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2011 is going sneak up on us sooner than we know it, so if you're hosting a New Year's Eve bash, you should start your party planning now! To help us with the task, I asked "sassy" lifestyle guru and event planner Steve Kemble [1]to share some creative party ideas for an unforgettable New Year's Eve. From making your candles burn longer to hangover-reducing care packages, check out all of Steve's tips below!
- Dim your lights and flood the house with votive candles. Candles are the most romantic and cost effective way to create a festive, sexy atmosphere! To make your candles burn longer, put them in a zip lock bag in the freezer the day before your party.
- Buy pink bulbs at any local home store (for example, Home Depot) and swap them into your lamps for the night; you will be amazed at the difference it makes and the atmosphere it creates!
- They may be silly, but people still love the traditional New Year's Eve party items such as noisemakers, hats, tiaras, boas, and horns. I always recommend putting these items on a platter or in a big decorative bowl and letting people grab items as they wish.
- Ask all of your guests to give you their three favorite songs when they RSVP for the party. Create a custom CD from this list with all of your guests' favorites! Burn extra CDs for your guests with a custom cover created on your computer to give as party favors.
- Casino setups are going to be all the rage this New Year's Eve. You can rent casino games from local vendors. Also consider creating your own special "play money" using your computer!
- On New Year's Eve, serve a specialty drink at the start of the party and champagne at midnight, and then invite your guests to BYOB their favorites. As the host, be sure to provide all the setups, such as soda, tonic, soft drinks, lemons, limes, etc.
- For your menu, I recommend light snacks throughout the evening, such as veggies and dip, pretzels, minipizzas, and chips. Then around 10:30 p.m., set out a breakfast buffet with premade casseroles, danishes, and fruit. It's a change for people and puts something in their stomach toward the end of the evening.
- At midnight, there will be lots of kissing going on with everyone ringing in the New Year. So place mints in your bathroom to keep things fresh!
- Have phone numbers on-hand for your local taxi cab companies in case some of your guests need a lift home.
- As a favor, give your guests fun care packages in small paper totes for New Year's Day. Fill the bags with aspirin, Alka-Seltzer, vitamin C, and the CD of the all the music you created! Additionally, I like to give guests hot chocolate in a to-go container for the drive home!
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I was just wondering if it's ok to start solids for a couple days and then stop giving them?? Seems ok to me, but just wanted some input from some more experienced ladies.
Here's the story...my lo is about 4 mos. 3 wks. and seemingly ready for solids. Also, I had been encouraged by just about everyone, including doctors, around me to go ahead and start her on rice cereal. So last week I started with a couple tsps. of rice cereal mixed with breastmilk. She did really well, you know actually swallowed most and kept grabbing for the spoon like she wanted more. The PROBLEM is that I then came on here and also visited some other breastfeeding websites like kellymom.com and saw to wait till 6 mos. So...I put the rice cereal away. I am just trying to do what's best for my dd and breastfeed for as long as possible!! Is this ok?? Help please!
***I should also mention that things are kind of upside down for us right now since hubby left for Iraq at the beginning of the month and we recently moved in with my parents. So, I am trying to keep things as stress-free and normal for her as possible. Just thinking maybe I should delay the solids till things calm down a bit???


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In my lessons, I like to create mental images for my students. It's great to be able to find pictures or other physical movements that relate to a golf swing.
One that I particularly like is throwing a frisbee. Bringing that movement to your golf swing can help you hit the ball farther, straighter and more consistently.
To toss a frisbee, you lean on your foreward foot, lead with your arm and release the frisbee in front of your body with a quick wrist flick. This is similar to a golf swing.
A good golf swing should also have a late "release." What I mean by that is the wrist flick should come after you make contact with the ball and in front of your body.
"Releasing" the golf club late, the same as releasing the frisbee late, is what causes consistently solid, long golf shots.
Too many players "release" the club too early.
I like thinking of mental images to help students see what a good golf swing should look like. Throwing a frisbee is a good one, because it can helps fix one of the more common mistakes people make, not "releasing" the club late.


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Couple in Moonlight, 1920
Ewald PlatteGerman, 1894-1985
Watercolor and India ink on brown wove paper mounted on cardboard
12-7/8 x 9-3/4 in. (32.7 x 24.8 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
© 2008 Ilse Netuschil
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Platte was a member of several artistic and literary groups in the 1920s, but eventually preferred to work in isolation. It was probably through his friendship with Jawlensky that Platte met Galka Scheyer. She brought this watercolor on her first trip to America and exhibited it in the European Modernist exhibits in Los Angeles and Oakland in 1927-28.
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Quote of the day: Silly collectivist edition
Apparently Barack Obama was channeling Elizabeth "Fauxahontas" Warren the other day in a speech when he said:
Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
The natural angle of attack when one wants to demean accomplishment is to attempt to portray it as something you were given vs. something you earned.
In this case, where Obama denigrates the accomplishments of the successful (and my goodness when did success become something you attack?), he's attempting to do just that. Because, so the collectivist thinking (oxymoron alert) goes, if he and others helped the successful become successful then they can justify claiming a portion of the pie the successful have.
Of course that requires ignoring how the successful become successful. We heard Elizabeth Warren talk about public works that she claims enabled businesses to succeed. Like roads, power grids, etc. What she would have you believe is everyone else paid for those things but apparently the entrepreneur was just a net beneficiary. Silliness to the extreme.
Also always shunted aside are the sacrifices the "successful" made to reach the stage of success they enjoy. I personally know "successful" people who mortgaged their house to the hilt, cashed in whatever they had in savings and borrowed the rest to start their business.
They took all the risk, and yes, some of them failed. But they didn't have anyone holding their hand when they set out on their journey to success. They simply worked harder than anyone else, made the additional sacrifices that had to be made (80 hour weeks, little time with the family, etc). to make that success a fact.
The focus for the collectivists starts at the big house the successful have now, not the risk, work and sacrifice they went through to build that house.
And now that they are a success, suddenly they have a bunch of leeches who want to claim a portion of it (remember about 50% of those in this country pay no income taxes at all). It reminds me of the lottery winner who suddenly discovers he has cousins, nieces and nephews he's never heard of all clamoring for some of the winnings. But in this case, what Obama is trying to justify via this nonsense is not asking for money, but taking it "legally".
