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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Incubator Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by VikasRoonwal: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SynapseProposal/synapseobject New page: = Synapse Object = Hello everyone, this wiki gives an overview of what SynapseObject (also referred to as SO) is all about, the reasons why it is being proposed. Changes suggested by Aleksander Slominski, Mukund Balasubramanian and a few other have been incorporated too. == Introduction == Data representation has been a tough job always. But with the advent of XML, representing them has become much easier but still the data handling intelligence is missing. Say for instance we have an XML == XML-1 == {{{ <contacts> <contact> <name>John</name> <address>360 Morse Ave</address> <city>Sunnyvale</city> <state>US</state> <zip>94086</zip> </contact> <contact> <name>Mary</name> <address>410 Dale Park</address> <city>Sunnyvale</city> <state>US</state> <zip>94086</zip> </contact> </contacts> }}} One can say that another way of representing them would be: == XML-2 == {{{ <contacts> <contact name="John" address="360 Morse Ave" city="Sunnyvale" state…></contact> <contact name="Mary" address="410 Dale Park" city="Sunnyvale" state…></contact> </contacts> }}} === Differences Between XML 1 and XML 2 === >>From a generic standpoint both give the notion of a person's address, XML-1 in this context could be treated as more appropriate as it depicts that a contact has attributes in the form of objects, where each composite object within has an identity of it's own or each of then can exists even if the contact object is not present but if you think deep, would they meaningfully exist? Not really. At such a granular level it would become a nightmare to maintain them, there could be two people with the same name. On the other hand XML-2 is more of a wysiwyg (What you see is what you get) but readability wise maybe not be that great. There are different schools of thought in using XML but then XML has been conceived in a fashion, which allows representation of data in any way users wish to put it. This of course gives immense control to the person who is writing it but then introduces a whole lot of ambiguity when a different person gets it. The reason being the context is lost in transmission. At one end there is a whole lot of flexibility and on the other end ambiguity. To resolve this issue, XSDs have been used to validate xmls from either end and provide some control for type validation. Going forward Data-binding mechanisms have provided users to produce classes/jars from an XSD and then using XMLs(conforming to the XSD) generate instances that could be used for performing certain tasks. Take for instance XMLBeans from Apache, which generates java classes from a given XSD and then allows you to get instances by passing an XML, which subscribes to the XSD format. {{{ Note: For the adventurous few, try out XMLBeans on the above 2 XMLs. XML 1 - Leads to too many classes to handle XML 2 - The code is quite cryptic }}} === From a logical perspective (using XMLBeans) === 1) You need to generate classes (jars) from the XSD 2) After getting the xml (containing the data), generate instances of those classes 3) Use the instances in some other container/Object to perform certain tasks. Given the flexibility that the above approach gives one should be more than happy to use it. ''''' But consider the following ''''' == Problems with the above approach : == 1) You have to maintain the generated classes physically in some location 2) Re-generate them in case the XSD changes 3) Change the underlying logic in the classes which use the generated instances. 4) No in-built search mechanism or features by which complex objects can be recursively traversed to find embedded objects or attributes based on various criteria. === Alternate situation where === 1) No generation of classes are required 2) No classes/jars to maintain 3) Get instances directly from the XML based on the XSD 4) Search feature to find attributes 5) Search feature to find embedded objects by giving attribute values 6) Search feature to find embedded objects by giving attribute names 7) And most importantly the object that you get from the XML is generic, so no need of casting it. Just give the XML and get a generic object on which you can perform all the search features as stated above and have the getters and setters too with type information! '''''This is what SynapseObject is all about. A utility object, that allows manipulation and handling of XML in a generic fashion. ''''' == How does it work == It works in two modes === With an XSD === The constructor takes an XML and it's corresponding XSD and spits out a SynapseObject instance '''XML''' {{{ <ConsumerIdentification xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://somehost/SO-XML.xsd"> <consumer> <CONSUMER_TYPE>GOLD</CONSUMER_TYPE> <IP_ADDRESS_FROM>22.214.171.124</IP_ADDRESS_FROM> <IP_ADDRESS_TO>192.168.6.255</IP_ADDRESS_TO> <HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME>john</HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME> <WS_SEC_USERNAME>john</WS_SEC_USERNAME> <assignedService> <serviceid>stockQuote1</serviceid> </assignedService> </consumer> <consumer> <CONSUMER_TYPE>SILVER</CONSUMER_TYPE> <IP_ADDRESS_FROM>184.108.40.206</IP_ADDRESS_FROM> <IP_ADDRESS_TO>192.168.8.255</IP_ADDRESS_TO> <HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME>Sam</HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME> <WS_SEC_USERNAME>Sam</WS_SEC_USERNAME> <assignedService> <serviceid>stockQuote1</serviceid> </assignedService> </consumer> </ConsumerIdentification> }}} '''XSD''' {{{ <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:element name="CONSUMER_TYPE"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="ConsumerIdentification"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="consumer" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="IP_ADDRESS_FROM"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="IP_ADDRESS_TO"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="WS_SEC_USERNAME"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="assignedService"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="serviceid"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="consumer"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="CONSUMER_TYPE"/> <xs:element ref="IP_ADDRESS_FROM"/> <xs:element ref="IP_ADDRESS_TO"/> <xs:element ref="HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME"/> <xs:element ref="WS_SEC_USERNAME"/> <xs:element ref="assignedService"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="serviceid"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> </xs:element> </xs:schema> }}} === Without an XSD === The constructor takes an XMl and spits out a SynapseObject. The only dependency being the XML should have the type definition for attributes in the XML itself. '''XML for SynapseObject''' {{{ <ConsumerIdentification> <consumer> <CONSUMER_TYPE