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My partner Jason and our dear friend Professor Brad Bernthal are attempting to teach everything there is to know about the venture ecosystem in 90 minutes on January 28th. The link to the event is here.
Now realistically, you won't learn everything, but they have been teaching a class on the subject for the past five years and it is not only excellent, but was one of the reason Jason and I wrote our book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist.
This should be a great event.
I'm crazy proud of my partners Jason Mendelson and Ryan McIntyre for their band Legitimate Front. In addition to being VCs, we each have a creative outlet that is super important to us. Mine is writing books; their's is creating awesome music.
In August, their released the first album from their new band Legitimate Front. The idea of staying up until midnight on a Saturday night at The Fox Theater in Boulder is an odd thing for me, but I showed up and rocked out with them. And was totally, and completely, blown away.
Two of our old partners from Mobius Venture Capital – Greg Galanas and Carl Rosendahl – showed up to support them. And our IT Guy – Ross Carlson – made an impressive guest appearance on the sax.
They'll have more gigs coming up in the future, including a magic top secret one in San Francisco in a few months. Guys – y'all rock.
Along with my partner Jason Mendelson and our friends Brad Bernthal (University of Colorado Law School) and Mike Platt (partner at Cooley LLP) we have launched a series of courses in conjunction with our portfolio company Sympoz on starting a company. This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well.
My class, How To Light a Spark & Set Your Startup on Fire, is FREE for a limited time. It's aimed at someone either thinking about starting a business, or just getting going. It's a casual format – these should be easy, inspiring lessons – each of the three segments is about 30 minutes long Following is the outline of the content.
- Identifying the Right Idea: Is It a Relevant Idea? Does It Solve a Specific Problem? Is It A New Idea? Reduce Unnecessary Complexity! Are Your Great?
- Identifying the Right Idea for You: Are You Obsessed? What Do You Know? Are You an Infection Machine? Are You Consumed?
- Picking the Right Time to Start: If Not Now, When? Risk vs. Reward. The Idea Is the Easy Part! Resources for Startups.
Jason, BradB, and Mike's class is a subset of the class that Jason and BradB teach at the CU Boulder Law School which has consistently been one of the most popular law and business school classes around startups, raising money, and venture capital. In the Sympoz course, The Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Company, they build on our book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist to help you turn your idea into a company, who and how to partner with, how to raise money, and what to do with it when you get it. There's plenty of practical advice for interacting with VCs during the financing process along with lots of tips about what can kill your startup before you get it off the ground. The four hour course costs $29.99.
Sympoz classes are perfect for busy people; you can watch the professionally produced, HD videos anytime, anywhere on the planet, from any Internet-connected device, as often as you want. The Sympoz learning platform seamlessly blends discussions into the class experience, enabling you to ask questions of, and participate in conversations with your class community, including your instructors.
Join us in class - and give us feedback on what you think about it.
Amy and I wrote a meaningful amount about entrepreneurs and depression in Startup Life. Since we finished the final draft a few weeks ago, I've given several talks where depression came up as I've woven my own experience with depression into the short (less than 15 minute) version of my story. I've received a surprising (to me) number of emails from people thanking me talking about it publicly, along with my discussion of the anxiety disorder (obsessive compulsive disorder) that I've struggled with my entire adult life and that was severe during the serious depressive episode I had in my early to mid 20s.
So the idea of depression has been on my mind. It doesn't surprise me that I feel down and flat as I sit here in the Charlotte, North Carolina airport on my way to Lexington, Kentucky on day 16 of a 19 day trip. I'm tired, strung out, missing home, missing Amy, and running out of extrovert energy. I've had a great time with all the people I've been with and the events I've had around Startup Communities. I've had several extraordinary experiences like dinner last night in Toronto with a dozen fantastic entrepreneurs who I hope to have continuous involvement – as a friend and potential investor – in the future. But as I sit here, I'm surrounded by a lot of grey, and it's not just the clouds outside that are the remnants of the storm.
I've reached out to most of my friends in New York to check in on them. They are all doing fine even though a few were hit hard and are now effectively homeless as lower Manhattan gets cleaned up. I picked a spot in the airport far away from the TV – I couldn't stand the endless news cycle that mixed Sandy with Romney with Obama. I had some extra carbs hoping that would help – it just made me feel sleepy. Yup – I know what this feeling is.
I know many entrepreneurs who deal with different levels of depression. My close friend Jerry Colonna is extraordinarly eloquent about this and how it impacts entrepreneurs. Ben Huh, the CEO of Cheezburger, wrote a powerful post about his struggle with depression titled When Death Feels Like A Good Option. And I've had many conversations with other entrepreneurs about my, and their, struggle with depression.
For some reason we've embraced failure as an entrepreneurial trait that is ok, but we still struggle with acknowledging and talking about depression. Entrepreneurs function with a wide range of stresses and emotions that often have overwhelming intensity. In many cases, we are afraid of admitting depression, and are often highly functional when we are depressed. But that doesn't deny the fact that entrepreneurs get depressed. To deny this, is to deny reality, and that's against my value system.
I just went back and read what we wrote in Startup Life about depression and it made me smile. I'm really proud of the work that Amy and I did on that book – I think it is the best book I've been involved in writing (Venture Deals, which I wrote with Jason Mendelson, is a close second) and I'm hopeful that it has a lot of impact and value for entrepreneurs and their partners.
Just writing all of this makes me feel better. Thanks for listening. Time to get on the plane and go to Lexington.
If you are in Boulder on August 25th, join me at the Fox Theatre at 8:30pm to see my partners Ryan and Jason debut their band's album Off The Hook. I've long followed their musical exploits through their former band Soul Patch - Legitimate Front is their latest collaboration.
Off The Hook has a modern but retro-inspired sound with musical DNA from the 1970′s. I've heard a few of the soon-to-be released tracks, and I really like them. You will too, if you liked the 70′s music scene – their original music celebrates everything from 70′s hard rock to R&B to funk.
The $13 ticket price gets you in the door and lets you download the album for free – the tickets are available here.
I've been told that their special guest, Dechen Hawk is also giving away his album with the price of admission.


