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#171979 - 12/10/07 05:59 AM Why the i ?
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5295
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
E.E. Cummings uses the prenoun I very sparsly and when he does he writes it: --- i
Helen of Troy uses this little i consequently. And sometimes I see it done elsewhere. Is there a trend to drop the I for the i?
If so, why?
#171983 - 12/10/07 07:16 AM Re: Why the i ? [Re: BranShea]
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Registered: 12/01/00
Posts: 13803
When E. E. Cummings refers to himself by name it is as "e. e. cummings". Orthography is not one of helen's strong points. If there's any tendency to lowercase the first person singular nominative pronoun it's part of a general idiotendency to lowercase everything. I know of no movement to lowercase just "I".
#171984 - 12/10/07 07:49 AM Re: Why the i ? [Re: Faldage]
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So much the better. In a poem, sparsly used it may have a special meaning and looks allright.
In larger texts, as this pronoun is only a one letter sign, I think it looks poorly.
Oh,(Edit), I think Helen writes the little i on purpose,
not out of weakness.Furthermore and most of all, the cover pages of the books I have give E.E. Cummings with capitals and in the books he does not refer to himself, but writes nice poetry.
Edited by BranShea (12/10/07 10:07 AM)
#171988 - 12/10/07 10:43 AM Re: Why the i ? [Re: BranShea]
Registered: 04/27/07
Posts: 120
Loc: California
Editorial changes--I think that this post is the first time I've seen e.e. cummings capitilized!_________________________
tempus edax rerum
#171991 - 12/10/07 11:12 AM Re: Why the i ? [Re: Maven]
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Posts: 5295
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
If you need proof, nothing I can do about it.
#171993 - 12/10/07 11:39 AM Re: Why the i ? [Re: BranShea]
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Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
NOT "e. e. cummings"
Not "e. e. cummings" Revisited
-joe (not i) friday
#171994 - 12/10/07 11:41 AM Re: Why the i ? [Re: tsuwm]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
Posts: 7210
Loc: Vermont
a pre-internet meme, eh?_________________________
formerly known as etaoin...
#171998 - 12/10/07 12:12 PM Re: Why the i ? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
Registered: 08/02/06
Posts: 631
Speaking of weird names, what's the weirdest?
There's always The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. And I also recall a writer who named himself circlenot the word, mind you, but the shape.
Edit: God bless Wikipedia.
Edited by Hydra (12/10/07 12:14 PM)
#172003 - 12/10/07 12:59 PM Re: Why the i ? [Re: tsuwm]
Registered: 10/24/05
Posts: 557
Loc: Dallas, TX
Originally Posted By: tsuwm
In the first link:Quote:"I am a small eye poet." Notice that he capitalizes the first-person singular,
Maybe, I need a little more to prove he not merely capitalizing the first letter of the sentence.
In the second link, the text of their "correctly" capitalized plaque:Quote:4 PATCHIN PLACE
ONE-TIME HOME OF "POETandPAINTER" E. E. CUMMINGS (d. 1962) AND
HIS WIFE, MODEL AND PHOTOGRAPHER MARION MOREHOUSE (d. 1969)
They capitalized everything! Did they think other people would put "e. e. cUMMINGS" in that situation? Is "POETandPAINTER" with no spaces something from the poet (and how is it capitalized there) or another example of Norman Friedman's superior orthography?
#172006 - 12/10/07 01:07 PM Re: Why the i ? [Re: Myridon]
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Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
or is Norman Friedman just a crank?
-joe (he asks for money to support his plaque!) friday
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Iron Man 2: The Video Game ReviewBy Michael Thomsen - Posted May 11, 2010
Iron Man 2 is a largely joyless experience. A few decent ideas and good pacing are overwhelmingly undermined by stodgy controls, an awful camera, and non-existent scripting. It does nothing to shatter the stereotype of a bad movie tie-in video game.
The Pros
- Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson
- Good pacing and variety
The Cons
- Clunky interface and awful camera
- Half-baked combat and awkward controls
- Exceptionally short
Iron Man 2 is a lost game. It has the unfortunate distinction of being both tied to a movie release and having been released a month after its developer SEGA Studio USA was officially closed. There's a sad story in there somewhere, but one that probably won't ever be told. In its place we have Iron Man 2, the studio's final game, a work of decent ambition and fumbling execution.
It'll Be Different This Time, I Promise
The first notably shocking fact you need to know is just how short Iron Man 2 is. The game is -- generously -- five hours long. It offers nine missions, and that's counting the game's brief tutorial, and a couple of boss fights as self-contained levels. If there were any resources saved by not chasing multiplayer or co-op missions, they can't have been reinvested in the single player mode.
That's a shame because there are a lot of gameplay ideas in Iron Man 2 that could have worked quite well. Iron Man is a character with rockets on his feet, laser beams in his hands, and missiles mounted on his shoulders. He might well have been created for the express purpose of appearing in a video game. The most basic mechanic is his ability to fly whenever and wherever. You can tap a button to fly upwards, while another will bring you back to earth again. Double tapping a shoulder button sends you rocketing forward in free flight. It's a good system that puts you in control of Iron Man's most distinctive feature, but levels don't do anything to highlight the mechanic.
Levels are either constrictive laboratory hallways or open-air valleys with no obstacles to avoid nor environmental markers to indicate relative speed. Here Iron Man can feel almost like a 747. He may be traveling quickly, but if there aren't any immediate reference points, the speed is arbitrary. There are a couple of neat moments built around flight. In one scenario, Iron Man escapes from an exploding laboratory through a narrow shaft with pipes and collapsing walls on all sides. In another area, he descends through a cylinder riddled with moving laser beams. It's moments like these that add immediate drama to the mechanic, but they're few and far between.
Say Hello to My Little War Machine
The combat system is, likewise, well-conceived but joylessly executed. Iron Man's attack powers are split between his left and right hands. You can assign two different weapon types to each side and change them on the fly by pressing the d-pad. Combat is built around a rough lock-on mechanic. In theory, it works like it would in most games: when locked onto an enemy, a translucent blue circle surrounds them and a green health meter is intertwined. The problem is that it's impossible to hit a moving target with standard attacks, which renders it fairly useless, since lock-on mechanisms are designed to hit non-stationary enemies.
Going into free-aim doesn't help matters much either since you lose the crucial visual feedback of the enemy health bar -- the only real way you have of telling whether or not you're doing damage. Things also get discombobulating in open areas when your view is tethered to a single mobile enemy. It's quite easy to come out of a confrontation with one enemy and have to reorient the camera, check the radar, backtrack a few seconds, and pick up the fight against enemies who were patiently waiting for you to finish with their friend. This gives combat an awkward start-stop quality that, when combined with the broad sweeping gestures of the lock-on camera, makes it more of a chore than a thrill. The frustration only compounds in indoor environments where the camera constantly runs into walls, hangs on corners, and pans up at angles that leave Iron Man completely off-screen for seconds at a time.
The game's presentation is, likewise, a muddle. Every bit of vital information is conveyed in translucent blue, which makes it difficult to keep tabs on your energy shields, whether or not your missile has finished recharging, and which one of the grey clumps in the distance is the enemy you're locked on to. If you're going to set a game in against a blue-sky backdrop, there are better choices for HUD color than translucent blue. There's a weapon and suit upgrade system between missions, but this is just as unclear and inelegant to navigate. You'll use data points to unlock new kinds of ammo perks and suit powers, but these upgrades have to then be assigned to specific slots in each individual suit (you can choose at the start of each mission which of Iron Man's suits you'd like to use). Given that you can have up to four slotted weapons in each suit, and each weapon can be given multiple perks, the process of tracking what's been upgraded and what hasn't is befuddling.
