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Detective Brown wanted them all there by 3:30 p.m. sharp. Some had grumbled that they would have to get out of work early. But they all said they would be there.
Brown arrived last but had sent his partner ahead to secure some evidence and keep the peace. He suspected that tensions could be running high.
Brown swished his iced coffee and surveyed the room. The neighbor Tom and Mrs. Johnson were deep in conversation. Eddie, the doorman, talked to the young couple from 5B. Brown's partner sat observing quietly, pretending to root through his notes. Brown waited until they all noticed him.
"Good afternoon."
"I suppose you'll tell us what this is all about?" Tom asked quickly.
"If all goes well, we are going to solve the murder of Mr. Johnson."
"All of us, together?" Mrs. Johnson asked.
"If all goes well," Brown smiled as warmly as he could. He knew this might be tough on her. He began.
"We know that Mr. Johnson returned home at 11:30 in the morning. It's clear that something happened to him here in this apartment. Obviously, he was not alone."
"You heard nothing?" Brown turned to Tom.
"Nothing," Tom said.
Brown spun toward the boyfriend. "You heard ticking."
The boyfriend jumped back, startled. Brown tried to suppress a grin.
"I heard ticking," he said after steadying himself. "I think it was around 2:30 p.m."
Brown crossed to the far side of the room and picked up a chess clock. He placed it on the table. He ticked each side back and forth and looked at the boyfriend.
"Could have been," the boyfriend said. Brown nodded and crossed to the front door.
"Mr. Johnson was taken downstairs. Very conveniently, the back staircase is accessible from this apartment. It's obvious that the killer knew about it." Brown swung opened the door to the stairway leading downward.
"I think everyone knows about it," said Mrs. Johnson nervously.
"Will you please lead the way?" Brown said to Eddie.
"Certainly," Eddie said and started down the stairs, followed closely by the couple, Tom, and then finally Mrs. Johnson. Brown hung back and whispered a few things to his partner, who stayed behind.
The stairs were steep and it was slow going.
Brown continued, "Eddie, you arrived at what time?"
"4 p.m."
"And when does Santiago leave?
"5 p.m."
They came to the lobby floor.
"The killer obviously couldn't have taken the body through here." Brown pushed open the door to the lobby and there was Santiago standing there. "Afternoon, Santiago."
"Good afternoon."
"So, the killer must have continued toward the basement," Brown said.
The group now stood in the basement room where the body was found.
"The body was instead brought here," Brown continued. "I do not think that the killer realized that during this time of day there are two doormen on at the same time.
"I think the killer was trying to stash the body somewhere else in the basement. Or get it out of the building. But when Eddie came around the corner here, the killer panicked. A plastic bag that had been wrapped around Mr. Johnson's head to make sure no blood was dripped was removed and the body was covered with cardboard."
The group stood in silence.
"Well, I guess all that makes sense," Tom said.
"Terrible," Mrs. Johnson said.
"Now our killer simply has to exit the building through the service entrance and return a few hours later, waltzing back past Eddie and acting like they hadn't been home for a few hours."
Brown polished off his ice coffee loudly.
"Would you like to explain to us why you did it?"
"You've got to be kidding."
"Definitely not. Boyfriend over here heard you playing speed chess with Mr. Johnson."
"You have no proof."
"A black chess piece was found on the floor of the apartment. It had fingerprints on it."
"And these fingerprints were mine?"
"Curiously, your prints were not on that specific piece and that had me stumped for a while."
"Ah ha!"
"We did find them on the rest of the pieces that were in the chest board. The ones that you picked up after they were scattered when you hit Mr. Johnson over the head. Unfortunately, you missed one."
Tom gasped.
Brown continued.
"It seems that you won't be saving that new apartment between you from foreclosure after all, which, I suspect, is why you killed Mr. Johnson in the first place. His life insurance policy, however, will certainly allow Mrs. Johnson to go through with the sale, renovate and move in. Not much of a consolation."
"I want my lawyer."
"I'm sure you do, sir."
Brown radioed his partner.
"When you come down to the basement, bring me a fresh iced coffee."
Brown winked at the girlfriend. "Also, come arrest this jerk."


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I have seen lot of projects where the developers implemented a proprietary MVC framework, not because they wanted to do something fundamentally different from Struts, but because they were not aware of how to extend Struts. You can get total control by developing your own MVC framework, but it also means you have to commit a lot of resources to it, something that may not be possible in projects with tight schedules.
Struts is not only a very powerful framework, but also very extensible. You can extend Struts in three ways.
PlugIn: Create your own
PlugIn class if you want to execute
some business logic at application startup or shutdown.
RequestProcessor: Create your own
RequestProcessor if you
want to execute some business logic at a particular point during the request-processing phase. For example, you might extend
RequestProcessor to check
that the user is logged in and he has one of the roles to execute a particular
action before executing every request.
ActionServlet: You can extend the
ActionServlet class if
you want to execute your business logic at either application startup or
shutdown, or during request processing. But you should use it only in cases
where neither
PlugIn nor
RequestProcessor is able to fulfill your requirement.
