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Divine Doctor Daughter of the First Wife
Chapter 548 – The Former Imperial Daughter
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Chapter 548 – The Former Imperial Daughter
The Former Imperial Daughter
The foot that Feng Yu Heng had raised was put back down, as she leaned back against the wall and listened carefully.
Sounds of groping came from inside the room, and a woman's tender moans could be heard from time to time. A man's voice could then be heard, reminding the woman: "Keep your voice down." His tone was cautious and sounded quite fearful.
The woman said: "What is there to fear! There are many rooms between us. She has always been a heavy sleeper. Back in the manor, she would not even wake up even if there was only a screen between us. She sleeps like a log. Only you are afraid of her."
The man said: "It's not fear. It's to give her maternal family face. No matter what is said, she is also from the Duan Mu branch family. The matter of taking up a post in Qing Zhou this time, do you really believe that third girl will be able to make it happen? It will still depend on whether her maternal family puts in any effort. Be quick, what if she wakes up soon. That would be bad."
"Hah, what's the rush! You only know to take advantage of her; however, I am unable to even live the life of a concubine. Staying at your side really is a losing proposition."
The man spoke helplessly: "Who told you to be her accompanying maidservant. I've taken so many concubines, and she did not even care, yet when I brought up the idea of taking you in, she nearly destroyed the entire residence. Tell me, do I dare bring it up again? Don't cause trouble. Come quickly…"
Feng Yu Heng did not continue to listen and returned to the railing on the deck. She pretended to look at the river, but her mind was running at full capacity.
That man and woman were magistrate Lu and his maidservant. The relationship between the two was very clear, and provided her with a bit of information. IT turned out that magistrate Lu's madam was from one of the Duan Mu family's branch families. With things like this, it was easy to understand why the daughter of a concubine from the Lu family could be sent into the leader of the North's manor.
Magistrate Lu's goal was to become the magistrate of Qing Zhou. Although the position of standard fifth rank magistrate was not high, Qing Zhou was part of Te Tian Prefecture, which was too close to the capital. If he was allowed to assume the position of magistrate of Qing Zhou, that would mean that the Duan Mu family would have a stable position of power in the central region.
But this was also fine. Feng Yu Heng calculated that there might be a chance that she could make use of what had happened between magistrate Lu and that maidservant. Although slightly dangerous, this was the most direct way of accomplishing her goals of getting into the North.
Thinking of this, she did not linger. She turned around and headed straight for the Lu family's private room. Upon reaching the door, she could hear the sounds of snoring coming from inside. Helplessly shaking her head, she could not blame that man for liking a pretty and younger girl. It was fine if madam Lu only looked bad from the outside, but she was also lacking in refinement on the inside. If a woman's snores were comparable to that of a man, who would still want to stay with her?
Feng Yu Heng knew that this sort of person would not wake up even if the door was kicked down, thus she did not wait any longer. Raising her hand, she removed a hairpin and stuck it into the keyhole. After twisting it a few times, she quietly opened the door.
She walked over to the bed and squatted down, maintaining a position that would leave her unseen to the person on the bed. She then pulled out a silver needle and gently poked it into a certain area on madam Lu, causing the sleeping person to immediately wake up.
The person that had woken up completely did not realize that she had not woken up in a natural manner. She subconsciously felt the other side of the bed and found that it was empty. She immediately sat up and was in a daze for a bit. The woman then said through gritted teeth: "He shouldn't have slinked off with that damn slut, right?" After saying this, she got out of bed and put on her shoes. She grabbed a cloak and began to walk toward the door.
Feng Yu Heng stealthily followed behind her. When she passed by her own private room, she pushed the door open and went inside.
Huang Quan was standing in the middle of the room while holding a cloak in her hand. Seeing Feng Yu Heng return, she quickly said: "Young miss, you've finally returned. This servant was about to go out and search for you."
Feng Yu Heng rubbed her hands and told her: "Put it on. We're about to go and see something entertaining."
"Hm?" Huang Quan was puzzled, "What entertainment?"
Feng Yu Heng did not reply, only reaching out and pointing out. In a quiet voice, she said: "Listen."
Huang Quan was puzzled but went to listen. Very quickly, an uproar broke out. It was a woman loudly shouting: "I will kill the shameless little slut that you are. I will beat you to death and throw you into the river to feed the fishes!"
Following this, there was a woman's pleading voice, saying: "Madam! Madam, don't keep hitting me. Have mercy! This servant doesn't dare!"
"Doesn't dare? What is there that you don't dare to do?" The earlier voice was filled with anger: "You shameless little thing. Bringing you along when I got married was a mistake. Treating you well for all of these years was a mistake. If you wanted to seduce the servants of the manor, it could be forgiven, but who knew that you would take an interest in my husband. Just wait and see that I won't beat you to death!"
Following these screams, chaos immediately broke out. Many people had already run outside to take a look. The footsteps were messy, causing the owner of the boat to have no choice but to come and maintain order. He repeatedly shouted: "Everyone, go back! Everyone, go back! It's dangerous!"
But who would listen to him. As long as this show continued, there would be onlookers. Feng Yu Heng also decided to give an order. While walking out, she said: "Go call Wang Chuan and Yuan Fei. They cannot miss out on such an entertaining sight."
Upon opening the door, Wang Chuan and Yuan Fei happened to also be coming out. They looked at each other and heard Huang Quan say: "Young master, young madam, it seems that there are people fighting outside."
Yuan Fei nodded and very reliably said: "Let's go and take a look."
Thus Huang Quan followed behind Yuan Fei, and Feng Yu Heng supported Wang Chuan. The group walked toward the crowd that had gathered.
It had to be said that the Lu family's madam truly had an amazing amount of power. The maidservant looked to be tall and young, but when she raised her hands to defend herself against madam Lu, they were not on the same level. Having her hair pulled, she was kicked in the chest repeatedly by madam Lu. Even magistrate Lu, who had wanted to stop the fighting, was knocked over by a single slap.
The poor maidservant did not even get a chance to put the clothes that she had removed. She had been dragged out completely naked and suffered this beating. Feng Yu Heng finally understood why the owner of the boat had such a hard time getting the onlookers to go back. Especially for the men, it turned out that this was a free look at a beautiful scene! Those that went back were idiots.
Slowly, more and more people began to gather around. Seeing that the crowd could not be dispersed, the owner of the boat could only call boatmen over to keep watch and ensure that nobody fell into the river.