Iron Man 2 aims for all the right things, it just never really reaches them. The story, a totally separate yarn from the movie plot, is pithy and matches the sarcastic mirth of the movies. Robert Downey Jr.'s vocal talents are missed, but it's great to have Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson play their parts. There's also an appreciable attention to pacing, moving you from wide open escort mission to boss fight, to corridor crawl, to a tense flight escape sequence.
Like Fun Without the Fun
While Iron Man 2 might gets the variety down, it never really masters any of its individual mechanics. Flying feels muted in open areas, and totally disorienting in indoor environments. Combat is a dull process of being whipped around by the camera until your enemy stands still long enough to absorb attacks. The visuals are a boggy mess of indistinct earth tones and pointless variations on gray and black. After five hours, you'll have seen everything the game has to offer. It's not completely broken and it has some nice ideas, but Iron Man 2 is a game that, for all of its movement and momentum, simply never arrives.


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I am probably not unlike every other local district superintendent in the state . . . after the monthly board meeting, it takes some time to recover! The State Board of Education met here in Springfield Wednesday and Thursday last week for its January meeting and accomplished a great deal. However (and as any superintendent will attest), after your board meets, you take a quick breather and get ready for next month. If you're lucky, you get all of the follow-up from the preceding meeting worked through before it's time to do the agenda for the subsequent one. I consider myself fortunate; the State Board conducts its business with care, efficiency and good will. A superintendent can't ask for much more.
I want to take a moment to share an item that we addressed at the January meeting that may have interest for you.
Many of you are aware that the State Board of Education must submit an annual report to the Illinois General Assembly that lists all types of waiver mandates, and modifications of mandates, granted by the SBE or the General Assembly. ISBE staff members Winnie Tuthill and Shelley Helton in Legal, do an outstanding job of overseeing this important, complicated and detailed work for the agency.
As part of approving that cumulative waiver report for this year, the State Board forwarded recommendations to the General Assembly for legislative action that address the large number of modification approvals that are granted in two areas.
One is a legislative proposal to amend Section 24-2 of the School Code to allow the use of legally mandated school holidays honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Casimir Pulaski, Christopher Columbus and all veterans of foreign wars for student attendance and other uses (e.g., teacher institutes, parent-teacher conferences), provided appropriate instruction is given to students.
The second legislative proposal we sent would amend Section 18.8.05(F)(2) of the Code to allow districts to shorten the instructional day when the PSAE is administered, and to count those shortened days among the 176 days of pupil attendance as required (provided that the districts first accumulate sufficient time beyond the five-clock-hour requirement to be attributed to the shortened days).
It is, of course, the will of the General Assembly as to whether or not they respond to these proposals, but given the flexibility each provides to local districts, the recommendations from the State Board were warranted.
In addition to the two legislative recommendations, the cumulative waiver report also provided to the General Assembly a policy discussion of issues surrounding:
a) an increase to the maximum amount that districts can charge for Driver Education (presently set at $50); and
b) the use of P.E. waivers, and remedies that could be explored to reduce the number of requests being submitted. Again, no actual legislative changes were recommended for Driver Education and P.E.—rather, we sought to present a discussion of changes that could be made to help reduce the frequency of these waiver requests.
I have a lot of traveling upcoming over the next couple of weeks, and I look forward to seeing many old friends and making new ones. Have a great week!
Randy Dunn
State Superintendent of Schools (Interim)
Included in today's message:
· New IWAS system—Estimated Best Three Months Average Daily Attendance
· Mental health policies
· Guidelines for school and district improvement panels
· LEA Special Education Profiles now available at www.isbe.net
· Even Start Family Literacy RFP released
· Announcement for Needs Assessment Report
· Pre-ID label now due
· NAEP testing
· Illinois Alternate Assessment
· ISBE employment opportunities
· News Clips
New IWAS System—Estimated Best Three Months Average Daily Attendance
In the December 3, 2004 Superintendent's Message, we announced a new annual IWAS application entitled Estimated Best Three Months Average Daily Attendance which replaced a previous paper request form. The requested date for transmitting this information was January 15, 2005. If you have not already done so, please provide the estimate to the Illinois State Board of Education as soon as possible. The figure should be the estimated best three months average daily attendance for the 2004-05 school year.
The estimates districts provide will be used by the General Assembly to determine the General State Aid (GSA) appropriation level for the 2004-2005 claim year payable during Fiscal Year 2006. Accurate estimates are invaluable for district level budget purposes, as projected GSA entitlements will be based on these estimated figures.
Mental health policies
Mental health policies were due to the State Board of Education in August 2004. There are still 100 districts that have not submitted their adopted policies. Each of these districts will receive a letter notifying them of this issue. The deadline for submission is January 21, 2005. Recognition status is in jeopardy of being lowered if the policies are not received by January 21, 2005. Please submit to:
Donna J. Luallen, Division Administrator
Accountability Division
Illinois State Board of Education
100 North First Street
Springfield, IL 62777
Fax: 217-524-8750
Guidelines for School and District improvement panels
There are 540 schools in the State of Illinois required by law to have a school improvement panel. Each district and ROE will receive a letter notifying them of this requirement. Any school or district that is in Academic Watch Status must have a school improvement panel. There is a 45 day window from the date of the letter. It is in the district's best interest to forward panel members names as soon as possible to the State Board of Education. Please use the following guidelines.
The statute cited below requires the State Superintendent of Education to appoint a school improvement panel for districts and schools in Academic Watch Status. To assist the Illinois State Board of Education with this task, we request that schools and districts participate in this process as follows:
1. The district/school may recommend to the State Superintendent of Education three panel members familiar with educational issues. To avoid conflicts of interest, panel members may not be board members or employees of the district. Panel members may not have other conflicts of interest, such as a contractual relationship with a school or district.
2. The district/school may request assistance from the regional superintendent of schools in the identification of panel members. ISBE will request the regional superintendent's endorsement of all recommendations.
3. The district/school may request assistance from the RESPRO in the identification of panel members.
4. Districts/schools should also recommend the member of the panel who will serve as chairman.
5. Districts/schools must submit their recommendations to the state superintendent no later than 45 days following the notification of being in AWS. Otherwise, ISBE will proceed with the appointment of a panel without recommendations from the district/school.
The State Superintendent will notify districts/schools of his decision regarding the recommended panel members no later than 30 days following receipt of the district/school recommendations.
All recommendations, and any questions about this process, should be sent to:
Donna J. Luallen
Division Administrator
Illinois State Board of Education
100 North First Street
Springfield, IL 62777
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.25e) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25e)
Sec. 2-3.25e. School and district improvement panels. A school or school district on academic watch status shall have a school or district improvement panel appointed by the State Superintendent of Education. Members appointed to the panel shall include, but not be limited to, individuals who are familiar with educational issues. The State Superintendent of Education shall designate one member of the panel to serve as chairman. Any panel appointed for a school operated under Article 34 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/34-1 et seq.] shall include one or more members selected from the school's subdistrict council and one or more members from the school's local school council. The school or district improvement panel shall (1) assist the school or district in the development and implementation of a revised Improvement Plan and amendments thereto and (2) make progress reports and comments to the State Superintendent of Education pursuant to rules promulgated by the State Board of Education.
LEA Special Education Profiles now available at www.isbe.net
In accordance with the State's Improvement Plan for Special Education, ISBE has posted the 2003 Local Education Agency (LEA) Special Education Profiles at www.isbe.net . LEA Special Education Profiles allow readers to view a district's progress toward improving results on critical performance indicators in the areas of student performance, educational environment and school completion for students with disabilities. In addition, the Profile allows the reader to access all special education performance information in one location. The profiles will be most helpful to districts, including those that did not make Adequate Yearly Progress because of scores of students with IEPs, in conveying to the public actual progress attained on critical indicators for these students over time. The presentation of such measures over time increases the likelihood that progress can be accurately demonstrated.
