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Part One:
The Law of Equilibrium
by Ali Firoozi Yasar
(to watch on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1RmFxdAhE)
The universe and every phenomenon in it is truly based on "The Law of Equilibrium". All opposite forces are balanced, positive and negative, male and female, electricity and Magnetism, etc… In order to reproduce, all these forces interchange to stimulate a "balanced unity", seemingly, they appear and disappear again in countless cycles to express their eternity. All forces are dual, as a matter of fact, "duality" is a mirror. All forces in the universe are mirrors of each other. Actually for every single action there is a reaction. Energy is interchanged between "pairs of opposites" in this dual universe.
I have already stated that all forces in the universe are diatonic. Music comprises sounds and these sounds are truly the result of "vibration" which is translated into cycles. The fact that matters is that the "seed sound" of the universe vibrates itself into Do,Re,Mi,Fa,So,La,Ti.
In my previous post, I stated that an octave has a duality as we are truly surrounded by a "dualistic world". For instance, if we take the nucleus of an atom as an octave, the proton and neutron are the duality of the nucleus and it is also true for "Electromagnetic waves" as electricity and magnetism are found as a duality. This is actually the state of the universe! The ascending octave plus the descending one represent the "law of equilibrium" in which all the opposite diatonic forces are balanced, lets take the vibration of Do-48 as an example:
- Do(descending) 48*2=96
- La 48*1.666=80
- So 48*1.5=72
- Fa 48*1.333=64
- Mi 48*1.25=60
- Re 48*1.125=54
- Do(descending) 48
- Ti 48*.9375= 45
- La 48*.8333=40
- Fa 48*.666=32
- Mi 48*.625=30
- Re 48*.5625=27
Understanding the "Law of Vibration" and musical scales are important to the timing of financial markets. In fact, all the harmony ratios of the diatonic musical scale define the "growth spiral" of the financial markets. Note: The information I have provided here is so limited and by no means should you base your investment decisions merely on the information presented here as cycles are progressional series just as everything else in nature. And you are somehow wrong if you suppose that it has to do with the over-rated Fibonacci numbers And ratios. Actually, the internet is filled with tons of misinformation!
Using the diatonic musical scale and the harmony ratios, I have projected certain major turning points, including the upcoming great crash due in may or June!
Below is what my time projections look like in the Dow monthly chart, I have nearly projected every single major turning point!
And, I would like to walk you through the major turning points in the weekly chart, as you can see on the monthly chart that I have already measured both from the high of April 2010 to the high of May 2011 and from the low of July 2010 to the low of October 2011. As you know we have 52 weeks between the highs. Now it is time to do the math using the harmony ratios… so 52 * 1.5=78 weeks, (as I explained in my previous post), "the"musical fifth" is the ratio of 3/2 or the factor 1.5. it nearly defines the high of September 2012.
Now from the low of July 2010 to the low of October 2011, we have 64 weeks and as I explained in my previous post, if you multiply 64 weeks to 1.5 you will get 96 weeks which defines a major turning point in late August or September. I suppose the fall of 2013 will be really ugly. According to the "Underlying Geometry of Harmonics" sometimes the harmonics in the patterns can be kind of proportional. For instance, we have 52 weeks from the High of April 2010 to high of May 2011.
And now, it just gets really interesting as I would like to apply the "Law of Equilibrium" in my calculations
In which all the opposites are somehow balanced. You have alreay noticed that the ratio of "SO" in the descending octave is 0.75. Actually if you multiply 52 to .75 you will get 39 weeks, which will somehow define the low of June 2012. Now if you measure from both the high of March 2012 and to high of September 2012, and the low of June 2012 and to the low of November 2012, you will find that we have 24 weeks between the tops and nearly 24 weeks between the bottoms. Once again, the harmonics are proportional in the patterns.
But it gets really interesting if you multiply 24 weeks to the musical fifth, 24*1.5=36 weeks! We may expect a major a turning point (probably a top) in late May or early June. Now we should realize that these harmonics are not powerful enough to cause a really a major turning point like a major panic decline. (As you know we have been rallying since March 2009 and now it is time to consider the bigger picture ,so please pay a particular attention to the following monthly chart.)
Also. I see another truning point in late February or possibly early March. If it is due in early March, it could happen On March the 4th. The rally we are in now, is quite unhealthy due to the heavy money printing by Fed. The Stock Market is being flooded by the newly printed currency,which is why we are not in a standard cycle-pattern. We can not be in this silly run-up now but rather in a sideways chop or a decline into late February or early March. Of course, it is well-known fact that the market is often manipulated before the major turning points in order to suck in as many sheep (retail traders) as they can.
As you see, we already have 24 weeks between the low of June 2012 and the low of November 2012. Now if you count 24 weeks from the high of September 2012 you will reach a turning point in late February or early March. To the best of my knowledge it will not be a major turning point as we have bigger cycles and forces at work.
If the Stock Market were to return to its normal pattern late February or early March would put in a major bottom. Then we could get back on board on the bullish side, but now all we have to do is wait and watch! No matter what the direction is you may play it both directions. The key is to wait for a set-up bar on the weekly chart. As soon as you have the confirmation jump in!
Moving on…
As you can see we have 77 months between the low of October 2002 and the low of March 2009. And now based on the "Law of Equilibrium" if you multiply 77 to .666 (the inverse of Fa) you will get 51.282 months. What does it all mean? It actually mean we are going to crash, then collapse big time late May or early June. The down move will continue into early 2017, wiping out all of the long-term bullish investors, earning the bearish one millions of dollars in profit. But beware of the market manipulators though! (More on this by Red).
May you profit handsomely,
Feel free to email me your questions…
Ali Firoozi Yasar
afiroozi (at) rocketmail (dot) com.
Part Two:
Past History With Legatus And Turns In The Stock Market
by Red Dragon Leo
(to watch on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1RmFxdAhE)
First off I'd like to say that I'm not the one who put the pieces together concerning turns in the stock market being connected to meeting dates at Legatus events. That credit goes to Reinhardt over at Enterprise Correction. He correctly called the 2008 crash months in advance and told everyone the exact date it would start. He was early by one day! I'd call that close enough in my book wouldn't you? Since then he's not posted another "100% sure" comment on his blog relating to anymore Legatus meeting that have followed that September 15th meeting.
However, I've seen him give odd's of "60/40 chance" once and even once a "70% chance"… which if I recall were "NOT" calls for another crash but simply a correction. If I remember correctly the 60/40 call was based on some event happening (or not happening) which would then either raise the odds to 100% or to "slim or none". The end result was that the much needed "reason to crash/correct" never happened and therefore not much happened with the market either. This was obviously why the calls weren't for 100% chance as the "catalyst" was still missing.
Sadly I believe the same is true for this coming Legatus meeting starting on February 7th and ending February 9th, 2013…
I was very excited a month ago when I seen that they moved the "debt ceiling" date from February 30th back to February 15th, which was looking to me like it was going to be the reason to have a much needed 10% correction. But then they went and passed some bill in Congress to extend it until May of this year. It still has to pass the Senate too, but it's looking like there's little resistance at the moment and that leaves me wondering what other catalyst could they make happen so we can see this big move down in the market? I don't see one in site right now and it's not like them to keep it a big secret and then throw it out there all at once. They usually tell us sheep everything in advance, but of course in a manor that we seem to note figure out.
