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DescriptionWhether you need to call, text, browse, or just kill some time with your favorite apps, Apple's iPhone 6 has you covered. This sleek phone comes engineered with a dual core 1.4 GHz Cyclone processor to run your applications quickly and smoothly and packs 64 GB of storage to hold your photos, videos, and other media. You can enjoy your favorite content on a stunning 4.7" Retina display and sign in securely with Touch ID built in.
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Ultra Low Latency, FIX, Java Developer, Low Level experience, DMA, FX, OMX
The Company
My client is a global leader within the world of High Frequency Trading and has a major presence throughout Asia Pacific. Their front office trading and Market connectivity teams have some of the most experienced Java Software Engineers within eFX Trading and Algorithmic development and becoming a part of one these teams would be a major step forward for building your career technically and financially. If you have a keen interest in breaking into the financial / trading arena then please apply.
The Candidate / Role
The role requires a FIX Java Software Engineer with a proven background in low latency / market connectivity for the Australian and Asian Markets, experience with Asian exchanges, high performance trading systems. The developer will be working on ULL DMA connections for the Australian and Asian markets built on a framework for building multiple trading strategies also responsible for delivering on projects across the complete SDLC whilst also maintaining key business systems,
If you have a strong background working with systems that automatically send orders to the markets please apply
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. Strong Knowledge in FIX, OMX, object orientated design and development experience and the ability to work on systems that route orders direct to markets!
. 3 - 6 Years as a senior programmer in financial markets
. Over 4 Years proven commercial core Java experience, LINUX
. FX product pricing knowledge is desired but not essential
. Risk knowledge
. Excellent communication skills
. Be able to work well in a team environment
. C++ Python will be a nice addition
The Benefits
Sponsorship offered for the right candidates
By taking this role you will be able to make your mark on the development of leading edge products get complete job satisfaction and work in a highly motivated fun environment with a gym in house and breakfast & lunch menu's provided,if you have what it takes to meet these challenges then apply today
Contact Steve on 0449995476 / 02 8047 4031 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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This is Part 2 in our series of posts on the Adobe ASSET Software Security Certification Program which formed the basis for the newly released SAFEcode security training. In the first post, I gave an overview of the program. This second post deals with the logistics of creating your own certification program or supplemental training, and tracking your progress.
Setting Criteria
As I mentioned in the previous post, the ASSET (Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team) certification program is a four-tiered system, where people earn a "belt" per level attained: white, green, brown and black. Let's start with the first two belt levels – the computer based trainings (CBTs).
It was important to us that participants set their own pace for going through the training. We knew that an average developer or quality engineer would not want to sit in, nor get a lot out of an eight hour classroom session delivered in a single day. Long sessions aren't scalable for what we were trying to achieve – that is, basic security training for people that need to know security concepts as part of their job, but don't necessarily want to be security professionals. We wanted security to be a necessary skill-set of everyone involved in development at Adobe.
Our original criteria for the training is that it must:
- Be around 30-40 minutes in length (we have since shortened our goal length to 15-20 minutes)
- Employ as simple an approach to the concepts discussed as possible
- Use real-life examples from Adobe code and web sites
- Have direct bearing on the job functions of our audience
Creating the Content
Security topics were divided up among the researchers on the ASSET team. Researchers chose topics either based on their own areas of expertise or areas where they wanted to become stronger. A subset review team critiqued the training and helped create tests for each training module, consisting of 10 to 15 questions about the most important elements of the training modules. Content took about two weeks of research per topic and a week of revisions. The CBT's (computer based training) consist of PowerPoint decks with recorded voice-overs and some animated demos. As examples, we used Adobe code to drive issues home to developers who may have created, or at least worked with similar code. Fortunately, Adobe has an excellent multi-use product called Adobe Connect that, among other things, can be used as a Learning Management System (LMS). We were lucky to be able to adopt something native to our company rather than have to re-train people to use something new.
Using Metrics
We wrote a web tool called Tessa to interface with Adobe Connect to allow people to check the status of their progress through the training and provide an automated way for managers to follow-up with team members about their certification status. Status is visible to anyone within the company, which is a subtle way of encouraging competition among teams and individuals.
Above is a screen shot for Brad Arkin's org. The yellow buttons allow him to automatically send a "nag" email to any slackers in his org. Clicking on a yellow button opens his email client and populates a message with the appropriate content to the person he has selected to nag. That way, all he has to do is hit "send".
Going Public
We've also used this data to pull reports on geographies and business units to help spur competition. We found that our biggest success comes from the India offices, which have about twice the compliance level of the US and Europe combined. People get so into the program that they have requested paper certificates, signed by CSO, Brad Arkin, which we then mail to them.
Ultimately, per product certification status rolls up to an overall "Security Health" dashboard which is reviewed by executives at quarterly operations meetings.
In my next post: Tips for supplementing the SAFEcode Software Security training or building your own.
Josh Kebbel-Wyen
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As a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot serving in the Pacific during World War II, 2nd Lt. Sam Folsom received several blood chits, or rescue patches, to assist him if he found himself behind enemy lines. The chits, or official IOUs from the U.S. government, requested help for a stranded airman and promised a reward for those who came to his aid.
Usually written in various languages, depending on where the pilots operated, the chits were often sewn on flight jackets or issued as letters or cards.
Though the British regularly used blood chits during World War I, they were first issued by the United States military in China during World War II and were eventually employed in all theaters of the war. The amount awarded for authenticated claims, which numbered in the tens of thousands, ranged from $50 to $250, depending on the theater.
This blood chit, issued to Folsom while he served with the Marine Fighting Squadron 121 (VMF 121), is made of silk and measures 8 1/8 by 12 inches. Written in French, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Chinese, Korean and Japanese and topped by an American flag, the message describes the flier's predicament ("I am an American aviator. My plane is destroyed. I do not speak your language"), establishes his loyalty ("I am an enemy of the Japanese"), and appeals to the reader's mercy while offering worldly rewards ("Have the kindness to protect me, to care for me and to take me to the nearest allied military office. My government will pay you.")
Folsom, who was fortunate to never need to use a blood chit during the war, remained with the Marine Corps until he retired in 1960 as a lieutenant colonel. Now almost 93 years old, Folsom volunteers at New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where he donated four blood chits, along with his other war memorabilia.
The U.S. military continued to use blood chits during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Today, details about the program are classified because of possible danger to those who assist U.S. soldiers.
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R&B singer/songwriter and producer Terius Youngdell Nash, better known as the-Dream, was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, but moved to Atlanta, Georgia, with his mother at the age of three. He first learned to play trumpet in elementary school, later picking up the drums and guitar. Nash's singing career got off to a slow start once he graduated from high school, but he found success in selling song lyrics after he met R&B producer Laney Stewart in 2001. Stewart helped Nash land his first publishing contract in 2003 in light of his penning "Everything" for B2K's platinum 2002 album Pandemonium! Paired with producer Chris "Tricky" Stewart (Laney's brother), he continued to write songs for various artists over the next four years, such as the Britney Spears/Madonna duet "Me Against the Music." His watershed moment came when he and Tricky created Rihanna's 2007 international smash hit "Umbrella." Several labels began approaching him so he could churn out more hits for their artists, particularly Def Jam, Rihanna's label, which was reluctant to sign the singer/songwriter at first. Def Jam finally stopped dancing around the issue of signing Nash after he sold number one R&B single "Bed" to Capitol Records newcomer J. Holiday. In fall 2007, Nash released his first single, "Shawty Is da Sh*!" (known on radio as "Shawty Is a 10"), on Def Jam, following up with his solo debut album, Love/Hate, at the end of the year. The album peaked at number five on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while its three singles -- including "Shawty" -- reached the Top Five of the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. A second album, Love vs Money, followed in March 2009; though it did top the R&B chart and narrowly missed the top spot of the Billboard 200, only one song -- "Rockin' That Thang" -- received significant airplay. Nash declared that Love King would be his final solo album, but he retracted the statement prior to the disc's June 2010 release. The set debuted in the Top Five of the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop charts, though its two charting singles were only minor hits. A sprawling "Internet album" dubbed 1977 and credited to Terius Nash surfaced as a free digital download in 2011. The following year, "Roc" and "Dope Chick" were issued as singles and charted, but their parent album -- titled Love IV MMXII -- went through a series of delays. That October, Nash was hired by Def Jam as its vice president of A&R. Just before the end of the year, as Love IV MMXII continued to be delayed, Def Jam gave 1977 an official release. Even while recording his own material at a steady rate, Nash managed to dish out songs for a wide range of popular artists, including Mary J. Blige ("Just Fine"), Mariah Carey ("Touch My Body"), Beyoncé ("Single Ladies [Put a Ring on It]," for which he won a pair of Grammy Awards), Electrik Red (the entirety of How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1), Justin Bieber ("Baby"), first wife Nivea (whom he divorced in 2007), and second wife Christina Milian (whom he divorced in 2010). Through 2012, he continued to be in demand as a songwriter and guest artist. That year alone, he appeared on 2 Chainz's Based on a T.R.U. Story and Kanye West's Cruel Summer compilation, and he penned material for Keyshia Cole and Rihanna. The following February, he collected a Grammy for his role in Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," which won the award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. IV Play, his fourth and most collaborative album as the-Dream, was released in May 2013 and featured guest appearances from Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland, and Gary Clark Jr., among others. Although it went Top Five R&B, just as the three previous the-Dream albums had done, it was easily the least successful one of the four due to relatively low sales and a shortage of notable tracks. In early 2015, Nash announced that he had split from Def Jam. A few months later, after he was cleared of felony domestic assault charges filed by a former partner, he returned on the Capitol label with new material. The EP Crown was released that April. A second EP, Jewel, was planned for release that July, but Nash's relationship with Capitol fell through. Near year's end, he uploaded a set of Sam Cooke covers, IAMSAM, to his SoundCloud page. Genesis, a ten-song release with an accompanying short film, followed in January 2016. Later that summer, Nash announced via his Instragram account that he would continue his "Love" series with a new album called Love Affair. The album's first single, "Love You to Death," arrived in December of that year.