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In this article, we will use a sample Struts application to demonstrate how to extend Struts using each of these three approaches. Downloadable sample code for each is available below in the Resources section at the end of this article. Two of the most successful examples of Struts extensions are the Struts Validation framework and the Tiles framework.
I assume that you are already familiar with the Struts framework and know how to create simple applications using it. Please see the Resources section if you want to know more about Struts.
According to the Struts documentation "A plugin is a configuration wrapper
for a module-specific resource or service that needs to be notified about application
startup and shutdown events." What this means is that you can create a class
implementing the
PlugIn interface to do something at application startup or shutdown.
Say I am creating a web application where I am using Hibernate as the persistence
mechanism, and I want to initialize Hibernate as soon as the application starts
up, so that by the time my web application receives the first request, Hibernate
is already configured and ready to use. We also want to close down Hibernate
when the application is shutting down. We can implement this requirement with
a Hibernate
PlugIn by following two simple steps.
Create a class implementing the
PlugIn interface, like this:
public class HibernatePlugIn implements PlugIn{
private String configFile;
// This method will be called at application shutdown time
public void destroy() {
System.out.println("Entering HibernatePlugIn.destroy()");
//Put hibernate cleanup code here
System.out.println("Exiting HibernatePlugIn.destroy()");
//This method will be called at application startup time
public void init(ActionServlet actionServlet, ModuleConfig config)
throws ServletException {
System.out.println("Entering HibernatePlugIn.init()");
System.out.println("Value of init parameter " +
System.out.println("Exiting HibernatePlugIn.init()");
public String getConfigFile() {
return name;
public void setConfigFile(String string) {
configFile = string;
The class implementing
PlugIn interface must implement two
init() and
init() is
called when the application starts up, and
destroy() is called
at shutdown. Struts allows you to pass
init parameters to your
PlugIn class.
For passing parameters, you have to create JavaBean-type setter methods
in your
PlugIn class for every parameter. In our
HibernatePlugIn class,
I wanted to pass the name of the
configFile instead of hard-coding it
in the application.
Inform Struts about the new
PlugIn by adding these lines
to struts-config.xml:
<!-- Message Resources -->
<message-resources parameter=
<!-- Declare your plugins -->
<plug-in className="com.sample.util.HibernatePlugIn">
<set-property property="configFile"
className attribute is the fully qualified name of the class
implementing the
PlugIn interface. Add a
<set-property> element
for every initialization parameter which you want to pass to your
PlugIn class.
In our example, I wanted to pass the name of the config file, so I added the
<set-property> element
with the value of config file path.
Both the Tiles and Validator frameworks use
PlugIns for initialization by
reading configuration files. Two more things which you can do in your
PlugIn class
PlugIn class and throw a
ServletException if
the configuration file is not available. This will result in
ActionServlet becoming
PlugIn interface's
init() method is your
last chance if you want to change something in
which is a collection of static configuration information that describes
a Struts-based module. Struts will freeze
ModuleConfig once
PlugIns are processed.
ActionServlet is the only servlet in Struts framework, and is
responsible for handling all of the requests. Whenever it receives a request, it
first tries to find a sub-application for the current request. Once a sub-application
is found, it creates a
RequestProcessor object for that sub-application
and calls its
process() method by passing it
HttpServletRequest and
HttpServletResponse objects.
RequestProcessor.process() is where most of the request processing
takes place. The
process() method is implemented using the Template
Method design pattern, in which there is a separate method for performing each
step of request processing, and all of those methods are called in sequence from
process() method. For example, there are separate methods for
finding the
ActionForm class associated with the current request,
and checking if the current user has one of the required roles to execute action
mapping. This gives us tremendous flexibility. The
RequestProcessor class
in the Struts distribution provides a default implementation for each of the
request-processing steps. That means you can override only the methods that
interest you, and use default implementations for rest of the methods. For
example, by default Struts calls
request.isUserInRole() to find
out if the user has one of the roles required to execute the current
but if you want to query a database for this, then then all you have to do
is override the
processRoles() method and return true or false,
based whether the user has the required role or not.
First we will see how the
process() method is implemented by default,
and then I will explain what each method in the default
RequestProcessor class
does, so that you can decide what parts of request processing you want to change.
