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Supermarket and liquor giant Woolworths is in the final stages of a plan to crush rival online liquor retailers with a dramatic expansion of its Dan Murphy's online business, which already has 46 per cent of the online liquor sales market in Australia.
A 34-page internal document details the plans for the aggressive expansion of Dan Murphy's online business under a model where beer, wine and spirits producers will have products shipped to customers from their own premises by the national courier business Nexday.
Nexday is owned by Woolworths and has a large fleet of delivery vehicles operating from each capital city around Australia.
Dan Murphy's executives have been making presentations to alcohol producers across Australia, trying to lure them to become part of the new model which is termed the "Drop Ship Vendor'' approach in the "Range Extension Programme'' documents.
Under the new model, Dan Murphy's intends to take a 25 per cent slice of the retail price, plus GST, on products sold through the online business.
Dan Murphy's currently offers 8,000 different product lines across beer, wine and spirits in its online business and depending on the level of take-up by producers across the nation, this could easily expand to beyond 20,000 product lines. This is separate to the 188 stand-alone bricks and mortar superstores that form the engine room of Woolworths' broader liquor retailing operations. Woolworths' generates $4 billion-plus from liquor sales annually across all of its operations.
The aggressive expansion plans spell bad news for a number of smaller online rivals such as Kemeny's, Naked Wines Australia, Cracka Wines, Get Wines Direct and Graysonline.com. It comes at a particularly vulnerable time for the Graysonline.com business which has a substantial online wine sales component and has just undertaken a backdoor listing on the Australian Securities Exchange through a scrip merger with online retailer Mnenom.
According to the document, Dan Murphy's website currently gets two million visits per month. It is the number one liquor site for customer traffic and sales, with 46 per cent of the market, according to data from online measurement firm Hitwise.
The document also outlines that Dan Murphy's online sales increased by 100 per cent in calendar year 2013 and that it has 500,000 customers in its database. It provides comparison figures indicating that websites run by the top 50 wineries in Australia where customers can purchase online generate monthly traffic of just 3,800 visits, and that the number two player in online liquor retailing traffic – Coles's 1st Choice business – generates about 25 per cent of the traffic that Dan Murphy's does.
Beer, spirits and wine producers are being told that the range extension plans will be built on a consignment model applied as a percentage of the full retail price, and that the standard percentage is 25 per cent plus GST.
There will also be a vendor hosting fee of $49 per month, but the first year is free. Vendors are being asked to provide a "reasonable RRP" as a "guide for price upload''. That is short for recommended retail price. But Dan Murphy's outlines that its "Lowest Liquor Price Guarantee'' will apply right across the range, which in practical terms means that Dan Murphy's will control the pricing ultimately and takes seriously its price promise to customers that it won't be undercut.
Vendors are required to manage the inventory and are being promised an "expedited 10 working day vendor payment".
Dan Murphy's explains the Drop Ship Vendor simply in three steps. The Vendor provides ''virtual consignment'' to Dan Murphy's in step 1, then the customer purchases on Dan Murphy's online in Step 2, and in Step 3 the vendor picks and packs the order and advises Dan Murphy's to pick it up and deliver it to the end customer.
Under the timeline set out in the documents, the ''go live'' date is listed as August 25, but it is understood the launch may be a few weeks away.
It is a similar model to one set up three months ago by the Winemakers Federation of Australia, which represents 2,500 wine companies, called "From the Producer'' where wine producers can sell their product through a central site but with no middle man involved. They get to keep all the profits under the From The Producer site, set up in conjunction with Victorian information technology pioneer John Cameron.
The WFA set up the site in part to help wine producers battle declining profits, which in part have stemmed from the rising power of large liquor retailers and a high Australian dollar which have hurt exports.


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EDITORIAL: GOP, not Hillary Clinton, showing wrinkles
In the quest to dismantle Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2016 presidential ambitions, Republicans have switched their talking points from Benghazi to Bengay.
They're suggesting Clinton, who will be 69 in 2016, is too old for the job.
"Perhaps in the Democratic primary and certainly in the general election, there's going to be an argument that the time for a change of leadership has come," Republican strategist Karl Rove was quoted as saying in The New York Times. "The idea that we're at the end of her generation and that it's time for another to step forward is certainly going to be compelling."
And Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, no spring chicken himself at age 71, called the potential Democratic field of Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, who's 70, "a rerun of 'The Golden Girls.' "
Meanwhile, talk radio's Rush Limbaugh asked in April if voters want to "actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis."
But Clinton would be running for president at the same age that conservative icon Ronald Reagan did when he was first elected president in 1980, becoming the oldest person to ever serve in the Oval Office.
The Republican's age was a factor in the campaign, and when he ran for re-election in 1984 at the age of 73, Reagan actually deflated the issue of his age somewhat with humor in a debate with his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Walter Mondale, who was 56 at the time.
"I will not make age an issue of this campaign," Reagan famously quipped during the debate. "I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
Reagan won 59 percent of the vote, picking up 49 states. That fact alone should serve as a warning to Republicans not to focus on Clinton's age.
If the GOP is trying to connect with younger voters, it had best heed a report released last month by the College Republican National Committee, which said young swing voters viewed the party, fairly or not, as "closed-minded," "racist," "rigid" and "old-fashioned."
On key issues like gay marriage and immigration, the study found the party was out of step with many young voters. Even on the economy, young voters weren't receptive to ham-handed Republican messaging.
Republicans would do well to attend to policy and message rather than highlight an opponent's unremarkable age.
Editorial courtesy of the Denver Post, denverpost.com.

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Mellozzo's creative and artistically inspired approach to luthiery stems from a family lineage rooted in the arts. His medium of choice is wood: he began first as a trained master woodworker, designing and creating custom cabinets for 20 years. Then, 10 years ago, he felt a calling and began to apply his woodworking skills to guitar building. After reverse-engineering countless project guitars acquired via eBay—combined with his 30-plus years as a player—Mellozzo's self education in luthiery reached a level that led him to build his first Nikita. Since then, he's focused on building unique, signature guitars. True to his artistic roots, none are exactly replicated, making each Nikita truly one of a kind.
The Nikita Classic, with its highly figured tonewood laminates, intricate inlays and triple humbuckers, appears at first to give a nod to the creations of Alembic, Cripe and Irwin. Looking closely at the degree of craftsmanship and thoughtful design decisions that went into the guitar's construction, it's hard not to be impressed. Every design decision, executed by hand, seems to blend together, creating a balanced instrument that can stand on its own. The Classic features a body comprised of a laminate of mahogany, rosewood and maple that gives the guitar an attractive appearance and prominent acoustic tone. The one-piece, solid mahogany back is more than 20 years old, features a tummy cut and is finished with three coats of urethane in an opaque brown vintage tint. Atop the mahogany body sits a 1/8" rosewood slab followed by a 3/8", two-piece bookmatched figured maple top. The top is finished in a very subtle blue burst (yes, I know that sounds like an oxymoron) that starts with an aqua hue and darkens to a Caribbean blue that accentuates the beveled edge of the top—which is carved in perfect unison with the dual ebony carved pinstripes that frame the top. Overall, it's an impressive feat of craftsmanship.
