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In order to restore some order after a 49-39 defeat to unbeaten, state no. 2-ranked Westhill on Jan. 3, the Cazenovia girls basketball team had to return to the same neighborhood a week later.
Just down the road from Westhill, the Lakers visited suddenly-hot Bishop Ludden Thursday night, and promptly cooled the Gaelic Knights down, playing superb defense throughout a 50-30 victory over the Gaelic Knights.
Ludden entered the night sporting a three-game win streak, but from the start it found itself under duress as Cazenovia's entire lineup applied pressure and forced turnovers.
As that went on, the Lakers enjoyed modest offensive production, which led to a 23-14 halftime edge. Led by Maggie Carpenter, Cazenovia caught fire in the third quarter, outscoring the Gaelic Knights 17-8 to put the game out of reach.
Carpenter had close to half of her team's output, finishing with 20 points. Kelsi Fredericks sank a trio of 3-pointers, accounting for all of her nine points, while Kaitlyn Gerber threw in seven points. No Ludden player scored in double figures.
Two nights earlier, the Lakers hosted Solvay at Buckley Gym, and turned to Maggie Carpenter and a stout defense to earn a 47-23 victory over the Bearcats.
All through the first half, Cazenovia shut down whatever Solvay tried, and the attack did enough to make it a 29-7 margin going to the break.
Cruising from there, the Lakers saw Carpenter pick up 22 points, nearly as much as the entire Bearcats roster. Each of the other seven Lakers that saw action got at least one field goal, too, though no one had more than the six points put up by Maggie Johnson.
Cazenovia (9-2) faces yet another tough road game on Monday, when it visited 8-3 Bishop Grimes, after which it would take a nine-day break before resuming play Jan. 23 against Jordan-Elbridge.
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text: Durban - President Jacob Zuma attended the controversial bull killing known as ukweshwama held at Nongoma on Saturday.Zuma was seen inside the kraal where the bull was going to be killed. He did not give a speech.King Goodwill Zwelethini gave a speech and said no nation was to dictate the way the Zulus practised their culture."Other nations must not dictate to our culture," said Zwelethini.Animal Rights Africa took the Zulu King and Kwa-Zulu natal premier Zweli Mkhize to court on the ritual known as ukweshwama where a bull is killed with bare hands.The King apologised that he did not attend the court case in the Pietermaritzburg High Court as he was fasting.He said he was aware that there were people who were attending the ritual to take pictures and "fabricate" them.Zwelenthini said the Zulu people should be proud of their culture."A nation that is proud of their culture has an opportunity to go far," he said, adding that the Zulu Nation was a nation that loved animals."We love animals so much we even give them names because they are a part of our lives. Nobody can educate the Zulu Nation on how they should love their animals," he said.Zwelethini thanked the premier for this support during the court case, warning that nations should not look down on other cultures, the way they dress, the way they treat animals and anything else that the nation believes in.He announced he was going to revive circumcision within the Zulu nation and that doctors would be involved in the ritual.Journalists were chased away when the ukweshwama festival was about to start.

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Last week we had one new Knowledge Base article for System Center Essentials 2007. This one covers an issue where some of the Managed Computers may show as "Not yet contacted" due to a communications issue with the server. It has some great troubleshooting tips so it's definitely worth a quick read. The link and title is below:
KB970606 - SCE 2007 - Computers and agents showing as Not Yet Contacted
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Silicon won't bring solar into mainstream
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This "letter to the editor" is in response to a column in EE Times about the need for the IC industry to investigate solar energy (see Dec. 2 story).
I think you're missing the boat here. Asking the very large, mainstream digital electronics manufacturing firms a rhetorical question to the effect of 'why aren't you working on solar?' … is a question which largely answers itself this way: a really big solar-cell array has perhaps 10,000 diodes, connected in a very simple series/parallel network.
This is just not what the big firms do. In particular, there is no chance for large markets of differentiated products, based on re-arranging the topology of the connections.
Better photovoltaic cells (and improvements to the processes to make the cost per watt more attractive) are fundamental physics and manufacturing process problems.
In theory, large area silicon photodiodes should be cheap. They aren't. They are getting cheaper, but they have never gotten as cheap as fast as the optimists have claimed they would.
And then the really big enchilada: solar and other variable sources (including wind energy) face large barriers to integration into the national power supply system at penetration above 5 percent, unless improved forms of power storage become available.
That's not a problem that silicon can solve, but it's a problem which needs a solution if solar power is to outgrow its niche status.
Dr. Lee Harrison
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
State University of New York, Albany
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TOWIE Marbs recap: 'If you f*** this up I will erase you' Ferne and Charlie are BACK ON
Charlie Sims and Ferne McCann have kissed and made up (again) as the TOWIE gang's dramatic holiday in Marbs came to an end during the latest episode.
The Essex boy was previously left fuming after a video emerged of his girlfriend frolicking with a mystery man in a Vegas pool emerged online.
But now Charlie, who has also been caught messing around with other women behind Ferne's back in the past, has decided to take her back.
During a heart-to-heart at a pool party, Fern begged: "I wish I could take back time… But if you don't let me talk then I can't win you back. I've never loved or wanted so much in my life.
"I can't live without you. Please I love this face."
While she managed to talk Charlie around, he issued her with a warning, telling her: "If you f*** this one up I will erase you from my life."
Their emotional reunion came after Fern came to blows with Charlie's sister Chloe Sims in an almighty showdown.
The beautician labelled Fern a "sl*g", while she hit out at Chloe's body, yelling: "You need to eat more," before the girls stormed away from each other.
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SEATTLE (AP) - Applicants for even the most technical jobs need more than good grades and the ability to understand complex problems, says a group of business leaders who want to add another essential to the list of things kids learn in school: creativity.
"A flexible, adaptive, lifelong learner who can think creatively and solve problems and frame problems creatively. That's what everybody's looking for," says Eric Liu, the motivational speaker and mentoring guru who is the driving force behind a new Washington organization called Creativity Matters.
The business people involved in this government-sanctioned but privately financed enterprise say Liu has hit upon an interesting and important concept, but some acknowledge they're slightly baffled about how it will be accomplished.
Can you even teach creativity in the classroom?
In hopes of getting a positive answer, the group is launching an "imagination award" in partnership with a New York organization that's pursuing a similar goal.
Students need to be taught to use their imaginations to solve problems, to connect the dots, Liu said. Good teachers are already doing this, he added, but the idea needs to be given a higher priority, and project-based and experiential learning should replace some book work and tests.
Liu cited Aviation High School, a magnet school near Boeing Field south of Seattle as a place where this is happening all the time.
Students are learning math and science and other subjects by learning about flying airplanes, studying weather, aviation law and the aerospace industry. From building an airplane as a class project to internships in the aviation industry, students apply their classroom knowledge to real world experiences.
If a high school diploma is going to meaningful, it needs to include more than a list of skills to check off, said Liu , who is on the state Board of Education committee rewriting the requirements for a high school diploma.
"We want the diploma to be a promise, a social contract with whoever gets our kids next," he said.
Creativity and imagination are both job requirements at the Boeing Co., says Bob Watt, vice president of government and community relations.
"We make our living imagining things that never before existed," he said. "Creativity is at the heart of what Boeing does."
In addition to trying to hire creative people, Watt says Boeing encourages its employees to continue their education and potentially gain more inspiration by offering to pay their college tuition to study anything they want, whether it's related to building airplanes or not.