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Pete Davidson has been the butt of the internet's fury since he began a relationship with Ariana Grande about 9 months ago. When their whirlwind relationship ended shortly after their engagement, the blame was shifted almost entirely to Pete without any confirmation or real details to back it up.
Pete has returned to Instagram to speak out about how the bullying has affected him after taking an almost five-month break from the platform. Pete has continued to address how the breakup and the internet's reaction has affected him, leaving fans worried about the comedian's well-being.
Ariana Grande responded to his vulnerable message with sincerity, bringing up the fact that they're still on good terms and she'll always care about him and his health.
"I really don't endorse anything but forgiveness and positivity. I care deeply about Pete and his health. I'm asking you to please be gentler with others, even on the internet… I will always have irrevocable love for him and if you've gotten any other impression from my recent work, you might have missed the point," she explained in a heartfelt message posted to her Instagram story.
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Procter & Gamble's CEO assured shareholders Tuesday that the company is aiming higher than its latest results.
Bob McDonald, who is chairman of the world's largest consumer products maker, as well as its chief executive, said at its annual meeting that P&G has had solid growth despite economic weakness in the United States and other developed countries. He also said costs for raw materials rose nearly $2 billion more than expected in the past year.
The maker of Pampers diapers, Tide detergent and Gillette shavers still reported higher profit and increased its dividend as its net sales rose 5 percent to $82.6 billion.
"It was good, but not yet great," McDonald said. "We don't settle for good in this company."
P&G's goals for the fiscal year that began July 1 include keeping sales and profit growing and improving productivity throughout the company.
"We know we have work left to do to deliver the growth you expect from P&G," he told shareholders. The company has projected earnings of $4.17 to $4.33 per share for the year.
Shareholder Larry Williams, a retired P&G employee, said he'd like to see more growth in the company's shares.
"The stock has been basically flat. I'm hoping the future is brighter," he said outside the meeting Tuesday.
P&G shares were recently trading lower. They've traded in a range of $57.56 to $67.72 the past year.
Investors overwhelmingly rejected shareholder proposals that would have required the company to say what political contributions it plans to make and to stop testing its pet foods with dogs and cats that it keeps in labs.
Boston-based Northstar Asset Management, which promotes "socially responsible investing," wanted P&G to tell shareholders its plans for contributions that will be made each year by the corporation and its political action committee, and to allow an advisory shareholder vote on the donations. Northstar president Julie Goodridge said that, in the past, contributions have gone to candidates who opposed same-sex marriage and other gay rights causes in apparent contradiction with P&G's company policy against discrimination.
McDonald said such contributions were directed at business issues, not social. He said the company opposed limiting itself as proposed, but he promised to look closely at future contributions.
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals wants P&G to stop keeping dogs and cats in labs to test its Iams brand pet foods. McDonald said P&G has sharply reduced such testing and most Iams testing is now done on pets in homes. But he said some lab testing is still needed to ensure product safety and quality and enable monitoring of animal reactions to new products.
Shareholders re-elected P&G's 11-member board.
The company said director Meg Whitman offered to resign after she was named CEO of Hewlett-Packard last month, but P&G officials asked her to stay on after determining that the relatively small amount of business P&G does with the technology company posed no conflict of interest.


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Sound Off for Jan. 10
15,000 homicides per year over the past 20 years, 40 murders per day, America is at war with itself! Columbine, Sharpesburg, Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tuscon, Vernon, Ct. America is a very violent country. People kill people , guns kill people. it is time to protect American citizens. We must stop rationalizing and start learning how to become a peaceful nation again.
England, Canada, Australia and all of Europe have a fraction of our homicide rate. Someday our politicians will ask why and start doing something about it!
Gov. Malloy has set up a commission to look at school security, mental health services in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. All well and good, all necessary. This is the big however. Connecticut has failed miserably in getting repeat drunk drivers off its roads. The toll of those maimed and killed continues unabated. If you doubt this, look at the court dispositions when posted in local newspapers and see the number of repeat offenders. Obtain the statistics either online or via MADD. More people have been killed by drunk drivers than by guns.
Prior to being seriously wounded two years ago Gabrielle Giffords was a gun owner and an advocate for gun rights. Of course we will never know where she would stand now if she herself had not been the victim of a shooting.
Following orders from master Obama, Danny Malloy is pushing the Democrat legislature to pass a law that allows illegal aliens to have a driver's license. If so many illegal aliens are driving illegally, why aren't the police arresting them? If there isn't a problem, why issue licenses?
What is more frustrating and complicated than life today? Things don't get better; they only get worse. Some people stay up up nights dreaming of new ways to drive us nuts!
Because of identity theft, it's unwise to put outgoing mail in a private box for pickup by a rural carrier. For safety, outgoing mail was dropped off at a Post Office "collection box" located nearby. Now "collection boxes" are disappearing. A box at Newbury Corners has vanished. Can you find a box in Torrington's south end? Some boxes are available on Main Street but driving around to find a "collection box" is both inconvenient and downright dangerous. Saving post office money is fine but making patrons hunt for "collection boxes" is crazy.
So I am a white, middle class person; my family works hard, both of us have jobs. Our kids work part time. We get very little money from the government for our child to attend college. Yet, if I were an illegal immigrant, I would get a driver's licenses and my children would get help to go to college. Does anyone see what is wrong with this country?


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First, the Home Instead Senior Care franchise network looks for people who have a passion for working with seniors to help them live independently. Then each potential CAREGiver must successfully complete a thorough personal and professional reference and criminal background check. Each CAREGiver is also
bonded and insured.
Home Instead CAREGivers participate in an exclusive senior care training program, which covers topics such as communicating with seniors, planning activities, recognizing illnesses, safety training and other issues and typical situations encountered in providing elder care. CAREGivers also benefit from regular team meetings and on-going training opportunities to enhance their skills.
Home Instead Senior Care employs a CAREGiver team approach, so if one CAREGiver is ill, we make every effort to make another team member available to meet your home care needs.
Yes, Home Instead CAREGivers provide eldercare and companionship to seniors who may require additional attention and/or personalized long term care and reside in assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
As the world's largest, most trusted home care company, Home Instead Senior Care provides comprehensive CAREGiver training, client-CAREGiver compatibility and quality assurance. Home Instead Senior Care actively lobbies to keep senior care affordable and has the largest number of participants in the Canadian Home Care Association (CHCA). Because we were at the forefront of in-home care, we have a depth of experience that's unsurpassed in the industry. Home Instead Senior Care has earned a deep level of trust among clients, their family members and friends, and enjoys an outstanding reputation with thousands of home health care, medical and social elder care organizations around the world.
Your CAREGiver is employed by this local, independently owned and operated franchise, which means we handle all the billing, payroll, taxes, insurance and administrative responsibilities for your CAREGiver.
