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September 14, 2011 —
I am writing this a few days after Irene left town. Nearly twice the size of a typical hurricane on August 26, she joins nine others weather disasters so far this year that have each caused one billion dollars in damages and 589 deaths. The New York Times called Irene "one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation's history."
But the mainstream media kerfluffle before, during and after the storm consistently failed to state the obvious. Amid the many "experts" giving their expert opinions, not one acknowledged what the nation's leading scientists have predicted for 30 years–that global warming produces more storms of severe intensity.
But pseudo-scientists are given credence in an International Business Times story with this alarming headline: "Global Warming Could Prompt Alien 'Preemptive Strike' on Earth." The article is so zany that I wish I could quote it in its entirety. Here's a choice morsel: "Scientists studied several scenarios where earth might encounter extraterrestrial life, with the most alarming potential outcome being the total destruction of the planet to stave off humans polluting the rest of the galaxy." I didn't make this up.
I've collected additional absurdities and incongruities from the media and offer the following fossil-fuel follies for your consideration.
Come again? The not-for-profit corporation, Coal Education Development and Research (which sports the nifty acronym, CEDAR), works to improve the image of the coal industry by holding events like a Coal Fair and offering grant money and lesson plans to teachers "to facilitate the increase of knowledge and understanding of the many benefits the Coal Industry provides in our daily lives." Mountaintop removal anyone?
Bottoms up. During a keynote speech at a Colorado Oil and Gas Association conference, Halliburton CEO Dave Lesar invited an unnamed executive (a.k.a. The King's Taster) to drink a glass of what was he claimed was CleanStim, the company's newly developed (and so flavorful!) hydrofracking fluid. Lesar didn't touch the stuff himself. But you can trust him. I know you can trust him.
Clean skies smiling at me. The mission of the non-profit group American Clean Skies Foundation is "to provide all the facts on clean energy—particularly natural gas and other clean fuels such as wind and solar—and about the need for greater energy efficiency." Guess who founded it? Aubrey K. McClendon, the billionaire CEO of Chesapeake Energy. How comforting to know he's on the case.
Preposterous. The sinister Bill McKibben, along with scientist James Hansen, now have criminal records for sitting in front of the White House in an effort to raise consciousness about the implications of our addiction to fossil fuels.
Color me skeptical. Talisman Energy offers to our children a coloring book titled, "Talisman Terry's Energy Adventure." It features Talisman Terry, the Friendly Fracosaurus. The book assures kids that hydrofracking is safe and patriotic and fun! On the "Before Drilling" page, kids can color a picture of birds, and trees, and deer, and a smiling sun and even a rainbow! The "After Drilling" picture is exactly the same, but this one has a gas well in it!
Everything's just fine!


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It's not often that the classroom style of a high school teacher brings hundreds of people out in the rain to rallies, but that has been the result of a First Amendment lawsuit filed by a California high school student against longtime history teacher James Corbett.
Sophomore Chad Farnan filed the suit, alleging that Corbett's frequent anti-Christian remarks and liberal political banter amount to a curtailment of students' religious rights.
In response, about 200 past and current students and fellow faculty members showed up at the Mission Viejo high school last month to rally in support of the teacher. A smaller number of students, including a few people led by a local pastor, held a rally to support the lawsuit.
A sample of Corbett's classroom comments, which were cited in the legal complaint: "Conservatives don't want women to avoid pregnancies — that's interfering with God's work. … When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can't see the truth."
Corbett's supporters claim he uses provocative words to inspire wide-ranging classroom discussion. His detractors respond that he uses his teaching platform as a means to preach his political viewpoints.
Both sides have a point. Corbett does seem to encourage debate even as he uses his pulpit to preach his personal political and religious viewpoints.
The questions at hand: Is this appropriate in a public school classroom? Is it a First Amendment issue?
We don't think the First Amendment has much to say about a teacher's in-class behavior. But it hardly seems appropriate to allow a teacher to use his position to indoctrinate students into his personal political and religious message. One conservative constitutional scholar, John Eastman, told a newspaper reporter that a public-school classroom is not a teacher's "personal soapbox."
The more liberal ACLU remarked to the Orange County Register that "(i)t is not the job of a public school teacher either to be promoting religion or disparaging religion."
That seems like sensible, mainstream advice.
We find it ironic that the high school's assistant principal, Leslie Schuda, told the Orange County Register that the large turnout for the pro- and anti-Corbett rallies "means we're doing our job in education." Actually, it suggests the high school, which has not commented on the specifics of the lawsuit and stands behind Corbett as a respected faculty member, might not be doing its job.
It shouldn't take a lawsuit to force a public school system to consider whether a teacher lives up to district policy, which requires that staff neither promote a religious viewpoint nor "interfere with the philosophical/religious development of each student in whatever tradition the student embraces."
According to a newspaper report, district policy also calls on teachers "to ensure that all sides of a controversial issue are impartially presented with accurate and appropriate factual information."
Corbett's approach seems to contradict both policies.
We don't suppose many of the same people defending Corbett's "rights" here would do so if he were using his classroom to impose fundamentalist Christian views on students. Clearly, a teacher is bound not just by the law, but by the policies of his employer.
We don't agree with the lawsuit. We don't think Corbett ought to be fired. We just think school officials should have put some reasonable limits on classroom behavior by its employees — and responded to the controversy by evaluating what happened and enforcing those limits.
This fracas reinforces our view that the best solution to most school issues is a private one. In a system of private choices, parents could send their children to schools that best reflect their political values and educational goals rather than fighting over the controversial techniques of teachers in the taxpayer-funded monopoly school system.