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ngl guys, badlydrawnpjo is one of my favorite blogs and i wish it'd pick up again someday
ngl guys, badlydrawnpjo is one of my favorite blogs and i wish it'd pick up again someday
aha its fine dude i dont really care
(sorry for the bad quality of the photo, bleh, i'm not a graphic maker)
Okay, so here's how it works, if your url is italicized, it means i respect you a lot and love everything you do and stuff, if your url is bolded, it means we've talked, and if your url is both, it means we've talked and i love you, okay:
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guys, there's a small warning..I think I went a bit masochistic on this one, so don't blame me for all of my
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*everyone who is not in Percy Jackson fandom and had to scroll down all the way through your dashboard because of this I am sorry*
i just want someone to draw a paul/percy hug
you're welcome
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In easily her best performance - and sadly, one few will see, given the film's modest release strategy - Jessica Biel stars as a single mother in Cold Rock, Washington.
Spits out enough scares and twists to maintain our interest, but the film's psycho-sociological layer is almost as cheesy and unconvincing as its low-rent action scenes.
Ultimately his story draws more energy from class than from criminality: awash in sludgy browns and rotting greens - the colors of poverty and decomposition - this unpredictable oddity is a little bonkers but a lot original.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in a few months it will also be paved with unwatched DVD copies of The Tall Man.
Sep 1, 2012Long on atmosphere and short on sense, The Tall Man becomes less gripping as it grows more ridiculous.
Aug 30, 2012The more pressing affliction in Pascal Laugier's film is the absence of chills, logic and coherence.
Aug 30, 2012Illustrates the problem of class mobility with a dark, troubling premise that holds a harsh light up to our own assumptions and expectations.
Aug 28, 2012Once you get through the flaming, Bowser's Castle–like gauntlet of the rest of the story's implausibilities, you end up in a different movie than the one on the creepy poster.
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Jun 5, 2013This movie was lame and really their was no point of it being called the tall man.When i looked at this movie on netflix i thought about slender and boy was i wrong.It stars Jessica Biel,Jodelle Ferland and Stephen McHattie.The movie didn't made sense cause of the title of this movie.If you've seen the whole movie then you know what i'm talking about.Jessica biel played in better movies than this and Jodelle Ferland played a character who never really did anything besides worrying about the tall man.Don't get me wrong i found one or two part interesting but the fact is the movie was just god awful and boring to me.… Full Review »
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America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 39th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Vanessa Bayer, Aidy Bryant, Taran Killam, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, Jay Pharoah, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, featuring Beck Bennett, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, Kyle Mooney, and Sasheer Zamata. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night. watch
Jimmy Fallon, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers. What do all these names have in common? They're all currently, or are going to be, late-night talk show hosts.
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when you realise you've eaten more than the rest of your friends at a party
Or in my case after clinical
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this is pretty much my philosophy on life.
Grow every second. You're under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.
didn't get into the school i thought i had the best chance of getting in to. blah. not happy. i am about to write a plea letter to the school i have been at for the last six years. pray for me!
i want to be totally self sufficient. i don't want to need anyone or even want anyone. i want my happiness to be self induced and not dependent on anyone else. i want to eliminate the sadness that being involved with other people always seems to involve. i basically want to be a hermit.
im still not sure if this makes me strong or weak…
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Fonterra Shareholders' Fund units soared as much as 22% on their NZX debut as investors leap at the chance to get access to the dairy exporters' earnings stream, though no farmers used the scheme to trade their own shares.
The units jumped as high as $6.71 from the $5.50 offer price set in this week's book-build in a flurry of trading. The price settled back to $6.60, with 12.6 million units, or about 13% of the fund, changing hands.
"Today we have permanent capital based on a true market price," Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says. "We have seen that true market price just now."
None of Fonterra's farmer shareholders used the mechanism to trade shares among themselves.
"Farmers will watch and see what happens. They have got a lot of time to make their decisions," says chairman elect John Wilson, who confirmed he hasn't personally taken up units. Fonterra plans to make "another couple of offers to farmers in the new year" of shares. The details cannot be made public yet.
Mr Wilson says he expects the units "will settle down over time and end up trading on their fundamentals". But in the first flush of trading "we know there's been so much demand".
Fonterra chief financial officer Jonathan Mason says the new opportunities will let farmers trade their production shares, as spelled out in the prospectus, though the board has yet to decide on the detail.
Given the strong demand for the units, Mr Mason says Fonterra will consider a retail bond offer as existing debt matures.
"Another retail bond is clearly one of the ideas we would look at as maturities come up", though he noted that in recent months they have offered more attractive interest rates.
Some 58% of the $525 million of units were allocated to New Zealand retail and institutional investors and the class of investors known as Friends of Fonterra, which includes Australia's Bonlac. The rest were sold to foreign institutions.
The change will substantially reduce the share redemption risk on Fonterra's own books, which has billowed to more than $700 million in recent years, by giving farmers a venue to trade the shares among themselves.
While the fund attracted massive demand, the pricing was deemed too rich for research firm Morningstar, which last week gave a "do not subscribe" recommendation.
Morningstar said investors would be better served waiting for the units to list and consider buying in if the price fell to $4.95.
Units in the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund jumped 21% on their debut as investors clamoured to get more exposure to the dairy co-operative's earnings after a $525 million initial public offer.
The fund, which grants holders access to Fonterra's dividends but not voting rights, opened at $6.66, after the issue price was set at $5.50 after a bookbuild, the top end of the indicative range.
It recently traded at $6.70, with some 3.9 million units changing hands in the first few minutes of trading.
The units climbed on heavy volumes even as this story was being published.
Some 58% of the units were allocated to New Zealand retail and institutional investors and the class of investors known as Friends of Fonterra, which includes Australia's Bonlac.
The rest were sold to foreign institutions.
The change will substantially reduce the share redemption risk on Fonterra's own books, which has billowed to more than $700 million in recent years, by giving farmers a venue to trade the shares among themselves.
No farmer shareholders used the new facilities to trade Fonterra stock among themselves.
While the fund attracted massive demand, the pricing was deemed too rich for research firm, Morningstar, which last week gave a "do not subscribe" recommendation.
Morningstar said investors would be better served waiting for the units to list and consider buying in if the price fell to $4.95.
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36 Comments & Questions
What a rort!
Foreign investors given an easy 20% profit, while Kiwi investors are left on the sideline.
We have to pay $4 for a litre of milk and then they allocate the profits off to overseas institutions!
Fonterra, New Zealand's biggest company and screwing New Zealanders since 2001.
