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All of the hype around J2ME these days seems to center around game development on cell phones. While this is certainly an exciting application space, it is important to remember that not all graphical applications are games, and not all business applications are limited to text.
Scratch is an open source solution that allows you to capture signatures on a touchscreen-enabled J2ME device. While many J2ME applications seem to require cutting-edge APIs that can run on only a handful of high-end models, Scratch's requirements are bare minimum -- nothing but CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0. You can run it on a low-end, sub-$100, black-and-white Palm device. I don't know of any J2ME devices other than Palms that have touchscreens, so Palms will be the target platform for the remainder of this article. If there are others out there, and you can successfully run Scratch on them, I'd love to hear about it.
Scratch can be run as a standalone program, or it can be customized and integrated into your application. The name "Scratch" has a bit of a double meaning -- it alludes to the obvious "scratchpad" functionality, while also paying homage to the adage, "Open source applications are written to scratch a particular itch." My itch was a simple solution for capturing signatures using off-the-shelf hardware and software. Your itch might be a general purpose notepad or a rudimentary drawing widget. Scratch should do to the trick.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should tell you what Scratch doesn't do. Scratch does not do handwriting recognition. It is not meant to be a Graffiti replacement. It doesn't allow you to use multiple colors or even have an eraser. It is a simple black-and-white WYSIWYG drawing program. If your particular need runs in one of these other directions, Scratch is a jumping-off point -- that's the beauty of an open source solution. OK, the real beauty of an open source solution would be to provide you with a complete solution to your problem out of the box. The typical cranky open source developer's response to this would be something like, "Scratch your own stupid itch -- I'm busy right now."
A future release of Scratch will include a JSync Conduit that will pull the drawings from the Palm during the HotSync process and store them on the host machine's hard drive. Once you have control of the HotSync process, there is no limit to how you could extend Scratch. You could push an image up to a web server as a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic). You could use Apache Batik to transform them into the image format of your choice. But that, as they say, is a project for another day.
To get started, you should download Scratch. Go to the project document list and download the scratch4j-1.01.zipbundle. Unzip it to the directory of your choice (for example,c:\apps\scratch4j). I'll refer to this directory as
$SCRATCH_HOME from now on.
$SCRATCH_HOME/bin, you'll find compiled binaries ready for installation. Scratch4j.jar andScratch4j.jad can be deployed to any J2ME device, andScratch4j.prc is ready to be installed on a Palm PDA.
To run the application, you have two choices: either run it on an actual Palm PDA or download the free emulator. For more information about the Palm OS Emulator (POSE) and the Palm OS5 Simulator, go to Palm's site.
Of course, to run Scratch on a Palm, you'll need to have a JVM (or KVM, in J2ME parlance) installed. Look for an application labeled Java HQ. Most modern Palms come with the KVM preinstalled. If yours didn't, you can download it from the MIDP for Palm OSpage. MIDP 1.0 for Palm will run on PalmOS 3.5 and higher. The installation also comes with a Converter that allows you to transform JARs and JADs into PRCs (the native Palm format for applications). If you plan to do any J2ME/Palm development, you should have this handy.
Finally, if you want to customize Scratch, you'll need a copy of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition Wireless Toolkit (WTK). To download it, go to its home page. For installation and configuration instructions, check out the Wireless Development Tutorial, Part 1. For the sake of simplicity, this article assumes that you are doing your development on a Windows platform. There are similar tools out there for ambitious Linux and Mac OS X J2ME developers.
A Guided Tour of Scratch
Now that you're done with the scavenger hunt that plagues all J2ME developers, let's take a look at the fruits of your labor.
Scratch is composed of three basic screens. The main screen, shown in Figure 1, is a list of all of your signatures.
Figure 1. Main Scratch screen
To create a new signature, click on the New button. Deleting items is as simple as highlighting an item and clicking Delete.
Click on the arrow next to any item in the list, and you will get a form showing you the details of the signature. From the form, you can open a canvas that displays the actual signature, as seen in Figure 2. Click Save and the signature will be written to the filesystem.
Figure 2. Signature canvas screen
Developer's Tour
If you are happy with Scratch's functionality out of the box, then you are done. Happy trails. If, however, you'd like to customize Scratch, keep reading.
The first thing you should do is get the project set up in the WTK. Here are the steps to create the Scratch4j project in the WTK.
- Start the WTK; it's cleverly labeled KToolbar.
- Click New Project on the toolbar.
- Project name: Scratch4j
- MIDlet Class Name:
- Click Create Project.
- Set Target Platform to MIDP 1.0 and click OK.
Figure 3 shows the New Project window described above.
Figure 3. Setting up WTK project
This will create a stubbed-out directory structure for the project under the
$WTK_HOME/apps directory. Copy
$SCRATCH_HOME/src to
$WTK_HOME/apps/Scratch4j/src. You'll also want to copy
$SCRATCH_HOME/palm to
$WTK_HOME/apps/Scratch4j/palm. The
palmdirectory contains the conversion script that will take your JAR and JAD files and transform them into a PRC.
To verify that everything is OK up to this point, click on the Build button on the toolbar. If you don't get any error messages during the compile, you should be in good shape. Check out
$WTK_HOME/apps/Scratch4j/bin. You should seeScratch4j.jar and Scratch4j.jad.
To complete the build for the palm device, run
$WTK_HOME/apps/Scratch4j/palm/convert.bat. After you run it, you should see Scratch4j.prc in
$WTK_HOME/apps/Scratch4j/bin. Converter.jar is a part of the MIDP 1.0 for Palm download. It is an executable JAR with a GUI, but the GUI doesn't allow you to do one important thing -- set the Creator ID of the Palm app. If you plan to write a custom JSync Conduit (which allows you to extract info from the Palm to the host machine during the HotSync process), you need to register for a unique Creator ID with Palm. See the Palm OS Developer Program for details.
Source Code Walkthrough
Now that your build environment is set up, let's look at the six classes that make up Scratch.
Scratch: The base object, a JavaBean.
ScratchDao: Stores and retrieves Scratch objects from the filesystem.
ScratchList: The main screen, which shows a list of signatures.
ScratchForm: Shows the details of a signature.
ScratchCanvas: The drawing portion of the application; shows the actual signature.
