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Before you start
You should visit the Pattern Solutions page on developerWorks (see Resources) and learn about the role of Pattern Solutions and to download some of the IBM Pattern assets (e.g. Enterprise Patterns Asset) in order to get familar with the overall end user experience.
About this article
In this article, you will learn how to:
- Create a plug-in project for your pattern or transform
- Create the skeleton of a pattern using the New Pattern wizard
- Implement the pattern
- Create or extend an existing transform
- Create JET Template
- Integrate JET Templates with Transform
- Unit test your pattern and Transform
- Package the asset
- Other useful tips and techniques
The frameworks that are described in this article are used extensively in the Enterprise Patterns, WebSphere Platform Messaging Patterns, and the State Oriented Portlet Patterns assets. We will refer to the source code included in those assets as examples. A simple Getter Setter example will also be used throughout the article to illustrate the basic concepts.
To run the examples in this article, you need to install Rational Software Architect 126.96.36.199 or later versions.
Create a plug-in project for your pattern or transform
Create a new plug-in for your RSA pattern or transform. Multiple patterns and transforms can be packaged together into a Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) asset and be grouped together under the same Pattern Group Name in the Pattern Explorer.
Eclipse plug-ins
To create a new plugin, go to the Plug-in Development perspective, and use the New Plug-in Project wizard as shown in Figure 1. There are many articles on eclipse.org (see Resources) that explain how to use the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) to build your own plug-ins.
Figure 1. New Plug-in Project wizard
Creating a plug-in for RSA pattern authoring
If you want to create a RSA pattern, then select the project template Plug-in with Patterns to create a plug-in project pre-configured for RSA pattern development as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Plug-in with Patterns template
Creating a plugin for RSA tranform authoring
If you want to create a RSA transform, then select the project template Plug-in with Transformation to create a plugin project pre-configured for RSA transform development as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Plug-in with Transformation template
RSA Pattern Plug-in project
If you select to create a Plug-in with Patterns project, after you completed the wizard, an Eclipse plug-in project that extends the patterns frameworks will be automatically generated for you--see Figure 4. You can now use the New Pattern wizard to help you author a RSA Pattern.
Figure 4. My First Pattern Plugin
Create the skeleton of a pattern
RSA Patterns are added to the Pattern Explorer and allow you to interactively apply them to UML models. RSA provides a number of wizards that will assist you in your pattern construction. In the early design phases of your patterns, you will typically use the Pattern Authoring View to quickly prototype your pattern specifications including their names, overview diagrams and pattern parameters--see Figure 5.
Figure 5. Pattern Authoring View
Create a new pattern
To create a new pattern, invoke the New Pattern wizard as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. New Pattern wizard
Pattern Parameters
Designing the Pattern Parameters is one of the most important steps in RSA pattern authoring. There are a number of factors to consider:
- What is the pattern parameter type? There are a large set of UML2 types that you can choose from.
- What are the constraints on the parameters?
- What are the dependencies between parameters?
- How can you design for composition?
We use the Pattern Parameter wizard to add parameters to the pattern. Typically we will need to iterate a few times before we can nail down the semantics of the parameters.
In this example, we define a pattern parameter with the name UMLAttributes--see Figure 7. The type of this parameter is of UML type Property with a 0..* multiplicity. This means you can bind multiple parameters of type Property to this pattern parameter.
Figure 7. Pattern Parameters
For each Pattern Parameter, there is an inner class that gets generated into your Pattern class. There are two methods that you implement. We will explain how to implement these methods in Implementing Pattern Expansion code.
Pattern Parameter dependencies
You can specify dependencies between pattern parameters. In the above UMLAttributes parameter, if you turn to the Parameter Dependency page, you will be allowed to choose from the existing pattern parameters for this pattern, which parameter this parameter will depend on. In Figure 8, we selected the TargetClass parameter and used the ">" button to add it to the Supplier Parameters list. This means this UMLAttributes parameter is dependent on the TargetClass parameter.
Figure 8. Pattern Parameter Dependencies
When dependencies exist between pattern parameters, an additional inner class will be generated to allow you to add your own implementation to manage the dependencies between the parameters.
Pattern Overview Diagram
When designing a pattern, it is very useful to draw some conceptual UML digrams to show how the pattern artifact (e.g. class) is used in confunction with other artifacts. We typically use the UML Model Editor to draw these diagrams. After a few iterations, these diagrams typically become the overview diagram of the pattern.
To add the pattern overview diagram to the patten plugin, simply follow these steps:
- Create a .gif file and import into the PatternFiles folder in your pattern plugin. Figure 9 shows the mypattern.gif file in the Package Explorer.
- Go to the Properties view--Figure 10. Select the Overview Diagram Property and enter the .gif file as the value. The .gif file must be first added to the pattern project.
Figure 9. mypattern.gif file in the Package Explorer
Figure 10. Pattern Properties View
Pattern documentation
You can add pattern documentation and a short description to your pattern and pattern parameters.
To add pattern documentation, select the Generate Help Files as shown in the Pattern Authoring View in Figure 5. This will generate a number .html files in your pattern project that you can customize.
To add a short description to your pattern or pattern parameter, in the Pattern Properties View such as Figure 10, select the Short Description property and enter a short description for your pattern. The short description will appear in the Pattern Explorer Short Description view that is associated with the pattern.
Implement the pattern
After you use the base New Pattern wizard to create the base pattern project skeleton, it is time to implement some of the pattern logic. A pattern class extends the com.ibm.xtools.patterns.framework.uml2.AbstractPatternDefinition class. Each pattern parameter will result in an inner class being generated into the main pattern class. A dependency between two parameters will result in another generated inner class. What you need to do is to implement the behaviour when values are added or removed from a pattern parameter. You will implement this logic in specific methods that will be called by the pattern framework when the user gesture happens.
Pattern Parameter Inner Class
In our simple Getter Setter Pattern example, a GetterSetterPattern Java class is generated. In this class, you can find two inner classes, one for each pattern parameter: UMLAttributes and TargetClass. The following code shows the UMLAttributes inner class. It extends AbstratctPatternParameter.
private class UMLAttributes extends AbstractPatternParameter { ... public boolean expand (PatternParameterValue value) { //TODO : implement the parameter's expand method when a parameter value is added return true; } public boolean expand (PatternParameterValue.Removed value) { //TODO : implement the parameter's expand method when a parameter value is removed return true; } }
In the inner class, there are two expand() methods that you can choose to implement:
- The
expand(PatternParameterValue value)method is called when a new value is dropped to the pattern parameter.
- The
expand(PatternParameterValue.Removed value)method is called when a value is removed from the pattern parameter.
