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Gunslinger's Academy is a Jedi Academy total conversion which aims to bring gun combat to Jedi Academy Multiplayer. Features include new weapons, achievements, killstreak rewards, a new combat system, several new maps, and multiple new gametypes.
With eezstreet and Silverfang back developing Gunslinger's Academy again, new updates inevitably find their way to moddb!
For this weekend only, you will have the opportunity to play online with the latest version of Gunslinger's Academy. More details and information (including...
A new major feature becomes available for all: The Gunslinger's Academy Launcher. Also, don't forget that we are hosting a major online match soon!
New weapons, features, and an idea of what's to come in the next version!
The modern warfare mod for Jedi Academy receives a new patch!
New information regarding 2.4.3, and a chance to pick times for the next Open House!
Yeah, we've been neglecting to do these. Ever since 2.4.0, we've been in development frenzy, constantly adding tons of new stuff to the game. But today...
The newest version of Gunslinger's Academy - the hit modern shooter mod for Jedi Academy - is out now!
Version 2.4 and more! Check out our new features and achievement system!
Today we're showing off a new map that was included in our open house beta (2.2da), it's Trainyard, a map created by J3rk for VIP Escort.
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Silverfang explains his promotion to project leader, and then tells us about what is going on in the modeling department.
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Hollywood titans Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas are adversaries bamboozled by Jane Greer in the 1947 film noir classic "Out of the Past," currently available at home through Roanoke Cox Cable's TCM On DEMAND. If you like film noir, this one's got all the elements you're looking for rolled up in a nifty little package that offers something kind of different. Mitchum looks great in a trench coat. Douglas is a terrific oily scoundrel in expensive suits you don't trust right off the bat. And Jane Greer is a treacherous bad girl that you'll love to hate.
French director Jacques Tourneur, who previously helmed the atmospheric horror flicks "Cat People," "I Walked with a Zombie," and "The Leopard Man," tells this duplicitous tale with an even pace that never drags but is also not quite as fast as its characters. A tough talking mystery man (Paul Valentine) starts the ball rolling when he asks The Kid (Dickie Moore), a deaf mute at a small town filling station, where he can find the owner. The owner, a seeming good guy named Jeff Bailey (Mitchum), discovers mystery man to be a guy named Joe from a forgotten past.
Bailey used to call himself a detective and once went after a missing dame named Kathie (Greer) for a bad character named Whit (Douglas). Joe's visit prompts a flashback that takes Bailey from his quiet California town to the sands of Mexico. It was there he fell for Kathy and got himself into a mess he hoped he had now escaped. But the old days have come calling and they place Bailey into some dirty business with every man and woman being out for his or herself.
There's some great stuff here with a lot of tricky double crosses that boil down to jealousy, greed, and some always important files. There's plenty of cool and zippy dialogue such as when Mitchum tells a guy looking to get tough "I wouldn't; I told you I'm tired of getting pushed around. You'll only get yourself out of breath." The exchange elicits an instantly satisfying chuckle. And when the lazy eyed big Bob Mitchum says it, you know he means it.
His earnest lovey-dovey chats with small town good girl Ann (Virginia Huston) don't ring as true and certainly lack the zip and zing. But they serve as a nice counterpoint, put us firmly in Bailey's corner and give poignancy to his tarnished tragic hero. You will be left, however, wishing Mitchum and Douglas had a big showdown or at least tangled more directly. The focus instead is on their playing people off of each other while being unavoidably driven to ruin by the scheming temptress. It's still fun to watch.


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I'm at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), an institution in the Wisconsin Prison System (WPS), participating in the Earned Release Program (ERP). Sometimes I'm not so bright. In fact, I can make just stupid decisions. When I was a child my arm was broken. The arm was never set properly and as a result the arm has always given me some discomfort. The last few months however; the pain has steadily grown where I have to work around it for such tasks as putting on a shirt. So I put in a medical request form. I suggested that perhaps the lack of exercise is causing the pain, as up until a year ago I was being treated for cancer and I didn't exercise much and since then I've done very little. But with my impending release on Wednesday, I didn't make a good choice ignoring the pain. To my surprise, I was actually seen on Sunday by a nurse right here on the unit. The nurse decided to see me because of my history of cancer. She determined the kind of bone issue I described shouldn't be ignored. Just another example of the usually positive experience I've had with health practitioners while I've been in prison. She decided to refer me to the doctor without performing tests. But she did take a history of how it happened, asking why I didn't address this years ago when I had insurance and why I waited until now. Truth was I didn't want to answer the questions people would have asked related to how it happened, my usual honesty and shame issues. Hopefully, I don't continue that pattern. One nice thing about all my family and friends knowing I went to prison is all pretense is gone. The truth will be revealed eventually whether you want it to or not. The fact I had problems is now known to them. How will they react to me? How will I react to them? I am going to try, despite the loss of family, possessions, career, and money, to hold my head high. The difference between disgrace and shame would be failing to learn the lessons shame has taught. It will be a struggle, make no mistake about that. Charles and Victoria Martin, my adoptive parents, have his retirement celebration coming up July 17th where family friends and acquaintances from years gone by will be in attendance. We'll see then if my words here mean anything. The rest of the weekend was uneventful. ERP group member Scott Dietz had his paperwork signed by a Milwaukee County judge on a weekend. He also inquired about me building websites for his businesses. I'm suspicious of any contact with people from here or promises made but I said sure I'm interested but I'll need a couple of months to get my feet on the ground. But I almost believe him. I talked to my adoptive parents on Sunday as well. They have the bed I slept on as a kid setup in the basement and some simple foodstuffs put up for me there. The internet will be turned on June 25th so I can get to catching up on my Information Technology and programming skills. They gave my parole officer (PO) Helen Gaither the house key which I can get from her on Wednesday but left a door open in the event by the time I get to Menasha, WI after business hours. Of course this tells me the PO and my adoptive parents have been meeting and talking. That makes me a little nervous. But everything seems set. Wednesday can't get here soon enough!