As always, free choice is the best way to solve problems, without rallies and lawsuits.


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Blaer Bjarkardottir, 15, left, seen here with her mother Bjork Eidsdottir, is suing Iceland's government so that she can use her first name.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Call her the girl with no name.
A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.
Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don't question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.
In Blaer's case, her mother said she learned the name wasn't on the register only after the priest who baptized the child later informed her he had mistakenly allowed it.
"I had no idea that the name wasn't on the list, the famous list of names that you can choose from," said Bjork Eidsdottir, adding she knew a Blaer whose name was accepted in 1973. This time, the panel turned it down on the grounds that the word Blaer takes a masculine article, despite the fact that it was used for a female character in a novel by Iceland's revered Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness.
Given names are even more significant in tiny Iceland than in many other countries: Everyone is listed in the phone book by their first names. Surnames are based on a parent's given name. Even the president, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, is addressed simply as Olafur.
Blaer is identified as "Stulka" — or "Girl" — on all her official documents, which has led to years of frustration as she has had to explain the whole story at the bank, renewing her passport and dealing with the country's bureaucracy.
Her mother is hoping that will change with her suit, the first time someone has challenged a names committee decision in court.
Though the law has become more relaxed in recent years — with the name Elvis permitted, inspired by the charismatic rock and roll icon whose name fits Icelandic guidelines — choices like Cara, Carolina, Cesil, and Christa have been rejected outright because the letter "c" is not part of Iceland's 32-letter alphabet.
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"The law is pretty straightforward so in many cases it's clearly going to be a yes or a no," said Agusta Thorbergsdottir, the head of the committee, a panel of three people appointed by the government to a four-year term.
Other cases are more subjective.
"What one person finds beautiful, another person may find ugly," she acknowledged. She pointed to "Satania" as one unacceptable case because it was deemed too close to "Satan."
'Basic human right'
The board also has veto power over people who want to change their names later in life, rejecting, for instance, middle names like Zeppelin and X.
Eidsdottir says she is prepared to take her case all the way to the country's Supreme Court if a court doesn't overturn the commission decision on Jan. 25.
"So many strange names have been allowed, which makes this even more frustrating because Blaer is a perfectly Icelandic name," Eidsdottir said. "It seems like a basic human right to be able to name your child what you want, especially if it doesn't harm your child in any way."
"And my daughter loves her name," she added.
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Information and Communication Technologies
Configuring Eduroam on Windows 7
published: 2012 | Handbook | Eduroam
Eduroam is a secure access service for members of the educational and research communities. It allows individuals from a member organization to securely access network services while visiting other member organizations using login credentials from their home organization without making special arrangements.
The WLU configuration has been tested and is known to work with Windows 7. Please see configuration documentation below
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Longtime locals start Tahoe Restaurant Delivery & More
October 25, 2013
UPDATE: Tahoe Restaurant Delivery & More is no longer undergoing a "soft" launch, and 48-hour advanced notice is not needed for basic restaurant deliveries. For more information on deliveries and order times, go to http://www.tahoerestaurantdelivery.com.
For longtime South Lake Tahoe residents Raoul and Terese Finlay, the idea for their South Shore business came to them while they considered dinner options on their deck one night.
With twin baby boys needing constant attention, the married couple wished there was a delivery service that could bring them a full and healthy meal, they said. Pizza, simply, would not do.
"We thought it would just be great to have something without leaving the house," Terese Finlay said.
So, the duo decided to start Tahoe Restaurant Delivery & More, a delivery service working with several South Shore businesses to bring the best foods in the area to locals and visitors directly, she said.
But before they began, the couple wanted to test their plan to ensure its reliability, she said. So they started buying takeout meals at several South Shore eateries and driving them around town.
The work was time consuming, she said. But the idea was to figure out which foods traveled better.
"We found new ways to wrap it and package it and now it works really well," Terese Finlay said.
The owners felt they were ready to start their business after about a year and a half of preparation, she said. They made their first delivery in mid-September to a 52-person party.
"It was really successful," Terese Finlay said. "Everyone was ranting and raving about it because we were able to go out and find whatever they were looking for."
Raoul Finlay said the journey to opening a new business in South Lake Tahoe has been a lot of work, but the family has been thrilled as they watch it come to fruition.
"We are very excited about it," he said, "and have been working on it for quite sometime just to get it right."
So far, Tahoe Restaurant Delivery has developed partnerships with Overland Meat Company, Samurai Sushi, The Blue Angel Café, Sugar Pine Bakery, Sno-Flake Drive-In and On The Rocks Tahoe.
But the Finlays expect to partner with several more businesses in the future, they said.
Additionally, the company's website — tahoerestaurantdelivery.com — went live this week and will be used to take the bulk of food orders. But people can also call in by phone at 775-636-8556.
Deliveries can be made to as far away as Carson City, Gardenerville, Glenbrook and Christmas Valley. Delivery fees vary based on location. But the fee to deliver in South Shore is generally $6, not including 10 percent gratuity and the cost of food.
Tahoe Restaurant Delivery is currently undergoing a "soft" launch, making dinner deliveries only from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with 48-hour advanced notice. However, hours will extend considerably when the business launches fully in mid- to late-November, according to the Finlays. Thanksgiving orders can be placed now.
Ultimately, the couple hopes the business continues to grow with the community — an area they want to continue raising their kids in, Terese Finlay said.
"We want to stay in Tahoe," she said. "There's something here."


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David Kinley was a highly regarded educator, economist, and administrator whose goal was always "to teach how to achieve personal business success. . . resulting in better business, bigger business, larger-minded business professionals, and a more prosperous and better-ordered community life." The curriculum he developed and managed from 1902 to 1915 laid a foundation for what became the University of Illinois College of Business. Today his ideals and leadership still resonate in our students' education.
