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City are 8/15 with Paddy Power to beat Reading on Tuesday night (8pm) and sign off their last away game of the season with a win.
The Blues ran out 1-0 winners at the Etihad Stadium earlier this season with Gareth Barry heading a 90th- minute winner against the Barclays Premier League newbies.
A repeat of that scoreline at the Madejski Stadium is 7/1 with Paddy Power while City to win by a one-goal margin is 5/2. A half-time score of 0-0 and City to win 1-0 is 13/1 with Paddy Power.
The sides haven't met too often in recent seasons but the last two meetings in all competitions have ended in 1-0 wins for the Blues and City to win again and one or two total goals in the match is 7/2 while under 2.5 goals is an 11/8 chance.
Edin Dzeko is City's leading scorer in the league this season and netted in the 1-0 win against West Brom last week.
The Bosnian international is 5/1 to get the first goal of the game and 6/5 to score at anytime while Barry is 20/1 to score the game's first goal or 14/1 to score first for his team as they look to do the double over Nigel Adkins' team.
Roberto Mancini's side are chasing their ninth away win of the season and have scored 23 of their 62 league goals on the road and are 4/9 to score the first goal of the game.
City have scored most of their 62 goals this season (17) between the 60th and 75th minute and Paddy Power offer 18/1 that the first goal of the game comes in the nine minutes between the 66th and 75th minute on Tuesday.
The visitors are 11/4 to win both halves and 11/10 to score in both halves.
On average City have scored their first goal away from home in the 38th minute and its 2/1 that the first 45 minutes sees the most goals in this game.
City are 15/8 to win to nil while Joe Hart – who kept his 17th clean sheet of the season in the last league game against West Brom – is 6/4 to stop the home side from scoring.
Reading have conceded the joint highest amount of goals in the top flight this season (67) but need just one point for their last two games to ensure they do not finish bottom the Premier League.
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College Hockey:Nebraska-Omaha appears to have depth to cover personnel losses
The identity of Nebraska-Omaha is high-flying action and heavy offense. The Mavericks lost a lot of players in the offseason who contributed to that style, but there's plenty of youth ready to not only fill in, but expand upon their roles.
"Up front, we lost three of our top six scorers but we have a lot of guys returning who had great years so we have good balance," said coach Dean Blais. UNO's top three scorers in 2010-11 — Joey Martin, Rich Purslow and Matt Ambroz — are gone.
A few returning players Blais referred to were Alex Hudson (13-18–31) and Terry Broadhurst (11-19–30). But Hudson, a captain and the Mavericks' leading returning scorer, was suspended indefinitely by the school in late September.
And then there was the promising rookie class featuring Matt White (14-11–25), Ryan Walters (11-12–23) and Brock Montpetit (11-10–21), who all played a significant role in UNO's high-powered offense last season.
"Because they were so talented, they got a chance to play and they contributed," Blais said. "The more ice time they got, they improved to the point where they were contributing a lot.
"We had times last year where we played three freshmen together and it didn't seem to matter because they got the job done."
UNO's incoming freshmen class will be counted on to bolster its blue line, just like last year's rookies gave the offense a boost.
"We have two freshman in Brian O'Rourke and Jacob Megna on 'D' that have been impressive," Blais said. "Jacob got a lot of ice time and played very well for us in the exhibition game against British Columbia."
If it all comes together, the Mavericks shouldn't have a problem reaching the Final Five. Of course, that was an expectation last season, too, when the Mavericks went 0-5-1 against Bemidji State and were swept out of the WCHA first round by the Beavers.
"We had a lot of good up-and-down games against [BSU] last year and we couldn't find a way to beat them," Blais said. "[BSU goalie] Dan Bakala was great in those games. He might get to the NHL if any scouts saw him play against us."
About the Mavericks
2010-11 overall record: 21-16-2
2010-11 WCHA record: 17-9-2 (third)
2011-12 predicted finish (coaches poll): Fourth
Key losses: D Eric Olimb, F Matt Ambroz, F Rich Purslow, F Joey Martin
Players to watch: G John Faulkner, F Alex Hudson, F Terry Broadhurst, F Matt White, F Ryan Walters
Impact rookie: F Jayson Megna
Why the Mavericks will finish higher than the coaches poll: UNO's sophomore forwards will continue to score and Faulkner will have another solid season in goal.
Why the Mavericks will finish lower than the coaches poll: The lack of veteran leadership will hurt the Mavericks, especially with junior captain Hudson suspended indefinitely.
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Sony, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of consumer electronics, including digital cameras, has just announced that it lost over $1.3 billion for the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal year, which was a tripling of the loss in the same time frame from the previous year. To make matters worse, Sony is projecting further losses in the near future.
So, what could this mean for owners of Sony photographic gear?
Well, probably not much as the camera division was not cited as one of the departments that was losing money, which means that, in theory at least, the camera division should not be on the chopping block as it is (apparently) making money. For the record, Sony's computer, compact disc, battery, television, mobile device, and video game divisions are those posting losses.
Causes Sony cites for its continuing woes: a strengthening (vs. the Japanese Yen) U.S. Dollar, abilities of competitors to make things for cheaper (like in China), increasing competition, and losing its once cutting-edge technological lead, which equates to complacency.
The good news: sales actually rose 14% in 2013 as compared to 2012.
In the photographic world, Sony is a bit of an upstart. While among the first of companies to get into digital photography in the late 1990s with its now iconic, floppy drive using Mavica series, Sony was content to stay in the low-end of the camera business until rather recently. After having purchased Konica Minolta (along with its technology), Sony has been on a blitz of high-end camera launches, culminating with its Alpha series dSLRs and its large-sensor, mirrorless NEX series, now rebranded as Alphas. With its extensive electronics background, Sony has often been at the forefront of the technological arms race, too, with its translucent mirror technology being its crowning achievement for its camera division, which continues to churn out capable models at competitive prices.
Needless to say, it will be interesting to see what 2014 brings for Sony, which has plenty of products to keep customers happy, at least on the photographic side of its business.
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Ed Ruth, two-time NCAA wrestling champion for Penn State, has been accepted into an alternative sentence program rather than face jail time for driving while intoxicated charges, StateCollege.com and the Centre Daily Times reported Thursday.
According to the Centre County Administration Office, the Nittany Lion 184-pounder will participate in the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program, which StateCollege.com described as "a pre-trial intervention program operated out of the district attorney's office. It is intended to help eliminate court costs for non-violent offenders."
Ruth formally entered the program Wednesday before Centre County Common Pleas Judge Pamela Ruest.
Defendants in ARD can avoid jail time and have their records cleared if they meet requirements set by a judge, which can include community service and drug and alcohol counseling, according to StateCollege.com.
In early December, State College police charged Ruth with DUI for an incident early November 13 in which his car reportedly struck a tree while he was attempting to park at a Taco Bell in State College. Police took Ruth to Mount Nittany Medical Center to determine his blood alcohol content, which, according to court documents, was .281 percent, about three times the state driving limit.
