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Like many Americans, I read the daily news with rapt attention and curiosity, eager to learn more about the Middle Eastern "situation" and about Hezbollah and Israel and Iran, particuarly. I don't perceive nor define any of this — from my safer United States location — on racial or ethnic terms, but politically and, in the subtext, religiously, given my Christian faith and beliefs.
But I intuitively reject any group of people who mutilate others, blow themselves up and otherwise encourage anyone to do so for any reason, and I also intuitively understand Israel's nationality and their need to protect and defend their territory, their citizens, their futures. I continue to read the news, I continue to formulate opinions based upon what I read but I also fundamentally reject and feel intolerant about terrorism by anyone, and in that I include Hezbollah and many among Muslims, who declare their intent to eradicate Israel and the Jewish people.
I continue to read the news, a bystander to a great degree, responding in human terms about excesses and outrages but simply continuing to read…and among what I'm reading is about this outrageous nuttiness from right here in the United States:
From THE AMERICAN THINKER
Sheldon Drobny is a wealthy Jewish financier of the Democrats, and founder of Air America, the liberal-left "answer" to conservative talk radio. See this Chicago Jewish News interview for a sense of the man.
Remarkably, Drobny actually believes the virulent anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on the left is in reality a conspiracy orchestrated by the right. As Drobny's last sentence states: "I see Karl Rove's fingerprints all over this". Below are excerpts from his blog:
"I came to the conclusion that the hostile comments about Israel on these liberal blogs are not coming from true liberals. Most of the anti-Semitism comes from racism and most of the racism I have experienced has come from the far right, not the left.
"So my conclusion is that the bloggers who violently hate Israel and see it in black and white terms are not really liberals. They may even be anti-Semites, but they are not representative of the liberal community that was so active in achieving racial and ethnic equality. It is a contradiction for a true liberal to be an anti-Semite.
"Furthermore, I would not put it past the right wing to flood the liberal blogs with hateful criticisms of Israel to advance a perception that liberals are anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. And I see Karl Rove's fingerprints all over this."
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It can be off-putting to be required to "love" the Jewish people or be deemed, instead, an "anti-Semite" if one does not declare love and affection for them, but few reasonable people would ever make such a declaration sincerely, non-frivolously, about any type of people — there are Israelites, there are Jews, there are Jewish atheists, there are Jewish Bolsheviks, there are good people, there are bad people, there are Jewish Reformists even among all those affiliations, just as there are many other human beliefs and behaviors and character among other religious and ethnic groups. To love or hate "all" of "them" on some basic principle is not only irrational but it's not well thought out.
But that article there reveals inherent imbalance, palpable lack of sanity. To follow along with that irrational viewpoint by Sheldon Drobny, however, Conservatives and Republicans ("the Right") represent "anti-Semites" and as such have managed some sort of guerilla informational network that has made it appear that it is "the Left" who is anti-Semite — which would mean that Palestine was the equivalent of "the Right" in position and perspective compared to Israel (as "the Left").
While, to the contrary, in reality it is most among Christians worldwide who are friend to Israel however slightly or even intently. And it is Christians, in reality, who are majority included among "the Right" politically just because most of us are conservative in our approach toward government and as to social issues and "the Left" represents non-conservative opinion about both.
Point is that Islam instructs against and/or postulates in contradiction to our shared, Judeo-Christian ideology and there are just some very absolute, definite beliefs and behaviors included in that and along those lines, those very absolute, large lines, the separations occur. Among the subtypecasting afterward occurs the individual variation.
And, that article also describes a setup, aimed at substantiating that negative that Drobny alleges: if he's Jewish (or anyone is) and he/they write from a paranoid and irrational perspective about "anti-Semitism," then for anyone to reject what is written/said through whatever skewered perspectives would be, well, to be opposed to the author…who is…Jewish…which is to be…opposed to…Jews? So goes the beginning of nonsense but in these current terms of war, war and more war, that nonsense is quickly blown way out of proportion and people's lives can be and are ruined over that degree of irrationality. Because few check the specifics and respond only to the irrational flaming of and about others. Not to mention do not question the source of the ignition.
So much for what's wrong with Air America, not to mention many among the Left. Among the Right, by comparison, we have our differences ("No, this is not 'our war'" by Patrick J. Buchanan) but they seem slight by comparison with the outrageous distortions I read from many liberals and Democrats, Sheldon Droby specifically as good example of that outrageousness. I've met quite debased people who were Jewish, I've been hurt by people who are Jewish but I've also loved people who are Jewish and been helped by people who are Jewish and so goes our human environment where it's the individual, primarily, who sets a precedent among other individuals. I cannot see rejecting "all" types of people because "some" types of people were offensive or problematic, is my point, no more than I would embrace or not embrace for the same reasons. EXCEPT in times of mass responses, as now, in many areas of our planet, the Middle East particularly and the opposing philosophies being authored by opposing peoples in that area, affecting our global population outwardly.
But it's tough when people are rejected or embraced in passing by how or what one feels or reasons about "Jews" because it's an impossible thing to state clearly or objectively for most of us. I can say that if I had to chose between Israel or Hezbollah and/or Iran, I'd opt to choose Israel but then I'd start asking questions about my choice. Most Christians feel that way, given our shared religious beliefs in the Judeo-Christian community.
I've read racist and ethnically prejudiced comments and articles among the news lately (and previously) but about nearly all types and groups of humans, not just as to Jews and Muslims, or for that matter, between Jews and Christians or Christians and atheists, or even Christians and Muslims. I can't say I dislike human beings except upon their beliefs and behaviors after a point, so my sentiments about anyone are always available but only after I know something about those people, specifically: people who promote suicides and other mutilations or group beliefs that promote those things, the wanton destruction of others, those human beings tend to get a negative review by me, which should not be a surprise to anyone, nor indicate excess in reaction.
The last Presidential election was embittered between U.S. "types" or associations — the "Conservative vs. Liberal" debate, refined down to "Republican vs. Democrat" respectively — but I do not believe that occured as a one-time thing but, rather, indicates our degrading society. We are losing barriers and customs and advancing toward a more brutal level of interaction with one another, as an American society, but also, obviously, as a world-wide human population. Thus, the wars in the Middle East from my United States location and American perspective frighten me to a great degree because I see the end result there (and elsewhere, as in the Phillipines and Central America) as a progressively destructed, and destructive, world behavior.
