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Memo to Duncan Smith: unlike the UK, the US has recovered from recession
The Work and Pensions Secretary is wrong to criticise the performance of the US economy.
By George Eaton Published 05 November 2012 13:16It took some chutzpah for Mitt Romney supporter Iain Duncan Smith to declare on BBC Radio 5 Live last night that it was "very worrying" that the United States hadn't "bounced back from this recession". Unlike the UK, the US has more than recovered from the downturn of 2008-09.
As the graph below shows, while the US has grown consistently since leaving recession in the third quarter of 2009 (with the exception of Q1 2011 when output was flat), Britain has only recently returned to growth after three quarters of contraction. Indeed, by one definition at least, we're still in recession. Unlike the US economy, which is now 2.3 per cent above its pre-recession peak, the UK economy is still 3.1 per cent smaller than it was in the first quarter of 2008. Over the last year, while UK output has remained flat, the US has grown by 2.3 per cent.
The divergence in performance is due in no small part to the decision of the US government to pursue stimulus and the decision of the UK to pursue austerity. Barack Obama's $787bn fiscal stimulus, a mixture of tax cuts, infrastructure projects and increased unemployment benefits, is estimated to have increased real US GDP by around 3.4 per cent and to have created or saved 2.7 million jobs (see this study by Mark Zandi, a former economic adviser to John McCain, and Alan Blinder, a former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve). By contrast, the coalition's (non-expansionary) fiscal contraction is thought to have reduced GDP by 4.3 per cent this year.
Duncan Smith is welcome to invite comparison of the two economies (not least because it aids the case against the government's policies), but he should know that there can only be one winner.
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Maybe IDS was listening to the same R5 show that I was with it's tent city outside one of their old industrial cities, where working people like you and me have had to live for years when their repossessed homes rot away. We moan that we have to turn the heating down, they haven't got any after four years of Barack Obama.
Having said that I'm hoping he wins, we don't need another world war at the moment.
I came over to this site for the first time through a link that outlined how Romney, if elected, would revoke a woman's right to get an abortion, and then have her arrested if she went overseas. This is of course ridiculous (the President can't override Supreme Court decisions, and even if he could, arresting someone for committing a crime on foreign soil is generally very difficult) and so I suggested that this site may be the British version of the Onion. Now I read this, and I have to say I'm flabbergasted.
We've recovered from the recession, because you have a *****CHART*****!?!?!?!? OMFG you're a moron, and this is a truly pathetic argument. Yes, President Obama wasted almost $800 billion on his stimulus package, much of which went into the pockets of political cronies who helped him get elected in the first place. One CHART you haven't shown is the Labor Participation Rate, which has dropped !0% since President Obama entered office. This is the percentage of people who are of an age where they could have jobs, who actually do, or try to. When someone tells you that the Unemployment Rate has dropped, ask them about Labor Participation...it's what most people *think* the Unemployment Rate is. It's hovering near 50% these days. Eventually no one will have a job, but since no one will be looking, either, the Unemployment Rate will be 0%.
You should come to my neighborhood, and drive around and see al the "Going Out of Business" Sales, and all the empty storefronts. It'd be interesting to have you explain to me how that signifies an economic recovery.
Oh, and I live in California, where the political leadership thinks President Obama is maybe too conservative. They never met a tax increase they didn't like, the regulate anything and everything past all reason, and we have vast phalanxes of bureaucrats to muck up everything anyone in the provate sector tries to do. We're also in debt up to our eyeballs, businesses are fleeing the state like rats from a sinking ship, and our population of "undocumented workers" (read "illegal immigrants" if you want to be politically incorrect) continues to grow, commits horrific crimes, and in some cases have actual advantages over the citizenry...
Isn't a large part of the problem for California the unwillingness of its wealthier citizens to pay enough taxes to cover the demands on the state (which the private sector can't or won't cover because it won't make a profit on it)? Certainly doesn't look like the future any more.