There are several reasons why Home Instead Senior Care should be your choice for senior companionship and home care.
Our CAREGivers are screened, bonded and insured for your safety.
No, but CAREGivers can provide light housekeeping, laundry and ironing.
The office of Home Instead Senior care in Brampton services the following areas: Acton, Alton, Ballinafad, Beeton, Belfountain, Bolton, Boston Mills, Bramalea, Brampton, Caledon, Caledon East, Castlemore, Cheltenham, Churchville, Claireville, Ferndale, Flowertown, Forks of the Credit River, Georgetown, Glen Williams, Hillsburgh, The Grange, Limehouse, Loretto, Malton, Marywood Meadows. Ferndale, New Tecumseth, Norval, Peel Village, Shelburne, Stewarttown, Tottenham, Valleywood, Wildwood
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Please note: Due to Coronavirus, Scottish Government restrictions on guest numbers and households apply. Please contact the Holidays Department for further information and revised prices.
Creag Bhalg is named after the nearby hill that rises between Linn of Dee and Linn of Quoich. Set among Mar Lodge's pine woodland, this exclusive Highland hideaway has been furnished in true country sporting style, with wood panelling and open fires.
The views look onto the River Dee and Glen Eye. After a family gathering at Creag Bhalg you'll understand why travel author Pete Irvine named Mar Lodge the best place in Scotland to have a house party.
For larger parties, Claybokie sleeps 10 and connects to the garden of Creag Bhalg via an illuminated woodland path.
Accommodation details
- 1 storey - suitable for the less mobile
- Sleeps 8 - 2 doubles, 2 twins all with ensuite bathrooms
- Wood panelled sitting room with open fires
- Kitchen/dining room
- Utility room and cloakrooms
- Electric central heating
- Kennel facilities available
- EPC Rating: G19
About the Mar Lodge Estate
At the heart of the Cairngorms National Park lies Mar Lodge, a restored Victorian sporting lodge set in 29,380 hectares of wilderness, heather and ancient pine.
Visited by nobility since the medieval period, this prime Highland estate is now recognised as one of Scotland's most important conservation sites. From significant archaeological finds, to rare wildlife, and four of Britain's highest mountains, the estate is a jewel in the crown of one of the country's most iconic landscapes.
About the Area
Royal Deeside weaves along the River Dee, overlapping the Cairngorms National Park and Aberdeenshire. Best known for its majestic scenery, it is also an area rich in wildlife from alpine flora to Scottish wildcats.
Deeside's most famous admirer, Queen Victoria, purchased the Balmoral estate in 1848, and the royal connections continue to this day, with Princes William and Harry being regular visitors to the area. The nearest town to Mar Lodge is Braemar where you'll find local amenities as well as bases for hiking and skiing.
Things to do
- Adventure-lovers can test themselves with challenging mountain hikes, while gentler walks can be enjoyed along lowland paths through magnificent countryside.
- Summertime is perfect for mountain-biking, and in winter downhill and cross-country skiing at Glenshee are only a short drive away.
Interested in our ranger-led activities?
The following activities are available on the estate by prior arrangement:
-"Live like a laird"- journey out as dawn breaks to see the waking of the black grouse, the return to the Lodge for a hearty, full Scottish breakfast and
-"Shoot with a camera"- accompany the estate's stalkers into the hills to see stags roaming as the mist lifts.
-Traditional field sports: stag stalking,grouse shooting and salmon fishing
Planning a large event, a wedding or corporate gathering?
The Stag Ballroom, adjacent to the Lodge, is a popular venue for wedding receptions, ceilidhs and family gatherings, with room for up to 160 guests. Within the Lodge, the more intimate setting of the Craggan Ballroom can accommodate 50 seated guests and the grand dining room, which seats 30. For further details on corporate entertaining or any events, please contact Mar Lodge on +44 (0)13397 41276.
Horse owners can now bring their equine friends. Enquire about Mar Lodge's horse B&B when you book.
Getting there
Braemar is 60 miles west of Aberdeen and 50 miles north of Perth on the A93. Aberdeen airport is situated in Dyce on the outskirts of Aberdeen. Mar Lodge estate is 3 miles West of Braemar, in Aberdeenshire.
Claybokie and Creag Bhalg are set within a high-walled garden on three sides, with the fenced-off river to the front. The grounds also contain the housekeeper's house.
Short breaks are available Fri-Mon and Mon-Fri. Full weeks run from a Sat-Sat.
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It's hard for us to express in words how amazing this dessert is -- any accurate depiction would need tap-dancing unicorns and a 20-minute fireworks show. You're gonna have to make it and taste for yourself. Cue the unicorns... Ingredients: 1/2 cup reduced-fat creamy peanut butter, room temperature Half an 8-oz. tub fat-free cream cheese, room temperature 1/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup light vanilla soymilk (or Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze) 1 cup Cool Whip Free, thawed 2 sheets (8 crackers) low-fat honey graham crackers, crushed Optional topping: Fat Free Reddi-wip Directions: Place peanut butter and cream cheese in a large bowl. Using an electric hand mixer set to medium speed, mix until smooth and uniform. Add powdered sugar to the bowl. Set the mixer to low speed, and mix well. Add soymilk and continue to mix until smooth. Gently fold in whipped topping, until uniform in color. Carefully transfer the filling into a pie pan. Evenly top with crushed graham crackers. Cover and freeze until firm, at least 2 hours. Cut into 8 slices and, if you like, top with Reddi-wip. Enjoy! MAKES 8 SERVINGS HG Tip: If frozen until solid, let pie sit at room temperature for 10 - 15 minutes before cutting and serving.
Serving Size: 1 slice (1/8th of recipe) Calories: 159 Fat: 6.5g Sodium: 235mg Carbs: 18g Fiber: 1g Sugars: 8.5g Protein: 7g PointsPlus® value 4*
There's no math required to deduce that a creamy pie made with peanut butter is gonna be high in calories and fat. Optimists might illogically persuade themselves that it won't be that bad. Delusion does not pay, people! Especially since a) the average slice of peanut butter pie has more than 500 calories and nearly 35 grams of fat, and b) our version is SO GOOD, your head will fall off just so it can get closer to the pie. It's richer and more decadent than any dessert this low in calories has a right to be. Our swap has a graham topping rather than a crust bottom -- that's just part of what makes it special! It's served frozen, but it never delivers a too-icy texture. And when our pie melts ever so slightly, the resulting creamy goo is so delicious that it's hard not to lick the plate. So follow this simple equation. Delicious dessert + smart stats = MAKE IT RIGHT NOW. It's only logical...
Serving Size: 1 slice Calories: 542 Fat: 34g Sodium: 350mg Carbs: 53g Fiber: 1g Sugars: 37g Protein: 6g PointsPlus® value 15*
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So what's the status of remote invocations on EJBs in AS7?jaikiran Nov 3, 2011 11:15 AM
Many of you have been asking about support for invocation of EJBs from a remote client, ever since 7.0.x was released. Here's an update to those of you who have been waiting patiently for remote invocations on EJB in AS7. For some time, I have been replying in many threads, that it'll be available soon (without providing the real details, although those of you following the AS7 dev list https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev would know the progress). So I thought, it was time to let you all know how it's progressing.
The plan for remote invocation on EJBs has been (and still is) that it'll be available in one of the 7.1 Beta releases. Ofcourse, 7.1 Beta release would also include other features and bug fixes. As promised we have been working on implementing the remote EJB invocation on a high priority. We have made some good ground on getting this functional. Infact, the current AS7 upstream does have support for remote EJB invocations. *BUT* (yes, before you start rushing to download the nightly binary, please read the rest of this post ), in AS7 we have introduced a new EJB client API which is a JBoss specific API which allows you to invoke on EJBs. This is different from the traditional JNDI lookup and invoke process and involves dealing with the client API. The goal and details of the API will all be documented and made available. The current AS7 upstream has support for invoking EJBs via this API. Those of you who follow the AS7 dev list already know about this.
This however, does *not* mean that you will have to start using this API instead of the traditional JNDI usage. Infact, now that the API is in place and functional, we are working on implementing a way where you would still use JNDI and internally we would delegate the calls via this EJB client API. This part is what is currently work-in-progress and should be available soon. The reason why we haven't yet asked users to test the current AS7 upstream, is because we would first want you to try the typical JNDI access, before we present to you the new EJB client API. Once the support for invocation on proxy returned by a JNDI lookup is ready, we'll be asking users to test out our nightly builds and provide feedback. Ideally, we would like this to be available atleast a week before a 7.1 Beta release happens, so that any bugs reported can be fixed before the release. We are planning to make this support available in AS7 upstream as soon as possible and although I can't really promise, we are targetting for this to be available maybe in the next week. Take that as a rough estimate though, since we can't really predict how things are going to work out.