That is, I realize the potential for the exploding, rock-throwing, car burning swarms of hostility in the Middle East to appear anywhere else, anywhere else on the globe where that type of Infinite Doom might occur and I resent and resist attempts by some to get that degree of exploding doom started. I resent so much as reading that our nation, our country, is somehow an offshoot or suburban community to an urban Middle Eastern war.
However, with an urban flight, of sorts, of the sentiments and embittered, irreconcilable differences from those engaged to the bitter end in the Middle East also propping up in the United States between the two, general types — Jews and Muslims — or should I write SOME Jews and SOME Muslims, given that there are people among both groups who reject and value the opposite of what is of issue between Israel and Palestine — here I am as an American of neither Jewish nor Muslim affiliation who feels a great deal of caution about them both. And it's because of the extremes among the Middle East that I do, not because of any personal animosity or dislike inherently for either "type" but because there are just so many negative assumptions being cast around by everyone as to who is alright and who needs to explode, or be made to.
To take "sides" — I wonder — as with other wars, not all individuals have the option of deciding for themselves what their loyalties are — or they cannot decide given the many shared conditions among all people — but are forced or assumed to associate with one polar opposite over another. And it can be savagery at work that forces others to so declare under penalty or threat, so care is required to affiliate in severe times such as this. Accusations can be threats, and certainly can be threatening, particularly when the accusations are not rational. And so there is a lot of nuttiness beng imposed upon others, a lot of unhealing of memories like deconstructing wounds, refusals to be healed, rejection of reason.
Perhaps that's what the word, "enemies" means in practice and why the poison from enemies affects everyone around them.


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German prosecutors on Monday demanded more than nine years in prison for an arms dealer extradited from Canada over a party funding scandal that helped catapult Chancellor Angela Merkel to power.
State prosecutors called on the court in the southern city of Augsburg to hand down a jail sentence of nine and a half years to Karlheinz Schreiber, 76, who holds dual Canadian and German citizenship.
The defence pleaded for his acquittal on charges of tax evasion and obtaining illegal advantage. A verdict is expected Wednesday.
Prosecutors say he withheld more than 7.5 million euros (9.9 billion dollars) in taxes between 1988 and 1993 and made payments to ensure government approval for the sale of armoured cars to Saudi Arabia.
He is also accused of playing a key role in a sprawling slush-fund affair that rocked the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in the 1990s and tarnished the legacy of former chancellor Helmut Kohl.
In demanding a surprisingly tough sentence, chief prosecutor Marcus Paintinger said Schreiber had shown no remorse for his actions and failed to this day to pay his outstanding tax bill.
"The only things counting in his favour are that he does not have a criminal record and that he is 76 years old," he said.
Schreiber is believed to have made an undeclared one-million-mark (500,000-euro) cash donation to the CDU, prompting a political scandal that claimed the scalp of then party head, Wolfgang Schaeuble, now finance minister.
During the affair, Merkel wrote an editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily in 1999 calling for Kohl to come clean over the funding scandal and for the party to break with its murky past.
Merkel's willingness to challenge her former mentor during the scandal rapidly inflated her meagre profile and she was elected head of the CDU the following year.
The verdict will bring back bitter memories for the party only four days before a key regional election that could cost Merkel's coalition its majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament.

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The Expectations Game in the Age of Crisis
Today I heard an interesting number: some 67 percent of Americans are optimistic that our incoming president will be able to fix our flailing economy. I haven't heard the numbers on other important issues, such as national security and the wars, healthcare, education, etc. I would bet the numbers are similar. Two thirds of Americans probably think the President Elect can fix all of those things also. And why not? He seems capable enough, and anyone who was not moved by the historical nature of his victory last week has to have a heart of stone (after all—slaves largely built the White House beginning in 1792). However, I am beginning to think that our expectations as an electorate are running way too high.
While our incoming president will have democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, the problems facing this nation are simply too daunting for any quick fix, no matter who is minding the store. Let's set aside two wars (and one getting more dire in Afghanistan by the day), the health care crisis, and education. Let's stick with the economy—the fourth leg to the stool that Barack Obama has named as his four greatest priorities.
Here is what plagues this country—and what faces lawmakers and the executive branch in the current lame duck session (there is still well over two months before the new administration takes over):
* The biggest crisis in confidence in our economy in many decades, that has caused the second huge problem that follows below.
* A complex, global financial crisis that has shaved well over 5,000 points off the Dow, shredding millions of people's 401k plans, individual, and other retirement accounts. And this problem is unprecedented in its size and scope.
* The big three automakers are all facing possible bankruptcy with millions of jobs on the line, directly and indirectly (incredibly, a cup of Venti Starbucks now costs more than one share of General Motors, as shares of the world's largest automaker have plummeted to under $3 per share today, a 65-year low).
* A housing crisis that continues to this day, one so powerful that it helped to ignite much of what has been outlined above—with no signs of things getting better anytime soon.
* An unemployment rate that has increased to 6.5 percent, and could go much higher if a few more things go wrong (like one or more of the U.S. car makers declare Chapter 11).
* A trillion dollars already pledged to bail out Wall Street—and that number could easily skyrocket as more and more bad commercial paper is discovered.
Because of the complexity of the global financial system—which has never before been dependent on such a fragile foundation of confidence, there are no simple fixes to be found anywhere. According to David Smick in his groundbreaking book, The World is Curved (Portfolio, 2008), "for the financial markets, the world is curved. We can't see over the horizon. As a result, our sight lines are limited. It is as if we are forced to travel down an endless, dangerously twisting and turning road with abrupt steep valleys and risky mountainous climbs. We can't see ahead. We are always being surprised, and that is why the world has become such a dangerous place."