ScratchController: The brains of the operation; ties everything together.
If you are familiar with the MVC (Model/View/Controller) pattern, you should feel right at home in Scratch. For those of you who aren't, here is a 30-second overview.
The Model stores the data. In our case, the model is the Scratch object.
The View is the GUI. Scratch has three screens:
ScratchForm, and
The Controller is the glue that holds everything together. It passes messages between the Model and the View. In our case, every button click from the View goes through the Controller and gets converted into an instruction for the persistence layer (retrieve, insert, update, or delete).
The whole point of a MVC framework is to enforce a clean separation of concerns. In other words, your View should not contain any persistence artifacts. For example, if your View iterated through a
ResultSet, you would be tied to using JDBC for your Model. Later, if you chose a different persistence strategy such as XML, you would have to rewrite both your Model tier and your View tier. If you keep your View neutral and have it iterate through a generic
Vector, you can swap out Models easily at any point during the development process.
The reverse holds true as, well -- the Model shouldn't make assumptions about how the data is going to be presented. It shouldn't pre-format the data as HTML, Swing elements, or anything else. It should return the data in a View-neutral manner.
The Controller is the go-between. Since your Model and View aren't directly dependent upon one another, the Controller allows you to mix and match them. You could have several Views that use the same Model, or a single View that gets its data from several disparate Models. The Controller is what allows this magic to happen.
Let's see how Scratch implements the MVC pattern. Here is a description of each class in the application.
Scratch object is pretty straight forward. It is a simple JavaBean that represents an individual signature (the
Vector named
lines) and its metadata (height, width, and name). If you would like to store additional metadata about the signature, you can create your own getters and setters here. (Remember that MIDP doesn't support
Float or
Double values.)
toString() method is used for display on the main screen (
ScratchList). The static methods
getDelimiter() and
setDelimiter() allow you to programmatically change the separator character from the default (
|). If you add additional fields, you'll most likely want to add them to
RMS (Record Management System) is the I/O subsystem for J2ME applications. The methods
getBytes() and
setBytes() allow
ScratchDao to easily serialize and deserialize the data from storage.
getSVG() is a convenience method that allows you to quickly dump the Scratch object out as a SVG string. The style (
stroke:black; stroke-width:3) is hardcoded in this method. If you wanted to parameterize these values, you could either create class variables or instance variables to facilitate this.
The Scratch MIDlet doesn't use
getSVG() directly. A custom conduit, however, could use this to quickly save the signature out in a renderable format that is also plain ASCII and therefore easy to transport via HTTP or web services. The source code for
getSVG() is shown below. Notice that no XML or SVG framework is being used. When resources are tight and objects are simple, sometimes hand-rolling your own XML output is the easiest way to go.
public String getSVG() { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(300); sb.append("\n<svg height=\"" + getHeight() + "\" width=\"" + getWidth() + "\">"); sb.append("\n\t<desc>" + getName() + "</desc>"); sb.append("\n\t<g style=\"fill:none; stroke:black; " + "stroke-width:3\">"); for(int i=0, size=lines.size(); i < size; i+=4) { sb.append("\n\t\t<line x1=\""); sb.append(((Integer)lines.elementAt(i)).intValue()); sb.append("\" y1=\""); sb.append(((Integer)lines.elementAt(i+1)).intValue()); sb.append("\" x2=\""); sb.append(((Integer)lines.elementAt(i+2)).intValue()); sb.append("\" y2=\""); sb.append(((Integer)lines.elementAt(i+3)).intValue()); sb.append("\"/>"); } sb.append("\n\t</g>"); sb.append("\n</svg>"); return sb.toString(); }
ScratchDao handles all of the persistence for the application. A DAO (Data Access Object) is a layer of abstraction -- it allows everything upstream to think in terms of
Vectors and JavaBeans and insulates the messy details of persistence from the rest of the application. Scratch uses the native RMS subsystem for storage, but there are other J2ME-enabled databases out there. If you chose to use one of them in place of RMS, the changes to the application would be limited to this one class. I didn't create a DAO interface or a factory class for the sake of simplicity, but this would be an ideal place to extend the application if you needed to support multiple persistence strategies.
This is the first of three GUI screens in Scratch. It is the main screen that you see when you run the application. It simply walks through the
Vector of
Scratchobjects passed to it, calls
toString() on each, and displays them on the screen. All button clicks are passed back to the
CommandListener, which in our case is
Click on any item in the
ScratchList, and this form will be displayed. It allows you to store metadata about the
Scratch object. Since
Height and
Width are derived from the physical dimensions of the
ScratchCanvas screen, they don't show up here. If you add any additional fields to the
Scratch object, this would be the place to allow users to fill in the values. As with the
ScratchList, all button clicks are handed back to the
CommandListener. Again,
ScratchController is the
This is the screen that allows the user to write out his or her signature. The signature is stored as a series of lines. Each line has a starting point (
y1) and an ending point (
The method that does the actual drawing on the screen is
paint(). Depending on what mode the canvas is in,
paint() will do one of three things:
clearModemeans that the user clicked the Clear button. To clear the screen,
paint()draws a white rectangle that has the dimensions of the screen. Here's the portion of
paint()that handles
if(clearMode) { clearMode = false; //set background to white g.setColor(255,255,255); g.fillRect(0,0, getWidth(), getHeight()); x1 = 0; y1 = 0; x2 = 0; y2 = 0; return; }
buildModemeans that the canvas should redraw an existing signature for display purposes. The
Scratchobject contains a
Integers named
paint()iterates through these, four
Integers at a time, using them as
x2, and
else if(buildMode) { buildMode = false; g.setColor(0,0,0); for(int i=0, size=lines.size(); i<size; i+=4) { g.drawLine( ((Integer)lines.elementAt(i)).intValue(), ((Integer)lines.elementAt(i+1)).intValue(), ((Integer)lines.elementAt(i+2)).intValue(), ((Integer)lines.elementAt(i+3)).intValue() ); } return; }
drawModemeans that the user is actively drawing a signature. When the user presses the stylus to the screen,
pointerPressed()is invoked. This stores the starting point of the line (
y1). When the user stops moving the stylus,
pointerDragged()is called. This captures the end point (
y2), and calls
repaint()(which in turn calls
paint()). The line gets drawn to the screen and saved to the
//If we get to this point, we are neither //clearing the screen (clearMode) nor building it //from an existing Scratch object (buildMode). //This means that we are in the implicit //"drawMode". drawMode means that the user //is interactively drawing on the screen. //set pen color to black g.setColor(0,0,0); g.drawLine(x1, y1, x2, y2); //persist data lines.addElement(new Integer(x1)); lines.addElement(new Integer(y1)); lines.addElement(new Integer(x2)); lines.addElement(new Integer(y2)); //new starting point is the current position x1 = x2; y1 = y2;
All button clicks (Save, Back, or Clear) are sent back to the
CommandListener for processing. Once again,
ScratchController is our
ScratchController is Command Central. All messages come into this class and are then dispatched out to their appropriate destinations.