public void process(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
// Wrap multipart requests with a special wrapper
request = processMultipart(request);
// Identify the path component we will
// use to select a mapping
String path = processPath(request, response);
if (path == null) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug("Processing a '" + request.getMethod() +
"' for path '" + path + "'");
// Select a Locale for the current user if requested
processLocale(request, response);
// Set the content type and no-caching headers
// if requested
processContent(request, response);
processNoCache(request, response);
// General purpose preprocessing hook
if (!processPreprocess(request, response)) {
// Identify the mapping for this request
ActionMapping mapping =
processMapping(request, response, path);
if (mapping == null) {
// Check for any role required to perform this action
if (!processRoles(request, response, mapping)) {
// Process any ActionForm bean related to this request
ActionForm form =
processActionForm(request, response, mapping);
processPopulate(request, response, form, mapping);
if (!processValidate(request, response, form, mapping)) {
// Process a forward or include specified by this mapping
if (!processForward(request, response, mapping)) {
if (!processInclude(request, response, mapping)) {
// Create or acquire the Action instance to
// process this request
Action action =
processActionCreate(request, response, mapping);
if (action == null) {
// Call the Action instance itself
ActionForward forward =
processActionPerform(request, response,
action, form, mapping);
// Process the returned ActionForward instance
processForwardConfig(request, response, forward);
processMultipart(): In this method, Struts will read
the request to find out if its
contentType is
If so, it will parse it and wrap it in a wrapper implementing
When you are creating an HTML
FORM for posting data, the
of the request is
application/x-www-form-urlencoded by default.
But if your form is using
FILE-type input to allow the user
to upload files, then you have to change the
contentType of
the form to
multipart/form-data. But by doing that, you can
no longer read form values submitted by user via the
getParameter() method
HttpServletRequest; you have to read the request
as an
InputStream and parse it to get the values.
processPath(): In this method, Struts will read request
URI to determine the path element that should be used for getting the
ActionMapping element.
processLocale(): In this method, Struts will get the
Locale for
the current request and, if configured, it will save it in
HttpSession as
the value of the
org.apache.struts.action.LOCALE attribute.
HttpSession would
be created as a side effect of this method. If you don't want that to happen,
then you can set the
locale property to false in
ControllerConfig by
adding these lines to your struts-config.xml file:
<set-property property="locale" value="false"/>
processContent(): Sets the
contentType for
the response by calling
response.setContentType(). This method
first tries to get the
contentType as configured in struts-config.xml.
It will use
text/html by default. To override that, use the
<set-property property="contentType" value="text/plain"/>
processNoCache(): Struts will set the following three
headers for every response, if configured for
If you want to set the
requested in struts config.xml
response.setHeader("Pragma", "No-cache");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
response.setDateHeader("Expires", 1);
no-cache header, add these lines to struts-config.xml:
<set-property property="noCache" value="true"/>
processPreprocess(): This is a general purpose, pre-processing
hook that can be overridden by subclasses. Its implementation in
RequestProcessor does
nothing and always returns true. Returning false from this method
will abort request processing.
processMapping(): This will use path information to get
ActionMapping object. The
ActionMapping object
represents the
<action> element in your struts-config.xml file.
<action path="/newcontact" type="com.sample.NewContactAction"
name="newContactForm" scope="request">
<forward name="sucess" path="/sucessPage.do"/>
<forward name="failure" path="/failurePage.do"/>
ActionMapping element contains information like the name of the
Action class and
ActionForm used
in processing this request. It also has information about
ActionForwards configured
for the current
processRoles(): Struts web application security just
provides an authorization scheme. What that means is once user is logged
into the container, Struts'
processRoles() method can check
if he has one of the required roles for executing a given
ActionMapping by
Say you have
<action path="/addUser" roles="administrator"/>
AddUserAction and you want only the
administrator to be able to add a new user. What you can do is to add a role
attribute with the value
administrator in your
AddUserAction action
element. So before executing
AddUserAction, it will always
make sure that the user has the administrator role.
processActionForm(): Every
ActionMapping has
ActionForm class associated with it. When Struts is processing
ActionMapping, it will find the name of the associated
ActionForm class
from the value of the name attribute in the
<action> element.
In our example, it will first check to see if an object of the
<form-bean name="newContactForm"
<form-property name="firstName"
<form-property name="lastName"
org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm class
is present in request scope. If so, it will use it; otherwise, it will create
a new object and set it in the request scope.
processPopulate(): In this method, Struts will populate
ActionForm class instance variables with values of matching
request parameters.
processValidate(): Struts will call the
validate() method
of your
ActionForm class. If you return
ActionErrors from
validate() method, it will redirect the user to the page
indicated by the
input attribute of the
processForward() and
processInclude(): In
these functions, Struts will check the value of the
forward or
include attributes
of the
<action> element and, if found, put the
include request in the configured page.
You can guess difference in these functions from their names.
<action forward="/Login.jsp" path="/loginInput"/>
<action include="/Login.jsp" path="/loginInput"/>
processForward() ends
up calling
RequestDispatcher.forward(), and
processInclude() calls
If you configure both
forward and
include attributes,
it will always call forward, as it is processed first.
processActionCreate(): This function gets the name
of the
Action class from the
type attribute of the
<action> element
and create and return instances of it. In our case it will create an instance
of the
com.sample.NewContactAction class.
processActionPerform(): This function calls the
execute() method
of your
Action class, which is where you should write your business
processForwardConfig(): The
of your
Action class will return an object of type
indicating which page should be displayed to the user. So Struts will create
RequestDispatcher for
that page and call the
RequestDispatcher.forward() method.
The above list explains what the default implementation of
does at every stage of request processing and the sequence in which various
steps are executed. As you can see,
RequestProcessor is very flexible and it
allows you to configure it by setting properties in the
<controller> element.
