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"What we need is an information shaman,"
No, actually we don't, we really don't.
Southampton is pushing to be the go-to place for expertise on linked data in the UK, and researchers at its main university launched a site earlier this month containing no less than 21 "non-confidential" datasets that underline that semantic web desire. The University of Southampton (UoS) is one of the first academic …
No, actually we don't, we really don't.
""What we need is an information shaman," .... No, actually we don't, we really don't." ... enigmatix Posted Tuesday 22nd March 2011 12:13 GMT
Err..... Yes, actually you do, you really do. And ideally providing virgin core source lode for intelligent conversion into semantic product placements for sublime use in future programs and live linked future data projects.
Are Southampton into Future Reality Sets via Linked Novel MetaDataBase Stations/Core Virgin Source Mines which could even be just Open Minds in Networks InterNetworking JOINT Applications ...... Joint Operations Investigating Network Transparency as a FailSafe Security Protocols rendering Secrecy redundant and unnecessary as a Future Control Lever.
Drilling down to the actual data I find information on bus routes, vending machines and a short list of other stuff already available on the Southampton web site, hardly worth a fawning two page article on El Reg. Come on guys where is your customary cynicism?
"hardly worth a fawning two page article on El Reg"
I count 3 pages.
And if you wanted to cross-reference these bus timetables against, say, course timetables, that would be easy already, right? Because the information is already on the web? Come on, it doesn't take a genius to work out how this stuff is going to change the web completely.
" "PDF is an embarrassment to our species," Gutteridge says of Adobe Software's once proprietary but now open standard for document exchange." *
For that I can almost forgive him for say "less than 1000" instead of "fewer".
I wonder if he knows that data 'R' plural?
I'm glad to see that TB-L does. Must have had a proper education.
* I've cursed PDF so often and so vehemently you'd think it was a Microsoft product.
" For that I can almost forgive him for say "less than 1000" instead of "fewer". "
There is almost certainly some kind of fundamental law governing the increased possibility of buggering up one's grammar while bashing someone else with it.
(also known as Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation): "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror".
I hop that was deliberatte!
Huh? His, maybe, but I'd have thought that most people's displays were 16:9.
I believe PDF was designed to replace Postscript (which in the early days was a pain to use) in an HTML 2.0-like world where styling didn't exist and the mainstream software could display the same content radically differently (and, plus, remember frames? how do you print a framed site?).
For its original purpose, PDF has done well. It has become icky and bloated, but to insult a technology because nobody has devised something both better and universal shows a certain degree of stupidity.
But then we are talking academics getting excited over datasets. While I can understand the value of this, Joe Average just wants something to look at. Like, for example, Nuclear (poop) Boy instead of a string (<cough> array) of readings in what would appear to be an obscure format.
Completely agree, he also seems to miss the fact that many people use PDF's as a way to send an electronic document in a fixed form, eg a quote, invoice, contract etc, so you can be reasonably sure that it hasn't been altered (yes I know there are ways to do it, but most users wouldn't know them). In terms of portrait / landscape I can kind of see where he's coming from, however I think he's missing how people actually read. A column of text is far easier to read and scan through, than a wide long line of text, that's why after all many documents in A4 portrait have two columns.
Mixed 16:10 and 4:3 displays here, definitely no 99:70 ones to be seen...
"PDF is a brilliant way to simulate A4 or portrait views."
And if you change your page orientation to landscape before saving to PDF, it's a pretty good way to simulate those too... Blaming PDF for the dearth of landscape-formatted documentation is, even by the usual standards of academics infected by outoftouchwiththerealworlditis, really rather dumb.
There's a place for both styles of formatting - viewing some types of data works really well when it's spread laterally across a widescreen display, other data is unmanageable unless constrained into a narrower band. e.g. I see no technical reason why novels couldn't be printed in landscape format, but from a useability point of view it'd be hideous. Just because we can reformat data to fill the available space doesn't mean we necessarily should...
Not just sure that it hasn't been altered, but also confident that all the people who read it have seen the same thing. If you are sending an invoice in Euros, you don't want to find out that one reader had his viewer configured to automatically convert that to Yen at the current exchange rate, because your quote is for Euros. I know that sort of configuration would count as a bug, but it's a lot less likely when you send a PDF. For some things, what you actually said is more important than what you meant, and fewer filters/conversions is better.
"there are ways to do it, but most users wouldn't know them"
Hands up who has, when they've been faxed a document to sign, pasted in their pre-scanned signature and sent it back through the fax server?
People may be "reasonably sure that it hasn't been altered", but that belief is based on ignorance.
I can change the price in it anyway. You cant prove that what I got is not what you sent unless you methods that are above and beyond PDF - so using PDF is just way of sending money to adobe, it helps neither of us.
As someone said PDF the new fax - only secure and reliable for the gullible. PDF turns a 21C computer into 19th paper. A bit like using your ferarri to open you stable doors to go for a ride on your horse. What the man is suggesting is perhaps taking the combustion engine out of the ferarri and using it to power a matter transporter for your data. All PDF is is a larger and larger filing cabinet to stick your data in before tying it to your horses arse.
All this hatred for PDFs based upon odd uses of it.
Okay. On my mobile phone, I have a bunch of component/processor datasheets and other tech docs. They're all PDFs. They load up in the reader app, and they look exactly like they do on the PC.
Would those slagging off PDF care to come up with a multi-system compatible, easy (hence single-file) version of representing this sort of information? Should we do back to pure text files with lack of styles and formatting and laughably bad ASCII art circuit diagrams?
There are some things PDF is useful for...
Joe average probably wants his work calendar in a an electronic format that can actually be processed by machines. Yeah a print is hand and not much wrong on the pdf front there, want to actually use some of that data however...
This isn't just an academic exercise. There are some real world uses starting to appear.
One example is the BBC who are using linked data in real live situations (e.g. 2010 World Cup site) see this blog post http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/bbc_world_cup_2010_dynamic_sem.html and are starting to move more and more to a dynamic publishing framework that is built on top of a "news" ontology.
In this way "linked news" can be based on the ontology, rather than any predetermined relationships that the content authors may define.
Eben Moglen suggests people should be able to maintain their info in an encrypted container hosted by a "freedom box". That could mean a physical device or it could mean a piece of software running on your own PC or running on a trusted host of your choice. You could grant / deny access to the box on a granular level and your data would be distributed (encrypted of course) via P2P to make it easier to find.
It's not a bad idea at all but not one without issues. Biggest issue is that this is Eben Moglen and the FSF proposing it. This means the concept is practically DOA because anything the FSF touches gets bogged down in polemics. It needs somebody, preferably a startup to embrace the idea, monetize it and the pragmatism to see it to implementation. Probably the closest thing at the moment to a freedom box would be the Diaspora (also Moglen inspired) but whether it can compete against Facebook is a massive question.