Magistrate Lu's family was in a fierce fight. In this crowd, Feng Yu Heng noticed that the leader of the lower-class entertainers was looking around at everyone present. His gaze focused on the people that were well-dressed and were standing toward the side of the private rooms. Very quickly, Yuan Fei entered his field of view.
That man moved closer to Yuan Fei and seemed to have said a few things quietly to him. Feng Yu Heng stood at a bad angle. She could neither hear him nor see the shape of his lips; however, it was clear that Yuan Fei was stunned. He then turned his gaze toward her and deliberately repeated what the man had just said: "What did you say? Someone in your troupe was formerly an imperial daughter?"
Feng Yu Heng was startled and immediately recalled the girl's familiar figure before getting on the boat. She was moved and nodded toward Yuan Fei. Yuan Fei then said: "How could an imperial daughter have become an entertainer? It shouldn't be a scam to get more money, right?"
That man said a little bit more, and Yuan Fei seemed to have negotiated for a while before agreeing, "Then send her to my private room in a bit. I am living in room number three."
The man happily walked away, and Feng Yu Heng looked at him for a while. Seeing him walk over to the girls' side, he said something to a girl that had her head wrapped in cloth. That girl immediately looked in Yuan Fei's direction; however, her gaze paused on Huang Quan, who was standing behind him.
Feng Yu Heng's heart trembled and a very uncomfortable feeling suddenly appeared. Even if that girl used a cloth to cover her head and a veil to cover her face, she was still able to recognize her. It was Qing Le. It was the formerly popular imperial daughter Qing Le. She just knew that after Lord Ding An lost his position, he left the capital; however, she did not know what sort of changes occurred that would lead to them falling so low that Qing Le needed to become an entertainer.
But she thought about it. She could not leap to any conclusions. If Lord Ding An did not fall completely, Qing Le's appearance here would be worthy of consideration.
She continued to look at Qing Le, who nodded to the man after seeing Huang Quan. The man was very satisfied and continued to look for targets in the crowd.
Madam Lu finally became tired from the beating. She had successfully been pulled away by magistrate Lu. She sat on the ground and wailed loudly. Magistrate Lu apologized and consoled her, finally managing to stabilize madam Lu's mood. Unfortunately, that maidservant lay naked on the floor. She had beaten to the point of being covered in injuries. Even her facial structure had changed from this beating. Magistrate Lu did not even spare her a glance, expressing his own resolution. He very frankly said to the owner of the boat: "I am a magistrate of He Tian Prefecture, and she is one of our manor's servants. She has made a big mistake and was deserving of death. Call some people over and throw her into the river. This official will naturally make sure to compensate you properly."
In this feudal world, servants were no different from animals. Whether they lived or died was something that could be decided with just a few words. Not a single person would care. Even the government could not do anything about masters killing their own servants. Even if they were beaten to death, that was something that ought to happen.
When the owner of the boat heard that he was an official, he did not say anything and immediately called two boatmen over. Carrying the maidservant that could no longer speak over to the side of the boat, a "plunk" sound came, as they threw her overboard without any feelings of pity.
Feng Yu Heng looked into the river but did not feel much of anything. It was not that her heart had become cold after coming to this ancient era. Rather, it was that she had always hated women that tried their best to seduce men on the sly. Although the ancient world allowed for a man to have many wives and concubines, there were still needs to differentiate between proper concubines and these types of people that the madam did not approve of. If a woman does not know to respect herself, there was nobody that could save them.
Magistrate Lu helped the madam back to their own room. Madam Lu had a face filled with hatred. It was clear that beating one servant to death was not enough to vent the anger inside her heart. Arriving at the entrance of their room, she was not willing to go in, no matter what. She even forcefully pushed magistrate Lu inside then slammed the door behind him before sitting on the deck to continue wiping away tears.
The people saw that the show was over and returned to their own rooms to rest. The owner of the boat saw madam Lu's appearance and did not dare disturb her. Very quickly, the boat had become peaceful once more, especially in the area around madam Lu. All of the boatmen stayed far away from her.
Feng Yu Heng raised the corner of her lips into a smile and quietly said to Wang Chuan: "You should go back and rest first. I will go and take a look." After saying this, she walked toward madam Lu's side… Please go to
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British Go Journal No. 10. December 1969. Page 8.
Andrew Daly
Go is a game of thought, and thinking about it is almost invariably productive as well as interesting. Part of the charm of the game, for me at any rate, is in the theorising that is possible, and the variety of possible approaches, each with its particular attractions. In this series of articles I intend to present some of my own pet theories, the aim being not so much to expound authoritatively, but more to suggest provocative ideas which may be thought about, talked about, tried out in games, modified, rejected, or even accepted as being sound. The articles will be fairly elementary - players of about 15 kyu should not get lost - but because my aim is more to be original than to be correct (though naturally I aim at that as well) players much stronger than that should at least find something to disagree with.
Most thinking about Go is about particular aspects of the game, or about particular situations, but there are certain ideas which are absolutely fundamental to every stage of every game: of these ideas the most important is that of sente. A player has sente when he is not forced to answer his opponents last move. This means he can direct the play to whichever part of the board he judges most advantageous. Should he contrive to make forcing (sente) moves in succession, he can keep this initiative, to great advantage, as he has control of the direction the game will take, as well as the considerable local advantages derived from playing first in each situation. Forcing moves can often be achieved by threatening the opponents weaknesses - but beware! - there may be several ways to attack each weakness, or it may be better to leave the weakness to wreak its toll later in the game. It is unlikely that such a weakness would be directly defended, as this would cost sente, so leaving them for later is often a good idea.
One can regard every move as having some locally forcing effect - that is, a failure to answer it directly will cause some local loss. Even for gote (the opposite of sente) moves - i.e. those not answered directly because the local loss is considered to be smaller than the gain possible elsewhere on the board - this potential local gain will remain for sometime in the future. One should therefore try to make this locally forcing effect as great as possible, even when a sente move is impossible, to leave gains for you to make at the appropriate time later on.
The opponents weaknesses should therefore be exploited at the right time to make maximum profit from them. A fairly easy way of making such profit is by attacking a weak group in the early stages of the game. A weak group is one that cannot be captured immediately, but has not yet either two eyes or connection to a safe group. Such a group must make eyes or run away if it is attacked, and the attacker can nearly always make profit in either territory or influence from doing so. Weak groups are fundamental to opening and middle game strategy: Dia 1 shows how much emphasis professionals place on weak groups, for the recommended move is one that, though small in itself, makes an opposing group very weak.
