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Great song JayJ, and nice game thread. So how badly will D Williams outplay Duhon tonight?
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With departed stars Jamal Crawford and Zach Randolph making the main contributions, the Knicks won 107-99 at home Nov. 9, when the Jazz were without Williams. Overall, New York has won seven of nine against Utah, although it has lost its last two in Salt Lake City.
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Great song JayJ, and nice game thread. So how badly will D Williams outplay Duhon tonight?
Thanks MSG. Deron Williams will probably leave a large hole in Duhon's prostate, unfortunately. He's stronger, faster, better shooter, better passer. Pretty much better in every facet of the game. Not gonna be a fun matchup for us...
Dang Utahs really killing us rite now. It seems like they can't miss at all. Good game from Chandler so far on both ends of the court. 4-6 9 pts. This kid got huge potential
I hate referees. They make an awful call, Jeffries didn't make contact with Deron Williams at all. Then they're too arrogant to admit a mistake and they give D'antoni a technical. Not that it even matters, we're getting blown out anyways.
They almost pulled this one out but ALMOST does'nt win you any games.
Great game thread Jay!
Classic line by D'antoni when Harrington was called for a moving screen at the end: "I haven't seen that call in ten years, Bob."
That was hilarious. Clutch lost BTW.
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Hold on....let me get this right....in the 3rd qtr. the Knicks were losing by 24 points. Right? and from the 3rd qtr. the Knicks went on a run to be winning by 1 point with 5 minutes left in the game. Right?
And this were against the Utah Jazz team in Utah....right?
Who were the Knick players used in this run to delete a 24 point Utah lead?
If Nate & Lee were the players in this lineup....I guess that should answer the above question on this Game-Thread...
so close to winning. still don't understand how one half the knicks play like **** and the next they shut down the opposition.
harrington is starting to piss me off. his level of intellect is starting to show. that fool should have gone to college. both technicals were done on purpose. the scrotum-head should have kept his mouth shut.


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In 2008, The Dark Knight alone grossed $533 million domestically and over $1 billion internationally, certifying it in the top five highest grossing films of all time and a crown jewel in the Hollywood empire. It's just further evidence that the institution of Hollywood cannot possibly be bested in any way, and certainly not by the data in the following paragraph.
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Howard Dodson: Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of New York Public Library
Howard Dodson lectures on the legacy of African-American history and the genealogical value of the book, "Roots" by Alex Haley. This is a very informative lecture.
David Ouimette gives us a lesson on researching our Irish ancestors.
Making a Breakthrough in your African American Research
Marjorie Sholes will help you with ideas on how to research your African American ancestors through collecting family stories and putting the pieces together.


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Kate Gel Eyeliner Review: Smudgeproof, Long-lasting, and SO MUCH CHEAPER
Oh Kate! Thanks for reminding me that gel based eye liners are meant to look like thick cream, apply like butter and spread like silk! I almost forgot all of that when my MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack dried up!
And let's not forget my unfortunate episode with the Bobbi Brown Longwear Gel Eyeliner in Chocolate Shimmer Ink that was dry like salted fish from the start.
Gel eyeliner, I have come to realize, is actually the easiest type of eyeliner to apply. Natural or dramatic, gel liners are much more adaptable to the type of look you want to achieve than liquid or pencil eyeliners.
Go for a sleek thin line to define the eyes, or amp up the look with a sultry winged out line. Pencil eyeliners can never achieve the intensity of gel liners; liquid eyeliners can never stay as long or smudgeproof as gel liners.
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Fresh gel liner always looks so yummy and inviting!
The early generation of the Kate Gel Eyeliner came with an eyeliner brush which many people loved, more than the gel liner itself. I don't have the luxury of ever trying out the brush because it has since been excluded. Same price but without the brush! Bah!


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Bad Finish to a Good First Half…
I knew it was going to be a bad weekend, and it was…
I didn't feel right about the Yankees' series against the Angels. I was excited about the Yankees reaching a first place tie with the Boston Red Sox following their sweep of the Minnesota Twins last week, but I had suspected that they'd lose some ground over the weekend. I just didn't expect that it would be a three game fall.
Of course, it didn't help that the Red Sox were playing the Kansas City Royals. Why couldn't the schedule gods have pitted a more difficult opponent for Boston as their first half ending opponent? There is no doubt that Julia is proclaiming 3 as her new favorite number…
My concerns heading into the second half include:
Starting rotation.
The only reliable spot, as of late, has been A.J. Burnett.
CC Sabathia has been a disappointment in terms of expectations in light of the monster off-season contract. For the amount he's paid, you'd expect his performance to more close resemble the performances of Roy Halladay and Josh Beckett.
Joba Chamberlain has been an enigma. You keep hearing comments that he is still learning the ropes, but how long is that going to continue?
Andy Pettitte probably should have retired last fall.
Chien-Ming Wang is on the DL, and has clearly been a major disappointment. It is very likely that the Yankees rotation will include Sergio Mitre.
As much as I'd like Roy Halladay in the rotation, I do not feel that the Yankees should give up the young talent it would take to pull off a deal. Almost any trade would certainly include Phil Hughes, and other blue chip prospects. That's just not worth it for a 32-year-old pitcher. Of the other possibilities, there really isn't much to get excited about (Jarrod Washburn?), so it appears that the Yankees will have to find the answers to the starting rotation from within.
Phil Hughes has proven that he is the answer for the bridge between Mariano Rivera and the rest of the guys. He has been very effective as a set up guy, but of course, the question is whether he'll continue his progress in the second half.
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Phil Coke and Alfredo Aceves have been effective, but I am concerned about Brian Bruney and Damaso Marte. I still believe that Marte can return to his previous status as a premier left handed reliever, so hopefully, he'll be much improved upon his return from the DL.
I would like to see the team find an upgrade for Brett Tomko.
I am supportive of David Robertson and Mark Melancon and would like to see them contribute in the second half.
And then there's Mo…life is good…
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Health is the key for Jorge Posada. He has performed very well, considering his age and despite the time on the DL.
The Yankees learned they may have something with young catcher Francisco Cervelli, who provided much energy and excitement during Jose Molina's stint on the DL. Plus, further help is on the way with Jesus Montero and Austin Romine. So, while there are short-term concerns about the catching position, the long-term prognosis is very bright.
I think Posada will enjoy a productive and injury-free second half.