type="STRING">GOLD</CONSUMER_TYPE> <IP_ADDRESS_FROM type="STRING">220.127.116.11</IP_ADDRESS_FROM> <IP_ADDRESS_TO type="STRING">192.168.6.255</IP_ADDRESS_TO> <HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME type="STRING">john</HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME> <WS_SEC_USERNAME type="STRING">john</WS_SEC_USERNAME> <assignedService> <serviceid1 type="STRING">stockQuote1</serviceid1> </assignedService> </consumer> </ConsumerIdentification> }}} == Features == * Create SynapseObject from SynapseObject-XML * Create SynapseObject from any xml by providing a xslt * SynapseObject can have a SynapseObject (self aggregation) * SynapseObject can have 0 or more attributes * To set attribute for a SynapseMediatorObject there are setters/getters methods such as setString(String name,String value), setLong(String name,String value),etc. eg. SetString(foo,value) * SynapseObject has a getXMLFragment method which spits out an xml representing the SO itself. * SynapseObject have finder methods based on attribute names, values as well as SynapseObjects. == CLASS-DIAGRAM : == [http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/synapse/trunk/scratch/infravio/synapse-SO/SO-ClassDiag.JPG] === SynapseObject : === Synapse object is the core object, which follows the composite pattern. Each SynapseObject can have one or more SynapseObject embedded within. === Attribute handling : === The setters and getters are type based, example -> so.getString("foo") would spit out a string for the attribute name foo. === GenericObject : === For representing attributes a concept of holder object has been used which has the type, value and name information of an attribute === SynapseObjectArray : === Represents an array of SynapseObjects. === Search Handling : === Search is based on ''Attribute name'' (also with added functionality like starts with or ends with) ''Attribute value'' (also with added functionality like starts with or ends with) ''Object name'' (also with added functionality like starts with or ends with) === Translator : === Translate SynapeObject into any other format by passing a XSLT. == Reasons for using SynapseObject == 1) Java Properties class lets you handle name-value pairs in a very good way but when it comes to representing complex objects it becomes very difficult. 2) Using the concept of data binding introduces a very rigid and tight coupling of data and schema. So if the schema changes the underlying data handling mechanism needs to be changed (which includes the beans/classes to hold the complex data structure) 3) Intelligent search features are either driven by xpath/xqueries for pure XML or embedded logic if beans are used, SynapseObject has inbuilt search features by which you can perform complex searches. 4) The reason people use Java Properties class is because name-value pairs can be shared by other class without any dependency. SynapseObject is more like a Properties Class with added features to handle Complex Objects and also allow search features. == Uses Case == A) Data-Sharing between mediators: Consumers need to be identified, once it's identified the information could be shared by the SLA mediator which depending on a consumer will set the priority. Below is the pseudo code of how this can be achieved using SynapseObject and how datasharing would become easy. ''__Background Info__'' ConsumerIdentification mediator needs to identify a client by the following ways: 1) IP {eg. 192.168.5.10} 2) IP Range {eg. 192.168.5.20- 192.168.5.30} 3) WS-SEC auth token 4) HTTP auth token 5) certificate (Other factors that need to be considered whether the incoming message was first encrypted and then signed or was it signed and then encrypted). Let's consider 1) IP == Using SynapseObject == {{{ ConsumerIdentification XML fragment: ------------------------------------ <?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?> <Consumer_Identification> <Consumer> <CONSUMER_TYPE type=\"xsd:String\">GOLD</CONSUMER_TYPE> <IP_ADDRESS_FROM type=\"xsd:String\">220.127.116.11</IP_ADDRESS_FROM> <IP_ADDRESS_TO type=\"xsd:String\">192.168.6.255</IP_ADDRESS_TO> <HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME type=\"xsd:String\">john</HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME> <WS_SEC_USERNAME type=\"xsd:String\">john</WS_SEC_USERNAME> <Assigned_Service> <Service_ID type=\"xsd:String\">stockQuote1</Service_ID> </Assigned_Service> </Consumer> <Consumer> <CONSUMER_TYPE type=\"xsd:String\">SILVER</CONSUMER_TYPE> <IP_ADDRESS_FROM type=\"xsd:String\">192.168.6.255</IP_ADDRESS_FROM> <IP_ADDRESS_TO type=\"xsd:String\">192.168.6.255</IP_ADDRESS_TO> <HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME type=\"xsd:String\">mary</HTTP_AUTH_USERNAME> <WS_SEC_USERNAME type=\"xsd:String\">mary</WS_SEC_USERNAME> <Assigned_Service> <Service_ID type=\"xsd:String\">stockQuote1</Service_ID> </Assigned_Service> </Consumer> </Consumer_Identification> }}} In the ci mediator code fragment {{{ // the the requester ip ip = {get the remote ip from the messageContext/SynapseContext } //Identify if the consumer is there and get appropriate details and store the consumer related details in the messageContext, one more things to note is that storing shared data is by the mediator name itself eg. ci SynapseObject obj = consumerIdentification.findSynapseObjectByAttributeValueStartingWith(ip); messageContext.setProperty(consumerIdentification.getName(),obj); obj will contain all the required values if identified! }}} {{{ SLA xml Fragment: ------------------ <sla> <consumer> < service> < epr type="String">http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx</epr> < priority type="Integer">0</priority> </service> < service> <epr type="String">http://www.webservicex.net/findZIPCode.asmx</epr> < priority type="Integer">1</priority> </service> </consumer> </sla> }}} In the SLA Mediator code fragment {{{ //As there is a dependency between the SLA mediator and CI the SLA mediator will pick information for its dependency(Note: we also proposed a concept //of MediatorContext which will have dependency and other information for a particular mediator) //Get the identified consumer from the messagecontext SynapseObject consumerIdentification = (SynapseObject)messageContext.getProperty("ci"); // get the consumer name and consumer type String consumerName = consumerIdentification.getName(); String consumerType = consumerIdentification.getString("CONSUMER_TYPE"); //find the sla details for the identified consumer SynapseObject consumer = sla.findSynapseObjectByAttributeValue(consumerName); String fromAddress = (String)synapseMessageContext.getTo(); SynapseObject service = consumer.findSynapseObjectByAttributeValue(fromAddress ); // The priority value would be used by the SLA mediator to forward the request to the provider depending on the priority. 