Local data are displayed along with statewide data for comparison purposes. In addition to school year-specific information, the Profiles also include historical results for certain variables so trends can be observed. The Profiles are comprised of four sections:
1. Background Data
2. Student Performance
3. Educational Environment
4. School Completion
In addition, links are provided to the Guide to Understanding District Special Education Profiles and the 2003 Annual State Report on Special Education Performance. The profiles are at www.isbe.net under "Students/Parents," "Administrators" and "Teachers" and at www.isbe.net/spec-ed.
Even Start Family Literacy RFP released
The Even Start Family Literacy FY 2006 Request for Proposals (RFP) has been released. School districts, Regional Offices of Education, approved public university laboratory schools, charter schools or area vocational centers, in partnership with a community-based organization, public agency, institution of higher education or not-for-profit organization may submit a proposal. The purpose of Even Start Family Literacy grants is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of low-income families through the integration of early childhood education, adult literacy, parenting education, and interactive parent and child literacy activities into a unified family literacy program for parents and children, primarily from birth through age 7. All four of these components must be present in each Even Start program in order to meet the goals of the program, which are to:
· help parents improve their literacy or basic educational skills,
· help parents become full partners in educating their children, and
· assist children in reaching their full potential as learners.
The RFP is available online at http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/html/even_start_family_literacy.htm. The RFP can also be obtained by contacting Cindy Zumwalt in the Early Childhood Division at email@example.com or 217/524-4835.
Announcement for Needs Assessment Report
More than 2400 of Illinois' mathematics and science teachers participated in a needs assessment survey during the fall of 2004 (more than 2000 in 2004). The needs assessment survey questioned their interests in pursuing professional development opportunities, based on the professional teaching standards they face. The data from this survey is available at www.isbe.net/teachers This data can have profound implications for local, district, regional and state decision-making. You are invited to review the data by manipulating choices of grade levels, geographic distribution and combinations of math and or science assignments. The 2004 survey also included questions associated with experience and out-of-pocket expenses.
Northern Illinois University, Office of Outreach, conducted the survey and has now released a report of an analysis of this data and interpretive findings.
Pre-ID label due now
With few exceptions, schools are required this year to use pre-ID labels on answer documents for spring testing (ISAT, IMAGE, and PSAE, but not for IAA). The deadline for submitting this information online at Pearson Educational Measurement's SchoolHouse Web site is rapidly approaching. The deadline for ISAT and IMAGE is January 21, 2005; for the PSAE, the deadline for submitting pre-ID label data files is February 22, 2005. Please check with the ISAT and IMAGE Coordinators for your district and, for the PSAE, with your principals to be sure files are submitted on SchoolHouse in a timely manner. Thanks.
NAEP testing
The 2005 biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) will open its testing window January 24th. Participating schools and districts have been notified of their selection. NAEP is an important provision of NCLB. Participation for grades 4 and 8 is required by state and federal law for schools in districts receiving Title I funds. The results will be available in reading, mathematics, and science later this year for the U.S., each state, and select urban centers including Chicago.
Illinois Alternate Assessment
The IAA binders and demographic forms for students taking this assessment will be in school districts by February 1, 2005. If you are not sure whether you have ordered binders for your school or district or have not received binders by this date, please contact Amanda Breitmaier at Measured Progress at 877-732-5306 or Marilyn Leveque in Student Assessment at 217-782-4823. All completed IAA portfolios must be shipped to Measured Progress for scoring by Friday, February 25.
ISBE Employment Opportunities
An external vacancy list can be accessed at http://www.isbe.net/hr/
News Clips
This week's news clips can be accessed at http://www.isbe.net/news/2005/newsclips/050114.htm


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Java is an object-oriented language, which means it follows the principles of object-oriented programming, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. (Inheritance and polymorphism pretty much go together, so they are often simply referred to as inheritance, which is what I will do in these articles.) These are great principles and can be used to represent relationships between objects in very powerful ways.
Entity beans are objects that represent data coming from a persistent store, such as a database. The key word here is objects. Entity beans encapsulate the data and business logic. But what about the two other principles, inheritance and polymorphism?
The bad news is that entity beans do not easily enable the use of these principles. The good news is that if you follow certain restrictions and tricks, it can be done. This series of articles describes some techniques to put inheritance and polymorphism back into entity beans.
Most systems today use direct SQL access to flat relational databases. Since entity beans are often mapped to relational databases, why use inheritance? Let's not forget that SQL and relational database technology date back to the days of COBOL. Object-oriented programming was invented later, with some specific goals in mind:
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These goals do not apply to pure data, but rather to the behavior of objects. This means EJB inheritance is likely to be visible in the code, but not in the database. We can live with that, as long as the mapping between the data and the objects is done in a smart way. The advantages of EJB inheritance should be obvious when we see an example.
Imagine a company named Recurrent Traveler Miles (RTM). This company has a customer retention plan similar to the airlines' "frequent flier miles" systems. Every time you spend a specified amount of money, you obtain a point or "reward mile." When you accumulate enough points, you earn some sort of prize, typically a free flight.
In this system, there are three kinds of customers: Regular, Gold, and Platinum. The differences between these three customers are the rules used for attributing and redeeming points. Those rules are listed here:
Table 1. Customer types and requirements
Purchase amount to get one point
Number of points to get a free trip
Same region: 1500
Same region: 1300
Note: Platinum customers get to choose a charity. RTM will give 1% of all purchases to that charity.
Same region: 1200
These numbers are all arbitrary, so don't get mad if they don't make any sense. It's just an example.
With these requirements it's easy to do a single CMP entity bean,
and put all of this business logic in a single place. Let's see what kind
of code we obtain by doing this. Here's one method:
Example 1. Single entity bean method
public int redeemPoints(int zone) {
int pts = 0;
if(getType().equals("REGULAR")) {
switch(zone) {
case 1: pts=1500; break;
case 2: pts=3500; break;
case 3: pts=10500; break;
case 4: pts=25000; break;
default: return 0;
} else if (getType().equals("GOLD")) {
switch(zone) {
case 1: pts=1300; break;
case 2: pts=3100; break;
case 3: pts=10000; break;
case 4: pts=22000; break;
default: return 0;
} else if (getType().equals("PLATINUM")) {
switch(zone) {
case 1: pts=1200; break;
case 2: pts=2850; break;
case 3: pts=9500; break;
case 4: pts=20000; break;
default: return 0;
if(getPoints() < pts) return 0;
return pts;
How ugly. I could break apart this method into small pieces, it's true, but it wouldn't change the fact that this is bad design. The sure sign
that object-orientation is missing here is that big
if() else if() else
if() block. There has to be a better way.
Figure 1 shows how the system should be designed. There are three objects here, just like real life: Base (Regular), Gold, and Platinum customers. They are CMP entity beans.
Figure 1. Object-oriented approach
Note that there are really three sets of objects to manipulate: local interfaces, bean classes, and local home interfaces. We see here the bean classes. The same design is found in the local interfaces, but not in the local home interfaces. We'll see why later.
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Enterprise JavaBeans
The following method enables using inheritance with CMP entity beans, straightforwardly and reliably. The steps are summarized here, and they will be explained afterwards.
EntityBean. Write bean subclasses
extending base bean class.
EJBLocalObject. Create sub-interfaces
extending base local interface.