No wonder we are all so hungry for change—we have never been in in such need of it, not to mention a little stability! So consider this post as a request for both patience and confidence. We in America want things when we want them. Which is now, yesterday, immediately, pronto, stat. But at this time, facing these circumstances, change and improvement will not happen overnight. I believe things will get better, as so many smart people are focused on lifting us up from the bowels of what plagues us. But only if we don't panic when change doesn't arrive with the morning paper.
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Six patients from northern Minnesota and Wisconsin with a febrile illness accompanied by granulocytic cytoplasmic morulae suggestive of ehrlichial infection were identified. Two patients died, and splenic granulocytes of one patient contained cytoplasmic vacuoles with organisms ultrastructurally characteristic of ehrlichiae. From one patient, a 1.5-kb DNA product was amplified by PCR with universal eubacterial primers of 16S rDNA. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the amplified product revealed 99.9 and 99.8% similarities with E. phagocytophila and E. equi, respectively, neither of which has previously been known to infect humans. From the variable regions of the determined sequence, a forward primer specific for three organisms (human granulocytic ehrlichia, E. phagocytophila, and E. equi) and a reverse primer for these ehrlichiae and E. platys were designed. By nested PCR with amplification by the universal primers and then reamplification with the specific primers described above, the expected 919-bp product was generated from the blood of the index patient and three additional patients. Blood from these four patients and two more patients with granulocytic morulae contained DNA which was amplified by nested PCR involving a combination of a universal primer and the human granulocytic ehrlichia-E. phagocytophila-E. equi-E. platys group-specific primer. This apparently vector-borne human granulocytic ehrlichia has only 92.5% 16S rDNA homology with E. chaffeensis. Nested PCR with group-specific primers did not amplify E. chaffeensis DNA, and E. chaffeensis-specific primers did not amplify DNAs of the human granulocytic ehrlichia. Thus, six patients were shown to be infected by an Ehrlichia species never previously reported to infect humans.
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I am a writer and avid reader of romances particularly historical romances. Please join me on my journey through time
Please welcome Tani Hanes author of Living in the Shallows.
Tani Hanes will be awarding a $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Living in the Shallows
by Tani Hanes
GENRE: New Adult/Romance
I've always wanted to write, trite as that sounds. One of my earliest memories is of wanting to write down the stories my Japanese grandma told me, and being frustrated because I didn't write Japanese well enough!
I know a lot about swimming, piano, knitting, and Japan, all of which are crucial components of my heroine's personality. I was also a language major, so I love everything about grammar and usage. You won't find tense changes or misuses of "lie" and "lay" in my writing lol.
That I love to talk to them!! I don't think I put that, but I love it when readers reach out to me.
Well, Living in the Shallows is the first of a seven book series, all of which are complete, though the later ones are rough. So I'm polishing them as we speak!
I might want to be Janelle, Gethin's sister. She's only referenced in LitS, but has a large role to play in the whole series, in the later books. She's feisty and speaks her mind. She also ends up with one of the guys in the band, which ain't bad :o)
So this is obvious, I guess, but I would love for Harry Styles to play Teddy. It would be like Colin Firth playing Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones' Diary. He'd be playing a part written based on who he is. And Niall Horan as Ronan is a no-brainer, too. I always pictured Jamie Bell as Gethin, though he's a bit older than Geth IRL. And I'd like my daughter to play Birdie. She's on the covers, and she's a senior in college, a theatre major, so it could happen! Matthew has always been the problem, because I wrote him to be too perfect to be real; I mean, his eyes, his hair, just his general beauty, plus the fact that he has a Scottish accent?? What was I thinking?
Actually it was my girlfriend. We were sitting in my living room on my fiftieth birthday, and she told me to just get a legal pad and a pen, and BEGIN. Thank you, Tamara!!
Best advice came from my only writing teacher, Wayne Wightman, who is a fantastic Sci-Fi writer. He said to never stop writing when you were stuck, hung up. You should always stop for the day when you knew exactly what you were going to write next, when you were dying to get to it! This was the best way to guarantee you'd come back to it. And he was right.
The worst advice might be just general stuff about content that I've gotten from myriad people, solicited and not lol. EVERYONE has an opinion, but ultimately you have to do what you feel is best.
I made lists of things I wanted to cover in certain chapters, to ensure I wouldn't leave anything out. In my case it wasn't too hard, since the seven book series is linear and chronological, and all told from the same POV as well.
As I said above somewhere, I know music, swimming, Japan, language, and knitting; all of these things are huge in this series.
Lolita, if you can believe it. And To Kill A Mockingbird. But both describe a loss of innocence, so they do have that in common.
Still working on these guys; there are SEVEN, after all :o)—into serious revision on number four at the moment.
Hmm. Too many to name, I think. Tom Hardy?
There isn't really one, though there are a couple of dark moments, I guess. Like I said, I wrote this as a fantasy wish fulfillment, so it should feel happy for the most part. There are some bumps in the road, though, like the fallout from when Teddy tries to kiss Birdie for the first time. That was pretty messy, in many ways.
I don't have one, don't watch a lot of TV, actually.
Both frustrating and fulfilling. Frustrating because many people want to judge based only on the first book, which I'm perfectly willing to admit has some flaws! And my heroine, Birdie, is someone at the beginning that some people might not like; but she changes, which is kind of the point, it just takes seven books to tell the whole story. It's fulfilling because I got to tell the entire story, at my own pace. It's all in there.
Aileen is a bilingual music student with a chronic case of poverty. She gets a dream job as an interpreter for a boy band making a movie in Japan. Having spent her life as a sheltered, shy only child in the rarefied world of classical piano, she is utterly unprepared for this new world, these boys and their frank physicality and openness. Theo, especially, the known playboy and unrepentant flirt of the group, makes her uncomfortable in a way she's never felt before, and ultimately Aileen, or Tinker Bell, as she's known to the boys, has to decide if she's ready to leave the sidelines and become a participant in her own life.
The laughter and talking had stopped as soon as they entered the room and saw me. They stood, as if unsure what to do. The boy with the long brown hair recovered his composure first and held out his hand.
"Hello, I'm Theo," he said in a deep voice that didn't quite match his young boy look. He had a British accent, too, though it was different from Betsey's. He added a smile as we shook hands, and I saw gray eyes and dimples to go with the perfect teeth.