His is the same song the communists sang in 1917 Russia. Those who worked hardest and achieved the most don't "deserve" what they have accumulated because they did it on the backs of everyone else. We've heard variations on the theme quite often from leftist politicians: "It takes a village", for instance or claiming the successful are simply "the winners of life's lottery", etc.
Naturally where Obama wants to strike is precisely where jobs are created. Almost a million of those in the tax bracket he wants to hit with higher taxes are small businesses. You'd think the guy who obviously thinks he's a economic genius would know that. You'd think a guy who said "the last thing you want to do in a recession is raise taxes" would actually follow through on something he got right.
But no, instead he plays the class warfare card and essentially parrots the communists.
No, I'm not calling him a communist, I'm simply pointing out the irony of what he's doing. Draw your own conclusions about what he is, but one thing he isn't is a friend of the free market. He certainly isn't the economic genius he thinks he is and frankly, he's leading us down the same path Europe went down years before and we all know how that is turning out.
It is envy cloaked as "fairness". Class warfare designed empower government even while it cripples business and, in the end, would contribute to increasing our economic woes.
However, there is value in such quotes as his above. When you hear him say things like this, it becomes much clearer as to his true ideological roots and what an additional 4 years would bring. The press may not have done the job of vetting this president before he took office, but quotes like this do as much for that process as any vetting by the press would accomplish There's no question of where he lives ideologically. And it isn't an ideology that belongs in the most powerful office in this land.
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BUT REMEMBER AND KEEP IN MIND THAT ANYTHING ELECTRICAL, WIRING IN THE WALLS, MAGNETS, AND PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING THAT HAS ELECTRICITY RUNNING THROUGH IT HAS AN EMF, SO BE CAREFUL.If you don't have an EMF Reader, it is possible to use a compass but not as accurate...http://www.hollowhill.com/guide/compass.htmIf you don't have a compass, make your own, again this is even more inaccurate though.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yPk3JAyWoAnd if you don't have any magnets, ill make it even easier for u, this is another way of magnetizing metal...http://www.ehow.com/how_4452272_magnetize-metal-batteries.html So i hope this reaches anyone who may need it or anyone who just wants to try a fun trick. Please comment on if you think we should post more of these cheap ways to investigate. Happy hunting.Jos spiritech0 posted:8/19/2011 7:16:54 PM I own this book, and I'm glad I do:http://shadowboxent.brinkster.net/poormansparanormal.htmlJOSMAN087 posted:8/19/2011 8:50:36 PM Wow interesting, great site.Omen502 posted:8/20/2011 1:54:05 AM Yes Im glad you brought this up jasman. not only do I believe in EMF but think it may go deeper even to the technology that is built by our government. I think we should all look into ELF an TESLA'S theories to actually find the answer. I will look at site ty spiritechgemini663181 posted:8/21/2011 8:11:04 AM There are other reasons to use EMF detection on investigations of hauntings. There are many people who are sensitive to large amounts of EMF and they could be suffering from EMF poisoning which is known to cause feelings of being watched skin irritations and many other negative effects on the body and mind. It is good to get baseline EMF as you do an investigation first. That way you can get a grip on whether it is a paranormal investigation or not. There are many cases of people who have large` EMF leaks in their homes and are just suffering the EMF poisoning verses an actual haunting.gemini663181 posted:8/21/2011 8:13:15 AM In actual hauntings there would be Isolated areas of large EMF spikes that actually move throughout the premises. At least in most cases but these phenomena are always changing.JOSMAN087 posted:8/21/2011 10:06:58 AM Oh ya, thanks gemini i should have stated that, forgot to but y people use EMF. :)monica1968 posted:8/21/2011 10:43:47 AM ELF wasnt that another fairy story....Elves and the shoemaker......gosh remembering childhood here...sorry.....but didnt they come in the middle of the night too........Omen502 posted:8/22/2011 12:50:57 AM lol monica, I wish it was that easy cause I could just run around and step on the little bastards! lol Anyway I meant E.L.F. as in Extremely Low Frequency. Almost the same as E.M.F. but a lower frequency that is much stronger I believe. These transmitters are said to make it possiblie to communicate with submarines at the bottom of the ocean. These frequencies penetrate everything and is supposedly used in Alaska and other places as Mind control. I think that maybe these frequencies can somehow excite particles of the ether or something to maybe make manifestation of phenomenon more prevalent. I dont get much feedback on this but really think we should look into it more since it is the new technology of the elites. They are doing terrible things why not stir up some ghosts and ghouls? BOO!JOSMAN087 posted:8/22/2011 6:05:21 AM This is a good site that shows what this team uses to hunt ghosts and why........http://www.liparanormalinvestigators.com/equipment.shtml.......and this how to make a homemade barometer.........http://www.sciencefairprojectshub.com/homemade-barometer/2010/spiritech0 posted:8/22/2011 11:43:20 PM Your purple prose just give you away. The things - you say... You're unbelievable. D'oh! Here's a nifty site...http://makezine.com/JOSMAN087 posted:8/23/2011 3:50:44 AM This site is nifty but i havent seen anything on here that would help detect paranormal activity. Maybe im not looking hard enough. But it is a cool read.Awbrielle posted:8/23/2011 9:12:00 AM My advice would be: dont go hunting at all if you dont really need too. Too many people, specially young ones, have started posting and trying to do it themselves. And dont get me wrong, I really enjoy every episode of Supernatural, but that is a tv show and trust me on this, if you dont have a huuuge base of knowledge on true nature of the entities you are gonna get involved with you are [email protected][email protected]JOSMAN087 posted:8/23/2011 9:14:22 AM Well said A.gemini663181 posted:8/24/2011 1:13:58 PM Correct Awbrielle this field of investigation is not for all but you do have to start somewhere. Fear is not allowed in this field it is a fence that will surround you and prevent tru investigation. I started investigating in the field about twenty years ago and I have always been careful and mindful of what we are seeking. so for sure it is for the experienced and you should have connections in all faiths and scientist who can help withe the evidence that you capture. good stuff to all who have commented. Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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SEC Opens Inquiry Into Herbalife: Hot Trends
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Popular searches on the Internet include Herbalife(HLF) as the nutrition company is reportedly the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the SEC has launched an inquiry into the company. Rumors that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme have swirled for weeks, an allegation the company denies. Pershing Square Capital Management's William Ackman said in December that he had been shorting the stock after determining Herbalife was, indeed, a pyramid scheme. Ackman has sold short about 20 million Herbalife shares.
