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I need to download the source code for OJB 1.0.3. I'm just wondering where can I get it from? Can it be downloaded from subversion?
Thank you
I've got a problem with MULTIPLE-LEVEL INHERITANCE. I use the strategy with reference-descriptor name="super" on OJB 1.0.4.
When I make a query to obtain the instances of B (which extend A) :
- I haven't got any problem
(ex : with new ReportQueryByCriteria(A.class, new Criteria())
- I can get all his sub-classes B).
But if I define a super-class of A called AA : the same query doesn't work.
More simply, my question is :
- Is it possible to make query using superclass
- in an inheritance hierarchy of depth more than 2 ?
PS : No problem for me if you use OJB-specialist terms
- because I have used OJB since 2 years.
Note : query using AA doesn't work too. Nevertheless in all cases,
- I can query explictly the sub-classes of the bottom of the hierarchy tree.
I would like to know whether it is possible to obtain field lengths from the DB through OJB in order to use them in a HTML form to limit the number of characters a user can input.
Regards, Ed
I have found the error (is it a error o a bug?): the method deleteByQuery() of PersistenceBroker don't delete the record in the table that link User and Group. If i use the delete() of PersistenceBroker the record in the table that link User and Group is removed.
I have received no advice, perhaps I don't understand the meaning of this wiki or my english is too bad
I'm using OJB for mapping a m:n relation between two entity: User and Group,
+--------+ n n +---------+ + User +-------------------------+ Group + +--------+ +---------+
On the db I have three table, SU2_GRUPPI (group table), SU2_UTENTI (user table) and SU2_UTEGRU that link user and group.
The problem is that if i delete a group, the record that link the group with the user isn't deleted from SU2_UTEGRU even if I specified auto-delete="link", I debugged sql.SqlGeneratorDefaultImpl but there is only a delete on the table of group.
... 4702 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor23] sql.SqlGeneratorDefaultImpl - SQL:SELECT A0.gru_id,A0.gru_descri FROM SU2_GRUPPI A0 WHERE A0.gru_id = ? 8110 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor23] sql.SqlGeneratorDefaultImpl - SQL:DELETE FROM SU2_GRUPPI WHERE gru_id = ? 8126 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor23] sql.SqlGeneratorDefaultImpl - SQL:SELECT A0.gru_id,A0.gru_descri FROM SU2_GRUPPI A0 10190 DEBUG [http-8080-Processor23] sql.SqlGeneratorDefaultImpl - SQL:SELECT A0.gru_id,A0.gru_descri FROM SU2_GRUPPI A0
This is the source code:
public static void deleteByTemplate(Object template) { PersistenceBroker broker = null; try { broker = PersistenceBrokerFactory.defaultPersistenceBroker(); QueryByCriteria query = new QueryByCriteria(template); broker.deleteByQuery(query); } finally { if (broker != null) broker.close(); } }
This is the repository_user
<class-descriptor class="it.cedaf.portale.persistence.G" table="SU2_GRUPPI"> <field-descriptor id="0" name="id" column="gru_id" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" primarykey="true"/> <field-descriptor id="1" name="descrizione" column="gru_descri" jdbc-type="VARCHAR"/> <collection-descriptor name="utenti" element-class-ref="it.cedaf.portale.persistence.Utente" indirection-table="SU2_UTEGRU" auto-update="link" auto-delete="link" > <fk-pointing-to-this-class column="utg_id_gru"/> <fk-pointing-to-element-class column="utg_id_ute"/> </collection-descriptor> </class-descriptor> <class-descriptor class="it.cedaf.portale.persistence.Utente" table="SU2_UTENTI"> <field-descriptor id="0" name="id" column="ute_id" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" primarykey="true"/> <field-descriptor id="1" name="tipo" column="ute_tipo" jdbc-type="CHAR"/> <field-descriptor id="2" name="password" column="ute_passwd" jdbc-type="VARCHAR"/> <field-descriptor id="3" name="dataScadenza" column="ute_dtscad" jdbc-type="TIMESTAMP"/> <field-descriptor id="4" name="descrizione" column="ute_descri" jdbc-type="VARCHAR"/> <field-descriptor id="5" name="email" column="ute_email" jdbc-type="VARCHAR"/> </class-descriptor>
I have started a Blog on how to keep a Domain Model free of persistence logic (http://ricbrown.blogspot.com/2004/09/transparent-persistence-paradox.html).
I was wondering how Jakarta OJB handles keeping persistence logic out of the Domain Model when the domain logic needs to search a large collection of elements (e.g., to check that a property is unique)?
- Richard
2004-06-23: Good Afternoon,
Does Ojb support in any way PL/SQL?
[MartinKalen]: Please explaing what you want to do. If you obtain a Connection object from an OJB PersistenceBroker using the following call you execute Statement and PreparedStatement with the features (and limitations) of your current JDBC-driver:
PersistenceBroker: public ConnectionManagerIF serviceConnectionManager(); ConnectionManagerIF: public Connection getConnection() throws LookupException;
2004-05-15: All is not well in the land of Tomcat+Struts+OJB+Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) (This is a report of OJB Bug 260)
Please send a useful tips to Jason A. Lunn <firstname.lastname@example.com> in addition to leaving answers here.
Relevant System info:
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:35:41 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
S/W environment:
jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30 jakarta-struts-1.1 j2sdk1.4.2 apache-ant-1.6.0 commons-collections-3.0 commons-dbcp-1.1 commons-dbutils-1.0 commons-pool-1.1 db-ojb-1.0.rc6
Problem: Every piece of sample code or home brew code that I try to use under struts that make use of ojb generates this exception at runtime:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/CursorableLinkedList at org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerFactoryDefaultImpl.createPool(PersistenceBrokerFactoryDefaultImpl.java:206) at org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerFactoryDefaultImpl.<init>(PersistenceBrokerFactoryDefaultImpl.java:72) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:308) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261) at org.apache.ojb.broker.util.ClassHelper.newInstance(ClassHelper.java:39) at org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerFactoryFactory.init(PersistenceBrokerFactoryFactory.java:60) at org.apache.ojb.broker.core.PersistenceBrokerFactoryFactory.<clinit>(PersistenceBrokerFactoryFactory.java:36) at org.apache.ojb.broker.PersistenceBrokerFactory.defaultPersistenceBroker(PersistenceBrokerFactory.java:65) ....
I have included commons-collections.jar in both the WEB-INF/lib directory and tomcat/common/lib; I have tried rebuilding commons-pool.jar after editing the source to reference org.apache.commons.collections.list.CursorableLinkedList instead of the deprecated org.apache.commons.collections.CursorableLinkedList to no avail.
Hi all! [email@example.com @ 04.01.07:18:12:43 wrote]
Although tried any modifications described in the "how-to's", I wasn't already able to build up an inheritance using concept of setting superclasses primary-key as primary-and-foreign-key of the subclass. Everything is well functioning, the primitive fields of the superclass are loaded together with the loaded subclass. BUT reference-descriptors and collection-descriptiors described in the super-class will be ignored, not give damn about them!
