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Xian Canaan Business Hotel
- Location:
- Address: No.7, Zhangba North Road, Yanda District, Xian
- Tel: 88733788 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: Xian Canaan Business Hotel
- Lowest Price: $26
The hotel is adjacent to Xian High-Tech Development Zone, only about 15 minutes' driving to the city center, 20 minutes' driving to railway station and 30 minuntes' driving to the airport. The decoration of the hotel is very elegant and the facility is very modern, with complete facilities, such as business center, meeting room, parking, laundry service, room service, and so on. The hotel will be your ideal choice for business or travel.
Opened in 2008
- Prices not include 18% service fee and tax.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
Hotel Amenities
|Hotel Services
|Car rentals, Medical clinic service, Wake Up Call, Permanent English-speaking staff, Business Centre, Copy Service, E-mail, Fax Service, Typing Service
|Room Amenities
|Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Color Television, Telephone, Bath and Shower, Internet access
Hotel Amenities: Elevator, Parking, Business Floor or Executive Floor, Air-Conditioned Facilities, Beauty Salon, Sauna, Meeting Room, Deposit Box at Front Desk, Fire Detector, Chess & Playing Cards Room
Dining Facilities: Chinese Restaurant, Western Restaurant
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Impact Investing: Three Ways for Advisors to Remain Strategic
Chat Reynders
Learn how to earn and keep your clients' trust.
Investors often view socially responsible investing ("SRI") strategies as falling short when it comes to returns, or as a simple buzz phrase that has permeated the industry. Investing with social significance, however, has evolved quite a bit to become not just a way to screen out companies based on moral objections, but to screen in companies that are profitable and make an impact.
One of the reasons that being "socially responsible" has maintained popularity in 2013 is because clients are asking for it — they are requiring that their investment decisions and values become aligned. They are also recognizing outperformance in strategies that both avoid evolving liabilities and find growth in new, developing industries -- making SRI an even more compelling investment strategy.
As we know, when there is client demand, the market responds. Over the past eight years, my firm has grown to approximately $900 million in AUM by integrating positive screening and socially responsible strategies into the company's investment theses. For other advisors who are trying to add impact-investment strategies to their service offerings, there are a few basics that must be considered ahead of time.
Social Responsibility Is Personal
: Commitment to social issues can be highly personal, so advisors should consider individual client needs when seeking socially responsible investment opportunities. Customized investment policies help clients to accept guidance and in turn deepen their relationship with the advisor.
Maintain Transparency
: As advisors, it is our responsibility to analyze company balance sheets, understand how revenues are sourced, and how revenues turn into earnings. In order for a company to truly be considered sustainable, it must embrace a socially conscious philosophy and demonstrate a commitment to transparency -- allowing stakeholders to clearly comprehend how their business operates and turns a profit. When we can explain how a company makes money, clients can trust that the equities they own are consistent with their investment philosophies and goals.
Remain Positive
: Traditionally, socially responsible investing has entailed a little more than the application of negative screens to keep companies or industries out of portfolios. At best, the negative-screening approach is incomplete and at worst, creates missed opportunities due to backward-looking generalizations that can hinder portfolios. Socially minded advisors should focus energy on implementing positive screens that monitor significant areas of disruption. By applying positive screens, managers can uncover new, durable growth opportunities that match the progressive interests and values of clients. I have found that analysis and a constant review of investment theses are critical in any impact-driven portfolio.
As advisors, we are perpetually seeking investment opportunities that focus on long-term trends, reduce risk, and generate returns. For the socially responsible investor, focusing on the long term is even more critical as we seek to compound both financial and social returns.
Looking toward 2014, my company is considering four major industries that are experiencing disruption: health care, industrial, food, and technology. Within those industries there are a few notable companies to mention:
Johnson Controls
Rockwell Automation
(NASDAQ:CSCO), and
F5 Networks
The social-impact conversation is critical for advisors who expect to connect with those in today's younger generation who are committed to sparking environmental and societal change. As the financial market adapts, the investments we make must include these new imperatives. Innovation and transparency are two progressive themes that we see driving change in the world at large -- and in the socially responsible investments that we make every day.
No positions in stocks mentioned.
All of the specific health care-related securities identified in this video and article are current recommendations of Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC ("RMCM") on behalf of its advisory clients. The specific securities identified and described do not represent all of the securities purchased, sold, or recommended for RMCM's advisory clients. The audiencee should not assume that investments in the securities identified and discussed were or will be profitable. RMCM also currently recommends numerous other securities in various other industries unrelated to health care. The purchase of these health care-related securities only will not create a diversified portfolio. In addition, the securities identified in this article may be past specific recommendations of RMCM. If such securities are past specific recommendations, RMCM shall upon request furnish a list of all recommendations made by RMCM during the twelve months prior to the date of this advertisement. It should not be assumed that recommendations made in the future will be profitable or will equal the performance of the securities provided in this list. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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More trouble is possibly in store for the Winter Olympics in Sochi as Russian security officials are hunting down three potential female suicide bombers. ABC News reported on Jan. 21, 2014, that the bombers known as "black widows" could be planning a big attack and one may actually be on the scene of the 2014 Winter Olympics next month.
Police leaflets are being passed around and have been seen at a central Sochi hotel this week as they contain warnings about the three potential suicide bombers aka black widows.
A police letter has said that one of them is 22-year-old Ruzanna Ibragimova, the widow of an Islamic militant. She is the one that is believed to be at large in Sochi.
The "Black Widows" have been blamed on a number of occasions for previous suicide attacks.
Police material distributed to hotel staff included pictures of the other two women as well who are 34-year-old Dzhannet Tsakhayeva and 26-year-old Zaira Aliyeva. The leaflets and information has stated that the black widows are "trained to perpetrate acts of terrorism.
The Sochi Olympics are to be held Feb. 7-23, 2014. Security in Russia has been intensified on many levels, but there is concern that "soft targets" outside of the Olympics, such as buses and tourist facilities, could be vulnerable to attacks.
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BREAKFAST SPECIAL: Baylor Scrambles B-CU 3-0
Courtesy: BCUathletics.com
Release: 09/08/2012
** Updated 4:15 p.m.**
By Dan Ryan
LAKE CHARLES, La. - Saturday morning's Bethune-Cookman - Baylor breakfast special at the Big Daddy's Invitational showcased the gulf between Big 12 young and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference young.
In their first meeting against a Big 12 team and the program's first foray into major conference opposition since 2008, the Lady Wildcats took a 3-0 experience (25-13,25-16,25-18) from the Bears that extended B-CU's season opening losing streak to 11. B-CU fell to 0-12 later in the day with a 3-0 loss to Arkansas State.
Delicia Pierre had seven kills for the Lady Wildcats, who at times had four freshmen and a sophomore on the court facing a NCAA tournament team in two of the past three years.
Baylor also was playing as many as four freshmen at times, but the Bears' height across the board would make a WNBA coach salivate and that incoming class was ranked among the nation's top 20.
