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Technote (troubleshooting)
An application which uses JCA (J2C) connections causes the following warning messages to be logged to the SystemOut.log during runtime:
[4/11/03 11:53:41:711 PDT] 891a0 ConnectionMan W J2CA0075W: An active transaction should be present while processing method allocateMCWrapper.
[4/11/03 11:53:41:815 PDT] 891a0 ConnectionMan W J2CA0075W: An active transaction should be present while processing method initializeForUOW.
The J2CA0075W message is logged when an application has created its own thread from a servlet and subsequently uses that thread to obtain a J2C connection.
The Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) 2.0 and 2.1 specifications prohibit an EJB from managing threads. This includes starting, stopping, suspending and resuming threads.
EJB 2.0, Section 24.1.2 and EJB 2.1, Section 25.1.2 state the following:
"Programming Restrictions
The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage threads. The enterprise bean must not attempt to start, stop, suspend, or resume a thread; or to change a thread's priority or name. The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage thread groups."
For a servlet, the J2EE 1.3 and 1.4 specifications allow web components to create and manage threads, however, the execution and behavior of these threads must be tightly monitored by the application, not the application server. The specifications state the following:
"J2EE 1.3 and J2EE 1.4:
J2EE.22.214.171.124 Transaction Requirements
If a web component creates a thread, the J2EE platform must ensure that the newly created thread is not associated with any JTA transaction.
J2EE.4.2.3 Transactions and Threads
JTA transactions should be started and completed in the thread in which the service method is called. Additional threads that are created for any purpose should not attempt to start JTA transactions."
Since both the application server and the application cannot use or start a JTA transaction on a newly created thread, the thread does not have a transaction context associated with it.
It is in the absence of a transaction that the J2CA0075W warning message is logged. The application server will not create an LTC (local transaction containment) either. This is because the thread was created by the application and is not managed by the WebSphere® Application Server runtime.
Resolving the problem
To prevent the warning message J2CA0075W from appearing, two options are available:
1. To simply suppress the warning messages from being logged to the SystemOut.log, do the following:
- Open the <WEBSPHERE_HOME>\properties\j2c.properties file in a text editor
- Find the following block:
<!-- The cm-properties are in a comment block. Uncomment to use -->
- Remove the comments and change the
It should look like the following once complete:
<!-- The cm-properties are in a comment block. Uncomment to use -->
2. To resolve the underlying cause of the warning message:
- Review the application code and determine where threads are created.
- Evaluate how these threads use J2C connections.
- Determine alternatives to this approach and not use these threads for J2C connection activity.
At this time, it is unclear as to whether future J2EE specifications or WebSphere Application Server releases will prevent creation of threads from web components.
It is recommended that applications not attempt to create and manage their own threads to obtain connections.
Possible problems which could arise with this behavior include:
- Application server hang conditions
- Leaking connections
- Application server memory problems
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Elijah Hudson Jones Jr., known to his friends as "Hud," peacefully went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, at the Hospice Center at Mercy Hospital in Hot Springs. Hudson, a 1967 graduate of Ozark High School, had spent his life as an executive chef, who had the privilege to cook for President Clinton, George Straight, Dolly Parton and many other notables, and was recognized for his graceful ice carvings and many original recipes. He was a loving father, grandfather and great-granddad, as well as a faithful member of Assembly of God. Hudson was passionate about football, fishing, cooking for others and music of all kinds. His fun-loving personality and quick wit brought joy and laughter to many.
He is survived by his daughters, Laura Jones Cagle and husband Brian of Ozark and Sara Jones of North Little Rock; mother, Melba Jones Beel (formerly of Ozark) of Baton Rouge; sisters, Pat "Prissy" Wattam and husband Roger of Baton Rouge and Phoebe Jones of Lonoke; grandchildren, Justin Franklin and wife Miranda of Fort Smith and Marlee and Kaylee Cagle of Ozark; great-grandchildren, Clay Hudson, Alayah and Madden Franklin of Fort Smith. He was preceded in death by his father, Hudson "Wimpy" Jones.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Assembly of God in Ozark.

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Personally I rather like Sauber as a team, but it sometimes annoys me how deeply conservative they are. First they willingly played 2nd fiddle to Ferrari for years (and arguably still do *cough* Malaysia *cough* and possibly *cough* Hulkenberg *cough*. Now added to that they've signed the decision making over to Carlos Slim to secure his dough...at the expense of a lesser driver than the one they had. It means they're still here and that almost every year they manage to get a podium...it also means they haven't won a race yet (except with BMW).
I always like to compare it to Jordan (started about the same time), who has left obviously, but did win three races. In 2001 Sauber finished 4th and sold Raikkonen to McLaren. Good business, sure...but would Jordan have kept him on and made a play for the big leagues with Raikkonen on board to break into championships contention?