You comments are poorly thought out and not based on facts... My contention would be that the purchasers of the increased price shares are overseas investors so they are paying the premium, not NZers. But then I know as much about that as you - we don't know who has bought the shares, so we can't draw any conclusions - well at least not rational reasoned conclusions. And, by the way, all the profits do NOT go off overseas - the company is owned by and decisions made on it's operation by NZ farmers... clearly not something you have understood before making your comment...
You could ahve purchased some of the shares, and then sold them also, to make a 20% return virtually overnight.
Had you purchased any shares??
Could have purchased shares? Theses shares were allocated to overseas investors, not kiwis. The beginning of the end of a kiwi - owned Fonterra co-op.
Wrong on a couple of points.1. the shares were not all alllocated overseas. I don't know how many went where and I'm betting you don't either. 2. It is NOT the beginning of the end as the investor shares have no voting rights and the farmers still own and control the company. I don't understand why you as surely it isn't based on facts.
Of course he did not. He has vitriolic fingers (I know) but an envious jealous spine.
And it will fall after the Stags have gone!!
Wow the Ford dealers are in for a healthy December !
NZ farmers didn't sell shares into the pool. Fonterra created new shares , thus diluting the value for existing shareholders. You have it backwards.
Speculative wealth for overseas investors while NZers got scaled back. We should remember this when Fonterra talks about NZ Inc or wants a policy change to favour their business model.
Proof that the directors of Fonterra did an average job in the pricing and offer structure - at the peril of Fonterra farmer shareholders.
A premium on listing of more than 10% is a mispriced issue.
Early days surely. The early birds could be turkeys.
This NBR site is a good website - it could be improved substantially if it got rid of the ability to comment after seeing the nonsense that gets put on it. Above are good examples.
Are you serious? New Zealand lacks local investors! It's a nonsense that Fonterra is screwing anyone here. You should be pleased that the market cap of NZX is growing and critique in the above comments has no ground.
Worst. Company. Ever.
Almost impossible for NZers to get an allocation in this. Meanwhile, they pollute our rivers, hold the country to ransom with sky-high milk and cheese prices, and pay only minimal taxes http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/5017279/Dairy-farmers-paying-no-tax
Well, they pay minimal tax because they make no profit after the banks take penalty interest.
Talk to supermarkets about their mark-up on dairy. Do some research before making these ill-informed comments.
There was a small group of farmer shareholders who sold into this issue at $5.50.
They were probably pressured to sell by their bankers.
Hope they take the appropriate ACTION!
Every New Zealander had the opportunity to invest in these shares. For those who were not quick enough or didn't, then that's really tough luck.
Fonterra pours millions of dollars every day into communities, be it payouts to their farmers or salary and wages to employees, to name a couple of ways.
It seems unusual to blame Fonterra for the people who invested in their float. If foreign investors were savvy enough to purchase shares then good on them. We all had the same chance given to us.
Every New Zealander didn't have the opportunity to invest as the lead managers put large licks of the stock offshore. It should be a worry that in the last issue prior to Mighty River Power, the major investment banks are still head in the ground over the extent of retail NZ demand and a warning for the government to design a process that allows retail demand to be filled before institutional demand.
Rumour has it 3.5 billion of retail demand in NZ - and most brokers apparently got less than 25% of demand, so had to say no to significant numbers of clients. That is hardly offering every NZer the chance to invest. A true investment would have had a proberty audit run book build.
Thanks for the freebee, bosses.
That comment must be from Fonterra's staff canteen.
True market price = lemmings herding. Lambs to the slaughter. Selling commodities with no differentiating factor. Wow, what a good business.
Yet it's NZ's biggest business, you muppet. Nothing brings more to this country than Fonterra. Not even Peter Jackson. You want in? Buy a dairy farm. Simple.
So adding value to raw materials from primary industry is not the way forward? That will be why everybody has ignored the findings of the recent Harvard think-tank.
Of course, we can get rich selling milk powder to the poor . Those industry leaders didn't have a clue: what did the think-tank junket cost again?
On the other hand , perhaps Fonterra really does have a plan to sell real fresh (ie, not reconstituted from SMP, AMF and WPC) cultured foods to the rich people of Asia .
Let's see now: we could possibly let the richest 10% of Asia have about 20 litres of milk each in total / annum.
Hard sell?
I hope Brian Gaynor bought me a swag of them... Great fund manager.
Brian Gaynor is the top fund manager in NZ.
I bought $5000, which was all I was allocated.
Local investors would have bought a heap more if they had had the opportunity.
Great to see 23% of the total issue traded today. Obviously, really long-term investors in the brokers' (institutional) allocations!
Really guys, you'll be able to buy them much cheaper after Xmas when all the stags have gone and poor old mum and dad buyers wake up to the fact that the pros have screwed them again!
People wonder why the price was set at $5.50 and very few shares for local investors. The price was set to allow the money men to make their profit first, then the locals can fight over the crumbs and losses later on.
Talk about a corrupt country. As for using advisers, that' s OK until you get locked out of a decent IPO. I think I have finished with my advisory firm, one of the biggest in the country. Just a joke.
Ditch milk..... Go for the weight-less Xero. Goes up 20% very few week.
I made a paper profit today of over $1.5 million and I feel like Brendon Horan, without his side issues. Wilson and co have come up with a grand plan for our generation to plunder the spoils. Co-operative members of the Fonterra co-op need to remove Wilson off the board. He is dangerous.
Big day for the Co-op and because Theo has been down on the ground at Darfield we wanted to bring you this email update together.
Was a double celebration today.
Rang in a new era with the start of trading on the Fonterra Shareholders' Market and launch of the Fund.
Fonterra shareholder Philip van der Bijl rang the market 'cow' bell at midday to mark the start of trading.
A short time later the Prime Minister also officially opened our Darfield site.
Price opened at $5.50, bumped around a bit as expected and closed at $6.85.
Don't be surprised to see more of this price movement over the coming weeks while the shares and units establish their value.
No need to trade shares immediately. All farmers are already compliant with the Share Standard for the current 2012/13 season.
Expect a lot of media interest and commentary around price, but don't get sidetracked by it.
We're certainly not going to get distracted.
TAF was about removing redemption risk and giving farmers some more flexibility. Great that this is now behind us.
Our focus is on the payout, getting more money into your hands.
We are conscious that cash flows are tight and you can be assured that payout is our top priority.
Henry and Theo
What will happen if any of the following happen?