It's important to teach children both how to think and that there are different ways to think, says Bob Drewel, a former president of Everett Community College who now runs the Puget Sound Regional Council, an association of local governments.
Public education may have to change to make room for more creativity, Drewel said, adding that teachers aren't always given the time or the freedom to use their creative energy in a way that inspires children.
Drewel, whose wife was a teacher for 32 years, said education officials may need to start listening better to teachers when they suggest other ways to teach subjects. He said class size may also be an obstacle to creativity.
Regarding how to teach creativity in the classroom, Drewel said explaining how to do this is a little like describing what kind of art, music or poetry a person admires. He recognizes good teaching when he sees it but wouldn't be able to give teachers a list of ways to teach creativity.
The Web site for the new Creativity Matters organization takes a stab at such a list. The ideas range from turning students into teachers to playing interactive games and making sure mistakes are acceptable in the classroom.
The organization's first initiative, following a conference in Tacoma in early November, will be a partnership with the Lincoln Center Institute of New York to start an "imagination award" to recognize a public school that best demonstrates the spirit of imagination and creativity.
The Lincoln Center Institute recently announced the first such award for a New York City school, and Washington is the first place outside of New York to start a similar program.
Other proposals that came out of the Tacoma meeting included training for principals on fostering creativity, more involvement by Washington arts organizations in public schools, some new education programs concerning the environment, and a proposal to continue directing lottery money toward arts education after the program expires in 2012.
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Great Ushav is the largest of the Ushav isles, which it has come to dominate and place under its flag. Ushav is a constitutional monarch in which each island elects a representative to sit council, while Great Ushav itself contributes the crown.
In recent years United Ushav has used its naval prowess to acquire colonies in Akette and Kladmass, places with little if any mention in Majeran treaties. It has also taken over several islands in Tendare to facilitate trade from its Northern location to Kladmass.
These colonies have no political rights in Great Ushav, and no right to send counsels.
Great Ushav has a largely isolationist political stance in Majerous. In the past they had a longstanding rivalry and frequent wars with Bedra, but even before Bedra's great rise, they had decided it better to keep to their own, and look further afield, to less civilized lands, for power.
Presently, United Ushav is looking into improving aerial prowess, and is growing concerned over the Basharet growing stranglehold over the world… including their recent acquisition of the Thonji Empire in Akette, a similarly positioned island nation.


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Lovie Smith Reflects On Devin Hester's Career: 'First-Ballot Hall Of Fame'"Devin Hester is a Hall of Famer," Smith says. "I can't wait to go and watch him get inducted."
Bernstein: If That's It For Devin Hester, That Was FunThe end of a career may be upon Hester, a football unicorn.
Devin Hester Takes Verbal Jab At Jay Cutler"He just wouldn't (throw) to me," Hester says. "That's just how he was."
Tony Dungy Explains Getting Burned By Devin Hester Return TD On Opening Kickoff Of Super BowlSometimes it's best to go with your initial instinct.
Trucker Pleads Guilty To Scamming Devin HesterGregg Steinnagel, 53, promised quick, large profits to Hester if he invested with a pal, then kept the cash for himself.
Watch: It's The 8-Year Anniversary Of Dennis Green's Epic Rant After Bears LossThis clip never gets old.
Bernstein: Bears Good Enough, This TimeA 3-3 mark and important road win provides hope for Chicago.
Cutler Leads Road-Warrior Bears Past Falcons, 27-13 Jay Cutler threw for 381 yards and a touchdown, and Matt Forte ran for two second-half scores.
Joniak: Keys To Bears-FalconsThese are two desperate teams with playoff aspirations.
Bears-Falcons: 5 Matchups To WatchIt's only Week 6, but Sunday seems like a must-win game for both teams.
Hester: 'I'm In A Relationship Where I'm Happy Now'Devin Hester admitted he was bothered that the Bears didn't offer him a contract.
Durkin: Know Your Opponent - Atlanta FalconsThe Falcons have a potent passing attack and a leaky defense, can they consistently win shootouts?


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I've been playing quite a bit with Excel Services the last few weeks, and ran into a problem around refreshing data in a worksheet stored in Excel Services when I used Single Sign On (SSO) in the ODC.
I also noticed that each time my report failed to refresh data, the error in the subject of this post got dumped into the event log.
I asked for help, then did some digging. Turns out this error is one of those "by design" (or, "by bad design") issues. Some of you might call it a bug 🙂
In essence, if the account you use for the Shared Services Provider (as in "SharedServices1") is different than your Farm and/or SSO Account identities, you'll get this error. They must all be the same, even though I didn't see this documented anywhere (and to be fair, I haven't spent tons of time looking).
Thanks to Chris Nicholas for his help on this problem!


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Rub the chicken pieces with the salt and pepper. In a Dutch oven or heavy frying pan, cook the bacon over medium heat until browned. Pour off the fat, then add the butter and oil. Add the chicken, garlic, and anchovies, and sauté until browned. Add the rosemary and wine, and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Whisk the tomato paste, cream, and broth together, then add to the chicken. Cover and cook over low heat for 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
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Whether it's your first cycling jersey, or you simply prefer the solid reliability of no-frills performance, the Solstice Jersey is your ticket to cycling comfort. Its moisture-wicking fabric helps you stay cool and dry, while the 3/4-length front zip provides a variety of venting options. Three back pockets provide ample storage for your on-bike essentials, and subtle reflectivity on the back pockets enhances visibility.
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It was probably her oldest friend. The City and The Tree had known each other almost 140 years. The City, Oakland, was only 24 years old when The Tree arrived, a Manna Gum Eucalyptus imported from Australia. At first she had trouble understanding him because of his accent. She could hardly believe The Tree was gone.
Well, not exactly gone. After it was blown over by high winds, conveniently falling away from the nearby restaurant and in front of the historic Camron-Stanford house — The Tree was always highly considerate — it sprawled across the grass, stretching an incredible 120 feet. People stood in the branches and imagined what it would have been like to perch there when the tree was standing. Despite a sign warning "Caution Hazardous Please Keep Off," children and even adults couldn't resist the temptation to climb on the giant trunk.
Almost everyone took a picture of the gigantic root ball, now standing 20-feet tall, weighing 94,000 pounds; they posed in front of it or stood in the hole in the ground, dwarfed by the massive tangle of roots. The Tree was named The Lake Merritt Eucalyptus. City employees and residents held a blessing ceremony in its honor.
"It was like a holiday gift," The City thought. "I wonder if The Tree knew how much he was loved."
She recalled some of what they had experienced together. The Tree was likely part of the effort to turn what was then a tidal lagoon into Lake Merritt, the Jewel of Oakland. Back then it was hardly a jewel. It served as the sewer for the city. It was Mayor Samuel Merritt's idea to transform it into a showpiece for the city. He had a dam built and donated 155 acres of dammed tidal waters to the city. Soon after, it was designated as the nation's first wildlife refuge to protect the large numbers of migratory birds.
The Tree was planted in front of the stunning Camron-Stanford House, an Italianate Victorian that Merritt had built to encourage development around the lake and downtown.
"If I recall, The Tree was planted the same year the Camron-Stanford House was built," The City thought.
Initially, of course, she couldn't have known they would have such a long-term friendship. How many trees would live more than 100 years? They grew together. The City stretching out to the east and the north, The Tree stretching upward, majestically overlooking the lake.
She remembered how excited they were when the Necklace of Lights was installed in 1925 — 33,400 bulbs strung between 126 lampposts around the lake.
"It's enchanting," The Tree said.