I want Sauber to do something like that...take a risk for a change, I think they're good enough to succee


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Tzomet Sfarim stops distribution of The National Left after right-wing sources put pressure on management. Book contains harsh criticism of settlers, settlement enterprise. Shulamit Aloni: Settlers do whatever they want
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Latest Update: 04.12.10, 01:02 / Israel News
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Days after it began selling the political doctrine The National Left, written by playwright Shmuel Hasfari and attorney Eldad Yaniv, which was sold for NIS 1 ($0.27), Tzomet Sfarim bookstore chain on Sunday announced it will stop distributing the book.
The authors continue to slam the settlers and write, "The settlers operate on a different type of fuel, which is called messianism. Their god appeared at once and defeated their enemies. After his mishap during the Holocaust – he is back and mightier than ever. They graduated from yeshiva high schools and stormed Judea, Samaria and Gaza with unconquerable messianic passion.
"No one realized that the 'new pioneers' were possessed by demons of messianic madness. Think about the brainwashed minds, hypnotized zombies, gangs of horny teenagers forcing themselves on the country. The young generation of settlers forgot what it's like to be a Zionist."
In the book, the authors also describe the differences between the Right and the Left, "A rightist is conservative. A yapper. Polemicist. Resistor. Especially in the face of change. A leftist is a revolutionist. Practical. Leads the way, dares and is victorious. The Right believes that if we continue having the upper hand, we will be saved by the heavens. The Left believes that we must redeem ourselves, by ourselves. That is the reason that Zionism is leftist."
Shulamit Aloni, former chairwoman of the leftist Meretz party, said in response to the chain's decision, "Israel has not been democratic for some time now. Our declaration of independence promised equality. I there equality? This is a racist state in which savages do what they want in the name of G-d and their rabbis."
"The settlers rule the land. The government supports them so much; it's a disgrace," Aloni told Ynet Sunday night. Tzomet Sfarim succumbed to the pressure because everyone is afraid of the settlers. They are savages, racists and hate all those who do not support them.
"This country is not democratic anymore. The fact that there are political parties and elections – there are political parties and elections in Iran also. There are zealots in Iran and there are crazy zealots here. The police must deal with the settler threats. We cannot surrender to them," she said.
Yaniv also expressed resentment about the decision to remove the book from the chain's shelves, but promised to fight back.
"Just as they twist the prime minister and defense minister round their little finger, just as they control the state's entire budget – they also think they can control which books get sold," he said. "They are trying to terrorize commercial bodies."
Their response, he said, would be creative. "We intend to take hundreds of thousands of copies left after they sold 5,000 in three days, and distribute them for free at the weekend on campuses and at universities," he explained.
"We intend to print another few thousand, and distribute them in all sorts of places for free, throughout the country. If the settlers think they can shut people up, they're confused. They don't really understand who they're dealing with.
"I think that today they proved that what the book says about them is justified. For many years they have held Israeli society and the state by the balls, and it's time to put them in their place, and say that we are Zionist and Israeli and want to stop the occupation."


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An Unexpected and Dangerous Trajectory
The trajectory of history rarely follows a predictable arc.
Addressing the Greater Houston Ministerial Association during the 1960 presidential campaign, Sen. John F. Kennedy may have imagined that he was striking a blow for tolerance and inclusivity when he told the assembled Protestant pastors — many of whom could no more imagine a Catholic president than General Franco could imagine a Protestant Spain — that they need not fret: Catholic authorities would not influence his decisions as chief executive. In fact, what the first president baptized a Catholic did was to drive a wedge between religiously-informed moral conviction and public policy that has been exploited by politicians ever since.
One such politician was Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York, a favorite would-be presidential candidate of the Great Mentioners. Cuomo went to the University of Notre Dame during the 1984 campaign and declared that, while he accepted the Church's teaching on the inalienable right-to-life of the unborn, that teaching was a "religious value," and it would be difficult to translate "our Catholic morality into civil law." Cuomo may have thought he was laying down covering fire for Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, then the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and the governor's fellow-New-York-ethnic-Catholic. But by ignoring the fact that the Church's teaching on the inalienable right to life from conception until natural death is based on truths of the moral law that can be grasped by anyone willing to think seriously about them, Cuomo reinforced the myth that the Catholic Church's pro-life stance and its opposition to abortion was somehow akin to the Catholic Church's teaching on the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
Thus the path was cleared, in the 2004 campaign, for yet another Massachusetts senator and baptized Catholic running for president, John Kerry, to declare that, as a man of the Constitution, he could not impose sectarian moral beliefs on a society of divergent moral opinions.
It seemed that matters could not get worse. Then came the Obama administration, which has mounted an unprecedented assault on religious freedom.
The character of that assault ought to have been clear from secretary of state Hillary Clinton's 2009 speech on international human rights at Georgetown University. There, the Obama administration abandoned decades of U.S. government policy as its senior cabinet officer declined to defend the fundamental human right of religious freedom, referring instead to a "freedom to worship" that she bizarrely equated with the freedom to "love as we choose."