You guys obviously get your news from someone whose view of American politics is so left-wing it's ridiculous. Whenever there's a business conference in California, where executives meet to discuss building new businesses, getting zoning laws changed to allow some new sort of manufacturing facility to go in somewhere, etc., whenever they have one of these conferences takes place, they always have a program, that tells you when the seminars are, etc. Advertising is always sold in this program, and half of the advertising is full-page ads from surrounding states, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, etc., extolling their friendlier business climates and lower personal income tax rates, compared with California's. We have the highest personal income tax in the nation (especially the top tax bracket) and will have the highest sales tax, if one of our propositions passes tonight. Our property taxes, in terms of the money that's gathered (as opposed to the percentage of property value that we tax) has to be among the leaders in the nation. But our expenditures are also astronomical--we have 15,000 pensioners each collecting more than $100,000/year in pensions, with thousands and thousands more on the way, and no end in sight at all. The leader is a guy who collects slightly over half a million a year for having been the city manager (a sort of unelected mayor) of a small city that had less than 100 residents when he ran the place. One of our universities, in the middle of a tuition increase crisis that has everyone wringing their hands in anguish, created a new post (vice chancellor for diversity) and hired a woman at $250,000/year, with a housing allowance, moving allowance, and wonderful benefits to boot.
Essentially, the problem isn't that our wealthiest citizens don't pay high enough taxes. Most of the wealthy citizens who remain are celebrities (actors, musicians, athletes and the like) and lawyers, who are all of the hyper-liberal. It's that our government is so large and unmanageable that we've become Greece without the Parthenon. Eventually they're going to have to tax the rest of the country to pay for our excesses, and I shudder to think what happens when they try and tax the Texans to pay for bureaucracy in California...
You point to a GDP graph as if that singular makes a case for your argument.
Why is that?
It has been shown (time and again) that stimulus provides a multiplier of near zero when used in already highly indebted scenarios. US Govt Debt is currently running at 101% of GDP & in about 7 weeks time the US economy will have about 3.7% of GDP removed thanks to the £600 billion of new taxes applied when the Bush tax cuts end.
How do you imagine all this will affect the US economy George? Eventually you have to pay the piper.
Nearly every comment made by this man puts shivers up my spine. How could a man so off in his analysis of major issues be given such an important role? He's not a normal unpleasant Tory. He's in the mould of these extreme Republicans in his twisted outlook.
By all accounts his Universal credit project is a giant titanic head for an iceberg. He's been getting credit for something that is costing a fortune and is heading for disaster.
The f*cking nerve of the man.
As we've learned throughout this US Election campaign, if the facts don't suit the Right they just make up their own.
In 2003 the Conservative Party passed a vote of no confidence in Iain Duncan Smith.
On the 7th May 2015 I imagine the British electorate will do the same to his Party.
No recession in the US?? Now that's rich!
How dare Iain Duncan Smith CRITISIZE anyone or anything, he's turned the UK into a police state for anyone on any kind of benefit, what an idiot.
He wants to look in the mirror - does the story of Dorian Grey ring any bells?


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I want to open this thread to solve the problem of "importing" filter presets that has been uploaded to the forum and that it seems that there are some mysterious problems that need to be solved
Ghislaine have made this great and beautiful filter GF Optical Illusion (Spiro-wire) BUT as FF Inc. ONLY allows 20 presets when submitting the filter and it could happen that you have MANY more interesting and useful presets AND there is no way yet to import or export presets in FF, I decided to share them in the forum Ghislaine has been very kind to upload a file with the 45 new presets that could not be included in the SHORT AND RESTRICTED 20 preset limit in her own thread of the filter her own thread of the filter So instead of hijacking and littering Ghislaine thread I want to continue the problem solving in this thread. If you are interested to know what the problem is follow from the 4th post onward on Ghislaine´s thread link here above. I WILL MAKE MY OWN PRESETS FILE FOR ADDITIONAL PRESETS THAT COULD NOT BE PUT INSIDE THE Spirograph Break Out filter and so we can test it also with another different filter. |
Posted: May 19, 2012 11:14 am | ||||||
Sapceray, the problem here is very peculiar... There's TWO parts in the mystery.
