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Chocolate & banana cake
Nutrition and extra info
- Freeze un-iced only
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal502
- fat27g
- saturates9g
- carbs63g
- sugars43g
- fibre2g
- protein7g
- salt0.51g
- 100ml sunflower oil, plus extra to grease
Sunflower oil
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- 175g caster sugar
- 175g self-raising flour
- half tsp bicarbonate of soda
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- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 100g chocolate chips or chunks
- 175g very ripe bananas
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- 3 medium eggs, 2 separated
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- 50ml milk
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For the topping
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment (allow it to come 2cm above top of tin). Mix the sugar, flour, bicarb, cocoa and chocolate in a large bowl.
Mash the bananas in a bowl and stir in the whole egg plus 2 yolks, followed by the oil and milk. Beat the egg whites until stiff. Quickly stir the wet banana mixture into the dry ingredients, stir in a quarter of the egg whites to loosen the mixture, then gently fold in the rest. Gently scrape into the tin and bake for 1 hr 10-15 mins, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cool in the tin on a wire rack. To make the icing, melt the chocolate and soured cream together in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Chill in the fridge until spreadable. Remove cake from tin, roughly swirl icing over and scatter with the banana chips.
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Fantastic recipe. I used to throw bananas away when they were very ripe, now I always make this cake instead. It's one of the best dessert I've ever cooked and the proportions are perfect. I never make the topping though because the cake is good and filling enough for me without it. I'll probably try the same chocolate base with other fruit such as pear and see how it goes.
Lovely moist cake with a well balanced combination of banana and chocolate flavour. The only problem I had was with the icing. At room temperature mine was quite soft and wanted to slide down the sides of the cake. I think next time I'd try 150g chocolate /50g soured cream and hope for a better set. I couldn't get banana chips at my local shop, so I chopped up vanilla fudge into small cubes and sprinkled them on top instead. All in all, delicious ,if not 100% aesthetically pleasing!
By all rights this cake should have been a disaster. I only had 2 eggs, my bananas were quite ripe but not super mushy and I had only 85g of chocolate in the house. However, I decided to go for it regardless. I added extra sour cream instead of the third egg. I couldn't get my egg whites to go stiff (they were quite old eggs and I spilled some of the yolk into the white)> I whipped them as much as I could, folded them in and added a pinch more bicarb. I used sultanas instead of choc chips given my lack of choc in the house - soaked them to make them juicy first then drained them thoroughly. Then I whacked it in the oven and hoped for the best. It still worked! And There was adequate icing with my 85g of chocolate to cover the cake - I kept the same ratio with the sour cream. The result is a really moist and delicious cake. Great recipe.
This cake is amazing!! I've made this cake so many times and its been a hit each time. like others who have reviewed this recipe, I also use a little less cocoa powder (average sized 3 tbsp instead of fully heaped 4tbsp) and more than 175g bananas (closer to 250g approx.) and if I need to make this cake but have fresh bananas, I "ripen" them by baking in the oven for 15-25 mins, till the skin becomes black and the are super soft to the touch.
Made this today and it had just the right combination of banana/chocolatey taste. I used 3 large bananas and 4 big tablespoons of cocoa along with plenty of chocolate chips. I felt the icing was also needed (I think that's a personal taste though, as when it comes to cakes I like the works). Best to take it out of the oven at 1hr 5mins and no longer I found. I left it for another 5 and wish I hadn't as it could be a tad more moist. Don't be fooled by the cake be undercooked, as the banana can leave a bit of goo on the skewer (it's not the sponge mix!). All in all what a delicious cake, will definitely make again.
This recipe is a real staple in my house for using up overripe bananas. I find it very forgiving of the quantity of banana used - I throw in two or three and it always turns out lovely. I often make it in two smaller loaf tins and freeze one. Just adjust the cooking time by testing with a skewer to see when it's done. When I haven't had chocolate chips in the storecupboard I have put anything from Toblerone to bars of chocolate in the food processor to roughly chop them and used that instead. A great recipe and a nice change from the usual banana and walnut loaf.
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Hi there, we haven't tested halving the recipe so can't be specific on cooking times. If you'd like to give it a go, we suggest taking a look at the cake after around 40 minutes. Start by looking in the oven window though as opening the door and letting cold air in can affect the rise of the cake. If it looks firm, you could test it by inserting a skewer in the centre of the cake and seeing if it comes out clean. If not, check back every 5 or 10 minutes depending on how well cooked it is. Let us know how you get on!
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"What you learn in a textbook is only the beginning," she told the audience of several hundred in Wentz Concert Hall, during the kickoff to the College's annual Honors Day celebration. "Established knowledge is not what people do in science today … Science is incredibly multi-disciplinary—you're going to work on a team."
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None, it took a long time to tie them knots just right.
itachi since he is my fav character... then maybe naruto
Depends.... How much will each of you pay me?
itachi my brother from another mother.
Kakashi senpai!!!
kakashi the most reasonable between all of them
itachi already dead
gaara a kid kage so no one will worry
sasuke and naruto
both rivals
dont care
None of them need to be saved. Itachi's there, so whoever tied them up would be soloed in a few panels.
Itachi, Naruto, Gaara and Kakashi.
Free Sasuke, and let Naruto and Kakashi have most pain
I'll save Sasuke, then kill naruto, come back later and take kakashi eyes and pee on gaara then spit on itachi before lighting his ass on fire.
Last edited by Narukarin16; 11-17-2012 at 09:15 AM.
Oh come on, this thread is fun and anything but pointless.
Btw, I'll take my Kakashi to go please. :D
Itachi then Kakashi
Lol, I'd just notice that all of them are glaring at Kakashi and Kakashi is like, shrugging and giving his innocent face, signalling, "What?"
Not a fan of any of them characters.... ill leave it up to the fanboys -_-
Originally Posted by Narutokyuubii
Am I the only one who wonders why all their shirts are
1) open
2) pulled off
3) hell even kakashi's and gaara's outfit is partly gone !
Well played Sakura well played..
Um this pic is crack up cause they're all strong shinobi's and could get out easily.......
Just to answer your post..... um I would save Naruto 1st and yea ...................
1- naruto
2- kakashi
3- itachi
4- gaara
5- sasuke
None of them needs to be saved
No one can capture all 5 together(They wuld kill Madara and Obito)No ned to save anyone thay can proteckt themselves.
Originally Posted by Narukarin16
I'll save Sasuke, then kill naruto, come back later and take kakashi eyes and pee on gaara then spit on itachi before lighting his ass on fire.
Then Sasuke kills u I think.(for Itachi Part)
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Sensing the playoffs are within arms length, the Phillies did what they could to reserve a spot with a 3-2 win over the Mets. They solved the puzzle that is R.A. Dickey and got a solid performance out of Joe Blanton, capturing their 11th consecutive victory in the process. The 11 wins in a row is the most since they ran off 13 straight in 1991.
Blanton came up with seven solid innings, following the lead of the Big 3 before him. Big Joe fanned six and had made one mistake, which ended up deep in the right field seats off the bat of Angel Pagan. Blanton normally makes one or two mistakes per game that hurt him, but lately he's been able to minimize any possible damage. He'll come in handy in the playoffs as the likely long relief guy for the NLDS. Manuel may have looked ahead just for a minute here, saving Joe's arm by leaving him in for only 74 pitches.