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Video display Sperrin Mountains Area More detail Place count in area: 64, OSI/LPS Maps: 12, 13, 6, 7, 8 Highest place: Sawel, 678m Maximum height for area: 678 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 657 metres, Places in area Sperrin Mountains:Balix Hill 403mBarnes Top 456mBenbradagh 465mBessy Bell 420mBohilbreaga 478mBoviel Top 454mCarn Hill 448mCarnanelly 562mCarnanelly West Top 505mCarntogher 464mClogherny Top 408mClondermot Hill 220mCoolnasillagh Mountain 423mCorick Mountain 430mCraigagh Hill 460mCraignamaddy 385mCregganconroe 300mCrockalougha 407mCrockbrack 526mCrockdooish 321mCrocknamoghil 335mCurradrolan Hill 270mCurraghchosaly Mountain 416mDart Mountain 619mDart Mountain North-West Top 525mEglish 277mFir Mountain 362mGortmonly Hill 218mKnockanbane Mountain 441mKnockavoe 296mLearmount Mountain 489mLearmount Mtn S Top 492mLetterlogher 249mMeenard Mountain 620mMeenard Mtn W Top 480mMoneyoran Hill 414mMullaghaneany 627mMullaghash 480mMullaghasturrakeen 581mMullaghbane 467mMullaghbolig 442mMullaghcarbatagh 517mMullaghcarn 542mMullaghcarn South Top 525mMullaghclogha 635mMullaghclogher 572mMullaghcroy 242mMullaghdoo 568mMullaghmeash Hill 244mMullaghmore 550mMullaghsallagh 485mMullaghturk 416mOughtmore 382mOughtmore 569mOwenreagh Hill 400mSawel 678mSlieve Gallion 528mSlieve Gallion NE Top 496mSlieveboy 259mSlievekirk 370mSpaltindoagh 420mSpelhoagh 568mStraid Hill 303mWhite Mountain 537m Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such. Centre on map. Sawel Mountain Samhail Phite Méabha A name in Irish (Ir. 'Samhail Phite Méabha' [DUPN], 'resemblance of Maeve's vulva') County Highpoint of Derry & Tyrone, in County Highpoint, Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Psammite & semipellite Bedrock Height: 678m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 13 Grid Reference: H61796 97305 Place visited by 357 members. Recently by: glencree, Andy1287, Patrickdoyle, eoghancarton, Grumbler, nupat, schwann10, mallymcd, IrishGirl2014, itshimkeith, Roswayman, FrankMc1964, finkey86, ilenia, bbarry2015 I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.) More detail Longitude: -7.039464, Latitude: 54.819745 , Easting: 261796, Northing: 397305 Prominence: 657m, Isolation: 1.8km, Has trig pillar ITM: 661731 897294, GPS IDs, 6 char: Sawel, 10 char: SawelBedrock type: Psammite & semipellite, (Dart Formation) This rather colourful name seems to derive from the appearance of the glen on the S side of Sawel. Sawel is the highest mountain in the Sperrin Mountains area and the 147th highest in Ireland. Sawel is the highest point in county Derry and also the highest in Tyrone. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/ Rate Gallery COMMENTS for Sawel 1 2 3 Next page >> Follow this place's comments Picture from group : Summit of Sawel looking NE Picture: Summit of Sawel looking NE Lording it over Derry and Tyrone Short Summary created by Harry Goodman, gerrym 12 Sep 2010 Two popular start points for Sawel are (1) from the E on the high pass on the Sperrin Road at H639975 A. A fenceline goes up W and provides a sure guide to the summit area. At H618972 B, a fence junction, go right up to the trig pillar. (2) From the W on the Cranagh to Park road at H589969 C with ample of road parking near a cattle grid. Just N along the road a fence can be followed up ESE to Dart Mt. From the top head NE down a rocky slope to a wide saddle H611967 D and then up along a fence to a junction. The summit lies a short distance NE on the other side H6179797303 E. With two cars these two routes can be combined to make a fine linear walk. Longer alternatives allow approaches on foot from the B47 in the Glenelly Valley and give increased opportunities to savour the delights to come but add considerably to the distance walked. These include starting at the Sperrin Heritage Centre at H607935 F. Sawel has the honour of being the County Top for both Derry and Tyrone. While the accepted view in the past has been a shared summit alternative views posted on the site now suggest that the high point of Tyrone may lie either some 30/40 metres S of the trig pillar or within 3 metres from it. The debate continues! Walking here is usually done without meeting others and the weather can be pretty bad on occasion so come well prepared for sudden changes in weather. The views are stunning on a good day, from one side of Ireland to the other! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/comment/4904/ Picture from wicklore : Summit of Sawel at 9am on Tuesday morning last Picture: Summit of Sawel at 9am on Tuesday morning last wicklore on Sawel, 2008 by wicklore 31 Oct 2008 At 6:50am on Tuesday morning last I sat in my car on the lonely Barnes Road to the east of Sawel at H639 974 G. I was parked at a double gate, but careful not to block it. The outside temperature gauge read -1 Celsius and it was dark. Terrible weather was predicted but so far it had just rained. I spent some time getting my full winter gear on as I waited for the sun to rise. At 7:20 when it was light I headed up along the fence which led from the road up the eastern side of Sawel. It was soon joined by another fence and I continued to follow it east for the next 1.5 hours. Gerrym's comment on the fence leading almost to the summit provided comfort as a shocking hail and snow storm unleashed itself upon me. Soon the ground was covered in icy snow and the going got much tougher. Visibility was down to maybe 30 feet at times but following the fence made navigation easy. However both gps and compass were constantly checked. At point H619 973 H the fence veered SW and I struck off to follow the slope uphill into the freezing fog and snow. This would be the only real navigation challenge of the day, and it turned out not to be a challenge as within a few minutes I came to the summit pillar. The contrast of black and white as the pillar rose out of the frozen ground made it look like a pencil drawing. Experience told me not to leave my gloves off for more than half a minute when taking photos. Even at that my hands were freezing and made putting my gloves back on difficult. While I did not benefit from any views I had bagged two County Tops with one mountain. The severe weather and the fact I was alone meant an extension to Dart Mountain was out of the question. I simply retraced my route back to the fence and followed it down to the road just over 2 kms away. While the fence made this route a straightforward handrail to the summit, it provided a great safe route to test winter gear in such weather. One thing that surprised me was that large balls of compact ice formed under my boots, providing me with 'stilts'. Possibly the snow was getting caught in my gaiter straps underfoot, and then forming into lumps. Walking poles were used to knock these off every so often, but it was the first time I had experienced this. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/comment/3409/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Derry / Tyrone County Top by Gribster 23 Aug 2010 As I near the completion of my 2010 County Tops challenge, I would like to inform my fellow County Toppers about something I've recently learned about Sawel Mountain. A few weeks ago, I followed the "county boundary" fence to the summit from Sperrin Road. The fence passes about 10m west of the summit trig pillar which supposedly marks the County Top of Derry. I walked westwards from it to the highest point along the fence about 10m west. There were two small boulders - one each side of the fence - which served nicely as a stile. The boulder on the west side of the fence seemed the most likely location of the County Top of Tyrone, so I felt a need to stand on it. I realise there can be a lack of precision associated with certain County Tops (see my MV entry for Seltannasaggart SE Slope), and I wanted to be absolutely sure about this one too. OSNI 1:50,000 Sheet 13 and 1:25,000 Sperrins Activity Map both show the county boundary passing very close to the Sawel Mountain trig pillar. In fact, the Sperrins Activity Map clearly shows the boundary deviating away from the fence to possibly pass through the pillar. I checked with OSNI, and they've informed me that the county boundary is an "undefined" boundary (i.e. one which is not coincident with any feature). If the fence had marked the boundary, it would have been a "defined" boundary. This confirms that the fence, used by many people as a navigational guide to the summit, doesn't mark the county boundary. OSNI also checked the location of the trig pillar and the county boundary on their digital mapping. From this, they measured that the trig pillar lies 0.8m on the Tyrone side of the county boundary. However, they could only confirm an accuracy of 2m - in other words, the trig pillar could be 2.8m into Tyrone or it could just as easily be 1.2m into Derry. A townland boundary also crosses the summit, intersecting the county boundary within 2m of the trig pillar. The proximity of these two boundaries to the trig pillar and the 2m accuracy of the mapping leads me to believe that the trig pillar marks the point where the county and townland boundaries intersect. While it's not possible to pinpoint the County Top of either Derry or Tyrone based on the most accurate large-scale mapping available, there appears to be a strong possibility that the Sawel Mountain trig pillar marks the top of both counties. It certainly marks the top of at least one. If it marks the top of Derry only, then the top of Tyrone is up to 1.2m to the south of it. If it marks the top of Tyrone only, then the top of Derry is up to 2.8m to the north of it. Based on the high level of uncertainty and the tiny distances involved, it is best to assume that the trig pillar is located directly on the county boundary and marks the County Top of both Derry and Tyrone. To be absolutely sure you get both counties, walk a tight circle around the trig pillar and then spiral out gradually until you are 2.8m from it. It's the only way to be sure. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/comment/6047/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from gerrym : Sawel Picture: Sawel A 'very' Shapely Top by gerrym 11 Feb 2014 http://youtu.be/4GvIMiEx408 Sawel may not be as exciting or as impressive as some hills in other parts of the country, but it is a special hill among a special range of hills. The fact that it is named after a part of the female anatomy (and indeed looks the part if you see the pic) can only add to the charm! The best approach is along the high and lonely Sperrin road which heads upward out of the hamlet (even this is over descriptive) of Sperrin. Parking is available at an extensive layby at 639944 I. The road rises alongside Oughtnamwella Burn and brings increasingly impressive views over the Glenelly valley. It is most definitely worth the walk but there is also room to park at the high pass at over 1000ft - think of the exercise! From the pass take the fenceline rising up the long E shoulder of Sawel, the going is steady with steeper sections but it is not too challenging and the fence is reassuring in poor weather - it is only near to the summit that need to leave its side and head off a short distance to the rare sight of a trig pillar in the Sperrins. I would challenge anyone (in a duel to near death, preferably with pillows) to tell me that the views from here on a clear day can be beaten by another mountain in Ireland. Basically every county in Ulster is within sight of glazed eyes - at the amazingness of it all and in no way to do with drug use. Where else could you see nearly all of the hills of Donegal and all the way across to the hills of Antrim at the other side of Ireland? The whole of the Sperrin range is visible in all its glory, and as i have said in another comment this hill could on occasion make me briefly turn away from my steadfast atheism. Sawel carries stature in being the highest point of the large Sperrin range and holds the weight of two county tops. For all this it is still a rare sight to see someone else on the mountain, even at the weekend, something that adds to its appeal i feel. Return is by the same route but as you have come this far it is well worth travelling across the broad col and up to the summit of neighbouring Dart, which is different in character. Wait for a clear day, preferably one of those with a northerly breeze and the clear air that extends views and sharpness to truly experience the magic of the Sperrins - I know! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/comment/825/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from slemish : Looking east from the highest point in Tyrone Picture: Looking east from the highest point in Tyrone slemish on Sawel, 2009 by slemish 20 Nov 2009 This was my first venture into the Sperrins and where better to start than the daddy of them all? Sawel looked majestic in the afternoon sunshine as I approached it via the road from Sperrin. Wanting a quick up and down, I parked at the second cattle grid as others suggested from here it is the easiest route up (639974 G). It's a long climb but not too steep, only in a couple of places did I find the going tough. The summit looks incredibly far away on the initial stages so I didn't stray too far from the fence, just to avoid boggy sections. It was amazingly sunny for late November and I was enjoying the weather, but nothing prepared me for the force of the wind coming up from Dart as I approached the 678m summit. I couldn't stand at the trig pillar for more than about a minute. The trig pillar looked very weather-beaten and no wonder. The only comparable wind I had experienced before was on Trostan but this was definitely worse. Excellent views however down the ridge to Dart and Mullaghclogha, north to Sleve Snaght and Binevenagh and round to Benbradagh and the lower Sperrins. It's only up here you get a sense of the scale and indeed the wilderness of the Sperrins. To the east I could just make out the outlines of Knocklayd, Slievenanee and Slemish through the haze. I made a hurried sortie over the fence to bag the county top of Tyrone as well, then descended quickly to get out of the wind. Job done - the highest mountain I've climbed so far and the first over 2000ft. Total trip - about 1.5 hours. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/comment/4275/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from kernowclimber : The sight of a near full moon rounded off a fabulous afternoon on Sawel Picture: The sight of a near full moon rounded off a fabulous afternoon on Sawel kernowclimber on Sawel, 2010 by kernowclimber 1 Mar 2010 After following the weather forecast to see where we might get in a good winter climb, we settled on the Sperrins which, if the Met Office was to be believed, had apparently received some snow the day before (Fri 26th). Driving into Cookstown we caught our first real views of the Sperrins; they had indeed gotten a huge dump of snow that far exceeded our expectation. We took the first road right on the B 47 after Glenerin Bridge and just before the hamlet of Sperrin. This mountain track leads up towards the foothills of Sawel that was to be our objective for the day.We were almost thwarted in our endeavour by the accumulation of snow on the road and not having a 4X4 and a car without its winter tyres meant it was difficult to find a place to park alongside the road where we wouldn't get stuck. We found a turning about a kilometre up the road to park safely and walked parallel to Oughtnamwella Burn to 633 952 J where a gate leads into a field that is bordered by a fence. This fence that runs up towards the summit can be used as an aid to navigation in inclement conditions.The snow was much deeper than we had thought it would be and we regretted not having our snowshoes with us, which had propelled us rapidly up Lugnaquillia last month. The snow was well over a foot deep and on the lower slopes was quite loose and mushy. Between the peat hags, it had drifted and was waist deep making it hard going to maintain upward progress. As we ascended the snow became more compact and easier to walk on, but the temperature began to plummet. Close to the summit the cloud closed in and the wind picked up, creating poor visibility in sub-zero conditions. We located the trig point, misshapen and contorted by ice, with the aid of our GPS. As we hopped the ice laden fence to bag the highest point in Tyrone, the sinking sun appeared through the swirling cloud as a watery orb, casting an eerie, pale apricot other-worldly hue over everything. It reminded me of the planet LV-426 in Alien! As we were being severely buffeted by icy winds at this point and thankful that our winter kit was repaying the money we had dished out on it in spadefuls, we decided to make our descent. As we came through the cloud we were greeted by the sight of the rolling landscape bathed in the rose-coloured glow of the setting sun. As we feasted our eyes on this spectacle, the near full moon drifted up from behind Oughtmore and Mullaghsallagh. Four hours later we arrived back to our car in the twilight. We might not have had the extensive views of the north of our island so eloquently described by other members of Mountain Views, but the winter and atmospheric conditions we experienced made this climb truly memorable. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/144/comment/4454/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average COMMENTS for Sawel 1 2 3 Next page >> (End of comment section for Sawel.) Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.) British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence) MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 11 Million Visitors Per Year. 1300 Contributors.


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Man accuses NC church of stalking, abusing him for being gay
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. — A man claims he's being stalked for helping a 22-year-old man escape a North Carolina church that abused him for being gay.
But Jerry Cooper says the harassment won't stop him from encouraging others to leave the Word of Faith Fellowship church.
He says he helped Michael Lowry leave the church. Lowry says the church held him against his will and tried to cure him of being gay.
The four church security team members accused in the case have declined to comment.
However, church officials say the allegations of stalking and abuse are unfounded. They say Cooper is determined to destroy the church.
Church founder Jane Whaley says she is upset the church is again a target after spending millions in the past fighting other accusations that she says are false.
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Approaching cliff, Norquist mellows
Grover Norquist, long the most feared man in Republican politics, says members of Congress have no reason to be afraid of him.
Based on what the anti-tax crusader said in a lengthy interview with POLITICO on Wednesday, he might actually be right.
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The typically unbending Americans for Tax Reform president — you either sign my pledge or you're squishy on taxes — showed a more flexible, nonthreatening side at a Playbook Breakfast with Mike Allen. Norquist said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other Republicans need to fight mightily for deep spending cuts and against taxes. But the anti-tax evangelist steered clear — subtly but noticeably — of declaring war on members of Congress who might ultimately back a deal that includes higher taxes.
The anti-tax purist also made an unusual bow to realpolitik. To demonstrate "credible" distance from any proposals to increase taxes — a must, he said, for the GOP to distinguish itself from Democrats in upcoming elections — Norquist argued that it's critical that Republicans not "have their fingerprints on the murder weapon."
The GOP should demonstrate that separation by demanding negotiations be aired on C-SPAN and that the final bill be posted publicly for everyone to see.
"If you do those two things, you will not get a bad bill," he said.
To be clear, Norquist wasn't shrinking away from the pledge or his hard line on taxes. Instead, he skillfully dodged Allen's questions about what kind of tax increases Republicans could agree to without breaking the pledge.
Norquist said that by having negotiations in public, Republicans would be able to "change the playing field" from raising taxes to holding Democrats' feet to the fire over spending cuts. Republicans could have the upper hand by challenging President Barack Obama on not cutting spending.
"We have a spending problem, not a failure to raise taxes problem," Norquist said.
While he wouldn't get into specifics on what could or should be included in any fiscal cliff deal, Norquist did say that Republicans should insist on both comprehensive tax reform and a one-year extension of all the Bush tax cuts.
Boehner made similar comments Wednesday at a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers. The speaker urged them to stick together on a "principled position" to not let tax rates go up and showed slides demonstrating how the Tax Code could be reformed to close loopholes and bring rates down.