The Necklace was turned off in 1941 in accordance with the World War II blackout. It would be more than 40 years before it was back on. It took a 10-year effort, but Oaklanders, being Oaklanders, were determined. In 1985 the restored Necklace of Lights was turned on again.
A lot had happened during that time. There was a General Strike in 1946 to protest efforts to break the unions. Children's Fairyland was built in 1950, serving as an inspiration for Disneyland. The City's population became more racially and ethnically diverse. In the '60s anti-war protesters converged on the Oakland Induction Center and the Black Panther Party organized against police brutality and established the Free Breakfast Program for schoolchildren.
"Never a dull moment," The Tree commented. The City had to agree. But she wasn't complaining. She loved being a vibrant, evolving place. "That's what a City should be," she told her friend.
When she was devastated after her beloved Oakland Raiders left for Los Angeles, The Tree offered sound advice. "You don't own the team," he had counseled. "Don't set yourself up to be a sucker." Since the team returned, she'd lost track of the number of times she wished she'd paid more attention to The Tree.
Similarly, during her sometimes fraught relationship with The Prince (Mayor Jerry Brown), The Tree had advised her not to wear her heart on her sleeve.
"You are a passionate city," The Tree had said. "That's part of your charm and allure. But you have to protect yourself. Most of these things will take care of themselves."
The Tree was correct again. Mayors came and went. Sports teams would threaten to leave. Downtowns would disappear and trendy restaurants would appear. Those events didn't define The City. Her residents were her heart. And even as those populations arrived and departed, The City maintained a certain character, her own identity.
"You've been telling me that for years," The City said to The Tree, just a few months ago. "Maybe I'm finally beginning to appreciate it."
"I think so," The Tree had said.
And now he was gone. Well, almost.
"Goodbye, old friend," The City said. "I'll miss you."
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Israel's Only Truly Leftist Party Is in Danger of Extinction
Should Meretz not make it to the Knesset, the great hope of replacing Netanyahu will die with it.
Should Meretz not make it to the Knesset, the great hope of replacing Netanyahu will die with it.
The time has come to clearly state: Apartheid law? No thanks. Before it's too late for Israel.
Here is a forgotten recommendation, which the educational groups and assistance hotlines that deal with the subject should teach teenagers: You have sex when you're in love.
The fact that no one shot at the group home in Tel Aviv doesn't erase the widespread prejudice in Israel against the weak and the different.'
The latest example: the bill that defers ultra-Orthodox Jews from army service. Secular politicians like Yair Lapid had better fight against it.
Ariel Sharon believed in activism, Ehud Olmert believed in fantasy and Benjamin Netanyahu believes in stagnation.
Had Obama not issued a real military threat and stationed forces off the coast of Syria, it's inconceivable the Syrians would have agreed to give up their doomsday weapons – about 1,000 tons of poison gas.
Yair Lapid's party is increasingly turning out to be the kind of religious party it promised to fight.
The real question regarding the Bank of Israel controversy isn't who needs the Turkel Committee, but rather, why is its authority so limited?
A state in which the president was convicted of sexual harassment must shake off this contamination.


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Fun."s "We Are Young" continues to age gracefully on the Billboard Hot 100 as it spends its sixth week atop the chart.
In doing so, it also becomes the first song to sell 300,000 downloads for six consecutive weeks, according to Billboard. The Hot 100 tallies airplay, social media play/streaming and digital sales. "We Are Young" is the first song to surpass the 3 million mark in digital downloads this year.
No new titles enter the Top 10 this week so it"s really a matter of a little rearranging in the top tier. "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra slides 3-2, a position he should easily hold as he appears on "Saturday Night Live" this week. The tune replaces Justin Bieber"s "Boyfriend," which drops from 2 to 5. In between in the top 5 are The Wanted"s "Glad You Came," which inches 4-3 and One Direction"s "What Makes You Beautiful," which leaps 9-4, in part based on their appearance on "SNL" last Saturday.
In case you had any doubt that we are back in pop land after a long dry spell, that means No. 3-5 are occupied by teen idols. I don"t know if that"s ever happened. If so, it was at least 10 years ago when Backstreet Boys and N"Sync ruled supreme.
Nicki Minaj, whose album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" is at the top of the Billboard 200, remains at No. 6 with "Starships," while Flo Rida"s "Wild Ones" featuring Sia holds at No. 7, and Carly Rae Jepsen"s "Call Me Maybe" stays at No. 10. Kelly Clarkson"s "Stronger" falls 5-8 and Katy Perry"s "Part of Me" declines one from 8-9.


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Thomas & Friends™ supports children aged 2 to 5 as they develop important social-emotional skills and the capacity to act constructively on their environment. By modeling characters engaging in positive social interactions and resolving meaningful dilemmas, Thomas & Friends™ helps to build an early foundation for preschoolers' success. Born from a decades-long literary tradition, Thomas & Friends™ continues to offer positive lessons and storytelling with a purpose. The series supports viewers as they become increasingly independent, navigating the world around them with greater control and confidence.
Child development experts and researchers continually cite the importance of fostering three skill sets among young children: (1) engaging in constructive social and emotional interactions; (2) self-efficacy, including mastery over oneself and one's environment; and, (3) the ability to problem solve and manage failures and frustrations. Thomas & Friends™ models these key struggles and competencies, weaving them strategically into the characters' personalities and the series' narratives.
The steam railway provides a distinctive and powerful backdrop for showcasing such stories. From a developmental perspective, young children's need for safety and comfort is coupled with a desire for exploration and experimentation. Thomas & Friends™ represents a model of this journey, offering a variety of adventures and exciting destinations, but within the context of a predictable world that has rules, responsibilities, and reliable mediators (i.e., the conductors) who guide the engines and help them master new skills. The world of Sodor is a compelling metaphor for preschoolers, as the series promotes exploration within the safety of familiar boundaries and adult supervision.
Against this backdrop, the characters interact with one another much like children do on a playground. Viewers will identify with the trains and their everyday ups and downs, as they work through jealousies, rivalries, squabbles, jokes and schemes that do not always have the outcomes they intended. Motivated by always wanting to be "Really Useful Engines," the trains are sometimes faced with the need to control their impulses or modify their approach to a situation in order to succeed.
As is the case for their real world preschool counterparts, the series' characters sometimes need to fail as part of the way they learn. But within the context of this safe environment, apologies can be made, solutions found, and positive outcomes accomplished.
The Island of Sodor offers an array of personalities, ages, backgrounds, and temperaments with which children can identify or experience for the first time. In this way, Thomas & Friends™ also highlights an appreciation of differences and an understanding that communities thrive when its members contribute their unique strengths and skills. The series draws upon a diverse cast to populate a range of entertaining and engaging adventures that resonate emotionally with children, while imparting valuable life lessons. Characters' personalities are strategically designed to be broad, defined by key features that help to make their behaviors and, therefore, educational purposes clear.
Finally, the series' content is further reinforced through appealing music videos that spark preschool attention and complement the messages embedded in each episode. With themes like "Determination," "Learning Together," "Kindness with Friends," "Helping Each Other," and "Giving and Sharing," these music videos offer children additional, memorable entry points through which they can explore the important themes presented in the narratives.
Educational Goals
The series offers three primary goal areas to foster increased competence and positive self-regard as children learn to navigate relationships, contribute to their communities and master the world around them.