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First Base
Defensively-speaking, Mark Teixeira has provided the best performance the position has seen since the days of Don Mattingly and Tino Martinez. The bat has been very hot and cold. The month of April was very chilly, but Teixera's bat heated up once A-Rod returned in early May. Mark cooled off in late June and early July, and must have missed the flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles because he was a no-show during the Angel series. Not really, but that's what it felt like. So, my wish for the second half is more consistency…
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Second Base
The curious case of the missing bat. Robinson Cano is another player who ran ice cold at times. I know that players go through streaks, but again, consistency is the key. I'd rather see someone who is consistently productive than someone who had have a monster three weeks, followed by six weeks of swinging for air.
Derek Jeter is playing better than I had expected him to. He is definitely outperforming his 2008 version, and hasn't shown any signs of decline. He still makes the occasional error at the most inopportune time, but he's been very solid so far this year. More of the same in the second half will be much appreciated.
Third Base
Considering that he had hip surgery in March and didn't resume playing until May, I thought A-Rod had a very productive first half. Watching Mike Lowell struggle with hip issues shows how difficult it is to come back from hip surgery, so I have to give A-Rod much credit. There have been times that I've been frustrated by his bat, but c'mon, if I had hip surgery in March, I'd probably still be in the hospital in critical condition. LOL! Seriously, my primary hope for the second half is continued good health with sufficient rest and full protection for Mark Teixeira in the lineup.
Health is the key for veterans Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui. Ideally, the second half will see Matsui being able to play some outfield to free up the DH slot for Jorge Posada or Alex Rodriguez.
Brett Gardner and Melky Cabrera have both shined at various point of the first half, so continued progress for both would be key for the stretch drive.
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Nick Swisher has performed capably, but of course, he is still a downgrade from last year's starter, Bobby Abreu, and he isn't that player that Xavier Nady is/was. Perhaps Eric Hinske will see more time in the outfield.
While I'd like to see an upgrade for the outfield, I really do not see a major trade bringing someone like Matt Holliday to New York.
In years past, when the Yankees have said that they'd be quiet at the trading deadline, I have taken it as "trade posturing". This year, I do believe that the Yanks are attempting to operate within a budget (imagine that!) and no major moves are likely. The team will go as far as the current roster takes them. Perhaps a few second half surprises will come from the resources at Scranton/Wilkes Barre or Trenton. But this team is going to win or lose with Joe Girardi at the helm. I do see greater consistency from the big guys like CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira, but it probably won't be enough to overtake Boston.
Nevertheless, the Yankees are in control of the AL Wild Card (they lead by 2 ½ games over the Texas Rangers). They have a 51-37 record. Despite the weekend disaster, they are still only 3 games behind Boston. They clearly have the talent to remain in the mix until the end. Is it enough to beat the Red Sox or Angels? At this point, probably not, but there are still three months left in the season. Much can happen, and the Yankees have plenty of time to overcome their "demons", i.e., Angels and Red Sox. No worries, well, unless you are Joe Girardi…
Best wishes for a highly successful second half to the New York Yankees! May they be four games better than the Boston Red Sox come October! J
Kathy Willens/AP
After all, it's a Yankees Universe!
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I like the #3!😉 And I would have to agree with you on consistency. That is certainly my hope for the Red Sox this second half. Will the Yankee's huge contracts payoff in the second half? I don't know – but what I do know is that Mike Lowell (who we would have probably traded if we had acquired Tex) is hitting .282 and Youk is hitting .298 – not so bad for two guys who have spent some time on the DL. I look forward to the second half – and may the Yankees stay "in control of the Wild Card"! ;-D
Haha, 1,2,3 =3. Nice post. Teixeira is a player and nice pic of arod! I have a new post up🙂
I wouldn't be too down about the sweep. It isn't good, no doubt. But it kept hope alive down here in the Tampa Bay area! So you guys did a good deed for the rest of us!
It is shaping up to be a nice run to the end here between Boston, NY, and the Rays. I'm hoping this Longoria injury is just a little one so that we can be at full strength the rest of the campaign.
Cute dog. Reminds me of mine.
you know what, I expected the Yanks to struggle against the Angels, as past seasons have shown us, we can never beat them at Anaheim. However, the sweep wasn't expected either. I'd say we have a really good chance to take over first place by the end of the season, I doubt Beckett and Wakefield will BOTH perform nearly as good as they have this second half, but then again, we can never underestimate the Rays. CC needs to step up, Joba needs to admit he's doing terribly and swallow up his pride, and everytime Tex and A-rod are hitting, you know it's a good thing. It's most def going to be a thrilling finish…and I hope to see the Yanks and the Rays make it to the postseason!
I guess I have to say "Thank you" to the Yankee pitcher for getting the save for the Red Sox pitcher!😉 Okay – that is just too weird to say – and they were both closers! lol! And you were so right Scott – Wakefield deserved to pitch in that game! He never should have been left sitting in the pen. RSN is not going to forget that. But onto bigger and better things – the second half of the season where the Yankees will NOT be four games better then the Red Sox! I know, I hate to burst your bubble so soon, but better now then later! LOL!! See you in August!😉 hmmm…11 could be my new favorite number.
Oh toronto would love that. NOT. Can you imagine Joba in a Jays uniform?
I think it's time for Joba to go back to the pen. Even if he is "still learning the ropes," a pinnate race is no place to do that. I think he is a mediocre starter at best, top notch closer though.
Scott – I just had a brilliant thought! {Yes, I know – all my thoughts are brilliant! ;-)} The Yankees could sign Lugo just so he could sit in the stands – you know, so there would be one less empty seat! LOL!!! Oh wait – I'm serious!😉


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By Andy Jackson: CNj staff writer
Police arrested a Clovis couple Friday during a traffic stop near Texico and seized more than 56 pounds of marijuana, according to a release from the Curry County Sheriff's Office.
A Region V Drug Task Force Agent investigated Ricky Martinez, 40, of Clovis for six weeks through a confidential informant, according to the incident report.
The informant, who purchased drugs from the suspect, told the agent Martinez was picking up marijuana Friday in Texas, the report said.
Ricky and Sylvia Martinez, 36, were pulled over on U.S. 60/84 at the Texas-New Mexico state line for not wearing seat belts, according to the incident report.
Ricky Martinez gave police permission to search the passenger vehicle.
"You already got me, there's grass in there," Martinez said, according to the report.
A New Mexico State Police drug dog alerted officers to the trunk of the car, where police recovered a brown cardboard box containing shrink-wrapped bricks of marijuana with weights written on the back, according to the incident report. Another cardboard box with bricks of marijuana was located in the back seat of the car, and the bricks weighed between half a pound to four pounds each, the report said.
Sylvia Martinez told police she had crack cocaine, a crack pipe and cash in her purse, the report said. Police searched her purse and found several rocks of crack in a small container, a crack pipe and $724, the report said.