1.interest rates rise substantially
2.milk solid prices fall
3.milk solid prices rise substantially
More power to the powder.
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1Department of Physical Sciences, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
2Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Tartu, 18 U¨ likooli Street, Tartu, 50090, Estonia
3Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Sahaajankatu 20E, FIN-00880 Helsinki, Finland
4Max-Planck-Institute f ¨ ur Kernphysik (MPI-K), P.O. Box 103980, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract. In order to gain a more comprehensive picture on different mechanisms behind atmospheric particle formation, measurement results from QUEST 2-campaign are analyzed with an aid of an aerosol dynamic model. A special emphasis is laid on air ion and charged aerosol dynamics. Conducted model simulations indicate that kinetic nucleation of ammonia and sulphuric acid together with condensation of sulphuric acid and low-volatile organic vapours onto clusters and particles explain basic features of particle formation events as well as ion characteristics. However, observed excess of negative ions in the diameter range 1.5–3 nm and overcharge of 3–5 nm particles demonstrate that ions are also involved in particle formation. These observations can be explained by preferential condensation of sulphuric acid onto negatively charged clusters and particles. According to model simulations, the relative contribution of ion-based particle formation seem to be smaller than kinetic nucleation of neutral clusters. Conducted model simulations also corroborate the recently-presented hypothesis according to which a large number of so-called thermodynamically stable clusters (TSCs) having a diameter between 1–3 nm exist in the atmosphere. TSCs were found to grow to the observable sizes only under favorable conditions, e.g. when the pre-existing particle concentration was low.
Citation: Laakso, L., Anttila, T., Lehtinen, K. E. J., Aalto, P. P., Kulmala, M., Hõrrak, U., Paatero, J., Hanke, M., and Arnold, F.: Kinetic nucleation and ions in boreal particle formation events, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 4, 3911-3945, doi:10.5194/acpd-4-3911-2004, 2004.


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Queue posts to carry me over blog-less days rather than spring a bunch or random stuff up at once…But I just can't help it! I want my post out now!
Thanks for reading and the feedback everyone =) Oh and I'm FINALLY working with a company for a giveaway/promotion but it's taking awhile. I promise it'll be a good one! hehe
Just got this invitation from my Outdoor Education Instructor!! It sounds awesome and I'm totally goinggg!!! All the hikes look like total WOWs. Check out some of the links for ideas!
Death Valley Campout Spring Break
4 days/3 nights
This compact and very active trip will lead you to many of Death Valley's geological wonders. Hike and scramble through slot Canyons; climb atop huge sand dunes, hike canyons of pure marble; bask in the glow of colors illuminated by the Artist Palette at sunset; plus much more…
List of some possible hikes:http://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/hiking.htm
Golden and Red Cathedral Canyonshttp://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/california/death-valley/images/golden-canyon-red-cathedral-death-valley$23990-41
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What tags are you following on tumblr? Currently I'm tracking modern dance, contemporary dance. (Confession: not too long ago I was tracking Full Metal Alchemist haha but dont sick of the RoyEd pairings…If you do not know what this means…just think that "geraldine's weird…").
Hi Everyone! Have you heard about Tumblr's decision to censor self-harm blogs? I don't have time to comment right now, but wanted to share some links with you all.
Maybe you all have heard and debated about this already, but has you can see I've been away from tumblr lately! I'll explain later!! (hopefully tonight…but basically I haven't been blogging because I get an error message when responding to messages and I've been busy with painting, table tennis, piano, singing, hiking, and dancing!)
Her BMI is great and farrr from overweight. And no, no one, not just a teenage girl, be eating only 700 calories or less consistently. I'm trying to think of how you can talk to your sister without putting her on the defensive…Maybe:
I've only ever approached one friend about her drastic weight loss and eating (more like not-eating) habits and it was by a carefully constructed email in which I told her I was worried about her but knew that she's smart enough to take good care of herself. Sorry if my advice is crazy… =/
What does everyone else think? How can you talk to your sibling or close friend about their damaging habits or if you suspect an eating disorder?
Hello! Not all canned foods are bad for you, but there are certain things you need to be careful about. For example, don't eat canned tuna more than once a week because of mercury, and many canned foods (especially soup) are high in sodium. Some of my canned staples are:
Eating Healthy on a low budget:
Those are some foods that are regularly inexpensive. Try to buy fruits and veggies at are 99c or less per lb and to visit the bulk food aisle. I really hope you don't only eat canned vegetables all the time! They taste kinda of…blehhh.
"I pledge allegiance…to the cob of the United States of America"-Stephen Colbert.
We live in a nation where corn is king. Corn (and soybean) is in everything…Corn is processed to nothing more than carbohydrates or high-fructose corn syrup. It's like a medium to make whatever edible thing you want. When corn is processed into sugar, then yes it's bad for you and can cause you to gain more weight. When it's made into starch, it gives the product a thicker texture and serves you empty calories. Avoiding corn products as much as possible will stir you into the healthy direction and help you eat more nutritious and filling sources of carbohydrates. However, Kashi GoLEAN Original has a good amount of protein and is pretty filling. Instead of using cereal…as well…cereal & milk, another idea is to just use it as topping for oatmeal instead of sugary, fatty granola.
Hello, 5'4 and 104-107 lbs is very thin! Even slightly underweight (BMI = 18.0). But if you eat healthy and exercise, you'll be fit too! I'm glad to know that you are over the worst and recovering. Healthy eating begins with having a reason and motivation. Maybe you can think of something you can improve with a healthy diet. For example, if having an eating disorder deprived your body of nutrients and your hair, nails, and skin may not be in it's best shape, maybe you can think of ways to eat healthy to have glowy skin, shiny hair, and strong nails. At least for me, this motivates me to eat my fish, nuts, dark greens, citrus fruits while staying away from excess sugars. Look at healthy eating as a way to educate yourself, connect with other people, and to see what you've been missing out on! You'll see that having a bowl of greek yogurt and berries for breakfast or an entree salad and soup won't be so scary…
Also, please relax…actually be happy and enjoy your body! Weighing a little more than you used to when you were heavily struggling with your ED means that you're getting better and on your way to the best life you've had yet!
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Monday: Run-5 miles, elliptical-25 min
Tuesday: Run- 6 miles, Strength Train- Core Crunch (NTC) 15 min
Wednesday: Nothing, but I met my new Hiking Group! :D
Thursday: Run-4.5 miles, Core Exercises-Sofia Boutella Fearless (NTC) 15 min
Friday: Run-6.5 miles with hills!