Likewise, through the expert use of taping, the sides of the guitar give off the appearance of having a six-layer, wood-striped binding from the three wood types used in the laminate body. This deft execution of scraped binding also adorns the fretboard and headstock. The urethane-finished neck is also an attractive tonewood laminate, featuring five layers in total and comprised of mahogany, curly maple and wenge. The neck is topped with 22 6105-sized nickel-silver frets, and features an ample ebony fingerboard with shell dot inlays best described as "companion dots." The headstock shape approximates the body profile and features a figured maple matching headstock veneer. The hand-shaped, 12"-radius neck has the feel of a '59-style carve, but with a little more taper. It meets the body at the 15th fret. The dual-action truss rod is accessed at the headstock through a handcarved rosewood and maple cover.
The guitar is voiced with three chrome-covered Lindy Fralin Humbuckers—a 7.5K Pure PAF model in the neck, a 13.5K High Output Humbucker model in the middle and an 8.0K Pure PAF model in the bridge. This seemingly unorthodox pickup combination of vintage and high-output models is another smart design decision. To enhance playability, Mellozzo purposely lowered the hotter middle pickup to create more picking space while maintaining output balance amongst the pickups. The humbuckers are wired to a 5-way Switchcraft switch as follows: pos. 1, bridge, full humbucking, series; pos. 2, neck and middle, both pickups full humbucking, parallel; pos. 3, middle, full humbucking, series; pos. 4, neck and middle, both pickups full humbucking, parallel; and pos. 5, neck pickup, full humbucking, series. I'm a fan of unsplit humbucker combinations and was glad to see them incorporated in the Classic's design. That said, I did experience volume loss in positions 2 and 4, which according to Mellozzo has been addressed on new guitars going forward.


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No sign of Malaysia jet in expanded search area
Australian searchers again came up empty-handed Saturday while looking for the missing Malaysian airliner in the remote southern Indian Ocean hours after China released a satellite image of a large, floating object in the region.
The new satellite image, which was captured around noon Tuesday and released Saturday, depicted an object 74 feet by 43 feet, located about 75 miles south of where an Australian satellite picked up an image of two objects Sunday. The Australian images were released Thursday.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) ended its search Saturday without sighting any large objects. An aircraft aiding in the hunt for the missing airliner did find some small objects in the search area, including a wooden pallet, but a military aircraft sent to the location discovered only clumps of seaweed.
The search for Flight 370, which vanished two weeks ago with 239 people aboard, will resume Sunday. AMSA plotted the position of the object in the Chinese satellite image and said it will take that information into account for Sunday's search plans.
Meanwhile, Sunday's search in the southern corridor could be impacted by Cyclone Gillian. The tropical cyclone may bring "very strong winds and rough seas," said Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian defense minister and acting minister of transport.
The storm is expected to further intensify Sunday before weakening into Monday and Tuesday, the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology said.
In general, "conditions in the southern corridor are very challenging," said Hussein, noting deep and varying underwater terrain, along with strong currents.
Before the latest Chinese satellite image was released, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott — on an official visit to Papua New Guinea — called the Australian satellite images "the first credible evidence of anything that has happened to Flight MH370."
The search area Saturday covered about 14,000 square miles, roughly 50% larger than the area searched Friday. Because of the distance to and from the area, the P3 Orion aircraft can search for only two hours, but the commercial planes can spend five hours looking, the AMSA said. The area being searched is about 9,800 feet deep, it said.
Warren Truss, who serves as acting prime minister while Tony Abbott is in Papua New Guinea, said a complete search could take a long time.
"It is a very remote area, but we intend to continue the search until we're absolutely satisfied that further searching would be futile — and that day is not in sight," Truss said from the base near Perth that is serving as a staging area for search aircraft. "If there's something there to be found, I'm confident that this search effort will locate it."
Two merchant ships are already in the area, and the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Success is en route. Australia sent one plane to fly over one of the remotest places where the satellite images were taken and another four planes flew toward desolate islands of the Antarctic.
Two Japanese aircraft will be arriving in Perth on Sunday, and two Chinese aircraft are already there. A small flotilla of ships coming to Australia from China was several days away.
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By: Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than half of Wisconsin's Wi-Fi hotspots are now free as consumers increasingly turn to coffee shops, restaurants and other businesses for an Internet connection.
Wisconsin has about 1,300 hotspots where the general public can get online with a wireless connection, according to Wired Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization that follows telecommunications issues.
About 800 of those, or 62%, are provided as a free service, compared with 55% nationally.
The number of free Wi-Fi locations has risen steadily. Nationwide, it's up 13% from the first three months of the year and represents the first time that a majority of the locations are free, according to a recent study.
Cafes and hotels are the most likely businesses to offer a free Internet connection. But other locations - including buses and trains - are catching up, according to the report from JiWire, an advertising firm that looked at 77,000 hotspots across the country.
Starbucks, McDonald's and other national chains have switched from offering paid to free Internet access.
"The gain in business more than makes up for the costs," said Eric Dodge, a Wired Wisconsin spokesman.
Yet free Wi-Fi sometimes encourages people to be Internet freeloaders. They occupy a coffee shop table for hours while surfing the Web and drinking one latte, or they use the space as their personal office for the day.
Business people have gone to coffee shops, set up PowerPoint presentations and held meetings.
Yet shop managers say about 85% of Wi-Fi users are respectful of not taking up too much space and time on a single cup of brew.
"We never tell someone they have to leave, but we sometimes ask them to share a table or consolidate some space," said John Walch, president of Carlon Co., which operates 22 Panera Bread stores in Wisconsin.
"The reality is that some people don't realize they have been sitting there for two hours because they're so wrapped up in what they are doing," Walch said.
Customer magnet
Panera was one of the first restaurant chains to offer free Wi-Fi. Some managers were skeptical about the benefits, but they have become believers after seeing how Wi-Fi attracts customers.
"It's just the way the world is today. I cannot imagine what it would cost us in lost revenue if we had to give up Wi-Fi," Walch said. "In today's economy and today's marketplace, businesses need every edge they can get."
During their busiest times, some coffee shops set 30-minute limits for Wi-Fi use. Others limit the number of tables with electrical outlets so that laptop users won't dominate the seating area.
At a new Panera restaurant being built in Madison, the company is experimenting with Wi-Fi stations where people can surf the Web without taking space for other customers.
It's difficult to say how much a Wi-Fi user spends at a coffee shop, restaurant or other business, partly because the usage varies widely. But overall the numbers aren't small, shop owners say, and free Wi-Fi will continue to gain in popularity.
"The service is so ubiquitous now, people have the expectation of being able to get Internet access wherever they are," Walch said.
At Stone Creek Coffee Roaster shops, some users refer to their table as their "office space."
"There is a definite customer loyalty from them coming in, getting their coffee and doing some work," said Athena Agoudemos, vice president of the Milwaukee-based chain.
