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Mortal Kombat has just added Sony's cover boy, Kratos, to their upcoming game roster. The God of War is acting as a Sony ambassador for the PS3 version, but Mortal Kombat is a cross-platform title. So, it's very likely that an Xbox 360 exclusive character will be announced as well. Games like Soul Calibur 4 have done this in the past: the PS3 version had a playable Darth Vader and the Xbox 360 version had a playable Yoda. Both characters were eventually available as downloadable content.
God of War has been a monumental success for Sony and the PlayStation. Kratos serves as a shining example of what the PS3 can offer as well as a face for the console. The Xbox 360 exclusive character should embody the same the attributes, and he or she should be synonymous with the Xbox 360. Who should Microsoft's poster boy, or girl, be?
Marcus Fenix
The Gears of War series has been incredibly successful for Microsoft over the past few years. Gears 1 and Gears 2 are among the best known third-person shooters. Despite coming out in 2009, Gears of War 2 is still one of most popular games on Xbox Live. Gears of War 3's delay until the Holiday 2011 caused many broken hearts, mine included. This is why Marcus Fenix and his trademarked lancer need to go to the tournament.
Marcus Fenix is the main protagonist in the Gears series. When Gears 1 starts out he's an inmate trapped in prison for going AWOL to rescue his father. Before his arrest he had a noteworthy military career where he garnered a reputation for being an elite fighter against the Locust. He meets the MK requirements: a troubled past, a badass attitude and the perfect finishing move. Sawing someone in half with his chainsaw-gun would be ideal. The only thing working against Marcus is how slow the Gears characters move. Taking steroids has consequences, kids
Marcus has also already made cameo appearances, like Kratos' stint in Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny. Marcus was a character in Lost Planet 2's multiplayer in the form of a bonus costume.
Master Chief
Let's get real. If there was one franchise that encompasses everything the Xbox 360 stood for it would be Halo. Halo: Combat Evolved started on the original Xbox and each installment since has made a gigantic impact on the gaming industry. In Halo 1, Halo 2, and Halo 3, the main character is Master Chief Petty Officer John-117. Master Chief is a cybernetically enhanced super solider and he is humanities only hope against the Covenant.
Master Chief is a video game icon, among the likes of Mario and Sonic. Master Chief is a genetically enhanced man of few words. He is depicted as a calm, critical fighter who has been trained to be the best. Before the events of Halo 1 Master Chief was a solider in the United Nations Space Command. His combat record was commendable but many he fought with grew to distrust him. Throughout his journey in the Halo series he became a hero. You know what Mortal Komabt lacks? A Hero. And helmets, there aren't nearly enough helmets in the series.
Master Chief has been considered for a fighting game before. Team Ninja approached Bungie about including him Dead or Alive 4. Due to story line restrictions Master Chief couldn't be used so a compromise was made. That compromise's name was Nicole-458, a female spartan built off of Halo 2 game data.
Alan Wake
Alan Wake was a psychological action thriller released earlier this year exclusively for the Xbox 360. The game centers around Alan Wake, a writer who must uncover the mysterious disappearance of his wife. The events in the novel he has no memory of writing begin to happen in real life. Okay, I know that doesn't sound like that most exciting premise for a character in a fighting game but that's exactly why Mortal Kombat needs him.
Alan is armed with a flashlight. No character in the Mortal Kombat series has a flashlight as their main weapon so he gets plus points for creativity. He has a mission to find his lost love, more plus points. He is modeled after a Finnish actor, I don't think any MK characters are from Finland. Plus that leaves room for a "Finnishing move" joke, am I right?
Xbox Avatars
Xbox Live Avatars are the XBL versions of you. Players have the ability to customize characters' body shape, hair style and clothing. Using the Xbox Live Marketplace you can purchase outfits, accessories and even pets to make your avatar as much like you, or as different as you want. what if Mortal Kombat would let you fight with your Xbox Live Avatar.
XBL Avatars are so much more than Miis. They can be representations of you or your online persona. If MK implemented Avatars into the game it would be as though you were participating in the game, performing your own combos and fatalities. Who doesn't want to see their Xbox-selves tearing out someone's spine?
Joanna Dark
Joanna Dark is a secret agent and all around badass. She has humble beginnings working with her father as a bounty hunter. Traveling the world with her dad, she learned all the necessary skills to be the perfect agent, and perhaps the perfect fighter. She earned the nickname "Perfect Dark" because of the excellent scores she received at the Carrington Institute where she was trained. Perfect Dark may have debuted on the N64 but it had a life on the Xbox 360.
Joanna has everything a female fighter needs. First and foremost a female can't be in a fighting game without a sexy outfit. Joanna is ready, she sports a tight black spandex suit, usually cut down to her naval. It's not quite Mileena's costume but it'll do. She also has all the right moves since she's been fighting bad guys since she was a child.
Horstachio is the mascot for the Xbox exclusive series Viva Pinata. Now I know what you're thinking, "A pinata in Mortal Kombat. Surely you jest." Viva Pinata has been a fan favorite for years and certainly has a solid base. Plus the fun, bright colors will attract the attention of those gamers with short attention spans, like myself.
I dare say that not a single character on this list has been beaten up and utterly destroyed more times than Horstachio. That's what pinatas are made for, hitting. The only difference is instead of blood and guts he's full of candy and love.


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You do make some nice trades that could very well happen IF the Heat suddenly were not winning.
The problem is that James and Bosh joined Miami so they could all play together so if you take one out right away then you might ruin any chemistry that was starting to build.