For example, if your application is going to generate XML content instead of
HTML, then you can inform Struts about this by setting a property of the controller
Above, we saw how the default implementation of
RequestProcessor works. Now
we will present a example of how to customize it by creating our own custom
To demonstrate creating a custom
RequestProcessor, we will change
our sample application to implement these two business requirements:
ContactImageAction class that will generate
images instead of a regular HTML page.
userName attribute of the session. If that attribute is not
found, we will redirect the user to the login page.
CustomRequestProcessor class, which will extend the
RequestProcessor class, like this:
In the
public class CustomRequestProcessor
extends RequestProcessor {
protected boolean processPreprocess (
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) {
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
//If user is trying to access login page
// then don't check
if( request.getServletPath().equals("/loginInput.do")
|| request.getServletPath().equals("/login.do") )
return true;
//Check if userName attribute is there is session.
//If so, it means user has allready logged in
if( session != null &&
session.getAttribute("userName") != null)
return true;
//If no redirect user to login Page
}catch(Exception ex){
return false;
protected void processContent(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) {
//Check if user is requesting ContactImageAction
// if yes then set image/gif as content type
if( request.getServletPath().equals("/contactimage.do")){
super.processContent(request, response);
processPreprocess method of our
CustomRequestProcessor class,
we are checking for the
userName attribute of the session and if it's not found, redirect the user to the login page.
For our requirement of generating images as output from the
ContactImageAction class,
we have to override the
processContent method and first check
if the request is for the
/contactimage path. If so, we set
contentType to
image/gif; otherwise, it's
<action-mapping> element
to inform Struts that
CustomRequestProcessor should be used
as the
RequestProcessor class:
Please note that overriding
<set-property property="processorClass"
processContent() is OK if
you have very few
Action classes where you want to generate
output whose
contentType is something other than
If that is not the case, you should create a Struts sub-application for handling
requests for image-generating
Actions and set
image/gif as
contentType for it.
RequestProcessor for decorating
output generated by Struts.
If you look into the web.xml file of your Struts web application, it looks like this:
<web-app >
<!-- All your init-params go here-->
</web-app >
That means
ActionServlet is responsible for handling all of your
requests to Struts. You can create a sub-class of the
ActionServlet class
if you want to do something at application startup or shutdown or on every
request, but you should try creating a
PlugIn or
RequestProcessor before
extending the
ActionServlet class. Before Servlet 1.1, the Tiles
framework was based on extending the
ActionServlet class to decorate
a generated response. But from 1.1 on, it's used the
TilesRequestProcessor class.
Deciding to develop your own MVC framework is a very big decision--you should think about the time and resources it will take to develop and maintain that code. Struts is a very powerful and stable framework and you can change it to accommodate most of your business requirements.
On the other hand, the decision to extend Struts should not be taken lightly.
If you put some low-performance code in your
RequestProcessor class,
it will execute on every request and can reduce the performance of your whole application.
And there will be situations where it will better for you to create your own
MVC framework than extend Struts.
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(Law)Breaking in the New Year
Ban on reading while driving makes me an outlaw
By Jennifer Hadley 01/15/2009
Two weeks into the New Year and I've already broken one resolution — to stop texting while driving. Oh, wait, that wasn't just a resolution that I broke. That's the law, one that I've broken multiple times. In fact, if were I cited for each incident thus far, I'd probably be out about a hundred bucks, assuming I was fined the minimum $20 for each offense. But the thing is, I'm not even sending text messages..
I have obeyed the law in resisting the urge to forward naughty cartoon emails to friends while driving. I've also refrained from replying "LOL!" to stupid jokes I receive while driving, but these acts of restraint have nothing to do with the new law. They have to do with the fact that I can barely walk and text at the same time, let alone drive and text. It's good to know your own limitations.
All the same, I am breaking the new law, as it prohibits the composing, sending or reading of texts and emails while driving. That is, it's not just a ban on texting. In my case, it's the ban on reading messages while driving that has pushed me over the line from law-abider to lawbreaker in 2009. Indeed, I shamelessly admit that I have not stopped reading emails and texts that arrive on my Blackberry while I'm driving. But I have a good reason to continue reading messages while I'm driving; I just can't help myself.
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I read every street sign. I read every bumper sticker. I read license plates (and then work on deciphering vanity plates). I read the highway alerts, I read the construction alerts and I read the speed monitors that show just how fast everyone around me is traveling. That's to say nothing of picket signs, graffiti and my favorite, the fancy new billboards that change every 30 seconds, creating ever more words for me to read while driving. So when my phone vibrates in the cup holder to my right, I can't help myself. My hand automatically goes for the phone, and I just have to read the message.
To date, I have not caused an accident because I was reading instead of watching the road. However, if this ever does happen, I doubt the screen in my palm would be the culprit. More likely, it would happen because the guy's bumper sticker in front of me was in such small type that I had to creep all the way up on his rear end to read it. Or it might be caused by a picketer's sign scribbled so illegibly I have to spend a few extra seconds figuring out what it says. But I doubt looking at a quick note two inches from my face is going to cause me to crash.