Ricky and Sylvia Martinez are charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, according to booking reports. Sylvia Martinez was also charged with possession of crack with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia, the report said.
Ricky and Sylvia Martinez were released Friday after posting bond for $5,000 and $11,000 respectively.
Sylvia Martinez said Tuesday she didn't know marijuana was in the car when her husband was pulled over. In a telephone interview, she said she thought the box of marijuana in the back seat was a karaoke machine for her daughter's birthday present.
Ricky Martinez declined comment.
Sylvia Martinez faces 3 1/2 years minimum jail time if convicted; and Ricky Martinez faces a minimum sentence of 1 1/2 years if found guilty, 9th Judicial District Attorney Matt Chandler said.


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By Natasha Burton
THE BABY BOOMERS: "Strong and protective" were essential traits of Boomers' heartthrobs, says trend forecaster Irma Zandl of The Zandl Group. This draw to a "real man," like total dreamboat Paul Newman, may be a product of the gender-specific roles of the times.
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These heartthrobs were adventuresome with a whole lot of swagger, according to Zandl and her team. Clint Eastwood is a perfect example of the rugged masculinity that made women of this generation wish for their own showdowns with Dirty Harry.
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THE LOVE GENERATION: It was about "bad boys" for these women, according to Zandl. That meant against-the-grain heartthrobs who rocked out on guitars, grew out their hair and personified the carefree movement. Jimi Hendrix set the tone by putting his female fans in a "Purple Haze."
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A desire for bad boys "tends to kick in when girls are 15, 16, 17 and they all tend to like different ones," says Zandl. Good thing there were plenty of options for this generation, like The Doors' Jim Morrison. (He could so light our fire.)
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Of course the big question for these women was: Do you crush on free-spirited, imaginative John Lennon and remain loyal to The Beatles, or ...
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... do you prefer The Rolling Stones' gravelly-voiced, affected rocker Mick Jagger? We'll take both, please!
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GENERATION X: In the '80s, the "pretty boy" reigned. These clean-cut crushes arguably had more mass appeal than their counter-culture predecessors. Ladies, gaze upon Tom Cruise in his Risky Business days.
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While Zandl notes that The Love Generation's edgy guys weren't so marketable, Gen X had a little taste for danger, too. 21 Jump Street made Johnny Depp a teen idol, but he apparently rebelled in his off-hours.
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Gen X also swooned over "the pretty boy gone grunge," Zandl says. Which wasn't all that hard when those ladies had Ethan Hawke's slacker character in Reality Bites spouting lines like, "Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself." Sigh.
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GENERATION Y: These women took to crushing on the "metrosexual," an amped version of Gen X's well-kept lads. "Groomed and styled" mark the metros' traits, Zandl says, and they don't get much better than on tux-donning Leonardo DiCaprio circa 1998. A very good year, indeed.
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Zandl says Gen Y ladies gravitated toward well-dressed dudes like JT, and we guess it's because their generation was raised to believe that men and women are equals in all areas — meaning fashion and beauty, too. (We can't help but wonder what Clint Eastwood and company would think about male waxing and the like.)
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THE MODERN TWEENS: Today, girls go ga-ga over "really pretty boys [who], ironically, look a little like girls ... They're cute, sweet and clean, but you don't think about [having] sex with them," says Zandl. Exhibit A: Baby-faced sensation Justin Bieber.
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Team Edward pines for the edgier, undead-boyfriend-playing Rob Pattinson. While he gives off that emo vibe, Zandl says he doesn't "seem dangerous in any way, and that's a really big part [of the appeal]." His troubled-in-a-good-way persona on- and off-screen sucks those tweens right in.


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Imagine you are in a renowned restaurant. You find a bug in your dinner. You ask for the restaurant manager. As politely as you can, you explain that you'll never show up again in that restaurant.
Imagine you're in another renowned restaurant. You don't find any bug. Actually, there are bugs in the kitchen, but you don't know it, the restaurant manager doesn't know it, the kitchen personnel doesn't know it. Does this second scenario make you feel more comfortable, with respect to your dinner?
What if you were a restaurant manager and a patron tells you that there are bugs hiding in the kitchen? The customer claims he can both prove the existence of these bugs and remove them. You may be skeptical, but are curious enough to let the customer go ahead. When the customer provides evidence that there are bugs in the kitchen, would you quickly dismiss him, or invite him to explain how his bug prevention remedy works? Similarly, in software engineering, we should be careful not to ignore or reject new tools and techniques that can help us build better software with fewer bugs.
This article describes how the alpha version of a new tool discovered four harmless bugs in a leading J2EE sample application, by means of a technique that only recently has started to receive deserved attention from the software engineers community: a technique called code generation.
The former meaning traditionally associated with "code generation" referred to the stage of compilers when the source code gets actually translated into assembly language. The current meaning broadens the scope of the term to encompass the production of files containing what is normally considered source code.
Once upon a time, assembler was the source code. Then compilers turned it into generatable code. The new wave of code generation reapplies, in the large, that same conceptual jump: Java, C#, PHP, COBOL, Pascal, XML, HTML, JSP, ASP, Fortran, CORBA IDL, assembler, Perl, Python, Ruby, and so forth can all be considered generatable languages, provided that you have appropriate tools to produce them. This is conceptually similar to compilers that enabled the automatic generation of assembly code.
The best site on the Internet to learn about this new wave of tools is the Code Generation Network (CGN), whose editor is Jack Herrington, author of book Code Generation in Action (CGiA). There you can find a database on available generators, a number of interviews with code generation experts, a list of recommended books on this fascinating subject, and more. Among other articles, Jack Herrington also published "Code-Generation Techniques for Java" on ONJava.com. With CGiA, you can also learn to write your own generators, if you want to. That's a powerful technique that, once mastered, pops up in your mind very often to solve repetitive problems. Quoting from CGN, pragmatic engineers can get higher quality, consistency, productivity, and abstraction using code generation.
Figure 1 shows in abstract how today's code generators apply a template-based transformation
T to translate an input design into generated code:
Figure 1. The process of code generation
Most software engineers have at some time in their careers handcrafted their own specialized code generators, even without naming their tools "generators." But the new thing, now, is that these tools are getting out of their childhood and growing up to become serious professional tools. And there are even pioneers that deliver no-frills custom generators as a service.