Information can be tagged. Those same tags can be used to enforce security. All you're doing is extending the model to include protective markings and clearance levels. For example:
Object = securable item.
Subject = something that consumes (view/print/edit) objects.
An object is tagged* with a protective marking, such as "No marking", "Private" or "Secret."
A subject is tagged* with a clearance level, such as "No clearance", "Friend" or "Family."
* Tagging of objects and subejcts is done by the owner of the object.
Lastly a policy is created that limits access to any object marked as "secret" to subjects cleared to "Family."
The policy travels with the object in a single file. The object is encrypted, and the policy is readable. A central or federated server enforces policy. Much like this app does: http://wwww.wittenburg.co.uk/interact/
We should own our own data.
We should be able to control who accesses or links to our data.
A new type of device is needed. A secure section of our home router or modem could contain a publicly accessible store.
Never fill in a form with your various personal data again, allow a site to access whichever limited data from your data-set. Change your personal information once only, it is always current everywhere. Stop permission for whichever sites you want when you want.
We might turn off our PCs, laptops, phones, pads from time to time, but our routers generally stay on, except for power outages or maintenance.
I have been pushing this barrow for many years now.
People or corporations can access our data when we want them to, or if there is a perceived value for how much we sell it to them.
You have a log of who access what data when.
It could end up being our storage in our part of our cloud. We own it, we control it. It might contain all of our personal data collected and created through our lifetime. Expand it as required, backup as required.
Facebook just got made open... so did everything else
Seeing as you can run your own OpenID provider behind your router, it shouldn't take much to move it onto the router itself.
This sounds like the path to hell if you ask me.
I have seen real world semantic web apps - there is a company in Switzerland that has stuck manyears into developing the very idea. The key to handling this sort of data is deciding first what information you actually need - without a use case to define the shape of the specific needles you seek you'll be simply stuck looking at hay.
BTW, re PDF - there is another reason why portrait persists: our own physical limitations. Our eyes have a limited width from which we read. If you had a text landscape you'd tire pretty soon when reading..
I agree - trying to read a Kindle landscape feels really wrong - put it back to portrait and all is well.
"But our screens are all A4 landscape yet there is this stupid insistence that the portrait way is still developed. It's a legacy thing and we haven't got around to getting rid of it yet"
While his tape measure is slightly off - I do agree with the "stupid insistence that the portrait way is still being developed" - I say this looking at the white sliver down the centre of the screen that is the reg website!
...the ones with 2 columns of text!
Who thinks that is a good idea? I'm reading it on a screen too small to display a full A4 page at a readable size, so halfway through each page I get to scroll back up again and start again. PDFs designed to be read onscreen (and which are created with linked chapters and text rather than images of text) are wonderful in comparison.
Why not read it in a CSV form, which this chap suggests is a replacement for PDF...
He's citing an example where CSV is used to exchange data between systems. The idea being, once you have the CSV you can format it any way you please when you display it. You can't do this with PDF as they're pre-formatted when the document is written.
PDF is horrible because it is, at its simplest, a vector-based picture of a printed page, from which it's almost impossible to extract useful information. So Adobe added a pile of extensions to pdf (and also, even more stupidly, to ttf fonts) to let you try to reverse engineer the original information out of the print representation. This is unnecessarily complex and still doesn't work reliably for unicode text using complex scripts.
RDF (specifically RDF/XML) is horrible (and consequently not widely used) because it is almost sadistically complicated. As the article says, the information model it encodes is simply triples of URIs, yet it provides myriad ways to describe this described by a not-quite-finished specification. (I've had the misfortune of writing an RDF/XML parser so I've been bitten by all the corner cases that were brushed under the carpet without resolution in the rush to get the spec. published.)
The problem:
"The skills of taking a data system and understanding how to map it into RDF so that it can be useful is bloody hard. It requires someone who can see the data, understand the structure, understand how it will be used and then map between two spaces in their head."
A solution:
Document what you want to do in Executable English, then _run_ it. Other people will be able to read what you did, and also get English explanations of the results of running it.
Here's an example that you can view, run and change, using a browser:
I've heard a whisper that the Wellcome Foundation now requires it's grant funded researchers to publish their raw data on the internet. Not that it'd be of much use to the general public, but it's the same kind of thinking. I'm concerned over data integrity in the cut throat world of multi-million pound research grants where reputation is 95% of everything.
To be fair most things suck in some ways, but I've spent the last 10 years working to give people open access to research papers, and I hate the fact that PDF is the defacto standard. We should be able to read them easily on phones, ipads and kindles and we can't. But there's top men working on it http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/11/scholarly-html-theme-and-presentations-today/
Not everyone can code; and you need a coder, or other unusual skills to get the value from open data, but once the app (or whatever) is produced, we can all benefit. An information shamen is one of those rare people who can (a) understand complex diverse data sources and (b) is willing to build tools to help the other 99.9% of us benefit from them.
Some of our students produced this tool from the open data we made available:
(requires a recent browser!)
with evince. It's nice having an N900.
On the main content - so you finally bought into the semantic web idea then?
I remember that was the 'next big thing' back when I was a lowly student and you were moaning about how half the new intake didn't know how to use ftp from the command line any more...
Plus ca change etc.
Genuinely surprised to see your face peering out at me from the front page this morning though, nearly spat-up coffee all over the keyboard!
"PDF is an embarrassment to our species"
A completely blinkered view which really doesnt deserve arguing the case against....
...but briefly, speaking as a designer, there are loads of reasons why I love pdf as well as things that annoy me -- the same with design for other media (web/print etc).
That quote must have been said with no thought whatsoever about the words which were coming out of his mouth
nah, just in the context of scholarly communication and of communicating data. Getting data as a table in PDF really really sucks.
Using PDF in the current era of many sizes of viewport is just plain daft.
I think what most of the posters are getting at is that your comment was a tad to general and sweeping about PDFs. They have a use and also being from a designer background a bloody good use.
But I can see why when you recieve a PDF it is generally uselss and a pain in the proverbeal to you.
Plus I have also made some good money out of organisations designing and building PDFs so don't dis an element of my trade too quickly, same goes for your semantic data. Don't be surprised if it's not received to warmly by people who can see their livelihoods slipping away from a new standard being employed. I would definately stick to your comments about letting the politicians hammer it out but I would be very good friends with a Marketing bod if you want it to lift off.
Er, well *Page Description Language* kind of says it all. PDF is not a data extraction format. If it doesn't fit your page, then get another PDF, generated from the actual data, using the application. Maybe numpty was interviewed in the pub. I see scrollbars on my ElReg screen. Does that mean that HTML doesn't work?
"Ultimately, we provide the tools. Let the politicians do the arguments.".... Christopher Gutteridge
The wiser semantic web developer will completely avoid the politician, realising that they have no valid lead input to offer themselves into future linked data programming. They are useful tools though for leads which linked data sets provide, so they are not completely useless. In fact, there is probably good enough evidence to suggest that they are easily groomed to be quite convenient servants.