The blond boy, whose eyes were a dark, rich brown, held out his hand next. "I'm Ronan, nice to meet you." For a moment, my jet-lagged brain refused to process the words because his accent was so thick. I desperately flipped back through all the movies I'd seen, trying to place it. Irish. This boy was Irish. Just as I was wrapping my mind around that, the redhead stepped forward.
"Hi, I'm Gethin, pleasure to meet you." He, too, had a lovely smile, but his eyes were green. And his accent was different, kind of British, but more sing-song, with elongated vowels, like English on a graceful roller coaster.
Was there something in my coffee besides coffee?
The curly haired boy stepped forward to introduce himself. I stared at him warily. He had stunning dark blue eyes, which contrasted with his brown skin, and the longest eyelashes I'd ever seen on a boy. Given what had come out of the other boys' mouths when they'd spoken, if he started speaking Icelandic or produced yet another English accent, I was going to jump right out the window.
He held out his hand, and as I reached for it, he said, "My name is Matthew, and I'm very happy to meet you." I nearly yanked my hand back. This boy was Scottish, sounded just like Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter, and looked like he should be breaking hearts on the Nigerian soccer team.
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My name is Tani Hanes, and I am a 51 year old substitute teacher. Im from central California and am a recent transplant to New York City. The most important things to know about me are that I'm punctual, I love grammar and sushi, and I'm very intolerant of intolerance. The least important things to know about me are that I like to knit and I couldn't spell "acoustic" for 40 years. I've wanted to write since I was ten, and I finally did it. If you want to write, don't wait as long as I did, it's pointless, and very frustrating!
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Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty-and catastrophic-when the errant husband is found dead and the other woman disappears without a trace. Now, Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York's high society. Enter Carpenter-the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in The Short Forever-who has arrived in New York to begin an investigation of her own. Stone suspects that her case is strangely connected to the dead husband. And he and Dino, his former NYPD partner, are set to face the most bizarre and challenging assignment of their very colorful careers.
Woods's new mystery is as sleek and engaging as the upper-class lifestyle of its appealing hero, ex-cop-cum-lawyer-cum-private investigator Stone Barrington. Woods (Blood Orchid) rewards Stone (and readers) by bringing back the beautiful British intelligence agent, code-named Carpenter, who first appeared in The Short Forever, the preceding book in this series. But Carpenter brings Stone more than hot sex and clever dinner conversation-she inadvertently draws him into her life-and-death struggle with one of the world's most efficient and intelligent female assassins, La Biche. While on assignment for lawyer Stone, attempting to photograph an adulterous husband in flagrante delicto, a clumsy assistant gets into trouble and falls into the hands of the NYPD and British Intelligence. Stone's pal and ex-partner from his early days on the NYPD, detective Dino Bacchetti, aids in extricating the assistant, but the incriminating photographs soon involve both men in the hunt for La Biche, who is out to kill Carpenter and avenge an old wrong. Friend and foe alike feed outright lies to Stone and Dino as the chameleonic lady assassin piles body upon body. Woods writes in a dry, witty style that keeps all his characters on a likable keel. The amusing repartee between Stone and Dino is memorably funny. In the end, Stone supplies a surprising dose of morality, and the reader finds that there is more to the story than flesh, flash and derring-do. Author tour. (Apr.) FYI: Woods recently signed a new contract with Putnam to supply two more in this series as well as several other unspecified books over the next two years. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.


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SO off he went to Japan for the G8 summit, leaving Madeleine Albright behind at Camp David to continue negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians on a final peace settlement in the Holy Land. Bill Clinton had done his best. "The President used every ounce of his power of persuasion, and then some that he didn't know he had," said Joe Lockhart, the White House spokesman. But Mr Clinton knew that he might as well go to Japan because the prospects for a Middle East settlement were about to founder on the one issue on which compromise has proved impossible throughout history: the issue of Jerusalem.
Both the Israelis and the Palestinians want Jerusalem as their capital. Neither Ehud Barak, the Prime Minister of Israel, nor Yasser Arafat, the President of the Palestinian Authority, dare give in. Both are politically fragile at the moment. Leah Rabin, the widow of the assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, summed up the situation this week as follows: "Jerusalem is really the heart of the conflict. This one says 'it's mine', and the other says 'it is also mine'. It is not the judgement of Solomon, and it can't be split in two." This seems to be so. According to Israeli Army Radio, Mr Barak told Mr Clinton that, if he gave in on Jerusalem, his next visit to Washington would be as leader of the Israeli opposition; and Mr Arafat told Mr Clinton that if he gave in, he would soon be drinking coffee with Mr Rabin.
So it has to be said that the whole thing is not tremendously promising. Although Mr Barak wrote to Mr Clinton saying he would walk out because the Palestinians were "not negotiating in good faith", he didn't do so. Nor did Mr Arafat. But Mr Clinton's hope for a place in history as the engineer of peace between Israelis and Palestinians is not for the moment looking very good.


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This week at HDGuru3D we will be listing by company the newest 3D TV models that should be available for purchase this year. Here's what Sony has in store for us.
First, listed for a Spring release, is the Sony BRAVIA R550A-series. It is a LED LCD HDTV with Passive 3D. This 3DTV will be available in 70-inch (KDL-70R550A), 60-inch (KDL-60R550A), and 50-inch (KDL-50R550A) sizes.
Next, also available in Spring, we have the Sony BRAVIA W802A LED LCD HDTV with Passive 3D. This Sony 3DTV will be available in 55-inch (KDL-55W802A) and 47-inch (KDL-47W802A) sizes.
Sony, also penned for a Spring release, will be releasing the Sony BRAVIA W900A LED LCD HDTV with Active 3D. This Sony TV will only be available in 55-inch (KDL-55W900A).
Last, but certainly not least, we have the Sony BRAVIA X900A 4K Ultra HD TV. This Sony TV will feature Passive 3D (in Full-1080p). It will be available as a 65-inch (XBR-65X900A), or 55-inch (XBR-55X900A).
Stay tuned for complete lists of 3D TVs from each company shown at CES 2013.