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The Difference Between Disgrace and ShamePosted: January 10, 2012 in Uncategorized
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My ERP Group GraduatesPosted: January 5, 2012 in Uncategorized
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I'm at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), an institution in the Wisconsin Prison System (WPS), participating in the Earned Release Program (ERP). It was Friday, June 10th, graduation day for my ERP group. At about 8:30 am we all went down into the dayroom to setup the chairs for everyone to sit along with 9 or 10 chairs on the left side for whatever people that were not inmates that would attend. They put the Transformer image up on the board used at the last ERP graduation. They've been working on this as part of our graduation project. Then of course we put 10 chairs up front for us. John Lloyd, of course, served as the MC. He read an opening statement but the problem was the same as it was for every person who spoke thereafter. We really couldn't be heard beyond the first couple of seats but we didn't know that at the time. The unit manager then gave a statement congratulating us. We then each read a quote each of us chose along with saying what it meant to us. My quote was "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" by Derek Bok. The gist of what I had to say about revolved around was that getting to know me, about why I think the way I do, recognizing the errors in how I think and how my changes are a result of a decision to change, not the product of the prison staff or programs. I'm pretty sure, though I have a deeper voice that carries pretty well, I'm sure they didn't hear me very well. Our ERP social worker, Ms. Grey, clearly was unhappy with my comments. Oh well. If you've been following this blog, especially prior to my arrival at MSDF you've known this to be true. Afterwards Ms. Grey spoke and handed out ERP completion certificates. These were actually pretty impressive. In order to get my license back I'll need to do an alcohol assessment and this certificate will show I've completed a program. That was followed with a closing statement by ERP group member Scott Bunker. Lest I forget, intern Nikita also made some nice comments while Ms. Carr and Ms. Presley both declined to say anything. After it was over, they handed out cookies to everybody after which we put the chairs away. We went back to our cells to await lunch. News of the carry conceal law came over the news. Cellie Malcolm Johnson said this was great news for criminals like himself because they would just take the guns away from the white people carrying them. And with that he forcefully put his hand at my side to demonstrate. I wanted to say something but I decided to wait until we were alone. About that time Ms. Grey showed up and wanted our Phase I , Phase II, and Phase III tests we had done. It took me a minute but I found them. After lunch, when Malcolm was in the room alone with me. I told him in the future not to put his hands on me. He said alright but didn't apologize which is fine. It wouldn't have been sincere anyway. Fortunately 1 pm arrived and since I'm now a graduate I went to our former group room and played ping pong and took a shower. It's starting to actually set it. It's over! It's not so much joy as it is relief. I said a thank you prayer to God. I called my adoptive parents Charles and Victoria Martin and Charles got the phone line in for my bracelet but didn't have the internet in yet. I also called one of this blogs' sponsors and they are still planning on getting me at the bus station once I'm released. The next step is for the judge to sign my amended judgment of conviction and send it back to Ms. Grey. Ms. Grey will let my parole officer (PO) Hellen Gaither know who will send a C15 form telling MSDF to release me. This process should take 10 to 14 days. Piece of cake considering what we've been through. Don't you think?
Hot As A…..Posted: January 3, 2012 in Uncategorized
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I'm at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), an institution in the Wisconsin Prison System (WPS), participating in the Earned Release Program (ERP). Wednesday came one degree away from setting another record for June 8th – 92 degrees with the same high humidity. It got to the point where they pulled out the huge mobile fans and the ice machine went dry. They had to put restrictions on ice as the machine created more, not allowing anything but cups to be filled. The point is, it was hot again. The tape put over the vent by cellie Larry Sands didn't help at all. Since it was Wednesday there were no ERP groups for anybody. Despite the heat, we were still required to wear the yellow tops in the dayroom or in the rooms. Guard Roscoe Peters showed some degree of compassion by looking the other way at inmates who didn't wear the tops in their rooms until our ERP social worker Ms. Grey showed up. Despite having told us previously not to stay in the dayroom all the time she insisted everyone do so now because she saw one inmate in his bunk. I was already grouchy as it was and this didn't help. Then ERP group member Mark Hogan told several of us that our paperwork for release was not going to be sent to our judges until Monday per Ms. Grey. All the other groups until now have had their paperwork submitted the day before graduation by the Records Department because the person in that job didn't' work Fridays. The unit manager happened to be on the unit having his ear filled by cellie Malcolm Johnson about the perceived injustices done to him. Sands, Scott Dietz, and I approached the unit manager. Sands acted as spokesman. After reiterating the issue the unit manager seemed to not have an answer. He is new here so that didn't surprise me. Speaking of Sands, it looks like Waukesha County is going to come get him for the warrant he has. Its an unpaid fine for a years old obstruction ticket. He wrote the judge asking him that it be made concurrent with his prison sentence but it was denied. Anyway, things were still up in the air as far as our release paperwork is concerned. On top of the heat and everything else, I also found out ERP group member Scott Bunker has got another problem. Us inmates often use earplugs when we sleep to drown out the noise cellies or guards make with electronics or slamming doors, etc. Well the tip of one broke off and got shoved deep into his ear. Health services here said they couldn't see it and if he asked about it again they would refer him to psych services while also charging him twice the $7.50 copay. Turns out, not only is it there, the tip of the earplug is going to have to be surgically removed! With our impending release I wonder how they'll handle that? The night ended as it began. Hot and humid but at least there is relief in store tomorrow.
You're Annoying!Posted: December 20, 2011 in Uncategorized
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I'm at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), an institution in the Wisconsin Prison System (WPS), participating in the Earned Release Program (ERP). After the shocker from yesterday, I had the opportunity to reflect on what happened and carefully read over the document about trying to change my daughter, Lexi's current placement from her mother. They are trying to put her in what appears to be a Foster home. I have come to the conclusion that this might be a good thing. Her mother, Barb prevented me from having much contact with her the last several years. Her potential placement there will hopefully allow me to write, call, and visit her and allow us to rebuild our relationship. That would do us both a world of good. Better yet, I'm being released to that area where she is so I'll be able to pursue this. So, the point is, God might know what he is doing. It's Wednesday and there are no ERP groups but since it's the first or third Wednesday of the month (June 1st) its "Training day" and also means since guard Roscoe Peters is on duty we do a major cleaning of the unit. The new guys are still getting used to him. When you say something to him and he yells "your annoying" or when your doing something and he yells "Holy mother of God" its his way of playing with you while communicating with you. It also allows him to safely vent. While the cleaning was going on, Ms. Presley called me over. She told me she had made contact with the people at the courthouse for Lexi's hearing, and she would wait until tomorrow for them to call to connect me via phone to her hearing, but she wouldn't wait more than an hour. It was much more than I expected from her, considering she isn't an overly motivated person to begin with and she was doing my ERP social worker Ms. Grey's job while she is on vacation. I was happy. In my mind, I was hoping I'd get the opportunity to at least say Hi to Lexi at the court hearing on the phone. Probably not likely though. Things went slowly the rest of the day. My new cellies Malcolm Johnson and Jose Michaels anxiously awaited canteen as this was their first chance to get canteen since they got here. That night was my night to shave my head and I was a bloody mess by the time it was over. I had gotten a razor that was somehow defective. That night ended with Michaels and cellie Larry Sands watching the show "So You Think You Can Dance" without headphones which annoys me but I can deal with it. What caught me off guard was the next morning. Johnson woke up about 5am blowing his nose loudly and leaving the door wide open so that the lights and sounds of the dayroom came in. Michaels took offence at his attitude and called him on it later. Johnson and Michaels would nearly come to blows. Both Sands and I were wanting to stay out of this. It ended with Michaels warning Johnson to stay away from him. That's all I need my final days here huh?