At the time of the incident, Penn State announced that Ruth had been suspended from the wrestling team for one month for breaking team rules. Nittany Lions wrestling spokesperson Pat Donghia confirmed to the Centre Daily Times in December that the suspension was because of the DUI charge.
Despite entering the ARD program, Ruth may still face sanctions from the school. However, under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students are protected against the release of personally identifiable information derived from education records, including information regarding student disciplinary matters.
Ruth returned to the team in mid-December, winning his match at the Penn State-Ohio State dual meet in Pennsylvania. However, Ruth suffered his first loss since his freshman year in the finals at the 2014 Southern Scuffle at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga on Jan. 2, losing to Cornell University freshman Gabe Dean in the 184 finals, breaking Ruth's 84-match win streak.
A native of Harrisburg, Pa., Ruth is a three-time NCAA All-American and two-time NCAA champ, winning the 174-pound crown at the 2012 NCAAs by beating Stanford's Nick Amuchastegui, 13-4, in the title bout. The following year, Ruth claimed the title at 184 at the 2013 NCAAs with a 12-4 win over Lehigh's Robert Hamlin in the finals. He is also a two-time Big Ten conference champ. This summer, Ruth was named Penn State Male Athlete of the Year.
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It's two in the morning and you're woken by the crash of falling glass. Without hesitation, you grab your firearm and move to investigate. On the stairs, you see a man and recognize him: he is wanted for the slaughter of countless Americans. Also in your quick analysis, you notice one important detail: he does not appear to be armed. Logically, you know there are weapons nearby. You know his SOP and are painfully aware he has most likely stashed a fully automatic weapon behind your couch or under your coffee table. What do you do?
Four Navy SEALs in the Hindu Kush, on a mission to put eyes on a known terrorist, are "stumbled upon" by a trio of goat herders. Following the rules of engagement, or ROE, they decide they have no choice but to let them go, knowing full well the group will probably alert nearby terrorists of their presence. Hours later, three are dead and one is paralyzed from the waist down, dragging himself across the shale, rifle miraculously still in hand. Six years later, in 2011, an immediate-reaction force (IRF) of thirty-eight men, including seventeen Navy SEALs, five Navy Special Warfare (NSW) support personnel, three Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) operators, three Army Reserve personnel, and two Colorado Army National Guard, is sent to assist Army Rangers fighting insurgents in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan. Upon their arrival, the landing zone (LZ) is far too treacherous, especially for the hard-to-maneuver CH-47D Chinook. In order to safely land, they need to open fire, to soften the LZ, but cannot, due to the ROE. Moments later, every man on the Chinook is dead.
Back in 1863 when Francis Lieber wrote what would become known as the Lieber Code for Abraham Lincoln, it seems highly unlikely either he or Lincoln realized how these "Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field" would be "improved upon." After the Lieber Code came the Geneva Convention, which has four parts, dated 1864, 1906, 1929 and 1949. And then we have our Laws of War (LOW) which are meant to apply to any nation under the United Nations Charter and the aforementioned conventions. The government decided, however, that all the existing treaties and conventions were not enough, that the LOW were too broad and did not outline troop actions on the ground nearly specifically enough, and thus the ROE were born.
The United States has imposed ROE on our military for the past century with the effect of an ever-tightening noose. It was during the Cold War that the United States truly ramped up the process of playing politics above backing our troops, a problem which was compounded in Vietnam. Today, Iraq and Afghanistan have become sterling examples of the catastrophic and often fatal results of the current ROE. And it just keeps getting worse. According to members of a Calvary Scout Platoon, who wish to remain anonymous, while George W. Bush was still president, troops were still able to do things such as engage a terrorist on the side of the road who was placing an improvised explosive device (IED). But under Obama, troops are instead directed to observe, because heaven forbid an international incident with a farmer occur. Farmer or not, planting a bomb meant to murder our troops seems like precisely the right reason to take someone out.
If it does not seem right to place all the blame on Obama's shoulders, it is only fair to remind the public that when he was elected president, he was also made commander-in-chief of our military. That is not to say there isn't trouble in the upper echelons of the military, because there is. Finding a member of the military brass who is willing to put everything on the line in support of the men and women with their boots on the ground is not unlike trying to herd cats through a waterfall. The lack of support has been proven time and again, most recently as top brass give personal anecdotal evidence, rather than actual, fact-based evidence, to say the troops are not only fine with pay cuts but looking forward to them. The way they tout "winning hearts and minds" over winning wars and preserving our soldier's and sailor's lives is, at best, distressing, at worst, criminal.
Delays in calling in airstrikes can last for hours while a unit under fire waits for the request to clear countless bureaucratic hurdles, and known enemy combatants cannot be fired upon unless they make the first move. As a result, in the Middle East, insurgents have learned to simply put their rifles behind rocks, knowing American troops will be forced to hold their fire. In the hills of the Korengal Valley, and everywhere else, insurgents using handheld radios as devices to plan for murdering American troops like to force village children to stand next to them during such chats, which also effectively stays the hand of any soldiers in range. Not only does the enemy know the United States ROE word for word but they also know how to make it work in their favor. To see their guile in action we have only to consider one case: the Butcher of Fallujah.
The Butcher of Fallujah, real name Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi, has been called even viler than the infamous Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is credited with the videotaped beheading of Nicholas Berg, among other horrors. al-Isawi was behind the horrific murder and maiming of four American contractors, one of whom was a former SEAL, an incident which was absolutely an instigating factor behind the Navy SEALs being sent after him in September of 2009. The moment the men were slaughtered was enough, let alone burnt and having their charred bodies hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River by a crowd of cheering Iraqis. And even that atrocity was not before the men were beaten, maimed, and dragged through town behind a vehicle using a rope. With that act, al-Isawi's fate was sealed.
Five years passed before actionable intel came regarding al-Isawi's whereabouts, and the SEALs who went after him had an incredibly successful mission. In fact, although the Butcher of Fallujah was armed when they found him, SEAL Matthew McCabe managed to take him not only alive, but entirely unharmed. Yet only hours later, the Butcher used a page from the Al Qaeda Manual (also known as the Manchester Manual due to the location of its discovery) to create a maelstrom of deception and trouble for the SEALs who had taken him so flawlessly.
"Once in the prosecution center, however, he should say that he was tortured." (The Al Qaeda Manual, Seventeenth Lesson: Interrogation and Investigation)
"If an indictment is issued and the trial begins, the brother has to pay attention to the following:
1) At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by State Security (investigators) before the judge.
2) Complain (to the court) of mistreatment while in prison.