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Jellied French Toast
In bowl, mix egg, milk, few dashes of cinnamon and sugar.
Heat skillet
Spread jelly on one slice of bread and stick second slice to it, making a jelly sandwich.
Dip sandwich in egg mixture. Fry in skillet, fliping once.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar
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Monkey Bread
2 rolls of Pillsbury biscuits : cinnamon : sugar : butter :
cut biscuits in 1/2 or 1/4 ; mix sugar and cinnamon in baggie ; coat biscuit and layer on bottom of dutch oven, top with butter, cover and put in coals. put some coals on top and cook for approximately 25 minutes.
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Brown Sugar Bananas (serves 4)
Slice bananas in half lenghtwise. Place 2 halves on a sheet of foil and sprinkle with lemon juice and brown sugar.
Repeat with remaining bananas. Dot with butter pieces.
Fold foil into a packet and place on grill. Cook for 15 minutes or until bananas are hot and sugar is melted.
Serve immediately.
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Apple Dumplings
1 granny smith apple : walnuts : raisins : brown sugar : carmel
core the apple middle, to taste add walnuts, raisins, carmel and top with brown sugar
wrap with heavy aluminum foil (or double wrap), place in embers and let back.
Chicken Creole
Preheat dutch oven to 350 degrees
Pour in tomatoes and rice. Fill tomato can with water and pour in. Add another 1/4 to 1/2 can of water.
Shake Cajun seasoning over rice - as much to taste
Place chicken breasts on top of rice
Pour honey over the chicken
Shake more seasoning on top.
Cover and cook for 1 hour
Pepsi Chicken
2 Liter of Pepsi : 10-14 Chicken legs : 2 (salad dressing sized) Bottles of BBQ sauce
Put all your chicken in dutch oven w/lid. Cover it with the BBQ sauce. Then add Pepsi so that the chicken is almost completely covered. Put the lid on and set the dutch oven on a hot bed of coals and cover lid with more coals. Cook 15 - 25 minutes depending on heat of fire.
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Point of view: Rand al'Thor
Rand is leaving Arad Doman feeling as though he has failed. He hadn't been able to track down enough council members to have a new king named. Milisair Chadmar and the other four that the Aiel had been able to track down have returned to their mansions. Bashere tells Rand he expects them to flee once Rand is gone. They talk of Rodel, Rand is told he has been seeing large forces of Trollocs gathering in the Blight, always just out of sight, but large enough to overwhelm Rodel and his army. As they are about to leave, Iralin approaches to tell Rand that all the food - in the stores and the food the Sea Folk brought has gone bad and is totally inedible. There is nothing Rand can do and he steps through the gateway to Tear.
Tear is full of foreigners. He wonders where Nynaeve and Cadsuane are and what they are up to. He tells Bashere that he expects the Seanchan to take Tear and probably Illian and that when Rodel abandons the Blight, they will need the Borderlanders to return to their posts. He tells Bashere to take a couple of Asha'man and find out where they are and goes on to see Darlin and Dobraine. He surveys the lords with Darlin, thinking how many of them were opposed to him until recently and that better men have died than some that survived. Darlin tells him the armies he has raised are ready to go to Arad Doman. Rand responds that they will not be going to Arad Doman, but will be going with him to Shayol Ghul.
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Saturday 23 May 1992
It was Saturday, under the sign of Gemini. The US president was George H. W. Bush (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Olesia Karmi and Asenate Manoa.
In that special week of May people in US were listening to Jump by Kris Kross.
In UK Please Don't Go by KWS was in the top 5 hits.
Sister Act, directed by Emile Ardolino, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1992
while Who Will Tell The People by William Greider was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Jack's Place.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Air Rescue or The Addams Family (Game Boy).
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- Olesia Karmi: Finnish figure skater.
- Asenate Manoa: Fijian-Tuvaluan runner.
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- Giovanni Falcone: Italian judge whose position of being anti-mafia was well known.
- Atahualpa Yupanqui: Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer.
- Kostas Davourlis: Greek footballer (Born 1948).
- New York Yankees play in their fourth straight extra inning game.
- President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees.
- In Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon agrees to resign.
- Serbian irregulars kill at least 16 people on a bread line in Sarajevo.
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Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They're perfect for each other, except that they're both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between "friends" and "more than friends" really blurry? Beer.
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Dir. Joe Swanberg, US, 2013, 90 mins
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- Right-click the file, and then click Undelete menu item from the context menu
- Drag and Drop the selected file to another logical drive
- Copy and Paste the contents of the file (folder), using the clipboard (Copy command in the context menu, or button on the toolbar) and paste file (folder) to another logical drive (Paste command in the context menu, or button on the toolbar)
- Select a drive and a folder for the deleted file (folder) to be restored to using the standard Browse for Folder dialog
- After the recovery process is completed, make sure that the file (folder) has been restored correctly by verifying its contents. In some cases, however, a file can not be reliably restored, because its contents or a part of it has already been overwritten
In some cases a file cannot be restored completely, because the body of the file or a part of it has been already overwritten (by some other files). In this case a warning message appears
Deleted files and folders differ from the non-deleted items by icons:
or Grey icon means that deleted file or folder has a good chance of recovery.
or Black icon means that deleted file or folder has a poor chance of recovery because it has been overwritten (or may be partially overwritten) on the disk.


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Remove Facebook's Floating Toolbar And Ticker Update [Google Chrome]
Facebook is going through many new changes, as you know that Facebook is going to implement new timeline feature which is being in roll out process.
Sometime back Facebook has implemented a change which is nice, as per me, they had added a fixed floating toolbar which allows you to quickly move to your Profile Page, Homepage, Setting or Logout from Facebook.
If you scroll down to page that toolbar moves with you, its fixed and float as you scroll down the page.
But some users are not linking it and they want their old interface back, it may be due to any reason, like they are not liking it.
Another update which Facebook has made is that they had put an ticker update at the right side which keeps updating itself periodically.
If you want to disable these two annoying Facebook updates then you can install Unannoying Facebook extension for Google Chrome which will disable these two annoying things.
After installing and reloading Facebook you will find that your fixed floating toolbar is gone and there is no more ticker updates.