Do You Remember Encyclopedia's?Posted: December 14, 2011 in Uncategorized
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I'm at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), an institution in the Wisconsin Prison System (WPS), participating in the Earned Release Program (ERP). Our ERP social worker Ms. Grey started vacation today (Thursday, May 26th) and she won't be back until Monday. We have a little bit of work but really we're keeping ourselves busy. Cellie Jose Michaels got me turned on to a set of World Book encyclopedias from 2001 that are in the 8 x 12 room called the library. I buried myself with Q-R. It reminded me of when I was a kid. When Charles and Victoria Martin adopted me and we had moved to WI. I buried myself in encyclopedias. Years later I had Google but encyclopedias were special. At 3 am we had the weekly Community meeting. Since our group is now the senior ERP group, the inmate running the meeting was my cellie Larry Sands. He did a good job. Again we introduced ourselves since a new ERP group just started. For once, no complaints about hygiene were mentioned. In fact it went relatively quickly. The big topic of conversation was about the California Supreme Court on prison overcrowding and what impact it might have here. On Friday it was a furlough day. Though we were supposed to be working on program materials the guard let everyone go and do their own thing. He probably was unaware of this. The unit manager showed up toward the end of the morning and told him we should be working on program related materials but then this guard argued back it wasn't his job to enforce rules like that. We figured come the afternoon session we'd be made to go back to work but that didn't happen. The one downside to furlough days is no mail is sent out from the previous day and no mail is given out that day. With the Memorial Holiday coming there'll be no mail until Tuesday. I did get to spend some time with Les Simon who's really struggling with the cultural differences in his cell. It makes me grateful for my cellies. We wear our headphones with out televisions and radios for the most part, leave the cell if we need to fart, are quiet after lights out at 11, and a general peaceful environment prevails. Les has got noisy and inconsiderate cellies. We did hear something interesting towards the end of Friday night. It seems the former swamper who just graduated had talked of robbing former cellie Brian Whalen and of messing with one of the guards after his release, had not kept his curfew once since getting out and has been partying since getting out. Most that know him here are in a mixture of awe and wondering when the other shoe will drop. After all, he's on the bracelet so his parole officer (PO) has got to know, or will know. I have no desire to do what he is doing. There is so much to do after I get out and lets face it, if I screw up there's a pretty good chance my very life is at stake. Saturday provided more evidence that my ERP group is suffering from the shorts, the malady that infects inmates about to be released. Kevin House, Scott Dietz, and Russ Johnson all had run-ins with other inmates, though in Dietz case its just another day at the office. On Sunday John Lloyd had a run-in with a guard which was completely out of character. That same guard, Roscoe Peters, and another guard I'd hear discussing this blog specifically the entry The Instigator. They clearly don't like me or what I had to say. Then Peters saw me and quieted them. Again, at this stage of the game, it matters not. I spent that night watching parts I-II of a special on Milwaukee Public Television on the Korean War which was quite good. It's going to be a hot day tomorrow which is Memorial Day. It should be the last holiday I'm locked up and that makes me happy!
The Final PO CallPosted: December 13, 2011 in Uncategorized
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I'm at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), an institution in the Wisconsin Prison System (WPS), participating in the Earned Release Program (ERP). Wednesday typically has little activity but today was an exception. At 9 am 2 Milwaukee County parole officers (PO) paid a visit to our ERP unit for an orientation to what to expect upon release. They both were female, heavyset, one was black and the other white. They let us know that they were designated to work specifically with ERP offenders. All offenders would be on GPS monitoring or bracelets that monitor alcohol use or possibly both. Curfew is 8 pm and aftercare is required throughout the time you are on supervision. They might talk to other family members or friends and neighbors about what it is you are doing if they have questions about it. This of course drew howls of protests from the inmates. One after another stood up complaining they hadn't been told about this when they signed up at their PRC hearing how unfair it is to stand on them like this, how they have no faith in this program and other really asinine comments. About this time, my ERP social worker Ms. Grey had me go with her for my third and final PO call. My PO, Helen Gaither, is from the Outagamie County office so things will be a bit different. Once we got her on the phone it got to the point really quick. The only question I had was where the PO Office was located and what to do if I got released too late in the day to get there during business hours. That answer was to come in the next business day. She also indicated as soon as the amended judgment of conviction came, sometime after completing the program on June 10th and Ms. Grey sends the C15 to Ms. Gaither she will within one business day, unless it is Thursdays when she does home visits, fax the release order back. If she gets it Thursday, I'll be stuck here until the following Monday. The call concluded and Ms. Grey made the comment that she didn't seem friendly at all. I thought to myself I don't care if she's friendly as long as she is fair. But Ms. Grey said it with a smile on her face, like she thought this was a good thing. The PO orientation wrapped up just as we were leaving. A short while later, Ms. Grey brought the graduation project program sample printout to me. She had altered the 3 dimensional effect I had achieved with the letters of the word Transformer and the bumble bee transformer image. In so doing, the layers slipped below the printout line. She walked away before I could say anything. I just don't care, but the others I showed it to did. But she won't be back until June 3rd so even if she lets me fix it there may not be time before graduation. But on a more happy note. I splurged a bit on canteen this week. I ordered salsa which when applied to food makes food much more tolerable. Perhaps too my taste buds have been lulled to sleep for so long by prison food it doesn't know what to do with salsa! But it was good. We've got 16 days left until graduation and hopefully a soon exit afterwards.


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Re: st: RE: RE: FW: Possible to generate a variable and specifying the label?
Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: RE: RE: FW: Possible to generate a variable and specifying the label?
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:53:42 +0000
I am still a bit fuzzy on exactly what is sought here. But J.J. could
write a program that took on its command line all the instructions
needed, and for all I know one exists somewhere. If so, why is it not
better known? My guess is that you end up typing the same stuff any
way and so there is no real gain in packing it into one long command
rather than two or three shorter ones.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:38 AM, J. J. Wen
> Thank you for your response. Too bad that it is not possible to do that "on
> line", however thank you for the insights!
Jesper Lindhardsen
> I think that would require you to define the label beforehand, which may or
> may not be feasible. So in essence you only "get rid" of on line, that is,
> the -label values- statement (at least in 11.2 ....)
