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Aus swimmers took sedative Stilnox to relax and 'be normal'
UPDATE: IMMENSE pressure and the need to "be normal for one night" fuelled a team bonding session where swimmers took sedatives and played childish pranks on team members before the London Olympics, James Magnussen told reporters on Friday.
The admission followed an announcement from Swimming Australia that Magnussen and five of his 4x100m relay members - Eamon Sullivan, Tommaso D'Orsogna, James Roberts, Matt Targett and Cameron McEvoy - would be investigated by its integrity panel over the latest sports scandal to rock the nation's athletes.
In a statement read out by Australian Swimmers Association Daniel Kowalski on behalf of the squad, swimmers admitted to taking the sedative Stilnox with the knowledge it had recently been prohibited by the Australian Olympic Committee.
They claimed to have participated in what they thought was "harmless fun", where they "sat around the hotel room telling stories, laughing, bonding, just as we had wanted to do".
It was conceded that at some point, "some team members left the room and decided to make prank calls to random rooms and did knock on the doors of some of our team mates but at no time did we ever feel it was anything more than childish behaviour and there was definitely nothing untoward in our actions".
The team maintained it was "honouring tradition" but accepted it was childish and took responsibility for the members who had originally denied the incident took place.
"We have chosen to announce this today as together we want to put this incident behind us," the statement read.
"A lot has been written, speculated and talked about with regards to this incident - we own up to it, we take responsibility for it and are deeply sorry for it."
Apologising for his "ridiculous" behaviour Magnussen said while the pressure he was under had been building "for the best part of a year" and the chance to bond was appealing, he had a "lot of regrets".
But he denied the Stilnox affected his performance in the pool and dismissed reports he and Targett had bullied a younger male team member as "completely false".
The pills were prescribed to Sullivan and Targett and filled in Australia before the team stayed at the Manchester training camp.
Sullivan told the conference Stilnox was a substance commonly used in racing and something he had often taken to prepare for early starts.
James Robertson maintained on Friday he had "never taken Stilnox in my life", but admitted being part of the night's antics.
All other team members said they had taken one tablet.
According to Swimming Australia, the six members could be fined and/or handed a letter of warning depending on the outcome of the inquiry.
The integrity panel was set up earlier this week following the release of a scathing review which found a "toxic culture" of bullying, drinking and misuse of prescription drugs contributed to the poor performance of Australia's swimming team in London.
Australia's swimming shame deepens with new revelations
MEMBERS of the men's 4 x 100-metre relay team are expected to face the media today to admit to damning behaviour which is expected put a blowtorch on Australian swimming's toxic culture.
James Magnussen, Eamon Sullivan, James Roberts, Matt Targett, Cameron McEvoy and Tommaso D'Orsogna will front a press conference at which they are expected to reveal explosive details about their behaviour, including the use of prescription drugs, in the lead-up to the London Games.
Fellow Olympian Jade Neilsen has spoken out ahead of that press conference, detailing her teammates' ''inappropriate behaviour''.
Neilsen said she and an unnamed roommate were woken by late-night phone calls and door-knocking from James Magnussen, James Roberts and Cameron McEvoy while at a team staging camp in Manchester.
Neilsen said she and her roommate told coaches of the men's strange behaviour, but were ignored.
''I will confirm they were being inappropriate and it was towards [unnamed roommate] and I. I won't specifically say [what happened],'' she told News Limited.
''It has sort of already come out, pretty much, what they've done. All I can say is their behaviour was completely inappropriate. It was so inappropriate it was not funny. That is all I can really say about that.''
News Limited reported that Magnussen barged into Neilsen's room with McEvoy, both wearing only jeans.
Later, McEvoy reportedly returned with Roberts, who was wearing only underwear, and started banging on the doo
The revelations come after a report detailed a "toxic culture" of bullying, binge drinking, prescription drug use, breaking team curfews and deceit by some of Australia's Olympic swimmers went unchecked during the London Games.
This, and a number of other "cultural factors", was found by the Bluestone Review to have contributed to poor results and an "unpleasant" experience for many of Australia's swimmers, coaches and staff in London.
Australia won 10 swimming medals overall, including six silver and three bronze - the country's worst performance in 20 years.
The subsequent review found any sense of team among the Australian swimmers broke down as the focus switched more to individuals in the lead-up to, and during, the event.
A "candy shop of distractions" inside the athletes' village also added to the lack of team cohesion.
Some swimmers described their London experience as the "Lonely" and "Individual" Olympics.
"Swimmers seemed to have missed the power of a shared experience, and critically, of friendship. In simplest terms this meant it was a lot less enjoyable than they expected," the report released yesterday read.
"It is plausible that emotional tension in the group built to disharmony and sometimes became exclusion and, in the rare extreme, animosity between athletes."
A focus on the "best" swimmers within the team also added to tension within the team, the review found.
Some of the review's most damning findings centred on bullying within the team, with some individual acts of "unkindness, peer intimidation, hazing and just bad form" going unpunished.
The review also found the team suffered from a lack of authority.
"(This) occasionally peaked in a mood where the boldest took centre stage. At its least attractive, the team dynamic became like a schoolyard clamour for attention and influence," the report read.
In terms of a lack of discipline, the review found "situations were left to bleed ... for fear of disrupting preparation for competition".
Australia took one of its youngest swimming squads to London - 24 of the 47-member team were first-time Olympians. The review found there was not enough induction for these athletes.
Further, the review was critical of Swimming Australia's failure to dampen expectations.
"In the absence of a leadership voice from Swimming Australia ... the media reported, even bolstered, expectations of the medal haul and overshot the mark."


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'It's like you're both interesting and really boring at the same time.'
'I've certainly been told that people find me boring.'
'The Mr. Excitement thing.'
'The nickname is obviously sarcastic.'
(David Foster Wallace, The Pale King)
Greg Boring's Heavy Syrup is released on the Critical Heights label.
The release date of Greg Boring's Heavy Syrup is/was February 11th, 2013.
Greg Boring's Heavy Syrup is an antidote to the "unnerving complacency, momentary excitement, and syndicated relapse" of rock music.