That warning signal might easily have been missed. But no one paying attention ought to have missed the administration's multi-year efforts to eliminate the "ministerial exception" to equal-employment law (which, if successful, might well have led to federal lawsuits , and thence court decisions, ordering the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests and bishops). In early 2012, the Supreme Court squashed that clumsy ploy, 9-0. Yet while the Court was putting the smackdown on the administration's attempt to eradicate the "ministerial exception," the administration continued to attack religious freedom on another front, as its Justice Department refused to defend in federal court a duly passed federal statute, the Defense of Marriage Act, thus tacitly suggesting that those who held to the classic understanding of marriage on religious grounds were irrational bigots.
Then things got really bad.
In January 2012, the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services rolled out a "mandate" that would require virtually all Catholic entities, and all conscientious Catholic employers, to include coverage of contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortifacient drugs in the health insurance they provided their employees. The Catholic Church, in other words, was to become a conduit by which the federal government imposed its understanding of "reproductive health" (which treats pregnancy as a disease) on the entire country. And if doing so violated Catholic teaching, well, too bad.
When a wide range of Catholic voices objected to the HHS mandate, the administration tried a faux-accommodation that was swiftly rejected by Church leaders. Thus, in the middle of the 2012 election campaign, more than forty Catholic entities sued the Obama administration for violating both the Constitution and the provisions of the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Thus a surprising historical arc has led the United States, not simply to the privatization of religious and moral conviction implied by Kennedy's 1960 speech in Houston, but to an unprecedented assault by the federal government, some five decades later, on what Americans have long cherished as the "first freedom" — religious liberty in full.
How did this happen?
It happened in part because of decades of misguided Supreme Court decisions that set the First Amendment's ban on an "establishment of religion" against the same First Amendment's guarantee of the "free exercise of religion." These two principles, once finely balanced, became imbalanced, such that "no establishment" trumped "free exercise" time and again. And because the law is a teacher, what a lot of American society and culture learned from the Supreme Court was that "free exercise" was something to be "accommodated" (as a widely-used constitutional law textbook put it). Thus the "free exercise of religion" was transformed, in many minds, from a bedrock principle of American democracy — an inalienable human right that government was bound to respect — to a matter of lifestyle choice that government could, if it wished, accommodate, so long as no one cried, "Establishment!"
More ominously, the aggressive secularism that had long been a part of European high culture migrated across the Atlantic in the wake of the Sixties and began to infect the American arts world, the American media, American higher education, and, ultimately, the federal government. Men and women of secular disposition have long been part of the American cultural and political scene, beginning with such notable Founders as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. And while Michael Dukakis's religious tone-deafness was likely one of the factors that made it difficult for him to connect to voters in 1988, Dukakis's secularism did not seem so much aggressive as reflexive and technocratic; the Massachusetts governor, and those like him, were claiming a place in the public conversation for those without deep faith or any faith — a place that no religious adherent to the Constitution would deny was theirs by right.
The secularism of the Obama administration and its most fervently secularist supporters — the sort of people who booed God three times at the 2012 Democratic Convention — is quite different. It is not tolerant, benign, and committed to pluralism; it is aggressive, hegemonic, and determined to rid the American public square of religious conviction and religiously-informed moral argument. It is closely allied to the pro-abortion and pro-"gay marriage" movements, in a coalition determined to impose lifestyle libertinism on the entire society by force of law — an American expression of what Pope Benedict XVI has rightly called the "dictatorship of relativism."
This new and aggressive secularism, which claims the whole public square for itself, can and should be engaged: people of faith can, and should, make the arguments that make religious freedom in full make sense to their fellow-citizens, while offering, in their own lives, models of humaneness and compassion that give the lie to radical secularist stereotypes of religious believers. But above all, at this moment in our history, this aggressive and hegemonic secularism must be defeated electorally, so that it is clear to both major American political parties that the American people are determined to defend religious liberty in full.
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
(The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of Catholic Pulse or the Knights of Columbus.)


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What classes are offered during summer classes?
The courses offered are located on the online Schedule of Classes.
How much do summer courses cost?
The cost of summer courses are listed on Tuition and Fees.
Who can attend USC summer classes?
USC utilizes open enrollment during the summer...
What are my options for housing?
For USC students: USC Summer Housing
Non-USC students: USC Alternative Housing Resources
Will USC summer course credits transfer to my home university?
The transferability of course credit is determined by the home school, not USC. Please check with your home university for their determination of transferability of course credit.
Can I arrive after the session has started?
No. The summer schedule condenses an entire semester in a few weeks. Each class day is equivalent to at least a week of the regular semester. Students are not permitted to arrive late due to the missed class time. Because the learning experience is accelerated and the work is intense, you should give yourself enough time to become settled in USC in plenty of time.
What are the academic expectations for students?
Students are expected to be familiar with the course web site and syllabus. It is advisable for visiting students to preview the summer session, academic department, and course web sites prior to arrival in USC.
Students are expected to attend class every day. Many classes have a score for "Class Participation"; if you are absent, your grade will suffer. This is because we believe you learn from participating in the discussion in class in addition to the material formally tested on exams.
Students are expected to complete a high volume of reading and homework assignments.
You must keep up with the work. If you get behind on the reading, you won't understand the classes.
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so: you 're inputing quantity of coins in computer , then what?
