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Targeted at Growth Markets in Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Southeast Asia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – August 5, 2014 – Today at the Asian Utility Week conference, Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI) announced an expanded relationship with EDMI Ltd., a global smart meter solution provider, to offer smart city and smart energy solutions in several new regions. Following the successful first phase of deployment with the Singapore Power Group, Silver Spring and EDMI will offer their integrated solutions in Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Southeast Asia. Through the expanded relationship, Silver Spring will also leverage EDMI devices as control nodes to help manage and monitor intelligent street lights as part of the Silver Spring Smart City Solution.
"Asia is home to some of the most rapidly growing cities on earth and, along with this growth, we are seeing unprecedented demand for infrastructure modernization in new regions, and for new smart energy and smart city applications," said Eric Dresselhuys, Executive Vice President of Global Development and Sales, Silver Spring Networks. "EDMI is an industry leader in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Europe, and we're delighted to expand our partnership to ensure we are offering more choice to our smart city and smart grid customers across the globe.
"Silver Spring is widely recognized as a market leader and, in partnership with EDMI in Singapore, has successfully begun delivering one of the region's most sophisticated energy network modernization projects," said KM Lee, Group Managing Director, EDMI. "Building on that success, we are proud to extend our partnership with Silver Spring to meet the growing demands in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Europe. Silver Spring's open, IPv6 platform is proven worldwide and we are excited to jointly deliver new innovations to a wider customer base."
Silver Spring has connected over 18.5 million homes and businesses across five continents, and works with leading utilities across the world and global cities including Copenhagen, Dublin, Miami, Oslo, Paris, and Donnugan and Foshan in China, to deploy smart city applications such as intelligent and adaptive street lights. With more than 125 partners in the Silver Spring Partner Program, the open, standards-based Silver Spring IPv6 network offers customers choice and support across a broad range of smart infrastructure vendors.
For more details on partnering with Silver Spring Networks please visit www.silverspringnet.com/partners.
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About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. Silver Spring's pioneering IPv6 networking platform, with over 18.5 million Silver Spring enabled devices delivered, is connecting utilities to homes and business throughout the world with the goal of achieving greater energy efficiency for the planet. Silver Spring's innovative solutions enable utilities to gain operational efficiencies, improve grid reliability, and empower consumers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver Spring Networks' customers include major utilities around the globe such as Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, Commonwealth Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Progress Energy and Singapore Power, among others. To learn more, please visit www.silverspringnet.com.
Amy Cook
Global Communications
Silver Spring Networks
About EDMI
EDMI Limited is one of the leading smart metering solutions providers in the world. EDMI is focused on designing, developing and manufacturing innovative and technologically advanced energy meters and metering systems for the global utility industry. EDMI's metering portfolio includes a comprehensive range of premium quality metering products, advanced infrastructure and energy management systems. With over 30 years' experience of manufacturing smart meters and millions of EDMI smart meters installed worldwide, EDMI's products are tried and tested, giving customers the confidence of working hand in hand with a company with a proven track record. EDMI is owned by Osaki Electric Co., Ltd., a Japanese metering solutions provider listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.edmi-meters.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about Silver Spring Networks' expectations, plans, intentions, and strategies, including, but not limited to statements regarding Silver Spring Networks' relationship and offerings with EDMI. Statements including words such as "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or "future" and statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions, which, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include those described in Silver Spring Networks' documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Silver Spring Networks as of the date hereof. Silver Spring Networks assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.


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We joked half-seriously that the GPS seemed fixated on Mountain View as every trip we made in the area led us back through that heart, if that is the right word, of Silicon Valley.
People live where they are suited and where the ambience reflects their personality. Appropriately, an institutional church lives amid the glorious ruins of a collapsed imperial centre which it once served then succeeded. A post-modern company like Google, for whom hierarchy seems quaintly redundant, which delivers information and services to virtual individuals in the ever more radiant Cloud of Knowing which is the internet, which wants to take over, or at least cover the world as a service to humanity, what more suitable place than California? The western land of aspiration become the realm of dreams, the place of gold become the land of plenty. The end of the great march to freedom and prosperity, settling down at last in a society of phenomenal instability intoxicated by the infinities of pleasure.
Having said that, they are nonetheless very nice people. When we arrived, the receptionist was not there but a note asked us to check ourselves in on the computer, help ourselves to drinks and snacks and wait. We looked at the relic of the first great Google computer that generated so much heat that its internal fans took up most of its space and the amazonian trails of wires made one wonder how it could ever have been fixed. Probably they didn't fix it, just invented a better one. It was only twenty years old, reminding us of the phenomenal speed of the growth of the global knowledge industry and this company's brilliant attunement to the raging hunger of our time for quick answers and virtual community.
One in five Americans are supposed to aspire to working at Google. Perhaps this is why those who do work there look as if they have won the lottery but can't quite believe it (and with share options many of the early employees did just that). They have ideal working conditions. As we were shown round it felt more like a spa or recreation centre, free food (no one works more than 100 feet from a (healthy) snack counter, six different cuisines for the predominantly Asian work force, massage rooms, quick nap pods, exercise rooms, pool and just places to chill out. Executive perks for everyone. Not like the Vatican I think.
People seem reluctant to admit that they actually work here and they laugh off the idea that there must be something controlling all this success and happiness. Americans have always made the old world feel resentful or suspicious of their innocent pursuit of pleasure. Why, we feel, can't we make work more like fun or a substitute for the great metaphysical questions that have so tormented our culture until very recently? Why does the high-minded pursuit of meaning and truth have to be so painful and create such a trail of loss and failure?
You see it sometimes in the way an adult listens to a child or adolescent who is quite evidently talking idealistic nonsense. The older person looks on in admiration, knowing full well it is not ever going to work, but aware that the only way it could work is if you believe in it that intensely. California is the symbol of this realizable dream. It has its ugly landfill areas of failures and dark eruptions of the human shadow but they are zoned away out of sight and out of mind. We need ideals more than facts. Utopias underpin our most disastrous social experiments.
Google HQ is not the Vatican or even the White House and certainly not like Lambeth Palace. But it thinks global and has idealism. Like anything focused on success it has had to compromise on its ideals but it doesn't dwell on this aspect. California doesn't do guilt. It is confidently secular, not anti-religious at all, but free and subjectively flexible about what spiritualities work and what don't. It's true this may lead to arrested spiritual development; but it feels better than the other kind of arrested development found in a religious institution that seeks to dominate in different ways.
Then there's meditation. A modern, successful corporation like Google sees meditation as a life-skill, an invaluable tool. It makes the stuffier corridors of power, religious or commercial, look very one-dimensional. Of course, California thinks it discovered meditation and is now in the process of improving it. Ancient traditions might feel miffed at this. Or they might feel they have something to learn just from the excitement and freshness of new-order people who might think they have all the answers, but at least haven't yet made the big mistakes that the old systems feel they have so strenuously to deny.
Laurence Freeman OSB
The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)

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Orange Grove Sink Dive Plan
By Bob Rosell
Orange Grove is located in Peacock Springs State Park.