Although the concepts in this article apply broadly, they are based on the author's experience with code generation at Somusar. For us, J2EE appeared to be the most challenging field to begin applying the new tools and skills, in particular, because J2EE 1.4 was getting ripe. Setting up a J2EE lab using Sun Microsystems' SDK is easy, as the SDK's software and documentation are really great. Note that the target of code generators is source-but-no-longer-source code. You don't need huge machines to produce that code. After all, it's all text files. So off we go, starting from the database layer and choosing the Data Access Object (DAO) pattern as the first target.
Why DAO? Because it provided a good functioning model to cast the code generator mold. "What is a software mold?" Have you ever wondered how all of the different plastic and metal objects that you use hundreds of times each day are produced? A lot of them are pressed using so-called molding machines. "But you can't mold software!" Right: you can't mold all software. But you can certainly mold a good portion of it. All in all, the mechanical properties of software are much softer than those of metal or plastic.
Writing a code generator basically requires three things:
A sample of what you intend to generate: This should be a carefully hand-written sample of code that has been tested to work in your deployment environment. Generators don't invent code: they can only learn from you how to write the code that you can write by hand. While you choose the code target, if you can, you obviously try to select a sample written by the engineers who are known to be the best engineers for that particular type of target.
A definition of the input format to the generator: This should ideally be concise and self-explaining. You don't want to spend more time programming the input to the generator than you would do programming your software by hand; otherwise, where is the return on investment?
A careful testing strategy: Not only do you need to test what happens when you change the input to the generator, but you also need to test what happens when you change the code generator. Fortunately, this is comparatively easy, given a sample of the target code: you run the generator and compare (using
diff) the generated code against the target code. Then you make a copy of your generator, a copy of what it produced, and take one more step in augmenting or refining the generator. Then you again check the newly produced code against the target code and against the code generated previously, to ensure that it got better and didn't get worse. And so forth.
Figure 2 shows two examples of the generation scheme for the DAO code generator:
Figure 2. The process of DAO code generation
The steps that you take when you extend your code generator must be small. With every step, you should have your code generator produce a new, small fragment of code. This simplifies the comparison between that new fragment and the corresponding fragment in the model. Obviously, in most cases, you will find errors in your generator. The target code model is right. It must be right.
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Now, wait. What is that? Where does that difference come from? Wasn't the member sequence in the constructor
departureTime followed by
arrivalTime? Can you please check that? Also, check the sequence in the database table. That's funny. Smells like a bug. It can't be. Not in this source from that company. They surely haven't published the code without intensively testing it.
Hey, there it is again! The
SELECT fetches
departureTime followed by
arrivalTime, but the assignments are performed in the opposite order. Can you please run and test the application? As unbelievable as it seems, you should get departure times in place of arrival times and vice versa. Check the on-screen results against the data in the DB. No? Your on-screen data are correct? That's relieving, on one hand. I was sure that that company wouldn't publish untested code. On the other hand, it's weird. The sequence in the code is wrong. Let me check the
diff again. There are more differences. Let's debug it on paper. Let's print out the original code.
SELECT_TRANSPORTATION_QUERY_STR fetches
departuretime, followed by
arrivaltime. The fetched values get assigned to the volatile strings
arrivalTime and
departureTime in the wrong order. And this is the first bug. Then these strings are passed on to the
Transportation constructor as
arrivalTime and
departureTime, but the constructor expects
departureTime and
arrivalTime. This is the second bug. Of course, as they are both strings, the compiler can't detect the error. Later on in the code, exactly the same bugs are replicated. That makes four bugs. But the application behaves wonderfully. How can it be?
Wait. Sure. I got it. One bug neutralizes the other. The departure time from the DB gets assigned to
arrivalTime, but then
arrivalTime is passed as a parameter where
departureTime is expected. So the constructor receives the fetched departure time where it expects it, and the application works fine.
Figure 3 shows the two method execution flows. Seen from the outside, the two flows appear identical. Inside, things are different:
Figure 3. Hidden bugs contribute to method execution
The sample code for the DAO code generator comes from the best possible J2EE 1.4 source. It is part of the J2EE 1.4 Developer Release published by Sun Microsystems on java.sun.com on November 24, 2003. The DAO samples are taken from the new blueprint application called "Java[tm] Adventure Builder Demo 1.0 Early Access 4" (JABD). More specifically, the source file containing the dormant bugs is PointbaseCatalogDAO.java.
The purpose of the new DAO code generator is to enable automatic generation of all Java files from the JABD application that contain database access statements. The rationale for this is that the code in these files is conceptually simple, although structurally complex. In other words, mapping database data to Java properties and vice versa is not rocket science, but it does require constant attention, due to the number of software layers involved. In many cases, the code scans the list of database columns or the list of class properties, and applies some very simple micropattern of code to each item in those lists.
There are two ways to provide this constant attention on repetitive code fragments: one way is to have J2EE developers focus on these tedious details and write that code by hand. As this case study demonstrates, it is difficult to avoid bugs when hand-writing this type of code, although good testing can verify the proper behavior of the application. The other way is to have powerful and flexible automatic tools to build the plumbing parts of J2EE applications, and free developers to perform more challenging development tasks. There are plenty of challenging tasks when developing J2EE applications. The help provided by these tools becomes particularly relevant when you extend, restructure, or maintain your applications; for instance, when you add a new property to your class model. Then you have to add that property in a number of code spots. Modern code generation tools can reliably do that job in seconds.
The JABD application is a comparatively simple application, at least from a size perspective. It clearly demonstrates and documents how to use J2EE 1.4 technologies. In particular, it contains three Pointabase*DAO.java files. The DAO code generator currently produces 95% of this Java code (including comments and blank lines) starting from a concise declarative textual input. The remaining 5% is one business method with real logic that the code generator cannot invent. That code must be written by hand, and the DAO code generator provides the means to insulate and preserve hand-written code across successive re-generation runs.
The prototype DAO code generator that helped discover the bugs is the first in a set of J2EE generators modeled on the JABD application. Somusar's approach with respect to code generation is to derive each new generator from existing code samples, and reproduce those samples with the new code generator starting from a concise declarative description of the desired code. Users of the code generator can then provide their specific concise input and have the generator produce and re-produce that particular type of code for their new software entities. This is true not only for Java code, but for any type of code that provides a significant degree of redundancy, and for documentation, as well.
As an example, a multi-tier code generator can produce SQL
create table scripts, XML metadata descriptors, JSP files, multi-class Java implementations of application components, HTML documentation, and more. In particular, Somusar's code generators for large applications can produce all of these files for each software entity starting from one compact multi-tier entity description file. If your application model contains more than 15 or 20 entities, you might want to do the math and consider how many files you could generate for your J2EE implementation of that model.