As for the timeline and exact dates for the Beta release, it's not something that I know. Keep an eye on the JIRA roadmap and I believe it will be updated accordingly.


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Mother's Day shopping events on Long Island and in Manhattan
To the doting daughters (and style savvy sons) out there -- this one's for you. It can be stressful to find Mom the perfect token of your appreciation, but some retailers are using giveaways, champagne and free personalized gifts to make the Mother's Day shopping process that much more enjoyable. You may even want to take Mom with you.
May 4
Milly by Michelle Smith is inviting moms and their little ones to an early Mother's Day celebration at the Milly Madison Avenue boutique from 10 a.m. to noon. Guests will enjoy mommy and me makeovers, with free makeup applications and braids by Varin Salon. While there, they can shop Milly for mom, and Milly Minis for daughters. Moms get a complimentary mini-facial at the Cornelia Spa at The Surrey with any full-priced handbag purchase; 900 Madison Ave., Manhattan; RSVP to email@example.com.
May 4-5
Daughters looking for a special gift for Mom should stop by a C. Wonder store from noon to 5 p.m., where with any purchase they get the chance to pose for a photo and pen their favorite "Momism" to go in a floral C. Wonder card. Plus, save 20 percent off your entire purchase when you buy two or more jewelry items; at C. Wonder Manhattan stores and at Roosevelt Field mall, Garden City.
May 10-11
Enjoy champagne and a pop-up flower shop while shopping for unique furniture and home decor at this favorite Long Island store Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 305 Main St., East Setauket.
With each White Diamonds Elizabeth Taylor purchase of $60 or more, receive a gift of a gold monogrammed tote bag or White Diamonds watch. The Mother's Day gift set, $60, includes an eau du toilette spray, perfumed body lotion, moisturizing body wash and perfumed body powder; at Macy's Roosevelt Field, Garden City, and Macy's Green Acres Mall, Valley Stream.
May 12
Spend $350 or more beginning May 12 and receive a free tote featuring an original drawing by Taylor's artist husband, Wayne Pate. "It's a drawing of poppies," Taylor told Newsday. "It's a cool, serene image that's perfect for spring." Check out her Mother's Day gift ideas on Shop Talk; at Rebecca Taylor stores in Manhattan and rebeccataylor.com.


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After this and this, and surely after this, we allowed ourselves to hope that, maybe, the Internet meme of the Harlem Shake would quickly fade and then die, because fuck the fake Harlem Shake and everyone who condones its existence.
But then we saw this video of JaVale and the Nuggets doing the Harlem Shake. They're late to the party, though at this point we expect JaVale to be late to the party. And even though, as Harlem Shaking goes, this Nuggets version is pretty bush league, that is quite a mask. Still, let's just be done with this dance and all move on with our lives like responsible adults.


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Aaron Gouveia thought that because he was raising a son, he wouldn't have to deal with body image issues… Boy, was he wrong.
Originally appeared at DaddyFiles.
I write for a living. All day long I wrestle with words, carefully and meticulously deciphering which ones I want to use to convey the right message to my audience. And then, when my workday is done, I come home and tend to Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and these very blog pages to do more of the same. In short, words are my life.
Which is why I'm having a difficult time figuring out why I have so much trouble refraining from saying stupid and potentially harmful things in front of my son Will.
It's not like I'm swearing in front of him or verbally abusing him. But at least that would be easy to identify. Nope, what's been happening lately is much more subtle (and far more frustrating). Unlike the past few years when Will couldn't comprehend most of the things I'm saying, suddenly he understands EVERYTHING. Even if he doesn't quite grasp the words I'm using, he somehow gets the concept and gist of what I'm talking about and the meaning behind it. And when I say something—regardless of my intended meaning—he takes it another way.
Case in point:
Me: "OK buddy, I've gotta go to the gym for a run."
Will: "Dada, why do you run?"
Me: "Because I'm too fat. So I run so I can get skinny like you."
Honestly, I didn't think anything of it. I was calling myself fat (a fact) and I thought I was setting a positive example by showing him that it's important to exercise and be fit. Nothing wrong with that right?
Well a few hours later after I got back, Will got really revved up and would not stop running around. It was like someone had mainlined Pixy Stix directly into his bloodstream. When I finally corralled him and asked him what was going on, I was floored by his answer.
"I'm getting fat so I needed to run like you, Dada."
For some naive reason, I thought because I'm raising a son I would never have to deal with body issues and all that crap. Which is hysterical because I've hated the way I look and the fact that I've been pudgy since I was a kid. But suddenly I found myself knee deep in it.
I never meant to scare him or make him feel bad about himself, but I also failed to realize that by talking about myself negatively, it affects him too. To the point a 4-year-old had to exercise to avoid feeling fat. All because of an offhand comment I made in my rush to get to the gym. Now he's intermittently afraid to take his shirt off in front of us because he thinks we'll call him fat. And he's obsessed with standing on the scale because he sees me weighing myself all the time.
I just can't believe what started as me wanting to get healthy, go to the gym and live longer to enjoy life with my son, has turned into me giving aforementioned son unhealthy body issues and an obsession with weight at the tender age of 4.
Parenting ain't easy.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California man was in custody Tuesday after police said he made threatening comments on the Internet related to the deadly Connecticut school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead.
Sergio Cabada, 18, of Suisun City, was arrested without incident Monday just hours after police were notified that he glorified the school rampage on his Facebook page and said he had thought of committing similar acts, Fairfield police Sgt. Kevin Carella said.
Carella said police quickly obtained a search warrant and confiscated four rifles in Cabada's home before he was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of making felony terrorist threats.
"We take all threats seriously and we will investigate any crime that indicates violence in our community," Carella said. "We will not tolerate this type of behavior."
Carella declined to provide additional details, citing the ongoing investigation.
It was not immediately clear if Cabada had an attorney. Calls placed to his home on Tuesday were not immediately returned.
In Los Angeles, police previously booked Kyle Bangayan, 24, of Pomona, for allegedly making criminal threats against elementary schools in a Facebook posting. However, the district attorney's office decided Monday against filing charges, saying Bangayan made no specific threat to a person or school.
Authorities said Bangayan told police he was joking when he wrote that if people didn't stop posting about the Connecticut shootings on Facebook, he would do the same thing. Bangayan said the joke got a few laughs.
Such comments in the wake of the shooting that has gripped the country are no laughing matter, said Fremont Police Chief Craig Steckler, who is also president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
"These kinds of threats happen with a lot of high-profile crimes. They don't actually do it, but you have to take them very seriously," said Steckler.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Steckler sent out an email to his organization's 23,000 members, urging them to review the group's guide on preventing and responding to school violence.
"As a public safety leader you will certainly be called on to address these concerns and to reassure your community that their schools are safe and that your department is well-positioned to protect the students," Steckler wrote.


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The Will Takes Effect
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New Covenant Mediator
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The Blood of Christ
All believers have struggled at one point or another with the assurance of their salvation. It is a mistake, however, to look to our inner feelings over against looking toward the One who guarantees salvation. We are sure of salvation ...Read More
His Own Blood
John Owen writes, "from his infinite love and grace [Jesus] humbly went [to shed His blood on the cross], so God could be glorified and his church sanctified and saved. It is right for us always to consider what love, ...Read More
Imperfect Sacrifices
It can be difficult to wade through the details of the Law. The customs seem so foreign to us that we are tempted just to skim over them. But, as the author of Hebrews tells us, the details of the ...Read More
But Once a Year
No one intends to rush into sin at first. John Calvin reminds us that "men never deliberately rush headlong into ruin, but being entangled in the deceptions of Satan, they lose the power of judging rightly." Pray that you would ...Read More
Regulations for Worship
Although it is not emphasized here, the Bible makes it clear that Jesus is the true Temple of God. Just as God dwelt with His people in the temple under the old covenant, He has dwelt among us in the ...Read More
The Covenant Fulfilled
We say we are saved by grace alone — which is absolutely true. But this grace is only available to us at Christ's expense. Only because He came and perfectly fulfilled the covenant of works could God graciously impute His ...Read More
The Kingdom of God
Some promises of the new covenant have already been fulfilled (the reign of Christ on David's throne and His atonement), and some are not yet realized (the complete removal of sin). Praise God for those things already accomplished and be ...Read More
Davidic Covenant II
God would have had every right to give up on the Davidic line. Most of the kings of ancient Israel led the people into sin and persecuted those who proclaimed the law of God. But God, because of His sworn ...Read More


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Bulgarian-based tuner Vilner (named after a Lithuanian city) recently put some heavy-duty touches to a utilitarian Land Rover Defender with some impressive results. The overall package exudes a much more luxurious outlook with contrast leather seating, in-cab entertainment systems and a sleek black paint job. Putting a Vilner-custom Defender through its paces in the wild seems a little easier said than done.