Saturday: Road Biking! (Bet you didn't see that one coming)- 13 miles,
Super Bowl Sunday: Run- 8.2 miles
Notes: Running is my weapon of choice. I would switch up my cardio more if I wasn't trying to see if I can finish training for a March marathon. (I got up to 17 miles, got hurt, and now recovered but not in the best shape). Cycling was really fun on Saturday though. Biking fast out on the road makes me feel so adventurous…and scared at times.
Other things I'm doing:
On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have Modern Dance and Hatha Yoga. My modern dance class is awesome! It's energetic, synergistic, and creative too. We warm-up, move across the move, learn new moves, and practice combos to a variety of music. My Hatha yoga class is quite boring right now with a lot of relaxation poses, but it's still fun to be in a class and beneficial to work on basics. I'm not going to lie though, I'd kinda rather be in the Cardio Kickboxing class next door…
Wednesday afternoons, I have an Outdoor Education Class where we go hiking at different locations around northern California. We'll even camp in Yosemite one weekend! So excited about this class. My instructor is super intense about fitness. His motivation to exercise everyday is so he can have as many WOW experiences as possible. He's traveled to and seen such amazing sites that are "reserved for the physically fit" so he wants to keep in shape to be able to reach all these locations. Makes sense to me!
Let's take a look at Thomas' 100% Whole Wheat Bagels:
So there are defintely better options like my favorites, Mestemacher Rye or Pumpernickel Bread. But like you said, you don't eat them all the time. They can be a convenient, filling, on-the-go breakfast when you're in a pitch. I would definitely eat a bagel over danishes or muffins from Starbucks.
Personal Note: After experiencing whole wheat everything NYC bagels, I will never eat a bagel anywhere else again. Chewy, soft, delicious, savory, most satisfying thing EVER. But omgod do New Yorkers pile on the cream cheese! It's called a Bagel Cream Cheese Sandwich even! The people at Ess-a-Bagel looked confused when I asked them for just a little bit of the veggie spread..Like what's "a little bit?"
It's the Nike Training Club App (NTC) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nike-training-club/id301521403?mt=8 it's free and full of challenging workouts! Not much equipment needed and best of all, there's great instructional videos. Have fun!!


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First Impressions of Fusion
I recently attended a 4 day Fusion payroll workshop. Over the next few days I'll be posting what I saw and learned. First up is some general observations about Fusion from the perspective of a PeopleSoft expert.
After logging in the home screen for our user had a header at the top and then several "portal tabs" with different information in them. It didn't look a million miles from how a PeopleSoft home screen might be configured with different pagelets, task lists and maybe some graphs on it
There are some changes to be aware of:
1. Workforce Deployment covers the following areas:
- Foundational data: departments, locations, job codes, positions, salary administration plans
- Personal and Job Data
- Absence
- Payroll
- And Social networking
2. There's more use of wizards, checklists, monitoring progress of the payroll cycle and in general trying to join things up a bit more.
3. Pages have Save for later functionality in them. To effect a transaction you Submit it.
4. When you hire an employee you enter personal details, then assignment details and the next screen that comes up asks what roles they should be assigned, with the employee role given as a default.
5. Fusion has taken the concept of flex fields from EBS.
6. The closest thing in Fusion to PeopleSoft's Excel to CI functionality is ADF Desktop Integration (ADFDI).
7. When you're not doing implementation type activity or using functionality on the home screen you get to different bits of the system using Navigator. This is similar to using Main Menu in PeopleSoft. When you click on Navigator what would have been the level one folders are in bold with the level two folders beneath them. You click on those and any further pages/components are shown in a panel on the left hand side. See screenshot below.
Given the changes in presentation once you use the Navigator to get into an area you can open multiple components (as PeopleSoft users would know them) in the same screen and navigate between them or close them as you need to.
There were a few surprises for me over the week. These included the following:
- Not all pages can be viewed in a menu like structure. There are some: notably pages that are largely used during implementation that can only be accessed via the Fusion Setup Manager. If you want to use that area of the system you must have the Implementation Consultant role. I think that role is similar to the PeopleSoft Administrator role.
- When you are in a page there is no indication of how you got there, i.e. no menu on the left with expanded folders or a breadcrumb trail at the top of the screen.
- In the same vein, there is no equivalent to PeopleSoft's control-J for finding out which part of the application I am in.
- The search screens I saw didn't allow the user to choose the operator to apply to the search field, i.e. begins with, contains, between, equals etc. Admittedly I didn't use the advanced search so the functionality may be there but if not I think customers will use wildcard searches more in future.
- If a customer implements Fusion on SaaS they will have no SQL access to the environment. This is because in a multi-tenant scenario it poses a security problem


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Simultaneous localization and mapping
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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a technique used by digital machines to construct a map of an unknown environment (or to update a map within a known environment) while simultaneously keeping track of the machine's location in the physical environment. Put differently, "SLAM is the process of building up a map of an unfamiliar building as you're navigating through it—where are the doors? where are the stairs? what are all the things I might trip over?—and also keeping track of where you are within it."[1]
Operational definition[edit]
Maps are used for determining a location within an environment and for depicting an environment for planning and navigation; they support the assessment of actual location by recording information obtained from a form of perception and comparing it to a current set of perceptions. The benefit of a map in aiding the assessment of a location increases as the precision and quality of the current perceptions decrease. Maps generally represent the state at the time that the map is drawn; this is not necessarily consistent with the state of the environment at the time the map is used.
The complexity of the technical processes of locating and mapping under conditions of errors and noise do not allow for a coherent solution of both tasks. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a concept that binds these processes in a loop and therefore supports the continuity of both aspects in separated processes; iterative feedback from one process to the other enhances the results of both consecutive steps.
Mapping is the problem of integrating the information gathered by a set of sensors into a consistent model and depicting that information as a given representation. It can be described by the first characteristic question, What does the world look like? Central aspects in mapping are the representation of the environment and the interpretation of sensor data.
In contrast to this, localization is the problem of estimating the place (and pose) of the robot relative to a map; in other words, the robot has to answer the second characteristic question, Where am I? Typically, solutions comprise tracking, where the initial place of the robot is known, and global localization, in which no or just some a priori knowledge of the environmental characteristics of the starting position is given.