4) The brother has to do his best to know the names of the State Security officers, who participated in his torture and mention their names to the judge. (These names may be obtained from brothers who had to deal with those officers in previous cases) 6) During the trial, the court has to be notified of any mistreatment of the brothers inside the prison." (The Al Qaeda Manual, Lesson Eighteen: Prisons and Detention Centers)
Once in custody, al-Isawi claimed the SEALs who carried out the raid – Petty Officer Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathon Keefe, and a third senior SEAL referred to as Sam Gonzales – had come to his holding cell and assaulted him. His sole injury was a small cut on his lip which a doctor testified appeared to be self-inflicted. There was an endless stream of falsehoods and contradictions in the Butcher's story, but thanks to certain members of the military brass and the cowardice of a young master-at-arms, Brian Westinson - who had abandoned his post more than once - the three SEALs were put through hell. All three were completely exonerated, but not before being endlessly bullied and dragged through the muck and mud by the military and government they had sworn to give their lives defending. The message taken away from the case was that if you're a member of one of the most elite military forces in the world, do an exemplary job, and insist on telling the truth no matter what the cost, you will be treated like insignificant refuse by the upper echelons.
There is a clear problem with today's rules of engagement. The ROE are an ever-changing, fluid set of strictures, and they continue to put our soldiers and sailors at risk. The day has come where military personnel are being maimed and killed because they are so concerned about the ROE or being vilified back home in the States by a bunch of Monday-morning-quarterbacking politicians and journalists. Although the ROE claims in writing that our troops have the "inherent right of self-defense," reality falls at the other end of a bleak, bloody spectrum. The current White House and many high-ranking members of the military – who seem to have forgotten where they came from – put "winning hearts and minds" far and above the value of our troops' lives. That is not only wrong but utterly detestable.
Author's note: To those who yelled "Shoot him!" at the beginning of this article, imagine being a soldier who is not allowed to defend himself despite a clear and present threat. Imagine being denied the right to defend yourself and your brothers. To read a detailed and skillfully delivered account of SEALs Matthew McCabe, Jonathon Keefe, and Sam Gonzales' ordeal, read Patrick Robinson's book, Honor and Betrayal. Patrick Robinson is also the author of Lone Survivor, the story of Marcus Luttrell and Operation Red Wing. Also an excellent read is Betrayed, by Billy Vaughn, father of SEAL Aaron Vaughn who was killed in the attack on Extortion 17, the Chinook mentioned in this article. If you wish to read The Al Qaeda Manual's English translation, it can be found at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/10.pdf.
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Remembering Operation Red Wing:
LT Michael Murphy
SO2 Matthew Axelson
SO2 Danny Dietz
SOC Jacques Fontan
SOCS Daniel R. Healy
LCDR Erik Kristensen
SO1 Jeffrey Lucas
LT Michael McGreevy, Jr.
SO2 James Suh
SO1 Jeffrey Taylor
SO2 Shane Patton
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SSgt Andrew W. Harvell
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PO1 (SEAL) Darrick C. Benson
CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill
PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell
PO1 Jared W. Day
PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog "Bart"
CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas
CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston
Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall
MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais
CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason
CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills
CPO Nicholas H. Null
PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman
SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff
CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves
CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson
PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar
PO1 Michael J. Strange
PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson
PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn
SCPO Kraig M. Vickers
PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman
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[Lawmakers hold hearing on deadly 'Extortion 17' helicopter crash in Afghanistan]
Harper, J. Lawmakers hold hearing on deadly 'Extortion 17' helicopter crash in Afghanistan In-text: (Harper, 2014) Bibliography: Harper, J. (2014). Lawmakers hold hearing on deadly 'Extortion 17' helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.stripes.com/news/lawmakers-hold-hearing-on-deadly-extortion-1...
Hawkins, A. Soldiers: Obama's Rules Of Engagement Costing U.S. Lives in Afghanistan In-text: (Hawkins, 2014) Bibliography: Hawkins, A. (2014). Soldiers: Obama's Rules Of Engagement Costing U.S. Lives in Afghanistan. Breitbart News Network. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/27/Soldiers-On-The-Ground-Oba...
Horror at Fallujah / SAVAGE ATTACK: Bodies dragged through street, hung from bridge 4 U.S. contractors killed in ambush hours after 5 soldiers slain in Iraq In-text: ('Horror at Fallujah / SAVAGE ATTACK: Bodies dragged through street, hung from bridge 4 U.S. contractors killed in ambush hours after 5 soldiers slain in Iraq', 2014) Bibliography: Horror at Fallujah / SAVAGE ATTACK: Bodies dragged through street, hung from bridge 4 U.S. contractors killed in ambush hours after 5 soldiers slain in Iraq. (2014). SFGate. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Horror-at-Fallujah-SAVAGE-ATTACK-Bodi...
[Congress Sheds New Light on Horrific 'Extortion 17' Tragedy That Claimed Lives of 30 U.S. Troops]
Howerton, J. Congress Sheds New Light on Horrific 'Extortion 17' Tragedy That Claimed Lives of 30 U.S. Troops In-text: (Howerton, 2014) Bibliography: Howerton, J. (2014). Congress Sheds New Light on Horrific 'Extortion 17' Tragedy That Claimed Lives of 30 U.S. Troops. The Blaze. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/27/congress-sheds-new-light-on-h...
Law of War (ArmyStudyGuide.com) In-text: ('Law of War (ArmyStudyGuide.com)', 2014) Bibliography: Law of War (ArmyStudyGuide.com). (2014). Armystudyguide.com. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/powerpoint/Military_Justice_Presen...
Obama condemns Navy Seal to death - nourishing obscurity In-text: ('Obama condemns Navy Seal to death - nourishing obscurity', 2014) Bibliography: Obama condemns Navy Seal to death - nourishing obscurity. (2014). nourishing obscurity. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.nourishingobscurity.com/2014/02/obama-condemns-navy-seal-death/
Poole, P. SEAL Team VI Family: 'Obama's Rules Are Getting Our Warriors Killed' In-text: (Poole, 2014) Bibliography: Poole, P. (2014). SEAL Team VI Family: 'Obama's Rules Are Getting Our Warriors Killed'. Breitbart News Network. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/15/Seal-Team-Six-Family-ROErules of engagement (ROE) (military directives)In-text: ('rules of engagement (ROE) (military directives)', 2014)Bibliography: rules of engagement (ROE) (military directives). (2014). Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1958997/rules-of-engagement-ROE
The changing combat rules of engagement: What is one American life worth? In-text: ('The changing combat rules of engagement: What is one American life worth?', 2014) Bibliography: The changing combat rules of engagement: What is one American life worth?. (2014). The Daily Caller. Retrieved 17 April 2014, from http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/26/the-changing-combat-rules-of-engagemen...
US Rules of Engagement for Iraq - WikiLeaksIn-text: ('US Rules of Engagement for Iraq - WikiLeaks', 2014) Bibliography: US Rules of Engagement for Iraq - WikiLeaks. (2014). Wikileaks.org. Retrieved 18 April 2014, from http://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Rules_of_Engagement_for_Iraq
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Probably the funniest thing to come out of this year's SXSWi conference, the second "Worst Website Ever" panel brings you Mike Locker's Brother IntelliFax 2800 App Store, er, Fap Store. It's got Netflix. It's got Angry Birds. It's even got "an at symbol flying out of a fireball with binary code behind it." And of course it's 2011, so the worst website should definitely not be a website, but an App Store.