High-profile hedge fund manager Dan Loeb of Third Point LLC, however, came out on Wednesday and said Ackman was wrong. Loeb endorsed the company by disclosing in a filing that his fund owns 8.9 million Herbalife shares. In a statement, Third Point said it began accruing the Herbalife shares "mostly during the panicked selling that followed the short seller's dramatic claims."
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The iPhone 5 is trending as Apple's(AAPL) latest smartphone will hit Wal-Mart (WMT) stores on Friday with Straight Talk Wireless.
The phone will be available without a contract for $45 a month, including unlimited talk, text and data. Customers can also opt for an international plan for $60 a month that will include unlimited calls to select countries.
Wal-Mart said the iPhone 5 as well as the iPhone 4 will be available at more than 2,000 Wal-Mart locations and at walmart.com. The 16GB iPhone 5 will be sold for $649 and the 8GB iPhone 4 will cost $449. Users can buy the smartphone over time through a financing offer of $25 per month.
Through the offer, Straight Talk Wireless claims to save users around $950 a year, compared to traditional unlimited plans.
Prior to this deal, the iPhone 5 had been available at Wal-Mart stores only with a two-year contract.
In November, Apple began selling the unlocked iPhone 5, which lets consumers opt for prepaid plans on their own.
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The Spinning Spur Wind Project is the latest addition to Google's $1 billion renewable energy portfolio. The wind farm has 70 Siemens wind turbines with a 2.3 megawatt capacity.
The chatter on Main Street (a.k.a. Google, Yahoo! and other search sites) is always of interest to investors on Wall Street. Thus, each day, TheStreet compiles the stories that are trending on the Web, and highlights the news that could make stocks move.
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Group Cielo, a local band, was recognized by the New Mexico Latin Music Academy for their song "A Puros Tragos" in November.
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When Paul Cordova began performing with a few family members and friends at church carnivals in 2003, he had no idea his band would be named one of the top 15 bands in New Mexico.
Groupo Cielo, which means heaven in Spanish, is a Clovis band made up of 10 area residents. In November, the band was recognized for their song "A Puros Tragos" by the New Mexico Latin Music Academy.
The group was invited to perform their song at a ceremony at Route 66 Casino in November.
Group Cielo began their journey to notoriety when Cordova, who plays saxophone and manager for the band, dropped a CD off at an Albuquerque radio station. The song went on the air and broke the top 15 songs in the state.
"It was great being able to bring this back to this area where there is so much talent," Cordova said.
Cordova said the band began playing Spanish music, but would play requests during shows. The requests were often country and southern rock songs, and Cordova said the band could always play the song.
"We are all multi-talented. Each member can play two or three instruments so we can do pretty much anything," he said.
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- Nanophase partially stabilized zirconia intermediate layer for strain accommodation in a multi-layer thermal barrier coating
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- Applying an environmental barrier coating (EBC) and a thermal barrier coating (TBC) on the next generation gas turbine structural materials such as silicon carbide matrix composites will lead to large stresses due to thermal expansion mismatch; thereby limiting the coating's effectiveness and lifetime. Nanostructured materials possess a large volume fraction of grain boundaries and are conjectured to partially relieve the strain in the coating structure. A Triple Torch Plasma Reactor (TTPR) was used to spray multi-layered TBCs consisting of a mullite EBC deposited either on a silicon carbide or a mullite substrate, a nano-phase partially stabilized zirconia coating (n-PSZ), and a yttria stabilized zirconia coating (YSZ) as the TBC. The nanostructure of the n-PSZ could be maintained during the deposition process. The coatings were heat treated at 1300°C and the change in microstructure and mechanical properties were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), micro-indentation and scratch testing applied to the coating cross section. While a change in the microstructure was observed, in particular grain growth, the hardness and elastic modulus appeared to be little affected by the heat treatment giving a preliminary validation of the multilayer concept.
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Washburn County sheriff's officials said they consider the case of a 15-year-old girl missing for 17 years still open and active.
The Duluth News Tribune reported crews took part in a ground and water search in Washburn County on Thursday and Friday in the case of Sara Bushland.
She was last seen April 3, 1996, getting off the school bus at her home near Spooner.
According to a sheriff's office news release, crews searched property owned by Bushland's mother and stepfather with their consent and cooperation.
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Colorado's mile marker 420 sign is no more after sticky-fingered stoners kept stealing it.
State officials have switched out the sign on a remote stretch of Interstate 70 in eastern Colorado with a post reading Mile 419.99 as a way to keep thieves at bay, the Denver Post reported.
The number 420 is often used as a reference for marijuana -- which is now legal in the state.
"Obviously people steal these signs," Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Amy Ford told the Post. "In the past, if a sign was stolen too much, we wouldn't replace it. This is sort of an innovative way for us to keep the sign there."
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For the past almost 2-weeks my baby, currently 7-weeks, has been having green stools. In the beginning he as also gassy & uncomfortable and spit-up often and even had lots of gulping early on in the feeding. During this time he also has had a cold. Really congested at first, better, and then really congested again now. I tried block feeding and within a couple days the stools had gone back to a more yellowish/green. Not completely normal, but not nearly as dark green as before. This stayed the same, except for the morning stool (not sure why?) until a couple days ago. Now they are much more consistently dark green, a little mucousy, and runny. He is now not gassy and he spits up maybe once per day and hardly anything at all compared to a couple weeks ago.
Over the weekend I wasn't the best with block feeding he seemed very, very hungry and I couldn't tolerate him eating forever on one side (though I did try). I am thinking growth spurt because this happened a few weeks ago as well. Not sure if this is why the stools have returned to the darker green, runny consistency. Or if maybe his cold is playing into the whole thing since it has been lingering the whole time.