The JADB application provides a complete set of samples, so expect a number of J2EE code generators to be announced in the near future. In a way, you can think of these specialized code generators as if they were passionate plumbing code writers, or maniacal web designers or pedantic technical writers. They love repetitive work.
To view the code generated by the DAO generator prototype and to try that generator on your computer please refer to Code Generation Somusar Style, (Chapter 3, "J2EE Generators"). By the way, while you are there, you can also view the POJO and database schema SQL files produced automatically by corresponding generators.
This article discussed how repetitive work can lead to sneaky coding errors, even in the best J2EE lab in the world. This is true for a carefully hand-written sample application, and is far more true for real-world large applications. Smart code generators can help avoid those coding errors, and greatly increase development teams' productivity by automating repetitive work and thus freeing valuable developers' time for more complex tasks.
The larger the application where you apply these code generators, the higher the amount of benefit and relief that you can derive from them. Think of a J2EE application with a few hundred entities; let's say 300 entities, with an average of five properties per entity, an average of four Java classes per entity, plus one database table, and maybe three user-interface dialogs. Do the math: 300 * (4 + 1 + 3) * 5 = 12,000 code fragments that manipulate those data items. Actually, many more than that, as each class will manipulate them more than once. In most cases, those fragments will move data across application tiers. That's roughly comparable to drilling holes when you build a house. If your task consisted of drilling 12,000 holes, would you prefer a manual drill, or would you rather use its automated equivalent?
Francesco Aliverti-Piuri has more than 20 years of varied software experience on several platforms, technologies, and architectures.
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Way too much faith in Curry. He has a lot to soak in and a lot to sweat out before he is even eligible for slight consideration. And what about the ,previously at least, oft reported disdain shared between him and MD?
I can't fathom him being the 5 in a best situation line up. Even offensively.. He clogged the lane with ZBo, who is considerably less active than STAT. And how could he possibly NOT negate an inside-outside game as one of the league's most baffling **** passers? Tuffiaf has embraced that role with great results.
And what about establishing a defensive paint presence in the first quarter? Ronnie, as well as his passing, is the man for that job, clearly.
There's no way Curry even cracks garbage minutes, even seconds, IMO. And it's not like we need to play him under the premise of a necessary trade anymore. Not only does Curry own an $11.3 million expiring contract, but the Knicks already paid him half of that, as specified in his deal. So hes worth the entire amount for cap purposes, but owed only half of it by any team that trades for him.
We have depth... UTILIZE IT.
We have a legit shot at maintaining a low seed come the post-season.... Don't waste it on Curry!


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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, center, speaks to the media from behind bars of a holding cell before the start of his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 24, 2011. Bashir denied that he helped set up a new terrorist cell & training camp.
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"God and Terror"
Op-Ed, Public Discourse
May 20, 2011
Authors: Timothy Samuel Shah, Daniel Philpott, Monica Duffy Toft, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy; Former Board Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Former Director, Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Religion in International Affairs
Whether or not one likes religious actors, they are here to stay. The issue is not whether but when and how religious actors will enter public life and shape political outcomes. The third in a three-part series.
Given what we have said about "God and Political Science" and "God and Democratic Diplomacy," we should note the downsides to global religion. Religion is a great source of war and violence in the world. Indeed, both religious terrorism and religious civil war have increased markedly during the same forty-year period in which religious democratizers expanded. Here, too, the religious were empowered by globalization, technology, and, in general, modernity. This may seem to be a concession to the secularization thesis. After all, the folks known as the "neo-atheists," Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, claim that where religion persists, it is violent and irrational. But things are more complex than that.
Part of the great surprise of religion's resurgence is that it also has been a forceful instrument of tearing down dictatorships, promoting democracy, mediating peace, and healing the wounds of war and dictatorshipquite the opposite of violence. And where religion is the source of violence, it results from the same factors that explain peace and democracydegree of independence from the state and political theology. In the case of violence, though, these variables take on readings that are the opposite of those that lead to the more peaceful outcomes....
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Call of Duty Elite is Activision's newest slice of the Call of Duty pie, and you're finally about to find out what it is. Back in February, Activision announced that they were forming Beachhead Studios, a wholly-owned development studio that would work on Call of Duty products. At the time, we didn't know if that meant new games, DLC, or something else. As it turns out, it was something else entirely, and it's finally bringing what Bobby Kotick has long hinted at to Activision's biggest moneymaker: subscription fees. It's built to take advantage of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
But before you go reaching for the pitchforks and torches, Chacko Sonny, studio at Beachhead, went out of his way to point out that Elite is not a way to charge players to play Call of Duty online. They describe Elite as a "new connected service that brings together the worldwide Call of Duty community in ways we never could before," with the goal being simply "to enrich the multiplayer experience." In laymans terms, it's like a stat service on steroid. If you've ever looked at Halo stats on Bungie.net (a company that has a new publishing deal with Activision), then you've seen the tip of the iceberg of what Elite plans to bring to the table.
So to be clear, CoD Elite is not a game. It's a game service. The pillars of the service are Connect, Compete, and Improve, and Activision honestly believes that this service will become an enormous part of online gaming and connected entertainment for the company. The Call of Duty franchise represents some of the top played games on both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, which obviously represents an enormous amount of gamers that Activision hopes will sign up and eventually pay for this service.
Dan Bunting and David Vonderhaar from Treyarch both took to the stage at Activision's pre-E3 event to show us the major differences between the Combat Record in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It's really like comparing apples to ... a truckload of crates, each one filled with apples, because the service tracks just about every stat you can imagine in the game, and pumps it into the service in the form of charts, graphs, heat maps, and more. It's meant to be a learning tool to help you improve how you play, a way to meet new players, and a new way to compete with challenges and real-life prizes. It's a fully blown-out look at your career with multiple sets of multiple stats, a new showcase for videos, a way to track and compete with others, and more.
If you're a stat-head who loves dissecting past games, Elite is going to give you joygasms as you scroll through data of your past games, look at heat maps showing where you died and where your kills were, and check out charts showing weapons you excel with, and what you tend to suck with. If you happen to be sucking, there's also a tutortial service that breaks down all of the weapons and equipment in the game, complete with video guides that offer insight on proper weapon use. It really is a huge amount of information, and during our brief time with the service, it took quite awhile just to understand how to navigate through the service. You'll be able to access Elite on mobile phones, web browsers, tablets, and more, so hopefully it's just a matter of becoming familiar with it.