Here a look-like :
<class-descriptor class="A" table="A"> <field-descriptor id="0" name="pk_aid" column="PK_AID" jdbc-type="INTEGER" primarykey="true" autoincrement="true"/> <field-descriptor id="1" name="fk_broadid" column="FK_BroadID" jdbc-type="INTEGER"/> <field-descriptor id="2" name="fk_userid" column="FK_UserID" jdbc-type="INTEGER"/> <field-descriptor id="3" name="name" column="Name" jdbc-type="VARCHAR"/> <field-descriptor id="4" name="unittyp" column="UnitTyp" jdbc-type="CHAR"/> <!-- begin:references --> <reference-descriptor name="broad" class-ref="Broad" auto-retrieve="true" auto-update="false" auto-delete="false"> <foreignkey field-ref="fk_broadid"/> </reference-descriptor> <reference-descriptor name="user" class-ref="User" auto-retrieve="true" auto-update="false" auto-delete="false"> <foreignkey field-ref="fk_userid"/> </reference-descriptor> <!-- end:references --> <!-- begin:collections --> <collection-descriptor name="allCasts" element-class-ref="Cast" auto-retrieve="true" auto-update="true" auto-delete="true" orderby="pk_castid" sort="ASC"> <inverse-foreignkey field-ref="fk_aid"/> </collection-descriptor> <collection-descriptor name="allHistories" element-class-ref="History" auto-retrieve="true" auto-update="true" auto-delete="true" orderby="pk_historyid" sort="ASC"> <inverse-foreignkey field-ref="fk_aid"/> </collection-descriptor> <!-- end:collections --> </class-descriptor> <class-descriptor class="B" table="B"> <field-descriptor id="0" name="fk_aid" <!-- in RDBMS it is a primary-key and a foreign-key-reference in one --> column="FK_AID" jdbc-type="INTEGER" primarykey="true"/> <field-descriptor id="1" name="fk_clientid" column="FK_ClientID" jdbc-type="INTEGER" /> <!-- begin:references --> <reference-descriptor name="super" class-ref="A" auto-retrieve="true" auto-update="true" auto-delete="true"> <foreignkey field-ref="fk_aid"/> </reference-descriptor> <reference-descriptor name="client" class-ref="Client" auto-retrieve="true" auto-update="true" auto-delete="true"> <foreignkey field-ref="fk_clientid"/> </reference-descriptor> <!-- end:references --> </class-descriptor>
Does anyone have any experience with CONCEPT#3 of Inheritance O/R-Mapping ?
Please mail to address above.
Simple question - not sure if it's answered in OJB docs or this Wiki (if so, I can't find it or don't understand it).
I'd like to know if OJB supports both:
1) Taking a set of Java classes and generating DDL (and optionally mapping)
2) Taking a schema (DDL) and generating corresponding Java classes (and optionally mapping)
Please send answers to email@example.com
I want to know if I can do the following example :
class C{ private int val; public C(){ } public int getVal() { return val; } public void setVal(int val){ this.val = val; } } class B{ private List l1; public B(){ this.l1 = new ListFactory.createList(C.class); } public List getL1(){ return this.l1 ; } } class A{ private List l2; private List l3; public A() { this.l2 = new ListFactory.createList(C.class); this.l3 = new ListFactory.createList(C.class); } public List getL2(){ return this.l2 ; } public List getL3(){ return this.l3 ; } }
I want to map the C object 3 times like this : · One BC table for the C object in the B.l1 list, · One AC1 table for the C object in the C.l1 list, · One AC2 table for the C object in the C.l2 list.
Is it possible, if not how to do it ?
I do the following enhance,but nothing happend! platform:
jdori 1.0.1 (9/22/2003) ojb 1.0.rc4
java -classpath jdo\jdo.jar;do\jdori.jar;jdo\jdori-enhancer.jar;energy\data;.; com.sun.jdori.enhancer.Main -v -f -d enhanced Project energy.jdo energy\data\Project.class Enhancer: options: verbose = true quiet = false forceWrite = true noWrite = false sourcePath = null destinationDirectory = enhanced propertiesFileName = null doTiming = false classNames = { Project } jdoFileNames = { energy.jdo } classFileNames = { energy\data\Project.class } zipFileNames = { } dumpClass = false noAugment = false noAnnotate = false JDO ENHANCER: using file: file:/C:/Data/project/energy/data/classes/energy/data/Project.class Class Locator: using class files: { energy\data\Project.class } JDO ENHANCER: using file: file:/C:/Data/project/energy/data/classes/energy.jdo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JDO ENHANCER: Enhancer: enhancing classfile ... JDO ENHANCER: scanning class energy.data.Project JDO ENHANCER: not found resource: META-INF/package.jdo JDO ENHANCER: not found resource: WEB-INF/package.jdo JDO ENHANCER: not found resource: package.jdo JDO ENHANCER: not found resource: energy/package.jdo JDO ENHANCER: not found resource: energy/data/package.jdo JDO ENHANCER: not found resource: energy/data/Project.jdo JDO ENHANCER: has default constructor. JDO ENHANCER: has not static initializer. JDO ENHANCER: has not clone method. JDO ENHANCER: has not writeObject method. JDO ENHANCER: has not writeReplace method. JDO ENHANCER: has not readObject method. JDO ENHANCER: annotating class energy.data.Project JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.getId() JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.setName(java.lang.String) JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.<init>() JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.getName() JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.setId(java.lang.String) JDO ENHANCER: no changes to class energy.data.Project JDO ENHANCER: Enhancer: classfile not changed. JDO ENHANCER: found resource: Project.class --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JDO ENHANCER: Enhancer: enhancing classfile ... JDO ENHANCER: scanning class energy.data.Project JDO ENHANCER: has default constructor. JDO ENHANCER: has not static initializer. JDO ENHANCER: has not clone method. JDO ENHANCER: has not writeObject method. JDO ENHANCER: has not writeReplace method. JDO ENHANCER: has not readObject method. JDO ENHANCER: annotating class energy.data.Project JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.getId() JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.setName(java.lang.String) JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.<init>() JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.getName() JDO ENHANCER: annotating: energy.data.Project.setId(java.lang.String) JDO ENHANCER: no changes to class energy.data.Project JDO ENHANCER: Enhancer: classfile not changed. done.
OJB JDO implementation seems confict with JDORI 1.0.1
objfiledmanager and objstoremanager in package org.apache.ojb.jdori.sql; need some changes(because sun rmi 1.0.1? maybe it need sun rmi 1.0)
When should we use OJB in a J2EE EJB application? (Presumably we can use OJB as Bean Managed Persistence and an alternative to Container Managed Persistence - but is that a good idea?)
Hello everybody. I have a little problem with this OJB-code:
String sql = "SELECT MAX(ID)FROM Userdata "; QueryBySQL query = QueryFactory.newQuery(Userdata.class, sql); Userdata data = (Userdata) broker.getObjectByQuery(query);
The data is always null. What is the mistake in this code ?
I'm working with OJB on two Relations! Lets call them A and B! When I try to store an Object in one of these 2 Relations I Sometimes get an
org.apache.ojb.broker.OptimisticLockException: Object has been modified by someone else
Exception. When do I recieve this Exception, I can't find an satisfying API for this Exception!
After making some TestRuns I found out: either I can store Objects in Relation A or I can store an Object in Relation B. Trying to store something in the other Relation always gives me the OptimisticLockException!
Object/Relation A has been 1:n-ojb-mapped to Object/Relation B! I removed this mapping, but it wasn't the solution...
My Store-Methode:
public Object storeObject(Object o) { PersistenceBroker broker = null; try { broker = getBroker(); broker.beginTransaction(); broker.store(o); broker.commitTransaction(); } catch (PersistenceBrokerException e) { System.out.println("******Error bei storeObject"); e.printStackTrace(); broker.abortTransaction(); } finally { if (broker != null) broker.close(); } return o; }
any solutions? thx
--> oh, seems like I found a solution: in the OJB.properties I have to activate ObjectCacheClass=org.apache.ojb.broker.cache.ObjectCachePerBrokerImpl
Some personal experiences
Hi, I tried to set up OJB on RH9.0 with MySQL. It's not really, really straightforward if you know what I mean. Sorry if I come across as an ***hole, but, people, the first build/deploy *must* work without problems or headaches otherwise people will just wander off to another project in 60 seconds. Put it on the to-do-list! Well, it probably already is.
We follow the instructions in the http://db.apache.org/ojb/howto-get-started.html
Download the source distribution using
$ wget http://db.apache.org/builds/ojb/1.0.rc4/db-ojb-1.0.rc4-src.tgz
and put it into /usr/local/tarballs
Edit build.properties. Comment out profile=hsqldb and uncomment profile=mysql
Edit ./profile/mysql.profile. We have created a test database called toon_xp_tests to which user test can connect from anywhere. Thus, set the databaseUser to test, set the databasePassword. According to the createDatabaseUrl, the new database will be called ojb. We change this to toon_xp_tests. Do *not* change the value of database (which is mysql). It's just an arbitrary name.
