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Alternative names
Necrosis - renal tubular; Acute tubular necrosis; Necrosis - acute tubular
Acute tubular necrosis is a kidney disorder involving damage to the renal tubule cells, resulting in acute kidney failure.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is caused by ischemia of the kidneys (lack of oxygen to the tissues), or by exposure to materials that are poisonous to the kidney (nephrotoxic agents).
The internal structures of the kidney, particularly the tissues of the kidney tubule, become damaged or destroyed. ATN is one of the most common structural changes associated with the development of acute renal failure.
ATN, along with prerenal azotemia are the most common causes of renal failure in hospitalized patients. Risks for acute tubular necrosis include injury or trauma with resulting damage to the muscles, recent major surgery, blood transfusion reaction, septic shock or other forms of shock, and severe hypotension (Low Blood pressure) that lasts longer than 30 minutes.
Any condition that causes a reduction in the amount of blood being pumped by the heart may cause ATN. Liver disease and damage caused by Diabetes mellitus (diabetic nephropathy) may make a person more susceptible to the condition.
ATN can be caused by:
- Exposure to nephrotoxic agents such as aminoglycoside antibiotics
- Antifungal agents such as amphotericin
- Medications to prevent rejection of transplanted organs such as cyclosporine
- Dye used for radiographic (x-ray) studies
- Urine output, decreased or none
- Urination, excessive volume
- Urination, excessive at night
- Generalized swelling, fluid retention
- nausea, Vomiting
- Decreased consciousness o Drowsy, lethargic, hard to arouse o Delirium or confusion o Coma
- Seizures
- Easy bruising or bleeding
- Vomiting blood
- Bloody stools
- Decrease in sensation, especially the hands or feet
- Chills, shaking
- Abnormal urine color
- Blood in the urine
- Joint pain
- Flank pain
Note: Other symptoms of acute renal failure may also be present.
Signs and tests
Examination usually indicates acute renal failure. There may be signs of fluid overload, including abnormal sounds on listening to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope (auscultation).
- Urinalysis may show casts, renal tubular cells, and red blood cells.
- Urine sodium may be high.
- Fractional excretion of sodium and of urea may be relatively high.
- Urine specific gravity and osmolarity urine indicate dilute urine.
- The ratio of urine to plasma (blood) levels of creatinine and urea may be reduced.
- BUN and serum creatinine levels may increase.
A kidney biopsy may show acute tubular necrosis, but a biopsy is rarely performed.
This disease may also alter the results of the following tests:
- RBC; urine
- Potassium; urine
- Osmolality
- Creatinine clearance
- Creatinine - urine
- Abdominal MRI
In most people, acute tubular necrosis is a reversible lesion. The goal of treatment is to prevent life-threatening complications of acute renal failure during the time the lesion is present.
Treatment focuses on preventing the excess accumulation of fluids and wastes while allowing the kidneys to heal. Observation for deterioration of kidney function should be ongoing.
Fluid intake may be restricted to a volume equal to the volume of urine produced.
The intake of substances that are normally excreted by the kidney may be restricted to minimize their buildup in the body. This may include a diet high in carbohydrates, low in protein, reduced sodium, and reduced potassium.
The underlying cause must be identified and treated.
Diuretics may be used to increase the excretion of fluid from the kidney. Medications may be given to control potassium levels in the bloodstream.
Dialysis may be used to remove excess waste and fluids. This often makes the person feel better, and may make the Kidney failure easier to control. Dialysis may not be necessary for all people, but is frequently lifesaving, particularly if serum potassium is dangerously high.
Decreased mental status, pericarditis, increased potassium levels, total lack of urine production, fluid overload, and uncontrolled accumulation of nitrogen waste products are common indications for Dialysis.
Expectations (prognosis)
The duration of symptoms of ATN is variable. The decreased urine output phase may last from a few days to 6 weeks or more. This is occasionally followed by a period of high urine output, where the healed and newly refunctioning kidneys attempt to clear the body of fluid and wastes. One or two days after urine output rises, symptoms reduce and laboratory values begin to return to normal.
- Increased risk of infection
- Gastrointestinal loss of blood
- Chronic renal failure
- End-stage renal disease
- hypertension
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if urine output decreases or stops, or if other symptoms suggestive of acute tubular necrosis develop.
Prompt treatment of conditions that can result in decreased blood flow and/or decreased oxygenation of the kidneys may reduce the risk of acute tubular necrosis.
Blood transfusions are crossmatched to reduce the risk of incompatibility reactions.
Disorders such as Diabetes, liver disorders, or cardiac disorders must be controlled as much as possible to reduce the risk of ATN.
Exposure to medications that can be toxic to the kidney should be carefully monitored. Serum levels of the medication may be checked regularly. Adequate hydration after radiocontrast dyes may allow their excretion and reduce the risk of kidney damage.
by Gevorg A. Poghosian, Ph.D.
Medical Encyclopedia
All ArmMed Media material is provided for information only and is neither advice nor a substitute for proper medical care. Consult a qualified healthcare professional who understands your particular history for individual concerns.