The only other "reason to sell" would be some false flag event that comes out of nowhere and panics the market to force that 10% correction.
But that also doesn't seem likely to happen right now as they seem to want the market to stay up really badly right now. You can clearly see the extreme manipulation going on every day in the market now as they flood it with massive amounts of money to keep it from tanking. Then there's this other little thing that's been bugging me, which is the "need" to see a new "all-time" high before a crash will be allowed to happen. Right now they are only close to making a new high but not there yet. So while we should see some type of nice pullback from hitting a double top I can't see them allowing a big move down (like 10%, which would be 150 spx points) as that might make it too hard to climb back up into May and put in a "blow off" new high.
From a technical point of view (not that they really work to well) any double top should put up huge resistance on the first hit of it and cause a pullback before going back up and making a second attempt. So the question will be… how much of a pullback? My gut tells me that we'll be lucky to see 5%, let alone 10%! I just don't see them allowing it to drop to far if they plan to go back up and take out the current high and put in an extreme ridiculous crazy blow off top! If you are a big bear like me you want them to put in some crazy new high as it's a huge signal that a crash will follow. The higher they go, the harder they fall.
So what does that mean for this coming Legatus meeting you ask?
It means the odds go way down of a 10% correction now because of those very reasons above. I'd now only give it a 50% chance we'll see a 10% sell off after Legatus, which by the way "NEED's" to line up with a "Double Top" at the same time so you'll have both the technical reason for the sell off and the ritual "rigged" reason from the gangster insiders closing their longs during the meeting and getting short before it starts heading south. I'd give a 75% chance of a 5% correction, and 95% chance of at least a 1-2% correction from hitting the double top.
I know this is not what we bears was hoping for but you know how they change the game as we play it and start to figure it out. They haven't put up the date for the next Legatus meeting but if they do it in May where all the "octave cycles" start coming together as Ali posted above then we'll know the date for the final top before the start of the first wave one down (a huge one) and the likely wave three down in August or so. This mean we shouldn't go "all-in" on this February meeting as it could be a "dud" for us bears and only give us one small bite of a nice trout. I'm personally looking for the whole lake full of trout to eat… which is the coming crash of course!
Remember not every one of the Legatus meeting produced a turn in the market. Many did but some didn't. The one's that did also had some "event" that was blamed for it. If it rallied after the meeting then it was probably from some huge QE program injected into the market… whether it was made public or not, the results were the same. If it sold off then it was from negative event. But without any "event" the meetings weren't turning points but just continuation points from what I've noticed.
Let's look back in time at what happen in some of these prior meetings…
I'm not going to cover the 2008 crash in detail but I'll just remind you all that Lehman Brothers and the "possible banking collapse" was the reason for the crash (the public reason of course, as the untold reason was just to steal money from the sheep). So let's start with the October 10th-19th, 2009 meeting (note: I don't have records of all the meetings and have missed some of them) in which we the market was about in the middle of a long rally up from the March, 2009 low. There was a brief turn down for 2 weeks at the time of the meeting but then the rally continued for many more weeks to follow. I'd call that meeting "non-important" as it didn't result in a really nice turn.
Next we have the meeting where I first learned about the group of gangsters and the time period where I seen my first fake print (FP) on January 11th, 2010 (which showed a 97 point drop that never happened that day). That meeting date was February 4th-6th, 2010, and it produced a bottom right in the middle of it on the 5th that also matched up with my FP low target. I'd call that meeting 100% accurate as you could have went long from it as it rallied for the next 2 months or more.
They usually have 2 meetings per year so there was probably one in late 2010 that I missed and one in early 2011, but I can't find those dates so I'll have to skip them and move on to the next one… which is October 13th-23rd, 2011 which produced a nice correction from 1292 SPX to 1158 in 4 weeks. Certainly something worth playing as 134 SPX points is nothing to sneeze at! I'd give that meeting a 100% accuracy rating, as that's about a 10% correction.
Then we have the February 2nd-4th, 2012 meeting which turned out to be a dud as it was right about in the middle of another rally from the late 2011 low to the later high in May of 2012. I guess you could also look at that meeting as a "decision" point where they decided to continue the rally versus selling off? You can see it in the charts that the daily was ready to rollover but the weekly still had room to go on the upside. I don't recall what news happened during that period but I'd venture to guess that another stimulus package was put into the market.
Moving on we have the April 30th to May 2nd, 2012 meeting, which was 100% accurate as a turn. The market peaked on May 1st at 1415 spx and dropped to 1291 by May the 18th, a 124 point move! Very nice on that one I'd say. From the looks of the move I'd say it was a "wave 3" in elliottwave terms. Prior moves seem to have be a full 5 wave move but this one happened as a one complete wave 3, whereas the start of that move was on April 2nd, with the end of it on June 4th, 2012.
And after that meeting we had our most recent one on October 10th-21st, 2012 which actually saw it's peak on the 18th just a few days before the actually meeting ended. This high was 1464 SPX and continued down until it bottomed at 1343 on November 11th… which was a 121 point drop in 23 days. And from that low the market has been rallying up ever since (with a brief 7 day sell off from the fiscal cliff news).
Finally we arrive at the present date with the next Legatus meeting…
This week I believe we'll see them push the market up to a double top on all the major indexes (some have already hit), and if all goes as planned it will line up with this coming meeting on the 7th-9th… which implies that "if" the double top is hit this Thursday or Friday then that would be the best time to short the market. If it doesn't quite make it by Friday the the following Monday the 11th could be the double top high and the date to go short. But do note that I'm not give high odds of another 10% correction as I just don't see any catalyst to cause it to happen at the present time. Add to that fact that "they" want to make "not only a double top" but a new all-time high… so high that it will kill ever last bear, and you have even more reasons to be cautious on the short side.
So unless I see some new FP that shows up as about a 5% (maybe 10%) move down (from the double top of 1574) then I'm not going "all-in" short here and will likely only take a small position. I don't trust these gangsters as they are too good at tricking the bears with their heavy manipulation strategies. A 10% correction would be 157 points and a 5% correction would be half of that or about 80 points (give or take a few). That means we could hit that double top of 1574 and drop to around 1500 in the typical 3 week time frame to put in a low around the end of February just like Ali see's with his cycle work.
You can look back at many of these sell off's and you'll commonly see a pattern of about 10% in 3-4 weeks. So it's nice to see this all lining up together with past history, a Legatus meeting, technical's (massively overbought), double top, and cycle work from Ali. Also there is a full moon on February 10th as well as a very high reading of 5.5 here on the Spiral Dates chart (http://spiraldates.com/). No one thing by itself seems to work to produce a turn but combining them all together does give us greater odds of a turn happening. The question reminds… how much of a turn?
While I fully expect the gangsters manipulating this market to fool as many people as possible I just can't wrap my head around the thought that they will push straight through the double top without first pulling back some. I think they are going to need some bears to squeeze in order to get through it which can only happen if you sell off some to get the bears trapped in some shorts. So, I'll just stick to the odd's I mentioned earlier as all this evidence tells me we'll see something on the downside around this Legatus meeting period and the coming double top period.
In closing though I think you all should have figured out that the best time to go all-in short won't start until May, so I'm saving my nickel's and dime's for that time period and again… won't go in short too heavy at this double top and Legatus meeting. Past history tells me you need a "catalyst" added into the fire with all the other stuff mentioned and I just don't see one yet. The fact that they pushed the debt ceiling out until May is a sign to me and all I need now is a Legatus meeting in that month as well to confirm my analysis.