Greg Boring's performances are devised around avoidances.
Greg Boring "don't play with familiarity, they change less, they don't sing with words and they don't think about sex."
Greg Boring's members include: Greg Boring, Greg Boring, Greg Boring, Greg Boring and Sarah Byrne.
Greg Boring's influences include: Moog, Vermona, Crowther, Boss, Digitech, Europa, Vox, Sarah Byrne, Casio, long sticks, short sticks, big big big springs, rubber bands, Stihl, Coca-Cola, and Michael.
'...Would you like me to quote you some statistics?'
'Er, well. . . '
'Please, I would like to. They, too, are quite sensationally dull.'
(Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything)
No. of Greg Boring profiles listed by Facebook at time of writing: 11
No. of Greg Boring profiles listed by LinkedIn at time of writing: 7
Percentage of LinkedIn Greg Borings based in the United States: 100
No. of blissfully globulous avant-garde analogue synth bands named Greg Boring: 1
Percentage of blissfully globulous avant-garde analogue synth bands named Greg Boring based in Brisbane, Australia: 100
No. of Greg Boring tribute bands (worldwide, at time of writing): 0
Possible names for Greg Boring tribute bands: Boring Greg, Greg Boringer, Egg Gnawing, Greg Norman, Alan Boring, Ian Boring, Hermann Böring, Greg Boeing 747, Jake the Peg with his extra Greg (Boring).
No. of tracks on Greg Boring's debut album (Heavy Syrup): 7
Total duration, in minutes, of Greg Boring's debut album (Heavy Syrup): 32:06
Length of shortest track: 1:38
Length of longest track: 7:33
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol)
Asked of the "brown sound", the Rt Honourable Dean Ween of West Boognishire explained that "brown" means "fucked-up in a good way". For Ween producer Andrew Weiss, brown sounds are those "glorious mistakes" e.g. the strangled sound of a distortion pedal when its battery is dying.
In a brown wallpapered rehearsal space, Greg Boring play keys not of ebony and ivory but of brown and brown. They tickle the brown-and-browns with fingers encrusted in dusty brown residue. A mousse-y brown ooze leaks out of their keyboards' speakers, staining the already-brown carpet even browner and filling the air with a stagnant brown pong.
(In a good way)
Greg Boring's 'Denuder' captures a distorted female vocal (presumably belonging to Sarah Byrne) indecipherably groaning over a primitive keyboard pattern and fuzzy homemade whirligiggery.
Elsewhere Byrne's voice is similarly muffled, although Greg Boring's 'Fine Find Fined' conjures up an exhausted Karen O reluctantly collaborating with Marvin the chronically depressed robot. Greg Boring's 'Alvin', meanwhile, is more like Martina Topley-Bird snorkelling in an industrial vat of strawberry Calpol.
The two-chord plodding of Greg Boring's 'Huh' could be that of a child, engrossed by the instrument and sound s/he has discovered, lacking any socially constructed reverence for adult musical conventions, distracted from the murder of his/her toy-talking-telephone in the next room.
Greg Boring's 'Primitive Lotion' is denser, heavier, brownly psychedelic, sustained by a Krautrock-ish chug. About three-quarters of the way through, the
squelching breaks down and fades out. Impassioned and indifferent at the same time, a deadpan voice announces: "Haa. Haa."
And the
squelch kicks back in.
According to the A-Z Guide to Music Journalist Bullshit, synths should not be described as 'squelchy' because every synth doth squelch. That is what they are for, apparently. A nice idea in theory, yet we're all familiar with the harsh reality expressed so powerfully by George Orwell in his 1945 masterpiece Yamaha Farm:
Mountains' synths, for example, generally refrain from the squelch. They shimmer optimistically, glisten and gleam like stars in the night's sky. Greg Boring's synths, on the other hand, are squelchier than a Yorkshire peat bog in flood season. If your ears were wellies, you could get them stuck in this LP.
Another thick and lengthy synthesiser escapade, Greg Boring's 7:33-minute 'Night Moves' is reminiscent of Nate Young's post-noise squelch duo Moon Pool & Dead Band. On this occasion it is a male voice (Greg Boring?) that sings the non-song. He, too, is buried enigmatically low in the mix, muttering like a meek drunk, intimidated by the overwhelming squelch.
Their name and manifesto rejecting traditional rockist mores makes it patent that, like David Foster Wallace, Greg Boring are enticed by boredom and yearn to create genuinely boring art. As with Wallace, their talent and artistic spirit have thwarted this aspiration for mundanity.
No. of tracks on Greg Boring's debut album (Heavy Syrup) that are genuinely boring: 0
8J.R. Moores's Score

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TORONTO - Scattered plaques and occasional monuments are often the only Canadian reminders of a nearly three-year war fought two centuries ago that saw an empire and an upstart nation struggle for dominance on both sea and land.
And those tokens of remembrance commemorating the War of 1812 usually offer very little detail about the thousands of soldiers who perished while waging war on what has come to be known as Canadian soil.
They are the "forgotten vets," said George Chisholm, whose great-great-grandfather and namesake fought in the Battle of Queenston Heights and other skirmishes throughout the war before eventually settling in present-day Burlington, Ont.
"I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we're 200-year plus friends with our neighbours to the south," Chisholm said from his home in nearby Oakville.
"There's a feeling that we don't really want to insult them."
Soldiers who died in clashes such as Queenston Heights and naval skirmishes along the Atlantic coast hailed from both Britain and the colony that was christened Canada more than 50 years later, but little was ever done to commemorate their loss.
"The War of 1812 has often been called unimportant and we have forgotten it to a large extent," said John Warburton, whose fourth great-grandfather was a veteran.
"Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea and France were all faraway foreign lands; the Militiamen and boys of York and Niagara fought in, and gave their lives for, their homeland. When they lost, their wives and children were threatened; their homes were ransacked or burned. That is why it was a war of consequence and worthy of our remembrance."
Canada appears to agree as it prepares to mark the bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812 and launch remembrance initiatives designed to give the conflict a more prominent place in Canadian history.