Sir, I have been accused of many things, being easy to groom is generally not one of them.
No one has seen the chat logs that I'm keeping for later.
Quite so, it is indeed an unusual semantic knack to perform better than just well, and can be difficult to probably impossible without the competent exercise of a particular and peculiar knowledge and provision of sticky sweet bait.
Information, lacking agency - and contrary to the popular (and annoyingly resistant to logic) meme - doesn't want to be free.
Some of the data in those silos is in silos because it has value to the people who collected it, and they certainly don't want it to be free.
So I would hope that there is some parallel group working on implementing a complementary micro-transaction framework so that on the day when the big switch is thrown on the brave new semantic web those of us who believe in swapping money for things of value are able to play.
Otherwise simply wishing for all the information to be free is like asking santa for a magic kitten that shits fairy dust.
Still, good luck to them. I can't wait to have another standard to choose from.
BTW, if anyone is actually in possession of a magic kitten that shits fairy dust and is willing to swap it for one that vomits what appear to be the remains of dead snails, do get in touch.
Best I can do is one that vomits undigested cat biscuits and leaves the liver of eaten creatures on your kitchen floor. With enough prodding can also perform a 'double-tap' on your smallest childs head.
Idealism yes but I'm not sure TimBL is the poster boy for "youth" these days :-)
Why I say your comment is poor is this, what semantic web switch are you talking about?
Your facebook data is not about to be magically represented in rdf made open and linked.
The Semantic Web is an effort to standardise the publishing of interlinked data in the same vein that the original web standardised the publishing of interlinked documents. You didn't have to publish web pages back then and no one forces people to publish linked data now.
Now the open access ideal for science publication/data is related but different, if your experiment/science isn't repeatable and observable it's not really following the scientific method anyway, so the idea that research data and articles should be locked away and unavailable (or behind some pay wall) is not really taking science forward. Allowing research to be open, linked and widely accessible seems likely to change the quality of research science.
As for other data sets like government and organisational (the OS stuff that was opened) It is simply OUR data in the first place, why lock it up? The one time Labour/Tory/Liberals have agreed in any meaningful way about tech is when they listen to Sir Tim BL about data.
Search Google for:
site:www.soton.ac.uk inurl:pdf
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"a detail-obsessed librarian who's middle name is pedant"
Whose name is pedant again? I must have made a mistake here too, for ironic value. Unavoidable, apparently.
PDF is merely Postscript with a nice wrapper around it. The original intent was to provide a document format that people could create a print-ready document on one platform (Say, a mac with Pagemaker or some other desktop publishing program installed) and open it on, say, a PC or unix workstation for later viewing/printing. (although the latter still requires a bit of mucking about with the workstation's print drivers to make it come out right.)
It's somewhat handy for technical manuals, print-ready artwork for proofing, and when Adobe strapped on the forms capabilities for things like tax forms. It's not all that useful for ebooks, especially graphics heavy ebooks, at least on reader devices.
My own personal hate is the $&*#^! idiots who make a fill-able form, but disallow printing or saving a copy of the form data. WHAT IS THE POINT, PEOPLE.
> PDF is merely Postscript with a nice wrapper around it.
If only it were. Sadly it isn't quite: lack of a full programming capability being one of the bigger omissions.
> My own personal hate is the $&*#^! idiots who make a fill-able form, but disallow printing or saving a copy of the form data. WHAT IS THE POINT, PEOPLE.
This is usually because the person creating the form hasn't realised they bought the wrong version of Acrobat. So the form works for them and they never bother to test on a standard Reader.
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Gen. Mohammad Zahir, director of the criminal investigation division, said police were trying to assess why the fight that broke out in the afternoon, killing one student and wounding six others.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene said Shia and Sunni students started fighting and by evening, several hundred more people joined the melee, fist-fighting and throwing stones at each other. He said eyewitnesses at the scene said the clash was related to Ashoura, the commemoration of the 7th century death of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson.
Afghan leaders went to the site to try to calm the crowd. Abdul Azim Nurbakhsh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, said late Saturday that classes at the university had been canceled for the next 10 days. Damage was reported to buildings at the university.
Other gatherings marking Ashoura in the Afghan capital were peaceful, but last year, a suicide bomber on foot struck worshippers at a Shiite shrine in Kabul, killing at least 80 people. Some Sunni extremists consider Shiite ceremonies to be heretical.
Separately, NATO said a service member with the international military coalition was killed Saturday in an insurgent attack in the south.
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She is an absolutely amazing fuck!
I need her to teach me her ways I want to squirt like that
putaaa buena
Ohh wat goed, bij welke vrouw mag ik dit ook doen ?????? k verlang er naar....!!
Les spasmes qu'elle as quand elle à jouis ! J'ai jamais connu ça...
She looks like she is rolling hard core at the end B====D o:
I love cytherea !!
I love this girl!
cytheria es unica, es una diosa, la amo,i love you
I wish I coulld squirt like that! Maybe he can help me/what's his name and does anyone know what other vids he is in?
i never get to finish cummin D: and ima girl :p js
looks like natalie portman kind off
I love watching that woman come..The look on her face is so sweet.
hot love it
Beautiful i like it i like i like it
i have a thai lady,squirt when i put 2 finger inside and licking quickly the clitoris,is really not funny,be happy if you never try !is very salt and sour,not so good,but i make her happy same same.
my wife could drown me when i lick her , and i love it
No, Natalie Portman looks like her !!
She looks like Natalie Portman :-)
my girlfriend comes like this but with less squirting. I love it!!!
sweety melde dich...
@sweety: mach ich gerne wenn du aus NRW bist!
ich kann das auch...wenn man mich so fickt und fingert
fuck me harder
Keep on Dreaming...............
really wana fuck her shes soo hot
omg.. this girl is gonna have a stroke or somethin like that!!
No it's spelt Cytherea
Maybe it's time for some English schooling.
I cannot translate it immediately.
Herre min gud, henne vill jag slicka i 2 timmar o sedans prutar hon ner mig... MUMS
She says her name in the beginning quite clearly.
What is her name?
@itaita, hahahahahaha
@orgasmpussy come to my house,i will show it to you XD
fuckn amazn..i wanna fuck tht
wow she is fucking amazing
I bet many chicks are envious of her cumming predisposition! Its all genetical...
amazing!! i realy want to do this!! how?
Just a pissing contest!
My wife squirts now after years of trying. I highly suggest trying the "Toshiba Magic Wand", it is a powerful personal massage device and runs on electricity not batteries. Available everywhere and on line, sells for about $50! Thar she blows! Enjoy.