Named in his honor and dedicated to his memory, the David Kinley Society recognizes those individuals who share Kinley's devotion to the University of Illinois and his commitment to a world-class business education.
Giving levels for David Kinley Society members are based on personal contributions plus any corporate matching funds. Donors of $25,000 or more are also eligible for membership in the University of Illinois Foundation's Presidents Council.
Membership in the David Kinley Society is based on annual financial commitments of at least $2,500 to the College of Business. Giving levels based on personal contributions plus any corporate matching funds place you in a special group that receives College-wide recognition in our publications and invitations to significant events. Society members also participate fully as members of the ILLINOIS Foundation Chancellor's Circle.
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I'm starting out in Java programming but have no prior knowledge in any programming language. I'm trying to use Geany portable. The problem is I can't run even the Hello World program.
I was able to save the source file as MyFirstJavaProgram.java but I cannot compile nor run it.
Here's what I see on the compiler message window when I click on "Compile":
javac "MyFirstJavaProgram.java" (in directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures\Sample Pictures\Portalet\GeanyPortable\App\Geany)
And then the status bar reads "Process failed (The system cannot find the file specified)"
I tried to run the program and this is what I get:
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: MyFirstJavaProgram
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: MyFirstJavaProgram
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: MyFirstJavaProgram. Program will exit."
I've done no initial setting up of preferences, so I just ran Geany after installation.
I hope someone would be kind enough to help and explain these to me.
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"Ugly Truth".
never watch it -.-
Yesterday I saw the "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis in the cinema.
"Gamer" ... it's was kinda meh... 6/10
Defiance - 9/10. It was pretty good. Also once I find out that an Aussie actor is in the movie, I usually bump it up due to that bias :p
Ella Enchanted!!! :D:D
So awesome! :D
Parnormal Activity >.< it was ScaRY as heck!
District 9
10/10 it is rlly gd ...
transformers - revenge of the fallen
sooo buyin it on blu-ray
da vinci code
cos i saw angels and demons a week ago i had to see this too
i watched next friday last friday
The Vampire's Assistant
Tian Long Ba Bu. O__O too lazy to put it in chinese...
Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman. Old movie I dled.
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District 9
10/10 it is rlly gd ...
It's awesome :D
L change the world...
Only the last 15min didn't work, so still no idea how it ended xD
Full metal jacket (1987)
The movie was extreme, especially the training camp ;D
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L change the world...
Only the last 15min didn't work, so still no idea how it ended xD
That is...
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"Ugly Truth".
never watch it -.-
that is the recent movie i watched
Death note live movie
surrogates great movie
Kama Sutra - A Tale of Love
I regret finding this DVD...and watching it. It was boooooooring. (I live with perverts.) O____o
Bruce Almighty
Omg I was laughing till I wheezed. xD
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The primary treatment for melanoma is surgical removal of the tumor. Although requiring further clinical trials, in some cases, immunotherapy or targeted therapy may be used in the treatment of advanced stages of melanoma.
Many combination therapies are currently in trials. People with advanced melanoma should be considered for enrollment in a trial for their own benefit as well as for the advancement of melanoma treatment. Thus far, no single investigative approach stands out as highly effective however, they all hold promise with rare patients showing durable responses. Most treatment protocols are evaluating combinations of adjuvant therapies, hoping to achieve a synergistic effect. Ongoing research into the biology of melanoma continues to suggest new drug targets that will block tumor progression or enhance host response.
Immunotherapy involves using medications or substances made by the body to increase or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer. It is also called biological response modifier (BRM) therapy . Examples include interferon, interleukin-2, ipilimumab, and melanoma vaccines.
Side effects include chills, fever, aches, depression, and fatigue. At times, these can be a significant barrier to successful treatment.
Targeted Therapy
About half of melanomas have a gene mutation known as BRAF. This gene causes the body to make proteins that accelerate the growth of cancer cells. Targeted therapy uses medications to seek out the cells with the BRAF mutation and destroy them. Targeted therapy medications include:
- Vemurafenib
- Dabrafenib
- Trametinib
Although these medications are not a cure for advanced melanoma, it can increase survival rate. The most common side effects are joint pain, fatigue, hair loss, rash, itching, sensitivity to the sun, and nausea.
Promising Therapies
Researchers are currently studying new drugs and therapies to treat melanoma. Therapies being studied include:
- Melanoma vaccines—researchers are studying vaccines that may help the body fight melanoma; currently only available in clinical trials
- Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)—special cells that show promise in shrinking tumors are being studied
- Genetically altered T-cells—cells in the body that when altered may be able to shrink tumor cells
- Gene therapy—researchers are studying ways to alter genes so that they fight melanoma more effectively
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Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says star linebacker Manti Te'o and his family were planning to go public about him being the victim of a hoax before an online report scooped them.
Swarbrick says on his weekly radio show the Te'os had planned to go public Monday with the hoax involving a dead girlfriend who never existed. But Deadspin.com broke the news with a lengthy report Wednesday.
Swarbrick says, "Sometimes the best laid plans don't quite work." He says the family from Laie lost the opportunity "to control the story."
Swarbrick says he hopes the family makes itself available "to explain and to take questions, because we think that's in everybody's interest."
Swarbrick's radio show airs regionally on Saturday but was posted online as a podcast on Friday.


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A little rain couldn't stop about University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student veterans' 24-hour tribute run this Veterans Day.