180th St
Luraville, FL
Phone #:
386-776-2194 (Administration Office located in Live Oak)
Opening hours:
Peacock Springs State Park is open from 8:00 am to dark, 7:00 pm in the summer, 365 days a year. Diving hours are from 8am to 5pm. You MUST be in the water and starting your last dive of the day by 4pm, and OUT of the water by 5pm.
Driving directions from Dayo Scuba Dive Center:
Peacock Springs State Park is Approximately 2.7 hours drive time from Dayo Scuba Dive Center.
· Leave the dive center and turn left (south) on Executive Dr toward Gay Rd right onto Lee Road
· Turn left at Gay Rd, and then right onto N Orlando Ave/US-17/US-92
· Turn right at W Fairbanks Ave/FL-424A/FL-426, and continue to towards I-4, make a left to merge onto I-4 W
· Take exit 82A to merge onto FL-408 W Toll road
· Take the exit (you actually merge) onto FL-91/Florida's Turnpike toward Ocala, heading north.
· The turnpike merges with I-75 North in Wildwood, follow this until you get off on exit 399 in Alachua, which is after Gainesville.
· Go right (west) towards High Springs. In High Springs take a left at the stoplight with the Hardees on the right corner.
· About two blocks take a right at the stoplight onto Rt 27 west.
· Go west on rt 27 until you get to Mayo, Florida. Rt 27 goes through Ft White, then Branford where it crosses the Suwanee River. You pass by a sign for Troy Springs even.
· When you get to Mayo, at a stoplight, take a right onto Rt 51 east towards Live Oak and Luraville.
· After crossing the bridge over the Suwanee River, you are in Luraville, Florida. Not much there except two dive shops, Cave Excursions and the Dive Outpost, and a country store.
· In Luraville, take a right onto 180th. There is a flashing yellow light there and the Luraville country store there also. Follow 180th down to the park which is two miles down on the right.
Entry Fee:
Dive fees are $4 per car as at March 2011. There is an iron ranger-honor system in place. Stop just inside the park gate, remove a blue envelope, put the appropriate fee inside (cash/cheque only), remove the detachable portion to display on your windscreen, and put the envelope into the iron ranger. If you wish to purchase a yearly pass (best value, can be used at ALL state parks), see the park ranger. This costs $60.00 + tax (cash/cheque/credit card).
Place your certification card face up your blue ticket/state park pass on the windscreen where it will be visible to the park rangers.
After passing the iron ranger, Orange Grove is the first spring you come to 50 yards straight ahead, you may park to the left or the right. Please park together if possible.
Amenities available at Orange Grove:
· Gear benches, racks and a changing room
· Picnic tables, a grill and a pavailion
· Restrooms (port-a-john) on site
· Electricity and running water are not available.
Diving Orange Grove Sink:
* All divers must show proof of certification before diving (or be under the supervision of a diving instructor). Dive within your certification level.
* There are six sinkholes within Peacock Springs State Park, open water diving is permitted in Orange Grove spring ONLY.
* Dive within your depth limitations, i.e. open water divers are restricted to a depth limit of 60 feet.
* It is the policy of the Florida Park Service (FPS) to prohibit open water divers from carrying lights in Orange Grove, or entering into the cave system.
* Solo diving not permitted in Peacock Springs State Park, if you do not have a buddy, you may not dive there.
* Other rules at Peacock Springs State Park: No scooters (DPV's), no ATV's and no fishing.
Divers should gear up at the gear benches. Take only the gear needed on the dive down to the spring itself. Lock all other gear and items in you car, as the park is not responsible for anything lost or stolen. All buddy teams will do a pre-dive check before entering the water and buddy checks before descending. Entry is via the steps, or by giant stride at the left of the steps. Water level can vary, watch for underlying rocks!
Orange Grove sink is quite large, it drops off from a depth 25 feet around the end of the steps to 50-60 feet, after which you are in a cavern zone. DO NOT ENTER THE CAVERN UNLESS YOU ARE CERTIFIED TO DO SO. There are a bunch of fallen trees at the deeper section of the sink, which are cool to swim around, and there is a ledge cut into the wall at the 20 foot range which is pretty nice to check out. The bottom is a mix of rubble, sand and clay.
View out through the trees at Orange Grove
Wildlife you can expect to see when diving here are sunfish, catfish, small turtles and crayfish. PLEASE RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND WILD LIFE.
Maintain visual contact with your buddy or instructor, and maintain proper buoyancy and to avoid silting the area. Flow from the spring is extremely low, so anything silted up will remain in the water column for a long time. Always give right of way to exiting cavern and cave divers. Perform a safety stop at 15ft/3M after all dives.
Special note
Be aware of divers on deco in the area. Do NOT touch any bottles that hanging from the lines on the steps, or at the entrance of the cavern. These are not treasure!, they are vitally important to exiting divers to complete their decompression.
Do NOT enter the cavern unless certified to do so.
Water temperature and condition:
Water temperature in Orange Grove is generally 72F year round. A 3mm wetsuit with hooded vest or thicker is recommended.
The sink is usually covered over in a thin layer of duckweed. This is completely harmless to divers, and is good for water quality!
Duckweed stops algae from growing underneath in the water which would deteriorate water quality. However over the summer, water temperature in the basin can increase dramatically (low 80's), causing a large algae blooms and decreased visibility. Visibility ranges from 30 feet in Summer to 80+ ft during the colder months.
Emergency Procedures:
If anyone becomes low on air, signal your buddy with the appropriate hand signal and begin your ascent. In the rare and unusual case of an out of air situation, signal your buddy and commence sharing air. Maintain buoyancy and ascend slowly, remembering to breathe continuously.
In the event that you are separated from your buddy follow standard procedure: search for one min (remember to look up and around, and for bubbles also). If you are unable to find your buddy ascend and meet up on the surface. Your buddy should also be following these procedures.
If your buddy is not on the surface within three minutes, contact others in your group to find out if he or she has been seen/already exited the water. Air supply allowing, search the area where last seen. If the diver is not found, activate EMS.
Emergency Contact Information:
911 - This will activate EMS in the Luraville Area
Always call DAN after 911 in the case of a dive emergency which may require medical attention. DAN will refer you to the closest available Hyperbaric Chamber.
In case of a Diving emergency:
The closest Hyperbaric Chamber to Orange Grove is at:
Shands Hospital at the University of Florida Hospital,
Gainesville, Florida 32610
DAN should be called in the case of ANY diving emergency!
Have a safe and enjoyable dive!


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MoneyBeat Winners and Losers: Twinkie's Sweet Return
America is a winner now that Twinkies are back on shelves. Who else made the list? David Benoit counts down the suspects.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Lawyers have a problem with the idea that something is inherently unbelievable. At least some lawyers do. And it's a shame.