Of course with James and Wade they would be awesome but they might be pissed off at management for lying about keeping all three of them for the 5 year contracts they signed to.
I don't see it happening.
But if they traded Bosh for Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love, that would be an amazing team...or having Curry and Lee with James and Wade....oh man that would be awesome for the Heat.
I like the ideas but realistically it won't happen.


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Gov. Peter Shumlin should be commended for explaining an East Montpelier real estate transaction.
When The Times Argus approached Shumlin about the status of a 2,200-square-foot residence being built on the 27-acre parcel, the governor seized the opportunity to explain the deal he got on the parcel — well below its market value.
Shumlin initially walked the Vermont Press Bureau's chief, Peter Hirschfeld, through the deal — a $35,000 sale but valued by town listers at twice that amount. He explained that he had negotiated the sale price based on the per-acre value of a larger lot from which his parcel was subdivided.
But Hirschfeld's article generated additional questions — ones that required a follow-up, especially when a Shumlin campaign official said the governor forms limited liability companies for all his property transactions as a means of "protecting his other assets from any future claims against the property," according to the article.
In the meantime, other media picked up on the story, questioning how the state's top official was able to land such a sweet deal on such prime Vermont farmland.
On Thursday, during his weekly roundtable with the media, the governor acknowledged he got a better deal than he would have if the tract had been sold as a stand-alone lot on the open market. He explained that he had initially wanted to buy the entire farm of 182 acres and even negotiated a purchase-and-sale agreement with the sellers.
While showing off the property to some friends, whom Shumlin would not identify, they were immediately smitten with the Riley farm. Shumlin said he did his friends a favor by agreeing to void the purchase-and-sale agreement and that they returned that favor by giving him the land at a price below what they would have been able to fetch on the market. Shumlin's friends paid $630,000 for the remaining 154 acres, which included a farmhouse and other buildings.
Shumlin and his friends each purchased their portions of the property through LLCs formed in June, shortly before they finalized the sale. According to the secretary of state's office, Shumlin's friends are David M. and Patrice Cromwell, of Lutherville-Timonium, Md., and Thomas A. and Christianne Hagemann, of Houston. Each of the four has contributed $1,000 to Shumlin's re-election campaign.
For reasons passing understanding, the governor had had enough. He criticized reporters for "digging" into the story, going so far as to suggest their efforts were akin to the National Enquirer and the New York Post. Shumlin then stormed out of the news conference, stating everything about the deal was aboveboard.
No one had suggested otherwise. The governor, who essentially accused some of the reporters in the room of losing their objectivity by pursuing a relatively nondescript but notable real estate transaction, appears to have lost some perspective himself.
The governor, who is seeking re-election, holds the highest office in the state and is subject to above-average scrutiny. He knows too well the rules of engagement between politicians and the media; he's masterful at spinning his messages. Voters and readers have a right to know who their governor is doing business with, what kinds of deals he is getting (and they might not be), and whether all of the questions that are out there have been answered satisfactorily.
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Name of Product: Rainforest™ Portable Play Yards manufactured by Simplicity Inc. and SFCA Inc.
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Hazard: One or more rails can collapse unexpectedly, posing a fall or entrapment hazard to young children.
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It's tremendously difficult to argue a RESTful approach to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), when the corporate mindshare is SOAP--where project stakeholders tout the SOA buzzword, nod their heads sagely when you say SOAP, nod their heads again when you say XML-RPC, and then look blankly when you mention REST. At an official level, it seems that for the IBMs, Suns, Microsofts, and Oracles (et al) of this world, REST isn't even on the radar; perhaps more because they would find it difficult to build a commercial strategy around something that is based on simplicity and standards (like HTTP) that have been around for years, than from a true lack of visibility at the coalface. So when the push from on high is for SOAP web services and associated technologies, and your business partners and colleagues have been drinking the Sun/MS/IBM/etc. Kool-Aid, you're generally fighting a losing battle if you're promoting alternatives.
While you might usually end up stuck in a buzzword-compliance nightmare, with packets of WSDLs, BPELs, and SOAPs flying around left, right, and center, there are occasions where it may be possible to push through a REST-style, resource-centric approach; where there is no official strategic direction for SOA already in place, where there is a reasonable amount of flexibility and imagination on the part of the project owners, and perhaps with a bit of technical enlightening on the part of the technical lead(s).
But it does still come back to the fact that a service-oriented architecture, in particular, is not a simple, disconnected, independent application, and that many of the organizations wishing to interact with the system will be expecting the (in some cases, de facto) standard mechanisms for interaction, and won't be happy unless your software is emitting buzzwords and acronyms like an engine with a split gasket spits oil.
The best method I've come up with so far to get around this issue is to deliver both. Design the core of your system with REST resources, and subsequently plug in some kind of interfacing or adapter to the REST components, in order to deliver SOAP messaging for those who require it. This article discusses one approach to a SOAP interface for REST services. However, one thing we aren't going to do is resolve issues of context between REST's coarser-grained idea of a resource, and SOAP's fine-grained RPC methods. There is guaranteed to be a significant chunk of the REST crowd who think, "Why bother? A REST resource doesn't map to SOAP calls and it shouldn't, anyway." That's fine, and agreed, to a point--however, this article is aimed at those fighting the good fight in corporate IT, wanting to design REST systems, but stuck delivering SOAP messages because it's the standard, and what everyone expects you to deliver.
A side note: there are, of course, SOAP web methods, which provide an HTTP verb-style interface to a standard SOAP web service--which would be a more direct mapping to a REST resource. But if you're using a form of orchestration, pulling a number of services and processes together with something like BPEL, you are potentially going to be constrained (at the very least by convention, but perhaps also by technical considerations of the orchestration and choreography tools) to using
GET and (more commonly)
POST for your SOAP methods.