Ghislaine's presets XML file gives you an error, because the <Presets> line has a minus sign (-) infront of it. so instead of
You have
After removing that extra character, the XML no longer gives the invalid presets file error, but the presets are all screwed up. For the life of me, I can't think of any reason whatsoever why ghislaine's xml file (That she uploaded TWICE) has that extra '-' in the <Presets> line. If it doesn't work for us, it shouldn't work for her. If it works for her, it should also work for us. The second thing is the presets themselves. * Why do we have so many duplicate presets? Obviously, Ghislaine didn't save the same preset 7 times at random places. * Why do some of the presets make no sense? They look like a big square, untill you play with the Type slider control, then they look like they should. Obviosly Ghislaine saved the presets with the right setting on the Type control slider, so why are we getting the wrong setting? * why do some preset preview show us something, and the actual render is totaly different? If anyone has any ideas, please share them. If anyone from FF dev team wants to look into this, we'd love to hear what you have to say! If FF inc. planted some kind of an anti preset sharing protection into FF, please let us know, so we won't go crazy |
Posted: May 19, 2012 4:52 pm | ||||||
Very well observed the - <Presets> I have been making a comparison between Ghislaine file and another preset file and could not find any difference, BUT you have found it, very well done.
I Think that the problem can be probably that there is MORE than JUST the presets and they probably could have another register in the Librarystructure.xml file OR somewhere else. When I shared with you my presets of Ball Pit filter it worked, and when you shared your Volumetric Explosions it worked well, SO what is different from Ghislaine presets? My own presets I shared with you has been done AFTER the filter has been published How have you done your presets from the Volumteric Explosions? |
Posted: May 19, 2012 5:17 pm | ||||||
After Publish.
The onlu thing that I could think of, is that Ghislaine made a minor change to the filter, right before she submitted it. That could be the reason why the presets don't make sense to FF. But that's just a guess, and I have no way of knowing if it's true. Next time I upload a filter I need to remember making alot of presets BEFORE submitting the filter, and try uploading the rest of the presets after it's in the library. |
Posted: May 19, 2012 6:48 pm | ||||||
OH, Yes! This could be happening without knowing it, and is true that could be possible because this has happened to me ! Before I would submit the Spirograph filter I had already all the presets, BUT then decided to change one thing, AND SURPRISE I had that the presets did NOT look the same as when I have made them and did not know what happened. I was lucky that I had a backup copy of it Before making the last change and then I could submit it.
YES AND NO ! Yes in that is good to make many presets for the filter and is useful for the user, BUT I do NOT agree that you are forced to make ALL the presets BEFORE you submit the filter. I mean that if when you are building and testing the filter you have already made a lot of presets that have the built-in-images inside (as none of the presets with external images are valid) and this amount is over 20 presets and you are forced to delete the excess of the filters then I agree that will be good to share this excess of presets that will not be allowed in the submit wizard. BUT WHY would you want to make OVER 20 preset BEFORE you submit the filter if you have NOT made them before already? I mean that it would be much easier to make those presets AFTER the filter is published BECAUSE then you will have all the new presets in a file in the "my presets" folder and you would only need to copy this file and upload it in the forum and the receiver would ONLY need to copy it to the "my presets" folder AFTER having downloaded already the filter related. If you make MORE THAN 20 of the presets BEFORE you submit the filter, all this presets will be stored inside the filter XML file and have to: 1 - search for them inside the filter 2 - copy all the presets to a text file 3 - the user receiving it will have to open the XML of the filter 4 - search inside the filter where are the presets 5 - paste this text of the presets in the right place inside the filter 6 - Be very careful not to touch, modify or delete ANY other part of the filter that could make it invalid. I am NOT saying with this that you DO NOT make over 20 presets BEFORE you submit the filter, what I mean is that if you can make the presets AFTER you submit it will be easier to share them, but if you have already made them when testing the filter is OK also. |
Posted: May 19, 2012 7:30 pm | ||||||
Hi guys !