SLAM is therefore defined as the problem of building a model leading to a new map, or repetitively improving an existing map, while at the same time localizing the robot within that map. In practice, the answers to the two characteristic questions cannot be delivered independently of each other.
SLAM consists of multiple parts; Landmark extraction, data association, state estimation, state update and landmark update. There are many ways to solve each of the smaller parts.
Before a robot can contribute to answering the question of what the environment looks like, given a set of observations, it needs to know e.g.:
- the robot's own kinematics,
- which qualities the autonomous acquisition of information has, and,
- from which sources additional supporting observations have been made.
It is a complex task to estimate the robot's current location without a map or without a directional reference.[2] "Location" may refer to simply the position of the robot or might also include its orientation.
Complexity of the SLAM Problem[edit]
Researchers and experts in artificial intelligence struggled to solve the "SLAM problem": that is, it required a great deal of computational power to sense a sizable area and process the resulting data to both map and localize.[1]
A 2008 review of the topic summarized: "[SLAM] is one of the fundamental challenges of robotics . . . [but it] seems that almost all the current approaches can not perform consistent maps for large areas, mainly due to the increase of the computational cost and due to the uncertainties that become prohibitive when the scenario becomes larger."[3]
Generally, complete 3D SLAM solutions are highly computationally intensive as they use complex real-time particle filters, sub-mapping strategies or hierarchical combination of metric topological representations, etc.[4] Robots that use embedded systems cannot fully implement SLAM because of their limitation in computing power. Nguyen V., Harati A., & Siegwart R. (2007) contributed to embedded robotics by presenting a fast, lightweight solution called OrthoSLAM, which breaks down the complexity of the environment into orthogonal planes. By mapping only the planes that are orthogonal to each other, the structure of most indoor environments can be estimated fairly accurately. OrthoSLAM algorithm reduces SLAM to a linear estimation problem since only a single line is processed at a time.[4]
Technical problems[edit]
SLAM can be thought of as a chicken or egg problem: An unbiased map is needed for localization while an accurate pose estimate is needed to build that map. This is the starting condition for iterative mathematical solution strategies.
Beyond, the answering of the two characteristic questions is not as straightforward as it might sound due to inherent uncertainties in discerning the robot's relative movement from its various sensors. Generally, due to the budget of noise in a technical environment, SLAM is not served with just compact solutions, but with a bunch of physical concepts contributing to results.
If at the next iteration of map building the measured distance and direction traveled has a budget of inaccuracies, driven by limited inherent precision of sensors and additional ambient noise, then any features being added to the map will contain corresponding errors. Over time and motion, locating and mapping errors build cumulatively, grossly distorting the map and therefore the robot's ability to determine its actual location and heading with sufficient accuracy.
There are various techniques to compensate for errors, such as recognizing features that it has come across previously (i.e., data association or loop closure detection), and re-skewing recent parts of the map to make sure the two instances of that feature become one. Statistical techniques used in SLAM include Kalman filters, particle filters (aka. Monte Carlo methods) and scan matching of range data. They provide an estimation of the posterior probability function for the pose of the robot and for the parameters of the map. Set-membership techniques are mainly based on interval constraint propagation.[5][6] They provide a set which encloses the pose of the robot and a set approximation of the map.
SLAM in the mobile robotics community generally refers to the process of creating geometrically consistent maps of the environment. Topological maps are a method of environment representation which capture the connectivity (i.e., topology) of the environment rather than creating a geometrically accurate map. Topological SLAM approaches have been used to enforce global consistency in metric SLAM algorithms.[7]
SLAM is tailored to the available resources, hence not aimed at perfection, but at operational compliance. The published approaches are employed in unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, planetary rovers, newly emerging domestic robots and even inside the human body.[8]
It is generally considered that "solving" the SLAM problem has been one of the notable achievements of the robotics research in the past decades.[9] The related problems of data association and computational complexity are among the problems yet to be fully resolved.
A significant recent advance in the feature-based SLAM literature involved the re-examination of the probabilistic foundation for Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) where it was posed in terms of multi-object Bayesian filtering with random finite sets that provide superior performance to leading feature-based SLAM algorithms in challenging measurement scenarios with high false alarm rates and high missed detection rates without the need for data association.[10]
SLAM will always use several different types of sensors to acquire data with statistically independent errors.[11] Statistical independence is the mandatory requirement to cope with metric bias and with noise in measures.
Such optical sensors may be one-dimensional (single beam) or 2D- (sweeping) laser rangefinders, 3D High Definition LiDAR, 3D Flash LIDAR, 2D or 3D sonar sensors and one or more 2D cameras.[11] Since 2005, there has been intense research into VSLAM (visual SLAM) using primarily visual (camera) sensors, because of the increasing ubiquity of cameras such as those in mobile devices.[12] Other recent forms of SLAM include tactile SLAM (sensing by local touch only),[13] radar SLAM[14], and wifi-SLAM (sensing by strengths of nearby wifi access points).
Recent approaches apply quasi-optical wireless ranging for multi-lateration (RTLS) or multi-angulation in conjunction with SLAM as a tribute to erratic wireless measures.
A special kind of SLAM for human pedestrians uses a shoe mounted inertial measurement unit as the main sensor and relies on the fact that pedestrians are able to avoid walls. This approach called FootSLAM can be used to automatically build floor plans of buildings that can then be used by an indoor positioning system.[15]
The results from sensing will feed the algorithms for locating. According to propositions of geometry, any sensing must include at least one lateration and (n+1) determining equations for an n-dimensional problem. In addition, there must be some additional a priori knowledge about orienting the results versus absolute or relative systems of coordinates with rotation and mirroring.
Contribution to mapping may work in 2D modeling and respective representation or in 3D modeling and 2D projective representation as well. As a part of the model, the kinematics of the robot is included, to improve estimates of sensing under conditions of inherent and ambient noise. The dynamic model balances the contributions from various sensors, various partial error models and finally comprises in a sharp virtual depiction as a map with the location and heading of the robot as some cloud of probability. Mapping is the final depicting of such model, the map is either such depiction or the abstract term for the model.
"Active SLAM" studies the combined problem of SLAM with deciding where to move next in order to build the map as efficiently as possible. The need for active exploration is especially pronounced in sparse sensing regimes such as tactile SLAM. Active SLAM is generally performed by approximating the entropy of the map under hypothetical actions.