The message from House Republicans should be this, Boehner said: "We're fighting for spending cuts. We're fighting against increases in tax rates that destroy jobs."
But the landscape is shifting for Boehner and Norquist, as more and more Republicans have signaled a willingness to let taxes go up on some Americans as part of a fiscal cliff deal. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), whom Boehner described as an ally and close friend, even said this week that Republicans should agree to a tax cut for 98 percent of Americans and negotiate rates for top earners at a later point.


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A Big Surprise for Chevron
On October 18, Chevron released a new ad campaign called "We Agree," with the tagline "You Might Be Surprised What We Can Agree On." But Chevron itself was surprised to find that a fake version of the same campaign had been released hours earlier, fooling some news organizations.
The Yes Men, the prankster duo known for highlighting corporate crimes by releasing fake news (past targets include the Dow Chemical Company, the World Trade Organization, the World Economic Forum, and the New York Post, to name a few), had kidnapped Chevron's ad campaign and made it their own. In an amazingly accurate false website and press page, the Yes Men redefined Chevron's values. A false press release quoted the marketers behind the campaign: "We were asked to show an agreeable, involved, of-the-people face for Chevron, and we think we came up with some really great ways of doing that. But what's unique and different here is the honesty. We've never been able to do this before."
When news organizations caught onto the ruse, the Yes Men were ready with a second fake press release, this one quoting Chevron officials condemning the prank. Referencing a pending lawsuit filed by 30,000 Ecuadorians, one of the fake officials said, "We have binding agreements with the Ecuadorian Government exempting us from any liabilities whatsoever."
View the photo essay to check out the fake ads—and how they compare to Chevron's real campaign.
- : An interview with Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men.
- Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno show how they pull off their anti-corporate stunts.
- : A prank website inspired by the Yes Men brought France's colonial crimes into the spotlight.
- : GLEE-inspired activism for a democracy run by human beings, not corporations.


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The hunger for gluten-free foods has become a headache for restaurant chains, as they struggle to produce dishes that meet increasingly strict requirements from customers and government regulators.
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Husqvarna Cultivators make the once dreadful spring gardening tilling ritual so easy and so effortless you'll want to take your garden to the next level.
As Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Splash Magazines Worldwide, when I find a service or hidden treasure I like to inform my readers and arm them with as much information as they need to make informed decisions and wise purchases.
Sitting on five acres in the middle of Laurel Canyon, I am fortunate to have enough land to plant a garden. As I've just finally begun to get my gardening area cleared, I'm at a place where I needed to purchase a Cultivator! I know it seems odd, that a publisher of a global online magazines would have a garden and still I do.
After traveling the information superhighway and performing Google research I came across Husqvarna of Stockholm Sweden. After reviewing all my options, I decided to go with them as Husqvarna is the largest producer of land tools, including ride on products, walk behind, handheld, watering, accessories and garden tool as well as construction products.
For those who don't know, Cultivators are usually gasoline powered garden tools that have blades attached to the front. The operator holds the handle bars and moves the machine forward creating rows. The Cultivator blades stir the soil before planting making it loose or after the crop has begun growing, to kill the weeds, as cultivators are designed to selectively cut away at the soil, it can spare the plant and kill the weed.
Cultivators come in a variety of small tilling equipment, used in small gardens such as household gardens and small commercial gardens, can provide both primary and secondary tillage. For example, a rotary tiller does both the "plowing" and the "harrowing", preparing a smooth, loose seedbed. It does not provide the row-wise weed control that cultivator teeth would. For that task, there are single-person-push able cultivators.
As I'm not sure to what size garden I'm creating either enough to have a few easy grow vegetables and fresh herbs, or a larger area geared toward organic development, there are agricultural cultivation tools to meet those needs.
Mini tillers are a new type of small cultivators used by farmers or homeowners. These are also known as power tillers or garden tillers. Compact, powerful and, most importantly, inexpensive, these agricultural rotary tillers are providing alternatives for the small farmers and are more economical than four-wheel tractors.
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Asexual Awareness Week
For those of you who may not know, I am asexual. What this means, in short, is that I do not, and have not, ever enjoyed sex. I can feel pleasure, physically, I can even participate in such a way that it is pleasant. However, Sex is always uncomfortable. It's roughly, to me, what doing the dishes might be to you, or perhaps cleaning out a toilet, even being intimate with something like a silicone sex doll that some people enjoy, I don't take part in that. Sex to me is just something we do. It has to be done, but only when necessary.
According to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN for short), an Asexual individual is someone who does not experience sexual attraction. For the laymen in the audience, this is where you have to separate Sexuality from Romantic-orientation. They are two different things. It is entirely possible to feel Romantic attraction to someone, while simultaneously feeling no sexual attraction whatsoever. When the reverse happens, that's usually when you find someone hot, but completely un-dateable.
There is an entire spectrum of Asexuality, ranging from Sex-repulsed, to gray-asexual, to Sex-positive individuals. The common ground here is this: A lack of sexual attraction. This does not mean that an asexy individual doesn't have a libido. It is entirely possible that an ace individual will choose to masturbate to porn from somewhere like tubev frequently, or only once a month, or never! There is the possibility that an asexy person will choose to have sex as many times as their partner wants to, without hesitation, because they enjoy the closeness. For others, they might not be able to tolerate sexual contact at all, from the gentle brush of fingers down one's arm to the touch of lips to lips. And then, there are some who even enjoy sexual contact! This is why the sex dolls at https://ewsingles.com/sex-dolls/ have become extremely popular all kinds of people.
For me, my asexual journey has been one of much discovery. When I was young, my mother was a very sexual individual. She had complete control of her sexuality, and was never ashamed of it, that I knew of. Not only that, but she made sure I knew the birds and the bees pretty early. I actually can't remember when I got the 'Talk' so to speak, I just… always felt like I knew it. I feel my mother was amazing in that regard.
