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Jim Kozyra (happily married) and Kyle Zornes (microwaves most meals) put six years of friendship to the test as they perform a two-man improvised show. Chances are, it won't be as bad as it could be.
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- As early as Week 2, 50% of patients treated with REMICADE® achieved ASAS 20 response vs 12% with placebo (P<0.001)2,3
- At 6 months, 3 out of 5 patients (60%) treated with REMICADE® achieved ASAS 20 response vs 18% with placebo (P<0.001)2†
- At 6 months, 44% of patients treated with REMICADE® achieved ASAS 50 response vs 9% with placebo (P<0.001)2‡
- At 6 months, 28% of patients treated with REMICADE® achieved ASAS 70 response vs just 4% with placebo (P<0.001)2‡
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Serious and sometimes fatal side effects have been reported with REMICADE® (infliximab). Infections due to bacterial, mycobacterial, invasive fungal, viral, or other opportunistic pathogens (e.g., TB, histoplasmosis) have been reported. Lymphoma, including cases of fatal hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma, and other malignancies have been reported, including in children and young adult patients. REMICADE® is contraindicated in patients with severe hypersensitivity reactions to REMICADE® and certain patients with congestive heart failure. Other serious side effects reported include melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma, hepatitis B reactivation, hepatotoxicity, hematological events, hypersensitivity, neurological events, and lupus-like syndrome. Please see related and other Important Safety Information.
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The 210 well-appointed rooms consist of 34 Boat Suites , 8 Honeymoon Suites , 115 Premier Rooms, 11 Poolside Terrace Rooms and 42 Superior Rooms. All rooms and suites provide large private terrace with garden or pool view and are non-smoking rooms.
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Presidential First Lady. She was born Louise Henry in Waterloo, Iowa the daughter of a banker. The family relocated to California when she was ten. Her father combined outdoor camping with education introducing her to the study of rocks, minerals and mining. They hunted on horseback and she became an expert hunter and rider. These interest would lead her to the future President Herbert Hoover. Lou was the first woman to major in geology and receive a degree at Stanford. She met Herbert in a Geology Laboratory where he was a student majoring in mining. Upon receiving her degree, she was married and the newlyweds left at once for China where Herbert began a career as a mining engineer eventually working in a dozen foreign lands. She along with two small children worked by his side even carrying a gun during the Boxer Rebellion. During World War I her husband administered emergency relief programs for the government and was soon appointed Secretary of Commerce. While in Washington, Lou began a long and active participation in the Girl Scouts which culminated in the presidency of the organization. The family moved into the White House after the election in 1929 and were promptly greeted by the stock market crash leading to the great depression. The Hoover administration was paralyzed and the family was further alienated from the public by their wealth. Thousands of needy families wrote requesting financial support. Lou gave the first radio address ever by a first lady regarding the Depression and ways to cope with the situation. She was in favor of prohibition and ordered a case of whiskey and poured it down the drain as a symbolic gesture. She paid with her own money for restoration projects in the White House and to stage social events. The country suffered worsening economic depression. After being swept out of the White House by a landslide defeat, they retired to Palo, Alto, California while maintaining an apartment in New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. After attending a concert, she returned to the Waldorf retiring to her bedroom for a brief nap. She suffered an acute heart attack which eventually took her life at the age of 69. The family took her back to Palo, Alto where she was interred. Herbert Hoover died at the age of 90 in the same apartment. However, He was buried at his boyhood home in West Branch, Iowa. His wife was transferred from California and reinterred next to him on a hillside site which he personally selected. West Branch has become the Hoover Library and on the 148 acre site are many restored structures from the area including his tiny birth cottage.
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In the Feb. 13 edition of the Refugio County Press, a writer wrote "Get the Rules," and said another letter was the worst letter he had ever read, in reference to one in the Feb. 5 edition of the Refugio County Press.
I am going as him, why did he write the same words? Bernice Macias wrote "you can vote for anybody you want."
This man wrote take my advice, "You can vote for anybody you want!" I am going to ask this man to open his Bible, turn to Matthew 7:2 – "The same way you judge others, you will be judged, by the same measure!" Also, Romans 2:1 – "Thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art that judges; for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judges does the same!"


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Every year about 7,000 Academy Members cast their vote. Then, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, an accounting firm, takes care of tabulation of all ballots. (credit: Getty Images)
In 1989, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince or as we know him today, Will Smith were announced the first GRAMMY winners for a Rap Performance in 1989. (credit: Getty Images)
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Earlier this morning, my son's preschool teacher innocently put a small smiley face sticker onto Baby B's hand. She was very excited and staring at it all the way to the car, and as I buckled her seat. I STUPIDLY didn't take the sticker off her hand, and got in, buckled up and drove to the store. Halfway there, Busy B says "mom, the baby threw up" and sure enough, I looked in the mirror to see her throwing up again. IEW. Gross. She was acting fine so I didn't pull right over and went to the next parking lot I could pull into and got out to assess the situation. Guess what she threw up with her breakfast? That cute little smiley face sticker. Not so innocent anymore. Pushing aside my mother-of-the-year guilt, I got her unbuckled and cleaned up as best I could, only to realize, I've been so lax about diaper bag items that I had nothing for clothes for her except a pair of her brother's socks. Thankfully our BJ's sells kids clothes and I was able to go buy her an outfit to put on right away- but IEW. (That sticker got expensive fast!!)
After we got home, I set to cleaning up the mess in the carseat. Anyone who's ever experienced this rite of passage knows it isn't pretty nor is it fun. I wasn't even sure where to begin so I started with the hose sprayer and asked Busy B to grab me a rag. She came out with the ShamWow– of As Seen on TV fame- which I'd used for cleaning but never would have thought to grab. She's a smart kid, have I told you that? She clearly knew better than I that something so superbly absorbant as a ShamWow was what I needed to help clean up this mess. It really did soak up all the liquid, and made cleanup a LOT easier and quicker for me. Plus, the cloth itself I was able to hose off outside and just toss into the diaper pail to be washed this afternoon. VERY very grateful to have such a product around to grab!!
If you do have small children who throw up on occasion (read: if you have small children) I may make the suggestion that you join me in keeping a ShamWow tucked away in a corner of your vehicle, because you may find yourself in a situation like me and be very, very grateful that you have it.
I'd write more but I've got to go get the seat cover out of the wash and hang it on the clothesline so I can have it dry for tomorrow morning!
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The University of Wyoming men's basketball team enters another tough week in the Mountain West when the Cowboys host No. 20/22 New Mexico on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Arena-Auditorium. The Pokes (15-4, 2-4 MW) face their third ranked foe of the season in the league-leading Lobos (17-3, 4-1 MW). The matchup features two of the best defenses in the conference, but both squads are coming off losses in which their offenses struggled.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Wyoming Athletics Ticket Office at 877-WYO-FAN1 (877-996-3261) or online at GoWYO.com. Fans can follow live stats and live video of Wyoming's game through the men's basketball Gameday Central page on the website. The live video is subject to blackout. The contest will also be broadcast on the radio by the Cowboy Sports Network and televised by ROOT Sports (Optimum: channel 23; DirecTV: 683; Dish Network: 414). Check your cable or satellite provider for channel info.
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Head coach Steve Alford has continued his success into his sixth season at New Mexico and looks to have the Lobos poised for another run in the NCAA Tournament. The Lobos enter the week at 17-3 overall and 4-1 in the league for first in the MW standings and No. 20/22 in the respective national polls. UNM started the conference slate with a perfect 4-0 record, including three wins by five points, before falling at San Diego State by a score of 55-34 last Saturday. Much like the Pokes, the Lobos struggled from the field, shooting just 25 percent (11-of-44) for their lowest percentage since 1965. UNM's 34 points were its fewest in the shot-clock era. The Lobos average 67.3 points per game for seventh in the MW on 40 percent from the field and 33 percent from deep. UNM is fifth in the league in scoring defense at 61.3 points per game and allow opponents 39 percent from the field and 34 percent beyond the arc. UNM's plus 2.2 rebounding margin is fifth in the MW and 4.0 blocks per game are fourth.