A seminal work in SLAM is the research of R.C. Smith and P. Cheeseman on the representation and estimation of spatial uncertainty in 1986.[16][17] Other pioneering work in this field was conducted by the research group of Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte in the early 1990s.[18]
See also[edit]
- Kalman filter
- Monte Carlo localization
- Particle filter
- List of SLAM Methods
- DARPA Grand Challenge winner Stanley, a vehicle using SLAM techniques
- Registration of range images
- The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) project: A set of open-source, cross-platform libraries covering SLAM through particle filtering and Kalman Filtering.
- Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge: A $1.6 million international challenge requiring multiple vehicles to collaboratively map a large area
External links[edit]
- Probabilistic Robotics by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard and Dieter Fox with a clear overview of SLAM.
- SLAM For Dummies (A Tutorial Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping).
- Andrew Davison research page at Imperial College London about SLAM using vision.
- Autonomous and Perceptive Systems research page at University of Groningen about visual SLAM.
- openslam.org A good collection of open source code and explanations of SLAM.
- Matlab Toolbox of Kalman Filtering applied to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Vehicle moving in 1D, 2D and 3D.
- SLAM Example using Processing.js of Feature-Based Navigation.
- FootSLAM research page at DLR including the related Wifi SLAM and PlaceSLAM approaches.
- SLAM lecture Online SLAM lecture based on Python.
- ^ a b Brynjolfsson, Erik; McAfee, Andrew (Jan 20, 2014). The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 52. ISBN 9780393239355.
- ^ Definition according to OpenSLAM.org, a platform for SLAM researchers
- ^ Aulinas, Josep (2008). "The SLAM Problem: A Survey". Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research & Development: 363–71. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- ^ a b Nguyen, V.; Harati, A; Siegwart, R., "A lightweight SLAM algorithm using Orthogonal planes for indoor mobile robotics," Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on , vol., no., pp.658,663, Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 2 2007
- ^ Jaulin, L. (2009). "A nonlinear set-membership approach for the localization and map building of an underwater robot using interval constraint propagation". IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
- ^ Jaulin, L. (2011). "Range-only SLAM with occupancy maps; A set-membership approach". IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
- ^ Cummins, Mark; Newman, Paul (June 2008). "FAB-MAP: Probabilistic localization and mapping in the space of appearance". The International Journal of Robotics Research 27 (6): 647–665. doi:10.1177/0278364908090961. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ Mountney, P.; Stoyanov, D. Davison, A. Yang, G-Z. (2006). "Simultaneous Stereoscope Localization and Soft-Tissue Mapping for Minimal Invasive Surgery". MICCAI 1: 347–354. doi:10.1007/11866565_43. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
- ^ Durrant-Whyte, H.; Bailey, T. (2006). "Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM): Part I The Essential Algorithms". Robotics and Automation Magazine 13 (2): 99–110. doi:10.1109/MRA.2006.1638022. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ J. Mullane, B.-N. Vo, M. D. Adams, and B.-T. Vo, (2011). "A random-finite-set approach to Bayesian SLAM,". IEEE Transactions on Robotics 27 (2): 268–282. doi:10.1109/TRO.2010.2101370.
- ^ a b Magnabosco, M., Breckon, T.P. (February 2013). "Cross-Spectral Visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) with Sensor Handover". Robotics and Autonomous Systems 63 (2): 195–208. doi:10.1016/j.robot.2012.09.023. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ Karlsson, N.; Di Bernardo, E.;Ostrowski, J;Goncalves, L.;Pirjanian, P.;Munich, M. (2005). "The vSLAM Algorithm for Robust Localization and Mapping". Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- ^ Marck, J.W. Mohamoud, A., v.d.Houwen, E., van Heijster, R. (2013). "Indoor radar SLAM A radar application for vision and GPS denied environments.". Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2013 European.
- ^ Fox, C., Evans, M., Pearson, M. and Prescott, T. (2012). "Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot.". Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),.
- ^ Robertson, P.; Angermann, M.;Krach B. (2009). "Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Pedestrians using only Foot-Mounted Inertial Sensors". Ubicomp 2009. Orlando, Florida, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1620545.1620560.
- ^ Smith, R.C.; Cheeseman, P. (1986). "On the Representation and Estimation of Spatial Uncertainty". The International Journal of Robotics Research 5 (4): 56–68. doi:10.1177/027836498600500404. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ Smith, R.C.; Self, M.;Cheeseman, P. (1986). "Estimating Uncertain Spatial Relationships in Robotics". "Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence". UAI '86. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA: Elsevier. pp. 435–461.
- ^ Leonard, J.J.; Durrant-whyte, H.F. (1991). "Simultaneous map building and localization for an autonomous mobile robot". Intelligent Robots and Systems' 91.'Intelligence for Mechanical Systems, Proceedings IROS'91. IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on: 1442–1447. doi:10.1109/IROS.1991.174711. Retrieved 2008-04-08.


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This Pet Catalog app explains a web application that uses JSF 2.0, Java EE 6, GlassFish and MySQL. I took this example GlassFish and MySQL, Part 2: Building a CRUD Web Application With Data Persistence and modified it to use some of the new features of JSF 2.0 and Java EE 6.
Explanation of the usage of JSF 2.0 and Java EE 6 in a sample Store Catalog Application
The image below shows the Catalog Listing page, which allows a user to page through a list of items in a store.
JSF 2.0 Facelets XHTML instead of JSP
For JSF 2.0, Facelets XHTML is the preferred way to declare JSF Web
Pages. JSP is supported for backwards compatibility, but not all JSF
2.0 features will be available for views using JSP as their page
declaration language. JSF 2.0 Facelets has some nice features
like templating (similar in functionality to Tiles) and composite
components, which I'm not going to discuss here but you can read about
that in this article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu2/index.html
and in this Tech Tip Composite
UI Components in JSF 2.0.
The Catalog application's resources
JSF 2.0 standardizes how to define web resources. Resources are any artifacts that a component may need in order to be rendered properly -- images, CSS, or JavaScript files. With JSF 2.0 you put resources in a resources directory or a subdirectory.
In your Facelets pages, you can access css files with the <h:outputStylesheet>, javascript files with the <h:outputScript> , and images with the <h:graphicImage> JSF tags. The list.xhtml uses the <h:outputStylesheet tag to load the styles.css stylesheet , and the <h:graphicImage tag to display images from the resources as shown below:
<h:outputStylesheet name="css/styles.css" target="body"/>
<h:graphicImage library="images" name="banner_logo.gif" />
The Catalog application uses a resource bundle to contain the static text and error messages used by the Facelets pages. Putting messages in a resource bundle makes it easier to modify and internationalize your Application text. The messages are in a properties file in a java package directory.
