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As the world waits to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, show organizers know there's one thing they can't control: the weather.
London has had the wettest summer on record, but as the city began welcoming the world this week, the skies suddenly cleared.
Forecasters said there's a 20 percent chance of showers during the Opening Ceremony, and rain chances keep going up once the Games begin. That's why everyone in London is wasting no time enjoying the picture perfect weather while it lasts.
"Recently, it's been very miserable and dull, so we're making the most of it today," said London resident Tina Davy.
Londoners are soaking up the sun after weeks of wet weather and gloomy skies.
"Today has been amazing. It's the first sunny day in six weeks. It's been raining up until now. It's been raining all summer. We've had the worst summer," said London resident Laura Scapinello.
The Olympic athletes were expecting chillier conditions.
"I think my luggage was extremely heavy, because I packed for cold weather and it's been completely the opposite," said U.S. volleyball player Misty May-Treanor.
"We don't have air conditioning in the (Olympic) Village, so we had to make some calls with that one, got some fans, sleep with the windows opens," said U.S. swimmer Nathan Adrian.
The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is working with the London Organising Committee to forecast the weather during the Olympics.
"We're working very hard to give the best possible information that we can," said meteorologist Keith Groves.
Groves said the rain will return to England, but the games won't be a wash out.
"Yes, there will be some rain around, but a lot of the time it will be very pleasant with warm sunny spells, not bad weather, just more typical of what we would expect in an English summer," he said.
London Olympic organizers said performers have been rehearsing the Opening Ceremony every day in all weather conditions.
Meteorologists said thunderstorms would delay the Opening Ceremony, but they said they don't expect any severe weather Friday night.


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Central Street residence damaged in fire
Local lawyer named Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Elkins lawyer Steven Jory recently became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal association in America. He was inducted during the 2013 Spring Meeting of the College in Naples, Fla.
Founded in 1950, the college is composed of the best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada. Fellowship in the college is extended by invitation only and only after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality. Lawyers must have a minimum of 15 years of trial experience before they can be considered for Fellowship.
Membership in the college cannot exceed 1 percent of the total lawyer population of any state or province. There are currently 39 members in West Virginia and a total of 5,879 members in the United States and Canada. The college strives to improve and elevate the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the ethics of the trial profession. Qualified lawyers are called to Fellowship in the college from all branches of trial practice. Jory has practiced law in Elkins for 44 years, including the last three decades with Harry Smith. In 2008, they merged their practice with the Clarksburg firm McNeer, Highland, McMunn and Varner.
He came to Elkins as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert E. Maxwell and later served as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia under President Jimmy Carter.
For 13 years, Jory served the West Virginia State Bar as a member and chairman of the Lawyer Disciplinary Board and its Investigative Panel. He has been honored as a West Virginia Bar Fellow, and by recognition for a number of years as a Super Lawyer.
Active in many civic endeavors, Jory has served as president of the Elkins YMCA and Elkins Rotary Club, and as a member of the Randolph County Development Authority and the Davis Health System Foundation board. He is also one of seven voting members on the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facilities Authority.

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text: The geothermal heat pump system is an energy-efficient heating and cooling alternative. It moves heat from the ground to a building, or from a building to the ground, through a series of flexible pipe "loops" containing water. This edition of Energy 101, from the U.S. Department of Energy, explores the benefits of geothermal and the science behind how it all comes together.


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March 27, 2006
Employers Grade Illinois College Grads
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois employers give high marks to the state's higher education institutions for the preparation of graduates for the workforce, although a 2005 survey of more than 1,000 businesses across the state also found room for improvement.
Overall, two-thirds of employers say that Illinois colleges and universities do an excellent or good job of preparing graduates for the workforce. Nearly 60 percent of the employers in the survey had hired Illinois college grads within the past three years, and 95 percent of those businesses reported satisfaction with the knowledge and skills of their new hires from the state's colleges and universities.
A report on the employer satisfaction survey will be presented to the Illinois Board of Higher Education at its regular meeting April 4 at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center in Springfield. Board members also will hear from state school Superintendent Randy Dunn, who will speak on efforts to unite elementary-secondary schools with higher education in "P-16" initiatives that span the educational spectrum. In addition, Larry Isaak, President of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC), will discuss the organization's Midwest Student Exchange Program, which offers tuition reciprocity agreements among member states.
The Public Opinion Laboratory at Northern Illinois University conducted the employer satisfaction survey last fall, and modeled it after a similar one done in 1998. The survey included 1,008 employers from every geographic region and all sizes of companies. When asked to rate how well college grads were prepared for the workforce, 15 percent of employers said "excellent," 50 percent said "good," and 21 percent replied "average." Of the nearly 600 firms that had hired recent grads, 38 percent reported being "very satisfied" with the knowledge and skills of new employees, 57 percent said they were "satisfied," and just 3 percent indicated they were dissatisfied with their hires just out of college.
Eighty-five percent of employers said higher education was at least "somewhat important" to their ongoing training needs. However, the proportion of employers viewing higher education as "very important" to ongoing education needs dropped from 65 percent in 1998 to 52 percent in the 2005 survey. In-house training is the predominant source of training for all employer groups, with community colleges ranking fifth and four-year colleges and universities seventh in importance.
Overall, 58 percent of employers surveyed found colleges and universities responsive to their needs, but 29 percent reported they had no contact with higher education institutions.
About a third of the employers offered suggestions for improving the relationship between higher education and business and industry, including:
The Board will act on allocation of fiscal 2006 grants under the Health Services Education Grant Act (HSEGA) program, and will for the first time target extra dollars to nursing programs as a priority area for funding. Public Act 94-193 gave the Board statutory authority to allocate up to 10 percent of appropriations for the HSEGA program to fields of high occupational demand.
A review of employment trends in the health professions revealed that registered nurses continue to be a high-need occupational area. A report of the Illinois Department of Employment Security projects nearly 4,000 annual job openings for registered nurses through 2012, more than double the vacancy rate for the second highest health profession – nursing aides and orderlies.
As a result, the Board will consider approval of a priority grant of $506,673 for nursing programs this fiscal year, about 3 percent of the total $16.6 million HSEGA allocation.


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As well as free entry to over 60 top London attractions, your London Pass also grants you over 20 special offers around the city. Enjoy these discounts and deals and save even more money on your trip at dining and shopping venues in London.
If you've always dreamt of seeing a West End Show, save on theatre tickets with our exclusive discounts. Relax and unwind with a half price massage at Walk-in Back Rub in the bustling Carnaby Street in Central London, or save on London souvenirs to take back some mementoes from your trip at Crest of London. Have a slap-up dinner for a snip of the price aboard a Bateaux London Cruise and watch the sun go down over the Thames; or have a once-in-a-life-time medieval themed meal at The Medieval Banquet to take you through the night.
Another great discount on offer is the Original London Bus Tour – a great way to see the sights of London on a hop on hop off bus; as well as other walking tours and bike tours around the city. If you're heading out to Windsor, make the most of the special offers in the city from cafes to quirky shops, and while you're there a French Brother's River Cruise will take you along the picturesque river past the historic town of Eton and Windsor Castle.


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1/6 recipe
Calories 210
Calories from Fat 5
Total Fat 1 g
Saturated Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 25 mg
Total Carbohydrate 40 g
Dietary Fiber 12 g
Sugars 5 g
Proteins 12 g
Vitamin A 50% DV
Vitamin C 10% DV
Calcium 4% DV
Iron 15% DV
Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Servings and Times
Servings 6
Preparation Time 1 hour, 15 minutes
Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 1.5
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Split peas 1½ cups
Water 6 cups
Medium onion, diced 1
Medium potatoes, peeled and diced 2
Garlic powder ¼ teaspoon
Parsley, dried ¼ teaspoon
Medium carrots, grated 2
- In a large pot, combine split peas and water, and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat. Cover and let simmer until tender (1 hour).