Today I am trying to stick to a 3-hour block feeding schedule. He isn't as hungry, but still eating quite a bit, so I am thinking the little growth spurt might be done with. Eating very well when he does eat. Still dark green stools, but not as runny, mucousy as before. He is tired because he didn't sleep well last night due to his congestion (he is more than making up for that lack of sleep today though!). When he is awake he is all smiles and alert and calm. No crying or fussiness. He is gaining well.
At this point I am not sure if this is a fore/hindmilk imbalance issue. Or possibly something else. Trying to decide how much longer I give this to work. If I should consider the dairy protein allergy or not. I'd call my ped but I don't really like them and know they would jump to formula and I absolutley refuse to do that. We are switching to a new ped in September (Dr. Sears office!). I guess I could call them but due to insurance I couldn't go in until September.
Any advice??? Should I stop dairy now or give the cold a couple days to fizzle out and see what happens then???


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UBS has moved its futures trading business into its recently-created FX and fixed income division, a restructuring that highlights the efforts banks are making to bring multiple asset classes under one unit.
The Swiss bank's exchange-traded derivatives execution service is now part of its FX, rates and credit, or FRC unit, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The ETD execution services unit previously sat within UBS's equities division, but was reorganised under the FRC business last month, the person said. UBS created the FRC division last November by combining its foreign exchange and precious metals business with its rates and credit unit. The business is jointly run by Chris Murphy and George Athanasopoulos.
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My daughter was born at 35weeks gestation, but presented 33. We've been out of the NICU for a little bit and we just passed her due date, so her corrected age is 2 days. Yesterday, it seemed like she was always nursing, but she would nurse for 10 mins, fall asleep at the breast, then wake up in an hour and want to eat again.
I'm taking domperidone, brewer's yeast, fenugreek, and blessed thistle because we were concerned about my supply while we were in the NICU...and now I'm worried again. Yesterday, when I pumped after feeding her, I was only getting about 10 ml and that's both breasts together.
She has been gaining lately, she was born at 4lbs 8oz and at the midwives on Friday she was 5lbs 5oz. We are all quite happy with her weight gain.
We have been giving her a few feeds with a lactation aid, and I put in whatever I pump...most days, I put in about 30ml.
I haven't been pumping as much, which may be part of the problem, but when it was like yesterday, there wasn't much time in between feeds.
We are also using a nipple shield...that started in the hospital but we can't get her to open her mouth big enough. We switched to a wider shield to get her to stretch her mouth so hopefully that will help and we can get her off that.
Her output it good, lots of wet and messy diapers...some days 6 messy diapers...we are going to the breastfeeding clinic again tomorrow, now that the long weekend is over, but I would appreciate any advice you have.


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Konieczny, J. (2007). "Costly Price Adjustment and the Optimal Rate of Inflation", Managerial and Decision Economics 28 (6), 591-603.
ABSTRACT: I analyse the optimal rate of inflation when prices are costly to change. As the costs of price adjustment are the main friction in the model, effects of inflation stem from the accounting role of money. Inflation increases relative price variability and reduces the average product labour. This productivity distortion may be offset by a reduction in the desired real price. In general, the optimal rate of inflation is zero. This is consistent with early studies in monetary literature (LeBlanc, 1690, Jevons, 1875, Fisher, 1911 and Marshall, 1923), which concentrated on the role of money as a unit of account and argued that the goal of monetary policy should be price stability.
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According to numerous public health studies, just washing your hands on a regular basis—a simple, mundane activity if ever there was one—actually provides one of the most effective measures for preventing the spread of many diseases. Preventing the spread of the "social disease" called fascism is a bit more complex, but many of the preventive measures that are available to each and every one of us are similarly simple and mundane.
But before we can understand how that works, first we need to recognize that fascism is more than just a form (or style, actually) of government. It is not just a matter of structure—of laws, agencies and regulations. It is also a cultural phenomenon in which the media, the arts, the educational system, the church, and all the other institutions, traditions and customs that make up "society" are enlisted (or drafted) into the cause of imposing the artificial "unity" that fascist propaganda makes to seem so attractive. And to the extent that individual citizens accept and internalize the fascist agenda, it affects even our day-to-day interpersonal relationships.
So, counter-fascist actions must take place at all three levels—the structural, the cultural and the personal. Of these three, perhaps the cultural is most important, for in order to establish their dominance, fascists first need to create an apparent groundswell of "popular support" for the structural changes they desire. (It is far more likely that fascist power will be established in the USA through apparently "free and fair" elections than through some kind of armed rebellion or coup d'etat.)
What kinds of tools do we have, then, in our "counterfascist toolbox"?
The first tool is simple vigilance—just paying attention, and keeping ourselves informed about what is going on, both in our immediate vicinity and in other places around the country. Not paranoia, mind you; fearfulness can paralyze us, and make us think we are powerless when in fact we are not. Legislatures are still passing laws in the open, even if some of those laws are being composed behind closed doors by special interests. (If you haven't heard of an outfit called "ALEC," you might want to check out www.alecexposed.org; [2] it's a good place to start.)
Centeredness—the ability to maintain calm, rational equanimity in the face of stress or provocation—counters the tendency to panic, or take rash, impulsive and ultimately counterproductive action. Many physical and spiritual disciplines exist that help develop this quality, from meditation and prayer to martial arts and tightrope walking. As we develop centeredness, we become better able to think clearly when we might otherwise get caught up in the emotion of the moment.
Centeredness supports courage, another important tool to have handy. Countering fascism on the everyday, interpersonal level might mean interrupting or contradicting someone else's oppressive attitudes or mistaken assumptions, and risking some kind of immediate personal blowback. Countering it on the structural or cultural levels might mean taking a visible public stand, risking arrest, or worse. (Check out what's been happening in Texas lately, or in North Carolina with the "Moral Mondays" protests.)
The creation and maintenance of community is also crucial, and here I mean "community" in two different senses of the word. First, it is obviously important to surround oneself with like-minded and supportive people, but it is also equally important to reach out across ideological boundaries and create a wider sense of "community" among people who do not agree on everything. Fascism, of whatever stripe, thrives on the easy delineation of groups between "Us" and "Them," and we should muddle those borders whenever possible. (This means resisting the strong temptation to dehumanize and belittle those with whom we disagree on this issue or that, instead searching to find areas of common ground where communication becomes possible.)