The reason is partly innocent. Trial lawyers become very habituated in, inured to, ensconced in (I think that about exhausts the thought there) a "process" for finding the truth, and the idea that there is some other means of identifying the truth that does not involve that process is thus a bit alien to them. The truth is found by examining and cross examining and arguing the points. That's how we do it, and we lawyers are society's truth finders. We are the high priests of truth finding. We work at the altar of the bench and bar.
But it's also partly not-so-innocent. Any other mechanism for truth finding is a threat to the lawyer's high priest status, and income and wealth and power and all that. This is particularly true if the "other mechanism" might be better at determining the truth than the one lawyers regularly wield.
Inherently unbelievable is just such a threat.
I bring you once again to the Ashley Baker statement. It is inherently unbelievable. No one has to cross-examine her or otherwise test anything that isn't already known to such a high degree of certainty that it qualifies as Truth with the capital 'T'.
The context is important, as I have said before. But in this instance context only drives the point home, the point being that the Ashley Baker statement is a deliberate fabrication. But before we even get to that, we should understand that the statement reveals itself on its face. At least, lawyers should understand this.
Consider the story the statement actually relates. Shaun Theriault and Todd Gaddy are talking in Mark's pizzeria in Mt. Morris, NY. Ashley Baker overhears just one thing from this conversation: Shaun Theriault saying "Sephora was the driver." That's all there is until later that evening when she mentions what she overheard to Todd, who then provides the context: Sephora was the driver for the Geneseo robbery.
Now of course theoretically such a thing is possible. Let's get that out of the way. But as a practical matter, in light of experience it is not possible [see People v. Galbo, 218 NY 283 (1916)]. People do not remember isolated, disembodied statements that mean nothing to them, that are the equivalent of a random group of words. But that is precisely the story that the Ashley Baker statement tells: at the time she supposedly overhears this sentence out of the mouth of Shaun Theriault she would have no idea what it meant. Sephora was "the driver" of what? For whom? When?
In other words, the story the Ashley Baker statement tells never happened. Even if such a sentence had been uttered by Shaun Theriaut – which, in context, is itself so unlikely that the idea is not worth considering – Ashley Baker simply could not have remembered it.
And there is another thing to consider, this too being inherent in the Ashley Baker statement itself: how could Ashley Baker have been in a position anywhere in a pizza shop where that one, isolated and disembodied sentence from Shaun Theriault was all that she would overhear, without hearing something else that would provide some context for it? Shaun Theriault did not (this should be obvious) walk into the pizza shop, go up to Todd Gaddy and say "Sephora was the driver" and walk out. This, too, is impossible – not in theory, but in practice. But then how can Ashley Baker overhear and remember only that one thing? Other things would have to have been said, at roughly the same time, that would have provided a context and thus made the sentence "Sephora was the driver" intelligible to Ashley Baker; yet the statement itself says otherwise.
But the rudimentary laws of physics that everyone knows come into play. In other words, a person could not be physically positioned such that only the one sentence would be overheard. Yet the statement purports to represent that only that one sentence was overheard, a sentence that would moreover have had no meaning whatever to the person who supposedly overheard it.
The story of the Ashley Baker statement is thus so unlikely from both the lay-physics and the lay-neurology involved that it isn't worth serious consideration. It is inherently unbelievable. No context is even necessary to reach this conclusion.
But then, when we actually do consider the context it is obvious that this inherently unbelievable statement is not a random and incoherent event; rather, it has an obvious – if criminal – purpose: to falsely implicate Sephora Davis as "the driver" for the Geneseo robbery, meaning in turn that whoever generated the inherently unbelievable statement must have had information tending to indicate that she was not "the driver". Then we consider that the statement's scribe – Dana Carson – was in fact, precisely, the only public official absolutely known to be in a position to have such information on the date the Ashley Baker statement was generated, based on the records of the police themselves.
This means, with a degree of certainty that is not attained even by DNA tests, that Dana Carson was there and then engaged in a conspiracy with at least Ashley Baker and Eric Harder (the rapist) to generate false evidence and perjury to the effect that Sephora Davis had been "the driver" for the Geneseo robbery. Put another way, it is a 100% certainty, based upon unimpeachable evidence generated by the culprits themselves, that there was a conspiracy to falsely implicate Sephora Davis and that the conspirators included at least one police officer.
This was a potentially capital federal offense by the conspirators. See 18 U.S.C. 241, 242.
Under the circumstances one would think that Sephora Davis would be entitled to some kind of relief. But because the system is truly, truly broken in so many ways, this has for some reason become a difficult question. Although a seriously criminal conspiracy is shown and it involves at least one public official acting under color of state law, the law of the United States – that is, federal law – is not even certain that this constitutes a violation of Sephora Davis' rights. Not even when it resulted in the deprivation of her liberty, which is supposed to be a constitutional value of some weight.
Or maybe it is certain. But somehow, somewhere some confusion has set in. Or we have forgotten, much as we have forgotten that some things are simply true and others are simply false and some evidence is inherently unbelievable.
We need to recover these memories. We are floundering, and leaving our beloved truth finding process at the mercy of morons who commit easily perceived fraud – at least when those morons are police and prosecutors.
That is intolerable. And that is what the Sephora Davis matter has always been about.


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Apollo 1.7.1 STOMP Protocol Manual
- Using the STOMP Protocol
- Stomp Protocol Options
- Client Libraries
- Connecting
- Destination Types
- Topic Retained Messages
- Reliable Messaging
- Message Expiration
- Subscription Flow Control
- Topic Durable Subscriptions
- Browsing Subscriptions
- Queue Message Sequences
- Using Queue Browsers to Implement Durable Topic Subscriptions
- Exclusive Subscriptions
- Message Groups
- Temporary Destinations
- Destination Wildcards
- Composite Destinations
- Message Selectors
- Destination Name Restrictions
Using the STOMP Protocol
Clients can connect to Apollo using the STOMP protocol. STOMP provides an interoperable messaging wire level protocol that allows any STOMP clients can communicate with any STOMP message broker. It aims to provide easy and widespread messaging interoperability among many languages, platforms and brokers.
Apollo supports the following versions of the STOMP specification:
The specification is short and simple to read, it is highly recommend that users to get familiar with it before using one of the many available client libraries.
Stomp Protocol Options
You can use the
stomp configuration element within the
connector element
in the
apollo.xml configuration file to change the default settings used
in the STOMP protocol implementation. The
stomp element supports the
following configuration attributes:
buffer_size: How much each producer or subscription will buffer between the client and the broker. If not set, it will be auto tuned between
20kdepending on the number of connections open on the broker.
add_user_header: Name of the header which will be added to every received message received. The value of the header will be set to the id of user that sent the message. Not set by default.
add_timestamp_header: Name of the header which will be added to every received message received. The value of the header will be set to the time the message was received. The time will be represented as the number of milliseconds elapsed since the UNIX epoch in GMT. Not set by default.
add_redeliveries_header: Name of the header which will be added to messages sent to consumers if the messages has been redelivered. The value of the header will be set to the number of times the message has been redeliverd. Not set by default.
max_header_length: The maximum allowed length of a STOMP header. Defaults to
max_headers: The maximum number of allowed headers in a frame. Defaults to 1000.
max_data_length: The maximum size of the body portion of a STOMP frame.