- Add onion, potato, garlic powder, dried parsley, and carrots.
- Cover and simmer for 1 hour.
- Transfer soup mixture in batches to a blender, and puree until smooth.
- Return to heat and warm through. Serve.


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The Madison police chief says the man killed by a police officer last Friday was reaching toward the officer's gun when he was shot.
Chief Noble Wray also confirmed that the man was not a burglar, but a neighbor who reportedly had been drinking before he mistakenly entered the wrong house.
Wray said 30-year-old Paul Heenan entered the house using a key the homeowners kept in their door.
Wray also said in a news conference Monday that Heenan wasn't armed when he was fatally shot by the officer.
The chief said Officer Stephen Heimsness was responding to a 911 call about a possible burglary in the 500 block of South Baldwin Street when he arrived to find Heenan struggling with the homeowner outside.
Wray said Heenan advanced toward the officer, grabbed his hand with one and reached toward the officer's gun with the other.
Wray said that Heenan wasn't armed at the time but that Heimsness believed his life was in danger during the struggle and fired three rounds, killing Heenan.
Wray said the incident began when the homeowners called 911 to report a burglary at their home. Wray said officers were told that the caller was a woman, that she was with four children, and that her husband had gone downstairs to investigate.
That's when the male homeowner recognized the suspected burglar, Heenan, as his neighbor and realized he wasn't trying to burglarize the home.
"We did respond to a complaint of a burglary in progress, but that was not what the incident turned out to be," Wray said. "Although this case was called in a burglary in progress, it turns out that Mr. Heenan was not a burglar but someone who had recently moved into the neighborhood and had entered the wrong address."
The homeowner began walking Heenan over to his home, and Heimsness, who was the first officer to arrive at the scene, saw the two men struggling outside when he arrived, according to police.
"It was a very dark street, but as (Heimsness) walked up, he could see two men grappling and struggling. Based on the description of the husband provided by dispatch, he believed he was seeing the homeowner struggling with a possible burglar," Wray said.
Wray said Heimsness pulled out his service weapon, radioed to dispatch about what he was seeing, and ordered the two men to get down on the ground.
Heenan disengaged with the homeowner and focused his attention on Heimsness, Wray said.
The husband moved away with his hands in the air as Heenan moved toward Heimsness, Wray said.
The police chief said Heimsness began to back up, and Heenan swore at the officer and quickly closed the distance between them.
"Officer Heimsness said Mr. Heenan grabbed him, latching on to his left hand with one hand while using the other to reach officer Heimsness's gun. Officer Heimsness believed his life was in danger and fired three rounds," Wray said.
Wray said the entire incident happened very fast, with "just as a matter of seconds between Officer Heimsness told Mr. Heenan to get down when the shots were fired."
"There were several commands by the officer to 'get down' -- that's not in dispute," Wray said.
A second officer, Stacy Troumbly, had gotten out of her squad car at the opposite end of the block and began running toward Heimsness and Heenan. Troumbly provided emergency life-saving measures on Heenan after he was shot.
"From all accounts, there was a struggle between Mr. Heenan and (the homeowner), and there was also a struggle that took place between officer Heimsness and Mr. Heenan," Wray said.
Both officers are on administrative leave, which is standard protocol.
Wray said that based on what he knows so far from the investigation, he believes that Heenan's actions produced a deadly force situation. He said Troumbly and the homeowner also supported Heimsness's account of the incident.
"Anytime you get a citizen in close proximity to a police officer and their weapon is there and becomes part of the issue and there's an aggressive move, I think it does produce a deadly force situation," Wray said.
Wray said the investigation is not complete yet. Once the investigation is complete, it will be forwarded to the Dane County district attorney.


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Sherman begins his march to the sea, FDR lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial, and Elvis Presley makes his movie debut, all on this day.
1959: Four members of the Herbert Clutter family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (pictured). The quadruple murder would inspire Truman Capote to travel to Kansas and write about the crime even before any suspects were arrested. The killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, would be arrested six weeks after the murders, and Capote ultimately spent six years working on what would become the book "In Cold Blood." The book is regarded by critics as a pioneering work of the true crime genre.


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Kaiser Rejects Neck Manipulation
Despite quackademia, anti-vaccine propaganda, and other discouraging trends, the news is not all bad. A major HMO has taken a decisive action in support of science-based medicine.
Kaiser Permanente Mid Atlantic States and Mid-Atlantic Permanente Group recently announced the elimination of neck manipulation from their chiropractic coverage. The revised policy states,
Given the paucity of data related to beneficial effects of chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine and the real potential for catastrophic adverse events, it was decided to exclude chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine from coverage.
Their decision was applauded by some but was predictably attacked by chiropractors. (more…)
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One of the most important features of EJB is that enterprise beans have the ability to work with containers from different vendors. However, that doesn't mean that selecting a server and installing your enterprise beans on that server are trivial processes.
Related Reading
Enterprise JavaBeans
The EJB server you choose should provide a utility for deploying enterprise beans. It doesn't matter whether the utility is command-line oriented or graphical, as long as it does the job. The deployment utility should allow you to work with prepackaged enterprise beans, i.e., enterprise beans that have already been developed and archived in a JAR file. Finally, the EJB server must support an SQL-standard relational database that is accessible using JDBC. For the database, you should have privileges sufficient for creating and modifying a few simple tables in addition to normal read, update, and delete capabilities. If you have chosen an EJB server that does not support a SQL-standard relational database, you may need to modify the examples to work with the product you are using.
This book does not say very much about how to install and deploy enterprise beans. That task is largely server-dependent. We'll provide some general ideas about how to organize JAR files and create deployment descriptors, but for a complete description of the deployment process, you'll have to refer to your vendor's documentation.
To get the most from this chapter, it helps to have anIDE that has a debugger and allows you to add Java files to its environment. Several Java IDEs - such as BEA's Weblogic Workshop, IBM'sEclipse, Borland's JBuilder, and Sun'sForte - fulfill this requirement. Some EJB products, such as IBM'sWebSphere and BEA's Weblogic, are tightly coupled with an IDE that makes life a lot easier when it comes to writing, deploying, and debugging your applications.
Once you have an IDE set up, you need to include the Enterprise JavaBeans and other J2EE packages which will be provided by your application server vendor - usually in a single JAR file (e.g., j2ee.jar).
There's no better place to start than the Cabin EJB, which we have been examining throughout the previous chapters. The Cabin EJB is an entity bean that encapsulates the data and behavior associated with a cruise ship cabin in Titan's business domain.
When developing an entity bean, we first want to define its remote interface. The remote interface defines the bean's business purpose; the methods of this interface must capture the concept of the entity. We defined the remote interface for the Cabin EJB in Chapter 2; here, we add two new methods for setting and getting the ship ID and the bed count. The ship ID identifies the ship to which the cabin belongs, and the bed count tells how many people the cabin can accommodate:
package com.titan.cabin;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
public interface CabinRemote extends javax.ejb.EJBObject {
public String getName( ) throws RemoteException;
public void setName(String str) throws RemoteException;
public int getDeckLevel( ) throws RemoteException;
public void setDeckLevel(int level) throws RemoteException;
public int getShipId( ) throws RemoteException;
public void setShipId(int sp) throws RemoteException;
public int getBedCount( ) throws RemoteException;
public void setBedCount(int bc) throws RemoteException;
CabinRemote interface defines four properties:
shipId, and
are attributes of an enterprise bean that can be accessed by public
set and get methods.
Notice that we have made the
CabinRemote interface
a part of a new package named
Place all the classes and interfaces associated with each type of
bean in a package specific to the bean. Because our beans are for the
use of the Titan cruise line, we placed these packages in the
com.titan package hierarchy. We also created
directory structures that match package structures. If you are using
an IDE that works directly with Java files, create a new directory
called dev (for development) and create the
directory structure shown in
Figure 4-1. Copy the
interface into your IDE and save its definition to the
cabin directory. Compile the
CabinRemote interface to ensure that its
definition is correct. The CabinRemote.class
file, generated by the IDE's compiler, should be
written to the cabin directory, the same
directory as the CabinRemote.java file. The rest
of the Cabin bean's classes will be placed in this
same directory.