The place I'll start is with the REST services, or resources (in REST terminology). For the purposes of this discussion, I've (RAD) prototyped all of the code in Jython, which gives me access to all of the Java libraries I need to use, and also allows me to throw components together without too much infrastructure (and without too much in the way of recompilation and preparation). Jython also has the advantage of being able to (generally) do more in less space than Java, so from the point of view of explanation, it's quite a useful tool. That said, it's worthwhile to note that in a production setting, I would re-implement certain segments of the code, where performance would be an issue (the interfacing specifically), in "native" Java, due to Jython's performance limitations.
To get the directory structure out of the way first, I've set up a directory in my servlet container's webapps directory with the basic layout in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Directory layout
Working servlet files (in this case, Jython scripts) will be placed in the root test folder, while source code obviously goes in the source directory and is compiled to classes--pretty much as you might expect. I'll come to the generated directory shortly.
To test the services for yourself, extract the contents of the sample code rest+soap.zip file, found in the Resources section, into the webapps directory of your servlet container (tested on Jetty and Tomcat 5). The various .jar files required for WEB-INF/lib are detailed in the readme.txt file located in that directory. Source code can be compiled using Ant and the build.xml file located in source.
For this example, my REST service will be a "shopping basket" of stocks, supporting
GET (retrieve an existing shopping basket),
PUT (create or update a shopping basket), and
DELETE (remove a basket). The URI for accessing the resource will be http://localhost:8080/test/basket/<basket_name>, so it could be viewed from a browser with something like http://localhost:8080/test/basket/mybasket. In addition, I'm going to use XML schemas to define the messages passed to and from my resource, and JAXB to simplify the process of conversion from flat XML to object. So the first step in this process will actually be defining the XML schema for the basket resource. In my (perhaps less than) infinite wisdom, I've made the decision that the definitions for my resource will go in schema file Basket.xsd, while any commonalities (i.e., definitions that could be used by other resources) will go in Common.xsd. For example, the definition for the
BasketRQ element is show below:
<xs:element name="BasketRQ">
<xs:documentation>a basket of stocks</xs:documentation>
<xs:element name="Reference" type="Reference" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Items" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:documentation>an item in the basket</xs:documentation>
<xs:element name="Code" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="Quantity" type="xs:positiveInteger" />
BasketRQ is used for creating a basket of stocks--a basket can contain a reference, and then a number of items (each of which contain a string code and an integer quantity). Note the emphasis on can contain a reference--in the case of my REST resources, the reference won't feature in the XML message, but will be important when we get to the SOAP interface later. Including the
Reference element in this schema (despite the fact it isn't required at all by REST resources) is necessary to reduce the complexity of maintaining an alternate XML schema specially for the matching SOAP services.
The next schema excerpt shows the basket response (
BasketRS), which has two additional elements: the stock price, and total price after multiplying stock price by the quantity:
<xs:element name="BasketRS">
<xs:documentation>a basket of stocks</xs:documentation>
<xs:element name="Reference" type="Reference" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Items" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:documentation>an item in the basket</xs:documentation>
<xs:element name="Code" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="Quantity" type="xs:positiveInteger" />
<xs:element name="Price" type="Money" />
<xs:element name="Total" type="Money" />
These two elements are used in the
GET and
PUT methods of the basket resource: a
PUT expects a
BasketRQ, while a
GET returns the
BasketRS. The elements (along with all other elements defined in these schema files) are generated as JavaBeans using a JAXB Ant task (which can be found in build.xml, again located in the source directory).
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The straightforward code for the
GET method is shown below--the basic process is to retrieve the basket name (or reference) from the servlet request path info, and then loop through the matching basket object (if found), updating the price and quantity fields. The object is then marshalled to XML using JAXB, to be written back to the client.
def doGet(self, request, response):
w = response.getWriter()
basketref = request.getPathInfo()[1:]
if not baskets.has_key(basketref):
'basket reference "%s" was not found' % basketref)
# loop through the items in the basket, and update the price and total fields
# with the price retrieved from the NZ stock exchange
itr = baskets[basketref].getItem().iterator()
while itr.hasNext():
item = itr.next()
item.setTotal(BigDecimal(item.getPrice().doubleValue() *
# write back the xml for the basket, using jaxb to marshal the object
w.write(pyutils.marshal('testbeans', baskets[basketref]))
The code for the
doPut method is also fairly simple, with the following process:
PUT request into a
BasketRQ Java object using JAXB.
BasketRS Java object and copy the contents of the
BasketRQ into it (necessary so we don't need to do this for every
GET request).
BasketRS to the "datastore," which for the purposes of this example is just a map of objects in local memory.
There is an additional, and rather important, HTTP method the REST resource will implement:
doOptions. The code for this method is shown below:
def doOptions(self, request, response):
response.setHeader('Allow', 'GET,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE')
response.setHeader('Content-Type', '0')
'http://%s:%s%s/schemas/Basket.xsd' % (request.getServerName(),
request.getServerPort(), request.getContextPath()))
response.setHeader('X-PUT-request-node', 'BasketRQ')
response.setHeader('X-GET-response-node', 'BasketRS')
According to the RFC for HTTP, the
OPTIONS method is used to:
represent a request for information about the communication options available on the request/response chain identified by the Request-URI. This method allows the client to determine the options and/or requirements associated with a resource, or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action or initiating a resource retrieval.