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text: Ditto for Community College of Rhode Island HT students! Denise Long Woodward -----Original Message----- From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Jennifer MacDonald Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:25 PM To: Joe Nocito Cc: Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Edwards, R.E.; histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Rittman,Barry R; Jasper,Thomas G. Subject: Re: [Histonet] ASCP Exam Long opinion Joe, In our program students are required to do all staining by hand. This includes H&E's, specials, and IHC staining. They are also required to coverslip by hand. Jennifer "Joe Nocito" <jnocito <@t> satx.rr.com> Sent by: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu 02/02/2007 05:02 PM To "Rittman, Barry R" <Barry.R.Rittman <@t> uth.tmc.edu>, "Edwards, R.E." <ree3 <@t> leicester.ac.uk>, "Jasper, Thomas G." <TJasper <@t> smdc.org> cc Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject Re: [Histonet] ASCP Exam Long opinion I agree with you Barry. Techs need to know how the procedure is working to be able to troubleshoot when something happens. Is it the machine or the procedure? That's what I stressed when I was giving my intro to IHC lectures. Something intricate like immunos should be done manually until the tech is familiar with the procedure before they put slides on a machine. But, then again, I've been told that I'm a dinosaur. Oh well, it's Friday, I think I'll have a scotch. Enjoy Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rittman, Barry R" <Barry.R.Rittman <@t> uth.tmc.edu> To: "Edwards, R.E." <ree3 <@t> leicester.ac.uk>; "Jasper, Thomas G." <TJasper <@t> smdc.org> Cc: <Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:59 AM Subject: RE: [Histonet] ASCP Exam Long opinion Nothing is black and white nowadays and I think that the current discussion on Histonet is important in putting forward all points of view.. I agree that automation is very important for producing consistent results and in many ways these have relieved us of tedious, repetitive tasks. I also respect the supervisors who are often stuck between a rock and a hard place. The problem I currently see is that in many cases these machines may be operated in a robotic fashion. If the individual operating the machine is knowledgeable about the process taking place be it histochemical, immunochemical or special stains and can take appropriate steps if problems arise then there should be no problem. Unfortunately in today's market, not just for histology, the emphasis appears to be on minimal qualifications to carry out a task. This may work perfectly well in those cases where instructions are concise and easily followed and solutions changed at specific intervals and times adhered to. However, I believe something is lost to the histotechs in such a situation. After all I operate my car with minimal knowledge of the mechanics and electronics. However were I to get paid to operate my car I would hope that I had time and make the effort to try understand the processes involved. I would consider this part of responsibilities and also a bonus in enhancing my work experience. My point is, are we going to "progress" into an era where we are just button pushers? This automation also releases individual so that many histotechs may carry out tasks that never used to be their responsibility. This appears to be a national trend. As an example, I am paid as a faculty member here but my time spent includes memos, filing etc. a task originally carried out by secretarial staff. It is not that I resent doing such tasks but after all I am paid more than secretaries and the "secretarial tasks" never appear anywhere in my yearly report of activities. Perhaps we will end up with histotechs plus a second group of button pushers? Perhaps secretaries will be reincarnated - probably not. I guess that I am from an era where work was varied and pleasurable rather than one in which the bottom line was the aim, and where employee and employees worked as a team. Hoe that this makes sense, this has been a one coffee morning so far. Barry -----Original Message----- From: Edwards, R.E. [mailto:ree3 <@t> leicester.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:09 AM To: Jasper, Thomas G.; Rittman, Barry R Cc: Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] ASCP Exam Long opinion Laboratory automation surely is as much due to obtaining reproducibility of results than saving on staff costs, as to date at least, all machines need human minders, who earn their corn when the machine malfunctions and for example they have to do a batch of H <@t> Es by hand. -----Original Message----- From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Jasper, Thomas G. Sent: 01 February 2007 18:17 To: Rittman, Barry R Cc: Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] ASCP Exam Long opinion Hey Barry, I appreciate your long opinion, at times life requires long opinions. I agree with much of what you say and I will try to concisely explain how I see things. I totally agree that elimination of the practical was a bad idea. And I understand the arguments for getting rid of the practical. Let's start with automated staining. Unfortunately most labs in the clinical world of the US, Can., UK, Western Europe, S. Africa, Aus., NZ and Japan (sorry if I've omitted someone) have turned to this technology out of necessity. This is due to staff shortages and for cost containment. The consistency and reproducibility are greatly enhanced by reduction of variables (I know more science than art). But there you are, so a lab's automated stainer produces a stain, candidates submit. If this is the technology a candidate will likely use, that should be taken into consideration. I expect a candidate to cut their own sections. That would be subject to evaluation as it always was. And I expect someone to know what an H and E or any other stain is supposed to look like, automated or not. With so much emphasis on academics they should know what the stain looks like and why. Heck, with all this automation you could even expect a basic level of understanding about the mechanics involved and make that part of the written exam. Perhaps the elimination of the practical was not necessary, but a reassessment of the whole thing, or as you so cleverly stated "...what is needed for the entire system is a good enema!" I agree with the statements from others that they want to know that folks who are certified can cut sections. It is more balanced and despite all of our wonderful automation Histology is the one laboratory discipline that still requires a deft hand and an artistic eye. I'm not aware of any automated substitute for manual dexterity. I also agree with this whole ASCP/fox in the henhouse analogy of yours. I understand we've got good intentions here, but there is a mindset, amongst certain pathologists, about cheap labor. Despite pay increases in recent years (and I'm grateful) Histotechs overall, are the lowest paid laboratorians. Increased educational requirements (which I believe in) still have not eradicated this mindset. Please understand, I am not speaking about all pathologists, but there are enough to validate the analogy. Now Barry, I think your educational background is great and I suspect you're a better man because of it. It seems to me in this day and age that it would be near impossible to pull off. We've taken incredible leaps in technology just for Histology alone. I would be wary of an MLT or MT today that thought they could come into our Histology lab and perform at the level I expect (that whole dexterity thing again). And frankly, I think it would be extremely difficult to go into the General Lab, Blood Bank, Chemistry, Special Hematology, Microbiology or any other sub-discipline and perform at an acceptable level. Now do I think folks should have an understanding and appreciation for these other disciplines? Absolutely. And maybe that needs to be incorporated in Histology training at an academic level. But doing the work is another thing entirely. Anyway, I don't know if my opinion will count for much, but there you have it. It would be nice to see some changes and I think reinstating the practical is worth considering. I understand that logistical problems exist as well, along with some of the other subjective variables that Joe Nocito mentioned. Maybe judges could be sent regional sites or something. Anyway it's food for thought. Thanks for letting me ramble. 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Intimidation of regime opponents with arbitrary detention or house arrest is nothing new in Iran. But the country's current crackdown against citizens angry at the apparent rigging of the June 12 presidential election in favor of the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is its broadest since the aftermath of the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Despite the effectiveness of beating and shooting protesters upset with the results of the June 12 presidential election – the streets of major Iranian cities were quiet over the weekend – the pace of arrests has hardly slowed as Mr. Ahmadinejad and his supporters try to consolidate their victory.
On Sunday, the government-linked Fars news agency reported that eight Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran were arrested and stood accused of inciting the unrest over the election. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called the arrests "harassment and intimidation" and added, "the idea that the British embassy is somehow behind the demonstrations ... is wholly without foundation."
The embassy workers join roughly 40 reporters and hundreds of student protesters, academics, and political activists held in detention centers around the country.
Basiji militiamen, shock-troops loyal to Iran's most hard-line clerics, have raided and beaten residents in their homes for shouting "God is great" from their rooftops – a form of protest borrowed from lead up to the 1979 revolution.
"It's the scale of the arrests that's so incredible," says Babak Rahimi, an American academic who specializes in Iran at the University of California San Diego, who recently returned from a trip to Iran. He fled his home country in 1982 after his father was executed for political activity. "The last time there was something close to this was the 1999 student uprising – but then it was just the students. Now, we're talking about leading reformist politicians, 40-something journalists, everyone's at risk."
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Trita Parsi and Reza Aslan, two academics who focus on Iran, said in a report on Friday for Foreign Policy magazine, that the regime is apparently achieving its short-term goal of choking off the ability of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to communicate with protesters – and perhaps emerge as a stronger leader for change.
"A source close to Mousavi says that the first and second circle of people around Mousavi have all been arrested or put under house arrest," they write. "Mousavi himself has limited ability to communicate with his team and his followers. The lack of leadership is visible on the streets, where demonstrators exhibit unparalleled will and courage, but lack direction and guidance."
The government has increasingly sought to portray the protests against the election as "engineered" by the US or Britain, painting its political opposition as essentially tools of a foreign power, though this has been dismissed as absurd by both the protesters and Mousavi.
In a sermon on Friday, influential cleric Ahmad Khatami – close to the views of both Ahmadinejad and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – labeled the protestors enemies of God, a category of crime that results in execution in the Islamic republic. "I want ... rioters punished firmly, without any mercy, to teach everyone a lesson," he said.