Figure 4-1. Directory structure for the Cabin bean
Once we have defined the remote
interface of the Cabin EJB, we have defined the remote view of this
simple entity bean. Next, we need to define the Cabin
EJB's remote home interface, which specifies how the
enterprise bean can be created, located, and destroyed by remote
clients; in other words, the Cabin EJB's life-cycle
behavior. Here is a complete definition of the
CabinHomeRemote home interface:
package com.titan.cabin;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import javax.ejb.CreateException;
import javax.ejb.FinderException;
public interface CabinHomeRemote extends javax.ejb.EJBHome {
public CabinRemote create(Integer id)
throws CreateException, RemoteException;
public CabinRemote findByPrimaryKey(Integer pk)
throws FinderException, RemoteException;
CabinHomeRemote interface extends
javax.ejb.EJBHome and defines two life-cycle
create( ) and
). These methods create and locate remote
references to Cabin EJBs. Remove methods (for deleting enterprise
beans) are defined in the
interface, so the
CabinHomeRemote interface
inherits them.
We have now defined the remote
client-side API for creating, locating, using, and removing the Cabin
EJB. Now we need to define
CabinBean, the class
that provides the implementation on the server for the Cabin EJB. The
CabinBean class is an entity bean that uses
container-managed persistence, so its definition will be fairly
In addition to the callback methods discussed in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, we
must also define accessor
methods for the
CabinRemote interface and an
implementation of the create method defined in the
CabinHomeRemote interface. Here is the complete
definition of the
CabinBean class:
package com.titan.cabin;
import javax.ejb.EntityContext;
public abstract class CabinBean implements javax.ejb.EntityBean {
public Integer ejbCreate(Integer id){
return null;
public void ejbPostCreate(Integer id){
public abstract void setId(Integer id);
public abstract Integer getId( );
public abstract void setShipId(int ship);
public abstract int getShipId( );
public abstract void setName(String name);
public abstract String getName( );
public abstract void setBedCount(int count);
public abstract int getBedCount( );
public abstract void setDeckLevel(int level);
public abstract int getDeckLevel( );
public void setEntityContext(EntityContext ctx) {
// Empty implementation.
public void unsetEntityContext( ) {
// Empty implementation.
public void ejbActivate( ) {
// Empty implementation.
public void ejbPassivate( ) {
// Empty implementation.
public void ejbLoad( ) {
// Empty implementation.
public void ejbStore( ) {
// Empty implementation.
public void ejbRemove( ) {
// Empty implementation.
CabinBean class can be divided into two
sections for discussion: declarations for the
container-managed fields and the
callback methods.
CabinBean defines several pairs of abstract
accessor methods. For example,
setName( ) and
getName( ) are a pair of abstract accessor
methods. These methods are responsible for setting and getting the
entity bean's
name field. When
the bean is deployed, the EJB container automatically implements all
the abstract accessor methods so that the bean state can be
synchronized with the database. These implementations map the
abstract accessor methods to fields in the database. Although all the
abstract accessor methods have corresponding methods in the remote
CabinRemote, it's not
necessary that they do so. Some accessor methods are for the entity
bean's use only and are never exposed to the client
through the remote or local interfaces. Note that, unlike the
matching methods in the remote interface, the abstract accessor
methods do not throw
It's customary to consider the abstract accessor
methods as providing access to virtual fields and to refer to those
fields by their method names, less the
get or
set prefix. For example, the
setName( ) abstract accessor methods
define a virtual container-managed
persistence (CMP) field called
name (the first letter is always changed to
lowercase). The
setDeckLevel( ) abstract accessor
methods define a virtual CMP field called
deckLevel, and so on.
shipId, and
bedCount fields
represent the Cabin EJB's persistent state. They
will be mapped to the database at deployment time. These fields are
also publicly available through the entity bean's
remote interface. Invoking the
getBedCount( )
method on a
CabinRemote EJB object causes the
container to delegate that call to the corresponding
getBedCount( ) method on the
CabinBean instance.
There is no requirement that CMP fields must be exposed. The
id field is another container-managed field, but
its abstract accessor methods are not exposed to the client through
CabinRemote interface. This field is the
primary key of the Cabin EJB; it's the entity
bean's index to its data in the database.
It's bad practice to expose the primary key of an
entity bean - you don't want client applications
to be able to change that key.
interface defines one
create( ) method,
so there is only one corresponding
ejbCreate( )
method and one
ejbPostCreate( ) method defined by
CabinBean class. When a client invokes the
create( ) method on the remote home interface, it
is delegated to a matching
ejbCreate( ) method on
the entity bean instance. The
ejbCreate( ) method
initializes the fields; in the case of the
CabinBean, it sets the
TIP: Although it's not required by the EJB specification, some J2EE application vendors insist that
ejbCreate( )throw a
javax.ejb.CreateException- this is true of the J2EE 1.4 SDK. This has never been a requirement, but it's an issue that continues to crop up every time there is a new edition of this book.
ejbCreate( ) method always returns the primary
key type; with container-managed persistence, this method returns the
null value. It's the container's
responsibility to create the primary key. Why does it return
null? This convention makes it easier for EJB
vendors that support container-managed persistence using bean-managed
persistence - it's a technique that is more
common in EJB 1.1. Bean-managed persistence beans, which are covered
in Chapter 10, always return the primary key
Once the
ejbCreate( ) method has executed, the
ejbPostCreate( ) method is called to perform any
follow-up operations. The
ejbCreate( ) and
ejbPostCreate( ) methods must have signatures that
match the parameters and (optionally) the exceptions of the home
create( ) method. The
ejbPostCreate( ) method is used to perform any
postprocessing on the bean after it is created, but before it can be
used by the client. Both methods will execute, one right after the
other, when the client invokes the
create( )
method on the remote home interface.
findByPrimaryKey( ) method is not defined in
container-managed bean classes. Instead, find methods are generated at deployment
and implemented by the container. With bean-managed entity beans,
find methods must be defined in the bean class. In Chapter 10, when you develop bean-managed entity
beans, you will define the find methods in the bean classes you
CabinBean class implements
javax.ejb.EntityBean, which defines seven callback
setEntityContext( ),
unsetEntityContext( ),
ejbActivate( ),
ejbPassivate( ),
ejbLoad( ),
ejbStore( ), and
ejbRemove( ). The container uses these callback methods to notify the
CabinBean of certain events in its life cycle.
Although the callback methods are implemented, the implementations
are empty. The
CabinBean is simple enough that it
doesn't need to do any special processing during its
life cycle. When we study entity beans in more detail in Chapter 6 through Chapter 11, we
will take advantage of these callback methods.
You are now ready to create a deployment descriptor for the Cabin EJB. The deployment descriptor performs a function similar to a properties file. It describes which classes make up an enterprise bean and how the enterprise bean should be managed at runtime. During deployment, the deployment descriptor is read and its properties are displayed for editing. The deployer can then modify and add settings as appropriate for the application's operational environment. Once the deployer is satisfied with the deployment information, she uses it to generate the entire supporting infrastructure needed to deploy the enterprise bean in the EJB server. This may include resolving enterprise bean references, adding the enterprise bean to the naming system, and generating the enterprise bean's EJB object and EJB home, persistence infrastructure, transactional support, and so forth.
Although most EJB server products provide a wizard for creating and editing deployment descriptors, we will create ours directly so that the enterprise bean is defined in a vendor-independent manner. This requires some manual labor, but it gives you a much better understanding of how deployment descriptors are created. Once the deployment descriptor is finished, the enterprise bean can be placed in a JAR file and deployed on any EJB-compliant server of the appropriate version. An XML deployment descriptor has been created for every example in this book; they are available from the download site.