Social and Emotional Interactions
Presented with an increasing number of socialization opportunities, preschoolers are beginning to learn how to offer friendship, express themselves, control their emotions, resolve conflicts, and engage with others in conversation and play. Thomas & Friends™ helps children to develop this new and often challenging skill set. Goals in this area include:
- Being a good friend: Treating others with kindness and a caring attitude
- Making new friends: Strategies for connecting with others
- Perspective taking: Understanding that others may have an interpretation, preference, experience or feeling that is different from one's own
- Listening carefully
- Helping others
- Sharing
- Respecting and appreciating differences (e.g., in appearance, abilities, perspective)
- Apologizing and forgiving others
- Appreciating one's community
- Being fair
Preschoolers are beginning to experiment with mastery over themselves, their actions and their environments. Thomas & Friends™ will help children understand that their choices and behaviors do, in fact, make a difference to themselves and others. The series promotes belief in one's own competencies, the ability to take initiative, and the capacity to effect significant change. Goals in this area include:
- Making meaningful contributions: Believing in one's ability to impact individual situations, as well as one's broader community (i.e., being a "Really Useful Engine")
- Demonstrating responsibility (e.g., engines have specific responsibilities, like Percy, who delivers the mail)
- Understanding that there are consequences to one's actions
- Following directions, instructions, rules
- Prioritizing goals
Problem Solving
As preschoolers learn to problem solve, they will naturally encounter obstacles, make mistakes, and experience disappointing results. Being able to persevere, manage frustration, think creatively and work with others are valuable skills modeled by Thomas & Friends™. Goals in this area include:
- Coping with failure: Managing frustration and disappointments
- Persistence: Not giving up; understanding the value of remaining engaged with a problem
- Flexible thinking: Seeing a problem in a new way; generating multiple, creative solutions
- Applying one's best effort
- Asking for, accepting and appreciating help
- Teamwork: Cooperating, collaborating with others to achieve a shared goal
- Appreciation of differences: Recognizing and utilizing individuals' strengths and skills


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Akshay Kumar at Dare 2 Dance press meet in Delhi on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014.
Akshay said: "I consider myself a bad singer. These guys (the channel officials) wanted someone with a 'besura awaaz' (tuneless voice), so I had no choice but to do it."
He added: "I didn't want the stage to be on the floor. I wanted it to be in mid-air, underwater, on ice…I wanted to see how to make this show different."
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At a time when baseball fans would rather be thinking about rally caps than salary caps, the Sultans of Snit and the robber barons who grudgingly pay them are taking the game from us. This will be the eighth interruption in twenty-two years. If present-day players were as good at stopping ground balls as they are at stopping work, they'd be a lot better off, and the quality of play would be higher.
As for the owners, isn't it amazing that these assorted shipping magnates, car-dealership barons and finely tuned warriors of high finance seem able to make lots of money at everything but baseball? To hear them tell it, the next time the clean-up man hits a homer, they'll have to take out a bank loan to replace the ball. Poor guys--they're down to their last meager billions. Before you know it, Bud Selig will be holding up a hand-lettered sign on a street corner: WILL ALIENATE FANS FOR FOOD.
It's time for drastic measures. Like sitting in on the outfield grass at Camden Yards, then mining it. Torching Marge Schott's dog. What if wild-eyed vigilantes in Philadelphia were to fling Lenny Dykstra's Mercedes onto its roof in the players' parking lot? Forget ticket boycotts--those are child's play. Let's put rats in George Steinbrenner's soup. Or machine-gun the Rockies' offices. Everyone will soon get the idea.
Meanwhile, if Bill Clinton, the self-professed "lifelong baseball fan," really wants to boost his approval ratings, all he has to do is initiate a simple five-point plan to save baseball's season:
1. Declare martial law in the clubhouses.
Confiscate every fishing rod and golf club in sight and, for the duration of the strike, reassign players to community service work--patrolling city parks at night (unarmed, of course), mining coal, tending bedpans, hauling sludge at toxic-waste dumps. Don't want to get your hands dirty, Mr. No-Hit Shortstop? Then spend the coming weeks fielding complaints at the commissioner's office. That's right, pal. You are the new commissioner. A taste of real work will hasten a settlement along, don't you think?
2. Fly the owners to Haiti.
All expenses paid by Uncle Sam. We wouldn't want to strain those tight family budgets, would we? Haiti is where skilled craftspeople used to sew together the major-league baseball for ten cents a day, so the barons of the game should be familiar with this sunny Caribbean playpen. The owners would be greeted on arrival by the Ton Ton Macoutes, a local club that plays the game with knives and automatic weapons. The Macoutes will immediately introduce the visitors to local customs and rituals. But Jerry McMorris's and George Bush Jr.'s stay in Port au Prince won't be entirely a pleasure trip: Haitian military leaders will instruct the visiting Americans in the art of labor negotiation before everyone swims home.
3. Relocate Pittsburgh to St. Petersburg.
All that pissing and moaning and poor-mouthing by the so-called small market clubs will stop in a hurry when, by royal edict, Clinton brokers the deal that sends the ailing Pirates to the city that hosted the Goodwill Games. The same people who filled the Goodwill swimming pool with suspiciously brown water and ladled mush onto the rink at the figure-skating venue will be arranging the transplanted baseball's team's first season of play. As always, spring training will open in February--right there in cool St. Pete. If the former Soviet Union's new market economy still needs more help, the Mariners can be moved to Murmansk, the Padres to Stalingrad. How does "Moscow Mets" sound? If Brett Saberhagen throws liquid bleach onto a reporter in that city, they'll send him to Siberia--commies or no commies. What'll you bet the Reds aren't the most popular visiting club?
4. Hire new players.
Aided by federal subsidies, prospective baggage handlers at Denver International Airport, for instance, would make fine replacement Rockies. It's clear that they want to work, and it is likely they would settle for somewhat less than the $1.2 million average annual salary now being paid to regular major-league players. In Los Angeles, the O.J. Simpson defense team could fill out the Dodgers' and Angels' rosters with some minor-leaguers to spare. If either L.A. club gets to the playoffs or World Series, Judge Ito can call a recess. Everywhere, replacement teams would no doubt play the big-league game with more enthusiasm and appreciation--with more sheer joy--than its current practitioners.
5. Execute two outfielders and an owner on the same day in Arkansas.
Who gets the needle? That doesn't matter. Draw straws or something. The point is, this will divert attention from the Whitewater mess and demonstrate to doubters the president's resolve to fight crime. It will also dramatize that Clinton, for once, means exactly what he says. If he chooses to call himself "a lifelong baseball fan," then he won't shrink from laying a little lethal injection on a few of the game's miscreants--just like a canny knuckleballer will now and then slip his heater by a hitter who's still looking for the butterfly. Besides, the gurney remains warm after last week's thrilling triple-header in Bill's home state, and the doctor hasn't even left the building. But there's no time to waste, and if Barry Bonds's number just happens to come up, so be it.
Naturally, the president is unlikely to heed our advice. And we are unlikely to see the World Series this year. The antagonism between players and owners, rubbed raw last week by the owners' refusal to pay their regular $8 million installment into the pension fund on August 1, has grown so deep that both sides are likely to take their balls and go home. By limousine, of course.
While the nabobs and the brats weren't paying attention, though, fan protest groups have sprung up in Cleveland and New York (which both have top-drawer teams this season) and in Fort Lauderdale, close to Miami. Others are on the horizon.
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Perhaps more significant, baseball's faithful are mad as hell in the boondocks, too--Utica, New York, and Shawnee, Kansas, are just two of the towns making noise. The Utica group is aptly named and has come up with an appropriate, if mild, tactic: "Screw Baseball" is asking fans to send an ordinary metal screw to the commissioner's office (is anybody home?) in an envelope.