While the Bears needed less than an hour to post the victory, B-CU had its moments with an effort that may have been good enough to win some of the other matches played so far.
"I enjoy playing these teams," said B-CU Head Coach Isaac Raphael. "It helps the players and staff realize the level we're inspiring to be. We need to look at their players' demeanor and attitude and learn from it so we can start heading that direction.
"We always play at a higher level when we play a team like Baylor," Raphael said. "They key is, and I'd be a billionaire if I could figure it out, is to get the team to play consistently and not have our downs be so far down."
Senior Krysta Gardner also showed she can hold her own against the big girls, literally and figuratively, with six kills.
"Krysta and Delicia are big-time players," Raphael said. "We're fortunate to have them and they are fortunate to have us."
Gardner appreciated the opportunity to face a major college program.
"We came out timid ... intimidated by their name and their size," Gardner said. "As a program, we can learn a lot from this match. We can play this sport. If we can play at a high intensity, we can play with anybody."
In the second set, B-CU took early leads of 5-1 on a Gardner kill and 7-3 on a Destiny Hudson kill before Baylor (9-1) rallied for a 12-10 advantage. B-CU tied the score again at 14-14 before the Bears took control with a 6-1 run.
B-CU managed a 10-10 tie in the third set.
Baylor coach Jim Barnes said he saw potential with B-CU.
"I watched them play Hampton and they've gotten better this weekend," Barnes said of B-CU. "There's some potential on the team. Athletes need time and need rep. They'll get better at the season progresses. It's a mentality to play at the highest level. You don't get to a high place without a lot of hard work."
Pierre, who also had two blocks, led B-CU in kills for the fourth straight match. Hudson, another freshman, had four kills while Phylecia Armstrong finished with three blocks and libero Monica Lowe seven digs. Sophomore Aubrianna Curtis had 13 assists.
B-CU's stay in Lake Charles concluded with a 3-0 (25-13,25-12,25-22) loss to Arkansas State.
Gardner had eight kills and seven digs for B-CU, while Pierre added seven. Curtis had 17 assists.
B-CU had an early 9-4 lead in the third set.
The Lady Cats' next match is their home opener Tuesday at 7 p.m. against North in historic Moore Gymnasium.
NOTES: Gardner now has 948 career kills ... B-CU's four other matches against major conference opponents include three with the Southeastern Conference -- Auburn in 2008 and 2003 and Georgia in 2004 and one against the Big East in 1999 against St. John's.


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|Stock Downgrades: Forest Labs, Top S&P 501 Stock of 2014, Finally Felled
By Justin Sharon MAR 12, 2014 9:21 AM
Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.
Freddie (OTCBB:FMCC), irate at seeing his stock price slashed 26.81%, revived an unwelcome Nightmare on Elm Street. Over on 42nd Street, President Obama tied up traffic and sent The Gap (NYSE:GPS) gaping down 0.45%. By contrast, nothing as exciting occurred on Wall Street, where the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) dropped slightly on a desultory trading day. Billionaire Bill Ackman owns quite a bit of Freddie, but he will be happier with Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) having slimmed down to the tune of 1.16% after hosting a presentation on the purported pyramid scheme. In a tireless presentation that started at 2:00 p.m. and didn't end until 4:14, the money quote may have been when the billionaire said, "If you talk to any nutritionist they'll tell you it's not a good way to lose weight." As an Iowa man can freshly attest, it is infinitely easier to do that at McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), whose 3.76% advance accorded it the highly unusual honor of topping the entire S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX). If Herbalife will tell you it isn't easy being green, Dublin eyes were smiling over in the Emerald Isle. Bank of Ireland (NYSE:IRE) gained 3.51% after being boosted by a Merrill Lynch unit of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) that was long known as the "Irish mafia†among Wall Street's snootier citizens. Ireland, alas, isn't about to forgive the financial firm any time soon.
It's another quite quiet day in economic data but corporate earnings announcements are expected out of Express Inc (NYSE:EXPR), Krispy Kreme (NYSE:KKD), Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN), and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM).
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO): Morgan Stanley moves the stock to Underweight from Equal Weight.
American International Group (NYSE:AIG): Concerned about AIG's lofty expenses, Deutsche Bank lowers this poster child for the financial crisis to Hold from Buy.
AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC): Goldman Sachs slashes the stock to Neutral from Buy.
Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD): The maker of Trojan condoms and Arm & Hammer baking soda is now Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH): RBC Capital cuts the company to Outperform from Top Pick with an amended price objective of $58. A lack of organic growth is cited, among other issues.
Diamondrock Hospitality (NYSE:DRH): Bank of America-Merrill Lynch downgrades DRH to Underperform from Neutral.
Forest Laboratories (NYSE:FRX): After Tuesday's announcement about the treatment of Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) assorted share classes, the storied S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) will, if only eventually and technically, actually contain 501 entries. Forest Labs has been its top stock of 2014, but today it is taken to Neutral from Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL): Shares, fresh from falling 16.54% yesterday, are currently imploding another 8.54%. This, after getting cut to Market Perform from Outperform at Cowen.
Geron (NASDAQ:GERN): The biotech, sliding some 61.82% as we speak, is now Neutral from Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
Homebuilders: PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM) and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) are each now Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Liberty Ventures (NASDAQ:LVNTA): Citigroup lowers the equity to Neutral from Buy.
Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI): Shares get slashed to Sell from Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Northwest Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:NWBO): NWBO is now Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Synta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SNTA): SNTA is cut to Sell from Hold at Stifel, which has concerns over its Ganetespib trials.
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN): The stock, which fell 4.27% yesterday, is off another 1.98% at the moment after getting downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight by Barclays.
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Jan. 13, 2013
LOS ANGELES -- Washington (10-5, 2-2 Pac-12) hung with No. 14 UCLA (13-2, 4-0 Pac-12) for much of the game, but in the end fell short, falling, 85-68. The Dawgs led as late as 9:30 to play, but wore down as a bigger UCLA team dominated the Huskies on the glass.
Washington was outrebounded 50-26 for the game, including allowing 16 offensive rebounds. The Bruins shot 47.5 percent from the floor, but the Huskies still had a chance to win late in the game.
The Dawgs created 24 turnovers, including 16 in the first half to gain the extra possessions it needed to account for the rebounding discrepancy.
Washington led 34-33 at the half, turning defense into offense and getting to the free throw line with aggressive drives to the hoop. Jazmine Davis scored 11 of her 19 points in the first half and made 6-6 from the free throw line as UCLA had trouble keeping her out of the lane.
Talia Walton chipped in eight first-half points, but the key was the Washington defense that went to the break with 11 steals.
UCLA came out of halftime with renewed energy, taking better care of the ball and hitting the offensive glass. The Bruins built a nine-point lead by the 14:48 mark in the half, but the resilient Huskies refused to give in.