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Tin Hau Temple at Lam Tsuen
Tin Hau, Goddess of the Sea, is revered by fishermen and anyone whose life and destiny is tied to the sea. Temples that honour her are found in abundance in Chinese coastal communities throughout Asia. Hong Kong is no exception.
The Tin Hau Temple in Lam Tsuen, along with two nearby wishing trees, attracts visitors to this part of Tai Po, which has been a residential area for about 700 years. The temple was built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736–1796) of the Qing dynasty. The main palace of the two-hall structure is dedicated to Tin Hau, while on one side of the main palace stands Man Mo Hall, dedicated to both the God of Literature (Man) and the God of War (Mo). On the other side is the Temple for Justice, built in honour of 12 noble-hearted men who protected the Lam Tsuen villages during less peaceful times.
- Bus 64K or 64P at MTR Tai Po Market Station, get off at Fong Ma Po Station.
- Minibus 25K and get off at Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees.
- MTR Tai Wo Station and take a taxi.
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For a tennis line judge, keeping your eye on the ball isn't as important as keeping your eye on the line. Surprising, then, that judges don't find themselves victimized by errant serves more often, as happened today at Wimbledon during a fourth-round match between American Mardy Fish and Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. A young lady spotting the center service line took Fish's serve right in the eye, and despite offering resistance eventually allowed herself to be replaced. Keep your eye on the ball, indeed. [ESPN3]
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It should come as no surprise that Schnucks is closing stores and WNTA radio is no longer Rockford's voice. They are big corporations from somewhere else and that's what they do. We'll never get to hear the mayor again mumble about why we needed a $7 million bridge that doesn't cross anything or why his buddies all have lucrative TIF district deals, or why he refuses to get rid of the police chief, or why the county board chairman forced through the landfill expansion in spite of overwhelming objection or built a roundabout in a cornfield.
Now we have someone else coming into town with deep pockets and plans to build a hotel. It doesn't matter to our local officials that every road leading to downtown has more craters than the moon. Every time our officials farm out local businesses and services (street sweeping!) to outsiders, Rockford loses.
In the spirit of Illinois politics, I hope our officials are making millions instead of just being as inept as they seem to be on the surface. Our problems are vast and our local officials' response is only half vast. Does the name Rod Blagojevich mean anything to you?
— Randy MacCloskey, Rockford


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I have a few catch-up items for everyone today in honor of Al Gore's appearance yesterday before the House Committee on Global Warming (hasn't congress heard it's called 'Global Climate Change' now? 'Global Warming' is so last year.)
The VP has been recently dubbed "The Goracle" by his army of the faithful. [Because let's be clear, despite varying evidence for and in opposition to global climate change/warming, it is a matter of faith. Just as Christians have faith that Jesus is God and he will return to judge the quick and the dead, and just like Buddhists have faith they can work to expunge all bad vibes in order to obtain enlightenment, and just as Muslims believe they can subjugate the entire world and establish sharia law throughout the land, the global climate change religionists believe man is primarily responsible for global warming and the fate of the planet due to our actions and/or inactions–science can often be another form of provable and improvable doctrinal creed.] The faithful seem to overlook The Goracle's obvious and environmentally damaging hypocrisies, most recently evidenced in his egregiously wasteful personal energy policies at his own mansion in Tennessee, and including the plane zips from state to state, country to country in a private jet delivering his Academy Award winning slide show to the eco-zombies of the world, when he could just as easily travel commercially much of the time.
But oh, as he claimed in yesterday's hearings, and as he's previously self-extolled, he's living a 'carbon neutral' lifestyle through the purchase of 'carbon offsets,' or credits, from an enviro-friendly company that specializes in that sort of nonsensical diddle.
But even an organization that specializes in carbon offsets has no clue how they actually function to reduce specific amounts of carbon dioxide (human only I assume despite that fact that humans are not the leading cause of CO2 production.) Dan Skopec, Undersecretary for California Environmental Protection Agency, is a man who represents the cheerleading effort behind carbon footprint reduction, while ensuring that Arnold Swarzenegger's and Dianne Feinstein's environmentally unfriendly lifestyles are made to look much less horrific than they actually. Recently interviewed for the John and Ken Show on KFI 640 in Los Angeles, Skopec confessed, after repeatedly dodging the question, that he, and the scientific community as a whole (at least the tree-hugger variety), have no idea how many trees it would take, and how long they would need to remain standing, in order to offset the billions of tons of C02 we produce. The concept of Swarzenegger and Feinstein and The Goracle spending $10 to buy the right for a single tree to offset the gobs of carbon dioxide they produce in just one private jet trip is comedy. The fact that they obviously spend more (probably) for multiple trees with no clue as to what is officially necessary in order to actually reduce their 'carbon footprint' is an absurdity to the point of tragedy.
So send me $10 and I'll nail the bill right to the tree in my back yard (if I did in my front yard, someone might steal the money and you wouldn't gain anything)–you've just purchased the right for my tree to reduce your CO2 emissions. How much? Like Mr. Skopec above, I have no clue. But it can't hurt can it? Yet that's how most scams seem to function, and stating that global warming is the major emergency of our time as Gore claimed yesterday lends more credence to those who do not question what they're told and their willingness to buy into a scam without thinking for themselves.
But all this matters little to the mindless legions who follow The Goracle. Like an apoplectic discharge, they punish those who don't exactly buy into the global warming theory, while choosing to ignore billions of years of undocumented, unrecorded evolutionary earth history–ice core samples, yeah–that has shown the earth transforming, evolving, metamorphosing, and arguably transmogrifying (yes, Mother Nature, you can be an ugly bitch sometimes) throughout the eons, warming and cooling.
Of course, what all of this really boils down to here are new taxe increases for everyone courtesy of the Al Gore global warming conspiracy and his next bid for President of the United States in 2008. Still, I'd vote for him over George W. Bush any day of the week (of course, I'm kidding. I would simply abstain.)
Anyway, here's a fantastic documentary produced by the UK Channel 4 titled The Great Global Warming Swindle. Proceed further down the page for more news stories.
Here's a NYTimes piece from a week ago. Though a little old, it's interesting.
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype
Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness of climate change.
But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore's central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.
"I don't want to pick on Al Gore," Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. "But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data."
Mr. Gore, in an e-mail exchange about the critics, said his work made "the most important and salient points" about climate change, if not "some nuances and distinctions" scientists might want. "The degree of scientific consensus on global warming has never been stronger," he said, adding, "I am trying to communicate the essence of it in the lay language that I understand."
Although Mr. Gore is not a scientist, he does rely heavily on the authority of science in "An Inconvenient Truth," which is why scientists are sensitive to its details and claims.
Criticisms of Mr. Gore have come not only from conservative groups and prominent skeptics of catastrophic warming, but also from rank-and-file scientists like Dr. Easterbook, who told his peers that he had no political ax to grind. A few see natural variation as more central to global warming than heat-trapping gases. Many appear to occupy a middle ground in the climate debate, seeing human activity as a serious threat but challenging what they call the extremism of both skeptics and zealots.
Kevin Vranes, a climatologist at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, said he sensed a growing backlash against exaggeration. While praising Mr. Gore for "getting the message out," Dr. Vranes questioned whether his presentations were "overselling our certainty about knowing the future."
Typically, the concern is not over the existence of climate change, or the idea that the human production of heat-trapping gases is partly or largely to blame for the globe's recent warming. The question is whether Mr. Gore has gone beyond the scientific evidence.
"He's a very polarizing figure in the science community," said Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental scientist who is a colleague of Dr. Vranes at the University of Colorado center. "Very quickly, these discussions turn from the issue to the person, and become a referendum on Mr. Gore."