While Mousavi would like reforms to Iran's theocratic system, he was among those who helped overthrow the Shah and worked closely with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the country's first supreme leader who died in 1989, when Mousavi was the country's prime minister in the 80s. "I am fully aware that your justified demands have nothing to do with groups who do not believe in the sacred Islamic Republic of Iran's system," he said in a letter to supporters last week.
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Frank Smyth, the security coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), says Mr. Athanasiadis has been visited by the Greek ambassador and his family is hopeful for a release soon.
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Mr. Rahimi says that detentions of regime opponents in the past at least conformed to the appearance of legality – with the location of a detainee generally known. But he says his contacts in Tehran now report more ad hoc situations.
"It's like the disappearances [under former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet] in the 1970s, we simply don't know anything about the circumstances of their detentions," he says. "One guy who was arrested and released told me there's a large prison in the basement of the Interior Ministry. Another journalist went into hiding when the Basiji came to arrest him at his house – even his wife doesn't know where he is now. There's something mafia-like about the messages the government is sending now, you now, 'we're going to get you and your family.' "


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Scott Rappaport '99 is a career counselor at the University of Delaware where he helps guide students toward a job that's right for them, no matter which stage they're at in their search. His own career path was made clear after he became a resident assistant (RA) as a second-semester freshman.
"I just loved it, and sometime during my sophomore year, a light bulb went off that I could work in higher education." As a senior, he interned with the Office of Career Services and was inspired by many of the student affairs employees at IC including McAree and John Bradac, director of Career Services.
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"I love helping students, especially in the career search because I feel the transition from college to the world of work is one of the most difficult transitions a person makes," he said. "I encourage students to get involved because you never know where that involvement is going to take you."
Although Jay Tifone '03 studied journalism at Ithaca College, he found his passion for working in student affairs after taking a job in the Campus Center. His work at Ithaca led him to Syracuse University's higher education master's program. Now he works at the University of Sciences in Philadelphia as the associate director of student life, primarily looking after the 750 residents. Tifone has taken what he learned about teamwork, leadership, and character to help create opportunities for students to develop.
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Dan Tillapaugh '01 is a faculty member at the University of Maine where he teaches master's and doctoral students who are pursuing a career in student affairs. He also conducts research on student development, specifically with LGBT students. At IC, Tillapaugh was involved as an RA, an orientation leader, and in the Student Government Association. The connections he made with professional staff members set him on a track to explore career options in higher education.
"Through my professional life, I've gained a deeper appreciation for higher education, in general, and what an impact it can have on transforming students' lives in powerful ways," he said. "I also learned a lot about myself through my work, including how I could articulate my own philosophy on leadership, grappling with issues of power, privilege, and difference and how that plays out within higher education, and how I could serve as an advocate for student learning and development."
When he graduated from Ithaca in 2002 with a computer science degree, Murillo Soranso felt a bit lost as to his career. He had worked as an RA, was in SGA and in Created Equal, a student organization focusing on LGBTQ issues. After contacting the Office of Career Services, he was pointed in the direction of college administration. He now works as an area coordinator in University Housing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"What I gain the most is the satisfaction of helping someone through their college years," he said. "My college years…were filled with so many influential mentors, teachers and administrators, that I strive to be just like them to the many students I serve."
Kate Vermilyea '01 found her place at Ithaca after getting involved as an orientation leader and a senator for SGA. As an art history major, she found herself working at an auction house, but wanted something more. She ended up studying college counseling and began working in college administration. She now works at the University of South Carolina Beaufort overseeing all programs and activities and coordinating the orientation program. Kate is grateful for the guiding experiences she had at Ithaca.
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Today, 1.3 billion people live without access to the energy grid, negatively impacting health, safety, education, the ability to earn a living, and people's overall well-being. The cost is felt heaviest by those people, but the entire world pays for this lack of access.[1]
Though it hasn't received the attention that HIV/AIDS and malaria have received, it is beginning to get recognized as a major global issue that needs to be addressed. The World Energy Outlook Report states the goals of achieving "universal access" included 395 million people gaining access to electricity, along with an additional 1 billion people provided with access to clean cooking facilities.[2]
Energy Services
Six key energy services have been identified as vital for energy access:
- Lighting
- Cooking and water heating
- Space heating
- Cooling
- Information and communications
- Earning a living
Other energy service categorizations exist. Mobility has been omitted on the basis that it is primarily defined by physical links (roads, railways, bridges, etc.) rather than energy access – although such connectivity can help bring fuels and create market access. Water supply (for drinking and irrigation) is another important service often linked with energy, but is omitted as it is more strongly dependent on water resource availability and pipe infrastructure (often gravity flow) than energy. A range of agricultural processing services such as milling and rice de-husking are captured under 'Earning a living' since, where energy is actually used rather than hand-tools, it is usually offered as a service at a cost to users.
Universal modern energy access is interpreted by the World Energy Outlook for the UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals as meaning that no more than one billion people should be without access to electricity by 2015 and no more than 1.7 billion should still be using traditional biomass for cooking on open fires or primitive stoves. The numbers for 2030 include 100% rural and urban access to the energy grid, and either Liquid Petroleum Gas or advanced biomass cookstoves for cooking.[3]


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In case you're keeping score at home, a non-comprehensive list of reasons why the Red Sox are six games under 500: The Red Sox used to drink too much in the clubhouse. The Red Sox aren't allowed to loosen up in the clubhouse. The Red Sox got too fat. Ownership is too concerned with Liverpool. Josh Beckett spent an off-day golfing. Clay Buchholz spent one night of a DL stint at a charity event. John Lackey somehow found beer. The media was mean to the players. Bobby Valentine lost the clubhouse. Bobby Valentine lost the clubhouse again. Bobby Valentine continued to lose the clubhouse.
So, naturally, Johnny Pesky couldn't even die without becoming an indictment of the team and the locker room culture, whatever the fuck that means. Pesky's Monday morning funeral was attended by over 100 employees but just four current players, and this is now a capital-T Thing, and can be used for all sorts of sweeping pronouncements about this team and their moral character (and nothing at all about the team having landed at 4 a.m., and most of them having only met Pesky a couple times in passing).
But this really isn't about Johnny, whose departure was treated as a loss of royalty, which is what he was to this city, as beloved as anyone who ever represented Boston in the eyes of the outside world.
No, this is about the players; individually, they might have had splendid reasons to be among the missing at St. John the Evangelist Church in Swampscott, but collectively, they're not looking so good this morning.
How ironic they'd blow this one.
After Tuesday's magnificent pre-game tribute, including the thrilling playing of taps, and the lump-in-the-throat spectacle of 40 players wearing No. 6, busloads of this town's big-leaguers showing up for a last goodbye was a fastball down the pike, ripe for blasting, a can't-miss moment.
All they had to do was show up.
What a shame they didn't, not for Johnny, but for them.