> clear all
> set obs 10
> label define Lab 0 "Zero"
> g var:Lab=0
J. J. Wen
> I am fairly new at Stata 12, so the question I ask might be a bit simple and
> uninteresting for advanced users. I've already tried to look for a solution,
> however I couldn't find any. The problem is as follows: I would like to
> generate a variable including specifying the label name (i.e. I would like
> to generate variable X and at the same time specifying the label name
> instead of specifying it afterwards). Now I've looked at the following:
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?gen and came to the conclusion that generate
> [type] newvar[:lblname] =exp [if] [in] is the command I was looking for.
> tried the following:
> gen NewVar:testlblName = X
> (note: where NewVar is the name of the new variable and testlblName is the
> label name I wanted to give NewVar; please bear with me that this is useless
> command, only used for experimenting with Stata 12 as NewVar would be the
> same as the list of points in X.)
> Could someone give an example of how to correct do this? Or point my
> mistake? I am almost certain that this is possible, however I can't seem to
> get it work.
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ifoundasound Updates LiveProfessor
ifoundasound has updated the beta version of LiveProfessor to v1.2.
Highlights include:
All changes in Beta 1.2:
- MIDI clock.
- MIDI transpose and Key zones (Note that these only work on hardware inputs at the moment).
- MIDI filter.
- Update all snapshots in selected cues function when right clicking on a cue.
- New Horizontal tool bar on each plug-in (click the arrow with the dots).
- Stack mode. Stacks all windows on top of each other and makes them "stick" (Click the new button in the navigator to turn it on/off).
All changes in Beta 1.2:
- Fix: Replaced Start/Stop button in ASIO panel with a "Reset" button, to reset the ASIO device.
- Fix: Plugins in subfolders of subfolders didn't show up right in the plug-in list.
- Fix: Error on load and on open. "A device Id has been used that is out of range for your system." now fixed.
- Fix: MIDI maps not loaded.
- Fix: Switching Controller layers in MIDI map did not update the controller map view.
- Fix: Space bar did not work when renaming units and space was assigned to a short cut.
- Fix: Cancel add workspace created it anyway.
- Feature: Key zones – A plug-in can be set to only work inside a key zone.
- Feature: Plugins and Controller map can now listen to all MIDI inputs at once.
- Feature: Filter MIDI messages. You can now create a list of MIDI messages that's not sent to the plug-in.
- Feature: New horizontal tool bar on each plug-in for quick access to gain, snapshots, MIDI, etc.
- What controls should be visible here is up for discussion.
- Feature: MIDI clock. LiveProfessor can now sync tempo and transport to incoming MIDI clock.
- Feature: Update all snapshots added to the popup window in the cue list. Updates all the snapshots in the selected cues.
- Feature: MIDI transpose on each plug-in.
- Feature: Warning on delete selected cues.
- Feature: Transport controls now available in MIDI control map.
- Feature: New stack mode, stacks all the windows on top of each other.
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Did Prince ever considered marriage seriously in his 20s?
I don't want to start arguments or heartbreaks. I'm talking in very neutral ways here.
Even though Prince was engaged once in his 20s to Susannah Melvoin, it never got to the marriage bit. Prince basically spent his 20s and early 30s hanging out with a different girl each year. It was only till his mid 30s when he decided to settle down and marry Mayte Garcia.
Would you say Prince never considered marriage seriously in his 20s? He didn't seem ready to settle down and made "mistakes" such as making and breaking engagements. Nothing wrong with that - a lot of 20somethings don't feel ready to marry. I'm one of them.
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i'll start with who knows!!! then get to the conversation bit i think you want to have.
i think perhaps his friends were finding permanent attachments and like we all do when our friends
start to settle "oh do i need to do that too?" and perhaps he was trying in on so to speak. feeling
out what it would be like to be linked to 1 (or 2 or 3 ) people. i think he proposed to those whom he could most imagine a life when he was ready. No offensense to anyother women who he asked or
married You all were special, but i think that his relationship with Shelia E and the fact that it apparently survived a proprosal and breakup and then went on from there to collaboration was
as close to a true marriage as I THINK he experienced. it seem to contain all the elements.
TO HAVE THE ELEMENT OF RECONCILIATION. so for whatever reason their relationship was able to
go full cirlcle. i think having the full scale artistic family and motivation to move on without him helped him feel that she wasn't there because of who he was. i think that this kind of love that
moves beyond the butterfly stage is what long marriages are made of. i think they loved each other
past the butterfly your a enigma stage. MY FEELINGS TO POSTERS QUESTION. best!!
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"Climb in my fur."
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He asked Sheila E. to marry him at one point, I believe around the Sign 'O' The Times era, which would make him in his late 20's then.
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I think Prince being caught up in heavy doses of 'euphoria' via the music the community and needing to get out messages of love, I do believe he considered it strongly with Susannah & then Sheila E.
A Liar Shall Not Tarry In My Presence
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Kids today and their terrible musical choices. I tells ya
Posted April 18, 2018 into Music by John Birmingham
... Although it's not so much the music as the box it comes out of. I just sat and suffered through some terrible song Thomas was playing on his iPhone speaker as he cleaned up the kitchen.
It might have been punishment for making him clean up the kitchen, but I think probably not. I've noticed both kids, and all their friends seem perfectly comfortable playing their music loud though phone speakers that really weren't meant for broadcast.
They do this even when there's a nasty cheap ass Echo a few feet away. It would sound a helluva lot better than that tinny phone, but they go the phone.
I didn't think taking the time to plug into a stand alone speaker, or hook up to a bluetooth box was an old man thing, but apparently it is. Because of my little problem (I can't stop buying headphones and speakers) we have an embarrassing number of options for play thru all over the house.
But no. Both kids prefer to just flick on the phone and jack up the volume.
Where have I gone wrong?
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Dirk asserts...
Posted April 19, 2018
1. Automation: kids nowadays things happen automatically. It starts with feeding, going to and from school, cleaning of cloths etc.
It goes further with internet connectivity and play back. If it ain't coming out of the box, it's ment to not come out of the box. And if the wifi doesn't kick in, well then their gemoungous 4g datapacket kicks in. Hell is to be payed only when when connectivity is somehow not possible. But that tends to happen with genetically implanted implements.
So you need giving them training and grooming. I recommend Pavlov on that subject and, needs be, jumper cables and a car battery.
2. Medical: the human brain is finished about the 21st year of life. Girls are quicker, boys slower. Girls generally speaking have less interest in music though. And boys learn that porn doesn't need a soundtrack nor a plausible storyline.
3. When I was young, me only looking at a hifi system, was a precursor for grievous bodily harm administered by my old man. Ok I'm spicing that up a bit: he was a great guy, with a lousy taste in music. For your average CIA blacksite, I recommend the complete works of James Last. The war on terror can be over in 6-12 hours.