TIP: Vendors often require that you include vendor-specific deployment files along with the standard ones. This is an unfortunate situation that impacts portability, but something you need to be aware of. Consult your vendor's documentation to discover what additional configuration files they require.
Throughout this book, we show both the EJB 2.1 and EJB 2.0 code when they are different. In many cases, the component interfaces are the same; however, XML deployment descriptors will be different because EJB 2.1 uses XML Schema, while EJB 2.0 uses an XML DTD. This is the case with the Cabin EJB.
Here's the deployment descriptor for the Cabin bean in EJB 2.1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
ejb-jar element declares its namespace, the
XSI namespace, and the location of the XML Schema that is used to
validate it. The meaning of namespaces and XML schemas are described
in more detail in Chapter 16.
In EJB 2.0, the deployment descriptor is based on an XML DTD and looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise
JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE> element describes the purpose
of the XML file, its root element, and the location of its DTD. The
DTD is used to verify that the document is structured correctly. This
element is discussed in detail in Chapter 16.
EJB 2.0 specifies the
ejb-jar_2_0.dtd as its DTD.
One important difference between EJB 2.1 and EJB 2.0 is that they use different types of validation for deployment descriptors. EJB 2.0 uses XML DTDs, which have been employed for the past few years to validate the structure of the XML deployment descriptor. XML Schema is a new mechanism for validating deployment descriptors. XML Schema can validate not only the structure but also the values used in the deployment descriptor - something DTDs couldn't do well. On the other hand, XML Schema is complex and takes time to master, so there is a price to be paid for the added precision it offers.
The rest of the XML elements are nested one within another and delimited by beginning and
ending tags. The structure is not complicated. If you have done any
HTML coding, you already understand the format. An element always
starts with a
tag and ends with a
tag. Everything in between - even other elements - is part of
the enclosing element.
The first major element is the
which is the root of the document. All the other elements must lie
within this element. Next is the
<enterprise-beans> element. Every bean
declared in an XML file must be included in this section. This file
describes only the Cabin EJB, but we could define several beans in
one deployment descriptor.
<entity> element shows that the beans
defined within this tag are entity beans. Similarly, a
<session> element describes session beans;
since the Cabin EJB is an entity bean, we don't need
<session> element. In addition to a
description, the
<entity> element provides
the fully qualified class names of the remote interface, home
interface, bean class, and primary key. The
<cmp-field> elements list all the
container-managed fields in the entity bean class. These are the
fields that will persist in the database and be managed by the
container at runtime. The
<entity> element
also includes a
<reentrant> element that can
be set as
True or
depending on whether the bean allows reentrant loopbacks or not.
The deployment descriptor also specifies the
<security-identity> as
<use-caller-identity/>, which simply means
the bean propagates the calling client's security
identity when it accesses resources or other beans. Security
identities are covered in Chapter 3.
The section of the XML file after the
<enterprise-beans> element is enclosed by
<assembly-descriptor> element, which
describes the security roles and transaction attributes of the bean. In this example, this section of the XML file
is the same for both EJB 2.1 and EJB 2.0:
<ejb-jar ...>
This role represents everyone who is allowed full access
to the Cabin EJB.
It may seem odd to separate the
<assembly-descriptor> information from the
<enterprise-beans> information, since it
clearly applies to the Cabin EJB, but in the scheme of things,
it's perfectly natural. A single XML deployment
descriptor can describe several beans, which might all rely on the
same security roles and transaction attributes. To make it easier to
deploy several beans together, this common information is grouped in
<assembly-descriptor> element.
There is another (perhaps more important) reason for separating
information about the bean itself from the security roles and
transaction attributes. Enterprise JavaBeans defines the
responsibilities of different participants in the development and
deployment of beans. We don't address these
development roles in this book because they are not critical to
learning the fundamentals of EJB. For now, it's
enough to know that the person who develops the beans and the person
who assembles the beans into an application have separate
responsibilities and therefore deal with separate parts of the XML
deployment descriptor. The bean developer is responsible for
everything within the
element; the bean assembler is responsible for everything within the
<assembly-descriptor>. Throughout this book
you will play both roles, developing the beans and assembling them.
Other roles you will fill are that of the deployer, who actually
loads the enterprise beans into the EJB container, and the
administrator, who is responsible for tuning the EJB server and
managing it at runtime. In real projects, these roles may be filled
by an individual, several different individuals, or even teams.
<assembly-descriptor> contains the
<security-role> elements and their
<method-permission> elements.
In this example, there is one security role,
everyone, which is mapped to all the methods in
the Cabin EJB using the
element. (The
* in the
<method-name> element means
"all methods.")
<container-transaction> element declares
that all the methods of the Cabin EJB have a
Required transaction attribute, which means that
all the methods must be executed within a transaction. Transaction
attributes are explained in more detail in Chapter 14. The deployment descriptor ends with the
closing tag of the
<ejb-jar> element.
Copy the Cabin EJB's deployment descriptor into the META-INF directory and save it as ejb-jar.xml. You have now created all the files you need to package your Cabin EJB. Figure 4-2 shows all the files that should be in the dev directory.
Figure 4-2. The Cabin EJB files
TheJAR file is a platform-independent file format for compressing, packaging, and delivering several files together. Based on the ZIP file format and the ZLIB compression standards, the JAR (Java archive) tool and packages were originally developed to make downloads of Java applets more efficient. As a packaging mechanism, however, the JAR file format is a very convenient way to "shrink-wrap" components and other software for delivery to third parties. In EJB development, a JAR file packages all the classes and interfaces associated with a bean, including the deployment descriptor, into one file.
Creating the JAR file for deployment is easy. Position yourself in the dev directory that is just above the com/titan/cabin directory tree, and execute the following command:
\dev % jar cf cabin.jar com/titan/cabin/*.class META-INF/ejb-jar.xml
F:\..\dev>jar cf cabin.jar com\titan\cabin\*.class META-INF\ejb-jar.xml
You might have to create the META-INF
directory first and copy ejb-jar.xml into that
directory. The c option tells the
jar utility to create a new JAR file that
contains the files indicated in subsequent parameters. It also tells
the jar utility to stream the resulting JAR file
to standard output. The f option tells
jar to redirect the standard output to a new
file named in the second parameter (cabin.jar).
It's important to get the order of the option
letters and the command-line parameters to match. You can learn more
about the jar utility and the
java.util.zip package in Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan, or Learning
Java by Pat Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen (both published by O'Reilly).
The jar utility creates the file cabin.jar in the dev directory. If you're interested in looking at the contents of the JAR file, you can use any standard ZIP application (WinZip, PKZIP, etc.), or you can use the command jar tvf cabin.jar.
One of the primary jobs of a deployment tool is mapping entity beans to
databases. In the case of the Cabin EJB, we must map its
shipId, and
bedCount container-managed fields to some data
source. Before proceeding with deployment, you need to set up a
database and create a
CABIN table. You can use the
following standard SQL statement to create a
table that will be consistent with the examples provided in this
create table CABIN
ID int primary key NOT NULL,
SHIP_ID int,
BED_COUNT int,
NAME char(30),
DECK_LEVEL int
This statement creates a
CABIN table that has five
columns corresponding to the container-managed fields in the
CabinBean class. Once the table is created and
connectivity to the database is confirmed, you can proceed with the
deployment process.
Deployment is the process of reading the bean's JAR file, changing or adding properties to the deployment descriptor, mapping the bean to the database, defining access control in the security domain, and generating any vendor-specific classes needed to support the bean in the EJB environment. Every EJB server product has its own deployment tools, which may provide a graphical user interface, a set of command-line programs, or both. Graphical deploymentwizards are the easiest deployment tools to use.
A deployment tool reads the JAR file and looks for ejb-jar.xml. In a graphical deployment wizard, the deployment descriptor elements are presented using a set of property sheets similar to those used in environments such as VisualBasic.NET, PowerBuilder, and JBuilder. Figure 4-3 shows the deployment wizard for the J2EE 1.3 SDK (Reference Implementation) server.