Now run ant junit.
This is a headfull junit test! It needs X11! I'm on the text console! Foo! Barfulation!
Kill references to project splash from build.xml.
The compilation is still not gonna work. It wants j2ee.... This is incomprehensible.
Drop this problem for now. We might want to come back to it later.
Try the Tutorial
Get the binary release. Then try to work through the tutorials.
Prepare build.properties and ./profile/mysql.profile as decribed above.
Then prepare the Tutorials:
$ source bin/build.sh prepare-tutorials > OUT 2>&1
All the errors will now be collected in OUT
Again, we get the splash screen problem. You know what to do (see above). We then get a complaint that j2ee cannot be found. Remove the reference to the check-j2ee-classes in the main depends list. Run the build.sh again.
Then we get:
BUILD FAILED file:/usr/local/tarballs/db-ojb-1.0.rc4/build.xml:143: /usr/local/tarballs/db-ojb-1.0.rc4/src/jca not found.
JCA is (presumably) the Java Cryptography Architecture. What is this about??
Comment out the JCA block in build.xml, i.e.
<!-- <copy todir="${build.srcjca}"> <fileset dir="${src.jca}"/> </copy> -->
You can just create the directory db-ojb-1.0.rc4/src/jca, this will fix this particular problem.
Ok, fixed that. Build proceeds, but now we have:
java.sql.SQLException: Syntax error or access violation, message from server: "You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '@DATABASE_DEFAULT@' at line 1"
Seems that the variable @DATABASE_DEFAULT@ is not correctly replaced? Siiigghhh!
So we do that manually.
$ grep -R 'DATABASE_DEFAULT'* src/schema/ojbcore-schema.xml:<database name="@DATABASE_DEFAULT@" defaultIdMethod="none"> src/schema/ojbtest-schema.xml:<database name="@DATABASE_DEFAULT@" defaultIdMethod="none" target/src/sql/sqldb.map:ojbtest-data.sql=@DATABASE_DEFAULT@ target/src/sql/sqldb.map:ojbcore-schema.sql=@DATABASE_DEFAULT@ target/src/sql/sqldb.map:ojbtest-schema.sql=@DATABASE_DEFAULT@ target/src/sql/create-db.sql:drop database if exists @DATABASE_DEFAULT@; target/src/sql/create-db.sql:create database @DATABASE_DEFAULT@;
This is sucky. There probably should be something in the ant project that does the replacement?
Here we go again:
$ source bin/build.sh prepare-tutorials BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 19 seconds
Completely agree with the previous poster. Had the exact same experience except on windows. Also, are these problems new to 1.0rc4? Why are only downloads for the new 1.0.rc* builds available? Why are there no stable versions available?
Just need a techy question answering. I have an n:m relationship between two tables in a database, using an indirection table to join the two - like this...
User >> Link_User_Country >> Country
...the idea being that Users have access to data in a set of Countries. The data in the Countries table is fixed. Using the indirection-table tag in the repository file is *great* for reading data - there's a "availableCountries" property in my User class which gives me a collection of Country objects.
What I've hit a problem with is updates and deletions. I'd like to be able to just add and remove Countries from the availableCountries collection and for these actions to add and remove records from the indirection table (Link_User_Country). It's actually adding/removing records in both the indirection table AND the Country table (with all the associated database errors!). So - what would be the best way of implementing this given that; a) I want an easy to use collection of Country objects accessible from my User object b) Inserts and Deletions should only occur in the link table
Help! Thanks
We're using OJB with the MSSQL DB. Now we have problems with the reconnect to the DB when the DB was down. Can somebody tell me what we can do?
Entry in the respository.xml:
<jdbc-connection-descriptor jcd-alias="default" default-connection="true" platform="MsSQLServer" jdbc-level="2.0" driver="com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver" protocol="jdbc" subprotocol="microsoft:sqlserver" dbalias="//serv114:1433;SelectMethod=cursor;databasename=sqltest" username="***" password="***" batch-mode="false" useAutoCommit="2" ignoreAutoCommitExceptions="false" >
<sequence-manager className="org.apache.ojb.broker.util.sequence.SequenceManagerHighLowImpl"> </sequence-manager>
<connection-pool maxActive="10" validationQuery="select count(*) from OJB_HL_SEQ" />
Thanks Olly
I wondered if some one could help me with using the AES_ENCRYPT in mysql with OJB. I am trying to store some information encrypted but I cant seem to find the answer.
Thanks Barry
I am in need of help. I am trying to use the reference-descriptor to set up a 1:1 relationship between two classes. In my class Container I have a id, name, and project_id. In the Project class, I have a id, name. I want to be able to do the following search
Criteria c = new Criteria(); c.addLike("name", likeSearchString); Criteria c4 = new Criteria(); c4.addLike("project.name", likeSearchString); c.addOrCriteria(c4); Collection containerSearch = Container.getAllContainers(c);
I have a getProject() method in my container class and I even put the reference-descriptor tag into my repository-myproject.xml file. When I run my code, it errors out saying "Can't find member project in com.mycompany.myporject.core.om.Conatiner". I have yet to come across anything that deals with this error, so I don't know if I wam forgetting something or I need to put some code elsewhere.
Thanks for the Help,

subset: commoncrawl


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Flights at Los Angeles International Airport were severely disrupted Friday after a gunman opened fire at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint.
Airport officials said 746 flights were affected by the incident, which occurred about 9:20 a.m. at Terminal 3, which is shared by several airlines, including JetBlue, Virgin America and Frontier Airlines. In the six hours following the shooting, officials said, 46 flights were diverted, many of them to Long Beach Airport. Some also went to L.A./Ontario International Airport and to other airports in the west, including Las Vegas.
Terminal 3 was completely shut down all day with police and fire activity and authorities said it may not open for some time.
Airport officials are working on making alternate arrangements so Terminal 3 carriers can resume flights from other gates as soon as Saturday.
"Terminal 3 and parking structure 3 will remain closed for the time being," Los Angeles World Airports Executive Director Gina Marie Lindsey said at a news conference Friday afternoon. "Any folks with flights (Saturday) with the airlines that typically operate out of Terminal 3 should contact the airline for specific information."
The upper and lower roadways of LAX also were shut down for most of Friday. However, they were fully opened by Friday evening.
During the six hours following the shooting, operations at Terminals 1, 2 and 3 were most severely disrupted by the incident. Fire trucks and police cars lined the upper roadway outside all three terminals.
Terminals 4 through 8 — where major tenants include American, United and Delta — were less directly impacted, as they are located on the other side of the airport parking garages from Terminal 3. Some flights from those terminals did depart after the shooting, according to the website flightstats.com.
But those carriers also canceled many flights. Also, many passengers on American, Delta and United were simply not able to reach the airport due to traffic and closed roads.
American canceled 19 flights to and from LAX on Friday night, while American Eagle canceled 18, an airline spokeswoman said.
The FAA also placed the airport on a "ground stop" Friday afternoon until 4 p.m., meaning no flights were allowed to take off headed for Los Angeles. Flights already in the air were allowed to land at LAX, and there were a steady stream of arrivals after the shooting.
Terminals 1 and 2 were shut down until about 4 p.m, airport officials said.
As no flights were allowed to depart from Terminals 1, 2 and 3, many passengers simply waited at the airport. Many stood for hours near the US Airways and Southwest Airlines ticket counters in Terminal 1, with some sitting on baggage scales.
Many said they had no idea when the airport would reopen, or whether their flights would leave.
"Nobody is saying anything," said Kathie Lester, 41, of Thousand Oaks. "It's hard to get information. No one seems to know what is going on."
Terry Fields, 52, was waiting nearby. He was trying to get to Shreveport, La., for a funeral. By mid-afternoon, he had been at the airport for four hours. He had been booked on Virgin America, but was seeking to switch airlines.
"We're talking, making friends and hoping for the best," Fields said.
Virgin America and JetBlue were the most impacted by the incident and essentially shut down operations at LAX on Friday.
Both carriers may resume flights Saturday, but they will likely do so from remote gates far from the terminal area. In that case, passengers will have to take a bus to reach gates, Lindsey said.