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Ryan Madson locked down the eighth inning by throwing gas and retiring the side in order on just 15 pitches. Brad Lidge came in and got a quick out, before getting into some trouble.
Ike Davis doubled to left, his third hit of the game, and was pushed to third on a fly out to deep center by Pagan. With two outs and a runner on third, Lidge walked Josh Thole before the most interesting play of the night occured.
As Lidge came home on his 0-1 pitch to Jesus Feliciano, time was called by third base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt. Apparently, the Mets were attempting to pinch run one pitch into the at-bat, something that seldom occurs. Feliciano had grounded the ball back to Lidge, who thought the game was over. It was not.
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I'd like to see us score more runs and stop leaving so many guys on base. That will come back and bite us sooner or later when it will REALLY hurt. I also need to beg humble pardon from everyone for refusing to believe that they would make the post-season. I've been a Phillies fan now for 50 years and have been burned so many times that I deliberately try to keep my hopes down and not let others around me jack them up. Can't wait for the World Series!
Sportsphan –
You must be very old.
This comment courtesy of someone who's been a Phillies fan since 1948.
If you want to know what really old is … I had to look at your name twice – the first time I saw "sportspahn" and thought about the Braves guy in the HOF.
2010 PHILIADELPHIA PHILLIES: Best record in baseball.
best record in baseball
could clinch tomorrow with KK starting.
52 homers now for Jose Bautista…after a 2 hr game against the O's…wtf has gotten into that guy??
Roids- the guy never had more than 16 in a year, classic case IMO
How come Pat can write the name of "Knickleballer Duckey" but we can't? 🙂
Not Roids. they test for that.
There is a new synthetic EPO that is all the rage in horse racing. Some clown from california got a batch of it and came east and was the rage for about 6 months. But it is as yet undectable.
Whatever hes using is undetectable.
The Mets are talking trash about tomorrow.
Old man should consider sitting Utley.
The mets are clowns and a disgrace to the sport.
Jerry Manuel is a clown and a disgrace to baseball.
Bautista is using something for sure. Reminds me of Davey Johnson, Brady Anderson to name a couple.
Brady anderson?
If you indict him couldnt you also indict his best friend Cal Ripken Jr?
Cal is by far my all time favorite non phillie. I am just saying no one is cleared. I mean I suspect Pedro and his 130 pounds and even Randy Johnson.
Nolan Ryan pitched forever. It was un natural.
I do NOT suspect Cal or Nolan 2 of the all time best ever. And 2 of my favorites. I am just saying nothing suprises me.
Jerry Manuel will do fne selling cars in Manhatten next year. The press loves him up there hes a personable guy.
Blasphemus Andrew! Even the slightest indication of a link between roids and the Rip..
JK – that year Brady ("Steal") had to be on something.
I didnt see the slide to judge but we cant afford to lose Utley now. I know this is how he plays but we just cant afford to lose him. That means Dobber gets playing time…consider that….another great win by the Phils….in the 1st round of the playoffs we should definitely go with our 3 aces…2nd round i believe we should fire with 2 of our 3 aces and give Blanton the 3rd start…we have H20 but we also only have 2 dependable bullpen guys….
@ Brooks agree it was obvious. Like Dykstra in the playoffs. Whatever Lenny did he upped it in the playoffs and it paid off.
Foolish to thnk things arent still done. But it is as clean as the games been in 20 years now. I think.
Oh yea and Brady was Cals best friend during Cals career. Just saying.
It seems like it – but whatever Bautista is taking should be examined carefully!
BTW – Wainwright did win #20 tonight. 20-11 with and ERA of 2.42, better than Doc's.
If the Phils clinch say tomorrow or Sunday, do we still rest Doc? Apparently the underacheiving Redbirds are not resting Wainwright.
Doc gets his one more start but i will be 6 innings. Unless they decide he doesnt need it.
The best record in baseball and perfect game compare favorably to wainwrights team not even making the playoffs.
My comment is "awaiting moderation"?? That's weird.
Again, my comment as is…
Mets manager, Jerry Manuel on his thoughts about Utley's hard takeout slide: " "It was a little late," Manuel said. "You've got to be ready to respond. We'll take care of it. We'll slide hard, do stuff like that." David Wright responded the same by saying his teammates will "retaliate" in kind when the opportunity presents itself. Pitcher R.A. Dickey thought it was "intentionally dirty".
Utley knows he is a marked man. However, the Phillies should and will backed him up in support.
In the meantime, the Phillies with their 11th win in row and an amazing 19-3 run in September, have cut their magic number in half to two, thanks to Nats handing the Braves a 4th loss in a row. The Braves, by the way, are in danger of not making the playoffs as a wildcard team.
Doc will probably get one more start but it will be a 5 or 6 inning start i agree with Andrew.
man lidge is impressing me anymore getting the last out of the game twice with runner on when he would usually panic and blow the game…lets hope the nats can pull out a w tomorrow and kk can pitch a gem and get this thing over.
I agree with the 1st poster just too many men left on bases.
"The champagne could be flowing tomorrow night."
SERIOUSLY Who in their right mind saw this coming? This team is insane! I'm in DC and hoping that we clinch here… but it looks like this might happen tomorrow or the day after! GO PHILS!!!!!!!!
It's really impressive what the Phils are achieving. So many people have been so eager to point out every angle of how the moves made on and off the field would hurt the Phils both now and down the road… But there's a winning culture now. This team isn't getting old fast, it isn't losing it's talent and it isn't full of underperforming or unlucky players.
It's clear this team is hungry and believes they can get back to the Series otherwise you don't wrack off 11 straight wins at this point in the year unless your chasing a team down, they've clearly have bought into whats being sold.
There is zero chance that Charlie sits Chase for today's game.
Go Phils!
I got tonight and tomorrow Manny… this will be a gas!
You know what? I'm starting to believe in Mr McCarthy – his calls are a thing of beauty. Werth's HR call was classic "It's Gooooooooooooooooooooonnee!"
Candy to the ear.
Note – Dick Enberg should retire. I was listening to some Padres highlights and it doesn't go down easy. Plus he is not that intelligent behind the mike some of our guys, he's just not that interesting.
This is utterly off-topic, and I apologize in advance. But anyone know if the Temple-Penn State game is on TV this afternoon? (I need something to do while I'm grading papers all day.)
Nevermind. I think it's on the Big Ten Network.
Back to the Phils, even the Mets fans are acknowledging that we are simply better — better management, better front office, better players, better attitude. (Go check out the posts and comments on Metsblog.) Any other team would have crumbled under the injury pressures we faced this year.
Whatever about Cy Young. Charlie deserves Manager of the Year for leading this team through the tough times and bringing us — once again — to the division title.