"An Inconvenient Truth," directed by Davis Guggenheim, was released last May and took in more than $46 million, making it one of the top-grossing documentaries ever. The companion book by Mr. Gore quickly became a best seller, reaching No. 1 on the New York Times list.
Mr. Gore depicted a future in which temperatures soar, ice sheets melt, seas rise, hurricanes batter the coasts and people die en masse. "Unless we act boldly," he wrote, "our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes."
He clearly has supporters among leading scientists, who commend his popularizations and call his science basically sound. In December, he spoke in San Francisco to the American Geophysical Union and got a reception fit for a rock star from thousands of attendees.
"He has credibility in this community," said Tim Killeen, the group's president and director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a top group studying climate change. "There's no question he's read a lot and is able to respond in a very effective way."
Some backers concede minor inaccuracies but see them as reasonable for a politician. James E. Hansen, an environmental scientist, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a top adviser to Mr. Gore, said, "Al does an exceptionally good job of seeing the forest for the trees," adding that Mr. Gore often did so "better than scientists."
Still, Dr. Hansen said, the former vice president's work may hold "imperfections" and "technical flaws." He pointed to hurricanes, an icon for Mr. Gore, who highlights the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and cites research suggesting that global warming will cause both storm frequency and deadliness to rise. Yet this past Atlantic season produced fewer hurricanes than forecasters predicted (five versus nine), and none that hit the United States.
"We need to be more careful in describing the hurricane story than he is," Dr. Hansen said of Mr. Gore. "On the other hand," Dr. Hansen said, "he has the bottom line right: most storms, at least those driven by the latent heat of vaporization, will tend to be stronger, or have the potential to be stronger, in a warmer climate."
In his e-mail message, Mr. Gore defended his work as fundamentally accurate. "Of course," he said, "there will always be questions around the edges of the science, and we have to rely upon the scientific community to continue to ask and to challenge and to answer those questions."
He said "not every single adviser" agreed with him on every point, "but we do agree on the fundamentals" — that warming is real and caused by humans.
Mr. Gore added that he perceived no general backlash among scientists against his work. "I have received a great deal of positive feedback," he said. "I have also received comments about items that should be changed, and I have updated the book and slideshow to reflect these comments." He gave no specifics on which points he had revised.
He said that after 30 years of trying to communicate the dangers of global warming, "I think that I'm finally getting a little better at it."
While reviewers tended to praise the book and movie, vocal skeptics of global warming protested almost immediately. Richard S. Lindzen, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, who has long expressed skepticism about dire climate predictions, accused Mr. Gore in The Wall Street Journal of "shrill alarmism."
Some of Mr. Gore's centrist detractors point to a report last month by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that studies global warming. The panel went further than ever before in saying that humans were the main cause of the globe's warming since 1950, part of Mr. Gore's message that few scientists dispute. But it also portrayed climate change as a slow-motion process.
It estimated that the world's seas in this century would rise a maximum of 23 inches — down from earlier estimates. Mr. Gore, citing no particular time frame, envisions rises of up to 20 feet and depicts parts of New York, Florida and other heavily populated areas as sinking beneath the waves, implying, at least visually, that inundation is imminent.
Bjorn Lomborg, a statistician and political scientist in Denmark long skeptical of catastrophic global warming, said in a syndicated article that the panel, unlike Mr. Gore, had refrained from scaremongering. "Climate change is a real and serious problem" that calls for careful analysis and sound policy, Dr. Lomborg said. "The cacophony of screaming," he added, "does not help."
So too, a report last June by the National Academies seemed to contradict Mr. Gore's portrayal of recent temperatures as the highest in the past millennium. Instead, the report said, current highs appeared unrivaled since only 1600, the tail end of a temperature rise known as the medieval warm period.
Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, said on a blog that Mr. Gore's film did "indeed do a pretty good job of presenting the most dire scenarios." But the June report, he added, shows "that all we really know is that we are warmer now than we were during the last 400 years."
Other critics have zeroed in on Mr. Gore's claim that the energy industry ran a "disinformation campaign" that produced false discord on global warming. The truth, he said, was that virtually all unbiased scientists agreed that humans were the main culprits. But Benny J. Peiser, a social anthropologist in Britain who runs the Cambridge-Conference Network, or CCNet, an Internet newsletter on climate change and natural disasters, challenged the claim of scientific consensus with examples of pointed disagreement.
"Hardly a week goes by," Dr. Peiser said, "without a new research paper that questions part or even some basics of climate change theory," including some reports that offer alternatives to human activity for global warming.
Geologists have documented age upon age of climate swings, and some charge Mr. Gore with ignoring such rhythms.
"Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet," Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. "Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change."
In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore's claim that "our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this" threatened change.
Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to "20 times greater than the warming in the past century."
Getting personal, he mocked Mr. Gore's assertion that scientists agreed on global warming except those industry had corrupted. "I've never been paid a nickel by an oil company," Dr. Easterbrook told the group. "And I'm not a Republican."
Biologists, too, have gotten into the act. In January, Paul Reiter, an active skeptic of global warming's effects and director of the insects and infectious diseases unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, faulted Mr. Gore for his portrayal of global warming as spreading malaria.
"For 12 years, my colleagues and I have protested against the unsubstantiated claims," Dr. Reiter wrote in The International Herald Tribune. "We have done the studies and challenged the alarmists, but they continue to ignore the facts."
Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton who advised Mr. Gore on the book and movie, said that reasonable scientists disagreed on the malaria issue and other points that the critics had raised. In general, he said, Mr. Gore had distinguished himself for integrity.
"On balance, he did quite well — a credible and entertaining job on a difficult subject," Dr. Oppenheimer said. "For that, he deserves a lot of credit. If you rake him over the coals, you're going to find people who disagree. But in terms of the big picture, he got it right."
Returning as the 'Goracle'
Gore brings his message on global warming — and a reincarnated image — to the Capitol.
Al Gore left Washington seven years ago bowed by the 2000 presidential election and a little disgraced in the eyes of his party — couldn't he at least have won his home state?
But he returned Wednesday reincarnated: the subject of an Academy Award-winning film, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, a 58-year-old guy who, slightly grayed and a little puffy, can share a stage with Leonardo DiCaprio and still manage to be the center of attention.
The onetime congressman, senator and vice president was back, this time to testify about global warming. The Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" — the documentary about his traveling slide show on the ravages of climate change — doesn't even belong to him; it's the director's. But it has pushed Gore into another orbit in Washington's universe. People started lining up as early as 7 a.m. to get a glimpse of him.
"This is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced," Gore told a joint meeting of two House panels in an impassioned appeal for bold action. (He later repeated his case on the Senate side.) "This problem is burning a hole in the top of the world…. We need to turn the thermostat back down before that melts."
Gore, who arrived in a new hybrid Mercury, sat beside a stack of brown boxes filled with 516,000 messages — collected over the last few days on AlGore.com — urging "real action."
"There is a sense of hope in the country that this United States Congress will rise to the occasion and present meaningful solutions to this crisis," he said. "Congress is a repository of hopes and dreams of people all across this Earth."
As the morning hearing convened on the House side, the repository of hopes and dreams spent several minutes bickering about where the committee members should sit and how much time they had to speak.
They appeared to divide pretty much along party lines. Democrats hailed the "Goracle," who saw this coming 30 years ago, and Republicans dismissed him as an alarmist.
Among Gore's ideas: a pollution tax, an immediate freeze on carbon dioxide emissions with sharp reductions in future years, stricter vehicle miles-per-gallon rules, a moratorium on construction of highly polluting coal-fired power plants, a strong global climate-change treaty and the creation of a federally operated "carbon-neutral" mortgage association that would serve as incentive for building energy-efficient homes.
"I listen to you sometimes in wonderment," said Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), predicting that Gore's proposals would cost "tens of thousands of jobs and more empty factories."
Rep. Ralph M. Hall (R-Texas) complained of an "all-out assault" on energy sources that are crucial to economic and national security.
In the confrontational camaraderie for which Washington is famous, Hall and Gore happily reminisced about the time they went to a meeting on Hall's boat, then Hall accused Gore of "flirting with the death of the energy industry."
Gore acknowledged his proposals faced serious obstacles.
In calling for a pollution tax, he said, "I fully understand this is considered politically impossible, but part of our challenge is to expand the limits of what's possible." He urged his former colleagues to "walk through that fire."
The day will come, he said, when future generations either ask, "Did they think it was perfectly all right to keep dumping 70 million tons every single day of global-warming pollution into this Earth's atmosphere?" or "How did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics?"