JetBlue canceled flights to New York and Boston and moved another one, bound for Fort Lauderdale, to Long Beach Airport, where the airline bases its West Coast operation, an airline spokeswoman said.
A JetBlue flight from New York landed at LAX at 9:37 a.m., the spokeswoman said, but passengers did not get off the plane. Instead, she said, they flew three hours later on the same plane to Long Beach.
JetBlue Flight No. 23 took 16 minutes and landed in Long Beach at 1:06 p.m., according to the website flghtaware.com.
Virgin America canceled all of its flights from LAX after the shooting, airline officials said. They recommended passengers not come to the airport. Some passengers had already checked luggage with Virgin, and those bags remained at the airport. Virgin officials said they would deliver the bags soon.
Frontier canceled seven flights on Friday, all between LAX and its Denver hub. Another flight — No. 405 — was headed from Denver to Los Angeles when the shooting began and was diverted to Las Vegas.
Denver Post staff writer Kristen Leigh Painter contributed to this report.


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Mothers' Shame Mia Freedman About Her Son's 'Violent' Cake
We've been beating up pinatas at birthday parties for decades, from donkeys, famous cartoon characters and faces.
But apparently when it is in the form of a cake people find it offensive.
Media Personality Mia Freedman has been publicly shamed by parents nationwide claiming her eight year old son's cake was 'violent' and inappropriate.
Taking up the new craze of 'smash cakes', her son's cake was filled with lollies and chocolate and needed to be broken with a rolling pin for the contents to spill out.
She was bombarded with responses about the smash cake premise being 'violent' and the children's attitude after it was smashed as 'greedy' 'gimme gimme' behaviour.
While others were quick to stand up for Freedman, the overarching feedback was negative.
We think it looks like fun!
And as Mia says - NO CLEAN UP!
Sound like an appropriate birthday cake for an eight year old to us.
Which camp are you on?
Video via Mia Freedman/Facebook


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The Design of a Parallel-toSerial Adapter Using the AT89C2051 Microcontroller
The heart of the adapter is the microcontroller AT89C2051. AT89C2051 is a Atmel 20-pin microcontroller with 2k bytes of programmable and erasable read only memory (PEROM) with 15 I/O lines including a full duplex serial port and 8-bit bi-directional port and is compatible with the MCS-51 instruction set. All the data transfer described below was done with the microcontroller being set to mode one (one start bit, 8 data bits, one stop bit) and baud rate given by the following equation:
Baud rate = ((2SMOD)*12*(106))/(32*12*(256-nu))
where nu is the number to be loaded in the timer 1 register (=CCh for 1200, EEh for 3600, F9h for 9600), SMOD = 1. The data transfer was carried out at various baud rates using 12MHz crystal oscillator used at the microcontroller end.
Parallel to Serial Port Communication
Parallel to serial port communication using same PC can be established as follows. Strobe, Busy, and Ack signals of the SPP are used for handshaking whereas RS232 serial port is used in software handshake mode. Listings 1 and 2 (at the of this article) present the assembly and C program used to test the adapter in parallel-to-serial data transmission mode. Figure 2 is the circuit diagram for this. Figure 3 is the timing diagram for parallel-to-serial data transfer using handshake signals. The timing cycles for parallel to serial data transfer are:
- The program on the PC first checks the Busy line. If Busy is low (i.e. microcontroller is ready to receive data), it writes data on the data register and sends Strobe signal (changes Strobe to low) and waits for Ack from the microcontroller.
- On receiving strobe signal, microcontroller deasserts Busy to high, reads data and sends Ack (sets Ack to high).
- As soon as PC receives Ack signal, it removes Strobe and removes data (writes 0xff on data lines since, microcontroller requires all the pins on which it is receiving data i.e. port 1 to be set to high in order for it to read data on the data lines) and waits for Busy to be asserted low by the controller.
- After receiving Strobe, microcontroller deasserts Ack to low and sends the byte to the PC over the serial port and deasserts Busy to low.
- Program reads the byte from the serial register and the next cycle begins.
The program was tested successfully with baud rates of 1200 and 3600.


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The Bystander Intervention Committee launched the program in May to counteract the "bystander effect," which holds that the greater the number of people present during an emergency, the less likely it is that any will actually intervene.
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- 2003-12-16
His 1st Album Changed Hip Hop History. His Second could not compare. Raekwon the Chef dishes his dirt on RZA's absence from his latest CD, reuniting with Ghostface and what's up with Ice Water Inc.
Tell me about your CD, The Lex Diamond Story?
I'm at my best right now lyrically and artistically. This album right here is designed to... people ain't hear from me doing a solo album in a while, so I just try to give somebody something that they can appreciate and they know what Rae can do. This album right here is nothing but hard beats. I came a little bit more gritty because that's what my fans wanted. They want me on that street shit. But at the same time I'm a conscious MC so I kind of mashed all of these thoughts together amongst hard beats. I just do what my mind tells me to do. I grew from my last album, lyrically. I'm at my best right now. It's just Raekwon, feeding his fans. Lyrics.
How did you pick your beats?
I had a lot of beats from friends that I had that I met throughout the game. Like EZ-Elpee, a good friend of mine, Megahertz, Emil, which is a new producer. All these dudes been around me and studied my stuff. And I happen to like what they gave me. I have a couple of new dudes also. You got to keep your ear to the streets. If you don't you gonna miss out. We have to keep allowing hip-hop to play out the way it's supposed to. Everything doesn't consist of the so-called mega-producers that everybody knows. It's always somebody we don't know that could be iller than all of them.
Should we expect Ghostface collabos and production from RZA?
People are always going to expect them type of things. I got Ghost on the album. I got a couple of Clan members on the album. RZA didn't make the album production-wise because he had given me three beats and two of them was sample clearances that I had problems with that they was really ready to sue me and shelf me if I put them out. The other track he couldn't find the reel. So RZA's slot fell right out the window. But it ain't nothing. It's nothing derogatory toward RZA because he's still one of my favorite producers and at the same time, I had to keep carrying on and get an album done.
Tell me about your company, Ice Water, Inc.
Ice Water Inc. is a company that I basically gave the name to and I had, merging with Randy Spelling (son of Aaron Spelling). We formed Ice Water Inc. together but I already had it in my mind. It's basically a venture where we can help market each other better. His parents are the moguls of TV. Me being an artist, them having that, it was a good glove, but at the same time, I had to take control over a lot of it because music-wise we have to look at what Raekwon's doing. Visibility, promoting it, everything is on my shoulder. If I don't pop the other stuff isn't going anywhere. At the same time, Ice Water is a four-man group that I have from Staten Island that I'm bringing in personally. Rae is going to be that dude that brings Staten Island hip-hop to the table. I feel like people are not giving us our just due out there. And I don't mean as Wu-Tang. People saluted the fact that Wu-Tang made Staten Island what it is but to me, there's still people in Staten Island that's nice, that we got to start paying atention to. Right now, Ice Water is going to be the group that I'm going to launch to the game that's going to deliver.
Ice Water Inc. is involved with fashion, movies...
That's part of the multi-media side of it. It's an entertainment company that's going to allow me to do certain things like sign R&B artists, sign a scriptwriter. Anything to be more productive and bring more to the table, I want to be able to have that in my conjunction. For the most part, it's everybody getting a chance to do what they want to do and do what you do to your best ability. That's what this company's built on. Rae is trying to sit on a business side and coach everybody to make their whole career grow to where they want it to grow. I'm trying to be the real good coach.
How do you feel about all of the hip-hop artists being nominated for GRAMMYS® this year?
I like to look at the GRAMMYS® because I look at successful people on it but when it comes to selections they don't know what the fuck they talking about. I might even have to swallow these words if they ever try to give me a GRAMMY® one day 'cause I ain't going to lie and act like I ain't gonna go up their and get that muthafucka. Their selections are based on popularity and label support. We have to know and understand that we're playing in a big politics world and the more they do things like that and ban the real shit because they feel like it's not based on a dollar or whatever, that's why we ain't never gonna have it authentic the way it's supposed to be. Music is always going to be funny and fickle. Right now it's just a fashion show. Why a nigga can't get a GRAMMY® for being the hardest mutherfucka out there? It shouldn't be based on money and popularity. It should be based on originality and authenticness.