I think that I found the answer... (maybe, I'm not sure) I had few presets containing my own images to fill the spirowires. So we all know that FF Inc. no not take our own images. Is this answer can help you |
Posted: May 20, 2012 1:05 am | ||||||
Ghislaine I have one question:
When did you make this 45 extra presets BEFORE or AFTER you submit the filter to the FF library?
This could be possible I will see it |
Posted: May 20, 2012 1:29 am | ||||||
YES!! I have found it inside your presets filter
<ColorMapControl id="colormapcontrol 01"> <InputImage value="C:\Users\ghislaine\Faire pour 3dstudio\carved-wood pattern-gene-2.jpg"/> <HorizontalAnchor value="1"/> I seems to appear in 4 of the presets ____________________________________________ I have tried to copy directly all your presets inside the XML filter file and it also works well and shows me that i have 66 FACTORY presets BUT the wrong thumbnails STILL keeps as a problem so the problem continues. Please Ghislaine, Could you show us a screenshot of HOW really look like the real and original presets, I mean the ones you really have in your filter ? |
Posted: May 20, 2012 3:19 am | ||||||
SpaceRay, the reasoning behind making more than 20 presets BEFORE submitting the filter is for test purposes only. I just want to know if there's a difference between the before and after presets, as it might shed some light on why Gigi's presets don't work for us, while mine work for you and yours work for me.
I agree that there's no other reason to make all the presets before submitting, and that it's harder for you to share those presets than making them with a my presets file. |
Posted: May 20, 2012 3:58 am | ||||||
OK I give to you my own image that I use for those 4 presets. You can keep the image. Try those 4 presets and you will get exactly what I made. |
Posted: May 20, 2012 10:07 am | ||||||
I Think I have fixed the 45 extra presets for you Ghislaine, I hope that now this time it works right. I have tested it and for me it works, let´s hope that for all of you too.
I have removed the external links to the missing images and have rebuilt the data and made it an external "my presets" file. This file must be copied to your "my presets" folder with your Filter Forge CLOSED. So next time you open FF it will have 45 extra presets. [ Library_10649.xml ] |
Posted: May 20, 2012 12:31 pm | ||||||
Thanks Spaceray for the worl you did on. | |||||
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A federal court in Ohio has ruled that dairies cannot legally label their milk "hormone free," "rBST-free" or otherwise clearly tell consumers that they aren't pumping up their cows with synthetic hormones.
It's a blow to truth-in-labeling advocates, a blow to consumers and a blow to organic farmers. It's a win for Monsanto, the agrichemical giant that prompted the lawsuit, and a win for Eli Lilly, which bought Monsanto's synthetic recombinant bovine growth hormones (known as rBST or rBGH) business a couple months ago. The use of these hormones is banned throughout most other first world nations. The labeling issue is moot in the 27-nation European Union, along with Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, since they don't allow the use of synthetic hormones in the first place.
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on 14-07-2012 08:28 PM
on 16-07-2012 04:45 PM
on 16-07-2012 05:12 PM
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Welcome! Just mention me and you'll go far...
Okie .... who do I mention you to?
on 16-07-2012 05:27 PM
on 16-07-2012 05:34 PM
Is there ANY way I can force a PSN-id change on my girlfriend's account? i.e.. ask you very kindly to effect such a change? Why?? Because it bears a too much similarity to my own id: and causes confusion amongst other users as to who is who! With such comments as 'e-_-gypsy' is a man!! Because 'e-gypsy' IS a man!! - its me!
If her id was, for example 'gypsy-g' instead it would be recognised by her friends as herself but would not be confused by a passing glance with my own and would retain the close association she has with me without the confusion. The only other way I can think of to achieve this is to create a new account and close the old one, (or retain it for non-home games only), with the associated loss of content/rewards form home and mail all friends the change before closure.