P.S. That penny stock I've been telling you about is… well, I can't say. But you'll see next week and the week after.


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Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
Originally posted by LestatG
Firstly I would like to say that I was impressed by the poem and the reversal, it worked well. The girl at the U.N. was also interesting but considering its age I take it what she said was ignored and is irrelevant as nothing has changed, or even declined.
However, on the poem video. It looks like it was sponsored by a company called A.A.R.P. American Association of Retired Persons. Insurance company and one of the biggest lobbying groups in the states - seems a bit strange that they would sponsor somthing like this - hidden agenda maybe?
Yes or No it was a nice message, thanks
kind of like banks advertising how much they care about you and want you to be debt free? that kind of ironic?
Originally posted by Mike Stivic
just finished watching that second video you added, and i want to applaude this young girl for standing up and telling them how it should be.too bad they sat there nodded thier heads through the whole speach and resumed business as usual right after she walked out....
edit changed there to thier...
[edit on 11-6-2010 by Mike Stivic]

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Business Strategy
Business Plans for Beef Cattle Backgrounding Enterprises
Last Update: November 2007
Backgrounding is a feeding program that targets weight gain in feeder cattle to develop the skeleton and muscle tissue of the animals while minimizing fat deposition. Backgrounding diets typically include high levels of forages and often include limited amounts of cereal grains and various by-products of grain production. Cattle feeders normally purchase lightweight feeder cattle for backgrounding programs, and design feeding programs considering the timing of marketing finished cattle.
Why Complete a Business Plan?
A business plan is important to evaluate financial and production decisions related to feeding cattle. A business plan identifies requirements for financing capital items, such as feeding pens, handling facilities and feeding equipment, or sourcing operating credit or financing feeder cattle purchases. In addition, development of the business plan formalizes production practices, such as feeding and health management programs, and describes the marketing program for cattle at the completion of the backgrounding program. Completing a business plan is similar to planning for a road trip: business plans help you identify where you are going, and, similar to a road map, assist you in reaching your final destination.
Similar to other agricultural endeavours, feeding cattle involves risk. While the price of feed and market price of feeder cattle are the two largest variables that can affect profitability of cattle feeding enterprises, factors such as experience of the cattle feeder, size of operation, animal performance and health status of calves contribute to the success of the enterprise. To reduce risk, some backgrounders choose not to own their feeder cattle, but custom-feed cattle for other producers or cattle investors. A business plan identifies risk factors for each operation, and allows producers to evaluate alternatives to 100-per-cent ownership of feeder cattle and manage their risk accordingly. Risk management strategies form a critical component of the business plan, and will be reviewed by lenders and other stakeholders when assessing the financial viability of backgrounding cattle.
A business plan helps you to:
What Does a Business Plan Look Like?
A typed, professional appearance enhances business plans, especially if it will be presented to others. If this is not possible, a neat, handwritten business plan is still better than nothing at all. Elements of a business plan include:
1. Title Page: Includes the business or farm name and contact information for the principal individual(s) responsible for the enterprise. Include the date the plan was created or the period of time that the business plan covers.
2. Executive Summary: The executive summary is one of the most important components of a business plan. As the executive summary is the first and sometimes only part of the business plan that is read, it needs to be a concise summary of the business proposal that identifies the purpose or objective of the operation, outlines capital and credit requirements and indicates how funds will be used. It should be written last so that it summarizes the entire business plan and provides the readers with answers to the following questions:
3. Table of Contents: A single page listing topics and corresponding page numbers.
4. Mission, Vision, Values and Goals Statements: These statements are typically one paragraph in length, and clearly state the objective of the enterprise, the short- and long-term goals of the producer and the values important to the individual. Animal welfare, environmentally sustainable production or verified beef production practices are examples of values producers may choose to incorporate in these statements.
5. Industry Overview: The industry overview should be written to provide a reader who may have limited knowledge of the subject with a brief description of the cattle feeding industry. A simple diagram illustrating the structure of the cattle industry is often useful to include in this section to visually represent where backgrounding fits within the beef cattle supply chain. Current statistics should be included, and be sure to reference sources of information. Relevant information may include, but should not be limited to: beef cow numbers, number of feeder cattle by weight class, feed grain and forage production and number of cattle feeders. Industry trends and opportunities can be identified in this section. Once the reader has reviewed this section of your business plan, specific information related to your project can be put into the perspective of the larger industry.
6. Business Description: This section includes information specific to your enterprise. Type of business, structure of business, relation to other enterprises, and size and scale of the operation, including land resources, should be identified.
Ownership of feeder cattle or custom feeding arrangements should be clearly identified in this section, as the content of subsequent elements of your business plan will be affected by this major decision. Custom feeding arrangements will be formalized, with a written contract outlining the responsibilities of both the cattle feeder and investor. Payment for services (cost per gain, yardage plus feed costs or cost per day), expectations of animal performance, health status of calves at time of placement, minimum number of days on feed, death losses and animal warranties should be clearly identified and drafted in the agreement. A copy of the contract should be included as an appendix to the business plan.
7. Human Resource Management: This area describes your business and management experience in feeding and caring for cattle. It is important to identify if you will be paying yourself for the work and management of the enterprise, or if the profit (loss) of the business will determine the return on your labour and investment.
If additional non-family labour is required for the backgrounding cattle enterprise, a description of employment variables, such as salary, benefits and provision for training, should be included. Development activities designed to improve management expertise should be included in this section.
A contingency plan should be identified in this section that details how the enterprise will be managed and day-to-day operations will proceed in the event of illness, injury or death.
8. Operational Plan: This section outlines the production processes, sets performance targets and establishes costs that will be included in cash flow projections. Backgrounding cattle enterprises should include the following sections within the operational section of the business plan:
9. Marketing Plan:
Cattle feeders who own their cattle inventory assume a higher risk than feeders who are custom-feeding cattle for other investors. While the potential for profit is greater, so is the potential for loss, and the business plan should reflect the reality of the cattle feeding business. Owning the inventory of cattle requires the development of a marketing plan within the business plan. Consider the following when developing your marketing plan:
10. Environmental Plan:
Environmental farm planning is an important component of risk management for any agricultural operation. Beef cattle backgrounding operations may require approval from Saskatchewan Agriculture's Agricultural Operations Unit prior to the construction of an intensive livestock operation (ILO). The Agricultural Operations Act requires ILO proponents to submit plans for manure storage, manure management and mortality management. The intent of this legislation is to ensure provisions have been made to protect surface and groundwater from contamination by run-off from livestock facilities. It is also important to discuss development of any ILO with your neighbours and your local municipality to address any concerns or identify any development bylaws that may be relevant to your enterprise. Saskatchewan Watershed Authority should be contacted regarding licensing requirements related to the provision of water for the cattle operation.
11. Financial Plan:
The financial plan is an important component of your business plan, and usually includes present financial documents as well as pro forma financial statements that identify the financial changes that will occur to the enterprise over a period of time. Requirements for debt financing and repayment schedules should be included in the financial plan. It is important to identify any assumptions that are being made that may affect the accuracy of the financial statements. Examples of documents included in the financial section of the business plan are:
12. Supporting Professionals:
Identify supporting professionals that provide services or advice for your operation in this section of your business plan. These can include business partners, such as accountants, lawyers or financial service providers, as well as veterinarians, nutritionists, consultants and marketing partners.