While they run around the track, the UW Board of Regents wants to make sure they're not running in circles when it comes to accessing their state and federal benefits.
"To help them access those benefits, make sure they get them to the max, is probably the number one thing that we hear from them," said UW Board of Regents president Brent Smith.
This past week, the board met to take a closer look at how they can better serve the students who have served our country.
The UW system has seen a steady increase in its number of student veterans since 2005. Right now, there are between 4,000 and 5,000 vets on UW campuses around the state.
It's not just the Board of Regents with the veterans' best interests in mind.
UW-L Student Veterans Association president Spencer Niebur said the school's Veterans Resource Center allows vets to get all their questions answered in one place.
"You're not running around with your head chopped off, not knowing who to ask questions to. Because you're a very independent person and you don't like to ask questions, or ask the wrong questions, to people on campus because you don't want to offend anybody. Because that's part of the military lifestyle, the culture that we came from -- being very independent and not making mistakes," said Niebur.
Another issue the UW Board of Regents is focusing on is making sure any credits earned from education before or during military service get transferred appropriately.
Even though Niebur was an electronics technician in the Navy, he's still finding himself taking basic computer science classes.
"It's getting better, but the process needs to be sped up because it is taking a lot of the guys' benefits away because they're having to use their benefits for these classes," said Niebur.
The UW Board of Regents also discussed how to make sure student veterans get easy access to mental health services. Plus its members want to put a priority on connecting student vets with jobs after graduation.
As about 20 student vets run in honor of those who have served, the U-W system wants to make sure they know they're not running alone.


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PwC believes the PCAOB's proposed framework will help users navigate the board's standards more easily but suggests certain enhancements.
PwC submitted a comment letter supporting the PCAOB's proposal to reorganize its existing interim and PCAOB-issued auditing standards into a topical structure with a single integrated numbering system, and to present the standards in a logical order that generally follows the flow of the audit process. In particular, we believe the proposed reorganization will help users navigate the board's standards more easily.
However, we do not support the proposal to rescind AU 532, Restricting the Use of an Auditor's Report, and the related proposed amendment to delete footnote 41 to paragraph 25 in Auditing Standard No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees, which could be interpreted to indicate that communications with audit committees should no longer be restricted.
We also believe it would be helpful if the board clarifies how amendments to existing standards in the framework will be reflected and whether the board will continue to retain superseded standards on its website. We also encourage the board to eliminate outdated references to accounting standards and references to generally accepted auditing standards in conjunction with its reorganization, and we offer some suggestions that may improve the alignment of the proposed reorganization with the flow of the audit process.


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As software developers, we often encounter the problem of communication between two or more applications we write. The problem gets more complex when the applications are not on the same computer; the alternative of implementing this communication on your own (over TCP or UDP) is appealing at first, but turns out to be a hard task that takes time to debug and stabilize. Using a more structured protocol like HTTP is easier, but you still have to handle failure and many other communication issues. Experienced programmers know to keep their development contained to the core business and utilize third-party, standardized products for issues like communication.
A very important communication standard in Java is Java Messaging Service (JMS). JMS is a set of Java interfaces and associated semantics that define a way for a Java-based client to access a messaging system. JMS provides a rich, yet simple, set of messaging facilities for creating powerful enterprise applications.
A JMS provider is the entity that implements JMS for a messaging product. JMS's feature set is broad enough to allow interfacing with existing, possibly non-Java, messaging systems. Traditionally, JMS vendors use a broker to communicate with all of the elements in the messaging system.
This article describes a unique distributed messaging solution and a JMS provider called MantaRay, and how it transformed a traditionally centralized and broker-based concept like JMS to a fully distributed system. It also shows what happens behind the scenes in a distributed system when performing JMS operations.
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Java Message Service
MantaRay is an open source, serverless transport layer designed specifically for heterogeneous, distributed, and high-traffic environments. It has a JMS API (1.1 and 1.02), as well as other proprietary APIs. Compared to traditional messaging systems, such as busses or brokers, MantaRay provides a much higher level of robustness, better performance, and faster implementation by eliminating the need for a broker and bringing all functionality to the edges. MantaRay eliminates the single point of congestion and single point of failure of traditional models by using a peer-to-peer, serverless architecture. The distributed application is lightweight and operating-system-agnostic.
With a broker-based architecture, all of the applications in the network only "know" the broker, while the broker "knows" all the applications. When Application A wants to send a message to Application B, it sends it to the broker and the broker sends it to Application B, and vice versa.
Figure 1 show how applications communicate in a centralized environment.
Figure 1. Communication in a centralized environment
Because MantaRay is fully distributed and has no broker, the elements in the MantaRay network need to "know" one another. In order to achieve this, the system runs through a process of automatic discovery using a multicast channel. All of the MantaRay information, such as IP, port, and even role information (i.e., "Application A is a subscriber of topic 'fun'"), is published on a common multicast address. All MantaRay elements listen to this channel and from it, receive information about their peers. After Application A has discovered Application B, it is able to open a TCP/SSL connection to it for peer-to-peer communication.
Figure 2 show how applications communicate in a distributed environment.
Figure 2. Communication in a distributed environment
This approach has its advantages and disadvantages.
When communication is done via a centralized broker, the broker can easily become the single point of congestion. Let's say we have Applications A and B, which do not send many messages, but need their messages to be delivered quickly. On the same system, you have Applications C and D, which send millions of messages an hour. In this scenario, a centralized broker will have to manage all of these millions of messages, and despite its best efforts, the strain of handling millions of messages will impact its performance. Why should the heavy traffic between C and D interfere with communication between A and B?