Finally, what can we do with these and the many other tools we have? Press for ever-greater openness, transparency, and accountability in both government and business. Encourage greater civic participation, whether at the polling place, on the street, or in the workplace. Strive to reduce the power of corporations over the government, and of government over the people. Use the power of community both to celebrate the diversity that enriches our lives, and to lessen the differences that divide us.
And most of all, refuse to remain silent.
[This is the last in Mendler's series of op-ed columns on fascism.]


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Title. Going up there in a few weeks and friends want to play, so I have a few fields in mind but I need to know the best of the best. Thanks!
Are there any good places around Merrit Island?
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Posted 12 November 2011 - 04:30 PM
KCMECustoms= Bob Long has never had amazing packaging but if you put a turd in a tuxedo its still a turd.
Posted 26 November 2011 - 04:39 PM
Hey I dont know if you already left merrit sland but theres a good field there called Combat Zone. I'll be there tomorrow but I wont play, Im trading for an Ego 6.
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Posted 07 December 2011 - 01:32 PM
Ya meta some friends and i go to combat zone a lot maybe ill see you there sometime....
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A lot has changed in the two years since I made my first visit [2] to the Washington Auto Show. Back then, gas prices averaged $2.68 per gallon and the Nissan LEAF looked like a "car of the future" compared to the other vehicles on the showroom floor. Now, prices at the pump are 25 percent higher, averaging $3.50 per gallon in 2011, and fuel costs are eating up the largest share of the average American's income in over 30 years [3]. Meanwhile, the auto industry is adapting their product line [4] to their new environment and cooperating more closely with regulators [5]. The 2012 auto show includes many more alternative vehicles like the all-electric Ford Focus [6] (see picture below) and the Prius V [7], a 42 mile per gallon hybrid station wagon.
Many automakers hope to make this claim soon about one of their alternative technology vehicles.
The U.S. auto industry has made a dramatic turnaround in the last 4 years. Back in 2008, some pondered whether we'd be able to even have an auto industry in the United States. The U.S. government, including Congress and the Bush and Obama Administrations, bet on American workers and they did not disappoint. The Big Three thrived in 2011 with billions in profits and sales of over 6 million vehicles [8].
It's not all roses, however. The Chevy Volt and other plug-in electric vehicles have recently taken an undeserved beating in the media [9]. The contrarians took advantage of "lower than expected" sales in 2011 in an attempt to bury the electric car, again. But the facts tell a different story. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently declared [10] electric vehicles are among the safest cars on the road and sales [11] are 50 percent higher than hybrid sales were when they first entered the U.S. market in 2000. Compared to many cars available now, electric vehicles offer significant fuel savings, a smaller environmental footprint, and even a more fun and responsive driving experience.
Hopefully, consumers will look at a car's total value proposition—including stubbornly high gasoline costs—when making their next purchase. Looking at travel [12] data from 2011, consumers may be responding to higher fuel prices by driving less. Although lowering vehicle miles traveled is one of the key strategies for saving oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, our research [13] shows increased fuel economy can have an even greater impact, especially in the near term. Increased efficiencies can come from improvements to conventional technology and other options, like electric drivetrains.
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The Washington Auto Show of 2010 showed the auto industry on the cusp of a new era – one in which gas guzzlers are going out of style. At the 2012 auto show, an environment of high gas prices, increased vehicles standards, and a shift in consumer preferences has quickly accelerated this change in the auto landscape.
Nick Nigro is Manager of Transportation Initiatives at C2ES.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/blog/nigron
[2] http://www.c2es.org/blog/nigron/building-electric-vehicle-here-usa
[3] http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_19582134
[4] http://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/the-30-mpg-club-cars-that-get-30-mpg-epa-combined.html
[5] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-07-29/automakers-agree-to-54-5-mpg-fuel-economy-rule-obama-says.html
[6] http://www.ford.com/electric/focuselectric/2012/
[7] http://www.toyota.com/priusv/
[8] http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html
[9] http://www.c2es.org/blog/nigron/npr-not-plugged-in-to-all-facts-on-electric-vehicles
[10] http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2012/NHTSA+Statement+on+Conclusion+of+Chevy+Volt+Investigation
[11] http://www.hybridcars.com/news/december-2011-dashboard-sales-still-climbing-35093.html
[12] http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/11novtvt/page2.cfm
[13] http://www.c2es.org/publications/reducing-ghg-emissions-from-transportation
[14] http://www.c2es.org/federal/executive/vehicle-standards
[15] http://www.c2es.org/blog/zhuc/landmark-new-vehicle-standards-set-strong-path-future
[16] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/
[17] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/electric-vehicles
[18] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/energy-technology
[19] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/federal
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Yes they are all out dated swines now as ino would say all bilbourd foehead fans can eat dust
Last edited by francois brown; 12-28-2012 at 06:21 AM.
Love shaped giant rasengan to the Juubi?
Originally Posted by vincaocao
Love shaped giant rasengan to the Juubi?
LOL. And then the Juubi, inspired by their... love (debatable ), will turn on the Uchihas >_>
(JK of course... or... is it...?) o_O
Big love rasengan madara perhaps
To everyone talking about a love/heart shaped rasengan
Originally Posted by francois brown
Yes they are all out dated swines now as ino would say all bilbourd foehead fans can eat dust
Watch your mouth Mr. King of Darkness. The only swine here is you
Oh and
Originally Posted by somniferous
To everyone talking about a love/heart shaped rasengan
Lol let's have a more badass one!
For example combine Rasengan with Vacuum Palm or the Vacuum Wall Palm to make some sort of cyclone attack....or something legitimate in that nature
I really hope something significant will finally start to happen. For now, all we've seen is a million useless attempts to damage juubi or Madara and none worked. I just wonder if Hinata/Naruto tag team was in he original plan or if it's just a coincidence because she built him back up.
I think Neji had a role in the plan that Hinata has to take now.
Heart shaped bijuu dama
Hinata would be only in his way...