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Preseason All-MW selection Kendall Williams leads the Lobos at 14.1 points and 4.3 assists per game. The junior guard ranks second in the MW in assists and fifth at the free throw line at 79 percent. Junior guard Tony Snell contributes 12.4 points and 2.7 assists, while sophomore center Alex Kirk adds 11.4 points and a team-high 7.6 rebounds. Snell has earned MW Player of the Week once this season and Kirk twice. Sophomore guard Hugh Greenwood averages 7.2 points and 5.1 rebounds and senior forward/guard Chad Adams rounds out UNM's probable starters at 5.6 points and 4.0 rebounds. Nine different Lobos have made at least one start this season. Williams scored 14 points at San Diego State.
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The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Christopher Fashun, will present their fall concert in Sauder Concert Hall.
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I keep reading that you should offer 2 snacks in addition to the 3 meals. When do you all have snacktime? My DS's schedule is:
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Where do I fit in a snack? There just doesn't seem to be time. Maybe his meals are too big? DS was underweight for a while so when we started solids, we were urged to feed him until he was full and he eats quite a lot at mealtime.
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Vienna mayor supports home rule for city
VIENNA – Mayor Randy Rapp said he would be in favor of home rule in Vienna if the pilot program passes in the state Legislature this session.
He said the legislation could allow for Wood County to operate more smoothly.
"Other cities have (accepted the bill)," Rapp said Wednesday. "(The bill) offers all of us an opportunity to shape ordinances to benefit our citizens."
Four cities in the state have home rule after the Legislature offered cities the option five years ago.
Charleston, Huntington, Wheeling and Bridgeport have been participating in the initial pilot program. The Legislature is considering allowing the four cities to continue participating in home rule and adding 10 slots for other cities.
The bill opens the program to towns with 2,000 or fewer people.
Rapp said he attended a meeting in Charleston to hear the mayors of the four cities discuss home rule. Home rule grants cities more control over certain issues, such as taxation, licensing and the removal of abandoned houses.
The new bill forbids new taxes except a 1 percent sales tax if a city or town reduces or erases its business and occupation tax, officials said.
Other areas not affected in the new program would include annexation, pensions, criminal justice, projects funded through tax revenue sharing, environmental laws, and coal mining or other natural resource extraction. No proposed changes could apply to people or property outside municipal boundaries.
Rapp said the mayors in the program spoke highly of home rule as did officials in Parkersburg at the city council meeting he attended Tuesday night.
"From my part I think it's something the city of Vienna needs to consider," Rapp said. "I'm glad I went (to the Parkersburg City Council meeting); some of the people had some questions about it and I think that's a good thing."
Rapp said city officials are in the learning process about home rule but he hopes council will approve the idea to move forward in applying to be one of the new cities considered for the program.
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Ed Miliband helps to raise £14K for Norwood's work
February 20, 2012
Ed Miliband commended Norwood's "important work" as he helped the charity to raise £14,000 at its third annual YN current affairs reception. The Labour Party leader said the charity "has a well deserved reputation for its vital services which allow thousands of people to achieve their goals". Mr Miliband was interviewed by Michael White, assistant editor of the Guardian, before the floor was thrown open to questions from guests. Topics included the Big Society, bankers' bonuses, and his Jewish heritage. The event, held at the London offices of law firm Norton Rose, attracted more than 150 people.
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What is yoga?
Yoga is a spiritual tradition that began in India about 5,000 years ago. Historically its practices have been adopted by such religions as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. However, the practice of yoga is compatible with any religion, as well as atheism.
The word yoga means union in Sanskrit. Many of the yoga traditions believe that the practices of yoga lead to union of a person with his or her true nature, or with God or the universe (however one wishes to conceptualize it). How this is interpreted and the means employed to get there differ in the various yoga traditions.
Patanjali, author of the classic yoga text, the Yoga Sutra, defined yoga as the quieting of the fluctuations of the mind. From a yogic perspective, the mind, and its ceaseless internal monologue, is the source of suffering. The various yoga practices serve to calm the mind. From a wellspring of relaxed concentration-the hallmark of yoga-comes inner peace, heightened creativity, and awareness of our essential nature.
When people in the West hear the word yoga, they usually think of the stretching and strengthening poses known as asana [AHS ah nah], which are the primary focus of most yoga classes. But asana is only one aspect of a multidimensional system that includes:
- Breathing practices, known as pranayama
- Meditation techniques
- Moral precepts against stealing, lying, doing harm to yourself and others, etc.
- Chanting
- Selfless service such as volunteer work, known as karma yoga
- Visualization exercises
- Study of yoga philosophy
How can it benefit your health and wellbeing?
There appear to be numerous benefits from the practice of yoga.
Arguably the most comprehensive method of stress-reduction ever developed, yoga offers numerous tools to shift the balance of the autonomic nervous system to the parasympathetic side, calm the mind, and lower the levels of stress hormones such as cortisol.
This is likely to be of benefit not just for those suffering from burnout and such stress-related conditions as insomnia and irritable bowel syndrome, but also in the treatment and prevention of leading causes of death, including heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, all of which may be adversely affected by high levels of stress.
Beyond stress reduction, the practice of yoga has other health benefits, including increased strength and flexibility, better balance and coordination, improved reaction times, better lung function, heightened cardiovascular conditioning, and weight loss.
Psychological benefits of practice include relaxation, greater equanimity, better concentration, and improved mood.
There is substantial overlap between yoga practices and other mind-body therapies. Biofeedback techniques, in which patients are taught to tune into sensations in their body and regulate their breathing in order to facilitate relaxation of muscles, relieve stress or warm their hands and feet, are based on yogic principles.
In addition to mind-body therapies, yoga practices have been adapted in manual therapies. A number of physical exercises used in rehabilitation from injuries are based on yoga asana (postures). One example is the gentle backbends often used after back injuries.
What does the research show?
There has been an increased amount of research (particularly randomized controlled trials) on yoga's effects throughout the past few decades. Types of medical conditions have included psychopathological (e.g. depression and anxiety), cardiovascular (e.g. hypertension, heart disease), respiratory (e.g. asthma), diabetes, and others.
Most of this research comes from India, although there is increasing contribution from researchers in the U.S. and England. Not all of this research is of high quality methodologically, but in recent years the quality has generally improved. Although standardized protocols have been developed to meet the needs of scientific study, most yoga, and particularly yoga therapy, is personalized to the individual and is not strictly based on the Western medical diagnosis.
In addition, different techniques have different effects on each individual and even on one individual at different times or stages in his or her practice. Thus, what is typically measured in scientific studies of yoga doesn't reflect what usually happens in the real world. Yogis would also argue that the one-size-fits-all approaches used in clinical studies are likely to be much less effective than a personal yoga practice.
Scientific studies have found yoga as a useful adjunct to the care of such conditions as asthma, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and heart disease.
In addition, in both India and the West, yoga is used therapeutically for many conditions based largely on experiential evidence. In North America, workshops are offered on hatha yoga for people with such conditions as HIV/AIDS, scoliosis, back pain, depression, pregnancy, and cancer.
Where can I find a practitioner?
There are no universal standards or accreditation for either yoga teachers or yoga therapists. However, the Yoga Alliance is a national non-profit organization that certifies teachers from different traditions at either the 200- or 500-hour level of training.
Currently no states require licensure or certification for yoga teachers or therapists, although that may change in coming years.
The training and certification of yoga teachers will vary greatly. It is helpful to ask prospective teachers to describe the following:
- What style of yoga do they practice? (Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram, Anusara, Kripaulu, etc)
- How long have they been practicing yoga?
- What teacher training have they received?
- Do they have any other related physical training or education, such as anatomy and physiology?
- How do they modify the poses for those with physical or other limitations?
- What general safety guidelines do they suggest for the practice of yoga?