In a distributed environment, A and B communicate using a peer-to-peer communication, and are not bothered with any other communication that is done in the system. Thus, they do not suffer degradation of service because of the communication of C and D.
Even if you have a strong centralized server with hot backups and load balancing, you still face the possibility that the broker will crash. When a broker crashes, the whole system goes offline until the broker is brought up again.
Computers can, of course, crash in a distributed environment, but because the communication is peer-to-peer, only the elements on the crashed computer are affected. The other elements in the messaging system are not affected and continue to communicate seamlessly. When planned correctly, distributed environments can be very durable in comparison to centralized environments.
When adding more and more applications and computers to your messaging system, a centralized environment forces you to reinforce the broker, in order to handle the additional traffic. This is not the case with MantaRay; here, you just need to install the MantaRay layer on the additional applications in the system, and you are good to go.
Elements in the distributed environment need to "learn" their environment; there is no "know-it-all" broker that manages everything. MantaRay uses multicast to discover elements in the system. On average, it takes about 1.5 seconds to learn the system, which could be a disadvantage for some systems.
Because every element in the distributed environment is its own small broker, there is a problem of flip flop. The flip-flop problem occurs when Application A wants to send a message to Application B, but Application B is down, and there is no time when Application A and B are up at the same time.
This flip-flop problem can be solved using a third element in the system that will route messages to their destinations. In MantaRay, there is an element called a queue coordinator that helps you solve this problem. I'll discuss queue coordinators in greater detail later.
JMS defines two domains of messaging: point-to-point and publish/subscribe.
Applications can communicate with each other using topics: one or more applications subscribe to a topic, and other applications publish data on the topic. There could be any number of publishers and subscribers for each topic, and any number of topics in the system.
A message published by a publisher will be received by all subscribers; a subscriber could even be offline (i.e., the process is down) and, after recovering, still get the messages that where published while it was down.
Figure 3 shows the notion of a topic.
Figure 3. The notion of a topic
In a broker-based architecture, the topic messages and subscriptions are managed by the centralized broker. All published messages are sent to the broker and the broker is responsible for delivering the messages to all subscribers.
Figure 4 shows how topics work in a centralized environment.
Figure 4. Topics in a centralized environment
MantaRay removes the broker from the architecture, so all communication is done peer-to-peer. Publishers send the messages directly to the subscribers. The communication is TCP-based and can be encrypted using SSL.
Figure 5 shows how topics work in a distributed environment.
Figure 5. Topics in a distributed environment
Applications can also communicate with each other using queues of messages. One application sends messages to the queue and another receives the messages from the queue. There could be any number of message producers and consumers on a given queue and there could be any number of queues in the system.
Messages are kept in the queue in the order in which they were sent until a consumer requests a message. Each message will be delivered to one and only one consumer. This delivery algorithm is the main difference between queues and topics.
Figure 6 shows the notion of a queue.
Figure 6. The notion of a queue
Consumers can register themselves as queue listeners. By doing so, they eliminate the need to request a message every time. In the queue listener mode, a message that is received by the queue will be delivered immediately to one of its listeners.
In a broker-based architecture, all queues are managed by the centralized broker in a manner very similar to topics.
Queues are centralized by their nature, because of the order requirement and the "once and only once" delivery constraint. In MantaRay, we kept the queue as a centralized logical entity and still removed the need for a broker. We have introduced a third role (beyond consumer and producer) called a queue coordinator, which can reside on any MantaRay element in the network. Different MantaRay elements can coordinate different queues. The only rule that has to be kept is that there is only one queue coordinator per queue.
Figure 7 shows how queues work in a distributed environment.
Figure 7. Queues in a distributed environment
The coordinator for each queue is a configurable attribute of MantaRay. Once a MantaRay element is configured to be the coordinator of a queue, it will automatically manage that queue. The queue coordinator can even be a dedicated standalone MantaRay process, which does not act as a consumer or producer at all.
If planned correctly, this queue architecture can be much faster than a queue on a broker. Let's say we have only one consumer of messages from the queue; this means we can configure the queue coordinator on the same MantaRay instance. This gives us a very fast queue--one that does not require network traffic. On the other hand, if you have only one producer and multiple consumers, you can configure the queue coordinator to be on the same process as the producer and queuing a message into the queue will not require network traffic.
Messaging can also be useful for inter-process communication; different logical components and different tiers in an application can communicate with each other using JMS. This abstraction helps you decouple the tiers and more easily separate them into different applications when that time comes.
MantaRay enables inter-process communication with no network traffic. If MantaRay "knows" that the destination of a message is in the same JVM, it skips all of the network stuff (serialization, network send and receive, and deserialization), making the communication much faster.
While writing a proprietary code can be fun, using standards is very important. Standards have been proven and accepted by the community and usually cover all bases. MantaRay tries to use standards as much as possible:
When considering a messaging solution, there are many things to take into account: stability, robustness, high availability, and speed. Up until now, you could only solve these problems by buying a stronger computer and a stronger network infrastructure. This meant you'd need your brokers to be backed up, clustered, and load-balanced. While these options are still valid, MantaRay provides a different point of view on the messaging world; one that is less costly, and one that is easy to deploy and manage.
Issues of scaling and cost should be considered, as well. Until recently, scaling up was very costly and sometimes a big pain. Now you have the option to start small and easily scale up.
Because it is a lightweight solution and easy to deploy, and because of its distributed nature, MantaRay can be an ideal solution for your Java messaging needs.
Amir Shevat is a senior software developer with eight years of experience in computing.
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Originally Posted by natssuu
I'm really getting tired of this, all the blabbering in this chapter has already been said, the story isn't progressing at all. Why can't Kishi switch to Sasuke and Oro >_>
I have a feeling that we get Sasuke & Orochimaru in next chapter. New Year, New Story.