I don't get , what is the purpuse of counting. Suggestion you have REAL coins 10, 20 for example
for 10 is 0v, for 20 is +5v , you put coins in the hopper , hopper gives signas 0v, +5v to computer, and computer counts how many signals there are , so you're having resut how many 10 coins and how many 20 coins
if so then what you need to output from PC? indeed you need to read signals from hopper
in the case you want to create signals from PC to hopper (i don't understand why), then i guess you need to know other language than C , cuz C is "high-objective" language , and you need "low-objective" language. ( Assembler for example. or Pascal i don't know for sure)
maybe in C there is such possibility, try to find this command in MSDN


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For the MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE.
Undigested Ideas on various Cases.
Section first.
THE volitions of man being so innumerable and diverse, it is more than wonderful
how societies form and continue long in any tolerable order; than that they
should convulse, break and forget their first principles. The late insurrection
in the western counties was attended with a greater panic than wonder: There
was it seems a promiscuous assemblage of many contrary motives blending themselves
together; be that as it may, all plead virtue with equal dogmaticism. Messrs.
Observator and Examiner have entered the lists, proclaimed war, drew their literate
swords, but to what purpose? Pity it is they were not content at home, or appeared
abroad in better humour. Our virtuous assembly willing to compromise matters
in favour of the people, (thanks to Heaven) made boards, &c. a tender, glorious
act! We hope it will not be repealed as yet!* one objection assigned against
the justness of the act, is, that creditors cannot so well pay their taxes in
coin, partial objection! for creditors are the only men who command money; and
few have trusted so much but they can trust more. Again, were they allowed to
sue for cash, the cost would render the debtors, if not the community itself,
more unable to pay taxes at all.
Our assembly knows that murmurings will happen with some, and cannot be avoided.
It would be a novelty, if not a monster, to have a government against which
there was no complaints at all.
(To be continued from time to time.)
*Our obscurity makes it uncertain to us whether the act is run out or repealed.
There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: As early as 1782, people in Massachusetts were calling for the government to allow real and personal property to be used instead of hard currency when paying taxes. On July 3, the legislature passed the "Tender Act", which made cattle and other kinds of property legal tender in the discharge of debts. It marked the beginning of a deepening hatred between those who had and those who had not, and it postponed the suits for judgment against debtors, thus increasing the total indebtedness. The act expired in the 1784.
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Aug 16 2006 / Wednesday
Team etnies headed down south of the border to Cabo San Lucas to surf, fish, and snap off some images for the upcoming etnies catalog.... We caught some fun waves (and food poisoning! Ouch!) right in front of our hotel and on both the East Cape and the Pacific side.
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Rush to act on guns can make things worse
Following a tragedy like the Newtown shootings, politicians tend to act first, think later. But the consequences of rushing legislation can be worse than doing nothing.
Consider New York, which just passed sweeping new gun control laws in a mad dash. When those laws take effect in March, they will make outlaws of many New York police officers, whose standard-issue weapons include gun magazines exceeding the new limit. The new law makes magazines with more than seven rounds illegal. No exceptions are allowed for police, who typically carry handguns with a 15-round capacity.
New York state Sen. Eric Adams has vowed to amend the law to address this problem, telling WABC news, "You can't give more ammo to the criminals." That this only now occurs to New York politicians isn't encouraging.
In Oklahoma, the rush to act may run the other direction with pro-gun lawmakers touting measures that may be overly broad, poorly designed or even constitutionally debatable. After the recent filing deadline, state lawmakers had submitted roughly 50 measures regarding firearm rights in some fashion.
Some of those are likely good ideas, but not all. We're skeptical that Senate Bill 548, by state Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, would withstand a court challenge. It declares federal gun laws and regulations to be "invalid" and "considered null and void" in Oklahoma. If something like federal gun registration actually passed Congress — unlikely — opponents could and should challenge it in federal court. However, if the courts uphold those laws, Senate Bill 548 would do little but generate legal bills for the state, which doesn't benefit Oklahomans or increase their rights.
Gun policies should attack the criminal activity we all oppose without infringing on the rights of the law-abiding. To achieve that goal, it's more important for lawmakers to carefully craft legislation than to Do Something Now!


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BARCELONA, Spain — Smartphones are going against one of the long-held rules in portable electronics, that smaller is better.
Year by year, computers, storage devices and music players have shed size and weight. And for decades, it has been happening with cellphones, too.
But now cellphones, and smartphones in particular, are going the way of the television: They just keep getting bigger and bigger. And people keep buying them.
The trend became even more apparent this week, as handset makers introduced a number of big-screen smartphones — from 5 diagonal inches to more than seven inches — at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.
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Samsung Electronics, Sony and Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, among others, are all betting that consumers find images and video to be more vivid and engaging on a bigger screen, and that they may prefer to carry a larger phone instead of both a smartphone and a tablet.
The turn to bigger screens is a sharp departure from the dominant strategy of phone-makers just a few years ago, when critics often and loudly mocked devices with big screens, joking that people would never buy them because they would not fit in the pockets of tight hipster jeans, or because people would not want to be seen clutching big devices to their skulls.