Every button click gets handled by the
commandAction() method. The two parameters of the
commandAction() method are the button that was clicked (
Command) and the screen where the button was displayed (
Displayable). Based on this information,
commandAction() performs the necessary logic and displays different screens based on which button or menu item was selected.
public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable d) { if(c.getLabel().equals("Exit")) { destroyApp(false); notifyDestroyed(); } else if(c.getLabel().equals("About Scratch")) { displayAboutScreen(); } ...
Capturing signatures in the field doesn't have to cost a fortune or run on proprietary handheld devices. Scratch should allow you to do this with a minimum of effort.
When I'm evaluating a new open source project, there are three questions I usually ask:
- Can I run it out of the box?
- Can I set up the build environment easily?
- Is the design transparent/self-evident enough for me to easily customize it?
Hopefully Scratch (and this article) satisfies each of those requirements for you. If not, I'd love to hear from you.
For further reading on the basics of J2ME development, J2ME in a Nutshell is an excellent guide; a five-part online series of excerpts is available on ONJava.


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Brew MP™ Code Camp – Seattle, August 17, 2010
Well… another successful Brew MP code camp under our belts. This time around we had our second largest turnout with nearly 30 developers in attendance. As we had this session in relative close proximity to the Bellevue AT&T campus, a few more members from the AT&T Developer Relations team were in attendance.
The venue was held at the historic Edgewater Hotel located at Pier 67 in downtown Seattle. I actually didn't realize that this hotel attracted such big name performers as The Beatles and The Supremes – wow, what a place. This, along with the ambiance and motif of the hotel, only emphasized the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest and its native culture.
Ok, so back to a recap of the session. This group was comprised of a pretty even spread of seasoned Brew developers as well as those new to Brew MP. As we've seen from past sessions, many also work with iPhone, Android and Win7 environments as well as others. All students seemed to come fully prepared for a day of overviews and coding activities as they learned more about Brew MP.
Our session started with an overview of Brew MP and a bit of history on the evolution of Brew. This was shortly followed by an eagerly awaited presentation from AT&T on some of the new developer program initiatives. Questions like: "Can you explain the AT&T revenue share model?" and "What is the time to market for our apps after submission?" were asked.
It didn't take too long before we dove right into the coding exercises; folks seemed to keep up with the pace. As usually is the case, some developers were interested in knowing more about leveraging the new Widget technologies into their existing applications – which we covered in an overview and hands-on lab later in the afternoon.
One thing the students were energized about was our plan to provide eLearning and online training material in the coming months. By having this in place along with some of the enhancements to our current documentation offering, we will be able to fully enable developers to get the information that they want — when they want it.
We actually ran a bit over, not because of having too much information, but due to the fact that folks were asking some solid questions and becoming engaged in the material – it makes for a great learning experience. From the feedback I heard, students left the class with a better and clearer understanding of Brew MP.
Our next session is a return trip to San Francisco, scheduled for September 2nd to be hosted at the Mark Hopkins.

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For most casual fans, there is nothing worse than getting all fired up to watch a big MMA fight, only to have it deteriorate into two guys in bicycle shorts lying on the ground with their legs wrapped around each other.
Jiu-jitsu nerds might be entertained by arm bars and ankle locks, but if the average guy is paying good money to watch a fight, he wants to see people fight.
That simple philosophy has been one of the cornerstones of Mark Pavelich's MMA company — Maximum Fighting Championship — for 13 years.
"I don't even use the term mixed martial arts that much," said the owner and president, who's preparing for MFC 35 this Friday at the Mayfield Trade Centre. "I actually think we have to take some of the mixed martial arts out of it and put more fighting into it."
Because watching MMA these days is often like watching a punt returner call for a fair catch or a golfer lay up on every hole. Boring.
"If I watch football I want to see touchdowns and hard hits and if I watch golf I want to see guys going for the par 5s in two," said Pavelich, whose father Matt, a longtime NHL referee, is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. "When I watch (MMA), I want to see people get knocked out. I look for (stand-up fighters). I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying that's what our fans enjoy."
It's served him well so far. The Edmonton-based organization is one of the few that's been able to survive, and among the even fewer that have managed to flourish, in the shadow of the UFC's near-monopoly.
Pavelich's MFC is more than modest by UFC standards — instead of 20,000-seat arenas, it plays to more intimate 2,000 seat venues — but he says it's the size of the fight, not the room, that defines a good show.
His loyal fan base seems satisfied with the bang-to-buck ratio, consistently filling seats that range from $65 to $600 for five or six shows a year.
"Our tickets aren't cheap," said Pavelich. "But people follow our brand no matter what venue we're in. That's why I spend so much money on production no matter where I am. They support me and I support them back. I don't cheapify the product. I can't do that, I can't embarrass myself."
In a sport filled with fly-by-night organizations, the fighters seem to appreciate the MFC's stability, too.
"They're very organized, they have everything together and they're very professional," said middleweight contender Elvis Mutapcic, who'll be fighting Joseph Henle for the title on Friday. "I fought in different companies and they'll change your opponent four or five times or you're not sure if you're getting paid.
"This is by far the most professional organization I've fought for. It makes it a lot easier when all you have to worry about is fighting."
Expansion comes slowly in a sport where UFC has become a default term for MMA, but it's coming. MFC has TV deals with TSN 2 in Canada and with Mark Cuban and AXS in the United States and Mexico.