Pattern Parameters Dependency inner class
In our Getter Setter Example, the UMLAttributes parameter has a dependency on the TargetClass parameter. Therefore, an additional inner class is generated, as shown here. This inner class is nested inside the UMLAttributes class.
private class UMLAttributes_TargetClassDependency extends AbstractPatternDependency { ... public boolean update (PatternParameterValue value, PatternParameterValue dependencyValue) { //TODO: implement the dependency's update method return true; } public boolean update (PatternParameterValue.Maintained value, PatternParameterValue.Removed dependencyValue) { //TODO: implement the dependency's update method return true; } public boolean update (PatternParameterValue.Removed value, PatternParameterValue.Maintained dependencyValue) { //TODO: implement the dependency's update method return true; } }
In this inner class, there are three update() methods that you can implement to manage the dependencies between the pattern parameters:
- The
update(PatternParameterValue value, PatternParameterValue dependencyValue)method is called when the value (e.g UMLAttribute value) is added and the dependency (e.g.TargetClass) is already added to the pattern.
- The
update(PatternParameterValue.Maintained value, PatternParameterValue.Removed dependencyValue)method is called when the dependency value (e.g. TargetClass) is removed from the pattern parameter
- The
update(PatternParameterValue.Removed value, PatternParameterValue.Maintained dependencyValue)method is called when the value (e.g. UMLAttribute value) is changed in the pattern parameter.
Pattern implementation tips
Now that you know where you can add your own logic, let's look at some common code snippets that you will write.
Getting the parameter value
In the
expand() or the
update() method, you might want to retrieve the value of the parameter. You can first do a safe cast to the UML parameter type and then retrieve its value. Here are some examples:
// Cast the pattern parameter to an UML Property org.eclipse.uml2.Property inAttr = (org.eclipse.uml2.Property) value.getValue(); inAttr.getName(); // Cast the pattern parameter to an UML Class org.eclipse.uml2.Class inClass = (org.eclipse.uml2.Class) value.getValue(); inClass.getName();
Updating an input UML parameter
You can programmatically update the UML element that is passed into a pattern parameter. The following snippet shows how to programmatically add an operation to an UML class, and then programmatically add a parameter to the operation.
Operation operation = inClass.createOwnedOperation(UML2Package.eINSTANCE.getOperation()); operation.setName("myMethodName"); Parameter parm = operation.createOwnedParameter(UML2Package.eINSTANCE.getParameter()); parm.setName("myParm"); parm.setType("string");
Updating an input UML parameter
You can programmatically update an UML class, interfaces or anything that extends org.eclipse.uml2.Classifier to add a keyword. The following snippet shows how to add the keyword GetterSetter to an UML class.
org.eclipse.uml2.Class targetClass = (org.eclipse.uml2.Class) dependencyValue.getValue(); targetClass.addKeyword("GetterSetter");
The result , Figure 11, is the <<GetterSetter>> being added to an example input class.
Figure 11. <<GetterSetter>> added to input class
Adding a sterotype programmatically
From a visual perspective, a UML sterotype looks very much like a keyword in the UML Model Editor. For example, if you use the EJB profile and choose the Entity sterotype, you will get <<Entity>> added to your UML class. The following shows how to add a sterotype to the class.
So how do you get the sterotypes? First you need to find the UML Profile. You can iterate through the list of UML profiles and locate yours by name.
Iterator descriptors = UML2ResourceManager.getProfileDescriptors().iterator(); while(descriptors.hasNext()) { UML2ProfileDescriptor descriptor = (UML2ProfileDescriptor)descriptors.next(); if( profileName.equals(descriptor.getProfile().getName())) { profile = descriptor.getProfile(); } }
After locating your profile, you can get the sterotype from the profile using
profile.getOwnedStereotypes() or if you want a stereotype with a specific name
Updating the relationship between the pattern instance and the UML element
Once you bound an UML element to a pattern instance, you can turn on the filters to show all relationships, such as dependencies. You will see an Abstraction relationship between the pattern instance and the UML element as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12. Abstraction relationship
In the com.ibm.xtools.patterns.content plug-in, there is a class called BasePatternLibrary. You can extend it instead of AbstractPatternLibarary to get this behaviour. This is also shown in the following code snippet:
Classifier a_from = (Classifier)value.getValue(); Object a_to = value.getOwningInstance().getBoundElement(); Package owner = (Package) EObjectContainmentUtil.findContainerOfAnySubtype (a_from, UML2Package.eINSTANCE.getPackage()); Abstraction patternAbstraction = (Abstraction) owner.createOwnedMember(UML2Package.eINSTANCE.getAbstraction()); patternAbstraction.getClients().add(a_from); patternAbstraction.getSuppliers().add(a_to);
RSA Patterns Summary
RSA patterns are typically used to collect parameters and to mark up UML models. If you do a save after applying multiple RSA patterns to an UML model, you will notice that there is only one model file (.emx extension) in your project. Typically, what we will do next is to transform this model into different output artifacts such as code, scripts or doc. The transformation and code generation is the job of a RSA Transform married together with JET Templates. These topics are covered in seperate sections below.
Create or extend an existing transform
RSA transform converts all the markups on a model and generates resulting artifacts. RSA ships three transforms out of the box:
- UML to Java
- UML to EJB
- UML to C++
These transforms provide the basic functions to generate the corresponding Eclipse projects and related artifacts from an UML model. For example, the UML to EJB transform will create an EJB project, whereas the UML to Java transform will create a Java project. You can extend these transforms to add extra behaviour, or you can write your own transform by extending the RSA transformation framework. We will show an example of how to extend the UML to Java transform, and an example of how to create your own RSA transform.
Extending an existing RSA transform
Extending an RSA tranform is very much like extending any other Eclipse plug-ins.
- In your plugin.xml file, add an extension point to extend one of the RSA transforms.
- Define a rule to specify the name of the class that will provide the implementation.
- Optionally, define when this rule should be run.
As an example, the Session Facade pattern extends the UML to EJB transform to output additional code when converting an UML model to EJB artfiacts. In the com.ibm.xtools.patterns.content.j2ee.sessionfacade plugin.xml, the following extension point is added to extend the UML to EJB transform:
<extension point="com.ibm.xtools.transform.core.transformationExtensions"> <TransformationExtension targetTransformation="uml2.ejb.transformation" name="Transformation Extension" id="sessionFacade.transformationExtension" version="1.0.0"> <RuleDefinition class="com.ibm.xtools.patterns.content.j2ee.sessionfacade.transform.rules.SBFGenerationRule" name="Session Facade Pattern Transformation" id="sessionfacade.transformationExtension.SBFGenerationRule" /> <ExtendTransform targetTransform="com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.ejb.rules.SessionTransform"> <AddRule id="sessionfacade.transformationExtension.SBFGenerationRule"/> </ExtendTransform> </TransformationExtension> </extension>
Creating your own RSA transform
Sometimes you need to create your own RSA transform to target other project types (e.g. Portlet Project) or to generate other artifacts (e.g. scripts, documentation etc). For example, in the WebSphere Platform Messaging Patterns, an UML to JACL transform is used to generate WebSphere admin scripts (the output is stored in .jacl file) from the UML topology models.
In the com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.jacl plugin.xml, the following extension point is added to extend the core RSA transformation providers framework.