But is there anything really new under the sun? Probably not. The long, unhappy, fan-scorning history of baseball's work stoppages is like the history of war: Those who live don't learn. Witness the comments of one A. G. Mills, a former president of the National League:
"It has been popular in days gone by to ascribe the decay and disrepute into which the game has fallen to degeneracy on the part of the players, and to blame them primarily for revolving and other misconduct. Nothing could be more unjust. I have been identified with the game for more than twenty-five years--for several seasons as a player--and I know that, with rare exceptions, those faults were directly traceable to those who controlled the clubs."
Does it matter that A. G. Mills made these observations in 1888--seven years before the Bambino was born and 106 years before three sluggers were deprived of the chance to make history? Probably not. Many of us are now compelled to ask, with sadness and regret, the awful question: What day does football season open?


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Angel Tales is another entry in the long line of 'five-girls-and-a-guy'
anime shows. You know the type I'm talking about; shows like Tenchi
Muyo where an unsuspecting guy, through circumstances beyond his control,
comes to be living with five gorgeous women. This is a show like
that but is has a little twist: There are more than five girls, and
they aren't really girls; they are angels. And they were all his pets before
they died.
Episode One – An Unforgettable Bond:
Goro is an unlucky fellow. He has no job, no girlfriend, and he even misses
his train, which means that he has to walk home in the rain. While
drying off under an awning, Goro encounters a fortuneteller who knows all
of the details of his life. She predicts that his luck will soon
change, as she secretly puts a spell on his cell phone. When he gets
home, Goro's phone rings while he is in the bath. When he gets out,
three young attractive ladies who claim to be angels sent to Earth greet
him. It turns out that these three used to be animals, pets to be
exact, which died and have come back as guardian angels. Ran (previously
a goldfish,) Tsubasa (a parakeet,) and Kurumi (a hamster) try to take care
of Goro the best that they can and are astonished when they realize that
Goro was their master. Happy to be reunited with his lost pets, even
if they are in human form, Goro welcomes them into his home.
Episode Two – I'm Not Scared of My Trauma:
The Goddess doesn't think that the three angels are doing a
good enough job with Goro, so she sends Tamami (once a Cat.) She
arrives just in time to deflect a truck that is speeding toward him.
The truck wasn't an accident; it looks like someone wants Goro dead.
Episode Three – I Will Serve You Master:
The four angels are bickering quite a bit, so the Goddess sends two more
angels: Mika a former rabbit and Nana who was once a dog. They
bring with them a clock. The Goddess wants the angels to split up
the time that they are taking care of Goro, so that they won't fight anymore.
During her time, Tsubasa takes Goro to an amusement park. While
there, a stranger approaches Goro and hypnotizes him to get on a malfunctioning
Ferris wheel.
Episode Four – No! I Don't Want to Say
Goodbye: All of the angels are still arguing among themselves,
so the Goddess sends Ayumi (a turtle) and Akane (a fox) along with new
instructions: when the angels aren't taking care of Goro, they must
turn themselves into dolls. Unfortunately, Goro gets very sick with
a fever, and four of the angels tend to him while the others obey the new
instructions. But can even four of them stop bickering long enough
to make Goro well again?
This series started out strong, but fell into a slump soon after.
The first episode really had me hooked, and the mysterious stranger who
tries to kill Goro is an interesting plot, but the bickering between the
different girls gets dull really fast. Another problem is that there
are so many characters it is hard to keep them straight.
By the fourth show, Goro has eight women living with him, and he's supporting
them all without having a job. It is almost impossible to become
attached to any one character since they each have so little screen time.
I can see why Tenchi, Happy Lesson, and Love, Hina, limited
themselves to fewer girls.
The DVD:
This DVD has the original Japanese audio track in stereo and an English
dub, also in stereo. I preferred the Japanese track, though the English
track was pretty good too. The only thing I really disliked about
the dub track was Kurumi's voice. It was too high pitched, and she
had the incredibly irritating habit of ended each sentence with the phrase
"Na No." I believe that she does the same thing in the Japanese track,
but it is not translated in the subtitles. Other than that, the dub
is fine with talented voice actors.
The sound quality was very good in both tracks. They were clean
and clear with no hiss or distortion. There was some nice use made
of the soundstage, with the background music separated nicely. The
rain in the first episode sounded full and filled the room more than I
would have expected from a stereo mix.
The full frame video has very good picture quality. There was
only a minimal amount of aliasing and no blocking, a common defect in animation
DVDs. This is a recent show, and the colors were bright and clear.
A great looking DVD.
The Extras:
Character Summary: A text
based feature that list all the angels and their attributes along with
a brief biography.
Doku no Shippo – "Venomous Tails":
A series of short animated parodies of the show. They are pretty
funny, and run five minute total.
Trailers: Previews for Galaxy
Angel, Junkers Come Home, and Dragon
Final Thoughts:
This show could go either way, the mysterious stranger who wants to
kill Goro (but make it look like an accident,) is a good plot, and could
hold my interest over the rest of the series. But the main story
with the angels taking care of Goro isn't totally working for me yet.
Their endless fighting (the pecking order based on the type of animal they
were in their previous lives, of course) and the fact that they don't seem
to be actually helping him at all makes me wonder a bit. The
transfer was good, and the audio fine. The show does have its moments,
and I really think it will improve, so I'm giving it a Recommended rating.


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In Colombia the best place to find beautiful sexy women is in Medellin. Like in most cities women in Medellin party and flirt with American men very hard, Barrio Colombia, Parque lleras and Las Palmas ae happening places. I was in Barrio Colombia last week with friends enjoying the nigh out there are thousands of sexy women with big boobs. Luxury is the best place to hang out, the drink are modestly expensive 1/2 a bottle on Vodka is about $50 the bottle itself is 70000 peso and 17000 peso for orange juice plus tips, at least 4 people can enjoy the drink for few hours. The clubs is filled with below 21 girls. The women are drop dead gorgeous, most of them come in groups, but you can ask girls out to dance. Knowing how to dance is key to scoring with women, you need strong legs and nice moves. Women in Medellin can dance all night and can also drink all night, at the club they seem more comfortable drinking and feel at ease. The two more important things in a women's life dancing and music are available in the club. Walk around find some good looking single women and ask them to dance, you can later ask for phone number and invite them to your place for a late night party. We scored with many women using the dance moves. Medellin women love to meet white blond men from US and Europe, they love to get to know you and invite you to dance.
Many men dream of having such a beautiful woman for a girlfriend or a wife. It's a common fantasy, especially in North America and Europe, where their beauty has the added perk of exoticness.
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Why Men Think It's Impossible
There is this misconception that dating a Colombian women are out of reach for most men. There are two reasons why men think like this and thus give up before they even try.
The first one is that this is the stereotype that appears in movies, TV shows and commercials. All women in romantic settings are absolutely gorgeous. Not only that, the guy that finally gets the girl is also very handsome. Even if he's poor, he's not the kind of poor that you and I would consider poor. They usually live in a nice, if not luxurious house, in suburbia or in a good apartment in Manhattan. How many poor men you know that can afford that kind of housing? Lastly, they always work as freelancers, and never in a cubicle.
Therefore, if you don't have that kind of resources or looks, you end up believing that these women are not for you.
The second reason is that the "normal" way to meet someone new is at bars or at night clubs. That might work for some, but not for most. It's a setting where the only thing you get to know about is what type of clothes you are wearing at the moment. Obviously, this approach doesn't work for most people.