13. Supporting Documents:
A personal resumé identifying your education, prior work experience and management and feeding experience related to beef cattle production should be included in this section. If other individuals will be involved in the management of the backgrounding enterprise, include their personal resumés as well.
For custom backgrounding operators, letters of intent from prospective cattle suppliers or investors should be included. If you have previously fed cattle for someone else, include letters of reference.
A business plan is an important document that allows you to evaluate your enterprise on paper. This document serves as a basis for obtaining financing and procuring cattle supplies. Operational plans are developed and performance benchmarks established in your business plan. Once completed and updated annually, your business plan will provide you with an overview of past performance and a plan for future years.
For further information or assistance, contact your Livestock Development or Agri-Business Development Specialist at your local Saskatchewan Agriculture Regional Office, or phone the Agriculture Knowledge Centre at 1-866-457-2377.


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Councilman resigns in Wilmerding
Wilmerding Councilman Jack Mason has resigned.
Borough secretary Joe Hartzel read Mason's one-sentence resignation letter prior to council accepting it at Tuesday night's meeting.
Mason, whose resignation was effective Feb. 23, did not explain his decision in his letter, and did not attend the meeting. He could not be reached for comment by presstime.
He was the borough's public works chairman and Turtle Creek Valley Council of Governments alternate representative. Mason was instrumental in obtaining the borough's new salt bin last year.
Councilors were surprised at Mason's resignation, and agreed to send him a letter thanking him for his service.
"I thought Jack did a pretty good job with the street department," council president Stephen Shurgot said.
Mason was appointed mayor in August 2011 to fill the vacant seat of Dominick Pomposelli. Pomposelli resigned on July 12, 2011, and died on June 30, 2012.
Mason left that seat to take his place on council to start a four-year term in January 2012.
Dominic Parisi was sworn in as mayor at that month's council meeting.
Council has 30 days to appoint a new councilor. If no one is named within that time, the matter goes before a vacancy board for an additional 30 days. Allegheny County Common Pleas Court will fill the vacancy should the board not find a replacement after that.
Letters of interest can be submitted to the borough office during normal business hours.
"Hopefully someone will be interested," Shurgot said.
The next regular council meeting is on April 2 at 7 p.m.
Parisi announced he's considering running for re-election this year. He's serving the last year of the late Pomposelli's four-year term. He said he has until Tuesday to register with the Allegheny County Elections Division.
Council hired Alan Hitchen as a seasonal helper at $10 per hour; and authorized a $50 donation to Turtle Creek Valley COG's Seven Springs conference and a $50 donation to East Allegheny Association's cheerleading competition for a quarter-page ad in its program.
Michael DiVittorio is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1965, or email@example.com.
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John Travolta turns a recent TV interview on Good Morning America into a plug for L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology books:
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Actor John Travolta has three words of advice for those who question his religion, Scientology: Read a book.
"You can read 'A New Slant on Life.' You can read 'Dianetics,'" the actor said today on "Good Morning America," referring to two books authored by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
"I think if you really read it, you understand it," he said. "But unless you do, you'll speculate — and I think that's a mistake to do that."
Scientology, which claims Tom Cruise as arguably its most famous member aside from Travolta, has been in the headlines this month after HBO aired a documentary, "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," that made allegations about life inside the church, its practices and Hubbard himself.


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E3 2011 — Hitman: Absolution Demo Shows Player Choice, Detail in NPCs
It has been five years since the last time we got a chance to garrote unsuspecting victims while controlling Agent 47′s hands, and in that time IO Interactive has been busy. Busy adding new features to 47′s next offering, namely, and busy creating a whole new engine to power it.
Betrayed, on the run and hunted as well as doing the hunting, I got a chance to see Hitman: Absolution in action at E3 this year, and boy, does it look cool. We caught up with Agent 47 in Chicago, on the run from the cops as a manhunt swept the city for him. Just a step ahead of the authorities, 47 found his way into the upper level of an old derelict library. Weaponless and with cops actively searching for him on the lower floor, IO Interactive put Agent 47 through his paces in a highly cinematic demo that'll have fans excited. It was a bit like this trailer.
Hiding behind a low railing on the upper floor of the library, 47 listened to the cops below debating about how to best proceed through the darkened, powerless library. Most impressive about the entire demo were those cops and the amount of character invested in them, especially because we know from the outset that those guys down there are going to make up a substantial amount of 47′s body count before he escapes this situation.
The cops fan out below, their chief berating one especially inept rookie as he is dispatched to go find a fuse box and deal with the lights. All the Chicago cops sound highly authentic, with some great voice acting filling them out. On the upper floor, 47 doesn't quite have to deal with them yet, and just how he will go about it is up to the player. Choice in how to deal with situations is paramount in Absolution, IO Interactive Gameplay Director Christian Elverdam told us before the demo. What we're about to see is just one way that 47 could deal with all these cops, and unarmed as he is, it's going to take some great care to get out of this situation alive.
The demo has 47 working his way down to the lower floor carefully as the cops continue their discussions about him. Dropping down into a side-room near the fuse box, he listens in as the picked-on cop complains about his lot and how he's treated by the others. Things aren't helped by his struggle to fix the fuse, which flickers momentarily before showering the library's large main room in light.
The Power of Instinct
During this time, we get a look at one of 47′s new abilities: Instinct. An "umbrella" feature, as Elverdam put it, Instinct affects just about all of 47′s abilities and gives the player an idea of the way a highly trained super-assassin sees the world. Switching on Instinct highlights enemies and lets 47 see through walls to an extent when he sees enemies pass behind them, and it also creates a flaming line along the ground that highlights those enemies' apparent paths of movement. In this way, 47 can anticipate actions and patrols and hide; after he watches the cops depart, he sneaks around a nearby shelf and sabotages the fuse, knocking out the lights a second time.
The whipping-boy cop gets some more verbal battery for the fuse issue and he and another officer double back to the fuse box as 47 slips out of sight around another shelf. They're both confused, discussing the disaster that has become the fuse box and how everybody's favorite man on the force is about to get an earful over it. Their conversation feels real, as do their reactions, and as they slip around the corner, 47 moves into position, tailing them quietly.
As interesting as it is standing around listening to the NPCs go about their work, 47 has work to do, too, and quickly finds a cop on his own to choke out as he moves into the main section of the library. This room is filled with shelves, both taller than a man and chest high, and they make for plenty of good cover for 47 to stick to as he moves about the room carefully. Along the way he finds a power cord off some unnamed device — an improvised garrote that he'll put to work almost immediately.
Mostly steeped in shadow, the cops go about searching, discussing the possible moves of 47. They've got men in other places and have set up checkpoints — they firmly believe 47 will be coming this way. The irony of those statements is apparent as 47 literally slips right by them, dodging patrolling officers and using Instinct to see where they're headed. He uses some highly intuitive quick-turns to dodge from one cover position to another, and before long he has crossed the room, just in time for a cop to start making his way over toward 47′s position. Using Instinct, the hitman discovers a climbable ledge just above him and hops up, standing above a blasted door frame as the officer looks fruitlessly beneath it.