Diagram 1
Black 1 is incorrect, although it is the largest move in terms of territory, as white 2 seizes the vital point. Black should have played at A, even permitting white B, a very large move.
For maximum effect such attacks should be made with tact, and sometimes with restraint. The group that is attacked may well survive to become strong under a direct attack, but If attacked indirectly remain weak long into the middle game as a heavy burden on all your opponents schemes.
Two weak groups simultaneously under attack make a golden opportunity, never to be missed. One of them can frequently be captured and, for moderately good players, the game is over, as the usual compensating gains made by the loser of a group have evaporated in the saving of the other group.
Another fundamental concept is the balance between present and future gains. A moderate player will usually prefer solid territory to the outside strength, or thickness, that brings gains in the future. With increasing tactical skill, however, stones further away from the immediate skirmish begin to have a greater effect on play, and the player with nearby thickness can turn the fight to his advantage. This must not be overdone, of course; a professional has said that Go is the art of balance. There Is a strong connection between this paragraph and the preceding ones, for one of the greatest gains from thickness is freedom from weak groups - all the groups can connect easily to the outside.
Any successful strategy must, however, depend on good tactics. Unless stones are used economically but effectively the most superficially subtle strategy must fail from sheer want of stones. Handicaps in effect compensate for the weaker players extravagant use of stones by giving him more to use - the stronger player can achieve the same effect with fewer stones. The art of thrifty stone placement is called katachi, meaning form or shape. The secrets of form are not to be learnt easily, for it is said that one can achieve 3-dan with this knowledge alone. The only certain way is by long and bitter experience, for, although master games are a fruitful source of ideas, these ideas are understood only after trying them out in games for oneself.
One of the commonest sources of error among moderate players is unnecessarily over-defining positions, i.e. playing on in one part of the board until nearly every point of territory has been decided. There are considerable profits to be made, and deep subtleties to be explored, by judicious tenuki (playing elsewhere) while the result of a local battle is still not quite decided. This makes matters difficult for your opponent to calculate, for even if he plays another stone it may not finish the situation completely, and meanwhile you have made definite and certain gains elsewhere on the board. Playing in this way has an unusual advantage, in that the skill of both players will improve, as they are both forced to consider more difficult positions. This is obviously another procedure that should not be overdone, and before playing tenuki you must have a very clear idea of what your opponent could gain in the situation you are about to leave.
This last paragraph is another example of an idea that has appeared twice before in this article, and indeed is fundamental to all good Go. This is the method of leaving possibilities of gains for future exploitation. These possibilities are called aji. Leaving and exploiting aji effectively is the mark of the mature Go player - Dias 2 and 3 are two elementary examples, but this is a quite difficult matter, and is best learnt from experience. It will not, however, be learnt by a player who is not on the look-out for opportunities, and who plays each position to its death before starting on the next. So be alive to your possibilities!
Diagram 2
Black 1 in Dia 2 is a typical short-sighted play, made thinking it strengthens his territory. In fact, the strengthening is marginal, and could have been done at any time, whereas White has significantly reinforced his lower group. Black should have played immediately at 3.
Diagram 3a
Diagram 3b
Black needs a play in the corner to be safe, but black 1 in Dia 3a loses the possibility of playing at A in diagram 3b, which may be very useful later. So Black should play as in that diagram, leaving the one point gain for later.

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D.J. Williams gets home arrest for DUI
Denver Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams will serve 30 days under home arrest for driving under the influence but not until after the season.
Williams was sentenced Wednesday in Denver but a judge said he didn't have to start serving it until Feb. 17, 2013.
Prosecutors had asked that Williams serve 30 days in jail.
Besides the home arrest, Williams will have to be on probation for two years, have his sobriety monitored and attend alcohol education classes and therapy. He also must perform 56 hours of community service and pay $2,390 in court costs.
Williams is serving a nine-game suspension, partly because of his August conviction for driving while ability impaired.
The team's leading tackler in four of the last five seasons won't return to the Broncos until Nov. 12.


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In October of last year the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem became the first Palestinian hospital to open a school for seriously ill children in its care. The Persistence School caters for children arriving from the West Bank and Gaza in need of cancer treatment and kidney dialysis. The children range from first to twelfth grade and learn Arabic, English, Maths, and Science.
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I have installed Nemo (a fork of Nautilus created by the Linux Mint Team) in my Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with Gnome Shell 3.4.2. I followed the instructions DefaultFileManager on help.ubuntu.com, changing the "inode" and "x-directory" in the file "defaults.list", to make Nemo my default file manager.
Now everything works perfectly, except for one thing: opening folders from desktop.
I have set the option "Have file manager handle the desktop" on. Cool. The problem is that the desktop seems to be handled by Nautilus only, even if I have set another file manager as default. Every time I double click a folder on the desktop, it is opened by Nautilus, not Nemo.
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EMI recently scored an epic victory against the US website that tried to sell Beatles tracks online for a quarter, but the whole incident raised a familiar question: why, exactly, isn't The Beatles music legally available online?
The answer isn't hard to find—as everyone knows, The Beatles' own music company, Apple Corps, hasn't been able to reach a deal on offering the songs online. It's not as though EMI hasn't tried to convince Apple Corps to allow online distribution either; it has, repeatedly, and the surviving Beatles are open to the idea. So why hasn't it happened?
It's due to concerns over piracy—and The Beatles' insistence that they receive compensation for songs that leak onto P2P networks. Given that the major vendors like iTunes and Amazon now offer non-encrypted MP3 and AAC files, it's a sure bet that at least some downloaders would toss their copies out onto the 'Net. The thought of compensating The Beatles for all the times that such tracks are downloaded no doubt makes EMI feel a bit queasy in the stomach.
In fact, we know this is the case because former Beatle Paul McCartney confirmed it earlier this year in a UK interview. (To know what he's talking about, it helps to know that EMI was acquired by private equity firm Terra Firma a few years back, and the group installed Guy Hands as EMI's chief executive.)
"I met Guy Hands on a plane once," said McCartney. "His crew bought EMI. I refer to them as Terracotta but I believe it's Terra Firma. I said: 'What is the problem? I want to do it, we all want to do it.' And he explained that in the deal that we want, they feel exposed. If [digitised Beatles music] gets out, if one employee decides to take it home and wap it on to the internet, we would have the right to say, 'Now you recompense us for that.' And they're scared of that."
The Beatles, in other words, are demanding a guarantee against Internet leaks, or recompense if those leaks happen, as the price of doing the deal. Who knows if this is the whole story, but it's a revealing anecdote, coming as it does right from McCartney's lips.