What's your favorite album of 2003?
Who got slept on the most? I'm a big R&B fan. Cats like Jaheim. That was a beautiful album that they overlooked. Luther Vandross had a nice album. Fat Joe had a beautiful album. It's about running that race and getting to that finish line. Shit got to change for the better. It ain't right. I just want to see more truth come to the table. It's always history, they story and the truth. So this is only my story. Get ready for The Lex Diamond Story.
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text: Monarch Alumni on hand tonight Rick Voight Monarchs Get Alumni Night Win Over Tulane, 70-64 January 25, 2014 By ODU Athletics MBB vs Tulane - Recap MBB vs Tulane - Presser ODU Game Box Photo Album NORFOLK, VA—ODU sophomore Keenan Palmore hit five free throws and junior Dimitri Batten added two in the last minute of play to lift the Monarchs (10-10/4-1) to a 70-64 C-USA win over Tulane (11-10/3-3) Saturday night at the Ted Constant Convocation Center on Basketball Alumni and Coaches vs. Cancer Night. The Monarchs are tied with UTEP for third, both are 4-1, while Southern Miss and Louisiana Tech are 5-1. League results are listed below. Four Monarchs scored in double figures led by Aaron Bacote with 16, followed by Dimitri Batten with 15, Keenan Palmore with 14 and Richard Ross with 10. Batten scored 10 first half points while Bacote and Palmore scored 10 each in the second half. The Monarchs led, 32-25 at halftime and by as much as 11 after a 12-5 run which gave the Monarchs a 49-38 lead with 10:48 left in the game. ODU would then go on a 9-2 run to build the lead to 15, 58-43 with 6:02 left in the game after a three-point basket by Bacote. Tulane would mount a rally down the stretch, cutting the lead to six, 63-57 with 1:01 left on a trey by Jonathan Stark. Keenan Palmore hit two free throws to up the lead to eight, 65-57, and after two Batten free throws, ODU was back up ten at 67-57 with 35 seconds left. Tulane's Louis Dabney hit a three-pointer and after an ODU missed free throw, Jay Hook drilled a trey to make it, 67-63 with 15 seconds left. Palmore hit the second of two free throws to put ODU up five, 68-63 and after Louis Dabney hit one of two free throws for the Green Wave, Palmore knocked down two more free throws for the 70-64 victory. The Monarchs shot .491 (26-53) from the floor and held Tulane to .388 (19-49). ODU also only committed 10 turnovers to the Green Wave's 17 and the Monarchs scored 21 points off them. Tulane was led in scoring by Jonathan Stark with 21 points, followed by Louis Dabney with 17 and jay Hook with 14. The Green Wave outrebounded ODU, 35-33. ODU freshman forward Denzell Taylor led all rebounders with eight on the night, followed by Richard Ross with seven and junior forward Joe Ebondo with six. Kevin Thomas and Tre Drye led Tulane with seven boards each. Aaron bacote and Keenan Palmore both dished out four assists, while Palmore, freshman Jordan Baker and Ebondo each had two steals. The Monarchs hit the road next week with games at UAB on Jan. 30 and at Middle Tennessee State on Feb. 1. ODU ALUMNI BASKETBALL ATTENDEES : Wilmer Poteate ('49), Monty Knight ('52), Kirk Phares ('55), Harry Knickerbocker ('57),Leo Anthony ('62), Wayne Parks ('64), Richard Boyce ('68), Tony Zontini ('68), Terry Foster ('70), Dave Twardzik ('72), Joel Copeland ('74), Curtis Cole ('75), Jay Roundtree ('75), Leon Hylton ('76), Joey Caruthers ('77), Wilson Washington ('77), Jeff Furhmann ('77), Reese Neyland ('78), Jay Atchinson ('79), Ricky Adams ('81), Billy Mann ('83), Clarence Hanley ('86), Keith Thomas ('86), Anthony "AC" Carver ('90), Joe Leake ('92), Kevin Larkin ('94), Troy Nance ('04), Kiah Thomas ('05), Isaiah Hunter ('06), Nick Wright ('13). Former Head Coach: Paul Webb (1975-85) Former Managers: Rob Dalby ('96), Carol Hudson, Jr ('76), Tony Flores ('78), Kristen Peifer ('94). C-USA SATURDAY'S RESULTSUTEP 81, UTSA 62UAB 70, Tulsa 63FIU 66, Florida Atlantic 57(RV) Southern Miss 60, East Carolina 46Old Dominion 70, Tulane 64Rice 71, Charlotte 69Louisiana Tech 98, Marshall 77Middle Tennessee 70, North Texas 64


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If i put 16bit or 32bit i have no problems.
Unfortunately i have to use 1152x854 and the PC automatically sets the color depth to 24bit as only one possible choice.
Is it a known bug?


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There's a new wave of application development tools on the market dubbed "agile" that aim to speed the delivery of applications and provide for a more collaborative environment. Today, HP took a big step toward making sure it is a relevant player in that market.
Agile software development is already used by up to one-third of development shops, according to Forrester, replacing the "waterfall" approach, which could take weeks or months to develop the software. In an agile world, code is written and deployed quickly, iterated on, market-tested and adjusted. That requires a whole new set of tools to manage these products.
Today, HP released two cloud-based agile application management tools -- HP Agile Manager to facilitate agile software development, and HP Performance Anywhere, which will help monitor and test applications post-launch.
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Agile Manager works in conjunction with HP's existing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, including Quality Center, and allows tasks to be assigned to individual developers while allowing code to be created, shared and edited.
One of the key tenants of an agile development model is that code should be created quickly and changed frequently. Performance Anywhere helps app owners know what changes need to be made after the app has been launched. Users create points of presence all around the world, either within their own WAN or on public cloud resources, which test how the application is running. If an error occurs, Performance Anywhere creates a flag, alerting the managers to the issue. Analytics tools even point to the potential cause of an issue -- be it an individual line of code, hardware issues, networking problems or any other variety of problems that could arise.
Both HP offerings are delivered as software as a service (SaaS), accessed through a Web portal. HP's Agile Manage is available today for $39 per user per month, with a three-month term. Performance Anywhere is not yet available, but is expected to cost $39 per application transaction per month plus $199 per server that runs the analytics software.
Tom Grant, a senior application development analyst for Forrester, says agile software development models are a transformative and mainstream model for building new software. "[It] represents not just a different methodology than [the more traditional waterfall approach], but a whole different approach to innovation," he says.
HP already has a strong reputation among developers with its Application Lifecycle Management tools, but it will face stiff competition in the agile market. IBM and Microsoft each have their own bolt-on offerings to enable agile software development. Startups that are focused solely on agile software development include Rally and VersionOne.
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Without shooting guard Jordan Adams, UCLA couldn't do enough to beat Oregon for the Pac-12 tournament championship. As Adams sat at the end of the bench with a broken right foot, the Bruins lost 78-69 and failed to put together one strong, late rally.
UCLA cut the Ducks' to two points with 12 minutes left to go on a 3-pointer by Larry Drew II, but proceeded to give up a 6-0 run over the next 90 seconds. It went the rest of the way down between six and 12 points — save for a 19-second stretch that saw the deficit shrink to four.
Oregon won its first tournament title since 2007. No team has won both the regular-season and tournament championships since the Bruins did so in 2008.
— UCLA's seed for the NCAA tournament will likely drop due to Adams' absence. The NCAA selection committee often account for injuries in their decision, and the Bruins being without their second-leading scorer could weigh heavily. In 2000, top-ranked Cincinnati missed out on a No. 1 seed when Kenyon Martin broke his leg. In 2009, St. Mary's missed the tournament despite 26 wins because point guard Patty Mills hadn't shaken off rust after breaking his hand. Continue reading "Short-handed UCLA falls short of Pac-12 tourney title" »


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Panetta credits right-hand-dog Bravo
How did Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta get through the operation to take out Osama bin Laden?