"And there is a sense of community in how often these customers come in," she added.
More than 300 of 450 hotspots in southeast Wisconsin are now free, according to Wired Wisconsin.
Some businesses use their Internet portal for advertising or instant coupons. Some ask Wi-Fi users to complete a brief marketing survey before they log on to the Web.
Wi-Fi won't fly
Others are reluctant to get that involved with the service because of the time and effort required.
Computer users should be cautious when using Wi-Fi networks in public places such as coffee shops and libraries. Experts say you should always treat public Wi-Fi locations as if they're being monitored and not do things such as online banking.
Airports are struggling with Wi-Fi issues.
With an increasing number of gadgets using the connections, including phones, digital readers and laptop computers, they're feeling pressured to offer free service.
Of the nation's 20 busiest airports, 12 charge for connecting to the Internet through their Wi-Fi systems, according to a USA Today report earlier this year.
Airports in Denver, Seattle, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Boston offer free connections.
Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport does not have free Wi-Fi. It charges $4.95 for a one-hour connection, $7.95 for 24 hours, and $9.95 for a month of unlimited use at all Boingo hotspots, according to airport officials.
It would be very costly to set up the infrastructure to offer free Wi-Fi throughout the airport, spokeswoman Pat Rowe said.
If the airport could sell sufficient advertising to support the service, she added, then it might be offered for free.
"We are open to ideas, but we have not yet found the right business model for free Wi-Fi," Rowe said.
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Danville is a town in Caledonia county, Vermont. It was formed in 1786 in Vt. from the following county/ies: Orange, though the following competing claims for its origins are N.Y. 1770. The probate and court district for Danville is Caledonia. For more information, contact the town at P.O.Box 183, Danville 05828. On the attached map, Danville is shown as 11 in Caledonia county.
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In his book Oceana, Ted Danson, the actor and oceans advocate, writes that one-third of the world's fisheries are currently in collapse, "unable to regenerate their populations fast enough to keep pace with the rate at which they are being caught or killed." In an interview with Rodale.com, he told us that once you , you can deal with all the other problems facing oceans today, whether it's climate change, pollution, or simple negligence. Luckily, you can save the oceans and enjoy healthy fish that can help ward off prostate cancer, depression, and poor eyesight.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Super Green" list of seafood—the fish that come from the least-pressured habitats, are free of industrial pollutants like mercury and dioxins, and also contain the highest levels of healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Below are some of the selections from the list of best fish choices that you can use to conjure up dinner ideas.
1. Pole-Caught Albacore Tuna
Before you write off all tuna as toxic and laden with mercury, there is good news: Troll- or pole-caught albacore tuna caught in western U.S. and Canadian waters have lower levels of mercury than tuna caught in other areas of the world, due to the fact that these fish are generally younger, and therefore, have had less time to build up high levels of the poison. Environmentally, trolling and pole-fishing have less of an impact on other species than net-fishing because there's no risk that other, non-tuna species will get harmed. This type of tuna won't be easy to find in the average grocery store, but most brands sell it online. American Tuna brand sells canned tuna caught in well-managed fisheries certified by the Marine Stewardship Council; you can purchase it online from Heritage Foods USA. Other brands include Pacific Fleet, MaryLu Seafoods, Wild Planet, and Wild Pacific Seafood.
2. Wild-Caught Salmon From Alaska
In addition to being better for the environment, wild salmon are healthier for you than the farmed kind. Both varieties of the fish have roughly the same levels of heart- and brain-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, but farmed salmon have twice as much unhealthy saturated fat as wild. Finding wild salmon is getting easier. As of the last year, mass-retail chain Target eliminated farmed salmon, instead stocking only salmon and salmon products certified by the Marine Stewardship Council, one of the best verifications of seafood sustainably that currently exists. Starved for salmon recipe ideas? Use it in place of tuna for salmon-salad sandwiches, or try it in creamy white bean soup . Another fish on Monterey Bay's Super Green list, and one we wish were more widely available, is farmed coho salmon, the only salmon that the Monterey Bay Aquarium has found responsibly farmed. Rather than being raised in pens located in oceans, this salmon is grown in land-based tanks, so there's no risk that the farmed salmon can escape and compete with native wild salmon for food or spread diseases or parasites to other fish, two problems associated with ocean-based pens. So far, the only company selling the salmon endorsed by Monterey Bay is Washington-based Aquaseed, but it doesn't sell to the general public, so you won't find Aquaseed salmon in stores.
3. Farmed Oysters
Are oysters truly an aphrodisiac? The scientific community doesn't seem to think so, but these mollusks do contain high levels of zinc, which can improve a man's sexual health. If you're planning an oyster supper anytime soon, here are a few important points to remember. First, oysters are sold alive, so never put them in a plastic bag (that basically suffocates them). The best way to store them is in a burlap or paper bag, covered with a damp towel. Also, leave any mud or debris on them until you're ready to eat or cook them. The dirt has a protective insulating effect. Plan on about six live oysters per person, or, if you're buying shucked oyster meat, plan on about 1/3 to ½ pint per serving.
4. Wild-Caught Pacific Sardines
During the 1950s, Pacific sardines practically went extinct, but the fisheries have since rebounded, making it one of the best fish you can buy now. You may consider sardines to be on a par with canned meat in terms of gastronomic cachet, but more chefs are starting to experiment with them, thanks to rising interest in sustainable seafood at restaurants. Visit any gourmet or natural food grocery store, and you'll find sardines in all manner of flavors, whether plain or marinated in garlic, tomatoes, and olive oil.
5. Farmed Rainbow Trout
Long the trophy prize of recreational anglers, rainbow trout are tasty fish that most people enjoy, and they're one of the more affordable seafood options. Wild trout aren't necessarily endangered, but some varieties, particularly those native to Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, are threatened by nonnative species and have high levels of contamination from chemicals like PCBs. When you're cooking trout, leave the scales on; you'll be able to bread or coat the fish without having to add any extra oils. There are a hundred different ways to dress a trout. If you prefer simple recipes, bake it and dress it with lemon, paprika, or a basic mushroom sauce. When baking, measure the thickness of the fish and plan on 10 minutes per inch (5 minutes on each side), and bake at 400 to 450 degrees F.
6. Farmed Mussels
Easier to find than low-mercury tuna or responsibly farmed salmon, mussels pack a powerful nutrient punch, particularly for this time of year. They're rich in iron, which is good to stock up on if the warmer weather is enticing you to exercise more; studies have found that regular workouts can deplete a woman's iron stores. Like oysters, mussels are also a good source of zinc. Plus, you can cook them in three minutes—they're the healthiest fast food you can find.
7. Arctic Char
Arctic char isn't as widely known as its two relatives, trout and salmon, but it's popular among restaurant chefs, particularly those who want to serve nothing but sustainable fish. Native to the Arctic waters around Canada, Iceland, and Norway, the fish's wild stocks have been sorely depleted by overfishing. Most arctic char sold in the U.S. is farmed in clean, land-based tanks, as opposed to dirty ocean-water pens. The flavor of arctic char is closer to that of trout, and, like trout, it's versatile enough that you can cook it any which way and you won't be disappointed.