From here, 47 can reach back up to the upper level of the library. He takes out one cop giving overwatch of the area, snapping his neck with a quick pull of the garrote; and suddenly, 47 is armed with a police sidearm. Meanwhile, beneath him, another group of police arrives to support the Chicago PD. The local chief lays into them — they're suburban cops from a neighboring town and there's clearly no love lost between the two groups. As they stand in the foyer of the library discussing what to do about finding 47, the agent drops down, grabs one of the cops from behind (our poor friend from the fuse box — this is just not his day) and starts a hostage situation.
Tense Negotiations
Here's another place where the AI shines. The cops, who have been giving orders and milling about this whole time, suddenly change gears on a dime. All of them yank guns and fan out, giving 47 a wide berth. They're unwilling to take him on with the hostage, but they also aren't willing to let him go. It's a tense standoff as 47 starts backing up a flight of stairs with his cargo squirming. More great dialog from the hostage: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" he shouts to his comrades. The fear is palpable in his voice as he pleads with his friends and 47 for his life.
As 47 hits the top of the stairs, the cops get fed up — "Screw it! Take him out!" — and our poor Barney Fife cop gets his neck snapped. Hitting the deck, 47 fires back, then sprints to the top of the staircase that wraps around the narrowing room. At the top, he deals with a couple of cops with a few quick shots, and sees an advantage using Instinct: a hanging chandelier with a weak chain. Two quick shots and the chain gives away, dropping the chandelier all the way down and creating an obstacle for the cops to deal with below.
Through another door, the music swells as a helicopter catches sight of 47 and starts unloading machine gun ammo through the building's windows. We've entered some kind of pigeon coop, a long and narrow room flanked by windows on one side, and 47 stays down, using cover-to-cover spins to keep out of the line of fire. They seem intuitive, with 47 knowing well enough to stay down and to stick to cover that's not necessarily on a straight plane from position to position. He cuts closer to the wall and further away as the cover dictates, which seems like it'll make navigation easy.
Successfully evading the chopper, 47 stops at an exit hallway that empties out onto an open rooftop. Outside, a waiting cop is receiving instructions to go check out the area where 47 was last spotted. Lying in wait, the agent sneaks up behind him, drops him, and steals his clothes as a disguise. In no time at all, he's crossing the roof to an adjacent building under the blinding spotlight of the chopper, successfully impersonating a Chicago city cop and slipping into the next room.
The next room is an apartment, and immediately we're hit over the head with a hippie theme from hanging beads in doorways and peace posters on the wall. Moving slowly into the living room, we catch site of three hippies staring out the windows at the police — convinced they're there for them. One of the group is freaking out, while another tries to console him, saying, "Maybe they just wanna chill out."
Moving into another room, 47 sees what the fuss is about and why the hippies are so upset. Standing in one room are several pots of…pot. Marijuana plants taller than Agent 47 reach toward the ceiling. In a nearby bathroom, one of the group's number frantically tries to flush what he can.
Past those guys, 47 finds himself in a den near the front door, a surprised hippie sitting next to a large bong on the couch.
"Whoa. Hey," the guy on the couch remarks amiably. 47 gets close and picks up the bong as the nearby front door opens and a cop enters.
"Who're you?" Asks the cop, but the question is barely completed before 47 belts him in the face with the bong, knocking the man out or maybe killing him.
As he leaves the room, 47 hears the hippie behind him. "Whoa, police brutality."
Down the apartment building stairs, 47 passes a few cops. Instinct allows him to shield his face, pulling down his cap at just the right moment, getting a sense of what the cops are thinking. At the bottom of the stairs, 47 sees the front door — but a full SWAT team stands in his way, preparing to deploy. Instead, Instinct guides him to a box of donuts, where he can blend in. The SWAT team departs, and 47 slips out the door, onto the street, and onto a crowded train platform, escaping onto Chicago's metro line as the camera pans back and away, and the demo comes to a close.
Final Thoughts
Hitman: Absolution's E3 demo was highly impressive and gave plenty of reasons to be excited about the game. IO's Glacier 2 engine looks great, and it seems that enemies won't just actively hunt for you — they'll do a pretty great job of appearing to be alive while they're at it.
But while IO is harping on player choice and kept reminding us that this demo was only one way players could work through the level, I doubt anyone could work through the library so successfully without a spot on the Absolution development team. Sure, there's player choice in the game, but it seems highly doubtful that players would ever be able to make all the choices available in the demo. In fact, it seems like it might be close to impossible to even know all those choices exist.
Still, the demo shows off that this is going to be a highly cinematic game that has options, out of which players can get squeeze a whole lot of awesome. Absolution has a lot of promise, that's for sure, and with IO Interactive's new engine and the level of attention paid to its AI, the game should stir up a lot of optimism and excitement.


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The issue: Boston Marathon bombings
Our view: Many questions still unanswered, but thank God the chaos is over
The issue: Boston Marathon bombings
Our view: Many questions still unanswered, but thank God the chaos is over
Stark County is a long way from Boston, but it has seemed like no distance at all this week.
Stark County was spared the pain of a direct connection to random, senseless, violent death at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But Stark Countians watched and waited, held their breath and prayed with the people of Boston for four days as the horrific drama that began with two bomb blasts unfolded.
Thank God it's over.
Thanks in great part to help from the public, police and federal authorities quickly decoded one of the two mysteries at the heart of the bombings. Once they announced the suspects' names — Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 — a successful conclusion to an extraordinary manhunt was only a matter of time.
The killing of one suspect late Thursday and capture of his younger brother Friday night ended the tension and worry of Boston-area residents for their own safety.
The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev survived the wound he sustained in a gun battle with police Thursday means that investigators may well get the answers they need to solve the second mystery — why. As of now, every possible answer has raised more questions.
But the chaos is over.
Friday night, as police left the besieged neighborhood in Watertown, Mass., where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, residents lined the streets and cheered.
It was wonderful to hear — well-deserved and a comforting continuation of the cheers that had turned to screams Monday afternoon at the finish line.
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By R.J. Foster, Contributing Editor
The orange of carrots and the reddish hues of beets and cabbages at the vegetable stand are familiar sights to consumers, so colors derived from vegetables give label-readers a sense that the color is "natural." In the regulatory realm of food colors, however, they're not.
In Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 73, FDA classifies colorants as "certified" (prepared synthetically) or "exempt from certification" (derived from agricultural or biological sources). The rules state that certification of these color additives are "not necessary for the protection of the public health, and therefore batches thereof are exempt from the certification requirements." Consumers often translate these classifications into "artificial" and "natural," respectively. But consumers, processors and regulators are not always speaking the same language.
The term "natural color" is commonly used in the industry by both color and consumer-product manufacturers, when in fact there is no legal definition for natural color. "It is sometimes assumed that all colors which do not have to be certified are natural," says Carol Locey, director of product management, colors, Kalsec, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI. "This is not accurate. Beta-carotene, which is an exempt color, can be produced either by synthetic means or extracted from natural sources."
These little pigments go to market
"The most popularly used exempt colors from vegetable sources are paprika, annatto, turmeric, carrot, black carrot, cabbage, radish and beet," says Locey.