<extension point="com.ibm.xtools.transform.core.transformationProviders"> <TransformationProvider class= "com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.jacl.transformationProvider.UML2JACLTransformationProvider"> <Priority name="Highest"/> <Transformation version="1.0.0" name="UML to JACL" groupPath="com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.jacl" author="IBM Corporation" sourceModelType="UML2" description="Transforms UML to JACL" targetModelType="Resource" id="com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.jacl.transformation"> <Property readonly="true" name="system.transformation.property" value= "ClassName=com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.jacl.transformationProvider.UML2JACLTransform; IsUMLKind=true;" id="system.transformation.property"> </Property> </Transformation> </TransformationProvider> </extension>
The Getter Setter example
The Getter Setter Example extends the UML to Java transform to show how it can output a text file in addition to the Java class implementation that is automatically generated by the base UML to Java transform. Below we outline the steps you can follow to add the extension points to your plugin.xml to extend the UML to Java transform.
Open the plugin.xml using the Plugin Editor, go to the Extensions view and click on the Add button to add the transformation extension as shown in Figure 13.
Figure 13. Add transformation extension to plugin
Once you completed the wizard, an extension point will be added to your plugin.xml as shown here:
<extension point="com.ibm.xtools.transform.core.transformationExtensions"> <TransformationExtension targetTransformation= "com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.java.internal.UML2JavaTransform" enabled="true" id="MyFirstPatternPlugin.TransformationExtension1" version="1.0.0"> <ExtendTransform targetTransform="com.ibm.xtools.transform.uml2.java.internal.UML2JavaTransform "> <AddTransform id="my.first.transform"/> </ExtendTransform> <TransformDefinition class= "com.ibm.samples.patterns.transform.MyFirstTransform" name="My First Transform" id="my.first.transform"/> </TransformationExtension> </extension>
The class com.ibm.samples.patterns.transform.MyFirstTransform extends the RSA Transformation Framework. In this class, you can add in one or multiple rules that will invoke JET Templates to generate the artifacts.
Create JET Templates
The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) project contains two very powerful tools for generating source code: JET (Java Emitter Templates) and JMerge (Java Merge). With JET you can use a JSP-like syntax (actually a subset of the JSP syntax) that makes it easy to write templates that express the code you want to generate. JET is a generic template engine that can be used to generate SQL, XML, Java source code and other output from templates. It is located in the org.eclipse.emf.codegen plug-in as part of the EMF runtime download.
JET is leveraged by many Eclipse components to generate code. The following articles provide a quick introduction to JET:
JET and JMerge are both used by the RSA Transforms to generate output artifacts from the UML model and to support the synchronization of model changes with user-edits (aka Reapply Pattern or round tripping).
Creating a Jet Template
Create a templates directory in your RSA Pattern plugin to store all the JET Templates for that RSA pattern. In the directory, it should have a standard file called JET.skeleton. Each JET template should have a .javajet extension. A simple example to look at is the com.ibm.xtools.patterns.content.esb.messagedelegate plug-in.
Each JET Template has a start <%@ jet> directive that looks like this:
<%@ jet package="com.ibm.xtools.patterns.content.esb.messagedelegate.transform.jetsrc" imports="java.util.Map" class="MessageDelegateTemplate" skeleton="JET.skeleton" %>
package attribute specifies the Java package that the JET compiler will put the Java
implementation of this template. The
class attribute specifies the Java class that the JET compiler will put the Java code into.
Data model
The next section in the JET template is about extracting model values that are passed during a RSA transformation.
Typically, this is done by passing in a Java collection, such as a
One can then extract parameter values from the Map by using a key.
The snippet below shows how we are extracting three values from the input Map.
<% final Map parameterMap = (Map) argument; if (parameterMap == null) { return stringBuffer.toString(); } // extract incoming map parameters final org.eclipse.uml2.Class messageDelegateClass = (org.eclipse.uml2.Class)parameterMap.get(MESSAGEDELEGATECLASS); final String messageDelegateClassName = messageDelegateClass.getName(); final String connectionFactoryJNDIName = (String)parameterMap.get(CONNECTIONFACTORYJNDINAME); %>
Parameter substitution
To substitute a value in a JET template is similar to a JSP, where you will use the <%= %> directives. The following snippet shows an example:
public class <%=messageDelegateClassName%> { }
If the value of the
messageDelegateClassName is set to
Hello, then this will be generated as output:
public class Hello { }
Compiling Jet templates
We will now extend the MyFirstPatternPlugin project so that it is enabled for JET Nature.
The first step is to convert the project into a JET project by using the Convert Projects to JET Projects wizard as shown in Figure 14. This will add a templates folder into your project. You will store all the JET Templates in this folder.
Figure 14. Convert Projects to JET Projects wizard
Next, you want to set things up so that the source folder in your Java project is the destination folder of the translated templates. You can do that by using the JET Settings from your project Properties page as shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15. JET Settings
Now you are ready to create your own JET Templates. If you have Build Automatically turned on for your project, the JET Templates will be automatically compiled into Java code. Otherwise, you can select the JET Template and invoke the Compile Template manually.
The Getter Setter example
As described in the last section, the Getter Setter example uses the UML to Java transform to generate the Java class from an UML class, and adds an extension to generate an additional text file. The MyFirstTemplate.javajet file is located in the template directory and is highlighted in the following code.
<%@ jet package="com.ibm.samples.transform.jetsrc" imports="java.util.* com.ibm.samples.transform.util.MyFirstConstants org.eclipse.uml2.*" class="MyFirstTemplate" skeleton="JET.skeleton" %> <% final Map parameterMap = (Map) argument; if (parameterMap == null) { return stringBuffer.toString(); } // extract incoming map parameters final org.eclipse.uml2.Class myFirstClass = (org.eclipse.uml2.Class)parameterMap.get(MyFirstConstants.CLASS); final String package_ = myFirstClass.getNearestPackage().getName(); %> package is <%= package_ %> class name is <%= myFirstClass.getName() %> class attributes <% List propertyList = myFirstClass.getAttributes(); for ( int i=0; i < propertyList.size(); i++ ) { Property property = (Property) propertyList.get(i); VisibilityKind vk = property.getVisibility(); %> Visibility is <%= vk.getName()%> Attribute name <%= property.getName()%> Attribute type <%= property.getType().getName() %> <% } %>
The next section describes how we add a rule to marry this JET Template with the UML to Java Transform.
Integrate JET Templates with Transform
So far you have learned how to write a JET Template to describe the format of the output artifact. You also learned how to get parameter values in a JET Template so that you can substitute the values into your output artifacts. But how does the JET template get invoked, and where do the values come from? The answers are explained in the following sections.
Creating a rule
To marry a JET Template with a RSA transform, you have to create a rule that extends com.ibm.xtools.transform.core.AbstractRule . In this rule, you will create the data model for your JET Template (e.g. a Map, a List, or other Collections), and then invoke the Java class that is generated for the JET Template. The rule is added to the transform.
