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Building XML Web Services for Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Back in 2002 I wrote an article for MSDN that talked about building XML Web Services for Windows CE .NET – The article discussed building an XML Web Service using native code, Windows CE doesn't support managed code web services, so this means that you need to write your XML Web Services code in native code – this requires a combination of the SOAP toolkit, ATL, COM, the HTTPD Web Server, and XML HTTP, which are all supported as components in the CE 6.0 catalog. There's no reason why you couldn't write a pure managed code web server for Windows CE, and perhaps extend this to support Web Services, there are already examples of people having done this work.
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is the current released version of the Windows CE product, the tools for building CE 6.0 operating systems are integrated into Visual Studio 2005 – this gives you one place to configure, build, download, debug and test your CE 6.0 based operating system, and also write your managed and native code applications.
The move to Visual Studio 2005 gives you the latest set of application frameworks with updates to ATL, MFC, and STL – A side effect of this change is that the steps to create the ATL/COM object from eMbedded Visual C++ no longer work – Let's take a look at the steps needed to create the underlying operating system needed to support an XML Web Services component and also the steps needed to create the ATL/COM object and WSDL/WSML files which are needed to expose the web service.
There are a number of steps we will need to walk through.
- Create the baseline Windows CE operating system image (which includes adding support for a number of required components [COM, ATL, HTTPD, Soap Tooklit, XML HTTP]
- Create a custom Software Development Kit (SDK) for our operating system image
- Generate the ATL/COM object that exposes our custom interfaces
- Generate the WSDL/WSML that exposes our XML Web Service to other systems
- Get everything working!
For this example I'm going to base my operating system image on the ARM based device emulator, this means that you can follow along!
Step 1 – Create the baseline operating system image.
Hopefully I don't need to explain how to create the starting point operating system image – I'm going to assume that you know how to use the Operating System wizard to generate a PDA device image for the emulator, and how to switch from a Debug image (default build) to a Release image.
// Pause here while you are configuring the baseline operating system image.
Ok – I will assume that you have your baseline image configured, and built, and that you have booted the image to prove that the operating system boots and runs…
Now let's go ahead and add the components from the catalog that we need – there are two categories of components to add to the image, the first is 'required components', the second are 'optional components'.
First the 'required components' – you can search the catalog for the SYSGEN names, this will jump to, and highlight the appropriate component in the catalog – you can also search for friendly names such as ".NET Compact Framework" – here's the list of required SYSGENs to add to the platform.
- SYSGEN_HTTPD (Web Server)
- SYSGEN_ATL (Active Template Libraries)
- SYSGEN_SOAPTK_SERVER (SOAP Server)
- SYSGEN_CPP_EH_AND_RTTI (Exception Handling and Runtime Type Information)
Note: you will need to add the RTTI component to your image otherwise you will get build errors when you come to generate the ATL/COM object – in CE 5.0 this component was added automatically as a dependency of something else in the platform.
And now for the optional components – there are some helper components that I want to add to the operating system image that assist with things like getting the IP address of the target device and a wrapper component that gives me the Connection Manager pieces to make it easier to configure and connect from Visual Studio (application development) to my running embedded operating system image.
Here's the 'optional components'
- SYSGEN_NETUTILS (ipconfig, ping etc…)
- SYSGEN_CONMAN_ARMV4I (my own custom component that pulls in the Visual Studio Connection Manager pieces – I will pull this apart in a later post so you can see what the contents are – actually it's really simple)
Now we need to build the operating system image with our new components added, we can then boot the image and get the IP address (we will need this later).
// Pause here while you add the required and optional components and build operating system image.
We're going to be exposing an XML Web Service from the Device Emulator, this means that we will need to be able to 'see' the device emulator on the network – We need to configure the device emulator networking settings so that the emulator 'piggybacks' the networking card of our development PC – in Visual Studio 2005 select Target | Connectivity Options and then click the Network tab on the dialog – Since my laptop is connected on a hardwire Ethernet connection I selected my Ethernet adapter as the connected networking option (see below).
With networking configured I can now boot the Windows CE operating system image, get its IP address and then ping it from the desktop (since we also included the HTTPD Web Server in the operating system image we could also use the desktop web browser to browse to the default web page on the device).
There are a couple of options for getting the IP address from the device, the first is to double click the networking icon on the status bar of the Windows CE shell – this will display a dialog that shows the IP address and subnet – the second option is to use the Windows CE shell within Visual Studio 2005 – Assuming that you still have a connection to the device emulator, hit ALT+1 on your development machine keyboard – this will display the Windows CE command prompt – you can then type "s ipconfig" (Note: there are a number of commands you can issue from the command prompt, to get a list of available options type '?' – The command 's' means 'start' the following program, which in this case is ipconfig. The Debug output window will display the IP address of the device emulator – I prefer this approach since you can easily copy the IP address from debug output to the clipboard – this is useful because we will need this later (for configuring Connection Manager, and creating the WSDL for the device).
Step 2 – Create a custom Software Development Kit (SDK).
You are probably wondering why we need to do this step… easy, we've built a custom operating system image that contains a specific set of operating system features – if we're going to be writing an application (or creating an ATL/COM object) then we will need to write this against the operating system features contained in our specific configuration of the o/s (the APIs are exposed through header files which will be put into the custom SDK).
Here's the Solution workspace for my CE 6.0 project.
Notice that there are a number of nodes to the solution – one of which is SDKs – if we right-click on the SDKs node we can create a custom SDK for our platform (use the "Add new SDK" option – I went with all the default options, filled in my name, company, and company web site URL) – if you right-click on the created SDK you can then build the SDK into an MSI installer file (useful for sharing with customers/partners).
Step 3 – Create the ATL/COM object.
If you have been through the process of creating an ATL/COM object using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 the following steps should be familiar to you, there are a couple of differences, and parsing the RGS/IDL to generate the WSDL/WSML files is also different – we will cover this later.
Let's get started with the process of building the ATL/COM object – note that you will need to have created the underlying operating system and SDK, and installed the SDK on your development machine.
In Visual Studio 2005 (a second instance of VS 2005 if you still have the Platform Builder instance open) create a new Visual C++ project, since we're building for Windows CE you will need to select a Smart Device project – and of course the type of project we're creating is an ATL Smart Device Project.
For this example I've given my project the name of CE6atlws (CE 6.0, ATL, Web Service), choose an appropriate name for your project, and then click OK.
The next step of the wizard is to choose the platform you are going to be building against, the default option is to build for Pocket PC 2003, you will want to remove that (use the "<" button) and select your custom SDK name (my platform SDK is called XMLWS [see below]).
Once you've completed the wizard you will have created a simple ATL project, you now need to add a Simple ATL Object to the project – this is where you will expose your XML Web Services code!.
In Visual Studio 2005, select Project | Add Class – Smart Device, ATL Simple Object – this will launch the ATL Simple Object Wizard – you will need to give your project a Short Name, this will automatically fill out the rest of the C++ and COM information.
Note that you will also need to change the threading model of the COM object to Free Threaded, you can either click on the "Options" link on the first page of the ATL Simple Object Wizard or click "Next" which will bring you to the same place.
BTW – if you want to know what the difference is between the different threading models (and why they exist) you might want to take a look at Larry Ostermans Blog post on the subject.
Just hit Finish to complete the wizard – ok, we're done, the next step is to add our specific methods which will define the XML Web Services interface to our project.
Visual Studio provides a number of different 'views' on projects, you've probably already seen this with the Platform Builder project which gives you a solution view and a catalog items view of your operating system – in the ATL/COM object project we want to view the project as a set of classes and interfaces, not as a set of discrete source files – so, in Visual Studio, switch to the Class View.
For this sample I'm going to expose a function (you could expose multiple functions) that returns the current memory load on the operating system, the function is going to be called GetMemoryLoad and is going to return a LONG value (actually, when you see the code you will notice that the function returns an HRESULT, the LONG return value is passed in as a parameter to the function call).
To add the function, Right Click on the ICE6WebService, and select "Add | Add Method"
Enter the Method Name as GetMemoryLoad, select the parameter type as LONG *, and make sure you mark the parameter as "out" and "retval" – finally, give the parameter a name, I chose m_dwMemoryLoad. (Simple!).