But It Can Happen
The truth is that these Latina women are as lonely as you are. For the most part, they don't want to be judged based on what they're wearing. While very young girls will certainly be attracted by looks only, women understand that there are other things that are valuable. And they certainly aren't going to find them in a night club.
That's why you have a much better chance than what you think.
Think about this for a minute. Let's not take looks into consideration for a moment. What attributes would you like in a person that you want to spend the rest of your life with? Most people think of something like this:
-Good sense of humor.
-Good work ethics.
-Family values.
Now, tell me. When you're in a nightclub or bar, with bad light and loud music, would you be able to tell if the person has these attributes (or whatever attributes you value?) Of course not! You'll be lucky if you get someone to go out with you on a date and then you'll spend your time and money in the hopes that she meets the profile. In turn, it might happen that you'll not fit her profile! A few weeks and a couple hundred dollars (if not more) down the toilet and back to zero.
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In addition, Latinas are specially attracted by two types of men: hard working men and family men. They like responsible, punctual, formal men who enjoy having a family.
Of course, there are always exceptions, and if all you want is someone to have fun with, then you'll find it at romancelatina as well.
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This year at the annual Telluride Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival and The Library of America present a special program in honor of artist and film critic Manny Farber. "The Celebration of Manny Farber" will include an intimate bookstore signing of The Library of America's September 2009 release Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber with editor Robert Polito. Since 1975 the Deauville American Film Festival has been showcasing American cinematographic diversity, hosting Hollywood royalty, as well as discovering new talents, actors, directors. This year more than 100 films will be presented to the public on three sites through September 13 in Deauville, France. International animation show, Fantoche 09, in Baden from September 8-13, offers a film programme in several parts of the use of human beings in animated film, and over several editions of the festival, Fantoche explores the interface between animation film and game design. The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival social calendar runs September 9-13 starting with Opening Night Festivities, followed by daily & nightly filmmaker/musician receptions, industry workshops, a Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards Black Tie Gala, a Sunday morning Hot Air Balloon Ride, a Closing Night Wrap party and Best of Fest special screening presentations. A Disney fan experience in which guests will enjoy exhibits, screenings, presentations and interactive experiences from every part of The Walt Disney Company happens in Anaheim, September 10-13. Talent from Walt Disney Pictures films, ABC, Disney Channel, ESPN and more will be on hand for meet-and-greets, and Disney Couture will debut its new line at a fashion show.
This year's Chicago Underground Film Festival, September 10-17, follows past festival blueprint in which selected films often ignore limitations of genre, and which alternative music films, political agitprop, formal experimentation, and high camp are not uncommon elements of the Festival program. During the Toronto International Film Festival 2009, September 10-17, everyone is invited to Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) for a playful and dynamic line-up of free screenings, concerts, performances, guest appearances, and special events. The TriMedia Film Festival has an innovative "tri-media" focus, with independent film, TV pilots/specials, and live theatre, rated a PG-13 or equivalent rating limit, and screenings and exhibit entries from all over the world. Festivities running September 11-13 in Fort Collins, open with a Double Feature and VIP Celebrity Party. At the West Coast Documentary and Reality Conference in Santa Monica, there are two areas of professional interest that are designated: The Documentary Village and The Reality Village. The third day of the conference, which runs September 14-16, will be entirely devoted to PitchFest, a live presentation for Documentary and Reality producers to pitch new concepts to network and development executives for potential acquisition. At a Film Finance Forum East, set to run September 16-17 in New York, speaking faculty discuss how to minimize risk when financing films; provide the latest updates on tax incentives and tax credits; address financing strategies and structures; and address effective distribution trends and brand integration resources to lower costs and increase revenue streams.
The Florida Media Market, September 16-20 in Orlando, is an annual market for film, documentary, television and media deal-making whose goal is to educate and build a platform where independent film and media makers meet with international buyers, distributors and production companies to buy, sell and network. Rosanne Cash will be the subject of the Americana Music Association's Festival & Conference 2009 Keynote Interview, conducted by author/journalist Michael Streissguth, when the Convention gathers in Nashville, September 16-19. The First Annual Martha's Vineyard Songwriters Festival, running September 18-19, will combine pop and country BMI hit makers in exclusive live music lineups and intimate settings, adopting the same approach of the Key West Songwriters Festival. Formerly known as IFP Market, Independent Film Week is an ongoing showcase in New York for the discovery of new projects in development and new voices on the independent film scene. From September 19-24, among conference highlights, are select scenes from IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs uncovering next year's film festival circuit from IFP's Documentary & Narrative Rough Cut Labs. The New York Television Festival is held annually each fall (September 21-26) in New York City, and along with the Independent Pilot Competition, the Festival features panel discussions, premiere screenings, and other special events designed to honor television as an institution and art form. The International Bluegrass Music Association presents its annual business conference for the bluegrass music industry with artist showcases, an exhibit hall with more than 100 booths, professional development seminars, member constituency meetings, and more, all happening September 28 through October 4 in Nashville. The Business of Entertainment is a two-part workshop on September 30 in Minneapolis that addresses: "Best Practices in Production Payroll Management," outlining best practices in production payroll management; and "Before The Camera Rolls", an interactive primer on production scheduling and budgeting.
The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page at actorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist podcast blog at actorschecklist.com/loudblog. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actorschecklist. This month on the video news summary you will again see a dynamic array of artists in performance of film and music. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase at http://www.actorschecklist.com/video which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration. The Actor's Checklist is proud announce the return of the photo gallery which you can visit at http://actorschecklist.com/coppermine to upload valuable head shots or other photos of your choice, create profiles, and use your pictures or others found on the gallery as ecards which you can email to friends and associates with messages.


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Flavio and Stelvio doubtful for Angola's opener
Angola striker Flavio and defensive midfielder Stelvio are doubtful for Sunday's African Nations Cup opening game against Mali, coach Manuel Jose said on Tuesday.
Flavio was injured in the 1-1 draw with Gambia in Portugal on Sunday in Angola's last warm-up match before the start of the tournament which it is hosting.
Stelvio picked up his knock in another warm-up international against Estonia on December 30.
"It is my big concern that Flavio recovers and is available to play against Mali," the coach told reporters on the team's return to Angola after a month-long training camp in Portugal.
"He, together with Stelvio, are important to our starting lineup because we don't have any stars in our team and need the key elements of our collective."
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We haven't been over to Angry Andy's BigHo in some time now but it looks like they are still chalking up conservative wins and losses for Real America based upon movie box office returns. It seems that Matt Damon's Green Zone, which is about looking for those pesky non-existent WMD's, did not do well this past weekend, getting trounced by Alice in Wonderland (which is a victory for the dirty fucking hippies and their mind-expanding drugs, am I right? woo-hoo!).
It is possible that Green Zone didn't do well because it lacked the deep moral explorations that Ross Douthat expects out of his popcorn action flicks, but John Nolte at BigHo thinks it's because American's won't vote with their wallets for America hating like they voted with their…well, votes for that America-hating Kenyan socialist:
UPDATE: AP confirms: "Green Zone" opens to a dismal $14.5 million.
The moral of the story? If you're going to trash America and the troops, use Smurfs.
Universal's "Green Zone" became the latest Iraq War-themed movie to fall down the box office rabbit hole, debuting to just $5 million in the U.S. and Canada Friday, according to studio estimates. …
"Green Zone" could find little traction, getting out to a pace that will give it less than $15 million for its premiere weekend.