You can obtain the UML element in the rule from the context object that is passed into the createTarget method. A default implementation of the createTarget method is included in the BaseCodeGenRule helper class and is shown here:
protected Object createTarget(ITransformContext context) throws Exception { String methodName = "createTarget"; List targetObjects = getTargetsFromContext(context); if (!targetObjects.isEmpty()) { setContext(context); setProject(); Iterator targetObjectsIt = targetObjects.iterator(); while (targetObjectsIt.hasNext()) { Object targetObject = targetObjectsIt.next(); String generatedSource = generate(targetObject); IFile targetFile = getTargetFile(targetObject); saveToFile(targetFile, generatedSource); } } return null; }
In the Getter and Setter example, we created a simple MyFirstTextRule that extends the BaseCodeGenRule.
We import the Java class that gets generated from the JET Template--see section above. We populate a simple Map with the UML class that is passed in and then invoke the
generate method passing in the Map object.
import com.ibm.samples.transform.jetsrc.MyFirstTemplate // import Java class generated from JET Template public String generate(Object targetObject) throws Exception { Class myClass = (Class) targetObject; Map map = new HashMap(); map.put(MyFirstConstants.CLASS, myClass ); return new MyFirstTemplate().generate(map); // Invoke code generation class }
Adding the rule to the Transform
Now that we have created our rule, the last step is add the rule to the Transform. In the Getter Setter Example, MyFirstTransform extends com.ibm.xtools.transform.core.Transform. Invoke the
addRules method to add the rule we defined earlier to the transform:
protected void addRules() { UMLKindTransform dataTypesTransform = new UMLKindTransform(MyFirstConstants.DATATYPESTRANSFORM_ID); dataTypesTransform.addByKind(UML2Package.eINSTANCE.getClass_(), new MyFirstTextRule()); add(new ListContentExtractor(getId()+".datatypeProcessRule", dataTypesTransform)); }
Unit test your pattern and transform
The most populate way to test your RSA patterns and transforms is to create a new secondary run-time workbench. This will not require packaging of the pattern and transform as a RAS asset. The RSA pattern will appear in the Pattern Explorer and you can simply create a new UML model and apply the new pattern to see if it is achieving your desired results.
Create a new secondary run-time workbench
In the plugin.xml file, under the Testing tab, select one of the Launch options to launch a Runtime workbench for testing--Figure 16.
Figure 16. Runtime workbench
This will start a secondary Eclipse workbench. Once this is started, you can create a new UML model, and apply the RSA patterns or transforms.
If you have added
System.out.printlns in your Java code, you can see those
printlns in the original workbench Console view. You can use the Display Selected Console menu to choose which console data to display, as shown here--Figure 17
Figure 17. Display Selected Console
The runtime workbench can also be specified in Debug mode. This can be used to exploit the full debug environment where breakpoints can be specified and stepping through the code can be controlled.
Packaging as a RAS asset
You can also package your RSA patterns and transforms as a RAS asset and save it to the local file system. Then you can import it into your workbench and use it as if it is imported from any RAS respository. This will generally require you to restart your workbench.
Package the asset
The Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) is adopted as an OMG standard in 2004 as a standard way to describe and package an asset. Each reusable asset must contain a manifest file and one or more artifacts. Artifacts can be models, source code, scripts, documents deployment descriptors or test cases. A good asset should have points of variability and can be customizable. RAS is extensible via specialized profiles.
Exporting a RAS Asset
The easiest way to create a RAS package is to select the Export menu on the Pattern Plugin from the Pattern Authoring View. This will invoke the Export RAS Asset wizard as shown in Figure 18. Enter a file system location for this RAS asset.
Figure 18. Export RAS Asset wizard
Import RAS file
To import a RAS asset, you can use the Import RAS Asset wizard as shown in Figure 19. After you import the RAS asset, you have to restart your workbench, then you can start applying the patterns or transforms to your UML models.
Figure 19. Import RAS Asset wizard
Other useful tips and techniques
This section describes useful tip and techniques that can come in handy when developing, testing, and packaging your own RAS assets.
Uninstalling and -clean
To uninstall the asset, use the Manage Configuration dialog that can be launched from the Help->Software Updates menu. After uninstalling an asset, you should restart the Workbench with a -clean option. For example:
rationalsdp.exe -clean
Always put your classes in a package
When you create a new model, always create a new UML package and put your UML classes into the package. This is because the UML to Java and UML to EJB transform assumes your classes are contained in a package. You will see an error, Figure 20, when you run the transform if your classes are not in a package. You can also drag and drop classes into a package after they are created.
Figure 20. Transform error
UML Profiles
When you first design your RSA patterns, you probably should just use keywords to add UML markups. After you have settled on how your RSA patterns will work with the UML models, you might want to formalize the markups using an UML Profile. An UML Profile has a .epx extension and can be packaged together with your pattern asset.
RSA provides a UML Profile Authoring wizard and editor that you can use to create an UML Profile. With an UML Profile, you can extend any UML type with a stereotype (e.g. add your favorite stereotype to an UML Property) and also add additional attributes to that stereotype.
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Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton
A Kiss of Shadows
"I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination."
"Sizzling . . . Memorable characters and wicked wit make it all delicious, ribald fun."
–Publishers Weekly
A Caress of Twilight
"Sensual, without a doubt . . . This book moves like a whirlwind."
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"[A] sexy, tension-charged dark fantasy mystery."
Seduced by Moonlight
"This [faerie] society is one of the most detailed,
imaginative, and lovingly drawn in all fantastic fiction,
and the Meredith Gentry series has become something special."
–San Jose Mercury News
"Hamilton's books [are] must-reads."
–The Denver Post
From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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The cover aside, Laurell K. Hamilton's latest Merry Gentry novel is, like many of her latest novels, a minor disaster. "Stroke of Midnight" is actually better than most of them, with the complex political machinations that Hamilton is so good at. But smothering those machinations are sex and a glacial plotline.
After the events of the third book, the human media has been called into the sithen for a press conference centering on Princess Meredith. But no sooner has the conference ended than a pair of corpses -- one human, one fey -- are found. Merry convinces the Queen to let her investigate the human way, and begins delving into whodunnit.
To make things even more complex, the Goddess has been doing wonky things with Merry's powers -- now when she has sex with fey, their powers are reawakened, and then become godlike once more. Needless to say, this is doing lovely things for her obedient harem. But Merry also has to focus on the mysterious murders -- and the plot that may be forming against her aunt.
Sounds intriguing? Well, in theory it is. Unfortunately, the entire plot is not only inundated in softcore porn, but it also takes place in about twenty-four hours. As a result, the plot is so drawn-out and glacially slow that I kept wanting to bang the book against my head.
And, of course, the sex. Hamilton's writing has gotten downright nymphomaniacal in recent years, and "Stroke of Midnight" is no exception.Read more ›
The parallels between these books and her Anita Blake novels are becoming stronger and stronger...the characters and action seems almost interchangeable. Hamilton needs to get her hand out of her pants and get a grip on her storytelling mojo instead.
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This book is nothing more than graphic sex scenes strung together by a few pages of leaden plotting. Read morePublished on Aug. 8 2006 by Amazon Customer
Decadent, hot and enthralling-who could ask anymore from a book.