All you need to do now is add the code that implements the GetMemoryLoad function – Note that we added the method to the ICE6WebService (the interface), but we add the implementation of the function to the CCE6WebService class.
To add your implementation of the function, click on the "CCE6WebService" class in the Class View, this will show each of the exposed functions from the class (see below) – now double click on the GetMemoryLoad function – this will open the source file for editing.
Here's my implementation of the GetMemoryLoad function – The function actually does very little work, in this case we call the Win32 API GlobalMemoryStatus, which takes a MEMORYSTATUS structure as its input and return type, and return MEMORYSTATUS.dwMemoryLoad from the function.
STDMETHODIMP CCE6WebService::GetMemoryLoad(LONG* m_dwMemoryLoad)
MEMORYSTATUS memStatus;
return S_OK;
That's all there is to building the ATL/COM object! – Now onto the interesting part, generating the WSDL/WSML, deploying the ATL/COM object to the device, and consuming the Web Service from a desktop application – we're nearly done!
Step 4 – Generate the WSDL/WSML file.
There are two ways to generate the WSDL/WSML files from your ATL/COM object, the first is to use the wsdlstb_ce.exe utility that ships with the CE 6.0 product (you can find the .exe here - \wince600\Public\COMMON\OAK\BIN\I386\wsdlstb_ce.exe\)
The command line utility works well, although requires a little detective work on your side to pull together the information needed for the wsdlstb_ce command line.
Here's what you need to provide…
wsdlstb_ce -I <Exposed Class> -P <Class GUID> <ProgID> <Dll Name> <WebServer address and location of WSDL on the server> <name of WSDL file>
Given the project we've just created this would resolve to the following information.
wsdlstb_ce -I CE6WebService -P {19A1F07F-7659-4265-A830-5A13787A2963} ce6atlws.CE6WebService.1 ce6atlws.dll http://192.168.2.10/ce6atlws.wsdl ce6atlws.wsdl
All of the information we need to construct the command line can be pulled from the projects .RGS file – which in this case is CE6WebService.rgs – here's the contents of the file, I've highlighted the parts we can rip straight from the .RGS file, this includes the Exposed Class, Class GUID, and ProgID – the name of the output DLL, the IP address of the target device, and the name of the WSDL are all straight forward.
ce6atlws.CE6WebService.1 = s 'CE6WebService Class'
CLSID = s '{19A1F07F-7659-4265-A830-5A13787A2963}'
ce6atlws.CE6WebService = s 'CE6WebService Class'
CLSID = s '{19A1F07F-7659-4265-A830-5A13787A2963}'
CurVer = s 'ce6atlws.CE6WebService.1'
NoRemove CLSID
ForceRemove {19A1F07F-7659-4265-A830-5A13787A2963} = s 'CE6WebService Class'
ProgID = s 'ce6atlws.CE6WebService.1'
VersionIndependentProgID = s 'ce6atlws.CE6WebService'
ForceRemove 'Programmable'
InprocServer32 = s '%MODULE%'
val ThreadingModel = s 'Free'
val AppID = s '%APPID%'
'TypeLib' = s '{B501EF28-FDC9-4E8B-B1F8-C5C77C48E84F}'
The second method for generating the WSDL/WSML files is to use an updated version of my CEWSDLGen PowerToy utility for CE 6.0 (this is what I used to generate the WSDL/WSML for my project - this simply parses the RGS file, pulls out the bits it needs and auto-generates a CE 6.0 component that wraps the DLL, the COM object registration information [more on this shortly]) and the WSDL/WSML files.
I mentioned that my utility auto-generates the COM object registration information – if we were building a production device that uses XML Web Services we would want to boot the device and have all the COM objects pre-registered in the operating system image, there are two ways to achieve this – the first is to have a process run on boot that loads each COM object (LoadLibrary), calls GetProcAddress on DllRegisterServer, calls the DllRegisterServer function, and the unloads the DLL (FreeLibrary) – this seems to be an unnecessary step, wouldn't it be better to have all of the COM objects pre-resistered on the operating system, so you just boot without needing to register anything?
Here's how the .REG file looks for our ATL/COM object – all of the information needed to create this .REG file is ripped directly from the .IDL file for the project – the .REG file would typically be merged with the CE 6.0 operating system registry file so that the component registration is already part of the boot registry of the device.
; Copyright (c) 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
; REG file created by CEWSDLGen
@="CE6WebService Class"
@="CE6WebService Class"
@="CE6WebService Class"
For now let's concentrate on getting everything working – I can follow up with a discussion on how to get everything integrated into a complete operating system in a later post (let me know if that would be interesting ! - this blog post already feels long!).
Step 5 – Get everything working!
We're nearly there! – Here's what we have so far…
- CE 6.0 operating system containing everything needed to support XML Web Services
- ATL/COM object that exposes a function called GetMemoryLoad
- WSDL/WSML files that define the XML Web Service and the link into the COM interfaces for the exposed function.
We also have two instances of Visual Studio open, the first is our platform development tool, the second is our ATL/COM object development tool – now we need to pull everything together – this involves making a connection from the ATL/COM instance of Visual Studio to the Platform Development instance of Visual Studio – this is where Connection Manager comes in.
Take a look at the following article on MSDN that explains how to get Connection Manager working on your device - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228708(VS.80).aspx – Note that the IP address referenced by this article is the IP address of your emulator image – I will write up the steps for integrating Connection Manager into a CE 6.0 image in another post.
With the connection made between your ATL/COM project and the Windows CE operating system you now have three minutes to deploy your ATL/COM DLL to the Windows CE device emulator – if you don't deploy in the three minutes then you will have to re-make the connection between the ATL/COM instance of Visual Studio and the platform.
There's a good chance that if you are following along with this post that you have built and downloaded a Debug build of the ATL/COM object – Ideally you would want to switch the build settings in Visual Studio to make this a release build. One side effect of building/deploying the ATL/COM object (Build | Deploy Solution) is that Visual Studio will register the COM object on the CE 6.0 device – this is great for testing, but you would really want to have the COM object pre-registered in the CE 6.0 image.
Now that the ATL/COM DLL has been downloaded and registered on the device we now need to 'upload' the WSDL and WSML files.
The WSDL file defines the exposed functions, parameters, and return types for our XML Web Service – the WSML file defines the linkage between the exposed function names and the dispatch ID of the COM interface.
To upload the WSDL/WSML files I'm going to use one of the Remote Tools from CE 6.0 Platform Builder, this is the Remote File Viewer (Target | Remote Tools | File Viewer) – this tool gives you the ability to upload files to a connected device, or pull files from a connected device to your desktop PC.
From Platform Builder, launch the Remote File Viewer (Target | Remote Tools | File Viewer) – you will be prompted to connect to a device – use the "Default Device".
Here's how the Remote File Viewer looks… I've expanded the folder structure on the left side of the application to expose the \Windows\www\wwwpub folder – this contains the file "Default.htm" the default page exposed from the HTTPD web server on the device – this is also the folder that we want to drop the WSML/WSDL files into.
To "upload" a file from your desktop to the Device Emulator use the File | Export menu item (Export really doesn't seem like the right term to use here – I would prefer to see Upload/Download) – Browse to the folder you generated your WSDL/WSML files and 'upload' them to the \Windows\www\wwwpub folder on the device emulator (you can only upload one file at a time).
Here's how the folder should look when you are done.
Right! – Now onto the super easy part, writing the desktop C# application to consume the XML Web Service from our CE 6.0 Device Emulator.
Let's start another instance of Visual Studio 2005, and generate a C# desktop forms based application, add a button to the form, and double click the button, this is where we will add our code to call the XML Web Service.
Since we're going to be calling the XML Web Service we will want to add a Web Reference to the XML Web Service running on the device – select Project | Add Web Reference
Enter the appropriate IP address and name of your WSDL file, and then click Go
If you've done everything right (and what could possibly go wrong!?) you will be rewarded with the Web Reference dialog looking something similar to the following – note that the WSDL has been parsed and the GetMemoryLoad function has been found and displayed (w00t!).
The default Web reference name is "webreference" – I changed this to CE6WebService – to add the Web Reference to your application simply click Add Reference.