During my teen-hood, however, I had several fitful stops and starts with normal teen romances. My very first boyfriend I had for a week, and any time he touched me, I felt nauseous. Not nervous, nauseous, as if I was going to throw up if his hands were on me for more than a mere moment. He left me for my best friend, who would hold hands with him when he wanted. That was fine with me. It was more a relief.
In high school, I dated a very nice young man, who took me to homecoming and to the corn maze before Halloween. He was always very respectful, and when I held his hand, I felt nervous, not sick. So I thought maybe it was all a fluke. But even when he hugged me, I couldn't let it last for too long. I felt like if I did, something bad would happen. I didn't want to go beyond holding hands, and spending time together happily. A week after he asked me for our first kiss, and I gave it to him, I broke up with him. I claimed that it was because my family was moving, and while we were, it didn't change the fact that, once again, I was relieved not to have to satisfy those needs for more kisses and things that I didn't like.
Now that isn't to say I wasn't normal in other regards. I discovered masturbation, and engaged in it almost nightly. I enjoyed role-playing online with those anonymous people who would, and it was through that that I discovered that I enjoy erotic literature. So I felt that perhaps, there was something wrong with me, because I didn't want to actually engage in those acts with PEOPLE. I told myself that I was simply trying not to follow in my mother's footsteps as a teen mom. That it was fear, and not something else.
When I was nineteen, I had my longest lasting relationship. Almost a full year, and it was an unhealthy thing. He was always frustrated, and I didn't know what to do. I sought help from relationship sites, my friends, everyone. They all said the same thing. In a relationship, Love equals Sex. He thought I didn't love him because I wouldn't have sex with him. So, I did. To prove I loved him, I had sex with him, and while it wasn't horrible, it was uncomfortable, and I was, again, glad that it was over. It didn't happen again, luckily, because he dumped me a week or so afterwards.
I went back to thinking that perhaps something was wrong with me, and decided that I was better off without boys. Without relationships in general. But I always came back to loneliness, and needing that romantic relationship. I've always wanted a partner, to help me through the rough, to keep me steady and stable. I've always wanted the kind of marriages that last through decades. But I couldn't seem to hold a relationship for more than a few months. One particular man, I even slept with every week, because I thought he would stay if I did, and it was no worse than any other chore, really. At least holding his hand didn't make me feel sick again.
Here, I feel, I should clarify a few things. This sort of contact, holding hands, hugging, leaning against someone, falling asleep near someone, are triggers for this feeling of wrongness only when in a relationship context. I have never had an issue laying on, hugging on, cuddling with, or in general being touchy with my friends, and those that I am close to. It is only when there is this added romantic portion that I find myself sickened. It is that expectation of sex that taints the actions for me.
But then, after years of complaining and trying to explain to my best friends, a married couple who took me in in the later part of my teenager-hood, it finally came to a head. The husband, he'd watched a documentary on Asexuality, and while watching it, had noticed that a lot of what the main person in the documentary had spoken about experiencing, I had mentioned experiencing as well. So, he asked me to watch it too.
It was like, a revelation. I felt such an immense relief that I wasn't the only one. That there were others like me, and WE WERE NOT BROKEN. There wasn't something wrong with me that couldn't be explained. I was just Asexual. That's all there was to it! But of course, being who I am, I had to do research first, to find out if that was true, or not. So I found AVEN, and read through forum after forum. I gathered the courage and went on the chat-room, and talked to those around me, and it was like coming home.
Now, that isn't saying that my troubles were over, upon discovering this. Because I'd also discovered the section of asexuals who 'compromise'. What compromising means, in this instance, is dating an allosexual individual, or someone capable of sexual attraction, and having sex with, or performing sexual actions with them in order to keep the relationship healthy for both parties. I thought that I could handle this.
I fell into a relationship quickly, with a boy who said he thought he was asexual as well. However, as our relationship grew, it turned out he was demisexual, or rather, a person who only experiences sexual attraction and urges after an emotional connection is established. He asked me to compromise, and I agreed to try. But I just… After a while, it grew too stressful, too much, and I found myself in that situation where I felt sick when he touched me again. So, I broke up with him.
This last relationship has helped me realize that I am sexually-repulsed. Which means sex, and anything related to sex, is something that I cannot do. I am not broken, it's simply the way I am. A homosexual won't experience sexual feelings for a heterogendered individual. I can't have sexual contact. It's simple. And while I am still an avid masturbator and enjoyer of sex comics and pornographic fanfiction, this means I will never enjoy sex with another person. And that's alright.
As a promise to myself, and a reminder to never compromise again, I wear the black ring on my left middle finger. This tradition started in 2005, when AVEN user Mega Mitosis posted this on the boards:
You know, a friend of mine wears a ring on her left middle finger. Her explanation being that: your right middle means "currently single", the right ring means "currently taken" and since the left ring means "taken/married" in a permanent sense, then the next logical conclusion would be that left middle means "permanently single".
And while I might not be permanently single, I do fully intend never to allow myself to fall into a situation where I feel sickened just by the touch of someone again. I am in control of my sexuality, just as my mother was, and while I am a different sexuality than she, I am no less important. So please, if you know someone you think might be asexual, don't tell them there is something wrong with them. Don't ask if they've gone to see a therapist. Instead, show them this article, and let them find out for themselves what they are or may be. And if you think that you are, in fact, asexual as well? Welcome to the club, we have cake.more


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Today I was faced with the choice of starting a genealogy blog on Blogger with the rest of my blogs are continuing this journal/blog. I have decided to continue this journal/blog.
First, even though I haven\'t been writing here doesn\'t mean I haven\'t been working on several trees, some family trees and some non-family trees. I was lucky enough to have gotten the entire summer off to recuperate from a hip replacement which meant I spend a lot of time in front of my computer. There are a lot of things I do when I am engaging in my favorite obsession and while some of them may not seem connected at all to research, in my strange old head they do connect.