So in the example above, I use an
Allow header to specify which HTTP methods are supported, and then custom headers (prefixed with
X-*) to present more detail about the schema used by the resource, and which nodes are used for the requests and responses to particular methods. All of this allows a client process to interrogate the resource to find out what its requirements are, which will become important shortly.
The SOAP interface is basically a servlet pretending to be any number of SOAP services. The interface must first figure out:
REST doesn't necessarily constrain you to any particular form of web service contract or the publication of service definitions to a centralized directory--there is plenty of discussion and debate on the Web, from both the REST and SOAP camps (and within those camps as well) over the benefits of either approach from a discovery point of view. Without getting into any debate over discovery methods, the REST resource in this example is published in a rather obvious and simple place: http://localhost:8080/test/discovery.html:
<title>Rest Services Discovery</title>

basket

This has the advantage of being both easily machine-parsable and human-readable. The approach the SOAP interface takes to discovering what REST resources it needs to map is:
OPTIONS method for each anchor
href to retrieve descriptive information about the resource.
order resource, supporting the
GET method, would create a mapping for
The initialization code to map this data is shown here:
(status, reason, headers, html) = pyutils.httprequest('localhost:8080', 'GET',
'/test/discovery.html', '', {})
# parse the discovery html file into a dom
builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder()
doc = builder.parse(InputSource(StringReader(html)))
# get the unorder list of services from the dom
ul = doc.getElementsByTagName('ul').item(0).getChildNodes()
# loop through the items
for x in xrange(0, ul.getLength()):
elem = ul.item(x)
if elem.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
name = elem.getFirstChild().getFirstChild().getNodeValue()
url = elem.getFirstChild().getAttributes().getNamedItem('href').getNodeValue()
# use a regex to split the service uri into host and
# resource name components
mat = http_re.match(url)
if mat:
host = mat.group(1)
resource = mat.group(2)
# lookup the OPTIONS supported by the resource, by
# calling the OPTIONS http method
(status, reason, headers, html) = pyutils.httprequest(host,
'OPTIONS', resource, '', {})
allow = headers['Allow'].split(',')
for a in allow:
if a == 'OPTIONS':
# the soap method is the http verb plus
# the name of the resource
soapmethod = a.capitalize() + name.capitalize()
sw = SoapWrapper(name, a)
# get the schema header if present, otherwise
# default to Common.xsd
if headers.has_key('X-xmlschema'):
(sw.schema_uri, sw.schema) = split_schema(headers['X-xmlschema'])
(sw.schema_uri, sw.schema) = ('http://%s:%s%s/schemas' %
(request.getServerName(), request.getServerPort(),
request.getContextPath()), 'Common.xsd')
# get the request node for the http verb if present, otherwise
# default to GenericRQ
key = 'X-%s-request-node' % a
if headers.has_key(key):
sw.request_node = headers[key]
sw.request_node = 'GenericRQ'
# get the response node for the http verb if present,
# otherwise default to GenericRS
key = 'X-%s-response-node' % a
if headers.has_key(key):
sw.response_node = headers[key]
sw.response_node = 'GenericRS'
# add the info for this soap service to the services map
soapservices[soapmethod] = sw
In creating the SOAP "mapping," we need to take into account some fundamental characteristics that will be generally true across most REST resources:
GET request will not contain a body. Therefore, we need to create an XML schema for the body content of the associated SOAP request (of course, we don't need to create the schema for the response, because we will use the response from the
PUT request will contain a body, and may return a response, in which case default schemas would be required for neither requests nor responses.
DELETE request will not contain a body, but may return a response (the contents of the item deleted), so will require a separate schema for the SOAP requests.
For the purposes of this article, neither my
DELETE nor
PUT methods will return a response--hence, default schemas will be required.
That aside, the main difficulty we have mapping a SOAP call to a REST resource method is that of data identification (or naming). A REST resource is identified by its URI:
/stock/ORCL. A SOAP web service can also be identified by a URI (for example,
/GetLocalReservations?code=ABCD) but may just as likely be identified within the SOAP message itself. Hence, the URI will have no identifying characteristics other than that of distinguishing the service method itself. Hopefully, the reason for including a
Reference element in both the
BasketRQ and
BasketRS definitions has now become clear. For a REST resource, the
Reference isn't used and will be ignored. For a SOAP service, it is a necessary part of identifying the data element in question.
Consequently, the definitions of
GenericRQ and
GenericRS, which are used where a REST resource does not require content for a request or for responses (but a SOAP request does need this data), also include the
Reference element, although in these cases it is no longer optional:
<xs:complexType name="Reference">
<xs:element name="Name" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:minLength value='1'/>
<xs:element name="Parameter" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="Param" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="Value" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="GenericRQ">
<xs:element name="Reference" type="Reference" />
<xs:element name="GenericRS">
<xs:element name="Reference" type="Reference" />
<xs:element name="Status" type="xs:positiveInteger" />
<xs:element name="Message" type="xs:string" />
GenericRQ identifies data by its
Reference, while the response adds the HTTP status code and message. A
Reference is, in turn, made up of a name and any number of
Parameter elements--required in order to reproduce the information that is included in a typical REST resource URI (where parameters may be used to filter the data returned, uniquely identify subsets of data, and so on).
doPut method of the SOAP interface (found in the Jython script soap.py), is used for all SOAP requests to the system, and is (excerpted) below:
def doPost(self, request, response):
path = request.getPathInfo()[1:]
# use jaxb to parse the soap content
s = pyutils.read(request)
soapobj = pyutils.unmarshal('testbeans', s)
obj = soapobj.getBody().getAny().get(0)
sw = soapservices[path]
body = ''
# build the URI from the context path, service name
uri = '%s/%s' % (request.getContextPath(), sw.name)
ref = obj.getReference()
# if the reference has a name element then add it to the uri
if ref.getName():
uri = uri + '/' + obj.getReference().getName()
# if the reference has parameters, add them as the query string
if ref.getParameter().size() > 0:
uri = uri + '?'