Washington mounted a 17-7 run over the next 5:18 to take a 59-58 lead with 9:30 to play. The Dawgs used hot shooting as Walton made two of her four threes during the run, while Kristi Kingma also made a three. Walton finished with 18 points, while Kingma had eight, including two more threes to add to her Pac-12 lead.
Davis also continued to get in the lane and get to the foul line. The sophomore guard finished 12-14 from the line to set a new career best for made free throws in a game.
Following the Husky run, UCLA made a one of its own, outscoring the Dawgs 11-2 over the next three minutes. Although, Washington would cut the lead to five, UCLA finished out the final minutes, making free throws to build a lead that did not represent how close the game really was.
Also finishing in double figures was Aminah Williams with 10 points. The sophomore also chipped in seven rebounds and tied a career high with six assists.
UCLA had five players in double figures and used it size and depth to wear down the Huskies over the final nine minutes.
The Dawgs will have another quick turnaround, playing Washington State on Tuesday for its third game in six days. The Cougars come to town on January 15 at 6 p.m. for a game broadcast on the Pac-12 Networks. The Cougs were also swept in L.A. this weekend and come to Seattle 1-3 in conference.


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There are very few things that can make a political junkie's blood boil more than talking to someone who is indifferent about voting. There are many people who believe that voting is either unimportant, doesn't matter or they sincerely just don't understand what an electoral college is, or how the House and Senate vote on bills that are later laws.
Check out this excerpt from the Chicago News & Events Examiner to find out more info on why voting is important. Share with people who don't vote and those who only vote for the president:
Outside of Maine and Nebraska, when voting for a president the voter also votes for the candidate's electors (House and Senate leaders). However, the significance of the midterm election is those voters have the opportunity to vote against the House and Senate leaders representing their states that were chosen by the president.
Because the United States is a democracy, not a dictatorship, unless the president chooses to use executive order, every vote counts from a Senate or House leader. This is why picking the Congressional members matter so much every single year that a president is in office, not just every four years.
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Bat Ray, Myliobatis californica: The Bat Ray has a flat body with a large, bulbous, elevated blunt head and a thick snout. The Bat Ray is black, brown, or blackish-brown on top and white underneath. Its head and eyes are behind the origin of the pectoral fins, which are long and form equivalent triangles.
The Bat Ray has one dorsal fin. Its long whip-like, slender tail is equal in length to the length of the body disc and it contains a long, venomous injecting barb at its base. The Bat Ray has a disc that is wider than long that can reach a width of 6 feet. It can weigh close to 200 pounds, but is normally 2 to 5 feet wide and less than 100 pounds. The Bat Ray is normally found in the first 100 feet of the water column over sandy and mud bottoms, but it has also been encountered in the open ocean. It is very active at night, traveling individually or in groups numbering into the thousands. It stirs the bottom with it pectoral fins to dislodge small animals on which it feed.
This fish species is a member of the Myliobatiformes or Stingray order, Myliobatidae or Eagle Ray Family, and Myliobatis genus. Globally, there are a total of 178 species of Myliiobatiformes, 43 species of the Myliobatidae Family of which 11 are found in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and 3 species of the Myliobatis genus of which 2 are found in Mexican waters. The Eagle Rays are characterized by having a short front to their face, and the fin under the snout has only one lobe. They have long slender tails that are equal in length to the length of the disc, which have large venomous spines. Most species of this family are bottom dwellers, found in shallow coastal waters, that feed on buried mollusks and crustaceans. They have a venomous spine in the tail which can inflict painful wounds.
The Bat Ray can be confused with the Longnose Bat-Eagle Ray, Myliobatis longirostris (red-brown in color, narrow pointed head with a shovel-like snout, and the aft edges of the disc are black).
The Bat Ray has a broad distribution in Mexican fishing waters, being found all along the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula, throughout the Sea of Cortez, and along the coast of the mainland north of Acapulco; it appears to be absent from around the oceanic islands. There is a limited commercial market for the Bat Ray. Fossils of the Bay Ray have been dated to be in excess of 1 million years old. This species was believed to be an important food source for Native Americans of California.
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Jul 12th 2013
Park Silly Sunday Market's 100th Day
Local outdoor market celebrates centennial milestone. Read More
Local outdoor market celebrates centennial milestone. Read More
Park City offers a stroll as part of their annual Food and Wine Classic. Read More
All about Miticaña de Oveja and Miticaña de Cabra. Read More
Enhance your own sense of style with perfume and jewelry in one. Read More
Head up north this weekend for the Ogden Nature Center's 5th Annual Garden Tour. Read More
Lita Ford and RATT join up to support the Ride for Life benefit for Ronald McDonald House Saturday at The Depot Read More
Salty Cricket Composers Collective and Wind Quintet Present "Blowin' in the Wind" this Thursday. Read More


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The sound in Enemy Territory: Quake wars used to work fine before, except that using the VOIP hotkey would crash it outright. Now, after some fiddling, I at first had sound that was delayed by half a minute, and now no sound at all.
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It has been four years since the BP oil spill. The oil spill is still affecting 14 different species in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the report from the National Wildlife Foundation. These species are: bottlenose dolphins, red snapper, blue crab, Atlantic Bluefin tuna, gulf killifish, sperm whales, sea turtles, white pelicans, seaside sparrows, eastern oysters, coral, common loon, brown pelicans and small marine creatures called foraminifera. Each species has shown an increase in mortality or birth defects, in connection with the oil spill.
The bottlenose dolphins have really been affected by the BP oil spill. Since the oil spill in 2010, more than 900 bottlenose dolphins have been found dead. In 2013, three times the normal rate of these dolphins were found dead. Scientists are currently investigating how the oil spill is still affecting these dolphins, who have been having lung and immune system problems. There are so many other species of wildlife that are suffering.
An estimated 500 sea turtles have been found dead over the last three years, which is way over the normal rate of death for these animals. Loons, which come to the Louisiana coast for the winter, have been found to have toxic oil compounds in their blood. According to Doug Inkley, who is the senior scientist for NWF,
"The oil is not gone. There is oil on the bottom of the gulf, oil washing up on the beach and there is oil in the marshes.These are top-level species that are in trouble," Inkley said. "When you see sick dolphins like we do in Barataria Bay that tells you there is a problem and it needs to be examined even further."
NWF scientists say that it could take years before we see the full effect of the oil spill on all the wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, the research that is being conducted on how the oil spill has affected the wildlife and marsh lands will be used as evidence to help set a price for BP to pay to help restore the Gulf.
However, BP has released a statement dismissing the research and report by NWF, saying that the report is "political advocacy" instead of science.


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Brunswick County detectives locate missing woman, child
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SHALLOTTE | A Shallotte woman and her 13-month-old child missing since Monday were located Friday and are safe, according to the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office are asking for the public's help in locating them.
Trish Elizabeth Whitley, 33, was last seen by her father about 4:30 p.m. Monday at 1792 Chadwick Landing in Shallotte, according to a news release issued Friday by the sheriff's office. Her daughter Imogen Whitley was with her.