Defaults to
die_delay: The amount of time to delay in milliseconds after an
ERRORmessage is sent to the client and the socket is closed.
The stomp configuration element can also be used to control how the destination headers are parsed and interpreted. The supported attributes are:
queue_prefix: Defaults to
topic_prefix: Defaults to
path_separator: Defaults to
destination_separator: Defaults to
any_child_wildcard: Defaults to
regex_wildcard_start: Defaults to
regex_wildcard_end: Defaults to
any_descendant_wildcard: Defaults to
It also supports nested
add_user_header elements to more finely control how
user headers are added to received STOMP messages. The
add_user_header element
should contain the name of the header to set on the STOMP message. It also
supports the following attributes:
separator: If user has multiple principles which match, this separator will be used to delimit them in the header. If not set, then only the first matching principle will be set in the header.
kind: The principle kind to look for. Defaults to
*(matches all principle kinds)
<connector id="tcp" bind="tcp://0.0.0.0:61613">
<stomp max_header_length="10000">
<add_user_header separator=",">user</add_user_header>
Client Libraries
There are many open source STOMP clients for different platforms and languages. You can find a full listing of available clients at:
The Apollo distribution ships with an
examples directory
where you can find some simple examples of how to use some of those
clients to send and receive messages from a broker instance.
This section will focus on clarifying the parts of the STOMP specification which allow servers to choose their behavior and to describe how to access Apollo specific features.
The default broker configuration secures access to the broker so that only
admin user can connect. The default password for the
admin user
Example STOMP frame to connect to the broker:
STOMP 1.0 clients don't specify which virtual host they are connecting to so
the broker connects those clients to the first virtual host defined in
it's configuration. STOMP 1.1 clients must specify a virtual host when they
connect. If no configured virtual host
host_name matches the client's
requested host, the connection is terminated with an ERROR. Therefore,
it is critical that the virtual hosts configuration define all the
possible host names that clients may connect to host with.
Destination Types
Apollo supports three types of destinations, queues, topics, and durable subscriptions.
The difference between queues and topics is how messages are delivered to consumers. A queue will load balance it's messages over the connected subscribers so that only one subscriber gets a message. Topics replicate every message sent to it to all the connected subscribers. Queues hold on to unconsumed messages even when there are no subscriptions attached, while a topic will drop messages when there are no connected subscriptions.
A durable subscription allows you to create a subscription against a topic which will queue messages even after the client disconnects. Clients can reconnect and consume the queued message originating from the topic at a later time.
If you want to send or subscribe to a queue, topic, or durable
subscription the STOMP destination should be prefixed with
/topic/ or
/dsub/ respectively.
Example STOMP frame sending to a queue:
hello queue a
Topic Retained Messages
If a message sent to a Topic has the
retain:set header, then
the message will be 'remembered' by the topic so that if a new
subscription arrives, the last retained message is sent
to the subscription. For example if you want a topic
to remember the last price published you can send a message
that looks like:
You can also send a new message with the
retain:remove header
to have the topic forget about the last retained message.
Note: retained messages are not retained between broker restarts.
Reliable Messaging
Apollo supports reliable messaging by allowing messages to be persisted so that they can be recovered if there is failure which kills the broker. Processing persistent messages has orders of magnitude more overhead than non-persistent variety. You should only use it if your application really needs it.
To have a message be persistent, the sender must add the
header to the
SEND STOMP frame. Furthermore, if you are not sending the
message in a transaction, it is recommend that you also add a
header. Once the broker responds with a
RECEIPT frame correlated to
the send, you are guaranteed the broker will not drop the message even if
a failure occurs.
hello queue a
The client should not consider the send to have succeeded until he receives
the correlated
RECEIPT frame from the server. Example:
It is important to note that to do reliable messaging, your system will
be prone to receive duplicate messages. For example, if your sending
application dies before it receives the
RECEIPT frame, then when it starts
up again will probably try to send the same message again which may
cause a duplicate message to get placed on the broker.
You should only use subscribers which use the
client or
ack mode to consume reliable messages. Any messages on a queue delivered to a
client which have not been acked when the client disconnects will get
redelivered to another subscribed client.
Message Expiration
Apollo supports expiring old messages. Unconsumed expired messages are automatically removed from the queue. There's two way to specify when the message will be expired. Y
The first way to configure the expiration is by setting the
expires message
header. The expiration time must be specified as the number of milliseconds
since the Unix epoch.
this message will expire on Tue Jun 21 17:02:28 EDT 2011
The first way to configure the expiration is by setting the
ttl message
header. The ttl will be intereted to mean the number of milliseconds from
when the server receives the message. The broker will add an
header to the message on your behalf.
This message will expire in 2 seconds.
Subscription Flow Control
You can add a
credit header to the
SUBSCRIBE frame to control the
flow of messages delivered to the client. Each subscription maintains 2
credit windows which allows you to control the flow of messages either based
on number of messages sent or total number of content bytes delivered to the
client. The content bytes are the body of the frame which is usually also
set on the
content-length header. If either of the two credit windows have
a positive value, the server will deliver messages to the client.
credit header value is expected to use the
count[,size] syntax where:
- count: initial setting of the credit window tracking the remaining number of messages that can be sent. Must be specified.
- size: initial setting of the credit window tracking the remaining number of content bytes that can be sent. Defaults to the receive buffer size of the TCP socket which is typically 65536 bytes.
If the
credit header is not specified it has the same effect
as if it had been set to
credit:655360,655360. This setting allows the broker
to optimally stream many small messages to the client or without overloading
the clients processing buffers.
As messages are sent from the server to the client, the credit windows are
reduced by the corresponding amount. When the client send
ACK frames to the
server, the credit windows are incremented by the number of messages and content
sizes corresponding to the messages that were acknowledged.
The above example would cause the subscription to only receive at most 5
messages if the client is not sending any
ACK messages back to the server.
If you need to receive more messages without acknowledging them than the
size of the credit window, you should use transactions and transactionally
ACK messages as they are received. A transactional ACK increases the
credit window without actually consuming the messages. If the transaction
is aborted subsequent acknowledgements of a previously acknowledged message
does not increase the credit window.
Topic Durable Subscriptions
A durable subscription is a queue which is subscribed to a topic so that even if the client which created the durable subscription is not online, he can still get a copy of all the messages sent to the topic when he comes back online. Multiple clients can subscribe to the same durable subscription and since it's backed by a queue, those subscribers will have the topic's messages load balanced across them.
To create or reattach to a a durable subscription with STOMP, you uniquely
name the durable subscription using the
id header on the
SUBSCRIBE frame
and also adding a
persistent:true header. Example:
A standard
UNSUBSCRIBE frame does not destroy the durable subscription, it
only disconnects the client from the durable subscription. To destroy a
durable subscription, you must once again add
persistent:true header to the
UNSUBSCRIBE frame. Example:
If the durable subscription already exists you can address it directly using
/dsub/ prefix on the
destination header. For example, send a message to
the previously created
mysub durable subscription, you send the following
STOMP frame:
hello durable sub!