So to answer your question: where did you go wrong?, I have to respond with the words of the famous philosopher J. Rabbit: I'm not bad, I'm just drawn this way.
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I showed them though, I made them to go to the pub with me and then proceeded to buy them beers, and then I sang 'The ballad of Chasey Lain ' by the Bloodhound Gang, at Karaoke that night.
Kids these days, I tells ya.
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The girl has no taste and listens to ever changing popular crap that 10 yo girls listen to and it hurts ALL our ears. The constant refrain is, "Moo, put you headphones on or turn that crap off!" It works.


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Includes 11 locations in the following areas:
- United States: CA, FL, IN, MI, TN
Summary: This is a location list of House of Jerky stores roadside convenience stores.
Idea: RonJS posted Thu, 09/02/2010 - 2:44pm in the What poi's would you like to see on here thread:
For hundreds of years jerky has served as a food for travelers. How about a POI file of locations to find quality, craft made jerky's? Ron
See, http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14024?page=18
Details: Jerky is meat that has been cut into strips, trimmed of fat, marinated in a spicy, salty, sweet rub, or liquid, and dried or smoked with low heat (usually under 70 °C/160 °F) or is occasionally just salted and sun-dried. The result is a salty, savory, or semisweet snack that can be eaten fresh, or be stored for a long time without refrigeration.
The House of Jerky stores was founded in 1994 in Temecula, CA as a roadside stop that sold their own brand of jerky. Since that time, House of Jerky has grown into a store chain found on both sides of the Mississippi that offers typical and not easily found game meat jerky.
Purpose A purpose of this POI is to provide a location list for all House of Jerky stores. The location information was obtained from http://www.houseofjerky.net/store/index.php?main_page=page_2 While a POI file of locations to find quality, craft made jerky's would be nice, I don't know of such an address list. If someone has one, please provide it to me and I'll make a POI from it.
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So for my birthday treat, since it's fall, and i looooove the fall, i think i'll need to indulge in something pumpkin. After checking my pinterest board, it seems there's an inordinate amount of bacon, cheese, and bacon and cheese baked in bread...so i had to look a little harder for something pumpkin. But i'm taking this mission very seriously.
This was the first choice-it's the salted caramel-ness that screams "make me" but she just made some delicious pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting, and this might be too similar. Next year, salted caramel, next year.
Pumpkin. Spice. Macaroons.
or, you know....these salted caramel ones won't be turned away.
How 'bout this? It's isn't pumpkin, but it's definitely fall.
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The first game in the Boy's Varsity Division matched second-seeded Lyons Community High School and seventh-seeded Manhattan Business Academy.
Lyons Community, playing in front of their home crowd, jumped out to an early 22-6 lead. But MBA stayed calm and closed the gap to 28-27 at the half. Led by Coach Steve Revell, Lyons Community came out of the half with renewed energy.
Lyons took advantage of some cold shooting by MBA and cruised to a 70-44 win. The leading scorer for Lyons was Jahmere Coles with 22 points, while Ryan Bartons dropped 12 for Manhattan Business Academy.
The second game in the division matched NYSAA newcomer and three-seed Brooklyn Prospect Charter High School against former NYSAA champion and this year's six seed, Brooklyn Latin.
In the their only regular season meeting, Prospect topped Brooklyn Latin by more than 20 points, but the playoff meeting proved quite a different contest.
Neither team led by more than four points, and Prospect had a late lead until Brooklyn Latin finished the game on a 7-2 run over the last two-minutes led by guard Kyle Tobia's seven fourth-quarter to notch a 58-48 win.
Brooklyn Latin was led by Tobia's 20 points, while Prospect's Dylan McAlman stuffed the stat sheet with 13 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and six steals.
Brooklyn Latin will meet Lyons in the semifinals this week.
On Saturday, the playoffs continued in Jamaica with fourth-seeded Cristo Rey Brooklyn squaring off against fifth-seeded Northside Charter High School.
Northside Charter came out the gates with their aggressive defense and was able to control the tempo of the game against the larger Cristo Rey. Northside had the lead going into the half.
However the second half was a different story. Cristo Rey came out with a defensive mindset and turned the game around. They went on a 15-0 run early and were able to take a commanding lead the remainder of the game.
Joey led Cristo Rey to the win with 17 points, 15 rebounds, and seven steals. Northside's Isaac Liano had 12 points and three rebounds.
In the second game, defending champions and top-seed Innovation Charter High School went up against rival Martin De Porres High School.
Martin De Porres used their size in the front court to out-rebound and score early on the smaller Innovation, who lost just once in the regular season. However, led by league MVP candidate Donate Walker's 15 points in the second half, Innovation was able to cut the lead to six with three minutes to go.
But key baskets by senior Alyle Ali, who led the team with 31 points and 15 rebounds, and freshman Jaheim William sealed the 75-59 upset for De Porres.
Donte Walker led Innovation with 31 points and 14 rebounds.
Martin De Porres will face Cristo Rey in the semifinals.
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We cannot reasonable expect that Omar Quintanilla will be a long term option at shortstop. While we debate how we are going to strengthen the outfield in 2014, one could argue that the shortstop position may be the largest gap the Mets need to fill moving forward. The problem heading into the offseason is that the focus may be on acquiring an outfield bat. This may leave shortstop as an open competition between Ruben Tejada and fill-in-the blank journeymen middle fielder comparable to the incumbent, Quintanilla.


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New Education Principles 101 Textbook: New Education Principles 101 will revolve around a list of Educational Priorities and selected online essays. Find essays by scrolling down this page. Instructor: Mba Mbulu
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Class #4
(1) We must make certain that Black students see themselves and their people playing typically progressive human roles in typically human developments and appropriate historical developments.
(2) Black teachers must make young people realize that teaching the truth is not an illegal activity. Black teachers must not be afraid to teach the truth.
(3) Black teachers must make young people realize that the truth supercedes financial considerations.
Class Assignment
Read the following essay [Message To Black Students]. Be able to relate that essay to the educational priorities listed above. Also critically evaluate Sentence #1, Sentence #2 and Sentence #3.
Essay #4: An Educator's Message To Black Students
All of Us are students and all of Us are teachers. These are two vital roles that each person plays because each person is a receiver and transmitter of information. As a student, information is coming at each of Us non-stop from all angles, and We are consciously and subconsciously analyzing it. This information, needless to say, is influencing Our behavior. Therefore, We must be careful to analyze as much of this information as thoroughly as possible, and maximize Our ability to distinguish between good information (a good lesson) and bad information (a bad lesson). Likewise, as teachers, each individual is consciously and subconsciously sending out information and messages to whomever might be watching or listening. Therefore, somebody is always learning a good lesson or a bad lesson from each of Us. For that reason, each of Us must be careful about what he/she says or does, and thereby maximize Our chances of teaching good lessons to others.