Naruto holding Hinata's hand gave me an erection, I'm not going to lie.
Loved the chapter. definitely feel like some serious stuff happened, even though not that much happened anyways.
I'd give it a 5/5, if it wasn't that i felt like we still where missing some more action, instead of just words. though i did like
the conversations AND ...
NaruHina FTW! seems like it's gonna become a reality, or just naruto trolling around :D
- Aletoria
He handled Neji's death better than I thought he would. As if it actually were important.
Too bad the rest of the chapter consisted of Obito going Uchiha emo (he'll still redeem himself somehow soon though, the question is how and when), fanservice and the corniest dialogue this manga has ever seen - and that's saying something. 'His hand is so big and strong...and makes me feel safe'...I think the writer in me died at that point.
All in all, 3/5. Now I just want to see when and how Obito redeems himself, and what Madara meant with 'you're just like I used to be' or whatever he said. The action is utterly uninteresting at this point.
5/5 for me!
Wow Hinata with unlimited HAKKE KUUHEKISHOU! next chapter!
Naruhina fans will rest easy now...
The lads saying it was boring.Are you serious?It shows the difference betwen good and evil and the thin line.It shows that one person can make the difference.I'm starting to think only kids read this manga.
fine I guess 5/5 Maybe. Too much boring talk. I don't mind it
wow.... the naruhina moment made the day imo ... likes^^ likes^^^.... and for everyone who said that hinata wasnt tough enough to deal with naruto ..iyff.. ya'll mothaphuchaz sleep... (in my 2chainz voice) ... great chapter been a long time kishi 5/5 ... i hope that hinata gets some strange power up from the fox chakra.... ps.. even sakura was in shock when hinata spoke up and took control her man...
Originally Posted by KazeZuma
fine I guess 5/5 Maybe. Too much boring talk. I don't mind it
Originally Posted by Anduril
Did Hinata just say... Naruto's hand is big strong and ... xD
If you knw what i mean...
Oh... yesh.
Lol, it's pretty much canon now that hinata can solo naruto - *****slap jutsu FTW.
It was a really nice chapter with a good change of pace. Good to see some light and shade in Kishis writing, not just dbz style explosions with no plot.
As amazing as this chapter was with the naruhina moment I feel sorry for tobi. No one was there for him when he faced the same dilemma...which is quite sad for his character.
I like it, yes, I hate talking stupid chapters but I like that they are finally empowering women in NB and not just anyone, Hinato deserve being OPed like Mito or something.
hey the chapter was amazing so................................................ ........
anyway i liked the naruhina part but it was a bit awkward
btw 10/5
the juubi and the hachibi kissed ! :D
Liked it!! I guess NaruHina is official now whoop whoop )) Finally some talk and emotions lately there were way too many fighting scenes. Oh yeah and R.I.P Neji --> it's like super sad ((( why him ??? That's not fair!!!
5/5 great chapter. hinata being there for naruto when she is needed just like minato and hashirama's wife. helping naruto keep on his path which he has done for her in the past.
with the exception of it being longer i dont think it could have been better
I didn'y like this chapter.. but WTF Bee.. I thought he was trying to suicide lol..
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Great chapter, Hinata encouraging Naruto, loved the naruhina scene,
cant wait to see what will happen next
Originally Posted by staticdash22
I think the chapter was excellent. Every chapter isn't suppose to look like DBZ. Th epast few chapters have been heavy in action, so naturally there needed to be a cooling down period. I liked how Obito almost got naruto to give up, and guess who came to his rescue? Hinata ftw, she knew exactly what to say. 8/10 this week.
Hinate going Super saiyan did look like DBZ :p but anyway descent chapter so indeed 8/10 for me as well.
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Todd Helton, Lou Gehrig and Chuck Klein all have something that they were able to accomplish in more than one season. What did they accomplish, and how did Todd Helton one-up these fellas?
Question # 2
Who is the only switch-hitter to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in a post-season game?
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Joe Jackson (shoeless)
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That quiz is tough. I only know #4 off the top of my head. Although Major League Baseball says "No one player has ever been identified as the model of the 1969 Major League Baseball batter logo." Despite what they say I know who you are talking about.
Sup HB, you didn't think I'd make this easy for a Spilly ball did you?…D
Stop your researching. I have a winner already. Alex Ferguson sent me these answers at 2:31 pm MST.
Ok, so here is the answer for your contest.
1: They all had multiple seasons with 100+ base hits, but only Todd Helton did it in consecutive seasons for the Rockies
2: I believe it was Bernie Williams of the New York Yankees.
3: Nice choice of the players who didn't once win a batting title, but I believe the answer is Leon Allen Goslin (Goose) with 1 batting title for the Washington Senators in 1928.
4: MLB insisted that nobody is the logo, but story has it that it is Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins.
5: Jack Graney in 1932 for the Cleveland Indians
6: The tallest second baseman ever is Dick Hall at 6'6" for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The tallest second baseman to play an entire season was George Kelly at 6'4" for the New York Giants.
The dude nailed them all. Congrats Alex..Was it hard? Too easy?..Give some details brotha…D
Whoops i just sent mine, disregard it. My 1st comment, r u going to have another contest soon?- Joe
It was hard and easy on some parts. Like HardBallBlog I knew the Harmon Killebrew thing of the top of my head. I thought it was Bernie, also. I'd say it was about a 7. Joe I'm also Yankee fan, hope to see you next season. I'm also kinda a baseball collector also…1,765 MLB autographs and 1,983 Proffesional Baseball autographs.