What makes the antipiracy stipulation so odd is the fact that The Beatles have released their music on CD for years, including newly remastered versions that just appeared in stores. These are better-quality files than anything offered at the mainstream download shops, and P2P users "wapped it on" to the Internet immediately after the albums were released.
The whole situation sounds ridiculous, given this reality. It would be like a movie company releasing a film on an unencrypted Blu-ray disc, then balking at putting a compressed version "on the Internet" because it might be pirated. But it's already on the Internet.
The story gets weirder, though. The Beatles have an agreement with EMI to pump out 30,000 apple-shaped USB drives loaded with the band's music in FLAC 44.1KHz 24bit—higher than 16-bit CD quality—and 320Kbps MP3 files. At this point, one has to wonder if The Beatles are aware that it's possible to make tracks available over the Internet that were not first sold over the Internet (Paul, if you're reading this: yes, it is possible).
But perhaps McCartney's anecdote wasn't the full story, and The Beatles instead have some master plan simply to make more money from releases like the USB drive promotion than they could by offering tracks for a dollar a piece. Given the success of the USB drive promotion, Apple Corps looks poised to make plenty of money; the drives are sold out in the US, and appear to be going for $430 in Japan.


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GLENDALE, Ariz., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Patrick Kane scored two of Chicago's four first-period goals Thursday, both on the power play, igniting the Blackhawks to a 6-2 drubbing of Phoenix.
Chicago has won three in a row and has captured nine of its 11 games this season. Its only two losses have come in overtime, leaving the Blackhawks with a league-high 20 points.
Viktor Stalberg and Dave Bolland also scored for Chicago in the first period. Kane ran his season goal total to eight with his two tallies.
Jonathan Toews and Bryan Bickell added goals in the second period to make things easy for Ray Emery, who stopped 22 shots in the victory.
Mike Smith got the start in goal for the Coyotes, but he was removed after giving up all six goals on 22 shots. Jason LaBarbera made 11 saves the rest of the way.


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text: The Good: The D-Link Amplifi HD Media Router 2000 DIR-827 is a true dual-band router that offers USB 3.0 and an HD Fuel feature that automatically prioritizes Internet traffic for HD media streaming, VoIP applications, and gaming. The router also comes with a good set of other features that are available with other D-Link routers, such as SharePort Plus, guest networking, and OpenDNS parental controls. The Bad: The D-Link DIR-827's firmware is a little buggy. The router doesn't support the 450Mbps Wi-Fi standard, and its performance on the 2.4GHz band could use some improvement. The Bottom Line: The D-Link DIR-827 is a very good true dual-band router that needs a firmware upgrade so it can live up to its potential. The D-Link Amplifi HD Media Router 2000 DIR-827 was recently demoed at CES 2012 with an exciting feature called HD Fuel, which helps make HD media streaming a much better experience. The Amplifi designation also means that it's supposed to offer better Wi-Fi coverage than other routers. \n \nIn my testing, the router indeed worked well, even excellently for the most part. However, I also found some bugs in its firmware that keep some of its features from working as expected. The router's data rates on the 2.4GHz band, though not bad, could also use some improvement, compared with others. \n \nEven with the slightly buggy firmware, at a price of around $145, the DIR-827 is still a very good router. If you want something similar that doesn't currently have any known bugs, check out the or the .\n\nDesign and ease of use\nBeing the third router in D-Link's Amplifi family, the HD Media 2000 DIR-827 shares the traditional design of the HD Media 1000 DIR-657 and not the cylinder shape of the Whole Home DIR-645. The new router has a squarish, flat shape with the front slightly tapered. It also has a very sleek black top that attracts fingerprints.\n \nThe DIR-827 has internal antennas, making it more compact than any previous D-Link router. On the back are four Gigabit LAN ports and one Gigabit WAN port, pretty standard for a Gigabit router. What isn't standard is its USB 3.0 port. This is in fact the first router on the market I've seen that supports USB 3.0. There will be soon more routers that offer USB 3.0 in the near future, however.\n \nOn the front of the router is an SD card slot; this is another feature that I haven't seen before. This makes it possible to quickly share data stored on an SD card. Near the slot is the Wi-Fi Protected Setup button that allows you to quickly hook up a wireless client to the network. (Note that you probably want to avoid using WPS because of some unresolved vulnerability issues.) On top, the router has two blue LED lights that are only visible when lit up. These lights show the power status and the status of the Internet connection.\n \nThe DIR-827 comes with a CD that contains the setup software, making setting up the router a very easy job for anyone. The software walks you through all the steps, from unboxing the router to hooking it up to the power cord, an Internet source, and a computer. After that you will also be prompted to set up the wireless network with a few clicks.\n \nEven without using the software, the router is still very easy to set up. This is because once you hook the router to a computer (via one of the LAN ports), an Internet source such as a cable modem (via the only WAN port), and the power, the rest is easy. Now from the connected computer, if you launch a browser, you'll be directed to a Web-based wizard that will work through similar steps found in the desktop software.\n \nI had no problem getting the DIR-827 up and running and believe that no home users will have trouble with it. To manage other features of the device, you'll need to use the Web interface.\n\nFeatures\nThe DIR-827 is a true dual-band router, meaning it can offer two types of wireless networking at the same time, one on the 2.4GHz band and the other on the 5GHz, each with a top speed of 300Mbps. This means the router can support basically any Wi-Fi client on the market, including those that offer improved data rates for intensive networking needs, such as HD media streaming.\n \nIn addition to those two wireless networks, the DIR-827 can also offer two more guest networks, one for each band. Guest networking, which has been a feature of almost all D-Link Wireless-N routers, allows guests to access the Internet but not local resources such as files or printers.\n \nUnfortunately, during the trials with guest networking, I found a bug in the router's firmware. Once a guest network is turned on, all Wi-Fi clients, including those connected to the regular (nonguest) networks, are isolated from one another, meaning you can't share data between them. In other words, turning on one guest network will make all clients connected to the router be treated as guests, allowing them to access only the Internet and nothing else on the network. This is a major bug that doesn't affect sharing of the Internet but defeats the purpose of the guest networking feature. D-Link has been made aware of this and hopefully will release a firmware update soon.\n \nTo manage the guest networking feature, as well as the router's other features, you'll need to use the router's Web interface by pointing a browser from a connected computer to the router's default IP address at 192.168.0.1. 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The router can now be managed from anywhere in the world when you log in to your OpenDNS account at OpenDNS.com.\n \nWhen hosting an external hard drive, the DIR-827 can also work as a streaming server, making digital content -- including music, photos, and videos -- stored on the connected hard drive available to networked DLNA-compliant media streamers and iTunes. You can also share documents with multiple computers the way you do with NAS servers. You can't restrict access to the hard drive, however, meaning that everyone will have full read and write access to all data stored on the hard drive. \n


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This pendant is one of my favorite Ebay finds from many, many years ago when I first began to learn about antique and vintage jewelry. This little guy cost me $16. It seems unreal but the photo was really poor quality and it was listed in costume jewelry. No one else even bid on the piece. Yes, it is gold and set with sapphires, natural pearls and diamonds. It has a tiny mark on the back that is the shape of a triangle. It's so small it can not be dechipered. I saw one other one just like this one except it was larger. That seller said it was Hungarian. No sure on that. Any ideas?