That's the Herald's Joe Fitzgerald, who honed his outrage chops at the sports desk before moving over to the metro section. (Interestingly, the story was originally reported without judgment by the Herald's "Inside Track" reporters. The Inside Track is "filled with celebrity sightings, nightclub news and just plain old gossip," so their restraint says more about those other gossip pages, the ones at the back of the paper.)
We all know that things like skipping a franchise legend's funeral only happen to unhappy, hopeless teams, except for the 2010 Yankees who blew off Bob Sheppard's memorial and went on to win 95 games and come within two wins of the World Series. But what did these Red Sox do with their Monday off, if not attend Pesky's funeral? "Nearly the entire team" turned out for a charity bowling tournament to raise money for ill and underprivileged children.
New narrative: Red Sox too consumed with charity work to focus on baseball.


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Hidehiro Fukuda Architects | Duplex house in Tokito
"Duplex house in Tokito" held concurrently and planned the two-generation house and the atelier to a still residential area in Hokkaido Hakodate.
It wanted to express the living of the child with parents forever in shape, and the crane (paper crane) was assumed to be a concept of the design. There is a traditional custom of putting the wish for the long life and presenting the paper crane to an intimate person in Japan.
To do a little space in the center part, the volume of two layers and the volume of one layer on the next ground side were arranged on the park side. The little space became a passage connected from the door with the court. A transparent material was selected, and the wall and the roof of the same material as the outside were made a space to feel the outside in the life of the parents home that was not able to go out though the room there.
The outside wall and the roof were covered with a light material like the shuttlecock. It seems to rest the wing from the court side seeming the faction of the bird from the entrance side. This expresses the movement of the wing. It was assumed the composition of the room where an internal space also showed thought in the exterior as it was. The atelier and the Buddhist altar room were arranged on the side that seemed to flap. To rest the wing, two arranged the living room and the bedroom on the seen side.
A structural design is Ryozo Umezawa. It made it to the structure that consisted only in the outer part. The partition wall can be freely arranged while the room and the room tie. All the parts were expressed in white. A white space and a white passage connect all rooms. The space into which the aspect changes little by little appears when entering the inside as a result of connecting the roof with the diagonal.Location: Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan Architects: Hidehiro Fukuda Architects
Project architect: Hidehiro Fukuda, Hajime Kagoshima
Project name: Duplex house in Tokito
Structural engineer: Ryozo Umezawa-Umezawa structural engineers
Structure: wooden Structure
Project Year: 2006-2010
Site area: 188.56sqm
Floor area: 152.28sqm
Photographs: Hidehiro Fukuda Architects


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The prominent man had an altercation with his wife at a hotel. He beat her up. There's even a recording of it. And what happened? A plea deal so generous that the abuser's arrest record will be expunged -- totally clean, as if the whole thing had never happened -- if he receives some counseling in the next few months.
Elections have consequences.
After two days of tense arguments in the Supreme Court over same-sex marriage, we don't know for certain how the justices will rule on either California's Proposition 8 or the Defense of Marriage Act. But we did see -- over and over -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts' irritation with and contempt for the Obama administration.
Every chief justice of the United States picks a signature issue. After Wednesday's argument on the future of the Voting Rights Act, it's clearer than ever that John Roberts has made his choice: to declare victory in the nation's fight against racial discrimination and then to disable the weapons with which that struggle was won.
What will we see in 2013?
How much has the South changed?
The Fifth Circuit's homework assignment to the Department of Justice is a disgrace -- an embarrassment to the federal judiciary. Still, it's a useful window on the contemporary merger of law and politics.
When the Supreme Court hears an extraordinary three days of arguments this week about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, thousands of words will pass between the justices and the lawyers appearing before them. Still, it's likely that the single most important word in the case will never be uttered in the courtroom:
The case against Manssor Arbabsiar, the Iranian-American charged with conspiring to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, looks like a dazzling mix of high drama and low comedy, high stakes and low dealing. The prosecution has enormous implications for the United States' relationship with Iran -- and thus for world peace -- but it's also a criminal case in an American courtroom. So it's worth asking: how strong is that case?
The most important part of criminal law doesn't appear in any statute book or textbook. It's not even a formal "law" at all. It's the concept of prosecutorial discretion, and it is at the heart of our justice system -- as the pursuers of Casey Anthony and Dominique Strauss-Kahn have discovered.
Earlier today a state Supreme Court judge released Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund director charged with sexual assault, on his own recognizance in a stunning reversal for the high-profile case.
The Supreme Court ruled that a Kansas church whose members travel the country to protest at military funerals, holding signs that say "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God blew up the troops," has a right to continue such demonstrations.
The Arizona immigration law goes into effect on Thursday -- maybe. On July 29, it will be 90 days since the end of the legislative session -- which is the time when Arizona laws go on the books -- but the controversial measure has already drawn the first of many court challenges.
President Obama named U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan on Monday as his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.
Americans can expect a roaring debate over social issues in the discussion of the next Supreme Court nominee, but in the end, President Obama's choice to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens is likely to be confirmed, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is fond of pointing out the original reason that judges came to wear black robes. It's to make them look alike, to minimize the differences between the individuals who occupy the role and to suggest that the law will be applied even-handedly, no matter who happens to be dressed in black.
The 23-year-old Nigerian man who has been charged with attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound international flight on Christmas Day is likely to be treated as a regular criminal defendant, according to CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire after more than 18 years on the high court. He said Friday in a letter to the White House that he will leave the court after the current session ends in June.
Congressional hearings rarely produce much news of interest, or much good for the world, but the House Government Reform Committee did a great service to baseball -- and the country -- on March 17, 2005.


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Jason Sanders is coauthor, with Edward Kandrot, of CUDA By Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming. When he's not putting pen to paper, Jason is a senior software engineer in NVIDIA's CUDA Platform Group, where he helped develop early releases of CUDA system software and contribute to the OpenCL 1.0 specification. On the eve of his book's release, Jason took time to talk with Dr. Dobb's.
Dr. Dobb's: What's more difficult -- parallel programming or writing a book?
Sanders: For me, writing a book was more difficult, mostly because teaching someone else to do something has always been harder for me than actually doing it myself. They say that those who can't do, teach, but in my experience I've never really felt comfortable knowing something until I've had to teach it to someone else.
Dr. Dobb's: Let's start with book. What's it about?
Sanders: The book, CUDA by Example, is meant to be an introduction to general-purpose programming on the GPU. We wanted the book to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible, so we assume no special knowledge of GPUs, graphics APIs, parallel processing, or CUDA. The book is oriented toward people who have experience writing C or C++, but don't necessarily have any experience with a GPU, with CUDA, or with computer graphics.
We try to use interesting, but relatively simple examples to explore the CUDA C language and many of the CUDA APIs. By the end of the book, you'll know the basics of nearly every feature in CUDA, including shared memory, textures, graphics interoperability, streams, atomics, and using multiple GPUs simultaneously.
For those hesitant to invest the $35, a sample chapter is available for free online.
Dr. Dobb's: CUDA 3.1 was recently announced. How does this version differ from the previous version?