8. U.S Farmed Barramundi
Equally unfamiliar to a lot of us is the barramundi. It's a mild white-fleshed fish native to Australia, where aboriginal fishermen collect it by hand. Although it lives in , barramundi are among the most sustainably farmed fish you can find—provided they're from the U.S. Farms here utilize land-based tanks where the fish are fed a largely vegetarian diet; in other countries, the fish are grown in ocean-based nets that pollute surrounding waters and endanger other species. Just bake, grill, or fry up the fish with a little lemon juice for dressing, or try this recipe for from Australian chef Curtis Stone.
9. Wild-Caught West Coast Dungeness Crab
Crab cakes, crab salad, stuffed crab…there are hundreds of ways to make use of a good crab. But most species sold in grocery stores, such as blue crab or king crab, live in habitats threatened with pollution and destruction. Dungeness crabs, on the other hand, are caught from an Oregon fishery that has been certified as "well managed" by the Marine Stewardship Council. The fishery there allows only males to be caught and restricts fishing during mating and molting seasons. As an added bonus, Dungeness crabs are caught with traps, not nets, so any bycatch that gets caught along with the crabs can be thrown back unharmed.
10. Wild Atlantic Longfin Squid
The Spaniards eat them in paella, and the Japanese eat them in sushi. Americans have learned to love them as calamari. If you can avoid frying your calamari, you have a really healthy fish, full of omega-3s and vitamin B12 , a nutrient that helps ward off depression. The Monterey Bay Aquarium rates all types of squid as either "best choices" or "good alternatives," but longfin squid have healthier, more viable populations than other varieties. They also live in sand habitats that aren't destroyed by fishermen.


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Wal-Mart launches initiatives to support women
NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores is launching measures Wednesday that it says will help out women around the world in the next five years.
The world's largest retailer said it will spend $20 billion over that period on goods and services from U.S. businesses owned by women. It also plans to double the amount it pays women-run suppliers overseas, though it didn't give a total.
The discounter also aims to offer training to sharpen the skills of 60,000 women working in factories that supply products to Wal-Mart and other merchants. And it plans to teach life skills - from punctuality to financial literacy - to 200,000 women overseas and to 200,000 low-income women in the U.S.
Wal-Mart also said it plans to work with its suppliers that have more than $1 billion in sales to increase the representation of women and members of minority groups by the end of 2016.
Many advisers
"We know this is important for our customers, and it will make for a stronger business," Leslie Dach, executive vice president of Wal-Mart, said this week. He noted that over the past year, the company developed the plan with help from a number of government and non-governmental organizations and philanthropic groups including Care USA, a humanitarian organization that fights poverty.
Dach couldn't quantify how many people the initiatives could affect, but he said they could reach more than 1 million.
Wal-Mart, which is based in Bentonville, Ark., has placed an increasing focus on serving women. In 2009, it set up a women's council made of 20 female company leaders worldwide who offer guidance everything from training and development to promotions.
Core shoppers
In 2004, a sex-bias lawsuit against Wal-Mart was given class action status on behalf of 1.6 million women. In June, the retailer scored a major victory when the Supreme Court blocked the lawsuit, saying there was not convincing proof of companywide pay or promotion discrimination at Wal-Mart.
The moves to support women also come as Wal-Mart is aggressively expanding internationally. In June it completed a $2.4 billion acquisition of Massmart in South Africa.
It also is seeking to influence its core customers: Most of the 200 million people who shop every week at Wal-Mart globally are women, and they control $20 trillion in annual consumer spending.
'Game changer'
With Wal-Mart generating $418 billion in revenue last year and operating in more than 80 countries, the company's initiatives carry some clout.
"This is a game changer," said Helen Gayle, president and CEO of Care USA. "This is a large initiative. If Wal-Mart begins to change the way it does its practices, it can have a huge impact on other corporations and other retailers."
Care USA started working with Wal-Mart in 2009 in Bangladesh, India and other areas. In India, Care USA helped cashew farmers increase their yield and taught them how to sell to Wal-Mart.


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CALL HIM DAD: Terry J. Lundgren will be lunching with former President Clinton on June 11, when both are honored as Fathers of the Year by the National Father's Day Council. Lundgren, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Macy's Inc., has two daughters. He will receive the award at the 72nd annual Father of the Year luncheon at the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel. Proceeds from the lunch will benefit Save the Children's U.S. Programs.
Dan Orwig, chairman of the National Father's Day Committee, and vice president and group director of the men's division of Itochu Prominent, said Lundgren was chosen for "his role as an inspirational and dedicated father, as well as his outstanding philanthropic efforts and distinguished career. He embodies the passion, leadership and true devotion to both his family and career that is celebrated by this award."
"I am honored to be a Father of the Year," Lundgren said. "I have always believed in the importance of balance in life — being actively involved at home as well as in the business. I have a great relationship with my two daughters, both of whom have developed into accomplished, well-rounded young women. I am extremely proud of them. I also have done my best over the years to encourage other men — friends and colleagues — to spend quality time with their families. My own father was one of my heroes and role models. He taught me the value of perseverance and hard work. He was a kind and gentle man, but he also knew when to practice tough love when I needed focus and attention. Through the Father's Day Council, I hope to pass forward some of my own experience as a father, and I am delighted to support Save the Children, which does extraordinary work."


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AS THE NATION CONTEMPLATES WHETHER BARACK OBAMA BELONGS IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS BRITNEY SPEARS AND PARIS Hilton, a more fruitful question suggests itself: Can Barack Obama go the rest of the campaign without demeaning the country he seeks to lead?
Backlash over John McCain's "Celebrity" advertisement and Obama's playing the race card (who would have seen that coming?) drowned out far more significant words from the lips of The Anointed One this week. "There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for," he said. "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged." The media's favorite candidate then underscored his belief in reparations: "I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
B.H. Obama's comments came just as the House of Representatives passed a meaningless resolution condemning the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow." The gesture was meaningless, in part, because Bill Clinton apologized for the American role in the slave trade during a visit to Uganda a decade ago. (Ironically, it was Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, who put the blame on "black traitors," saying: "African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other and capturing their own people and selling them. If anyone should apologize, it should be the African chiefs.") However, in American textbooks and college classrooms across the nation, the "tragic elements of our history" are not merely acknowledged but expounded upon in great depth.
More troubling than those historical bits Sen. Obama chooses for private meditation, however, is the seemingly omnipresent emphasis on the ills and maladies of the nation whose presidency he seeks.
As David Horowitz and I relate in our new book, Party of Defeat, a phobia of the United States has been a sin qua non of the American Left since the time of George McGovern, and since 1972, it has been linked inextricably to a defeatist foreign policy. After all, how can one hope for the advancement of a cause he disbelieves, or believes is harmful?