With the help of his trusty dog, of course.
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In an interview with Esquire, Panetta says, "Bravo was in the room when we were talking about the bin Laden operation at the CIA." (Bravo is Panetta's golden retriever.)
Panetta was CIA director at the time of bin Laden operation in May 2011.
"I remember going through that whole thing with him sitting by me. And the ability to put my hand on his head and feel his presence just kinda made me feel 'OK, this is an important issue and it's a big issue, but in many ways, it's about whether or not we are able to protect the quality of life that we enjoy,' and having a dog there just makes you a little more aware of what life is really about."
Panetta talked to Esquire last month, and he also discussed the role classical music plays in his life.
"Italians are romantics, and my mother taught me the value of beauty and the appreciation for life. She really wanted me to be a concert pianist. That's always been with me, because every time I sit down and play Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven and Schubert, I think of her."
Part of Panetta's romantic nature comes from his skills in the kitchen.
"The one thing I make pretty good is gnocchi. People have commented on it. I do it for the holidays. So if I were inviting Kim Jong Un over for dinner, I'd make him a plate of gnocchi. We'd have a glass of wine. And basicall, I'd try to understand: What's his thinking?"
On his non-romantic side is Panetta's love of foul language.
"Could I imagine a world without cursing? Hell, no! Every place I've ever gone, people have had to hold their ears. When I use those words, it helps make the point."


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Listen Orn Bodvarsson responds to Tom Emmer's statement that those working for tips in Minnesota should have a lower minimum wage
The candidates for governor in Minnesota are divided over whether workers who earn tips should be subject to a lower minimum wage. Republican Tom Emmer argues those tips count as income and should relieve employers of part of the minimum wage requirement.
Independence Party candidate Tom Horner also supports the so-called "tip credit." But all three leading DFL candidates -- Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Mark Dayton and Matt Entenza -- oppose it. They want to keep Minnesota's minimum wage law the way it is.
It's an issue that's been debated for years at the state capitol. St. Cloud State economist Orn Bodvarsson has done extensive research on both tipping and the minimum wage, and he joined Cathy Wurzer this morning from our studios in Collegeville to discuss the policy debate.


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Bali, Indonesia July 12 - 14, 1996
A kite in Bali
from a brochure of Bali International Kite Festival 1996
A kite in Bali is not just a plaything. It is not just fun. Kite flying has a cultural and religious root in the Balinese people life. It found its way to the mythology. Not less than god Siva, one of the main aspects of the supreme God, is supposed to like kite-flying. To be exact His manifestation as "Rare Angon" young cowboy, is regarded as the god of kites. In the religious life, at least in two religious ceremonies, "Layang-Layang or Layangan", the Balinese word for kite, is required and available as an important article. One is in the form of bird skin completed with the feather and the other is a feathered round-cut bananatrunk layer. Of course, these two "kites" cannot fly or are not Expected to fly.
The real Balinese kites, mentioned earlier as not just playthings, normally are huge. In the forms of fish called "Bebean", or oval with pointed wings, curved back-ward, "Pecukan" or "Jaggan", somewhat like "Pecukan" with a head and a very colorful, tail, long and wide. The head is given a mask either that of a bird or a "naga" dragon. These kites need more than just a string to fly on. A religious ceremony goes with it. In the first place before anything is done toward the making of a kite, an advise is sought from the wise men of the village. He will consult the traditional calendar to decide the good day to begin the work. Not many people know about this bussiness. When the good day is chosen, they will start the work to make the skeleton, and offerings are made when the kite is eventually ready. A priest is very often invited to bless it. So that the kites and the people are "selamat", that's safe and sound. A feast is held to complete the procedure. The whole villagers, 50 persons or more, are united to set up a "sekeha" organization. A set of gamelan musical instruments escorts the kite to the field. Also a special shed is built to store the kite in, waiting for the next flying time. Offerings are also made during good days for those kites. Strange it maybe for outsiders to see this fact of life, but it is just like that !!
A special feature of traditional kites is that each of them carry two "guwangan", hummers. Guwangan is a piece of rattan band stretched on a piece of somewhat like a bow made of bamboo or wood. When airborne the band will make a nice humming sound and a number of guwangans create a harmonious music. The sound of those guwangans is one of the criteria of evaluation in a competition.
Apart from the "bebean", "pecukan" and "Janggan", classified as traditional kites, there are lot more unusual and 'impossible' forms of kites known as new creations !! They may come in the forms of animals, human, characters in the mythology or means of transportation such as ship, aeroplane, motorbyke and so on.
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Who can figure this one out first?
Imagine a place called Metro City. It's right next to this large mountain called Mt. Yama. It has not rained in Metro City or on Mt. Yama in three days.
Two days ago, a group of thieves broke into, hotwired, and drove off in a black van. The police haven't gotten around to thoroughly investigating the theft yet, and as such they don't know where the thieves are hiding out.
This morning, you and your friend, Bob, wake up in a hotel, eat some breakfast, and then go sightseeing, as you're both from elsewhere and you hear Metro City has some great tourist spots.
Then, out of nowhere, the thieves abduct Bob and drive away in that same black van which was stolen two days prior.
You aren't able to provide any description of the culprits, as they were wearing ski masks and thick suits and gloves and stuff. However, you notice one thing: the windshield and windows of the black van were wet, whereas the rest of the car was dry.
Based on this one thing, you, being a college detective, deduce that the criminals' hideout is high up on Mt. Yama. How did you come to this conclusion?


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Scottish Presbyterianism, with its robust theology, disciplined government by elders, and strict piety, would significantly influence America through the waves of Scots-Irish immigrants that became the backbone of the Revolutionary era. Descended from lowland Scots, the Ulster Scots had begun …Read More
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One of the most pressing but invisible threats to Christian thinking at the present time is that of fallacious history. Like carbon monoxide, it can kill; you just do not notice it is happening until it is too late. Fallacious …Read More
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PCCC is a leader among two-year colleges in New Jersey in educational technology and distance education. The College offers a wide range of college-level online courses including complete associate degree programs in the following areas:
Online courses are delivered via the Blackboard course management system. Students interact with their instructors and their peers through course discussion boards, email messages, and chat as well as a variety of mixed media such as print, audio, and video. To explore a Sample Class in Blackboard, log in to the My PCCC Account link from the college website's home page using the Faculty and Staff link, using blackboard as the Log In ID and 654321 as the password. Click the Blackboard tab, then select the access link on the the next page. You may also wish to complete an online learning readiness questionnaire to see if online learning is right for you.
Online courses are ideal for students whose schedules or responsibilities make traveling to campus difficult. Although assignments have deadlines, students are able to work at the time of day or night most convenient to them. Most courses do not require visits to the campus, although some may require a limited number of campus visits for exams. For prerequisites, testing procedures, and additional hardware or software requirements for individual courses, see our full list of online course descriptions and requirements.
Online courses cover the same material and carry the same number of credits as their traditional classroom counterparts. Success in online courses requires the same mastery of competencies from students as in traditional, face-to-face courses. In order to succeed in online courses, students must be self-disciplined, strongly motivated and able to work independently. Online courses are subject to the same Academic Integrity Policies as traditional courses.
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Yesterday, The New York Times ran an editorial opposing a new Federal Reserve proposal to eliminate predatory lending penalties. The rule under consideration is the same obscure regulation I blogged about a couple of weeks back, and it's very encouraging to see major publications paying close attention to the technical workings of regulatory policy. Usually even important rules like this slide right by under the media radar, but this particular rule is a major signal as to how policymakers will deal with the ever-escalating foreclosure fraud problem. Will the Fed and it's allies stand up for homeowners and the rule of law, even if it means sticking it to the banks? Or will they continue to screw homeowners to preserve capital at too-big-to-fail behemoths?