Sanders: Like most of our releases, CUDA 3.1 has a lot of new features. Some of these features are pretty amazing, especially if you've been following GPU computing for the past 8 or 9 years.
There are two features that I'm personally really excited about. As of CUDA 3.1, users can now launch up to 16 concurrent kernels at once on Fermi architecture GPUs. This development is particularly exciting because it adds a whole new dimension of parallel processing to the GPU. Each of these concurrent kernels can itself be a massively data-parallel function, so as of CUDA 3.1, you can run multiple data-parallel kernels in parallel with each other.
CUDA 3.1 also marks the debut of a printf() that executes directly on the GPU. For those of us who really appreciate quick and dirty printf() debugging, we can finally make use of this "classic" method as of CUDA 3.1. Of course, with CUDA-GDB and Parallel Nsight, CUDA debugging tools have gotten so good that many people no longer yearn for printf(). But honestly, sometimes I'm just too lazy to run a full-featured debugger.
Aside from these two major features, CUDA 3.1 brings a large number of performance enhancements and bug fixes from CUDA 3.0, notably in the CUBLAS and CUFFT libraries. The other changes from 3.0 are described here.
Dr. Dobb's: What's hard about parallel programming?
Sanders: Well, everything that's hard about serial programming is still hard when you move to parallel programming, but there are loads of complexities specific to parallel programming. Parallel programming brings with it the obvious "bookkeeping" problems like mutual exclusion, interthread communication, and the avoidance of deadlocks and race conditions to name a few.
But often the challenge lies at a higher, more abstract level, namely that of extracting the fundamental parallelism in your problem. This can be especially difficult when you're working with hardware as massively parallel as the CUDA architecture. This is a machine that's designed to run at full efficiency when using thousands of threads to solve a problem. Parallelism at this scale is just not a paradigm in which most of us were trained to think. It can certainly be daunting at first, but fortunately we've found that it doesn't take long to grow accustomed to programming in parallel.
Dr. Dobb's: What's the most unique non-graphics application of a GPU that you've run across?
Sanders: Our users regularly discover applications for CUDA that amaze me! We currently have over 1,100 project submissions on the CUDA Zone website, and frankly, most of the applications are in domains that I have no experience with. In fact, just this week I learned that CUDA is being used to help process the huge amount of imagery that has been collected of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
As for the most unique application, perhaps this is just my unruly curly hair talking but I was (pleasantly) surprised to hear that CUDA is being used to accelerate research into better detergents for shampoo. I can only hope that one day CUDA will deliver me a world where my hair is much more silky and manageable!
Dr. Dobb's: What's the difference between a GPU and general-purpose (multicore) CPU?
Sanders: I think the differences are most readily understandable when you look at the problems each processor was originally designed to solve.
The processing pipeline in a CPU was designed to handle one complex task as quickly as possible. To this end, CPU's employ a variety of schemes to prevent this pipeline from stalling. Elaborate cache hierarchies, out-of-order execution units, and sophisticated branch prediction hardware all help CPUs offer very low-latency response to single, complex computational tasks.
On the other hand, GPUs were designed to solve thousands (or millions) of very similar, but relatively simple computational tasks (determining the color of each pixel on a computer monitor). To achieve this, GPUs invest a great deal of their silicon real estate in arithmetic units. While the comparatively simple execution units often hit high-latency stalls, there are a sufficient number of threads in flight so that the arithmetic units never actually need to go idle. The disproportionate number of transistors dedicated to ALUs ensures that the entire problem will enjoy a huge computational throughput despite the fact that individual computations may suffer large latencies.
Of course, these lines are being blurred more and more as time passes. Modern CPUs have multiple cores, each of which is capable of handling a couple of threads of execution. Likewise, the current generation of GPUs sport more sophisticated, superscalar execution units, cache hierarchies, and concurrent execution of multiple programs.
Dr. Dobb's: For programmers who avoid C but like the CUDA architecture -- is there hope?
Sanders: There is most definitely hope, even for programmers who wish to maintain their C-free lifestyle!
First, NVIDIA has cooperated with The Portland Group to offer CUDA Fortran. CUDA Fortran includes a Fortran 2003 compiler and tool chain that allows developers to write GPU kernels in Fortran and to invoke them from Fortran applications, exactly the way their CUDA C brethren do with C applications.
Aside from CUDA C, OpenCL, DirectX Compute, and CUDA Fortran, there are still other ways to harness the power of the CUDA architecture. A quick Google search will turn up bindings to the CUDA API available for many development environments. Although none are officially supported by NVIDIA, some of the languages I have seen make use of the CUDA architecture include Python, Java, C#, Perl, Ruby, MATLAB, .NET, and Lua.
Dr. Dobb's: What's 'texture memory'?
Sanders: Texture memory was designed for computer graphics originally, but we've found it to be quite useful for some general-purpose computing applications. Essentially, a texture is a region of read-only memory that has a particular caching behavior that differs from non-texture memory. Specifically, we see friendly cache behavior when we perform several reads that are "near" each other spatially. Unlike traditional CPU caches that cache sequential addresses, the GPU texture memory is optimized for 2D spatial locality. In the texture chapter of CUDA by Example, we use texture memory to speed up a simple heat transfer simulation. Applications involving discrete grids (such as our 2D simulation application) are obvious candidates for texture memory.
There are some other interesting features of texture memory, too. First, packed data formats can be unpacked in a single instruction. Also, 8- and 16-bit integer types can be converted to normalized 32-bit floating-point values (in the range [0.0, 1.0] or [-1.0, 1.0]). And finally, linear interpolation of neighboring values can be performed directly in the GPU's texture hardware, saving precious instructions.
In fact, Dr. Dobb's published a great article on using CUDA's texture memory
Dr. Dobb's: What's your next book about and when we will see it?
Sanders: Would you believe that I don't currently have plans to write another book? If NVIDIA ever started producing fictional novels or screenplays, I might try to bully my way onto one of those projects. But until then, I think I'll probably spend some time writing code again.


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By COLLEEN LEDDY
Those of you who know me well know that I am notorious for staying up late. There's a reason this column is called Midnight Musings—except that reason is now outdated. I used to stay up just past midnight. But the older I get, the worse I get. Perhaps this column should be renamed. "Thoughts @ Three...a.m." maybe?
Keeping late hours is only one of my faults. David could easily and quickly tick off other of my transgressions. He's always telling me I'm being cruel to my body. Not only do I not get enough sleep, I don't eat regular meals and I don't exercise either.
I am just not living right.
This means those same exact 35 pounds I spoke of last year—back when I was getting ready to go to my 35th high school reunion—are still circling my waist, hips and thighs.
And now I am in big trouble.
I opened an e-mail late Monday night from the producer of the Dawson Media Group (DMG) in Portland, Oregon. DMG made the videos that will be part of the "Pushing the Limits: Building Capacity to Enhance Public Understanding of Math and Science Through Rural Libraries" the pilot program that will unfold at the library next year. I go for training in Portland in early October.
"In addition to producing the science videos for Limits, DMG will be documenting this workshop," wrote the producer. "Your questions, answers and collaboration in this workshop will be recorded and evolve into a resource used by librarians across the nation who also wish to bring Limits to their libraries.