Gore spoke mostly without notes and seemed more comfortable in his skin than when he was as a presidential candidate, even with a clot of photographers squatting in front of him. A notorious policy wonk, he touched on subjects such as light bulbs and the Arctic ice cap, which, he said, is melting even faster than previously thought and could "completely disappear in as little as 34 years."
"If it goes, it won't come back in any time scale relevant to the human condition," he warned as his wife, Tipper, nodded in agreement behind him.
Members of both parties, who generally poke at their BlackBerrys during long committee hearings, appeared to pay attention.
The exchanges were sometimes confrontational, especially at the Senate hearing, where Gore dueled with one of the chief congressional skeptics on global warming, Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)."It seems that everything is blamed on global warming," Inhofe said. "Last summer we had a heat wave and everyone said, 'Oh, that's proof it's global warming.' Then we had a mild December. 'Oh, that's proof that global warming is taking place.' … How come you guys never seem to notice it when it gets cold?"
But Gore held firm, noting that a manatee showed up off Memphis last summer.
"First time ever," he said. "It got too hot in southern Florida. I'm not making this up. Another one showed up off of Cape Cod, first time ever. Nature is on the run."
Later, Gore invited Inhofe to breakfast to discuss the issue "without the cameras, without the lights."
Much as he did in "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore reduced the science to simple metaphors.
When asked whether the United States should be taking drastic action when China and India were greater polluters, Gore explained that the U.S. accounted for 23% of carbon emissions and "like a bucket with a hole in it, you can still use the bucket, but it's a lot more efficient if the hole is plugged."
Outside the House hearing room where Gore spoke, a crowd waited for him to emerge. Three high school girls from New Jersey snapped his picture for their school newspaper, saying that he looked taller, older and more confident than they expected.
Gore left through a side door, missing an impromptu ditty by what sounded like a Dixieland band and members of the antiwar group Code Pink, attired in boas and assorted hats. He was nonetheless mobbed by photographers and squeezed into an elevator to escape.
"Run for president!" somebody hollered, just as the doors closed.
At the end of the day, after Gore finished his testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the chairwoman, called Gore a "role model for us all."
Gore thanked her and asked, "Now, you don't give out any kind of statue or anything?"
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Unseasonal weather has put the epic north face of the Grandes Jorasses in great condition. On hand to take advantage were Matthias Scherer and Tanja Schmitt. Check out their video below, and also in their own words their experience taking on the 4,208 m icon of the Mt Blanc range at the end of September. Their route? The classic 1,200 m MacIntyre-Colton, grade: VI 6
Due to an unstable summer with cold temperatures and a lot of rainfall many ice gullies of the big faces in the Mont Blanc massif started to build up early. By the end of summer many routes that normally only form in colder autumn or winter air suddenly stood splendidly in a fading summer light. Above all the Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m) loomed over the massif, unrivaled, her tremendous north face strewn with veins of daunting, glittering ice.
September the 25th 2014 Tanja Schmitt, Matthias Scherer and Heike Schmitt tracked along the Mer de glace and built up their tent for the night. Their objective is the MacIntyre/Colton route on the Grandes Jorasses north face. They decided to embark early, climbing the long ice fields in complete darkness to achieve the more challenging mixed parts of the climb in the oncoming daylight.
The plan worked out perfectly. The team simul-climbed the lower ice field in the dark [when parties move together to save time]. In the upper part the ice becomes steeper. The crux existed of a snow/ice mixture, and so not really hard to climb it was impossible to protect. After some more ice fields they achieved the mixed climbing parts of the route: Technical climbing with sections of thinner ice. Everyone enjoyed the climbing. The team achieved the summit late in the day and paused for a rest, melting some snow for rehydration. The fading daylight was bathing the scenery in an incomparable beauty. Says Tanja: "As we stood there, in awe at this unearthly sight, all endeavors before and others yet to come seemed of no importance: the magic of the team- spirit and the magic of the mountains were glowing above all."
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The New York Times editorial "The Brothers Koch and AB 32" takes on efforts by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch to block California's signature climate law by pouring money into Proposition 23:
Four years ago, bipartisan majorities in the California Legislature approved a landmark clean energy bill that many hoped would serve as a template for a national effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil and mitigate the threat of climate change.
Now a well-financed coalition of right-wing ideologues, out-of-state oil and gas companies and climate-change skeptics is seeking to effectively kill that law with an initiative on the November state ballot. The money men include Charles and David Koch, the Kansas oil and gas billionaires who have played a prominent role in financing the Tea Party movement.
Flint Hills, a wholly-owned subsidiary of oil giant Koch Industries based in Kansas, has joined with Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro in trying to block California's landmark climate legislation by funding the campaign to pass Proposition 23. As the second largest private company in the US, Koch Industries has plenty of money to pour into this fight.
In fact, the $1 million from the oil billionaires is only one tentacle of the oily Kochtopus. As we detailed in our report "Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine," oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies. In recent years, they have even surpassed ExxonMobil in contributions to climate denial organizations.
Those front-group-tentacles have also reached California. David Koch's favorite front group, "Americans for Prosperity," is running TV ads promoting Proposition 23, and AFP's California director has said that the Prop 23 is the group's "top priority." Although AFP purports to be a 'grassroots' organization, in fact it was founded and is co-chaired by David Koch, and, as our report shows, Koch Foundations have poured more than $5 million into this front group. As David Axelrod told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker in her extraordinary investigative article exposing the Koch brothers, "What they don't say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens' movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires."
The Kochs are also directly funding political candidates who will support their agenda — including California senate candidate Carly Fiorina, who supports Proposition 23. KochPAC gave her $5,000 earlier this year, and is even co-hosting a fundraiser for her in Washington DC to give thousands more.
The fight over clean energy and climate policy in California is dripping with out-of-state oil money because the oil billionaires want to stamp out the progress that has been made to move toward clean energy and energy efficiency, and keep us addicted to their fossil fuels. That's how they became oil billionaires, after all. The NYT editorial concludes:
Who wins if this law is repudiated? The Koch brothers, maybe, but the biggest winners will be the Chinese, who are already moving briskly ahead in the clean technology race. And the losers? The people of California, surely. But the biggest loser will be the planet.


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Mixed Review: Stonewall Kitchen's Butternut Squash Risotto
I don't often prepare carb-heavy meals for dinner. Most nights, I'm happy with a giant salad and some simply roasted fish or chicken. But in the late fall when the temperature drops, I start craving things like pasta, mashed potatoes, heaping bowls of couscous, and above all else, risotto.
Stonewall Kitchen's Butternut Squash Risotto Mix ($7.95) promises "perfectly cooked risotto" and "the wonderful taste of butternut squash and maple syrup," but I was skeptical. The box contained only carnaroli rice and a spice packet. I still had to add olive oil, butter, chicken stock, and "optional" white wine and Parmesan cheese.
Preparing the mix was no faster or easier than preparing risotto from scratch—I still had to stand at the stove stirring the pot for the better part of an hour. If the mix didn't simplify or shorten the risotto-making process, what exactly did it offer? The only way to evaluate it was on flavor.
I'll start with the good. I found the instructions for this mix to be spot-on. My risotto needed exactly four cups of hot chicken stock to achieve that thick and creamy yet still kind of soupy consistency. The carnaroli rice was obviously of high quality, and it retained a pleasing, nutty bite. The mix was also well seasoned—I found that I didn't need to make any adjustments with salt and pepper.
Unfortunately, my praise ends there. I found the flavor of this mix to be palatable at best. The risotto was a little bit sweet, but other than that I couldn't taste the butternut squash or maple syrup at all. Instead, it tasted overwhelmingly of dried (and frankly, kind of dusty) herbs. More than anything, it reminded me of powdered soup mix. Next time I'm hit with a major risotto craving, I'll stick to making it from scratch using Kenji's guide.
About the Author: Lucy Baker is a food writer and the author of The Boozy Baker: 75 Recipes for Spirited Sweets. She is currently at work on a second book about homemade food gifts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and dachshund.
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On tap of legend corresponding series is removed from the chart, same way I want to remove the corresponding column from grid.
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What relationship proof do I need for Visa?
Getting a visa to China or obtaining one for your Chinese bride to go to your home? Find help here.
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What relationship proof do I need for Visa?