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Haven't heard the term palliative care before? You aren't alone.
Palliative care (pal-lee-uh-tiv) is a recognized medical specialty focused on relieving both the symptoms and the stress that accompanies serious illness by treating the whole patient and not just the sick part.
The World Health Organization defined palliative care in 2002 as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual."
That definition has been broadened to include care for anyone, of any age, at any stage of serious illness regardless if the condition is life-threatening.
By 2006, the American Board of Medical Specialties recognized it as a medical specialty with palliative care providers treating patients and family members throughout medical treatment. Palliative doctors do not replace medical specialists; rather, they provide an additional layer of help and support.
Lead by the palliative doctor, a team often includes primary doctors, specialists, nurses, social workers, along with spiritual leaders, volunteers and family members.
The wishes of a patient are always focal in the treatment plan in consultation with medical specialists.
The medical care team concentrates on treating your loved one's disease or condition. The palliative team focuses on improving your loved one's quality of life, alleviating suffering and helping you and your loved one cope with the burden of illness. They will:
Provide emotional and spiritual (if requested) support and guidance
The emergence of palliative care, which sprung from the concerns of cancer patients in the 1960s and 1970s, is increasingly important as we are living well past 65.
"If more people live to older ages, and if chronic diseases become more common with age, then the numbers of people in a population living with their effects will increase,'' the WHO said in its publication Palliative Care: The Solid Facts. "This means that there will be more people needing some form of help towards the end of life."
There is some evidence that indicates palliative care may speed recovery by relieving symptom -- like pain, loss of appetite and anxiety -- as difficult medical treatments are administered, according to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
The World Health Organization also suggests that palliative care is "most effective" at the beginning of the illness and also "reduces unnecessary hospitalizations and use of health-care services."
According to research from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, people often live longer when they receive palliative care along with other treatments that are targeted at their illness.
Superior home care agencies offer programs designed to supplement loved ones receiving palliative care. The goal of a professional palliative caregiver is to enrich the quality of life for all care recipients through specialized, essential personal care and assistance.
A professional palliative caregiver possesses a much different set of skills than your medical team. So while you're loved one may be receiving exceptional medical care, it's vital to ensure they're just as comfortable in their day-to-day lives as before the illness or injury.
Professional palliative caregivers provide that warmth and interpersonal connection that sometimes doesn't happen with medical professionals. And it can make life easier for your loved one and your entire family.
For more information on how home care services can supplement your loved one's palliative care, click here (links to new transitioning to palliative care article).
Expect your palliative care team to ask your loved one a series of questions so they can craft a plan tailored to your loved one's unique needs and wishes. It's a great idea to start thinking through these before meeting with your team.
Just remember: The questions, just like the plan, will change as the illness does.
According to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, some of those questions may include:
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The Lakers' coaching search might have taken an exhausting three months that often took a backseat to the team's focus on the NBA draft and free agency. But only two days after being offered the job, Byron Scott agreed Saturday night to become the Lakers' next head coach, according to a league source familiar with the situation.
The Lakers maintained Saturday night that they remained in negotiations with Scott and that the process could still take a few more days before finalizing an agreement. But Scott confirmed to CBS-2/KCAL-9 sports director Jim Hill that he will coach the Lakers next season.
"It feels fantastic," Scott told Hill. "This is a dream come true. I always wanted to coach the Lakers, especially when I got to coaching. It's so unreal. I have to thank Mitch (Kupchak), Jeanie (Buss) and Jim Buss to give me this opportunity."
The terms were not immediately available, but ESPN Los Angeles reported the deal is for four years and worth $17 million, including a team option on the fourth season. That ensures Scott might coach beyond the career of Kobe Bryant, whose contract expires after the 2015-16 season. Bryant also kept a close relationship with Scott after providing a mentor role during Bryant's rookie season 18 years ago.
The terms of the deal also suggests Scott will have more security in overseeing a vast rebuilding project after the Lakers finished last season with the worst record in L.A. franchise history. The Lakers have injuries to monitor in Bryant and Steve Nash. They have a seventh overall draft pick in Julius Randle to develop. And the Lakers have a flurry of new pieces they acquired this offseason, including Jeremy Lin, Carlos Boozer and Ed Davis.
Scott hopes to have his introductory news conference Monday at the Lakers' practice facility in El Segundo. But it is unclear at this point if that will happen.
Scott plans to have four assistant coaches, according to a league source familiar with his thought process. But the source maintained Scott has kept an open mind on candidates. Lakers assistant coach Johnny Davis as well as development coaches Mark Madsen and Larry Lewis have a year left on their contracts, though their future hinges on how Scott fills out his coaching staff.
Scott had long become considered the favored candidate after having three formal interviews since Mike D'Antoni resigned April 30. The Lakers also interviewed Mike Dunleavy, Lionel Hollins, Alvin Gentry and Kurt Rambis.
But several of the candidates eventually took jobs elsewhere, including Hollins (Brooklyn Nets head coach), Gentry (Golden State Warriors associate coach) and Rambis (New York Knicks assistant coach).
Scott, who served as an analyst last season for Time Warner Cable SportsNet, is considered close with Bryant after providing a mentor role for the Lakers' star during his rookie season in 1996-97. Scott would also be considered a popular choice among Lakers fans because of his familiarity with the franchise. He spent 10 of his 14 NBA seasons playing for the Lakers during the "Showtime Era."
Scott had head-coaching stints with the New Jersey Nets, New Orleans Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers. He was fired after the 2012-13 season when the Cavaliers lost 16 of their final 18 games to finish at 24-58, the third-worst record in the NBA. But Scott led the Nets to two NBA Finals appearances in 2002 and 2003 before losing to the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs in subsequent years and was also named the NBA's Coach of the Year for guiding the Hornets into the playoffs in 2007-08.