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On the matter of redirects and SEO
How will 301 redirects effect SEO? What is Brugbarts recommendations on redirects?
Edited: 2011-07-25 14:28
Recently Brugbart changed its URL system a third time in its lifetime, hopefully this will be the final time that we changed the URLs. Many of you SEO focused readers, might not agree that this was a good choice.
But remember that we always have to weight the pros and cons, when deciding to create a new URL system. And of cause properly 301 redirect the old URLs, to the URL in the new system. See also: Redirecting URLs with PHP
Pros on changing URL systems
One of the first things that comes to mind, is whether people actually type in URLs to find content on your site. I have traditionally thought it would be unlikely for most users, and i still do for the most part. But its clear that some users scans the URL for common simple patterns, and then try to guess what a page might be called.
For instance, Yahoo is using subdomains to host many of their different services, such as http://answers.yahoo.com/, and http://search.yahoo.com/. This is a perfect example where people may notice the system clearly, and try to guess the URL for the search service. (I did that once).
Another thing which comes to mind, is that using the unique database ID in the URL, might look rather amateurish. It also creates a problem, because the we recently activated the comment feature again. The numeric IDs could become pretty large, due to all the spam that has been posted. Further more, using these IDs in the URLs, are pretty much making it impossible to guess the URL effectively.
Another problem the old system faced, is that the title which was used in the URL, could be mistyped, and end up producing duplicate content, because Brugbart didn't check that the title was entered correctly.
Finally we had the .html file extension, which i don't really think reflects the dynamicity of Brugbart, and which has long annoyed me. After all, why maintain static file extensions, when web applications today include scripting and other stuff? It would make sense if it was a static document, but i don't think you should use file extensions on dynamic content.
Cons on changing URL systems
The only con i can come to think of, is the 1-2 hours work or so, that i put into rewriting the source code. And I'm still not entirely done implementing it. All the internal links in individual articles, etc. Have not yet been updated.
If you only have about hundred pages, then if these ain't to big, and doesn't have that many links, you likely could update them manually. If you have hundreds, or even thousands of pages, you would want to look into writing a script to check each of the old links, take the identification method, check it against the database, and update each link accordingly. This is easy with functions such as preg_match_all
301 redirects will generally pass link juice, including pagerank. So this is not much of a problem for most legit webmasters, i think they would have to do some really dubious stuff to get effected.
Potential loss of link juice
301 redirects will generally pass link juice, including pagerank. So this is not much of a problem for most legit webmasters, i think they would have to do some really dubious stuff to get effected.
Its like bodybuilding: "No Pain No Gain".
If you started out by placing the door to your house on the roof, and it makes sense to move it to the ground, then you shouldn't hesitate to do so. People will eventually learn about the change, and while it doesn't pay to work out in the short run (I.e. Due to getting tired, and muscle soreness), it surely will pay in the long run.


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Victims' families angered over Couch sentencing3:46
Ethan Couch, who killed four people while driving drunk, has been spared jail by a judge who says his rich parents never taught him about consequences. Courtesy Fox4 News
A TEENAGER who killed four people while driving drunk has been spared jail by a judge who says his rich parents never taught him about consequences.
The Star-Telegram reports that the families of those who died expressed their anger as Ethan Couch, 16, of Texas, escaped a possible 20 year prison sentence and instead was handed 10 years of probation.
"Money always seems to keep (Couch) out of trouble," Eric Boyles, whose wife and daughter were killed in the June 15 crash, told the Star-Telegram after sentencing.
"Ultimately today, I felt that money did prevail. If (he) had been any other youth, I feel like the circumstances would have been different."
Youth pastor Brian Jennings; mother and daughter Hollie and Shelby Boyles; and 24-year-old Breanna Mitchell died in the June 15 accident.
Mitchell's car had broken down that night and the Boyles, who lived nearby came out to help. Jennings was passing by and stopped to help as well.
Couch had a blood alcohol reading of .24 and also had a Valium in his system after he and a group of friends stole alcohol from Walmart, drank it and then seven of them jumped in his truck.
Couch was 50km/h over the speed limit when he struck and killed the four pedestrians as well as injuring two of his own passengers who remain paralysed.
One of Couch's passengers, Sergio Molina, now communicates by blinking his eyes.
Molina's parents are suing Couch and his family for up to $20 million.
Couch's truck flipped in the air and crashed into a tree, while the impact flung the four pedestrians 50 metres. None of the teens were wearing seatbelts.
Dr Gary Miller, a psychologist for the defence, said Couch was a product of "affluenza" and that his family felt that money would solve any problem.
He said Couch was intellectually 18 but had an emotional age of 12.
The defence asked that Couch be sent to a private rehabilitation facility in California, which costs $450,000 a year. Couch's father said he'd foot the bill.
The teen will stay in the detention centre until he is booked into the rehabilitation facility.
He was barred from going home with his parents.
State District Judge Jean Boyd said there was nothing she could do to lessen the families' pain and that she hoped Couch could become a contributing member of society.
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Tamika D. Mallory, age 36 and the mother of a teenage son, is a nationally recognized champion of the civil rights movement.
One of four national co-chairs of the Women's March on Washington, Tamika lead a mobilization of over 5 million people worldwide in defense of civil and human rights. President of Mallory Consulting, a strategic communications firm, Tamika speaks in the media on the intersection of civil rights, social justice and the new wave of feminism.


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They work hard, play hard, and love harder.
It's all about the ride, until the right woman makes them fall.
Tina Montgomery needs to find her Texas Tomcat. Her promotion and livelihood depend on it. That promotion could mean a new life for her, her sister, and her niece. It's a big risk, however, because if she fails in her bid to head up a new menswear line at her company, she could lose everything. That's why finding the perfect model to represent the line has become her sole focus. At the point of thinking she would never find that man, one with both experience and attitude that shows in his face and eyes, she meets Dean Dixon. His gorgeous eyes tell a story she definitely wants to hear and the man has more attitude than any she's ever met. Physically, he's perfect for the job. But that attitude she thought she wanted in her cowboy quickly becomes her biggest downfall when she tries to convince the sexy, but hard-hearted rancher to help her.