- What do they charge for the classes and are there any other fees?
Where can I get more information?
Bikram's Yoga College of India
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health


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Related Reading
Java Web Services
This excerpt from O'Reilly's Java Web Services focuses on UDDI programming with the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR).
Now that we've looked at a simple SOAP client to build a request by hand, and a client that uses a UDDI API to build a request with slightly higher-level tools, let's proceed to the next level of abstraction: the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR). JAXR is a uniform approach to accessing a registry that advertises business information and services in XML. JAXR attempts to provide a single API that can access many different kinds of registries, including ISO 11179, OASIS, eCo Framework, ebXML, and UDDI (although the reference implementation can access only a UDDI registry).
The JAXR reference implementation is unique because it requires Tomcat for the client implementation! This requirement is somewhat odd, but fortunately, it is only a characteristic of the reference implementation. The provider implementations created by vendors will probably be simple libraries that don't require an external server such as Tomcat. You can get JAXR and Systinet WASP UDDI Standard to use the same Tomcat installation; details on how to accomplish this installation are in this chapter's README.txt file. When installing and configuring JAXR on your machine, make sure that the .jaxr.properties file included with this chapter's examples is placed in your home directory. On a Unix system, this directory is the ~/ directory; on NT or Windows 2000, the home directory is given by the value of the
%USERPROFILE% environment variable. To run the program to search for Demi Credit using JAXR, use this command:
java JAXRFindBusiness "Demi Credit"
The following output should be seen on the console:
Query string is Demi Credit
JAXR Reference Implementation -- logging started
Org name: Demi Credit
Org description: A smaller demo credit agency used for illustrating UDDI inquiry
Org key id: 892ac280-c16b-11d5-85ad-801eef208714
Contact name: David Tarnov
Since you should now have a better understanding of how these UDDI queries work, this example provides a more thorough parsing of the response message. This program provides a formatted output, rather than simply dumping an XML document to the screen. The code for this client is in the file JAXRFindBusiness.java. Here is the source code in its entirety:
import javax.xml.registry.*;
import javax.xml.registry.infomodel.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
* This is the FindBusiness UDDI example implemented using
* the JAXR libraries and the reference implementation
* JAXR provider for accessing a UDDI registry.
public class JAXRFindBusiness {
public JAXRFindBusiness( ) {}
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length != 1) {
System.out.println("Usage: java " +
"JAXRFindBusiness <query-string>");
String queryString = new String(args[0]);
System.out.println("Query string is " + queryString);
public static void doQuery(String qString) {
Connection conn = null;
// Define connection configuration properties
// To query, you need only the query URL
Properties props = new Properties( );
try {
// Create the connection, passing it the
// configuration properties
ConnectionFactory factory =
ConnectionFactory.newInstance( );
conn = factory.createConnection( );
// Get registry service and query manager
RegistryService rs = conn.getRegistryService( );
BusinessQueryManager bqm = rs.getBusinessQueryManager( );
// Define find qualifiers and name patterns
Collection qualifiers = new ArrayList( );
Collection namePatterns = new ArrayList( );
// Find using the name
BulkResponse response =
namePatterns, null, null, null, null);
Collection orgs = response.getCollection( );
// Display information about the organizations found
Iterator orgIter = orgs.iterator( );
while (orgIter.hasNext( )) {
Organization org =
(Organization) orgIter.next( );
System.out.println("Org name: " + getName(org));
System.out.println("Org description: " +
System.out.println("Org key id: " + getKey(org));
// Display primary contact information
User pc = org.getPrimaryContact( );
if (pc != null) {
PersonName pcName = pc.getPersonName( );
System.out.println(" Contact name: " +
pcName.getFullName( ));
Collection phNums =
pc.getTelephoneNumbers(pc.getType( ));
Iterator phIter = phNums.iterator( );
while (phIter.hasNext( )) {
TelephoneNumber num =
(TelephoneNumber) phIter.next( );
System.out.println(" Phone number: " +
num.getNumber( ));
Collection eAddrs = pc.getEmailAddresses( );
Iterator eaIter = eAddrs.iterator( );
while (phIter.hasNext( )) {
System.out.println(" Email Address: " +
(EmailAddress) eaIter.next( ));
// Display service and binding information
Collection services = org.getServices( );
Iterator svcIter = services.iterator( );
while (svcIter.hasNext( )) {
Service svc = (Service) svcIter.next( );
System.out.println(" Service name: " +
System.out.println(" Service description: " +
Collection serviceBindings =
svc.getServiceBindings( );
Iterator sbIter = serviceBindings.iterator( );
while (sbIter.hasNext( )) {
ServiceBinding sb =
(ServiceBinding) sbIter.next( );
System.out.println(" Binding " +
"Description: " +
System.out.println(" Access URI: " +
sb.getAccessURI( ));
// Print spacer between organizations
System.out.println(" --- ");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace( );
} finally {
// At end, close connection to registry
if (conn != null) {
try {
conn.close( );
} catch (JAXRException je) {}
private static String getName(RegistryObject ro) throws JAXRException {
try {
return ro.getName().getValue( );
} catch (NullPointerException npe) {
return "";
private static String getDescription(RegistryObject ro) throws JAXRException {
try {
return ro.getDescription().getValue( );
} catch (NullPointerException npe) {
return "";
private static String getKey(RegistryObject ro) throws JAXRException {
try {
return ro.getKey().getId( );
} catch (NullPointerException npe) {
return "";
JAXR uses
javax.xml.registry for the base package name for all of its classes. The
main( ) method for this program parses a single parameter, which is the query string to use as the business name in the request:
import javax.xml.registry.*;
import javax.xml.registry.infomodel.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
* This is the FindBusiness UDDI example implemented using
* the JAXR libraries and the reference implementation
* JAXR provider for accessing a UDDI registry.
public class JAXRFindBusiness {
public JAXRFindBusiness( ) {}
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Parameter parsing, not entirely relevant
In this Series
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 4
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 2
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 1
Most work for this program takes place in the
doQuery( ) method. A client program first needs to create a connection to the service provider. In our case, the service provider is our local UDDI registry running at http://localhost:8080/wasp/uddi/inquiry/. To create the connection, we create a
Properties object and fill it with relevant information: the
javax.xml.registry.queryManagerURL value should be the URL of the UDDI registry that you are accessing, while the
javax.xml.registry.factoryClass is the class that implements a
ConnectionFactory object. Different JAXR providers provide different values for this property; the JAXR reference implementation uses
com.sun.xml.registry.uddi.ConnectionFactoryImpl. Finally, the client code creates an instance of the
ConnectionFactory class, associates the properties with this class, and then creates a
Connection object using the
createConnection( ) method:
public static void doQuery(String qString) {
Connection conn = null;
// Define connection configuration properties
// To query, you need only the query URL
Properties props = new Properties( );
try {
// Create the connection, passing it the
// configuration properties
ConnectionFactory factory =
ConnectionFactory.newInstance( );
conn = factory.createConnection( );
Once we have a connection to a service provider, we need to connect to a
RegistryService object. Since different registries support different types of services, a
RegistryService object tells your program exactly which services the registry supports. For example, some registries allow declarative SQL queries (UDDI does not). The
RegistryService interface has methods for telling a program the registry's capabilities and returning manager objects that support a particular type of capability. For business requests, such as the requests that UDDI supports, the
BusinessQueryManager interface must be used. To retrieve a reference to a
BusinessQueryManager object, call the
getBusinessQueryManager( ) method on a
RegistryService object:
// Get registry service and query manager
RegistryService rs = conn.getRegistryService( );
BusinessQueryManager bqm = rs.getBusinessQueryManager( );
BusinessQueryManager interface has a series of
findXXX( ) methods that perform different types of queries. Different methods query for different items; for example, the
findOrganizations( ) method queries a registry for business information, while the
findServices( ) method asks for different services that may or may not be available. Most methods take one or more
Collection objects as input; these objects refine the query using qualifiers. The first parameter of the
findOrganizations( ) method takes a
Collection of find qualifiers that refines how the query should be performed. Find qualifiers can apply a sort or restrict the number of entries that are returned; in this case, we ask that the responses be sorted by name. The second parameter of the
findOrganizations( ) takes a
Collection of name patterns to apply to the search. To populate this
Collection, we add the business name that we read from the command line. The other parameters (all set to
null in this example) take qualifiers that search for businesses based upon classifications, specifications supported, external identifiers, and external URLs, respectively. The query returns a
BulkResponse object that can be checked for exceptions from the server or converted to a
// Define find qualifiers and name patterns
Collection qualifiers = new ArrayList( );
Collection namePatterns = new ArrayList( );
// Find using the name
BulkResponse response =
namePatterns, null, null, null, null);
Collection orgs = response.getCollection( );
The rest of the program is responsible for iterating through the output and formatting it for display on the screen. It's a bit wordy, so it's not included again here. A client application would use the information retrieved from the query to perform other queries or to leverage a particular service.