I have read in some posts that when visiting our ladies, we must keep all receipts, etc. I think I've also read that copies of letters sent to each other also need to be presented. I have a question. How could we keep track of telephone conversations and phone texting? I am fortunate to be in contact with a lady that has very good english skills due to her employment. We are starting to talk alot every few days, work schedules interfere to be any more frequent. This is turning into our most frequent way of communication, but we can't prove this for immigration purposes. Do I have to start saving all my phone bills? Thx in advance,
Re: What relationship proof do I need for Visa?
Yes save your phone bills. They will be a very big part of the process. What I do is use a phone card that every month I can just print out a list of all calls made. The company is called penny talk and they have very good rates to China. You can check them out online but really try and save any proof that you can think of. The most important is showing an ongoing relationship with your girl. So if they can see that you are talking with her on a regular basis it will be huge for you.
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Kevin yes saving the phone bills would help.You can use your computer to talk to your lady.Download skype or yahoo voice.They will both keep a record of the phone calls.Then you can just print them out on your computer.Also yes save all your recepts from your trip to China.And anything else that proves that you and your lady have a on going relationship.
Re: What relationship proof do I need for Visa?
I haven't heard of anyone that hasn't needed to fly to china marry the lady then apply for the visa. What they mean by proof is that you have lived with her for nearly a year. They will even ask you both when was the first time you made love! I don't know about the US but for Australia your going to have to marry her first.
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Penacho "Free Moving" Necklace
Penacho is inspired by Colette's Mexican heritage, paying homage to Aztec culture. In creating this vibrant collection, Colette looked to traditional Aztec regalia, and was influenced by the importance of feathers in Aztecan headdresses. Traditional headdresses are made with vibrant feathers, similar to that of a hummingbird. Huitzilopochtli, translating to "Hummingbird of the Left", is the God of sun and war. Aztecs believed that warriors who lost their lives in battle would return as hummingbirds. Colette carefully selected hard stones such as malachite, lápiz lazuli, onyx, mother of pearl and diamonds for the foundation of this collection. Set in 18-karat gold, Penacho brings to life the beauty of the Mexican and Aztec culture.
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The Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling this morning that a Dubuque solar energy company did not act as a public utility when it attempted to enter into a third-party power purchase agreement with the city of Dubuque, the Dubuque Telegraph Herald reported.
In a split decision, the court ruled, 4-2, with one abstention, in favor of Eagle Point Solar in the case filed against the Iowa Utilities Board. The ruling is expected to clear the way for additional municipalities or nonprofits, which cannot directly claim solar tax credits, to buy solar energy from non-utility third parties and take advantage of the credits.
"It's a big deal for small business," Ralph Rosenberg, executive director of the Iowa Environmental Council, told the Business Record. "I know there are a lot of people in the solar industry who are really happy about how this is going to promote solar energy."
Third party power purchase agreements are an important tool for expanding renewable energy in the state, along with tax incentives, loans, grants and other financing vehicles, he said.
The court found that the power purchase agreement didn't infringe on Alliant Energy Corp.'s exclusive operating area. The city had planned to have Eagle Point Solar install solar panels on a city-owned building. Energy harvested through the panels would be sold to the city, through a third party, and used to supply some of the building's electricity.
Though the solar-generated electricity would not have passed through Alliant meters, Alliant officials claimed the agreement violated terms of its exclusive operating rights agreement.


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December home prices climbed more than expected to boost the markets to a sharply higher close with the Dow soaring 115 points to 13,900. Nasdaq gained 13 points to 3129.
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Fourth quarter earnings more than doubled for U.S. Silica Holdings (NYSE: SLCA) to top analyst estimates as revenue surged.
Cracker Barrel (Nasdaq: CBRL) reported higher second quarter earnings that surpassed analyst expectations prompting the restaurant chain to lift its full year earnings outlook.
Ebix (Nasdaq: EBIX) will attend an analyst call hosted by Craig-Hallum Capital Group to discuss allegations made in a blog that the company reported inaccurate financial data.
On the downside
A Seeking Alpha contributor wrote that Boulder Brands (Nasdaq: BDBD) was overvalued and would plunge by up to 70%.
Halozyme Therapeutics (Nasdaq: HALO) narrowed fourth quarter losses but affirmed that the company expects cash burn between $45 million and $50 million in 2013.
A Seeking Alpha contributor questioned the development and testing of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals' (Nasdaq: PPHM) cancer treatment bavituximab.
In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of nearly 2 to 1 on the NYSE and by more than 3 to 2 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 index climbed 9 points to 1496.


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A debilitating illness affects every facet a person's life. Not only can it have a significant impact on your personal life, but your work life as well. Research shows nearly 30 percent of all U.S. workers between the ages of 25 and 65 will suffer an accident or illness that will keep them out of work for at least three months.
Fortunately, disability insurance (DI) can help you recoup a good portion of your wages if you are unable to work because of a disability. There are several types of disability insurance, including government-sponsored Social Security Disability Insurance and DI that is available through your employer. Employer-supplied disability insurance comes in two forms:
- Short-term disability coverage (STD) – This coverage provides employees with a specific percentage of pre-disability income (typically around 60 percent) once sick leave is all used up. STD typically lasts no longer than six months.
- Long-term disability coverage (LTD) – Long-term coverage begins when STD and sick leave are both exhausted. LTD also typically covers about 60 percent of a person's pay and in some cases can last the rest of an employee's life. LTD is generally considered protection against a catastrophic injury or illness, but it often covers common medical conditions that worsen over time.
"Some employers will include STD, LTD or both in an employee's benefits package," explains attorney Martin Sweet of legal information website THELAW.TV. "However, employees often have to pay out of their own pockets for these plans. In many cases, the employer and employee will share the cost."
Unfortunately, when an employee becomes disabled and unable to work for a long period of time, disability insurance does not always work the way it's designed to work. A recent California case involved a California woman who was ruled to have been wrongfully denied long-term disability coverage. The woman suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which was diagnosed in 2006. Her employer, AT&T, terminated her LTD even though she was still completely disabled. Last month, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the coverage termination was "illogical."
"Insurance companies and employers are supposed to be unbiased in the administration of disability insurance policies, but we all know that's not always the case," stresses Houston employment law attorney Kevin Murray of Kevin Murray, LLC.
Sweet adds DI policyholders need to be vigilant and proactive. "If you believe a coverage decision is unfair, then you owe it to yourself to do everything you can to fight it."
If you feel your DI has been wrongfully terminated or denied, you should contact a lawyer who specializes in disability claims.
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911 Call Shows Charlotte, N.C., Mom Terrified of Unarmed Football Player
Police responding to the call shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell.
Sept. 17, 2013 -- The shooting of an unarmed former Florida A&M football player in Charlotte, N.C., began with a 911 call from a terrified woman whose front door he had knocked on, possibly seeking help, the tape of the emergency call released today shows.
The man, now identified as Jonathan Ferrell, 24, had crashed his car nearby and arrived at the woman's house to ask for help around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.
"There's a guy breaking in my front door -- trying to kick it down," she told the operator. "Oh god. Oh my god."
The woman, who was alone in the house with her sleeping child, told the 911 operator that the stranger approached her front door and she opened it, thinking it was her husband coming home from work, and then slammed it shut when she saw the man.
The opening of the door set off the alarm on her home, and the man began yelling for her to turn off the alarm, she told the operator.
The woman was frantic about how to defend herself if he attempted to come inside.
"He's not in the house, he's in the front yard yelling," she told the operator. "I can't believe I opened the door. What the f**k is wrong with me. My husband has a gun and I can't find it."
When police arrived at the woman's home, Ferrell began running toward one officer, according to the police account of the incident.
"Oh my god. Where is he going? Why is he running? Why is he leaving?" the woman can be heard saying on the 911 call. "Oh my god."
According to police, when Ferrell began running at the officer, one cop tried unsuccessfully to Taser him. When that failed, another officer fired his gun, shooting at Ferrell 12 times and hitting him 10 times. Ferrell died at the scene.
The gunshots are not audible on the 911 tape.
Police determined the shooting was "excessive" and that Kerrick "did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon."
Officer Randall Kerrick turned himself in and was charged with voluntary manslaughter.
His attorney said today that he is confident Kerick's name will be cleared.
"We're going to allow this case to be tried in a court of law," defense attorney Mike Greene said today, according to ABC affiliate WSOC-TV in Charlotte. "However, we're confident at the resolution of this case and that it will be found that Officer Kerrick's actions were justified on the night in question."