Figure 4-3. J2EE 1.3 SDK Reference Implementation's deployment wizard
The J2EE Reference Implementation's deployment
wizard has fields and panels that match the XML deployment
descriptor. You can map security roles to user groups, set the JNDI
lookup name, map the container-managed fields to the database, etc.
EJB deployment tools provide varying degrees of support for mapping
container-managed fields to a data source. Some provide sophisticated
graphical user interfaces, while others are simpler and less
flexible. Fortunately, mapping the
CabinBean's container-managed
fields to the
CABIN table is a fairly
straightforward process. The documentation for your
vendor's deployment tool will show you how to create
this mapping. Once you have finished the mapping, you can complete
the deployment of the Cabin EJB and prepare to access it from the EJB
Now that the Cabin EJB has been deployed, we want to access it from a
remote client. In this section, we create a remote client that
connects to the EJB server, locates the EJB remote home for the Cabin
EJB, and creates and interacts with several Cabin EJBs. The following
code shows a Java application that creates a new Cabin EJB, sets its
shipId, and
properties, and then locates it again using its primary key:
package com.titan.cabin;
import com.titan.cabin.CabinHomeRemote;
import com.titan.cabin.CabinRemote;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
public class Client_1 {
public static void main(String [] args) {
try {
Context jndiContext = getInitialContext( );
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("CabinHomeRemote");
CabinHomeRemote home = (CabinHomeRemote)
CabinRemote cabin_1 = home.create(new Integer(1));
cabin_1.setName("Master Suite");
Integer pk = new Integer(1);
CabinRemote cabin_2 = home.findByPrimaryKey(pk);
System.out.println(cabin_2.getName( ));
System.out.println(cabin_2.getDeckLevel( ));
System.out.println(cabin_2.getShipId( ));
System.out.println(cabin_2.getBedCount( ));
} catch (java.rmi.RemoteException re){re.printStackTrace( );}
catch (javax.naming.NamingException ne){ne.printStackTrace( );}
catch (javax.ejb.CreateException ce){ce.printStackTrace( );}
catch (javax.ejb.FinderException fe){fe.printStackTrace( );}
public static Context getInitialContext( )
throws javax.naming.NamingException {
Properties p = new Properties( );
// ... Specify the JNDI properties specific to the vendor.
return new javax.naming.InitialContext(p);
To access an enterprise bean, a
client starts by using JNDI to obtain a directory connection to a
bean's container. JNDI is an
implementation-independent API for directory and naming systems.
Every EJB vendor must provide a directory service that is
JNDI-compliant. This means that they must provide a JNDI service
provider, which is a piece of software analogous to a driver in JDBC.
Different service providers connect to different directory
services - not unlike JDBC, where different drivers connect to
different relational databases. The
getInitialContext( )
method uses JNDI to obtain a network connection to the EJB server.
The code used to obtain the JNDI
Context depends
on which EJB vendor you use. Consult your vendor's
documentation to find out how to obtain a JNDI
Context appropriate to your product. For example,
the code used to obtain a JNDI
Context in
WebSphere might look something like the following:
public static Context getInitialContext( )
throws javax.naming.NamingException {
java.util.Properties properties = new java.util.Properties( );
properties.put(javax.naming.Context.PROVIDER_URL, "iiop:///");
return new InitialContext(properties);
The same method developed for BEA's WebLogic Server would be different:
public static Context getInitialContext( )
throws javax.naming.NamingException {
Properties p = new Properties( );
p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:7001");
return new javax.naming.InitialContext(p);
Once a JNDI connection is established and a context is obtained from
getInitialContext( ) method, the context can
be used to look up the EJB home of the Cabin EJB.
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("CabinHomeRemote");
Throughout this book, we'll use lookup names like "CabinHomeRemote" for remote client applications. The actual name you use to do a lookup may be different, depending on the requirements of your vendor. You will need to bind a lookup name to the EJB server's naming service, and some vendors may require a special directory path.
If you are using a standard J2EE component (Servlet, JSP, EJB,
or J2EE Application Client), you will not need to set the properties
explicitly when creating a JNDI
InitialContext, no
matter which EJB vendor you are using. That's
because the
properties can be configured at deployment time and are applied
automatically. A J2EE component would obtain its
InitialContext as follows:
public static Context getInitialContext( )
throws javax.naming.NamingException {
return new javax.naming.InitialContext( );
This is simpler and more portable than configuring JNDI properties
for simple Java clients. All J2EE components use the same JNDI naming
system that enterprise beans use to lookup any service. Specifically,
they require that EJB references be bound to the
java:comp/env/ejb/ namespace. For example, for a
J2EE component, here's all we need to look up the
Cabin EJB:
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/CabinHomeRemote");
At deployment time you would use the vendor's deployment tools to map that JNDI name to the Cabin EJB's home. In this book, Java client applictions will need to use explicit parameters for JNDI lookups. As an alternative you could use a special J2EE component called a J2EE Application Client, but this type of component is outside the scope of this book. For more information about J2EE Application Client components consult the J2EE 1.3 (for EJB 2.0) or the J2EE 1.4 specifications.
Client_1 application uses the
PortableRemoteObject.narrow( ) method to narrow
Object ref to a
CabinHomeRemote reference:
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("CabinHomeRemote");
CabinHomeRemote home = (CabinHomeRemote)
PortableRemoteObject.narrow( )
method was first introduced in EJB 1.1 and continues to be used on
remote clients in EJB 2.1 and 2.0. It is needed to support the
requirements of RMI over IIOP. Because CORBA supports many
different languages, casting is not native to CORBA (some languages
don't have casting). Therefore, to get a remote
reference to
CabinHomeRemote, we must explicitly
narrow the object returned from
lookup( ). This
has the same effect as casting and is explained in more detail in
Chapter 5.
The name used to find the Cabin EJB's EJB home is set by the deployer using a deployment wizard like the one pictured earlier. The JNDI name is entirely up to the person deploying the bean; it can be the same as the bean name set in the XML deployment descriptor, or something completely different.
Once we have a remote reference to the EJB home, we can use it to create a new Cabin entity:
CabinRemote cabin_1 = home.create(new Integer(1));
We create a new
Cabin entity using the
create(Integer id) method defined in the remote
home interface of the Cabin EJB. When this method is invoked, the EJB
home works with the EJB server to create a Cabin EJB, adding its data to the
database. The EJB server creates an EJB object to wrap the Cabin EJB
instance and returns a remote reference to the EJB object. The
cabin_1 variable then contains a remote reference
to the Cabin EJB we just created. We don't need to
use the
PortableRemoteObject.narrow( ) method to
get the EJB object from the home reference, because it was declared
as returning the
CabinRemote type; no casting was
required. We don't need to explicitly narrow remote
references returned by
findByPrimaryKey( ) for the
same reason.
With the remote reference to the EJB object, we can update the
shipId, and
bedCount of the
Cabin EJB:
CabinRemote cabin_1 = home.create(new Integer(1));
cabin_1.setName("Master Suite");
Figure 4-4 shows how the relational database table we created should look after this code has been executed. It should contain one record.
Figure 4-4. CABIN table with one cabin record
A client locates entity beans using the
findByPrimaryKey( ) method in the home interface. To look up
the Cabin bean we just created, we create a primary key of the
correct type - in this case,
Integer. When we
invoke the finder method on the home interface using the primary key,
we get back a remote reference to the EJB object. We can now
interrogate the remote reference returned by
findByPrimaryKey( ) to get the Cabin
shipId, and
Integer pk = new Integer(1);
CabinRemote cabin_2 = home.findByPrimaryKey(pk);
System.out.println(cabin_2.getName( ));
System.out.println(cabin_2.getDeckLevel( ));
System.out.println(cabin_2.getShipId( ));
System.out.println(cabin_2.getBedCount( ));
We are ready to create and run the
application. Compile the client application and deploy the Cabin EJB
into the container system (see the JBoss Workbook section of this
book, Exercise 4.1). Then run the
application. The output should look something like this:
Master Suite
Congratulations! You just created and used your first entity bean. Of
course, the client application doesn't do much.