Pavelich has also been invited to larger venues, including Rexall Place, many times, but says he'd rather do small shows right than over-extend himself and risk ruining the atmosphere and reputation it's taken so long to build.
"It's a slow process, but it's been progressing for 13 years," he said, adding he knows he'll never catch the UFC, but he wants to get them looking over their shoulder at some point. "Right now we're the biggest in Canada and top three or four in the world. I want to be the second biggest show in the world. Undisputed second."
Main event should be a knockout
Stand and deliver.
That is what MFC president Mark Pavelich expects to be the battle plans of Elvis (The King) Mutapcic and Joseph (Leonidas) Henle when they step inside the ring Friday night at the Mayfield Trade Centre.
With the middleweight championship on the line, two guys who normally punch first and ask questions later won't be waiting around for an invitation to start swinging.
"We're talking about two guys who in their last elimination fights demolished their opponents," said Pavelich. "They both knocked out their opponents, now they're fighting each other."
Mutapcic (11-2) scored a stunning first-round knockout over Jacen Flynn at MFC 34 in August.
"He was the winner of the (UFC's) Ultimate Fighter Brazil, and Elvis knocked him unconscious, stretchered him," said Pavelich. "And Henle was on the Ultimate Fighter show and he's undefeated."
Henle (8-0) scored a first-round TKO over Luke Harris in his last fight.
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- What other names is Smartweed known by?
- What is Smartweed?
- How does Smartweed work?
- Are there safety concerns?
- Are there any interactions with medications?
- Dosing considerations for Smartweed.
What other names is Smartweed known by?Arsesmart, La Liao, Persicaire Âcre, Persicaire Brûlante, Persicaria Acre, Persicaria Picante, Piment Aquatique, Pimienta Acuática, Pimienta de Agua, Pique Langue, Polygonum hydropiper, Renouée Poivre d'Eau, Water Pepper.
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Mistakes are not your enemy.
But the fear of making mistakes is a very dangerous enemy. It has the power to immobilize you. The power to stop you before you even start.
It says that if you make a mistake, you are a failure. If you make this mistake, you will never recover.
But what it doesn't tell you is that in making that mistake you are moving forward. In making that mistake you are doing something. And in that mistake you are going to learn and come out stronger.
And with every mistake you make, you crush the fear of making mistakes.
Most of us know the account in the Bible of Peter walking on water. We also know that in the process of walking on water he made a mistake, and he started to sink. (Matthew 14:22-33)
But Jesus could work with that. He was there to lift Peter back up and walk him back to the boat.
What Jesus couldn't have worked with is if Peter had never made the decision to leave the boat. Had he stayed in the boat, Peter might have avoided the embarrassing descent into the water, however, he would have never experienced the thrill of walking on the water with Jesus.
What we don't realize is that in not stepping out of the boat and taking a chance of making a mistake – we make a huge mistake. We never step out of comfort zone to see what we will are able to do through Jesus.
He can work with mistakes made in faith, but he cannot work with hesitation based upon fear.
We'll never know the people we could have reached or the lives we could have help saved. We just sit in our boat and comfort ourselves with the fact that our lives are, for the most part, mistake-free.
I challenge you. Step out of the boat. Do whatever you have been given to do. Dream, create, write, sing, give, dance, study, teach, lead, help, love and live. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Forget what people will think of you, and in doing so, you will succeed.
You will win because you didn't let mistakes stop you. Remember, if no mistakes are being made, there is a good chance that no progress is being made either.
So, go ahead and step out of the boat. You might get wet, but you might just walk on the water.
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Peter and I did part of the new chain. Like Eveningstar, it is several flagging quests with a final afterwards, and a chain giver. We did not do them in order.
The High Road explorer is much like the King's Forest, except not as excessively huge. We managed 4 different rare encounters, a werewolf, a half-orc sorcerer, wood woad, and a specter. Mobs are sparse and scattered though, but with just two real players and a bunch of hires, that may change with a full group.
Quests are actually varied this time around, and are far, far better than Druid's Deep. Each of the three quests we did was in a different location, with a ruined castle, a village courtyard, and a swamp. While nothing is outstanding about them, nothing is bad either, and the XP isn't bad, pretty well on par for the Eveningstar quests. Level is 24, but they were not difficult, and Albus had little problems keeping up with me. It pays to read the dialog and even an item description or two.
Bugs seem rare, with the only one being that we got an optional after we completed the task, but it was able to be completed anyway by redoing it. Also, some Dryads' trees were not there, I think the trees spawned outside the map. We just ignored them, as they're no threat.
All in all, I'd say it's a marked step up from the garbage that was Druid's Deep. Not really a recommended buy, either for fun factor or for must-have gear (at a glance, there are a few nice items, but nothing mandatory), but solid enough that I didn't feel ripped off. Still, it's a far cry from the high quality of House Cannith (crappy XP aside), Harbringer and Reign of Madness, or even the bulk of the Eveningstar/Underdark quests.
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It was when my two-year-old was jumping up and down on a table and squealing at the top of his lungs that I quickly experienced a paradigm shift in my parenting approach.
"No. N-O. That is absolutely not allowed," I said to him in a firm tone, not to be challenged. He stared back at me with a deer in the headlights look on his face.
Saying "no" wasn't something we had really used in conversation up until that point. Instead, I was always asking him, "Honey, would you pretty please not do that?" and, "Sweetie, how else can I make you happy?" and other questions in which I was giving him the control. I strive to be gentle in the manner in which I speak with my children, especially as small toddlers, but somehow my control as the parent had vanished like cracker crumbs in the couch. I didn't realize the chaos I had created until it was clear that my toddler was running the show, and as the parent, I was simply a bystander.
READ: 5 Reasons Behind Bad Behavior in Toddlers
When I first became a mom, I envisioned a free-spirited, open relationship with my children -- a relationship that certainly didn't involve no's. The "no" parents weren't the fun ones! With them it was all rules and restrictions. And, being the rule-bender that I am, I simply could not parent that way on principle -- it went against my character and morals! I was positive saying "no" would cause irreparable emotional damage that would forever haunt my kids as they grew into adulthood. Heaven forbid my children blame me for all of their problems! Nope, not this mama. (Terribly ironic, isn't it?)