Here's the Button Click code.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
CE6WebService.ce6atlws Foo = new desktop_app.CE6WebService.ce6atlws();
int iMemoryLoad=Foo.GetMemoryLoad();
MessageBox.Show("Memory Load: "+iMemoryLoad.ToString());
Here's the result of running the desktop application – click the button on the form, this calls the Web Service running on our CE 6.0 Device Emulator which then returns its current memory load.
We can confirm the current memory load of the actual device by running another remote tool from Platform Builder, in this case the Remote Performance Monitor.
So there we have it… Almost everything you wanted to know about creating XML Web Services in native code to run on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 – there are still a couple of loose ends that need to be sorted out, this includes a breakdown of the ConMan component for CE 6.0, and integrating the ATL/COM object directly into the operating system image so that everything is ready to go at boot time.
Let me know if you have any questions!
- Mike


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A custom built PC offers its users the ability to replace and upgrade the parts inside of it. If one of the components of the PC becomes obsolete, or just not enough to provide the performance needed for a task at hand, the user can replace it with a better one with a relatively small financial effort. In case of a pre-built gaming console this is seldom possible. On the other hand, with the hardware given, developers have to do their best to build their software to run on the given console with the best possible performance…
But let's play the devil's advocate for a while. A pre-built gaming console becomes obsolete much slower than the average PC. Keeping up with all the new technologies and the ever increasing level of detail in video games requires a custom built PC to "replace its parts" far more often than a pre-built console…
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The content and software available for pre-built gaming consoles is limited by the rules and restrictions applied by their respective builders. This is why real money online gaming is not available on devices like the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox, while PC users are free to visit whatever they want. They can go over and claim the Euro Palace welcome bonus if they like, there's no rule that will stop them to do so (except maybe for the laws of their place of residence, but this is a completely different debate altogether). They can switch to another operating system, build their own apps and programs, use the PC for programming, writing, learning or whatever they like – without any restrictions.
There's nothing left but to ask you: which one is the better? Which solution would you choose – a custom built PC or a pre-built gaming console?
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There are many technical advantages to these subnotebooks. These subnotebook computers use optical disc drives. Optical disc drives (ODD) uses laser light or electromagnetic waves as a tool in the process of reading and writing data. Subnotebooks use a solid-state disk or electronic disk. The new technology does not use an actual disk, and they do not have motors and instead the new technology uses integrated circuits to store data. There are no moving mechanical parts, which makes the subnotebooks more resilient and resistant to physical shock. This means is they are dropped they continue to run. This also means that they also run more quietly.
There are many advantages to using Ultrabooks. These portable computers are the most thin and light to carry. That makes them easy to take with you anywhere you go- while you might be reluctant to carry a computer, you are more likely to carry the ultra light subnotebook with you. The subnotebook has a longer battery life so you do not have to worry about plugging it in. It is light so it is easy to carry, so you can hold it or put it in a small bag. The processing time is speedy, meaning you will be able to do your work anytime anyplace.
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I use my subnotebook Ultrabook all the time. I have taken my Ultrabook to the poolside to relax and work at the same time- I can read and respond to my email and I can write sections to a book that I am working on from there. I also use the subnotebook at meetings so that I can take notes during the meetings. It is my most effective tool to enhancing my ability to do work.However, I will admit to a guilty pleasure of listening to my favorite podcasts on my Ultrabook and relaxing. Check out the latest Toshiba ultrabooks at Toshiba.ca and help your student get an A+ today!
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Throughout Season 16 of Dancing With the Stars, the final moments of each Tuesday-night results show seemed to be as predictable as a Len Goodman hissy fit. Like clockwork, the flat-footed celeb who most deserved to be banished from the ballroom that week – Wynonna Judd, Lisa Vanderpump, D.L. Hughley and Sean Lowe, to name a few – was predictably sent packing.
(As if reading my mind, ABC announced today that beginning this fall, results will be merged into Monday night's 2-hour telecast, which should help pack some much-needed punch – and drama – into Season 17.)
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Nonetheless, it seemed time to fasten our semifinals seat belts, because a relatively sleepy competition thus far could only mean the odds of DWTS having a very bumpy – or perhaps even shock-filled – night were extremely high going into tonight's Week 9 live results show.
At least one of the three fabulous female faves who've been dazzling us all season were due for a headline-generating fall, right? Zendaya's not-so-quickstep last night (scoring a dismal 25) opened that door, while Jacoby Jones' predatory Argentine tango (but did it really warrant a 30?) put him atop the leaderboard alongside Aly Raisman, both one point shy of a perfect night. But hold the phones, could Ingo Rademacher's ability to rock a sexy vest (if not a samba) help him sneak into the finals?
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As these questions hung in the air, the soon-to-be extinct Tuesday night filler – such as tonight's musical performances by The Wanted, Avril Lavigne, and behind-the-scenes clips, encore dance, etc. – found a special place in my heart (OK, not really).
But without further ado, here's the real moment of truth — tonight's results:
Zendaya Coleman and Valentin Chmerkovskiy
Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson
Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson
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Nevada Housing Stability Index (NHSI) in the first quarter of 2014 gave
Nevada's residential housing market a "C" grade for the third consecutive
index composite score remained flat from the previous quarter at 2.14, with
improvements and declines reported in a number of individual index
components. Compared to the same period
of the prior year, the index is up significantly from a value of 1.48 and a D+
index is intended to monitor the overall health of the statewide housing market
by taking into account twelve weighted ratios and performance metrics to
develop a measurement of stability. An aggregate grade of a "C" represents an
average quality housing market.
Q1 2014 findings:
A modest price increase in resale values
offset by a slight decline in new home values maintained the median sales price
at $175,000 quarter-to-quarter. In
northern Nevada, median price increased from $208,000 to $220,000; southern,
$173,995 to $175,000.
The share of distressed property sales
improved sufficiently to earn a higher grade.
As a percentage of total sales, 22.2% were distressed, down from 27.45%
the preceding period.
A decline in the community borrowing
ratio and increased share of investor purchases suggest either reluctance or
difficulty for potential homeowners entering the market.
In the Reno-Sparks area, investor
purchases rose 7 percentage points to 29.7%, a significant increase.
A relatively high delinquency rate of 7%
was reported statewide. Southern Nevada
continues to struggle more in this area than the north at 7.8% and 4.9%,
The Nevada Housing Stability Index can be downloaded
from the Department's website at business.nv.gov/News_Media/Publications.
About the Nevada Housing Stability Index
The index is
intended to monitor the overall health of the statewide Nevada housing market
and provide a barometer of market stability. The index is comprised of 12
independent components such as underwater loan percentages, housing turnover
rates, affordability ratios and foreclosure volumes. Each measure is weighted based on relevance
and importance to the overall market's performance. The individual components and composite index
is assigned a grade based on a 4.0 grade point average (GPA), with a "C" grade
representing average quality. Note: Data from prior reports are subject to
revision based on latest information available.
About the Housing
and Data Index Project
Nevada has led the nation in residential foreclosure filings and
negative net equity since the beginning of the housing market collapse.
Researchers agree the absence of systematic housing data has been prohibitive
in the development of meaningful policy and programs that would aid in the
recovery of the housing market. The project, a joint initiative of the
Department of Business and Industry and the Lied Institute for Real Estate
Studies at UNLV, provides a mechanism for extensive collection of data and
analysis of current and future Nevada housing market trends. This data will aid policy makers in
establishing public policy, legislation and programs as well informing the
general public. Project initiatives include the publication of a monthly
Housing Market Report, quarterly Nevada Housing Stability Index and convening a
biannual Housing Market Forum.
About the
Department of Business and Industry
The Nevada State
Department of Business and Industry is a cabinet level agency in Nevada State government.
Our objective is to encourage and promote the development and growth of
business and to ensure the legal operation of business in order to protect
consumers by maintaining a fair and competitive regulatory environment. The
Director's office at B&I manages a number of programs and initiatives to
address the needs of small businesses, homeowners and consumers including small
business advocacy, bond programs, access to capital, housing retention
programs, constituent services and fraud prevention and education.