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I think you are correct on this point. There is definitely money to be made on the long end of this trade, so long as you "sell too early." I just don't like the risk/reward relationship. There's an awful lot of greed on the board, and not enough fear. I find extreme irony in that sentiment, as so many people have been wiped out by this fraudulent stock. A run to $3- or more would not surprise me in the least. It will not ruffle my feathers. I'll be stopped out at $3.50, should it move that high. Patience is critical, and it is not in the blood of the day traders. They are essentially the same folks filling the Indian casinos out here in California. It's all about the action baby.
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani 2nd Friday collection at Box Office
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (YJHD), which lost out a few screens to Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (YPD 2), has continued to rock the viewers in the second week. Undeterred by the new Hindi release, the Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone starrer has raked in a decent amount of money at the Indian Box Office on its second Friday. It is giving a tough feat to the new release at the ticket counters in the domestic market.
Trade analysts had predicted that Yamla Pagla Deewana 2, which is one of the most-hyped and highly-awaited movies of 2013, would slow down the collection of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. But to their surprise, the latter has received very good response on its eighth day. The Karan Johar's latest production had a tough time in North India due to the Deols hold in circuits like Delhi, UP and Punjab, but the film had very good occupancy in other parts of the country.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani has minted Rs 7 crores nett at the domestic Box Office on its second Friday, taking its eight-day collection to Rs 114.61 crores nett. Its second Friday numbers are close the first Friday collection of Ranbir Kapoor's previous release Barfi, which had raked in Rs 8.56 crores on its opening day. Trade experts feel that it is a record business for the movie.
However, Yamla Pagla Deewana 2, which is also as entertaining as its prequel, has garnered mixed reviews from film critics, who have given average ratings for the movie. Due to these reviews, some viewers might take Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as their first choice in this weekend too. If it happens, there is no doubt that the Ranbir and Deepika starrer will once again top the collection chart in the second week.
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Drone Package Deliveries
I like an idea of getting a package by a dron. Google recently has filed a patent application on the method of dron delivery. Basically, you will need to print a barcode and display it in a "landing pad". The article claims the delivery may start in 2017.
January 24, 2015
2015 Home Generator Review and Buying Guide
Needless to say, the winter is here. During the past decade the number of power outages including weather related ones kept rising across the entire country. In 2014 alone there were more than 200 power disturbances in U.S. affecting over 16 million people. Since most electrical lines in U.S. still use overhead wires, and because of aging infrastructure of our power grid, this trend will likely continue. A lengthy power interruption is more than spoiled food or just an annoyance. It is a potential life-threatening situation. My online guide to home generators provides the basics of backup power. For complete information with step-by-step instructions on selection, sizing and connecting standby and portable models see my new 2015 generator review and buying guide. It will save you hours of research and potentially save you money too.
September 11, 2014
Charging Electric Car from Portable Generator
This video of course is cool, but if I had a BMW I would not risk charging it from a portable generator, even from a sinewave inverter-generator like Honda. And I would never run a gas generator inside a car even with an exhaust hose.
September 9, 2014
Never Refuel a Portable Generator While It Is Running
If you need to refuel a portable generator, you need to turn it off, wait until its case cools down and only then add the fuel. Refueling a generator while it is operating presents serious fire and burn hazards as one can see from this news report.
August 26, 2014
HP Recalls Notebook AC Power Cords Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
According to CPSC.gov, HP recalls more than 5 million power cords for HP and Compaq notebooks due to fire and burn hazards. I can understand how a sloppy designed power supply can overheat. But a power cord? Could not HP genius figure our proper wire rating?
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May 26, 2014
One Million Dollar Prize for Next Generation of Power Inverters
Google recently announced their so-called Little Box Challenge, a $1 million prize to develop the next generation of power inverters. If you want to know what power inverter is, here is the basics. Unfortunately, they did not provide any technical details on what exactly they are looking for. The referred website http://www.littleboxchallenge.com/ as of today provides zero useful info either. Hopefully, they will clarify the competition shortly.
Labels: energy efficiency, power supplies
May 23, 2014
Another Portable Generator Stolen
Here is another reason to look for a permanently installed standby generator- a portable one can easily be stolen. Here is a video on how two guys took a 300-lb device. By the way, in Louisiana, flashlights, batteries, portable generators and other emergency supplies are exempt from the state sales tax this weekend. They give Louisiana residents a chance to get ready for storm season before the Atlantic Hurricane Season begins on June 1.
January 30, 2014
Power Supply Seminar 2012/13 Textbooks Online
Those who missed Texas Instruments latest 2012-2013 power supply design seminar can now download all the materials here. This time they archived online both the manuals and the presentations, which are quite handy. Unfortunately, TI is doing a pretty good job making it very hard to find these files in their website. If you want to read past TI (formerly Unitrode) seminar manuals beginning 1983, I listed them all here. I keep maintaining and updating these links for over a decade now. Originally I got the list of their topics (which at that time was much shorter) from one of TI application engineers who interviewed me for a job. I did not get the job back then, but I got a list of the links. It was a good deal. (-:
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December 10, 2013
Thieves Stealing 200-lb Portable Generator
One of the disadvantages of a portable generator is it can be easily stolen. This video footage shows how three suspects stolen a 200-pound generator in 52 seconds.
July 25, 2013
Subaru Portable Generators Recalled Due to Fire Hazard
Robin America recalled more than 4,500 Subaru portable gasoline generators because of possible fuel leak. The recalled models are SGX3500, SGX5000 and SGX7500 . These units were made in China for Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., of Tokyo. Read more and find affected serial numbers here.
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There are computers all over campus, but the Wi-Fi generally sucks in the Casa De Oro dorms.
There are a ton of computer labs and they offer Macs and pcs to work on, as well as computer lab help. The need for a personal printer and computer is extremely important because there are a lot of online quizzes and tests, and many of the teachers don't hand out paperwork now, they offer it online and you can print it out yourself.
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Posted on 07/26/2013 3:46:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
It's definitely time, past time, to update this annual list of heat-beaters. Feel free to clip and save, mix and match, or add your own.
1. Delete all unwanted emails without opening them. Especially if they're from types who are always a bit hot under the collar anyway. If you must open any, under no circumstances reply. Soon you'll be on their heated level. Last year I heard from a Satanist -- no, actually he said he was a pagan -- and, you guessed it, he was hot as hell.
2. Forget talk radio and 24/7 television news. Switch to the classical musical station. Vivaldi is a comfort, Dvorak about as stirring as you need, Beethoven's symphonies a little too bombastic, and Mozart's perfect -- as always. Listening to the well-named Amadeus is like looking up at the clear night sky out in the country and hearing the music of the spheres. Or get out Miles Davis and John Coltrane's classic, "Kind of Blue." (I hereby nominate Miles Davis -- along with Gershwin, of course -- as the greatest American composer of the 20th Century.)
3. Recall the lightest, most elegant, interesting dessert you ever had. Mine is zabaglione over half a perfect peach. Italians know what they're doing in matters of summer style, and hot summers bring out their genius for creating just the right dish.