The federal government and the provinces are poised to invest millions in educational campaigns, new monuments, festivals, battle re-enactments and local projects designed to honour the war that some say paved the way for Canada's independence.
Historians say it's little wonder Canadians have been reluctant to embrace the war's legacy until recently.
The conflict was particularly hard to incorporate into the folklore of an emerging nation eager to shed ties with its colonial past, said Robert Fraser, history professor at the University of Toronto and executive officer at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
"The period from the 1780s through to about the 1850s is arguably one of the most under-studied periods in Canadian history, and part of the reason for that is it doesn't fit comfortably with a modern liberal democracy," Fraser said.
"The elites there were proponents of a counter-revolutionary society."
A war fought to maintain a way of life dominated by a monarchy did not fit well with vision of the Fathers of Confederation, he said, so very little effort was made to adopt the story of the war into the national narrative.
The story was particularly easy to gloss over, Fraser added, since the battles took place in concentrated pockets spread out over a large territory and were fought predominantly by regulars in the British army.
The war also marked a particularly dark time in history. Those accused of betraying the British cause were routinely tried for treason, and killed in mass executions once found guilty, he said.
But there are clear signs that the federal Conservatives aren't going to be squeamish about commemorating the war.
The Ministry of Canadian Heritage has unveiled a four-year plan to honour the conflict, featuring a cross-country education campaign and an official month of commemoration slated for October 2012.
Ontario, home to many of the most notable battles of the war, will spend $32 million to improve historical sites, with $1.4 million earmarked to help local groups with their bicentennial projects, according to the province's Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
The War of 1812 played a defining role in Canadian history that ought not be neglected, said Fraser.
"Had the Americans conquered, Canada's past would have been different," he said. "That didn't happen, so it is important."


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MIAMI (AP) Tymell Murphy finished with a huge double-double, career-highs with 24 points and 20 rebounds as Florida International pulled away in the second half to beat Florida A&M 88-72 Wednesday night in nonconference play.
Malik Smith added 23 points and Jerome Frink scored six points and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds for FIU (5-7).
Ahead by two, 61-59 with 7:59 to play, Smith's 3-pointer capped a 20-6 run that pushed FIU's lead to 16, 81-65 with just 1:53 remaining. Smith led FIU with 13 points in the second half.
The Panthers dominated inside, outscoring the Rattlers 43-24 in the paint.
FIU also scored 34 points on 25 Florida A&M turnovers.
Murphy had 16 points and 10 rebounds in the first period as FIU led at halftime 44-37.
Reggie Lewis and Jomari Bradshaw scored 15 points apiece to lead the Rattlers (4-10).


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Aboriginals, farmers, and environmentalists are joining forces to defeat BC Hydro's planned Site C dam on the Peace River.
They say the northeast has given up much for resource development — oil and gas, coal mining, logging, hydro power, and wind farms — and that the last best stretch of the Peace River should be permanently protected.
"Enough is enough," Roland Willson, chief of the West Moberly First Nations, told The Vancouver Sun. "We need to slow down. It's more important to maintain the integrity of what's there than put it under water ... all to expand the industrial footprint."
Natives say they won't be bought off by BC Hydro.
"This valley is priceless," insisted Liz Logan, tribal chief of the Treaty 8 Tribal Association. "There is no amount of money or land they can give us."
A new report by the David Suzuki Foundation and Global Forest Watch Canada finds there are 28,587 kilometres of pipelines, 45,293 kilometres of roads, and 116,725 kilometres of seismic lines used for oil and gas exploration within the Peace region.
Laid end to end, all these roads, pipelines and seismic lines would circle the Earth nearly five times, the report finds.
"This is not about NIMBY — not in our backyard," Willson said. "Everything is in our backyard."
Site C is a planned third dam and 1,100-megawatt hydroelectric generating station on the Peace River between Hudson's Hope and Taylor. It is currently undergoing a joint provincial-federal environmental assessment process.
BC Hydro says Site C is needed to meet future power demands, and predicts that the province's electricity needs will grow by about 50 per cent over the next 20 years, driven by economic expansion and a projected population increase of more than one million residents.
The Crown corporation expects to deliver its environmental impact statement — thousands of pages of technical documents — early next year, after which the public has just 60 days to comment.
Willson emphasized that natives are not opposed to development in the northeast, but are drawing a line with the Site C dam.
"What we are opposed to is the flooding of that valley," he said, calling for talks on alternative ways to meet B.C.'s energy needs,
Natives would prefer to win in the court of public opinion, but are prepared to take legal action if necessary to stop the dam.
"At the end of the day, if that's what it takes, that's where my nation is going to be," he said. "We'll go to court if we have to."
Treaty 8, signed in 1899 with the federal government, allows northern natives, including those in B.C.'s Peace region, to maintain their traditional ways of life, Logan noted.
"That's getting extremely hard for our people to do. We're getting extremely concerned about the impact of what's happening in our territory."
She said Site C will flood a wildlife-rich landscape that also contains aboriginal burial and other archeological sites.
"Being nomadic people, we have sensitive areas through the entire territory," Logan said. "The rivers were our corridors of transportation. Wherever our people got sick and died is where we left them. There is potential disturbance of ancestral remains."
Farmer Ken Boon, located at Bear Flat on the Peace River, said the dam would destroy the best farmland north of Quesnel, and that BC Hydro's property acquisitions over the decades in preparation for Site C have stifled agricultural development.
The dam would flood about 3,000 hectares of class-one and class-two farmland.
"I would describe Site C as the biggest threat to farmland in B.C. from a single project, by far," said Boon, whose wife, Arlene, is a third-generation farmer in the Peace.
The David Suzuki Foundation commissioned Global Forest Watch Canada to conduct an analysis of land use from 1974 to 2010 over 56,000 square kilometres in the Peace.
That analysis finds that the region has been hacked to bits by unrestrained industrial development.