I did not get to see the game last night driving down from Vermont to Doylestown for game today, and tomorrow. I do not know if it is against the code but I have a friend who is a Mets fan, so he will be at the game with us tonight, and then my Season tickets Sunday, I guess he will be in a bar somewhere. So I do not know about the slide into second, But from the box score it looks like Joe B did a good job and makes me feel good about him when we need a 4th starter. The Braves play at one so we will all know the outcome before tonights game. I say we just sweep the Mets and take care of business ourselves. I agree that all of King Cole and the Roy-al court get short starts to stay on routine and set up for the first round.
I would also be cautious about thinking The Phillies will walk through the playoffs, there is a reason teams do not go back to back to back WS. One playoff series at a time. Any team the Phillies face will derserve to be in the playoffs, and yes getting to pick your schedule will be a huge advatage if they end up with the best record in the NL. It is possible to go with 3 man rotation in the first round with everyone getting full rest, you would play game one on wed game 2 on Friday right, then Saturday off right Monday would be game 4 game 5 tuesday. So someone would have to go on short rest. Or would you prefer the wed thurs day off for first two games. I should know but I left playoff schedule at home in VT
Shag maybe we'll get lucky and we can see the clincher today or tomorrow. I'll be hoisting a anchor (or two)!
Sweeney and Roy! First timers!
Someone should gather all the clips they can of Sweeney hugging, high-fiving, and dancing in the dugout (and playing in the field while Howard was out) and make a video to "Dancing in September." That'd be entertaining.
LETS GO NATIONALS!! (And BC!)
I really hope we can clinch this weekend. First it would be great to do it in front of the home crowd and in front of the Mets. Secondly, I would like to see the bench guys get more starts in the last week of the season. Try and get them more at bats before the post season. Then again, with H20 pitching like they have been we might not need too many pitch hitters.
As for the Cy Young race, if the stats are close then I think Doc's perfect game has to be the tie breaker.
H20 is a pretty lame moniker for the three aces. It reads like a lazy shorthand tweet. I prefer "Triple Aces" with an emphatic exclamation mark !!! So much for trivial comment. 😉
Mets manager, Jerry Manuel on his thoughts about Utley's hard takeout slide: " "It was a little late," Manuel said. "You've got to be ready to respond. We'll take care of it. We'll slide hard, do stuff like that." David Wright responded the same by saying his teammates will "retaliate" in kind when the opportunity presents itself. Pitcher R.A. Dickey thought it was "intentionally dirty".
I hope Utley is alerted to this and prepared for anything coming his way in this series with the Mets.
What a great September. I never expected the Phils to get this hot!! It is amazing. I hope this hot streak continues in the playoffs. I bet Kyle Kendrick is feeling strong peer pressure to pitch a dandy tonight. Another win gets us that much closer.
This 'awaiting moderation' I got with my post is way off base and zealous censorship especially when there is no profanity involved.
I'll try again. Mets manager, Jerry Manuel on his thoughts about Utley's hard takeout slide: " "It was a little late," Manuel said. "You've got to be ready to respond. We'll take care of it. We'll slide hard, do stuff like that."
I hope Utley is alerted to this and prepared for anything coming his way in this series with the Mets.
I would like to see us clinch this weekend as well. Get the bench guys some playing time to get the rust off for the playoffs. Also, it would be especially good to rest the Aces and starters. Let Rollins get some time on the field, Get at bats for Gload, Sweeney, Francisco, Schneider and Dobbs. Get everyone ready and rested for the Big Show !!!!
ToddZolecki Chase Utley responds to Mets' comments about his "dirty" slide: http://bit.ly/aiufoy
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You know what I say in response to Mr. Wright and Mr. Reyes:
It doesn't seem possible but the Muts are even dumber than I already thought they were.
If they really wanted to come at Utley hard today, they shouldn't have made such a big deal out of it. Now everyone, including the umpiring crew and MLB supervisors will be looking for it. It was bad enough they made such a big deal at the game of it. But then to be so stupid as to talk to the media?
The blogs would have picked it up on their own, but no, the Muts are willing to interview on it. Dumba$$es!
Point is, I'm sure they've already been warned by league offices, and we don't have to worry about Utley or anyone else.
I think it is good that KK is pitching tonight Cause if they hit Chase, then KK can retaliate, and what get a 2-3 game suspension, It would be fun, as long as no one gets hurt. or better yet just wait until we are up 10-1 and let the benches go at it and just send out all the call ups , like Mayberry, and Brown, and Hoover to take care of business, that way come playoffs we do not lose anyone
Oh sure, they will throw at Utley tonite, no question. BTW, did anyone catch that article in the DN where Werth has officially started his campaign to stay with the Phils?
The Dipsy
How pathetic can the mets get?
Whats next? Signing Carlos Beltran and K Fraud to long term deals?
Or people stating how great Beltran is?
NY media and tards who post on blogs. Beltran, Reyes and Piaaza are the best for sure.
los·er (lzr)
1. a. One that fails to win: the losers of the game.
b. One who takes loss in a specified way: a graceful loser; a poor loser.
2. a. One that fails consistently, especially a person with bad luck or poor skills
b. One that is bad in quality
They wont throw at Utley because he wont be in the line up tonight.
Possibly tomorrow too. Dont need nonsense when trying to goto a 3rd straight world sereis. Especially against losers.
Oh I forgot David Wright is the shizzzznat.
I was told so.
Tell me again how great Santana and Beltran and Reyes are.
Didnt they have 7 allstars to the Phillies 2?
See I told you.
Dipsy, interesting article. Sounds like Jayson really does want to stay. The Phillies can/could get pretty creative with the financing,I guess.
At the end of the article two questions were asked.
The answer is clear as glass to me, they can't afford not to.
Will it be clear to them? I don't think so.
And then we move on,
You read it here first- " there's an Oswalt for every Lee "
Tonight's lineup vs. NYM: Victorino CF, Polanco 3B, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Werth RF, Ibanez LF, Ruiz C, Valdez SS, Kendric
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One of the most frustrating things about the Nixon Presidency, (apart from the entire presidency, in general), was that, once he resigned, Nixon was immediately pardoned. He never stood trial, he never had to answer for his crimes against the American people and he never faced any jail time. Frost/Nixon uses the real post-resignation interviews conducted by David Frost and, of course, embellishes on and romanticizes the situation for the screen. They took some liberties; They made certain statements appear bigger and more dramatic, they had the Nixon character admit things he never admitted and they wrote in a long, revealing and climactic phone conversation that never actually took place. In doing so, they gave "Richard Nixon the trial he never had." By basically rewriting history, they treated Nixon like he should have been treated and showed Americans what they wanted to see. This seemed to work well, so for your script, just do the same thing, but take it a little bit further. If history is fair game, why hold back? Give Americans what they really want.
Richard Nixon Goes to PrisonNIXON, looking old and shitty in his stupid, gay prison jumpsuit surveys the cafeteria with TRENT, a tougher and more experienced inmate. Trent is "showing Nixon the ropes."
So, you'll have the top bunk, but we can switch if that gets too annoying. I think you're on laundry duty your first month, which isn't bad, it's much better than latrine duty. Latrine duty is probably the worst thing about being in prison.
NIXON (Suspicious, and fat.) Really? That's the worst part.
TRENT (Thinking.) Mmm... Yeah... Yeah, I think so, that's really it.
NIXON No...No surprises, nothing else?
