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More than a game changer for the industry, the fact that sales of beauty and personal care products will be higher in emerging markets than in developed markets by 2015 is a remarkable turnaround when one considers that in 2008, only five years ago, sales in developed markets were double those in emerging markets.
The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) have been pivotal to the story, fueling 45% of absolute growth 2007–2012 (based on fixed U.S. dollar values), and they will continue to be key going forward, despite indications of cooler economic growth (the Brazilian economy only grew approximately 1% in 2012). In the specific case of Brazil, widespread access to credit is helping keep consumer confidence comparatively high.
At the same time, a number of second-tier emerging markets are growing in strategic importance. The MINTs (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) are generating frenzied investor interest, for example, and could be hot spots for new product development in beauty care to 2020 and beyond.
In early 2013, there are value-enhancing opportunities still up for grabs in developed markets, especially in niche sectors such as hair loss treatments and anti-aging skin care. However, it is clear that international manufacturers will need to weigh up stronger positions across a raft of emerging markets if they are to beef up their top lines.
A number of the world's leading players are overexposed to developed markets. In hair care, for example, L'Oréal and Henkel are heavily dependent on Western Europe. By contrast, Unilever has built strong positions in fast-growing Latin America and emerging Asia, diluting its exposure to lackluster markets. As the power shift from developed to emerging markets gets stronger, so the strength, depth and diversity of a company's emerging market footprint will become ever more critical to global market share.
The emerging middle class has been a lynchpin of growth in the BRICs. In Brazil and China, the two biggest growth markets in absolute terms, the shift to a more sophisticated and aspirant consumer culture has been tangible. As a result, Euromonitor International has seen an increasingly competitive middle ground (in terms of price points) as C-class consumers trade up from economy brands. On the back of this, Unilever's Tresemmé, for example, is on course to become a billion-dollar brand in 2013 (in terms of global retail sales).
Beauty spending in Brazil and China has also been spurred by the dispersal of wealth from first-tier consumption bases. Brazil's northeast, home to 30% of the population, has emerged as a key regional battleground for beauty products due to its growing economic confidence. Meanwhile in China, wealth has filtered from the coast into the interior, which accounts for two-thirds of the population. Southwest China's Chongqing and Chengdu municipalities, with populations of around 28 million and 14 million respectively, are two of the fastest growing consumption bases in the world, and present hugely attractive opportunities for beauty product development.
The spread of wealth is also critical to the growth story in India, with branded shampoos and conditioners pushing with increased regulatory and more deeply into rural areas, which account for 69% of the population.
Russia remains the weakest of the BRICs. Its increasingly value-conscious consumers are applying downward pressure on prices and squeezing margins. However, the market is still forecast to generate well over $1 billion of growth a year to 2016.
During the past decade, Mexico has been outshone by Brazil as Latin America's darling of investors. But a power change is taking shape, and in the next 10 years Mexico could overtake Brazil as Latin America's biggest economy. The emerging middle class, which is aspirational in its purchasing habits, is again at the core of the opportunity for beauty brands. Based on Euromonitor International forecasts, Mexico will be one of the fastest-growing beauty care markets in the world to 2016, in absolute terms.

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Drew Willy took a shot on his throwing hand near the end of Winnipeg Blue Bombers practice on Thursday, causing everyone in blue and gold to hold their collective breath for a moment.
Including head coach Mike O'Shea.
"He got his hand caught up in another player," said O'Shea. "I just talked to him, he said he's good."
O'Shea said Willy, the Bombers' starting quarterback and THE spark to their turnaround so far this season, will be good to go for this Sunday's annual Labour Day Classic against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The knock on Willy's hand came in the dying moments of practice when an attempted pass was battled down by defender Don Unamba, who was blitzing on the play and came into the quarterback's throwing lane. Willy immediately dropped to the turf and could be seen clutching his throwing hand. He was looked at by head athletic therapist Al Couture but did not leave the field and huddled with his teammates at the end of practice.
Asked if witnessing his starting QB go down led to an 'Oh crap…' moment, O'Shea said:
"I wish I was that polite. It's practice. Things happen in practice. I'm glad he's feeling better or will be fine. But, yeah, there's a moment there where you assess the situation and I'm trying to run through my head what we would normally do because I don't normally differentiate between quarterbacks and anybody else… but I realize now I probably have to.
"There was a part of me that said, 'Move the drill (keep going from a different spot away from the injured player) because that's what you do as a defensive guy. I've heard that so many times. And then you realize, 'Hey, that's your starting quarterback.'
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The trouble with nicknames is that you usually don't get to pick out your own. Take me for instance. I would be willing to bet that 98.723 percent of people born with the last name "Wallace" have been called "Wally" at least once in their lives. It's not a flashy nickname, but I like it.
Nicknames are most often thrust upon a person, whether they like it or not. Trust me, if you ever meet a guy nicknamed "Stinky," you can most certainly expect that he didn't select it. But there is probably an amusing little anecdote as to how that nickname came to fruition.
The other day, some people in the office were discussing professional-wrestling nicknames. Professional wrestlers are the exceptions to the nicknaming rule. They get to actually pick out their own nicknames. Growing up, I remember wrestlers with cool names like George "The Animal" Steele, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, "King Kong" Bundy and "Mad Dog" Vachon. There was also "Hulk" Hogan, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, "Jumpin" Jim Brunzell, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Larry "The Axe" Hennig and Billy "Superstar" Graham. The list goes on and on.
Wouldn't it be great if all professions issued nicknames to their employees? In my opinion, the workplace would become much more interesting. To give you an example of what I mean, here are some nickname possibilities that I've come up with looking around the editorial department at the Bureau County Republican:
Kevin "Hollywood" Hieronymus — Kevin already has this nickname. He got it after a former BCR employee saw him on television. He was on the field following a St. Louis Cardinal playoff game.
Goldie "The Kid" Currie — Goldie is the newest and youngest member to the editorial staff. If you look at her in the presence of all of us other crusty old newspaper veterans, you'd swear she's probably only 12 years old ... 13 tops.
Barb "At The Movies" Kromphardt — If you need to know anything about any movie ever made, no matter how trivial, Barb is the go-to lady.
Donna "The Sweet-faced Troublemaker" Barker — As nice of a lady as she seems to be, Donna is involved in possibly more harmless pranks than anyone else I know.
Terri "The Putter" Simon — The BCR editor has been known to have golf ball putting contests down the aisle between the cubicles of the editorial department. I know this because my cubicle is where you tee-off from.
Rita "Twelve Fingers" Roberts — She types really, really fast. Using all of her fingers. Without looking at the keyboard. Accurately. (I believe that some kind of black magic is involved.)
Terry "The Stapler" Himes — I don't have a stapler, and I always borrow his. Sometimes Terry runs out of staples. During those times I call him Terry "Paperclip" Himes.
Just think of all the merchandising opportunities that we're missing out on. We could all have T-shirts made. We could have bobble-head day where every 10th lucky subscriber that comes through our doors is awarded a bobble-head of their favorite editorial department personnel. Who in their right minds would not want a Donna "The Sweet-faced Troublemaker" bobble-head sitting on their fireplace mantle? The possibilities are endless.
Well, it looks like I had better wrap this column up. Lyle "The Sleek White Panther" Ganther wants to send this page to press.
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Allegations of misconduct abound in federal politics right now. We've got the "robocall" scandal, where opposition parties believe the ruling Conservatives sent out fraudulent and misleading automated phone messages to NDP and Liberal voters to discourage them from voting. On the other side of the House of Commons, it's "@Vikileaks," where Tories are howling for more information about the Liberal political staffer who has taken responsibility for revealing intimate details of Public Safety Minister Vic Toew's divorce file via Twitter.
Do we dare suggest they both doth protest too much? It's a marvellous, hideous convergence of technology, politics and partisanism the likes of which we have never seen. But what's it all about, Viki? Is it really fair to compare the two scandals?
It's safe to say, as many commentators have already, that both the opposition and government sides are trying to use their own protests about what the other party has done to divert attention away from what they may have done. Get uppity about fraudulent robocalls, and you're likely to hear a chorus of "shame" from the government benches asking for more Liberals to fess up to being involved in @Vikileaks. Harp on @Vikileaks, and you're going to get a face wash of robocalls. As certain as Liberals are that Tories deliberately tried to suppress Grit and NDP voter turnout, so too are Conservatives confident that the staffer was used as a fall guy, and the decision to publish Toews' divorce file was made by people higher up the Liberal hierarchy.
Is it fair to compare the two? At first blush, (if substantiated) robocall certainly seems to be a much bigger deal than @Vikileaks. The former describes a deliberate attempt to undermine an election. In that regard, robocalls would be no different in magnitude than say the 1995 vote-splitting scandal in Manitoba. @Vikileaks, on the other hand, is pretty salacious stuff but it's hardly an affront to democracy. An ethically questionable act but if you look at the kind of full disclosure on the private lives of politicians that occurs in the United States, this was pretty tame stuff. The fact that a Liberal employee was the agent of dissemination is more of an embarrassment than fodder for a public inquiry.
Supporters of Toews, along with Toews himself, will howl that anyone would make any kind of distinction between the two. The fact that many Tories cannot see any distinction is essentially the kind of all-or-nothing attitude that led to a Liberal staffer to make the poor decision to release Toews' divorce file.
Let's be clear about one thing - the Liberals did not dig into Toews divorce AFTER he made his infamous allegations that anyone that opposed C-30, the bill that would give police greater powers to identify internet users without warrants, was aiding pedophiles. They had the information already, having snooped through the file like many other politicos and journalists. The Free Press did it's own snooping, and even produced a decent story out of what we found. In this case, it was correspondence between Toews and his lawyer confirming that he had not declared to the Ethics Commissioner's Office the fact he is receiving a pension from the Manitoba government. Toews office claimed the omission was an oversight, but the omission was only remedied AFTER our story appeared.
Other than that, there was a lot of dirty stuff in the divorce file that was consistent with the kind of things you would find in any divorce file that was as drawn out and bitter as this one was. The documents were all on the public record. Did the public have a right to know all these details? No, but if there is a lesson to be learned from this story, it this: if you're a famous person with something to lose, it would be better to settle divorces quickly. As a corollary, don't act as your own lawyer in the proceedings. I'm just saying.
In the final analysis, as ethically challenged as the @Vikileaks campaign was, it just doesn't compare with the magnitude of the robocall allegations. Should those allegations turn out to be fallacious, then we'll have fodder for a future comparative analysis. For now, it's not really a fair fight.
One last point. @Vikileaks claimed it was doing what it was doing because of Toews' inflammatory and partisan allegations that anyone who opposes Tory crime legislation sides with the criminals. Specifically, that anyone that opposes his internet snooping bill supports pedophiles. Toews, and other Tories, have consistently denied the opposition any chance to oppose any one part of any Tory bill. If you're against any part of our crime legislation, then you're clearly in favor of criminals. It's an immature tack to take in a political debate and although it would be wrong to say that Vic brought @Vikileaks on himself, it would have been nice to see that he learned a lesson from that whole humiliating experience.
Not a chance.
On February 29, Toews tweeted the following observation about Grit and NDP opposition to the federal government's omnibus crime bill:
"Unbelievably, NDP and Liberals oppose tougher sentences for those who kidnap children."
Clearly, Toews must think that there's nothing embarrassing left in that divorce file. For his sake, let's hope he's right.


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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate for the Ablekuma West constituency, Ursula Owusu has issued a warning to supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that she will no longer tolerate any acts of intimidation meted out to her supporters.
Speaking to Citi FM's Abdul Karim Nantogmah, the NPP firebrand noted that she was going to resist all acts of political violence within the constituency because, "We [the NPP] are ready to meet the NDC boot for boot and fire for fire if they think they can continue to intimidate us to win power."
According to madam Owusu, her main opponent; NDC Parliamentary candidate, Victoria Hammah, was behind the destruction of NPP Billboards and posters in the Ablekuma West constituency.
"Childish tantrums and stance like this do not impress or frighten anyone, she should grow up; we want the NDC to know that we will resist any further acts of intimidation and violence they plan and are ready to face them prior to and on election day if they dare provoke us again but we will not cast the first stone."
According Ursula Owusu, the NDC candidate was destroying her campaign materials because she was afraid of defeat.
She recalled, "While we were asleep sorrowfully that night and in utter disrespect for the memory of Alhaji Aliu Mahama and in total disregard for the enormity for our collective loss and pain, the NDC led by Victoria Hammah and Dickson, her campaign organizer; organized thugs to destroy all NPP Billboards, banners, flags and posters along the entire length of the Dansoman high street from the roundabout to Dansoman last stop."
"Even the flag directly in front of the Dansoman police station was not spared showing the level of impunity exhibited by these heartless people; the systematic destruction of all our campaign materials lead us to the inevitable conclusion that this action was planned at the highest level in the NDC and implemented when we in the NPP were most vulnerable as we were focused on the death of Alhaji Aliu Mahama."
Madam Ursula Owusu called on residents of the area to vote massively for the NPP on December 7.
"I urge all residents of Ablekuma West to reject this destroyer and vote for a serious minded person with a proven record of service to the community and the nation."
Meanwhile, the NDC Parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma West Constituency, Madam Victoria Hammah has denied the allegations saying, "It doesn't make sense and basic human logic that a person like myself who has an interest in this election will go and break down the Billboards of an opponent candidate, it doesn't make sense and it is waste of time."
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Till then I will be checking my order status hourly and anxiously await my new white iPhone 4Steve .
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It won't be long before everyone has then same phone. At that point people will start rebelling and it will not be such a hip new company. It's like the mustang, when you see grandmothers and soccer moms driving mustangs they loose their sense of being cool and alternative. All good things come to an end. I just hope Apple keeps their cool.
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The Mets lost more than a game or a series Sunday night at Citi Field, they lost their Kyra Sedgwick.
The Mets placed their closer Frank Francisco on the disabled list before their 6-5 loss.
The bullpen has been an issue all season for the Mets, as they continue to hold the Major League's worst ERA of 5.30. The question now, who can fill the void? It might not eighth inning man, Miguel Batista.
Batista allowed the winning home run to Robinson Cano in the eighth, after getting through the seventh unscathed. By all accounts, Collins did not want to continue to use relievers when he knew he was a reliever short with Francisco on the DL.
The manager failed to call upon the Mets' situational lefty, Tim Byrdak, a move he later acknowledged was a mistake.
On Saturday, Chris Young allowed three runs in the seventh inning. Sunday night, R.A. Dickey allowed five runs in six innings. The Mets' starting pitching was on a stretch that wasn't sustainable. There was only so long that each pitcher would take the ball, every five days, and throw a quality start.
But, the magic is ending at the wrong time. The Mets needed a win Sunday to tie the season series agains their cross town rivals, and to prevent a losing streak from forming. Instead, they once again turned to their bullpen which let them down. It was Rauch Saturday, Bautista Sunday.
You can blame Dickey for Sunday's loss, and even Young for Saturday's. They have pitched well, and can't throw gems every time. That pain you can swallow. But with the bullpen, this has been going on too long. And now, with Francisco on the DL their troubles will only become more severe.
The Mets open a three game series in Chicago against the worst team in baseball – the Chicago Cubs on Monday. Their ace Johan Santana squares off against Travis Wood. Monday's matchup is a must win for the Mets' ace (bandage), he needs to stop the bleeding.
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John MacLellan, '88, traveled to Washington earlier this month where President Obama presented him and 24 of his fellow police officers the "Top Cop Award" for their bravery and dedication. He was also named an Officer of the Month by the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund. The Watertown police sergeant was involved in the shootout with the alleged suspects three nights after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Vice President Joseph Biden shook Sgt. MacLellan's hand after the ceremony and told him, "I wish you could patrol my hometown while I'm sleeping at night. I'd sleep a lot better." (Story by John Winters, main photo by Karen Callan, D.C. photo submitted)


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Convicted Murderer Attempts to Castrate + Kill Justin Bieber
Beliebers may start shrieking even louder than usual at this news — and not for the right reasons, either: A convicted killer had a plan to castrate and murder Justin Bieber.
TMZ reports that convicted murderer Dana Martin, who is currently serving two life sentences in New Mexico for the gruesome rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in Vermont back in 2000, reportedly asked fellow inmate Mark Staake to carry out the bizarre and horrific plot upon Staake's release. Staake is said to have asked his own nephew, Tanner Ruane, to help him carry it all out.
No one knows when the plan originally came up, but it was supposed to go down at Bieber's Madison Square Garden show last month.
Martin, who is obsessed with Bieber — he even has the 'Boyfriend' singer's mug tattooed on his own leg — told cops that he planned to strangle Bieber and Bieber's bodyguard with his trademark paisley ties, then have Ruane castrate the singer. For whatever reason, Martin told cops about the plan on his own, and thankfully so: Staake was arrested on outstanding warrants in Vermont before he could do much, and cops arrested Ruane, who'd made it to NYC with a bunch of scary tools (including pruning shears) before anything really scary went down. Yikes!
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Topic: HAPPY HOLIDAYS & A HEALTHIER NEW YEAR!
Merry Christmas, From Heaven
I still hear the songs, I still see the lights,
I still feel the love, on cold wintry nights.
I still share your hopes, and all of your cares,
I'll even remind you, to please say your prayers.
I just want to tell you, you still make me proud,
You stand head and shoulders, above all the crowd.
Keep trying each moment, to stay in good grace,
I came here before you, to help set your place.
You don't have to be perfect all of the time,
Your forgiven the slip, if you continue the climb.
To my family and friends, please be thankful today,
I'm still close beside you, in a new special way.
I love you all dearly now don't shed a tear,
Because I'm spending my Christmas with God this year. By John Mooney


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Garrison Reservoir, construction.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes, namely:
No part of the appropriation for the Garrison Reservoir herein contained may be expended for actual construction of the dam itself until the Secretary of War shall have selected and offered, through the Secretary of the Interior, to the Three Affiliated Tribes, land which the Secretary of the Interior approves as comparable in quality and sufficient in area to compensate the said tribes for the land on the Fort Berthold Reservation which shall be inundated by the construction of the Garrison Dam: Provided further, That said
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selection and offer by the Secretary of War and approval by the Secretary of the Interior shall be consummated before January 1, 1947, after which consummation actual construction of the dam itself may proceed: And provided further, That funds appropriated for the construction of said dam may be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior for use by him in acquiring title to the lands thus selected.
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National Dialogue on the Curriculum of Readiness for the 21st Century Librarian
ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday June 28, 2005
Plenary Session I: Preparing Leaders for 21 st Century Library and Information Service
Mark Winston: Good morning, my friends. How are you?
[audience responds]
It's difficult to follow Louise Robbins as an educator. Always, in many, many ways. It certainly is wonderful to have a program that brings together LIS educators and practitioners. And certainly, I see a number of my education colleagues, Mike Havener and Louise Robbins and so on.
We are often the educators are on panels with practitioners. But I should also say, certainly in my case, and I'm sure in theirs, my comments will relate to my work in libraries as a practitioner prior to becoming an educator, and also my consulting and so on.
So I don't know if any of us will stick neatly within the categories to which we have been connected initially.
I'd say, just to speak briefly, as we were preparing before the program began, our group of speakers were conferring at our table. We all commented on the twelve minute limit. So we're all very aware of that. Tracie makes that very clear to anyone who's speaking on her programs. And I'm well aware of that.
I want to spend just a little bit of time talking about some of the organizational challenges that I see in the field, some of the organizational responses.
And then, some of the more broad professional issues and challenges related to our need for professional development, educational preparation, and leadership development in particular, as they relate to our discussion about a curriculum for readiness.
These changes really are pretty wide-spread and sweeping, including issues like increased accountability. And this is, certainly, an issue that comes up, not only with regard to our funding agency, that is our primary sources of funding, but also a range of other stakesholders.
The issue of limited resources also is quite pervasive and effects all of the organizations of which we are a part. There are also issues of enhanced competition that affect libraries, but also other information services providers as well.
There are issues in regard to our user populations, which are technologically savvy, and increasingly demanding in many ways, as well.
There are also issues of changing organizational structures, including greater use of teams, proliferation of technology, and in this regard I refer to both information and communication technology as well. And some associated issues related to scholarly communication, particularly, and the policy issues in this regard.
These circumstances create a need for leadership. And one of the other challenges we see, is the need to recruit the most well-prepared graduates for employment in these organizations facing these challenges.
There have been a number of organizational responses to these issues, including an enhanced focus on evaluation of library services and operations, including the evaluation of information services as a public good, and the evaluation of libraries and their contribution to the learning of students, particularly in academic and school libraries.
There is an increased attention on managing diversity as well. Certainly I'm not on the diversity panel, but those of you who know my research know it would be impossible for me to not mention the issue of diversity during my 12 minutes, and to say at least one thing that our focus is certain, representation.
But it's also the focus on perspectives represented in the decision-making in our organizations so that we make sound, informed decisions representing a range of perspectives, but so that we're also better able to target the needs of our changing user populations.
There's also, as a leadership challenge, a focus on increased fund raising development as a part of securing and managing our financial resources. And I mentioned earlier the issue of changing organizational structures, team-based decision-making, which is a particular issue because it means that we must foster leadership at all levels in our organizations.
Within the profession, though, the issue of leadership is a relatively recent phenomenon evidenced by a number of manifestations, including the fact that, as of 1990 or so, there were a relatively small number of leadership development programs.
There has been an increasing number since that time. They have grown not only in number, but in terms of program content, approaches to learning, and also moving from national programs to programs in a number of other countries, including Australia and Canada and statewide programs as well.
Also, with regard to the fact that leadership is a relatively new area of focus in the field, there is still a relatively small body of literature, and certainly a small body of research-based literature related to leadership. It is also the case that less than 10% of our yearly accredited programs offer coursework in leadership.
So, the nature of our curricula tends to reflect what we value as important in the field. One of the things we have indicated, which is a bit of a disconnect is that the mission statements of almost all of our accredited programs indicate that one of our primary goals is preparing individuals for roles of leadership in the field.
One thing that doesn't appear to be happening is that our curriculum does not appear to reflect this priority that we've indicated.
It's also the case that the research shows that among new graduates, two areas in which they indicate the need for greater academic preparation related to leadership, are the areas of management and budget management, financial management.
Certainly with regard to leadership issues in the field as has been mentioned already, there's the issue of the pending retirements in the field. LIS is a discipline, that is those of us on the teaching side, as well as the profession, is older than the average of professions.
And research shows that the retirements are particularly acute among those in managerial and administrative positions.
The recruitment is particularly acute for a number of reasons. The research also shows an apprehension among those who are in assistant and associate director positions to pursue director-level positions. We certainly know that anecdotally and the research is showing that as well.
The research also shows that individuals in line librarian positions are apprehensive about pursuing management positions at all.
With regard to our thinking about the needs of the profession, there's been research on leadership competencies, both in private sector research, also in the LIS research, as well.
The focus on leadership competencies, which defines the nature of successful leadership, also helps us to define leadership education, leadership development, as well as other professional developments.
Certainly one of the most comprehensive studies in this regard was the research done by Hernan, Powell and Young.
I mentioned that there have been an increasing number of leadership development programs.
The challenge with leadership development, although there are more programs, a relatively small percentage of librarians ultimately participate in leadership development, either as a result of self-selection or not being nominated for such programs that can only accommodate a certain number of individuals.
Graduate education, on the other hand, really is intended to reach a larger base of individuals. It also provides the opportunity for context, that is, discussing library issues in context. It's also the case that LIS education can present these issues as supported by both research and theory.
We really shouldn't dismiss the issue of theory, because theory defines the nature of a true profession.
Certainly, if we indicate that we are, and in many ways we focus, often, on gaining the respect that we should have in our field, defining ourselves as a true profession is quite critical.
The third area of our opportunity to develop leadership, in addition to LIS education, Leadership Development and Professional Development, relates to the work of practitioners. That is mentoring. Your work as internship supervisors, your work advising, serving on advisory boards for LIS educational programs.
Your work in consulting with us in ensuring that our curricular reflects the needs of your organizations.
In summary, there are a number of challenges facing individual LIS organizations, and certainly facing the profession at large. It is certainly the case that as we define our leadership development programs, as we define our curricula, and as we define the ways in which you can work with individuals who are entering the field that we do so in an informed way.
That reflects the fact that we have to be dynamic as a field, but there are significant needs in the field that we need to address as well.
Thank you.
Rhea Brown Lawson: Thank you, Mark.


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Augmented Reality glasses are at least 20 years away
I get asked the question about augmented reality glasses from time to time. The question is when will we see them? Of course you can pick up a pair of augmented reality glasses from companies like Vuzix who provide systems that connect to your home PC and act as a webcam, enabling you to view content, but that not what people are asking about. When people ask me the 'how far away' question, they are asking about standalone augmented reality glasses that will enable us to interact with our surroundings and get real-time contextual information. i.e the Iron Man HUD view of the world.
My answer is it will take up to 20 years before augmented reality glasses are part of our every day lives. I'm not saying that companies are not working on producing mainstream glasses for release in the short term, I'm sure in the next five years we'll start to see standalone units being made available, but like most technologies, augmented reality hardware will need to evolve into something that becomes part of our every day lives.
In the short term, augmented reality OEMs could build a glasses system that uses Bluetooth to communicate with a mobile device such as a phone. Since phones are already equipped with GPS, network connectivity, and a CPU this will free up the processing enabling early augmented reality glasses just to be the eyes. For the long term however, there are a number of challenges that hardware manufactures will need to overcome. Some are obvious, some not so obvious:
Battery life: When we get to the stage where we rely on augmented reality glasses as part of our daily lives, battery life is going to be key. No one is going to want to have to charge their glasses up three times a day. Always on, always connected and always charged up will be essential.
Connectivity: In the future, everywhere and everything will have context that will need to be downloaded to your glasses. Long term 3G, even 4G is going to be too slow to deliver information as any kind of delay will impact the usefulness of a device. My eyes work in real time, if I look at a Starbucks I want immediate contextual information delivered, anything less than instantaneous will be too late to be relevant. Consider that 4G technology supports x uses in a given cell, in a populated area where you have thousands of users all making calls, and using AR glasses that are constantly connected and retrieving data, the delay could be significant.
Vision: The heart of any augmented reality glasses system is going to be the glasses that provide the augmented vision of our surroundings. In thinking of such a system you are probably thinking of walking down the street during the day, but what happens if it's a really sunny day, will the screen tint to provide me with sunglasses functionality? React to light glass exists and is widely used but the technology takes a few minutes to adjust. We'll need technology that is able to instantly adjust, adapting to both daytime and night time situations. We won't want to carry around daytime and night time pairs.
Services: For any augmented reality glasses system to succeed, it will need to provide users with access to a wide range of services. Any company thinking about developing augmented reality glasses should take note. If you are thinking about releasing augmented reality glasses, even in the short term, then you had better start thinking about your developer community. You will need launch services and the developer community to embrace your technology. I would go as far as saying that the success of your developer community will make or break your product.
Accuracy: GPS accuracy sucks. Point your favourite augmented reality browser at a landmark and the information bubble won't pin point your target exactly. I have seen the accuracy vary by as much as 150 meters which is not particularly useful in locating objects. The new Galileo satellite system will improve accuracy to around 1 meter, but ultimately you'll want any augmented reality glasses system to display information on top of the target, not around, not nearby but pin pointed.
Style: If you are going to be wearing augmented reality glasses as part of your daily life then they'll have to look good. They also have to cope with users who wear glasses all the time or just some of the time. Unless the hardware gets so cheap that it becomes normal for users to own several pairs, any system will need to automatically adjust for any users eye sight.
Intrusiveness: Face it, you can't trust users not to use their phone while driving. Imaging for a second the potential chaos of driving while being bombarded with irrelevant or intrusive content. Does a user really need to know about that Starbucks when he is driving at 55 miles an hour? Therefore, there would need to be some kind of in built awareness that could automatically give users contextual information and adapt to changes in conditions accordingly.
Data: Any successful augmented reality glasses system would no doubt feature face recognition and user location data. Everyone around you could be identified by their information bubble, and like in Star Trek you'll be able to location anyone and see their current location on a map. All that data has to be held somewhere, who will you trust to store it?
Standards: All systems will need to comply with a worldwide standard. If the future is a place where augmented reality glasses are prevalent, then we'll need to have standards on how the data is exposed so any augmented reality glasses system, regardless of country can read and interact with the data.
None of these problems are beyond solving, but overcoming all these problems and getting consumer buy-in is why I think we are still around 20 years away before augmented reality glasses become part of our everyday lives.


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Paris Hilton eats it in Prague
Paris Hilton busted up her chin over the weekend as she was leaving a music store in Prague. She was fleeing the paparazzi when she tripped over a step and landed face first into the ground. Being the heroic knight that he is, Paris' boyfriend Benji Madden failed to help Paris to her feet and instead stepped over her. Although after realizing she was actually hurt, he did eventually turn back around to help her. Which I guess is actually pretty impressive, because if I saw Paris Hilton lying face first on the floor I'm pretty sure my first instinct would be to kick her. Well that, or bring both my hands to my face in shock that she wasn't naked and covered in used condoms. Haha, just kidding. Paris Hilton? Condoms? It's like I'm writing a fantasy novel.
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It's not often you discover a hotel that boasts Virginia Woolf and Cardinal Basil Hume as fans.
The writer raved about her stay in 1914 and the archbishop was a regular visitor to the Tankerville Arms in rural Northumberland.
Steeped in history, the former 16th century coaching inn has of course undergone many changes since it was built to house 'spare' guests from the Earl of Tankerville's stately home, Chillingham Castle.
But it steps between ancient and modern with comparative ease.
Run by the Park family since the 1970s, the hotel – on the edge of the village of Wooler, 15 miles north west of Alnwick – has free wi-fi throughout, a licence for civil marriages and a garden house round the back for accommodation with a difference.
It hosts conferences and can even offer pig handling courses as a team building activity to away-day execs.
But you don't have to look far to step back in time. Hanging on the wall of the reception area are two rows of bells which used to alert the maids to a guest's requirement, including makeup and jewellery.
By the car park entrance is a potted history of the Tankerville – or Tanky, as it is affectionately known – and an older descriptive story of the sport of curling in the hallway.
Anyone wanting to try curling for themselves can do so at the ice rink in nearby Kelso, just north of the border. But, blessed with some fine September weather, I instead headed outdoors to see what the spectacular landscape and rugged coastline of northern Northumberland has to offer.
First stop was the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, complete with its tiny village, castle, priory, church and harbour.
Saint Aidan started a monastery here in 635AD and the small island is now a popular tourist spot, tempered only by the sea cutting off road access to the mainland for hours every day.
I also spent time at nearby Bamburgh – famous for its castle, which dominates the beach.
There are many castles in these parts thanks to centuries of battles between the English and Scots.
One border town that saw more bloodshed than most is Berwick-on-Tweed, which somehow manages to cram busy modern living within its ancient fortifications.
I was surprised to discover LS Lowry particularly liked Berwick and travelled there a number of times in the 1930s, using the town hall as a backdrop to one of his paintings.
Sightseeing makes you hungry and back at the Tanky it was time for a three-course feast.
The hotel prides itself on using as much local produce as possible and chef Ashley also keeps bees, which sees the kitchen well stocked with honey.
Instead of the roomy Cheviot Restaurant with its large windows overlooking the gardens, I settled for dinner in the cosier Chillingham Bistro attached to the hotel's Copper Bar.
The menu was distinctly British. I settled on smoked salmon and prawns to start, followed by lemon chicken and raspberry cranachan, which mixed oats, cream and whisky for a cholesterol-frenzied finale.
Washed down with a nice glass of merlot, I found the meal very enjoyable, although I must confess I expected the chicken to be more tangy.
Now it was time to collect Ted and head upstairs to bed… no, not my travelling companion but the Tanky's quirky take on a room key fob.
On check-in each guest is handed a teddy bear in a Tankerville Teddy jumper, with the key on a tartan ribbon round its neck. And rather cute they are too.
I found my room to be functional rather than fancy, but the bed was comfy and all the hotel room essentials were there – hairdryer, kettle and TV.
The bathroom was a bit narrow and had a wonky, but working, shower head. But it was modern and had a full length bath in case you fancied a soak.
Overall, I thought the Tankerville was well worth a visit. The staff were polite and friendly, and the hotel is close to many places of interest.
It also has a three-star rating from Enjoy England, a silver award from the English Tourism Council and a 2012 certificate of excellence from Trip Advisor after visitors awarded it four stars out of five.
Bed and breakfast prices start from £55 single room, £100 twin/double. Open all year round, with reduced prices October-March Dogs welcome tankervillehotel.co.uk
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A VISUALLY-impaired cricketer from Taunton is a national charity's calendar star for July.
Michael Church, 42, appears in Action for Blind People's (Action) calendar, as one of 27,000 people with sight loss to have benefitted from the charity over the past year.
The calendar is an adapted version of the charity's annual review, packed full of statistics about its services and successes.
Michael features as an inspirational case study for July, telling his story about adapting to sight loss, resulting in him becoming a regular in Somerset's visually-impaired cricket team.
With a passion for sport, Michael began to feel isolated and depressed as his vision deteriorated.
His case study explains how attending Action for Blind People's Living with Sight Loss course helped to get his life back on track.
In the calendar, Michael is quoted talking about his experience on the course.
"Without Action I don't know where I would be", he says. "The Living with Sight Loss course has given me access to like-minded people going through the same things as me.
Michael says: "If I had to pass on any advice to those losing their sight I would say, don't let it beat you. There is always light at the end of the tunnel – cricket is my passion and is such an important part of my life."
The community-based six-week programme provided Michael and other participants with information, advice, guidance and practical skills for people diagnosed as losing their sight.
Organised in partnership with a number of local and national specialist organisations, the on-going courses are designed to increase confidence, with modules addressing emotional aspects of sight loss.
There are sessions on coping mechanisms, problem solving, assistive technology and information and advice on local and national support services.
Peer-to-peer support helps participants to achieve a range of personal goals through shared experiences.
Since completing the course, Michael's confidence and independence are returning.
As well as playing cricket, he is able to go shopping on his own, pays for his own things, and keeps fit at a local gym.


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When Michelle Fowler's first son was born seven years ago, the new mother had made up her mind she wanted to use modern cloth nappies rather than adding to landfill by throwing away soiled disposable nappies well into toddlerhood.
But looking at the basic folded-cloth nappies snapped together by stretchy plastic available at the time, the former computer games designer couldn't warm to any of them, and decided to make her own.
Drafting them in the shape of disposables with funky colours and patterns, and using Velcro and fabrics such as hemp, bamboo and microfleece, she got going on her sewing machine.
Word spread, and she was soon making them for family and friends, including a fellow new mother she had met through an online pregnancy forum, Catherine Langman. Today she is Fowler's business partner in what has become a growing $600,000-a-year business, Cushie Tushies. Langman, a former advertising account manager, joined Ms Fowler in 2007, working out a business plan, taking on the marketing and investing some of her own money to help turn the start-up into a viable enterprise with a professional website and branding.
It was a steep learning curve for the two: as Fowler kept sewing some 60 nappies a week in her home, they struggled to find a factory that would mass-produce their nappies. Every Australian textile factory they contacted knocked them back, saying the product was too fiddly and costly to make. With the help of an agent, the two women eventually found a small factory near Shanghai that took on their first 1000-piece order.
''The first trip over there was a little bit of an emotional thing, seeing these lovely ladies sitting there with piles of our fabric and churning out nappies with our brand name on them,'' says Langman. But there was also ''a bit of a culture shock'' doing business in China, taking samples there to explain how the nappies should be made and negotiating over drinks and dinner.
Then just as the pair was about to secure money to fund expansion, the global financial crisis hit and banks that had previously been supportive went cold. ''All of a sudden the bankers thought, 'a modern cloth nappy, what is that?' '' Langman recalls.
Persuading them their product had caught the zeitgeist just as mothers were increasingly aware of environmental and health concerns took a ''stressful'' six months, she says. ''We had all this demand from customers but needed to sort out the finance to get production going.''
Word of their modern cloth nappies had been spreading through mummy boards and pregnancy forums on the internet. In 2009, the pair also started marketing their business at baby expos and through parenting publications. Soon, they had to shift from Fowler's double-garage to a small warehouse on the Gold Coast and get help packing orders to keep up with demand.
Today, Fowler and Langman - who have four staff - sell 2000 nappies a month, about half of those online and the rest through retailers such as nursery shops and pharmacies.
While the price of $35.95 apiece may seem steep upfront, Langman argues that parents will spend less than they would on disposable nappies.
Passion with a plan
Catherine Langman has this advice for other mothers wanting to start a business: ''You really need to have thought out what your business is going to be. And you need to be passionate about it.
''A lot of mums think it would be easy to do an online shop. But every business needs to be extremely well planned. You can't just go by the seat of your pants. You have to have your business plan done properly, and make sure you have professional advice from an accountant. If you're talking to banks, you need to provide [detailed] information to them.''
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Thunderbird Artists has partnered with the City of Surprise to host the Surprise Fine Art & Wine Festival, which will take place on February 1-3, 2013 at the Surprise Recreation Campus.
The festival will feature more than 100 world-class, jury-selected artists from around the world and more than 2,000 pieces of fine art in a variety of mediums — including batiks, copper, glass, clay, stone, metal and wood sculptures, photography, jewelry and more — and subjects matters. Attendees will also have the chance to meet and speak with the artists during this three-day event.
Participating artists at the Surprise Fine Art & Wine Festival include the following:
- Raleigh Kinney,
- Sarah Foster,
- Paul Nzalamba,
- Meg Harper,
- Susan Zivic,
- Steven Boyd,
- Sharon Brening,
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LiveCycle Mosaic 9.5 has the concept of a service component. This is a data store that defines objects that are used by multiple tiles. This allows the exchange of custom data objects between tiles as well as pre-configuring data before a tile is loaded.
In this post, I walk through a simple service example to explain how to put one together. The source code for this project is located here
Why Services Matter
Why would you go through the effort of putting together a service? What does it give you that you can't do with "normal" tiles? One good reason is that you need to exchange custom objects between tiles.
If you have multiple tiles that use the same custom object. If you were to compile each of those tiles with the object inside it and then deploy it, you would run into a problem due to the way Mosaic isolates tiles.
For example:
Say you have a complex object called Dog. A dog has several fields: name, color, breed and a Boolean called hungry. Now say you have two tiles that make use of the dog object – AddDog and ShowDogs. The AddDog tile creates a message that sends out a Dog object. The ShowDogs tile watches for a message with the Dog message in it.
When you package your tiles, each one will contain a copy of the Dog object.
Since the Mosaic framework doesn't know what a Dog object is and there are really two different Dog objects (one for each tile) you are going to get errors.
You could send each individual as a message (or an array of messages), but that gets cumbersome quickly. Also, if your custom object contains complex objects it becomes a problem.
Now let's look at doing the same thing using Mosaic Services. This time you create an interface and service for the Dog object. The two tiles don't include the Dog themselves, but they do refer to it.
Now the framework is aware of what a Dog object is. When the AddDog tile sends a message with a Dog in it, the ShowDogs tile will be able to receive the message.
Using Mosaic Services
To create and use Mosaic services you need to do the following:
- Create an ActionScript interface library. This allows you to separate the definition of the custom object from its implementation.
- Create the ActionScript service, an implementation of the interface class.
- Use the services in your tiles. You will be accessing the custom objects using the interface.
- Add the services, interfaces and tiles to the catalog
- Add the service reference to the application
- Deploy the catalog and application to your Mosaic server.
When the user logs in, Mosaic will use the designated service implementation for the custom object based on the references in the application and catalog information. For those of you that are familiar with the Java Spring framework this is similar to Spring's dependency injection.
Now let's look at how to build the above mentioned example using services.
The Interface Library
Using FlashBuilder create a new Flex Library Project to hold the interface file(s). Ensure that you are using Flex 3.4 or greater. The interface spells out the fields and functions that must be in the service implementation.
In this case I only have one interface, IDogData. It defines the name, color, breed and hungry fields as well as a toString function that is useful for debugging.
package com.adobe.etech
public interface IDogData
function get name():String;
function set name(nm:String):void;
function get color():String;
function set color(clr:String):void;
function get breed():String;
function set breed(brd:String):void;
function get hungry():Boolean;
function set hungry(hngy:Boolean):void;
function toString():String;
The interface library needs to be compiled into a SWF file so it can be deployed to Mosaic. The easiest way to do this is to modify the sample ant scripts that are shipped as part of the stockDataService that comes with Mosaic.
The Service Implementation Library
Now that we have defined what the custom object will do, we need to actually do it. Create another Flex Library Project to hold the service classes. You will need to add a reference to the interface library you just created as well as a reference to the Mosaic tile API swc.
Next create ActionScript implementation classes that implement your interface library classes. The service class will need to have corresponding functions for each of the ones mentioned in the interface. This is where you put the code that carries out the operations that you named in the interface.
In this example, I have only one service class (DogData) that implements the IDogData interface. The service class fleshes out each of the functions from the interface. I have also added a constructor function that allows me to initialize the service at start up. I'll talk more on that when I discuss the catalog descriptor.
package com.adobe.etech.impl
import com.adobe.etech.IDogData;
public class DogData implements IDogData{
private var _name:String;
private var _color:String;
private var _breed:String;
private var _hungry:Boolean;
public function DogData(nm:String="not set", clr:String="not set", brd:String="not set", hngry:Boolean=false){
_name = nm;
_color = clr;
_breed = brd;
_hungry = hngry;
trace ("*********** Dog: " + this.toString());
public function toString():String{
return (_name + ", " + _color + ", " + _breed + ", " + _hungry.toString());
public function get hungry():Boolean{
return _hungry;
public function set hungry(value:Boolean):void{
_hungry = value;
public function get breed():String{
return _breed;
public function set breed(value:String):void{
_breed = value;
public function get color():String{
return _color;
public function set color(value:String):void{
_color = value;
public function get name():String{
return _name;
public function set name(value:String):void{
_name = value;
Much like the interface library, the service library must be compiled into a SWF. Again, the stockDataService includes an ANT script that serves as a good starting point for how to do this.
Services in Tiles
Now that you have an interface library and a service implementation of that interface; its time to look at how the service is used in your tiles.
Start by creating a new Flex project to hold your tile source code. This project will be like any other Mosaic tile project except that you will include a reference to the service implementation library that you created earlier. I won't get into creating general Mosaic tiles here, as you can find that information in other Adobe documents.
In your tile code, you will refer to the interfaces and not the service implementations. This is because we want Mosaic to select the correct services to ensure that we are using ones common to all tiles. We don't want a copy of the service embedded in our tile code.
For example: I have a very simple tile called AddDogs. I want it to share the dog object, specified in the IDogData interface, that is loaded into the application. This will allow me to send IDogData objects as part of Mosaic messages. My Tile code looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0″ encoding="utf-8″?>
<mc:Tile xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
layout="absolute" width="100%" height="100%"
import com.adobe.etech.IDogData;
import mx.controls.Alert;
[Bindable] public var dogData:IDogData;
protected function addBtn_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
dogData.name = dname.text;
dogData.color = dcolor.text;
dogData.breed = dbreed.text;
dogData.hungry = hungry.selected;
<s:RadioButtonGroup id="hungryGroup"/>
<mx:FormHeading label="Add a new dog" />
<mx:FormItem label="Dog's Name" >
<mx:TextInput id="dname" />
<mx:FormItem label="Color" >
<mx:TextInput id="dcolor" />
<mx:FormItem label="Breed" >
<mx:TextInput id="dbreed" />
<mx:FormItem label="Hungry" id="dhungry" >
<s:RadioButton x="76" y="20" id="hungry" label="Yes" value="true" groupName="hungryGroup"/>
<s:RadioButton x="76" y="46" id="nothungry" label="No" value="false" groupName="hungryGroup"/>
<mx:Button id="addBtn"
I have another tile that also uses the IDogData object – ShowDogs. In this case the tile is listening for a message with the dog object and will show it in fields:
<?xml version="1.0″ encoding="utf-8″?>
<mc:Tile xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
layout="absolute" width="100%" height="100%"
<!– Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here –>
import com.adobe.etech.IDogData;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
import mx.events.PropertyChangeEvent;
import mx.controls.Alert;
[Bindable] public var dogData:IDogData;
private function init():void{
private function onDogChange(e:PropertyChangeEvent):void{
private function getDogData():void{
dogname.text = dogData.name;
dogcolor.text = dogData.color;
dogbreed.text = dogData.breed;
doghungry.text = dogData.hungry.toString();
//Alert.show(dogData.toString(),"Change in Dog");
<s:Label x="51" y="48" text="Name"/>
<s:Label x="51" y="68" text="Color"/>
<s:Label x="50" y="88" text="Breed"/>
<s:Label x="50" y="108" text="Hungry"/>
<s:Label x="115" y="49" id="dogname"/>
<s:Label x="115" y="69" id="dogcolor"/>
<s:Label x="114" y="89" id="dogbreed"/>
<s:Label x="114" y="109" id="doghungry"/>
Adding Services to the Catalog
I mentioned earlier that the two tiles use the object interface and not any particular implementation of that interface. This is because we only want one implementation loaded, and that should not be in any particular tile. When the tile code runs, however; it will need an instantiated version of the object on which to work.
The Mosaic catalog is used to resolve this issue. In the catalog we will add the service implementation. In the tile descriptions we will create a reference to that service implementation. Mosaic will resolve the references so the running code has access to the instantiated object.
On the file system, in the catalogs folder, we need to add an Interfaces directory and Service directory. Into these we put the compiled interface and service SWF files (or you can have the ANT script do that for you).
The Interface Library Entry
In the catalog's descriptor.xml file, there needs to be an entry for the interface library. The library has a name that will serve as a reference to other entries.
My advice is that you name the library the same as the interface library's Flex project and SWF file name. There will be a lot of references in the catalog after we're done and keeping the names strait will be messy enough.
For example, my IDogData interface is in a Flex project called MyDataInterfaceLibrary, so the interface library entry in the catalog looks like this:
<tile:InterfaceLibrary name="MyDataInterfaceLibrary">
<crx:Description>Dog Data Interfaces</crx:Description>
<tile:Interface interfaceName="com.adobe.etech.IDogData"/>
The Service Library Entry
The service implementation class needs an entry in the catalog as well. The service entry refers to the Interface Library Entry.
It also allows us to set some data when the service instance is first created. When I created the DogData class, I added a constructor that took four parameters. In the Service Library entry in the catalog, I use the ConstructorArgs tag to load some initial data into the instantiated object. That way I'll have some dog data when the tiles first go to use the object.
<tile:ServiceLibrary name="MyDataService">
<crx:Description>Dog Data service</crx:Description>
<tile:ServiceClass className="com.adobe.etech.impl.DogData" name="SampleDogData" scope="singleton">
<tile:Interface library="MyDataInterfaceLibrary" interfaceName="com.adobe.etech.IDogData"/>
<tile:Argument value="Rover"/>
<tile:Argument value="Brown"/>
<tile:Argument value="Doberman"/>
<tile:Argument value="true"/>
One other important thing to note is the scope attribute. By setting its value to singleton, I'm telling Mosaic to create only one instance of that object. All tiles will share that one instance. If anything changes it, it will be changed for ALL tiles.
The Tile Entries
The tile class entries need to be modified to tell Mosaic how to map the interface library types to variables in the tile. This is done by adding a Depends and Property element to the TileClass element.
<tile:TileClass name="AddDogs" label="AddDogs" catalog="SimpleServiceCatalog" initialWidth="400" initialHeight="400">
<crx:Description><![CDATA[This tile has a description. It can me plain text or contain HTML.]]></crx:Description>
<tile:Interface library="MyDataInterfaceLibrary" interfaceName="com.adobe.etech.IDogData"/>
<tile:Property type="com.adobe.etech.IDogData" name="dogData"/>
<tile:Content uri="/mosaic/catalogs/SimpleServiceCatalog/tiles/AddDogs/content" contentType="application/x-shockwave-flash" loadAs="default"/>
The Depends clause tells us that this tile uses interfaces from the specified interface library. The Property element tells us that the interface maps to a specific variable in the tile. If you look at the tile's MXML code you will see a variable that corresponds to the name attribute. In this case there is the line:
[Bindable] public var dogData:IDogData;
So this maps the interface library to the content of the tile, note that it does not mention the service library. This is done in the application's descriptor.
Putting it all Together with the Application Descriptor
The final step is to use the application descriptor to identify the exact service that will carry out the work of the interface. A properties element will be added to each tile reference that uses the service. This will map the service to the property. When combined with the catalog entry for the tile, this will inject the service into the tile's variable.
For example:
<tile:TileReference name="AddDogs" label="Add Dogs" catalog="SimpleServiceCatalog">
<tile:Property name="dogData">
<tile:ServiceReference catalog="SimpleServiceCatalog" library="MyDataService" name="SampleDogData"/>
This entry tells Mosaic to map the SampleDogData service to the dogData property in the AddDogs tile. If you look at the catalog entry for that tile you can see that the dogData parameter is an IDogData object. You can also see that the SampleDogData service is a DogData class with some pre-named values supplied to the constructor.
What's it look like
Assuming all of the code, packaging and mapping was done right; the application should be deployable now. Once that's done you should be able to run it by going to the application's URL. In the example the application is called SimpleService. It should look like the following:
You can see that there are two tiles: the AddDog on the left and the ShowDogs on the right. One thing to note is that the ShowDogs tile has data to start. This is because the initial data was listed in the catalog along with the service entry.
If I make changes to the dog's data using the AddDog tile and hit the Add button then the data in the ShowDogs tile will change as well.
This is because the Add button click handler sets a Mosaic attribute that includes the IDogData object. The ShowDogs tile on the other hand is watching for a message that includes an IDogData object. If I loaded a new tile that used the same service I would see the new data, this is because service was marked as a singleton.