Over the course of two years, I had kinda, sorta become afraid of my child. I was constantly in fear of a 3-foot tantrum waiting to happen, and saying "no" was the highway to this hell, especially in public. Therefore, my answer to everything increasingly became "yes", and I hate to say it, but my boy was becoming spoiled. In that moment when I saw the hopping and shrieking on the table before my eyes, I saw a very painful and horrifying future for all parties involved if the word "no" was to remain banned. I took one look at the situation and do you know what I said to myself?
Nope, not this mama!
We're recovering from our overindulgent "yes" days. I am proud to say it has been almost six months since we started saying "no" and sticking to it, and dang, does it feel good! Does that mean I am a tyrant? Of course not! I absolutely still believe in using kind language as much as possible to get the point across and am striving to raise a well-balanced, happy toddler. That includes teaching him how to deal with rejection and learning that we don't always get what we want. And guess what? It's working! Tantrums have monumentally scaled back and I am no longer afraid of my baby!
READ: Setting Loving Limits for Your Child
We visited the bookstore last week in search of train books,and my little guy insisted we take home all of them. This was not going tohappen because we were there to simply look for a gift, and I kindly explained tohim that no, we could not take the books home with us. Of course, his littlefeathers were ruffled a bit and there was frowning for a solid five minutes. But he was able to process my directions and ultimately accept it in the end,without any dramatic episodes and fire spewing from his ears andnostrils.
My toddler is still strong-willed with a mind of his own,but he now respects and understands the meaning of "no." (Well, mostdays, anyway.) Here are a few tips I use to encourage a positive reaction inresponse to the word "no":
-Calmly explain why the answer is no and acknowledge his reasonfor wanting that certain thing. I am a firm believer in using "I"language, and it totally works for our dynamic. I usually start my conversationwith, "Luke, I understand that you would like to do that/have that"and take the rest from there, however I make sure to still be assertive. Itserves two purposes in that it helps me to maintain my own composure whenlosing patience, as he responds better to a civil approach rather than mesnapping directions, and he acknowledges my parental authority.
-Sometimes compromising can be a great thing. This also showsyour kids you are aware of their needs and wants and gives them a sense ofautonomy in being able to choose which result is best for them. For example,when we go grocery shopping and my son wants to get down out of the cart,instead of rejecting his want every time, I will occasionally allow him to walkbeside me, but only if he keeps one hand on the cart. If he chooses to runaway, he knows that his consequence will be to stay strapped in the cart. It'samazing how effective this little tactic is.
-Try to avoid situations where you constantly have to say"no." Obviously, children need to learn to live as responsiblemembers of society in public situations, but there is a time and a place foreverything. Taking a two-year-old to a three-hour lunch with your palsduring nap time will most likely involve some sticky parenting moments, and weneed to remember our children's capacities for instruction and attention basedon their age.
-Reward positivebehavior. Something as simple as a high five or a "Thanks for being sowell-behaved in the store!" accompanied by a hug and a kiss goes a longway.
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If there's one thing I'm learning, it is the importance of teaching my kids about boundaries and how to emotionally handle negative situations. The only thing I would dread more than causing my children thousands of dollars in therapy bills by telling them "no" is being an overly enabling parent and raising them to believe they are entitled. Things don't always work out, and lashing out never makes it better. Acceptance and working through the issue is the key to resolving the problem.
As many sorrowful mother tears I am sure to cry on my children's behalf when the world isn't kind to them, I hope I will have prepared them to be resilient when life tells them "no." Because the most important thing when the storms of dismissal and rejection come rolling in is that I will be there with open arms saying "yes."
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What do you do after you get a string of Emmy nominations? Leave your parent's home, of course. Lena Dunham, who received four noms in 2012 for acting, writing, and directing, left the nest for a Brooklyn co-op that's modest by New York — and celebrity — standards. Abodes of Emmy stars, though, tend toward the lavish — if not in square footage, at least in price tag. Take your shoes off at the door and check out these celebrity cribs.


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The film was found in a concrete vault, hidden in a forest in East Berlin. The cans were labeled Das Ghetto. The propaganda film inside them, shot in the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1942, was never completed--until now. Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished is part historical document, part cinematic mystery; she shows the film in its entirety (or close to it), and meticulously reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the shoot, from diaries, reports, and eyewitness accounts. It is a fascinating, difficult, essential film--both as a Holocaust documentary, and as an examination of the very nature of propaganda.
The footage that the Nazi crew shot alternated between horrifyingly real street scenes in the tiny ghetto (a half million Jews were trapped within its walls) and scenes of supposed Jewish aristocrats, enjoying fine wine and food while their countrymen suffered and died, their corpses left in the street. Those scenes of aristocracy were staged, of course, with residents ("actors" seems too voluntary a word) forced to make believe for the camera that they were living the high life.
Hersonksi approaches this harrowing footage clinically; Ishai Adar's brilliant score is used sparingly and effectively. More often than not, the scenes are played in silence (the original film was abandoned before a soundtrack was assembled), or with the quiet hum of the projector its only accompaniment. In examining the mystery of the film--who made it? For what specific purpose? Why was it left incomplete?--Hersonski uses diaries, journals, and financial reports, which often describe the staging of events as we seem them play out on-screen. A reel of outtakes shed further light on exactly how even throwaway moments were staged; late in the film, color footage, shot behind the scenes by a visiting cameraman, shows the crew creating a key sequence. Survivors of the ghetto, children at the time, are seen watching the scenes, overwhelmed. "Oy, I remember that woman," says one. "The piles of garbage are real," notes another.
One question that A Film Unfinished poses, but is never quite able to answer, is what the film was trying to accomplish. To show contrasts? "There were many contrasts in the ghetto," one survivor says. About our only clue is the notion that the film would "let the world see the paradise the Jews are living in," but about the best explanation we can come up with for the film's abandonment is that, for all of the staged "contrasts," the real life that the cameras captured was too disturbing even for a propaganda film. Nothing they could stage could offset the horrors of what surrounded them.
And even in those scenes the Nazis created, the faces of their unwilling casts betray them. Those faces, you can't get them out of your head. Late in the film, we see a sequence in which a group of men and a group of women are forced to take a "ritual bath" for the camera; it is a stomach-turning sequence, humiliation and cruelty on a level difficult to even comprehend*. The corpses on the sidewalk, the real ones, are gathered to be hauled away to a mass grave, but we see multiple takes of them being removed--have to get that just right, y'know. At the grave, their emaciated bodies, just skin and bones, are slid down and stacked up. The cameras roll. We watch, and wince.