Dean Dixon is done with women. His cheating ex-wife has shown him just how untrustworthy women are. He has a ranch to run, and a son who might not be his to raise alone. That's more than enough for any man to handle without dealing with his sister-in-law's friend who is determined to convince him to model for her company. He has seen what that industry has done to his brother. Dean is a rancher, not a model, and he isn't about to abandon his family or fall into the same trap.
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There seems to be a vogue for shooting (or at least releasing) a film in black and white, whether it makes any sense contextually or not: Baumbach's Frances Ha and Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing each appear to consist of desaturated images for no real reason whatsoever, which strikes me as incredibly wrongheaded. Why are these films in black and white? What purpose does it serve?
In the clip below, from The Dick Cavett Show, Peter Bogdanovich explains why he decided not to shoot The Last Picture Show in color: it more or less boils down to the fact that he felt color would ruin the mood he was looking for in his setting. Mel Brooks–also a guest on that same episode–comments that black and white is nothing more than a silly "arty" gimmick unless it's motivated by something within the story, setting, etc. The same could be said of any technique which is only technique. Thinking something "looks cool" isn't enough.


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The schoolyard tone of recent attacks in the Republican presidential contest has proven too much for Fox News show host Sean Hannity, who on Wednesday night said Sen. Marco Rubio has gone "beyond the pale."
Hannity publicly wondered aloud the concept that someone "probably promised" Rubio "a lot of money" to take on Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who has come under increasing attack from the Republican establishment as Trump wins more GOP primaries.
"That's not the real Marco," Hannity said.
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"He was such a little snot nose in this attack on Trump," said Fox personality Geraldo Rivera.
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Hannity contrasted Trump's "presidential" tone on Super Tuesday with that of Rubio.
"What I'm watching here is the kitchen sink, scorched Earth, MMA bare-knuckle brawl, thermo-nuclear attacks," he said of Rubio.
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The trigger for Hannity's ire was an ad from a pro-Rubio PAC that attacks Trump over the KKK dustup that splashed across the media over the weekend. Former Klan Grand Wizard David Duke said he supported Trump. Although Trump eventually disavowed that support, he was criticized by some in the media for not immediately condemning white supremacist groups when he was initially asked.
"(When) he (Rubio) runs an ad like this, invoking the KKK when Donald Trump had disavowed it again and again and again and again — this to me, this is now way beyond the pale of what I would expect in a primary," Hannity said.
"When Marco Rubio, who … I have always liked, now starts invoking the KKK, in spite of many disavow, disavow, disavow. To me it's a bridge too far," he added later. "To me that in my mind conjures up a conspiracy to just go scorched earth and destroy the whole party because they are not winning."
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Fashion buyer Anne J. Tatta of Oyster Bay
Anne J. Tatta, a longtime fashion buyer from Oyster Bay, was known for her gregariousness, sense of style and devotion to family.
She was also the wife of the late John Tatta, who co-founded Cablevision and served as its president, chief operating officer and chairman of its board of directors' executive committee.
"She was a beautiful lady in every respect -- very direct, very forthright -- and always willing to help," said Cablevision Systems Corp. chairman Charles Dolan, who had known her since the early years when he and her husband were starting and building the business, which now owns Newsday.
Tatta, 87, died in her sleep Thursday at an assisted living facility in Glen Cove, said her daughter, Lisa Crowley of Oyster Bay.
Describing her mother as "a fashionista," Crowley also said, "She was pretty feisty -- a fighter" who "taught us to be independent."
The former Anne Frasca was born Feb. 10, 1925, in Manhattan, where she attended Hunter College before launching her 30-year career.
"I'll call her a great merchant," said Martin Miller, 85, of Long Beach and Pembroke Pines, Fla., who worked with Tatta in the early 1950s in the Manhattan office of what was National Bellas Hess catalog company. "She knew colors; she knew fabric; and she had a tremendous sense of style," he said. He also recalls her being a tough negotiator, looking for the best value when working with clothing manufacturers.
Tatta and her husband, who met through mutual friends, married in 1949, moving to Elmont and then to Oyster Bay in 1982.
Also known for her hospitality, she enjoyed socializing with friends and was "a liver of life," Crowley said.
"She was always welcoming," said Tatta's cousin, Marjorie Levy, 83, of Hollis, Queens. "You would always find people in her house."
Tatta's mother and her husband's parents lived with the family, which allowed Tatta to rise daily at 5 a.m. and commute to her job in the city, said her other daughter, Debbie DeCabia, also of Oyster Bay.
When it came to her family, "she was like a momma bear," DeCabia said, wanting to know her and her sister's friends and encouraging them to spend time at her home, socializing or doing homework.
By the late 1980s/early 1990s, her parents were spending half their time at their Fort Lauderdale home, DeCabia said, enjoying golf, and entertaining friends and family.
Tatta's other survivors include eight grandchildren and two brothers, Vito Frasca, 86, from the Orlando area, and Anthony Frasca, 84, of Ridge.
A funeral Mass was said Monday morning in the chapel of St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church, Oyster Bay, followed by interment in Locust Valley Cemetery.


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Very soft rice stitched hat, both comfortable and warm.
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La Petite Collection is all about comfort and longevity with just the right amount of style. La Petite Collection design clothing ranges in larger intervals, such as 0 - 6 instead, and clothes are made to roll up the sleeves of cardigans, blouses, dresses and pant legs, allowing your baby to wear the item large at the beginning and fitted at the end, but without compromising style.
Their fabrics are natural and soft, always 100% cotton and the prints are genuine Liberty of London fabrics. All La Petite Collection items are made in Mauritius by a family company, as they have chosen to make the collection at a single place in order to build a strong relationship with the makers.


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The current version of Java includes all the tools to translate the output from a relational database query into XML as a Document Object Model (DOM) document object, which can then be easily translated using the power of Extensible Style Language (XSL) into any number of output formats. This article will show you how to build an interface that can read any JDBC-compatible relational database, creating a ResultSet that can later be translated into almost any type of character output.