As you undoubtedly noticed, the JAXR API is more complicated than the Systinet API. JAXR does not have class representations for each UDDI XML structure; instead, we have to work with query managers and lists of various qualifiers. Working with the Systinet API is convenient because every class has an XML counterpart with the same name. You pay a price for abstraction, though: the Systenet client is tied to UDDI, while the JAXR client could conceivably make a similar request from a different kind of registry with little or no modification.
find_ messages are designed to return basic information about the structures that a UDDI registry manages. Given the UUID to one of the major data structures, you can drill down into the registry to get a full listing of the details stored in that structure. The UDDI inquiry API provides a series of messages that begin with
get_ for retrieving information from the registry. Table 6-3 lists these messages.
Message name
Response document
Brief description
Given one or more UUIDs of different
Given one or more UUIDs of different
Given one or more UUIDs of different
Given one or more UUIDs of different
All of these messages are fairly straightforward. As long as you can get a valid UUID for the data structure you are interested in, you can get its details. In the
<find_business> example for Demi Credit, the response document indicated that Demi Credit had published a web service named
DCAmail with the UUID
860eca90-c16d-11d5-85ad-801eef208714. Let's send a
<get_serviceDetail> message to get all of the information about this web service. To get this information, we'll use the
UDDISoapClient program from our previous examples to send a handwritten XML document. This document contains a
<get_serviceDetail> message using the UUID for the
DCAmail web service. Here's a listing of Ch6_GetServiceDetail.xml:
<uddi:get_serviceDetail generic="2.0">
<get_serviceDetail> message doesn't have any optional attributes; it has only one subelement,
<serviceKey>, which is the UUID of the web service for which you want more detail. The
<get_serviceDetail> message can accept one or more
<serviceKey> subelements on which to query. Here is the response document returned by the UDDI server:
<serviceDetail generic="2.0" operator="SYSTINET" xmlns="urn:uddi-org:api_v2">
<businessService businessKey="9a26b6e0-c15f-11d5-85a3-801eef208714"
<name xml:lang="en">DCAmail</name>
<description xml:lang="en">Get credit assessment by email</description>
<bindingTemplate bindingKey="f9274a50-c16f-11d5-85ad-801eef208714"
<description xml:lang="en">The address to which you should send the name
and address of your credit report target</description>
<accessPoint URLType="mailto">mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com</accessPoint>
<description xml:lang="en">The smtp protocol is used when sending
<description xml:lang="en">Describes how to use this
<description xml:lang="en">The namespace in which our credit numbers
are used.</description>
<keyedReference keyName="Personal credit agencies"
<keyedReference keyName="Credit agencies"
<keyedReference keyName="Netherlands"
<keyedReference keyName="France"
<keyedReference keyName="Belgium"
<keyedReference keyName="Business credit agencies"
<keyedReference keyName="Luxembourg"
<keyedReference keyName="Germany, Federal Republic of"
This document contains a
<businessService> structure, which is a logical grouping of web services by a business. In the case of Demi Credit, this grouping lists a number of web services that allow you to do a credit check via email. The returned
<businessService> has a single
<bindingTemplate> that provides technical details of how to access the web service. The
<accessPoint> is the web service endpoint URL. In this case, it is a simple email address: mailto:email@example.com.
More importantly, the
<bindingTemplate> has two
<tModelInstanceInfo> documents that show where to find more information about how this web service runs and the specifications it supports. Each
<tModelInstanceInfo> document contains a
tModelKey attribute, which is the UUID of a
<tModel> structure that contains a particular specification's metadata. The
<tModelInstanceInfo> document also contains an
<instanceDetails> subelement that contains a description of how to use the web service.
<businessService> document also contains a
<categoryBag> structure.
<categoryBag> documents can appear with
<businessService>, and
<tModel> documents.
Categorization of data was an important requirement during the development of UDDI. Categorization allows data in a UDDI registry to be associated with an industry, product, or geographic code set. Some obvious problems come with the use of categories; they should be familiar to anyone who's ever searched for something on the Web. Broad categories, such as manufacturing, can return thousands of matching services and businesses--certainly too many to sift through manually. On the other hand, specific categories, such as "manufacturing in Buffalo," might be too specific to return any results.
It's probably not realistic to expect software to dynamically discover and use new businesses on the fly in the near future. Realistically, human analysts need to browse a UDDI portal that allows customized searches and queries to discover the businesses they are interested in working with. It's more likely that software will contain the logic necessary to locate and integrate with web services for companies that have been predetermined. It's also likely that businesses will set up private UDDI registries that they can share with their approved partners to facilitate B2B integration.
Many categorization systems can be used on data within UDDI. These systems are summarized in Table 6-4. Each taxonomy categorization is registered as a
<tModel> structure within UDDI. This registration means that each categorization has a
tModel name and UUID that can be used to reference it. The
tModel name is the same in all UDDI registries, but the UUID for the
tModel may change between operator nodes.
Taxonomy name
tModel name
The North American Industry Classification system. Hundreds of classifications are in this system, including "Pet supply stores," "Hazardous waste collection," and "Diet and weight reducing centers." More information can be found at http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html.
The Universal Standard Products and Services Classification. It is the first system to classify products and services for worldwide use. More information can be found at http://www.unspsc.org.
International standard geographical regions. This taxonomy includes codes for countries and their administrative support staffs. More information can be found at http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma.
General-purpose associations that a business might want to make. This taxonomy allows operator nodes to promote invalid entries or entries that would otherwise be rejected by another classification system. There is no specification on how this works; it is operator-node specific.
<categoryBag> structure contains zero or more
<keyedReference> structures. Each
<keyedReference> structure contains the name and value of a category to which the data element belongs. In the previous
<businessService> example, the
<categoryBag> had eight
<keyedReference> subelements. Three
<keyedReference> subelements were for NAICS categorizations; the other five were for ISO 3166 country categorizations.
Determining which categorization a
<keyedReference> belongs to can be difficult, but more details can be discovered by looking up the
<tModel> document, using the
tModelKey attribute that is also part of a
<keyedReference>. If you look at the
<categoryBag>, you will notice that three of the
<keyedReference> elements have the same
tModelKey value and the other five attributes have a different
tModelKey value. For example, here is one of the ISO 3166 country categorization
<keyedReference> elements returned as part of the
<keyedReference keyName="Netherlands"
keyName value identifies the categorization. It is also a textual name given to the categorization. The
keyValue is the categorization code, as identified by the specification. The categorization code is guaranteed to be unique. The
tModelKey value is the UUID of a
<tModel> document that provides metadata of the specification that this categorization supports.
An identifier is a type of property or keyword used to uniquely identify a business or specification. Identifiers can be applied to
<businessEntity> and
<tModel> structures. Identifiers, like categorizations, can be used as part of a search when doing a
<find_business> or
<find_tModel> request message.