TRENT No, nothing's coming to mind. It's all pretty straightforward.
NIXON (Smiling like a shithead.) What a relief. See, I'd heard all these rumors about sodomy, and I-TRENT smacks his forehead in the realization.
TRENT Right! The sodomy, how could I forget? Yeah, that- that- is definitely the worst part by, like, a million. Can't believe I didn't mention that. Total mind-fart. One of those days, you know? But yes, the sodomy is pretty aggressive and nightmarish, they don't really mess around here.NIXON slips on a banana peel and his pants fall down.
DAN O'BRIEN (On a motorcycle.) You have AIDS.
Milk succeeded because they tapped into the pulse of America. They set their story in the fictional land of "San Fran Sisco" and used a bunch of timeless, recognizable stock characters to discuss and investigate a subject that's on a lot of American's minds, (gay marriage, gay rights, gay dairy etc), and knocked it out of the park. Really, if you can hack into the zeitgeist, you're basically a lock for Best Picture. Your challenge is trying to guess what Americans are going to be concerned about by next Oscar season. Will 2009 bring a greater depression? A technological leap forward? A zombie apocalypse? To cater to this problem, write a script that has several options written in. It's sort of like one of those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, except it's exactly like one of those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. Sample Scene: STEVE EVERYMAN walks into his house/laboratory/the desert wasteland that is typical of a zombie apocalypse. He wears a t-shirt/is doing science/is totally sick of the zombies. A LADY/CYBORG walks/hovers up beside him.
LADY/CYBORG Good morning, Steve. How are you?
STEVE EVERYMAN Not too bad. I sure A) Wish I wasn't so poor. B) Am glad we invented that device that grants cats the ability to speak. C) Hope I don't run into zombies today.
LADY/CYBORG Oh, Steve, A) Cheer up; we'll land on our feet, we always do. B) The Cat Prime Minister would like a word with you. C) You probably will run into zombies and they'll want to eat your brains. I'm a zombie.
STEVE EVERYMAN Boy, I sure am touching on some issues that resonate with modern Americans when I say A) I sold one of our kids to buy gas money. B) Our new Cat Overlords are cruel and oppressive. C) Holy Fucking Shit Zombies!
By August, you should know which one of your scenarios is the hot button issue. Round up some actors, tell them which version of the script you'll be shooting, and buy some solid gold condoms, because, brother, you're about to fuck the Oscars.
Slumdog Millionaire
Your plot is irrelevant. Just pretend to be the heartwarming, underexposed "Little Guy" by having super-rich production company Fox Searchlight spend millions upon millions of dollars on a brilliant yet spurious campaign that somehow convinces everyone in America that you're some kind of small, humble, "Little Film That Could." Seriously. Is it weird to anyone else that the last three little-film-that-could, underdog, pseudo-indie films "that beat the odds," (Slumdog, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine), have all followed identical paths to the Oscars under the same Fox Searchlight banner? Whatever. Write something quirky and heartstring-tugging and hope it gets picked up by Fox Searchlight, and their Oscar machine will take care of the rest.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
TCCoBB succeeded in that they took a typical tale about love and mortality and twisted it, by focusing on a man who ages in reverse. The lesson to learn here is "The Twist," (in France, 'Le Twiste'). If you want your screenplay to succeed why not take the exact same story that Benjamin Button used, but put a twist on it: Make it about a man who ages in reverse, in reverse.
The Astounding Account of Dr. PantsA CATE-BLANCHETTY-TYPE-CHICK comes in. [Note: If it turns out that Cate Blanchett was the one who was in the Button movie, don't use her. Use one of the other Cate's, or alternately, Blanchett in a mustache and trench coat.] Cate Blanchetty-type Chick's long, luxurious hair pours down her back like a waterfall of blood; strands flow fluidly, splashing onto her shoulders. Maybe there are even fish in it. Every move she makes is like an intricate dance step in a complicated and sexy tango. DR. PANTS sits at his desk, being the most passive and unexciting lead character in the history of cinema.
CATE BLANCHETTY-TYPE CHICK Why, Dr. Pants, do you look so forlorn, here in New Orleans, or whatever?
PANTS (The sadness weighs his words down.) Today...today is...my birthday.
CATE BLANCHETTY-TYPE CHICK Oh, Pants, that's nothing to get so down in the cheeks, for. You're just a year older, yes?
PANTS Yes...Yes, a year older this year. Same as last year. (His eyes widen with horror.) Same as every year.DR. PANTS bursts into the tears of a man doomed to live his live in forward forever, (until he dies at a statistically average age). He sobs into his hands for several seconds and then CATE BLANCHETTY-TYPE CHICK's top falls off. SEXY TV REPAIR MAN DAN O'BRIEN bursts into the room and throws a pie at her.
The Reader
Full Disclosure: I did not see The Reader. I did, however, read a fairly thorough plot synopsis, which I think makes me more than qualified to give advice on the subject. As I understand it, The Reader is about a collection of security droids that malfunction and go on a murderous killing spree in a mall one night. It's not hard to see why this film got nominated: The Academy loves robots. Whether it's a couple of harmless, kooky droids used as comic relief, as in Star Wars, (Best Picture Nominee, 1977), or a cold and unfeeling killing machine, as in Rain Man, (Best Picture Winner, 1988), including a robot in your script is a one-way ticket to Oscar-ville. I'm certainly not the first person to notice this, (as evident by the amount of robot movies that get made every year), so the trick is to make your robot movie stand out from the crowd. What makes your robot movie different? What's new, here? In The Reader, they put the robots in a shopping mall after hours, which is a good start, but then they struck the robots with lightning, thereby turning the robots into killbots and The Reader into 2008's Best Picture of the Year. So, put your robots somewhere new and exciting, and then make them do things you wouldn't expect robots to do. I don't think I need to walk you through a sample script because, when it comes to robots, once you have your location, the script basically writes itself. Case in point, I just got funding for the following six movies and I didn't even put a single word down on paper:
-Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Robocop. -Robot President. -Forbidden Love: ("There's a Robot On the Pirate Ship!") -Crouching Tiger, Robot Pediatrician -Everybody Get Robot, Tonight! (I admit, I don't have a plan for this one.) -West Side Story but with Robots and a Monkey
***So there you have it. A complete guide to writing a hit Oscar flick that positively cannot fail. If it does fail, fear not- there is a back up plan. All you need to do is combine any two of the movies mentioned, no one will know or care. Really, the big Oscar secret is that, if you combine any two movies that have enjoyed any degree of success, you will have a guaranteed hit on your hands. (If you think about it, Forrest Gump was just a shoddy mash-up of Goodfellas and Look Who's Talking, Now!) It's simple math: Two hit movies when added together make one super movie. I've applied this formula to my own personal screenplay and it's currently making the rounds at all the major film festivals and generating some serious buzz. I leave you today with some of the early praise for my latest movie, Hostel for Dogs. See you at the Oscars! --- "Hostel for Dogs is the most important thing to happen to film since eyes."- The LA Times. "Screenwriter Dan O'Brien unapologetically plunged his sweaty, throbbing dialogue deep into the film's warm and inviting subtext, over and over again until, finally, steamy, gooey cinematic brilliance erupted all over the screen. The audience will have this film's fresh ideas and complex themes stuck in their hair and dripping down their faces for years to come."- Morgan Freeman. "Hostel for Dogs made Citizen Kane look like two pigs fucking." -The reanimated corpse of Orson Welles. "I want to take a shower with the writer of this film."-Anne Hathaway "This movie was so sexually charged, watching it was like freebasing an orgasm."-Roger Ebert
The Hero of the Day and Weblog-award-winning Professor Daniel O'Brien currently teaches an Advanced Screenwriting Workshop at Harvard University.