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo I just got here from Paris from the sunny southern shore, I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my winter's rent Dame Fortune smiled upon me as she'd never done before And I've now such lots of money, I'm a gent. Yes, I've now such lots of money I'm a gent. cho: As I walk a long the Bois Boolong with an independent air, You can hear the girls declare, He must be a millionaire, You can hear them sigh and wish to die, You can see them wink the other eye At the man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo. I stay indoors till after lunch and then my daily walk To the great Triumphal Arch is one grand triumphal march. Observ'd by each observer with the keenness of a hawk I'm a mass of money, linen, silk and starch Yes, I'm a mass of money, linen, silk and starch. I patronized the table at the Monte Carlo hell Till they hadn'y got a sou for a Christian or a Jew So I quickly went to Paris for the charms of mad'moiselle Who's the loadstone of my heart what can I do? When with twenty tongues she swears that she'll be true. From Flashes of Merriment, Levy note: much parodied, though most parodies only utilize the chorus. RG oct97


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This is what you get using just the frame image and a stamp-a-majig! I think it's rather striking stamped in Basic Black on Very Vanilla. I used the stamp-a-majig again to create the sentiment - the word 'just' is from the Hostess set Afterthoughts and 'a note' comes from Thank You Kindly.
Hostess sets are exclusive stamp sets available free to those that hold a stamping party. It really is well worth having a party because as well as being great fun, you get to choose freebies from the catalogue as well as your free stamp set, depending on orders. If you live in the Buckingham area (or somewhere vaguely near!) I'd be delighted to come and help you with a party - just drop me an email and I'll get in touch. If you can't have a party, you might be interested in becoming a 'virtual' hostess by joining my Stampers' 6 club - click here for details.
Here's how to make today's card:
- Take an A5 piece of Very Vanilla card stock and score and fold in half to make a card base.
- Stamp a pattern using the frame image, Basic Black ink and the all-important stamp-a-majig.
- Stamp a sentiment. TIP: Use a Pacific Point marker to colour parts of two or more sentiment stamps and use a stamp-a-majig to position them.
Stamps: Notably Ornate, Afterthoughts (hostess set), Thank You Kindly
Ink: Basic Black
Card stock: Very Vanilla
Other: Pacific Point marker
I dived into a supermarket today to buy some box files (in a vain effort to be more organised!) When I went to pay for them I was a little vexed to be sent off to customer service - apparently there was no bar code on them. But I'm glad I did because, while I was there, I overheard the lady next to me say: "I've just paid for my broccoli and I notice that the cashier has put them through as courgettes... Is that right?" which amused me no end. In the past I've been asked "what are these?" by a bewildered young girl at the cash desk when buying loose garden peas! Children get to grow vegetables and flowers at primary school now but I believe there's a whole generation of people who have no idea what unprepared vegetables look like!
Can you believe that it's Friday tomorrow? I shall have a special project to show you then involving home-baked goodies! Hope to see you then,


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Letters to the Editor
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While well-intentioned, AB 1634 is full of unintended consequences for responsible dog owners. Responsible dog owners will be penalized -- in fact, victimized -- if this bill becomes law, while irresponsible dog owners will flout the law as usual.
If you don't want to ruin your dog with mandatory premature neutering or incur annual fees of hundreds of dollars, read up on AB 1634 and call your Assembly member. Keep in mind that irresponsible dog owners won't abide by the law anyway, so the rest of us will have to pay for another layer of government.
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Comadre a Comadre serves the Hispanic/Latina women and their loved one through advocacy, education, information, services and support for breast health and breast cancer. All the services are free and provide English and Spanish assistance.
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NCCS's mission is to advocate for quality cancer care for all people touched by cancer. Founded by and for cancer survivors, NCCS created the widely accepted definition of survivorship and defines someone as a cancer survivor from the time of diagnosis and for the balance of life.
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SHARE creates and sustains a supportive network and community of women affected by breast or ovarian cancer. All the services are free of charge. They provide telephone support, support groups, educational programs, and advocacy activities.
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As the largest pediatric cancer center in the United States, and the #1 in Texas, this Cancer Center provide medical treatment for patients with childhood cancer and childhood blood disorders. As specialists in the treatment of all pediatric cancer and pediatric blood disorders, and as experts in childhood cancer and childhood blood disorder research, we have developed treatment programs and centers to cure children with the most common and the most rare forms of all childhood cancer and blood diseases.
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Triage Cancer is a national, nonprofit organization that provides education and resources addressing the continuum of cancer survivorship issues to survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals.Triage Cancer offers a national Speakers Bureau of cancer survivorship experts and cancer survivors to provide hospitals, cancer centers, community clinics, professional associations, cancer advocacy organizations, and other groups with tailored seminars, teleconferences, webinars and conferences on cancer survivorship issues. In addition, Triage Cancer hosts cancer survivorship educational events across the country. Triage Cancer also provides online educational materials, articles, and blogs as well as uses social media platforms to share relevant practical cancer survivorship information.
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Yes.. this has just happened. Sephora.com.au has just launched!
One of my favourite beauty online retailers for a while now - Luxola.com has now announced it's rebrand to Sephora.com.au. Now this is insanely exciting for me especially living up in Queensland where we currently don't have a Sephora in our state. With current in-store Sephora brands coming to their new Australian online store over the next few months, this is going to be dangerous for beauty and skin care lovers. Not to mention those who are addicted to shopping online.
I thought I would share with you some of the goodies I have picked up online through Luxola in the past and some newbies as well. My tip for brands to add-to-cart-right-now would definitely be Zoeva (For their Brushes), Sachajuan (For their Ocean Mist), Sephora Brand (Blush/Shadow range) & Make Up Forever (For their Skin Prep).
Coming into summer here I have had some pretty major make-up envy for a warm peachy orange blush or eye look thanks to Ania Milczarczyk. But I think I have found the perfect shade. I picked up the Sephora Colorful in So Euphoric over a month back and have been wearing most days I wear make up. I blend the orange toned peach onto my lid as well as smoke it out underneath the bottom lash line with a pencil brush. I love this shadow because it doesn't give me any fall out while still carrying a good amount of pigment. I also use it as a peachy blush because less is more when you're taking about packing a summer beauty bag!
My second must have for the summer time is a good primer. Not only because if you're wanting to wear foundation the last thing you want is it sliding off your face due to 40 degree heat, but also just to colour correct your skin tone or texture. Make Up Forever has got a girl covered in all arenas. With my skin on the dry side coming out of winter I picked up the Make Up Forever Radiant Primer in Cool Pink around a month ago. After using the primer whenever I use foundation my skin has been brought back from the dead. I would definitely recommend the primers from Make Up Forever if you have certain textures or tones through your skin that you want equalised.
Make Up Forever Radiant Primer in Cool Pink ($68)
Sephora Colorful Blush Powder ($19)
Sephora Body Wash in Coconut ($15)
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ps. I take no responsibility for damage done to your bank account after reading this post, but my advice would be to not shop responsibly.


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The first sneak peek of Big Little Lies 2 is here and we see Meryl!
"I want to know what happened that night."
It's the series we're all hanging out for, well except for Game of Thrones - we saw some a sneak peek of series 8 yesterday and we're pretty keen for that to return too.
Well, Reese Witherspoon has shared the first look at Big Little Lies 2 and we're even more excited than ever.
The first sneak peak shows the five main woman all in a line-up after the *insert spoiler here for those who have seen season one*.
Then we see Meryl Streep asking what happened "that night":
The official premiere date for Season 2 of Big Little Lies has yet to be announced, though Nicole Kidman hinted it would be sometime in June while speaking to Bravo's Andy Cohen.
According to HBO, the second season will explore the "malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and, of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode … the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom."
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Before Amy Shark took home three ARIA Awards, she stopped by Nova's Red Room to sing a few of our favs. Here's 'I Said Hi'
"All the good venues get booked out early!"
"You can't have it both ways."
A rose by any other name (yours).


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The Netherlands
TAP is a specific European project, funded by Erasmus +, which focuses on the 'fight against poverty': 'Together against Poverty'. In addition, organizations from Poland, Estonia, Italy, Romania, Spain and The Netherlands are involved. From the Netherlands the Leido network takes part in the project. One of the goals is mutually exchange knowledge, learn from and with each other to develop products. 'Entrepreneurship' in the broadest sense of the term is mentioned as one of the instruments to fight the risk of poverty and social exclusion. On the website you will find general information: www.tap-project.eu, and the 'Newsletters' about the project. In May a previous progress report was sent to people interested.