That includes: 16,267 oil and gas well sites; 8,517 petroleum and natural gas facilities; 3,868 square kilometres of coal tenures; 243 square kilometres of mineral tenures; four existing and four proposed coal mines and two coal exploration projects; thousands of existing and planned logging cutblocks covering 5,097 square kilometres; two large-scale hydroelectric dams — W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon, with reservoirs — and 247 potential run-of-river hydro-power sites.
In comparison, just 4.2 per cent of the region is designated as parks and protected areas.
The foundation recommends the B.C. government:
BC Hydro proposes an earth-fill dam 1,050 metres long and 60 metres high, an 83-kilometre-long reservoir, re-alignment of four sections of Highway 29, and two 77-kilometre transmission lines along existing transmission line right-of-way connecting Site C to Peace Canyon.


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- MBean Features
JMX::Jmx4Perl::Manual - Documentation for jmx4perl
JMX (Java Management Extensions) is the standard management solution in the Java world. Since JDK 1.5 it is available in every Java Virtual Machine and especially JEE application servers use this technology intensively for exposing managable entities. In fact, the popular JEE Server JBoss 4 is based on a JMX kernel.
For the Perl world, it's not that easy to access JMX MBeans. MBean is the Java term for JMX managed entities. The existing solutions are mostly based on the Java standard JSR-160 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=160), which defines how JMX can be accessed remotely. The problem of JSR-160 with respect to Perl is, that the default communication protocols rely on exchanging serialized Java objects. Hence they require to start a Java Virtual Machine in the one way or other. This has quite some implications concerning installation requirements (you need a Java virtual machine with the proper version installed) and performance (firing up a JVM is not something you get for free)
The ultimate goal of jmx4perl is to bridge both worlds in the most simplest way. This is done with the agent and proxy based approaches described below. In short, the building blocks of this bridge are based on standards well known and used in both worlds: HTTP and JSON.
The agent part of jmx4perl can be found at www.jolokia.org. This site also contains all relevant documentation for setting up the agent for various platforms. I.e. the following starting points are of interest, when Jolokia is used with jmx4perl
- http://www.jolokia.org/agent.html
Overview of all Jolokia agents
- http://www.jolokia.org/reference/html/index.html
Reference manul which contains detailed installation instructions for various platforms.
The client part of Jmx4Perl is contained in this library and consist of a set of Perl modules for programatic access as well as a handful of command line tools.
jmx4perl allows for simple access to JMX MBeans and much more from the command line and is a good starting point.
MBean Features
JMX is a complex specification, which can not be completely revealed in this short documentation. Refer to http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jmx/index.html for an introduction to JMX. But in short, one can distinguish three kinds of operational modes:
- Attribute reading and writing
An MBean can have one or more attributes, which can be read and/or written. jmx4perl knows how to read and write MBean attributes.
- Execution of operations
A MBean can expose certain operations, which can be executed via JMX calls. With jmx4perl, JMX operations can be executed.
- Notifications
Listeners can register to get notified for certain notifications by MBeans. This is not yet supported by jmx4perl and it is technically quite challenging, since HTTP, our transport protocol, is a typical request-response based protocol which is unidirectional by nature. However there are already ideas how to overcome this limitation, but please don't hold your breath. This is on the roadmap, but with very low priority only. Tell me your use case if you want to push it up.
An agent based approach requires you to install a small Java Webapplication within your JEE application server. It registers itself locally to the JMX MBeanServer, and listens to HTTP requests whose results are translated into a JSON representation. This reponse can be easily picked up by a Perl module, JMX::Jmx4Perl in our case. This kind of approach differs from the classical approach as suggested by the JMX specification itself.
This approach works for the following environments:
JEE Servers where a webapplication in the standard WAR format can be deployed.
For the Mule ESB as dedicated Mule agent can be used for exposing JMX to the outside.
Within an OSGi container where the agent gets deployed as an bundle. Two variants are available: One, which requires an installed OSGi HttpService and one, which comes with an embedded HTTP server.
For every Java 6 application running with Sun's (pardon, Oracle's) JVM, a JVM level agent is available which uses the HTTP server embedded in every Sun Java 6 JDK.
Beside this restriction concerning the runtime environment, this agent based approach has also quite some advantages:
No special startup options for the JEE server are required for exposing JMX informations as it would be the case for exporting JMX via JSR-160 connectors.
No Java installation required on the client for using the agent
No overhead with regard to startup times of a JVM
Since the agent is a standard Java Webapplication it can be secured by standard JEE means like any other Webapplication.
Firewall friendly since all HTTP communication goes over a single port.
The agent can be deployed only to certain Java runtime container (Servlet container, Mule Agent, OSGi container, every Java 6 appliction). But please read on, even when your runtime environment doesn't fit in here. With the proxy approach arbitrary Java applications can be connected to.
Although the agent based is the most simplest way to access JMX, there are circumstances which prevent the deployment of a dedicated agent servlet. This kind of restrictions are mostly politically motivated. For these situations, jmx4perl provides an operational mode known as the proxy mode with which the target platform can be monitored without installing the j4p agent servlet on it. This works by using j4p.war as a JMX Proxy, which translates our JSON/HTTP protocol on the frontside to JSR-160 JMX remote requests on the backend and vice versa.
A dedicated proxy serlvet server is needed for hosting
j4p.war, which supports the agent mode as well as the proxy mode. A lightweight container like Tomcat or Jetty is a perfect choice for this mode. The setup is straight forward:
Install Jetty (http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/) or Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/)
j4p.warfrom the jmx4perl distribution by copying it into the webapp directory.
Enable remote JMX commonicutaion on the target plattform. Please consult the documentation of your Appserver for further details.
Use the
--targetoption for
check_jmx4perlwith a JMX service URL (like
service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:9999/jmxrmi) in order to specify the target server. Use the proxy server's URL as the agent URL:
jmx4perl http://localhost:8080/jolokia \ --target service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:9999/jmxrmi list
Said all this, the proxy mode has some limitations:
There is no automatic merging of JMX MBeanServers as in the case of the direct mode. Most application servers uses an own MBeanServer in addition to the PlatformMBeanServer (which is always present). Each MBean is registered only in one MBeanServer. The choice, which
MBeanServerto use has to be given upfront, usually as a part of the JMX Service URL. But even then (as it is the case for JBoss 5.1) you might run into problem when selecting the proper MBeanServer.