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The Mississippi Mass Choir
Not By Might Nor By Power
For over sixteen years, Gospel fans have been touched by the awesome talent of the Mississippi Mass Choir. "Not By Might Nor By Power" marks the seventh live recording and videotaping of this world renowned choir and is reminiscent of their chart-topping 1988 debut. Produced by Milton Biggham, one of Gospel music's perennial "Ten Most Sought After Producers," this release is full of new awe-inspiring material. It includes three songs from Grammy Award winning Biggham, on which he makes a special guest appearance, as well as a special appearance by the incomparable Beverly Crawford. Read More
Track Listing:
- 1. One More Day
- 2. God Is Keeping Me
- 3. The Next Time Will Be The First Time
- 4. I'm Not Tired Yet
- 5. I'm Still Here
- 6. When We Get Up
- 7. But By My Spirit
- 8. If I Be Lifted Up
- 9. Victory Shall Be Mine
- 10. You Brought Me
- 11. A Place Called There
- 12. Thank You For My Mansion
- 13. It Was Worth It All
In addition, it features a unique interactive version of "Thank You For My Mansion" by the late Frank Williams.
Recorded on October 29, 2004, this release marks a historical date for the choir as it took place sixteen years to the day of their top selling inaugural recording. "Incredibly," says the choir's Executive Director Jerry Mannery, "we did not realize until the week before the session, that this was the anniversary; it was by divine, not design. We received it as a confirmation that God had something special in store." This must be the case as this album is loaded with songs, sound, soloists and spirit that only the Mississippi Mass can deliver!


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Top 10: Unknown Serial Killers
Number 8
Bender Family
The Bloody Benders
Be it ever so humble, the Kansas shack that the Benders called home in 1872 was still a busy, inviting place open to the public as an Inn for weary travelers. Wealthy-looking guests were always seated at the head of their modest dinner table, conveniently placed in front of a hanging canvas. John Bender's beautiful and charming daughter Kate was effective bait and often told the guests their fortunes as her father, sneaking behind the large curtain, prepared to slam a hammer into their heads. Later, The Bloody Benders would strip the body of all valuables and bury the remains in their orchard.
This family affair functioned with great efficiency for approximately one year before people caught on. However, it is said that the Bender clan got away and never actually faced justice. In fact, the family became almost mythical, and stories of various members popping up all over the US persisted for many years.
Seriously psychotic: As if a hammer in the skull weren't enough, John Bender slit his victim's throats for good measure.
Number 7
Hélène Jegado
The Pious Poisoner
Jegado, a domestic servant in 19th century France, must have been an impatient woman: If someone irked her, she didn't give them many opportunities to apologize.
From 1833 to 1841, at least 36 people — the vast majority of them employers or boarders who had the poor judgment to reprimand her — wound up dead from arsenic poisoning. Because of her devout and sincere nature, authorities routinely ruled The Pious Poisoner out as a suspect. In 1851, when she hastily declared her innocence without actually being accused, The Pious Poisoner was arrested and convicted of at least three murders. A year later Jegado's neck met the guillotine.
Seriously psychotic: Jegado's first victims included a priest and her own sister.
Number 6
Andrei Chikatilo
The Rostov Ripper
Poor little Andrei Chikatilo; his mother beat him every time he wet the bed, but it's hard to blame her when you consider that she had to share the bed with him.
The Rostov Ripper's killing spree began in 1978 with the murder of a 9-year-old girl and continued unabated through 52 more victims across 12 brutal years. The Soviet government did their part by covering up the crimes they considered embarrassing and preventing parents from taking protective measures for their children. When word finally did get out, locals feared a werewolf was on the loose.
Finally caught in 1990, Chikatilo spent the duration of his trial locked in a cage for his own safety. After receiving 52 death sentences he addressed the court, placing much of the blame for his crimes on the shoulders of the Soviet Regime.
On February 15, 1994, The Rostov Ripper's death penalty was fulfilled with a bullet behind his right ear.
Seriously psychotic: Chikatilo ejaculated while stabbing his first victim, making him realize just how aroused he was by the prospect of murder — hence the 12-year killing spree.
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The Florida Sex Beast
By definition, serial killers are loathsome folks, but Gerard John Schaefer was just downright despicable.
As a boy, Schaefer's hobbies included killing animals, wearing panties and peeping through windows. Despite his strange childhood activities, he eventually became a Florida cop. While on patrol, The Florida Sex Beast used his badge to abduct two teenage girls, but they escaped before he could rape and murder them. Claiming he was trying to teach the girls not to hitchhike he called his sergeant to say he'd done "something foolish." Schaefer was fired and arrested, but while out on bail he raped and killed two other teenage girls. Police put the two incidents together and Schaefer was given two life sentences.
A search of Schaefer's home — which he shared with his mom — found evidence linking him to the disappearance of at least eight other girls. Ultimately, authorities believed they could tie him to as much as 30 murders, but Schaefer maintained his innocence. In prison, he kept busy filing frivolous lawsuits; he even tried to sue a writer for suggesting he was fat.
As a former cop, a sex offender and a jailhouse snitch, it should come as no surprise that The Florida Sex Beast was stabbed to death in prison.
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He was signed by Gimnàstic on 31 January 2008 from Liberty, at age 18, a minimum age for international transfer. He has his first game played on 18 May 2008 against Sevilla Atlético and after 6 months left the club and moved to Xerez CD. He played his first game on 11 November 2008 against CD Tenerife. On 7 August 2009. U.C. Sampdoria signed the Ghanaian midfielder on loan from Liberty Professionals FC, the powerful half-back was part of Sampdoria's youth team. After a season, he joined Serie A outfit Udinese Calcio, as the club borrowed the registration quota from Sampdoria.
On 4 August 2010, he trained at Évian Thonon Gaillard for a possible loan, the loan was confirmed by the chairman of the club on 7 and 20 August by Udinese.
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Tomek Schenk, Fulda, Germany, is pictured above at Seven Mile Park with Fulda, Minnesota, Mayor Greg Ommen as they share comparisons about the two Fuldas. Schenk and Ommen exchanged gifts from the two cities for each citys mayor.
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Pictured above, L to R, are: Jenne McGovern, Gabby Schenk holding baby Diego, Tomek Schenk holding Izdora, Kris Acuńa, Santiago Acuńa, and Natasha Acuńa. McGovern is from Robbinsdale, MN, and the Schenks are from Fulda, Germany.
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Tomek Schenk and his wife, Gabby, residents of Fulda, Germany, were in Fulda, Minnesota, Sunday and Monday.
"Tomek was so excited to learn that there was a Fulda in Minnesota. Our main purpose for coming here was so we could visit our Fulda's sister city, " Gabby stated. "I am from Robbinsdale, MN, and was studying in Germany when I met him. He was very interested in learning about the history of Fulda, MN, and why the city is named after Fulda, Germany."