I'm not saying the new law is entirely stupid. I do think it will probably prevent a lot of people from being distracted behind the wheel. But what about people like me? People who can't seem to stop reading, no matter where the words are written?
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Once you've been bitten by the family history bug, you'll find that the hobby could easily take up all your time. Ironically, the more you commit to your research, the more clues you'll find, and these will all need to be followed up. So what we want to do here is to work out how you can plan your research effectively, and use your time efficiently.
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A unique event celebrating forests with a "harmonic convergence of natural and composed sound" has been slated for September 17 in the Town of Tusten.
"For the Forest," a concert and informational sessions focused on the importance of forests, has been developed in response to the United Nations General Assembly declaration of 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
To illuminate this focus, Arts for Peace, a project of the World Association of Former United Nations Interns and Fellows, will present the concert in various locations within Camp Keowa on the 12,500-acre Ten Mile River Scout Camp in Narrowsburg. Arts for Peace works to bring the arts community together to make practical contributions in support of the United Nation's peace-building efforts.
For the Forest will present the work of three unique and powerful artists—Yoko Ono, John Luther Adams and Miya Masaoka—in a setting where the natural environment offers its various voices in partnership with the musicians and audience members. Works to be performed include Yoko Ono's "A Secret Piece," John Luther Adam's "Inuksuit" and Miya Masaoka's "Pieces for Plants."
The site-specific works are vehicles that enable audiences to interact with the environment as an integral part of the compositions. The presentation invites delegates, representatives of UN agencies and affiliated non-governmental agencies, artists and the public to experience a living forest directly.
Recently, Suzanne Thorpe, Arts for Peace special programs director and associate director of the Electronic Music Foundation (www.emf.org [1]), and Andrea Reynosa, organizer of Tusten's Sky Dog Supper Club and water awareness events such as Flow Slow and Snow Flow, scouted potential locations for the performances and informational sessions that will take place.
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"The environment has an important part to play in the performance," said Thorpe. "And the audience will be invited to walk among the performers at times. When people participate in an activity while being exposed to music, they can embody the information being shared and build an emotional bond with that."
Thorpe described the three-pronged approach to the event, weaving together the performance, the audience and the environment to create the actual experience. "A trilogy is a most effective way to transmit these potent messages," she said.
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For Immediate Release
April 15, 2004
(Springfield) - Nearly 300 of the state's outstanding
teachers, administrators, support service personnel and
community members will take center stage Saturday evening
when they are honored by the Illinois State Board of Education
during the 30th annual Those Who Excel/Illinois
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The categories for recognition are:
Of the 294 awards, 235 will be presented at the banquet:
The State Board will also honor 59 people with the Certificate
of Appreciation, which will be mailed to the recipients'
schools and presented locally.
Recipients are nominated by their local schools and people
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David Morrison, a music and band teacher at Prospect
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The sharing of information by governments is central to how the Climate Change Convention
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Huddersfield Giants v Crusaders RL
Posted 06 July 2010 - 03:05 PM
Arguing with the forum trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird will **** on the board and strut around like it won anyway
Posted 06 July 2010 - 08:43 PM
On Sunday Simon Foster, the son of the legend Trevor Foster will be in charge to show you around and answer any questions. On Saturday the manager Sam Morton will be there.
Admission to the centre is FREE and on sale are a number of recently published books, novels and magazines.
Definitely a place that all rugby league fans should visit at least once in their lives.
www.geofflee.net for news of my novels, One Winter, One Spring, One Summer, One Autumn and Two Seasons. All are written against a strong Rugby League background, set in South Lancashire and inspired by the old saying about work: "They could write a book about this place. It would be a best seller".
Posted 07 July 2010 - 08:25 AM
Posted 09 July 2010 - 08:51 AM
I'm off to Italy with work tomorrow so I can't travel up to the game unfortunately. It would have been good, as Geoff suggests above, to be able to visit the Heritage centre - Next time.
How am I going to cope without RL for at least a couple of weeks?! Anyway, I'll try and make the Italian competition's grand final during my visit. When in Rome...
Posted 09 July 2010 - 09:36 AM
Posted 09 July 2010 - 10:48 AM
A related question is "Which Huddersfield team is going to turn up?"
If Huddersfield send out a side that can catch the ball then the Crusaders will get a thumping. If Huddersfield repeat some of their more spineless performances then it could easily be a Crusaders win.
That's me. I'm done.
Posted 09 July 2010 - 02:44 PM
Posted 11 July 2010 - 02:17 PM
Despite the announcement that Nathan Brown will be staying with the Giants next season, they don't look to be making the greatest of impressions.
Posted 11 July 2010 - 02:24 PM
Try: Lunt
Goal: Hodgson 1/1
Posted 11 July 2010 - 02:32 PM
Maybe I was a bit harsh in my assessment of Huddersfield.