In the United States, there are very few educators who are willing to buck the system in order to teach Black students what Black students need to know. Most educators will take the easy way out because it involves less stress and leads to bigger and bigger paychecks. They will not teach Black students what Black students need to know (that is, educate Black students) because educated Black students would use their knowledge to make Black People powerful.
Why is that? Because one of the natural roles of students is to make their people a powerful people. If their people are already powerful, one of their roles to to keep their people powerful. By selling out to the powers that be, Black educators fail to give Black students the opportunity to carry out one of their natural functions. As such, Black educators rob Black students of their most important mission in life and contribution to society. In order to recover from this robbery, Black students must seek out the educators that will tell them what they need to know (the nonconformist professors and independent writers and researchers) and listen to them carefully. What they will tell you will be very similar to what you read in this essay.
Students, take heed: Nature thrives on simplicity. The complications in life are man-made. In order to bring this lesson home to you, I am going to introduce three very simple sentences. However, if We were to break each of these sentences down and define its key terms to finer and finer degrees, these simple sentences would begin to appear extremely complex. I said they would begin to appear complex. In reality, they would remain simple (Nature thrives on simplicity), but they would appear complex because human beings are prone to react to appearances as if they were the real thing. Reality and appearances are two entirely different existencies that represent entirely different manifestations of energy. We, Black People, can ill afford to take an appearance and treat it as if it were real, nor can We afford to take a real thing and treat it as if were an appearance. How do We tell which is which? It helps if We remember that reality is always simple.
Reality is always simple and the solutions to reality's problems, if put into effect when they should be put into effect, are always simple. But the fact that reality is always simple does not mean that reality is always kind. There are times when someone or something will have to suffer, and We have to face up to this unpleasant fact. As educated persons, We have to recognize that suffering is part of the life process, but We also have to make sure that excessive suffering among Our people is not due to unnatural imbalances. If Our People suffer due to an unnatural imbalance, then it is the role of educated Blacks to help eliminate the cause of that unnatural imbalance. We have to devise strategies whereby the suffering is transferred from victims to abusers. This is a critical process, indeed, since victims suffer excessively because an unnatural imbalance has been generated, while abusers suffer excessively when an unnatural imbalance is being corrected. [Top][Education101][BuyBooks][TheBlackEye]
Sentence #1: There is a Black way and there is a white way.*
What is a way? A way is a systematic manner of doing X, Y or Z. Since society uses institutions to carry out functions, a way is a combination of institutions that make up a complete social system. The Black way includes a Black system of Government, Religion and Economics. The Black way includes a Black system of education, a Black approach to Health and Nutrition, a Black system of developing and maintaining Family Relations, Community Relations and Interpersonal Contact (dating, marriage, community events, sports activities, etc.). There are Black ways to handle all of these areas of human contact, but Black People in the United States don't know anything about them. If one talks to Black People in the United States about government, they respond by bringing up the president, the congress, the mayor and the constitution. If one talks to Black People about economics, all they can relate to is getting a job and looking out for #1. If one talks to them about religion, they come back with Jesus Christ, Baptists and Catholic sentiments. And so it goes throughout. There is a Black way and there is a white way, but Black People in this country know only about the white way, even if they tend to colorize it from time to time.
Why don't Black People know as much about the Black way as We know about the white way? Shouldn't Black People be practitioners of the Black way instead of the white way? I think so.
Sentence #2: In the United States of America there is only one way-- the white way.
We are all taught about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Henry, etc. These men, all white, played major roles representing the right of the white colonists to govern themselves. Gabriel Prosser, Peter Poyas, Denmark Vesey and Imari Obadele, all Black, played major roles in representing the right of Black People to govern themselves, but We never were taught anything about them. Why?
Thomas Paine, a white man, wrote documents that detailed the oppressive conditions heaped upon the white colonists by King George. Thomas Paine's name resonates throughout American history. David Walker, a Black man, wrote about the oppressive conditions heaped upon Black People by white Americans, yet history says nothing about him. Why?
Our educational system sings the praises of white men such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison and Eli Whitney. They made scientific contributions that improved the quality of people's lives and improved society. But Black persons like Granville Woods, Sarah Boone, Garrett Morgan, Frederick Jones, Lewis Latimer, Jan Matzeliger, Norbert Rillieux and thousands of others are never mentioned. This in spite of the fact that Black men and women contributed such everyday inventions as high tech telegraphy, the most effective and universally used train conduction communications system, the automatic traffic signal, the electric light bulb that works, the telephone, the refrigerator, the refrigerated transport systems used in the transporting of foods, the sanitary public bathroom used on busses, trains and planes, the automatic clothes dryer, the first effective gas mask, the ironing board, the universally used sugar refining technique, the universally recognized process that made mass production of shoes possible, the principle that led to the invention of the air conditioner, incandescent street lights, the lawn sprinkling system and a host of other inventions. These invention make life as We know it possible, yet these Black individuals, in spite of all that they have contributed, are not part of the educational process. Why?
We are taught about the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights movement and Integration, all slanted in a way that serves the purpose of white people. However, have We heard about the Black general strike, the maroons (some of their settlements were larger than some states) and Black Nationalism? Information on these subjects will help Us understand that We have been misinformed about the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, civil rights and Integration. But We are not provided with this information. Why?
We need to look at Our Black skins and ask Ourselves why We know about white people and white accomplishments but not about Black People and Black accomplishments. We need to look at Our Black skins and ask Ourselves why We have settled for an education that has left Us out. Our education, Our years of formal schooling--- by omitting intelligent, gifted and accomplished persons who look like Us, and by omitting the ideas, contributions, standards and morals they represented-- that education has made it easy for Us, Black People, to conclude that We are zeroes. That education has also convinced Us that the only way a zero can become anything of value is by hooking itself onto something that has value; that is, something white.
Therefore, each Black student, at this very moment and without even being aware of it, has concluded that he/she is a zero and has started looking for a non-zero to hook onto. Since a non-zero cannot be Black, each Black student is searching for something white to give him/her worth; a white/integrated ideology, a job with a white company, a white mate, a house in a white neighborhood, taking on white "tastes", overemphasizing white speech patterns, attending a white college or graduate school, etc. An all Black thing? A non-integrated thing? No way! Why? Because 0 + 0 = 0.**
That is white America's message to Black students; 0 + 0 = 0. That is the lesson We are being taught, that is the lesson We are learning and that is the lesson We are trying to get an "A" in. We are not taught that Black counts, that Black has value. Why? Because in the United States of America, there is only one way--- the white way. [Top]
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We are Black People, We are not dark-skinned white people. We need a Nation of Our own.