The Worst Website Ever II panel consisted of Andy Baio of KickStarter, Gina Trapani of Lifehacker fame and Ze Frank of The Show, among others. If you'd like to hear the recording of the session (which contains a number of other hilarious mock pitches), head on over to the SXSW website. And remember, the web is dead.
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The XII Latin American Social Architecture Student Workshop, Bolivia 2015, brings together students and architects of different nationalities that seeks to generate social interventions in the Valley of Cinti, municipality of Camargo. Its purpose, authentic and local identity
The intervention focused on the area known by the public as "EL TOBOGAN" located in the southwest of the city implemented with the aim of being a pedestrian area of transition between the city and the cemetery. A space that accumulates two functions: slide addressed to children as play area and a tour that alternates assets and liabilities organized by level to overcome the height difference that separates the city cemetery spaces.
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J2EE Tutorial - Java Bean
What is a Javabean? A Javabean is just a java class with the following requirements.
i) It has a public no-args constructor
ii) It has 'set' and 'get' methods for its properties.
iii) It may have any general functions.
iv) If required it must be Serializable.
It is not necessary always that a bean should have properties.
If there are no properties, we need not provide 'set' & 'get' methods either.
( Even the no-args constructor is provided by the compiler by default!)
If the bean uses library classes alone, it is automatically serializable.
In that case, it becomes just a class for encapsulating some functionality (ie) business logic.
Such a bean , may or may not have a visual representation. As the field has moved away from the desktop, to webserver, there is no point in providing a visual represenation for a component which works in server side as the user cannot interact with it directly. (Such a bean used by jsp in webserver, is exactly similar to ASP component). ( So no worry about jar file ,BDK, BeanBox etc traditionally associated with JavaBean)
Let us now create such a bean. The Tomcat server searches for any classes in c:\tomcat\webapps\root\web-inf\classes folder. We create a subfolder under classes folder and name it 'ourbeans'.
Therefore, we specify the package information in the first line of our jspbean as :
package ourbeans;
package ourbeans;
public class greeterbean
public greeterbean() { }
public String greetme(String s)
return "How are you?...."+s;
To compile the above file :
> javac greeterbean.java
We get greeterbean.class
We move this class file to:
We will now create greeter.htm & greeter.jsp and place them in:
<form method=post action=greeter.jsp>
<input type=text name='text1'>
<input type=submit>
<jsp:useBean id="greeter1" class="ourbeans.greeterbean" />
String s = request.getParameter("text1");
String a = greeter1.greetme(s);
In the above example, the business logic was invoked through an instance of 'greeter' bean class. So, it is object-oriented approach. Where was the method invoked? It was invoked in the Webserver.Where was the object available? The object was available in webserver itself.(ie) 'locally'.
This point is worth noting carefully. For this reason, the jspbean method cannot be classified as 'Distributed Object ' Technology. Because, in Distributed Object Technology, the object on which the method is invoked locally, should be available in a remote server and not locally .( Why is this distinction so important? Is it important atall? If we are able to answer these questions to ourselves convincingly, we have truly grasped the essence of Enterprise computing but not otherwise. That is why this point is being laboured.
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Live Stats/Results | Pac-10 Central
LONG BEACH, Calif.-- As expected, it's a three-team race after the first day of the Pac-10 Championships, as four points separate first place and No. 1-ranked Arizona (72 points), second place and No. 4-ranked California (70) and third place and No. 3-ranked Stanford (68).
Stanford twice finished second in the two relays, the 200-yard medley and the 800 free relay.
Cal won the first event of the day, the 200 medley with a time of 1:24.85, four-tenths in front of second place Stanford (1:25.25) and nearly eight-tenths better than third place Arizona (1:25.62). The Cardinal had two of the fastest times in the medley.
Eugene Godsoe led off with the fastest 50 backstroke time of the first eight competitors at 21.44, before Cal's Damir Dugonjic over took Curtis Lovelace on the second leg of the breaststroke by four-tenths of a second. Graeme Moore added another second as Alex Coville fought off Arizona's Jordan Slaughter to remain in second. David Dunford finished off the relay with the fastest 50 free time, at 18.81, pushing Stanford's lead over Arizona to nearly four-tenths of a second and finishing sixth-tenths off the leader.
The Cardinal finished second to USC's time of 6:19.17 by just over three-tenths of a second (6:19.52) in the second relay of the night. After starting off third, the Cardinal and the Bears fought for second place as Rob Andrews overtook Cal's Tom Shields on the final lap to touch the wall first. Arizona was fourth with a mark of 6:22.60.
Points will also be given to each team based on last week's diving championships in Federal Way, WA. Brent Eichenseer earned 80 points following third place showings in the three-meter (28 points) and platform (28), and a fourth finish in the one-meter (27). Eichenseer was the lone Stanford diver in the finals after All-American Dwight Dumais was lost for the season in January due to a shoulder injury.
Stanford is looking to win its 29th-straight Pac-10 Championship for head coach Skip Kenney.
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MIAMI - New Orleans Saints linebackers coach Joe Vitt understands the pain and patience of the New Orleans fan base better than most.
He's waited 31 years for his first Super Bowl appearance.
"Really, it's not about me, it's about our team," said Vitt, though he admitted that, "It's been fun to see the look in my wife's eye. It's been fun to see the look in my children's eyes. And I have a new granddaughter this year, that's been special.
"But the special part is the journey that we've taken with this group of guys. ... I can't tell you how proud I am of our players. I'm so proud of the team that we've built. I'm so proud of the way we've prepared. I'm really proud of the way they've handled success.
"It's been fun the journey we've been on. But all of that doesn't matter unless we win this (expletive) game Sunday."
Vitt, who is well known for his "passionate" use of the English language, has also become revered over the past three decades for his ability to teach and motivate.
The former Towson State linebacker began his NFL coaching career, ironically enough, with the Baltimore Colts in 1979. He's worked for eight different teams in his career, including a stint as the St. Louis Rams' interim head coach in 2005.
Saints Coach Sean Payton has repeatedly credited Vitt as one of his most important hires when he built his first staff as a rookie head coach with the Saints in 2006.
"For me to be able to do this with him is extremely meaningful," said Saints linebacker Scott Fujita, who began his NFL career with Vitt in Kansas City and came to New Orleans in part because of their connection. "I'm really happy for him because he deserves it. He's bounced around so much. Everybody in the league knows who he is. He's kind of a legend, really."
Vitt said he hasn't been too emotional or spent too much time reflecting on his first trip to the Super Bowl, because he was right back to work on Monday morning after the NFC championship game preparing for the next one.