TAP meeting with Dutch experts
On 1 July, the Dutch TAP project team convened a brainstorming session with four lecturers of different colleges and with board member Jo Bothmer of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) in the Netherlands. The participating lecturers were Klaas Molenaar (Financial Inclusion & New Entrepreneurship, The Hague University), Nadja Jungmann (Debt and Debt Collection, HU), Louis Polstra (Labour Market issues, Hanze University Groningen) and Leni Beukema (Sustainable HRM, Hanze University Groningen). They are each from their own area of interest involved in questions of poverty alleviation and entrepreneurship.
Objectives of the meeting had a broad exchange of views between experts on the main themes of the TAP project and an inventory of possible contributors to next activities within the framework of the project. Also, Jo Bothmer and project team member Bert Wissink briefly presented materials from respectively EAPN Netherlands and the EBC*L Life Management program.
The session brought us tips and hints for the continuation of the TAP project, but it also produced some relevant critical remarks. Members of the project share the findings in September with participants from other countries during a week in Turin.


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Rohlig Australia expands service offering with 3PL in Melbourne
Rohlig Australia expands service offering with 3PL in Melbourne
Excitement is building in Melbourne as we prepare to expand operations with the opening of a new branch office and warehouse in June. The Melbourne branch will move to Truganina, 21kms west of Melbourne's Central Business District, with access to main arterial roads, freeways and customer distribution centres.
The purpose built 9,000sqm facility contains 8000sqm of warehouse space with state of the art 3PL offering, customs and quarantine approved bond, 40m wide hard-stand, 4 recessed docks, 4 on-grade docks, 15m canopy, container packing and unpacking services. Our team will also relocate to a tech enabled office incorporating the latest office design concepts.
Rohlig Australia's Managing Director, Hany Amer said, "the Truganina facility represents the first step in our national growth strategy and fulfils our client facing commitment to "Expand our Service portfolio". We will now offer clients a greater number of services, giving them more choice and improving the "ease of doing business" with us.
Please view this video link for an exclusive look at Rohlig's new warehouse space and office.
IT integration through EDI ensures better visibility and lowers costs
IT integration through EDI ensures better visibility and lowers costs
By moving from a paper-based exchange of business documents to one that is electronic, businesses enjoy major benefits such as increased efficiency in processing, improved partner relationships, reduction in errors and therefore a reduction in costs.
What is EDI ?
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) enables the exchange of structured data such as transport orders, delivery notes, customs documentation and all other business information to be collected and exchanged electronically and automatically. Exchanging documents electronically improves transaction speed and visibility while decreasing cost of manual processes.
EDI also assists businesses in realising many other benefits and meeting environmental targets.
Business benefits
- Single data entry realises reduction in time, cost and errors
- Business processes can be modelled and are more sophisticated than traditional paper based processes
- Transparency of real-time data in the system allows accurate warehouse inventory
- Resources can be deployed to value adding tasks
Environmental benefits
- Saves energy
- Reduces paper consumption (letters, fax, email printouts, reports) increasing sustainability
- Reduces requirements for additional hardware (tracking and reporting servers, fax, phone,...) lowering consumption
Data protocols & formats
EDI can be processed in various data protocols and formats.
Rohlig supports:
Data protocolls: FTP, Secure FTP, POP3, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, Web Services, X.400, OFTP, AS2, SAP RFC idoc, ...
Data formats: UN/EDIFACT, ANSI X12, XML, CSV, Flat-file, ...
Rohlig supports EDI and integration as 'best practice' for business in Australia. If you would like to find out more on how we implement EDI for our customers business processes, please speak with your local Account Manager.
Rohlig Australia launches Green Transportation option
Rohlig Australia launches Green Transportation option
Offset today and turn emissions into trees
Röhlig Australia is offering customers the opportunity to offset their goods transportation and gas emissions. We provide various types of carbon offsetting products, each of which has benefits, verification and accreditation.
One of the most popular is the Forest Protection option in Tasmania. This project promotes improved forestry management on private land by bringing and supporting groups of local landholders to protect areas of forest that would have otherwise been logged.
Best of all, It's very simple to offset. When a shipment is ordered, simply notify your Rohlig account manager that you want to offset its climatic impact and we will calculate the carbon footprint for that specific shipment or period of time. It's Easy, fast and GREEN!
To find out more on how carbon offsetting works, watch the video below:
Chain of Responsibility Legislation ensures compliance across the supply chain
Chain of Responsibility Legislation ensures compliance across the supply chain
Chain of Responsibility (CoR), part of Compliance and Enforcement (C&E) legislation, has been introduced into Western Australia from 27 April 2015.
This legislation will impose obligations on all parties in the supply chain to ensure the weights of sea freight containers and their contents being transported by road are accurately stated. It will take responsibility beyond the drivers and road transport operators to the consignors of the freight, the vehicle owners, the packers, management and receivers.
All supply chain participants will be required to take all reasonable steps to ensure compliance.
- The general objectives of the national model bill are to:
- Improve road safety
- Reduce infrastructure damage
- Improve deterrence and enforcement
- Promote a level playing field for industry
- Improve business efficiency and compliance
In complying with the legislation we require that all customers supply Rohlig with a Container Weight Declaration (CWD) for Import containers that are not moved through Rohlig forwarding. These will be sent out on a shipment by shipment basis.
Rohlig will complete the CWD for all containers moved through our forwarding as we will utilise the information given to us by Origin and the Supplier.
If a CWD is not supplied then we will be unable to transport your container.
This legislation is of national importance and affects not only businesses in Western Australia but any business that operates nationally and imports/exports with Western Australia.
For additional information on the Chain of Responsibility Legislation please visit Main Roads Western Australia.
Emergency Measures cease for Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs
Emergency Measures cease for Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs
Who does this notice affect?
This notice is of interest to clients in the import and shipping industry, including importers and customs brokers associated with the importation of targeted break bulk and containerised vehicles (including boats), machinery, and automotive parts shipped from the United States.
What has changed?
The Department of Agriculture will cease the emergency measures for the stink bugs from 1 May 2015. This means that target goods arriving on or after this date will no longer be subject to pre-shipment treatment requirements.
For additional information please see the attached pdf.
General Rate Increases (GRI)
General Rate Increases (GRI)
United States and Canada to Australia and New Zealand
Effective June 15, 2015 carriers will increase rates for all cargo and all container types from the United States and Canada via East, Gulf and West Coast ports of load to Australia and New Zealand by the following:
- USD 175 per 20' Container
- USD 350 per 40' Container
North East Asia to Australia
Effective 15th May, 2015 carriers have increased rates for cargo for shipment ex North East Asia to Australia by the following:
North East Asia comprises China, Hong Kong , Korean, Japan and Taiwan.
April Global Economic report
April Global Economic report
See attached pdf for details.
We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing to service your logistics needs. Should you have any questions please feel free to contact your Rohlig Australia Account Manager or Customer Service Representative.
If you believe you have received this email in error or you no longer wish to receive future broadcasts, please reply to campaigns.au(at)rohlig.com and place the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.


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Yet apparently none of this – not the demographic facts, Atticus' denial of being a radical, nor the iconoclast's commentary – prepared readers for the July publication of Go Set a Watchman, which depicts Atticus as a reactionary defender of Jim Crow set against the advance of civil rights. Many readers of Mockingbird never fully accounted for the fact that we receive our understanding of Atticus through the eyes of his eight-year old daughter, whose failure to make the above inferences is not evidence that Atticus is free of racism, but of her limited understanding. These readers projected their own views of racial equality onto Atticus, willing into existence the anachronism of a southerner born in the nineteenth century having the racial views of, say, a liberal baby boomer. I suspect that some readers only remember the film version in any event, which does not contain Atticus' convincing denial of radicalism. And it may be particularly difficult to imagine the liberal Californian Gregory Peck, who portrayed Atticus (listed by the American Film Institute in 2003 as the greatest hero in American film), as thinking about race as a 1930s white southerner did.
While it might then appear that I am in accord with the iconoclastic critics of the Mockingbird Atticus, I am not. I understand the misreading of Atticus in a way that parts company with them. The problem is not, as these critics seem to think, that Mockingbird readers saw Atticus as a hero because they mistakenly thought he was a true racial egalitarian. The problem is that the readers saw Atticus as a radical egalitarian because, for other reasons, he was a hero, and it alleviates cognitive dissonance to believe our heroes are unsullied and uncompromised. Which is to say that, despite my criticisms of the Mockingbird Atticus, he is heroic. Facing considerable risks, he tried to save a man he hardly knew from a false charge of a capital crime.