Identifiers and categorizations are implemented similarly. Identifiers are attached to
<businessEntity> and
<tModel> documents through an
<identifierBag> structure. The
<identifierBag> structure can have one or more
<keyedReference> structures that provide the name, value, and
<tModel> UUID reference for locating more information.
At this time, only two general-purpose identifier schemes have been incorporated into all operator nodes, but other schemes can be used as well. Table 6-5 lists the identifier types that are a core part of an operator node.
Identifier name
tModel name
The Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S number is a unique nine-digit identification sequence. This sequence provides unique identifiers for single business entities, while linking corporate family structures. More information can be found at http://www.d-u-n-s.com.
Thomas Register
This scheme provides identifiers for over 150,000 manufacturing and
<tModel> documents provide metadata information about a web service specification, categorization specification, or identifier specification.
<tModel> documents are a core data structure in the UDDI specification and represent the most detailed information that a UDDI registry can provide about any specification.
Looking at Demi Credit, we can see that the DCAmail
<businessService> has a
<bindingTemplate> with two
<tModelInstanceInfo> documents. Each
<tModelInstanceInfo> document contains a
tModelKey attribute that is the UUID of a
<tModel> document representing information about the supporting specification. There are also
tModelKey attributes for each
<keyedReference> structure that was part of the
<categoryBag>. We can use the
UDDISoapClient to retrieve the
<tModel> document for any of these UUIDs. Let's get the
<tModel> document for
uuid:93335d49-3efb-48a0-acea-ea102b60ddc6, which is a specification implemented by the
DCAmail web service. Here is the listing of Ch6_GetTModelDetail.xml, which is used as the body of the SOAP request:
<uddi:get_tModelDetail generic="2.0">
The resulting response is saved as Ch6_GetTModelDetail_OUTPUT.xml:
<tModelDetail generic="2.0" operator="SYSTINET" xmlns="urn:uddi-org:api_v2">
<tModel authorizedName="admin"
<description xml:lang="en">E-mail based web service</description>
<keyedReference keyName="A transport tModel is a specific type of protocol"
authorizedName attribute is the recorded name of the individual who published this
<tModel>. The operator attribute is the certified name of the UDDI registry site that owns the master copy of the
<tModel> data. The
tModelKey is the UUID of this
<tModel>; it matches the
tModelKey for the request document. The
<name> subelement is the recorded name of the
<tModel>; it can be used as part of a search when doing a
<find_tModel> request. The
<description> subelement provides a specification's textual description. A
<tModel> can have an optional
<categoryBag> or
<identifierBag> structure as well. Finally, a
<tModel> can contain an optional
<overviewDoc> subelement, which contains a URL that points to remote descriptive information.
Publishing to a UDDI registry involves any operation that would create, update, or destroy data in a UDDI registry. Here are some key technical differences between publishing and inquiring:
<businessEntity> structure and prevent them from inserting additional data without special permissions.
The Publisher API messages that require authentication are listed in Table 6-6.
Message name
Response document
Brief description
Given a valid authentication token and a
Given a valid authentication token and the UUID of one or more
Given a valid authentication token and the UUID of one or more
Given a valid authentication token and the UUID of one or more
Given a valid authentication token and the UUID of one or more
Given a valid authentication token and the UUID of one or more
Given a valid authentication token, this message tells an operator node to discard the active authentication session, effectively logging out the client. To perform additional Publishing API operations, a new authentication token must be retrieved from the operator node by using the
Given a valid authentication token, this message returns a report that details all
Given a username and password, this message retrieves an authentication token from an operator node to be used on other Publisher API messages.
Given a valid authentication token, this message returns a complete list of
Given a valid authentication token, this message returns a complete list of
Given an authenticated token and one or more
Given an authenticated token and one or more
Given an authenticated token and one or more
Given an authenticated token and one or more
Given an authenticated token and one or more
Authentication with an operator node is typically straightforward. Most operator nodes implement a name/password scheme that allows you to retrieve an authentication token. Operator nodes that support the name/password scheme for authentication expose their authentication interface through the
<get_authToken> message. Operator nodes do not have to support this scheme for authentication and can provide alternative techniques for allowing a client to get an authentication token. Those techniques are not documented by the UDDI specifications and are specific to the operator node. An operator node also has specific ways of registering new publishers and verifying their information. The only requirement that an operator node has to adhere to is that the authentication token returned must be a text value that can be inserted in subsequent XML messages.
The Systinet WASP UDDI Standard has a preconfigured username (
admin) and password (
changeit). We can obtain an authentication token by running the
UDDISoapClient program with the Ch6_GetAuthToken.xml file as input and two command-line modifications:
java -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol
-url https://localhost:8443/wasp/uddi/publishing/
-df Ch6_GetAuthToken.xml
First, the JDK
java.net.URL class does not support HTTPS as a standard protocol. The
Message.send( ) method in the Apache SOAP library requires a
URL object as input, so enabling HTTPS is key. Enabling HTTP is done by including the -
Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol option on the command line. Using this option assumes that you have installed the jsse.jar library. This library is installed as part of Systinet WASP UDDI; if you use a different UDDI package, you may have to install JSSE yourself. Second, since we are using the Publishing API, we must access a different URL than the default that is configured for inquiries. The publishing URL for Systinet WASP UDDI is https://localhost:8443/wasp/uddi/publishing/.
TIP: Using the JSSE library directly is not for the weak of heart. In addition to setting up JSSE and enabling HTTPS as a valid protocol, SSL requires that your program have a valid client certificate to be used against the server. Fortunately, Systinet WASP UDDI Standard installs a client certificate for your use, but otherwise, you would have to create a new certificate using Java's
The real value of using a custom Java API such as Systinet's is apparent when you look at the difficulty of using the
UDDISoapClientto generate HTTPS messages. Two complete round-trip SOAP invocations have to be made and you have to go through the rigmarole of configuring SSL appropriately on the client. Systinet's library handles this situation cleanly by providing one method that retrieves your authentication credentials and other methods that use the rest of the Publishing API.
Here is the Ch6_GetAuthToken.xml document that we send to the server to request an authentication token:
<uddi:get_authToken generic="2.0" userID="admin" cred="changeit" />
<get_authToken> element doesn't have any subelements and passes the name and password as the
userID and
cred attributes, respectively. Here's the body of the SOAP response:
<authToken xmlns="urn:uddi-org:api_v2" generic="2.0" operator="SYSTINET">
The response document contains an
<authToken> element that has an
<authInfo> subelement. The value of the
<authInfo> subelement is a key that will be used as the authentication token on all other publishing messages. To write a program that makes a series of updates on a UDDI registry, you must parse the
<get_authToken> response message and store the authentication token as a
String object. Your program would then have to create a second SOAP message to perform an insert, an update, or a delete operation.
Errors can occur on any request message, whether they are part of the inquiry API or the Publishing API. UDDI errors are always returned as SOAP Fault messages. (For more information on SOAP Fault messages and their structure, refer to Chapter 4.) The subelement of a SOAP Fault
<detail> message is a UDDI
<dispositionReport> document; this document is defined in the UDDI schema. Despite being used for all error code situations,
<dispositionReport> documents are also used in some non-error situations as a status indicator. Non-error
<dispositionReport> documents are returned as part of a standard SOAP response for any UDDI
delete_ message.
UDDI SOAP Faults can be returned for dozens of reasons: expiration of an authentication token, a server that is busy and unable to handle requests, the use of invalid categorization and identifiers, unsupported APIs, etc. A full listing of error codes is contained in Appendix A of the UDDI Programmer's API specification. Here is an error that I received one time when I tried to exceed my limit for
<businessEntity> documents while using Systinet's WASP UDDI Standard:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<ns0:Fault xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<dispositionReport generic="2.0"
<result errno="10160">
<errInfo errCode="E_accountLimitExceeded">
An attempt to save more data than allowed.
<dispositionReport> has a
<result> subelement with an
errno attribute. The
<result> subelement also has an
<errInfo> subelement with an
errCode attribute. The value of the
errCode attribute must be one of the error codes that are identified in Appendix A of the UDDI Programmer's API specification. In this example, the
errCode value is
E_accountLimitExceeded. The value of the
<errInfo> element is a textual explanation of the error that can be displayed to a user.