Proxying adds an additional remote layer which causes additional problems. I.e. the complex operations like
listmight fail in the proxy mode because of serialization issues. E.g. for JBoss it happens that certain MBeanInfo objects requested for the list operation are not serializable. This is a bug of JBoss, but I expect similar limitations for other application servers as well.
Certain workarounds (like the JBoss "can not find MXBeans before MBeanInfo has been fetched" bug) works only in agent mode.
It is astonishingly hard to set up an application server for JSR-160 export. And there are even cases (combinations of JDK and AppServer Version) which don't work at all properly (e.g. JDK 1.5 and JBoss 5). For certain application servers, detailed setup instructions are published at http://labs.consol.de/tags/jsr-160/
To summarize, the proxy mode should be used only when required. The agent servlet on its own is more powerful than the proxy mode since it eliminates an additional layer, which adds to the overall complexity and performance. Also, minor additional features like merging of MBeanServers are not available in the proxy mode.
The Perl part installs as any other module via Module::Build, which you need to have installed. Using
perl Build.PL
./Build test
./Build install
will install the modules.
In order to download the Jolokia WAR agent into the local directory as jolokia.war, use the following command
This agent "jolokia.war" needs to be deployed on the JEE Server to monitor. Please consult http://www.jolokia.org/agent.html for more information how to install the agent.
To test it, you can use jmx4perl with the URL of the deployed agent:
jmx4perl http://<jeeserver>:<port>/jolokia
Consult jmx4perl for further details.
Reading and Writing Attributes
Jmx4Perl knows how to read any attribute and how to write to certain attributes for whose types are string-to-object conversions are known. Currently, writing of attributes of type String, int, long and boolean is supported. As a special features, Jmx4Perl has the notion of an inner path which is a XPath like expression for pointing into the object returned by a read or write operation.
Execution of JMX operations
It is easy to execute JMX operations, even with arguments. However, they same restrictions for the argument types apply as for writing attributes: There must be an easy way to deserialize an argument from a string representation. The same types as for writing attributes are supported.
Autodetection and Product Support
Jmx4Perl is able to autodectect various application servers. This is done by querying a certain MBean attribute which is unique for this specific product. Many application servers has been tested to work with Jolokia and hence with Jmx4Perl. In fact, Jmx4Perl comes with an integrastion test suite, which is used for integration testing the Jolokia agents. The testing environment is a 64bit Ubuntu 9.04 installation, running in a virtual machine. However, this should not make any difference for another platform, so I'm pretty confident that the application servers from the list above will work with jmx4perl on any OS. Please open a bug at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=jmx4perl if you encounter any problems.
Please note, that autodetection is not for free with respect to performance. It takes some considerable time to probe various servers. So, if you have the chance to provide the application server type in advance, you should do this. Said this, please note this is only relevant if you are going to use the aliasing feature described below.
JMX::Jmx4Perl::Alias provides a thin abstraction layer about over the JMX naming scheme so that you can use a single alias value to access the combination (MBean name,attribute) or (MBean name,operation). It also maps the differing naming schemes of different application server to unique names, as far as this is possible. E.g. the alias
SERVER_VERSION maps on JBoss to the attribute
VersionNumber of MBean
jboss.system:type=Server, whereas for Jetty it's mapped to MBean
org.mortbay:jetty=default, Attribute
Remember, you can always use the the native JMX naming to access your MBeans without worrying about aliasing at all.
History Tracking
The agent
jolokia can be switched into a history tracking mode, where it records the values for
write and
exec operations. You have to call a certain, jmx4perl specific, MBean to turn it on. If switched on each request contains an additional history entry containing the list of historical values along with their timestamps. The history is stored in a list with fixed length so that the oldest value gets removed from the list in case of an overflow.
Full featured Nagios plugin
A full functional Nagios plugin called
check_jmx4perl is provided in the scripts directory. It can be used to monitor any JMX Mbean's attribute with a numeric value. Thresholds for warning and critical values can be provided in the formats as defined by Monitoring::Plugin. You can use autodetection and aliasing here as well.
check_jmx4perl can use relative critical and warning thresholds which refer to some base value taken from another MBean's attribute. An incremental mode can be used to measure the growth rate of certain value (like number of threads). Also, it can monitor the return value of JMX operations as well.
check_jmx4perl can use a configuration file with a sophisticated syntax including inheritance, parameterizatiosn and multi-check definitions.
Please refer to check_jmx4perl for a detailed documentation (which has a 30+ pages manual on its own).
There are several entry points for jmx4perl. The easiest is to start to play around with jmx4perl. This is a full featured command line tool for exploring the MBeans on your JEE Server.
If you want to use the Nagios Plugin check_jmx4perl start reading its documentation. A Nagios cookbook is on the roadmap. If you want to restrict access to your JMX MBeanServer read the next chapter in this manual which describes a way to build a custom agent containing a policy file.
Next, JMX::Jmx4Perl is the entry module. Use this, if you need programmatical access to JMX. Don't forget to have a look into the examples directory which contains some usage examples for JMX::Jmx4Perl
Of course, you are free to access the agent servlet directly without the usage of the provided module. Even in Java ;-) A description of the request and response format can be found in the protocol description JMX::Jmx4Perl::Agent::Protocol.
Another resource is the jmx4perl Blog located at http://labs.consol.de. It contains various post about different jmx4perl use case and best practices. Don't forget to add http://labs.consol.de/tags/jmx4perl/feed/rss/ to your RSS Feedreader if you want to keep in touch with the latest jmx4perl evolution (there is quite something in the pipeline).