Hey Yankee (Joe), thanks for finally speaking (in a typing sense). Alex's email beat yours by 24 minutes. Welcome to the Rant…D
Thanx. alco- i live 2 1/2 hours away from yankee stdium stadium, got a full tour of the new one weeks ago. going to 5 yanks 5 mets 1 orioles 2 nationals 2 pitt 3 dbacks game next year. i snag like zack. Joe
Alex..damn man, you have that many autographs? Wow, you need to send me a picture of that brotha…That deserves it's own blog entry or even a book deal. That's amazing…D


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Geography can be seen as Andrew's destiny. His mother was a geomorphologist and he was fortunate enough to go to field camps with her. Many family trips were tied into her work. During his teenage years a sort of rebellion took over Andrew with him trying to avoid geography at all cost. However, he must have been wired for geography because after trying out a few other fields Andrew came back to geography. "Everything made sense [with geography]," Andrew told me.
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Southern California's largest curling tournament features international competitors, Olympic medal winners, a celebrity game and more.
(Valencia, Calif.) Wednesday, June 4, 2014 – Most Southern Californians won't be spending their Fourth of July weekends on ice. But from July 4 to 6, the coolest place to be will be Ice Station Valencia, as Hollywood Curling's annual Summer Blockbuster Bonspiel brings curlers from around the world for a weekend of fun and competition.
Now in its 6th year, the Blockbuster Bonspiel (a traditional curling word for tournament) will feature 36 teams and 144 athletes from as nearby as Los Angeles and as far away as Switzerland. Competitors include five Olympic athletes , including four time Olympian and World Champion Debbie McCormick; Mike Harris, who won the silver medal for Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics and serves as a curling commentator for CBC Sports; and Patrick McDonald, a wheelchair curler who was skip of the American teams at the 2014 and 2010 Paralympic Games.
Spectators are free of charge and welcome for the whole event! The Blockbuster Bonspiel will welcome visitors throughout the tournament, with friendly volunteers on hand to answer questions and explain the intricacies of the game.
Blockbuster Bonspiel matches will begin at 8:30 AM each day, with games continuing late into the evening. The opening ceremony will be at 3:45 on Friday, July 4. The championship match begins at 12:30 PM on Sunday, July 6, with trophies and medals given out during the awards ceremony at 3 PM. All games will take place at Ice Station Valencia, 27745 Smyth Drive in Valencia.
In addition to the regular schedule, Hollywood Curling will host a very special Celebrity Chairty Curling Match to raise funds for local youth sports charity LA84. At 7:30 PM on Saturday, July 5, teams of Hollywood celebrities will be paired with Olympic and National level curlers for a fun exhibition match. This year's celebrities feature Eden Riegel (All My Children, The Young and the Restless, American Pie); Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hot Shots),; Josh Randall (Ed, Scrubs, Greek, Criminal Minds); Francis Capra (Veronica Mars, Heroes); Gregory Jbara (Blue Bloods, American Dad, Big Miracle; Tony Award for Billy Elliott) ; Lloyd Eisler (Olympic and World Champion Figure Skater); Tickets to the Celebrity Game will be $5 general admission (free for kids under 3), and will be available first-come, first-serve at the Ice Station Valencia box office beginning at 6:30 PM. (Video of last year's event can be viewed here.)
About Hollywood Curling
Founded in December 2007, Hollywood Curling is one of five curling clubs in California and the only club in Los Angeles County. The club's goal is to introduce the sport of curling to the local community, to foster the social and competitive spirit of the sport and to teach and develop curlers to compete at the local, national and international levels. In addition to public Learn to Curl events, Hollywood Curling also hosts corporate events, private parties and junior summer camps. Hollywood Curling is a volunteer-run, 501(c)3 non-profit organization and is a member in good standing of USA Curling and the Mountain Pacific Curling Association (MoPac). For more information, including event and league schedules, visit hollywoodcurling.org.
About the sport of curling
The popular sport of curling, a game in which 42-pound granite stones are hurled down a 150-foot sheet of ice at a central target while teammates use brushes or brooms to sweep the ice in the path of the stone, has seen a tremendous increase in popularity in the US in the past decade. Owing large in part to the televised coverage during the Winter Olympics in Torino in 2006, Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014, Americans have been flocking to the sport with intrigue and fascination. The sport has seen explosive expansion in recent years, particularly in the area of arena clubs like Hollywood Curling, which share the ice with hockey players and figure skaters.
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Only an insecure man would have a problem
F*ck this gay sh*t I miss the 90's
Not my cup of tea
U need a big strong man to pipe you, that would change your mind
Once u go gay u never go back
I prefer the ESPN naked picture of Chandler over this one
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Chandler and Amare's queer fashion interest embarrasses me as a fan
This is the worst thread and poll in knicksonline history
Whether or not there's a gay gene, the fact is that being gay is a crucial part of people's identity, and not something they can just change at whim. I guess they could choose not to act on it, but no one can choose who they are attracted to. Many gay people have tried, but why put pressure on people to do that? Gay people are not the problem - people who don't accept them are. People can believe whatever they want, but they shouldn't bully or discriminate against people, regardless of their beliefs.
What's wrong with compassion and sympathy? And throw empathy in there while you're at it. Hate doesn't make you tough. It makes you an *******.
The whole "bullying makes you tough" theory is a myth and has been debunked by research. People who were bullied in school grow up to have more emotional problems, not less. I'm not in favor of coddling everybody, but I don't apologize for envisioning a better world where people showed more respect for each other. If you really care about people and want them to be strong, create a safe space where they can feel free to be themselves and take risks while knowing they have a support system to return to even if they fail.