Originally Posted by Regina
I completely take back what I said earlier, their still flaming with narusaku nonsense! I no longer feel bad for them now I just find it amusing to watch them try and come up with new bullshit on why naruhina isn't going to happen.
Poor narusaku fans you can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel and we all know you feel it, naruhina is CANON!
Oh man, it isn't canon. Do you realize it? NH or NS will be canon at the end, Kishimoto won't end the pairing war before the end comes, he makes to much money with it.
But anyway you are thinking to much into this shit. To alls NH fans you are amusing me, because I know, that the time come when Sakura will have her moment with Naruto as always, and it will outshine this moment as always.
Originally Posted by donnic
ok so we know that there is some plan to stop the 10 tails but we need naruto and as shown in latest chapter we got him teaming with hinata his fox charka is covering both of them so best guess is that they are gonna do a tag team attack.
my guess on what it is: hinata uses his gentle palm on the 10 tails with the 9 tails charka and its gonna screw up its charka for a few moments preventing it from atttacking and/or changing forms thus giving the army a chance to fight the two ninja's (good f***ing luck)
Hinata's ability to see chakra, combined with Naruto's strong ability to sense it (both to sense emotion with his fox mode powers, or to sense nature chakra with his sage transformation) is probably going to be a strong part of any plan to fight the Juubi. My best guess is that Shikaku's inspiration about the past few battles has something to do with the flow of chakra, especially between Madara and Obito and the Juubi (and the use of chakra chains, etc).
Originally Posted by nath0man
*wakes up*
did someone say my name?
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but if you're a Narusaku fan, why do you come to Naruhina threads?:confused:
Can't even spell official correctly twice too..
Originally Posted by -Stryker-
I couldn't have said it better myself... people caring so much over a couple in a fictional series is so lame. who gives a flying ****
Unless it is a biography, that statement includes, from the beginning of time, every story written, every novel published (Twilight!), every movie (Twilight!!), every TV series and every TV reality show (Jerry Springer!!!) ever made.
The pairing wars after this chapter have gone nuts.
Originally Posted by itachi1000
The pairing wars after this chapter have gone nuts.
KISHI Must Destroy it all!!!
The two losers of the village are now the King and Queen of the Ninja World, Justice has ben served. Long May they live and prosper.
That chapter in my opinion was the perfect way to end 2012!!!
Originally Posted by Spartan117
It was amazing. I think it was Hinata who said, "I won't let go of your hands" I am not sure who says this can someone clarify?
It was Naruto
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I second the nursing cover idea. That way no one can see the details of what's going on. And truly, other people are more embarrassed by it than I am, usually, so they only make that mistake once!
I second the nursing cover idea. That way no one can see the details of what's going on. And truly, other people are more embarrassed by it than I am, usually, so they only make that mistake once!
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After I went back to work with DS1, I pumped in my cubicle with a nursing cover over the front, and a sweater (long sweater jacket that opens like a robe). I did that for 19 months, and pumped through impromptu meetings in my cube, vendor visits, etc. I even remember pumping when working with a consultant, and he had no idea what was going on until I pulled a bottle of milk out from under my cover. I had to pump in the "mothers room" a few times, and hated it.
I just started back to work today after being on leave for DS2. I had planned on using the much nicer mothers room this time, but when I went to check it out, noticed it was booked up all day. So I defaulted to a nursing cover and my cubicle. The cube I am in now has low walls and is much more open, but I managed to pump with no one noticing (they could hear the pump but that was all). I am planning on coordinating with some of the people that have offices to schedule time to pump in an office though when I can.
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Snaildarter, I hope I didn't offend you with my comments. I know TWRA doesn't think that the trout are doing much reproduction in the Caney but that is the same thing they thought about the SoHo for years and likewise what KY Dept. of Fish and Wildlife thought about the Cumberland...
Yanking any fish off a redd is easy including wild fish so I don't buy the stocker versus wild fish argument which is why there are closures on some of the truly great rivers like the SoHo. Fish are vulnerable during the spawn wild or not and should be protected regardless of whether or not they are successful. Yes, I do believe that it is unethical to keep fish that are caught off of redds but that's just me and I know most people don't hold the same standards... If you can't catch 'em when they are at their toughest, you don't deserve to take home a stringer full when they are easy...once again, strictly my opinion so take it with a grain of salt...
I agree that it would be nice to get some form of steady flows during the fall and winter to protect the eggs and fry. If I knew how to get started working towards that goal I would do it in a minute although I fear the solution just won't happen in my lifetime due to the "powers that be." If you have any suggestions to me to work towards this goal, please let me know. The Caney has the potential to be a great river if we could just get the regs adjusted. TWRA has taken steps in the right direction with the minimum length limit and I hope that they continue working towards solutions that will enhance the fishery for all.
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I think like you do. I guess we Chem E's think alike. I fish the Caney regularly and have said that I wish I had a badge multiple times. Saturday, my son and I saw at least 4 stringers with undersized browns on them. And a couple had more than 7 fish. The issue that the TWRA will probably quote is that we could endanger ourselves with writing citations. Several people I know carry cell phones and speed dial known violations. The issue is too much river and too little enforcement resource.
Flat Fly N nailed it when he talked about greed. Some people will use up the resources God has blessed this state with and don't give a hoot about others or the future. I like catching big trout the same as anyone else. I have caught my fair share of large fish on the Caney and returned them hopefully in shape to fight again. If someone wants to keep a few fish to eat, that's fine. Just use common sense, obey the regs and don't be greedy.
BTW, bluegill are a blast to catch on a 2 or 3wt or light spinning, taste better and are not in short supply.
Think this is getting hot????
Enjoy the "other" side of the arguement.....
These are some of the good old boys that published the info on the spawning redds from this fall now complaining that the big fish are gone. If you care you can go back into this past summer and check out the info this idiot gave away.. No wonder if TWRA is correct that the fish are being effected.
Let's try to stay above this on re: this arguement.
I am a great admirer of spectator sports, especially on television; it keeps the riffraff off the trout streams.
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I would think the Caney would be in Region II, however it may be in Region III. I've only fished it once.