He did, however, have a very visible celebratory moment on the TV broadcast when he was the first person to grab quarterback Drew Brees on the sideline and congratulate him after Saints kicker Garrett Hartley nailed the game-winning 40-yard field goal in overtime.
Brees said Vitt mentioned something about having waited 31 years for the moment, but Vitt said he honestly couldn't remember what he said.
"I was really looking around for Fujita and (Scott) Shanle and (Mark) Simoneau and (Jonathan) Vilma, and there was Drew. What a moment, huh?" said Vitt, who said he'll definitely take the time to appreciate this season at some point. "You know, I've got all the highlight films that we've shown to our team this year and all the things written down that we've done. And it's gonna be nice to sit down in the summertime and have a cold beer and look back at all this stuff."


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College Hockey:Weekend work-up, Nov. 5, 2012: It's going to be a long season, but not without its drama
If the first two weekends of CCHA play are any indication, this last season of the CCHA isn't going to be over until it's over. No sweeps, five teams with six points each, three shutouts.
1. A.J. Treais, dream crusher. The reason that Northern Michigan didn't sweep Michigan at home came down to one play, at 19:59 in the third period Friday night. The Wildcats owned the second period of that game, scoring four goals — three on the power play — to take a 4-1 lead into the third. The Wolverines scored two power-play goals of their own in the third to bring it to within one, and with the extra attacker, Treais scored the goal that sent the game into overtime with one second left on the clock. Treais has seven goals in seven games this season, second in the nation to Niagara's Giancarlo Iuorio (8). Treais had seven total goals in 44 games as a freshman in 2009-10.
2. An alphabet soup of second place. Five teams — Alaska, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Miami, Michigan State — are in second. Yes, it's early. Yes, this will change. What won't change throughout the season, though, is this kind of configuration in league standings, multiple teams knotted in one spot and separated from teams above or below them in the standings by a single point. The rare sweep, like Notre Dame's sweep of NMU Oct. 26-27, will determine who rises to the top, and I won't be surprised if playoff home ice and first-round byes are determined by tie breakers.
3. Three shutouts in one weekend but lots of goals otherwise. Sophomore C.J. Motte had his first shutout of the season (third of his career) when FSU beat Miami 3-0. Senior Andrew Hammond made 29 saves in his fifth career shutout, first of the season, when Bowling Green beat MSU 1-0 Friday night. Notre Dame junior Steven Summerhays had just 14 saves yesterday when Notre Dame beat Western Michigan, 4-0, his second of the season and sixth of his career. Yet seven times this past weekend, four or more goals were scored by a single team in a given contest; UM and NMU tied 4-4 Friday.
And Michigan State scoring six goals in one game? With five different players scoring? After that 1-0 shutout loss to Bowling Green? I don't know what to make of that one.
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Jedi's: Final Test
Your ship lands in the training feild, your a jedi. This is the final test before you be a jedi master or you could turn to the dark side. In This mission your will come face to face with your greatest fear. Will you past the test.
Here's want you need
Sex: male or female
Greatest fear: (weakness)
Lightsaber: color, duel ect.
Good luck
Name: Jon Landcaster
Age: 20
Speaces: Human
Power's: Mind control, super refleces
Greatest fear:Lot's of enemy's
Lightsaber green twin sided lightsaber
I step out of the ship to look upon the barran land thinking, I think i will ace this test.
Name: Numo Fisto
Age: 21
Species: Nautolan
Sex: Male
Powers: Average Jedi
Greatest fear: Losing Family and Friends
Lightsabre: Purple
greatest fear- having to confront himself
weapon-viridian lightsaber
Gets off his ship and sees the other padawan
This test should be easy
Name Oetch
Age 41
Species: Bothan
Sex: male
Power's: Xtreme lightsaber skills and techniques
Greatest fear: Failing the jedi council
Lightsaber: white lighsaber blade, doublebladed
I walked out of my ship and looked around. Two humans and a bothan, nothing too hard yet. I was only worried what the Council had in mind for us.
Oetch nodded at the newcomer, greeting his fellow Jedi
Name: Zoric
Age: 23
Speices: Zabrak
Sex: Male
Power's: Normal powers.
Greatest fear: Fighting a dark side version of himself
Lightsaber: Dual. One silver one orange.
I get out of my ship and see a few other jedi. I looked at the test area and saw a barren wasteland. "Wow this looks easy" I said aloud.
Name: Calo Kora
Age: 28
Species: Human
Sex: male
Power's: Skilled with a lightsaber, average Jedi force powers.
Greatest fear: Falling to one side of the Force or the other
Lightsaber: Cyan/Blue, single-bladed, activated by the force (no buttons on this saber).
Note: Calo is a Gray Jedi and has no true affiliation with the light or dark side, which is why his fear is to fall to either side.
Calo steps off of the ship and takes a look around the area. He very calmly walks to one side, allowing the other Jedi to congregate together. He observed the area, taking in all that he could, waiting patiently for his test to begin.
Oetch walked over to the newcomer. "Hello." he said quietly. His slick Bothan accent rolled of his tongue. "Would you like to practice in a little lighsaber duel?"
Calo looks up to the Bothan, offering him no greeting. He simply looks him over and shakes his head slowly. He continues standing in the same position, arms folded in front of him, hiding his hands inside the sleeves of his robes.
"Sure. I'd like to" I said. He pulled out his silver saber and ignited it. "One saber only. Ok?"
I look aroud everone that talking. I step out a little inot the distane.
Name: Dakota
Jedi Power:Levitation
Greatest Fear:Converting to the dark side
Lightsaber:Green, double bladed
*walks into Jon while hes backing up*"Nervous?"
I look at him with a grin. "no i am never nevious."
"Whatever you say:lol: sowho are you?"
Name: Daniel Keren
Age: 28
Species: Human
Power's: Levitation, super reflexes, super strength
Greatest fear: Heights
Lightsaber: Black twin sided lightsaber
The surrounding Jedi were getting restless, maybe this was part of the test. I wasn't willing to give out free advice so I remained quiet and patient.
Oetch only drew one side of his saber. He did a slight twirl, gently hitting the opponents saber, in a defenssive, jedi-like manner. "So, where you from?" asked Oetch, trying t start a friendly conversation
"Dont really know" I said. "I was picked from my home planet along time ago. I was never told of my home planet." I swung my saber at the jedi...
name: Troezen
Age: 28
Spieces: human
powers: any force related abilities
greatest fears: an un-honorable death
lightsaber: duel sabers. One is black, one is white.
He walked off his ship and saw the other jedi assembled. Two were fighting.
"Is this a private party or can anyone join?" he asked sarcasticly.
((when and where is this set? Is it after the films and Luke Skywalker is testing us? or is it set during the time yoda, mace and co are on the council (before the films).
Also, which planet is it on?))
"When is this going to start?!" he yelled impatiently
Oetch shrugged and met his saber.Then picked up speed, swinging his lightsaber at the other Jedi's.