That would be even less than the modest pre-release expectations for the $100 million film, which reteams star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, who worked on the Universal's last two "Jason Bourne" franchise installments. The film was put into production during the co-chair term of Marc Shmuger and David Linde.
Compare that to the opening weekend figures for the two previous collaborations between director Paul Greengrass and Damon:
Bourne Supremacy: $52.5 million
Bourne Ultimatum: $69.2 million
Gee, I wonder what the difference was?
I guess it's worth pointing out, since Nolte didn't, that the first Bourne film (The Bourne Identity) opened up with a modest $27 million its first weekend, but that was just a year after 9/11 and four months before we invaded Iraq so our national hate was a bit unfocused at the time.
But as for that "difference" Nolte is talking about….
Well, let's see; Green Zone is about a gung-ho American soldier who becomes disillusioned when he discovers that he has been lied to and used by corrupt US intelligence officials engaged in extralegal activities justified in the name of fighting terrorism, who then try to cover it up by killing him when he goes rogue.
And the Bourne movies are about a gung-ho American soldier who becomes disillusioned when he discovers that he has been lied to and used by corrupt US intelligence officials engaged in extralegal activities justified in the name of fighting terrorism, who then try to cover it up by killing him when he goes rogue.
I think the real difference is that Matt Damon wore a keffiyeh in Green Zone, which is totally hate couture.
So blame it on wardrobe….


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Food security to be at centre of Africa development agendaListen /
The three heads of the Rome-based United Nations agencies have called for food security and nutrition to be placed at the centre of the international agenda for African development.
They also stressed that special attention should be given to supporting smallholder farmers to improve global food security and empowering rural women, addressing gender inequalities and enabling them to transform their own lives and the lives of their families and communities.
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural development (IFAD), Kanayo Nwanze, and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, said that the most effective key to reversing hunger and poverty in developing countries lay in responsible investment by governments and the private sector in sustainable agricultural and rural development.
Speaking at the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) in Japan, they noted that in sub-Saharan Africa, GDP growth generated by agriculture had been shown to be eleven times more effective in reducing poverty than GDP growth in other sectors. They stressed that it is time to invest in the critical agents of change: small producers and their organizations, family farmers, fishers, livestock keepers, forest users, rural workers, entrepreneurs and indigenous people.
They agreed that hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty should remain at the core of the post-2015 agenda, following the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, and expressed confidence that the world could overcome the twin scourges of poverty and hunger within a generation.
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Despite the market slump and the highly publicized failure of many dot-com ventures, the stampede to establish a business presence on the Web continues. This trend applies to new companies created expressly for the Web, as well as already established, real-world businesses migrating to the Web to keep pace with market demands.
As smart connected embedded devices and information appliances become available, they'll play a crucial role in the future of pervasive e-business solutions. But e-business applications must meet some fundamental requirements that have not been part of the structure of traditional business applications, and the quest for effective ways to implement Web-based solutions has become a top priority for both technology customers and technology suppliers.
Early e-business solutions were adequate for Web sites offering mostly static content. However, the need now is for sophisticated, data-driven environments where customers can place orders, see inventory, book travel, track packages and do much more. E-business managers need to rapidly develop secure, robust, and highly scalable, enterprise-class applications that access existing corporate data and applications and that provide high-end transactional capabilities.
These applications present many new challenges. Simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests received via the Internet need to trigger complex business tasks on existing enterprise information systems. E-business applications must conform to industry standards to ensure portability across multiple client and server platforms, and they must be server-centric so they may be developed and deployed quickly for a broad range of clients.
Diverse requirements
E-business apps must be scalable and flexible, not only to handle the highly variable and unpredictable loads in today's Web environment, but to deliver dependable content to a wide variety of clients, including handhelds and embedded devices. In addition to all these requirements, they must run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with guaranteed quality of service, and they must be secure, to address the potential risks of doing business on the Web. Confidentiality, auditing and nonrepudiation of messages are increasingly critical characteristics of a request.
In the complex, fault-vulnerable Web environment, good engineering and programming methodologies are more essential than ever to ensure that these requirements are met. The basic characteristics of the various elements and how they relate to one another must be precisely defined before the hardware and software needed to operate in this space are designed.
Application frameworks are tools to achieve this goal. An application framework describes a set of interacting components and services available to an application, their responsibilities and their interactions. The framework helps designers capture the essence of successful patterns, architecture, components, policies, services and programming mechanisms to deal with the complex requirements of e-businesses. A developer creates an application by composing and extending the components and services available in the application framework.
Application frameworks typically have been used to describe specific business domains, such as manufacturing or finance. But in the complex Web environment, what is necessary is a Webwide framework that describes all of e-business and spans multiple types of domains.
IBM, in cooperation with many service partners, has launched an initiative called The Application Framework for e-business (AFeb), consisting of a comprehensive set of open standards, services and products that address the requirements of e-business applications. The goal of AFeb is to enable the quick design and deployment of a broad spectrum of robust, secure, scalable, manageable, interoperable and portable e-business applications.
Thus, AFeb is a foundation framework for e-business application development at two levels. On the first level it defines an application framework for e-business applications in general. On the second level, it provides a set of application frameworks for domain-specific e-business apps. IBM has developed extensive software and hardware products based on AFeb.
AFeb defines three important elements: 1.) A system model that structures the fundamental topology of e-business applications; 2.) An application programming model, based on the system model, that includes an architecture that supports a variety of business domains; and 3.) A platform for developing, deploying and managing e-business solutions.
The AFeb system model defines the relationships among Web-oriented e-business applications, devices and architectures and has five key elements:
clients, middle-tier servers, enterprise information systems, the network infrastructure and a systems-management layer.
Clients interact with the user to send and receive standard data formats. The clients that are supported range from devices running standard Web browsers to pervasive devices with local programming models, such as personal digital assistants, set-top boxes, automotive telematics and digital wireless telephones.
Middle-tier servers include a Web server that interacts with the client tier and that includes a Web application server for executing business logic independently of the client type and user interface style. The middle-tier servers incorporate several application-integration technologies for communicating with applications, data and services in other tiers.
The enterprise information-system tier includes internal and external applications, services and data. Application-integration software provides access to existing data and applications. Application services provide prebuilt, tested building blocks to facilitate the creation of e-business solutions.
The network infrastructure ties the tiers together and connects them to networks. The network infrastructure also provides functions such as service location, security-related capabilities such as user authentication, and technologies to improve scalability.
Systems management provides functions such as capacity planning, change control, asset management and security testing.
The application-programming model, or APM, derived from the framework, provides details for the design of the e-business application based on the structure suggested by the system model.
At the highest level, APM supplies common architectural frameworks and shows how to take the framework parts and tie them together for particular classes of domains. For example, the user-to-online buying pattern is used where packaged goods are sold online through a catalog via a shopping cart or similar tool. The user-to-data pattern covers use of tools to extract information from large volumes of disparate information. The business-to-business integration pattern supports automated interaction between arm's-length business partners; supply-chain management is an example of this pattern.
Multilevel architecture
At a middle level, the APM supplies an architecture that defines services such as application servers, network access, directory and database, and the relationships among them. At the lowest level, the APM architecture defines the set of parts that an application developer can use to compose the application and access the framework services.
The AFeb architecture structures the services available to an e-business application, defines the parts used and extended to construct the application, and defines the relationship between the parts and services. The parts present a set of interfaces, protocols and data formats comprising the low-level APM.