Similarly, you can also subscribe to the subscription in the same way:
Unlike typical STOMP subscriptions id's which are local to the STOMP client's
connection, the durable subscription id's are global across a virtual host. If
two different connections use the same durable subscription id, then messages
from the subscription will get load balanced across the two connections. If
the second connection uses a different
destination or
selector header,
then updates the original subscription, and the original connection will
subsequently only receive messages matching the updated destination or
Browsing Subscriptions
A normal subscription on a queue will consume messages so that no other
subscription will get a copy of the message. If you want to browse all the
messages on a queue in a non-destructive fashion, you can create browsing
subscription. Browsing subscriptions also works with durable subscriptions
since they are backed by a queue. To make a a browsing subscription, just add
browser:true header to the
SUBSCRIBE frame. For example:
Once the broker sends a browsing subscription the last message in the queue,
it will send the subscription a special "end of browse" message to indicate
browsing has completed and that the subscription should not expect any more
messages. The "end of browse" message will have a
browser:end header set.
If you want the browsing subscription to remain active and continue to listen
for message once the last message on the queue is reached, you should add the
browser-end:false header to the
SUBSCRIBE frame. When the
browser-end:false header is added the subscription will not be sent the "end
of browse" message previously described.
Queue Message Sequences
As messages are added to a queue in a broker, they are assigned an
incrementing sequence number. Messages delivered to subscribers can be updated
to include the sequence number if the
include-seq header is added to the
SUBSCRIBE frame. This header should be set to a header name which will be
added messages delivered to hold value of the sequence number.
Then you can expect to receive messages like:
Furthermore, you can configure the
SUBSCRIBE frame so that the subscription
only receives messages that have a sequence id that is equal to or greater
than a requested value by using the
from-seq header. Example:
If the
from-seq is set to
-1, then the subscription will receive messages
from the tail of the queue. In other words, it will only receive new messages
sent to the queue.
Note: You can only use the
from-seq header with normal destinations. If you
attempt to use it with a wildcard or composite destination then the connection
will be closed due to invalid usage.
Using Queue Browsers to Implement Durable Topic Subscriptions
You can use queue browsers with consumer side message sequence tracking to achieve the same semantics as durable topics subscriptions but with a better performance profile. Since browsers do not delete messages from a queue, when you use multiple browsers against one queue you get the same broadcast effects that a topic provides.
In this approach the subscribing application keeps track of the last sequence number processed from the subscription. The sequence number is typically stored as part of the unit of work which is processing the message. The subscription can use the default auto acknowledge mode but still get 'once and only once' delivery guarantees since:
- consuming application records the last message sequence that was processed
- message are not deleted when delivered to the subscriber
- on restart consuming application continues receiving from the queue for the last sequence that it received.
SUBSCRIBE frame used to create the browser should add the
from-seq, and
browser-end headers so that they can resume receiving
messages from the queue from the last known sequence. If you are starting a
new consumer that does not have a last processed sequence number, you can
either set
from-seq to:
0to start receiving at the head of the queue which sends the subscription a copy of all the messages that are currently queued.
-1to start receiving at the tail of the queue which to skips over all the message that exist in the queue so that the subscription only receives new messages.
Since this approach does not consume the messages from the queue, you should either:
- Send messages to the queue with an expiration time so that they are automatically delete once the expiration time is reached.
- Periodically run a normal consumer application which can cursor the queue and delete messages are are deemed no longer needed.
Exclusive Subscriptions
We maintain the order of messages in queues and dispatch them to subscriptions in order. However if you have multiple subscriptions consuming from the same queue, you will loose the guarantee of processing the messages in order; since the messages may be processed concurrently on different subscribers.
Sometimes it is important to guarantee the order in which messages are processed. e.g. you don't want to process the update to an order until an insert has been done; or to go backwards in time, overwriting an newer update of an order with an older one etc.
So what folks have to do in clusters is often to only run one consumer process in a cluster to avoid loosing the ordering. The problem with this is that if that process goes down, no one is processing the queue any more, which can be problem.
Apollo supports exclusive subscriptions which avoids the end user having to restrict himself to only running one process. The broker will pick a single subscription to get all the messages for a queue to ensure ordering. If that subscription fails, the broker will auto failover and choose another subscription.
An exclusive subscription is created by adding a
exclusive:true header
to the
SUBSCRIBE frame. Example:
Message Groups
Message Groups are an enhancement to the Exclusive Consumer feature to provide
- guaranteed ordering of the processing of related messages across a single queue
- load balancing of the processing of messages across multiple consumers
- high availability / auto-failover to other consumers if a JVM goes down
Message Groups are logically like a parallel Exclusive Consumer. Rather
than all messages going to a single consumer, the stomp
message_group header
is used to define which message group the message belongs to. The Message Group
feature then ensures that all messages for the same message group will be sent to
the currently assigned consumer for the group. The assigned consumer consumer
for a message group may change but not before all messages sent to the previous
consumer are acked or if the consumer is disconnected.
Another way of explaining Message Groups is that it provides sticky load balancing of messages across consumers; where the message group value is kinda like a HTTP session ID or cookie value and the message broker is acting like a HTTP load balancer.
Here is an example message with the message group set:
The broker uses consistent hashing to map message groups to consumers. When you add another subscription to a queue, the broker will first wait for messages sent to previous subscriptions to be processed and then the broker rebalances the message groups across the attached consumers.
Temporary Destinations
Temporary destinations are typically used to receive response messages in a request/response messaging exchange. A temporary destination can only be consumed by a subscription created on the connection which is associated with the temporary destination. Once the connection is closed, all associated temporary destinations are removed. Temporary destinations are prefixed with:
/temp-queue/- For temporary queues. Has the same delivery semantics as queues.
/temp-topic/- For temporary topics. It has the same delivery semantics of topics.
In a request/response scenario, you would first subscribe to the temporary topic:
Then you would send a request with the reply-to header set to the temporary destination. Example:
The consumer receiving the request will receive a message similar to:
Notice that the reply-to` header value is updated from a temporary destination
name to normal destination name. The subscription servicing he requests should respond
to the updated destination value (
/queue/temp.default.23.example in the example above).
Temporary destination names actually map to normal queues and topics. They just have
temp.<broker_id>.<connection_id>. prefix. Any destination which starts with
temp. has a security policy which only allows the connection which created it
to subscribe from it. These destinations are also auto deleted once the connection
is closed.
Destination Wildcards
We support destination wildcards to easily subscribe to multiple destinations with one subscription. This concept has been popular in financial market data for some time as a way of organizing events (such as price changes) into hierarchies and to use wildcards for easy subscription of the range of information you're interested in.
.is used to separate names in a path
*is used to match any name in a path
{regex}is used to match a path name against a regular expression.