":dozey: well i might as well get the best of this. Anyone up for a little practice?"
Zoric blocked the saber. Then suddenly a wall came up around the combatents. ((I might aswell keep this story up since XHacker hasnt posted in this lately)). Then a row came out into the desert wasteland. It was like a passage. Zoric deactivated his saber and walked to the beginning of the passage. "I think the test is gonna begin now" said Zoric.
Oetch flipped off his saber and and jogged down the path. Suddenly he heard a voice in side his head you have failed me...failed me...failed me.. the voice echoed. its just part ofthe test he thought. But he was distracted and two sith popped up. He immediatley recovered and ingited his duble bladed lightsaber. he worked on holding off both of them, burningone of them
((no one help him, its part of the test.))
"What the?" * A dark jedi appears and activates his lightsaber* "Bring it" * begins to battle
Three dark jedi apppear infront of Zoric. He immediatly gets his sabers and ignites them. He looks at then and sees they all of two sabers. Both red. But they were not his greatest fear. They were not him. Zoric went at one and cut his head off..
Oetch pergormed a fatal frontflip, slicing a dark Jedi's head off. Then he looked at the next. He twiled arounfd before stabbing the second with a saber.
"Take this" *Chops dark jedis head off.* That wasnt so hard:) * (Ill wait til evil dark jedi to say the next part before I do anything else)
hey guys. I was told by my master to come here and you all obviously were told the same so what is this final test? I want some of the action. I'm not afraid to fight.
I walked along the path slowly, the other jedi were up ahead and fighting others that had came along. There was something in the distance, something familiar, my mother... and they were held hostage by some sith, maybe three of them. I surged forward with great speed and leapt over the other jedi and continued on towards my family. The sith saw me coming and one of them came towards me while the other two held my family.
"You'll pay for this," I whispered to them.
Oetch really hsowed his lightsaber excellence with a sewries of flips, killing at five siths
I charged at the sith with a flurry of sabre slashes and the first fell to the ground in pieces.
"Don't let your rage control you, keep composed,"
The voice was familiar but not reconizable.
The second sith sized up.
*Runs around Numo and keeps going through the tunnel* "Something isnt right here. This is way too easy." *Keeps running and falls off a ledge* "What the?! Oh crap!!!" *Jams lightsaber into the wall* "Well what the heck am I going to do now? Oh duh!" *Levitates to other ledge and keeps running*
Zoric killed the other two sith with a few chops of his saber and runs after the jedi. He stops at the ledge and jumps across. "Wait up" yelled Zoric.
"Yeah sure. Hey doesnt this seem a little to easy?"
Oetch saw the ledge ahead and did a triple frontflip forward. He landed gracefully. But just as he landed the ledge he was standing on broke and he began to fall. But he caught himself with the force and slowly flew upwards. he landed on the ledge next to zoric. "Something isn't right. he began "This is-" suddenlya mirage of the jedi council appeared and he was engulfed by it . It soon seemed like real life. Mace Windu go up and said "You failed me Tisimia." Oetch turned around ashamed and started walking down the hall of the Jedi Temple." soon he was back in real life. And he was actually walking, right off the cliff! It had been a trcik the whole time with the mirage. But luckily he grabbed onto a rock and slowly started to climb back up the ledge.
"Oetch!" *Grabs and and pulls him up*
Troezen fought five dark jedi. But he could not fight them all. suddenly he got stabed in the leg and then in the arm and then his left arm got cut off.
He rolled around in pain. Then two of the sith went to stab him with his own lightsabers, which he dropped.
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The aim of the project is to establish permanent cooperation between the Triglav National Park and the Nockberge National Park in Austria and ensure follow-up activities for opening a new range of income possibilities for the population living in this area.
The acitivites of international working groups and the proceedings of the 2005 ERA Congress, organized in October 2006 in Bled, produced new project ideas concerning marketing of local produce, education, tourism and public information campaigns. Several exchanges have taken place in the field of tourism and education of school children.
Additionally, the bases for the development of a joint initiative of three parks (TNP, NP Nockberge and Prealpi Giulie Nature Park) with a working title Giro dei parchi (Tour of the Parks) have been formed.
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|Wendy's CEO Kerrii Anderson receives Fisher's Cullman Award
Kerrii Anderson, chief executive officer and president of Wendy's International, was awarded the W. Arthur Cullman Award on May 24 for her promotion of business excellence through education.
Anderson was presented with the award named in honor of the late W. Arthur Cullman, a nationally recognized marketing scholar at Ohio State, during the 13th Biennial W. Arthur Cullman Symposium.
f the Limited; Estée Lauder, chair of Estée Lauder Companies, James G. Oates, president of Leo Burnett and NetJets.
This latest recognition strengthens Anderson's already strong ties with Fisher. In the past, she has donated her time on campus by serving on the Dean's Advisory Council and in 2002 she received the college's Pace Setters Executive Award.
"This is special to me," Anderson said after receiving the award from Fisher Dean Joseph A. Alutto. "I'm truly honored to accept this award and it's really special to everyone at Wendy's."
Following the award presentation, Anderson spoke about executing corporate strategy at the world's third largest quick-service hamburger restaurant chain. Her address focused on recent changes made by the company to make it financially stronger.
Last year, the company implemented a series of changes including the initial public offering and spin-off of Tim Horton's, divestment of Baja Fresh and repurchase of $1 billion of Wendy's stock, Anderson said.
"It was a tough year with a lot of change," she said. "What that allowed us to do was truly make the focus on Wendy's and as a result we improved financial results."
The day-long symposium's theme was "Insight to Mission," which focused on the use of data to devise business strategy. Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel discussed the strategies he utilizes to develop talent and achieve success. The coach explained how his staff works with Buckeye players to set goals and develop a plan to be successful both personally and athletically.
Tressel outlined his "Block O of Life" philosophy, which helps players blend personal growth with performance-based goals to make them better on the gridiron, in the classroom and in life.
On a more serious note, FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas and Steven L. Martin, chief deputy of Franklin County Sheriff's Office Criminal Division, talked about their use of real-time data to solve the Interstate-270 sniper case, which terrorized Columbus in 2003-04.
The investigators stressed that every tip they received needed to be investigated carefully to find the person responsible for the multiple shootings which included one death.
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A near head-on collision on SR 904 sent three people to a local hospital Saturday afternoon.
According to a Washington State Patrol press memo, at approximately 4:45 p.m. an eastbound, black, 2002 Volkswagen Golf two-door sedan driven by 47-year-old Curtis R. Cooley of Spokane Valley attempted to pass multiple vehicles in a no-passing lane at milepost 13 near the intersection of SR 904 and Paradise Road. Cooley's vehicle essentially sideswiped a green, 2000 two-door Honda Accord drive by Raquel H. Caballero, 21, of Cheney, impacting headlight to headlight in the westbound lane.