McGovern's 1972 acceptance speech exemplified the Blame America First model, blaming America for "Asian children running ablaze from bombed-out schools." He charged, "Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad." The Left's rallying cry, "Bring America Home," was not a prescription to conserve America's strength; it was an attempt to quarantine a virus.
As we note, Jimmy Carter raised this to a high art form, isolating American allies like the Shah of Iran while courting enemies like Daniel Ortega. At the time, liberal Democratic Senator Pat Moynihan, D-NY, surmised Carter was "unable to distinguish between America's friends and enemies," because he shared "the enemy's view of the world." As a result, the nation endured the first successful Islamic revolution since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the spread of Communism to its furthest point, and the humiliation of the United States as fanatics kidnapped innocent civilians for 444 days.
Bill Clinton voiced such views in his speech to Georgetown University students shortly after 9/11, saying those "from various European lineages are not blameless" in the "long history" of "terror," because of the Crusades, slavery, and occasional racial animosity:
Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery and slaves were, quite frequently, killed even though they were innocent. This country once looked the other way when significant numbers of Native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human and we are still paying the price today. Even in the 20th century in America people were terrorized or killed because of their race. And even today, though we have continued to walk, sometimes to stumble, in the right direction, we still have the occasional hate crime rooted in race, religion, or sexual orientation. So, terror has a long history.
This president gave us the shameful exit from Mogadishu, and a series of unanswered terrorist attacks from Osama bin Laden and other jihadists. David and I use insider accounts to explain how his politically correct worldview left America vulnerable to al-Qaeda.
Now, enter Obama, who first raised the issue of why he wore no flag pin, a man who refused to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem and belittled small-town Americans' religiosity.
Add to these spectacles Obama's defense of Jeremiah Wright and Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers – equating them with his grandmother and pro-life U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, respectively.
Then add the other Obama, Mrs. Michelle Obama. In February, she revealed, "for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country." The following month, in a speech she wrote herself and delivered at least four times, she branded the United States as a whole "just downright mean." Then on May 2, in North Carolina, the First-Lady-in-Waiting drew a less-than-flattering portrait of America:
We're still living in a nation and in a time where the bar is set – I talk about this all the time – they set the bar…and then you work and you struggle, you do everything that they say, and you think you're getting close to the bar, and you're working hard, and you're sacrificing. And then you get to the bar. You're right there. You're reaching out for the bar. You think you have it. And then what happens? They move the bar. They raise it up…it's always just quite out of reach…The sad irony is that's exactly what's happening to most Americans in this country. (Emphasis added.)
Together, these mix a volatile cocktail of anti-Americanism through which emerged Obama's desire to dwell on a 150-year-old institution destroyed through the most deadly war in our nation's history. Perhaps someone should investigate: just how obsessed is Obama with the ills and evils of his country's past?
Famed political scientist Larry Sabato wrote in his book Feeding Frenzy that an individual's "subtext" – the general assessment of his character – determines much of a candidate's public perception and media coverage. Why, then, has this not become the dominant image of Obama – pushing aside accurate assessments of his paper-thin resumé and even-thinner list of achievements. (At least John Kerry loitered in the Senate 20 years before running for president.) Could this scene have anything to do with it?
When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.
As Tammy Bruce commented, "Yeah, no bias there."
The media refuse to see, but all Americans with a heart for their country's well-being in a time of war should discern the significance of this bias – of the media for Obama, and of Obama against his country.
This article originally appeared as the weekend lead on Friday, August 1, 2008, on FrontPage Magazine


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This program will update VAIO Event Service to version 5.4.1.01260 and will resolve the following symptoms:
- A color setting dialog appears when Power DVD is started in Speed mode of VPCS Series.
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One of which is a much larger supersonic parachute.
When we land spacecraft on Mars we're going extremely fast.
We have got to slow down. So we use a parachute and we use a really big parachute.
To make these large parachutes you have to test them before you go.
You need a way to apply the same load that you're going to feel on Mars.
And you need a way to do that here on Earth.
In the past, we've always used a wind tunnel, but the parachutes themselves are getting so large that they can't fit into any of these wind tunnels any more.
We needed a way to apply this same type of wind in a controlled way and we had to get outside the building.
You want to go to Mars. You want to go big then you've got to test big here on Earth.
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There's a whole bunch of stuff that's got to happen in sequence, one after another, for us to be able to test this parachute.
First a Nighthawk helicopter has got to pick this parachute off the ground inside of a bag.
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WASHINGTON — The debut of the government's health insurance marketplaces drew a huge audience — and underwhelming reviews.
Just 7 percent of Americans say the rollout of the health exchanges has gone extremely well or very well, according to an AP-GfK poll.
The reaction was somewhat better among supporters of the new health care law, but still middling: 19 percent said the rollout went extremely well or very well.
Among the uninsured — a key audience for the health exchanges — 42 percent said they didn't know enough to judge how well the rollout had gone, suggesting an ongoing lack of awareness about the program in its early days.
Despite the bumpy rollout, plenty of Americans are giving the system a try.
Seven percent of Americans reported that somebody in their household has tried to sign up for insurance through the health care exchanges, according to the poll.
While that's a small percentage, it could represent more than 20 million people.
Three-fourths of those who tried to sign up reported problems, though, and that's reflected in the poor reviews.
George Spinner, 60, a retired government worker from Ruther Glen, Va., said he managed to create an online account and password before he got stuck.
"It kept telling me there was an error," he said.
Reynol Rodriguez, a computer technician from San Antonio, said he was able to do some comparison shopping online but computer glitches kept him from signing up.
"I was very much looking forward to it," said Rodriguez, 51. "That's what this country needs — affordable health care."
Rodriguez pledged to keep trying — just what President Barack Obama has been recommending to those who've run into trouble.
Count Janice Brown, a semiretired travel agent from Prather, Calif., among those who had a positive experience.
After some initial trouble on the website, she got through to a help line and downloaded an application to buy a plan for $1,500 a month for herself and her husband. That's $1,000 less than her current private plan.
"I'm thrilled," said Brown, 61. "The coverage is better. It's fantastic."
Among those who've actually tested out the system, only about 1 in 10 succeeded in buying health insurance, the poll found. A quarter of those who tried to buy coverage weren't sure whether they'd succeeded.
Overall, 40 percent of Americans said the launch of the insurance markets hasn't gone well, 20 percent said it's gone somewhat well and 30 percent didn't know what to say. Just 7 percent said the launch had gone "very well" or "somewhat well."
Even among those who support the president's health care overhaul law, just 19 percent think the rollout has gone extremely well or very well. Forty percent say it's gone somewhat well, and 18 percent think not too well or not well at all.
The survey offers an early snapshot on use of the new health insurance exchanges set up by states and the federal government under Obama's Affordable Care Act. Thirty-six states are using the federal government's site, HealthCare.gov, which the Obama administration says has had millions of unique visitors. The administration has declined to release enrollment statistics, saying that will be done monthly.
White House senior communications adviser Tara McGuinness said the administration is working around the clock "to improve the consumer experience," and she stressed that the poll was taken just six days into a campaign over the coming months to educate people about their options.