Title=Pet Catalog
The resource bundle is configured in the faces-config.xml File (you don't need any other configuration in the faces-config.xml for JSF 2.0, as explained later you no longer have to configure managed beans and navigation with XML).
<application>The List.xhtml facelets page uses a JSF dataTable component to display a list of catalog items in an html table. The dataTable component is useful when you want to show a set of results in a table. In a JavaServer Faces application, the UIData component (the superclass of dataTable) supports binding to a collection of data objects. It does the work of iterating over each record in the data source. The HTML dataTable renderer displays the data as an HTML table.
In the list.xhtml web page the dataTable is defined as shown below: (Note: Red colors are for Java EE tags, annotations code, and Green is for my code or variables)
<h:dataTable value='#{catalog.items}' var='row' border="1"
cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
The value attribute of a dataTable tag references the data to be included in the table. The var attribute specifies a name that is used by the components within the dataTable tag as an alias to the data referenced in the value attribute of dataTable. In the dataTable tag from the List.jsp page, the value attribute points to a list of catalog items. The var attribute points to a single item in that list. As the dataTable component iterates through the list, each reference to dataTableItem points to the current item in the list.
JSF 2.0 Annotations instead of XML configuration
The dataTable's value is bound to the items property of the catalog managed bean. With JSF 2.0 managed beans do not have to be configured in the faces-config.xml file, you annotate the managed beans instead as shown below:
public class Catalog implements Serializable {
By convention, the name of a managed bean is the same as the class name, with the first letter of the class name in lowercase. To specify a managed bean name you can use the name attribute of the ManagedBean annotation, like this: @ManagedBean(name = "Catalog").
This Catalog ManagedBean items property is defined as shown below:
private List<Item> items = null;The getItems() method returns a List of item objects. The JSF dataTable, supports data binding to a collection of data objects. The dataTable object is modeled as a collection of row objects that can be accessed by a row index. The APIs provide mechanisms to position to a specified row index, and to retrieve an object that represents the data that corresponds to the current row index.
public List<Item> getItems() {
if (items == null) {
items = getNextItems(pagingInfo.getBatchSize(), pagingInfo.getFirstItem());
return items;
The Item properties name, imagethumburl, and price are displayed with the column component:
<h:dataTable var="row" value="#{catalog.items}">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="#{msgs.Name}"/>
<h:commandLink action="#{catalog.showDetail(row)}" value="#{row.name}" />
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="#{msgs.Photo}"/>
<h:graphicImage library="images" name="#{row.imagethumburl}"/>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="#{msgs.Price}"/>
<h:outputText value="#{row.price}"/>
The column tags represent columns of data in a dataTable component. While the dataTable component is iterating over the rows of data, it processes the UIColumn component associated with each column tag for each row in the table.
The dataTable component iterates through the list of items (catalog.items) and displays the item (var="row") attribute value. Each time UIData iterates through the list of items, it renders one cell in each column.
The dataTable and column tags use facet
to represent parts of the
table that are not repeated or updated. These include headers,
and captions.
Java EE 6: JSF 2.0, EJB 3.1, and Java Persistence API
The Catalog ManagedBean annotates the field private ItemFacade itemFacade; with @EJB , which causes an itemFacade EJB to be injected when the managed bean is instatiated. The Catalog getNextItems method calls the ItemFacade Stateless EJB which uses the Java Persistence API EntityManager Query object to return a list of items.
public class Catalog implements Serializable {
private ItemFacade itemFacade;
public List<Item> getNextItems(int maxResults, int firstResult) {
return itemFacade.findRange(maxResults, firstResult);
EJB 3.1 No-interface local client View
With EJB 3.1, local EJBs do not have to a implement separate interface, that is, all public methods of the bean class are automatically exposed to the caller.
With Java EE 6, EJBs can be directly packaged in a WAR file just like web components.
The ItemFacade EJB uses the Java Persistence API EntityManager Query object to return a list of items. The ItemFacade EJB annotates the field private EntityManager em; with @PersistenceContext , which causes an entity manager to be injected when it is instatiated.
public class ItemFacade {
@PersistenceContext(unitName = "catalogPU")
private EntityManager em;
public List<Item> findRange(int maxResults, int firstResult) {
Query q = em.createQuery("select object(o) from Item as o");
return q.getResultList();
The Java Persistence Query APIs are used to create and execute queries that can return a list of results. The JPA Query interface provides support for pagination via the setFirstResult() and setMaxResults() methods: q.setMaxResults(int maxResult) sets the maximum number of results to retrieve. q.setFirstResult(int startPosition) sets the position of the first result to retrieve. In the code below, we show the Item entity class which maps to the ITEM table that stores the item instances. This is a typical Java Persistence entity object. There are two requirements for an entity:
- annotating the class with an @Entity annotation.
- annotating the primary key identifier with @Id
Because the fields name, description.... are basic mappings from the object fields to columns of the same name in the database table, they don't have to be annotated. The O/R relationships with Address and Product are also annotated. For more information on defining JPA entities see Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API book.
public class Item implements java.io.Serializable {
private Integer id;
private String name;
private String description;
private String imageurl;
private String imagethumburl;
private BigDecimal price;
private Address address;
private Product product;
public Item() { }
public String getName() {
return name;
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
The Catalog ManagedBean pages through the list of Items by maintaining the PagingInfo.firstItem and PagingInfo.batchSize attributes and passing these as parameters to the getNextItems(firstItem, batchSize) method. The catalog's scope is defined with the annotation @SessionScoped, a JSF Managedbean with session scope will be stored in the session meaning that the bean's properties will stay alive for the life of the Http Session.
A JSF commandButton is used to provide a button to click on to display the next page of items. The commandButton tag is used to submit an action event to the application.
<h:commandButton action="#{catalog.next}" value="#{msgs.Next}" />
This commandButton action attribute references the catalog Managed bean next() method which calculates the next page's first row number and returns a logical outcome String, which causes the list.xhtml page to display the next page's list . The catalog next method is defined as shown below:
public String next() {
if (firstItem + batchSize < itemCount()) {
firstItem += batchSize;
return "list";