When designing a program that interacts with a UDDI registry, your program needs to be prepared to handle SOAP Faults and react appropriately. If you want your program to parse UDDI responses intelligently, use the DOM API to parse a
<dispositionReport> structure and then implement specialized actions to handle different
errCode situations.
Abstraction APIs, such as the UDDI API provided by Systinet and JAXR, capture SOAP Faults and convert their contents into a specialized exception. This action allows you to write a program that has a familiar try/catch block to handle SOAP Fault scenarios, rather than using the DOM API to parse a
Using the rest of the Publishing API is straightforward. If you have the UUID of one major data structure element, you can use the
delete_ messages to destroy data in the registry. If you want to insert or update data in a UDDI registry, construct a valid data structure, such as a
<businessEntity>, and then use one of the
save_ messages.
Since this chapter has already covered the major talking points of every major UDDI data structure, demonstrating Publishing APIs in full form would be repetitive. At this stage, you have all the necessary tools to work with the UDDI Programmer's and Data Structure specifications.
When working with the Publishing API, keep a couple of points in mind:
Your program signals the difference between a creation and an update by the value of a document's UUID fields on a
save_ message. If a
save_ message is used for updating an existing document in a UDDI registry, the value of the existing document's UUID is placed in the input document's UUID field. If a
save_ message is used to create a new document in a UDDI registry, the UUID should be left blank. For example, if you wanted to update a
<businessEntity> document with a fictional UUID of
43, then you would create a
<businessEntity> document, fill it with the contents you want stored in the registry, and then set this document's
businessKey attribute to
43. However, if you wanted to insert a new registration into the registry, the
businessKey value would be
Be careful when using the
delete_ and
save_ messages. If the structure you are updating has a number of subelements, such as a
<businessEntity>, you can inadvertently destroy them by removing their containment. If you delete a
<businessEntity>, it will delete all
<businessService> and
<bindingTemplate> elements contained within the
<businessEntity>. It will not delete a
<businessService> referenced by the
<businessEntity>, which would occur only if the
<businessService> is contained with a different
<businessEntity>. For example, if you want to update a
<businessEntity> document using a
save_ message, you might accidentally delete
<businessService> and
<bindingTemplate> structures in the process. If the existing
<businessEntity> element stored in a UDDI registry has
<businessService> or
<bindingTemplate> structures, but the
<businessEntity> document used as input to the
save_ message does not have those same subelements, the
<businessService> and
<bindingTemplate> subelements will be destroyed automatically as part of the update process.
<tModel> documents are never fully destroyed. When you use the
<delete_tModel> message, a
<tModel> element saved in the registry is merely hidden. Hidden documents can be located through
<get_tModelDetail> and
<get_registeredInfo> messages, but will not be displayed by any
find_ queries. This behavior ensures that the details associated with any
<tModel> are still available to anyone who may currently implement the specifications referred by the
<tModel> documents can be unhidden by using the
<save_tModel> message.
The next and final installment covers WSDL Definitions with UDDI.
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Morning Checkup: Spinal Column Stimulation Pain Management
Samaritan Medical Center is having a free presentation on pain management.
Dr. Ivan Montalvo, director of pain management at Samaritan, says the presentation focuses on the benefits of spinal column stimulation.
It's from 5 to 6 p.m. on February 28 at Samaritan's Pain Management Center.
That's on the third floor of 826 Washington Street in Watertown
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text: I have been pumping 2x's/day for about 9 months now since I returned to work to give him 3 bottles/day while I'm away. Now that my son is eating quite a bit of solids my supply is starting to decrease. Should I go with the natural pattern or should I be working on upping my supply to keep up those bottles? He is still very fond of his bottles and nursing when we are together so we are not ready for weaning yet. I know with formula babies people start topping the bottles off with cow's milk but I wasn't sure how this works for breastfed babies.


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Departmental Honors
Students may apply for the departmental honor's program if they meet the following criteria:
- Completion of 9 units if upper division ChAD coursework with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.5, and
- Completion of CD 101 or Stat 95 (or equivalent) with a grade of A- or better.
Students who meet the entrance criteria will be awarded departmental honors by showing evidence of distinguished scholarly work as indicated by the following:
- Completion of a BA Honors Thesis (ChAD 199: Honors Thesis) or authorship of a published paper (published abstracts excluded) or presenting author of research findings at a professional meeting.
- Minimum GPA of 3.5 in all upper division Child and Adolescent Development courses.
- A minimum GPA of 3.0 in all other courses taken for the degree.
To Apply:
If you are interested in participating in the Honors Program, call ([408] 924-3718) for the name of the department honors advisor for the semester that you wish to apply.


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I want to thank those who voted for me for the George West City Council. Even though I was not elected, it should have sent a message to the council. There has not been any seal coating of our streets in more than five years. Houston Street in front of our school is cracked and deteriorating. If George West is going to flourish, we need to take pride and improve the attractiveness of our city.
I would also like to congratulate Louis Salinas on his re-election and David Cantu on being elected to the city council.
I encourage you to take the time and interest to attend a council meeting from time to time. These are your elected public servants and they need to hear from you.
Once again, I say thank you and I look forward to continuing to serve you as a member of the George West Economic Development Committee.


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Grilled Asparagus and Roasted Mushroom Salad with Toasted Pecans, Blue Cheese and Red Chile Mustard Vinaigrette
Recipe courtesy of Bobby Flay
- Hot off the Grill with Bobby Flay
- 1 pound asparagus, grilled
- 1 pound assorted mushrooms (portobello, cremini, shiitake) coarsely chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- Salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup toasted pecans
- 8 ounces American blue cheese
- Red Chile Mustard Vinaigrette:
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon ancho chile powder
- Salt
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup olive oil
Heat olive oil in a large saute pan over high heat. Add mushrooms and cook until golden brown. Add thyme and season with salt and pepper. Toss asparagus with a few tablespoons of the vinaigrette and season with salt and pepper. Arrange 1/4 of the mushrooms in the center of each plate. Arrange asparagus around the mushrooms. Sprinkle pecans and blue cheese around the edge of the plate. Drizzle with more of the dressing.
Whisk together mustard, ancho powder, salt and vinegar, slowly whisk in oil until emulsified. Season with more salt, to taste.
Recipe courtesy of Bobby Flay


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Opportunities for low-carbon innovation are growing [2], driven by policy changes, market shifts, and continued growth in energy demand, particularly in developing countries. This Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, ahead of the UN's "Rio+20 [3]" Conference on Sustainable Development, C2ES will have a chance to share what it's learned about low-carbon innovation with partners from around the world.
With the Global Environment Facility [4] (GEF), we will convene a panel [5] of companies (Johnson Controls [6], DuPont [7]), small-business innovators (from the Cleantech Open [8]), and government and business representatives (from UNIDO [9] and ABDI [10]) to share stories and lessons from the front lines of clean-tech entrepreneurship. The event, to be held at the U.S. Center pavilion [11], will examine the keys to successful low-carbon innovation, and the benefits for climate mitigation and adaptation, energy security, resource efficiency, and job creation.
Although climate change is not a central focus of the formal Rio+20 proceedings, low-carbon innovation is critical to developing the "green economy [12]" that the Rio+20 agenda calls for. Building on the institutions and goals [13] established at the 1992 Earth Summit, Rio+20 will explore the role of the green economy in promoting sustainable development, and ways to strengthen the institutional framework set out two decades ago.
The conference will be taking place amid significant global challenges [14]—ongoing national debt crises, rising unemployment and income inequality, more damaging extreme weather events [15], and a global population expected to rise to 8 billion over the next 20 years. While no grand outcomes are expected, Rio+20 is a critical opportunity for nations to take stock—to remind themselves that the challenges that motivated the first Earth Summit are now all the more urgent, and that in the search for solutions, environment and development must go hand in hand.