She added, "The overwhelming attention from millions of Americans checking out HealthCare.gov during the first few days is a good testament to the interest of Americans in new affordable health options."
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that about 7 million uninsured people will gain coverage through the online insurance marketplaces next year, but the role of the markets is actually much bigger than that.
They were intended to be a 21st century portal to coverage for people who do not have access to health insurance on the job. And that includes insured people as well as the uninsured.
There are three big groups of potential customers for the markets: uninsured middle-class people who now will be able to get government-subsidized private coverage; people who currently purchase their own individual policies and are looking for better deals; and low-income people who will be steered by the marketplace to an expanded version of Medicaid in states that agree to expand that safety net program.
The Census Bureau has estimated that about 48 million Americans lacked coverage in 2012, or more than 15 percent of the population.
Starting next year, the law requires virtually all Americans to have insurance or face a tax penalty after a coverage gap of three months.
Opinions are sharply divided on the overall framework of the law: 28 percent of Americans support it, 38 percent are opposed, and 32 percent don't have an opinion either way, the poll found. When asked specifically whether the government should be able to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a fine, only about 3 in 10 Americans agreed, and 68 percent were opposed.
The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Oct. 3-7 using KnowledgePanel, GfK's probability-based online panel. It involved online interviews with 1,227 adults. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points for all respondents. For results among the 76 respondents who attempted to use health insurance markets, the margin of error is plus or minus 13.5 percentage points.
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Google has pushed off the selection of where it will deploy a 1-Gigabit-per-second fiber network until next year, and has tapped Milo Medin, former chief technology officer and co-founder of the cable industry's ill-fated @Home Network venture, to head up the initiative.
In a blog post Wednesday, Medin said the Internet giant is delaying the selection of which towns or cities will be the lucky recipient of a 1 Gbps fiber-to-the-home network until 2011.
"We had planned to announce our selected community or communities by the end of this year, but the level of interest was incredible -- nearly 1,100 communities across the country responded to our announcement -- and exceeded our expectations," said Medin, whose title is vice president of access services. "While we're moving ahead full steam on this project, we're not quite ready to make that announcement."
Google in February 2010 announced "Think Big With a Gig," a contest to fund the buildout of a 1-Gbps FTTH network or networks that will serve between 50,000 to 500,000 people.Google's aim with the experimental project is to demonstrate what's possible with an ultra-high-speed network capable of handling future bandwidth-hungry applications such as "collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3D video of a university lecture."
To date, Google has been experimenting with new fiber deployment technologies on its campus in Mountain View, Calif., and announced a "beta" network to connect 850 residences at Stanford University.
The @Home venture was founded in 1996 by Medin, William Randolph Hearst III, TCI, Comcast and Cox Communications. The company, which acquired Web portal Excite, filed for bankruptcy in September 2001. Its high-speed fiber network subsequently was sold back to AT&T and some 1,350 Excite@Home employees were laid off.
In the past year, telcos and cable companies have been testing 1-Gbps Internet connections and Verizon has shown 10-Gbps links over its FiOS network, but today such speeds aren't useful for residential users on the open Internet.
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Good Morning,
Equity futures are still doing the Monday morning HFT/ POMO fueled ramp job, apparently the ramp is going to continue until the rocket fuel is expended. Surprisingly, though, the dollar is up again, but it is bonds that are falling and thus maybe providing some of the fuel of late. Oil is lower, gold is slightly higher, and food commodities are higher with corn putting in new famine highs.
There is no significant economic data this morning, however, Consumer Credit is reported this afternoon. It will be a very light week for data the rest of the week as well.
It will be interesting to watch the bond market this week as long term bonds are approaching their long term support areas. Will those areas break, sending interest rates higher? A lot of implications for the markets either way…
Below is a daily chart of the long bond futures, you can see that we are probably only a week of descent away from long term support:
Below is a 5 year weekly chart of TLT, the 20 year bond fund. Here you can see that we are just above long term support:
With the "Fed" injecting billions every single day into the markets, it's hard to say what will occur at support. The delusional camp will blame higher rates on an improving economy, while the realists contend that we are printing so much money and indebting ourselves to such an extreme, that money is fleeing bonds despite the "Fed" pumping money into them.
As I've been noting time and again, the economy is "growing" only due to that money pumping – it is the supply of money that is growing. If the "Fed" continues to pump, commodities and food prices will very likely continue to go along for the ride, and if bonds break down, it will make that ride all the more speedy. If they do break down, then yes, it's very possible to see further gains in the stock market, however, that would be the Zimbabwe type of advance and would be extremely dangerous in many ways.
Should bonds hold or bounce off support, then it's possible that stocks may sell off as money flows back into bonds, but again the picture is complicated due to the POMO activity. Right now we have a serious DOW Theory non-confirmation between the Industrials and the Transports, with it being three weeks since the Transports have made a new high, and they are still greatly lagging the large cap stocks. Small caps also continue to underperform, this is normally a sign of an important developing top. Again, how much of the market can be bought by the "Fed" before external forces stop them? So far record food prices, starvation, and revolution haven't phased them, so Zimbabwe looks more and more plausible every day.
But I know that just when everyone is convinced that one outcome is certain to prevail over another, that the other will produce a counter wave to shift people off their positions. In the long run, however, the math says our current money system is toast. It's going to be a wild ride, food commodities and bonds are the things to watch this week as the "Fed" turns its back on the people of the planet.
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Thyroid pills headed to Connecticut's Millstone neighbors
WATERFORD >> Emergency preparedness officials are preparing to distribute more than 1 million potassium iodide tablets in the 10-mile emergency planning zone around the Millstone Power Station.
The pills reduce the likelihood of developing thyroid cancer by protecting the thyroid from radioactive iodine isotopes that can be released after a severe nuclear power plant accident. They're distributed periodically in the nine-town area around the Waterford plant.
The Day of New London reports (http://bit.ly/14HURg7 ) that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will send 1.28 million 65-mg tablets to the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in the coming months.
Adults would take two pills and children weighing less than 100 pounds would take one.
Emergency management directors will distribute the pills in East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, Montville, New London, Old Lyme, Waterford and Fishers Island, N.Y.
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Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 2)
[UPDATE 2] If you are still having version issues with the sample application featured in this article, you can get a fully upgraded version here
[UPDATE] This article series has been reedited on the Adobe Developer Connection. For more information, see this post.
In the previous article of this series, I laid the ground for what will be a step-by-step tutorial about creating a Flex/BlazeDS/Spring/Hibernate project. In this article, I will go into more detail about the creation of the Flex UI for our Todo List application.
Creating a root Maven project
The first issue we have to tackle when creating a Flex/BlazeDS project with Maven is the location of configuration files. Both the Flex compiler and BlazeDS server-side libraries need XML configuration files that describe AMF channels, destinations, adapters and so on. They're usually called remoting-config.xml and services-config.xml. So if we want to prevent duplicating those configuration files, it could be interesting to put everything into one single war-packaged Maven module. But then there is another issue: this monolithic project setup is not really compliant with Maven standards and mixing Flex and Java compilers in the same module is quite ugly. That's why I've chosen to split the client-side and the server-side into two modules with a root pom-packaged module, at the cost of duplicating configuration files.