Their defending is impeccable, both sides defending has been professional but as I type Sammut has just picked up a loose pass from Kevin Brown and has raced away for a crucial interception try despite a valiant chase back by Cudjoe.
Clinton (don't ask me how I spell his surname) converts and it's all square six apiece.
Posted 11 July 2010 - 02:36 PM
Try: Wild
Goal: Hodgson 2/2
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Defence masterclass from the Giants as they repel Crusaders attack after Crusaders attack.
Half-Time hooter goes, maybe the visitors should have taken the two points?
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Huddersfield Giants 16-6 Crusaders RL
Posted 11 July 2010 - 03:44 PM
Huddersfield Giants 30-12 Crusaders RL
Attendance 5000 odd
Worrying news that Brett Hodgson left the field injured.
Posted 11 July 2010 - 08:13 PM
Huddersfield Giants 30-12 Crusaders RL
Attendance 5000 odd
Worrying news that Brett Hodgson left the field injured.
Brett Hodgson is injured very easily these days, He is a wonderful player and i wish we had have had him a few years ago, he would have been a great SO for us , but he would not be able to take the tackles mid field now, he offloads the ball a lot when returning kicks, which i reckon is to avoid the big tackles, I dont blame him he is very lightly built.
As far as the game goes the Giants look a shadow of the side they were a couple of months ago,but they defended well and did enough to win, maybe things will improve now we know who the coach is for next season, Crusaders are a big hard side, and It's easy to see how they have had some good wins. Reffing was a miserable affair for both sides.
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Home List of Titles Beyond the bush: sustainable, creative, regional communities and the case for a national creative industries hub in regional Australia
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- Beyond the bush: sustainable, creative, regional communities and the case for a national creative industries hub in regional Australia
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- Cahalan, Anthony; Woodward, Margaret
- Abstract
- The creative industries are vital to the social and economic development of Australia. The creative workforce has been estimated to comprise 437,000 people (equivalent to 5.4% of the Australian workforce) with the value of salaries and wages almost $21 billion. With an average annual growth rate of 5%, the creative workforce has grown at a considerably faster rate than the total workforce. Development of the creative industries therefore has the potential to stimulate economic development while simultaneously contributing to Strengthening Australian Communities, a key national priority for rural and regional Australia. Creative industries are not focused on urban centres alone; in fact, the digital environments on which the creative industries rely means the physical location of the creative workforce is becoming increasingly less relevant. There is a growing body of research which shows that thriving creative industries are crucial for the health and vitality of a region and its communities.While the creative industries have received significant support in metropolitan centres, this paper proposes the establishment of a national hub for the creative industries for rural and regional Australia designed to strengthen regional and Indigenous communities, create improved links between metropolitan and rural industries, lead research and provide new pathways to higher education. If Australia hopes to secure a vibrant economic future in metropolitan, rural and remote regions, creative industries are needed to enrich and sustain Australia's unique communities across the whole country.In this paper, the authors argue that the development of a new national Cultural Policy for 2020 represents an important opportunity to better account of the needs of regional, remote and Indigenous communities and their untapped potential to contribute to our national culture and economy. Indeed, it is critical that Australia's unique rural and regional contexts are integrated into the cultural policy to ensure the success of its three key elements: keeping cultures strong; engaging with communities; and empowering the young.This paper will be illustrated with a case-study of a leading Australian designer whose practice-led research in a regional centre demonstrates the potential for sustainable, creative communities to provide employment opportunities, social cohesion, educational participation and cultural richness.
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- Conference paper
- Source
- Proceedings of 'Confronting the challenges of the post crisis global economy and environment', the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference (RGS-IBG 2010), London, United Kingdom, 01-03 September 2010 / Guy Robinson (ed.)
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- 2010
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- 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Creative industries; Cultural geography; Rural areas
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Danzo was doing all of those bad things for Konoha and Peace. Have you ever heard the saying "The ends justifies the means"
Originally Posted by spade3dg
Danzo was pretty messed up but in the end he tried to repent by sealing sasuke and Obito. But once a failure always a failure.
Erm. What about Naruto? xD jkjk
Danzo mean shit
danzo is the meaning of a shinobi's life hell..
Originally Posted by rollin
i didn't read this thread entirely so I'm not sure if this is mentioned
but he was suspected to be behind the attack on konoha that resulted in the hokage's death
he just wants to be hokage and doesn't care who dies
he wouldn't even let his anbu help during pain's invasion
This^ exactly
It was obvious that Danzo was the dark side of Konoha.
Originally Posted by Itachi2020
It was obvious that Danzo was the dark side of Konoha.
He kept talking about how he wanted to be the Hokage, but it would have been a far worse Konoha if he led it...
Terrible, terrible things already happened to the village because of him without even leading it.
Originally Posted by Reynfall
He kept talking about how he wanted to be the Hokage, but it would have been a far worse Konoha if he led it...
Terrible, terrible things already happened to the village because of him without even leading it.