4. To borrow a line from the late great Robert Benchley, get out of those sweaty clothes and into a dry martini.
5. Think on the pure, crystalline beauty of the Pythagorean Theorem.
6. Don't try to figure out the infield fly rule one more time; just settle back and watch the game. Linger over the replays in slow motion. Move slowly yourself. No sense hurryin.'
7. Avoid watching sit-coms, playing rock 'n' roll, listening to TV shout shows, worrying about the future or regretting the past. "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige. Epictetus the Stoic might have said something like that, but not half so well.
8. Decorate with cool, green, leafy things, but not kudzu. Turn your back on it for a minute and it'll cover your house.
9. Take siestas; arrange to live in the early morning and after twilight.
10. Don't hurry back, or anywhere. "Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried." --Henry David Thoreau. He may have been a Massachusetts man, but he had to be a Southerner at heart.
11. Park in the shade.
12. Key lime pie.
13. Wear a hat. With a broad brim.
14. Give the kids a nap. Take one yourself. Or watch an old Mister Rogers show with a small child; it'll soothe both of you.
15. Sit on the front porch. In a swing. Under a fan. Especially if it's glassed-in, air-conditioned, in the shade, and surrounded by cool greenery inside and out. If you must go out in the noonday sun -- like mad dogs and Englishmen -- stick a handkerchief in the back of your collar. Wear sunglasses. Breathe deeply.
16. Read last January's weather reports, with special attention to blizzards and ice storms. Contemplate Iceland and wonder if Eyjafjallajokull will erupt again. But under no circumstances attempt to pronounce it. It takes too much effort.
17. Take a thimble-sized cup of hot soup before supper to whet the appetite.
18. Switch from big band to chamber music, red to white wine, gin to tonic, cornbread to beaten biscuits, humor to wit. Sit back, breathe deeply, and erase from your mind all thoughts of Rand Paul, Eliot Spitzer, Obamacare, Eric Holder and anything else Fast and Furious.
19. Go fishing. Early in the day. Without fancy lures, rod 'n' reel, and other impedimenta. Pack a picnic breakfast, choose an unfrequented spot off the beaten path, lie down, breathe deep, close your eyes and clear the mind. ("Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." --Thoreau again.)
20. Have a tall cold one. With a hot dog. At a minor league ballpark. Luxuriate in the nostalgia. See, hear and feel what baseball used to be like. Don't get all involved in who's winning and who's losing. Just root for the team in the field. And never, never refer to it as the Defense. That's heavy, sweaty, bruising football talk.
21. Think tomatoes, the real kind. Like Bradley County pinks. Ripe, sliced thin, maybe on dark bread. With just a hint of a smidgen of a drop of olive oil.
22. Wear white linen and play Great Gatsby to beat the band. Hide your ties till winter.
23. If you get the urge to exercise, lie down at once. If you absolutely must, swim. In cool water. Never run, seldom walk, stroll if you must. Master the saunter. Remember Paige's Law No. 2: "Step lightly; do not jar the inner harmonies."
24. See the movie "Doctor Zhivago." Stay to see snowy scenes twice. This time of year, Siberia in January starts to look like paradise. Watch an old movie, preferably one set in a cold climate.
25. Sweet tea. If you must attend a political rally, make it one sponsored by the (Iced) Tea Party.
26. Contemplate the coming of the next ice age.
27. Read up on the culture of the Esquimaux, Inuit and Aleuts.
28. Plan an expedition to the South Pole. Read a biography of Shackleton and marvel.
29. Stock up on watercress and cucumbers.
30. Carry a bandanna. Maybe two. Mop your brow even when it doesn't need mopping.
31. Walk on the shady side of the street. (Visitors from Up No'th have to be reminded.) Whoever designed those treeless parking lots around shopping malls should have to park in one. Every day. In August. Let the punishment fit the crime.
32. Sigh now and then over the follies of men. Do not judge lest you get all worked up. (Isn't that in Scripture somewhere?)
33. Read "Gorky Park" or some other detective story set in a cold climate. Check out Howard Hawks' arctic and antic sci-fi classic "The Thing From Another World." The scary scenes are particularly funny.
34. Send the kids to visit the grandparents.
35. Grandparents: Send the kids back after 24 hours, then take a week off by yourselves. You deserve it. You've already raised your kids. Alaska would be nice this time of year. If you can't make it up there, Newfoundland is closer.
36. Think what Stockholm must be like. Also Spitsbergen.
37. Go for a walk at dawn, preferably without having to get up at an early hour.
38. Peaches. Especially those from around Clarksville, Ark., where they keep turning out new varieties. Oh, those Ruby Princes! Ambrosia!
39. "Simplify, simplify, simplify." --Henry David Thoreau once again.
40. Don't fret. Why worry about things till you have to? You may never have to.
41. Just one word: Seersucker.
42. Wonder about the Laplanders.
43. Go ahead, try the waterslide.
44. Think on not having to put up the Christmas decorations, cook the turkey or build a roaring fire.
45. Smile in the sure knowledge that the damper on your fireplace is closed.
46. Check out the contents of the fridge at home. At length.
47. Consult the atlas for the location of Novaya Zemlya and the Bering Strait. Read about penguin population patterns. Study up on the Aurora Borealis.
48. Re-read Jack London's "To Build a Fire."
49. Be nice. Act pretty.
50. Take the columnists in the newspaper with an extra grain of salt. Maybe a carload.
When it gets really hot, I just work from home. My thermostat is kept on meat-locker mode.
i'd just as soon burn to death than live in san fran
No thank you
Beat what heat? It's been 74-81 during the day and 61-69 at night.
In Southern Illinois.
In July.
Absolutely perfect weather. Even the typical 93-97% humidity is very low right now. If this is global warming, give me more.
Go and mow the front acre.
Refresh under icy cold water from frost free in that area.
Settle back on comfy lawn furniture in the shade with a crackling cold IPA in hand.
Admire work. Watch horses graze.
Doze off.
Contemplate summer in San Francisco, and recall Samuel Clement's other thoughts.
That would be an awful expensive solution
As for me? I think I'll have a margarita.
Walter Cronkite: Well, thank you very much for calling, sir..
President Jimmy Carter: Just a minute, Walter, this guy's in trouble. I think I better try to talk him down. Peter?
Peter (on phone): Yeah..?
President Jimmy Carter: Peter, what did the acid look like?
Peter (on phone): They were these little orange pills.
President Jimmy Carter: Were they barrel shaped?
Peter (on phone): Uh.. yes.
President Jimmy Carter: Okay, right, you did some orange sunshine, Peter.
Peter (on phone): Very good of you to know that, sir.
President Jimmy Carter: How long ago did you take it, Peter?
Peter (on phone): Uh.. I don't know. I can't read my watch.
President Jimmy Carter: Alright, Peter, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..
Peter (on phone): Okay..
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Peter (on phone): Yes, I do, sir. Everything is okay, huh Jimmy?
President Jimmy Carter: It sure is, Peter. You know, I'm against drug use myself, but I'm not going to lay that on you right now. Just mellow out the best you can, okay?
That is hilarious!
I just HAD to watch the video again. Funny as ever.