The deployed agent servlet is quite mighty in the default distribution as you can perform any operation exposed by a MBean via JMX. Of course, you should secure the agent via standard mechanism (e.g via Basic or Digest authentication) to allow only access to certain users. But even then, you might not want your monitoring guys to access the heart of the JEE Server. Therefore, you can restrict access to certain MBeans only by using a so called policy file. You have to repack the agent if you want to use this feature, though. To do this, here's the recipe (assuming the agent is stored as jolokia.war in the current directory):
Download a sample jolokia-access.xml to a local directory:
jolokia --policy
Edit jolokia-access.xml to your needs. In the section
commandsyou can restrict the request types, only those present here are allowed to be called. If the complete
commandssection is missing, no restriction on a request type is in effect. In the
mbeanspart you can provide MBeans by name and the allowed attributes and operations. If this section is present, only the MBeans listed can be accessed with the attributes and operations listed. Access to an attribute can be restricted further by giving a
mode="read"attribute to the
attributetag in which case the attribute can be accessed read-only. Via the
remotesection access to certain IP adresses and subnets can be restricted.
Repack the agent:
jolokia repack --policy jolokia.war
Deploy the jolokia.war which was created in Step 4.
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The LG EA93 caters for the same 1080 vertical lines as a Full HD resolution offers, but the 2560 horizontal pixels make it far longer than a standard 16:9 display.
If you want that true cinema experience without the borders then this monitor might be right up your street. Although it'll trim off the extra height of an IMAX frame, so fans of Nolan's Batman trilogy beware.
The monitor looks similar to LG's latest TV designs, including its silver-like stand, and the LCD IPS display offers a similar thickness too. The bezel around the outside of the EA93 is slim, except for the base bar which extends deeper.
On the rear there are all manner of connections, including USB 3.0 ports and an HDMI connector.
Although we were unable to test it, the monitor also offers Dual Link-up to connect to other screens. Two of these in landscape would be, well, just downright insane we reckon though.
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NH police investigate late-night fatal shooting in Manchester
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) � Police in New Hampshire are investigating a late-night fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Manchester.
Officials say police responded to a report of a shooting at about 11 p.m. Saturday in the vicinity of Pine and Prospect streets, where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The man was treated at the scene and transported to a local hospital, where he later died.
New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster and Manchester Police Chief David Mara said in a press release that an autopsy is scheduled for Monday to determine the cause and manner of death. The victim's identity has is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
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I do not agree with all the facts and conclusions of this video, but am playing it to simply show what others are thinking. Note that no one in this video correctly identifies the source of the inflation they are claiming to see. You must look to how our monetary system works before you can begin to correctly identify the problem (interest bearing debt backed money whose quantity is not in control), and to find solutions that work to keep the quantity of money under control for the long haul yet is flexible enough to allow for REAL economic growth while keeping PRICE inflation steady over time. Such a system IS possible.
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Changes to params dictionary. Valid values for 'fixed' are 'fixed' 'float' or an integer. True and False are no longer acceptable. Now mutli-ROI curve fitting seems to work!
New LMA function in fit_module allows us to simultaneously fit parameters to the data in several ROIs that share that parameter. This is not yet fully tested. More comments have been added to ba_class. The __all__ variable has been added to osprai_one to assist the automatic documentation.
Start work on curve fitting. Added two properties, model and params, to ba.roi in ba_class. Add mdl_module which will hold functions that model SPR interactions.
Fixed bugs in cal_module and ba_class where arrays of zeros--empty ROIs--would cause errors.
Addition of cal_module to provide a calibration tool and related features. Added the time2val function to the ba class. It has a bug now, but it will be useful for the calibration tool.
Add readbiosensor() and writebiosensor() capabilities to io_module.
Initial addition of ba_class, an alternative to SPRdataclass. This class, ba or Biosensor Array, has one internal structure rather than different internal structures depending on whether SPRit or Biacore or other data was imported. This makes the code smaller and more readable. It provides default values, usually 0 or null text, that make it easier to import and export different file formats. We also add io_module to provide import and export features. We also add test.py as a convenience for testing and demonstration.
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The BFA in Screen Acting, offered in collaboration with the Dodge School of Film and Media Arts, is designed to serve students who know that their goal is to act primarily in television and film. Like the BFA in Theatre Performance, the BFA in Screen Acting provides advanced coursework in acting technique and related skills, but also provides students with a basic understanding of how media works behind the camera as well as in front of it through classes in screenwriting, film technology, history of film, and other applied film and television courses. The degree can be personalized through choices of electives. Graduates of the BFA in Screen Acting leave the program with a completed actor reel developed through a variety of acting opportunities in Dodge College and may go on to further graduate study or move into the profession with a variety of talents and skills, as well as excellent acting training.
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- Possess an understanding of the development of filmmaking, theater, and acting aesthetically and historically.
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While cities in Asia, particularly in China and India, but also in Japan and South-East Asia, and in parts of South America, Africa and the Gulf region currently grow and will further grow in a fast and unstoppable way for some time, and while further megacities, urban agglomerations and metropolises far beyond 10 million inhabitants arise, also many European, North American and Australian cities are growing – but far more slowly than in the regions mentioned above; nevertheless even here a strong dynamic urban development towards city regions can be observed.
In many of the urban areas and metropolises of the world it is the core task to build and maintain the absolute minimum of infrastructure for survival of their inhabitants – drinking water supply and wastewater disposal as basic elements –, other parts of the world face the problem to design processes of change in a way to keep and even improve the existing high quality of life.
In some parts of the world cities and metropolises are growing undamped and hundreds of millions of people are attracted to cities. However, in numerous European cities and agglomerations we can currently see two kinds of processes which may appear to be contradictory at first glance: reurbanisation and regionalisation. City centres and centrally located urban quarters become more attractive, especially for people who (re-)discover the benefits of urban life. This return to core cities as a place of life has a lot of reasons, but it is strongly linked to changes in the working environment and the trend to combine working and living much more as it were possible in suburban fringe areas. In this regard, well equipped and multi-functional urban quarters do have their advantages. At the same time we have a regionalisation of urban issues, mostly because cities get more and more under pressure.