For now I have recommended she does no more shopping on that account as it may not survive It is not overloaded with items yet so it is not the end of the world, but it would be appreciated beyond belief -_- if she could keep her stuff and her friends with a more suitable id:
Signed.... The gypsy twins -_- (by 'e-gypsy')
PS. Sorry I missed the 'spacestation' home beta trial de-brief 'event', I read the email too late
on 16-07-2012 06:22 PM
Not really. The only way to do it is by making a new I.D.
on 17-07-2012 08:54 AM
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Please do allow me to further explain. I am not replacing the current English Community Team. Your primary interaction will still be with the Community Team as well as your main source of information.
I am here to help coordinate all the comings and goings throughout all of the territories under SCEE. I am a liaison between you, - the community, the each of the Community Teams, the Home Team and the publishers.
In the future there may be more Home Community Coordinators so I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce this role so you all become familiar with it. This is one of many things being implemented to show dedication to the evolution of Home and to the EU community.
You can use this thread to ask questions or just chat about your interests in and out of Home in general. I am interested in what you all have to say. I will respond as soon as possible but please bear with me, it's just little old me and I have to talk to all the SCEE territories.
I hope this is a little more clear.
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on 17-07-2012 12:50 PM
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And to start it off
Can we please have our original Home Sq. back in one way or another. Ideally similar to what nDreams have done wit Xi. Bring it back as a Museum. Just bring it back ! The current Square looks awful !
I also agree with this! Maybe even turn our current home square into a "Districts Hub" or "Districts Square" and then bring our "Home Square" back. I really don't like the way you can't see the all the core spaces (Theatre, Our shopping center (the one in HS is not even ours, that one is indside) etc from the home square and now we just have those stupid teleports. Bring back the home square <3
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Standards Support
SOAP and XML
SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding
WS-Security Policy
WS-Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding
Web Services for Remote Portlets
Security Assertions Markup Language
RSS and Atom
WS-I Attachments Profile
XML Encryption
XML Signature
WS-I Basic Profile
WS-I Basic Security Profile
Transparent Pass-through of Non-Mediated Messages
SOAP and XML
The Service Manager intermediaries (Agent, Delegate, and Network Director) are capable of receiving, routing and emitting SOAP messages conformant to the SOAP 1.1 or SOAP 1.2 specifications, relevant parts of the WS-I basic profiles (Simple SOAP Binding Profile Version 1.0, etc.), and non-disruptive to canonicalization transformations (Canonical XML 1.0, Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0, SOAP 1.2 Message Normalization) used in common message signature algorithms.
Non SOAP messages (aka XML-over-HTTP or plain-old XML [POX]) can also be routed (XML 1.0 and 1.1, XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 are supported).
The Service Manager intermediaries (Agent, Delegate, and Network Director) provide transparent pass-through of message attachments. Retransmission of mediated messages will emit transformed messages with identical or specification equivalent attachment descriptions, references, and attachment encodings. This also includes indirection models like Resource Representation SOAP Header Block et al.
SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding
The Network Director and Agent intermediaries provide out-of-the-box support for the SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding. If a SOAP 1.1 message arrives at either type of endpoint over an HTTP transport, and the SOAP envelope header contains a WS-Addressing header of type ReplyTo or From, and the header value is non-anonymous, the Network Director or Agent will follow the Optional Response HTTP Binding specification and return a 202 HTTP status code with no payload.
WS-Security 1.0 and 1.1 is supported in both Service Manager Policy Implementation and Enforcements Points (Agent, Delegate, and Network Director). The aspects of WS-Security that will be enforced and/or implemented at runtime are configured as policies in the Service Manager console. The configurable aspects include the following:
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- Digital Signature
- Timestamp
- Username Token Profile
- SAML Token Profile
- X.509 Token Profile
- Kerberos Token Profile
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/secext
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/04/secext
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/06/secext
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd
WS-Security Policy
Responses to WS-MetadataExchange requests for a dialect of WS-Policy will include WS-Security Policy assertions describing WS-Security capabilities (i.e. acceptable WS-Security token types, etc.).