There are 800,000 folks in San Francisco. I guess the photos you see of the city JUST DON'T oompare to the beauty of, say, Detroit.
The fog, Golden Gate bridge, clean blue skies, thanks to the daily trade winds, Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, Twin Peaks, Lombard Street, cable cars, Chinatown, the 49ers, Giants, Victorian hotels, Golden Gate Park and all the musuems, Japanese Tea Garden, Ferry Building, Grace Cathedral, Palace of Fine Arts, the Presidio (now a museum), Japantown, Nob Hill, Pacific Ocean, hang gliding and doggies at Fort Funston, 4000 restaurants (Yes, 4000 restaurants in the City ONLY. Half close every year because of the competition.)
....No, why would YOU want to live here? You wouldn't fit in with all the beauty, cleanliness, fresh air and "only" 800,000 people. THANKS for not coming. We have enough people. :o):o)
I DO have an ex-friend who HATES San Francisco. She grew up in Anaheim and moved here for school (U.C. Berkeley) and stayed to work. She grew to hate it ... because she was/is such an unhappy woman. She won't blame herself for her failures so she blames "nasty" old San Francisco.
I used to travel with her and fellow travelers would ask: "Where are you from?" When they heard "San Francisco," TO THE ONE, they said, "Oh, San Francisco, a beautiful city." She would WRITHE with discomfort and anger. Hahaha, poor woman. She FINALLY moved to the peninsula and is much happier in the 'burbs...from whence she came and where she apparently feels more comfortable.
I don't have ANYTHING to do with her anymore and my life is substantially nicer.
By the way, where did you learn to write? Not in one of our country's public schools, I hope. Perhaps you missed the days when they taught punctuation. Just curious.
The liberals here don't bother me, a staunch Republican and conservative. We don't talk politics...too busy living in all the beauty...and cold.
Yes, it's summer and I am wearing three layers....inside the house. Outside I have to put on the Bay Area "uniform," that is, a HOODED SWEATSHIRT, WITH ZIPPER AND POCKETS. That is what I wear all year around...with an umbrella and raincoat during the winter, sometimes.
That's kewl.
Yes, it's cold. My husband and I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years. There were mosquitoes the size of Buicks there (Woody Allen movie).
Besides the mosquitoes there was the HEAT, 105-117 from April to mid-November. There was also 95% humidity.
During the three-month winter there were the "hamzeens," fifty days of winds blowing the fumes of H2S from the refinery chimneys over our little community. The H2S would sicken all of us. Lovely.
When I would come home I would KISS the ground of the good ole USA and ESPECIALLY the ground of cool, breezy San Francisco!!
I have a friend who lives in mid-Texas. She can have her 100 degree+ heat, humidity, occasional wind storms, bugs...and those wunnerful fire ants. One did bite me and the scar lasted a year. Hurt like hell.
Ants here in San Francisco stay underground. Never see'em. Mosquitoes don't come here because they need THREE CONTINUOUS WEEKS of heat to breed. We (Pacifica, Brisbane and Daly City too) just don't have that.
You stay where you are and I will stay where I am. Deal? Deal!! :o):o)
There really IS more to San Francisco (and life) than politics. I know it might not seem like that to FReepers, but it's true.
I prefer this weather to the Los Angeles smog. I was in San Berdu (San Bernadino County) and was standing on the side of the freeway...HUGE traffic jam starting there and going all the way to greater L.A. and I could NOT see the other side of the freeway for the smog...so thick, it seemed like fog. You only have to smell the smog to know that it's not the clean, freshness of fog.
I have a good friend in mid-Texas. It's a great place but I don't care for the heat and bugs...especially those dang FIRE ANTS. One bit me; it hurt like hell and the scar lasted for a full year. OW!!!
When I was a girl we lived in Chicago for a year. All I can remember is the COLD. Brrrrrrr!!!! No thanks.
One of my oldest friends if from Fargo, North Dakota. She goes on and on and on and on and on about how wonderful Fargo, North Dakota and the MidWest are....but she is here. The winters drove her here. Hahaha. She doesn't drone on and on and on about the Midwest, North Dakota or Fargo anymore. She found a husband and is happy. What weather??? Amazing how good life is when one is happy. :o)
Excellent selection.
Don't let LeBron go to the basket.
One bit you? ONE? I did not know that was possible. LOL
My husband and I went to live/work in Saudi Arabia for five years. After two years there we bought a nice 3-bedroom house in Forest Knolls (area in the Twin Peaks area of The City) and paid it off in nine years. I knew what I wanted. He loved me enough to get me what I wanted...a home in San Francisco.
I look out my window and see the green trees of Mount Sutro. I go out to Fort Funston every day for a nice 2.2 mile walk, gaze at the Pacific and the hang gliders...and schmooze with all the doggies--it's a popular dog-walking place.
No mosquitoes, no flies, no gnats. No screens on our windows. I used to think that ONLY Phoenix, where my grandparents lived, had screens and that all cities were like San Francisco. Well, I grew up and saw what an anomaly San Francisco and the Bay Area are. The cost? No summers like everywhere else. :o) If I want to bake I can go 30 minutes north, east or south. In the winter, if I want to freeze, I can to 30 minutes north, east or south.
NO SMOG...because those daily winds (around 3:00 P.M.) blow the smog to Oakland and San Jose.
How NICE it is to like where we live, innit?
We stayed the extra three years in Saudi Arabia and traveled to China, India, Kenya, Egypt (twice), all over Europe. It was quite an adventure for us...not a breeze or a problem...an adventure. I wouldn't change ANYTHING we did. It also made me appreciate what a FABULOUS place this country is.....no other place on earth like this.
That is my reality. 100s for the next week in Austin, before the 'feels like' +~10o add-on.
'Feels like' is an evil and unnecessary invention. Like we don't notice what it feels like and need our misery confirmed.
Yes, only one.
After that bite I wore the insect repellent that I used in the middle east (Saudi Arabia) and never got another bite, creepers or fliers.
We DID have camel spiders over there in Saudi Arabia. One got into my closet, jumped out and bit me on the finger. I had to go to the Clinic because my finger turned PURPLE and the PURPLE was moving up my arm.
I got THREE huge shots of Benydril, fell sound asleep and woke up 100%. That wasn't a bad average for five years there. I WAS extremely careful. I didn't want to go through that again.
The fire ants were chump change compared to the VILE bugs of the middle east. I got an amoebic dysentery there that was so bad that it was sexually transmittable so my HUSBAND had to take the THREE medications along with me.
Whoever heard of a sexually transmittable amoebic dysentery? :0(
Six months of wet, six months of dry. That is California weather.
Here it gets down to 48 or 49 at night during the winter. The days are 51-53 degrees with rain. Some years there is more rain than others.
The summer is 51-60 degrees, with afternoon "breezes." It is BONE dry during the summer.
Winds (They call them trade winds for some reason.) every afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. The winds stop at sunset.
If you are out at the beach you can see the bank of fog MILES and MILES westward and you know that it will come
blowing howling in about 3:00 in the afternoon. It's no surprise. A hooded, zippered, pocketed sweatshirt will do ya.