Many city centres are lacking affordable housing space, whereas there are plenty of vacancies in the surroudings. Wrong allocations create unnecessary commuter flows. Regarding this background, we need intercommunal cooperations to find the necessary balance between different development dynamics. Current extensive discussions on "Low Carbon Cities" or "Smart Cities", that is the question for future development of cities under the conditions of climate change, energy saving technologies and the scarcity of fossile resources, turn up concrete questions of future urban development and design, which can only partially be answered today.
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Save time and money in your vegan kitchen!
You know you don't want to forget your lurking leftovers - that means mess and waste. You can munch them yourself for lunch or serve them at the end of the week for "take it or leave it day."
Or you can take charge - don't let them gang up on you, transform them into a new delicious meal right away.
These transformers are tested in my very own home.
The secret life of the humble potato
First - steamed or mashed potatoes. I steam as many potatoes as I can possibly fit into our large pressure cooker. My family loves mashed potatoes and gravy! I make them special by mixing in very small pieces of a vegan sausage. Mashed potatoes can easily be shaped into a heart or other designs that will win over the kids.
What next? Presto change-o, potato pancakes. Mix your mashed potatoes with a bread/flour binder and fry them up. Hint: My pancake technique often fails to satisfy, so I use my waffle iron for instant crunchy success.
What next? Curry! It's pretty easy to save a cup of mashed potatoes from the lot. I add a can of Indian flavoured tomatoes, some soymilk, and blend. Make lots of rice (think extras!) and serve dinner.
Rice is still nice
What next? That rice is still fresh enough to serve with a Chinese sauce on the side. If you're really pressed for time, plain soy sauce will do, especially if you also serve some cashews or peanuts.
What next? Fill your Mexican nachos or tortillas with leftover rice along with all those healthy vegetables and beans.
What next? Fried rice takes tired leftover rice for a carnival ride. It's also wonderful for hiding lots of veggies inside, chopped finely.
What next? Everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - transforms into soup!
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Refuting report, Marmol happy to be in Chicago
CHICAGO -- Carlos Marmol could only laugh at an Internet report Wednesday in which someone overheard the Cubs pitcher saying he wanted out of Chicago and a fresh start.
"I don't know who that guy is and why he tweeted that," Marmol said of the alleged conversation, which was reported to have happened in the lobby of his apartment building.
Marmol did meet with his agent, Paul Kinzer, on Wednesday, but denied they were talking about finding a way to get the pitcher out of Chicago. Marmol lost his job as the Cubs closer after the first week of the season.
"I'm not going nowhere," Marmol said. "I'm very happy here. I can't wait until they do something so I can stay here. I always talk about how I love Chicago, I love being here, I love my teammates, I love everybody here."
It would be understandable if Marmol was upset considering his role has changed.
"I'm ready in the first inning," Marmol said. "I always put that in my mind. It's not easy [to not be the closer], but I can handle it. I'll pitch whenever."
Is he bothered by the false report?
"That didn't come out of my mouth," Marmol said. "I feel good here. I'm here, and I'm not going nowhere."


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Donkey Kong Country titles will no longer be available through the Wii shop in Europe as of next week. According to a message on the shop, as of November 25, the titles Donkey Kong Country, Diddy's Kong Quest and Dixie Kong's Double Trouble will be removed from Virtual Console. Best nab it before it's gone […]
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in reply to Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice?
Please let me know what I've overlooked.Well, if the suggested idiom doesn't work under Windows, I'd argue that either Windows (or possibly Perl) is broken in that regard. But, of course, that doesn't solve your problem. I guess it's just as well that Chapter 18 suggests testing everything before you deploy it! ;-)
Although the recommendation in question doesn't claim to solve the problem of rerunnability, as it happens, the second suggested solution--using the IO::Insitu module--does use a back-up strategy to ensure that data is not lost if the program abends.
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Quinnipiac poll: Malloy, Foley still deadlocked in governor's race
Taxes and the state budget are negatively impacting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy with more people saying, by a small margin, that he should not be re-elected to a second term.
The Quinnipiac Poll released on Friday, which was issued one week before the Republican convention, shows Malloy and Republican Tom Foley continuing to be deadlocked in the race, 43 percent to 43 percent, while Malloy would beat Republican contender state Sen. Minority Leader John McKinney 44 percent to 40 percent and edges out Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton 44 percent to 39 percent.
The voters continue to be divided in their opinion of how Malloy is handling his job as governor with 48 percent approving it and 46 percent disapproving.
The trend line however, going back to March 2013, continues to show a split on whether he should be re-elected with 44 percent saying he deserves it to 48 percent who say no, slightly up from the March poll where 45 percent said he should be re-elected in November to 46 percent who were against this.
In an open-ended question, 18 percent of voters said their disapproval of Malloy's performance centered on budget/state finances; 16 percent were upset with taxes and 11 percent were concerned with the economy/jobs.
"Economic issues are dragging Gov. Malloy down," said Quinnipiac Poll Director Douglas Schwartz said in a statement.
Asked how satisfied they are with the way things are going in Connecticut, 44 percent were satisfied or somewhat satisfied to 56 percent who were somewhat or very dissatisfied.
As they have in the past, the Malloy campaign declined to comment.
"We have tried to be consistent in not saying much about polls because, what's there to say? Polls come and go, numbers go up and down. The governor always does what he thinks is best for the state and the right thing to do," said his campaign spokesman James Hallinan.
Chris Cooper, campaign manager for Foley, said the poll reaffirms that the voters in Connecticut are unhappy with Malloy.
"They want someone with a fresh approach and smarter policies," Cooper said.
With Foley in a dead heat with Malloy in a "very blue state," it shows "time is running out for Gov. Malloy.," Cooper said.
The voters give Malloy good grades - 45 percent to 39 percent - for the way he is handling eduction, but on the money issues, he got negative feedback.
On the budget, 35 percent thought he did a good job to 53 percent who didn't; 32 percent said his handling of taxes was the right thing to 61 percent who disagreed; 38 percent backed him up on the economy and jobs to 55 percent who didn't.
Malloy has never scored higher than a 37 percent approval rating on handling the budget, according to Quinnipiac Polls.
When Malloy took office in 2011, he raised taxes by $1.5 billion to take care of the $3.6 billion deficit he inherited from the previous administration.