EJBLocalHome. Write home
interfaces for subclass, extending
EJBLocalHome as usual. Don't extend
home interface of base class.
create or
postCreate method, call corresponding base
create or
postCreate method.
ejbSelect of the base class,
write a regular method that will invoke
ejbSelect in all subclasses.
Let's now explore each step more thoroughly.
Write the base bean class
BaseCustomerBean. This abstract class implements
EntityBean. Then write
GoldCustomerBean and
PlatinumCustomerBean. The code is provided below for
BaseCustomerBean and
Example 2. BaseCustomerBean
//Removed for readability: package, imports.
public abstract class BaseCustomerBean implements EntityBean {
// Removed for readability: constructor, entity
// context, activate, passivate, load, store,
// create, postCreate, remove.
public abstract String getCustomerID();
public abstract void setCustomerID(String newCustomerID);
public abstract String getName();
public abstract void setName(String newName);
public abstract int getPoints();
public abstract void setPoints(int number);
public int addPoints(int purchaseAmount) {
int pts = 0;
pts = purchaseAmount/getPointFactor();
setPoints(getPoints() + pts);
return pts;
public int redeemPoints(int zone) {
int pts = getZoneThreshold(zone);
if(getPoints() < pts) return 0;
return pts;
protected int getPointFactor() {
return 20;
protected int getZoneThreshold(int zone) {
switch(zone) {
case 1: return 1500;
case 2: return 3500;
case 3: return 10500;
case 4: return 25000;
default: return Integer.MAX_VALUE;
Example 3. PlatinumCustomerBean
//Removed for readability: package, imports.
public abstract class PlatinumCustomerBean extends basecustomer.BaseCustomerBean
// Removed for readability: constructor, entity
// context, activate, passivate, load, store,
// create, postCreate, remove.
public abstract String getCharity();
public abstract void setCharity(String charity);
protected int getPointFactor() {
return 15;
protected int getZoneThreshold(int zone) {
switch(zone) {
case 1: return 1200;
case 2: return 2850;
case 3: return 9500;
case 4: return 20000;
default: return Integer.MAX_VALUE;
As expected, the code for
PlatinumCustomerBean is much shorter than
BaseCustomerBean. Can you see the reuse going on? Note how almost all
of the base class fields and business logic are kept in the subclass. Note
also how "shared" business logic was put in the base class, and class-specific
business logic was put in separate methods, overridden in the subclasses.
Other techniques exist to provide inheritance-like behavior, like aggregation
(the Strategy pattern). But these don't rid us of the dreaded
if() else if()
else if() block.
The local interfaces have a similar design. The local interface
EJBLocalObject, and the sub-interfaces extend
Here's the code:
Example 4. Local interface for BaseCustomer
//Removed for readability: package, imports.
public interface BaseCustomer extends EJBLocalObject {
public String getCustomerID();
public String getName();
public void setName(String newName);
public int getPoints();
public int addPoints(int purchaseAmount);
public int redeemPoints(int zone);
Example 5. Local interface for PlatinumCustomer
//Removed for readability: package, imports.
public interface PlatinumCustomer extends basecustomer.BaseCustomer
public String getCharity();
public void setCharity(String newCharity);
Note the new accessor method in
PlatinumCustomer, to handle the charity's
name. We could have added new business methods, too.
If there's a single place where inheritance clashes with entity EJBs, it's
the home interfaces. They can't extend each other! Why is that? Because
of the way the specification is written. Let's take, for example, the case
of a
create method. The specification says the return type of all
methods must be the business interface (either the local or remote interface).
In a theoretical base home interface, the returned type would be the base
local interface. If you try to write a home sub-interface, the return type
would be wrong.
We'll have to go through some workarounds in order to impose inheritance-like behavior for the methods of the home interface. There are three kinds of methods that can be found in home interfaces:
We will later see how these methods can be conceived so that they emulate
inheritance. But for now, write the home interfaces using the regular technique;
they should extend
Emulating inheritance in
create and
postCreate methods
is relatively easy. Simply put, all you'll have to do is to call the right
super.ejbPostCreate() in the subclasses. Here's an example based on
the RTM system:
Example 6. BaseCustomerBean
public abstract class BaseCustomerBean implements EntityBean {
public String ejbCreate(String customerID, String name)
throws CreateException
return null;
public void ejbPostCreate(String customerID, String name)
Example 7. PlatinumCustomerBean
public abstract class PlatinumCustomerBean extends basecustomer.BaseCustomerBean
public String ejbCreate(String customerID, String name, String charity)
throws CreateException
return null;
public void ejbPostCreate(String customerID, String name, String charity) {
Here, the subclass'
ejbCreate() calls the superclass'
ejbCreate() to
initialize most of the fields, and then it initializes the remaining fields.
This works because creation is handled by your code.
ejbPostCreate() works
the same way. Even though the base class'
ejbPostCreate() is empty, it
is good practice to call
super.ejbPostCreate() just in case this changes
in the future.
Note that our create methods in the subclasses override the ones in the base class. But subclasses can create new create methods, with different parameters. This works fine too, as long as fields are initialized properly.
Working out inheritance in finders and
ejbSelect methods is not so simple.
Finders are written by the container, using EJB-QL provided in the deployment
descriptor. There's no hook for us to exploit.
In reality, a finder exists to find objects of a single type. This is highlighted in our example by the fact that each finder bares the name of its returned object; for example,
findAllGoldCustomers(). Finders cannot find objects from the base type and all of its sub-types; they were not made for that. Queries are not polymorphic.
A solution is to use what I call locate methods -- essentially "smart finders," which know how to handle the base class' and subclasses' finders in order to collect the results properly. Locate methods have to know about subclasses, special finders that may be used depending on the table mapping, etc. Some other things about locate methods:
Locate methods are not natural in the world of inheritance and polymorphism, but they are necessary. I am working on ways to make the task of authoring locate methods easier. I plan to report my findings in future articles.
Let's see some examples of finders and locate methods.
First, the home interfaces:
Example 8. BaseCustomerHome
public interface BaseCustomerHome extends EJBLocalHome {
public BaseCustomer findByPrimaryKey(String customerID)
throws FinderException;
public Collection findAllBaseCustomers()
throws FinderException;
public BaseCustomer locate(String customerID)
throws FinderException;
public Collection locateAll()
throws FinderException;
Example 9. PlatinumCustomerHome
public interface PlatinumCustomerHome extends EJBLocalHome {
public PlatinumCustomer findByPrimaryKey(String customerID)
throws FinderException;
public Collection findAllPlatinumCustomers()
throws FinderException;
Note that the finders are implemented by the container based on these query definitions:
Example 10. Query definitions for BaseCustomer
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(c) FROM BaseCustomerEJB AS c</XMLCDATA>
Example 11. Query definitions for PlatinumCustomer
<![CDATA[SELECT OBJECT(c) FROM PlatinumCustomerEJB AS c</XMLCDATA>
GoldCustomer bean has a similar implementation.
Now the tricky part: how to implement the locate methods in the base class:
Example 12. Implementing the locate method for a single customer
public BaseCustomer ejbHomeLocate(String customerID) throws
FinderException {
//At this point, all base EJB classes must know their EJB subclasses...