My posts are worthless without pictures
The Caney is actually in 2 regions, but is monitored and enforced typically by Region II. This debate on the regs, spawning, etc. has been ongoing for some time. I have fished this river for a long long time and it is my personal belief that there is some reproduction that is taking place since we now have a river that can sustain trout over a period of years and not just from season to season. We now have more consistent water temperatures as is proven by the results of the new min. flow sluice gates and registered on the Corps website at Stonewall, some 16 or 17 miles downstream. We have higher dissolved oxygen content then the river has ever had. Even during periods of no generation, the river is about 3 to 4 inches higher than it ever has been and that is recorded on the Corps websites.
The bottom line is that the full spectrum of fishermen from the Clampett's, to Sir Reginald Tweedjacket have to follow the rules and regulations for this river to be a viable resource in the future. That includes the fishing regulations, and the boating regulations which are often abused here as well. It's ok to have varied opinions about what the river is capable of doing and sustaining, that is how we keep things in check. I say, enforce the regulations and impose stiffer fines that sends the message that whomever you are, however you fish this river, you will respect the laws or you will pay the penalty. then once you get that in check, change the regulations to new regulations that will ensure the survival of this resource for years to come. If not, it will become just another tailwater that moves water from one dam to the next.
i see a lot of fishermen on the caney. has anyone heard any more about the repairs that the army core is going to have to do to Center Hill? I heard at one point they will have to lower the lake to a point below the crack/hole in the dam and mountain so low that it will kill all the trout? i have not heard anything new for a while now. anyone know any updates. if it is true none of us will be worried about Bubba taking his limit.
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As a person who's never been able to get into black metal, I am enjoying this much more than I thought I would. The atmosphere is great on this album and the comparisons to Opeth that I've read are actually really rather appropriate. Wow, it seems I might be getting into black metal after all. Damn good album.
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I more or less got into black metal with Enslaved's 'Isa' 6 or 7 years ago. Isa does have an unbeaten status for me, but this record is nipping at its heels in quality, though it is a bit different. I'm growing out of black metal though now it seems.
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OK, I hope I won't get flamed by the MS community here, but I feel like putting AEO into black metal category (with no prefixes) is not completely right. Sure, there is a ton of black metal influences here, but to me it feels like the most important feature of black metal, which is to say its cold, hateful atmosphere and the overall negative, pessimistic feel is missing. Tracks like "Ethica Odini", "Lightning" and others are too damn uplifting, almost fit for a sing-along. You don't get that in BM.
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J2ME in a Nutshell
Editor's note: This is the first of a five part book excerpt series based on O'Reilly's J2ME in a Nutshell by Kim Topley. Part one is an overview of MIDP and the MIDP Java platform.
MIDP is a version of the Java platform based on CLDC and KVM that is aimed at small footprint devices, principally cell phones and two-way pagers. It is also suitable for running on PDAs, and an implementation is available for PalmOS Version 3.5 and higher. (In the longer term, it is intended that these devices use the PDA profile, which is also hosted by CLDC.) The MIDP specification was developed under the Java Community Process and is available for download from http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/37.jsp.
The logical position of MIDP within the software architecture of a device that implements it is shown in Figure 3-1. The software that implements MIDP runs in the KVM supplied by CLDC and provides additional services for the benefit of application code written using MIDP APIs. MIDP applications are called MIDlets. As Figure 3-1 shows, MIDlets can directly use both MIDP facilities and the APIs described in Chapter 2 that MIDP inherits from CLDC itself. MIDlets do not access the host platform's underlying operating system and cannot do so without becoming nonportable. Because the KVM does not support JNI, the only way for a MIDP application to access native platform facilities directly is by linking native code into a customized version of the virtual machine.
Sun provides a reference implementation of MIDP that can be used on Windows; the Wireless Toolkit, which contains versions of MIDP for Windows, Solaris and Linux; and a separate MIDP product for use on PalmOS-based PDAs. Device manufacturers typically use the Sun reference implementation as the basis for their own products. They usually integrate additional code as part of their MIDP implementation to provide management features such as installation, removal, and management of MIDlets that are not portable between devices and hence not part of the reference software. As shown in Figure 3-1, this code (labeled "OEM Code") may use some combination of MIDP and CLDC services and will also depend on the host platform's operating system. Some parts of the core MIDP software are themselves device-dependent and thus are also supplied by the manufacturer. These typically include parts of the networking support, the user interface components, and the code that provides persistent storage.
As mentioned earlier, MIDP is intended for small devices with limited memory, CPU, and display capabilities. The minimum hardware requirements are described in the following sections.
As you'll see over the next few chapters, MIDP includes quite a lot of software that is not part of the core Java platform and therefore requires more memory than the minimal CLDC environment is obliged to supply. The MIDP specification requires at least 128 KB of RAM be available to store the MIDP implementation itself, over and above whatever is needed by CLDC. In addition to this, there must be at least 32 KB available for the Java heap. In practice, a 32 KB heap is very limiting and demands that the developer exercise great care when allocating objects and take all possible steps to avoid holding references to objects longer than necessary, in order to allow the garbage collector to reclaim heap space as quickly as possible. As well as the RAM requirement, MIDP devices must also supply at least 8 KB of nonvolatile memory to be used as persistent storage so that MIDlets can save information in such a way that it is not lost when the device is switched off. The content of this storage is not guaranteed to be preserved over battery changes, however, and there is a general expectation that the device also provides some way (such as the PDA "hot sync" mechanism) to back up its content to a more permanent location.
MIDP devices are characterized by small displays. The specification requires that the screen should be at least 96 pixels wide and 54 pixels high and that each pixel be (approximately) square. The screen must support at least two colors, and many cell phones are capable of no more than this. At the top of the range, PDAs typically have screens with 160 pixels in each direction and support as many as 65,536 different colors. This wide disparity in capability provides the developer who wants to write a fully portable MIDlet with some interesting challenges, and it has led to some trade-offs in the MIDP user interface library, as we'll see in Chapters and .
As with displays, there are several different types of input device that might be found on a MIDP platform. At one end of the spectrum, the more sophisticated devices, like the RIM wireless handheld, have a complete alphanumeric keyboard, as shown on the left of Figure 3-2. Similarly, PalmOS-based handhelds allow the user to "write" on a special area of the screen using a form of shorthand known as Graffiti; they also provide a simulated onscreen keyboard for users who prefer a more traditional approach. The screenshot on the right side of Figure 3-2 shows the Graffiti area of a Palm handheld.