But Samsung, the No. 1 phone-maker in the world, pushed hard on phones with bigger screens, and the effort has paid off with millions of units sold, particularly in Asia.
Samsung has said its research found that people liked bigger-screen phones because they wanted a device that was good for handwriting, drawing and sharing notes. Asian-language speakers found it easier to write characters on a device using a pen rather than typing.
Now Samsung and other phone-makers think they will find a more receptive audience outside Asia, too, including in the United States and Europe.
The most extreme example of a big phone announced this week came from Huawei, which introduced the MediaPad X1, a smartphone with a 7-inch screen, usually a size used in tablets. Because the device has a phone connection, Huawei calls it a phablet.
Roland Sladek, a vice president for international media affairs at Huawei, said the company found that people liked to spend at least an hour a day on mobile devices, and that has driven the demand for larger screens.
Other makers are pushing slightly smaller versions. Samsung this week introduced the Galaxy S5, its latest flagship smartphone, which, at 5.1 diagonal inches, is just a smidgen bigger than its predecessor. Sony unveiled the Xperia Z2, a 5.2-incher. ZTE introduced the Grand Memo II, a 6-inch phone; last month it introduced the Boost Max, a 5.7-incher that the company hopes will help it gain some traction among American buyers.
Rumors abound that Apple is planning to release at least one bigger iPhone this year. Starting with the sixth-generation iPhone, Apple increased the size of the iPhone screen to 4 inches, up from 3.5 inches in the earlier models — still considerably smaller than many devices coming from its Asian rivals.
Lenovo, the Chinese company that is buying the handset division of Motorola from Google, said that there seemed to be no turning back from supersizing smartphones in markets around the world.
Liu Jun, executive vice president for Lenovo's mobile business group, said: "Simply put, more and more people are using their smartphones for entertainment, and people like viewing their photos, TV shows and movies on a larger handheld screen."


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The Il Palazzo rated:
75 out of 100
IL Palazzo Lofts was conceived as a first generation new-build loft style apartment development with an Italian design motif - "Loft Condominium Living with a Touch of Italian Old World Charm" (to quote the original sales brochure). Construction began in 1998 and the first units were ready for occupation in 1999. The official age of the building is the year 2000.
The architect for IL Palazzo Lofts was Carlo di Nunzio, AIA of Synectics Group Architectural Studios, working for and on behalf of the development company Becker Regional Partners Southwest, L.L.C. The local contractor for construction was Tribble and Stephens.
Il Palazzo Lofts is located in a historic district first developed in the 1920s. Many of the older homes in the area have been restored in recent years while others are being replaced with modern town homes and apartments. Commercial and institutional development is also a feature of the neighborhood, examples being museums, a library, health care facilities and day care centers.
Il Palazzo Lofts occupies an entire city block bounded by Calumet, Austin, Prospect and La Branch. The main entrance is on Calumet; the two garage gates open onto Austin and La Branch. The front of the building overlooks the Museum District, Hermann Park and the Texas Medical Center. The rear of the building has commanding views toward Downtown Houston.
The building comprises six floors. The ground floor contains the entrance lobby and under cover, secure parking. Floors 2 through 5 share essentially the same layout, containing 13 units each varying in size from approximately 1,150 sq ft to 2,700 sq ft. Most balconies on Floor 2 are larger than those on the upper three floors. Floor 6 contains six penthouses with floor plans up to 4,300 sq ft and large terraces. Unlike many Houston high and mid rise properties, Il Palazzo lofts have a lot of outdoor space.
Security is an important feature at Il Palazzo. Entry into the building is monitored day and night with a state of the art video system backing up the on-site Concierge staff.
Il Palazzo Lofts is surrounded by landscaped gardens and the Condominium Association also maintains the median strip on Calumet. The property has sidewalks maintained to city standards.
Il Palazzo Lofts is a condominium run by the Il Palazzo Condominium Association. An elected Board of Directors serves and represents the owners and overseas the management of the building and associated services. The Board has contracted with KRJ Management, Inc. to manage the property. Concierge and maintenance staff are contracted from CRS (Custom Residential Services Group)
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Development and Implementation of a Performance-Related Specification for SR 9a, Florida: Final Report
Chapter 1: Introduction
This report documents the results obtained from the use of a performance-related specification (PRS) for construction of a section of concrete pavement highway. The construction project is located on SR 9A (I-295 Leg) in southeast Jacksonville, Florida, and was built in 2004-05. The primary objective of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a PRS for the construction of jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP) in the State of Florida. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored the development and implementation of the PRS for this project by Applied Research Associates, Inc., with full cooperation and assistance of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).
The PRS methodology builds upon the traditional materials-and-methods specifications or quality assurance (QA) specifications used by State highway agencies, by linking key materials and construction quality characteristics (e.g., strength, thickness, smoothness) with pavement performance and, subsequently, future pavement costs.