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News Channel 8′s Gayle Guyardo sat down with our own Steve Rodriguez this morning to film a spot for her upcoming piece on PCI.
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An Investor's Guide to the Twitterati
Carol Kopp
You may be surprised to learn who's on Twitter, and who's not.
Do you tweet?
If the question gives you the uncomfortable feeling that you're out of the loop, you're not alone. In fact, most of us have not tweeted. If you're an American and are over age 29, it's quite unlikely that you've ever done it.
In spite of the fact that
(NYSE:TWTR) is a household name, and that it has caused many humans to begin tweeting in public, it is still not quite the mass phenomenon it seems, at least in context of the massive numbers possible in global Internet reach.
As it prepares for its debut as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange this week, that fact is Twitter's strength -- or its weakness, depending on your view of this company as an investment.
At least for now, the "Twitterati," as the site's user base is sometimes called by people who are in the loop, or like to think they are, is an exclusive and, at least in comparison to
(NASDAQ:FB), small group.
Only 16% of American adults use Twitter, according to
a survey
released this week by Pew Research. The survey found that a bit over half of those Americans have used Twitter as a source of news. That is, they tend to learn of a breaking news event on Twitter, pass it along, react to it and talk about it on Twitter.
Those Twitter news consumers tend to be young, with 45% between 18 and 29 years old. They are better educated and more affluent than the US population as a whole, or their counterparts on Facebook. They also tend to be accessing Twitter on their mobile devices.
All of the above is catnip to marketers, a dream audience to target.
But there's one thing Twitter lacks in comparison to Facebook, and that's sheer numbers. The size of its audience is by no means negligible, but it may not yet be enough to draw the kind of big-name sponsorship dollars it needs to succeed.
Twitter had 190 million monthly unique visitors as of May 2013, according to
its own figures
. That "monthly uniques" label seems like a reasonable definition of "active" users, although its own count of "active registered Twitter users" was 554,750,000, with 135,000 new users added daily. Even that larger number is about half of Facebook's membership.
Surprisingly, users outside the US represent more than three-quarters of Twitter users. Its international user base has more than doubled in the past year, compared with a 50% growth in the US,
according to the
New York Times
. Brazil and India have particularly fast-growing Twitter bases.
Its success in mobile—that 140-character format seems tailor-made for it—could help it continue to grow globally.
But there's one problem, at least for now. Only 26% of its revenue comes from those sites outside the US. Its automated advertising purchasing system has not yet launched abroad. And international rollouts are not easy, cheap or fast. (See
(NASDAQ:GRPN) for
So, add in the plain fact that Twitter is not yet turning a profit. What the analysts are saying about Twitter's business right now boils down to either the glass-half-full "plenty of upside," or the glass-half-empty "wait and see."
In the lead-up to its initial public offering, Twitter's plan seemed cautious and even modest. Suddenly, with hours to go before the launch, the company, its underwriters, and the analysts all seem to be running a high fever.
On Monday, the company increased the price range for its shares to $23 to $25 each, from $17 to $20 each, reportedly because of strong interest shown during its national "road show" for institutional investors.
That would
value the company
at up to $13.6 billion, or about 12.5 to 13.6 times its forecast 2014 revenue of $1 billion. Facebook and
(NYSE:LNKD) trade at about 12 times earnings.
The analysts' target prices are all over the map, from $26, set by Morningstar
analyst Rick Summer
, to $54, by Topeka Capital's
Victor Anthony
But perhaps the final word should go to James Gellert, CEO of Rapid Ratings. His firm's analysis of Twitter's financials puts its "risk profile" at 92% in points of comparison with Internet bubble-era IPOs. That's far higher than Rapid's ranking of Facebook's, at 33% at the time of its own IPO. Rapid Rankings awards Twitter a "financial health rating" of 19, on a scale of 0 for worst to 100 for best.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - With second place on the line in the Pac-10, Arizona and UCLA both look to extend their winning streaks to four games when the teams meet Thursday for the second time this season.
The eighth-ranked Wildcats (17-6, 9-2) are one game behind Stanford for the top spot in the conference, while No. 24 UCLA (15-6, 8-2) trails Arizona by one-half game for second place.
Arizona plays five of its last seven on the road and visits Southern California, which is 6-4 in the conference, on Saturday.
"It is obviously a key weekend because you are talking about two of the top five teams in the league," Arizona coach Lute Olson said. "A whole lot can change by Saturday night."
The Wildcats are coming off an 86-51 win over Washington State. Loren Woods had 18 points, six rebounds, five assists and four blocks as Arizona beat the Cougars for the 32nd straight time.
UCLA jumped back into the Top 25 by winning five of its last six, including a 94-88 victory at DePaul last Saturday.
The Bruins fell from the rankings after a stunning home loss to Cal State-Northridge left them 1-2. They finally re-entered the poll Monday after a three-game winning streak, with all the victories coming on the road.
UCLA's first two wins in the streak were over then-No. 1 Stanford - the Cardinal's first loss of the season - and crosstown rival USC.
The Bruins, scoring 80.9 points per game this season, have averaged 86.0 points during the three consecutive wins.
"We're playing pretty good basketball," said UCLA forward Jason Kapono, who leads the Bruins with 18.1 points per game. "This team has come a long way from that 4-4 start."
Arizona has won four straight and six of the last seven meetings with UCLA, including an 88-63 victory in Tucson on Jan. 20.


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Tully's reputation for being "A Pretty Wet Place" is celebrated each year at the Golden Gumboot Festival. The 'Gumboot Games' are a major feature of this family oriented festival, along with a float parade, Golden Girl Quest and a big afternoon of entertainment, music, displays, children's activities and food and market stalls. The festival is launched with a Quest Night, where Quest entrants are introduced and judging occurs. The Gumboot Festival is Tully's major annual festival and each year a community organisation or a community project is selected to benefit from the festival proceeds.
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Most of the clutches we see are freakin' fabulous, but they're often on the small side. Sometimes we don't want a shoulder bag, but would still like to be able to carry more than a phone, credit card, and a tube of lipstick! The Banana Republic Sasha patent clutch ($98) caught our eye first because of the four beautiful springy colors it's available in, but we became much more interested upon realizing that this clutch would actually be usable as a daily purse given its reasonable size. The braided leather strap is a handy accent for those of us that are prone to dropping things. Nice work, Banana!
Okay, I would totally love that as I've desperately searching for a good-sized, cute frame clutch but how about it not be a hundred dollars? Pricing on handbags is redonkulous.
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In the latest of a series of propulsion-related failures that have, from time to time, plagued Celebrity's Millennium-class ships, the cruise line announces that Infinity's March 27 departure has been canceled.
The ship, now sailing a 14-night Panama Canal cruise that winds up in San Diego, was slated to depart on for a 10-night cruise from Ensenada to Hawaii on Sunday. (Celebrity officials expect the existing cruise to carry on as scheduled.)