You can also join groups through Elite, and those can be based on literally anything. Type in the word "Photography," and you can join groups full of other players who like photography. Like unicorns? You'll be able to find other gamers who do as well. Groups can be based on anything, and some groups become featured. For instance, I searched for "Austin," and it appeared in a list of "Top 50 Cities" inside the groups section. Groups are also tiered like Army units: 1 to 10 players is a Platoon, and from there up, 100 is a Regiment, 1,000 a Battalion, 100,000 a Brigade, and 1,000,000 is an Army.
You can also form your own clans as well, and the game offers enormous clan support, seemingly taking pointers from World of Warcraft. You can organize intra-clan tournaments and more in the clan system, and also take part in the many challenges offered up in Elite. Plenty of these challenges offer up prizes, ranging from a unique in-game badges, to belt buckles, to t-shirts, to iPads, all the way up to the Black Ops Edition Jeep. Contests might be a best kill screenshot competition, or topping the leaderboard over a predetermined amount of time. There are new challenges constantly, and it dwarfs the challenges currently in Black Ops.
Now, you're probably wondering why you'd want to pay for this service. The good news is that most of it will be free to users at home, at least for now. But, there will be a premium membership version. Most of what we were shown, including groups, will be available for free. But you'll have to pay to access other features, and those weren't explained to us yet. Neither was the pricing, which Activision assured us would be "Less than any comparable online service for gaming or entertainment." Premium members will include "full access to all of the digital content" as well, which we assume means any DLC packs that get released. Considering that those are usually $15 a pop, gamers are already paying extra. If you've purchased both the "First Strike" and "Escalation" packs for Black Ops, you've paid 50 percent of the retail cost of the game for those.
Activision underscored that "We do not and will not charge for multiplayer." So that out of the box experience you get with the product will remain the same, and you'll still be able to play online for free. To some extent. Whether or not Elite offers Elite-only matches, modes, and gametypes remains to be seen. The service is set to launch this November on the same day as Modern Warfare 3, and hopefully by then we'll know what the premium cost will be to gamers.
Considering that Hulu Plus and Netflix both have a bottom-tier $7.99 a month plan, we're pegging Elite to come in at $5.00 a month, or about the cost of a single retail title. Too much? Just right? What do you think?


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At the beginning of the season did you actually believe that Arsenal was going to win the BPL? I'm not trying to throw shots at Arsenal and their fans but I want to here your honest unbiased opinion.
They can if they changed manager
I'm no Arsenal fan but I analyze every big teams nearly here on NB and here's what I said about Arsenal at the start of season:
"Arsenal lacks finishing cruelly. As I feared, Cazorla leads midfield section admirably well but he's no offensive leader. Arsenal needs someone to inspire them in their offense like they always had; be it Henry, Fab, Nasri or RVP. I'm skeptical for them because I don't see any player capable of wearing that leader's armor. They got a good team with good template. Nonetheless, they always depend upon a leader who inspire their strike. They are in correct terms 'Gunners' but what's the point of a cannon if no one lights up the wick?"
I can't say I went much wrong in my analysis. Arsenal is a team who crucially NEEDS a leader. It's not the team of Henry/Pires/Bergkamp/Viera ect... generation but a team based on teamplay glued by a leader. Cazorla indeed inspired most of Arsenal plays but as they became over-reliant on him, he started dropping form. He's an excellent player; but not a leader. Same goes for Wilshere. Walcott has been better than my expectations but injuries and contract issues haven't helped him advance. Podolski flopped while Giroud is on slow-rate improvement. Gervinho is mostly irritating. Ox lost his shine. Rosisky and Diaby are too often on injury-bed.
In short, I'm not surprised of their form. Arsenal is a team who relies on a leader who pulls all the others - a driver; whether it's a goal-scorer or a playmaker. But as I feared with their recruitments, they chose good add-ons to embellish teamplay but no leader capable of making this team flowing. It's a team whose spirit and playstyle is disrupted when there's no leader. It's nice when some players put on the leader-shirt to call it a day in some matches like Cazorla/Giroud/Walcott did in 6-8 matches but they don't repeat it on constant basis.
And that can be seen in matches like against Norwich, Villa or Swansea where 2-3 seasons before, players like Fab, Nasri, RVP would have endorse their responsibility and pull Arsenal through barely in those kind of matches. And since their defence has never been their forte, they end up concending match-deciders goals in last-minutes as they failed to break the lock due to absence of a key leader. Worst is that their defence gets also leaky in big matches and makes shocking mistakes like against Liverpool, United or Shalke.
Many are blaming it on Wenger and his choices to rely on players like Gervinho, Podolski, Jenkinson, Ramsey ect... While I agree that his system of playing many players out of position costs Arsenal, it's wrong to ask for his head out of Emirates. Their team lacks a talent capable of inspiring the 10 others on the field on constant basis. Maybe, he's just trying to play 11 players capable of having great field-understanding instead of relying on individual abilities; knowing that he does not possess someone with the ability Arsenal needs to remain at the top. The fault goes mainly to the way the Arsenal board has fixed their ambitions and spending policy.
If someone needs to be sacked, I'd say kick Gazidis, Kroenke and all their minions out first. Then give Wenger some months to see how he fares with a new board and staffs. If he still can't get the job done and succeed in the expectations, then it may be time to say farewell to him.
^i think Wilshare can lead them, after all he's the best young England players ATM.
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^i think Wilshare can lead them, after all he's the best young England players ATM.
That's the hope many Arsenal fans have been keeping but I'm skeptical.
Wilshere is an excellent midfielder; just like Cazorla but I don't see a leader in any of them.
Maybe it's a lack of charisma, maybe it's the injury issues of Wilshere or maybe it's the lack of consistency.
Cazorla/Wilshere/Arteta can become a fantastic trio that become Arsenal midfield bosses but winning midfield battle doesn't ensure success in all parts. They should have a player that inspire all others as I said or is capable to break a tight score when his comrades are in an off-day.
But you are spot-on with one thing: Wilshere is the most promising young England player and Cleverley's improvement is really being more and more impressive. They should make an awesome trio with a now-more experienced Rooney in attacking midfield. Atleast, in theory cause I'm so used to disappointments with England. That being said, I'm not worried once the-said "golden generation" (who still didn't won anything with England) of Gerrard-Lampard-Beckham-Scholes-Terry-Ashley Cole retire.
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Sean Hannity Is Less of a Blowhard; Setting Up Christie 2016
I was the one who was right about the election (!) : "Obama seals the deal relatively early Tuesday night with more than 290 electoral votes. Christie runs as a moderate Republican and a 'uniter' in 2016."
Without Hurricane Sandy, Obama probably still would have won the election, but only by a hair. Maybe even in court.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie -- in classic theatrical style -- won it for Obama. By election eve, muzzled Romney staffers had to be downing straight shots of Jack as they watched Bruce Springsteen yuck it up with Christie via telephone aboard Air Force One.