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by Marianne Breton Fontaine and Johan Boyden, based on a presentation given by Marianne, leader of the YCL in Quebec, to YCL student activists
After almost eighty days of protest, the Québec student strike is entering a record 11 weeks. After 250,000 students and their allies from community and labour groups flooded downtown Montreal with a river of people on March 22, another enormous demonstration was held on Earth Day, April 22.
Close to 300,000 people were in the street ‑ students, environmentalists, labour activists and others from diverse backgrounds. The rally, linked explicitly with the student struggle, showed the unprecedented mounting public anger against with the Charest Liberals and strong support for pro‑people and pro‑nature policies and a "Québec spring."
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Leading can maker Crown is continuing its expansion in China after announcing plans to build a new two-piece beverage can plant in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province in Southern China. With a population of 6.6 million, this prefectural city is strategically located, bordering Guangdong to the East and Yunnan to the West.
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Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence is awaiting the day fans turn on her after growing tired of her goofy persona.
The Hunger Games beauty has become the toast of Hollywood thanks to her blockbuster roles and unpretentious attitude.
Her popularity has been boosted by her silly antics on the red carpet, from tripping over her gowns to 'photo-bombing' fellow stars in snaps.
But Lawrence is adamant the time will come when her kooky behavior will start to irk onlookers and critics.
She tells America's Marie Claire magazine, "Nobody can stay beloved forever. People are going to get sick of me.
"I'm way too annoying because I get on red carpets and I'm really hyper, most likely because I've been drinking, and I can't not photo-bomb somebody if it's a good opportunity."
She adds, "It's something I always tell myself, 'You need to calm the f--- down."
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obsessing over: amy sia flower fields laptop skin
Once in a while I find something new that I become completely, utterly obsessed with (as if that needed pointing out? Really? I think not). Usually some kind of store, item of clothing or accessory, I was pleasantly surprised when I found my mind racing to something a little different. Amy Sia Design. Need I say more?
After having a gander around a few online websites and browsing for products to purchase with my non-existenet funds, I came across Society6; a super cool website based in the US, retailing artwork in the form of all kinds of products. From totes to t-shirts, canvas and phone cases, I've truly found my new love. And it will be sticking around for some time. And Amy Sia's prints made it all even more lust-worthy!
Amazing, bright coloured pieces to fill my heart with spring glee (is that a little bit too far?) and perk my trusty old MacBook up with a pop of print now we've entered April, and therefore practically spring/summer. Wishful thinking. I even ordered my Mum a similar print in a mug for Mother's day (top daughter) and my 'Flower Fields' piece is ridiculously beautiful to look at, I may even have to order a phone case in something similar to brighten up all my technology.
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Lewiston man gets 16 years in prison for luring man to empty building, shooting him
AUBURN, Maine (AP) � A Lewiston man police say lured a 63-year-old meat salesman to an abandoned building with a text message, then shot and tried to rob him, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Steve Anctil pleaded guilty in Androscoggin County Superior Court on Tuesday to robbery for the May 23 shooting that left Kristopher Klimek of Naples with a bullet wound to his abdomen.
The 26-year-old Anctil was sentenced to 25 years in prison with nine years suspended.
The Sun Journal (http://bit.ly/TsF3vE ) reports that Anctil's lawyer says his client accepted the plea deal from the state, in part, because he was facing federal gun sentences that might have lasted just as long.
Prosecutors say Anctil planned to rob Klimek, but ran away empty handed after shooting him.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — With everyone talking about former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's out-of-wedlock child, the politician abruptly put his Hollywood comeback on hold to sort out his personal life and perhaps prepare for a starring role in a big-budget divorce battle.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With everyone talking about former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's out-of-wedlock child, the politician abruptly put his Hollywood comeback on hold to sort out his personal life and perhaps prepare for a starring role in a big-budget divorce battle.
The former "Terminator" star, who earlier this week acknowledged fathering a child with his family's longtime housekeeper, told his talent agency Thursday to postpone all his movie projects.
"Gov. Schwarzenegger is focusing on personal matters and is not willing to commit to any production schedules or timelines," a statement from his office said.
When Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated earlier this month, neither was talking divorce. That may have changed, however, after he revealed Monday that he fathered a now 13-year-old son with the family housekeeper and never told his wife until this year.
People magazine reported this week that Shriver has retained prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney Laura Wasser. If the Kennedy heiress and former network TV anchor goes ahead with a divorce, several prominent attorneys say, she is likely to cash in big.
"It seems to me that he has gratuitously embarrassed her. This should greatly enhance settlement negotiations," said Atlanta attorney John Mayoue, who has represented Chris Rock in a paternity suit, baseball star David Justice in his split with actress Halle Berry, and other celebrities.
Although California is a no-fault divorce state, meaning her husband's action technically can't be used against him in court, the reality, attorneys say, is that it will be.
"Every judge would know about what happened, and I think would hold it against him," said attorney Robert Nachshin, who has represented the ex-wives of a who's who of entertainers that includes Will Smith, Rod Stewart and John Ritter. "Judges are human beings, and Maria will definitely be the sympathetic spouse."
Based on his experience, Nachshin said, Shriver should expect to receive at least $100,000 a month in spousal support and, with two children under the age of 18, thousands more a month in child support.
Then there's the division of the couple's property, including the Brentwood mansion that Shriver and her children moved from earlier this year.
Nachshin said that could be affected by a prenuptial agreement, if the couple signed one when they were married in 1986. Many such agreements call for people to keep what would otherwise be joint assets separate after marriage.
Although the scandal has gained worldwide attention, the attorneys said the most surprising thing about it is that the public found out.
"In my experience what Arnold did is not unusual," said Nachshin, who has represented several clients he said hid the existence of children from their wives and others. Mayoue said separately that it's not surprising for celebrities to have such secrets the public never knows of.
In retaining Wasser, Shriver is turning to an attorney whose specialty is keeping details of celebrity splits secret, and Nachshin said that's what Schwarzenegger should strive to achieve. He suggested that if the former governor is smart, he would seek to have divorce proceedings handled privately by a retired family law judge, keep his mouth shut in public and tell the truth in court.
"Because courts go crazy if people lie," he said.
Celebrity divorces have become a specialty of retired judges because they can be conducted in private, although the final resolution must, like any other divorce, be made public.