The underlying premise of the methodology is that lower or more variable materials and construction quality levels result in reduced pavement performance, which, in turn, requires an agency to spend more money in the future through sooner, more frequent, or more comprehensive maintenance and rehabilitation work. By passing the expected economic consequences of high or low construction quality on to the paving contractor through incentives and disincentives, a more rational approach to construction is achieved, one that promotes the minimization of as-designed and as-constructed life-cycle costs (LCCs) and is more equitable to both the highway agency and the contractor.
Initial development of the PRS methodology can be traced back to the mid 1980s and the work of the New Jersey Department of Transportation (Weed, 1989), which developed comprehensive procedures for deriving acceptance plans and payment schedules based on as-constructed portland cement concrete (PCC) thickness and strength. Using the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) rigid pavement performance equation, the expected difference in performance between a pavement with as-designed and as-constructed quality levels could be computed, with the resulting LCC difference passed on to the contractor.
The first of four FHWA-sponsored studies on PRS for concrete pavements was performed in the late 1980s and resulted in an expansion of the procedure to include surface profile (i.e., smoothness) as a key construction quality attribute (Irick et al., 1990). It also introduced the use of concrete pavement performance models developed in National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 1-19.
The second FHWA-sponsored study took place between 1990 and 1993 (Darter et al., 1993a; Darter et al., 1993b; Okamoto, 1993). Under that study, the first demonstration software (PaveSpec 1) of JPCP PRS was developed, and an extensive laboratory testing program was conducted to evaluate various PCC material properties (strength, modulus, air content), inter-strength relationships (e.g., flexural versus compressive strength, core versus cylinder strength), and the effects of entrained air content on spalling.
In the third FHWA PRS study (1994 through 1998) (Hoerner and Darter, 1999; Hoerner et al., 1999a; Hoerner et al., 1999b; Hoerner, 1999), the variability of key materials and construction quality characteristics was investigated. Two new characteristics (air content and consolidation around dowels) and new pavement performance models were evaluated, and several field trials of the prototype PRS were conducted. In addition, version 2.0 of the PaveSpec software program was developed, incorporating many of the results of these undertakings.
Performance model refinement was the primary focus of the final FHWA PRS study, which was conducted between 1998 and 2000 (Hoerner et al., 2000; Hoerner and Darter, 2000). Each of four PRS models (transverse joint faulting, transverse slab cracking, transverse joint spalling, and smoothness) were evaluated, improved, and incorporated into PaveSpec Version 3.0.
Performance-Related Specification Concept
Specifications that describe how the finished product shall perform over time are described as performance specifications. PRS are defined as QA specifications that describe the desired levels of key materials and construction acceptance quality characteristics (AQCs) (e.g., concrete strength, slab thickness, and initial smoothness) that have been found to correlate with fundamental engineering properties that predict performance (TRB, 2005). PRS are improved QA specifications. Like QA specifications, PRS specify the desired product quality rather than the desired product performance. However, in PRS, when agency engineers specify quality, they know what performance they are specifying.
Another major difference comes from the methods used to determine the overall pay adjustment for a given lot (i.e., the amount of material or construction produced by the same process). Conventional QA acceptance plans use engineering judgment to establish individual AQC pay adjustments (and weighting factors for each) for determining the overall price adjustment for the lot (FHWA, 1997). PRS, however, use mathematical models (taking AQC values into account) to estimate future pavement performance and corresponding LCCs to compute one overall lot price adjustment (Darter et al., 1993a; FHWA, 1997; Hoerner and Darter, 2000).
As illustrated in figure 1, PRS pay adjustments are based on the difference between the LCCs associated with the target (as-designed) pavement and those associated with the as-constructed pavement. AQC target values represent the AQC values or range of values for which a highway agency is willing to pay 100 percent of the contracted unit price for PCC. These AQC targets are used to predict the future performance (using mathematical distress prediction models) and the associated estimated future LCCs defining the as-designed pavement. (Note: The future LCCs consist of those maintenance and rehabilitation costs expected to be incurred by the agency and potential users [user costs may be included by the agency] over a selected analysis period, assuming a given rehabilitation policy.)
The estimated LCCs corresponding to the as-designed AQC quality are then summarized into one overall LCC (LCCdes) representing the AQC quality of the as-designed pavement. The as-constructed AQCs are measured at the time of construction and used to predict the future performance and LCCs associated with the as-constructed pavement. The estimated LCCs corresponding to the measured as-constructed AQC quality are then summarized into one overall LCC (LCCcon) representing the AQC quality of the as-constructed pavement.
Figure 1. Basic concepts of life-cycle-cost-based performance-related specification.
AQC = acceptance quality characteristic; LCC = life-cycle cost; des = as designed; con = as constructed.
An incentive pay adjustment is computed if the as-constructed AQC quality is measured to be better than the agency-specified target values (due to an increase in pavement life, resulting in a corresponding decrease in LCCs). Conversely, a disincentive pay adjustment is computed if the as-constructed AQC quality is measured to be less than the agency-specified target values (due to a decrease in pavement life, resulting in a corresponding increase in LCCs) (Darter et al., 1993a). The amount of the pay adjustment (incentive or disincentive) is determined as a percentage of the bid price using the following equation:
PF = 100 * (BID + [LCCdes - LCCcon]) / BID Eq. 1
BID = contractor's unit price bid for PCC pavements.