Before going on to create session beans, create another client that
adds some test data to the database. Here we'll
Client_2, which is a modification of
Client_1 that populates the database with a large
number of cabins for three different ships:
package com.titan.cabin;
import com.titan.cabin.CabinHomeRemote;
import com.titan.cabin.CabinRemote;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.ejb.CreateException;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
public class Client_2 {
public static void main(String [] args) {
try {
Context jndiContext = getInitialContext( );
Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("CabinHomeRemote");
CabinHomeRemote home = (CabinHomeRemote)
// Add 9 cabins to deck 1 of ship 1.
makeCabins(home, 2, 10, 1, 1);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 2 of ship 1.
makeCabins(home, 11, 20, 2, 1);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 3 of ship 1.
makeCabins(home, 21, 30, 3, 1);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 1 of ship 2.
makeCabins(home, 31, 40, 1, 2);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 2 of ship 2.
makeCabins(home, 41, 50, 2, 2);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 3 of ship 2.
makeCabins(home, 51, 60, 3, 2);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 1 of ship 3.
makeCabins(home, 61, 70, 1, 3);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 2 of ship 3.
makeCabins(home, 71, 80, 2, 3);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 3 of ship 3.
makeCabins(home, 81, 90, 3, 3);
// Add 10 cabins to deck 4 of ship 3.
makeCabins(home, 91, 100, 4, 3);
for (int i = 1; i <= 100; i++){
Integer pk = new Integer(i);
CabinRemote cabin = home.findByPrimaryKey(pk);
System.out.println("PK = "+i+", Ship = "+cabin.getShipId( )
+ ", Deck = "+cabin.getDeckLevel( )
+ ", BedCount = "+cabin.getBedCount( )
+ ", Name = "+cabin.getName( ));
} catch (java.rmi.RemoteException re) {re.printStackTrace( );}
catch (javax.naming.NamingException ne) {ne.printStackTrace( );}
catch (javax.ejb.CreateException ce) {ce.printStackTrace( );}
catch (javax.ejb.FinderException fe) {fe.printStackTrace( );}
public static javax.naming.Context getInitialContext( )
throws javax.naming.NamingException{
Properties p = new Properties( );
// ... Specify the JNDI properties specific to the vendor.
return new javax.naming.InitialContext(p);
public static void makeCabins(CabinHomeRemote home, int fromId,
int toId, int deckLevel, int shipNumber)
throws RemoteException, CreateException {
int bc = 3;
for (int i = fromId; i <= toId; i++) {
CabinRemote cabin = home.create(new Integer(i));
int suiteNumber = deckLevel*100+(i-fromId);
cabin.setName("Suite "+suiteNumber);
bc = (bc==3)?2:3;
Create and run the
Client_2 application against
the Cabin EJB we deployed earlier.
Client_2 lists
all the Cabin EJBs it added to the database:
PK = 1, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 3, Name = Master Suite
PK = 2, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 2, Name = Suite 100
PK = 3, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 3, Name = Suite 101
PK = 4, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 2, Name = Suite 102
PK = 5, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 3, Name = Suite 103
PK = 6, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 2, Name = Suite 104
PK = 7, Ship = 1, Deck = 1, BedCount = 3, Name = Suite 105
We now have 100 cabin records in our
CABIN table,
representing 100 cabin entities in our EJB system. This amount
provides a good set of test data for the session bean we will create
in the next section, and for subsequent examples throughout the book.
Next week, we'll conclude this two-part excerpt from Chapter 4 of Enterprise JavaBeans, 4th Edition with a look at how to develop a session bean that builds from the examples provided here.
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hi all:
am sure everyone's now seen masuru emoto's work with water and how e-motions effect the formations of water crystals?
if not, youtube him.
here's one with dvorak:
love and light,
hi all:
am sure everyone's now seen masuru emoto's work with water and how e-motions effect the formations of water crystals?
if not, youtube him.
here's one with dvorak:
love and light,
absolutely. and the original post in this topic speaks of how they are working with emoto. write me for video links, as i am not allow to give them out freely in this forum, yet....
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~ "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
.Albert Einstein.
"The day Science begins to study nonphysical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of its existence."
.Nikola Tesla.
"There is no Way to Peace - Peace is the Way. Cosmic Consciousness and the Way of Non-ego."
.M. K. Gandhi.
"Evil Is Not Your Enemy"
.Deepak Chopra.
greetings all,
i'm in agreement that water holds amazing properties. the super amazingness of water is well-known to most commoners and the mainstream sci-community.
however, some of the more extraordinary water claims are becoming more and more well known in the sub-cultures.
here is my question / quest / concern:
is anybody actually doing real science? i'm sure they are, but where is it?
i listened to the david serada interview on coast to coast, where they talk about the brilliance of the sun-produced ice crystal, and the bucket experiment, and a whole bunch of great sounding stuff, but that is all it was. talking.
if these people are making scientific breakthroughs then they should publish the experiment and let other people perform them and publish their results. it is simple as that.
if these organization, or idividuals performed their experiments according to the accepted rules of the sci-community with proper documentation and elimination of biases and error reduction, we'd be reading abuot this stuff in peer-reviewed journals. but we're not, we're reading about them on fringe sites and in skeptics magazines. when is someone going to step up to the hard science plate?
don't just show me once ice crystal and then talk about all this phenomenon. i'd like to review the data, see the failures, look at the trends, look at the peaks, troughs, and orders of magnitude considered to be important and significant.
same thing with emoto. i've seen bleep, i've listened to science of peace, i've seen all of emoto's products, but you know what i have yet to see? his published experiment. the data. have any of you?
so far all that has been presented is fancy pictures of ice crystals, cesspools, and metaphysical talk about the possible implications. that stuff excites the hell out of me, but ... where is the data? shouldn't the world of exploded with published research all around the emoto experiment?
i've looked. i can't find it. apparently he has been asked to publish the experiment, but he won't. why do you suppose that is?
type in "ice crystal" into google and look at the millions of images that come back. 90% of ice crystals look stunningly amazing, and hold the 6 pointed star geometry in their fractal fundement. looking at the picture of the sun crystal really means nothing without data. i could bring up 100 images that all look just as stunning and share the same fractal fundementals as the sun crystal instantly on google.
i hope others come out and feel the same way, because then maybe we can band together and do some work. dw's books are great, the science of peace is great, but lets take it a step further and look at the actual data. i think we're all ready to be able to look at the data, the scientific published experiments and either a.) reproduce the results independently, or b.) garner our own opinions and implications based on the facts.
i'm reaching out to the community right now. what do you guys think?
bea peaceful on your way,
Be peaceful on your way,
"I am another You"
i'd like to see a reference to the image in david's 2012 video where he showed "microclusters" image in the pineal gland fluid/water. can someone direct me to that please?
Afr(ee)ica LIVES! Can you hear its heartBEAT?
i remember nassim haramein mention a property of water that is the opposite of all other elements but i don't remember what it was. go to the thread nassim haramein and the resonance project and somewhere during the 8 hours of the 2 videos you will find it.
liliane the transit
dear friends,
part i
part ii
be well, be love.
water is the missing, often overlooked piece of the puzzle. since water has consciousness and memory, everything we do and feel begins to make more sense. we are in fact moving bodies of water, able to connect psychically with other bodies of water. it is quantum entanglement at a much larger scale. this really truly is a new era of awakening where in the past few decades, some of the most important discoveries have ever been made in recorded history. but then you take a step back and realize, a lot of these new scientific discoveries have in fact been around for a very long time and that is something to take a closer look at. the spiritual chanting of olm, almost mimicking the healing vibration of the sun, the holy water and the baptism, all take on a new meaning with these scientific discoveries. but have they always had this meaning? when you consider that we are water and some humans have had the willpower to ascend into self disciplined masters of themselves, it makes sense that they may have came to these findings intuitively many years ago and it is only now with science, can we discover the real truth behind it all. very exciting stuff.
tsandi mandi,
dan winter is doing many experiments on all of this, using phi-ratio / fractalization / bliss tuning using the bliss tuner (yes, his product) and other means to show the reality behind it all. it is kinda a game of "peicing together" ya know? so lets keep on this track of finding more experiments. this is a part of his experiments: http://goldenmean.info/waterlife/
this reminds me of what dw speask of, but here are the numbers and actual papers scanned-in and posted on dan winter's site. pretty sweet stuff.
pm me for videos/urls on other people talking about water fractality.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~ "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
.Albert Einstein.
"The day Science begins to study nonphysical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of its existence."
.Nikola Tesla.
"There is no Way to Peace - Peace is the Way. Cosmic Consciousness and the Way of Non-ego."
.M. K. Gandhi.
"Evil Is Not Your Enemy"
.Deepak Chopra.
luc montagnier, nobel 2008 on the memory of water, new scientific revelations
"we've done many studies on bacteria - continued montagnier - and there are signals from molecules with high molecular weight that even when diluted to 10 to the eighteenth maintain their own signal: we have shown that this phenomenon does not depend on quantity, but a phenomenon that touch on quantum physics, the physical structure of water. for instance, we left two separate specimens in a container of metal alloy that prevents the radiation to the outside, and we saw that the two tubes, diluted to a 10 to 10 and a third to the ninth, there was an exchange of information and associations at the molecular level. this showed us that the molecules have their background electromagnetic and it is able to transfer from one molecule to another, from one tube to another. we then measured these phenomena for weeks in the blood of patients by extracting and measuring the liquid part of human plasma. the majority of pathogens, the bacteria but also viruses, including hiv, produce these signals. we have mapped them with many different analysis techniques, and those we have seen is consistent with everything i just said. "
this is a long video documentary, but very enlightening. somewhat related to masaru emoto's research, some russian scientists dig deeper into how human consciousness and emotions affects water.
i like the part where it was documented that some "evil scientists" were pondering on the next biochemical weapons, then they got poisoned by their own water. analysis showed that they drank only pure water, which perplexed them ... what they did not know back then was water carried and remembered the "evil" intentions and emotions they were discussing in their secluded meeting room.
this is a must see, folks!


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Just as it took the anti-Communist Richard Nixon to go to China, because anyone else would have been accused of cuddling up with the Reds, perhaps it will take congressional Democrats — a party never associated with fiscal discipline — to help put a halt to the abuse of pork-barrel earmarks.
Or perhaps Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi's pledge to make Congress more fiscally accountable is just a ploy, meant to convince Americans that the party that pioneered deficit spending and pork-barrel plundering can be trusted with the federal purse strings again.
We're betting on the latter.
"Democrats aim to open the next Congress in January with a new rule that identifies lawmakers who use legislative 'earmarks' to help special interests — a change Republicans promised but didn't implement," reported USA Today on Monday. "House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said her first agenda item after being elected House speaker will be a vote to require sponsors of earmarks to be identified. Currently, lawmakers can remain anonymous in sponsoring an earmark, which is language in a bill that directs funds or tax benefits to a business, project or institution."
Interesting. But we were crestfallen to read, in the story's next few paragraphs, that Pelosi is pushing for "transparency" even though she doesn't think doing away with earmarks is "realistic." In fact, Pelosi said she believes many earmarks "are worthy" and "can be a legitimate way for Congress to force fiscal priorities on the White House."
From idealism to "realism" to rationalizations in two short paragraphs: That must be a record, even for Washington.
While pork-barrel politicians have always been with us, the number of earmarks tucked into congressional spending bills has tripled in the past decade, according to the Congressional Research Service. They now total about 16,000 projects per spending cycle, adding billions of dollars annually to the deficit and debt, for expenditures that aren't a national responsibility or priority. And while the Republicans undoubtedly made pigs of themselves as the majority, Democrats almost certainly will do likewise.
"You can't have bridges to nowhere for America's children to pay for," Pelosi said, evoking one notorious recent pork project. "Or if you do, you have to know whose it is." So it's OK with Pelosi if you spend federal funds on a "bridge to nowhere," as long as you 'fess up to it? That's incredibly weak.
We urge the new speaker to lead by example. Not only should Pelosi identify all the earmarks she attaches to future spending bills, she should identify those she's tucked into past spending bills. But that could be embarrassing.
"Nancy Pelosi is talking the talk about getting rid of earmarks, but now we'll see if she is ready to walk the walk," said David Williams, the vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste. "When it comes to pork-barreling, her lips say no, no, no, but her actions say yes, yes, yes."
CAGW research shows Pelosi has been responsible for nearly 20 earmarks in the last two fiscal years alone, including $291,000 for the International Museum of Women in San Francisco, $388,000 for the Filipino Cultural Center in San Francisco, $2 million to the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park and $450,000 to the San Francisco "Safe Streets Project."
Might some of these expenditures be worthwhile? Sure, from the point of view of Bay-area beneficiaries. But the question should be, are they an appropriate use of federal funds? Or put another way, would a taxpayer in Clovis, Portales or Tucumcari be happy paying for them? Using this litmus test, they clearly qualify as "pork."
Some reformers believe earmark "disclosure rules" will shame members of Congress into curbing their appetite for pork, but we have doubts.
Few members like being singled out by CAGW and other watchdog groups for raiding the Treasury, yet most also love to brag to constituents about the federal spending they "brought back" to the state or district. And many constituents also have come to see this as a legitimate part of the job, unfortunately, not realizing it's a vicious circle.
If Pelosi really wanted to change things, she would require that any member seeking an earmark come forward with an "offset," or cut, to make it budget neutral. For every item tacked onto one appropriations bill, a cut of equivalent value would have to be made elsewhere. That wouldn't necessarily reduce the overall cost of pork, but it would force members to justify their projects and make trade-offs.
That would be unacceptable to rank-and-file members of both parties, of course, so Pelosi settles for this timid gesture instead — which won't work because you can't shame the shameless.


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My schedule for this past week was rather full. In retrospect this is what it looked like:
Monday, 1/24, posted an Obituary for James B. McPherson, which was actually more of a political history for his father, James P. McPherson, than an obituary for James B. McPherson.
Tuesday, 1/25, posted my wee poem in honor of Rabbie Burns' birthday.
Wednesday, 1/26, traveled to Eugene (300 miles north of my home in Ashland) to have an early sushi dinner with my sis and our friend; then went directly to my Eugene critique group. An excellent day and evening in all respects. Good dinner, good conversation, and a great critique group.
Thursday, 1/27, traveled the 300 miles back to Ashland. Posted at piece on the Pine Grove School house in Klamath County. This was an excerpt from a family history that I wrote several years ago and I was horrified at my writing back then --- but also pleased with the strides I have made in my craft of writing.
I also made a few follow-up contacts on some problems I am encountering in putting the Ralph letters into a form to print, e.g., indexing is causing me to want to yell, scream and pull my hair; the actual process of getting the book ready for pdf seems daunting and I keep hoping for a fairy godmother to come and wave her wand.
The last three days of the week were spent in general clean up, i.e., house, desk, filing, and that sort of thing --- to say nothing of mounds of laundry and a nagging dog.
For this next week, my intent is to be more focused and not traveling throughout the state. Focus for the week:
1 - writing time of at least 6 hours, to include mini bios, slants, project writing and new blog material
2 - Project of Ralph's letter: find indexing software or source; try out WinHttrack as an alternative to Blurb or similar programs; begin editing process. Also, call a couple of printers for some input.
3 - Ashland critique group on Tuesday.
