As a result, the heart works harder, and blood
pressure may increase. Cigarette smoking increases your risk for transient ischemic attack (TIA) and
Heavy smokers are at greater risk for TIA and stroke. Daily cigarette
smoking can increase the risk of stroke by 2½ times.footnote 1
The risk of stroke and TIA decreases for those who quit smoking. If
you smoked less than one pack a day and you quit, within 5 years your risk
will be the same as though you had never smoked.footnote 1
CitationsKasner SE, Moss HE (2010). Cerebrovascular disorders. In EG Nabel, ed., ACP Medicine, section 11, chap. 4. Hamilton, ON: BC Decker.Other Works ConsultedMeschia JF, et al. (2014). Guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke: A statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke, published online October 28, 2014. DOI: 10.1161/STR.0000000000000046. Accessed October 29, 2014.
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text: London - England batsman Kevin Pietersen has several extra days in which to discover if he will be a member of the defending champions' World Twenty20 squad. The International Cricket Council (ICC) had originally made this Saturday their deadline for all teams to announce their final 15-man squads for the tournament in Sri Lanka starting next month. However, the global governing body announced on Thursday they had put this back until Friday, August 24, at the behest of several countries, with England now due to announce their squad on Tuesday. An England spokesperson told AFP they had not asked specifically for an extension in order to reach agreement with Pietersen, dropped for the ongoing third Test at Lord's against his native South Africa after admitting sending "provocative texts" to Proteas players. She said the reason was that England did not want a squad announcement deflecting attention away from a Test the hosts must win to prevent South Africa dethroning them as the world's top-ranked side in the five-day game. Pietersen was England's man of the tournament when they won the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean two years ago - the first time they'd lifted a major piece of ICC silverware.


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Saudi diplomat kidnapped in Yemen
A Saudi diplomat held hostage in Yemen for 18 months has urged his family to organise demonstrations asking the government to meet al Qaeda demands to free detained women and Muslim clerics as the best way to get him freed from captivity.world Updated: Sep 09, 2013 16:39 IST
A Saudi diplomat held hostage in Yemen for 18 months has urged his family to organise demonstrations asking the government to meet al Qaeda demands to free detained women and Muslim clerics as the best way to get him freed from captivity.
He made the appeal in a recording posted online late on Sunday, the fourth such statement by Abdullah al-Khalidi since militants seized the Saudi vice consul in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden in March 2012.
Khalidi, who wore a white robe and headdress in the video, told his family that arranging meetings with Saudi princes and officials would not ensure his release.
Instead he asked his family to take to the streets and demand the release from Saudi prisons of women and some clerics held on security grounds, saying this would be the best way to get him freed.
All public protest in Saudi Arabia is illegal.
"Pressuring governments through street demonstrations is a well-known policy worldwide and if we look at neighbouring countries we will find it has yielded results," Khalidi said in the video.
"Go out in demonstrations and sit-ins with signs whether in Dammam or Khobar or any place that can send the message to the Saudi government," he said, referring to areas in eastern Saudi Arabia where much of the country's oil industry is based.
The authenticity of the recording could not be verified.
The time of its recording was also unclear although Khalidi also sent his family greetings on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, indicating he could have recorded the message in July.
Saudi officials were not immediately able to comment.
U.S.-allied Yemen is home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most active militant franchises of the network founded by Osama bin Laden.
The government of the impoverished Arab country is struggling to assert its authority following more than two years of political turmoil that began with protests that eventually ousted veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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David McGarry earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida in exercise science and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Along with his degrees, McGarry is certified through the NSCA as a certified strength and conditioning specialist and is the owner of http://www.davemcgarry.com/cms/, a fitness consulting company. Previously, he served as the assistant general manager for the Cooper Fitness Center at Craig Ranch. His experience consists of more than 13 years as a personal trainer and fitness manager. McGarry is actively involved with the community as a public speaker and presenter to corporations for health and wellness. His most recent accomplishment is a self-published book for fitness professionals and personal trainers called "Anatomy of Sales." Check it out at http://www.davemcgarry.com/cms/anatomy-of-sales/.
People hate to be sold but love to buy, and their reasons for purchasing might seem odd to you. After almost two decades as a trainer and fitness manager, I've determined there are seven influencers when it comes to buying personal training: emotion, focus on the client, value, vanity, rapport, passion and the trainer.
1. Emotion. People buy based on feelings, needs and emotions, not based on a logical thought process. Your trainers must find their clients' emotional hot button or their emotional pain. To do so, they must first build trust so clients will open up to them. Once they establish that trust and discover their clients' emotional pain and their ultimate desire, they can show prospects how personal training will solve their problems.
2. Focus on the client. One of the biggest mistakes trainers make is that they forget who they are serving. Many trainers push their programs on new clients without asking themselves if those programs fulfill the client's wants and needs. Your trainers must think of members first, not their own programs.
3. Value. Value is different from person to person. Value is relative to the service you offer, what the client has paid in the past, how bad the client wants it, and how the client perceives the price between you and your competitors. You must set up your personal training programs so they demonstrate a value that seems equal to or greater than the price your clients pay.
4. Vanity. Yes, people like to look good. I can't tell you how many times I've had a client tell me they want to look like so and so. Our world thrives on looking young and beautiful. So even though many clients desire to be healthy and to increase their longevity, the underlying truth is that everyone also wants to look good.
Because many people are visually stimulated, your trainers should help clients paint a "before and after" picture in their minds. They could suggest that clients bring in a photo of themselves at the size they were happy at. You could invest in software that shows clients what they would look like 10 pounds lighter. Once your trainers help clients paint the picture in their mind, they can proceed by laying out the plan for getting there.
5. Rapport. Do your members trust and like your trainers? No one will open up to or believe people they don't trust, and trust often starts with rapport. Your trainers must ensure members know that they are there for more than just the sale. And trainers must reveal their human side so they are more approachable. As Jeffery Gitomer says, "People want to do business with their friends." It's the relationships your trainers build, not the price of your services, that makes clients renew their personal training.
6. Passion. Buying is an emotional experience. Trainers with enthusiasm and passion transmit that energy to their clients—and infectious passion and enthusiasm helps increase your personal training base and helps your club excel.
7. The trainer who can solve their problems. Clients invest in your products or services because they have problems or needs that you can help them fix. Your trainers must become experts at understanding members' specific situations and at uncovering their pressing needs. Your trainers must show members how training can change their lives and solve their emotional pain, but most importantly, they must have the skills to follow through with their promises of help.


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[policy-announce] 2011-06 Review Period extended until *14 August* 2013 (Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database)
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Dear colleagues, Yesterday we announced that the extended Review Period for this policy proposal would end on 13 August 2012. This date was incorrect. The correct end date for the extended Review Period for policy proposal 2011-06 is *14 August* 2012. We encourage you to review this policy proposal and send your comments to <anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net>. We apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. Regards, Marco Schmidt on behalf of Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC