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|Richard N. Burridge
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|Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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The present invention relates to multipoint data delivery systems, and more specifically, to transport mechanisms in a multipoint data delivery system.
As computers become more important for business and entertainment, communication between computer users needs to be improved. One important function of computers is to distribute information to users and allow users to interact and collaborate. Prior art systems for distributing information and interaction include electronic mail (e-mail), mailing lists, making information available through a bulletin board system or a world wide web page, and video conferencing.
Electronic mail permits a user to send out information to a plurality of recipients. However, responses to e-mail are not easily collected. Additionally, multiple parties can not easily collaborate using e-mail.
Mailing lists are useful for distributing information, but it is relatively difficult to tailor what information is received by a subscriber. Additionally, if replies are allowed, the mailing list may become overly cumbersome.
A bulletin board system or world wide web page is useful to publish information. However, generally users can not easily alter the information displayed. Thus, this environment, while allowing publication, does not permit full collaboration between users.
Video conferencing, and similar methods, may be used to collaborate on specific projects. However, video conferencing generally requires a dedicated computer system, which can not be used for something else during the video conference. Furthermore, generally video conference participation is typically limited due to the amount of processing power and network bandwidth required to host each participant. Therefore, the number of participants in such conferences is significantly limited. Thus, it is relatively difficult to have a long term collaboration between multiple users via a video conferencing system.
When collaborations occur between multiple users using computers on different networks, different networking protocols may be present. This generally requires multiple versions of software to be written, one version for each specific protocol. Therefore, it would be advantageous to have an improved mechanism for collaboration which is also independent of the underlying network protocols.
The present invention is a method and apparatus for dynamically loading a transport mechanism in a multipoint data delivery system. A multi-point data delivery system provides a communication mechanism between users or a computer system which permits sending messages point to point, and point to multiple points. A resource locator (RL) corresponding to a collaboration session is requested from a registry. A location indicator of the RL in the registry is received from the registry. In response to receiving the location indicator of the RL in the registry, a transportation mechanism specified in the RL is dynamically loaded, and the collaboration session is joined. The transportation mechanism is a protocol stack identifying the transportation protocol used. The transportation protocols may include transmission control protocol (TCP), user datagrams protocol (UDP), remote method invocation (RMI), T.120, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Scaleable Reliable Multicast (SRM), and other transportation level implementations.
The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a computer network in which the present invention may be implemented.
FIG. 2 is an overview diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a session.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of the overall application interface.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating one method of dynamically loading the transport mechanism.
A method and apparatus for dynamic loading of a transport mechanism in a multipoint data delivery system is described. In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a computer network on which the present invention may be implemented. Computer systems 110 are coupled to other computer systems 110 either directly, using direct connection 120, or through a network 130. In one embodiment, one or more of the computer systems 110 may be "clients" of a "session" conducted on another computer system 110. These terms are defined below. Alternately, one computer system 110 may act as the server, while the other computer systems 110 are clients. Alternately, the present invention may be implemented as a distributed system, having parts on more than one computer system. In an alternative embodiment, the present invention may be implemented on a single computer system 110.
The present invention is related to dynamically loading a transportation protocol in a collaboration system in a computer network. According to one embodiment, a collaboration system is managed by computer system in response to a processor executing sequences of instructions contained in memory. Execution of the sequences of instructions causes the computer network to establish a collaboration session, add new sessions, and dynamically load transportation protocol in order to permit a user to join a collaboration session, as will be described hereafter. In alternative embodiments, circuit logic internal to a computer network may be used in place of or in combination with software to implement the present invention. Thus, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.
It is to be understood that although the term resource locator (RL) is used in the specification, alternate methods of specifying an object on the Internet may be utilized without changing the spirit of the present invention. Additionally, within an RL type, alternative access schemes or protocols may be utilized. Thus an RL corresponding to file transfer protocol (ftp), telnet, etc. may be utilized. However, for simplicity's sake, the term RL will be utilized henceforth.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of the collaboration system of the present invention. The collaboration system 210 of the present invention may be implemented on one or more computer systems 110. The collaboration system 210 includes elements which are implemented on a server computer and on a client computer. The server and client computers may however be the same computer.
An application user interface 220 is an interface which displays information to the clients/users and receives information from them. In one embodiment, the interface 220 may be a part of a world wide web browser application. The application user interface 220 is on the computer which acts as the client. collaboration system 210 further includes a registry 230. The registry 230 contains information pertaining to the remote sessions and clients, permitting other computer systems to link to various sessions and become clients, as will be described below. In one embodiment, the registry 230 is a bootstrap name server. In one embodiment, the registry 230 is implemented on the computer which acts as the server.
The collaboration system 210 further includes a parser 240. The parser 240 is for parsing a received resource locator (RL). In one embodiment, the resource locator is a uniform resource locator (URL). The parser 240 divides the RL into its component parts for further processing, as will be described below. The parser 240 is implemented on the client computer.
A dynamic loader 250 is a part of the collaboration system 210. The dynamic loader is for dynamically (i.e. automatically) loading a protocol stack, stored in the memory 270. The dynamic loader 250 loads a protocol stack in response to an RL which designates a type of protocol to be used for a new session/client being established. The dynamic loader 250 receives the type designation from the registry 230, determines the appropriate protocol stack to be loaded for the type and retrieves the protocol stack from the memory 270. Thus, the dynamic loader 250 dynamically loads the appropriate protocol stack in response to receiving a type designation. In one embodiment, the dynamic loader 250 is implemented on the client computer.
A comparator 260 compares a received RL to RLs in the registry 230. The comparator 260 determines whether the received RL is already in the registry 230. The comparator 260 determines whether the RL needs to establish a new session, or join an already established session which is in the registry 220. The comparator 260 outputs a determination whether a matching RL was found in the memory 270 associated with the registry 230. The comparator 260 is implemented on the server computer.
Session manager 280 manages each of the established sessions. Each established session has an RL in the registry 220 and at least one client. One example of a session is illustrated in FIG. 3. A session manager 280 is implemented on the computer which acts as the server for the particular session in question. For one embodiment, the server for a session need not be implemented on the same computer as the registry 230.
FIG. 3 illustrates an overview of a session 300 for collaborative computing. It permits multiple people to share an application. This session 300 may be for example, an on-line chat program, a shared white board, a gaming system, etc.
Session 300 is a collection of related Clients 320, 330, 360 which can exchange messages via defined communications paths 380, 395. Clients 320, 330, 360 are actual or potential participants in an instance of multi-party communications. Once properly associated with one another in a Session 300, related Clients 320, 330, 360 can transfer data in a point-to-point or multipoint fashion. The Session 300 maintains the state associated with the collection of clients 320, 330, 360 and their associated communications paths 380, 395, and may interact with an object which encapsulates a defined session management policy, manager 310.
A Channel 380, 395 is a specific instance of a potentially multi-party communications path between two or more Clients 320, 330, 360 within a given Session 300. A channel 380 may be shared between multiple clients 320, 330, 360, and two clients 320, 330 may establish a separate channel 395. All Client objects 320, 330, 360 which register an interest in receiving messages from a given Channel 380, will get messages sent on that Channel 380. Any Client 320 which possesses an object reference to a Channel 380, 395 is able to send a message on the given Channel 380, 395, and a Client 320 can have references to multiple Channels 380, 395. Thus, for example, Channel 380 for multi-party communications can be separate from Channel 395 for communication between two Clients 320, 330.
A Consumer 325, 335, 355, 365 is a Client object which has registered its interest in receiving messages sent over a given Channel 380, 395. Any Client 320, 330, 360 can be a Consumer 325, 335, 355, 365 and it is possible for a given Client 330 to be a Consumer 335, 355 of multiple Channels 380, 395 a the same time. A Client 320, 330, 360 sets a Consumer 325, 335, 355, 365 on a Channel 380, 395 to receive Data sent over that Channel 380, 395. The Data contains the raw data, plus the senders name, the priority of the Data that was sent and the name of the Channel 380, 395 the Data was sent over.
An Observer 315, 350, 390 is an object that has registered its interest in being notified about changes in a state of another object. An Observer 315, 350, 390 can observe changes in a Session 300, on a Channel 380 or a Token 340. A Session Observer 315 will be notified about Clients 320, 330, 360 joining and leaving a Session 300. A Channel Observer 390 will be notified about Clients 320, 330, 360 joining, leaving, being invited to join, and being expelled from a Channel 380, 395. A Token Observer 350 will be notified about Clients 320, 330, 360 joining, leaving, being invited to join, or expelled from a Token 340. The Token Observer 350 is also notified when a Client 320, 330, 360 wishes to give or take a Token 340 from another Client 320, 330, 360.
A Manager 310, 345, 385 encapsulates some management policy for another given object. Access to a Session 300, Channel 380 or Token 340 can be controlled by assigning a Manager 310, 345, 385 to it at creation time. The Manager 310, 345, 385 authenticates Clients 320, 330, 360 wishing to join this resource, and based upon their response accepts or rejects them. Both send and receive access to individual Channels 395 can be controlled by a private channel mechanism. Any Client 320, 330, 360 may convene a private Channel 395 which results in the Client 320, 330, 360 becoming the private Channel Manager 385 of an empty channel. The Channel Manager 385 can invite a Client 320, 330, 360 to join the Channel 380 or force a Client 320, 330, 360 to leave.
A Token 340, 370 is a synchronization object which provides a unique distributed atomic operation. Tokens 340, 370 can be used to implement a variety of different application-level synchronization mechanisms, for example to ensure mutually exclusive access to a shared resource. Tokens 340, 370 provide a means to implement exclusive access. For example, to ensure in a multipoint application using resources that one and only one site holds a given resource at a given time, a Token 340, 370 can be associated with every resource. When a site wishes to use a specific resource, it must ask for its corresponding Token 340, 370, which will be granted only if no one else is holding it. A single Token 340, 370 may be used to coordinate a multiple client event by having each Client 320, 330, 360 take the Token 340, 370 in a non-exclusive mode. Clients 320, 330, 360 can independently inhibit and release the same Token 340, 370. For example, if it was desired to know when all Clients 320, 330, 360 have completed reception and processing of a bulk file transfer, all receiving Client 320, 330, 360 would non-exclusively grab (inhibit) the same Token 340, 370 and each individual Client 320, 330, 360 would release the Token 340, 370 when it had completed the proscribed process. Any Client 320, 330, 360 could test the token 340, 370 at will to determine if the token 340, 370. is free which means all the Clients 320, 330, 360 have completed processing.
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Within a multipoint Session 300 a Client 320, 330, 360 can send data to different members of the Session 300 and have access to tokens 340, 370 for resource contention resolution. This example will be explained with respect to Client D 330. However, it is to be understood that the explanation provided applies to any other client which joins a session. The first thing a Client 330 has to do is join a Session 300. The Client 330 first determines what sessions are available to it.
The Client 330 then joins a Session 300, or multiple sessions. The Session will typically have multiple Clients 320, 330, 360, either at the same site or at different sites. An application or applet can have multiple Clients 320, 330, 360 in the same Session 300. An applet is a platform independent program written in Sun Microsystem™'s Java™* language which can be distributed as an attachment in a World-Wide Web document and executed by a web browser. Each Client 320, 330, 360 might be handling a different kind of data, i.e. audio vs. video. A Client 330 can also be a member of multiple Sessions.
* Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, and Java are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States, and other countries.
Once the Session 300 is established, and the Client 330 has joined the Session 300, the Client 330 joins the appropriate Channels 380, 395 it requires for receiving data. The use of these Channels 380, 395 is application dependent. Tokens 340, 370 are also provided for managing a resource available to the client. Channels 380, 395 are session-wide addresses. Every Client 320, 330, 360 of a Session 300 can join a Channel 380, 395 to receive data sent to it, and by joining an appropriate combination of Channels 380, 395, and by consuming them, a Client 330 can choose to receive messages sent to these Channels 380, 395 and ignore messages sent to other Channels. The Client 330 subscribe to and leave the desired Channels 380, 395 with the join and leave Channel methods.
Once the participating Clients 320, 330, 360 have attached to the common Session 300 and joined the right combination of Channels 380, 395, they are ready to exchange data in a true multipoint fashion.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the various levels of interactions within a collaboration environment. The lowest level is the transport level 410. The transport level 410 is utilized to interface with the network, and may include transmission control protocol (TCP), user datagrams protocol (UDP), remote method invocation (RMI), T.120, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Scaleable Reliable Multicast (SRM), and other transportation level 410 implementations.
A registry 420 is one level above the transport level 410. The registry 420 resides on the computer system which acts as the server and is used to keep track of all current sessions and clients. In one embodiment, the registry 420 is a bootstrap name server which allows a user to obtain remote sessions on a given host. The registry 420 is, in effect, a record which contains a list of all available sessions and clients. Above the registry 420 is the session management 430. The session management 430 acts as a manager of each individual session which is in progress. Each session has a separate management block, and all of these management blocks together form the session management 430.
At the same level as the registry is the distributed data sharing 440. The distributed data sharing 440 permits the various types of data objects to be shared between a number of clients. The data sharing 440 permits the sharing of the shared objects 450, shared primitives 460, tokens 470, and publish/subscribe tuples 480. The distributed data sharing 440 also contains the Channels and data sending and receiving software.
Shared objects 450 reside above the session management 430. The shared objects 450 include sessions, channels, data, tokens, observers, consumers, managers, and primitives. All of the data associated with these objects may be shared by using the data sharing 440. For one embodiment the Shared Objects 450 also allow objects to be shared outside the multipoint collaborative environment.
Shared primitives 460 reside above the distributed data sharing 440 and session management 430. Shared primitives 460 are used to create and update simple named data elements which are shared between the members of a session. They may include boolean, double, float, integer, long, and string. Shared primitives 460 always have an up-to-date internal value.
Tokens 470 reside above the shared primitives 460. Tokens 470 provide a means to implement exclusive access to shared resources. Tokens 470 are associated with such a resource. When a site wishes to use a specific resource, it must request its token, which will be granted only if no one else is holding the token. Tokens 470 are also used to coordinate a multiple client event, by having non-exclusive tokens, which may be shared by multiple clients at the same time.
Publish/subscribe tuples 480 reside above the shared primitives 460. Publish/subscribe tuples 480 are associated with every client. The publish/subscribe tuples 480 permit a client to publish something on the collaboration system, and to subscribe to publications of others.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the flow of joining or registering a session with the registry 420. At block 510 a universal resource locator (RL) is received from a client. In one embodiment, the resource locator, is in the following form:
coll://<host>:<port>/<type>/Client/<client_name>where the information in brackets "< >" is substituted by the actual name. Host:port designates the location of the designated server for this particular collaboration. The host indicates the name of the host computer. The port indicates the port number of the computer on which the present session or client is to be established. The type designates the type of connection used for the collaboration, including, for example, TCP, UDP, RMI, T.120, CORBA, SRM, and other transportation types. The Session or Client determines whether the RL is referencing a Session or a Client. The session name and client name are self-explanatory.
At block 520, the RL is parsed. Parsing the RL separates the elements described above, in order to analyze the RL.
At block 530, the received RL is compared to the RLs in the Registry. Each established session has an RL which is stored in the Registry, in order to permit other users to connect to the same session. Thus, each element of the RL is compared to the RLs in the Registry.
At block 540, the process determines whether such the received RL is identical to an RL in the Registry. If the RL is already in the registry, the process continues directly to block 570. Otherwise, the process continues to block 550.
At block 550, the type of transportation mechanism specified in the RL is determined. That is, the type specified, such as TCP, UDP, RMI, T.120, CORBA, SRM, is identified. Thus, for example, in an RL such as coll://stard.Eng:4461/TCP/Session/ChatSession/ the type is "TCP".
At block 560, the new RL is added to the registry. Adding the RL to the registry allows later users/clients to register to join the collaborative session. The registry 220 may have sessions with different transport mechanism.
At block 570, a location indicator indicating the location of the established session is returned to the user. In one embodiment, the location indicator is a pointer to the RL in the registry. In another embodiment, the location indicator is an Internet address. In one embodiment, the session is established on the same server that the registry is located on. Alternatively, the session may be established on a different computer, as indicated by the RL.
At block 580, the client, in response to receiving the location indicator, dynamically loads the object class, and the appropriate protocol stack. In one embodiment, the object class is a SharedData class. Each type of transport mechanism has a protocol stack, a layered set of protocols which work together to provide a set of network functions. The protocol stack may follow the International Standards Organization's seven layer model. Each client in the multipoint collaborative system has available at,least one protocol stack. In response to receiving the RL location indicator, the dynamic loader 250 of the client loads the appropriate protocol stack, enabling the client to communicate with the session. In one embodiment, the protocol stack is loaded automatically, which means that a client or user need not interact with the present system in order to select a new protocol.
In the foregoing specification, the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments thereof. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the invention. The specification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The present invention should not be construed as limited by such embodiments and examples, but rather construed according to the following claims and their equivalents.
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At first, the book cover resembles the Kokopelli rock-drawing designs from the American Southwest. But if you look closely, you'll note that there are hooves and horns and, by gosh, that's furry enough for me!
Luke loves two things: his land and Sally. He pours a lot of magic and effort into one of them. The other he pretends to just like as a friend. Nobody is fooled except Luke.
Circlet Press, June 2014, 305 pages, ebook $6.99, paperback $14.95 (US). An audio version can be heard on the Nobilis Erotica podcast.
Review: 'Corpus Lupus', by John K. SmithPosted by Greyflank on Tue 4 Oct 2016 - 04:27
This book is actually a collection of three novellas about your worst nightmare: A WEREWOLF WITH A BADGE.
OK, I know for some of you (me included), the image that first comes to mind might be more erotic than horrific... but I assure you that your ride along is going to take you into some deeply, darkly, disturbing places.
Highridge is a cop that became a werewolf in an Urban Fantasy Setting where lycanthropes have a subculture and are an accepted part of modern society. And the revelation of their existence is no recent thing.
As is often the case when the werewolves are (mostly) good guys, there are worse things out there than wolfmen.
Legion Printing and Publishing, 2010, ebook $2.66 (194 pages).
Furry webcomic 'At Arm's Length' seeks Patreon supportersPosted by Cubist on Tue 15 Jul 2014 - 18:42
A month shy of its sixth anniversary, long-running webcomic At Arm's Length is actively moving to acquire support, in the form of a Patreon campaign.
Written by DarkWingDude (aka Equestrian Horse Wrangler) and drawn by Brooke Scovil, At Arm's Length focuses primarily on three women who are emigrants from a hidden society of four-armed magical beings. Our heroines, Ally (rabbit; specializes in illusions) Sheila (kangaroo; the most direct, forthright member of the trio) and Reece (fox; psychic and generally peculiar) appreciate the mortal world to the point where they put the smackdown on magical threats that mundane authorities simply cannot handle.
Those who choose to support the strip via Patreon can gain access to web badges and wallpapers available nowhere else, and can even introduce new characters with speaking parts.
Review: 'Striking the Root', by Kris SchneePosted by Fred on Sat 16 Nov 2013 - 21:38
You cannot always judge whether a novel will be good or bad by its first line, but I've found that a story with a good first line rarely turns out to be bad. The first line of Striking the Root is, "Rowan hung upside-down from a branch and drew emerald knots in the air, hoping to please the Lord." Yep, that's a grabber. And Striking the Root just keeps getting better.
In an apparent dungeons-&-dragonish magical world, young Rowan Janiceson is an "awakened" gray squirrel in a joint civilization of humans and squirrelfolk. The world was originally inhabited by just humans; but several centuries ago, the human wizard Lord Veles, Great Lord of the Forest, planted the seed that grew into the massive Great Oak and awakened the first squirrels in size and intelligence. Since then, Veles has mostly withdrawn to let the squirrelfolk run their own civilization under their own Council in what has become the squirrel nation of Great Oak. Many squirrels have left Great Oak to settle among the human city-states.
Rowan is one of the squirrelfolk who worship Veles as the god of the squirrelfolk, and he is unhappy that more and more squirrels are drifting away from the True Faith, calling Veles by the disrespectful name of "Greenie" and considering him as just a human wizard, not a god. When the Council of Great Oak intends to send a representative into human lands on a trade mission, Veles arranges for Rowan to become that messenger. Rowan is both scared to venture from the squirrel nation into the human world, and proud to be the ambassador of the squirrel's True Faith.
CreateSpace, Dec. 2012, trade paperback $7.49 ([2 +] 199 pages), Kindle $2.99. Map by Virmir.
Review: 'Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit! A Puzzling Novel', by C. Casey GardinerPosted by Fred on Thu 1 Aug 2013 - 04:03
This brick of a novel – 4¼" wide x 6 7/8" high x 2" thick – says on its cover that it is "metafiction". That is apparently a synonym for bizarre. Gardiner has made it as bizarre as he could. For starters, the cover (I assume that Gardiner did it himself) appears to be from a very shabby, used copy, with several crease lines. But they are drawn into the new cover art; they are part of its design. The colophon says that this book is "written, designed, and illustrated by C. Casey Gardiner", but his idea of illustrations are the graphics that appear frequently, rather than pictures.
This novel was successfully funded on Kickstarter during August-October 2012. Gardiner says, "There are many pictures, riddles, poems, songs and puzzles in its pages," among more surrealistic statements such as, "It is not ergodic literature, nor is it transgressive." (This is not the first printing; it is the ?st printing.)
The bottom line: will you enjoy Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!? Yes. It is very well written, and bizarre in a good way, although you will have to work at getting it. Gardiner deliberately does not make it easy.
Detroit, MI, Blue Rabbit Fictions, July 2013, paperback $20 (752 [+ 22] pgs.). Illustrated by the author.
That New Rabbit is Strange…Posted by Mink on Mon 15 Jul 2013 - 19:07
Cantrip The Magic Rabbit is an on-line "anthropomorphic comedy" black & white comic created by "the popular Furrlough duo of Shon Howell and Phil Gibson" (according to the publishers). Here's the description: "Strange things are happening in Templarsville, Oklahoma. The students at Julius Schwartz Memorial High are abuzz about the new girl, Candice Tripp. They say there's something unusual about her, possibly unnatural. Of course, the fact that she was discovered in an abandoned house outside of town with complete amnesia lends itself well to these types of fanciful imagination. With her new friends, Candice will learn what it's like to live in a normal town, until her very un-normal past comes back to haunt her!" Now Radio Comix are releasing the collected Cantrip The Magic Rabbit as a softcover graphic novel next month. You can find out more about it at Second Ed.
'The Night of the Rabbit' to be released on May 29Posted by Higgs Raccoon on Mon 6 May 2013 - 16:01
The Night of the Rabbit, an upcoming release by German game developer Daedalic Entertainment, tells the story of Jerry Hazelnut, a twelve-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a wizard.
As his summer vacation winds down, Jerry meets the Marquis de Hoto, a magical anthropomorphic rabbit in a snappy suit. He offers to take Jerry on as an apprentice and to teach him the ways of the Treewalkers, who use a special type of magic to conjure up portals and travel between worlds. As a demonstration, de Hoto leads his apprentice through a tree portal into Mousewood, a peaceful world inhabited by anthro mice, squirrels, and other critters, which acts as a hub to reach further worlds.
Review: 'The Cats of Tanglewood Forest', by Charles de Lint & Charles VessPosted by Fred on Sun 21 Apr 2013 - 17:59
Boston & NYC, Little, Brown & Co., March 2013 Hardcover $17.99 ([6 +] 285 [+ 7] pages)
Kindle $8.89. Illustrated by Charles Vess.
The age rating on this is "8 and up". This is one of those "all ages" books like The Wind in the Willows that you will not want to miss just because it may be in the children's section of your bookshop or public library. Seek it out! It is worth it.
Lillian Kindred is a little girl whose parents are dead and who lives with her Aunt on a farm at the edge of Tanglewood Forest. The book doesn't say how old she is, so that's probably not important. What is important is that she's established as old enough to be allowed by other people to play in the forest alone, and young enough to look for fairies. One of the things that she sees is lots of cats wandering freely – feral cats and farm cats. She does not bother them, but she does put out dishes of fresh milk for them.
One day she falls asleep in the forest, and is bitten by a venomous snake. Vess' illustration shows a coral snake; the worst kind. Wikipedia says that, "Coral snakes have a powerful neurotoxin that paralyzes the breathing muscles; mechanical or artificial respiration, along with large doses of antivenom, are often required to save a victim's life." Lillian does not have any of that. She is alone at the foot of a tree, dying.
Review: 'Carbonel, The King of the Cats', 'The Kingdom of Carbonel', and 'Carbonel and Calidor', by Barbara SleighPosted by Fred on Wed 21 Nov 2012 - 19:49
I usually select the books that I review on my own initiative, but this review of the Carbonel novels was suggested/inspired by Rakuen Growlithe. He asked, in a comment to my review of Windrusher and the Trail of Fire:
There were two cat books I read as a kid and found really good but I don't recall ever seeing someone in the fandom mention them, which I find a bit sad. Did you ever read either Carbonel or The Kingdom of Carbonel? They were about Carbonel, the king of the cats, his service to a witch, relationship with two children and, in the sequel, his kittens and authority?
I had read them over fifty years ago and remembered enjoying them. On investigating, I found that there was a third Carbonel novel that I had not known about; and that, after being out of print for decades, all three have been reprinted recently and are again available. Fortunately, the Los Angeles Public Library and the County of Los Angeles Public Library between them have all three, so I did not have to buy copies.
I have enjoyed rereading the first two, and reading the third for the first time, very much. Thank you, Rakuen, for reminding me of them. (By the way, do you remember whether you read the British edition, the American edition, or was there a separate South African edition?)
Review: The 'Tales of the Frog Princess' series, by E. D. BakerPosted by Fred on Sat 10 Nov 2012 - 23:39
Technically, "fractured fairy tales" is a TV cartoon series by Jay Ward, originally part of Ward's Rocky and His Friends from 1959 to 1961; but it has become a popular generic term for any modernized, satirical story in a traditional European fairy tale setting. This certainly fits Elizabeth D. Baker's Tales of the Frog Princess novels. Although published for the 10- to 14-year-old age group, they are witty enough that adults will enjoy them, and they contain enough talking animals and humans transformed into animals to please the average 'morph fan.
The narrator, Emeralda (Emma), is a tomboyish 14-year-old princess of the stereotypical fairytale Kingdom of Greater Greensward. The kingdom is supposed to be protected from conquest by a princess who becomes a kindly, guardian Green Witch in each generation. Unfortunately, a fairy's curse has turned any princess who touches a flower after she turns sixteen into an ugly, nasty hag, which disqualifies the Green Witches. When Emma's grandmother, Queen Olivene, fell under the curse, she turned her daughter Grassina's fiancée Haywood into a frog (they think). Emma is despondently sure that she is too inept to ever become her generation's Green Witch. Also, her mother, Queen Chartreuse, is trying to marry her off to handsome but unlikable Prince Jorge.
Review: 'Archival: Most Secret', by Rob S. RicePosted by Fred on Sun 28 Oct 2012 - 19:42
The back-cover blurb for Archival: Most Secret is accurate but misleading.
Join the heir to a faerie legacy and his bloody companion on a journey that ends before the very ramparts of New Orleans and in the smoke of a terrifying battle. What was the secret Winston Churchill's valet sought to share with his employer from beyond the grave? Meet Flight Lieutenant Neville 'Bunny' Edwards, who in the course of the Second World War loses his humanity, but never his courage or his determination to stay in the fighting.
This makes the book sound like a collection of three stories that are each about a man transformed into an animal. Instead, men are transformed into animals in wholesale lots.
In these three stories, in the form of letters, diaries, journal entries, and interviews covering the years 1805-14, 1894, and 1941, magic is so prevalent that a secret Ministry of the British government has to be formed to practice and combat it.
Denver, CO, Esterhazy Press/Raleigh, NC, Lulu.com, July 2007, trade paperback $14.95 (iv + 185 [+ 1] pages). Illustrated by Donna Barr.
Review: 'The Species of Blessing Avenue', by Graveyard GregPosted by Fred on Sat 25 Aug 2012 - 17:29
The Species of Blessing Avenue consists of three short stories: "The Species of Alone" and "The Species of Rivals", published by Smashwords in June and October 2010, and "The Species of Triumph", published here for the first time. All three feature Israel Kevinson, a hunky and gay teenager who lives on Blessing Avenue.
From the start, you couldn't tell that this was anthro fiction. And it isn't, exactly.
Sometimes I get philosophical when I'm dealing with the jocks, especially when I'm holding one of them by the ankles, suspending them over the toilet. This is what my dad calls a 'swirly', but seeing as how he's old I can't hold it against him for knowing such a corny name. Anyway, the reason for my getting all Socrates-like is this: a bully is someone who preys on those who are weaker, right? Well seeing as how I'm preying on the bullies who think they can pick on my friends, does that make me a bully? I don't think so, and neither do my friends. Maybe I'll take a class on it when I go to college because questions like that make me think. (p. 3)
There are references to Izzy's mothers blonde hair, and to bodybuilding and martial-arts videos with Arnold and Jet Li. It's not until p. 17 that Izzy turns into a lion – he's a werelion!
Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, May 2012, trade paperback $9.95 (78 [+ 1] pages)
Review: 'Spur', by Phil GeuszPosted by Fred on Mon 20 Aug 2012 - 22:12
It is not easy to tell the setting of Spur at first. It seems to be our world, but Merle Castison, the first-person narrator, is a talking Andalusian stallion which nobody seems to consider strange. Disreputable, maybe, but not strange. Merle has agreed to accept the curse to be turned into a horse of rich industrialist Arthur Beckmann, for $10,000 a month, upkeep in a palatial stable with phone, TV, and computer on Beckmann's luxurious horse-farm, his oldest and best friend Cole as his personal groom, a customized spell to allow him to keep human vision and speech, and frequent visits from his human RPG-playing friends.
Merle's workaholic father disowns him for choosing Easy Money over Hard Work, but Merle doesn't see what's wrong with taking advantage of a cushy offer that is honest, although he privately agrees with his father that he has not accomplished anything notable in his thirty-eight-year life. Nobody would want to become a horse permanently, but this is just until Beckmann dies; then Merle will revert to human with all the $10,000 monthly payments he's saved.
Except that Beckmann dies and Merle stays a horse.
Melange Books, May 2012, trade paperback $14.95 (209 pages; Amazon), PDF or HTML $5.99.
Review: 'The Man With Two Shadows', by Tristan Black WolfPosted by Fred on Mon 2 Jul 2012 - 00:53
Tristan Black Wolf, a resident of Syracuse, NY, is a member of the Furry Writers' Guild and of North American Fur, and has stories in both volumes to date of Allasso, the "publication dedicated to finding new experiences within anthropomorphic writing and art." The Man With Two Shadows is his first novel.
Jeremiah Pym is a modern private investigator, not the stereotypical hard-boiled, trench-coated PI of fiction. He has a modern office and undertakes typical p.i. tasks, such as getting evidence on unfaithful spouses.
There are days when being a private investigator can feel a little awkward. When a woman comes to you, convinced that her husband is throwing away money on some other woman, you expect her to refer to the other woman as a 'bitch.' What would make this interview particularly interesting is that the bitch in question happened to be a greyhound. (p. 1)
Mrs. Lindenbaum is so happy that her husband has been spending his money on dog-racing gambling instead of a floozy that she pays Pym's bill cheerfully. Pym's next client is another matter, and where things start to become a little strange.
AuthorHouse, March 2012, trade paperback $19.95 (viii + 244 [+ 2] pages; on Amazon).
Review: 'Descent', by Phil GeuszPosted by Fred on Thu 19 Apr 2012 - 04:00
Descent seems to be barely anthropomorphic: a novel with only one Furry main character, the narrator. Yet this is a novel that any fan of Furry fantasy should enjoy reading.
The setting is our world, yet a magical one. Gregory Lombard is first seen caught in a traffic jam.
I hate driving rental cars. […] Grinding my teeth in frustration, I carefully depressed the clutch (carefully, because the pedals had been designed for feet far smaller than mine) as traffic once more slowed and stopped. […] Then the inevitable happened. A child riding in the van I was trapped behind noticed me and pointed. Soon an entire pack of five and six year-olds had their faces jammed up against the rear windows. I waved back, my newly-altered hands still feeling odd to me. I always tried to make time for kids, even on bad days. […] Because I knew that the moment I let my mind wander, I'd start thinking about the fingers I'd lost forever earlier in the afternoon. (pgs. 4-7)
There is powerful magic in this world, and Greg Lombard has been cursed by it.
Where this morning I'd been the proud owner of two furry but otherwise human-looking hands, I now possessed a matching pair of rather pawlike mitten-thingies. (p. 7)
Birmingham, AL, Legion Publishing, August 2010, hardcover $18.99, trade paperback $9.99 (both 390 pages, $5 shipping & handling), Kindle $8.99.


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Sun Rise Header Graphic
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a simple but nice sun rise scene. the end result could useful for a website header or even a postcard.
The techniques I'm going to use are quite simple, a few gradients colours, blend modes and some nice floral and grass brushes applied using GIMP's 2.6 dynamic brushes feature.
Preparing you're GIMP
Before we start I would like to make sure you have GIMP 2.6 as, If you don't, check out gimpusers.com download page for the latest version.
Installing Brushes
We're going to be using two types of brushes the floral brushes by gvalkyrie and the grass brushes by Archeleron. both were made for photoshop but as I've mentioned before GIMP fully supports PS brushes.
After downloading them be sure to place in your GIMP's brushes folder.. for Win vista users, place the brushes in "C:\Users\Account_name\.gimp-2.6\brushes" should do the trick if you don't know your way around your OS system, the easiest thing is to do a simple search for the brushes folder and it should come up. Also make sure you actually paste the .abr file and not the folder.
Step 1
Create a new image, depending on what you're going to use yours for you might want to decide now otherwise just enter 617x200px to follow my tutorial.
Step 2
We'll start with the background. first create a new layer and from the toolbox grab the Gradient blend tool.
Once you have the tool selected go to your colour boxs and enter ff6c00 as your foreground colour and ffc662 for the background.
Step 3
Now that you have your colours set create a new layer and apply it so that the dark orang starts from the top and the light orange is at the bottom. Pressing the CTRL key while applying will give you a perfect straight blend.
Step 4
Create a new layer and use the ellipse tool draw a oval shape in the centre of the canvas, then go to Select>feather 100px and fill the selection with the white using the paint bucket.
Once you have drawn and feathered it to 100px, Set the layer to overlay
Step 5
Repeat step 4 but this time draw a perfect circle go to Select>feather at 50px.
Step 6
Now grab the brush tool from the toolbox, then select "Circle Fuzzy (17)" from the brushes dialog and scale the size to 7.
Step 7
With the large soft brush in hand apply a few stokes across the bottom of the image just a few pixels wide.
Step 8
Time to apply some of the grass brushes we installed in the beginning of this tutorial. first select the 2nd grass from the view list, set the scale size to 0.20 and tick the random box in dynamic brushes.
Once you have that set up, apply it to the bottom of the image as shown in my example.
Step 9
Now that we have our bottom filled with grass we can go ahead an randomly mix the other grass brushes so it doesn't look to cloned.
Step 10
For our final step, we'll add the floral vines brushes to our scene but first hit the reset button found at the bottom the brushes dialog.
Now we can go ahead and apply some of those floral brushes to the sides of our image.
Pretty simple tutorial but the results are quite nice.
You may want to add you blog header or text to the middle of the image while trying to keep the text inside the white area.
Here is my final result.
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text: The The Murderer Among Us: Crisis Above Earth-One! wiki last edited by chrisburgess99 on 03/20/16 08:31PM View full history The annual Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America team-up begins with a battle with the Spirit King!The Justice League of America, and the Justice Society of America, hold their annual meeting, aboard the satellite headquarters of the Justice League of America. The Golden Age Hawkman validates Zatanna. Mister Terrific discuses why he came out of retirement. Mister Terrific, as English Literature professor, Terry Sloane, had recently encountered his arch-nemesis, the Spirit King. Mister Terrific declares that he's tracked the Spirit King down, but refuses to say more. The Batman comforts the Huntress, on the loss of her father. The Silver Age Hawkman talks archaeology with Doctor Fate. The Golden and Silver Age Green Lanterns catch up.A hull breach brings the pleasant conversation to a close. Doctor Fate conjures a shield, to protect the two teams from possible radiation exposure. Superman finds Mister Terrific's corpse floating on a blown out piece of the hull. Superman carries Mister Terrific's corpse back into the satellite. Doctor Fate, and Superman, fashion a replacement to seal the hole in the hull. The Golden and Silver Age Hawkmen fit the new hull piece into place. The Golden and Silver Age Green Lanterns weld the new hull piece to the satellite. Mister Terrific's corpse is placed under the medical examiner, to determine cause of death.The Silver Age Flash locates a fragment of the explosive device used to blow out the hull. Zatanna uses sympathetic magic to try to get a "read" on the fragment. Psychic feedback places Zatanna into a coma. The Golden and Silver Age Flashes search the satellite headquarters, of the Justice League of America, for an intruder. They turn up nothing. The Red Tornado confirms that neither the Justice League Transporter, nor the Transmatter has been used. Superman reveals that Mister Terrific was not killed by the explosion. He was strangled. More to the point, his murderer can only be either a member of the Justice League of America, or a member of the Justice Society of America.


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Demand from new wireless subscribers is driving growth in high-speed Internet in OECD countries but the latest data show a slowdown in fixed broadband subscriptions in the first half of 2011.
Rising global energy demand and the need to drastically cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions require a transformation in the way we produce, deliver and consume energy, according to a new joint report from the OECD and IEA.
OECD countries acknowledge that taxes must play a role in the process of fiscal consolidation as they battle unprecedented budget deficits. In 2010, the majority of OECD governments have stabilised their tax to GDP, with the average ratio moving up slightly from 33.8% in 2009 to 33.9% in 2010.
The OECD today invited Colombia to join its Working Group on Bribery and to accede to the Anti-Bribery Convention. OECD Deputy Secretary-General Richard Boucher signed an exchange of letters with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
To help governments meet this challenge, the OECD and the World Bank/UNODC Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) released today a new study on the Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery.
A new OECD report analysing trends in rising income inequality and its causes will be published on Monday 5 December 2011 at 11.00 a.m. Paris time (10.00 a.m. GMT). News conferences will be held in Paris, Berlin, London and Washington.
According to OECD's latest analysis, global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to grow by another 50% in the next 40 years. This would result in a 3-6 degree increase of average global temperature by the end of the century unless governments take decisive action, says OECD Secretary-General.
Find out whose vision of progress won! A special thanks to all contestants for entering the OECD's 50th Anniversary competition and their excellent videos. We look forward to meeting the winners in Paris at OECD Week.
Though overall medical care is improving, efforts to prevent and better manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma would improve results and lower costs, according to the OECD's latest edition of Health at a Glance.
The OECD has launched an initiative with the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Fukushima University and local schools for students in the Tohoku region to create and organise an event that will showcase the country's recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake.


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Android 6.0 has a lot of cool features, most of which are enabled out of the box. You don't have to go turn on doze mode or app backups, but the system UI tuner is another story. You might not even know it's there without being told. Once it's enabled, you can make tweaks to the system UI elements that weren't possible in earlier versions of Android.
Now, an app called Custom Quick Settings is on the scene to take advantage of the UI tuner. Using this app, you can create your own quick settings tiles that open apps, toggle settings, and launch websites.Read More


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Gattuso to avoid Spurs 'slap'
Gennaro Gattuso says there will be '37,000 people waiting to give me a slap' if he travels to Spurs.
Last Updated: 23/02/11 2:46pm
Gennaro Gattuso has confirmed he will not travel to White Hart Lane for AC Milan's second leg against Tottenham Hotspur to avoid being 'slapped'.
The veteran midfielder will sit out the UEFA Champions League clash next month through suspension after picking up a yellow card in Spurs' 1-0 win at the San Siro last week.
However, it is Gattuso's actions at the end of the game that have persuaded the Italian to remain in Milan rather than cheer on his team-mates in North London.
Gattuso was given a further four-match ban by Uefa earlier this week after headbutting Tottenham's assistant manager Joe Jordan following the final whistle.
He maintains Jordan was ready for a confrontation and, despite wanting to travel to England, Gattuso has accepted it will better if he stays at home.
"I would like to go to White Hart Lane for the second leg but I have been advised not to," Gattuso told Le Iene television programme.
"I have been told there will be 37,000 people there just waiting to give me a slap, so I will stay in Milan.
"It was lucky Zlatan Ibrahimovic was not at my side when the confrontation with Jordan happened. If he had been, the fight would still be going on.
"When I went towards Jordan at the end of the game, he took off his glasses like he was ready for a challenge. He was screaming the 'f' word at me repeatedly.
"Then (Sebastien) Bassong came up and said, 'Hey, you and me'. It went on in the tunnel where Bassong was trying to belittle me about my height. He was laughing at me."


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Author Tags: Publishing, Sports
Silas White co-authored his first book Local Heroes: A History of the Western Hockey League (Harbour, 1993) while attending Pender Harbour Secondary School on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. It was followed by The Memorial Cup: Canada's National Junior Hockey Championship (Harbour, 1997), also written with Richard M. Lapp. White later served as a Contributing Editor to the Encyclopedia of B.C. and became editor of Nightwood Editions out of Toronto. He moved back to the Sunshine Coast and became publisher of Nightwood Editions, making it into one of the nation's foremost vehicles for emerging literary writers.
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I have an issue and would love some help. I would like to see when network user log onto their computers. When I hove over some computers I can see last login by <domain>\<user> but when i click View complete profile and then detailed view in users I get nothing but the local log in times. Why? Did I not set it up right? How do I fix it?
Thank you for your help in advanced.
PS I am installing spiceworks on all networks I maintaine once I figure this out. Thanks again
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May 2, 2008 at 5:26 UTC
Hi Josh, Do you see the information you want in the Complete Profile? Look for a link that says "View Complete Profile". This view should have all the information that Spiceworks has for the machine.
May 5, 2008 at 9:23 UTC
I looked in the complete profile and its just giving me N/A, and when I click Detailed View I see nothing.
May 7, 2008 at 4:28 UTC
I'd like to see Last Login or Network Login as a field in the General Info tab's brief profile and not just in the Complete profile or the hover. Is this possible to add this in the custom fields? I didn't see how I could.
I'm also wondering whether that could be a searchable field for generating reports? For example I've created a report which tells me which machines have iTunes installed on them. It would be really handy to have the last login reported back too so that I could cross reference their home directory to see how this is impacting network storage.
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Posted by The Park Keeper | Posted in Event, Nature Trail Improvements | Posted on 13-03-2010
Tags: litter, Moneyhole volunteers, nature trail
A few of us gathered today in order to make further improvements to the all weather nature trail. Quite a lot was done in just a few hours and we also managed to pick up some litter as a secondary exercise. We only scratched the surface of the litter, it's interesting to see the kind of things people carelessly throw away in our countryside.
So what did we find:
Golf balls
Bags containing dog mess (which begs the question why bag it up and then NOT put it in the bin or take it with you).
Beer cans, and some unopened bottles of beer.
Spirits bottles, including one still full of Vodka.
A 1.5 litre bottle of cheap wine with three straws!
In just half hour we picked up several bags of litter, much of it confectionery and crisp wrappers, the kind of thing most often eaten by children. Lets hope that the new litter bins now in place around the park help reduce this kind of rubbish.
Finally a few pictures of the nature trail work in progress:
TK and Frank have earned their cup of tea!
Whilst we were there an off-road motorcycle came by with 2 teenagers on it. About half an hour later the Police helicopter spent 10 minutes circling over the park looking for something, presumably the rogue bikers. We snapped a nice pic below of the helicopter:
Thanks to all who came along this morning and committed a few hours to making Moneyhole an even better place for local residents.


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HONOLULU -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Simeon Rice was sent home from the Pro Bowl on Friday night for disciplinary reasons.
Rice, a second-team All-Pro, arrived late in Hawaii and missed
meetings and practices in the week leading up to Sunday's game.
Players have been known to arrive late for Pro Bowl week or miss
practices in the past, but Rice was dropped by NFC coach Andy Reid.
Rice said in a statement released Sunday: "I would like to apologize to fans all over the country who expected to see me play in the Pro Bowl today, as I expected to be playing.
"Until we have an official explanation from the NFL for the action it has taken, I have no
further statement, except to say I have nothing but respect for my teammates
and gratitude to the football fans who elected me to the NFC Pro Bowl team
again this year."
Rice will be replaced on the NFC's roster by the Green Bay Packers' Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila.
Rice had another superb season with 15 sacks and two interceptions. An eight-year NFL veteran scheduled to make his third Pro Bowl appearance, Rice has not missed a regular-season game for the Bucs since joining them before the 2001-02 season.
Several of his teammates were unaware of the move as they
practiced at Aloha Stadium on Saturday.
Rice and San Francisco 49ers receiver Terrell Owens were fined for
missing a practice during the week leading up to last season's Pro
Bowl. Both were allowed to play in the game.
Gbaja-Biamila had 10 sacks this season, becoming the first
Packers player to reach double digits in sacks in three straight
seasons. He was scheduled to arrive in Hawaii on Saturday night.
He joins four Green Bay teammates -- running back Ahman Green, tight end Bubba Franks, offensive linemen Marco Rivera and Mike Flanagan -- in the Packers' largest Pro Bowl contingent in five years. Quarterback Brett Favre also was chosen for the game but won't play because of injury.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Pastor Maldonado believes his first Q3 appearance marks a genuine step forward in form for Williams, though he admits that the team still has a lot of work to do to get to where it wants to be.
Williams has struggled all season so far and has yet to score any points, but rookie Maldonado's Formula 1 career-best ninth on the grid in Spain gave the outfit some encouragement.
"I am really happy for the team and all the guys," he said. "We've tried really hard to find a good balance all weekend.
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Technical director Sam Michael also hopes that today's result can be a springboard for the team.
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In the context of the Semantic Web, ontologies and comprehensive ontological knowledge bases for different domains are currently being developed. This thesis investigates how such ontologies and knowledge bases can be used as resources for the implementation of query expansion mechanisms in information retrieval systems.
Accordingly, an empirical study is conducted which exemplarily examines a retrieval system for the domain of educational research. As a first step, an ontological knowledge base for the domain of educational research is created on the basis of Semantic Web standards. This knowledge base serves for generating query expansion terms for the search on the document corpus of the German Education Index, an information retrieval system for the domain of educational research. Different methods for the ontology based generation of query expansion terms will then be implemented, and their efficiency is to be evaluated in retrieval and user tests.
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I had a 2003 federal income tax bill of 35K. I'm not sure how I owed so much when my home based business has never been able to pay me a salary. At any rate, after a personal chapter 7 bankruptcy was discharged in 2011, I received an abatement for some of the taxes. I now owe 20K. I am operating the same business, but the business only earns approximately 30K a year. I have to live off of that as well cover business expenses. I'm afraid to file taxes because the business is earning something. I think they will take the little I have before the business has legs. I don't know how I would ever pay the 20K if fear keeps me from earning revenue. Also, I am denied resources that would help me grow the business because the lien on my credit is scaring off bankers. I feel stuck and unprotected.The IRS has temporarily granted me "non collectible status" to give me an opportunity to amend my return. I have reason to believe there were errors with the preparation. They also told me about the OIC program. I just have reason to believe that the entire thing should have been abated in the bankruptcy. The IRS does not agree. By the way, I want to file and will be doing so immediately. I just want direction so that I don't make an incorrect situation worse.
There are several ways to deal with your tax lien, but they all involve first filing your returns. If your business is making that little money, you can protect it from being taken by the IRS. no matter how much you owe in back taxes, the IRS will always let you keep enough money to pay your necessary living expenses, as long as you deal with them proactively and not try to avoid the problem. Sounds like you can probably get off real cheap with an offer in compromise, and may be able to get the lien released in the meantime
you would like some free personal advice on how to deal with your situation, feel free to give me a call at 248 262-3400. I am a local tax attorney in Southfield, and deal with situations like this ask the time. Resolving tax problems is all we do at my firm, so give me a call tomorrow if you want to talk about it some more
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Thank you so much. That was very helpful.
That's what I'm here for. Like I said, if you would like to talk one-on-one in more detail about your matter, feel free to give me a call. 248 262-3400
Not filing your tax returns will only make your situation worse because the penalties and interest will add to the underlying tax debt. Moreover, your reasoning as set forth in your fact pattern may give a taxing authority a basis for assessing criminal tax penalties, so take care in what you post online.
Your bankruptcy should have wiped out any taxes and penalties assessed more than 3 years before your bankruptcy filing. Your business may be generating large tax bills because you are not submitting estimated tax payments to the US Treasury during the year -- a problem many small businesses fall into because no one is withholding payroll or income taxes on self-employment income. Then again, your tax preparer may not be representing you adequately. In any event, consider engaging a tax attorney to help you get into compliance and negotiate a payment arrangement with the IRS. I would normally recommend that you hire a CPA, but your fact pattern raises a number of legal issues that would best be communicated to an attorney. Feel free to contact me if I can assist you with this matter.
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I appreciate the insight. Thank you so much.
As Oscar Ornelas has aptly stated, not filing your tax returns is only going to make your situation worse. From the facts that you have described, it appears that your business is not all that profitable. It could be that after payment of expenses, your business has only a minimal profit. If so, then you may qualify for the Earned Income Credit, which may more than offset any self-employment taxes that would be payable on your business profits. I suggest that you retain a skilled CPA or tax accountant and have him/her prepare your past due tax returns ASAP.
As for obtaining Release of the Federal Tax Lien, you are entitled to obtain a lien release only if the liabilities in question have been "satisfied" (i.e., paid in full) or are "not legally enforceable. " The latter condition would apply if your tax liabilities were discharged in your bankruptcy and you owned insufficient assets on the bankruptcy petition date to fully secure the filed tax lien(s). If the value of your pre-petition assets was less than the amount of the filed tax liens, then the IRS should abate your tax liabilities down to the value of such assets and it may partially release the Notice of Federal Tax Lien ("NFTL").
Finally, if you still do owe the IRS $20K of nondischarged tax liabilities (or have filed liens in that amount which attach to your pre-petition assets), then I suggest that hire a good CPA or tax controversy attorney and have them submit either an installment payment plan or an offer in compromise to the IRS to resolve your past due tax liabilities. Ignoring your tax problem will do you no good and will continue to stifle your entrepreneurial spirit and prevent your business from reaching its full potential. Resolving your tax problem will be a huge relief and free yourself to aim higher in your business. Good luck in resolving your tax issues!
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I agree with my colleagues here - your business structure may continue to provide some tax benefits but you've got to get the taxes filed to get the IRS to work with you on the issues. You may want to give some serious consideration to getting professional tax help to get through this.
Good luck.
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The IRS will not consider an installment agreement or offer in compromise until all your returns are filed. Your first step should be to file all the necessary returns. Waiting to file will make your situation worse. You should contact a good CPA or tax controversy attorney to review your financial situation, and let you know what options you have. If you qualify for an offer in compromise and the IRS accepts your offer, then the federal tax lien will be released once the offer amount is full paid.
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