Hmmm, only three things on my list, but I think that is more than enough to keep me busy.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday Synopsis: 2011 January 30th
Labels: critique groups, Ralph's Letters, Sunday Synopsis
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I am enjoying your weekly updates! Always enlightening.ReplyDelete
Carol, Thanks for checking in and reading my weekly ramblings. Just writing the Sunday Synopsis keeps me focused, but having someone actually interested in my ramblings --- wow, even better.ReplyDelete
You've accomplished so much this week - and had good times, too! I have to figure out how to do this....ReplyDelete
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Narrowsburg esplanade: just the facts, please
The current campaign for the one-year term on the town council has called into question the Narrowsburg esplanade project and its potential impact on the community versus the cost. Ask just about any town manager in Sullivan County if they would change places with Narrowsburg, and chances are, nine out of 10 would likely reply with an enthusiastic, "Yes!" And the reason is that Narrowsburg has become one of the most vibrant and appealing destinations in the area.
People come to Narrowsburg all year long to dine, shop and enjoy our unique river views, the eagles, or more recently our award-winning garden atmosphere. It's a principal of urban renewal that any time an area adds amenities that appeal to a wide array of individuals, neighborhoods improve and businesses thrive. This is not conjecture, it's a fact.
Statistics just released by the New York City Department of Transportation have calculated that the pedestrian plazas created in areas such as Broadway, the financial district, Herald Square and Times Square have not, as some feared, hurt business, but on the contrary have dramatically increased business from 14 to 49%. In the area of Brooklyn known as DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), a dingy parking lot converted into a pedestrian plaza increased sales to local businesses by 172% in three years. (Based on tax receipts—New York Post, October 24, 2012.)
Check for yourself: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/sidewalks/publicplaza.shtml.
While our little hamlet is not New York City, the principal still applies. Make your town or street or neighborhood a desirable destination and people will come, stay and spend money. We already have ample proof of that from the just completed summer season. Most stores and restaurants on Main Street had a good summer, certainly better than many towns in Sullivan County.
Rather than the demagoguery around the esplanade with a six-foot roving sign that appeals to ignorance and claims that are not borne out by the facts, let's stick to what has been a proven long-standing axiom in urban renewal efforts both large and small. Virtually every town that has ever invested in an amenity such as the Narrowsburg esplanade thrives. What makes this project so appealing is the unprecedented access it gives residents and visitors to the same river that makes this such a special place to live.
Remember, if Narrowsburg were not a destination, Main Street would be as it once was—boarded up—with paper and plastic debris (our version of tumble weed) blowing down the street, and we would all be dealing with much higher taxes.
[Tony Staffieri is a resident of Narrowsburg, NY]


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Re: NASCAR 2011 is finally here
I have basically raced all the NASCAR games. From Bill Elliott back on the original nintendo, to the Papyrus games on the PC, to all the EA Sports NASCAR games. This really didn't live up to the hype. The graphics are the best of any NASCAR game (then again the last game came out in early '09), but the gameplay is arcadish. Right out of the box, you can run up front on the hardest settings, using the default setup. Online is a mess, but most new releases are that way for the first month. The career mode isn't deep, and there is only the Cup series to run. Overall, the graphics are good (barring that there is no day-to-night transition for the night races, and all of them are run at dusk), but the way the car handles (just turn hard left and use the throttle to corner) is pathetic. You can have all the assists turned off and you still feel like there are major assists helping you. The one other plus besides the graphics is that the computer AI, though very easy, is very realistic in the sence that they will run different lines and will bump-draft you and others at the superspeedways. Beyond that, I would save my $60. I kind of regret it.
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'Expendables 2'
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Originally published on August 22, 2012 4:41 am
The Expendables 2 — the movie starring a host of aging action heroes — opened at No. 1 over the weekend. Morning Edition commentator and Hollywood screenwriter John Ridley found the movie surprisingly stirring following last month's shootings in Aurora, Colorado.


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A Wisconsin woman who went abroad to teach English this summer never returned home, and her family is looking for answers as to what caused to her death.
"It's been 3 ½ months, and we don't know any more now than we did in the beginning," said Velma Jacobs, Kari Bowerman's grandmother.
Bowerman, 27, of Lake Geneva, died unexpectedly in Vietnam, and her family still doesn't know why.
The brief autopsy report explaining Bowerman's death hardly gives her family comfort. They claim Vietnam's government is covering up what really killed her in the interest of protecting the country's successful tourism industry.
WISC-TV found that more than half a dozen other tourists' recent deaths are similar to Bowerman's, including her own travel partner. Some Asian media reports suggest the tourists were poisoned by a chemical meant to kill bed bugs.
"Kari and I had been friends since the age of 14. We met (during our) freshman year of high school," said Jason Von Seth, Bowerman's longtime friend.
The last time the two met was in July when Von Seth took pictures of them in South Korea.
"She kind of looked into the program, and she jumped on board and absolutely loved it," Von Seth said about the two times Bowerman spent teaching English in Seoul.
It's when Bowerman and fellow teacher Cathy Huynh took a break this summer and traveled to Vietnam that things went wrong, Bowerman's family said.
"They spent time on the beach. They went to dinner. They went and had a few drinks after dinner. They went back to their hotel, and they woke up in the morning sick," Jacobs said.
Both women left their hotel on the Nha Trang coast for a local hospital. Huynh was treated and released from the hospital, but Bowerman wasn't. Three hours after being admitted, Bowerman died.
"The hotel won't talk. The hospital won't talk. The police won't talk -- nobody will talk," said Jacobs, whose frustration is compounded by the couple of sentences in an autopsy report recently released to Vietnam's U.S. Consulate from local police suggesting Bowerman died from respiratory failure and brain swelling.
"(But) not what caused it, no secondary cause, nothing else," Jacobs said.
Bowerman's low blood pressure, trouble breathing and vomiting are symptoms consistent with chemical poisoning, according to St. Mary's Hospital emergency room Dr. Kyle Martin, who isn't affiliated with Bowerman's case.
"It does, ultimately, get absorbed and metabolize where you could do an autopsy a few days later, and you may not be able to find evidence that was in the patient's body," Martin said.
Martin said chemical poisoning symptoms are similar to other sicknesses and that if diagnosed quickly, someone who has been poisoned can be treated.
Asian media outlets are linking Bowerman's death to other tourists who died in Thailand.
Washington state native Jill St. Onge and a Norwegian woman stayed in the same hotel when they visited the country three years ago.
Two years later, New Zealander Sarah Carter would go there, followed by Noemi and Audrey Belanger a year later. Thai police reportedly found an insect repellent meant for crops and bed bugs in the Canadian sisters' bodies. That insect repellent is banned in most countries, but it's legal in Thailand and Vietnam.
The cases have caught the attention of travel expert Peter Greenberg.
"The patterns here are quite similar," Greenberg said. "People are staying in hotels that have used these chemicals. We don't know the extent to which these chemicals were used, but that seems to be the common thread."
The mysterious trend doesn't stop with Bowerman's death. Despite leaving the hospital, her co-worker, Huyhn, died two days later.
As for the investigation, the World Health Organization told CNN that it suspects poison in the deaths but can't trace its origin.
"I guess for me, personally, I'm just wondering if another situation like this is going to occur and how many more situations like this have to occur before somebody does something about it," Von Seth said.


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Ultimately, you will be the one to decide how committed you are to pursuing graduate school. You may need to expand your geographical range or the type of program to increase your chances of getting accepted, or you may need to gain further experience to enhance your application.
Some useful links include:Academic Advisement CenterPre-Law AdvisementYC Pre-Health AdvisementSCW Pre-Health Advisement
gradschools.comgraduateprograms.comfindthebest.com (click on "Education")http://graduate-school.phds.org/ www.howtobecome.com (Information on how to break into various graduate school related field)www.top-law-schools.com
MastersInDataScience.orggraduateguide.comstudentdoctor.net Nurse Without BordersBusiness Degrees (both online and campus-based)AffordableCollegesOnline: Accredited Online MBA Programs
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