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John Dodson goes for that belt
and other interviews from media day at Jackson/Winkeljohn MMA
Last Thursday the local media was invited to open workouts at Jackson/Winkeljohn MMA academy, and to interview the teams fighters that are competing this weekend in Chicago's United Center on UFC on Fox 6. Albuquerque-born Flyweight John Dodson will battle Demetrius Johnson for the title in the main event. Also on the card, Donald Cerrone fights Anthony Pettis at Lightweight, and Clay Guida makes his Featherweight debut against Japanese star Hatsu Hioki. Check the paper on Thursday for a full story. Meanwhile, please enjoy these video interviews.


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1. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingRich DiCroce May 30, 2012 1:44 PM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
EclipseLink lazy loading works for me in AS7; see here for my setup. My first suggestion would be to try updating to a nightly or milestone build of EclipseLink 2.3.3 or 2.4.0. EclipseLink 2.3.2 and earlier have some known issues regarding JBoss integration that are fixed in these builds.
2. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingNaveen Sydney May 31, 2012 12:58 PM (in response to Rich DiCroce)
Rich: Thank you for the response. I will try with a milestone release of Eclipselink and will post results.
3. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingNaveen Sydney May 31, 2012 8:37 PM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
Still no luck. Upgraded to the latest eclipselink 2.4.0 Milestone 20 build.
Here is my persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="IMPS_Core">
<property name="eclipselink.target-server" value="JBoss" />
<property name="eclipselink.weaving" value="dynamic" />
<property name="eclipselink.weaving.lazy" value="true"/>
<property name="eclipselink.weaving.fetchgroups" value="false"/>
<property name="eclipselink.weaving.changetracking" value="false"/>
<property name="eclipselink.orm.throw.exceptions" value="true"/>
<property name="eclipselink.target-database" value="Oracle" />
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements" value="true" />
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.cache-statements.size" value="0" />
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.native-sql" value="true" />
<property name="eclipselink.jdbc.batch-writing" value="Oracle-JDBC" />
<property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode" value="database" />
<property name="eclipselink.exclude-eclipselink-orm" value="false" />
<property name="eclipselink.logging.logger" value="DefaultLogger"/>
<property name="eclipselink.logging.level.sql" value="FINEST" />
<property name="eclipselink.logging.parameters" value="true"/>
Eclipselink module starts up (
17:04:56,408 INFO [stdout] (MSC service thread 1-2) [EL Info]: 2012-05-31 17:04:56.407--ServerSession(1745547905)--EclipseLink, version: Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.4.0.v20120528-r11520
) and runs perfect until we try to do lazy loading. We get the following error.
Exception Description: An attempt was made to traverse a relationship using indirection that had a null Session. This often occurs when an entity with an uninstantiated LAZY relationship is serialized and that lazy relationship is traversed after serialization. To avoid this issue, instantiate the LAZY relationship prior to serialization.
My module.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Represents the EclipseLink 2.4.x module-->
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="org.eclipse.persistence">
<resource-root path="eclipselink-2.4.0.jar"/>
<module name="asm.asm"/>
<module name="javax.api"/>
<module name="javax.persistence.api"/>
<module name="javax.transaction.api"/>
<module name="javax.validation.api"/>
<module name="javax.xml.bind.api"/>
<module name="org.antlr"/>
<module name="org.apache.ant"/>
<module name="org.apache.commons.collections"/>
<module name="org.dom4j"/>
<module name="org.javassist"/>
<module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
In our Code: when we do
grantList = authority.getCtsGrants();
if grantList.size() > 0) // where grants is a one to many relationship for the authority object.
We get the lazy initialization above error. The only thing I notice in the jboss modules directory for the javax.persistence.api is the hibernate jars. Should I replace them with the persistence jars provided with the eclipselink downloads?
Naveen Sydney
4. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingRich DiCroce May 31, 2012 9:27 PM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
- About the javax.persistence.api JARs, I didn't need to replace those to get EclipseLink working, so you shouldn't need to either.
- You've got a lot of EclipseLink properties set in your persistence.xml. I don't, so it's possible one of those is the problem. As documented in my guide, I only have eclipselink.weaving = static, eclipselink.target-server = JBoss, and eclipselink.logging.logger = the custom logging class for which code is provided in my guide.
- You've got dynamic weaving set up. As I said in my guide, I noticed some issues with dynamic weaving. I didn't get it working far enough to test lazy loading with dynamic weaving, so that may be broken right now as well. Try using static weaving instead.
- Do you really only have a single entity class in your persistence.xml? I'm guessing the "authority" and "grant" objects are different classes. As I said in my guide, right now EclipseLink is incapable of discovering entity classes automatically in AS7, so ALL of your entity classes MUST be listed in persistence.xml. I have set <exclude-unlisted-classes>true</excluse-unlisted-classes> in my persistence.xml as a reminder of this fact.
5. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingScott Marlow May 31, 2012 10:01 PM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
Are you still in the same JTA transaction where the "authority" entity was read or is "authority" perhaps detached from the persistence context?
6. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingNaveen Sydney May 31, 2012 10:23 PM (in response to Rich DiCroce)
I was lazy and did not list all my ejb in the response. I have about 100 ejb's listed.
I will remove the extra properties and test if lazy loading with dynamic weaving as it did in Jboss 6. If that fails I will try to do static weaving
The object is detatached. but given that I am using the local reference as opposed to remote the lazy initializing should work correct?
Thanks for all your help. I will post my progress.
Naveen Sydney
7. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingScott Marlow Jun 1, 2012 8:53 AM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
Before accessing the lazy part, merge the "authority" entity back into the persistence context so that it will be managed. See if that helps.
8. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingRich DiCroce Jun 1, 2012 9:20 AM (in response to Scott Marlow)
That might help, but, as Naveen said, it shouldn't be necessary. One of the primary advantages EclipseLink has over Hibernate (which was one of the reasons I was motivated to switch) is that lazy relationships can still be accessed even after the EntityManager is closed; i.e. transparent lazy loading and no more LazyInitializationException nonsense. As far as I can tell, lazy loading works fine while detached from the EntityManager in my setup. I would expect to see a problem if there were some remoting going on, but Naveen says he isn't doing that.
9. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingScott Marlow Jun 1, 2012 10:05 AM (in response to Rich DiCroce)
I didn't know that but It would still be a worthwhile test (as a possible workaround). I'd also like to see TRACE logging output for org.jboss.as.jpa when this problem occurs. This doc explains how to enable TRACE logging for JPA. I think that you (or someone else) previously mentioned that EclipseLink doesn't have TRACE logging.
With EclipseLink (when the lazy loading works from a detached entity), is the lazily loaded part detached as well? I assume yes but would like to know what to expect with their extension.
10. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingRich DiCroce Jun 1, 2012 6:43 PM (in response to Scott Marlow)
EclipseLink has some low-level logging, but it's not as extensive as Hibernate. On the other hand, I've found EclipseLink's exception messages to be much more detailed and useful than Hibernate's. EclipseLink technically doesn't have TRACE logging because it uses JDK logging levels (unless you're using a custom logger like the one I wrote, which translates the JDK levels to SLF4J levels) but it does have FINE/FINER/FINEST. Setting the level to FINEST results in the typical deluge of log statements.
As for the question about whether the lazy loaded part is detached, I don't know and I'm not able to find out right now. I could possibly look into it sometime next week, but I'm not really sure it matters.
11. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingNaveen Sydney Jun 3, 2012 4:07 PM (in response to Rich DiCroce)
a) I am using Local Reference so no remoting.
b) I tried em.merge(authority) before accessing the grantList. Still get the same error.
I will try removing the extra properties in the persistence.xml before I try and do static weaving. I will keep everyone posted.
12. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingNaveen Sydney Jun 4, 2012 3:55 PM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
Removing the extra properties in the persistence.xml did not help.
I am now attempting static weaving.
Noticed that they do not have weaveinplaceforjar not working yet.
Exception in thread "main" Local Exception Stack:
Exception [EclipseLink-40007] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.4.0.v20120528-r11520): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.Sta
Exception Description: An exception was thrown while weaving: [Ljava.lang.String;@18145132
Internal Exception: Exception [EclipseLink-40004] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.4.0.v20120528-r11520): org.eclipse.persis
Exception Description: Performing weaving in place for JAR file is not allowed
at org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.StaticWeaveException.exceptionPerformWeaving(StaticWeaveException.java:138)
at org.eclipse.persistence.tools.weaving.jpa.StaticWeave.main(StaticWeave.java:86)
Caused by: Exception [EclipseLink-40004] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.4.0.v20120528-r11520): org.eclipse.persistence.exc
Exception Description: Performing weaving in place for JAR file is not allowed
at org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.StaticWeaveException.weaveInplaceForJar(StaticWeaveException.java:76)
at org.eclipse.persistence.tools.weaving.jpa.StaticWeaveProcessor.preProcess(StaticWeaveProcessor.java:206)
at org.eclipse.persistence.tools.weaving.jpa.StaticWeaveProcessor.performWeaving(StaticWeaveProcessor.java:173)
at org.eclipse.persistence.tools.weaving.jpa.StaticWeave.start(StaticWeave.java:115)
at org.eclipse.persistence.tools.weaving.jpa.StaticWeave.main(StaticWeave.java:84)
Will post updates as usual.
13. Re: Jboss 7.1 eclipselink and lazy loadingScott Marlow Jun 6, 2012 1:37 PM (in response to Naveen Sydney)
I'm not 100% its related but someone just mentioned to me that JPA ClassFormer support needs more changes. The PersistenceUnitInfo.addTransformer() will not be injected into the classloader returned from the PersistenceUnitInfo.getClassLoader().
A jira will coming shortly for this.


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LONDON (AP) — The world will still have a responsibility to stop the bloodshed in Syria even if there is no agreement at the U.N. over Britain's proposal for a U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn the Syrian government, Britain's foreign secretary said Wednesday.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said U.N. discussions over the Syrian crisis will continue "over the coming days."
Britain said it would seek U.N. Security Council backing Wednesday for a measure condemning Syria for an alleged chemical attack against its civilians and authorizing "appropriate measures" in response. The resolution could be used to authorize military force against Syria.
Hague admitted, however, that permanent Security Council members Russia and China are unlikely to back Britain's resolution.
"It is time the United Nations Security Council shoulders its responsibility on Syria, which for the last two and a half years it has failed to do," he said.
After Prime Minister David Cameron held a meeting Wednesday on Syria, he said the military and security chiefs at Britain's National Security Council "unanimously" backed his call for action. The council includes Cabinet ministers, defense chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies.
Cameron's office said the group agreed that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime was responsible for the lethal chemical attack last week outside Damascus, which Doctors Without Borders says killed 355 people.
The council also backs the government's plan for the U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn Syria and open the door for a possible military attack designed to prevent future chemical attacks.


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Thomson is also editor in chief of Dow Jones, the News Corp. division that includes the Journal and a financial news service.
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President Obama expects an immigration bill to come before the Senate next month and voiced optimism that a final bill could pass through Congress this summer. A bipartisan group of senators, known as the "Gang of Eight," missed a self-imposed deadline to submit a comprehensive immigration reform bill by the end of March, sparking concern that the group had reach an unsolvable impasse. But Obama said on Wednesday that the group is "actually making progress" and that they are very close to reaching a final agreement on a bill.
"I'm actually optimistic that when they get back they will introduce a bill," Obama said during an interview with Univision. "My sense is that they have come close and my expectation is that we'll actually see a bill on the floor of the Senate next month." The president has repeatedly said that he would propose his own immigration bill should negotiations in Congress grind to a halt. But Obama refused to say that he would take such action even if the lawmakers fail to introduce a bill in April.


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Our furry friends on Barrio Sésamo: Monstrous Supersanos are going to learn a lot about how to lead a healthier lifestyle now that there's a new doctor in town. The Spanish version of Sesame Street is getting a brand new character, "Dr. Valentin Ruster." Dr. Ruster is inspired by the Director of New York City's Mount Sinai Heart Center, Dr. Valentin Fuster.
Dr. Fuster, who hails from Barcelona, Spain, is the former president of the American Heart Association and the World Heart Foundation. As the Chair of the Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease for the Institute of Medicine (IOM), he is a prominent advocate for cardiovascular health around the globe. Read More


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|Royals | Not interested in Jose Guillen
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The Kansas City Royals are not interested in signing free-agent OF Jose Guillen (Giants).
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|MLB | Jose Guillen looks to restart career
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Free-agent OF Jose Guillen (Giants) is training in the Dominican Republic and is hopeful of landing a job with a major league club to restart his career.
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|MLB | Jose Guillen may retire
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:19:37 -0800
Free-agent OF Jose Guillen (Giants) said he will retire if he doesn't receive any contract offers within a week, according to ESPNDeportes.com's Enrique Rojas.
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|Giants | Jose Guillen had HGH shipped
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:53:48 -0800
San Francisco Giants OF Jose Guillen had 50 preloaded human growth hormone syringes intercepted by the Drug Enforcement Administration shipped to his San Francisco home in September, the New York Daily News' Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton and Christian Red report.
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|Giants | Decision to start Cody Ross in right field was made prior to Jose Guillen investigation
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San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said his decision to make OF Cody Ross the everyday right fielder was made before learning of any allegations linking OF Jose Guillen to HGH, because Guillen had been bothered by neck soreness, according to Andrew Baggarly of The Mercury News. "I told Jose this: I thought it was pretty evident he wasn't 100 percent," Bochy said. "He did all he could with treatment on his neck. So Cody Ross would've been in right field even if Jose was on the club. Jose would've been in more of a pinch-hitter role ... in my eyes, he helped us win a couple ballgames. But the neck bothered him more than he let on. Once we got there (to the playoffs), I knew Cody was in right field."