One of the things I do is volunteer work, both online and offline. My online volunteer work consists of indexing historical documents for the Family Search site (
My other volunteer endeavor is that of taking volunteer photos of ancestors for folks who live out of the area which I am now able to do. I haven\'t been able to do much cemetery work up until the last month or so but it does feel wonderful to be back walking the cemeteries. This I do through Find a Grave (
Virginia (Jacobson) Willhite 1877-1944
About this time last year I had the opportunity to visit Humboldt, Iowa where I believed Virginia Jacobson might be buried. I did not find her there. With the publication and indexing of the 1940 Federal Census, I have found a tiny little bit of information that for now is another brick wall. In 1940, Virginia had a granddaughter named Monaca (sic) Jacobson living with her and my great grandfather. Monaca was 9 years old at the time and is listed as being born in Michigan. Not much information but it is something.
Guess this is another brick wall that will have to rest for a while. Seems that just when you least expect it, a family member pops up with information so maybe that will be the case here.
Jonathan Jackson Hall 1816-1884
Still routinely running searches on this gentleman who is my 3rd great grandfather. What I know is that his name is definitely Jonathan J. Hall and most likely Jonathan Jackson Hall as I have found census records where he actually used Jackson as a first name and another that listed him as Jonathan Jackson Hall Sr. The birth date and death date I have are from his gravestone and may or may not be entirely correct. I suspect the death date is not correct as I have not found documentation of his death in any of the neighboring counties where he lived and is buried. Neither have I found any documentation of his birth. I have found documentation of his marriage to Rachel VanZant on 27 Aug 1835 in Knox County, Ohio.
One day, after going over census records of another family member and noting that families, especially farmers, tended to stay together I took a close look at the earliest census record I have for Jonathan (Federal Census for 1840). I started checking our the neighbors on the census and I might have gotten a teeny tiny niche in this brick wall. After doing some research on on a Richard Hall and a Samuel Hall who were neighbors to Jonathan, I found a gentleman by the name of Lorenzo Garton who ha Richard Hall living with him in 1850. Lorenzo's wife was Hannah Hall and I am thinking that Richard is her father since there is about a 25 year age difference.
This all has me wondering if Richard might have been a grandfather to Jonathan. This would make Hannah (Hall) Garton his aunt and Lorenzo Garton his uncle. My rationale for thinking this way is that Jonathan's children are named: Hannah Adeline Hall; Jonathan Jackson Hall; Lorenzo Garton Hall; and Ida Leilla Hall.
This all clicked after I exchanged email with a distant cousin who married into the family and had researched the way the English generally named their children. Apparently the English naming tradition was to name your children after your aunts and uncles. Unfortunately, I have not been able to connect this family with Jonathan yet. You can bet I will be working on that and hoping to find more bits and pieces as I do.
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Thanksgiving is upon us and this is my first journal entry. Although I have to work for the actual holiday, we will be visiting in Humboldt, Iowa. I am hoping to have some time to search for Grandma Virginia's grave site while we are down there. I have no idea if she is buried there or not. Since I will be there, I would like to walk through a few cemeteries and see if she is buried there. I know my Great Grandpa is buried in New Ulm, Minnesota with his first wife, Mary Kaltrider. His son, Daniel, is also buried there with his two wives but I have never seen a marker for a Virginia in the area. I must admit I have never specifically looked for one either so perhaps a trip to New Ulm is called for here.
Mystery women are who I tend to gravitate toward during my genealogical research. Grandma Virginia was my Great Grandfather's second wife. I know that Great Grandpa Willhite ran a "cabin court" and gas station in Humboldt, Iowa which he eventually handed down to his oldest son, Daniel. Recently I found a "Birthday Book" that belonged to my mother and Grandma Virginia was listed in the book as "Grandma Virginia". My mother would have been 11 years old when Grandma Virginia died so I have to assume that she did know her. My aunt on that side also remembers travelling to Humboldt to see "Uncle Dan" and she did know that the "cabin court" and gas station once belonged to Great Grandpa Willhite.
That, in a nutshell, is all I know of Grandma Virginia. I was lucky enough to cross paths with one of Uncle Dan's granddaughters who had pictures of Grandma Virginia with Great Grandpa Willhite. Many thanks for that since I really love looking at old photos.
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"Twenty-Something: Mozart and Schubert," the title of Da Camera of Houston's season-opening program, has a bittersweet tinge.
The 20s are the start of most people's adult lives, but they weren't for the two composers. Mozart died at 36; Schubert, at 31. When they wrote the chamber works that Da Camera will present, they were entering their final years.
Mozart had been sickly since childhood. Medical sleuths think an infection that led to chronic kidney disease hit him the year before he produced the Piano Quartet in G minor, at age 29. The first symptoms of the venereal disease thought to have killed Schubert may have developed not long before he created the Octet, at age 27.
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Schubert's hourlong Octet has the tunefulness, charm and gusto that have long endeared him to listeners. Movement after movement goes by without the dramatic strokes that color his very last works - such as the eerie trills at the opening of the Sonata in B-flat Major, which Da Camera will present in November.
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Clear and Clean Pool Service
Clear and Clean pool services is a family owned and operated pool service and repair company. We are considered to be a dependable, honest service with over 25 years experience.
Our target audience is those looking to just have fun in the sun without the hassle of cleaning their own pools. Our customers will most likely be 25 to 60 years old and will own homes with pools.
Fun, inviting, eye catching, memorable. We are looking for a logo that incorporates those four principals into the design. The convenience of a professional service versus do-it-yourself. The designers are allowed to be as creative as they would like to be to capture those ideas. We also included a old brochure we used to send out to customers. The advertisements on the brochure need to be incorporated into the homepage design. Also, we included a copy of our logo we would like the website to match the colors and theme of the logo.
We need the homepage
- we need request quote form on the homepage that should ask for the customers name, email, phone number and a select box with the type of services they need.
-the homepage should incorporate the advertisements from the banner we provided.
Page 2 should just be a frame of the website that we can use to throw content for pages like the pool repairs, pool services, pool equiptment and contact us page.