So first things first, let's create the root todolist module. This article series assumes that you have already installed Maven, Java, MySQL and JBoss or Tomcat. If you have not already done so, see their respective website. Now the first thing to do is to create an empty Maven project using the default archetype. To do this, change your working directory to where you want to create the project and run the following command.
mvn -DgroupId=org.epseelon.samples -DartifactId=todolist archetype:create
This command creates a basic JAR project that we will modify to serve as a root module.
- Delete the "src" directory in this module
- Edit pom.xml and change packaging to "pom" instead of "jar"
- Add the following repositories to the POM:
<project> … <repositories> <repository> <id>flex-mojos-repository</id> <url>http://flex-mojos.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repository/</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </repository> <repository> <id>epseelon-repository</id> <url>http://m2repo.epseelon.org/</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>flex-mojos-repository</id> <url>http://flex-mojos.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repository/</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </pluginRepository> <pluginRepository> <id>epseelon-repository</id> <url>http://m2repo.epseelon.org/</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> </project>
The first repository is the one for the flex-compiler mojo, the second one is my own repository, on which you'll be able to find blazeds libraries until Adobe releases them in a public repository.
Finally, since we're gonna use maven-assembly-plugin and maven-dependency-plugin in submodules, it's good practice to specify an explicit version for those plugins here. So add the following build section to pom.xml:
<build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0</version> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2-beta-2</version> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build>
Creating a Flex module
We're going to start with the "easy" part: the Flex module. There are several maven plugins to handle Flex-based projects, namely ServeBox and Israfil. But the last time I tried them, none handled BlazeDS projects, which is why I reported this issue on Adobe issue tracking system. And then one day, a brazilian guy named Velo decided that it was time to act, and he started working on his own Maven plugin. And I have to say that he's working very fast, because it's working great, as you will see.
You have to change your working directory to the todolist directory you've created above and run the following command:
mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-flex -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 -DarchetypeGroupId=dk.jacobve.maven.archetypes -DgroupId=org.epseelon.samples -DartifactId=todolist-ria -DpackageName=
This archetype create a Flex project under the root module created above, but it uses israfil mojo by default. So once you've created your subproject, you'll have to replace the israfil plugin configuration with the following one:
<plugin> <groupId>info.rvin.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>flex-compiler-mojo</artifactId> <version>1.0-alpha7</version> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <locales> <param>en_US</param> </locales> </configuration> </plugin>
You can also delete the properties section, as flex-compiler-mojo uses its own version of the Flex compiler. Last but not least, you have to add the following dependencies section to the POM:
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>playerglobal</artifactId> <version>18.104.22.168.0.0.477</version> <type>swc</type> <scope>external</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>flex</artifactId> <version>220.127.116.11.0.0.477</version> <type>swc</type> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>framework</artifactId> <version>22.214.171.124.0.0.477</version> <type>swc</type> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>framework</artifactId> <version>22.214.171.124.0.0.477</version> <type>resource-bundle</type> <classifier>en_US</classifier> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>rpc</artifactId> <version>220.127.116.11.0.0.477</version> <type>swc</type> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>rpc</artifactId> <version>188.8.131.52.0.0.477</version> <type>resource-bundle</type> <classifier>en_US</classifier> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.adobe.flex.sdk</groupId> <artifactId>utilities</artifactId> <version>184.108.40.206.0.0.477</version> <type>swc</type> </dependency> </dependencies>
With those modifications, again from the todolist directory, try to run "mvn install". Normally, you should get a BUILD SUCCESSFUL message, and you should be able to view todolist/todolist-ria/target/todolist-ria-1.0-SNAPSHOT.swf in Flash Player.
Tadaaaa! That's it for this second episode: now we have the Flex compiler plugin working on a simple client-only application. In the next episode (now that Luke and Lorelei are back together… woohooo!), we'll create the server module with Spring and Hibernate. Stay tuned!
PS: Here is Todolist project with just the Flex module
PS II: If someone has a good code beautifier WordPress plugin to suggest, I'll take it. I've tried WP-Syntax but it sucks with XML code.


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Tor Books has just announced that Charles Stross will be writing a third trilogy in his universe-hopping, economic development history thriller series, The Merchant Princes (yes it really does require all those adjectives). The series began with a mafia family smuggling goods by time-and-space traveling through a world stuck in the late middle ages, and will now continue with further adventures in speculative economics and family drama. This is the series that Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman has named one of his favorites, because it deals with the rise of capitalism — and how time travel might have affected this economic system's development. We can't wait to read more.
The new trilogy will be published starting in 2015, along with re-issues of the previous six books. You've got plenty of time to catch up before the new ones arrive.
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By Hong Pham and Kim Dao, The Ravenous Couple
(Adapted from Cooking Korean Food with Maangchi)
2-3 lbs. chicken wings (tips discarded, and wings cut at the joints-washed and pat dry)
1 cup of Wondra flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
Soy Ginger Glaze
1 cup water
1 cup thinly sliced ginger
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup vinegar
2 tablespoon honey or corn syrup
1-2 tablespoons Korean fermented chile or rooster brand garlic chile or red pepper flakes (adjust according to your tastes)
1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds (optional)
1. First prep the chicken wings, wash, and pat dry with paper towel. In a mixing bowl, combine about 1 cup of Wondra flour, salt, and pepper. Dredge the chicken wings in the flour mixture to get a fine light coat.
2. Heat some cooking oil in a deep fryer or a deep frying pan to about 350 degrees F. Fry chicken wings, in batches if necessary, about 5 minutes. Remove, and shake any excess flour/grit off and allow to cool.
3. Now in a small saucepan, add the water, ginger, soy sauce, vinegar, chile, sugar and bring to boil. Then add the honey/corn syrup and reduce by half and it will be a thick maple syrup like consistency and set aside.
4. Re-fry the wings until crispy golden brown, about another 5-8 minutes. Drain on frying rack or paper towels. Dredge or brush on the soy ginger glaze. We also like to finish with some toasted sesame on top.
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looks like the uptick rule has a chance, read and then email every1 in that article heh
looks like the uptick rule has a chance, read and then email every1 in that article heh
here is a rough draft you can use to send correspondence
to your representative, which quick input form you can find at:
it shouldn't take all but five minutes...
Dear Rep. (name of your local House Representative):
On January 8, 2009, Rep. Gary Ackerman [D-NY] introduced Bill HR 302 IH in the House Of Representatives to "require the Securities and Exchange Commission to re-instate the uptick rule on short sales of securities."
The uptick rule's rescission in June 2007 contributed directly to short-sellers (including funds) being able to relentlessly "pin the bids" of stocks, such as financials, forcing stock prices lower and lower, and causing massive damage to long investors. To date, shorts have conducted endless bear raids with impunity (and will continue to do so unless and until the uptick rule is restored).