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|Giants | Jose Guillen linked to HGH
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:13:42 -0700
San Francisco Giants OF Jose Guillen has been linked to an investigation into shipments of human growth hormone, according to The New York Times. Federal authorities are looking into shipments of HGH that were sent to Guillen's wife in the Bay Area. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Guillen purchased more than $19,000 worth of HGH and other drugs between May 2002 and June 2005.
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San Francisco Giants IF Juan Uribe is 11-for-37 (.297) with two homers against Texas Rangers SP Cliff Lee, according to Associated Press reporter Ben Walker. OF Jose Guillen is 9-for-25 (.360) with two homers. OF Aaron Rowand is 7-for-25 (.280) with four doubles and a home run, and OF Aubrey Huff is 5-for-19 (.263).
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The Kansas City Royals acquired SP Kevin Pucetas from the San Francisco Giants Friday, Oct. 15, to complete the trade that sent OF Jose Guillen to the Giants, according to The Kansas City Star. Pucetas went 15-13 with a 5.34 ERA in 54 starts with Triple-A Fresno this year.
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The CTA said Tuesday it will spend up to $525,000 for art at seven North Side Red Line stations undergoing rehabilitation.
The CTA is soliciting submissions from artists to determine who will create artwork that will hang at the Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn, Thorndale, Granville, Morse and Jarvis stops. Installations are expected to occur in September 2013.
The budget for each station will be between $45,000 and $99,000, the CTA said Tuesday at a public meeting at the Broadway Armory in Edgewater. The project is being paid for with federal funds, the CTA said.
Submissions from artists are due Oct. 10. After the deadline, a CTA committee will review the applications and select 25 artists to submit proposals. These artists each will receive $500.
The CTA will review the proposals and choose seven artists to create the art for the seven stations. The agency will pay a stipend to each artist. The stipend is typically 20 percent of the project cost, said project coordinator Elizabeth Kelley.
Earlier this year, the CTA started rehabbing seven of the most disgusting northern Red Line stations. The agency is painting walls, replacing floors and improving lighting. Work is expected to be done later this year.
A second public meeting for the art project will be held Thursday. Go to transitchicago.com/RedNorthArt for more information.
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By Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the Senate gets ready to debate the details of a broad U.S. immigration bill, a group of House of Representatives lawmakers is still struggling to write its own legislation, hung up in part over guest worker programs sought by businesses.
Programs allowing employers in high-tech, agriculture, construction and other industries to hire foreign workers were also a stumbling block for senators who introduced a separate immigration bill last month.
In the end, the four Republicans and four Democrats in the Senate "Gang of Eight" group incorporated into its bill a deal reached between the AFL-CIO labor organization and the Chamber of Commerce, the huge U.S. business lobby.
Immigration reform is Democratic President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. Although the Senate is controlled by Democrats, the bill will need some Republican support to meet the minimum 60-vote threshold for passage.
Still, passage of the bill in the Republican-led House is seen as the biggest challenge.
Although many Republicans view immigration reform as a way to help repair their party's weak standing with Hispanic voters, many others are resistant to comprehensive reform that includes a path to citizenship. Conservative critics of that provision view it as a form of amnesty.
The House immigration group, which has been negotiating largely in secret for nearly four years, is moving closer to an agreement and hopes to unveil an immigration bill in the next few weeks, according to several lawmakers and aides.
Two congressional aides familiar with the talks said the size and details of the guest worker program were among the outstanding issues for House lawmakers.
The Senate bill includes caps on the number of foreign workers businesses could hire and requirements for certain wage levels. Businesses would like larger guest worker programs and fewer restrictions on wage levels.
Some Republicans in the House group are sympathetic to those concerns, while Democrats object to upsetting what they see as a balance on the guest worker provision painstakingly negotiated by business and labor during the drafting of the Senate bill.
In interviews this week, two Republicans in the House group, Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, and John Carter of Texas, said the lawmakers were close to an agreement. The group's talks have intensified. Over the last six weeks, the four Democratic and four Republican lawmakers have met daily for two to three hour a day when Congress has been in session.
When lawmakers departed a week ago for break, Carter said the House group had two remaining issues to resolve when they return to Washington next week.
"We're close - real close," the Texas congressman said.
Members have said they were close before. But Diaz-Balart predicted the group would introduce a bill within a "matter of weeks - not many weeks."
The guest worker provisions will be one of the more contentious issues the Senate Judiciary Committee faces when it considers changes to the legislation in its "markup" next week.
The Senate gang has worked closely with a range of interest groups - from labor to business to agriculture to immigrants' rights organizations - in an attempt to produce a broad coalition of support for immigration reform.
The House group has allowed some input but kept these groups at a greater distance. Carter said that what matters most to the group is selling their proposal to other lawmakers. "We've tried to keep this thing without outside influence," he said.
But as the House lawmakers' talks have intensified, some of the outside groups are pushing to have their views heard.
The construction industry, which was disappointed with the limits the Senate version placed on the hiring of guest workers in its industry, is among those that has offered input.
"We have been meeting with those offices in the House gang more and more frequently and we are optimistic that the end product is going to be better, especially with respect to construction," said Geoff Burr, vice president of federal affairs for the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group.
Immigrants' rights groups are also weighing in. Frank Sharry, executive director of the advocacy group America's Voice, said rights groups have been rattled by reports that Republicans are pushing to move the bill to the right.
Sharry said the media leaks have prompted his group to start "banging on the door" of the House group more forcefully.
"We gave them a lot of room. But as some of these leaks have come out, they've raised questions," Sharry said.
Though the guest worker provision has been tough to resolve, the House group has managed to bridge differences on whether to grant a path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants.
The Senate bill would give provisional legal status to many of the 11 million people in the country illegally. They would be able to apply for a green card granting permanent residency after 10 years and eligible for citizenship three years later.
The House group's draft language would create a longer time-frame for citizenship - 15 years instead of the 13 envisioned by the Senate. Rather than having a three-year wait time between obtaining a green card and citizenship, the wait would be five years. The five-year wait time is what is spelled out in the current process for legal immigration to the United States.
The language satisfies the concerns of Republican House lawmakers who were reluctant to grant a special new path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants.
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I was given a .303 Lee enfield for my birthday a few years ago and the fore sight was not attached I have the sight but I can not find the screw or pin that holds it I can add a picture of the sight piece but the rifle is locked in my father's gun locker any help on were I can find parts
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Life expectancy has risen by 30 years over the last century, an increase that can only be sustained by healthier lifestyles, says Kenneth Olden, founding dean of the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. "The U.S. does not have the resources to combat the health care problems associated with chronic diseases such as cancer and Parkinson's disease…We have to promote healthier living," says Dr. Olden, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and now head of the state-of-the-art CUNY facility, set to open in 2010. His lecture, "Cancer Susceptibility: Genetics Loads the Gun but Environment Pulls the Trigger," inaugurated the CUNY Science Cafe Series.