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(Bluefield)—Bluefield State College administrator Karen Harvey is a member of the first class of fundraising professionals to earn the Certificate in Nonprofit Executive Leadership from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Fund Raising School at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Harvey, the Executive Director of the Bluefield State College Foundation, was one of three individuals to complete the certification program training, consisting of four two-day seminars in Nonprofit Management, Program Evaluation, Strategic Planning and Financial Analysis.
As BSC's Director of Institutional Advancement and Planning, Karen recently led the effort for the College's first naming opportunity of a School, the "W. Paul Cole, Jr. School of Business" at Bluefield State College. She earned a Master's degree in Arts Administration from Shenandoah University and holds a Baccalaureate degree in Magazine Journalism from Ohio University. Very active in civic and community service endeavors, Karen is President of the Bluefield, WV Rotary Club, serves as a committee chair for the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Princeton-Mercer County Chamber of Commerce and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
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text: RSS Events Feeds Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition 2/7/2013 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition RegistrationThe Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs is pleased to invite youto the 29th annual Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on February 7 and February 8.Twenty-five teams of student entrepreneurs, from six different graduate programs, will pitch their "Investor-Ready" ideas to local entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts, as they compete for prizes including:$10,000 in cashMembership in the Austin Technology IncubatorAcceptance to the Texas Venture Labs AcceleratorConsulting time with both the Director and Assistant Director of TVLA berth in the UT Horizon Fund CompetitionA berth in the Global Venture Labs Investment CompetitionThe first round--consisting of the semi-finals--will be held on Thursday, February 7, in rooms 101-106, beginning at 5:30 pm. There will be five tracks including: Consumer, Life Sciences, Energy, and two Technology tracks. We expect 25 companies to present; each presentation will run for 30 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of private feedback.The second round--consisting of the finals will be held on Friday, February 8, in the Amphitheater on the M2 level, beginning at 6:30 pm. The top five companies from the semi-finals will present, with each presentation lasting 30 minutes. Following the competition, the winner will be announced at a reception to be held at Gabriel's Cafe at 9:45 pm.TVL Scholarship Competition RegistrationAdditionally, we will be holding the first annual TVL Scholarship Competition on Saturday, February 9, with a total of twelve prospective MBA students competing for up to four scholarship packages worth $175,000 each. The competition will consist of a morning and afternoon round.The morning round will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in rooms 202 and 203, at 9:00 am. Each of the twelve applicants will be randomly assigned to one of the two rooms. Presentations will last for 20 minutes.The top two applicants from each room will advance to the afternoon round to be held in room 203 at 1:00 pm. The presentation format will be the same as for the morning round. Winners will be announced at a reception to be held at Gabriel's Cafe following the competition.To register for any of the above events please fill out the form below. Additional event details can be found by visiting our website. Learn More: Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition


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Dogs are training to be your best friends if you develop a urinary tract infection. It's all in the nose.
The trainees at Assistance Dogs of Hawaii on Maui are learning to detect E. coli in urine, which is the cause of 80 percent of urinary tract infections.
Every day Clinical Labs of Hawaii flies in urine specimens, some containing E. coli -- others negative for E. Coli.
They are placed in white scent detection boxes with four healthy controls and one infected control box placed in random order.
In the initial training, the dogs are on leashes. They recently did away with that in a double blind study. What the dogs do is remarkable!
"For the double blind ones, the dogs are off leash and working independently and they go through the lineup of five boxes. And they'll sniff out each one of the boxes and they've been trained to sit in front of the box that contains E. coli," said Mo Maurer from Assistance Dogs of Hawaii.
Kapiolani Medical Center is one of the partners in this study. For Kapiolani, Dr. Wendi Hirsch, better known as the mom of chief canine officer Tucker, it's exciting research. She's seen the training first-hand and knows the healing power of the pooch and says UTIs are a big problem.
"For our patients and people who have spinal cord injuries, it's a very common complication and a real common reason that they come into the hospital," says Dr. Hirsch. "They can't feel what's going on and the infection takes over before they know so it's a chance to find out early that they have this UTI and get them treated and keep them healthy and that's always a good goal."
"The other things that we teach dogs, it has a big impact and helps people in their activities and daily living. But this has the potential to save people's lives," said Maurer.
The Makana Aloha Foundation is funding the research, but more grant money is needed.
Most of these dogs will be paired up with people in need of canine helpers. The next step will be to actually train health facility dogs, like Tucker, to do the UTI detection.
How is this all possible? Maurer says a dog's sense of smell is 100,000 times stronger than a human.


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If you think about it, wrapping presents is a pretty thankless task. You spend (and I calculated this today) approximately 10 minutes and 56 seconds per present. And when the gift is eventually presented to the recipient, they look at it for a couple of seconds, coo a bit, and then rip all your handiwork off within less than 19 seconds to get to the mass-produced tat within. Let's put it this way, if it was a business model, it would be shite.
Admittedly, I did go for quite a complicated wrapping scheme (for me) which involved silver wrapping paper, black ribbons, black stick-on flowery-type things, and small silver baubles which also double as a Christmas tree decoration.
So that's why I can't write a blog today. Fifteen presents are wrapped, and nine to go. It's like hiking to the North Pole in flip-flops (or 'thongs' if you are American).
How are your Christmas preparations going by the way? Do you have any pics for me?
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Job scheduling is nothing new--most enterprise applications require the scheduling of tasks and activities. For example, your application may need a timer service
to run a business process once a day, or to clean up a temporary table when
your application is initialized. UNIX's designers popularized job scheduling
by making it simple with
cron, and Oracle took this approach further
by introducing database jobs and events with the Oracle database.
In this article, we will discuss how can you use a timer service in your J2EE 1.4 applications to schedule business task and activities.
If you have been a Java developer for long, you know that your options were limited for building applications that required scheduling of tasks. J2SE 1.3 introduced application programming interfaces (APIs) to utilize timer services in Java applications, but support for it was missing in J2EE. If you wanted to use a timer service in J2EE, you had to either build a homegrown solution, use an open source implementation such as Quartz, or buy a commercial implementation, like Flux. If you want to know more about how to build timer applications using J2SE or Quartz, please refer to "Job Scheduling in Java," by Dejan Bosanac.
J2EE 1.4 introduced the concept of a timer service, which enables developers to create a program that can schedule a business process to occur at a predetermined time or at a regular interval. The EJB container manages the timer service to allow EJB methods to register to call back at a scheduled time or regular interval; EJB timers provide facilities like the Quartz job scheduler to schedule predetermined tasks and activities. Using a stateless bean as an example, I will demonstrate the steps required to create a timer to be used in a J2EE-1.4-compliant application server such as OracleAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J), the SunONE Application Server, or IBM WebSphere. We will also discuss the benefits and limitations of a timer service compared to commercial and open source job schedulers.