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext
- http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy/
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200512
The Network Director intermediary can respond to WS-MetadataExchange requests for WS-Policy, WSIL, and WSDL dialects for any virtual or proxied service. The capbilities and metadata expressed in each of the dialect specific responses are those of the mediated, virtual service interface, regardless of MEX support at the original, proxied endpoint.
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/mex
The Service Mangaer intermediaries (Delegate, Agent, and Network Director) allow for asynchronous dispatch and receipt via WS-Addressing. Dynamic routing and next-hop transmission is also supported, again via WS-Addressing. WS-Addressing headers are also used (or suppressed) in Message Exchange Pattern (MEP) mediation scenarios. The WS-Addressing infoset is realized concretely via the WS-A SOAP binding.
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/addressing
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/03/addressing
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing
- http://www.w3.org/2004/12/addressing
- http://www.w3.org/2005/02/addressing
- http://www.w3.org/2005/03/addressing
- http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing
WS-Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding
By default, WSDLs consumed through Service Manager's Delegate, Agent and Network Director Intermediaries will not decorate the basic service description with WS-Addressing attachments or bindings. This is done in order to guarantee that the WSDL emitted by default is compatible with all SOAP stacks and toolkits out of the box. However, for enterprises using toolkits or stacks that are able to consume and generate code form WS-Addressing elements in the WSDL, Delegate, Agent and Network Director Intermediaries provides an "addHeaders" directive to force decoration of the WSDL with the WS-Addressing bindings. For stacks capable of consuming and emitting the operation bound WS-Addressing Action header, generic virtual endpoints are provided to enable simple configuration and loose coupling with concrete service implementations.
For legacy systems and SOAP stacks that do not support WS-Addressing specification, the Network Director and Agent intermediaries provide routing and mediation for the legacy WS-Routing specification.
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/04/rp
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/rp/
For any virtual endpoint deployed in the Network Director or Agent intermediaries, an HTTP GET request to the virtual URL, appended with a "?wsil" or "?WSIL" query string, will return a WS-Inspection document for that service. Alternatively, the WSIL document can be retrieved via a WS-MetadataExchange request to the endpoint for the WS-Inspection dialect.
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2001/10/inspection/
The service manager intermediaries (Network Director, Agent, and Delegate) can participate in a Web Services Reliable Messaging exchange either as a client or a receiver. Alternatively, the Network Director intermediary can bridge non-WS-RM reliable exchanges with WS-RM exchanges.
Furthermore, the Network Director intermediary can mediate between any two of the WS-RM specification versions listed below.
Configuration of the WS-RM capabilities is done via WS-RM policy assertions specifying the behavior of the exchange (i.e. delivery assurance, sequence expiry, etc.).
Supported Namespaces:
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/rm
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/03/rm
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/rm
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200602
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200510
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200608
Web Services for Remote Portlets
The Network Director intermediary can mediate WSRP services. Due to the nature of the WSRP operation Namespaces per deployment, WSRP services must be registered explicitly as remote portlet implementations. All mediation enhancements (MEP mediation, reliability, etc.) are still available, as the only delta is a taxonomic distinction within the registry. Both WSRP 1.0 and 2.0 compliant WSDLs can be registered.
Security Assertions Markup Language
The Network Director, Delegate, and Agent intermediaries support SAML 1.0 and 1.1. For receiving intermediaries, the following confirmation methods are supported: "Holder of Key" and "Sender Vouches" are supported, though PKI resources must be configured prior to enabling SAML Assertion support.
RSS and Atom
The Network Director intermediary provides a number of mediation services for feed and syndication formats. Consumption and delivery support, as well as aggregation of items from multiple sources can occur across and between multiple standards (i.e. RSS 0.94 items and Atom 0.3 items can be aggregated into a single logical feed and re-transmitted as Atom 1.0).
Along with email and WS-Eventing subscriptions, alerts and notifications can also be created and consumed in any of the syndication formats listed below.
Supported Formats:
- Atom 0.3
- Atom 1.0
The Service Manager Policy Enforcement Points (Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) support transformations over the entire message.