**is used to recursively match path names
For example imagine you are sending price messages from a stock exchange feed. You might use some kind of destination naming conventions such as:
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.NASDAQ.IBMto publish IBM's price on NASDAQ and
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.NYSE.SUNWto publish Sun's price on the New York Stock Exchange
A subscriber could then use exact destinations to subscribe to exactly the prices it requires. Or it could use wildcards to define hierarchical pattern matches to the destinations to subscribe from.
For example using the example above, these subscriptions are possible
/topic/PRICE.**: Any price for any product on any exchange
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.**: Any price for a stock on any exchange
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.NASDAQ.*: Any stock price on NASDAQ
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.*.IBM: Any IBM stock price on any exchange
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.*.I*: Any stock price starting with 'I' on any exchange
/topic/PRICE.STOCK.*.*{[0-9]}: Any stock price that ends in a digit on any exchange
Destination wildcards can only be used in a SUBSCRIBE frame.
Composite Destinations
You can use composite destinations to send or subscribe to multiple
destinations at one time. You use separator of
, between destination
names. For example, to send one message to 2 queues and 1 topic:
Composites rock!
Message Selectors
Message selectors allow a subscription to only receive a subset of the messages sent to a destination. The selector acts like a filter which is applied against the message properties and only those messages which match pass through to the subscription.
Selectors are defined using SQL 92 syntax and typically apply to message headers; whether the standard properties available on a JMS message or custom headers you can add via the JMS code.
Here is an example:
type = 'car' AND color = 'blue' AND weight > 2500
To create a subscription with a message selector, you set the
header in the STOMP
SUBSCRIBE frame to the desired selector. Example:
selector:type = 'car' AND color = 'blue' AND weight > 2500
Destination Name Restrictions
Destination names are restricted to using the characters
:, ' ', '(', ')' or
. in addition to composite separator
, and the wild
*. Any other characters must be UTF-8 and then URL encoded if you wish to
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Earth : Europe : Central Europe : Poland : Greater Poland : Gniezno
Gniezno [1] is city in Greater Poland in Poland. It is situated in the north-east of the region, in Gniezno Lake District, between three lakes : Jelonek, Świętokrzyskim i Winiary. Historically is was one of the most important towns in the times lof creation of the Polish state - in Xth and XIth centuries. Gniezno has become the seat of the second polish diocese (after Poznan), but the first - archbishopric. The Gniezno cathedral was - for almost 300 years - the coronation cathedral, however the kings' and dukes' burials took place - for as well 300 years - in Poznan.
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By plane
The nearest airport is in Poznan (50km) with numerous regular connections accross Europe. You can also use a small airport in Bydgoszcz (90km).
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Gniezno is a crucial junction of railroads, but - unfortunately - 2 out of 5 lines leading to Gniezno (from Chojnice and Wagrowiec) are used only for the freight traffic. The main rail line is the one Poznan-Gniezno-Inowroclaw, where it is devided to Gdansk through Bydgoszcz and to Olsztyn through Toruń. There're many trains on this line :
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It's important to mention a line from Gniezno to Wrzesnia and Jarocin, with 4 local trains daily (including two of then, that are coordinated in Jarocin with trains to Wroclaw.
An interesting alternative for those travelling to Gniezno from the south-east (lakes in Powidz, Anastazewo) is a journey by a local 38-km -long narrow-gauge railway. It runs during spring and summer weekends, and - on special wish - on any day. Details : (polish only) [2].
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Gniezno is a big bus travel junction, as well. Most caoaches go not - as ypu might think - to Poznan (trains are dominating on this route), but to other places in the region (only routes to tourist places are mentioned) :
Apart from these : numerous local buses, which have small meaning for tourists.
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The main road passing through Gniezno is the country road nr 5, linking the town with Poznan and Wroclaw in the south and with Bydgoszcz and Gdansk in the north and passing through such attractions like Biskupin, Wenecja or Znin. The other roads passing through Gniezno are : the country road nr 15 - enablling you to get to Kruszwica, Strzelno or Torun (Thorn); local road nr 260 - for those travelling in the Lake District nearby Powidz, 190 - to Wagrowiec and 197 to Slawa through the northern parts of Lednicki Lanscape Park.
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The network consists of 16 city bus lines and 1 out-of-city line, but take into account, that some lines run only few times a day (e.g. in peak hours).
More information : free phone number : 9285 or [3].
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I see there was some discussion and questions about camping down in the Pismo area. Here's what I remember: (Note: I'm coming from a place to 'park my Westfalia camper', so my comments will be tailored towards 'flat place to park' not 'full hookups with TV cable and sewer' or 'tent camping'). Marina: correct me where I'm wrong below...
There are two Avenues which run East/West to/from the beach. To the North is Grand Avenue, where the Kite Expo is. About 3/4 mile to the south of Grand Ave is Pier Avenue (which is actually almost a mile south of the Pismo pier - seems like a city street naming FAIL, but maybe there's some local history I don't understand). Both avenues are entrances to the beach, where you can drive/park your vehicle, I believe for day-use only. It's a pretty cool experience to park on the sand and launch/land your kite from your bumper.
There are two CA State Park campgrounds - North Beach and Oceano. I've stayed at Oceano Campground, the one to the South, on Pier Avenue. The campground is a pretty standard CA State Park, and though it looks like it's right on the beach on the map, it's actually a 10 minute walk through the sand dunes to get to the beach. In terms of kiting from your campground, it's a pretty big schlep to get to the water with gear. And it would be a 20+ minute walk (to the North) to get to the Kite Expo site. For this reason, I probably wouldn't make this my first choice.
The other CA State campground is North Beach and is about 1/3 mile to the north of Grand Avenue and the Kite Expo. I haven't stayed there, but I'd look at that first. It's closer to Pismo's cute downtown area, Kite Expo, restaurants, surf shops, etc. Sites are reserved through ReserveAmerica for "Pismo SB" here: http://www.reserveamerica.com/camping/Pismo_Sb/r/campsiteCalendar.do?page=calendar&search=site&contractCode=CA&parkId=120070&topTabIndex=CampingSpot
If you want to get out of the wind and away from the city, I've heard decent reports about Lopez Lake, about 15 miles to the East of Pismo. More info here: http://www.slocountyparks.com/activities/lopez.htm
I believe there are some other private campgrounds/RV parks in/around Pismo/Oceano, but I don't have any recommendations. Marina?
Here's a map of the general area:
Others: Please add more info for places you've stayed and/or would avoid!
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1. I don't believe hunting and gathering or horticultural societies are necessarily "primitive," even though these subsistence strategies have been around the longest. Many are highly sophisticated and specialized to their environments (e.g., Amazonian knowledge of the natural world), and some appear to be people who (re-)adopted a particular means of survival relatively recently (e.g., in the Philippines). Some of these are, according to some studies, moreover, tied in to the surrounding cash economy for critical material goods, and are suspect as models of "primitive" human groups to some extent.