Context jndiCtx;
BaseCustomerHome bHome;
GoldCustomerHome gHome;
PlatinumCustomerHome pHome;
try {
jndiCtx = new InitialContext();
bHome = (BaseCustomerHome)ctx.getEJBLocalHome();
gHome = (GoldCustomerHome)jndiCtx.lookup("GoldCustomerEJB");
pHome = (PlatinumCustomerHome)jndiCtx.lookup("PlatinumCustomerEJB");
} catch (NamingException e) {
throw new FinderException("Cannot obtain JNDI initial context.");
BaseCustomer b=null;
try {
b = bHome.findByPrimaryKey(customerID);
return b;
} catch (FinderException e) {
try {
b = gHome.findByPrimaryKey(customerID);
return b;
} catch (FinderException e) {
try {
b = pHome.findByPrimaryKey(customerID);
return b;
} catch (FinderException e) {
throw new FinderException("Cannot find any bean with that key.");
Example 13. Implementing the locate method for all customers
public Collection ejbHomeLocateAll() throws FinderException
Context jndiCtx;
BaseCustomerHome bHome;
GoldCustomerHome gHome;
PlatinumCustomerHome pHome;
try {
jndiCtx = new InitialContext();
bHome = (BaseCustomerHome)ctx.getEJBLocalHome();
gHome = (GoldCustomerHome)jndiCtx.lookup("GoldCustomerEJB");
pHome = (PlatinumCustomerHome)jndiCtx.lookup("PlatinumCustomerEJB");
} catch (NamingException e) {
throw new FinderException("Cannot obtain JNDI initial context.");
//At this point, all base EJB classes must know their EJB subclasses...
ArrayList l = new ArrayList();
return l;
The logic here is as follows:
Note that, depending on your table mapping, the code for finders can be quite different. My next article will be dedicated to the various techniques for table mapping.
I know this code is ugly, but it is the only way I have found so far to emulate inheritance in finder methods. If you find a better solution, let me know.
But what about
ejbSelect methods? The same principle exists with
ejbSelect methods; they must be wrapped with other methods in the
bean implementation. I decided to give them the prefix
ejbLocate and call them
ejbLocate methods. Note that they are not exposed through the home interfaces,
just like regular
ejbSelect methods.
Note that since home interfaces are not inherited, if you want to allow someone to invoke a home method on a subclass you will have to manually copy the home method's signature from the base class home interface to the subclass home interface.
When a home method returns an EJB object in the hierarchy, write the
method signature so that it returns
Object. Then the home method can be
polymorphic (you can override them in subclasses). The only issue is that
you'll have to cast the result to one of the local interfaces on the client
Home method implementation requires a similar approach to that for create and
finder methods. Business logic of the superclass can be used by calling
super.ejbHomeSomething(). The result can then be used
or augmented in the subclass' home method. I didn't write an example, but you can refer
to the create and finder methods above if you need inspiration.
We're all done with the coding part. Up until now, our code followed the EJB 2.0 standard. Now comes the vendor-specific part. Once our entity beans are written, we must map them to database tables. I have chosen to map each bean to a different, unrelated table. Figure 2 gives a diagram of the database schema:
Figure 2. Database schema
Note the following:
This design is known as "horizontal mapping." There's a one-to-one correspondence between the fields in the database tables and the fields in the entity beans.
Since this part is vendor-specific, I didn't quote any code here. If you want to look at an implementation, look at the one I wrote using WebLogic Server 7 (with the provided PointBase database). You can download the complete RTM example as a zip file.
In the next article, we'll talk about more options for mapping entity beans to database tables.
In our example, the primary key was a
String. This example relies on the
rule that all keys must be unique across objects of all types. You
can't have a
GoldCustomer and a
with the same key. This rule is essential for the locate methods to work properly.
In the case where the key is compound, a primary key class must be written. This class can be shared among all related classes in a hierarchy, but sometimes an entity bean subclass has a different set of fields. In that case, multiple key classes can be provided.
Primary keys can also inherit from one another. This means a key for an entity bean subclass can inherit from the key of its base class. Note that primary key subclasses are specializations of their superclasses. This means, by subclassing, you can't remove or modify fields of the primary key base class. You can only add fields. This will very rarely be useful.
If you use different keys for the entity beans of your hierarchy, you must modify your system as follows:
ejbCreate() methods of the
Not all EJB containers behave the same. Some vendors prohibit entity beans from extending other classes. This is due to the different ways the specification can be interpreted.
The example I provided works fine under WebLogic Server 7, and should be easily adaptable to other EJB containers. I didn't have the time to test the example under other products. If you're using another product, please let us know if the example works, and what changes need to be done to make it work.
The EJB specification (2.0, and even 2.1 public draft) mentions a few things regarding inheritance:
In the future, the EJB specification may be changed to allow inheritance in entity beans (see specification, appendix A). In order to do that, a couple of things will have to change:
What will the EJB committee come up with?
In This Series
EJB Free and Open Source Tools Summary
EJB Inheritance, Part 4
EJB Inheritance, Part 3
EJB Inheritance, Part 2
Entity bean inheritance isn't going to make your life that much easier. It may make the code smaller, with less repetition, and more maintainable. But there is some work involved (especially for finders and table mapping), which may negate these benefits.
Before you go ahead and merge all of your entity beans into a hierarchy, ask yourself what kind of improvement and effort are involved. If the repeated code is small, it may take less effort to isolate it into a utility class. That's what I would do if I had to refactor a COBOL program (*wink*).
But if you have many objects that are based on each other, using inheritance may result in the most maintainable system.
Emmanuel Proulx is an expert in J2EE and Enterprise JavaBeans, and is a certified WebLogic Server 7.0 engineer. He works in the fields of telecommunications and web development.
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The Filibuster
Who is more despised by the RSBS guys? Yankees or Cubs. I haven't figured it out yet.
Brad T.
Springfield, IL
Maybe I'll begin by asking a question of my own. Who was a more insignificant president, Benjamin Harrison or Millard Fillmore? Or perhaps it makes more sense to ask something slightly different, like, who was a more brutal dictator, Stalin or Mao? The point I'm trying to make here, Brad, is that there isn't necessarily an answer to your question. Wanting to know who is more despised, the Yankees or the Cubs, is like asking what does Indiana Jones hate more, bugs or snakes.
When it comes down to it, the Yankees and Cubs aren't all that different. They have both been spending money like a hobo in a liquor store, dropping every last penny on whatever rot-gut might make them warm for a second. Milton Bradley is just a poor man's Jason Giambi once you leave Bradley's temper and Giambi's juice out of it. And up until this season, the results were pretty much the same. Make the playoffs, head to the playoffs, crash out of the playoffs.
The equation shifted a bit this year, though. Now, it's safer to say that the Yankees are Stalin to the Cubs' Hitler. It was all going so well for the Cubs until it all fell apart. And the Yankees may have almost driven their base over the edge with the profligate spending and tax-payer financed multi-billion dollar ballpark but, like Stalin, nothing brings the masses back in line quite like victory.
All that being said, I still don't know as though I can say that one of those two teams is more despised here at RSBS than the other. I can say, though, that after thinking about it a bit more, although Indiana Jones really didn't like bugs, he hated snakes. And the name Steinbrenner sure does have a sibilant sound to it, just like a snake. Coincidence? Probably, but I'm willing to forgo the formalities and declare the Yankees the more despicable.
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Wow, what a great RSBS Metaphor-Off entry THAT would have been…of course, it would require the Cubs making it to the WS, and we all know the Mayan calendar says the Cubs suck.
I guess my answer will be simple………..I do not hate the Cubbies, for they are the new "lonesome losers" of baseball. Not for their regular season exploits, or even Milton Bradley, but for their post seasons follies.
The Yankees, well they are hated by me becuase of the divisional play where I have more than enough time to learn everything from shoe sizes to their personal gift selections for the team Christmas party.
If I was a NL guy, then the big "C"s might be the nod.
But since I am a AL guy, you know I have to pop the Yankees up on the chopping block based more on divisional pride than common sense.