In the hands of Hersonski (and editor Joel Alexis), the images are slowed, isolated, examined. The circumstances are explained, the moments frozen. The effect of this film's manipulation--the slowing, the scoring, the narrating, the analysis--is devastating; it's as if, through that manipulation, they've transformed the Nazi's fiction back into fact. The overall effect of A Film Unfinished is overwhelming; towards the end, in that sequence that shows the piling of the bodies, one of the survivors shields her eyes. "Today I cannot watch this," she says. "Today, I am human. Today, I can cry." We know how she feels.*This appears to be the sequence that caused the lowlifes at the MPAA to slap the picture with an inexplicable "R" rating, in spite of appeals, previous precedents, and good common sense. The notion that Holocaust nudity should keep educators from showing a film like this to their teenage students is outrageous. That sequence is just about the least titillating thing I've ever seen. (The distributor lost an appeal and subsequently released the film unrated.) Return


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IGNORANT yobs have trashed two 'teen shelters' so badly they have had to be removed.
The miscreants struck at Great Wakering Recreation Ground where they caused thousands of pounds in damage to the structures.
They have also been screetching around the playing field in stolen cars, which have then been burned out.
Rochford District Council has now been forced to remove the shelters which were designed as 'hang outs' where youngsters could meet their friends.
Graham Browne, Rochford District Council's antisocial behaviour officer, said they were forced to do this to prevent anyone being injured.
He said: "It's regrettable that as a result of previous damage and now these on-going attacks, the Council has with great reluctance decided to remove the shelters for safety reasons."
The vandalism spree began at the beginning of November and has focused on the shelters at the eastern and western ends of the recreation ground.
They have had white paint was chucked over them, supporting metal structures ripped out, and an entire metal panel removed.
A mural It even got to the point where a mural which gave teenagers the chance to do some official graffiti artwork was wrecked.
Three burned out vehicles were left there, two of which the police have now discovered too be stolen.
Insp Jeff Appleby, of Rochford police, said: "These incidents are unusual for Great Wakering and because it is exceptional it maybe that someone in the village has seen or heard something that could lead us to the people behind this damage.
"It is important that we find the vandals responsible as soon as possible. Their activities are denying villagers the use of what is a valuable and popular community amenity and that is not acceptable." He urged anyone with information, however inconsequential it may seem, to contact police at Rayleigh on 101.


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BOB MOON: Groupon is about to go after a very big group. Today, the daily deal website goes after the world's fastest-growing market -- China. The idea of group-buying seems universal. The question is whether Groupon will be able to rise above the fray.
The BBC's Chris Hogg reports for us from Hong Kong.
CHRIS HOGG: Chinese shoppers love a bargain. In stores they'll always ask for a discount. And because online prices are often lower than those in the shops, Internet retail sales almost doubled in China last year. Groupon will be hoping to cash in on that hunger for a good deal. Its new Chinese site will offer discounts on eating, shopping and entertainment in Shanghai and Beijing.
But retail analyst Paul French from Access Asia in Shanghai says it'll take Groupon a while to catch up the local Chinese firms which already offer similar schemes.
PAUL FRENCH: The days when you could just offer a service in Shanghai, Beijing and a handful of other cities are gone. There's 160 cities in China with more than a million people in them and we need to get coupons into all of those cities.
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Gafni Vows to Cut Tax for Middle Class
MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) pushing ahead to pass a number of far-reaching laws in the taxation sphere.
The chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism), is not waiting for the recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee on socioeconomic change. Instead of holding fire until they reach the Knesset in over a month's time, Gafni is pushing ahead to pass a number of far-reaching laws in the taxation sphere. Gafni wants to approve a number of the recommendations next week in the Finance Committee.
Gafni also wants to pass a number of laws that go well beyond the Trajtenberg recommendations that, in his opinion, will create "social justice": Providing subsidized mortgages for young couples; construction of apartments for young families, financed by the state budget; returning control of water prices to the Finance Committee; lowering electricity rates; and even taking drastic steps to cut the profit margins in the food industry.
The Trajtenberg Committee's recommendations on reducing economic concentration are appropriate, said Gafni, although he added the Finance Committee may have also have to strengthen these recommendations. Such changes could come, for example, in the areas of limiting executive salaries in public companies and dismantling pyramidical control of subsidiary companies.
"The centralization in the Israeli economy has reached monstrous proportions. I am not against the tycoons, but we need to deal with [economic] concentration and not with kid gloves," Gafni stated. "We need to legislate the recommendations of the committee on economic concentration or implement them through administrative means." He added that, in the end, "it is the middle class that pays the price of concentration."
At the beginning of next week, Gafni will call a special meeting of his committee to cancel the fuel tax increase scheduled for 2012. The committee will also vote on canceling the corporate tax reduction scheduled to take effect next year - while leaving the income tax breaks for the middle class in place. These steps in part contradict the Trajtenberg Committee recommendations.
The committee did recommend cutting fuel taxes and raising corporate taxes, but also wants to do away with the scheduled income tax cuts for the middle class. "I do not intend to wait for legislation on taxation until the end of 2011," Gafni told TheMarker yesterday, saying he will not allow the government to freeze the tax cuts and harm the middle class.
"In May 2011 the [Finance] committee already decided to freeze the fuel tax increase for 2012, to freeze the continuation of corporate tax reductions, to freeze the income tax cuts for those making over NIS 21,000 a month and to continue to reduce the tax burden on the middle class," said Gafni.
The freeze on tax cuts for those earning over NIS 21,000 a month and the freeze on corporate tax cuts would be the sources for the money to allow the tax breaks for the middle class, and Gafni said this was agreed with the former head of the Finance Ministry's budgets division, Udi Nissan.