2. With due respect to Wikipedia, ritualized warfare may be the norm to which more complex societies revert, for example, under the kinds of conditions you list. (In fact, I hypothesize ritual is a key way to mark off that liminal state in which society sanctions killing, and a key trigger for aggression historically) Still, just as the Norse discovered North America but had no practical use for it, and just as the moon remains outside our grasp, many less complex societies have no need to invade and displace others, yet sufficient reason to raid them. Raiding of course takes place in larger-scale social groupings, too.
3. The Zulu are an interesting example, and I don't know enough about them to offer much in the way of a meaningful opinion. I suspect, however, their military innovations occurred in response to incursions by Boers and the British. Additionally, many groups in Southern Africa are closer in the scale of social organization to chiefdomships like the Hawaiians. There, prior to European contact, the smaller islands had been united under a chief and the Big Island was often ruled by several. Attempts also had been made to conquer other islands. But Kamehameha I succeeded in "unifying" Hawaii where others failed, in significant part because he exploited advantages introduced by the Europeans including firearms. The point being, for me, that the Zulu may have, like the Hawaiians, been on the cusp of historical developments that were pushing their societies to be more expansive. European interference may simply have catalyzed the reaction, as it were.


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The father of Ibragim Todashev, the 27-year-old friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was killed during an FBI interrogation in Florida, will sue the agency for wrongful death. That's according to a TIME scoop, which notes that Abdulbaki Todashev's case is getting help from the ACLU.
The FBI still doesn't really have their story straight on what happened that night (the agency is conducting an internal investigation into the matter), but the outline of the series of events leading to Todashev's death goes like this: Ibragim, at his Orlando home, faced several hours of FBI interrogation in a room full of law enforcement officials, at which point he was apparently ready to confess to an unsolved murder officials were interested in because of a connection to Tsarnaev. Then, the FBI has said both that Ibragim attacked the agents either with a knife, or a metal pole (or maybe a broomstick), or nothing. He was then fatally shot.
According to TIME, Abdulbaki Todashev, who is from Chechnya, carries around a briefcase containing what he believes is the evidence that will help him win his case:
The photographs in his father's briefcase seem to raise more questions about the death than they answer. On a recent afternoon in Moscow, he laid them out across the table of a diner, starting with the family photos he had taken of his son with his 11 siblings in Chechnya. In one of the frames, Ibragim stands with several of his younger brothers at a boxing club in Grozny, the regional capital, where he began his training to become a mixed-martial arts fighter. In another, he grapples during a professional cage fight in Florida, surrounded by rows of American fight fans. Then his father shows the photos of his body, rent with wounds, that his friends in Florida had taken while preparing him for burial. One close-up of the top of his head appears to show two bullet holes about half an inch apart from each other. "He was shot seven times," his father says. "In the heart and in the head. What is that if not murder?"


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Ridiculous: Why Is Any Country Supporting Locking In Life + 70 Copyright Term Protection?
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The folks over at KEI are putting together a letter to TPP delegates as they go through the latest negotiation, asking them to reject the life plus 70 requirement, noting that many countries that have it today (including the US) have shown indications that they regret such a long copyright term:
There is no benefit to society of extending copyright beyond the 50 years mandated by the WTO. While some TPP countries, like the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Singapore or Australia, already have life + 70 (or longer) copyright terms, there is growing recognition that such terms were a mistake, and should be shortened, or modified by requiring formalities for the extended periods.Unfortunately, it looks like the only one who had been really fighting back against this proposal was Canada, and the indications are that Canadian negotiators are about to fold and agree to the life plus 70 requirement. There's a very important question here, which apparently no one in the USTR is willing to answer: why are they doing this? It makes no sense. All of the evidence suggests that having copyright this long has been bad for just about everyone, except perhaps Disney. The USTR has never even bothered to look at the issue, rather just accepting the idea that if the US currently has life + 70, it must lock that in permanently around the globe. Because.
The primary harm from the life + 70 copyright term is the loss of access to countless books, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, films, sound recordings and other works that are "owned" but largely not commercialized, forgotten, and lost. The extended terms are also costly to consumers and performers, while benefiting persons and corporate owners that had nothing to do with the creation of the work.
Life+70 is a mistake, and it will be an embarrassment to enshrine this mistake into the largest regional trade agreement ever negotiated.
It's pure insanity in which the USTR continues to push for proposals that hurt American jobs, innovation and the public alike.


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Great news for fans of a bunch of the dramatic shows on ABC!
Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Resurrection, Revenge, and Castle have all been renewed for an additional season.
In addition to these shows, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been giving a second season and another Marvel show will be added to the lineup – Agent Carter starring Hayley Atwell and taking place a year after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger.
The comedy series Modern Family and The Goldbergs have also received renewals!
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WASHINGTON | Sen. Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate to become the next president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, his office announced Thursday.
WASHINGTON | Sen. Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate to become the next president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, his office announced Thursday.
DeMint, the junior senator from South Carolina, will step down in early January.
DeMint, 61, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1998, to the Senate in 2004 and to a second term in 2010.
A darling and leader of the tea party movement, DeMint has been instrumental in mentoring young lawmakers and sharing his substantial fundraising prowess to conservative candidates across the country.
He has become a conservative hero to activists across the country for his staunch opposition to federal spending, immigration reform and President Barack Obama's health insurance law.
South Carolina's governor, Nikki Haley, will appoint his successor.
"I'm leaving the Senate now, but I'm not leaving the fight," DeMint said in a news release.
"I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas. No organization is better equipped to lead this fight, and I believe my experience in public office as well as in the private sector as a business owner will help Heritage become even more effective in the years to come."
DeMint had pledged to limit his time in the Senate, a promise he reminded voters of Thursday morning.
"My constituents know that being a senator was never going to be my career," he said in his release. "I came to Congress as a citizen legislator and I've always been determined to leave it as citizen legislator. South Carolina has a deep bench of conservative leaders, and I know Governor Haley will select a great replacement."
In an interview with McClatchy Newspapers a week ago, DeMint declined to address his future, saying he had not ruled out either seeking a third term in the Senate or a potential run for president.
"I'm not ruling anything out," he said then.
DeMint will succeed Ed Feulner at the Heritage Foundation, a think tank in Washington.


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Kate: Yeah. We'll it's not back to normal in the sense that we have completely changed our lives. Like Pat said, she's lost 40lbs and I've lost 30lbs. We're so much healthier. We're stronger. The physical changes in our lives have been very very powerful.