The Times editorial makes essentially the same argument I did, and it's totally correct, if I do say so myself. Right now, when a bank is found guilty of illegally withholding information about a mortgage from a borrower, the borrower can "rescind" the loan. They still have to pay off the principal balance, but all profits that the bank would have reaped from the loan—interest, fees, etc.—are nullified, and the bank loses its right to foreclose on the borrower.
This process is called "rescission," and it reflects a standard feature of contract law that dates back several centuries. If a contract is fraudulent, the minimum proper remedy is to undo the contract. With mortgages, this means the bank gets its money back, but it doesn't get to keep the profits it would have made from an illegal loan. Restricting borrower access to information is a key tactic in predatory lending, and as The Times notes, rescission is essentially the only federal remedy available to homeowners who have been defrauded.
The Fed is now attempting to eliminate this remedy due to "concern over banks' compliance costs," as The Times describes it. This is a rather generous description of the proposal, given the depth and severity of the foreclosure fraud outbreak currently sweeping the country. There are three key places that banks can commit fraud in the mortgage process—when the mortgage is pushed on a borrower, when the mortgage is sold to an investor, and when a bank is collecting payments or foreclosing. Much of the fraudulent activity we see among investors and in the foreclosure process helps cover-up fraud at the original sale of the mortgage to a borrower.
If borrowers cannot obtain relief through rescission, then they have little reason to press claims about fraud in other parts of the mortgage process. This is an enormous gift to the nation's four largest banks, with major public policy implications that go beyond the very critical problem of rampant, illegal foreclosures. If borrowers don't press claims about foreclosure fraud, investors will not be able to access key information for filing lawsuits.
The single gravest threat to bank balance sheets (and bonuses) is a slew of lawsuits from mortgage bond investors. Banks packaged lousy mortgages into bonds and sold them off to investors, often without making proper disclosures to the investors, who subsequently lost a ton of money. Investors are currently organizing to take action against the banks, and in many cases have obvious, open-and-shut fraud claims against Wall Street titans if their cases come to court. But the key is actually getting their case before a judge. To do that, 25 percent of the investors in any bond have to file a lawsuit together. For multi-billion-dollar bond issues, that requires coordination among dozens of different institutions, often from different countries. That's a difficult technical feat, but investors will be much more likely to participate if they have lots of evidence of fraud before them. That evidence is produced by homeowners pressing their own individual cases. If homeowners don't go to court because they can't get anything out of it, the investors will have a harder time organizing.
So the Fed isn't really concerned about "compliance costs." This is, in fact, a rather absurd notion. Predatory lending is a form of theft. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot, and the bank was being robbed. Can you imagine bank robbers complaining about the "compliance costs" of having to give back stolen cash? They would be laughed out of any courtroom. But the Fed is not only seriously considering such an argument from bankers, it is actively promoting it as official public policy.
The Fed's proposal is itself illegal. Regulators like the Fed have the right to make rules that enforce laws passed by Congress. When Congress passed the Truth in Lending Act in 1968, it explicitly granted borrowers the right of rescission as a remedy for predatory lending. The Fed is now attempting to interpret that statute to mean that, actually, borrowers have no such right. If the Fed's proposal is enacted, it will be a 180-degree reversal of the law on the books.
It's hard to imagine a way for the Fed to disgrace itself any further than it did by failing to rein in the mortgage mess over the past decade. But if it proceeds with this effort to protect banks that engaged in predatory lending, it will not only be guilty of falling down on the job and looking the other way, but of actively encouraging illegal mortgage lending.
Whether the Fed withdraws its proposal or not, this is not what bank regulators are supposed to do, especially in the middle of a foreclosure fraud crisis. Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will get formal jurisdiction over these issues in July 2011, and it won't come a moment too soon. The Fed is proving, once again, that it cannot be trusted to protect the middle class from illegal abuses. Or even simply follow the law itself.


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Former PCHS grad makes musical waves
Ryan Hiller is a graduate of Park City High School and the University of Utah's music program.
After additional training in New Orleans, La., the singer and songwriter moved to California to further his music career.
He is now living his dream.
Last year, Hiller released his first CD, "How It Works," a six-song extended play of original works.
A few weeks ago, Hiller released his first music video for the song "Always Gonna Be Something," which is one of the tunes on the CD.
The video is available for viewing at http://www.ryanhillermusic.com and on YouTube.
Hiller said the video wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for some inside connections to the music business.
"I definitely had video ideas for the songs that I recorded for 'How It Works,' but I didn't have the budget to take those thoughts to the next level," Hiller said during a phone interview from his home in San Diego, Calif. "However, as luck would have it, my uncle is a professional film and commercial producer in Hollywood, who, back in the day, filmed many music videos in the 1980s and early 1990s."
Through his uncle, Hiller was introduced to a team of young filmmakers who are trying to make names for themselves.
"We hooked up and ended up getting along," said Hiller, who put up the cost for the production.
"They directed the video and it just ended up being an amazing partnership," Hiller said. "I'm happy with the result."
The filmmakers, including director Michael Matzur, chose "Always Gonna Be Something," because it was one of the standout songs on the CD.
"When I gave the songs to the team, we all agreed they could do the most with that song, than the others I had recorded," Hiller said. "It's the most upbeat song on the CD and had naturally came out."
The song itself came about in an interesting way, Hiller said.
When he decided to record the CD, Hiller had recruited producer Andy Williams, who has worked with T-Bone Burnett, Peter Case, Rhett Miller and Jessica Simpson.
"I needed to get at least six songs ready for the CD, and I had most of songs ready," Hiller said. "But things happened that inspired me to write one more song."
A week before the session, someone broke into Hiller's car.
"All my music and equipment was stolen," he said. "I mean everything, including my very first guitar, which was my mom's first guitar that was played at her wedding. It was a gift given to her while she was a child living in Japan, and had huge sentimental value."
Shortly after the breakin, the car broke down completely while Hiller was driving to an audition for some big-time music producers.
"There were some more things that happened, and it was one thing after another," he said. "I felt things were literally falling apart. You know, when it rains, it pours."
One day, Hiller thought over the mishaps and the words "It's always going to to be something" came into his mind.
"No matter how I was able solve one conflict in my life, there would always be another one just around the corner," he said. "And that sparked the idea for the song."
Hiller sat down and quickly wrote out the lyrics.
"I took the song to Andy a week before the recording sessions were supposed to happen, and he told me that the song needed to be on the CD," Hiller said. "It was one of those magical things that evolved into what it is today."
Once Matzur heard the song, he knew it was the right one for a video, Hiller said.
"I worked very closely with Michael," he said. "Michael already had a vision for the video, which was great, but he was also very receptive to my suggestions."
Creating a visual concept for the video was easy for Matzur because the lyrics speak for themselves, Hiller said.
"The song is pretty straightforward, and there really isn't any room for ambiguity," he explained.
The crew shot in Los Angeles and Hollywood.
"They knew about a secret spot on top of a hill that overlooked the entire city," Hiller said. "The funny thing was as we shot those scenes, we were constantly hoping the cops wouldn't drive by and shut us down."
The music video was the first major visual production that Hiller had ever done.
"It was cool to see how much work had to be done for a four-minute song," he said. "There were four guys handling the camera. There was someone working on makeup, design and the props and other people working the lights and other technical duties."
Filming took two full days.
"One day was by myself and one day was with the band," he said. "After the shoot was finished, we spent many hours in phone calls and emails."
The editing itself took more than a month.
"I wasn't a part of that, thank God," Hiller said. "It was all the production crew."
Another thing that surprised Hiller was how Matzur's vision was translated to the screen.
"There were some shots we did that I didn't quite understand, because I didn't know what he was thinking in regards to the bigger picture," Hiller explained. "There were times when they would set me in the middle of a dirty vacant lot and I wasn't sure what they were doing, and I was amazed at the artistry that goes into making a video and me, as a musician, didn't understand that until I saw the final product."
Hiller felt "pure excitement" when he first saw the video.
"They worked so hard and were so determined to do it and I felt so lucky to get to know these guys," he said. "I felt like we gave it our all."
After reflecting on his musical accomplishments, Hiller said he is amazed at where these past 10 years have lead him.