I have not read Go Set A Watchman, but I'm fairly confident I won't read a more intriguing review of it than this one. The early reviews, at least among my peers, was unanimously harsh. Richard McAdams offers a more complex verdict on the book, one well worth reading to the end of his review for.
I also enjoyed this bit.
When it comes to preventing or correcting injustice, sometimes the world works this way: the courageous but compromised individual accomplishes more than the principled but timid one. Here, I think of the fact that the Yad Vashem in Israel bestows the honorific "righteous among the nations" on non-Jews for having risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, not for holding the best, most enlightened views of Jews. There was never reason to think Atticus had the most enlightened views of African-Americans, but when the racist mob came for Tom Robinson, he did more than speak out.


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Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism: The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung
Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism: The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung
Maxine Jacobson
Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism
ISBN: 9781618114372 (hardcover) / 9781618115218 (paperback)
Pages: 262 pp. ; 10 illus.
Publication Date: March 2016
This book presents the issues and challenges of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America from the 1920s to the 1960s and discusses the economic, social, and political influences that impacted on its development. This is the story of the renaissance of American Modern Orthodoxy, from the disorganization of the older Orthodoxy to the new spirit of confidence that emerged after World War Two. Modern Orthodoxy adjusted to the challenges of modernity and a new environment. Modern Orthodoxy will be examined in the context of Orthodox invigoration and change. By 1960, a foundation had been laid for a movement to the "right," which was marked by the tightening of religious standards. Rabbi Leo Jung is a fulcrum around which many such issues can be explored.
Maxine Jacobson received her PhD in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, though she did much of her research at Yeshiva University. She has since authored chapters in books on Cyrus Adler and Jews in Canada, and has also conducted research on the history of anti-semitism in Canada. She co-wrote "When Orthodoxy Was Not As Chic as it is Now", which appeared in Modern Judaism (October 2011). She has delivered papers on Cyrus Adler and Modern Orthodoxy in America at the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Conference. She is married to Stephen Jacobson, a urologist in Montreal and has four married children and fourteen grandchildren.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
1. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1920s
2. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1930s
3. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1940s
4. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1950s


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Penn endocrinologists work in integrated teams that include specialists from cardiology, women's health, cancer, bariatric surgery, neurosurgery and neurology.
Specialists in Penn Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism are national leaders in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with endocrine disorders including diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal disorders, pituitary disorders, obesity and metabolism disorders.
Congratulations to the 481 Penn physicians listed below who were included in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs™ 2019.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers.
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Last month, the U.S. military celebrated its first on-base "wedding" ceremony for same-sex couples when an Air Force sergeant "married" his homosexual partner at a base in New Jersey. Tech Sgt. Erwynn Umali and Will Behrens, a civilian, "married" June 23 on the grounds of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, where Umali was stationed. "It was a decision that would have been unthinkable just nine months ago, before the law requiring them to keep their relationship a secret was repealed," reported ABC News.
"We are so honored to be a part of this historic moment to be one of the first gay couples allowed to unite in a civil union on a military base," the two men expressed in a statement following the event. "We hope to be an inspiration to others in the LGBT community that struggle with the challenge of marriage equality." The couple insisted that "this issue is not just about the military, but the equal sacrifice and shared burdens of our loved ones who are civilians."
Complicit in the affair was Kay Reeb, a Navy chaplain and minister with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who presided over the "wedding" ceremony. "I told them the same thing I tell every couple — love each other and trust in each other and in God, that's what keeps us together," Reeb said of the event.
In a Facebook chat sponsored by Slate.com, the couple said that officials on the military base were very accommodating throughout the whole affair. "We asked [about holding the ceremony on the base], and they were very open about it, but [said], 'No one has ever asked us this question before,'" Umali wrote in the chat. "We did not get any push back from the base or leadership. All they asked was that we be patient because this was the very first one."
While news reports said that a few dozen family and friends attended the homosexual "nuptials," the immediate families of the men did not approve of the partnership. "Both men grew up in strict religious families," ABC News reported. "Behrens' parents don't approve of his homosexuality, and Umali's parents in the Philippines are still struggling with his homosexuality."
Baptist Press News reported that one Air Force chaplain who attended the "wedding" has since announced that he has dropped his affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention, apparently because of his support of the homosexual couple. Chaplaincy leaders with the North American Missions Board (NAMB), the missions arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, "contacted Air Force Chaplain (Col.) Timothy Wagoner after an Associated Press article appeared in early July describing him as 'watching supportively' during the civil union," reported BP News. "At the time, Wagoner indicated to NAMB that he did not support the ceremony. He also gave assurances of his support for the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and for the biblical definition of one man, one woman marriage."
Wagoner apparently changed his story later, leading to his divorce from the conservative Baptist denomination. "Southern Baptists love and pray for our chaplains," explained Kevin Ezell, NAMB's president. "That being said, we only want to endorse chaplains who can support Baptist doctrine and belief without reservation. When it comes to what our chaplains believe and practice, we do ask and we do expect them to tell." Ezell added that "if an SBC chaplain concludes he cannot conduct his ministry in harmony with SBC beliefs and doctrine, then it is best to part ways."
In related news, on July 19 the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to the 2013 Defense Appropriations bill that would bar the Department of Defense from using any money in the bill to violate the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — the 16-year-old law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman for the purposes of federal business. The amendment, introduced by Representative Steve King (R-Iowa), would effectively ban same-sex marriage ceremonies from being performed at military facilities, and prohibit any military chaplain from performing such ceremonies.
According to TheHill.com, "King said the language, similar versions of which have passed the House before, is needed because of President Obama's growing support for same-sex marriage. King said that support is permeating the federal government. 'We saw the president of the United States make some statements along the way that his position was evolving on marriage,' King said. 'That seemed to be a signal to the Department of Defense, who issued two memorandum."
Those memos opened the door for same-sex marriage ceremonies at military facilities and for military chaplains to officiate at the "weddings," a clear violation of DOMA, King pointed out. "The Defense of Marriage Act means this," he explained: "Marriage means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. And the word 'spouse' only refers to a member of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. Pretty simple statute being contravened by the president of the United States as exercised through the Secretary of Defense. This amendment prohibits the use of military facilities or the pay of military chaplains for being used to contravene the Defense of Marriage Act." The amendment was opposed by rank-and-file House Democrats, and has no chance of success in the Senate.
Meanwhile, the Defense Department is trying to muzzle military chaplains whose opinions are at odds with the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and who oppose the attempts to normalize the homosexual lifestyle among America's fighting force. "If you express difficulties as a chaplain you are specifically ordered by your commanders that you do not speak to the press about your concerns about the repeal process," Col. Ron Crews, a retired Air Force chaplain and executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, told the online Christian Post. "I think there is a double standard. If you are in favor of the repeal and how things are going you can speak publicly about it. If you have problems with it you cannot speak publicly about it."
While the Pentagon has been able to keep a lid on most opposition to the new tolerance for homosexuality, Crew told the Christian Post that "the jury is still out on how this policy will impact the ministry of chaplains long term, particularly those that hold biblical views on homosexuality.... We're still in the relatively early stages of this and we still don't know the long term impact that this policy change is going to make on recruiting and retention of our defense forces, not to mention the chaplain input."


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For 34 years private markets have held sway, with the corollary that the State was inefficient and bureaucratic and should accept its role to get out of the way. Since that Thatcherite-engineered change of culture after 1979 the UK has undergone a major recession in each decade – in 1980-3, then again in 1990-3, and then in 2008-9 the biggest financial crash since 1931 and the longest recession since 1873. Both the frequency and severity of financial collapse has accelerated. The growth of average real incomes per head fell by a third from 2.4% a year during 1950-80 to just 1.7% a year in 1980-2010. Britain's manufacturing base was decimated by the abandonment of State oversight of the nation's strategic economic assets in favour of sell-offs, mainly to foreigners, on grounds that the market knows best. As a result the balance of payments in traded goods plummeted from near parity in the early 1980s to a whopping, and utterly unsustainable, £100bn a year deficit in each of the last 3 years.