On the twin challenges of climate and energy, achieving change on the scale that's needed will require new technologies and new approaches. Innovation—particularly in low-carbon technologies—is critical to delivering energy for all, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and driving "green" economic growth.
With world energy consumption expected to grow by 40 percent in the next two decades, the demand for clean, safe, and reliable energy sources continues to grow. But innovation in the energy sector is in many ways [16] more difficult, more complex, and takes longer than in other sectors. Entire systems of technologies and infrastructure have to be built or re-worked.
Our report The Business of Innovating: Bringing Low-Carbon Solutions to Market [17] culled lessons from detailed case studies of companies engaged in low-carbon innovation. One of the key lessons is that it's critical to have the right industries and partners working together across the spectrum of innovation—from industry, to government, customers and others. We're bringing some of those key players together in Rio, and I'm looking forward to hearing from our panel about their respective roles.
Meg Crawford is Markets & Business Strategy Fellow at C2ES.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/blog/crawfordm
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/renewable-energy-sees-record-investment-in-2011-but-solar-price-drop-hurts-manufacturers/2012/06/11/gJQAVwzZUV_story.html
[3] http://www.uncsd2012.org/
[4] http://www.thegef.org/gef/
[5] http://www.c2es.org/events/2012/06/promoting-clean-tech-innovation-low-carbon-growth
[6] http://www.c2es.org/business/belc/members/johnson-controls-inc
[7] http://www.c2es.org/business/belc/members/dupont
[8] http://www.cleantechopen.com/app.cgi/content/home/index
[9] http://www.unido.org/
[10] http://www.abdi.com.br/Paginas/Default.aspx
[11] http://www.state.gov/e/oes/rio/index.htm
[12] http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?menu=62
[13] http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
[14] http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/geo5/GEO5_report_full_en.pdf
[15] http://www.c2es.org/science-impacts/extreme-weather
[16] http://www.c2es.org/blog/crawfordm/role-constraints-low-carbon-innovation
[17] http://www.c2es.org/business-innovation/report
[18] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/business
[19] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/energy-technology
[20] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/federal
[21] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/initiatives
[22] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/innovation
[23] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/international
[24] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/science
[25] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/business-action
[26] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/clean-energy-technology


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Two state senators have re-introduced a bill that would require special interest groups who put out campaign issue ads to report their donors and spending.
Wisconsin law generally requires organizations that spend to influence an election to file financial reports. Many groups can get around that requirement, though, by running ads that don't explicitly tell voters to vote for or against a specific candidate, instead imploring viewers to contact a candidate and complain about his or her policies.
Under the bill, groups that distribute ads that clearly identify a candidate within 60 days of an election would be required to file financial reports with the state.
The bill's chief sponsors, Sens. Mike Ellis and Jon Erpenbach have been trying to pass issue ad disclosure requirements for years.


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Health topics
Onchocerciasis is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is transmitted through the bites of infected blackflies of Simulium species, which carry immature larval forms of the parasite from human to human. In the human body, the larvae form nodules in the subcutaneous tissue, where they mature to adult worms. After mating, the female adult worm can release up to 1000 microfilariae a day. These move through the body, and when they die they cause a variety of conditions, including blindness, skin rashes, lesions, intense itching and skin depigmentation.
In a number of countries, onchocerciasis has been controlled through spraying of blackfly breeding sites with insecticide. In addition, a drug is available that kills the microfilariae, alleviating symptoms and reducing transmission. An international control effort aims to bring annual treatment with this drug to all populations at risk by the year 2010. When that is achieved, onchocerciasis may cease to be a public health problem.


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Sometimes, when you edit a textarea on a web page (for example, to write a new post on your blog), you would really like to use an external text editor for that.
I personally love Emacs, I'm addicted to its shortcuts and key bindings and I would love to use it, for example, for searching and replacing or for applying macros on the text of a textarea.
Well, it seems someone already thought about this. A Firefox plugin to bind an external editor to your browser is available here. In the following lines, I'll refer to a Linux environment, but the same procedure, by applying some variants, is possible on Mac, too.
Once installed the plugin and restarted Firefox, you might want to edit some preferences.
First of all, specify the following command to be executed:
The reason we don't simply trigger the emacs command, but we use emacsclient instead is that, if we have an Emacs session open, we would like to attach to that one, so we could easily move between Emacs buffers (thanks to Magnus for this suggestion).
Before this can actually work, though, we need to start a daemon on Emacs. To do so, just open Emacs and do the following:
- M-x customize-option
- Variable name: server-mode
- Click on toggle
- Save for future sessions
- Finish
Optionally (and I would strongly advise you to do so), you can bind the trigger of the external editor to a shortcut. I personally use the following:
Alt + E
But this is obviously up to you.
That's it. You can enjoy editing your text areas in Emacs and make your productivity fly high.


text: i was calling for any of the point guards in the draft, i knew they would perform better than expected. and while i never expected chris duhorrible to play this bad, i also didnt expect him to play as good as he did in the first half of the season. the only solace i can find in watching flynn, jennings and lawson do well is the hope that jordan hill will turn into a digusting Cb4/Stat hybrid and thatricky rubio will somehow find his way on this team. i can dream lol


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December 19, 1995
Release # 96-048
WASHINGTON,D.C. - CPSC, Division Sales Inc., of Itasca, Ill., is recalling 44,000 wooden toy trucks. The truck's driver and wheels can break off, presenting a choking hazard to young children.The natural wood trucks, measuring approximately 5 inches long by 2 inches wide, were sold in six styles: two styles of dump trucks; a cement truck; a truck with a large, wooden, rotating cylinder; a truck with crane; and a truck with ladder. A small gold decal on the underside of the truck reads, "MADE IN CHINA." Each truck is packaged with a small wooden driver figure in a blue cardboard box labeled, "WOOD TOY ... ENGINEERING TRUCK EDUCATIONAL TOY." Various retail stores and discount centers sold the trucks nationwide from December 1993 through December 1995 for approximately $1 each.Consumers should take the toy vehicles away from young children immediately and return the trucks to the store where they were purchased for a full refund. For more information, consumers should call Division Sales Inc. at (800) 621-8134.CPSC and Division Sales, Inc. are not aware of any injuries involving these toy trucks. This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibility of injury.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of
thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the
nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or
mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household
chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at
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An approximately one-light-year tall "pillar" of cold hydrogen towers above the wall of the molecular cloud. The 2.5-million-year-old star cluster called Trumpler 14 appears at the right side of the image. A small nugget of cold molecular hydrogen, called a Bok globule, is silhouetted against the star cluster.
Object Names: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
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House supports minimum wage planBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | April 10,2014MONTPELIER The Vermont House gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill requiring contractors to pay their workers based on federal pay standards when working on state-funded construction projects.
Members voted 95-52 to advance the prevailing wage bill that will shift Vermont from a more local standard, which does not include the cost of benefits, to standards laid out in the federal Davis-Bacon Act. The law calculates what workers should be paid in regions based on surveys filled out by contractors.
Unfortunately, the current state prevailing wage only takes into consideration wages. It doesnt take into account benefits, said Rep. John Moran, D-Wardsboro, who reported the bill to his colleagues on the House floor Wednesday.
So, if you have one employer who pays $11 an hour with no benefits and another who pays $11 an hour with $4-an-hour benefits, when they compete for contracts the nonbenefit person has a competitive advantage to underbid the good-paying benefits job.
Moran and other proponents of the bill argued the bill will help raise pay and benefits for construction workers. It will also help return better paying jobs to Vermont, according to Moran.
He said many contractors who already pay higher wages and offer benefits have opted to seek work in New York and Massachusetts where the prevailing wages are based on union negotiations.
In Vermont, this bill is a modest proposal. Its moderate, Moran said. Youve got to reward the employers who are doing the right thing and paying good salaries and benefits and put them on equal footing. Were bringing young people back to Vermont and good-paying jobs back.