Obama won by a wide margin and won Florida because of Sandy. Competent hurricane response resonates with many residents of the state. Voters in key swing states saw what went down in the uncharacteristically quiet lead-up -- at least campaign-wise -- to the election. Sandy and Christie influenced the vote. Big time.
A somewhat ironic aside: Early in his radio career, Rush Limbaugh used the name 'Jeff Christie.' No joke. It's a conspiracy!
Now, Fox News' ... person who "talks" on TV ... Sean Hannity says he has "evolved" on immigration. Hannity doesn't think we should banish "law-abiding" illegals from the country. If they're not criminals and they contribute to society, secure the borders first then provide people already here a path to citizenship.
How sensible, Sean!
Oddly, evolving -- in the minds of many conservatives like Hannity -- is something you do reluctantly. It's like he was at a wedding and somebody said, "Sean, have another glass of wine! Dance with somebody who's not your wife!!" Uncharacteristically, Sean let his hair down and went with it. And, incredible, he didn't even regret it in the morning!
Hannity and Christie, whether they realize it or not, are helping the Republican party progress.
Most Americans, namely the younger set, do not want to kick hard-working Latinos and other immigrants, even if illegal, out of the country, especially if they have U.S.-born children and particularly if they answered the open call from Corporate America to cross the border for jobs at wages the standard citizen would never accept.
Speaking of sociopolitical issues, research from Pew, via The Wall Street Journal , shows that across age groups, support for gay marriage continues to increase. Sixty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds favor legal marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Numbers continue to tick up even among those in the 30-49, 50-64 and 65-plus age groups.
So there's change coming. It's already here. Although I don't think it has much to do with Obama, he doesn't hurt. The president mentioned "gay or straight" in his victory speech. He's apparently "delighted" to see gay marriage votes pass in several states.


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Editor's Note: This is the second of four excerpts from the second edition of O'Reilly's .NET Framework Essentials, 2nd Ed. by Thuan L. Thai and Hoang Lam. The complete series of excerpts covers Web services in the context of the .NET framework. This second part covers what a Web service provider is, and illustrates it with a detailed example.
In this section, we describe how to develop a Web Service, first from the point of view of service providers and then of the consumers. Web Services providers implement Web Services and advertise them so that the clients can discover and make use of the services. Because Web Services run on top of HTTP, there must be a web server application of some sort on the machine that hosts the Web Services. This web server application can be Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Apache, or any other program that can understand and process the HTTP protocol. In our examples, we use Microsoft IIS, since that is the only web server currently supported by .NET.
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We will be building a Web Service called PubsWS to let consumers get information from the sample Pubs database. All data access will be done through ADO.NET, so read Chapter 5 before attempting the examples.
Creating a Web Service is a three-step process.
<% webservice ... %> directive, as well as the class that provides the Web Service implementation. To the Web Service clients, this asmx file is the entry point to your Web Service. You need to put this in a virtual directory that has the executescripts permission turned on.
Namespace attribute, specifying your own namespace.
The following C# code demonstrates a simple Web Service that exposes four methods to Internet clients. We emphasize "Internet" because anyone that can access this asmx file on the web server can access these methods, as opposed to your COM component, which can be accessed only by COM clients:
<%@ WebService Language="C#" Class="PubsWS.PubsWS" %>
namespace PubsWS
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
public class PubsWS : WebService
private static string m_sConnStr =
"provider=sqloledb;server=(local);database=pubs; Integrated Security=SSPI";
[WebMethod(Description="Returns a DataSet containing all authors.")]
public DataSet GetAuthors( )
OleDbDataAdapter oDBAdapter;
DataSet oDS;
oDBAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from authors",
oDS = new DataSet( );
oDBAdapter.Fill(oDS, "Authors");
return oDS;
public DataSet GetAuthor(string sSSN)
OleDbDataAdapter oDBAdapter;
DataSet oDS;
oDBAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(
"select * from authors where au_id ='"
+ sSSN + "'", m_sConnStr);
oDS = new DataSet( );
oDBAdapter.Fill(oDS, "SelectedAuthor");
return oDS;
Description="Find books by author's SSN.")]
public DataSet GetBooks(string sAuthorSSN)
OleDbDataAdapter oDBAdapter;
DataSet oDS;
oDBAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(
"select * from titles inner join titleauthor on " +
"titles.title_id=titleauthor.title_id " +
"where au_id='" + sAuthorSSN + "'", m_sConnStr);
oDS = new DataSet( );
oDBAdapter.Fill(oDS, "Books");
oDBAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from authors " +
"where au_id='" + sAuthorSSN + "'", m_sConnStr);
oDBAdapter.Fill(oDS, "Author");
return oDS;
public DataSet GetBooks( )
OleDbDataAdapter oDBAdapter;
DataSet oDS;
oDBAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from titles" ,
oDS = new DataSet( );
oDBAdapter.Fill(oDS, "Books");
return oDS;
} // end PubsWS
If you are familiar with ASP, you may recognize the usage of the @ symbol in front of keyword
WebService. This WebService directive specifies the language of the Web Service so that ASP.NET can compile the Web Service with the correct compiler. This directive also specifies the class that implements the Web Service so it can load the correct class and employ reflection to generate the WSDL for the Web Service.
Because PubsWS also uses ADO.NET's OLE DB provider for its data-access needs, we have to add a reference to System.Data and System.Data.OleDb, in addition to the System, System.Web, and System.Web.Services namespaces.
Class PubsWS inherits from WebService with the colon syntax that should be familiar to C++ or C# developers:
public class PubsWS : WebService
The four methods that are tagged with WebMethod attributes are GetAuthors( ), GetAuthor( ), GetBooks(string), and GetBooks( ). In C#, you can tag public methods with a WebMethod attribute using the
[]syntax. In VB, you must use
<>. For example, in VB, the second method would be declared as:
<WebMethod( )> Public Function GetAuthor(sSSN As String) As DataSet
By adding
[WebMethod] in front of your public method, you make the public method callable from any Internet client. What goes on behind the scenes is that your public method is associated with an attribute, which is implemented as a WebMethodAttribute class. WebMethodAttribute has six properties:
true by default.
SOAPAction request header and nested within the
soap:Body element. For HTTP GET and HTTP POST, it is the PathInfo portion of the URI (as in http://localhost// PubsWS/PubsWS.asmx/GetBooksByAuthor).