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Since around 1610, when it was the site of a busy Spanish fort, the plaza square downtown in Santa Fe has been the city's social and cultural center. Nicknamed "the heart of Santa Fe," the plaza today is home to a central park and lined with restaurants, monuments, and upscale shops. One block from the plaza is the Hotel St. Francis, a restored missionary-style hotel listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It welcomes guests with graceful adobe archways and furnishings handcrafted by local artisans. While you're here, you can take free Santa Fe walking or shuttle tours, which depart every day from the lobby, to learn about Santa Fe's nifty old buildings.
The Hotel St. Francis has an expansive veranda—called the Loggia—that overlooks the street; you can sit here to sip afternoon tea. The Loggia is connected to Secreto Bar, where cocktail mixologist and blogger Chris Milligan is behind the counter. Milligan shakes up award-winning drinks such as the Spicy Secreto, comprised of Cabana Cachaça, St.-Germain, fresh cucumber, lime juice, and cane syrup and served in a glass rimmed with red-chili salt. For dinner, head to Hotel St. Francis's onsite restaurant, Tabla de Los Santos. It serves unique Southwestern fare, such as local chicken seasoned with chilies and a native-foods platter with tamales and produce from local farms.
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Santa Fe's vibrant mosaic of cultural influences includes pieces of Native American, Latino, and western traditions. You can get an idea of the city's varied background by visiting Santa Fe Plaza, which has served as the city center for more than 400 years. On a walk through, you'll see old buildings made of adobe, the red brick-like material that defines much of Santa Fe's architecture. Centuries of colorful southwestern artwork are also on display in the New Mexico Museum of Art, which is located in the Plaza.
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High school enrollment hits all-time high mark
Brady students are back in full force this week with a bigger high school enrollment number than the district has ever seen.
On Tuesday morning after all the backpacks were tucked away in elementary classrooms and high school students began their fourth day of classes, the numbers fell into place.
The total is 202, four students more than this time last year and more than 70 students higher than a decade ago.
The big change comes in grades 7-12 where there are 113 students. That total is up from 102 a year ago and is almost 20 students more than were enrolled in high school and junior high during the 2006-07 school year.
Because of the increase, the Brady athletic teams will move from a D-2 classification among the state's smallest schools up to D-1.
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Skip to comments.Collierville's McGinnis Hardware to close its doors after 146 years
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While searching through the plastic containers full of screws and bolts at McGinnis Hardware, John Ashworth stopped, picked up a 1 ½-inch metal flat washer and showed it to employees.
"I don't know where else you'll find something like that," said Ashworth, 79, who has been a customer for the last 40 years.
For Ashworth and other longtime McGinnis Hardware patrons, the days of driving to the Collierville Town Square to pick up tools, plumbing equipment and other home repair items soon will come to an end.
McGinnis Hardware will close its doors at 99 N. Center St. Dec. 22, after 146 years. Store owners blamed the sluggish economy and competition from big box stores. McGinnis has three full-time employees and one part-time worker.
Over the last several years, Jan Russell, part owner and manager, said sales have been on a steady decline as competition from larger hardware franchises cut into the store's profits...
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You know what Margaret Thatcher said about socialism. She was 100% correct.
Even if it weren't for Obanomics...the "Mom and Pop" stores are being forced out. And have been for some time.
I truly miss the family owned busineses in my tiny town. But they just couldn't compete with the big box retailers in the neighboring larger towns. Heck! Sonic is putting the DQ out of business.
I think in four years all we will see is Home Depot, Dollar General and chain grocery stores. It might not even take four years.
Greedy Capitalistic b@st@rd one-percenters, getting rich for the past 146 years on the backs of the oppressed ordinary working stiff.
It's just a damn shame that they couldn't have stuck it out long enough to leave the business to the kids so that the government could have nailed them with a 50% death tax.
it's only 4 employees this time.
But I think this shows that many businesses worked on very small margins and have now been into the red
We have a GREAT Ace HW Store in town packed to the gills with everything you could need. Actually a far greater selection than the big box joints nearby. The owner personally thanks every shopper for their business and loves to chat about families. Most of his employees are really knowledgeable about their products, too. He runs a great business.
We had a similar place across from an apartment we lived in for a while...except this was a combination hardware store and pharmacy. Seriously. It was pretty much the only place you could go in Durham where the employees were guaranteed to speak intelligible English and know what they were talking about, both on the pharmacy side and the hardware store side.
Seems like either you come up with the money to "donate" to the rats or your niche is in big trouble. Just today Costco cozies up to Obama and suddenly the a-hole Biden is talking up Costco.
Yup, we got an ACE just like that in our town. Family owned for years and they know eveyone. Great selection of products and the staff can tell you what you need for any application. Love all of the dogs laying around the store too.
Rimshot Joe Biden might have thought this was part of Barry's "Small Business Saturday" so he headed over to Costco.
Ours had a great store-cat who slept all day on top of the cash register to stay warm. Beautiful orange tabby sprawled all over. He's moved on, unfortunately, and they didn't get a replacement. It was always nice scratching his ears while paying.
We have a great Ace store in our area also and I always make it a point to go there if I need to buy something they carry. They are a little more expensive but the service and knowledge level is superb and it's important that we make sure places like this survive.
In addition to the Home Depot, etc., I suspect Wal-Mart will be around for a while. Over the years I have seen them move into small cities, drastically cut prices and within a short period of time all the other little mom and pop places had to close. I really missed our small local drugstore with its soda fountain and jars full of penny and nickle candy, the butcher who knew exactly how each patron liked their cuts of meat, the baker who always had a cookie for any child coming in with their mom. It really was a reflection of what life was all about in days gone by. But all of that is gone now.
Our local drug store with a small toy section for the kids and a soda fountain lasted until about 1990 or so. Now our town and the adjoining towns have two Walgreens and two CVS, all within about a mile of each other. The old way of life was so pleasant. Luckily our downtown is quaint, still vibrant, and the city has done a good job keeping most franchises out.
When you compare the Walgreens and CVS to what we used to have I wonder how we possibly survived with all that stuff. Of course if we wanted toilet tissue,breakfast cereal or dog food, we went to the grocery store. Best place in the world to get a milkshake or a black and white sundae (marshmallow on one half and hot fudge on the other) or a wonderful banana split. Our pharmacist always was able to whip up something for whatever ailed you. Soda jerk was a job filled by kids after school and the owners always supported and attended all the high school sports events.