And this^
Danzo had his own ways in protecting Konoha,I respect him even tho his ways were bad and made him have a bad reputation...
eh, Im not sure if everyone is looking at this from a bigger perspective. For one cannot understand an action, until one can understand the motive behind the action. Danzo made it his mission to do things in the shadows, but why? What was his motive? Even though we may not agree, he wanted to protect the leaf.
Even in real life, there are people, who you will most likely never even hear about, that do things for their country that people will not approve. Someone may need to be assassinated to protect national security, someone may need to be interrogated and kidnapped for information. Many many things that none of us will approve of or think is morally right. But whether we accept it or not, it does happen, and for reason that we may comprehend. So don't look at it as Danzo looked out only for himself, I don't think that is the case, just look at it as, he is the one that keeps his hands dirty, so at the end of the day, you wont have to.
Originally Posted by KingHashirama
But the village didn't want a jackass. O_o so there was no need.. He wanted to be a jackass. Its not called "tough love" when you kill your own comrades smart ass. Also, me and HiddenSound are cool with each other.. soo yea
How about someone who allows a murderer that kills his own comrades and little children to walk free to continue his evil deeds?
Let's just say Danzou made many good characters evil(aka Sasuke and Kabuto) and manipulated everyone
Agreed, Sasuke did the world a favor
The guy had many issues, the most obvious among those being an inferiority complex regarding Hiruzen and an almost obsessive desire to protect Konoha at all costs, but despite all that, he wasn't such a bad guy.
Like earlier posts have stated, Danzo was and may remain the most realistic character in Naruto, someone willing to sacrifice the lives of a few for the greater good of the many.
I hate it when people keep saying that everything he did was for himself. Sure, he may have done some unnecessarily selfish shit in order to get to the Hokage seat, but overall, his motives have always been the safety of Konoha.
* Killed the messenger frog during the Pain arc to ensure Naruto stayed away to prevent Pain from capturing him.
* Black-mailed the orphanage chick into working for him again to find out whether Iwa was a threat to Konoha's safety.
* Prevented his own ANBU from assisting in the defense of Konoha because he knew Tsunade would be able to protect it, even though mainly, it was for his own selfish purposes of attaining the Kage seat. Had there been any real danger, no doubt he would have acted.
That's the only things I could think of atm but I'm sure there's more.
Overall point is, sure the guy's a jackass, sure he's stepped over boundaries, but that's the kinda character Kishi made him to be, a focused protector of Konoha who did the dirty work from the shadows.
Also, for those who say that Hiruzen wasn't aware of Danzo's motives, you're all wrong. Hiruzen was more than aware of Root's existence and it's continued activeness. He also knew that Danzo was trying to take the Kage seat for himself but he didn't act on it, why? Because doing so would create strife within the ANBU and village plus, he knew that what Root was doing was essential to safety of Konoha.
As a character though, I still don't like him but I respect his goal of ensuring the continued survival of Konoha.
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KingHashirama you are a very naive person based on your post's.
OT: Danzo did what he thought was best for the village and even at that those were great decisions. The shinboi world is not a land of milk and honey, but a land of scumbags and savages with a bokeh of flowers.
Danzo was a corrupt guy/root who wanted to use pple to get what he wanted.
He may have been corrupt, but he wanted to protect the leaf.
so he threatened to kidnap kids and steal money for his own gain, who doesnt want to kidnap a few children and make them into awesome ninja? 0.o
old news, but ty for telling
danzo is an ugly creepy jackass lol
I think Danzo is a pretty cool guy. he does what needs to be done.... kinda like Hitler good man good intentions just ended less than satisfactory
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A lot of baseball action seems to be focused on the crotch. There isn't a game that goes by without a shot of some infielder adjusting his cup and let's be honest, it's hard to blame them. I mean, it may be one of the most uncomfortable pieces of equipment ever made. But it's also essential when balls are flying at you at speeds well over a hundred miles per hour. And even with that guard in place, it doesn't mean that getting hit feels good. Speaking as a guy, I cringe anytime I see a video with a skateboarder doing the splits around a hand rail and I don't like skateboarders.
However, there are different degrees of crotch related injuries. In the interest of public service RSBS brings you a guide to crotch injuries.
First Degree Crotch Related Injury
The first degree and the least fatal is seen demonstrated here by Alex Rodriguez for Ozzie Guillen. It is commonly referred to as "minor self-inflicted" or in more vulgar terminology as "digging a little too deep to kill those d@mn crabs."
Second Degree Crotch Related Injury
This type of injury is known as the "semi-major non self-inflicted" although it often has the potential to be even worse than the third category. This type of injury happens from time to time in baseball but usually only as a result of a collision or an errant throw. A football related demonstration is included here:
One of the more famous examples of this type of injury can be seen demonstrated by Wayne Rooney while playing for England's soccer team. At about the 40 second mark you can see the act in all it's glory:
Third Degree Crotch Related Injury
The final category is officially called the "major self-inflicted" but is commonly known as the "Dude, you are such a dumb@ss" injury. The previously mentioned skateboarding injuries fit into this category as do many rollerblading and "free-style walking" related injuries. However, the most recent and most famous of this type of injury came to us just a few days ago courtesy of "The Boss" himself. It may not have been a wardrobe malfunction and it may not have garnered a fine but I don't think Mr. Springsteen is going to be making any babies in the near future:
Anyway, that wraps up this edition of RSBS Presents: Your Health. Let's keep those privates protected.