To set up these properties, pass the property name and its value as a name = value pair:
[WebMethod(Description="Returns a DataSet containing all authors.")]
public DataSet GetAuthors( )
You can separate multiple properties with a comma:
Description="Find books by author's SSN.")]
public DataSet GetBooks(string sAuthorSSN)
If you set up your Web Services from scratch, you should also need to provide the configuration file (web.config) in the same directory as your asmx file. This configuration file allows you to control various application settings about the virtual directory. Here, we set the authentication mode to
None to make our Web Services development and testing a little easier. When you release your Web Services to the public, you should change this setting to
Forms, or
Passport instead of
<authentication mode="None" />
The following list shows the different modes of authentication:
After creating the Web Service, you can provide the supporting files to help in the discovery of the service. The static discovery disco file is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<disco:discovery xmlns:disco="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/disco/"
<scl:contractRef ref="http://localhost/PubsWS/PubsWS.asmx?WSDL"/>
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What Miguel Cabrera Says About Immigration Policy
Baseball represents the best part of American immigration policy. Sure, most baseball players come over on non-immigrant visas but when they arrive, they become part of a team and those differences of nationality and ethnicity disappear in the fight for a playoff spot. Well, unless you happen to be a modern-day nativist like Gary Sheffield. In general, though, baseball is a powerful tool for US diplomacy and relations in our own hemisphere.
But while writing the filibuster the other day, I got to thinking about an often overlooked part of baseball diplomacy. Many of the players come from poor Caribbean or Latin American countries where people often have a hard time getting visas to come visit the US. If you're a non superstar type of guy or even just a young guy with an opportunity to try out for a team, how do you convince a visa officer that you're going to return to your country if things don't pan out? Obviously this isn't an issue for a Johan Santana or someone like that but most players are not Johan Santana.
The New York Times addressed this very issue recently but also brought up a point that hits home for any Tigers' fan. Beyond simply making the team, what happens to players who have proven their worth and no longer have trouble getting a visa but then go out and commit some sort of crime? For instance, what happens to Miguel Cabrera after his recent DUI? Although this is Cabrera's first DUI, it's not his first brush with law as a result of drinking. These incidents definitely affect his eligibility and at the very least could hold up the process the next time he applies for a US visa.
No matter what happens to Cabrera, baseball consistently remains ahead of the curve in its anticipation of social change. In much the same way that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the 40's, the flood of baseball migrants heralds an eventual shift in our thinking on immigration policy. Although Joe Autoworker from Detroit is sure that some immigrant took his job, he's not interested in applying this same logic to Miguel Cabrera and his fellow Venezuelans playing for the Tigers. The problem is, Cabrera might have just taken care of that issue of his own accord.
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Playing baseball is a privilege. If these guys can't grow up and behave, and I do not care where they are from, they should not be allowed to play. Of course, that is just my humble opinion :O)
I'm sure Cabrera will get special treatment when he reapplies for a visa. It's inevitable that strings will be pulled and his record will suddenly be a non-issue. Cynically me, I know.
It's hard to belive that he's still residing in the States as a non-immigrant on a work Visa. By now I assumed that he'd at least have a valid I-551 Permanant Residant Card and on his way to applying for U.S. Citizenship. I'm not sure if his wife is U.S. or not, either.
Jane, I think you're probably right. And you definitely don't want to be the visa officer with your name on his refusal when someone makes a FOIA request.
Mike, spoken like a true DHS/CBP/ICE man. Although it's probably in his best interest to stay on a work visa. Less taxes to pay that way.
At least Cabrera made it back. Our own Ronald Belisario still missing in action. Last year it was the same problem. A fan nicknamed him "AWOL". He has a drinking problem and who what else.


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For Immediate Release
March 25, 2004
(Springfield) The State Board of Education Thursday
approved the 2004 School District Financial Profiles that
include a nearly 79 percent increase in the number of
school districts on the states financial watch list.
When we see more and more schools moving downward
on the list it is cause for great concern,
State Board Chairman Janet Steiner said. While the
data is just a snapshot it does give communities
a glimpse of how their districts fare financially statewide.
For some school districts the profile may be used as an
early sign that they need to put some improvements in
place, and for others it affirms appropriate handling
of a their finances.
The Financial Watch List those school districts
facing the most severe financial problems includes
156 of the states 893 school districts; another
140 districts are in the next category, the Financial
Early Warning List.
The list is created by using five indicators of financial
Each of the five indicators earns a numerical score based
on where the district fits in that category. The first
two indicators are weighted at 35% of the overall score
and the remaining three indicators account for 10% of
the overall score. Added together the five weighted scores
yield a Total Financial Profile Score on a four-point
scale that places districts in one of four categories:
Financial Recognition, Financial Review, Financial Early
Warning and Financial Watch.
The 2003 financial data represents the states decrease
in its portion of education funding from 39-percent in
FY 2002 to just 36-percent. The Financial Profile is based
on the State Boards analysis of school districts
June 30, 2003 Annual Financial Reports.
The list is based on Fiscal Year 2003 financial data,
and also represents a change in the way the designations
are formulated. Without the formula change the
number of school districts in financial trouble would
actually have been greater.
School districts on the Financial Recognition list will
get a commendatory certificate from the State Board. The
State Board recommends that districts on the Financial
Review list develop a 3-year projection of operating costs,
establish a Finance Committee of the school board, develop
a staffing plan and personnel inventory, and develop a
3-year Equalized Assessed Valuation projection and tax
levy analysis. In addition to those recommendations, districts
on Financial Early Warning will be requested to provide
the State Board with a cash-flow analysis of the current
fiscal year, a balanced budget for the next fiscal year
on an ISBE template, enrollment projections for the next
three years, detailed analysis of short- and long-term
debt, and, if appropriate, a school district reorganization
and incentive study.
The State Board of Education is recommending legislation
to require that school districts on the Financial Watch
List would be required to provide the information itemized
above. The financial records of districts on the Financial
Watch and Financial Early Warning Lists would also be
reviewed by State Board staff to determine if the districts
are eligible for Certification as In Financial Difficulty
or if eligible for Emergency Grant Funds with a Financial
Oversight Panel.
The good news is we saw 544 districts that scored
the same or actually improved the bad news is that
we 250 districts drop to a lower category, including a
79 percent increase in the number of schools on Financial
Watch, State Superintendent Robert Schiller said.
We also need to remember that this doesnt
represent the Legislature and the Governors significant
increase in General State Aid funding this year.
Results of the 2003 and 2004 Financial
The full profile can be found at http://www.isbe.net/pdf/financial_profile.pdf.
Illinois State Board of Education
100 North First Street
Springfield, IL 62777