Once a Black student goes beyond white America's educational process, he/she discovers that there is a mountain of proof that attests to the value of Black People. A student also realizes that Black People are an exceptional People, that We have a right to establish Our own government and that We actually need a Nation of Our own in order to make the progress We are capable of making. Black students who go beyond being "white educated" soon realize that Black People have three choices: (a) We can help the whites wipe out the Black way; (b) We can let the white way drain Black People of Our essence so that We become dark-skinned white people; or (c) We can establish an independent means by which the Black way can express itself and make its genius known. Those are the options that are facing Black students and teachers in the United States today, and each student and teacher needs to think long and hard about those options.
Black students who are fortunate enough to be able to pursue an education beyond the high school level should beware. The nature of formal education in this country is such that the further you go the whiter you become. That is true even if you attend a so-called "Black" college, since "Black" colleges are primarily passing on white values. Your challenge then, is to not lose your sense of self, your Blackness, as you go through the educational process. Your challenge is to not fall into the "every Black person for himself" frame of mind. Your challenge is to resist the tantalizing but deceitful call of white power, white dollars and white priorities, and to refuse to compromise your Black essence. Your challenge is to use what you learn to draw closer to your People, to understand why you should become more committed to your People and to do what you can to advance your People and yourself within the proper context, the context of the Black way. You have to constantly keep this challenge in mind, make it a part of your heart and enable yourself to choose your Black substance over white seductions.
At some point each student will have to make a choice. At some point a few students will be offered money, status, the vestige of power, etc., to desert your Race. The choice will not be presented to you in such clear cut terms, but that is what it will amount to; and you need to think clearly or your tendency will be to give the white way more credit than it deserves.
The consequences for Black People have been grave when We have paid a high price for whiteness. However, if you prefer the white way, then follow it 100% without trying to run a double game on Black People. You have the right to do that. Fortunately some other students, those students who choose the Black way, will determine the destiny of Black People. Those students will relearn what it is to be Black, attach value to it, apply it and spread it to others. It is those type of students who will take Black People to a real state of equality, not only with white people but with all of the peoples of the world.
I salute the students who have chosen, who will choose, the Black way. They are smart enough, gifted enough and strong minded enough to appreciate the fact that We are Black People, We are not dark-skinned white people. We need a Nation of Our own.
*Sentence #1 is very simple. However, persons who want to obscure the issue and make the simple seem complex might recognize that there are three key words in that sentence-- Black, white and way. By defining each of those terms, a simple sentence that is focussed can be made into three definitions that lack focus. If there were three key words in each of the three definitions, then Sentence #1 would be transformed into 9, 27 or 81 definitions, each less and less focussed. As such, a clear issue can become clouded, something simple appears complex and the thought processes of a lot of people become confused.
**A Black student plus something else Black is 0 + 0, and 0 + 0 = 0.
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Those of you who are still holding out for the launch of the Nike Mag should keep your eyes peeled for the next 24 hours or so.
The power-lacing Nike Mag, which sneaker collectors have been eyeing since its big reveal almost a year ago, will finally be released on October 4th.
According to Sneakernews, interested parties will have to make a charitable donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to enter the lottery. From there, random winners will be picked out. All proceeds will go to the foundation, which performs research on Parkinson's Disease.
Although the lottery is a departure from the auction format that Nike talked about last year, it's still an interesting way to raise money for a good cause and keep sneakerheads happy. Just be sure to download the Nike+ app and check it regularly for updates.
Meanwhile, you can visit the Nike SNKRS site, which has been updated with a Nike Mag page that includes a teaser clip and the release date "10.04.2016".
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Installing spyware on the PCs in your organisation can be good for employee discipline, a software developer has claimed.
"Employees perform better under constant supervision. A real-time computer surveillance system is a perfect manager's tool to monitor employees and provide instant feedback," said Refog Software, which is based in Russia.
The company said that its KGB Employee Monitor software can be run visibly or invisibly, and "is ideal for improving employee discipline, uncovering industrial espionage and detecting information leakages before the damage is done."
As with other spyware programs intended for legitimate uses, such as monitoring your children's PC usage, the $149 program records keystrokes, logs clipboard entries and websites visited.
It also takes a snapshot of the active window on the user's desktop either at pre-set intervals or on every mouse click, and can be tuned to monitor only certain applications, sending time-stamped reports by email or FTP and then cleaning its cache to cover its own tracks.
Refog said that KGB Employee Monitor, which is a network edition of its KGB Spy stand-alone tool, monitors staff in real-time, as well as via emailed reports. The spyware can also be set to send an email alert when the computer user types a specific word, such as a forbidden term.


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It's pretty free-form: for 4 weeks starting on Sunday February 1st, participants create one new thing a day. Choose your own themes, one per week (I don't know if I'll do this). Work in any medium. And post your work on the group blog every day. Again, I don't know if I'll post stuff on their blog, but I did sign up just in case. You can do that from their site here.
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If you are at a party, barbecue, tail-gate or other social event the topic of middleware or middle-tier may come up. This article will teach you enough to join in or maybe more importantly to walk away.
There are a lot of different languages used to build web applications. The key point to remember is that all of them end up generating HTML code that is returned to a browser. This article is going to focus on key areas of Java environments.
Key technology components developers may need to learn independent of vendors:
- Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
- Web Services
- Object Relational Mappers (ORM)
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- Java Frameworks and Design Patterns
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
This technical foundation is based on proven industry standards. Defining this technical foundation is helping organizations understand the skill sets their teams will need to support current and future web-based applications.
The ability to quickly build composite Internet applications is very important to a lot of organizations. This can significantly reduce costs and time to market. The ability to have a high degree of reuse is also an important key for this. The tools we've listed have become a popular way to achieve these results.
The ability to quickly build composite Internet applications is very important to a lot of organizations. This can significantly reduce costs and time to market. The ability to have a high degree of reuse is also an important key for this. The tools we've listed have become a popular way to achieve these results.
Terminology and Concepts
The following are high level definitions of key technical features, concepts and terminology:
- Eclipse, NetBeans and JDeveloper - These are Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) used by developers to build web-based applications. There are wizards and interfaces for developing with J2EE, SQL, HTML, Web Services, SOA, JSF, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, Struts, etc. This IDE should be looked at as a development environment for developing database and Internet applications.
- Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) - J2EE is an industry standard for developing enterprise multi-tiered applications. J2EE is an architecture and framework for enterprise wide applications. J2EE applications include JSPs, JSFs, Servlets, ADF Faces, EJBs, etc.