Yes, it was a lot more pleasant. Totally different kind of people and value system back then, too. Glad you have been able to maintain your downtown area.
30 yrs ago, I lived in South Philly, unless the demographics change (u know what I mean), there is a hardware store at 5th and Porter called Bruskins Hardware. The very best hardware store I've ever been to. Unless the owner doesn't have family to take over, I can't imagine they'll ever close.
PS, if you ever visit for a cheese steak you gotta stop at Bruskins. He always had great Alaskan Iditarod pics plus many other neat things.
At present, I live outside a small Texas town in rural Texas. They have this small hardware store that you can tell it wasn't long ago had that cowboy overhang and wood planks out front with a dirt road. Since the big box stores are 10 miles south in the next town, they're real good about having small stuff.
Sadly, our area is growing by leaps and bounds, I can't imagine a big box store won't be here in 3 yrs, putting them out of business.
Funny thing. There are two nearby "cities" (both county seats) on the interstate 16 miles apart. The first city was Walmart's first choice, but the local business community didn't want the competition. The second city welcomed Walmart. The first city has steadily lost population and jobs, and its downtown is basically empty. The second city is steady/growing, has plenty of local businesses (including a great hardware store) and its optometrists chased the Walmart optometrist department out of business.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The bracket for the 2013 Southern Conference Softball Championship has been finalized, and tournament action will get underway Wednesday morning at the UNCG Softball Stadium in Greensboro, N.C., the league office announced Sunday.
The 20th annual SoCon Championship is set to start Wednesday at 9:00 a.m., with No. 8-seed Elon (21-30, 8-14 SoCon) taking on No. 9-seed Samford (14-33, 6-15 SoCon) in a single elimination contest with the winner facing the 2013 regular season champion and No. 1-seed Appalachian State (30-20, 17-7 SoCon) at approximately 5:00 p.m. that afternoon. No. 2-seed College of Charleston (34-18, 15-8 SoCon) squares off with No. 7-seed Western Carolina (19-34, 9-15 SoCon) at noon in game two.
Georgia Southern (28-27, 14-9 SoCon) earned the three-seed for the tournament and will face No. 6-seed Chattanooga (26-25, 10-11 SoCon) at 2:30 p.m. The host team, No. 4-seed UNCG (35-18, 12-11 SoCon), then matches up against No. 5-seed Furman (27-25, 10-11) in the night game of the opening day, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
After the opening single-elimination game, the championship moves to a double-elimination format, culminating in a winner-take-all championship game on Saturday. All game times are Eastern Standard and subject to change. The winner of the Softball Championship will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA regional softball tournament.
The Appalachian State Mountaineers finished the regular season at 30-20, with a 17-7 mark in conference play, claiming its first conference title. Defending tournament champion Georgia Southern finished the regular season at 28-27, with a 14-9 mark in conference play.
Tickets will be available for purchase on site. All-session adult passes will be available for $30 while all-session youth passes (pre-kindergarten) will cost $15. Single session passes will also be available for purchase and will cost $5 for adults and $3 for youths. Groups of 10 or more will be available for $2 a person. Students at Southern Conference institutions get in free with a valid I.D.
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UCLA stem cell scientists have shown that two common tumor suppressor genes, TSC and PTEN, are vital to regulating the stem cell-like precursor cells that create the blood supply in Drosophila, the common fruit fly.
The researchers examined a signaling pathway called TOR that the cells use to gauge nutrition levels and stress, said study senior author Dr. Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, an assistant professor of human genetics and pediatrics and a researcher with the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.
"We wondered how an organism knows how many blood cells to make and when to make them in the context of injury and repair to tissue. In particular, we wondered how the blood progenitor cells sense that change and know when it's time to make more blood cells," Martinez-Agosto said. "We found that the TOR pathway uses these two genes to regulate its function and, when activated, it expands or increases the number of blood progenitor cells in the fly's blood."
The study appears Sept. 5, 2012 in the advance online issue of the peer-reviewed journal Development.
Michelle Dragojlovic-Munther, a graduate student in the Martinez-Agosto laboratory and first author of the study, found that cells with increased activity of TOR have a competitive advantage, allowing them to divide and make more of themselves so they can make blood. These progenitors, Dragojlovic-Munther found, also have high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) - ions or very small molecules that include free radicals - which are known to damage cells and can predispose humans to aging and heart disease. But in this case, the ROS proved valuable.
The precursors, Martinez-Agosto said, were producing ROS all the time and when TOR was activated, the levels increased dramatically. Too much ROS caused them to divide more than normal. If they treated the flies with antioxidants, which reduce ROS levels, the cells would develop normally.
The finding could be important because the TOR pathway is abnormally activated in many cancers, and it may be possible to target the levels of ROS, which may help regulate the pathway.
"What this study may be telling us is that too much ROS is causing more cells to divide and we may be able to target therapies that reduce ROS to significantly improve the condition," Martinez-Agosto said, adding that specifically targeted antioxidants might be a potential treatment in certain subsets of blood disorders. "Sometimes that pathway is working more than it should, and we need the right amount of ROS for balance. It's like Goldilocks, there can't be too little or too much. We need it just right."
Going forward, Martinez-Agosto and his team will try to determine where the ROS is coming from and perhaps discover an enzyme that may be a good target for therapeutics. They know that the higher ROS levels in blood progenitors are not coming from mitochondria, the cell's power source, but have not identified how they are being produced.
"This study highlights mechanistic differences between TSC and PTEN on TOR function and demonstrates the multifaceted roles of a nutrient-sensing pathway in orchestrating proliferation and differentiation of myeloid-specific blood progenitors through regulation of ROS levels and the resulting myeloproliferative disorder when deregulated," the study states.
The study was funded by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (GM007185) and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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PARIS (AP) — The head of famed luggage and handbag-maker Louis Vuitton is stepping down because of health reasons.
Luxury goods purveyor LVMH, which owns the brand, announced Tuesday that Jordi Constans would be leaving the company a little over a year after he moved there from yogurt maker Danone. The company said the 48-year-old's unexpected departure was because of a "significant health issue."
Franco-American Michael Burke, who had been running LVMH's jewelry house Bulgari, will take over at Louis Vuitton. While with LVMH, Burke has worked at the Christian Dior fashion house and for Louis Vuitton in North America.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans want to cooperate with President Barack Obama on reducing federal deficits, but not by raising income tax rates.
Boehner spoke soon after Obama told reporters the GOP-run House should let taxes rise on the richest Americans. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said that would hurt job creation.
The speaker said there has been a spirit of cooperation between congressional Republicans and the White House. He said he is optimistic about talks beginning Friday between the White House and congressional leaders about averting the fiscal cliff — tax increases and spending cuts occurring automatically in January unless lawmakers reach a compromise to avert them.
Obama campaigned for re-election on boosting taxes on the wealthy, but said Wednesday he could compromise on how to do that.