Policies are re-evaluated post transformation in case the message content change meets new policy enforcement criteria.
Both XSLT 1.0 and 1.1 style sheets are supported by the Service Manager XSLT engine.
Service Manager Policy Enforcement Points (Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) provide two means of generating consumable WS-Policy serializations. The first is via WS-MetadataExchange requests - for any virtual or proxied service, sending a WS-Policy dialect request to the service endpoint will return the WS-Policy assertions germane to that service interface. The second means is consuming applicable WS-Policy attachments in the WSDL served up from the intermediary.
Supported Namespaces
- http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy
- http://www.w3.org/2006/07/ws-policy
Service Manager deploys with a UDDI v2 and v3 (3.02) compatible registry. All services managed by Service Manager are stored in the registry. Customers can categorize and search those services using customer-defined categorization schemes.
WS-I Attachments Profile
All Service Manager Policy Enforcement Points (Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) can process messages that contain attachments as defined by the WS-I Attachments Profile. Service Manager can also validate that created or imported WSDL documents conform to the WS-I Attachments Profile.
All Service Manager Policy Enforcement Points (Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) can process messages that contain attachments as defined by the WS-I Attachments Profile. Service Manager can also validate that created or imported WSDL documents conform to the WS-I Attachments Profile.
XML Encryption
All Service Manager Policy Implementation and Policy Enforcement Points (Delegate, Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) can encrypt and decrypt message content based on the XML Encryption specification. The configuration of the use of XML Encryption is specified through policies. This support is independent of WS-Security.
XML Signature
All Service Manager Policy Implementation and Policy Enforcement Points (Delegate, Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) can sign message content and verify message signatures based on the XML Signature specification. The configuration of the use of XML Signature is specified through policies. This support is independent of WS-Security.
WS-I Basic Profile
All Service Manager Policy Implementation and Policy Enforcement Points (Delegate, Agent and Network Director Intermediaries) can process messages that conform to the WS-I Basic Profile versions 1.0 and 1.1. Any message, such as a fault message that is generated by a Policy Implementation or Policy Enforcement point will conform to the WS-I Basic Profile. Service Manager can also validate that created or imported WSDL documents conform to the WS-I Basic Profile.
WS-I Basic Security Profile
Service Manager provides a flexible policy model for securing SOAP messages using WS-Security. These policies can be assembled to ensure compliance with the Core WS-I Basic Security Profile as well as the following related profiles:
- Username Token
- X.509 Certificate Token
- Kerberos Token
- SAML Token
Transparent Pass-through of Non-Mediated Messages
In situations where a dialect or specification is not explicitly understood by the intermediary, then the message model will be passed through without interference. For instance, while Service Manager Intermediaries do not provide domain specific transformations (other than the enveloping and metadata message aspects) for specifications such as WS-DM, ebXML, etc.


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Elsa could be forgiven for wishful thinking. With Norway's tourist season at hand, every rural hamlet with a legendary anecdote claims one of Norway's native sons. From creators to cranks, Norway's finest are familiar to most of us: the controversial playwright Henrik Ibsen; Edvard Munch, the eccentric painter; novelist and Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset, whose edgy themes are still current. But most often the halo spins over composer Edvard Grieg, whose plaintive melodies were born in these northern forests.
Plainly, deconstructing Norway was the key to the fertile genius of so many moody and eccentric prodigies. So we rented a car for 10 days and, after touring Oslo, headed north from the capital city through sunny farm country, eventually turning west across Norway's mountain spine. Descending beside blue-green fiords, we ended our trip in Bergen, on the coast.
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And what a land it is. Dark and brooding in winter, Norway awakens to the midnight sun. Snow-clad peaks feed rushing rivers. Swollen waterfalls careen over spongy tundra and trickle down steep ravines. Roses bloom. To the west, the coastline climbs out of the North Sea like a polar bear on the hunt, cold fiords probing the cliffs with slippery fingers.