length = ref.getParameter().size()
for x in xrange(0, length):
p = ref.getParameter().get(x)
uri = uri + p.getParam() + '=' + p.getValue()
if x < length-1:
uri = uri + '&'
# if the REST method is a PUT, turn the data obj back into xml format
if sw.httpmethod == 'PUT':
body = pyutils.marshal('testbeans', obj)
# send the request to the REST resource, using the correct HTTP method
(status, reason, headers, content) = pyutils.httprequest('%s:%s'
% (request.getServerName(), request.getServerPort()),
sw.httpmethod, uri, body, {})
w = response.getWriter()
if status == 200 and content != '':
# return successful results
content = xmldecl_re.sub('', content)
w.write(soapcontent % content)
# errors are returned as a GenericRS
rs = objfactory.createGenericRS()
rs.setStatus(BigInteger('%s' % status))
xml = pyutils.marshal('testbeans', rs)
xml = xmldecl_re.sub('', xml)
w.write(soapcontent % xml)
As you can see, the basic process for this method is:
GenericRS back to the client including the status and message from the REST resource.
What is perhaps not immediately obvious from this code is the fact that JAXB is unmarshalling the SOAP envelope (
soapobj = pyutils.unmarshal('testbeans', s)), while the body content (retrieved via
obj = soapobj.getBody().getAny().get(0)) is then remarshalled to send on to the REST resource. This is accomplished by way of the XML schema for SOAP envelopes (envelope.xsd), large chunks of which have been hacked out in order to get it working successfully with the version of JAXB I'm using (you will also find this somewhat-mangled version in the source code for this article).
doGet method of soap.py is the final piece of the interfacing puzzle. It is used to deliver a WSDL definition for each of the services mapped by the system. For example, Figure 2 shows the results of browsing to http://localhost:8080/test/soap/wsdl/GetBasket.wsdl.
Because both my definitions and the responses from a REST request are generally quite limited, this WSDL file is not as complicated as it could be. Although the rather pedantic nature of validating WSDLs (missing "/" anyone?) means slight changes can have significant impacts on validation, and I'm only guessing (because I have yet to fully test this final feature) as to its ultimate usability.
Figure 2. Browsing the WSDL
In the resource file for this article, I've included a number of Jython scripts for testing the various services, which can be found in the source directory.
The scripts test-put.py, test-get.py, test-options.py, and test-delete.py can all be used for calling the REST resource directly, while soaptest-PutBasket.py, soaptest-GetBasket.py, soaptest-GetBasket-invalid.py, and soaptest-DeleteBasket.py can be used for the SOAP services. To run a test, from a command prompt change to the WEB-INF/source directory for the project and execute
jython test-put.py (for example). Figure 3 shows the results of executing
GetBasket, after
PutBasket has been run.
Figure 3. Testing
In this article, I've presented one method of creating a SOAP service that can communicate with REST resources, for client applications that are unable (or unwilling) to talk to those resources directly. However, this is really only a starting point: it didn't discuss security (authentication, authorization, securing transmissions, and so on), which is a major component of any web services application, but is in this case, of course, very dependent upon what approach you take when developing the RESTful components. This functionality needs to be addressed for the SOAP interface to be a valid solution. My initial thoughts are that, at least for the authentication functionality, a pluggable structure will be required for the SOAP interface to handle different authentication protocols (at least where this is driven by the client/caller of the service).
Other features (how many billion WS-* specifications are there now?) may also be client-driven, or dictated by the business, and affect the extent to which you can successfully design and implement your SOA as a useful and flexible collection of REST resources. In the end, a RESTful design differs significantly enough from SOAP that these requirements may force you down the SOAP avenue, whether you intend it or not. For those with a choice, hopefully this provides a starting point.
Jason R. Briggs is an architect/developer working in the United Kingdom.
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In this week's message I'd like to share a letter with you that I think speaks to the importance of one of our new focuses here at the State Board – the generation of new and innovative approaches to solving some of the tougher education problems we face as a state.
Last week I received a very heartfelt letter from a local district superintendent. This administrator was very proud of some of the programs his school had developed to help engage and motivate students in their educational progress, and he challenged ISBE to come up with more ideas along those lines.
I certainly don't
pretend to have any great answers here; if I did I would bottle them up, sell
them, and probably not be in
What's particularly compelling about these recommendations is that they were made by some of the highest-achieving minority students from across the country, but I know they would have meaning for ALL students. A key finding of the Harvard article was that the student voice can and must play an important role in our efforts to think innovatively about these kinds of issues.
As a final note--to principals and superintendents with a local PTA organization--please do what you can to point your parents toward the School Report Card survey we are conducting in conjunction with the Illinois PTA. We hope to have a large number of responses to generate as many ideas as possible for our redesign of the Card.
Best wishes for a productive week.
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In our previous message we informed you that we are
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Register your Service Learning Project
Our 2004-2005 Teacher of the Year, Deb Perryman has been
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You can access the registration form at http://www.state.il.us/ltgov/forms/chavez_registration.aspx
Filling in this form takes just a few moments and will help the Lt. Governor's staff know who is participating. You do not have to run the project on March 31st.