"Attached, please find a standard Appearance Release, which gives DMG permission to film you...Each participant must sign his or her release in order to participate in the workshop. We are a very friendly crew and our goal is to make you feel comfortable and at ease..."
The best way to make me feel comfortable and at ease would be to just put those cameras away.
Oy. I thought I was going to be trained in how to run this program at the library, not serve as a guinea pig for others to guffaw at.
My friend Sondra, out on the west coast, was still awake.
"I didn't think filming was going to happen until we had the program going next January/February...and then I figured it would be of the participants," I e-mailed her.
"Is it possible to lose 35 pounds between now and Oct. 6?" I asked rhetorically. "Not if I eat any more of the blueberry cake I made Maddie (Yay! She's home! Until tomorrow when she leaves again for Ann Arbor...) or the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies her grandpa made her that I keep eating."
"The whole thing sounds like loads of fun," Sondra said. "Wish I could be a non-video-taped fly on the blackboard."
Sondra was referring to the training location—an elementary school remodeled into hotel and conference rooms.
Oy. Don't they say the camera adds 10 pounds? So, 45 pounds to lose by Oct. 6? Yeah, I'm doomed.
Now, it actually is past three in the morning and my Thought @ Three is this: Please can't I just substitute the amazingly beautiful photo of Ben and Ryland gazing at each other for writing a column?
I had asked David earlier Monday evening if I could do that. He would have nothing of it. Told me to use an old column. But I don't have as great a cache of old columns as he does. I think I've repeated old columns often enough that I've probably repeated the repeats. But he wouldn't buckle.
So, instead, I will tell you this: go to rylandgreen.wordpress.com and click on Day 57 under "Recent Posts." You will see the most beautiful parent-child photo ever, one of pure trust and love, taken by my daughter-in-law, Sarah.
Looking at that photo, all worries fade away. Too bad the pounds don't.


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It would appear then that Dave's sole source of income is from his SBC Council Member allowances plus, of course the top up from sitting on 3 committees.Dave has been unable to attend any 6 of the full Council meetings since February this year when he last attended. Maybe he was there in spirit? Is this value for money?
MUGGS, I HAVE AN ONGOING BIT OF BOTHER AT THE MOMENT, CAN YOU SEND ME THE ADDRESS OF THE CHARITY ASSoc please..regards K....
Year End Income Spending30 Jun 2012 £11,943 £15,246 30 Jun 2011 £4,211 £3,943 30 Jun 2010 £4,211 £1,915 30 Jun 2009 £5,208 £5,251 30 Jun 2008 £5,082 £2,564
That's not the full constitution, Richard that the copy of what's on the charity commission web site for Charity No:327422 - THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA.When a group is registered there, they send in their constitution, the Commission says yes or no, if it's a yes, the commission summarise your constitution (or did in 1986) because they are usually about 8 pages long with loads of what you can and can't do. If anyone want's a copy of one of the groups I'm with to see one, then PM me. I've got both sorts, plain Constitution and Memorandum. Took another look at Outer's post and may be able to offer some explanations: Look at this case as the people are Trustees first, company directors second - in this case it's just a name although there are legal things to being one, most charitable company 'directors' refer to themselves as 'trustees' of the charity rather than 'directors' (they only use that to swank). Charitable companies are not for profit and the directors don't take a share/bones/handout, or shouldn't. To do this, they would have to be negotiated with the Charity Commission, some trustees with specialist skills can be paid, but for short times but any transaction like that should be taken with the utmost care and backsides covered by numerous bits of substantiating paperwork.And dealing with charity commission on anything like this take ages. Look at it this way, it takes a good bit of paperwork just to start a charity these days. About the walkout = more money: 1. More money, more to squabble about, especially if people don't know the limitation on expending grants or funding given for especial purposes - i.e the people of Toothill not understanding how come they haven't had their million spent yet. And when we got our Fairshare money which is very similar most of them dealing with the damned fund didn't know either - i.e. councillors, so people got would up about not seeing and immediate effect from it.2. The one who got the money but fundraising or application, getting heavy about how it's spent - and that could be related to no 1, in it not maybe being their fault, or it could be their fault as they could be the one that doesn't understand - hope that makes sense. 3. Maybe the walkout was before the money was got and either nothing to do with it, or funders etc. seeing that the ones who needed to go -went. I can site a couple of groups were this is happening, where they won't get more funding, or even start up funding, without a change of board and the incomings seen to be 'fit and proper people'.4. In many charities people hang on in post of trustee, simply because there is not a load of people lining up to take over. They are grateful and go quick when the opportunity arises. Or the ones that really have had their day, hang on forever. It's not like anyone on a charity board is in it for the money, you'd be better off standing for council.Trustees are however entitled to get expenses, but often they don't take them or take them in a block, so what might look like a big pay-out might accumulated travel cost for example.'Course there are always the ones that do take advantage too. But in 30 years, I haven't met many of them, any wrong doing I've found, noticed, etc. has been down to ignorance and/or big headedness.
I have just come off the phone and my conversant is tempted to ask the following question at council tonight!I note that the member for Eastcott is interested in the paranormal. Is this the reason why he has such a bad attendance record at council?
Quote from: Richard Symonds on December 19, 2013, 12:26:52 PMI have just come off the phone and my conversant is tempted to ask the following question at council tonight!I note that the member for Eastcott is interested in the paranormal. Is this the reason why he has such a bad attendance record at council?What you saying here Richard? That he's there in spirit?
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IntroductionIn this article we will explore how to integrate MySQL, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ in a Spring MVC application using Spring Data JPA, Spring Data MongoDB, and Spring AMQP projects respectively. Then we'll add AJAX in the presentation layer using jQuery. For presenting tabular data, we will explore two jQuery plugins: DataTables and jQgrid. The jQgrid version will use Spring Cache support to boost performance. The ultimate purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to integrate these different projects in a single Spring MVC application.
Our application is a simple event management system for performing CRUD operations. When we talk of events, we're referring to the colloquial definition, i.e wedding event. The application's main data will be stored in a MySQL database using Hibernate as our ORM. We will use Spring Data JPA to simplify the data access layer. This means we don't need to implement our own data access objects.
Our application is also capable of broadcasting these events as simple text messages. To broadcast these events, we will use RabbitMQ as our messaging broker, and Spring AMQP for sending and receiving of messages.
No application is free from errors. Therefore, we've added error persistence capability using MongoDB. Our application has logging capabilities already, but we want the ability to analyze these errors later. Therefore, this is where MongoDB plays in. To simplify the data access layer, we will use Spring Data MongoDB, similar with Spring Data JPA.
Table of Contents
- Event Management
- Messaging support
- Error persistence
- Build and deploy
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Q: What is JPA?
A: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Persistence_API
- Q: What is MongoDB?
A: See http://www.mongodb.org
- Q: What is RabbitMQ?
A: See http://www.rabbitmq.com
- Q: What is Spring Data?