In the past, celebrities and the wealthy have gone to great lengths to keep the details of their divorces private, with mixed results.
Billionaire supermarket mogul Ron Burkle tried unsuccessfully to keep secret 1,200 pages of his divorce transcript, including allegations that he told his daughter he had videotapes of her mother having sex with a boyfriend.
In allowing the documents to be unsealed, the California Supreme Court struck down a law that would have kept them from the public. Ironically, the law was signed by Schwarzenegger.
If there is one area where the former governor may prevail, attorneys and other experts say, it would be in getting out of paying a substantial sum to either the 13-year-old boy or his mother.
The woman, who has been identified as Mildred Patricia Baena of Bakersfield by The New York Times and other media, has vanished since her name became public Wednesday. The Associated Press has not independently verified that she is the mother of Schwarzenegger's child.
Schwarzenegger's office has declined to discuss whether Baena is the boy's mother.
On her son's birth certificate, Baena listed her ex-husband as the boy's father and there's no evidence that has ever been contested.
The time limit for her ex-husband to challenge paternity has long since passed, so it could never be legally established that Schwarzenegger is the father, said Michael McCormick, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers & Children.
McCormick previously assisted a man who tried unsuccessfully to get the courts to halt his child support payments to his ex-wife after DNA tests showed the woman's daughter actually was fathered by comedian Sam Kinison.
"From a legal perspective, Arnold Schwarzenegger had nothing to do with the creation of this child," McCormick said.


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We use a Dedicated server and have been for 8 years,it is to make sure your information is safe and secure. Most websites today are on shared servers meaning one server with as many as 25 websites hosted and is more profiable for the business owner, for example on a shared server a website can be hosted for as little as 10.00 usd per month and dedicated can start at 180.00 usd and go up to 900 per month just for 1 server so which one do most pick, it is always going to be shared, it is not the websites owners information on this server it is yours so why worry about dangers when making a profit is more important to them. Dedicated servers have only 1 per server and does make life alot easier for a price, we are willing to pay the price and spare no expense at all for your security.
Shared servers are dangerous and customers may never know they have been attacked for months, here is how it happens, a person visits for example a porn site ,website owner or public gets a virus then goes to visit any site on this shared server now this virus is going to spread to ALL websites on this server and always cause problems and reason why sometimes a site might be down for a few hours restoring all of this information back on server but it is too late the virus scans looking for certain accounts or credit card info and names addresses and even social security info will be stolen and used at a later time, they never do right away, they will wait and do later with your information. So what ever happens to any one person on a shared server they all get infected, here is a short story from a hosting company:
I've been a shared hosting customer with GoDaddy for over a half dozen years and over the past 2 years I've had the index pages on my only hosted site hacked on at least 4 occasions. I've had to go back and remove and replace the index pages. GoDaddy reps have steadily told me that it's my FTP password. The passwords I've used are long and complex, and my computer is secure (scanned for viruses, spyware, adware etc daily), so I have been baffled as to why I've been hit. Then, very recently, I heard from 3 friends who also have GoDaddy shared hosting, and they've said that their index pages were hacked. That is when I decided to Google search for other possigle answers.
PART DEUX: Over the past 2 years, when I've checked to see if a page I have made for someone would come up in a Goodle search, I have (on several occasions) seen the page appear in a Google search result ... but with a warning saying something like, "WARNING: This page can harm your computer!". The entity that causes that Google "warning" is StopBadware.org ..... So, now I have two problems, one is my site got hacked and secondly, I now have to deal with StopBadware.org to have that warning removed from the Google search results. StopBadware probably provides a good and needed service, but they're arrogant and smart-assed. After submitting "requests" to their web forms, they send back an email saying (paraphrasing here), "We see your site is okay now and we'll tell Google to remove that nasty warning, BUT if you should do this again, we ain't gonna be in no hurry to help remove that warning." In other words, they threaten you.
I just got off the phone with another GoDaddy tech support person who told me that if someone can get into a server of shared hosting accounts ... ore into one shared hosting account, they still cannot get into my account or change my index pages. Is that true?
Lesson: don't use shared hosting providers, especially GoDaddy - although there is worse. If the hosting provider spent 5 minutes per server installing SpyBye, implemented DNS forwarding to OpenDNS, prevented outbound SYN, and replaced SSH and FTP with Ajaxterm over SSL using 2FA and OTP's or REST (while only allowing 80 and 443 in) then they would have less of these problems. Of course, they'd then have to work on their software security... which is basically an unsolvable problem at that scale.
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Today we have a super special post for GrimmGirl! My very first collaboration with the very talented Lita Kino from LitaKino Anime Corner. We swapped anime movie suggestions so while she's guest spotting here reviewing My Neighbor Totoro you can see my review of Children Who Chase Lost Voices on her site! Be sure to check it out and enjoy Lita's swag Totoro review 😀
Second Collaboration is here!!!!
If you haven't read the first collaboration I did with Daz girl from Unotaku click here~!
It feels to complete another of my goals and do collaborations with other bloggers, but takes time to plan and work out what you want to do. For this collaboration I teamed up with a familiar face in this community at the moment, she's a cracker for a anime blogger, Kat from Grimm Girl. She was one of many people who responded to a tweet from a month ago I announced was looking to collab with blogger friends.
For our collaboration together we chose to pick an anime movie for one another to watch and give our thoughts on it afterwards in a post. Kat chose for me a iconic anime film which I had never seen, had been meaning to for so long.
My Neighbor Totoro
Totoro is Studio ghibli main icon, I love this studio as the next anime fan does for their magical, realistic life approach to their films. I've seen some of their popular works Howl's moving castle and spirited away but not the most Iconic of them all My neighbour Totoro. So for a long time I was holding a shame sign on me for years, for never getting around to seeing this film. I am glad Kat chose this movie for me to watch, as I know it's a very dear movie to her.
My neighbor totoro premise surrounds two young girls Satsuki and Mei, who move to the country with their dad. They move so they are closer to the hospital of where there mother is recovering from a illness. Satsuki and Mei learn of the spirits of the forests, that only children can see them not anyone else can. They both encounter the "keeper of the forest" a big like rabbit creature Totoro and all of the other spirit creatures.
So what did I think of this Iconic movie?
It didn't take long for the main theme song of the movie to be stuck in my head "Totoro, Totoro", that'll stick around for a while. I ended up loving this movie to pieces, which I really didn't think I would. The whole premise of the story was setup brillantly at the start of the movie, I had a good introduction to the two main girls Satsuki and Mei. Two very lively, happy girls moving to the country with their dad, so they can be closer to their mum who was in the hospital due to a long term illness.