The software architecture is composed of the following key elements: application servers, clients, integration software, the network infrastructure, systems-management functions, application services and tools.
Application servers for the middle tier of e-business apps include the Web server and the Web application server. Application servers provide the core presentation services and business logic for e-business applications, database and transaction services, mail and community services, collaboration services, messaging services and others.
Clients supported range from devices running standard Web browsers to pervasive devices such as personal digital assistants, smart cards and digital wireless telephones. Application-integration software provides access to existing data and applications. A network infrastructure accessed via standard interfaces and protocols provides services such as basic network connectivity, directory and security. Systems-management functions accommodate the unique management requirements of e-business applications across all elements of the system. The application services provide prebuilt, tested building blocks to facilitate the creation of e-business solutions. Tools are provided to build, run and manage e-business solutions.
Enterprise Java technologies are used to create components. Web-server support components, based on platform-independent Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP), provide most of the user interactivity in an AFeb application. AFeb also assumes the use of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components to provide much of the business logic of an AFeb application, especially access to database and transaction services. EJBs isolate the component developer from the unique characteristics of the underlying database and transaction services, simplifying the development of platform-independent business logic.
Containers provide a view of the AFeb services to the application components. Containers also provide important mechanisms such as life-cycle management, transaction management, security, resource pooling, threading and state management by providing well-defined run-time environments that are aware of the packaging and deployment characteristics of AFeb applications. The separation of components and containers enables binding of application components to AFeb services at the time of deployment rather than during development. This "late" binding enhances the portability, manageability and reliability of the application. It also facilitates team development of e-business applications by isolating the various development roles so that the respective domain experts can focus on his or her tasks.
Middle-tier containers support the implementation of application components based on enterprise Java technologies. The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) is the basis for Enterprise Java and brings a number of standard interfaces, protocols and data formats into the AFeb.
Connectors are small Java libraries, or "framelets," that provide access to services reached through application-specific protocols. AFeb provides connectors to a range of existing application, transaction and data servers normally accessed with proprietary network protocols. The connector architecture of the AFeb provides a uniform model in the Java platform for using all connectors and is the basis for a future Java-standard extension for connectors. The business logic running in a servlet, or JSP, on the middle tier accepts an HTTP request from the client and invokes a connector to securely communicate with enterprise information-system tier services on the client's behalf. The connector architecture is "pluggable," allowing additional services and applications to be supported in the future.
AFeb supports a wide range of clients, from information appliances such as digital telephones and personal digital assistants, to personal computers. Although the capabilities of these devices vary significantly, they all rely upon Web-based technologies.
To the AFeb, thin client means that little or no application logic runs on the client, and therefore little of the application needs to be installed on the client, even dynamically. Normally only user interaction and input validation functions run on the client. The definition of the user interface is supplied by the middle tier, and the application business logic and data storage are generally deployed on middle and enterprise information-system tier servers.
AFeb supports two basic styles of thin client. Both styles interact with a Web server using HTML and HTTP or secure sockets layer (SSL) for improved security. The browser thin client requires only a standard browser when the interaction is defined totally via HTML.
Thin clients support a broader range of client devices since the dependency on device capabilities is reduced. The middle-tier servers integrate access to business-critical resources, which simplifies application design, deployment and management, improves scalability and provides greater security. Finally, users' application environments can be centrally managed and distributed to provide support for mobile users.
AFeb supports other models as well. For example, rather than going through a Web server, applets can connect directly to back-end services for database access via JDBC. The Java application client, which might be appropriate in intranet deployments, can interact with the user and middle-tier services to provide an experience similar to typical desktop applications.
AFeb's extensible security architecture accommodates myriad authentication mechanisms, including user identifier and password, one-time pass tokens, secret-key cryptography (Kerberos Version 5) and digital certificates based on public key infrastructure standards such as X.509. The AFeb includes single sign-on technology that enables users to access Web resources and back-end systems using existing user names, making it easier to integrate with existing applications.
The AFeb system model and APM are primarily specifications, not physical technologies and services. The AFeb platform encompasses a set of physical product components, tools and services that together support the development, deployment and management of e-business solutions designed according to the system model and APM.
The support of industry standards by AFeb means that components, tools and services for it are available from many sources. AFeb leverages many industry or de facto standards, including enterprise Java technologies. As a member of the Java Community Process, IBM joined with nearly 50 other companies to help create the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), which integrates a multitude of enterprise Java technologies. J2EE simplifies the development and deployment of multitier e-business applications. Although AFeb and J2EE share this common goal, the scope of AFeb is much broader-it includes a more comprehensive system model, a more extensive application programming model and a robust platform implementation populated with services and the tools required to design, build, run and manage complete e-business solutions. As AFeb evolves, Java technologies will continue to be an important component of the application programming model and platform.
As smart connected embedded platforms become participants in e-business solutions, it will be important to extend J2ME standards to embrace these requirements. AFeb will incorporate mobile IP, the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), the Wireless Markup Language, Bluetooth and other relevant standards as they emerge.


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I get this error message after pressing "Play" and then it never launches. I even installed the 1.2 patch, someone help please. I'd appreciate it.
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08-31-2009 #1
GRiD - Executable Has Stopped Working[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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08-31-2009 #2
There's no other way to say this. You're screwed.
Codemasters dropped the ball big time with Grid. It was such a poorly developed PC game that their forum was inundated with massive amounts of complaints. What did Codemasters do? Nothing. They never fixed the problems and made 1.2 the final patch.
That's why I'll never buy another Codemasters game. I bought it day one and couldn't get it to run becuase of the .exe error. I actually returned it to Play.com with the complaint 'not fit for purpose' and got a full refund.
I wouldn't normally recommend this, but if you can find a 1.2 no_dvd .exe you might be able to get it to work. Don't hold out hope though.
08-31-2009 #3
I recommend the no dvd exe as well. But you didn't hear this from me... =o500GB PS3, Original Fatty
Samsung 46' 1080P w/ SS
08-31-2009 #4
I don't know what that is.. and it's not even coming up with a shortcut on my computer, just the little screen with "Play, Uninstall, Help, etc" Gargh, I'll take it back[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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08-31-2009 #5
I'm think no cd patches area almost legal when you have infact bought the game, well, at the very least there's no need to feel bad about using one if you do actually own the game.
And i assume the game will be installed c: - programfiles - codemasters.
09-01-2009 #6
The game is fine. And the OP didn't ask for a review on the game, he asked how to fix his problem.
As others recommend, try a no dvd patch. Can be found on gameburnworld.com
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09-01-2009 #7
Which one do I download and how do I go about adding it?[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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09-01-2009 #8
You simply download the latest .exe file from gamecopyworld and replace your own .exe copy inside your installation folder, which is most likely in your C:// drive.500GB PS3, Original Fatty
Samsung 46' 1080P w/ SS
09-12-2009 #9
Your game is fine, his clearly isn't. Neither was mine. I played 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. After that, the game was returned as it just didn't work.
Given that 1.2 is the latest patch to this day, Codemasters were not in the slightest bit interested in fixing the problem. Clearly, it still exists.
As for 'the OP didn't ask for a review on the game', it's not your place to decide what I (or anyone else) can or cannot put in their message. Especially when it's relevant to experience with the game.
Ironic that you feel the need to add nothing to a help thread but 'mine works' and pointless criticism. Great help.
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I find it funny how you two picked up an argument exactly where it left off, one week laterI once ate a dirty sock...don't tell anyone.
World domination has taken a momentary setback...talk amongst yourselves in the meantime.UK>America. its just true
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