This relationship went to the dogs -- and courtby Melissa CastroSunday October 07, 2007, 8:31 PMContrary to the theme of her new cable television show, "She's Moving In!", former News 12 reporter and anchor Peggy Bunker is moving out. And, much to the chagrin of her wealthy ex-boyfriend -- and a court -- she's taking the dogs.On TV, Bunker brokers peace between a college dude who won't let go of his Samurai sword and his girlfriend who needs a meditation area. In real life, neither Bunker nor her former boyfriend, Richard Higgs, will let go of Barkley and Willis, two West Highland Terriers purchased during the couple's six-year relationship.Bunker, 35, left the rest of the couple's mutual belongings on her ex's well-groomed front lawn and left town with the dogs. On Thursday, Superior Court Judge Yolanda Ciccone in Somerville ordered Bunker to return the canines, valued at $1,800 each, to Higgs, a 40-year-old business executive.But both parties have hired legal guns and plan to do further battle over the pets. Higgs has retained an Oradell lawyer -- "the F. Lee Bailey of dog law," according to her Web site -- in addition to private investigators and "other professionals" to help find Barkley and Willis.Before the alleged dog-napping, the dog duo had full roam of Higgs' seven-acre Bedminster estate and a full-time housekeeper to keep them company. The dogs are now being harbored at an undisclosed location in Denver, with a yard and a nearby dog park, said Bunker's attorney, Krista Haley.But the judge is unlikely to award custody by comparing the dogs' old and new digs, animal law experts said."I don't think there's any case law to support a best-interests analysis," said John Blasi, a partner with Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper in Westfield. "The court is going to look to whose property it is -- that's going to be proved by either some type of pedigree or ownership document."Source - http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/10/this_relationship_went_to_the.html
Pat: We know we were quite aways behind at the bus stop but we went to the right bus stop and we sat there for 20 minutes, 25 minutes, waiting for the right bus to come, before I went across the street to where it looked like the headquarters were to say "When is that next bus going to run?" We're told "Oh, they don't run after 6:00." And we're like "Oh, we're gonna spend the night on a park bench." They said "You just have to call. We contract with this minibus company and you have to call them." By the time we called them and the time we got there, it was just a comedy of errors after that.
IGN TV: Why didn't you reserve tickets when you were using the internet to look for flights?Pat: We didn't have a credit card. IGN TV: They only let you access the credit card for flights at the airport?Kate: Right. There's no way usually to reserve tickets online without a credit card. It's pretty impossible. But what we realized was that the ticket counter wouldn't even open until 7:00 am and that were all going to make it there by 7:00 am anyway, so it would have been a matter of who was in line first. We did stay too long looking at that computer and Nate and Jen passed us while we were looking. Pat: Our instincts were to get going and we should have followed our own instincts. Kate: We should have not stuck with Ron and Christina at that point.
I was comparing them to people like Cyndi & Russell and Brandon & Nicole, who at various points during the race said something along the lines of 'Yeah, we have a spiritual advantage because of our connections with God' whereas they're like 'God isn't going to make us win, just because we worship Him'.
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A new report from the FDIC revealed that Valley Green Bank leads all other banks in deposits in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy.
According to the report, Valley Green Bank increased its deposit from $115 million in June of 2010 to $180 million in June 2011. That total put it ahead of all other banks in the region: Wells Fargo, Citizens Bank, Citibank, PNC Bank, Sovereign Bank, TD Bank, Bank of America and National Penn Bank.
"These are extraordinary numbers for a 5-year-old bank," said Valley Green CEO Jay Goldstein, "It's a direct reflection of our wide-spread neighborhood support and the impact our bank is making in the community."
Noteworthy of Valley Green Bank's success is the fact that business has generally not been good for banking. Goldstein said that new business to Valley Green – both commercial and consumer – reflects a general dissatisfaction with large banks.
"The Northwest is very community oriented and identifies with an institution like Valley Green Bank, which is community oriented," Goldstein said. "At the same time there is a general feeling of discontent with large financial institutions that makes it easier for some to come to us. That the general public is fed up with fee arrangements with large banks and have specifically come to us because we don't charge those fees and have free checking."


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Danielle Marie Jack of East Hampton and Ryan Joseph Sutphin of Newport News, Va., were married on June 23 at Gurney's Inn in Montauk. The ceremony took place on the Lido Deck overlooking the ocean. The Rev. Anthony Larson of Springs Community Presbyterian Church officiated.
The bride carried a bouquet of seasonal white flowers including mini callas, vandela roses, football mums, and veronica with an accent of blue belladonna delphinium wrapped in a French maid tie. She wore an ivory taffeta floor-length gown with a semi-cathedral train. Her matron of honor was a friend, Kristen Cox of Virginia, and the best man was Adam Sutphin, the groom's brother.
Mr. Sutphin's groomsmen were the bride's brother, Christopher Jack of East Hampton and Aubrey Cox, Tyler LeGrand, Eric Hubble, Richard Green, Jason Slater, Christopher Wahrman, and Michael Conlon, all of Virginia, and Maxx Kinert of North Carolina. The groomsmen wore gray suits with silver-and-blue matisse striped ties and white fingerling sea star pin boutonnieres.
The bridesmaids were Noelle Jack of East Hampton, the bride's sister-in-law, Diana Balnis and Bethanie Theriault, also of East Hampton, Melissa Elrod of Tennessee, Megan Greene of Chicago, and Heather Forestiere, Courtney Laughlin, and Heather Jenkins, all of Virginia. They wore knee-length blue matisse chiffon dresses and carried white football mums. A reception at Gurney's immediately followed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Tim and Patti Jack of East Hampton. She is a 2002 graduate of East Hampton High School and graduated from Christopher Newport University in Newport News with a degree in psychology and a master's in teaching. She is an elementary school teacher in Henrico County, Va. Mr. Sutphin is the son of Joey and Cindy Sutphin of Newport News. He graduated from Christopher Newport University with a degree in business administration and is an account manager at Royall and Company in Henrico County.
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AT&T Can Foist Its Data Plans On You, Whether You Use It Or Not
from the eff-the-customer dept
Joel Runyon has the heartfelt story of how AT&T looked out for his own best interests by charging him for a data plan he didn't want, never used, and specifically turned off on his phone.
4-5 months ago, the hardware on my old flip phone was dying (that happens when it's from 2008). I was out of contract with AT&T and so I could have chose to get a new subsidized phone & shiny new 2-year contract with them, but I simply bought a used out-of-contract iPhone 4 from my friend and swapped in my sim card (that whole commitment thing again). Again, no problems. America! Neat.Yes, AT&T unilaterally decided a data plan was needed for all of the data Joel didn't need and didn't use. This wasn't a new contract along with a subsidized phone. Simply by putting his existing sim card in a used phone he bought elsewhere, this automagically meant he was given a data plan and billed for it. No discussion, no contract, just instant data plan.
After using the iPhone as a dumb phone for all intents & purposes (call, text, no data) for the last 4-5 months or so, I get a text message out of the blue from AT&T that they've detected I'm using a smart phone and that all smart phones require a data plan - never mind that I actually had data turned off. That would be only a little annoying if it was just a notification message, but they went ahead, chose a data plan for me, and started billing me from then on.
"Welcome to AT&T customer service. Now, if you'd kindly go f@*# yourself..."
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Offering customers choices is a good thing. Limiting them is not. Forcing a plan on someone who has no intention of using it and charging them for it is about the best way I can think of to lose a customer. When Runyon contacted AT&T about this, they apparently replied that this was "standard practice," in which case it should probably be "standard practice" to find another carrier.