The EJB container provides the timer service, which is the infrastructure for the registration and callbacks of timers and, hence, provides the methods for creating and canceling them.
Following are the four interfaces in the
javax.ejb package that an application employs
for using the timer service in a J2EE application:
TimedObject, which contains the callback method used to deliver timer-expiration
notifications. The EJB bean implementation class must implement this interface.
Timer interface, which contains information about a timer created through the
EJB Timer Service.
TimerHandle, a
Serializable handle used for persisting Timer information.
TimerService, which provides EJB components with access to the container-managed
timer service and is exposed via the
EJBContext interface.
We must use the
createTimer methods of the
TimerService interface to create a timer.
The timer can be a single-event timer, which can occur at a specific time or
after a specific elapsed duration, or an interval timer, which may occur on
a regular schedule. Essentially, three types of timers of possible, as outlined
in the table below:
|Type of Timer
createTimer with Parameters
|Single-event timer
createTimer(long timeoutDuration, Serializable info)
|Single event with expiration date
createTimer(Date firstDate, Serializable info)
|Interval timer with initial expiration
timeoutDuration, or interval, is specified in milliseconds,
and the
initialExpiration is specified as a
The container will invoke the
ejbTimeOut method of the EJB when
timeoutDuration is expired. If we decide to cancel the timer,
we have to invoke the
cancel method on the timer to do so prior
to its expiration. Figure 1 depicts a overview diagram on how a
Timer works in a typical J2EE container.
The use of timers is similar for all kinds of EJBs, with a few exceptions. A timer created for an entity bean is associated with its identity. However, the
ejbTimeout method can be invoked on any pooled instance of a timer created for
a stateless-session bean or a message-driven bean; the timer lifecycle is tied to
the bean's lifecycle. Note that a timer cannot be used with stateful-session
If we want to use the EJB Timer Service to schedule a business activity, we must take the following steps:
The bean class of our EJB must implement
We have to create the timer by invoking the
createTimer method,
either in
ejbCreate or in a business method of the EJB. If we choose
to create the timer in
ejbCreate or
the timer will be automatically initialized when a bean instance is created
by a client. If we choose to create a business method, we have to expose this
method in the EJB's remote/local interface. The clients will invoke this method
to initialize the timer.
We must implement the
ejbTimeOut method to perform the business
logic when the timer is expired.
Figure 1 shows the relationship of the EJB and the timer service.
Figure 1: How a timer works
Let us assume that a business activity must occur at a regular interval. Therefore, we need to create an interval timer, and we will pass the initial expiration time and the interval as parameters.
Let us take a simple stateless-session bean that uses an EJB timer. In our
TimerDemoBean has a method named
initializeTimer that creates the interval
timer, and a client to schedule a timer that occurs at regular intervals will
invoke this method:
package TimerApp;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.ejb.SessionBean;
import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.ejb.TimedObject;
import javax.ejb.TimerService;
import javax.ejb.Timer;
import javax.ejb.TimerHandle;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
public class TimerDemoBean implements SessionBean,
private SessionContext sc;
private TimerHandle timerHandle = null;
public void ejbCreate()
public void ejbActivate()
public void ejbPassivate()
public void ejbRemove()
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx)
sc = ctx;
public void initializeTimer(Date firstDate,
long timeout,
String timerName)
try {
// Create Your Timer
TimerService ts = sc.getTimerService();
Timer timer =
ts.createTimer(firstDate, timeout, timername);
System.out.println("Timer created at " +
new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) +
" with a timeout: " + timeout +
" and with info: " + timerName);
// Store the TimerHandle, which is seriablizable
// and which can be used
// to retrieve the timer values whenever required later.
// Class-level attribute:
timerHandle = timer.getHandle();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception after create timer : "+
public void ejbTimeout(Timer timer)
//Implement Your Business Logic Here
System.out.println("Performing My Task");
System.out.println("ejbTimeout() called at: " +
new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) +
" with info:");
public void cancelTimer(String timerName)
TimerService ts = sc.getTimerService();
Collection timers = ts.getTimers();
Iterator it = timers.iterator();
while (it.hasNext())
Timer myTimer = (Timer) it.next();
if ((myTimer.getInfo().equals(timerName))) {
System.out.println("Successfully Cancelled " +
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception after cancelling timer : "+
public void getTimerInfo()
if (timerHandle != null) {
Timer timer = timerHandle.getTimer();
// Get Timer Infomation
We probably do not want to hard-code the initial expiration time and interval
in our applications, and will instead pass parameters from the deployment descriptors
or have users supply them according to their business requirements. Avoiding
these steps makes the application portable and adds flexibility in the ability to
to change the interval whenever you require. Unless it is an entity bean, I
always avoid creating a timer in
ejbCreate, because it does not
provide a control to clients for when to create the timer. However, creating a timer
ejbCreate or
ejbPostCreate makes sense for an entity bean for
your application when a timer is associated with its primary key, such as in
the case where you want to schedule a task to create an account for an employee
when the employee is created.
The client code that will invoke the EJB method to create the timer will appear as follows:
Context context = getInitialContext();
TimerDemoHome timerDemoHome =
context.lookup("TimerDemo"), TimerDemoHome.class);
TimerDemo timerDemo;
// Use one of the create() methods below to create a new instance
timerDemo = timerDemoHome.create();
// Call any of the Remote methods below to access the EJB
timerDemo.initializeTimer( firstDate, timeoutInterval,
timerName );
You can find the example code that I've used in this article in the Resources section below.
When the application executes this code, this action will fetch the timer service
and create an interval timer, and the container will invoke the
ejbTimeout at
firstDate and at the specified intervals.
As we have seen from the previous example, the timer can be scheduled only by executing a business method from a client.
Some business applications require automatically scheduling a timer task. If your business application requires the automatic creation of a timer when your application is deployed, you have the following J2EE options:
Create the timer by invoking the EJB method: Invoke
initializeTimer in the
method of a
ServletContextListener of a web module.
Create a servlet and implement the
init method to invoke the EJB method
that creates the timer. Set the
load-on-startup property for the servlet to
automatically start the servlet when the web module is started.
Use a
Startup class using the proprietary API of your J2EE container.
I prefer to use a
ServletContextListener because coding is simple and portable across J2EE containers. Here is an example how you can automatically schedule a timer when your application is deployed as follows:
public class MyLifeCycleEventExample
implements ServletContextListener
ServletContext servletContext;
/* Methods from the ServletContextListener */
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce)
servletContext = sce.getServletContext();
Context context = new InitialContext();
TimerDemoHome timerDemoHome =
TimerDemo timerDemo;
// Use one of the create() methods below to
// create a new instance
timerDemo = timerDemoHome.create();
Date firstDate= new java.util.Date();
// Call any of the Remote methods below to access
// the EJB this code does not check whether the timer
// has already been scheduled.