"It feels like it was only yesterday when I was walking down the halls of Park City High School," he said. "But as the years go by, I find myself looking forward to the next step. I look for better gigs and projects, trying to make sure that I keep living my dream, without having to buckle down and get a nine-to-five job."
To see Ryan Hiller's music video for "Always Gonna Be Something," visit http://www.ryanhillermusic.com or http://www.youtube.com/ryanhillermusic.
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With a stay at Best Western Rocky Mountain Lodge in Whitefish, you'll be near the airport, just a 1-minute walk from Waterton Glacier International Peace Park and 10 minutes by foot from Riverside Park.
This ski hotel is 8.1 mi (13 km) from Whitefish Mountain Ski Resort and 25.1 mi (40.5 km) from Glacier National Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 79 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include microwaves and coffee/tea makers, as well as phones with free local calls.
Spend the day on the slopes, or enjoy recreational amenities including an outdoor pool and a spa tub. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, ski storage, and a fireplace in the lobby. The complimentary ski shuttle makes getting to the slopes a breeze.
A complimentary continental breakfast is included.
Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Whitefish? This hotel has facilities measuring 2522 square feet (234 square meters), including conference space. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary during limited hours, and a train station pick-up service is also provided at no charge.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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After a day on the snow, enjoy a relaxing soak in the spa tub and an invigorating swim in the outdoor swimming pool. For a free ride to the slopes, hop on the hotel's complimentary ski shuttle. Best Western Rocky Mountain Lodge helps provide the perfect ski vacation with ski storage and ski passes.
Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Best Western Rocky Mountain Lodge is a smoke-free property.
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
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- Conference space size (meters) - 234
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- Conference space size (feet) - 2522
- Free train station pickup
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- Total number of rooms - 79
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 3
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snowboarding nearby
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- Cross-country skiing nearby
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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- Kids stay free! Children stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10 per stay.
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- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 20 per accommodation, per night (maximum USD 100 per stay)
- Dogs and cats only
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- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per stay
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This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Come to our beautiful "kid friendly" campground offering fun for the whole family. Go fishing or paddle boating in our catch and release pond, swim in our heated pool, ride our pedal carts and banana bikes, or walk our pygmy goats. Throughout the summer we have movies and weekend ice cream socials. Jam to our DJ entertainment on holiday weekends. Enjoy our recreation room for air hockey, pool, ping-pong and arcade games. Special events, kids games and social activities abound. Check out our summer activities listed below. Enjoy our pancake breakfast on Sundays.
Enjoy the improvements and additions we've put in the last couple of years, including deluxe patio sites, kottages, lodges, a new restroom in the tent area and more sewered and longer RV sites. Make your reservations early.
Our campground is only 9 miles from Presque Isle. This popular destination offers sandy beaches for sun bathing and nature trails for biking and hiking. This peninsula on Lake Erie is a safe harbor for your pleasure boating and provides wetlands for bird viewing or canoeing.
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Awarded to KOAs that meet exceptional quality standards and are recognized by their guests for outstanding service.
This KOA meets the established criteria to become a greener campground operation and is recognized by the "Kamp Green" icon.
This badge has been earned by this KOA Campground for compassion and support of KOA Care Camps. It is given out following our Big Weekend, and is in effect for one year.
Promotes youth Scouting programs in North America and provides special discounted group rates and free use of pavilions and other facilities.
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Berglund scores twice in 4-goal third period as Blues rally past Coyotes 4-2NHL.com @NHLdotcom
GLENDALE, Ariz. - Patrik Berglund scored twice during St. Louis' four-goal, third-period rally and the Blues beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2 Sunday in goaltender Ryan Miller's debut.
Miller made 23 saves in his first game since being acquired by St. Louis in a five-player deal with Buffalo on Friday. In addition to posting a 284-186-57 record in 10-plus seasons, all with the Sabres, Miller entered the game 6-0-0 with a shutout and a 1.15 goals-against average in his career against Phoenix.
Kevin Shattenkirk and Magnus Paajarvi added goals for the Blues, who had been scoreless for a franchise record 187:44 before scoring three in a nine-plus minute span.
Jeff Halpern scored his 150th career goal and Paul Bissonnette added his first goal since Dec. 14 for the Coyotes, who have lost four straight and five of six.


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The image that appears on this stein was painted in 1910 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Munich Oktoberfest. Decorated bierwagons were used originally to transport 100-litre barrels to the Oktoberfest.
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Painted in 1935 by Ernst Schlemo, this image provides a festive actual view of the inside of the Munich Oktoberfest Schottenhamel Bier Tent. The Schottenhamels are the oldest innkeeper family, attending the Oktoberfest since 1867.
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Is Race Baiting Part of Eric Bolling's Fox News Audition?
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With Glenn Beck's coveted 5 p.m. time slot set to open up with his June 30th departure from Fox News, Eric Bolling appears to be in the running as Beck's replacement. (He, among others.) It's been Bolling, along with Andrew Napolitano, who has most often filled in for a vacationing Beck in recent months. And it's Bolling who has been enjoying a higher profile on Fox News with a steady stream of appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and Fox & Friends, for instance. (Bolling's day job is hosting Follow The Money on the Fox Business Network.)
A move into Beck's 5 p.m. slot would be a career-changer for Bolling, instantly upping his profile both on Fox News and within the conservative media. But how to generate the kind of right-wing, Obama-hating buzz that would convince Roger Ailes that Bolling is the best person to carry on the Beck fearmongering legacy? In recent months, Bolling seems to think race baiting is his ticket to cable TV success.
From the insidious implications about President Obama's birth certificate, to insinuating Obama was "chugging 40s" in an Ireland pub (while Americans suffered hardship back home), and now employing obvious race baiting language about "hoods" visiting Obama's "Hizzouse," Bolling's full-court press for the Beck job is getting downright ugly.
Note that Bolling's latest racially charged attack on Obama did not take the form of a random tweet. Instead, it was a pre-planned, televised discussion that Bolling hosted, complete with "hoodlum" graphics, in which his guest accused the President of the United States of defecating on America's allies.
And that was on a business news channel.
Glenn Beck set a whole new standard for cable news crazy during his two-plus years at Fox News. Now, as successors jockey to fill his positions, it seems Beck's tradition of race-based Obama hate would be proudly carried on if Bolling were tapped for the 5 p.m. slot.
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So we won't be pulling out of our occupation propping up a corrupt narko state then Mr Key?
So NZ won't actually be pulling out of Afghanistan like Key promised, 27 soldiers will remain in this occupation to prop up a corrupt narko state.
When you are occupying someone else's country - the way we are in Afghanistan - you have to justify every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month you remain occupying it.
27 soldiers left in the country is 27 soldiers too many Mr Key.
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|Danville, Va.
|High School:
|George Washington
|Political science
|Residential College:
|Timothy Dwight
2012-2013 (Freshman): 100-yard breaststroke: Finished eighth at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 1:03.43… Fastest time was 1:02.68 in the prelims at the Brown Invite… Won the event at Boston University's Terrier Invitational with a time of 1:03.72… Won the event twice during the regular season… 200-yard breaststroke: Finished second at the Terrier Invitational with a time of 2:22.30… 200-yard IM: Fastest time in the event was 2:08.27 in the prelims at Ivy's.
Before Yale: Swam competitively for 12 years... Swam all four years of high school... Placed first at the Northwest Regional Championships and second at State finals... Holds four school records... All-American Swimmer in the 100 breaststroke... Won the Southeastern Zone Championships in the 100 and 200 Breaststroke... Qualified for Junior Nationals and Nationals for the last three years... Competed at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.
Personal: Member of the Timothy Dwight College... Plans to major in Global Affairs... Daughter of Anne Stephens and Andy Pickeral.
Why I Chose Yale: "I just knew the moment I stepped on campus that this was where I wanted to spend the next four years. Everything about Yale is incredible, the residential colleges, the wide array of classes offered, the amazing food, the likeness to Hogwarts, the closeness of the students...Plus the amazing opportunities and support system I will be offered both athletically and academically cannot be matched at any other university!"


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