- Struts and Frameworks (ADF) - Struts is a J2EE development framework that is based upon best practice design patterns for building Web applications. Struts is based upon the Model-View-Controller that separates User Interface, Business and Data logic. J2EE frameworks can be complex and it can be difficult to determine how to organize different components. Struts helps organize J2EE components into a well organized Web application. Spring is a multi-layered Java/J2EE application framework.
- Hibernate and TopLink - Object Relational mappers that manages the communication between Java (object-oriented) applications and the database (relational).
- XML - XML has become the universal language for transmitting data structures independent of the environment. J2EE, Web Services, SOA and BPEL use XML.
- Web Services - Web (software) Services uses XML standards and transport communication protocols to exchange data between applications. Web services allow different types of applications to communicate. Web services are standards that define the semantics for how software communicates.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - SOA is an architecture that defines how loosely coupled software services communicate with each other. SOA increases reusability, that allows different software services to identify and communicate with each other.
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) - BPEL is a standard for organizing reusable web services into more than one type of process flow.
- Identity Management - Identity Management provides enterprise management of user identities across resources inside and outside the firewall.
- Single Sign-On (SSO) - SSO provides unified authentication allowing a user to logon once and SSO will manage single sign-on capability across applications.
- Clustering - Clustering spreads software components across multiple machines for high availability and failover. Clustering has techniques for keeping the different platforms synchronized.
Current tools hide a lot of the technical complexity behind middle-tier solutions. However, dependent upon the customizations made to applications, developers may need a strong understanding of the technical components of middle-ware technology.
There are three types of developers that need to learn the products in the middle-tier Technology Platform:
- Traditional Developers - Developers that have used Oracle Forms, Reports, Discoverer, PowerBuilder, Cobol, Visual Basic, C/C++, etc. are going to need to learn the technologies supported in Internet development environments. Most Java developers are going to have to be knowledgeable with some or all of these technologies.
- Traditional Applicaiton Developers - If you are a developer who has customized Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, SAP, Retek, Stellent and you are not likely to hit the lottery jackpot, then learning to develop web applications is in your future.
- Internet Developers - Developers building Internet applications are likely to work with some or all of the products we have discussed in this article. Internet developers may be working with Eclipse instead of JDeveloper, or Hybernate instead of TopLink or Apache or JBoss. However the principles of Frameworks, ORMs, Design Patterns, J2EE, Managing Web Services, XML and SOA are still going to be technical areas that need to be understood. Internet developers may also be using PHP, Python, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Groovy or other web development solutions.
It is important to understand that components such as J2EE, Web Services, XML, SOA, etc are not just tied to any vendor. They are based on open standards. Skills in the technology discussed in this article are incredibly valuable in any Internet development environment. LAMP or some variation of LAMP can provide some very powerful yet very inexpensive solutions compared to large vendors such as IBM and Microsoft.
These open standard components are moving into your future like a freight train. They require skills that are going to be incredibly marketable and valuable in the future.
These open standard components are moving into your future like a freight train. They require skills that are going to be incredibly marketable and valuable in the future.


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Exane BNP Paribas has downgraded HeidelbergCements rating to "underperform" from "neutral" but raised the price target to EUR32.00 from EUR30.00.
Exane analyst, Paul Roger, reduced his expectations as the result from a survery provided a negative outlook for the European region and leading indicators were weak. Europe generates about one-third of HeidelbergCement's buisness.
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The Complete Guide to Receiving Protection from the High School Bully In One Video!
A video surfaced a little while ago on USA Today and other media outlets regarding the amazing behaviour of a group of 5th Grade students at the Franklin Elementary School in Mankato, Minnesota. You just have to watch it.
You can watch the video here: [youtube id="xdeuivQYnas" width="600″ height="350″ autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]
It is a wonderful story of support and friendship and how a positive relationship with a bullying victim can be a transformational event in a young and vulnerable person's life.
I began to think back to my own experience.
There I was, attending the Littlehampton School on Day 1 of my high school career and meeting David, the high school bully, standing by the school gates and picking on every new student he could find.
I was one of those victims. I was one of those vulnerable kids.
I wish that I had five friends at the Littlehampton School who did for me what they did for their friend at the Franklin Elementary School.
It is because of my experience way back then (when dinosaurs still roamed the land, according to my kids!) that I feel so passionate about the work that we now do with respect to bullying and harassment.
Having legislation (as we do here in British Columbia, Canada) helps a great deal but it is still not enough.
Inform, instruct, train and demonstrate. That is what is needed to create a sea-change for those victims of bullying and harassment.
Organizations must be proactive in their activities towards bullying once their policy has been written and in place. Please do this…no lip service!
Employees including managers and supervisors should be aware of their roles in relation to preventing and responding to workplace bullying and have the appropriate skills to take action where necessary.
Such information about workplace roles and training to improve communication and relationship skills can be provided through a variety of educational opportunities.
The onboarding experience for new employees should include information on:
- The standards of behaviour expected in the workplace including the use of social media
- What is and what is not bullying and harassment
- How workplace bullying should be reported and how such reports are managed
- Where to go for more information and assistance
Training for current employees can be delivered in any number of ways but it should include:
- What is and what is not bullying and harassment
- Awareness of the impact certain behaviour can have on others
- The health and safety duties and responsibilities of every employee, supervisor and employer relating to workplace bullying
- Measures used to prevent workplace bullying from occurring
- How individuals can respond to workplace bullying
- How to report workplace bullying
- How workplace bullying reports will be responded to including timeframes
Managers and supervisors should also be trained in how to respond to workplace bullying reports and in skills that will help them notice nuanced signs of problems. Also, how to develop productive and respectful workplace relationships.
Looking for Red Ford Mustangs helps!
See: https://www.fioregroup.org/workplace-safety-seeing-whats-right-in-front-of-you/ for details on that!
The demonstration part is everyone's responsibility.
Not just Human Resources, not just the boss…EVERYONE is responsible for the culture of a workplace…..being responsible and demonstrating that responsibility are two very different things though.
Those five students at the Franklin Elementary School knew the difference.


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Easier is Better
Take life a little easier with tips from Dr. David C. Kolbaba. Dr. K answers listeners questions about issues relating to digestive disorders and body odor. Find out how skin plays an important role in your health and what you can do to protect yourself from environmental toxins. Facts about aluminum and its connection with Alzheimer's disease are covered. We say here at HealthQuest…."You are what you eat, You are what you…everything!"
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January 14th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Okay, I will now be waiting with baited breath to learn why the body places aluminum in the brain of all places. I have toxic levels of it in my body, tests have shown, so this is important to me. My mom used to cook with aluminum pots and pans and I've heard that acidic foods like tomatoes leach aluminum into whatever you are cooking. Oh, yea, and we wrapped sandwiches in foil, too! Yea, she's got the senile thing going…