The Schenks, along with their almost two-year-old daughter, Izdora, and their almost two-month-old son, Diego, Gabby's mother, Jenne McGovern (Robbinsdale, MN), and Gabby's siblings Natasha, Kris, and Santiago Acuńa arrived in Fulda on Sunday evening. "One month ago, through the geocaching site, we had issued an invitation for others to come meet us at Seven Mile Park at 7 p.m. Your school teacher, Jeanette Sleeper, responded that she would come. We invited your mayor, Greg Ommen, and he came. We had a very good time visiting last night," Tomek Schenk said.
During their visit, the Schenks shared beer, chocolate, and meats from their area of Germany.
(Geocaching is a modern day treasure hunt hosted on the internet in which people from around the world participate in. "Using the clues that are given, you can geocache in many different countries and you see places that you wouldn't normally see," Gabby explained. The Schenk family, as well as his extended family, enjoy geocaching.)
"Before we left Germany, a friend of ours told the Fulda, Germany mayor that we were coming to visit. He sent a selection of brochures, a book, and a cd about our city along for your mayor. He said that the two Fulda's have had connections back and forth for many years, and was exited that we would be visiting here. He also extended an invitation for anyone from Fulda, Minnesota to come visit in Fulda, Germany," Tomek said.
On Sunday evening, Tomek presented Fulda, Minnesota mayor, Greg Ommen, with the gift from the Fulda, Germany mayor. He, in turn, presented Tomek with items such as Fulda Wood Duck Buttons, shirts, a travel mug and other Fulda memorabilia. "We had a very nice time visiting about our two cities. It was very interesting. I learned that Fulda, Germany is a lot larger than I thought it was," Mayor Ommen commented.
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Step 2: Get Rid of Fast Food
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Okay, so I did a pretty good job with Step 1. I had no nicotine for the whole week and I was caffeine-free for six of seven days. My goal this week is to get rid of the fast food. This means no McDonald's, no Wendy's, no B.K., none of that. I am allowing myself to eat at a sit-down restaurant twice this week, but I can't go anywhere with a drive-thru. That means that I cannot eat at the bagel shop where I work. It's not good for me. It's never been good for me. And I believe my body will thank me.
1/27/13 - No caffeine, nicotine, or fast food...and I did it! Yaaay! So today, instead of eating lunch where I work, I went to the Publix next door and grabbed some sushi for lunch. Then, for dinner I made another grocery store run (even though I already had food in the house). I love that some grocery stores are open late at night, so when I feel like I need to go, I can just get up and go. It's interesting, though. I don't always go because I'm hungry and have no food. Sometimes I go just to get out and do something that I'll enjoy. Hmmm. Maybe I need to find something else constructive to do at night.
1/28/13 - Yay! No caffeine, nicotine, or fast food today. But I did walk into a bakery and buy a muffin and a piece of banana bread. I ate at home all day...literally all day. I cut out fast food but I must have eaten a million calories. I ate so much I was sleepy afterward. I think this means that I need to find a way to make myself do meaningful things with my newfound free time.
1/29/13 - Hmmm, so far so good with the no fast food goal today. No nicotine. I can't truly say I didn't have any caffeine because I drank a chai tea latte. Today, I've used up my two "eating out" passes. I went to lunch at Panera and had dinner at Maggiano's. I have to eat at home (or from the grocery store) for the next four days. Oh boy, I don't know if I can make it. **Note: I did finish the day without eating fast food. I have to decide if I'm giving these things up for good or if I'm only giving them up for these five weeks. I'll work this plan for now and make that decision when my five weeks are done.
1/30/13 - Sucky day at work, but I stuck to my commitment. No caffeine. No nicotine. No fast food. I didn't eat out. Feels kinda good to keep my commitment to myself.
1/31/13 - No caffeine, no nicotine, and no fast food. However, I did break my rule about eating out and had Mexican food at a sit-down restaurant.
2/1/13 - No caffeine, no nicotine, and no fast food. But I ate out twice today. Emotionally, was a very happy day. I got to see old friends and my first graders. I never realized how much I missed their hugs!
2/2/13 - No caffeine, no nicotine, and no fast food. I ate both meals at home today.
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Lilshine, I TOTALLY understand. It's so easy to get addicted to the drive-thru. It's fast, it's convenient, and you start to really like it after awhile. Unfortunately, I've put on some major pounds in the last few years because of my drive-thru habit. At one time, I was going through a drive-thru for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I had to cut back. It was a drain on my finances and my blood pressure was out of control because of all of the sodium in the food. My blood pressure still isn't where it needs to be, but it's much better than when I was a hardcore drive-thru junkie. LOL. And I've seen my food dollars go much further since I've become acquainted with my local grocery stores again. The best thing for me to do is cook in batches and have something waiting when I get home.
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Now that's something I need to work on. I eat out a LOT since my nest is now empty. I have no desire to cook so I stop or drive thru. I'm trying to cut back but so far not so good.
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Thanks Jasi and Puddlejumper!
@ Jasi: You're right. I've stopped fast food before and felt it's effects on my stomach when I started to eat it again. It's amazing how often I've made my body "adjust" to all types of crappy food...crappy food in large amounts. I actually feel a lot better without the caffeine and I'm starting not to miss it. I'm grateful that smoking was a habit that I never picked up, because I think it would be almost as hard as losing weight is for me.
Once you quit, you'll be doing your lungs, heart, and brain a big favor. But take it a step at a time. You're making permanent changes and those are never easy.
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Getting rid of fast food was no big deal for me, now take my smokes and coffee and I am pretty sure I would have a melt down. I haven't eaten McDonalds in almost 3 years and just removing that one, removed the rest for me as well because I can't stand the grease anymore. I have switched to 90% organic diet, but allow myself to treat as well. Once you start eating whole foods on a regular basis, that fast food sure does a number on you and you wonder how in the world your body ever adjusted to eating it in the first place.
I want to quit smoking but have decided to tackle one demon at a time, so once I reach my goal weight, I will stop smoking.
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How to Track Sent Invitations on LinkedIn
The last thing you want to do is send repeat LinkedIn invitations to the same person because you didn't monitor your sent invitations. Also, you might want to review your sent invitations to see whether someone has responded; if not, you can send that person a follow-up e-mail either through LinkedIn or via your own e-mail account.
Currently, there is no running list, so you have to go through your Inbox to see which sent invitations have been accepted or not.
Here's how to track your sent invitations:
Click the Inbox link from the top navigation bar of any LinkedIn page.
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Click the Sent link to pull up your sent invitations and messages.
You see the Sent page. The status of each invitation depends on whether appears next to each name. If so, that invitation was accepted. If not, the invitation has merely been sent. Be sure to ignore any messages that aren't related to an invitation.
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You see a copy of your invitation. In this particular case, the Resend and Withdraw buttons appear because the recipient hasn't yet acted on the invitation.
Resend: Send a reminder to this person.
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Roger Brinkley: Welcome to the 19th edition of the Java Spotlight. I'm Roger Brinkley.