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Allen- I watched the Superbowl with a bunch of my chick friends and when we saw Bruce Springsteen slide into the camera we were all like "oooowwwwww." It was mostly hilarious though, especially his face afterward, that "oh god, I have to keep going" look.
Hahaha nice one, Allen. I've seen so many third-degree injuries that the natural reaction is no longer "ooooooh" but intense giggling.
Bruce – I agree – no kids in his future! While I don't have personal experience with the "crotch" injuries, I do know that when they are seen on TV my husband & sons all cringe!
This may be the first time I honestly don't know what to say.. other than wow and ahh.. only on this blog.. lol.
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I may be… guilty of inflicting a minor crotch injury on annoying Red Sox haters. They just went too far once, I swear!
Thanks for that insightful and useful public safety message. Too funny!
I still do not know Springsteen came up from that pop on the camera without a scratch or an adjustment of some sort. But that is why he is "The Boss."
I seriously had a catcher in Senior League baseball in Florida who forgot to check his cup before an inning and the pitcher put one in the dirt and you saw it shift to the right a bit. On the next pitch he took one to the right boys that made him let out the most feminine scream I have ever heard.
After the game we were teasing his girlfriend that he got a 94 mph sex change via a bad hop. The poor guy limped for about a week. It was a serious injury, but come on we were 16 years old and you know we egged him for months.
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I totally miss the fact that he hurt himself on the slide I just thought is was a good move for an old guy
You do keep us guessing, Allen. You can go from Ann Coulter to crotch-grabbing in one head-spinning second. Kudos.
As you now can all see, Allen is quite the expert on crotchery. In college, he was dubbed: The Crotch-Man…. but for all the wrong reasons.
Hey guys, I have a question. How many times has Carl Pavano had such an injury? lol
Yeah so there was a kid on my high school football team who was always a little "different" and then one day they told me why everyone called him one nut. He took a line drive in baseball and that was the end of that. Forever he lived unbalanced if you will. Cups are made for a reason and may many of us never need to know why!
How hilarious is the comment "sent off" for the soccer game? The best part is that they actually put it on the screen as their explanation of what is going on with the player!
As a man I am in pain right now. I would never wish that on anyone, ever. The soccer one was so horrible.
Oh wow. I remember the Rooney incident. That's when I became a soccer fan. Not that particular game but that World Cup. Thanks for this. It was very… interesting.


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In 1931, the French writer, Romain Rolland and the Indian advocate of non-violence, Mohandas Gandhi, met in Switzerland. For Rolland, the meeting was the culmination of his desire to meet the man whom he so admired. Gandhi yearned to meet Rolland, his biographer, as well. According to author Kathryn Tidrick (Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life published in 2006), the meeting did not go well. Rolland wanted to talk politics, Gandhi wanted to talk about his host's health and his own God-given gifts.
Who were these two very different people? The French-born Rolland (1866-1944) was a writer, an art historian and mystic who received a Ph.D. in 1895 writing his dissertation on opera in Europe. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1915. A lifelong pacifist, he wrote his book about Gandhi in 1924, having long studied Gandhi and Tagore, among others.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), born in India, received a law degree from University College in London in 1891 and used his skills to help improve the situation of Indians living in South Africa. Returning to India in 1915, he organized protests by the lower classes against unbearable taxes and discrimination. He established an ashram in Gujarat in 1918. He was the leader of the Indian National Congress struggling for the rights of those who suffered discrimination, and, of course, for the independence of India from Britain. His assassination in 1948 only vaulted his international renown.
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Acer Group, currently the world's second largest maker of personal computers, wants to become the No. 1 supplier of PCs already by the end of 2011 and leave behind its rival Hewlett-Packard. One thing that Acer needs to take the lead is high demand for mobile computers, something that is expected.
"If the mobile world continues to grow, we will necessarily replace HP as the world's biggest computer-maker," CEO Gianfranco Lanci told the SonntagsZeitung in an interview, reports Reuters news-agency.
According to data from IDC, in Q3 2010 Acer commanded 13.0% of the market, whereas a year ago its share was 13.5%. HP, on the other hand, shipped 17.6% of PCs during the third quarter, which was 2% lower compared to its market share in the same period last year.
The analysts from IDC believe that Acer grew slightly slower than the market – primarily a result of strong year-ago performance. This was most evident in the United States and Japan, which saw the slowest growth. Meanwhile, Acer continued to make rapid gains in emerging markets. But unlike HP, which shipped the same amount of PCs in Q3 2010 and Q3 2009, Acer boosted its units shipments by 7% year over year.
Even though the gap between Acer and HP is getting smaller, it remains to be seen whether the company will be able to close it in one year without making costly acquisitions of smaller rivals.
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