The company says in a statement that the unscheduled dry dock is anticipated to take the ship out of commission for just this voyage. Infinity's April 6 sailing is planned as scheduled, according to the statement.
Celebrity, which even disappointed cruisers must admit is a class act when it comes to compensation for this type of occurrence, is offering displaced travelers a full refund and free future 10-night cruise (excluding holiday sailings and Celebrity Xpedition voyages). There's a help desk to assist impacted folks: call 888-837-5676 (or your travel agent) for help with rebooking and air transportation.
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Sarasota Police hope restricting business hours cuts back on violence
SARASOTA, FLA - Sarasota police want the city to pass an ordinance forcing business along MLK in Newtown to close early.
The issue is along a small stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Highway 301 and Osprey Avenue.
Police say in the last year and a half they have received hundreds of calls for service.
But after more than an hour of discussion and public input, the meeting ended with no decision.
Chief Bernadette DiPino showed city commissioners video of two incidents from earlier this month where shots were fired around a large crowd of people in the street.
DiPino wants the city to implement an ordinance that would require stores along the stretch to close between 11 pm and 6 am.
We spoke to a business owner who has two convenience stores in the area. He says his stores are not the problem, and he would suffer as a result of the ordinance.
"I'm not being blind," said Basher Itraish. "There is an issue but I have nothing to do with it. It's the other business that are staying open late until three, four, five o'clock in the morning. And that's where all the trouble is starting."
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I guess that's what knowledge is. Thanks God for clearing this 2,500+ year old written philosophical question in one sentence with two italicized words. Guess I don't need to study philosophy anymore. Now I can direct my energy to my second passion in life, building canoes.
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Apr 23, 2010
Scanning probe etches tiniest patterns
IBM researchers have used a heated nanoscale tip to create patterns as small as 15 nm in an organic resist. This is half the size of structures that can be produced by conventional methods, such as electron-beam lithography. The technique could be ideal for fabricating nanoscale electronic devices in the future.
Today, computer chips and other microelectronic devices are made by optical and electron-beam lithography, which are used to pattern organic resists. However, the problem is that these techniques do not work very well for making structures smaller than 30 nm because of so-called "proximity effects". This is where the electron or optical beams begin to encroach on nearby, unwanted areas in the resist, which leads to certain areas being unintentionally exposed, and a larger final pattern.
Armin Knoll and colleagues at IBM in Zurich, Switzerland, and their colleagues in Almaden, California, and Yorktown Heights, New York, have now developed a new method that overcomes this problem. Their scanning probe lithography technique employs a heated nanotip to locally evaporate material from a thin film of organic glass (Sciencexpress 1187851). The nanopatterns produced can then be transferred to silicon – the most widely used electronic material – using standard nanofabrication techniques. "Being able to transfer patterns in this way opens up new prospects for fabricating nanosized electronics and objects in fields ranging from future chip technology and optoelectronics, to medicine and life sciences," say the researchers.
The tip is 500 nm long and a few nanometres wide at its apex. It is attached to a cantilever that scans the surface of the substrate with an accuracy of just 1 nm. By applying heat and force, the tip can remove substrate material based on predefined patterns, rather like a "nanomilling" machine, says Knoll.
The IBM team chose to use organic glass in its proof-of principle experiment because the bonds between the molecules in this material can be easily broken at the temperatures of the tip (300–500 °C).
The new technique is also cheaper than e-beam lithography because it uses less power and can sit happily on a bench top – as opposed to electron-beam machines, which are much bulkier devices. It can be used to make 2D patterns or 3D "sculptures" by successive rounds of etching. Indeed, the same team previously showed that they could fashion a 25 nm high 3D replica of the Matterhorn, the famous Swiss mountain that is 4478 m high, in molecular glass. This represents a scale of 1:5 billion (1 nm in the replica corresponds to 57 m).
The researchers have also made the tiniest 3D map of the world ever using a tip at higher temperatures of 700 °C. They were able to produce the map in just a couple of minutes (Advanced Materials upcoming).
The team now hopes to take its technology to market and make it widely available to university researchers too. "This will also help to develop the tech further and enlarge its potential applications," Knoll told nanotechweb.org. The researchers also plan to improve the technique so that it can etch even smaller and deeper patterns, while operating faster.
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If you're a regular reader over at PurseBlog, you know that holographic materials are officially A Thing for…well, the pieces have been spread across Fall 2012, Resort 2013 and Spring 2013, but trust me, it's a thing that's happening. Whatever the holographic materials is – leather, nylon, some sort of nondescript frankentextile – a holographic finish can either be futuristic-cool or shiny-tacky, simply by its very nature. Designers who take it on are doing something genuinely risky if they're not confident in their talent.
Stella McCartney, of course, is supremely confident. Which brings us to the Stella McCartney Mirror Prism Pumps, which are either resplendent or terrible, depending on how traditional your sense of style is.
This much holographic finish all on one piece can be bracing, especially out of the context of a well-considered outfit. Holo is best used sparingly, as an accent to more traditional finishes and textures. With a pair of holo shoes, though, the wearer has an opportunity to use them as their own accent. At first this design seemed too over-the-top, too shiny, too 80s-looking, but when I tried to imagine it in the context of a really smart ensemble, it started to make more sense. Imagine these shoes as a futuristic detail with a sleek, modern ensemble – something from the upcoming Dior or Balenciaga collections, for example. In that context, these shoes look great. Buy through Neiman Marcus for $760. (Are they worth the money? I'm not sure. There are some more subtle and luxurious versions out there.)


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We all want to feed our family a good nutritious meal at the end of every day. We have that intent but when your days are so busy you can't slow down, that is not always easy to do. Give yourself a break and go to your local drive-thru restaurant once a week. You can get some good deals. Watch your local papers for coupons to save even more money.
Hardees has a coupon deal right now of 8 pieces of fried chicken and 4 biscuits for $7.99. For just a few dollars more you can add 2 sides. Their coleslaw and green beans are great! Hardees also offers larger deals daily. If you have anyone in your family on a diet or who has to be careful what they eat, Hardees offers great alternative choices. They have low-fat, low carb, gluten free and vegetarian options.
KFC offers a 30 fiery wing coupon for $19.99 on their site. If you register on their printable coupons, you can always have access to great meal deals. The coupons offered right now are $3.00 off the 12 piece meal. The offer includes 3 sides and six biscuits. You can order the grilled chicken if you don't want fried. Also offered is a variety bucket which is a choice of 3 from 4 pieces of chicken, 4 strips, 8 wings, 1 large popcorn chicken or 1 family size order of potato wedges. This includes 2 large sides and 4 biscuits.
If you don't want chicken, we have local barbecue restaurants. You could go by and pick up a pound of barbecue, a side of coleslaw, run in the store and grab some soft buns and a bag of chips. Definitely not the most nutritious meal but once a week this will not kill you. Allow yourself a guilt free night. Sit around the table with your family and enjoy each other without the need to cook.