Moran was peppered with questions about the bill on the House floor. Rep. Ronald Hubert, R-Milton, asked if profit margins for Vermont contractors would be harmed by raising the wage they must pay employees.
Any profit will be determined by the contractor when preparing a bid on a state government project, Moran said, but all contractors will have to use the same prevailing wage standard in their bids.
They will make a decision on how much profit they care to experience, Moran said.
Rep. Thomas Koch, R-Barre Town, said the bill looks to force higher pay by fiat, not by any rules of economic science. He said forcing higher wages on state government projects will mean more money from taxpayers.
The net effect, where its really going to hit is in the amount of capital construction that were going to be able to afford, he said.
A fiscal note prepared by the Legislatures Joint Fiscal Office predicted the impact on the state to be between $1.9 million and $3.36 million in higher contracts, according to Moran.
Rep. Cynthia Browning, D-Arlington, wanted to ensure that her colleagues understood the impact.
What this means is that the same projects will cost more, but the total amount of the money in the capital bill will not increase, she said. While some contractors will pay more, Vermont taxpayers will get less for their money.
Rep. Chris Pearson, a Progressive from Burlington, said the comments made by detractors would have you believe that its been a good thing to save money on the backs of Vermonts working families.
It will be good for Vermonts working families and it will create jobs right here, he said.
The bill has the backing of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, who said Wednesday he hopes to sign it into law.
I support it. The House has done good work and I hope it passes and gets to my desk, Shumlin said.
Our hope is that this is going to help create jobs and economic opportunity for contractors that got whacked really hard in the recession, the governor said, so were doing this to create jobs, not to stop jobs.
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Vanessa Renee Miller & Richard Lee Teitzman
The bride and groom
photographs by Pauline Shapiro
Vanessa and Rick were assigned to the same dormitory freshman year at Emory University. Although they became fast friends, they didn't start dating until the end of their senior year. Not a convenient time for a relationship, as both were headed in opposite directions. Vanessa went off to Beijing and Rick continued on to medical school in Florida.
They stayed in touch and six years after graduation, their paths crossed in San Francisco when Vanessa was visiting a cousin and Rick was on vacation. They didn't leave their hearts in San Francisco—they found them!
After a few years of dating, Rick proposed with his grandmother's ring, following a romantic birthday dinner for Vanessa, at Nobo South Beach. Justice of the Peace Donna King officiated at the ceremony at the Roger Sherman Inn in New Canaan, where the reception was also held.
The bride, daughter of the late John Miller and Lorraine Miller of Greenwich, graduated from Greenwich High School and Emory University. Vanessa is getting her doctorate in physical therapy at the University of Miami.
The groom, son of the late Peter Teitzman and Honora Teitzman of Coral Springs, Florida, graduated from Taravella High School, Emory University and Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine. Rick is a doctor at the Hospice of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach.
The newlyweds live in Plantation, Florida.


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In this January 10 photo, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu checks out the 2013 Dodge Dart at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. Several electric vehicles at the auto show highlighted many of the Energy Department's investments in electric vehicles, which have helped rebuild the auto industry in the U.S.
Image: Hantz Leger, Energy Department
Date taken: 2012-01-10 12:00
On January 30, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu participated in a lighting ceremony that featured newly-installed LED lights along the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The LED technology is expected to reduce lighting energy by up to 65 percent, while providing a well-lit atmosphere to the National Mall's 25 million annual visitors.
Image: Quentin Kruger, Energy Department
Date taken: 2012-01-30 19:20
At the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists are using the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, also known as FACET, to research accelerator science and high-energy density physics. SLAC's particle accelerator may be two miles long, but researchers at FACET are working to develop more compact versions that could be widely used in medicine and industry -- particle accelerators are used for cancer research, processing computer chips, and even producing the shrink wrap used to keep your Thanksgiving turkey fresh. This February 28 photo shows SLAC research associate Mike Litos with FACET's transverse deflecting cavity, a special section of the accelerator that helps measure the temporal properties of the accelerated electron beam.
Image: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Date taken: 2012-02-28 12:00
To encourage the growth of women in STEM careers, a group of girls in the eighth grade were invited to learn about career opportunities in science and engineering during the annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. On February 23, division director Amanda Petford-Long and other Argonne mentors observed a trial run of the racecars.
Image: George Joch, Argonne National Laboratory
Date taken: 2012-02-23 10:00
Attendees at the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) third annual summit heard from top leaders in business, research and government, who offered their insights on how to break down commercialization barriers and bring the energy solutions of the future to the market faster. In this photo, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu greets President Bill Clinton before Clinton's keynote speech, which stressed the importance of government investment in research that will help move the world toward a cleaner and more secure energy future.
Image: Ken Shipp, Energy Department
Date taken: 2012-02-29 03:00
While they might look like drops of water or soap bubbles, these colorful figures are actually photomultiplier tubes that line the walls of the Daya Bay neutrino detector. Neutrinos and antineutrinos are neutral particles produced in nuclear beta decay when neutrons turn into protons. Lawrence Berkeley and Brookhaven National Labs and a number of physicists at U.S. universities played leading roles in the Daya Bay experiment, from designing the detectors all the way through to analyzing the data gathered.
Image: Roy Kaltschmidt, LBNL
Date taken: 2012-03-08 12:00
In this June 4 photo, Brian Lawson and Kenesaw Burwell install solar panels at the Energy Department's Research Support Facility -- a highly efficient building at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Image: Dennis Schroeder, NREL
Date taken: 2012-06-04 12:00
Vice President Joe Biden talks with staff at the National Renewable Energy Lab's Process Development and Integration Laboratory (PDIL). The PDIL brings together technical experts from NREL, the solar industry, and universities for collaborative research.
The National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition inspired nearly 300 university teams across the country to create new businesses to commercialize promising energy technologies developed at U.S. universities and the National Laboratories. After pitching their business plans to panels of judges at the regional semifinals and finals, six teams advanced to the national competition for a chance to compete in the grand prize pitch to a panel of experts. In this photo, the members of the grand prize winning team, NuMat Technologies from Northwestern University, stand with Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal (far left) and Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman (far right).
Date taken: 2012-06-13 12:00
On Monday, August 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover arrived on the surface of Mars to gather geological and environmental data to determine if the planet has ever had the potential to support life. This photo was taken by a navigation camera located toward the back-left of the Curiosity rover, and features part of the rover's nuclear power supply. Beyond the rover itself, Curiosity's exploration reveals the desert-like terrain of Mars's Gale Crater.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Date taken: 2012-08-06 12:00
On August 14, the Energy Department and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a new report highlighting strong growth in America's wind energy market in 2011, underscoring the importance of continued policy support and clean energy tax credits to ensure that the U.S. remains a leading producer and manufacturer in the booming global wind industry. In this March 7 photo, wind turbines are generating energy at the Power County Wind Farm in Power County, Idaho.
Image: Energy Department
Date taken: 2012-08-14 09:00
On December 4, 2012, the Empowerhouse Solar Decathlon team, along with partners and community members, completed the installation of a permanent, two-family home in Washington, D.C. The team, comprised of students from Parsons the New School for Design, partnered with Habitat for Humanity to donate the finished and updated duplex home to two local families in Washington, D.C. The home was originally showcased as part of the U.S Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2011.
Image: Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department
Date taken: 2012-12-04 09:00
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The organizer of what would have been Wausau's first gay pride parade has cancelled it, saying he has experienced a wave of ugliness in the community.
Daxx Bouvier told Daily Herald Media that he cancelled Saturday's parade after negative comments from a City Council member and in articles in local media.
Bouvier said people who had planned to be in the parade told him they were concerned about their safety.
City Council member Dave Nutting said at meeting earlier this month that people should boycott the parade or, if they went, turn their backs on "deviant-behaving individuals."
Bouvier lives in California but owns a home in Wausau. He said he has no further plans to organize gay pride events in the city.