LCCdes = as-designed LCC per unit length.
LCCcon = as-constructed LCC per unit length.
Study Objectives and Scope
The primary objective of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a PRS for the construction of JPCP in the State of Florida. This specification would provide the Florida DOT with a methodology that (a) assures that pavement design assumptions are being fulfilled, (b) promotes high quality construction, and (c) protects the department from poor workmanship. At the same time, the specification would allow the contractor the maximum freedom in deciding how to perform the construction.
Specifically, the contract objectives were the following:
- Develop initial PRS-Review Florida DOT specifications, meet with department personnel to identify a suitable construction project and determine the specific goals for PRS development, develop an initial PRS (complete with pay factor curves) for the selected construction project based on existing department specifications and goals, and develop a final PRS based on revisions requested by department staff.
- Implement final PRS-Educate and inform department personnel on use of the final PRS and provide on-site assistance to department field engineers in the areas of sampling and testing plan layout, AQC test value reporting, and pay factor computations for the selected construction project.
- Evaluate the PRS-Evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the PRS, based on assessments of the level of department and contractor satisfaction with PRS, contractor bidding practices and targeted AQC values, the overall adequacy of the PaveSpec 3.0 software, and the PRS-related pay factors in comparison with those computed using the department's current construction specifications.
- Summarize the project results-Prepare a final report documenting the development, implementation, and evaluation of the PRS.
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Personally I think the GP2 Series should run on circuits that don't quite make the grade for F1 anymore.
F3000 use to do it with circuits like Pau, Mugello, Vallelunga etc....
Personally I think Imola is a suitable candidate for GP2


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Melissa Ellen Gilbert is a very popular American actress. Apart from acting is also an excellent TV director. Melissa Ellen Gilbert was born on 8th May in the year 1964 in Los Angeles. She started her career as an actress at a very early age and appeared in various TV ads.
She also did guest roles on numerous TV shows. She also starred in hit movies like The Diary of Anne Frank and The Miracle Worker. When she grew up she carried on her acting carrier.
From the year 2009 to 2010 she played the role of Caroline "Ma" Ingalls in the touring production of Little House on the Prairie, the Musical.
She has also done voicing for animated movies like Batman: The Animated Series. Melissa Gilbert has been married twice and is a mother of 2 children.
She is a very talented actress and is known for her looks all over the world. She is now 50 years old and at this age plastic surgery rumours are bound to arise sooner or later and reports of her having undergone plastic surgery procedures seemed to have surfaced.
So the question is whether Melissa Gilbert has really undergone plastic surgery procedures or the reports suggesting that false.
Melissa Ellen Gilbert Plastic Surgery Procedures
Upon comparing the before and after images of Melissa Gilbert fans around the world are quite sure that she has in fact gone under the knife. The cosmetic surgery procedures that Melissa Ellen Gilbert is speculated to have undergone includes Cheek augmentation, Botox injections, Breast augmentation, Face lift and also Lip fillers.
Even though Melissa is now 50 years old when you look at her face in the images there appear to be no wrinkles. Her skin around the neck region is not drooping and that is why most people speculate that she has undergone procedure such as Botox injections and also a face lift. These procedures are very common and almost all celebrities of this age undergo them.
She is also speculated to have had breast augmentation because the size of her breasts has increased over the years and they are in perfect shape. Her lips also appear to be fuller than before and thus lip fillers have also been speculated.
Most of Melissa's fans do not seem happy about her decision to go under the knife because they feel she looked much better before she underwent the procedures and that her face now appears to be plastic and artificial rather than natural.
Melissa like most celebrities around the world has never spoken to the media about the speculation and nor has anyone close to her ever said anything related to the matter and thus there is no way to actually prove that the rumours are true.
So until and unless Melissa Gilbert decides to come out in the open and speak up about her cosmetic procedures, fans from across the globe will continue to wonder whether the rumours related to her plastic surgery procedures are actually true or not.


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(page 2)One tricky element for him, as a sex addict, was that he felt truly compelled to use sex to deal with pain, anxiety and feelings of emptiness. The stress leading to the wedding, for example, and facing a life of monogamy caused extreme anxiety, which spurred on a raging desire to act out sexually. Of course, the prospect of 'fessing up to all of this while expecting his husband-to-be to still toss the bouquet only aggravated his agita.
He admitted that if he were to cheat, and get caught, he would likely fall back on his sex-addiction label—but with little expectation of success. "I don't believe my partner would buy me saying I cheated because I'm a sex addict," he said.
Hoping for the best is a dicey strategy, to say the least. The sheer stress of keeping their addiction a secret may be enough to trigger the brief escape of a brief encounter.
This case confirms what Women's Health magazine uncovered during a post–Tiger Woods poll: 63% of women said they view sex addiction as "an excuse for infidelity."
Yin Quam, a former dominatrix who is now an S/M educator and writer, asserts that using sex addiction as a rationalization for cheating indicates that while people may claim that they don't disclose their sexual problems because "a partner may not understand," this is not really the truth.