A: See http://www.springsource.org/spring-data
- Q: What is Spring Data - JPA?
A: See http://www.springsource.org/spring-data/jpa
- Q: What is Spring Data - MongoDB?
A: See http://static.springsource.org/spring-data/data-document/docs/current/reference/html
- Q: What is Spring AMQP?
A: See http://www.springsource.org/spring-amqp
- Q: What is jQuery?
A: http://jquery.com/
- Q: What is AJAX?
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
- Q: What is Ehcache?
A: http://ehcache.org/
Required Tools and ServicesThe following tools and services are essential in building and running our project:
- MySQL The application's main data will be stored in MySQL. If you don't have one yet, download and install one by visiting the MySQL home page, or use a pre-packaged setup via XAMPP or Wamp.
- MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/
- Wamp: http://www.wampserver.com
- XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org
- http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html
- http://www.mongodb.org/downloads
- Maven: http://maven.apache.org/download.html
- STS: http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts
ScreenshotsBefore we dive into development, it's better if we first visualize what we will be developing.
Live Deployment in the CloudThe best way to interact with the application is with a live deployment. Therefore, I have taken extra steps to deploy the project in the cloud via the excellent open platform Cloud Foundry. To access the project, visit http://spring-mysql-mongo-rabbit.cloudfoundry.com/
Project StructureTo see how we're going to structure the project, take a look at the following screenshot:
The project's source code is available at GitHub. You can access the project's repository at spring-mysql-mongo-rabbit-integration
Project Dependencies (pom.xml)The pom.xml contains the project's dependencies. It's a long list but I will only show the relevant entries. As of Sept 17 2011, we're using the latest versions.
What is POM?
POM stands for "Project Object Model". It is an XML representation of a Maven project held in a file named pom.xml. See http://maven.apache.org/pom.html
To see the pom's entire contents, please check the attached Maven project at the end of this tutorial.
DevelopmentThe project will be divided into four parts:
- Event Management
- Messaging support
- Error persistence
- Build and deploy
A. Event ManagementThe Event Management is the core function of the system. And we're specifically referring to the CRUD operations. We will divide this stage in four sub-parts:
- Event Management
- A1. Domain
- A2. Service
- A3. Controller
- A4. View
- DataTables view
- jQgrid view
- A5. Crosscutting Concerns
A1. DomainThe domain contains a simple Event class. By marking it with @Entity the class will be persisted in a relational database. Notice the class has validation constraints added. For example, the name field cannot be null.
Special attention is given to the date field. We've annotated it with @DateTimeFormat, a Spring conversion annotation (see Spring Reference 18.104.22.168 Format Annotation API) to help us serialize and deserialize JSON dates in the presentation layer.
A2. ServiceBefore we start developing the service layer we need to create first the data access objects (DAOs) manually. We do this for every new project. Through time it becomes repetitive and tedious. Gladly, Spring has a solution: the Spring Data project.
Spring Data's purpose is to provide us ready-made data access objects for various database sources. All we need to do is extend an interface and we're good to go. This means we can start writing the service immediately (if needed).
Spring Data is not a single project, but rather it's composed of many different projects specifically catering to different types of databases (see http://www.springsource.org/spring-data). Since we're using MySQL and Hibernate we will use the Spring Data JPA project.
A3. ControllerWe have a single controller, EventController, whose main purpose is to display the Event page. It also has methods for handling CRUD operations that are ultimately delegated to the EventService.
A4. ViewI've provided two views for displaying Event records: a DataTables version and a jQgrid version. The purpose of having two views is to demonstrate Spring's flexibility and teach various ways of presenting tabular data.
To proceed, please choose your preferred view (a specific guide will be presented):
JMeter TestThe main difference between these two views are the addition of cache to the jQgrid controller. To appreciate the difference, I've provided JMeter tests to gauge each controller's performance. Take note that this tests have nothing to do with the DataTables or jQgrid plugin. The tests are written so that it will only query the controllers without generating the presentation layer.
Small dataset (9 records):
Large dataset (4300+ records):
Notice in small datasets the difference in performance is almost trivial. However, in large datasets the difference is phenomenal. Adding a cache greatly improves the application's performance (of course this assumes that the same request will be called multiple times).
Click here to download the JMeter Test. To run this test, make sure to run only one test, i.e do the DataTables first, then the jQgrid, or vice versa.
What is JMeter?
Apache JMeter is open source software, a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
A5. Crosscutting ConcernsAs mentioned earlier, no application is free from errors. To facilitate troubleshooting, a logging mechanism needs to be added. Typically we would place the logging mechanism across our existing classes. This is a crosscutting concern.
What is a crosscutting concern?
In computer science, cross-cutting concerns are aspects of a program which affect other concerns. These concerns often cannot be cleanly decomposed from the rest of the system in both the design and implementation, and can result in either scattering (code duplication), tangling (significant dependencies between systems), or both.
For instance, if writing an application for handling medical records, the bookkeeping and indexing of such records is a core concern, while logging a history of changes to the record database or user database, or an authentication system, would be cross-cutting concerns since they touch more parts of the program. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cutting_concern
To implement a clean way of logging our application, we will take advantage of Spring's CustomizableTraceInterceptor support as seen in the Spring Data JPA reference (Appendix B. Frequently asked questions).
By default CustomizableTraceInterceptor uses trace level for logging. If we want to change the logging level, we need to extend this class and override the writeToLog() method. We have created a sub-class TraceInterceptor and change the logging level to debug
After creating the class, we declare it as a bean in the XML configuration. Notice we've configured the entry and exit signature patterns and the pointcut expressions to match. In other words, this will log all services and specific controllers.
Next SectionIn the next section, we will add messaging support using RabbitMQ and Spring AMQP. To proceed to the next section, click here.
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Grand Theft Auto V – Multiple time periods
There's been much speculation as to when Grand Theft Auto V will take place – previous instalments have taken us to London in the 60s, 1990s California and the neon hedonism of 1980s Vice City.
Could GTA V chuck something new into the mix and let us play out a character's story across several different time periods? Rockstar's done it before on a smaller scale, with a brief time-jump in Red Dead Redemption. But wouldn't it be fun if, say, your character started in the 1970s of muscle cars and bad haircuts, was sent to jail for 20-odd years and emerged to a totally changed city? A time shift would be a novel way to open up new areas of the map – it'd make a change from being trapped on one island for the first part of the game.
Grand Theft Auto V – Bigger world
While GTA IV's Liberty City was by no means tiny, we were still left wanting for vast open spaces like those in San Andreas or Red Dead Redemption, giving us the opportunity to tear up terrain in an assortment of vehicles. Being greedy, we'd also love to see multiple big cities in GTA V, each with its own character.
Grand Theft Auto V – Celeb DJs
The radio stations are one of GTA's best features – and Rockstar's constantly surprising us with the famous voices they get to play the DJs.
We've had everyone from Karl Lagerfeld to Sepultura's Max Cavalera spinning the discs in past Grand Theft Auto games. But who could be gracing GTA V's radio stations? How about a sounds of the 70s station fronted by Quentin Tarantino? Or a pop station with Lady Gaga picking out the choons?