Rays Renegade
Yeah, I wouldn't care about the Cubs, except they're from Chicago. As a Minnesotan, I have a strong disdain for anything related to Chicago sports. I think it's in our state charter somewhere. I wouldn't care so much about the Yankees either, except my team can never ever find a way to beat them. They're always coveting our best players, too. If I have to hear one more time about how good Joe Mauer would look in pinstripes, I am going to snap.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Actors Guild of Parkersburg is taking its performance of "Tuesdays With Morrie" to a national theater competition in June.
The Guild performance featuring John Lee and Josh Martin in lead acting roles advanced to the national stage June 17-23 in Carmel, Ind., by being named a co-winner for best community theater performance at the regional Southeastern Theatre Conference in Louisville on March 6-10.
Lee was named best actor during the competition and the Actors Guild of Parkersburg won four outstanding achievement awards: Martin for sound, Kelly Matthews for use of properties, Charlie Matthews for transitions and Martin for performance.
Charlie Matthews, director of "Tuesdays With Morrie," said this was the first time a Guild performance has advanced to the national competition after winning the region.
"We are very proud to win and very proud of John and Josh," Matthews said Sunday.
Lee said it was difficult to describe his emotions after learning Saturday night the show had been selected to advance to nationals and he won the best acting award.
"I thought 'whoa, whoa.' It was a good, good feeling," the 83-year-old Parkersburg resident said.
Lee said the judges and audience gave him and Martin a standing ovation after their one-hour performance of "Tuesdays With Morrie" Thursday night. On Friday and Saturday, people attending the theater conference told Lee and Martin how impressed they were by their performance
Lee said he gets "boundless energy" when performing on the stage.
The show is about writer Mitch Albom's conversations with his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Lee plays Schwartz and Martin is Albom in "Tuesdays With Morrie."
The Guild competed against community theaters from 10 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in Southeast Region 4. Also advancing to the national competition in Indiana is a theater group from Winter Haven, Fla., performing "Golda's Balcony."
The Guild reached the regional competition by winning the state event at the West Virginia Community Theatre Festival in Glenville in October. It was the third time the Actors Guild of Parkersburg had reached the regional event, Matthews said.
Matthews said the Guild raised $5,000 to bring "Tuesdays With Morrie" to Louisville. The Guild was presented with $1,500 in Louisville to be used toward the national competition but still must raise money for the trip. Matthews said organizations and individuals wanting to make a contribution for the national competition can contact him at 304-481-4391.


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I do realize that this is greatly going to vary from person to person. I was just trying to get several responses to see what other peoples results are compared to mine.


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BRATTLEBORO Anna Catherine Shirley Tyler, 89, of Brattleboro, died Friday morning, July 18, 2014.
Born on February 1, 1925, to parents Frank and Anna (Delohery) Hubner in Brewster, New York, Shirley was raised in Danbury, Connecticut. She moved to Chesterfield, N.H. in 1936, and was a 1943 graduate of Brattleboro High School.
Shirley graduated from Keene Teachers College (now Keene State College) with a teaching degree in elementary education, and was proud to be inducted as a member of Kappa Delta Pi. After student teaching in Keene, her first teaching assignment was fifth grade in Concord, New Hampshire. Also during her teaching career, Shirley worked as a substitute teacher at Canal Street School and Brattleboro Junior High School.
On June 21, 1947, at All Souls Church on Main Street in Brattleboro, she married her high school sweetheart, Frederick Fred Tyler.
While raising their five children, she was very active with the Brattleboro Parent Teachers Association. Her love of education and dedication to the children of Brattleboro continued as she served for numerous years on the Brattleboro Town School Board, Brattleboro Union High School Board, and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) board. Governor Richard Snelling appointed her to the Vermont State Board of Education. Additionally, Shirley served on the Vermont State Lottery Commission, and on the Town of Brattleboro Finance Committee.
Shirley was well known for her baking and cake decorating skills, and even had a cake decorating business, which provided special occasion cakes for many families. She was proud to have made each of her childrens wedding cakes. She took great pride in her home and was active for many years with the Brattleboro Home Demonstration Group. Never an idle person, Shirley also enjoyed ceramics, painting with oils, photography and travel. She most cherished her trips to Ireland, Scotland and Wales with her husband.
She was a faithful and devoted wife and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, whose life centered around her family.
Besides her husband of 67 years, she leaves three daughters, Kate Tyler of Westminster, Deborah Tyler of Brattleboro and Martha Tyler Gouger and her husband, Jeffrey, of Brattleboro; one son, Brian Tyler and his wife Jill of Brattleboro; one brother, Paul Hubner, Sr. and his wife Donna, of Chesterfield; and a sister, Cynthia Cindy Clark, and her husband Edward of Guilford.
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Tumblekins Farm Playset
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Tumblekins Fire Station
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Tumblekins Off-Roader
Tumblekins Toys
The toys can break into small pieces with sharp points, posing choking and lacerations hazards to children.
For additional information, contact International Playthings at (800) 445-8347 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or email the firm at firstname.lastname@example.com
About 31,000
This recall involves all Tumblekins toy vehicles and playsets, including the farm playset, fire station, police car, roadster, off-roader, fire truck and school bus. The toys are wooden, painted in bright colors. The toys range from 6 to 12 inches long and 4 to 9 1/2 inches tall. "Tumblekins," "Made in China" and manufacturing code "171111461502" or "346101461502" are printed on the toys. The item number and UPC are printed on the toy's packaging.
The firm has received one report of a toy breaking into small pieces. No injuries have been reported.
Consumer should take the recalled toys away from children immediately and contact International Playthings to receive a free replacement toy.
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Detective Sgt. Art Gamez said officers had the name of a man who had an outstanding arrest warrant from another jurisdiction who was expected to be passing through the city.
What they did not know was that the men in the vehicle were transporting a large number of packets of methamphetamine crystals and a couple of loaded guns.
Officers also had a description of the vehicle, so when it was spotted heading west through the city on U.S. Highway 59, three police department vehicles converged on the suspect's car.
Gamez said officers started falling in behind the suspect's vehicle as it passed Minnesota Street headed west. Then, when the suspect reached FM 351, Sgt. Chris Vasquez fell in behind the red Ford Taurus and turned on his lights and siren.
The suspect pulled to the right and slowed down but did not stop. Fearing the driver would try to run, Gamez caught up with the Ford and turned his vehicle in front of it, forcing the driver to brake.
Detective Sgt. Ryan Treviño bailed out of the passenger side of Gamez's car holding an AR-15 rifle and shouting for the driver to stop.
Officers then forced the two men in the vehicle onto the ground and took both men into custody.
Lee Tanguma, 36, of Three Rivers and Richard Pacheco, 40, of Karnes City were handcuffed and hauled to the Bee County Jail to face charges of evading arrest/detention with a motor vehicle.
That was in addition to outstanding arrest warrants on both men.
But the charges were just starting to mount. Bernal, Gamez and Treviño were joined by Detective Sgt. Roland Rodriguez and Patrolman Jonell Cisneros as a search of the vehicle began.
By the time the search ended, Gamez and Treviño said officers had found two guns, one .22-caliber revolver and a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol, a digital scale with a case on it designed to make the scale look like a cellular phone and 94 hundredths of an ounce of methamphetamine. The drugs had been divided into 29 half-gram packages, each worth about $50.
Bernal said he later found two more small bags of methamphetamine in the pocket of one of the suspects when he was booked into the Bee County Jail.
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The city has little say in the matter. Gale Price is with the city's community-development department. He said the church doesn't need a permit for the cross because the project is protected under a federal law prohibiting rules that burden the religious exercise of churches.
The pastor at New Life is the Rev. Michael Jackson. He said church members considered putting up a 100-foot cross but they thought it would look too ostentatious.