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine: And I'm Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine.
Roger: And in this edition of the podcast we'll do a feature interview with Patrick Curran who is the Director of the JCP. So in the news this week, Alexis, you've got some pretty big news, Glass Fish 3.1 is out and ready to go.
Alexis: It is. This is delivering on the Glass Fish road map we put out I think about a year ago, which was committing Oracle to develop clustering features and to drive Java EE an app server innovation through Glass Fish. And while sharing components with Oracle with Logic Server, things that are either common, H2 kernel, shared components for JPH, XRS, GSF, [inaudible 00:50] , but back to 3.1 which we've just released, so this is Glass Fish 3.1, it's a major version. We almost could have called it 4.0 I guess. The big theme indeed is clustering. That makes Glass Fish 3.1 the first full Java EE six server to support clustering capabilities for both the web profile and the full platform, and of course it's supported by Oracle. That's the main thing but there's a lot more to this release. Things like the centralized admin which is based on I think a quite elegant SSH provisioning, which... that centralized admin was made much more scalable.
We can have lots of clusters each of them having lots of instances, way more than we use to have. Improved embedded API, there's more fidelity to the use of Glass Fish in the standard mode with regards to how you could use it in embedded mode as well. Arrest full API was improved as well, the hybrid development of OSEI applications, packaging, things like such as JP entities as always JAG bundles, that was improved as well.
The maiden plug in, I mean there's some new features as well. Things like application versioning which is actually a community contribution, a small company here out of France called Surly. The applications called Resources, this is something where you can actually bundle a resource such as a connection filter database along with the application itself. And when you deploy the application it creates the resource, and only in that application can you use that resource.
When you un-deploy the app that resource is actually being destroyed. On the theme of aligning with Web Logic server, we actually support weblogic.xml so the Web Logic specific deployment descriptor, and there's word going on the Web Logic site to support Glass Fish deployment descriptors as well. So you really have portability of your application across the two run times.
So lots of developer and they shaped performance improvements, and one final thing is the Glass Fish server control, this is a set of add on features. This is for paying customers; this is part of the Oracle Glass Fish server offering. It adds things like a performance tuner. It adds integration with Oracle access manager and also something which I look as being one of the most interesting features which is called "Active Cash For Glass Fish."
That is really integration with Coherence Web, this will require by the way Coherence 3.7 which is soon to be released in the first half of this calendar year, but this essentially off loads all the session replication you could do to this Coherence Web, which is a distributed data grid for people that are not familiar with it. But I think this is a very nice feature which shows the commitment to Glass Fish by Oracle in general. So I'm really excited.
Lots of great features, I've probably only mentioned the major ones, so I encourage to go to glassfish.org or to oracle.com/javaee and get a copy of Glass Fish 3.1 and try it out.
Roger: OK. So let's turn our attention now to a whole different area and the Sun Spots have actually done an upgrade of their release and it's a whole new piece of hardware that's been released this last week. They've increased the RAM up to one megabyte and their flash memory increased up to eight megabytes and increased their processor speed, added some new serial lines, a variety of new things and the sensor board is changed around a little bit. It's available now on the Oracle ordering page so take a look at our show notes. You can go and see there at the Oracle store and the pricing of this has actually dropped a little bit. They've come in with a significant price; I think they're $399.00. So also in the news this week, Mark Rheinhold announced that Java SE7 developer pre-release is ready and moving. It's a preview of what will occur in the final release which is targeted for July.
Alexis: Right. And this is a follow up to the feature complete announcement from a month back. There are a lot of bugs that were fixed, about 500 of them. It's really, now a good time to test this JDK7 Developer preview because the closer we get to the release the harder it's going to get to fix a bug that you would find, and now is a really good time I guess.
Roger: So, let's finish up in the news segment. There is a whole set of Web Logic, accelatory development of Oracle Web Logic Suite, and these are weekly webcasts that are going on from February 17th through the 17th of March. The prior ones that occurred in this time period you can go back and listen to, we have that on the show notes and then you can also sign up for the future webcasts as well. So let's turn now to the events section and there are actually 14 events that are coming up in the month of March. I would say the best thing to do is go take a look at the show notes and we have a complete listing of everything there. A couple of key things to take a look with, this week Terrance is in at Embedded World which is I think it's the first through the third in Nuremberg, Germany. We have an OT and Developer Days in Boston which is still available. We know we have lots of slots that are there.
Then in Thailand there's a Java workshop in Bangkok and there's going to be a lot of other Java workshops coming up. I know on the eighth, there's one in the Philippines and in Indonesia there's one on the 10th. And then down in Bangalore Pune and Shenai from the 22nd through the 24th. So that's some highlight things to take a look at, there's also a variety of other conferences where we're speaking. So let's turn now to our fea5ture interview and a few weeks ago had the opportunity to speak with Patrick Curran who is the JCP Director, so let's go directly into that interview.
...here with Patrick Curran who are the JCP Chairman and the Director of the Program Manager Office. I guess the main thing about the JCP the first positive thing that happened during the transition during the change of command between Sun and Oracle is the fact you're still here and the JCP organization is still here.
Patrick Curran: Yes. And I am pleased and relieved about that. I have to be honest, it's been a rough couple of years. I don't want to put all this on Oracle. Oracle at least was able to bring the situation to a head and to get us past the dead lock that has been really holding us up for a couple of years now. But I must admit for the first few months it wasn't clear that we were going to succeed and were actually going to be able to move forward. But we did and I'm still here and the organization is still here and I think the good news is that Oracle has demonstrated that they have a strong commitment not to just to job and the job of community, but to the JCP. I think they wouldn't have tried so hard to solve the problems if they did not believe that the JCP was worth promoting and encouraging.
Roger: We've seen a lot of changes at least as far as members on the executive committee for various reasons, various groups have decided to come and go. But there's still a very much strong commitment to the development of the Java specifications from an Oracle perspective as well as from a community perspective.
Patrick: Yeah. I think that's true. Clearly Oracle wanted to move things forward, that was the argument that they made when we were discussing whether or not people could support us. What they said was, "We can't let things stagnate any further. It's important to move the platform forward." And in the end the majority of both executive committees said, "Yes. We may not be entirely happy about the stance that Oracle is taking, we might prefer that they do things differently. However, the most important thing is to move the platforms forward and we're very glad that you're doing that." And certainly that message has come clearly from the EC members. They recognized that Oracle is making a significant commitment here and they're very glad about that.
Roger: So Oracle has put forward some people in the past to be part of the SE EE Executive committee.
Patrick: I think it's very significant as you were referring to the situation we had in the election back in October, which was the annual elections. And Oracle proposed at that time, nominated two ratified seats. Because they have the right to nominate the majority of the members, 10 out of 15 in fact on each executive committee, but each year that amounts to either two or three. And they nominated Apache which was interesting in itself because some people may think that there was such a dispute between Oracle and Apache that Oracle would not do so, but they did. And the second candidate Hologic who was basically an Oracle customer and for the first time ever a ratified candidate promoted by either Sun or Oracle was actually voted down. The community said, "Who is Hologic? We've never heard of them. They seem to be a Oracle customer but they don't seem to be big in the Java space."