Some of these are specifically defined in the regulations. For example, 21 CFR 73.345 defines "paprika oleoresin" as "the combination of flavor and color principles obtained from paprika (Capsicum annuum L.) by extraction, using any one or a combination of the following solvents": acetone, ethyl alcohol, ethylene dichloride, hexane, isopropyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, methylene chloride and trichloroethylene. It goes on to say, "Paprika oleoresin shall contain no more residue of the solvents listed in paragraph (a)(1) of this section than is permitted of the corresponding solvents in spice oleoresins under applicable food additive regulations" (21 CFR 170-189). Plain "paprika" is defined (Sec. 73.340) as "the ground dried pod of mild capsicum (Capsicum annuum L.)."
The regulations also spell out whether they are approved for general food use, like paprika, or whether their use is restricted.
There is also a more general category called "vegetable juice color" (21 CFR 73.260). According to Rajesh Cherian, manager, application support, Roha USA LLC, St. Louis, this "is identified as 'vegetable juice prepared either by expressing the juice from mature varieties of fresh, edible vegetables, or by the water infusion of the dried vegetable. The color additive may be concentrated or dried.'"
That means some vegetable substances may impart color, but might not be strictly defined as colors. Think green spinach pasta, for example. "Spinach extract generally used in industry is a solvent-extracted product from spinach leaves, Spinacia oleracea L., standardized for chlorophyll content using vegetable oils," says Cherian. "Approved emulsifiers are used to make water-soluble products. The product may not fall under the definition of vegetable juice color but can be classified as 'natural flavor,' according to 21 CFR 101.22."
Nature is not quite as precise as FDA, so natural vegetable extracts may have a somewhat variable content. However, the compounds responsible for creating the hues are generally known, and most ingredients are standardized for consistent color production.
For example, the major coloring components in spinach are chlorophyll a and b, and beta carotene. Anthocyanins are the principal colorant in red cabbage, red radish, purple sweet potato and black carrot extracts, according to Gabe Srouji, Ph.D., director of R&D and technical services, Sensient Food Colors, St. Louis. Beet root's color, although similar to that imparted by anthocyanins, comes from a different family of compounds called betalains. Betacyanins yield red hues, while beta-xanthins provide yellow.
Anthocyanins are, however, not the only crimson colorants in the garden. Red, orange and yellow hues can also be achieved using any of over 700 members of the carotenoid family. Beta-carotene, perhaps the most familiar carotenoid, can be used at varying usage levels to yield red, orange or yellow hues. Tomatoes share their rich-red color in the form of lycopene. Annatto seeds yield an interesting pair of carotenoids: oil-extracted bixin and water-extracted norbixin. Better-known to consumers for seasoning effects, turmeric contains the carotenoids capsanthin and capsorubin that can provide a bright-yellow color, while paprika contains curcumin that can impart a yellow-orange tone.
Extraction of colorants varies with solubility of the coloring compound being extracted. "Water-soluble natural colorants are extracted from the botanical source by water infusion," Srouji says. "Oil-soluble colorants are normally extracted with suitable organic solvents approved for food processing." Organic solvents typically utilized include hexane, acetone or ethanol, alkaline methanol, and water.
Extracts are standardized to specific absorbance specifications using food-grade diluents, such as soybean oil, canola oil, propylene glycol and glycerin, according to Locey. Because most food colors are extremely concentrated, typical usage rates range from 0.001% to 0.50%. And, while these colorants can be used directly in foods with proper mixing, she suggests they can also be pre-diluted in a liquid, or dispersed on a dry carrier prior to addition to the food. "For example, paprika oleoresin is commonly plated on salt along with oleoresin flavors to produce a dry seasoning that is added to meat, such as pepperoni," she says.
Colorant constraints
"Unstabilized vegetable-based colors can impact a product's shelf-life, especially color stability, due to high sensitivity to pH," notes George Kean, Ph.D., director R&D, colors, Kalsec, Inc. "They are also sensitive to heat, light, ascorbic acid and metals. These may cause oxidation, leading to fading, browning and flavor changes."


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Ok, so I'm making a present for my friend which is a backpack filled with neccesities to survive a zombie uprising in the future. I don't really know exactly what to put in. I was thinking of putting a survival guide in there, but I don't know exactly what information is needed. Does anybody know anything about what to put in it or where to find information about this would be a great help. Thanks in advance.
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Chicken, sweet potato & coconut curry
By Lesley Waters
Cooking timeReady in 25-35 minutes
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 2 adults and 2 children
Serve this mildly spiced curry with rice noodles, basmati rice or chappati breads and introduce your kids to curry
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 291
- protein
- 19g
- carbs
- 24.5g
- fat
- 14g
- saturates
- 10g
- fibre
- 3.6g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 0.57g
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- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 tsp mild curry paste
- 2 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces
- 2 medium-sized sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into bite-size pieces
- 4 tbsp red split lentils
- 300ml chicken stock
- 400ml can coconut milk
- 175g frozen peas
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- Heat the oil in a deep frying pan or wok, stir in the curry paste and fry for 1 minute. Add the chicken, sweet potatoes and lentils and stir to coat in the paste, then pour in the stock and coconut milk. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 15 minutes.
- Tip in the peas, bring back to the boil and simmer for a further 4-5 minutes. Season to taste before serving.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2004
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The perfect mid-week curry - even my fussy kids seem to love this one! I often leave out the chicken, substituting mangetout and spinach instead for a tasty veggie option. The curry's a bit cool for me - but if it gets my five year old to eat four different vegetables AND red lentils, it stays on my favourites list!


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I wish you all the best of luck!
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added: 9 Dec 2012 // by: Film-News.co.uk Newsdesk
Downton Abbey star and Hollywood actress Elizabeth McGovern, takes up lead vocal duties with her hotly-tipped band Sadie and the Hotheads, as they head out on a headlining UK tour in February 2013, in support of the new album 'How Not To Lose Things', which was released on the 29th October 2012.
McGovern's acting career began with an accolade of starring roles working with many Hollywood A-Iisters including the likes of; Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Brad Pitt. However in the early 90's she decided to exchange her Hollywood lifestyle in order to marry English director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) and have a more stable lifestyle in London.
She has been firmly settled in the UK now for 20 years, and recently said in an interview, "I probably feel a bit more English than American, I've always felt completely at home here." Having recently received Golden Globe and Emmy Nominations for her role as Lady Cora in the ITV drama Downton Abbey, she is now widely recognized as somebody who is here to stay!
According to McGovern, Sadie and the Hotheads reinforces her American side, "it's an Americana kind of sound, a mix of country and rock and roll. When I'm doing it I become more American, which is partly why I like it. But, oddly enough it's as if I needed to be in London to discover this side of myself." Within the band she likes to perform with guest singers, and most recently she has invited Michelle Dockery (who plays her eldest daughter in Downton Abbey) to perform on stage.
Sadie and the Hotheads are described intriguingly as beautiful, lyrical, gorgeous, honest, and unpretentious, McGovern's unique soaring voice, teamed up with the Hotheads; the multifaceted Nelson Brothers, and an array of world-class musicians, will appeal to every fan of live music.
Elizabeth McGovern said, "I am in awe of the musicians who I had the opportunity to work with on this project. They create magic out of thin air! Time and time again, on whatever drafty stage or pub we happened to be in. With good humour and joy in their art, they begin to play. It gives me faith. That it's all worth it, for its own sake. For the joy. This is what I hope we can convey."