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The daily political machinations over what to do about the impending so-called fiscal cliff without actually coming to resolution is damaging the U.S. economy, according to the chief economist at a large financial institution. "Without fiscal drag, the U.S. economy would be headed for a growth trajectory in the 3-4 percent range in 2013," says Craig Alexander, chief economist at TD Economics, an affiliate of TD Bank. "The worst of the consumer deleveraging cycle and its dampening effect on economic growth appear to be over. But just as the private sector is set to provide a welcomed tailwind to the economy, it will be met with worsening cross winds from public sector restraint." Alexander acknowledges that the result is likely … Continue reading


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Osborne threatens £25bn infrastructure plan
The radical shake-up of pensions announced this week by Chancellor George Osborne might undermine his own government's initiative to drive £25 billion of insurance money into funding long-term infrastructure projects, industry insiders warned yesterday.
Announcing the radical reforms in Wednesday's Budget, Osborne said his purpose was clear: "No one will have to buy an annuity." The markets took him at his word, sending the share prices of insurers who sell annuities tumbling.
Yesterday, equity analysts at Barclays put out a stark warning on the sector: "Our base case is now that the individual annuity market could decline by two-thirds from £12 billion to £4 billion per annum [of sales] within the next 18 months."
If fewer customers buy long-dated, inflation-linked annuity products as the government clearly intends, then the insurers may make fewer long-dated, inflation-linked loans to infrastructure projects.
In December, the government trumpeted an agreement it had signed with six leading UK insurance firms, Aviva, Friends Life, Legal and General, Prudential, Scottish Widows and Standard Life, to invest £25 billion in infrastructure projects over the coming decades.
One insurance executive said: "We were happy to put our names to that agreement in the context of a growing annuity market. We thought we would have a growing book of annuities and this [infrastructure] would nicely match it.
"It's clearly quite early days to see how these changes to the retirement market will play out. Annuities will still have a place. But it's likely to be fixed-rate annuities, with a shorter term, as people will want more flexibility. We would be able to provide those, but you can't match those with infrastructure."
In a note out yesterday from its asset-liability structuring team, the investment bank Nomura warned the implications from Osborne's proposals were "profound" for the £210 billion annuity market.
The note said: "The demand for compulsory purchase annuities must be impacted if annuity purchase is no longer compulsory. Insurers will, no doubt, develop alternative products, but the very flexibility of the proposed new draw-down model will not particularly suit long-dated illiquid assets."
Drawdown funds are the principal alternative to annuities. They resemble conventional retail mutual funds, but are structured to allow savers to withdraw a portion of their assets every year to live on in retirement.
Nomura's analysts said: "We see the biggest impact on the new demand for life insurers for long-dated conventional corporate bonds, and illiquid alternatives."
David Ellis, a partner at Mercer, said the hit to insurers' demand for long-dated assets could even encourage companies to reduce the term of the bonds they issue. "It's a possible outcome," he said.
However, some in the sector are less convinced there will be radical change. Adrian Boulding, pensions strategy director at major annuity provider Legal & General, said: "Rumours of the death of the annuity have been much exaggerated."
He added: "We have only just begun to scratch the surface of funding infrastructure with annuity book assets, in terms of the amount of that we can do, in comparison with the size of the books that we could use.
"The insurance company wants to finance the downstream, post-construction part of the deal. We don't want the construction risk. There isn't enough of this kind of investment out there - so if there is slightly less annuity money chasing this limited supply, I don't think that's a problem."
And Ellis, of Mercer, pointed out that even if demand for individual, retail annuities does dramatically fall away, the insurance capital being used to back that business might be re-directed into acquiring closed, legacy final salary pension plans from companies that no longer want to run them, as the risks and exposures are essentially the same.
He said: "If you're an insurer, and you have just lost £1 billion of sales in individual, defined-contributions-sourced annuities, and you want to keep sales volumes up, then there is one other large market for annuities - pension buyouts. Will it mean increased interest in this market, possibly even new entrants into the field? It could well do."


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I would like to ask a question for a friend, Here are the facts: Baby is 6 weeks old, he was fed formula at the hospital and soon lost his latch, he has been on formula in a bottle and latched maybe for the first week and then wanted nothing to do with mommy´s breast.
She wants to make the effort to relactate, she has been pumping half an ounce every two hours (during the day) for 4 days and has seen increase in supply, and is still feeding baby with the bottles with supposed peristaltic nipples, we tried feeding him with the Medela soft feeder, but refused it just as he does the breast.
My friends tries putting the baby on the breast several times a day, but looses patience and feeds the bottle, I´ve told her to forget the bottle and try a dropper or spoon, but she is reluctant to let it go.
I have a few questions,
1) When you continue feeding with the bottle, can you still wean out of it slowly?
2) What other recommendations can I give her to get the baby to latch.
I am not worried about supply, I am cofident she will build it, but i am affraid the baby will not want to get back on the breast once her supply is up to baby´s needs.
Thanks for all your advice, My friend does not speak English and that is why I am writing for her.


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Celtic Nights' brings 'Journey of Hope' to RutlandBy Art Edelstein
Arts Correspondent | March 06,2013The world has been enthralled with Irish step dancing, traditional song and music in a unified theatrical production since the 1994 introduction of Riverdance at the Eurovision Song contest. So influential was that and subsequent productions that a new theatrical experience based on the Irish experience was spawned leading to more Irish-based companies of musicians and dancers presenting newer productions with more stories to tell.
Rutland is about to host one of the most successful troupes, Celtic Nights, at the Paramount Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday, March 15, and it promises to continue that tradition of fine entertainment emanating from Ireland.
For those who are fans of Irish music this is an opportunity to renew your interest in wonderful singing and Irish step dancing by attending this production, titled "Journey of Hope."
For those who are unfamiliar with this style of entertainment, it's a chance to watch the Irish do what they often do best in entertainment – sing with lovely voices, and dance energetically to the unique music of their tradition.
This production features six of Ireland's most prominent vocal talents complemented by six of its most accomplished step dancers. Their aim is to create an exciting picture of the proud people the Irish are, whose dream of a better life helped them carve out a home in the New World.
The production draws from the history and folklore of Ireland and her Celtic cousins. Celtic Nights brings the audience on a journey of a people leaving and arriving, their lives spent in a world of ships, trains and planes, coaches and horses, and on foot; coming and going, saving for fares, writing of where they were, comparing what they had with what they might have elsewhere, visiting others, always moving on the surface of a foreign land, meeting, conversing, comparing and searching for a place better than Ireland – or half as good.
Songs in this show include such old favorites as "Danny Boy," "Isle of Hope," "Galway Bay" and "Isle of Innisfree," along with "My Love Is in America" and "May We Never Have to Say Goodbye."
The story of Irish emigration from a poverty-stricken land is well known. People dominated by a ruling foreign power, the English, lived a second-class life in their own country. Most scratched out a bare-bones existence as crofters in near feudal conditions well into the middle of the 19th century. While thousands had left to seek a better life earlier, by the 1850s, it took a potato famine to give an even greater impetus for them to leave their native shores.
The Irish diaspora spread to America, Canada and Australia, where these hard working people helped build their adopted nations' infrastructure, as well as their political foundations. The Irish formed whole regiments for the North during the Civil War and many of these same veterans then went west to build the transcontinental railroad. In the process of immigrating the Irish entered politics, helped change long established institutions while also greatly influencing the culture of their new country with music, song, poetry, and prose. In the U.S., one of their descendents became President.
Irish music, which had always been popular where large communities of Irish-Americans resided – New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago – saw an upsurge of popularity in the 1980s, one that has remained strong for the past three decades. Owing much to a few music groups like Planxty Altan, the music became more international as these bands toured. This has increasingly familiarized audiences with the sound and songs of Ireland.