// You should check this for duplicate timers
timerDemo.initializeTimer( firstDate, 1800000, "MyTimer" );
//Cancel Timer
catch(Throwable ex)
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce)
protected void log(String msg)
System.out.println("[" + getClass().getName() +
"] " + msg);
The only configuration required is to register the listener in the deployment descriptor of your web module (web.xml) as follows:
javax.ejb.Timer interface provides several methods to retrieve
information about timers. For example, you can use the
getInfo method to gather
information about the timer and the
getTimeRemaining method to
find out the time remaining before expiration. It also provides a method--
returns a
TimerHandle, a serializable handle object that can be
saved. We can retrieve the information about the timer by calling the
getTimer method on the saved handle. If you are using timer with a CMP entity
bean, you can use a container-managed persistence field to save the
TimerHandle object.
In our sample code, the
createTimer method demonstrates saving the handle into
timerInfo, and the
getTimerInfo method demonstrates the use of the
TimerHandle to retrieve timer information.
For reasons beyond our control, the application may require the cancellation of
timers, and, ideally, the program should enable this action. The
method of our code demonstrates how to cancel a particular timer object based
on its name.
Timers are persistent, and they survive container crashes and shutdown. Because
they do so,
ejbTimeout() is guaranteed to be invoked after container recovery.
For interval timers, at least one invocation is guaranteed after recovery. Note
that the
ejbTimeout() invocation(s) after a container recovery are likely to
not occur at the original intended time, and that the interval will not change
after a recovery.
Transactions are important for enterprise applications, and, for good reasons, timers are transactional. The creation and cancellation of a timer are done within the scope of a transaction and conform to ACID properties. If the transaction is rolled back, the creation or cancellation of the timer is undone.
We have to typically specify a transaction attribute for the
ejbTimeOut method if we use a container-managed transaction demarcation. Only
RequiresNew and
NotSupported are allowed as transaction attributes for
ejbTimeout. We can specify the transaction attribute of the
ejbTimeout method as follows:
If we use
RequiresNew as the transaction attribute for
ejbTimeout, the container
will start a new transaction prior to invoking this method. And if the transaction fails or is rolled back, the container will retry the
ejbTimeout method at least once.
Timers are meant for long-running business processes; avoid using them with real-time events.
Avoid hard-coding expiration time and interval for your timer in your EJB, and accept them as user inputs or specify them as environment variables in deployment descriptors.
When creating multiple timers from the same bean, use a different
info field
for each timer. Because all timer expirations (created by the same bean) invoke
the same
ejbTimeout method,
info is the differentiator. Otherwise, when
the bean receives a timeout call, it won't know which one of the timers
it created earlier has expired.
Provide the ability to cancel timers, which may be required during catastrophic events.
Choose what type of EJB you need for use with your timer. Stateless session beans are appropriate for most usages. Use the entity bean timer only when the timer is associated with the bean's identity.
Use the timer appropriately; avoid excessive use.
TimerHandle to persist and retrieve timer information.
Specify a transaction attribute for the
ejbTimeOut method and business methods
that create/cancel timers.
RequiresNew is recommended for the
ejbTimeOut method.
Several job schedulers, such as Quartz and Flux, are available on the market, and it is difficult for developers to know when to use one. In this section, we will discuss the merits and demerits of timers compared to job schedulers.
Commercial schedulers provide many more features than the EJB Timer Service. It always makes sense to use a job scheduler if your applications need advanced features, such as a GUI admin tool to schedule tasks, workflow model for jobs, blackout window, etc. However, if you need an API to schedule activities in your J2EE applications, the EJB Timer Service is a perfect choice.
Timers are part of the J2EE standard and the application will be portable across containers without depending on proprietary APIs.
Using the EJB Timer Service, which comes as a part of J2EE, has no additional cost. No extra configuration is required for an external job scheduler, and the developer need not be concerned about support for a favorite scheduler with the developer's preferred application server.
The timer is a container-managed service, and no separate thread pools/user threads are required, as with an external scheduler.
Transactions are fully supported with timers, unlike using an external job scheduler, for which extra setup may be required to support JTA.
By default, timers are persisted and survive EJB lifecycles and container crashes, and the support of persistence using a favorite job scheduler is not a concern. Timers, being part of the J2EE infrastructure, can be managed as objects, and J2EE vendors provide JMX MBeans for managing them.
Only J2EE 1.4 supports the EJB Timer Service, and not very many J2EE-1.4-compliant containers are available in production.
Most job schedulers provide APIs to schedule activity using standard Java classes; however, a timer API requires use of EJBs.
EJB timers lack support for
cron-type timers, blackout dates, etc., which are available
with many job schedulers. Many J2EE-1.4-compliant containers, such as OC4J,
have added support for
cron-based timers.
Many job schedulers support clustering and making the timer service highly available, but the J2EE specification does not mandate high availability or clustering for timers. Many vendors are coming up with implementations that will make timers highly available. Oracle plans to support clustering support for timers in a future production release of Oracle Application Server 10g.
While J2EE 5.0 is currently focussed at simplifying development, it is not
very clear whether any enhancements are planned for Timer Service. It will be
nice if support is added for
cron expressions with timers.
cron expressions are very powerful, simple to use, and many developers are
familiar with them.
Here is an example of how a timer can be used with
cron expressions with vendor-specific APIs. The example code uses a cross expression to create a timer that
will fire at 8 a.m. on July 4 every year.
import oracle.ias.container.timer.EJBTimer;
import oracle.ias.container.timer.EJBTimerService;
String cronExpr = "0 8 4 7 * ";
EJBTimerService ets = (EJBTimerService) ctx.getTimerService();
EJBTimer et = ets.createTimer(cronExpr, info);
It will be useful for developers if J2EE 5.0 standardizes the use of
cron expressions
when creating a timer.
This article has presented the steps for using a timer in J2EE applications and has provided some guidelines. It has also examined merits and demerits of EJB Timer Service as compared to those of commercial job schedulers. You can start building your applications with a timer by using these guidelines with J2EE-1.4-compliant containers such as OC4J 10.0.3, the SunONE Application Server, etc.
Debu Panda is a Senior Principal Product Manager of the Oracle Application Server development team.
Return to ONJava.com.
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This is the message that came from John Plotnik, Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation director at the annual Refugio County Community Development Foundation breakfast and public meeting early Tuesday morning, May 14.
Other top economic development directors were at the breakfast to back up those words.
Among them in addition to Plotnik were Dave Fowler, Victoria Economic Development Corporation director; Lynn Spencer, San Patricio County EDC; and Diane Probst, Rockport EDC director.
Ann Fierova, chairwoman of the Refugio County Community Development Foundation, introduced each EDC director and noted that Refugio County stands to benefit from the developments in neighboring counties but wants to help, too.
Fowler said Victoria is doing well and all of South Texas is doing well.
He said when he goes to international meetings, he hears the woes of other states.
Currently, Fowler said Victoria's Caterpillar excavator manufacturing plant has hired 500 and plans on hiring up to 800 in another two or three years.
He said a manufacturer of counter weights – parts for excavators – announced two weeks ago it is coming to Victoria. The company is based in Chattanooga, Tenn., and will put another plant in Victoria.