Sadie & The Hotheads are Elizabeth McGovern on (Guitar/Lead Vocals), Simon Nelson (Guitar, Vocals), Steve Nelson (Bouzouki/ Vocals), Ron Knights (Bass), Nick Lacey (Piano), Lizzie Deane (Backing Vocals) & Terl Bryant (Drums) plus special guest Michelle Dockery.
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Also, nice to finally see some of the faces behind the place XD
Skyheart: Well i am one of them but i am happy CH got a mention. Actually i could care less who got mentioned as long as someone from the trainer community is cause we are all doing the same thing and mentioning anyone of us benefits the community as a whole. Can't say the same for others but you won't ever see jealousy or stupid fights from us(dvt).
Good stuff! congrats chris and calib. Na h4x0r didn't stand a chance, i am sure they tried his trainers and would have been scared by the DRM crap hehee.
Awesome. I was referring to those like h4x0r, but I should have been clearer. My apologies for the generalisation.
That said... CH really deserves it from someone better than Edge.
Keep the good work & keep the quality of trainer stay high & better faster too, then I believe many will follow Edge to spread your awesome & fame around the world
But be warned... with greater power & fame, u will also have greater responsibility too
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Much of Roman Chester has been lost through post-Roman dismantling and `recycling' of building materials, though excavations over recent years have added substantially to our knowledge of the town known as Deva. In this companion volume to Chester: AD400-1066, David Mason traces the early history of this military stronghold: the construction and early years of the fort, and the development of the garrison town and the surrounding civilian settlement. This is essentially the first study to focus solely on Roman Chester, other than excavation reports, and it represents a well-written informative history of the rise, burgeoning and decline of the Roman town and its inhabitants.
David Mason has been involved in the investigation and research of Chester's archaeology and history for more than 30 years. He directed excavations in the 1970s that discovered the first Anglo-Saxon buildings to be found in Chester. He is the author of the widely acclaimed "Roman Chester: AD400-1066." He lives in Caergwrle, Flintshire, just outside Chester.
Mason provides here a very important addition to understanding the Roman Empire and especially Roman Britain. His work gives a chronological analysis of the foundation, growth and decline of the Roman fortress and town throughout and just after the Roman period, and provides a context by discussing what was happening in Britain at the time. Mason's book is not for the uninitiated - you have to have some knowledge of Rome and how she was governed and defended before approaching this book but, once you have that knowledge, you will find reading this book a very rewarding experience, as Mason comprehensively details the life and times of the Roman garrison and later town at Deva.
The author strikes a good balance between fact and discussion; the narrative is coherent and logical. The chapters, arranged chronologically, trace Chester's history from early fort through Legionary fortress to late Roman settlement. An "interlude" on the organisation of the Roman army (Ch.3) is a considerate inclusion, and a good piece of reference in its own right. Mason tackles Chester's items of "special" interest - the Elliptical Building and the harbour works for example - maturely; other authors may have devoted too much time to these to the detriment of good discussion on other remains.
If you are simply looking for a guidebook to the town this may not be for you as you will have to skip through large amounts of facts, figures, measurements, etc, etc. However, for the academic this is an excellent text giving detailed plans, construction figures and reconstructions. The information on archaeological excavations in the area is incredibly extensive and detailed, unsurprisingly considering how much the author was involved in them, and can give excellent assistance to anyone researching the area.
Book: Roman Chester
Author: David Mason
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by Tom Stamm
The ICEfaces framework builds on the JSF component model to provide a server-centric way of creating rich Internet applications. During the regular JSF component lifecycle, events are handled, components are created, and an HTML DOM rendering of the page is created on the server. When using ICEfaces, the server components can respond to actions and cause pieces of the DOM to be changed and rerendered. Then, rather than reloading the entire page, the changed parts of the DOM are sent back to the client and only the corresponding sections of the page are updated. This can happen via an asynchronous request, initiated by the client, or by a server "push." Using a Javascript debugger such as FireBug, you can watch the messages that are sent back and forth during these updates. ICEfaces provides implementations of all core JSF components, as well as some others that take advantage of asynchronous updates. In this tutorial, you'll use a tab control, a data table that can do dynamic sorting and pagination, and a modal pop-up dialog. Figure 1 shows what the finished application will look like.
Figure 1. A sample customer data table
ICEfaces tooling is provided as an update to Workshop for WebLogic 10.1, and must be installed separately via an Eclipse update. To do this, run the software update tool in Workshop (found under Help->Software Updates-> Find and Install). Select "Search for new features to install," and click Next. Click New Remote Site, and enter the URL
http://dev2dev.bea.com/eclipse/icefaces-tooling/. Make sure that the new site is selected, and then click Finish. On the next wizard, make sure the archive file is selected, and then click Next. Accept the terms of the license, and click Next, and then Finish. When the Feature Verification screen appears, click Install All. After the update is finished, you will be prompted to restart Workshop for the changes to take effect.
Note: Because this update is adding a fragment to an existing plug-in, Workshop must be restarted with the
-clean option. This can either be added to the command line used to start Workshop, or to the
<BEA Home>/workshop_10.1/workshop4WP/workshop4WP.ini file before the
-vmargs line.
The ICEfaces tooling update includes a WTP project facet that installs the ICEfaces runtime libraries into a project and makes the required changes to the project's configuration files. The simplest way to create an ICEfaces-enabled project is to run the New Dynamic Web Project wizard (choose File->New->Project..., and then select Web/Dynamic Web Project as the project type). Enter a project name, and in the Configurations drop-down, select either ICEfaces Project or ICEfaces Project with WLS 10.0. The latter option will use WebLogic library modules for everything except ICEfaces itself. Click Next to review the facet selections, and then Next again to go through the individual library selections. For ICEfaces you will need to click the Add... button and download the latest ICEfaces library from the BEA Web site. Finally, click Finish to create the project.
You can now open the generated
web.xml to see that some changes have been made to support ICEfaces; in particular, the Persistent Faces Servlet and the Blocking Servlet entries have been added. These provide the server-side DOM rendering and asynchronous communications used by the ICEfaces runtime, respectively. A mapping has been added so that requests matching the pattern
*.iface will be routed to the ICEfaces servlet instead of the regular JSF servlet. This can be updated to
*.faces or
*.jsf, and the Sun JSF servlet can be removed, so that all faces requests will be handled by ICEfaces. This tutorial will use the default configuration and the
.iface extension.
ICEfaces also requires that JSPs use XML namespace syntax when importing tag libraries, instead of the JSP taglib import directive. The ICEfaces runtime cannot parse JSP directives, and will throw an error if any are encountered. For example, the default page in your new Web application (
/WebContent/pages/welcome.jsp) has the following opening tag:
<f:view xmlns:f="#" xmlns:h="#" xmlns:ice="http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component">
Other tag libraries can be imported in a similar manner. The JSP editor currently generates only JSP taglib import directives, so if you drag a tag from a library in the palette that is not already imported, you must remove the generated import directive and add an equivalent XML namespace declaration. When creating new JSPs in this project, you can select the New ICEfaces JSP template in the new JSP wizard to generate pages using this syntax.
At this point, you can run
/WebContent/index.jsp, which will redirect to
/WebContent/pages/welcome.iface so that the welcome page will be executed using the ICEfaces servlet. The default contents of the welcome page is not that exciting, so now you'll add some functionality.