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Dates, locations, etc., for the IDEA Reauthorization discussion groups is posted online at
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web-based education
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Because English is not the first language of many of our postdocs, the Belfer Institute and the division of graduate studies offer instruction in English conversation/grammar and writing. Courses are taught in conjunction with the English as a Second Language Institute at nearby Lehman College, part of the City University of New York. ESL instruction for postdoctoral fellows is fully subsidized by the Belfer Institute.


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Backstory: I've had to supplement all 3 of my blessings with formula. I've tried everything from fenugreek to domperidone, to my placenta to increase my supply enough, and they just don't gain weight without supplementing. I was devastated at first, but it is what it is and I'm at peace with it.
Baby #3 is now 6 months old. He currently gets 4 4 oz bottles a day. He loves food, and as he eats more, I'd love to start weaning him off the bottles, and continue to nurse him as often as I am now (about every 2-3 hours.) Has anyone done this before? Any suggestions as to what type of foods would be best? I was thinking full-fat yogurt and avocados? Thank you so much for your help!


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April 9, 2014 —
Of course, by "around here" I mean the Upper Delaware River Valley, and by "fishy" I mean that the majority of the last week has been all about trout. Since I know next to nothing about fishing, fly or otherwise, I gave Phil Eggleton (www.trouttownadventuresandguideservices.com) a call. Confused about when the seasons actually begin and end, I was glad to have Eggleton set me straight on a few pertinent facts. I knew that country sensation Ryan Broshear had been slated to throw out the official first cast at Junction Pool in Trout Town, USA (www.roscoeny.com) but (for something completely different) I was befuddled. "Yes, trout season began a few days ago," Phil explained, "but we often hold off on the official ceremony to make it more convenient for everyone to make it to the celebration over the weekend, when folks traditionally have time off."


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Today marks World Tuberculosis Day. Secretary Clinton issued a statement, joining others around the world in saying "I am stopping TB."
Tuberculosis (TB) kills almost 5,000 people each day and is the leading cause of death for people living with HIV/AIDS. The U.S. Government is the largest contributor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, which has detected and treated over 4 million cases of TB. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is working to improve the diagnosis and treatment of TB for co-infected persons, and is engaged in infection control efforts to prevent new cases of TB. In addition, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has tuberculosis programs in more than 35 countries.
In her statement, Secretary Clinton said: "While much has been accomplished in the fight against this disease, there is still much more to be done if we are to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halting and reversing the spread of TB by 2015. I strongly believe the State Department should continue and expand its commitment to reducing the global burden of TB, and I look forward to working to improve the global response to this and other leading causes of death for the world's poorest communities."
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I hope they find a Cure soon . :)
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- Title
- Public opinion and the politics of immigration
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
- Abstract
- You have already heard something about the pros and cons of population growth, and I'm sure will hear more over the course of this conference. Rather than talking about these, I'm going to focus on why it is that we are continue to have growth, despite the fact that as many as seven out of ten voters believe that Australia does not need more people. But even with this focus it's not possible to dodge the topic of costs and benefits entirely. For example, if population growth were clearly in the national interest the question of why governments pursue it would have a ready answer. Leaders often have to follow policies that many people do not like, simply because these policies are right. For example, they might legislate for a GST, or to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals, or to ban smoking in public places, or to eliminate the death penalty. And the potential opposition among political and intellectual elites might support them, even though they knew that many voters were offside. This would be because the potential opposition knew enough about the pros and cons to agree that the legislators were right and that the unpopular move in question should get their support. While voters might not like it, they do not know enough to make an informed decision. But this does not explain Australian governments' pursuit of substantial immigration-fuelled population growth. Even though many political and cultural elites may think it is in the national interest a sizable body of research shows that, overall, it is not. They are wrong and do not know enough to make an informed decision. Others may be swayed by less forgivable considerations. So whatever their motives, an answer to the question of why governments want to go on pushing the numbers out to 36 million and beyond is not self evident. Consequently this paper will not focus on the intrinsic question of the costs and benefits of growth but on two extrinsic questions: why do Australian politicians insisting on pursuing it when a majority of voters are not in favour, and what is it about the political climate that allows them to do this? Thus it is about the politics of population growth which, in Australia, largely means the politics of immigration.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Population 2050 Australia Summit, Melbourne, Australia, 26-27 September 2011
- Publication year
- 2011
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- Australia; Immigration; Policy; Population growth; Public opinion
- Publisher
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There wasn't all that much coverage of the incident back in the day, so the time that a United Airlines Boeing 747-400 out of SFO with 300 people aboard came super close to crashing into 1,576-foot-high San Bruno Mountain is worth remembering.
Did the pilot at the controls really forget how to steer the plane after one of the engines failed and lots of vibration began? Pretty much. But everybody treated this near miss as if it were an actual accident and procedures for pilot training are now better because of it.
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The rabies drive will take place at Refugio City Hall on Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pets must be at least 3 months old to receive a rabies vaccination, Duelburg said.
Additional vaccinations will be available for DHLPP, kennel cough and rattlesnake for dogs, and FeLV and FVRCP for cats.
The rabies shots are $7 each. Also, city residents will be asked to renew their pets' city tags for 2014.
Duelburg added that for the remainder of 2014, the rabies drives would take place on the first Friday of each month at Refugio City Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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All proceeds will go toward Refugio County's spay and neuter program.
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From Monday, September 24 to Friday, September 28, the ARFF Training Facility at Pittsburgh International Airport will host the Northeast Chapter/AAAE Advanced and Basic Aircraft Rescue and fire training for airport Fire Fighters from across the country. Structural Fire Fighters (the Fire Fighters that respond to building fires) can use either a fixed training building, like the one at the Allegheny County Fire Academy in North Park, or even an old building in their response area to train to fight fires. However, most Airport Fire Fighters do not have access to abandoned aircraft to use to master their skills.