Above all, the banks, which at their peak contributed £25bn a year to the Exchequer in corporation tax, ended up costing the country (taxpayers) £68bn in direct bailouts and indirectly hundreds of billions more in soaring national debt generated by special liquidity provision, loan guarantees and asset protection schemes. And even that excludes further dozens of billions in lost revenues to the Exchequer resulting from the deep recession caused by the banking crash, let alone the incalculable losses in tax revenues caused by the banks running amok in industrial-scale tax avoidance. Altogether the central lesson of the last half century is that out-of-control private markets have proved, on every economic and social count, an unprecedented failure.
At the same time the role of the State, played down at best or ritually vilified at worst, has proved uniquely salutary when all else has failed. Only State intervention on a massive scale prevented a global financial crash from turning into 1930s redux, and in the prolonged recession that has followed only colossal State support has kept the UK economy from sinking into the depths of deflation. Successive tranches of quantitative easing (electronic printing of money to keep long-term interest rates low and prop up demand) to the tune of £375bn have been accompanied by ultra-low interest rates, the State underwriting of risk, and active measures to direct credit where it is needed – ironically all Keynesian policies of State intervention which have saved the British economy from Osborne's unnecessary austerity in the teeth of his forlorn insistence that private markets alone should dominate.
But the worm is now finally turning. More and more people are now realising that there can be no sustainable recovery without a more balanced, proportionate, rational and mutually dependent relationship between State and markets. Fleshing that out in theory and practice is a central objective for 2014-15.


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If you hadn't already guessed, we can be a little prudish here at FIVE.
And by prudish, I mean none of us are super into bondage.
Or masochism.
Or Twilight.
(At least, not that I know of.)
If those aren't really your thing either, we have some book suggestions for you. If those are really your thing, we have some book suggestions for you, too.
You can read them after your done with . . .
Between the sheets of this spare little volume lies a sweeping tale of waging war (both political and personal) and making peace (with circumstances, others, and ourselves). Taut, disciplined prose strikes a sharp contrast to epic narrative and lush landscapes, as we follow a young silk farmer back and forth from Second Empire France (and his simply devoted wife) to Shogunate Japan (and the enigmatic woman with whom he is obsessed). Fevers of ambition and passion fuel his quest and keep the always elegant, occasionally erotic, pages turning quickly. The searing conclusion elevates this otherwise Good Read
to something much more profound - an eloquent meditation on the heartbreaking sacrifices we leave on the oft-opposing altars of lust and love.
Looking for a revolutionary book about sex? Look no further than The Feminine Mystique: a seminal and
eminently readable work about the ladies. While I don't agree with everything Ms. Betty Friedan suggests, I don't think there is a woman on earth who won't be able to relate to some of the challenges of "the gentler sex" that she so thoroughly examines. It makes me grateful that we live in a world where I was encouraged to pursue an education and that I have a husband who does as many chores as I do!... (PS. A note to the male readers of our blog:
is the epitome of sexy. Really.)
Where to begin, perhaps with the end. For those of you who do indeed take my advice and read this truly gorgeous piece of writing, the end is not why it's sexy. Okay, moving on.
Arundhati Roy is a shamen of words. There are sentences within these pages that are so beautiful you will read them five times and then weep silently for the next 25 seconds. There are paragraphs that slowly and sweetly swaddle your heart, before tightening around it with a python-grip. You'll sit transfixed by the words, grasping for breath, until they release you to the kind of euphoria that only comes with pain. It is a tale of love, yes, but it is equally a story of shame, and belonging, and suffering, and family, and flaws. It is a book that will force you to wince, to mourn, to feel. And while story itself is not one of romance, the craft behind their telling cannot be mistaken for anything short of true love.
If you've ever read a Russian novel, you know that they usually have at least fifteen important characters - and that every character has at least three or four names. Just keeping track of everything seems like an accomplishment! I definitely felt that way for the first few chapters of Anna Karenina, but as I got into the story, things became more familiar. I saw parts of myself in each character. In Kitty I recognized my idealism and naiveté, in Anna my selfishness and hypocrisy, in Levin my sincerity and indecisiveness, in Alexei my pompous piety and emotional detachment, in Vronsky my shortsightedness, etc. I learned about traits I had never realized – or admitted – I possessed. Through these characters, I really got to know myself. Anna Karenina is a sordid tale of doomed love; it's rife with passion and intrigue, but that kind of goes without saying. What really sets it apart is Tolstoy's incredible ability to humanize the repulsive— and make the foreign familiar. He illuminates some of the deepest questions about
what makes us each human - and
what makes life worth living.
In the mood for a saucy book? Have I got a saucy book for you! Written by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garc a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera is a wrenchingly beautiful story about different types of love and living. Exquisitely crafted to transport you seamlessly across memories, years, and continents, it wraps you in a heavy blanket of lyrical musk, out from under which it's difficult to escape. Oh yeah, there's also a lot of saucy, saucy, action -- oftentimes high-drama and disturbing saucy action!
Now that we've spilled, it's your turn! What are your favorite spicy, saucy books?


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There was a time when I really wanted to be a street style photographer. There were only two problems, 1) I had no skills with photography nor did I own a high-quality camera and 2) I had no style. Beyond those two things, there was really nothing between me and that dream. For those unfamiliar, street style photography is where photographers go out onto the street and take pictures of stylish people.
It was almost as if clothing were made not for agoraphobic heiresses munching decades old wedding cake but for people that might do things like buy groceries, make a pharmacy run, go to a friend's house , or other activities that require one to go out on the street. Well my friends, the time for street style is BLEAK according to Fashionista and I believe it. Here's why.
A new and exciting trend has emerged on the streets of New York where men give free (ie- unsolicited) fashion and beauty tips to lucky ladies that pass their way! For example, the other day I was walking home from a trip to the beach in a pair of shorts and a tank top. The shorts look approximate like this from American Apparel. Linked if you want em and you're a copycat.
A kindly street stylist yelled, "Girl, you look good but those shorts are too short."
Bless the dear man's heart for alerting me to my fashion faux pas! After all, when walking down Ocean Parkway toward my home covered in sand and carrying a food co-op tote bag, I am trying my best to impress and to please, and if God wills it so, to find a suitable bridegroom with whom I can have many strong sons with Old Testament names.
Meghan has chanced upon two street stylists recently, one giving beauty tips and the other affirming fashion choices. Their expertise is eclectic, you see. I am paraphrasing but the one regarding beauty tips went something like this:
Beauty Boy: "Damn girl, you're beautiful." (Or some variation of the same idea.)
Meghan *Stoic silence*
Beauty Boy: Oh except one thing, you should really fix that eyebrow scar.
Now everyone knows that nothing makes a lady feel great quite like having a flaw pointed out to her. It's just a little penny from Heaven on an otherwise lackluster day to be reminded, not only are you not perfectly symmetrical, but there's even more wrong with you! Now, get thee to a laser specialist before your street stylist throws more sass your way!
Another street stylist who was super stealthy inched up behind her (the way good friends do) and whispered, "Hey I like you in them peach pants" straight into her ear. Because besties do that for each other, they share compliments and secrets in EXTREMELY CLOSE PROXIMITIES. The peach pants look like this:
Now it's true that Meghan looks good in those peach pants and it's important that the critical be mixed with the positive if you're going to be an exceptional street stylist. Which is why I was deeply thankful for an encounter with a man who mixed a little of both in his reaction to a particular shade of lipstick I had chosen.
He said, "Those red lips looks nice."
I replied, "Thank you."
He paused a moment and said, "But you know, they're a little smudged."
Seeing as it was 2am and we had been out dancing in a sweaty place playing bad 90s pop (just kidding, no such thing), I HAD NO IDEA that my make-up might not be up to his standards. I looked about like this with slightly more smudging cause it was an hour or so later:
I replied that I knew, that it was late, and that happens to make-up to which he replied "Will you kiss my shirt?" You see, the best street stylists will sometimes play role reversal where you get to give them a signature item or look that makes them street-style worthy. Because I am a killjoy, I did not oblige because I hate to steal thunder AND because this is actually a piece of satire on how gross it is that men on the street are insulting women to bring them down a notch as a means of flirtation and gross objectification. Feminist killjoy, at your service!