So that was an interesting lesson for Oracle that even though in theory they get to nominate who sits on the executive committee they have to pay attention to what the developer community feels. And that lesson has been very much taken to heart which is why we're several months on, and we still haven't settled the date for the special election to fill all those seats because they're working very hard to find an alternative corporate candidate and they clearly want a corporate for one of the two nominations. But it must be someone who has a strong reputation within the Java community and the person who will represent that company they want to be someone who is visible and well known.
But perhaps in an attempt to redress the balance somewhat we persuaded them to nominate a Java user group, So Java, for the second of the two seats on the executive committee. This in practice is a replacement for Apache, so we're very sorry to see Apache go but it's good that they are hopefully going to be replaced by another community organization. So Java is probably the biggest Java user group in the world. It was certainly the first Java user group to join the JCP as an organization back in 2005 I think.
And they will be represented by Bruno Souza who most people know as the Brazilian Java man or the guy with the flag. Very strong passionate supporter of open source and Java. He was probably one of the first individuals ever to join the JCP. He claims that he was the only individual ever to pay dues back in the days we used to charge a $100.00 a year for individuals.
And he says he actually paid and as far as we know nobody else ever did so that's a sign of his commitment. So I've been colleagues for a long time and very glad of the opportunity to bring him into the organization. He'll be, I think very pragmatic. He's not always going to support what Oracle wants.
He's not afraid to speak up, speak his mind. But at the same time he's more interested in working within the organization than standing outside and complaining. He's promised me that he will help us as we work over the next year or so to introduce changes into the way the organization functions, which I can say a little more about later.
Roger: Most people may not understand the JSR process. You have a proposal that you put forward, it moves on to initial approval that you can start working on things and then you go through and develop reviews, you do some public reviews and then you come through with the final ballot vote where the EC that you're working underneath does the review. This process is normally applied and mostly applied to the specifications about how we're going to run Java, the API's and what we're doing, but you actually use this process for the JCP itself as well.
Patrick: Yeah. That's right, since about '92 I think. The defined way for modifying the way the organization functions is the JSL process itself. It's like the American Constitution; you have to have a well defined mechanism for modifying the constitution itself. Well, this is our mechanism we decided since we have this JSR process and that's well defined, let's use that to modify the process itself. So in order to change the way the JCP operates or to change the JSPA which is the legal contact between members of the organization and Oracle. We actually file a JSR, we take that JSR through the process of reviewing and voting and so on. The expert group for that JSR is the members of the executive committee are themselves. So I am the spec lead and the executive committee forms the expert group.
So we have started work already, we're planning to file... I'm planning to file two JSRs in the next few weeks to start working on changes to the process and to the JSPA, the legal background to the process. The first of these will be, it's analogous to what SE guys have done with SE seven and eight. They basically said, "We'll time constrain SE7, we'll say we want to get that finished in this amount of time and we'll do whatever we can fit into that amount of time. Anything that doesn't fit there we'll put off until eight and take more deliberative process over it."
Well it's the same here. So the stuff that we think we can do relatively easily, the stuff that's non-contentious, the stuff on which everybody agrees we will put into the first JSR. And we aim to finish the net around about the middle of 2011. And the other stuff we will put into the second JSR which we'll probably finish early spring say, of 2012.
So I'm going to file these JSRs in the next few weeks. And we are in the process of working on the content, so I can't say too much at the moment about what changes exactly we'll be introducing.
But it's long overdue. It's been several years since we've had major revisions to the process. Times have changed and there's plenty for us to do. That's going to keep us busy for the next year or so.
Roger: There will be a time for public comment, so other people outside of the ECs will be able to comment on the changes that you're making here as well.
Patrick: Yeah, absolutely. I mean we've, one of the major changes we've made over the past few years is an increasing insistence, maybe is the word I should use, on doing things out in the open in a transparent manner. At the moment we simply, "strongly recommend" that expert groups behave in this way. But I expect that the next revision in the process document will mandate it.
Obviously, you meet as a group and you have telephone conferences. You don't necessarily invite the world into them. But you published the minutes of your meetings for everyone to read. You provide a way for everybody to comment on the drafts of the documents you produce. And that you do this continuously through the process, not just at the defined review stages that the process defines.
So, since we are probably going to be mandating that everybody behaves in an open manner, it would be hypocritical of us to make those decisions behind closed doors. So these expert groups themselves will be operating out in the open.
We haven't figured out all the logistics yet. But, yeah, we'll operate out in the open. We'll seek import and feedback from the broader community.
Roger: Now one of the things that happened a few years ago, it was that you opened up the JCP process to jugs.
Patrick: Yes. We have jugs as members but so far they haven't, as jugs, taken any more active role in the process. So during this conference this morning, I took the opportunity to encourage them, first of all to remind them, that because once a jug is a member, then anyone who is a member of that jug has membership privileges within the organization. They can participate just as any other member. They don't get a separate vote. That would be crazy. Otherwise SouJava would have 40,000 votes and they would run the whole show. They get one vote, same as IBM gets one vote in elections.
But their members, just as IBM's employees do, have the right to participate in expert groups, to file JSRs and be a spec lead if they wish. And as I pointed out this morning, a more light weight way to participate, particularly since many projects, many JSRs now are run as open source projects including, of course, Java SE and Java EE platforms.
That's an easy way for you to participate without having to necessarily spend, you know, 50 percent of your time. You can get the source code, you can comment on it, you can play with it, you can test it, you can make suggestions for changes and so on.
The initial impetus for jugs joining was that many individuals felt that the process of signing the legal contract which they needed to sign as individuals was more heavyweight than they wanted to go through. And what we realized was, well if a jug signs, they do that once and then all these members kind of can draft behind and become sort of subsidiary members in their own right.
The same applies to jugs as members of what we call umbrella jugs. So the jug USA was formed specifically so that anyone affiliated with it, could get the membership privileges, since jug USA is a member of the JCP. Similarly in Japan and Africa and I think those are the three umbrellas we have at the moment.
So total number of affiliated members, if SouJava alone has 40,000 and I don't know how many members, how many jugs are members of Jug USA, but we must be pushing 100,000 jug individual members. Who have directly or indirectly become members of the JCP. Now all we've got to do is harness that energy.
Roger: Now, of course, this doesn't stop somebody from becoming an individual member as well.
Patrick: No. Indeed they can and I'm sure some do. Some people want to join in their own right and I encourage them to do so. This was simply a short hand way, an easy way, for someone to join if they didn't want to go through the formal process themselves.
Roger: You talked a little bit about trying to do things in a transparent environment. What about JCP and open source?