In a cooperative effort between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA), the Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Training Facility at Pittsburgh International Airport was opened in 1999. Since then, over 2,000 ARFF Fire Fighters from around the world have attended training sessions at the facility to get hands on practice with aircraft emergencies.
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Harlingen, Texas – Cat coloring pages. Holiday cat ecards. Easy-to-make cat crafts. Fun cat toys to make at home. Recipes for yummy cat treats.
The International Cat Association (TICA) offers cat lovers around the world the free ebook "Happy Holiday Ideas for You and Your Cat" that contains all of this information plus more great ideas for cat lovers of all ages.
The free ebook available on TICA University for easy download from includes:
• Tasty homemade treat recipes that you can whip up in little time and have wrapped for kitty to enjoy over the Holidays.
• Great sources for ecards so you can send out cards quickly and with no postage!
• Templates for cat gifts you can make for holiday gifts
• Decoration ideas that anyone can make! They're great family projects and things to stuff in that cat lover's box or stocking.
• Coloring pages for the kids to enjoy and even frame for mom, dad or any other cat lover they want to give a gift to.
• Christmas cat books that are great to read to kids, or even for yourself.
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An intriguing prompt for this 178th Sepia Saturday. So many choices of faces speak silently to me over the years, each a tribute to a life lived long ago and giving me just a glimmer of the real person beyond the sepia. I toyed with photos of grandfathers, Scots and German, with my earnest-eyed father at age six, or my great great grandmother, who purportedly of Indian heritage, crossed the Oregon Trail in 1854. Finally, I settled on my first choice, a picture that has intrigued me from the moment I first found the tiny 1"x1" photo, loose and nearly lost in the fold of an old box of pictures. The piercing dark eyes of my grandmother Agnes Laura Sigford might indeed hypnotize a person as she seems to stare into your soul. My mother always said that her mother, this Agnes Laura, could stop her childhood misbehavior in its tracks from far across any room -- just with those eyes. I have many pictures of this maternal grandmother of mine, but this picture of her in the cloche hat and the fur neck-piece intrigues me most of all -- mysterious, imperious, regally aloof.
|Agnes Laura Sigford (Keyes)
circa 1920s
The picture of Agnes Laura when she graduated from high school in Corvallis, Oregon, far from her eastern Oregon home outside of the small town of Mitchell, reflected her high school dreams -- lovely white dress, flowers at her feet. She was ready to step out and meet the world. A few years later, this daughter of a well-to-do rancher left the Keyes ranch to marry Frank Sigford, a young man from Wisconsin who had joined his brothers out west to make their fortune.
However Lady fortune never laid her bounty on the couple. The sweet picture of my grandmother and her first born, Irene, belied the grief of losing this baby Irene when she was not yet two years old. Frank, her husband, followed his dream of riches from dredging gold near Marysville, to the Pacific Northwest logging camps, to southern Oregon cattle ranches, and the subsistance on dry land farms in southern Oregon.
By the time Agnes Laura was in her mid forties, my grandmother had born seven children, five of which lived to adulthood and old age.. Her life was hard -- their lives were hard -- young children and shy on financial resources took their toll on her. Dreams of living a life in which one talked about books, the lives, places and thoughts between the covers, fell by the wayside. And she became the grandmother that I knew as a child-- an old woman, who plied us with homemade applesauce and bread fresh from her over. Her only tie to the life she thought would be hers was the Elocution book which rested behind the homemade glass fronted bookcase.
|Agnes Laura Keyes
High School Granduation, 1898
|Agnes Laura (Keyes) Sigford and
baby Irene, 1904
|Grandma Sigford (Agnes Laura Keyes) as I
remembered her when I was a child
|1942, Grandma Sigford with my little sister


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Film Screening: The Dipsea Movie DocumentaryThursday, May 30th, 7:30pm | Creekside Room
The Dipsea Movie is a documentary film about Mill Valley's historic cross-country running race, the Dipsea Race. The film follows the action of the 100th annual Dipsea, raced in June of 2010, featuring a dramatic start-to-finish contest between an 8-year-old girl and a 68-year-old grandmother. The film also tells the story of the people, history and character of the Dipsea that combine to make it a singularly important event for a small but fiercely dedicated, and often obsessive, community of Bay Area runners. Filmmaker, Sam Lueck, will introduce the film and be available for Q&A after.
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"It felt phenomenal; it was like drinking a whole thing of Sun Drop," Lee said.
Lee was up against 116 of the fastest high school runners in Texas at the state meet in Round Rock at Old Settlers Park on Saturday, Nov. 9. Lee was less than a minute behind the first place runner who finished with 11:40.95.
She said it was difficult at first to compete against the runners who were much older and more experienced because she got boxed in during the race.
Roughly one month into her first semester as a high school student is when Lee first realized she was able to out-run her competition, as she placed first in the Poteet meet on Sept. 28.
"It was awesome knowing I could beat older runners," Lee said. "It was like eating a big old meal."
Her coach, Tony Taylor, said this year has been a learning year for Lee, but he pointed out several highlights from her first season as a high school runner.
She went on to place first in Three Rivers, Beeville and in Bandera with a time of 12:38. She placed sixth in Devine but went on to win Districts with 12:46. Regionals were a little rough according to Taylor, but she managed to place 10th with 12:21.7.