Now pass me a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, fool. Fat Elvis ain't no pansy - he's a karate-chopping bad-ass. Recognize
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Facts are facts, everybody gets bullied at somepoint. Even the ones doing the bulllying have been bullied. Thats just part of life,, the parents should encourage their kids to join the football team or start working out. I knew a kid that got bullied but once he joined the football team people respected him more. I've had people f*ck with me in the past, its no big deal. It made me who I am today. Kids are gonna be kids, we need to stop spreading soft pansy messages and encouraging kids to be snitches. These kids are quick to fold, start wearing all black and slitting their wrists. Thats the type of society that we have built
Nevertheless, it's ****ed up to hate on someone because of who they are. I do agree with you, though, that people should ignore haters. Too bad it's not that easy for some.
i've got many gay friends, and there's a tiny part of me that's probably gay too (not my d*ck), because I definitely love certain athletes and musicians (no homo) and I'm not calling out any gays, I'm calling my fellow KO posters gay, because I know they can deal with it, or I'm calling a certain fashion sense "gay" because it looks like something a gay person, or a woman would wear. I don't call members of the gay persuasion "faggots", or point out they're gay, or look gay, because it's derogatory, and I wouldn't want to offend them. but when KO posters, and especially lurkers, decide to chime in with racist posts reproaching posters using the term "gay", and defending that way stupid grant hill commercial, it's too much. that's like whoopi goldberg or Oprah trying to stop the black community from using "n*gger". it's not gonna happen. calling a fellow black man "n*gger" or calling a fellow man "gay" because he's acting gay or wearing gay clothes, it's part of the american vernacular, it's part of being a man who gets along with other men on a manly basis, and doesn't take offense to being called gay. but fatty elvis is going to post sad videos of gays who were bullied and killed brings the entire forum down with his attempts at enlightening a bunch of knick fans who just want to have fun. we're not hurting anyone. just you and your hoity toity holier-than-thou, arrogant attitude.
go f*ck yourself.
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I guess i cant say i have nothing against gays, 2 dudes holding hands
But we get some older gay fellas that come into where i work at and they're just really nice people. I have no problem with them, just keep the bro love behind closed doors.
And f*cka grant hill, saying gay and f*ggot is just part of my culture. Its not meant to offend anyone, if your offended get yourself a box of tissues. Cuz u aint getting now sympathy from me, aint nobody ever show me sympathy when i was down.
You have one source from the late 90s, I will raise you seven, from the past decade:
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I think it's safe to say no one is prejudice here, or heavily anyway. Good discussion.
If Chandler was gay then that'd be offensive, but since he's not, it's just funny.
Unfortunately not everybody can toughen up, maybe enough anyway. A lot of people's brains might be wired in a way that they can't.
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There's a difference between true bullying and just screwing around with your friends. I don't think anyone on this site was being a true bully - but I do think bullying is a big problem out there. With true bullying, there is an intent to hurt or embarass, it happens repeatedly, and there is a power imbalance between the person bullying and the person getting bullied. In my opinion, it's a form of abuse just like any other. Plenty of people beat their girlfriends and wives, but that doesn't mean we should just turn the other way and accept it as part of our "culture". We should do something about it.
As far as the whole "snitch" thing goes, what would be ideal is if kids stick up for each other - that's been shown to be far more effective than just telling a teacher, and what I encouraged kids to do in our bullying programs in schools. Just like your friend who joined the football team, I guess. I guess that's why kids join gangs, too. But I think there is a difference between being a snitch (trying to get someone in trouble) and being an ally - trying to help someone who needs it.
No doubt you went through some crap and came through okay. But not everyone's the same as you, and different kids respond differently. Ideally, they would learn to be assertive and stand up for themselves, but some people haven't learned those skills and shouldn't be driven to depression or suicide because of that.
In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with a little back and forth discussion. I don't view anyone on here as my "enemy" who needs to be taught a lesson. Let's have a discussion - you can share your opinion, I can share mine. We can even talk trash a little, no big deal.
Clyde, I don't think you're some hateful homophobe, and I appreciate you not wanting to offend anyone who is really gay. I'm not sure if everyone who reads the posts would realize that or feel the same way, though -and some might use it to justify their own truly homophobic actions/beliefs. But that's not really on you - it's on them.
I don't think the whole N word analogy is accurate - you're talking about people within a group calling each other the N-word, in a way co-opting the word from the hateful way it was used before and using it as a way to bond. As a white person, I don't think I'm in any position to make a judgment about that, though I think Oprah and whoever else has a right to voice their opinion about it. That would be more like two gay guys calling each other fags. But when straight people use that kind of language, it's more like a white person using the N word - not cool.
And if you're going to call me racist, you need to explain yourself. That's total bullsh*t and you know it.
No need to get personal and disrespectful. I respect your right to your opinion and haven't insulted you or judged you personally - at least that wasn't my intent. If I came off that way, I apologize - but I'm not down with being told to go **** myself.
And also, gay people don't have it worse in the hood. They have it the worst in countries like Cameroon where it is ILLEGAL to be a homosexual and you could be EXECUTED.
If you have nothing to contribute to this debate then it is over. Come on MSG, you can do better than this.
While they have it better than they ever did, we're still not there yet. Gay marriage is only legal in so many states. There are more states that have it legal for you to marry your first cousin. Regardless of your position on the matter, that's ****ed up.
I can't wait until 30 years from now when gay marriage is universal and every homophobic buffoon looks like a complete idiot in textbooks the same way we look back at segregation and the Civil Rights movement from post Civil War to the 1960s.
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