The interface
To begin, you must define an interface that, when implemented, will handle the details of establishing a database connection, passing a SQL query to it, reading the results, and creating a DOM document object. The DataBaseHandler interface shown below defines a desired behavior for handling or dealing with a database. (Note: This example lacks import statements and, therefore, won't compile.) Specifically, the document returned by a getDocument() query will be transformed to the desired output type by other processes independent of the database.
public interface DataBaseHandler{
Document getDocument(String sqlQuery);
String getUrlString();
void setUrlString(String urlString);
String getUserName();
void setUserName(String userName);
String getPassword();
void setPassword(String password);
String getDriverName();
void setDriverName(String driverName);
This is the minimum behavior required to do the job of handling or interfacing with a database. It includes several get and set methods for ensuring that the database driver name, username, and password are set or can be later retrieved. The DataBaseHandler needs are summarized below:
- urlString
- userName
- password
- sqlQuery string
- driverName
The getDocument() method does all the real work after the set methods are invoked:
Document getDocument(String sqlQuery);
All the inputs passed to the set methods could have been passed to the getDocument() method. From a reusability standpoint, you should separate the methods so that the implementing classes can simply and flexibly take advantage of this multiple input-passage functionality.
An abstract implementation of the interface
Next, an abstract class is defined that implements most of the behavior and actions required, with the notable exception of those behaviors needed for a specific database type. The AbstractDataBaseHandler performs the generic actions of the set and get methods and, once all database-handling parameters have been set, AbstractDataBaseHandler performs the generic actions of interacting with the database. The only details left are the specifics of a given database type, as well as the setup that must be defined to obtain a concrete implementation of the DataBaseHandler.
The get and set methods set the private class variables that will vary with the database handler object created by extending AbstractDataBaseHandler. This process is straightforward, as Listing A demonstrates.
The actions in the getDocument() method are in a try catch block in case any errors occur during the database transaction or any of the required input parameters are not set. It is worth noting that a SQLException could have multiple exceptions chained together. You must iterate through the SQLException to see the full set of problems that may occur when interacting with databases.
} catch (SQLException sqle) {
while(sqle != null) {
System.err.println ("**** SQLException ****\n");
System.err.println ("** SQLState: " + sqle.getSQLState() + "\n");
System.err.println ("** Message: " + sqle.getMessage() + "\n");
System.err.println ("** Error Code: " + sqle.getErrorCode() + "\n");
System.err.println ("***********\n");
/* There could be multiple exception messages chained together. */
sqle= sqle.getNextException();
As with any exception, a Java logging implementation of exception handling could have been used to log any problems that occur. It is important to ensure that all possible exceptions are included in the try catch block so that appropriate action is taken to notify to the user of any problem occurring during execution. The list below summarizes the information that a SQLException contains:
- A string describing the error
- A SQLstate string
- An integer error code that is specific to each vendor
- A chain to a next exception
The getDocument() method first checks for all required parameters or throws an exception:
if(getUrlString() == null){
throw new Exception("Database URL String is not set.");
if(getUserName() == null){
throw new Exception("Database User Name is not set.");
if (getPassword() == null){
throw new Exception("Database Password is not set.");
if (getDriverName() == null){
throw new Exception("Database Driver Name is not set.");
A SQL query string is passed as input. This can be any SQL string desired, such as:
SELECT * from mytable;
SELECT overdue, name, duedate, description from myactiontable;
Next, an instance of a JDBC driver is created, which automatically registers the driver with the DriverManager:
The DriverManager can now create a database connection with the registered driver and handle all the database work.
The URL connection string varies from database to database. For an Oracle database, this is a string of the form:
The exact values required are defined in the tsnames configuration file, called tnsnames.ora, which has entries that look like this:
mydb =
(Host = SERVERX.www.mycompany.com)
(Port = 1521)
(SID = examplesid)
(GLOBAL_NAME = exampledb)
A Connection object is created from a URL string, username, and password set previously. A Statement object is created using the Connection object and executes the query on the database returning a ResultSet object. The details are handled seamlessly by JDBC.
The statement execution may have no return values to work with, depending on the SQL statement used. This class checks for an absence of returned values and adds Element nodes to the document only when there is at least one row of data returned. Column names are retrieved from a ResultSetMetaData object obtained through a get method of ResultSet:
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = resultSet.getMetaData();
The cursor or row number of the ResultSet is iterated over the whole ResultSet in a while loop, and a DOM document object is built simultaneously.
// add Element and TextNode objects which define each row and each data column.
Processing the ResultSet and its metadata completes the interaction with the database. From here, you can employ XML/DOM objects to house, and XSL to format, the data.
End of the beginning
This article has described a process of creating an interface that defines a generic behavior for a DataBaseHandler and implements it in an abstract class that can be extended to a concrete custom-built database handler. This behavior allows you to connect transparently to a relational database, execute a SQL query, and return a ResultSet whose data can be translated into a DOM document object.


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School is back in session starting Monday in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties — and for drivers, that means it's back to slowing down.
Expect police and sheriff's deputies to concentrate on looking for speeders and enforcing traffic laws in school zones, crosswalks and around school buses stopped to load or unload students.
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said drivers should slow down in school zones and avoid distractions behind the wheel.
"Sending a text message or checking an email on your smartphone isn't as important as protecting the safety of our children," he said.
Those convicted of speeding in a school zone can expect to open their wallets wide.
Some tips from law enforcement officers:
• If your children are walking to school, walk the route with them beforehand. Choose the most direct way, and be sure it has sufficient sidewalks, lighting and crossing guards.
•If there isn't a crossing guard, be sure your child knows when it is safe to cross the street.
• Pay attention to signs because not all school zones have flashing warning lights.
•Teach your kids to obey all traffic signals when walking or biking to school.
•When biking, be sure your child has a helmet and appropriate safety pads.
• If you're driving in the same direction as a school bus flashing its red lights with its stop arm extended, you must stop and not move until the bus retracts the stop arm and turns off the flashing lights.
• If you're going in the opposite direction of that bus, stop in front of the bus and don't move until the bus retracts the stop arm and turns off the lights. If you're going the opposite way on a divided highway with a median, you don't have to stop.
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