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The latest statistics on bullying from the National Center for Education Statistics show that 63.5 percent of students who reported violent confrontations in school were victims of a bully. For any parent reading this, sending your little one (even if he isn't quite so little) off to school is a scary proposition. I'd like to think that my now middle-school aged child is completely prepared to handle almost any bullying situation, but I can't say that this was always the case. Luckily his elementary school provided a comprehensive prevention program starting in kindergarten, but some schools may not offer these measures. Additionally, some parents (and even teachers) may feel that a child is too young for anti-bullying education. I'm more of the mind that the earlier you start, the better chance you have at nipping this behavior in the bud.
If we as moms (and dads) want to lower the high numbers that the statistics on bullying show us, then we must educate ourselves before we try to teach our children. While this list is not a comprehensive guide on bullying prevention (you would need a book, not article for that), it provides a few tips that the U.S. department of Health and Human Services's Stop Bullying Web site suggests.
- Talk to your child about what bullying is (this also means young children who are not yet in school). Although you may think that your child knows what bullying means, he may not actually have a clear understanding of the different forms of bullying out there. Provide him with ways to identify bullying (such as concrete examples or stories) and give him suggestions for standing up to a bully in a positive way.
- Encourage participation in activities. Clubs, sports, hobby groups, and other similar activities can promote healthy social ties and help keep your child away from bullying behavior.
- Be a role model. Don't just talk the talk. Make sure that your child sees you treating others in a positive way. While we might not call it bullying, adults can also take part in these negative behaviors. Instead of lashing out at the grocery store bagger boy who just put your eggs and bread at the crushingly heavy bottom of the pile, politely explain to him that these delicate items should be placed on the top.
- Let your child know that you are there to listen to her. Make her feel comfortable coming to you with a problem at school. It's impossible to stop bullying behaviors if you don't know about them. Remember that communication is key and invite daily conversations.
Although most of us moms would gladly go along to school every day to protect out kids from harm, we have to let them grow up. Teaching your little one about bullying and keeping the lines of communication open can help to identify problem behaviors and create a knowledgeable foundation.
Was your child bullied? How did you find out and what did you do?
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Since Philadelphia Union joined Major League Soccer in 2010, no opponent has featured more prominently than I-95 rival D.C. United.
Sunday's matchup will be the 10th all-time meeting between the clubs, the continuation of a series that always seems to provide compelling storylines and drama both on and off the field.
The first seven matches against D.C. United were played at four different venues: Lincoln Financial Field, RFK Stadium, PPL Park, and the SoccerPlex in Boyds, MD. Five of the first seven games were decided by just one goal.
Sure enough, the all-time record is fairly even: three wins for Philadelphia, four wins for D.C. United, and two draws.
Last season, the clubs met four times, with three regular season games and a matchup in the U.S. Open Cup. This year, there are three scheduled league games with the future possibility of another Open Cup showdown.
1. April 10, 2010 – Philadelphia 3, D.C. United 2 (Lincoln Financial Field)
Goals: Le Toux 4', 40', 80' Quaranta 63', Moreno 70'
Philadelphia's first home game. Philadelphia's first goal. Philadelphia's first hat-trick.
Sebastien Le Toux stole the show with a three-goal performance that, two seasons later, still hasn't been matched.
The Frenchman struck in the fourth and 40th minutes to give the Union a 2-0 lead. That advantage was later squandered, after Santino Quaranta and Jaime Moreno both scored, the latter goal coming from a Chris Seitz gaffe inside the Union penalty area.
But Le Toux found the winner on an 80th minute free kick, after Dejan Jakovic was red carded for pulling down Alejandro Moreno on a breakaway.
Not a bad way to finish your hat trick.
Vice President Joe Biden joined some 35,000 soccer fans who filled up the entire lower bowl of the Eagles' stadium for the Union's hometown debut.
2. August 22, 2010 – D.C. 2 Philadelphia 0 (RFK Stadium)
Goals: Allsopp 22', 63'
This was a rainy, sloppy affair in the Nation's capital.
Interim head coach Ben Olsen had recently taken over for Curt Onalfo, and D.C. United was on a five-game losing streak.
Australian striker Danny Allsop scored a brace, and United won their first home game in nearly three months.
It was also D.C. United's first shutout of the entire season. United had entered the game with a record of 3-14-3.
A 17-year-old named Andy Najar impressed on the wings, drawing speculation as to whether he might devote his international future to Honduras, or the USA. He would eventually move on to join U.S. international Sacha Kljestan at Belgian powerhouse Anderlecht.
3. April 6, 2011 – D.C. 2 Philadelphia 2 (DC wins 4-2 on PKs, U.S. Open Cup at Maryland SoccerPlex)
Goals: Ruiz 18', Wolff 45', Woolard 111', Carroll 117'
Penalties: Le Toux (good), Pontius (good), McInerney (miss), Barklage (good), Torres (miss), Najar (good), Nakazawa (good), Boskovic (good)
Talk about a wild one.
This was an Open Cup game at the SoccerPlex in Boyds, Maryland.
Carlos Ruiz scored the opener 18 minutes in, but Josh Wolff found the equalizer before the end of the first half.
In the 87th minute, there was an altercation involving Carlos Valdes, and the Union center half was ejected after picking up his second yellow card. Daniel Woolard put D.C. ahead in the 111th minute, then Brian Carroll got the 10-man Union back to level terms in the 118th minute. Manager Peter Nowak was ejected for "excessive celebration", and the game went into penalty kicks.
Sebastien Le Toux and Chris Pontius both scored on their opening PKs, but Jack McInerney missed the net before Bill Hamid saved Roger Torres' attempt. D.C. United won 4-2 in the shootout and advanced to the next round of the tournament.
4. July 2, 2011 – D.C. United 2, Philadelphia 2 (RFK Stadium)
Goals: Wolff 44', Kitchen 49' (own goal), Najar 58', Ruiz 84'
This was the debut of Dwayne De Rosario in a United shirt.
"De Ro" assisted on the 44th minute opener, after he drew two Union defenders and played a square ball for Wolff to slot home.
Philadelphia leveled in the 49th minute, when Veljko Paunovic hit a cross that rookie Perry Kitchen awkwardly shanked into the net. The ball appeared to come off his shin.
After Najar's rocket shot beat Faryd Mondragon from beyond 35 yards, Philadelphia carved out a late game equalizer. Le Toux was able to play in Sheanon Williams, who got behind the defense and crossed for Carlos Ruiz. Pescadito's late goal earned the Union their first point at RFK Stadium.