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Borrowers who took out a variable mortgage in March 2009, when the base rate was set at a historic low of 0.5%, have been enjoying rock bottom monthly repayments with the ability to overpay and build equity. So why not cash in as well before rates rise again?
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Considering the base rate is reviewed every month, you could spend a lot of your time on the edge. However, it is unlikely that any change will be steep so you will start to realise when the base rate is creeping up and can take action.
Many of us crave transparency when applying for a mortgage so a lifetime tracker could be just what we are looking for. Here are a few of the best lifetime trackers we could find around at the moment:
The Cooperative Bank is offering a lifetime tracker mortgage to existing customers at a fantastic rate of 2.59% (BBR + 2.09%) with no arrangement fee. On a £150,000 mortgage on a 25-year term, that means your monthly repayment would be just £679.74. However, to take advantage of this great offer you will need a massive 40% deposit and are liable to an early repayment charges in the first three years plus a possible exit fee of £140. So if the base rate starts to creep up you may not be able to switch easily until this period ends.
If you are looking to put down a slightly smaller deposit of 25% and are a First Direct customer, you could apply for a rate of 2.99% (BBR + 2.49%) with a £499 arrangement fee and no early repayment charge. Using the same example as above, that would give you repayments of around £710.54. And if the base rate starts to nudge up you can arrange to get onto a better deal without the hefty fines.
For anyone with a 20% deposit saved up, HSBC is offering a rate of 3.29% (BBR + 2.79%), with an arrangement fee of £599. For existing HSBC Advance customers the fee is reduced to £399. With our example this rate means your repayment each month will be £734.15, but again with no fee to leave early you are able to get out quickly if rates rise unexpectedly.
For any first-time buyers with a deposit of 10%, Britannia is offering a rate of 4.59% (BBR + 4.09%) with no arrangement fee. Sadly early repayment charges do apply. The monthly repayment equates to £841.43, which compared to the other deals looks fairly pricey. However, a comparable three-year fixed rate for a first-time buyer with a 90% LTV would be 4.69%, so this lifetime tracker is quite competitive (at least initially).
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Tracker mortgages are only linked to the base rate for a specific period, say two or three years. This means they offer better rates initially than you will get from a lifetime deal. However, once that period is over your mortgage is moved onto the lender's standard variable rate, a rate which is not only a fair bit higher than base rate but which can also be increased at any time, irrespective of what is happening with bank base rate..
Take a look at a few of the best tracker mortgage deals we have seen this week:
Chelsea Building Society is offering a rate of 2.39% (BBR + 1.89%) for a two-year tracker based on a deposit of 30%, but for this great rate it wants an astronomical £1,495 arrangement fee. For a slightly higher introductory rate of 2.59% you can halve that cost to £795. The rate on both deals reverts to the lender's SVR which at the moment is 5.79% and early repayment fees apply.
ING Direct has a two-year deal offering a rate of 3.39% (BBR + 2.89%) with a 20% deposit. However there is a hefty fee of £1,090 for the application.
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society has a deal for those with a 25% deposit of 2.49% (BBR + 1.99%) for two years, reverting to 4.99% thereafter, all for an arrangement fee of £795. Early repayment charges apply.
Yorkshire Building Society is offering those with a small deposit of 10% a tracker mortgage of 4.19% (BBR + 3.69%) for a fee of £495. The rate will revert to its SVR after three years which is currently 4.99%. Early repayments charges apply to this deal as well.
Tracker mortgages are still very cheap: don't be scared into fixing your mortgage rate
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This article aims to give information, not advice. Always do your own research and/or seek out advice from an FSA-regulated broker (such as one of our brokers here at lovemoney.com), before acting on anything contained in this article.
Finally, we tend to only give the initial rate of a deal in our articles, but any deal which lasts for a shorter period than your mortgage term may revert to the lender's standard variable rate or a tracker rate when the deal ends. Before you take out a deal, you should always try to find out from your lender what its standard variable rate is and how it will be determined in the future. Make sure you take all this information into account when comparing different deals.
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