Satsuki and Mei were just adorable and their bond as sisters throughout the movie is really touching, reminded me how my relationship was with my sister at a young age. At both their age they have such unlimited freedom, there characters are a great reminded of anyone who was at that age once. I watched the film in dubbed and finding out Dakoto Fanning and Elle Fanning, sisters voiced the main girls, was rather surprised. I love them as Satsuki and Mei they brought out the full potential of every child's childish nature.
What I was most excited about seeing in this movie was Totoro himself, so many people love this iconic mascot. After seeing him, If I was Mei in the scene of discovering Totoro I would be a little scared in honesty. He's not this cuddly rabbit thing I had imagined him to be, Totoro is cute but some of his expressive was a little creepy. Though those expressive faces he makes is part of his unique characteristics as a character.
My neighbor Totoro is indeed a anime film for all ages. It's a film that anyone will be able to relate to because of how ordinary the main plot is, family moving to a new house, new life, sick mother. The magical, fantasy elements just add to the excitement of the enjoyment of the film and don't let it shy away from the realism in the plot. So ordinary plot with a mini magical twist to it, is what I loved most about this film. I cannot see how anyone could not love this movie, it was pure enjoyment for me to watch.
Studio Ghibli from the beginning has this amazing ability to enchant you with it's fantasy, magical themes mixed with a real life aspect approach. Totoro rides on the big theme of family very strongly and why I believe this movie will relate to so many people.
Again I thankyou Kat from Grimm Girl for doing this collaboration with me, I got a lot of out of this, for another ghibli movie for me to buy and re watch. Please check out Grimm Girl's blog, she does anime related content as well as covering other interests she has.
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More on Custom Ant Tasks
This article is a continuation of the article " Introduction to Custom Ant Tasks." Reading through the previous article is highly recommended because I am just going to pick up where I left off last time. For this reason, my examples in this article will start numbering at five (5). I am assuming you have a moderate level of experience with Ant on your platform-of-choice. (I use Windows 2000 during the day and Mac OS X when I'm at home.) Also, my code examples use some of the newer Java syntax bits such as enhanced-for and generics.
I left off in the first article just shy of mentioning nested elements. My reason for deferring the topic was that I wanted enough material and explanations to be valuable. However, before we get into the actual mechanics of nested elements, let's take a moment to cover custom types.
Topics in this article
- Types versus Tasks
- Custom Condition Types
- Handling Specific Nested Types
- Handling Arbitrary Nested Types
- Task with Nested Tasks
- Nesting Tasks and Conditions
- Custom Selectors
- XML Namespaces
Types versus Tasks
Types are anything that lack an execute() method. This means that Ant will not attempt to call the execute() method when it encounters them. Instead, the parent element will interact with the type via some appropriate method calls which are entirely up to the developer to provide. This being the case, types serve as auxillary helpers for other tasks, usually as nested child elements. You may note that Ant does provide the org.apache.tools.ant.types.DataType class from which many of Ant's own types derive. However, it is perfectly fine for your own tasks to (implicitly) derive directly from java.lang.Object. (Also, although I have yet to personally verify this, I suspect a publicly accessible inner class might also work, provided the typedef is correctly set.)
Ant maintains a distinction between tasks and types to the point that you declare types with a typedef task instead of a taskdef task. For the sake of the example, this means you will list your custom types in a second properties file.
Aside from the setter methods to support attributes in the build file, other methods you provide are at your discretion. Indeed, the whole reason for the type to exist might be limited to the support of exactly one other task or type, or it might be a more generic and flexible type that you use across multiple tasks or types. Ant, for example, has the fairly specific arg element underneath the exec task and the fairly generic fileset element which is supported throughout many Ant tasks which need to deal with files. There are even a few special-purpose categories of types in Ant, the condition type (not to be confused with the <condition> task itself which contains nested condition types) being notable.
Custom Condition Types
Ant has a task called condition, but the various elements which nest underneath it are condition types. Some examples familiar to Ant script writers include isset (for properties) and available (for files and resources) as well as the logicals and and or and the negation not. It may happen that you need some logic to happen based on a condition which is either exceedingly cumbersome to write with the standard condition types, or which is just not possible. Writing a custom condition type is almost identical to writing a custom task:
- Implement org.apache.tools.ant.taskdef.condition.Condition interface
- Implement public boolean eval() method
- Provide standard instance variables and setter methods for attribute support, if needed
Remember when I said the parent element interacts with a type element via some appropriate method? For a condition type, this is the role of the eval() method which returns a boolean value.
Now, once your Java source code is written, create a properties file to map your Java class to an Ant element name. Do not list your custom type in the same properties file you are using for custom tasks; they need to be referenced by separate typedef and taskdef task statements, respectively.
Example 5: A Numerical "Greater Than" Condition
The standard conditions do not support checking numerical-based comparisons such as greater than, less than, or equal to. This is how a numerical greater than condition would work:
//NumGreaterThanCondition.java package org.roblybarger; import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException; import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Condition; public class NumGreaterThan implements Condition { private double arg1; private double arg2; public double getArg1() { return arg1; } public void setArg1(double arg1) { this.arg1 = arg1; } public double getArg2() { return arg2; } public void setArg2(double arg2) { this.arg2 = arg2; } public boolean eval() throws BuildException { return (arg1>arg2); } }
Create MyAntTypes.properties (if necessary) and add this entry:
numgt=org.roblybarger.NumGreaterThanConditionUpdate your jar file, and then use an Ant script similar to this to put the custom condition to use:
<project name="ex5" default="demo" basedir="."> <typedef resource="MyAntTypes.properties" classpath="myant.jar"/> <target name="demo"> <property name="valueA" value="10.34"/> <property name="valueB" value="9.52"/> <fail message="${valueA} is NOT greater than ${valueB}"> <condition> <not> <numgt arg1="${valueA}" arg2="${valueB}"/> </not> </condition> </fail> <echo message="valueA is greater than valueB"/> </target> </project>
Something like this might be useful if you wanted to verify that you have sufficient disk space before attempting to copy a large file. (The OS-specific details of computing available disk space are left as an exercise to the reader.) You also might employ custom conditions elsewhere to perform sanity checks or enforce business logic rules at various places in your build. Providing a collection of small, focused conditions is better than one monolithic condition: The smaller condition types can be reused more easily, and overall maintenance is reduced to minor updates your ant script should your business rules change slightly.
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This article was originally published on October 5, 2006