5. September 29, 2011 – Philadelphia 3, D.C. United 2 (PPL Park)
Goals: Le Toux 4', 16' De Rosario 21', Najar 30', M. Farfan 57'
This was the first time D.C. United played at PPL Park.
The Union won 3-2 in an exciting game that was televised nationally on ESPN 2. The three points were absolutely critical in an Eastern Conference playoff race that had begun to tighten up towards the tail-end of the season.
Le Toux scored a brace, with both goals coming from direct balls over the top of Brandon McDonald and Ethan White. Philadelphia was playing in the successful 4-5-1 hybrid shape that included Paunovic in a combined midfield-forward role.
Just like the first meeting between these teams, D.C. United found a way to even the score at 2-2. De Rosario and Najar both netted goals for United to cancel out Le Toux's first-half pair.
But it was rookie Michael Farfan, who assisted on the second goal, that scored the game-winner. The midfielder took a pass from Torres, dribbled untouched to the top of the box, and slammed home a left footed shot from 20 yards out.
6. June 5, 2012 – Philadelphia 2, D.C. United 1 (U.S. Open Cup at Maryland SoccerPlex)
Goals: Wolff 45', Carroll 45', Hoppenot 93'
Philadelphia's first road win against D.C.
Just like the 2011 version at the SoccerPlex, this game also featured late drama and controversy.
Ironically enough, Brian Carroll scored his second goal in consecutive years against United at the SoccerPlex. And even more ironic – Josh Wolff equalized for D.C. United.
As Yogi Berra would say, it was like "deja vu all over again".
This game went into extra time for the second year in a row. Rookie Antoine Hoppenot scored the eventual winner in the 93rd minute.
After Zac MacMath's critical save on Hamdi Salihi, a brawl broke out on the United end of the field. Brandon McDonald was ejected, and Carlos Valdes was also ejected for the second time at the SoccerPlex.
It was an odd set of circumstances. Brian Carroll scored his second goal at the SoccerPlex, and Carlos Valdes was red carded at the same venue where he was tossed in 2011.
7. June 16, 2012 – D.C. United 1, Philadelphia 0 (PPL Park)
Goals: Pontius 78'
The beginning of the John Hackworth era, and a bit of revenge for D.C.
This game was played just 11 days after the Open Cup match in Boyds.
Philadelphia looked energized from the start, creating scoring chances but failing to get on the board.
The game was deadlocked until the 78th minute, when Valdes was yellow carded for a challenge on Chris Pontius. Replay showed that Valdes had gotten a touch on the ball, but referee Ricardo Salazar awarded United with a set piece. Branko Boskovic hit a brilliant free kick that was slotted home by Pontius at the far post.
8. August 19, 2012 – D.C. United 1, Philadelphia 1 (RFK Stadium)
Goals: Carroll 8', Okugo 71' (own goal)
More drama, more ejections, and more bizarre goals.
Go figure, Brian Carroll scored again versus his former club, slotting home on the goal line after Carlos Valdes' found the ball in the box and hit a shot that deflected off of Perry Kitchen's noggin.
D.C.'s leveler was unfortunate, with Amobi Okugo accidentally heading a dangerous free kick into his own net. The Union defender had stooped low in anticipation of a re-direction, but the ball went untouched into the box and ended up going in at the far post.
The real drama began in the 85th minute, when Roger Torres brought down Chris Pontius inside the penalty area. De Rosario nailed the spot kick, but referee Mark Geiger called back the goal, ruling that Hamdi Salihi had encroached on the play.
Boskovic was red carded in a scuffle that broke out after the kick, then De Rosario blasted his retake over the bar.
But it didn't stop there.
Emiliano Dudar earned a straight red for a rash challenge on Antoine Hoppenot. That prompted a verbal response from Pontius against his own teammate.
Sheanon Williams was tossed just minutes later, receiving a second yellow on a challenge in which replay confirmed he had touched the ball before bringing down Pontius.
That cued a shoving match with Bill Hamid, (see above image) who came out of his goal to confront Williams.
The whistle eventually blew, and United's Chris Korb and Brandon McDonald exchanged words and a shove before walking off into the locker room.
9. September 20, 2012 – D.C. United 1, Philadelphia 0 (PPL Park)
Goals: Pajoy 67'
"He didn't do that for us, did he?" - Sheanon Williams' famous quote after former Union striker Lionard Pajoy scored the game winner at PPL Park.
Philadelphia earned the lion's share of possession and out-shot their rivals 14 to 7 on the evening. The Union were credited with 5 shots on target to D.C.'s 2, the visitors sorely missing injured playmaker De Rosario.
It was the second time in 2012 that United had walked away from PPL Park with 3 points.
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This study analyzes the impact of climatic variability on ethanol trade between the Brazil and the U.S over a study period of 30 years, from 1980-2009. An econometric model was set up to estimate a net export supply function for Brazil, and a net import demand function for the U.S, as impacted by market and climatic variables. The climatic variables for the model were derived from prior literature, linking them to the yields of corn and sugarcane, which are feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S and Brazil respectively. The results suggest that climatic factors play an important role in the feedstock production for ethanol in these two countries, thereby influencing the direction of exports and imports. In South East Brazil, both low temperature and increased precipitation during winter show a positive relation with the net export supply. With regard to the net import demand in the U.S, it shows a negative relation with both increased summer precipitation and higher summer temperatures, while the relation with the average annual minimum temperature is positive. The outcome of this study provides an initial framework for conducting international trade policy studies for bio-fuels like ethanol, by incorporating climate change variables.
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- Memory Card
- Stereo Surround
- Unique Trap System The game is equal parts action and strategy that will have gamers thinking in the most evil and manipulative ways to create the ultimate combination of traps in order to distinguish their enemies; the sexy main heroine play as the sexy and beguiling queen alllura who looks so sweet, but is wickedly calculating and cursed by the devil; full-view map set up your traps via a full-view map of the castle; a variety of modes and bonus content play in story mode or survival mode, plus enjoy an even deeper story when you play in the bonus story mode.
TЯAPTPublisher: TecmoRelease Date: November 1, 2005MSRP: 49.99 USD
Kagero II: Dark IllusionRelease Date: June 30, 2005MSRP: 7140 JPY