And apropos of nothing but the fact that I think we look fucking awesome in it, here are me and Meghan looking like mafia widows at a wedding a few weeks ago with absolutely nothing fucking wrong with us that needs to be pointed out. Except maybe my favorite street stylist suggestion, "SMILE!" Just kidding, that makes me want to chew broken glass.


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In preliminary competition (Rounds 1-5), teams will attempt to win as many games as possible. Teams which advance to championship and consolation play will be based upon the number of victories of the teams. In the event that two teams who played each other have the same record, head-to-head competition will break the tie. In the event that three or more teams in a group have the same record, or if two teams who did not play each other have the same record, average points accrued will break the tie.
The championship bracket will consist of the top four teams. The consolation bracket will consist of the four next-best performing teams.
In preliminary competition, if a team wins by forfeit, they will be awarded a victory. A forfeit will occur if a team does not appear at the match room on time. In addition, if a team does not appear at the tournament by 9:15 a.m., they will forfeit Match 1. If they fail to appear by 9:45 a.m., all of that team's matches shall be recorded as forfeits.
Questions will be in the format of Toss-Up and Bonus. Five toss-ups and five bonuses will be taken from the categories of Mathematics, Science, Humanities, and Social Studies for each match. Four toss-ups and four bonuses will be taken from the category of Miscellaneous for each match.
Generally, the answers listed in the moderator�s question manual are the only answers that will be accepted. However, at the discretion of the moderator, correct answers not listed in the guide may also be accepted. The moderator will be the judge in these matters. In the event of a protest, the head judge�s decision will be final. (See section 8, �Protests.�)
On mathematics questions and some science questions, answers should be given with appropriate units in order to be considered correct. An exception to this rule would be when the question includes the unit to be given. (e.g.--How many feet are in a mile?)
On nearly all questions, last names will be sufficient in answers. Exceptions to this rule are as follows: On literature questions where the answer is the name of a literary character, the character�s first name will be sufficient. On an answer where a last name needs to be clarified (e.g.: Smith, Roosevelt, Adams), the moderator may ask the player for a more specific answer.
Toss-Up questions are worth ten (10) points and may be answered by individuals only without the help of other team members or cues from the audience. The first individual to press the buzzer within the 10-second time limit and be recognized by the moderator is eligible to answer the question. The player must begin the answer within 3 seconds of being recognized. If the answer is not begun within the 3 seconds, the answer will be considered incorrect. If the answer is correct, that team will be awarded 10 points.
Teams shall be given fifteen (15) seconds to work on computation questions.
If an individual responds before the question is finished being asked and gives an incorrect rresponse, the moderator will finish the question, so that the other team may have the entire 10-second time period to answer the question.
If an individual answers a toss-up question incorrectly after the question is finished being read, an individual from the other team may press the buzzer and give an answer, and that team will have the remainder of the 10 (or 15) seconds to do so, or 3 seconds, whichever is longer.
If players on a team confer or talk during the reading or answering of a toss-up question, that team will lose the opportunity to answer that toss-up question.
The beginning of the 10 (or 15) seconds will begin immediately after the moderator completes the reading of the question.
During regulation play, when an individual answers a toss-up question correctly, that team will get the first opportunity to answer a Bonus Question.
Bonus questions are comprised of two (2) parts and are asked after a toss-up question has been correctly answered by a player. A maximum of fifteen (15) seconds will be allowed for teams to confer on a bonus question. However, twenty (20) seconds will be allowed for questions in which computation is necessary. Both teams can (and should) discuss the question during the allotted time. Each team should designate a team captain to represent the team in answering the bonus questions. Only the team that answered the toss-up question correctly may have the bonus question or parts of it repeated.
All talking and writing will stop when the time is complete or the team captain indicates his/her readiness to answer, whichever comes first. No passing of papers is allowed after the team captain has begun to answer the question. The team that correctly answered the toss-up question will have the first opportunity to answer the bonus question. If that team correctly answers any part of the bonus question, they will be awarded bonus points.
If that team answers at least one part incorrectly or does not answer the question, the other team will receive an opportunity to answer the question(s) that were not correctly answered by the first team.
If players continue to talk or write answers after the time has elapsed, or if players continue to pass papers after the captain has begun to answer, that team�s answers will not be accepted.
On a bonus question, 5 points are awarded for each correct answer, giving a possible 10 points for answering both parts correctly.
Each game will consist of 24 toss-up questions. A 60-second half-time will be taken after the 12th toss-up/bonus question. The team that has the most points after the 24th toss-up/bonus will be the winner. In the event of a tie, a sudden death format will ensue. The first team to answer a toss-up question correctly will win the game.
Each head coach will have the opportunity to take one 45-second time-out throughout the course of the game in order to confer with and/or substitute players. In addition, each head coach has the opportunity to make one 30-second substitution. During the substitutions, both coaches may make substitutions but may not confer with players. Coaches may also make substitutions and confer with players during half-time.
The score will be displayed on a board throughout the course of the game. This score will be verified after every 6 questions. After the score is verified by the coaches and moderator at the end of the game, the displayed score becomes official and cannot be changed.
The head judge will record and display all official scores in a convenient place near Tournament Headquarters.
Players may not protest.
Coaches may protest the moderator�s decision, match procedures, and/or the score. Coaches should try to do so before the next toss-up question if at all possible. Moderators should try to resolve all protests using input from both coaches. If a protest cannot be resolved, the head judge will be nearby and available to settle protests. The decision of the head judge is final.
If a coach wishes to protest the accuracy of a tournament question, the head judge MUST be consulted. This is due to the fact that all questions have been researched and verified.
Where the I.H.S.A. rules and Official Rules for the Benton Freshman-Sophomore Tournament conflict, the Official Rules for the Benton Tournament will take precedent.
Teams are not required to participate in uniforms, but they must wear appropriate school attire. Competitors should not wear tank tops; cut-offs; short shorts; clothing that promotes drugs, alcohol, or obscenities; or hats in the building.
All teams must be accompanied by at least one adult coach or faculty member in order to compete.
A minimum of three players must play for a team at all times. A maximum of five players may play at one time. However, there is no maximum number of players that a team may bring to the tournament.
Any competitor is eligible for the Most Valuable Player award. It will be awarded to the player who correctly answers the most Toss-Up questions per match during the preliminary rounds (Rounds 1-5). Coaches should inform the Tournament Coordinator of all players on his/her team that answer an average of 4 or more toss-ups per match. All MVP information should be turned in before the beginning of Round 6.
Each match room will have an appointed moderator and scorekeeper. Student volunteers will be used to time and clear buzzers.
The team that wins that consolation bracket will be awarded the Consolation Title, and the team that wins the championship bracket will be awarded the First Place Trophy. In addition, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Place teams will be awarded trophies. The top four teams will also be awarded 5 ribbons as individual awards. The Most Valuable Player will be awarded a trophy. All awards will be presented following Round 7 in the high school Library.
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What are Commodities?
Commodities comprise the following categories:
- Precious metals (such as Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium)
- Base metals (such as Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Copper)
- Energy (such as Coal, Crude Oil, Ethanol, Gas Oil, Gasoline, Heating Oil, Natural Gas, Propane)
- Agriculture (such as Cocoa, Corn, Oats, Rice, Soybeans, Wheat, Sugar, Cotton, Milk, Orange Juice)
- Livestock (such as Hogs, Live Cattle, Pork Bellies, Feeder Cattle)
Commodities can be owned in the form of real assets (e.g. gold coins), exchange-traded funds (e.g. gold or oil index funds) or mutual funds that track the prices of all commodity categories (e.g. Bloomberg Commodity Index).


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Get ready for a magical Medieval Bank Holiday weekend at Lullingstone Castle!/
BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY & MONDAY 26 - 27 MAY Lullingstone is transformed into a magical medieval village – step back in time to experience the authentic sights and sounds with 'living history' displays (including live firing of cannons and mock battles!), character dress, campfires, tents and medieval weapons, courtesy of the remarkable Woodvilles medieval re-enactment group. Everyone can get involved with the archery sessions – fun for all the family!
11am – 5pm Admission charge £10 per adult and children (under 15) FREE entry.