Contrast these highly functional keyboards (or keyboard substitutes) with the more basic one that you'll find on most cell phones, an example of which is shown in Figure 3-3. Keyboards like this provide relatively easy numeric input, but they require slightly more work on the part of the user to type alphabetic characters, and there are almost no special characters available.
The minimum assumption made by the MIDP specification is that the device has the equivalent of a keypad that allows the user to type the numbers 0 through 9, together with the equivalent of arrow keys and a select button as shown in the diamond-shaped arrangement at the top of Figure 3-3, where the select button is the white circle between the arrows. These requirements are directly met by cell phones and may be satisfied in various ways on other devices. On the Palm, for example, there are buttons that may be programmed to act as directional arrows, while the select operation can be performed by tapping the screen with the stylus. As we'll see in Chapter 5, this cut-down representation of the input device is reflected in the APIs that handle the user interface, and it requires the developer to be careful when handling events from whatever passes for the keyboard on the device on which a MIDlet is running.
Mobile information devices have some kind of network access, whether it's the built-in wireless connection in a cell phone or pager, or a separate modem attached to a PDA. MIDP does not assume that devices are permanently attached to a network or that the network directly supports TCP/IP. It does, however, require that the device vendor provide at least the illusion that the device supports HTTP 1.1, either directly over an Internet protocol stack, as would be the case for a Palm handheld connected to a modem, or by bridging a wireless connection to the Internet via a WAP gateway. This provision allows developers to write network-aware MIDlets that work equally well (other than performance differences due to differing network bandwidth) across all supported platforms.
Sun's reference version of MIDP is not a commercial product. Device vendors are expected to port the reference implementation to their own hardware and software by implementing code that bridges the gap between the expectations of Sun's reference code and the vendor's hardware and operating system software. As with the hardware described previously, the reference implementation makes the following assumptions about the capabilities offered by the software base on which it will be hosted (shown as "Host Platform Operating System" in Figure 3-1):
The operating system must provide a protected execution environment in which the JVM can run. Because CLDC supports the threading capabilities of J2SE, the host platform ideally supports multithreading, and, if it does, the KVM can make direct use of it. However, MIDP implementations are required to provide the illusion of multithreading even when this is not available from the native operating system. They do this by sharing the single available thread between the Java threads that belong to application code and those used within the VM and the MIDP and core libraries.
Networking support is required in some form. On some platforms, such as PalmOS, a socket-level API is available, over which the mandatory MIDP HTTP support can be implemented. In the case of devices that do not offer such a convenient interface, including those that do not have direct connectivity to an IP-based network, the vendor is required to provide a means for HTTP to be bridged from the device's own network to the Internet. The networking aspects of MIDP are discussed in detail in Chapter 6.
The software must provide access to the system's keyboard or keypad (or equivalent) and a pointing device, if it is available. The software must be able to deliver events when keys are pressed and released and when the pointing device is moved or activated. (For example, for a handheld with a stylus, the software must deliver an event when the stylus touches the screen, when it is lifted off the screen, and when it moves over the screen.) The vendor is required to map whatever codes are delivered by the user's keystrokes to a standard set of values so that similar keystrokes lead to the same results across different hardware platforms. This issue is discussed further in Chapter 5.
It must be possible to access the device's screen. MIDP allows MIDlets to treat the screen as a rectangular array of pixels, each of which may be independently set to one of the colors supported by the device. Therefore, it is required that the software provide access to the screen as if it were a bit-mapped graphics device. MIDP user interfaces and graphics are covered in detail in later chapters.
The platform must provide some form of persistent storage that does not lose its state when the device is switched off (that is, when it is in its minimum power mode, but not necessarily when it has no power at all). MIDP provides record-level access to this storage and therefore requires that the host software supply some kind of programmatic interface to its persistent storage mechanism. The MIDP storage APIs are described in Chapter 6.
The Java platform available to MIDlets is that provided by CLDC as described in Chapter 2, together with a collection of MIDP-specific packages arranged under the
javax.microedition package hierarchy. The core libraries themselves are almost unaffected by the MIDP specification; the only change is the addition of the J2SE 1.3 timer facility in the
java.util package, which will be covered in the later section "Timers and TimerTasks". The MIDP specification also places the following requirements on the core libraries:
Like applets, MIDlets are managed in an execution environment that is slightly different from that of a Java application. As you'll see shortly, the initial entry point to a MIDlet is not the
main( ) method of its MIDlet class, and the MIDlet is not allowed to cause the termination of the Java VM. In order to enforce this restriction, the
exit( ) methods in both the
System and
Runtime classes are required to throw a
SecurityException if they are invoked.
In addition to the system properties defined by CLDC, MIDP devices must set the
microedition.locale property to reflect the locale in which the device is operating. The locale names are formed in a slightly different way from those used by J2SE, because the language and country components are separated by a hyphen instead of an underscore character. A typical value for this property would be
en-US on a MIDP device, whereas a J2SE developer would expect the locale name in the form
en_US. Since both MIDP and CLDC provide almost no support for localization, however, the precise format of this property is of little direct interest to MIDlets. Instead, it is intended to be used when installing MIDlets from external sources, to allow the selection of a version of the MIDlet suitable for the device owner's locale. The property must therefore be properly interpreted by the agent (perhaps a servlet running in a web server) that supplies the software.
The system property
microedition.profiles must contain at least the value
MIDP-1.0. In the future, as new versions of the MIDP specification are released and implemented, devices that support multiple profiles may list them all in this profile, using spaces to separate the names.
In summary, the values of the system properties that are introduced by or changed by MIDP relative to the requirements placed by CLDC, are shown in Table 3-1.
|Table 3-1: MIDP System Properties
The current locale of the device
Blank-separated list of supported profiles
In the next installment, the focus will be on MIDlets and MIDlet Suites.
Kim Topley has more than 25 years experience as a software developer and was one of the first people in the world to obtain the Sun Certified Java Developer qualification.
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