Irish-Americans began performing outside their communities and many non-Irish started learning to play the fiddle, the penny whistle, box accordion and flute while others took up the traditional dance known as step dancing. Movies like "Coming to America" and "Titanic" brought the music to wide audiences.
While March 17, St. Patrick's Day, has become virtually a national holiday in the United States, and the wearing of the green is now an inter-ethnic, multi-cultural phenomenon, the music and dance that the Irish experience encompasses is a year round source of entertainment.
Celtic Nights' "Journey of Hope," while presented just before St. Patrick's Day here in Rutland, is more than simply an annual symbolic event to celebrate Irish culture and experience. The songs and dances these fine performers will present have a universality of theme that encompasses most Americans' experience. Immigrants from all nations will feel empathy with the theme of this production and see their own dreams and fears in those of the Irish portrayed in this two-hour evening of entertainment.
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so, my baby is only 12 days old, but I'm trying to get the pump worked out and build a freezer stash because I know I'll be going back to work full-time working 4 10-hour days starting late in January.
I was unable to get more than a tiny amount from pumping despite having a good pump ( Medela pump in style). then I tried pumping one breast while I fed him on the other, and that has worked well. I can get 2 1/2 to 3 oz at a time from just the one breast this way, so I do this for 2 feedings a day and my freezer stock is growing. I do massage the breast as I pump. I need to wait for the smaller breast shields I ordered to come-- no one carries the small size in store :P at least not that I could find. I may get better results once I have breast shields that fit better.
I tried double pumping when he wasn't eating again the other day, and was able to get only 2 oz combined from both breasts. It was also much thinner because it was all foremilk.
Just looking for advice on how to get better letdown to the pump alone. Once I go back to work, I won't be able to use his nursing to stimulate letdown. Other than looking at a picture of him and maybe recording his "hungry" cry, I need ideas of how to better be able to empty each breast by pumping.
I might be able to keep up enough supply volume-wise just pumping, but my biggest concern is the quality since it's all foremilk when I double-pump and fail to empty the breast.
Any suggestions?


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Which will be fixed in the next patch though (together with the mindflay ticks bug) according to blues.Originally Posted by derevka
Which will be fixed in the next patch though (together with the mindflay ticks bug) according to blues.Originally Posted by derevka
So it was never intended? That sucks :/Originally Posted by AetherMcLoud
Do MF give SW stacks per tick, or per application? I'm pondering about to use two-MF ticks instead of the SW then.
Nah, MF is a "dot" therefore it only gives a sw stack upon casting.
Well, since it got partial misses and partial crits like Arcane Missiles, it could be possible :-)
We should ask Blizzard to change it so MF gives 3 stacks.
Yeah, but MF is freaking fucked up anyway. You know that unholy Deathknights bone shield? 4 shields (5 with glyph I think), 1 min CD. As long as one shield is active he gets -40% damage. Each damage done removes a shield. But alas not each dot tick removes a shield. So mindflay for 3 seconds removes 1 single shield. Meh!Originally Posted by Nezoia
I'll take a wild guess and say a single penance cast removes 3 shields, just as arcane missiles do. Gonna have to try that out once arena season starts (just cannot see me staying shadow for arena, although I'll try and hope).
Even so.... it does that now, so should be used as an opener.Originally Posted by AetherMcLoud
I fully agree with that.Originally Posted by derevka
I scraped SWD almost fully out of my rotation and i liked it , atm i get more just spaming another MF then pushing SWD ... the only current use i have for it is as a weave stack or just ninja de KB on a boss
here is a report from last? patchwerk
Originally Posted by Healingprick
Interesting comments, thanks for all the responses.
Another question regarding Heroism.
Do you either:
1) Continue normal rotation
2) Chain cast only mindflay
3) Different combination?
(Note this is for static fight like Patch, not asking about fights that involvment movement/aoe/etc....)
Keep DoTs up as well during Bloodlust, but don't waste GCD on SW no matter if you like it or not.
Moar Mindflay is bettah.
Using Shadow Word: Death as part of an "on cooldown during entire fight" might not be all that great a DPS increase, I will admit. But I have three points:
One: Fallback's nothing to be scared of, we know this. That's what healers are for (just have to be smart to not hit it right before an AoE or whatever).
Two: It's still instacast, fights where you have to remain mobile, instant damage is greater than 0 dps while running.
Three: While it might not be that great of a DPS increase all the time, if you glyph it, the added 10% under 35 is pretty hot for "execute phase" where fire mages start to take off, warriors&ret's catching up at 20.
So, if you're standing still dps (patchwerk), and the boss' health is 35 < X < 100, well then maybe you shouldn't use it. But under 35% is a definite reason to add it to a rotation.
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Bone Shield has a 3.5 second internal cooldown, it will always last a minimum of 10.5 or 14 seconds. Unholy is stupidly OP right now, I love my alt one.Originally Posted by AetherMcLoud
i don´t use swd in my dps rota
my rota looks like this:
1: vampmakro:
#showtooltip Vampiric Touch
/cast [nochanneling] Vampiric Touch
3: Blastmakro:
#showtooltip Mind Blast
/cast [nochanneling] Mind Blast
4: Plague
5: Flaymakro:
#showtooltip Mind Flay
/cast [nochanneling:Mind Flay] Mind Flay;
then I renew vampmakro and plague and use blastmakro and mindflaymakro on cd
btw, in recount and wws I am mostly top 3
[nochanneling] have zero effect on non-channeled spells, such as Mind Blast and Vampiric Touch.
Putting [nochanneling] on all your spells keeps you from casting *any* spell as long as you're channeling something, doesn't it? In other words, ideally you'd never clip Flay?
However, with the say Flay is bugged it doesn't matter, because the last tick happens roughly ~.5sec after you're done channeling and so it gets clipped anywho. Even when it gets fixed [nochanneling] means you're losing damage because you can't take advantage of the spell queue at all.


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This word is distractingly similar to "interpolate", which means basically to infer information about something from information and trends observed in nearby regions. (As in, today it was ten degrees, the day before yesterday it was twenty degrees, so yesterday it was probably about fifteen degrees.)
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Mind you the interpellating is probably because of someone interpolating.
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Funny how this almost is the same definition for the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL._________________________
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Today at the fairAugust 31,2013Albert J. Marro / Staff Photo
Amanda McGill works on the sign for one of the displays at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland. The fair opened Friday and will run through Sept. 8. McGill is the assistant superintendent of the Grange division at the fair.Today is the first full day of the Vermont State Fair.
Maple products will be judged in the Maple Building at 10 a.m., and Grange exhibit judging will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Bergstrom Building, along with giant pumpkin judging.
The midway and exhibits open at 11 a.m.
The Rabbit Show begins at 11 a.m. in the Pet & Poultry Building.
The floraculture entries can be seen in the Bergstrom Building each day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the Wild Flower arrangements featured today.
Greg Burroughs performs on the Sugarhouse Stage at noon, 2:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Rosaires Racing Pigs run at 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.
The 4-H Club has four events: Goat Show at 1 p.m. in the Show Tent, Rabbit Showmanship at 2 p.m., Fashion Show at 4 p.m., both in the 4-H Building, and Animal Costume Class at 7 p.m. in the show tent.
The culinary arts judging is at 1 p.m. in the Bergstrom Building.
Daredevils Unlimited are at 1:30, 3, 6 and 9 p.m.
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OK thanks, but just so I understand correctly that I do not pack the bearing like the front and that they are lubricated by the 90 wt gear oil. That Extra grease is just between the bearing and the seal correct?