Folwer credited the Caterpillar, Eagle Ford Shale and the petro chemical companies for Victoria's growth.
All in all, Fowler said it has been estimated that 24,000 jobs have been created.
He noted that Victoria College, one of Refugio's assets, has begun building a training center on 16 acres – possible from a $22 million bond issue.
"We can train your employees," he said.
Plotnik posed the question, "What is economic development?"
Bouncing off Fowler's job figure, he said "jobs" is the definition of economic development.
Plotnik represents a seven-county area of economic development.
"We live in a blessed area," he said mentioning the Eagle Ford Shale.
"Corpus Christi's value today is $16.5 billion," he said.
And he said an additional $20 billion is being worked on.
He said manufacturing from China, Austria, Italy, South Korea and others have or have a desire to come to South Texas.
"I was in China three weeks ago. All they wanted to talk about was Corpus Christi," he said.
This was because one of China's largest pipe building companies – Tianjin Pipe Company – is building a $1 billion manufacturing plant next to Gregory. It means hundreds of jobs.
"It opened up the flood gate for more Chinese industries," Plotnik said.
He mentioned another shale formation called the Pearsall Shale that is reportedly bigger than the Eagle Ford Shale. The Pearsall Shale is underneath Eagle Ford Shale.
He said it would afford another 25 years – "Unlimited gas."
He noted that the unemployment rate went from 8 percent to 5.7 percent in Corpus Christi.
He said the challenge to all of us is to practice long-range thinking and make tough decisions now.
"The area is going to be global," he said.
Spencer said a Chinese realtor is inquiring about a gated community in San Patricio County. She said the Chinese want a quality of life they can be comfortable in, so a Chinatown community.
"But we continue to have an industrial focus," she said, noting that plenty of tourism is next door in Nueces and Aransas counties.
She said her organization is considering a San Patricio Training Center.
She said much of the focus is business retention, housing, bigger workforce and more quality of life.
She said her organization also is learning how to balance agricultural and industrial industries, while preparing for new jobs.
Probst said Aransas County has about 24,000 people, a lot fewer than Corpus Christi and Victoria, but tourism is working for the county.
She said 23 years ago, hotel occupancy tax totaled about $30,000. In 2011 those HOT monies grew to $1.7 million, just in the Fulton and Rockport area.
And much has been spent on pathways.
"We have 65 miles of recreation activities," she said.
She mentioned two developments that are significant: the Islands of Rockport and the Boardwalk at St. Chalres Bay.
Currently, she said 20 vacant buildings have been identified, and they are targeted to be filled.
Woodsboro Superintendent Steve Self asked what should high schools do to help students' careers.
Plotnik suggested apprenticeships.
"A lot of schools are seeking credit for juniors and seniors through "apprenticeship" credits.
He said it was a vocational path that many students prefer.
"High schools are coming around. Men and women want to go into those skill sets," he said.
Fierova thanked the directors for coming and introduced Victor Garza, prime candidate for the Refugio County economic directorship.
Garza is currently a policy writer in Washington, D.C. but hails from Alice. He is an attorney but does not have a practice.


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(13) Heather, December 24, 2013 9:33 PM
Nice job, very informative and thanks for sharing.
(12) Anonymous, December 5, 2013 4:55 PM
That video was so inspirational!!!
It so clearly depicted all of Jewish history!
It reminded me of the famous story (.. they even made a song out of it http://grooveshark.com/s/The Man From Vilna/4wllto?src=5) about how after the Holocaust a few Jews gathered to dance on Simchas torah in a destroyed synagogue hoping to find a Sefer Torah only to discover there where none...until someone picked up a Child and danced with the child - The Jewish Nation WILL live on ....
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What about the Macabees????
Yes, of course the miracle of the oil is significant, however, what about the Macabees? They did not want to assimilate like so many other Jews at that time. For so few, they took a stand, not to give up and not to assimilate. They fought and they won. They are the true miracle. We should hear more about them and not just about the oil in the Temple.. Just saying......
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Well from Nice in 2000 the last time it was held, who can remember Slutskaya's comeback, Butryskaya's scene d'amour superb SP, the emotional free of Vanessa Gusmeroli to Legends of the Fall and the turn around of Michelle Kwan to come back and take her third title with Red Violin.
Well this year the climax to 2012, only Carolina Kostner from last year's medalists is here and in fact she is the favourite for the title. Carolina has 2 very good programs again this year, she has scaled her technical content to make it more comfortable for her, her speed is slightly less but her artistry and transitional moves are second to none. If she nails her basic content then her maiden World crown should come here and she needs to grab it before the russian armada come!!
The likely challenge should come from 2 time Champion Mao Asada who seems to have got a rid of her problems and transitional coaching change from last year to have a decent solid season. Mao has the technical arsenal to upset the apple cart and will need it to challenge Kostner and the others.
The first tier of potential medalists are:
Akiko Suzuki Akiko must know that this is the best year for her to medal on the world stage in only her second visit to World's. Her strengths are her speed, charm and overall charisma that go along to effortless flow around the ice. Akiko has the technical content to challenge and perhaps steal the Gold, her artistry and transitional moves are good too, watch out for her haircut spin on outside edge.
Ashley Wagner Wow!! Ashley what a transformation and she is a possible medalist here, lot of hype and many people think she would medal here, she would probably need that triple triple combo and that could possibly make or break her here. Her programs are very good, the best I have seen from her. I love the Pollock SP and adore the Black Swan LP too.
Alena Leonova From the first tier it was hard to find the last of the top five and I have stuck my neck out and say Alena, I think she will be determined to redeem herself here, her strength is her mentality and overall personality on the ice. We shall see.
The second tier of skaters to round the top ten are:
Kanako Murakami Decent season for her, I absolutely love her Violin Muse SP WOW!!, her inconsistency and UR's could let her down and still not there with her artistry still a lot of small gaps in between moves.
Elene Gedevanishvili Elene is back Big Time!! and her coaching change has been a very good one with Mr Orser, adore her SP tango number, her strengths are her triple lutz, spins and steps.
Polina Korobyenikova Polina took my breath away at Euro's I did not really expect that from her at just 15, her LP to "Otonal" was SUPER!! She has the technical arsenal to win the TES on her LP but her PCS will let her down and maybe this year she will fall short, but we shall see.
Alissa Czisny Alissa was at the top of the stairs from the start of the season where she left off from last season, but seems to be at the bottom of the stairs at the moment, not sure whether she has a niggling injury or whether her confidence has been knocked, at the start of the season I thought she might be a medal contender again this season, but not sure as we head to Nice, but we shall see, she certainly is around a very good training camp - Sato and Dungjen are the best to deal with Alissa right now. her strengths are obviously her spins and artistry but her LP can labour at times.
Viktoria Helgesson I have again stuck my neck out and put Helgesson in the second tier, was between her and Makarova - but I feel Makarova's Free will let her down. Vika has beautiful programs this year, I cherish Her funny valentine SP and love her LP to sunset boulevard, she will be the Kiira Korpi here!! (*Korpi has been forced to withdraw due to injury - we wish her a speedy recovery). Strengths for Vika are her triple loop spins and artistry.


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