I wore the insect repellent that I used in the middle east (Saudi Arabia)
Camel spiders are nasty!
Lol. Close. They have SO much money and NO rules that I could get ANYTHING. I got stuff that was DEFINITELY illegal here. But...it killed those bugs!!
My thinking: it's their country and if they think it's okay to have all those DREADFUL pesticides, then ok.
I can remember our camp being sprayed. A HUGE Mercedes Benz tanker truck pulled up to our softball diamond. We had complained about the mosquitoes, so this tanker truck pulled up. We all thought, "Nah they wouldn't SPRAY us...that would KILL us like it kills the bugs."
Well they did spray and we coughed and coughed and coughed for 15 minutes. Geez!!!!! We should have known better. That is what they DO! Rather than 30 women complaining to the company about the mosquitoes...they sprayed -- us too.
Do you remember the cartoons where the bug is sprayed and it drops STRAIGHT DOWN? It was a cartoon, but that is what the bugs did when sprayed with STRAIGHT DDT--illegal here but used there. Lord, it probably shortened my life by 10 years!!
Lived in SF for 10 years. We were always deeply offended when the sun was visible for more than two days in a row and the temperature got to 80. "@#$&*@, if we'd wanted hot weather, we'd be living in LA."
I got attacked by at least 40 mosquitos including the black ones with white stripes at a party last weekend: I have a stiff neck, sick, probably have West Nile, malaria and God knows what else including heartworms.
I have traveled the world quite a bit and except for New Zealand I have never seen any place as beautiful as the west coast of the US, but I can promise you, inspite of the weather, I will never come to San Fran again. Because my husband's nut case relatives might catch wind of it and if I NEVER see those insane people again I'll be happy.
ya like my writing style do ya well i like ittooit so seamingly suits sanctimonious supercilious sanfranciscans
Hahaha, thanks for the laugh.
Your husband's nut case relatives? Oh dear, there is a genetic component there. I hope you don't have children. Some of HIS nut case genes might sneak in there.
San Francisco is a part of the greater bay area with 7 million people. I SERIOUSLY doubt that you would be noticed.
However, you obviously have no liking for the Bay Area. That is good. We need NO MORE folks here. We have enough.
Lol. You sure are picky. My husband and I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years....for money. People moan and groan about "hot" weather here. You don't KNOW hot weather. This time of the year, July, it was 117 degrees with 95% humidity in the KSA...Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
However, after two years there we were able to buy a nice 3-bedroom house in a nice part of San Francisco and pay it off in nine years. It was worth it.
Also we traveled when we were over there--India, China, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, etc. It was the adventure of a lifetime for my husband and me.
We also made friends over there, Americans, and GOOD friends. I'm still friends with one lady...after 35 years.
There are no heartworms in San Francisco, Pacifica and Brisbane. Heartworms need THREE WEEKS of CONTINUOUS heat to breed...and that simply cannot happen in San Francisco, Pacifica and Brisbane. Imagine that. Dogs are safe from heartworms in that one area of the planet. Yay, fog.
They are large too, about the size around of a tea cup. Their long legs make them good jumpers. The one in my closet jumped about seven feet from the floor of the closet to my hand. Yark! is right.
You are most welcome.
I was in upper Egypt during a windstorm and someone asked the Egyptian driver, "Does the wind always blow this way"? And the driver is dead serious when he says, "No, sometimes it blows the other way."
We all laughed. It hurt his feelings, him not being familiar with American idioms. I still laugh.
I loved Egypt. We went there twice when we lived there (also to Kenya) and once again to Egypt when I came home. The Egyptians are nice...and they LIKED Americans. That was a breath of fresh air for us.
I liked it there. Spent a year total, in the early 80's. But I came away with a VERY negative impression of islam. THAT HAS GROWN.
Tarantulas can jump like that and can bite, but they rarely get rowled up.
Except after nuclear experiments in the desert.
I learn something new every day. :o)
I was there five years and worked with 30 Saudis. My boss was a real peach and I grew fond of him. He reminded me of one of my uncles, very kind.
Islam and the middle east was so very foreign to me. I used to sign my letters "from the dark side of the moon." However, I grew up and saw people as people. Their religion isn't for me. I think it's stupid, but I'm not going to denigrade the people who follow it. Not a Christian thing to do.
I actually became a better Christian there. Religion was always kind of important to me. But it became the center of my life...OVER THERE. I have continued the devotion.
Imagine, becoming a better Christian is a Muslim country. And it wasn't just ANY Muslim country, it was the HOME of Islam, though we were in the north, right on the Persian Gulf. THEY called it the Arabian Gulf, of course.
I had a co-worker, an Indian, and a REAL pain in the wazoo. He was giving me static about taking off 15 minutes from work to go across the street to Mass. He was Catholic too.
He was so annoyed with me, even though I made up those 15 minutes during my lunch hour, that he went to my Muslim boss to complain. I will never forget that. I was there when he told my boss.
You know what my Saudi Arab Muslim boss said?
He said, "Harry, God is number one. There is always time for God. Mary (not my real name) can go to pray anytime she wants."
I don't know who was more flabbergasted more, Harry or me.
No kidding. I go walking right at 7 AM, just to beat the heat. I go to the fishing marina around 9 AM, since it is cool in the fishing well. I've been catching a bunch of crappie.
It's about the godless, perverted, anti-business, rabid liberals that live and run your modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
I will give you credit, you folks sure know how to throw a party!
For the record......
In East Tennessee, the night of July 25 2013 the low was 57° f, a record low for the date.
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Avi Foox Sharona Foox Krystal Timeshare Cancun Hell of a Fraud!!! staten island, New York
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2. The reason that we purchased this timeshare was for an INVESTMENT ONLY. Michael approached us with this deal as an investment. We discussed with Eduardo the same fact and so did we with you. We had
nor do we have now a reason to purchase a timeshare for our own use.
3. At the discussion, Michael and afterwards Eduardo have told us specifically that once we sign the contract with you, Continental Corporation has already rented the room for the rest of the season
therefore we will be paid the sum of $21,000 on November 1, 2012 (LIE#2).
4. At the discussion about Concord Corporation, it was mentioned by Michael YOU
DONT NEED TO DO ANYTHING, THEY DO EVERYTHING FOR YOU. After we spoke to Concord Corporation, we
understood the reality that Concords only function is to advertise the availability of the unit, and even that has to be paid by us. A fact that was never mentioned (LIE#3)!!!
5. Lloyds Corporation in England has nothing to do with this transaction. THE LLOYDS CORPORATION WHICH YOU REFERRED US IN THE TRANSACTION HAS ITS MAIN OFFICE IN PANAMA CITY AND IS A COMPANY OF SHARLETANS THAT PROMISED US A GAIN OF 23% RETURN ON MY INVESTMENT EVERY YEAR. Something that everybody knows is a FRAUD after Berney Madoffs scam !!! (LIE#4)
6. We discussed this issue with the United States Council in Cancun and the Mexican council in New York City. Both of them are aware of your scam and are currently working on a legal way to put a stop to it!
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