"I have come across a great many clients who use their desire for kinky sex as an excuse for infidelity. Many proclaim that their spouses would never understand or be judgmental," Quam said. "However, since I've worked with clients through the process of coming out to their partners successfully, my belief is that many choose not to do so for their own reasons."
"I don't believe that monogamy is the only route. But no matter what, honesty and compromise are the key elements."
I spoke to several self-proclaimed sex addicts in relationships who said that honesty is the key—and building a good relationship requires admitting their addiction to their partner and dealing with it together. These men said that to stay sexually sober, they had to learn to see sex as an emotional connection with a loving partner rather than exclusively as sexual gratification.
Of course, this happy scenario requires that the cuckolded partner's love can survive the betrayal. It remains an open question whether or not gay men, who are typically more open about sex—and have open relationships more often—than their straight counterparts, are more flexible when it comes to cheating issues, especially in the age of gay marriage. While gay men may have a tradition of easily separating sex from sentiment (and of having more than their share of "intimacy issues"), the desire or need for monogamy may be a deeply rooted part of one's character independent of experience. Some people cannot love with it and others cannot love without it.
"If I cheated, we'd have to talk about why it happened and what was going on with us, not just the fact that I'm a sex addict. There's more to it than that," one man told me.
According to Jeff Schultz, many relationships can endure—and even become stronger—after the sex-addict partner admits their infidelity.
"When the sex addict stops cheating and acts with honesty and integrity, then his actions begin to rebuild broken trust and his relationship can begin to heal," he said. "Little deposits of trust made over time can do wonders for a relationship harmed by sex addiction. With greater trust, there is the basis for intimacy, and with growing intimacy, a healthy sexual relationship."
Quam agreed. "I don't believe that monogamy is the only route," she said. "But no matter what agreement you make, honesty and compromise are the key elements."
Bottom line, using sex addiction as a get-out-of-jail-free card—for citizens no less than celebrities—when one partner commits a sexual trespass tends to affirm monogamy as the best arrangement and betrayal as the worst offense. Faithfulness is certainly the time-honored model, but the high rates not only of divorce but of adultery (by men) suggest that it is honored almost as much in the breach as in the observance. Perhaps we invest too much in this one element in a relationship. As everyone knows, in every long-term coupling each partner disappoints the other in various ways.
Still, to expect a potential partner to jump feet first into a relationship with you if you are addicted to any substance or behavior is unrealistic and unfair. Disclosing that you have a disease is the responsible if risky act. Otherwise, you start the commitment already burdened with a secret. If your chosen one sticks around, your honesty will likely have helped tipped the scales.
As for Anderson Cooper and his beau, their silence about the entire affair, sex addiction or not, was refreshing. A few week's after the smooch that, according to the tabloids, broke Cooper's heart and scuttled their supposed marriage plans, the two were spotted riding bikes together, baseball caps pulled low over their foreheads, in a most smiling manner.
No one can ever truly know the real deal in the privacy of other people's relationship, and for that we can be thankful, especially when the relationship involves two celebrities. But the apparently amicable outcome in the Cooper-Maisani business may affirm the wisdom that enduring love matches are about compromise, conflict and, when necessary, forgiveness. Just ask Bill and Hillary.
Scott Alexander Hess published his first novel, Diary of a Sex Addict, last August and has just completed a new novel, The Jockey, set in prohibition-era New York City. He blogs for the Huffington Post Books Section.


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'Rock & Research' fundraiser on Nov. 5 to benefit lung disease, cancer, and heart disease research at UTHSCT
Wednesday, October 27, 2010On Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, you can relive the '80s and raise funds needed for research into lung disease, cancer, and heart disease at "Rock & Research" on the grounds of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, at the corner of U.S. 271 and Texas 155.
From 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. dance to live '80s music by Dave Stanley & the Lone Star Boogie Kings. Dine on Mystic Pizza Bites, Beetlejuice Brownies, and other fun finger foods by Corazon. A cash bar also will be available.
You can play arcade games like Pac Man and Asteroids or join a buy-in poker game for a chance to win Dallas Cowboys tickets.
Tickets are $50 each before Nov. 5 and $60 at the door. The casual dress fundraiser will be held outside on the UTHSCT grounds, with proceeds going to support biomedical research at the Health Science Center.
To purchase tickets, contact Wendy Frizzell at (903) 877-5805. More information about the event can be found at www.rockandresearch.com.
For 60 years, The University of Texas Health Science Center has provided excellent patient care and cutting-edge treatment, specializing in pulmonary disease, cancer, heart disease, primary care, and the disciplines that support them. UTHSCT's annual operating budget of $125 million represents a major economic impact of over $287 million to the Northeast Texas region. In FY 2009, scientists in the Center for Biomedical Research were awarded 80 competitive grants and contracts totaling $14.6 million. As the academic medical center for Northeast Texas, its graduate medical education program – with residencies in family medicine and occupational medicine – provide doctors for many communities throughout the region and beyond.