Voters were split with 21 percent feeling this helped the economy; 32 percent thought it hurt it, while 39 percent said it made no difference.
Malloy continues to get high marks for leadership, 59 percent to 36 percent; 57 percent to 33 percent, voters think he is honest and trustworthy and 49 percent to 45 percent said they feel he cares about their needs and problems.
Heath Fahle, Boughton's campaign manager, said, in a statement, that the poll shows "the public sees Mark Boughton as an increasingly attractive alternative to Dan Malloy. Republicans have a chance to get Connecticut back on the right track - if we nominate Mark Boughton." He said Foley has failed to capitalize on Malloy's weaknesses, while Boughton closed a nine percentage point gap in a poll last month to five percentage points.
Schwartz said the bad news for the governor is that "almost all the Republican candidates are within single digits of Malloy, with Foley tied and Boughton and McKinney on his heels."
Jerry Labriola, chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party, said the polls show "voters are tired of Dan Malloy's mishandling of the Connecticut economy."
"Over the past few years, Dan Malloy has proven that the only way he knows how to balance a budget is with the largest tax increases in state history and cheap gimmicks. But our commonsense Republican leaders know that you can't tax, borrow, and spend your way to prosperity. The only way to fix Connecticut's ailing economy is by electing a pro-growth Republican governor this November," Labriola said.
Non-partisan analysts are projecting a $1.3 billion state deficit in fiscal 2016, the first year for which the next administration will have to budget. Those same analysts and the state comptroller's office had also agreed there would be a $500 million surplus.
The voters overwhelmingly, by 67 percent to 31 percent, agreed with the statement that Malloy's proposed $55 tax refund was a campaign gimmick that should never have been offered. But they also agreed, 67 percent to 31 percent, that when the state is in good financial shape, it should return some revenues to taxpayers.
Earlier this spring, when the state was projecting a $506 million surplus this year, Malloy proposed putting most of it into savings and against pension obligations, with $155 million of it sent out as a $55 tax refund,
That surplus however, dropped to $43.3 million after the April income tax returns came in $389.1 million less than expected. Just before that announcement, Malloy's office cancelled the proposed rebate.
The November gubernatorial election is expected to be a tight race as it was in 2010, when Foley lost to Malloy by a little more than 6,500 votes.
Foley continues to blow out his Republican opponents, according to the poll, with him leading 39 percent to 9 percent for Boughton and 8 percent for McKinney in a primary race with 28 percent undecided.
Even further behind are West Hartford Councilman Joe Visconti with 4 percent to three percent for Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti and five percent to former Republican attorney general candidate Martha Dean.
Foley has a favorability rating of 36 percent to 23 percent, but 39 percent of the voters didn't know enough about him to share an opinion.
The rest of the Republican field continues to have name recognition issues.
While he has been the state Senate minority leader since 2007, 71 percent of voters didn't know enough about McKinney to rate him; 79 percent didn't know Boughton, while 82 percent hadn't heard enough about Lauretti; 84 percent were in the dark about Visconti and nearly three-quarters weren't familiar with Martha Dean.
Dean, of Avon, announced in an email from her campaign Friday that she has withdrawn from the governor's race.
Dean said she made the decision after the release of the latest Quinnipiac Poll results Friday.
The poll was taken May 1-6 and surveyed 1,668 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points, The survey includes 443 Republicans with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
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Aug 12, 2012 (Radio Free Europe). Russia is marking the 100th anniversary of its air force with an aviation parade and parachute drop at the Zhukovsky airfield outside of Moscow. Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev opened the celebrations and noted that 69 foreign countries had sent delegations to the event. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement saying that "the development of military aviation is the priority of the country's military policy." He promised on August 11 that the air force will receive over 600 new combat planes and 1,000 helicopters by 2020 as part of a $720 billion military-reequipment effort.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
The "Swedish stone" in the heart of Saxony
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Not long ago I visited Lützen, a very interesting place in Saxony that is closely connected with the history of Sweden and the Thirty Year's War (1618–1648). It attracts many Swedish visitors who come here to see a monument and the "Swedish stone" located on the spot where their famous King Conqueror Gustavus Adolphus was killed on 16 November (N.S.), 1632, in the Battle of Lützen. This battle, which was one of the most decisive battles of the war, was fought between the army of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, headed by the Roman Catholic General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein and the Protestant army, led by the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus. Gustavus Adolphus was killed when, at a crucial point in the battle, he became separated from his troops while leading a cavalry charge into a dense smog of mist and gunpowder smoke. After his death, his wife kept his body, and later his heart, for over a year in the castle of Nyköping. His remains (including his heart) now rest in Riddarholmskyrkan in Stockholm. In February 1633, following the death of the king, the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates decided that his name would from this time forth be Gustav Adolf the Great. No such honor has been bestowed on any other Swedish monarch before or since. At the spot where Gustavus Adolphus fell, a granite boulder was placed on the day after the battle. A canopy of cast iron was erected over this "Swedish stone" in 1832, and a chapel, built by design of Swedish architect Prof. Lars Wahlmann, near the site, was dedicated on 6 November 1907.
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Implementing the new breaks/overtime protections and workplace violence prevention laws #
Register for a dinner session and pause to celebrate.
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Nature has shown us once again the strength of its capability by the recent earthquake in Haiti.
Following this earthquake the suffering of so many people is almost beyond imagination. At these times we question our beliefs as to why any thing or one would want to cause so much despair and pain to so many.
In the community of Taekwon-do within Haiti we have received reports of close and lost ones to our organisation, and we have heard of heroic activities by our members in their desperate attempts to save and comfort others.
The ITF are aware the organisation led by Grand Master Tran Trie Quan are experiencing concern at this disturbing time with reports that Grand Master Tran Trie Quan is amongst the missing in Haiti. The ITF call upon all members to join together in their hopes and prayers for the safe return and wellbeing of all those missing in Haiti, and ask that all our active members around the world contribute whatever they can, no matter how small, to aid the earthquake disaster victims.
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