One thing's for sure, Rockstar needs to bring back Axl Rose's Tommy 'The Nightmare' Smith from GTA: San Andreas. He needs the work.
Grand Theft Auto V – Female protagonist
One thing Grand Theft Auto's never previously done is let us play as a female protagonist. Come on guys, it's 2011 – haven't you heard of equality in the workplace? At least give us the option of choosing to play as a man or a woman in the single-player game.
Grand Theft Auto V – Better multiplayer
GTA IV's multiplayer wasn't terrible, but we would love to see a Red Dead Redemption-like open world, full of roaming gangs and tough cops. Spontaneous fire fights and instant jump-in-and-play co-op missions would also be a welcome improvement.
Grand Theft Auto V – More minigames
GTA IV had snooker and darts, Red Dead Redemption gave us the chance to kick back and gamble our money away at the card tables. If the new game's set in GTA's own Vegas, Las Venturas, it'd be simplicity itself to port Red Dead Redemption's poker and blackjack into the casinos.
And here's a fun thought – imagine if there was a video game console in your character's safehouse that contained the original Grand Theft Auto? Yo dawg, I herd you like GTA, so we put a GTA in your GTA so you can GTA while you GTA.
Grand Theft Auto V – Improved combat
GTA IV's cover and lock-on shooting system was repetitive and often clumsy, throwing you out of cover unintentionally, locking on to random passing civilians instead of the vanload of gangsters driving past you, and leaving you bullet-ridden.
A few tweaks here and there should tighten things up, while destructive cover would offer new ways to pop caps in the unfortunate asses of your foes. Being able to call for back up while remaining in cover would also improve gameplay – by about a million.
Grand Theft Auto V – More fun
Not to say that we didn't enjoy playing GTA IV, but we couldn't help feeling that it was a bit too serious, gritty and even boring at times, filled with repetitive tasks and inconvenient social arrangements. More content along the lines of the Ballad of Gay Tony DLC would add some much-needed humour and zaniness back in to the series.
Grand Theft Auto V – Outfit perks
Taking a leaf out of Red Dead Redemption's book, we'd love to be able to undertake challenges to unlock outfits that offer various perks. The thought of donning a police officer's uniform to instantly remove our wanted level, for example, fills us with giddy excitement. Far more satisfying than killing off randomly scattered pigeons.
Grand Theft Auto V – Zombies
Everyone's at it, from Call of Duty to Rockstar's own Red Dead Redemption. And while sniping the undead from horseback was fun and all, how much more entertaining would it be to plow through hordes of zombies in a sports car?
No-one's done a full-on open-world zombie game set in a fully-functioning city, and we know Rockstar has the chops to pull off a satisfying zombie-themed DLC. Everything is better with zombies.
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LAPD vs. Drunk Drivers Super Bowl Weekend Sobriety Enforcement NA13018bbLos Angeles: Although the American tradition of gathering together to watch the National Football League's best battle on the gridiron to win the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy is an exciting time, it is also a weekend of increased alcohol consumption. During this Super Bowl weekend, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) would like to remind all community members to drink responsibly. In an effort to keep the streets of Los Angeles safe this weekend, the LAPD will conduct the following driving-under-the-influence (DUI) enforcement activities:
- February 1, 2013 (Friday) – Sobriety Checkpoint on Roscoe Boulevard at Coldwater Canyon Avenue in Mission Area from 8 PM to 2 AM;
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The LAPD would like to remind all Angelinos of their responsibility to help prevent DUI fatalities and injuries from occurring. If you are planning or attending a Super Bowl party where alcohol will be served, plan ahead and designate a sober driver. Anyone arrested for DUI should be aware that it could result in fees over $10,000, time in jail, loss of driving privileges and increased automobile insurance rates.
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After a two-year detour to New York City, the ceremony to announce the winner of the nation's most lucrative undergraduate literary award, the Sophie Kerr Prize, will be held in Baltimore this year.
The decision marks the second time in three years that Washington College officials have moved the event, which was a staple of commencement on the school's Chestertown campus for the competition's first 43 years.
The event was so successful in New York the past two years that chapters of the college's alumni association around the country put in bids to host future announcements, Washington College President Mitchell Reiss said. The chairwoman of the panel that selects the winner said the new destination is apt.
"Being in Baltimore just makes sense on so many levels," said Kathryn Moncrief, chair of the college's English department as well as the Sophie Kerr Committee. "It's such a literary city, with a rich tradition of great writers, from Poe to Mencken to today's talents — Taylor Branch, Anne Tyler, David Simon, Barry Levinson [and] Madison Smartt Bell."
Given each spring to a Washington College senior who shows outstanding literary merit, the award — worth $61,190 this year — will be presented at the central Enoch Pratt Free Library on May 14.
Reiss and the faculty decided in 2011 to choose five finalists rather than simply have one winner announced, and to hold the ceremony in Manhattan so the young writers would have an opportunity to meet leaders in the publishing field.
Over the decades, Reiss said, the drama and tension surrounding the announcement grew so intense that it began to overwhelm the pleasures of graduation.
In each of the past two years, finalists read from their submitted work, award-winning authors spoke, the event was streamed live on the Internet, and the young writers talked about their craft with New York high school students.
The formula worked so well that the move to Baltimore caught some by surprise.
Trish McGee, an editor with the Chestertown-based Kent County News, said the change has left her flabbergasted.
"I resisted the idea of the move to New York at first, but I finally got their thinking," said McGee, a 1981 graduate of the college who has covered more than 20 Kerr competitions. "They wanted to bring the [writers] close to the literary lights of Manhattan. Fine, but then to move it from the Big Apple to gritty Baltimore? I'm not sure how that will to sit with the winners."
Still, McGee said it would be more affordable for the finalists and others to make the event, and that she'd probably attend herself this year after missing the last two.
Leaders of the Baltimore alumni chapter offered the most attractive bid, Reiss said, including the financial backing from several anonymous alumni to host the event.
Pratt CEO Carla Hayden, who served four years on the college's board of visitors and governors, offered the 130-year-old central library on Cathedral Street as a venue.
"We are excited to work with area alumni to bring the Sophie Kerr excitement to Baltimore," she said. "I like the idea of showcasing young talent and sharing the impact of the prize with the public."
Michael Dirda, a Washington Post book critic, will announce the winner at the event, which is free and open to the public.
The award was established by a posthumous gift from Sophie Kerr, a prolific author who grew up in Denton, about 30 miles from the college.
Kerr wrote 23 novels and hundreds of stories during the first half of the 20th century, many about plucky heroines in search of fame and fortune. Upon her death in 1965, the author left the college $500,000.
Drawn from the earnings of that bequest, the prize is given annually to the senior whose work the committee finds most promising. Contestants may submit fiction, poetry, critical writing, screenplays and other forms of writing.
The Sophie Kerr Endowment, which also supports scholarships and a lecture series at the school, has awarded nearly $1.5 million in prize money over the years.