Patrick: This is probably been the major change over the past few years. And it's clear that open source development processes and open source licensing has become increasingly popular as a way to do software development. It's not the only way. It's not the only model that works. But for many people, it's what they want. And what I've noticed is that over the years an increasing number of JSRs are being run as open source projects. And the results are being licensed under open source licenses. Probably about 50 percent of all currently active JSRs are being run in an open source manner. And the percentage is increasing yearly.
We did decide back at Sun, two or three years ago, that we needed to set an example here. That it was all very well to kind of legislate something or to mandate it. Or to state in the process document, we encourage people to use open source processes. But we decided that, you know, that was worth doing. But it would be even better if we just set an example.
That's what Sun and now Oracle has been doing, certainly with Project Glassfish and Java EE. I think it's true to say that just about all EE development is now done through open source processes. And with open JDK, we're now seeing that a significant portion of the SE development is also being done in this way.
Roger: What keeps you awake at night with the JCP process?
Patrick: Well, I'll be honest. You know, we've had a rough couple of years. We have some trust issues. We've got to rebuild trust. We've got to reach out again to the development community. We've got to start building some bridges. And we have to get things moving again. We've been almost stagnant for a couple of years and that's not good because the world doesn't stand still. So for me it has been how we can get started again. And I think now we are beginning to do that. How we can reform the organization, the extent to which we can do so. And we've got to be honest, Oracle has made it very clear that they own Java. They bought the Java assets. They are very interested in advancing it. They are willing to invest significantly in it but they expect a return on their investment.
And that doesn't always sit well with everybody out there. Although I think there is an increasing recognition that, OK. That's fair. Tell us what the rules are. Tell us how this process works. Tell us where you want us to get involved and we will do so.
So, trying to work this stuff out, trying to build the bridges, trying to reach out to developers and just getting things moving again, that's what I'm worrying about.
Roger: And you've got your passport? Are you ready?
Patrick: I told the guys today, just give me an invitation and I'll come and visit you. I want to spend a fair amount of time over the next year kind of traveling around the US and around the world, visiting user groups and developer conferences and events. And just trying to reinvigorate the organization, trying to let them know, we're back and we need you.
Roger: Patrick, thanks so much for your time.
Patrick: You're welcome. Thank you.
Roger: So the thing I liked about this particular interview was a couple of things to go back and just kind of highlight. I thought that what were important here were the changes. And that were moving forward with the JCP process, a little more the open source and more importantly the transparency as we're developing our JSRs, so. And then I think the key part there in the end was also his comments on the trust issues. That has been a big concern for a while and this is a big step forward with Patrick. He's available to go off and come and speak at jug meetings and at conferences.
So those of you who are listening that are heading up jugs or heading up conferences, Patrick would love to come and speak. He's, as he says, he's got his passport available and ready to go.
So let's turn now to the mailbag segment. Had an email this last week from Gabe R. Grossman who says, I think Java FX in Hungary doesn't have any good 250 to 300 page long free books in the markets. It's harder to begin with Java FX, SE or EE for total beginners. Microsoft has them for their own products and they're free.
So we kind of passed this around to a few of the people. I kind of liked what Simon Ritter had to say. Simon's comment was that, you know, we have a lot of demos that are available in a variety of the products that we have, that are in the free nature.
But there are a variety of books that are out, I know, on Java FX. And Alexis, you know of a lot of books that are available in the EE marketplace, as well.
Alexis: Right, although they're not free books. But there are a lot of very good books. And I think that books have value and as such it's hard to build such value and not have people pay for it. So we provide tutorials and if you're talking about two to three hundred pages long books, the Java EE tutorial is actually more than that. And it's very good, I think.
It's available as a book and you can buy it but you can also download it for free. I think that also comes down to how the communities are structured differently in the Java and in the Microsoft camp.
In the Java world everything is not centralized and it's not one company issuing products and the books that go along with it, whether they're free or not. So yeah, it takes maybe a bit more research to find the good books. But certainly for Java EE, there are a lot of them.
I know there are a number of them being written as we speak for Java SE, with Java SE7 coming out and eight, so. I think we're doing good on quality books. Whether they're free or not is probably a different topic.
Roger: Now of course there is another aspect of this, as well. And there's other ways of getting training material. I mean you have a whole series of webinars that have been based on EE.
Alexis: Right. So that's back to my point about the information being provided by different companies or even different parts of the same company, and Oracle in this case. So yeah, we have a lot of material. It might be a matter of finding it. A lot of it is free, of course. We believe adoption is key. And the documentation as well, let's not forgets about documentation. If we're talking about a product specifically, then you know, we have documentation and that is available for free.
Roger: And going back to the FX sites in specific, when we take a look at, I've been playing with the early access release. And I know that the documents inside that and some of the new applications and demos that they have there are quite good. And giving you little snippets of how things were done and directions there. So that's a great tool as well. Then a couple of weeks ago, I was in the NL jug in the Netherlands and doing the FX 2.0 early access presentation. And there were a few questions that came up that I couldn't answer.
So, first is, is there support for JMF Media in Java FX 2.0? And thanks to Brian Burkhalter, do you mean that were using JMF or do we support some format of JMF?
The answer to that question is no. We have a total new media stack in Java FX. It was written starting in November of 2009. And there were no formats to find in JMF, so no as well.
Second question was what a graphic acceleration is based upon. And it's D3D on Windows, Open GL on Mac and Linux.
What's the difference between AWT and the Java FX threads? And there is no AWT used including threads for Java FX 2.0 applications. The Java FX thread is essentially the same as AWT event dispatch thread, except that it's not, we don't do any rendering on that.
And related to that, so what happens if we have a swing of Java FX in an application? Do we have two threads working then? And the answer is yes. The Java FX thread and the rendering threads and so forth carry on as before. But the synchronization with AWT event dispatch thread is handled necessarily, is handled behind the scenes as is necessary.
So let's turn to our What's Cool section. And Alexis, do you have anything that's cool this week?
Alexis: Well I really can't get my head off our 3.1 release. So it really has to do with the fact that a very large number of the engineers on the Glassfish group actually spent time in cycles participating in what we call a blog fest. So there are just way too many blogs to count. And people are just blogging about what they contributed to the platform, or, you know, just features they really like about the product. And they're usually really short and sweet type of blog entries.
You know, it's going to take a well for me to read them all even. And I'm learning things every day. I still read them.
And a number of them have even gone through the process of creating screen casts. So we have more than a dozen screen casts coming out. And they're also highlighting several parts of new features in the product.
So really, kudos to the engineering group who's really involved, not just in building the product but, you know, getting the word out. It's great to see that.
Roger: So my What's Cool for the week, is DF jug which is down in Brasilia, Brazil, is celebrating 13 years of activity. So congratulations to that group. I've actually spoken down there once before. And great organization, great set of people and a great set of activities that they have going. So congratulations to that group as well. Thanks for listening to the 19th edition of the Java Spotlight Podcast. I'm Roger Brinkley.
Alexis: And I'm Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine.
Roger: And send your feedback, to firstname.lastname@example.com.