"Blaye worked really hard this year in order to get to state as a freshman," Taylor said. "It didn't matter if it was mileage day, hills, intervals or treadmill day, she brought a focus and intensity to get better each day."
Her practices take her around the school's track and through neighborhoods in Tilden, sometimes with a friend's dog as a running partner. She said she typically runs at least two miles a day, six days a week.
"There's no telling how many miles I run," Lee said.
Lee also competes on the McMullen track team in the 800-meter and one-mile events. Her personal best times are 2:33 for the 800-meter, 5:50 for one mile and 12:21 for two miles.
"I would like to chop off 20 seconds for next year," Lee said. "I'm going to work harder and train more."
Taylor has watched Lee progress since eighth grade and said he appreciates the support the school has given her, particularly during their send-off before the state meet.
Lee started running cross country in seventh grade after a friend encouraged her to join the team, with Tracy Dawson as the coach.
"I don't know how I am so fast; I am just blessed," Lee said. "Cross country is interesting, you get to push yourself to see what you have in your tank."
She said she wants to attend Missouri University due to their girls cross country program.
"She has a very bright future, and we look forward to (seeing) great things from her," Taylor said.


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Collection Mapping the National Parks
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MapMap of the Yellowstone National Park, showing routes and ticketing facilities of the American Exchange Travelers' Bureau. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: American Exchange in Europe
- Date: 1883


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Welcome to the McMurray Lab
My laboratory utilizes genomics and systems biological approaches to identify critical differences in the gene regulatory architecture of cancer and non-cancer cells. We focus on a set of molecules that control tumor formation capacity of cancer cells, known as 'cooperation response genes' (CRGs), which we have recently discovered control the growth of tumors from basal-like breast cancer cells. CRGs have a distinct role in cancer vs. non-cancer cells, leading us to find new pharmacologic agents, via chemical genomics, that may be useful in treatment of this highly aggressive form of breast cancer. We are working to understand how CRGs function distinctly in cancer and normal cell gene regulatory networks, as well as assessing the molecular and anti-tumor effects of our lead agents.
Current Research Projects
Recent Publications
- On non-detects in qPCR data.Bioinformatics. 30, 2310-6. (2014 Aug 15).
- Gene signature critical to cancer phenotype as a paradigm for anticancer drug discovery.Oncogene. 32, 3809-18. (2013 Aug 15).
- On the underlying assumptions of threshold Boolean networks as a model for genetic regulatory network behavior.Front Genet. 4, 263. (2013 Jan 01).


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"I have listened to Catholic Answers Live for many years now. The show is informational, inspirational, faith building, and funny. I have been in the process of conversion for many years, and now at age 60, I will be joining the Catholic Church. The show and speakers have been my tutor and guide, and I am deeply grateful to all."
"Finding the large-print version of "The Imitation of Christ" was one of my greatest discoveries."


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Trip registration opens in January 2014. For additional information, please contact the Field Trip Co-Chairs: Chuck Bailey, and Lorrie Coiner.
- Active Features along a Passive Margin: the Intriguing Interplay between Silurian-Devonian Stratigraphy, Alleghanian Structures, and Eocene Magmatism of Highland and Bath Counties, Virginia.
Tues.Wed., 89 April.
- Does the Chopawamsic Fault Represent the Main Iapetan Suture in the Southern Appalachians? Geology, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Western Piedmont in Northern Virginia.
Tues.Wed., 89 April.
- Key Structural and Stratigraphic Relationships from the Northeast End of the Mountain City Window and Mount Rogers Area, VA-NC-TN.
Mon.Wed., 79 April.
Max.: 30. US$215; includes transportation, field guide, two-nights lodging (double occupancy), snacks, and lunches.
Arthur J. Merschat, USGS, ;
Richard Tollo, George Washington Univ.;
Elizabeth McClellan, Radford Univ.; Scott Southworth, USGS.
- Geologic Setting of the August 2011 Central Virginia Earthquake.
Tues.Wed., 89 April.
- The Marcellus/Millboro Shale in Virginia and West Virginia.
Tues.Wed., 89 April.
Max.: 19. US$200; includes transportation, field guide, one-night lodging (double occupancy), snacks, lunches, and group dinner.
Daniel Soeder, U.S. Dept. of Energy, ;
John Chermak, Virginia Tech;
Cathy Enomoto, USGS.
- Karst Geomorphology and Hydrology in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
Fri.–Sun., 11–13 April.
Max.: 18. US$340; includes transportation, field guide, two-nights lodging (double occupancy), snacks, and lunches.
Daniel Doctor, USGS, ;
Wil Orndorff, Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation;
Joel Maynard, Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality;
Matt Heller, Virginia Dept. of Mines, Minerals, and Energy;
Gerolamo C. Casile.
- Tectonics and Stratigraphy of the Eastern Blue Ridge: Regional Correlations of the Ashe and Alligator Back Formation (Metamorphic Suites), Southern Virginia and Northwestern North Carolina.
Sat.–Sun., 12–13 April.
Max.: 18. US$200; includes transportation, field guide, one-night lodging (double occupancy), snacks, and lunches.
Mark Carter, USGS, ;
Arthur J. Merschat, USGS.
- Geology of the Scottsville Mesozoic Basin, Virginia Piedmont.
Sat.–Sun., 12–13 April.
- Mesozoic Fauna from the Solite Quarry, Dan River Basin, Virginia.
Sat., 12 April.
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Upper Mississippian Pride Shale in the Appalachian Basin.
Sat., 12 April.
- Geology of the Coles Hill Uranium Deposit, Virginia Piedmont.
Fri.–Sat., 11–12 April.


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