The first thing you'll add is a data table. This will be very similar to the JSF data table, and, in fact, the ICEfaces
dataTable tag is a superset of the JSF HTML
dataTable tag. However, by using the ICEfaces extensions and a few extra tags, this table will have features like sorting and scrolling between pages without requiring a full page refresh.
To support this example, you must first import some files (found in
imports.zip in the Download section) into your project. Right-click your project in the Project Explorer, select Import->Import..., and choose Archive File. In the next screen, browse to
imports.zip, select all files, make sure that the Into Folder: textbox is showing your project name, and click Finish. This will import the packages
beans and
businessObjects into your project's
src directory, as well as some stylesheets and images into the
WebContent directory.
The classes in the
businessObjects package are simple POJOs that represent Customer data. The
beans.CustomerBean class will be registered as a JSF bean, and provides some sample Customer data, as well as some application control logic. In a real application this bean could query a database for the Customer data, but here it is all hard-coded. After importing the source code, the
CustomerBean must be registered in the faces configuration file. To do this, open
/WebContent/WEB-INF/config/faces-config.xml. Right-click Managed Beans, and select New Managed Bean. Enter
customers as the name of the bean, change the scope to
session, and enter
beans.CustomerBean as the bean type. Click Finish, and then save the file.
Now, open the welcome page (
/WebContent/pages/welcome.jsp). For this example, all of the functionality will be contained in this page, and all interaction with the server will happen asynchronously, with no page refreshes, after the initial page load. To get started, delete everything inside the
body tags, so that you can start with an empty page.
An important part of pages that use ICEfaces widgets is the stylesheet reference:
<link href="./xmlhttp/css/xp/xp.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
This stylesheet is part of the ICEfaces runtime and provides default styles for some of the widgets. Because it is part of the runtime, it does not need to be copied into each ICEfaces webapp. Most tags have
style and
styleClass attributes so that you can override the defaults, but this example sticks with the provided styles. Note that it is served up by the
xmlhttp servlet, which is also part of the ICEfaces runtime. Because the Workshop tooling is not aware of what this servlet has access to, you'll see a warning that the stylesheet cannot be found; this can be safely ignored.
The interface for our application will have two tabs: one to display data, and one that contains a form to add data. This is provided by the ICEfaces
panelTabSet tag. A
panelTabSet must be wrapped in a
form tag, so first drag a
form tag from the ICEfaces section of the palette onto the page. The form does not need an id or any other attributes. Then drag a
panelTabSet tag and drop it inside the form. A dialog will pop up. Click the "..." button next to "Tab items" to add tabs. We'll need one with an id of
viewTab labeled View, and one with an id of
addTab labeled Add. Also, set the style class to
componentPanelTabSetLayout. The resulting code should look like this:
<ice:form> <ice:panelTabSet var="" styleClass="componentPanelTabSetLayout"> <ice:panelTab id="viewTab" label="View"> </ice:panelTab> <ice:panelTab id="addTab" label="Add"> </ice:panelTab> </ice:panelTabSet> </ice:form>
You can add some text in each tab and run the page to verify that it's working. Make sure you either invoke the page as
/pages/welcome.iface, or run
/index.jsp, so that it will be executed by the ICEfaces servlet.
Now you'll add a data table to the first tab that will databind to the list of
Customer objects provided by the backing bean. The table will include clickable headers that will sort the data, and will have a paginator control to move through pages of data. The final result can be found in the Download section within
project.zip. The completed project can be imported into a clean workspace by using File->Import, selecting "Existing Projects into Workspace," and choosing the "Select archive file" option to select the downloaded zip file. This section will go over some of the major points in the project.
To create the table, drag a
dataTable tag onto the first tab in the tabset. When the table dialog pops up, choose the
customers property of the
customers JSF managed bean as the enumerable, and name the iteration variable "customer." The dialog should automatically recognize the type as
businessObjects.Customer. This is the variable that will be referred to in the table columns. Click Next, and select the
id, and
last properties to display, and then click Next to order them. This will generate a basic table, similar to a plain JSF dataTable. You can also select some of the address properties to display if you want. Using the smart editor, set the id of the table to
custTable so that you can refer to it later, and set the
rows attribute to 5 so that it will not show too many rows at once.
Now you can add sorting. Drag a
commandSortHeader tag into the header facet of the
id column, call the column name "id," and click the "arrow" checkbox so that the sort order will be indicated. Next, move the
outputText tag with the column name inside the
commandSortHeader tag. Do the same for the
last column, naming it "LastName," so that the table will be sortable for customer id and last name. ICEfaces depends on the backing bean to enable sorting; the bean keeps track of what column the data should sort on, and knows how to sort the data based on that column and which direction it should be sorted. When the
customers property is accessed by the data table, it will return a presorted list. In this example, the bean is simply sorting an internal list; if it was executing a query against a database, it might specify the sort in the query. To wire this up you need to databind the
sortColumn attribute of the data table to the
sortColumnName property of the backing bean, and the
sortAscending attribute to the
sortAscending property of the backing bean. This can be done with the smart editor by clicking the button next to each property, and browsing to the bean.
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Alllight Closed Wall Sconce
Note: This product is no longer available.
Design by Rodolfo Dordoni, 2002.
Made in Italy by FLOS.
The Alllight can be used indoors or out (stainless steel version only) for diffused or direct/indirect wall mounted illumination. The rectangular opal polycarbonate enclosure can accommodate various kinds of decorative covers, in formed steel and offered in Matte Metallic Grey, Matte White, Gloss Black or Chrome plated. The Stainless Steel cover with satin finish is the only finish approved for outdoor use. Alllight is finished with an Opal polycarbonate wall attachment and pressed and galvanized sheet metal ballast support. All mounting hardware is included. Includes plate to cover U.S. junction box not shown in photos.
Select from five steel cover options.
Ships in 2 cartons. Title 24 and ADA compliant. Electronic ballast not dimmable.
Eco Friendly
Material(s): Steel, metal, plastic, polycarbonate
Dimensions: 24" W X 2.2" H X 3.2" D
Bulbs: 1 X 24W T5 HO fluorescent F24T5/HO/830 lamp (not included)
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Designer: Rodolfo Dordoni
Rodolfo Dordoni, born in 1954 in Milan, became a prominent architect and designer from the legendary stable of the "Milan Elite" which include Antonio Citterio, Castiglioni, and Marco Zanuso.
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"Old Abe the Battle Eagle"
Here is the cover to the sheet music for "Old Abe the Battle Eagle." "Old Abe" was the eagle mascot for the 8th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers in the Civil War. The sheet music was published by H. N. Hempsted of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Time spent online?
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Spiritual but not religious
Clever, Obscure, Dry/Sarcastic
Tobacco Consumption
I'm a non-smoker
Alcohol Consumption
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Partners genitals should be
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Hair Color
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Body Hair
Pubic Hair
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Body Decorations
Glasses or Contacts
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Exercise regularly
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Sexual Orientation
Sexually Daring
I'm sexually shy
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Practice Safe Sex
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Dirty talk during sex?
Is a must during sex!
Making home videos/pics
I'd consider doing
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Sexual Accessories
Toys, Which?
I dont use toys
Porn Movies, Which?
Amateur, Bisexual, Fetish, Gay, Lesbian, Soft
Porn Movies, With?
By myself
Porn Movies, How often?
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