The fact that the uptick rule had not already been re-instated, in the first place, throughout the entire market crash, is downright absurd.
The reinstatement of the uptick rule is important to regular investors who hold their retirement savings in mutual funds & 401Ks. These are middle-class working people who do not trade on the short-term. These people are the majority & they need some type of protection from market short selling that destroy the value of their nest egg. Knocking down stock prices does nothing good for anybody other than a small minority of short-term traders & hedge funds that do the short selling bear raids at the expense of the majority.
In light of these difficult economic times, your support of Bill HR 302 IH would be most sincerely appreciated.
Yours truly,
Joe Siriuslonginvestorski
I suggest everyone send a letter to your stte representation at a minimum. This behavior is directly contributing to the craziness in the markets lately.
Thanks Nisvan
I sent the above letter to my House of Representative Member for Las Vegas...Dina Titus
I find it ASTONISHING that the new head of the SEC didn't make this PRIORITY #1 as soon as she was sworn in. Cox was a disaster....but the fact that Shapiro hasn't changed the uptick rule fills me with dread. Are the shorts THAT powerful? Because any fool can see that the repeal of the uptick rule was a MAJOR contributor to the market crash....as it continues to be and will go on being until the uptick rule is REINSTATED pronto!
It boggles my mind that nothings been done yet about this. It seems like a no brainer to me.
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It turns out that Shigeru Miyamoto's "retirement" yesterday was the result of a misunderstanding at Wired. The legendary Nintendo designer is not stepping down from his current position, although he will be training a new breed of developers for the future.
"Video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto's role at Nintendo is not changing," confirmed Nintendo. "He will continue to be a driving force in Nintendo's development efforts. In discussing his priorities at Nintendo in a media interview, Mr Miyamoto explained how he is encouraging the younger developers at the company to take more initiative and responsibility for developing software.
"He attempted to convey his priorities moving forward, inclusive of overseeing all video game development and ensuring the quality of all products. Mr Miyamoto also discussed his desire to pursue fresh ideas and experiences of the kind that sparked his initial interest in video games."
The idea of Miyamoto ever retiring is ridiculous, as every schoolboy knows that he has access to a Lazarus Pit that keeps him young and healthy forever. He's going nowhere, for he will never die.
Miyamoto not retiring, says Nintendo [Guardian]


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Digital Humanities on YouTube
By Simon Mahony, on 21 May 2012
One of our PhD students, Greta Franzini, has put together this YouTube playlist of DH videos and made it available. I've been looking through and see there are some familiar names there!
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I must say they've had some of the desired effect. The box's picture of an adult male wearing candy-cane-striped 1980's exercise short-shorts has made us all lose our appetites.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Dear Local Nutritionist,
I must say they've had some of the desired effect. The box's picture of an adult male wearing candy-cane-striped 1980's exercise short-shorts has made us all lose our appetites.
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Ok, you know what? I actually have met Richard Simmons. Right after my son was born, Richard Simmons was in town and I, out of complete curiosity, decided to take my son and go check it out. I got to the place, walked through the door, and there stood Richard, wearing his trademark outfit. He made a beeline for me, hugged me and...LICKED ME...I think he was trying to kiss me, but it was more like a lick, and then took my son's feet and PUT THEM IN HIS MOUTH! Woooo! Then Richard went up to the stage and started doing his thing, dancing around with his high energy. I watched for about 10 minutes and had enough. I left and drove straight to Wendy's for a double bacon cheeseburger. I just had to.
That said, Richard did seem like a nice person. Really.
- December 16, 2010 at 3:44 PM
- Barb said...
A student came around with cookies today and I "had" to have one. Then, while eating it, my colleague asked if it tasted at all like almonds. Apparently, someone left a box of cookies in the chemistry department a few years ago. No name on it. One of the profs ran some tests on it (some sort of chromatography, I guess) and they had arsenic in them! Well, I guess those chem professors are not as well like as those of us in biology!
- December 16, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Do you think those cookies have been re-gifted every Xmas since Richard Simmons's heyday of about 1983?
- December 16, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Tobias said...
Hey Doctor Grumpy, I just wanted to write and tell you that I spent the last few days reading through your entire blog. Every post.
You must have some sort of craziness attraction, I never have anything interesting happen to me. Granted, I'm still in college, so there's time yet.
Anyway, I think you are one swell fellow, I appreciate your blog for it's comedy, and for the greater understanding I now have of the medical community in general. I didn't know it was so crazy back there!
- December 16, 2010 at 6:29 PM
- Moose said...
Just remember, folks, a RD (registered dietician) is trained and licensed. Any schmuck off the street can call themselves a nutritionist.
Also, if you've never seen the Whose Line Is It Anyway episode with Richard Simmons, you should. It's absurdly hysterically funny. With fries on top.
- December 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM
This is the funniest Richard Simmons video I've ever seen:
- December 16, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- The Mother said...
Yeah, not appetizing. I wholeheartedly agree.
Our first holiday gift is a box of chocolate covered pecans. I don't think I'll be that thin when they're gone. I left the unopened on purpose (having previous years' experience) until hubby came home and ripped them open.
- December 16, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Thin. I was thin once. I ran 30 miles a week and wore a size 2. Then I had a kid. Bye bye size 2! And I sprained by ankle more than a week ago so I've been sitting on my butt not doing much...I gotta get moving! This time of year is a bad time to be not active! Btw, crutches hurt like hell. My arms hate me.
- December 16, 2010 at 9:39 PM
blown out ankles , knee effusions, hip replacement. stops the daily run. no more downhill ski rush. but nordic cross country helps.
- December 16, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- J-Quell'n said...
LOL @ Kim...that is one epic Richard Simmons story!
- December 16, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- kay said...
Haha, that is great!
- December 16, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- terri c said...
The box is awful--don't open it! Things will go downhill fast.
- December 17, 2010 at 1:45 AM
Barb, are you sure the cookies your colleague was talking about didn't have cyanide in them? The smell of bitter almonds is characteristic of cyanide. I've never heard of arsenic tasting of arsenic. Just a Board-certified toxicologist passin' through...
- December 17, 2010 at 11:20 PM
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The Hair. Can't. Get. Past. The Hair.
- December 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM
The hairline is actually not all that testosterone-driven for an adult male.
- December 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- Tzipora said...
Oh my G-d, Richard Simmons. Weird memories abound. I recall my mother went through a home fitness thing (yet I don't really ever recall her actually exercising in the home and never to exercise videos!) and somewhere between sweatbands and stirrup pants (G-d, I loved those pants!) my mom had Richard Simmons tapes and one was called "Dance Your Pants Off" which was of course especially amusing to my very young brother (maybe 4-5ish) and myself. Even we thought he was um, quite the character but watching my little brother literally shake around until his super hero or cartoon character undies showed... Wow, thanks for bringing up some random memories. Apparently this blog is equally therapeutic for the readers... BTW Richard Simmons also used to creep me out in a childhood nightmares sort of way... :P Thanks!
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